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i've wondered if someone is going to make an h264 raspi based render/transcode farm at some point.

isn't that another form of insanity?

I would almost have forgotten my birthday ... if my phone didn't remind me.

h264 is hardware accelerated on the raspi. seems the opposite of insanity to me...but maybe

the raspi's chip is really designed mainly for such things ;p

12:18 AM

@pacificfils and for that you win... a quote!

> Cat: We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
Alice: How do you know I'm mad?
Cat: You must be. Or you wouldn't have come here.
-Alice and Wonderland

or rather a dialogue..

@Jeremy Very enlightening. guess they're socks then.

@Seth sounds like i made the right decision ignoring utkarsh...

also, this is super interesting: youtube.com/watch?v=cHZONQ2-x7I

@Seth is a quote netherless

12:35 AM

@qwertie - looking at your page with island survival, you need to modify your vegitation generation algorithm a bit. it might be random enough if it were more sparse, but with the density you have, there's not enough entropy to make it not look like a grid of trees of a specified density.

@hbdgaf I'd guess you did

@hbdgaf those trees where done by hand with a brush :P

O_O

@qwertie then it's the brush that's doing it. say you have a scatter brush that puts "drops" at offsets. it still looks like a grid when you're standing in it.

pacificfils

1:07 AM

moo

1:57 AM

I'm curious now. If I have a consumer router with four ethernet ports that support 1 Gbps, and I plug in a device that only supports 100 Mbps, are all four ports limited to that speed?

@NathanOsman aren't all port different interfaces?

Apparently not. I'm not sure though.

Let me telnet into the router for a sec.

quickmediasolutions.com/pastebin/20/ifconfig-on-dd-wrt

we used to have one that had lights on it, each had a 100 and 1000 light

It's my Raspberry Pi in case anyone is curious. It only supports 100 Mbps (which translates to about 10.8 MB/s in the real world).

@Seth the decision was made to keep an eye on Utkarsh and his potential incarnations for now. When the time is right, the force will act accordingly to his offenses against the Empire.

@qwertie great to see you here!

2:10 AM

@RolandiXor I'm everywhere 0_0 :P

@qwertie :D

Me too

just made this

^ this is everywhere...

@RolandiXor It's definitely an incarnation (webcache.googleusercontent.com/…)

@qwertie wow

@Braiam wth

@Jeremy don't worry, when we are ready to strike, the prey shall be held within the talons.

Oh that one was merged (I wish we could still merge accounts).

2:14 AM

@RolandiXor Are you sure? I thought that was just his old username.

I'd have to double check the date.

@RolandiXor 203575

Windows 8 is 204653

Yeah it was merged with his current account.

> The SSD works very good, but some people write its not a good idea to install an operating system on an SSD.

I feel so trolled

How many accounts does he have? jeez

2:17 AM

@Braiam that is such a lie lol

@Jeremy I am honestly not sure.

@Jeremy 203575, 204653, 231631

And that's just the ones that were figured out by now.

no matter how many times I do it I never remember how to link css to html. :P

@RolandiXor can you change the close reason of this? the dupe don't actually answer the question and is more like opinion based since everyone has their own HDD/SDD scheme

@Braiam I'll check it out

@FEichinger don't forget 231638

2:24 AM

@Mateo What the fluff, there's two of them?!

@FEichinger He actually answered and accepted 2 of his own questions with a suck-puppet

@Braiam that was his other user of the same name... so far he hasn't done anything with this one

err... why are we closing this again? askubuntu.com/review/close/205806

wait, there's a freaking support tag????

"custom distro" aka not ubuntu

oh...

2:29 AM

@Braiam It's about support-for-Ubuntu, not "support".

The tag, that is.

@FEichinger that's release management tag, the releases support dates and stuff

@Braiam support

Not my fault it's what it says.

@Mateo How'd you find that?

Cool @Roland

@FEichinger bad tag.. could be used for question "I want support in my windows system"

also... there's a meta tag called... err... support...

Q: Only able to login as Guest

2:33 AM

Lots of spam here:

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This morning I'm only able to login as guest, not as the the main user. I don't have a clue what possibly might have changed or is causing this. Can anyone help here?

login

@Braiam Well, that's what the wiki excerpt is supposed to prevent.

@Seth close the question as unclear while we are at it ;)

Good idea, then we don't have to protect it.

I am going to watch a star trek movie tonight.

