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10:00 PM

also I find that some code I copy paste from the Internet indents four spaces and when I double click to select the line it takes the spaces with it, and I cant find the command again

@NathanOsman I think I had one like it, was the front screen notorious for breaking?

Nathan Osman

Not that I know of.

@edwinksl That was truly indestructible.

@Mateo The only thing I remember was the paint wearing off the buttons.

Byte Commander

^ mine

Nathan Osman

Looks similar to the one my brother started with.

Does anyone remember having a phone with Bluetooth and using BitPIM?

Byte Commander

BitPIM? never heard.

Nathan Osman

Man, I was so excited when I found out that I could browse the phone's filesystem using a COM port hooked up to that.

@ByteCommander bitpim.org

"...and the Filesystem for most Qualcomm CDMA chipset based phones"

Which, of course, included mine.

I was able to work around a number of carrier limitations that way.

My carrier tried to restrict ringtones only to ones I purchased through them for $4 each. Nice try. A few minutes with BitPIM and I was able to directly inject my own MP3s into the filesystem.

I also managed to get Opera Mini working on the phone.

And since I had a "dumb" phone, my carrier didn't cap my bandwidth at all.

>:)

Yup... those were the days.

Byte Commander

10:13 PM

I had a USB bluetooth dongle that came with a tool including a remote file browser.

Seth

since we're showing off our first phones..

I still have it.

Byte Commander

Jeeez, not even color display?

Seth

@ByteCommander nope!

It was one awesome phone though. Spent hours playing Space Invaders on it.

Byte Commander

Seth

which has an Android app btw. That game was super fun.

edwinksl

10:19 PM

@Seth since you are here, this user may need some of your caring attention askubuntu.com/questions/830052/…

Byte Commander

I know my parents had this one some time ago:

@edwinksl sigh

For realz?

That looks older than me.

Windows 3.1

10:24 PM

it sure is

that's back in the 70's

Nathan Osman

O_o

Byte Commander

Windows 3.1

interesting thing: they still do sell flip phones today

Nathan Osman

How did that still connect to networks in modern times?

Byte Commander

;-D

Windows 3.1

10:25 PM

@NathanOsman the old talk-only broadband is still out

Nathan Osman

Double O_o

Windows 3.1

you can still have broadband without actual data

Nathan Osman

I'm pretty sure any analog towers up here have long since been abandoned.

I haven't seen any since about 2009 - even in remote areas.

Windows 3.1

most data towers also support analog

one extra antenna ;P

Nathan Osman

Not up here.

If I switch my old phone to analog-only mode, there is no signal from anywhere.

TheXed

10:53 PM

I got my web server back up...anyone want to see it?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

Q: where are the other partitions?

My laptop has windows 7, windows 8 and linux. I have by mistake changed the partition of linux from logical to primary. so after running sudo fdisk -l i got only: Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 767621120 920459263 152838144 72.9G 83 Linux how can I...

Nathan Osman

@TheXed Okay.

TheXed

11:08 PM

okay just a sec

joshuapbell.com

IanC

anyone has had problems watching vimeo.com videos on firefox?

I usually watch youtube and it loads fine, just tried a couple vimeo videos and they either load forever or show some configuration problem error O.o

oh, is vimeo flash based?

TheXed

it doesn't epear tpo be

edwinksl

vimeo works for me

IanC

weird :/

I tried this random video: vimeo.com/184717130

and I get this message:
¡Ay caramba!

This video can’t be played with your current setup.

could you check your list of plugins @edwinksl? On "Addons->Plugins"

Serg

11:36 PM

Facepalm: people rush in into teaching ruby in terminal while their students DONT BLOODY KNOW HOW TO NAVIGATE THE DAMN TERMINAL

God, i don't know whom to be mad at, the professor or the students

IanC

well, programming in ruby doesn't require much terminal knowledge though, basic cd, ls, mkdir, touch, nano and ruby should do most of what you will need?

Serg

My buddy doesn't even know how to cd or mkdir

I'd love to come and teach him,but my dog is sick today

i am not going anywhere

IanC

hope your dog gets better soon

your buddy can use gedit, but I think he will at least have to chmod the script to run without the terminal

which is harder to explain then the cd, etc commands :p

Serg

No need, he can use ruby -c

IanC

which requires terminal, but it's easier to explain then chmod

@edwinksl you use firefox by the way? If you use chrome maybe that's why you can run it and I can't

Serg

11:47 PM

My scripting answers get at most 1 or 2 upvotes on U&L , while this: unix.stackexchange.com/a/313561/85039 got 8 already. Sigh . . . my hard twerk is not appreciated enough :/

Hopefully, i can get a couple of bounties on AU ,though

Seth

@Serg twerk?

Serg

@Seth well, answering questions here is not exactly work, right ?

edwinksl

@IanC yeah, i have openh264 codec, flash, widevine and vlc

Seth

Twerking

Twerking (/ˈtwɜːrkɪŋ/) is a type of dancing in which an individual, often female, moves to music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance. Twerking is also known as "booty shaking," "p-poppin" or pussy-poppin, and bounce depending on the context. == Etymology == The term seems to be of uncertain origin with common assumptions suggesting it represents a contraction of "footwork" or a portmanteau of the words "twist" and "jerk". The Oxford Dictionaries blog says "the most likely theory is that it is an alteration of work, because that word has...

Serg

therefore it's twerk

Seth

11:50 PM

not sure you want to use that term..

edwinksl

@IanC i did use firefox to try vimeo... but yeah i usually use chrome

Serg

@Seth facepalm I know what twerking is. I've watched enough Lexxy Pantera's videos. It's supposed to be le humor

Seth

@Serg oh. well I am bad at jokes, remember? ;)

Serg