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You and jokerdino said the same thing. I think it's more upsetting that someone who had the world at their feet ended themselves. Leaves a lot of room for introspection and wondering why

jokerdino

yeah. may be he took his character too personally..

TBF, his character was really moving.

aking1012

this is true on both parts

jokerdino

I like Lubuntu now. Very silent and nice.

spoke too soon >.>

aking1012

kk will silence myself. i thought i was maintaining nice though.

jokerdino

hmm it was not related to you at all.

i was in my room and then moved to the prep room.

change in setting --> change in thought process

aking1012

12:40 PM

is ok. just thought it might have been a polite way to say shut up

jokerdino

uh. i never meant it that way :/

aking1012

kk. just being overly defensive

jokerdino

lol alright then.

the kk reminds me of Mahesh. he uses double ?? or !! and I find it a little hilarious.

Amith KK

lol

jokerdino

who uses Firefox and has suggestions for good addons for me?

jokerdino

1:07 PM

i still haven't finished the blog post. gets back to finishing things.

jrg

@jokerdino @aking1012 Ledger did the "immersion" style of acting, where he lived like his character, and in many ways became his character.

its one of the most effective acting skills, but also the most emotionally trying. It's no wonder he snapped. :(

jrg

1:24 PM

I think it's time to package nmap 6 for 12.04...

jrg

1:55 PM

@aking1012 you might already know about this PPA... - launchpad.net/~pi-rho/+archive/security

just found it while looking for nmap, looks like it has a fair amount of stuff in there that looks useful.

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Login screen - set default user http://askubuntu.com/questions/157133/login-screen-set-default-user?atw=1 #login

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Q: Disabling email for an account

I have an amazon ec2 instance running ubuntu. There are only a couple of user accounts and the server is used to host a small web app. Apparently, by default, each user account has an email account. We do not use these accounts. Recently I discovered that one of the accounts is receiving "undeli...

fossfreedom

2:40 PM

hmmm.... anybody up for doing someone elses homework... ;) askubuntu.com/questions/157098/help-with-bash-script-with-text

jokerdino

+1 for being honest that it is a homework.

Lord of Time

yawn

jrg

Bash? That's got a perl or lispish feel to it.

Lord of Time

or a combo

its reminiscent of one of those esoteric languages i was looking at

Takkat

Hi all :)

jokerdino

2:50 PM

heya

@fossfreedom enzotib is the man for these questions.

Lord of Time

@jrg careful when suggesting PPAs, you know what dangers they can have

Takkat

@emiT-fo-droL: I've seen that!

jokerdino

Not sure if this is good news or otherwise.. omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/06/…

jrg

@LordofTime You think I just suggest PPAs without thinking about it?

Lord of Time

nope, just making sure you know :P

jrg

2:53 PM

Only reason I didn't include the normal "OMG THIS COULD DESTROY EVERYTHING" warning is because I know aking knows the risks.

jokerdino

@jrg It... sorta.

@LordofTime running joke.

3 hours ago, by jokerdino

it was funny.. sorta

start from there --^

Lord of Time

@jokerdino ah

Lord of Time

3:08 PM

i only need 21 more rep before i hit 4k rep

:/

Anwar Shah

I hitted 2k, today

Takkat

@LordofTime you want upvotes, or what?

Lord of Time

if yuo want, i'm actually just complaining about how close i am to 4k

but with nothing else to ask or answer :/

Takkat

@LordofTime do you have anything you can accept?

fossfreedom

@LordofTime ... I need 45,600 ... upvote me please ;)

Journeyman Geek

3:11 PM

lol

Takkat

100.000 is nice to see.

Roland Taylor

Okay,

No offense...

Lord of Time

@Takkat possibly, but i have to test the solutions to this askubuntu.com/questions/156850/…

@Roland whining is bad

Roland Taylor

But... seriously Canonical?

jrg

@RolandTaylor whats going on this time?

