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@jrg thanks yo.

@jokerdino I just made a flag :)

jrg

can you get in there @jokerdino?

@jrg yep.

@Seth i'll get to it. ;)

@Seth There are 53 other flags too. :|

Nice ;)

12:03 AM

I am gonna read the mod terms first though. brb.

@JorgeCastro If you think about it, that is 1/3 more than the last time. The same with, users how.. visited the site during the election (+500) & visited the election page (+800!) & voters were eligible (double)..

Q: Error when trying to install valgrind on Ubuntu 10.04

@JorgeCastro Have you never run for mod because you think it will hinder you in helping out with the community? You've never said that outright, but I think you've hinted it.

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Having trouble tracking down a solution to the following problem. I am running Ubuntu 10.04. ~$ apt-get install valgrind Reading package lists... Done Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean.... etc The following packages have unmet depen...

Nice!

@Seth agree

@Luis How is Rambo?

12:12 AM

Rambo is good

^^

haha, better now :)

@LuisAlvarado How are you after all that?

@Lucio after what, the moderation?

I can imagine that very busy, isn't? At least for the first week..

@LuisAlvarado yep

yes

too much info, too many options

am building myself a quickly app that manages that

@LuisAlvarado I like that..

Suerte con eso.. :)

12:15 AM

askubuntu right now looks like Internet Explorer with 200 toolbars installed. you know, the toolbars that take half of the screen away

Hablas espanol?

@LuisAlvarado jaja, sí

a pues hermano jeje, si tengo que estudiarme todo bien y lento because los decisions ahora son permanent

lol

@Amit - it was sticth not snitch

How can I create a link to a comment?

if possible

12:19 AM

@Lucio Click on the timestamp

to the right of the commentor's name

Then copy the URL from the address bar.

@Seth sorry I took a couple of minutes, needed to read each one.

That's fine. A good moderator does that ;)

If you could just add a comment saying "done" so other people know :)

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@Seth But a comment in the election directory. Well, not possible I think ;(

A good moderator also eats hehe. Going to make me some dinner, haven't had nothing to eat since this morning with all the job problems and stuff going about lol

@AbrahamVanHelpsing OMG YOU SCARED ME!!!

12:20 AM

@AbrahamVanHelpsing hahahha

@Lucio No, not those.

@Seth Thanks anyway..

brb

@LuisAlvarado Oh, I almost forget: My omen (6ºcomment) has been fulfilled! :)

<-- Blushing

12:24 AM

@jokerdino So I was told. I'll change it before the next election, but it doesn't seem to crash my installation.

Yeah. And anyone that contributes substantially to a wine gaming question is firmly in the winning box as well.

What would actually be good is then create with spanish members here something like a group of translators that grab the question from spanish users that do not know the english language, put it here in Spanish and english and then, if an answer appears, send them the google translate version for it. Something like a middleman.

If they don't know any English, how are they going to get an answer?

That'd be a lot of work for the translaters

@LuisAlvarado I'm studying Spanish in school, for a possible major in lingustics. I can help out, but I don't know much about idiomatic expressions.

I might be in favor of an alt-lang tag. It keeps things separated, but makes sure the site stays in english. Then a simple piece of data in the question or comment is alt-lang == something.

Don't fight the system. Beat the system. :)

12:28 AM

Great idea!

@ObsessiveSSOℲ if the idea get voted up and enough people agree on it then sure I'll help in anything you need with the spanish language.

@AbrahamVanHelpsing very very good idea

@LuisAlvarado I too am learning Spanish (slowly), but I don't think the site could help people who know no English at all.

@Seth What is the last tense you've mastered?

I think it goes present->imperative->preterite->imperfect->future->conditional->perfect/pluperfect in the education system.

Posting a question should still be in english. Conform. But if it's tagged as alt-lang then questions and answers per the bajillion request denials remain english. It just allows a way to off-site or on-site link additional data in a native tongue. Sounds like buckets of win to me.

Well now that we are talking about languages, anybody know a good site to learn french. Am learning french and dutch.

12:32 AM

@ObsessiveSSOℲ Ehh, I said slooowly. Didn't start too long ago.

Ah, OK.

I'm as far as imperfect i class, but I've also gotten future and pefect/pluperfect in my own studies.

Yes, the questions and answers should be in english but, if and only if there is a good portion of people that agree, the same question and answer might have the original spanish, or let me correctly rephrase that, might have the original language under it.

Yes that's fine.

Sometimes the original language is needed to understand the post.

Something like:

QUESTION: Is Ubuntu a lemon or a lime?

Am trying to buy fruits for Ubuntu, my teacher is crazy
-----------
Estoy tratando de comprar frutas para ubuntu

@LuisAlvarado I learned with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_in_Action in high school. I suppose there are other methods that work as well. Just telling you how I got a basic grasp on it.

