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12:00 AM

It's an MSI GP60 2qf (leopard pro) laptop

But since disk-read-write is abstraction anyways, I expect a view of the abstraction, not the underlying metal access. - I also just realized that I cannot run the system monitor as root, nor does it display any root processes (even though I set processes to "all")

iotop, after an initial "startup" of several minutes started showing some data, nothing out of the ordanary so far, but then again I'm not in the process of a cold-start anyways (20+ minute startup is only when I just boot the system, after that restarting any tool I use is fast).

Terrance

Wait, you're having slow boot ups? Now I am lost at what you are actually asking..

paul23

1:02 AM

@Terrance Well it's not the booting, it's the loading of the development suite (webstorm, postgres docker, nginx dev server docker, flow server, pgadmin server) - but only in a just booted system. The main thing that really stalls are webstorm and the flow server, with the whole system becoming unresponsive yet not reporting high cpu.

Webstorm tells me it is busy "indexing files", so I suspect that means it is due to hdd access, but I can't seem to tell that from the OS side.

I could buy an SSD for ~150 euros, but if that isn't the problem it 150 euro thrown through the drain: since the laptop is getting older I won't keep it that long anymore anyways.

Journeyman Geek

@paul23 any SSD is a improvement

and you can reuse it anyway

I threw a cheap chinese SSD into a c2d and it was awesome.

and since the laptop died, I can throw it into another system if needed

paul23

Well I could reuse, however laptops typically void warrantee when you open the case, on top of that laptops have few slots available (typically none free): so in practice you wouldn't reuse it. And due to my current living circustances I can't see me switching to a desktop the next few years

Journeyman Geek

You'd void the warranty to replace it anyway.

could even stick it into a (fast) disk enclosure.

also no one will likely check. I've done the switcharoo a few times

paul23

Yes, but warranty of my laptop has passed after 2 years: so I can easily open it now. A new future laptop will probably have a better SSD than the one I can buy right now anyways. (2 years ago, when I bought this one it was uncommon to have a larger than 100GB ssd in laptops, nowadays 1TB ssds are common in new laptops).

It's also 150 euros that I need to get from somewhere.

Journeyman Geek

1:22 AM

eh, what's your price/size requirement? and are you willing to take an educated risk on brands? ;p

I'm pretty sure I've been running a 250gb ssd over the past 7 years. If you're looking at smaller sizes - sandisk has a budget line, or there's a few chinese manufacturers who're pretty cheap - I've been running a "kingdian" and like it enough that I'm debating getting a 1tb SSD from them

paul23

1:50 AM

Well I most definitely want an Europe based company, both do I feel bad of sending value to outside countries, as well as I have bad experiences getting my rights regarding support set straight by countries outside europe (even though since they sell to a european customer they have to follow european law).

For example: whenever one buys any goods through a digital medium (phone, internet) I have -by law- a 2 month full money back guarantee, even if I used it (apart from consumables like food and gasoline).

While it's already hard to get this right, it's even harder to get the "full money" back, which. - again by law- includes any service like sending costs and return-sending costs or removal costs. This is the "risk for the seller".

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3:46 AM

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Q: Ricoh MP C2011 printer works using cups on armhf ubuntu, and then stuck "sending data to printer"

Printer: Ricoh MP C2011 (or MP C2011SP?) http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Ricoh/Ricoh-MP_C2011 View PPD file: http://www.openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.php?driver=PDF-Ricoh&printer=Ricoh-MP_C2011&show=1 Printer Added via CUPS web interface. Print Command: $ lp -d c2011 test.pdf CUPS version...

Kulfy

5:22 AM

@Terrance I've been at AU for almost 11 months and mostly active since last 5-6 months. I've seen I guess 6-7 questions like that. In some people post question from another site or even from same site and ask for explanation here. Same title, same body but with one extra line, "Can someone help me to understand this?" Some asks as a new question, some posts as an answer asking for explanation of another answer.

I remember once there was a question, something like "How to install drivers for <some wireless device>? [duplicate]" I asked OP why they used [duplicate] in the title, it is misleading and can cause users that it is already closed as duplicate. Then chili555 made a comment: "It is now a [duplicate] [duplicate]" after closing it as a duplicate of some other question. xD

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Q: making bind -p human readable

The man page for bind appears not to link to a syntax explanation, so while attempting to convert bind -p into human readable format I can filter out the garbage from 483 down to 109, but then am only able to understand 73; bind -p 2>/dev/null \ | grep -vP "digit-argument|do-lowercase-version|n...

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5:53 AM

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Q: Trying to mount/recover an old RAID HDD from broken RAID

I'm fairly new to this but will do my best. First of all I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS and am trying to recover an old drive from my NAS that died. This is the drive I'm trying to recover. Disk /dev/sdc: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Se...

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Rinzwind

6:24 AM

@Kulfy never doubt chili555 :D well not when it is about wireless drivers :D

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Q: Could not use GPaste Keyboard shortcuts

I am using Ubuntu 16.04. I could not use any Keyboard shortcuts provided by GPaste(clipboard management system). I'm not sure what's wrong with it. Can anyone please let know?

