--- Log opened Mon Apr 09 00:00:38 2018 00:01 < phinxy> When booting PXE then loading root from a NFS share the login fails.. Does the owner matter of the root files, can't see any NFS user. 00:01 < Arsimael> NFS is capable of users? I thought the NFS is done by allowing ips? 00:02 < Arsimael> plus the FS permissions... 00:02 < [R]> phinxy: of course the owner matters...if a file is supposed to be owned by root, then it has to be owned by root 00:03 < TJ-> Arsimael: bad choice! :) I was going to suggest, since the backup devices are smaller than the source, to first shrink the file-system to it's minimum so it (should) fit on the backup devices, shrink the partition to the same size as the backup devices (those devices being in a JBOD linear RAID-0 array *without* stripping), then create a RAID-1 mirror on top of the source array, then --grow the mirror to 00:03 < TJ-> include the backup device so source would sync over. Once done, --shrink the mirror to remove the backup devices, remove the mirror overlay, grow the partition and file-system back to original size 00:03 < Arsimael> if it needs to be read by public... chmod o+r ? 00:04 < Arsimael> TJ-, customer uses windows and wants to access the files on the backup drives with windows if the nas fails during the hdd switcharoo. so backup drives needs to be ntfs... 00:05 < TJ-> Arsimael: is the customer sane? 00:05 < Arsimael> no 00:05 < TJ-> Arsimael: so, file-by-file it is then! 00:05 < Arsimael> yep 00:05 < phinxy> What other than file permission and ownership could make a login prompt go: "wrong password! 00:06 < TJ-> Arsimael: sounds to me like the backup operation will put strain on the system and could trigger a failure :D 00:06 < Arsimael> Sometimes I love small 2 men companies. buying a server, modding it (no warranty) and then stuffing it with drives. 00:06 < Arsimael> bad: if it's a lawyers office <.< 00:07 < [R]> phinxy: your files in /etc are bad 00:07 < pnbeast> Send the entire /etc to bed with no supper! 00:08 < phinxy> [R]• They look alright. copied with -a -x from a working system. 00:08 < TJ-> Arsimael: I hope you get the client to sign an indemnity before you start that operation 00:08 < phinxy> theres a shadow as well that is intact 00:08 < [R]> well you screwed it up when you copied it 00:08 < [R]> or your nfs isn't set up right 00:09 < Arsimael> TJ-, I am going to sign a "I am aware that I am a moron if it comes to IT and I know it's my own fault if I loose my files" letter 00:09 < Arsimael> *I am going to make HIM sign a 00:09 < TJ-> Arsimael: good plan especially if they're lawyers 00:11 < TJ-> Arsimael: I once had a customer try to blame one of my guys for a server crash becaues he'd switched the lights off in their server room. Turned out later the weekly cleaner person had been in with a vaccuum and unplugged something vital to power the vacuum 00:11 < Arsimael> 14.21/16TB used. I bet these are not only company files. I bet there are are also a ton of 4K Videos of daughters/wifes/uncles/dogs birthday videos. I will tell him to make a list with the really business critical files and copy them first. 00:12 < TJ-> Arsimael: use "sudo du -d 3 / | sort -n" to get an ordered list of where the space is being used to help categorise them 00:13 < Arsimael> TJ-, nothing is better then the cleaning personal plugging in a 1200Watts device to the powersocket labled "UPS connected" 00:13 < phinxy> Whats wrong with that? 00:13 < phinxy> Isnt the battery often not engaged? 00:14 < Arsimael> the email you get if the UPS sends you a letter crying about "I can't handle this I am out" 00:14 < pnbeast> When I have a room to vacuum, I don't want to be standing around waiting for the power company to get their ducks in a row. UPSed Hoovers! UPSed Hoovers! 00:15 < Arsimael> The Serverroom is off limits. No cleaning needs to be done in there. 00:15 < pnbeast> Well, not according to what all you've just said! 00:16 < TJ-> Arsimael: often the 'server room' is a box room or cleaner's closet :) 00:16 < Arsimael> Once I worked on a mid sized printing company. They had their own Serverroom with climate control and everything. And also a double bottom. 00:17 < Arsimael> where all rhe cables (and sadly also the power sockets) were hidden 00:17 < Arsimael> Got a new cleaning company. They started to wet wipe the floor 00:17 < pnbeast> That's called a raised floor. A double bottom is what you get after years of too much beer and too much office work. 00:17 < Arsimael> ok, raised floor 00:19 < Arsimael> well. wet wiping a raised floor is a very good idea... if there are powersockets in there, face up. 00:22 < isol> is there a BitTorrent CLI client for linux? 00:22 < Arsimael> I think so 00:22 < vlt> rtorrent, for example 00:23 < Arsimael> Openmediavault runs without a GUI and they also have a bittorent client 00:23 < FreeFull> There's a bunch of different ones 00:28 < The_Dv8or> what up 00:29 < Arsimael> the urge to delete facebook accounts and elon musks car 00:30 < The_Dv8or> Elon Musk can suck it 00:30 < SporkWitch> don't be silly, you can't delete anything on facebook; how many times have they been sued for that now? lol 00:30 < The_Dv8or> he might be brilliant, but the image is completely phony 00:30 < geheimnisse> basque separatists ETA were the first people to send a car to space 00:31 < [R]> i read a thing today that said zuckerberg used failed password attempts to hack peoples accounts back in the day 00:32 < Arsimael> read an article today about musks car was not sanatized and now there might be some bacteria in it which might could - if the car crashes into another planet - "pollute" the environment. 00:32 < The_Dv8or> any of you use Chrome on Cinnamon? 00:32 * vlt wonders if there's more connections between Musk and ETA than he thought before. 00:33 < sauvin> The_Dv8or, nope, never happens. 00:33 < SporkWitch> The_Dv8or: don't ask to ask 00:33 < sauvin> (I'm being sarcastic; gave up on Chrome a while ago) 00:33 < The_Dv8or> Im having a hell of a time with it. I install Chrome, and the moment I try to sign into my Google acct to sync bookmarks and stuff, it halts 00:34 < Arsimael> since chrome's scanning files on your HDD, I also switched back to edge/internet explorer at work 00:34 < [R]> The_Dv8or: that sounds unfortunate... chrome is closed source trash... you should probably complain to google if its broken crap 00:34 < Arsimael> Plus: Requested the installation of firefox on my pc 00:34 < sauvin> The_Dv8or, can you drop into a VC or a terminal emulator and use top or htop to see if you've got a lot of CPU going on when that happens? 00:35 < The_Dv8or> the halting seems limited to just Chrome.... rest of my apps work fine while its shittin the bed 00:35 < jim> yeah, just ask. also, add lots of informative details to expand the number of people who then realize they can help 00:35 < Arsimael> The_Dv8or, try installing chromium. you can also use it with your google account 00:35 < lupine> disable javascript 00:35 < lupine> things are so much faster 00:36 < Open_Future> hi all, running linux lite on an old laptop....took a lot of work to get wifi working. Only problem now is I have to manually run "sudo modprobe 43" from a terminal when it first starts. How can I automate this. On Linux Lite 3.8...as it runs pretty good on this old laptop. 00:36 < Open_Future> I did add "b43" to /etc/modules but that doesnt seem to do anything 00:37 < sauvin> Been quite a while since I've had to do this, Open_Future, it might be that it's not enough to just include it in modules, but also make sure it's not blacklisted elsewhere. 00:37 < tpanarch1st> hello, how do I find all files with the name php.ini please? I tried find . -name php.ini but that did not work? 00:37 < sauvin> Oh, wow, look at my wobbly English. 00:38 < Arsimael> is it the wifi driver? 00:38 < Arsimael> tpanarch1st, depends on your distribution 00:38 < sauvin> tpanarch1st, where's '.' when you issue that command? 00:38 < dannylee> ... 00:38 < [R]> tpanarch1st: thats going to run it from the current directory... run it from / 00:39 < geheimnisse> photo of ETA launching car to space, cosmonaut was Luis Blanco: https://www.legrandsoir.info/local/cache-vignettes/L250xH246/arton23766-38684.jpg 00:39 < sauvin> [R], and that might be way too inclusive. 00:39 < [R]> sauvin: what? 00:39 < tpanarch1st> thank you [R] :) 00:39 < tpanarch1st> sauvin: i just got it on a website :) 00:40 < SporkWitch> tpanarch1st: don't run commands that you don't understand all the arguments for 00:40 < tpanarch1st> i'm running deb 9 "stretch" for that server 00:40 < sauvin> tpanarch1st, be advised that what [R] told you to do will search every directory you can go into on every drive currently mounted. Even on my home machine, that might take an hour. 00:40 < tpanarch1st> SporkWitch: that's a little bit over the top, with respect, it's a find command :) 00:40 < tpanarch1st> SporkWitch: more widely, good advice! 00:40 < Arsimael> then its in /etc/php/ 00:40 < tpanarch1st> sauvin: that's cool dude :) 00:41 < SporkWitch> tpanarch1st: it's not, because your issue stems from not fully understanding what that command is doing. also, just because it says find doesn't mean it doesn't do anything; fine can perform actions on the hits 00:41 < SporkWitch> s/fine/find/ 00:41 < phogg> Open_Future: /etc/modules is the correct answer 00:41 < tpanarch1st> i guess if it's piped to something SporkWitch :) 00:41 < tpanarch1st> i have a few actually which is why I did it this way :) 00:42 < SporkWitch> tpanarch1st: no pipe needed 00:42 < tpanarch1st> ./etc/php/7.0/cgi/php.ini 00:42 < tpanarch1st> ./etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini 00:42 < tpanarch1st> ./etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini 00:42 < tpanarch1st> ./etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini 00:42 < tpanarch1st> ./var/www/conf/web1/php.ini 00:42 < tpanarch1st> so it was useful to do it that way :) 00:42 < SporkWitch> don't spam 00:42 < tpanarch1st> SporkWitch: that's not spamming 00:42 < sauvin> Yeah, more than three or four lines, kindly use a pastebin. There's a link to a pastebin in the topic. :) 00:43 < tpanarch1st> oh dear it was 5 lines 00:43 < SporkWitch> sauvin: why won't september end?! 00:43 * tpanarch1st is a naughty boy 00:43 * tpanarch1st slaps himself :-p 00:43 < sauvin> SporkWitch, because nobody likes Octobre! 00:43 < Arsimael> I like octobear 00:44 < sauvin> Hrm... beer.... now you got me thinking. 00:44 < Arsimael> local radio announces it as "Rocktober" only playing classic rock music 00:44 < The_Dv8or> okay, back from monkeying around 00:44 < SporkWitch> octobear is horrifying: https://img14.deviantart.net/c4ea/i/2010/320/a/4/octo_bear_by_konjurer8672-d32yl1g.jpg 00:44 < The_Dv8or> Im running Ubuntu 17.10, Cinnamon 3.4.6 00:45 < sauvin> You mean, like Beethoven and Tschaikowsky after they discovered talking guitars and hairy-ass amps? 00:45 < SporkWitch> sauvin: hour and 15 left on the clock, no brews for me yet :'( 00:45 < Arsimael> ooooooh the wayland version 00:45 < The_Dv8or> tried installing Chrome via dpkg, and apt-get 00:45 < Open_Future> sauvin where do i check to see if its blacklisted 00:45 < sauvin> Open_Future, I don't remember. Let me see if browsing /etc suggests anything... 00:45 < The_Dv8or> when I try to sign in to sync my stuff, it just goes unresponsive after I submit the password 00:45 < phinxy> does beer and linux go hand in hand? 00:45 < Open_Future> phogg its there in /etc/modules but I think sauvin is right it might be blacklisted from when I was trying ndiswrapper...just not sure where that blacklist list is located 00:45 < SporkWitch> Open_Future: "[distro] package blacklist" is the google question you asked 00:46 < SporkWitch> modify as necessary if it's not a package 00:46 < sauvin> It ain't a package, it's a module. 00:47 < SporkWitch> phinxy: https://www.xkcd.com/323/ 00:47 < sauvin> Open_Future, scout around in /etc/modprobe.d if you're on Ubuntu or close kith or kin. 00:47 < Open_Future> ok will try that thanks 00:48 < The_Dv8or> fuck it, maybe I shitcan the Linux primary desktop idea and go back to macOS 00:48 < phogg> Open_Future: fgrep -R blacklist /etc/modprobe.d/ 00:48 < Psi-Jack> The_Dv8or: Kindly mind the language, please. :) 00:48 < The_Dv8or> sorry 00:48 < geheimnisse> never return to macOS 00:48 < Arsimael> install elementary 00:48 < sauvin> The_Dv8or, mind the language. 00:48 < SporkWitch> TempleOS! 00:48 < Arsimael> deepin linux! 00:48 < hanetzer> gentoo! 00:48 < The_Dv8or> every so often I try and migrate over to Linux as a primary desktop, and I always go back to macOS. I dont even remember why Im tryin to migrate this time 00:49 < sauvin> TempleOS! Praise all the furry little kittens! 00:49 < revel> SporkWitch: Did you know that TempleOS is immune to Meltdown and Spectre? 00:49 < SporkWitch> you're all heathens and going to hell, TempleOS is God's chosen OS 00:49 < SporkWitch> revel: it's immune to a lot of things :) 00:49 < Arsimael> ubuntu 6.66 satanic edition 00:49 < phogg> The_Dv8or: deep in your heart you know it's the right thing to do 00:49 < hanetzer> The_Dv8or: keep osx, and install gentoo via prefix :) 00:49 < sauvin> The_Dv8or, you *might* find FreeBSD more to your liking. 00:49 < revel> No network-based vulns either. 00:49 < sauvin> (it ain't Linux, but it also ain't Mac OS X) 00:49 < hanetzer> honestly I just love the portage package management system. I'd use it on everything :) 00:49 < revel> It also doesn't have systemd, if you're one of those people. 00:49 < Arsimael> usn't macOS a bsd ripoff? 00:50 < SporkWitch> portage is pretty awesome 00:50 < dviola> this is how Terry celebrates after one decides to use TempleOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQu-7DvtPEQ 00:50 < Open_Future> yeah sauvin it was there, i commented out and wil reboot to see what happens 00:50 < SporkWitch> Arsimael: MacOSX is a UNIX operating system, but heavily modified 00:50 < phogg> Arsimael: half a ripoff of BSD, half of NeXTStep. Okay, more than have is NeXT. 00:50 < sauvin> Mac OS X is a hybridised and blended fork of FreeBSD 4.2, iirc. 00:50 < lupine> it's junk 00:50 < lupine> consider the dynamic linker 00:51 < lupine> "oh let's just use absolute paths in everything and leave relative links mostly broken" 00:51 < Arsimael> I always thought MacOS is based on BSD 00:51 < sauvin> It is. 00:51 < The_Dv8or> Im pretty sure it is 00:51 < phogg> sauvin: Not really. It uses some bits and has kernel API compatibility from about that point, but XNU is really not FreeBSD. 00:51 < geheimnisse> yeah macos is SUS but it's still garbage 00:51 < lupine> you can be based on something good, yet still drowned in kaka 00:51 < revel> SUS? 00:51 < geheimnisse> single unix specification 00:51 < lupine> doi:capitalism/* 00:52 < Arsimael> I like macos. Trolled a lot of mac users at my old old old job 'cause ssh'd their machines and made the mac meow 00:52 < phinxy> This one is catchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Jp5uppqCc 00:52 < lupine> mrrrl 00:52 < phogg> geheimnisse: passing the certification tests is more about money than anything else. Anyone can make a Linux distro which passes. 00:52 < SporkWitch> Arsimael: https://www.xkcd.com/530/ 00:52 < lupine> I gave masto a fair 6-month trial at the current job 00:53 < dviola> Arsimael: lol, is it that bad? 00:53 < phogg> very few companies bother... there's a reason for that 00:53 < geheimnisse> phogg i think theres a couple linux distros on there 00:53 < lupine> um, macos 00:53 < lupine> absolute junk 00:53 < lupine> masto is awesome 00:53 < phogg> geheimnisse: Yeah. Old ones. You technically have to re-certify after every release. 00:53 < Arsimael> you need apple script to adjust the volume 00:54 < SporkWitch> dviola: nothing can compare to: cat /vmlinuz >> /dev/audio 00:54 < lupine> the old ones you say? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FbT4FayW7aw/maxresdefault.jpg 00:54 < Arsimael> short hint: the macos volume level goes from 1 to 10. NEVER! set it to 100. - If you do you get a Catzilla like meow... 00:54 < geheimnisse> sporkwitch WHY 00:54 < sauvin> Bear in mind that Mac OS X is a Darwin core (that's the FreeBSD part) with a pile of proprietary blobs heaped on top of it where most of the rest of us are using X. 00:54 < SporkWitch> geheimnisse: it's the voice of god... 00:55 < dviola> SporkWitch: haha 00:55 < geheimnisse> more like demon 00:55 < SporkWitch> we prefer daemon here, thanks 00:55 < stevendale> Hi 00:55 < stevendale> What's up~? 00:55 < Arsimael> the gas prices... 00:56 < geheimnisse> the stock market usually 00:56 < SporkWitch> up is the opposite direction from the centre of strongest perceived gravitational attraction 00:56 < Arsimael> talk about "whats up" to australians 00:56 < geheimnisse> also up is a great movie 00:56 < SporkWitch> SQUIRREL! 00:57 < lupine> SporkWitch: squirrel is delicious 00:57 < sauvin> With carrots and mushrooms, it's unbeatable! 00:57 < geheimnisse> yes squirrel is good but a bit greasy 00:57 < sauvin> Well, except maybe rabbit. Rabbit is awfully good. 00:57 < geheimnisse> squirrel gumbo 00:57 < lupine> I never got greasy 00:57 < revel> Arsimael: ¿uɐǝɯ noʎ op ʇɐɥM 00:57 < phogg> SporkWitch: Your answer is technically correct, the best kind of correct. 00:58 < lupine> I guess you could make it greasy by cooking it in lots of grease 00:58 < geheimnisse> the only thing i dont lile is trying to eat around the rib bones 00:58 < geheimnisse> like 00:59 < geheimnisse> theyre like toothpicks 00:59 < SporkWitch> be a man, don't eat around them 01:00 < geheimnisse> lupine gumbo is greasy in general in the first place 01:00 < Arsimael> are we talking about the european or the north american squirrel? 01:00 < geheimnisse> im talking about north american fox squirrels native to louisiana 01:00 < geheimnisse> which are the only ones ive eaten 01:01 < lupine> squirrels are pretty much the same the world over 01:01 < lupine> the bones are a pain though. mostly I had squirrel pie 01:01 < lupine> bones in pie = ick 01:01 < geheimnisse> theres size and stuff. like we have cat squirrels which are smaller and faster with less meat 01:01 < Arsimael> NA: http://www.inspirefusion.com/media/2012/fat_squirrel.jpg EU:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Eichh%C3%B6rnchen_in_Heilbronn.jpg/640px-Eichh%C3%B6rnchen_in_Heilbronn.jpg 01:02 < treefrob> what distro should I recommend to a ~60 year old cabinet-maker who currently uses Windows? 01:02 < blocky> lupine: the linux loader supports relative paths but the macos one doesnt? 01:02 < SporkWitch> treefrob: kubuntu 01:02 < treefrob> SporkWitch, why? 01:02 < lupine> the linux dynamic loader is sane 01:02 < lupine> the macosx one is not 01:02 < SporkWitch> treefrob: extensive support and KDE looks and behaves like windows 7 by default 01:02 < geheimnisse> treefrob the environment will feel familiar 01:03 < phogg> treefrob: Is he a computer-savvy type or someone who wants it to run forever without any touching? 01:03 < blocky> is kubuntu running the new plasma? i have been trying it on arch and it's impressive compared to the kde i remember 01:03 < treefrob> phogg, don't really know :) 01:03 < SporkWitch> treefrob: literally the only thing you should need to show him is the package manager, which you can explain in the form of "this is like the app store" 01:03 < Arsimael> KDE is more like windows? 01:03 < phogg> treefrob: It's hard to make a good recommendation, then. SporkWitch' 01:03 < SporkWitch> Arsimael: default appearance and behaviour is basically identical to win7 01:03 < geheimnisse> arsimael superficially 01:03 < Arsimael> I installed Deepin on mym moms PC. She's still thinking she is using windows 10... 01:03 < stevendale> Mech Warrior 4 01:03 < phogg> treefrob: SporkWitch's approach is a good one: a generic answer that will satisfy most 01:04 < blocky> lupine: interesting 01:04 < treefrob> phogg, sounds ok. I'll recommend that he boot the live system first anyhow 01:04 < lupine> if it's a mammal, you can almost certainly eat it 01:04 < phogg> geheimnisse: superficial is all most people notice 01:04 < lupine> although there may be ethical concerns 01:04 < phogg> treefrob: always a wise choice 01:04 < lupine> sorry, wrong channel :S 01:05 < lupine> wait, no 01:05 < phogg> lupine: are there no poisonous mammals? 01:05 < treefrob> "Deepin"? 01:05 < lupine> right channel, just interleaved conversations 01:05 < lupine> phogg: a few venomous ones, notably the platypus 01:05 < SporkWitch> phogg: platypi are venomous, not sure if any are poisonous 01:05 < lupine> no poisonous ones 01:05 < lupine> ^5 01:05 < stevendale> I'm in Queensland 01:05 < phogg> treefrob: It's a niche distro, not good for noobs IMO even though it is intended to be user friendly. 01:05 < stevendale> Lots of box jellies here 01:05 < stevendale> Sharks 01:05 < stevendale> Snakes 01:05 < stevendale> Spiders 01:05 < SporkWitch> stevendale: don't spam 01:05 * treefrob has a phobia of niche distros 01:05 < SporkWitch> also, it's australia, EVERYTHING wants to kill you 01:05 < geheimnisse> lupine us cajuns when were in our communities generally only take animals for food so i lol at ethical concerns. like we live more "authentically" than most in the us. granted im far away from my old community these days 01:05 < luke-jr> [ 829.295068] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 0 at kernel/rcu/tree.c:2792 rcu_process_callbacks+0x48e/0x4b0 <-- what would cause this? I'm getting it even after a cold boot now :/ 01:06 < lupine> stevendale: I want to introduce you to the concept of "mammal2 01:06 < lupine> there are a few important characteristics to mammals. unfortunately for you, they are lacking in all groups so far named by you 01:06 < sauvin> But snakes are good when fried in butter. 01:06 < lupine> 1) warm blood. 2) blood 01:06 < lupine> yeah, snake is delicious 01:06 < treefrob> SporkWitch, phogg Arsimael: thanks 01:07 < stevendale> I'd prefer to be cold blooded 01:07 < geheimnisse> alligator tail 01:07 < SporkWitch> lupine: mammaries are kind of a big one 01:07 < stevendale> Would give me an excuse to go naked in public 01:07 < stevendale> :3 01:07 < geheimnisse> nutria 01:07 < lupine> SporkWitch: nah, that's just a consequence of male dominated science 01:07 < lupine> obsessed with mammaries 01:07 < stevendale> And plank on public benches in the sunlight 01:07 < Arsimael> treefrob, If you try deepin, try to get an actual build (arch or antergos) old versions are fu***ng buggy 01:07 < SporkWitch> lupine: clearly; remember that the youtube shooting is the fault of patriachy, not an insane arab leftist 01:08 * stevendale is on XP... knows all about bugs 01:08 < geheimnisse> youtube shooting? 01:08 < SporkWitch> geheimnisse: literally plug those two words into any search engine on the planet... have you been under a rock the past week? lol 01:08 < phogg> geheimnisse: someone shot up one of youtube's video-recording spaces 01:08 < Arsimael> stevendale, you are running an outdated, unsupported od with no updates? and you are online? 01:08 < SporkWitch> phogg: youtubeHQ 01:08 < Arsimael> I also like to live dangerously 01:09 < geheimnisse> stevendale go try to get support in #windows and let us know how friendly they are to winxp users 01:09 < phogg> SporkWitch: oh, was it the HQ? I didn't pay much attention 01:09 < geheimnisse> i live under a punk rock 01:09 < stevendale> geheimnisse I've been there :) They ban XP users 01:09 < SporkWitch> Arsimael: i wouldn't worry, it's XP, any malware it gets will crash it before any damage can be done lol 01:09 < Arsimael> Wanacry? 01:09 < phogg> stevendale: Really? Seems harsh. XP is fine except for some security problems. 01:09 < SporkWitch> ... 01:10 < Arsimael> If I am really bored, I install windows XP and go to hacking boards, offending people and tell them "No one of you loosers can hack me lol" 01:10 < sauvin> No security problems here. The VMs XP runs in have no net access. 01:10 < phogg> I still know places running Win98. Not connected to the internet, of course. 01:10 < Arsimael> phogg, ATMs? 01:10 < phogg> Arsimael: not that I know of 01:10 < Arsimael> some do 01:10 < SporkWitch> that's a bit different lol; i got an AT-form machine in 2006 that came in for repairs; it was running a factory floor for a couple decades lol 01:11 < Arsimael> eigher 98, less old ones 2000, a bit newer ones XP embedded and new ones win7 01:11 < phogg> WinXP VMs are the only way to *actually* test for IE7 JS behavior. 01:11 < SporkWitch> phogg: i don't see the point; screw people that use IE Lol 01:11 < luke-jr> phogg: last I checked, IE 5 worked in WINE fine 01:11 < oiaohm> phogg: I still know of places using MS Dos 6.22 for different business things. 01:11 < phogg> Arsimael: I've seen some ATMs running OS/2. Guess how I noticed? 01:11 < Arsimael> opened them and had a look inside? 01:11 < phogg> luke-jr: no one uses IE5, but IE7 is still seen on the real internet 01:12 < stevendale> I think IE4 was available for Mac on PPC 01:12 < phogg> Arsimael: crash screen where the UI should have been 01:12 < Arsimael> I still have the instll disks of dos 6.0 and win3.11. I bet if I try, I could still hook it up to the net 01:13 < phogg> stevendale: Yes, I believe 4.1 to 5.5 was. But it's not the same browser bug-wise. 01:14 < oiaohm> stevendale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX there is a time frame where Microsoft did attempt to take IE cross platform. 01:14 < phogg> My workplace required testing ("Works, even if it looks bad") in IE7 until last year when the numbers apparently stopped being high enough to care. 01:14 < phogg> oiaohm: was it ported anywhere other than Solaris? 01:15 < stevendale> I use Firefox ESR on XP, but I have IE8 installed 01:15 < Arsimael> phogg, install a browser switch: If IE<8 show "Install a real browser like Firefox or vivaldi" 01:15 < SporkWitch> this ^ 01:15 < oiaohm> phogg: HP-UX and the HP-UX one with loader mess you could get running under Linux. 01:15 < pnbeast> We had some ancient IE on SunOS, or maybe Solaris. Nobody used it. 01:15 < lupine> SporkWitch: actually, it's the fault of american gun laws 01:16 < lupine> fun fact: several of my workmates were in the immediate vicinity of that shooting 01:16 < phogg> Arsimael: not my call 01:16 < SporkWitch> lupine: the gun laws in that area are some of the most absurd (and arguably unconstitutional) in the country. The problem wasn't the gun laws, the problem was the chick was batshit 01:16 < lupine> oiaohm: in fairness, MSDOS 6.22 is a classic 01:16 < phogg> Arsimael: when I was still fixing IE7 compat bugs in 2013 I started campaigning to drop support and the answer was "People still use it, we still support it." 01:16 < lupine> SporkWitch: no, the problem was the gun laws 01:17 < lupine> widespread availability across the continent make local laws irrelevant 01:17 < Arsimael> phogg, perfect example why we still use SSL instead of TLS >.< 01:17 < SporkWitch> how's that working for london? oh that's right, they've been seeing a huge upswing in shootings 01:17 < lupine> knifings* 01:17 < phogg> lupine: availability is such a mild word 01:17 < SporkWitch> (not to mention the stabbings) 01:17 < SporkWitch> shootings too :) 01:17 < lupine> shootings are rare, because ammunition is rare 01:17 < lupine> it costs *so much* to shoot someone 01:17 < phogg> Arsimael: I know, right? Some days it scares me, other days I try not to think about it. 01:18 < SporkWitch> phogg: you can't reason with people that thing "ban all the guns" works anywhere 01:18 < SporkWitch> s/thing/think/ 01:18 < lupine> you can get a firearm illegally without too much bother, but transporting it is hell, and so is feeding it 01:18 < Arsimael> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyb6vS6ROk0 01:18 < phogg> SporkWitch: I don't think you could (or should). 01:18 < lupine> SporkWitch: I'm all for widespread gun ownership 01:18 < lupine> just in a context of training and strict carry legislation 01:18 < phogg> lupine: practicing is pretty hard too 01:18 < lupine> switzerland, finland, etc, show the way here 01:19 < lupine> I'd really like to learn to gun, but being in .uk makes it quite infeasible 01:19 < phogg> I'm all for mandatory membership in militias who have responsibility for storing the weapons when not in use. 01:19 < SporkWitch> oh absolutely, i say wipe out literally every gun regulation we have and replace it with: no flamethrowers, no explosives other than gunpowder, mandatory background check, mandatory training, and a range qualification (if you can't put bullets on target, you shouldn't be carrying). nothing else needed. 01:20 < Arsimael> I don't want to say "Kill all Idiots" - But I am very enthusiastic about "Remove all warnign labels and let nature do her job" 01:20 < phogg> SporkWitch: importantly mandatory periodic refresher courses, as with driver's licenses and you lose your carry permit if you fail. 01:20 < lupine> the human condition is entirely about thwarting "nature!" 01:20 < SporkWitch> none of these things would have had any impact on the youtube shooting, of course, but it would address many of the potentially preventable ones 01:20 < lupine> consider the extension of animals that predate on humans 01:20 < phogg> SporkWitch: perfection is impossible but we can do quite a lot better than we are 01:20 < SporkWitch> phogg: i don't distinguish between carry and own; if you can own you should be able to carry, concealed or in the open. 01:20 < lupine> if we were to let nature do its job, we'd be introducing rabid wolves into NYC in high numbers 01:20 < iflema> Arsimael: hear here 01:21 < SporkWitch> phogg: sure, but this isn't one of those cases 01:21 < lupine> in fairness, social darwinists *are* trying to ban vaccination 01:21 < lupine> so they are at least internally consistent 01:21 < phogg> SporkWitch: I definitely do. A gun kept on your property is one thing, carried into public spaces is something else. 01:21 < lupine> but they're still cunts 01:21 < SporkWitch> phogg: either you can be trusted to own and operate it safely or you can't; that doesn't change whether you're at home or not 01:22 < phogg> SporkWitch: If you need a license to *own* it when you lose that license you have to give it up. I'm not okay with that. I am okay with requiring a license to move it. 01:22 < ananke> by that extent, it should be ok to walk around with a lit torch 01:22 < CodeBug> Ok Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu or Arch? 01:22 < lupine> SporkWitch: people act differently at home to when they are in a shared environment 01:22 < SporkWitch> phogg: that's certainly handleable with a grace period, depending on the reason you lose that liscense. Expiring != revocation 01:22 < phogg> ananke: or a vial of some dangerous chemicals 01:22 < lupine> they masturbate, scratch their arses, shoot intruders, et 01:23 < lupine> ...c 01:23 < ananke> CodeBug: without context or purpose, there is no answer 01:23 < Arsimael> Fedora if you want an old kernel, Arch if you want cutting edge 01:23 < SporkWitch> CodeBug: no surveys 01:23 < triceratux> CodeBug: yes 01:23 < lupine> in .fi the legislation is that guns can be stored at home, but the guns and ammunition must be separately stored 01:23 < Arsimael> Fedora==Centos 01:23 < lupine> in proper cabinets 01:23 < ananke> Arsimael: not even close 01:23 < Arsimael> oh wait 01:23 < phogg> SporkWitch: I'm not talking expiration, I'm talking failure to test OK in ability to use it safely. 01:23 < Arsimael> RHEL=Centos 01:23 < CodeBug> ananke, I'm running 4 3tb drives one with Windows, One with Ubuntu, One with Debian and the last one I was hoping to put Arch on but it seeems to be a pain in the backside? 01:23 < lupine> this is good. it allows for civil defence without allowing for murders of passion 01:23 < CodeBug> I'm not surveying SporkWitch 01:24 < lupine> amazing how much you can cool down while running from cabinet to cabinet 01:24 < geheimnisse> gun legislation is so strange to me because i was taught how to shoot around age 4 to 5 01:24 < ananke> CodeBug: that doesn't tell me anything about your actual goals, needs, desires, etc 01:24 < CodeBug> I'm asking the differences on the distros. 01:24 < SporkWitch> phogg: that would be something that warrants a grace period to requalify 01:24 < lupine> geheimnisse: right, so you'd pass a gun license test with flying colours 01:24 < stevendale> Ubuntu is Debian made usable 01:24 < CodeBug> I'm looking for a desktop that i can control infinitely ananke 01:24 < lupine> no worries 01:24 < phogg> SporkWitch: Let's assume you simply can't. Physically or mentally infirm. 01:24 < SporkWitch> phogg: but yeah, if you continuously fail to meet the standard you SHOULD lose it; you can't be trusted to operate it safely 01:24 < stevendale> Windows is just... Windows 01:24 < [R]> CodeBug: linux is linux 01:24 < lupine> stevendale: debian is already usable you git 01:24 < [R]> CodeBug: just pick a sane dist and go with it 01:24 < ananke> CodeBug: you can do that on any distro. it's a matter of time and effort. 01:24 < CodeBug> LOL [R] 01:24 < [R]> CodeBug: thats not a joke 01:24 < lupine> all ubuntu adds is shuttleworth's cock 01:24 < lupine> for sucking 01:24 < stevendale> lupine That's not what Linus says :P 01:25 < SporkWitch> phogg: then you can no longer safely operate it and so should not be permitted to keep it; the threat you pose to others now outweighs your right to own it 01:25 < ananke> lupine: you may want to watch your language 01:25 < lupine> linus has many opinions I disagree with 01:25 < lupine> he's a person, not a god 01:25 < phogg> SporkWitch: I am not okay with government goons rifling through my house even in that circumstance. 01:25 < CodeBug> Meaning? I was under the impression that Ubuntu was based on commerical soft, and Debian was freeware? 01:25 < geheimnisse> lupine yeah basically but i also have no desire to carry 01:25 < CodeBug> and Arch was basically from scratch? 01:25 < CodeBug> lupine, lol 01:25 < CodeBug> seriously? 01:25 < lupine> ananke: noted 01:25 < phogg> CodeBug: You are way, WAY off. 01:25 < Arsimael> Ubuntu is easy to use, but ubuntu makes many things differently. But good for beginners. 01:25 < lupine> speaking of freeware, I was in love with diana gruber as a kid 01:25 < [R]> CodeBug: ubuntu is just repackaged debian 01:25 < CodeBug> Ok then please enlighten me a bit. because my goal ultimately is SysAdmin. 01:25 < SporkWitch> phogg: if it keeps joe vigilante that follows every shooting with "if i had my gun" from having a gun, i'm okay with it lol; every time i see one of those guys my immediate reaction is "thank goodness you didn't" 01:26 < ananke> CodeBug: arch is going to require much more effort to keep maintained in a long run. and no sane 'sysadmin' would come close to arch 01:26 < lupine> gun ownership is like politics 01:26 < phogg> CodeBug: Ubuntu is largely based off of Debian. It's run for profit where Debian is run not-for-profit, and they added a handful of apps, but that's about it. 01:26 < CodeBug> Linux SysAdmin, possibly redhat certified..or Comptia Linux+ 01:26 < lupine> anyone who wants to be involved should be immediately disbarred 01:26 < ananke> CodeBug: if system administration is your goal, then go with centos. 01:26 < Arsimael> [R], not really, there are many defferences. It's based on debian 01:26 < CodeBug> ok ok thanks phogg. 01:26 < CodeBug> I get that and hey Arsimael 01:26 < CodeBug> again. 01:26 < [R]> Arsimael: lol 01:26 < lupine> I'd like to learn to shoot, but I've no interest in having a gun on my own premises 01:26 < SporkWitch> CodeBug: RHEL/CentOS and Debian would be what you want to look at for the enterprise 01:26 < Arsimael> centos and RHEL are litterally the same. You can even "upgrade" centos to RHEL 01:26 < lupine> that'd be like scattering the house with random landmines 01:27 < phogg> CodeBug: Comptia certs aren't worth anything except perhaps if you run out of toilet paper. 01:27 < pnbeast> lupine, I'm good with that. You can buy one and keep it at my place. 01:27 < lupine> a *lot* of human effort is put into making living spaces as safe as possiblke 01:27 < [R]> phogg: the paper its printed on... 01:27 < phogg> lupine: I'm with you on that. 01:27 < lupine> adding a wide variety of killing tools completely circumvents that 01:27 < CodeBug> Seriously? I was torn between CCNA, and Comptia. 01:27 < lupine> I'm ok with dual-use killers, like knives or whatever 01:27 < Arsimael> but asking for "Which distro is the best" only leads to 100 defferent answeres from 80 people 01:27 < CodeBug> what certs would help me honestly then. 01:27 < phogg> CodeBug: CCNA every time 01:27 < lupine> but I can't imagine using guns in cooking 01:27 < SporkWitch> lupine: i miss having a handgun; i've no idea how NY's laws haven't seen a constitutional challenge. I can walk into Dick's and walk out with a shotgun (terrible for home defense in the apartment layouts around here; too long to bring to bear quickly or accurately), but it costs hundreds of dollars, the better part of a year, and i have to convince the government that they should LET me have a 01:27 < SporkWitch> handgun 01:27 < CodeBug> Arsimael, wasn't asking what was the best. 01:27 < lupine> I like gunpowder tea, but come on 01:28 < CodeBug> Was asking for practicality for my situation 01:28 < geheimnisse> lupine yeah if someone is obsessed with guns its a bad sign. i grew up with a rifle in my hand literally ans have no desire to bring guns anywhere ... they stay at home unless im target shooting or hunting or something specific. gun nuts are scary. 01:28 < sauvin> Yeah, though I walk through the ghetto in the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil for Oh my DEITY have I ever got GAS today...! 01:28 < Arsimael> Learn the basics. 01:28 < [R]> CodeBug: the best is to pick one mainline dist, and go with it 01:28 < lupine> in scotland, we recently introduced licensing requirements for *airguns* 01:28 < [R]> CodeBug: not install a million differnet ones 01:28 < SporkWitch> CodeBug: cisco certs are generally more highly regarded than comptia 01:28 < lupine> I am strongly in favour of this, since I am peppered with airgun shot 01:28 < lupine> nearly lost an eye 01:28 < SporkWitch> CodeBug: at least in the industry; still shocks me how many HR types are impressed by an A+ 01:28 < Arsimael> I started with suse, then debian, then ubuntu then antergos, now arch 01:28 < CodeBug> So CentOS would be up my alley or Debian. 01:29 < lupine> the locals got quite upset though 01:29 < geheimnisse> but i also went from cajun community to major urban area where people got shot all the time and stuff so i associate it with sadness 01:29 < phogg> geheimnisse: I'm betting most gun owners are like you. They wouldn't find a few more laws much of a burden, if the laws were written carefully. Except carefully written laws only happen in fiction... 01:29 < lupine> "how will I put the family pet down now?", etc 01:29 < ananke> CodeBug: definitely. centos likely more so than debian, but it varies. 