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Braiam

1:04 AM

Oct 25 at 14:32, by Braiam

most of the things I see people wants to do aren't useful, nor necessary

saw a Q in the close queue that just remembered me that

Seth

3:57 AM

@FaheemMitha Hi :)

Ramesh

4:48 AM

That's really too many comments on a single answer, no wonder the answerer deleted it

Ionică Bizău

7:50 AM

Morning!

DarkHorse

hi, guys

Faheem Mitha

@Ramesh Maybe that's what a help vampire looks like.

DarkHorse

I want to get screen data on ubuntu14.04, how can i do that?

Faheem Mitha

@DarkHorse Not sure what you mean

Ionică Bizău

Any idea how to get the ANSI style knowing the index and the text? It's NodeJS, but probably Unix & Linux guys can help here.

DarkHorse

7:56 AM

I want to write a program with C. It's used to capture the data of screen

DarkHorse

8:10 AM

Any suggestion to me?

Faheem Mitha

9:22 AM

@DarkHorse If you want to do a screen capture, there are many programs to do so.

E.g.

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Q: How to do a print screen or capture an area of the screen

Is there an equivalent of the Window's Print Screen + Paste (or better yet the Mac OS Cmd+Shift+4, Space) in gnome?

Shutter is probably a better choice (not mentioned in the answers above, I think).

DarkHorse

Thanks。 @FaheemMitha

Faheem Mitha

the screenshot tag should have a canonical question about this, i think

@DarkHorse Does that answer your question?

DarkHorse

I am reading that link

Faheem Mitha

I tried shutter once, on @slm's suggestion. it seems pretty good

Here is @slm's answer

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A: How do I take a screenshot while using Gnome?

I would suggest installing the application shutter for taking screenshots. Should be in the repos for Debian. The main site for the app is here: http://shutter-project.org/. It allows you to configure the PrtScr button so that it captures the screen within Shutter, rather than use GNOME's ...

DarkHorse

However, my laptop is installed ubuntu14.04 and desktop is Unity

I will have a try

DarkHorse

9:46 AM

@FaheemMitha I need to write a tool, but not to use a tool

for example, open /dev/fb0 and grasp the data, then translate to bmp or png

Faheem Mitha

10:05 AM

@DarkHorse Why?

Homework exercise?

I think this one can probably be closed.

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Q: Variables in makefiles

I have been provided with a makefile which i can't make work: #Set this to @ to keep the makefile quiet SILENCE = @ #---- Outputs ----# COMPONENT_NAME = BookCode_Unity #--- Inputs ----# UNITY_HOME = unity.framework CPP_PLATFORM = Gcc PROJECT_HOME_DIR = . PROJECT_TEST_DIR = unity CPP_PLATFORM =...

make cygwin

DarkHorse

10:45 AM

@FaheemMitha no. This is a part of my project that seems to like VNC.

Faheem Mitha

@DarkHorse I don't follow.

DarkHorse

Translate picture from one pc to another

Faheem Mitha

@DarkHorse Sorry, still not following. What do you mean, translate?

Perhaps you can explain what you are trying to do? Or better, ask a question on the site.

DarkHorse

Remote desktop

Faheem Mitha

@DarkHorse Please stop with the telegraphic style, unless you want to be ignored completely, and explain what you are trying to do, please.

DarkHorse

10:54 AM

ok, my English is poor, I will do my best. In a whole, There is a server running on one pc, and a client running on anther pc. server capture screenshot and send to client. and then, client draw out that.

I want to write a program which running on server. It's main task is to get screenshot

ok, seems to so easy, but I am new to linux.

@FaheemMitha sorry. Can you understand what i am saying?

idavid

@terdon can check this post unix.stackexchange.com/questions/169255/… and approve the edit please

@terdon can you please*

Faheem Mitha

11:16 AM

@DarkHorse Better

@DarkHorse "client draw out that"?

If you want a screenshot copied from one machine to another, why not do it manually? Does this need to be automated, and if so, why? I think more context would help.

idavid

@FaheemMitha can you please take a look at link i posted

Faheem Mitha

@idavid What link?

idavid

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Q: How to build dnscrypt plugins?

