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12:00 AM

I am never ever buying dell desktops, ever

@HeatherBrown Ah I didn't even notice, I had the window minimized, in fact I wasn't even understanding what you were talking about :D

@Serg Don't every buy dell..

except (maybe) the XPS editions.

@Seth yup, learned that already . . .i've just bend cpu pins because that stupid cpu is basically glued to the heat sink and has to be put on by rotating the heat sink . . .

user139252

12:23 AM

@Serg can you fix it?

1:07 AM

@HeatherBrown I could but i don't have patience to sit and straighten each pin, so i'll just get a new cpu . . . luckly there's used ones within 20$ range

Journeyman Geek

1:21 AM

o0

lol

Don't buy desktops

build em

@JourneymanGeek my friend picked up this desktop outside some office or house. People who owned that desktop before didn't want it. I tell you, there was so much dust inside, i thought the poor desktop was working inside a volcano with constant smog

Journeyman Geek

Oh

then its fine

did that, amusingly enough with a dell

1:36 AM

@JourneymanGeek I am just frustrated because whoever designed that freakin heat sink expected the heat sink to be rotated into place. What happens if the thermal paste dries out and sticks to cpu ? well, that giant heatsink drags CPU with it in circular motion and bends the freakin pins

I'm basically complaining about whole bunch of nothing here . . .but it's still disappointing

Firefox is also disappointing me lately

spawns too many processes, hoags CPU

Journeyman Geek

0_0

I've actually had awesome results with the 64 bit release (on windows)

Hmmm, I dunno. Maybe I need to play around with settings

VishwaPrakash H V

Does any one have an answer for the question : askubuntu.com/questions/717431/… ? I need the solution desperately . I can start bounty only after 2 days. please help me

Opera isn't doing . . . nope , nevermind - it also spawned sh** ton of processes

VishwaPrakash H V

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Q: Can't play HD .mkv files (even in vlc)

I am not able to play any HD .mkv files in vlc. (No problems with low quality videos). Here for example, It says "Unfortunately there is no way to fix this", really??? when the same video is played in Videos, I get this: And.... this: Some times I get a little bit different error messag...

vlc video-player hd-video mkv video-plugin

1:51 AM

Hi

@VishwaPrakashHV are you there?

VishwaPrakash H V

yeah

I could not install gpac

:(

why?

what happens if you try to install it?

VishwaPrakash H V

I had tried sudo apt-get install gpac and it installed successfully but

I did not get any video playes

@VishwaPrakashHV Do you have ubuntu-restricted-extras installed?

VishwaPrakash H V

@Seth Yeah , I have Ubuntu-Restricted extras installed with all optional add-ons

1:56 AM

actually you should download the deb package from the gpacs site. but okay.
try to run this command from terminal: MP4Client path/to/file.mkv

@VishwaPrakashHV There's no chance you would have an example you could share with us, is there?

VishwaPrakash H V

@incBrain I did that, deb file. it shows "upgrade" only

@AnubianNoob hi! long time no see :)

Where'd the hamster go?

did you run MP4Client command?

VishwaPrakash H V

@Seth askubuntu.com/questions/717431/…

1:58 AM

@VishwaPrakashHV oh, missed the download link :)

VishwaPrakash H V

@incBrain please wait a sec. I am doing that

@VishwaPrakashHV It's still there, just look a little closer ;)

sorry linked the wrong person :P

VishwaPrakash H V

@AnubianNoob k

oh my.. this is 4K RED footage. This might take a while xD

Journeyman Geek

0_0

What is?

1:59 AM

@JourneymanGeek the sample video in Vishwa's question.

Journeyman Geek

(and man, can't wait for 4k to become ubiquitous)

VishwaPrakash H V

@Seth please refer the youtube vid i just uploaded.

if you install the package via package manager then it might be not the latest version. Thats why I suggested to use the deb pkg from the Nightly builds.
But it's not that bad ))) running MP4Client from anywhere in the terminal should do it

VishwaPrakash H V

its just 1080p

@JourneymanGeek /me just wants to get back to 1080 D:

@AnubianNoob :D

Journeyman Geek

2:00 AM

@Seth its 1080p

but HEVC

which is kinda new

title said 4k ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@VishwaPrakashHV I have no problems playing it..

