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Q: get the images from a directory

6:04 AM

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i am trying to get images from a website url "www.example.com/products" in this products folder lots of subfolders there i need to download the products folder. in the www.example.com/products, www.example.com/products/subfolders, the image is www.example.com/products/subfolder1/image.jpg, www...

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7:07 AM

This needs more information to make for a good answer askubuntu.com/a/794554/530811

Good first question from a person who lives in Ohio and has slow internet (like, really slow, around 15 MB per hour) askubuntu.com/q/794492/530811

7:40 AM

Weird formatting askubuntu.com/q/794571/530811

SmokeDetector

9:20 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted username, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: a split second feel a burst of vitality and you’ll be roused to by eanorjuriya on askubuntu.com …

This is shady... askubuntu.com/q/794601/530811

9:35 AM

@grooveplex Why?

9:53 AM

Also what do you think about the 'dial up Lubuntu question' in which an AOP suggested the QOP contacted them through e-mail?

Q: Synonymize tags [secure-erase] and [secure-delete]

@grooveplex I think that's the AOP's problem, not ours. Up to them, I guess.

At least they encrypted the email.

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10:10 AM

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Well, secure-erase and secure-delete simply mean the same, so we should synonymize them. Here some stats about those two: secure-erase: 13 questions 0 followers Excerpt: none Wiki: none secure-delete: 11 questions 0 followers Excerpt: none Wiki: none

discussion tag-synonyms

10:46 AM

Hey, does anybody here have an SSD? What read performance do you get from it?

My result seems to be a bit slow:

$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 Timing buffered disk reads: 1506 MB in  3.00 seconds = 501.98 MB/sec

My 5400rpm HDD reaches around 112 MB/sec in that test.

Can my SSD really be only 5 times faster? Or is something configured badly here?

The cached disk reads are about 7000MB/sec for both my HDD and SSD btw.

Q: rsync -a does not preserve mtime

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In order to debug my repeatedly crashing Ubuntu 16.04 I want to backup /var/log from my HDD to an external USB medium. I am running an live OS (Ubuntu 16.04) and using the --archive option: $ sudo rsync --archive /media/ubuntu/2f1ea741-cc93-4b0e-ad74-1e21d56d27a9/var/log/* /media/ubuntu/transce...

ubuntu rsync

Ha! I flagged it faster than Smokey!

$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 1420 MB in 3.00 seconds = 472.76 MB/sec

That's an SSD

Hmm... I expected there to be more boost...

What read speed do you get on your HDD?

11:10 AM

@ByteCommander I don't have one on this machine. I'm at work where I have this little thing: intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc5i7ryh.html

11:21 AM

Nice.

11:36 AM

o/ all

\o

12:02 PM

gah :( i was just writing some general leads for solving the backup on his own lol

well then back to my script then :p

12:43 PM

This character limitation here sucks

@terdon you're here ?

or @Oli ? Can you maybe explain to this user (askubuntu.com/users/182432/ravi) that he should make at least essential changes, or if then not to remove the thank you in advance, instead correcting the spelling. I'm going to reject all his edits like this from now on, while a single edit i might let through a second one maybe too. But hes doing a shotgun approach on such edits.

anonymous2

1:14 PM

What's up?

@Videonauth Sure, reject them. He's only done 6 reviews and they were all in the past hour. All of them have now been rejected (two by me). That should be enough to get the point across. I'll contact him if it continues.

ok

sad i couldnt post my initial reject message and had to cut it down :)

1:32 PM

If all first answers were like this... woah. askubuntu.com/a/794684/530811

it contains a lot of information, but not how to set the PATH variable, I see now.

@Videonauth :) Leave it as a comment.

hehehe

@grooveplex Um. Pretty much all of the 1st paragraphs is wrong though.

"Linux based operating systems use bash shell.", well no, depends on the system. Ubuntu's default is dash, for example.

"The environment variables are normally created by the operating system during installation," say what?

" Apart from that, in linux, to set environment variables, we first need to access the terminal application. " : no you don't.

"That's because the user has the privilege to add, edit, and remove different variables at will" : this is pretty much nonsensical.

should I remove it?

@grooveplex Your comment? No, the OP did indeed try. I'll just edit and remove the most glaring mistakes.

1:38 PM

@terdon okay

Wow. I had to remove all sorts of stuff. He was also suggesting echo '$HOME' to print the value of $HOME.

This pollen allergy is horrible. I just sneezed over 6 times in a row, that's a new personal record. :-/

not spam, but NAA

1:57 PM

How is everyone doing this Monday?

