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Seth

7:00 PM

I don't think it's public yet.

user139252

Darn work, keeps me busy too often.

user139252

@Fabby You were always able to call me names. It was your own reserve and kindness that prevented you from doing so :)

user139252

@Seth Why would he port Kate? D=. I don't like Kate. I like Leafpad! It's so simple and pointless!

Seth

I think it had something to do with the qt bindings being readily available or some such thing.

(I didn't really ask)

Anubian Noob

Does Sublime have a linux port?

Yeah they do

user139252

7:08 PM

The band?

user139252

joking

Seth

@AnubianNoob yup

Serg

<---- has no skills ATM to port anything to android or any other OS for that matter

Anubian Noob

@HeatherBrown Are they any good?

(I'm listening to it but I want another opinion)

user139252

@AnubianNoob Eh. Not my style of music.

Seth

7:13 PM

the only kind I've found to be all that useful are the rubber kind.

Anubian Noob

Same haha

What is your style of music?

user139252

I'm more of a Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Mumford and Sons, and Deadmau5 kind of person.

user139252

And Lindsey Stirling. Everything she does is great.

Seth

deadmau5 eh?

Anubian Noob

Lindsey Stirling is so amazing

just

user139252

7:14 PM

@Seth and similar. Daft Punk is my go-to for techno-type genres. After that, I turn to Kraftwerk.

user139252

Deadmau5, Justice, Madeon, etc. are good for working out.

A.B.

He Kraftwerk

Great

Fahrn fahrn fahrn auf der Autobahn

user139252

I am the operator with my pocket calculator.

user139252

I press a special key it plays a little melody.

A.B.

Wir fahr'n, fahr'n, fahr'n auf der Autobahn

Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal
Die Sonne scheint mit Glitzerstrahl

Die Fahrbahn ist ein graues Band
Weisse Streifen, grüner Rand

Jetzt schalten wir ja das Radio an
Aus dem Lautsprecher klingt es dann:
Wir fahr'n auf der Autobahn . . .

---

I'm the operator with my pocket calculator

I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator

I am adding
And subtracting
I'm controlling
And composing

I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator

I am adding
And subtracting
I'm controlling
And composing

By pressing down a special key
It plays a little melody
By pressing down a special key
It plays a little melody

I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator

Nathan Osman

7:18 PM

@Seth Oh that reminds me... I remembered one of the downsides of Sublime as compared to Atom.

It doesn't have an ARM build.

Anubian Noob

There are downsides to sublime :O (/s)

Nathan Osman

So I can only run it on i386 and amd64 CPUs.

user139252

That means no Pi!

Nathan Osman

Can't run it on my Raspberry Pi (ARMv7) or my NAS (PowerPC).

(Not that I really wanted to run it on my NAS...)

user139252

@A.B. "Wenn Wellen schwingen
Ferne Stimmen singen"

Nathan Osman

7:20 PM

But then again... considering how much RAM Atom uses, it may not be a good idea to run it on the Pi anyway.

Whaaaaaat

@NathanOsman Also the breaks on the surfaces or whatever they're called is kinda cool.

A.B.

@HeatherBrown Ätherwellen

user139252

@A.b. You mean Anterwellen?

user139252

No?

user139252

Am I losing my German? D=

user139252

7:21 PM

You're right...

user139252

OH NO!

A.B.

=)

Nathan Osman

@Whaaaaaat Actually, what I had to do was a bit sneaky. There are actually two distinct objects - the unbroken cup and the one I applied the cell fracture to. The unbroken one appears until frame 26 and then it becomes invisible. The broken one then appears (it has been broken since frame 1 and was falling from the same original location).

Anubian Noob

Sublime is using 31 MB right now :D

Whaaaaaat

@NathanOsman So it wasn't the same glass.

LIAR

Nathan Osman

7:22 PM

@AnubianNoob 57.5 MB for me :P

But I have the go-sublime package installed.

Whaaaaaat

still, the fact that the glass breaks in mid-air is cool :D

user139252

@NathanOsman Now that you say that... I can see a tiny flicker when it changes :P. Or, I could be imagining it

Whaaaaaat

@NathanOsman I demand a perfect 60 FPS version next.