12:34 AM

The title might just stick to english for "shorter" reasons

Q: What is the proper way to configure my sound?

Reopen please:

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So I am using the Logitech G35 headset and it is USB. My sounds are much tinnier and just off compared to when I am on Windows. On Windows I do have access to the Logitech Gaming Software which allows me to adjust the different frequencies. I don't even have to touch the equalizer on Windows, jus...

sound pulseaudio alsa equalizer

oh @jrg got it.

@Seth why was the question closed and related to elementary-os in the first place?

I mean, the OP never mentioned that

Yeah he did.

Look at the revision history.

He deleted it now, but I think you can look at it.

i see

@LuisAlvarado Yes he did. edit history homie

12:37 AM

hehe yeah

Q: What is the proper way to configure my sound? [Ubuntu 12.10]

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(Yes this is the same post as my closed one. I have Ubuntu installed now and since I have the same exact issue in 12.10 this question belongs here.) I am using the Logitech G35 headset and it is USB. My sounds are much tinnier and just off compared to when I am on Windows. On Windows I do have a...

sound pulseaudio alsa equalizer

saw it right now

asked it again

gotta understand, with mod powers on

one click

and I can destroy the world

am scare of using the mouse

yep. But you can also fix it too.

12:38 AM

@LuisAlvarado I didn't even run for that reason: youtube.com/watch?v=iwFSklgSLvk

Yeah! Got Gwibber working again on 13.04. Got myself 99... messages lol

Er, I'm pretty confident you can see my facebook ;)

To tell you the truth. This is my first time using Gwibber. I mean actually using anything related to Twitter O.o

Q: I have another question that needs re-opening

also, narayan should have more views than mindfields for prodigy work on youtube. just saying

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12:55 AM

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Sorry about this, but someone closed another one of my questions: Error on trying to make a torrent I don't get why it's "Too Localized" - I'm using the included, default torrent program, on the LTS release. Nothing funky or unusual. If I pick the close reason apart, it only shows that my quest...

discussion close-reasons

^^ I think they were trying to be kind and not have don't be an idiot as a close reason.

please for the sake of all that is holy don't star that

Why was that question closed, though?

because user error is not a close reason

It's a legitimate question, though, and even a comment indicating "probably user error" would've been better than "Meh, closed."

Gui

My geek score has spiked today.

1:03 AM

What is a geek score?

Gui

Just uhh you know like a "man card" but for geeks.

no, wait...user error IS a close reason, not likely to be useful to future visitors covers user error

@FEichinger ^^

Truth.

@RolandiXor Yes.

geekcred man.

1:14 AM

@RolandiXor ???

Okay cool :)

@FEichinger - put in my 2 cents on that question. I just KNOW it's going to pull downvotes, but not saying it is more harmful than helpful. At least this way the user reads it at least once.

+1

Hi

Hi

1:21 AM

Hi

Hi

ohai

c.c.c.commmboooo.breaker

C-C-C-COMBO--- Oh screw you!

hey!

Ooooh~ I can edit the chat messages of others.

1:23 AM

Fix it!

Okay not really.

Yeah ;)

Good moderator.

:P

:P

If you guys have to things to flag, get to it.

I am sure Roland will ~~handle~~ ignore all of em.

I'm seeing some good flags already.

I like Bulgaria's flag.

It's pretty.

SCANDAL

1:26 AM

wait wut? it seems we have loads of mods elected in the recent election...

wat?

you didn't know?

3 hours ago, by Seth

in Ask Ubuntu 2013 Moderator Elections, 2 days ago, by Manishearth

@jokerdino <3

Oh cake, thou cake! Prepare thyself, for John approaches with his mighty blade to cut thee. Allow thyself the blade to slice. And thou art cut, oh cake, in twain. — Matt 2 hours ago

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Feel free to edit this message.

@GeorgeEdison that is deep! Please, cut not the onions!

@RolandiXor I missed that ninja edit. -.-

1:29 AM

@jokerdino I love me too :D

@RolandiXor I have no problem with you having a bit of fun. Don't worry.

@jokerdino :D, and don't worry, I will not abuse my powers :)

takes over the world

There we go. <3

Wow... this Stack Exchange site has no unanswered questions.

Not cool.

1:30 AM

perfect sign of a bad site...just saying

I would be bored to death

an SE site of how do i replace skiddlywigs on a skiddlywag would just SUCK

I'd have to do something to stir the site up...

jk

Let's start throwing in some... looks both ways... suggested edits! >:)

:O

1:32 AM

@GeorgeEdison That's only doable for so long, though. The moment that second page starts, I doubt they can keep it up.

You serious?

