Ask Ubuntu General Room

Luis Alvarado

20:04

@tim The Ask Ubuntu in Spanish is now closed. Thank you for trying buddy. Will have to wait until there is an actual need for this and ways on implementing it. I was hoping your move on this would work but hey, no biggy. Next time.

@chili555 sup buddy. How is 15.04 with you in relation to broadcom.

user136984

Which IRC client do you guys recommend?

user136984

As I haven't really got into IRC in the past. But I need to now.

Luis Alvarado

I use MIRC and X-Chat

MIRC is easier then

chili555

So far, so good, @Fabby. On one of my machines, I installed a mainlin 4.0 kernel and I'm still trying to work out how to get bcmwl-kernel-source to work on there.

user136984

@LuisAlvarado Easier? In what way?

chili555

20:07

@Paranoid Xchat

Luis Alvarado

The "look"

all do the same thing. They change only when you want to extend their basic usability

like X-Chat which can extend a lot more

user136984

Ok, well I will try Xchat first as I always like a challenge! ;)

Luis Alvarado

but basic usage is the same in all

GO PARANOID GO!

user136984

:D

chili555

"Broadcom: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

Luis Alvarado

20:08

true

user136984

@LuisAlvarado: Can I just install it with sudo apt-get install xchat?

Seth

@LuisAlvarado Do you have a link to the area 51 proposal?

On mobile so I can't find it.

Luis Alvarado

yeah give me a sec

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Ask Ubuntu (in Spanish)

Proposed Q&A site for ubuntu experts, users and developers in Spanish.

Closed before being launched.

Nathan Osman

:(

user136984

@LuisAlvarado That's sad. :(

Luis Alvarado

20:09

Closed because, basically between me and a canonical QA developer here in Costa Rica, we might be the only ones interested in this that use Ubuntu

the sad thing is, I dedicated about 8 years teaching ubuntu and I know a lot that use it and promote it but none voted there.

even after receiving an email from me

Nathan Osman

You clearly didn't harass them enough :P

Luis Alvarado

So hey, no problem. No forcing this on them but if they do wish to see this happen, they are the ones that need to push it to a launch state

LOL

Nathan Osman

I'm kidding, of course.

Luis Alvarado

Since it's mostly latino men, the correct way would be beer and girls

or girls drinking beer maybe

chili555

LOLOL!

Nathan Osman

20:11

Uhm... that might attract the wrong crowd...

Luis Alvarado

But it was a good idea by tim

well if they are drunk we can simply say HEY this is Windows 12

user136984

In xchat when it asks me for my real name, can I just put "Arthur Dent", or do I need to use my real name? ;D :P

Luis Alvarado

If it helps, my real name is Clark Wayne

Serg

@LuisAlvarado or teach the girls how to code beer-brewing machines based on Ubuntu. Problem solved !

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby No, I do not, unfortunately :(

Luis Alvarado

20:14

sometimes even Bruce Kent

@Serg BEST IDEA EVER!!

user136984

Right, anyway, the stuff that I need to use IRC for probably should have my real name.

RPi Awesomeness

Hah! I was looking for this comic:

And came across this one :D

user136984

As I don't really like lying to developers I want to work with on a project.

Luis Alvarado

@ParanoidPanda I recommend also registering a nickname

this way you have your own nickname without somebody else taking it

user136984

Ok.

Luis Alvarado

20:19

ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/ircc-commands.html

That's a nice list of commands

And this

ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/m-commands.html

That's the holy grail of commands

user136984

Ok, thanks! :)

Luis Alvarado

And to register here: forum.rizon.net/showthread.php?18-How-to-Register-my-Nickname

And that's it I think

Serg

OK, gentlemen, I'm off the site for about a week - I've finals coming

o/

Luis Alvarado

go Serg go

You can do it

do NOT come back if you don't ace that finals

O.o

chili555

Good luck, @Serg!

Rinzwind

20:30

@LuisAlvarado \o

Luis Alvarado

@Rinzwind Hi... NEMESIS!!

Another year, another race

Rinzwind

Ha! You admit your defeat?

Serg

Thank you guys. @LuisAlvarado I sure will come back, fail or not, cuz I luuuuv this site O_O

Rinzwind

Good now where is my million dollars?

user136984

@LuisAlvarado Out of interest, why does that page appear to be downloading something according to this report?

Luis Alvarado

20:31

Rinzwind

@Serg do not let me catch you dry******* AU

Luis Alvarado

@ParanoidPanda appears clean for me

Rinzwind

anything I can add to this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/620271/… D: I am on a roll anyways so might make it 100%

user136984

@LuisAlvarado Yes, but why was it downloading something in the first place?

Luis Alvarado

no idea

maybe they got IRC hacked

or XSS hacked

or hacked

or crazy

Rinzwind

20:33

or their admin is drunk clicking random chars on his keyboard

Luis Alvarado

true

user136984

Well, anyway, it only appears to be downloading the HTML page that it came from.

user136984

Anyway, where would you file have downloaded to?

user136984

Somewhere in my browser, or could it be anywhere on my system?

