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1:20 AM

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Q: Hibernate used to work perfectly, but suddenly stopped working

So the hibernate functionality on my laptop use to work perfectly with Ubuntu. I would hibernate when switching to Windows and then thaw coming back. I literally never shutdown my Ubuntu partition for 8 months straight instead just using hibernate and thaw. But recently it stopped working all tog...

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Q: Internal laptop screen is not avaiable after lid close event, instead multiple times attached

I am running Ubuntu 17 on a Surface Pro 4. I had the same issue with Fedora 27. Both running gnome as desktop. I have a external (DELL) monitor connected to my surface 4. When I close the lid, internal and external display turn off. After opening the lid, only the external screen works, the int...

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Nathan Osman

1:49 AM

I tried enabling the performance mode for my CPU in the BIOS and immediately after running mprime, it locked up. Well, so much for that.

I just cleaned all the dust out and everything :(

It runs cooler with the case open :P

TheWanderer

asdfmovie10

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Nathan Osman

@TheWanderer I went south of the border yesterday.

It was quite the experience.

TheWanderer

hwat

Nathan Osman

I tried to pay for something at Safeway with Google Pay. You can't.

:\

TheWanderer

lol

Nathan Osman

2:01 AM

(But you can up here.)

Also, it appears my carier's roaming partner down there is AT&T.

TheWanderer

ew

Nathan Osman

Meh, I didn't use any data. It delivered SMS without any issues so...

That's all I needed.

TheWanderer

it'd be funny if Bell Canada isn't partnered with ATT

(tangent, shut up)

Nathan Osman

My friend that I went down with uses Bell.

He said he either roams with AT&T or T-Mobile apparently.

TheWanderer

yep

Bell is partnered with TMO

Nathan Osman

2:04 AM

Ah.

TheWanderer

how do you think TMO gives coverage in Canada?

It's Bell and Telus (possibly)

Bellus

Nathan Osman

Telus is my carrier's domestic partner, it seems.

(They don't provide coverage in all of Canada.)

TheWanderer

I still don't actually know if TMO works on Freedom

haven't been out west

Nathan Osman

Freedom is in Ontario too.

TheWanderer

but so are Telus and Bell

so they'd probably be preferred

Nathan Osman

2:06 AM

Those guys are everywhere :P

TheWanderer

yis

Nathan Osman

I don't think Freedom has coverage anywhere the big carriers don't. Well, except the Canada Line (subway).

They have... what would it be... a picocell? down there.

TheWanderer

wow Freedom doesn't really cover anywhere, do they?

looks like they rely on the same partner(s) as TMO though

comparing maps

Nathan Osman

They cover all of metro Vancouver and that's where I spend 99% of my life :P

So it #WorksForMe.

TheWanderer

their map is pretty sad lol

Nathan Osman

2:10 AM

Their prices are great though.

At least, they were when I switched to my current plan.

TheWanderer

well when you only have 2 towers to maintain...

I'm impressed they managed to get such a good partner deal

Nathan Osman

They must have more than that. Metro Vancouver is huge.

TheWanderer

@NathanOsman sure you're not on a partner there?

Nathan Osman

They are owned by Shaw now, so they have stable funding.

@TheWanderer Positive. They charge when you use the partner network.

TheWanderer

really?

why even bother calling it a partner network?

Nathan Osman

2:11 AM

Unless you have a more expensive plan.

TheWanderer

if it's just roaming?

Nathan Osman

They actually refer to it as "home" and "away" coverage.

TheWanderer

ah I missed the Vancouver hotspot

Nathan Osman

Home is their network with full speed and all the features.

Away means one of their Canadian partners.

Roaming is then separate from that.

TheWanderer

VC, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Detroit (!!), Ottawa

Nathan Osman

2:12 AM

Oh right, Edmonton.

TheWanderer

@NathanOsman but if you still have to pay to use it..

Nathan Osman

You do with my plan.

TheWanderer

meh

Nathan Osman

Some plans include access to the partner networks.

Otherwise, it's pay-per-use.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

9:22 AM

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Q: Which best practice for using gedit as root?

gksudo seeming to be somehow depreciated as I see on the french forum documentation, what is the environment agnostic best practice using gedit as root? (excluding vim, nano or tee : the use case being a GUI amendment of sources.list for instance) pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHOR...

discussion

Andy K

10:03 AM

@TomBrossman it did the trick. Thanks for teaching me a new stuff

dessert

10:39 AM

@vidarlo Thank you for clarifying the power supply question!

vidarlo

@dessert I'm actually a little surprised that the ATX standard does not include a bus communication between the power supply and motherboard

it's essentially the dumbest component in the PC.

