that problem just drives me crazy.
All my Python and Perl scripts are simply NOT iterpreted via shebang. Never. But they work as expected when I explicitly call the binary.
I double checked my Perl and Python installations, it is just too strange: they shebang-way execution works very well in...
we'll I watch who's doing the participation and if I see them here a lot I'll go and do rounds of those ppl to see if they've done answers and focus on them 1st
And anyway, you're right, the query is wrong or is limited to the last N days or something, @slm only has 30 votes there which doesn't make sense either.
Steph produces strong answers that teach everyone something, sometimes they're details other times they're left for others to fill in if they feel it's necessary, Gilles does the same, and is a mod. weeding out Q's that aren't strong or are off topic pretty much everyday
gilles does a fair amount of DV to weak answers to push them to the bottom of the list
i think others do too
i view the votes of kind of pumping entropy into the system, so I do that role
sturgee does too
renan too
not sure about caleb, he was more active here in the past, not so much now
Though I'm not sure, I think quite a few of the high rep users are only high rep here and are not necessarily aware of the details of how the SE sites work
Seems like the package is corrupt (at least the metadata about it). I would either remove it or fix it and possibly repackage it as my own, and pin the version in apt (if possible) and open an issue with the maintainer of the package.
@Braiam your solution is great for many cases (and I had already upvoted it) but Gilles is pointing out that reverting to a previous state was not what the OP wanted
@Braiam - I see why you're bugged by it, he likely downvoted it. He's said many times that he views that strictly as a way to push what he considers weaker or wrong answers down so that the more approp. ones show up on top.
I've watched him for almost a year, he seems very robotic about it, I never seen him do it and it not be what he's genuinely thought. We chatted too about it, cuz I take each DV as a personal bump to me to try and fix it.
But I think what he's saying is that the package is really broken so that's should be the 1st answer someone else would come across, the restoring from backups is the next best option (again I'm reading his actions, this isn't necessarily what I would do)
don't even bother discussing w/ him any DV's. He will drop off and cut you off completely if you ask him about it
@Braiam downvotes happen though. I got used to that more on SU where there are more hit and run down votes. It's not a big deal, it just means one person disagrees and you only lose 2 rep. I would try not to worry about it.
he's human too, some days he might be less apt to leave a more helpful comment and DV, than on other days where he might feel inclined to edit your answer and upvote ya
I cannot open any settings windows and cannot access the menu be clicking on an empty part of the desktop on enlightenment installed on Arch. What could be the problem?
If it helps with finding the issue I'm running GDM for a desktop manager.
remember there are no -1's for DV a Q. And he has such a stockpile of points they're meaningless to him. He's def. only interested in producing a high quality product here
@terdon - I agree, I"ve done that too, cut the fluff out
I'd be curious to meet them, it's hard to tell if ppl that get along online can too in the real world, but they're extremely gifted and know a ridiculous amount of stuff.
> 2004 (7 months) Worked for Morse Group Ltd. Edinburgh, UK as a helpdesk engineer. Provided telephone support on Sun hardware and Sun, BMC and Veritas software (UNIX). British and French customers.
Imagine getting someone like Stephane when you call tech support, someone who not only actually knows more than you do but way way way more than you do
the worst Q's are where the guy shows a line of code and no sample data, I can't figure out what he's asking, and steph. has provided him a couple of options in awk, grep, and perl
I'd found a good trick when I was living in spain and had to call my ISP's tech support. I'd ask them "Do you know what ssh is? FTP? HTTPS? DNS? No? OK, I want to talk to someone who does"
It tended to work, they'd pass me on to a real techie who could actually help me.
When I use Thunar I like adding to custom actions command lines like those presented here, here and here to extract audio from videos. I mean without transcoding/altering the sound, just putting it out of the video (a flv or mp4 video, for example, is a aac audio - which cannot be played as such,...
Here's one that step. answered that I asked for an example: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93558/printing-match-groups-with-grep#comment141730_93558
he doesn't want to transcode the audio, just extract it
[0x7f3c08012238] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot find video encoder (module:any fourcc:none). Take a look few lines earlier to see possible reason. [0x7f3c08012238] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot create video chain [0x7f3c08000958] main decoder error: cannot create packetizer output (h264)
@slm I know very little about this kind of thing but won't that depend on the format?
Ah, I remember that URL question, and I actually understood steph's answer though I was waiting for a reply to your comment before posting mine.
@slm if I run a GUI program remotely and have it display locally using ssh -Y, it is the remote graphics card that does all the work right? The only thing required of my local GPU is to update the screen with the info sent remotely right?
I just set up an ssh server on my netbook, running Linux Mint 15. I have a program called fluxus installed on my netbook, which is basically a graphical rendering of scheme/racket code.
I ssh'ed into my netbook using another computer running Ubuntu 13.04, and I got this error:
laura@bbydhyoncho...
The OP of the SU Q is trying to run fluxus, a 3D rendering or game design or something engine via ssh. Which GPU would be doing the rendering? The remote one right? Not the one where the X server is running.
we had a Sun GridEngine computer cluster with 150ish computers in for engineering at Kodak, all the crushing was on there, and the apps like matlab, mathmatica, Synopsis, Mentor Graphics were running there and the GUIs were remote displayed to Windows computers running Exceed (X server for win) and/or Sun systems
Hi, I don't understand the answer here: unix.stackexchange.com/a/93775/15760. The question seemed to say that sort foobar > whatever and sort -o whatever are equivalent. But the answer says that "You can't go to the same file with redirection, the output redirection wipes the file." What does that mean and how does it relate to the question? OP has accepted the answer and it has three upvotes and it makes sense to others.
But could someone please explain in a different way how the answer relates to the question?
@vasa1 If you are trying to sort and put the results in the same file, you might be tempted to use "sort < foo > foo". The problem with doing so is that the output redirection truncates the file to nothing and then there is nothing to sort any more. Using the -o flag means that sort does the work of juggling a temporary file and putting the results in place of the original unsorted file.
Steph produces strong answers that teach everyone something, sometimes they're details other times they're left for others to fill in if they feel it's necessary, Gilles does the same, and is a mod. weeding out Q's that aren't strong or are off topic pretty much everyday
that problem just drives me crazy.
All my Python and Perl scripts are simply NOT iterpreted via shebang. Never. But they work as expected when I explicitly call the binary.
I double checked my Perl and Python installations, it is just too strange: they shebang-way execution works very well in...
I cannot open any settings windows and cannot access the menu be clicking on an empty part of the desktop on enlightenment installed on Arch. What could be the problem?
If it helps with finding the issue I'm running GDM for a desktop manager.
I just set up an ssh server on my netbook, running Linux Mint 15. I have a program called fluxus installed on my netbook, which is basically a graphical rendering of scheme/racket code.
I ssh'ed into my netbook using another computer running Ubuntu 13.04, and I got this error:
laura@bbydhyoncho...
