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Seth

18:00

hey @Fabby, your Meta Stack Exchange question made the meta newsletter!

A.B.

18:19

Is it ok to use this URL in an answer? dllme.com/dll/files/d3d10_1_dll.html

@Mitch ^^^^^^^

Mitch

@A.B. No I don't think so. Which question?

A.B.

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A: Installer in WINE can't find `C:\users\myusername\Temp\_is6da.tmp`

There is a missing DLL d3d10_1.dll. You can see the error message if you start wine via terminal: err:module:import_dll Library d3d10_1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\users\\aboettger\\Temp\\_isf61a.tmp") not found Therefore download the DLL e.g. here, place the file in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/...

Mitch

I guess if you know for a fact that fixes the problem, I think it would be OK.

A.B.

@Mitch I changed it and now refer to Google.

Mitch

k

Rinzwind

18:25

@Seth nooooooooooooooooo

Fabby

@intex What message?

(Link?)

Nathan Osman

@ParanoidPanda I'm hoping for this weekend.

Fabby

@Seth That's nearly the most votes I've had on any question!

Rinzwind

@Fabby n00b

:+)

Nathan Osman

Also, for anyone asking why George isn't available... something is preventing him from speaking. And I haven't figured out what it is.

Rinzwind

18:30

Poor George

He got muted

Fabby

@Rinzwind Unix command, mail server etc...

;-)

Rinzwind

I got a badge for "hard drive" tag :D

intex

@Fabby You ve send me some graphical message and written test?what was that

Fabby

@intex Are you sure it wasn't one of the dumb tests?

Rinzwind

entrance exam for using ubuntu chat :+

Fabby

18:32

let me look onto my activity log...

intex

@Fabby some Arabic type msg

Fabby

@intex Can someone pin this to the wall, please????

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Q: He who must not be named? (aka Anyone can ping everyone in chat)

For some or other reason, typing @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ in a chat room pings everyone who's been in that chat room for the last 7 days... Seems to work in all chat rooms (I only tested 2 as I don't want to be a jerk) How should we proceed?

5

@intex Can you star that?

It's the answer to your question...

intex

@Fabby @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ yes this one what does it mean

Fabby

@intex it was a bug.

And I accidentally fired it.

I wanted to say "ᔕᖺᘎᕊ with an @ before it."

intex

what does it mean and what language is this ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

Fabby

18:36

but I said: "@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ with an @ before it."

Tamil or so...

It's someone's name

intex

can you translate in Hindi or English

Fabby

RTFA

A.B.

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ \o

Fabby

@A.B. I's fixed now...

Doesn't work any more.

A.B.

:(

Fabby

18:38

Used to ping everyone that had been in chat in the last 7 days...

Rinzwind

I so do not get that select :P
MSSQL is weird

Fabby

@A.B. can you star the one above?

intex

I am not doing anything creative for many days in Ubuntu?

Fabby

(the "he who must not be named?" one)

A.B.

@Fabby done

Terrance

18:42

@Fabby Ah, that explains why my StackExchange app said I had a message from you in chat last night. :)

Fabby

@Terrance >:-)

intex

some cyber agency some sheiks from UAE, people from AA group ,and many NGO's for schizo people collectively trying to make me mad

Nathan Osman

Hmmm... seems like Oli suspended George.

Fabby

@NathanOsman Again??? Why this time?

Nathan Osman

I guess I need to head back to the drawing board.

Some people like him. Others don't.

I can understand the reason he bothers some people...

So some adjustments are needed I guess.

Plus I really want to rewrite him in Go.

And that will take time. So... for now, George is going to hang out only in the Sandbox.

I'll be fixing that shortly.

Fabby

18:45

@intex Not much rep earned...

intex

Is this news is true or fake about stampede

Fabby

@intex It's on Al Jazeera....

So I would give it a lot of crdibility...

intex

yes true

A.B.