Roland Taylor

3:12 PM

1 sec

And "this time"... har har...

jrg

Take a chill pill bro.

Roland Taylor

They took what, two months almost? To give this canned response?

jrg

@RolandTaylor oh, so they won't answer your specific question?

Two months, including a UDS. :P

Roland Taylor

Yeah I was expecting a real person would give a real answer or at least if they don't understand my question, say so.

jrg

that and you don't have a @dell.com email address, or a @hp.com... so you're like "lol this guy is nuts :D"

Roland Taylor

3:14 PM

Oh yeah that's true :)

Okay now I'm off to roam the internet :)

Just had to point out how warm and fuzzy that response made me feel.

Lord of Time

lo and behold... my reputation is now over 4k

4,001
reputation

Takkat

grats

Lord of Time

now i just need to take time to get 1k more rep

then i can do tag wiki stuffs

Takkat

You think you can.

jrg

TAG WIKI ALLLLL THE THINGS!

Lord of Time

3:17 PM

Approve or reject tag wiki edits <-- Reputation Required: 5000

jrg

Seriously though, we have really cruddy tag wikis.

Takkat

Approving or rejecting is boring. Improving would rule

Lord of Time

show me a few

i'll try and spruce them up

... after i stop having a lagspike

jrg

We need tag wikis like this one. - stackoverflow.com/tags/php/info

Takkat

@jrg that's a tag library

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Lord of Time

3:20 PM

i could do that for our php if you wanted

unless ours is already good

jrg

I was just using that as an example of what a good tag wiki looks like.

Lord of Time

we should clone the stackoverflow tag wikis :P

</evil>

Takkat

Why can't we cross-link tag wikis over SE sites?

jokerdino

yay awesome idea!

man, Roland came in and almost derailed my rant.

jrg

For example, our server tag would have links to how to set up apache, install Postgres, install Node.js, Rails, common things like that.

jokerdino

3:22 PM

I was so furious that my hall mistress misplaced my report book and now claims that I never even showed her mine.

I was almost going to burn her house down.

jrg

ouch. :(

Takkat

What is a "hall mistress"? That sounds evil.

jokerdino

She never even admitted there is a possibility that she might have forgotten.

Journeyman Geek

lol

jokerdino

@Takkat Hall master / mistress. I am in a boarding school.

Takkat

3:25 PM

They care about you not doing anything they don't want you to do?

jokerdino

Especially since I passed my book almost a month ago and she remarked reading my comments. And then she went overseas and now this whole incident happened.

Lord of Time

@jrg, so if I clone the StackOverflow PHP tag wiki data, would it be accepted here?

jrg

@LordofTime no.

I'm holding it up as an example of what a real tag wiki looks like.

jokerdino

@Takkat wait what? Simple English for now please.

Takkat

Mistress: "Stop doing that, Joker!!!"

jokerdino

3:27 PM

(Makes me realize you can't think well when you are angry.)

Lord of Time

@jokerdino lol

jokerdino

@Takkat Probably. I offered her to check for my book in her house. She didn't let me.

She claimed she was systematical and so there is no chance she lost the book.

So, indirectly it is my fault for passing my book to her.

Takkat

Ouch - that sounds serious.

jokerdino

She started hinting that I voluntarily got rid of the book and now blaming her.

Takkat

Don't give books to squirrels.

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jokerdino

3:30 PM

Why oh why would I lose my book?!?

Especially when I have to shell out more money to buy a replacement?

Takkat

It's not lost - it's only a .book.

jokerdino

@Takkat Fair point. It is a matter of time before my book appears in her eyes and then let's see how she reacts.

Takkat

mv .book book

jokerdino

heh :P

Lord of Time

@jrg can i do incremental improvements? improve upon what already exists, then continue to improve over the next few days? (since it'll be a few days before i make another improvement to include questions/tutorials about setup of various packages and what not that exist on the ubuntu wiki and stuff)

jokerdino

3:32 PM

what made me rage is she refused to check at all. Even the greatest man can misplace simple things. But she was soooooo adamant that she ruled that out straightaway.

