Ask Ubuntu General Room

Seth

1:25 AM

I do all this to convert the PDF to an image and then find that GIMP will extract it for me >.<

Seth

2:17 AM

Going to the game tonight @NathanOsman?

Lucio

3:50 AM

It looks like I miss the penguin war already

@hbdgaf more of the neflix monkeys army here

It's amazing to go back to my very first post and notice my english there. It looks like my dog was writing for me! Weekend throw back..

Nathan Osman

4:11 AM

@Seth the cheapest seats would be more than $100. A lot more.

Journeyman Geek

@Lucio ahem

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: The problem with a few opinions is that they're not objective by Peure Soazei on askubuntu.com

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5:54 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best Skin Care Tips For Fast Results by Simret Freeh on askubuntu.com

Amith KK

6:18 AM

The new profile page looks awesome!

Nathan Osman

Yup.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Uninstalled Ubuntu,the most anoying os ever by Redon Miha on askubuntu.com

hbdgaf

6:36 AM

This sounds like an evil office prank

Ask Ubuntu Meta

0

Q: Are the green ones not displayed correctly?

I have the feeling this will turn out to be a silly question... While it is hard to miss the signal green boxes, I am pretty sure every now and then my reputation changed without any notification the past few days. The last occasion was just a few minutes ago. Did something change under the hood?

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: http://raspberrysecretdietbuy.com/utopian-cleanse/ by maqxaso Eoef on askubuntu.com

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10:57 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: How to download YouTube videos? by Akshay Katariya on askubuntu.com

ByteCommander

11:34 AM

Good morning! :)

reversiblean

12:01 PM

Anyone here used umake to setup your development environments?

ByteCommander

12:16 PM

Not me, sorry.

reversiblean

okay, np

ByteCommander

1:15 PM

Is Mint and Elementary off-topic? I thought at least Elementary is official?

user136984

@ByteCommander If it's not an official Ubuntu derivative, then it is off-topic.

ByteCommander

1:30 PM

@Toroidal Sure, but is Elementary official or not?

Mateo

No

ByteCommander

Mint is not, I think...

user136984

Is there a list somewhere of official Ubuntu derivatives?

Mateo

Yes

ByteCommander

Then VTC as OT and suggest to post it on U&L, right?

Mateo

1:32 PM

ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/flavours only the recognized flavours

user136984

@Mateo How do you create an Ubuntu derivative which gets recognised as official?

Mateo

There is some sort of process

user136984

2:13 PM

Wow! I didn't know that it was so easy to get +105 rep in 1 day and a bit! :D

user136984

9

A: How do I stop the screen from being locked on resume on Kubuntu/KDE?

To make it so that it does not lock on resume do the following: Power management → Advanced settings and uncheck "Lock screen on resume" Note for 15.04: This has moved to Desktop Behaviour → Screen Locking.

user136984

Oh!

user136984

And I just got another gold badge! Electorate! :)

user136984

2:29 PM

It would be nice though if there was sort of more point to badges, if they could give you rep or something... But I suppose that they are just there to encourage certain aspects of the site to be used, and to show off! :D :P

Rinzwind

3:06 PM

@Toroidal you make your own system with a specific audience Ubuntu neglected. Get lots of users. Apply for official recognition. Regarding the 1st: they will not accept a 2nd KDE, Gnome etc version. You probably need a whole new DE as well.

user136984

@Rinzwind Is a DE a Desktop Environment?

Rinzwind

@Toroidal yes

Ask Ubuntu Meta

3:37 PM

0

Q: Why is being downvoted my answer?

I've posted an answer that I think that is as valid (or more) than it's companions. It was downvoted 2 times and up voted zero times. Why is happening this?

discussion

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to have tmux on startup for both OSX and Ubuntu (including Quake)

I recently updated my Ubuntu 14 system and the update has made it impossible to have tmux started up automatically. In fact the previous setting made it impossible to log into my Ubuntu account(!), but luckily I had another admin account that I could use to log in and fix the login (comment out t...

ubuntu osx tmux quake

Ask Ubuntu Meta

3:57 PM

0

Q: A feature to integrate bug-reporting?

