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Give me a moment while I wonder the answer back.

Haha. It was only Yesterday~ (for me?)

well, i think we can just close it as a dupe.

I am voting to close because we can just close it as a dupe of canon.

That, and I am lazy.

The Interrupter

Can you answer this? Kernel metapackages (linux-generic vs linux-image-generic) http://askubuntu.com/q/171128?atw=1 #metapackages

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 8, 2012 at 9:01 AM

9:16 AM

hey @msPeachy

@jokerdino hey you

hey me!

@msPeachy Heya

How goes the teaching

lol. so, you're lazy today huh

Yeah. :P

9:18 AM

@AmithKK busy checking and grading papers

@jokerdino it's the dino in you

Np @jokerdino

@msPeachy Wtvr

@Mochan thx

It is the dinosaur in you. Or the dinosaur you are. In the picture, that is you

Hey people who came while I was AFK! :D

@jokerdino k

@msPeachy :P

I got taxed after reading Eliah's meta answer.

9:21 AM

\o/ hi

askubuntu.com/review-beta/first-posts/32096

I need easy questions to answer... know of any...?

Look on the site.

@jokerdino I'll go around at up your qs/as because I'm nice. If I think they're good, though.

@jokerdino oh, on the autostart tags?

100 rep~! Happy 100th to me~!

9:22 AM

@Mochan Don't do it more than 1. Thanks.

@msPeachy No, on the peer review.

@Mochan \o/

@jokerdino Ok ;A;

@penreturn hey. how goes the day?

@Mochan hi, easy questions are always easily taken, you'd have to be on the first page and see what goes into AU

Hello @penreturn

Hello @Mochan

@jokerdino link

9:23 AM

4

A: What is peer review?

What does peer review consist of on Ask Ubuntu? Peer review means someone else must review and approve your edit, before it is applied. On at least one other Stack Exchange site (Stack Overflow), more than one person must review it before it is definitively accepted or rejected. But on most Sta...

@msPeachy -dies- I'm to noob to be helpful... //cries. I'll just edit revolting posts, I suppose.

review - please tell me if im doing wrong ;)

@AmithKK Heyhey~

@penreturn when in doubt, walk out of the review queue and chat here.

orite sir

9:24 AM

wait what?

@Mochan you do that sis, that's where I started and that's what I still do, I'm always on the Review tab

@jokerdino wow, he really does "talk" a lot

jk

@msPeachy :)) Haha. Any questions I can answer, I will though. It's annoying because... 75% of the answers I have provided were closed :(

@msPeachy hehe, it gave me a little shock. :)

@msPeachy Oh my God. No wonder he has so much rep. That's amazing!

okey commercial breaks :p

►

9:27 AM

@penreturn thank you~

:P

You read Eliah's answer. -in comes commercial breaks- You continue reading his answer.

@Mochan Eliah? Jorge, Roland and izx has more

@jokerdino lol

@msPeachy Still... 100x more than me

aiteee @jokerdino !

9:29 AM

@msPeachy Foss has the most.

there are a lot of amazing people here

askubuntu.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all

izx made a rapid surge in rep

@jokerdino oh yeah, great foss

hhaha im not on the list :D

9:29 AM

(Don't tell him I said that.)

@jokerdino lol

he answers more than 5 questions a day I think

@penreturn you could be...

Not cool, whoever starred that :P

@jokerdino I will pm him

@msPeachy Noo~

9:31 AM

@AbrahamVanHelpsing a year form now... maybe more :D

@jokerdino I'll snail mail him

What's wrong with yo people?!

Toot Toot Dino Warrior

@jokerdino okay, I won't

@msPeachy Can see that~

9:32 AM

and I didn't star that

@msPeachy thanks :P

@msPeachy I thought you didn't.

hey is there any link to find user by country?

Star what?! Knowing myself, I probably did it (weird sentence)

@penreturn are you looking for a gf again???

@AmithKK O_O

@penreturn Let me find one.

9:33 AM

Haha awkward!

nooo! hahhahhaa im looking for user from malaysia :p

Q: StackMaps - Interactive Maps of Stack Exchange Communities

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StackMaps - Interactive Maps of Stack Exchange Communities http://johndbritton.com/stackmaps What Easily view users from your favorite Stack Exchange community on a map. Why I wanted to make it easy to browse the Travel.SE users by location, so I built this little hack as part of my 48Hour...

app api

15

Q: StackGeography, a Stack Exchange question mapping site

Screenshot / Code Snippet About Ever wanted to see just what kind of locations are posting to the various Stack Exchange sites at any given time? Even if you haven't, you'll find it with StackGeography. NEW! Now with multiple-site concurrent polling goodness! This site started with a de...

app api-v2 website

@penreturn wait until ALL the gwhatever answers need updates to dwhatever ...

rep surges usually happen around when releases go stable too...just saying

Hello @fossfreedom

@AbrahamVanHelpsing orite!! thanks @jokerdino

9:35 AM

here comes foss

fossfreedom

@AmithKK o/

Yay~ this is starred: "The dino in joker's gravatar is him."

