Ask Ubuntu General Room

jokerdino

2:00 PM

Well, Sox is still here.

Matt Эллен

yeah, I think it needs one more vote

jrg

!!unsummon

Braiam

@Rinzwind he's just trying to make a frankdebian using Ubuntu kernel

jrg

ah-ha!

jokerdino

!!unsummon

jrg

2:00 PM

AND HES GONE!

PARTAY

blade19899

@spammers stop this nonsense or i will call your mothers!

Matt Эллен

toodle pip!

blade19899

And am gonna be an ass and summon him again

...

wait i didn t do that

i dont know how

jokerdino

@jrg who?

blade19899

kitsox is back

jrg

2:01 PM

And now the stupid thing is back

jokerdino

!!unsummon

Alvar

@jrg we need more nuke bots :P

blade19899

!!unsummon

jokerdino

Maybe, maybe KitSox is our spammer

jrg

Ok, just leave the bot alone.

blade19899

2:03 PM

... get him!!!

jrg

we don't need to try and get it to leave, just leave the bot alone

blade19899

k.

Braiam

!!unsummon

Alvar

naaah I'm bored this spammer is just lame. ignoring it.

Braiam

he's broken....

blade19899

2:04 PM

!!unsummon

Marco Ceppi

Guys, that doesn't work.

I'm kicking him manually

jrg

it will come back.

Marco Ceppi

And I will kick it again until I can figure out how to ban a user from chat

jrg

so just leave it, and we'll talk to the owner whenever the owner gets back online.

@MarcoCeppi make it read-only.

it'll try to post, but can't.

i'll do it.

Marco Ceppi

Even better, I just suspended the user

Braiam

2:05 PM

err... then we can't posts...

jrg

@Braiam read-only for the user

@MarcoCeppi ugh, now you just ignited the MSO discussion, again.

blade19899

0

A: Cannot install geda-gschem in 13.10

Make us MODS. we're not stopping otherwise.

Marco Ceppi

@jrg what discussion?

jrg

@MarcoCeppi about suspension of bots without contacting owners.

blade19899

Am out of votes

Marco Ceppi

2:07 PM

Well, who the hell puts the bot in a room it doesn't belong in?

Jorge Castro

SUP PEEPS!

Marco Ceppi

Owner shouldn't be so careless to offend other sites

blade19899

spammers thats what up

all day

Marco Ceppi

@jrg link to mso?

Jorge Castro

Close votes are at 0!

jrg

2:07 PM

@JorgeCastro spammers, and faulty vagrant config. ;p

@MarcoCeppi i'll look when i get to work, i'm trying to leave now. ;p

Marco Ceppi

@jrg I take full responsibility, user is violating the terms of our room and I took action.

Braiam

:/

Alvar

@Braiam what

jrg

@MarcoCeppi i'm not saying it's the wrong move, but ping kitfox about it.

Alvar

@MarcoCeppi you know the spammer can read this chat...

Jorge Castro

2:09 PM

@Braiam Shows up as 0 for me

Marco Ceppi

@Alvar that's fine, it's a futile - childish - attempt

Jorge Castro

maybe you have more to vote on than me?

Alvar

@MarcoCeppi I know...

Jorge Castro

oh, that's not spam, that's just vandalism

Alvar

define spam

Jorge Castro

2:10 PM

"Buy Viagra!"

blade19899

jeej managers desided to talk in my office

gotta look like am bussy

buy!

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro yeah, this guy wants us to "make him a mod", so he has been spamming the site with that

Jorge Castro

oh

easy to catch then, shrug

Rinzwind

and he is VERY adamant about it!

Marco Ceppi

It's one per person's vendetta fruitless launched using tor

Jorge Castro

2:12 PM

is this the guy who got mad for getting locked out for replace I with i?

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro also, the data center which hosts my IRC bouncer is out

jokerdino

@JorgeCastro Yep

Jorge Castro

heh, if he worked half as hard on editing as he did being silly that'd be much more useful

jokerdino

If he actually posted useful answers instead of this crap, I would have asked him to become a mod.

(Let's see if that works.)

RPi Awesomeness

Any more of that Indian Hackers spam lately?

Rinzwind

2:15 PM

@RPiAwesomeness its been relatively quiet the past 1 hour

RPi Awesomeness

Phew...thats nice.