I don't know how many posts here in AskUbuntu are closed for being bug reports. Is it possible instead of just closing the post, we bring some feature that would route these posts to the proper bug-reporting sites? Wouldn't that increase the participation in manual participation in bug-reporting ...

discussion feature-request

hbdgaf

@ByteCommander - I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've seen a negative votes accepted answer.

ByteCommander

Yep?

hbdgaf

@AskUbuntuMeta The accepted from the question linked in that one.

ByteCommander

Yes, I saw that. +1 and -2.

Strange, but probably the upvote is from the asker and the downs from some trolls?

hbdgaf

No idea.

It's the opposite of the usual trend though - here "plop" script. Gets more heavily dv than "well here's what I see that is wrong". It's weird.

terdon

4:22 PM

@hbdgaf There are quite a few: askubuntu.com/…

I do which people would stop complaining about downvotes. It is so rarely useful.

I'm getting tired of saying "well, downvotes could happen for any reason, really"

ByteCommander

Total agreement.

Have to go back to my school presentation now though... :P See you!

Seth

heya @Lucio!

Lucio

good morning!

I just came by for help

but apt-get update && apt-get upgrade solved it :D

Seth

yay :D

Lucio

Hey yo, what a great news we have today. New profile design!!

coolest thing ever

and now helpful flags are public.

Seth

4:34 PM

yeah, that was kind of a big change.

but age disappeared :/

(not like I used it ;P)

terdon

And we need an extra click to get to the "last seen on" information. That's annoying.

Seth

The extra clicks are extremely annoying.

I personally was against the whole profile redesign idea.

But I don't think they did a bad job considering.

terdon

I do like some of it and it sure looks snazzy. I'll get around to posting a bug report on meta one of these days.

hbdgaf

4:49 PM

@terdon I'm not against downvotes or upvotes. If the answer gets an accept - it must have worked for the OP though... so that should probably be hard lower limit of 3 or something.

A.B.

@EliahKagan Did you give me a downvote? What's wrong with my answer?

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A: Error when running script in bash

Here are your errors (source): SC2002 Useless cat. Consider 'cmd < file | ..' or 'cmd file | ..' instead. SC2006 Use $(..) instead of legacy `..`. SC2046 Quote this to prevent word splitting. SC2086 Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting. SC2126 Consider using grep -c instead of gr...

terdon

@hbdgaf Dunno, I've seen some awful accepted answers. I think I remember seeing one that was actively harmful.

hbdgaf

Then it should either be deleted or the question deleted. Accepted should mean good. Possibly not the best, but good.

terdon

Should, yes. Does, not always.

@A.B. Eliah only edited, why would you think he downvoted?

hbdgaf

I think that's a separate problem ;)

A.B.

4:53 PM

@terdon I have been suffering from persecution mania for this answer. :\

hbdgaf

Wait, why did he also delete the one with +1? askubuntu.com/a/610899/5768

terdon

@A.B. also, you have some issues with your script. You assume that arguments will be quoted since you only allow for exactly 2. What about alias foo="bar | baz"?

@hbdgaf No idea. People have been whining about their answers to tat post for days for some reason.

hbdgaf

I guess I've been away... didn't think so, but that's how it would appear.

A.B.

@terdon yes, right

terdon

@A.B. also, why in the world are you using awk '{system...? All you need is type "$1".

A.B.

4:55 PM

@terdon I will delete the part. Too many pitfalls.

terdon

You're also pointing out a UUoC (even calling it an error) and then have one yourself in your improved version: $(cat "$HOME/.bash_aliases" | grep "alias $1=" | wc -l)

Plus a useless use of wc which you also point out as an error.

