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10:06 PM

Q: Difference between closing the terminal using the closing button, and Ctrl-D

When I'm launching a background process and then closes the terminal using the window's closing button, the background killed. However if I close the terminal using Ctrl-D, the background process keeps running: sam@Sam-Pc:~$ yes > /dev/null & [1] 10219 // I then close the terminal a reopen a new...

Serg

Either people really are dumb, or I'm like the only one taking the job seriously around here

Schedule for this week ? Not printed. Still shows schedule from the last week. Computers ? Not turned off from yesterdays shift

Like come on, people, how hard it is to get your butt off the chair and turn the computers off before you leave ?

hbdgaf

Smart people both take their jobs seriously and don't take them seriously at all. Just my 2 cents.

Serg

@hbdgaf eh . . . that's kind of a paradox

hbdgaf

They wouldn't let me implement remote shutdown, startup(WoL), and updates at one job, because it would be unmaintainable by them. Would have made my job easier though.

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo Whoa! Are those the ones you get by mailing in?

Serg

10:17 PM

@hbdgaf unmaintainable because of the cost ?

hbdgaf

unmaintainable because it was a community college and people are stupid.

Serg

@hbdgaf sounds about right ^_^b

hbdgaf

I'm convinced the dumber you are the more you make, so I'm happy at the bottom of the ladder :)

Serg

Well, I am a mere lab tech (aka the front desk guy, whom you bother when you don't know to print powerpoint with 4 slides per page ). But I kind of care about my duties and stuff . . . except when i am tired and sleep deprived

yaaaaay my deepin iso has downloaded

hbdgaf

deepin looks nice, but i'm still waiting for lxqt to hit main. i think that's the awesomesauce.

Serg

10:26 PM

Once it comes out I'll definitely get it for my virtualbox. Meanwhile, I really wanted to try Deeping for a long time. It looks nice, it's based on Ubuntu (I think . . .) and it's a chinese distro

hbdgaf

I heard this in a chat the other day "because you were a remorseless Chinese hitman in a prior life?" No, but it is entertaining that people think of me that way.

Mateo

@RPiAwesomeness yep

Serg

And why would anybody say you were remorseless hitman @hbdgaf ? you don't seem so bad . . .well . . .except for the picture, it's a bit scary

hbdgaf

It was related to my taste in collars. I like a mandarin collar and I don't know why.

That, and I'm polite mostly... until I'm not.

Serg

Hehe. I like chinese girls exclusively , and i dont know why . . . .people are weird in their own way

hbdgaf

10:34 PM

There was a cute chinese girl in my HS. I felt bad for her though. Her older sister got a perfect 1600 on the old SAT. She couldn't live up to expectations. NOT POSSIBLE. She needed a hug on a daily.

^^ that is not a joke. I'm serious.

Serg

high standards from parents - typical

hbdgaf

She tried to teach me to waltz by saying "but you're supposed to lead" so there was a disconnect there.

Serg

Sigh . . .where's my high school years where I'd be dancing, like, seriously dancing, with a girl huh ?

@hbdgaf so what became of her now ? still in touch ?

hbdgaf

No idea. She was sharp socially though, so would have been a good one to keep in touch with. I'm all math and no people. She was all people and no math. Would have made a good team.

Serg

@hbdgaf #IApproveThisMessage ^

hbdgaf

10:41 PM

Well, I didn't understand these things then. Makes me wonder how I'll look back at now in 20 years.

Serg

I probably will be looking back and saying "Jeez louise, how naive and stupid i was "

Because that's what i would say about me 10 years ago

@hbdgaf by the way, any other suggestions on what I should try in virtualbox, besides lxqt ?

hbdgaf

I made my opinion. I think it's a perfect idea, now we just have to make everything run on Qt cross-platform and get LXQT to be the primary linux distriburion purpose. Yeah... I like it a lot.

Serg

3 - 4 minutes, and I can go home

Spend whole day and still no homework done

as usual

bye, guys.