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Zacharee1

00:09

@NathanOsman did the script update recently? The chatheads look different

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 Yup.

I shrunk the border.

There are also some other changes under-the-hood.

Zacharee1

I like it

Nathan Osman

I fixed the bug with editing messages.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman Like what?

?

Nathan Osman

Well, if you press the "up" arrow key, you can edit previous messages.

The script had sort of broken that function.

Zacharee1

00:10

yeah

Nathan Osman

It's now fixed.

Zacharee1

test

test1

test3

Terrance

Edited Message. =)

Zacharee1

What was broken?

It always worked for me (I think)

Nathan Osman

It's kinda hard to explain - under certain circumstances, it would skip over messages.

Zacharee1

00:12

Well, it's been skipping over the middle message in a message trio. Is that what you mean?

Nathan Osman

Yeah, it would do that.

It doesn't anymore.

Zacharee1

It still does for me

Nathan Osman

Refresh :P

Zacharee1

Oh, that recently, huh? :p

Nathan Osman

Just a few minutes ago.

Zacharee1

00:13

Nice

That was actually annoying me.

Nathan Osman

The hack to make it work is pretty intense too :P

github.com/nathan-osman/auchatstatus/blob/master/www/js/…

Zacharee1

I don't really know Javascript ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Nathan Osman

It "hooks" or "overrides" a couple of jQuery methods to make them "skip over" the containers that the script inserts.

Anyway, the bottom line is that it works :P

Zacharee1

er, ok

:p

Terrance

I wonder why the old script would not install on my system, but this new one did without any problems?

Zacharee1

00:17

@Terrance Magic

Terrance

@Zacharee1 I will take that as an explanation. ;)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

01:07

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Q: Copying my Ubuntu vmware workstation virtual machine (desktop) to my laptop as a physical machine - How to get it boot

I am using Ubuntu 15.10 (64-bit) as a virtual machine (vmware workstation) on my desktop PC with Windows 10 Education (64-bit) being the host. With my desktop PC having enough horsepower, I can run Ubuntu just like an other app. There are no compatibility issues with Windows and vmware Workstatio...

Nathan Osman

01:31

The script home page now shows how many users are using the script.

...and in how many rooms.

Seth

01:42

where?

Zacharee1

^ @NathanOsman

Seth

oh now I see it.

Zacharee1

It's so obvious I missed it :p

Seth

preeety sure it wasn't there a minute ago.

Zacharee1

Excuse me while I play with the constellations

Seth

01:46

@NathanOsman How is it pulling the room data? It's smarter than I thought.

@Zacharee1 I've been doing that for the last 5 minutes :P

Zacharee1

@Seth Well it has it anyway, so I guess it isn't hard to do

@Seth :p

@NathanOsman Can you put a page on the site dedicated to playing with the constellation thing?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

02:02

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Q: Transfer session between computers

At my uni, we use ubuntu on our lab machines, and we can log in anywhere on the network, and ssh into any lab machine. Is it possible to be logged into one machine then decide to transfer the current session to another machine? I've heard of reptyr, but I don't know if that's anything to do wit...

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Nathan Osman

02:18

@Seth Sorry, I was eating supper.

The numbers are not referring to actual users in rooms but users using the script in chat rooms.

And it gets that information from this URL: sechat.quickmediasolutions.com/api/stats

The whole thing (API, WebSockets, static files) are served by the Go server.

Zacharee1

Very sophisticated

Nathan Osman

I'm planning to go public with it tomorrow.

By that I mean that I will post an announcement on Stack Apps and spread the word.

Zacharee1

So I just spent two days trying to figure out why, even though my server reported it was installed, the wrapper would not see it as installed

Nathan Osman

Everything seems to be working properly now.

Zacharee1

It was a simple setting

@NathanOsman Nice!

More people are definitely going to start using it

Nathan Osman

02:22

I hope so :)

Do you think "x number of users" is misleading if each room that a user is in is counted separately?

Because that number is calculated by simply adding the number of users in each room together.

...and of course, users can be in multiple rooms.

(Though the script doesn't allow the same room to be open in more than one tab.)

Serg

02:40

@KGIII Since you like classic computers, I'm sure you can appreciate this documentary on AT&T PC 6300 youtube.com/watch?v=mUCh46_MzZU

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman If it's a simple job to remove duplicates, do it. Otherwise, just put a footnote or something

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 As it stands now, whenever you open a second tab with the same room, the script will just not work. Internally, the WebSocket connection is immediately closed by the server which causes the script to retry the connection at 30 second intervals, which will fail as long as the first tab stays connected.

Zacharee1

I mean in different rooms. I thought that's what you meant too

Nathan Osman

Ideally, it would display some sort of message to the user saying "you can't do that!" when they open the second tab.

