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02:02

EOL Notice: Precise Pangolin (12.04) will be End of Life starting April 28, 2017.

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Nathan Osman

Aw, beat me to it :P

Android Dev

So I just tried the AIDE app, and wow, it's horrible!. Constant pop-ups asking you to pay $10 for the full version, it won't even let you save files unless you pay! Immediate uninstall.

Know any decent IDE apps for Android @NathanOsman?

Nathan Osman

Android Studio is what I use.

Android Dev

Right, that's what I use on my desktop, but I mean an actual Android application that's an IDE

Seth

@AskUbuntuMeta Wow. RIP 12.04.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

02:07

On another note as 12.04 enters EOL, 17.04 enters BOL

Nathan Osman

@AndroidDev The only one I've ever tried is the one you just mentioned.

Android Dev

@NathanOsman I'm guessing you had a similarly bad experience?

Nathan Osman

It was just too awkward.

If Java brings my desktop to its knees, think of what it will do to my poor phone.

...on a screen one-eighth the size.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman do you know how to use Inkscape?

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 A little bit.

Zacharee1

02:09

do you know how to import paths?

Nathan Osman

Import? From where?

Android Dev

@NathanOsman What's funny though is that phones nowadays have QHD resolution and my 23" monitor is only 1080p

Zacharee1

clipboard maybe

Nathan Osman

@AndroidDev Yes, that is a bit ironic. And my phone does have 6 GB of RAM...

Zacharee1

I just need something that will subtract one path from another

so I get a path-shaped "hole"

Nathan Osman

02:11

@Zacharee1 Select first path, hold shift, select second, ctrl+-

Zacharee1

how do I add paths though?

Nathan Osman

Where are the paths?

Zacharee1

I manually edited an SVG with the path I wanted, but it'd be nice not to have to do that

in plain text inside Android XML vectors

Nathan Osman

Oh... that.

Android vector images aren't the same as SVGs, I don't think.

Zacharee1

no but the path data is

I was able to import one path

by pasting the path data into an SVG

Nathan Osman

02:12

Ah, can't you just open the SVG in Inkscape then?

Zacharee1

but there has to be a way to paste one in in the XML editor

Android Dev

@NathanOsman You know, it's really sad how many good quality free apps there are on the play store. If you want a good, free app without ads, I guess you just have to make it yourself :(

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 I haven't used that, unfortunately.

Zacharee1

blegh

Nathan Osman

@AndroidDev I've made a couple :D

Zacharee1

02:14

how do I 1:1 resize at least?

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 ...and I don't know that either :(

I don't use Inkscape that much.

Zacharee1

this program is worse than GIMP

Nathan Osman

Hey, Gimp isn't so bad. I wrote part of it.

Zacharee1

It's good, but it's complex

I have no idea how to do the simplest thing in Inkscape at all

Nathan Osman

If you ever figure out how the "snap to..." functions work, let me know :P

Zacharee1

02:16

lol

Android Dev

@NathanOsman You have a lot of people complaining that there aren't any camera settings for ChronoSnap :)

Zacharee1

shift isn't selecting them both

Nathan Osman

@AndroidDev Yeah, it's one of those things I've been meaning to get to but haven't had the time yet.

Android Dev

@NathanOsman Is it open source? Maybe I could make a few commits :)

Nathan Osman

@AndroidDev github.com/nathan-osman/chronosnap

WinEunuuchs2Unix

02:19

@AndroidDev What are the pixel dimensions for QHD?

Zacharee1

2560x1440

@NathanOsman do you at least know how to center one layer on another?

Android Dev

Gah! @Zacharee1 Beat me to it!

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 That, I do know

Zacharee1

oh good

you're useful after all :p

WinEunuuchs2Unix

2560x1440 has been out for a few years rigth? It's 4 k that's supposed to be the next covettied thing

Android Dev

02:20

Lol!

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 shift + ctrl + a opens the page you need.

Zacharee1

@AskUbuntuMeta rip

@NathanOsman danke

wtf is this

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 Now it depends if you want them centered relative to each other, the page, the selection, etc.

