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RPi Awesomeness

00:00

anyone here seen any Hogan's heroes?

Hey @Lucio

Lucio

Stack Overflow em Português, prepare your self!

@RPiAwesomeness o/

RPi Awesomeness

o/

sigh...minitube is failing to work :P

Lucio

hichris123

@RPiAwesomeness Yep.

RPi Awesomeness

nice :) I take it you are portuguese?

Lucio

00:02

nop

RPi Awesomeness

You speak it?

Lucio

I will be portuguese :S

RPi Awesomeness

Ah :D

Lucio

nop

I will speak it :D

RPi Awesomeness

meesa confused...why you talking about portuguese stuff...

Lucio

00:04

What the heck does that mean :S

RPi Awesomeness

Well...confirmar is pretty easy to see :D

hichris123

@Lucio You should totally use Chrome/Chromium + instant translation. :P

terdon

note to self: read _all_ the backlog before commenting

Lucio

RPi Awesomeness

esta/estoy means me/myself in spanish and Spanish/Portuguese are pretty closely related

terdon

00:06

@Lucio using a login from blah.com, we will automatically link this account with your ither SE accounts

Lucio

I like the portuguese people :P

RPi Awesomeness

:)

terdon

damn, all Latin languages are the same :) Aren't you Italian Lucio?

2

Lucio

LOL

RPi Awesomeness

will be SO glad when my laptop battery arrives, this iBook g4 keyboard is so ... derp

Lucio

00:07

@terdon I also know a little of italian but no, pretty sure I'm not

terdon

@Lucio Spanish is even closer, that's why I could read it :)

Lucio

totally

terdon

Where are you from?

Lucio

Did you heard about Polo Norte?

terdon

me suena, si

RPi Awesomeness

00:08

eh?

terdon

Argentinian I take it?

Lucio

RPi Awesomeness

No comprendo senor

terdon

Heh, so you're that fat guy I see buzzing around my chimney at Xmas!

RPi Awesomeness

lol

Lucio

00:09

:O

RPi Awesomeness

The real question is...is that fat buzzing, or is he buzz ed?

terdon

And yes, I know Argentina is the south but there's no spanishg speaking nation near the north pole so...

RPi Awesomeness

lol

those darn canadians

terdon

That's French (kinda)

RPi Awesomeness

yeah

French/English. Quebec is very french still

at least that's what I've heard

Lucio

00:11

oh gosh, portuguese is heavy

RPi Awesomeness

wow

bbl

Lucio

cya!

terdon

Quebec is Québécois, not French!

Lucio

@terdon saba?

terdon

saba fine, thanks :)

Lucio

00:13

great :)

terdon

I'm not French, I just live there :)

Lucio

lol

terdon

Also in Spain for 7 years so my Spanish is almost native

Catalan so-so

Braiam

@terdon yeah, we know how bad being french is....

Lucio

oh, català is heavy

terdon

00:14

@Braiam lol

@Lucio quite close to Portuguese though

(just don't tell them that)

Lucio

hahaha

very true

terdon

merda, no ets catala tu?

Lucio

I was talking about the people ;)

nono :P

This is all my catalan:

terdon

I like the Catalans, everybody loves hating them but I had a great time among them

Lucio

Messi messi, messimessi, messimessimessimessi...

terdon

00:15

lol

OK, that does it, I am now sure you're Argentinian

Lucio

:D

@terdon 'till you left.

Then they started the "kill-terdon" search :P

terdon

@Lucio That's why I left, I was just ahead of the mob with pitchforks!

Lucio

exactly

ok, so portuguese is installed

lest got on this.

terdon

Have fun!

Lucio

obrigado!

Braiam

00:33

when this site first launched the Ubuntu font was still in beta. I'm also using it as a embedded web font. A question for the community is: should I ditch web font method and simply call font-family: ubuntu, arial, san-serif instead? This is what ubuntu.com does. — Jin 3 hours ago

^ we need to answer Jin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111‌1111111111111ONE

hichris123

Ya know, why doesn't Jin have network wide diamonds?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

00:51

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Q: Decrease crypted LVM partition

On Ubuntu (precisely: Mint) install, I used option for use whole disk and crypt it. Now, I want to install Windows on other partition. How I can safely decrease size of this crypted LVM? Of course, partitions created by installer.

terdon

Can a mod delete an accepted answer?