A.B.

@terdon I probably just trying to rectify.

@terdon Stop :) I know it. I just do not know why I posted the code without him me closer look. I have amended the existing code only in its structure ...

And that was a mistake.

terdon

Well, you asked about why you were being downvoted :)

I hadn't, by the way.

A.B.

I promise improvement :)

Funny thing, my personal scripts look better, maybe not perfect, but better.

grep -c I know

Seth

> download] 100% of 908.92MiB in 06:21

what the!?!

That was fast!

hbdgaf

5:05 PM

Are you sure you didn't have a sleepover in @jrg 's datacenter?

terdon

@Seth What film? :P

jrg

MORNING

someone rang?

THEY SUMMONED ME

@hbdgaf yeah, he didn't. i think.

it would have downloaded in about 30, maybe 45 seconds.

6:21 is a little long.

hbdgaf

Heh, I was trying to be funny, didn't mean to summon - just make sure you saw it.

jrg

heh.

hbdgaf

sup Mateo

Seth

5:16 PM

@terdon not a film, per se, although it is a video (and yes I got permission)

@jrg for you maybe ;P

terdon

:21170586 You haven't had your coffee yet, have you?

:P

jrg

well that password is being changed

4

Mateo

Hi

jrg

@terdon I have had coffee.

hbdgaf

@terdon I definitely didn't mean to summon him before either coffee or a monster

Mateo

5:18 PM

@jrg ooo, does he get three wishes?

jrg

@Mateo perhaps?

Mateo

lol

So how is it all going @hbdgaf

hbdgaf

more of the same. someone wanting to sell me their golf cart because nobody is buying their packaged deal home.

finished with the scrubbing of the exterior with a deckbrush and turned on the AC. I hate this time of year. AC in the day - heater at night.

Mateo

Yeah...

hbdgaf

Anyway... working on the CSV from pandas to SQL layer. Making substantial progress, but it's making me realize how sloppy the work was so far.

Mateo

5:24 PM

We just got through inventory the other day, and another overnight coming up, I'll be on and off strange times

hbdgaf

Sure, that makes sense.

Like: Well, I'll fix this, but it works. Here's a bandaid Now I have a huge ball of bandaids.

Nathan Osman

o/

hbdgaf

o/

Nathan Osman

Read an interesting article on RethinkDB.

Mateo

@hbdgaf cool, always fun looking at stuff you did even a short time ago

hbdgaf

5:27 PM

The point right now is "Well, I did a lot of batching and just do this all automatically" ... Now I'm cleaning up all the duplicate data and whatnot. So, I'm seeing wasted processing time and debating on whether or not I should just prune the data for now or actually fix the generating of the data and say - "I'll eat it in precompute time"

Nathan Osman

@jrg Lol - the worst I've ever done is type "exit" in a hangout by accident instead of a terminal.

Mateo

Wondering how I won a backpack for the mess of code I mashed into a scope ;p

hbdgaf

I did tell you an RSS scope would be a winner...

jrg

@NathanOsman ssshh - I've never typed a password in wrong, only pasted it.

Nathan Osman

@Mateo I think our penguins have started some friendly discussion on Twitter.

Mateo

5:28 PM

Yeah :)

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman Harvesting vital organs upon request LOL

Have you tried gdb on a Qemu instance meant to look like a rpi?

Nathan Osman

I can't.

qemu won't let me use more than 256 MB of RAM for a VM.

The Pi itself has four times as much RAM :P

hbdgaf

WUT?

Nathan Osman

Yeah, some bizarre limitation of qemu.

Mateo

@hbdgaf oh yeah, awesome idea. And in the end it worked. Eventually I want to switch to the newsblur api or something, to save feeds to accounts or something

hbdgaf

5:32 PM

It's a thing that people want, but nobody has gotten totally right yet.

Nathan Osman

[Insert frustration about Google Reader here.]

