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7:01 AM
yeah
 
I have to google don't i?
 
the board color looks like an aduino :) but it appears to be a pi on steroids
 
yup
They made a pi clone but couldn't get the processors
They made this instead.
 
the one you linked is same price as pi, isn't the GPU more powerful on the one you linked?
 
7:05 AM
@NoTime Boy, you must really be reading my blog if you got to the Arduino stuff :D
 
@RPi_Awesomeness I read fast
 
This xD
 
@NoTime I guess so :D
@AmithKK xD Nice one
 
@RPi_Awesomeness I was at Preload too, that was one of the first things I did with my first Ubuntu install
I wanted to make things fast
 
@NoTime At preload?
 
7:08 AM
@RPi_Awesomeness it is directly below the first Aduino
Blogs are backwards and confusing to how they order themselves to me
 
OOooo yeah :D
That was a while ago. I should install that on my desktop
 
i think they added as default (or something equivalent) to later versions.. I can't remember though I read something about preload being obsolete, or automatic
could be absolutely wrong though
 
That wouldn't be something you'd want on a low-end system (eg, sub 2-4GB RAM)
It could take up too much and just slow the entire computer down
 
if everything is super light it might be ok.. but yeah, same as switching swappiness
 
@NoTime Yup
 
7:13 AM
@NoTime: faster, newer cores, more of em, better GPU....
 
If you get down to the Your Tech, Nutshelled post and actually read it through, that's a post I definitely would like some feedback on. I spent quite a while on it, and I'm curious to see if it's a good post or not.
 
@RPi_Awesomeness I can understand it perfectly (not finished reading all of it), I am not sure about an absolute beginner, because it is hard to be objective. I have been with computers for 20+ years, and saw things being developed. So some things stick with me. I like so far.. more input when done reading
 
@NoTime Thanks!
It's fun reading back over my old posts :)
 
@RPi_Awesomeness one part was confusing to get into layman's terms.

The aforementioned logical entity is found on a device/peripheral and named as an endpoint, which is actually somewhat confusing, as the term endpoint is also sometimes used to refer to the entire pipe.
 
@NoTime Yeah. I really had a hard time doing anything with that.
 
7:21 AM
but i have no clue how to translate that into layman
 
I didn't really have anything I could break it down further to.
 
@RPi_Awesomeness try making a plumbing analogy?
 
Maybe. I'm not going to spend time on it now, seeing as I wrote that quite a while ago and very few people are most likely going to read that far into my blog. However, if I'm ever bored, I may go try a tweak it a bit
 
Speaking of USB. I have been hearing lately that USB flash drives are inherently not secure due to interaction at the firmware level. Have you guys heard about this, or understand why?
 
Uh oh
Dmod & @hbdgaf just joined at the same time.
This can't be good..
:)
 
7:25 AM
Hah, it's nothing like that.
 
they are going to crack some skulls
 
@NoTime Yeah, it has to do with the fact that USB wasn't originally designed to be super secure - it was just a universal connector to replace the bajillion serial ports and whatnot on older systems.
 
On the USB thing, it's not the thumbdrive that is bad necessarily. The part that makes things a little crazy is being able to rewrite the firmware on your box just by plugging something in.
 
@NoTime I knew a guy that used to do that and pull out a "Hail Satan" every time he did it ;)
 
7:27 AM
\m/
( ܅ )
 
ick. Hail Satan :P
 
yeah, he wasn't very popular.
 
Hail santa!
3
 
@hbdgaf the thing is about that (USB) is I guess I don't see why that couldn't be fixed somewhere else.
Where on a chart would firmware fit in? between bare metal and kernel?
 
it could be, but could be and will be are two different things. and firmware fits in underneath it all.
so metal, firmware, kernel.
 