I am thinking about 5/1 though...

in theory...

Maybe we should start a revolution?

@FEichinger There are 467 questions.

/me does wonder what would happen if one manages to hit 2k due to just suggested edits ;p

1:33 AM

@JourneymanGeek You can't. You can only get 1k rep from edits.

There's a cap.

@GeorgeEdison I know. I'm referring to the unanswered list. ;) If that ever exceeds page 1, it'll be doomed.

a cap.

@jokerdino: 1k then

No, not that cap. */_/*

oh noes. That mean I'm almost at the point where I can't get rep from suggested edits ;p

1:35 AM

@jokerdino Okay, sorry.

That better?

@GeorgeEdison O_o

afk

(Who doesn't like a fedora?)

Gray hats are more fashionable than festive hats.

That --^

Puts on his Ubuntu hat.

1:36 AM

Now that is a cap.

true.

♫ Don't need no Fedora... ♫

if it's not red, and it's not grey, and it's not wait whaaaaa?

goes to bad puns corner

(Insert tune here ---^)

I just realized that I still have the WAP version of my website up and running.

1:38 AM

@GeorgeEdison The hat is nice. The OS is (chokes) Gnomish. Not to mention blue.

@GeorgeEdison "we don't need no satisfaction" doesn't apply does it?

rawr

goes to bed

Like I said... insert your own tune - I don't want to be responsible for starting a meme or anything.

I started a meme, and all I got was this lousy picture

@GeorgeEdison What should we do on 5-1?

@Seth 5-1?

What's that?

5/1

1:40 AM

BRB - supper.

1:59 AM

@Seth 4/1!

Back

o/ congrats @RolandiXor

@mateo_salta thanks :)!

2:16 AM

how goes the war on spam?

AU community 1 Spammers 0

o/ congrats @jokerdino

@mateo_salta o/ Thanks.

So, Unity is the new Flash, I take it.

If it is any condolence, I got 7 votes in the last year's election.

2:20 AM

But why do we need to use a new Flash that isn't supported on friggin Linux? Geez.

And I'm referring to the Unity Web Engine, not our Unity.

I survived a few rounds, that was exciting.

@mateo_salta If you can sustain your contributions, you should be on pole position.

@FEichinger when you start making drastic but calculated changes, that's what you get. just saying.

@AbrahamVanHelpsing It's just annoying. We replace one obsolete and outdated technology with another outdated and obsolete technology, just for the sake of it.

Congratulations to the new mods! I guess winning spam flags will become more difficult.

2:27 AM

Well, anyone on my part of the world might find it a little difficult ;)

@jokerdino eats spam for breakfast!

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Haha, with all your help ofcourse.

@mateo_salta :O you're right. oops.

Have you heard why it's called April fools?

No, not really.

I think I might have, but forgot.

2:43 AM

I recall it has to do with people celebrating two new year days in the same year.

huh.

yeah april used to be the first month of the new year, I think one of the popes changed it because their calender didn't account for something

ah, right. Of course I remember now lol.

I'm trying to look up sources, wiki didn't have anything on it, may be a april fools joke it's self...

> Many writers suggest that April Fools originated because those who celebrated on January 1 made fun of those who celebrated on other dates

Not much of a reference though.

2:57 AM

@FEichinger all i'm getting at is "groundbreaking tech with lenses"... okay don't make them depend on unity. make the provider lenses depend on underlying services. make the yo look at my flashy yall transparency and whatnot - depend on the stuff that makes laptops overheat. this way i can still call a lens with "i want data not user interface. here's the query" and not be confused.

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Oh, I think you're kinda off the point there. Aaand that's why I qualified my rant a bit: unity3d.com <-- Talking about this, not our unity.

oooh. agreed. different unity. i raged about that at length in the passed. "the most impressive part of unity3d was gesture tweening" if i remember my rant

Unity3d is great in theory. But it's just a cleaner Flash, really.

possibly. i like that it's a fancypants engine that runs on linux.

and gesture tweening.

end of my likes list...

3:13 AM

@FEichinger Come now... It's quite a bit more than Flash.

I have yet to see unity3d deliver on the innovations end.

Everything I've seen by now can be done in Flash just as well.

Jorge Castro

it let's people deploy their game onto linux with like, a few commands, it's totally awesome

we'd never get those games otherwise

@JorgeCastro: I think valve is probably going to have a bigger effect to be honest

I can't think of anything running Unity3d that I play

Jorge Castro

shrug, both companies came to UDS, and there was another game engine company I can't remember

GameMaker?

3:17 AM

oh, and id

@JourneymanGeek Neither can I. But no less, it's a fair point, it does make porting easy. But by now it was just that barely anyone go arsed to port at all.

Unigene?

their owners are alright, and they actually open source everything eventually

Jorge Castro

nope

Torque3d?

