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wisemonkey

20:01

anyone uses electrical-engineering stackexchange over here?

jrg

only when I get a link to something awesome.

wisemonkey

ok I'm in chat room, just want to confirm if its where I/anyone should be asking questions about ASIC design/ computer architecture etc.

but as it seems I'm the only one in chat room :P

Thomas Ward

@jrg which one?

jrg

@ThomasWard your comment on that answer.

Roland Taylor

@jrg hola

jrg

20:05

@RolandTaylor check the 2buntu room pl0x

Roland Taylor

sure

jwdinkc

I have an "Ask Ubuntu" profile question. I keep trying to change my profile pic, so I created an account at that gravatar place and uploaded the pic. When I click on "change picture" in Ask's profile it takes me to the gravatar home page. Then what?

jrg

@jwdinkc just wait a little bit.

gravatar sometimes takes 5-10 minutes to appear.

jwdinkc

Been two days...

jrg

oh....

jwdinkc

20:12

No big deal really. Just that pink's not my color.

Marco Ceppi

@jwdinkc You need to upload the image to gravatar and associate it with the email you use on Ask Ubuntu

jrg

did you assign your image to the same email address that ask ubuntu has?

jwdinkc

I'm pretty sure I used google to sign into both...I'll double check though.

Roland Taylor

too many questions sorry

jwdinkc

Thats ok.

Checking....

wisemonkey

20:14

@jwdinkc use google address which u use for askubuntu on gravatar site

change pic

and it will be reflected without doing anything on askubuntu

Marco Ceppi

@jwdinkc If it helps, your email address on AU is a yahoo.com address - even though you used Google to login - the site uses whatever email is listed as your primary on Google which can be an address other than your Google Login

jrg

@MarcoCeppi you crazy moderator helpful snoop. :P

wisemonkey

o.O

jwdinkc

Alright, now it says wait up to 24 hours. Does it make a difference that I sign into Ask through google?

@Marco - sorry, I just read your response. Will do tomorrow.

Marco Ceppi

@jwdinkc Nope, it only does it based on email matching

jwdinkc

20:20

So change my Ask account to my yahoo address since that is what google prolly has as my primary. Got ya.

Thanks!

Thomas Ward

@jrg which answer?

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jrg

@ThomasWard This one

Thomas Ward

ah

heh

jrg

telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu

Roland Taylor

20:37

~nya

Thomas Ward

20:47

UGH NYANCAT

@jrg how did you find that?

rlemon

that is starred

9 hours ago, by badp

telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu

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Jorge Castro

21:01

@GeorgeEdison yeah

it would be awesome if we had another charmer

Alvar

21:20

hi all

I just noticed I got 12 up and 5 down on a question.. 5 down IS A LOT! :p

7

Q: Where can I find websites that list games for Ubuntu?

Not all games are in the software center and I don't know where to find others. Please help me find websites online that list games for Ubuntu. I don't mind if they are free or not. I don't want recommendations of individual games - just link me to the lists/websites that surely must exist alr...

games

haha, 5 down...

jrg

@ThomasWard reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mvdg3/telnet_mikuacmuiucedu

that's how i found it - never knew @badp posted it as well.

Jorge Castro

22:21

@Alvar list questions are offtopic

jrg

@JorgeCastro votes to close

@MarcoCeppi don't we need to close this one as well, as part of the cleanup? - askubuntu.com/questions/30334/list-of-application-indicators

(since it's off-topic... *_*)

Marco Ceppi

Shhhhhhh

jrg

hey, i'm just doing my job as a community member to help the FAQ be the law of the land. :P

Marco Ceppi

If I remember in the next few hours I'll circle back to that one

Thomas Ward

22:53

enters through the Stargate that he left in the chat room when he was last here

jrg

looks around, sees @ThomasWard's Stargate, runs out

Thomas Ward

heh

@jrg why you running man? its just a stable interplanetary wormhole transportation device! :P

wisemonkey

yey first time I answered something with complete confidence :P

jrg

@ThomasWard perhaps it's not so stable as you'd like to think?!

Thomas Ward

well without this control device i keep with me, its not :P

@jrg you're free to step through the stargate once i turn it on

i've got to pick up some additional equipment for it :P

jrg

22:58

@ThomasWard I'm... just going to walk away now, while I still can.

Thomas Ward

:P

@jrg fine, whatever

jrg

@ThomasWard I see how it is. pouts

Thomas Ward

turns on the stargate to another galaxy and walks through

returns through a new stargate connection with a box of equipment and a gigantic shipment of cookies

@jrg cookie?

:P

jrg

@ThomasWard OOH COOKIE!

Thomas Ward

wow, you're easy to please :P

jrg

23:02

You didn't know that?

Thomas Ward

:P

you're equally easy to scare. that stargate's been here for about 8 months now

nobody notices it though until its turned on :P

jrg

i don't notice things until people tell me.

Thomas Ward

:P

rlemon

23:21

sneaks through stargate behind you wearing a Sodan Cloaking Device - steals dialing crystals - gets Jaffa buddie to ring transport me to awaiting Tel'tak for easy escape.

ftw

I am proud to say I have both SG1 and Atlantis box sets. I am ashamed to say i've watched both multiple times

Thomas Ward

points at the fact what you stole was actually an antimatter power device

BOOM

@rlemon since i have the knowledge of the ancients... there's no way to actually beat that

... much

rlemon

I am alteran BOOM

sit back down

Thomas Ward

picks up the Merlin anti-ascended-being device

rlemon

too bad it's in the Ori galaxie

... and no more super gate

BOOM

Thomas Ward

how excellent for me i have technology which allows me to bend space and time, and make objects out of thin air ;P

rlemon

23:26

=P

Thomas Ward

greater than any ascended being because he spans about 40000 universes

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Thomas Ward

@rlemon i own the box sets, all the movies, and a freaking quarter-scale stargate replica

rlemon

ascended beings, by nature, control space/time. Nothing in the realm of our physical universe matters. ergo ascended beings control everything in our existence all other existences can GFTO

@ThomasWard i also have the movies, and replica, and coasters!

