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12:00 AM
make sure you expand the speaker notes
otherwise it looks like a bulleted list of bs
 
jrg
haha
ok, brb though - laundry needs switching
 
oo good point mine too
 
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Q: Switched from nVidia to Radeon GPU. Now my screen is all garbled. How do I install the driver?

StormShadowI found this page, but it doesn't seem to address actually installing anything, just configuration and whether you can use some unmentioned tool or not. I tried doing a software update, the hardware drivers application does nothing, and I'm thinking the easiest thing to do might be just to back u...

 
12:30 AM
@jrg look solid and not boring?
 
jrg
@lazyPower solid and totally not boring
 
sweet
Its difficult finding the right balance of photos to text on a given slide... for me anyway
 
jrg
if possible, i think a live demo of google docs chaos edit mode would be cool. :P
(then again, i've been known to use it as a extremely basic chat system, so... yeah)
 
unlikely considering only four members of our staff have experience in it. What ir eally want to show is the quazi document edits using the MS Office Cloud Sync. That's the selling point for many people since they wont be making the leap to working in a browser.
 
jrg
Ok, that makes more sense.
 
12:32 AM
Yeah, this is a "hey you CAN, and SHOULD, but for those that wont -- heres how this benefits you"
I estimate only 20% of the staff will make the browser leap.
 
jrg
I see.
 
The cat is in the house!
 
@William thats cuz he's snuggly pat pat
 
I feel so snuggable...
 
1:07 AM
renders another TrackMania video only with the quality settings turned all the way up this time (and still in HD).
 
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Q: How do I uninstall Unity 5 in Ubuntu 11.10?

WilliamI have installed the Unity 5.0 beta through the PPA on my computer running Ubuntu 11.10. I am experiencing strange bugs with Unity 5, such as window title bars having a transparency so high I can see right through them, when I click on the dash the screen flashes before the dash is displayed, whe...

Me thinks me likes KDE better!
@all AND TEH ROOM GOEZ SILENT!
 
1:23 AM
Hmmm I'm going to have to find a webcasting solution for the remote viewers
 
VLC - it does everything :)
Seriously though, I used to use VLC to stream video to other machines on our network.
...if you pick the right codec, it can work very well at low bitrates.
 
VLC ftw, its like a swiss army knife
 
jrg
1:44 AM
Only thing I haven't had luck with for VLC is getting screen recording to work well
 
Even after my 2buntu article?
 
Think its a codec issue, have to test it
@GeorgeEdison link!
 
jrg
No not really.
but i figured out how to make GTKR-MD work, so i didn't pursue it further
 
Guess what?
Meh Unity is still broken!
 
1:47 AM
@GeorgeEdison looking for a browser solution.. does VLC provide a web-interface that requires no codec installation?
 
Well, funny you should mention that, but VLC actually does have an HTTP (browser-based) interface.
 
I'd like to be able to do live casting so i can do Q&A after the presentation.
 
Hmmm...
 
i was looking at UStream but it doesnt appear to have desktop presentation support, so thats an out.
i may just link them directly to the document and have a phone call or skype session with them.
 
That might be easier.
 
1:51 AM
I havent tried that yet though, i'll need to dry run it so i make sure it goes smoothly
 
Search for "Bah" in the search box in the upper left hand corner. There are two pages of "Bah"s!
Windoze developer preview... bah.
 
2:10 AM
Yay. I am an enthusiast in meta!
and @William Leave slime volley alone :/
 
^---- That's what I like to see.
 
what software is that
?
 
nice metrics, i was about to ask the same thing.
 
A happy CPU is a busy one.™
 
bah...
 
2:12 AM
@lazyPower It's Windows 8's task manager :)
 
Ah i see.
 
HUGE improvement.
 
yay ubuntu system monitor.. way to tell me absolutely nothing.
 
8GB of RAM :O I only have 3GB :(
 
yea i only use about 3GB of it :P
RAM is like a condom.. your better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
the only thing depressing about this is the last line...
 
2:18 AM
Do you want to know how much free space I have on my Windows 8 partition?
 
damn SSD.... I could only afford the 60GB - 10GB partition for ubuntu
 
Now that is cramped.
 
wait wait wait... your windows 8 is only ~13GB?
 