@JourneymanGeek HEVC is 2 years old man )))

@Seth We do circles in SO room 15 (android), and they have a circle gang going on, but I couldn't sacrifice the hamster to join the circles so someone fixed the problem for me :)

Journeyman Geek

nope. says 1080p

@incBrain its still uncommon

I'd assume VLC could play it though

yeah. but its gaining interest pretty fast

VishwaPrakash H V

2:02 AM

`vishwa@vishwa-PC:~$ MP4Client /media/vishwa/Entertainment/Sherlock/SHERLOCK SEASON 4/Sherlock.The.Abominable.Bride.2016.1080p.WEB-DL.DD5.1.x265.HEVC-StarLord[UTR].mkv
GPAC config file .gpacrc not found in /home/vishwa - creating new file
[Core] default modules not found
Cannot create config file .gpacrc in /home/vishwa directory
Error: Configuration File not found`

@incBrain this is what i got :(

@AnubianNoob Wow, lots of circles!

Yeah it's quite the party

try this:
touch ~/.gpacrc

and run again

@VishwaPrakashHV Do you have vdpau-va-driver and libvdpau1 installed?

VishwaPrakash H V

@Seth no :( (i think )

2:06 AM

@VishwaPrakashHV Install them.

VishwaPrakash H V

@incBrain `vishwa@vishwa-PC:/media/vishwa/Entertainment/Sherlock/SHERLOCK SEASON 4$ touch ~/.gpacrc
vishwa@vishwa-PC:/media/vishwa/Entertainment/Sherlock/SHERLOCK SEASON 4$ MP4Client Sherlock.The.Abominable.Bride.2016.1080p.WEB-DL.DD5.1.x265.HEVC-StarLord\[UTR\].mkv
Using config file in /home/vishwa directory
Loading modules
Mmodule directory not found - check the configuration file exit and the "ModulesDirectory" key is set
vishwa@vishwa-PC:/media/vishwa/Entertainment/Sherlock/SHERLOCK SEASON 4$

@Seth just sudo apt-get install vdpau-va-driver and sudo apt-get install libvdpau1 installed ??

right?

@VishwaPrakashHV no installed on the end. Otherwise yes.

VishwaPrakash H V

@Seth and what are they actually?

You can make it one command: sudo apt-get install vdpau-va-driver libvdpau1

@VishwaPrakashHV actually, wait.

VishwaPrakash H V

@Seth K :)

2:09 AM

don't install them yet.

VishwaPrakash H V

@Seth Ok

yeah, scratch that, I don't think those are what we need..

But the video plays fine for me..

so something I have is making it work.

@VishwaPrakashHV I did have the same issue in the past. but I don't remember how I solved it. This .gpacrc is a simple config file. it defines where your modules on your systme are and so on.

probably because you installed gpac using sudo apt-get

VishwaPrakash H V

@Seth I downloaded the other video from torrents. its 1GB. Its the main problem and it 1080p (not 4k)

@VishwaPrakashHV Install libvpx2.

@VishwaPrakashHV but you can't play the example video right?

(besides the fact that the torrent is likely illegal)

VishwaPrakash H V

2:12 AM

@Seth yeah, I cant play that 4k video too

well I can.

VishwaPrakash H V

and no problems for torrent in India :)

@VishwaPrakashHV can you update gpac with the Nightly builds downloaded package.

VishwaPrakash H V

@Seth `Unable to locate package libvpx2
`

hmm. what ubuntu version?

2:15 AM

shit its 3:15 am. I should go to bed lol

VishwaPrakash H V

@Seth 14.04 LTS

@incBrain I did sudo apt-get purge gpac and installed it with deb file again

but no change:(

@incBrain k gn

@VishwaPrakashHV I'll take a look on it again tomorrow. I remember that I did have the same problem once

VishwaPrakash H V

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@Seth any PPA ...

?

