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2:23 AM
@mikeserv Why would his device's UUID change anything? fstab needs a label of some sort. It was the bold that threw me off. Does he care if it applies to more than his one device?
 
 
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3:34 AM
@Seth - Well, because it's unique, is all. I was agreeing with you - all indicators point to OP wanting to mount a specific device.
 
4:01 AM
@Seth - I don't care if he cares - your answer was a good one - if not for him, then probably for someone else reading it. And he didn't specify only the one anyway.
 
That is what I was trying to figure out. He doesn't come right out and say it, but his wording seems to imply it.. I'm not sure. Thanks anyways :)
 
4:13 AM
woot, got two answers off today.
 
woot. I dig pictures.
 
Oh, sorry.. I didn't mean to sound like I was digging for upvotes.. :-/
Simply happy I managed to get some answers here. Usually everything is already answered 8-)
 
I didn't mean you did either - but I dig pictures.
 
@mikeserv Ah, yeah. I'm known for putting a screenshot in everything ;P
Occasionally to terdon's disgust ;P
 
Oh yeah? Oh - on the ubuntu site, right?
 
4:18 AM
yep ;)
Like I said, I check the ubuntu tag here every once and a while, but you guys are good at answering everything. I decided I'd just lurk on the front page for a bit.
 
There are a lot of screenshots there - I think I've only ever used them once or twice. But most of the stuff I do is text oriented anyway. This is the only one I can think of actually - and it was text anyway.
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A: How to have command history with timestamps output to the terminal continuously?

mikeservHere's the final product in action on a split-screen xterm from basically shell defaults to working in just a couple of commands: A rougher way to do this than is demonstrated in the screenshot might look like this: PS1='$( { date ; fc -l -0 ; } >${TGT_PTY} )'$PS1 Where ${TGT_PTY} would be ...

But I like it when other people use them cause I'm a hypocrite I guess.
 
lol
Nice answer btw. I like long write ups; even though I don't always read them :P
 
I actually need to fix that one - reading over some posix stuff the other day and I discovered that ! in $PS1 is fully portable - so the portable function is just about the same as the bash one, I guess.
I guess we're all hypocrites to some extent. Haha.
 
 
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6:00 AM
@Ramesh Wow now I feel old. My first system did not have a hard drive at all and when I did eventually add one (the size of a briefcase) it was a whopping 5 MB!
 
apparently this particular user thinks that if he puts his spam in the edit summary it'll be let through...
 
 
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8:10 AM
Head-desk for the day: a client came to me with an office server box complaining that their users were regularly breaking out of user-space. I found (among other things) he was allowing all users sudo privs to vim. On questioning I heard: "But I thought that only lets people edit files, not run things." and "But how can they open other users files that are in directories marked 700. They can't even see the files are there."
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Anybody want a customer?
 
8:43 AM
@derobert and @slm: here's your weekly dose of guilt over the blog
it's been like a month, guys, come on!
:P
 
 
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12:22 PM
@Caleb No way!
 
12:41 PM
"But I thought that only lets people edit files, not run things." : priceless
 
12:59 PM
@Caleb that sounds like a Client from Hell history :P
who in the world is migrating this? unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/48515
 
1:52 PM
@Caleb back when I was in high school, my dad had a client call up about an IBM RS/6000 that crashed and was failing to boot. It was only after about an hour into the call that the client mentioned offhand "the fire system malfunctioned last night and the server is in 6 inches of water, could this be related?".
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@casey there should be limits... really
 
2:26 PM
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Q: What is the difference between @ and * when referencing bash array values?

arjanThis Bash guide says: If the index number is @ or *, all members of an array are referenced. When I do this: LIST=(1 2 3) for i in "${LIST[@]}"; do printf "example.%s " $i done Gives: example.1 example.2 example.3 (desired result). But when I use ${LIST[*]}, I get example.1 2 3 instea...

can it be because the OP is using a wrong shell? It seems to work perfectly fine for me using both @ and * in bash shell.
 
 
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3:55 PM
Hi is any one on?
 
4:06 PM
yes
 
Do you know how to fix..
It is a Fat32 Partition
@casey can you help me
 
@Andrew if you have a question (and it seems you do), please ask it on the site ( unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask )where it will get more visibility.
And provide as much detail in the question as you can
 
@casey asking it in the chat is quicker
 
@Andrew and inappropriate
 
@casey I need live feed back too... Because I need it fix ASAP
What does inappropriate men
 
4:12 PM
and the details you've given are insufficient for an answer
@Andrew in it means you are not supposed to ask questions here. Feel free to discuss a question you've posted on the site, but do not make this the only place you ask.
 
ubuntu-gnome@ubuntu-gnome:~$ sudo fsck.ext2 -p -f -C0 /dev/sda2
Warning! /dev/sda2 is mounted.
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
Well I don't know what logs I need?
 
for starters, fsck.ext2 is for ext2 filesystems, not fat32
but alas, I'm walking out the door and cannot help further
again, post your Q on the site where it will actually get seen and responded to
 
4:30 PM
Can anyone help me
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Q: How do I repair a Fat 32 Filesystem Partition "input/output error"

AndrewSome how the partition (Dev/sda2) partition got deleted. So I use TestDisk to bring it back... The first time I did it it erase the whole hard drive... The second time it did restore the partition which is good. But now it is giving me a error massage when I try to open it in Files(Gnome). I...

 
 
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5:59 PM
I'm having a weird problem building mercurial 3.0 from unstable sources on wheezy. any mercurial and Debian users here who feel like assisting?
 
