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The "controversial" tab is probably the most useful. It'll show you people accepting or rejecting the wrong things. A lot of that is subjective though. We don't stomp around on people just because they find a user's tiny updates irritating if they're still otherwise being passed.

Byte Commander

Erm - we don't use tags like Wily, do we? Those should be retagged 15.10, I think?

Oli

@ByteCommander I'll merge that in.

Byte Commander

10:21 AM

Ok, thanks!

Serg

@ByteCommander data.stackexchange.com

That one is also fun

Byte Commander

That's too big and complicated for everyday use...

I have no idea how to make queries myself and whenever I was searching for a particular information, I did not find it... :-/

Serg

@ByteCommander So you know how you have a UID on askubuntu ? Example "http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg" < --- my UID is 295286

data.stackexchange.com/askubuntu/query/785/…

At the bottom of that query it says "Enter Parameters" and userid. Enter , hit run query

Byte Commander

@Serg I know that I have one and how to find it out and that it's different on the SE networks, SO and meta.se.

@Serg Yes, but... I already see that in the AU tag badge tracker.

This question introduces 4 new tags:

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Q: What are some popular opensource applications available for Digital Health Informatics?

Are there some application recommendations for Digital Health Informatics?I've some knowledge about OPENMRS which is widely used in the developing countries, also DHIS has some opensource applications,

I think we should remove at least 3 of them again...

Serg

10:39 AM

@ByteCommander agreed, those tags are not commonly used in Ubuntu world, I'd say

Byte Commander

@fossfreedom or @Oli What do you think? Delete the new tags "dhis", "dhis2" and "digital-health", but keep "health-informatics"? That would be my recommendation.

Serg

I've already removed all except software-recomendation

fossfreedom

don't see the point of any of the tags - too niche

Serg

@fossfreedom The question asks about Digital Health Informatics, which kind of is related to databases of patients and patient data. Shall we add a database tag there ?

fossfreedom

tags are for a gathering together similar questions - so I would expect to see (making up a number) at least 10 similar questions to warrant a tag. Dont remember seeing "10" digital health informatics type questions. Are there?

Serg

10:46 AM

@fossfreedom I meant to say ,edit the question to add database tag. Eh, but then again it's not quite related to SQL , I guess . . . nevermind ^_^

fossfreedom

hmm - would probably just suffice with software-recommendation.

Byte Commander

I think the UID tag is something we should keep and apply on more questions, do you agree? askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/uid

But it could get confused with UUID...

Or shall we just retag this single dupe question with "users" or something like that?

Serg

@ByteCommander agreed, should be kept, but adding users tag would be nice as well

I think I'm going to reserve a study room today . . . . . and sleep there after work . . . . Why ? Because I don't human well . . . also because I don't logic well . . .

Neil

Night guys :)

hg8

See you later @Neil =)

Serg

10:55 AM

@Neil see ya

Byte Commander

Added a tag wiki for UID.

Somebody needs to review (and approve) it: askubuntu.com/tags/uid/info

Serg

@ByteCommander OK, but I'd remove the part about 65535 being max UID

Polarbear0106

gamers-cave-world.com

Serg

@Polarbear0106 <.< excuse me

Polarbear0106

@Serg yes?

Serg

11:05 AM

@Polarbear0106 is that basically advertisement for a site that you've just posted ?

cl-netbox

@Neil Good night - sleep well ! :)

Byte Commander

@A.B. Have you seen this bountied question and potential apt-magic target yet? askubuntu.com/q/697648/367990

hg8

@Polarbear0106 Why are you posting that here ?

@Serg still not asleep ?

Serg

@Polarbear0106 I know , it's 2015 and stuff like that, but get to know a person first, at least go out for a cup of coffee before trying to sell stuff

Ravan

@hg8 o/

A.B.

11:07 AM

@ByteCommander Yes, but that's wine =\

Serg

@hg8 yeah .. . . the news from the Anonymous made me excited, so i stayed up . . .

Byte Commander

@A.B. So wine's using too strong black magic for you to stay not installed?

;-)

Serg

@hg8 Besides, I have to go to work in 1hour . . . .I decide I'll just reserve a study room after I finish work, and take a nap there, then go home

A.B.

@ByteCommander I'll try it.

