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Jorge Castro

Nov 17, 2010 00:31

turning lumps of metal into finely shaped swords of awesome

ajmitch

Nov 16, 2010 21:40

Hah, it's not a case of knowing everything, it's a case of not knowing enough to know that I'm ignorant ;)

Marco Ceppi

Nov 13, 2010 21:38

:18156 Ask Ubuntu strives for the highest quality of Questions and Answers regarding the Ubuntu platform and it's derivatives

Marco Ceppi

Nov 13, 2010 20:41

Debating in my head in the most non-vocal way except for right now where I've made it vocal

htorque

Nov 12, 2010 20:54

a rep-point-sucking crack in the time-space continuum

Jorge Castro

Nov 11, 2010 17:02

you're supposed to just be able to get what you want from the software center

badp

Nov 11, 2010 17:02

Apple and Microsoft are late to realize this, but they're catching up.

badp

Nov 11, 2010 15:00

:17504 gist.github.com/672546

Jorge Castro

Nov 11, 2010 14:30

@htorque new response

ajmitch

Nov 11, 2010 00:44

seriously, nearly 2k votes already?

Jorge Castro

Nov 11, 2010 00:25

@Oli just got fanatic!

fluteflute

Nov 10, 2010 19:13

^ every go vote ;)

DoR

Nov 10, 2010 04:12

A: iPython Like Command History For Shell

Bash does have that feature too, but it's not enabled by default. You can bind it to cursor up/down by sticking this into ~/.inputrc: "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward I prefer to bind it to Ctrl+up/down instead: "\e[1;5A": history-search-backward "\e[1;5B": histo...

lovinglinux

Nov 5, 2010 22:31

:15401 Yeah, unfortunately problems are part of the deal :) But I'm constantly trying to sort them out. The bug report system for FVR is at github.com/lovinglinux/flvideoreplacer/issues

George Edison

Nov 5, 2010 19:58

@maren: Don't worry - once I finish porting appindicators to GTK, it will be available as an applet again...

TheX

Nov 5, 2010 18:20

by the way @GeorgeEdison I thought I found a bug in stackapplet. and it turned out it was just me :-(

Jorge Castro

Nov 5, 2010 01:14

I am willing to bet whatever web page someone finds will be out of date

Li Lo

Nov 4, 2010 21:05

:15093 oh, you're pulling the "teach a man to fish" trick on me, I see :)

TheX

Nov 4, 2010 14:12

wqad.com/news/…

Jorge Castro

Nov 4, 2010 00:08

@RolandTaylor meta.askubuntu.com/questions/548/…

George Edison

Nov 3, 2010 21:56

I got X11 forwarding to work on an old Windows 98 box.

João Pinto

Nov 3, 2010 16:23

@LiLo: let's propose URR ? Ubuntu Rock and Rolling :D

Jorge Castro

Nov 3, 2010 16:01

we used to try to count but then it was trying to figure out who had the best wrong number

Li Lo

Nov 3, 2010 14:57

@JorgeCastro: maybe someone from canonical can make it easier for someone who has signed up for amazon free tier to run ubuntu server on ec2

Marco Ceppi

Nov 3, 2010 14:21

:13996 Downvoting is one of the greatest community services you can do

Marco Ceppi

Nov 2, 2010 19:08

Jorge Castro

Nov 2, 2010 18:52

not a forum!

marenostrum

Nov 1, 2010 23:15

:13191 Apart your personal efforts, a LoCo would be great. Organization is always more strong than an indivudual. By organizing, you will have the chance to bring up new leaders, organization can do tasks you are not able to do by yourself due to several limitations.

Jorge Castro

Nov 1, 2010 23:14

Will unity allow me to bake cupcakes?

Marco Ceppi

Nov 1, 2010 22:31

:13198 meta.askubuntu.com/questions/539/tone-down-edited-comment-icon

Marco Ceppi

Nov 1, 2010 22:20

Marco Ceppi

Nov 1, 2010 22:02

@DoR Boom! Head shot.

TheX

Nov 1, 2010 19:40

Bald Knob Cross

Bald Knob Cross, completed in 1963, is a large white cross located in Alto Pass, Illinois. The structure is tall and is visible, when lit at night, over an area of . The base of the cross is made of Illinois marble and the upper portion is covered by reinforced steel porcelain panels. The cross can withstand winds of up to . It is hollow, and visitors were originally able to go to the top. This was discontinued at some point before 1982, probably due to insurance concerns about the deteriorating condition of the internal stairs. Bald Knob Mountain was first suggested as an excellent ...

Marco Ceppi

Nov 1, 2010 16:49

:12794 chat.askubuntu.com/transcript/message/6542#6542

Marco Ceppi

Nov 1, 2010 16:41

@mwm Not yet - there will likely be a PPA available when Alpha 1 of Natty hits downloads

JanC

Nov 1, 2010 05:24

isn't it a bit too small to sit on? :P

Marco Ceppi

Nov 1, 2010 01:45

fluteflute

Oct 31, 2010 20:53

Wooh! Looks like we have a Unity developer on here

fluteflute

Oct 31, 2010 20:15

Anyone know where to go if I want to help get my keyboards "special buttons" working in ubuntu?

George Edison

Oct 31, 2010 19:41

Hey - I'm using Chrome on an old Pentium MMX thanks to X11 forwarding over an SSH connection.

fluteflute

Oct 31, 2010 19:27

I'm tempted to start a question on Canonical's copyright assignment

DoR

Oct 30, 2010 03:48

@GeorgeEdison BTW, Stackapplet should use the XDG directories to store files: standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

Marco Ceppi

Oct 29, 2010 17:17

@TheX People are going to down vote - because you said Windows. It's like walking into a Church and saying "I know you want a divorce - have you tried Atheism?" It isn't going to be received well :P

marenostrum

Oct 29, 2010 13:44

@RogerPate Our room seems to be closed. It will be missed a lot. :)

fluteflute

Oct 28, 2010 10:48

blip.tv/file/4294234

Marco Ceppi

Oct 28, 2010 00:58

I don't know what's worse - my electric bill, or my internet bill. I stopped checking after a while

Marco Ceppi

Oct 28, 2010 00:07

@txwikinger Right as soon as enough community members have the rep for it

Marco Ceppi

Oct 27, 2010 21:19

What you want a video? It's just 10.10 on a quad core 10GB system

fluteflute

Oct 27, 2010 19:26

stick raw_input() on the end

Marco Ceppi

Oct 27, 2010 14:26

I wouldn't recommend putting that on your computer.