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marenostrum

Oct 27, 2010 00:12

:10430 I'm searching the Net to find about some info on Kentucians and their habits. :)

DoR

Oct 26, 2010 20:47

@marenostrum should roll a die, refresh the page that many times and then accept whichever answer is on top, i.e Ask Ubuntu roulette. :P

Matthew

Oct 25, 2010 20:03

Q: Tag for questions like "What _____ are available?"?

There are a lot of questions like What native games are available? and What docks are available?. Do you think we should make a tag for them? The first thing that comes to mind is available-software, but I don't think this is very descriptive. Any ideas?

dv3500ea

Oct 25, 2010 12:50

UDS-N starts in 10 minutes

George Edison

Oct 24, 2010 19:43

Hey! What happened to Launchpad?

sepp2k

Oct 24, 2010 19:23

:9659 They fell out off the wagon

fluteflute

Oct 22, 2010 14:22

the favourites have gone from the right hand side :(

DoR

Oct 22, 2010 00:40

@MarcoCeppi ubuntuone.com/p/LYG

fluteflute

Oct 20, 2010 19:15

Launchpad trademark

According to [1] then " “Launchpad” is a registered trademark of Canonical Ltd ". Considering Apple have announced a new piece of software for Mac OS X called "Launchpad" (see second image down on [2]). I believe it is a "bug" if Canonical does not defend Launchpad's right to the name. [1] https://help.launchpad.net/Legal [2] http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/

Launchpad itself

Undecided / Invalid

Marco Ceppi

Oct 19, 2010 23:59

> Daily vote limit reached; come back in 36 seconds. (click on this box to dismiss)

KingWilliam

Oct 19, 2010 19:02

I really love that badge system... Espacially the funny ones like "peer pressure" :p

Marco Ceppi

Oct 19, 2010 04:08

Hey look! A kitty

Jorge Castro

Oct 18, 2010 21:16

woo, 4300 users!

lovinglinux

Oct 18, 2010 19:11

#!/bin/bash

PACKAGE=$(zenity --entry --text="Package Name")
echo "#${PACKAGE}](packages.ubuntu.com${PACKAGE}) [![Install X](bit.ly/software-large)](http://apt.ubuntu.com/p${PACKAGE})" | xclip

Nick HS

Oct 17, 2010 12:50

:6676 I wish I could you send them in person i.imgur.com/jw4bC.jpg

Jorge Castro

Oct 16, 2010 15:06

ah nice, nhandler got a necromancer badge

Marco Ceppi

Oct 15, 2010 18:48

askubuntu.com/questions/…

Decio Lira

Oct 15, 2010 02:36

the vote is in the eye of the beholder I guess :-)

Marco Ceppi

Oct 14, 2010 22:56

in General on Ask Ubuntu Chat, Oct 14 '10 at 21:56, by George Edison

Here's the update for everyone: http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/alpha/stackapplet_1.4.0_all.deb

TheX

Oct 14, 2010 22:47

I like it, it is much better then the forums...

TheX

Oct 14, 2010 22:39

maybe, if i was as smart as you guys...

Marco Ceppi

Oct 14, 2010 19:57

Gimp is different - no horrid

valya

Oct 14, 2010 18:51

yep, but on windows they are conceptual while on linux they are bugs

txwikinger

Oct 13, 2010 18:41

We might hit 3k questions today

Marco Ceppi

Oct 12, 2010 20:38

All I do at work is whenever my boss walks by
BOSS: OY! What's all that purple thing?
ME: It's a Q&A Site
BOSS: Shouldn't you be working?
ME: Code's compiling...

Li Lo

Oct 12, 2010 19:15

@James: gnome pressure :P

Marco Ceppi

Oct 11, 2010 23:21

in General on Ask Ubuntu Chat, Oct 11 '10 at 22:31, by Marco Ceppi

Protip: If during the upgrade Ubuntu says you're low on diskspace don't open a new shell and type sudo apt-get clean

Marco Ceppi

Oct 9, 2010 21:15

I jokingly told my girlfriend that we should get married tomorrow (based on that link from @fluteflute) Which is not in serious consideration! I may have bitten off more than I can chew.

George Edison

Oct 9, 2010 01:05

@Marco: Are you ready to try it?

fluteflute

Oct 8, 2010 20:30

:2448 great minds think alike ;)

Jorge Castro

Oct 6, 2010 16:10

Q: Design Ideas for the final site

Hi everyone, At the beginning of the beta I linked up Mat Tomaszewski from the Canonical Design Team to work with Jin Yang from SO on the design for the final site. I am posting the design here on his behalf since he doesn't have the rep (yet!) Home page: Question Page Error Page (a litt...

discussion design

Jorge Castro

Oct 6, 2010 13:52

@MarcoCeppi just caught up with mt. Mockups will be on meta either today or early tomorrow.

Marco Ceppi

Oct 4, 2010 21:49

@GeorgeEdison sudo killall -9 software-center

ixtmixilix

Oct 1, 2010 23:56

aren't you already working on taking over the world, mr. Edison

dag729

Oct 1, 2010 16:33

:D is nice to see people here (that respond): usually on IRC is quite frustating

Marco Ceppi

Oct 1, 2010 14:59

Microsoft has a majority market share

Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.

Ubuntu

Critical / In Progress

Jorge Castro

Sep 29, 2010 12:02

woo hoo! A real room!