@RolandiXor don't you dare.... you will be our slave tonight >:D

2:38 AM

4

You were saying?

@RolandiXor Which one?

@FEichinger I have not decided yet

Then decide, so I may pass judgement on your soul.

@RolandiXor o/

2:41 AM

@NathanOsman hey

@FEichinger either:

putlocker.bz/…

Or:

@roland can you take care of the spam now?

putlocker.bz/…

@Seth yeah sure

Than you

@RolandiXor Generations.

@FEichinger good choice!

2:44 AM

@FEichinger Undiscovered Country

I have it on Laser Disk!

Generations!

I love that one.

So far, I like all I have seen :D

Oh, insurrection Is awesome too

I kind of like the one where Riker jettisons the warp core but the rest isn't so exciting.

I'm starting to hate this Android keyboard...

Catching data is cool :p

2:47 AM

@Seth Which one do you use?

I'm trying flesky out right now

@Seth Never used it. I found Google Keyboard to be very well at handling typing

I like the keys, but its "smart" corrections aren't so smart

Is that Google or Flesky?

Flesky

2:49 AM

I see. Have you tried the google one?

Q: SD card reader not working on Elmentary OS

I might go back to googles keyboard

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I have a Lenovo S210 with a Realtek card reader installed (rts5139), but it does not work. I have tried restarting Elementary while I have an SD card inside, but I am unable to view the SD card contents. When I run dmesg in terminal, I get the following pertaining to the rts5139: [ 8.802265]...

ubuntu elementary-os realtek

@Seth Which phone do you have?

Yeah, its the default one

It's a hp slate 8 tablet

Oh okay.

I've found samsung's keyboards to be truly awful

2:51 AM

Definitely

Hmm. Googles prediction isn't so bad.

I just wish the keys were bigger

Wouldn't know. They're big compared to my phones default

Look how awful that is:

Yeah I've used it

The only thing I like are the numbers at the top. The keys are awfully small and autocorrect is terrible

You should try a. I. Type

bbl

Keyboards like those are sketchy, no? Reminds me of Go keyboard.

Okay, bye

2:58 AM

@Jeremy Samsung's keyboards are terrible. Agree 100%.

Install Google's keyboard if you can. It's easy to use and works great.

10 mins ago, by Jeremy

@Seth Never used it. I found Google Keyboard to be very well at handling typing

Google's is my favorite this far

The Samsung keyboards work on the tablets.

Also, this way the NSA knows what I'm typing and doesn't have to go through Verizon. Google will give it right to them.

Not so much on the phones.

One other good keyboard: Hacker's Keyboard. It works great too.

Q: Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code

3:31 AM

And has pipes

@RolandiXor What kind of engines does that have?

This is cool:

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So, now that it's 2014, it's time for a code question involving the number 2014. Your task is to make a program that prints the number 2014 without using any of the characters 0123456789 in your code. The shortest code (counting in bytes) to do so in any language in which numbers are valid toke...

code-golf

@Seth Gotta love codegolf

A: I need a program where the user inputs an array of doubles and the program outputs the array sorted

I liked the first code-trolling. Every one that followed was bogus, though.

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This is actually pretty hard. Since most programming languages don't have built-in sort functions, we need to get a little bit creative. To be honest, looping through all of the values in the array simply to sort it out doesn't seem practical. It wastes too many resources and puts strain on the u...

(I used CSS to sort the array... xD)

(You technically only used the position attribute to sort)

pacificfils

@Seth date()

Wrong; this adds basically nothing to the site since it's so similar to all the other questions in the flood of code trolling. It's not even high quality enough to be a code trolling question... — Doorknob of Snow 2 days ago

3:45 AM

@FEichinger I technically used the left attribute =/

most amusing comment ever!

> It's not even high quality enough to be a code trolling question

A: Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code

@Jeremy Among the CSS stuff, I mean.

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PHP (9 bytes) xxd needed because of binary data (so copying and pasting it would be easier). May return E_NOTICE, but it doesn't really matter, does it? ~ $ xxd -r > 2014.php 0000000: 3c3f 3d7e cdcf cecb 3b <?=~....; ~ $ php 2014.php 2014

@FEichinger Ah, okay. It was the styling that sorted it though. The point is nothing is actually being sorted... which is what code-trolling is, right?

