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Q: KALI/Ubuntu running in VirtualBox: RALINK 5370 USB Wifi driver not working

Sometimes lsusb shows my USB and sometimes not. When it does, the Wifi tab appears and searching for available Wifis then my VM starts to lag with no results so i had to eject it. Host system: MacOS PS: I tested it on Windows 10 and it works fine.

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Q: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: perl-openssl-defaults:amd64 is missing

I can't install a package or upgrade the ubuntu server. When I tried to run apt upgrade or apt install package the system return an error saying: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'perl-openssl-defaults:amd64' is missing final newline E: Sub-process /usr/bi...

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Q: What do we do about the outdated questions that have good anwers?

For example, this is a question that was asked 10 years ago: How to run scripts on start up? It's the top result for "startup script ubuntu" and many other such queries. Most of the top answers are outdated, but there are a couple of good answers in the thread. The idea of AskUbuntu is to serve...

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Jacob Vlijm

07:02

@jokerdino Can't believe my eyes actually, when a whining, full of self-esteem and self-pity - post, saying "oh, how dare he touch MY post, named like I WANT IT. I WANT RESPECT." actually gets a single vote, but it's got six... AND he is wrong technically. The world is full of surprises.

jokerdino

There is a way to telling people they are wrong. Piling on will not help the cause though.

They certainly might go defensive and start reacting and what not.

That's what I think has happened here.

Jacob Vlijm

I know. But can't stand it.

jokerdino

It's not easy and we are all learning to live with each together. It's a process.

For the record, that person did flag that he doesn't like the edits and that was way before the edit war happened.

Still, I appreciate that they brought it to meta for a discussion and I suspect they did eventually realize that they are wrong and just trying to save their face. Natural reaction, IMO.

Jacob Vlijm

Must be a language thing, but I read he is not satisfied and wants his "justice". I would have expected a gentle (not my strongest quality, I know) suggestion that that is not how AU works, as an answer, but all we get is... not that.

jokerdino

Before I could chip in, lots of people had their say. So I figured it's better not to pile on.

Jacob Vlijm

07:16

Right, of course.

It was meant in general.

jokerdino

yeah

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Q: Mention official Ubuntu flavors in the off-topic close reason

Currently, the OT close reason's text is the following: This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those about Apple products on Ask Different and generic programming questions on Stack Overflow. Can ...

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: why are environnement variable not resolved when doubl-clicking .desktop file?

I have a java app which is launched by a shell script. The first part of the shell script is to resolve the java location by looking at $JAVA_HOME. The shell script is working well if launched from the terminal but it fails if launched by double-clicking the .desktop which contains the following ...

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Q: Close reason are using HTTP instead of HTTPS

In the "community-specific reason" close reasons, all links to an SE site or article are using HTTP instead of HTTPs. This applies to all the close reason that include links in them: Not about Ubuntu Bug report EoL questions - The link to the Ubuntu Wiki is already HTTPS, but the link to the Q...

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Fabby

11:52

@Kulfy I've never noticed until now you put yourself up for moderator election, but why does your avatar have an APO name tag when your name is Kulfy???

:D :D :D

@JacobVlijm A lot of people feel entitled... (Don't fall into that same trap!)

:0:-) (+1 to your answer)

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Q: Dual booting windows 10 and ubuntu did not work?

I am trying to dual boot windows 10 and ubuntu. My Windows 10 is updated to the last version 2004 (OS build 19041.264). I tried many times but it didn't work me. Here is the steps that I followed regarding to the tutorial from YouTube "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI3ywh636IU": 1- I creat...

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Ravexina

@Fabby It's been a long time ...

Kulfy

12:11

@Fabby Hey Fabby!!! How are you?

Apo is actually a Pug from Space Brothers. I'm his younger brother. I got his neck band as a legacy :)

Jacob Vlijm

12:26

Hehe, greatgreat :)

@Fabby ^

Jacob Vlijm

13:13

@terdon If I was expressing aggresively, I appologize. I don't know how to say things differently in a digital-only worls. I meant what I said though, I resent having to deal with a "they all like what I did, so it has to be right" -kind of argumentation. Allergic to it. Braiam isn't the most political user, but he stands for his own technical argumentation. Which is rarely incorrect.

@terdon wait, you found my answer aggresive? (dangerously assuming you just downvoted)

What part is that?

terdon

@JacobVlijm I didn't vote. I deleted my comment, but apparently not quickly enough :/ But yes, everything you wrote in the comments there as well as what you've said in here was needlessly aggressive. "horrible, horrible argument"? The way you completely dismissed the OP wasn't helpful either. All parties were at fault there, it takes two to start an edit war.

