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Octavian Damiean

22:02

Flip a coin and third vote? Aw ... my heart ... </3

htorque

first come first serve :P

Octavian Damiean

In other news, Linux 3.3-rc2 has been released.

htorque

i'm not up-to-date - precise won't come with 3.3, right?

Octavian Damiean

I guess not.

jrg

precise will ship with 3.2

htorque

22:05

\o/

rlemon

ok... can you guys tell me what you think of this script - here is the source

jrg

Not bad.

rlemon

anything you can see to improve it?

other than having to instantiate the object every time.. which isn't bad.. it's actually the preferred way to do it.. but i'm lazy and I don't mind tacking to the Window object :P

Octavian Damiean

I like my version most.

2

htorque

:D

xubuntu-desktop is so invasive :-( plymouth changed, notifications under unity changed, a lot of stuff was added to the ubuntu autostart - no good!

jrg

22:18

yeah its not so "lightweight".

htorque

but it saves battery power. :P

and it allows me to run valgrind on indicators without pain.

Octavian Damiean

@rlemon Seriously, it is awesome!

jrg

ok, that didn't work...

what the heck. jsfiddle gave me the wrong link. :(

Octavian Damiean

@jrg Here is the proper link. jsfiddle.net/d7ESL/2/embedded/result

jrg

Nope, this is it

bioShark

22:25

Anybody up for a bounty on my question: askubuntu.com/questions/99111/… ?

jrg

YAY. Matrix is over. Good film.

Took me just under a year to watch The Matrix. true story

Octavian Damiean

Like, for real?

jrg

yeah

Octavian Damiean

So you didn't watch the other parts either?

jrg

back in like, june of 2011, dad gave me the DVDs and told me to watch it

and today, i finally finished it.

Octavian Damiean

22:31

lol, epic fail typo.

jrg

What do you mean by that comment?

Octavian Damiean

I was referring to my question to you. Made a stupid typo. :)

jrg

ah.

bioShark

@BrunoPereira thanks for the bounty

Bruno Pereira

@bioShark np, normally I kinda know my way around ATI drivers but your case was just too much for me :(

htorque

22:34

ati on linux - a never-ending story of issues?

Octavian Damiean

shudders

I don't even want to remember.

jrg

Somehow, somewhere, while I was trying to install something, collapsing windows got set to the default in my compiz config.

Octavian Damiean

My problems were back in the ATI 9800 time though. :P

Bruno Pereira

@htorque naaa, the issue can also be something else. I could not find any bug reports about it

jrg

how the heck do i reset compiz? (unity --reset did NOT work)

Bruno Pereira

22:37

ATI drivers are very very good at the moment

jrg

Do I just nuke all .compiz-1 dirs?

bioShark

lol . ATI issue Pandora box opened :)

htorque

nuking ~/.compiz-1 is fine

jrg

nuked.

htorque

but i'd check if you are using the unity profile in ccsm

bioShark

22:37

definitely going for a Nvidia next time arround

htorque

ccsm → preferences button on the left

profile should say 'unity'

i once had this set to 'Default' and wondered why the compiz changes didn't do anything. :D

jrg

Yeah i'm using the unity profile

Octavian Damiean

Oh my god ... my ATI driver problems were almost nine years ago.

Just realized what that means.

Bruno Pereira

@bioShark

bioShark

@BrunoPereira cool

@BrunoPereira As I am stating in the question, it's not a show stopper, because I don't require constant log-out/log-in, but the simple fact that I know the problem is there, it gives me the feeling of unstable system :)

htorque

22:41

haha, when i read "challenge accepted" i have a different picture in mind :D

Bruno Pereira

@htorque wuut?

jrg

Compiz has now wasted three hours of my life.

way to go.

htorque

@BrunoPereira ah, just forget it. :D

@jrg but you have learned a lot of useless stuff!

jrg

@htorque Key word there - useless.

htorque

there's no compiz in unity-2d. just sayin'... ;D

bioShark

22:44

by the way, what do you guys think about ccsm possibly being sacked from the default repo?

jrg

@bioShark I LOVE THE IDEA

@htorque yeah, but also no window snapping

bioShark

:)

jrg

I need my window snapping

Bruno Pereira

and apparently is "lightweight"!

htorque

don't see the logic. don't like the idea. :)

