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Rmano

19:10

@terdon (referring to askubuntu.com/questions/442548/… --- how do you quote comments here in chat? Needs unicoins ;-)? ) Yes, 10 K --- almost all the way down in a bottle of liquid helium. Some type of FET did really work better at such low temperatures. But the mechanical problems where really though.

terdon

@Rmano Wow! I'd love to see the rig you used to keep it at that temp :)

And to quote comments, just copy the comment link (the date is a link)

For example, this: askubuntu.com/questions/442548/is-55c-a-safe-temperature-for-a-acer-aspire-one-d‌255/442552#comment578961_442552

With an http:// in front of it, renders as:

askubuntu.com/questions/442548/…‌255/442552#comment578961_442552

Umm..

I did measure MOSFET at 10 °K back in time. They're good and fast. Pity the weld joints broke just looking bad at them... — Rmano 9 mins ago

Rmano

@terdon Ah OK, thanks (how did you do the last?). --- No special rig, really. You buy a bottle of liquid helium (ours was some beast two meters high) and then drop the object down with a cable. There is temperature gradient in it; in the liquid you have 4 K, a bit over it you have your 10 K easily).

guntbert

http://askubuntu.com/questions/442567/i-need-to-ocult-mi-ip
3 votes "dupe" needed

terdon

@Rmano Ah, that makes sense, OK. I was imagining something more complex. And just right click on the date next to a comment, copy it, and paste here on a separate line

You can try with the "9 mins ago" in the pasted comment above.

Rmano

@terdon It was during my PhD thesis. 1990. Ehhh... (OK, thanks, received. Is there some "sandbox"chat to experiment?)

terdon

19:15

@guntbert yeah, I cast the first one.

@Rmano Ah, the one written in pure TeX? :) And no, just paste one here, you can delete it or leave it, no big deal.

guntbert

@terdon indeed - you uncovered the evil scheme ;-))

terdon

I often just translate such questions but that one is horrible anyway.

Rmano

@terdon yes, that one! :)

terdon

@Rmano heh, just looked at your profile: " user of Linux since 1989 "

So, you take it even further back than in your comment, that's 3 full years before Linux was created!

Damn you're good! :P

Rmano

@terdon yes I forgot to correct that... it was Unix not Linux ;-). Will do now. I started with VAX/VMS in 1988 or so --- than passed to Ultrix and Domain/OS on Apollos --- then started with Linux. I remember a big "politically divide" in that time, half on us was on Linux, the other half on BSD. Never (I repeat, never) had a Windows PC (well, have to use one sometime. Not mine. And borrowed my roommate ones to play games).

terdon

19:23

Heh, the only reason I still have windows installed is to play games every now and then. (I also have a VM for using powerpoint in the very few cases that it's simpler than LaTeX)

I've never used a pure Unix. Well, not for more than a few minutes anyway and not unless you count OSX. Which you should.

Rmano

@terdon I unfortunately need a VM with it for work. There is the openoffice bug (since ever, never fixed) with incompatible highlight with microsoft office that keeps me from ditching that thing; even if I have crossover sometime you need the real thing. This one: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/295014

terdon

Yeah, open/libre office aren't quite there with powerpoint yet. Sigh

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

Q: How to replace a custom date string in a text file

I've looked through several tutorials and a couple of StackOverflow posts, but I've not seen any examples using sed or awk which use dates. I have a text file that contains this as the first line, I need to replace the date with the current date and time via script; what is the easiest way to do ...

Seth

19:50

@terdon Would this be ok on U&L after some sprucing? askubuntu.com/questions/442579/…

terdon

@Seth After sprucing it should be fine yes.

Seth

cool.

Fixed and sent.

terdon

Thanks

Seth

np :)

badp

20:21

ubuntu+1 fun

lockscreen failed to grab focus and I failed to give the focus back to the lockscreen

I could click on the "Password" field and the field would show me a caret, but input fell through to whatever program was in the background

Here's hoping this set of 104 updates brings an end to the madness

jokerdino

Santi?

Raphael Santi?

badp

No.

Sorry to disappoint!

jokerdino

:'(

Seth

Argh, it was a duplicate of a question by the OP. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122824/…

searchfgold6789

20:37

Think I'll reinstall for the new LTS

Seth

egopowerplus.com/products/string-trimmer drools

hbdgaf

I don't have to worry about that type of thing. The park where I live is mostly weekend get-away campers/RVs/mini-homes... So they do all the yard maintenance for us.

Seth

That must be so annoying, I love taking care of the lawn. That is, when my mower works.

hbdgaf

20:53

I love that it's self-maintaining.

Braiam

please, reopen, OP already installed JRE/JDK but doesn't know how to install the plugin, duplicated is about how to install Java jre/jdk askubuntu.com/q/354361/169736

too broad askubuntu.com/q/442430/169736

Seth

@Braiam I was wondering that myself lol.

I'm going to ask an SR question about it later.

Braiam

@Seth mm... I think U1 was a web service :/

maybe you can ask about a client instead

Seth

that's what I meant...

U1 had a client built into Ubuntu

(well, coming with Ubuntu anyway)

Braiam

21:10

some delete votes here askubuntu.com/q/115608/169736

Braiam

21:50

why I can't believe this?

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