Tomarinator

I am having problems with my ubuntu 12.04, it hangs at “checking battery state” , but what is wierd is that when that stage is reached, I open up the terminal by ctrl F5, and cant run anything , sudo is not installed, apt-get is not installed, cant login to superuser, authentication fails

Hi guys, I wanted to know that is there a way to create flags that go off when a particular command is executed in the terminal, like for example when someone is messing with ifconfig stuff a message box would appear.

Cat is used to view contents of a file or directory

and also in function foo() print 'foo' instead of returning 'foo'

I got it to work. had to print foo() instead to calling foo()

its a college firewall thingy.

I dont know dude, when i try to login to the site (askubuntu.com) , it just hangs, even though i am on a high speeed network, and nothing is reported in the console as well.

I dont already have an account on askubuntu, and to connect to a new site on the SO network , i need to be on a firewall free connection, so I am out of luck, i guess

no

I am trying to pipe a string to espeak function from a python file like this [ foo.py | espeak --stdin ] , the contents of foo.py are this [ def foo(): return 'foo' foo() ] (with proper indentation), but it doesnt work ? any clue why this may not be working

goodnight people, :D

@FEichinger As strange it may sound, I removed that dot and it worked, it freaking worked......

but its an executable file

Is there something worng with the following address i specified to an executable bash file in my crontab? */1 * * * * ./home/stom/Desktop/bak.sh

okay i tried that way [ */1 * * * * source /home/stom/Desktop/apps/twitter_bot/twitter-bot-env/bin/activate;python /home/stom/Desktop/apps/twitter_bot/yugdom_cron.py ] , it still doesnt work,

@MarcoCeppi , isnt that necessary to specify absolute address ? and btw it doesnt work without ~ , i tried that way too

and it wont work, even with very simple commands like espeak. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8412330#8412330

guys guys , does anyone here have any previous experience working with cronjobs on ubuntu ? I am running 2 commands in the same line in my crontab file [ source ~/Desktop/apps/twitter_bot/twitter-bot-env/bin/activate;python ~/Desktop/apps/twitter_bot/yugdom_cron.py ]

So how does one specify 2 commands in a single line in a cron job

btw it still doesn't work

ok thanks man :)

i dont think its working, i am not hearing any I am awesomes

I have this line in my crontab file [ */1 * * * * espeak 'i am awesome' && date +%I:%M | espeak --stdin ] , but only half of it, first command gets executed every minute. While when I write this in the terminal it works like a charm. Is there a different way to specify 2 commands in the same crontab ?

that was in response to this chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8411606#8411606 forgot to use the usual reply method.

@TheLordofTime what parallel universe do you live in ? :p

:)

uhg just because i am 18, doen not mean everything i build is a homework problem, @TheLordofTime

umm, do you know of any ? :)

i have to concat the string "the time is" and the current date , and pass it to espeak

i am trying to cron up a script , one that speaks the current time every 1 hour. Just like the one is a mac book

@FEichinger i am working on it. its not easy

thanks :)

yes

something like concat 'foo' 'bar'

string variable, say

How can I concate two variables in ubuntu terminal ?

thanks @jokerdino, I wonder why this isnt mentioned in the man page of espeak

Is: espeak --stdin date : hanging on your ubuntu too ? guys ?

I am trying to use espeak to listen to todays date on ubuntu, by using the following command: espeak --stdin date , but it just hangs, nothing is spoken.

@robjohn about the 'start chatjax' bookmarklet, everytime a user comes here he has to make the effort to click on that bookmarklet, is it a good idea to wrap it up as a chrome extension and firefox plugin, that autoloads the script on page load.

Checkin it out

Its my college firewall, and it blocks a lot of stuff. Its stupid as shit

I think its the firewall, yes thats it.

@JayeshBadwaik I am able to open Mathjax.org

I run the "start chatjax" bookmarklet, from here , nothing happens , and error reported in the console is Uncaught ReferenceError: MathJax is not defined , though it was running like a charm few minutes ago. weird

Why do I sound like Michael jackson :p

I was once black too, but then I decided to transform to much much cooler avatar, i.e trunks from dbz.

I see ;)

We need a latex parser for the chatroom.

@YannisRizos Kudos :D