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Zacharee1

12:00 AM

It's meant to signify a quick look into a Spanish-speaking culture or area, but guess what the videos are played in

Videonauth

:)

Zacharee1

@Videonauth we need pictures of your cat

RobotHumans

immersion really is the best way to learn anything. no cats plz

Zacharee1

for us and for Imgur :p

@RobotHumans wat wai

catz r teh best

RobotHumans

if i want cats, i'll browse tumblr.

Zacharee1

12:05 AM

although it's shedding season and mine are giving off multiple lbs of fur

@RobotHumans Imgur is catland, Tumblr is crazy-land and funny convo-land

RobotHumans

I disagree

Zacharee1

wat

Henry WH Hack

I removed unity and installed gnome.

My system crashed. :D

Seth

@Mateo he doesn't explain how he does it though :/

although there might be some useful tidbits there.

Mateo

12:35 AM

looks like they were in that one file

Seth

12:51 AM

which? the yaml? or the wrapper?

Mateo

wrapper?

> There is nothing too exciting about this file, we set up the fonts path to be inside the snap directory itself (remember snaps are confined) as well as the share folder.

then probably something similar for theme urukrama.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/…

Seth

hmm, ok.

I'll need a way to get the wrapper in.. I'll have to work on this later.

Mateo

1:08 AM

Good luck ;) @Seth

Zacharee1

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sweet dreams

RobotHumans

So, this was an interesting paper

Zacharee1

why?

RobotHumans

@Mateo I can't see getting from that blog post to an actual snap being that hard. Do I need to jump in on the desktop broadcast bash script thingamadoo?

@Seth ^^

Seth

@RobotHumans I'm missing something on that last part there.

RobotHumans

1:15 AM

Your casting app. Do you want help or do you want to figure it out.

Seth

ohhhh. I think I want to figure it out. But I will ping you if I have any questions, how does that sound? :)

RobotHumans

I'm not really good at that... I can sort of make it work - or leave it alone.

Seth

Snaps aren't so hard of themselves, but figuring out how to arrange the yaml file in a way that snapcraft will build is tricky, especially when half the options aren't documented.

@RobotHumans Oh okay then.

well I don't have time to work on it right now anyway.

Friday might be the next real amount of time I have, we'll see. I feel like I'm close though so maybe I can sneak it in.

Zacharee1

@Seth That sounds like Minecraft server plugins

except those actually have an excuse

@Videonauth thanks for sharing BTW :)

Seth

@RobotHumans I'm kinda happy though because I ranted about it on twitter and sabdfl messaged me and basically asked "how can we make it better"

RobotHumans

1:18 AM

@Zacharee1 but Java. so, our bad.

Videonauth

@Zacharee1 uh you left me confused in this moment

Zacharee1

wat @RobotHumans

@Videonauth the email

RobotHumans

it's the minecraft excuse

Videonauth

ah ok yeah :)

RobotHumans

@Seth Well, if you have it debianized, it should be a button to make it a snap. such that the name holds. do you have it debianized?

Zacharee1

1:19 AM

@RobotHumans oh, I was thinking more along the lines of the plugins being developed for free by independent developers in their spare time

@Videonauth (:

(switchin' it up :p)

@ByteCommander that won't be a problem >:D

Videonauth

askubuntu.com/q/780111/522934 anyone here maybe an idea about this question? I'm at a loss.

Zacharee1

@Videonauth commented

Canonical needs to port Ubuntu Touch officially to more devices. As it stands, we currently don't have many experienced users to answer the rising numbers of UT questions.

Videonauth

i mean which file system did i forget to cover ? :)

do the mac users have another filesystem i might not have covered ?

Zacharee1

Well I just think it's a hardware error. Can they not format it (necessary data? error?)

@Videonauth Mac uses HFS+, but I don't think that applies to SD cards

Videonauth

mhmm no not really

as far i found out in the web the cards come as FAT FAT16 or FAT32 and in some cases exfat

RobotHumans

1:28 AM

^^ @Seth - no connective tissues in the logic tree, but it should be obvious

Zacharee1

Mark this question as a dupe of the second thing I linked: askubuntu.com/questions/780134/…

@Videonauth do they need data from it?