@fossfreedom Your name is blue! Hello by the way :)

yeah I totally look like that toy dino.

O..o am i the only one from malaysia T..T

@penreturn I don't think so.

9:35 AM

@jokerdino You are the toy dino! You're so silly :O

My good friend living in the next room is from Malaysia.

@jokerdino do you know Dibo? The gift dragon?

fossfreedom

@Mochan ... yes - something to-do with who I am.

I like to sing dibo dibo diiiii

ohh! maybe they dont put country

9:36 AM

Dibo? No idea :S

@penreturn Oh you live in the east.

@penreturn Pretty sure there are 28,334,135 also from Malaysia. Lol. -I had to Google that...-

@fossfreedom Haha yes, I'm quite aware of that ;)

@Mochan 28,334,135 ? whats that?

@fossfreedom speaking of new releases, are byzanz and the other ppas going to get version bumps for quantal?

Q: should `dist-upgrade` be followed with a reboot?

@penreturn Population of Malaysia~ I'm trying to be smart.

Eliah Kagan

Do we have a question about how to determine if updates have been installed that recommend rebooting? (Logging in non-graphically informs the user of this, but I mean to find out efficiently and conveniently.) If we do, this can probably be closed as a duplicate of it:

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Following a periodic, in my case weekly, run of: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade is there much benefit from rebooting?

maintenance dist-upgrade

9:38 AM

fossfreedom

@AbrahamVanHelpsing mine? The relevant ones have quantal versions already.

@Mochan ohhhh

@fossfreedom nm...they already did. i asked before checking

dino meet dibo

@penreturn XD

9:39 AM

@msPeachy o.O i don't know him.

@msPeachy High-five bro.

its s disney show

@msPeachy +1m

free rep: askubuntu.com/questions/197726/…

barney clone :D

@AbrahamVanHelpsing whats the answer :D

9:40 AM

@EliahKagan I am not sure. I'll let you know if I bump into one.

@AbrahamVanHelpsing -Type of question I would ask XD-

lol

@penreturn Haha! Exactly!

Eliah Kagan

@jokerdino Thx.

@Mochan :p

9:41 AM

Thanks.

@penreturn google

@msPeachy Google is always the answer. Always.

from my experience its depends ohhh... sometime get msg to restart... but sometimes dont

@penreturn dist is the one that pulls in kernel upgrades, so a reboot is req'd to apply the kernel update if you're not using ksplice or similar

gotta get back to work, bye for now

9:43 AM

@msPeachy cya

@AbrahamVanHelpsing aahaaa! so we get the answer... thats my trick :D no jokes :P

pulls in some other stuff too though...that's not a well formed answer

:D

man is it cold this morning...

Takkat

@AbrahamVanHelpsing it is: weatherforecastmap.com/russia/sangary

9:48 AM

some places it's always cold -- wunderground.com/weather-forecast/AA/Amundsen-Scott.html

Hah, south pole and the region around it.

I remember reading the whole Amundsen and Scott adventure.

Lol. Useless chat is always fun chat, right?

depends I guess.

-Joking- yes, I know you're the only Joker around here but... it's so... tempting.

wait for bob to show up again...then you'll see not fun useless chat

9:51 AM

Haven't seen him and his friend for quite some time.

Who's Bob?

But I don't miss him, just to be clear.

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Haha!

Random OT question: How to link to a answer/comment in a question URL?

@AmithKK how do i install the compiler from ubu+1 in 8.04 LTS or similar

@AbrahamVanHelpsing backports?

9:54 AM

@AbrahamVanHelpsing 8.04...? I'm scared. -scared of moving from Unity...-

@AmithKK that was quoting a bob question...and no, not backports

Q: How can I get my app included in Ubuntu? What is wrong with the community?

-1

I find it almost impossible to get my applications included in Ubuntu. There are many needs-packaging bugs in Launchpad that are going nowhere. The packaging wishlist I find with Google is last updated in 2011. Wtf? Submitting app through the developer portal makes you wait several months for a ...

packaging

@penreturn yeah, pay me some money and I'll learn packaging and put it into Ubuntu repo. ;D

hahhahhahah yeahhh!

brb pray... late already

cya

9:58 AM

nothing wrong with getting paid for packaging.

