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2:31 AM

@Ravan morning.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman morning? where be you?

yay

upgrading graphics drivers fixed my issues \o/

4:33 AM

@Zacharee1 It's not morning here.

I was just greeting @Ravan the same way he greeted me.

Also... how is this still around?

5:50 AM

@Fabby Ping me when you're here, or directly send me your qtox to my email, which you should have. I went through a system reinstallation and didn't backup anything :|

Q: Leaving a comment after downvoting a post (except spam) should be mandatory

6:29 AM

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Sometimes a down-vote may hurt ,sometimes not.I appreciate it very much when there is an explanation (my opinion). Generally a post is downvoted when there is any technical(conceptual) error or which can't be flagged as low quality or as not an answer or may be any other reason. At the same tim...

discussion feature-request

6:50 AM

If you ever fall in love with someone who's also into linux and stuff , make them run this: printf "\111\011\114\117\126\105\011\131\117\125"

7:41 AM

Sure is quiet here - even for a Friday night.

@kos :D

Sending...

SmokeDetector

7:58 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Believe that it’s going to matter and by Bricali on askubuntu.com

@Fabby I'm answering your comment to my Meta post there, because I really don't feel like exposing the discussion, i fear it might take over the topic

@kos tox?

@Fabby I don't know what's wrong. Whenever I put your full tox ID into the field it gets fully pasted, but as I confirm the ID is shortened and obviously won't work. I'm sending you mine, mind to add me instead?

You're sill in mine...

@kos Sorry, sound was really low... I missed your request...

@Fabby Yes but I formatted my old installation, so I have a new one

8:07 AM

I accepted and sent you a test now

and removed the old one

8:19 AM

@kos one last thing: askubuntu.com/questions/569679/…

Bye!

@Fabby Hah, I guess that's fair!

Ravan

@Fabby o/

@kos o/

8:42 AM

Morning all

@Serg I'll reply here since I don't really want to expose that discussion, which is a mere argument. I don't even want to make a case about that user, the fact that I disagree with him doesn't entitle me to do that at all. IMO that's just a nonsense but since there seems to be agreement I think it's worth to set the thing straight (again).

@Ravan o/

@A.B. o/

Fabby is gone?

9:20 AM

Hi! Anybody is/was working as IT consultant? Vulnerability assessment and all such things? Is only for a work unrelated question. Better if private.

Good Morning ! :)

@cl-netbox: Hi!

@A.B. Good Morning my friend - Fabby visits his cousin. :)

@cl-netbox o/ =)

@Helio Good Morning to you ! :)

Bùi Thanh Hải

9:24 AM

Hello everyone,

@kos: Is a memory fault or I heard that you are IT consultant? I don't know.

Bùi Thanh Hải

Please help me. My intel nuc runs into a problem that says Fast TSC calibration failed

What can I do?

@Helio No, not at all :D I had troubles with an hacked website once and I discussed it here, but I'm definetly not a consultant

@kos: My only trouble is of ethics also. Could I talk in a private room or something?

@kos: Niw I'm busy. See you later.

9:43 AM

@Helio I don't think I'm qualified to answer, i'm not an IT expert. If you want a mere advice of a technology enthusiast which had fiddled with some websites sure, no problem, but I don't think it will be particularily helpful. If you want feel free to take a room, ping me and I'll try to help

Looks like some people are recovering from friday night.

Q: Why did not I get a half-bounty?

10:13 AM

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This question had a bounty. The grace period expired and the bounty disappeared. I have a +4 answer there and as far as I know I was supposed to get a half-bounty. This is not a rant. I know this answer is not worth it, but I am just curious.

support

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: The Bond Between Food And Concentration by user459690 on askubuntu.com

@SmokeDetector Spam askubuntu.com/q/683736/367165

Q: Ubuntu 15.04 with Firewalld not allowing Thunderbird client

11:01 AM

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Following this brief tutorial here I installed the firewall on my server and I can no longer access email on the server via IMAP (Thunderbird client) email is being delivered to the server though and I can send email out from the server via console. Im new to this so dont know whare to begin to ...

ubuntu firewalld

@terdon I have to ban stackexchange =) askubuntu.com/a/683639/367165

SmokeDetector

11:38 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected in title: Microsoft Outlook Help 1-844-815-2122 by Audrey Fukao on askubuntu.com

Will this spam wave ever end by the way?