Videonauth

yes and he checked the card from the device itself which is an kind of flight recorder for vehicles

and it contains data

Zacharee1

so it's a dashcam card?

Seth

@RobotHumans yeah it's debianized, but that doesn't make it as easy as you think.

RobotHumans

@Seth I didn't say does. I said should.

Seth

1:32 AM

I mean sure, I could just import the deb, but that means I have to make a deb..

Once you get the snap working it should theoretically just be 1 command to update the app later.

RobotHumans

I get that. What I was driving at, is a "snap packaging app" should see the dependency chains, walk them, and put them in the "niggly bits" section. Separate from the app. So, it turns the .deb into a build recipe.

Seth

yeah

Videonauth

@Zacharee1 no dashcam its this one obd2works.com/…

Seth

if the docs were better it probably wouldn't have taken as long to figure out where to put the dependencies.

Zacharee1

@RobotHumans some nice descriptions there

RobotHumans

1:35 AM

It's how I talk.

Zacharee1

@Videonauth oh it's audio?

@RobotHumans I like it :p

Videonauth

no motor data, gravity and so on

a flight recorder

RobotHumans

@Zacharee1 Then, later you get to answer the question "My app doesn't work" with "Check the niggly bits"

Zacharee1

@Videonauth ahh

Videonauth

they are quite useful if you have to prove for insurance that you not have been to fast and so on

Zacharee1

1:37 AM

I thought it was your word-choice :p

Videonauth

@Zacharee1 nope this time no German word craziness

Zacharee1

lol

Henry WH Hack

@Videonauth Your german! :O

Videonauth

yep

RobotHumans

It's not like his login is schadenfreude or anything XD

Zacharee1

1:39 AM

@Videonauth idk, it seems like it should be FAT32

@RobotHumans malicious joy?

RobotHumans

@Zacharee1 The joy derived from the misery of others.

Zacharee1

==malicious joy

RobotHumans

Yes. or ~=

Videonauth

nope my login name is Videonauth ;) and my password well something similar to this

FyU_da\&[HbtqM,EzZ}W<ge:/(n6cO

Henry WH Hack

+50

For using a good password. :)

Videonauth

1:41 AM

and up to that i change all passwords around once a month

Zacharee1

o-o

Henry WH Hack

+50 Again

Zacharee1

@Videonauth LastPass?

Videonauth

nope by hand and having them on an USB stick as txt files, physical disconnection and so on you know

Zacharee1

sheesh

Henry WH Hack

1:43 AM

@Videonauth Do you have an ids or ips?

Videonauth

erm, old school one yes its called log files of everything xD

and fail2ban

spamdyke for filtering emails

Henry WH Hack

I have a utm. :)

Videonauth

and simply disabled scripts everywhere i can

RobotHumans

what, you mean you don't just rely on a lvl 20+ game guide that allows constitution over 25, so you can just have bullet proof skin - sorry combination AD&D joke and movie reference.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body: ./configure doesn't work by Citizen Jonesy on askubuntu.com …

Videonauth

1:47 AM

i know the site im posting now is german but it properly checks passwords for their strength

Zacharee1

@SmokeDetector false alarm

Videonauth

review.datenschutz.ch/passwortcheck/check.php and just to be curious the output for my earlier shown password

Resultat
Das von Ihnen eingegebene Passwort ist stark.
Prüfung an folgenden Bewertungskriterien:
Bewertungskriterien 	Spezifikationen 	Abzüge 	Messwert
Optimale Passwortlänge ist 10 Zeichen 	pro fehlendes Zeichen 	-5 	ok
Fehlende Kleinbuchstaben 	a-z 	-20 	ok
Fehlende Grossbuchstaben 	A-Z 	-20 	ok
Fehlende Interpunktions- und Sonderzeichen 	-+.,;:_#/*%&?${}[]() usw. 	-20 	ok
Fehlende Zahlen 	0-9 	-20 	ok
Leerzeichen, Umlaute oder nicht druckbare Zeichen enthalten 	öäüéàèÖÄÜÉÀÈç usw. 	-20 	ok
identische Zeichen in Folge 	ab dem 3. Zeichen 	-20 	ok

Average time to search 2'116'380'299'638'712'335'337'401'009'699'649'293'711'437 years with 2'000'000'000 tests/Sec

RobotHumans

I wonder how much strength is in fact added by breaking string parsers by including list or function delimiters to a passowrd. It seems like it should cause a lot of problems for sloppy code.

