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03:48

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Q: How to scan text documents from the command line?

I like the way simple-scan produces small pdf files for text documents. Alas, since I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 (and still on 18.04), the keys C-1 (scan 1 page) and C-n no longer work, so I have to move the mouse (which is slow), so I am looking for alternatives. Compile pdf file from multiple im...

gongyuan

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Q: Ubuntu 18.04 error while installing openjdk-11-jre-headless for updates

$sudo apt update $sudo apt list --upgradable Listing... fonts-deva-extra/bionic-updates,bionic-updates 3.0-4ubuntu0.1 all [upgradable from: 3.0-4] gnome-initial-setup/bionic-updates 3.28.0-2ubuntu6.16.04.1 amd64 [upgradable from: 3.28.0-2ubuntu6.1] gstreamer1.0-tools/bionic-updates 1.14.1-...

openjdk

deostroll

07:38

Is crontab @reboot known to have reliability issues?

Rinzwind

@deostroll nope.

@Takkat gratz on 100k! 7y8m aint bad for 100k

Journeyman Geek

Quite XD

and @Takkat enjoy the swag :)

Takkat

Thank you both !!! :)

Rinzwind

wrong :=)

@takkat I got an observation

you are the slowest to 100k of the now 100k+ users :X

Takkat

Ha ha - and worst of all I missed a single day in my consecutives

Journeyman Geek

07:52

@Takkat for shame...

wait, no badge? ;p

Rinzwind

no 100k is not a badge. I got a mail for swag when I hit 100k

Takkat

Platinum badge would be nice ;)

Journeyman Geek

Naw fanatic

Rinzwind

no-lifer :=)

Takkat

Fanatic is too easy to get...

Journeyman Geek

07:55

Lol ya

Takkat

No-lifer should say Made-the-best-of-their-lifer. 2 minutes/day on AU makes for a good life balance

Rinzwind

08:11

I am less than 10k away from 200 >:)

7y2m >:)

@Takkat did you also find that the 1st 50k was easy? :D

Ask Ubuntu Meta

08:22

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Q: Date of answer earlier than question

Question Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Network Manager cannot add VPN - greyed out is dated as "asked Apr 9 '17 at 17:52". This answer is dated as "answered Jan 28 '17 at 20:50". How can this be understood? Am I missing something?

bug

Rinzwind

@AskUbuntuMeta newbie spotted :+

Takkat

@Rinzwind all 10k were hard in the end, but the first 50k were more fun, I admit.

cl-netbox

08:36

@Fabby that was intended my friend ... hahaha ... :D :D :D

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

08:53

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Q: Mount volume on ubuntu instance

I am unable to mount snapshot of disk. I want to mount xvdf ubuntu@ipaa:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk `-xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part / xvdf 202:80 0 12G 0 disk `-xvdf1 202:81 0 12G 0 part xvdg 202:96 0 8G 0 disk /home...

ubuntu filesystems mount

Fabby

09:42

@Rinzwind >:-) ;-) >:-)

cl-netbox

10:05

Good morning @Fabby @Rinzwind @Takkat ! :) Have a nice day ! :)

Good morning to everyone else too, of course ! :)

Fabby

10:30

@cl-netbox :-) :-) :-)

Good afternoon (after 12...) ;-)

I was having lunch, so I decided to log on for a few moments...

gone again!

Takkat

@cl-netbox Good morning :)

Rinzwind

11:15

Ordered a new mount for my beamer. Delivery will be between 8 AM and 10 PM :P

Fabby

11:57

:D So much for good scheduling. Will they SMS you an hour beforehand? (that's what they do around here)

Byte Commander

12:08

They must have hired a software developer for delivery, going from those amazing estimation skills.

Rinzwind

@Fabby not them no. There is a company here that SMS's the moment they depart and when they are 15 minutes away from your address.

Fabby

@ByteCommander :D :D :D Fixed string in the application

@Rinzwind That sounds more logical...

Rinzwind

There is one delivery service I never ever use again: they leave the package on the ground in front of the door when you are not there.

@Fabby yeah well. It is a mount for my beamer and they where 90 euro more expensive :P

and since I only need to do groceries today I went for the cheaper option :D

Fabby

As it's a mount, I know is for the wall projector and not the BMW...

Rinzwind

WAIT

just got an update

Fabby

12:12

They're there: they just rang the doorbell.

Rinzwind

they will be here between 2 and 22.

must be because it is now 2 :X

Fabby

:D

Rinzwind

27 JUN.10:54
Onderweg
Onderweg met de bezorger

:=D

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Q: Delete multiple rows in csv file

I'm working on this assignment to delete rows from a csv file with different customers. I've figured out how to delete one specific customer by using this code: delete() { awk -F "\"*;\"*" '$1 != '$@' {print $ALL}' input.csv > output.csv } delete $@ However, now I have to delete multiple ...

command-line scripts

who wants that? >:)

create array, for next loop :P

blade19899

12:38

... And Telegram is down...

