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Ramesh

00:10

@Gilles, downvoted :)

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Graeme

01:22

Aha! Managed to turn an ext4 filesystem into an ext2.

A: Reliable way to detect ext2 or ext3 or ext4?

After looking at the code for various utilities and the kernel code for some time, it does seem that what @Hauke suggested is true - whether a filesystem is ext2/ext3/ext4 is purely defined by the options that are enabled. From the Wikipedia page on ext4: Backward compatibility ext4 is ...

Hauke Laging

@Graeme Mentioning me is a cheap way of getting an upvote though...

Braiam

gotta love Arqade

Q: How do I lick a plane?

A friend of mine told me that I would get an Achievement if I managed to lick the plane that's flying around in the world but, he won't tell me how to get close to it. I tried many different things. Jumping on trampolines won't get me high enough, and the only thing that looks high enough is the...

Graeme

01:38

@HaukeLaging I'm all for the cheap upvotes, bring them on!

@Braiam I'm not sure which is more wtf, licking the plane or the fact that the game is called Goat Simulator.

mikeserv

My vote: plane. I dig goats.

Graeme

telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/10736382/…

I'm not sure how close to being an actual simulator it is; I've never been a goat and none of the goats I tried to speak to for this piece were very forthcoming (goats have very strict public relations officers). But living in the West Country I've seen plenty of outlandish goat behaviour, so I’d say Goat Simulator is around 95% accurate.

mikeserv

01:57

Strict attention to detail and studying his subject matter - that guy is going places.

Graeme

The Goat world needs experts!

mikeserv

@Graeme - I did manage to finish that ls thing this afternoon.

I wound up doing it by replacing the filename in ls's listing with the directory name.

It was... tedious.

Graeme

@mikeserv Aha!

mikeserv

I'm expecting some big reveal...

Graeme

Sounded like it would be difficult to do.

mikeserv

02:09

Looking over my shoulder a little.

The first part wasn't so hard - but then the sorting was.

Graeme

@mikeserv lol, I was just wondering what you would do for that.

mikeserv

Du is a milestone I used to see if I was doing it right, but, if I did, it was more due to chance than understanding.

I don't know what happens in the middle.

Graeme

@mikeserv did you put it on the answer?

mikeserv

It's there - take a look.

Graeme

@mikeserv I think I will leave this to tomorrow now, but I will.

Getting pretty late here.

mikeserv

02:16

I think I'll leave it for good. I almost abandoned it this morning, but I came back to it this afternoon cause I was so close.

You know anything about stty?

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Faheem Mitha

06:50

@Gilles I hadn't. Done now. Who is responsible for the 3 upvotes?

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Kiwy

08:23

koreus.com/embed/the-expert

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Kiwy

09:46

Am i the only one to find this question broad ?

Q: Understand debug messages from sshd

I'm using OpenSSH_5.8p1 in my machine,I'm connecting my machine using putty client but its slower so I have ran sshd in debug mode and found following messages can any one explain me in detail about each messages? debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_5.8p1 debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA deb...

linux ssh openssh delay

Graeme

10:44

@Kiwy yup, definitely too broad.

Kiwy

@Graeme that's what I though

mikeserv

10:56

Can someone remove my own comment from my own answer with my knowing? Is this common practice...?

Kiwy

@mikeserv if flag as spam or useless it could be

but it would have meen you put something rely irrelevant

mikeserv

Well, I hope I'm not spamming - I don't have anything to sell.

Kiwy

@mikeserv does one of your comment has been removed ?

mikeserv

Yeah - on this answer: unix.stackexchange.com/a/122230/52934

When I first posted that I didn't use sort and I didn't include the $PATH in the $PATH assignment - I was just trying to demo it.

Some Raphael came along and left a comment - which is better than most do, I'll admit - though he was kind of a jerk about it. I dunno - maybe I'm just sensitive.

Kiwy

so you put a comment ? and it does appear ?

becasue it does not appear in your comment activity :/

mikeserv

11:03

Anyway - he pointed those to things out and I replied - "Raphael - if you downvoted this post due to the reasons you describe I suggest you should look again because I believe I have more than sorted them. Thank you for the correction."

And I never heard from the guy on it, and -1 went away the next day - I just thought he was a dick, so it didn't hurt my feelings.

But it is a little upsetting than he can wipe it from history - can he?

Kiwy

@mikeserv no you can flag a comment but you can not remove them easilly

mikeserv

I didn't ask about me - I can barely remember where the delete button is.

Well, both comments are now gone regardless - and there's no evidence of their ever being there in the edit history. It's weird.

Kiwy

I mean you can remove your own comment obviously buyt you can't remove the one from the others, only flag them

mikeserv

I was intentionally overly courteous. Just because I do like correction and I understand better than some what it's like to be an asshole.

It aint easy being green.

Kiwy

@mikeserv a bit nervous from time to time :D

mikeserv

11:23

Nervous about what?

Kiwy

@mikeserv juste a reflection about

> I understand better than some what it's like to be an asshole.

slm

@mikeserv nobody except a mod can remove your comments.

mikeserv

No, I meant I wasn't gonna hold a grudge against him for being an asshole - because I get it.

But if he's going around trying to clean up after himself without saying anything that's cowardly - which I don't get.

But my comment was polite - I thanked him for his attention.

So why was it removed - and where has his gone? It doesn't make sense.

Kiwy

@mikeserv ask a modo, they can remove comment and see every remove stuff slm could tell you maybe

slm

@mikeserv - the mods will often times remove comments that are unrelated to the Q&A if they're ppl just arguing w/ one another.

mikeserv

11:36

Hehehe... My dad always cracked up at that... What's a "modo" I don't know - what's a modo with you?

Only in Roger Rabbit it was a motto.

Well there wasn't any arguing - it was two comments. 1 said I downvoted this post for this reason. The next said, Thank you - please look again.

Like I said - I didn't hold it against him, and maybe I was just sensitive, but he was right, so I fixed it. Even though I thought it was a little over the top to insist I preserve asker's $PATH carefully - I was obviously just broadly demonstrating a method. But whatever - I only asked cause I thought it was strange they would disappear.

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Kiwy

13:29

@mikeserv kiwi takes a y in my case ;-)

mikeserv

13:58

@Kiwy - my bad. My computer's on the tv and it's far away. Plus my keyboard sucks.

Kiwy

:D I understand that

terdon

14:53

@mikeserv comments can (and often are) deleted by the poster and you will get no notification. They can also be deleted by a mod. In general, comments are often cleaned up, they're not supposed to be there unless they are still relevant so if a mod stumbles upon an obsolete comment thread, they'll delete it.

Faheem Mitha

15:07

@Kiwy openssh is kind of a mess, especially if you start turning on seldom-used features. rather buggy, imo. plus the devs tend to ignore you if you ask questions. at least that was the case some years ago. i suppose it might have changed.

wow, someone actually answered that openssh question.

certainly deserves an upvote.

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Faheem Mitha

21:00

Should we close this one? Seems little point keeping it open.

Q: Unmet dependencies error on Debian

I'm on Debian wheezy, i want to install chkrootkit sudo apt-get install chkrootkit i get this error : Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet...