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Bruno Pereira

10:01 AM

my appliction for the Dutch LoCo team has just been declined :/ great! :P

lazyPower

10:25 AM

Thats a bummer :| sorry to hear that Bruno

Amith KK

BBL

lazyPower

10:40 AM

Sweet, flexible design is really nice

I hope my boss catches the value of this - just trimmed down a landing page from 20+ images and other bull honkey to 5 images and a few more lines of CSS. Degrades really well down to ie8, and looks sharp on moz and chrome.

Amith KK

10:58 AM

@lazyPower \o/

lazyPower

Designer gave me scholars-online.com/lp/1/aio.html

I cranked out scholars-online.com/lp/2/aio

<3 bootstrap. this is quite possibly the handiest thing i've found in months.

Amith KK

@lazyPower Yeah, Thats an awesome platform

@lazyPower You do realise that picture is a moving frame right?

lazyPower

i say I've found.. more like JRG pointed me to.

Amith KK

@lazyPower Heh, Same here

lazyPower

Yep. in IE its still motion - theres a JScript error.

not sure whats going on i need to debug using the non minified copy but i've been staring at landing page code for the last eight hours. I'm ready to barf front end markup

@AmithKK and the reason i used the same image, i dont have a login to the stock photography account - so I'll let the copy team come up with images for it.

jokerdino

11:27 AM

Now unity-greeter also handles the lock screen. :D

Amith KK

Nooooooooo

jrg

@jokerdino You noticed that bug too huh?

jokerdino

What bug?

Amith KK

@jrg \o Hey

jokerdino

Oh that bug? I subscribed to it for quite some time.

jrg

11:30 AM

The one where you lock the screen

and it switches back to the login screen?

lazyPower

oo fancy

jokerdino

It uses unity-greeter.

jrg

oh...

jokerdino

Unity Greeter - Use Unity Greeter to fulfil lock screen as well as login functions

Use Unity Greeter to fulfil lock screen as well as login functions. Desired Solution: - Replace the current lock screen with the Unity Greeter

Ayatana Design

Critical / Triaged

jrg

thats not cool bro

i like my lockscreen. ::P

lazyPower

11:31 AM

haha

Amith KK

and, unity greetes is slow here

jrg

its also incredibly bad UX

Amith KK

yes

jrg

the first time I thought LightDM had crashed on me. :P

Amith KK

yesitis

jokerdino

11:32 AM

No I like it.

jrg

so I then proceeded to go to tty one, and was very glad I had a byobu session I could load.

I like the idea, hate the current implementation.

Amith KK

haha lol

jrg

@jokerdino speaking of which - the HUD is back in the PPA. I'm installing now

jokerdino

I am waiting for it to land in the repo.

jrg

meh i'm impatient. and georgi is using it, so i'm ok with it. :P

jokerdino

11:34 AM

Hah :P good luck

jrg

besides, this is the last alpha where i'll have time to run it, so I want to break as many things as I can now. :P

Amith KK

@jrg http://i.stack.imgur.com/z1Gwf.gif

@jrg Heh :D

jrg

@AmithKK I think you're having fun with blender. ;D

Amith KK

@jrg Nope, Thats AE :D

jrg

About that opening though - I love it, but I don't think my face should be all over it.

@AmithKK oh fancy. O_o

lazyPower

11:35 AM

I'm a fan of that intro without the pogo jrg face

just sayin

0

A: Updated ubuntu yesterday, cannot connect to the internet today?

In my case, running an ifconfig only shows the lo0 interface up. when i had ubuntu 11.04 server, networking started automatically, i did the "upgrade" and now i only get the waiting additional 60 seconds for networking warning.... i have to login and get the sudo -i prompt in order to manually co...

What would you do? :@

Amith KK

@jrg http://i.stack.imgur.com/qjTfB.gif

jrg

4 hours ago, by lazyPower

Make godzilla eat the rubycasts text and have a gigantic ruby smash him to bits and call it a day

I want that as my intro.

jokerdino

11:37 AM

0

A: Icons on Gnome-shell's top status bar getting drawn beyond normal

@l300lvl I encountered the problem beginning with v4. I installed it yesterday and then noticed the icon bleed over. I found that the height needed to be set to 16px for compatibility with gnome-shell themes that have very narrow top bars. Thank you for your work on this extension.

And the whole of this question.

Amith KK

@jrg Hmmm

\o/ Must Accept Challenge

jrg

@jokerdino Not sure.

Amith KK

Although lets see what I have for crunch

jrg

@jokerdino And this is a comment.

