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we have more 3kers than 2kers actually

Oli

Hmm, they're all surprisingly active. Checked 8 accounts and they've all logged in this year. Curious. Very curious.

Q: Why are there different styling in Meta from AskUbuntu?

we maybe need community ads advertising the close queue as SO did

Oli

@Braiam A 5-a-day programme might not be an awful idea.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

12:07 AM

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I have noticed this a while, but it is just a bit weird. Styling differences occur between different StackExchange sites. The most notable is the <kbd> tag, most of which render the contents of posts like what is on AskUbuntu. On AskUbuntu, <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Tab</kbd> looks like: Where as h...

@HelpingHand - you're using wpa2 and hostapd?

@Braiam Yes, the close vote implementation is flawed, it's too easy to fail then audit when you're perfectly aware of what is going on.

I don't know what questions you think don't belong there, so I can't comment on the quality other than to say it seems ok.

i'm only asking because i have some dead code i was working on at one point to move hostapd functionality to userspace with scapy and make it available on any card that had monitor and injection. AP mode bugs would just go away. seems like a valid approach instead of requiring more specific hardware to do something you could easily do in software...

get at me if you want some sample code. i'm crazy buzy though with all the different junk i WANT to play with, the crap i HAVE to play with, and the day job.

I just earned fanatic on meta lol.

12:39 AM

@Seth :)

@NathanOsman DR. NATHAN L. OSMAN, how are you?

look what was about to be closed against that question askubuntu.com/q/427538/169736

it's note a dupe, why the venom?

12:55 AM

@jrg Braiam's particular pet peeve is dependency issues.

The question he's referring to contains information to solve 98% of the problems.

the remaining 2% probably aren't solvable here anyway.

or are ubuntu+1 questions

I need to get out of the habit of clicking "edit" to change tags.

Is this a good answer?

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A: Can't Get UMASK To Work

The mask has to be essentially the opposite of what you want. A umask of 002 will produce permissions 775. If you want everything to be read and executable by everyone, you'll want the mask to be 000.

HelpingHand

@hbdgaf Yes, why?

Or at least trying!

@jrg I'm a firm believer that examples are the best way to change behaviors

whenever I show a non-duplicated is so people rise awareness of when that Q would not help

@jrg they are solvable, I'm living example of that

@Braiam you are not most people.

Most people will follow instructions. For dependency issues, if the person trying to answer is missing one line of the error, you're screwed.

1:12 AM

@jrg passive aggressive behaviors is a pathological disorder I do not have, so please do not imply I use it...

or use another term more fitting

gotta run, bbl. @Braiam, we'll discuss this later, you're right, i probably choose the wrong word there, and I apologize for that.

1:37 AM

Anyone think this is a bug?

@Seth ?

what the.

wrong link

blames Oli

Oli

snores innocently

well in that case I've lost the link :-/

1:55 AM

@jrg I'm fine, thank you.

Was my research paper any good?

can a mod close this? askubuntu.com/q/427633/169736

> Thank you for reviewing 20 close votes today; come back in 21 hours to continue reviewing.

@Braiam As what?

ah I see.

2:23 AM

Now you know what those modem squeaks are.

unclear askubuntu.com/q/426408/169736

Anyone think this is a bug? askubuntu.com/questions/427762/…

@Seth if it's not is possible that he only needs to restart the system...

@Braiam I understand that one just fine.

@NathanOsman Hah! We should ask on EE. I'd looove to see the looks on their faces >:D

Lol.

2:33 AM

@NathanOsman do you use Windows + VS right?

I can.

Doesn't mean that I usually do.

I want to buy a computer for that setup but I have doubts

Windows 7 + VS2013
Windows 8.1 + VS2013

1.33 Ghz CPU

WHAT TO DO? xD

I'm lost here. No idea about CPU speed, and less about W7 vs W8

DR. NATHAN L. OSMAN is the only one that can solve it :D

2:48 AM

@Lucio The best thing you can do is go somewhere where the actual PC you are looking is and try it out.

Who will have the same PC??

That is 1 in half-million chance

@NathanOsman BTW, that is amazing

3:09 AM

IKR?