I don't understand anything

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Q: Broken dependencies: console-setup-linux, initramfs-tools. Xubuntu

Linux newbie and as yet still unproductive dunce. I ran the terminal commands here and now have these broken dependencies: console-setup-linux and initramfs-tools. Those commands must have been obsolete because it also reformatted my menu system as if I now have some other, probably earlier, vers...

package-management xubuntu xfce

But the answer is even better

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A: Broken dependencies: console-setup-linux, initramfs-tools. Xubuntu

If that's have to do with what you have been working on personalizing your desktop. Then I would suggest you to delete /home/yourusername/.config since that is what holds all of information on your preferences and all of that. This course of action would enable you to restart all over again and...

Fabby

@A.B. :D

The first one is someone who did an rm -rf in the wrong spot probably...

Checking on food!

C U L8R...

A.B.

18:52

@Fabby Cu =)

intex

@Fabby bye Fabby have a nice meal.

RPi Awesomeness

Holy single-star wall

@NathanOsman o_O wat

@Ravan BTW, if you starred all those messages directed at you, please try not to star everything that's useful to you in the future.

It floods the wall with single-star posts and since they're newer, they often take precedent over older, but more highly-starred posts that other people may find more useful than those you starred.

:)

Lucio

19:34

@Fabby hey dude, what was that weird ping thing?

Neverming, it is on the starz wall

Fabby

@Lucio :-)

@intex Chicken tandoori with home-grown tomatoes and cumin rice!

Lucio

btw, how the duck were you going to type specifically ᔕᖺᘎᕊ O.o

Fabby

@Lucio It was a user in another chat room.

and everyone got pinged

Lucio

LOL.

Fabby

funny!

RPi Awesomeness

19:37

lol

Fabby

Meta.stackexchange chat

Lucio

ouch

Fabby

so bunches of people running in

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio LANGUAGE! O.O /s

@Fabby lol xD

Fabby

And then I made the mistake of trying it here too...

Lucio

19:37

sorry..

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby I was wondering why when I clicked on the notification it never took me to the message.

Fabby

even though the user has never been here, everyone got pinged...

I asked a chat mod to delete it.

Lucio

that didn't help

Fabby

Because by the time I realised what I had done,

it was too late for me to delete it.

Yes, it did!

no other prankster could copy it and try it out somewhere else!

>:-)

Lucio

are you joking? It was everywhere!

Fabby

19:40

No , just here and meta.stackexchange chat...

Lucio

are you joking? It was everywhere!

oh

Fabby

@Lucio Only people ho have been in this chat room for the last 7 days

Lucio

That is, a lot of people

Fabby

and everyone who dropped by the meta chat room.

@Lucio Yup...

And as everyone knows me...

Lucio

right

Fabby

19:41

everyone keeps asking: what was that weird Arab ping about?

Lucio

fun time heh

RPi Awesomeness

Phoo

Lucio

haha

Fabby

(whereas it was Tamil or so...)

And the biggest joke of all?

the user himself never got pinged!

:D

Lucio

xD

Fabby

19:43

It was a hard block in the source code for some or other reason.

(that got modified afterwards, leaving that in)

The developer who was on it in minutes even threatened to freeze all rooms that this was used in!

>:-)

(until he fixed it)

RPi Awesomeness

lol wut xD

Digi

did it do anything else besides mass ping?

RPi Awesomeness

Nah. Only stole your social security number, DOB, and your first-born child.

Nothing too serious

:D

Digi

damn my physical first born child

Lucio

It could had been used for a DoS depending on how it was handled, so it was quit more important than just a ping.

Digi

19:46

hackers are getting better and better

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio Oh, good point.

@Digi Quite.

Fabby

@Digi nope

Lucio

@Ravan awesome! I'm happy to hear that :)

Fabby

@Lucio Well, no one who was aware used it in that way...

we all realised it was important enough not to mess with.

@Digi It was discovered by accident.

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby He was referring to my joke ;)

Fabby

19:49

@RPiAwesomeness :D Ah!

>:-)

anyway, can you imagine what that would have done as a comment to a question like this?

(or just a few in the top 10?)

Lucio

@Fabby I guess you received (and will on the days to come) the pay check in the way of ping spam, all of them directly to you :-)

Fabby

@Lucio :D Yup!

hbdgaf

Twice in two days? What's up @Lucio

Lucio

Heh, too many pings to omit :)

Just the same, improving the app for the thesis

hbdgaf

Hope it all goes well.

Fabby

19:57

@Lucio ??? Thesis?