A: I need a program where the user inputs an array of doubles and the program outputs the array sorted

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Perl Out of all of the things I've done for CodeGolf.SE, this probably took the most time, at least a few hours. $_[0]=eval<>; for(0..$#{$_[0]}**2){ @_[$#_+1]=[\(@{$_[$#_]}),$#{$_[$#_]}+1]; for(1..$#{$_[$#_]}-$#_){ if(eval('${'x$#_.'@{$_[$#_]}[$_-1]'.'}'x$#_)>eval('${'x$#_.'@{$_[$#_]}[$_]'....

Epic Perl.

@Jeremy Arguably, code trolling should still produce the desired result, just in a completely pointless manner.

@NathanOsman That one was perfect.

3:47 AM

@pacificfils that works

@FEichinger It sorts it visually. But not any way else.

And it sorts to scale (visually, at least)

@Braiam What's up with that?

Code Golf is weird.

@Jeremy Yep, and that's why it's fine. It does sort. But it doesn't really use CSS for the sorting. The only relevant CSS operation is setting position to absolute.

Everything else is DOM manipulation through JavaScript. (And CSS is also just DOM manipulation, so no, changing the style values is not CSS.)

okay =/

@FEichinger I was under the impression that he was using CSS just to make things more pointless...

3:52 AM

@Braiam Code trolling should be convoluted, yes, but the convoluted parts should be relevant to the solution.

@Braiam His point is I don't use CSS to sort

I can fill code with tons of redundant pointless if-loops, but that wouldn't change a thing about the relevant parts of the code.

Same thing here with the CSS (except for the position attribute): There's no need for it, for the solution to work.

It's a neat solution and could actually be useful for some stuff, but there's a lot of it that wouldn't qualify as code trolling in my opinion. :P

OT (mint): askubuntu.com/questions/401307/gimp-segmentation-fault

segfault might be a bug... too...

Eyefinity is cool.

4:24 AM

@vasa1 I remember you now!

vasa1

I've asked the mods to do something about Windows 8 aka whatever else. I really can't understand why this person is allowed access to any aspect of Ask Ubuntu.

No need to talk about people who are present in third person.

Even if they pretend to be four persons.

wait, not even Jon Skeet managed to be the Fourth person... yet

downforeveryoneorjustme.com/libreoffice.org

:(

@NathanOsman Interesting. It was up just a few hours ago.

4:53 AM

@Windows8 Oh, please ... This is ridiculous.

@FEichinger am i doing something wrong?

Please tell

Stop deleting your messages and stop thinking of us as idiots. We're not.

I am the yougest human here

:D

that's not excuse...

Again: Stop deleting your messages.

4:57 AM

@FEichinger okay :p

(removed)

@FEichinger sorry

Look, you're not going to get anywhere by skirting the basics of respectful discourse.

@FEichinger lets talk here chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/12339/…

please come

Stop removing your messages. Stop trying to dance around what people say. And for crying out loud, stop pretending you didn't know what you were doing wrong - the scale at which you're doing this all proves you wrong.

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I will not repeatedly delete my messages. -I swear
I will not try to dance around what people say -I swear
I will stop pretending i didn't know what you were doing wrong- i swear

5:53 AM

@Windows8: don't say. Do.

6:30 AM

@JourneymanGeek okay :P

Good News:Utkarsh will not be available to AskUbuntu Chat for next two days!

^ need stars

6:46 AM

Bad News: the good news is fake!

7:58 AM

Aw man... you mean I missed the party!?

@Windows8, u are Utkarsh? :/

Wow! really need coffee its says so in the stared messages :/

Q: How to resolve conflicting information about "Chrubuntu" policy/status?

8:19 AM

@Jeremy Oh, this wasn't the party yet. This was just me telling someone to shove it who managed to lightly piss me off.

The real party starts when the mods start taking action.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

9:35 AM

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My understanding is that we do not currently consider Chrubuntu to be an unofficial derivative (or even a separate derivative at all), and that the current consensus is not to close questions as off-topic for being about a problem on a Chrubuntu system. At least provided that the problem isn't ab...

discussion closed-questions scope derivatives

@FEichinger actually, I'm wondering if this is a possible SO question

@JourneymanGeek Huh?

oh, we have a user who is potentially disruptive as a whole, yet, not flaggable? ;p

That wouldn't be an SO question, but an MSO question :P

But he is very flaggable. Sockpuppetry on a big scale.