Byte Commander

:D Nice!

cl-netbox

11:09 AM

@A.B. BEWARE of 32 bit dependencies ! =)

Byte Commander

@Serg I hope you brought a pillow with you...

Serg

@ByteCommander thank you for the remainder . . . .I might use my jacked though

hg8

Hello @Ravan :)

@Ravan why did you put a bounty here : askubuntu.com/q/697648/338915 DO you have the same problem?

A.B.

Comment added =)

Ravan

I tried to solve but no success :)@hg8

edward torvalds

11:12 AM

is there any way to change the location of archive folder from /var/cache/apt/archive to something else?

Ravan

Just curious to know solution @hg8

hg8

@Ravan Ok I am curious too

Ravan

I think @sneester working on that problem

cl-netbox

@A.B. Do you want to "enjoy" 4 hour support sessions every day now ? =)

Serg

I'm gonna go have coffee and try to boil bacon

Byte Commander

11:25 AM

I think this one is worth to get deleted: askubuntu.com/q/690241/367990

Serg

@ByteCommander added a delete vote, that question is marked as duplicate, it doesn't seem like it will be useful for google travellers who stumble upon it

Byte Commander

@edwardtorvalds Look at the config with $ apt-config dump | grep 'Dir::Cache'

$ apt-config dump | grep 'Dir::Cache'
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";

Serg

11:42 AM

@kos regex question : find . -type f -regex 'file1[a-z].*' . . . Why I cannot find file1ab ?

also tried find . -type f -regex 'file1[a-zA-Z]{2}'

am I mixing up something ?

Byte Commander

@edwardtorvalds Find a line setting Dir::Cache anywhere in /etc/apt/apt.conf or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* or if none is present, create a new file in that apt.conf.d directory to set this. Also see askubuntu.com/a/81211/367990

A.B.

@cl-netbox YENO

YOLO

Byte Commander

@A.B. YENO? o.O

A.B.

YES NO

JEIN in German

=)

Byte Commander

Ach so.

user136984

11:55 AM

@KGIII: You've got a cat now then? :D

kos

@Serg Didn't you went to sleep? :D I think you need -regextype (for the first one you want posix-basic, for the second one you want posix-extended or posix-basic and escape the braces: find . -type f -regextype posix-basic -regex 'file1[a-zA-Z]\{2\}')

user136984

UPDATE: Danger of chemical attack - French PM

user136984

@Fabby: Don't they make nice chocolate in Belgium?

Serg

@kos thanks . . . I decided to stay up. I don't manage my sleep veru well

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda Could be. When I was around Aachen which is near the border to Belgium, there was Belgian chocolate sold everywhere. (next to coffee and mustard)

user136984

12:09 PM

Ooh! Look at this! Sounds amazing! But I will probably still prefer the films (the old ones)... :P

Fabby

@A.B. huh?

@ParanoidPanda And in Switzerland too...

kos

@Serg However no, bs. If you want EREs you don't need to specify -regextype posix-extended, it's the default. The problem is that when you run find . the filenames start with a dot, so you have to match the dot as well

Byte Commander

@A.B. Another potentially lost apt soul in search of your enlightening package problem resolving magic! :) askubuntu.com/q/699990/367990

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Q: Meaning of orange number left to the "review" button for 10k+ users

We all know that the orange bubble with the white number (here: 330) represents the number of Suggested edits for users with 3k+ reputation. But I have recently (today) reached 10k reputation and now can't find any number that would fit on this any more. Even the sum of all displayed review qu...

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Serg

@kos nah, i dunno. but i have no time, gtg

i'll figure this out later

Byte Commander

12:16 PM

Does it make any sense to have a /dev partition? o.O askubuntu.com/questions/699992/…

user136984

@Nathan: About that mystery ping yesterday... I haven't got anything in my notifications inbox yet... And I don't think that I will...

Stefano Palazzo

@ByteCommander congrats on reaching 10k!

user136984

VTC this Minty question as off-topic.

Byte Commander

Thank you!

Stefano Palazzo

In just 10 months.

user136984

12:20 PM

@ByteCommander: Congratulations! You beet me in the rep race! :D

Byte Commander

@StefanoPalazzo Well, look at @A.B., he made it to 46k in 10 moths! :D

*months!

user136984

@ByteCommander: Moths? :P

Byte Commander

^ 10 moths.