I guess so right? If so:

Whoa, sudden rush of downvotes a year and a half later! Unfortunately I'm unable to delete my answer as it's the accepted answer. Please just ignore it - it's incorrect because it wasn't writing a file to /dev/null, it was trying to replace /dev/null with a directory - which shouldn't even work. — neon_overload 25 mins ago

Nathan Osman

And here's your LOL for the day:

When I ordered a SATA cable from Best Buy, I never expected it to arrive in such a large box... http://t.co/os5G9oOmPe

Tweeted by nathanosman_dev on March 19, 2014 at 12:58 AM

terdon

@NathanOsman :) Wonderful, and I'm sure they sell themselves as an environmentally friendly company

Braiam

01:21

why are we closing this again? askubuntu.com/q/435866/169736

terdon

@Braiam no idea,

@MarcoCeppi could you help out here: askubuntu.com/questions/192702/can-recover-file-from-dev-null/… ?

@Braiam Well, honestly neither of these is particularly useful but if we're going to have one, the newer one is better.

Braiam

@terdon if he "fixed" his answer, I think we don't need to delete it :/

terdon

@Braiam 1) He hasn't, it's still wrong, 2) The poor guy got 10-12 downvotes and deleting would be simpler. The answer gives nothing useful and the new one is much better. In any case, the OP wants to delete but can't

Marco Ceppi

@terdon downvotes are only 2 rep of the 5 or 10 you get for upvotes

terdon

@MarcoCeppi I know, but the OP wanted to delete and the truth is that his answer, despite being accepted is still both wrong and not very good anyway so... Your call

Braiam

01:28

@MarcoCeppi I think OP isn't interested about rep and more about correctness of the information

hichris123

@Braiam Because @Seth wants to banish you to /dev/null, and anything mentioning /dev/null should also be banished.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: newby ?'s on custom build

I hope this is in the right place, if not please move, thanks. I am attempting to make a custom lightweight ubuntu-based linux install, that my old computer can pull. I probably shouldn't even be attempting this considering that I have some significant short-term memory problems, which affects ...

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Lucio

I want to use a DB for java, what which of them?

Java DB seems to be already installed on JDK so it should work without need to install anything, right?

Nathan Osman

PostgreSQL is always a good choice.

Lucio

I was going to use SQlite but it does need drivers, which make more tedious a cross-platform installation.

Nathan Osman

01:42

Do you just need to store key/value pairs?

Lucio

not, complex relations

XML is a possible-but-second-or-third-choice

I'm about to develop a cross-platform application so want to be sure what is the best.

cc: @seth

Nathan Osman

JSON will always win over XML for ease-of-use if you ask me.

But then again - Java was popular around the same time XML was, so they tend to work fairly well together.

Everyone is using JSON/YAML nowadays.

Lucio

@NathanOsman yeah, they do

Nathan Osman

At least XML has XPath.

Lucio

mmm.. too many options to choice one

I want to write the DAO now! :(

Aditya Patil

03:20

@Danatela It would be better if you delete your answer askubuntu.com/a/436144/184942. The OP is asking something else, and I think the question is primarily opinion based

@Oli I always keep on getting notifications of chats replied to Aditya.What should I do?

Danatela

@AdityaPatil OK

terdon

@Danatela hang on, just edit it, I don't see @AdityaPatil's point. There are many mistakes in your answer but if you correct them, it should be fine

Aditya Patil

@terdon the OP asks for source code vs prebuild.the answer is apt-get vs USC

terdon

@AdityaPatil I think the OP is asking for apt-get vs software center, there is no mention of source and I see no reason to assume that's what the OP means

@Danatela's answer has many issues (basically everything you say about the command line is untrue apart from it's being harder to learn) but the basic ideas are there.

Aditya Patil

@terdon this is what OP says I've never compiled any software from source but I'm wondering, is it better?

terdon

03:28

@AdityaPatil I stand corrected.

I just saw that, sorry.

Aditya Patil

No need for sorry.

terdon

I read the "I've never..." and stopped there :)

Aditya Patil

:)

Utkarsh

Yeah!

Aditya Patil

Why is the close vote review queue increasing day by day?

Braiam

03:33

@AdityaPatil cuz people doesn't review stuff...

Aditya Patil

We should hold an close vote clearance day.

I think there's a voting fraud going on. someone's voting for answers that are not answers

Danatela

@AdityaPatil, @terdon, i have edited my answer

Nathan Osman

The Ubuntu Touch documentation is absolutely terrible.

I've never seen anything so poorly documented in my life.

Sorry, but it's the truth.

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Q: Audio cuts in and out after upgrading from Ubuntu 12.10 -> 13.10

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Aditya Patil

@NathanOsman You can only expect terrible docs for an OS which is itself in a terrible condition(for now at least)

For ex. it eats all battery power.

