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hbdgaf

00:11

There's only one way to party... and it's hard. or you don't party at all ;P

jrg

01:17

@NathanOsman are you tinkering with rails?!

Nathan Osman

@jrg No, not exactly.

I'm working on a Shopify theme for a client.

jrg

Ah

so you're doing liquid templating.

Nathan Osman

And it just so happens that there's a Ruby tool that makes it easier.

jrg

that's worse.

Nathan Osman

It's... interesting.

jrg

01:20

hah

I despise liquid.

Nathan Osman

It's mostly just CSS tweaks though in this case.

@jrg After using Jinja2, everything is inferior :P

jrg

Not sure if it's because liquid is bad, or because it's templating engine #3 in this project.

Seth

Heya @jrg!

@jrg guess who is though ;)

jrg

@Seth hiya!

You?

Nathan Osman

I see Ruby more and more each day.

Vagrant is written in Ruby, IIRC.

Seth

01:23

@jrg Getting up on Ruby syntax, then Rails. Trying to convince my friend to go Rails over Laravel :P

jrg

@NathanOsman yeah, it is.

Seth

I'd rather work Rails with him than have to deal with PHP.

and so far, I like it.

A lot.

jrg

They've been trying to move towards Go for Vagrant 2.0 though.

@Seth neat! Using Zed Shaws book?

Nathan Osman

Go is awesome.

The thing that really makes Go stand out is the way it deals with I/O.

Using goroutines, you can do overlapping blocking I/O in a single thread.

And channels just make it more awesome.

<--- this is a pencil

Seth

@jrg Nope. Recommend it?

jrg

01:30

@Seth yes!

Seth

@jrg amazon.com/Learn-Ruby-Hard-Way-Computational/dp/032188499X/…

This one?

hm, that one hasn't been released yet.

jrg

01:50

sorry. laptop battery got really low.

@Seth ruby.learncodethehardway.org/book

Seth

@jrg no worries, I know that situation.

@jrg Oh cool, it's online before the book is published.

Nice.

Wonder if I can get a download by any chance.

2.99, not bad.

jrg

Yeah, Zed does good stuff

i did his python book.

spent my 2 week of unemployment doing that.

btw, vmware fusion is one of the nicest desktop-level virtualization platforms i've ever seen

Nathan Osman

@jrg You learned Python? O_o

jrg

@NathanOsman yeah, needed to understand some basic things

didn't complete it, got about 2/3rds through

Nathan Osman

Trying to read our blog's source code? :P

(I'm kidding. Though there's nothing wrong with that.)

jrg

02:01

No, i understand what we're doing there easily.

i need to get it up-and-running on my mac though.

Would a Vagrant VM work for our application?

or do we have symlinks or something in the git repo?

Nathan Osman

Nothing like that, no.

I can guide you through the process if you need.

It's roughly:
- 1. Install Git and a couple Python dev packages
- 2. Clone the source repo
- 3. Run sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
- 4. Copy twobuntu/local_settings.py.default to twobuntu/local_settings.py and insert the database settings
- 5. Run python manage.py migrate
You can install in a virtualenv, but if you have a virtual machine dedicated to it, there's not really any point.

I might have missed one or two things, but that's the general idea.

We actually have a more detailed guide on our wiki, IIRC.

github.com/2buntu/2buntu-Django-Blog/wiki/Installation

But that needs updating - the 'pip install' can't happen until 'git clone' :P

Our goal is to make it as simple as "install a single Docker container" :)

But that's still a ways off.

We're also about to switch to Python 3 - though we still run Python 2 in production. If you want to start off with Python 3 (there's nothing that doesn't work AFAIK), use "python3" instead of "python" and "pip3" instead of "pip" in the commands.

jrg

@NathanOsman ok, i might do that then.

Seth

02:17

Discourse is written in Ruby 'ya know.

You should try hacking on that some time.

hbdgaf

>.>

Seth

Sup Honey Badger?

hbdgaf

not a lot... just popping through and expressing my averts eyes at RoR

finished playing with getting w3af installing with shared video with lxc last week. this week it's learning enough docker to get shared video install of the same working

i really prefer lxc though.

