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12:11 AM
@NathanOsman Like this ?
 
12:35 AM
0
Q: Why does kpartx use a new loop device each time?

Shady ProgrammerI'm running kpartx from within a python script as part of a custom OS build I'm trying to do. I'm using python sh module to run bash commands. sh.kpartx("-as", image) is how I attach my image. Then I create partitions and a file system on each partition. Then ofcourse I unmount the image. sh...

 
Yeah, pretty much.
 
askubuntu.com/q/971889/522934 can someone hit that please with anothe OT belongs to another forum vote to migrate it?
 
12:56 AM
@Videonauth Done. It's migrated to meta. ("Thanks" posts like that tend to be tolerated--within reason--on meta. Plus, it's an opportunity to treat it as a question and explain how SmokeDetector helps Ask Ubuntu. We get a disproportionate amount of the spam that SmokeDetector helps remove, after all.)
 
@muru Done.
 
Without checkinstall, it's difficult to remove python installed from source
Thanks
 
1:19 AM
1
Q: This will probably be deleted but

Piloti... whoever manages / monitors this forum and removes the annoying spam health / medical rubbish which appears is doing a fantastic job. This is for Ubuntu questions, not 411 spam. Keep up the good work, whoever reads this.

 
2:05 AM
0
Q: Unable to install VirtualBox. `complaining that the kernel module is not loaded`

Spencer HillThe provider 'virtualbox' that was requested to back the machine default is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The reason is shown below: VirtualBox is complaining that the kernel module is not loaded. Please run VBoxManage --version or open the VirtualBox GUI to see the error messag...

 
2:53 AM
0
Q: Set up for Android Studio gets stuck

user3414321I was setting up my freshly installed Ubuntu Mate 16.04, when it was time to set up Android Studio 3.0 I came across this: it appears that the setup tries to download from https://dl.google.com/android/repository/android_m2repository_r47.zip repeatedly, i think it fails inside. When i tried t...

 
 
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3:55 AM
0
Q: How to check docker firewall rule working for an IP and particular port?

Prabhakaran SubramanianI have eth0 with public IP and I have a docker container running in docker network docker0. And a device is reachable via private IP in eth1. Problem: The docker container successfully established ssh for devices reachable via eth0 and traffic is running successfully. But for the device fro...

 
Astros just won the World Series.
Also - it works!
Yay.
I just sent a URL from Chrome to my Android phone.
I'm also impressed. I have Chrome (with a bunch of tabs open), Qt Creator, Android Studio, and OBS Studio running, using a total of 5 GB of RAM.
Okay, advertising just got creepy for me.
 
4:24 AM
 
I was looking at a mechanical part on a website yesterday.
Today I see a Facebook ad telling me "it's not too late to buy this product you looked at".
And it's the exact same product. Creepy.
I mean... I'm not surprised.
But still creepy.
 
@NathanOsman use Incognito mode and/or uBlock Origin
That will nuke the tracking cookies
 
It won't work for fingerprinting though.
 
You can tell Google not to show you personalised ads
Which I assume would deactivate some the tracking
But also
Never use Chrome when signed in
 
I found that out the other day too.
I checked my search history.
And nearly had a heart attack :P
 
4:27 AM
I stay signed out and use uBlock origin + Incognito mode
 
It had every single search I made AND every single app I used on my phone and how long I used it.
 
And I get zero personalised ads
It also has audio recordings of you using Google Now on your phone
 
O_O
That's even more creepy.
 
There's a page about it --^
Oh BTW @NathanOsman I suggest adding a "Go up a directory" button the to Nitroshare explorer listview as the first item in the list
 
Yeah, someone mentioned I should probably adjust the way back/up works.
It seems to be a bit confusing.
 
4:33 AM
I could potentially do it an PR if you want
Ugh mobile keyboards >_>
Huh, according to SO's latest study PHP is one of the most disliked languages
I guess people don't really like Visual Basic
Lol, IE is the most disliked tag
The only thing IE is good for is downloading another browser
That and the MS update catalog and other sites which need ActiveX
But other than that, friends don't let friends use IE
 
Remember my famous IE answer?
 