Thankfully I have an external 1 TB drive sitting beside me :P
 
my w7 is 24GB with all updates
ohh i have plenty of storage (8TB total), but they are all slow HDD
only one SSD and it's puny
but Vertex 3, so uber fast.
 
2:42 AM
i guess NAS kind of went the way of the hard-core oldster nerd?
i'm still utilizing 4tb of NAS space here at home.
 
I <3 NAS
 
Bounty offered: Wubi's root.disk is missing, but you can still log in as a guest - where is the data? http://askubuntu.com/questions/99112/wubis-root-disk-is-missing-but-you-can-still-log-in-as-a-guest-where-is-the #windows
 
wah, now i have no close votes for the rest of the day :/
 
3:00 AM
Looks like I missed a huge debate on G+ :)
 
Where?
 
That is a scary debate. Religious debates are just not comfortable..
 
3:18 AM
I agee with every word @jrg said. But I digress.
@jokerdino Having ruled out slime volley, is there some other multiplayer you would be interested in?
 
Roland really likes inciting these kinds of debates....
i tend to stay away from them. One too many conversations gone wrong with no right answer. Its all arbitrary.
 
i agree
 
@jokerdino i agree with you 100%
 
religionn aside, can we take our anger out in a game?
@all hello?
 
3:45 AM
@lazyPower lol you have me wrong...
I don't like debates at all. But if I make a statement I often get flooded with comments.

Also, if I express an opinion, same thing.
 
@RolandTaylor nope i form my own opinions.
 
I like this quote: "Questions that aren't properly answered have a way of comiing back"
 
@RolandTaylor Have you ever seen the movie Expelled/
 
I'm saddened that most of the opinions formed about me are usually negative or detrimental :/
@William yep, like 3 times :P
 
3:48 AM
wow.
Ive only seen it twice :)
@RolandTaylor I am currently going through the Evolution unit in school
 
@William cool. I won't try to influence your position (especially here).
 
Not one mention that there might be another side
sad :(
 
another side? :O
heresy!
burn him at the text book!
 
Unfortanately, some of the stuff they say makes sense
 
ofc it does :)
so do the chapters in my novel... both fiction, but sensible.
 
3:51 AM
yep.
We went through a pretest
it was clearly written to kae it look like your'e saying things you dont mean at all
 
say again?
 
asked us to look at it from a biologists perspective
 
(I didn't get the last line)
 
by kae i meant make
ime typing on a netbook
used to my laptop :(
Some of the natural selection stuff makes sense
If they could explain to me how the first cell of life could happen a lot of it would make sense
 
ohh
Natural selection is real; evolution which leads to the adding of information is not real in the natural world.
 
3:55 AM
there is no resonable proposed, unified solution to how the first cell could have happened
 
Bacteria can pass plasmids between each other and thus gain new features, but they can't gain new features by mutating.
 
I liked the part in expelled when the guy was talking about the first cell forming on the backs of crystals
 
@William that's why they now claim the first life must have come from space :P
(The excuse-finding circus)
 
lol
But who designed the aliens?
 
Trust me, as an alien myself, you are definitely not one of us.
 
3:57 AM
It doenst solve anything
 
That's classified.
 
@RolandTaylor I dont claim to be
 
@William :P
 
i dont WANT to be
 
oh come on admit it :D
you wish you had the glowing blue eyes :D
 
3:58 AM
Theres no donuts on mars
that means its not worth it
 
wonder if they have windmills on mars
lol
i like red better
 
alghspisoghiosh I'm agihpiopgiaidhiahd eating aihgpihighsoihgdosighsid donuts
 
sorry my mouth was full
 
3:59 AM
are they tasty?
 
not really, but at least they are donuts
 
Or do they taste like moon dust?
Do they sell computers running Ubuntu on mars?
Just asking
 
sell?
 
of course its classified
 
we don't need money :D
 
4:01 AM
I see - you are all thieves!
 
and I can't really compare them to anything... they taste like... martian donuts...
 
are there mars poliece
 
it's an acquired taste :D
 
and hey @MarcoCeppi
 
@William rofl, there is no such thing as crime here :D
 
4:01 AM
you have been lost in a sea of messages
 
I ride dirty on NASA rovers :P
 
what do you call it then?
 
