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Zanna

2:36 AM

Ask Ubuntu is ten years old today!

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jokerdino

4:32 AM

@Zanna yay

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:24 AM

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Q: Why not able to install ubuntu 20.04 desktop amd64 to usb flash?

Keep getting error message: no root filesystem defined. It's a new usb, formatted, partitioned. "Install ubuntu" is on my desktop as I use ubuntu-live from a dvd, and I click on it to install ubuntu. I get to the screen to decide where to install and I choose "sda" and "16gb usb". The partition t...

αғsнιη

@Zanna huwraaa

technastic_tc

9:21 AM

@Zanna :)

Hey @Kulfy ! Is this idea being implemented? meta.askubuntu.com/a/19196/1103140

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

9:54 AM

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Q: How to store usage and memory percentage that are shown after login in AWS EC2

ec2 stats when we ssh into our instance we can see these stats displaying. Is there any way to get the same percentage stats with a terminal command?

ubuntu shell aws amazon-ec2

technastic_tc

What's your Ubuntu story?

Kulfy

@technastic_tc Oh well that's just a question and anyone, even you (if you like), can post on meta. :)

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: What's your Ubuntu story?

Ask Ubuntu is 10 years young now! And the community is always growing. It's time to celebrate, isn't it? We came to Ask Ubuntu to ask questions about Ubuntu because many of us were noobs at using it, or atleast I was. But the question which many of us don't ask ourselves is "What's your Ubuntu st...

discussion community ubuntu-community

technastic_tc

@Kulfy I've made a post on something similar. but not exactly the same

Do check it and please answer the post if you can

Kulfy

Sure. :)

technastic_tc

10:02 AM

@Zanna It would be great if the banner is also visible in the meta site!

@Kulfy :)

Thanks for the edit @Kulfy

Kulfy

:)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:19 AM

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Q: Show cpu and memory utilisation of process visually

I'm writing a script to monitor CPU and MEMORY utilization during a stability test that will run 24 hours, in the end, I want to present it in a graph or another visual tool. To do so I collect CPU/memory usage every 5 minutes the data file look like this: ----------------------------- CPU(%)...

shell-script ubuntu

Zanna

11:04 AM

@technastic_tc yes, but I don't think I can ask for anything more haha. Anyway if you (as in any user) have found meta you've found the anniversary stuff, hopefully

technastic_tc

@Zanna ok!

BTW, who made the banner?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:34 AM

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Q: Compare all Values from a column with a string

I have the next txt file: ----------------------------- CPU(%) SWAP Memory(%) ----------------------------- 181.2 0kB 0.4 12.5 0kB 0.4 0.0 0kB 0.4 0.0 0kB 0.4 0.0 0kB 0.4 0.0 0kB ...

bash shell-script ubuntu

Zanna

@technastic_tc I don't know who made it - I guess the branding department people? But Catija (one of the CMs) is the person to thank

technastic_tc

12:37 PM

@Zanna ok..

Zanna

12:55 PM

@technastic_tc I added a link to a screenshot with the banner in the meta post. Later we may want to inline that picture. But I think the banner will be reused for other sites having 10 year anniversaries

JMG posted this on MSE

Journeyman Geek

@Zanna one of the other mods was asking about it, but he wasn't comfortable with meta :D

So in that respect I'm merely a messenger :D

Zanna

speak of the ~~devil~~ lurker and he shall ~~appear~~ speak :D

Journeyman Geek

I have big floppy ears, and they were burning ;D

Zanna

hahaha

I wonder what other sites are planning to do

we can share our ideas etc

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

3:19 PM

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Q: Superimpose multiple images

I have multiple pictures that are look alike, they're all black and differ only in the one dot of the screen, I want to combine them in one picture so I can see all the dots in one picture. How can I do this using something like ImageMagic? I don't want to use something with gui bc there are a lo...

ubuntu terminal images imagemagick image-manipulation

user3140225

4:14 PM

@Zanna continuing from the classroom, I think that @technastic_tc does a pretty good job for that (reviving AUGR)!

Zanna

4:25 PM

yes! :D

I wonder if people think the purpose of this room is to, like, catch Ubuntu-tagged U&L questions or something

because that feed is more active than any user

αғsнιη

@Zanna exactly

:D

Zanna

@Zanna also posted that screenshot as a separate answer here just to tie that up

@αғsнιη haha should we disable it? I find it useful but if it's discouraging people from chatting then it's a problem

this room was pretty active when I joined the site

there used to be three rows in the userlist

at all times

if I remember rightly

user3140225

@Zanna Maybe they do think that. I have never seen the room very active for about one year that I am an active AU user, so I don't know what people used to talk about here.

terdon

@Zanna If so, it fails miserably since 97.3% of all U&L questions tagged with Ubuntu have nothing to do with Ubuntu at all and have been mistagged. The OP simply wanted to say that they're using Ubuntu.

Pet peeve of mine, that.

Jun 7 '16 at 15:56, by terdon

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L Sometimes I feel the only thing you're good for is alerting me to mistagged questions on U&L.