Oh, I see.

We're talking about two different things.

Zacharee1

Yeah :p

Ravan

02:48

Hey @Zacharee1

o/

Zacharee1

hey

@Ravan You should really install @NathanOsman's script

Ravan

hehe

I remember, I have installed in Ubuntu browsers

Seth o/

Seth

'yo

Ravan

Any one used "xdman"

Seth

hmm, no, I do not.

Ravan

02:58

@Seth How/where to ask moderators for certain information‌?

Seth

@Ravan You can ask here, ask for a private room to ask us in, or ask in a flag.

However we cannot tell you everything, including who committed serial voting.

Ravan

Ah?

Seth

I mean, we can usually tell who did it, but we're not allowed to tell you.

the reversal script should be running as we speak however :)

Ravan

Hmmm, then there is nothing new to know

:)

start private room @Seth

Seth

@Ravan reload the page to the room

oops. Try again @Ravan, my bad :)

Seth

03:27

so, has anyone played around with 0 A.D. Alpha 19?

Ravan

freeze/delete this room Please.

by mistake I have created in AU

@Zacharee1 here?

Seth

hey, Coldplay will be the Super Bowl 50 halftime show. Neat.

RPi Awesomeness

Oooo..I might actually watch for once >.>

@NathanOsman You said you had a 1366x768 laptop...do you do much graphic editing on it?

I really want 1920x1080 or 1600x900 (everything I've read online says 1366x768 sucks, especially for graphics/photo editing & multitasking

However, all the FHD laptops out there tend to be out of my price range for the specs I want

Journeyman Geek

@RPiAwesomeness Its not just about size, its also about pixel density

1366x768 is not too bad at >12 inches

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah

But I'm looking at a 15.6" or 14"

Journeyman Geek

03:37

I'd wait a bit for everyone to go 4k, then FHD prices should go down ;p

RPi Awesomeness

That's gonna be a while though :(

Seth

@RPiAwesomeness ikr, thinking the same thing.

RPi Awesomeness

My current laptop from like 7 yrs ago is 1600x900, don't really wanna downgrade

Journeyman Geek

lol

@RPiAwesomeness Its a coming thing (tm)

(granted, I think 4k on < 24 inches is dumb)

RPi Awesomeness

Laptop shopping is so much harder than building a desktop

You have to make tradeoffs, and that's annoying

Journeyman Geek

03:40

lol

Yeah

and with a desktop you can make a tradeoff now, and make changes later

RPi Awesomeness

I need build quality, i5+ (or AMD equivalent), 8GB RAM minimum, 3+ hrs battery life, and preferably 1600x900 or greater ... and it's hard to find all those under $600-$700 :(

Journeyman Geek

My original build was 1600 x 900, Now I'm at UHD + HD (tho the HD screen is dying and will be replaced with a second UHD screen when I talk myself into it)

RPi Awesomeness

I've got 1440x900 display for my desktop

Well, if anyone sees any good deals, if you could ping me that would be awesome

I was originally going to get an i7-5500u, 8GB RAM, Radeon R7 M265, 1920x1080, ThinkPad Edge E550 for $550 ... but it sold out literally the day I was gonna buy it

Journeyman Geek

ow

Seth

@Zacharee1 well one advantage of Verizon I just found out about is you can watch NFL games through their junkware NFL app they include on all their games.

This Green Bay/Detroit game just got interesting.

RPi Awesomeness

03:51

The Packers have really been off this season

The injuries have been killer, especially Jordy Nelson

Seth

yeah.

They're not the only ones though.

Both the Patriots and Seahawks have key players out as well.

RPi Awesomeness

Packers don't have a really dangerous deep threat, so teams just load the box and that A) Shuts down the quick, close passes B) Shuts down running C) Pressures Rodgers

Yeah, that's why the Patriots lost on Sunday

Edelman was already out, Amendola got taken out in the First quarter, and Gronk in the fourth.

Doesn't help Adams can't catch squat

RIP OFFENSIVE LINE

Nathan Osman

@RPiAwesomeness no, not really. Though that has more to do with my missing my desktop mouse than the screen size.

RPi Awesomeness

Ah

Yeah, I've given up on the Packers to some extent

You can't win games with a substitute offensive line and no deep threat

Seth

aaand they lost the left tackle and then Rogers got sacked.

RPi Awesomeness

03:58

Yup

And every game they've lost has been by a small amount, the defense is doing as good a job as they can. They just don't have an offense to back them up.

Seth

I dunno, GB could still win.

RPi Awesomeness

They could, but it'll take a lot

Seth

It's a 1 score game.

Their defence is doing a pretty good job shutting Detroit down.