What's the title?

Lucio

Yeah, it is all about pinging as many people as you can on a geek social network. Kinda fun :P

Thank you

Fabby

@Lucio You're welcome...

Native English speakers forget to correct any non-natives...

So us non-native ones should stick together! :D

Lucio

and for that, we non-natives, thank

lol

Fabby

I've got a few funny stories people misunderstanding each other because a native was speaking to a non-native...

I once even nearly got fired for using inappropriate language.

Lucio

@hbdgaf thanks.

@Fabby Oh, that sounds like a gem

Fabby

20:02

I once called a woman "a silly twat" which to an English woman means something else then a Scottish man...

hbdgaf

Case in point

Lucio

lol

Fabby

@hbdgaf That made my firefox crash...

Lucio

can't stop the laugh xD

Fabby

(but it was worth it)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

20:06

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Q: LXDE, Ubuntu 14.04 - use i3 as WM instead

I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 with LXDE using crouton on my chromebook and it's working fine, I would like to try using i3 with it instead though (which is what I usually have on my main system). I'm not sure how to go about this - on my other system it was just a case of choosing i3 then selecti...

ubuntu lxde i3

hbdgaf

It's one of the greats.

blade19899

@Seth Sorry for late reply, was at the gym. Sounds like a bug! Report it?

Fabby

@hbdgaf You must have heard about the Italian in Malta

hbdgaf

@Fabby Nice one.

Seth

@blade19899 mmm, seems more likely they changed the keybindings, right?

blade19899

20:10

@Seth Not that I've heard of. I haven't played 0ad In while.... Gimme a min...

Seth

oh that's really strange @blade19899.. I just opened it again and everything works fine o_O

blade19899

@Seth Yeah, mine just worked as it should

@Seth Weird. :/

Seth

well thanks anyway xD

blade19899

@Seth No problem buddy :)

@Seth only 18 active bugs left :D

Lucio

I'm writing a field for a form. What is better, Nation or Country?

Fabby

20:22

@Lucio country

Journeyman Geek

I've never seen "Nation" being used. Definately Country

Lucio

ok, thanks guys

Nation will be..

jk :P

hbdgaf

Country is the better word, because in Poli-Sci there is a distinction between a few that confuses people: infoplease.com/world/statistics/state-country-nation.html

Terrance

=)

Lucio

@hbdgaf That's interesting

hbdgaf

20:25

/me had to take a college Poli Sci course in High school...

Fabby

@hbdgaf Interesting...

@hbdgaf "had"? Who made you?

Lucio

I had a programmer teacher who was received in Poli Sci (if i'd get that term right)

Fabby

:P

@Lucio In my language that's called PolSoc...

hbdgaf

Awww. Honestly, nobody made me. The teacher had to fight to get them to let me take as many college courses in my senior year as I did. It was that or "Keyboarding" though, which I obviously wouldn't have learned anything from taking.

Lucio

@Fabby like the socket of a Polish, that's great

Fabby

20:31

@hbdgaf :D You're lucky that your system is so flexible...

@Lucio >:-)

hbdgaf

@Fabby Any system (almost) is flexible if you hit it hard enough.

Fabby

I was in a Catholic High school (we call them colleges)

and you basically had a choice between: Latin&math, Latin&Science, Math, Science and economics...

tough choice when you're 15...

hbdgaf

It is. I've said for a long time though, class choices should be based on aptitude not decisions. You don't get to say "This is what I want to do" then try and fail. You get to take a bunch of tests, and are given a menu of what you'ld be BEST at doing. Still choices, but more of a "set everyone up for success" instead of "teach them all a little bit of everything"

Lucio

I would be an economist.

Fabby

@hbdgaf Yeah, but Joe Average will still tend to go with the flow and study what's fashionable at the time...

@Lucio You were good at it but didn't like it?

Lucio

20:36

yep

hbdgaf

@Fabby This is true. You'ld get people set up learning a trade though. "Sorry, you don't have the aptitude to do that track. You'ld make a great welder though. Why not give that a try?"

Fabby

@hbdgaf I would have been a translator: I was good at languages, but didn't like them as a specialisation...

So now I can get by in 10, which is good for international jobs...

