Raiders of the Lost Downboat

Eliah Kagan

12:42 AM

@Natty tp

@Natty fp

@Natty tp

^^ That one's still around.

@Natty tp

The anonymous/low-rep feedback on that clearly wrong answer is +1 -17.

Zanna

2:36 AM

That's a lot of bad feedback

Eliah Kagan

Well it was saying to install Wine in order to use Flash in native Firefox on Ubuntu.

The linked page didn't have anything about that, either.

Eliah Kagan

2:52 AM

The linked page looked like it was someone running Windows who installed something in Windows that fixed the problem (and the thing they installed wasn't Wine!).

It would maybe have been best if I had commented on the post to clarify that before voting to delete it. The case for deletion was stronger than it appeared because it was unclear if the OP had even done that or had even used Ubuntu: they might have done the fix on Windows, then assumed installing wine corresponded to it. I don't know. Anyway, I don't think it's really a problem or that we need to undelete it to try to comment and then redelete it.

Zanna

@EliahKagan hahaha

Eliah Kagan

I mean, there was a hope that Wine would one day run on Windows. :)

Zanna

>The real reason, of course, is that it's obviously evil and wrong and therefore fun for hack value

This thing works fine on my Windows system, so obviously wine is The Answer to make it run on Linux

Public Health Warning: wine is not the answer to everything

Etc

Eliah Kagan

3:08 AM

Well, they gave a specific command. I don't want to say they didn't run that command on an Ubuntu system. They very well may have. I don't think that is what actually fixed it for them, but I don't think it's implausible that they ran it. I'm just not 100% sure whether or not that command was what they meant to indicate specifically worked for them.

Zanna

Maybe it helped them with a different problem

Eliah Kagan

I doubt it directly helped with a Firefox problem in Ubuntu, but yes.

It might be that installing it had the effect of installing or upgrading dependencies that were incidentally helpful in Firefox in Ubuntu.

Natty

3:33 AM

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3:43 AM

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5:15 AM

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pomsky

unclear, probably an issue with shell theme and/or font, but no response from OP

OT, Mint

dupe, unfortunately would be closed as unclear

opinion based

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5:40 AM

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Kulfy

Re-close

Natty

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Eliah Kagan

@Natty tp

Kulfy

Looks like a dupe

Zanna

6:34 AM

I don't really understand the title of this question

and I am not familiar with Process Explorer on Windows

what exactly does this person want?

The question is in HNQ right now

so I want to make it less... arcane looking

OTOH, maybe I'm just substantially more ignorant about this than the average passer by...

Eliah Kagan

That question makes sense to me.

@Zanna The idea is that you have a program that lists currently running processes, but it's sometimes difficult to figure out what process corresponds to a particular window in the GUI. So it provides a facility that lets you select a window, and then shows which process owns that window.

Zanna

@EliahKagan I see

so if the title were "How can I get process information from a window?" that would be clearer?

Eliah Kagan

Should the question be reworded? Should it have a screenshot of Process Explorer?

Zanna

6:50 AM

I feel the title is overly vague about what's wanted at the moment. A screenshot of Process Explorer would be a nice-to-have

Eliah Kagan

I think a number of Windows users might not be familiar with Process Explorer because, although it's a poplar tool, it does not come with Windows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Explorer

Zanna

@Kulfy I've made an edit to that question which hopefully makes it a bit more readable.

Are those a kind of errors you'd get if the disk was failing I wonder...

@EliahKagan it seems like a pretty geeky/sysadminy tool :)

Natty

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Zanna

I wonder why the OP of this question thought that recompiling the driver might help them; unless they were really exaggerating when they said they were a beginner, they must surely have found that suggestion somewhere, and that place might have other useful information... I feel like I should comment, but I don't think I'd be able to give any useful advice here

... regardless of what info they supply, so I don't really know what to say

karel

7:10 AM

@Natty tp

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7:40 AM

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7:56 AM

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karel

OT programming

Eliah Kagan

8:13 AM

Would it be reasonable to add What specific bad things happen when gedit is used with sudo? as another dupe target on Is “sudo gedit” inferior for editing system files? (Pinging you @Zanna because you have the gold command-line badge.)

Maybe also What is the difference between “gksudo nautilus” and “sudo nautilus”?, though I'd suggest it appear third.

Eliah Kagan

8:26 AM

Based on the core of what the question is asking ("Can there ever be any problem"), the duplicate closure is reasonable. But if it had stayed open then I would have posted an answer which I think would have been appropriate there but inappropriate on the current dupe target (as well as on those other two I've mentioned).

