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Octavian Damiean

00:07

Welcome to 2011, the bright future of information technology.

Bruno Pereira

@Oli gooooooooooo Steam! \o/

/me takes pon pons out and starts dancing

close ze dup

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Q: Can I set different Transparent backgrounds for Terminal?

I want Transparent backgrounds in Terminal but different background..

Octavian Damiean

@BrunoPereira Steam ... indeed, what a great alternative. Have all your games running over Steam so that you can't play if Stream is down.

Bruno Pereira

@OctavianDamiean ey, im not saying its perfect (or that I even use it) but it beat the hell out of having media around or keeping any files updated. The biggest problems are (as you said) constant connectivity req, the resources eating platform and of the most important one imho most games that work on wine wont work on wine+steam :(

I have used it and abused it (< heavy gamer) but since I switched to linux I cant come the to the facts it sucks hard under wine, so I had no choice and sticked with Ubuntu ;)

Octavian Damiean

is also a heavy gamer on a pretty high competitive level

It is better to have the media always available.

The cloud is amazing and all but I don't trust it enough to dump the good old CD or DVD.

Oli

@OctavianDamiean Steam does have an offline mode. As long as your games aren't mid-update you can play them without an internet connection.

Octavian Damiean

00:22

The only shitty part is when Steam decides that you need the platform update in order to get the latest game update so that you can play with your friends and that platform update either becomes extremely slow or just breaks because of the huge load.

Bruno Pereira

would not remember anything as that since I never had to start it offline ;P

Octavian Damiean

As was the case in the good old CS 1.6 times.

Oli

Onlive. Now that's something you can't play if it goes down or you lose your internet connection. Even so, I'd love them to release a Linux client (they must be technically able by now)

Bruno Pereira

I just stick to Humble Bundle packages and starcraft2 on Linux, have no time for anything else :S

Oli

Yeah I've got a ton of HIB games to play through now. I have a habit of picking one up for a few days, then needing to catch up with three days' work and before I know it there's a new bundle out with another five games to eat up my time.

Bruno Pereira

00:28

/ nods

If I get on a startcraft session I loose several days of my life and end up stinking, ungry and with the vague sensation that my gf would have left the house for good several days ago. I stopped with that for the sake of having a life.

jrg

01:02

@Oli could be worse.

trying to download portal and TF2 on a realllyyyyyy slow connection.

Oli

@jrg Sure. I could have no games and no job.

jrg

@Oli ok, true.

Oli

Well actually I've had real fun installing RAGE. Swapping Disk 1 for Disk 2 - fine. Disk 2 for Disk 3... Insert disk 3 I have! Insert disk 3 I just did! Insert disk 3 Stop saying that! Insert disk 3 What do you want from me?! Insert disk 3 ARGL!!! Insert disk 3 Insert disk 3 Insert disk 3 Insert disk 3 Insert disk 3 Insert disk 3

So I gave up. Steam is downloading the remaining 3 gigs over the Internet now.

(I'm just glad it didn't have to do the whole 21gigs over the internet.. Our ISP would not have been happy)

jrg

haha?

Bruno Pereira

+1 for making me spill cognac on the pc ;)

Uri is on a roll today! askubuntu.com/questions/86816/need-a-ppa-for-the-latest-gcc

Icedrake

01:44

I know this is extremely off topic, but can anyone think of a spanish word that rhymes with disfrutar?

Bruno Pereira

@Icedrake agradar, atacar, viajar?

Marco Ceppi

Okay, someone here know Python?

Oli

@MarcoCeppi Sup?

Marco Ceppi

I'm trying to play with subprocess in python, but I can't get the output :\

>>> from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
>>> p = Popen(["ls", "-la"], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
>>> thisiswhatiwant, thissucks = p.communicate()
>>> print thisiswhatiwant
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print thisiswhatiwant
                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Oli

You using subprocess.check_output([...])?

Marco Ceppi

01:55

@Oli Nope, just using the above

Oli

Try subprocess.check_output(['ls', '-la'])

Marco Ceppi

just assign that to a variable?

Oli

If you want to keep the output, yeah. If you just want to print it, print it :)

Marco Ceppi

Grrr, what the fudge.

Oli

It's not the most flexible system but it's a damned sight easier than playing around with pipes

Marco Ceppi

01:57

>>> outs = check_output(["ls", "-la"])
>>> print outs
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print outs
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

WHY NO VARIABLES PRINT?!

hum, seems like a problem with interactive prompt.

>>> suckitpython = "yay"
>>> print suckitpython
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print suckitpython
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Oli

Are you using Python 3?

Marco Ceppi

yes. coilsinhisregretpool

Oli

print is a function

print ( rawr )

Marco Ceppi

BLERG

This whole flippin' time it was probably working.

Oli

:)

Marco Ceppi

01:59

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ SO MUCH TIME

Oli

I'm amazed I rememberd that. Saw it about a year ago and haven't thought anything of it since. Been using Python 2.whatever and saw no reason to move up.

It working then?

Marco Ceppi

yeah, thanks @Oli :)

Oli

Why on earth are you using Py3K? Nobody's going to use that for another five or so years.

Marco Ceppi

grumbleblamestefano

Oli

lol

Marco Ceppi

02:02

Anywho, I don't know Python 2 so I might as well learn this stuff

Oli

True

Questions Feed

02:26

Bounty offered: Global menu hides window decorator from startup applications http://askubuntu.com/questions/84336/global-menu-hides-window-decorator-from-startup-applications #unity

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on December 11, 2011 at 2:21 AM

Amith KK

04:40

@MarcoCeppi WTF dont lie!

Did you notice that almost all ad's and watch/clock shops keep the time in any clock 10:10?

Thats because.....

Abraham Lincoln

</died at that time>

@MarcoCeppi youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=3reyNeOpBI4

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05:33

Bounty offered: Mysql Cluster setup on Ubuntu http://askubuntu.com/questions/86120/mysql-cluster-setup-on-ubuntu #server

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on December 11, 2011 at 5:21 AM

Amith KK

05:52

What is a MX record?

BBL

George Edison

@AmithKK It's a DNS entry for mail... or something like that...

I'm not 100% sure. But it has something to do with mail... and something to do with DNS.

NobbZ