Ask Ubuntu General Room

7:00 PM

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I haven't found any solutions for my particular problem yet. My PC got Windows 7 and my ASUS F552E has ubuntu 14.04. I connected the laptop with my graphicscard on my pc to use the laptop as an second monitor . To switch screens I have to press on FN+F8. The outcome is a black screen. The video...

Blatantly OT and the "Whaaaaat!??" factor.

@Seth You should bake us all cookies when we get to 0 close vote reviews.

Seth

@Whaaaaaat lol. Who'd pay for the shipping? ;p

Whaaaaaat

Also, @Seth, how on earth did you place unicode characters in your name? I have tried (and failed) to do hat.

@Seth Everyone who wants a cookie, of course.

Seth

Failed? In what way? I am most certainly not the only person who has done it. I just copy + pasted them from online/in a text editor.

@Whaaaaaat Ah.

Whaaaaaat

I've tried to do the U+200b route.

Seth

Just expand the character in a regular text editor (or use this chat box) and paste it into your name.

Mateo

7:07 PM

U̝̞̯̎ͨn̮͉̪̰̻̔ͫͯ͌̏i̹͑̽̄c̬̠͓̱̓̑̔o̺̻͚͕͇̐̍͑̍̅ͥ͒d̜̹̭͔̖e̖͕̪͇̐ͭͤͦ̀ͧ ̜̦̪̺̯̬̘̌ͣ͑͊ͤ̈́i̼̰̱̼͚s̺̫͗ͣ̆̐ ̤̩̪̤̦͈̬̑̂co̬͍͇̰̩͔̺ͮŏ͇̯ͮ͋ͪ̂l̥͔͓̣͎̉͛ͅ!̯͙͓̈́ͬ̑̚

Seth

testing

what is that character supposed to be?

Whaaaaaat

U+200B - Zero Width Space

‮‮‮‮

Seth

ahhh.

Whaaaaaat

^ Not a newline.

‮U+202E is the RTL control character.

U+FDD0 (﷐) - The Eye of the Basilisk. Not rendered by fonts for safety purposes.

Mateo

I don't think they let the rtl in names, I put zalgo in my name once, but it dosn't work in chrome, so most people saw boxes

Whaaaaaat

7:12 PM

RTL doesn't work in names, nor does 200b.

I don't think any unicode characters work. Only alphanumeric, space, dash, underscores, etc.

Mateo

unless they changed it...

Whaaaaaat

i changed my name 2 days ago.

so I guess they did.

Mateo

oǝʇɐW, here

119 2 14

discussion feature-request chat markdown moderation sandbox spam

Whaaaaaat

In SE it seems to work. Let me test 200b

Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:
Display Name can only contain letters, digits, spaces, apostrophes or hyphens and must start with a letter or digit

200b doesn't like working.

Oh well.

So @Seth, are you gonna bake cookies if we clear the close votes queue?

Seth

@Whaaaaaat Probably not.

Whaaaaaat

7:22 PM

Aww.

Mateo

‽

Whaaaaaat

another thing I hate about being forced to run windows.

the unciode browser SUCKS

Seth

@Whaaaaaat It doesn't run hot enough to bake cookies?

Whaaaaaat

@Seth I did bake cookies on my netbook once. I may have overclocked it a bit too much.

took forever though.

that netbook was dying anyways btw.

Also, what do you guys miss most about old computers?

Mateo

haha, there we go:

o̊ǝʇɐW⃗, here

119 2 14

discussion feature-request chat markdown moderation sandbox spam

Whaaaaaat

7:27 PM

mateo...

you are unicode god.

Lucio

whaaaaat's up

Mateo

@Lucio not much, I added a another feature request to your project

Lucio

Yeah! I labeled it. Thanks! :)

Seth

@Lucio the site blew up, but they fixed that now.

hbdgaf

There's lucio

Mateo

7:37 PM

can't seem to find the labels on the mobile

Seth

@Whaaaaaat Old DOS + Win 95 games I guess.

I dunno, there was something warm about computers back then, besides the fans of course.

