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Seth

00:04

hm ok

TheWanderer

00:51

@IanC what about bons, bom, boa?

bons and boa are "good" right?

and then is bom "well"?

IanC

01:10

bom is an adjective, means good, boa is feminine of bom

bons is plural of bom

bem is well

TheWanderer

oh

weird

bom/bons, boa/boas?

IanC

to be honest, it's not a really simple translation. Because "bem" can be either an adjective or a substantive "Eu estou bem" means "I'm well" (adv) and "Fazer o bem" means "Do good" (sub),

@TheWanderer yeah

TheWanderer

@IanC Fazer o bem sounds like Do it well to me

literally "do the good" xD

now now, children, do the good

IanC

no, "do it well" gives the idea of doing something in a proficient way, efficiently or something

"do the good" fits better

if you think that is weird, wait until you get to mal/mau

the opposite words

bom/mau are adjectives, always

while bem/mal can be adverbs, conjuctions or substantives :D

"Ela canta mal" (she sings badly) "Ela canta bem" (she sings well) - Adverb

TheWanderer

01:28

how the hell can mal be a conjunction?

like sino in Spanish?

IanC

"mal chegou e já foi embora" (barely came and left)

TheWanderer

ah

IanC

"Ela é teimosa, bem como sua irmã" (she is stubborn as her sister)

TheWanderer

that's the same in Spanish

but the mal part...

IanC

I need to study some grammar again, might start this week

guess I'll apply to some tests, and I'll need to have it sharp :p

TheWanderer

01:49

I need help with Snaps

nevermind

IanC

02:44

alright, finished with the improvements on Scrolling Animations for today, did some progress :)

now there's only 2 things in my to-do list, small stuff

time to hit the bed, good night!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

03:45

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Q: TLP NightMare when I installed without knowing about it

I am new to Ubuntu. I installed alongside Windows 10 and installed TLP by following the official website guide. But, I tried a few commands shown in that linrunner site, such as sudo tlp status sudo tlp bat without knowing exactly what they do... Now my laptop battery stops charging at 97% and...

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The Returning Pencil

04:18

wow how often is this room dead?

Seth

05:01

very often these days :(

The Returning Pencil

:(

rant incoming

askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/811059

Chai T. Rex reviewed this 23 hours ago: Reject
This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.

:thonking:

Journeyman Geek

yo thunk?

also totally valid rejection

one spelling error, and replacing noise with noise.

dessert

07:33

The Romans drove on the left and in whole Europe this was not changed until Napoleon just decided to do so – Sweden changed from left to right not until 1967!

Dagen H

Dagen H (H day), today usually called "Högertrafikomläggningen" ("The right-hand traffic diversion"), was the day on 3 September 1967, in which the traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. The "H" stands for "Högertrafik", the Swedish word for "right traffic". It was by far the largest logistical event in Sweden's history. == Background == There were various major arguments for the change: All of Sweden's neighbours (including Norway and Finland, with which Sweden has land borders) drove on the right, with 5 million vehicles crossing those borders...

this last one could be a community promotion ad

“Ubuntu is the right choice – have your Dagen H now.” :)

Rinzwind

07:57

@dessert oh he had a reason :-)

dessert

@Rinzwind he did? not just “I drove on the right before it was cool.”?

or so they didn't see his army coming because they expected it on the left lane? xD

“you're the wrong-way driver!” – “no, you're the wrong-way driver!” – invade.

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Q: Origin of left and right-hand road traffic rules, respectively

Some countries we drive on the left; some countries we drive on the right. What is the origin of each style?

transportation

Rinzwind

08:22

@dessert the romans did it that way so they had their shield towards the road and could use their fighting arm to strike

napolean wanted to run into enemies head on due to the fact they had rifles and no longer needed shields

and for the 1st few years he'd have the upper hand surprising enemies like that

@dessert yes.

when they saw a group of people heading their way from the same side they'd hide at the side of the road and fire away cuz all allies would walk on the other side

and yes, since they did not have twitter not all allies know this so lots of friendly fire kills too

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:01

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Q: wlp3s0, Interface doesn't support scanning : Invalid argument

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my old laptop,but I can't make wireless connection sudo ifconfig wlp3s0 up mm@6830s:~$ sudo iwlist wlp3s0 scan wlp3s0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Invalid argument Everything seems to be ok sudo lshw -class network *-network ...

ubuntu networking wifi

Rinzwind

10:41

When teaching ICT in Ghana you often face a problem where there is no computer with Word... so this teacher solved it by ...