And then started yelling at me.

jrg

@LordofTime sure, you might run into a system limitation, but I don't think so.

jokerdino

For goodness sake, she doesn't realize she is almost 70 years old and she can forget things.

</raging rant>

Takkat

She forgets that she forgets.

2

Don't blame her for that.

jokerdino

@Takkat lol :P

Lord of Time

@jrg i'm going to give a (brief) overview of what can be installed by the Server installernow, and then also provide links to how-tos for some of the software you mentioned in addition to the core programs i state (that's giong to come later, i'm going to have to dredge up those items, most of which exists on the ubuntu wiki and not here)

jokerdino

3:35 PM

Thanks for listening to my rant. Things that I couldn't say at her face have been said here. Phew.

Lord of Time

your rant has displeased me.

just because it was a rant.

jokerdino

yeah, your turn to rant then.

jrg

@LordofTime keep in mind that if you think it deserves a dedicated Q&A, go right ahead.

Lord of Time

@jrg indeed, i may do that later ;P

but the tag wiki should still be improved

posting phase 1 of the improvements now.

(no links yet, i'll get those later)

(probably tomorrow)

jokerdino

You better attribute it properly. Or else others will reject it as plagiarism.

Lord of Time

3:38 PM

@jokerdino i wrote this myself, not from a wiki

jokerdino

that's better.

Lord of Time

lets let @jrg decide though

has a rolling-changes version in a text file on his phone

oooh! LUNCHTIME!

FOOD!!! COFFEE!!!!!!! MUST... OBTAIN...!

jrg

real 3m58.788s
user 0m15.781s
sys 0m2.064s

Welcome to hell.

Lord of Time

@jrg hehe

anyways, time for food.

jrg

Almost 4 minutes for redmine to do a database migration.

jokerdino

3:48 PM

She now comes back to my room to say that she has no reason to keep my book and that I should have it with me somewhere. <facepalm>

She doesn't want to rest the matter. Sigh

anyway, good night for the day. I am tired of this nonsense.

Amith KK

Hello AskUbuntu Armada

George Edison

Hello.

Amith KK

Heya @GeorgeEdison

George Edison

Could someone please upvote this?

...and time for a bounty!

mateo_salta

4:07 PM

@GeorgeEdison wow what a bounty!

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison There was something

It's better if you use Gnome Shell's native extensions

mateo_salta

@GeorgeEdison I think I figured out what is going on with the mac install, It is looking for libqjson.0.dylib , which I installed, but I can't just put it in the package, because it refers to links specific to my computer..

George Edison

Oh, that would explain it.

Is it possible to link it statically?

mateo_salta

I'm looking in to that, but it's new territory from here

George Edison

@AmithKK Is there documentation for that?

Amith KK

4:23 PM

@GeorgeEdison live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions

htorque

does compiz work with the gs fallback?

Amith KK

BBT

Good Night

jrg

4:46 PM

dang thats a lot of database migrations.

this is the largest rails project i've ever seen... whoa.

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5:00 PM

Bounty offered: How do I get QSystemTrayIcon to show up in Gnome 3? http://askubuntu.com/questions/155545/how-do-i-get-qsystemtrayicon-to-show-up-in-gnome-3?atw=1 #gnome3

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Jacob

5:13 PM

@GeorgeEdison Still around?

htorque

does the gnome fallback work better with multi-monitor setups than unity?

unity in 12.04 is no good for such setups :-(

jrg

@htorque define "multi-monitor". I'm fine with my two monitor setup.

htorque

two

one left one right

can't work with it

too many unity/compiz issues

jrg

that was my issue.

Did you tweak the settings so you don't have a 'barrier' between the monitors?

George Edison

@Jacob I'm here (for the moment anyway).

htorque

5:19 PM

@jrg yeah, that was the most awful thing :D

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison Oh, have something fun to go do?