5

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=8649 Didn't realize that was a bug in existence.

@NathanOsman They should just open source Google Reader and let someone pick up the torch, unless it's a recruiting mechanism.

Mateo

Oh, have you seen Firefox's "reader" mode

hbdgaf

I don't think so, but I'm die hard chromium.

Mateo

It looks like an e-reader display but shows RSS feeds

Seth

5:33 PM

cool!

Nathan Osman

I tossed around the idea of creating a ramdisk and pointing qemu at that and using it as swap.

Seth

I'll have to try that.

Mateo

I'll post some screens

ByteCommander

Can somebody tell me how to convert an animated GIF (looping) into an animated GIF (single run) for a libreOffice odp presentation?

Nathan Osman

I'm amazed at how long we've been able to stretch out Flash support on Android - I've still got it working on my Nexus 6 with Lollipop. (The APK from Adobe is probably at least two years old by now :P)

jrg

5:37 PM

@NathanOsman i'd love to see what kind of exploits could be used there.

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander convert original.gif -loop 1 output.gif

ByteCommander

trying...

Nathan Osman

@jrg Yeah, probably a few. It only works in Dolphin (WebKit-based browser) and FlashFox (Firefox-clone with the Flash plugin).

Mateo

hbdgaf

@ByteCommander gimp can do that. it's a toggle.

ByteCommander

5:40 PM

@NathanOsman Cool, I did not know this is built in. Can I set it so that it stops at the last image instead of jumping back to the first one?

Mateo

so, it works nice, and they put the little book icon in the address bar(where the rss icon used to be a while back...) so it avoids the ux thing that people thought it was too complicated

ByteCommander

@hbdgaf Nah, Nathan's command is ways faster. Imagine how long it takes to open GIMP and load that file on an old laptop...

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander It's not built-in - you must have had ImageMagick installed. As for jumping to the first frame, that's probably implementation-dependent.

In other words, it depends on what you view it with.

hbdgaf

@ByteCommander i hadn't seen his solution when i suggested gimp

ByteCommander

LibreOffice Impress...

Nathan Osman

5:42 PM

There might be a setting somewhere for that... no idea.

Mateo

@NathanOsman ;)

@george_the_dev You know the difference between you and me? I make this look GOOD. http://t.co/FmS7sxIcfk

Tweeted by mateosalta42 on April 17, 2015 at 8:45 AM in reply to george_the_dev

jrg

Are you 2 going to have a penguin fight?

Nathan Osman

@mateosalta42 Okay, you win. This just makes me look fat. http://t.co/G5LWeAE0Bv

Tweeted by george_the_dev on April 17, 2015 at 8:01 PM in reply to mateosalta42

hbdgaf

@Mateo gangsta penguin.

Nathan Osman

His penguin has much better-looking bling.

hbdgaf

5:44 PM

there's a chappie joke in there somewhere.

Mateo

almost used my orange firewire cable :)

Nathan Osman

ByteCommander

@NathanOsman Or could I just copy the last frame to the first frame

?

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander That would work, I suppose.

ByteCommander

That way I don't have to dig through tons of manuals... You know the command?

Nathan Osman

5:46 PM

Afraid not.

ByteCommander

Aww... Okay, Thank you anyway. Then I have to bother google on this. :-/

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander Oh wait.

Fabby

@NathanOsman War penguin!

Nathan Osman

It looks like you can just tack it on my other command: convert first_frame.png original.gif -loop 1 output.gif

Seems to work for me.

Seth

@Mateo That looks awesome! (the FF RSS thing)

I should try it out.

hbdgaf

5:49 PM

Eliah Kagan

@A.B. I have not voted on that post; the only thing I've done has been to edit it (to improve some formatting in the leading section, before the script is shown).

Seth

I've never had much need for RSS but there are a few things I subscribe to.

ByteCommander

@NathanOsman And how do I extract the last image to append it at the beginning? Screenshot and cutting it out? Or is there an easy command?

