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jrg

18:03

@rlemon interesting idea

make it possible to hide it.

that's about it.

rlemon

click on the handle

Quickie title

jrg

oooohhhhhh.... aaaaahhhh.

shiny

rlemon

i need to add icons to indicate it's a button still

jrg

i like it.

rlemon

and i'll give it a handle to resize in the top left (after it's open)

i also want to make it so you can list un-answered / noanswer - and after I get auth your fav tags (newest)

basically mock all the list options from the main site.

no search for now... maybe version 2.0

jrg

18:06

loads everywhere, including chat.se

and github.

rlemon

z-index needs to be adjusted

thats the point - SE EVERYWHERE

no more switching windows/tabs to go from chat to main site.

review questions all the time.

jrg

hm

rlemon

never miss a new question

jrg

make it collapsed by default.

and i'll be happy

rlemon

ohh yea -- again I only published what i have done so far because it's somewhat useable now- and before I put the next 20 hours of dev into it I wanna be sure someone will use it.

and thankyou! :) always a good guinea pig

jrg

18:09

I do my best. ;D

rlemon

it's funny thought - all the comments you've made I had written down already :) good to know i'm on the right track.

anywho - boss must be in the christmas cheer - second friday in a row he's let us hook off early and yesterday we got to go home at 4

this time he's letting us go now (1:10 :D)

bbl (when i get home)

rlemon.com/blog/2011/12/… < Best news i've heard all year!!!!!

jrg

@rlemon nice! see you when you get home!

Bruno Pereira

hallo

mhhhmmmmm, cookies

rlemon

18:40

I love how in my apt building there are only two of us who drive... and 'someone' backed into my big ass clay pot / tree behind the building and then just drove away... i wonder who it could have been.

thats about as sly as when my cat pretends she wasn't the one who tore up the tp roll.

pot is smashed into like two dozen pieces and the tree is just laying there.

rlemon

19:58

can I get some feedback on this please

B. Roland

hello all! I'm on the edge of buying a new laptop (and then use with ubuntu). I found ThinkPad E525(http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/thinkpad-edge/e525/) and IdeaPad V470 (http://shop.lenovo.com/gbweb/gb/en/learn/products/lifestyle/ideapad/v-series/v470/). I wanted to have Lenovo only. The problem is, that both has advantages & disadvantages: E+: has a good keyboard, useful outputs, good price; E-: GPU <> V+: has better CPU&GPU, V-: worse keyboard, 3 USB, smaller display.
Because of the better control, I'm close to E525, but I saw this question: http://askubuntu.com/questio…

Icedrake

Hiya everyone.

wisemonkey

@BRoland: I prefer dell over lenovo cause they support Ubuntu better or even System76

but I think thinkpad is always better than ideapad

I meant I prefer system76 not that dell is better than system76 :P

B. Roland

@wisemonkey hmm, you might right... but is that chips works with Ubuntu?

wisemonkey

frankly I wouldn't know until I use it by myself however I use Radeon HD6870 and its supported pretty good

moreover I've seen if particular HW is not supported right now give it another 3/4 months or live bleeding edge ;) and it will be supported

B. Roland

20:08

I have to decide it in 2 days :)

rlemon

@GeorgeEdison github.com/rlemon/UserScripts/tree/master/StackExchange/Quickie you've made your far share of apps/scripts for the stackexchange. what do you think of this idea.

still needs a bit of work but...

wisemonkey

I would like to say just get it and help/bug devs to get support ;) but again I would leave it to u to decide

:P

George Edison

@rlemon Looks interesting.

rlemon

only shows unanswered and no answer questions.

updates every 2 minutes

B. Roland

@wisemonkey it is better then Ideapad and others, the controls are the top of everything... but if its graphics not supported, I have to use Win until the full support... have soneone got any information about the future of its driver?

wisemonkey

20:15

if u don't have problem with using prop drivers then linux drivers should be available on radeon site if not then check edgers ppa

edgers ppa is updated everyday with new updates and supports

I used edgers ppa for around 7-8 months I had issues 4-5 days in all

B. Roland

@wisemonkey hmm thanks, I contact with team owners, about other information

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wisemonkey

sure good luck

B. Roland

thank you

rlemon

20:36

I just blogged about the userscript i'm writing... ironically the script fails when run on my wordpress. :/

William

21:39

Anyone heard about the CarrierIQ thing?

Anyone have any input on the issue?

Anyone there?

NobbZ

@William: I dunno what CarrierIQ is, sorry... But I have another question belonging your avatar... Since it is blender logo... Do you know any tutorials about blender 2.5 or 2.6 that are NOT Screencasts?

jrg

21:58

@William CarrierIQ.

there is actually no evidence that they did anything at all.

Hallo @ThomasWard!

Thomas Ward

UGH

evil bandwidth caps

sup

jrg

legit?

Thomas Ward

legit what, internet?

jrg

legit bandwidth cap?

Thomas Ward

yeah its because they're updating the hardware on campus there's a bandiwdth cap

jrg

22:00

ohh.... ok.

Thomas Ward

so people dont overload the yet-to-be-configured hardware

so anyone know why @amithkk would be hunting me down via irc?

jrg

Trying to understand him is like trying to understand me. doesn't work.

Thomas Ward

lol

jrg

also... lol:

a _MACOSX folder inside the Windows version of software originally written for Linux.

