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FreezePhoenix

00:29

Whoa.

Videonauth

@vidarlo ouch i can tell you storys about that, i suffer from PTSD, Insomnia, depressions and agoraphobia

not to speak of nightmares

vidarlo

:\

Videonauth

early pensioned because of that

so imagine what it means alone to get a SSD more or drives

next week a friend of mine sends me some ram sticks he has spare so i get to 16 Gb on my machine, which is in most parts a gift from him too

would not be able to afford a machine on my own from that little pension

:)

vidarlo

00:44

ooh

DDR3?

have ~24GB of DDR3-1800 here as well that I can include :)

Videonauth

yes ddr3

vidarlo

aight, will include :)

Videonauth

actually having 12 GB in 2 times 4 and two times 2

vidarlo

one of the sticks is bad, I don't know which one

turns out the motherboard did not support 8GB sticks

Videonauth

my fiend gives me next wekk 2 times 4 he has spare, but the board can utilize up to 32

vidarlo

00:46

ok, I will include that when I send the ssd :)

Videonauth

as long the stick does not fry my board im happy

vidarlo

it does not

but I know it's bad

so do a memtest before using it

Videonauth

ok i will find it for sure

not sure if th e board can support that quick ram i know it can 1600

vidarlo

downclocking RAM generally works

Videonauth

but sticks shoudl be fine running at lower frequencies anyways

vidarlo

00:47

I just happen to have a board that doesn't like 8GB sticks

Videonauth

well i only have 4 slots, but the board can support up to 32

so i guess it can handle 8 gb sticks

vidarlo

yeah, I have a board with 4 slots.

Turns out it's max 16GB

Videonauth

uh oh

vidarlo

but hey, that's luck for you ;)

and my mac mini takes SO-DIMM

Videonauth

Intel i5-4690 (4) @ 3.600GHz :) happy to own since about two months now

vidarlo

00:49

ah, hehe. Have a i5-650

Videonauth

asrock z-81 extreme board

vidarlo

it works, is ten years old, and was on low end when I bought it

plays 1080p without any problems

Videonauth

yeah well i used a asus rampage formula I board and a q9550 until 2 months ago

15 yr old board

vidarlo

works

threw away my first real computer a few months ago.

Dual Athlon MP2400

back when single core was the norm, that box rocked

Videonauth

yes this borad actully is in another case right now i want to use as a NAS

vidarlo

00:51

MP2400 with 8GiB of RAM in 2004 kinda blew everything else away

Videonauth

yes indeed

next week i will get me a spare part for one of my broken monitors then i will have three

no ned to throw them away

its just the controler board burned out

power supply works and the tft display is fine too

:)

just ended a teamviewer session with one OP here from AU, fixing his ubuntu

have still to write an answer tho

dont know what he did but the system needed some heavy convincing to get back in shape

as of deleting stuff directly from boot directory and such

but i fixed it :D

gives me always that warm fuzzy feeling

hehehe

FreezePhoenix

o/

Videonauth

o/

FreezePhoenix

Hows you day / night going?

Videonauth

good so far, but I don't think I will last much longer now that i have taken a sleeping pill ;)

FreezePhoenix

01:04

Melatonin?

Videonauth

nope

flunitrazepam

vidarlo

@Videonauth I would never remotely access a system in a Q&A session...

just... nope

Videonauth

@vidarlo well it was painfully slow to communicate over comments

vidarlo

it is, but accessing other peoples systems is just a big fucking no-no for me

Videonauth

took me about 15 minutes in teamviewer and beforehand nearly 2 hours of comment ping pong

vidarlo

01:11

I will only ever work on boxen I'm hired to work on, or own.

Videonauth

well, i fix my friends server and i get hardware from him, and this was simply faster, to see the terminal nin front of me

telling someone how to clean out package archives, partial installed packages, messed up files in /boot and so on via comments is pain, pure pain

and then always guessing around whats wrong and why it does not work as intended

and at least i can write a really explizit answer to that mystery

but will do that after i had some sleep

im awake now since about 4 days

@vidarlo sleep well im off now, before i have to crawl to bed

:)

the meds are kicking in

linked a wiki entry above of what i took

night night

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

03:12

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Q: Cannot launch Chrome on Ubuntu-14

I am trying to install google chrome (latest stable), onto my Ubuntu (Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS), and whichever which way I try to install it, it does not launch. What I did here was follow the first answer's instructions here, and then run the google-chrome-stable command from the command prompt. I...