01:29 < SporkWitch> CodeBug: CentOS is basically a slightly outdated, free version of RHEL. RHEL, CentOS, and Debian are the most common in the enterprise. 01:29 < CodeBug> Arsimael, CentOS THEN Arch basically in the progression of things. 01:29 < ananke> CodeBug: no arch. forget about arch. 01:29 < CodeBug> lol ananke 01:29 < CodeBug> got it. 01:29 < SporkWitch> arch has no place outside of hobbyists 01:29 < Arsimael> RHEL/CentOS and SLES are used often in enterprise companies. If you want to work there, it's a good thing. 01:29 < CodeBug> wow..never expected that. 01:29 < CodeBug> Thats what I want. 01:30 < [R]> SporkWitch: centos is identical to rhel 01:30 < CodeBug> I'm 34 trying to change careers. 01:30 < [R]> its not "outdated" in any way 01:30 < lupine> [R]: it's not though 01:30 < phogg> CodeBug: Others have different opinions but I strongly discourage you from using Arch unless and until you have a good deal of experience with more stable distributions. 01:30 < ananke> CodeBug: not sure where you were getting your previous information from that lead you to arch 01:30 < SporkWitch> [R]: my understanding is it lags behind and doesn't receive as much support. 01:30 < [R]> SporkWitch: it doesnt lag anything 01:30 < CodeBug> faulty people ananke 01:30 < lupine> but as long as it's not fedora, I'm happy 01:30 < [R]> infacct sometimes they deploy updated packages before rhel does 01:30 < phogg> CodeBug: Arch is for a very specific sort of Linux user and if you are new then you are NOT the sort who wants it. 01:30 < Arsimael> [R] 3.X Kernel in RHEL7... 01:30 < SporkWitch> [R]: or was it the other way around, CentOS is basically the guinea pig for the next stable RHEL? 01:30 < lupine> no, that's fedora 01:30 < lupine> centos is RHEL without any support 01:30 < [R]> Arsimael: ? 01:30 < CodeBug> So i need to install CentOS on my drive and drop kick Debian since I'm looking for Enterprise work. 01:30 < CodeBug> also are Redhat certs worth it 01:30 < lupine> no 01:31 < phogg> SporkWitch: it lags behind in *releases* by a few weeks or months, but otherwise is the same. 01:31 < lupine> none of the certs are worth anything 01:31 < [R]> CodeBug: if you find a job that says they need it, sure its worth it 01:31 < oiaohm> CodeBug: in the RPM distributions people forgot about Scientific Linux 01:31 < SporkWitch> phogg: i'd dispute that. it depends on how you learn. I agree he is probably not that type, but the type that is good at reading documentation and experimenting can learn a lot starting with something like arch 01:31 < CodeBug> Sci-Linux? 01:31 < ananke> CodeBug: 'worth' is subjective. I personally wouldn't invest in them out of my own pocket, but if your employer pays then go for it 01:31 < lupine> unlike the MS ecosystem, competence matters more than paper 01:31 < phogg> CodeBug: same story as CentOS 01:31 < Arsimael> [R] Have to work with RHEL, it has a 3.X kernel in Release 7... 01:31 < lupine> credentialism is infantilisj 01:31 < [R]> Arsimael: ok... and? 01:31 < CodeBug> haha. Competence does matter. 01:31 < lupine> -j+m 01:31 < lupine> right, and paper does not 01:31 < lupine> credentials in this space are not a guide to competence 01:32 < oiaohm> CodeBug: https://www.scientificlinux.org/ maintained for a few supercomputers because no why in hell are they going to pay redhat prices for super. 01:32 < phogg> CodeBug: Some people will look for certs on your resume. The RH certs are probably good to have if you need that kind of thing. When I look at hiring sysadmins I don't care whether they have certs or not, I can gauge skill by cross examination. 01:32 < Arsimael> We are at 4,15(or16) now? 01:32 < ananke> CodeBug: experience matters. since you have no verifiable experience, that's where certs come in handy 01:32 < [R]> Arsimael: ok... and? 01:32 < SporkWitch> certs have their uses, and not just to the HR department. Earning a cert helps give you a decent skillset to target to learn, and obtaining that cert is proof to YOURSELF that you know how to do a certain set of things. 01:32 < lupine> if anything, I'd bias *against* people with credentials 01:32 < CodeBug> again i'm not trying to start a war. I'm trying to establish a baseline of what to look for so i don't waste time and money 01:32 < Arsimael> sounds pretty old for me 01:32 < lupine> it doesn't though 01:32 < SporkWitch> CodeBug: asked and answered 01:32 < [R]> Arsimael: is there a point? 01:32 < lupine> it just funnels money to the LPI or whoefver 01:32 < phogg> CodeBug: that said I count CompTIA certs on a resume as a sign of a fool. 01:32 < lupine> the credentials are trivial to acquire independent of comptenence 01:33 < lupine> (only spelt correctly) 01:33 < Arsimael> [R], no, just wanted to say the in my point of view I would rater use another distro to learn with 01:33 < CodeBug> competence 01:33 < [R]> Arsimael: use whatever you want... 01:33 < CodeBug> sorry grammar-nazi. 01:33 < lupine> hello whisky 01:33 < [R]> Arsimael: but if your goal is to learn something used in enterprise... and that enterprise is using rhel... 01:33 < lupine> the best way to acquire competence, IME, is just to use it as your daily OS 01:34 < CodeBug> Phogg I kicked a message your way 01:34 < lupine> nothing inspires learning like your own photos being on the line 01:34 < geheimnisse> after seeing the kind of fools who got hired where i work after demonstrating "competence" re: linux during the interview process, i dunno if id trust certs 01:34 < Arsimael> I know.... I have a lot of problems at work with rhel because it's old 01:34 < lupine> bias *against* certs 01:34 < Arsimael> okok, because it uses older versions 01:34 < lupine> people attracted to a certification track are not well-suited to an ecosystem where arbitrary decisions based on ego are the norm 01:34 < ananke> using linux on a normal system for daily work won't give you much experience relevant to proper system administration 01:34 < lupine> sure it will 01:35 < lupine> consider backups 01:35 < ananke> lupine: hardly. what is it going to teach you exactly? 01:35 < phogg> lupine: I endorse everything you're saying, more or less. 01:35 < SporkWitch> not if you're using any fit-for-purpose workstation distro lol 01:35 < lupine> ananke: how to take backups in a linux-dominated ecosystem 01:35 < CodeBug> True but trying to learn how to set that up to necessarily to gain said experience. 01:35 < lupine> this is super-important 01:35 < ananke> lupine: 'backups' for a single system would differ from large scale enterprise 01:35 < lupine> not the case 01:35 < ananke> lupine: sure is 01:35 < lupine> but who has a single system these days anyway? 01:35 < phogg> lupine: starving students? 01:35 < lupine> your average techbro literally bristles with devices 01:35 < phogg> IOW poor people 01:35 < ananke> lupine: it's what you proposed 01:35 < lupine> *literally* 01:36 < ananke> 19:33 lupine> the best way to acquire competence, IME, is just to use it as your daily OS 01:36 < lupine> you can't hug them for fear of tablet evisceration 01:36 * sauvin hides the laptop in his bedroom, the server in the closet, the router by the living room window and just claims to have a desktop in the other corner 01:36 < lupine> ananke: right 01:36 < SporkWitch> most people, and even those with more than one don't generally USE them together, they use the desktop at home and the laptop when they're not, probably using google drive or dropbox to share files between them 01:36 < lupine> that covers tablet, mobile, desktop, laptop and network infra 01:36 < SporkWitch> you COULD set up a home lab environment, but most don't, even those that work in the industry 01:36 < Arsimael> ananke, Yes and no. A desktop OS has a completely different use case then a server 01:36 < phogg> ananke: I certainly wouldn't get certs *first*. Use it as your daily OS, make an effort to understand how it works. 01:36 < lupine> not a lab 01:36 < lupine> just daily use 01:36 < ananke> that's not going to teach you anything about how to do stuff in a repatable manner, any of the SOPs used in production 01:36 < lupine> throw out the proprietary applicances 01:36 < sauvin> lupine, don't forget your WATCH, your microwave and these days, your flipping KITCHEN STOVE! 01:36 < lupine> true 01:37 < ananke> phogg: sure, it helps, but it doesn't address much 01:37 < lupine> replace whatever you can 01:37 < lupine> but be pragmatic - go one at a time, as your skills increase 01:37 < phogg> ananke: It's literally how I learned everything I know, other than also lurking here. 01:37 < ananke> using linux as your daily driver gets you a glorified help desk position. not a seat with the rest of the sysadmins and engineers 01:37 < SporkWitch> lupine: there's a lot of stuff you CAN do to tie stuff together, but it's not comparable to an actual enterprise environment unless you go out of your way to make it one. You're not going to learn policies and general practices. 01:37 < lupine> well, that's not my experience 01:38 < lupine> but I suspect we're not comparing like with like 01:38 < SporkWitch> lupine: want some actual useful experience? Spin up a server and try to replace the services you use already, e.g. kolab to replace google apps 01:38 < lupine> here, we're specifically interested in the advantages of DIY over certification 01:38 < ananke> for example automated deployments and configuration management. that's not something you learn by using linux 01:38 < phogg> SporkWitch: I presume any curious person would do that. 01:38 < lupine> (or disadvantages, if any exist. I can't think of any, but have bias) 01:38 < lupine> ananke: sure it is 01:38 < SporkWitch> phogg: could, but that's very much NOT the "just use it" he's talking about 01:39 < Arsimael> certificates are just saying "This person had this knowledge at this point" - You learn new things and you forget things. 01:39 < geheimnisse> ya so make a home lab and provision some vms to do load balancing and all that fun shit etc etc 01:39 < phogg> SporkWitch: that's where it starts. First you use it exclusively, then you learn. 01:39 < lupine> Arsimael: no, certification literally says "this person had money at this point" 01:39 < ananke> lupine: clearly we have a different view on what constitutes using something as a daily OS 01:39 < Arsimael> hehe, true 01:39 < lupine> ananke: that's ok, we can bridge the gap using dialogue 01:39 < lupine> and, um, whisky 01:39 < Arsimael> a certificate test here costs ~180€ so what money? 01:40 < phogg> Arsimael: that's dirt cheap, most are much more than that 01:40 < SporkWitch> phogg: the one is totally independent of the other. You don't need to use it as your daily driver to learn the things you need to work in the enterprise, and using it as your daily driver doesn't do a damn thing in itself to teach you those things either. You have to go out of your way TO do and learn those things, because if you don't, any fit-for-purpose workstation distro is going to have you 01:40 < lupine> perhaps the difference here lies in what daily activies people tend toward 01:40 < SporkWitch> using it exactly like you do your windows machine, just with fewer crashes 01:40 < lupine> if you're using linux as a glorified web browser server, no, you won't learn anything of interest 01:40 < ananke> I view 'daily OS' as a vehicle for typical daily workload. not means nor a platform for research. 01:40 < Arsimael> phogg, the lessons cost money. Just the testing is quite cheap 01:41 < lupine> if you spend the morning rescuing your mail from a failed drive, on the other hand 01:41 < lupine> now we're talking 01:41 < SporkWitch> Arsimael: depends on the cert, some get pretty expensive 01:41 < phogg> Arsimael: even just the testing I've seen is *typically* 250-500 USD 01:41 < ananke> lupine: problem is, you seem to imply that simple _use_ of linux as a daily OS is equivalent to going the extra mile and researching & testing technologies that are nowhere applicable on a daily OS 01:41 < phogg> Arsimael: some certs require multiple tests, too 01:41 < Arsimael> I had to do the MCP, MCSA, MCSA, CLA and soon the LPIC1,2 and 3 - none of those tests was more than 200€ 01:42 < lupine> ananke: it's a fair criticism 01:42 < Arsimael> *MCSA, MCSE 01:42 < lupine> I should've specified something additional, along the lines of drinking the kool-aid 01:42 < phogg> SporkWitch: If you never give up the crutch of your "real" OS then you are probably not really trying. 01:42 < SporkWitch> lupine: except you're never going to encounter that simply by swapping windows for linux and using it as your daily driver. Encountering that requires you go out of your way to be DOING enterprise type stuff TO learn that stuff, rather than simply using it as normal. You don't need linux as your daily driver for that; you can learn that just as well with a VM 01:42 < Arsimael> To be honest, I did not have to pay for them so... 01:42 < lupine> there is absolutely no point to linux if it just replicates your daily capitalist experience 01:42 < lupine> the benefit of linux is that it allows - perhaps even encourages - you to step outside that 01:43 < phogg> sometimes requires you 01:43 < SporkWitch> phogg: i've been using linux exclusively for over a decade now; there's not a single thing i've learned applicable in the enerprise that wasn't entirely dependent on my going out of my way to figure out what i need TO learn, and learn it. 01:43 < lupine> m m 01:43 < lupine> ("enterprise" stuffi is actively harmful to everything except one's bank balance, FWIW) 01:43 < SporkWitch> phogg: why? Because unless you're going out of your way to find out what you should learn and then learn it, it doesn't matter what OS you're on, you're going to be using it fundamentally the same, and none of it's applicable in the enerprise 01:44 < phogg> SporkWitch: I've been using linux for longer than that and I find that there are things which I learned through the normal course of using linux which are applicable in the enterprise. 01:44 < lupine> TBH being enterprise-applicable is more of a punishment than a feature 01:44 < Arsimael> "Enterprise" means it needs to have a paid for support, and it has to have some sort of "standard" so you can use it on very large environments. 01:44 < phogg> SporkWitch: people who stick with Windows will have a bad mental model for how Linux works. That isn't helping. 01:44 < lupine> "oh no, now I know about linux namespaces I'm going to be forced to fix all these stupid docker bugs", etc 01:44 < Arsimael> and the "support" is not there for helping you, it's there to get sued if something fails miserably 01:44 < CodeBug> so is CentOS easy to install like Debian was 01:45 < phogg> CodeBug: All distributions are easy to install these days 01:45 < CodeBug> figure you'd say that 01:45 < garylabronz> normally i run fedora xfce - with i3wm. i want to mix it up, any recommended distros? aiming for small/fast would be running on an older laptop (x230) 01:46 < [R]> garylabronz: distrowatch has a list of major dists 01:46 < triceratux> CodeBug: the dedoimedo guy says yes https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/centos-7-4-upgrade.html 01:46 < Arsimael> I would like to say "Arch" but then I get slapped 01:46 < phogg> CodeBug: I normally do a Debian minimal install via netinst, so my knowledge of how easy it is probably is abnormal. I remember CentOS being about the same, but it has probably gotten easier too... 01:46 < lupine> centos is easy to install, but supports a narrower range of hardware 01:46 < SporkWitch> phogg: i've been using UNIXes and linuxes for coming up on three decades; i said i've been using it EXCLUSIVELY for over a decade (excluding two practical exams in uni, and work that forced me to use windows). Unless something breaks and you actively TRY to learn, rather than simply getting it working again, you aren't going to learn, especially on modern fit-for-purpose workstation distros. 01:46 < lupine> SporkWitch: only a decade? :( 01:46 < garylabronz> [P]: thanks 01:46 < garylabronz> maybe i'll go BSD :P 01:46 < geheimnisse> garylabronz i have an x240, youll be fine with any modern distro tbh 01:46 < lupine> I swapped exclusively to linux in 2001. life is good 01:46 < phogg> SporkWitch: Apart from work (where I don't always get the choice) I have been using Linux *exclusively* for 16 years. Good enough? 01:46 < geheimnisse> also i use freebsd primarily on my x240 01:47 < garylabronz> oh i expect all distros to work, im not worried about compatibility. more just something different that fedora 01:47 < SporkWitch> lupine: WINE took a complete team change to catch up and be really viable for current games. 01:47 < ananke> the ultimate goal of enterprise is reliability. so yes, it does involve procedures and technologies that many may find mundane or expensive 01:47 < lupine> SporkWitch: I don't really care about people 01:47 < Azrael_-> hi 01:47 < lupine> I don't know where that non-sequitor originates, but since I don't care, all is well 01:47 < phogg> ananke: mostly expensive, because the people who want them have deep pockets 01:48 < [R]> garylabronz: linux is linux 01:48 < SporkWitch> phogg: and i can guarantee that anything you learned was not simply by using it, but by going out of your way to figure things out. Almost none of it applicable in the enterprise thanks to individual machines being a completely different beast than dealing with hundreds 01:48 < [R]> garylabronz: what do you expect to be different? 01:48 < CodeBug> triceratux, can I DM? 01:48 < royal_screwup21> what would be the quickest way to rename the files in a folder? I have a bunch of files inside a folder and I want to rename all of them to a name I have in mind 01:48 < phogg> SporkWitch: My typical "just using it" is obviously not the same as yours. 01:48 < SporkWitch> lupine: wasn't a non-sequitur; you asked why only a decade of exclusively using linux, it's because poor WINE support until relatively recently forced dual-booting. 01:48 < lupine> eh? how? 01:49 < SporkWitch> phogg: your "just using it" is obviously not "just using it" 01:49 < Azrael_-> i think about setting up a nas for my windows-desktop. the best thing i came up with was using samba for connecting both. any other suggestions or e.g. ideas how to provide the option to go back in the time on the files on the share? 01:49 < [R]> royal_screwup21: you want to rename all the files to a single name? just delete them all except one 01:49 < phogg> SporkWitch: I set up samba for sharing with other hosts on the LAN. That proved useful in a real enterprise later. Is it abnormal to set up file sharing on a home network? Not part of "just using it"? 01:49 < ananke> royal_screwup21: perhaps 'rename' utility 01:49 < SporkWitch> lupine: because if the thing you want to use doesn't run in WINE, you're left with windows 01:49 < lupine> "oh no people are forcing me to use windows-only software" 01:49 < triceratux> CodeBug: ive got that stuff turned off. the channel is fine 01:49 < lupine> said nobody 01:49 < lupine> ever 01:49 < garylabronz> well like nixos seems a little different, maybe the ideals of the distro. eg debian vs ubunutu 01:49 < CodeBug> lol. 01:49 < ananke> phogg: in enterprise that would be just a piece of the puzzle 01:49 < lupine> my every use of wine is for optional activity 01:50 < clearine> garylabronz: try qubes 01:50 < Arsimael> wasn't nixos using an own language to configure stuff? 01:50 < [R]> Azrael_-: i use dirvish to provide "previous versions" support to windows 01:50 < phogg> ananke: Yes it was, but it was a piece I had experience with. It helped to know something about it already. 01:50 < lupine> most recently, a DX11 game I didn't even enjoy much 01:50 < geheimnisse> tbh if you want to work with linux do fedora because at leasts you will be familiar with environment even if it is not cent/rhel exactly 01:50 < SporkWitch> lupine: what are you even on about? if i want to play DCS (the best, not to mention one of the only even decent, combat flight sims on the market) I need windows. So yeah, I could skip a great game, or i can suck it up and deal with some windows. For example. Regardless, you asked, i answered. 01:50 < phogg> ananke: something I had to learn just to be able to use Linux as my daily OS was valuable in an enterprise environment years later. 01:50 < lupine> obviously, I pirated it to chek 01:50 < lupine> SporkWitch: are you an airline pilot? 01:50 < CodeBug> well i've started a small rioting war in here triceratux over a simple question about linux distros. Mainly CentOS vs Debian vs Ubuntu. I'm looking to be a Linux Sys Admin and get certified and so far i've heard that most certs are useless in favor of exp. 01:50 < ananke> phogg: in enterprise you'd have to tie that with your central authentication system, you'd have craft setup appropriate for the current organizational chart, you'd have to tie in granting/revoking access with your onboarding/offboarding processes, etc 01:51 < SporkWitch> lupine: no, i'm someone that grew up on and loves combat flight sims 01:51 < lupine> sorry, military pilot 01:51 < lupine> right, so this is optional activity 01:51 < SporkWitch> lupine: was USAF, but not a pilot 01:51 < Azrael_-> [R]: this project seems to be dead, no updates since 2014 01:51 < lupine> it is in no sense required of you 01:51 < [R]> Azrael_-: why does it need to be updated? 01:51 < lupine> you simply choose to prioritize enjoyment over principles 01:51 < SporkWitch> lupine: whether it's optional or not is irrelevant; you asked why i didn't use linux exclusively, i told you: if i want to play that game, i had to use windows. 01:51 < phogg> ananke: I tied it to a central authentication system, too (but not at first), because it was easier. Most people won't do that, I admit. For onboarding/offboarding there's not much equivalent. 01:51 < ananke> phogg: while it helps, problem is that this often falls short of what's required. and setting up samba is rather an unusual exercise for a daily driver OS 01:51 < Azrael_-> [R]: fair point :) thanks for the tip, will take a look 01:52 < SporkWitch> lupine: principles aren't a factor, you want to suck stallman's dick that's between you and him. 01:52 < lupine> I'm pretty sure I never asked anything of the kind 01:52 < phogg> ananke: It's really not. I have a file on one computer that I need on another. One computer is a family members' Windows box. What do I do? What does anyone do? Sneakernet? 01:52 < lupine> whatever deviancies you choose to get up to in your own time are up to you 01:52 < garylabronz> i migrated our from ubuntu -> centos 01:52 < garylabronz> our org* 01:52 < SporkWitch> lupine: luckily for your apparently goldfish-like memory, the chat log has your question above 01:53 < Azrael_-> [R]: looks pretty much like rsnapshot 01:53 < SporkWitch> garylabronz: for servers or workstations? 01:53 < lupine> it's ok for me to be sad about something 01:53 < lupine> you shouldn't let that sway your priorities 01:53 < phogg> ananke: keeping in mind that this was in the days before ubiquitous, high-capacity USB flash drives. I could have used CD-Rs a lot, I guess. 01:54 < lupine> you don't even know me beyond random ebcdic utterances 01:54 < garylabronz> servers, everyone uses OSX for workstations 01:54 < lupine> no they don't 01:54 < SporkWitch> garylabronz: good call; ubuntu is a big piggish for servers 01:54 < SporkWitch> s/big/bit/ 01:54 < ananke> phogg: in a homogenuous environment it's trival, whether it's osx or windows. mixed environment is a different beast, and these days people tend to use NAS devices. either way, those are tasks beyond _typical_ end user activities 01:54 < phogg> SporkWitch: In 2003 I decided that any game I couldn't run with wine or natively was a game I didn't *really* want to play. It's still true today. 01:55 < SporkWitch> phogg: don't get me started on central auth. My lastpass vault has more entries for work-related credentials than all of my personal stuff combined. 01:55 < lupine> the ideal solution is to devolve workstation admin to the user 01:55 < lupine> then debian for everything else 01:55 < ananke> phogg: so for a daily os argument, samba setup seems like a great example of what one may learn. problem is, it's an outlier. 01:55 < SporkWitch> phogg: i agree with a few exceptions. DCS is one of those that's good enough to warrant an exception. Anything indie or kickstarted? no linux == no money 01:55 < phogg> ananke: I never said they were *typical* end user activities! I was contradicting the assertion that "*NOTHING* I learned as part of just using Linux as my daily OS was applicable to the enterprise." It's not true, I learned a few things (that was one example). 01:56 < phogg> SporkWitch: My online password manager is similarly afflicted. My company requires separate logins to their timesheet, web-HR and email systems. 01:56 < lupine> the vasty majority of the tiem people spend on computers is, simply, wasted 01:56 < SporkWitch> phogg: and what we're saying is that your "normal daily use" is NOT normal daily use, it's explicitly going out of your way to do and learn things that might be applicable in an enterprise environment. 01:56 < ananke> phogg: I'm not sure anybody has made such bold and absolute statement that nothing would be applicable. more like 'vast majority' of tasks on a daily driver OS are not applicable 01:57 < phogg> SporkWitch: I completely disagree. It's normal to share files on a LAN in the home. Absolutely normal, everyone I know does that. 01:57 < phogg> ananke: I am paraphrasing something SporkWitch said. 01:57 < SporkWitch> phogg: makes no sense to me; one of the ONLY "good" things about a windows domain is centralized authentication with LDAP/AD, and it's fairly trivial to get linux systems to auth against AD 01:57 < [R]> phogg: sounds kinky 01:57 < phogg> SporkWitch: It makes perfect sense: they're fuckups. 01:57 < SporkWitch> phogg: the other 99% of the population throws it on dropbox or a flash drive 01:58 < phogg> SporkWitch: *NOW* they do, but not in 2002! 01:58 < SporkWitch> phogg: well yes, that goes without saying; that's what happens when you let managers make tech decisions lol 01:58 < SporkWitch> phogg: in 2002 they emailed them 01:58 < phogg> SporkWitch: That's what you get when you let non-technical people hire sysadmins. 01:58 < Azrael_-> SpoF95_: flash drives? they aren't allowed to put into a machine, too risky to bring some infection! 01:58 < Azrael_-> ups, meant SporkWitch 01:58 < phogg> SporkWitch: Large files? Over dialup? Are you kidding? 01:58 < SporkWitch> Azrael_-: the argument was enterprise-applicable learning in "normal home use of a workstation" 01:59 < lupine> dialup 01:59 < lupine> aka art project 01:59 < lupine> kssssssssssssssssssssh 01:59 < phogg> SporkWitch: the argument was whether "just" switching to Linux for your daily OS would lead to learning anything of use in the enterprise! It did for *me*. 02:00 < SporkWitch> phogg: 1) you've already conceded that now people just use a flashdrive or dropbox, and the entire context of this discussion only makes sense for NOW since this entire argument stems from the suggestion to "just use it on your workstation" NOW to learn useful stuff to be a sysadmin in the real world. 02:00 < jmerizia> quit 02:00 < SporkWitch> phogg: again, what you learned is a result of going out of your way, not normal use 02:00 < phogg> SporkWitch: *our* disagreement stems from the point where I said "I disagree that it can't help, it helped me" and you suggested that it had not. 02:01 < SporkWitch> phogg: 2) in 2002, yes, they typically emailed it or slapped it on a cdr 02:01 < SporkWitch> phogg: you've effectively admitted that it did not, because every example you gave was of going out of your way to learn stuff generally only applicable in a home network. In an enterprise environment you aren't generally going to be using samba, you're going to be working with NFS or similar CAPABLE solutions 02:02 < phogg> SporkWitch: If you stop trying to imply that I'm saying something untrue about my own experiences then we can be shut of this whole useless debate, I can keep believing that using Linux as your daily OS helps and you can continue believing the opposite. 02:02 < SporkWitch> SMB is a nightmare on a home network, i've never even heard of someone trying to use that garbage at scale 02:02 < phogg> SporkWitch: SMB, or rather CIFS, at scale is terribly normal. 02:03 < [R]> scales? 02:03 < SporkWitch> phogg: i'm saying that your characterization of your experiences is misleading. You've as much as admitted that you learned by going out of your way to set up things that MIGHT be applicable, that most people don't. 02:03 < phogg> Because Windows clients are also terribly normal. 02:03 < [R]> are you guys drug dealers? 02:03 < geheimnisse> no but i used to do a lot of drugs 02:03 < phogg> SporkWitch: I went out of my way for a lot of things, but not samba. Samba I *had* to do, because my Windows workstation was already normally talking to others on the LAN. I had to keep doing that. 02:04 < ananke> I think we all can agree on is that samba sucks :) 02:04 < SporkWitch> phogg: if you're using SMB, instead of mapped network drives, in an enterprise environment, you are very wrong. 02:04 < geheimnisse> yes f*** samba 02:04 < phogg> SporkWitch: I don't know what you think SMB is, but in Windows "mapped network drives" are using CIFS and if the server is Linux talking to Samba. 02:04 < ananke> every 6 months we have to 'fix' things, because samba introduces backwards incompatible changes 02:04 < phogg> or you maybe installed an NFS client on Windows, but you probably didn't 02:05 < SporkWitch> phogg: and for that matter, even THAT is falling out of favor disturbingly rapidly, being replaced with things like sharepoint (yes, managers actually think sharepoint is a viable replacement for proper shared drives and network-based home folders) 02:05 < geheimnisse> o pardon-moi f*** cifs 02:05 < phogg> SporkWitch: I wish people used Sharepoint as a shared drive! That's all it's good for anyway. 02:05 < SporkWitch> phogg: now you're just trolling; it's abysmal for that or any other purpose 02:05 < phogg> SporkWitch: I keep having to talk people off the ledge where they're talking about building *applications* on top of sharepoint. 02:06 < phogg> SporkWitch: if they *only* wanted to use it as a kind of webdav I'd be much happier. 02:07 < lupine> the clear solution is to not use cifs 02:07 < SporkWitch> phogg: you do realize that Windows is capable of network storage solutions that don't involve the abortion that is SMB, right? 02:07 < phogg> Anyway, it's not samba that sucks. It's Microsoft and their stack of insane protocols. Samba is trying its best to keep up. 02:07 < lupine> users don't, generally speaking, want to use preparation h 02:07 < lupine> they want the burning to cease 02:07 < SporkWitch> no, SMB definitely sucks, MSFT just makes it even worse that it is to begin with lol 02:08 < lupine> if you see the distinction 02:08 < lupine> although devolving all these concerns to the user makes the life of the organisation so much easier 02:08 < phogg> SporkWitch: I didn't say SMB doesn't suck, just that samba doesn't. I would not choose any *other* SMB server implementation. 02:09 < luxio> what are some FLOSS solutions for voice/video chat + screen sharing? 02:09 < phogg> luxio: Depending on what you're doing maybe look at OBS Studio 02:09 < phogg> for the screen sharing part, that is. 02:09 < SporkWitch> phogg: "samba doesn't suck, but the thing it's built around does"; can i use poop instead of potatoes to make your mashed potatoes? I mean, sure, the poop sucks, but the complete meal doesn't 02:10 < Azrael_-> luxio: if you find something good, please also tell me 02:10 < phogg> SporkWitch: It's not as if samba could do something different, be better and still do its job of supporting those protocols. 02:10 < clearine> luxio: riot 02:10 < geheimnisse> does the poop taste like potatoes? 02:10 < SporkWitch> geheimnisse: i was using his logic. 02:10 < phogg> SporkWitch: You mean to say "SMB sucks, therefore anything supporting it is bad for perpetuating the use of the protocol" 02:10 < geheimnisse> you didnt answer the question 02:10 < dannylee> ask your dog 02:11 < SporkWitch> phogg: if you start with poop as your base, all you're doing is polishing a turd. If you accept that SMB sucks, then so does samba, by definition. are there worse implementations? Probably, but it still sucks. 02:11 < geheimnisse> my dog does not engage in coprophagia 02:12 < treefrob> luxio, I wouldn't look at telegram. it seems too fishy to me 02:12 < SporkWitch> phogg: you could say that, yes, but that's not even the argument i'm making. i'm pointing out the fact that SMB sucks (which you've acknowledged) and as samba's entire purpose is SMB, it also sucks by the transitive property 02:12 < phogg> SporkWitch: I am not nor have I ever been attempting to defend SMB on any level. I am defending Samba as a wonderful alternative to running Windows servers, or anything else which also supports SMB. 02:12 < SporkWitch> phogg: know a better alternative? Don't use SMB. 02:12 < phogg> SporkWitch: Sometimes you do not have a choice. 02:12 < geheimnisse> CoprophagicSMBd 02:13 < geheimnisse> it means smbd that eats shit 02:13 < phogg> SporkWitch: you can only choose between suck and fail, so I choose suck. At least it's easier to fix. 02:14 < nolsen> I'm trying to configure my new 5.2Ghz wireless adapter to be used as a portable speedy wifi AP, but I'm only get link speeds of 72Mbps, lower in real world, and I can't find anything recent online on how to tune hostapd for 5Ghz. 02:14 < Azrael_-> phogg: the only small disadvantage of samba was the small security problem recently when acting as ad-server :) 02:14 < SporkWitch> i can't do this anymore; you've repeatedly admitted that what you learned wasn't from normal use 02:15 < phogg> SporkWitch: I have done nothing of the kind. You are having an argument against a straw man. 02:15 < nolsen> SporkWitch: SMB isn't completely awful. 02:16 < nolsen> Windows support for NFS is awful. 02:16 < treefrob> can we talk about how nice the cloud is, or something? 02:16 < lupine> no 02:16 < SporkWitch> nolsen: slow, poor security, nightmare to set up at the best of times, worse in heterogeneous environments, "noisy" 02:16 < lupine> cloud=scum 02:17 < SporkWitch> phogg: that's why i can't keep going with you; you've repeatedly admitted it and STILL CAN"T SEE IT. There can be no progress made with such a complete and utter lack of self-awareness. 02:17 < SporkWitch> treefrob: the cloud is other people's computers; when you hear someone say cloud, your first reaction should be to punch them squarely in the face 02:17 < treefrob> how about what great things Robert Mugabe has done for Zimbabwe? 02:17 < lupine> my straw is your straw 02:18 < lupine> it's al flammable 02:18 < lupine> treefrob: he's actually done a lot of good to zimbabwe 02:18 < lupine> the issue is that good deeds don't cancel out bad ones 02:18 < lupine> it's not like donating to cancer charities in any sense cancels out choking infants to death 02:19 < royal_screwup21> I have a bunch of folders, each with a few files. I wrote a bash script to ls over all folders like so: https://thepasteb.in/p/mwh1YwDXAK7T5 the problem, it's showing the contents of just one folder, not all of them. What am I doing wrong? 02:19 < treefrob> ok ok, how about the advantages of nuclear proliferation? 02:19 < lupine> none 02:19 < lupine> MAD is nuts 02:19 < lupine> although if the US didn't like me, I'd certainly try to find nukes 02:19 < Arsimael> MAD? the German military secret service? 02:20 < SporkWitch> royal_screwup21: what are you ACTUALLY trying to do? because that script is daft 02:21 < stevendale> Hey 02:21 < phogg> SporkWitch: Because I switched to Linux as my daily OS I had to set up samba to retain the same functionality I had previously had on Windows. Because I did that I was familiar with samba which later proved useful in an enterprise environment. You said "and i can guarantee that anything you learned was not simply by using it, but by going out of your way to figure things out," but in order to "just use" Linux as I had been using Windows I had t 02:21 < phogg> o set up samba. You can gnash your teeth all you like and talk about "going out of my way" and "typical use" but the facts remain. In order for me to continue normal use I needed it, so I learned it. It doesn't matter what most people would have done then, or would do now, or whether SMB is good or bad or whether using file sharing on a home LAN is typical or not, or even whether a user such as myself today would learn a similarly useful thing 02:21 < phogg> today merely as a natural side effect of switching to Linux as a daily OS. 02:21 < stevendale> Nuclear launch detected. 02:21 < CodeBug> how come dd leaves my terminal in a constant blinking cursor state yet my drive that i'm dd'ing to shows empty stilL? 02:22 < sauvin> royal_screwup21, I'd have used find 02:22 < phogg> SporkWitch: tl;dr *stop beating up your straw man*, he's getting thin 02:22 < [R]> CodeBug: what? 02:22 < CodeBug> one sec..using pastebin to show what code i put into my terminal. 02:22 < SporkWitch> phogg: yes, i'm aware that you've convinced yourself that your non-standard use is normal use; this is why this cannot continue. 02:22 < treefrob> royal_screwup21, have a script execute "cd" is something I avoid. Have you ever looked at Perl or Python? 02:23 < phogg> SporkWitch: I didn't *NEED TO* convince myself of that because that is *NOT WHAT I AM TRYING TO CLAIM*. 02:23 < CodeBug> [R], I used sudo dd if=CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1708.iso of=/dev/sdd , which sdd is my USB 02:23 < stevendale> SCV ready 02:23 < Arsimael> royal_screwup21, go to the root folder which contains all folder you want to scan and type ~$ find . -type f 02:23 < [R]> CodeBug: ok... 02:23 < SporkWitch> phogg: not an english speaker then, got it; i'll chalk your confusion up to a poor understanding of english 02:23 < ryouma> i'm watching a video on the web, and it is much too soft, even with computer volume at max and video volume at max. what can i do to increase volume? 02:23 < phogg> SporkWitch: English speaker, born and raised! 02:23 < SporkWitch> phogg: i'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, here 02:23 < CodeBug> yet my terminal asked for pw. I gave it and now its on a separate line blinking and yet my usb is blank still? 02:23 < ananke> CodeBug: how are you determining that the destination drive 'shows empty still'? 02:24 < lupine> nuclear doctrine 02:24 < lupine> if you're not familiar with it, you're not worth discussing the topic with 02:24 < [R]> CodeBug: what do you mean its "blank" 02:24 < CodeBug> I used the files and folders to see what was in the drive 02:24 < phogg> SporkWitch: I cannot be saying anything untrue because I am *merely* providing a narrative of events. 