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Stefano Palazzo

20:00

we have a winner!

Alvar

quit?

Stefano Palazzo

well done @OctavianDamiean! It'll be a pleasure using this logo

Alvar

winner?!

O.o

what have I missed?!

Octavian Damiean

\o/

Alvar

I looked at my profile yesterday to look over some old answers to see if I should remove the bad ones. I thought I didn't have more than like 10 answers, just realized I have 62 O.o!!! and 74 questions! :P

I should get a life...

Octavian Damiean

20:03

@Alvar You should get a life? stackoverflow.com/users/418183/octavian-damiean?tab=answers

Alvar

@OctavianDamiean I'm three years younger than you...

Octavian Damiean

So? :D

Alvar

@OctavianDamiean you have way more time than me to spend asking/answering questions.

and I don't even know one programming language...

Octavian Damiean

Meh, I don't even care. Just won a competition.

is quite happy

htorque

ubuntu orange cross - we'll help you! :D

Octavian Damiean

20:08

We sure will!

htorque

oh wait, that's inverted.

so it's still "ask switzerland" :P

Octavian Damiean

Which is a beautiful country. :D

Alvar

xD

htorque

chocolate and cheese

Octavian Damiean

Toblerone ftw!

Alvar

20:09

@htorque or it's red cross

htorque

the medium version :D

Octavian Damiean

It cannot be red cross cause it's white.

It can at best be white cross. :D

Alvar

@htorque you mean breakfast

Octavian Damiean

@htorque Well thank you ... now I want a Toblerone ...

htorque

ditto

and the closest gas station too far away :D

Alvar

20:15

ooh, the store closes in 45 min...

Stefano Palazzo

the new logo is live now \o/

Alvar

gosh I love 90's music... listening to scooter! :D

Octavian Damiean

:D

Alvar

late 90's this is..

Octavian Damiean

Yay

Alvar

20:17

yeah

htorque

90's euro dance trash is better than everything they play nowadays...

Alvar

I've forgot what all the good 90's songs are...

Octavian Damiean

I say only one word. Nu-Jazz.

Alvar

►

this one ofc

@OctavianDamiean -.-

Octavian Damiean

@StefanoPalazzo Is there a special reason for the grey background? I mean is that on purpose?

Stefano Palazzo

20:19

I don't know, I think this is their background for transparent images

I should probably upload one with a white background

Octavian Damiean

Oh, interesting.

Alvar

grey? it's white, the logo..

George Edison

@StefanoPalazzo I had something to ask you... but now I've forgotten what it was.

I think it had something to do with Python. I'll let you know if I remember what it was.

Stefano Palazzo

was it about the victory chat or anything?

George Edison

I'm not sure - you put the code for it online?

Stefano Palazzo

20:24

yeah

George Edison

I think you gave me the link but I've lost it :(

jrg

Congrats @OctavianDamiean

Stefano Palazzo

@GeorgeEdison github.com/sfstpala/Victory-Chat

Octavian Damiean

Thanks! :)

Stefano Palazzo

granted it's not easy to find

jrg

20:26

PSA: If you're reporting a bug in cleanup, then please add it as an answer here, the [bug] tag on meta is for bugs in the stackexchange software, not oli's thing. :)

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Octavian Damiean

Right, the SE team monitors the bug tag.

jrg

Yup. I'd like to make it so they don't go and scold us. :)

George Edison

@StefanoPalazzo Thanks.

htorque

good oscar night, all!

Octavian Damiean

Won't be good for me because of you @htorque!

I want Toblerone but I don't have any!

George Edison

20:31

@OctavianDamiean Hey - I just noticed that you won the logo contest. Congrats!

Octavian Damiean

Thanks. :)

George Edison

@StefanoPalazzo: Ah, here's a question - does Ubuntu package CouchDB for Py3k?

Stefano Palazzo

@GeorgeEdison there's no need for that. VC2 just uses plain HTTP requests to talk to couchdb

George Edison

@StefanoPalazzo That shows how much I know about CouchDB :P

Stefano Palazzo

an API in between would only make things needlessly complex

George Edison

20:34

So I only need the couchdb package and not python-couchdb?