Not sure I do
 
40
A: What version of Internet Explorer (IE) should my web app support

Nathan OsmanNone. Seriously. You should not support any version of IE. It is absolutely horrible. Edit: since I originally wrote this answer, Internet Explorer 9 has been released. IE9 offers significant improvements over its predecessors and is a much more worthy competitor in the browser market. Havin...

Outscored the accepted answer by a factor of 8 :P
 
Hahaha
Upgoated
ActiveX and Silverlight are dead
Also XPS is dead too
(Not Dell XPS; it was a PDF competitor)
 
5:16 AM
Lame. Twitter won't let me upload a WebM video.
Ta-da.
NitroShare can send URLs now.
The GIF above proves that I made it happen :D
 
0
Q: How to import multiple ip's to Ipset?

byte00I am using iptables with ipset on an Ubuntu server firewall. I am wondering if there is a command for importing a file containg a list of ip's to ipset. To populate an ipset, right now, I am adding each ip with this command: ipset add badips x.x.x.x It would be very helpfull if I can add multi...

 
 
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6:48 AM
My mind - it is boggled.
 
 
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9:11 AM
Hey everyone,
Please how can I rename all files in directory to
00.jpg
01.jpg
...
each file is in this format
first_00000.jpg
so I can rename each file to the last 2 digits + .jpg
 
@Benny Why last two? What about foo_00100.jpg?
 
not good for me
because i need it for android Bootanimation
 
@Benny ?
 
each file name currently is
first_00000.jpg
...
first_00065.jpg

and I got more files like this:
second_00000.jpg
..
second_00065.jpg
and more ... etc..
 
So if you do what you say, first_00000.jpg will become 00.jpg and then second_00000.jpg will also become 00.jpg and overwrite the previous one.
 
9:21 AM
I will clear
dir1 contain:
first_00000.jpg , ... , first_00065.jpg

dir2 contain
second_00000.jpg , ... , second_00065.jpg
 
Also, have you looked at any of the several dozen posts we have about renaming? There are loads of examples on the site.
 
Yes i try
But maybe is a less complex
 
But OK, this should do what you need: rename 's/.*(..\.jpg)/$1/' *jpg
Try it with rename -n 's/.*(..\.jpg)/$1/' *jpg first to see what it will do
 
ok
wow
how it works
Oh i got it !!
Thank you so much
It's so easy :D
@terdon You help me so much man! thanks!
 
you're welcome :)
 
Oli
9:45 AM
@NathanOsman Because HSM. Even at $650, it's the cheapest one available.
 
9:55 AM
My first post in a general room, not exactly aware of etiquettes. So apologies in advance if it's not the right place to post my query.

Could anyone with a **fresh installation** of Ubuntu 17.10 verify whether the my answer here works for Artful: https://askubuntu.com/questions/897854/how-do-i-change-wi-fi-hotspot-settings-in-ubuntu-gnome-16-04
It works for me but I have upgraded from Ubuntu GNOME 17.04. Also I checked it works in a live USB session. But someone's very positive it doesn't work in a fresh installation.
 
> soy un chino de pecado joined the group via invite link
oh
 
10:28 AM
0
Q: SSH ignoring user and login with another one

guaxAfter I create a new user (newuser) in a EC2 machine (ubuntu), add the authorized_key and try to ssh into it, it doesn't work. Now thats all fine and dandy if it fails, but it actually succeed into login with the old user even if -l or user@ is set in the command. How is it possible that the ssh...

 
10:47 AM
Is somebody paying this guy to spam about the snapcraft forums?
0
A: VLC snap libudev.so.1 missing

ograsudo snap install vlc and then running vlc works just fine here ... did you consider asking on https://forum.snapcraft.io instead ?