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah, but with the Packer's offense like it is

Yeah, defense is doing as good a job as they can

Seth

seriously though, this is the Lions 3rd 3rd down with those 2 repeats now -.-

AND ANOTHER FLAG.

RPi Awesomeness

04:03

Eyup

Seth

SERIOUSLY.

another 3rd down? -.-

ok, now flag. 4th down. finally.

RPi Awesomeness

Ugh.

Seth

this is the game.

Going for it on 4th

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah, that really is gonna do it if they score

Seth

wow, they got it.

seriously though, 4 freaking third downs.

@RPiAwesomeness but yeah, if they score... that will likely be it.

RPi Awesomeness

04:06

Exactly :P

RIP Packers

Seth

still, it's not over until the clock hits 0.

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah, I need to stop being so downer

8 minutes is a decent amount of time

Seth

wow. haha

nice play by Stafford.

it was looking good for the packers 5 minutes ago haha

RPi Awesomeness

Well, no TD

Seth

eh, they got 1 more down.

unless you're ahead of me :p

RPi Awesomeness

04:10

I think I am

Seth

ok, here we go. 4th down.

xiaodongjie

Hi everybody.

Seth

\o

xiaodongjie

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Seth

field goal time.

xiaodongjie

04:10

Still no answer.

Seth

oh wow, the Lions have Prater?

This will probably go right in :p

RPi Awesomeness

Well, 7 minutes ... 23 points to go...

Seth

I can't honestly tell why Prater keeps bouncing around. Who'd want to give him up?

RPi Awesomeness

He's older?

Dunno

Seth

He's considered the best kicker in the league..

RPi Awesomeness

04:12

Or teams can't afford him

Seth

that's more likely.

or at least he was.

@RPiAwesomeness so the Packers first play just ended for me. Where are you at?

RPi Awesomeness

Same

Rodgers be sneakeh

Seth

oh ok.

ouch.

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah

Cobb man. He's like their only receiver who can do anything

Seth

haha, you totally called it xD

Ask Ubuntu Meta

04:20

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Q: I made an edit to a question adding additional details I learned of after implementing my aceppted answer, but a high rep user has reverted my edit?

The question: I installed a program by getting its source code, and then running `sudo make install`; how to make `apt-get` know about it? The edit that was removed: (revision history here) Edit for posterity: As the top answer suggests, checkinstall should be used whenever possible instead ...

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RPi Awesomeness

Ey...Rodgers to Rodgers

Seth

now you're ahead of me.

just saw that play.

RPi Awesomeness

Ah

Seth

this will be interesting. Likely an onside kick in our future.

RPi Awesomeness

Definitely

Seth

04:22

they could still go field goal and then onside.

at least I think.

touchdown!

Nice play.

RPi Awesomeness

WOOOOOOOOOO GO RODGERS! Forget Eddy Lacey, Rodgers is our running back xD

Now gotta get the onside kick

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: VMware auto-reboots on login

I have a Ubuntu 14 running on VMware on my Windows 10 Dell laptop. For the past few days I have been facing this problem. Whenever I try to login, it accepts my credentials loads the home page and loads the login screen page again. I tried doing a guest login but the same thing happened. The vm...

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Seth

yeah

crazy thing is, if they get the onside, they could technically field goal and win if the clock is low enough.

RPi Awesomeness

Yup

Their defense is still pretty good

Makes sense actually. Defense can get it done, let's hope

Seth

whoa, no onside.

This will be interesting.

Only 3 minutes left.

Lions will eat clock..

RPi Awesomeness

04:26

Yeah...#Hope

Gonna be close

Seth

why is GB eating all their timeouts already?

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah, ik

And RIP Packers

Seth

what just happened?

ah, now I see.

it's still not over.

if they can prevent a touchdown they still have a chance.

very small though.

RPi Awesomeness

Very minor

Gotta go the other way too

Seth

it's happened before.

RPi Awesomeness

04:33

It has indeed

But we had Jordy Nelson then >.>

Seth

I've seen Big Ben throw 68 yard touchdown passes with <2 minutes left.

Twice.

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah, not sure why they spent those timeouts earlier

Seth

they would have come in handy right now.

RPi Awesomeness

#NoFingernails

Seth

ugh, my stream is breaking up.

RPi Awesomeness

04:37

Just need a few yards, Mason Crosby is good

Okay...not a few

Seth

they could really use that timeout.. just saying.

FLAG

ooh, facemask!

RPi Awesomeness

ik

Seth

1 more play and 15 yards!

RPi Awesomeness

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

NO FREAKING WAY

NO NONONONONNONOO

RODGERS IS TOO OP

THANK YOU 15 YARD FACEBAMSK !

