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12:05 AM

@terdon I meant what the .desktop files execute. NOT where they're installed to. But again postinst can be malicious sometimes

terdon

@ThomasW. Ah, could they be dangerous without the .deb itself installing something for them to execute? xdg-open URL perhaps.

hbdgaf

1:58 AM

I don't see one day anywhere in here "The man left Liberia Sept. 19 and arrived in the USA the next day but had no symptoms when leaving Africa or arriving here, said Thomas Frieden, the CDC director. The patient became sick Sept. 24, and he sought care two days later. He was sent home but returned to a hospital and was admitted Sept. 28. Frieden did not reveal the man's nationality but said he came to the USA to visit relatives."

Seth

bleh, where is @ThomasW. when you need him :P

hbdgaf

He's off killing something with fire

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terdon

> The man left Liberia Sept. 19 and arrived in the USA the next day

I should have read that better though, I missed the place where it countered my argument. If it took that long to show symptoms, the incubation period couldn't have been so long.

Dunno, when I had looked it up in preparation to a canceled trip to Angola, that's one of the things I'd read.

hbdgaf

2:14 AM

19-24 was supposedly incubation. 24 to 26 or 26 to 28 contagious.

Journeyman Geek

@terdon Thats usually true, but most outbreaks were in remote areas

terdon

@hbdgaf OK, in that case, I was right. If he only had 2 days of being contagious before the symptoms were heavy enough to land him in hospital, that's not a very dangerous bug in terms of spreading.

Compared it to, say, the flu which keeps you asymptomatic and contagious for at least a week.

hbdgaf

comparatively speaking it would spread slower... but your organs don't turn to jello with the flu.

terdon

With a >90% mortality rate, not many victims will survive long enough to be a serious public hazard. That's the irony, it's precisely the most horrible thing about this virus that is also making it less dangerous than it might have been.

@hbdgaf Nope, I'd rather have the flu thank you very much.

Journeyman Geek

2:29 AM

You can die of the flu too

hbdgaf

Yes you can, but liquified organs vs coughing, sneezing, and generally feeling horrible? I'll choose no liquified organs thanks.

terdon

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, but I'll take my chances.

Whaaaaaat

2:47 AM

Nothing is going to happen, guys.

There will be no epidemic.

Journeyman Geek

@Whaaaaaat: Thats what they will say!

Thomas W.

@Seth hiding behind you with a shotgun.

Seth

@ThomasW. :O

Got a minute to answer another packaging question or two?

Thomas W.

@Seth sure, but i don't have long... the fiancee needs snugs as she falls asleep. :)

Seth

first question: I accidentally found this bug on LP: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-packaging-guide/+bug/1313053 Since it doesn't seem to be fixed, is there some extra step I should be aware of that the packaging guide misses for uploading to launchpad?

Or should I just ignore it?

Lucio

3:27 AM

@hbdgaf openbsd.org/lyrics.html

recomm.: #54

hbdgaf

heh

@Whaaaaaat we also patched the bash bug... right?

Whaaaaaat

@hbdgaf Did we?

I was too busy patching Skyrim

hbdgaf

idk, it has been patched a half dozen times so far and has no less than 4 cves

@Lucio nice

Thomas W.

@Seth are you using bzr dh-make?

(sorry for late response, had something to finish)

hbdgaf

sup LoT

Thomas W.

3:37 AM

@Seth or are you using bzr builddeb?

if you're using neither its not relevant then

@hbdgaf not much

Nathan Osman

I finally made it home.

You know you're in trouble when the train station's platform looks like that.

hbdgaf

well that's good. i remember having trouble finding a spot on the train

Nathan Osman

A switch broke and they weren't able to run any trains past it.

Thankfully they have two lines running.

This is a picture of the other line.

hbdgaf

sometimes you just need a bigger hammer to fix the problem

Nathan Osman

It doubled the time of my trip home. But those things happen.

hbdgaf

3:42 AM

in other news, my boss showed up at my door and i answered in my underpants... so it's not all not hilarious

Nathan Osman

Okay... you win.

hbdgaf

i was looking for the carlos mencia whole nother level soundbyte, but i lossed

@Lucio I rather prefer this one openbsd.org/songs/songsh.mp3

Whaaaaaat

3:59 AM

@NathanOsman I see no penguin. You weren't there.

hbdgaf

@Whaaaaaat it wasn't a selfie... wait, let him take a selfie

Whaaaaaat

sigh

I'll just photoshop it.

OH COME ON OSMAN.

