I found an old article praising it for what it can do, and concluding "it would be even better if it could do other stuff like x, y, and adding watermarks". But it's possible that feature got added later? Anyway I didn't find any positive evidence.
@EliahKagan sorry, that was what I was referring to - on mobile and didn't see the link to the funny edit suggestion until after I'd sent the message it ended up coming after
It's the follow-up to the earlier post about responsive design. I'm worried responsive design means things doing stuff when your pointer merely accidentally strays near to them unintentionally, which is a feature of websites that I thoroughly hate (I hate the feature, and I consequently hate the websites that have it)
Neither of them explained what it was. They just said we're going to lose half the screen to a useless thing on the left. So I don't know what it is even though I did read the posts, and the responses
The related but confusing question Can I skip over releases when upgrading? will also appear in the dupe banner, so I VTC'd it as a dupe of the equally related and confusion-addressing question Why does `do-release-upgrade` skip a version? These are all arguably appropriate originals for different major aspects of the question but I still feel dirty for doing that.
In any case, whether or not those additional originals are to be considered correct or reasonable, it would be excellent if the best original for that question -- How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release? -- were to appear first, which will happen if it gets the last dupe vote.
With more information, this question could be okay, but right now it's off-topic, or unclear. I've voted to close it as off-topic (not about Ubuntu).
This question seems fine to me. It could perhaps benefit from a second, less optimistic answer, but it's an important conceptual question. I wouldn't close it unless there's something wrong with it I'm missing, or unless we have something to dupe it to.
@Zanna Darn! Well, I guess my new comment will have to do.
Deleted posts can be converted to comments. I downvoted it, flagged it NAA, and voted to delete it. My downvote may have led them to delete it. I really don't think it was an answer (or intended as one).
@EliahKagan I don't want to make the title too specific to that message because I don't want to discourage people from posting answers that explain in full how to install it, if they choose.
I guess this answer should be edited rather than deleted.
@EliahKagan I am not sure it wouldn't be helpful to include the full text of the INSTALL file. Here it is...
This distribution contains the following files:
* Binary files in "bin" directory: petrify, draw_astg and write_sg
* man pages in "man/man1": petrify.1, draw_astg.1 and write_sg.1
* A gate library: lib/petrify.genlib
* Documentation in "doc":
- A tutorial: tutorial.ps
- Postscript version of the man pages
The binaries "draw_astg" and "write_sg" are in fact links to "petrify"
(they share the same binary code).
You should define properly define the variables PATH and MANPATH
of your environment including the "bin" and "man" directories
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@EliahKagan I've installed 18.04 and I've done my tests for a gksu replacement on 18.04 as a said I would do here in this chatroom a few days ago. The results of my tests are that I've found no better than sudo -H appname [/path/to/file] &>/dev/null where I put [/path/to/file]inside square brackets only to indicate that it's an optional argument. This works for everything in 18.04. As b4 I suppressed the error messages because if I look at one more huge beaver picture I'm going to scream.
My only regret is that I haven't hit the bottom of the underlying theoretical issue. pkexec is so inconsistent that it's downright annoying and sudo -i makes a small nuisance into a potentially large nuisance. That's all I have at this point. There's probably some deeper explanation that explains why every available solution is such a piece of garbage that you either have to refrain from running graphical apps as root (my favorite solution) or else tell the terminal to shut up.
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seems to me, it is a dupe, but the target doesn't have the answer wanted by either OP
keeping the new one open seems unlikely to help in getting a good answer
really we should keep channelling people to the original question so that any useful answers get posted there
but, the system does not (I mean, it is impossible) allow us to close a question as a duplicate of an unanswered question (unless both are by the same person)
in this case, the system recognises the target as answered (the answer is quite upvoted)
but it is not satisfying, so doesn't count meaningfully as answered for the new question. So although the system allows us to close, we probably should not, according to that system's design
@BhargavRao No problem! These sorts of questions about Natty are definitely not urgent. I hope your midterm went well. Btw, should I be treating Natty posts without a Sentinel link any differently?
Yeah, I rewrote the printer for this room by taking parts from the SEBotics room. But I have made some minor screw up there (by forgetting to make the change to the printer as well), while I changed it from 88% to 80%.
Did I miss something about that post? I didn't check it on Sentinel (it didn't have a Sentinel link) but it looked non-flaggable to me, and I didn't see any earlier revision in its revision history that would've been flaggable, so I gave it fp feedback. But I think someone else gave it tp feedback.
I don't know how to search chat for replies to a post, so I don't know how to find my or anyone else's feedback on it.
Also, why does it have the green check mark and say "true positive"? Shouldn't it not know how to classify the item because it got conflicting feedback?
@BhargavRao Ah, okay, excellent. I did not know about looking them up like that!
Looks like an answer to me as well, are we both missing something? @karel Any reason why you thought it was a NAA?
@EliahKagan yeah, that's only on Sentinel. While analyzing the data, I'll get it as marked as "mixed feedback" on my system. I think Sentinel prioritizes tps over fps, so it got marked as tp.
@Zanna Are you taking this comment to mean the VLC solution did not work for the original OP? I can't tell if they mean this, or if they instead mean they didn't find any other solution, since it's a reply to someone else saying the VLC way didn't work and asking if the OP solved it.
Either way, if the questions really are asking for the same thing, I don't think we need to hold back on duping them.