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Down in Mars too.....

downdetector.com/status/telegram

David Foerster

13:28

Hi all!

Spotted in the side bar:

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Q: How do I tell between compliments and 'ball' jokes while juggling?

While training juggling in a park, from behind me I heard a female's voice say, "You are really good with your balls." The vocal inflection was that of a compliment, but she didn't reference juggling so my initial reaction was that she had made a lame ball joke. I turned slightly to avoid eye co...

strangers compliments

chili555

13:44

@Fabby Thanks for the heads up. I posted an answer to the question and hope it will be helpful.

Byte Commander

IPS is weird

People are weird

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Rinzwind

14:08

yay they made it :)

Terrance

14:20

What is a nice way to put down that we don't support movie piracy? askubuntu.com/questions/1050163/…

dessert

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Q: Moderators are *not* the Software Police! (Read for details!)

TL;DR because I know there's people who don't want to read all this. If a user is simply referencing that they are having an issue with a piece of software and that it is cracked (like a MInecraft launcher, for instance), but aren't otherwise breaking the Terms of Service or the law, ...

discussion moderation flags questions

David Foerster

@Terrance You could say it like you did just know: "Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! I'd like to let you know that we don't support movie piracy."

Nonetheless the underlying technical issue is on topic.

Terrance

@DavidFoerster I agree that the underlying technical issue is on topic. However, I am not going to be the one troubleshooting why a pirated movie site is not playing through VLC.

RobotHumans

15:34

@Terrance Yep. If it's about movie piracy, I'm certainly not responding to the question. That's not to say I've never set an undismissable ad to opacity 0 or anything, but it's one of those - If you want to do that, you're on your own things. I do like that the post notes something about "if it's a valid question anyway then allow it", but I avoid those questions like the plague, because there's no way for me to know if it has more to do with the cracked software than an actual problem.

Like if someone said they had trouble with a sublimetext3 bug that I never saw but also pointed out they were using a patched version to get rid of the nag window, I would dismiss the question out of hand. For that reason, I think it's important NOT to edit it out of the question.

weighed in on the meta not as an argument, but as why I won't touch those questions and don't think "I'm using cracked software" should be edited out unless there's a working answer.

dessert

15:53

and that’s exactly what Zanna said about minty et al. questions the other day

RobotHumans

16:08

Yeah, I also disregard mint questions.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

16:59

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Q: if anyone help me how can unistall or reinstall googlechrome?

I've installed Google Chrome and when I restart my computers when I open Google Chrome errors appear on parrot osenter image description here com/2zTZ1.jpg

linux ubuntu fedora arch-linux parrotsec

Rinzwind

17:23

ah Joe Jackson died :(

Rinzwind

17:46

Michaels dad that is ; not the singer. So no big loss there >:)

Fabby

@chili555 And I'm sorry for creating FUD on your active session. Next time I'll ping you on an accepted answer... -)

Goingto upvote now already!

:D :D :D Iceland!!! ;) ;) :)

@ByteCommander Starred!

Rinzwind

18:20

Germany gone \o/ If only Argentina went out y-day

Terrance

18:40

UGH! I hate it when people steal your answer: askubuntu.com/questions/1050223/is-ubuntu-using-vim-or-vim-tiny/…

@RobotHumans I agree with you 100%. I am just going to vote to close as unclear from now on or VTC as a dilemma about putting myself at risk to reproduce and fix the issue which I will not do. =)

PerlDuck

19:18

@Rinzwind :-P

dessert

@Terrance whoa… well, their answer is slightly better, as it goes a bit more into detail – still nasty though.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Wrong font for some unicode characters

I have been experiencing some issues with how my terminal shows some of the Unicode characters form my language. The picture shows the issue in the editor in the left terminal. It seems like some of the characters are shown in a wrong font. A note to be made is that this issue seems to have sta...

ubuntu fonts unicode i3

Terrance

@dessert I actually think OP and them are working together. It was accepted as the answer within a couple minutes after it was written and they were modifying each others wording. But it was interesting that the words in there are exact for what I wrote with more detail added.

Looks like bucking for fake internet points. I was more concerned about Plagiarism.

PerlDuck

19:34

@dessert The first part of the answer is an almost literal copy of @Terrance's. That's indeed nasty but the German idiom that I'd apply here is "Was kümmert es den Mond, wenn ihn ein Hund anbellt?"