I'm having a hard time telling what's going on here. I may just, back away slowly.
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whats the martian word for Ubuntu?
 
awesome
 
4:02 AM
Alas, @RolandTaylor, there will be no more nasa rovers for you to drive.
 
it is an ancient martian word meaning: microsoft sucks moon rocks.
 
Now you'll have to ride your bysicle
 
@William :(
 
I think they suck more then moon rocks...
They suck asteroids
 
4:04 AM
this is very random
started out logical
 
Thats usually how it goes when you start talking to roland
 
now that youve reveled your true identity...
 
<3
 
and ended up like that
@William what can I say, you brought up evolution on AU... I had to find a way to avoid using common sense on it.
 
4:06 AM
lol
 
@lazyPower see, I did have a purpose for abject silliness.
 
of all places...
 
Let's just put it this way:

I believed in evolution for years. When I found out the truth behind it (which was a while back now), I was, well, pissed.
 
So, if you bring it up I will either:

Get mad,
Argue,
Talk randomness :)
 
4:07 AM
tonighe, the latter. tommorow, the first.
 
@William that video could do great on developer.ubuntu.com
"This is why you should develop on Ubuntu. Listen to this touching message from our good friend, Steve Balmer."
"Developers developers..."
Viewer: O.o...
 
gooooooo developers!
cheer!
and the room goes silent... again
 
Made some tweaks to the CSS for Stack Mobile:
 
they spellet ubuntu wrong
look under lenses
fail
 
5 mins ago, by William
and the room goes silent... again
I have that effect on rooms....
:P
 
4:22 AM
the "Ronald" effect...
 
Roland*
btw! to prove that I don't like arguments...
 
drumroll...
 
Anyone who follows me on G+ would notice, I recently started disabling comments on almost everything I post (that I deem opinion/controversial).
I just happened to slip up tonight :/
 
lol
I do enjoy reading your stream sometimes.
 
@rlemon lol, is that when I'm sleeping :D?
 
4:26 AM
I should get a g+
 
I post some fun stuff when I'm sleeping XD
 
albeit controversial, your stream is entertaining.
 
the contrivercial stuff is always the most entertaining
 
ohh for sure.
burn dolphins
GO!
 
4:28 AM
lol...
 
lol
 
I don't know why you guys find controversial stuff entertaining :P
 
I know why you don't ALIEN...
cue the spooky music...
 
@RolandTaylor have you ever had a DNA test?
 
why should I?
:D it will obviously be human DNA ;)
 
4:30 AM
so you cannot completely say you are 100% not an Alien.... that is what I thought.
 
@William I don't mind any game. Really.
 
ALIEN
 
:)
you know, all jokes aside, I am technically one...
 
it would take 700 mb to store all data in dna in a fille
 
but that goes down the lines of controversy
 
4:31 AM
best left for g+
that way I can't get flagged and banned from the chat..... again
 
lolol
only reason I don't get banned:
tolerance ;)
 
wait... rlemon got banned?
when?
 
see you and I are completely opposites when it comes to religion, not getting on the subject, just saying it would be an interesting discussion.
 
Mods just tell themselves: "Let us tolerate social ineptitude and randomness, it must be a disorder of some sort, we should feel sorry for him."
 
@William in the SO chat, for posting two pics. not offensive or spam either (the entire room was in one of the off topic discussion which happen a lot)
some guy decided he didn't like where the conversation was going and flagged everyone who posted a pic.. me and another guy got banned for like 3 hours.
 
4:34 AM
We're, slightly more lenient in here. Slightly :)
Forgot my friendly smiley face
 
yep, always necessary
 
hands marco the hammer, freshly polished
 
edits post to feel invovled
 
faces the door, braces self...
 
Wear a smile while you ban, fa la la la la makes another edit to this message
 
4:36 AM
Ban!?!?!
 
i don't know where I was going with that.
 
/me does an edit to not break the trend.
 
edit! and edit like you mean it
 
We should make the ban game in here. Everyday we (mods) will pick a new mystery word that we'll ban people for saying - like "banana" first to figure out the ban word gets immunity for a week. But you can only guess what the ban word is once.
 
