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Marco Ceppi

20:00

@GeorgeEdison You replied to the link of how I got it.

Bruno Pereira

why the hell is the software image always broken in the ppa links? :(

getting butchers (not really but its fun to watch) code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=107615

Jorge Castro

I don't use the image anymore

too annoying

I always forget the url, etc.

Bruno Pereira

then how to create a link for ppa? just remove the image link and leave the link behind?

Jorge Castro

shrug

jrg

@BrunoPereira yeah, i'm getting emails about that.

Jorge Castro

20:14

"Oracle Java: Oracle Java is the reference implementation for Java 7."

I thought they changed that to be openjdk

Bruno Pereira

Correct, I think I fixed it on the answer

(was down bellow on the body also)

Marco Ceppi

@BrunoPereira Put the links back please, when StackExchange fixes the image links it'll work properly

Bruno Pereira

@MarcoCeppi can I edit the answer when its done? (ill do it if I know the links work)

Marco Ceppi

If you remember to, it could be another month

It's also an intermittent issue, not all users are affected

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Q: Software centre image link is broken

The software centre image is often used when explaining how to install software, like this (I fixed this one on the original page): In Ubuntu 11.10 it is now possible to change the edge reveal time out using compiz-config-settings-manager . As you can see, the image link is broken. The b...

bug

Bruno Pereira

I am sure you will bash my head as soon as they are fixed and I'll edit the answer to make it pretty.

htorque

20:23

market.android.com/…

Marco Ceppi

kk

htorque

>:(

is stackanywhere any good?

George Edison

@JorgeCastro Er... I have a script?

Jorge Castro

@GeorgeEdison yeah but I always forget to install it everywhere

it should really be part of the site. :-/

plus the script points to like packages.ubuntu.com

which in hindsight isn't a good idea

man today sucked with java

but at least we cleaned up that thing, it was a mess to begin with

Marco Ceppi

bit.ly/software-small :)

I hope once SE takes care of the linking issue, I'm going to see if they can just give us a new s.tk url for the image so we can use it going forward

Bruno Pereira

20:29

cannot see it :(

I get the black square of death

Marco Ceppi

Then worry about backporting it

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi dumb question

if dupes are sign posts

why not autoforward to the right question after X seconds?

Bruno Pereira

answers are made c wiki after 10 edits? nice, did not know that.

Jorge Castro

nod

Marco Ceppi

IIRC, forwarding via 301 Redirect is done for closed questions when coming from a Search Engine

Jorge Castro

20:36

oh I didn't know that!

Marco Ceppi

I'll need to confirm, but I believe that's the case.

Jorge Castro

I can't replicate that on a porn-mode chrome and google search

Marco Ceppi

Yeah, neither can I. Not sure where I heard/saw that.

Maybe it was with migrations only

rlemon

SE - few times today I have had the red bar of death telling me a javascript file was 'blocked or failed to load'

refresh and it's gone... CDN issues?

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htorque

20:48

@MarcoCeppi that ;)

jrg

20:59

watching the SOPA hearning.... THE PAIN....

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Q: How to add dvd-slideshow source repository to APT-GET

I installed dvd-slideshow on a Ubuntu box by running this command: apt-get install dvd-slideshow But now I'm on a RightScale instance (which I think is CentOS, but I'm not sure) and it has a yum installer. I followed these instructions to install APT on this instance: http://support.rightscal...

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George Edison

@JorgeCastro: I'm planning to update that script soon.

I'll catch you all later... gotta run.

Alvar

21:17

waiting for tomorrow... will tell you then....

tomorrow and 2 days after that, wooohooo ....

jrg

The just muted the SOPA feed.

No audio at all.

(if people feel that this is off-topic, or offensive, or anything like that, feel free to tell me. I have to vent somewhere.)

Alvar

21:34

@jrg that's what the IRC is for! ;)

jrg

@Alvar Which IRC?

Alvar

21:56

@jrg all of 'em...

Octavian Damiean

Why IRC? I'm confused.

jrg

same here...

why am I not surprised that the Gentlewomen from California (the district that Hollywood is in to be precise) is hogging the mic?