7:33 AM
that is not fun. Time to switch to firewire!
oh wait..
 
yeah, let's switch to something with DMA. that's a good idea ;)
 
I can't stand the new Wordpress editor :P It's dreadful for formatting
 
everything should be rc232 imho
 
Goodness. Does everyone get on when I'm normally dead asleep?
 
i read somewhere that usb3 has dma as a built-in. that would be an interesting vector if someone built it.
 
7:34 AM
I guess I do live in the US
 
I get on randomly
 
Anyways. I think I better get some sleep tonight. It's currently 2:35.
Heck, I might as well pull an all-nighter and just code/write all night :D
 
rpi for all you're compaining about internet speeds, you're EDT?
i thoroughly expected you to be beating corn in kansas or something
 
I'm in the eastern time-zone, correct.
@hbdgaf Well, that's better than what @Fabby thought. He thought I lived in Africa :D
 
7:37 AM
I need to convince my dad to let me take care of the internet. It'd be better for everyone
Just say, "You have $40 a month to spend - go"
I'd be fine with that!
 
Just let osama lin baden handle it. It's looking like it will be regulated as a utility anyway.
 
Maybe once I get a job I can contribute and have a say :P
But yeah, g'night y'all
ugh. Darn touch typing
o/
Not going to get going on my Title II/American ISPs rant ;)
 
later
 
ranty rant rant
there did it for you
 
@RPi_Awesomeness: I spend 10$/month and got 50mbps Ethernet for that. Unfortunately, if I want 100Mbps, I have to pull my own Cat6 cable from the 5th to the 12th floor as the internal wiring is Cat4
(and the maximum of that is 100Mbps Half Duplex)
 
7:41 AM
then pull the cable. i used to be a cable monkey.
 
And I did ask first if you were living in a "rural area" before pulling the "Africa card" :p
I used to pull coax over rivers 30 years ago...
 
lol . ̿' ̿'\̵͇̿̿-o (stick em up)
/ \........./l

now with lols
 
shit, i'm living rural and getting pretty solid DSL speeds. i just have to pay for it.
 
(well: once at least! ;-) )
What's your speed?
A or S DSL?
 
hold on, i'll pause all my shit and do a speed test.
well, i can't pause my schmoocon wget download from aircrack servers, so this is a little low.
 
7:44 AM
@JourneymanGeek I know this is late but..
 
10M/1M
 
And that's on the wireless in the bedroom. In the living room on wired, I get 45mbps up and down...
 
I'm not saying it couldn't be better. I am saying, I can watch two videos and download a conference at the same time.
 
yeah...
 
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4087410287
mine
and it lies..
 
7:46 AM
The only thing it's good for is if the GF wants to upload entire photo albums to have them printed professionally...
Then it's a difference of 20 minutes instead of a couple of hours...
 
I'm in a monopolized area though
 
That's about the only reason we get the cable out...
 
I'm almost irritated you guys are wingeing about those speeds.
 
@NoTime so you've got decent speeds, but you pay through the nose...
I'm not whining... I'm happy with the money I pay and the speeds I get.
 
I'm happy with the speeds, but who thinks they pay fair market value most of the time...
 
7:49 AM
That's why I'm not buying 120m of cable and going through al the shafts to the 12th½ floor...
In Europe there is a lot of competition...
 
The thing is there is fiber (1 or 10 GB) that costs the same, but I don't live in that neighborhood
actually it's slightly cheaper
 
Fibre is cheaper then copper...
(I mean: the material)
 
yeah it's just glass
basically
 
Glass? Plastic!
 
plastic most of the time now.
 
7:51 AM
:D
Great minds etc...
 
oh ok, the stuff I messed with was glass
 
plastic is easier to solder then glass...
You did???
 
you would get pieces in your hands
 
Ouch!
 
and putting 2 pieces together you needed an expensive machine
 
7:52 AM
still do!
 
it's not expensive to terminate fiber. it is expensive to splice in to fiber without anyone knowing you're doing it.
 
hire a consultant 1/month to do the "welding"
:D
Like jailtime expensive??? :P ;-)
 
yeah connectors and terminators cost a lot, and you can't recover if you mess them up
35$ a piece? or something
 
(depending on your definition of "without anyone knowing it")
 
you make me chuckle sometimes.
 