Natty

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pomsky

@EliahKagan I feel slightly icky for the closure as the duplicate suggests "use sudo -H instead of sudo", but it seems OP is already aware of that.

Anyway, as gksu no longer available, I prefer the gvfs admin backend to edit system files and folder

Eliah Kagan

8:41 AM

Do we have a question just asking how to edit system files with graphical editors?

karel

Three edits to this question were posted by the author as three separate answers in an ongoing dialog with himself.

Eliah Kagan

@pomsky Thanks. I've replaced my old comment on the question with this one which mentions that.

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1162511/22949

Natty

@EliahKagan Post already reported

Eliah Kagan

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1162369/22949

Natty

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Eliah Kagan

8:54 AM

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1162616/22949

Natty

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Eliah Kagan

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1162360/22949

Natty

[ Natty | Sentinel ] Link to Post Low Length; Low Rep; Self Answer; -2.5;

Eliah Kagan

(Though that one might be hard for a bot to reasonably distinguish from an answer.)

@Natty tp

@karel Thanks. The three answers are deleted now, and I commented on them to advise the OP to edit the question instead. I'm not sure if it's best to edit the information in for them or just wait for them to do it.

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Kulfy

9:03 AM

Can we consider this as unclear? Or may be OT?

pomsky

Hasn't OP mixed up "score" and "answers" here? Or is it me who is getting confused?

Eliah Kagan

@Kulfy I think that's off-topic → not about Ubuntu.

Kulfy

It also has a very poor answer.

Is Ubuntu forum on-topic on Ask Ubuntu?

Currently writing a question to ask on meta regarding ubuntu-forums.

Eliah Kagan

The quick and dirty answer is yes.

It's on-topic on the main site.

The Ubuntu community is on-topic.

Ubuntu Forums is only on-topic on meta if the question being asked is also about Ask Ubuntu.

Kulfy

I didn't mean that. Look at the excerpt of ubuntu-forums. Should I ask a question on meta whether we need this tag or not?

Eliah Kagan

9:10 AM

Oh.

Kulfy

IMO this is a bad tag and used incorrectly on main site.

Eliah Kagan

The tag wiki itself looks okay to me. We do definitely have some questions that really are about Ubuntu Forums. But yeah, it seems to be used on some questions that are not actually about Ubuntu Forums.

Actually, there might be few enough of those to just remove the tag from the questions where it doesn't fit.

But I'd say go ahead and post on meta.

Kulfy

Should we re-tag the questions (if necessary) and let the tag be there for questions regarding forums?

Eliah Kagan

Which ones are you thinking of retagging? Some of them really are about Ubuntu Forums.

Kulfy

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Q: How to install MOPAC7

I am trying to install MOPAC 7 and downloaded it from the website. It has 7 folders - Interfaces, Modules, MOPAC_7, src_interfaces, src_modules, src_subroutines and Subroutines. There are no installation instructions. I downloaded it from http://openmopac.net/Downloads/Downloads.html , the one na...

ubuntu-forums

Eliah Kagan

9:15 AM

Yeah, definitely.

I've just retagged it.

Kulfy

OT close voter(s): This question is definitely on-topic; we help people with Ubuntu community resources here ("Services provided by Ubuntu"). Furthermore, it does not belong on meta, which is only for questions about Ask Ubuntu itself (not about other Ubuntu-related sites). It might be considered a duplicate of this earlier question though. If we close either of these as a duplicate of the other I recommend merging their answers. — Eliah Kagan Jul 25 '13 at 4:40

OK I'm convinced with your comment. Discarding the draft.

Eliah Kagan

Okay, if you're convinced.

But there is nothing wrong with posting on meta if you're not sure.

Like, even if it's something I disagree with. :) :) :)

Anyway, I don't know what position you were going to take on meta... but you're at least right that the tag could use some attention.

Let's go through the other questions and see if some of them have the tag wrongly.

(Assuming you're up for that.)

Kulfy

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Q: intention for new group - but how solve data-floods?

We are a group of deaf (in Germany and worldwide) people, who want to join together to one group, and they are interested in Ubuntu. Now point is: script-language, no deaf person is very fond of script-language and not every deaf person knows the oral script-language of international deaf people....

accessibility ubuntu-forums

@EliahKagan Yeah doing that only :)

Eliah Kagan

Thanks.

@Kulfy That's (at least in part) about the Ubuntu community but not about Ubuntu Forums specifically. I'll retag it now.

Kulfy

@EliahKagan If I was still in confusion I would have posted on meta. Like once I and Zanna had a conversation regarding a question in this chatroom only but still I wasn't sure about the appropriate action. So I posted on meta.