Lucio

This post has a dupe, but I can't remember where is it

hbdgaf

@Lucio that's because most of them are closed or deleted ;)

Lucio

yeah

Jorge Castro

vot to close, leave a comment on alternatives.to I guess

Lucio

7:42 PM

but there was one like "List of applications for linux similar than windows" post that was good

Tim

yeah, alternativeto.net

Lucio

xD

hbdgaf

http://askubuntu.com/questions/13266/moving-from-windows-to-ubuntu-what-programs-to-use/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/517279/i-am-looking-to-switch-to-ubuntu
... ad infinitum ad nauseum. just link to http://alternativeto.net/

Lucio

My bro @Mateo, have you been playing with Unity3d?

Mateo

nah, is it fun?

Lucio

7:48 PM

dunno

people says so

hbdgaf

people like it. it can deploy to linux, but the sdk/dev kit is windows/mac only

Lucio

yeah, that sucks

There is something that I'm unsure about 2D games..

do/can they use 3D models?

Mateo

@hbdgaf :( guess I could try it on the mac..

hbdgaf

@Lucio idk if they can, but if they can render an animation for video... it would seem odd that they couldn't render a sprite without using the 3d model anyway...

Lucio

I guess I'll have to create a new account..

hbdgaf

7:52 PM

What? You just mixed up blender and unity3d.

Lucio

yeah :D

@hbdgaf I don't get the idea to use a 3D thing for a 2D thing

hbdgaf

@Lucio You could use a 3d model in a 2d game so you only had to use 2d physics/movement but still use a 3d graphics engine... or you could render 3d models to sprites, and have a sprite based side-scroller with a 2d graphics engine.

Third option, 2d sprite based with 3d physics... e.g. doom/wolfenstein/heretic

Lucio

oh right

in The Renderfarm, 21 secs ago, by stacker

You could use 3D models to render different views of a character and save them as sprites for use in a 2D game

hbdgaf

Wait, didn't I just say that?

6 mins ago, by hbdgaf

@Lucio idk if they can, but if they can render an animation for video... it would seem odd that they couldn't render a sprite without using the 3d model anyway...

Lucio

@hbdgaf exactly!

Ask Ubuntu Meta

7:58 PM

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Q: I have had the same audit 4 times now

I just got the following review for the forth time: MAKE US MODS OR WE WON'T STOP! WE ARE STILL NO SURRENDERED BY YOU, WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP. The Indian Team Hackers ldkcfjih3gw78hNBYUg After audit completed: Could there be something that means you don't get the same audit...

discussion audits

Mateo

well, they did spam the site... so there are plenty of examples to feed into the review...

hbdgaf

If it did random pulls of spam flags, this would come up a lot. Wouldn't it be diabolical if someone was just trying to pollute the audit pool enough that they wouldn't fail audits much?

Whaaaaaat

8:30 PM

@Seth OT as hell, but I miss the very customizable BIOS

hbdgaf

@Seth I haven't had DOSBOX disagree with me on running games that old.

Whaaaaaat

@hbdgaf Sim City 2000

Mateo

not that old...

hbdgaf

@Whaaaaaat $20 bucks I can get it to run...

Whaaaaaat

@hbdgaf I'm sure you can

@hbdgaf I've done it before.

hbdgaf

8:35 PM

back to watching doctor strangelove it is then.

Whaaaaaat

+1 good sir

Lucio

O.o

Whaaaaaat

I'll just sit here for 3 more hours until I get my edit queue permissions back.

Mateo

@Lucio not what you are thinking, it's a good movie

Lucio

heh, kk

Mateo

8:37 PM

imdb.com/title/tt0057012

aw, no imdb one box?

Lucio

64' wow

Whaaaaaat

no imdb onebox.

I still want a launchpad bug onebox.

hbdgaf

I sort of want to understand the reference to this: youtube.com/watch?v=wcW_Ygs6hm0 and I've never watched it end to end...

@Whaaaaaat it's a thing

Whaaaaaat

Not in questions...

kernel module (sony-laptop)

"Laptop Keyboard Backlight not turning off" I had a problem with keyboard backlight that I asked in askUbuntu.com (here http://askubuntu.com/questions/475711/turn-off-keyboard-back-light-sony-vaio-svf1521dcxw) and also I have followed in chat with @Mew (here http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/16735) and We tried all solution to fixing my issue and we can not fix that. I found some patch (http://www.absence.it/vaio-acpi/source/patches/) for fixing this problem but then I need to create a custom kernel for myself and it's so hard for me. --- ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: kasiya 1906 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: Unity DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-27 (60 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) MachineType: Sony Corporation SVF1521DCXW NonfreeKernelModules: wl Package: linu…

linux (Ubuntu)

