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@Mateo if I don't install those apps, then I'm fine. As it is, Android System is using most of my battery (mainly because I don't really use the phone and the battery was killed by 5.0.1)

Mateo

I don't see why they just don't implement a e-mail notification checker

so service x sends an e-mail update

you get it in your g-mail or whatever

twitter notifies by e-mail, facebook, g+, youtube

Zacharee1

@Mateo is there even multitasking?

Mateo

1:42 AM

you can turn on "backgrounding" for apps manually - or the music app plays through a service that will survive switching apps, the tablet has a "side stage" for putting two apps side by side - so yes, but when nessary - apps are by default suspended and brought back when switching between them

Zacharee1

huh

No multi-window or anything fun like that?

Mateo

haha, check this out:

Zacharee1

That is a funny ":"

Mateo

Zacharee1

The Magnus effect. No Spin v Spin https://t.co/kyeCYLMa0R

Tweeted by Crashingtv on January 22, 2016 at 8:36 PM

Mateo

1:45 AM

@Zacharee1 wait for the pic ;P

Zacharee1

@Mateo so yes MW?

What a time to be alive. I can actually run Windows 95 on my 3ds.I can't believe this is possible. It's like a dream https://t.co/rZCcCqW06H

Tweeted by RetroRampage37 on January 2, 2016 at 10:16 AM

I think Valve's getting tired of me mocking how shit Steam is on iOS/OS X. https://t.co/YxBgkEJVsW

Tweeted by Minalien on January 21, 2016 at 5:07 AM

Nathan Osman

Wow... this outage is really bad.

Zacharee1

Github is still dead

@NathanOsman beat me to it...

Nathan Osman

I need to get at a repository.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman what's NitroShare again?

@NathanOsman Wayback Machine :p

Nathan Osman

1:54 AM

Cross-platform file transfer application.

Zacharee1

right

thanks

Nathan Osman

Install it on some machines in your network and they can shoot files at each other with a couple clicks.

^--- short summary

Zacharee1

Are there plans for Android support?

Nathan Osman

Yup.

Zacharee1

Yay!

photos-6.dropbox.com/t/2/…

ugh

There

user139252

2:05 AM

@Zacharee1 what permissions did you need and why?

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne I thought I did but I don't

I misread a file copy skipping as a permission denied

since I'm in Ubuntu right now, things are different with users and SSH, but I realized that shouldn't matter :P

user139252

Alright.

Zacharee1

hey hey hey

It'd be nice if they said what the problem was

er: askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/518420

LOL

wow, what a great answer! And if your favorite text editor does not open a simple text file you then just buy a printer and print it out? — incBrain 2 hours ago

Seth

2:20 AM

hahaha

I needed that.

Zacharee1

I think that needs to go on the Tumblr page

Seth

go submit it then :p

Zacharee1

here for now

so others can see it

Seth

how.. did you get that screenshot?

Zacharee1

@Seth I went back in the review queue

Seth

2:24 AM

@Zacharee1 I didn't think you could see deleted posts in the review queue.

Zacharee1

@Seth Apparently you can, at least by pressing Back

Seth

neat

Zacharee1

57 rep to go!

Nathan Osman

#GitHub is down so I filed my taxes. Now if only @twitter and #facebook could go down I could be really productive.

Tweeted by danthewolfe on January 28, 2016 at 2:22 AM

Zacharee1

lol

Nathan Osman

2:26 AM

GitHub is down. Good thing you still have Yo. ✌️

Tweeted by YoApp on January 28, 2016 at 2:22 AM

Not so much...

Zacharee1

ITS UP!!!!!!1!!!!1!!111

ITS BACK

PEOPLE

REJOICE

I love this:

Nathan Osman

.......and we're back.

Zacharee1

Not like I just said that or anything...

Nathan Osman

Oh, heh-heh.

Seth

yeah, not at all.