Alvar

Hi all! :)

jrg

11:38 AM

as is that other "answer".

Amith KK

@Alvar Hey

jokerdino

And the comment to the comment? (check the next answer)

lazyPower

Ok off to work

jokerdino

@jrg Right then

Amith KK

@jrg Can you pleeeeaaasssee help me :D

jrg

11:38 AM

Thats a comment too. I think...

@AmithKK with what?

@Alvar waves hello! :D

Amith KK

The heroku blog

jrg

@lazyPower See you.

@AmithKK i'm looking at it right now...

did you do a rake generate and then add the files to git, then push?

Amith KK

@jrg yep

Questions Feed

How to use the advanced partitioning menu on ubuntu 11.10 http://askubuntu.com/questions/104363/how-to-use-the-advanced-partitioning-menu-on-ubuntu-11-10 #partitioning

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on February 15, 2012 at 11:27 AM

jrg

Hm.

without the source code, I'm not sure I can pinpoint it.

you might be using an old version of jekyll, or an old version of rack, or.... anything like that

Amith KK

11:42 AM

@jrg Your on a ubuntu pc?

SSH Please :D

Alvar

Wow, I got a lot of up-votes on my answer! :) atm it's 12! :D

jrg

@AmithKK ssh? What do you mean?

just add me to the heroku git and I can clone it and tweak it.

Amith KK

@jrg cool... How do I do that

jrg

@AmithKK go to api.heroku.com, select the amithkk app, then add my email (jrgifford.james@gmail.com for this one) to the collaborators part.

Alvar

@jrg do you have jrg@gmail.com?

Amith KK

11:47 AM

Done

jrg

@Alvar nope.

sweet, it shows up, let me take a look at it Amith.

Alvar

That would have been cool! :p

jrg

oh crud, forgot about my SSH keys here on precise... rebooting then I'll do the clone. :S

jokerdino

@AmithKK askubuntu.com/q/104345/25798 do you want to have a go at editing it?

@jrg i edited those comments/answers. Please flag so my flag won't be invalidated :D

Amith KK

@jokerdino done

@jrg dont you have your mod powers yet?

jokerdino

11:55 AM

You missed a couple more edits....

Titles, i not capitalized... blah :/

Amith KK

@jokerdino Fixed

jokerdino

And Google? :D

Just edit the titles? I will improve the rest :)

I am pedantic and I know it. ;)

Amith KK

:P

jokerdino

Danger mouse :S

Amith KK

12:22 PM

BBL

jrg

@jokerdino Who wait wait? lol

@AmithKK ok, sorry i didn't get back sooner

had my BIOS misconfigured, so I booted from my CD drive instead of the HDD.

jokerdino

LOL, just go through the two links I posted above. Flag them ;)

jrg

12:41 PM

@jokerdino ok

@AmithKK figured it out

you had public in your gitignore

amithkk.heroku.com - all set bud. @AmithKK, just do a git pull heroku master and my changes will be brought it.

Octavian Damiean

1:03 PM

o/

jokerdino

0

A: Ubuntu 10.10 crashes when playing audio/video file of any format in any media player

Hey simple use windows xp o instead of ubuntu as it was well tested and have all the features that it also dont have.

Troll

And hi there Octavian.

Is Octavian really your name? For some reason, it reminds of that evil scientist in Spiderman.

jrg

gosh darnit, I flagged something with a witty message to myself and then the post got removed. :P

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Octavian Damiean

@jokerdino Yup it is my real name. :)

rlemon

starred for the use of 'gosh darnit'

jrg

morning rlemon. ;D

rlemon

1:13 PM

morning. ... mr.Moderator

jrg

still not official, so i'm still the same ol' jrg. :)

Gigili

Why you're still black @jrg?

Octavian Damiean

@Gigili Oh hey!

jrg

because the SE staff haven't gotten to work yet? shrug

Octavian Damiean

So you had a question.

jrg

1:14 PM

@Gigili Hello! :)

rlemon

@Gigili wuddup. (jumped on the band wagon)

jokerdino

@Gigili Hi there!

Gigili

Hello @jrg.

Hello @jokerdino.

Hey Octavian. Me? I can't remember! ;)

jokerdino

@OctavianDamiean that question was, "was it you that i know from google plus but i don't really know?"

Gigili

@rlemon Oh, well ... Then .. What? Right.

rlemon

1:17 PM

@Gigili go for the ride?

Octavian Damiean

Oh right, I think I've even answered that question with a I don't know. :P

Gigili

Eh? You said : "No, at least I can't remember" or something like that. Which has a negative connotation.

jokerdino

searches Google+ for Gigili.