The right thing to do when you see the OP revert your edit twice is to walk away and flag, or to leave a comment explaining why you are making the edit or something. not to just redo the edit all over again.

Jacob Vlijm

Agreed, hence my "apart from the edit war". I never said I agreed with (also) Braiam's edit war, I disagree with the "don't touch my question, it is MINE, and it stays like that no matter what."

terdon

Sure. But all of this only became a problem IMO because everyone (including the OP) was pretty aggressive over it.

If there hadn't been an edit war, I doubt it would have been an issue.

It's usually enough to just explain how the site works and explain why the edit was valid (as @Zanna did). The OP did accept it, after all.

Jacob Vlijm

I understand he found a in-between naming acceptable, which is nothing of both, but I need to reread.

Can't read Zanna's post as an explanation how things are around here btw, but that's probably a matter of interpretation.

@terdon Nope, not a word about it, just about wether the wording is right or not.

terdon

13:33

Anyway, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have gotten involved. That's why I deleted my comment, I regretted wading into the fray. I'll quietly back away now.

Jacob Vlijm

NP

Time to move on anyway

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Q: Why is sportsmanship considered under the moderation badges in election statistics?

I was looking at the election page and was surprised how some of the nominees don't have 100% of the moderation badges. Only to find out it was the sportsmanship badge that is missing. That badge requires the following: Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive...

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Q: Ubuntu in VMware cloud - How to free space - Cannot install packages

I have a linux server on a cloud (Aruba), and I access it by Windows Remote Desktop, accessing by the "vdesktop" user. When connected, I can open a terminal window and login as root for command line working. After some time I don't have any more space on disk, so I tried to free it, and I did: e...

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Q: If I get question banned on StackOverflow, will I also get banned on AskUbuntu?

I am on the verge of being banned from asking questions on Stack Overflow. I'm not sure why, I guess people don't really like my questions. But without bashing on S.O. too much, I legitimately want to know if asking one more "bad" question on there would also ban me from ALL subsidiary QA sites ...

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Jacob Vlijm

16:26

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Pop!_OS fails to boot up

So I had installed Pop recently, and everything was working smooth until today. I was installing nodejs, and got error messages on my terminal indicating that my drive is now "read-only". I restarted my laptop, and since then, everytime I get this sequence: Dell logo Usual ambient bright screen,...

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Archer

18:38

Need mod's help.

jokerdino

@Archer yes

Archer

@jokerdino I created a new account on this website, but it got formed by a wrong username

jokerdino

what kind of help do you need?

when you mean this website, do you mean the chat website or Ask Ubuntu?

Archer

@jokerdino Ask Ubuntu

jokerdino

@Archer You can edit the display name here → askubuntu.com/users/edit/1093943

Archer

18:41

@jokerdino But shouldn't it be correct by default?

jokerdino

your network profile is having the username abcd

Archer

@jokerdino How do you change that?

jokerdino

Click the Update profile info link in that network profile and select the profile you want to copy from.

Archer

@jokerdino I updated that. Then I deleted my askubuntu profile and recreated the account but it again shows abcd be default.

jokerdino

You can just edit the display name. Not necessary to delete and recreate.

Fabby

19:04

@JacobVlijm It's gotten really quiet here since I left... cc @Kulfy @Videonauth

>:-)

But then I'm on Arch for dummies now (Manjaro) and did on the community there in 4 months (become cream of the crop) that I needed 2 years here...

Also: it's not part of the SE network but of the Discourse network...

I was just looking for something else when I saw I had some points here so decided to drop in...

0:-)

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Q: Monitor how far the SEQuence has got

I have the following script which has been running for over 3 days: seq -w 1 1000000 | while read i; do (./myscript.pl $i >> output.txt); done Is it possible to find out how far it has got with the sequence?

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Q: Code optimization

Below I'll show a part of my code (a method I've created) and I would like to ask what would be your suggestions to improve the readability and make it more beautiful. So, what I do is I do read an excel file and based on DISPLAY column I do execute some queries in DB. But my problem is the terna...

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Q: Building strongSwan from source

I'm having huge trouble with getting strongswan to work. I'd like to try the newest version and customize it with plugins. I'm following the instruction available here: https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/InstallationDocumentation The problem is - charon.vici is not installing co...

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Q: libdbd-oracle-perl missing from Ubuntu 18.04?

This https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbd-oracle-perl lists libdbd-oracle-perl. This does not https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/18.04/ubuntu-main-amd64/3/ What happened to libdbd-oracle-perl? How can I have oracle listed in: $ perl -MDBI -e 'print DBI->available_drivers' running on Ubuntu 18.04?

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