Nathan Osman

Blender does have an explode modifier but the fragments don't react in a realistic way, so I was forced to do the cell fracture and animate its visibility by hand :P

Whaaaaaat

With cracks running up the thing :D

Anubian Noob

7:24 PM

@NathanOsman This plugin looks like it's punches well above it's weight

Nathan Osman

Lemme dig up a couple of old GIFs showing how the explode modifier falls short.

user139252

user139252

Should I have my STEM club students build that today?

Nathan Osman

The first attempt:

Serg

@HeatherBrown sure

It's just 555 timer and looks like current source

Nathan Osman

7:25 PM

The particles collide with the floor but don't rotate at all.

Whaaaaaat

bouncy!

user139252

They know the basics of the usage for the 555, so I don't think it should be too difficult

Nathan Osman

The next attempt was marginally better:

Whaaaaaat

still bouncy.

Nathan Osman

But it's just not very realistic.

@Whaaaaaat Yeah.

Whaaaaaat

7:26 PM

Also do I spot things disappearing and clumping?

Nathan Osman

Yup, they clump.

That's one of the other problems.

Whaaaaaat

one particle just says "lol ima teleport"

Anubian Noob

@HeatherBrown What are the use cases of this? PWM safety?

Nathan Osman

Compare that to:

user139252

@AnubianNoob teaching students about electronic circuitry so that they both have fun doing something and don't burn out their Pis when we start hooking up arcade controls and what not to them.

Nathan Osman

7:29 PM

Anubian Noob

It looks really realistic

user139252

Also, then we can modify it to turn it into a sound synth

Nathan Osman

@HeatherBrown So you don't end up with "Hey teacher, how come my Pi exploded when I connected it directly to mains?"

:P

Anubian Noob

@HeatherBrown Sounds fun!

user139252

@NathanOsman Exactly :P

Anubian Noob

7:30 PM

I'm planning Arduino projects for our FRC team right now

My friend wants to do a walkie talkie/radio

I wanna do an SMS relay

And everyone else on the team thinks we're crazy

user139252

Build an SMS relay that also does TTS into a walkie talkie.

user139252

So that you can textie talkie.

user139252

walkie textie?

Anubian Noob

haha

Walkie talkie over mms?

Whaaaaaat

@NathanOsman It looks realistic until frame-by-frame analysis :P

user139252

7:34 PM

That's the only logical conclusion to your debate with your friend.

Anubian Noob

Sounds great

Whaaaaaat

Walkie Talkie over SMS? That sounds about as fun as my "Internet over AM" idea.

Anubian Noob

AM?

AM radio?

Whaaaaaat

Yep.

Anubian Noob

Datawave? MHacks V?

Whaaaaaat

7:36 PM

I'm not sure.

It's just a concept.

Maybe take a page from DialUp?

Anubian Noob

awww

My friend built that

At MHacks 5

February

Before that we built internet over SMS at MHacks IV, almost a year ago

Whaaaaaat

That would be good for getting internet in zero-cell areas. Tricky, though.

IoSMS sounds easy.

base64 the packet.

user139252

IoSMS was thing back with flip-phones.

Anubian Noob

Oh trust me it's not

This site is 15682 chars

user139252

You used to be able to change your mobile's APN to use your phone minutes instead of your data, combine that with "free nights and weekends" and "unlimited" data was thing back in the 90s.

Anubian Noob

7:39 PM

Base64'd it's 7 chars per byte, right?

@HeatherBrown whoa seriously?

So we get just under 18,000 bytes

160 bytes per sms

user139252

My ex's dad used to do that with his mobile and we had free roam of the very slow internet all night =D

Anubian Noob

So we have 112 texts to get the page :D

Whaaaaaat

Shame smartphones are so smart now :/

Anubian Noob

@HeatherBrown That's really neat

Whaaaaaat

Can't change the APN to bypass carrier restrictions anymore.

@AnubianNoob Well you're just directly base64ing.

You can save more bandwidth by compressing it, and THEN base64ing it.

