Ask Ubuntu General Room

William

19:03

Hello all!

Bruno Pereira

@William hello

William

Hi

Bruno Pereira

Oh man, Im drooling over this:

codinghorror.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b01675eb09c11970b-800wi

William

Looks neat

@Bruno How much does it cost?

Bruno Pereira

Any lost soul wants to share his wisdom and richness of heart and send it to me a gift this Christmas? Jesus will be pleased!

3

@William dunno, just saw it on this guys blog

codinghorror.com/blog

was linked by @OctavianDamiean a bit ago

William

19:06

It says right on the blog that it's 24 dollars

Bruno Pereira

im still looking at the pic!

William

amazon.com/dp/B0032Y2OT6/?tag=codihorr-20

Bruno Pereira

my gf is going to get me this: alternate.nl/html/product/Solid_State_Drive_PCI_Express/OCZ/…

lol

codinghorror.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0153928b12db970b-800wi

William

Man

You got one rich gf

Jorge Castro

@BrunoPereira I unversioned the java question

William

19:09

We should have a useless tags day

Jorge Castro

I know

I found a bunch today

I wish the system gave badges for people removing tags instead of creating them

William

I'm gonna post it to the meta. Any objection from the crowd?

Jorge Castro

Well

we have a list of tag synonyms

Bruno Pereira

@JorgeCastro thx, I im open to any sugestions. If you find anything on the web that needs to be applied or linked to the answer let me know also, I like to keep my answers updated.

Jorge Castro

there's not much you can really do other than try to get rid of them as you see them

William

19:10

I, by the way, don't know how to remove tags. Does it require a certain reputation?

Jorge Castro

@BrunoPereira I shortened the bottom paragraph, it was getting too wordy

William

Still, it would be kind of good to get rid of a lot of tags

Jorge Castro

@William the site automatically removes tags that aren't being used after a while

William

I know

Jorge Castro

you can just retagging the questions without the bad tag

William

19:11

Wasn't there a cleanup day once? How did that go?

Bruno Pereira

@JorgeCastro And I was thinking this was going to be my lowest rep day ever :) thx man

Jorge Castro

however if you want to do a ton of them and it would like, crush the front page you can post it on meta.

so the mods can remove it without it bumping everything to the front page

@William every day is clean up day!

5

Oli is working on a clean up week

William

+1 so true.

Jorge Castro

for example I found the "crash" tag today

and I was going to go editing but there's like over 100

William

Any lost soul wants to share his wisdom and richness of heart and send it to me a gift this Christmas? Jesus will be pleased! @BrunoPereira It's all about Jesus being pleased!

There needs to be a button for that

It would make it eaiser.

How 'bout askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/showing

Bruno Pereira

19:14

@William Me loves Jesus pleased!

William

Yes

Jorge Castro

@William yeah, that's a good one.

@William just edit the whole question

William

He gonna find out whos naughty or nice... oh wait... he already knows

there its gone

poof!

Bruno Pereira

I think there was even someone suggesting the creation of a "bad English" tag or something a while ago. Some ppl fail to understand tags at all :D

William

askubuntu.com/questions/87211/… considering posting an answer on how to set up virtualbox on this one.

Bruno Pereira

19:16

I need a new NAS

William

NASs are good

Bruno Pereira

@William that wont work, the game requires vertex shadows hardware support

William

are there any you know of that allow you to acess files from outside the network?

Oh

Drat

Bruno Pereira

@William any good nas allows you that

William

I thought that was gonna be an easy 100 reputation

Bruno Pereira

19:17

@William you can try, Iĺl give it 100 tumbs up if it works ;)

William

whats a thumbs up?

Just kidding :)

Ah well

I guess I'll try

Bruno Pereira

go for it!

William

post a pretty answer with some screenshots and get a few upotes

Bruno Pereira

im off, we are setting up tree and cleaning up after construction workers!

William

okay

see you later

Bruno Pereira

19:20

A quick one: no one should life their life without seeing this at least once imdb.com/title/tt0119698

If you are into jap animation this will make you blush and cry of happiness, really great!

William

Okay

Ill try to get around to it sometime

Bruno Pereira

lol: askubuntu.com/questions/88778/…

ok, im off!

William

Um

1

A: How do I install Ubuntu in Virtualbox?

First, download the current version of Ubuntu. You can do so here. Once the file has finished downloading, download VirtualBox. You can do so here. Download the version for Windows hosts. Once the download has finished, install VirtualBox, then open it. You will see a screen like the following:...

Im mad that that one got closed, I spent a lot of time on that answer

Tom Brossman

@William worse is when someone else posts the answer while you are still typing yours...

William

yes

and you did the better answer

but they already marked it

Jorge Castro

19:27

there's got to be a better place to put that answer maybe?