02:24 < stevendale> Wanna piece o' me boi 02:24 < [R]> CodeBug: you can't have somethign mounted if you are ovewriting it with dd 02:24 < CodeBug> nothing is showing written toit. 02:24 < CodeBug> hrm. 02:24 < CodeBug> that makes complete utter sense. 02:24 < threexc> gimme somethin' to shoot 02:24 < SporkWitch> phogg: a narrative that doesn't fall in line with normal use, but entails going out of your way to learn things of questionable enterprise applicability 02:24 < CodeBug> seriously 02:24 < ananke> CodeBug: uhmm, what? you tried to mount the device while dumping blocks to it? 02:24 < CodeBug> :( yes 02:25 < phogg> SporkWitch: *WHO CARES* whether my life events align with normal use?! You keep harping on that, but it's immaterial. 02:25 < ryouma> ok too much xunil here 02:25 < ryouma> goin' to debian channel 02:25 < CodeBug> was trying to copy CentOS dvd iso to the usb and i mounted it 02:25 < CodeBug> :( 02:25 < SporkWitch> phogg: your entire argument hinges on normal use; the entire counter argument is that normal use is not in itself useful, you must go out of your way to teach yourself, which you did and admitted. 02:25 < lupine> normal use is inimical to health and wellbeing 02:25 < lupine> just sayinf 02:26 < phogg> SporkWitch: YOUR argument hinges on normal use. MY argument hinges on a describing a sequence of events. 02:26 < SporkWitch> phogg: then you're trying to shift goalposts, because your clear starting position was "just use linux as your daily driver" (paraphrasing) 02:26 < lupine> SporkWitch: that was my starting position, not phogg's 02:26 < Arsimael> [R], actually... you can mount a drive and dd it.... 02:27 < [R]> Arsimael: if you want things to get corrupted, sure 02:27 < lupine> -oremount,ro 02:27 < phogg> SporkWitch: I *recommend* using Linux as your daily OS, because you will be more likely to learn it properly that way. I was attempting to counter your assertion that this won't help by providing an anecdote from my own life describing a case where it did. 02:27 < royal_screwup21> why lupine, why? I was just about to get some popcorn ;) 02:27 < SporkWitch> lupine: if that's the case then i may owe phogg an apology and it would explain the accusation of a strawman. I was under the impression he was supporting your position. 02:27 < lupine> :p 02:27 < Arsimael> [R], I was not talking about getting a working solution :D 02:27 < phogg> SporkWitch: I am not trying to suggest that my anecdote is typical. 02:27 < ryouma> :) 02:27 < lupine> it's very rare for someone to support my positions 02:27 < geheimnisse> thats what she said 02:28 < lupine> I haven't read everything, but I assume it's not happening here 02:28 < SporkWitch> phogg: then your position is the same; simply using it will not in itself help with the goal. It requires what you admitted repeatedly: going out of your way to learn 02:28 < lupine> ...going in and out of your way to learn 02:29 < phogg> SporkWitch: I disagree on whether it *requires* going out of your way as a user may find that to accomplish things he would normally do he *MUST* learn, as I found I must. But this is a disagreement only in degree not in material. 02:29 < lupine> it depends on the level of kool-aid you take 02:29 < stevendale> Hi I'm on XP 02:29 < cmj> purple 02:29 < phogg> lupine: I lick the bottom of the cup 02:29 < spammcoin> extra purple 02:29 < stevendale> Does anyone want my public IP 02:29 < lupine> people who use linux as a web browser driver (think chromeos) are in an objectively worse situation than most windows users 02:29 < cmj> welcome to freenode 02:29 < SporkWitch> phogg: your example is decided not a normal user doing what he'd normally do. a normal user isn't going to bugger about with network file sharing on the LAN. Your normal user doesn't even do that between windows machines on a LAN, even with the "homespace" thing that started in win7 doing all the heavy lifting 02:30 < lupine> it's easy to say "so don't do that then", but it's not as if they're all listening 02:30 < geheimnisse> purple drank. ima grip and syzzip 02:30 < phogg> lupine: People who forgo understanding how computers work are always in a worse situation than those who do not. 02:30 < cmj> what did i … walk into? 02:30 < SporkWitch> stevendale: we already have it; go to #freenode and request a cloak 02:30 < sauvin> SporkWitch, phogg, it'd be cheaper and probably a lot more fun if you two would buy a couple bottles of champagne and get a room. 02:30 < lupine> mostly rampant priapism 02:30 < geheimnisse> cmj drunk irc on a Sunday 02:30 < lupine> phogg: sure, the point is that linux is not a panacea 02:30 < phogg> SporkWitch: I do not agree with your assessment of what is normal. But, I also try not to pay attention to such things these days. 02:31 < lupine> LaaS is no better than Waas 02:31 < SporkWitch> phogg: reality doesn't require your agreement. 02:31 < phogg> SporkWitch: Reality is as it is perceived. 02:31 < stevendale> SporkWitch xD 02:31 < lupine> its only value is in the opportunities it provides people to escape from capitalism 02:31 < phogg> The majority agreement is real, the minority is crazy 02:31 < lupine> o/ 02:31 < stevendale> Have fun with the 1500 ms delay before you get a response for a 64 byte ping 02:31 < SporkWitch> that's not how reality works, but if you think that it does explain a lot 02:32 < phogg> lupine: you should probably not mix whiskey and IRC 02:32 < geheimnisse> lupine my job takes my mind off the ever soul crushing reality of capitalism 02:32 < sauvin> SporkWitch, phogg, get a room. 02:32 < lupine> this isn't whisky 02:32 < SporkWitch> royal_screwup21: i saw several people offer suggestions, but you never answered when i asked what your actual end goal was 02:32 < lupine> it's fram anglesey 02:32 < phogg> SporkWitch: Well now we're in to philosophy, where I acknowledge that there are few agreements. But, what I described is certainly one view. 02:32 < cmj> i came here from #politics to get some fresh air 02:32 < lupine> regardless, it's true 02:32 < sauvin> Solipsism, much? :D 02:33 < lupine> the esr school of linux is bankrupt 02:33 < lupine> the rms school is ascendant 02:33 < phogg> cmj: chose a bad time for it, eh? 02:33 < geheimnisse> Do Support Techs Dream of Dedicated Servers? 02:33 < lupine> no, they dream of KPIs 02:33 < phogg> geheimnisse: No! 02:33 < cmj> phogg: seems so. time for a walk. 02:33 < lupine> 7 minutes/call, etc 02:33 < geheimnisse> phogg i do 02:33 < phogg> cmj: seems like it's wound down, now 02:33 < SporkWitch> well there's not much point continuing a discussion with someone that doesn't admit the existence of reality lol 02:34 < SporkWitch> after all, you're just a brain in a vat and none of us are real lol 02:34 < sauvin> SporkWitch, oh, you are so very young. 02:34 < cmj> i just wanted to point out, whoever is using fresh-off-the-press linux, there has been major intel firmware updates. 02:34 < phogg> SporkWitch: Oh, it exists. Reality is what I perceive, obviously, everybody ELSE is crazy. 02:34 < SporkWitch> sauvin: i rest my case ^ lol 02:34 < sauvin> On what? 02:35 < cmj> so if things aren't working (iwlwifi) get the git firmware code and update /lib/firmware 02:35 < SporkWitch> sauvin: you can't have a meaningful discussion with someone that things perception is LITERALLY reality lol 02:35 < SporkWitch> s/things/thinks/ 02:35 < cmj> somewhat old news, but thought i'd share if that comes up 02:35 < cmj> (this week) 02:35 < phogg> SporkWitch: I could demonstrate the truth of this in seven steps, but I think we've had enough for one night. 02:35 < sauvin> If you can't see, hear, taste, touch or smell it, does that mean it doesn't exist? 02:35 < lupine> sauvin: no 02:35 < phogg> sauvin: *maybe* 02:35 < SporkWitch> phogg: the entire position falls apart with a single drop of LSD 02:35 < lupine> we know that many unobservables do exist 02:36 < cmj> i dated a therapist. it 'exists' 02:36 < nolsen> I'm trying to configure my new 5.2Ghz wireless adapter to be used as a portable speedy wifi AP, but I'm only get link speeds of 72Mbps, lower in real world, and I can't find anything recent online on how to tune hostapd for 5Ghz. 02:36 < cmj> ok, about that walk. pax 02:36 < geheimnisse> im at a bar thats playing matchbox 20. i feel like it's 1995 and im at a skating rink 02:36 < phogg> SporkWitch: Not after the third step it doesn't. 02:36 < lupine> further, we have > 5 senses, and technological devices ot increase the range of our sensing further still 02:36 < SporkWitch> nolsen: what standard is it? 802.11G? N? AC? 02:36 < phogg> SporkWitch: anyway, I didn't say it's true necessarily. I said that it's one philosophical view on reality. 02:36 < sauvin> And still I fear we have many depths left to plumb. One of these depths is in our own bad selves. 02:37 < nolsen> SporkWitch: AC 02:38 < nolsen> If I try to set the hw_mode in hostapd to ac, it finds it "invalid" 02:38 < dannylee> there only four type of people...good bad smart an dumb.. 02:38 < SporkWitch> nolsen: how many clients to hit that 72Mbps? just one? when using it in client mode do you get normal AC speeds? 02:38 < nolsen> SporkWitch: It's faster I think when it's client mode 02:39 < lupine> non sequiter par excellence 02:39 < phogg> SporkWitch: If you take 50 people from a warm, beachy part of the world and 50 who live in the arctic circle and ask each one "Is it normal to wear sandals?" You would probably get some disagreement (about half and half). If you sample 90% from the beaches instead you'd get an obvious majority agreement. Is it *objectively true* that wearing sandals is normal, or does it depend on who you ask? 02:39 < SporkWitch> nolsen: how much faster, though? the 802.11AC radio in my laptop has hit as much as 600Mbps on speedtest with an Asus AC-3100 router almost directly below (one floor down) and a 1Gbps downstream fibre connection 02:40 < nolsen> SporkWitch: That I cannot properly test because of our ancient wireless router. 02:40 < nolsen> So I'm just going to configure one 02:40 < nolsen> instead of buying one 02:40 < nolsen> kek 02:40 < SporkWitch> nolsen: fair enough; suspect it's probably a driver issue if i had to guess, if it's saying AC is invalid 02:40 < nolsen> Though I did leave driver= blank 02:41 < cmj> mac80211? 02:41 < SporkWitch> phogg: holy shit! you mean terrible methodology delivers inaccurate results? who'd ever have guessed?! 02:42 < nolsen> SporkWitch: Right now, hw_mode=a. 02:42 < cmj> speaking of which, there is a speedtest python tool which is fun 02:43 < lupine> related: https://voe.social/system/media_attachments/files/000/088/947/original/15e87e2c11057a46.jpeg 02:43 < cmj> speedtest-cli 02:44 < nolsen> cmj: I have my own internal speedtest, that I built on my server. 02:44 < nolsen> I use it to test the LAN speed. 02:44 < nolsen> s/built/configured 02:44 < cmj> i'm also mentioning to the channel 02:44 < cmj> nolsen: yes|netcat? 02:44 < cmj> ;p 02:45 < nolsen> no 02:45 < nolsen> wait what's netcat 02:45 < nolsen> No I use this https://github.com/adolfintel/speedtest 02:45 < sauvin> Phogg, not everybody can think outside his own box. In fact, very few people can. I'd suggest shelving it. 02:48 < cmj> nolsen: http://deice.daug.net/netcat_speed.html 02:48 < cmj> it's mostly for silly fun 02:48 < cmj> they ship a fancy irc script with netcat too 02:49 < cmj> yes|nc cfms5-p 2222 >/dev/null 02:50 < cmj> anyways. crickets 02:52 < SporkWitch> sauvin: not everyone is interested in a discussion about useless philosophical tripe; that philosophy is all well and good for White Wolf's Mage game and its consensus-defined reality, it has no place in the real world unless we really ARE brains in vats (itself a useless assumption, because if true and we really can't know anything then it's all so much masturbation anyway) 02:53 < LjL> what if i like masturbation 02:54 < SporkWitch> 3 fundamental assumptions: 1) reality exists, 2) it's possible to learn things about reality, 3) models of reality with accurate predictive power are more useful than those without. If you don't have those, then there's no point discussing it since it's all arbitrary anyway 02:56 < ryouma> i'm trying to figure out what would it mean for reality not to exist here? 02:56 < SporkWitch> ryouma: the usual example is the brains-in-vats thing 02:56 < ryouma> ah 02:56 < ryouma> well i call that reality 02:57 < SporkWitch> ryouma: it goes in line with the whole "it's what you perceive" bunk; if that's the case then it's all pointless because there's nothing stopping the rules from changing arbitrarily or suddenly 02:58 < SporkWitch> ryouma: could argue that the stuff that happens in a dream is reality, by that argument; dreams may be real, as in they are a describable phenomenon that exists, but the stuff happening in them, that you perceive, is not 02:59 < agris> how do you respond to `linux software` vendors that say they will only support their software installed on Ubuntu despite you paying them for support? 02:59 < agris> Their `support` being refusing the do any debugging until i replace prod with Ubuntu 02:59 < SporkWitch> agris: read your SLA 02:59 < SporkWitch> agris: i get customers all the time that want us to support stuff we don't explicitly support; you're welcome to use what you want, but what we support is THIS 02:59 < [R]> agris: i thats what you agreed to... 03:00 < triceratux> agris: be thankful ubuntu exists at all, otherwise the vendor would have no platform to target whatsoever 03:00 < stevendale> Windows 10 should be offered as a free downgrade from Linux 03:00 < stevendale> xD 03:01 < CompanionCube> agris: did you buy knowing they only supported ubuntu knowing you don't use it 03:01 < SporkWitch> agris: if distros other than ubuntu aren't supported by the vendor, your best bet is to be polite and understanding and ask for whatever potentially-useful information they CAN give you. That's what I usually do when a customer wants to use some device we dont' support: i provide the documentation and configuration instructions for the third-party devices we DO support and give some general 03:01 < SporkWitch> advice / quirks that i've encountered. It's up to them to try to adapt it to what they're trying to use. 03:01 < agris> I purchased the software reading `Ubuntu Recommended` not Ubuntu mandatory 03:02 < SporkWitch> agris: and it might not be mandatory, but that doesn't mean they SUPPORT other distros. 03:02 < [R]> well, sounds ke you should have talked to them more 03:02 < [R]> before paying for somethign 03:02 < agris> I asked them to at least tell me what the proprietary dump file says is wrong and maybe tell me how to debug the issue myself 03:03 < SporkWitch> youch, you can't even read the crashdump? :( 03:04 < pnbeast> agris, I think I'd respond by saying "your software doesn't do what I need so I'm not paying you for support any more". 03:04 < SporkWitch> if you're unfortunate enough to have a support tech that just clammed up entirely after admitting you weren't on ubuntu, it might be worth opening a new, separate ticket, not mention it, and just ask for what the crashdump says 03:05 < agris> I'm wondering if anyone has any experience dealing with things like this and what they did about it 03:05 < [R]> agris: i've used the supported os 03:05 < SporkWitch> ... did i not just give several examples? lol 03:05 < agris> if there's something easier than firing up radare and attempting to reverse engineer the software 03:05 < [R]> using the supported os... 03:06 < SporkWitch> maybe try putting it in a docker container, if you really can't install a ubuntu host? 03:06 < agris> SporkWitch, good idea 03:07 < SporkWitch> i've given you several good ideas; you seem to have ignored the rest lol 03:09 < agris> SporkWitch, i sent that delayed 03:10 < SporkWitch> agris: just saying, though, you really should read the SLA before paying for support. It's not feasible for the vendor to test every possible situation. I work for a VoIP company. We see customers all the time talking about how headset X doesn't work with the softphone client; okay, that sucks, but we can't test every headset out there, especially since the issue could be the headset, windows 03:11 < agris> yeah, looks like I've learned the hard way this time. =P 03:11 < SporkWitch> itself, or a host of other stuff. So what do we do? "do you have a USB-wired headset we can test with?" Make sure it's working there, check a couple known issues (like disabling "exclusive mode" in windows audio settings), and then apologize and direct them to the headset vendor. We just can't test and support it all, it's not feasible. 03:12 < SporkWitch> (what makes it worse is when the headset vendor says "works with [our product]" and then the customer tries to blame us, as if we're the ones claiming it works, heh; i feel for them, but there's only so much we can do) 03:14 < diogenese> I feel for you 03:18 < rcmaehl_webchat> Okay so can someone explain the beep package RCE issue for me? 03:18 < rcmaehl_webchat> It only affects Debian or it affects all distros? 03:19 < pnbeast> [R], you're a beep package. 03:19 < [R]> pnbeast: your mom was beeping last night 03:20 < SporkWitch> [R]: was it when she was backing up? :P lol 03:20 < pnbeast> Her battery was low; I forgot to plug her in. 03:20 < [R]> SporkWitch: oh snap 03:20 < rcmaehl_webchat> No like beep is using root access and doing a bunch of denial of service and other sketch stuff 03:21 < rcmaehl_webchat> and I'm trying to see if some of my machines are affected 03:21 < [R]> why do you even have beep installed? 03:22 < rcmaehl_webchat> not gonna lie, shitty musical bash scripts 03:22 < triceratux> [R]: youre an installed beep 03:22 * [R] shakes his head 03:22 < [R]> just assume it's broken 03:22 < [R]> problem solved 03:23 < hratt> Did you do that Zelda thing? Supposed to be a song or something but jus messed up most things 03:24 < [R]> i'm sure its just something idiotic 03:24 < SporkWitch> the only musical scriptiness you need is cat /vmlinuz > /dev/audio 03:24 < rcmaehl_webchat> hratt: I don't have any zelda ones but I do have "Still alive" and Smashmouth 03:25 < hratt> That's actually just made me a little jeleaous 03:28 < dannylee> 2018 is going to be a great years for hackers..maybe a cyber war... 03:31 < stupid-1> i`m just a little bit stupid..you guys are great 03:31 < rcmaehl_webchat> stupid-1: replybait af 03:31 < spammcoin> stupid-1: are you good at cyber? 03:32 < stupid-1> i have a nack with my computer???? 03:32 < stupid-1> i`m just working with bash..and i have my boooookss 03:33 < stupid-1> fedora27 is much beter than i thought 03:34 < stupid-1> ttt 03:40 < mknod> Hello 03:41 < mknod> I'd need a few people to run a command on their favorite terminal emulator 03:41 < sauvin> Like what? 03:41 < mknod> It will print out the escape sequences for a selection of terminfo capabilities 03:42 < mknod> (along with the terminal used) 03:42 < mknod> Need this for my current project 03:42 < sauvin> And what's that? 03:42 < mknod> { printf '%s / %s %s\n' "$TERM" "$TERM_PROGRAM" "$TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION"; curl -sL "https://git.io/vx7tn" | while read || [[ $REPLY ]]; do printf '%s\t\t%s\n' "$REPLY" "$(tput "$REPLY" 2> /dev/null | od -ta | awk 'NR==1 {$1=""; print}' | sed -e 's/ //g')"; done; } 03:43 < sauvin> Jeebus, that's baroque. 03:43 < mknod> nothing fishy, as you can see 03:45 < ananke> mknod: I'm not sure how far you're going to get without a simple 'please'... 03:45 < mknod> Ok, I got interrupted by sauvin's question, my apologies 03:46 < mknod> s/k/h 03:46 < Thesaurus> looks pretty fish tbh 03:46 < mknod> so, PLEASE, anyone willing to report the output? 03:47 < mknod> if you cannot understand it, don't run it 03:47 < Thesaurus> curl and then a URL... I think I'll pass 03:48 < [R]> what else would you expect curl to do? 03:48 < mknod> (lol) 03:48 < sauvin> I'd expect it to put some additional curvature into my short and curlies. 03:49 < nai> > if you cannot understand it, don't run it 03:49 < nai> okay just give me a few weeks 03:50 < jellyb> is that a bitcoin miner 03:50 < agris> mknod, are you doing something similar to Debian's popcon? 03:50 < nai> i bet it's a lisp interpreter 03:51 < mknod> agris, I don't use Linux and I don't know what Debian's popcon is 03:51 < [R]> nai: is that to help you understand people with lisps? 03:51 < ayecee> a lithp interpreter 03:52 < [R]> mknod: you dont use linux, yet you expect us to trust you to run some random command? 03:52 < mknod> I explained above what that command does, feel free to move away if you have no clue what it's all about 03:52 < mknod> [R], did you know that mac os is unix based? 03:52 < nai> ok mknod i ran it on urxvt: https://up.nai.im/output.txt 03:52 < [R]> mknod: and? 03:53 < mknod> nai, thanks. 03:53 < Thesaurus> doesn't macOS have like version 3 of bash? 03:53 < Sveta> mknod, do you have the ability to run linux on a live usb or in a virtual machine? 03:54 < sauvin> Thesaurus, I believe so, yes. 03:54 < cmj> bash4 03:55 < Thesaurus> @cmj really? Timmy C stepping up his game 03:55 < mknod> Sveta, probably, but it's really not worth the hassle 03:56 < Thesaurus> running a sketchy looking script someone posted on IRC probably isn't worth the hassle 03:56 < Sveta> mknod, how much time have you got for this task? 03:56 < ayecee> better complain about it 03:57 < mknod> Sveta, I've already spent too much time on this. Especially here. 03:57 < stevendale> :P 03:57 < ayecee> i agree 03:57 < stevendale> Hi Sveta bro, what's up 03:58 < sauvin> Yea, Sveta, bro, how they swingin'? :D 03:58 < Sveta> mknod, tell me two things. Or three. Have you got a usb, how long does it take you to download a file from https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop, and how much time have you truly got? 03:59 < Thesaurus> you posted the script less than 20 minutes ago and you're out of time? are you in some chinese prison with a gun to your head farming wow gold? 03:59 < stevendale> Microsoft made some good games over the years... Mech Warrior... Halo Combat Evolved 03:59 < [R]> Thesaurus: is that still a thing? 03:59 < Arsimael> stevendale, Age of empires, Freelancer 04:01 < Arsimael> anyways 04:01 < Arsimael> good night everyone 04:01 < stevendale> Gn :) 04:01 < Thesaurus> I don't think it's as big as it used to be, Blizzard lets you actually buy in game time with gold now so they use that as a way to control the economy. 04:01 < [R]> that's what she said 04:04 < Thesaurus> what's your guys favorite color schemes in gedit? 04:04 < stevendale> 1551892 inbound packets on XP \o/ 04:04 < sauvin> Thesaurus, light white on black. 04:04 < stevendale> Got a BSOD after that much downloading... 04:06 < nai> > gedit 04:10 < Thesaurus> rough crowd 04:10 < mknod> anyone else familiar with more than one command here? 04:11 < ayecee> only if it includes please 04:11 < Thesaurus> I ONLY know curl, never used anything else sorry 04:12 < pnbeast> mknod, I learned "ls" and "cp", today. That's TWO commands! 04:12 < diogenese> I only know the one 04:12 < nai> I only know cat 04:12 < spammcoin> NOOBS 04:12 < nai> Can do everything with it 04:12 < pnbeast> Is it a useless cat? I heard they're useless, or something like that. 04:12 < [R]> pnbeast: cats are majestic... 04:13 < ayecee> ask any cat 04:13 < stevendale> I only know 'mem' in cmd.exe 04:13 < pnbeast> Just the big ones in the animal park. The little ones in the kitchen lose their luster once you have to clean the litter box. 04:14 < pnbeast> cucksmex, do you do anything except change your nick every once in a while? 04:14 < cucksmex> hi 04:14 < spammcoin> anyone know someone with two first names that is not a noob? 04:14 < cucksmex> it keeps reverting 04:14 < [R]> pnbeast: i have an automatic box 04:14 < cucksmex> i'll fix it 04:15 < pnbeast> [R], well, okay, your cat is probably not useless, then. It keeps the machinery churning. 04:15 < [R]> well right now hes staring at me 04:15 < [R]> i'm asking him to come over 04:15 * pnbeast imagines the annual oiling of the gears in that machine is no fun. 04:15 < [R]> its not too bad 04:15 < [R]> the motors are all self contained 04:16 < [R]> although one finally died 04:16 < [R]> its been liek 6 years or so 04:16 < pnbeast> What if it starts up when the cat is, uh, you know... 04:16 < [R]> so its designed to run 24/7 04:16 < [R]> its very slow 04:16 < pnbeast> Does that get messy really quickly? 04:16 < [R]> so it doesnt bother them 04:16 < pnbeast> Oh. 04:17 < sauvin> I've got a few first names, such as Benoit, Wieland, Alain, Jacques and Rolf. Still a n00b, though. 04:17 < [R]> https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-Simply-Self-Cleaning-Automatic-Clumping/dp/B000GF0X38/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1523240214&sr=8-8&keywords=petsafe+litter 04:17 < [R]> tahts what i use 04:17 < [R]> i actually have it on a timer that makes it run only 4 times a day 04:17 < [R]> but like an hour 04:17 < [R]> for like* 04:17 < Thesaurus> I guess it's better for the environment than singer sewing oil 04:18 < pnbeast> https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41NC25lb00L._AC_SR160,160_.jpg <-- SEE? That one's eating the whole cat!! 04:18 < pnbeast> Looks very dangerous. 04:19 < [R]> rofl 04:19 < [R]> wtf 04:19 < [R]> "the installer failed to dwonload the key" 04:19 < [R]> yet i see no attempt by the installer to download it in the logs 04:21 < Thesaurus> my friend's mom went a little crazy and they're up to 8 cats now, those machines can't handle that kind of volume 04:21 < [R]> lol 04:23 < SporkWitch> Thesaurus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ELMKkHEDU 04:25 < mknod> nai, mind to test two other capnames please? `tput -S <<< $'cbt\nkcbt' | od -ta` will be enough 04:25 < [R]> AHA 04:25 < [R]> it's hitting the apt cacher 04:25 < [R]> and the apt cacher is like "screw you" 04:25 < sauvin> mknod, what's wrong with setting up a few VMs with different operating systems and environments? 04:25 < mknod> basically everything. 04:26 < [R]> lol 04:28 < dannylee> there are a high rick for a cyber war in july 2018 and news years january 1st 2019...but we hope it don`t happen/// 04:29 < agris> Will there be any key signing parties in Portland anytime soon? 04:29 < agris> I'd really like to get my person key in the web of trust 04:29 < dannylee> china and india and russia..against europe an the us 04:30 < SporkWitch> agris: you might want to specify which portland; i know of two in the US and they're 3000 miles apart lol 04:30 < agris> SporkWitch, the big one in Oregon 04:30 < SporkWitch> so not the lovely lobster-filled one in maine 04:30 < [R]> sounds dirty 04:31 < ananke> [R]: no, the oregon one is dirty 04:31 < [R]> 'key signing party' 04:31 < [R]> isn't portland oregon just full of damn dirty hippies? 04:31 < ananke> pretty much. I'll take lobsters over hippies any day 04:31 < agris> Linus lives there doesn't he? 04:32 < SporkWitch> agris: EXACTLY 04:32 < [R]> Residence Dunthorpe, Oregon, United States[1] 04:33 < SporkWitch> still, the filthy commie WOULD live near hippie central 04:33 < SporkWitch> :P 04:34 < [R]> lol 04:34 < agris> I can't seem to find any on Calagotar, which is what linux users in Portland seem to use 04:34 < SporkWitch> (and don't say he's not! he's dictatorial, and it doesn't get much more communist than FOSS :P) 04:35 < Thesaurus> I'm sure someone at your local linux users group could sign for you 04:35 < agris> oh gawd 04:35 < [R]> sounds very intimate 04:35 < agris> lol 04:35 < [R]> woudl you want just any old random stranger siigning your key before you get to know them? 04:36 < SporkWitch> [R]: as long as i have multiple forms of id, with photos, sure 04:36 < agris> I would really like to get a signature from a Debian developer 04:36 < Thesaurus> seems kind of oxymoronic 04:37 < SporkWitch> https://www.xkcd.com/364/ 04:38 < agris> that's great SporkWitch 04:39 < SporkWitch> agris: randall's been at it a while; he's got one for almost any occassion :P lol 04:51 < nai> mknod: i was on phone, send the command again if you still need it 04:51 < mknod> thanks nai, much appreciated 04:51 < mknod> tput -S <<< $'cbt\nkcbt' | od -ta 04:51 < mknod> forgot those two earlier 04:54 < nai> here you go https://up.nai.im/output2.txt 04:55 < mknod> did you get something on stderr? 04:55 < nai> no 04:56 < mknod> that's fine, i'm done with bothering you 04:56 < nai> no worries lol 04:57 < nobrain> we are billing you the full hour anyway 04:58 < nai> s/hour/day/ 04:58 < [R]> nai: EXTREME ROUNDING 05:00 < sauvin> $150/hr, four hour minimum, prorated thereafter on five minute granularity. 05:00 < nai> rounding to the superior 05:00 * SporkWitch accepts pizza and beer 05:01 < nai> sauvin: english please 05:01 < sauvin> That WAS English. I'm too tired to consider my wording. 05:01 < Dr_Coke> triceratux 05:01 < nai> sauvin: don't you get jokes 05:01 < Dr_Coke> Sveta 05:02 < sauvin> Guessing "too tired" was a bit subtle. 05:02 < Dr_Coke> You should have seen this guy this morning out near the farms a while out of sydney 05:02 < Dr_Coke> busy as in peak hour 05:02 < nai> sauvin: wake up 05:02 < Dr_Coke> im coming along a bit back but the other side has traffic going at like 80 to 100km/h 05:03 < pankaj> Why is that most of the Linux distributions use systemd as their system process manager whereas only few like only ubuntu use 'upstart'. What are pros and cons of it. 05:03 < Dr_Coke> and this person drives this gold buggy like thing for the farm flat out across the road in the little space in front of cars and trucks coming at 80 to 100kms per hour 05:03 < Dr_Coke> lol 05:03 < [R]> pankaj: ubuntu has switched to systemd ages ago 05:03 < Dr_Coke> I thought that's a good way to commit sucide 05:04 < nai> doesn't ubuntu use systemd now? 05:04 < Dr_Coke> golf buggy thing 05:04 < pankaj> [R]: Sorry, May be I was reading an older article. 05:04 < [R]> you probably are 05:04 < pankaj> [R]: Is their any other using upstart? 05:04 < [R]> robaly not 05:05 < [R]> its dead 05:05 < sauvin> As I understood it last time I saw it being discussed, Debian and Ubuntu use systemd with overlays or hooks to older structures. 05:06 < agris> is it supported to not use systemd in Debian? 05:06 < agris> i remember it was a big deal a few years ago 05:06 < nai> yeah like "service" is basically a glorified alias to systemctl 05:06 < [R]> well there is devuavian 05:06 < [R]> or whatever the hell that nonsense fork is 05:06 < agris> nonsense fork? 05:07 < Sveta> Nonsense forks are the best. 05:07 < agris> can i replace systemd with OpenRC and have it supported on Debian? 05:07 < sauvin> Devuan, I think it is. There's a channel for it on Freenode. 05:08 < [R]> agris: what does "have it supported" even mean 05:09 < agris> like, is there a reason there is a whole nother distribution, vs following https://wiki.debian.org/OpenRC 05:09 < [R]> what? 05:10 * triceratux sticks a nonsense fork in [R] to see if hes done 05:11 < Dr_Coke> triceratux 05:11 < Dr_Coke> the cars and trucks were coming at like 60mph 05:12 < Dr_Coke> and this person darted flat out in front of them going across the road 05:12 < Dr_Coke> it was so close he almost got collected 05:13 < Dr_Coke> this is at like 8:30am in the morning 05:13 < Dr_Coke> I've never seen anything like it lol 05:13 < Dr_Coke> suicide mission 05:13 < Dr_Coke> lol 05:13 < Dr_Coke> it was funny to watch being a bit back 05:14 < Dr_Coke> I thought this guys going to get collected 05:14 < Dr_Coke> but he made it 05:14 < Dr_Coke> just 05:14 < Dr_Coke> lol 05:14 < Dr_Coke> I tell you what that woke me up this morning 05:19 < Dr_Coke> by the way nobody in the cars slammed their brakes on for him either 05:20 < Dr_Coke> lol he would been collected big time 05:21 < pankaj> [R]: If 'init' starts serially then what about systemd? 05:21 < [R]> pankaj: what? 05:22 < jim> the cars mainly played music 05:22 < nai> "serially" ? 05:22 < pankaj> [R]: What is the execution sequence of systemd? 05:22 < [R]> sequence? 05:23 < nai> kernel calls /sbin/init which is a link to systemd, that's it 05:23 < jim> start, go, stop? 05:24 < jim> I dunno myself, I imagine it has a lot of sequences depending on what it's doing 05:27 < Sitri> pankaj: Dependency-based startup (daemon-tools, runit, openrc, minit and systemd) are usually still serially, but because they have dependency trees they can run a few things simultaniously. 05:29 < pankaj> Sitri: OK. I think I am late for going to some place. Thanks for help 05:33 < jim> daemontools is dependency based? 05:36 < [R]> demon tool 05:36 < Sitri> Ah derp, no it isn't. It does supervise though (which the rest of them do as well) 05:47 < jim> I used it on one thing, so I wouldnt have known 05:50 < cmj> heh 05:55 < nai> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/hexagon/kernel/head.S#L221 05:55 < nai> lol'd 05:57 < cmj> how many files were updated this week? 05:57 < cmj> rhetorical. thousands. and things are getting crazy. 05:59 < nai> 90% of the universe's generated entropy is coming from the linux kernel source code 05:59 < stevendale> My HDD has 35,068 files and 1,061 folders 06:00 < nai> define "file" 06:00 < stevendale> Non-symlink 06:00 < stevendale> And non-hardlink 06:01 < stevendale> I'll pastebin my installed programs, need a couple of minutes though 06:02 < nai> is /dev/sda a file? 06:02 < stevendale> Nope 06:02 < nai> is /proc/self/fd/0 a file? 06:03 < nai> are /sys/class/*/* files? 06:06 < nai> are you a file? 06:07 < luxio> when I type `ping 1.1`, how does that ping 1.0.0.1? 06:07 < luxio> how is it converting that? 06:09 < nai> that's interesting 06:09 < nai> type "drill 1.1" 06:09 < iflema> ping 1.1.0.2 06:09 < sauvin> It's UNIX. Everything is a file. :D 06:10 < nai> hence my question 06:10 < nai> is love a file too? 06:11 < sauvin> /proc/$$/fd/0 is something relating to a file handle, STDIN if I'm not mistaken. 06:11 < iflema> hug.h 06:12 < nai> yep it's the current process' stdin file descripto 06:12 < nai> s/$/r/ 06:12 < sauvin> Depending on how you want to look at it, /dev/sda IS a file. 06:12 < ryouma> nai: make: *** No rule to make target 'love'. Stop. 06:12 < nai> i technically is 06:12 < nai> s/i/it/ goddammit 06:13 < nai> ryouma: no rule? i like that 06:13 < stevendale> nai: https://pastebin.com/DYdg370C 06:13 < stevendale> My installed programs 06:13 < stevendale> Typed by hand 06:13 < sauvin> As much as I sometimes grump at people for SMS-style English, typo is a fact of online life. :D 06:14 < ryouma> typos* are too! 06:15 < nai> stevendale: how is that interesting to me 06:15 < stevendale> nai: I'm just really bored o3o 06:15 < nai> install linux 06:16 < nai> cat /var/lib/portage/world 06:16 < nai> pacman -Qqe 06:17 < stevendale> Maybe when the Linux kernel has built in support for executing exes, I'll consider it uwu 06:17 < nai> god why 06:20 < jim> stevendale, there are modules you can insert which support a particular executable format (and scripting is one of those)... I guess you could write a module that supports .exes... but then, there is the issue of which libs it needs... are you sure you'll need to execute microsoft binaries 06:20 < jim> ? 06:20 < nai> jim: are you reinventing wine 06:21 < jim> well then if worst comes to worst, he could run wine 06:21 < nai> i mean wine under linux is still better than windows, but still 06:22 < stevendale> Wine under Linux also uses more system resources than booting into XP and playing games that way 06:23 < jim> I guess you could also part it out... wine comes with some kind of lib support for win binaries, and you could still move the support in wine for those executables to a linux mod8ule 06:24 < jim> it would be wine still, but not as we presently know it 06:24 < stevendale> Actually that sounds like it could make wine even better 06:25 < NERD-k> Hello, I use the Fedora27. It always give me the track message `Failed to receive SOCKS4 connect request ack.` when use git clone or curl etc... 06:25 < stevendale> If wine can interact with the hardware at a kernel level, then it could run DirectX as well, instead of translating calls to OpenGL 06:25 < jim> well it would just be moving existing stuff around 06:25 < hawat> I can only boot into rescue mode, where I can mount the filesystem. How do I fix a boot which just hangs? I've tried appending "text" and the boot always fails, but at different points each time. 06:26 < jim> NERD-k, could it be a lib is missing? 06:26 < NERD-k> What is the problem??? I check out my setting file, .bashrc .bash_profile and /etc/bashrc, it has no set to socks 06:27 < NERD-k> I need sock5, but not sock4 06:27 < NERD-k> I am using sock5 06:27 < jim> maybe curl/git use socks4? 06:28 < stevendale> Sadly that's not going to be realistic unless we have a miracle like ReactOS, since DirectX itself is mostly closed source... (apart from some maths modules...) 06:28 < NERD-k> I set: git config proxy.http socks5:127.0.0.1:1080 06:28 < NERD-k> I even use: unset ALL_PROXY 06:29 < jim> stevendale, linux -is- useful on its own, without any closed source stuff (maybe other than some firmware files for devices) 06:31 < jim> hawat, if you can be specific about exactly what you did to try to fix things, that could be helpful... 06:32 < jim> hawat, this might be of help to communicate some of those things: you can pastebin the output of an arbitrary command by running "anArbitraryCommand | nc termbin.com 9999", and to include error messages, "anArbitraryCommand 2>&1 | nc termbin.com 9999" 06:33 < hawat> I commented out GRUB_TERMINAL and commented the line with quiet splash 06:36 < jim> does the boot process (or running the dmesg executable) say anything about what happened to the boot? 06:36 < hawat> the boot always hangs at a different point 06:36 < sysRPL> hi, does anyone here use cinnamon? it has a built in screen recorder, but for the life of me i cannot find any information anywhere about this built in recorder supporting audio 06:36 < sysRPL> does anyone know if it does? 06:38 < hawat> I have no way of putting dmesg output into pastebin. It says Found RAPL....front mic as... front headphone as...there's an error: radeon erro no UMS support in radeon file. that UMS error is the only error I see at the moment. 06:38 < iflema> hawat: any other OS on this machine? is it old and dirty? 06:38 < sysRPL> does anyone know if it does? because everything i record with it is video only. and i see no settings anywhere 06:38 < hawat> iflema: no other os. yeah. old and dirty. (the machine) 06:39 < iflema> hawat: is it over heating? Can you hear/feel the fans? 06:40 < iflema> hawat: () as oppesed to? 06:40 * iflema penis 06:40 < hawat> it's very very quiet. I booted it yesterday by appending "text $vt_remote" from editing grub after POST. that's not working at the moment. It worked fine. The fans are quiet, I've never heard them. 06:41 < iflema> hawat: what happens when it "goes" 06:41 < hawat> failing hardware? cpu? something else? 06:41 < iflema> maybe 06:42 < hawat> I don't have sensors installed. can I re-install grub? I mean, if I can boot to grub rescue...missing steps...boot regular? 