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Q: We're working on a new stat to help convey the reach of your posts here

@KasiyA Roughly the count of the number of the views on post of yours where you have at least an upvote, plus some other criteria

Seth

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We've got a new statistic on the shiny new Profile Page Prototype. It's not perfect yet. And we did a pretty crap job of explaining what it's all about! Let's talk. What you do here isn't just about solving one person's problem. A while back, a user contacted us about his friend's account. His...

KasiyA

3:03 PM

@Seth Yes exactly.

you are right

Q: How to build .deb files of vim which support both python2 and python3 on Ubuntu14.04?

3:13 PM

@kos I have the solution :)

@kos askubuntu.com/q/612285/367165

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I tried this tutorial but when I ran the command dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc, it failed.... I don't know what's wrong. This is the log: Test results: test87 FAILED TEST FAILURE Makefile:49: recipe for target 'report' failed make[2]: *** [report] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jmjoy/tm...

compiling deb vim

@A.B. Good catch, upvoted :)

:)

thx

how do - how large are peoples / partition and how much is on there? My / is 57.2GB and I have 44GB on it

103G 15G Used 83G Free

@baxx Why is this interesting?

3:30 PM

120GB SSD + 500GB external for storage, 69% and 33%

@baxx it's a SSD

@baxx 60GB HDD. 39G thereof for Ubuntu, 30G thereof full... :P

@A.B. cool, well interest is subjective and all.... I was curious as to how much others stored on there though, 44GB seemed like quite a large root, wasn't sure if something was up with that I guess

@kos so you have everything on / rather than separate /home?

@baxx And a 1,5TB HDD

@ByteCommander that's just your / partition then?

3:33 PM

@baxx for /home

@A.B. cool.

Only my box is old

4GB RAM, Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz × 2

@baxx I only use / and swap, so yes, 39GB is /

@baxx Everything stuffed in it, it's a laptop so I might not have the 500GB external around

@baxx On the main machine also, but it's a 750GB HDD

But a SSD is great. =)

3:43 PM

Yep, about 5 second to boot to Desktop

Yeah SSD would be nice!

I'm just wondering whether my / partition is a bit bloated / abused

with 44GB in it.

Sometimes I would have liked more memory.

@baxx to many kernel? ;)

@A.B. umm no, don't think I've changed kernel since I installed Ubuntu, it's 14.04

Linux geoHP 3.13.0-49-generic

dpkg --list | grep linux-image

@baxx askubuntu.com/a/613363/380067

3:54 PM

@A.B. hmmm paste.ubuntu.com/10879498

@baxx Time to clean up =)

Anybody knows how to convert swf to animated gif?

@A.B. seems so :) I've just found a backup think that was written to /mnt by accident (drive must not have been connected) so I deleted that which freed up 32GB

@kos is that a fairly safe procedure what's listed there?

@ByteCommander stackoverflow.com/questions/9641550/…

@baxx Totally, 1. it removes the dependencies not more needed by any program installed, e.g. if you installed x wich required y and the removed x, it will remove y if not needed. 2. As safe as 1, because it deletes the stored .deb of y 3. This is the last resort, because logs might be useful, but sometimes they take lots of space. Anyway it's safe to delete them, you won't be able to check them afterwards tough

@baxx Also if you fear that 1 might delete something it shouldn't for mistake run sudo apt-get install -f to make sure that you still have everything you need installed

4:05 PM

@A.B. I tried swfextract, but it says the file does not contain pngs.

@kos cheers - apt-get install -f after running these steps?

@ByteCommander I've never done that.

@kos first step was already clean :)

paste.ubuntu.com/10879594

@kos second step took some stuff off though :) cheers

@ByteCommander or this? alternativeto.net/software/qgifer

@A.B. Does not tell at least once that it handles swf.

Q: How do I Increase the memory of Ubuntu text-mode/console-mode?

4:39 PM

Hmmmmm

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First off, I'll preface, with the fact that I do not know if this is necessary or my problem, but I think that it is. The issue I'm having is that I have a program that runs in text-mode but is only using 500kb of memory as opposed to the maximum 64mb that it should be using. This is causing th...

14.10 ram text-mode