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Zacharee1

12:00 AM

ew

ewewewewewew

user139252

@Terrance Burn it!

2

Terrance

@TheBrownOne Maybe............

kos

@Zacharee1 I like Ubuntu but nobody pronounces it that enthusiastically! :D

Journeyman Geek

@TheBrownOne eh, maaayve

Zacharee1

mayve? Are we Spanish now? :p

Terrance

12:03 AM

My favorite piece of nostalgia at home is this:

Zacharee1

That's a large floppy drive

Terrance

5 1/4 inch for the Commodore 64 =)

Zacharee1

I meant thick

Terrance

Yeah, it was

Zacharee1

Aww I have to do homework :/

But I finally figure out my modal thingy, so that's good

Terrance

12:06 AM

Imagine loading up programs off of one of these:

Zacharee1

chokes

Data tapes omg

Terrance

That was the first peripheral we bought

Frogger took 8 minutes to load

Zacharee1

Those must be so slow!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Terrance

But any audio cassette would work in it as a data tape.

Zacharee1

OT: askubuntu.com/questions/732235/…

Of course

What does this have to do with Ubuntu? — Zacharee1 2 mins ago

@Zacharee1 Because it's linux. — Nobiscis 1 min ago

AskUbuntu -- I feel it should be somewhat obvious that this site is for Ubuntu? There's a site for Arch: Unix & Linux — Zacharee1 1 min ago

@Zacharee1 Yeah, so is ubuntuforums.org but they still support other Linux distros. There's really nothing wrong with asking for help. I think you've got a problem :) — Nobiscis 30 secs ago

kos

12:11 AM

@Zacharee1 I'm watching that question being closed.

Zacharee1

@kos :)

Terrance

@Zacharee1 WOW! Really?

=)

Zacharee1

@Terrance lol

@muru editing that soon-to-be-closed question is very important :p

no banz pls

@Seth PLS HALP

Le troll: askubuntu.com/questions/732235/…

@Seth thx if it was you

kos

Eats popcorns reading the comments on that question

Zacharee1

@muru whew

@kos iz gone

Seth

12:22 AM

>20 comments people? seriously?

Zacharee1

@Seth You saw what he said right? ;p

We had to make a point, and it was my entertainment :p

kos

@Zacharee1 Yeah noticed. :(

Zacharee1

@Seth you should leave it undeleted and let the fun continue :D (close it of course)

Daniel

@Nobiscis I told you I'd get that question closed/deleted within the hour (wasn't expecting within 2 minutes though!)

leave it deleted

please

Zacharee1

@Daniel Closed, yeah. Deleted? Nahh :p

Daniel

12:23 AM

closed would be fine

just don't let that user keep on with that question

Seth

@Zacharee1 This is Ask Ubuntu, we don't hold troll fests.

Daniel

it was getting abusive

Zacharee1

@kos take a screenshot of the comments and post it here so I can put it on the Tumblr page

@Seth aww :p

@kos or so you can. I just want the picture :p

Daniel

It was bad

Zacharee1

:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P -- just to get them all out

Daniel

12:25 AM

Nobiscis was basically telling muru that he knew the site better than anyone else

Zacharee1

@Daniel it was, but they do need to maybe learn that they aren't God

Seth

happens sometimes.

Daniel

then maybe send that user to www.brookhills.org instead @Zacharee1

I mean, do the math for Nobiscis vs muru

Journeyman Geek

eww arch

Daniel

how many gazillion rep does muru have? like 51k right?

Zacharee1

12:26 AM

@Daniel 51.3k

Daniel

OK, working on the math

So, Nobiscis has 1 rep, and is trying to defeat muru

muru used mod hammer

it was very effective

Zacharee1

Muru isn't a mod

I'm pretty sure that was Seth

Daniel

ok then SOMEONE USED MOD HAMMER

Zacharee1

lol

Daniel

but if it weren't for muru then the argument wouldn't have brought the attention

kos

12:27 AM

@Zacharee1 Got a screenshot right before Seth deleted the comments:

Zacharee1

@kos yay!

I'm waiting for a slew of downvotes

Daniel

so make that 'muru helped cause a disturbance that initiated the wrath of Seth'

Zacharee1

Or was he banned?