06:42 < iflema> heat or HDD? 06:43 < hawat> I'm guessing HDD failure. I don't hear any fans. plus, used it for a few hours just yesterday. SMART? some diagnostic there? 06:43 < iflema> its just the seeminly random timming... 06:44 < iflema> g 06:44 < iflema> is that even a word 06:44 < iflema> yep 06:44 < iflema> heh... school 06:45 < Bashing-om> hawat: What is the performance like from a liveUSB/DVD ? While there run a file system check . 06:45 < hawat> ah, I haven't done that yet. I'll have to try tomorrow. It's ubuntu. Use an Ubuntu disk? It's live. Or would something else be more suitable? 06:46 < smallNERD> Hello, Sorry.I just go away a while for get packet. 06:46 < Bashing-om> hawat: ubuntu will do the job nicely . 06:48 < smallNERD> jam, what are you think about my problem 06:48 < smallNERD> jam: Sorry.I just go away a while for get packet. 06:50 < smallNERD> NERD-k 06:51 < sauvin> Bashing-om, a great deal of the answer to your question depends on how much RAM you have. 06:52 < smallNERD> jim, Sorry.I just go away a while for get packet. 06:52 < smallNERD> what are you think about my problem? 06:53 < sammm> hey all, i have a text file with info over multiple lines, what is the best way to use awk and be able to { print $1(from first line matched); print $somethingfromsecondline }, i'm trying to process this file into a CSV 06:55 < sauvin> sammm, is the structure of the file uniform throughout? 06:55 < Bashing-om> sauvin: Sorry, I have a gap in comprehension - what has ram got to do with a failure to complete booting ( hawat ) ? 06:55 < hawat> I don't think it's ram. but, sure, maybe. I figure it's a GRUB problem. but that's a big maybe. 06:55 < sauvin> Bashing-om, nothing. I saw your question about live USB or DVD boot out of context. 06:55 < sammm> sauvin: yes it is 06:56 < hawat> thanks guys 06:56 < Bashing-om> sauvin: :) Always nice to have you at my back . 06:56 < sauvin> sammm, is there a distinctive record separator line or "first line of block" marker? 06:58 < sammm> sauvin: there is! I can easily match it with awk, it's the multiline that's killing me 06:58 < smallNERD> LOGOUT 07:00 < sauvin> sammm, yeah, it would kill me, too, since I don't know awk. When I did this before (in another language), I'd read a line, see if it's a start of block, flush old block, shove new line all the following lines onto block queue until another first-line-of-block came up. 07:02 < donught> hey, Im having a problem with setting colors on applications that use xrdb. after a -Syu and restart all my colors are wacky and arent setting to the real color it should be. like the solarized bg color is pink #002b36 is being displayed as #FB02CD 07:03 < donught> im on arch 07:03 < sauvin> sammm, some languages allow for reading multiline things like this in a single regular expression, but that's not something I've ever gotten into. 07:03 < sauvin> I believe awk is one of them, though. 07:04 < NERD-k> Hello, how to close Fedora all proxy 07:05 < [R]> NERD-k: what? 07:05 < sammm> sauvin: ah, well thanks for your input, if i fugire it out i'll let ou know 07:06 < NERD-k> Emmm, I am using SOCKS5 proxy, but get this track message:Failed to receive SOCKS4 connect request ack. 07:06 < [R]> "track message"? 07:07 < sauvin> [R], I think he's Chinese. Don't be an ass. 07:07 < [R]> well if he says things that make no sense 07:07 < [R]> what else is supposed to happen/ 07:07 < sauvin> The fact that you can't make sense of it doesn't mean it makes no sense. 07:08 < NERD-k> My english ins not good 07:08 < [R]> well i could just randomly guess what he means... 07:08 < [R]> i think he needs to just reinstall 07:08 < [R]> see how easy that is 07:08 < NERD-k> HEHE 07:08 < sauvin> Reinstall what? NERD-k, can you describe what you're doing when you get this "track message"? 07:08 < iman> Hi, how can I find the source code of "ps" in https://git.kernel.org/ ? 07:08 < NERD-k> I am foolish?? 07:09 < [R]> iman: what makes you think it's there? 07:09 < iman> [R]: isn't part of the kernel ? 07:09 < sauvin> NERD-k, nope. I'm yelling at [R] for being an ass towards folks whose English isn't very good. This is an international channel, not everybody is going to have really good English. 07:09 < [R]> iman: no 07:09 < [R]> iman: random binaries are not part of the kernel 07:09 < [R]> sauvin: it has nothign to do with knowing english 07:09 < [R]> it has to do with saying phrases that make no sense 07:10 < sauvin> Says the guy who can't even manage ONE language. 07:10 < [R]> sauvin: and you're the only one being an ass 07:10 < NERD-k> the proxy still make sense in GUI--I can GOOGLE in Chromium, But make no sense in TUI 07:10 < sauvin> NERD-k, what are you using in TUI that's triggering this message? 07:11 < iman> [R]: you were right, thanks dude https://gitorious.org/procps 07:11 < NERD-k> I don't know why it become proxy SOCK4 07:11 < NERD-k> sauvin, Terminal 07:11 < NERD-k> curl, git clone, etc.. 07:12 < sauvin> Yeah, got that. Betting you've set up a proxy in Chromium but not anywhere else. 07:12 * iflema International does not come to mind when thinking about this channel... 07:13 < sauvin> iflema, thinking more like "menagerie"? :D 07:13 < iflema> more like clusterfuck 07:13 < sauvin> That would be "fustercluck" if you don't want to get hit over the head with a language poicy. 07:13 < sauvin> policy, even. 07:14 < iflema> google it 07:14 < sauvin> I know what the term means. Do you understand the term "language policy"? 07:14 < NERD-k> sauvin, I think something wrong in TUI, 07:14 * iflema [R] [R] [R] [R] [R] 07:15 < NERD-k> Maybe i set something wrong 07:15 < NERD-k> But I use: unset ALL_PROXY, it still give me that message 07:16 < sauvin> NERD-k, I've never done proxies and so can't help, but I'm pretty sure browsers can have their own proxy setups and suchlike, and setting them wouldn't necessarily help any OTHER application. 07:16 < hawat> I typed "e" to edit GRUB boot. by appending: text $vt_handoff 3 I was able to get a text mode login. I logged it, but see messages, after entering password like: NIM watchdog: detected hard lockup rcu_sched detected stalls on cpu rcu_sched kthread starved for 14999 jiffies! 07:16 < [R]> hawat: sounds like hardware problems 07:16 < sauvin> NERD-k, you might try asking in ##networking; they oughta know something. 07:17 < hawat> yeah, that's my concern. 07:17 < NERD-k> sauvin, Oh, Thanks, I gonna to ask them 07:17 < sauvin> yeah, hawat, that might be hardware trouble or maybe a goofed up kernel. 07:17 < hawat> let's assume kernel, because it was booting fine yesterday. I mucked for hours, then got it to boot. assuming kernel, how do I fix? 07:17 < [R]> you "mucked"? 07:18 < sauvin> Dunno; when I've got a goofed up kernel, I revert to an older kernel and wait for the Debian and/or Ubuntu folks to fix their crap on the next round of updates. 07:19 < hawat> well, it took a while to get into rescue mode. then mount file system. I tried some changes with /etc/default/grub, update-grub, variations. editing grub during boot, etc. like twenty boots. finally "worked". but not today. 07:19 < sauvin> hawat, what distro are you on? 07:19 < [R]> yousaidd it was fine 07:19 < [R]> what did you to do make it not fine? 07:20 < hawat> [R]: if I knew what I did, LOL. or, maybe it was nothing I did. Just random that it worked once out of twenty times. I'm on Ubuntu. 07:21 < sauvin> On what kind of hardware? 07:21 < hawat> I'll have to boot into rescue mode. it's old. 07:22 < sanroot> Sanroot Bot: 07:22 < sanroot> Canera mai hi aza 07:22 < sanroot> Waha fazal hau 07:22 < sanroot> Paka dega 07:22 < sauvin> sanroot, we speak English here. 07:23 < sanroot> sorry i meant to paste in another channel 07:23 < sauvin> Ahah! 07:24 < NERD-k> Only English here? So difficult for us. 07:24 < NERD-k> 中文 07:24 < iflema> NERD-k: watch the good english and bad advice 07:25 < hawat> the cpu: Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processor Family but I don't have the sensors package installed. I doubt it's overheating, but maybe. 07:26 < AndroidKitKat> can i ask i3 questions here? 07:26 < sauvin> AndroidKitKat, why not? 07:27 < AndroidKitKat> no idea, just know this isnt #i3wm 07:27 < AndroidKitKat> im not sure i quite understand how to change the way the windows tile after they are made 07:27 < AndroidKitKat> for example, i have a terminal and chrome open 07:27 < AndroidKitKat> side by side 07:28 < kavity> What would be the best way to start a program right away after boot? Cron? 07:28 < [R]> kavity: what type of program 07:29 < kavity> My ircd/services, and seafile/seahub. 07:29 < [R]> an init script 07:29 < kavity> K. 07:29 < kavity> Thanks. 07:29 < hawat> sauvin: he cpu: Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processor Family but I don't have the sensors package installed. I doubt it's overheating, but maybe 07:31 < iflema> so not a laptop 07:31 < iflema> :D 07:31 < Bashing-om> hawat: cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp . The output is in milli-degrees Celcius . 07:31 * sauvin doesn't even know what a "NIM watchdog" is 07:31 < [R]> hawat: one should never never doubt, what no one is sure of 07:32 < drb1> would this be compatible with xfce? https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1016677/ 07:32 < drb1> It's the SugarLike theme based off of Sugar Sugar 07:32 < [R]> drb1: well its on the xfce website 07:32 < [R]> so my guess is no 07:32 < [R]> its not compatible with xfce 07:33 < alexey-nemovff> lol 07:33 < drb1> I don't have time for smart asses 07:33 < iflema> its over 8 years old 07:34 < drb1> yes, but has the code really changed much? 07:34 < drb1> most of what i've seen on the site is pretty crappy 07:34 < iflema> about as long ago as I last used 07:35 < Pentode> it'll work. 07:35 < iflema> look ok 07:35 < drb1> I can't get it to work lol Pentode 07:35 < drb1> I have come to the conclusion that it doesn't work with xfce 07:35 < Pentode> maybe it's not installed properly 07:36 < Pentode> i actually _have_ that theme installed 07:36 < drb1> well, i downloaded it, extracted it 07:36 < drb1> and moved it to the /usr/share/icons/ 07:36 < Pentode> thats not the right folder 07:36 < Pentode> it needs to be in ~/.themes or /usr/share/themes/ 07:36 < Pentode> ^ the latter on _most_ machines 07:36 < drb1> oh, i thought it was just icons 07:37 < Pentode> its a xfwm theme. also make sure each folder is in the themes root, not in a subdirectory 07:38 < Pentode> that theme has a bunch of different colors in individual themes in separate folders 07:38 < drb1> yeah 07:38 < Pentode> there are more themes on deviantart.. 07:38 < drb1> ah 07:39 < stevendale> I managed to install XP on a PC that bsod'd trying to install from USB, even with SATA drivers loaded into the ISO, by emulating a CD drive 07:39 < drb1> are they of crappy quality? 07:39 < Pentode> theres probably ten themes on the whole of xfcelook that i like, lol 07:39 < drb1> It's strange because I've seen cooler xfce themes in images and videos but can't find them 07:40 < sauvin> stevendale, nobody cares about Windows stuff. 07:40 < iflema> stevendale: was that thing back in 2001? 07:40 < s10gopal> how to fix it https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/MJQRM28W3z/ ? 07:41 < iflema> USB boot a winblows install 07:41 < stevendale> sauvin: Excuse me, you're not everybody, so you can't say that, if you think you're everybody then you can stop being an op and leave 07:42 < sauvin> Let's put it this way, then: Windows by itself is off-topic in this channel, and becomes relevant only when interoperability is involved. 07:42 < Triffid_Hunter> heh I have win10 on a usb but it always complains about missing drivers.. it doesn't however say *which* drivers are missing, making it rather difficult to solve 07:42 < sauvin> No kidding. :\ 07:43 < stevendale> Triffid_Hunter Go to the run dialog with 'Windows + R' and type 'devmgmt.msc', that will open Device Manager, and it should have a section for non-working drivers/hardware 07:43 < nai> Also nobody cares about Windows 07:43 < iflema> games! 07:43 < iflema> tripple A 07:44 < iflema> member 07:44 < s10gopal> how to fix it ? https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198665 first bad commit is found 07:44 < Triffid_Hunter> stevendale: it's the installer, not a running install, so no control panel 07:45 < paddy|> the ##windows channel must suck really bad when the people come to ##linux for support 07:45 < quackslikeaduck> they're...too windowsy over there.. it does suck 07:45 < drb1> still not working for me 07:45 < kavity> netflix 07:45 < drb1> that theme is crap 07:45 < kavity> Shit, wrong keyboard... 07:45 < s10gopal> please tell 07:46 < Pentode> well you must be doing something wrong 07:46 < stevendale> Triffid_Hunter, Oh... If it's on a USB 3 port, try switching to a USB 2 port, USB3 drivers in the installers have always been flaky, otherwise the USB could be remade onto a USB 2 stick, and if those don't work, it may be a problem with the SATA/drive operation mode, it'll almost always work if the SATA mode is set to ATA 07:46 < Pentode> are all the individual folders in themes? /themes/blah/folders will _not_ work 07:47 < drb1> nope, Pentode, I took the xfmw4 dir out and moved it in /usr/share/themes 07:47 < kavity> My windows box wasn't working properly just now, but I'll just reboot and hope for the best. 07:47 < Pentode> that wont work either 07:47 < quackslikeaduck> with Win10, type verifier from commandline within Win, ran from backup-disk or during install 07:47 < kavity> I don't care enough about windows to learn the ins and outs of it again. 07:47 < Pentode> they must be like this: /themes/theme_name/xfwm4/ 07:48 < drb1> so... 07:48 < drb1> just leave it in the folder I unzipped it from? 07:48 < drb1> * dir 07:48 < stevendale> quackslikeaduck: sfc /scannow (with the install media plugged in) 07:48 < Pentode> unzip the folders into /themes/ 07:48 < Pentode> its simple 07:48 < quackslikeaduck> yeah that too, definitely a first thing to try imo (sfc^^) 07:48 < Triffid_Hunter> stevendale: I'll try someday.. meanwhile the linux mint on the same key boots just fine 07:49 < paddy|> you guys seem to be serious about this "windows support here" 07:49 * iflema install, install gpedit and adjust update madness, install origin, install steam, point to games... maybe some winrar to pinch/test some crap and game on... 07:49 < stevendale> Yeah ##windows is horrible 07:50 < kavity> Seems everytime I boot windows something needs to update. 07:51 < iflema> kavity: you on home? 07:51 < iflema> you can fix that 07:52 < kavity> I think it's home, whatever came with the laptop. 07:52 < paddy|> i go to #perl to ask for help with my python script? 07:52 < kavity> paddy|: I've seen people ask for help for lots of non-linux related things here. 07:53 < paddy|> really? and many wrongs make 1 good thing? 07:53 < kavity> If you want to see sticklers about what you can/can't ask about, go check out ##C++ 07:53 < kavity> paddy|: I don't understand. 07:54 < auctus> how does sudo work with crontab? can i sudo from crontab? 07:54 < [R]> auctus: if its set to npasswd, sure 07:54 < [R]> nopasswd* 07:54 < [R]> sounds like you should just run the command rom the proper users crontab to begin wtih though 07:55 < Triffid_Hunter> auctus: why not just edit root's crontab? 07:55 < auctus> i just wanna run ./cert/certbot-auto renew 07:55 < auctus> regularly 07:55 < auctus> letsencrypt 07:55 < auctus> requires sudo 07:56 < auctus> Triffid_Hunter: i could, is there any reason not to? 07:56 < agris> [R], what's your opinion of Devuan? 07:57 < [R]> agris: of what? 07:57 < agris> [R], Devuan. You called in a 'nonsense distro' 07:57 < [R]> well... i'm pretty sure that tells you what my opinion is... 07:57 < agris> i assume you have a strong opinion about it 07:58 < [R]> yes 07:58 < [R]> its a nonsense dist 07:58 < agris> what specifically about it 07:58 < [R]> the whole thing... 07:58 < agris> nonsense is ambiguous 07:58 < [R]> lol 07:59 < s10gopal> first bad commit is found , please help me https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198665 07:59 < [R]> s10gopal: what? 07:59 < ayecee> s10gopal: help you to do what? 08:00 < s10gopal> how to i fix it ? 08:00 < ayecee> look at what that commit does, and reverse it 08:00 < s10gopal> [R], ayecee this is the bad commit https://hastebin.com/bugahomuti.sql 08:00 < ayecee> then recompile the kernel, and see if that fixes your problem 08:01 < s10gopal> i dont know how to do it 08:01 < ayecee> which part? 08:01 < s10gopal> how to reverse it 08:01 < ayecee> well, what does that commit change? 08:02 < s10gopal> ayecee, PM / core: Drop run_wake flag from struct dev_pm_info 08:02 < ayecee> no, what lines of code does it change? 08:02 < s10gopal> i dont know , please see https://hastebin.com/bugahomuti.sql 08:02 < ayecee> i have 08:03 < ayecee> that shows me the summary, not what changed 08:03 < iflema> drop the commit on git over the linux repo git show [commit] 08:03 < ayecee> what tells you that this is the first bad commit? 08:03 < [R]> drop it like its hot 08:03 < s10gopal> ayecee, git bisect 08:03 < [R]> s10gopal: this is a family channel 08:03 < ayecee> okay, can you do what iflema says and use git show to show the changes? 08:04 < s10gopal> output of git show http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/6y3XBgs5xJ/ 08:05 < iflema> better with colo(u)r 08:05 < iflema> or maybe a distraction 08:05 < iflema> ... 08:05 < s10gopal> ? 08:05 < thebigj> https://dpaste.de/Dgyw/raw 08:05 < ayecee> okay, save this to a file, remove everything above line 23, then at the top of your kernel tree, run "patch -R < filename.txt" to reverse it 08:06 < ayecee> there's probably a way to do that with git itself, but i don't know it offhand. 08:06 < thebigj> Above script I am using to make partition to my SD card. 08:06 < AndroidKitKat> can anyone help me config i3? i know its dumb but i cant for the life of me find the files to control brightness 08:06 < azarus> AndroidKitKat: xbacklight? 08:06 < s10gopal> ayecee, first i need to boot in that bad kernel ? 08:06 < thebigj> https://dpaste.de/wkkU/raw is the link of mmcblk0-partition.tab 08:06 < ayecee> s10gopal: no 08:06 < s10gopal> or use it in cd linux ? 08:07 < ayecee> what 08:07 < s10gopal> ayecee, what is kernel tree ? 08:07 < ayecee> the kernel source 08:07 < ayecee> the thing you've been git bisecting 08:08 < AndroidKitKat> azarus: xbacklight repots no outputs have backlight property 08:08 < s10gopal> ayecee, that folder is named linux 08:08 < ayecee> neat 08:08 < pabed> hi guys , is there any NTP web service ? 08:08 < s10gopal> ayecee, i need to put that text file inside linux folder , or at home (kernel .deb files are generatedd at home) 08:09 < [R]> pabed: what would an ntp web service do? 08:09 < ayecee> s10gopal: it doesn't matter where the file is, as long as you tell patch -R where it is 08:09 < thebigj> The problem is, the partitions are not available 08:09 < thebigj> https://dpaste.de/VS7f/raw 08:09 < thebigj> Above is the output of the script. 08:09 < azarus> AndroidKitKat: dig around in sysfs 08:10 < pabed> [R]:I need to get time and date with that function 08:10 < [R]> pabed: what? 08:10 < thebigj> I am running "sudo partprobe /dev/sdc" after "sudo sfdisk /dev/sdc < custom" 08:10 < [R]> pabed: what does this have to do with linux? 08:10 < AndroidKitKat> azarus: where would that be 08:11 < azarus> AndroidKitKat: /sys 08:11 < thebigj> Still, the output of lsblk doesn't look like a familiar output 08:11 < AndroidKitKat> cd fs 08:11 < AndroidKitKat> oops 08:11 < pabed> [R]: I use it in raspbery pi in shell script 08:11 < thebigj> I am in Ubuntu VM. 08:11 < [R]> pabed: what? 08:11 < thebigj> Can anyone suggest where I am making any mistake? 08:11 < pabed> what ? awaht? 08:11 < thebigj> Thanks! 08:12 < ayecee> thebigj: one big mistake is that the description is spread over several lines, at a time where people are working on other problems 08:13 < ayecee> the start of the problem was off the screen before you got to the end of it. 08:14 < thebigj> ayecee: Okay. Let me wait for the existing discussion to complete and then repost. 08:14 < thebigj> ayecee: Thanks for informing. 08:14 < s10gopal> ayecee, i did patch -R > patchbygopal.txt , but cursor is blinking 08:14 < ayecee> s10gopal: > is not the same as < 08:14 < AndroidKitKat> azarus: i found something i think 08:15 < AndroidKitKat> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/VmCpnBD2/ 08:15 < AndroidKitKat> device, power, and subsystem are folders 08:15 < s10gopal> ayecee, it will give any output ? 08:16 < ayecee> yes 08:16 < azarus> AndroidKitKat: cool. try manipulating them? 08:16 < AndroidKitKat> how o i do that? 08:16 < AndroidKitKat> man xbacklight 08:16 < azarus> AndroidKitKat: they are files. 08:16 < AndroidKitKat> just call them? 08:17 < azarus> now, how does one manipulate files? I believe that to be basic, common knowledge 08:17 < azarus> write to them, read to them. 08:17 < azarus> read from them* 08:17 < AndroidKitKat> lik with a text editor? 08:17 < s10gopal> ayecee, getting error https://hastebin.com/irazahebiy.hs 08:17 < ayecee> sure, or with echo 08:17 < azarus> AndroidKitKat: doubt it. read from them. what do you get? 08:18 < ayecee> s10gopal: ah, patch -p1 -R < filename.txt 08:18 < ayecee> forgot the -p1 08:18 < iflema> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTZAfX4ZvZg 08:18 < AndroidKitKat> if i cat some of them 08:18 < AndroidKitKat> i get nothing 08:19 < s10gopal> ayecee, patching file Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt 08:19 < s10gopal> Unreversed patch detected! Ignore -R? [n] 08:19 < s10gopal> what to press ? 08:19 < ayecee> n 08:19 < s10gopal> Apply anyway? [n] 08:19 < s10gopal> ? 08:20 < ayecee> the tree you have there, is that before the bad commit, or after? 08:20 < s10gopal> sorry , i dont know 08:20 < AndroidKitKat> azarus: i think i did something 08:20 < azarus> AndroidKitKat: cool 08:21 < AndroidKitKat> by writing to the file the brightness changes 08:21 < AndroidKitKat> so i found my file 08:21 < azarus> great job! 08:21 < ayecee> s10gopal: the intent here is to take a kernel version that has the problem, and reverse this change, and find out if that fixes it. 08:21 < AndroidKitKat> now i just need to have i3 manipulate them 08:21 < ayecee> s10gopal: to do that, you need to start with a kernel version that has the problem. 08:21 < AndroidKitKat> or have xbacklight see it 08:21 < azarus> AndroidKitKat: write a script, have i3 call it 08:22 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: config file 08:22 < AndroidKitKat> config of xbacklight? 08:22 < iflema> you d same for volume if needed 08:22 < thebigj> Question: When the partition made using "sfdisk" are available? I am calling "partprobe" and "sync" after "sfdisk" still "lsblk" don't show expected partitions. My source script https://dpaste.de/Dgyw/raw The file "mmcblk0-partition.tab" here https://dpaste.de/wkkU/raw The output of the script https://dpaste.de/VS7f/raw 08:22 < thebigj> I am in Ubuntu VM 08:22 < thebigj> Host OS: Gentoo 08:22 < thebigj> Let me know if you are expecting any other details from my side. 08:22 < thebigj> Thanks! 08:23 < ayecee> thebigj: after the next reboot 08:23 < s10gopal> ayecee, i got this coit when i did git vommit bad 08:23 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: no. I3s 08:23 < s10gopal> ayecee, means git is at bad kernel ? 08:23 < AndroidKitKat> azarus: to edit the value i needed root, can i3 use scripts that require root? 08:23 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: under keybindings 08:23 < ayecee> s10gopal: i have no idea 08:23 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: what kernel version you running there? 08:23 < s10gopal> ayecee, or i can download the kernel source again and patch latest ml ? 08:23 < ayecee> s10gopal: start with the version that you had the problem with. 08:23 < thebigj> ayecee: Is there any solution if I want expected partitions without a reboot? 08:23 < AndroidKitKat> Linux doorstop 4.15.15-63.current #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 7 08:32:34 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux 08:24 < thebigj> ayecee: As I have mentioned, I am calling "partprobe" and "sync" after "sfdisk" 08:24 < ayecee> thebigj: no, not if a partition on the disk was in use. 08:24 < s10gopal> ayecee, the problem dont exist in v12 and before 08:24 < azarus> PREEMPT? don't see that often 08:24 < s10gopal> ayecee, test 4.13 ? 08:24 < cheapie> AndroidKitKat: Your doorstop runs Linux? :P 08:24 < AndroidKitKat> lol 08:24 < s10gopal> or 4.13-rc1 ? 08:24 < ayecee> s10gopal: 4.13, sure 08:24 < thebigj> ayecee: This is SD card. How can I check something is using it? 08:24 < stevendale> 3.2.0 08:25 < thebigj> ayecee: I haven't mounted it. 08:25 < fareast> anyone have experience with edgemax? 08:25 < s10gopal> ayecee, thx 08:25 < iodev> what is edgemax? fareast 08:25 < fareast> ubiquiti router 08:25 < AndroidKitKat> so the package arch tells me to install isnt in the repos for my distro hmm 08:25 < ayecee> fareast: one way to find out is to ask a question about edgemax. 08:26 < ayecee> thebigj: what was the output of partprobe? 08:26 < fareast> does anyone run deluge? 08:26 < ayecee> fareast: stop with the survey questions 08:26 < fareast> ok i need to port forward I am running cpn 08:26 < fareast> vpn 08:27 < iodev> fareast: yes, I run deluge 08:27 < fareast> how do I accomplish this? I am on linux mint 08:27 < fareast> I goto canyouseeme.org and I can't see that I am open 08:27 < fareast> I even set a static ip 08:27 < thebigj> ayecee: https://dpaste.de/LU2i/raw It is part of a shell script. 08:27 < fareast> I tried ssh 22 and it worked fine 08:27 < thebigj> ayecee: The command is part of shell script. 08:28 < ayecee> thebigj: what was the output of the command? 08:28 < thebigj> ayecee: It didn't gave any output. 08:29 < fareast> iodev: did you port forward? 08:29 < ayecee> thebigj: okay. the kernel thinks the device is in use. i don't know offhand how you'd check what was using it, except maybe fuser or lsof. 08:30 < ayecee> anyhow, time for sleep. o/ 08:31 < thebigj> ayecee: Okay. Many thanks for helping. I will read the man of those commands. 08:31 < thebigj> ayecee: Good night :) 08:33 < iodev> fareast: no 08:33 < fareast> ok 08:34 < AndroidKitKat> so im still unsure where to proceed 08:34 < AndroidKitKat> i found my backlight file 08:34 < AndroidKitKat> but i dont know what to do with it 08:36 < AndroidKitKat> i have no idea where to go from this point 08:37 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: well if xbacklight and what not do not work a small script to echo numbers to the file to raise and lower 08:37 < AndroidKitKat> wont i need sudo access everytime i push the button? 08:38 < iflema> something like that 08:38 < AndroidKitKat> so if i push the button it would need my password? 08:38 < iflema> depends how you do it 08:38 < azarus> man sudoers 08:38 < azarus> you can make it not ask for a password 08:40 < AndroidKitKat> ill try 08:40 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: whats not in the arch repo 08:40 < AndroidKitKat> im not on arch 08:40 < AndroidKitKat> im on Solus 08:40 < AndroidKitKat> sorry for not saying earlier 08:40 < rpgio> this is backwards lol -- you don't need sudo to set xbacklight value 08:40 < rpgio> once you configure it correctly 08:41 < AndroidKitKat> my backlight isnt detected 08:41 < azarus> i've had cases where xbacklight doesn't work 08:41 < iflema> rpgio: sudo for script on worst case 08:41 < rpgio> yes, you need to configure it -- did you google that message 08:41 < rpgio> about no source 08:41 < AndroidKitKat> i did 08:41 < rpgio> because that's always what it says out the box 08:42 < nai> you can use a udev rule to make /sys/class/backlight/your_backlight/brightness belong to the group "video" and make it chmod 664 08:42 < nai> then add yourself to the group video and you can write to it 08:42 < azarus> nai has a pretty good idea 08:42 < nai> taken from the arch wiki to be honest 08:42 < azarus> now -- i do doubt AndroidKitKat is capable of writing udev rules 08:42 < AndroidKitKat> ^ 08:43 * iflema forgets... Fn buttons have worked for over a year now 08:43 < AndroidKitKat> I mainly use Budgie for my DE 08:43 < nai> just go to the arch wiki, "backlight" article 08:43 < nai> copy paste the lines 08:43 < AndroidKitKat> people pressured me into trying i3 08:43 < azarus> don't give into peer pressure? 08:43 < AndroidKitKat> naturally 08:43 < rpgio> unless you want a tiling wm 08:44 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: it can save power,save distraction but i can also be a pin 08:44 < rpgio> which is great 08:44 < rpgio> you should try i3 08:44 < rpgio> ... ;) 08:44 < iflema> it pain 08:44 < AndroidKitKat> thats what im trying right now 08:44 < AndroidKitKat> and its caused more headache than workflow improvement 08:44 < azarus> I abandoned i3 a while ago for dwm, which would be even more of a pain to most 08:45 < azarus> change config? recompile 08:45 < nai> you should try bspwm 08:45 < iflema> i3: change config mod+r 08:45 < AndroidKitKat> I dont really see the benefit of a tiling wm, when the tiling my DE had built in worked for me 08:45 < azarus> AndroidKitKat: well then stay with budgie 08:45 < nai> reload config on bspwm: run ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc 08:46 < azarus> you're probably not the type to benefit from a tiling vm 08:46 < nai> AndroidKitKat: what DE has builtin tiling support? 08:46 < AndroidKitKat> It’s not exact tiling 08:46 * iflema looks out the vindow 08:46 < AndroidKitKat> But it’s got stuff to throw windows side by side 08:46 < AndroidKitKat> And atop each other kinda 08:47 < azarus> dwm master/stack and being tag based is what won me over 08:47 < iflema> containers! 08:47 < AndroidKitKat> Containers are confusing 08:47 < azarus> no other wm works quite like it and I like it very much 08:48 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: hear here 08:48 < AndroidKitKat> like if there was a visual indication for what was and what wasnt in a container 08:49 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: there is 08:49 < azarus> adjust PS1? 08:49 < AndroidKitKat> i dont see it then 08:49 < iflema> still confusing 08:49 < iflema> might read how to use them one day... 08:49 < iflema> did once 08:49 < AndroidKitKat> i want to go back to the safety of budgie but i promised myself id learn i3 08:50 < AndroidKitKat> ive done this 3 times before and ive quit 08:50 < nai> what's a container 08:50 < iflema> dmenu is mad 08:50 < iflema> nai: a group of tiled windows 08:50 < nai> oh, so it's bspwm's nodes 08:51 < AndroidKitKat> ok so nai i made the udev rule 08:51 < AndroidKitKat> now i just have to learn shell scripting? 08:51 < AndroidKitKat> i understand what i need to do 08:52 < nai> or use xbacklight 08:52 < azarus> "I wanna be cool and hip but I don't know how" -- AndroidKitKat 08:52 < AndroidKitKat> i want to learn 08:52 < nai> if you want to learn scripting then make a script, that's a good exercise 08:52 < FreeFull> I use a python script 08:52 < azarus> there are thousands of ways to do it 08:53 < iflema> learn the bash 08:53 < nai> you just need to read a brightness value from brightness, read a max brightness from max_brightness, do a calculation and store the result back in brightness 08:53 < AndroidKitKat> yeah 08:53 < AndroidKitKat> its the syntax that is weird 08:53 < AndroidKitKat> of a bash script 08:53 < azarus> #!/bin/sh, the only true shell 08:53 < nai> head over to #bash and read the guide 08:53 < nai> sh is not even a shell 08:53 < nai> it's a standard 08:54 < azarus> *it's *the* standard 08:54 < nai> who cares about standard 08:55 < azarus> people that aren't bound to a single operating system and need portability 08:55 < nai> let's make everything platform dependent 08:55 < nai> on my platform preferably 08:55 < azarus> best idea 2018 08:55 < azarus> nobel prize worthy 08:55 < nai> i'm claiming it 08:56 < azarus> most of my systems don't even have bash >:) 08:56 < nai> is that emote meant to imply that you use freebsd? 08:56 < azarus> nope 08:56 < azarus> alpine linux and openbsd 08:57 < nai> then what systems lol 08:57 < nai> oh 08:57 < nai> alpine doesn't have bash? 08:57 < nai> damn, i'm never trying that 08:57 < azarus> nope 08:57 < azarus> you can install it 08:57 < azarus> but why would you? 08:58 < azarus> all of busybox -- including a fully functional shell and many utilitites are smaller than bash 08:58 < nai> because bash is the one true shell 08:59 < gzuh> no one repping zsh? 09:00 < nai> ew 09:00 < gzuh> haha 09:00 < gzuh> agreed, but i see it all over 09:00 < iflema> all over what 09:00 < P_B> ...what is neither a file, nor directory, and has permissions crw------- ? 09:01 < nai> a character device of course 09:01 < P_B> at /dev/mapper/control 09:01 < gzuh> iflema: reddit, youtube, etc 09:01 < P_B> What is a character device? 09:01 < iflema> and archlinux 09:01 < nai> P_B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file#Character_devices 09:01 < AndroidKitKat> should I have my brightness level go by a set # or a % 09:01 < gzuh> iflema: yeah that's probably it too. just started using arch a few mos ago 09:02 < P_B> uhm. okay, so what is it? 09:02 < nai> AndroidKitKat: you probably want a linear % increase 09:02 < AndroidKitKat> i was thinking too 09:03 < AndroidKitKat> you think 5%? 09:03 < iflema> P_B: a device that sends characters 09:04 < iflema> P_B: you listing /dev 09:04 < nai> AndroidKitKat: that's up to you. i have 2% 09:05 < AndroidKitKat> this is probably all wrong 09:05 < AndroidKitKat> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/13ERWPhZ/ 09:05 < AndroidKitKat> i need to learn the syntax 09:05 < AndroidKitKat> but the idea is right 09:05 < AndroidKitKat> i think 09:05 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: thge math 09:06 < AndroidKitKat> is it wrong? 09:06 < gzuh> put math in $[] 09:06 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: syntax 09:07 < AndroidKitKat> but i have the calling of the variables right? 09:07 < nai> well this is nothing like a bash script, but yeah the idea is about right 09:07 < nai> except you probably want 0.02 for 2% 09:07 < AndroidKitKat> bash has weird syntax compared to other things ive worked with 09:07 < gzuh> $ before the variables when calling them, but not when setting them 09:07 < AndroidKitKat> yeah i realize that lol 09:07 < P_B> iflema, yeah, was looking in /dev/mapper. The concept is new to me. 09:07 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: also variables prepend a $ so $max_brightness 09:07 < P_B> I gather certain hardware is talked to in such a fashion, rather than sending larger blocks of data 09:08 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: when you call them 09:08 < AndroidKitKat> i also have to write to the file too 09:08 < nai> P_B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_mapper 09:09 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: and when done chmod +x [file] and run it like ./[file] 09:09 < AndroidKitKat> i have little faith in this 09:09 < gzuh> use > to redirect to file. 09:09 < AndroidKitKat> i still need to write to the brightness file 09:09 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: but youll also have opts and args so ./file something 09:09 < vhudrox> https://imgur.com/a/B5ids 09:09 < vhudrox> discuss. 09:10 < AndroidKitKat> nsfw 09:10 < vhudrox> dude dont be a spoiler 09:10 < vhudrox> its a surprise 09:10 < AndroidKitKat> its a naked women 09:10 < AndroidKitKat> woman 09:10 < vhudrox> if you spend company time on chat anyway 09:10 < AndroidKitKat> dont click 09:10 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: xbacklight not working? 09:10 < AndroidKitKat> iflema: still no 09:10 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: xbacklight and i3 keybings 09:10 < AndroidKitKat> id like that to work 09:10 < vhudrox> then who gives any different amount of shits if you see tits 09:11 < AndroidKitKat> i added something to xorg.conf but im not sure 09:11 < nai> AndroidKitKat: have you joined the video group and rebooted? 09:11 < vhudrox> if you're already abusing company resources if you are on irc 09:11 < vhudrox> on your work machine 09:11 < AndroidKitKat> i have to reboot? 09:11 < AndroidKitKat> not just restart xorg? 09:11 < AndroidKitKat> i also have not joined the video group 09:11 < vhudrox> then you blame me if I paste a bad link and you click it with no description 09:11 < vhudrox> ? 09:11 < nai> vhudrox: why send this here? this is a topical channel 09:12 < vhudrox> nai: im sending it to all chans 09:12 < vhudrox> one at a time ofc 09:12 < AndroidKitKat> send it to #Solus 09:12 < nai> AndroidKitKat: gpasswd -a video 09:12 < nai> then reboot for the udev rule to take effect 09:12 < vhudrox> ok 09:12 < vhudrox> done 09:12 < nai> vhudrox: why 09:12 < nai> are you 13 09:13 < AndroidKitKat> he acts like it 09:13 < AndroidKitKat> user video doesnt exist nai 09:13 < nai> woops other way around 09:14 < nai> gpasswd -a you video 09:14 < AndroidKitKat> ok reboot 09:15 < AndroidKitKat> I think I fucked my system 09:15 < nai> lmao 09:16 < AndroidKitKat> https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/RMEVA5DR/1523258159.JPG 09:16 < nai> what did you do 09:16 < vhudrox> nai im 21 09:16 < vhudrox> and thats how many inches my cock is too! 09:16 < nai> ok cool vhudrox 09:16 < AndroidKitKat> I can’t startx 09:16 < nai> how 09:16 < azarus> AndroidKitKat: what error message does it give you 09:17 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: what did you change in xorg.conf and why do you even have one? 09:17 < AndroidKitKat> I added a line 09:17 < nai> the suspense is unbearable 09:17 < AndroidKitKat> And it didn’t take well 09:18 < nai> what line 09:18 < vhudrox> i also am evading k-lines 09:18 < vhudrox> im such a hax0r 09:18 < AndroidKitKat> Where’s xorg contained again 09:18 < rpgio> AndroidKitKat: did you submerge your monitor in beach sand? 09:18 < iflema> /etc/X11/org.conf.d 09:18 < iflema> /etc/X11/org.conf 09:19 < AndroidKitKat> Rpgio sadly no 09:19 < vhudrox> testicle farts 09:19 < vhudrox> lol pooooooooop 09:19 < vhudrox> scrotum 09:19 < vhudrox> vagina 09:19 < vhudrox> vulva 09:19 < iflema> penis 09:19 < vhudrox> clitoris 09:19 < junka> ban 09:19 < AndroidKitKat> That’s what I added https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/TufKdBUM/1523258372.JPG 09:19 < nai> vhudrox: you're not fun, interesting or edgy 09:20 < AndroidKitKat> I’ll remove that file 09:21 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: that would go into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d 09:21 < iflema> its a snippet 09:21 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: xorg.conf.d is a directory 09:21 < nai> yup, that's supposed to go into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/NN-backlight.conf 09:21 < nai> where NN is a priority number 09:21 < gzuh> AndroidKitKat: i think i fixed your script if you still want it. i can't test it tho bc i don't have a backlight. http://termbin.com/6gbk 09:21 < nai> but anyway AndroidKitKat i don't think you need that 09:22 < AndroidKitKat> Reboot isn’t found anymore 09:22 < nai> X should be smart enough to not need that information 09:22 < AndroidKitKat> By Zach 09:22 < AndroidKitKat> Zsh 09:22 < nai> wut 09:22 < iflema> lol 09:22 < nai> "reboot" without the caps? 09:22 < AndroidKitKat> Yep 09:22 < nai> try systemctl reboot 09:22 < AndroidKitKat> https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/Om6d5TlG/1523258570.JPG 09:23 < AndroidKitKat> That worked 09:23 < rpgio> shutdown -r 09:23 < iflema> ctrl+alt+f2 then ctrl+alt+ del 09:23 < nai> you have the weirdest issues 09:23 < gzuh> or sudo 09:23 < AndroidKitKat> It’s my distro 09:23 < nai> change it 09:23 < nai> lol 09:24 < AndroidKitKat> But it’s so nice 09:24 < AndroidKitKat> Fast and boots in seconds 09:24 < gzuh> AndroidKitKat: what distro? 