All the questions I've seen refer to running a 32 bit app in a 64 bit system.
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit (actually elementary OS Luna, which is based on it) and I'm trying to run a 64 bit app which refuses open.
Should I be able to run it? Is it possible to run a 64 bit app in a 32 bit sys...
I've linked to the potential dupe in my comment. I've never tried to run 64bit apps on a 32bit system but presumably dpkg --add-architecture amd64 should work perfectly well right?
@strugee yes, that's the situation I'm thinking of. I was just imagining you might run into problems when attempting to address memory but presumably the multiarch will deal with that
@strugee fast, lighter than gnome-terminal (I may be wrong though since it's based on it but it sure seems fatser) supports all sorts of fancy things like infinite scroll back, true transparency etc BUT can also do not only tabs but things like this:
You can do this using GNOME terminator which is a great terminal with, among other things, the ability to split panes horizontally or vertically.
Once you have installed terminator you can set up a profile with your desired settings (instructions adapted from here):
Run terminator, and set up...
Or this, which I just did in a bout 3 seconds (just 2 keyboard shortcuts):
fair enough. me neither really, I just still notice these things because I learned on older machines and the KDE apps were slow. I then discovered aterm which was really fast and still consider speed relevant today although it hasn't really been so for years
whenever I do answer a question though I'm always really pleased with the results because I tend to only answer those that look like I can give a good answer to
Anyway @Braiam why are you so dead set against Mint Qs? AU allows all Ubuntu variants and mint is one, the only difference is the name really. As far as I know, there is nothing on Mint that is not installable on Ubuntu and vice versa, the repos are compatible and the underlying system is the same. If you allow ultimate ubuntu for example, why not Mint? What makes Mint different?
askubuntu.com/help/on-topic: This is not the right place for: Linux Mint, Backtrack, Gnome-Remix (prior to 13.04) and other Linux distributions (try our friends at Unix & Linux Stack Exchange).
I'm with Braiam on this one. having done AU for a while, the influx of crap questions is awful. they even have problems with people not downvoting/flagging. and of course there's the roboreviewers thing
if they expand their scope it will only get worse. the "Ubuntu" scope is confined to one distribution and they still can't keep up. imagine how awful it would get if they expanded.
@Braiam exactly! And chrubuntu is much more different than Mint. The policy seems to be "leave open unless it is about installing". Mint's installer is almost identical to UBuntu's as well. Even the repos are 100% compatible. I just don't understand why you guys don't simply add mint to the list of accepted derivatives.
@strugee yeah, I get that but Mint is Ubuntu, more so than any other non-official derivative probably.
@terdon did you read my answer? the normal Ubuntu usage was crippled by downstream...
we tried for a while figuring out OP problem until we came to the conclusion that the problem was not Ubuntu, but whatever downstream has done
same with that mint question, the comments were cleared but there are 3 deleted answers that didn't work for OP, and the one accepted had several edits until they could work out a solution
also, if we accepted them, then why would U&L exist? Should be called non-Ubuntu Linux and Unix?
@Braiam I did, I just am not sure if it represents a community consensus, it was not very highly voted. Anyway, that was chrbuntu, Mint is a different issue and also the most popular distro. Mint users and Ubuntu users are pretty much the same group and , to me, it makes sense to allow them there.
@strugee yes I have (I have 1k rep there) and I agree that the site needs cleaning, urgently! I also tend to agree with @Braiam's position on things AU. I just think that allowing Mint makes more sense than trying to block perfectly valid questions since, at the very least, 99% of Mint will be applicable to UBuntu.
@terdon here's my point of view: yes, it makes sense for Mint stuff to be on AU. it makes perfect sense. it's just that the community literally does not have the capacity to handle more things
And there though. I mean, look, if I have a question about some obscure gsettings or dbus or GUI thing I might well ask on AU and simply pretend I'm using Ubuntu.
I've never done this, but knowing the sites, it might be a reasonable way of getting a good answer quickly.
@strugee ummm. They just had elections, not sure about that. I'd trust @Braiam over the mods any day. The only people who really know what to migrate are those who are active on both sites.
@terdon true, I voted for Braiam in the elections. my point was that while the mods may not be active here they at least won't migrate crap that we'd just close.
@Braiam hang on, 28% of 7 is 1.96 (?) so I'm guessing 2 questions rejected out of 7. In any case, 7 is not significant any way you look at it, that number means very little.
Huh, of course this made it into the hot questions list:
In an "interesting" thread of comments we began to look at the word fuck in several different uses. Most of them were interjections and verb uses as would be expected.
But, perhaps dialectally, the word can easily be used as a noun, and even an adjective.
I would like to see how many different...
@strugee Why is it a comma splice? The clauses are connected
Anyway, the comma splice is one of strunk and white's obsessions and their prescriptivist view on grammar is not very popular anymore.
In this case, it's equivalent to I went swimming and never mind the cold which could also be written as I went swimming, never mind the cold! Granted, you could consider it a comma splice but it doesn't bother me.
Still, such things are largely a matter of preference. As stated very nicely in wikipedia:
The British author Lynne Truss[9] observes: "so many highly respected writers observe the splice comma that a rather unfair rule emerges on this one: only do it if you're famous."
Skype for linux's icon is about 1.5x the size it should be and as a result is driving me insane.
Is there a way to resize the tray appearance of just that icon?
are you kidding me?? I found a page (nerdanswer.com/answer.php?q=106547) that describes my exact problem witha link to Super User. but the question's been deleted by OP!