@kos Bad guys overall

@A.B. Yep. It's helping me getting my Marshal badge though :)

12:10 PM

@A.B. Yeah, that was probably a bad example. I changed it to 100.

user136984

1:37 PM

\o

user136984

@A.B.: Do you have any idea about this by the way? :)

@ParanoidPanda - It was probably during a "site cleanup". We used to have these things where everyone went around and answered all the questions they could, and we voted to resolve answers that were good enough to get our unanswered count down. If a question was stale, low vote, and the OP didn't respond to a comment - closed as too localized. So, it was probably during one of those sessions.

2:11 PM

Hi!

o/

@ParanoidPanda Not right away.

user136984

Ok, will you at some point? :)

@ParanoidPanda hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Q: Linux - Log What Username and Password Was Tried

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I'm using Ubuntu Server and I'm curious if there's anyway to log what username and password a potential attacker has tried. I can grep the /var/log/auth.log and see all the failed attempts but I'd like to see what username and passwords they are trying.

linux ubuntu ssh security

2:52 PM

@hbdgaf they fixed this a while ago, as the flags are cleared you get them added back to your quota.

@Seth - good to know. How long ago was it fixed, if you are allowed to tell me.

@hbdgaf I'm not sure on an exact date.. but before I became a moderator anyway.

Putting that data out publicly might help with the spam problem too. It would be a lot like saying "Waves don't work any more. Sorry :)"

user136984

I am glad that the spam situation has quietened down bit, well, actually, completely! :D

I'm not asking you to tell me. I'm saying that if it came out on the SE blog, we could drop comments during waves that link to the blog. Eventually they'ld get the idea.

user136984

2:58 PM

@Seth: At what level of rep is one able to see and vote to delete posts flagged as spam or offensive? Or do only moderators get that queue?

@ParanoidPanda The last one, there was an eye of the storm. I'm not yet convinced this one is over yet.

user136984

@hbdgaf: But it's not like they could even really make money out of it... They were just causing the site grief... But why?

@ParanoidPanda 20k users can vote to delete answers scored -1 or lower. 10k users can vote to delete closed posts. Spam/offensive flags are a delete vote in their own right however, 6 of them on 1 post will have community delete it.

@ParanoidPanda They might be stupid and think they can make money at it.

@Seth ik. The reviews say that the trackpad is utter crap and the display is really not that good

@NathanOsman Acer

3:02 PM

@RPiAwesomeness well there's always a compromise somewhere.. :/

@Seth Yeah

I'm trying to decide if it's worth it or not

I don't care so much about the display, but having to use a USB mouse all the time wouldn't be the greatest

If I'm a little loopy, I've worked 16+ of the last 29 hours. So, I'm a little tired.

I think I may just wait and see if I see a better deal in the future, when I buy my next laptop it probably needs to last me through the next 5 years or so

@ParanoidPanda No it hasn't subsided completely! You're still posting in the chat! :D

@Fabby I'm not sure I know what you mean, but I know I missed a joke.

3:08 PM

@hbdgaf I meant: @ParanoidPanda's blabbering here in the chat room is like SPAM to me... (and that's why I added the :D because that is his answer to me needling him a bit in about 95% of cases .)

So, I should ignore chat for a while or it's actually a problem with the panda?

@hbdgaf Hmmm, I seem to not be clear today... Yes! @ParanoidPanda is the problem!

;-)

Thanks for that. I had him on ignore until the spam wave I think.

