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565656

18:04

@Fabby I am planning to wash the fam. of 4 who did a FedEx booking

@Fabby Need to clean this mess on this road

Chan-Ho Suh

hmm, apparently there is a bug with the Windows Time Server

just noticed because I finally set up the dual boot between Ubuntu and Windows

Fabby

@565656 You've lost me there...

@Chan-HoSuh no, you need to set both to use the same BIOS time

Serg

Y no awkable questions today ?

Fabby

GMT or local time

Chan-Ho Suh

@Fabby that's what some guides, said, but by changing my time server to NIST, it fixed the issue

Tim

18:07

Hmm @Fabby what would be the symptoms of a dead comos battery?

Fabby

(so you have to change Windows or Ubuntu and then change your BIOS)

@Tim CMOS?

Tim

@Fabby that

Fabby

that it loses all your BIOS settings...

Tim

@Fabby okay that's not the problem them

Okay what would cause my time to drift?

Fabby

@NathanOsman I actually had a nifty idea for George:

Nathan Osman

18:09

Oh?

Fabby

@Tim bad clock crystal...

@NathanOsman @GeorgetheDev my current location is out

Tim

I'm off by 5 seconds and i only set it a week ago

Fabby

then whenever anybody asks GeorgetheDev "Where is Fabby?" @NathanOsman

@Tim I set it at every reboot and once every 24 hours...

Chan-Ho Suh

5 seconds is a lot for a week's worth of drift

Fabby

George could respond ...

and when you wish him good night...

he can automatically set the current location to "sleeping"

until you wish him a good morning!

Tim

18:11

@Fabby with cron?

565656

as of now they are 3

A.B.

Great =)

Nathan Osman

@Fabby Clever.

Fabby

@Tim yup.

Nathan Osman

That's not a bad idea.

565656

18:12

4th is expecting

Fabby

@NathanOsman please: implement after the excuse generator (lower priority then that one) :P

But still nifty...

Nathan Osman

Okay :)

Fabby

:D

@Tim But I agree with @Chan-HoSuh that 5 secs/week is a lot.

bad clock crystal....

Too bad you've got one of those computer that don't alow you to get out the soldering iron...

@NathanOsman maybe that idea might change oli's mind...

Then he can tell George that he's "on holiday" so we don't have to worry where he is

Nathan Osman

I think it would be cool if an excuse was his response to a question he didn't understand.

Fabby

@NathanOsman :D :D :D

yeah, from the "general" category!

Tim

18:16

hmm im scared of cron tbh

Serg

@NathanOsman how about quoting fortune command ?

Fabby

@Tim apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gnome-schedule

Chan-Ho Suh

@Tim editing cron can be a bit scary due to misformatting that is hard to pick up visually, eg encoding or blank lines at the end

Fabby

There is a GUI nowadays... Unless you want to deploy to multiple machines (Tim's not as rich as you) gnome-schedule will do... @Chan-HoSuh

:P >:-)

Serg

Recursive fibonacci sequence makes 1,478,050,707 calls of the function to compute fibonacci numbers from 0 to 50

user136984

18:30

Oh god... Someone's started emailing me hentai... And my bloody spam filtering system doesn't work! >:{

Serg

Panda, did you pissoff somebody at 4chan ?

Nathan Osman

I run my own spam filter.

Fabby

@ParanoidPanda Don't surf for Pr0n!

Otherwise you'll end up on a Hentai mailing list!

:D

user136984

@Serg: What's 4chan?

Nathan Osman

Let's leave it at that.

Fabby

18:34

@ParanoidPanda The guys that formed this

for more information: lmgtfy.com/?q=4chan

user136984

Anyway, it's not because I've been looking at porn (and I haven't), it's because there is a ducky guy out there who likes making hentai and has been banned from here so he's had to find another way of getting to me...

Serg

@ParanoidPanda in short 4chan is imageboard website, kinda like a chat, where people congregate and discuss sh$t. At some point they got fed up with scientology and created the Anonymous movement, then its gotten stronger. . . . The /b/ board is very NSFW

Fabby

@Serg just use stuff that at least looks like the letter you want to type... like $h|t

user136984

I really don't know what it wrong with my email filter though!

Serg

@Fabby You are talking to a guy who hasn't slept within 24 hours - i brain straight not

Fabby

18:38

@Serg You're basically Fùçk€d...

>:-)

When does your shift finish? @Serg

Chan-Ho Suh

@Serg it's interesting to compare your result to the theoretical number of calls it should be making

Serg

In about 4.5 hours @Fabby

user136984

@NathanOsman: You run a spam filter?