Nathan Osman

03:42

I'm not trying to be mean or anything - I'm sure a lot of work has gone into what currently exists.

But it's just... I've spent the last two hours trying to get some HTML to display.

Nothing fancy at all. Just a single chunk of HTML.

Aditya Patil

of course yes, but we first need to get the OS working stable-ly

@Danatela You made it compilation vs apt-get vs GUI. :)

Nathan Osman

Finally, I think I have it.

I almost feel queasy there are so many "hacks" in this app.

Workarounds for workarounds for workarounds.

But it works.

Utkarsh

.

Nathan Osman

Quickly writes it down.

Aditya Patil

04:10

off topic? askubuntu.com/q/436157/184942

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Aditya Patil

welcome home! @AvinashRaj

Avinash Raj

@AdityaPatil Gud morn :-)

Aditya Patil

good morning

Seth

04:39

@Lucio Haven't used any databases yet, sorry :-/

@hichris123 Shh!

@MarcoCeppi Oh, I got my question answered in IRC. Thanks though. Also: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community-website/+bug/1289929

@hichris123 What aspect of Ubuntu? Programs are written in Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Lua (yes, lua), perl, ruby, JavaScript, etc. The kernel is written in C. Ubuntu itself is written in.. I'm not sure what. I think it depends on what part you're working in. Most of Ubuntu is hosted on LaunchPad, which is sorta similar to github, except it's not. We use baazar (bzr), which is sorta like git, except it isn't.

Then there is the documentation team, the quality team and the design team.

For more information see community.ubuntu.com and askubuntu.com/questions/304622/…

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06:49

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Q: dark image in Skype but without a problem in other apps

I've just moved to Linux Family. I installed Elementary OS (based on Ubuntu). I try to configure my Skype, but the video image is really dark. It is working, but it is low in contrast. I've downloaded Cheese and the image there is great. I've download Guvcview and the image there is great as w...

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Minato Namikaze

09:08

Google wear.. woah

Journeyman Geek

@MinatoNamikaze: the moto 360 looks seriously sexy

Minato Namikaze

@JourneymanGeek yep O.o

Journeyman Geek

round led?

Minato Namikaze

Probably an oled ring

plays with the sdk

Journeyman Geek

yeah, smexy as hell ;p

Minato Namikaze

09:21

I want the moto g

Brilliant at 14k :P

Journeyman Geek

I have it ;p

AWESOME phone

Minato Namikaze

Damn you :P

I wanted the N5

but I think that's a bit too much for a 15 year old xD

@JourneymanGeek How well does slo-mo video work?

(After the 4.4 upgrade)

Journeyman Geek

@MinatoNamikaze: haven't tried that

and the camera isn't too good unless its bright daylight.

the screen is.. oh my god.

Minato Namikaze

@JourneymanGeek Try it now please? :P

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Q: How can I know if a network is secure before connecting to it?

before connecting to a network i want to know if it needs a password or not like in the network manager. The security of every network any commands will be welcomed

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Minato Namikaze

09:36

Journeyman Geek

thats cool ;p

Minato Namikaze

And google now just got cricket :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

google now creeps me out ;p

(I use it but...)

Minato Namikaze

And Moto X just got released in india

Journeyman Geek

It did?

Not out here as far as I can tell

(and bleh, we get amazingly little love as far as stuff like that goes)

Minato Namikaze

09:47

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, flipkart

@JourneymanGeek flipkart.com/motorola/…

Journeyman Geek

@MinatoNamikaze: our moto Gs are indian models ;p

ahh

cool ;p

Minato Namikaze

@JourneymanGeek meaning?

Journeyman Geek

I like the motos, I hope lenovo dosen't screw it up.

@MinatoNamikaze: its the EXACT SAME model they sell in india - the regulatory information on the phone is for india even ;p

hbdgaf

holy formatting batman askubuntu.com/questions/436240/…

Minato Namikaze

open the garage..

hmm

Avinash Raj

09:55

You forget to add e in eclipse on this line export PATH=$PATH:/home/amol/Downloads/adt-bundle-linux-x86_64-20131030/eclips in your bashrc file. — Avinash Raj 3 mins ago

> You forget to add . before bashrc in the above line.

@Rinzwind today's question askubuntu.com/questions/436171/…

Utkarsh

10:21

Hi Friends!

Rinzwind

@AvinashRaj you are doing this on a production server? >:)

Utkarsh

@MinatoNamikaze what is this?