@Lucio Go with Windows 8.1.

It's faster than Win7 and you can disable Metro (well not really, but you can avoid booting to it).

@Lucio go with 8, nathan is right

just what is this? Windows 8 in a Ubuntu room? MADNESS! MADNESS I SAY!

Okay, seriously. Ubuntu fanboi-ism won't get us anywhere.

I second jrg and Dr Nathan.

Every OS has tasks it is well-suited for (well, except for iOS, of course).

3:14 AM

@NathanOsman I'm pretty sure it was a joke..

@NathanOsman are you aware that I use Debian?

lol

@Seth thanks to three of you :)

psusi

@NathanOsman, that image was very interesting, is there a more detailed explanation of it somewhere?

dialupsound.com

\o/

I found it!

psusi

lol... YOU'VE GOT PR0N

3:24 AM

Actually, the duck did it :)

> UPDATE 02/2013: Due to numerous requests, I made this into a 42-megapixel poster that Redbubble is selling. Some $4 per poster is directed to the poor nerd who made this.

Amazing xD

psusi

got a free 25 hour trial disk still laying around? ;)

for me? no

I have a hundred of them.

That's from a looooooooooong time ago.

3:50 AM

I remember the AOL days. Vaguely.

Q: Is every Napier, algebraic, right-negative ideal combinatorially Artinian and empty?

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T. Kumar's characterization of quasi-conditionally smooth, non-uncountable algebras was a milestone in harmonic set theory. It has long been known that $\Omega$ is stable and conditionally multiplicative. Let us suppose that $\Omega > \pi$ and that $e > \mathbf{G}$. It can then be shown that eve...

at.algebraic-topology mobius-inversion

They stole from my paper!

@NathanOsman how did you find that paper

Flying Raijin Jutsu

Hey :P

@NathanOsman dat math O_O

I don't get anything in that

@jrg Find what paper?

@MinatoNamikaze Me neither.

@NathanOsman the whitepaper that you keep linking

4:00 AM

@jrg I wrote it :)

huh

i'm confused

really

Actually, if you look at the context of the original link, you'll see what happened.

8 hours ago, by Nathan Osman

@Lucio: With this :)

oh

Clever?

What the actual.....

4:02 AM

oh wow

that's cool

So I just generated one by Bit Jockey, Entropy Wrangler and Goblin Tinker

i'm going to print it off

and put it on my bosses desk

see how long it takes for him to flip out.

Lol.

Ok, enough of that

Yeah

there we go.

Bit Jockey is my fun title, Entropy Wrangle is the CEO, and Goblin Tinker is my bosses.

I give then 20 seconds before they catch on.

A: Failed to install/remove packages

ahah

What's this?

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I have encountered this problem, because in the back = number of more than one space, as follows: PATH= "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/java/jdk1.6.0_38/bin" modify to this follow, it's ok. PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bi...

4:09 AM

Aw, my question is gone.

That was your question?

lol.

I don't normally post stuff like this, but bacon wrapped sweet-potato fries!

4

@Seth heart attack inbound.

all before i'm 30, let alone 60.

IKR :D

4:16 AM

@Seth That is awesome.

6:02 AM

OT askubuntu.com/questions/427423/wired-network-issue

Q: how to execute the python program into shell script

8:57 AM

@Braiam or close votes ;)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

9:08 AM

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I have python program in that i wrote the code (disk.py). I execute this program using the command "python disk.py" in terminal, its worked. Now i want to execute using shell script.

shell ubuntu shell-script scripting

10:39 AM

close votes?

11:21 AM

@AvinashRaj what do you mean?

Q: We should get "Ubuntu questions on SR" notification in chat

2 hours ago, by Minato Namikaze

@Braiam or close votes ;)

Ask Ubuntu Meta

11:31 AM

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In general chat room, we get notification for Ubuntu questions on U&L. I think it would be a good idea to get Ubuntu questions on SR notification as well.

feature-request chat

If you insist! ;p

I would like to insist :)

SR means what?

software recommendations

ohhh

11:38 AM

@AdityaPatil: I can't edit the question - maybe you can expand the name and add the link softwarerecs.stackexchange.com to reduce ambiguity?

sure.But why can't you edit?

no idea, its greyed out

Probably not enough rep ;p

lets remove that support from the main site

btw, bug askubuntu.com/q/308188/169736

@Braiam Why remove that tag?