Anubian Noob

7:40 PM

Ofc, and not stripping js and such

Whaaaaaat

Text is awesome at being compressed.

user139252

@Whaaaaaat Yeah. I'm on T-Mobile here in the states, and they finally caught on to my trick with their "Unlimited Data/5gig Hotspot" plan....

Anubian Noob

Haha I remember it took us 2 hours to realize the reason our compression sucked was because we base64'd first

Whaaaaaat

@HeatherBrown Really? What'd they do?

Anubian Noob

@HeatherBrown I have unlimited data, 2.5 gigs high speed on T-Mobile

Whaaaaaat

7:42 PM

@AnubianNoob Unlim data, 1 GB @ 4G on T-Mobile.

I burn through that in about 15 minutes.

user139252

They said that my data usage was "unusually high" for the last few months and that they could only assume that I was using an illegal hack to connect it as a hot-spot

Anubian Noob

...

Whaaaaaat

yeah no custom roms are not illegal.

Anubian Noob

@Whaaaaaat haha yeah I used to do that too

user139252

So they charged me back three months for the higher level hotspot plan.

Anubian Noob

7:43 PM

I broke my phone for 3 weeks, and basically went mobile device free, and now I've been liberated

Whaaaaaat

Unusually high. They should meet me.

/me uses a full TB in a week

user139252

I was using an average of about 130 GB each month D=

Anubian Noob

@HeatherBrown Charged you back? They charged you more for using your unlimited data???

Well that's a bit different haha

user139252

@AnubianNoob It's because I wasn't supposed to have unlimited hot-spot data.

Anubian Noob

@HeatherBrown Oh gotcha... That kinda almost makes sense

user139252

7:44 PM

I'm going to try to fight it.

user139252

Especially with the new laws going into effect for internet providers. We did win that battle, right?

Anubian Noob

Net neutrality?

user139252

Yeah, that one.

Whaaaaaat

@HeatherBrown Just say you were using the hotspot feature on your phone. Nothing else.

wait... T-Mobile is in violation of net neutrality!

user139252

I thought so!

Whaaaaaat

7:47 PM

They give streaming services unlimited bandwidth.

user139252

Yeah, their wording is "we assume...."

Nathan Osman

I was fortunate enough to get my hands on an unlimited plan up here in Canada.

Whaaaaaat

I buy the 3GB/month plan, I get to stream all the music I want, even after other sites are slowed!

Nathan Osman

But they throttle it.

user139252

If I just reflash my phone with a stock ROM they have no proof that I used hostapd instead.

Whaaaaaat

7:48 PM

@HeatherBrown Odd. I went to T-Mobile with a fully flashed CM phone and they didn't care.

The guy even encouraged me to use the hotspot thing.

But I am pissed that T-Mobile does IMEI blocking.

Anubian Noob

@Whaaaaaat What exactly do they do?

user139252

@NathanOsman That's a bummer. With my plan, they would only throttle hot-spot speeds, but I get unlimited high-speed on my handset either way.

Nathan Osman

@HeatherBrown It isn't as bad as it sounds. I get 10 GB at full speed before any throttling.

Whaaaaaat

@AnubianNoob So I really got my phone plan for my tablet because they don't offer unlimited tablet data.

But they IMEI block tablets from using phone plans.

user139252

@Whaaaaaat Must just be different areas and/or their auditing team, then. I just live in an area without a good home ISP available, so I prefer to use my 4G even for home internet. It's faster than the lame-o Charter Spectrum I can get.

user139252

7:50 PM

@Whaaaaaat Blue-tooth tether hack from phone to tablet?

Whaaaaaat

@HeatherBrown I like full speed.

Either way, it's annoying on their end.

I actually wonder how legal it would be to swap my IMEIs.

user139252

Students are here to build things. Have a good day, guys!

Anubian Noob

I'm gonna convince my family to stop paying for wifi and go with unlimited data and hotspotting

Serg

Bye

Whaaaaaat

bye

Anubian Noob

7:51 PM

Since we have a family plan, that means I'll get unlimited data :D

@HeatherBrown Have fun!

Whaaaaaat

I mean, why won't they let me get unlimited data on my tablet?

It's dumb.

Nathan Osman

Our home Internet... don't get me started. 1 Mbps and a 30 GB cap.