Stefano Palazzo

:D

user136984

@ByteCommander: Ah, I can't see external images except from imgur so if you want me to see it you'll have to post it through there...

Byte Commander

12:22 PM

>.<

user136984

I have heightened my security a little.

user136984

I can see it now! :D

Stefano Palazzo

quick, he's lowered the shields

this is when we'll strike

Byte Commander

throws chocolate cake bombs

fires bamboo sticks

gets hungry, fetches some cake for himself...

Stefano Palazzo

user136984

12:25 PM

@StefanoPalazzo: I haven't lowered my shields, he's posted it through imgur. :P

Stefano Palazzo

Ah

Foiled again

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda Then your shields are now sticky from chocolate cake and burning bamboo... We will enter as soon as you get out to clean them! >:D

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Sensible food selections on a daily base will help you feel and look your best. Brain Booster Pills If you making and are currently training Brain Booster Pills the wrong food selections Adderdrene XR the body will still not give the vitality you're looking to you for. Even exercising's act sta...

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Q: How to fix graphical issues with Qt applications? (dolphin:14635): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device)

I'm on Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela (i.e. Ubuntu 14.04) and all my QT-based applications have been ugly after an upgrade (text is scrambled, menu content disappear, cf. screenshot below). Environment $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: LinuxMint Description: Linux Mint ...

ubuntu linux-mint kde qt dolphin

user136984

@ByteCommander: I will simply activate my cleaning bots on the outside of my base. >:P

Byte Commander

Dangit!

Stefano Palazzo

12:29 PM

the heat seeking missiles should take care of them

Byte Commander

Maybe we can hack one of those bots and use it as trojan horse?

Stefano Palazzo

and then amazon won't take them back.

Welcome to the site @MahmoudAssyass :)

user136984

@ByteCommander: These are Imperial droids, they will self-destruct at any sign of trouble and then bring the whole fleet here.

cl-netbox

Hi @StefanoPalazzo how are you ?

user136984

>:)

Stefano Palazzo

12:32 PM

@cl-netbox morning :)

afternoon, or whatever

cl-netbox

@StefanoPalazzo yes whatever HAHAHA :)

Byte Commander

@StefanoPalazzo Early afternoon. We're all three sitting in the same country. ;)

cl-netbox

@StefanoPalazzo Did you receive my mail ?

Stefano Palazzo

@cl-netbox Yes. Nothing to report. :)

cl-netbox

@StefanoPalazzo okay - thanks :)

@StefanoPalazzo Do you enjoy your new backgrounds ? :)

Byte Commander

12:36 PM

Some users just don't understand the word "edit" :P

Did I say comment or did I say edit your question? I refuse to read this, because comments don't preserve any formatting. — Byte Commander 54 secs ago

cl-netbox

@StefanoPalazzo chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/25532355#25532355 ... the 2 images I gave you the other day ... :)

user136984

This really is something strange...

user136984

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Q: Is "The Stack Exchange Network" room really haunted?

I've been told that this room is haunted, but I didn't really believe it until I heard a ping (while I was in the room and another), looked everywhere, but couldn't find its origin... This happened yesterday, and today there is still no sign of any ping in my notifications inbox, so am I dealing ...

bug chat notifications ping

user136984

:D

Byte Commander

o.O???

user174558

12:46 PM

Will Ubuntu ever have an official Cinnamon spin?

user174558

Where is @Seth? LOL.

Stefano Palazzo

I had to close 20 windows to check what background I'm using

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user174558

I wonder if Mint will switch to Debian as its base once LMDE is popular enough.

Stefano Palazzo

and it's the default

;-)

user174558

@StefanoPalazzo You don't have 'show desktop'?

Stefano Palazzo

12:54 PM

I don't know

user174558

Since Seth is not here, I take my leave.

Stefano Palazzo

Yeah I do. Learn something new every day (:

user136984

I think this room really is haunted...

user136984

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Stefano Palazzo

Are you sure you're not being............. paranoid (⌐■_■)-

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A.B.

12:58 PM

@ByteCommander =)

Serg

@StefanoPalazzo nice

cl-netbox

@Serg received something ? :)

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda why?

user136984

@Zacharee1: This is why...

Zacharee1

lol

user136984

1:06 PM

Seriously, I heard a disembodied ping!