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Kulfy

8:41 AM

@Rinzwind That's why he has a golden badge for wireless. I learnt many things from him, some directly and some indirectly. Also, on SE I never doubt a person who has a golden badge in thats particular tag with an appreciable score and posts. :)

Rinzwind

9:04 AM

askubuntu.com/help/badges/182/command-line?userid=15811 @kuffy :D

blade19899

9:26 AM

You guys still use Tox?

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Q: apt remove glob installing extra packages

when i just tried to uninstall all things poppler with apt remove *poppler* --autoremove apt tried to install 34 new packages. Why would this happen? apt output: root@arankieskamp:~# apt remove *poppler* Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done N...

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dessert

9:40 AM

@blade19899 that’s the first time I heard of Tox, I only know Wire:

Wire (software)

Wire is an encrypted communications program created by Wire Swiss. It works on iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, macOS and web browsers such as Firefox. Wire transmits text messages and files; can make voice calls and be used for video conferences. Many employees working for Wire previously worked for Skype. Skype's co-founder Janus Friis helped create Wire. == History == Wire Swiss GmbH launched the Wire app on 3 December 2014. Shortly after its launch, the company retracted a claim from its website that the app's messages and conversation history could only be read by the conversation participants...

blade19899

@dessert "Asked 5 years ago"

I was the one that posted that Q/A

I feel so old now

nbro

11:21 AM

Hi

I more or less followed this guide in order to mount my share folder on my Ubuntu 18.04 VM (guest): gist.github.com/estorgio/1d679f962e8209f8a9232f7593683265

I'm using VirtualBox on a Mac host

I can copy a file from the host OS (Mac) to the shared folder and I will see this newly added file in the guest VM (Ubuntu 18.04), but I cannot add a file to the shared folder from the guest OS

I get the following error

Ok, I found a solution. I was copying the file using the drag and drop. But using sudo from the terminal solved the issue. Is there a way not to require sudo?

Kulfy

11:36 AM

@Rinzwind Honestly saying I admire some of the people here like, you, Oli, muru, Zanna, dessert, Fabby (of course), chili555, pomsky, karel, terdon, Radu, Byte Commander, Sergiy and many more (I couldn't even remember their name). Although I never interacted with Oli, Byte Commander, muru and Radu (inactive for 3 long years) but I do admire them.

Hey @terdon Can you please convert this answer into a comment? Though it's not an answer but might be useful as a comment.

Videonauth

@Kulfy If you believe the NAA answer should be converted into a comment I would suggest a mod flag stating exactly where the comment whould be placed on this answer. terdon is pretty active but there are manymore mod's on the page. :)

Varun Chhangani

Hi all.
I'm new here

Kulfy

@Videonauth I posted here since terdon is active here. And thank you Videonauth. I'll raise a mod flag as well. :)

@VarunChhangani Welcome to Ask Ubuntu!!! :)

terdon

11:59 AM

@Kulfy yes, please use flags for that sort of thing. That way, there's a record, and any mod can do it. If you ping me, I have to drop what I'm doing and rush to see. If I don't deal with it, nobody else will because nobody else will know.

Actually, the link given in that answer is just the same as the information in N0rbert's answer above.

Kulfy

@terdon Ah!! Sorry for that. I'll keep this thing in mind in future :)

@terdon I didn't notice link in N0rbert's answer. Well thank you very much :)

terdon

@Kulfy Thanks! :)

@Kulfy No, the link in the answer you flagged was pointing to another answer. That other answer just repeated what was in N0rbert's.

Kulfy

@terdon Oh I see. I need to be more observant.

terdon

@Kulfy Oh, no, that wasn't a rebuke! That was very easy to miss.

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1:16 PM

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Q: Cannot access website from browser, but can ping from terminal

I am using Unbutu 18.04. All the websites are working properly, but website http://conifer.sourceforge.net cannot be accessed from Chrome or Mozilla. I can ping the website from the terminal. Adjacent computer on the same network running windows can access it. Any ideas how to debug this problem...

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Rinzwind

1:46 PM

@Kulfy there is only 1 you need to admire and that is Oli and only until I catch him :D In a year of 5, 6

TERDY! ALmost weekend

terdon

2:30 PM

@Zanna Duuuude! I was answering for our Scandinavian users!

Thanks :)

Rinzwind

ignoring me? :(

Zanna

@terdon lol XD

terdon

@Rinzwind Oh hey, sorry, missed that completely!

Zanna

I am going to London on Sunday. What should I do? It may be my last visit for some years

Rinzwind

@Zanna if by bus do NOT try to make a u-turn on Kensignton Street.

Zanna

2:33 PM

haha surely it would be out of my hands if the bus driver tried that

terdon

@Zanna How come? That sounds ominous!

Here, @Rinzwind, a poem dedicated to the (possibly fictitious) day you pass Oli in rep.

> What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?

Rinzwind is due here today.

Why isn’t anything going on in Meta?
Why are the moderators sitting there without legislating?