Journeyman Geek

technically the user is ;p

dessert

@JourneymanGeek especially if they are in the pc, yes

Journeyman Geek

more seriously?

Its a really old, very standard standard

its what? 20 years old?

Gabriel Romon

is SO working for you ?

I'm getting a lot of errors

Journeyman Geek

10:47 AM

@GabrielRomon there's a few ongoing issues - meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/363730/…

cl-netbox

11:04 AM

@DavidFoerster That of course is a valid argument, so I agree with that, it's definitely a point ... I admit to having not thought about it. :)

Gabriel Romon

@JourneymanGeek thank you

cl-netbox

@Seth no problem ... maybe I didn't express myself good enough. :)

@DavidFoerster ^^^^^

Journeyman Geek

@GabrielRomon if you see anything new, might be helpful to document and comment

@dessert a lot of modern, high end PSUs use USB for monitoring tho

terdon

12:35 PM

@AndyK Why? I don't know much about this, so I may well be wrong here, but what you want is the environment, not the binary. The way I do it is:

. /path/to/virtualenv/bin/activate

And then run python normally and it will be using the environment. If you want to exit it, you can run deactivate.

Rinzwind

12:55 PM

funky: askubuntu.com/posts/209709/revisions :D

Andy K

3:12 PM

@terdon thanks

quick question

dessert

@Rinzwind lol, and he even left “Feroda” :)

Andy K

let's say I want to install this file golang-go_2%3a1.6-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb

on a different folder than the usual folder when using apt-get, what should I do?

I found this

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Q: Install package into virtualenv using apt-get

According to this answer, apt-get installs packages system-wide (from canonical), and only pip can install packages into a virtualenv (from Pypi). However, I need to install a package into a virtualenv that is only accessible via apt-get, i.e. is not hosted by Pypi. How do I do that?

apt software-installation pip

I've managed to download the deb file

to undeb it on a folder but since that ...

not sure what I should do next?

all files are in red format

Cristian E.

Hi guys! I'm using a ubuntu VPS via VNC. I've installed gnome but the resolution cannot go higher than 800x600. Can you please help me to set it up.

Andy K

3:57 PM

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Q: how to install the golang package on a complete different folder and make it run?

I want to install the go lang package on a separate folder, instead of using apt-get install to install it. Like that, I will be able to discard the folder and not risk uninstalled dependencies in the case I'm using apt-get I did the following apt-get download golang-go Then I unpacked it li...

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

4:53 PM

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Q: Does GRUB2 disable BIOS watchdog, (when in boot menu)?

I enabled the watchdog timer in BIOS (150 sec). Then, in the boot options menu I pressed any key in order to avoid automatic selection of any of the options. So now the the grub menu is waiting for a selection. I expected that after the timeout period (150 sec) the computer will reboot. --- ...

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

6:00 PM

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Q: Server Network DISABLED

All, My server quit working, so started investigating. Ran several tests, then running "lshw" it shows: *-network DISABLED description: Ethernet interface Now I have the eth0 on the motherboard and an additional NIC for eth1 It doesn't say which one this is and both are set in /etc/netwo...

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Q: Not able to install mysql

Hi I am not able to install mysql on Ubuntu. I tried uninstalling , reinstalling but it is not working. I am attaching the screenshot for my error.

ubuntu mysql reinstall

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9:27 PM

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Q: Every Linux distribution doesn't work properly on my computer

Every Linux distribution doesn't work properly on my computer and I don't know what to do. Neither Ubuntu nor Fedora works dual booted with Windows 10. I've tried both and the same thing happens. While using the system it's all ok for some time and the computer just crashes and I can't do anyth...

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10:38 PM

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Q: Kali Linux Freezes After Launching Firefox in VirtualBox

I am having trouble with Kali Linux running on VirtualBox. For some reason, when I launch Firefox the whole GUI freezes and doesn't respond or it takes a really long time. I was able to 'top' and I found that gnome-shell is taking the whole cpu power for some reason. I am wondering what causes...

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Benny

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