Journeyman Geek

Its the ghost of pingmas past.

2

user136984

:D

Rinzwind

You still did not find that bamboo stick we are throwing around?

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda A lost soul, once it was a happy and vital ping, but somebody has deleted it before it could reach its destination and fulfil its fate. Since this dark day, the sad and restless soul of this poor ping is wandering around through the forsaken rooms, haunting innocent users in search of its tormentor to take vengeance and find final peace...

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sob... ;___;

user136984

:D

Zacharee1

1:10 PM

@ByteCommander wow. You should write a novel

user136984

Yeah, you should! :D

Byte Commander

In ENGLISH!!?? Okay... :D I'm not even native in that language.

Zacharee1

You're doing pretty well :P

A couple iffy tenses, but the description's amazing

Byte Commander

(and I have to admit that I needed to look up about 3-4 words for that paragraph...)

Zacharee1

lol

user136984

1:12 PM

Which words? :D

Byte Commander

Well, maybe I'll even do that one day. I've considered it already some times in the past, but never had enough ideas to find it worth starting...

Rinzwind

@ParanoidPanda "a", "and", "it" >:)

Zacharee1

You've got a horror novel right up there

@Rinzwind LOL

We have a @Fabby wannabe :p

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda "forsaken" "tormentor" and "take vengeance" ;-)

Zacharee1

Yes! I guessed right

Fabby

1:13 PM

@Zacharee1 Huh? Who? You???

Zacharee1

@Fabby no @Rinzwind

Byte Commander

(I knew "abandoned" as synonym for "forsaken", but that sounded less poetic)

Zacharee1

You made the right choice ;)

Fabby

@Zacharee1 No, you got that completely wrong: I'm a @Rinzwind wannabe!

;-)

Zacharee1

ō_ô

Rinzwind

1:15 PM

@Zacharee1 I was here before fabby so if anything he is a rinzwind wannabe

see!

Zacharee1

But were you always that sarcastic?

Serg

Since when this room turned into Engrish StackExchange ?

Rinzwind

@ByteCommander forlorn would be even neater

Fabby

@Rinzwind I concur! :-)

Zacharee1

@Rinzwind where?

@Serg SINCE NOW

whoops

user136984

1:16 PM

@Serg: Engrish? :D

user136984

What are we? Bears? :P

Serg

@cl-netbox yes, i got it. Lemme just get to my laptop. I'm waiting for the lab lock to let me in

Zacharee1

ಠ_ಠ

Rinzwind

@ByteCommander there is a difference. forsaken means to give up someone dear to you. abandoned does not have that in it

Byte Commander

Zacharee1

1:17 PM

Most synonyms aren't direct replacements; they just mean similar things

I guess forsaken has another meaning that goes along with it

hmm

Serg

@Fabby well, we're all clearly penguins Since it's linux room. Except for @ParanoidPanda , he's always a Panda

Zacharee1

If I join all the SE sites, my chat rep shown will go up by 101 each time I join

Rinzwind

@ParanoidPanda dunno about but you are a bear :=)

Zacharee1

I could make it seem like I have 10000 rep without actually having it

Byte Commander

@Rinzwind You're not telling that forsaken can only be used on people, do you?

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forsake

Zacharee1

1:19 PM

No, he isn't @ByteCommander

Rinzwind

@ByteCommander no. something dear can be a house too ;-)

Byte Commander

@Zacharee1 I think those 100 bonus points are subtracted... Aren't they?

Fabby

@Zacharee1 yeah, including porn.stackexchange.com... ;-)

Zacharee1

@Fabby ಠ_ಠ

@ByteCommander dunno :p

Rinzwind

you can abandon something that is not dear to you though

Zacharee1

1:20 PM

@Fabby wait, does that exist?

Fabby

@Zacharee1 click the link and you'll know...

:D

Zacharee1

I'm in a classroom rn

Serg

@Fabby that one will be supported on area 51 really fast

Byte Commander

@Fabby If I click on that link and do not find a 404 page, I'll lose my belief in the internet!

user136984

@Zacharee1: Sites where you have over 200 rep are counted in the chat, not below.

Zacharee1

1:20 PM

@Fabby here: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@ParanoidPanda ohh

So I could just answer ten questions. Shouldn't be hard

Byte Commander

Oy! That's not much better, actually....