Medium / Incomplete

Lucio

@hbdgaf you can't stop thinking about it :P

hbdgaf

8:38 PM

openldap upgrade fails. chwon of olcDbDirectory, /var/lib/ldap not empty and missing backup of suffix

Upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS to 14.04.1 LTS (slapd-2.4.28-1.1ubuntu4.4 to slapd-2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8), it fails horribly on my setup with one disk-backend and one ldap-backend (sync to another server). First, dump_databases in /var/lib/dpkg/info/slapd.{config,preinst,postinst} fails due to get_directory returning "olcDbDirectory" instead of /var/lib/ldap. This is caused by a missing -h to grep, causing another : in the returned line, thus causing the '| cut -d: -f 2' to get the wrong part of the line. This causes both the backup of the suffix to fail, and later the chown after restore to fail. grep "olcDbDirectory:" `grep -l "olcSuffix: ... should have been grep -h "olcDbDirectory:" `grep -l "olcSuffix: ... later, get_suffix causes the same suffix to be reported twice, thus causing database load to fail on the second round of the while since /var/lib/ldap is already loaded with the correct files, but is expected to be empty. I fixed it with a '| sort -u' in get_s…

openldap (Ubuntu)

Undecided / In Progress

Whaaaaaat

wow.

hbdgaf

told you so...

Whaaaaaat

Can we have that in Questions please?

Just with a shorter description.

Mateo

@hbdgaf best scene ever

Whaaaaaat

Agreed

We should have hats now.

I want hats.

Lucio

8:40 PM

you need one

Whaaaaaat

           /`_>
          / /
          |/
      ____|    __
     |    \.-``  )
     |---``\  _.'
  .-`'---``_.'
 (__...--``        <-- HAT

Lucio

Now that's so much better

hbdgaf

thinks about changing his gravatar to

Whaaaaaat

should've seen that coming.

Lucio

@hbdgaf Oh, you had it secretly stored ;)

Whaaaaaat

8:45 PM

/me goes back to trying to repwhore for 3k rep

hbdgaf

@Lucio no, i'm just a google images ninja

Lucio

he you are xD

Whaaaaaat

we should be able to transfer rep from one site to another.

Mateo

@hbdgaf youtube.com/watch?v=DUAK7t3Lf8s&t=3m16s

Lucio

@Whaaaaaat no we don't

hbdgaf

8:48 PM

@Mateo hah. I am still watching, I can just multitask.

Whaaaaaat

We should be able too.

Lucio

nah

hbdgaf

in fact, i have trouble NOT multi-tasking... so. it's a little problematic sometimes.

Whaaaaaat

Yes. I could get to 10k soon

Lucio

@hbdgaf how are those waffles?

hbdgaf

8:51 PM

@Lucio relevance? i did work at a waffle-house once, but i haven't worked there for years. if that's the reference, then yes. short order cooks multitask constantly.

Whaaaaaat

Waffles?

Lucio

You have to think about all the things in the same time. Good cooking people issue

hbdgaf

Yeah, our store wouldn't replace the mechanical ding timers and half of them didn't ding. So you had to depend on smell for some things being done, hearing bacon stop sizzling to tell you it was done, and not losing attention on what you had in your hands. So yeah, I get the reference.

Whaaaaaat

I set all the mechanical ding timers in Target to go off in 30 second intervals once.

hbdgaf

I officially hate you right now... I work retail.

Whaaaaaat

8:55 PM

:D

Lucio

@hbdgaf the noises are critical, mind consuming like nothing else

Whaaaaaat

And that is why I wear noise-cancelling headphones.

No noises for me :D

Lucio

@Whaaaaaat only big trucks behind your bicycle :D

hbdgaf

@Lucio They're just easier not to ignore, because you're conditioned to respond to them. Smells, visual cues, etc are less used as interruptors in most people's lives... so it's easier for them to slip.

Whaaaaaat

@Lucio Bose.

Also, @hbdgaf, Target hates me. I used their baby shower kiosks to watch YouTube once.

hbdgaf

8:58 PM

@Whaaaaaat That's why Walmart doesn't have an internet connection. Their whole shebang is on a pseudo-private satellite network.

Whaaaaaat

what? really?