Fine and you ?

it's going pretty well.

happy july 4 to all muricans

guess they all are having a hangover right now and still sleeping it off :p

@James not good

we had a mysql crash on a development server.

2:04 PM

@Videonauth nah, that's tonight into tomorrow.

it has been restoring since this morning :P

@Rinzwind oh no!

yeah. and after it is done I need to add manually the changes for today.
will take another 8 hours or so to get done

and then I have to add what was done on those 8 hours >:)

that will take another 2 hours

you see where this is going :-P

@Rinzwind sounds like fun ;)

playing ketchup.

2:06 PM

time to show off your skillz ;)

oh I am.

Does anybody here know if Metasploit offers man pages? askubuntu.com/questions/794697/…

@grooveplex for what? :X

For Metasploit

but that is not a command ;-)

2:07 PM

and then somewhere in there you'll say something like...

4

"Bye suckers!"

or some of the tools it provides

I have no idea because I never used it

@james oh 17:00 this dude is going home ;)

@Rinzwind :DD

@grooveplex I don't think metasploit provides man pages

offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/msfconsole-commands

Off-Sec provides those docs though...

I have a script ready to add the things I was told to add ;-)
so I can start that from home too :+

@grooveplex DUPE! dev.metasploit.com/pipermail/framework/2010-December/… >:-D

WTF

Fri Dec 31 01:32:50 CST 2010

that dude had nothing else to do?

FOUND THEM @grooveplex

Kali does >:)

what where

2:11 PM

bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=174

there ^

someone made man pages for it for Kali

Yeah, but they aren't available anywhere else.

Q: Incentives to answer new user questions

he linked them so I believe it is allowed to copy them to another system

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It is common to find questions from new users (1 rep) without a reply, or not even a comment. True, some of these answers are badly written, or unclear, and user might not know how to use the forum, so reward in terms of upvotes and accepted answer are little. Yet, these are precisely the type of...

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3:07 PM

@terdon I think we both made a mistake there askubuntu.com/q/794706/522934

You meant askubuntu.com/q/794706/522934

yep

3:23 PM

@Videonauth Oh? Why? 15.10 is EOL

Q: Will a custom encoding C# class function properly with the Mono 4.4 libraries installed on Ubuntu 16.04?

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I would like to change the default encoder for ASP.NET 4 running with Ubuntu Linux 16.04 operating system on a Lenov Thinkstation desktop and apache server 2.0 and mod-mono-server4.exe. James Jardine posted on July 9, 2011 this URL, [https://www.jardinesoftware.net/2011/07/09/asp-net-4-change-t...

ubuntu security apache-httpd mono

@terdon wily isnt EOL till october this year

Huh? Hang on, I checked before closing and it was EOL. Let me check again

wiki says July 2016 but i am not sure how to interpret that

Well, it's not listed in the list of EoL. Damn, could have sworn I saw it. Thanks @Videonauth

3:27 PM

np i just saw it myself and thought oh well i should not review unless i have had 1 mug of coffee

or dont know did i close vote as unclear ?

i still don't understand the question

well whatever my review is gone from the queu now as well so i cant check back but ok

just felt its worth mentioning

@Videonauth yes

i finally understood the question

video is good

3:59 PM

cp command does not copy directory by default

why?

tis a tool meant initially for copying files, for directories they added the recursive function later on so cp -r is you weapon of choice

couldn't they add feature to copy directory as well ?

@edwardtorvalds They have. It's called -r

that a function that treats dir different than regular files

how is that different from specifying an option for cp

you could alias it if you want

4:12 PM

anyway I am in no mood to debate coz I thought that must be a genuine reason.

A: What work from home can you recommend me?

Glad to hear it.

anonymous2

5:04 PM

@terdon, I think we have a problem for a mod...

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content deleted this should not be here.

The Six Girls You'll Date in College

hahahaha

►

to funny lol

@anonymous2 @JacobVlijm Why did you make this edit??? That is spam and should have been flagged as such, nothing else!

@ByteCommander I think the question might also be spam

The Q is not directly spam, but a spam catcher and should therefore also be flagged as such, yes.

's what I meant

hey

waz me?

SmokeDetector

5:14 PM

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mebeh

well we all where i guess smokey is now on doing over hours

biet

one down

@Zacharee1 I was that.

figured that when the rest came in :p

5:16 PM

But why is the reported question post deleted?

The question is still alive.

not enough flags?

I mean why is Smokey's message about the Q deleted already?

oh

It should only delete it if the post gets removed.

rogue mods?

5:18 PM

Or a bug in Smokey.

I don't know.