Videonauth

@RobotHumans thats the problem with all encryption implementations in fact same applies for passwords, if the algorythm is holed like a swiss chees theres no security

and then comes into account he internet itself with vulnerable server systems etc

and even a hashed pw can be broken with rainbow tables meanwhile

does a salt come into this it makes it more difficult

RobotHumans

Simple is fine. Strength is length. Has been my tenet for a long time.

Videonauth

1:54 AM

but only way to be secure is really regularly changing them even if they are strong

and all of that is in the end bound to the amount of entropy the rng produces

and i dont believe that many people have a true rng generator with ceasium in it

RobotHumans

Eh, nap. B(ack)W(hen)S(omething)W(orks)... BWSW

Mateo

@RobotHumans oh lol, name change... just noticed you seemed familiar ;)

Videonauth

3:16 AM

Dupe: askubuntu.com/questions/780169/cant-remove

jokerdino

@Videonauth are you going to sleep or woke up from one or not going to bother about it?

Videonauth

sleep is for the weak :)

Seth

I guess I'm weak then ;)

Videonauth

for the mere mortals :p

Seth

If I don't get at least 7 hours I can't function.

Videonauth

3:18 AM

well i most of the time dont sleep i only lay on my bed and try to rest somehow

@Seth without medication impossible for me

Seth

:(

That shouldn't be a thing.

Ugh. I feel so sick now. I had to finish homework and I didn't eat dinner. 3 hours later...

Edity

:( me too ^

but a diffrent way D:

Videonauth

ouch what a great answer .... askubuntu.com/a/780174/522934

Edity

ouch indeed

@Videonauth now he called you a asshole

Videonauth

and i guees a joker or a old qegyptian god swinged a hammer

Edity

3:25 AM

or a tea-rex ^

Videonauth

alone to advise rm -rf in that case is potentionally dangerous

then not escaping the tilde

this way the user could have ended up with an empty /root directory

Edity

yup

Note to self: don't attempt to login as root as it triggered my low graphics problem

Videonauth

you should fix this

Edity

i did

Videonauth

not avoiding the problem

just sad i cant see deleted posts yet

Edity

3:29 AM

by "foxing" the boot files

then deleting ubuntu

and upgrading Ubuntu

Videonauth

how much rep is needed for that? @Seth

Edity

probs the thousands?

Seth

@Videonauth wow that was stupid.. that would have deleted the user's home folder -.-

Edity

LOL

Seth

@Videonauth for what?

Videonauth

3:31 AM

yeah and he called me something after i dowvoted him

jokerdino

@Videonauth 10k

Videonauth

to see deleted posts

ah ok not so far then ;)

Edity

(removed)

Seth

@Videonauth ah, yes. 10k.

jokerdino

I saw it. Stop reposting them.

Videonauth

3:31 AM

@Edity please remove it

Edity

i am eating something in black and white

Videonauth

@Seth yep i saw that diirectly, this i did DV him and commented

Seth

@Videonauth +1 for renaming it before deleting it. That lowers the chances of an accident happening by quite a lot.

Videonauth

yeah that is how i would approach it

this way nothing is lost, just in case

Edity

@Videonauth +1 for me too

Videonauth

3:35 AM

i was knowing there was an question like that before, but hell ever tried to search the site for ~

you get everything just ot what you search

took me a while to mark this one as dupe

jokerdino

search for tilde lol

Videonauth

yeah now i know i favorited this one now

Edity

now some ice-cream

Videonauth

I should ask a question today as well

Edity

?

Videonauth

3:39 AM

im still struggling to get my grpahics tablet to work (wacom cintiq 12wx monitor wise)

Edity

o

why don't I make a chat room

@HenryWHHack welcome

Marc.2377

Hey guys, good evening. Would this be an appropriate place to ask a quick, informal question about Arch Linux?

