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04:15

@Scorpion A talking alarm is an excellent idea.

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Q: what tv tuner cards are hp and ubuntu compatible?

WHAT TV TUNER INTERNAL OR USB ARE HP AND UBUNTU COMPATIBLE? I wish to purchase a tv tuner card have tv time error post 1.

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Q: airodump failed Device or resource busy

I am using airodump-ng. These are the steps that I have taken: ifconfig wlp3s0 down iwconfig wlp3s0 mode monitor ifconfig wlp3s0 up airmon-ng check wlp3s0 kill networkmanger (it's number) kill dhclient (it's number) kill wpa-supplicant (it's number) systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service kill a...

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Fabby

11:57

@PerlDuck Poor you: salaries are high, living cost is even higher, so quality of life is lower than most of Europe...

PerlDuck

12:22

@Fabby My post was ambigious. I didn't move to London (although I'd like to) but I'm just going there for a couple of days for pleasure and visiting a close friend. True, the living cost is high, but in case of my friend the salary is far higher. And he doesn't do anything I couldn't do as well.

What I love about that city is that it has so much history and so many iconic elements.

Just think of those red buses. When you see one of them on any picture you can think of, then you'll immedately associate it with London. Or Big Ben. Or the Tower bridge. Or the Cabs. Or the London Eye. You name it. Tell me one other city in the world that triggers the same emotions.

Okay, Sydney and its Opera house, or Paris and the Eiffel tower. But then?

Fabby

@PerlDuck New York and the statue of liberty

Moscow and the cathedral of Sant-Basil

Brussels and Manneken Pis

Berlin and the arch

...

Smoke! BRB

PerlDuck

12:53

@Fabby Okay, you are right; I oversimplified. There are other icons in other cities. London is just full of them. :-)

Fabby

13:06

@PerlDuck So are other cities: Frankfurt is full of Frankfurter sausages,

Hamburg full of Hamburgers, ...

:D :D :D

PerlDuck

13:25

@Fabby I was born and grew up in Frankfurt. Yes, that is one of the few cities in Germany that is recognised at a glance – given its unique skyline in Germany.

Cologne and its dome is another.

Still, they can't compete with London. ;-)

Zanna is presumably laughing at me right now.

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Q: Shutdown and disable/remove unattended upgrade before command returns

I'm having an issue here where I try to automate a setup with Ansible. Some of the steps require interaction with apt, but occasionally I get an error because unattended-upgrade kicked off and locked apt. This will make the playbook stop. I've tried many ways around this, the most successful be...

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Fabby

@PerlDuck @Zanna is a too kindly-hearted soul to laugh with anyone though she might be smiling at a cute duck..

cl-netbox

Hello everybody ! :)

Hi @Fabby :) Good afternoon to you ! :) Found the time to read my mails ? :)

Fabby

@cl-netbox gmail!

opening!

@cl-netbox now that I know Fedore is RHEL's test lab, I' m less confused and you look like an American tourist in Germany!

:D :D :D

cl-netbox

@Fabby Hope you can understand my installation and configuration instructions ... :)

@Fabby hahaha :D :D :D

Fabby

13:40

@cl-netbox No, I'll drop by for a week and then I'll cook every day and in the morning we work on the PC.

cl-netbox

@Fabby It is more easy as you think ... main things are the same as in debian / ubuntu ... we can solve everything via Hangouts ... it is way more easy to switch from ubuntu to rhel based systems than from Windows to Linux ! :D

Fabby

@cl-netbox I haven't installed RHEL since... 1996-7...

cl-netbox

@Fabby no problem ... believe me :)

Fabby

@cl-netbox It'll still be a good excuse to have a cooking and computing vacation:

I'll buy all the food every day / bring some stuff over you cannot get locally.

Just ferried this to 2 of my colleagues:

(easiest way to resize was to take an EOG screenshot) @cl-netbox

cl-netbox

@Fabby nice :)

Fabby

13:49

@cl-netbox left side is called "bosbier" (bosbessenbier = Blaubeerenbier)

the one on the right was a very specific order and it's a:

apple

green tea

lime

elderflower

beer.

pineapple

cl-netbox

@Fabby Interesting stuff ... :)

RobotHumans

14:06

unicorn starbait

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Fabby

@RobotHumans Do you know the difference between a white and a black Rhinoceros?

RobotHumans

I'll bite. What is it?

The Narwhal is the unicorn of the sea, but... still listening.

Also, as my dual boot option, I'm having to install Kali instead of Ubuntu, because my wireless card works there OOTB. It's not so it can be a pen test box. It's so wireless works, then I can add repos/ppas and make it a workspace :'(

Fabby

@RobotHumans They're both grey, so when not eating you cannot tell them apart without coming too close for your own safety.

Journeyman Geek

ooh, that's strange

Fabby

(Sorry for belated reply, was having a smoke)

However:

A white rhinoceros eats leaves

a black Rhinoceros eats grass.

Journeyman Geek

14:19

really?

RobotHumans

@JourneymanGeek which post

Journeyman Geek

@RobotHumans that something works OOTB on kali and not ubuntu

RobotHumans

@JourneymanGeek It's a corner case. Ath9k micro-usb adapter from asus. 16.04 gets nothing, but googling around, they tweaked the driver and included the .ko ootb

Journeyman Geek

ah

RobotHumans

I can link you up to the specific card, but it fooled chilli555 on UF in to thinking it was not serviceable at one point.

Fabby

14:22

@cl-netbox There's 300+ Belgian beers: start your shortlist of what you want me to bring now already.