Stefano Palazzo

that's right

you need to install couchdb, go to the _utils/ page, exit "admin party mode", set up a new admin and enable HTTP basic auth

all of which, I think, you can do from within 127.0.0.1:5984/_utils

George Edison

Ah, okay.

jrg

@StefanoPalazzo Sweet...

btw, someone was looking for a chat system like VC last week, so you might have some pull requests soonish... assuming i can remember to mention it to them.

Stefano Palazzo

cool

well like I said, there are still some unfinished things

George Edison

@StefanoPalazzo How do I enable HTTP basic auth in CouchDB? I'm at _utils/config.html and I can't figure out which setting to change.

Is it under httpd?

Stefano Palazzo

20:49

@GeorgeEdison check that "couch_httpd_auth" is in "authentication_handlers" and that "require_valid_user" (near the top of the page) is true (also, bind_address should be 127.0.0.1)

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George Edison

Okay, thanks.

Stefano Palazzo

@GeorgeEdison let me know if it works, it's completely untested

jrg

I'll just blame precise on that when I try to login. ;)

Stefano Palazzo

@jrg did you set the correct host in settings.ini?

config.ini I mean

[global]
; remember to add the port to the host, even if it is port 80
Host = localhost:9311

jrg

20:55

oh, thats what i missed.

Stefano Palazzo

for the demo, this says "chat.plzz.de:80" (or it would, if there wasn't a reverse proxy)

jrg

no counchdb username/password :)

yup, setting the couchdb settings (aka, nill) worked.

so transcripts don't work.

wonder what it'd take to build that in...

Octavian Damiean

Seriously, why would someone use the Hungarian notation in a loosely types programming language?

That just doesn't make sense.

jrg

I should be a real jerk, rewrite it in ruby and submit a pull request to Stefano with it. ;)

Octavian Damiean

I'd ask someone to hack your Github account for that. :D

jrg

20:59

bug 1: Its not ruby.

Just like rails bug #1

Stefano Palazzo

basically, there's a database for every room, called - for instance - vc_room_x9a8s2_messages

the transcript would just get a page of documents from that, and display it

but I guess you kind of need to know both python and couchdb to do it. it's not totally trivial

merely the html for it would be a great pull request for a start though :)

George Edison

Back from lunch.

Now to get this chat thing working...

Cloning Git repo...

Launching python3 run.py...

jrg

set your db creds in config.ini?

George Edison

Oh - I need to do that I guess.

Also, doesn't OpenID require a publicly accessible endpoint?

That won't work in my VM... at least not without some hacking.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison should just "work".

George Edison

21:12

How?

jrg

no idea.

just do it, worked fine for me. :P

George Edison

I know.

I have a hostname for my machine.

jrg

and then you can ask the genius who built it how it works.

Stefano Palazzo

@GeorgeEdison it will work, I think, even if you can't access the machine from outside your network. google will return a Location header, as long as your own browser understands it, you can log in no problem

George Edison

What about Yahoo? Same idea?

Alvar

21:13

I added @rolandTaylor to my g+ feed a moment ago, and instantly I couldn't see anything but his posts. -.-

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Stefano Palazzo

yes (assuming I'm right) that's just how openid works

George Edison

Sure enough - it works!

I am sooo going to charm this.

One sec... I'll make my instance public...

Alvar

@GeorgeEdison charm?!

George Edison

@Alvar Yeah - Juju charm.

Alvar

googling

George Edison

21:18

Can anyone else access home.quickmediasolutions.com:8011

I think VirtualBox is messing something network-related up.

jrg

no data received.

George Edison

Heh... weird.

Alvar

I hate Ubuntu.com there isn't a quick page that just says WHAT IS CHARM COME ON!!!

jrg

juju.ubuntu.com

George Edison

@StefanoPalazzo: paste.ubuntu.com/858396

Alvar

21:19

why isn't that the top 3 when googling?!

George Edison

That's what I get when I set a hostname.

@Alvar What terms are you Googling?

Roland Taylor

@Alvar and someone starred this trash?

Alvar

@GeorgeEdison Juju charm

Octavian Damiean

@Alvar google.com/…

Roland Taylor

Seriously.

Octavian Damiean

21:20

@Alvar You're missing the Ubuntu.