Zacharee1

each other

Nathan Osman

So change "relative to" to "last selected" or "first selected".

Zacharee1

02:21

hey, it works!

the path thing is still not working though

Nathan Osman

^-- then click these two

Zacharee1

yup

centered and such

Nathan Osman

Great.

Zacharee1

just this subtract isn't working

Nathan Osman

Yeah, that one is hard to use.

Couple of quick checks... are they both paths?

Zacharee1

02:23

yes, but in separate layers

Nathan Osman

Oh. Layers.

Don't know if that makes a difference...

Zacharee1

well it doesn't work

and if I put them under the same layer, I can't see the second path

why couldn't LG just have made this vector one path in the first place?

well, these vectors

I have to edit like 8

Android Dev

@NathanOsman Huh, maybe I'll downlaod it and poke around. Methinks it needs a bit UI eye candy :)

Nathan Osman

@AndroidDev I agree :D

@AndroidDev I also have an Android app for NitroShare but it's in private alpha at the moment.

It too will be ad-free and open source.

Android Dev

@NathanOsman I can't find where you define the capture resolution: github.com/nathan-osman/chronosnap/blob/master/app/src/main/…

Nathan Osman

02:30

@AndroidDev I don't think it does.

It just uses the default.

Hence the problem :D

Android Dev

@NathanOsman Oh, uhhh, okay then :D

Zacharee1

why is the bigger path hiding the smaller one, no matter where it goes?

Nathan Osman

Try selecting them in a different order.

Zacharee1

no I can't even see the smaller path in the first place

I tried putting them in the same layer

it just disappears on screen

Android Dev

@NathanOsman Hmm, well I think the first thing to do is have a live preview of the camera

Nathan Osman

02:40

I agree.

Zacharee1

OK I re-imported the paths

now they're right next to each other

but I can't subtract

omg

it worked!

Nathan Osman

\o/

Zacharee1

o_O

yet it doesn't seem to have

it's just a solid color in Android

oh derp

Nathan Osman

Want me to take back the happy guy?

Zacharee1

I guess it'd help to actually paste the path data....

uhhhhh

why is it so big

TheXed

02:52

hi

WinEunuuchs2Unix

hi

did you get your snow day?

TheXed

@WinEunuuchs2Unix hell no...I got 3 out of my four building with no internet service for 2 days though!

WinEunuuchs2Unix

that's a drag

Nathan Osman

@TheXed someone tripped over a wire again? :D

Zacharee1

YESSSSS

IT WORKS

WOOOOO

Nathan Osman

02:55

I already pasted the happy guy.

Sorry, you don't get him twice.

Zacharee1

darn

now my day is ruined

RUINED

SOB

Nathan Osman

Let me see what else I have.

Zacharee1

it's 11PM, shut up :p

TheXed

@NathanOsman actually it was basically the western side of Illinois...

Nathan Osman

How's that?

Zacharee1

02:57

old Donald Duck is creepy

there appears to be some sort of innuendo there...

Nathan Osman

Easter is coming...

And before I forget, Happy Pi Day everyone.

Zacharee1

hue

my cat is being weird

and in other news, it's winter

oh no....

<path android:fillColor="#ffffffff" android:pathData="M31,31m-31,0a31,31 0,1 1,62 0a31,31 0,1 1,-62 0" />
    <path android:fillColor="#ff000000" android:pathData="M49,35.5l0,2l-2,-0.4l0,-2z" />
    <path android:fillColor="#ff000000" android:pathData="M49,33.4l0,2.1l-2,-0.4l0,-2.6z" />
    <path android:fillColor="#ff000000" android:pathData="M49,31.5l0,1.9l-2,-0.9l0,-1z" />
    <path android:fillColor="#ff000000" android:pathData="M49,31.4l0,0.1l-2,0l0,1l-13,-5.7l0,-0.1l2,0l0,-1z" />
    <path android:fillColor="#ff000000" android:pathData="M49,37.5l-14,-2.7l0,-2l12,2.3l0,2z" />

why did LG do that?

the first three are the same line...

and using Union, those 2billion paths turn into 1...

