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@jokerdino I can't :(

you should have been. unless you refreshed the page etc

i didn't refresh

smartboyhw

@OliveTwist Can't what

A: How was this answer posted after this question was closed?

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If a question is closed while you're answering, you will receive a notification that the question was closed and the 'Post Your Answer' button will be disabled. However, this is only a client-side restriction, so it is possible in some cases that this process fails. When it does, the backend all...

3:08 PM

at least not working here

fossfreedom

@OliveTwist create a "real" question yourself - and answer it immediately.

maybe they updated after that post. sorry about that.

anyway, i'm posting it here

When an Ubuntu version is released, it features get frozen. The updates provided for it is mostly security updates and patches. But major changes of software will not be released (included in the repository) for this release.

That is why the default enabled Ubuntu repositories include *security-updates*, *updates* and *proposed* repositories. The first two repositories include bug-fixes and security updates and *proposed* is used for testing the newer updates.

Mainly the backports repository's function as said in the [Wiki][1] is --

I don't think that was a very good one

but i tried

the main point is, normally we can't even expect the backported softwares

righto.

those are really provided by the generous devs

3:10 PM

@OliveTwist well, go write a real question and answer it. :P

@jrg i don't think that would be ideal.

but i dont know

@jokerdino can you explain why? because i think it's a good question, was just poorly done.

even if the answer is "because they haven't done it', it's still got an answer.

yeah. i guess i am just a bit slow processing stuff now.

After this Baader-Meinhof.

Q: can not install gnome shell extensions

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I upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04, install gnome 3 and remove unity. My gnome version is 3.4.1. The GNOME Shell extensions is installed and enabled. When I use firefox to visit each extension page in https://extensions.gnome.org/, for example, https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5/alternative-stat...

ask for desktop session.

echo $DESKTOP_SESSION

3:19 PM

ubuntu

...

hahhaaa

why laughing sir?

nothing... hahhahahhaa

hahhahhahhha

now i am actually laughing ._.

3:21 PM

why laughing sir?

dont know

hehehee

@oznah refresh now ;)

I am going to use Radiance until I hate it now ;)

@jokerdino i've used your title

and asked and answered

good sir.

3:25 PM

idk how well i did

all votes are welcome, up and down

you got your one upvote for your effort.

thank you

actually this thread has a good answer imo ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/…

well, doesn't it sound silly for someone asking why development is not done in the stable sofware but in unstable software?

i am not saying you but the original OP.

yes of course

@AbrahamVanHelpsing: So I emailed SANS about some stuff, and now they won't stop emailing me. Are all sales reps this pushy?

3:28 PM

status?

@RolandTaylor status?

status?

asl?

What status?

asl!

@smartboyhw your marital status.

3:29 PM

oh yes I'm forgetting myself. Our status Captain @RolandTaylor: Reactor temperature, unchanged, life support, unchanged, passenger count, unchanged, officer count, unchanged, mascot status, unchanged.

@jrg :D

In all, yet another boring day about the SS 2buntu.

@jokerdino hahah

lmao.

we are some random

it's awesome

3:30 PM

yeah, i am lovin' it.

@jrg :D

smartboyhw

@jokerdino What?

Web page hits: Off the charts. Oh wait, I read that wrong. Unchanged.

aww

lawl

Q: How should we deal with bounty questions that are confirmed bugs?

3:32 PM

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This question is with reference to this bounty question: How do I theme the Sound Menu playback buttons? As the OP has indicated, this is technically a bug - there is a launchpad bug-report, confirmation that it is a bug and in this case it looks like a possible workaround by moving to Quanta...

discussion

That bug report is actually by OP himself.

So not sure if we should consider it as a bug.

refund and close

voted to the jokerdino's answer

But I would also want to add another negative answer ;p

Just not now.

Almost time.

@jrg I never had occasion to speak to any of their sales reps

@jokerdino like?

@OliveTwist like they knew what they were doing. they were gambling with rep, etc.

3:35 PM

I won't recommend this, because some new users may be unaware of the fact that bug questions are off-topic

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Good. Don't. Ever. :P

my first question was closed as a bug.

now, since then I've made it into the canonical "unity crashed, wat do" question, but still. ;)

My first was answered and second was a bug but wasn't closed. I deleted it after a couple of months.

@jrg oh that one!