...of which I'm not landing any :-(

hbdgaf

:( - Sorry.

Fabby

@hbdgaf Never apologize for anything for which you're not the cause!

;-)

hbdgaf

Okay, word for gesture of sympathy/empathy

Fabby

20:39

@hbdgaf :D

Much better!

"My condolences" is what springs to my (weird) mind! >:-)

hbdgaf

Totally different connotation here.

Fabby

@hbdgaf That's a good one for English.stackexchange.com

Lucio

Spanish SE is dead btw

hbdgaf

@Fabby It's sort of there already, but it doesn't give a word for specifically "gesture of X". english.stackexchange.com/questions/19334/…

Scratch that. It was buried in a comment.

Fabby

reading again...

hbdgaf

20:46

My commiseration to you.

Fabby

@hbdgaf sounds better...

Lucio

Mi lamento para tí.

my battery is dying.. see you later guys

Fabby

Still going to ask though... ;-)

@Lucio Hopefully not the battery of your pacemaker! ;-)

Lucio

O.O

hbdgaf

@Fabby Go for it. I haven't been on that one long enough to know if it would be considered a dupe or not.

Fabby is on fire with the jokes today.

Fabby

20:55

Ah!

:-)

Fabby

21:24

@hbdgaf a good one already!

hbdgaf

Here's a good one stackoverflow.com/q/29492895/486399 - I don't understand the downvotes except that it's an anti-pattern

@Fabby Commented as such, and put some data on the one on english.se

RPi Awesomeness

21:42

So we moved my grandpa over to live near us and we just got a tella-marketer/donations call ... to our house asking for him...

Fabby

@hbdgaf upvoted and left a comment...

Nathan Osman

My server completely ran out of disk space. Even bash completion didn't work.

RPi Awesomeness

21:57

@NathanOsman Oh dear

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness My reaction to this is to hold the horn away and shout "Hey, Emma, can you fetch gramps?" and then tell the tele-marketer: "Stay on the line, someone went to fetch him!" and then leave the line open, but on mute and check for a hang-up every 15 minutes...

RPi Awesomeness

heh

Fabby

Do that often enough and they will put you on their "don't call these @r$ehole$ ever again" list!

RPi Awesomeness

Bah. I'm taking a Sociology CLEP test prep class and it's horrible. Definitely CLEP-ing the crap out of this class, do not want to have to sit through an entire actual class on the stuff :P

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness CLEP means nothing to me: please enlighten the Alien...

(a test-class???)

RPi Awesomeness

22:10

Not sure exactly what the acronym is, but CLEP tests are tests you can take to prove you know enough of a subject to skip the entry level college classes on the subject

Saving money & time ... and brain cells when it comes to Sociology

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness :D

Nathan Osman

.xyz domain names are on sale for a dollar.

RPi Awesomeness

Good for work servers ... not much else though :P

Nathan Osman

I was hoping there would be some good shortened domain names.

But no such luck so far. Someone has qms.xyz.

RPi Awesomeness

What for? Just to have?

Nathan Osman

22:18

I'd use it for shortened links.

quickmediasolutions.com/something => qms.xyz/s

But somebody already has it :(

Fabby

@NathanOsman Cool!

(if you would have it!)

RPi Awesomeness

@NathanOsman Ah

Fabby

@GeorgetheDev time

George the Dev

@Fabby The current time is Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:19:31 GMT.

Nathan Osman

Huh.

I thought... he...

Fabby

22:19

@GeorgetheDev: Ah! you're out of jail!

Nathan Osman

Oh right. Hang on.

RPi Awesomeness

HE'S BECOME THAT THING THAT ROBOTS DO WHEN THEY BECOME SELF AWARE!

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness SkyNet?

Nathan Osman

Okay. He's only in the sandbox now.

RPi Awesomeness

No...Singularity?

Fabby

22:20

There is actually a Belgian ISP whose name is skynet: skynet.be

@GeorgetheDev: time

George the Dev

@Fabby The current time is Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:20:55 GMT.

Fabby

@NathanOsman Is he?