(unless you don't drink beer)

Videonauth

14:49

@JourneymanGeek Ubintu? is that like Vüdü? Can you run it on a dead badger? :D

Journeyman Geek

shhhh, don't tell @jokerdino ;p

Videonauth

hehehe

RobotHumans

@JourneymanGeek I'm not criticizing. Just saying, I got tired of fighting the vbox thing and went dual boot then wireless for the asus usb-ac53 nano usb wireless adapter linux driver didn't work ootb.

Journeyman Geek

@RobotHumans neither am I

I was joking about the spelling misteak I made.

RobotHumans

evidently it's realtek branded as atheros, and only works in v 2.1, but that's the dongle i have b/c it was branded atheros

Journeyman Geek

14:53

er... that's actually strange

RobotHumans

shrugs.

also, if lxde live distro included build-essential, this wouldn't be an issue, because I'ld just build it, but they don't. I can't install an x64 vm, so my choice is forced. i can't use the apt-get -qq listing dependencies and download them one at a time on an i386 vm. so, i made a decision. if I have to build a driver by hand, build-essential should at least be available to be installed by the iso.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to uninstall Linux Mint from a laptop with double OS?

I have the Linux Mint and Win 8.1 32bit on my laptop. I think this is a simple question. How should I remove the Linux and then install an Ubuntu? The last time I tried, the grub was removed and I couldn't find even the Windows. Tnx.

ubuntu linux-mint windows

RobotHumans

15:21

And I'm off to install and make sure the hype is true and it works. biab

Takkat

18:26

what a PITA

I went out for dinner leaving my VM with important work on Windows running. Coming back home I am presented with this...

.. hope I had saved my work before I left.

Not that I have the time to wait for these updates today. I postponed them on purpose. But thank you, makers of Windows. It is always refreshing to get reminded what a great decision it was to dump amost all of that.

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RobotHumans

so, wireless card didn't work ootb, but I do have build tools available. so, better but not perfect.

@Takkat - yeah that irks me too

Takkat

It is just mad. Feels like an OS from the last century. Which it is.

LOL ...it reboots again.

says 30% now.

RobotHumans

It doesn't take that long every time. The irksome part with the windows auto-updates on reboot is it can't slipstream all of them at once, so it happens 10 times in a row - if you let it not reboot for a few weeks

Takkat

and it happens without my consent

RobotHumans

well, that too.

Takkat

18:40

Do you want to update I clearly said no

RobotHumans

Yeah, I get it.

Takkat

If I hadn't saved my work it (4 hours) would have been gone now too.

I saved it.

<-- want's his money back

RobotHumans

Eh, I'm installing lubuntu on this ancient optiplex whose bios is so old, it won't boot a linux iso or usb hd. So, I'm trying out slaving in the hard drive to another computer and installing directly to metal on a PC that doesn't suck as hard. Then moving the HD back. I do wonder if his credit card reader will still work.

Takkat

it may

RobotHumans

It shipped with XP and had enough hardware changes that his license key is permanently invalid - I'm hoping it registers as a HID and just enters it in a field in the webapp

Either way, it's just a brick now, so even if it doesn't work, at least he can sell it as an internet browsing machine, or leave it in the gas station as a few dollars per hour internet device or slot machine, whatever.

Takkat

18:44

Usually old to pretty old hardware is nicely supported. So there is much hope!

RobotHumans

I only worry because it deals with credit cards. So, compliance hell. People may not have touched it.

Still, I am hopeful.

Takkat

CC is a target for evil people.

They may have put some effort into Open Source.

Not all evil is good but some is.

RobotHumans

Yeah. Not a target for me. UHaul just uses a dedicated "kiosk" that is just a box that runs a browser that hits their payment gateway with a printer and a card reader.

it's his uhaul kiosk

RobotHumans

18:58

biab. flipping back to see if it builds wireless drivers, so i can get that lxqt abonimation running.

Takkat

that's the exciting part - and the joy if it all performs well. My VM rebooted to:

I am not in need of help, really. I don't want this help either. I want my work back.

TheWanderer

it's cute that you think you have any say in what Windows does

Takkat

I haven't I know.

RobotHumans

19:13

@Takkat I know those feels. Someone poured fluid on my work laptop. It's why I'm trying to massage this gaming set top box into a pseudo-functional work box. I'ld look like a serious ass carrying it around to do work at a coffeeshop though.

TheWanderer

why are you massaging a computer

RobotHumans

massaging it in to shape sounds better than beating it in to shape

Takkat

Coffee spills are not the worst. Right now - 45 mins later I am back to where I left my Windows VM.

<-- should really get in touch with the people at my photo print shop to re-make their Linux soft.

RobotHumans

it wasn't a coffee spill. it was an intentional pour by someone who isn't me while I was out of room. then I had to drain it when it wouldn't come on and I found a wet spot under the console.

TheWanderer

where do you work where people actively sabotage coworkers lol

RobotHumans

19:25

this was at home. but it sort of happened at work with constantly changing apis and never putting in css or id selectors consistently. i made it work anyway, but it was fighting windmills.

like a webapp used 2 different date selectors at random and fields would populate even if they were null and not honor the autopopulate value. so it might not have been intentional. it might have just been terrible.

also, not working there any more. they fired me when i pointed out payment inconsistencies at least twice a year with the design of their payment system and and around 4 times a year observed.

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Q: if we downvote a question, shouldn't we take time to comment?

There is a question here: Systematically upgrading Ubuntu at login session Which I personally think is a decent and easy to understand question, and , IMO quite interesting (as you can see in my answer). However, this question has like 5 down votes. Wouldn't it be so much more helpful and educ...

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