It's still there in the CCHQ:

in Charcoal HQ, 4 mins ago, by SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: What work from home can you recommend me? by Aleksandra Culture on askubuntu.com …

bugs or rogue mods?

mod bugs or buggy mods?

or rogue bug mods or buggy rogue mods ?

why not both

xD

5:19 PM

No idea. It gets weird.

iz gone

In Soviet Russia bugs report you.

5

lel

Tha answer is gone, but the Q not yet.

In Soviet Russia you ban mods

3

wow

it's in 3rd place for lowest voted q

5:23 PM

Come on guys, is it that hard to flag this spam catcher question to death?

It's still alive!

well it doesnt let me put any more flags on it :p

ITS ALIIIIIIIIIVE

and why dont i get a start wall entry with my bugs report you pouts

@ByteCommander you mean to flag the question as spam?

i flagged for mod attention as spam catcher

5:25 PM

Is the +0 answer between the +7 and +3 for anyone here? askubuntu.com/questions/366883/…

yes for me

weird

for me not

weirder

some of these heavily downvoted questions are hilarious

Q: Please help identify this relatively new Arabic upbeat song?

5:29 PM

The order's messed up here too askubuntu.com/questions/356525/…

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This is a specific song I don t know the name and I don t remember too many lyrics, but after just about every sentence in the song the deep voiced singer say AYAYAYAY and its followed by a high pitched screech. What is the name of this song?

music arabic

@edwinksl yes please.

world-class troll

@Zacharee1 casted a delete vote

Is that some 10k feature?

Yup, 10ks can cast delete votes on questions that have a negative score and are closed IIRC...

NO, the Q must be closed for two days to be able to cast delete votes for 10ks.

askubuntu.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools

And then 3 delete votes + the sum of all upvotes on the Q and all answers is needed to delete it.

5:44 PM

@ByteCommander Quite frankly, it popped in front of me, flagged it and edited it. Don't so a reason why I shouldn't have done that.

@ByteCommander I would have believed you meant it as a question if you'd used only one question mark btw. Same question to you, whith what purpose did you roll back?

I'm not 100% sure about the spam system, but if you edit a post that gets flagged to death as spam, the penalties might even hit you...

And it would not have been properly flagged as spam in your censored revision.

Only first revision, which for some reason means first edition in this case

Therefore: leave spam as it is and let people flag it. Prettifying or censoring spam posts is only counterproductive.

@ByteCommander but counterproductivity is fun! (almost as fun as the word, counterproductivity)

The answers on this question askubuntu.com/questions/794792/…

6:00 PM

We still need MORE SPAM FLAGS here askubuntu.com/q/794758/367990

Q: Why do these commands produce different outputs?

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I am trying to get the linux timestamp from a row of text. I can use the cut command to grab the string > echo '"tester_row_____",0,"2016-07-04T01:42:28Z","2016-07-04T02:00:58Z"' | cut -c 22-41 2016-07-04T01:42:28Z Now, if I use that date string directly in a call to date I can get the linux...

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@Videonauth hinting intensifies

@Zacharee1 yep

Peepz liek dis ansr superuser.com/questions/1096814/…

435 rep until 1k on Super User

I want to get to 2 or 3k there and then I'll be happy

test

If I get 3k, I'll almost have 10k in chat

SmokeDetector

6:13 PM

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srsly

who did that

Me. That question is almost 1h45min old and still alive. I want to see it dead!

You reflagged?

lol

Should we bug terdon?

NO, I re-reported it to Smokey.

You can not reflag something unless your previous flag got reviewed already.

I was wondering

does @SmokeDetector have mod privileges in chat?

or do mods have to delete the messages older than 2mins?

6:17 PM

Smokey runs under a normal user account. Only mods can delete old chat messages.

ok

@ParanoidPanda Welcome back. Would you please cast a spam flag here? askubuntu.com/questions/794758 Thanks!

user136984

@Zacharee1: Mods delete them when they are no longer of any use and are just blocking up the chat.

@ParanoidPanda so why are you still here? >:DDDDDD

sorry, had to do that :p

>:D

6:20 PM

@ByteCommander really pushing that thing :P. Soon you're gonna be knocking at people's doors and saying, "Hello, would you like to take a moment to sign up for Ask Ubuntu and flag this question as spam?"

If it helps, why not?

o_O

Break into people's homes and sign them up and then flag it :P

I could also borrow some of your famous TOR nodes @Zacharee1...