@Seth are you there?

Any good video players? better than VLC any body?

Try just libvpx.

its tough to beat this beast ))

VishwaPrakash H V

2:30 AM

@Seth same problem :(

Unable to locate

@Seth shall I do sudo apt-get install libvpx* ?? its working , but it selects lot of packs

3:03 AM

@VishwaPrakashHV for trusty?

morning :)

This is the only question about fingerprints on Thinkpad, and the question is formulated for 14.04. Should I make the question more general (all Ubuntu versions) or create a new question for 15.10? (for which the answer is slightly different) askubuntu.com/questions/511876/…

@VishwaPrakashHV If you want for testing purpose (for trusty) here: launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/media-1

VishwaPrakash H V

3:20 AM

@Ravan wait a sec i am uploading the O/P

@Ravan I have added the O/P of apt-cache policy gstreamer0.10-libde265 gstreamer1.0-libde265 vlc-plugin-libde265 ubuntu-restricted-extras , please see the Question now.

@VishwaPrakashHV seen

@NicolasRaoul make it more general, and add headers for parts which are version-specific

3:46 AM

So it seems my minecraft server authentication issues have something to do with ssl certificates

which i am not sure how to solve

VishwaPrakash H V

@longsleep Hey, do you have any solutions for this Question?

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Q: Can't play HD .mkv files (even in vlc)

I am not able to play any HD .mkv files in vlc. (No problems with low quality videos). Here for example, It says "Unfortunately there is no way to fix this", really??? when the same video is played in Videos, I get this: And.... this: Some times I get a little bit different error messag...

vlc video-player hd-video mkv video-plugin

@VishwaPrakashHV can you provide exact link

where you have downloaded

VishwaPrakash H V

Downloaded the video??

from torrents

@VishwaPrakashHV yes

I guess file corrupted

VishwaPrakash H V

I can upload it

3:57 AM

wait

VishwaPrakash H V

The .torrent file

wait.. is there any problem if i upload a torrent file here??

What is length of file?

I am getting 1 min 14 sec

give direct link

I will download, I too from India ;p

VishwaPrakash H V

Yeah, I saw your profile. vijayawada. here : drive.google.com/file/d/0B3mN95k6QkkIWnhRRklCeS1SNzA/…

I could not get the direct link

RED 4K Video of Colorful Liquid in Space

@VishwaPrakashHV ^^ ??

VishwaPrakash H V

Ohh, k

its another video

yeah , same problem there

The other video was more important to me. but its ok both have same problems

its web seeded so i cant get direct link

its 1gb file :|

@Ravan u there?

4:06 AM

@VishwaPrakashHV you have provided this link: drive.google.com/file/d/0B3mN95k6QkkIcXJhYV9ZOXBNcWc/…

in question

do you have that file in your system?

I mean video

VishwaPrakash H V

yeah

what is md5sum?

VishwaPrakash H V

I uploaded it to Google Drive from my system

??

like:

ravan@ravan:~$ md5sum RED\ 4K\ Video\ of\ Colorful\ Liquid\ in\ Space-bKk_7NIKY3Y.mp4
5387d6e0e1508900ca67426cd00d3063  RED 4K Video of Colorful Liquid in Space-bKk_7NIKY3Y.mp4

VishwaPrakash H V

I didn't catch u. md5sum?

one sec

..

`vishwa@vishwa-PC:/media/vishwa/Entertainment$ md5sum RED\ 4K\ Video\ of\ Colorful\ Liquid\ in\ Space\ -\ YouTube.MKV
4cabd8258baad0f9e11f42b424a064da RED 4K Video of Colorful Liquid in Space - YouTube.MKV
vishwa@vishwa-PC:/media/vishwa/Entertainment$ `

@Ravan wait... you got an mp4 file????? ! from the link?

