anyone here?

hmm seems better

but my messages disappeared o_O

well I am here :)

Lurking mode +

heck, computer repair equipment is expensive... decent sets of tools are way more than I want them to be >.>

is @NathanOsman here ?

I sure am.

@NathanOsman preferences dialog is complete. I'm going to edit README.md and push it off to git. Are you available to make PPA tonight ?

Yes, but I already made the PPA :D

I just need to set up the branches.

You stopped me when I was halfway through.

Just leave a ping when you're ready to go.

awesome. I'll finalize everything and lets release that sucker

i have a few things in mind but they'll be added later. What has been planned has been accomplish and even more

Maybe if we have time next week, we'll take a look at packaging it into a snap.

Apparently launchpad can do that now.

@ThomasWard What special equipment does one need for that except two different screwdrivers?

@ByteCommander Try taking a Mac apart.

That'll be awesome too. Someone asked me if i planned to make snap package out of it

@NathanOsman How to properly take apple stuff apart:

@ByteCommander If we take @NathanOsman's suggestion, then we'll need those two different screwdrivers * 10000000

not getting the joke... :(

Is this guy using Unity 8? askubuntu.com/q/834686/367990

@ByteCommander Apples have adhesive, then 5 point screws, some phillips head, one or two flathead, a few hex, and about 3 different sizes

@ByteCommander It might be Numix, but it wouldn't hurt to ask

@Zacharee1 Screw that. I provided a quicker and easier solution to take it apart. Once and for ever.

true

but some people actually like Apple stuff (ikr?)

HEY EVERYONE

IT'S A NEW UTC DAY

TIME TO REVIEW THE CLOSE VOTE QUEUE

Shhhhhh!

Which is actually remarkably low (thanks Fabby)

Fix your screaming.

@ByteCommander I AM WHISPERING

@ByteCommander I think us getting the CV queue to 0 warrants some capslock :p

@ByteCommander which is why I don't use it all the time. What's your point?

Hey, this is pretty cool.

@ByteCommander specialized bits, tweezers, screw grabber tool, precision tools for tiny tiny laptop spaces and working with ultra tiny screws

also solder and a soldering iron

@ByteCommander I'm getting attention for the CV queue. Your giant onebox images seem to be begging for more attention than my text

@NathanOsman clickbait detected

What?

@NathanOsman "Hey, this is pretty cool." I need to click it to see what you mean :p

@ThomasWard I see the (rare) case for a soldering iron, but I'm sure I never needed more than two or three screwdrivers and maybe a pair of tweezers ever... You should switch to a different brand to fix. :p

@ByteCommander I do multiple brand repairs

not just for myself

so, not an option

need torx bits for my HP workstation, hex bits for the rackmount server, weird proprietary screw bits for my friend's computer which I am working on upgrading parts in

and so many friggin screws it's painful

@NathanOsman sounds nice, but how well is it supported?

i also do tech repair for other people too

so...

need to make sure I have tech I need

Also relevant XKCD:

just in case

@ByteCommander Not at all.

But maybe I can change that.

I smell another Gimp plugin...

@ThomasWard Sounds like you need a multitool.

@ByteCommander lol.

@ByteCommander The core problem is there's no multitool that has everything I need.

or in the sizes i need to fit in the space I have to work with

there's this one computer I'm working on fixing, a Dell Inspiron One 2305, that has evil hard to get to nooks and crannies

and tiny tiny screws and things

can't fit fingers in to screw areas, so tweezers and such are a must

and I am missing them

apparently a third of my toolkit is missing

mostly screwdrivers and grasping tools

Maybe you should tidy up your room once again...

@ByteCommander I did. I think the tools were stolen

Amazing stuff can usually be found this way.

I'll probably find them when cleaning up and moving out of this apartment to my next place I live in come next December-ish

Who would steal a screwdriver?

Down to 39 CVs on my end!

@ByteCommander the worst case is I left them at work and they were 'borrowed' and not returned to my desk

in which case they're gone

nice co-workers you got there...

Go to UR for some CVs

@ByteCommander well, the good tools I just dropped about $63 on will never leave my home, or my bag. My workplace can reimburse me later for partial (from the missing screwdrivers from my other toolkit)

There are currently 62 CV, 20 FP, 2 LQ and 1 RO posts in the queues.

wow

we're doing well

how do you see objective stats?

yes. you are.

thank you for reducing it by 50k :P

(you must open the review link in a private window (or logged out) to see the real numbers)

ah

61 now :p

@NathanOsman can I add the ppa information to the release notes now or it still has to be set up?

Sure, you can add it, the link won't change.

Cool, may I have it please ?

launchpad.net/~udisks-indicator-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

ppa:udisks-indicator-team/ppa

why would you remove all linebreaks askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/627443

@Zacharee1 probably a direct paste failure

people don't realize things

ack, I accidentally recommended deletion

don't ask how, I just did

@Serg have you done your CVs today?

man, I really like C, but I have mixed feelings about learning C++

@IanC + == more == better :D

and it'll help with your Java for Android

@NathanOsman , @Zacharee1 and @Mateo thank you very much for all the feature requests and suggestions, I've credited you guys on the release notes where appropriate

I've learned a bit of Java before, it's been a while so I'd have to review lots of things

github.com/SergKolo/udisks-indicator/releases/tag/v2.0

@IanC Java is much easier to learn than C++...