Seth

@Daniel I see you're a fellow ham. Nice :)

kos

Zacharee1

12:28 AM

@Daniel no, that was me. I pinged him here :p

Seth

I think it's really cool you have a young hams club over there.

Journeyman Geek

@Daniel IT WAS SUPER EFFECTIVE!

Zacharee1

@kos THX

Posting

Daniel

Thanks @Seth

Zacharee1

@Seth ham?

Daniel

12:29 AM

It's kind of died down because most of our Young Hams have moved out of the area

but there's still a few of us left

km4ayu.com

BINGO

@JourneymanGeek sigh

@Daniel That's sad. There was something like that around here a few years ago, before I got my ticket. Now except for the few repeaters I can't hit with an HT it is mostly dead :/

Daniel

12:30 AM

arg

muru

@Zacharee1 they went to Unix & Linux, where they swore to god: unix.stackexchange.com/posts/261393/revisions

Seth

@muru lol, can't escape muru ;)

(on a *nix site anyway)

Eagle eyes!

@muru :D:D:D

Wow @muru

12:31 AM

"Harrased" huh?

Someone's sensitive...

Even more than me I! :D

Daniel

@JourneymanGeek more like this kind of ham:

Seth

usually it's just best to let these kinds of people have the last word and move on. Otherwise they will bring you down to their level and beat you with their experience ;)

Zacharee1

Oh, ham radio?

Daniel

yes

HEY

THIS IS AWESOME

Seth

@Daniel That's some old equipment! :D

Zacharee1

12:32 AM

@Seth I had a sociopath as a classmate for 8 years. I'm good

Daniel

I GOT A CHAT STARRED AND UP ON THE SIDEBOARD!

Zacharee1

@Daniel That was me :)

It was funny

Daniel

@Seth I have owned about half of that equipment, and still own about 1/4

Zacharee1

Come, join the chat side

Daniel

thanks @Zacharee1

Zacharee1

12:33 AM

You will never leave

ever

We have golden stars :p

Daniel

can I have a starring campaign?

Seth

@Daniel Nice!! I'm broke over here so.. looong way to go :p

Daniel

hahaha!

Well @Seth I build/fix my stuff

so it's mostly free

Zacharee1

@Daniel I don't think there's serial starring, so if that's what you mean

Seth

That's what happens when you have too many hobbies. The one time I had a nice sum to spend on radio my computer decided to break -.-

Zacharee1

12:34 AM

@Seth How's the GSIII going?

Journeyman Geek

lol

Daniel

I've spent a total of... $140 on my computer?

Zacharee1

@Seth Proof that computers are sentient :p

Seth

@Zacharee1 Works great now! But I really don't want to leave 5.1 for 4.4.2, even if it has twice the storage, better camera, bigger screen..

Zacharee1

@Daniel O_o

Daniel

12:34 AM

and it's a dual-core 2.2GHz AMD Athlon x2 64

Zacharee1

@Seth How'd you get to 5?

Daniel

3GB DDR2 800

Journeyman Geek

@Daniel I currently have 3 x86 PCs on my desk ;p

Zacharee1

@Daniel not bad, especially for budget

Seth

@Zacharee1 Moto finally passed the 5.1 update.

Daniel

12:35 AM

250GB SSD, 750GB HDD

nice @JourneymanGeek

Zacharee1

@Seth For the Galaxy S3?

Daniel

I've got a bunch of them.

Zacharee1

@JourneymanGeek ew, 32-bit :p

Daniel

I use mostly Windows 10, just because of the software I need to run, but I love Linux

Seth

@Zacharee1 No, my daily driver (Moto G 2013)

Terrance

12:35 AM

@Zacharee1 Awwwww, It got deleted! I missed it! I walked away from my desk and the Arch linux question went poof

Journeyman Geek

@Zacharee1 naw, all 64 bit

Daniel

haha

Zacharee1

@Seth I thought you were still talking about your S3

Seth

(I was pretty sure we had discussed this?)

Journeyman Geek

2 of them need to be, more than 4gb of ram

@Daniel that sounds rediculously cheap tho

Seth

12:36 AM

@Zacharee1 yeah. I got it working but I can't decide if I want to switch to it or not.

Journeyman Geek

Second hand?

Zacharee1

Daniel

That was buying the SSD and some cables @JourneymanGeek, so probably more like $90

Zacharee1

@Seth On 5?