I knew this fact after crossing 900~ rep may be

i bountied a question which is a bug

and @jrg refunded it and closed it

btw, when i said something like gun.io for launchpad bugs, i didn't mean posting bounties on AU...

@AbrahamVanHelpsing yup.

3:41 PM

BBL (dinner time)

FYI I'm an idiot and didn't know mods could 'refund' bounties, so will be deleting my answer here and comments here. Hey,at least I learned something new today...

No no. I am sorry.

no, don't worry about it.

o/

Quoting from the question

> Moderators can refund the bounty and then close if required.

3:43 PM

oh comon, that answer was upvote worthy.

> Maybe you could just play with the monitor settings and/or wear tinted glasses instead, that would be cool.

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@Mahesh o/

Tinted glasses are da stuff man!

Tainted glasses are da stuff man!

smartboyhw

cya all

howz life buddies?

3:45 PM

@jokerdino Reading comprehension FTW.

budding.

/me here to disturb the eternal peace.. forever.

@TomBrossman lolz i don't blame you for missing it out. When was the last time foss wrote a post on meta??

Hello

Background: Just done with exams.

3:45 PM

@Mahesh nice

@jokerdino I'm still reeling

Well, this guy will be dead in about 12 hours

@TomBrossman I am sorry if i sounded rude. It wasn't my intention.

@jokerdino Not rude at all, no problem.

@jrg letshope otherwise.

3:47 PM

Thanks.

we all sound rude on the internet. DEAL WITH IT. :)

Btw, tomorrow is AU's second year birthday! \o/

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@Mahesh yeah, but i'm not exactly hopeful.

but i think deal with it was appropriate ;)

@jokerdino Yeah!

sorry, i've got a sticky shift KeY @AbrahamVanHelpsing

3:48 PM

Party time!!!

@jrg eww... sticky keys....

@jrg meh, too mainstream.

/me repeats himself
Hello!

@njallam Hi

@njallam hey

3:49 PM

@jrg infected mushroom should play on that stage

That's better.

@njallam _abc_ and *xyz* dont work in mutiline chats. :P

party in the tron room!

@Mahesh better?

@Mahesh why!?

fossfreedom

@jokerdino hey!

3:49 PM

umm.. maybe thats better.

@fossfreedom Hey DM!!

@fossfreedom hey, it was just right :P

@njallam Why, no idea. I just know it doesn't work.

Me feels a meta post coming on...

fossfreedom

... need new black book ... jokers name has too many entries.

@njallam it's already on SO meta

3:51 PM

@fossfreedom oopsie

tron concept

Q: Markdown in chat fails for multi-line messages

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We've come to rename Markdown to Letdown in the C++ chat room because it lets you down so often. I've now just found a pattern. It seems markdown fails for multi-line messages. That is, this Letdown can't cope with multi-line comments. Let's see code? fails to display code marked as co...

bug status-bydesign markdown chat

I thought they would bydesign it.

Brilliant Answer: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/136356/192893

Be back tomorrow.

And hi captain @Marco.

o/

What do you want me to post on planet tomorrow?

regarding AU's birthday?

no contest, nothing? :(

3:59 PM

@jokerdino no contest that I know of :(

:(

nothing to put on planet then. :/

@jokerdino I'll throw a post up tomorrow, after a bit of debating

thank you so much!

<3

now I have to leave for some sleep. ;)

Amith KK

appears

Long time no see @MarcoCeppi

Good Night @jokerdino

Amith KK

4:22 PM

BBT

Good Night

4:47 PM

what are you trying by writing this? is it a self note or blog post? — Olive Twist 1 min ago

jokerdino still here?

I hate to do it, but the short version is: I can't approve this idea. :( — Aarthi 27 mins ago

:-(

askubuntu.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/35183

lol what was that^?

we have still hope, i guess @JorgeCastro

hi

Q: StackIRC - Posting Questions from Stack Exchange Sites to IRC Channels.