(remember yesterday: when he left the room, the spam wave hit. When he came back, it subsided... Ergo, he's the spammer!) ;-)

@hbdgaf :D

user136984

@hbdgaf: What? You had me ignore?! :P :D

3:19 PM

I have plenty of people on ignore. Don't feel special. It's part of how I am.

@hbdgaf when I remember correctly you were interested in "booting from iso" - right ? :)

May I ask someone to enlighten me on what the heck is going on with my bash ?

I use mksh most of the time, so this behavior is kinda weird

In mksh set gives me just the environmental variables, but bash gives that and also some weird functions

@Serg you ... =)

@Serg

If no options or arguments are supplied, set displays the names and values of all shell variables and functions, sorted according to the current locale, in a format that may be reused as input for setting or resetting the currently-set variables. Read-only variables cannot be reset. In POSIX mode, only shell variables are listed.

@hbdgaf ignore test test test

3:29 PM

You want $* to see the current values

So . . . .this is normal, right ?

in_array ()
{
local i;
for i in "${@:2}";
do
[[ $1 = "$i" ]] && return;
done
}
quote ()
{
local quoted=${1//\'/\'\\\'\'};
printf "'%s'" "$quoted"
}
quote_readline ()
{
local quoted;
_quote_readline_by_ref "$1" ret;
printf %s "$ret"
}

taking a break. i've said all i need to say.

Perfectly normal I'd say

@hbdgaf ignores me

=\

You're fiddling with the set question I guess :)

3:32 PM

@kos yessir; I've no idea what that guy's problem is. I followed the youtube tutorial , my who am i command works fine, no errors, nothing

I just don't usually use bash

@A.B. @hbdgaf seems to ignore me as well :(

@cl-netbox he probably went to sleep...

@Serg I have no idea either, who am i works for me as well

and @Serg?

@A.B. not ignoring you, my friend, just didn't know what to answer to that last message

3:35 PM

@Fabby what are you doin' here ? =) did your cousin give you nothing to drink ? :D

=)

reviewing...

@cl-netbox LOL

@A.B. as for hbdgaf , didn't you send him ignore test test test ? See ? He's reponding accordingly, his ignore function works

@Fabby or too much ... ? :D

3:36 PM

@Serg Yes, you're right =)

@cl-netbox Nope, we're both going to another cousin to do just that!

@Fabby read your comment on chrome thing - gorgeous MR. FISH !!! :D:D:D

@cl-netbox What's the unix command to get an off-line mail server to tell the on-line stor-and-forward mail server to start sending mails?

Q: looking for a nagios or ruby expert to help me get away from bad bash practices

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Granted the problem: I want to; mount, copy files, and unmount; automagically when drive is connected, I see the following 2 options (i'm sure there are more concise ways I'm not aware of).. maybe a solution: . Nagios given chck_hwinfo a trigger could perform the expected mount,cp,umount ...

bash cron ruby nagios3

What the . . . .oO

@Fabby sudo fricking server do what you have to do ... sudo reboot now ...

3:41 PM

@cl-netbox nope. It's finger

@Fabby sudo finger in the ... nose ? or what ? :D

@cl-netbox If I would answer that question I would be banned from chat for a while! :P

@Fabby then better do not ... ! :D I really would miss you here - honestly !

YAWN. Not a single interesting question

@kos Shall I post one?

I've got a really long log-out time...

3:47 PM

@Fabby Please do

(and tried all the obvious things...)

What does the log says when you press ESC?

I am actually an ESL guy myself, english isn't my native tongue, but in regards to this . . . -> How do I domains from resolving to a specific address? . . .only as a joke, I wanna say

Hi there!

@kos logging OUT

Shutting down the machine goes super-fast...

(I only noticed yesterday)

Anyway, I've got to go!!!

Drinking time!

3:50 PM

@Fabby don't drink and root, yo

@Fabby You should the see the log also on logout AFAIK

@Fabby Later!

