@Anwar I've no experience of Electron, other than my first computer was an Acorn Electron (definitely dates me somewhat)! What don't you like about it?
@terdon @ThomasWard @jokerdino (and any other moderators I forgot to @mention) I have been working on an AI for CoyoteBot which is pretty good. What I want to ask is: is there a way for the bot to find questions on SE and get the accepted answer?
Also, is the bot now good enough to be allowed in the general room?
@MarkYisri It's not a mod decision. I keep failing to get that point across. You need to open a meta post, explain what your bot does and why it would be useful to have in chat and see what the community thinks.
As a general rule, yes, we do tend to avoid bots in the public rooms. That has led to strife and issues in the past and I really can't see any use to it, personally. However, if your meta post shows there is clear community support, then it can live here.
Until it starts making a nuisance of itself or users start abusing it and spamming the chat room, anyway.
But first, get a consensus. And don't just ask "should my bot be here". You need to tell people what it does, why they should care and why they should want it.
@popey Yes, but you need 30k rep to see it, I think.
I am helping prep a talk where we want to mention some of the awesome work the community is doing, and wanted to call out the good stuff happening here.
@Zanna Well, it's strange ... for this quite easy thing I get upvotes and look at this -> askubuntu.com/questions/831216/reinstalling-grub2-efi-partition/… way more important to be solved and not a single upvote ! :) Can you understand why ? I have many of those answers ... :)
@Zanna Thank you very much ! :) It is the only way to do it as you work on several disks and partitions sometimes ... that's why I place the note at the end ... :)
anyway it's always strange to me what gets upvotes and the easy ones usually get the most... yesterday I answered a lovely question about renaming files, and the only upvote I got was from the other person who answered it
@Zanna Yes indeed ... will have a look at it ... the other day I helped a user to solve a graphics issue ... hours of work ... long discussions ... also only one upvote ! :)
@Zanna Note : sd* = disk | sd** = efi partition | sd*** = system partition ... self-explaining : 1 star / 2 stars / 3 stars
@Zanna I love answering questions, especially the ones that seem unanswerable, but I stopped looking for (-expecting) any reasonable relation between votes and quality of answer. At least in quantity :)
@JacobVlijm exactly, me too, there is no point in trying to understand it or predict it or worry about it, enjoy doing it, and make it as helpful as possible, and that's all
@Zanna If you copy and paste this, simply nothing happens ... and after reading the answer every effected user replaces the stars with a letter or a number ! :)
@cl-netbox that's cool if nothing happens... I'm not testing it, I was just speculating that it might cause problems because * has meaning to the shell
@cl-netbox sure, I know, I have a few live USBs lying around (and have fixed many things that way haha) and I could test it, but I will take your word for it :)
@Zanna Well, a bit, but it helped many users this way and it never lead to much confusion (except in those cases when a user doesn't even know that he has disks and partitions at all ... hahaha) - something else : Can you tell me what this bot is about which @MarkYisri is talking here and some other members too ? :)
@cl-netbox Im sure it's fine, I believe you, I just wanted to explain why I personally wouldn't use * but some other symbol instead :) hmm see here for something about what's going on with CoyoteBot, I don't want to fill up the room with that :) meta.askubuntu.com/questions/16331/where-should-i-put-coyotebot
Hmmm is this an answer? I guess it's unclear from the question whether OP is asking about the meaning of the warning or saying they can't boot any more askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/640046
@DavidFoerster What do you think of this -> youtube.com/watch?v=_T3aASlOsaA ? I once enjoyed a gig in Nürnberg way back in the 70's ... Rick Wakeman was gorgeous ! :)
@DavidFoerster Well, you know, I am still blown away when I hear whatever song from Led Zeppelin ... they had a groove that nowadays still sounds modern ... I once saw them in Dortmund : not much stuff on the stage, but those four guys burned the place down, so they are on top of my all time favorites list ! :)
1. Change the SSH server port to something other than 22 2. Install fail2ban and set it up. Guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-ssh-with-fail2ban-on-ubuntu-14-04
@BharadwajRaju Yes, I know what it is, I've used it many, many times. I just don't remember if there had to be an X server running on the machine I was connecting to. I am 99.9% sure I used to do this on a headless server I had set up. Since it connects to the local X server, it shouldn't need a remote one to be running.
@terdon Oh, so, yes you're right, it isn't required on the server, but the use of X11 Forwarding is to run GUI programs on the server on a local X11 server, so the installation of said GUI programs depends on an X11 server. But you can use the option without an X server on the server.
Exactly. On a system like Ubuntu, you probably can't install any GUI stuff from the repos without bringing in the whole X system, but i) you can still compile from source or run compiled binaries and ii) you can install the X system, but there's no need to actually run it.
@ThomasWard Well yeah. If you receive a message in a language you don't speak, chances are it's spam. I'm pretty sure the percentage will be different for Chinese speakers :)
I try to update the ClamAV database by running freshclam. The daily-*.cdiff is downloaded successfully, but then the process hangs.
The CPU is maxed out at 100%, but the update just will not finish. I canceled the process with Ctrl+C after appr. 10 minutes. Here is the output from my update attem...
#Ubuntu #Budgie Is Now an Official Ubuntu Flavor http://buff.ly/2fe0Ng2 @ubuntu @budgie_remix @Canonical… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/796094511399206916
This makes me think. Should we support questions that ask about using a non-official DE/app package like Cinnamon? And should we support hybrid DEs, since those tend to be problematic?
How do I sign out of this page? Usually you have to log out of accounts - I can't see a log out option.
