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3:29 AM

@dessert weird

I hope not

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6:06 AM

@dessert I observed that his previous suspension was network wide which ended on March 20, '19. Now he is suspended on AU only for a year. He is back on U&L and other sites.

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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

7:52 AM

@TheWanderer Did you write this manpage ?

linux.die.net/man/3/a

Synopsis
use the Moose;

has teh stuffz => (is => a 'rw');

the my an $a = teh $b + a $c;

no more 'Moose';

Q: How to keep track of installed software/sys configuration in linux that I can restore after a fresh linux install?

8:35 AM

I have been thinking of writing some sort of utility for linux that keeps track of all my installed software and configuration. Something that after doing a fresh install I can just run it and will restore my copy of ubuntu as it used to be before doing the fresh install. I do not know exactly w...

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user716691

9:54 AM

@dessert can you please help me

check it : askubuntu.com/questions/1128020

Q: Is it possible to keep some program running outside screen locking?

10:48 AM

Is it possible to keep some program running outside screen locking? For example, some keys on my keyboard are not good to use, making it difficult to type password to unlock screen. so I want to keep virtual keyboard program "onboard" outside xscreensaver's lock in Lubuntu 18.04. Thanks.

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dessert

@user716691 sorry, unfortunately I have no idea how to help you there

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dessert

12:40 PM

or have I…

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Q: "sudo -i -u user_name" command, can someone detail on it?

1:59 PM

I know what I do with this command, I kind of understand how it works and so on, but I am new to Ubuntu and I am trying to learn as much as possible and it feels uncomfortable to use a command and not fully and truly understand it. If someone could help me it would help a lot :)) Thanks!

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3:13 PM

@Kulfy well observed!

3:59 PM

@Zanna Are you still in India?

yes...

it's only been a week

Are you on a long vacation? Still exploring South India?

it's not really feeling like a vacation because I've spent most of my time doing work for people back in UK haha

Here general elections are scheduled in April. Political drama (advertisements/rallies) is going to be start soon across the country.

for example today I got up, ate breakfast, did yoga, tried to iron my clothes, spent some hours doing a drawing for my dad, realised I had drawn it with metric brick sizes but it has imperial bricks (ie everything was the wrong size and/or in the wrong place so would have to be done again), went out to eat lunch, ate it, bought some fruit I never saw, came back, ate the delicious mystery fruit, re-drew the building... then started reviewing stuff on AU

but I'm not complaining, it's like 35 degrees and the food is amazing :D :D

4:07 PM

Have you visited any other place so far?

nah

@Kulfy oh ho that will be fun

although I have escaped political drama back in UK hahaha

what chaos over there

I am not rushing to visit places because I am staying here for long

I am looking for a more suitable base

than this guest house place

I would like to rent an apartment

@Zanna I just deactivated my Instagram and Facebook just to escape from the drama.

For how many days you are here?

after I have managed that somehow with doubtless lots of help from people I may try to travel to some places to visit friends etc

@Kulfy I don't know but my visa will allow me to stay 180 days consecutively. I am not really planning to leave before that

@Kulfy hahaha I am blissfully ignorant :)

@Zanna That's great!! 180 days, I guess, are enough to explore and meet people. (Considering you won't feel homesick)

:) yeah

it was hard leaving home & zumba class.

I was sad

you can't have everything you want at once it seems

4:24 PM

@Zanna Indeed. Like we say in Hindi: "Kuch paane ke liye kuch khona padhta hai" (You need to lose something to get something)

too true :)

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terdon

8:20 PM

@Zanna One of the U&L regulars is renting an airbnb room out in Mumbai if you're around there.

I only know him from chat, but he's always seemed like a particularly nice guy. Faheem. I can give you a link to the room if you're interested (and after I make sure he doesn't mind me linking his online persona to his real world one here).

in Root Access, Jul 12 '18 at 20:26, by Aaron Hall

I want to get my wife a better laptop, she's been using her last one almost 10 years... it currently has a hole in the screen, a sticky keyboard, and requires a USB mouse because the trackpad doesn't work at all. I admire her thriftiness, but it's way past time to fix the situation.

Guess who has a new laptop and is out of town while I get to do the setup! :)

I'm probably going to just install Xubuntu 18.04 and wipe Windows 10... but before I do, is there anything worth doing? Should I try to keep a Windows recovery... anything?

According to Winderstat Windows is currently taking up 35GB.

8:45 PM

I'd leave a small partition with windows. Could be handy if you'd want to sell it.

Rinzwind

@AaronHall leave the windows restore partition. tht way you can reinstall windows

hm... how do I see and verify it's there, and ensure xubuntu doesn't wipe it off on install?

9:35 PM

uses google like a normal human being

Yeah, on some of these moments, you'd almost say we are normal people.

I realized I paid extra for a smaller SSD than the larger spinning disk...

...more expensive, but finally, restarting is like opening an application :)

thinks in chat I want to just delete Windows since it's taking up 35 GB, and there's probably a recovery partition I can't see yet taking up the 128(invoice reported size)-117(windows reported size)=11GB...

So that means windows is literally taking up 46 GB of memory on this computer.

Yet another reason to hate Windows...

I'm thinking if the Xubuntu test drive seems good I'm wiping it all...

Must be the recovery partition. You can make a backup usb stick btw to make sure you can reinstall windows. Think it is a default option in "backup". I did it with my laptop, dont exactly remember how. Its windows free now.

Q: Why does a systemd unit file at `/usr/lib/systemd/system/` still works for Ubuntu?

9:53 PM

I understand that systemd stores unit files at different locations for different versions of Linux. On RHEL, it's at /usr/lib/systemd/system/, whereas on Debian-based machines it's at /lib/systemd/system/. However, on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine, I just installed Elasticsearch using a .deb file, and...

debian ubuntu systemd elasticsearch systemd-unit

10:42 PM

@AaronHall Take a clonezilla partition backup and then follow the instructions here if you use grub as your boot loader already.

if using Windows boot loader (you never know) set grub as the boot loader first...

@Fabby I'm pretty hardcore mad at windows at the moment, and we don't tend to sell our hardware...

@AaronHall I still keep windows to change my keyboard backlights.

that sounds horrific...

(The only thing I cannot do in Ubuntu)

exotic hardware?

10:45 PM

@AaronHall Well, I use Windows mostly to update windows...

@AaronHall Yup.

fab-root@fab-ux-predator:/sys/class/leds
$ ls
input5::capslock  input5::numlock  input5::scrolllock

The day my keyboard leds show up there, away goes Windows!

well this is a thinkpad and I'm thinking today could be its day...

anyways, I've got this old thumbdrive I had 16.04 on, and I want to use it to install 18.04 xubuntu, any suggestions?

downloading the iso, but I forget the next step...