@Fabby Sorry I'm a silly person. Got that, LOGOUT

Hey, I have a Python CLI app (which involves a couple of scripts, not just a script), and I can't get to package it to a deb. Anyone can help me figure out how to debug?

I added a setup.py (github.com/awalGarg/nginx-lm/commit/…) and it works fine when installing via python3 setup.py install but I need a portable DEB package for my VMs.

The wiki.debian.org/Python/Packaging doc is pretty unreadable and doesn't cater for python3, and askubuntu.com/questions/399552/… doesn't work for multiple scripts' package

user136984

4:14 PM

VTC this Fedora question.

@ParanoidPanda VdTC

However I'm losing my mind around how passing a pattern containing a lookahead to a perl -lane one-liner using the -F option. Apparently there's no way to make it right. If someone has suggestions please ping me.

Q: Meta Review section should have link back to main Review section

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In the main review section on the main site there is such a link: But nothing of the sort to link back on the Meta site in the Review section, I think there should be.

feature-request review meta link

If someone has one minute and can grok this: paste.ubuntu.com/12738176

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven Live (HD)

4:37 PM

that seems like something down @terdon's line.

user136984

I wish I had a guitar like this!

user136984

►

@kos looks like the parser is interpreting everything after ? to be a part of the lexeme for a ?<foo>? production

Wait...wat? <-- Rollable 55-inch LG TV prototype

hmm, I wonder what escape sequence shall tell perl to not interpret it like so... interesting

4:49 PM

@AwalGarg I don't even know what ? ... ? is used for. However yes, no matter how I escape it it will interpret the pattern as such.

Using "" breaks bash, however I don't think it would have helped.

5:08 PM

25 for 36.000 ;) mercy

@kos I'm on mobile so I can't help much but yes, that's a positive lookahead

iptables are starting to piss me off

The? =

@Serg use ufw.

What are you trying to do?

5:12 PM

@terdon @Seth So . . .this question , my idea is to block that specific IP address, how hard could that be, right ? I've been trying different variations of iptables commands , and my facebook still pops up

( rephrasing : I am testing iptables rule on facebook )

@terdon Don't go through many troubles using the phone to help me on this though, it's not important. When you have time if you want to look at this paste.ubuntu.com/12738176. Apparently there's no way to tell Perl to not interpret ? as a ternary or a ? ... ? operator

@kos you can't pass such constructs to-F

Ah. That's not mentioned on perlrun though

So what's the limit? A single character?

@Serg What rules are you using?

@Seth sudo iptables -A INPUT -s 69.171.230.5 -p TCP -j DROP

Q: Nvidia - Digits error: Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cursor_new_for_display

5:24 PM

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On amazon server g2.2xlarge running ubuntu 14.04 I've tried to install Nvidia's digits. (after installing cuda, cudnn and caffe successfully) But, When I try to run the file 'runme.sh' in the Digits-2.0 directory, I encounter the following error: libdc1394 error: Failed to initialize libdc13...

ubuntu nvidia

and variations of that

Messing with /etc/hosts only blocks by domain, not ip though

got it \o/

:)

@A.B. ^_0

@Serg <sub>thanks</sub>

@terdon Nevermind. It was a so silly thing. -F after -e gets interpreted as the script!

It was as dumb as putting -F before -lane

5:32 PM

@Serg btw, nice answer askubuntu.com/a/683673/367165

@A.B. thanks, i tried to make it as simple as possible

@Serg Upgoated that one and Seth's already. I was sure that some tool to kill stuff via the GUI existed, but never used one. Good to know

^_^ Yup, xkill is pretty useful. Another one is wmctrl -c :SELECT:

same behavior

I'm tying that one to a weird shortcut in case I need to kill something quickly, that's going to be handy

When things get out of control :)

5:48 PM

When things get out of control I usually Alt+Sysrq+REISUB . . . either that, or a hammer

That one is another answer of yours I recently upgoated, which is even more awesome.

Windows can dream of something like that.