4:10 AM

ravan@ravan:~$ md5sum RED\ 4K\ Video\ of\ Colorful\ Liquid\ in\ Space\ -\ YouTube.MKV
4cabd8258baad0f9e11f42b424a064da  RED 4K Video of Colorful Liquid in Space - YouTube.MKV

VishwaPrakash H V

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@ravan latest pic

@Ravan and also did you see the screen record here : youtu.be/NEZ7aZSIA5U

yes, I read your question

VishwaPrakash H V

@Ravan I use windows 8.1 (seldom) alongside Ubuntu, both the videos play without any problem

ok you have windows

Boot to windows

VishwaPrakash H V

yeah

now??

4:16 AM

select the file and right click

VishwaPrakash H V

k

post screenshot

VishwaPrakash H V

???

o_O

VishwaPrakash H V

wait. I will do that

4:16 AM

to make my wall paper

;p

VishwaPrakash H V

wait a minute

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@Ravan here it is :)

sorry, properties

greetings

VishwaPrakash H V

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@VishwaPrakashHV perfect

my guess wrong

VishwaPrakash H V

4:25 AM

@Ravan now what?

@Ravan what was your guess atleast?

incomplete file or corrupted video

Now, wait for answer to your post.

Mean while you can convert to mp4 (or other format)

@VishwaPrakashHV rushinformation.com/fix-vlc-not-support-undf-format-best-fix

VishwaPrakash H V

@Ravan I desperately want that. but I didnt get any good converter. any suggestions ?

first see the above link

VishwaPrakash H V

@Ravan As I said, It works fine on windows. VLC does not report any errors. And the Combined Community Codec Pack is for windows I think. The problem exists only on ubuntu

"The problem exists only on ubuntu" Oh! sorry, I misunderstand this

VishwaPrakash H V

4:35 AM

@Ravan any good converters on ubuntu?

[askubuntu.com/questions/264215/…

@Serg here around?

@Ravan yes,w hat's up ?

how to find what is effecting xrandr

@Ravan what do you mean ?

What changes the settings ?

yes

4:49 AM

@Ravan if you are in ubuntu , that's probably ubuntu or unity settings daemon. Otherwise , i don't know

ok

In general Linux?

no idea

:D

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5:20 AM

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I have Ubuntu 14.0.4 LTS. I have the following folder on my system: /opt/JBoss_4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy Also I have this symbolic link to that folder on my Desktop: JBoss deploy -> /opt/JBoss_4.0.4.GA/server/default/deploy When I double click on the link, nautilus opens a directory wi...

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8:05 AM

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Q: Unable to understand printing arrary results for awk?

for simple file 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e 6 f 7 g 8 h 9 i 10 j awk 'lines[NR]=$0 { print $lines[2]}' awk.write provides me 1 a b c d e f g h i j How and why? Should it not be 2 b

8:41 AM

YAAAY a hundred upvotes: askubuntu.com/a/548005/36315

@blade19899 Grats! \o/

@Takkat Apparently the Firefox Developer Edition is in the Ubuntu Repositories now, can people test this out?

8:57 AM

@blade19899 not that I could find them... firefox-dev != developer edition

> firefox-dev - Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla - development files

Dev files does not mean its F.D.E.

This guy: askubuntu.com/a/717537/36315

His source: ubuntuupdates.org/package/ubuntu_mozilla_security/wily/main/…

He is incorrect

apparently they got confused by developer edition vs. development files

YEah

Also: Ubuntu – Package Search Results -- firefox-dev

9:17 AM

A moderator should delete this, luckily it has a typo but it's potentially harmful: askubuntu.com/a/717559/380067

@kos as >20k users we can use our delete vote askubuntu.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools

crap 10k is for questions only, 20k is for answers too.

someone give @kos more rep to get faster to 20k ;)

@Takkat :) Yeah, I just couldn't vote to delete. :(

10:02 AM

How does this thing get five upvotes?

I am still waking up so I may have missed something but it certainly looks like complete nonsense.

It's the same person who posted the one @kos pointed out earlier. I think we should probably have a look at his other answers.

there are people who blindly upvote anything remotely reminiscent of command line... :"(

@terdon Not sure why but I downvoted it.

Yeah, me too. That really shouldn't have a positive score.

Is ![$] ever a thing?

Some history expansion trick or something?

