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4:03 PM
What are some vector graphics editor for Linux? I want draw SVG graphics which is supported to wikipedia.
 
Tim
So SVG you want to use Inkscape, it's incredible
Steep learning curve - just look at the included tutorials - 30 mins and you'll be ready to go
 
Okay. I'll google search
 
Tim
For paint (i.e. literally just a bitmap editor) you want Pinta
A few more advanced features but it gives you the basic features you can't get elsewhere - changing the colour of a pixel from red to green etc!
Both are in repositories
With Inkspace there's tutorials in the "Help" menu item - use them!
 
Are they built-in with UBUNTU? or I need to download them separately?
Do I need to buy them online or they are free?
 
Ubuntu has so-called repositories. That is, a server providing software packages which is hosted by Ubuntu's creators (and a number of mirrors).
Not all software there is made/supported by Canonical, many are also third party and might be under a non-free license, but all are free to download and install.
 
4:14 PM
@Tim Yes, I want a simple bitmap editor, with fill-colour tool, some basic shapes tool (ellipse, rectangle,triangle and round-edge rectangle), straightline, curved line, freehand selection, rectangular selection, transparent/opaque selection, rotate(90deg)/flip(H/V) the selection, file conversion.
@ByteCommander Is it like android's app store?
 
Tim
Yeah IIRC Pinta does all that really well
To install them run sudo apt-get install inkscape pinta
 
Thats enough
 
Tim
Yeah pretty much like an App store.
Although you can often get a newer version outside the "app store"
And you can add new "app stores" by adding new repositories. Anyone can host a repository with their own apps in it!
 
@Tim Great work then.
I'm sending some of my hardware information. Kindly review whether my system will support Linux Ubuntu correctly?
Desktop Board: Intel DH61WW intel legacy hardware.
(now discontinued)
"Intel® Core™ i3-3210 CPU @ 3.20GHz" I dont know what the @... means
Graphics Card: Present, NVIDIA
RAM: Kingston 4GB (Dont know how to find )speed Hz)
Monitor: Dell, 21.5"
Sound box- present.
Done.
 
Tim
4:31 PM
Yes, that will all support Ubuntu
 
The only thing that may give you trouble is the nvidia card, but it should all work.
 
Tim
The @ means "at" - i.e. you have an i3-3210 "running at" 3.2 GHz
 
Any version will be supported?
 
Tim
The latest will work with that!
And anything before
 
I don't know about 32 bit and 64 bit versions
 
Tim
4:32 PM
4GB of RAM requires 64 bit I believe. And that's the only 18.04 version. Let me check...
 
thank you
 
Always do 64bit if possible.
 
Tim
Yes, that's a 64 bit CPU so you can run 18.04
 
Will my processor support 64 bit version? My Win7 is 32 bit
 
Tim
Yes it is a 64 bit processor.
After installing you may need to get the nVidia drivers. There's lots of pages on AskUbuntu about that
 
4:34 PM
Okay
 
Tim
As you can see it says "Instruction set: 64-bit".
 
Thanks.
found
the 32bit "alternate download" is confusing
It loads a .iso.torrent file. How to open or execute this file?
 
Tim
Why are you getting the alternative one?
 
It is too small file, so it seems it is not the actual download.
 
Tim
Ahh - I'd love to give you the correct one but Ubuntu.com just went down for me
 
4:41 PM
@Tim Because it exists.
 
Tim
Yes, you have downloaded the torrent. You do not want the alternative one, you want the 64 bit one.
Download that
 
okay.
Just curious... how that torrent file should be used? isn't it weird?
 
Tim
The torrent should be opened by a torrent manager. Then the manager will "send" a message out on the internet saying "I want this file" and lots of people will send a little bit of it.
That reduces load on Ubuntu's servers, and will saturate your connection, so it can download faster
 
okay. now I understood, there is something called a "torrent manager" which is required to open this file.
Thanks all; bye for today. Good night.
 
Tim
Exactly. The torrent manager is the program which speaks to everyone else with the file and asks them to send it.
Good night (It's 17:45 for me :P)
 
4:45 PM
Its 22:15 for me :)
 
5:00 PM
I extended my duplicate Apt sources entry finder to also find "empty" sources list files, i. e. those without valid enabled entries. :-)
 
5:17 PM
@Terrance You should leave a comment urging people not to run their own MTA at home, and to verify that port 25 is open out ;) Because both are real concerns. But nothing in the question points to that being the problem. That would typically manifest as connection refused or time out when connecting to the mx in question.
@Terrance but I do agree. Mail coming from a dynamic IP is commonly a spam flag
 
@vidarlo My ISP does block it. If I do not configure a relayhost, the connection times out. As soon as it is configured then all my tests come through.
 
@terrance try talking to them. My ISP blocks by default, unblocks if you ask
 
Nah, I am not worried about it. The gmail smtp is free and works fine.
 
yeah, except that it doesn't allow any sender afaik, it rewrites it to your gmail-address
 
True, but if you pay for a No-IP address that has that service or GoDaddy or something like that, then you can have whatever you want. I am just not aware of any free services that allow it unless my ISP provides me with it, but they might charge me more for that too.
 
5:27 PM
@Terrance but in the question the problem seems to be confusion on how auth works, and that postfix attempts IPv6, but is unable to. Perhaps port 25 is blocked, but there's nothing indicating that :)
No-IP doesn't really change any outgoing blocks you may have
 
No it doesn't, but it does provide the relayhost you need on a different port for it to work.
 