Kaz Wolfe

05:02

Dat OCD tho

Videonauth

08:31

good morning

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

09:21

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Q: Ubuntu won't login after disk migration

I have a weird problem here. I migrated my GF's drive from HDD to SSD. I had to shrink windows partition and move partitions around to fit 750GB HDD to 512GB SSD. I think I did everything fine. Windows and Ubuntu both boot to the login screens. Only Ubuntu doesn't let her log in (both with screen...

ubuntu partition login

dessert

12:44

-9

Q: I need Help How to decode This File

Please help me , How can I decode this code 7f45 4c46 0201 0100 0000 0000 0000 0000 0200 3e00 0100 0000 700b 4000 0000 0000 4000 0000 0000 0000 0033 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 4000 3800 0900 4000 1c00 1b00 0600 0000 0500 0000 4000 0000 0000 0000 4000 4000 0000 0000 4000 4000 0000 0000 f801 0000 ...

command-line bash dmidecode

^- What can be done with this?

Fabby

@dessert Ah! I was going to post something about that as well! VTC "cannot be reproduced"

you'll not be the only one

dessert

13:29

@Fabby sounds reasonable

Videonauth

14:06

@dessert oh fun

NOT

PerlDuck

@dessert To [my comment](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1040856/i-need-help-how-to-decode-this-file#comment1695337_1040858) on that "decode" question you wrote _"I think that’s fine, questions are not only for OP after all."_
I don't get that. I read the OP's comment as "can you upload the result to dropbox?" or "can I upload a file to dropbox and you decode it for me?". Both are not appropriate, I'd say.

Huh? Where's my formatting gone?

dessert

14:21

@PerlDuck doesn’t work with (askubuntu.com…), needs to be (https://askubuntu.com…) I suppose

@PerlDuck I misunderstood your comment, simply :)

PerlDuck

@dessert Ah, ok. I hoped so. Or maybe I misunderstood the OP's question in the preceeding comment. It's not easy to decipher after all.

I think I'll just remove my comment. It's not worth it.

Videonauth

Uhmmmm .... LOL?

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda Powerwolf are releasing a new album! The Sacrament Of Sin

The first single video on YouTube got out yesterday:

POWERWOLF - Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend (Official Video) | Napalm Records

►

PerlDuck

14:40

@Videonauth Yes, LOL.

Videonauth

fun how they really want to make people klick their links

Videonauth

14:57

good afternoon @Zanna

Zanna

\o

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

16:19

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Q: After upgrading to 18.04 Ubuntu monitor is unknown

Have been running Ubuntu Mate 17.10 and just upgraded to 18.04 LTS. But after upgrading my monitor settings are all wrong and can't set the proper resolution. How can I resolve this?

ubuntu

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

17:16

😒 I'm past 200 rep cap already, which means the upvotes won't count for anything today.

#AUproblems

@KazWolfe That picture, tho. +1, liked, shared, and subscribed. No seriously, i like it

user136984

@ByteCommander Great! That took them a while! I'll have a look later when I have some free time! :D

Byte Commander

17:32

@KazWolfe Nice. So are you the left or the right one? ;D

Rinzy!

o/

Rinzwind

yo

Kaz Wolfe

hello

Rinzwind

too hot to do anything

Benny

\o/

Byte Commander

18:49

So apparently there's a Museum Of Failure and they're exhibiting Windows 8...

TheWanderer

20:09

I mean...

it's probably worse than the fall of BlackBerry

or HTC's stagnation

Fabby

What the hell happened to AU meta?

Videonauth

@Fabby why what should be up with it?

Fabby

@Videonauth That's how it looks to me now.

Videonauth

weird that looks like mobile view

Fabby

lemme try again.

Videonauth

20:20

this is how it looks to me

TheWanderer

@Fabby you must have clicked the "Mobile" link in the footer somehow

scroll down and use "full site"

Fabby

@TheWanderer thanks.

dessert

@Fabby while you’re on it, check this out: meta.askubuntu.com/q/17948/507051 ;P

Fabby

@dessert You have my upvote already.

that's probably why I clicked "mobile"

:D your fault ;-) @dessert

dessert

yay, my fault! :>

:D

Videonauth

20:27

@fabby askubuntu.com/questions/1040489/…

you might wanna bookmark those :)

TheWanderer

Fabby is a noob

Videonauth

shoo @TheWanderer

:)

TheWanderer

no u

start that GoFundMe boi

if you won't, I'm going to start it for you

Videonauth

well, feel free

Fabby

@Videonauth I was just reading them4

Videonauth

20:30

last one on the main site ist the best one

the TL;DR is very good kali questions might get migrated, but they have to be really good and in depth researched beforehand

TheWanderer

what do you use your phone for? @Videonauth

Videonauth

@TheWanderer oh i wrote in length about that in discord :) being reachable on my landline, being rechable on mobile line, 2FA, and occasionally wathing youtubes in bed :D

TheWanderer

would you be willing to send me a photo of yourself for the page?