WHY THE HELL WOULD WALMART HAVE SATELLITES?

hbdgaf

Also means the Windows instance on my paint shaker thinks it's a counterfeit, since I can't activate it.

@Whaaaaaat Yes, really.

Mateo

@Whaaaaaat why not?

Whaaaaaat

Paint shakers use WINDOWS?

Where should I ship your complementary Ubuntu disc?

hbdgaf

Yes. Mine actually thinks it's at Home Depot...

Whaaaaaat

9:00 PM

You little pirate you.

Mateo

@Whaaaaaat already sent him one ;) @hbdgaf put a disk in with the other thing i sent you

Whaaaaaat

Also, there is a law saying pirated photoshop does not count as piracy.

oh crap, we attracted Rinzwind.

hbdgaf

I like @Rinz just fine.

Thomas W.

@Mateo got the switch, thanks.

Rinzwind

yo

Mateo

9:01 PM

@Whaaaaaat was that because of their "accidental" give away of cs2?

hbdgaf

@Mateo Heh. I already have discs of that stuff... but at least it will have a logo on it I suppose.

Mateo

@ThomasW. cool, that was fast, will it work for what you wanted?

Thomas W.

and just in time because I ran out of ports on my newly-obtained-and-configured managed switch for my wifi VLAN xD

Whaaaaaat

@Mateo No. Every senator has pirated photoshop.

Thomas W.

@Mateo absolutely!

Lucio

9:02 PM

@Whaaaaaat what does that means?

Whaaaaaat

@Lucio Bose headphones. Can't hear NOTHING.

Thomas W.

@Mateo i got a cheap managed switch but I need two wifi networks on it (and am out of ports on the managed switch), so this definitely helps! Thanks!

having said this...

i'm pulling at least 20 watts with JUST this networking equipment

Lucio

Oh, I didn't said you were going to hear the truck ;)

Thomas W.

doesn't seem like much but over time... o.o

(and once my ESXi server is on 24/7... :P)

Whaaaaaat

about to say, that's not much

Thomas W.

9:03 PM

mhm

for NOW it's not much

but once that ESXi server is on totally

(it's not on 24/7 right now because reasons)

Whaaaaaat

Utilities-Paid apartments RULE. Server racks, ASIC miners, i'm pulling a LOT of power.

hbdgaf

@ThomasW. You could always run a dynamips virtual rack with a pantload of USB adapters...

Thomas W.

@Whaaaaaat yeah the apartments cover the utility bills

Whaaaaaat

just had to get a good ISP.

Thomas W.

@Whaaaaaat i have this old Gateway i'm converting to ESXi, and my 5U ESXi server in Pittsburgh is being brought out here next month

Mateo

9:05 PM

@hbdgaf well I had a bunch, and sorry @ThomasW. your box was too small to put a ubuntu disk in :(

Thomas W.

@Mateo dude i have ISOs for each version since 9.04 :P

and a spindle of a thousand CDs and five hundred DVDs

i'm set for life :P

now i just need to continue locking down the firewall rulesets for my VLANs

Whaaaaaat

I hate these linux questions that have no information

Thomas W.

@Whaaaaaat so request informatoin :)

Whaaaaaat

I do.

Thomas W.

@Mateo you know what sucks though...?

hbdgaf

9:06 PM

I need to get a beaglebone black. Evidently you could make a goodfet out of it without any soldering according to a talk I watched recently... That could be an interesting Monster fueled weekend

Thomas W.

I don't have a large enough power strip to add the extra switch xD

Whaaaaaat

I also hate 1rep users who get an answer, NEVER MARK IT, and just leave.

Thomas W.

guess i'll need a new one

Whaaaaaat

@ThomasW. 3-way splitters. Fire is a theory.

Mateo

@ThomasW. ah, yeah.. another black box adapter...

hbdgaf

9:07 PM

@Whaaaaaat I hate everyone indiscriminately... This way, when they give me a reason, I'm already keyed up ;)

Thomas W.

i just need one power strip for the other BackUPS battery backup circuit port

i have one on the Surge PRotect Only one, but my network equipment, that's gotta stay up

Lucio

@Whaaaaaat post it here so we can upvote

Whaaaaaat

Flood incoming

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A: Will the mobile network connection work on the Nexus 7?