@Serg nice +1 askubuntu.com/questions/683666/how-can-i-close-of-this-terminal/… :)

Have a good time - bye :)

@kos windows could be a pretty good OS if they focused on community and user needs, instead of making profit

@cl-netbox thank you, kind sir

@Serg you're welcome ! :)

Anyone here a Javascript programmer?

5:58 PM

@Serg Yes, you're probably right. However never had a single regret since I switched to Linux, beside that, too many added value in terms of what you can do IMO

<.< what was that ?

Huh?

@RPiAwesomeness I wouldn't call myself a javascript programmer but I've dabbled in it.. What's up?

Did I read something about a laptop?

I'm confused by what's being output by a .slice() call.

6:00 PM

yes

ah, well .slice() is something I've used before.

I am getting the HTML of an element from a jquery call and putting it into the variable htmlText.

Ah, kk

@565656 What was that?

wait no, that was .split().

@kos by see ya

6:02 PM

@RPiAwesomeness okay?

@565656 I didn't get your point, however ok. See ya

Then I've got this: var curText = htmlText.slice(0,2);. Shouldn't that set curText to equal the first 3 characters of the htmlText string?

@kos because it is point blank

@565656 Ah I see what you're doing there

good bye! :)

6:04 PM

Welp, I'm probably either doing something wrong . . .I've no idea why blocking askubuntu kinda worked with iptables, but facebook is still accessible

@565656 Bye! :)

anywho, I'm gonna go for a smoke

@Serg Later

@RPiAwesomeness no, 2 is the item to stop at. So that would include 0 and 1, but not 2.

Oh

6:07 PM

If you want 0, 1, and 2 you would need .slice(0,3)

Well, it's not returning anything

that's probably because .slice() is for arrays and whatever you are operating on isn't an array.

(but I can't know without seeing where htmlText is set)

@kos for you youtube.com/watch?v=mzwdCCNwn4M

@Seth Wait, I thought slice was for strings & splice was for arrays?

Anyone here have Python/Javascript code on GitHub (preferably Python) I can work on some feature or bug fix for?

Submit 4 PRs in October & get a free T-Shirt

@RPiAwesomeness no, slice is an array function.

6:18 PM

@Seth Huh, you're right >.>

I'm staring at the docs, I better be right :P

Well, TY :)

@RPiAwesomeness Can you star your hacktoberfest message for me? (just try..)

@RPiAwesomeness so you solved your problem?

@Seth Nope

@Seth And yes

Sorta

weird.

because I can't star it now either because I fixed the link -.-

6:20 PM

facepalm

That's gotta be a bug

Sameer Pradhan

hey all... good evening... can anyone help me installing oracle 12c in ubuntu ? stuck at one error. any help appreciated

@RPiAwesomeness I'll try to think if there's something you could submit a pull request for.

Hrm... this is about the simplest one I have open:

github.com/nathan-osman/ledcontrol/issues/1

Most recent stuff is either C++ or Go.

Actually, maybe that one isn't so good. Even though the code is simple, you don't have an LED USB device.

(Well, unless you do. In which case, go for it.)

OK, so I've blocked askubuntu IP (as reported by nslookup) with sudo iptables -A INPUT -s 198.252.206.24 -j REJECT

But the page doesn't actually stop loading or show error

it just keeps loading

Zacharee1

vtc askubuntu.com/questions/683903/…

nope, now it stopped

Sameer Pradhan

6:36 PM

askubuntu.com/questions/683904/… please help with this oracle installation in ubuntu error

user136984

Can someone please delete this answer which just copies the other answer, but gives worse detail.

we don't really delete answers because they were posted 2/3 minutes later than another answer.

Q: How to install nic driver from file?