;)

i just need a credit card so i can encourage people

@penreturn From that question it gives more evidence that OS X is the crappiest Operating System ever.

@Mochan How is that related?

Launchpad here is launchpad.net

@jokerdino Does it have to be?

@jokerdino i said it a while back here or somewhere else. there needs to be something like gun.io where people can "bounty" launchpad bugs. if they really want something done, they could put their money where their mouth is

10:01 AM

@jokerdino Oh wait lol. I see what you mean. The comment. (Still awaiting an answer to my question on how to link to individual comments/answers)

@AbrahamVanHelpsing that sounds pretty reasonable. if you are desperate for a bug to be fixed, you incentivize with a little money or something.

@jokerdino "Did a bit of Googling, and it seems Mac OSX Lion can't read any of the ext file system formats." That's what it was.

@Mochan Well, I don't think it ever talks about Mac being crappy.

@Mochan that is another question aight?

This one: askubuntu.com/questions/176155/…

@Mochan Alright. It might be. I never tried a mac.

re: your question about linking to specific answer/comment, click on the share button on answer and right click on comments' time stamp and copy link.

10:04 AM

@jokerdino I have. I just hate how Apple puts you in an isolated, padded room and prevents you from doing anything Apple doesn't want you to.

@jokerdino OHHHHHHHHHHH. Noobiness level = 10000

That sounds like my school network firewall.

@jokerdino But in an Operating System.

OK, I get your point.

@Mochan I hope you got it.

It's not protecting you, just controlling you.

@jokerdino I did...? -is that what I'm supposed to say to that?-

it depends on who has the power and what they want to do with that power.

10:06 AM

hello

@Mochan No. I was just making sure you have what you wanted to do.

@JourneymanGeek hi

@jokerdino Like what? Being able to install a separate OS? What a crime. They sure need to restrain you from doing something so... awful!

@Mochan: I see your gravatar works now

@jokerdino Good, ty

\o ...

10:07 AM

@Mochan: yes, to stop you from sullying the purity of their system

;p

@Mochan they do that? not sure.

@JourneymanGeek Yes lol. It was my fault because I registered the wrong email LOL. Hi btw~!

@jokerdino If they decided to not support the ext formats, I'd say so.

(that, and they can't be arsed. Despite running on PC grade hardware, they don't have that open system DNA)

@Mochan Windows doesn't either but I guess that doesn't matter that much after all.

@JourneymanGeek Of course. Can't make that Apple a poison one. Bite into it and die!!

@jokerdino Actually that's true. I'm talking shit. Excuse my stupidity.

10:10 AM

@Mochan But OS X is different from Windows. You might make a point. Just that I don't ever own a Mac.

Also, you should also realize how over-priced their systems are.

@jokerdino I hope that you never will. I use someone else's. Poor person!

heh

@Mochan you have sort of a point in that windows doesn't fail to boot if you use a different boot loader. then there's the boot from usb policy. then there's that they use a bunch of OSS software as the core of their everything. then there's.... list goes on

hey is it okey if im edit someone answer just to put screenshot?

My family-member paid $5000 for an iMac. It's worse-quality (spec-wise) than my Dell $400 netbook

10:11 AM

@penreturn shouldn't matter i guess

orite!

@Mochan I abhor Dell hardware.

don't cry about your broadcom ;)

@AbrahamVanHelpsing You hit it!

@AbrahamVanHelpsing True story. Although will W8 do similar? Like block out the different boot-loaders from the new... BIOS... thing? (mindblank) like... the protect boot thing...?

10:13 AM

<-- signal king

Broadcom is the source of all annoyance.

@jokerdino What is abhor?

@Mochan dislike?

strong dislike...

sorry, my English not very good.

10:14 AM

@jokerdino Oh lol... I thought it was a misspelling -o-

@Mochan only on arm sort of

lol

@jokerdino Says you who uses 'abhor' and makes an Australi-- I won't continue again. You'll insult my race. Again.

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Don't bother explaining. It's already seeping through the cracks of my conscious.

@Mochan: I tend to favour thinkpads

O_o

10:16 AM

@JourneymanGeek No own. :P

I at least know how to spell Aboriginals.

dells, only dell I have is a desktop, and I pulled it out a dumpster. ;p

I'm still in ownership of a Dell, mind you all. Despite having an exponentially crappy CD/DVD drive, it's pretty nice :)

@jokerdino Me too. I should, anyway.