Minato Namikaze

@Utkarsh no :P

Utkarsh

@MinatoNamikaze So, Which is your next exam?

Minato Namikaze

@Utkarsh Android Wear

Avinash Raj

10:23

Production server??

Minato Namikaze

@Utkarsh Chemistry

Utkarsh

@MinatoNamikaze How much is your monthly Pocket money?

Minato Namikaze

@Utkarsh NullPointerException

Utkarsh

@MinatoNamikaze HaHaHa I was just testing your priority :P

:14365549 How much did you pay for it?

Minato Namikaze

I don't remember

Utkarsh

10:26

@MinatoNamikaze at waht age you started using linux?

Journeyman Geek

@MinatoNamikaze: is he bothering you?

Minato Namikaze

@Utkarsh What?

Nevermind, back to studying.

Utkarsh

Okay :-)

My Exams are over!

bye

@JourneymanGeek Why? What will you do then?

Journeyman Geek

@Utkarsh: oh, recommend he ignore you, naturally.

fossfreedom

@Utkarsh remember to keep to topic and not to get too personal. Anything more than that and further measures such as that you are unfortunately too frequently familiar could be enacted.

Utkarsh

10:36

@JourneymanGeek why are you telling everyone to ignore me? do you have any personal enmity with me?

@fossfreedom okay | I want to talk to you

Journeyman Geek

nope. You ask too many personal questions, and are disruptive, and suspending you has no effect.

Utkarsh

accept

Journeyman Geek

and I'm actually trying to indirectly engage you by hinting at when altering your behaviour would be a good idea

not that I expect it to work.

I mean, I could just throw you a several month suspension

but what's the point?

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek No, Please Please! I want to be un-suspended on my Birthday. Please for God Sake!

Journeyman Geek

shrug

won't be me who does it

Utkarsh

10:41

I know ;p You can't suspend me without any reason

You're my Friend

Aditya Patil

10:57

@AvinashRaj Where did you find that avatar?

Utkarsh

After 7-8 Days, I will delete my account

Avinash Raj

@AdityaPatil it's my default one.Is that looks nice?

Aditya Patil

yes.But you were finding avatars yesterday?

I think someone suggested gravatar

Utkarsh

@AvinashRaj it looks like swastik

Aditya Patil

but there's nothing there

@Utkarsh It's hitler's sign

Utkarsh

11:00

Avinash Raj

@Utkarsh yes

@AdityaPatil someone replied that changing avatars are possible only if you change the email address given.

Oli

@AvinashRaj You can manually specify them through the profile page - I was talking about the automatically generated ones that are based off email hash.

Utkarsh

@Oli how are they based on email?

Avinash Raj

mine is an automatically generated one.

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Oli

11:04

you take the email you generate the MD5 hash and that goes on the end of a gravatar URL

That hash is what's used to identify you without giving out your email address.

Avinash Raj

you mean download the avatar and add it as your profile picture.

@Oli while running for f in $(dpkg -L vlc); do [[ $(type -P "${f##*/}") == "$f" ]] && echo ${f##*/}; done command,

the output shows

qvlc and svlc

it fails to show vlc

Oli

@AvinashRaj The vlc command lives in the vlc-nox package though... That's why.

Journeyman Geek

I thought they changed the md5sum thing

Avinash Raj

yes

Oli

@JourneymanGeek Looking at location of mine, it looks like MD5's still in fashion https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f0af40756420859b5b63cbceb6d30505?s=32&d=identic‌on&r=PG

Utkarsh

11:12

@Oli how much rep is require to make private room?

Oli

I see, the ones where you upload from the profile page are just stored on imgur.. So that's a bit different.

@Utkarsh askubuntu.com/help/privileges

Aditya Patil

@Utkarsh private rooms are still public.

Utkarsh

@AdityaPatil how?

Aditya Patil

anyone can read them

Utkarsh

:-(

Avinash Raj

11:15

@Oli

0

Q: How to find all the available commands in a package before installing it?

This question clearly explains about how to find all the commands which are provided by a particular installed package. My question is, how to find(or lists) all the available commands which are provided by a particular package before installing that package via terminal ?

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@AdityaPatil :(

Utkarsh

why do you delete your messages?

Avinash Raj

apt-cache command is used to search and find the package versions and some more before installing that package.

Oli

@AvinashRaj In fairness, my question isn't about installed packages, my answer is.

My question covers both.

Avinash Raj

no

Oli

Yeah

fossfreedom

11:22

hmm baba-ji is back posting answers with the fabled telephone number. Look out folks - flag as spam please.