Devs when GitHub is down: "plastic lightsaber fight!" Devs when StackOverflow is down: "everyone's going to find out I can't actually code"

Tweeted by SwiftOnSecurity on January 28, 2016 at 2:03 AM

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Nathan Osman

2:31 AM

"GitHub is back up. Worst. Apocalypse. Ever."

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman The Hunger Games has nothing on it

Seth

@NathanOsman worse than Rome falling?

Zacharee1

@Seth yes

That wasn't technically an apocalypse though, was it?

Seth

This is a really cool answer:

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A: Why does TI have so many microcontrollers?

I am a TI employee who works in an MCU development group, but this is not an official statement from TI. In particular, this is not an official statement about roadmaps or priorities. Also, I'm not in marketing, so if I contradict any of our marketing material, they're right and I'm wrong. :-) M...

@Zacharee1 it was if you were Roman..

Zacharee1

:p

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:35 AM

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Q: Cryptsetup: LVM is missing (on a system without LVM)

So, I have a problem with the partitions setup of my laptop. I will try to include as many details as possible in order to make it easier to help. In the past, I had an ubuntu 15.10 system on my laptop with 2 identically sized drives. These were both identically formatted with 2 partitions each,...

Zacharee1

@Seth I can even refresh and see the deleted answer

Seth

@Zacharee1 from the page itself?

From review

ah

47 rep away

2:39 AM

@Zacharee1 Go fix up some tag wikis :p

Zacharee1

uhh

kos

@JacobVlijm That worked, thanks, didn't think about doing that trick! Though I'm a bit puzzled one should do that, I mean it doesn't sound like an unusual thing to do, or is it? I would have expected me being a noob and not GTK+ no having a "proper" way to handle that... Though maybe I'm missing something else.

Seth

REPLIES PEOPLE D:

Zacharee1

@Seth NO, NEIN, NIET, NO, NON

Seth

noodle?

Zacharee1

2:44 AM

if that means "no" in your head, sure

Great

Seth

ಠ_ಠ

Zacharee1

Downloading is still dead

kos

@Seth It was far far away :)

Seth

yay reply :D

kos

(actually I also picked the wrong message, it was to this: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/27146066#27146066)

Seth

2:46 AM

buuut the chain dies and so I still have no idea what you're talking about :(

kos

Exactly, here it is: stackoverflow.com/questions/35036122/…

Seth

thx

@NathanOsman:

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Q: "Boot Error" on live-usb flash drive with 15.10

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 15.10 32bits on a Samsung NP-N150-JP05FR, with a live usb created with usb-creator-gtk (from ubuntu 15.10, as superuser) on a FAT32 usb flash drive and get this error : SYSLINUX 6.03 EDD 20150813 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 H. Peter Anvin et al Boot Error Any key press...

boot system-installation live-usb 15.10

Zacharee1

@Seth your frustration with the lack of replies frustrates me :p

Seth

@Zacharee1 proper conversations use replies :p

Zacharee1

Someone's mother just bought the whole dorm Domino's pizza

Seth

2:52 AM

can I come visit?

I love how Domino's puts garlic in their crust. It's really good.

Zacharee1

I do like that. Sadly the pizza's gone :(

kos

@Zacharee1 Actually it frustrates also me a bit, but if I feel too lazy I don't do that. :D It would be nice to have a shortcut to reply to the last message

Seth

@kos there are userscripts.

Zacharee1

@kos @NathanOsman ?

Seth

@Zacharee1 :(

I hope you got some.

kos

2:56 AM

@Zacharee1 And now I'm hungry. :D

Zacharee1

I did

@kos :)

@Seth Like?

(finding)

finden

(trepidatiously waiting)

Zacharee1

2:58 AM

@kos (that's a word?)

kos

@Zacharee1 Found it on wordreference (couldn't translate what I meant) it seems to be one.

