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TheXed

12:36 AM

Is Project CARS worth 8 dollars?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@TheXed What is it?

TheXed

@WinEunuuchs2Unix some sort of racing simulator...

I remember hearing of it a few years back..

but it is on sale on humblebundle...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

12:56 AM

Well I guess for $8 you can't loose as long as you have the time to play it.

TheXed

@WinEunuuchs2Unix that is the other thing...I already have so many games...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I just have one now days.... Mass Effect... ironically made in Edmonton (where I live).

I've probably logged 400 hours playing it and just discovered a new ending on the tenth run through.

TheXed

Well I have 131 on Steam alone, that doesn't count physical copies, consoles...and Origin..

WinEunuuchs2Unix

yeah mine is on origin. Haven't got nVidia working on Linux yet... but I've only had 3 years so fare to do it.

TheXed

@WinEunuuchs2Unix speaking of Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 is free on origin right now.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

1:04 AM

You should get it!

TheXed

I have it...I was telling you...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I bought all three on DVD/CD whatever trilogy pack... but that is a waste since you have to go on-line to register and play anyway :p

Next month Mass Effect IV is coming out and I'll buy it right away.

I mean March 17th.

Beware the ides of March :p

We should redo Shakespeare to Rap.... I can't understand that but I didn't understand the original either... Maybe the hip kids will understand though :p

Looks like Fillon won't be the next president of France... That means it's going to be Marine Le Pen...Hmmm

TheXed

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I will not be buying Mass Effect IV

I am buying the new Zelda game though for sure when it comes out.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@TheXed You will be missing out! It's actually called Mass Effect Andromeda... I like to make up my own names :)

Is it called Zelda 27? :p

TheXed

Zelda Breath of Wild....

WinEunuuchs2Unix

1:10 AM

Whatev. For me it was too much like pacman.

TheXed

19th in the main series btw...

@WinEunuuchs2Unix o.O it is nothing like pacman

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I dunno I guess I played like Zelda 3 or something on Play Station 1 or something and there was a map you navigated with different rooms you went into to do battles. Reminds me of pacman.

Serg

Our electromagnetic fields professor assigned homework for next class. I don't think anybody understands the topic well enough yet to have freaking daily homework like that

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Electromatic fields of the earth or like a transformer?

I mean in nature or man made?

Serg

I don't know , because we're still doing Calculus "review". The irony is that we're not required to take calculus 3, but we need the material from calc 3 for this class

The whole program doesn't make sense

WinEunuuchs2Unix

1:21 AM

No irony intended (pun intended) that iron shavings are used to map out electromatic fields :p

Serg

Iron shavings are simple part and isn't worth much thought

Journeyman Geek

*magnetic

Serg

also , that ^

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I dunno haven't had iron shavings since Grade 10 physics class... kind of miss them!

I have an error message on the last line here:

Jan 31 18:21:11 dell rick: dbus-lock-screen-timer MSG: signal time=1485912071.060157 sender=:1.42 -> destination=(null destination) serial=1016 path=/com/canonical/Unity/Session; interface=com.canonical.Unity.Session; member=Unlocked
Jan 31 18:21:11 dell rick: dbus-lock-screen-timer LOCK_STAT: member=Unlocked
Jan 31 18:21:11 dell gnome-session[2370]: /home/rick/bin/dbus-lock-screen-timer: 6: /home/rick/bin/dbus-lock-screen-timer: [[: not found

Generated from this code and don't understand what the error means:

$ cat bin/dbus-lock-screen-timer
dbus-monitor --session "type=signal,interface=com.canonical.Unity.Session,member=Unlocked" |
  while read MSG; do
    logger "dbus-lock-screen-timer MSG: $MSG"
    LOCK_STAT=`echo $MSG | awk '{print $NF}'`
    logger "dbus-lock-screen-timer LOCK_STAT: $LOCK_STAT"
    if [[ "$LOCK_STAT" == "member=Unlocked" ]]; then
        logger "dbus-lock-screen-timer Success!: Screen unlocked"
        lock-screen-timer
    fi
  done

Starbucks coffee served by one of 10,000 refugees against Trump for any hints!

Journeyman Geek

erm, whut?

Serg

1:26 AM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix are you using bash ?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

yes

but I didn't put #!/bin/bash into the script. Is that the problem?

@JourneymanGeek Starbucks said today they were going to hire 10,000 refugees to serve coffee out of Trump protest.

Serg

@WinEunuuchs2Unix yes, because if you're using a shell other than bash for interactive use, your script will run in that shell, not bash

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Serg The script is called from Startup Applications not in terminal.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, but what does that have to do with ~~the price of the tea in china~~ your problem?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@JourneymanGeek I'm half Chinese and half British but have no clue of the price of tea in either country!

Serg

1:30 AM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix well, that's the problem. You need to put #!/bin/bash there. Otherwise, it defaults to /bin/sh , and [[ is only used in bash

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Ah hah! Thank you @Serg should if it works should I fix the dozens of answers on websites AU and Stack Overflow? :p

I mean I copy and pasted the code.

Serg

@WinEunuuchs2Unix and @JourneymanGeek , could we please drop the subject of Trump and his border policies, because I don't think I can retain proper self composure . . . Far too much politics and touchy subjects mentioned earlier today

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Like a script-kiddy sheepish grin

@Serg Well at least you didn't have 6 people killed in Quebec city by some lunatic reading Trump and LePen's speeches.

Serg

@WinEunuuchs2Unix that code still needs a lot of fixin' for proper formatting and stuff

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Serg Would you like me to post the code as a question so you can answer?

I'm going to have a shower but I'll do it in about an hour.

First I'll add the #!/bin/bash and make sure it works though and let you know.

Serg

1:34 AM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Not necessary. I've no time to answer anyway. That's interesting. I didn't look into Quebec's story that much.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

But you heard 6 were killed at a mosque by a lone-wolf right?

The cops checked his computer and found he followed America's Trump and France's Le Pen.

Journeyman Geek

@Serg I am agreeing

This isn't really the place for politics.

(as I've said multiple times @WinEunuuchs2Unix >_>)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@JourneymanGeek Sorry didn't mean to offend... Funny there was lots of talk about him before he was elected.

Journeyman Geek

I've been pretty consistantly been saying that

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I'll keep that in mind for when you are in the room. Other people enjoy it but it's good to know you do not like it. I have to be conscious of each individual and their preferences "my bad" as they say in Singapore.

bbl.

Journeyman Geek

1:38 AM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix well, I'm also saying this as a moderator (for chat!) and seeing how people react in general

WinEunuuchs2Unix

2:05 AM

@JourneymanGeek Oh great first @NathanOsman is the chat mod and now you are too :p... At @ThomasWard suggestion I've signed up for Politics Beta in SE but it seems like most of my questions are flagged as "answers might be too opinion orientated" and hence off topic...LOL

Serg

I'm not averse to discussing politics time to time, but for the most part I personally avoid it.