Utkarsh

@fossfreedom but I can't see his spammy questions. why?

Aditya Patil

poor/no anti-blackmagic laws in India causes all this nuisance.

Utkarsh

@AdityaPatil Yes, you are right

see his spam is everywhere google.co.in/…

@fossfreedom Yes your Majesty

Aditya Patil

We should have babaji bronze, silver and gold badges for closing babaji posts.

6

Utkarsh

HaHaHa

Aditya Patil

11:29

I forgot my question?!?!?!

Utkarsh

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@Rinzwind ^

fossfreedom

baba-ji killed in 4 seconds - for the win :)

5

Avinash Raj

10 kers askubuntu.com/a/436307/202806

Utkarsh

@fossfreedom Great! but I can't see Baba ji spam anyhwere. why?

fossfreedom

too slow - you need to be 10K or above to view deleted stuff.

Mitch

11:36

@fossfreedom Shouldn't these users be deleted?

Avinash Raj

@Utkarsh see the above link,But you can't.

fossfreedom

baba ji answers are flagged as spam - then we destroy the users with the spam reason.

Utkarsh

@fossfreedom since when this baba ji spam is going on askubuntu?

fossfreedom

damn - baba ji is hitting us quickly - be on guard people. flag-flag-flag

Avinash Raj

Why community locked that post before deleting it?

Utkarsh

11:40

why not ban his IP?

fossfreedom

@Utkarsh like forever - dont remember when his love potions hit us.

@AvinashRaj destroying a user anonymises it - the user becomes community so that it looks like community destroyed it.

Aditya Patil

How can views to question decrease?

Utkarsh

@fossfreedom Oh! I got Spam! but there is not flag as spam option. why?

Minato Namikaze

@AdityaPatil Maybe inorganic(bot) views were eliminated?

Avinash Raj

@Braiam thanks for protecting that question. :-)

Utkarsh

11:44

who is community? he locked my question

fossfreedom

@Utkarsh not sure - should be there. Maybe there is a min rep thing.

@Utkarsh community is the SE bot - no - he hasnt locked your question - only protected it from further spam users

Avinash Raj

@foss When a question was protected by community?

Minato Namikaze

What?! Why doesn't the Android wear sample app support the nexus 7? This is outrageous xD

fossfreedom

@AvinashRaj usually 3 low rep answers that are deleted causes community to protect.

Utkarsh

@MinatoNamikaze off topic

Minato Namikaze

11:46

@Utkarsh I know :P

Utkarsh

I wish i could have seen how baba ji spams ;p

Journeyman Geek

@MinatoNamikaze: what does it support?

Minato Namikaze

@JourneymanGeek No idea

Journeyman Geek

it might support nothing at all ;p

Utkarsh

@MinatoNamikaze Get an Idea

Aditya Patil

11:47

@Utkarsh One needs to be quick and lucky to see babaji spams.He is rare!

Journeyman Geek

I'd argue he's half baked

Minato Namikaze

Utkarsh

Nice

Minato Namikaze

@JourneymanGeek I've seen people use it :P

Utkarsh

@AdityaPatil again! I saw it! I'm Lucky!!!

but can't flag

@fossfreedom

Aditya Patil

11:50

you were moments late to flag

@Utkarsh someone else already flagged it.

Utkarsh

Okay

Aditya Patil

I can see it in my notification tab.

Utkarsh

@AdityaPatil what, if we call baba ji by his phone number and ask him to stop this?

Aditya Patil

How if we call ANIS?

Utkarsh

@AdityaPatil What is anis?

xiaodongjie

11:54

Hi

Every body...

Aditya Patil

@Utkarsh Wait a minute, you won't have heard about it because you are outside of MH.

xiaodongjie

wei shen me?

Aditya Patil

@Utkarsh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Avinash Raj

spam everywhere..

Utkarsh

@AvinashRaj How much Spam eliminated?

Use english

xiaodongjie

11:56

@AvinashRaj how are you!

Aditya Patil

@AvinashRaj where? I have my eye on reviews but I didn't see one?

Avinash Raj

@xiaodongjie i'm 5in.What about you?

Utkarsh

@AdityaPatil because you are unlucky

Aditya Patil

:)

Avinash Raj

10kers only.

xiaodongjie

11:57

Hey @AvinashRaj, Just a question.

Utkarsh

@AvinashRaj No, even i have seen spam

I'm lucky, you know,

Avinash Raj

@Utkarsh where?

@xiaodongjie what?

Utkarsh

but that was on my question

xiaodongjie

why I can't connect to askubuntu?

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