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Benny

10:11 AM

Good Morning everyone! Have a great day! =D

Rinzwind

heya

and it is afternoon. just :=)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:43 AM

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Q: Switching from Windows to Ubuntu, what is to note?

Today I decided to switch my OS from windows 10 to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I started to recover all my documents, pictures, music and software projects. Then, I recognized that some of the files I'd like to recovery will not work in UNIX based OS (i.e. MS word files). To make sure that all my files are...

traducerad

11:14 AM

isn t there an easy and quick way to know which man sections exist about a certain command/function?

for instance, I know write exists in man section 1 and 2. But what about eg setcap? I had to try $man 2 setcap, $man 3 setcap, $man 4 setcap, etc... to find out setcap is only described in man section 1

DK Bose

11:28 AM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix there are industrial effluents and sewage to deal with as well.

Rinzwind

@vidarlo mind adding the -h = freebsd/openbsd to the answer about the symlink?

DK Bose

@traducerad how about opening a browser to manpages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/…

traducerad

@DKBose what alternative is there in the terminal?

i don't always have access to the internet

vidarlo

11:55 AM

@Rinzwind Not at all :)

Rinzwind

@vidarlo copy my command and I'll delete it :=)

vidarlo

@Rinzwind Did more or less that :) And

and? >:)

thanks? :)

:D

12:14 PM

Touched an Apple iDevice for first time in my life this week. Oh god. It was horrible, and I abhor the design of iOS already.

it's one of the really few pieces of software that makes me turn away in five minutes :D

WinEunuuchs2Unix

12:59 PM

@DKBose That actually requires time for analysis and planning

Rinzwind

1:53 PM

@vidarlo apple has a monitor stand they sell. Costs $999 :D

vidarlo

@Rinzwind I can probably survive fine without it.

Rinzwind

me too :=)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:40 PM

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Q: Docker only connects to daemon after restart

I'm setting up Docker on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04, but I can't get it to work until I run sudo service docker restart Here's a step-by-step of what happens exactly: Boot computer sudo systemctl is-active docker returns active sudo service docker status returns active (running) At this point, I exp...

ubuntu docker

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

3:40 PM

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Q: Error with grub while installing Ubuntu 16.04

I had Ubuntu installed but I had to uninstall it and tried to delete the grub, but Ubuntu still appears in Boot Manager.Later I tried to install Ubuntu again and I cant access it now.Grub shows : no device found, press any key to reboot When using a live USB with Ubuntu I tried to install t...

ubuntu grub

Fabby

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Absolutely true!

Starred, though @ThomasWard is absolutely evil, so that includes his code too

>:-) ;-)

cl-netbox

Hi @Fabby ! :) How are you doing ? Everything okay ? :)

Fabby

@cl-netbox Grocery shopping until now

CZ earlier today and DE just 20 minutes ago

("Pfand" and all that)

How are you???

cl-netbox

@Fabby Fine (and busy), thank you ! :)

Fabby

@cl-netbox >:-)

::thumbsup::

cl-netbox

3:51 PM

Something new regarding job hunting @Fabby ? :)

Fabby

@cl-netbox Lemme DM you on that...

cl-netbox

@Fabby okay :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Good morning/afternoon @Fabby and @cl-netbox

Fabby

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Good morning to you!

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Look it's the bruin's fan singing the blues @Rinzwind

Quick Fabby delete your comments about @ThomasWard LOL

Thomas Ward

3:58 PM

@Fabby drags out back behind the server racks

@WinEunuuchs2Unix wouldn't help mod diamond lets me read :P

WinEunuuchs2Unix

TOO LATE!!!

Note to self, delete comments about mods twice

Rinzwind

@WinEunuuchs2Unix The sharks bought the referee :P

WinEunuuchs2Unix

My Free 15 GB on gmail.com is almost full. So I'm working on project to recycle daily backups into weekly, monthly and yearly backups to regain space. Unfortunately I'm doing it in bash and I'm getting a big big headache :(

@Rinzwind Next year you will have to buy the refs with free man page references :)

Rinzwind

@WinEunuuchs2Unix it will increase to 20 >:) Mine did.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Rinzwind I thought you had to pay after 15GB? Did you check your bank balance :P

Rinzwind

4:03 PM

they don't have my cc :=)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

haha Google has EVERYTHING

Rinzwind

wait. my boss probably pays for it

Thomas Ward

GOOGLE HAS YOUR BLOOD

Rinzwind

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I can guarante they don't. I don't use my cc online ;-)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Google knows more about me than I do, because it has recorded what I've knew at one time and then forgot.

Rinzwind

4:04 PM

in the netherlands we have "ideal". Pay with a debit card ;)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Rinzwind but your bank is on-line and they know your CC. Because Google knows you, they get 1 + 1 = 2.

@Rinzwind Everything I do is with debit too. I don't carry real money anymore. (handy answer for pan-handlers). But now days my debit card doubles as pre-paid credit card in many respects.

Rinzwind

4:18 PM

does anyone disagree with me on this ->

1

A: Thre are a lot of solutions in this forum in order to solve some problems. How we can be safe about all those lines of code that we install?

ANY code that is going to be doing something you do not want will and must have a big fat warning. Most famous one: Why did the command ":(){ :|: & };:" make my system lag so badly I had to reboot? More because guntbert doubts me :-) Terminal command to remove unknown file What does rm -rf do...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I don't disagree with you but it is the tip of the iceberg and overall the question is too broad. I could be writing an answer for days.

OP's basic worry shouldn't be "evil code" but rather "code with unintended consequences" ie bugs

Rinzwind

ao I want to leave product review and they claim 1st name needs to be 4 chars minimum. I am called Wim. wtf.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

5:00 PM

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Q: Ubuntu not accepting some TCP/IP connections

So I am absolutely losing my marbles here. Ubuntu 18.04.2 I have Docker + Portainer installed via a local container. I can access the portainer UI via https://ip-address:9000 However, I also installed napp-it for ZFS management. I am supposed to connect to it on http://ip-address:81, but the co...

ubuntu networking docker

Rinzwind

5:36 PM

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Q: I have 16GB RAM. Do I need 32GB swap?

I read many places that the rule of thumb for swap space is to double the amount of physical RAM. However, 32 GB does seem a LOT. Do I need that much? Do I need it at all with this high amount of physical RAM?

ram swap

is used to close topics with but the q and the a are invalid for new Ubuntu. we use a swapfile.

vidarlo

@rin

@Rinzwind ? Not sure I got your point in that last message :)

Rinzwind

6:02 PM

what message? :P

vidarlo

:50693850

Rinzwind

oh we should stop doing that and close against one that advices a swapfile

Rinzwind

6:52 PM

can someone proof read this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1151357/cannot-access-to-my-session/1151360#1151360
I believe it looks good but I might have missed something

vidarlo

7:09 PM

@Rinzwind Looks good to me, although it should be noted that for more advanced users possibilities of not following that script do excist :)

Rinzwind

true :D :D but he does not seem advanced :=)

vidarlo

yeah, true enough :)

Rinzwind

I sae many many weird q's today :P

The kind where I go: not touching that :=)

oh and did I tell you I Looooooooooooooooooooooooove my new hp omen :D

Rinzwind

7:31 PM

sigh just me a vidarlo and he is not in a talkative mood :-P

I feel lonely

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:59 PM

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Q: Unusually slow response from apps

I'm on linux ubuntu 18.04 and all of a sudden some of my applications such as IDE, video player etc, are freezing up. I have no idea why everything has gotten so laggy. Is there any to confirm if there is a problem, or if this is just one of those rare moments where everything is actually normal...