Ask Ubuntu General Room

Gilles

10:00 PM

@JorgeCastro ah, thanks

could stand being linked from wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand

Jorge Castro

I just needed to use it yesterday

oh good idea, I'll fix that

ah nuts, the page has been locked by IS, I'll file a ticket on it

Gilles

Er, does AU use the official Ubuntu colors, or yet another set of shades?

Jorge Castro

they're official

the design guy from Canonical at the time worked on it and worked with Jin on it

Gilles

#dd4814 it is then

N.N.

two more questions to weed from the unanswered: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/459/… meta.askubuntu.com/questions/846/…

Jorge Castro

10:18 PM

good to know our answer rate on Meta is handled!

ugh, looks like I picked the wrong box to mess with without versioning /etc

@MarcoCeppi the S3 mirror stuff is done and tested, off to IS now to move the DNS. It's going to be awesome

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro Fo your blog?

Jorge Castro

no, for the ubuntu mirrors

my blog is done, I just need to get a domain and cloudfront it

N.N.

From 69 unanswered to 60 unanswered on meta in less than an hour

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi it was kind of stupidly easy to set up the blog.

N.N.

It is sad that I was responsible for getting from a nice number to a worse

Jorge Castro

10:20 PM

@MarcoCeppi I think I might just start shoving all sorts of things in s3 buckets

N.N.

at least the latter is a smaller number

Octavian Damiean

Out of votes. :(

Gilles

0

A: Is the ubuntu-desktop tag immortal ?

George Edison

Lol.

Octavian Damiean

Right, @NN Use Trogdor for completed tag burninations.

Gilles

10:23 PM

I really suck at graphic stuff. Feel free to replace with a better-colored image.

Jorge Castro

\o/

Octavian Damiean

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Q: I made us some Trogdor graphics!

We seem to have a tradition of using the Homestar Runner character 'Trogdor the Burninator' to request tag deletion. I thought we could use crisper images, so I made my own. >:)

Jorge Castro

it would suck if it was better.

the crazy half drawn nature is the best part

N.N.

@Gilles You beat me. You even wrote a nice alt text for it!

Octavian Damiean

:D

N.N.

10:24 PM

@OctavianDamiean aye, the batman light look alike is nice

Gilles

@OctavianDamiean I took iglvzx's version and replaced the colors by Ubuntu ones

Octavian Damiean

I see, Trugdur, Trogdor's Ubuntu twin.

N.N.

@OctavianDamiean You mentioned Trugdur now you have to draw Trugdur for us to see!

Octavian Damiean

lol

I'm really not good at hand-drawing. :P

N.N.

no excuses

Octavian Damiean

10:30 PM

I'm not bad at drawing free-hand circles though. :D

N.N.

maybe Trugdur's body is a red free-hand circle with two legs?

Octavian Damiean

epic. :D

jrg

:D

linux has 19% of the SO market!!! :P

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Iain

would you like this serverfault.com/questions/358965/… ?

Octavian Damiean

This looks like a good question in my opinion.

jrg

10:39 PM

I second @OctavianDamiean's sentiment.

Iain

it's all yours

Octavian Damiean

gah ... I can't vote.

Iain

I should spend more time on AU so I could vote in your election

N.N.

One more question to clean out from the unanswered: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/225/moderator-pro-tem-announcement

Octavian Damiean

@Iain Well you can still make it. 24 rep is not much. :)

jrg

10:44 PM

@NN thats not really an answer...

besides, whats up with your uh, obsession with the meta answer rate? :P

N.N.

@jrg IMO it is still better than it living forever among the unanswered at meta

jrg

shrug ok

N.N.

@jrg It makes sense to clean out the unanswered so that unanswered question that deserves attention are easier to find and to stop it from getting hogged in the future.

Octavian Damiean

It is also nice to read the old questions. :)

N.N.

@jrg I even heard that SX mods have been encouraged to attend to answer rate at metas

Iain

10:48 PM

@jrg mods were recently asked to pay particular attention to answering questions on site metas - they are our townhalls

jrg

@NN I see.

@Iain Oh, that makes sense.

N.N.

In other words, my obsession makes sense!

Iain

unanswered questions are sad

jrg

I mean, I'm active on meta, but I was just trying to figure out why NN was going all OCD on the meta answer rate in the same way htorque goes OCD over mispelled ubonuts. :P

Jorge Castro

which is the one that isn't source in an ssh login, .bashrc right?

jrg

10:49 PM

its .profile iirc

N.N.

In the future AU meta might not bee as easy to navigate as it is now because it will contains much more questions and then it is good to straighten it now.

@jrg All sad bastards needs to focus their OCD on something. Currently I focus on meta answer rate.

Jorge Castro

@jrg man I can't stop messing with octopress

jrg

@NN :D

Jorge Castro

even when I save the built in webserver detects and I just refresh my browser

jrg

@JorgeCastro :D

Jorge Castro

10:52 PM

it's totally awesome

jrg

its slick isn't it?

