Ask Ubuntu General Room

12:00 AM

Scopes are straightforward in C++ though.

{ == new scope.

You can even use { and } by themselves just to create a new scope.

They still inherit the scope though and the can muddy it up with callbacks. JS only gets that confusing because so often it forces people into an asynchronous setting.

George Edison

12:19 AM

@jrg: Still around?

:(

@jrg, @RolandTaylor: I added StackAd to 2buntu :)

Please let me know if it needs any adjustments.

George Edison

12:38 AM

You can test the file on this page.

ajmitch

12:51 AM

0

Q: Auto compile service on for Ubuntu packages?

Is there any service provided by Ubuntu , to automatically compile source to binary deb packages , and for multi-architecture ?

dupe!

Explorer

@GeorgeEdison a minute?

ajmitch

I started writing an answer & though I should probably close as a dupe instead :)

Explorer

I've got this error : sudo: ./bin/sony-acpid: command not found

still doesn't work :-\

George Edison

1:06 AM

@Explorer Does the bin folder exist?

...and if so, what's in it?

@ajmitch: If askubuntu-data-dump ends up going into the archives, should the data dumps be moved out of /opt?

ajmitch

@GeorgeEdison definitely

George Edison

Into /usr/share/se-data-dumps perhaps?

ajmitch

/opt is only a requirement to make sure that there are no file conflicts with packages that are in the archives

yeah, something like that

George Edison

(The XDG spec. says to put architecture-independent stuff in /usr/share.)

ajmitch

And if you want to do regular downloads, I'm of the opinion that they'd be put into /var/cache or similar

Others may disagree with me :)

George Edison

1:19 AM

Yeah, that sounds fine.

Jorge Castro

5

A: Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2011

upboat me!

George Edison

As the proud owner of the 6th upvote, I happily announce that the ad will now be displayed!

Jorge Castro

\o/

ajmitch

1:36 AM

@JorgeCastro searching for votes, shame on you ;)

as the proud owner of the first upvote on it earlier, I did my part

Jorge Castro

heh

George Edison

1:49 AM

@JorgeCastro: Are you using the local data server?

(Just curious...)

Roland Taylor

@JorgeCastro have a paddle?

George Edison

2:07 AM

@RolandTaylor Did you notice the addition of StackAd to 2buntu?

(It's at the bottom on the right sidebar.)

Jorge Castro

@GeorgeEdison yeah afaict

jrg

2:25 AM

@GeorgeEdison looks awesome.

Questions Feed

How to find small non-empty folders? http://askubuntu.com/questions/76973/how-to-find-small-non-empty-folders #commandline

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 8, 2011 at 2:19 AM

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison I saw the message but I haven't checked as yet

OH SWEET :D

George Edison

3:06 AM

Great!

I might add some nice fade-in animations later.

@ajmitch: Would it make more sense to stick the cron job in the data dump package or the data server package?

It really doesn't matter - I just wonder which is more logical.

ajmitch

@GeorgeEdison probably the dump package, I guess

George Edison

Okay.

Sweet! meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/111279/…

Jorge Castro

3:24 AM

oh nice!

George Edison

Now maybe my pagerank will improve :P

Jorge Castro

maybe this will help the ubuntu wiki as well

George Edison

3:45 AM

Does anyone see a problem here?

if `service audataserver-proxy status` ; then
    service audataserver-proxy stop
fi

I get an error: Ask: command not found.

...and it points to the line with fi on it.

Aha! I think I found it.

Laice

5:23 AM

@George Edison out of curiosity what was it?

Questions Feed

5:35 AM

Can you answer this? change xorg.conf based on displaylink monitor detection using lightdm http://askubuntu.com/questions/76976/change-xorg-conf-based-on-displaylink-monitor-detection-using-lightdm #xorg

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 8, 2011 at 5:19 AM

Alvar

5:49 AM

what has happened with the g+ logo?! it's ORANGE? :O

jokerdino

it is shabby

so fugly

George Edison

6:14 AM

@Laice The backticks were capturing the output not the error code.

htorque

6:59 AM

morning

jokerdino

8:19 AM

morning

Questions Feed

Bounty offered: How do I automount a fake raid? http://askubuntu.com/questions/59475/how-do-i-automount-a-fake-raid #raid

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 8, 2011 at 8:19 AM

shariq

8:36 AM

hello

Amith KK

10:45 AM

Hello all

AAAAHHHHH! GOOGLE!!! REMOVE THE FREAKIN' AGE LIMIT!

jokerdino

you younger than 18?

:P

Amith KK

Im 13 :)

jokerdino

O.O

Amith KK

11:02 AM

omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/win-one-of-150-free-flattr-vouchers

Get em' fast

Questions Feed

11:31 AM

How is Gnote different from Tomboy? http://askubuntu.com/questions/77041/how-is-gnote-different-from-tomboy #tomboy

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 8, 2011 at 11:19 AM

jokerdino

12:18 PM

that is my question!