!# /bin/rubbish
while ${#\unicorns} from i;
    free @all < sense
wend i

5

@terdon Looking at their old answers I think it's just another nonsense. They have tons of nonsense answers.

@Takkat Lol.

10:09 AM

@Takkat :)

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10:21 AM

0

Q: Installing openFlow inside ubuntu error :glibconfig.h: No such file or directory

I'm trying to install openFlow in my Ubuntu machine. I'm following the steps in link. When I try to run these commands: cd utilities/wireshark_dissectors/openflow make sudo make install make give me the following error: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:32:24: fatal error: glibconfig.h: N...

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12:02 PM

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Q: Is it safe to retask other audio ports as lineins using Jack?

So, I wanted to setup my Linux PC to record multiple line in audio devices without putting holes in my wallet. Then I found a tool called hdajackretask which lets me convert any port into any other port. So, I can convert all my unused ports to line ins. But the problem is I don't know if it's ...

audio hardware recording jack

Got no answers yet, so I'm posting here. For the record I'm using Ubuntu with cinnamon

edward torvalds

@ParanoidPanda I need your help with Gnome

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12:54 PM

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Q: How to set an indentifier for multiple background processes?

I'm creating a custom game server and I have a .jar file to run it. I need to launch multiple game servers on a single virtual machine(like 15). I found, that I could just run them like this: java -jar server-1.0.jar & but then when I type ps, I only see PID, CMD, TTY and TIME. How could I ide...

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@Wally this is very much hardware dependent. Some cards do allow retasking of a MIC port to LINE-in or HEADPHONE-out, some don't. There even are cards that have two MIC ports, one of them configurable, the other not. Then it will depend to which pins the MIC-jack is connected on the board... you may have to try out (low signal line-in levels should probably not damage your card, too high levels will lead to distortion before the card suffers).

1:05 PM

@Takkat o/

you are a mod

I just noticed.

edward torvalds

1:23 PM

can anybody tell me why fonts in all my application are looking thinner?

1:40 PM

@edwardtorvalds Can you provide a link to your question so we can have a look at the screen shot? :-)

@Ravan \o

@Fabby hi

how are you?

@Ravan Revamping my CVs everywhere...

Bringing them into the 21st century

2:02 PM

Hi people, has anyone seen Bytecommander around lately?

2:43 PM

@JacobVlijm I haven't seen him these days, maybe I saw him 3-4 days ago, however apparently he logged in two days ago (judging from the "last seen" on his profile)

@kos Ah, how could I forget to check his profile. Thanks!

@JacobVlijm Np! However he's not lurking in the chat, not that I could see at least. :)

Hello @kos @JacobVlijm =)

Hi @hg8! @kos Indeed I noticed. He kind of left a question of his alone, seems not his kind of thing to do...

@hg8 hey you o_O

2:55 PM

Afternoon @hg8!

your avatar, I haven't noticed you first

hi @kos

@JacobVlijm Which one?

Afternoon @Ravan!

@kos askubuntu.com/questions/716471/… two days ago as well.

@kos here askubuntu.com/questions/670209/…

Hi @Ravan!

2:57 PM

OP asking for XFCE, can I ask for unity also while placing bounty. @kos

@JacobVlijm hi

@JacobVlijm Yep. The last sign of life seems this one:

@JacobVlijm I don't know. Can't look it up today, need to go.... — Byte Commander 2 days ago

@Ravan Do you have problem with the same application (whiskermenu)?

@JacobVlijm I tempted to accept, but not possible ;p

@kos Exactly, hope he is fine.

@Ravan haha, to accept for B.commander? :)

@kos nope. I need custom shortcuts to work on key release than key press

I am searching for similar (related) posts

[askubuntu.com/questions/483106/…

@Jacob hehe :)

or do I have to open new one

See you people, have to teach a bit...

3:03 PM

\o

what python? ;p

@Ravan Not sure if that's DE-agnostic... Wouldn't know honestly.

See you @JacobVlijm

Well, I open new post.

@kos thanks =)

@Ravan Not that I helped much, but np!