09:24 < AndroidKitKat> Solus 09:24 < iflema> AndroidKitKat: as in you made it or you chose it? 09:24 < azarus> a distro without `reboot`? 09:24 < AndroidKitKat> reboot works normally 09:24 < azarus> even alpine has it xD 09:25 < AndroidKitKat> in x reboot works fine 09:25 < nai> iflema: i doubt he made it :) 09:25 < AndroidKitKat> yeah lol 09:25 < nai> uhhh 09:25 < nai> maybe your xinitrc extends your PATH to include that reboot executable 09:25 < gzuh> did you try sudo reboot 09:25 < nai> which is weird cause on arch it's under /usr/bin 09:25 < iflema> lol 09:25 < AndroidKitKat> i rebooted fine 09:25 < AndroidKitKat> ok 09:25 < nai> gzuh: sudo won't fix "command not found" 09:25 < gzuh> no? 09:26 < AndroidKitKat> lets try gzuh's script 09:26 < azarus> sudo might have a different PATH 09:26 < nai> AndroidKitKat: can you try xbacklight first? it's supposed to work now 09:26 < AndroidKitKat> oh right 09:26 < gzuh> in debian reboot is in /sbin 09:26 < AndroidKitKat> and nope 09:26 < geirha> yeah sudo is usually configured to set its own PATH 09:28 < nai> nope, at least on arch sudo uses your path 09:28 < nai> AndroidKitKat: what nope? not working? what error message? 09:28 < AndroidKitKat> same one 09:28 < AndroidKitKat> no output device with backlight 09:29 < nai> can you write to the backlight file? try "echo 1000 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness" 09:30 < AndroidKitKat> permission denied hmm 09:30 < AndroidKitKat> even sudo cant wut 09:30 < nai> AndroidKitKat: run groups 09:30 < gzuh> try running as root. you can't sudo that because of the redirect 09:30 < nai> AndroidKitKat: and also ls -la /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/ 09:31 < gzuh> unless there's an option for sudo that lets you do redirects that i don't know 09:31 < nai> no there's not 09:31 < gzuh> sudo su then run the command 09:31 < AndroidKitKat> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/3AdiR3BS/ 09:31 < nai> sudo echo is pointless 09:31 < azarus> echo asdoiqwe | sudo tee -a /your/file 09:31 < gzuh> azarus: ooh nice 09:31 < nai> AndroidKitKat: you forgot the trailing / 09:31 < AndroidKitKat> oh oops 09:31 < nai> i'm interested in the contents of that folder 09:32 < AndroidKitKat> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/fYsIEfsm/ 09:32 < nai> yes azarus , or sudo cat >> /your/file <<< your_text 09:33 < azarus> hanetzer: hmm, the redirect works as a user, not as root, I believe 09:33 < nai> AndroidKitKat: it seems like your udev rule didn't work 09:33 < azarus> nai^^* 09:33 < nai> can you confirm that there's a file under /etc/udev/rules.d and cat his content? 09:33 < nai> azarus: true, my bad 09:34 < nai> s/his/its/ 09:34 < AndroidKitKat> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/g3SoHWmw/ 09:34 < nai> look at me gendering files 09:34 < gzuh> nai: i was gonna make a joke about assuming gender 09:34 * azarus is triggered 09:34 < iflema> NOPASSWD a script or alias OR better yet use something like xbacklight 09:35 < AndroidKitKat> no joke my school's linux servers have an alias so woman command gives the manual 09:35 < nai> AndroidKitKat: there's something missing in that file. i see there's a backup (file ending with ~), can you cat this? 09:35 < gzuh> AndroidKitKat: lol 09:35 < nai> lmao 09:35 < iflema> =) 09:35 < AndroidKitKat> its empty nai 09:35 < peetaur2> AndroidKitKat: don't you mean womanual? 09:35 < AndroidKitKat> youre right 09:35 < nai> AndroidKitKat: then you failed at some point when entering the rules 09:36 < iflema> man women 09:36 < nai> there's supposed to be 2 lines 09:36 < nai> peetaur2: do you know "man" ? 09:36 < peetaur2> nai: no, and what's a linux? 09:36 < nai> iflema: No manual entry for women 09:36 < AndroidKitKat> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/backlight#Udev_rule shows one line 09:36 < nai> oh it's some kind of animal 09:37 < nai> AndroidKitKat: there was a misunderstanding, i wasn't talking about that rule 09:37 < nai> my fault, sorry 09:37 < AndroidKitKat> ah 09:37 < nai> look for the other udev snippet 09:37 < nai> "By default, only root can change the brightness by this method." 09:37 < AndroidKitKat> ah 09:38 < iflema> oh yeah 09:39 < AndroidKitKat> should i delete the other file? 09:39 < AndroidKitKat> now i need to do something to this file too, dont i 09:39 < stevendale> Hey 09:39 < nai> AndroidKitKat: just replace its content with those 2 lines 09:40 < AndroidKitKat> should i change "acpi_video0" to "intel_backlight" 09:40 < AndroidKitKat> ok i did it i think 09:40 < AndroidKitKat> i have to add this to the video group right 09:41 < nai> AndroidKitKat: yes, change the name of your subsystem 09:41 < nai> and no you don't need to do that 09:41 < AndroidKitKat> so i should just reboot? 09:41 < nai> yes 09:43 < AndroidKitKat> alright 09:43 < AndroidKitKat> nothing happened 09:43 < nai> rerun that ls -la command 09:44 < AndroidKitKat> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/FY77NvIr/ 09:44 < nai> i meant on /sys 09:45 < nai> also delete that "backlight.rules~" 09:45 < AndroidKitKat> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/5Oq7FZj1/ 09:45 < AndroidKitKat> thats /sys unless you meant on the backlight thing 09:46 < AndroidKitKat> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/D1hQCpw4/ 09:46 < nai> yes, that's what i meant 09:46 < nai> well now it's supposed to be working 09:47 < nai> you can check that you can write to it by doing echo 1000 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness 09:47 < AndroidKitKat> yeah it works 09:47 < nai> and xbacklight? 09:47 < AndroidKitKat> no outputs 09:48 < nai> what are you running 09:48 < AndroidKitKat> Solus 09:48 < nai> no, the command 09:49 < nai> try xbacklight =100 09:49 < AndroidKitKat> ah 09:49 < AndroidKitKat> no outputs 09:49 < nai> damn 09:50 < shhr> hello 09:50 < nai> can you ls -la /sys/class/backlight/ ? 09:50 < nai> and run xbacklight -list 09:51 < AndroidKitKat> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/fRCPF1MT/ 09:53 < nai> ok, this is not the same xbacklight as what i have 09:53 < AndroidKitKat> I got whatever was in the solus repos 09:53 < nai> try xbacklight -d "$DISPLAY" = 100 09:53 < nai> oh yeah i use acpilight 09:54 < nai> that's probably it 09:54 < AndroidKitKat> still no outpit 09:54 < nai> and your screen brightness didn't change right? 09:54 < AndroidKitKat> stayed the same 09:55 < nai> i installed xorg-xbacklight on my system and it doesn't work either 09:56 < nai> how can this be so broken 09:56 < amosbird> Hi, why do we use "unlink" instead of "delete" or "remove" ? 09:56 < AndroidKitKat> acpilight isnt in my repos either 09:56 < nai> > xbacklight currently does not work with the modesetting driver 09:56 < nai> well, you're out of luck with xbacklight lol 09:57 < nai> AndroidKitKat: well, you're left with writing a script 09:57 < nai> shouldn't be too hard 09:57 < AndroidKitKat> gzuh: had a script 09:57 < AndroidKitKat> http://termbin.com/6gbk 09:57 < AndroidKitKat> how does that look? 09:57 < gzuh> well i just tried to fix yours. I don't know if it works or not 09:58 < AndroidKitKat> it make sense 09:58 < AndroidKitKat> what its having it do 09:58 < nai> no spaces around "=" for assignments 09:59 < gzuh> deng 09:59 < nai> also don't use bc for that 09:59 < nai> step=$(( max_brightness * 2/100 )) 10:00 < MrElendig> https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide 10:00 < MrElendig> but why reinvent the wheel? 10:00 < MrElendig> there are about 5000 backlight scripts/tools out there 10:00 < AndroidKitKat> should it have the $ before max_brightness? 10:01 < nai> MrElendig: why use a script/tool when you can reinvent the wheel? 10:01 < gzuh> nai: on my system that doesn't handle the fraction properly. 10:01 < nai> $ is optional in arithmetic context 10:01 < MrElendig> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/backlight#Other_utilities 10:01 < nai> you can put it if it makes you feel better 10:01 < nai> gzuh: that's because you don't use bash 10:01 < gzuh> i do use bash 10:02 < gzuh> maybe i was testing with smaller than reasonable numbers. does it just round answers to wholes? 10:02 < nai> yes, it rounds 10:02 < gzuh> i see 10:02 < AndroidKitKat> i might just go back to budgie 10:02 < AndroidKitKat> this is a pita 10:02 < nai> operators have left-to-right precedence 10:02 < nai> so it does *2 first and then /100 10:03 < AndroidKitKat> and idk about you guys but its 4 am here 10:03 < nai> 8 pm here 10:03 < gzuh> oh duh. i bash script all the time, but y'all always remind me how bad I am haha 10:04 < nai> lo 10:04 < nai> l 10:04 < AndroidKitKat> fwiw the script works 10:06 < AndroidKitKat> except i cant decrease the brightnes by flipping the + to a i 10:06 < AndroidKitKat> - 10:06 < AndroidKitKat> invalid argument 10:06 < AndroidKitKat> hm 10:07 < AndroidKitKat> ya i cant get it to go down 10:07 < gzuh> what exactly are you switching? 10:07 < AndroidKitKat> i switched the step from a + to a - 10:08 < AndroidKitKat> https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/3HRqMR3O/ 10:08 < gzuh> swap current brighness and step 10:09 < gzuh> you're probably getting a negative number or something 10:10 < AndroidKitKat> it works! 10:10 < AndroidKitKat> u guys fucking rock 10:10 < nai> bad at math are we ;) 10:10 < AndroidKitKat> so now to bind these finally 10:11 < nai> you're still using bc for the simple substraction lol 10:12 < AndroidKitKat> i didnt write it 10:12 < nai> $(( current_brightness - step )) 10:12 < junka> AndroidKitKat; pls upgrade to Oreo 10:12 < revel> junka: What about Android P? 10:13 < junka> revel; its not available yet, or is it? 10:14 < revel> I think it is for Pixel devices. 10:14 < revel> At the very least as a preview. 10:14 < AndroidKitKat> how to i restart i3 quickly? 10:14 < nai> mod+r 10:14 < AndroidKitKat> mod + something 10:15 < AndroidKitKat> thats resize for me 10:15 < junka> r for revel 10:15 < junka> revel; and its still experimental 10:15 < revel> r? 10:16 < junka> AndroidKitKat; sudo reboot 10:16 < revel> I didn't say it was currently stable. 10:16 < junka> revel; thats true 10:16 < revel> Restarting the DM is probably quicker than a reboot. 10:17 < revel> Not that it's a great option. 10:17 < AndroidKitKat> it works 10:17 < AndroidKitKat> sweet 10:17 < AndroidKitKat> holy shit that took forever 10:17 < AndroidKitKat> tysm guys 10:18 < revel> Rebooting worked? lol 10:18 < junka> AndroidKitKat; we gladly accept android devices 10:18 < AndroidKitKat> lol 10:18 < AndroidKitKat> im going to go to bed 10:18 < AndroidKitKat> :) 10:18 < revel> If it only restarted i3, then something's wrong. 10:19 < junka> AndroidKitKat; have a good night 10:19 < revel> I remember something like that happening when /run/initctl disappeared. 10:25 < mavihs> Hola! I'm going to SSH man page, and I came across "Qq challenge text" during authentication. I searched whole internet but couldn't find what is "Qq" challenge text exactly. Can anyone point me to the right direction? 10:33 < peetaur2> mavihs: where do you see "Qq challenge text"? 10:35 < MrElendig> my ssh man page does not contain the string "Qq" 10:35 < MrElendig> nor "challenge text" 10:36 < MrElendig> SSH(1) that is 10:36 < katana_knife> MrElendig: ssh man page is a manual page, isnt it? 10:37 < stevendale> OwO 10:39 < hexnewbie> http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/cgi/manweb.cgi?p=ssh exists here, appears to be pretty old version of the man page because it lacks mentions of ecdsa 10:41 < Lope> I have Ubuntu 16.04 on an SSD. When I boot it on computer A, my main ethernet adapter is enp3s0 and when I boot it in computer B, the main eth adapter is it's enp5s0. How can I make it rename (preferably only these eth adapters) to maineth0 or something like that? 10:41 < MrElendig> Lope: why care about the name? 10:41 < MrElendig> but https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ 10:41 < peetaur2> new manual says this instead, Challenge-response authentication works as follows: The server sends an arbitrary "challenge" text, and prompts for a response. Examples of challenge-response authentication include BSD Authentication (see login.conf(5)) and PAM (some non-OpenBSD systems). 10:42 < MrElendig> debian messes with that though 10:42 < MrElendig> debian/ubuntu* 10:42 < Lope> MrElendig: I need the main eth adapter inside my bridge 10:42 < hexnewbie> Lope: And? 10:42 < peetaur2> so maybe Qq is what people used before quotes were invented 10:42 < MrElendig> if the machine only have one anyway, then you could just add whatever that is to the bridge 10:42 < Lope> hexnewbie: "bridge_ports enp3s0" doesn't work on the pc where the eth is called enp5s0 10:43 < MrElendig> don't have to know the name beforehand 10:43 < hexnewbie> Lope: So use bridge_ports enp5_s0 ? 10:43 < hexnewbie> s/_// 10:43 < jim> Lope, your OS has noticed that they are three different devices 10:43 < MrElendig> and if multiple you could go by whatever has a link 10:43 < Lope> hexnewbie: I use the same SSD in 2 computers, I don't want to edit the file every time I put the SSD in the other computer 10:44 < MrElendig> could also simply use two profiles 10:44 < Lope> jim: OS hasn't noticed anything, I've defined the bridge in /etc/network/interfaces and "bridge_ports enp3s0" needs to name the appropriate adapter. 10:44 < hexnewbie> Lope: MrElendig will tell you how to rename the cards. However, I'm not sure it will like it if you rename two cards to the same name 10:44 < hexnewbie> Lope: MrElendig's links I mean 10:45 < Lope> hexnewbie: the 2 cards exist on 2 different computers that don't run simultaneously. 10:45 < hexnewbie> Lope: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.link.html 10:45 < Lope> So it doesn't matter if both get renamed to the same name. 10:45 < jim> no, it has: they are three different computers, and each has a different eth, so they name them differently 10:45 < hexnewbie> Lope: It may matter to systemd 10:46 < Lope> otherwise I need to setup my bridge in a script, instead of /etc/network/interfaces. 10:46 < jim> maybe you could put a custom script in the initrd? 10:46 < hexnewbie> Lope: Well, try it 10:47 < hexnewbie> Lope: Example 3 from the page may be what you want, but if you don't know how to find the path - you can use the MAC address and example 2. 10:48 < Lope> hexnewbie: MAC address sounds like an awesome method! 10:49 < MrElendig> until you start to randomise the mac 10:49 < interrobang> hello 10:49 < MrElendig> seen people set up renames based on mac and then do randomised mac and then complain that systemd is shit for breaking the network names 10:49 < MrElendig> ^_^ 10:50 < jim> hi 10:50 < interrobang> after creating a "cgroup" for limit I/O to a specific process, my hole system are very slow^ 10:50 < interrobang> some processes dont respond and so on 10:50 < Lope> can I make systemd rename my eth adapter now without rebooting? 10:51 < MrElendig> interrobang: you put everything into said cgroup instead of just the single process? 10:51 < interrobang> I've did this, create a cgroup v1: https://andrestc.com/post/cgroups-io/ 10:51 < Lope> Wow, I just learned a cool trick! ip link set eth1 name eth123 10:51 < MrElendig> Lope: depending on how you do the rename and if it is use yes 10:51 < MrElendig> interrobang: you really should use v2 10:51 < tx> why is that a cool trick tho 10:51 < Triffid_Hunter> interrobang: is the service you limited something that everything else talks to? 10:52 < interrobang> no, its a perl process 10:52 < interrobang> and in this file are only two PIDs, the perl and his child /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/g1/cgroup.procs 10:52 < Lope> But I've added a file /etc/systemd/network/10-maineth.link as per example 3 10:53 < Lope> but using a MAC address. 10:53 < interrobang> and removing croup1 also dont work 10:53 < interrobang> sudo rm -rf /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/g1 - fail :( 10:53 < MrElendig> if the interface is in use then it can't be renamed, otherwise just start it 10:53 < Lope> brb 10:54 < hey2> Hey 10:54 < hey2> Is there a way to change the keyboard locale from terminal? 10:54 < hey2> stuck as azerty lol 10:55 < mavihs> looks like "Qq" is indeed "quotes" that's funny 10:55 < mavihs> I searched the whole internet if it was a specific type of a challenge response algorithm 10:56 < mavihs> I used man on my centos 7 with openssh_7.5, I don't think that's old 10:56 < mavihs> but I see "Qq" instead of quotes 10:57 < Lope> MrElendig: hexnewbie: it didn't work :/ 10:57 < Lope> I rebooted, but no dice. 11:00 < MrElendig> as I said: ubuntu might be messing with it 11:01 < MrElendig> specially since 16.04 is a frankenstein setup with a 20000 year old systemd version 11:01 < MrElendig> try a udev rule instead, or just read the ubuntu docs 11:01 < MrElendig> (or just have two profiles= 11:01 < hexnewbie> MrElendig: Rename on MAC together with random MAC is something I accomplished to do on 20-30 servers last year. Automated conversation between hypervisors and configs, no MAC in hypervisor config, old hypervisor used interface numbering from config file, and a MAC rename was inherited from when the VM was a hardware machine. It was... fun :) 11:02 < Lope> MrElendig: hexnewbie: trying answer 1 here. rebooting: https://superuser.com/questions/914646/renaming-network-interface-with-systemd 11:04 < hexnewbie> Sounds like NetworkManager's fault rather than fault of systemd and a networkd requirement as the first answer states 11:05 < hexnewbie> The only thing I know about NetworkManager is that it's the thing I had to scrub from Kubuntu to get eth0 to ‘connect’ and get IP from DHCP. 11:05 < LinuxUser44> test 11:05 < Zexaron> Hello 11:06 < stevendale> Hi hexnewbie 11:06 < MrElendig> networkmanager usually works just fine 11:06 < Zexaron> How could I make linux to ignore middle mouse clicks after each time it is pressed, some kind of a cooldown, so it only registery 1 click per second 11:06 < LinuxUser44> Hello, is there a way to see system calls for a process while gdb is attached to that process? If I do ´strace -p 12345´ it tells me permission denied 11:07 < hexnewbie> Well, back then it told me my cable was unplugged, so I apt-get purge'd it, set up /etc/network/interfaces entry and did that ever since :) 11:07 < milp_2> hi there, which way around was swappiness? I have 8 gigs and would like my system to use 90% without swapping - do i need to set 90 or 10 swappiness? 11:07 < MrElendig> Zexaron: write a custom hid driver or hack into xorg 11:07 < MrElendig> Zexaron: sounds like a xyproblem though... 11:07 < MrElendig> fix your broken mouse button instead 11:08 < jelly> milp_2: 10 or 1. It's not a percentage value really. 11:08 < milp_2> jelly: can you please elaborate? i thought it was a percentage 11:08 < hexnewbie> Overcomplicated overengineered Rube Goldberg devices work fine when they work fine, but it's no point for me waiting for when they wouldn't :) 11:08 < Zexaron> MrElendig: on windows this can easily be done with autohotkey script, so linux is 20 years behind in this area, so much for "TEH OPENSOURCE" 11:08 < jelly> milp_2: it's a hint telling the kernel how aggressive to be 11:09 < stevendale> Um 11:09 < Zexaron> No, I will not buy another mouse just because the button is broken, unless you volunteer to buy me a new one 11:09 < Zexaron> Got more important things to spend money on 11:09 < stevendale> Windows couldn't really do that prior to 2K an XP Zexaron 11:10 < hey2> People pay more for that actually Zexaron 11:10 < MrElendig> Zexaron: bs 11:10 < hey2> my macbook has no clickers 11:10 < stevendale> So it's only... 17 years 11:10 < MrElendig> Zexaron: feel free to write a similar tool for gnu/linux 11:10 < MrElendig> Zexaron: also, linux is just a kernel, why should it care about this? 11:10 < Zexaron> I would assume such tools to already exist, jeez 11:11 < MrElendig> Zexaron: this is a really strange use case.... 11:11 < JanC> tools exist when people feel the need for them & write them... 11:11 < Zexaron> this should be a conf file, pretty standard type of flexibilty any kind and advanced OS that's positioning it self as a competitor should have 11:11 < MrElendig> Zexaron: patches welcomed 11:11 < hexnewbie> Yeah, spending money on a new mouse when your mouse buttons are malfunctioning is always a good idea. Having to work with broken buttons is a productivity killer (not to mention painful; I was on Windows at the time), and a new mouse costs less than a pizza. 11:12 < MrElendig> hexnewbie: or just swap the switch, usually trivial to do 11:13 < JanC> did you try cleaning that mouse internally? :) 11:13 < MrElendig> new chinese omron clone costs 0.5€ including shipping 11:13 < ghulan> ;; 11:13 < Zexaron> Okay I had a moment of ghasp, but the point is, the mouse is not really old, so I'm stuck with it, the warranty is still but the company behind the mouse went bankrup 11:14 < hexnewbie> Well, I would also go bankrupt if my customers sent me back *all* their hardware for replacement 11:14 < milp_2> if i have 3 seperate disks and i create a swap partition on each one, will the kernel load-balance swap-IO? 11:14 < Zexaron> Plus, it's hard to get a new one because I want the ones with sidescroller, but MadCatz came back now, so it looks good 11:15 < MrElendig> milp_2: if you are using swap you are doing it wrong 11:15 < MrElendig> using as in relying on it 11:16 < MrElendig> will be slow as hell no matter what you do 11:16 < JanC> it can't really load balance swap IO 11:16 < milp_2> mrelendig: i know, but the shipment of memory upgrade has not arrived yet, its stuck in delivery and i need to work on this machine 11:16 < hexnewbie> Zexaron: Something I did when my mouse got out of warranty and I couldn't replace it anymore: Take apart a cheap mouse, unsolder the mouse button switch (some are for sale on the Internet so you can even buy a bag), and I replaced the switches on my fancy mouse. 11:16 < milp_2> uuh ok, so if i create a raid10 to use as swap, that would potenntially speed it up, wouldnt it? 11:17 < Zexaron> MrElendig: Allright, if I get serious about this, where would I start, I would like to put this directly into the linux distro or even kernel, not some fringe program that few people would even know exists ... should it be possible to do this in driver? 11:17 < JanC> milp_2: are you using zram already? 11:17 < hexnewbie> Zexaron: There used to be two kind of button switches underneath, but now they are only this type IIRC: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1kVVHKVXXXXa2XXXXq6xXFXXXB/10pcs-lot-tripod-font-b-mouse-b-font-font-b-switch-b-font-font-b-button.jpg 11:18 < milp_2> JanC: no, do you think that would help? Ive used it on android devices but with limited success 11:18 < hexnewbie> Zexaron: Even the middle button / wheel uses those, but since the wheel is special I would first check if that's the kind of switch it uses (may be something custom for your mouse type) 11:18 < MrElendig> 95% of the cases it is just a standard off the shelf omron switch (or one of the clones) 11:18 < Zexaron> hexnewbie: I have just finished a 6+ months of craze house maintenance, along with several soldering projects, my health has deteriorated significantly, so that's why for the last 3 and 2 more months all expenses go to health, that's why I liked to avoid doing hardware repair 11:19 < MrElendig> don't sniff the solder smoke 11:19 < hexnewbie> Zexaron: Give it to a friend to repair it (I have terrible hands, did my mouse myself, but when I had to solder my sound card - I called a friend) 11:20 < hey2> MrElendig: what 11:20 < hey2> solder smells great 11:20 < Zexaron> No it wasn't the smoke, it was stress, bad food habit, on top of existing digestive issues, I mixed too much bad food for a few months now I only need to eat light soups :( 11:20 < hexnewbie> I'm so bad at soldering that this mouse (still working) has the button switch PCB tracks separated from the PCB, so the switch floats up and down if you lift it (but the button works :D ) 11:21 < Zexaron> Well there was a bit of smoke, I kept it ventilated, but that glue gun is also bad, anyone doing hot glue should watch out for that fumes too, headache 11:21 < MrElendig> could unmap the mouse button and enable the emulation 11:22 < MrElendig> hot glue usually doesn't give off much fumes at all 11:22 < hexnewbie> Zexaron: Or what MrElendig says. I enabled the third button emulation on one dying Logitech portable mouse. It's actually nicer in ways (you can't accidentally press that and scroll at the same time) 11:23 < MrElendig> https://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Pcs-Button-Switch-3Pin-Mouse-Switch-Microswitch-For-RAZER-Logitech-G700-Mouse/ etc 11:24 < Zexaron> But this should be doable in the drivers directly so it ships to most distros right? If I just plugged in my mouse and is using standard linux drivers right 11:24 < Zexaron> This one is RAT5 11:25 < Zexaron> In the end it's just a timer, "ignore until timer expires" ... but a proper solution would ofcourse be support for all the buttons, mouses have little buttons so it shouldn't be hard 11:26 < Dagmar> Buy less cheap hot glue 11:26 < Dagmar> I'm not even sure where I could buy hot glue that emits significant fumes 11:27 < hexnewbie> Zexaron: I suspect you could literally find which driver your system uses, edit the source and add 3 lines which suppress the event for 3 seconds. But that would be harder than soldering a new button. And less useful. 11:28 < Zexaron> Most of the time I enjoy such tweaking challenges, lots of history of that on windows 11:29 < Dagmar> You could always get fancy and use JB Weld 11:29 < Dagmar> It stinks, but it doesn't produce toxic fumes. It's just a metal epoxy, which is conductive. 11:30 < hey2> lol 11:30 < hey2> jbweld fixes everything 11:30 < Zexaron> hexnewbie: I'm on latest linux mint, let's see 11:33 < treefrob> can jbweld be installed on mint? 11:39 < Lope> MrElendig: hexnewbie: this worked BTW. echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{address}=="aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff", NAME="maineth"' >> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-mainnet-setup-link.rules 11:41 < Lope> BRB 11:55 < stevendale> Hi 12:00 < BluesKaj> Hi folks 12:00 < stevendale> Hi BluesKaj 12:00 < djph> o/ 12:00 < stevendale> If you need help with Windows, I'm your man, otherwise - anyone else in the channel 12:01 < djph> you're probably in teh wrong channel then stevendale ... 12:01 < stevendale> djph ##windows isn't too friendly 12:01 < BluesKaj> hi stevendale, djph 12:01 < hey2> lol 12:01 < stevendale> They keep banning me for using XP 12:18 < HaMsTeRs> hello guys, is there any free gui diassembler for linux similar to ida pro with decompile to pseudo code? 12:23 < djph> well ... 12:23 < djph> HaMsTeRs: not that I'm aware of. 12:24 < djph> stevendale: maybe, I dunno ... stop using Windows altogether :) 12:24 < oscarcp> quick question guys. On the new f string interpolation (py3.6) is there any wa to pass the string to f without being implicit? example: f(variable_name) where variable name contains the string 12:26 < djph> oscarcp: perhaps ask in #python (##python?) 12:27 < oscarcp> oh crap, wrong channel! XDDD 12:27 < oscarcp> sorry 12:37 < no26> Hello 12:37 < no26> I have a troubleshooting using a PCI-card who emulate a parallel card 12:37 < no26> When I connect my card, the irq line are connected to the irq16 who are a IO-APIC fasteoi 12:37 < no26> I want to move the irq from fasteoi to edge-triggered 12:37 < no26> It's possible ? 12:39 < c-c> Bios? 12:42 < no26> ( On Linux ) 12:43 < no26> I check the bios but it's not possible to change the irq line from it 12:43 < no26> The pci card use the physical irq11 line binded to virtual irq16 under linux 12:44 < CrazyH> Hwo do I check the spefic version of some random lib? I.E. an actual .so or .a file? 12:45 < djph> as far as I know, google for library.so.X. 12:46 < CrazyH> Isn't ldd supposted to do this... somehow? That's what I keep hearing, but no one ever tells me how. Also, google is not helping :-/ 12:47 < CrazyH> libncurses.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5 <-- basically, I need to find out the exact version of that. 5.x is not good enough 12:48 < CrazyH> having to use the package manager for that seem... retarded 12:48 < CrazyH> especially if I compiled it from source 12:50 < djph> CrazyH: ls -l? seems a lot of them are symlinks -- e.g. /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.9 12:52 < djph> granted that's just a stab in the dark 12:52 < stevendale> Just played Morrowind for the first time :P 12:52 < CrazyH> Thanks. I can't belive that's the solution to this... but it did reveal a sym link to version 5.9 12:59 < OS-36089> ============================================================= 13:00 < OS-36089> How to Compile with old GCC ? 13:00 < OS-36089> for example, my Kali linux has gcc 6.0, but I want to compile with gcc 4.0 13:00 < Stryyker> Why? 13:00 < djph> (1), don't use 72 = signs. (2) have something with that ancient gcc available. 13:02 < OS-36089> @Stryyker, because I want to run a binary in an Old linux machine 13:02 < OS-36089> and I dont have access to GCC in that machine 13:02 < OS-36089> I only know the version 13:02 < c-c> and you want to spam this chan? Go away 13:02 < stevendale> Be nice c-c 13:02 < OS-36089> so I want to compile in my own kali machine, but it has 6.0 13:03 < c-c> stevendale: I hope OS-36089 takes his = signs with him when he goes 13:03 < djph> c-c: agree 13:04 < OS-36089> c-c / djph that was a wrong copy paste.. you only found that to comment ? 13:05 < stevendale> We have no evidence that OS-36089 is a 'he' :) 13:05 < OS-36089> @ stevendale, I can show you the evidence 13:05 < OS-36089> but Im afraid will hurt you 13:05 < djph> OS-36089: GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection ... its version isn't inherently linked to whether a binary will run or not given an older compiler -- the CPU architecture will matter more (as will shared objects) 13:05 < holyhit> hi, I have a blackscreen during play zak mckracken. Someone can help me? 13:06 < stevendale> OS-36089: Actually, I'm gay 13:06 < OS-36089> @ djph thanks man, the problem, when I compile with newest gcc, and run this binary on the old linux, I hit many issues .. 13:06 < OS-36089> @djph okey, I see your point 13:07 < OS-36089> @ djph seems this is the wrong way of thinking 13:07 < OS-36089> @ djph thanks 13:08 < djph> ... this isn't twitter, you nitwit. 13:08 < jim> could be different libs, or different startup code or something along those lines, that originate from different compilers compiling stuff for the two linuxes 13:09 < djph> jim: yeah, I'd expect different libs or different CPU architecture as the two (easily checked) main culprits. although, it's been ages since I've cross-compiled for *old* hardware. 13:10 < OS-36089> jim thanks, in fact, the confusion I have, was thinking there is a mapping between a Kernel version and GCC version 13:11 < OS-36089> and different GCC produce different ASM for different Kernel 13:11 < stevendale> You could compile GCC 7 o/ 13:11 < OS-36089> but seems my way of thinking is wrong 13:12 < SkunkyFone> OS-36089: the enter key is not to be used instead of punctuation. 13:12 < OS-36089> in fact, here is way I got confused: when I compile my code in a system with GCC 4, it work fine on the old target machine 13:12 < jim> no calling people ni twits (even if it does seem twitterlike) 13:12 < OS-36089> but when compiling with GCC 6 or 7 , the binary produce lot of errors in the target machine 13:13 < OS-36089> SkunkyFone thanks , got it :) 13:13 < jim> OS-36089, it could be that two versions of gcc are compatible if their machine descriptions are compatible 13:14 < jim> in this case, we have two different gcc versions and either: two different gcc machine descriptsions, or two different sets of compiletime libs 13:14 < SkunkyFone> OS-36089: compiling on a system that's not been upgraded past gcc4 will most likely still have all the associated libraries from that era also.... 13:16 < OS-36089> jim, what do you mean please by "machine description" ? 13:17 < jim> , gcc is said to be "portable", which in the case of a compiler could also mean, you can make it produce asm code for a different cpu 13:17 < Hu4x3r1980> . 13:17 < jim> OS-36089, ^^ 13:19 < elmomani> hello, I cant format me sdcard to fat32 ,using mkfs.fat32 doesn't give any errors but I see unknown file system in gparted. 13:20 < jim> elmomani, can you mount the card? 13:20 < elmomani> jim: no 13:20 < jim> do you get a message when you try? 13:20 < SkunkyFone> elmomani: what did you format? /dev/sdX, or /dev/sdX1 ? 13:21 < elmomani> sdbX 13:21 < elmomani> I mean sdb1 13:21 < jim> ok, and sdb1 exists on the card? 13:22 < no26> Hello everyone. I have a pci-card with a parallel-port controller in. When I insert my pci-card, in the os view (linux) the card become a "parallel port" and I can use the card like the standard parallel port. When I insert the pci-card, the operating system bind the card with the irq16 who are "fasteoi" type. I need to move these irq from fasteoi to edge-triggered irq. I don't know if it's possible ? Thanks in advance. 13:22 < elmomani> jim: which card ? 13:23 < jim> elmomani, didn't you say sdb is an sdcard? 13:23 < elmomani> yeah 13:23 < elmomani> I can find sdb and sdb1 in /dev 13:24 < jim> ahh, I see that you did... ok, and you created a partition on the card (probably with (g)parted? 13:24 < jim> which probably means the partition exists 13:25 < elmomani> yes that's correct, I created a fat32 partition but after it's done without any errors and reload disk it says unknown filesystem 13:25 < SkunkyFone> no26: not all pci devices can be edge triggered 13:25 < s10gopal> first bad commit is found but even after doing patch -R , the problem is not solved , it is required to do git bisect again ? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1745646 13:25 < jim> what says unknown filesystem? 13:26 < no26> SkunkyFone: level-triggered at the finest ? 13:26 < elmomani> jim: I see on gparted sdb1 as unknown filesystem 13:27 < no26> SkunkyFone: The fasteoi cause me some trouble because of the infinite number of irq provided. 13:27 < jim> ok, could you try: mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1 13:27 < jim> (yes, it's probably syntatic sugar for the same thing) 13:28 < elmomani> yeah I did , it didnt give any errors but running fsck.fat after gives me logical sector is zero (which means unknown filesystem) 13:29 < SkunkyFone> elmomani: you don't have something trying to mount that filesystem as soon as it's built do you? that'll make fsck barf, if it's already mounted... 13:30 < elmomani> SkunkyFone: I cant even mount that partition :) ,and I'm sure it's not mounted 13:31 < elmomani> so :3 13:31 < Dagmar> Simplest explanation at this point is that it's dead 13:32 < elmomani> should I try dd zero ? 13:33 < jim> no data you want on the sdcard? 13:33 < elmomani> yup 13:33 < azarus> elmomani: dd zero wastes a write cycle 13:33 < azarus> kill it even more dead xD 13:33 < elmomani> what's write cycle ? :# 13:33 < Dagmar> Check syslog/dmesg for the errors 13:33 < azarus> sd cards have limited amount of writes 13:34 < azarus> if you just overwrite it completely, you waste of one write cycle 13:34 < elmomani> really ? :O 13:34 < azarus> elmomani: of course, that's how sd cards die 13:34 < jim> well sdcards have little tiny electronics on it to do writes and reads and such... those electronics are fragile 13:34 < azarus> sd cards have very few write cycles 13:34 < elmomani> how many I can cycle it ? 13:34 < azarus> depends 13:34 < oiaohm> elmomani: very brand and quality dependant. 13:35 < azarus> ^^ what oiaohm said 13:35 < jim> that's why the first ssds were so bad 13:35 < elmomani> I have created and deleted a lot of partitions on it before it was broken 13:36 < oiaohm> elmomani: high grade sd cards will do over 3000 cycles no problems. Some of the cheap card are lucky to do 100.. 13:36 < elmomani> how I know if its broken cuz of write cycle ? 13:36 < jim> h ow big is the sdcard? was it a pretty expensive card? 13:37 < elmomani> not much expensive ,sdhc 8GB costs 10$ 13:37 < azarus> ah, cheap sd card. i bet it's dead 13:37 < elmomani> how I could know ? 13:38 < azarus> check dmesg for errors? 13:38 < jim> also, what would you use such an sdcard for? 13:38 < elmomani> I use it for my phone 13:39 < elmomani> what the dmesg arguments should I give ? 13:39 < SkunkyFone> stick the card in the phone. if the phone sees it, it should format it 13:43 < TJ-> Has anyone read (and absorbed) the paper on the new branch prediction attack on Intel SGX etc via PHT (nicknamed BranchScope!) 13:56 < greenit> hi, is there an up-to-date site with notebooks compatible with linux and if not fully compatible what doesn't work? 13:57 < junka> h node 14:00 < greenit> hm... the notebook i'm interest in isn't listed there :/ 14:01 < jkemppainen> that doesn't mean Linux won't work on it. it's largely a function of what specific hardware it is 14:01 < jkemppainen> which notebook is it? specs? 14:04 < greenit> hp envy x360 ryzen edition ; as far as i've read it somewhat works with the 4.16 kernel except the touchscreen. however, a site which states what works and what doesn't work would be nice :) 14:04 < TJ-> greenit: do a general web search along the lines of "+linux problems" 14:07 < ice9> cryptsetup open /dev/sdb back; it doesn't ask about the passphrase, it does nothing; any idea? 14:08 < JimBuntu> TJ-, from what I see, instead of BTB, it's using the PHT. 14:09 < s10gopal> how to update bios ? hp only provide exe file , created a bios repair usb too , but os boots 14:10 < azarus> s10gopal: usb stick with freedos or something 14:10 < azarus> execute the exe from there 14:10 < TJ-> JimBuntu: yes.. the implications are in some ways worse that Spectre in that they can defeat ASLR, just 1 of several attacks shown. Inferring SGX content is a biggie too 14:10 < s10gopal> azarus: on windows 7 machine i created bios repair usb , and then inserted it on my laptop 14:11 < azarus> great 14:12 < s10gopal> azarus: when i select usb drive my boot devices , ubuntu boots 14:12 < azarus> well then your bios doesn't see it as bootable 14:13 < azarus> my suggestion still stands 14:13 < JimBuntu> TJ-, This shows that the good fight against general speculative exploits is going to be a lasting battle. We are probably only now starting to see the implications. 