/me does a happy dance~

Amith KK

12:55 PM

jrg

1:08 PM

@jokerdino Awesome question!

Also, has anyone else noticed that questions get tweeted more than awesome answers?

jokerdino

yeah. more focus have been given to question than answers.

are these done manually or computed?

Amith KK

Hi! @jrg

jrg

They're computed.

I had an account that did all the questions, and was going to make another one that did all the answers, but I didn't get very far with that.

@AmithKK hiya!

jokerdino

all the answers? that is a bit spammy.

jrg

Hmm... Not sure what to do with this one... - askubuntu.com/suggested-edits/5113

Heh yeah, it would have been now - but back in December 2010, it wouldn't have been. ;)

jokerdino

1:12 PM

you should have done all questions with accepted answers.

jrg

The entire saga - meta.askubuntu.com/questions/772/… (all links to @Ubuntu_ask are dead now, I re purposed him. :P)

jokerdino

haha :P nice work.

jrg

I'd be open to starting it up again, there's an account that used to do the questions feed as well.

Amith KK

@jrg Irc Pl0x

jrg

I'm on, you just didn't try to ping me. :P

jokerdino

1:16 PM

what does ubuntu_james do?

jrg

Him? He tweets the 2buntu feed, random Ubuntu-related stuff I find, and i use him on release day to answer #ubuntu questions.

Amith KK

@jrg No, all IRC cloud connections got kicked 2 hours ago.

jrg

Wish they told me that...

jokerdino

and @jrg ignore those edits. they seem to be rubbish.

jrg

Yeah, it is. doesn't help that if I were to just approve @hhlp's tag wikis, I'd run out of votes in about 3 seconds. :P

jokerdino

1:22 PM

o.O

LOL

Amith KK

this message has been trunicated

jokerdino

amith you are really desperate to have your messages favorited.

philosiraptor.

sadmicrowave

1:57 PM

hey real quick guys, anyone know where the rhythmbox playlists are stored so I can import them into banshee?

jrg

Not sure.

@sadmicrowave ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/playlists.xml

jokerdino

that is for gnome 2?

jrg

As far as I know, it still stores it there. :P

jokerdino

@sadmicrowave run this command

sadmicrowave

@jrg I don't have rhythmbox dir in ~/.gnome2/

jokerdino

2:01 PM

locate playlist.xml

jrg

Hm.

jokerdino

:D

jrg

actually ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/playlists.xml

sadmicrowave

@jokerdino +s

*playlists

jokerdino

/usr/share/rhythmbox/playlists.xml

there^

jrg

2:03 PM

that's global, not local

jokerdino

.local/share/rhythmbox/playlists.xml

found it XD

nice work @jrg

jrg

and I had to install rythmbox for that! XD

it actually looks pretty decent now.

jokerdino

smart work.

i had remnants of rhythmbox

sadmicrowave

grr, the banshee import is only letting me import playlist files. Therefore those dir's don't show .xml or any other type files since it is searching for a specific file stype

type*

jrg

@jokerdino :) probably worth documenting on the site... have some free rep for my work. :P

jokerdino

2:06 PM

document where? XD

actually i am doing some text processing on my side.

kinda time consuming.

i am 200 away from 1k yay

you question and answer yourself? LOL

jrg

yes I do.

sadmicrowave

any ideas on my statement above?^

jrg

It's not a day until I've either questioned myself and answered, or found a question that I answered. Yay for self-documenting!

jokerdino

o.O

jrg

@sadmicrowave Not sure. Ask on the site? Might get some more help there.

sadmicrowave

2:11 PM

eh, I'll just recreate them :/

Trufa

Hi guy, maybe somebody can help me. I am trying to make GNOME 3 the default desktop in ubuntu 11.10. As far as I know it should remember the last pick, but it doesn't (after reset). I also read this question: askubuntu.com/questions/37131/… but the file already says:

[Desktop]
Session=gnome-shell

sadmicrowave

@jrg tell him what you told me ;p

Trufa

Any ideas?

sadmicrowave

upgrade to 11.10

jrg

Hm.

@Trufa I can't replicate this bug where it doesn't remember the last desktop.

Trufa

2:19 PM

@jrg hmmm sstrange, but one question, I always get confused with the names, is gnome-shell the one I want?

jrg

Well, technically Unity is GNOME3. it's just a desktop shell over gnome3. So if you want the default gnome3 experience, then yes, you want to install/use gnome-shell

Trufa

@jrg so the ~/.dmrc file should be correct as I have it. Is it a bad Idea to delete unity all together?

jrg

Yes, it's a bad idea to delete unity altogether.

The site is riddled with questions related to that.