@terdon Essentially because I was not awake enough to properly read that it didn't specify Mac font once I had decided that this was off-topic because it was about Mac fonts. Click, click and away
@terdon I realized it's sort of about OSX + mint, but didn't feel it had anything to really do with U&L. It should've likely been put on the OSX SE site or perhaps SU. @anthon
@slm @Anthon I also voted to close, I just specified a different reason ("What's this font?" is off topic). I just didn't want the close reason to be: because it's OSX since that is explicitly on topic
@slm dunno. But the custom message (with 3 upvotes, presumably Hauke's, ANthon's and yours since you're the other 3 who voted) was: "This question appears to be off-topic because it is about Mac."
@terdon I had seen that you closed it as well, but fortunately before asking "same reason as you did" I did read the automatically added comment and thereby prevented another inappropriateness.
I have looked all around but couldn't find the answer to a very simply question:
I would like to log into machine C from machine A, passing through machine B. However, B is slow, so I would also like my connection to C to be compressed/decompressed at C, tunneled through B, and decompressed/comp...
BTW, since there are some Stephenson fans here, does anyone know in which book there is a passage which is about a grad student who is told by the professor, oh, so you are the Unix expert in the department. The narrator then goes on to say, if the student has been more experience he would have recognized it as the knell of doom. The student later graduated without a degree (or something like that).
@casey Well, the fonts look a little shaky, but nothing extreme.
"So, you're the UNIX guru." At the time, Randy was still stupid enough to be flattered by this attention, when he should have recognized them as bone-chilling words. Three years later, he left the Astronomy Department without a degree, and with nothing to show for his labors except six hundred dollars in his bank account and a staggeringly comprehensive knowledge of UNIX. Chapter 6, "The Spawn of Onan"
@casey Amazon's network is where I usually go for used paperbacks. sometimes just the cost of shipping ($4) + 1 cent, or at least it was a few years ago.
It seems the mods Bruno and Oli over there are vehemently against allowing a migration path, as if they are protecting U&L somehow by preventing the users from doing it themseleves
I posted a question which was closed as off-topic and it seems like it could fit on another site in the network. How can I go about moving it there?
What is migration and how does the process work?
Who can migrate questions?
When should I consider migration?
What can cause migrations...
"Any user with 3,000 reputation can vote to migrate a question to another site via a list of up to five sites, which are most relevant to that site." I assume that this list is hardcoded somewhere? Is the issue about adding a site to this list?
@Braiam That is presumably because a mod is only one person. Therefore more likely to make a mistake.
the only way I know is to flag a post to open the menus (not to actually flag it). If you pick "close for another reason" -> "Off-topic" -> "belongs on another SE site" you'll get the options
@slm We don't want AU to be in U&L's migration list because Ubuntu questions are on-topic on U&L. But having U&L in AU's migration list would make sense, I don't know why it isn't done.
I could understand if they don't want our stuff, but I don't understand their unwillingness to let us have their (on-topic for us) stuff. Perhaps they don't like being reminded that their whole site is on-topic for us as in any on-topic question for them could be migrated here.
@Gilles - agreed, I was just mentioning that Michael had stated what sites were in our migration path. I've questioned SU before, but as you've said AU doesn't make any sense as an output for us, but does as an input.
@casey - it's on topic for us but am glad it's a sep. site
I've thought having SU would be nice, but in meta there are Q&A's about this and Michael explains how things are. I believe he mentioned that the other site has to also agree to receive things from different SE sites.
@Anthon if you're going to edit a question to remove the 'thank you', fix the rest of the problems too... (I hope you're still editing unix.stackexchange.com/questions/118504/… ? )
@derobert I normally do but with this question I am not sure if I can make sense of the rest and not change the meaning of what the OP failed to express clearly
@Anthon Sure... but it has trivial errors. Like a run-on sentence and failing to capitalize Ubuntu.
@Anthon BTW, you beat me to answering that backup question. I still posted my answer (turns out we were thinking similar things...) and upvoted yours. Hope you don't mind.
@derobert My answer was a bit tongue in cheek, because if someone ask "arte the premade tools" my fingers itch to just write "Yes" and leave it a that. And I am used to have my answers be overwhelmed the ones by slm so that does hurt (so much) any more ;-)
@ with the Ubuntu question I was not even sure if 'preseeding' did not mean 'preceding' I had no idea what the OP was talking about, and it just came into my visor while doing a FP review.
@FaheemMitha SVN has two repository formats. I believe the old BDB format could leave you in trouble in that case (unless you take an atomic snapshot, like with lvm) or copy files in the right order. I think FSFS is more forgiving.
@FaheemMitha of course, you could say that svnadmin hotcopy is like git push...
hotcopy will handle a repository in the middle of a commit fine.
All the questions I've seen refer to running a 32 bit app in a 64 bit system.
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit (actually elementary OS Luna, which is based on it) and I'm trying to run a 64 bit app which refuses open.
Should I be able to run it? Is it possible to run a 64 bit app in a 32 bit sys...
You can do this using GNOME terminator which is a great terminal with, among other things, the ability to split panes horizontally or vertically.
Once you have installed terminator you can set up a profile with your desired settings (instructions adapted from here):
Run terminator, and set up...
In an "interesting" thread of comments we began to look at the word fuck in several different uses. Most of them were interjections and verb uses as would be expected.
But, perhaps dialectally, the word can easily be used as a noun, and even an adjective.
I would like to see how many different...
Skype for linux's icon is about 1.5x the size it should be and as a result is driving me insane.
Is there a way to resize the tray appearance of just that icon?
I posted a question which was closed as off-topic and it seems like it could fit on another site in the network. How can I go about moving it there?
What is migration and how does the process work?
Who can migrate questions?
When should I consider migration?
What can cause migrations...