Journeyman Geek

Ahh

Done the whole junker thing before

Had to buy a monitor and a hard drive

kinda upgraded it a fair bit since then tho

Daniel

12:37 AM

Samsung 850 EVO is an awesome SSD

Zacharee1

@Terrance @kos got a screenie

I have a 850 pro

FastChat SE

you have more money

@Zacharee1 The Moto G is on 5.1, the GSIII on 4.4.2. There are no ROMs for GSIII's running 4.4.2 (qfuse, remember?).

Journeyman Geek

12:37 AM

I started off witha c2d dell...

Seth

The GSIII has much nicer features, but 5.1...

Daniel

I started off with an IBM PS/2

Zacharee1

@Seth I remember. I was wondering if you had made any progress

Daniel

running DOS 6

Journeyman Geek

@Daniel I did a ton of gradual upgrades ++ lots of planning

Daniel

12:38 AM

same

Journeyman Geek

lol

Zacharee1

@Seth just get an LG

Journeyman Geek

The current system is an incremental upgrade. Started with a very shitty box and fixed it up over time

Seth

@Zacharee1 There are no bl unlocks for 4.4.2, the qfuse completely changed things and no one cares enough to try (there may not even be a vuln. to exploit..)

Terrance

@Zacharee1 Thank you! That dude went crazy against everyone I see! WOW! Simply WOW! What is wrong with people sometimes?

Daniel

12:38 AM

Basically if I want to upgrade anything I need a new mobo

Seth

@Zacharee1 broke, remember? ;p

Journeyman Geek

yup

Zacharee1

@Seth :(

@Terrance ¯_(ツ)_/¯¯_(ツ)_/¯

Seth

@Daniel swappa.com

Daniel

I'm going to try that starring campaign. Vote for interesting chat! chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/27483897#27483897

Seth

12:39 AM

excellent place to get one --^

Terrance

@Zacharee1 =)

Daniel

a mobo @Seth ?

no results for motherboard

Seth

ohhh, I took "mobo" to be shorthand for "mobile", not "motherboard". My bad xD

Journeyman Geek

@Daniel I started by upgrading my case. Then PSU, then motherboard/ram/processor. Then video card and storage. Then a few years later, monitor (and went x2) video card and storage again.

Daniel

hahaha - nope.

Zacharee1

12:40 AM

@Daniel lol, just say some more funny stuff :p

Daniel

stand by @Zacharee1

Journeyman Geek

Waiting foir job +1 and nvme to get settled before doing motherboard and ram again.

Daniel

@Zacharee1

A politician went to an elementary school for a photo op. The teacher was leading a unit on words and their meanings and asked the politician to lead a discussion. The word was "tragedy" and he asked the class to give him an example.

The first boy says, "If one of us chased a soccer ball into the street and got hit by a car hit that would be a tragedy".

The politician said, "Close, but that would actually be an accident."

A girl raised her hand: "What if a school bus with a bunch of kids in it went over a cliff? That would be a tragedy."

8

Zacharee1

You people are huge distractions, and now that we have a new person in chat, it's just become worse! :P

Seth

@Daniel oh that's brilliant xD

Daniel

12:42 AM

OK, 3 stars - keep going

Terrance

@Daniel LOL Love it!! =)

Zacharee1

@Daniel o_O xD LOL EVERYTHING

Daniel

show me 20 gold stars people!

Zacharee1

@Daniel you know there aren't any actual gains right? ;p

Daniel

I know

Terrance

12:42 AM

OK, gotta go do the driving thingy! Ya all have an awesome time!! =)

Daniel

but bragging rights...

Zacharee1

◔_◔

Daniel

Here's another:

I recently received an email:

VARNING: MinnySoda Compewtr Virus

Ve haf just sent you da NORVEGIAN VIRUS. Since ve do not haf any programming experience and do not know how to actually demage your computir, dis Virus verks on da honor system. Please forward dis Virus to eferyvone on your mailing list and den manually delete all of da files on your hard drive.

Tank you for your cooperation,

Sven and Ole

Sign behind an Amish carriage:

"Energy efficient vehicle. Runs on grass and oats.
CAUTION: Avoid exhaust!"