Nathan Osman

I'm going all out at work. Docker / CoreOS / Fleet - the whole works.

Lucio

02:48

Morning everyone.

@hbdgaf still there? Want to talk about that django script

Joshua Robison

03:02

I'm trying to find a clipboard manager / text expander that syncs across linux and Android

I want access to snippets on my desktop and the same snippets on my mobile

basically synced snippets

Lucio

wow, that would be interesting

Joshua Robison

I found an awesome android app called phraseexpander

it gives me touch access to all my snippets

Lucio

does it do the job?

Joshua Robison

the problem is that on my desktop I have to use a separate snippets software

which means I have to manually input my constantly used snippets on both devices

Lucio

AFAIK the best that you can get is QR pics

Joshua Robison

03:05

QR pics?

Lucio

they are one of the simplest way to share between PC and phone

Joshua Robison

i can't use imgur :p

I blocked it on my server

too much nsfw

im familiar with qr codes but I don't see how this applies yet

How I am using snippets is with Google Keep because Keep does not support tagging notes

but it does have an awesome search feature

Nathan Osman

That sounds like a feature for NitroShare.

Joshua Robison

so I make my own tags and save them as snippets

Lucio

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Q: Ubuntu 14.04.1 PHP Not Working

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu server 14.04.1 with LAMP pre-installed. The web server is working as I can see the test apache2 Ubuntu default page in my web browser. However I uploaded my site into the same directory as the default page and PHP is not working correctly. I have a index.php that ...

Nathan Osman

03:07

@JoshuaRobison And Keep does not have an undo feature. Nor a recovery feature. (Learned that the hard way.)

Lucio

^kill it with fire

Joshua Robison

By using a separate app for snippets I have added a tagging feature to keep and now can organize notes in contexts for GTD

only problem is finding a solution to sync my tags/snippets accross platforms

Lucio

fuck google maps is not working on ubuntu

Joshua Robison

I have heard on LAS at one point in time that there is a way to sync one's clipboard across linux and android

which is almost kind of half way there

Nathan Osman

@JoshuaRobison There was an app (I forget the name) that was able to do that.

Let me see if I can find it.

Ah, here it is: play.google.com/store/apps/…

It doesn't use the clipboard, but it does give you a text box that is shared across all devices.

Anything you paste in there should be accessible from another device / desktop.

Joshua Robison

03:15

nice!! thanks @NathanOsman

Lucio

@NathanOsman cool!

O_O WAT O_O

Nathan Osman

O_o

Lucio

I guess there is already a meta post about it

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there it is

staring from the loneliness

Seth

03:31

night folks.

Lucio

gnight!

Joshua Robison

good night

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Joshua Robison

how about; does anyone use an app indicator that just has a list of quick snippets? I'd think this would be useful for development if you could just click the indicator and click the snippet you wanted to type. clipboard managers do similar things but

with the clip board you can't make like sticky clips that are ALWAYS there

Lucio

03:53

night here too

ciao!

hbdgaf

06:26

@Lucio - I was away, but I'm back now.

Nathan Osman

08:08

Night all.

Pandya

nautilus takes too much time to display contents for /proc directory. Actually for me, it is still loading!

hbdgaf

later @NathanOsman

Pandya

hbdgaf

@Pandya if you need a gui file browser, you probably shouldn't be poking around in proc... just saying.

also, awesome post-filter with sox for espeak. digging up my old cepstral voices for a crysis suit voice for my lappie ;) ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1813001.html

Pandya

I observed nautilus displays quickly contents of /proc directory as normal user (without sudo) But takes too much loading only as root user (with sudo) why?

hbdgaf

08:17

You don't have permission to read most of that area as a regular user. Reading it as root means instead of bailing out on permissions errors, nautilus tries to determine lots of metadata. Again, NO GUI FILE BROWSER AS ROOT. Don't be silly

Say nautilus tries to determine file sizes of stuff to show you interesting fields. What's the file-size for every socket for every process in proc? You don't really need to know that, so don't do it.