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chalking a word on the blackboard :=)

dessert

impressive :O

cl-netbox

11:23

Hello :)

Rinzwind

(: olleH

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind Good morning :)

Rinzwind

Good afternoon

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind or that ... :D Thanks :)

Rinzwind

\o/

cl-netbox

11:37

/o\

Rinzwind

oh doing the skeleton?

or luge?

I did a gold-medal-victory pose

.o/ \o/ \o.
-> bronze, gold and silver :=)

cl-netbox

and that made me think : OMG - so "pushing hands over my head" = /o\ ... hahaha :D

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Unix or Linux on MacBook Air 1,1

I am using a 2008 MacBook Air. It has 2GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. As the last Mac OSX it will run is 10.7. I have been using it over the past couple of years with other systems. At first I tried Windows 7 32bit, which worked fine. I then upgraded when prompted to Windows 10, which worked fine at ...

ubuntu wifi macintosh 64bit

dessert

11:54

@Rinzwind @cl-netbox What's your stance on this one (see comments)? askubuntu.com/q/1010707/507051

Rinzwind

Eliah's answer covers it

cl-netbox

@dessert Hi dessert :) Well, I don't exactly think that it's necessarily a dupe ... he wants to get the output with ls - not with find ... :)

dessert

@cl-netbox So I could add another question, let's say “How to use globstar with cat”? :)

cl-netbox

@dessert that's a point of course ... but as I said earlier here, then so many other questions are dupes too - right ? :)

dessert

@Rinzwind @cl-netbox well, comments and possibly close-votes are welcome, would be good to have a second opinion directly there

cl-netbox

12:10

@dessert Why is it so important ? k0pernikus made a Q&A to demonstrate how to show all files in the directory tree using the ls command, so ... :)

dessert

Well, it's important to mark duplicates as such IMO, it keeps the site clean and links information that belongs together.

cl-netbox

@dessert I generally agree, BUT : then we can close more than let's say 50 % of all questions on AU - or am I wrong here ?

dessert

12:36

Happy birthday: DIN 1 about tapered pins published 100 years ago today!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Problems reconnecting to wifi

I have a Ubuntu 14.04 computer that has a usb wifi dongle to establish wifi connection. The problem is that if I turn off and then on the router I lose internet connection. In that cases I tried this commands to re-establish connection : sudo ifdown wlan0 and sudo ifup wlan0. Although with ifconf...

ubuntu networking wifi network-interface

Rinzwind

13:15

What is this obsession over 16.04.4 all of a sudden? :-P
Did someone promiss random gold bars awards on installing it?

dessert

13:35

@Rinzwind wait, there is no fourth pointrelease for 16.04, at least not if you ask ubuntu.com/download/desktop

Rinzwind

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Q: Ubuntu ISO file for version 16.04.4

I can update to Ubuntu 16.04.4 through but i'm wondering will there have the iso files for this version or just updates?

16.04

should be out today ;)

there it is-> iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/386/builds @dessert

dessert

@Rinzwind OMG I HAVE TO INSTALL THIS

Rinzwind

sigh

:-)

dessert

new question: “How do I upgrade my old 16.04.3 to the brand-new 16.04.4?”

;)

let's all just do sed 's/3/4/g' /etc/apt/sources.list…

David Foerster

@dessert I was about to suggest sudo sed -i -e 's/\.3/.4/' /etc/lsb-release.

dessert

13:46

@DavidFoerster We should write a Q&A on this.