Nathan Osman

I run my own mail server.

Fabby

@ParanoidPanda he runs his own everything!

What did you expect from someone programming an AI?

>:-)

Serg

18:39

@Chan-HoSuh Um . . . I don't have theoretical results . . . I only will have at some point my prof's results. Also we're supposed to optimize the java method with array (aka lookup table)

Fabby

BRB

Tim

@Fabby how long have you smoked for?

Chan-Ho Suh

@Serg you can count them .... should get that number of calls to compute F(n) = 2 * F(n) - 1

if it's less than that, which appears to be the case here, there is some memoization by the JVM

Serg

@Chan-HoSuh where do you get that formula ? If I include that, at least I should cite it somehow

OK, lunch time

user136984

@Nathan: Where do you get the addresses from that you blacklist?

Chan-Ho Suh

18:43

@Serg it should be a short proof by induction (found one online here: stackoverflow.com/questions/1738923/…)

user136984

Ooh! Looks like I'm not the only one that guy has been spamming!

user136984

He's on some sort of IBM DNS blacklist...

user136984

What does that mean? How do you get on one of those?

Nathan Osman

By sending a ton of spam.

Chan-Ho Suh

@ParanoidPanda I know of two ways you can get on a DNS blacklist: 1) have an affair with the blacklist maintainer's SO 2) be a spammer

user136984

18:46

:D

user136984

I think for this it will be the second option... :D

Fabby

@Chan-HoSuh :D :D :D

@Tim Since I started uni...

Why?

Tim

hmm just wondered I guess @Fabby

Fabby

PSA: If I start acting more erratically then usual, blame it on the Bacardi Oakheart...

@Tim Oh and a tip from my grandfather:

If you don't smoke, drink or chase women, you won't live any longer.... It'll just seem longer...

Tim

i do none of said things :P

Fabby

18:52

@Tim :-) You've got your age as an excuse, but if you still say the same thing in a few years time,

you've got to reconsider your priorities!

:P >:-)

Tim

hmm maybe... My girlfriend won't let me smoke and i have a gf so no chasing girls... idk about drinking. i personally don't in public as a general rule.

Chan-Ho Suh

Life is full of opportunity to take big risks, which are compensated by big payoffs. There's no need to take unnecessary ones, especially those without the requisite payoffs. Just my opinion.

user136984

@Nathan: Well, I don't think that the owner of the website sending me the ton spam will be very happy about it because he's not actually the guy sending me the spam, that's the maintainer of the site... The owner is just using it to promote his books I think, so probably it getting blacklisted isn't that good for business...

user136984

Ah well, I'll just carry on battling with my spam filter! :D

Nathan Osman

@ParanoidPanda I suppose you could inform the owner.

Fabby

18:54

@Tim Ah! So you are chasing women if you've got a GF!

(and she's right: stay off the smokes!)

Chan-Ho Suh

The main problem I have with drinking is the calories.

Fabby

@Chan-HoSuh 2 out of 3 ain't bad...

;-)

@Chan-HoSuh yeah, empty calories...

user136984

@Nathan: I could, but knowing him he would prefer to believe the maintainer as they are direct blood relatives, and I am just someone spoken of badly in their household... :D

Chan-Ho Suh

hmmm, so now the "in" thing with GUIs seem to be to make them 2D-ish, not 3D-ish. But it makes it hard to tell sometimes what's part of the current window, if you have overlapping windows.

user136984

But I guess it's worth a shot.

Fabby

19:00

@Chan-HoSuh yeah...

That's why we did away with flat in the first place!

(back in Windows 3.0 times)

Nathan Osman

@Chan-HoSuh This tweet sums up my latest rant: twitter.com/nathanosman_dev/status/657371838410985472

Chan-Ho Suh

in particular, the thought arose while trying to grab the iTunes window ... Apple likes to put stuff near the edges of the window also

@NathanOsman nice rant :)

Fabby

@NathanOsman :D

user136984

Cool! This art is made of microbes!

user136984

Tim

19:03

@Chan-HoSuh yeah flat is in now...

user136984

And this is also a great song!

user136984

Rainmaker

►

Fabby

@Tim You don't like it neither?

Tim

@Fabby I like flat on my phone... I like it for icons. I don't like it for windows that should be layered. Are the documents on my desk flat? No.

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Fabby

When I showed my desktop to RPiAwesomeness he thought the SteamPunk was ugly...

