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you have to admit, though, the Android settings app really needs a redesign

It does?

3:21 AM

and what's with these free IP camera spam posts?

If I can't find something, I can just search for it.

yes, it does

search is crap

it never works lol

@TheWanderer y u no wanna have ip cam?

>_>

but seriously, fire up an O emulator

Too much work.

3:22 AM

they redid the settings app and it's a lot simpler

I have to launch AS, I have to update, then I have to install the emulator, then I have to set up a new instance, then I have to boot it... argh. So much work.

fewer categories on the main screen, which might be annoying at first, but then you realize your eyes don't glaze over scrolling through 5 dozen items

:P

I spent a good chunk of the day learning React and Redux.

Now I can say I've used Ember, Angular, and React.

Still not sure which one I like the best yet.

I really like JSX though.

We hit 34.70 °C today.

Q: Browser not displaying updates to symbolically linked folder and files

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I recently installed Windows Subsystem Linux for development purposes. I then symbolically linked a folder in Windows to the server folder in apache2 like so... ln -s /mnt/c/Users/[user]/Desktop/[folder] /var/www/html ...so that I can load the webpage via a browser (localhost/[folder]/[file])....

4:13 AM

@NathanOsman Time to try Vue :P

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5:02 AM

17.04 is so freaking buggy.

5:46 AM

@Seth THIS.

I had the display driver crash twice yesterday.

TWICE.

I'm really tempted to jump ship to Debian or (better yet) Devuan (and give systemd the boot too).

Q: Configuring a dns server and client in Ubuntu

6:14 AM

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I have configured the following two ubuntu 16.04 machines: dns client: 192.168.248.190 dns server (bind9): 192.168.242.116 I basically followed this and only setup the forward zone file https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-bind-as-a-private-network-dns-server-on-u...

ubuntu dns bind9

Q: problem in dual booting linux with windows 10

7:18 AM

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i installed ubuntu 16.04.03 version with dual boot on my windows 10.For this I partitioned my C drive and allocated 50 gb space for ubuntu and I used rufus. Ubuntu installed completely but when I restated my pc I was unable to choose between Ubuntu and windows, in a way my keyboard stops working ...

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caub

i5 7200U vs i7 5500U what do you think is better? the latter is older, but i7

Q: Can't delete files from Ubuntu 16.04 server

8:21 AM

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I try to delete a folder from /var/www but the I get the message, that operation is permitted: $ sudo rm -Rf ./contao_old/ rm: cannot remove './contao_old/.git/objects/pack/pack-b3e96bac096853d13b620095481d9bf62f800011.idx': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove './contao_old/.git/objects/pa...

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Q: start application after reboot

8:36 AM

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I have a problem. lsb_release -a result No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 17.04 Release: 17.04 Codename: zesty and this my auto start script: start-app #!/bin/bash ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: data exchange # Required-Start: $all # Re...

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Q: /etc/fstab and parallel filesystem check (fsck)

10:09 AM

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FSCK(8) says: The root filesystem will be checked first unless the -P option is specified (see below). After that, filesystems will be checked in the order specified by the fs_passno (the sixth) field in the /etc/fstab file. Filesystems with a fs_passno value of 0 are skipped and are not ...

ubuntu filesystems fsck

11:56 AM

so

asking for a friend

if my friend's work laptop, that definitely isn't mine, were to stop giving signs of life

except that

when you plug it in

the external power lamp lights up

if and only if the lid is slightly ajar

what would that mean

for my friend's work laptop

that isn't mine

edwinksl

if and only if the lid is slightly ajar???

1:09 PM

@edwinksl yes

@edwinksl aka slightly open

Seems like it's dead.

Hardware fault.

@badp vrije universiteit = VUB?

Maybe some broken or lose cables that you could spot and fix when you take it apart, maybe something deeper.

@badp this indicates bad contacts at the lid joints I d say

@badp where is that lamp? somewhere on the lid?

1:21 PM

@trilolil vu.nl/en

@trilolil yup

@badp nice

@badp confirms my first thoughts, ie bad contacts

do they always light up or only sometime?

@trilolil I'm hoping this is because I forgot half of the charger and used the "dumb" half from an HP charger

or what?

@trilolil when they lid is slightly ajar, and indeed it flickers when slightly off angle

btw, do you hear the hdd when you power it on?

what can you see/hear except those leds?

the ventilation? the hdd?

have you tried plugging in the hdd into another pc, to be sure the data at least is safe?

not sure powering on and off a hdd every 1-2s (let it be due to bad connections) is good...

crucial information is missing imo

@badp how is it to work at google? How did you enter?

1:26 PM

@trilolil it doesn't power on.

@trilolil nothing.

@trilolil haven't, will leave that to work's helpdesk. but it sure would be nice to know what the root cause is to avoid replication :/

@trilolil it's an SSD and I don't think it ever got power

@trilolil I applied as an intern. There are two phone interviews, and then you're either in or out. This was some 3 years ago though.

@badp that s impossible from an electrical stand point

Most internships are 3 months, mine happened to be 6.