I own a Dell FWIW.

askubuntu.com/questions/197738/how-to-reply-on-ask-ubuntu

10:17 AM

What does one use a optical drive for these days? ;p

@Mochan You are 7/8 of that?

@penreturn too fast.

@jokerdino ?

You said you are 1/8 korean?

Never mind.

:p suppose to be on meta rite?

lol

10:18 AM

@penreturn yeah. but he deleted it.

hehehe okey

@jokerdino I see. Haha. Lol mother-tongue is English. But blame my heritage, yes.

WAIT.

@Mochan: actually ESL folk sometimes have better than native english

Like me!

I see. Nu, I'm not Aboriginal! -spelled it~-

@JourneymanGeek Thumbs up to you, dear ESL folk sir!

@Mochan OK.

ESL here.

But still crappy.

10:20 AM

@jokerdino The majority of 'Australians' are English/'white'. After... some historical events.. there are not many Aboriginals left. You would be lucky to see one if you came on a holiday.

@jokerdino: Probably shaking off the quirks of indian english

@jokerdino What's your first language?

@Mochan: no offence, but thats happened half the places white folk decded to stay in

Look at the US

@Mochan I might not come over to AU for a holiday after all ;) And yes, i know most of those things.

@JourneymanGeek :}

@JourneymanGeek I know. It's rather awful. None taken, it's a true story.

10:22 AM

@Mochan: His first language is the same as mine

@Mochan Same as @JourneymanGeek.

XD

Righto!

@jokerdino I thought you did. But when did you consider coming to Australia?

With its awesome italian designed script.

10:23 AM

Also, I mean like... in public places. If you go to a speciality area, most likely.

BRB

@Mochan When did I consider? No idea. ~_~

er, maybe not

Q: Calculate variable, and output it to another variable

lol

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

The only calculator I know is bc. I want to add 1 to a variable, and output to another variable. I got the nextnum variable from counting string in a file: nextnum=`grep -o stringtocount file.tpl.php | wc -w` Lets say the nextnum value is 1. When added with 1, it will become 2. To calculate, ...

ubuntu command-line bc calculator

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L woah three answers too fast

Q: How can I get my app included in Ubuntu? What is wrong with the community?

10:25 AM

@jokerdino LOL!

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L Wow... I'm not a noob at programming, but that's evil!

OT: Did you know there a website called Rate My Poo? Quote: "It's your time to shine!". Watching a strange TV show XD

Reminds me of a South Park ep...

shrug

Such a weird show...

....

Oh god this question is really bad

-5

I find it almost impossible to get my applications included in Ubuntu. There are many needs-packaging bugs in Launchpad that are going nowhere. The packaging wishlist I find with Google is last updated in 2011. Wtf? Submitting app through the developer portal makes you wait several months for a ...

packaging

Hi @jokerdino how are you?

@smartboyhw I am good. thank you. You?

smartboyhw

10:37 AM

@jokerdino Good:D

am glad.

BBL

@AmithKK VVL?

-Still here, BTW-

@jokerdino, should this be approved? askubuntu.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/34759

10:42 AM

that looks tricky

i'll usually leave it for others to review it ;p

i would say the existing answer is pretty sufficient.

when I clicked on the link outside of review the posts says its been edited just 4 mins ago by the same guy who proposed the edit

wait wait

maybe someone did approve it

yeah, looks like he edited once and edited again.

oh this guy is making 1 edit at a time, he's tricky

one word earlier for PACKAGE

10:44 AM

foss is our saviour!

it used to be DEB_NAME

yeah. i think he is editing in the comments

i remember cos I didn't approve it earlier

yes, that's what he comments on his edits

looks like it. and foss has handled it. good work.

okay

10:49 AM

Dinner time~

same here

bbl

smartboyhw

@msPeachy @jokerdino wow that's quick for dinner

11:50 AM

O/

o/

okay, that was supposed to be o/

that was at @adempewolff

howz life?

good.

adempewolff

11:51 AM

@jokerdino hello

@jokerdino Actually, you already are.. :P

@adempewolff how you doing?

@Mahesh why thank you o_O

adempewolff

@jokerdino good, a touch busy. I got tired of drinking crummy Chinese beer so I've managed to mangle together a brewery and yeast culturing lab in my apartment over the last week.

:P

dinner :)

11:52 AM

@adempewolff wait what?

you just made yourself a minibar? awesomsausum!

adempewolff

however, aforementioned activities have left me procrastinating on doing lesson plans

nah, not a mini bar, a brewery, like making the beer from scratch