Zacharee1

It works, I just didn't know that form existed :p

kos

Doesn't look too Anglo-Saxon, but that's what I have. :D

Zacharee1

I remember this one: extensions.gnome.org/extension/213/eye

Seth

@kos looks like this was the one I was thinking of: github.com/KeyboardFire/sevichat

2

Ctrl+O, then arrow to the message, r, reply.

guys

trepidatiously

Adverb: trepidatiously ‎(comparative more trepidatiously, superlative most trepidatiously)

In a trepidatious manner; with trepidation...

(define: ftw)

Nathan Osman

3:03 AM

Hey, PC World is pretty big, right?

Seth

@NathanOsman yeah

I stopped caring once they stopped making paper magazines, but they are.

Nathan Osman

I wonder if PC World counts as a notable enough source for Wikipedia...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Is it OK to install 32 bit linux on virtual pc on 64bit windows system?

I am trying to download ubuntu 32 bit to run in virtualbox. is it ok to run 32 bit os on virtual box in my windows 64bit pc? or do i need to download only 64 bit os to run in virtual box of my 64bit pc?

linux ubuntu virtualbox

Seth

@NathanOsman I'd say so. Maybe depending on the specific instance.

Nathan Osman

Any guesses? :D

Seth

3:05 AM

nitroshare?

Zacharee1

@Seth doesn't seem to work

Seth

@Zacharee1 make sure you have the text box focused.

Zacharee1

nope

I get a green highlight, but pressing arrow up just goes into edit mode

Seth

@Zacharee1 oh right.. it's vim. Use j,k

Zacharee1

ah

kos

3:07 AM

@Zacharee1 Test

Zacharee1

uhg

@NathanOsman hehe

there we go

gitchy but works

@Zacharee1 Test

@kos stahp

@Zacharee1 Sorry. :P

ermahgerd

sherterp

kos

3:09 AM

@Seth Hm it doesn't work. I did CTRL+O, hovered on the message I'm replying to, hit r (the message ID appeared) but it actually replied to Zacharee.

Zacharee1

@kos using j and k?

kos

(I mean, the ID was probably the ID of Zacharee's message)

Zacharee1

@kos hellooo

Use j,k?

kos

Hey! Whay you mean j and k?

Seth

@kos I wonder if there was some kind of race condition because Zach and I were talking fast.

Zacharee1

3:10 AM

@Seth Pin this

@kos to select the message You don't hover with your cursor

kos

@Zacharee1 Test

Seth

@kos I mispoke. You can't actually use the arrow keys, since it's vim you have to use j and k.

Zacharee1

hello

Seth

(sent using the script)

@Zacharee1 meh. You can star it though!

Zacharee1

I did

Seth

3:11 AM

@kos seems to work for me?

Zacharee1

idididididididiididididididididid

sleeptime

Seth

okokokokokokokokokokokokok

kos

@Seth Cool!

Yes it does!

Nice

Seth

KeyboardFire (aka Doorknob on SE) makes nice stuff :)

you never answered your question @Nathan :p

kos

@Zacharee1 From now on I want to see you using it :P

muru

3:25 AM

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Q: texmaker cannot find latex

I just cannot fix this command not find issue when using texmaker, here's what I did: Environment: Ubuntu 15.04 Install procedure: sudo apt-get install texlive-full sudo apt-get install texmaker environment variables correctly configured After all this, I got this when doing quick build ...

latex texlive

This user really seems to have some problem admitting they messed up something.

Seth

@muru looks like they were just trying to avoid "did you add it to the path?" responses.

muru

@Seth They installed it using apt-get. Obviously not a problem of adding to path. And then they originally said they "added /usr/bin to /etc/profile", which sounds as if they don't know what they're talking about, or what they did.

Seth

yeah I know

ROODAY

anyone have issues with boot order on a hp pavilion?

kos

@muru /usr/bin/pdflatex" -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex <- maybe they really have a " and it's not a typo?