Chan-Ho Suh

19:06

@Tim exactly

cl-netbox

Goodbye - see you ... :)

Fabby

@cl-netbox Good night

Fabby

19:31

Good night all!

Serg

@Fabby sleep well , my extraterrestrial friend

rolfl

19:43

Anyone care to walk through what feels like a hack-solution to a problem I have with respect to remastering the Ubuntu CDROM?

I need to create an unattended install for a data center based on 14.04.03... and I want to script the CD Remastering process.

Part of it involves copying the CD ISO to a directory, making changes, and then re-building the ISO.

To make things self-contained, and to reduce the work I need to do as root, I do the following:

# create a 1 gigabyte raw space to mount
dd if=/dev/zero of="$rawspace" bs=1024k count=1024         || failed "Unable to create a raw partition"
mkfs.ext2 -F "$rawspace"                                   || failed "Unable to format raw space"
sudo mount -o loop,rw "$rawspace" "$workdir"               || failed "Unable to mount workspace"
[ -d "$workdir/lost+found" ]                               || failed "Unable to create a file system on $workdir"

I can thus "mess up" in that loop-mounted location, all the files in there can be owned by "root" an other users, and I can then just unmount, and delete a single file to clean up.

Any suggestions on how to avoid the need for sudo?

A.B.

Good night @Fabby

And also @cl-netbox, good night :)

user136984

20:05

Goodnight! :)

A.B.

@ParanoidPanda you too?

KGIII

20:27

FWIW, Kubuntu still is leading the way with the 15.10 64 bit seed percentage. It's at a ratio of 2.8.

Nathan Osman

There's lots of drama going on there.

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Q: Error while compiling "5.9. Binutils-2.25 - Pass 2 "

When I try to build binutils, I get the following error make[1]: *** [configure-bfd] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build' make: *** [all] Error 2 Here is the full verbose of the build: lfs@Bee-HD:/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build$ make make[1]: Enter...

KGIII

Yeah, I think that may have something to do with it.

Nathan Osman

20:43

ARGH.

askubuntu.greatknow.com

^--- dangerous phishing link

If this bothers you (and it should), please leave a rating here: mywot.com/en/scorecard/askubuntu.greatknow.com

Maybe I can get it on Chrome's phishing blacklist.

SmokeDetector

21:07

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in body: gadsfghdssfdghlkfmghkfmlknat,yhsrtd4watrs by Kharbora on askubuntu.com

Nathan Osman

Wha...

How'd that get closed as a duplicate?

Oops. I accidentally flagged it.

Ignore the flags folks.

Serg

21:54

about an hour left and then im going home to bed

Zacharee1

22:20

Wow. There are a lot of forum thread hijackers who have moved operations to AU today.

It's something I never got about people. It's almost easier to just make a new thread (on a forum) than ask an unrelated question about sort of the same service/app.

hbdgaf

On forums, I usually just post this and walk away...

Zacharee1

I think I'll use that.

This guy keeps adding SOLVED to his title and poor @A.B. has been re-editing it.

hbdgaf

@Zacharee1 A @mods needs to look at that.

Zacharee1

Flag it?

hbdgaf

You can, but they'll see it either way.

Zacharee1

22:33

OK

It seems that the poster has given up editing the title

hbdgaf

Give them the benefit of the doubt. They just might not understand how the system works yet.

Serg

the percentage of dumba$$es somehow has increased recently . . . . that's all i have to say

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hbdgaf

@Serg I don't disagree.

Serg

@hbdgaf what's your favorite questions on AU by the way ? Everyone kind of has their speciality around here.

hbdgaf

I don't like a particular tech. I like unsolvable or probably won't be answered but need an answer questions.

Serg

22:44

For the most part I do scripting ones or simple questions related to grub . . . I'd need to pick up apt-get or wireless, but so far I haven't had much success with those

hbdgaf

Adding ppas questions need help. For a while, I adopted eclipse questions.

Most of the eclipse questions were plugins not working because of dependencies not installed and no troubleshooting from the user end.

Serg

I've not used eclipse that much but compared to netbeans , i tend to like eclipse more

KGIII

23:40

Gah... I have to find a dark Stylish theme for AskUbuntu that doesn't break everything. These garish colors blind me.

Zacharee1

Orannnnnge... ooooooooo @KGIII

KGIII

That's evil.

Zacharee1

:)

KGIII

Which means, I like your style. nods

Zacharee1

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KGIII

23:46

I also got that guy's update-grub squared away, thanks.

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