I guess that's it. There were only 2 questions tagged wrongly.

Eliah Kagan

9:24 AM

Oh. Cool.

Kulfy

9:42 AM

I'm not sure why but status-bydesign looks very much odd here

It is requesting to remove the limit. IMO a employee should retag it as status-declined

Or may be some other.

Zanna

10:01 AM

@EliahKagan I just reopened the question because I didn't think it was a dupe of the suggested

since OP never said they were using sudo gedit at all

they say they are using sudo -H gedit

so, can anything bad happen when we use that command?

I actually saw that post before I came here

I saw the comment on the post in AUGR

and I flagged it as unfriendly

Eliah Kagan

Sorry, which post?

Zanna

@pomsky yeah, reopened

@EliahKagan sorry, that one

Eliah Kagan

Oh. Flagged one of the comments that had been there?

Zanna

that comment

Eliah Kagan

Possibly relatedly, does the question benefit from its current first sentence?

Zanna

10:08 AM

not at all

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Zanna

:)

Eliah Kagan

Thanks for editing.

Actually I wonder if all the comments on that question -- except karel's possible-duplicate comment -- should be deleted at this point, to better facilitate clarification or improvement of the question.

Zanna

do you think I should not have reopened that question?

Eliah Kagan

I am definitely not excluding my own comment... at this point, should that be an answer?

Zanna

10:13 AM

I would prefer to see an answer to this question

which actually addresses its content

@EliahKagan so, yes, if possible!

Eliah Kagan

@Zanna I think reopening it was fine. I wouldn't want the possible-duplicate comment deleted (not sure if that's what you're responding to) but not out of disagreement with it being reopened. It can always get reclosed if that's what people decide. It was hammered closed anyway.

Zanna

:)

Damn, yet another power cut so I'm stuck on mobile

Eliah Kagan

I've deleted my comment, as part of practicing what I preach. :)

Whoa, the OP really did never say anything about using sudo gedit. @Zanna Thanks for noticing that.

Zanna

I guess they did in the title. But it seemed they were not actually running that

Kulfy

@EliahKagan (unrelated) It seems you'll get gold badge for command-line any time soon. Since you now have 200 posts with whopping 1.6k score.

Also, should we delete our comments on your answer?

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10:28 AM

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Kulfy

Why OT?

Again not OT IMO.

Natty

11:39 AM

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Eliah Kagan

@pomsky Thanks again for telling me about that. Would you be willing to check if I've accidentally said any wrong stuff about the gvfs admin backend in the answer I posted on that question? (You should feel free to say no or ignore this request, of course. Others can comment on it and I can look into it further.)

Zanna

12:03 PM

should this comment's suggestion be implemented with an edit? I am not sure how to do it

pomsky

12:13 PM

@EliahKagan Looks great, +1 :)

Zanna

from me too, thanks for writing that answer!

Happy the question got attention

the sudo fun has started hahaha

pomsky

@EliahKagan I guess you have already figured it out if you didn't know this beforehand, you can also use it while manually entering path in Nautilus

Eliah Kagan

Thanks to both of you for reading it over! (Though now I feel like I should've asked about its accuracy in main chat... I don't to create the appearance, or effect, of campaigning for votes among a small group of people.)

@pomsky Yes. I was (somewhat) familiar with gvfs paths, just not admin://.

Zanna

@EliahKagan I read your answer before I noticed you had mentioned it in here - I was watching the page anyway hoping you would post

Eliah Kagan

12:40 PM

→ 19 messages moved to Island of castaway thoughts

Eliah Kagan

12:56 PM

OT Pop!_OS

@Kulfy Either way is fine, I think, if you mean on that answer. They were about the answers, and not just noise, and I don't think they were getting in the way of other comments. But you've deleted your first comment; perhaps I should delete mine.

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Eliah Kagan

Yeah, I guess my comment isn't all that valuable now. ~~I'll delete it.~~ I've just deleted it.

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1:53 PM

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Eliah Kagan

@Natty tp

Kulfy

2:45 PM

@EliahKagan Deleted second also.

Eliah Kagan

3:10 PM

comment no longer needed

Kulfy

Is it possible to try "all" Ubuntu derivatives (official and non-official) out there?

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Q: All Ubuntu based Distributions fail to boot after Grub

I made a Live USB with Ubuntu and Mint,but cannot reach the live desktop due to black screen that happens after the two boot entries "Ubuntu with or without ACPI.I can't turn the PC off after that. Just to clarify that English isn't my main lanaguage and that im very new with Linux.