David Foerster

@dessert: Like this? "When does Ubuntu 16.04.4 come out? lsb_release -d still prints '16.04.3'. How do I make it print '16.04.4'?"

dessert

@DavidFoerster exactly :)

David Foerster

brb, need to play some Jeopardy. ;-)

David Foerster

14:08

EU head of cabinet accidentally publishes personal cellphone numbers of his colleagues: euobserver.com/institutional/141151

dessert

@DavidFoerster lol

Rinzwind

@DavidFoerster cool :D

dessert

let's just sue

David Foerster

14:27

I need a balaclava.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

14:44

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Q: Ubuntu server 16.04 /tmp directory full

i have /tmp as a directory on my root partition i am running ubuntu 16.04 will creating a symlink for /tmp in my /var folder which have 650 GB of disk space will work for me ? i mean wether the disk space will be used from /var instead of root partition if i create a symlink by ln -s /tmp /new/l...

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15:19

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Q: Attempting to setup alias for ts-node

Trying to setup an alias for ts-node on ubuntu 17.10 by adding alias ts='ts-node' to ~/.bashrc and then running source ~/.bashrc. After doing the above and running ts file.ts I get: The program 'ts' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt install moreutils Thoughts?

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Ask Ubuntu Meta

15:41

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Q: Editor toolbar is vertically aligned and unable to upload screenshot

The editor toolbar is now vertically aligned instead of horozontal. Also unable to upload screenshot. Everything works about doing that works except that there is no way to confirm the upload. Clicked to select the screenshot file, which pasted fine. But only clickable areas were the X to close ...

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15:53

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Q: Matching on iptables rules containing timestamp

I am installing iptable rules with a timestamp value: $ iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 10.0.0.3 -m comment --comment "Timestamp=`date +%Y/%m/%d-%H:%M:%S`" -j DROP which results in the following iptable rule: $ iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 10.0.0.3 -m comment --comment "Timestamp=2018/02/26-...

bash ubuntu iptables

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Q: VPN service connection failed because the VPN service failed to start

I'm trying to connect to my universities VPN on Ubuntu. Unfortunately they don't offer any guidance on Linux (I'm on Ubuntu 16.04) VPN setup, only Windows and Mac, so I'm trying to connect from the information they provide for them. Here is their online guide - https://www.stir.ac.uk/is/student/...

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

18:05

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Q: Remove Trash Icon from Ubuntu 17.10

I need to have fully empty desktop without any icon, but I didn't find any option to configure it.

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18:59

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Q: Creating a specific process tree and terminating it

I am currently taking a Computer Systems class and am having trouble with a homework problem. I have to create this specific process tree: I also need it to stay in this state for a while (using sleep()) so a user can look it up in the terminal using pstree and see that it exists. Then it must...

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Terrance

21:16

Anyone know why a distro might cross with another? askubuntu.com/q/1010758/231142

guiverc

23:07

@Terrance - the output looks fishy (debian 9 [with typos!], mixed with ubuntu). It looks to me like a [system] file was corrupted, so a debian stretch .deb was sudo dpkg -i --force-things .. was used to install it - but this is all pure guess.

Terrance

@guiverc Thank you for looking. That one is very strange to me. Especially since OP stated they were trying to upgrade to 17.10.

dessert

hahaha

> PRETTY_NAME="Debian NU/Linux 9 (stretch)"

“nu” is portuguese for “naked” ;)

now that's a pretty name I'd like to stretch xD

guiverc

23:22

:) @dessert

most welcome @Terrance

dessert

@guiverc that's a good idea for a new distro: a debian without any GNU software, Debian NU

slogan: “It's the NU one!”

guiverc

it could also be they added debian sources to sources.list.d/? and thus mucked up this way -- either way I'd re-install (unless i knew exactly what was done)

Terrance

Same here

dessert

@guiverc clean install is definitely the way to go, it's just too messy

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Q: Ubuntu Windows10 App -- X11 Forwarding -- $DISPLAY Error

I've been searching StackExchange and elsewhere for awhile now. None of the fixes seem to work for me (or only fix a part of the issue). I am trying to get into my Raspberry Pi 3, which is running Linux raspberrypi 4.9.59-v7+ #1047 SMP Sun Oct 29 12:19:23 GMT 2017 armv71. I am attempting to us...

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