Pandya

@hbdgaf ok.

hbdgaf

o/ @Oli - sup

hbdgaf

08:55

@jrg - long time no see. how goes it?

Pandya

09:24

When a Q/A is said canonical Q/A.?

hbdgaf

When loads of things are duped against it and it's good.

jrg

12:42

@hbdgaf it's been good. Busy, but good. You?

@Seth yeah, i really want to hack on discourse sometime.

hbdgaf

ups and downs, but nothing horrifying

hbdgaf

15:08

Love this one:
The head scratcher: While identifiers in many other languages are usually case sensitive, in PHP function names (as well as class and method names) are case insensitive. To really confuse developers, variable names, constants and class properties in PHP are case sensitive.

The reason: Most likely an artifact of PHP’s organic development from a set of CGI scripts to a full-fledged programming language.

Quotes: “Well, it's PHP, you shouldn't be suprised.” Grzechooo

Lucio

16:30

@hbdgaf true

This was me yesterday trying to show what debug means to a PHP dev. What a pain..

Yesterday were also another one who didn't know how to spell english so was trying to spell PHP.

Ok honey, the thing is people want your script. That one to build django sites on an env with all the stuff. Would you like to upload it into some git public server?

Avinash Raj

16:45

@terdon are u here?

Will Hunting

16:57

Hello @Seth lol.

Lucio

Hi @god are you around?

Will Hunting

@Lucio Who is god?

Lucio

:O

Seth

17:11

He recognized your name!

@WillHunting Hi there!

Will Hunting

I currently have 2 problems with Linux that I don't think can be fixed.

One is the cracking sound whenever audio plays.

The other is the pixellation whenever I log into GNOME shell.

I should raise a bug report but I am too lazy.

It probably happens with some hardware but not others.

The problem occurs on my desktop but not on my laptop.

Lucio

bugs...

launchpad.net <-- report them here

Will Hunting

See guys, that is why once I have the money I am gonna buy a copy of Windows and Office.

Peter Tirrell

I have an xubuntu 13.10 installation on a thinkpad with an SSD that I tried upgrading to 14.04. Somewhere in the middle it froze; I came to check the status and it would not come out of the screensaver. I hard rebooted and now I just get some stacktrace and some "swapper/0 not tainted" message. I can't get any kernel to boot but can get into a 14.04 livecd. I have a NAS on my network and would like to copy my home dir from the SSD to the NAS.

The only way I can access all the files on the home dir on the SSD is to do "sudo nautilus", but I can't browse the nework with the nautilus running as root. The only way to browse to the NAS is via a non-root nautilus. Any help? How can I use the livecd to copy my SSD homedir someplace?

Seth

@WillHunting What are you running? Ubuntu GNOME?

Graphics card?

Sound card?

Peter Tirrell

17:18

The default nautilus explorer lets me browse the SSD home dir for the most part, but I get permissions errors when trying to get to my VM folder or pretty much all of the hidden . folders

Will Hunting

@Seth Yes, it happened with Ubuntu GNOME but also other distros.

@Seth ATI Radeon

@Seth No idea, lol. I am still a beginner.

Seth

@WillHunting eww :/

@WillHunting That's key. Got any drivers installed?

Will Hunting

@Seth I went with the default install. I did not install any additional ones.

Seth

then I suggest you do.

Will Hunting

And how do I know which one to install?

Seth

17:22

I don't have an ATI card, so I can't help too much, but I hear the open source driver for ATI/AMD cards works well.

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A: What driver should I choose for my graphics card?

Well, this probably isn't the answer you expected... my apologies. The only "real" way to find out what driver will work with your card/system is to ask someone with real experience with your specific card. Google didn't help me much with your card.. So lets go break your system shall we ;D ...

Unless you can find information online, you can't know.

Will Hunting

@Seth Yes, I think I remember we talked about this long ago.

Seth

I think so ;)

Will Hunting

I am looking forward to ReactOS first stable release, but that may never happen.

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