Whaaaaaat

4:21 AM

One crappy photoshop coming right up:

hbdgaf

^^ what no waldo shirt and hat?

Whaaaaaat

You think I'm that good?!?!

hbdgaf

i was kinda hoping

Whaaaaaat

here. with hat.

i can not do the shirt.

not to mention scaling.

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Nathan Osman

4:38 AM

Slow clap.

Whaaaaaat

Is that a "nice fail" clap, or a "okay work" clap?

because my photoshopping does not earn a "good job" clap.

Nathan Osman

That's an "I take my hat off to you, sir" clap.

Whaaaaaat

@NathanOsman Your black terminal with the black penguin fluff was a challenge.

Nathan Osman

:)

Whaaaaaat

that's why the dimensions are off.

I used your avatar, but I don't think I even came close.

WHAT. I CAN RESIZE AVATARS???!?

DAMMIT.

Nathan Osman

4:41 AM

Just change the s parameter.

Whaaaaaat

I just realized that.

/me is very stupid

Guy in red circle: "Why the hell does he have a stuffed penguin with a badly-scaled Waldo hat?"

Whaaaaaat

5:17 AM

we should make that one of the AU ads.

"We have Nathan Osman!"

blade19899

7:36 AM

Eh, can an 'experienced' Linux user look at what this post is suggesting to improved system performance. I don't know how that could work!?

> a 15 year linux experienced guy told me that

Am highly skeptical after reading that.

gui load faster ..tested in redhat 5 — One Zero Jun 28 '12 at 15:13

Okay, am testing this out when i get home. Can someone explain, how thats even remotely possible?

Rinzwind

7:57 AM

@muru my answer is better :=)

muru

8:32 AM

@Rinzwind too close.. :D The -x wins it. :)

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Pandya

9:55 AM

I accidentally run setsid unity in Xubuntu session and now no title bar

blade19899

@Pandya lol. sudo reboot?

Pandya

@blade19899 not helped

blade19899

10:13 AM

I love it when a Windows users comes to a known Linux blog, to talk bs about Linux xD

@Pandya never used Xubuntu. Don't know how to help you there.

Marc Rasmussen

12:34 PM

Hey guys

i am trying to unmet some dependencies but not quite sure what to do

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openjdk-7-jre : Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless (= 7u3-2.1.7-1) but 7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.04.2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

gowri

1:14 PM

Hey guys, yum update bash is not fixing shellshock issue for CENTOS 5.8 i686. what should I need to do update the latest version of bash(current version is : bash-3.2-32.el5_9.1)

Thomas W.

@gowri Go to Unix and Linux and ask about it

@gowri this is Ask Ubuntu after all.

(not Ask CentOS)

Seth

@ThomasW. I'm using bzr dh-make, bzr commit, bzr builddeb.

(in that order)

Thomas W.

@Seth Then yes it does affect you. Why in god's name would you use such evil

Seth

Because the packaging guide does it that way?

gowri

@ThomasW : okay sorry

Seth

1:20 PM

I'm just feeling my way around all this right now, no idea what is a good idea or what is not ;)

Thomas W.

@Seth I'm oldschool, I work off of git repos and then build the packages by hand

but i'm odd :P

(debdiffs ftw)

@Seth I'd refer to #ubuntu-motu and #ubuntu-packaging then

@Seth it's likely those bugs DO affect you

(for PPAs, UDD method isn't the only method)

Seth

I didn't get an answer in #ubuntu-packaging :/

Perhaps a bad time.

Thomas W.

did you see the other channel i suggested

Seth

yeah, I did.

Thomas W.

mention nobody's responding in -packaging and they might help

Seth

1:21 PM

okay.

Mateo

@Seth bet they are all busy on touch and also 14.10

Seth

It's possible :)

Thomas W.

@Seth that's most likely, i'd wait until after final release

since they're in "Get it done" mode

Seth

hm, ok.

Thanks for the help! I've got to go get things done myself now ;)

Pandya

3:47 PM

@blade19899 Got it! I removed all cached under ~/.cache and now Xubuntu working Fine this helped me.

RolandiXor

4:09 PM

Hey guys

I upgraded to 14.10 but now X is not detecting any devices.

RolandiXor

4:37 PM

Anyone here?

Seth

4:49 PM

boo

RolandiXor

hey

I'm taking a break from stressing over X by using my live USB for now

pastebin.com/qVuA1Kpt

RolandiXor

5:17 PM

Seth

5:43 PM

:O

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6:19 PM

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