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Masi

20:00

Is there any camera-gesture control app in Ubuntu?

TheXed

how do I fix it?

Thomas W.

@TheXed contact Google

because their repository is at fault

TheXed

how do I remove the repo? so I can update my computer?

nevermind

Rinzwind

@Masi omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/… ?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: cat doesn't join my files when I run inside script

I'm doing a restore backups script, and when I try to join files which are splitted, cat prints that error: cat: fullbackup_mrbsNuevo_15_6_2016.tar.gz.*: No such file or directory The line that runs cat command is this one: cat $type"_"$NAME_DIR"_"$d"_"$2"_"$1".tar.gz."\* > $type"_"$NAME_DIR"...

Byte Commander

20:05

What a strange question on health.se... (NSFW!) health.stackexchange.com/q/7140

>.<

TheXed

@ByteCommander O.o

Serg

@ByteCommander There a lot of factors to consider on that question, and it's actually good, not weird

TheXed

@Serg to broad to be answered...

edwinksl

VTC plz

Serg

@TheXed well that's exactly the same as the comment said. Except , that comment is right - a bit more description would help.

Byte Commander

20:15

I find it weird that people ask such things publicly on a website...

Need 4 more points to reach 200 today! \o/

Masi

@Rinzwind Enac is rather outdated. I would like to get some review about it and/or other options. I just need webcam to control handwaving for Next and Previous; to make the browsing of presentations more active.

TheXed

@ByteCommander some people have no shame...

Byte Commander

Seems so.

I wonder what his girlfriend would think of that.

Serg

@ByteCommander sexual/genitalia health is nothing to be ashamed of

@TheXed ^

Byte Commander

But it is private!

TheXed

20:20

^that....ask your doctor...not the Internet...

Serg

@ByteCommander did he say any names in the question ?

Byte Commander

@Serg Nope, but he used a nice photo of himself as profile pic.

Serg

@ByteCommander How do you know it's him in the first place ?

Also, doctors cost

and they cost a lot for simple questions

In the US at least

I don't know about Germany , but they cost in the US

Byte Commander

If the US citizens were not that stupid, they could have a health insurance paying that for them.

edwinksl

@byt lol

Serg

20:23

@ByteCommander even with insurance it costs , and you have to buy insurance in the first place

Byte Commander

@edwinksl How can I teach you to use tab-completion? o.O

edwinksl

@byt i refuse!

Byte Commander

@Serg It's worth it.

Serg

@Byt you can't probably

edwinksl

@byt you can blame @zac for this

Serg

20:24

@ByteCommander tell it to people who can't afford it :)

TheXed

I don't know...my neighbor is a doctor and he is a fairly nice guy...

Serg

@TheXed that's a power of connections. What if you don't know any doctor friends ?

TheXed

@Serg that is why everyone needs to get friendly with a doctor...

Byte Commander

@edwinksl Ahem.

Serg

What if you don't know any computer geeks who can clean your computer and tell you to install Linux ? You pay to those antivirus guys and/or local computer repair tech

TheXed

20:26

actually i am doubly covered, my wife's cousin is a doctor too...

edwinksl

@ByteCommander alright that got my attention

Serg

@ByteCommander Jesus loves you . . . in more than one way

TheXed

@Serg I was that local computer repair tech...for about 2 years...

Serg

@TheXed how was it ?

Byte Commander

I'm stirred...

TheXed

20:27

it sucked...@Serg

Anyways I am going to a biker bar in about 30 mins...if I don't return then I got ran over by a motorcycle or got into a bar fight...

edwinksl

@TheXed if you do get into a fight, you better win

Serg

@TheXed stay out of trouble

TheXed

@edwinksl are you offering to be my body guard?

Serg

Or wear a hacker tshirt

edwinksl

@TheXed nope, but i can provide moral support

Serg

20:30

Nobody messes with hackers

TheXed

@Serg...good call....

Serg

Speaking of that, i should rewatch Blackhat movie. Tang Wei is there and she's like one of my fav actresses

Byte Commander

Tang Wei? googling...

edwinksl

@Serg interesting last name, i don't see that often

literally soup

Byte Commander

She's cute, I have to admit that.

Serg

20:38

@edwinksl yeah very unique , i sort of think it's an alias . . . Wikipedia to the rescue ?

Byte Commander

One of my favourite actresses would be Renee Felice Smith though.

Serg

@ByteCommander not just cute,but also awesome actress. I watched a sort of drama/comedy called "Seattle meets Beijing" , and she was so funny there

edwinksl

when i see Tang, the first character that comes to my mind is 唐

Serg

Yup , one of my good friends is 唐英

Byte Commander

She looks better with short hair though.

edwinksl

20:40

@ByteCommander wow cute

Serg

Tang Wei's hubby is korean by the way

edwinksl

but long hair please

Byte Commander

Nah...