14:13 < s10gopal> azarus: can you please explain it ? or any doc ? 14:13 < jim> s10gopal, be very cautious if you're going to flash your motherboard's bios 14:14 < azarus> s10gopal: look it up 14:15 < revel> jim: What's the worst that could happen? :D 14:15 < TJ-> jim: yeah, its placing a heavy load on distro kernel teams too, not to mention the churn in kernel upgrades to users as the various spectre patches have caused so many regressions 14:15 < TJ-> s10gopal: prove the USb is bootable by using a virtual machine first 14:15 < Masterboy> hi there :) does anyone know how could I check if I have a usb-c usb 3.1 gen 2 10 gbps controller? lsusb does not show it. any other commands I could try? 14:16 < Masterboy> i know physically I have a usb-c port with ubs 3.1 gen 2 but i don't know if linux sees it and i don't have a usb-c device... 14:17 < Masterboy> lsusb shows a usb2 and a usb 3 hub but no usb 3.1 :/ 14:18 < TJ-> Masterboy: does "lsusb -v -d VVVV:PPPP" not show that info? 14:18 < TJ-> Masterboy: here I see, for a hub, "bcdUSB 3.00" 14:21 < Masterboy> TJ-, the command shows only usb 3 and usb 2 not usb-c 3.1 gen 2 :/ 14:22 < Masterboy> TJ-, unfortunately i don't have a usb-c device to check if the port is working 14:23 < TJ-> Masterboy: how about "sudo lshw -C bus -enable usb" and look at the 'capabilities' of the usbhost devices? 14:23 < gr8> can you recommend me a solid calendar solution for Linux? Something like Thunderbird Lightning. 14:26 < Masterboy> TJ-, i see two usbhosts one usb 3 other usb 2. Maybe i don't see usb 3.1 gen 2 because it is a pci express controller? 14:27 < Masterboy> TJ-, my pc is intel nuc7i3 it has advertised usb 3.1 gen 2 :/ 14:28 < TJ-> Masterboy: which bus the USB controller is attached to should make no difference on how it's capabilities are reported 14:28 < Masterboy> TJ-, i am trying to find any info on the usb-c usb 3.1 gen 2, dp 1.2 controller in linux... 14:28 < okamis_> ll 14:29 < Masterboy> TJ-, okay, i will try to reset my bios and try again? 14:30 < TJ-> Masterboy: this seems to be relavent commit: ea7d0d69426c 2017-10-17 10:38:12 +0200 N Mathias Nyman xhci: Identify USB 3.1 capable hosts by their port protocol capability 14:30 < Masterboy> TJ-, i am on kernel 4.13 ubuntu 17 14:31 < TJ-> Masterboy: also this: 5da665fcec1a 2016-02-03 13:20:54 -0800 N Mathias Nyman xhci: USB 3.1 add default Speed Attributes to SuperSpeedPlus device capability 14:35 < Masterboy> TJ-, i don't really know what to make of it :/ what should i do? 14:35 < fly> where do I complain if one of the licenses in the linux-firmware tree is broken? ;) 14:36 < Masterboy> TJ-, this my lsusb -v https://paste.gnome.org/pgxgo10mm 14:37 < section1> Masterboy, check dmsg for example i have this line: xhci_hcd 0000:03:00.0: Host supports USB 3.1 Enhanced SuperSpeed 14:38 < section1> dmesg* 14:44 < s10gopal> when i extract my bios i get .bin and s12 files 14:45 < s10gopal> how to obtain .sio ? 14:45 < s10gopal> iso 14:46 < peetaur2> why should a bios have an iso? 14:46 < Masterboy> section1, see https://paste.gnome.org/plsdlxfca my dmesg | grep xhci_hcd no such line... 14:46 < Masterboy> section1, but i don't have a device attached to it. 14:46 < s10gopal> peetaur2: i want to update my laptop's bios but when i created bootable ubs with hp software it dont boot 14:46 < c-c> Isn't iso a CD-Rom ISO9600 format image. Nothing to do with bios. 14:47 < peetaur2> an iso is some bootable thing or fs, or whatever, and those files would not be something you boot...they would be something you use with some other tool likely on a FreeDOS (maybe iso) or efi shell (likely not iso) sort of media that would burn them on the board. 14:47 < s10gopal> usb 14:47 < s10gopal> peetaur2: i am following it https://askubuntu.com/questions/46886/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-stick-to-flash-a-bios 14:47 < peetaur2> which tool did you use to write the hp software? 14:48 < peetaur2> rather than some ubuntu specific howto, you should be using the one that comes with this HP software 14:48 < section1> Masterboy, too en lsusb shows like : bcdUSB 3.10 14:48 < s10gopal> peetaur2: https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/swdetails/hp-15-ay000-notebook-pc-series/10862300/model/11543879/swItemId/ob-206804-1 14:48 < section1> Masterboy, my kernel is 4.15.4 14:48 < s10gopal> and creating usb drive from windows 7 14:49 < Masterboy> section1, no i don't see lsusb showing 3.1 :/ 14:50 < peetaur2> s10gopal: it has links to an exe file...is that what you wrote to the USB stick? 14:50 < peetaur2> or is that a self extracting archive? 14:50 < Masterboy> section1, but my hardware is advertised as 3.1 gen 2 capable 14:51 < s10gopal> peetaur2: it has option to make usb bootable 14:51 < Bheam> so 14:52 < Masterboy> section1, lspci -tv shows https://paste.gnome.org/p9dpf16mn 14:52 < Bheam> i'm setting up a webserver at a vps i don't trust 100%, how can i make it so they can't access my data even in rescue/single user mode, but i can access it (through ssh) and apache works? 14:54 < JimBuntu> Bheam, I don't think you can... if they have physical access... they could do most anything. 14:54 < ananke> Bheam: at-rest encryption. LUKS for example. however, you would need to have out-of-band access to the system to be able to enter passwords at boot. 14:54 < s10gopal> peetaur2: and when i tried to extract it win rar it generates .bin and .s12 14:55 < peetaur2> is there an exe extracted too? 14:55 < stevendale> Does somebody need help extracting exes? 14:55 < section1> Masterboy, i see ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1142 USB 3.1 Host Controller in my hardware.... so looks like your hardware not have a 3.1 adapter..or its disable.. 14:56 < peetaur2> generally such a download has either just the bin files and then the utility you use is in the BIOS/EFI menus (gigabyte does it this way), or it has an .exe and an .efi file plus the bin, and you use the freedos (for exe) or UEFI shell (for the .efi) to install the bin 14:56 < Bheam> how about some kind of vm that i can turn on disk encryption in? 14:56 < Bheam> can i run a vm on a vps? 14:56 < peetaur2> so maybe you have the gigabyte way...so try making a non-bootable fat32 and stick these files on it, plus the original exe just in case, and see if the bios/efi menu has some way to list the file and use it 14:56 < peetaur2> oh and....documentation :D which if read, solves all these problems without any guessing :) 14:57 < peetaur2> since the link you sent seems to have none, I'd hope that .exe is an archive that contains some 14:59 < s10gopal> peetaur2: what to do ? 14:59 < Masterboy> section1, thanks i try to default my bios 14:59 < peetaur2> s10gopal: find some instructions to read 14:59 < peetaur2> or explore the bios/efi menus for a firmware updater thing 15:00 < s10gopal> peetaur2: please read it , https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1745646 , i found bad commit but even after doing patch -p1 R battery draines on v4.13 15:04 < no26> lel port. When I insert the pci-card, the operating system bind the card with the irq16 who are "fasteoi" type. I need to move these irq from fasteoi to level-triggered irq. Do you know how can I do that ? 15:04 < no26> lel port. When I insert the pci-card, the operating system bind the card with the irq16 who are "fasteoi" type. I need to move these irq from fasteoi to level-triggered irq. Do you know how can I do that ? 15:04 < no26> I have a pci-card with a parallel-port controller in. When I insert my pci-card, in the operating system view the card become a "parallel port" and I can use the card like the standard parallel port. When I insert the pci-card, the operating system bind the card with the irq16 who are "fasteoi" type. I need to move these irq from fasteoi to level-triggered irq. Do you know how can I do that ? 15:05 < peetaur2> lel spam...one time is enough 15:05 < JimBuntu> no26, You should mention your OS, kernel, etc instead of posting the same thing multiple times. 15:05 < peetaur2> and unfortunately I have no idea what you're talking about.... you have a pcie card that you hot plug? (thunderbolt?); do people still use parallel ports these days? (these old things? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_port ) 15:06 < JimBuntu> Oh... and name the BIOS and version and motherboard. 15:06 < peetaur2> and if it's an xyproblem, how about what the original problem is 15:10 < greenit> what's the filesystem you would recommend for a new notebook with a NVMe M.2 SSD ? 15:11 < no26> JimBuntu: i'm sorry, c/c mistake. 15:11 < dgurney> f2fs 15:11 < Psi-Jack> greenit: I generally recommend XFS for everything 15:11 < greenit> I've been thinking about ext4 or btrfs, tending more towards ext4, but i wanted to know if there are better options 15:11 < Psi-Jack> XFS > ext4 15:12 < no26> I'm actually under Xubuntu 16.04.4 64bits, kernel 4.13.0-38. My motherboard is adventech 19ak610520 and the bios is Amibios 080015 15:12 < dgurney> well, f2fs is made for flash devices, hence why I recommend it for well... flash devices. both XFS and btrfs are also good options 15:13 < JimBuntu> no26, no worries, seriously though, those details (which I see you have now posted) can make the difference in getting support. My next post is for everyone, don't take it personally. 15:13 < JimBuntu> !patience | no26 15:13 < Psi-Jack> f2fs is ... Not that great either. 15:14 < peetaur2> with btrfs, remember that you're getting lots of awesome features, but also more bugs than most filesystems...so be more strict about backups and having rescue media handy 15:14 < no26> What's " !patience " ? 15:14 < Psi-Jack> JimBuntu: This isn't #ubuntu. :) 15:14 < dgurney> elaborate 15:14 < lupine> the only valid usecase for btrfs is "ext4+reflinks" 15:14 < JimBuntu> no26, in some channels it causes a bot to mention that this is IRC, responses can take time, be patient. like Psi-Jack points out, it's from another channel 15:15 < Psi-Jack> dgurney: Most of what f2fs does for performance, most SSD's firmware already does internally now. 15:15 < c-c> What about encrypted fs? 15:15 < lupine> that's better done by luks 15:15 < no26> JimBuntu: Oh ok :) i'm sorry i don't usually use irc :) 15:15 < Gollee> c 15:15 < dgurney> doesn't make it a bad filesystem though 15:15 < lupine> sure, it's just an extra feature you shouldn't use 15:15 < no26> But I have this problem and I really don't know how and where I can find any kind of solution/way to solve 15:16 < Psi-Jack> The other factor is, f2fs isn't native. 15:16 < dgurney> huh 15:16 < c-c> Wait, I thought encryption is native in ext4 15:16 < lupine> nah, as it shouldn't be 15:16 < Psi-Jack> c-c: Uh no. 15:16 < revel> Psi-Jack: What makes a filesystem ethnic? 15:16 < dgurney> ^ 15:17 < c-c> I probably mis-interpret "transparent" 15:17 < noodlepie> Hiya guys! 15:17 < Psi-Jack> revel: Your question makes 0% sense. 15:17 < lupine> if you want fs-level encryption, encfs is a better choice than btrfs anyway 15:17 < revel> Psi-Jack: What makes a filesystem native? 15:17 < dgurney> f2fs is mainlined, how more "native" can a filesystem be? 15:17 < lupine> but you probably actually want block-level encryption, in which case luks is better 15:18 < c-c> personally I only encrypt individual files, but sometimes wonder if should adopt something diff, if need arises 15:18 < Psi-Jack> Oh, it's been added since 3.8? I stand corrected there. :) 15:18 < Psi-Jack> c-c: diff is a tool, not a word. 15:19 < c-c> Psi-Jack: just pipe the current and new approach to it ;) 15:21 < snatcher> sync hangs on, even cannot shutdown now, is there a way to kill it? kill -9 doesn't work 15:22 < c-c> snatcher: elevate to sudo and retry? 15:22 < revel> snatcher: Do you have sysrq keys? 15:22 < c-c> uh, to root 15:22 < snatcher> c-c: root already 15:23 < snatcher> revel: no, support disabled in kernel 15:23 < sveinse> Have any of you had any strange behaviour by pixz? I'm trying to decompress a xz -9 tar on a armhf embedded target and it seems to do strange things (crash?) leaving tar very confused 15:23 < revel> Can't suggest REISUB then. 15:23 < sveinse> As in should I start to mistrust the tool? 15:24 < dgurney> never understood why people/distributors disable sysrq keys 15:25 < noodlepie> Linux 4.16.0 stable here. Woohoo! 15:25 < snatcher> dgurney: some sort of protection against evil maid attack 15:25 < c-c> snatcher: can you see if the process is doing IO? iotop 15:25 < sveinse> Could it be low on resources, such as mem. What does the kernel do to a process if it runs out of memory? And how will a cmd dgurney: Maybe if you don't want someone being able to mess up some stuff with physical access, though at a password screen. 15:25 < snatcher> c-c: yep, it uses 99.99% 15:25 < noodlepie> What distro people running? 15:26 < canopy> noodlepie: Void! 15:26 < c-c> snatcher: yes, but is it doing IO 15:26 < revel> noodlepie: Same one as you. 15:26 < CoolerZ> hey 15:26 < hexnewbie> sveinse: Decompress shouldn't take a lot of memory. Like, 64 MiB * number_of_cpus. 15:26 < CoolerZ> anyone used the pbc library? 15:26 < noodlepie> I'm on Gentoo on my laptop and Debian on our communal PC - mainly because it has binary packages whereas Gentoo builds them locally from source. 15:27 < hexnewbie> sveinse: That's for -9, -9 requires exactly 64 MiB, multiplied by the number of threads/workers decompressing. 15:27 < dgurney> as far as I'm concerned, if someone is already using my computer without my permission, the least of my concerns is someone using some sysrq functionality on it... 15:28 < sveinse> hexnewbie: yeah, I have more than that available. strange why it consitently crashes on -9 15:28 < JimBuntu> revel, Shall we revisit the X lock screen issues? lol 15:28 < greenit> ok, so I'll take xfs into consideration, thanks :) 15:28 < hexnewbie> sveinse: Hm. Don't take my word on it. Although I'm not sure if the pipe wouldn't need memory to store data decompressed by secondary threads to make it continuous. Maybe install time, and run /usr/bin/time pixz 15:28 * noodlepie likes to program ARM assembler - my Android for example! I learned it at school before ARM were famous! :P Built me a 3d model viewer in it too. 15:28 < hexnewbie> sveinse: /usr/bin/time -v pixz 15:28 < revel> Let's say there's no X session and no VTs are logged into? 15:28 < revel> Either way though, I don't personally think disabling them is a good idea. 15:29 < revel> JimBuntu: Sure, why not. 15:29 < hexnewbie> sveinse: You are *decompressing*, right? -9 was used earlier during the compression, not now? 15:29 < dgurney> indeed, it's not 15:29 < sveinse> hexnewbie: Correct, decompressing 15:33 < sveinse> I'm testing what compressor to use for a product upgrade. Where image size vs decompressor cpu complexity comes into play. So I'm iterating through all -# of pixz and pigz, and this is where I found the surprising stop or crash on a tar.xz compressed with -9 15:36 < ananke> -9 is not something I'd even consider using. ever. the cost to benefit ratio is absurdly low 15:37 < sveinse> Agreed. The dilemma is this: If it fails on -9, how can I prove that it is robust enough on any other values? 15:41 < ksk> sveinse: image compressing only? mabe take a look at the google algos, like brotli et al. 15:43 < ananke> sveinse: not sure if that's even a reasonable assumption. redlining my car at 9k rpms and failing doesn't mean it's not suited for 3-5k work 15:44 < sveinse> ananke: but a car redlining in an explanation to why it fails. So until some kind of failure evidence exits, you can't make that assumption either 15:45 < ksk> whats your problem actually? pigz error on some compression settings? did you look for upstream bugs (like at pigz projecT)? 15:45 < ananke> sveinse: you haven't been able to repeat that with options other than -9, is that correct? 15:46 < sveinse> Don't get me wrong, I'm not oposing pixz, I'm just trying to assess if it is viable for production use. I came here curious if this was known in the community 15:46 < sveinse> ananke: no, I haven't 15:46 < ananke> pixz/pigz/pbzip2 are mature enough that using them under normal conditions is a safe bet 15:46 < sveinse> good 15:47 < ananke> sveinse: and try without -9 :) 15:48 < sveinse> ananke: yup. And I said, I'm testing all values to see what is the crosspoint between image size and cpu consumption. It's for sure not -9 15:58 < CodeBug> hey room 16:01 < paddy|> hello CodeBug, whats up? 16:11 < CodeBug> not much paddy 16:11 < CodeBug> how are you 16:12 < superkuh> GIMP. You know I love you but... moving text layers should not be a herculean feat that takes 5 tries. No I don't want to move the background layer. Having to click on the exact pixels of the text... janky. 16:12 < noodlepie> Hiya all. 4.16.0-gentoo running stable here. 16:12 < CodeBug> ok im back 16:15 < frostschutz> superkuh, the move tool has the option to pick whatever pixel you touched, or just the active layer in general. just change it 16:15 < superkuh> ! 16:15 < superkuh> So it does. Thank you frostschutz. 16:16 < superkuh> All these years and I never bothered to look at the toolbox bar options for 'move' because... it's move, what options would it have? 16:25 < AbleBacon> join #okchat 16:25 < AbleBacon> oops sorry forgot the slash 16:27 < CodeBug> lol 16:27 < CodeBug> okchat? 16:28 < interrobang> does anyone knows a good apache/svn channel? 16:28 < interrobang> the #httpd seems to be nearly dead 16:29 < jamiejackson> hi folks. how do i retrieve the effective value of user.max_user_namespaces ? `sysctl user.max_user_namespaces` yields `unknown oid 'user.max_user_namespaces'`. maybe that implies a value of zero? 16:31 < Psi-Jack> interrobang: #httpd is not dead. 16:32 < interrobang> Psi-Jack, i know--. but nobody responds 16:32 < Psi-Jack> They do/ 16:32 < interrobang> no :D 16:32 < Psi-Jack> Yes 16:32 < interrobang> not to me :( 16:32 < Psi-Jack> Then you didn't ask a question. 16:33 < interrobang> of course 16:35 < Lope> I found this cool song about open source/linux that I'm inspired to share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UsKYsLSGpU&t=3m51s\ 16:35 < Psi-Jack> Also, patience. :) 16:36 < jamiejackson> some channels are dead, despite lots of users seeming to be present, but #httpd isn't one of those, interrobang. i typically get good support there. 16:36 < Psi-Jack> Exactly. 16:36 < Psi-Jack> Unless it's a weekend, especially a holday weekend. ;) 16:36 < Lope> Ah I messed up the URL when I pressed \enter by mistake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UsKYsLSGpU&t=3m51s 16:37 < Hdphn> hi folks 16:37 < Hdphn> what distro and de have settled your distrohopping? 16:38 < Hdphn> have tried kali, ubuntu, arch as main OSes 16:38 < Hdphn> still looking for perfect distro lol 16:39 < busybox42> Are we talking about desktop OSes? I prefer Arch over anything else. 16:39 < pottsy> doesn't exist for all use cases 16:40 < rumpel> I want distros to be breedable 16:40 < pottsy> I've settled on ubuntu or debian nonfree for most desktops 16:40 < Hdphn> busybox42: arch is cool however I am tired of maintaining it 16:40 < Psi-Jack> Lope: Hmmmm. I didn' tlike it, personally. 16:40 < Hdphn> pottsy: used arch? 16:40 < pottsy> Hdphn yeah. 16:40 < Hdphn> I want a linux that gets work done lol 16:41 < Hdphn> otherwise I have to fallback to windows 10 WSL 16:41 < Psi-Jack> Hdphn: Kali? Main OS? Pfft.. Newbie. 16:41 < Hdphn> because I need something stable 16:41 < pottsy> too many breaks with regular croned updates 16:41 < Hdphn> Psi-Jack: why not? its just debian + tools 16:41 < Hdphn> lol 16:41 < Psi-Jack> Hdphn: Wrong 16:41 < pottsy> Kali is such bloat but I actually use it for one of my main dev rigs 16:41 < busybox42> Arch isn't that bad to maintain as a desktop. But ya sometimes things can be pesky at times. I just don't think I could give up the aur for any other distro. 16:41 < Psi-Jack> Hdphn: It's locked down intentionally. 16:42 < Hdphn> busybox42: overtime arch also got sluggish 16:42 < Hdphn> in performance 16:42 < pottsy> because it always has libs already installed because its 10 million packages with dependancies 16:42 < Yamakaja> Argh, why do people like this guy get to have all the hardware xD https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVik6mzTCurdJmvdj5dCa7A - He's strictly a windows & VMWare user 16:42 < Hdphn> y wrong? Psi-Jack 16:42 < busybox42> Hdphn: Uhh no it doesn't. I've had the same install for 4 years. Why would it get sluggish? 16:42 < Psi-Jack> Hdphn: "why" not "y" for future self corrections. 16:42 < Psi-Jack> busybox42: Well, spinning HDD's can degrade over time. :) 16:42 < Hdphn> busybox42: what DE? 16:43 < Hdphn> no.using sandisk SSD ;) 16:43 < Psi-Jack> SanDisk? Ewww. heh 16:43 < pottsy> nand dies as well :/ 16:43 < Psi-Jack> No wonder. 16:44 < Hdphn> maybe coz I am not using any ssd specific settings on my current distro 16:44 < Hdphn> arch 16:44 < pottsy> that's where you hide your malware, in "dead" NAND :) 16:44 < Hdphn> such as fstrim? 16:50 < nolsen> Why do I have exactly 0 bytes of free space on /boot, despite removing all the old kernels, and literally only have one kernel left on apt? 16:50 < nolsen> What's taking all the space, when there's only one kernel installed. 16:52 < Hdphn> lightdm or 16:52 < Hdphn> gdm 16:52 < Hdphn> ??.. 16:52 < SkunkyFone> nolsen: are you root, or a user? 16:53 < nolsen> SkunkyFone: Well, does that matter? Since I can root in anytime, if that's what you're asking. 16:53 < SkunkyFone> nolsen: check how much space is free as root... and keep in mind that the filesystem won't give the space back if the file is still open 16:53 < CrazyTux> hello, between Kubuntu LTS and KDE Neon which is more recommended? 16:53 < SkunkyFone> nolsen: filesystems usually reserve a % of space for root only 16:54 < nolsen> SkunkyFone: Well, the total free space in /boot is *literally* 0 bytes. 16:54 < SkunkyFone> nolsen: umount the filesystem and remount it? 16:55 < nolsen> What would that do? 16:56 < CrazyTux> hello 17:01 < nolsen> SkunkyFone: Anyways, do you or anyone would know what could be taking the entire partition, when there's only one kernel according to apt intalled? 17:01 < nolsen> Perhaps something I need to delete manually in /boot? 17:02 < gtrmtx> how should i go about redirecting all sip requests to a different address? 17:03 < SkunkyFone> nolsen: something's still got a filehandle open would be my guess. 17:04 < nolsen> SkunkyFone: I rebooted it multiple times. 17:04 < CodeBug> hey room 17:04 < CodeBug> hows it going 17:04 < SkunkyFone> nolsen: no . files? 17:04 < SkunkyFone> nolsen: nothing in lost+found? 17:04 < treefrob> rooms don't go 17:05 < kavity> Hello CodeBug, it is going well, and yourself? 17:05 < nolsen> SkunkyFone: none in the root directory. 17:05 < SkunkyFone> nolsen: wouldn't be in the root dir, would be in /boot, if /boot is the partition that's full 17:05 < nolsen> According to 'du', 400845 KB (or MB, forgot what du uses), is in . 17:06 < kavity> `du -h` 17:06 < nolsen> and for the directories: 12, 2354, 127, 2882, 7442 17:06 < nolsen> each 17:07 < SkunkyFone> why are there directories in /boot ? 17:09 < nolsen> SkunkyFone: https://cloud.nolsen.xyz/s/8iB76w7eJGfXjdF 17:09 < nolsen> SkunkyFone: Because /boot always has directories? 17:09 < kavity> nolsen: Since when? 17:09 < nolsen> kavity: Look at the screenshot I sent. 17:10 < kavity> I meant since when does /boot have directories. :O 17:10 < nolsen> And since I seen /boot, atleast. 17:11 < kavity> Neither this box, my server or my rpi have directories... 17:11 < nolsen> Well, you're probably running a different distro 17:11 < nolsen> This is Ubuntu. 17:11 < kavity> Ubuntu studio on this box. 17:11 < nolsen> But this is really not the problem I'm trying to solve. 17:12 < kavity> Yeah, sorry, I don't even know what you're trying to solve, I just had never seen directories in /boot. 17:12 < nolsen> My problem is what's taking all the space, despite having one kernel installed on apt. 17:12 < nolsen> kavity: Well, I can tell you this: Remove the directories = Unbootable. 17:12 < nolsen> Or huge problems. 17:13 < nolsen> I might be wrong, but I rather not try. 17:13 < kavity> nolsen: `df -h` tell you where your space is taken up? 17:13 < nolsen> /dev/sdc2 473M 394M 55M 88% /boot 17:13 < SkunkyFone> ahhhh, efi system. yes, will have directories. 17:14 < nolsen> What? You have obsolete machines without EFI? 17:14 < nolsen> or have it disabled, for some reason? 17:14 < kavity> What makes it obsolete? :O 17:14 < SkunkyFone> nolsen: can you find /boot and paste it somewhere? 17:14 < nolsen> ...nevermind 17:14 < nolsen> wym find boot? 17:14 < SkunkyFone> rpi has no efi :) 17:14 < SkunkyFone> i wanna know everything that's in /boot 17:15 < nolsen> https://paste.nolsen.xyz/?a0f1d805f3f2157b#wi/d5W+09daAy3jFPX8vo0ek+LWOonOlHoE1CMo5Iug= 17:16 < nolsen> Oh, wait a minute. 17:16 < nolsen> I didn't see those. 17:16 < nolsen> I can just remove those old initrd 17:18 < chindy> I used lxappearance to change the themes of my windows. Now I have a bright theme on all my applications except all KDE based applications, these still have some dark theme. How can I change this ? 17:19 < nolsen> Alright, now I have space now. 17:19 < kavity> Hooray! 17:19 < kavity> :> 17:25 * Psi-Jack takes all nolsen's space. 17:31 < Lope> Can't stop the SUSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Rn0iQEpc8 17:31 < Psi-Jack> Lope: that's a bit better. :0 17:32 < Psi-Jack> At least it's not insulting Linux or opensource. :) 17:43 < CrazyTux> please help me. I am getting this error when I try to mount a partition on my laptop. Error mounting /dev/sda8 at /media/s/18ca759f-9dd1-412e-9766-f53505a32ffb: Command-line `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sda8" "/media/s/18ca759f-9dd1-412e-9766-f53505a32ffb"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/sda8: can't read superblock 17:43 < Lope> Psi-Jack: CODE TOGETHER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9aLiv5M6AQ 17:44 < Psi-Jack> heh./ sda8? Why do you have so many partitions? 17:45 < dr4ken> guys, what does mean the "aligment" part in gparted? i mean it gives 2 options, i always used MiB one, but i wonder what does do aligning to cylinder 17:45 < Tahlwyn> someone here may be able to help me with this. I need a plaintext list of a shitload of "random" town/settlement/city names, preferably not major cities that exist irl. 17:46 < CrazyTux> Psi-Jack, is there any solution for it? 17:46 < Psi-Jack> Tahlwyn: Got a Linux question? 17:47 < Tahlwyn> No, sorry. Just not having any luck elsewhere. my bad. 17:48 < Tahlwyn> (also, I thought I was somewhere else oops) 17:48 < Psi-Jack> Uh huh.. 17:48 < Psi-Jack> Heh 17:49 < nobrain> Psi-Jack: not a linux question either but, can I have your belongings when you die? 17:50 < Psi-Jack> No 17:51 < nobrain> why, it's not like you are going to need them 17:51 < djph> I already had dibs. 17:51 < Psi-Jack> Because my wife would not approve 17:51 < Psi-Jack> Heh 17:56 < Psi-Jack> CrazyTux: why do you have so many partitions? And how did you get that error, what steps did you perform etc. 17:57 < widp> I am using ubuntu, and wanted finer control over what I uninstall. 17:57 < widp> Especially since I've started building packages from source. 17:57 < widp> What's a good way to handle this? 17:57 < djph> errr ... gentoo? 17:58 < TJ-> widp: what do you need to uninstall? 17:59 < CrazyTux> Psi-Jack, that partition was accessible just mintutes back. I was using Ubuntu Mate LTS. Suddenly the OS stopped responding. After I restarted it and tried to access this partition I got this error. 17:59 < widp> no, no, not gentoo. 17:59 < widp> I am just looking for best practices, I saw checkinstall mentioned somewhere. 18:01 < dr4ken> guys, what does mean the "aligment" part in gparted? i mean it gives 2 options, i always used MiB one, but i wonder what does do aligning to cylinder 18:01 < Tahlwyn> djph: should have suggested lfs, don't want to look like a noob 18:02 < CrazyTux> please, is there any solution? 18:03 < TJ-> dr4ken: in the days of spinning disks addressed by Cylinder/Head/Sector the idea of alignment was to avoid un-necessary head seeks 18:04 < dr4ken> TJ-, you know people still uses HDD? 18:04 < dr4ken> but ok i see 18:08 < P_B> most data is still on magnetic media... 18:08 < logithack> ive created a desktop shortcut to execute a script. im trying to have it executed in a terminal window. ive set Terminal=true in the shortcut file, but it fails saying that it cant start xterm (no such file or directory) cos its not installed. how can i tell it to use my terminal of choice in that situation? 18:08 < the_drow> Hi, I have an LXC container that accepts ssh connections only from specific IPs. I'd like to spoof my ip during my automated tests to ensure I can connect to ssh from those IPs. 18:08 < CodeBug> how come du -s isn't working in CentOS? 18:09 < CodeBug> it should show every file and their corresponding sizes right? 18:09 < the_drow> I tried iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p icmp -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.1.66 but I still can't connect 18:10 < the_drow> Maybe I shouldn't match on icmp? 18:10 < CodeBug> Any ideas? the_drow 18:12 < CodeBug> ??? 18:14 < JimBuntu> CodeBug, isn't "-s" for summary ? 18:14 < CodeBug> yes. 18:14 < CodeBug> but its not giving me the summary 18:15 < JimBuntu> Are you getting any output? 18:16 < CodeBug> just the overall file size. 18:16 < TJ-> the_drow: how is a rule applying to ICMP going to help a TCP connection to port 22? 18:16 < JimBuntu> CodeBug, if you run `du -s`... you are asking du to give you a single line that shows the total disk use. 18:16 < dr4ken> P_B, wait, the info about Cylinder aligned disk doesnt apply to normal magnetic mediums (like HDD) ?? 18:17 < P_B> yes, it does apply to normal magnetic media 18:17 < CodeBug> yup but i wanted Du to give me the list of files and their sizes respectively 18:18 < P_B> But you asked if people still use hard drives, as if everything is on SSD now. 18:18 < JimBuntu> CodeBug, as in `du` ? 18:18 < the_drow> TJ-, Good question. It doesn't help when I change it to tcp though 18:18 < CodeBug> yes 18:18 < CodeBug> omg. 18:19 < the_drow> TJ-, I'm following https://sandilands.info/sgordon/address-spoofing-with-iptables-in-linux which says "The -p icmp option is a condition for the rule: packets must be using the protocol ICMP (this rule will not apply to non-ICMP packets)" 18:19 < the_drow> NOT 18:19 < the_drow> I'm dysgraphic. Sorry 18:20 < puff> Good afternoon. Anyone else seeing Google Chrome just suck up all your CPU? Like over 100%? This seems to have started occurring constantly, a week or three ago. Chrome's Task manager says it's not any extension or particular page, it's the "Browser" line that's at 105%. 18:20 < CodeBug> JimBuntu, left you a DM 18:20 < dr4ken> P_B, well, that was TJ- was implying, but yeah i think most data is still on magnetic mediums 18:20 < jelly> puff, how many tabs are open? 18:21 < P_B> ah I get what you were saying now. My bad. 18:21 < ayecee> puff: nope 18:21 < TJ-> the_drow: yes, and you said you want to spoof for SSH which is a TCP protocol. So you want "-p tcp" You should also be specifying the interface (lxcbr0 ? or destination IP address) so as not to affect other traffic on the host 18:22 < jelly> mine uses 50-120% but I have a zillion tabs open 18:22 < the_drow> TJ-, How do I specify the destination IP? 18:22 < puff> jelly: 11 18:22 < CrazyTux> hello.. 18:23 < TJ-> the_drow: "--destination 1.2.3.4" (or '-d' for short) 18:23 < TJ-> the_drow: see "man iptables" and "man iptables-extensions" 18:24 < the_drow> thanks 18:27 < the_drow> TJ-, Even with iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -j SNAT --to-source 10.0.3.3 --destination 10.0.3.133 I'm not able to connect to ssh. It does spoof the IP though 18:28 < TJ-> the_drow: are you monitoring the incoming packets on the container's interface (using tcpdump) to ensure the packets arrive? 18:28 < the_drow> Yes 18:28 < TJ-> the_drow: do you see the packets arriving then? 18:28 < the_drow> http://dpaste.com/3ZYWX2C 18:28 < the_drow> no 18:30 < Li> what's the mouse configuration file on debian based linux? what option causes the mouse curser to move longer distance from the same sliding action? 18:30 < CrazyTux> please help me. I am getting this error when I try to mount a partition on my laptop. Error mounting /dev/sda8 at /media/s/18ca759f-9dd1-412e-9766-f53505a32ffb: Command-line `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sda8" "/media/s/18ca759f-9dd1-412e-9766-f53505a32ffb"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/sda8: can't read superblock 18:31 < Pentode> Li, you use xset for this and put the settings in ~/.Xresources 18:31 < Pentode> otherwise the desktop environment takes care of it if you are using one 18:31 < Li> thanks Pentode 18:31 < mawk> CrazyTux: your drive could be dead 18:32 < CrazyTux> mawk, how can I revive that, then? 18:32 < CrazyTux> mawk, all the data on that drive gone, then? 18:32 < ksk> CrazyTux: you cannot. there are companies that do that, for many many $$$$$ 18:33 < ksk> CrazyTux: you could create an image of that disk, and try fiddling with the copy 18:33 < mawk> it's not gone CrazyTux 18:33 < mawk> what happened to the drive ? you dropped it ? 18:33 < ksk> however, your original disk might destroy itself even further on reading data 18:33 < CrazyTux> then, any solutions? 18:33 < mawk> dump the drive somewhere, run testdisk on that 18:33 < CrazyTux> that partition was accessible just mintutes back. I was using Ubuntu Mate LTS. Suddenly the OS stopped responding. After I restarted it and tried to access this partition I got this error. 18:34 < mawk> oh ok 18:34 < CrazyTux> mawk, how can I dump the drive? 18:34 < mawk> then run testdisk on it, or fsck 18:34 < rihannsu> how do i kill only php files? 18:35 < ksk> rihannsu: what? 18:35 < rihannsu> i have a server with load average of 12 on an 8 core 18:35 < Psi-Jack> rindolf: What are you really trying to do? 18:35 < Psi-Jack> rihannsu: ^ 18:35 < Psi-Jack> 12 on an 8 core? Good! It's working. :0 18:35 < rihannsu> yes sir, my client is complaining of slow speed 18:36 < ksk> guys like you have clients q.q 18:36 < rihannsu> pphp is gobbling the most memeory trying to see if that helps 18:36 < ksk> service $webserver stop 18:36 < Psi-Jack> ... 18:36 < Psi-Jack> rihannsu: Hire a systems engineer? ;) 18:36 < ksk> will make load go away. without digging into the php code you will not be able to debug it 18:36 < rihannsu> im learning on my own no need 18:36 < ksk> or, without digging into the webserver/database/php stack 18:36 < rihannsu> thats for encouragment psi 18:36 < Giant81> "my clients are complaining the server is slow, so I stopped the server, now it serves up 404's pretty fast" 18:37 < Psi-Jack> You have paying clients that are willing to pay for you to learn off the hip? 18:37 < CrazyTux> I got this when I ran fsck. "fsck from util-linux 2.27.1 18:37 < CrazyTux> e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) 18:37 < CrazyTux> e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck! 18:37 < CrazyTux> " 18:37 < rihannsu> we call cant be as lucky as me in life 18:37 < rihannsu> i know 18:37 < Giant81> you sound like a better salesman than sys admin 18:37 < rihannsu> thanks fort the advise 18:37 < hexnewbie> CrazyTux: Downgrading distros doesn't work always 18:38 < rindolf> CrazyTux: do you have backups? 18:39 < CrazyTux> rindolf, no. 18:39 < Psi-Jack> Then it was not important. 18:39 < rindolf> CrazyTux: why not? 18:40 < CrazyTux> I should have. 18:40 < rihannsu> im going to quote you on that and put it on my desk giant81 18:40 < rihannsu> while i spend my generous pay 18:40 < OerHeks> Psi-Jack +1 for the greatest distro-hopper, indeed 18:41 < hexnewbie> rihannsu: PHP web services nowadays use the PHP FPM daemon, which takes care of starting the proper number of PHP workers, handling as much requests as possible without starting too much (if configured properly). So, you may tune those settings if you're using it? 18:42 < hexnewbie> I am still baffled how web page serving can be resource-intensive today, but it is. 18:42 < CrazyTux> any solutions? 18:42 < ayecee> none! 18:43 < hexnewbie> CrazyTux: Go back to the distro you're using originally when you mkfs'd this filesystem 18:43 < hexnewbie> s/you're/you were/ 18:43 < CrazyTux> hexnewbie, I am on Ubuntu Mate now. That is where this happened. 18:43 < rihannsu> hexnewbie: i'll have a look to see which daemon its running 18:44 < jiffe> I'm curious, why wouldn't w show all users logged in? I have 2 shell sessions open and I see 1 but not the other 18:44 < hexnewbie> CrazyTux: Upgrading e2fsck/e2fsprogs is another thing you could do, possibly - but you already know that, since the message told you that 18:45 < CrazyTux> hexnewbie, how can I do that? 18:45 < hexnewbie> CrazyTux: Well, something enabled features that your e2fsck doesn't support - it could be mkfs, tune2fs, it could be kernel. Did you tune the filesystem or play with its mount options? 18:46 < CrazyTux> hexnewbie, no. 18:46 < hexnewbie> CrazyTux: Dunno how. Possibly do a local installation in /opt or and run e2fsck from there so you can fix the filesystem? 18:47 < CrazyTux> this is all Greek to me. 18:47 < gr8> what calendar solution for linux would you recommend? The only one I found usuable yet is Lightning for Thunderbird 18:47 < rindolf> CrazyTux: also see https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/12/14/lets-stop-talking-about-backups/ 18:48 < mutante> gr8: cal 18:48 < CrazyTux> rindolf, ok 18:48 < gr8> GUI please ^^ 18:48 < jelly> CrazyTux, short answer is you need to boot a more recent Linux distro, this one is too old to deal with the filesystem that's already on disk 18:48 < mutante> hmm. but a calendar is just text 18:48 < gr8> for managing dates, appointments etc. 18:48 < rindolf> gr8: there is korganizer 18:49 < djph> Tahlwyn: I'm not *that* much of a masochist though 18:49 < CrazyTux> jelly, what do you mean by a more recent Linux distro? 18:50 < dgurney> exactly that 18:50 < jelly> CrazyTux, something that has a version of e2fsprogs (e2fsck) newer than 1.42.13 from 2015. 18:50 < CrazyTux> ok. Manjaro? 