Sebastian Stark

@dessert did you actually dare to run the decode file? (I stopped when I saw it had an ELF header)

Videonauth

@TheWanderer check your inbox

TheWanderer

20:42

thx

dessert

@SebastianStark no chance

TheWanderer

Gmail hates you @Videonauth

always marks your stuff as spam lol

Videonauth

yeah i know

TheWanderer

@Videonauth do it in front of a computer or something, with a thumbs up

Videonauth

why?

i have nothing to take a photo with right now o_o

TheWanderer

20:44

alright no photo then :p

Videonauth

i sent you link to a photo

TheWanderer

that one looks a little weird

Videonauth

oh ok, its how i look

maybe im just a weirdo :D

TheWanderer

well yes

but it's also the angle :p

dessert

Fabby

20:46

@TheWanderer Vorlon true form

Videonauth

kevin !!!!!!

I just watched depictable me 1

@TheWanderer ok let me have a look through my actual pictures i have on my machine

Fabby

this used to be my avatar

dessert

@Fabby can you do that with thumbs up?

@Fabby that’s a weird angel

Fabby

@dessert even weirder angle CC@TheWanderer

Byte Commander

nice, how did you get that one Fabby? :D

and good evening!

Fabby

20:50

@ByteCommander look at lower left corner

Byte Commander

is it entirely drawn, or photoshopped?

ah, I see

TheWanderer

gofundme.com/hnb8u-phone-for-a-friend

donate if you can

Fabby

Skype Avatar

Byte Commander

Heh, remember your "Diving License" typo I spotted? :D

good old times

Fabby

@ByteCommander :D :D :D

Videonauth

20:54

Isnt Ubuntu one dead already since a longer time?

--> askubuntu.com/q/1040982

Fabby

@TheWanderer Do you know about the screens?

TheWanderer

the screens?

user1502040

Does anyone know how to get the tilde character on the UK Dvorak layout? It's shown as a second alternate key, but I've tried all the obvious combinations (ctrl, alt, shift, etc.) to no avail.

Fabby

@ByteCommander What was that software we installed so we could talk OOB right before my previous machine died?

Byte Commander

@Videonauth no, Ubuntu One is still used for signing up with Canonical

Fabby

20:56

@user1502040 Ubuntu version?

Videonauth

@ByteCommander ah ok

Byte Commander

I just recently used it to activate and play around with kernel hot-patching on one of my machines

user1502040

@Fabby 18.04

Byte Commander

I think Launchpad uses it as login too

Sebastian Stark

I use it to login to askubuntu

Videonauth

20:57

@ByteCommander errr yes it does kinda, you're right

Fabby

@user1502040 I'm still on 16.04. Have you ever used that before?

Byte Commander

@Fabby OOB?

Fabby

@ByteCommander Out of Band.

Byte Commander

means?

Fabby

prorocol normally used to control KVM of servers

In this context it means "not in this chatroom"

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

20:58

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Q: how to optimize Ubuntu for older hardware

Partly to go with the herd, partly to be more towards the cutting edge, I'd prefer Ubuntu 18.04 over Bodhi Linux. Bodhi boots reasonably quickly, logs in well, etc -- everything it's intended for. Clearly, out of the box Ubuntu bogs down this old MacBook. Having installed Ubuntu, can I perhaps...

ubuntu system-installation kernel-modules macintosh bodhi

Byte Commander

Oh, there used to be Skype (shudders), then later Tox (which somehow died too) and the last attempt was Discord.

Videonauth

@ByteCommander well discord seems to do pretty well

tox i still have installed but yes it is really more or the less dead

skype i use regularly too

Fabby

@ByteCommander Discord! that was it!

lemme install.

Byte Commander

I still have both installed, but didn't open either more than once a year, I think

Fabby

@ByteCommander Skype is still on my phone.

Byte Commander

21:02

@Fabby it works well just in browser too

no need to install

Fabby

going to try that first then

Videonauth

@ByteCommander I installed just because one reason, the website tab in firefox takes around 300 MB memory and the discord ap is happy with about 80 MB

Byte Commander

Dunno bout that

Videonauth

but ok i use it daily and frequently

Byte Commander

I just like to keep everything in my browser if possible, and just have few applications open

although in browser sometimes server reordering and voice don't work

Videonauth

21:05

the upper is discord running in a browser tab just for testing right now and the discord ap is running now as long the machine is up

$ uptime
23:06:31 up 18 days, 6:47, 1 user, load average: 0,50, 0,34, 0,29

Fabby

@user1502040 So? If I give you 16.04 instructions, can you follow them on 18.04?

BRB! SMOKE!

Videonauth

@TheWanderer check discord :)

hahahaha

#Google Translate has a hidden joke about flat earthers 😂😅 https://t.co/z8FFoZNqel

Tweeted by larrykim on May 27, 2018 at 4:32 PM

user297904

21:59

Hey guys, is anyone familiar with polari here?

edwinksl

23:42

@TheWanderer check discord

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