5:39 PM
ah :)
well, I do host my own mail, but it's on a box hosted by hetzner in .de
being flagged as spam is my main reason
 
I see.
:)
 
6:29 PM
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Q: FortiClient CLI Reconnect upon disconnection

Chin LeungI'm currently running a screen on my machine (Ubuntu 16.04.3) to connect to the VPN in background: screen -S vpn Then to connect to my VPN I run the following command: ./forticlientsslvpn_cli --server ip:port --vpnuser user Then I'll get a prompt to confirm the connection because of the cer...

 
uhoh
questions with bounty cannot be closed?
 
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Q: Closing the off-topic and duplicate questions with bounty

Bhavin DoshiThere are some questions which has bounty, but are clearly off-topic or are duplicates of another question. e.g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/411887/unicode-fonts-are-not-displayed-correctly-in-google-chrome-under-ubuntu-12-04 The above question is offtopic because even though its title say ...

 
@vidarlo as long the bounty is active, no they cannot be closed, only nuked from mod orbit
 
@dessert do you have meta on hot dial, eh? :D
thanks :)
 
6:33 PM
@vidarlo actually not yet, but now that you mention it I'll add a search engine shortcut – as AU has “ask”, let's take “askm” :)
 
who said jokes couldn't be useful, @dessert? :)
 
@vidarlo yes, two of my three children were not planned
;D
 
O_o
 
weird humor strikes again
@vidarlo are you talking about askubuntu.com/q/1028442/507051? you think it's ÖT?
 
@dessert no
there's probably at least 10 Q&A's about DNS issues with good answers
 
6:42 PM
@vidarlo I'd collect two or three of the best matching ones and flag for moderator attention explaining and providing the dupe links.
 
@dessert done
 
@vidarlo There's a broken sentence in your answer here: “Regarding the authentication failure, this is probably because the login method is because auth login is not a valid sasl authentication mechanism for your configuration.”
 
@dessert thanks :)
 
7:21 PM
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Q: Code 39 barcode encoder

AngsWrite a function or program that encodes a string into a Code 39 format barcode, where each character is encoded as five bars separated by four gaps. Either two of the bars and one of the gaps are wide and others are narrow (10*4 codes), or three of the gaps are wide and none of the bars are (4 c...

Those code golfers are plain amazing at times :)
 
7:35 PM
Codegolf is a fun one to look at. So is codereview at times. I keep expecting to see one on codegolf where someone says I wrote this custom compiler. ab is the whole program, you just have to feed it to this compiler I put on github -- drops mic.
 
@RobotHumans That's covered by the standard loopholes rule
 
@vidarlo Ah. I know the general faqs, so I didn't read them on the codegolf or review sites.
 
HQ9+ lets you solve hello world, 99 bottles of beer, and quine with one instruction each
H = Hello World, Q = Quine, 9 = 99 bottles of beer, + is increment accumulator
 
Yeah. it's clever. I read the page.
 
but thats the fun. The loopholes noone foresee
 
7:53 PM
Can we get rid of this answer rather quickly, please?
 
reading...
@ByteCommander deleted.
 
Is gone...
 
@ByteCommander and an upvote to yours.
 
Gracias.
@Fabby too bad I already have my 200 full for today ;)
/shrug
 
Meh...
@RobotHumans Are you a native English speaker?
If yes: what's an elongated cube called in English?
 
Tim
8:10 PM
@Fabby cuboid
 
H <> B <> W?
@Tim Cuboid would be H=B<>W right?
 
Tim
uhh cuboid can be either
 
OK, thanks!
In my native language there's a different word for the last one.
 
8:25 PM
my En/De dict suggests the same
 
 
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9:52 PM
Sad but true. :-(
 
Tim
I wish I had a wall with a tablet built in :(
My room is pretty smart but it would be much cooler with a tablet wall
 
10:48 PM
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Q: Having a bit of trouble debootstrapping a Ubuntu (18.04) via Debian 8.10

0xC0000022LThe hoster I am using provides a Debian 8.10 (kernel 4.9.85) as a rescue system. In the past I've been using that to bootstrap Ubuntu using debootstrap from here. I am using a few preparational steps auch as installing apt-cacher-ng which is the reason for the localhost:3142 in the URL I am usin...

 
11:02 PM
Just installed an Ubuntu 18.04 server after having used 14.04 or 16.04 for several years, only to find that the Ubuntu devs thought it clever to tear out the tried and true years-old /etc/init.d/networking and /etc/network/interface subsystem. Further, they don't even use the hard-fought-for systemd replacement system, opting instead to use the new netplan contraption. My question is simple: how to I revert the system back to the sensical network configuration stack?
Netplan is uncalled for and I want none of it. None.
 
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Q: Ubuntu budgie 18.04 to ubuntu 18.04, can it be done in terminal?

Jonas GrønbekI have a community based flavor of ubuntu 18.04 called budgie. Instead of writing a new ubuntu 18.04 to a flashdrive/disc and installing the system from scratch. Can you do the equivalent with only terminal commands? Or is it simply impossible.

 
11:32 PM
@jdgregson That seems like it'd be a better question for the main site. I must admit I know nothing about netplan or that this had happened.
But then I'm a Unity guy so I stuck with 16.04
 
I might post a question there tomorrow. Everything I'm seeing asking how to set a statis IP has been deleted from AskUbuntu and U&L by the author, which is further confusing.
It's a special feeling having your years of experience ripped away just because the Ubuntu group felt like using YAML for something. I've always preferred the Ubuntu system over others, but the stability and consistency of the RHEL/CentOS distro is looking mighty tempting right now.
/etc/init.d/networking - gone. /etc/network/interfaces - gone. systemctl restart network-manager.service - gone (as with all other variants). Just... why?
 
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