Tom Brossman

Yep, there's a term for it but I forget. Good answer though.

William

I tried on the Wine Game question

Jorge Castro

the question seems valid to me

William

0

Q: How to run Bully : Scholarship Edition?

Can someone give a step-by-step tutorial on how to run it under wine ?

Jorge Castro

/me votes to reopen

William

19:28

thanks

maybe ill get an upvote or two

i could use that

Jorge Castro

close to 1k!

William

Yep!

Jorge Castro

@William this is why I usually only answer questions that the person has put effort into

William

I had 1k

Jorge Castro

if the question sucks then the person will likely just waste your time

William

19:29

Then the system thought it was fraud

Caesium

I'm trying so hard to help someone with a shell scripting issue but they're just not reading my answers

William

I know how you feel

Jorge Castro

I usually wait to see if they at least fix it before putting time into it.

@William oh did you get serially upvoted?

William

no

it was jrg

he upvoted me a couple of times

got my hopes up but it was not meant to be

Jorge Castro

heh

it's more than a couple to trigger a recalc

it's like if you go "oh I like William" and then go find all your answers and upvote them all, it triggers a cheat thing

Caesium

19:31

bodhi.zazen is a machine :o

Jorge Castro

same if someone hates you and started downvoting all your answers at once

William

oh

well, it was annoying

the server runs on windows

so I know it hates me its biased

Well I got over 1k rep

and then...

breaks down crying

Roland Taylor

I love it when people downvotes me with no reason given on what seems to be a perfectly good answer.

It reminds me I'm doing something right.

William

Well, unfortanateluy, I dont loves it.

hey @htorque

Roland Taylor

@William I was mostly being sarcastic in the first line :D

William

19:35

I can tell

Roland Taylor

But, it surely doesn't tick me off as much as it used to.

Jorge Castro

@RolandTaylor which one yo?

William

I was mostly being sarcastic in the second line

Jorge Castro

I <3 being downvoted

it's like a mental reminder to go update an answer

William

Being downvoted for no reason is fun!

Roland Taylor

19:36

1

A: How come Ubuntu is slowed down even after all resource-hungry apps have exited

There are several likely causes for this. If you have a single core processor and relatively low RAM this is even more likely to happen. What is probably happening is: Your system begins to use swap when the RAM becomes overloaded, it might be "thrashing" (dumping RAM to the disk) before you c...

Jorge Castro

plus, it's impossible for all your answers to be up to date at any given time

downvotes are natural

Roland Taylor

@JorgeCastro if my answers sucks, then I do too lol :D

William

true

Roland Taylor

I like downvotes when my answer is out of date/made in laziness etc

William

Yes

it reminds you to updt\ate them

Caesium

19:37

Roland, looks fine to me, I gave that an upvote hours ago :)

wish more people voted, be it up or down.

William

Happy upvote to you!

Roland Taylor

I don't know if the downvoter did it because the answer got updated and I didn't update it?

William

or if the downvoter was just being a jerk (which happens)

Roland Taylor

Either way - I was at church... no internet there and even if there was it would be rude to update an answer during a sermon :D!

William

Yes.

Jorge Castro

19:39

well, votes can be changed

I do that all the time

William

I work on tech team at church

Roland Taylor

@William I've had that happen a few times.

Jorge Castro

downvote, wait for edit, change to upvote

Roland Taylor

People downvoted some of my answers that were perfectly good, on old questions, and needed no changes.

There was a week when it happened about twice a day... but I think that person was probably bored or something lol

William

What I dont like is on ask ubuntu mobile if you want to change your vote and your'e on a touchscreen and you accidentally lock your vote in

Roland Taylor

19:40

@William awesome!

I am the tech team haha

William

tech team is fun

Roland Taylor

@JorgeCastro that's the best route :D

William

excpt when you mess up and everyone looks at you

Jorge Castro

yea the mobile experience on the phone isn't so hot

Roland Taylor

@William ikr :D

Jorge Castro

19:41

it used to be way worse, it's much better now at least

Roland Taylor

especially when it all falls on one person :P

William

Well, I think they should disable vote locking on the mobile site

Roland Taylor

George's mobile SE app is pretty good - but you can't vote on it

William

whats the purpose of vote locking anyway?

Roland Taylor

stackmobile.com

William

19:42

I know

but its read-only

Alright

I have to get actual work done now, I could sit here forever

bye

Roland Taylor

lol

William

be back later

Roland Taylor

work is overrated!

William

I agree

Roland Taylor

Ask Ubuntu forever!

William

19:43

Yeah!

Roland Taylor

You must not leave.

William

Alright, all minimise it and try to ignore the force bringing the cursor toward the button...

Roland Taylor

of:

1 min ago, by William

be back later

@William haha jk

cya later dude :D

William

Roland Does not approve! ಠ_ಠ

okay

Roland Taylor

Amithkk did that pic of course :)

William

19:44

bye now

Roland Taylor

caio!