Zacharee1

Have we moved to something completely different?

Fabby

@ByteCommander Panda porn! @ParanoidPanda

Serg

Panda porn is a real thing by the way no joke

Fabby

@Serg O_o

(why am I not surprised???)

Byte Commander

1:22 PM

Panda molesting innocent green plastic horse.

user136984

@ByteCommander: As I said before, I can only see images from imgur. :P

user136984

@Serg: What???

Byte Commander

@Serg I know. They show pandas P-movies in zoos because they hope this might motivate them to increase the population and stop dying out.

Serg

Because pandas dont breed well, people in zoos show them Panda porn to . ..stimulate their desire to breed

user136984

Can you show me some?

Byte Commander

1:23 PM

O.O

user136984

(joke...)

Byte Commander

X.X

Serg

Because they are pretty lazy to breed, they're on a brink of extinction

Also because humans hunted them agea ago

@ParanoidPanda unfortunately no, this isnt 4chan

user136984

@Serg: I've forgotten, what is 4chan?

cl-netbox

@Serg Did you respond ? :)

Serg

1:27 PM

@ParanoidPanda 4chan.org , home of the anonymous

@cl-netbox not yet give me like 20 mins

cl-netbox

@Serg okay :)

Serg

Speaking of anonymous, we need to check stats on OpParis

user136984

@Serg: Ok, this is slightly creepy! Someone just sent me some panda hentai! >:{

Byte Commander

X.X again just from the imagination...

user136984

Someone is clearly watching me right now! Either that or one of you have an awful sense of humour!

Stefano Palazzo

1:32 PM

not cool

Rinzwind

@ParanoidPanda "awful sense of humour" is a contradiction.

@StefanoPalazzo ehm... hot?

user136984

@Rinzwind: How?

Stefano Palazzo

@ParanoidPanda Not sure what you mean. Was it someone here? using the chat?

Let me know if you want me to do something about it

@Rinzwind ran into that one.

user136984

@StefanoPalazzo: Well, it happened immediately after I said something about panda porn... But the email header is a bit scrambled so I'm not sure who it was... But I am looking into extracting some information from it so I will hopefully get a better idea of who soon...

Stefano Palazzo

@ParanoidPanda If you want me to do something, tell me privately. My email is stefano.palazzo@gmail.com

Byte Commander

1:37 PM

Well, maybe we should just change the topic...

Serg

Rofl

Rinzwind

@StefanoPalazzo how is that private? >:)

Stefano Palazzo

personally ;-)

I also have gpg set up, that's kind of private (:

Rinzwind

askubuntu.com/a/700025/15811 NAA

user136984

@StefanoPalazzo: No, it's fine, I've figured out who it is... The usual culprit!

user136984

1:42 PM

Slightly creepy to think that he might be watching me... But he's not one of the users here...

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda You know that this chat is publicly visible in real-time without being logged in, do you?

user136984

@ByteCommander: Yeah... That must be it...

Rinzwind

and you also know that you seem to get pinged when someone does @para :=)

user136984

But I didn't realise that this guy had stopped his obsession with ducks, and started with panda hentai...

fossfreedom

... "panda porn" ... you know if you watch too much you'll get two black eyes...

boom boom :)

user136984

1:44 PM

:D

user136984

I'm actually standing in the middle of my living room right now and signing along and dancing to this! :D

user136984

Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters

►

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda We so much do not care...

@A.B. Your advice here? Shall I add anything or can/do you want to write a guide?

A quick search on packages.ubuntu.com for those two packages tells me that both are not available for 15.10, but only up to Vivid (15.04). Was your previous install on 15.04 maybe? You might have to find a PPA that provides those packages in a version for 15.10 or compile them yourself. — Byte Commander 5 mins ago

A.B.

@ByteCommander reading

user136984

@ByteCommander: Well, my neighbours do... They're starting to give me odd looks! :D

user136984

1:55 PM

I'm dancing all round the house!

Byte Commander

You just said you danced in the living room... Would have been better if you stayed in there. :P

AFK.

user136984

:D

A.B.

@ByteCommander The package in Wily is libssl1.0.0 and libportaudio2. He could change the dependencies in the deb package or he could install with sudo dpkg -i --force-all ... and sudo apt-get install libportaudio2 libssl1.0.0

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