Whaaaaaat

@NathanOsman 3 Mbps but no cap.

I used to have 30 Mbps with a 10 GB cap though.

That was so cruel (Verizon sucks).

Nathan Osman

Oh wow, that's cruel.

Whaaaaaat

I think it was $10 for every gb over or something

Nathan Osman

7:54 PM

O_o

Whaaaaaat

Yep.

$10 / each gb over.

Nathan Osman

$123/m for 120 Mbps.

Anubian Noob

@NathanOsman What the hell?!!!?

Whaaaaaat

Verizon likes their money.

Anubian Noob

How do you survive on that haha

@NathanOsman That's even crazier...

Nathan Osman

7:55 PM

@AnubianNoob Tons of caching, using my cell connection a lot, and visiting public WiFi hotspots.

Whaaaaaat

But no. T-Mobile is stupid.

They're not going to give me a voice+data plan because it's a tablet THAT IS VOICE-PROVISIONED

Serg

Anybody has taken Comptia Linux + ?

RonnieDroid

8:12 PM

hey

you r talking about Internet speed and price? i'm out because both of them sucks here :D

Terrance

@Serg I have done the CompTIA A+. Does that count? ;)

Serg

@Terrance Sure :) But Linux + is a different exam. I'm just curious what I should expect there. I want to take both actually, A+ and Linux+

Helloo all

hi

hi there

8:18 PM

@Serg I actually did my A+ way back in 1995. I think most of it, if not all of it, has changed since then.

Just not my Linux + yet

Nathan Osman

@RPiAwesomeness Hey.

And how come George didn't say anything...

@GeorgetheDev what time is it?

RonnieDroid

George is down

Nathan Osman

Hrm.

RPi Awesomeness

He detects it with multiple o-s?

Nathan Osman

No, but @RonnieDroid's message should have triggered him.

RPi Awesomeness

8:20 PM

Ah

Nathan Osman

@GeorgetheDev what time is it?

George the Dev

@NathanOsman The current time is Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:20:41 GMT.

Nathan Osman

There we go.

RonnieDroid

@NathanOsman maybe he is just tiered

:D

@GeorgetheDev whats up

Nathan Osman

He keeps disconnecting every so often.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:51 PM

0

Q: Is there a file search engine with a webserver?

I connected a huge USB HD to my linux server. I installed samba and the files can now be accessed over network. I can search for files over network but the samba search is slow. Do you know of any software that can index all the files and I just open a site in my browser and can search for that ...

hbdgaf

9:40 PM

God, it must be friday. The weird questions just keep coming askubuntu.com/questions/666950/…

Comment needs an uptick or not, but I think the OP should listen.

Nathan Osman

9:56 PM

<-- is neck deep in openssl commands trying to set up a CA for OpenVPN.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:22 PM

0

Q: Optimize/Replace 'find' command

I am looking to optimize this find command. We have to move a bunch (sometimes almost a million) files to a directory for further processing. We are looking for a way to increase the speed of this command as it can take hours to run with a large amount of files. The problem is we need the files t...

ubuntu find optimization

Nathan Osman

Now I've just killed my server's ability to perform DNS lookups.

:(

Fabby

@NathanOsman Ouch! :(

Need help?

Nathan Osman

10:38 PM

I found easy-rsa.

@Fabby Nope, I realized what I missed and got it fixed.

(I left off dns-nameservers in /etc/network/interfaces.)

Fabby

@HeatherBrown :D No, it's not my kindness keeping me to call you names but the Fµçk|ng automated flagging system! ;-)

@NathanOsman Good! Then I can go to sleep!

I think today has been the quickest in-and-out again aver!

Serg

11:13 PM

0

Q: Change terminal name

I have a Mac When I log into Ubuntu the terminal says: myname@myname-macbookpro-invalidentrylength-dmi-table-is-broken-stop~$ This is not a good work station. How do I change the part after the @ ?

14.04 mac

VTC the dupe

Nathan Osman

11:35 PM

Hmm... almost there. As soon as I enable the VPN, I lose Internet access.

Fabby

11:50 PM

Good night all!

@GeorgetheDev help

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