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Q: Traffic not routed through VPN connection when connected by network-manager

I'm trying to use wireguard vpn with NetworkManage, but i have a problem with routes. I think i "overrouted" or i don't know how to call this. When I connect with exact same settings via wg-quick, it works perfectly, but NetworkManager adds unneeded routes as I may see, and i just want to know ho...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to safely remove old kernels headers and libraries

Last night our system ran out of inode count. Luckily I manage to delete few old kernels Using the following steps sudo dpkg --list 'linux-image*'|awk '{ if ($1=="ii") print $2}'|grep -v `uname -r` | xargs sudo apt-get purge $1 sudo apt-get autoremove sudo update-grub I manage to get ...

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Nathan Osman

05:05

Anyone know how to switch the default locale?

It's currently set to LOCALE.

Rinzwind

06:41

It is not ...
`sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US`
? @NathanOsman

Nathan Osman

I finally just overrode it with export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

That seemed to do the trick.

Rinzwind

ah

Nathan Osman

It's for a Docker container.

:P

Rinzwind

well that will work too

Zanna

08:02

@Fabby you mean in that case the primary purpose of closing it is to be able to cast delete votes on it?

Rinzwind

08:18

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Q: converting .ods to .docx file

I tried to convert Libreoffice file to MSword file . I couldn't find any tool for the convertion. If anyone know, please help me.

convert format-conversion convert-command

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Q: Conver .ods document to .docx document

I tried to convert LibreOffice document to MSWord document and i couldn't find any tool for the conversion . If anyone know please help me.

libreoffice convert microsoft-office format-conversion convert-command

Exact same text. 2 users.

Zanna

Not the same. Different wording and second one has better spelling

agree it's probably the same person though

Rinzwind

and same typo. "knows"

and the wrong answers keep comming in :P

Zanna

I think that's a grammar mistake rather than a typo (to me a typo is where you know what you should write, but you write something else instead)

same wrong tags

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08:46

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Either it's a coincidence or intentional, I saw two similar questions of LibreOffice right now: Convert .ods document to .docx document Converting .ods to .docx file Apparently, both OPs have also the similar amount and topic of questions (with only one user have one more question, which is ta...

support duplicates

Rinzwind

LOL

Videonauth

hehehe

135 reputation to go :)

Videonauth

09:01

@terdon can you look at this answer, in my case i feel alone insulted by the wording and my guess is that it is against our be nice policy askubuntu.com/a/1039733

blade19899

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Q: THe benefits of using PCI DSS requirements, HIPAA guidance and NIST guidelines servers

Just for the fun of it, I managed to get my personal server to comply with the PCI DSS requirements, HIPAA guidance and NIST guidelines. I was trying to explain the benefits for our customers to my manager, but failed because I am to technical to explain the benefits of these standards to a non...

pci-dss hipaa nist

Rinzwind

oli <3

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

09:31

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Q: Installing a fresh OS on an old /home

I'm a bit of a linux noob and was considering changing from Ubuntu to Kubuntu (I just think it looks pretty!)...I created a separate partition for /home when I set this up so when I install Kubuntu after removing Ubuntu how much of the previous OS will remain? Will all of the software installed ...

ubuntu home kubuntu

RishiC

I see.....alright no problem...thanks anyways

Zanna

?

terdon

09:47

@Videonauth deleted, thanks

Videonauth

10:14

@terdon thank you! this answer really anoyed me to the bone

Videonauth

12:16

today it seems is day of bad questions and bad answers :) --> askubuntu.com/questions/1039793/…

Rinzwind

12:54

@Videonauth I came to that conclusion too

@Videonauth I see spam :=)

Videonauth

yeah smokey does not think its spam, already scanned it

its somehow fishy

Rinzwind

he's fishing for traffic :=)

Videonauth

the answer however is more or the less naa

I mean if i tell you xx is a good option, you can search for tutoials on the webz you would not e satisfied with it as an answer

ok it gives you a lead but no real solution

and the question itself yes seems like traffic fishing

Rinzwind

1 more askubuntu.com/questions/1039823/malformed-line-in-sources-list

@Videonauth askubuntu.com/questions/957205/huge-sylog-file/1039831#1039831 1st answer is dubious :D so I looked for it myself and it was easy to find

TERDY! :=)

dessert

@terdon askubuntu.com/questions/1039815/…

Videonauth

13:08

@dessert what is with it? its deleted by OP

Rinzwind

@Videonauth WSL is ontopic

Videonauth

ah ok

well i just asked not CVed

not being used to c:\... crap anymore ;)

Rinzwind

rovo is wrong and needs to be told ;-)

dessert

terdon really likes it when people call it off-topic ;P

Rinzwind

@dessert he is ignoring you though >:)

Videonauth

13:10

when it smells like windows, talks like windows, walks linke windows ... I don't liek it ;)

Rinzwind

13:35

sometimes the nice shiny bow is in the turd :=)

Fabby

@Zanna I rarely delete duplicate questions

Answers, yes, really bad unclear questions too.

Videonauth

heya fabby, hows life?

Rinzwind

@dessert he did it! I think

fabby! :=)

Fabby

I'm stuck in a boring meeting getting a course on forecasting, LOE, SOW and it's absolute drivel!

Even I can design better spreadsheets than what Im being shown and this guy has been spending 6 months on this crap.