Octavian Damiean

What the heck is Octopress ... now you got me interested. :P

jrg

@OctavianDamiean octopress.org

static blogging for nerds.

and you write your posts in markdown!!

George Edison

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jrg

@GeorgeEdison Computer! How do I add a PPA?

George Edison

10:53 PM

Lol.

It only works on Chrome, though.

jrg

yeah, i noticed. Y U H8 FIREFOX? :( (and yes I know why you can't do it in firefox)

Octavian Damiean

@GeorgeEdison That's kinda sick!

George Edison

It's not really that much :P

It just appends x-webkit-speech to the search box.

That's it.

Octavian Damiean

I didn't even know that Chromium supports voice-recognition.

jrg

Oh crud, this is why I don't like rolling my own auth stuff.

just found a security hole - if you craft a cookie with userid=1, you can get in. :S

Octavian Damiean

10:57 PM

Wait, rake?

jrg

@OctavianDamiean yes, octopress is ruby.

Octavian Damiean

Oy!

Right, it ... uh ... looks interesting but not that interesting.

George Edison

@OctavianDamiean I didn't either until yesterday.

Jorge Castro

@OctavianDamiean yeah so that's why I was up until 3 in the morning

Octavian Damiean

heh

Jorge Castro

10:59 PM

"oh maybe I can get by with enough ruby to not waste my .... OH NO... TOO LATE."

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jrg

So, i'm not walking you through ruby install like I did jorge, so just look at my answer here bro. narrows eyes - askubuntu.com/questions/31922/problem-installing-ruby-and-gems/…

Octavian Damiean

lol

Jorge Castro

it is quite cool though

jrg

my octopress blog is almost stuff OP, but i'm working on some tweaks.

Octavian Damiean

Oh no thanks. Don't worry. Not even a wild herd of Unicorns in glitterlust would ever get me to learn anything Ruby related. :)

N.N.

11:00 PM

@jrg Is there some special reason you use inline markup for one-line commands in that answer?

jrg

@NN Other than thats the code thing?

I use backticks for commands, greater than for quotes from blog posts, huge code snippets or something like that.

personal style I guess. shrug

N.N.

@jrg well most people use code block for commands on their own line

IMO it is easier to read that way

jrg

Ruby is so easy on the eyes that I can get away with it. ;)

Oh my, this is just too funny. - github.com/AndrewVos/this_will_rm_rf_your_shit

Jorge Castro

@jrg I added some stuff on the top right of mine

jorgecastro.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

gotta have my flair

oh dude, stackads, I need that!

jrg

I need to add flair, the countdown for 12.04 and i also need to do stackads/

Jorge Castro

11:15 PM

Ads done

that was easy

George Edison

@JorgeCastro Guess what?

wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stackad

Jorge Castro

@GeorgeEdison you wrote me a charm?

George Edison

^--- Live as of like 5 minutes ago :)

Jorge Castro

dude, NICE!

let me blog that bad boy.

hmm, actually, @MarcoCeppi can you blog it? Mine is in a state of transition

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro Yeah, when I get home tonight

Valentine dinners for the misses and the misses mother

Jorge Castro

11:16 PM

\m/

ah, I just ordered her 2 gifts

almost missed the cutoff, <3 amazon

jrg

Hey George, does this have the most recent up-to-date stuff? - stackapps.com/questions/741/…

@JorgeCastro oh, and you can do  in octopress as well

Jorge Castro

it appears to, I just tried it

yeah, I don't have anything long to try it on yet.

jrg

so that way you don't have one MASSIVE blog post taking up the whole page

George Edison

@jrg The little banner at the top has the most up-to-date stuff.

Jorge Castro

they seem to work fine on my blog @jrg

@jrg I'm going to delete all these when I have exports of my tumblr stuff

jrg

11:21 PM

I can't figure out that openURI thing, i'll ask someone on IRC later

because now i'm curious.

Jorge Castro

ooh, I like your censored banner thing

jrg

thats via cloudflare, not me.

George Edison

There, 2buntu is using the plugin now.

Jorge Castro

@GeorgeEdison have you ever added up how many generic SE scripts/tools you've made?

you have to be like #1

George Edison

@JorgeCastro Not really... I think it's over 2 dozen by now... :)

ajmitch

11:27 PM

Alright, I finally gave in & bought an SSD for my laptop, now I just have to wait for it to arrive & then have the fun of migrating data

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Jorge Castro

@ajmitch and once you do you'll never buy a normal disk again

ajmitch

@JorgeCastro sure I will, but only for storing larger files like from DVDs :)

it's why I have a 1.5TB external drive for my laptop

This may put me off buying a new laptop for another year or two, now that I also found why suspend/resume was breaking

George Edison

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There we go.

jrg

Jorge, did you use the __config.yml stuff for G+ or did you just do a custom aside?

Jorge Castro

11:35 PM

just the confi.yml stuff

I pasted in that ridiculous 348753 digit ID G+ uses

I don't get why they don't do plus.google.com/jorge.castro

jrg

Google Apps users.

George Edison