Marco Ceppi

@Rinzwind SE has taken over and is doing some server/app side filtering

RPi Awesomeness

Hey, could I get someone to mark my spam flags as good? I'm out of flags entirely right now thanks to that spam

KitFox

@jokerdino I brought her once and then took her out. I wouldn't send her uninvited.

RPi Awesomeness

Hey @KitFox

KitFox

2:16 PM

Hi.

jokerdino

@KitFox She is in love with us.

KitFox

I'll see if I can find out why she came back. She shouldn't have.

jokerdino

@Alvar Where?

RPi Awesomeness

Who?

Braiam

@Alvar KItFox is a mod

Marco Ceppi

2:17 PM

room topic changed to Ask Ubuntu General Room: General discussion around Ask Ubuntu, Ubuntu & official Ubuntu derivatives. For other Linux distros please see: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux [bots] [hates,] [marco-ceppi,]

KitFox

And I didn't forget to update her source. I haven't had time is all.

Marco Ceppi

ugh, it did it backwards

RPi Awesomeness

:)

jokerdino

@MarcoCeppi It's Soviet Russia silly

Alvar

I never said anything.

KitFox

2:18 PM

So she keeps coming back in?

jokerdino

@KitFox Just 100 and one times

KitFox

Did you use unsummon or just kick her?

jokerdino

IIRC, it was a bug that existed in the bot code some 5 months ago.

@KitFox both

Braiam

@JorgeCastro meh... it shows 16 in my queue

jrg

@KitFox both. neither worked.

Jorge Castro

2:19 PM

heh

KitFox

Hmm. Sorry about that.

jrg

until Marco suspended her, and then it stopped.

@JorgeCastro @Braiam check again!

KitFox

Well, you could have just talked to me about it.

jokerdino

@jrg 2

Braiam

@jrg 2

Alvar

2:20 PM

0

RPi Awesomeness

Who is this she we are talking about?

Alvar

@RPiAwesomeness no idea

RPi Awesomeness

:)

jokerdino

@RPiAwesomeness our love

RPi Awesomeness

WHO???

jokerdino

2:20 PM

@KitFox I had no idea what time you would be around.

jrg

@jokerdino @Braiam And now there are 0. I KILLED THEM ALLLLLLLL

KitFox

I could have done something about it when I was home, but I don't have access from here.

jokerdino

And Marco is quite allergic to bots.

Alvar

@jrg I took the last one!

RPi Awesomeness

BRB. Switching browsers

KitFox

2:21 PM

I offer you my deepest apologies, @Marco.

RPi Awesomeness

TenFourFox is too slow

jokerdino

@RPiAwesomeness Sox

Marco Ceppi

<3

Alvar

gtg... be back later. getting my new moue! :D

KitFox

I will fix it as soon as I get home tonight.

Braiam

2:22 PM

btw, now that we all are here, don't vote duplicates crappy questions... it becomes too difficult to evaluate them later on

@KitFox there are like 30 bug fixes in upstream

RPi Awesomeness

I be back

@jokerdino Ah KitFox bot

Braiam

@RPiAwesomeness yeah ~~Arnold~~ Terminator

RPi Awesomeness

Fox with the Sox! the tigers are better

Jorge Castro

Hah, they finally revamped canonical.com: canonical.com

RPi Awesomeness

@Braiam Hah!

KitFox

2:23 PM

@Braiam sighs I know. I just started a new job. I've been without power off and on for weeks. It's not exactly a priority for me at this minute.

Braiam

:(

jokerdino

@JorgeCastro Joining forces with Mint? :)

KitFox

So if I merge the changes and refresh her, will that solve the problem of her popping in here?

blade19899

@JorgeCastro, nice and its even responsive

now if they would do the same for ubuntu.com

jokerdino

@KitFox I think so. @Seth, do you know about this bug?

RPi Awesomeness

2:24 PM

Annoying that I can't change tabs with ctrl+1/9 in OmniWeb

KitFox

You'll have to walk me through how to merge the changes from your branch.

jrg

close votes is @ 0 and it will stay @ 0.

KitFox

I will do it now if that will fix it.

jokerdino

@KitFox How good are you with git?

KitFox

Not great. She's my learning project.