Trufa

Ok, so I wont. But it still bugs me that I can't set it as default :(

jrg

It was possible to set the default session on a user-by-users basis...

you could also kill the option for Unity in the global lightdm config, but that's not recommended.

Trufa

2:31 PM

lightgdm or lighdm? (not picking just not sure if it is the same thing) :)

jrg

lightdm - gdm is something different. :)

Questions Feed

Use a calendar as desktop wallpaper http://askubuntu.com/questions/77065/use-a-calendar-as-desktop-wallpaper #desktop

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM

Trufa

@jrg hehe sorry :P

jrg

No worries, I think everyone gets confused about that.

jokerdino

hey @jrg what does this command do? pcregrep -M "0mgN00b dealt.*to .*\n.*Trauma dealt.* " *.txt | wc -l

jrg

2:45 PM

Not sure.

where'd you get that...?

jokerdino

i just made it up

i mean i am writing

i want to know about that \n

jrg

looks like it's part of the line break.

18

A: How can I search for a multiline pattern in a file ? Use pcregrep

So I discovered pcregrep which stands for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions GREP. For example, you need to find files where the '*name' variable is immediatelly followed by the '*description' variable: find . -iname '*.py' | xargs pcregrep -M '_name.*\n.*_description' Tip: you need to inclu...

Marco Ceppi

Cricket, my new kitten

jokerdino

how can cricket be a kitten? o.O

or you named it cricket?

jrg

SO CUTE.

Marco Ceppi

2:49 PM

@jokerdino Named her cricket :)

jokerdino

nice. cricket is one of my favourite games XD

Oli

@MarcoCeppi Like a lot of kittens, she's a lot faster than your shutter speed :)

Marco Ceppi

haha, yes she is

Oli

And I like the scratch on your left hand. Plenty more where they came from. I'm covered in scratches and bites.

Marco Ceppi

That was actually from another kitten we looked at adopting

Oli

2:58 PM

I don't think I could look at kittens and turn them down. I'd just end up with a whole load of kittens.

Marco Ceppi

We had a hard time choosing

Oli

WHY CHOOSE?! GET 9!

Marco Ceppi

haha, we almost adopted two

Oli

If you're going to have a girlcat, and you might want another cat in the future, get another one while she's young.

The stroppy bag of fur we have sitting in our lounge still hasn't got used to the fact that the new kitten isn't an impostor trying to kill us all (well he is a bit) and that he lives here now. She gets very cross with him.

jokerdino

hm nice people

i need to find a way to search for multiple lines

example:
I am going home.
I came back.
I am going back.

I need to search how many of "I am going home.*\n.*I am going back" in a directory

Oli

3:09 PM

I know I'm abusing the semantic here but do you need to count both at once? Can you go back if you haven't gone home first?

jokerdino

ok the thing is it is an example. it is not how the actual file looks like

Octavian Damiean

I have six right now. :D

Oli

@OctavianDamiean Kittens? Nice people? Homes?

Octavian Damiean

Kittens.

Well technically I have five kittens and the mommie cat.

Oli

That's enough to put them on a flat surface, tip the surface and have a Catalanche. I'm jealous.

jrg

3:13 PM

I've got a kitten and then this huge fat almost overweight beast. hehe.

Octavian Damiean

:D

jokerdino

obese cats?

jrg

And I keep waking up to dead mice by my door, most likely caught by the fat one. :P

Octavian Damiean

One is sitting on my chest purring like crazy.

jokerdino

@Oli would this work? I am going home.*\n.*I am going back && I am going home.*\n\n.*I am going back (where \n is added incrementally until a certain times)

not my intention to silence you all. :P

Jorge Castro

3:32 PM

@Oli when is the next EMEA meeting?

also, did I leave you a testimonial?

jrg

22 hours ago, by Oli

The postponed Ubuntu EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) membership meeting will now happen on the 10th Nov 8pm UTC. Anyone who can't make it to that will have their name carried over to December's meeting.

Jorge Castro

ta

jrg

Hm, how do I launch a ubuntu AMI on ec2?

Can I do that through the AWS mananger...?

Jorge Castro

yeah

you can just click in the gui

or it's like ec2-start-something

jrg

So I search here - cloud.ubuntu.com/ami, get the ami ID?

Jorge Castro

3:39 PM

help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide

there's a convenience tool in eucatools

I forget what it is though

that let's you just cli search

jrg

ok.

Jorge Castro

oh nice

clicking on the AMI link takes you to the console

I never knew that

Roland Taylor

4:00 PM

Hey @JorgeCastro you can try e17 for long trips, it's rather light and still useable.