A.B.

@EliahKagan sorry :\

Eliah Kagan

@A.B. No problem.

Nathan Osman

5:52 PM

@ByteCommander Let me check.

Mateo

@Seth hm, looks like it need a bit of work, the button dosn't show some times when I want it

but looks promising

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander You might have to use this command to extract all the frames and then copy the one you need: convert original.gif output%4d.png

Seth

I'm good with promising :)

ByteCommander

@NathanOsman Doing this now! Thanks...

Nathan Osman

No problem.

ByteCommander

5:55 PM

@NathanOsman There was no need for the %4d. It just appends "-NUMBER" to every name.

Nathan Osman

Ah, okay.

I guess I got mixed up with avconv :P

ByteCommander

Argh!

What is this?

The GIF seems compressed. There are no full but only differential frames!

Mateo

a sponge with a rainbow on it's head?

ByteCommander

Why can't this crap just be easy...? :P :-(

@Mateo Yes! Got a problem with that? ;)

Mateo

no, you asked what it was...

RPi Awesomeness

5:58 PM

fashionablygeek.com/mens-apparel/…

^ Nope.

ByteCommander

It should be a funny introduction for my presentation...

Nathan Osman

@RPiAwesomeness Yeah... no.

RPi Awesomeness

Just....nope. Please. I do not want to see that in public.

Nathan Osman

(And I didn't even open the page.)

ByteCommander

@RPiAwesomeness Aiiiiiiiiiii! My eyes!

Mateo

5:58 PM

@RPiAwesomeness um... no.

ByteCommander

@NathanOsman YOu know if "convert" can also "uncompress" the GIF so that it contains full frames? (and how?)

RPi Awesomeness

@ByteCommander I know. The title is "Crocheted Man Shorts Are Sure To Be All The Rage This Summer". If I see these in public this summer, I will rage.

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander Are the PNG images full frames?

ByteCommander

@NathanOsman No, see the spongebob image above.

Mateo

even if they were knitted with silk, it would still be a no because of holes in the fabric...

ByteCommander

6:00 PM

That is #4 of 18

Nathan Osman

Hmm... I know the flag to make it do that but not sure about the flag to make it not do that...

Let me check.

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo ikr

That...is just wrong. >.<

Not to mention being itchy...

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander Try adding the "-layers flatten" flag.

ByteCommander

okay...

Nathan Osman

If that doesn't work, try -coalesce.

ByteCommander

6:05 PM

@NathanOsman -coalesce did work. "flatten" killed the whole animation and left only the last image.

Nathan Osman

Ah, okay.

ByteCommander

But now with the decompressed file, I can do the animation with LibreOffice.

Nathan Osman

You can?

ByteCommander

So I don't need to attach it to the beginning.

Nathan Osman

:P

ByteCommander

6:06 PM

Yes, there is an option to create animated images.

But it did not work and just produce crap because of the compression.

And I first thought it was another error until I saw the extracted png images look the same.

So thank you very much for your help once again! :D :-* ;)

Nathan Osman

No problem.

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo How do you enable the reading mode for Firefox? (looking above)

Mateo

I think it is only in the developer version right now

RPi Awesomeness

Ah

Makes sense

Mateo

oh, looks like the android version might have it

ByteCommander

6:11 PM

@NathanOsman Now LibreOffice crashed... >:P

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo Which, again, would make sense. Reader mode is much more useful on mobile.