RPi Awesomeness

2:26 PM

Whoa...massive mod chat...

jokerdino

Keep your changes aside. Pull from upstream and merge those changes.

RPi Awesomeness

jokerdino

Git is quite smart on how to do the merges.

@RPiAwesomeness Beware the blue wave

RPi Awesomeness

Noooooo!

KitFox

OK. I have it open in front of me. I'm looking at my repo.

RPi Awesomeness

2:27 PM

g2g. Chemistry class :P

KitFox

Have fun!

Where do I go to pull from upstream?

blade19899

I have no idea what u guys are talking about?

jokerdino

@KitFox github.com/Zirak/SO-ChatBot

KitFox

GitHub.

Braiam

git pull github.com/Zirak/SO-ChatBot origin or something like that

KitFox

2:29 PM

Oh. I should have mentioned I only have access to the web tools here.

blade19899

What are the purposes of these bots, for you guys?

KitFox

They are toys.

Very useful in the English room.

blade19899

... I get that, but, what are they for? what can you do with them?

jokerdino

If you show me your changes, I can merge it and send a pull request to your repo.

Braiam

you can let your imagination fly

blade19899

2:31 PM

@Braiam, I don't like using my imagination. They scare me.

Braiam

weak

jokerdino

Never mind. I found your repo.

blade19899

lol.

KitFox

@jokerdino I asked Matt for help. He knows how to do this stuff.

blade19899

2:44 PM

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Q: Anyone interested in a regularly scheduled, multiplayer game of 0 A.D.?

First Game Scheduled for Oct. 13, 2013 at 5PM EDT [click to view in other timezones] I am pleased to announce that we will be having our first game this weekend. The game will start at the time scheduled above, so be sure to show up early to make sure you get to play. We will be...

Soon???

Alvar

3:01 PM

oAD is it that civilization rip off?

RolandiXor

No.............

And Freeciv is not a civilization ripoff either.

jokerdino

@Alvar woah woah

RolandiXor

0 A.D. is its own game; and before you go blasting off on it cause it's open source, it started as a closed source commercial game; and is way better than most commercial RTS games I have played.

Alvar

@jokerdino what does your woah woah mean? to me they sound postive, but I might be wrong....

jokerdino

It means, watch what you say.

Alvar

3:03 PM

@RolandiXor all of the open source games I've tried are really bad....

jokerdino

@Alvar Try making a couple

Alvar

@jokerdino that made more sence...

Braiam

25

Q: A formal way to say "I don't want to sound too cocky..."

Allow me to clear the situation. I was talking with my professor about a piece of software that I had developed. While we were discussing, I wanted to say something like I don't want to sound too cocky, but my code is way much more efficient than what we have right now. But I didn't becau...

phrases formality

RolandiXor

@Alvar I used to say that

Alvar

I think they are bad because they aren't developed enough.

RolandiXor

3:04 PM

Till I tried Unvanquished, 0 A.D...

Alvar

most of them need so much more work..

RolandiXor

Flightgear...

Alvar

@RolandiXor x-plane is still better

RolandiXor

(I would mention more but I don't get to game much these days)

@Alvar so?

I mean... don't be a jerk

Alvar

@RolandiXor that's not what I'm trying to do...

RolandiXor

3:05 PM

x-plane has the resources and dedicated developers that flightgear does not, and flightgear is still way better than one would expect for something that is 100% FREE

And you know something I've come to realize? Most people who say that these closed source commercial applications and operating systems and games are better... don't know what they're talking about.

Alvar

@RolandiXor if it's not better why play it?

RolandiXor

Like last night, I had to use MS Office; and then I realized how much better LibreOffice really is. It wasn't just my imagination; it was a reality.

What I could do in a single step on LibreOffice, or two steps, took me clicking twice on the same button→menu in MS Office... over and over and over again.

Alvar

@RolandiXor well alright libre office is much better than word. I agree.

blade19899

There back:

0

Q: How can I hide user names in Ubuntu Unity's top panel session indicator?

In Ubuntu 13.10's Unity Panel (the top panel, not the launcher), the session indicator (top right corner) shows the names of previously logged in users. This allows switching users, but for privacy reasons I would like to be able to hide those user names, as a lot of people use machines in our c...

unity indicator

RolandiXor

@Alvar ask the universities, flight schools, etc who use it over X-Plane and MS Flight simulator.

