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Faheem Mitha

2:33 AM

@slm Reading this again. No. Notice what he says about editors. And his preferred distribution.

slm

2:49 AM

@FaheemMitha k

Faheem Mitha

3:11 AM

Our Gilles wouldn't be caught dead using KDevelop.

slm

3:23 AM

Yeah I figured it was a stretch, but it was funny that G+ suggested him to me.

Seth

what distro does Gilles prefer?

Braiam

Jun 27 '11 at 22:21, by Gilles

@Tshepang I use neither. But between KDE3 and Gnome, I would always recommend KDE.

Faheem Mitha

@Seth He's a Debian user, of course.

Braiam

Jan 4 at 23:08, by Gilles

I use Debian at home, but I don't recommend it if you don't want to get your hands dirty a little

Faheem Mitha

That's our @Braiam.

A Little Night Music (or Morinng, depending on your location):

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"Mache dich, mein Herze, rein", from the St. Matthew Passion.

Faheem Mitha

3:55 AM

@Braiam I've no idea what he means by "get your hands dirty".

Seth

@Braiam interesting choice.

@FaheemMitha That's what I guessed.

Braiam

@FaheemMitha click through it, you will get context

Faheem Mitha

@Braiam Still don't see it. Debian is semi-automated. It's about as far away from getting one's hands dirty as it gets.

Braiam

4:12 AM

@FaheemMitha Gilles wants "something stable and easy to use out of the box, for end users, not something for professional sysadmins or geeks", which he thinks Debian doesn't fulfills (starting from the fact that the installer is text based)

Jan 4 at 23:14, by Braiam

Anyone find useful container, the only relevance is with lxc, and most are already tagged like that

^ still valid :(

Faheem Mitha

@Braiam I disagree with this assessment. I started using Debian in 2001. Back then is was much less polished, and even then I don't think it was only something for "professional sysadmins or geeks".

I think people are just lazy.

Learning to use your tools. That's so 18th century.

Braiam

@FaheemMitha lets say that that's exactly what Gilles was searching: a distro for lazy end users

Faheem Mitha

@Braiam Lazy people should use Mac OS X. I'm sure Apple is happy to take their money in return for babysitting them.

In remember around 2000 you had to go through all sorts of ridiculous gyrations in order to install Debian, including knowing all your hardware and the drivers it used, in advance. Yes, that's right, you had to know what drivers your hardware used.

Hey, look at me, reminiscing.

This would have been potato, I guess. 2.2

Apt was new in that release. How time flies.

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Faheem Mitha

6:31 AM

Can anyone suggest more aggressive patch alternatives? Like when patch doesn't apply.

Braiam

@FaheemMitha read the patch and apply it manually?

Faheem Mitha

@Braiam Always an option, I suppose.

Faheem Mitha

7:36 AM

@shirish Hi. Do you have a recommendation for (Indian) tax software? Something that runs on Linux would be nice, but probably unrealistic.

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Faheem Mitha

12:45 PM

Anyone care to interpret i.imgur.com/tm9z4jf.png for. Had a OOM event. What does the committed line mean?

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Braiam

2:56 PM

anyone sees the point of having a scrolling tag?

Seth

3:14 PM

sounds kinda meta.

Faheem Mitha

@Braiam what's wrong with it?

Braiam

@FaheemMitha scrolling what?

Faheem Mitha

@Braiam Usually means scrolling a buffer or a window.

Braiam

@FaheemMitha yes, but a buffer or a windows of what... you need too much context to get what expertise you need to know what the question is about

Faheem Mitha

3:35 PM

@Braiam Of anything. An X application, or X client, if you prefer.

Braiam

@FaheemMitha exactly, don't you think is more helpful having the X tag in the post instead?

Faheem Mitha

@Braiam If the specific problem is that of scrolling, then no.

Braiam

3:56 PM

@FaheemMitha I don't know what you mean there...

let me put it this way: can the tag be interpreted differently when different tags are applied or will the problem (ergo the expertise required) wildly vary if there's the presence of one or another tag?

Faheem Mitha

@Braiam The tag means the question is about a scrolling related issue, I presume. Probably because scrolling isn't working correctly.

@Braiam Might be useful in combination with other tags if people want to look for other posts that are about problems with scrolling.

Braiam

@FaheemMitha err... no, without experts in scrolling, and I seriously think there aren't, that tag is dead weight

Faheem Mitha

@Braiam Seems like a matter of opinion to me. But ask others what they think.

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Patrick

5:45 PM

Anyone know of a question to dup this one against? http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/164294/4358
It's an X/Y problem where the OP want's to make sure a tar is extracted into a single directory. I see similar questions, but they have to deal with other formats (cpio, zip, etc). Not finding a generic or tar specific one.

Braiam

not sure if I should add the history tag here

delete votes please unix.stackexchange.com/q/114128/41104

Braiam

6:08 PM

@Patrick color me surprised, I always presumed f means force, not input