18:50 < hexnewbie> I mean, the e2fsck message is pretty straightforward, despite of the blunt and unfriendly tone 18:51 < dgurney> if you like manjaro, sure 18:51 < jelly> CrazyTux, if the current release of this Manjaro thing has newer e2fsprogs, sure 18:51 < jelly> ask the Manjaro people if unsure 18:51 < CrazyTux> ok 18:51 < hexnewbie> I mean, why would it tell me to get newer e2fsck? Maybe I want to have older e2fsck and keep my filesystem corrupt. ;p 18:52 < treefrob> is it a good idea to put all docker data on a separate file system? 18:52 < jelly> CrazyTux, it might just be a newer Ubuntu Mate 18:52 < jelly> 18.04 beta or whatnot 18:53 < CrazyTux> jelly, I have Manjaro also installed on this laptop. What do I need to do now? 18:53 < hendrix> gr8: Korganizer, although it has kde dependencies 18:53 < hexnewbie> CrazyTux: Perhaps we just found the source of the problem. 18:53 < jelly> CrazyTux, boot it and see which version of e2fsck there is 18:53 < hexnewbie> CrazyTux: Does the filesystem mount in Manjaro? 18:54 < CrazyTux> hexnewbie, no. It doesn't mount on Manjaro also. 18:54 < hexnewbie> CrazyTux: And you haven't yet tried to e2fsck it from there? 18:54 < gr8> thanks I'll take a look at Korganizer 18:54 < jelly> CrazyTux, before that, copy down the device path you may need to check ("/dev/sda8") 18:57 < CrazyTux> hexnewbie, let me log into Manjaro now. 18:59 < bizolos> Hi there. Let's say I have a directory like `~/dotfiles/some/foo`. I create a symlink like `ln -s ~/dotfiles/some/foo ~/.fooDir`. If I want to create a directory in `~/dotfiles/some/foo`, then I should be able to do `mkdir ~/.foodir/someNewdir`, right? 19:01 < cowsay> Does anyone happen to know any information about the Intel Kaby Lake G chips on Linux? The new ones with intel CPU + vega GPU .. I can't find any info about it really 19:02 < jelly> bizolos, right 19:02 < dgurney> are those even available on anything yet? 19:02 < dgurney> if not, it's a bit hard to provide information 19:03 < jelly> bizolos, note that ~ is expanded by your shell and the symlink ought actually point to something like /home/bizolos/dotfiles/some/foo 19:03 < cowsay> dgurney, yeah .. it's out on the HP Spectre x360 and the XPS 15 .. and I think maybe one more laptop. 19:03 < bizolos> Thanks jelly 19:04 < cowsay> I just ordered the x360 with the 8705G .. kind of a $1800 shot in the dark. Hope linux works on it, if not I'll have to wait until it does.. 19:04 < dgurney> well it should 19:05 < cowsay> my hope is that the radeon drivers just pick it up like any other amd gpu 19:05 < dgurney> just make sure you run the latest kernel to minimize issues 19:05 < cowsay> yep 19:07 < bizolos> jelly, Then I'm not sure I get it :\ : https://gist.github.com/Einenlum/28a90f8ac1fafdbf47a4aae500eb7011 19:11 < jelly> bizolos, your symlink points to /vim/vimconfig and not /home/einelum/vim/vimconfig if that's what you wanted 19:12 < bizolos> jelly, holy shit 19:13 < CrazyTux> hello, thanks guys. The problem got solved. I ran fschk command and rectified the error. 19:13 < bizolos> Thanks jelly :) 19:14 < jelly> bizolos, you could use a relative path as symlink destination but let that be a lesson for some other time 19:15 < bizolos> jelly, I know how to use relative path :) 19:16 < jelly> bizolos, well, a relative path does not start with / 19:18 < bizolos> Actually it seems it does not change my prob. https://gist.github.com/Einenlum/14a603bd79b9b38bacfe0b58db0ee70c 19:19 < bizolos> ( jelly, I still use absolute paths here. I can use later relative paths, but not sure how it is supposed to fix the behavior here ) 19:20 < jelly> bizolos, what does "ls -ld /home/einenlum/dotfiles/vim/vimconfig" say 19:21 < jelly> ie. does the destination exist? 19:21 < jelly> and if it exists, is it a directory? 19:22 < bizolos> jelly, ok, facepalm for me. it 19:22 < bizolos> was vimconf and not vimconfig. 19:22 < bizolos> That's all. Sorry and thanks for your time 19:26 < CrazyTux> has anyone here been using/used Ubuntu LTS as well as Mint? 19:26 < ayecee> stop with the survey questions 19:26 < egonsen> how do video players update the progress bar showing the elapsed time? they cannot count the passed seconds as the operating system might stop and start the different threads of the player at any time so that counting the time would be inaccurate, or not? 19:26 < CrazyTux> ayecee, what could be the reason for this problem of random freezing of the OS? 19:27 < ayecee> what problem 19:27 < jelly> egonsen, they can count the frames and know the fps 19:27 < CrazyTux> that got me into a lot of problems. 19:27 < dgurney> we can't know with no information provided 19:27 < jelly> and they have to know the exact frame being played next anyway 19:27 < CrazyTux> Ubuntu LTS that I have been using has this issue. 19:27 < ayecee> which issue 19:28 < CrazyTux> random freezing of the OS forcing me to press the reset button. 19:28 < CrazyTux> does Mint also have the same problem? 19:28 < dgurney> we can't know 19:28 < ayecee> try it and see 19:28 < CodeBug> how do i remove unnecessary packages in CentOS 19:28 < CodeBug> it says use YUM Remove but it doesn't give the args after that 19:28 < CrazyTux> I am using Manjaro also. Never encountered this issue so far. 19:28 < ayecee> neither have i 19:29 < dgurney> find out what the unnecessary package is, and then yum remove [packagename] 19:33 < jelly> CrazyTux, that symptom can be caused by many, er, causes. 19:33 < rihannsu> hexnewbie: i figured out what was causing the load issue, had someone access a site 16000 times in the last hour, blocked the ip all good. Thanks for atleast being kind about my request. 19:33 < jelly> overheating, driver issues, high load 19:33 < CrazyTux> jelly, it is strange. Two distros behave differently on the same hardware. 19:34 < jelly> welcome to linux 19:34 < velix> I've got a 17 GB huge text file and I'm running sed on it to add something to the 3rd line. sed now needs to rewrite the whole huge file. There's no work-around, is there? 19:35 < Brainspackle> if you have a 17gb text file, you're doing it wrong 19:35 < velix> Brainspackle: Nah, dump in CSV. 19:35 < nobrain> CodeBug: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/40179/remove-unused-packages 19:35 < jelly> velix, unless you're overwriting some bytes with other bytes and keeping the exact same file size, no 19:35 < velix> jelly: Okay. Maybe I should split the file into parts by line. 19:35 < CodeBug> thanks no 19:35 < jelly> velix, do you care about line order? 19:35 < CodeBug> nobrain, thanks 19:35 < velix> jelly: no. 19:36 < jelly> then you have options. 19:36 < velix> jelly --help 19:36 < velix> chmod +x jelly 19:36 < CrazyTux> jelly, btw which distro are you using? 19:36 < jelly> velix, which tool is going to be parsing the file next? 19:37 < velix> jelly: PostgreSQL's COPY from STDIN 19:37 < velix> Brainspackle: That's why I'm not wrong having a 17gb big text file ;) 19:37 < m1cl> hey guys, I have an issue with the NetworkManager. I tries to Connection to the network but disconnect immidiatly. After 5 min or so, the connection is established. 19:38 < m1cl> arp_read: wlp4s0: Network is down 19:38 < jelly> velix, then you can use head and tail to output first three lines, and the rest, to stdout separately 19:38 < velix> jelly: Yeah, that's what I thought about "splitting". Good idea. 19:39 < jelly> velix, eg. (head -n3 yuuge.csv | sed 's/foo/bar/'; tail -n +4 yuuge.csv) | psql -pain-is-all-i-know - 19:39 * jelly has no clue about postgres cli syntax 19:39 < velix> jelly: perfect. Little more complex, but I'm fine with this. 19:40 < jelly> or pipe the whole file thru sed 19:40 < velix> jelly: isn't that slower than tail ? 19:40 < jelly> and directly to your load command, instead of making a temp file 19:40 < velix> jelly: sed doesn't have a "one shot only", like grep does? 19:41 < jelly> sed has a pretty complete language 19:41 < jelly> IS a pretty complete language 19:41 < velix> jelly: Okay, but I'm fine with the basic command. 19:41 < velix> jelly: It's a one time run, so your solution is already fine. 19:41 < velix> Thanks a lot. 19:41 < jelly> you can tell it to change a specific line and just print all the lines after 19:41 < velix> jelly: way too complex ;) 19:42 < AndroidKitKat> for some reason i cant start i3 inplace 19:43 < AndroidKitKat> And now it’s broken entirely 19:43 < jelly> velix, maybe, but it's not a lot more and might be useful elsewhere. printf "first\nsecond\nthird\nfourth\n" | sed '3s/$/ and half/' 19:44 < velix> ah, ok. 19:45 < jelly> if you go with head and tail verify all the lines are there. I might be lying about the syntax. 19:45 < Hdphn> anyone has switched from arch to ubuntu here? 19:45 < AndroidKitKat> That doesn’t sound too complicated in terms of a switch 19:46 < Hdphn> I am asking is it worth it? 19:46 < jelly> CrazyTux, right now or usually? Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, but I prefer Debian. 19:46 < Hdphn> because I am at the point where I want work to be done rather than tinker with my OS. which OS distro should I look for (that wont get in my way) 19:46 < AndroidKitKat> Ubuntu or Debian I guess 19:46 < AndroidKitKat> I use solus 19:47 < jelly> Hdphn, if you've already tinkered enough with arch and can make it work, why not keep using it 19:47 < Hdphn> solus is one man made right? 19:47 < AndroidKitKat> Which works pretty well if you don’t want to use i3 19:47 < pankaj> Is their any command in linux which recognise the folder in which I am and gives the information about the filesystem; of which I am currently in rather then full information about every filesystem on system. 19:47 < AndroidKitKat> There’s a small team 19:47 < Hdphn> jelly: I am fed up with it 19:47 < Hdphn> jelly: not ready to tinker everytime I do pacman -Syu 19:47 < jelly> oh, does it break too often? 19:47 < Hdphn> or kernel upgrades 19:47 < Alekisx2> hello, could someone help me understand a concept/theory 19:47 < Hdphn> is ubuntu mate a good choice for me? 19:47 < Alekisx2> it's a question I have on an assignment 19:47 < Hdphn> if I want stability and get work done mindset 19:47 < JimBuntu> pankaj, `echo $PWD` 19:48 < Hdphn> triceratux: hi. your advise please? 19:48 < CrazyTux> I have been using Ubuntu LTS. Quite good except random freezes sometimes. 19:48 < Hdphn> is debian testing more stable than ubuntu LTS? 19:48 < JimBuntu> pankaj, that's for recognizing what folder you are in, unsure what filesystem info you want to get 19:48 < pankaj> JimBuntu: I said that the command gives information about filesystem based on the folder in which I am currently in. 19:48 < jelly> Hdphn, debian testing is... weird. Do not recommend for getting work done. 19:48 < jamtoast> pankaj: how about " df -hTP | grep `pwd -P` " 19:49 < Hdphn> jelly: your recommendations then? 19:49 < jelly> Hdphn, Debian release. 19:49 < mutante> Hdphn: if you want stable, how about using "stable" 19:49 < Hdphn> I am a developer 19:49 < CrazyTux> and today I almost lost all the data on a partition on my laptop, because of this freezing issue. 19:49 < Hdphn> cant live in decade old packages 19:49 < Hdphn> :( 19:49 < jelly> but you're probably not a Debian developer 19:49 < mutante> Hdphn: so if you don't want stable.. then use testing :p 19:50 < jelly> Hdphn, Debian 9 does not have decade old crap. It's merely 1-2 years old. 19:50 < CrazyTux> btw, how is OpenSuse Leap? 19:50 < CrazyTux> is it more stable than Ubuntu LTS? 19:50 < pankaj> jamtoast: Sometimes I get bogged down with filesystem details. May be not good start with filesystem on linux. 19:50 < jelly> Hdphn, and make a disconnect between your dev environment and the rest of the OS, if you want a stable OS 19:50 < mutante> "i want it to be rock solid but also cutting edge" is mutually exclusive 19:50 < BCMM> debian stable has old software. that's why it's stable. if you don't want the software to be old, don't use stable. 19:51 < jelly> BCMM, disagreed 19:51 < Psi-Jack> CrazyTux: Still asking the same questions? 19:51 < BCMM> i don't know why people complain about the old software in stable, because stable exists specifically for people who want old software 19:51 < mutante> exactly 19:51 < lotuspsychje> Psi-Jack: known troll over several channels 19:51 < CrazyTux> Psi-Jack, I need to replace Ubuntu LTS with someother more stable distro. 19:52 < Psi-Jack> Actually what's in Debian 9 is not that old. PHP 7.0 for example. 19:52 < Psi-Jack> lotuspsychje: not a troll. Just doesn't listen well. 19:52 < jelly> lotuspsychje: that's a newbie, not a troll. Trolling implies intent. 19:52 < emberquill> If you want something even more stable than Ubuntu LTS, Debian stable is probably your best bet. 19:52 < Psi-Jack> CrazyTux: So do it. But stop asking the same questions over and over and over again. 19:53 < CrazyTux> Psi-Jack, I will listen. What is your advice? 19:53 < mutante> it's always "it needs to be the latest version but also lots of people should have used it before" 19:53 < Brainspackle> CrazyTux: if you can't keep ubuntu lts running stable then its a lost cause 19:53 < emberquill> ^ 19:53 < Psi-Jack> CrazyTux: My advice is try it. 19:53 < CrazyTux> ok 19:54 < jelly> Hdphn, so pick a reasonably conservative distro, one that has LTS releases, but keep your dev environment and its components separate if possible. 19:54 < Psi-Jack> CrazyTux: better though would be to try and understand more clearly what exact problems you're actually running into. 19:54 < Brainspackle> i doubt he has "dev environments" 19:54 < jelly> they're a developer 19:54 < CrazyTux> Brainspackle, expect that freezing issue, everything is ok. 19:54 < Brainspackle> maybe its a hardware problem 19:54 < mutante> random freezing sounds a lot more like hardware than anything about the distro choice 19:55 < jelly> Brainspackle, their editor, language and library tools of choice and their dev environment 19:55 < Psi-Jack> Exactly. 19:55 < jelly> are* their dev env. 19:55 < Psi-Jack> Random freezing is almost always hardware related. 19:56 < jelly> except when it's driver related *cough*nouveau*cough* 19:56 < Psi-Jack> Hehe true. 19:56 < djph> jelly: then it's still hardware related. 19:56 < Psi-Jack> Also true. 19:57 < Brainspackle> drivers are software 19:57 < CrazyTux> stangely Manjaro which is installed on the same laptop doesn't have this issue. 19:57 < Brainspackle> if a driver is causing a crash, that is a software issue 19:57 < CrazyTux> So, it is not a hardware problem probably. 19:58 < Brainspackle> did you try thoughts and prayers? 19:58 < djph> Brainspackle: and yet, it's software specifically designed to interface with the hardware :) (not saying it's "not" software related) 19:58 < mutante> also a common problem is people get an LTS distro but then proceed to install software with curl | bash install.sh scripts from random 3rd party sources,bypassing the package manger .. which defeats the entire point of being "stable" 19:59 < Psi-Jack> CrazyTux: I always recommend these distros in order : Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, Debian. 19:59 < CrazyTux> I never installed any package outside the package manager. 19:59 < djph> mutante: who would ever do *that*?! 19:59 < jelly> djph, in that csae, every driver bug is hardware related 19:59 < Psi-Jack> Note that Ubuntu was not in that list. 19:59 < jelly> even if hw works perfectly 19:59 < CrazyTux> Psi-Jack, ok, then. I will go for OpenSuse Leap. 20:00 < jelly> that's not exactly helpful 20:00 < Hdphn> Brainspackle: what distro are you rockin? 20:00 < djph> jelly: yup, it's all related to imperfect silicon doing exactly what the imperfect meatsacks told it to do. 20:01 < s10gopal> i have selected do nothing when lid is closed , but when i connect monitor and close lid , monitor's screen also gets off 20:01 < Psi-Jack> CrazyTux: Good luck. 20:01 < CrazyTux> Psi-Jack, thanks for your suggestion. 20:02 < Psi-Jack> CrazyTux: I do not recommend the use of btrfs when installing. 20:02 < CrazyTux> Psi-Jack, I will use ext4. 20:03 < paddy|> what about fedora? nobody speaks for fedora? its a fine choice too 20:03 < mutante> no, no need to do free beta testing for RHEL :p 20:04 < paddy|> bla 20:04 < paddy|> the debian sponsors are not taking any influence? really? 20:05 < mutante> unlike all the others it is not backed by a corporation 20:05 < paddy|> you seem to be a true romantic 20:05 < Psi-Jack> paddy|: I recommended Fedora. :p 20:06 < paddy|> without the money of many corporations nothing would run here and there 20:06 < mutante> not following that mindset of "you have lost anyways so it doesnt matter" 20:06 < Psi-Jack> In fact, Fedora is my #1 recommended distro. 20:06 < pankaj> What do linux geeks do in their free time? 20:06 < paddy|> because they can 20:06 < Psi-Jack> pankaj: Hmmm.. Perhaps you should find some and ask them. 20:07 < pankaj> Psi-Jack: I thought I can find them here........ 20:07 < paddy|> *snodder* 20:07 < Psi-Jack> pankaj: You might. Might be better at a LUG group meeting in your area, though. 20:08 < mutante> that's what they do in their free time.. they attend LUG meetings 20:08 < paddy|> with sponsors 20:08 < Psi-Jack> pankaj: Now, as for here... The subject matter is GNU/Linux, not social activities. :) So do you have a Linux question? 20:08 < pankaj> Psi-Jack: Just 1 minute 20:09 < Psi-Jack> Oops. Times up. :) 20:09 < paddy|> somebody brainwashed the babies to believe that money is evil 20:09 < mutante> yea right, without the generous corporate sponsors those Linux geeks couldn't afford their meeting 20:09 < paddy|> yes 20:12 < paddy|> quite a few debian developers are paid by their boss. and their boss is okay when they work during work hours on debian projects 20:13 < paddy|> now tell me how that money is better than red hat money 20:13 < s10gopal> which destro has laptop optimization ? 20:13 < Psi-Jack> s10gopal: * 20:13 < s10gopal> Psi-Jack, all ? 20:13 < Psi-Jack> Yes 20:14 < pankaj> Psi-Jack: I was not asking about social activities. But rather about tools in linux they might twik with. 20:14 < Psi-Jack> pankaj: No you weren't. 20:16 < Alexander-47u> hi all 20:17 < Alexander-47u> lets say I have a smbclient version 4.7.4 20:17 < Alexander-47u> and I want to install version 4.6.5 next to it 20:17 < Alexander-47u> how to go about this? 20:17 < Alexander-47u> or a portable version would be even more great 20:21 < benklop> @Alexander-47u personally, I'd probably build from source and install to a different location, but there are a lot of options. 20:21 < Psi-Jack> Alexander-47u: Better. Why? 20:21 < Psi-Jack> benklop: IRC is not Twitter, Discord, Slack, etc. @nick is not generally the "correct" way to address people and get their attention. 20:22 < benklop> Psi-Jack: sorry about that, you're of course correct 20:22 < Alexander-47u> benklop, i was thinking the same thing, but doesnt that cause troubles :p? 20:22 < Alexander-47u> Psi-Jack, because the new version sdoesnt print the smb version 20:22 < Alexander-47u> when connecting 20:22 < Alexander-47u> im doing OSCP course 20:22 < Psi-Jack> Alexander-47u: You could always make your own packages with your distro's appropriate packaging tools, but ... 20:22 < Psi-Jack> A what? 20:23 < Hdphn> Alexander-47u: then u should be using kali as main OS 20:23 < Hdphn> isnt it 20:23 < Psi-Jack> Hdphn: "you", not "u" for future self corrections. 20:23 < ayecee> shud* 20:23 < Alexander-47u> yes, but the latest upgrade breaks some stuff 20:23 < Hdphn> try ParrotOS 20:23 < Hdphn> as main OS 20:23 < Hdphn> its alternative to kali 20:23 < benklop> Alexander-47u: yeah, that's probably the right idea. perhaps running multiple VMs with different versions, so r at least chroots 20:23 < Alexander-47u> I will, later maybe after my course 20:24 < Hdphn> Alexander-47u: is course difficult 20:24 < Psi-Jack> ParrotOS nor Kali are intended, nor designed, to be used as a desktop platform. 20:24 < Alexander-47u> Hdphn, depends on if you have prior experience, which I didnt, but I'd say it's easy but very time consuming. 20:26 < Psi-Jack> Alexander-47u: Hmmm. Interesting. 20:26 < Psi-Jack> Re: The smb version 20:27 < benklop> Alexander-47u: if I needed a comletely different set of compile-time dependencies for a few different versions of a tool, i'd probably create /opt/version-1/usr and compile all the libs for that version in there, and the same for version-2, version-3, etc. as long as you specify the right library paths when building, I don't see how there should be any conflicts from this. That said, using chroots, containers, or VMs would probably be 20:27 < benklop> simpler if you're not used to compiling your own software 20:27 < hexnewbie> May as well try to run SystemRescueCd as desktop 20:28 < Alexander-47u> benklop, that is indeed correct, i have thought of that, but im already in a VM lol. so i'll have to get used to it 20:29 < benklop> Alexander-47u: have fun! 20:30 < Alexander-47u> thanks :) 20:30 < McColeX> hello 20:34 < jonascj> 'grep' vs. '/bin/grep' in shell scripts? Is it only an issue with shell builtin's like "echo lol" vs. "/bin/echo lol" ? 20:34 < hexnewbie> jonascj: Issue? 20:34 < jonascj> hexnewbie: only something you need to consider when there are similar shell built-ins. 20:35 < hexnewbie> jonascj: By issue, do you mean the fact that ‘echo’ not really portable and you should use printf for anything but echoing literals? 20:36 < jonascj> hexnewbie: excuse my poor formulation, I meant if it was custom to use "grep" or "/bin/grep" in scripts. And then I remembered that sometimes there is a difference, like with 'date', 'echo' (and probably others). 20:36 < hexnewbie> jonascj: I've never seen anyone use /bin/grep or /bin/echo in scripts. 20:37 < jonascj> hexnewbie: alright, /bin/grep got another nail in the coffin. 20:38 < linuxfreck> you used to see a lot of logic finding the proper grep you expected in shell scripts that try to support other unix os on top of linux 20:39 < jonascj> hexnewbie: I can't remember right now, but from time to time I see stackoverflow-type questions/posts where some obscure switch does not exist for the shell-builtin, but does for the system gnu-binary. 20:39 < jonascj> * I can remember which questions 20:39 < JimBuntu> I use grep in some scripts, mainly log helpers. 20:39 < hexnewbie> /bin/grep would be more portable to situations (systems or environments, e.g. init scripts) where /bin is not in $PATH, grep would be more portable to situations where grep is not in /bin 20:40 < hexnewbie> Neither of these should ever happen (except in some very custom system-specific script), but if it does, I think I'd rather respect the system's $PATH in where grep is. 20:40 < s10gopal> hexnewbie, sorry for stepping in . Can you please explain what is portable ? and how to check it is portable or now ? 20:41 < JimBuntu> Ah, I see what you meant now. I don't call out the path for grep, no. 20:42 < hexnewbie> s10gopal: Portable is a thing that is in one place and can then be put in another place. Like a laptop that can be used in the bathroom, or a script written on Linux that can be used on FreeBSD 20:42 < hexnewbie> Or your buddy's computer. 20:42 < JimBuntu> or an application that can be moved around and that doesn't require certain config files to be written in user-specific places 20:52 < s10gopal> hexnewbie, how to check if a command is portable or not ? 20:53 < ingiraxo> hello, is here any network expert? :) i have problem with forward on my server 20:54 < hexnewbie> s10gopal: There's no a way to ‘check’ 20:54 < hexnewbie> s10gopal: Certain APIs do have a portability notes in the man page (search for portab, or conform), but that's for C-level APIs mainly. 20:55 < jonascj> s10gopal: only knowledge of how many places is somecommand available, do you use bash specific features and is your friend using bash as shell etc. 20:55 < hexnewbie> s10gopal: POSIX is also a search keyword 20:56 < s10gopal> hexnewbie, jonascj JimBuntu thank you very much for explaining it , now i am going to study more about it 20:56 < Hdphn> Psi-Jack: why not ? 20:57 < Hdphn> triceratux: I can use parrotOS as main OS right? 20:57 < jonascj> s10gopal: it can kill your project to think too much about it, but some knowledge is useful. 20:58 < Hdphn> Psi-Jack: why its not usable as mainOS? isnt it basically debian + tools 20:58 < jonascj> At some point Ubuntu made the decision to make the dash shell '/bin/sh' which broke many system scripts using bash features. 20:58 < jonascj> I don't know if they stock. 20:58 < jonascj> with dash 20:59 < jonascj> *stuck 21:01 < s10gopal> what other 20 year old computer students are doing ? 21:01 < compdoc> wishing they had girlfriends 21:01 < ozymandias> gaming. 21:02 < jonascj> s10gopal: computer science students? 21:02 < s10gopal> jonascj, yes 21:03 < jonascj> s10gopal: from time to time living in the computer labs doing projects (kernel modules, implementing matrix-matrix multiplication, making fuse-filesystems) 21:03 < jonascj> s10gopal: but otherwise pretty normal stuff, at least myself and those I studied with included. 21:05 < jonascj> but compdoc and ozymandias are probably right as well, I suspect CS/math students will play more board games / computer games than other groups of students. Maybe they will also have fewer girlfriends than, say, students of medicin :P 21:06 < ozymandias> :-D 21:06 < s10gopal> you also have to fill sheet to crack exam ? how much CGPA they get out of 10 ? in india students are getting 9out of 10 cgpa but they dont know how to write copy constructor 21:06 < alanhuang> boyfriends though... (kidding) 21:06 < jonascj> s10gopal: computer science is not really about proramming, so no big surprise there for me. 21:07 < ozymandias> jonascj, your program was very different than mine 21:07 < s10gopal> in india it is just about programming 21:07 < ozymandias> programming skill was a required part to do pretty much most of the homework 21:08 < jonascj> ozymandias: we did have programming of course, but programming is really just a tool to implement algorithms and test things. Mostly computer science is about understanding algorithms, proving algorithms, learning about data structures etc. 21:08 < ozymandias> it was assumed that you could program in the upper levels -- they didnt even teach the languanges, just tossed you the manuals and said 'now implement these projects' 21:08 < ozymandias> jonascj, that's true, but you have to be able to pick up programming on the fly to do anything in CS 21:08 < jonascj> ozymandias: exactly, and in most cases it wouldn't matter if you copy constructed something or wrote it in assembly 21:09 < s10gopal> i was talking about copy constructor in c++ , very basic exampile 21:09 < ozymandias> ok, I think we are getting to the same point, just with different terms 21:10 < ozymandias> upper level CS doesnt teach programming, as it is expected to be a skill you have 21:10 < jonascj> In Denmark CS is a 5 year education, but if you want a good programmer outsource it to India or hire someone who studied programming for 3 years, they are much better programmers, but maybe not as good as coming up with a completely new algorithm for something. 21:10 < twainwek> doesn't matter. there's nothing special about c++, and someone not knowing it doesn't mean anything. 21:11 < jonascj> twainwek: exactly 21:11 < s10gopal> indian are good in copy paste work and documentation only , india is only producing graduated labours 21:11 < ozymandias> i find that a tad racist 21:11 < ozymandias> oddly enough 21:12 < Dagmar> yeah but it's unfortunately pretty true 21:12 < Dagmar> They've got a lot of diploma mills over there 21:12 < ozymandias> i know many Indians that are good at CS -- and at least 1 of them did undergrad in India 21:12 < s10gopal> i am from india , we have to fill 39 out of 39 pages to get pass 21:12 < JJBby> How do you search for something in a man or help file in CLI. Im trying 'n', '^N', /pattern, !pattern. I cant even figure out how to use the comands from the help help 21:12 < ozymandias> JJBby, /searchstring 21:13 < jonascj> speaking of CS and being good at X, I know many very proficient computer scientists who use Windows as their daily driver :P 21:13 < Dagmar> It's kind of an ongoing problem of "schools" that are basically just taking a ridiculous sum of money to get someone taught just enough to pass a certification exam, and no more 21:13 < ozymandias> jonascj, that's true -- but I would not trust a CS program that does that 21:14 < ozymandias> you cannot truly teach CS on windows 21:14 < Dagmar> JJBby: Assuming you didn't change the defauly pager, slash works fine 21:14 < jonascj> ozymandias: they were all dragged through Linux to some degree because it is the most popular open-source OS, which is great for studing OS'es :P 21:14 < Dagmar> JJBby: It's just /string and hit enter 21:14 < s10gopal> we can get btech certificate in $5500-6000 us dollars. 21:14 < vlt> JJBby: Make sure "man" uses "less" as pager and not just "more". 21:14 < Dagmar> Then you can use n and N to skip around 21:14 < ozymandias> jonascj, exactly -- you need to rely on an open source OS to learn CS to any substantive depth 21:14 < jonascj> ozymandias: I just meant it is their OS of choice in private life and at work, now that they are back to only thinking of algorithms and writing papers, maybe they have Putty to do shell stuff on a remote system. 21:15 < twainwek> that's universities these days. they teach you how to be a code monkey and not how to think... unless you study perhaps math 21:15 < ozymandias> jonascj, right -- as a desktop, windows is fine -- as a tool for a CS program, it is TERRIBLE 21:15 < twainwek> as in pure math 21:16 < s10gopal> can you please share your syllabus and how your professor test you ? 21:16 < ozymandias> many of the tests were hands on projects 21:17 < ozymandias> implement a greedy TCP algorythim, etc 21:17 < Dagmar> s10gopal: The big difference being that schools that are teaching people to program don't have them just learning how to copy-paste 21:17 < Dagmar> There is little point in teaching someone how to _type_ a bubble sort from memory. They need to actually understand how it works. 21:17 < ozymandias> hell, for 5+ years, my name was in the official RH source code, due to one of my undergrad projects 21:17 < jonascj> Long forgotten, OS class would be http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&itemId=1118063333&bcsId=7886 and an written exam where you do simple address translation, following pointers, and stuff 21:18 < Dagmar> ...so they don't wind up sending me trouble tickets about a problem making a TCP socket that amounts to "user failed to provide a keyring" 21:18 < jonascj> and projects writing a fuse file syste and a simple echo-back kernel module. 21:19 < s10gopal> we have 80 marks paper and gets questions like explain loops in c for 16 marks 21:19 < ozymandias> in project management, our final project was to work with a local business on a programming need they had, and provide them a fully realized solution complete with docs 21:19 < jonascj> Programming languages class was learning haskell and prolog, also written exam doing list comprehension by hand, writing small programs by hand to sort a list etc. 21:19 < Dagmar> s10gopal: Someone can easily memorize a paragraph to "explain" 21:19 < ozymandias> why would you 'explain' on paper? show you know it by DOING it :-D 21:19 < Dagmar> It doesn't mean they can code their way out of a paper bag 21:20 < s10gopal> thats we have to do and we have to explain it on 9-11 pages to get marks 21:20 < Dagmar> ...or even write a single line of code properly. 21:20 < twainwek> my rule of thumb is: if the course doesn't involve theorems and proofs, it's not worth much 21:21 < ozymandias> indeed, the only hand writting out you should be doing is a proof 21:21 < ozymandias> code should be typed 21:21 < ozymandias> so it can,. you know, be tested 21:21 < hexnewbie> Unless you're trying to prove Riemann's hypothesis, it's probably a waste of time on math problems for R&R 21:22 < s10gopal> twainwek, and how you memorize all theorems and write them in exam correctly ? 21:22 < ozymandias> thats not how proofs work 21:22 < twainwek> ^ 21:23 < ozymandias> thats like saying ' I aced math by memorizing all the numbers' 21:23 < hexnewbie> Exam should be: Here's the Linux kernel. Write an analytic proof on its correctness. 21:23 < JimBuntu> I write all my answers using base-4, less numbers to memorize 21:24 < ozymandias> JimBuntu, binary man, binary 21:24 < JimBuntu> ozymandias, that one would have been figured out way too fast... base-4 leaves them puzzled for a while 21:25 < s10gopal> how you learn things ? your professor teaches them to you ? or he just comes with paper and write that on board ? 21:25 < ozymandias> so in high school, my senior class was selected to take a proposed standardized test -- so they could see how closely the new test lined up with the results of the existing tests.... 21:26 < ozymandias> we literally had people pulling crap like answering math questions in base 4 or hex, because we could 21:26 < ozymandias> s10gopal, neither 21:27 < ozymandias> the prof discusses selections of the readings, and answers questions/gives examples, and then you do the reading and projects and come back and look at the next section 21:27 < ozymandias> the point of CS is to learn to think, not to parrot back what they tell you 21:27 < ozymandias> you need to apply the concepts not just blindly repeat them 21:28 < ozymandias> its not "what is a loop?" but "when is a loop the appropriate solution?" 21:28 < ozymandias> at least in the upper levels of my program 21:30 < Dagmar> At the lower levels it should be "write a loop" 21:30 < twainwek> brb, gonna remove "in-depth knowledge of c for-loops" from my resume 21:30 < ozymandias> in the intro courses, sadly, there was a lot of 'this is a computer' or 'this is how you type' -- at least until the filter classes got done 21:31 < Dagmar> I actually skipped those 101 classes 21:31 < ozymandias> Dagmar, yup, it should ALWAYS be show, not tell, in both directions 21:31 < Dagmar> The professors graded on curves, and I threatened to wreck those 21:31 < JimBuntu> ozymandias, The one thing that still bothers me and I know it shouldn't, is when people refer to their "CPU"... when they are talking about the tower/etc. 21:32 < ozymandias> JimBuntu, i know people that call it the harddrive 21:32 < Dagmar> ...and I do mean I literally called up the instructors and spent ten minutes talking to them and they told OIT I did not need to waste those semesters 21:32 < s10gopal> is CGPA matters ? 21:32 < Dagmar> I wasn't about to take a class where there was an exam question where you label a mid-tower case as a "CPU" 21:32 < twainwek> in case you haven't noticed, we don't have computers anymore, we only have The Cloud now 21:32 < ozymandias> never even heard of that before, s10gopal, so I am guessing 'no 21:32 < s10gopal> percentile , marks 21:33 < benklop> Dagmar: if I was stuck in an (obviously gigantic) paper bag, I have _no_ idea how I would code myself out of it, and I write code for a living. :D 21:33 < ozymandias> that doesnt matter in the real world 21:33 < Dagmar> benklop: You'd start by bit-banging the stepper motor controller 21:33 < ozymandias> after your first job, no one cares what your grade point was 21:34 < benklop> Dagmar: waaait.... this problem was not clearly defined. I had no idea there was a stepper motor, a controller, or anything except myself and the bag 21:34 < ozymandias> hell, if I SAW a GPA on a non-entry level resume, I might flag it to be tossed 21:34 < kfrench> benklop: Was it wet? 21:34 < benklop> kfrench: good question! 21:34 < jonascj> benklop: I remember seeing a post on reddit about what to do if you found yourself in a room with only x86(_64) computer with no OS, one floppy and you had to do some relatively simple task (if it had an OS) 21:35 < jonascj> benklop: it was a good read 21:35 < twainwek> also a 4.0 in my experience means people who take easy courses with easy professors to maintain their GPAs 21:35 < s10gopal> 4.0 out of 40 ? 21:35 < ozymandias> twainwek, indeed, it likely means not a risk taker, and not one that likes true challenges 21:36 < ozymandias> 4.0 out of 4.0 21:36 < s10gopal> 10^ 21:36 < ozymandias> GPA is usually out of 4 21:36 < ozymandias> in US and UK (i think) 21:36 < s10gopal> and how many subject you study per semester ? 21:36 < ozymandias> 4.0 means they got all As (and no A-) in every course 21:37 < twainwek> go take an abstract math course with a russian professorwith an accent so thick that it sounds russian who hands out 5% A, and maintain your 4.0 GPA, then maybe i'll show some interest 21:37 < ozymandias> you mean classes? full time is 12 credits, usual load is 15-16, heavy load is 18 (needs advisor aproval) and 21 is the max possible 21:37 < ozymandias> usually 1-3 credits per class 21:38 < ozymandias> 1 credit = 1 hour/week in class, usually 3-4 hours of homework 21:38 < s10gopal> we study 10 different course in 6 months 21:38 < benklop> my GPA was never anything to write home about, I always spent way too much time discovering interesting problems to solve and not enough time focusing on the coursework.. 21:38 < ozymandias> credits + homework time roughly is 40-50 hours week 21:39 < ozymandias> in 6 months, that seems about right -- that would be 1.5 semesters 21:40 < benklop> like figuring out how to get linux hyperthreading to work before it was in the main kernel tree, or trying to connect to the school's microsoft loving VPN under linux 21:40 < ozymandias> typically a semester is 4 months, or 16 weeks, or the equivilent class time+ homework time 21:40 < benklop> or heck even getting my wifi card to work back then was an excersise in frustration (ndiswrapper) 21:40 < s10gopal> 1 semester , in which we get 2 month holiday + 1 month for exam 21:40 < Psi-Jack> Linux? 21:40 < ozymandias> benklop, we had a 64 bit debian cluster before debian was 64 bit 21:41 < ozymandias> benklop, so I can relate :-D 21:42 < FRWB> is it fine to use the same private key on multiple machines? for rsa 21:42 < Dagmar> It's "fine" but don't do it 21:42 < ozymandias> FRWB, for ssh? yes 21:42 < Psi-Jack> FRWB: From your own computer? 