If you are not a real pilot, then I suggest you shush when it comes to what is "better". Graphics are not everything.

And to be fair, for the toolkit that Flightgear uses, it sure looks better than I'd expect.

Alvar

3:09 PM

alright alright I know nothing about everything...

blade19899

People, 0 A.D. see here what it is:

8

Q: How to Install 0 A.D.?

What is 0 A.D. and how can I install it on Ubuntu?

games software-installation

RolandiXor

Then don't make dogmatic statements about what is better or whatever. It doesn't make you look like you know anything...

blade19899

0

Q: How can I hide user names in Ubuntu Unity's top panel session indicator?

In Ubuntu 13.10's Unity Panel (the top panel, not the launcher), the session indicator (top right corner) shows the names of previously logged in users. This allows switching users, but for privacy reasons I would like to be able to hide those user names, as a lot of people use machines in our c...

unity indicator

There are more coming!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: Is there some default password for a new user in Linux

I am a Windows user gradually moving towards Linux. In windows we have an option of either having or not having some password for an user.Once we do not put a password we can directly log in to the system.However in Linux this is not possible for every user must have a password.Even if one does n...

linux ubuntu

Ask Ubuntu Meta

0

Q: Should I accept any answer if the question may have more than one answers?

Lets say, the question is intended for the curiosity purposes and has (as most of the problems have...) several answers. Should I mark any answer as "Accepted" in that case?

discussion

blade19899

3:12 PM

They had there break, and the now are back... goddamnit!

Alvar

yeah it sucks...

jokerdino

@blade19899 got it thanks

blade19899

no prob

0

A: upgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 to newer version, in steps or simply release upgrade?

Please, please please..Make us a MOD or either a cooperation.

Braiam

@blade19899 stop engaging them...

RolandiXor

It is not even a "them"

blade19899

3:16 PM

Am a little tense.. but, gonna cool off.

RolandiXor

It is one deranged idiot that was here yesterday trying to chat.

blade19899

0

A: Problem with Ubuntu-Windows Dual Boot

Please, please please..Make us a MOD or either a cooperation.

RolandiXor

I got him onto the chat, but then he kept going on and on about his government. He just wants to "chat" he says... but he refuses to listen to instruction or go throught he process. And he is sitting here watching the room btw, because he uses stuff we say in chat from time to time.

blade19899

0

A: Wifi connected but no internet

Please, please please..Make us a MOD or either a cooperation.

Alvar

they don't know that all users are semi moderators?

jokerdino

3:19 PM

No

Braiam

@blade19899 just let the flags pile up, no need to make a hastle

Jorge Castro

indeed, just flag em and bag em

blade19899

aight, got a little annoyed by them

Braiam

@blade19899 you are doing it wrong...

blade19899

WOW: askubuntu.com/questions/402925/…

RolandiXor

3:21 PM

@blade19899 you're not annoyed till you have done this for an entire night.

blade19899

Talk about a wall of text

HAHHAa

Entire night... No thank, i raged quit long before night fall

Braiam

@blade19899 it's spam..

he's reusing that text

jokerdino

@Braiam thanks

blade19899

Wall of text are my kryptonite, don't read them as they hurt my eyes

Braiam

@jokerdino for?

jokerdino

3:24 PM

i wouldn't have gotten it as garbled text at first sight

blade19899

He deleted that wall of text question

RolandiXor

Because of the nature of the question, I will wait and see if the "user" edits.

jokerdino

@RolandiXor lol?

RolandiXor

@jokerdino I am tired... cut me some slack

jokerdino

askubuntu.com/questions/402807/… and forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=196&t=133879 combined

Braiam

3:26 PM

@jokerdino didn't we figured that vector... I remember a meat Q about that ;)

RolandiXor

Was handling spam all day yesterday, dealing with... the bridge... at one point and some other thing I don't remember, and being pinged (seriously folks, don't do that) for practically no reason..

Journeyman Geek

RolandiXor : That sucks :/

RolandiXor

Braiam

/me pings RolandiXor for no reason...

Takkat

Roland!!! Where did you get that movie of me preparing dinner?

3

jokerdino

3:29 PM

Hey, the Baba spam is not helping the case.

Journeyman Geek

yeah, it isn't

RolandiXor

@Takkat I'm not called a professional stalker for nothing...