Edity

Normally: General discussion around Ask Ubuntu, Ubuntu & official Ubuntu derivatives. For other Linux distros please see: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat @Marc.2377

Henry WH Hack

@Edity Make the link look good.

Edity

ok

what should I name my chat room

Marc.2377

3:50 AM

Thank you.

Henry WH Hack

@Edity Edity is not a mod!

Edity

?

@HenryWHHack any idea what I should make my chat room name?

Henry WH Hack

yes

edity editor boot.

Edity

description?

Henry WH Hack

That's your choice.

I think a mod may delete your chatroom.

Edity

3:55 AM

ok then I won't make one

Henry WH Hack

I said I think.

Edity

mmm

white toffee

Henry WH Hack

Wait.

Keep me out of this.

Edity

why

(removed)

Henry WH Hack

Did you ask a mod if you can create a chat?

Edity

4:02 AM

nope

Henry WH Hack

I am planning to buy stackexchange.

Edity

O_O

it would stop your money for 30,000,000,000 years

Henry WH Hack

Okay no mods are watching.

I hope.

The reason is if I own SE I will become a super mod and If I become a super mod I will have control of all the mods. >:)

Edity

more like a super user

get my pun?

Henry WH Hack

I hope no mods did not see that.

Edity

4:14 AM

cc ^ @jokerdino @Seth

Seth

guys, really?

Edity

i did no do anything

bai

notice: TMNT out of the shadows releases in cinemas tomorrow

Videonauth

well well well, there am I playing a game for a few minutes and then this :p

Edity

:p

Severus Tux

hello friends :-)

Henry WH Hack

4:23 AM

Hello. :)

Edity

hi

this site is pretty neat: you.dj

Severus Tux

:D I am in my home, bad internet but mother's homemade food :D

Edity

:D

AFK

Henry WH Hack

5:04 AM

SPAM DETECTED AT: askubuntu.com/questions/780194/….

Edity

@HenryWHHack gone

means remove

Henry WH Hack

The mods are doing there jobs. :)

Nathan Osman

It isn't necessarily the moderator's job to remove spam.

It's up to the community to flag it.

Henry WH Hack

So the mods don't remove the spam?

Edity

like stack says: We don't run StackExchange. You do.

Nathan Osman

5:08 AM

@HenryWHHack They can but it isn't their job.

Edity

@HenryWHHack It's the community's job. They don't run this site. We do. We are like a mini admin building up to a big admin

Henry WH Hack

I was brainwashed.

Edity

I was tea-rexed

Videonauth

askubuntu.com/review/late-answers/572194 mhmm what to do with it?

Edity

action required

@Videonauth no action required

Videonauth

5:25 AM

PHEW ..... just acted in time lol accidently started apt-get install gnome

Edity

lol

Videonauth

ctrl+c to the rescue while it only was downloading

Edity

LOL

Videonauth

yeah well thats a close call even if it wants to download 1270 packages, this doesnt take long on my machine

120 Mb/sec

Edity

O_O

my computer 8MB/sec

Videonauth

5:36 AM

3 Gigabyte ? never

Edity

whoops

got that wrong

Videonauth

that not even has an t1 backbone

Edity

@Videonauth computer specs: gamerstorm cpu cooler processor: amd a3 black edition graphics: nvdia geforce i think 320? motherboard: ASUS

Videonauth

5:53 AM

Asus ROG Rampage Formula II Maximus, Intel core2quad q9550 [@ 3 GHz OC], 8 GB DDR 3, Nvidia Gforce GTX 750 Ti (PCIe, 4GB DDR5), Nvidia Gforce GT 610 (PCI, 512 MB DDR5), 10 x 3 TB HDD Seagate Baracuda (5200 RPM server model), 2 x 128 GB SSD A-Data Premier 900 series

Edity

O_O

i have a intel i? cpu laying somewhere

Videonauth

well i have this computer now since around 2006

Edity

O_0

mine was custom-built

Journeyman Geek

that's pretty old

but those upgrades make it pretty useful still

wait

Videonauth

yeah but what shall i do as a pensioneer its not easy to buy new hardware

Journeyman Geek

5:56 AM

10?