7:55 AM
35$ a piece for the connectors. it was
 
i think there are two different conversations going on here. and 35/connector is lower than it used to be.
to quote defcon just "DONT FUCK UP"
 
maybe bulk/govt prices idk
 
it used to be 75 per connector.
 
Yeah, but that's more then 10 years ago...
 
now its like 12 for some
 
7:58 AM
Connectors have changed: less material and more of them, so porices go down...
They should be 1$
 
just go ahead and call me old. it won't hurt my feelings.
 
And I'm just sitting here holding my RJ45
and RJ11
and coax
Emacs sucks
Vim sucks
Nano you're cool
and I'm out
 
8:49 AM
@hbdgaf: I'm much older then you...
 
 
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10:57 AM
Come on guys, you all need to just listen to some Led Zeppelin:
 
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;D
 
cake is better.
Oops! tapes mouth
mrrrrfmmmmmmmmmmmffffff
@JourneymanGeek Hail santa? :S
 
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I wish this ignore list wasn't so glitchy and that @JamesKayla would actually stay on it...
 
11:15 AM
Huh?
 
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@Fabby About what is that "Huh?"?
 
I haven't seen him or the other one for more then a week now!
Oh: there's a little icon! someone ignored is around here..
Do they come back without you unignoring them?
 
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@Fabby: My ignore list is really glitchy and that guy keeps on coming off it... So I keep on seeing his posts about cake! :D
 
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And he is posting about that now.
 
Not any more...
 
11:18 AM
And if you click on his icon and then click "ignore user" he comes back after a while???
 
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Yes.
 
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It is rather annoying.
 
Weird... How many people do you have on your ignore list?
 
it's the irl friend... he still has a small amount of control over his account, and unignores me
 
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Only him I think.
 
11:19 AM
I've got two: howard or henry or so...
 
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It is very hard to keep track of him because he keeps on changing his name.
 
and James kayla... And I don't keep any cookies locally, so it's stored in my SE profile...
I can see a tiny ugly light blue icon jumping to the front of the list every now and then, but that's it.
Once you're on my ignore list, you never come off unless a mod asks me to...
 
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:D
 
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@Fabby: For some reason though my ignore list seems to have a mind of its own... :(
 
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I refreshed just now and he came off my ignore list... :(
 
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11:23 AM
And he is posting his weird stuff again targeted at me. :(
 
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Well talking about me anyway.
 
@JamesKayla hail santa.
 
Who likes chiptunes? I've just extracted my lsdjsng from my lsdj.sav file...
But how to play the lsdjsng file?
:S
 
So if the little blue icon jumps to the front,
 
snaps
as in, teeth
 
11:27 AM
click the icon
and then click on "ignore user"
That's how I did it, and he's never come off!
 
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@Fabby Yeah, for the last 5 minutes I have been doing that but he has already come off 3 times... :(
 
not me, it's the real toroidal. That's enough making me talk about you!
Anyway... @JourneymanGeek, do YOU know how to play/convert an lsdjsng file?
 
Never heard of the format.
buuuut
we have a site for software recs where someone might know (plug!)
@Toroidal: might be worth asking on MSE
 
whatever, I've gotten a player for it now
:)
 
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@JourneymanGeek: Yes I will probably do that soon. :)
 
11:32 AM
ahh k
hm. I'm not sure if SR Gat out of Hell is growing on me or not
 
Guys, please take care to only flag actually offensive stuff. Remember that chat flags are shown to all high rep users across all sites of the network. They should be used sparingly.
 
@@terdon who flagged who? Oh wait, chat flags are shown to all high rep users ... and that's most likely got a reason. Sorry!
 
@Terdon, luckily there is no "not offensive but still annoying" list, or we'd be both on it! ;-)
@Toroidal: and I guess you'd be on it as well with the music video's... ;-) :P :D
 
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:D
 
Hi there everyone!
 
