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RPi Awesomeness

17:00

I'd done everything else in their tour center multiple times already and was just killing time on my last resort thing.

Fabby

my conclusion from the facts: Cute animal as avatar + likes face to be scanned = Girl!

:D

Mateo

@Fabby most teanagers get acne so... not really conclusive.

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby AHA! YOU FIND IT CUTE! @Fabby proven to be a girl.

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness You could have come in and answered some questions...

@RPiAwesomeness: no, I'm just gay! ;-) :P

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby No I couldn't - I didn't have a phone with connection.

@Fabby Whoa...

Actually, I don't have a phone period.

Fabby

17:01

@Mateo: Did you see my message to nathan?

Mateo

about the appindicator?

that is an interesting problem

Fabby

nah! First answer on AU where nitroshare is the solution!

Mateo

ah, cool.

I think I tried a few of those with v.2, but the memory bug...

so v3 is going to be amazing!

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Had I more time I would have set up the matrix effect as a batch file, but by the time I had figured out how to launch the command line & keep it up above flash player I had to go

@ echo off
color 0a
:a
echo %random%%random%%random%
%random%%random%%random%
%random%%random%%random%
%random%%random%%random%
%random%%random%%random%
%random%%random%%random%
goto a

Fabby

(shake)

Mateo

17:04

but we are waiting on the cmake release before I build the mac version

Fabby

You're the "help wanted"?

>:)

Mateo

I have a mac, and I did some of the porting on v.2 and packaged it for mac

so, going to have this one a go as well

RPi Awesomeness

I wonder what their IT department is gonna be like when they find it...

Or rather, what their IT department was like when they found it.

Fabby

Mmmh, because when I filed my first bug, I thought I saw "help wanted" for a mac version...

Mateo

I basically just hit random buttons, then delete some random code.

then see if it works again ;)

Fabby

17:07

Have you ever heard of the BSOD screen saver?

(If my memory still serves me right by Marc Russinovich)

Mateo

but, I'm sure if someone had skills using xcode, and the mac store - it would be way better than what i'm doing

Fabby

I stay away from any Apple products as much as I can...

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Why?

Other than price :P

Fabby

The last good computer Apple made was made by the other Steve...

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby lol

Mateo

17:09

because it won't have the mac prefrence pane, or be "signed" so you have to turn off a certain level of security now on macs to run unsigned programs.

Fabby

How much does signing cost nowadays?

Mateo

too much.

Fabby

Why doesn't Github or SourceForge get a signing authority???

Mateo

used to be you just needed a mac to be a mac developer

Fabby

Used to be you needed a piece of paper and a pencil to be a DOS developer...

(and a PAIR OF ROCKS!) ;-)

Mateo

17:11

then they did $100, flat entrance fee. now it is a fee that you pay over and over.

Fabby

back in my time, we had CP/M and rocks! :D

Yearly, right?

and if you don't pay up, all of your previous stuff gets revoked, no?

Mateo

don't know the details, looked into it at the beginning, and was like "um, no."

Fabby

Someone asked me if I could develop an app for them... (something simple)

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo Isn't that the whole Apple developer thing? :P

Fabby

yeah...

RPi Awesomeness

17:12

It's annoying all right. $100 a year just to post apps is nothing to sneeze at.

user965347

hey

Mateo

back with snow leapord you could do opensource on it no problem

RPi Awesomeness

o/

user965347

anyone familiar with selinux here?

Fabby

This is AskUbuntu...

user965347

17:13

i got a problem

yes ubuntu is linux right?

Fabby

We're very good at removing seLinux...

user965347

how do u do that?

i cant even install mysql with this selinux shet

Fabby

Remove selinux?

user965347

yes

mysql install keeps saying errno 13

Mateo

haha, if it isn't your computer this might be a problem...

Fabby

17:14

ubuntu.com/download/desktop/install-ubuntu-desktop

user965347

selinux is just a disease in linux

Fabby

Ah! that's a permission denied!

user965347

ye , denied everywhere

Fabby

I dunno. I use Ubuntu

user965347

thats a pain

Mateo

17:15

plus wansn't there a problem installing selinux on Ubuntu? or did they fix that...