Octavian Damiean

I pretty sure that the bill will pass.

jrg

Unfortunately, I have to agree.

Bruno Pereira

22:11

what bill?

jrg

SOPA

402

A: How does SOPA threaten Stack Overflow?

The American Censorship link includes a lot of information about what this US law would change and how it would affect user-generated content sites like Stack Overflow. Currently, if someone posts copyright material to Stack Overflow, there is a well-established legal procedure (called the DMCA)...

and that's just Stackoverflow.

Bruno Pereira

Oo

this comment on the question does not really sound very friendly: askubuntu.com/questions/85705/…

jrg

flagged.

Bruno Pereira

can I flag it?

DAM YOU!

ah, also done it! victory dance

juancarlospaco

whats up

how are the Matrix today ?

jrg

22:21

SOPA hearing feed keeps freezing up. :(

juancarlospaco

too bad

SOPA means Soup on my language

sopa its fugly

jrg

indeed.

juancarlospaco

can you tell me if you can see this Fiddle? jsfiddle.net/juancarlospaco/52MhV/embedded/result

:)

jrg

i see it.

whats it do?

Octavian Damiean

If that bill really passes it could mean the end of Stack Exchange and many others.

Absolutely amazing. You gotta love the world we live in.

juancarlospaco

22:26

@jrg a Jedi LighSaber on HTML5 and no JS

it moves if webkit based browser

you can turn on/off the lightsaber

:P

jrg

@OctavianDamiean Mom just yelled at me for listening to the hearing. akljsdflksadjflasd

Octavian Damiean

Whý?

jrg

because i'm supposed to be cleaning my room (despite the fact that I am cleaning my room while listening to it)

Bruno Pereira

code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=107615#c6

jrg

@BrunoPereira left a comment

juancarlospaco

22:36

agree

a solution looking for a problem

jrg

what is looking for a problem?

juancarlospaco

the solution

jrg

there have been no amendments passed to SOPA as of yet, and I have little hope that any will.

@juancarlospaco what are we talking about? Bruno's bug, or something else?

juancarlospaco

@jrg yus

jrg

that makes no sense.

juancarlospaco

22:39

i dont say it makes

Oli

@jrg What would that mean if somebody did want to amend it? Surely for a bill as awful as SOPA would only be improved if somebody could amend "Tear up this law" to it.

And what happened to Protect-IP?

jrg

@Oli there have been a few ammendments that were good.

Oli

I was under the impression that's pretty much as bad and that's already passed somewhere or other.

Icedrake

Just so you guys know, Obama said that he'd veto the bill

jrg

mainly, the one that would have DNS/ISPs providers prove that anything that happens because of a court order would compromise the security.

William

22:41

All the sudden everyone upvoted me!

I'm at 992 rep!

jrg

@Icedrake I want video proof. Now.

William

Yay!

jrg

@William congrats!

William

Thanks!

jrg

you should have 1K now.

William

22:42

Thanks even more!

Even though im still at 992, it'll probably take a minute.

Icedrake

@jrg No video, but Obama said that he'd uphold net neutrality, which means he'd veto SOPA.

juancarlospaco

Gov have fear that people realize they dont need it, in that way, so gov need to keep people scared for something, like no internet, no healthcare, no gas (...) everything is around money

William

Oh, 978!

jrg

@Icedrake He won't do it. Betcha.

@William oh... rep recalc.

William

Oh yeah, the SOPA thing.

I hope that fails

Oli

22:43

@William You've capped out for the day. In other news, I just did a recalc on your account to see if it would nudge it over 1k... Turns out it didn't. You'll get there tomorrow!

William

Thanks!

Oli

(apologies for raining on your parade)

jrg

@Oli you suck. lol

William

Shouldn't i get the Motarbound badge now?

jrg

Wait until 12AM UTC.

William

22:44

Okay.

Bruno Pereira

@jrg read up

William

Wait a sec... I didn't capitablize my I!

Oli

@William I'm not sure if they're applied instantly or in daily batches. Probably the second.

jrg

@BrunoPereira Oh, the bug.

William

I'm a hypocryite!

SOPA is evil.

Icedrake

22:45

It's got a chance of not being passed, there are a huge number of extremely big web companies that are against it; Google, FB, Mozilla, etc. etc.