I have seen 5 posts advertising the forums from this user recently
 
11:35 AM
@muru make that 10
@Seth or @Oli ^^
 
Oli
It's a Canonical-run forum. A bit of a blurry line for us. But if it's not an answer, vote and flag.
And he is a Canonical employee.
 
that's what I figured
but none of those answers actually answer anything
 
banning a Canonical employee for spamming on an Ubuntu site :P lol
 
yes
do it
 
well, not really, but the thought makes me grin
 
11:48 AM
user image
2
 
Oli
It's not spam but it is an abuse of our process. I've cleaned out the worst, converted some to comments and had a word with them. Hopefully that's enough to get them to engage here.
 
 
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1:05 PM
/me waves
 
waves
 
@muru it was noticed by some snappy teams that that questions about snaps (which would have gotten simple answers within minutes in the forum due to the right people watchingt here) were going unanswered for months, i have been asked to point to the forum so the users actually get help
i'm sorry, i was not aware about this rule (that @Oli eventually mailed me about), but none of the relevant people in the snappy world are regulary watching askubuntu ... if it is preferred to let down the community and leave their isues unanswered, so be it ... but preferably the "snap" tag description should simply point to the forum as a fallback since there are all teh snap, snapd and snapcraft developers ... very active
 
has a particular opinion about snaps but keeps his mouth shut
 
@Videonauth well, this isnt about snaps in particular but about people asking for help being let down
 
Hi @ogra. Well, the rule is a general rule about what constitutes an answer on Ask Ubuntu. I'm afraid none of your answers were actually answers. Posting them as comments, directing the OP to ask on the forum would be fine, but if something is posted as an answer it is expected to provide an actual, well, answer.
 
1:13 PM
instead of allowing them to find the right place to get answers immediately
 
@ogra i know this is why i dont chip in here
 
This post explains the rules about answers on the SE network quite well:
494
Q: Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?

Shog9I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...

 
@ogra it's preferred that answers actually contain answers, and not, well, the equivalent of "your answer could be in another castle".
 
well, it took me 1h to go over ~75 posts out of 450+ ... and i'D prefer to not have to do that regulary, could we find another way like a proper tag description, that doesnt force someone to regulary weed them out to have people to go to teh right place for questions ?
 
So, answering the question and suggesting that in future they might want to ask on the forums is fine. Simply suggesting they ask elsewhere, however, isn't answering so that shouldn't be posted as an answer.
 
1:15 PM
SE is goal is as much the long term as the short term helping of users, so we'd rather not that our answers be littered with such posts.
 
@ogra I don't really see why this is the wrong place, but yes, we could add something to the tag description.
 
@muru well, so should users with issues just left with an idle question for months ? the peopl to anser their questions mostly do not even have askubuntu accounts, so i couldnt even summon them easily
 
You could suggest an edit to it, if you like.
@ogra No, a comment suggesting they ask elsewhere is fine.
 
great ... thanks for that info
 
@terdon HOLY, base arch is fast O_o total bootup time 2.001 seconds
 
1:16 PM
It's only the fact that you were posting answers which weren't answering that's an issue here.
 
(i'm obviously not a regular askubuntu user either:) )
 
@ogra you can follow the RSS feed for the tag, and ask people who can answer to keep an eye on the feed
 
@Videonauth Yeah. It loads nothing you haven't told it to.
 
@ogra No worries, we all know the rules can be kind of arcane when you don't know them. Turns out they work quite well though.
 
1:17 PM
on another note, the mail i got from Oli has a broken link at the bottom that only gets me to a 404 page ...
 
then you should give @Oli a holler he normaly lurks in the shadows but hes here
 
@ogra Oh? There shouldn't even be a link there. I don't see one in the copy I can see (mods see copies of mod messages). Could you reply indicating the link?
 
Oli
An Oli never lurks. He just is.
6
 
(had popey not pointed me here i wouldnt have known how to reply or reach out to you guys)
 
hahaha
 
1:19 PM
You should be able to reply to the email just like any other email.
 
@Oli i so agree ;)
i kind of hesitate to reply to something coming from "do-not-reply@stackexchange.com"
:)
 
snort I can see why. That doesn't seem like a very reasonable address to use.
 
yup
 
I'll bring that up with the SE devs, they should change that.
 