OK, here's one we guys will understand:

Ingredients:
• 1 Small Roast Beef
• 1 Large Roast Beef

Put both roasts in the oven. When the little one is burned, the big one is done.

And another:
Energizer Bunny arrested - charged with battery.

Zacharee1

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Daniel

One of the mysteries of life is that a two pound box of chocolates can make you gain five pounds.

Zacharee1

12:44 AM

Get reviewing 3k+ers

@Daniel ◔_◔ :p

Daniel

If Mary, Susan, Claire and Barbara go out for lunch, they will call each other Mary, Susan, Claire and Barbara.
If John, Brad, Tony and Daniel go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Bruno, Scrappy, Peanut-Head and Godzilla.

Zacharee1

Careful, @Daniel. @Seth might mute you :p

Daniel

I know, I should shut up now

I'm already on the sidebar more than anyone else, so I'll be good

Zacharee1

Nicht mir

Daniel

Anyways I need to skip out and eat dinner

Zacharee1

12:46 AM

bye

for now

Daniel

toodles

kos

@Zacharee1 I'm there. -8 from a badge :P

Zacharee1

noice

380 until 4k

kos

@Zacharee1 Wanna review this one? askubuntu.com/review/close/523505 I mistakenly clicked leave open -.-

Zacharee1

VTC

ed

kos

12:57 AM

Thanks

Thomas W.

@Seth is that you who just tracked me on keybase?

user139252

What should I have for dinner?

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne food

user139252

Great idea

Thomas W.

the souls of the damned

freshly harvested if possible

Zacharee1

1:05 AM

@ThomasW. how about pho?

Thomas W.

NO

the souls of the condemned.

user139252

Condemned or damned @ThomasW.?

user139252

Very different flavor profiles between the two

Zacharee1

Like Ubuntu vs. Arch?

someone get it someone get it

Thomas W.

@TheBrownOne In reality both

The souls of the damned works best.

the souls of the condemned is next best

the other ones are meh

Seth

1:20 AM

@ThomasW. yes

figured it would be obvious.

Mateo

1:31 AM

so, short story - my nexus 5's microphone broke - people calling and like "hello, hello" didnt make the connection till a few days ago...

Zacharee1

lol

Mateo

good news is - my daily phone is now an ubuntu phone! swaped the sim to the mx4

probally wouldnt have realized for a while longer, because i mostly text, and let peole leave messages

Thomas W.

@Seth just being thorough ;)

Seth

@Mateo what carrier?

@ThomasW. ;)

Mateo

1:55 AM

@Seth tmobile

Zacharee1

Le best, but le least coverage :p

Mateo

prepaid, hopefully they stay on the good side - even with the uncertainty with the bindge on thing - so far just a value add, but similar things could be used for evil

Seth

@Mateo so 2G and 1 4G band.

Mateo

youtube is what I would want to not count for data... if I'm watching a show it would be at home on wifi

@Seth 2g only on the mx4

Seth

@Mateo mx4 supports 2100MHz which tmobile uses for LTE in some areas.

Mateo

2:01 AM

oh, that's good then - it shows an "e" on the signal - so I can get some fast stuff then?

Seth

@Mateo maybe. It really depends what band tmobile uses where.

e stands for EDGE so if it says e then it's using 2G.

Mateo

yeah, I was under the impression that the hardware was the wrong bands for over here - looks like 2g only

Seth

2100 isn't used as a "main" band on any US carrier yet, so you're not likely to see much of it. I know AT&T only uses it as extra bandwidth so I assume tmobile is similar.

It's a pity really.

Mateo

I'm using the nexus 4 as a dev - experiment phone, so the grid units are set high right now ;)

that would totally work with 4g

but I've kept the mx4 on the stable channel

dekko is really a nice email program for the phone

the music scope is so awesome, having all these sources for finding songs in one place

it plays right from there ;)

Seth

2:18 AM

nice!

Mateo

Zacharee1

@Mateo low service and low WiFi?

you poor deprived soul :p

Mateo

i live in a cave (basement) anyway, have a repeter i turn on when i need for wifi ;p

Zacharee1

lol

Nathan Osman

2:42 AM

Oh brother. I try to find an EMF analyzer for troubleshooting interference and I end up with a bunch of "paranormal" and "supernatural detector" apps.

Seth

LOL

Nathan Osman

Who installs those apps??!?