Gigili

Anyway, I'm 99.99% sure it was you.

Octavian Damiean

Doesn't I don't know have a negative connotation? :D

shrugs

jokerdino

1:24 PM

Your name on G+ is not Gigili, is it?

Gigili

Top-secret!

Octavian Damiean

Alright. I'm totally confused. :P

Hope you're happy, you've confused the Octavian.

Gigili

Heh, I didn't even try to.

rlemon

Doctor Octavian

Octavian Damiean

In a couple of years. :)

jokerdino

1:26 PM

Doesn't matter. Canonical is hiring.

rlemon

DocOct

Octavian Damiean

Right, there are better jobs than an XOrg engineer.

Hehe :p

Hi

Hi @RolandTaylor.

1:31 PM

@RolandTaylor hello o/

rlemon

fullygeek.com/2007/06/giant-hello-world-semacode

s/world/Roland

jokerdino

@RolandTaylor Do we have a doc for 2012?

Bruno Pereira

@jrg you are using 12.04 with AMD graphic drivers right?

jokerdino

1:57 PM

askubuntu.com/questions/104347/… kill it guys.

William

2:27 PM

5

Q: "No description" filter on tags page

Having a filter for no description would be helpful because then the tag editors can quickly tell which tags they need to make desciptions for.

Meme

For all Meme lovers and enthusiasts. Post Ubuntu/Computer-Rela...

pls help me populate meme room

Jorge Castro

@jrg ended up with about 10k page views yesterday, according to google analytics

jokerdino

wow, reddit magic?

Jorge Castro

total S3 bill .... 6 cents

William

Please look at my question

the bounty ends in 14 hrs

Octavian Damiean

@William Nice idea with the tag filters!

William

2:34 PM

yes, I would like someone to take action on it, though.

Octavian Damiean

You've got waffles respond that he likes it. It can't really get any better.

William

Yes. But I would like it implemented.

Octavian Damiean

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/119974/…

William

Right now nothing has come of it and I don't want to award the bounty yet.

Octavian Damiean

I don't understand why people think that setting a bounty on a feature request would be of much value.

Questions Feed

2:38 PM

Bounty offered: How to get back menu bar in Kile after switching to LXDE? http://askubuntu.com/questions/100710/how-to-get-back-menu-bar-in-kile-after-switching-to-lxde #menu

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on February 15, 2012 at 2:27 PM

William

I am setting the bounty as a reward to whoever implements the idea.

Octavian Damiean

I can tell you that diamonds generally don't care about reputation and a normal user that would care can't provide a definitive answer.

jokerdino

I don't understand why people set bounty on a meta question.

William

I set one to get my idea implemented.

I keep repeating myself.

Octavian Damiean

They don't care about reputation points. I repeat myself. ;)

William

2:39 PM

But no one has implemented it yet.

SO I will award the bounty to whomever implements it.

Octavian Damiean

Implementing features takes a bit of time if they get implemented at all.

@William Who do you think could implement it?

William

Yep, but a lot of people think that it's a good idea.

I think that waffles could implement it.

But I want him to say he will.

Octavian Damiean

Do you think waffles would care about reputation?

William

If he does, bounty to him!

I know he doesn't care. It's a small incentive.

Octavian Damiean

Makes sense. Totally.

William

2:43 PM

Bottom line: Me wants it implemened. I don't care who does it or how, or for what reason. I set the bounty because I'm running out of ideas. If someone sees the bounty as an incentive, great. If they don't, at least the idea got some attention.

Octavian Damiean

Now to let you know how the reality looks like. :)
If the SE team thinks it is a good idea and that it should be implemented, it will be implemented. If not, then not. Regardless of bounties.

William

OK. I guess I am being impatient. I just want some attention to be given to the idea.

SO what do I do with the bounty now?

Octavian Damiean

Guess what, a lot of people want that for their ideas. :)

jokerdino

Just forget it.

Oh, I see the new diamonds..

Octavian Damiean

Nice. :)

William

2:48 PM

Pretty diamonds...

I asked @waffles to make his comment into an answer. He's showed the most intrest to date and will probably be the implementer.

chathurawidanage

hello is their any one using dell inspiron n5110

William

no

hello

bye @all

chathurawidanage

hello

is there any one using alps touch pad

rlemon

3:22 PM

@chathurawidanage apparently not.

jokerdino

Anyone familiar with Java?