@terdon created the tag wiki: askubuntu.com/tags/snap/info @ogra check if that's enough, or you can suggest an edit to it
 
1:22 PM
Cool. @ogra since I don't know the first thing about snap, if you can confirm that it looks good, I'll put it through.
 
@muru Perfect !
 
Cool.
 
thanks a lot !
 
Anybody here that has experience with OpenLDAP and the LDAP Account Manager?!
 
@ogra I have heard rumors about snap being the default on 18.04. Is that true and how would it effect a normal ppa package user?
hello Fabby did you get good through the holidays?
 
1:26 PM
@ogra what link was broken? The "click here to reply" or whatever equivalent?
 
This email was sent from an unmonitored account. Do not reply directly to this email; if you feel this message is incorrect, please respond on Ask Ubuntu here: askubuntu.com/users/message/1921#1921.
thats what it had at the bottom
 
6
Q: Why are Stack Exchange profile deletion email notifications sent from Stack Overflow email address?

GoatsWearHatsI deleted my AcademiaSE profile, and nearly had a heart attack (do-not-reply@stackoverflow.email) with a subject line of "Your profile has been deleted". Why is this notification sent from an email address that appears to be for another site on the network?

 
@Videonauth Still on holiday and having a hard time getting my new machine to behave like I want it to (UEFI Firmware problems)
 
OK, so my bad, you're right you can't just email back. But what happened when you clicked on the link? You said it was broken?
Were you logged into your AU account when you clicked on it? I guess that's the problem, but this really shouldn't be this complicated.
 
@Videonauth snaps are their own thing, they wont replace i.e. the base distro or debs ... but there will be more and more apps, servers etc packaged as snaps (there are about 3000 snap packages now i think) because snaps are rolling completely independent from the underlying distro/relase ...
 
1:28 PM
@Fabby didn't you bus Efi a nice gift? Girls like that :p (Sad to hear that, i guess i should be lucky to sit still on a legacy boot system)
oh ok because for what i use my machine for snaps are not the way to go, i really was concerned about that
 
i.e. if you want the latest chrome, libreoffice, slack or LAMP stack you should better use a snap to simply have your app stay up to date ... completely independent of running 16.04, 18.04, solus, mint or mageia ...
 
Yeah, I pinged Rod Smith...
 
Im more concerned here with stability and ram usage tho and running a snap involves simply far more resources, im not in the position to change my hardware anytime soon to something more performant
 
@terdon yep, i was logged in and simply got a "Page not found"" with a bunch of generic links for search and contact...
note that i'm using my launchpad login here
 
@ogra Ah no, that's something completely different. This site isn't part of the Canonical network at all. There's just some sort of high level agreement between Canonical and SE that makes us use the Canonical branding. So you'd need to be logged in here.
 
1:34 PM
ah, right ...
 
Nevertheless, I assume you're a technically savvy user, so if this confuses you (who presumably know what 404 and logins etc are), that will probably be confusing many other people too.
 
its a bit of an awkward UX though ...
 
Very.
I'll report it as a bug. That should at least take you to the login page instead of a 404.
 
2:25 PM
@ol
oops, @Oli what's the best way forward for unanswered snap questions?
Are there prior art examples on askubuntu where we say "not supported here, go elsewhere [link]"?
Or do we assume all questions are well intention-ed and should be either answered here or on another stackoverflow property?
I mean, I know the standard answer is "get the experts over here answering the questions".
 
@popey They are absolutely supported here!
@ogra felt that they would be better asked elsewhere, but that doesn't make them off topic.
I guess someone at Canonical asked Ogra to do this, but we do not consider them off topic.
They are absolutely on topic and very welcome here. If they're also supported elsewhere, that's great, but not relevant.
If you feel an unanswered question would be better server elsewhere, then just leave a comment under the post directing them to the forums.
 
hi @terdon - they may well be "supported here", but if the answer to "how do I make this snap work" is "use appimage" that's a pretty awful definition of "supported" :)
 
@popey Let me rephrase that. They are on topic here :)
Whether or not they get good answers depends on the people answering.
 