> Installs: 100,000 - 500,000

I'm slowly losing hope in society...

Seth

the same people that install the solar panel one I assume..

Nathan Osman

LOL.

Seth

I'm not even kidding :/

Mateo

2:58 AM

wait... you are right seth - i have 3g - for a bit anyway... hm strange

Nathan Osman

Oooh - 2buntu :)

So far I have ruled out the printer, the Mac Mini, and the HDMI cable.

But something is still causing interference.

Mateo

yeah, it siill dosnt load...

did you pull it, i just still had it installed

Seth

3:13 AM

@Mateo wait, there's a blame Popey app? WANT

@Mateo tmo does have some 2100 for 3g too :D

the thing with 2100 in the US is it's mostly "extra" space in major cities where the main bands are overcrowded. So you may see it.. and you may never see it.

Nathan Osman

@Mateo It doesn't load?

Wut.

There is no reason that it shouldn't be working.

Seth

@NathanOsman is there a way to search UT apps from a desktop?

Nathan Osman

Yup.

uappexplorer.com

Seth

oh awesome. Thanks!

James

3:40 AM

@NathanOsman You use docker, right?

Nathan Osman

Indeed.

James

OK

Nathan Osman

Both my personal website and NitroShare's are running off Docker containers right now.

James

so do you do docker on the metal, or do you use boot2docker?

(For development)

Nathan Osman

Docker on the metal.

James

3:40 AM

argh. fine.

That's the most annoying thing i'm encountering right now... nobody uses it with boot2docker. They use their macs and then point docker-compose at a little linux server on their desk

Nathan Osman

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Seth

James

So, my current favorite "Mwahaha I'm a mad scientist" moment was when I did benchmarks on my cloud

$500/month on amazon for a server @ work

a $300 homebuilt commodity hardware server runs circles around it.

CodingHorror was right.

Seth

is this AWS?

James

yeah

Nathan Osman

3:50 AM

But the connectivity is going to be better in AWS.

James

Not in a datacenter

which would cost $300/month

Nathan Osman

Oh, you mean putting the server in the datacenter.

James

so at the end of it, in 3 months you're actively saving money

yeah

Nathan Osman

I thought you meant running it on-premises.

:P

James

nah

Nathan Osman

5:31 AM

I think that I need a spreadsheet just to keep track of all the places I have NitroShare listed or social media accounts I maintain. So far we have: GitHub, Launchpad, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, the stable PPA, the dev. PPA, AUR (Arch), Debian package, Ubuntu package, the NitroShare website, Chocolatey...

...and I'm still hoping for that Wikipedia article.

Seth

@NathanOsman Ubuntu wiki

btw, did you ever challenge that wikipedia decision?

Nathan Osman

Which one?

Seth

the one that "banned" your account?

(or whatever exactly happened)

Nathan Osman

Oh, that.

It went away the next day so... could have just been some kind of rolling IP ban.

Seth

ah

Nathan Osman

5:34 AM

Though it was strange that logging in didn't make a difference.

Seth

So why isn't the article live then?

Nathan Osman

It was on my phone.

@Seth It is. But it's a draft until it gets reviewed.

Draft:NitroShare

NitroShare is a cross-platform application that facilitates the transfer of files between computers on a local network. == History == NitroShare began as an entry in the Ubuntu App Showdown contest hosted by Canonical in 2012. Although the application failed to win a prize, it received a number of positive reviews from popular blogs within the Ubuntu community and the broader open-source software community at large. Development continued slowly after the contest, with development and bug tracking eventually moving to GitHub in January 2015. NitroShare has been featured in articles by Germ...

Seth

ah

oh hmm, looks like I misread my search results. There isn't an ubuntu wiki page for nitroshare.

Nathan Osman

Someone flagged it because I am both the application author and article author.

Hopefully I was able to maintain a neutral tone and just state facts.

Seth

@NathanOsman who do they expect to write the article? o_O

Nathan Osman

5:38 AM

But... as I said last time... if they complain, I'll humbly point out that the gedit article has fewer citations from notable sources than my article does.

:)

Sure is taking screenshots.debian.net a long time to update...

Seth

@NathanOsman lol

well good luck.

I'm falling asleep so I think I will call it quits. Only so much you can accomplish in one day :/

Nathan Osman

Goodnight.