4:37 AM
ok but the ban can only be for like 15 minutes...
or else #ragequite f that
 
sure, of course it'll be small
 
see what happens? you're not doing a good job
this is all my fault niether are you
 
i don't wanna guess
 
guess what?!
 
btw, i set my gravatar to a po'd steve ballmer omg! edit now before its too late
 
4:38 AM
oh my, @William broke the trend. ok i will forgive you.
 
noees is stilll edited
 
nevermind
 
we have a winner! "noees" was the first ban word! :P
 
lol dont break the edit trend
 
4:39 AM
I call shinanigans
 
uh oh
 
we should have an edit ban game which i take credit for
 
ok a full page of edits... i can sleep now.
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no, you cant not yet anyway
 
i only star because i want to see the unicorns dancing.
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4:41 AM
the ban game idea has legs and arms
 
that is the only reason I ever star.. gotta get me dem unicorns.
 
same here...
 
alien liar!
 
and so are aliens. (ask Roland)
 
ohhhh!!! ALIEN STARING!
 
4:42 AM
yes! ronald starring
 
I will have to get on that! (tomorrow)
 
facefoot what have I done?
 
we need like a dinosaur or something
 
so we have an edit war here! I am the dino here!
 
fail! just as my gravatar changes!
 
4:43 AM
okay that was just cruel of me
 
I got it! my next userscript... every time @RolandTaylor is mentioned in the chat I will make a UFO appear.... just like in real life
 
yes, bad ronald! very bad ronald
 
Look, I didn't edit
 
Noooo, Marco broke the trend. Sob. i am going off. :/
 
bye
 
4:44 AM
@MarcoCeppi you forgot a fullstop (just fooling, edit war can end now indeed).
 
You could have fun breaking trends too! Run for moderation :)
 
how?
 
Me running for the moderator post! Huzzay!
 
I don't think I plan to run for mod...
 
Jan 23 at 18:14, by Stefano Palazzo
Ask Ubuntu Moderator elections will start next week
 
4:45 AM
ballmer would have fun with that
 
/me checks the meta for any info.
 
No date has been announced yet, but they should be starting soon
 
how does ballmer nominate himself?
 
the people deserve better than a self-proclaimed comealien (comedian+alien) as a mod
 
scream programmers repeatedly?
 
4:45 AM
You can read up on how last year's election worked over here
 
ok alien
uh oh... patient and fair...
 
rules me out
I can be patient.
I can be fair.
 
I'm not sure how I got re-elected
 
But there's no combining them.
 
I don't think many people live in the same timezone as me! Yay
 
4:47 AM
I was awoke by the sound of unedited posts... what is the meaning of this?
 
Marco broke the trend, and I value my acceptance in the group here :)
 
I accept you as part of my eccentric group.
 
:P
I know, what I'm saying is, the overused alien joke is bad enough...
 
too bad we cant have chat games
 
don't need to overkill the edit joke too ya know?
 
4:49 AM
@Ronald u wanna start?
 
@RolandTaylor that was a genuine edit.
Who is Ronald?
 
@jokerdino lol I meant me :D
@jokerdino supposedly, I am Ronald :P
 
No, @jokerdino. WHAT is ronald.
 
lmao
 
4:51 AM
okay that was...
low...
returns to Google+
 
go back to where you came from!
oh wait mars is a long ways away
 
That is a bit offending.
 
life is a bit offending. edit war?
 
Marco has a ban hammer around.
 
do ban hammers hurt?
destroy evidence!
 
4:54 AM
And I have intentions to run for mod post. So, I don't want to lose my credibility and those kind of stuff. >;D
 
I do too
I have no credibility to lose
so i got nothin to lose
 
right.
 
that was a bit offending
 
just you remember that....
 
they are
 
4:57 AM
Just for the dancing unicorns.
 
i have it on good authority.
dancing unicorn obsession
 
ok... so dancing unicorns was fun.. what else do you guys want to see.
 
dancing lemons
 
I missed the offending pic....
 
oohhhh
 
4:59 AM
I want to see... money. In my wallet. Now.
 
user image
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him? he's money
 

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