@kos posted askubuntu.com/questions/717699/…

Hello @Ravan !

3:13 PM

@Ravan +1

thanks =)

user139252

So, I had a really good idea while thinking about my Pi's load averages last night

user139252

Does anybody want to donate their Raspberry Pi 2 to my website? Preferably in the US or Western Canada

3:55 PM

@Ravan Key-release is tracked with keybinder see the case-switch around 409. Might stop working with the full change from X11 though.

Needs some more lines to be useful though.

VishwaPrakash H V

4:23 PM

@incBrain I did a clean installation from the package you provided

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@incBrain This is what I got :(

4:42 PM

@VishwaPrakashHV strange output. opening URL. try to open mp4 file

@VishwaPrakashHV probably gpac player does not understand mkv format.

@VishwaPrakashHV if playing mp4 file will be successful. you can remultiplex mkv into mp4 container using ffmpeg

VishwaPrakash H V

5:01 PM

@incBrain Its like this

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and the video is stuck here

@incBrain but wait... I will try for another mp4. cause I tried converting that mkv to mp4

@incBrain It plays mp4 files without any problem :)

user139252

5:16 PM

@incBrain is VLC not an option for .mkv?

@HeatherBrown In his case VLC has no proper HEVC plugin

user139252

@incBrain x265, no?

user139252

You have to compile from source, but I was pretty sure it worked.

yeah I know. he installed vlc-plugin-libde26 but it seems like it isnt proper implemented

user139252

Let me test...

5:23 PM

but you are right using x265 and compiling vlc from source would do it too

don't forget to enable openhevc in ./configure before make it

@Ravan Yeah, @kos looks a lot like muru...

user139252

@Fabby @Ravan I vote they change their avatars.

@kos Do you want me to SMS him to see if everything is OK? (cc @JacobVlijm)

user139252

In other news, I've created some new keys for my VPN, if anyone wants a free VPN.

@Ravan Good question! Upvoted! (no clue how to do that though: you'll need a wizard to do that! @Rinzwind @A.B. ?)

5:28 PM

@Fabby We're still there, aren't we?

@Fabby Well personally I'm not really worried, it's just 2 days that he doesn't log in. Maybe he just had something else to do.

user139252

@Fabby @Kos @JacobVlijm I say give it two more days. Then we should worry...

@Fabby You know who I'm really worried about? Eliah Kagan. He hasn't logged in since months. Hopefully he just stopped attending the site. I was also a bit afraid to ask to be honest.

@Fabby No, ok, I found his Twitter profile, and he tweeted something on November 15. I'm so relieved to see that.

@kos You know, that's nearly 2 months ago.

user139252

Don't concern him more!

If you see mine, I rarely tweet as well.

user139252

5:43 PM

If you see mine... let me know, because I don't have one.

@_@

Hello folks :)

user139252

@A.B. Mornin'

user139252

Or, afternoon there.

user139252

Practically evening, really.

5:51 PM

Hi crowd!

@jokerdino Right, but he seem to usually tweet in spurts of 3-4 tweets on one day and then not posting maybe even for a week looking at his tweets. Maybe even less because of the festivities, I'm not really worried too much about that. To be honest I was more worried by his last login on the site, which was more than 7 months ago.

Afternoon @A.B. @JacobVlijm

Hi @kos, I wouldn't worry if he (B.C) just wasn't around for a few days, but since he just asked a question, it seems he didn't plan it.

@JacobVlijm No actually now I was talking about Eliah Kagan, yeah I too think that two days off is not really worrying (not even a week if you have a busy week actually)

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6:09 PM

@Mitch absolutely great :)

...but 120 would be over the top looks like 80 :)

user139252

Added another Python project, math based.

@HeatherBrown I actually enjoy those quizzes, that way I have an excuse to learn some Python. I'll jump in later to do the lights one.

user139252

6:25 PM

The one I just wrote asks you create a quadratic function root solver :P

@HeatherBrown I'm all about that one. :D

user139252

@Kos I updated the light grid problem with some helpful information about controlling the flow of loops.

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