 
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8:15 PM
It finally happened. I now have a golden cow pie^W badge.
 
@Caleb I was once interviewing someone for a security/pen-testing position. I gave him a box with sudo vim access (among other things) and said "get root access". After about 45 minutes he gave up. This is someone who had security related positions in the past, and was touting themself as a proficient penetration tester.
 
@derobert What is that?
 
8:39 PM
@FaheemMitha He reached 100 upvotes for his super cow powers question.
 
@Patrick oh.
@derobert congrats.
 
@derobert Moo
:-)
Oh, I just noticed, that's your first gold badge. Thought you already had some. Congrats :-)
 
@Patrick Don't you get a gold badge for just showing up a lot?
 
@FaheemMitha There is the 100 consecutive days badge
 
@derobert have you seen
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Q: Asking elected moderators some inspiration / thoughts for current candidates

MateoSeeing as there is a new election this year, I would like to ask the currently elected moderators a few questions on the nature of their views and thoughts pre- and post- election. How/(If) has being elected as a moderator changed the way you do things? What have been some challenges in adaptin...

@Patrick yes, that one
 
9:00 PM
@Patrick he really didn't had the incentives to do that...
 
academia just went offline
 
RO for all SE
 
no, just login
 
The #stackexchange sites are coming up for a read-only test in the new data center now #stackDCmove http://t.co/bGkwoTyGta
 
9:42 PM
@derobert the printer arrived. should i do duplex tumble or no-tumble?
probably no tumble
 
@Braiam eh?
 
@derobert cups has the option for something called dns-sd. should i use that? doesn't seem to be working now. it worked briefly earlier. what is the best thing for an ethernet connection? ipp?
 
10:15 PM
@FaheemMitha tumble/no tumble depends on which way you want to turn the page over
there are two ways to flip a page, you can rotate it along the long edge or the short edge
one is tumble, the other isn't
@FaheemMitha if you have given the printer a fixed IP, IPP with that IP is probably most reliable.
But the various discovery things ought to work, too.
 
10:35 PM
@derobert yes, I guess i want the non-tumble option. isn't that much more standard anyway? the brother config doesn't indicate that though.
@derobert I'm currently using DHCP. can I configure a fixed IP from inside the printer?
@derobert IPP is better than socket? any idea what the difference is?
 
@FaheemMitha I forget which is which. But which you use typically depends on what you've put on the page. For English text, turning along the long edge is typical.
But if you were to print 2-up (2 pages per side), you'd turn along the short edge
 
@derobert non tumble is long edge.
and yes, i think that is typical.
 
@FaheemMitha either should be fine. Socket probably uses some simple Brother-specific protocol to send the job. IPP is a standardized (arguably, design-by-committee) protocol that runs on top of HTTP
CUPS's native protocol is IPP
Personally, I'd try IPP first.
 
@derobert ok. IPP might be better. socket seems to be generic though. what does it mean in general?
so, could i set the static ip on the printer?
 
Well, it means CUPS is going to connect to some raw socket and spew print data at it
 
10:40 PM
@derobert ah, i see. and hope that the printer does the right thing?
in response?
 
Those old socket protocols basically are the same as 'nc printer portnum < jobfile'
 
@derobert ok
 
Well, the only thing the printer has to decide is if the incoming job is Postscript, PCL, some Brother format, or plain text. Except your printer probably doesn't have PS or PCL, so the choice is brother format or plain text
 
@derobert i think it has a ppd file in there. i would have thought it was a postscript printer.
 
@FaheemMitha Nah, CUPS just loves PPDs. Even for non-Postscript printers. It even has one for $50 inkjets.
 
10:43 PM
@derobert ok. so you think this printer is not postscript? bummer?
 
For a printer that ought to be $100? I'm pretty sure its not.
Not that it matters. CUPS will handle Postscript for it.
(well, Ghostscript will)
 
@derobert Well, I sort of like the idea of PS printers.
I think I owned one once.
 
@FaheemMitha Well, considering they cost probably $300+ here, they'd probably be at least eleventy billion rupees over there...
 
just me or UL has been read only for about an hour?
 
@derobert You might be exaggerating a trifle.
@Braiam more than that.
 
10:47 PM
We are running the test for another 15 minutes - if no issues present then we will fail over completely in 15 minutes #stackDCmove
So, since there haven't been any updates, we can conclude it has been out of R/O mode for half an hour, or a little longer.
IOW, we've all gone mad.
 
nah, SO isn't down, so it's all fine
 
BTW: Mobile notifications are going crazy. I'm getting notifies for things that aren't showing once I click on them.
 
ups
something is funky here of this question was asked less than a minute ago? stackoverflow.com/q/24101592
 
Hmmm. Maybe its back for part of the Internet...
Weird.
@Braiam When I look through that history, I see a 15-minute or so break during the R/O test... then the questions resume.
I suspect a DNS caching issue somewhere.
 
What does it mean that ctrl+alt+f7 goes to the first gui terminal?
I am in gnome, happy in actrl+alt+f1, adn when I go to f7 I see nothing
 
11:02 PM
@Rojo It used to be Control-Alt-F7 everywhere. I think a recent Fedora decided to move it to F1.
I think it was Fedora...
 
@derobert Ah, so traditionally, when you started a xserver in whatever terminal, it moved to ctrl+alt+f7?
 
yeah, traditionally it started there
 
@derobert Great, thanks
 
11:24 PM
@derobert ok, got printing with static ip and ipp
i forgot the brother printers have a web interface. handy
 
11:47 PM
@derobert got the scanner working too. just had to add the ip address. i guess i had done the rest of the configuration earlier.
 

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