Mateo

I like that they paired it with saving articles

I would like to force all news sites through something like that

the fake carousal ones are the worst, look at a bunch of images, hit back just to find out they were leading you down a rabbit hole of pages...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

6:49 PM

0

Q: how to remove all sent/received/draft messages at once in modem manager gui

There is no any option provided by modem manager gui to remove messages at once. Is there any way to delete all messages without hitting del key for each and every message. Thank you!

ubuntu

Seth

7:14 PM

so I spent like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to hack x to work so I could test y. And then found out all I needed was 2 brackets to make x work The Right Way™. Always do it The Right Way™ First!™

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:33 PM

0

Q: Ubuntu - different users on my system

I am running a Ubuntu 12.04 desktop system. So far I have only installed some programs ( I have sudo rights ). I want to ask: 1) when I check the list of users on the system - I see a long list, like more than 20 users - when were these users created (e.g. daemon, sys, sync, games, pulse etc.)...

ubuntu users

Nathan Osman

QNetworkReply isn't as smart as I thought. It actually buffers everything it reads until EOF. It happily gobbled up all of the RAM on my machine during some testing.

Not terribly clever.

baxx

8:43 PM

does this stand as the best way to back up installed packages on one system and install them on another : askubuntu.com/a/99151/381385

Luis Alvarado

Hi, guys, am trying to find a way to integrate askubuntu with the ubuntu desktop in a way that, without opening the site, I get notifications of chat rooms, questions, etc.. does anybody know of a way to do this? Using 15.04 right now

Mateo

9:27 PM

@NathanOsman what is the status on stackapplet: stackapps.com/questions/83/…

hm... not working here it seems

or is that just because of the appindicator thing...

RPi Awesomeness

10:14 PM

Heh. So I was playing FTL, and this popped up:

In other news, I have a sorta, kinda, part-time job!

$10 hr, max 3 hrs a day

ByteCommander

@RPiAwesomeness What? Throwing the newspaper at your neighbours?

RPi Awesomeness

@ByteCommander No, data entry for a deals website.

So, nice and easy for me. Great summer work.

I can pop on some music, and copy data!

ByteCommander

@RPiAwesomeness Data entry? You have to type in things?

Seth

10:34 PM

@RPiAwesomeness Don't you use StackApplet?

cc @LuisAlvarado --^

Luis Alvarado

@Seth sup buddy

Seth

I thought @NathanOsman had just rewritten it in C++ (or maybe it was just Qt)

@LuisAlvarado just a bunch of crazy life things that suddenly caught up to me. You?

Luis Alvarado

@Seth basically the same. A LOTT of stuff from the last time we talked. But all awesome now.

Seth

@LuisAlvarado That's good!

I like awesome :D

@LuisAlvarado So have you tried sudo apt install stackapplet?

I'm not sure the version in the repos works but I think it does.

Luis Alvarado

not tried anything yet, but just tried that and it works

At least for points and questions. Wanted to merge the chats with it

Will Hunting

10:45 PM

@seth Hey LOL.

Seth

@WillHunting Hi there!

@LuisAlvarado Chat notifications enter the global inbox every 15 minutes so you'll get them eventually.

I'm afraid without a userscript that's the best we can do.

Will Hunting

@Seth I am waiting to install Debian 8 next week. Anyway I think I won't come to this room anymore. But I will still be in 36 and 168.

terdon

Hey @WillHunting. All green I see.

Luis Alvarado

@Seth oh thanks

Will Hunting

@terdon Yes, oh you are here too!

Seth

10:47 PM

@WillHunting :(

terdon

@WillHunting I'm everywhere :P

Will Hunting

@Seth I liked your picture. What happened to it?

Seth

@LuisAlvarado Glad to see you around! How'd that Linux certification go?

Luis Alvarado

went excellent, got my certification and thanks to that got a job at last

Seth

@WillHunting Eh, after a spammer threatened to stab me I got a little more privacy aware, plus I never have a good picture of myself anyway ;P

It'll probably come back someday though..

@LuisAlvarado Nice!!!!!

I hope it's a job you like!

Huh, Will left suddenly o_O

Luis Alvarado

10:49 PM

Yes, as a male stripper. Go Linux!

Seth

lol?

terdon

@Seth Say what?

Luis Alvarado

just kidding lol. Software Developer but also linux cloud

terdon

Well done @LuisAlvarado!