ROODAY

3:30 AM

im trying to get it to boot into ubuntu which is on an ssd that replaced the disk drive, and i have the disk drive set above the normal os boot manager in boot order, but it keeps going to windows

i have to hit a key combo to get into the hp recovery options and select boot media if i want to to get into ubuntu atm

muru

@kos who knows? Texmaker works out-of-the-box with the default installation of texlive-full, so I'm going to guess they messed up some configuration.

kos

@muru However no, the error message says otherwise. :D

muru

@kos They did say they did something to /etc/profile.

I've used Texmaker often enough to know it doesn't need tinkering for usage with pdflatex

kos

@muru I asked them to post it.

Nathan Osman

@Seth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:NitroShare

It's a draft until I get it further along.

Seth

3:37 AM

ah, cool.

muru

5:05 AM

@kos and they deleted the question. :D :D

kos

@muru :D. Well, maybe they did mess up. :D

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body: How does product works? by abnhfdjuriya on askubuntu.com

Nathan Osman

How does the article look now? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:NitroShare

I still haven't added the PC World citation yet :D

kos

@NathanOsman Looks very good to me

Maybe a screenshot?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: For the victims of a burglary by olacastillo on askubuntu.com

kos

5:20 AM

^^ Lol

Nathan Osman

@kos That might be easier once the article is published.

kos

Ah, ok. I don't know how Wikipedia works in that regard.

Is there a way to center a grid automatically according to the parent window in PyGObject?

Ken Sandoval

Hey guys, quick question. Does anybody know about a software for ubuntu (open source of course) similar to adobe fireworks?

user139252

5:44 AM

Google lost my Wallet card in the mail, gave me $5 for the inconvenience :D

user139252

@NathanOsman what is your hectane project?

Nathan Osman

It's an SMTP client.

If you have a server that uses Postfix for sending email, Hectane can replace it.

kos

@KenSandoval Nope, sorry. Have you searched the site? If you don't find anything you could ask a question.

Nathan Osman

Sidenote: wow, Wikipedia really does have high standards for establishing notability. According to one of the people I asked for feedback, of the 11 citations I included, only one is really any good.

I need more.

user139252

@NathanOsman I will be asking for an ARM package of that soon :p

SmokeDetector

6:15 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] URL-only title, bad keyword in title: http://ecoflexsite.com/nutrio2/ by Joanton on askubuntu.com

kos

Finally someone upvoted one of the two answers I had sitting at 24. :D

Nathan Osman

@TheBrownOne I already have one... somewhere around here...

ARMv7?

Hmm... I don't have an ARM DEB but I do have an ARM binary.

github.com/hectane/hectane/releases/download/v0.3.0/…

Just extract it and run the file - it has absolutely no dependencies.

kos

OT -> askubuntu.com/questions/726541/…

Nathan Osman

VTC.

kos

Thanks. Someone upvoted it O.o

If someone feels like weighing in: meta.stackexchange.com/q/273507/302251

Jacob Vlijm

6:35 AM

@kos well, that is the difference between subprocess.Popen() and subprocess.call(), the last one will "hold" the loop, since you only have one thread. There is another option, using Gtk.main_iteration() for as long as the process runs, which I actually found before this trick.

@kos It is however more lines.

kos

@JacobVlijm Yeah, I just thought that GUI updates based on an external process look like a frequent thing (still didn't play with e.g. progress bars, maybe they have a special way to deal with it?). Also I couldn't get it to work using Gtk.main_iteration(). I'll try that again, probably I did something wrong.

Jacob Vlijm

6:51 AM

@kos what makes this one a bit more complicated is that you want to make changes in the interface depend on events outside the gui, which is a specific situation. I first had this working: paste.ubuntu.com/14686762 (where gedit should of course be replaced with your command, but for the sake of simplicity of the test)

kos

@JacobVlijm Ok, I was definetly doing it wrongly, that indeed works, thanks! I also kinda like it more than the other approach (though it's longer), it seems more elegant and I also could adapt it to run a process passed on the arguments.

By the way PyGObject is really neat, I'm playing a lot with it these days.

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