Octavian Damiean

What's the problem? Except of Java itself of course.

jokerdino

non-static method logOfBase(int,int) cannot be referenced from a static context

How do i resolve this?

Octavian Damiean

So basically you are trying to invoke a non-static method in a static manner.

jokerdino

Oh.

Octavian Damiean

3:27 PM

You have to create an instance of the object you want to call that method on and do it on that newly created instance.

jokerdino

So, what do I do?

eh?

I forgot to say that I am not that familiar with Java. and the whole of programming.

Octavian Damiean

SomeObject someObject = new SomeObject();
someObject.someMethod();

Instead of

SomeObject.someMethod();

jokerdino

ok i think i will make it simpler for everyone.

public double logOfBase(int base, int num) {
    return Math.log(num) / Math.log(base);
}

I got that logarithm processing method from the internet.

i have an integer charset that I want to find the log value of, with base 2.

double logValue = logOfBase(2, charset); gave me the above error.

Octavian Damiean

Oh wait.

jokerdino

then, i do as you say, that is:
double logValue = new double;
logValue = logOfBase(2, charset);

@OctavianDamiean yessir.

Octavian Damiean

3:34 PM

Of course, you are calling static methods inside of a non-static method. Basically your method needs to be static as well.

public static double logOfBase(int base, int num) {

jokerdino

I think that works.

i tried public double static logofbase and thought that is not what i should be doing.

Octavian Damiean

hates Java

Oli

It's rubbish.

jokerdino

Java is the only programming language that I kinda know.

Octavian Damiean

Don't try to get to know it any better! Switch to another language as long as you can.

Oli

3:39 PM

Your English is pretty good. You're practically fluent in Python already :)

2

jokerdino

well, I learnt Java for ~two years and I didn't grasp it much.

I want to learn Python..

Octavian Damiean

Do it!

Do it before Java poisons your mind.

jokerdino

Well, then, I will be an understudy of @StefanoPalazzo. :)

Amith KK

3:53 PM

Hello all

You can never write bad python :D

@jrg Thank you bro :D

Octavian Damiean

Well you can write a lot of crap even in Python it is just more readable crap. ;)

2

Amith KK

@OctavianDamiean <3

jokerdino

askubuntu.com/questions/67311/… got some rep to end the day :D

good night all :)

Octavian Damiean

Night.

Gotta do some stuff, laters everyone.

Amith KK

@jokerdino cya

@OctavianDamiean cya

Alvar

4:01 PM

@OctavianDamiean now I hate you. ;)

@OctavianDamiean you know, Android do exist...

htorque

hail to all the new mods! ;)

congrats

Alvar

@jokerdino java is better. It's much easier to read.

@htorque you're a bit late :P

Amith KK

@Alvar pfft

amithkk.heroku.com

Alvar

@AmithKK I see you are a non believer, I shall welcome you in this very warm family.

-.-

Amith KK

@Alvar Teach me java, Make me understand..

rlemon

4:22 PM

jsfiddle.net/rlemon/QMVex/1

coming soon... coming soon page!

Amith KK

@rlemon YU SO AWESOME?

rlemon

@AmithKK When I was born the Doctor asked my mom to decide what type of person I was.. She was going to pick "Sarcastic", but the doctor urged her to pick "Awesome".. and well... here I am!

Amith KK

@rlemon cool story bro

rlemon

I know.. I should tell another..

maybe later on.

@AmithKK non-VIM specific.. I need ideas on common keyboard commands which would be useful in an online code editor.

TAB, and CTRL+D are all I use :P

Oli

Control+S

Amith KK

4:26 PM

@rlemon What was that link

rlemon

but I know CTRL+T does shit, same with others.

@Oli CTRL + Z, CTRL + S i'm going to handle.

Amith KK

Alt+C: Commet

Oli

Something for delete-a-line (Ctrl+D or Ctrl+K)

rlemon

github.com/rlemon/Liddle/blob/master/Notes.md

see how i've described the functionality of each. If you guys could be so kind to help me with this.. :P

Amith KK

@rlemon I cant edit

Oli

4:28 PM

Tab detection is fairly essential. I'm constantly jumping between \t and space*4

What the hell Spotify? I'm on Hardcore/Emo radio and it's playing Miley Cyrus at me.

Amith KK

@Oli LOL, Hannah Montana

@Oli Heh, You changed the algorithm- Now its 10x harder

rlemon

gist: Liddle Command List (Planning), 2012-02-15 16:30:03Z

gistfile1.md

OK, so I need a simple way for people to add/contribute command key ideas... 