Also: If someone disrupts the room dynamic, we're allowed to flag that, too.

my bad

oh, the sockpuppetry is a whole different, and very actionable issue

@FEichinger: what's there to flag tho?

9:41 AM

3 hours ago, by Windows 8

Bad News: the good news is fake!

Seems pretty troll-ish and intentionally disruptive to me.

fossfreedom

issue has been dealt with - no need to pursue this in chat. Thanks.

(Not that I'd flag it. Just saying we technically are allowed to flag to preserve room dynamic.)

10:23 AM

stackoverflow has 102.7k close votes... the hellll

Alvar

10:36 AM

mods around?

askubuntu.com/a/401437/10698 this answer

is exactly the same as the one above, just copy paste..

fossfreedom

o/ - dealt with

Alvar

thanks

fossfreedom

11:16 AM

be nice

Amith KK

Ok, sorry :D

11:31 AM

Why doesn't HDMI Ubuntu-TVwork? Can someone help me troubleshoot?

@Mochan it works on 3 different boxes here 1 ATI 2 NVidia ... all 3 worked almost out of the box.

@Mochan It should.

@Oli It doesn't ;_;

@Takkat Do you mean as in 1 ATI computer and 1 Nvidia computer?

@Mochan Have you opened a question explaining what hardware you're running and what you've tried?

1 ATI 2 NVidia, yeah.

Do the monitor setting detect you TV?

11:39 AM

@Oli I haven't because there are plenty of questions about the same thing and I thought it might be too localized? ;\

@Takkat It did when the HDMI cable in my TV wasn't connected properly, but now that I've tightened it, it doesn't anymore.

^^ that's weird - do you have another cable to try?

@Takkat Nope :<

I know the cable works though because I had it connected from my TV-PS3

What's the TV?

Ie, do other people have problems with that particular make/model?

@Oli I don't think so.

I have no idea of the model .-.

"Ubuntu 13.04 Support Period Ends January 27"
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/01/ubuntu-13-04-end-of-life-january-27

11:43 AM

One of my cables only works with the DVD player, not the computer.

@blade19899 Yeah there's a meta that's featured/pinned already.

@Takkat Weird :(

I don't own another though ;\

Tried to plug it the other way 'round?

@Takkat Ooh, my laptop detects the TV!

<-- hates cables so much

11:45 AM

Yeah I used to have a SCART cable that did that.

And now I feel old.

I DID IT!!!

I don't know how :

YOU DID IT \o/

@Takkat Yay! XD

@Oli I don't even know what that is!! hahaha

Thank you @Oli, @Takkat ! x

@Oli That looks like a tool of torture

Anyway

Bye~ ! ^_^

11:48 AM

SCART :)))

My T.V. still supports SCART :/

@Oli, Didn't noticed that meta :)

Btw, this, for Trusty tahr would be awesome. And i definitely would promote it

Jeej, I know now how to use links in markdown language :/

12:24 PM

Got a box with high load and SSH logins but hangs after MOTD and before CLI... Anyone know if I can do anything before I quickly bounce the box?

@WilliamHilsum df and htop would be my run-to commands. (edit: but if you can't log in at all... Yeah, not sure they'll help!)

Do you have an out-of-band login method? KVMoIP to a TTY or some-such...?

@Oli It looks like the drac has either crashed or become non responsive :(

ow

Avinash Raj

is that this askubuntu.com/questions/309202/… dupe of askubuntu.com/questions/277900/whats-the-default-sudo-timeout?

12:44 PM

@WilliamHilsum try using ssh user@domain /usr/bin/htop instead

Think you'll need a -t in there too for that... Could be wrong.

Yeah, otherwise it'll bug out... ssh -t user@host /usr/bin/htop

I'll try

freezes :( / doesn't seem to do anything after I type the password

@WilliamHilsum try with -v if everything fails

and with -vv?

12:50 PM

does the -v have to be somewhere special? did it after htop and got same result

-vv at the end doesn't do anything

Amith KK

@Oli Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs O.o

@AmithKK That's what it stands for.

@AmithKK blame the frenchs

Q: HELP! how can i get my account back on stardoll.com

HUH?