Videonauth

LOL

Good Answer to a Dangerous question.

Boring meetings are a pain

Videonauth

14:04

oh wow spent the whole day nearly here on AU, O_o

well guess i will reach my 20k mark tomorrow then

except there is a particualr good question incomming which i could answer

TheWanderer

Huawei is ceasing bootloader unlocks

Videonauth

@TheWanderer r u on discord right now?

Seth

16:59

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A: How do I change the default locale in Ubuntu Server?

Run the command locale - it should show your current locale. Generate the locales for french: sudo locale-gen fr_FR sudo locale-gen fr_FR.UTF-8 Also, try regenerating the supported locale list by running: sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales And update/change the current default locale: sudo up...

dunno if that still works

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

17:13

@Zanna "...avoid having a million more-or-less poor copies of the exact same thing and avoid duplication of effort.." And I always thought that was to provide users with answers, and link closely-related issues which may have same solutions.

"Quite the contrary — some duplication is desirable. There’s often benefit to having multiple subtle variants of a question around, as people tend to ask and search using completely different words, and the better our coverage, the better odds people can find the answer they’re looking for. And isn’t that, really, the whole point of this exercise?" Jeff Atwood

Seth

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy define closely-related issues. What Jeff is saying there is that people describe the same problem different ways, and that's why duplicates are signposts.

Not that two posts about different things can be duplicates.

Zanna

^

Seth

There are rare cases where the line is very gray, but those don't happen as often as you might think. It should be immediately obvious what's going on in duplicates.

Zanna

and providing answers is taken for granted to be the purpose of the site. What's eating me is people closing when answering would be better

Seth

also hi @SergiyKolodyazhnyy! Long time no see. How's life? What's up?

Zanna

17:18

haven't seen @SergiyKolodyazhnyy in chat, but been seeing some of his answers :D

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@Seth I've seen a few questions, particularly when it comes to apt-get, when there's either common error message, but solution to what OP asks and duplicate is the same. That's sort of thing I point at. Eh, but I can't think of it off the top of my head, there's too many questions around

Seth

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy common error message seems like the same problem

now, for dependency issues that doesn't really work most of the time, but in general.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

And yeah, long time no see, guys ! I popped in into chat couple days ago but didn't stay around

Zanna

Subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Life's alright. Surviving. Kinda. Working on remix of one of my old indicators

As for closely related stuff, I'll just throw in my own examples

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Q: fc built in missing from dash ( i.e.,dash shell history doesn't work )?

In dash manual, under Builtins section there exists explanation on fc built in which controls shell history and re-executes commands from it, FCEDIT and HISTSIZE also are mentioned there. Yet when I try to execute it dash gives command not found error. $ echo one one $ fc -l 1 dash: 2: fc: not f...

command-line dash-shell

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Q: vi editing mode in dash ( /bin/sh )

TL;DR : default shell man page says there's vi editing mode, but set -o vi doesn't actually enable it In many shells, including dash the POSIX standard dictates that set -o vi will enable vi editing mode, in which user of interactive shell can navigate line using vi-style of shortcuts. In dash (...

command-line dash-shell

Two different things - editing mode and a built in missing in dash, but the reason behind both not working is the same

That's sort of the thing I mean

@Zanna I kinda wanted to step away from AU since last summer. A bit of bitter stuff came around in personal life. But yeah, I ended up checking AU and U&L occasionally...OK, kinda daily...Maybe my plans to step away didn't quite work out :)

Zanna

17:31

haha :)

hope the bitter stuff got better

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

It did :) Learned a thing or two

Zanna

that always happens at least...

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

17:51

@Seth @Zanna What about you guys ? What's new ?

Aside from the 2018 edits, of course :)

Zanna

hmm "relaxing" temporarily at parents' place. Underemployed. Enjoying cooking and cycling around

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Sounds familiar. Without the cycling part, though.

Speaking of cooking, I need to take care of mount Dishverest in the sink and cook something <.<

Seth

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy eh, not much. I have a colonoscopy later today. Will hopefully shine a light on the ongoing health issues I've been having.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

18:09

Let's hope it does. Hang in there.

Seth

18:50

thanks man

chaskes

19:15

@Seth Good luck with everything. Meanwhile, I got tired of the desktop cube and exploding windows and went back to marco compositor

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

20:04

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Q: How to access remote server without port forwarding

I turned my old pc into home server. I installed ubuntu server 18.04 LTS on it. I need to access it remotely then i do port forwarding but it seems to be my ISP blocked ports. I scanned my External IP, WAN IP, Gateway with nmap it doesn't show any port to be open. So, I need alternate solution fo...

ubuntu port-forwarding

dessert

20:24

lol, shellcheck even warns of unicode quotes: github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/SC1111 – unfortunately it’s not clever enough to check whether I used these quotes just in echos and actually wanted them not to be recognized… what is the world coming to.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: terminal in Tmux is 256color but vim isn't

I am a new Ubuntu user. Recently I installed tmux on my Ubuntu 16.04. The terminal screen in tmux shows 256 color correctly however when I opened vim in tmux, the color was different from what it showed in terminal. I tried to add set -g default-terminal "screen-256color" in my .tmux.conf f...

ubuntu vim tmux

Videonauth

23:21

@dessert well you can put them inside single quotes to get them ignored by shellcheck

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