Because Rinzwind is coming today.
What’s the point of moderators making laws now?
Once Rinzwind is here, he’ll do the legislating.

Why did our highest rep user get up so early,
and why is he sitting enthroned at the city’s main gate,
in state, wearing the crown?

Because Rinziwind is coming today
and the highest rep user’s waiting to receive him.

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(and the original: poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/waiting-for-the-barbarians)

Zanna

@terdon haha not really... it's also my first non-work visit in a couple of years

terdon

@Zanna Are you a peanuts fan?

If so, the exhibition of Charles Schultz' work is apparently really worth seeing.

I'm afraid I don't really know what's on much :( There's a show on in the Royal Academy of Arts that's supposed to be great. Do let me know if you decide to go to that, my GF works there! Maybe we can meet :)

Zanna

my mum is going to that, but I am not really interested, so wondering what else to do ^_^

oh I'll look it up

terdon

@Zanna theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/28/…

Zanna

2:45 PM

O.O

Durer's Adam and Eve look like they've been working out

terdon

Must have been a Big Apple.

Zanna

XD

Rinzwind

3:00 PM

I have not made an answer to a question on weeks :X

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Q: change many file names to hash (sha256)?

I have a bunch of video files where all the file names are un-useful gibberish. 1) Is there an easy command to change the names of all the files in a folder to a hash, like (sha256).mp4? I don't want to move / copy / modify any files, only rename them. 2) Can the command from 1) be modified to ...

rename batch-rename hash sha256

@terdon there for you to answer ^

Kulfy

4:29 PM

@terdon Ummm.. may be. Can't confirm now. I'm not able to see deleted posts cause I'm still a <10k user ;-)

@Rinzwind I admire them because of different reasons not because of reputation. Rinzwind will you start "donating" your reputation after you surpass Oli?

Charles Green

completely off-topic question. I'm thinking of moving from Ubuntu to arch, but have really only used Ubuntu. Managed to install Arch on a USB (several days of reading and struggling) - other than loading my regular set of programs (or a reasonable alternative) is there anything I should watch out for?

terdon

4:42 PM

@Rinzwind Nice, thanks. Just answered.

dessert

@CharlesGreen I’ve set up an Arch machine recently und found this very helpful:

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/General_recommendations

terdon

@CharlesGreen Not really. Make 200% sure you follow the Installation Guide to the letter.

It's just another Linux, there are no radical differences. You'll have to learn pacman instead of apt, but everything else is pretty standard.

dessert

@terdon nice! any reason you’re using md5sum instead of sha256 as in the question?

terdon

@dessert Because md5sum is a standalone command and I don't need to screw around with openssl. This cannot be for any sort of security reason, so I don't see any benefit in using sha.

Let me clarify that though.

Charles Green

@dessert Thanks for the link - I'll review this one

@terdon I did have to make a few changes to the install instructios to boot from usb drive reliably- this was why the "several days of reading". Ubuntu (might) make things too easy with their graphical installer!

terdon

4:49 PM

Yes, the installation is easier on Ubuntu. I've installed Arch a few times now, though never on a USB, and I found that any deviation from the guide would screw things up, but everything worked if I followed it exactly.

I've been a happy Arch user for about 3 years or so now.

dessert

@terdon openssl? /usr/bin/sha256sum is part of coreutils – am I misunderstanding something here?

Charles Green

@terdon They have a specific page for install to USB (nice!) and recommend alterations to mkinitcpio.conf, and the grub-install command needs a couple of options set.

dessert

while we’re on it, sha256 seems to be an ambiguous and quite useless tag

hash covers it nicely IMO

terdon

@dessert Yes. You are misunderstanding the level of my ignorance.

Thanks, I changed it to that. Since the other answer was using an openssl approach, I didn't even think to check for a standalone :)

@CharlesGreen Oh, you're using grub? why?

dessert

glad to be of help :)

terdon

4:59 PM

I had all sorts of issues installing grub and found it much easier to just use the EFI loader instead.

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Q: Arch Linux not showing bootloader on UEFI system

I recently installed Arch on my laptop (Dell Precision M4500). I had just changed the hard disk so I had to partition from scratch during the installation. I chose to go for a GPT partition and also set my system to boot with UEFI. During installation, I tried to install GRUB and failed since I...

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Charles Green

5:11 PM

@terdon 'Cause I know no better? Now I gotta go figure out how to use the EFI loader. Took me forever to realize I need to install efibootmgr to make grub work.

terdon

@CharlesGreen I just blindly went to install grub and it took me ages to figure out I was only making my life harder for no reason.

That was my first EFI system, I think, so I didn't even know the booloader was optional. But optional it is, and I advise you not to install it unless you really need it for some reason.

Charles Green

me: did Windows for ages - got fed up - loaded Ubuntu - learned about grub...

@terdon So, basically I make an EFI partition, and just mark the main partition as bootable?

and install efibootmgr at some point?

terdon

@CharlesGreen I don't really remember anymore to tell you the truth. Just do whatever the guide says :)

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Q: Ubuntu 18.04 installed RTX 2080 and recently compiled and running program will no longer run, are there conflicting drivers?

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