Currently it looks like that version is not supported: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArLs7UPtu-hJdDZDNWliMmV1YUJ3Zk1pQlpDdGp4VFE#gid=0 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices You can probably build it yourself, but that is a lot of effort. Always check the Wiki!!

Thomas W.

configuring VLANs was a poain though o.o

DHCP reservations break things o.o

Whaaaaaat

0

A: Gaming on Ubuntu - how and why?

Wine or CrossOver. You will loose SO MUCH performance with VMs. Try: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/ (I am not affiliated with them) or: sudo apt-get install wine

Rinzwind

9:11 PM

@Whaaaaaat I disagree :=) steam ftw

Whaaaaaat

for windows games.

Steam is freakin sweet though.

0

A: Stop process on power button press

Java is auto-killed by using a reboot function. There is no need to run stop. All that command does is tell Java to gracefully (not forced) exit. When the server detects the graceful stop request, it kicks all users and ends the session. When you press the power button, all processes are at fir...

hbdgaf

@Whaaaaaat I added to your answer before I upvoted...

Whaaaaaat

If you serial upvote me, I will kill you all. (joking, put down the phone)

Lucio

@Whaaaaaat why didn't you upvoted the other answer there?

JTBA

Look at me! Creating new English words that not even english people understand :)

Whaaaaaat

@Lucio Reasoning being that the /sbin/stop command does not pass the stop command to the MC server.

Lucio

9:14 PM

add it as a comment! :-)

you will bring activity to the post

Whaaaaaat

done.

wow. i answer TONS of dupe questions

0

A: how to install a tarball into ubuntu 13.10

It is actually pretty simple. All you need to do is run: ./run.sh or sudo ./run.sh The computer will tell you which one to use. Just run the first one and it will give you a message like "You need Root Permissions", then run the sudo one.

^ i think that guy died.

hbdgaf

that will go away with time... i should update my dupe script.

Whaaaaaat

wait, you know when a question is dupe?

GIVE ME THAT SCRIPT. I NEED IT

Lucio

If an answer helped, mark it as accepted. — Whaaaaaat Jan 27 at 6:33

yeah, sure..

Whaaaaaat

yes?

Lucio

9:17 PM

btw, that one is dupe too

hbdgaf

@Whaaaaaat it's on meta, but someone said it might not work any more...

Whaaaaaat

0

A: Can`t reboot sometimes (Ubuntu 13.10, AMD driver 13.10)

It sounds like ACPI. Try this: Type in terminal: sudo su cp /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.old gedit /etc/default/grub Find the line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" Change this to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=force" Save the file and close the file. Finally, ...

link plzzy?

hbdgaf

here is the same thing on stackapps stackapps.com/questions/3467/…

Lucio

data.stackexchange.com

play with that

Whaaaaaat

0

A: What Does Installing Ubuntu "Alongside" Windows Entail?

This is called WUBI. Wubi creates a virtual ubuntu inside Windows. Imagine it as a virtual machine you need to reboot into. You can still boot to both from the Windows Boot Manager, but there is no second partition. About the corruption, run a CHKDSK from windows (google how). Then, go into your ...

Lucio

9:19 PM

@hbdgaf wait, that is Q&A in same place :O

hbdgaf

my thing wasn't for to the day stuff. it was for "canonical dupes". like "find the dupe that the community decided everything points to"

Whaaaaaat

oooh raw data :D

hbdgaf

@Lucio that is where people put app notices for things that are usable against(and by against, i mean using) the stack network.

Lucio

BTW, you have a lot of those kind of answers @Whaaaaaat

Whaaaaaat

0

A: how to set proxy setting in ubuntu 13.10?

The specific proxy, there are many. Personally, I would recommend Tor for firewall jumping https://www.torproject.org/ https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en Download the proper version that suits you (32bit or 64bit). I recommend using this link first. Enjoy proxyjumping!

hbdgaf

9:20 PM

@Lucio who me?

Lucio

sorry, no

Whaaaaaat

@Lucio wut?

Lucio

I think you always kill the OP after answer >.<

Whaaaaaat

Maybe, maybe not...

There are DEFINITELY not dead bodies under my floorboards.

0

A: Download apps in ubuntu software centre

I assume your problem is that you THINK your computer has no password, while it really does. There is (fortunately) a simple way to test. Open a commandline by doing Ctrl+Alt+T Type sudo -s and hit ENTER If it doesn't ask you for a password, set one. More info below. If it DOES ask you for a pa...