Yes, I agree @ogra was asked to look at the backlog. And did his best to do whatever he could to point people at the place where they may get an answer. I am glad you guys sorted that out.
 
Oh yes, and there was never any doubt that Ogra was just trying to help. The rules of the SE sites are not as transparent as they might be, to say the least.
Point is, snaps fall well within our defined scope. Making them off topic would be a bad move, and pointless.
If there are better places to get snap help, then that's also great, but not really something we can deal with on our end, I don't think.
We've now added a link to the snap forums in the description of the tag. Apart from that, I don't really see what we can do.
 
2:40 PM
0
Q: Remove RAID0 and move Windows to SSD - Acer Predator 17

FabbySymptom: I've just bought an Acer Predator 17 (model number G9-793-73MB) and although the Technical Specs say it only has two (2) HDs it actually has three (3): 2 M2 SSDs and 1 HDD. However, the 2 SSDs are installed in a RAID-0 array and as RAID-0 is actually worse than no RAID at all from a rel...

 
Ok, thanks. We have an internal thread running about it, so I'll add to that and see what we can do to improve answer quality here.
 
Thanks for the upvotes guys: Once Windows is up-and-running the way I like it, I can start installing Ubuntu!
(But I need to get rid of the UEFI problem first!)
 
@popey Great! Let us know if we can do anything on our side.
 
2:57 PM
I need a networking expert to take a look at this question: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/401922/… The laptop is connected to a board that is running Ubuntu Server 16.04. The board has an LCD monitor connected to it. The C program runs on Ubuntu Server but it displays the output (an image) on the laptop instead of on the LCD monitor.
The laptop is connected to the board via ssh.
 
Thanks @terdon
 
@karel But the board has no video output AFAIU
 
gah, why can't I just press enter in here to autocomplete usernames?
 
"I have a gray blank screen with a black mouse and right-click menu after boot."
 
Ah! It's tab! /ignore me
 
3:04 PM
that means video troubles on the board...
 
Right. If you can answer the question, then please do.
 
@popey Should be TAB, right? Why would it be enter?
 
Not with the info he gave... I'll ping him in your chat...
 
Ah, after TAB you want enter, I guess.
 
It's enter on other platforms
 
3:06 PM
un ubuntu its always tab ;) even in terminal :D
 
:D
 
Yeah, I'm so used to tab completion, I only realized that slack also lets you use enter just now when you told me and I tried it.
 
btw is there someone at canonical responsible for the packages within universe? I mean overall responsible, i found two very questionable packages which clearly should have some warning in their description.
 
@Videonauth :D :D :D
 
@Videonauth got examples?
 
3:16 PM
ukui-screensaver and mate-screensaver
 
what's up with them?
 
under wayland mate screensaver locks you on start-ubunut-mate.org and the ukui locks you in firefox on 123.sugou.com
and its a hard ordeal to get rid of them too
means you cant even open their respective settings etc
let me find the questions arosen here
 
Interesting, Ubuntu MATE doesn't support wayland yet.
 
2
Q: 123.SOGOU.COM - trojan horse in ukui-screensaver

LEoFirefox's default page is 123.sogou.com and I can't remove it. I've tried to reset and re-install it, but it keeps going back to sogou.

 
So not sure why someone would be running mate-screensaver under wayland.
 
3:18 PM
-1
Q: How to remove sogou as default startpage?

Bram van DartelIn Firefox I currently have as startpage 123.sogou.com, but I am not able to remove the website as my startpage. Every time I am changing the default page in Firefox back to Google, it automatically turns back to sogou after a restart. Any idea how to remove this? I also tried the steps from 123...

 
hey, it's popey!
 
yeah the mate one even installs and changes the DE to mate
in case of the ukui-screensaver it feels like a browser hijack
it installs mate DE too but does not activate it
 
Ok. I know who to speak to about this. Doing so now.
 
and they are the top two search results for screensaver in th software center
i simply wonder why we didnt get a flood of questions like this
 
I guess not many people install screensavers these days ;)
shrug
 
3:22 PM
at least i dont :) im happy when my screens switch off, so that i save energy
btw all the steps in the ukui screensaver answer are neccesary to get rid of it
 
I actually recently installed the classic xscreensaver
 
and if i was a newbee i would certainly have lost all trust in my freshly set up system after that
 
I like coming into my office and seeing bouncing cows and flying toasters :D
Sure.
This does honestly need a bug though.
 