William

Yes, tumbler users made a big riot.

Oli

16 mins ago, by jrg

because i'm supposed to be cleaning my room (despite the fact that I am cleaning my room while listening to it)

juancarlospaco

Apple and Microsoft support SOPA

jrg

It has a chance, but not much of one.

@Oli ssssshhhh.... not so loud. :P

William

Apple and Microsoft are for fellow world dominators

Oli

22:46

I love this comment. Cleaning and listening to the SOPA reading... And chatting on SE >_<

jrg

I'm skilled. >_>

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William

lol

Oli

Clearly very talented.

jrg

bows thank you.

Icedrake

I'm supposed to be doing Calculus hw right now... but am I?

jrg

22:47

Oh great, .onion made an appearance in the hearing.

William

I'm supposed to be researching Genetics...

juancarlospaco

@William do you Blend ?

i like Blender

William

Yes.

Blender is awesome.

juancarlospaco

great soft, i got the lastest, it uses python

William

Yep, me too

2.60

i tink

juancarlospaco

22:50

too bad the web plugin need to be taken by core devs

William

yeah

have you tried the game engine?

juancarlospaco

with standarization, documentation, it can be integrated into future web engines...

William

I want to do some experimenting with it but haven't had the time

juancarlospaco

...remember HTML5 Canvas started like a Propietary Closed Plugin, and see now...

William

...

HTML5 has a chance, no one really likes flash

I guess i'm making a blanket statement

but flash is annoying

Icedrake

22:52

I want to get Epic Inventor running so bad...

But I think OpenJDK is having some issues

William

java is annoying 2

on windoze it keeps doing the UAC thing every time it checks for updates.

juancarlospaco

think about blender + html5 combined

William

yes

but whats the point

blender for the web?

juancarlospaco

yes

William

think of how long renders would take...

it makes me sick just thinking about it...

juancarlospaco

22:54

a milisecond

see WebGL

William

how

blender buys some decent server power?

they dont have the money

juancarlospaco

nope

William

the community does

if they could convinece everyone to kick in a little

juancarlospaco

they improve the web plugin and present it to be integrated into html5

William

like they did when they orriginally made blender open source

juancarlospaco

22:55

i repeat, the HTML5 canvas started like a closed propietary technology and now its integrated into html5

William

wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/GameEngine/WebPlugin

Oli

Well in better news, Microsoft is going to push out a silent critical update to force anybody receiving automatic updates onto the latest version of IE (that will run on their system) starting next month. Could mean the death of IE6 and IE7.

William

hmmm

NobbZ

Can anyone tell me how this message would be in english?

dpkg: Warnung: Dateilisten-Datei des Paketes »libao-common« fehlt, es wird angenommen,
dass das Paket derzeit keine Dateien installiert hat.

William

i like ie6

my zune uses ie6

juancarlospaco

22:57

lol

William

and the zunes browser is terrible

Come to think of it, I hate IE6

juancarlospaco

rendering of ie9 suck

Oli

@juancarlospaco In what way?

William

the zunes browser is just about the crappiest thing microsoft has ever done

Oli

@William Bob.

William

22:58

if there are 10 images on a page it will pick 2 and load them

at random

and what do you men bob?

the snowman is awesome

juancarlospaco

its an 8

:P

William

yes

or a snowman

he needs arms

Oli

@William Microsoft Bob.

William

oh.

have you used a zune before?

zune is worse then bob.

and i have used bob.

And I laughed at the stupidity.

juancarlospaco

its very similar to W8 gui

no jokin

NaCL will kill Blender chance on the web

Icedrake

23:07

Perfect showing of our modern era:

►

Not to mention funny. :D

juancarlospaco

i go to water my cactus . . .

Bruno Pereira

erggghhhhmmmmm, offtopic???? askubuntu.com/questions/88116/…

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23:23

Great answer: Will Sun's Java be available from Canonical's partner repository? http://askubuntu.com/questions/64515/will-suns-java-be-available-from-canonicals-partner-repository/88035#88035 #java

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William

23:36

Does anyone actually like the Metro UI with a mouse and keyboard?

jrg

No.

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