Fabby

I keep plain, old vanilla Ubuntu...

Mateo

usually you don't setup selinux on Ubuntu, since it uses policykit

Fabby

only nemo is a bit exotic...

RPi Awesomeness

Hrm. There appears to be a bug in Audacity where if you pause/unpause too quick it freezes

Fabby

That's why I gave him the download/install link.

Mateo

17:17

hm,

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness: I just use VLC for everything... KISS and all

Mateo

> The Ubuntu-specific "selinux" and "selinux-policy-ubuntu" packages documented here have not received much attention since Karmic, and appear to be effectively broken in Precise.

wiki.ubuntu.com/SELinux

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby But you can't edit audio with VLC

Fabby

Audacity can?

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Yeah...that's what audacity does.

Your thinking of Audacious

user965347

17:19

hm

Mateo

so basically what he said:

If you wist to use selinux, I highly advise you use Fedora. selinux is maintained in Fedora, active by default, and there are a greater number of tools to manage selinux, both graphical and command line. If you wish to use Ubuntu, as suggested, use Apparmor. both tools have a bit of a learning curve and both have advantages and disadvantages. — bodhi.zazen Jun 10 '14 at 15:23

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness: Cool, thanks... I think I'm going to make my sister's eldest a bit more happy! I only gave him Mixxx and some ripping software on his Lubuntu machine...

(and minidlna...)

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Oh, does he do audio editing?

Fabby

He's 11...

he plays with Mixxx and rips his own CDs...

Gotta go!

start cooking!

(well... cooking: the GF wants salad tonight...)

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Ah :)

RPi Awesomeness

17:46

Hrm...I need to make an outro clip background...time to break out my graphical design skills...

@HackToHell Haven't seen you around for a while :) o/

-1

Q: Adware woes on unbuntu 12.04

I am having trouble with adware specifically the update adobe required, I know its something dumb I did. Being kind of a beginner I would like to see if anybody has a way to find and remove this pain in the behind. I did run clam av with 0 results, any ideas for this old cowboy? In more detail ...

12.04

Well...this guy needs to learn some manners. Gosh

HackToHell

18:01

@RPiAwesomeness \o

Nathan Osman

@Fabby: obligatory upvote on your answer :)

Fabby

:D :D :D

Mateo

@RPiAwesomeness are you going to do funny endings after your outro, I like those.

Fabby

(and my first bug filed...)

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo I'll try :) That's actually a really great way to boost your visibility on Youtube. Youtube bases their algorithms quite heavily around how much of your video the viewers actually watch.

TheWarOwl is quite good at those :)

Mateo

18:10

I like this channel: youtube.com/user/MentalFlossVideo

RPi Awesomeness

I've just found a very useful feature in GIMP: brush jitter

Whaaaaaat

@RPiAwesomeness Hello

RPi Awesomeness

@Whaaaaaat o/

Whaaaaaat

I was trying to download LoL on a 60kb/s connection.

so i know your crap internet pain

RPi Awesomeness

@Whaaaaaat :) I see

Whaaaaaat

18:16

UT phone? HYPEHYPEHYPEHYPE

Mateo

►

and, of course, the one with the edge:

►

so, yeah. looks like they finally added gestures for tabs on the browser, going to have to see if they pushed that yet

Nathan Osman

I wish I had time to port it to my Nexus 6... :(

Whaaaaaat

@NathanOsman I should be sniping a 7 today

Nathan Osman

A Nexus 7?

RPi Awesomeness

Wut...Ubuntu has a Youtube channel? I did not know this. SUBBED!

Whaaaaaat

18:22

@NathanOsman yep

Mateo

there are these every week as well @RPiAwesomeness youtube.com/user/UbuntuOnAir

Whaaaaaat

(not gon link it cuz a certain someone [@RPiAwesomeness] will snipe it just to screw with me)

Okay. Why the hell does PS hate my graphics drivers?

Mateo

micheal and popey talk about everything going on and answer questions

RPi Awesomeness

@Whaaaaaat Eh?