Please follow this format: 

`<command-key-combination>`

* &lt;what to do when nothing is selected>
* &lt;what to do when a range is selected>

comment your ideas :P

I hope to make the most uber online editor. possibly implement live syntax highlighter... just trying to figure out how-in-the-hell I would do that without KILLING performance.

Octavian Damiean

@Alvar Huh?

rlemon

and better than jsFiddle's syntax highligher

:P

Oli

@AmithKK Why?

Amith KK

4:36 PM

@Oli Now It only pulls questions with answers with 0 upvotes

Oli

@AmithKK That's because +1 is considered answered now

Amith KK

@Oli But The script doesen't count it without +2

Octavian Damiean

I've been using that Magic Trackpad for a couple of days, using a mouse feels so strange now. :D

Amith KK

@OctavianDamiean lol

Octavian Damiean

Seriously!

rlemon

4:39 PM

@AmithKK just updated your comment a bit :P on a range should it add /* */ around the entire range, because then you can select text within the middle of a line and have it commented out

Amith KK

@OctavianDamiean IKR? If you do

rlemon

@Oli what deletes a line currently? is there a 'common' keyboard command? nvm... CTRL + K

CTRL + K for me is Delete Line, or Delete range.

Oli

@rlemon Nano uses Control+K, Gedit Control+D and I'm sure there are others in other editors

rlemon

really, i thought gedit had ctrl+d line dupe

Amith KK

@rlemon BTW, How were my animations

rlemon

4:41 PM

shoot, nope.

@AmithKK good, very grainy.

I liked the latter of them. not the first round with all the fire.

too 2001 for me.

Amith KK

@rlemon It was a Prerender

rlemon

the clean ones with the 'gem' are nice.

Amith KK

:D Thanks

rlemon

the text effects kind of remind me of 'Swish'

but overall, i liked it.

(now do it with CSS3)

Amith KK

rlemon

4:43 PM

wha to the CSS3 or Swish

Amith KK

@rlemon CSS3

We are CHAOS.

rlemon

the animation can be done programatically with CSS3 transitions/transforms/text effects

Amith KK

@rlemon Im interested

Octavian Damiean

CSS3 is awesome. Not sure if you need to know more. :D

Amith KK

@OctavianDamiean I needs more

Octavian Damiean

4:47 PM

No no, I meant to start learning about it. :)

Amith KK

will do

Wish me luck, We get our exam papers tommrrow.

rlemon

@AmithKK I don't know how to do it in CSS3, but I am looking at every effect used and I have seen CSS3 achieve said effect.

Octavian Damiean

@rlemon Wanna see my unicorn?

2

Oli

@OctavianDamiean Come on guys... not in the public chat room

rlemon

Dude.... Where are you going with this

Octavian Damiean

4:51 PM

lol

That sounded quite weird, I admit.

rlemon

lol @Oli ok so i'm not the only one thinking WHAAAAAA?!?!?!

Octavian Damiean

2

There.

rlemon

wanna see my bangaled tiger?

Octavian Damiean

Of course someone had to star it! Making me look like a pervert. :P

Amith KK

I have a feeling that @Gigili real name is Christina Majchrzak

rlemon

4:53 PM

@OctavianDamiean animate him... and make him do a facepalm.

Octavian Damiean

That is a nice idea!

rlemon

i'll make a userscript to look for /facepalm and play him.

Octavian Damiean

lolz

rlemon

anyways... lunch time!

Amith KK

@rlemon Technically its a facehoove

Octavian Damiean

4:55 PM

Why? It isn't handpalm for humans either.

rlemon

@AmithKK facehoof

William

@AmithKK Meme!

Meme

For all Meme lovers and enthusiasts. Post Ubuntu/Computer-Rela...

rlemon

gist: Liddle Command List (Planning), 2012-02-15 16:30:03Z

gistfile1.md

OK, so I need a simple way for people to add/contribute command key ideas... 
See Project Page [HERE](https://github.com/rlemon/Liddle/blob/master/Notes.md) 

Please follow this format: 

`<command-key-combination>`

* &lt;what to do when nothing is selected>
* &lt;what to do when a range is selected>

Octavian Damiean

That's ridiculous. That'd imply that if I'd slap myself with my foot it'd be a facefoot!?

rlemon

just promoting it again... common people! Give me ideas!

@OctavianDamiean face + palm of your hand == facepalm

face + foot == faceheel.

face + elbow == dislocated shoulder.

Octavian Damiean

4:58 PM

Mhmm. Sounds legit.

Amith KK

@rlemon Face+Face=Kiss