She plays that computer girl in Navy CIS L.A.

Serg

googling . . .

edwinksl

we have degenerated into talking about cute actresses

Serg

20:43

@ByteCommander Renee Smith is cute, looks like the type of girl who'd be like your best friend and playing LoL and pwning n00bs

Byte Commander

For a while I also quite liked Alison Scagliotti who plays the computer girl in Warehouse 13...

Seems like I'm into red-haired computer girls :D

Serg

that's a quite fair interest

plus, computer girls will understand computer jokes . . . ( my biggest issue - lack of humorous jokes outside of Linux/computer/engineering context )

Byte Commander

> There are exactly 10 kinds of people - those who understand binary numbers and those who don't.

edwinksl

classic joke

Serg

There's also those people who convert binary into hex so it's easier to read

Byte Commander

20:52

> Ignoring initiated, please wait... [======= ] 70% done

Serg

Err: core dumped , ignoring aborted

Jacob Vlijm

@Serg admit, you waited deliberately until I was done didn't you :)

Serg

@JacobVlijm in all honesty , no . I just refreshed AU front page. I'm actually watching a movie

edwinksl

@Serg that screenshot with Tang Wei in your firefox tab though

Serg

^_^ yeah, i probably shouldn't take screenshots without cleaning up my tabs first

cough,cough,p0rn

Jacob Vlijm

21:01

...Didn't even try what he mentiones, never use it...

Serg

@JacobVlijm what he mentions ?

user136984

@Serg: D1g1tal1sed Panda P0rn? :P

user136984

Made of just 1s and 0s? :P

edwinksl

@ParanoidPanda disturbing

user136984

@edwinksl: At some point some people did suspect that of me... :P

user136984

21:03

But it was just a simply misunderstanding. :D

Jacob Vlijm

@Serg right- click to move a window

user136984

@Serg: "circles"?

Serg

Yeah, you know . . . dark circles that appear under eyes if you undersleep . . .I have them all the time because I'm nightowling too much

@JacobVlijm I've known of that shortcut since like 13.04 ( that's the version i started out with )

user136984

@Serg: Don't you get a lot of viruses (at least browser specific ones and malicious scripts from images) from looking at that sort of thing? Unless you were joking about the naked Pandas? :P

Serg

@ParanoidPanda you gotta know the right places without viruses ;)

user136984

21:06

I still would never trust those sorts of images not to have malicious scripts or exploits in them... They are the most likely to...

user136984

So where exactly are these "right places"?

user136984

Actually, don't tell me, I don't want to know! :D

Serg

Just use VM for that sort of things

user136984

VMs can still have exploits.

user136984

Anyway, I thought you said you had a Chinese girlfriend, why the need to look at this stuff if you have the real thing (I face palmed several times writing this sentence, and still think I wrote it clumsily)?

Byte Commander

21:09

Plus tor browser.

Unless you want flash vids...

Serg

nah, disable flash

use html5

user136984

What about bad exit nodes?

user136984

That's good for anonymity, not for preventing viruses... Isn't it?

Serg

yup, exactly

Byte Commander

Not all sites quit flash yet...

user136984

21:10

Why do you need anonymity?

Serg

because yolo that's why

Byte Commander

Tell me one situation where anonymity is not better?

Serg

if you don't want the website or folks in the middle know you look at p0rn, then anonymity is a good idea

Byte Commander

^

FritzBox logs all network traffic btw.

It can do that, at least.

Serg

Defcon 21 - Forensic Fails - Shift + Delete Won't Help You Here

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By the way, that's a good talk ^

Part where a guy overwrote hard drive with "f**k you" string is gold XD

user136984

21:13

@Serg: Do you know that they do Ubuntu porn with naked people doing the logo with their bodies?

user136984

And don't ask me how I know about that... :P

Byte Commander

47 minutes...

TL;DW

user136984

It's what happens when you spend hours on Google Images looking for images under the search term "Ubuntu wallpaper"... :D

Serg

@ParanoidPanda sigh . . .that's not porn . . . .those are wallpapers with pretty female supporters of Ubuntu

Byte Commander

...

user136984

21:14

@Serg: Well, some of them go a bit further than that, but mostly just...

user136984

So you've seen it too then? :D

Byte Commander

Everybody sees them, young Padawan.