@Whaaaaaat Oh, lol ;)

I won't snipe you. I don't have the cash :P

Nathan Osman

@Fabby: I replied to your bug report as well.

Whaaaaaat

18:29

@RPiAwesomeness if you could, you would.

RPi Awesomeness

@Whaaaaaat Nah. I'm not that evil

Whaaaaaat

okay wtf

does photoshop not have a line tool?!

oh i feel stupid

what color (not green, green would be bad in this case) would be a good compliment to this?

RPi Awesomeness

@Whaaaaaat Are you messing with Minecraft again?

Whaaaaaat

yes

namely, forum signatures

RPi Awesomeness

Aah

Seth

18:36

A light purple? A bit of grey?

Whaaaaaat

hmm

i'll look at that later

blade19899

@Fabby Yes. My DATA partition is still NTFS

Whaaaaaat

@blade19899 please tell me that that isn't your Linux data partition

blade19899

@Whaaaaaat Two partition 1 ext 4 for Ubuntu, second is ntfs for my DATA partition. Windows can't read ext. So, just in case I'm at a windows machine, and i need it to recover something with it.

Whaaaaaat

18:58

@blade19899 my windows can read hfs and ext

RPi Awesomeness

Seth

That's pretty nice.

RPi Awesomeness

Thanks :)

Whaaaaaat

anyone know how dangerous a non-OEM (or generic) Qi charger is?

RPi Awesomeness

Bit too much Bokeh IMO

Whaaaaaat

19:06

@RPiAwesomeness you're making that?

RPi Awesomeness

Eh, first one is still better.

@Whaaaaaat Yeah

Whaaaaaat

@RPiAwesomeness stop showing off :P

RPi Awesomeness

@Whaaaaaat ;)

Whaaaaaat

i really need to learn PS/Ill/GIMP/Blender/whatever

Fabby

@blade19899: then you should definitely read this one:

RPi Awesomeness

19:07

@Whaaaaaat GIMP

Whaaaaaat

rrr ebay, i don't trust you

Fabby

2

Q: How to efficiently partition a single Windows-Ubuntu dual boot disk

This is not a question on how to install Ubuntu or how to use manual partitioning during installation but is a question on access rights and how not to let them bite you in the lower abdomen... ;-) This question will not help you how to make partitions on your disk, but will tell you what to do...

dual-boot partitioning windows-7

RPi Awesomeness

Whaaaaaat

i need a Qi charger, but I think non-oem ones are dangerous?

RPi Awesomeness

Less Bokeh, more random

@Whaaaaaat If you're curious about what I'm doing...

Whaaaaaat

19:10

"It's a easy tutorial and I think u can do it in 10 minute..Click the image for larger view."

"I think u can do it in 10 minute"

/me clicks away

Fabby

@NathanOsman thanks, reply sent. One fair bit of warning: I'm anally retentive about security, so I always run as a normal; unprivileged user... (I tend to forget to mention that) Trying admin user and sudo in the next few minutes...

RPi Awesomeness

@Whaaaaaat ;) It took me a little bit more than 10 minutes to achieve that, but that's because I was being a bit of a perfectionist. It's actually pretty simple to do.

Whaaaaaat

@Fabby you're security conscious?

what firewall do you use?

Nathan Osman

@Fabby It's okay. It should run fine as a normal user.

Whaaaaaat

@RPiAwesomeness stop being perfect.

RPi Awesomeness

19:11

Whoa.... O.O

That's what happened when I changed the background from solid black to a dark grey

Actually kinda cool...

Whaaaaaat

oh ik why that is

Fabby

@Whaaaaaat I have a universal charger from a few mA to 5A and it connects to everything and I have never burnt anything out (though my GF has...)

RPi Awesomeness

@Whaaaaaat \o/ You're not stupid! You have just won the 47th internet Not Stupid award!

Whaaaaaat

hmmm

i'm just skeptical about Qi chargers.

@RPiAwesomeness only 47? wow...

Fabby

@Whaaaaaat No, I'm anal about it... :P

RPi Awesomeness

19:13

@Whaaaaaat Yeah. It's pretty rare

Whaaaaaat

@Fabby what's you password change rate?

and how often do you cycle your SSH keys (and what size are they?)