Lucio

some of them should be closed as OT due EOL

Whaaaaaat

9:22 PM

0

A: BOOTMGR missing after installation of Boot-repair: Ubuntu 14.04 onpre-existing Windows 7

Semi-easy (I think) Grab your Windows 7 Install Disc and repair the Windows install. It will automatically recreate the boot table. Grab your Ubuntu Install Disc and open a commandline. In that, type sudo grub-install /dev/sda. Boot into Ubuntu and open up a commandline. Run sudo update-grub

@Lucio Yah. Do I lose rep when that happens?

Lucio

holy cow, you keep flooding

@Whaaaaaat nop

hbdgaf

select from questions where unresolved == true order by date reversed is probably what causes this...

Whaaaaaat

agreed.

hbdgaf

there should be a feed called "needs_the_hammer.rss" that holds these posts.

@Whaaaaaat not your answers, the questions.

Whaaaaaat

yeah.

these never solved questions

Lucio

9:26 PM

0

Q: How to set proxy settings to view YouTube from China in Ubuntu?

I am new for Ubuntu OS, now I am in China. I cannot open YouTube so I want to know which proxy setting will allow to view YouTube videos?

proxy

Whaaaaaat

0

A: Can bootchart be configured to save only current log?

You could probably set a cron script to do that. I assume (in this answer) the files are named bootchart.log.1 and so on. Run crontab -e as the root user, select your editor and add into the end of the file: @reboot /bin/sleep 60 && /bin/rm /var/log/bootchart/bootchart.log.* Let's break it do...

Lucio

I was about to add the china tag :P

hbdgaf

there's a set of scripts that comes out during site cleanup for it, but it could be a feed all the time. it could show up right next to the queues with the right userscript.

Lucio

Chinese people will hate me (at least gov people)

hbdgaf

speaking of china: norse-corp.com/blog-thursday-140828.html

Whaaaaaat

9:28 PM

@Lucio Don't worry. They hate me. They actually hacked me to try to take down the hosting company I was with.

hbdgaf

the only people that hack me are my meat-space-vulns for the lulz

Whaaaaaat

the only people that hack me now are nobody because my server is unplugged from teh intervebz

hbdgaf

and the NSA because you have a router at home ;)

Lucio

@hbdgaf spoke the bsd guy

Whaaaaaat

yah no.

DD-WRT.

hbdgaf

9:30 PM

@Whaaaaaat DD-WRT has had some lulz around them sometimes. mostly csrfs

Whaaaaaat

True.

Fortunately, I have a firewall.

wow my pandora channel has become crap.

Lucio

later

lulz

Whaaaaaat

cya

fun thing to try: give a n00b the forkbomb command.

hbdgaf

@Whaaaaaat forkbombs are blocked in ubuntu main... just an fyi.

Whaaaaaat

@hbdgaf FINALLY

hbdgaf

9:35 PM

Has been that way for years.

idk if arch is still vulnerable, but i want to make an infographic containing something like "my arch box fell for a forkbomb, but my ubuntu server instance is still running fine" just to stick it to some "noobuntu" haters

Whaaaaaat

First Law of Buttons And Lights:

* A person's apparent intelligence is exponentially related to the number of buttons, dials, and blinking lights on a device.*

Exception to the first law:

*If the number of lights are between 786,432 to 1,310,720 and there are around 105 keys, the user's apparent intelligence drops quickly. It drops even faster if there is an Apple logo on the device. Linux users are exempt from this exception*

ubuntu has its problems though. cough Amazon Integration cough

hbdgaf

we'll see. they're pushing for openstack convergence, which should fix all aws issues.

Whaaaaaat

Still. I do not like that Amazon can learn what I search with my dash.

Even though that explains the spam I am getting.

hbdgaf

Oh, that. I'm not hitting that conversation.

Whaaaaaat

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ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.**

hbdgaf

9:41 PM

And I don't use the dash ;)

Whaaaaaat

I use KDE.

BLINKENLIGHTS

hbdgaf

XFCE here... I like Qt, but I started with Gtk. So, it's resistance to change.