@IanC well the C++ syntax is basically the same. Different keywords and functions obviously, but I was surprised coming from Arduino to Java

@Zacharee1 also, no , I haven't done CVs today. In fact , I'm no editor . . . I'm more of an answerer

@Zacharee1 maybe I just never felt the need for the C++ "extension", you can do things in a very similar way with raw C

@Serg I think the prefs diag was Severus

@NathanOsman at this point, it's all finalized so . . . lets get the branches set up

I suggested a "more details..." modal

@Zacharee1 - Do you know of any OS that can run on an NEC 300Mhz CPU with 576MB of RAM?

@Serg K, I'll get on it after supper.

Windows 3.1?

idk

@IanC actually, Windows XP would work

@Zacharee1 I don't think an NEC CPU is x86

which nec?

the V20 is

there's one thing that comes to mind in which C++ is better than C (with an OOP approach). Which is getting a parent object from a known object @Zacharee1, there are some workarounds for that though

@Zacharee1 I have no idea. I just had the crazy thought of running Linux on my printer...

but it's just an opinion from someone who doesn't know much C++, so I think there are big chances I'm wrong :p

oh oops sorry @IanC

In case anyone wants to see the changes, feel free to head over to github.com/SergKolo/udisks-indicator and check out the screenshots as well as updates README and release notes

profile pic confusion :p

The manual says it has a 300Mhz NEC CPU.

@AndroidDev o_O

no problem, I really need a more distinctive profile picture @Zacharee1 hahah

@IanC choose a derpbuntu one

@Zacharee1 - I mean, with 576MB of RAM, it should theoretically be possible...

yeah but you don't know the arch

@IanC C++ is object oriented,but it's not necessarily better. It's just different animal. Also, it has multiple inheretance, which is something for which it's been criticized a lot - Java doesn't allow inheriting from multiple objects

@Zacharee1 exactly

C is still big in embedded systems and Unix/Linux world. Forget Windows though

why is multiple inheritance bad?

@Zacharee1 as far as I understand, if you inherit from multiple objects, their parameters may come into conflict somehow. I don't know enough of C++ to say why exactly though

hmm

Python is the same way - there's no multiple inheritance

but isn't it better to have the option there?

And speaking of Python, as someone once said - Python is sysadmin's sugar

I think it's worth learning C++ though, would it be easier since I've some C background? like, the libraries sintax are similar?

@IanC syntax is not quite similar, it's more like cross-breed between bash and C

std::cout <<< "Hello World" ;

man, bash sintax is a nightmare

@Serg you can use printf, but people don't like it :p

@Zacharee1 I wonder why

@IanC like srsly

@Zacharee1 I don't know, I just think the sintax isn't very predictable (didn't find a better word) as other languages, that's all

maybe nightmare was exagerated :P

@Serg printf("dunno");

@IanC like srsly == like seriously == I agree, omg

@Zacharee1 System.out.printf(" still beats lengthy java commands ");

@Zacharee1 misunderstood you, my bad!

@IanC syntax is alright. Word splitting can be nightmare

Python also has something similar to Java though

sys.out.write("this")

pls

forget it, Zach

never

neva foget, JabbaScript 2016

wai

YES

I DID IT

ish

pats Zach on the back

good job

Now write me an indicator in Java

hohoho

cause everyone wants to install Java to use an indicator

well, that escalated exponentially, right ?

@Serg I think you should do some CVs

@Zanna's back!

@Zacharee1 i will . . .in November

wat

@AndroidDev you should do your 20 too

because holidays, because exams, because indicators, because conference on 15th, because i prefer doing answers

so do I, but this is something that'd be great to accomplish

Don't worry, once i retire as answerer, I'll do all the CV you want me to

lol

guys, can I ask your opinion on a small C code snippet?

@IanC I don't know C, but I could look at it

@IanC Put it on paste.ubuntu.com

it's more about the logic, I wanted a function to append a line in a file

and the best approach I found was creating a temporary file with the appended line then copying it to the original and then deleting it

I wanted to avoid creating this temporary file, but didn't figure a way to do it without having a big array of strings (that would have to be as big as any file opened, doesn't sound reasonable)

I'll copy there @AndroidDev

@IanC I once created a String array from the hex codes of an image, and my program ate 2GB of memory.

Not good :)

@AndroidDev that's what I thought, unless I allocated the memory with malloc, and still, big files would eat good RAM

I'll implement this code in a function, and 1024 is just a magic number that will be the largest line I expect from the file

@IanC if it's a function, it's fine. If it's standalone code like this, expect buffer overflow

@IanC also, use unlink instead of remove , man -e 2 unlink

Ummmm........

@AndroidDev what bothers you there ?

@Serg why is unlink better suited than remove? is it because it's directed to files instead of also directories?

@IanC also , this : fprintf(tmpfile, "APPENDED LINE\n"); What if your file doesn't actually end with "\n" ? It will be like "LAST TEXTAPPENDED LINE"

@Serg 1) It was really ugly (I edited) 2) Why would Ubuntu look for arm64 packages?

@Serg I'll add some statement to check if the file_line read ends in a '\n', didn't think about the last line :p

@Serg by the way, where did you find a possible buffer overflow? I was using fgets specifying the length of the buffer to avoid it

@IanC unlink and remove are actually the same, just defined in different libraries, and unlink is Unix/Linux specific. It may be alright to use either, i'd just prefer unlink()

Hallo

@Serg isn't it more recommended to use ISO C for portability?

btw, just change my profile picture, but don't think it updated

@IanC it takes a while

if your really impatient you can ask a moderator to purge your account

it's alright, I just changed it to be more distinctive