George Edison

I might in a few minutes.

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison want to share?

htorque

i know about all the tweaks, but i've never before used multiple monitors in a productive environment and i just find it insufficient. well, i'll give the gnome fallback a chance.

good old two-panel setup :D

George Edison

@Jacob Share?

jrg

5:23 PM

@GeorgeEdison what you're doing. We're all curious now. ;P

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison What fun thing you might get to do? Also have you considered what I asked on Tues( I think?)

George Edison

Well, to be 100% honest... I'm not quite sure - see, today is actually my birthday and I'm not responsible for the plans today.

So I kind of just "find out" what is planned (surprises and all that stuff).

jrg

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @GeorgeEdison!!!

@GeorgeEdison enjoy not knowing what you're doing. :D

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison OHHHH Happy Birthday

George Edison

Thanks guys :)

Takkat

5:26 PM

Not again someone getting older - oh no! - Happy birthday @GeorgeEdison

jrg

adds to his google calendar

George Edison

Lol.

Mitch

5:43 PM

Hello all

@GeorgeEdison Happy birthday

George Edison

Thank you.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison the cat is out of the bag now. ;)

George Edison

He sure is.

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison happy birthday :D!

Today is also my brother's birthday :D

So that's two brothers with birthdays today ^_^

George Edison

\o/

wisemonkey

5:52 PM

@GeorgeEdison Happy B'day have a blast :D

George Edison

I wonder if there is a Unicode symbol for a birthday cake...

wisemonkey

already searching

Roland Taylor

ℵቘ┕㈕ဥስ

okay I give up

lgarzo

U+1F382

jrg

that isn't it.

wisemonkey

5:54 PM

damn it my touchpad scroll is not working :-/

and its hard to search without it :P

𐏉

rotate it 90 degrees

ok any fix for scroll?

Roland Taylor

reboot?

okay folks gtg again - doing some writing and internet is distracting me

George Edison

6:14 PM

Web applications are getting smarter...

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Some edits, such as those adding information about an OP's system, should only be made... by the OP, or at the OP's explicit request, or by someone who is merely putting the information into the question, from what the OP has him/herself said (usually from comments). It's not, generally speak...

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aking1012

7:46 PM

@jrg nice catch on the pi-rho ppa. and i hadn't seen that one

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8:03 PM

Bounty offered: What's the recommend way to enable / disable services? http://askubuntu.com/questions/19320/whats-the-recommend-way-to-enable-disable-services?atw=1 #service

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Mitch

hello all

jrg

Howdy

@aking1012 thanks. I found that while looking for nmap. :)

aking1012

I was all ... wait what? That ppa should be in the stock off-topic backtrack answer

Mitch

@jrg I just lost 15 rep, and can't see where. Can you tell me why?

aking1012

someone likely un-accepted one of your answers

jrg

8:07 PM

@Mitch I don't see anything. I see that you gained 15 rep 12 hours ago, gained 10 rep 15, 12, 5, 4 and 1 hours ago for a grand total of 65 rep today.

Mitch

I know, but how can I find out which one?

jrg

Does that match your numbers?

Mitch

few minutes ago it was 3813, and when I refreshed the page it went back to 3798

aking1012

@Mitch I think you may be taking this whole QA thing a bit personally

jrg

probably another rep recalc.

Mitch

8:08 PM

NO :)

jrg

anyway, i don't think I can say anything more detailed than that.

Mitch

OK, thanks

aking1012

oooh, pavucontrol has a pulseaudio monitor device. i've been looking for a way to get that without recompiling alsa to get alsaloop support FO-EVA

jrg

Yeah, it's nice. :P

Mitch

@aking1012 A lot is happening, so sorry if I sound that way.

aking1012

8:14 PM

@Mitch np, you just seem really focused on the points. if you just let it happen, the points mostly just happen

jrg

Last year my only goal was to get to 2K before I left for the summer (best part of 2-3 months).