11:39 AM
@Fabby I resent that! I can be offensive!
 
Ah! the 4th Dalton showed up too! ;-)
 
About music vids... Did you see that ArcAttack video from yesterday morning?
 
:D
;) You actually made me LOL @Terdon
 
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Another mint question here, I wonder if they are ever going to end...:
 
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Q: Install and boot Linux mint from 64g usb?

user4484116How I could install and boot Linux mint from a 64g USB? Here are some follow up questions: Is that enough space for an os and it's files? Can I save the files that I have used or created in that session? Can I keep my Ubuntu 14.04 os in my pc without destroying it when I boot linux mint?

 
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11:41 AM
Probably not! :D
 
@Toroidal: just flag 'em. no need to bring them into the chat room! :P ;-)
(now we're both annoyed at that question!)
 
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@Fabby: Ok, I flagged them already! :D
 
(otherwise it would just be you that was annoyed!) :D
 
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:D
 
Hmm... I loaded my .lsdjsng into the SRAM with LSDJ Manager... and went into the player... but nothing happened.
Just that "sound" pfrhwsntrsb jttgt noise thing.
 
11:46 AM
New autocomment created:
We're sorry, but this site is all about Ubuntu and its official derivatives as posted on wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases so Mint is off-topic here as well. However, on unix.stackexchange.com, a sister site to AskUbuntu, they're very good at all varieties of Linux and Unix, so you might be better off there. ;-)
Remember what Oli said about not only flagging but also leaving comments??? (Like a few days ago???) :P
 
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@Fabby: But it can be good though if it gets migrated.
 
no, he has to take the initiative.
 
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@Fabby: Anyway... I didn't remember that he said that! :D
 
For >100 rep users, we can still flag to migrate
Well, now you know: check if there is a comment when you flag.
If not: add one yourself.
 
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@Fabby: Ok :)
 
11:53 AM
If it's a good question, don't flag as off topic. Use a custom flag and ask the mods to send it to Unix & Linux.
 
and not flagging for migration for rep 1 is because they get confused that they need another account.
 
Only if it's a decent question though please.
 
Yes!
 
Not sure.
 
Hey, what does this guy want?
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Q: How to use -d option in ubuntu just like java?

Gopal Chandra Tuduhow to use -d option in ubuntu? In java we use -d to separate the .java and .class in different folder.Is there any way to do this in ubuntu?

 
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11:54 AM
Ahh, I thought that flagging it as off-topic could get it migrated as it has done in the past... facepalm
 
@terdon If someone comes in with a Tru64 LVM question and he seems above the common intelligence on AU, we'll still flag it!
 
Does he think Ubuntu is written in java?
 
no he's using windows
and someting in the terminal on Ubuntu isn't working
(i guess before reading the Q)
 
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@jrg @Seth this @JamesKayla guy is getting weird again. And been saying odd things to me.
 
@ByteCommander: Could you please delete thatcomment and then look in 2 minutes for mine?
 
11:56 AM
!?
 
Toroidal: ignore him!
 
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@JamesKayla How about this?
 
yes please. no more rudeness from you! >:(
 
everytime he comes back, just put him on ignore again and don't read what he writes!
 
@Fabby I will do.
 
11:59 AM
So what do you lot think of... THE ALMIGHTY LOAF?
 
@ByteCommander: have a look now...
That's better then: What do you want? ;-)
 
@JamesKayla It's awful. Please don't post random and annoying videos like that. It's already been flagged twice and you will probably be kicked out of chat by the system soon if you continue like this.
 
He's probably a developer...
You have to treat these like children, as they know how to program, but not how to *actually manage a system*... [Grinning, Ducking and Running *very fast*]
 
I heard that before.
gtg... mac os x stuff needed.
 
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12:03 PM
@JamesKayla That is one creepy "ALMIGHTY LOAF"!
 