I tried to build a plugin for DNSCrypt, but it keeps telling me that it needs some other files. I need to know how I can build it, and I've never compiled a package from scratch. I've always been able to use a repository. I use Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit) with gcc on CodeAnywhere Here is the link ...

compiling cmake

i made an edit to the answer i wanted to be approved

Faheem Mitha

@idavid That's pretty extensive. Someone should approve it who knows what is going on. Like the writer of that answer. One comment: your edit has too many apt-get commands. You could bundle them into fewer commands. Also, add-apt-repository is some Ubuntu-specific thing, right?

idavid

yes

all of them works %100 right

@FaheemMitha ok i can wait for the one who posted the answer

@FaheemMitha but you know how i can get .dll insted .so

Faheem Mitha

11:27 AM

@idavid Not sure what you mean, sorry.

idavid

@FaheemMitha it's ok

terdon

1:21 PM

@idavid sorry, I wasn't here. I would have rejected that edit though. Please don't use bullet points like that, 1) it makes the post much harder to read and 2) It makes the commands far harder to copy. Instead of a separate bullet point for each command, put them all together so they can be coy/pasted directly into a terminal.

I've edited your edit to fix it.

Braiam

@FaheemMitha actually, no, is included with the software-properties-common package

terdon

2:01 PM

@Ramesh it's simpler to just correct the answer. Since it's accepted, there's not much I can do about it.

Ramesh

@terdon thanks. I fixed it.

I was leaving out and really couldn't be at system. It was so foolish of me to provide an answer when I couldn't possibly test it out :(

terdon

@goldilocks is a mod on raspberry.se! Well done!

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Ramesh

congrats @goldilocks.

Faheem Mitha

2:25 PM

@Braiam I see

Congrats @goldilocks.

I'm wondering what a good tag for screenshot would be.

Hi @goldilocks.

goldilocks

Cheers! Thanks for the congrads. I was appointed, no less. By fiat. Like a dictator.

Aww, I was hoping I'd get a diamond in all the chats.

Braiam

@goldilocks change your parent user

here chat.stackexchange.com/users/60653/goldilocks

goldilocks

@Braiam Ah. Then I lose this avatar. Wow, lots for me to think about ;) As soon as I get done with all those flags.

slm

congrats @goldilocks

goldilocks

@slm Thanks.

terdon

2:37 PM

@goldilocks You do, that's why you're blue.

You pawn of the totalitarian regime, you.

@goldilocks, you need to change your chat parent user to your Pi one to get access to the teacher's lounge.

Which you have already done I see.

Faheem Mitha

Why is goldilocks blue? Cheer up, it can't be as bad as that.

@terdon Which totalitarian regime is that?

terdon

14 mins ago, by goldilocks

Cheers! Thanks for the congrads. I was appointed, no less. By fiat. Like a dictator.

@FaheemMitha And he's blue 'cause he's a mod. Look at his username, as blue as mine or slm's.

Faheem Mitha

@terdon Ah, well that doesn't really answer my question, but Ok.

@terdon I know. It was a joke.

Well, an attempt at one.

Ramesh

is amazon fire phone worth 199 bucks? Anyone has an idea?

goldilocks

@terdon Are you playing with my mind now? When does the hazing start?

@Ramesh It's worth enough for free shipping.

Ramesh

2:48 PM

@goldilocks yeah. Many people suggest if we reduce the prime cost, eventually the mobile comes for 100 bucks. Is it worth for 100 bucks?

goldilocks

@Ramesh I honestly don't know. I didn't even know they were making phones now. 100 bucks is pretty cheap if its dual core I guess.

slm

@Ramesh I saw some headline that said something like "fire @ $199 + free shipping, we still don't care".

I'll try and find it, didn't read the article though

terdon

@goldilocks Yesterday :) And no, why would I be?

Ramesh

@slm I read that article. But the mobile specifications seem good.

The downfall however is it's not android and no google app store for apps.

terdon

@goldilocks have you gotten into the TL yet?

Faheem Mitha

2:52 PM

@terdon TL?

goldilocks

@Ramesh The first few hits I got were "still not worth it" too. If they are using their own OS, that seems like a problem somehow.

@terdon Just reading my email now. @FaheemMitha I think he mean's "Teacher's Lounge".

Faheem Mitha

@goldilocks Oh, right. Whatever that is.

terdon

@FaheemMitha Super seecrit mod room where we discuss super seecrit mod stuff.

goldilocks

@FaheemMitha Special ;)

I can't find the free coffee.