Serg

Meanwhile, I am still watching Blackhat

user136984

Really? Where? I accidentally found a few once, but how did you find them if not looking for them? :D

user136984

I can't believe every Ubuntu user has somehow accidentally found one...

user136984

21:16

Anyway, how did we get onto talking about this? And why are we still talking about this??? :D

Byte Commander

And every German Ubuntu user has accidentally visited the circus.

ubuntu.de

user136984

Why am I still talking about this for that matter? :D

Serg

Because itz fun

Byte Commander

No idea...

Panda specific, maybe?

Playing CaH with strange online people is weird...

user136984

Well, there was one big misunderstanding once where some of you thought that I was saying my desktop wallpaper was of Pandas having sex... :D

Serg

21:18

I'd love to play CAH with Minx one day

user136984

Which wasn't at all what I was saying! :D

Byte Commander

Minx?

user136984

Why do all the CaH servers have weird names?

Byte Commander

Because CaH is a weird game.

The names are inscriptions of some white cards of the game.

user136984

VTC this question as off-topic.

Serg

21:23

@ParanoidPanda consider posting that comment as answer

Byte Commander

in Charcoal HQ, 11 mins ago, by SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Sex extension noises on Chrome not working by Thomas Silverstein on stackoverflow.com …

o.O

Serg

WTF

edwinksl

that's an intriguing concept

Serg

serg.exe stop working, error: ROFL

Byte Commander

You know the BBC Sherlock Holmes series with Benedict Cumberbatch?

Reminds me of his phone... :D

edwinksl

21:25

@ByteCommander yeah

tgkprog

no partner, no doll, but i got the sex extn!

user136984

@ByteCommander: When does this extension make the noises? All the time or just when you go to a new tab or something? Also, isn't this a bit of an embarrassing extension to have? Especially to announce you have? :D

user136984

@Serg: Ok, I have converted it to an answer.

user136984

:)

Byte Commander

Who knows? :D

Maybe he wants to prank his girlfriend...

tgkprog

21:31

maybe it is for his gf

for when i'm away

true love

user136984

God... How did this conversation get here again?! :D

user136984

We only just finished talking about Panda porn, and now this! :D

tgkprog

i'm just waiting for my gradle to download new things to my ubuntu

happy fathers day reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4oubg7/…

don.joey

just looked at election page... man we have really great candidates in this batch!

tgkprog

wow thisiscolossal.com/2012/07/… lego !

Serg

21:39

i am somewhat unstable right now, talk to you later guys , b ye

user136984

The beginning of this song pretty much sums up how I am feeling right now:

user136984

Iron Maiden - Mother Of Mercy

►

user136984

Depressed and grumpy.

user136984

Why am I feeling like this? Because I ate all the cake and now have none left and all the shops are closed! :(

tgkprog

listen to a happier song, on a phone, so u can pick it up and go for a 20 minute walk

RPi Awesomeness

21:56

Anyone else use zsh?

A friend of mine recommended it and it's looking pretty cool

Thomas W.

@RPiAwesomeness I use it

not for the scripting side, but for some of the interface functions I don't get in Bash :)

Videonauth

@RPiAwesomeness repeat after me ... we dont use zsh for scripting, we dont use zsh for scripting we dont use zsh for scripting ...

Seth

@RPiAwesomeness aye

I like it because I can have fishy goodness but bash syntax.

edwinksl

does anyone use xonsh

Thomas W.

@Seth This, but also because I like a lot of other ZSH functions (autocapitalization resolutoin, etc.)

Seth

22:00

zsh is basically bash on steroids. And you get to pick the steroids.

which sounded cooler in my head, but you get the idea.

Thomas W.

heheheheh

@Seth valid analysis though

terdon

@Videonauth why not? Are you thinking of csh?

RPi Awesomeness

@Videonauth lol, I don't script much anyways

Videonauth

guess so, im pretty exhausted already

user136984

Well, goodnight guys! :)

Thomas W.

22:03

@ParanoidPanda good night

terdon

I assumed you were referring to this

Repeat after me: I will not use csh for scripting. I will not use csh for scripting. I will not use csh for scripting. — terdon Jun 1 at 17:10

Videonauth

indeed

TheXed

Well I made it back in one piece

I have never seen so many beards in one place...

RPi Awesomeness

lol

Videonauth

We are currently offline for maintenance

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the sky is falling .....

xD

edwinksl

22:15

wtf

TheXed

Or motorcycles....

edwinksl

i was about to post a comment

Thomas W.

ouch?

Thomas W.

22:36

This is spam, flag and torpedo as such: askubuntu.com/a/789106/10616

edwinksl

flagged

Thomas W.

22:51

and gone thanks

SQuirel

23:35

Anyone know of any good flight sims for linux?

edwinksl

23:46

x plane? that's the one i have heard of before

Seth

@SQuirel FlightGear.

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