Luis Alvarado

I would guess to the Download folder, Cookie place for the browser ~/.cache folder or something like that

user136984

20:36

I have emptied my browser's cache, so should that have removed it because it did not go to my downloads?

Rinzwind

damn Barcelona D:

kos

Guys do you think it's possible to sort out this using awk? If that's the reason why I finally start learning about it, I don't want to do it for nothing >:)

Luis Alvarado

are you using firefox/chrome?

user136984

@LuisAlvarado Firefox

Rinzwind

@kos you can always sort things out with awk. If you can't you are the problem, not awk :DDDD

Luis Alvarado

20:37

then you are fine

you could go and check for extensions

just in case

see the extension list in your firefox

kos

@Rinzwind That's what I've been told, ok I know who to come back to if I lose an hour for nothing (either you or myself >:))

user136984

@LuisAlvarado Is that just in the normal add-ons section: about:addons ?

Rinzwind

@kos I always google for awk examples >:D I can't get regexes into my head either

user136984

Or is there another special list like with Chrome?

kos

@Rinzwind Regexes are fine, the problem there (for me) is to get my way through records and fields, but well, let's try this again (if you have any suggestion is very welcome :D)

Rinzwind

20:41

I tend to use an interpreter (python for instance0

juist code my way through the lines

Luis Alvarado

user136984

Right, yes, that is where I went.

user136984

And nothing seems to have changed.

Luis Alvarado

there you can see your extensions and also the addons

perfect then close firefox, open it

done

I feel you are a bit paranoid @ParanoidPanda

kos

@Rinzwind Yes, sounds like in those complicate cases it's actually better, altough I don't like it. In fact the only answer given as for now is python-based

Luis Alvarado

20:43

Like a paranoid panda or something

user136984

:D

Rinzwind

@LuisAlvarado he is! look at all his au topics about rootkits

user136984

@LuisAlvarado Yeah, I didn't used to be called that, but people started calling me that all the time because of my adoration of Pandas, and my paranoia, so I decided to change my user name to Paranoid Panda! ;D :P

Rinzwind

it wasn't me who did that!

Luis Alvarado

ok guys take care

see you soon

user136984

20:51

:)

Fabby

21:26

@chili555 Woohoo! Ahead of the curve! ;-)

@RPiAwesomeness Oh, I thought you did (as you liked kittens so much!)

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Seth

@LuisAlvarado It's sad that they closed it, but at least they are willing to come back to it once they're ready for Spanish support!

\o @blade19899

blade19899

@Seth 0/ Waddup!

just testing out python, and thought to post something here...

> "programmers lie frequently about being math geniuses when they really aren’t. If they were math geniuses, they would be doing math, not writing ads and social network games to steal people’s money." Learn Python The Hard Way, Page 20

Seth

@blade19899 just got home. Got some work to do then I'll be writing some python too, actually!

@blade19899 hah

So how's it going?

blade19899

@Seth Pretty good... Haven't been at it for that long. Had to make dinner...

For me thats walking around the kitchen for an hour, thinking about what to make and then actually making dinner...

Seth

21:44

haha

blade19899

@Seth I am trying to learn how to write Python, because I want to create a better Software Center.

Seth

@blade19899 really? That's a neat idea.

The software center is pretty bad.

I just use the command-line for 99% of the stuff I want.

blade19899

@Seth It's epically bad. Its not at par with the rest of Ubuntu

@Seth Me too!

Seth

Have you tried the lubuntu-software-center?

I'm not sure how much difference there is..

blade19899

> sudo apt-get install lubuntu-software-center

Going to

One of the things I want to implement is not just installing from launchpad, but also adding GitHub as a repository for source code.

Seth

21:52

@ParanoidPanda It's just a field.. Leave it empty.

blade19899

And whit contained compiling of the software.

Seth

@blade19899 That'd be neat, although you might have to build the stuff from GH>

Nathan Osman

@blade19899 But then you're dealing with an untold number of different build systems...

user136984

@Seth Ok

user136984

Thanks!

user136984

21:53

:)

Nathan Osman

Makefiles, CMake, qmake, Scons, Python, etc.

blade19899

@NathanOsman Thats why contained.... Build an environment specifically for compiling

@NathanOsman I know, there will be a build script for programming languages...

For people that want the latest 0 A.D., Firefox, or whatever else there is on GitHub.

Also an idea, I don't know if GitHub has this, but only display verified code? As in this is the verified code for firefox, by the verified company Mozilla?

Nathan Osman

Yes, but each project will likely need different flags set. And there's no standardized format for shared library dependencies on GitHub.

blade19899

@NathanOsman Thats a problem for the future. Going to learn python first, get it up and running, and then test out how many repos I can feed it. svn, launchpad, GitHub. Or a direct link to a particular software!

@Seth the Lubuntu Software Center doesn't seem to be much better.

Seth

:/

blade19899

22:02

GUI wise

Night Night

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