@Toroidal: Don't look, don't react!
(Or if you look: don't react)
What's the worst he can do to you???
Sending annoying comments?
 
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I accidentally click on it! And it was so creepy! :D
 
WHO CARES?
 
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Well, I care if I don't sleep tonight because of it! ;D
 
Same thing on twitter/email/... someone annoys you: blacklist!
 
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12:06 PM
Yes, it is just really annoying that he keeps on coming back and off my ignore list!
 
Their loss that they cannot contact you so that you can help them...
 
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@Fabby: Yeah, it is probably a good idea that I stop responding to what they say. :)
 
Just don't look at what he's written and block him again!
 
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Ok! :)
 
@Toroidal That's very strange and sounds like a bug.
Might be worth reporting.
 
12:08 PM
or try blocking me and then unblocking me and see if James Kayla then stays on blocked.
 
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@Fabby Ok tried that, now I hope that he doesn't jump off that list again!
 
Good!
 
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@terdon: And if he does't then I will definitely file a bug report!
 
And if it happens again, block me
 
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Why?
 
12:09 PM
and then block him too
and keep me blocked until he goes away...
 
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Ok, but why don't I block someone else?
 
I've got nothing interesting to say that you cannot tell me in a comments on a question.
 
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Ok.
 
I don't care that you block me as long as you get rid of JK
OK, and then...
... came the smoke break!
 
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Ok
 
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12:12 PM
:)
 
@Fabby someone with common intelligence would use something else ask somewhere else
 
12:30 PM
Hilfe, ich spreche Deutsch! Was soll ich nur tun? (@Fabby) ;D
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Q: Hilfe ich spreche deutsch

Klaus PaulusGibt es auch eine Möglichkeit Ubuntu Fragen auch in deutscher Sprache zu betreiben ? Verstehe den Sinn von " This question body does....." leider nicht sorry Translation: Is it possible to use AskUbuntu in German? Unfortunately I don't understand "This question body does....."

 
@JourneymanGeek: Common sense is not that common... ;-)
 
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You people all need a little bit more of Pink Floyd in your lives: ;)
 
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@Toroidal: please use inline links!
 
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Q: Hilfe ich spreche deutsch

Klaus PaulusGibt es auch eine Möglichkeit Ubuntu Fragen auch in deutscher Sprache zu betreiben ? Verstehe den Sinn von " This question body does....." leider nicht sorry Translation: Is it possible to use AskUbuntu in German? Unfortunately I don't understand "This question body does....."

 
12:38 PM
square brackets with your text, then immediately after that round brackets with the link... (otherwise the history scrolls off my screen too quickly!) Please?
 
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@Fabby: Oh! Sorry! Will do next time! :)
 
@Toroidal Better than queen, but I still would suggest you something different:
Back in Black (AC/DC) performed by ArcAttack
They use huge Tesla coils as speakers and have an amazing show playing with the lightnings.
You can forward until about 1:30, until then they're just talking...
 
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@ByteCommander Cool! :)
 
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I am having a look, now but my Rock bands are better! >:) ;D
 
Final Countdown also played on Tesla coils and with a sweet drum robot ;D
Hm, have to leave again for today. Bye everyone...
 
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1:19 PM
Where is the hex editor in emacs?
 
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Because I cannot seem to find it... This tool is so packed with tools everything is hard to find in it other than the games in it! :D
 
hex editor... hmm, maybe goldfinger has a mac version?
spotlight hex editor or whatever? oh wait, that's an imac feature. try simply seraaching
 
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Every time someone posts it seems that my ignore list is emptied even if it has got loads of people on it!
 
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I think that I will start to file a bug report now...
 
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Emacs isn't just for Macs.
 
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jrg
@Toroidal saw your note, take a look.
 
1:51 PM
@Fabby Ahem. I told you not to speak of your amazing internet.... :)
 
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Oh dear... Had to do a password reset and all, think someone hacked into my account or something because the password definitely was different to the one I set... :( :S But all fine now it seems...
 

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