@popey to add to what @terdon said, I think it's great that there is now a dedicated snapcraft forum, it's also great Ogra is here helping with snapcraft questions too, we just need answers to contain answers. I know that is difficult when you're not allowed to comment immediately.. One thing we could do is mention snapcraft.io in the tag wiki.
 
I will let you know the outcome of the mail thread internally
 
3:27 PM
ah well and when it comes to myself the most questionable package is steam right now, which when running blows up the syslog like mad, already files a bug for it on launchpad
dbus / steam
 
I'm not sure if that was addressed to me or Videonauth, but thanks for following up with us on the subject :)
 
Really? not seen that
I use steam all day every day.
well, some of the day :D
 
I've just checked the source deb for ukui-screensaver. there is no mention of sogou anywhere in the source tree so I would suggest that the issue is not with ukui-screensaver
 
@popey well it grows the syslog for about 60 MB / day --> bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/1727447
@DanielLlewellyn davit i treid it in a UI i guess it has to do that ukui is meant for kylin
 
I don't even see a ukui-screensaver package.
 
3:30 PM
i do on 17.10
 
@popey ah, 16.04 here.
 
thats why
 
@DanielLlewellyn just try a VM of a fresh 17.10 install and install the ukui screensaver and youll see, youre locked onto 123.sugou.com in firefox
and even the trashvan is then names in chinese
 
it's set by ubuntukylin-default-settings which is a dependency of ukui-screensaver
 
3:32 PM
It's not in ukui-screensaver, it's in ubuntukylin-default-settings
 
ah ok
like said its just prone for more questions like the ones i posted
they both are not meant for wayland and neither work on it properly, and both are pain in the backside to remove
just thought i'd say something about since popey was here in the chat
 
and ubuntu-mate-default-settings gives you the one for the mate-screensaver package
 
yep
but at least not as unfreindly to have a chinese trashcan and a weird chinese site locked as your start page :D
 
Yeah, a think a bug needs filing
 
with no chance to access the settings to reverse the lock
 
3:37 PM
it's only unfriendly to non-chinese speakers. people who speak chinese might like the change from English
 
true :) im bilingual too, but unfortunately none of my both languages is chinese
 
@Seth That's what we (well, muru) did.
 
@terdon Yup, just noticed!
 
I'm bilingual: Bad English and Worse English
8
 
bad german & bad english :p
 
3:40 PM
@DanielLlewellyn What, no Welsh? You have the Ls for it!
 
I know a Welsh swear
Ker i grafi (I think it's spelt) - go to the bad place that is opposite of heaven
 
That's a start :P
 
oh and I can say "g'day": Borah Dah
 
funny we always learn the swears first in any language we attempt on :D
 
That's so you can make yourself understood.
xD
 
3:44 PM
@Seth Trying to imagine a conversation just makes me laugh so hard
native speaker: how are you
reply: \*beep\*\*beep\*\*beep\*\*beep\*\*beep\*
(had to censor it, we don't want the chat here become M+ rated)
 
xD
 
good afternoon
 
4:26 PM
@NathanOsman certification, security protocols
it's a damn sight cheaper than most HSMs
 
4:41 PM
@terdon: I like this very much! :)
$ IFS=$'\n' f=("$(find . -type f)"); for i in "${f[@]}"; do echo $i; done
./test ./t t
$ IFS=$'\n' f=("$(find . -type f)"); for i in ${f[@]}; do echo $i; done
./test
./t t
$ IFS=$'\n' f=($(find . -type f)); for i in ${f[@]}; do echo $i; done
./test
./t t
$ IFS=$'\n' f=($(find . -type f)); for i in "${f[@]}"; do echo $i; done
./test
./t t
Quotes can be enemies sometimes…
Btw, this is about:
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A: How to separate command output to individual lines

terdonWhile putting it in quotes as @muru suggested will indeed do what you asked for, you might also want to consider using an array for this. For example: IFS=$'\n' dirs=( "$(find . -type d)" ) The IFS=$'\n' tells bash to only split the output on newline characcters o get each element of the array...