0

I recently got an external USB network adapter and I need to install its drivers. I found the download for the correct drivers here. I downloaded them and now I have the extracted zip file. From reading other posts, I decided to read through the Readme file for installation instructions. I fo...

linux ubuntu linux-mint drivers network-interface

user136984

@Seth: That's just a contributing factor, not the reason, the reason is that it is identical in all senses other than one to the other answer, that being that it does not give as much detail, so I think that it should go as the other answer covers everything it covers and more, so there is no point of it being there, and it was posted after the other answer suggesting that they posted it knowing that someone had basically said the exact same thing.

A: initramfs: where can I determine what goes into /sbin?

Guys and girls =) I need a little help

Is this a good idea ...

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You have to use the entries in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks. These files are executed when you type update-initramfs. Create your own hook script or remove scripts. Another folder is /etc/initramfs-tools/hook From man initramfs-tools Hooks can be found in two places: /usr/share/initramf...

6:49 PM

@ParanoidPanda so punish someone because they are 3 minutes late?

user136984

@Seth: No, but if there are two answers to a question, both almost completely identical, except one gives slightly more detail, I don't see the point of them both remaining if the other answer doesn't add anything at all.

user136984

I mean, both of them staying isn't going to help a future reader. Is it?

I don't see a reason to one either. Maybe the author will edit it into something better.

user136984

If there are two identical answers to a question, both answers remaining is just silly, like if I went to lots of questions, took half of an already made answer, and just posted it as an answer, I wouldn't expect for my answer to be kept, and how do you decide which to keep? Well, probably which is better.

Good afternoon.

user136984

7:01 PM

I can see that this argument is not going to be won, but I still think it is a little silly to keep both answers, I have seen many cases of this sort of thing, and the answers have always been removed.

user136984

@NathanOsman: Good Evening! ;D

user136984

@Seth: I asked the user to improve their answer, and they said that they wouldn't because the other answer already covered that...

user136984

Anyway...

user136984

CHOCOLATE CAKE time! :D

@ParanoidPanda well you can post on meta if you want.

Q: Why wpa_supplicant doesn't get new ip when reassociate?

7:19 PM

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/etc/network/interfaces: auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf update_config=1 ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant network={ ssid="DIANA" psk=some_hashed_psk priority=100 id_str="home" } network={ ...

ubuntu wifi wpa-supplicant

@ParanoidPanda common askubuntu.com/a/683910/367165

@NathanOsman Hi o/ =)

Q: Can't connect to Virtualbox VM's static IP which is in a different subnet from the hosts's IP, but statically routed to the host HW addr

1

I have a physical server running Ubuntu Trusty (14.04) at a datacentre where they assigned one IP address, as well as a /28 block (16 IP addresses, 14 usable) from a different subnet. They said that the additional subnet was statically routed via the physical host, which I assume means their netw...

ubuntu networking virtualbox network-interface bridge

@NathanOsman Well, I have a bit of experience in asynchronous execution, so I could give it a go.

Q: Should almost identical answers be deleted?

7:36 PM

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Today I asked a question, and I got this answer, however in a few minutes another answer was posted: Now this answer is almost identical to the first: Except for the fact that it does not give an example use. And I even commented as you can see to suggest that the answer is updated with an ...

discussion answers

7:49 PM

@RPiAwesomeness it's up to you. I'll be here to help if you need any assistance or clarification. You'll probably need to use some sort of queue.

Yeah

I've worked a fair bit with asynchronous stuff with my beam.pro chat bot project

8:03 PM

Cool.

blade19899

8:20 PM

unixmen fudged up there website! Ugly as hell

8:30 PM

to pho or not to pho, that is the question

definitely to pho.

definitely

with extra tofu.

blade19899

@Seth pho?

@Seth not a big fan of tofu, but . . . what the heck, I'll go for it :D

@blade19899 pho is a vietnamese noodle soup in beef broth

@Serg you can't go wrong with the prefrozen kind anyway! (that's what they usually use in pho)

blade19899

@Serg ah

8:45 PM

typically served with a side of bean sprouts, basil, jalapenos, and lime

(I don't eat much meat so sometimes I forget that other people don't get these dishes with tofu xD)

@Serg ooh, that's Thai Basil.