Edity

that's why my bios setting is legacy

Videonauth

yep 10 years old and still i can play 99% of all games in max resolution

Edity

if my cpu fails i can replace with a i7 prosessor

Journeyman Geek

Core i7 3770, 980TI, pair of 4k monitors, and a 256gb samsung 850

Edity

@JourneymanGeek Samsung SUHD moniter

Videonauth

5:58 AM

i only can dream of, actually i not have enough each months to save something up for a new system

Edity

(or tv)

Journeyman Geek

dell p2715q and a crossover 289K

@Videonauth my previous computer was dumpster dived

Edity

r.i.p ^

Journeyman Geek

naw, gave it to a friend

Edity

:D

@JourneymanGeek arnt you a upcycler.

Videonauth

6:04 AM

@Edity well, THAT is liquid cooling at its finest

Edity

lol

Liquid Nitrogen may be used for cooling an overclocked system, when an extreme measure of cooling is needed.

Videonauth

I actually saw a video of that experiment on youtube

Edity

O_O

link?

Videonauth

oh let me find it, it is long time past

Edity

o

Journeyman Geek

6:07 AM

Pretty hard to get cooler than that

but its entirely impractical

Edity

@Videonauth TOO much liquid nitrogen results in this:

^

Videonauth

--> 1. youtube.com/watch?v=G5PJ1bhF8TE

--> 2. youtube.com/watch?v=LVBZUcxvrys

Edity

Gameboy Nano - Portable Raspberry Pi Gameboy

►

Videonauth

6:22 AM

make a guess, what was the first gaming hardware running stable at 60 FPS, don't google it

Edity

gameboy?

wii?

Videonauth

the gameboy

Edity

:D

Videonauth

the very first gameboy already was able to support 60 FPS

Edity

lol

the days

Nathan Osman

6:45 AM

No, we don't.

Videonauth

@MuditKapil What brings this question to your mind ?

Edity

@MuditKapil Why do we ever have slaves?

Rinzwind

7:07 AM

ha! master of root :=) askubuntu.com/help/badges/206/root

Edity

or should i say "root access" @Rinzwind

Videonauth

7:52 AM

btw they changed the look of the unity terminal tabs, they are more slim now and they change color depending on which tab is active

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Videonauth

8:52 AM

@JacobVlijm can you point me to some python resources/tutorials where i can get my feet wet by reading?

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9:35 AM

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Q: Installing wpscan and metasploit

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user136984

10:22 AM

Seems a bit quite in here today...

user136984

Anyone about? :)

Videonauth

sure

@JacobVlijm did you see my question?

Jacob Vlijm

@Videonauth I am not sure I am a "standard" example (I didn't have any coding experience at all before I started with python, apart from some applescript and Filemaker Pro "scripting", which is not much more then an if/else sequence). In the first start, I did some extremely simple tutorial on the web, I don't remember what it was.

Then I even bought O'Reily's book, but I can't remember ever reading it. The way I learned most was by writing this one launchpad.net/jonb.homelauncher. Rewriting it currently in a completely different style, but it still works perfectly on 16.04. In other words: the only way to learn for me is to have a goal, and learn on the way. The only way that works for me.

Videonauth

10:39 AM

Well I'm comming from the c++ side so the python sources look very alien to me, guess i have to find at least a basic tut on the syntax to get started

Jacob Vlijm

@Videonauth starting from scratch, my biggest source was SO. But if you know C++, python will be a piece of cake for you!

user136984

Is anyone here running Ubuntu Unity and whiling to test something for me?

Videonauth

@ParanoidPanda What do you need ?

user136984

Try launching xdiagnose through the UI (not Terminal). Let me know what happens.

user136984

It should prompt you for a root password and then launch, but it's not actually doing anything at all over here, so I just need to know if it's a gnome-shell issue or otherwise...

Jacob Vlijm

10:41 AM

@ParanoidPanda acting normal here

user136984

Are you running 16.04?