Nathan Osman

@Oli George has been relegated to the Sandbox until further notice. I'm going to keep him there until I can find a way to make him less annoying. I'll ping you and some other mods when that time comes. Until then, he'll stay out of this room.

hbdgaf

@RPiAwesomeness CLEP == collegel level equivalent protocol. If you hear "AP" think "if you score well enough on the final different colleges will give you different levels of credit, but college level"

Nathan Osman

WHAT THE.

Oh.

RPi Awesomeness

22:21

@hbdgaf Ah

Fabby

@NathanOsman I learned a new word: relegate!

hbdgaf

In my case with poli-sci it was AP - and I scored a 4. My professor said something like "Yes, but if you ever studied you could have gotten a five..."

Fabby

@GeorgetheDev time

Nathan Osman

He's gone now.

Visit the Sandbox to say "hi".

RPi Awesomeness

@hbdgaf >.>

Fabby

22:23

@hbdgaf What's the max?

RPi Awesomeness

5 or 6

I took AP Economics. Loved the class, hated the tests

Fabby

Why???

RPi Awesomeness

Or maybe not loved the class, but I did like them.

hbdgaf

@Fabby 5 is max. 4 is most anywhere gives you a semester of credit. 3 is low end places give you a level of credit. It may have changed since then, but it was that way at the time.

Fabby

Sounds like if you like the one, you would like the other...

RPi Awesomeness

22:24

I don't really know. They were just horrible. Maybe it was the way I was taking them, online (hate online tests), but I dis-liked them intensely.

Fabby

Saw it...

On-line???

Great cheating!

RPi Awesomeness

No :P They were practice ones, I never took the real one

Fabby

break into the remote server and give yourself straight As.

@RPiAwesomeness Have you ever seen "War Games" from the 80s?

Terrance

"Do you want to play a game?"

RPi Awesomeness

I may go for the CLEP one though, I guess AP is kinda the big "oo. You did AP. You must be really smart." while CLEP is more of the average level of testing.

@Fabby I want to, but have yet to.

hbdgaf

22:26

Most meaningful statement in that movie was "The only winning move is not to play"

RPi Awesomeness

I know the premise of the plot though

Nathan Osman

@hbdgaf as far as a theme for your game goes... I thought some more about the operating system / distro idea. SuperTuxKart (the racing game) did a slight spin on that and went with open source mascots like Tux, Beastie (BSD), Gnu, Hexley (Darwin), etc.

Could that work?

Terrance

WOPR

Fabby

@hbdgaf followed by "How about a nice game of chess?"

hbdgaf

I play chess.

Fabby

22:27

@hbdgaf You need crazy ideas for a game?

I'm crazy! ;-)

Smoke! BRB.

hbdgaf

@Fabby Crazy ideas for a game include metasploit.

@NathanOsman It could. I'm thinking dune weapons at the moment, but I'm having trouble finding the artwork. I'm thinking about just posting blank cards with a skinning engine. Then people could chain-link to the project page and give you skirmish themes, OS themes, dune themes, or whatever else.

Nathan Osman

That sounds like the best idea. I'll gladly contribute a mascot theme :)

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman Holy crap, sports teams would be epic.

Definitely doing the skinning engine.

Nathan Osman

This is going to be fun.

hbdgaf

Yes. GREAT fun.

"How do we spell fun soldier" -- "PAIN". "How do we spell victory?" -- ?

Fabby

22:39

@hbdgaf A security game?

hbdgaf

Metasploit was originally developed in perl as a game.

Fabby

O_o

hbdgaf

Seriously, I'm not kidding.

Fabby

I believe you! You should know! :-)

I'm just surprised...

's all...

hbdgaf

This is an easier target set... as is working frozen at the big WM. I need to find my easy before I find my awesome.

I'm just decomposing a problem and finding a solution. Then throwing myself at it. Then finding a better problem.

Fabby

22:47

>:-)

hbdgaf

I want the best problem, but I won't not win ever again.

@NathanOsman - Do you have recommendations for the ranking levels? I like the OS noise as a way to do it, but I'm also prototyping the engine, so I need test sets.

Nathan Osman

Hmm... I'll give that some thought.

hbdgaf

Thank you.

Nathan Osman

For the OS theme there might be "novice", "home user", "power user", "IT", "hacker", "programmer".

Just off the top of my head.

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