Faheem Mitha

@terdon Oh, right. All that World Conquest stuff.

You guys should set up a World Government. Make the teaching of Unix compulsory in schools. If that doesn't ensure world peace, nothing will.

Ramesh

3:03 PM

I thought cricket was a safest game but too bad :(

goldilocks

@FaheemMitha Wow the Academia mods seem to have a lot to say about you. ;)

Faheem Mitha

@goldilocks Huh?

goldilocks

Just kidding.

Faheem Mitha

I hardly do anything on Academia.

@goldilocks Oh. Funny.

Braiam

@Ramesh just by being in your house you are exposed to 30 different kinds of dangers

Faheem Mitha

3:06 PM

@Braiam Do tell

goldilocks

@FaheemMitha I think he means Cato Fong:

pinkpanther.wikia.com/wiki/Cato_Fong

Faheem Mitha

@goldilocks Who does?

I think I've seen a few of the Pink Panther films, but I don't remember of that stuff.

goldilocks

@FaheemMitha Braiam. Cato was always hiding, e.g., on the ceiling at the Pink Panther's home or hotel room or whatever. He'd drop down and attack and they'd end up trashing the place.

Faheem Mitha

@goldilocks Sounds expensive.

►

This brings back faint memories. As a child I didn't think it was particularly strange. Of course, I grew up in India.

goldilocks

3:25 PM

@FaheemMitha I can remember making jokes about it as a kid more than I remember the actual movie. "Cato!" Some of them were pretty physical jokes probably preceded by lots of sugary beverages.

Faheem Mitha

@goldilocks Why sugary beverages?

goldilocks

@FaheemMitha Oh, it gets blamed for a lot of child behaviour around here. Actually I'm a skeptic in that regard. I did get a lot of it as a kid but unless you tie them down kids tend to be pretty physical a lot regardless.

Next time you see an excessive series of comments: "That's enough sugar for you all!"

Faheem Mitha

@goldilocks I see. Sort of. Anyway, it is a well known fact that sugar is bad for you. But Coca-cola is a multi-billion dollar industry. God Bless the USA. (Sorry, tangent.)

goldilocks

@FaheemMitha I was watching a doc last night and they referred to something that probably didn't mean that much to me at the time (1984), but Coke and Pepsi both simultaneously switched from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup at the same time, and did ads together promoting the change. Think about the mechanics of that one for a while.

Faheem Mitha

3:49 PM

@goldilocks The implications are largely lost on me. I don't even really know what high fructose corn syrup is.

Does this fall into the Things Big Wicked Corporations do to Prey on Gullible People category?

Though people who are stupid enough to think that the consumption of colored sugar water is a good idea deserve everything they get, imo.

goldilocks

High fructose corn syrup

High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)—also called Glucose-Fructose in Canada, Isoglucose, Glucose-Fructose Syrup or Fructose-Glucose Syrup in Europe and High Fructose Maize Syrup in some countries—comprises any of a group of corn syrups that have undergone enzymatic processing to convert some of its glucose into fructose to produce a desired sweetness. Because of its low price compared to sugar, HFCS is the predominant sweetener used in processed foods and beverages in the United States. However, this trend seems to be changing, as USDA data show that HFCS consumption since 2002 has actually decreased...

Seems to often be regarded as a culprit in the obesity epidemic here. I'm not sure if it's any different than normal sugar, just it is super cheap so they use a lot of it.

Faheem Mitha

4:04 PM

@goldilocks Oh. Right.

Braiam

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Q: Profile Page Makeover, Part 3: the Prototype returns

You may recall this thing - our profile page makeover prototype, the reloaded user page. We posted a prototype 6 months ago and got a lot of feedback. Since then, generations of dinosaurs were born, fell in love, had families and were eventually killed by a comet. Or climate change, or maybe tex...

discussion featured profile-page feedback

Faheem Mitha

5:57 PM

Something strange just happened when I was trying to edit just now. I could not reach the far left of the editing buffer. It was like a Stack Exchange version of the Twilight Zone.

Ionică Bizău

@Braiam @terdon Any idea on this question?

terdon

6:20 PM

@IonicăBizău None whatsoever, sorry.

Tim

6:35 PM

:)

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