 
@dessert How can they be enemies? I don't get what you're showing there.
And thanks for that comment, by the way, my original version was wrong!
Ah yes, OK. But not enemies. You just need to use them correctly :P
 
5:01 PM
Hello everybody and good evening :)
 
@terdon this one should suit you well for answering it i guess --> askubuntu.com/questions/972178/…
 
@terdon You're welcome, however I think your actual version is also wrong: dirs=( "$(find . -type d)" ) builts an array with just one position because of the quotes, doesn't it?
That's what I wanted to show above – it works without quotes in the for loop, however the array isn't really used this way.
 
5:27 PM
Hah! My New laptop is finally running on a non-RAIDed SSD!
 
nah man
you need to do LVM across multiple SSDs
 
Next step: delete old Windows
@KazWolfe Yeah, I know, I'll be doing that for my Ubuntu install.
Windows is temporary until I have all the necessary drivers/modules...
then it goes the way of the Dinosaurs!
 
@Fabby next step ??? not first step ??? Good evening my friend ! :)
 
No it comes with special software to chenge the keyboard lights etc.
Good evening too!
 
What laptop do you have, Fabby?
 
5:32 PM
I'm off! Need to go help auntie with her PC banking software now I'm in town!!!
Acer Predator 17
Second choice: I wanted the MSI, but it wasn't in stock...
(and my old clunker's backlit light died)
 
5:45 PM
@dessert Oh damn, yes it is. I thought I had removed the quotes. I'd deleted it and tested things (including the quotes) but hadn't realized I'd left them there. Thanks again!
 
@terdon You're welcome. ;)
 
5:56 PM
god, the regex documentation is the most boring thing i ever read
could act as a substitue for counting sheep when im sleepless
 
@Videonauth Done, thanks.
 
@terdon I have to thank, i actually was interested in under standing this too :)
like i said a few lines above this regex documentation is soooo boring
beside smome simple regex i never got the real hang of it i guess
 
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@Videonauth The regex is quite simple actually. It's sed that's being complex there.
 
i know back in the time i made once a regex for comparing for valid email addresses and it took me weeks lol
 
6:09 PM
Yeah, those can be seriously complex.
Regular expressions are most certainly complex, but that one was just ^[^:]*[fF]oo:.* which isn't too bad.
 
here i found it in the files
^[_a-zA-Z0-9-](\.{0,1}[_a-zA-Z0-9-])*@([a-zA-Z0-9-]{2,}\.){0,}[a-zA-Z0-9-]{3,}(\‌​.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}){1,2}$
 
eww
 
@terdon and i guess its not even complete
 
It isn't. It will only allow emails like a.foo@ afoo@ but not ab.foo for example.
 
it does alow them
 
6:15 PM
@Videonauth I don't see how. You only allow one character before the .
And, of course a.b.c@foo.bar.com is also a valid email and that won't allow it.
But email regexes are really hard.
 
coughs, and drops this link in the process
 
well it worked for my project at that time and i was really diging for weeks through documentation to get it done
 
this is why email validation libraries are better ;)
 
^^
@Videonauth I know. I've been there.
 
like github.com/JoshData/python-email-validator though I haven't tested it :P
 
6:19 PM
@terdon and that project was like 10 years ago, if you would ask me today what it does i wouldnt be able t answer that :)
 
6:49 PM
@Videonauth For once, there is actually something worth starring!
 
7:17 PM
Happy birthday to me...
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Happy birthday dear Fabby...
Happy birthday to me!
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@Fabby Happy birthday to you! :)
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