Thomas Ward

hail, fellow Ubuntuers :P

how's things

Takkat

Things are like most things are nowadays - Hi@ThomasWard

Octavian Damiean

@RolandTaylor I was about to ask. :D

o/ by the way.

Roland Taylor

oops \o :D

I pressed enter by accident

Thomas Ward

19:59

heh

William

I couldn't help myself

I'm a bad person, I guess

But I actually got actual work done, actually. Here's the actual link for your actual viewing pleasure: portal.sliderocket.com/ASOTP/genetics

Takkat

@William very nice.

William

Thank you.

Presentations are fun, especially transitions.

Does anyone know of those programs that route internet traffic all over the place so you can't trace it?

Thomas Ward

you actually got work done during this time of year? WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THIS WORLD?

William

is shocked at that William would dare to work at this time of year

Well, It's school so I don't have much of a say in the matter.

Thomas Ward

20:10

immediately erases 15 git repositories he has on his computer right now

there now i cant do work

William

good.

Thomas Ward

notices they just reappeared because of his cron script

William

work is bad.

no!

Thomas Ward

well considering i'm on winter break from college right now... :P

Takkat

Isn't it so that most of the work has to be done before Christmas because after that you don't know if the world goes on?

Thomas Ward

20:13

you're off by a year ;P

it isnt 2012 :P

and since my work is work that is only for me BY me... :P

Takkat

But still everybody wants me to get my work done before Christmas.

William

its the worst

Takkat

Not after Christmas. Before.

Not by the end of 2011, no, no - before Christmas.

As if next Christmas was last Christmas.

William

I'm confused

Questions Feed

20:28

How Safe is it to Add ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable? http://askubuntu.com/questions/88776/how-safe-is-it-to-add-ppamozillateam-firefox-stable #firefox

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on December 18, 2011 at 8:22 PM

Icedrake

Are you effing kidding me?! Cars 2 has a Golden Globe nomination and Kung Fu Panda 2 doesn't?!

Not to mention not even the soundtrack for KFP2 has been nominated?

Roland Taylor

Ian Hex finds the funniest stuff :D

I laughed so hard my throat hurts :D

Icedrake

I mean seriously, what the hell is wrong with these Golden Globe idiots?

Roland Taylor

SE chat fail - I got a flag notification for a non-existent flag :)

Octavian Damiean

Because I've invalidated it already. :D

Roland Taylor

20:40

cool :D

I didn't know we 10k+ users could completely clear a flag in one go

Octavian Damiean

We can IIRC.

Roland Taylor

nice!

okay I'll be back in a bit

htorque

21:34

good evening!

please upvote if you like

0

A: Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2012

NobbZ

Since it is related with ubuntu a little, I hope someone here could help by accident :)

2

Q: Litecoin binary for Linux

Is there any LiteCoin binary precompiled for Linux? I would prefer staticaly linked but would also dynamicaly linked a try. A plus is given for a .deb archive, two pluses for a ppa or other possibility to integrate it into ubuntu 11.10 packagemanagement.

litecoin linux compiling

htorque

@OctavianDamiean replaced my version with yours. i just returned from a b-day party and haven't yet reached the 100% concentration level. :P

Octavian Damiean

:P

It's alright, already upvoted it.

Jorge Castro

/me votes

looks nice!

Octavian Damiean

@htorque Did you actually do the initial design for that ad?

htorque

21:47

well, no. it's copy and paste. :P

i did the collage. :P

the bubbles aren't from me, the logo isn't from me. the dates aren't from me. :P

Octavian Damiean

Well but the composition which is the design on that thing.

What I wanted to say is that it is awesome!

You should hang out in #ubuntu-design as well.

htorque

here a click, there a click, tadaaa - nothing special about it. as i said, i'm no skilled artist, just love to play around with inkscape/gimp.

Octavian Damiean

So deep down you are an artist. :D

Jorge Castro

Any ideas for a question to bounty?

htorque

if you find more, i'd bounty one too

Jorge Castro

22:17

@Oli Can you merge this? I've bountied the original.

1

Q: wireless troubles with Intel 3945ABG

Please Help! I cannot connect to wireless it shows my connection i enter password and yes its the right one im sure of it then it trys to connect and cannot. then about 30 second or so later it trys again automatically. ive looked at other forums and ive tried everything nothing works. Also i sub...

wireless intel

Questions Feed

23:36

Bounty offered: Wireless doesn't work on an HP Pavillion DV6000 with an Intel 3945abg http://askubuntu.com/questions/88129/wireless-doesnt-work-on-an-hp-pavillion-dv6000-with-an-intel-3945abg #wireless

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on December 18, 2011 at 11:22 PM

Transcript for