Ah, that takes me back! :P

Zanna

I think talking about the newer packaging formats here would be really useful. I used to get some Linux magazines (when I had spare money) and I heartily wish that this chat would on some level function to keep me in the same loop hahaha

@terdon hmm but for our purposes getting the feed that is not a problem I think... like questions where the OP is using Ubuntu makes it like an extension of Ask Ubuntu :D

anyway seems to me that it's hard to tell (especially with limited experience) what is specific to Ubuntu, so if the tag is supposed to be used for that purpose it seems doomed to be misused

@terdon that was before I started coming to chat I think

IIRC it was about a month later I barged in to make a noise about my declined spam flag

user3140225

4:45 PM

I love this conversation! Especially the song!

@Zanna Apart from this one, have you ever had another flag declined?

Zanna

@user3140225 :D

@user3140225 sure, loads of them... I'll show you

terdon

@Zanna Meh. The vast majority of answers apply to any distro, anyway. Especially since U&L is mostly command line stuff.

Zanna

terdon

@Zanna Oh hey, and I declined it! Wow. Kinda feel better about that if it rsulted in making you a chat regular :)

Jul 5 '16 at 13:52, by terdon

@Zanna Yup. That was me, and I was wrong. I thought the first post was just nonsense, not spam. That it was someone who was confused as opposed to actual spam bait.

Zanna

@terdon the nice apology, the joking around etc, was all very welcoming :D

terdon

4:54 PM

And here we are, bit more than 4 years later and our roles are reversed! You're an AU mod now and I'm not! :)

user3140225

@Zanna That's a load of spam flags! How did you do that? Most of the time, when I catch a spam post it disappears right before I flag it!

Zanna

@terdon hahaha yes, that gives me a smart idea... maybe I should start declining more flags as a strategy to bring people to chat

@user3140225 I think there are three totally separate reasons I have a lot of spam flags... firstly, when I joined the site, Smoke Detector wasn't autoflagging, so it took 6 users to kill obvious spam instead of 3

secondly, we have Smokey's posts in the Downboat and the answers take a long time to get flagged

and thirdly, now that I'm a mod spam flags get prominently brought to my attention

αғsнιη

@Zanna emm, it's not good, I also remember since years ago chat room was busy but nowadays mostly Ubuntu tagged questions quantities are more than chats

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: awk to do a sum of numbers from a .txt

here is an example of the lines of the text file alternatives.log 13156 alternatives.log.1 3688 alternatives.log.2.gz 470 alternatives.log.3.gz 380 alternatives.log.4.gz 368 alternatives.log.5.gz 724 i want to know how can i use awk to sum the numbers of all the line (i have more than 5 lines) i ...

ubuntu awk

Zanna

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L right on cue

αғsнιη

5:00 PM

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L Ohh, God, just now one arrived :D

terdon

And a perfect example of a question that has no business being tagged with ubuntu.

user3140225

hahahahaah

Zanna

@αғsнιη but if we chatted more, the feed wouldn't be a problem would it?

terdon

@αғsнιη Chat pretty much died around the time of the Monica incident and deep distrust of SE by the community. I believe many of the old regulars now hang out in Byte's Ubuntu Discord channel.

αғsнιη

@terdon hmm, I heard about that INC

Zanna

5:04 PM

anyway we can totally disable the feed... I think @jokerdino stopped it a while ago, then someone suggested bringing it back

user3140225

@Zanna Yeah, all reasons make sense.

αғsнιη

@Zanna yes, I think so

user3140225

@Zanna Could there be a separate feed for these posts?

Zanna

@user3140225 you mean put them in a different room?

user3140225

Yeah

Zanna

5:06 PM

definitely, if people prefer that

is there already a room that would be suitable?

user3140225

I think that it would need a new room.

αғsнιη

I think, not necessary to feed them here, so if they don't subject to be asked on U&L, they would migrate to AU? I think there is no option migrating from there to here, so what's the reason they feed here? just to informing? inform who? 10/20/30/... persons here in chat room?

terdon

yeah, I never really got why this existed

And no, there is no user-migration path, but mods can migrate. However, it is very, very rare that a question asked on U&L is so specific to Ubuntu that it's worth migrating.

Ubuntu is on topic on U&L as well, so unless the question is asking about something like snap or other ubuntu-specific tools, it won't be migrated. And even if it is about ubuntu-specific it will probably not be migrated.

But the original idea of the feed was that this was an active room with many people, many of whom were interested in answering Ubuntu-related stuff on U&L as well.

To be honest I personally always found it an annoyance, but hey, I don't really hang out here any more either.

user3140225

@terdon Most of whom have already joined U&L.

αғsнιη

@terdon yes, I understand friend, you were Mod on AU, but...

@user3140225 I doubt if there would be a specifc room for that, one can go to visit it at all

there is a favorite tag feature they can get to being informed about Ubuntu tagged questions and as well as you said they have already joined both mostly

user3140225

5:25 PM

@αғsнιη I agree, I just suggested that as an option for not removing it completely.

jokerdino

hey, we have a tradition of bashing the U&L posting feed since the time it was introduced.. way back in 2011 or earlier.