3:18 AM

@Oli: ooh, their benchmarks are great, I use it to test my graphics drivers since jokey is totally useless.

I tend to follow this stuff pretty closely but my mind is full of work at the moment so it's not coming to be.

/me REALLY hopes they fix that DKMS/graphics card mess the next release

<-- asleep

Congratz @RolandiXor @jokerdino @LuisAlvarado

appears

Woah, I got like the least votes :|

@AmithKK thanks.

@AmithKK don't worry it was not a massive voting pool this time.

3:29 AM

@AmithKK thanks yo.

I pulled through because there weren't that many voters in general, all things considered.

Well This is the last election.

So, Our final panel will beee:

@AmithKK You improved though.

Marco Ceppi, Stefano Palazzo, Oli Warner, James R Gifford, Bruno Pereira, Foss Freedom(Name Unknown), Barneedhar Vigneshwar, Roland L Taylor and Luis Alvarado

@AmithKK: I voted for you ;p

3rd choice ;p

3:33 AM

:P

So that's the vote transfer in Round 2

You think that another election would take place?

/me is rather suprised I survived till round 10

@AmithKK: maybe next year? ;p

@JourneymanGeek We already have 9 mods

:P

@AmithKK: well, depends on traffic really

Ok now... I'm running for ubuntu membership at the end of this month

SF isn't having an election this year.

3:35 AM

So, It would be awesome if you left a testimonial at my wiki

Amith you got more votes than you might know :)

/me figures he'll focus on doing good (tm) for now. And trying to reach that magical 3K, when fun stuffs are unlocked

@JourneymanGeek Wait... I'm already 3k

I need like 200 rep for 4k

I mean me ;p

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, I am going to focus on getting 3k on SU..

3:36 AM

I'm at the cusp of 1K

SU ?

@jokerdino: I don't care about SU rep any more ;p

superuser

Oh lol

I do. :P

I hadn't had my tea yet

3:37 AM

I would rather go for interesting questions

I probably wrestled a couple of votes for hanging over there :P

Awesome.. we're close to 10k stars

@jokerdino: I wouldn't be suprised if a good chunk of my votes were off SF

Calculated decisions at the right time ;)

@JourneymanGeek 7

What's a Restraining order?

3:38 AM

@jokerdino: a good chunk of that

@AmithKK preventing you from doing something

@AmithKK: basically a legal document that tells someone that if he/she does something/goes near someone, the court will be very very cross

O.o

Ok, these feedbooks are nice

and they are free

@jokerdino: I've come to a conclusion that in the real world soft-power/community involvement is more useful than actual rep

except in elections ;p

Where can I flag my account for merge on the wiki?

3:40 AM

@jokerdino I left a few flags for you to wave.

Actually, I would say a good combination of all of them is necessary.

@RolandiXor On it. Thanks boss.

:P

That sounds so bajan haha

You sure you weren't born in Barbados?

@AmithKK Sheldon Cooper collects those

@RolandiXor I think I am quite sure of that.

@vasa1 Haha yeah

I saw that episode

3:41 AM

@jokerdino :P

I might clone myself and get him to handle all the flags.

He's got at least three: Leonard Nimoy, Stan Lee, Carl Sagan

@jokerdino good idea! I need to do the same

It might not comply with the mod agreement. Let's keep this secret.

;p

dudes, quit complaining, you JUST got elected XD

3:47 AM

:P

@JourneymanGeek I probably won't until Jorge is on fire.

My clone refuses to sleep, I might have created a monster O_o

I can't find anything to fill my wiki with :/

hints?

I am going off. I'll get back laterz.

@AmithKK Wiki?

@jokerdino ubuntu wiki

What article are you working on?

3:52 AM

My page

Well, you can expand a bit about Freyja and 2buntu team.

Ah, I see how they smartly placed Kill Bill in the center of the "Videos" Section of the ubuntu tab

OK I be back later.

@jrg @RolandiXor I'm still part of the SysAdmin team on 2buntu right?

@AmithKK we have an official team? :D

(lol)

yes

4:07 AM

Please take a look at the title of this question: How do I remove a website from Ubuntu's web applications?. Considering some of the answers there, would a broader title be more appropriate? Something like "Webapps: how do I limit their access to specific domains or remove them completely"?

4:22 AM

wiki.ubuntu.com/Amith%20KK

<--- has little tolerance for "I'm lazy, so my question title is "Unbuntu problems" and my question content is unformatted, and to make things worse, here's a comment with extra info for my question"

And then I roll back edits.

@Seth exactly

I was just clicking "Edit" when you edited ;)

lol

I had an edit before that one actually - but he went ahead and ~~idioted~~ edited :)

jk

He rolled back