21:42 < Psi-Jack> Absolutely fine. 21:42 < ozymandias> but he is right, dont do it 21:43 < Dagmar> There's no reason you can't stick multiple public keys on the various machines you shell into 21:43 < FRWB> k just makin sure thanks yall 21:43 < ozymandias> in some cases, it even makes sense 21:43 < Psi-Jack> This whole thing of, don't do it, both of ya, how dare you! 21:43 < ozymandias> such as a cluster 21:43 < benklop> ozymandias: if I feel like something is frustrating, all I need to do is think back to why I felt like I legitimately needed to use gentoo on my laptop to get anything done and everything seems better by comparison 21:44 < Dagmar> Yeah because in a cluster environment you really want to be sure that a compromise of one machine impacts all of them 21:44 < ozymandias> Dagmar, in many clusters, getting one compromised ALREADY comprpmised all of them ;-) 21:44 < Dagmar> I'll stick with proper key management 21:44 < Psi-Jack> lol 21:45 < Psi-Jack> Proper key management would be needing only one, properly secured and used only where it would be used. 21:45 < ozymandias> Dagmar, some of the clusters I have worked on did not have unique homes per node, for instance 21:45 < Psi-Jack> ozymandias: Why would that matter? :p 21:45 < ozymandias> so if you had write access to any node, you have compromised the cluster 21:45 < ozymandias> separate keys would not have helped -- or even be possible for the most part 21:46 < Psi-Jack> Yep. 21:46 < Alexander-47u> benklop, you made it sound like it was hard, but it was really trivial xD 21:46 < ozymandias> and some have job schedulers, or user equvilency set up 21:47 < Psi-Jack> Keep your personal SSH key secured and encrypted via a passphrase. Only use it from origin systems where you, the human, will be ssh'ing from. 21:47 < Psi-Jack> That is proper ssh management. 21:47 < benklop> Alexander-47u: sure it wasn't hard, but it was definitely one of the things that decreased my GPA overall 21:48 < Dagmar> ozymandias: COmmon homedirs is fine. Common role account credentials with any kind of privs at all, perhaps not so much 21:48 < Psi-Jack> benklop: Linux? 21:48 < benklop> Psi-Jack: yes, the major thing that led to my eventual dropout from school and the beginning of my software development career :D 21:48 < benklop> Psi-Jack: I ended up dropping out to accept a job offer 21:49 < Psi-Jack> benklop: Linux? 21:49 < benklop> Psi-Jack: yes 21:49 < Psi-Jack> Where? Still waiting. :) 21:49 < Psi-Jack> Hint hint. Topic Adjustment. :) 21:50 < benklop> Psi-Jack: my bad.. 21:50 < Psi-Jack> Heh heh 21:56 < Aljone> hey guys how do i see that in pages instead big list that scroll down and i cant go up mysqld --help --verbose 21:57 < twainwek> mysqld --help --verbose | less 21:57 < ayecee> mysqld --help --verbose 2>&1 | less 21:57 < Aljone> ty 21:59 < puff> And once again the "browser" process in Chrome is at 102% of CPU. I have exactly one window open. 21:59 < Psi-Jack> Aljone: "thank you" not "ty" for future self corrections 22:01 < twainwek> puff: they released a patch to fix that. it's called firefox 22:03 < Alexander-47u> benklop, what is GPA overall :P? 22:03 < hexnewbie> puff: Chrome needs one window to load a horribly written web site 22:07 < xp_scaling> Folks, need some help remembering a command. At Android's boot screen, I used to add vga= somewhere to get all the supported resolutions somewhere at the line vga=ask 22:07 < xp_scaling> kfrench: at the end? 22:07 < mawk> vga for android , 22:07 < mawk> ? 22:07 < xp_scaling> mawk: yes 22:07 < kfrench> xp_scaling: I don't know where. I've never booted android 22:08 < mawk> anywhere on the cmdline xp_scaling 22:08 < xp_scaling> ok I got it, thanks. 22:10 < Alexander-47u> benklop, how did it decrease your GPA ?:P 22:10 < Alexander-47u> just curious 22:11 < benklop> Alexander-47u: mostly because i spent my time learning and working on Linux, and not doing homework 22:12 < benklop> i can't even recall what my grades were, so they were clearly bad. 22:12 < DrunkRhino> For keeping a system file in sync across multiple computers on a home network (e.g. lightdm.conf), something like puppet would be overkill, right? I was thinking something more like an rsync + cron job 22:13 < ntd> zfs/btrfs tx/rx over ssh, unison, etc? 22:13 < ntd> just, eh... doing it that way is great for spreading a single malware infection 22:13 < benklop> DrunkRhino: I've used Unison for such a thing, but today I might use owncloud. 22:14 < benklop> DrunkRhino: if you know it's just going to be a single file or two, and you only want to keep them in sync, rather than having a single source of truth for what they _should_ contain, then puppet, chef, ansible, or others might be overkill. 22:15 < ntd> well, letting a "l"-amp stack handle anyones files 22:15 < benklop> if in the other hand you might expand to wanting to templatize more and more files, instead of just sync, then I'd use one of the above. 22:15 < xp_scaling> Also there is this weird bug I've faced when I was setting up Android within VMware workstation. I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with this. Whenever I installed Android from the ISO & booted it the first time, it properly shows all the resolutions when I use vga=ask But after that, whenever I boot using vga=ask, the resolutions displayed are always lesser than 1366x768 & I'm not able to choose a resolution higher than that. 22:17 < benklop> ntd: hmm. I suppose I'd agree. since this is about a _system_ file, I'd probably prefer to use a templating tool or something, instead of syncing. 22:19 < EugenA> I'm looking for a simple monitor tool to watch log files and send emails if something interesting found 22:19 < kfrench> syslog? 22:19 < benklop> xp_scaling: workstation sometimes might change the video card being presented in response to the OS loading the driver for the paravirtual card. no idea if that's part of Android - I wouldn't have expected so. but it's the first thing that comes to mind.. 22:19 < EugenA> yes 22:20 < kfrench> EugenA: I was suggesting it as a solution 22:20 < laggger164> Guys, I don't know where to ask this, but since I am on Linux I think it's appropriate enough. I have a laser printer connected and working. I need to print a few pages of text handwritten with a blue pen, basically notes from school. The printer is only black and white and it prints it almost unreadable. Any suggestions? 22:20 < EugenA> i want to receive an email if someone logins on my system 22:20 < edmont> hi 22:21 < kfrench> EugenA: Sure. You have syslog look for that pattern in your logs and run a script. That script would send email. 22:22 < Alexander-47u> benklop, still dont really see the correlation with a decrease xD 22:22 < edmont> how can I mount an encrypted home folder from a previous Mint installation? I have the .ecryptfs/ and .Private/ folders and the passphrase 22:22 < Psi-Jack> edmont: Folder? Directory you mean? 22:23 < edmont> yes, sorry 22:23 < Psi-Jack> You would need to use ecryptfs to mount it, but as long as you have all the data, you should be able. 22:23 < Psi-Jack> ecryptfs is horrible though, so I'd advise against its use in the future. 22:24 < TJ-> EugenA: use pam_exec to run a script that sends the email 22:24 < xp_scaling> benklop: What do you suggest doing then? 22:24 < edmont> Psi-Jack: any good tutorial? 22:24 < twainwek> laggger164: convert to grayscale, adjust contrast, print 22:24 < Psi-Jack> edmont: The ecryptfs docs? 22:24 < laggger164> twainwek: Alright, what should I use to do that? GIMP? 22:25 < TJ-> edmont: "sudo ecryptfs-recover-private /path/to/original/home/.ecryptfs//.Private " 22:25 < twainwek> laggger164: that's definitely one option 22:25 < Psi-Jack> edmont: This might help as well: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ECryptfs 22:25 < laggger164> twainwek: Or would you recommend something else? 22:26 < twainwek> laggger164: i don't have any preferences since i don't really know the root cause of the issue. i suggest trying whatever and see if it even works, and if it does then look for ways to optimize the workflow if you have a lot of it 22:26 < edmont> TJ-: does it need to be the original home? 22:27 < laggger164> twainwek: I mean, that should be a good solution, I'll try it, thanks! 22:27 < Psi-Jack> edmont: This might help as well: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ECryptfs 22:27 < TJ-> edmont: no, any path to an .ecryptfs//.Private ... the tool will mount it under /tmp/ 22:28 < TJ-> edmont: the .Private should have a .ecryptfs sibling, e.g. /.Private and /.ecrpytfs (where the wrapped passphrase is) 22:30 < edmont> TJ-: thanks, I'll try 22:33 < laggger164> twainwek: Welp I tried it and it seems to work fine, thanks for the suggestion! 22:33 < twainwek> nice 22:34 < puff> twainwek: Yeah, I use both. The biggest thing I like about chrome is the task manager, being able to isolate and kill off badly-behaving web pages or extensions. 22:36 < DrunkRhino> benklop, I'll have a look at unison & owncloud, maybe in the future if I need to tweak the individual configs across machines more I'll have a look at things like ansible. For now though it's probably just going to be a handful of things like a shadow-like file for the pam_pwdfile module. 22:37 < rajkosto> whats that ddrescue-like program on linux that would do the same thing but clone only used sectors on ext4 22:37 < djph> rajkosto: er, just ddrescue the whole thing, call it a day 22:37 < rajkosto> no it slow 22:38 < djph> so? 22:38 < rajkosto> need fast 22:38 < rajkosto> there was one, i tried using it before but forgot the name 22:39 < rajkosto> it was ext4 aware and wouldnt copy unused blocks 22:40 < ayecee> clonezilla 22:40 < lukey> rajkosto: You can create a ddrescue domainfile with partclone 22:41 < rajkosto> yep that was it 22:41 < lukey> rajkosto: So ddrescue will only atemp to rescue the areas that are actually used 22:42 < ayecee> lukey: no, it will rescue all blocks 22:42 < lukey> ayecee: not with a domainfile created by partclone 22:42 < ayecee> oh, i see what you're saying. 22:50 < Psi-Jack> ayecee: Well, you are reading every word. :) 22:52 < nolsen> Is it normal for your RAID rebuild speed to be less than 4MB/s? 22:52 < nolsen> on 2 1TB HDDs. 22:52 < nolsen> in RAID 1. 22:52 < xp_scaling> ok, linux mint, at least in it's default settings seems to be terrible at scaling elements when resolution = 1920x1080 compared to Windows, what's the fix to this? 22:52 < Psi-Jack> nolsen: Depends on many factors. 22:53 < nolsen> Psi-Jack: Those are? 22:53 < hexnewbie> nolsen: Very common if the MD RAID is in active use. Minimal speed is 1 MiB/s, maximum speed is like 64 or 200 MiB/s, but the MD code chooses not to interfere with the use in any way, so it tends to go near the minimum in many situations 22:54 < nolsen> Well I just increase the minimum during the rebuild 22:54 < ayecee> "every" 22:54 < nolsen> but it's still being awfully slow. 22:54 < hexnewbie> nolsen: If you know what you're doing, and you know it's not going to affect your operations, you may lift the minium speed 22:54 < Psi-Jack> nolsen: Hardware controller, hardware drives, etc. Settings in /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max (sysctl dev.raid.speed_limit_{min|max}) etc 22:55 < nolsen> It's a soft raid, USB 3.0. 22:55 < Psi-Jack> USB? Why on earth why? 22:55 < nolsen> I don't have the money for a raid card. 22:55 < Psi-Jack> ... 22:55 < nolsen> or an actual machine. 22:55 < Psi-Jack> What's the raid even for? 22:55 < nolsen> RAID 1. 22:55 < Psi-Jack> And don't you dare say backup. 22:56 < nolsen> For redundancy. 22:56 < lukey> nolsen: You can activate write-behind for one of the two HDDs 22:56 < nolsen> USB shouldn't be really bad now days. 22:56 < hexnewbie> Well, RAID *stands* for redundancy. What's the redundancy for? 22:56 < Psi-Jack> So, yes, 4MB/s is "normal" for USB. :) 22:56 < nolsen> Psi-Jack: USB 3.0? 22:56 < nolsen> It has a 5Gbps bus. 22:57 < nolsen> Should be plenty of bandwidth for the hard drives. 22:57 < nolsen> Since they only typicall write around 120MB/s 22:57 < nolsen> typically* 22:57 < lukey> Psi-Jack: Even USB 2.0 should be faster 22:57 < hexnewbie> nolsen: If it is really working at the USB 3.0 speeds with no issues from the controller, cable, enclosure, and Linux drivers, maybe. 22:57 < Psi-Jack> USB 2.0 is single duplex. 22:57 < Psi-Jack> USB 3.0 at least has full duplex. 22:57 < nolsen> Even when it's not running with RAID, I can get easy 100MB/s 22:57 < benklop> you mean half duplex? 22:58 < Psi-Jack> half duplex, yes. LOL 22:58 < mawk> one duplex, two duplexes 22:58 < spkd> duplii 22:58 < nolsen> Also, just to throw it in there, I ran a RAID system with a raspberry PI, the worst machines to even use RAID... 22:58 < nolsen> And I got better performance than this kek. 22:58 < Psi-Jack> LOL 22:59 < nolsen> I atleast get 20MB/s rebuild on a FREAKING PI 22:59 < Time-Warp> anyone know where to find libjasper-dev ffs 22:59 < spkd> raid on a pi? 22:59 < spkd> lol 23:00 < nolsen> Now that I upgraded to a decent-ish machine with actual USB 3.0, I should get even better results... 23:00 < xp_scaling> seriously folks, I can't find a solution to making the UI elements proper on a 1080p resolution screen. There is an option within preferences to Double the scaling but that's too big. No in between options. Is it really true that linux mint still can't scale well even on a 1080p screen? 23:00 < hexnewbie> nolsen: Hopefully you can. Prepare to be rebuilding 3-4 times a day :p 23:00 < lukey> nolsen: Or maybe try increasing the Chunk Size 23:00 < nolsen> Why the constant rebuilding? 23:01 < hexnewbie> nolsen: Every time your USB bus gets drops one of the disks. (Wouldn't be that bad with bitmaps) 23:01 < Psi-Jack> nolsen: What are you making redundant 23:02 < nolsen> Psi-Jack: *Alot* of files that I use, usually as SMB or NFS, depending on which OS I'm on. 23:02 < nolsen> usually shared as* 23:02 < twainwek> xp_scaling: screenshot? 23:02 < vfbsilva> anyone using a primus video card with the nvidia drivers? I seem unable to have output in hdmi 23:02 < nolsen> I even use it to backup files from my laptop. 23:02 < Psi-Jack> And why do you need it as RAID? 23:02 < nolsen> Because RAID is more fun. 23:02 < lukey> nolsen: Is the read/write buffer enabled on the disks/controller? 23:02 < nolsen> Plus hard drive failure protection. 23:02 < Psi-Jack> Bad answer. 23:02 < nolsen> lukey: Not sure. 23:03 < benklop> hexnewbie: i ran zfs with 4 disks over USB3. it worked fine, and I only upgraded to a built-in enclosure because the usb3 enclosure would reset every time I pulled a disk to replace it (happened twice, but the disks are ooooooooold and I replaced them due to SMART warnings and such, not due to true failure 23:03 < nolsen> Psi-Jack: Hard drive failure protection. 23:03 < lukey> nolsen: dmesg might tell 23:03 < xp_scaling> twainwek: I'll try, the thing is it's in a new laptop on which I haven't installed my screenshot program yet & I'm typing from another laptop. It'll take some time. 23:03 < benklop> of course when it reset, it disconnected ALL disks which kind of sucked. 23:03 < hexnewbie> Badly provisioned RAID can as well increase the chances of losing your data (admittedly, that mostly applies to RAID-5) 23:04 < twainwek> xp_scaling: i was just curious as to how it looks. what's your desktop environment? and what do you mean by "ui elements" 23:04 < nolsen> RAID 5 is too extreme for my use case. 23:04 < nolsen> I would go with RAID 10, but I would saturate the bus too easily. 23:05 < oiaohm> nolsen: really raid on a pi seams bad until you know some of the small single box raids use USB 2 bridges like pi and have a smaller processor than pi 1 this explains why their performance is absolute garbage. 23:05 < hexnewbie> benklop: I tried using ZFS over USB, fubared in a week (pool was unmountable, and couldn't be fixed). No redundancy, though 23:05 < nolsen> oiaohm: I'm not using a pi right now. 23:06 < nolsen> Can USB not handle 24/7 usage? 23:06 < hexnewbie> nolsen: Those small files are backed up somewhere, not on the second RAID-1 mirror, right? 23:07 < Psi-Jack> LOl 23:07 < Psi-Jack> hexnewbie: Apparently not. 23:07 < nolsen> I do have an offsite server, but rdiff-backup doesn't want to cooperate, so... 23:07 < benklop> yeah, i have redundancy. I think its reliability depends greatly on the quality of your enclosures, power supplies, and chipsets. I had a friend who was trying to rebuild a zpool and needed extra drives, so had some cheap enclosure attached over USB. drives kept dropping out half way through. I lent him my enclosure, and everything went swimmingly. 23:07 < Psi-Jack> So... As thought. No. 23:08 < benklop> two copies on the single raid-1 volume! 23:08 < benklop> :-P 23:09 < nolsen> [>....................] recovery = 2.2% (22286272/976630464) finish=4641.5min speed=3426K/sec 23:09 < TR1950X> which kernel version is the most recent compile with gcc 5.4.0 ? 23:09 < nolsen> bitmap: 3/8 pages [12KB], 65536KB chunk 23:09 < hexnewbie> nolsen: Time to reconsider forgoing the mirror, and using that second disk to actually store regular backup of the data? 23:09 < TR1950X> compiled 23:09 < TJ-> nolsen: is there some form of ionice set? 23:10 < nolsen> no 23:10 < hexnewbie> TR1950X: Kernel 4.16 is the most recent one. The rest of the question I don't understand. 23:10 < nolsen> What process does RAID use? 23:10 < lukey> TJ-: ionicing the kernel ? 23:10 < TR1950X> hexnewbie: each kernel is compiled with a certain gcc version. 23:11 < TR1950X> for kernel closed source kernel modules such as CUDA to work, the used gcc version must be the same as the one used to compile the kernel. 23:11 < hexnewbie> TR1950X: Compiled in what manner? Test builds before release? 23:11 < xp_scaling> twainwek: Desktop environment is cinnamon. Screenshot https://imgur.com/a/VhrNB look at the taskbar, it's so tiny. 23:12 < hexnewbie> TR1950X: You mean distribution kernels? If you specify which distribution you mean, someone may know 23:12 * Psi-Jack avoids looking at screenshots of cinnamon. 23:13 < nolsen> I wonder if the slow speeds could be the latency that's causing it 23:13 < nolsen> and small files? 23:13 < hexnewbie> I erase all Cinnamons and replace them with fvwm95 23:13 < Psi-Jack> nolsen: Do you ARE using it while it's building? 23:13 < TR1950X> hexnewbie: ubuntu 23:13 < nolsen> Psi-Jack: I'm not using it right now. 23:14 < nolsen> or, so badly, that it's literally writing at only 2MB/s 23:15 < xp_scaling> Is there really no solution to this? A room full of active linux users, someone would know about display scaling on 1080p since it's so common. 23:15 < hexnewbie> ‘so badly?’ Small file writes may be very little bandwidth and still slow down the rebuild a lot 23:15 < DrunkRhino> benklop, would it make more sense to make a new greeter user and chown the .conf and have unison run as that user for what I'm trying to accomplish? or use unison to do something like ~user/sync and then use an escalated version to sync that to the /etc/ version? 23:16 < TJ-> lukey: yes. 23:16 < nolsen> or fragmentation, no clue. 23:18 < hexnewbie> TR1950X: I may be mistaken, Ubuntu kernels are built with the default GCC version for the Ubuntu version. So Xenial's kernels would be built with 5.3.1, Artful's with 7.2.0 and Bionic's with 7.3.0 23:18 < benklop> DrunkRhino: when you talk about syncing, do you want to be able to change it anywhere and have the change reflected on all the others? or do you just have a single version that you will update somewhere and want to have pushed out? because if it's the latter, then actual syncing software like unison is probably overkill, and you could probably have a nice simple scp set up to run whenever the file changes (using inotify to dect 23:18 < benklop> changes if you want) 23:19 < Psi-Jack> nolsen: So it's.. a an empty set of drives. Starting the RAID-1 initial sync, riight? 23:19 < nolsen> Psi-Jack: Oh, it's not empty. 23:19 < nolsen> There's about 300GB or so 23:19 < Psi-Jack> Then you are using it. :p 23:20 < hexnewbie> The disk with the more data weighs more, tilting the desk a little bit to its side and causing the data to flow up the cables, thus slower :p 23:21 < DrunkRhino> benklop, The latter for now, the former would be nice sometime if I can work that in later. I have a Desktop, an old netbook hooked up to a TV as a mediacenter (x64, widevine and all), and a pi. 23:21 < lukey> nolsen: If there wasn't any data on it you could skip the initial resync 23:23 < DrunkRhino> Also hoping to try using xdmcp to offload the DE and everything to the pi and leave the netbook to processing just the things that require DRM. 23:24 < TJ-> nolsen: can you use dmsetup to set the min_recovery_rate and daemon_sleep for the array? 23:25 < benklop> you might find remote xorg to be the sort of thing that only makes you sad. video over it would suck. badly. 23:25 < twainwek> xp_scaling: the daskbar looks pretty normal to me. have you perhaps tried adjusting the DPI? 23:25 < Psi-Jack> nolsen: Basically... What you're doing is a bad idea. 23:25 < Psi-Jack> Don't expect much out of it, or support for it. :) 23:26 < twainwek> xp_scaling: also im not familiar with cinnamon, maybe it has settings that let you adjust what you want to adjust? 23:27 < DrunkRhino> benklop, as in netbook -(xdmcp login) -> pi -<-- run chrome on netbook on :0 --> VGA to TV 23:27 < hexnewbie> But don't get flattered by such words. My bad ideas are much much much more horrible ;) 23:27 < DrunkRhino> Yes, I'm a masochist, why do you ask? 23:27 < Psilocyber> Anyone know much about GPU architecture? Trying to determine if I am going to have driver problems running titan X (pascal) and Titan V (volta) in the same system. 23:28 < DrunkRhino> In an effort to keep busy my home network setup has gone from test lab to mad scientist lair. 23:29 < blackflag_bfp> Hi all. trying to find a good channel for a begginer linux user to learn/ask questions/have fun. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? 23:30 < benklop> DrunkRhino: I couldn't tell :D I'd suggest trying to akeep a KISS approach, but If your goal is to fill up time, then by all means, make it complicated :D 23:30 < saderror256> Hey all 23:30 < saderror256> Are you recieving my messages under the name SadError256? 23:30 < twainwek> blackflag_bfp: this is fine, but fun is strictly prohibited here 23:30 < saderror256> im doing a pidgin irc test I just set it up 23:31 < blackflag_bfp> ok good. *$#@ fun anyways :) 23:31 < hexnewbie> Don't listen, I'm having fun all the time. Usually at the expense of coworkers who need to fix my mess afterwards :) 23:32 < blackflag_bfp> well I just made a debian box with awesome since I am trying to stay in CL as much as possible 23:32 < blackflag_bfp> I figured thats a good way to learn 23:32 < Psilocyber> it might be the best way 23:33 < Psilocyber> GUI? we dont need no stinkin GUI! 23:33 < blackflag_bfp> Fact! 23:33 < vlt> blackflag_bfp: Good start. There's also #debian (and #bash). 23:33 < blackflag_bfp> I tried gui and I was like, "I already know crappy windows os" 23:33 < blackflag_bfp> ok thanks vlt 23:34 < lukey> blackflag_bfp: You could have sticked with fbterm+tmux/screen 23:34 < blackflag_bfp> so I am in weechat now, is that a pretty good client or is it good to go with a graphical irc 23:34 < DrunkRhino> benklop, partly that, partly practice, partly squeezing the life out of every last bit of gear I've got. The netbook's lasted 8 years, and at this point I want to see just how long I can keep it kicking. 23:35 < blackflag_bfp> I am unversed in that lukey. I like what awesome offers. Do you feel that is better? 23:35 < saderror256> ok i did again 23:35 < saderror256> are you guys recievning my messages. if so say yes 23:35 < mawk> in C++ to assign a name to a fully specialized template function what's the best way ? 23:35 < twainwek> no 23:35 < lukey> blackflag_bfp: for low-end hardware at least 23:35 < mawk> I did `constexpr auto& blkio_throttle_read_kbps = blkio_throttle;' 23:35 < Psi-Jack> blackflag_bfp: In the words of a wise man once said : use whatever the hell you want. 23:35 < lukey> saderror256: Yes i can see your messages 23:36 < saderror256> lukey: ok thank you :) 23:36 < DrunkRhino> It can handle chrome OK enough, but I think the video would be smoother if I can figuire out just how to render the browser only locally with the rest of the session being basically a thin client. 23:36 < saderror256> im on a raspberry pi 3 right now using raspbian, I am using it as main and it works great 23:36 < saderror256> Im a programmer and not a huge gamer so it works but I can play games like Neverball at low CPU 23:36 < Psi-Jack> No it doesn't work great. It just works. 23:37 < Aljone> HEY GUYS im using ubuntu i want to know how to clear terminal history 23:37 < DrunkRhino> saderror256 I'm stuck on a 2 for the moment, looking forward to the 3 23:37 < Aljone> im logged with root 23:37 < saderror256> Psi-Jack: Well for me it is 23:37 < blackflag_bfp> Psi-Jack: absolutely 23:37 < Psi-Jack> Aljone: what's terminal history? 23:37 < lukey> Aljone: echo > ~/.bash_history 23:37 < DrunkRhino> Aljone, ~user/.($shell_of_choice)_history? 23:37 < lukey> Aljone: but why would you do that 23:37 < saderror256> Aljone: rm -rf ~/bash_history 23:38 < Psilocyber> kill -9 $$ 23:38 < Psilocyber> dont even leave a history 23:38 < saderror256> FIX TYPO Aljone: rm -rf ~/.bash_history 23:38 < mawk> doing your things will write the history when the current shell exits 23:38 < mawk> better prepend exec to it 23:38 < Psilocyber> this kills the shell -> kill -9 $$ 23:38 < Aljone> i fix some issue on my competitor server 23:38 < Aljone> i dont want him to learn what i did 23:38 < saderror256> Aljone: You should probably specify what shell you are using... 23:38 < mawk> or open a blank shell, close the old one, remove the history with a space in front of the command 23:39 < Aljone> im nebie to linux 23:39 < CodeBug> well centOS didn't work out like i expected is there another Linux Distro that will get me closer to a ADMIN env 23:39 < Aljone> newbie 23:39 < Aljone> im using root 23:39 < saderror256> Aljone: Bash maybe? 23:39 < blackflag_bfp> well I am digging Awesome totally. Just wondering if weechat is worth learning all the new stuff or go with a familiar graphical. It does look cool to be in CLI though :) 23:39 < mawk> you've got a competitor Aljone ? 23:39 < mawk> competitor in what 23:40 < saderror256> DrunkRhino: The 3 is a much bigger improvement 23:40 < lukey> blackflag_bfp: I'd stick to CLI for IRC, there's not much gain with GUI 23:40 < mawk> to gain the love of a woman ? 23:40 < Aljone> hahaha 23:40 < Psi-Jack> CodeBug: Your statement, and question lacks any sense. 23:40 < Aljone> common would u help me ? 23:40 < Psi-Jack> Aljone: "you" not "u" 23:40 < Aljone> i dont want to fuck anything up just to delete the terminal logs 23:40 < Psi-Jack> Language! 23:40 < blackflag_bfp> lukey: thanks 23:40 < Aljone> Ok ok Psi-Jack 23:40 < saderror256> Aljone: rm -rf ~/.bash_history 23:40 < Psi-Jack> No need for the -r in that. 23:40 < mawk> Aljone: close the current shell, open a blank one, delete the history with " rm ~/.bash_history" without the quotes and with the space 23:40 < Aljone> close current shell means? 23:41 < mawk> close your ssh session 23:41 < DrunkRhino> saderror256, I'm still sad there's no USB 3.0 On it just yet. Would be nice to plug my external in there and have it use the full speed of the bus and make it a samba server. 23:41 < mawk> open a new one 23:41 < lukey> blackflag_bfp: I have irssi runing in a gnu screen session 24/7 on a pcduino. So I can ssh to it from all my devices and via tor. 23:41 < vlt> blackflag_bfp: weechat is awsome. I run it inside a tmux session to which I can reconnect anytime from anywhere. 23:41 < mawk> history is written on exit 23:41 < Aljone> ok so exit putty 23:41 < lupine> or the f 23:41 < mawk> so using saderror256 won't work 23:41 < blackflag_bfp> I just have to figure out how this works. I passed the first test on connecting and registering nick i suppose 23:41 < Bashing-om> Aljone: See: ' man tput ' . tput reset <- to clear the history file . 23:41 < lupine> always use the least permissive invocation you can. typos later in the day will please you 23:41 < Aljone> rm ~/.bash_history and tput reset are 2 diff 23:41 < saderror256> Psi-Jack: Yes but that is what I always type, solves problems less brain work :P 23:41 < Aljone> what should i choose 23:41 < mawk> don't listen to the tput reset thing 23:41 < blackflag_bfp> lukey: last time I messed with llinux I used Irssi 23:42 < lupine> . and are surprisingly close 23:42 < mawk> do what I said 23:42 < blackflag_bfp> vlt: 23:42 < Psi-Jack> saderror256: Easily cause worse problems. 23:42 < Aljone> ok so that 23:42 < blackflag_bfp> vlt: I heard great things about weechat 23:42 < mawk> Aljone: alternatively you can type exec bash to open a blank shell in the current session 23:42 < mawk> then you remove the history with ` rm ~/.bash_history' without the `' and with the space 23:42 < Aljone> ok let me do that 23:43 < mawk> next time put a space in front of every command you don't want in the history 23:43 < saderror256> Type "sh", then "rm ~/.bash_history" because sh isn't bash, it shouldn't drop what you typed into the logs 23:43 < Psi-Jack> mawk: Heh, the leading space doesn't hide the command from history, anymore. 23:43 < saderror256> might be wrong there though but I believe SH and BASH are 2 completely different things 23:43 < Aljone> root@SBN:/etc/mysql/conf.d# exit; 23:43 < Aljone> logout 23:43 < Aljone> testuser@SBN:~$ 23:43 < Aljone> this is what i got 23:43 < mawk> really Psi-Jack ? 23:43 < mawk> that's lame 23:44 < Psi-Jack> By default.. Yes. 23:44 < blackflag_bfp> I am also using Eterm and vi. 23:44 < Aljone> should i log again as root? 23:44 < lukey> Psi-Jack: depends on you bashrc 23:44 < Aljone> or should i do it from here? 23:44 < mawk> you log as the user you want to clear history 23:44 < vlt> blackflag_bfp: Just to be clear: tmux isn't weechat or irc specific. It's just a great solution for working on CLIs. 23:44 < Aljone> ok so i need to log again using the root 23:44 < mawk> you do it where you want to clear history 23:44 < mawk> yes 23:44 < saderror256> Aljone: You can also do with Sudo (if sudo is installed and you are in the sudoers file). might help with "su" also instead of having to log in and out all the time 23:44 < CodeBug> ok Psi-Jack let me rephrase. I tried CentOS and I'm studying to be a linux sys administrator via LPIC1 etc. the thing of it is, CentOS wasn't really the distro I was looking for. SO should i go with something like Arch or Debian? 23:45 < Aljone> logged 23:45 < Psi-Jack> Bleh. LPIC1 is useless. Don't waste your time. 23:45 < Aljone> now rm ~/.bash_history and again 23:45 < Aljone> and im done? 23:45 < mawk> every other terminal on that server is closed then Aljone ? so you can remove the file now 23:45 < mawk> yes 23:45 < Psi-Jack> Also, CentOS is the most commonly used distro for servers and businesses. 23:45 < krzee> im trying to copy a sdcard (containing multiple partitions /dev/mmcblk0p1-7) to my disk and then to an empty sd card of the same size. i have been trying with: dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=~k/Desktop/marino.bin bs=4M which *SEEMS* to work, but then when i use dd if=~k/Desktop/marino.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M I dont end up with a clone of the sd card. Does anybody know what im missing here? 23:46 < Psi-Jack> CodeBug: I never recommend Arch to a newbie. Or one trying to learn more about Linux (it's not gioing to teach you anything) 23:46 < blackflag_bfp> vlt: ah I see its a terminal multiplexer. So I assume this would eliminate the need for an Xserver entirely? 23:46 < saderror256> Aljone: It drops the fact that you removed ~/.bash_history when you run that into the... bash history. So first type "sh", then run "rm ~/.bash_history" and logout and back in and you should be good 23:46 < Aljone> done 23:46 < mawk> what makes you think you don't have a clone krzee ? 23:46 < mawk> it doesn't matter if there is that last command in the history saderror256 23:46 < Aljone> thank you very much , can i hide the rm ~/... 23:46 < Aljone> lol 23:46 < mawk> if you want 23:46 < Aljone> how 23:46 < mawk> learn to do it yourself, as an exercise 23:46 < Aljone> :) 23:46 < saderror256> optionally if you want to break your system 23:47 < vlt> blackflag_bfp: The answer is somewhere between "depends" and "kind of" :-D 23:47 < krzee> mawk: when i insert the original it mounts 3 partitions, when i insert the second chip it mounts 1 empty partition just like before trying to clone 23:47 < saderror256> Aljone: ~/ is your home directory 23:47 < Aljone> ok all ty v ery much 23:47 < Psi-Jack> Aljone: "thank you" not "ty" 23:47 < blackflag_bfp> vlt: Nice...I love this shit! ;) 23:47 < Aljone> i ment ~/.bash_history 23:47 < saderror256> oh ok 23:47 < lukey> krzee: Whats up with the ~k/ in your path? 23:47 < saderror256> Psi-Jack: Found the grammer nazi 23:47 < Psi-Jack> saderror256: You don't seem to understand what grammar actually is, or how to spell it. 23:48 < krzee> lukey: ~k/ starts in the user k's home directory 23:48 < CodeBug> DM Psi-Jack 23:48 < Psi-Jack> CodeBug: All PM's are /ignored. 23:48 < blackflag_bfp> so next n00b question is I have spent quite a bit of time getting this rig the way i want it. Now I think i should learn backing up. do you recommend the dd approach or is there a more favorable way 23:48 < saderror256> Psi-Jack: Here is a good joke for you, you should use grammerly. 23:48 < lukey> krzee: Learning something new every day :) 23:49 < saderror256> blackflag_bfp: ddrescue is handy 23:49 < Psi-Jack> blackflag_bfp: Borg Backup is very nice. 23:49 < lukey> blackflag_bfp: I user relax-and-recover 23:49 < Psi-Jack> Time to head on home. ;) 23:49 < lukey> blackflag_bfp: wit the duplicity backend. It makes restore super easy 23:50 < CodeBug> well then what Linux distro would you recommend 23:50 < CodeBug> before you head home 23:50 < saderror256> If you like Graphical interfaces you will like Etcher.io 23:50 < saderror256> although it uses Electron |-( 23:50 < lukey> krzee: Are you on a raspberry Pi? 23:50 < blackflag_bfp> now if I apply that question again with the premise I may use linux at work in the future. would that change any answers or same. FYI I started full immersion to linux for future work endeavors. 23:51 < krzee> lukey: im on my laptop but i *am* cloning the sd for a pi 23:51 < CodeBug> saderror256, what Linux distro would you recommend that would teach me something because i'm learning to be a sys admin 23:52 < lukey> krzee: Was just wondering because of the MMC-Interface. 23:52 < vlt> blackflag_bfp: I use a mix of block device level backups (using something called shasplit.py) and rdiff-backup. 23:53 < qman__> CodeBug: RHEL is dominant in business, so if you're looking for mainstream employment, get CentOS - it's the same thing without the support contract 23:53 < pawnshop> CodeBug: Centos is kind of the staple for How to Sysadmin. And if you can CentOS, then you can Redhat, double-trouble that will cover 80%+ of what you'll see. 23:53 < CodeBug> hrm. 23:53 < blackflag_bfp> I first started on an old chromebook making a chroot but 3 days ago I had enough of the MS bureaucracy and thru debian on. I plan to use debian until I feel warm and fuzzy in cli then maybe an arch install, followed by maybe, don't hit me, gentoo, and finally LFS 23:53 < krzee> lukey: im on mint on my laptop (based on ubuntu which is based on debian), thats what the sdcard shows up as 23:53 < Psi-Jack> pawnshop: hehe 23:53 < blackflag_bfp> thank you all for the imput super helpful, I made notes :) 23:54 < Psi-Jack> I kinda said that earlier already 23:54 < CodeBug> Centos was being a pain because I didnt leave it as a minimal install I tried to install it with all the bells and whistles. 23:54 < Psi-Jack> CodeBug: and? 23:54 < CodeBug> which way should i install it for what i'm trying to do? minimal install? or with a package 23:54 < CodeBug> well Psi-Jack it seemed like too many packages. 23:54 < krzee> which ever way fits your desires? 23:54 < Psi-Jack> Nobody uses CentOS as just minimal... 23:54 < CodeBug> I loved the yum installer over apt honestly 23:54 < CodeBug> well how does the average sys use it 23:55 < krzee> whats an average sys? 23:55 < Psi-Jack> As they want and need 23:55 < qman__> they use it to serve whatever purpose they're trying to solve 23:55 < meyou> i think most people install minimal and then add packages as needed if they're standing up a server 23:55 < lukey> CodeBug: That's not how you learn to Sysadmin 23:55 < tycoon177> i don't have a question, but i just used rsync for the first time and have to wonder where it's been all of my life. it's going to reduce so many headaches 23:55 < blackflag_bfp> CodeBug: I heard that Arch is a great way if your not brand new and LFS is the ultimate way to learn linux 23:55 < meyou> rather than checking the webserver box and letting the installer pick packages 23:55 < CodeBug> well thats the thing going into this Certs and all i don't know what purpose I want for it. 23:55 < krzee> i guess an average system installs it with a web browser so they can see their porn 23:55 < CodeBug> krzee seriously 23:56 < TJ-> krzee: mmcblk devices aren't partitioned like regular block devices. On the target device you need to create a partition table and partitions of the correct size, then dd each partition indivually 23:56 < krzee> TJ-: ohhhhh thanks man 23:56 < krzee> i didnt know that! 23:56 < qman__> CodeBug: business don't use linux for its own sake, they use it to solve business problems, so come up with a business problem, then try to solve it using linux 23:56 < blackflag_bfp> CodeBug: Arch install is minimal. I did a headles debian core install and it forced me to load everything I wanted. learned so much in 2 days 23:56 < CodeBug> blackflag_bfp, Arch is way over my head 23:56 < vlt> tycoon177: I remember the exact date back in 2007 when I first learned of rsync's existence. After I had used linux for more than two years! 23:57 < savage_sage> hi 23:57 < lukey> TJ-: Are you shure about that? Simply cloning whole SD-Cards works for me 23:57 < krzee> lukey: do your sd cards contain multiple partitions? 23:57 < TJ-> krzee: I think there's a way to loopdev mount the file you've got and translate correctly but it's a long time since I did that so can't remember how. It's quicker to replicate partition quantity and sizes 23:57 < krzee> because if mine didnt then this would have been quick and simple 23:57 < lukey> krzee: Yes 23:57 < blackflag_bfp> CodeBug: well I am n00b sauce and I did a debian install from usb, not live but the install, and I oped no desktop environment when it prompted. then I had to apt-get the xinit, awesome, etc.. 23:58 < krzee> TJ-: ya i dont really mind, i can whip up a quick script for restoring them now that i know this is an issue 23:58 < TJ-> lukey: it depends on the mmc controller 23:58 < CodeBug> hmm makes sense. 23:58 < lukey> krzee: 6 Partitions from the pcduino im writing this 23:59 < TJ-> krzee: have you loopdev mounted the file itself to check it is valid? 23:59 < tycoon177> vlt: now to hook this up with inotifywatch >:) automatic syncing between directories! 23:59 < lukey> TJ-: But the mmc-controller has no concept of Partitions 23:59 < Sitri> CodeBug: Use any Red Hat based system, setup the following, centralized as much as you can: logging, virtual machine servers (same distro), DHCP, DNS, HTTP load-balancing, Email, VPN, LDAP (for single-sign on), configuration management (ansible, chef or whatever), system monitoring (nagios or zabbix) 23:59 < Sitri> If you get stuck on one, go to the next one. --- Log closed Tue Apr 10 00:00:30 2018