Translates to "The Moon won't care when a dog barks at him". Dunno if there's a similar proverb in English.

dessert

I’d rather say “Hätte der Hund nich geschissen, hätt’er den Hasen gefangen.” :)

Terrance

I understand it, but for me it causes me to lose any credibility I see in the person writing the answer.

PerlDuck

@dessert No, that's a different meaning.

dessert

@PerlDuck yes, but still matches the situation as I perceive it.

let’s test google translate:

> If the dog had not shit, he would have caught the rabbit.

close enough :D

Terrance

:D

dessert

19:39

this verb actually has ablauting forms: shit, shat, shat

PerlDuck

But the "Moon" thing rather says "I don't care about something insignificant to me". Whereas the "shit" thing rather means "Yes, things happen. Deal with it!"

Perhaps both apply. But in this case I prefer the Moon.

It's more generous.

Terrance

But someone copying my stuff here this is not the first time. A long time ago I watched someone write an answer based completely on the chat I was having with OP and they would update their answer every time I would ask another question to OP and I would suggest something. I have found it, but I am not going to point any fingers.

PerlDuck

19:57

Ok, @Terrance then I'd get ~~pissed~~ not amused as well. I thought the intersection of people in the chat and people at AU is rather small (and constant). So I'm surprised.

So it's not someone we would know, right?

Terrance

Actually it might be someone you know. They are at 22K now

But I am going to let it go for now. I am more of here to help than to worry about if I get internet points or not. It was just irritating that it happened again to me.

PerlDuck

Oh, that's strange. 22k people should know better. I mean, I'm not even 3k and know better.

Terrance

It happened back in 2015 and I don't think they were that high in points then.

PerlDuck

Ok. However, I'm sorry for you. But I have to leave now. Meal is prepared... CU

Terrance

@PerlDuck Have a good one! =)

PerlDuck

20:08

Just fish. No Chips.

TY.

Terrance

Fish sounds really good tonight. =)

Seth

20:34

now I want fish and chips

dessert

20:50

uh oh

> Der Wert von 'Ihre Nachricht' entspricht nicht dem erforderlichen Muster '^[A-Za-z0-9'`´ ,.?!:;()=<>&"+\-\x80\u20AC\u00BF\u00D7\u00F7@#§*^°_$%/ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛ‌ÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöùúûüýþÿäöüÄÖÜß²³[]{}\n\r\]+$'

“the value of 'Your message' doesn’t match the required pattern …”

TheWanderer

where did it say that?

dessert

@TheWanderer produkte.banking.ing-diba.de/pub/kontaktformular

TheWanderer

what'd you even say?

dessert

I just used a regular em-dash –!

(or is this “en”? always confuse those…)

TheWanderer

— em

- en

dessert

20:54

and –?

TheWanderer

wait sorry

dessert

this is the german “gedankenstrich” – used for things like that

TheWanderer

- hyphen, – en, – em

dessert

ah, ok

TheWanderer

TIL you're supposed to use the en dash for ranges

1–4 not 1-4

dessert

20:56

exactly, Mon–Fri

TheWanderer

I just use the hyphen

Byte Commander

ugh, that is stupid

Nonny Moose

22:08

odd, https is broken on chat.askubuntu.com

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

22:45

@dessert I just use python :3 range(Mon, Sat) There's a trick though, try to spot it

python -c 'import sense_of_humor'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named sense_of_humor

Fabby

@Terrance Meh, at least you got a lot of sympathy votes...

Terrance

@Fabby Good point! =)

Fabby

@dessert Aas moos vleis waas, vroten the katten de kuul aaf.

(If cabbages were meat, the cats would graze on them)

English equivalent:

If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle...

cc@PerlDuck ----^

@PerlDuck Equivalent in American: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Do I need to compile ASIX Electronics AX88x7x/760 USB Ethernet driver to my kernel?

I have box running 4.4.0-62-generic #83-Ubuntu x86_64 GNU/Linux I also have this Moshi USB/Ethernet Combo https://www.amazon.com/Moshi-USB-Gigabit-Ethernet-Adapter/dp/B00NMPB4H8, that has ASIX ax88760 chipset. When I connect the USB device to the system the ethernet port does not appear to li...

ubuntu drivers usb

Fabby

@Zanna Is there a British equivalent for sticks and stones above?

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

23:36

@Rinzwind Basically, every delivery service like that in the U.S.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

23:51

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Q: Ubuntu server/Debian/CentOS randomly halts while booting

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 (Dual Intel Xeons @ 2.5GHz, 32GB DDR2, An old 80GB SATA3 drive [RAID controller died]) and it randomly halts while booting, I'm using Ubuntu server which seems to show more progress during startup, however the same issue happens with CentOS and Debian. Ubuntu server...

debian ubuntu centos

user136984

@Fabby: I think it's the same.

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