Takkat

lol... these nut drive me nuts- I'm still hungry.

RolandiXor

lol me too

Braiam

I maybe will step the line but... what do folks do in India to pass the time?

jokerdino

3:32 PM

I chat here.

Braiam

this is duplicated of the "no space left in /boot" question askubuntu.com/q/308793/169736

RolandiXor

I say hi on pictures women post on G+...

blade19899

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/get-android-notifications-on-your.html
Nice have that for a while now!

RolandiXor

(LOL I just had to say that one - I'm not in India)

blade19899

I play 0 A.D.

Also

am not from india

Journeyman Geek

3:34 PM

depends on what part of india

jokerdino

> Make us m MODS. You could benefit from us.

Yep. Totally.

karel

@blade19899 I would like to see something like that app in the USC.

blade19899

@karel, me two.

the ubuntu-touch supposed to have such a feature

But, whey to unstable for me to use it. I have only one phone.

Takkat

google.com/search?q=site%3Aaskubuntu.com+babaji 174 results... :"( but google.com/search?q=site%3Aaskubuntu.com+takkat 10.500 results \o/

jokerdino

@blade19899 too cool

@Takkat Haha

blade19899

3:38 PM

@Takkat, LOL

Takkat

com'ed it

Braiam

@Takkat you should report that... hey, google is indexing spam

google.com/… 141k!!!!!!!!!!

Takkat

@Braiam My one and only meta on SO meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/179028/…

blade19899

"Detailed Review of Ubuntu Touch 14.04 with Mir display and Unity 8 on Nexus 4 - Latest Stable Version (Video + Images)"
http://www.noobslab.com/2013/11/detailed-review-of-ubuntu-touch-1404.html

For anybody interested

Seriously detailed!

google.com/search?q=site%3Aaskubuntu.com+blade19899

Braiam

@blade19899 not enough doge :P

blade19899

3:40 PM

2.060 results<-- proud of that

Takkat

@blade19899 About 3,960 results (0.11 seconds) here

RolandiXor

About 10,300 results (0.84 seconds)

Braiam

unclear askubuntu.com/q/391902/169736

RolandiXor

↑- me

blade19899

:)

Braiam

3:43 PM

wait, this user didn't get nuked? askubuntu.com/users/214534/braiam-is-a-troll

blade19899

lololololo

RolandiXor

@Braiam but he told the truth... wth :O

Braiam is a troll :D

jkjkjkjk

blade19899

Am sooo sorryyy!

hihi

Braiam

I didn't want to tell you the truth @RolandiXor but I'm your father...

Takkat

@Braiam not for me: askubuntu.com/users/169736/no-he-is-not

RolandiXor

3:45 PM

@Braiam NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Dominican Republic? :O

Caribbean ftw!

Takkat

They do read our chat.

blade19899

HOI SPAMMERS!

Get a life!

RolandiXor

@Takkat yup

blade19899

lol

askubuntu.com/users/233737/blada-19899-is-a-troll

jokerdino

This room was placed in timeout for 2 minutes; the topic of this room is "General discussion around Ask Ubuntu, Ubuntu & official Ubuntu derivatives. For other Linux distros please see: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux"; - conversation should be limited to that topic.

RolandiXor

3:49 PM

O_o

jokerdino

How do I reverse that? Misclicked

Feeds

RolandiXor has frozen this room.

Takkat

nothing we can do... :/

Feeds

RolandiXor has unfrozen this room.

blade19899

askubuntu.com/users/233741/blada-19899-is-a-troll

RolandiXor

3:50 PM

Weird... they moved the controls around?

blade19899

Apparently am a troll XD

Braiam

you want to make the room private ♦?

(I mean, the opposite of public)

blade19899

0

A: Pop-up remindor and todo app for Ubuntu?

We have found a workaround so we don't need to register despite the block. It works on SO too.

WTHELL

RolandiXor

rofl

That's not a workaround :)

jokerdino

> but make us modders please.

blade19899

3:53 PM

Nope, its not.

RolandiXor

They didn't turn on the registration requirement for answers :)

Yes, I know you read that.

Oh and don't create "RolandiXor-Is-A-Troll", because everyone knows that :)

blade19899

We will keep going on. Now give us mods power. lol

source: askubuntu.com/a/402952/36315

lol

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