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aking1012

22:00

the epicosity of sox audio editing/capturing from the cli is unparalleled

i don't use it for pranks but i hear some people have fun with it to playback differing noises in server rooms and whatnot

Jorge Castro

@izx that upgrade question, the guy needs to add old-releases.ubuntu.com or whatever it is

jrg

22:15

@LuisAlvarado i use audacity, and then do a noise cleanup.

is decidedly not geeky like that

aking1012

if i can't script it i'm not interested...just saying

izx

@Jorge noted, thx, on mob i/f so will edit it in later.

aking1012

what's with all the 1rep no voice no question users in chat today?

LnxSlck

22:54

say what?

aking1012

there have been loads of "registered but no voice and browsing anyway without a question they're hoping to have answered" users today

i understand it more if someone has a question that's not answered and they pop in to chat, but don't have voice yet (maybe there should be a bot that posts this type of info) so i check, just to be helpful...but the fact that it isn't true is counter-intuitive

LnxSlck

@aking1012, there's also an important issue with that

aking1012

listens

LnxSlck

most users that "need" to chat are the one's that still don't have the rep to chat

aking1012

if there were questions with comments that requested chat i could make rooms

LnxSlck

23:04

i remember one or two situations, that i kept exchaning comments because the user didn't had the rep to chat

aking1012

@TheInterrupter e.g. my statement immediately after this

LnxSlck

the funny thing is, AU after a 3 or 4 comments asks if we want to chat

aking1012

caring users do it without needing a prompt from the system if the user wants it...just saying

LnxSlck

lool

aking1012

and if a user actually needs it should they really be talking in general? just saying...

personally i think stack should have an xmpp bounce point that lets you say "i have a contact for issue X of address [email protected]" where you can carry on a conversation in an XMPP client without the interface and just use a "normal" im client to talk about a problem

like a [email protected] address

think big or die right?

cryengine3 ftw just saying:

►

jrg

23:30

Tonights hack: star wars Lorem ipsum generator that spits out raw markdown.

(@mahesh)

aking1012

@jrg lmk if you try out the cryptograme thing and any ui improvements. i'm not planning on pushing the quote database until it's all finished/polished-ish since it would make it sort of huge

jrg

@aking1012 ok, i'll do that as soon as I'm finished writing this email, and before I start my other project.

aking1012

@jrg take your time...it's not really necessary, but i think it's a different-ish ui with zero dialogs so i'm interested to see if people think it's a)awesome but different or b)confusing

there's a unity reference in there somewhere

jrg

Ok, lets enjoy the game. :)

LnxSlck

is there a way to put newlines in comments?

jrg

23:37

@LnxSlck what do you mean?

aking1012

@LnxSlck not that i'm aware of...

he wants a linebreak in a comment...

LnxSlck

yep

linebreak

jrg

Sorry. Do you want a code comment or a Ask Ubuntu post comment? is slightly confused

aking1012

on SE is there a way to make a comment have a linebreak so you can post in a comment:
something
like
this

LnxSlck

@jrg i want a linebreak in comments

@aking1012, exactly

jrg

23:39

oh, there is no way to do that afaik

LnxSlck

look here: askubuntu.com/questions/175892/minecraft-error-report/…

i had to make an answer when i only wanted the user to make some commands

jrg

@aking1012 i should install python-pip, right?

and then pip install BeautifulSoup4 ?

aking1012

you don't need pip. you need bs4

jrg

so... some sort of apt-get should do it, right?

aking1012

at least on ubuntu...i don't have a mac to test...so maybe

jrg

23:44

no, i'm on ubuntu

aking1012

package name python-bs4

it's not in use in the basic demo so you "could" just comment it out

thanks for actually looking though

jrg

ended up comment it out, couldn't get it to work shrug

aking1012

if you're on Q it could be a little different my testing was on precise

jrg

entirely likely, since I am on Q

aking1012

urp python3-bs4

jrg

23:48

although i'm using Python 2.7.3, so...

aking1012

it's fine...i was just saying... it "should" import from bs4

i'ld make it run on base install with deps if it was packaged

Flabricorn

Who's excited for the older version of Natilus in 12.10?

jrg

@Flabricorn ?

aking1012

i'm excited for a three day deadline on positive cash flow...but that's just me

Flabricorn

@jrg in 12.10 they're using 2.4 instead of 2.6.

aking1012

23:52

@Flabricorn WAT? they're using an older version of nautilus so they can avoid a dev-fork that happened in 2.6?

the what is always unimportant...only the why

jrg

Heh, nice.

@aking1012 ok, so heres my feedback: Please make it so I can type instead of having to select.

way too much mouse work for my taste. Other than that, I <3 it.

aking1012

@jrg so you got it running...awesome. it was a pure functional demo. check the other "not really tab tabs"

what do you mean by work? drag and drop is coming...along with larger letters/drag-drop targets

jrg

I had to mouse to A, click, mouse to the first letter, click, mouse back when it didn't change, click, etc etc etc.

Flabricorn

Also Wayland's been delayed until at LEAST 13.04.

aking1012

@jrg fair point. i think larger touch targets and drop targets would solve that

jrg

23:56

@Flabricorn Interesting, hadn't heard the Wayland news.

And I'm using GNOME nautilus 3.5.5.

I do have a line on a wayland PPA.

@aking1012 That might do it.

aking1012

i like @mateo 's idea about hints and my own about conflicts for multiply selected translations... it's something that would def be sorted during a funding round

Flabricorn

@jrg @aking1012 Nautilus 3.4 not 3.6, my bad.

aking1012

@Flabricorn it happens