Fabby

@Whaaaaaat NAT and ufw...

Whaaaaaat

have you fail2ban configured?

Fabby

once every 3-6 months password change rate.
Lemme look at my keyring...

Whaaaaaat

lol really? i'm on a 2-week cycle, with 32KB ssh keys cycled at the same time

RPi Awesomeness

19:16

Hrm. Interesting...dunno if I'd use it or not...

Fabby

2 weeks? You're worse then me! I've got an algoritm and can go back 20 years in my head though...

If I give you a password protected back-up that's 10 yeas old, can you still remember the password?

Whaaaaaat

i don't have a password algorigm

RPi Awesomeness

Hehe...I'm terrible about that. I almost never change my password :P

Whaaaaaat

but i can remember passwords

RPi Awesomeness

I really ought to...

Whaaaaaat

19:18

but really. 32kb ssh keys.

Fabby

So the answer to the 10-YO back-up is "Yes!"???

Whaaaaaat

if the password is worth something, yes.

but i'd probably cycle it with my other passwords

Fabby

I'm impressed. Mine is 2064 bytes...

Whaaaaaat

it can take up to an hour to generate those puppies

Fabby

But I can't find the exact date but it's between 1-2 months...

Yeah and the entire life of the universe to crack them

(with current technology)

Whaaaaaat

19:20

my thing should be okay until the current supercomputer can fit into my hand.

snipe in 20 minutes.

o/ @Rinzwind

Rinzwind

\o

Fabby

Logging off. Testing Nitroshare... C U L8R

RPi Awesomeness

o/

Whaaaaaat

19:42

SCHNIPED

RPi Awesomeness

THE HECK JUST HAPPENED THERE?

I just got shocked through my earbuds...

Whaaaaaat

lol

RPi Awesomeness

There was static, and a zap..

Strange stuff

Whaaaaaat

lol?

RPi Awesomeness

Granted, they are metal, so it could've been static electricity from my siblings who ran by right then

I hate my tiny room :P

Approaching Nirvana makes some awesome instrumental dubstep...great for intros/outros :)

Fabby

19:51

@RPiAwesomeness: better a tiny room then a tent and a hole in the ground!
(you kids nowadays: back in my time, we only had caves!)

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby facepalm Grandpa, go back to your rocker

Fabby

:D

RPi Awesomeness

I present to you...a panda bear with a mustache:

From: f1.bcbits.com/img/a0019322355_10.jpg

Whaaaaaat

why do no cell carriers offer unlimited tablet 4g?

RPi Awesomeness

I should have this playing in the background of my videos

Nathan Osman

20:26

@Whaaaaaat I have a carrier that offers unlimited data on their HSDPA+ network.

Their more expensive plans even include unlimited roaming in the US.

Seth

3

@Whaaaaaat because people abuse "unlimited".

@NathanOsman What do they charge for that?

Nathan Osman

I'm paying $30/m for unlimited data. Fair warning: it is throttled after 5GB, but still technically unlimited.

Seth

I believe the cheapest you can get it around here is $30 max.

Oh neat, that's not bad.

Nathan Osman

That includes calling and SMS too.

Seth

I don't use my phone much so I just get cheap prepaid. The nice thing is I get to use Verizon's network which has the best network coverage in the US (except my house, incidentally).

Nathan Osman

20:31

The one downside is that the company doesn't offer very good coverage.

Seth

@NathanOsman That's a pretty slick deal.

I can get unlimited everything for $25 a month but that is only 3G data.

Nathan Osman

Here's what they offer: windmobile.com/plans-and-devices/plans

I've got a grandfathered $30/m plan roughly equivalent to the new $35/m plan.

Seth

That's pretty nice!

They offer up to date phones too.

Nathan Osman

I bought mine outright and then got a credit for "bring your own phone".

Fabby

20:47

I pay 10$/month for 50Mb/s (Ethernet Half Duplex)

>:) And now RPiAwesomeness is going to have a fit again!

3... 2... 1...

:D

Nathan Osman

I'm pretty upset myself.