Thomas Ward

lol

jrg

22:06

Nicely done Mr. Hackety Windows maintainer.

:P

Thomas Ward

eawer543w5

whoopsies

jrg

ok, now i have your gmail password. :P

Thomas Ward

i dropped my phone on my keyboard... sorry

jrg

oh. lol

Jorge Castro

/me tries to ssh into Thomas Ward

Thomas Ward

22:08

burns @JorgeCastro in the automated selfdestruct sequence

anyways...

jrg

actually...

i could see that being you dropping your phone.

since they're all in the same area of the keyboard...

hmm...

Bruno Pereira

or its just a easy to remember password... youll never know

(hallo)

Tom Brossman

Hello

I just submitted a big edit to a question, can someone look at it and tell me if it looks right? It's here: askubuntu.com/questions/87907/… I'm trying to help this guy but I'm in over my head.

jrg

22:34

@TomBrossman it got approved.

which means somebody thought it was good.

Tom Brossman

Okay it wasn't that bad after all. Thanks.

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi are any mods paying attention to the tag synonym thread?

there's like, tons of worthless tags we can get rid of

William

22:53

Hey @Nobbz

You asked about my avatar

Look here: wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Tutorials

NobbZ

@William Yes I did :)

William

Did you see said link?

That's all I know of... that and youtube tutorials...

@JorgeCastro Speaking of worthless tags we can get rid of...

How about dots?

askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/dots

That's about as useless of a tag as you'll eever get.

Jorge Castro

hahah

brilliant

/me kills it

William

thanks

Jorge Castro

when it's only a few of them it's easy

William

22:57

even though

NobbZ

@William Yes I did. I just opened it. I really dislike the new wiki...

Jorge Castro

it's when we have a ton like "nvidia-current"

William

I think we should keep it there for symbolic reasons

just for when we need to refer to all the useless tags there are

@NobbZ Yes, I don't like it either.

It looks kind of plain...

and nonfunctional

@JorgeCastro How 'bout exam? askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/exam

That's pretty lame too...

I know we could keep going like this forever...

Hey! That gave me an idea!

How about we have a useless tag day where everyone puts forth as many useless tags as they can find! We can even vote on the uslessest (I doubt that's a word) tags!

I'm considering posting that idea to the meta.

NobbZ

@William I think "most useless" would be the most proper english :)

William

Yes.

I was being funny.

NobbZ

23:09

But it sounds cool :D

William

Yes.

Sorry, gotta go. Be back later!

jrg

@Icedrake: Chromium PPA update just came through - 18.0.973.0~svn20111216r114775-0ubuntu1~ucd1

looks like they got everything working now.

um.... this is outdated... - help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubuntu_OEM_Installer_Overview

guess i'll be updating that next week... or something

@JorgeCastro anybody on the OEM team that I could talk to about that wiki page? Like say, have it be a redirect to a Ask Ubuntu question/answer?

every time i visit the wiki, i get this feeling of going back in time, and viewing the dark ages of documentation... or something like that.

Jorge Castro

23:32

so fix it?

jrg

i am. but i'm concerned that if it sits there, it'll just sit there and rot until the next guy/me decides to fix it.

whereas if it's here, chances are it won't just sit and rot, because somebody will see it, and if theres a problem it'll get updated.

Jorge Castro

yeah, it sucks that the wiki sucks

you can tag it to be deleted

jrg

ok. i'll first write it up from scratch (looks like my christmas "break" is all planned for me... ;) and then tag it to be deleted/setup a redirect to the askubuntu one. sound good-ish?

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George Edison

^---- Stack.PHP's new test suite.

It generates a nice-looking HTML page with the test results / output, etc.

jrg

23:39

Not bad.

George Edison

It's good because now I can automate it with a cron job.

jrg

enjoying Windows 8?

George Edison

...and then anyone can view the results.

jrg

:O thats awesome.

George Edison

@jrg Yeah - I'm worried because it's actually not that bad :P

It's probably because I did a clean install.

jrg

23:42

@GeorgeEdison Heh. I'm losing the machine I had 8 on - not sure I want to upgrade my 7 though...

George Edison

One thing is nice - no updates have required me to restart my computer yet.

jrg

yeah, i found that very nice.

only thing that required me to restart was firefox I think.

NobbZ

How can I hide entries for i386 architecture from synaptics?

jrg

@NobbZ synaptics the package manager, or the trackpad driver?

George Edison

@jrg Yeah... that was difficult to swallow... Firefox requiring me to restart the entire computer? Weird...

NobbZ

23:44

@jrg The packagemanager

@jrg As it is now i have listed many packages twice, like "packagename" and "packagename:i386", I want to hide all ending with ":i386" in the list

jrg

@GeorgeEdison Yeah, weird

@NobbZ ah.

you can't really hide them.

NobbZ

thats annoying

jrg

although i'm not 100% sure about that, i don't recall an option to do that.

Bruno Pereira

@NobbZ that would make a good question

NobbZ

I will post a question in askubuntu tomorrow, but now I will join my wife, it is bed time :)

jrg

23:51

joy. OEM install finishes, guests arrive, and I'm now busy from now until Sunday. lol. Cya guys.

Bruno Pereira

@jrg have fun!

William

hola

what i miss

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