Jorge Castro

no thanks.

jrg

Is e17 in the repos? :P

Roland Taylor

yes it is :)
@Jorge k

jrg

Hey Jorge, who's the Ubuntu cloud Evangelist? curses stupid typos

Jorge Castro

me

oh you mean the official "Cloud Evangelist"

the position is still open

I am filling in though, on my way to Silicon Valley cloudcamp today (I'm on the plane)

jrg

4:04 PM

Ah, ok. Was curious, since AWS' console keeps trying to push Suse on me. :P

And I figured Canonical should try to uh, fix that. :P

Jorge Castro

yeah

we've been trying to fix that for a long time

IMO just get cloud-utils

it's all you need

Amith KK

Hello all

@jrg Wait, you have a creditcard?

jrg

Yeah, I'd do that, but the client said otherwise. :P

@AmithKK this is for a contract.

Amith KK

@JorgeCastro Works at canonical, right?

jrg

Yup, he does.

Amith KK

4:08 PM

What is his work?

jrg

Community stuff.

Roland Taylor

heh another person posted while I was posting with the same answer :P

Amith KK

Cool!

@jrg Shouldnt we be training @RolandTaylor to restart the bot(incase we both are not @2buntu)??

jrg

Well, the bot isn't essential. He's more of a gimmick

Amith KK

k

htorque

4:15 PM

ubuntu.com/support/community

3

\o/

jrg

I don't see us there, even though the bug report says we're there now..

Oli

We're at the bottom

jrg

OHYAY IT CAME THROUGH. :D

Yeah, my cache must have been filled or something.

I dislike that "No registration required" - means we'll have even MOAR dead questions... :P

Oli

Thanks, chat. That's tiny.

Jorge Castro

the "no reg required" thing is all over AU itself, heh

I won't complain about any links to AU

Marco Ceppi

4:23 PM

Now we need to get our own tab :)

Roland Taylor

0

Q: change defaults

i want to create a custom distro. i want to change some default that they could be seen on my live disk: 1) change default icon pack to faenza-ambiance 2) change default start up apps to dockey & synapse & weather & blueman 3) change default shell(GUI) to gnome3.2 4) change default th...

live-cd default distribution

dupe - stubbornness :)

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi one thing I forgot in the integration session

mentioning that we have ads.

Marco Ceppi

Oh, crap. That would have been good

Jorge Castro

hey did we assign lfaraone to have bounties be announceable over IRC?

because you know, he's a debian and ubuntu developer

maybe he can hook us up with an update for stackapplet and the lens

Marco Ceppi

We assigned him to talk to IRC about putting announcements from the twitter stream in there

Jorge Castro

4:30 PM

k

it'd be a nice value add to bounties

Marco Ceppi

yeah, def

Oli

What do the IRC and Forums support communities think about us?

Marco Ceppi

No one from the forums council was at UDS

I didn't hear any nay saying from IRC people

In fact lfaraone is on IRC council IIRC

Jorge Castro

heh

Marco Ceppi

The overall impression I got from people who knew of Ask Ubuntu was positive

I even caught people I had never seen before answering questions on the site during a break

Amith KK

4:34 PM

@JorgeCastro Couldnkt he just implement a bot that formats a twitter feed and posts it?

Jorge Castro

they have a ton of bots for IRC already

I bet it's just adding the RSS feed or somesuch

jrg

Yeah, it'd be easy with the RSS feed.

Marco Ceppi

Right

Oli

Wouldn't it be better just to use the RSS feed that the Twitter bot uses? Rather than copying over what the twitter bot does to the posts.

Marco Ceppi

@Oli That's what they'll probably do

Just use the Twitter feed

Oli

4:35 PM

Sigh. The time I took to write that, three other people say it.

jrg

Except the twitter bot doesnt use an RSS feed (afaik)

Jorge Castro

actually, I don't care /how/ they do it tbh

anything to get more eyeballs!

jrg

just that they do it.

Amith KK

code.google.com/p/python-twitter-bot/downloads/list

Seems Promising

jrg

What's the default username for a ec2 AMI?

Jorge Castro

4:43 PM

ubuntu/ubuntu

jokerdino

ok i am not here.

jrg

thanks.

htorque

sooo, let's look if the xrandr bug is fixed in 3.2-rc1 :D

kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.2-rc1-oneiric

to whoever's interested :-)

jokerdino

hey nice guys. can you explain why this question was actually closed? askubuntu.com/questions/67914/…

Roland Taylor

@Lekenstyn "with a rep like that" - wth? People can have lapses in memory...

Especially when they've just gotten started for the day and are busy :)

htorque

4:55 PM

meh, no change. xrandr calls still take too long and wireless is gone. :-(

jokerdino

@RolandTaylor what happened? o.O

Roland Taylor

nothing much

just a mistake on my part was handled badly as usual

"With a rep like that you should know better about the dangers of riding ponies without a harness"

I mean... come on, I'm human.

jokerdino

yeah. with 20k+ reps like that... :P

just take it easy on g+ please :)

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