BOOM

Thomas Ward

:P

@rlemon i also own Cthulhu, so i win :P

oh, and CHuck Norris

rlemon

23:29

but all aside, it's nice to meet someone else who can appreciate it as much as me

Thomas Ward

:P

i actually took the time to modify a Star Trek game...

so that i can actually use stargate-like equipment

rlemon

my girlfriend doesn't understand. makes fun of me.

Thomas Ward

including the asgard plasma beam weaponry

i have 20 ships in my STO fleet with that technology

and basically every other fleet stays clear of me

rlemon

I built a 2d side scroller for a school project based on the space shipts

ships

Thomas Ward

because those beams are fricking strong!

rlemon

23:30

you were promethus 1

God I love stargate - sadly Universe never really tickled my fancy - too far away from the original feel of the show.

Thomas Ward

yeah i steered clear of that

fwiw, Atlantis could have been far longer

rlemon

it's like all Star Treks were good before DS9

ohh hell yea

not long enough - look how long they dragged out SG1

Octavian Damiean

@ThomasWard nods

is a huge Stargate fan

Thomas Ward

fwiw, back to the STO modifications i made... i took a Defiant-class ship, and made it into a freaking god vessel using StarGate universe weaponry

en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Defiant_class <-- defiant

and i have 20 of them in my fleet

full beam weapons coverage, all angles :P

the STO admins were like "WTH dude, you've got an inordinately powerful ship! WTF ARE YOU PLANNING?"

and I said to them "I"m planning on wiping out every enemy fleet. With a vengeance. ALL WHO STAND IN MY PATH SHALL FEEL MY WRATH"

they kinda backed off because even their god modded admin ships died

rlemon

you could always mix your sci fi and really f with them.

Thomas Ward

23:34

indeed

rlemon

"what are you planning?"
EXTERMINATE!!!!!!!

Thomas Ward

xD

i actually built a Tardis hardpoint for STO

but then i was like "How the hell am I going to put god weapons on this?"

and abandoned it

rlemon

and if I may note - for the record. Continuum was a horrible movie - the end kinda pissed me off.

felt like a waste of time

Thomas Ward

yeah, well meh

the soundtracks are OK

rlemon

i hate movies that full circle to no point.

Thomas Ward

23:36

i could probably like... record my military actions on STO and use the SG:Continuum music :P

and make an epic battle record :P

rlemon

I do still want to build a HTML5 game based on stargate.

I have started working out the code/physics for planetary orbits

Thomas Ward

i need to make this god awful animation thing for a class here...

rlemon

but i'm constantly side tracked with work

damn work

Thomas Ward

i'm thinking of making an interactive stargate

with panoramic views of various planets (destroyed and still existent)

such as... um...

crap what was that one which the original Stargate movie included...

the one where they take a nuke and kill Ra with it

the one Anubis vaporized

rlemon

►

probably not spelt right but abados

Thomas Ward

23:40

Abydos! THAT'S the planet

yeah that planet

rlemon

►

Thomas Ward

one of my favorite episodes is where Anubis' fleet gets totally obliterated by the ancient Drones platform

rlemon

I like when Daniel has his showdown with Anubis and gets sucked away. always loved that scene.

Thomas Ward

heh

my favorite Atlantis scene is when Ronon was first learning the various weapons that the expedition brought with it

the M9 and the P90

then he is all "I prefer this gun" and shoots the paper target with his energy pistol

this clip

►

jrg

/me has never seen stargate

rlemon

23:50

youtube.com/watch?v=r9y-UdUTwb0&feature=related <- this guy needs to relax

and i'm out

night all.

Thomas Ward

see ya

oh and one last clip:

►

"How many of those [knives] do you have?"
"How many do you need?"

Oli

Aw. I miss Atlantis.

Did they can Universe too?

Thomas Ward

yep

a while ago

Oli

Awww. I was watching that.

rlemon

ohh wait - before i go - two inaccuracies in SG1 that ticked me off.
First few episodes when they went through the stargate they took 'a few seconds' to pass to the next gate. also they came out the otherside cold and sometimes covered in frost - they were de-materialized and sent through a wormhole to another point in space - this would take no time and cause no such 'freezing' effect

Thomas Ward

23:54

i think because the ratings were so low... :P

@rlemon power fluctuations in the gates

@rlemon at that time they hadnt yet perfected the power requirements

;P

rlemon

also if they (in the original shows) did not know that the stargate traveled anywhere else but abydos why would they have an advanced tracking system that mysteriously contained more stellar cartography than is (or at least was then) known to man

and how in the f-bomb did it track them

Oli

They'll make Warehouse 13 but not a new SG-Universe. That's wrong on so many levels.

Thomas Ward

watch your language @rlemon

@Oli dont you dare dis Warehouse 13

:P

rlemon

sorry

i often forget people are sensitive to language

Oli

@ThomasWard I don't need to - it's doing a perfectly good job of that, itself

Thomas Ward

23:56

i should fight you @Oli

the only reason i watch Warehouse 13 is because i got hooked on it one day when i was horridly bored

beyond reason

(tbh, my favorite episode was the last one they released where the warehouse dies because of an artifact nuclear device)

rlemon

ok, ok. Tenth Doctor, Picard, or O'Neill

Oli

@rlemon Eh? At what?

rlemon

who would win in a fight of course

no weapons only intuition

and not to the death because a time lord will always have the upper hand

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