2 down, 4 to go

@Zanna? o_O

oh thank god

this one is only two paths

methinks the LG designers got lazy

Nathan Osman

03:29

Could be...

Zacharee1

well most of these toggles are two paths: background and shape

the rest are, well you saw my paste

there are about 5 paths in there just to draw squares

alright

vectors modified

now it's time to do some Java and Smali

yay...

@KazWolfe how do I define a base16 integer in Java?

or do I just write the decimal equivalent of 0xff?

oh wait

this is using a text input...

Nathan Osman

The 0x00 syntax works for hexadecimal numbers.

Zacharee1

so I can do int test = 0xff?

and that would be equal to const/16 v1, 0xff

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 yes.

MJB

Hi all, i was looking at my answer to a question, but i'm getting a different result than people who've tested it. It involves altering 1 line in .zshrc. I think there might be differences per distro. Could anyone help me test? askubuntu.com/a/23631/9656

Nathan Osman

03:36

That will be equal to decimal value 255.

Zacharee1

thanks

that's what I need

this function takes in the values separate, which makes sense

but that means I need to make three Settings keys

luk3yx

03:51

@MJB Do I put both commands in .zshrc?

MJB

@luk3yx Yes, if you don't have it allready, pls add the inc_append_history and share_history.

Zacharee1

can someone buy me another GPU?

MJB

The way I tested it: Open a few screens (screen/dvtm/tmux) 'echo "testting screen 1" ' at every open session. Every teststring should be visible at every other session.

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 ebay.com/itm/STB-3dfx-Voodoo2-graphics-card-12-MB-PCI-/…

That one?

MJB

I've only tested Debian stable and Arch.

Zacharee1

03:56

@NathanOsman perfect

blegh

why is QuickTools so unstable?

luk3yx

@MJB I did echo "testing screen 1" on one screen, however history doesn't show it on the others.

MJB

@luk3yx, what distro are you running?

luk3yx

@MJB Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS 64-bit.

Zacharee1

"Invalid reg index of 8" wat

MJB

@luk3yx, could you give me a zsh version? Also, what did you use to open different terminals?

luk3yx

04:04

I tried both the normal terminal emulator and byobu-tmux.
I am using zsh 5.1.1 (x86_64-ubuntu-linux-gnu)

MJB

@luk3yx, thanks, i'll be trying that in a WM.

luk3yx

@MJB Okay.

MJB

@luk3yx, oops, meant VM.

luk3yx

@MJB You can edit posts.

If I upvote this question, would it seem as if I support 12.04's EOL?

MJB

@luk3yx I know, i'd like to add which distro's or version's zsh support which settings (if that makes any sense).

luk3yx

04:13

What is the Raiders of the Lost Downboat room for?

Zanna

@Zacharee1 not really no

Zacharee1

wat

Zanna

Not really here

luk3yx

@luk3yx It's the abandoned questions cleanup.

Zacharee1

04:28

@NathanOsman is 0x255 technically valid?

Nathan Osman

Well, yes, but it isn't decimal value 255.

It's decimal value 597.

Zacharee1

shoot

eh, I'll just use an if statement

Nathan Osman

If you want 255, just put 255 :P

The 0x prefix signifies a hexadecimal number.

@KazWolfe JUST THE PERSON I WAS LOOKING FOR.

Do you know if there's a method for retrieving the rooms a user is in?

Zacharee1

well I want to account for inputs of both 00-ff and 0-255

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 What is "23"?

Zacharee1

04:37

?

Kaz Wolfe

On phone. One sec.

Nathan Osman

It's both a valid hexadecimal number and a valid decimal number.

Zacharee1

ok

Nathan Osman

So how can you know which one was intended?

Kaz Wolfe

New shirt has correct spelling.

Nathan Osman

04:38

\o/

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman idk

I'll just accept hex

Nathan Osman

You could write that hex numbers must be prefixed by 0x.

Then it would be unambiguous.

Zacharee1

That's what I was thinking

Kaz Wolfe

@Seth, the front --^

Zacharee1

Gradle is so finicky in build time

sometimes it's half a second

sometimes it's 5 minutes

Kaz Wolfe

04:43

@NathanOsman, https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/thumbs/1345.