@AdityaPatil support what?

11:48 AM

Don't you have mod powers? Can't you just delete it?

Jan 8 at 22:50, by Seth

Even mods can't burn a tag.

btw, I'm not a mod...

Then just edit it saying "Don't Use!!!!!"

I know you aren't mod, but you have 10000+ rep, so you have some mod rights.

@AdityaPatil read this one askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/…

OT askubuntu.com/questions/427896/…

hahaha.........

people don't read tag wikis.

11:51 AM

exactly

just now a question was modified with that tag

this needs more votes meta.askubuntu.com/q/8233/169736

@AdityaPatil ^

Is there some place where we can calculate SE statistics? for example how many users have 5000+ rep and own xyz tag.

@Braiam more downvotes :-)

¬_¬

OT askubuntu.com/q/427886/169736

12:00 PM

do we all see same ads on the same day?

no, is all random

Crake

1:20 PM

Can anyone help me? askubuntu.com/questions/427907/…

Mitch

@Crake Do you want that deleted for good?

2:13 PM

bug askubuntu.com/q/414765/169736

← 1 message moved from Software Recommendations

oops

@Seth Y U MIGRATE THIS? askubuntu.com/q/330612/169736

err... apparently no

OT 14.04 askubuntu.com/q/427886/169736

2:32 PM

Unclear askubuntu.com/questions/427943/cant-launch-ubuntu

Alvar

3:52 PM

is this on topic? askubuntu.com/q/427971/10698

Wilf

@rzr - please stop reviewing post just to add the maximum 5 tags - askubuntu.com/users/26447/rzr?tab=activity&sort=revisions

@Alvar too broad

Alvar

@Braiam yeah I thought it was something wrong with it...

@Wilf +1

@Wilf Why are those even being approved? >.>

2

Alvar

I rejected them

4:00 PM

@FEichinger because people thinks tags = blog tags

Q: How to dual-boot on a machine with PGP WDE?

@Seth I changed how it finds new messages, uses a lastChecked var with the most recently checked message ID now.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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PGP Whole disk encryption ("WDE") is an encryption software that encrypts all your data, and includes a bootguard. Because of this, I have been unable to successfully dual-boot, as there is no place to install GRUB. (I did attempt an install, the result of which was a complete loss of my Windows ...

ubuntu windows grub2 dual-boot pgp

@NathanOsman gizmodo.com/…

gemsfromstackexchange.tumblr.com/post/78208969690

@Braiam Oh, I remember that one.

4:12 PM

@FEichinger oh cool.

gemsfromstackexchange.tumblr.com/post/69373913759/…

This.

A: A place to share knowledge, tips&tricks and scripts?

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If you have really valuable content - join Ubuntu wiki. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership If you have trouble registering, then join there: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki is structured format - it's preferred option over replies.

Hah!

@Seth man, is difficult to save votes to upvotes things with such questions...

lol

we should make a challenge to clean the close queue...

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 1 hour ago, by random

Is the offensive part "PHP" or being "forced"?

I'm sure someone will say is PHP...

4:20 PM

@Braiam good idea.

@Braiam Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Q: Why is Ubuntu named Ubuntu?

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Q: What does "Ubuntu" mean?

What does "Ubuntu" mean, and why did they choose that particular name?

community

This is getting duped to

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I have long been interested in something. I know a lot of things about the history of Ubuntu, but I do not know about the name. So, why is Ubuntu named "Ubuntu"?

community

What should I do? :P

make @Seth work...

on the third hand... why the heck is a duplicated being closed of a duplicate of itself?

time to merge?

there are a couple of answers that would need to be debunked tho..