@trilolil well, the fans never got any power.

because they'd have spun audibly otherwise

@badp how the hell is a motor inside the fan supposed to make it spin without power

it used to have power

now maybe not any more

@badp which is why this is impossible

I mean

the SSD clearly used to work before whatever happened did

do you have nda's at booking?

@badp which is why I would try to plug it into another laptop/pc or whatever to already try to save that data (beter be safe) and check whether it works

1:31 PM

@trilolil well obviously.

if you were an EE, I d say "try to measure whether you got some voltage coming in "

@badp what aren t you allowed to speak about?

currently, I think that

if you can t hear your fan while it otherwise would immediately have been the case. There is a power problem

Android Dev

@TheWanderer System UI tuner has 50,000 downloads? Holy cow! Congrats :)

maybe if the power isn t stable enough the rest of the circuitry isn t turned on for "securrity"

you can also try another power supply

could be that the cable you are using doesn t supply either enough current either the correct voltage

umm stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/17010967

edwinksl

1:58 PM

rekt

@trilolil mostly business related stuff

Hello everybody :)

3:37 PM

17.04 is so buggy. I need to decide whether to go back to 16.04 or install OpenSUSE.

I really really don't know how they let 17.04 go through QA

You're threatening to betray us for the Chameleon?

Well, I stayed with 16.04 and I'm happy with it.

@Avery They really need more contributors :/

I went with the blue peridot hair

@ByteCommander shrug. It'll probably happen someday. I really like Unity though so..

I'm not terribly happy with the way Ubuntu has been treating desktop lately. We'll see what happens.

@Avery is that like a blue olive color?

3:45 PM

no, closer to the blue of cl-netbox' profile picture

(it's arch)

moore like baby blue

or sky blue

@Seth What's going on with 17.04? And you know I like OpenSUSE (although Tumbleweed has blown up on me a couple of times)

@Avery those are all different blues to me lol

@chaskes it's just super buggy. LightDM crashes, sometimes when I log in my mouse pointer isn't there, and my multi-monitor docking station setup never quite works right

I get abrt alerts about a gnome-shell crash every time even though I have said to ignore it. I get the mouse pointer bug on a lenovo but not my System76 (same logitech usb). But I guess they would say the non-LTS are always semi-beta.

OpenSUSE 42.3 just came out. Very solid although the installer may seem weird if you've never used it before. I haven't compared package versions, though.

I find everything weird compared to ubiquity :P

4:04 PM

Ubiquity/DI is the best but with one major flaw for the unexperienced: it immediately formats the partitions once you've selected Change. Nothing really wrong with that design choice, but I like how both Anaconda (fedora) and suse wait for you to hit Start Install before it touches the disk.

OpenSUSE installer has (hidden away under the summary at the end) fine-grained control over what packages to install. If you're using the install dvd, this is much, much faster than downloading them later.

4:15 PM

@Seth I mean, same

but I confused colors

Don't see arch logo that often

4:45 PM

@Seth I agree with you ... I even had to switch my wife's machine to CentOS because ubuntu 17.04 froze every few minutes ... Hi Seth ! :) But don't choose Suse - better choose fedora 26 workstation ... everything works flawlessly out-of-the-box ! :)

@chaskes Hi ! :) Did you check out the new RHEL 7.4 ? Much better than open SUSE ! :)

@cl-netbox I run the rhel developper edition (but haven't upgraded it to 7.4 just yet). I agree that it's better than suse. (but I like suse, too).

@Seth Or you could try one of the fedora spins if you don't want gnome3. If you try fedora, the easiest way to install closed source things is through fedy.

@chaskes Do not upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 ... too many dependency issues (jump from GNOME 3.14 to 3.22 is too much different) ... better perform a clean installation ! :)

I've had to use Fedora before and I hated it.

centos/fedora/rhel is painful

@cl-netbox Korora is a fedora spin with the proprietary things already in it.

4:54 PM

@AndroidDev dammit

@cl-netbox Thanks. I usually do a clean install, but actually hadn't planned to with this one. will do.

@Seth that is not the case anymore ... fedora changed a lot since Matthew took over and introduced the fedora next project ! :)

@cl-netbox I was using it just a few months ago for school.

@chaskes you will definitely like it ! :)

@Avery what ??? definitely not ... those are great systems ... my wife loves CentOS 7 ... and she is not an expert at all ! :D

of course

simple stuff, works well

when you start experimenting it gets painful

Another example: You can run a bunch of basic stuff on freebsd but when you try to get more stuff working, it gets painful.

4:58 PM

@Avery why ? for example : the whole KVM virtualization thing works much better than in ubuntu ... :)

@Avery I think that the more you dive deeper into the redhat systems, the easier you are getting used to it ... and then more complicated things work as well. :)

well, I've just found a big lack of documentation on the said complex stuff

@Avery a lack of documentation ? please check out -> access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-enterprise-linux :)

as I said, that covers the "simple" stuff

What kind of complicated stuff do you have in mind?