Whaaaaaat

I actually really want a PDP\11 just to play with switches

does anyone here have Cortana on a windows phone already?

hbdgaf

I think I did the right thing here... but, it seems a little precarious plus.google.com/u/0/+JorgeCastro/posts/5LmUYnx6zuu

Whaaaaaat

10:01 PM

Someone should build a HAL-9000 cortana.

hbdgaf

No, someone should build a platform agnostic cortana/siri using an open back-end.

Whaaaaaat

Someone should make Siri good.

hbdgaf

If all you want is a cortana that sounds like HAL, for equal impact, you could try this voice robot on : voiceforge.com/demo

@Whaaaaaat they already bought that company, they're not paying for it twice... so the onus is on the company they bought

until they fire them all at least, then it's a new thing

Whaaaaaat

I guess Apple still can't code.

Also, nobody is getting the Reversal badge.

hbdgaf

i've said that very thing before

@Whaaaaaat apple can code a little, they just can't think. the problem is creative people don't usually code conventionally, and really good coders have problems with things that break pattern a lot. so the magic people are very rare and often not appreciated at all.

Whaaaaaat

10:09 PM

Meh. And then there are the people who STEAL YOUR DAMN IDEAS (ﾉಥ益ಥ）ﾉ ┻━┻

hbdgaf

sure, that happens. just ride the wave i guess. there's also independent discovery... and nobody can really prove which one it is. years late independent discovery should be fine too. as long as it fixes something.

everyone also has a breaking point though.

Whaaaaaat

We should retire the Reversal badge.

hbdgaf

someone could get it, but they would lone wolf mcquaid it for a long time.

Whaaaaaat

Quick, get out the sockpuppets! Ima try!

hbdgaf

i have sockpuppets, but i don't use them for things like that. it's why i'm not banned.

Whaaaaaat

10:13 PM

it was a joke.

hbdgaf

i wasn't being angry... why is it that people take me way too seriously when i'm not and way not seriously enough when i am... >.>

Whaaaaaat

Because potatoes.

hbdgaf

Despite being a nonsensical answer, it's the most logical answer I've ever gotten ;)

off for a bit...

Alaa Ali

10:58 PM

@EliahKagan missed that "if exist" =).

I suppose replacing && with ; would fix the issue, but that could lead to the second command executing before the first is done right?

Chan-Ho Suh

11:11 PM

wasn't following along, so maybe I'm missing the context, but talking about whether Apple has good coders is missing the point. Producing good code is only very, very partially about having good coders. Good management and organization is most of it.

Eliah Kagan

@AlaaAli ; would not lead to the second (right hand) command starting before the first (left hand) command finishes. That is, ; doesn't cause asynchronous execution: in foo; qux, foo always returns before qux is executed. Once an expression containing ; runs, it's equivalent to an expression with a newline in place of ;. (Of course, pressing ; doesn't immediately cause the shell to run stuff but pressing Enter usually does, so that distinguishes ; and a newline.)

Mateo

been a while @Chan-HoSuh good to see you around

Eliah Kagan

@AlaaAli If it were desired to execute qux before foo returned, you could use foo& qux instead of foo; qux. (afk, bb soon)

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Q: The "recovery" tag

Just now, I saw recovery. I'm not sure what to do about it, but it seems it needs to go, because it isn't specific enough. File recovery? Recovering a system to a usable state? The tag has a variety of questions in it. Perhaps it should be blacklisted and it be recommended that more specific tags...

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Chan-Ho Suh

@Mateo nice to see some of the same folk around here. Mainly I've been busy but I also have not touched Ubuntu for a long time

just installed Ubuntu yesterday... last version was 12.04

Alaa Ali

11:33 PM

@EliahKagan alright cool! Thanks.

Mateo

11:49 PM

@Chan-HoSuh oh yeah, I used 12.04 for the longest, just updated my main rig to 14 didn't use much in between

Chan-Ho Suh

I installed 13.10... playing it a bit safer :p

oh, also that's the last version I know will work well with firm's remote RDP setup

disappointing to see Unity still features those things like that vanishing scrollbar...

Mateo

Haha, well I kinda like the overlay scroll. But they did add integrated menus this time around

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Q: I can't get questions answered half the time because people come along and flag as duplicate or otherwise edit my questions

Anyone else have this problem? I keep running into people coming along and editing my questions so they're incomprehensible. Or worse, they flag them as duplicates when they're clearly not. Is there any way to dispute peoples retarded edits/flaggings?

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