4:27 PM

Mergify no Jutsu

No mod powers

@Seth

Good Night

BBT

Y U BUNCH NO FLAGS?

there we go ;)

Wow! insightful. Can you tell what this snakeoil user is? — humanityANDpeace 2 mins ago

what the...

@humanityANDpeace oil made of snakes...? — Braiam 47 secs ago

like a "snake oil salesman" ?

Okay, so what's going on?

4:32 PM

@Braiam do you know that phrase

@Seth double dupe!

8 mins ago, by Minato Namikaze

This is getting duped to

Hmm.

4:59 PM

opinion based?

OT

@AvinashRaj too broad

Q: Do we need a event to clear out the Close Queue?

You mean 1st one

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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If you follow SO/MSO you will notice an event in the Community Bulletin: If you read up, SE has made some changes to the close queue in hopes to motivate close voters to... review. In the efforts they have fuzzied the numbers of items in the queue, made advertisements for rather obscure tags, ...

discussion review

Dupe askubuntu.com/questions/428025/…

@AvinashRaj please, edit the questions too if there's something to improve, like "thanks" "hi" etc.

5:10 PM

ok :-)

What was the difference between Ubuntu virus and Windows Virus

@Braiam where did you see snakeoil user?

@AvinashRaj that was not a dupe, but a OT

@Braiam he asked so many questions on a single post.

I'ld just close as dupe and move along. I dropped a comment to add a little light to the topic, but it's really just blah.

5:26 PM

is this answer correct?

" sudo dpkg -r viber.deb "

oh @Seth that's what i said but not in a clear way.

edited ;

@AvinashRaj ah okay.

5:55 PM

we need a sinonym for partitioning -> partitions

partition is already covered, but not the S one :D

6:09 PM

@Mateo are you around?

I remember that you, weeks ago, pointed a Video Software Editor

Now I need it, but can't remember it xD

@Lucio was it Lightworks?

oh, I think so

It takes a Very powerful computer

Q: Overheating notebook problems

Oh yeah lwks.com

this is the one!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Why do Ubuntu and all Ubuntu derivatives have problem with overheating on laptops/notebooks? Are there are solutions?

ubuntu linux-mint

6:12 PM

@Mateo I envy people with good memory :)

@Lucio what kind of processor do you have

Intel Celeron 1.6Ghz

I'm kidding, am kidding :D

@Lucio hm, might not work so well ;)

I wouldn't even open it haha

> Please Sign-In to continue

o.O

yeah, it takes a one time account

just make something up, that you can remember.

6:15 PM

I thought it was free software

free as in money, right now - there is "pro" as well

List of video editing software

mmm then I will go for something else..

The following is a list of video editing software. The criteria for inclusion in this list is the ability to perform non-linear video editing. Most modern transcoding software support transcoding a portion of a video clip, which would count as cropping and trimming. However, items in this article have one of the following conditions: # Can perform other non-linear video editing functions such as montage or compositing # Can do the trimming or cropping without transcoding Free and open-source *Avidemux (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows) *AviSynth (Windows) *Blender VSE (Linux, FreeBSD, M...

don't think they released the source yet - although I think they were moving towards that

What a great web site.

6:30 PM

I haven't tried lightworks for the same reason.. I have it installed, but I haven't wanted to register. One of these days I'll probably just do it I suppose.

yeah, I usually just make something up for those things

IT IS USELESS!

I mean, the reg up process..

Why is there people/companies how still use it?

@Lucio unless you are planning to use it professionally which then you would go through all that, but otherwise ~

@Lucio collecting info... same as Lightzone for example.. bad practice

collecting garbage I would say

6:34 PM

I wouldn’t put hand in fire but I believe high percentage of registrants actually put down real names and emails

yeah I have no idea neither. That would be an interesting study :)

But in that case it is still garbage.

Register software is so 90's :P

i believe reason behind is future plans of monetizing it by selling licenses.. if you have an solid database of names of people who downloaded it and used in past it comes useful when you try to sell em licenses

it would give semi decent usage numbers, but it seems most assume the worst based on what other companies have done that have had the same registration

6:49 PM

In the meantime avidemux is freezing every 1 minute

What exactly are you trying to do with such software?

split a video