@Avery ^^^^^

5:04 PM

can't think of any, but well, it's usually just me experimenting with not-so-well-known software etc

the lack of apt/dpkg is big problem

@Avery RPM package management (dnf/yum) beats apt in dimensions ! also this is what I would call simple stuff ! :D

maybe

and jpg sucks

and php

and mp3

@cl-netbox that was just one example

but those are widely available

@Avery what ? simply add RPM Fusion and install gstreamer1-libav :)

that's not what I mean

apt might not be as good as rpm, but a lot of stuff are distributed in deb

@Avery everything is available as rpm -> pkgs.org ! :)

5:09 PM

@cl-netbox Just curious, what country are you in?

@chaskes I am living in Germany - and where do you live ? :)

jpg might not be as good as bpg, but jpg is pretty much the de facto standard. Php might not be as good as node, but it powers most of internet. mp3 might not be as good as flac or opus, but it's much more popular. Etc, etc, etc.

US

I didn't know about pkgs.org.

Will check out if I decide to give another shot, though I'm at arch now and am very happy.

@Avery arch of course is also a good choice for advanced users. :)

5:12 PM

indeed.

Also, if it isn't clear, I agree that everyone is free to use whatever distro they want and I'm not telling anyone to change their distro, I'm just stating my personal opinions.

Also, unrelated, compiling chromium is a huge pain.

@Avery why compile ??? fedora has it in it's repos and in CentOS / RHEL simply add EPEL repo and install it via dnf / yum ... chromium is my default browser and it runs perfectly fine on these systems. :)

to add widevine support to vivaldi

I basically end up compiling once a month or so to update the plugin

@Avery Isn't there a version with included plugin available in AUR ? I'm asking because I never tried arch and somebody told me that everything is available as an AUR package there. :)

oh, it's on AUR

the AUR package is compiling for me, actually

there's just no binary-only versions, sadly

I didn't think the AUR did binaries at all

5:20 PM

@chaskes why did you ask ? is my English that bad ? :D :D :D

AUR does make binaries

TIL

@Seth what is TIL ? what does it mean ?

@cl-netbox today I learned

@Seth aha - thanks :D

5:22 PM

apparently there's a simpler way

I commented with that to the AUR package, maybe the maintainer will switch to that

@Avery that's the good thing in the linux universe : there is always an alternative available - right ? :)

Usually

Q: Monitor showing the same desktop twice

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I bought a new 43" 4k monitor. Due the limitation of graphic card I had to manually add th resolution which I wanted. I am trying to sqeeue as many pixels as I can get for a decent refresh rate. When I use the below values my computer works fine and the display is decent enough. However the des...

ubuntu x11 xrandr

5:40 PM

@cl-netbox I asked because I like looking at other languages. I know some basic German but very little. (I took German for Reading in college.) Your English is excellent, but somehow it didn't feel native. Looking back after the fact I see: ...the easier you are getting used to it... instead of 'the more you get used to it' or 'the easier it gets'.

@chaskes yes, you're right - thank you ! :) thing is that my brain is faster than my fingers (two finger typing) ... :)

Rinzwind

boxy \o

@cl-netbox I just dug out my Colloquial German to start brushing up.

@Rinzwind Rinzy ! :) Hi - good evening to you ! :)

@cl-netbox Our native syntax lives deep in our brain even when we're fluent with the vocab and grammar. :)

5:45 PM

@chaskes true ... but we learn by doing ... practice as here in chat for instance improves the capabilities a lot - right ? :)

whee

> @aoz, this package was just a "quick and dirty hack". It is based on Scimmias package for chromium-widevine, which uses the approach for as long as I can remember.
Actually I wasn't aware of a standalone widevine download page. Thanks for that. I'll try to rewrite the PKGBUILD as soon as possible, but please don't expect any near-time solution, [...]

this is why I love AUR

@cl-netbox Absolutely. Passive reading is one thing, but the only to learn to speak and write is to do it and not be worried about mistakes.

@chaskes exactly ! :)

@Avery yes that's great ! :)

sudo poweroff ... goodbye everybody - see you next time :)

Rinzwind

@cl-netbox it seems i got seriously lucky today

see neverwinter.gamepedia.com/Coins_of_Waukeen

I opened a Waukeen's Treasure Chest and got the 256k <3

Q: How to write a wget shell script which contains cookies

6:47 PM

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guys, I want to write a shell script which contains cookies like this wget --load-cookies cookies.txt "URL". I have written something like this: #!/bin/bash wget --load-cookies cookies.txt "$1" when I run this command in the folder which contains the cookies.txt like bash test.sh URL the comma...

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7:35 PM

Is it just me or does the address bar in the new FF 54 not respond to the enter key?

7:47 PM

Hello world

8:07 PM

wat

8:20 PM

Time to get some family-sized bags of unhealthiness... ^__^

Q: All configured GPOS/link on windows server integration on linux client

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Hope you all are doing great. please help me to integrate all enterprise level GPOs/links on Ubuntu client. this would be really appreciated.

ubuntu

8:46 PM

test

Fabby

9:09 PM

@LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn test works...

@Seth It's you...

(or your settings... Does this happen in the guest session too?)

/shrug