Broadband is waaaaaay overpriced here in Canada.

Nathan Osman

21:17

...and apparently, so are MSDN subscriptions.

RPi Awesomeness

FIIIIIITTTT!!!!

Nathan Osman

BizSpark looks like a good deal if I incorporate.

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby :D

Fabby

:) ;-)

hbdgaf

21:38

@NathanOsman Take one course at a community college for a .edu email and the dreamspark bundle is free.

Nathan Osman

I don't think Canadians can get .edu emails, can they?

hbdgaf

I'm not sure. If they can't, I can see about auditing a course here, so I don't get a grade, but I do get an email... or do something distance ed at a US community college.

Fabby

@Whaaaaaat: one for you? askubuntu.com/questions/581289/minimal-data-showing-in-auth-log (fail2ban...)

hbdgaf

If the college you chose is a subscriber you get LOADS of stuff through the MSDNAA

Seth

@Fabby fore? :P

Fabby

21:42

@Seth: Does it mean anything rude? (typing in the dark with screen as only illumination)

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Nah, it's what you yell before hitting a golf ball ;)

Seth

@Fabby Naw, just the wrong word ;)

Fabby

Ah² ;-)

Seth

(also, backlit keyboard ftw!)

Fabby

Yeah, that's on the list for the next laptop! ;-)

Nathan Osman

21:44

When on trips, I used to have a little USB lamp with a flexible neck that I could point at the keyboard.

The trick was to keep it from adding screen glare :P

Fabby

I lost mine!

Nathan Osman

Oh, and it didn't exactly help the battery either.

Fabby

I got it for free with my previous HP laptop...

It was 1 white LED light...

didn't make any difference to battery life!

hbdgaf

In school all the keys were whited out, so you couldn't hunt and peck. You just got good at keyboarding because you HAD to

maybe my school was weird

Nathan Osman

That sounds like a good way to do it.

Seth

21:46

It does, actually

hbdgaf

Yeah. I never look at a keyboard. Ever.

Seth

I can touch type reasonably well, but I'm sure if I whited out the keys I could do it much better :P

RPi Awesomeness

I rarely have to look at the keyboard. If I ever do it's because I'm using a new PC or I'm using one in the dark or at a weird angle.

Nathan Osman

I'm not too bad on a familiar keyboard. I can type without looking.

hbdgaf

The only thing that messes you up is when you change keyboards and the periphery keys change shapes. Like the move on enter/slash/etc.

Seth

21:47

@NathanOsman that --^

@hbdgaf or when they shrink certain keys..

Nathan Osman

Yeah, my other keyboard has delete in a really weird place.

RPi Awesomeness

Hmm....not quite

Bokeh spots especially look strange at that size

hbdgaf

It looks interesting. Not something I would personally use, but if I saw it on someone else's I'ld think it was cool.

RPi Awesomeness

@hbdgaf Yeah. I kinda like it, but because of the size it is the faux bokeh spots look quite bad :P

Low-res pre-render of what I'm actually using it for...

hbdgaf

Website background?

RPi Awesomeness

21:55

@hbdgaf No, Youtube video closer

Just trying to find good music to play over it...

hbdgaf

Ah. When I saw previous video, I thought of a skin for a webpage that let you navigate a set of videos.

@RPiAwesomeness most everything on newgrounds is CC-SA or CC-Attribution

I'll be SOOO glad when lxqt hits main/stable. I'll re-install the lappie with just that and kwin to force myself to learn pyqt5/qt5 if I want anything with a user interface that doesn't exist or exists, but I don't like it.

RPi Awesomeness

@hbdgaf Hmmm. I'll look there after listening to Approaching Nirvana. They've got the best instrumental dubstep/EDM

user136984

I feel that this is off-topic as we can't do anything about it:

user136984

-2

Q: ubuntu release 14 04

there. I have order 2 cd's of the latest ubuntu release a month ago and I haven't got it yet. I've been charged for that mattet, but still nothing comes to my mail. It should be delivered to Washington State, USA. So my question is wwhat is going on with my ubuntu? I want it, I need it, soon. Ple...

14.04

user136984

But is it off-topic or something?

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