Just when I get here... everyone is asleep.

i'm still alive

\o/

:( need to go

5:11 PM

0

About Similar to the Twitter feeds for each Stack Exchange site, this small IRC bot retrieves questions from any Stack Exchange site and regularly posts them to an IRC channel of your choice. The bot offers quite a few configurable settings and is capable of posting questions from multiple ta...

app python irc

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Meaning of colours in htop

Given the option: [ ] Detailed CPU time (System/IO-Wait/Hard-IRQ/Soft-IRQ/Steal/Guest) In htop (Version 1.0.1) what are the meanings of the colours? In the following image, I'm seeing rather a lot of what I expect is IO-Wait, but where does one determine the meaning of the colours. Natural...

ubuntu io top htop

So... if anyone wants to host the bot... (Perhaps someone has spare room on a VPS and is feeling particularly generous? :P)

@GeorgeEdison I'll host it for the AU stuff on freenode

A: How about adding RSS feeds for certain tags in IRC channels?

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I am pleased to announce the completion of the first version of such an application. Introducing StackIRC: StackIRC is a small Python application that posts questions from Stack Exchange sites to IRC channels. Similar to the Twitter feeds for each Stack Exchange site, this small IRC bot...

is setting it up now

5:23 PM

Sweet!

Please let me know if you have any questions or run into any trouble.

will do

Jorge Castro

\o/

During testing, I tried using the php tag on Stack Overflow... and got booted off for flooding the channel since so many questions with that tag were being asked - oops :P

The bot probably needs to limit the number of questions posted at a time to something like 2 or 3 - of course this won't be a problem for AU - we don't get anywhere near that many questions asked with respect to any one tag.

@AbrahamVanHelpsing seriously? aren't you the one I'm looking for?

Apparently, Linux neckbeards like to read. OK. - humblebundle.com

5:40 PM

@GeorgeEdison how do I add a password for a registered nick?

I don't have that feature yet.

But I can easily add it.

@GeorgeEdison that seems to be the last thing missing

Okay.

I'll let you know if it works when someone asks a Juju question :P

The Interrupter

6:25 PM

Bounty offered: Why does switching users completely hang my system every time? http://askubuntu.com/q/90754?atw=1 #xorg

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 9, 2012 at 6:01 PM

6:46 PM

@Mahesh wait what?

"I expect a wise advise on this matter" -- Vimal Kumar ... Isn't that kind of like saying fix it for me while I call 85% of the community retarded?

resists urge to post wise advise about spelling mistakes

Q: 18 days for quantal final release.What do you expect?

9:02 PM

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18 days for quantal final release. And to dual boot, how many days? without support UEFI yet no dual boot

12.10

@penreturn to stick with LTS

heheheehe... yeah FTW!

is there a mod in room that feels like purgifying some comments? they're not bad, so i don't want to flag them...they're just no longer useful

what is Strg? askubuntu.com/questions/198339/mouse-pointer-is-freezing

Takkat

@penreturn its the [Control] key on a German keyboard layout.

9:12 PM

ohhhh! another new thing i learn today! thanks @Takkat

Takkat

[Ctrl][Alt][Del] is [Strg][Alt][Entf]

need to copy this. so when its come to edit, should i rename to Ctrl or just remain?

The Interrupter

Installing packages that require system restart, from a Juju charm http://askubuntu.com/q/198293?atw=1 #upstart

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 9, 2012 at 9:01 PM

Takkat

@penreturn it does need an edit (who sits on a German board anyway?)

Time for bed now - cu tomorrow

hehhe okey Sir...

9:32 PM

Muhahah

o/

\o

\o/

hey @GeorgeEdison

Hi.

a friend gave me his old ppc, and I compiled a version of nitroshare for it!

9:38 PM

Really?

I have an open bug requesting a PPC version.

Does it work?

answers.launchpad.net/nitroshare/+question/207557

Actually it wasn't a bug - it was a question.

@mateo_salta: Would you like me to comment on the question or would you like to do the honors?

I can do a "try this build" with a link...

Sure.

@jrg - I think all the comments on this can be purged askubuntu.com/questions/198336/…

9:42 PM

destroyed without mercy.

ok, there we go @GeorgeEdison

ty, i only didn't delete mine b/c it's a new user and it wouldn't have sunken in and just looked stupid

I think there was someone on your QMS site asking about ppc, and you said it would be easy.... hmmm.

no worries.

@mateo_salta :)

9:54 PM

@GeorgeEdison was it you that wanted to be able to record from anything the other day?

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples <-- alsa monitor section should fix you right up

Ah, thanks.

Yeah - I was trying to record and playback from VLC.

I could get one or the other to work but not both.