I dont want to take that away from the new people joining the chat room.

It won't be fair, you know :D

terdon

true dat

jokerdino

Jul 5 '11 at 23:59, by Roland Taylor

@TuxMisplacedQuestions don't interrupt me bot!

Jul 15 '12 at 16:45, by Anwar Shah

@TheInterrupter. Thanks, You are doing your job nicely. good.

Jul 15 '12 at 16:50, by Anwar Shah

@TheInterrupter please interrupt more frequently.

Aug 15 '12 at 16:55, by Mahesh

@AskUbuntuMeta NO. and try not to interrupt with closed questions

user3140225

terdon

Blasts from the Pasts!

jokerdino

5:32 PM

@user3140225 A'ight I will stop then lol

user3140225

@jokerdino No please! Bring it on!

Feeds

Zanna has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

αғsнιη

@jokerdino 😂😂😂 yeah, seeing of that side, that won't 😝😝

a few days later maybe someone will open a question on meta with this subject "Why Ubuntu tagged questions doesn't feed in chat room?" 😂 😂 😂 😂

jokerdino

lol I can't imagine

There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.

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maybe they have set their workflow like that

Oct 29 '12 at 10:04, by Mochan

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L Go away. Stop interrupting! >O<

user3140225

100% accurate

jokerdino

5:37 PM

Jul 9 '13 at 3:06, by coding_corgi

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L is that what you do all day? that's a waste of a se account.... :P

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When one person thought it was a real person.

αғsнιη

@jokerdino 😂😂😂

terdon

Some were actually decent, apparently.

Oct 31 '17 at 19:44, by terdon

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L OMG!!! That's actually a question that is correctly tagged with ubuntu and it is a valid, interesting and well written post.

user3140225

@jokerdino Epic!!

αғsнιη

@jokerdino Once, long time ago, I've also looking the poster who is posted this chat, then I realized it's a feed 😝

jokerdino

what can I say? we are not brave enough to admit it openly

user3140225

5:41 PM

@terdon Only six years later!

jokerdino

Apr 29 '17 at 19:47, by Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: HEELP My pc is ffriickken crazy it's so fast!

The secconds are faster, my kkeyyboard arrre fffaaasteeer, firefox is faaster , what i shhhould do? Debian 8.5555

debian ubuntu

Apr 29 '17 at 19:48, by Zanna

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L chillax

user3140225

@jokerdino Cool @Zanna being cool

Mateo

Jul 4 '12 at 4:59, by Questions Feed

Meh, sorry for the interruption.

jokerdino

@Mateo XD

I think it was Nathan who edited that one

Mateo

:)

αғsнιη

5:47 PM

@jokerdino O mygod, those were so funny and we lost them now, can we request to feed them again? 😜😜

jokerdino

@Mateo how are you doing!!

Mateo

doing good, not very active on stack

terdon

@jokerdino heh, that one also got a funny comment when closing:

Mateo

but trying to do a lot on the ubuntu touch front

terdon

Oh, hey @Mateo! Long time no see!

jokerdino

5:49 PM

@Mateo oh awesome, thanks for dropping by

Mateo

@jokerdino I haven't heard from him in a while

jokerdino

he has recently visited the site, as per his profile

Mateo

cool, good to see

jokerdino

unrelated, wonder if we can get some kind of an indicator on Ask Ubuntu for highlighting if someone is an Ubuntu member?

terdon

@jokerdino Sure. Just ask Nathan to do it. It'll only take him 5 minutes and... oh. Right :(

Mateo

5:56 PM

ah, I think they were bringing the group back

zdnet.com/article/…

so yeah, if anyone wanted to run for council discourse.ubuntu.com/t/…

jokerdino

yeah I think I got an email about it.

Mateo

oh last month

jokerdino

as a member, I believe I get a vote?

didn't even read the email oops

> All Ubuntu Members are eligible to vote in this election.

Zanna

@user3140225 hahaha

jokerdino

yeah, our very own Thomas Ward is in the nomination.

Mateo

6:00 PM

nice

technastic_tc

6:11 PM

@Zanna oh.. ok..

@user3140225 😀

terdon

6:50 PM

@WilliamMartens hey, seriously, thank you for being gracious about that U&L answer. I'm glad you took my comment as it was intended: as constructive criticism. Don't worry, we ALL get stuff wrong, all the time!

William Martens

@terdon I was just about to reply to you some way; (How - I don't know) I am very very, VERY happy we have people like you! It's heartwarming!

terdon

:)

William Martens

@terdon I didn't take it negativly, thanks for pointing out details like this; here info matters! :D No but seriously, thank you - Both for the constructive-Criticism but also for the sweet comment, made my year! So; I'll end this reply with a big thank you for existing! //Best wishes

terdon

Awww :)

William Martens

7:23 PM

@terdon Now; Have a great continuing weekend! I'll go to sleep soon, but thanks again! //Will

Seth

8:40 PM

Great job with the anniversary Zanna

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