Ask @Serg. I still haven't gotten the password

where the hell is serg

6:21 PM

Since when do you need a password for tor nodes?

dunno to both of you

Tor is a public network that routes its packages automatically, you can't even control where your packages hop IIKR.

user136984

@ByteCommander: Gone (the spam)!

discussion feature-request image

Hooray! \o/

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Q: Use HTTPS for Imgur images

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6:22 PM

Have any of you tried the Tox client Toxic?

\\o \o\ \o/ /o/ o//

No, only qtox so far.

I had it installed for 5 minutes once, but I could not figure out how to use it...

user136984

I'm going to be forced to use that when the toxcore wily repository is shut down, because they don't have a xenial section with qTox due to that dev war.

user136984

Plus I don't really like how the devs for qTox treat their users, and they are insulting to people and everything. They've actually said some quite insulting things to their users.

user136984

I think I should just figure out how to use Toxic and use that.

user136984

Should be similar to IRC as far as I can recall. Not that I could use that either! :D

6:25 PM

Careful @ParanoidPanda, you're turning into me when I talk about my Android stuff

user136984

:D

Speaking of my Android stuff, why is Stock so slow compared to Vanilla?

@ParanoidPanda You know whether there is a Python API for toxcore?

We could make our own client then...

Btw is anyone else up for a game of Cards against Humanity?

maybe...

that means?

6:31 PM

I guess

So we would have to find at least one more player then...

@Videonauth What about you?

@PARANOIDPANDA PLS

nah im googling for a tutorial, how to for PyQt5

pls

aha, okay. Sounds useful :)

6:32 PM

yep want to start making the GUI for my passgen

People really liked that AV answer. Huh

The things where I'm just spitting out assumed stuff get quite a bit more than what I rsearched

@Zacharee1 MOst of the time the easy and planin answers atracting the most votes

heheheh, you should look at that mess :p

IKR

@edwinksl What about a game of Cards against Humanity? Do you have time?

user136984

@ByteCommander: So far I haven't found any API documentation at all so I don't know... I guess it must be somewhere unless they just manually edit the code...

6:40 PM

@Zacharee1 I guess I found some players, at least one. I'll start a game.

Making the real rep on SU

pyx-1.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/game.jsp#game=21

Game password is the first name of Trump.

waz pwd

ew

6:53 PM

@BYTE

I be pinged...

yesh

@Videonauth btw, by default, your script includes possible white spaces, they're in the printable chars, no matter if you add them to chars or not. By optionally addong them to chars by a flag, you double the chance :)

i know i could use string.whitespaces but i looked into the module for that and whitespaces is defined there like this whitespace = ' \t\n\r\v\f'

# Some strings for ctype-style character classification
whitespace = ' \t\n\r\v\f'
ascii_lowercase = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
ascii_uppercase = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
ascii_letters = ascii_lowercase + ascii_uppercase
digits = '0123456789'
hexdigits = digits + 'abcdef' + 'ABCDEF'
octdigits = '01234567'
punctuation = """!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~"""
printable = digits + ascii_letters + punctuation + whitespace

Then the script should remove it by default.

7:05 PM

this is why i did not simply use whitespace for inclusion

the space character however i wanted

this is why i added it in manually

Ah, sorry, I forgot I ran it with defaults...

the newes version is in the 0.0.6 branch btw not in master

@JacobVlijm github.com/Videonauth/passgen/blob/0.0.6/passgen.py

can someone figure out what OP really means? askubuntu.com/questions/792535/…

@Videonauth ah thanks!

@edwinksl and me did a lot of pondering and cleaning :)

7:14 PM

it can be cleaner still

agreed :)

@edwinksl He obviously expects the script to output something

indeed i do :p

and it does

but as well can be loaded as a module

user136984

Is there an answer on this site about how to launch something with root privileges in the GUI session?

user136984

Because normal startup items won't work due to the command requiring sudo, but can't really add it to rc.local (or whatever it's called) as it should only be launched on login.

7:25 PM

@Videonauth it is quite a different style from what I would write, I think you are better off with one reviewer at a time :)

1. no. root is never required for GUI.
2. if it needs to be started on logon the command should not be owned by anyone else than the user.

OP answered his own question in an edit to the question itself: askubuntu.com/posts/792535/revisions

@JacobVlijm yeah well i still easily fall back into c++ coding style :)

@Videonauth nono, it's not that, but I find it hard to comment on details if it is in a frame that is not mine :)

understandable

7:28 PM

I realize myself I am doing a lot of stuff by a convention that is mine.

I just begun writing a second script for providing a GUI on that module/script

@Videonauth What are you writing the GUI in?

PyQt5

so i can import this script then as a module and reuse it

cool!

user136984

@Rinzwind The GUI is required to run a command which requires sudo to run.

7:30 PM

never used pyqt