Videonauth

same here, starts and presents me with the entry screen

Jacob Vlijm

@ParanoidPanda Yes

user136984

Ok, then it's a GNOME issue...

Videonauth

user136984

10:46 AM

@Videonauth: Could you paste the contents of its .desktop file here please? :)

user136984

Just like to make sure that it's the same over here...

Videonauth

sure gimme a sec

user136984

I'm kinda sad now that I put all my spam in my spam box and I barely now get any emails in my inbox at all... :P

Videonauth

[Desktop Entry]
Name=xdiagnose
GenericName=Diagnose Graphics Issues
Comment=X.org Diagnostic and Repair Utility
Exec=pkexec xdiagnose
Icon=/usr/share/xdiagnose/icons/microscope.svg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=System;Settings;
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=xdiagnose

user136984

I used get too many emails, now too few... :(

user136984

10:47 AM

@Videonauth: Yes, seems to be the same as mine.

user136984

Perhaps GNOME just has some issue with pkexec, do you know of any other applications using it to run?

user136984

Well, I guess I could just run a search through the .desktop files...

Videonauth

try runing it with gksudo ?

thats in package gksu

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user136984

Ah, this is new to me, what is bamf-2.index?

user136984

10:50 AM

Also, don't appear to be any other applications using pkexec installed on my system, maybe I should just make one up... :D

user136984

Well, you know, just create my own .desktop file and get it to start something with it...

Videonauth

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Q: What is this file(bamf-2.index)?

I have found out this file while learning about Ubuntu file system today under the location /usr/share/applications/. What actually is the purpose of this file. Googling doesn't pop up anything I was looking for.

filesystem

@ParanoidPanda good canidate for testing is maybe synaptic

grooveplex

I think user Masi is asking WAY too many unclear questions....

Just wasted To let you know

Videonauth

11:06 AM

@grooveplex wel yyou either have two possibilities, accept that anyone can ask as many questions as the system lets him ask, or you talk with him, just ping him hes regularly in here sometimes. Or you flag the questions as unclear and then the review will decide

grooveplex

OK. Thanks.

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user136984

11:38 AM

Why do people want to do such crazy and unnecessary things?

user136984

He likes the number 14.04, so he doesn't want to upgrade that, only everything else... :D

user136984

By the way, when is 16.04.1 getting released?

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Q: VirtualBox Ubuntu on Windows XP host

I am attempting to make some installations on the Ubunto VirtualBox, running in a Windows XP host. The installation seems to work, I can successfully install programs using sudo apt-get install XXX However, when I try to install something like gtest or gflags, I receive message (building dep...

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Rinzwind

@ParanoidPanda when it is released :=D

@ParanoidPanda he wants upstart :P

Helio

I've posted a comment with a possible answer (yes, I know that I should make an answer, but I did not know if the my answer was right). A minute after, two users posted an answer that is very similar to my comment. Should I get anger? Maybe simply ignore it? Maybe these users did that without seeing my comment.

user136984

@Helio: I would at least get grumpy... They probably saw your comment and as you hadn't posted an answer, they decided to. Or maybe they just didn't see your comment... Or perhaps thought of it before they saw your comment and decided it was as much an answer from them as from you... There was a thing on Meta about this sort of thing a while ago, and the general message was that if you didn't post it as an answer and someone stole it from you, it's your fault.

Helio

12:15 PM

@ParanoidPanda: Ok, effectively, is my fault. I'll simply ignore that. Currently the question is well answered.

user136984

In life, sometimes, if you are too cautious then that somebody who isn't will get it.

user136984

You've got to grab the pie while you have the chance! Then you'll find out if it's rotten or not... :P

user136984

Oh dear, it's this play I'm doing... It's starting to get to me... Too many food metaphors! :D

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Q: Transfer control over open bounty to other user (or moderator) because I can't award it

I have two open bounties (question 1 and question 2) which both end in 3 days. However, I can't come online within the next week and none of them has an acceptable answer yet. I don't want these 100 points in total to be wasted though. Can I allow anybody else (either another AU user which I w...

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Helio

:-) I'm not hungry of rep, so I don't care about being the first; but I find irking that new-user behavior (yes, I've been a new user also, but never did that).

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