Mitch

I hear you, and I understand, just 4hr sleep in the last 48 hours.

and I just want to make sure that I wasn't seeing things.

jrg

I hit 2K, had a rep recalc, ended up losing like 60 rep. I was floored. Then I took my 2 month break, came back and was like "screw it, rep is for children". :P

(and all of this happened the day/night before I left. :P)

the moral of that story is folks: Don't be a JRG. You end up being a moderator.

And then you can't have fun. ;)

aking1012

lollerskates

jrg

8:28 PM

Nevermind, thought I found a chat.SE bug.

aking1012

if it's about multi-line formatting it's status-by-design

is there a canonical question for screen-recording?

@rlemon streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/…

if there's not a canonical question and answer, i think there should be(one that lists encoding settings and tips/tricks to capture audio-outs etc)

aking1012

9:34 PM

o/ @mateosalta

mateo_salta

hey @aking1012

I was trying to post lolerskates

how is it going?

aking1012

it goes

i find i often wonder about weird things...do you think there being no rage-face for orly is a gap in features, or that it normally equates to "u don't say?"

mateo_salta

(0_o) ?

aking1012

exactly so

for anyone that doesn't know what i mean by rage-face alltheragefaces.com

they should so have an im api or whatever so &rage&yes&rage& returns

similarly alltheragefaces.com/face/misc-all-the-things

mateo_salta

9:55 PM

aking1012

@mateo_salta you always makes me lol

mateo_salta

that was the closest, to orly, there is this one-

aking1012

maybe it's my sarcasm that makes orly more synonymous with you don't say...i suppose that could also be the sticking point

mateo_salta

aking1012

10:11 PM

>.<

mateo_salta

?

aking1012

nice work on finding/making an orly...it just doesn't do it for me

mateo_salta

yeah, it just doesn't have the same touch

they have a spot where you can request a face

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10:36 PM

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aking1012

11:40 PM

and i now have crusader no regret and crusader no remorse working fullscreen/dosbox :) if only there were retro engines for linux(hint hint)

mateo_salta

ever play IHNMAIMS

aking1012

nope

mateo_salta

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game)

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is a psychological horror point-and-click adventure game based upon Harlan Ellison's short story of the same name about an evil computer named AM that has destroyed all of humanity except for five people, who he has been keeping alive and torturing for the past 109 years. Each survivor has a fatal flaw in its character, and in an attempt to crush their spirits, AM has constructed a metaphorical adventure for each that preys upon their weaknesses. To succeed in the game, the player must make ethical choices to prove to the evil computer that humans are be...

aking1012

i googled it. the premise is interesting

i think popey wanted to be constructive-ish...is there a way to turn this one in to a blanket question? askubuntu.com/questions/157364/wikipedia-lens-example-broken check my comment on what i think needs to be done

mateo_salta

yeah, I like how it was based on a short story, they should make more games like that, where they start with a strange concept and run with it

aking1012

11:46 PM

we would have more of that if engines were easier to use(barring quake and quark)

i don't think linux users "demand" horribly performant/GPU intensive games. it's my opinion that if there were more "hey anyone can do this" engines, we would see a lot more humble-bundles(read as you don't have to code an engine from scratch in opengl)

mateo_salta

yeah, I only have 1ghz on my linux box that I do music and web and pictures on

aking1012

so you take my point. i think a genericish set of engines based on the gaming staples of linux would be a massive leap forward

mateo_salta

like an indie game sdk, or something like rpg maker

aking1012

something like that yes. if there were a common framework for all genres (say ogre for rendering, bullet for physics, blender for model design, etc ,etc) and templates for say race, shoot, rpg, isometric city, isometric shoot, "zelda" etc.... just my stance

the problem is that big ideas like that need big people behind them

mateo_salta

big people need big money

aking1012

11:58 PM

i think there's an insane amount of money to be had from it...what was the units sold for the indie bundle???

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