@jrg yeah, that's the major downside.

jrg

22:45

Give me window snapping and I'm a unity 2D user for life.

htorque

still a memory hog :-(

Bruno Pereira

what is window snapping?

jrg

take a window, and then drag it to the side of the screen

htorque

that aero-like behavior (compiz grid)

bioShark

my opinion is that who ever wants to install it, knows it's way around and will quickly find the external PPA to install it. But the average Joe will definitely break his system

Bruno Pereira

22:47

oh god, I am so happy since I only use Windows, takes the problems away!

jrg

nothing wrong with that

@BrunoPereira imma gonna kill you

htorque

if i want an 'average joe'-safe environment i go buy a mac.

Bruno Pereira

or a calculator, i hear those are also safe to use

jrg

even that isn't uh, shall we say foolproof.

yay. time to purge my system of all the packages i'm not using. I'll... be here for a few hours.

what the heck?!

htorque

generated almost 11k rep this month \o/

jrg

22:57

it wants to remove all sorts of things I need!!

stupid tasksel

@htorque 11K?!

htorque

1238 votes (two got deleted grrrr)

produced - not earned :D

jrg

oh... i was going to say...

i was freaking out there for a minute

:D

htorque

haha, i'm not Bruno Pereira or Rinzwind

Bruno Pereira

even @fossfreedom felt from his chair there ;)

@htorque 11k? Challenge accepted!

htorque

he'll soon beat oli

5,654 rep this months

jrg

23:01

I'm going to have to re-install Ubuntu again... trying to recover from tasksel is going to take more time then a re-install.

htorque

if only i knew which lib* packages i don't need

the rest is easy.

jrg

synaptic almost made things easy for me.

yeah it wasn't the most user friendly tool, but it did the job

htorque

still use it on a daily base

can't say that about the software center

jrg

thats true.

yeah, i'll wait for tasksel to finish breaking my system, then i'll re-install.

HAHA.

libreoffice got removed from my system

stupid tasksel

Jorge Castro

Tonight I will have tacos

Bruno Pereira

23:09

and beer?

Marco Ceppi

tacossoundsogoodrightnow

Jorge Castro

nah, just tacos

Bruno Pereira

:(

htorque

anything interesting in regulators to close?

50 minutes and 22 close votes left

Bruno Pereira

evul stare @htorque

jrg

23:12

@htorque I'm going to hunt you down since you still have close votes.

htorque

50 minutes!

i need like 10 to make them go away :P

jrg

Make them all be gone.

htorque

sure

jrg

honestly, i'm starting to obsess over "do i have enough close votes?!" :P

Jorge Castro

I am out too

Marco Ceppi

23:14

I have ∞ votes remaining

jrg

difference between us - you've been doing this since forever, and i've only started a few weeks ago.

htorque

"jorge, no tacos before you've used up all your votes!"

Bruno Pereira

lol

jrg

good one.

Marco Ceppi

I have to work late tonight, start filling up the regulator room

jrg

23:15

dinner in a moment, then i'll try and fill it up

we're going after duplicates until the next data dump tells us about ones we might have missed.

Jorge Castro

/me hits some Dragon Age in the meantime

Bruno Pereira

time to sleep, I'll pick the "leftovers" tomorrow. gn

htorque

askubuntu.com/tools?tab=close&daterange=today → that shows only how many close votes a question got today, not "active today, total votes" as i thought d'oh

@BrunoPereira good night

bioShark

@JorgeCastro hope you play DA1, not 2

DA2 in IMHO was a fail compared to the feel of the first one

Jorge Castro

I didn't even bother with the 2nd one

htorque

23:23

out of votes /o\

anyone using duckduckgo over https? is it only slow for me?

bioShark

@JorgeCastro my wife make level design for DA1. Well community, not actual job at Bioware

lazyPower

@JorgeCastro DA was crazy fun.

thats intense bioShark. Makes me sorry i have the xbox version

I'd like to see the CC for it

bioShark

:)

well I never liked the idea of a console. Nothing compares to the good old mouse in games

lazyPower

I will agree with you to an extent. You dont get the same kind of vegetative enjoyment from intense mousing. Theres quite a bit to be said for vegging out on the couch with a controller in hand mindlessly bashing zombies or w/e

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