Alvar

@RolandTaylor damn right!

Octavian Damiean

You're just doing it wrong. :D

Alvar

@OctavianDamiean why?

@OctavianDamiean ubuntu has failed not me.

jrg

@Alvar @RolandTaylor glare Relax you two.

Stefano Palazzo

@GeorgeEdison can you show me your config.ini? (remember to remove the password)

Roland Taylor

21:21

With all of the mature people who have me in their circles, why haven't they gotten upset and removed me?

Alvar

oh, it's because I'm in windows right now!

Octavian Damiean

@Alvar Oh come on. You are searching for an Ubuntu technology. What do you expect?

Alvar

@RolandTaylor they've found a way to ignore you.

Roland Taylor

@jrg I guess I should leave, my nose has me worked up already, so Alvar just makes matters "better"...

Stefano Palazzo

@RolandTaylor I'd never remove you. But you do post quite a bit :)

Roland Taylor

21:21

-_-

Octavian Damiean

Google does not have telepathic abilities.

jrg

@Alvar Alvar....Calm down.

Alvar

@jrg wasn't really serious...

George Edison

@StefanoPalazzo: paste.ubuntu.com/858406

Roland Taylor

@StefanoPalazzo there is a big difference between posting a lot, and posting a lot of "nothing"

Alvar

21:22

you post too much

but I would to have a stream of just you

and then remove you from my "little of everything" stream

Stefano Palazzo

@GeorgeEdison ah, thought so. the first pair of host and port is the host you want to bind the http server too - if you want everyone to be able to access the server, this would be "0.0.0.0" and some port

George Edison

Ah.

Stefano Palazzo

the second is your publicly accesssible hostname, i.e. the chat's domain name plus port

that's the bit you need for OpenID to work

Alvar

@RolandTaylor but you post a lot of everything :P

George Edison

@StefanoPalazzo Okay, works now: home.quickmediasolutions.com:8011

Stefano Palazzo

21:25

yep, works!

George Edison

@StefanoPalazzo Uh-oh: home.quickmediasolutions.com:8011/transcript/5iobvhg/test-room

That's for the transcript.

Stefano Palazzo

@GeorgeEdison yeah I should remove that link. it's just not implemented

jrg

and now its showing them as all being starred...

George Edison

I'm closing down my instance now.

Well, that was fun.

CouchDB has a charm.

Allan

22:02

@RolandTaylor are you in ninja mode you aren't in the user list on the left O.o

George Edison

Two implementations of a body-border.

Which is better?

...or more specifically - which looks cleaner?

jokerdino

Why am I getting random Ask Ubuntu questions/comments on my blog?

jrg

22:21

@jokerdino Because that good sir, is what happens when you become popular.

jokerdino

Sigh.

Are you on 12.04?

jrg

not right this moment, no.

need to do some A/V work, and gstreamer is still broken in 12.04

jokerdino

Hmm, just want to know if gedit has a quicklist.

Does it have one in 11.10?

jrg

doesn't have in 11.10

jokerdino

code.launchpad.net/~bilalakhtar/gedit/unity-quicklist/+merge/… ?

iloveubuntu.net/gedits-quicklist-improved-oneiric-ocelot ?

jrg

22:25

doesn't show here

might be a bug

does not appear in the .desktop for gedit

jokerdino

Right. I am going to get it patched. :D

jrg

go for it. :D

George Edison

Qt Creator has one annoying bug - it doesn't keep track of what files I've modified very well.

So if a program crashes after I run it - sometimes all I have to do is rebuild the project and it works.

(In other words - some files that should be rebuilt aren't getting rebuilt.)

jokerdino

BBL guys.

George Edison

22:54

Anyone using the latest build of StackApplet?

htorque

23:15

@GeorgeEdison there was an update today, right?

1.6-0~18~precise1

George Edison

There might have been early early today.

Yeah - there is still lots to do.

I'm trying to fix the notifications right now.

There is a popup as well though I'm not sure how it works with Unity.

htorque

23:44

do we have a troubleshoot answer for questions like this:

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what causes ubuntu11.10 keeps on hanging when i simultaneously open a website, for reading news. downloading and playing music. my RAM is 6 gigs.

11.10

in its current form, it's unanswerable

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