I usually just put beansprouts in my pho, occasionally - limes. Jalapenos and basil ? Meh . . .

yeah, same here xD

virtual hi-five, place hand on the screen somewhere around this comment

user136984

8:59 PM

Goodnight! :)

Bye, panda ! sleep well

9:38 PM

@A.B. and @cl-netbox - you're not on ignore. Might have been at one time for a week or so, but you're not now.

@Serg I need to try pho, just like I need to try REAL ramen. I heard you can use spaghetti + baking soda to "make it more like real ramen" and the toppings.

@hbdgaf no clue about ramen, since I am mostly hanging around chinese/vietnamese kitchens. While being a 5th wheel on my friend's date, we went to one ramen place, but i haven't saved an address, so . . .no clue how to revisit that

That was pretty good in general, i'd say

@Serg :D

@Fabby ^_^ hallo

my hand is bigger then my (phone) screen...

is a thumbsup good enough???

@Fabby trust me I know the pains of having a small phone screen . . . but yes, a thumbsup will do :)

9:47 PM

i'm bored at a dance group's party... (being the designated driver)

and the au app only shows one screen of questions....

Ah, the fun of missing out on all the intoxicated debauchery , right ?

I'm at work, technically supposed to be studying but as always I am procrastinating. Kind of don't have any desire to do my java homework

Meanwhile, I am thinking what should I add to my amazon shopping cart

yeah and that everyone keeps forgetting i'm still out of a job so splitting the restaurant bill equally is not an option fir me... :(

:D i like buying stuff in a shop better...

Holly cow, @Fabby , no one has hired you yet ? I mean, there has to be at least one company in a need of a professional with your experience !

i got called back by google the other day that the hiring manager wasn't interested in even seeing me after 2 successful interviews...

O_O

9:54 PM

Weird hiring system they've got...

like everything ele google: Different...

I would buy stuff from a shop, but pretty unique stuff, like PS/2 to USB converter is hard to find nearby . . .or printed circuit boards for prototyping. I wanna make two variable power supplies for my electronics lab assignments. We don't go anywhere above 15 volts, so I'm using two 9v batteries to give input of 18 V and then LM317 voltage regulator with variable resistor to get the voltage i need. @HeatherBrown would know what I'm talking about, right ;)

@Fabby well, google is a big big company, they can make up their own rules, that's granted

but at least not as weird as. Blizzard's..

@Serg i drew my first motherboard with a wax pen.... (2 actually)

@hbdgaf ;)

i know something about electronics... ;)

:D

I . . . don't . . ..kinda . . .even though I am electrical engineering major in college; kinda trying to get up to speed

10:01 PM

Back at the time when circuits on a circuit board were 0.5 mm thick...

and dinosaurs still roamed the face of this planet...

;)

I remember in one of my classes the professor showed us a circuit board with all the chips that had all the digital logic gates, NAND and whatever . . . It's seriously astonishing how technology has leaped so far ahead

i know enough to get into trouble, but not enough to sort it out... ;)

chips?

7400 series

The 7400 series of transistor–transistor logic (TTL) integrated circuits are the most popular family of TTL integrated circuit logic. Quickly replacing diode–transistor logic, it was used to build the mini and mainframe computers of the 1960s and 1970s. Several generations of pin-compatible descendants of the original family have since become de facto standard electronic components. == Overview == The 7400 series contains hundreds of devices that provide everything from basic logic gates, flip-flops, and counters, to special purpose bus transceivers and arithmetic logic units (ALU). Speci...

I've seen them with actual TRANSISTORS...

Yup. You should ask this prof to show you one with diodes

1 NAND gate = 1 cm^2

It's crazy . . . Though I can't complain about modern technology - packing thousands of those gates in a single CPU is quite . . .convenient ^_^

My coworker is amazing. Every saturday she just comes here and works on her homework for hours straight . . .

I dont get how she has so much focus