Seth

:D:D:D

RPi Awesomeness

04:41

I am freaking out if you can't tell

Seth

what did I tell you the whole time? :P

RPi Awesomeness

Seriously

Seth

came down to the last play with 0 left xD

RPi Awesomeness

I shouldn't have doubted them

legit...craziest ending I have ever seen

Seth

you didn't watch last years' NFC championship?

I'm not sure anything can beat that..

well, I have to go do dishes now. Then bed. ttyl folks!

RPi Awesomeness

04:43

That was just an onside kick that happened to slip through some hands and a good amount of time on the clock.

\o

Seth

@RPiAwesomeness no no no no

that was touchdown, onside, touchdown, 2 pt conversion, then OT.

All in <5 minutes.

RPi Awesomeness

It was? I must've blocked that memory more than I thought :P

It was a very well executed game-ender, I'll give you that

But the Super Bowl ended bizarrely and awesomely

Seth

bizarrely yes, awesomely no :p

ok, dishes call.

RPi Awesomeness

It's all perspective :D

Nathan Osman

04:57

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Q: Cannot share directories between virtualbox and Desktop

I need to share the Desktop directory in order to copy some files I need from there. This is a Virtualbox and I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. But the "Desktopy" link is not showing up in the media directory. How can I copy files from Windows to my VB?

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RPi Awesomeness

@NathanOsman Blender again?

Nathan Osman

Yup.

Needs more work, but it's a start.

RPi Awesomeness

Nice

Nathan Osman

It doesn't loop nicely.

Udhayakumar

06:43

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Q: Very slow internet in Ubuntu but faster in Virtualbox

I'm using a Ubuntu 14.04 in my computer. For some unknown weird reason, the speed of internet is very slow in my machine. But I have Windows 7 running on the virtual box which is really smooth and super fast. I'm using the LAN cable and not on wifi. Also, on the other devices, the internet is wor...

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Help guys!!!

A.B.

07:09

Morning folks :)

@NathanOsman blender :)

hg8

08:20

Good morning chat

StackExchange

Oli has stopped a feed from being posted into this room

Oli

@hg8 Morning!

Nathan Osman

08:57

@Oli what happened to George's feed?

He only blogs once every month or two.

Oli

I sent you a direct message to spare the public flogging but if you'd rather do it in here...

Nathan Osman

You did?

I better check my inbox.

Ah. Now I see it.

hg8

Can anyone help me to understand this bug status ?

Mouse cursor tiny when hovering unity elements in high DPI mode

[Impact] On a high DPI screen (220 DPI) the mouse cursor is really tiny when hovering unity elements. There are various keys in dconf to change the cursor's scale factor or size. I've managed to change it in a way that it looks normal when inside application windows, but its still tiny when on unity elements. I think this should be set automatically by the scale factor setting in system settings. (Using unity 7.3.1+14.10.20140811-0ubuntu1) [Test Case] * Log in * Launch Firefox * Move the mouse over the panel or the launcher, then back over the Firefox window. * Cursor should always be of the same size [Regression Potential] * Mouse cursors might appear wrong for some actions

Unity

High / Fix Committed

It says :
> status: In Progress → Fix Committed
On 11/09/2015

Where has it been committed ? Can I get the fix ?

hg8

09:34

on Ubuntu Wily

Ah ok I get it... The fix has been committed to unity-7.4 (Ubuntu 16.04 ?)

And a backport for unity-7.3 is in progress

good

terdon

09:55

Wonderful, [a question about Kali, tagged with macosx:askubuntu.com/q/705739/85695.

Journeyman Geek

10:16

damned skiddies

Byte Commander

o/

hg8

Hi @ByteCommander

xiaodongjie

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Q: Ubuntu source package dependency tree

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still no answer.

:(

may i bounty it?

xiaodongjie

11:10

Bounty!
http://askubuntu.com/questions/704868/ubuntu-source-package-dependency-tree

fossfreedom

@xiaodongjie ?? you should have one package that produces many .deb files

xiaodongjie

@fossfreedom oh, I meant that they are all not mine.

fossfreedom

oh - ok - add that to your question "these are not my packages"

xiaodongjie

yes, let me do it now.

hg8

Can someone please review my answer ?

To make sure it is clear enough

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A: install Oracle Virtual Machine by adding a repository

When you encounter commands that you don't understand, use manual pages. This big command can be separated in three main parts : Adding VirtualBox repository to your system Register Oracle public keys Installing Oracle 1. Adding VirtualBox repository to your system sudo sh -c "echo 'deb...

Takkat

11:24

@hg8 suggestion: you may comment somewhere why it is better to use apt-add-repository rather than echoing to sources.list (as the latter may lead to duplicate entries).

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