Seth

@LuisAlvarado yay

also:

terdon

10:50 PM

tee-hee :)

Luis Alvarado

Thanks guys. Really needed

and yes, the image is true

Seth

@terdon Yeah. The image is in the transcripts somewhere.. I didn't think too much of it but it did make me think about how someone would find me if they really did want to.

terdon

@Seth Wow. Maybe they can extract my fingerprints from my avatar!

Mind you, if they can do that I may as well give up.

Luis Alvarado

Also, what is that, wait let me paste here

I think the site changed

IMPACT
~13.0m people reached

Seth

@LuisAlvarado It did!

22

Q: Minor site design updates

As you can see, Ask Ubuntu community site got a slight design update today. I have moved site's CSS to a newly refactor LESS system, so it's more maintainable for us to fix SE network CSS bugs globally going on forward. I've standardized some common site elements and UI conventions. For example, ...

discussion featured design

Luis Alvarado

10:52 PM

Where is this impact coming from

aaaa ok

terdon

Check the featured blog post.

Luis Alvarado

A ok yes I saw that but did not notice the change in the profile

Seth

and also:

Luis Alvarado

it's huge

Seth

Blog - Stack Exchange: Two new user pages. One new stat. This one’s <em>big.</em>

Jay Hanlon on April 15, 2015

In the time since we started working on the profile, generations of dinosaurs were born, fell in love, had families, and were killed by a comet. Or climate change, or maybe texting and driving or some nonsense like that. Anyway, as of today, it’s live on SO and about half the network, and we’ll be rolling out to the rest over the next few weeks. And it was worth the wait:

Unfortunately, the designers said I could have… like two, maybe? At most. So, we went with that:

The Profile Page lets you show others a summary of what you’re all about. Share your interests, favorite c …

terdon

10:53 PM

I wanted to call it unicorns healed :(

@LuisAlvarado What is? The profile pic?

Luis Alvarado

Seth

@terdon 13m people reached.

Luis Alvarado

@terdon That, from the profile at the right. But yes, Last year I think I helped more people through skype/hangouts/teamviews/email than askubuntu

Seth

That is huge!

terdon

@Seth Only slightly :)

But no, that would have freaked me out too and, in any case, I never put my face anywhere.

Luis Alvarado

10:56 PM

I would vote for the Unicorns Healed idea

terdon

13m is not bad! I only have 2m on U&L.

Luis Alvarado

Makes more "sense"

terdon

Heh, I don't even reach @LuisAlvarado if I add my "impact" from all my sites. I'm at ~4m between AU, U&L, SU, Biology and ELL.

Luis Alvarado

I got 220K in SO

so I think am only good on Ubuntu lol

terdon

:)

I've got 28k on SO which suggests the metric is just silly. I've hardly ever posted there.

ByteCommander

11:05 PM

LOL. I only reached 32 people on SO...

baxx

If I have the same setup details on two different systems (say group xy user xy), could I just drop in files from one to the other without any hiccup?

terdon

@baxx Depends. Do the users/groups have the same UID/GID?

The name is irrelevant, it's the number that counts.

baxx

ah ok, didn't know

terdon

$ grep terdon /etc/passwd
terdon:x:1001:1001:terdon,,,:/home/terdon:/bin/bash

The 1001:1001 is user:group

Check if you have the same ones for user xy on both machines.

baxx

yeah i do - although the user / group names are different, as you say they're irrelevant though. hmm

terdon

11:27 PM

If you have the same UID/GUID it should work with no issues at all.

baxx

@terdon cool, didn't realise that before :)

hbdgaf

11:44 PM

Brilliant:

plus.google.com/u/0/+MartinOwens/posts/…

baxx

11:56 PM

trying to run rsnapshot - If I don't run this as sudo this seems to mean that I can't use logging, pid check thing either. Anyone else use rsnapshot?

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