@BhargavRao In the original question the OP said he wanted to do a distribution upgrade and the answer was about how to do a fresh install, so I thought it missed the boat.
If the new question's OP can give specific information that's relevant to finding a solution and that is different, then it would make sense to keep it open. As it is, they haven't even actually said the VLC-based answer to the older question didn't work for them. The OP of that older question may have said that, but the new OP hasn't, have they?
they want to avoid watching hours of video where nothing happened
@EliahKagan yeah I saw that too... weird
they want the software to discard parts of the video where nothing is moving, so they can just examine the parts where something was moving without having to waste 10 hours of their day looking for it...
@Zanna When a post receives a wrong red flag but is rightly deleted for some other reason, usually no further action is needed. Neither the penalties to the user nor the "tuning" of the system as affected by the red flag, as far as I know. But when a red flag causes the deletion to occur (so the Community bot is shown as having done it), that's another story. If nobody can explain why that post should've been red flagged, then we should ask a moderator to look into it.
@Zanna Hmm... Yeah that looks like at least part of what's not adequate about VLC for this purpose.
In this case, it was actually deleted by a red flag. So I think it should be checked. There may have been a good reason for it, if it was part of a a slurry of posts by a spammer trying to make it look like they were a legit user, though even then a red flag on that particular post would've been questionable.
I was going to mention that the other reason to ask moderators to look into wrong red-flag deletions is in case they're part of a pattern of misuse. (Even if a mod cast the final red flag, red flag deletions that don't make sense might sometimes be the result of moderators having mistakenly actioned users' flags that were themselves part of a pattern of misuse.)
So custom flags asking moderators to look into that probably shouldn't just phrase the matter in terms of keeping the glorious database clean and accurate. :) Something more than that is at stake. Anyway, for this post, I feel pretty confident you figured it out; so we don't need to ask a mod about it (unless there's some other source of doubt).
I'm not sure if I should explain that their problem might not be the same as the OP's. I don't want to keep asking them to post a question if they're going hurl garbage slur-bearing insults at people in their question, too, and I don't usually (actually, I'm not sure I've ever) both flag and reply.
To be clear, this is not a request for you or anyone else to comment.
If you think I should comment, though, please let me know.
On further consideration, I think the the final sentence of my original comment is adequate, if they come back and decide they want to pursue their booting problem further.
@EliahKagan (I'm not sure if it's reasonable to VTD that, but I'm pretty sure it's not flaggable, especially as far as what Natty looks for is concerned.)
This question is a verbatim duplicate of that question. They had the same title and body (until one of them was edited), are by the same author, and appear to have been posted within the same second, i.e., both are shown as having been posted at 15:32:17Z. My belief that that one was the original...
^^^ Extremely NAA. They want to install Kali Linux Tools, not Kali... but they're running Linux Mint, so we shouldn't advise them to post a new question on Ask Ubuntu, since we'd just close it as OT.
I've commented on that very NAA post. I think it's better than nothing and better than any of the canned comments available through the LQP review queue. I'll delete it if you (or anyone) can post a better comment.
@EliahKagan I mean, none of them deal with the situation where the whole file is one line, as in OP's example. The example might have been added after the answers were posted. I don't think anything needs to be done to the existing answers, but I was thinking of posting an answer that shows some ways of extracting parts of a line (as seems to be the requirement) rather than some lines
@Zanna Oh, sorry, I thought you meant a different answer, even though you included a link to the answer you were talking about darn it I mean the question itself!!
I think NAA posts by users who are suffering 18.04-related problems deserve good comments but I'm not sure what to write here. It doesn't attempt to answer the question, they might not have enough information that it would make sense for them to post their own question (usually for this sort of question people do, but this case manifests a bit more simply), and especially if karel's answer doesn't work for people then I think the question is OT bug.
I think this edit (on that same question) should be rejected. I think the OP is trying to indicate that what they are seeing might not be accurately characterized as zooming.
@Natty fp
^^^ But I've commented. Hopefully they'll expand it.
For a moment I thought you had rejected the new top bar. :)
Anyway, thanks.
@EliahKagan Like, I'd like it to have a comment with more information than that one (posted after I was looking at and flagging the post -- I just saw it), which points out that it's NAA but doesn't say much else of value, and which could potentially come across abrasively.
@EliahKagan Nope, Sentinel doesn't seem to have anything for it:
I'm more worried about whether it's distracting from potentially more important elements of the review situation, with the changing dupe target and possibility that it may not be a duplicate at all anymore (though I still somewhat favor closing it as a duplicate of my newer suggested question).
The review situation just got even more complicated, with the old dupe suggestion being resuggested and getting another vote. I'll delete it and perhaps comment further on that matter.
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@jokerdino But why would it be impossible to attempt to operate the CAPTCHA?
Do you think the CAPTCHA problem in that meta question is no repro and that's why the OP deleted it?
@Zanna Sorry, I mean I had only known about how that was when it was added for gold tag badge holders.
Specifically, I mean I knew that gold tag badge holders' ability to do it was related to the hammering ability but it had not occurred to me that moderators couldn't already do it.
Can anyone confirm the validity of this answer? If I'm not mistaken, Canonical stopped providing 32-bit ISOs since 17.10, but supports upgrading from an older 32-bit release. (I might be wrong)
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