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ok so I've been a loyal paying member to stardoll.com since 2008, the amount of money I have spent on there is ridicules.. so yesterday as I was about to log on, it wouldn't let me. so I checked my emails and I received a email saying your account has been deleted due to breaking the rules.... bu...

users

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Q: Xephyr Resolution Issue

Whenever I try to connect to Ubuntu by Xephyr, I always ended with 1600x1200 resolution. Even though, I specified the -screen 1024x768 in command. Where is the issue ? On server side or client side ? Unfortunately I don't have another server to test. If I connect to same server by using Xnest w...

ubuntu xephyr

1:04 PM

@blade19899 I would nag a moderator ;)

@Oli, go get them!

Wow that was fast

U the man @Oli!

actually was Jokerdino that took that child in offering

Aaahh. U the man @jokerdino! whit a child apparently :/

jokerdino

that was obviously silly spam

silly Or a question by a very special person

emphasis, on special

1:28 PM

wow, 3 questions with the featured tag

> Enabling dont_blame_nrpe is a high security risk, and should only be done when you know what you are doing!

I don't know what am doing. And I also don't really know why its a security risk!

Icinga related Q: why is dont_blame_nrpe a security risk?

1:59 PM

:P

> dont_blame_nrpe means to be "allow the master to send additional command args via '-a' which you should enable (potential security risk). source

HUH?

@Rinzwind,... you know why, don't you? XD

Q: mhsetroot - how do I get others to know about a better hsetroot I developed into mhsetroot?

yes >:)

Ok...

NORMALLY you pass the command with NO parameters. That setting lets you pass the name of the host. And is does that plain text with no sanity check

= security problem

So knowing what you are doing means you check the name yourself server side :+

Lol ->

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I forked hsetroot into mhsetroot then added a lot of more features to it like being able to set the image size to what ever you want no matter how big or small the original image is then show it center screen, even flip the background and the image in opposite directions if you like, and tile the...

graphics desktop-environments wallpaper open-source

I'd say open a topic in askubuntu!! :D

Haha

braiam is gonna be angry about the open-source tag. and the other he used

he will be!

.....@Braiam....

lol

aahhh. he nuked them..

@Rinzwind, thanks.

2:11 PM

Now is a readable question askubuntu.com/q/401540/169736

True. But, is it on-topic?

@Braiam sure but that was not the concern :D

It could be considered spam _O-

That's why I removed all the self-promotion stuff...

You meant "That's why I massacred his question.."
:D

So windows 8 is suspended but neither of the two sparkles are? =/

2:16 PM

Are there people with close votes left? If so, could you go through the close vote review... Only 26 questions to go.

actually 58

? 59 votes needed you mean?

58 items

lol

mine says 26!

because... reasons...

2:19 PM

hmmm because the one's I just voted on are no longer in my queue but they are in yours?

yeah, something like that...

mine says 57. But,

can't vote on anything. got a lot of work. am swamped.

44 it says

I know that feeling

Only reason am here, is to read stuff when am feeling overwhelmed by work

2:21 PM

Braiam can't we use your SQL script to get the 'real' number

@blade19899 if you want things to vote on you can ask the >10k users to give you targets...

@don.joey err.. the thing is... that it uses the data dump of the last week...

ah

what are there targets you are talking about?

jokerdino

John Doe, Se7en

@don.joey there is a list of the most voted questions of the queue available for 10k users ;)

btw, can someone give the grace hit askubuntu.com/q/399357/169736?

@Braiam, I only have 4,060 rep.... ;'( why most u keep reminding people they are inferior to you

2:24 PM

@Braiam done.

lol

@blade19899 I didn't mention you as you lowly life but you as you that still has votes

it already got a new close vote :)

@Braiam, ah. My bad, bro.

gtg

cheers

\o

2:27 PM

Just throw the dirty Q 's on the ubuntu-regulators room

I well review them, and if needed, vote to close them.

3:30 PM

@blade19899 it took me less than a month to get 10k >:D

o0

that stupid 200 rep cap had me chase bounties and accepted answers >:D

Avinash Raj

3:44 PM

is that possible to set alias for only sudo command

lol

@Rinzwind: took me slightly over a year to hit 10K on SU

Q: Can you boot a mac with an empty harddrive using an UBUNTU iso from a usb written from a windows computer?

@Rinzwind, Am a casual askubuntu-er.

But, I don't know what to do with this one:

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I've just replaced the harddrive on my mac and was hoping to swap directly to UBUNTU as my OS. Can this be done? If so, can it be done from a usb written by a windows computer?

installation 13.04 usb windows mac

Close, edit, comment?

lol

jokerdino

Not here.