Check the rooms element

>>> json.loads(requests.get("https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/thumbs/1345").text)['rooms']
[{'name': 'Room for Nathan Osman and RPi Awesomeness', 'id': 49120, 'activity': 471, 'last_post': 1488944602}, {'name': 'Ask Ubuntu General Room', 'id': 201, 'activity': 100137, 'last_post': 1489552740}, {'name': 'Sandbox', 'id': 1, 'activity': 1648, 'last_post': 1489552534}]

Zacharee1

> java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout{a67d1d3 V.ED..... ........ 0,0-446,179 #7f0e00af app:id/red_qt_val}"

wat

Kaz Wolfe

@Zacharee1 that does not look like a number.

Zacharee1

I guess this doesn't work: int red = Integer.parseInt(redString);

Kaz Wolfe

i think you need to get the integer from redString which i assume is a textbox

Zacharee1

oh shoot

DERPDERPDERP

maybe I should go to bed

I know what I did

I am King Derp

bow to me

Nathan Osman

04:51

@KazWolfe thanks!

Kaz Wolfe

@NathanOsman You are not to bang your head against desk.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, +1 more: www.supplementoffers.org/nuvella/ by summercoat on askubuntu.com

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman Integer.parseInt() isn't happy with 0x00

Nathan Osman

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Q: How to convert a hexadecimal string to long in java?

I want to convert a hex string to long in java. I have tried with general conversion. String s = "4d0d08ada45f9dde1e99cad9"; long l = Long.valueOf(s).longValue(); System.out.println(l); String ls = Long.toString(l); But I am getting this error message: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For i...

@Zacharee1 ---^

Zacharee1

eyy

Integer.decode worked!

Seth

04:56

@KazWolfe sweet!

Kaz Wolfe

yeah, they fixed it but the data is still old

(number of people)

Seth

They really require a lot of server stuff that I don't have right now though so I won't be finishing it. After a basic IP/domain then you need an SMTP server.. as you know.

Kaz Wolfe

who knows, you might get a newer shirt with updated data

do you want an ipv6 box to play around with?

Seth

On second thought.. @NathanOsman would hectane work on IPv6?

I've got $150 AWS credit.. I just need a cheap credit card that won't kill me if something happens

Kaz Wolfe

you can use python's http.server for web

Seth

04:59

Not really looking forward to configuring postfix or similar though

Kaz Wolfe

yeah, i understand lol

i'm not sure why hectane wouldn't work on ipv6

github.com/mdom/smokesignal - WTF

Seth

@KazWolfe me either

@KazWolfe O_O

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Where should I ask questions on x3270 emulator(z/Os)?

This is a topic that you don't see often. I want to know where it is appropriate to ask questions regarding this topic, since it's not Linux-related. However, I'm running the emulator on Ubuntu and would want to copy my remote files over, which I don't know how to do. Where do I have a better c...

discussion

Zacharee1

I feel so accomplished lol

maybe it's because it's 1AM

Nathan Osman

06:11

@Seth I think so?

I'm not at all 100% sure on that.

I can't come up with any reason why it wouldn't work.

@Seth You can also set alerts on AWS if your bill goes higher than a certain amount.

Nathan Osman

06:23

In fact, I think you can set alerts on DO as well.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

06:52

1

Q: How to share screen between Centos 7 and Ubuntu 14?

I am using Remina Remote Desktop Client to share screen between ubuntu machines. But I did not find Remina in centos.

ubuntu centos

Serg

07:10

Poor answer， link in username askubuntu.com/a/893179/295286

Zanna

I just downvoted and deleted voted - not sure it's flaggable

Nathan Osman

> "The patent on S3 Texture Compression expires on October 2, 2017."

\o/

Seven more months to go.

As for MP3, December 31, 2017.

Jacob Vlijm

07:27

WHY oh WHY keep people tagging cli questions version specific...

Zanna

07:47

because they don't know any better :)

Nathan Osman

So I get this back from one of the chat URLs:

{
    id: 201,
    name: "Ask Ubuntu General Room",
    last_post: 1489562799,
    activity: 100149
}

Anybody have any guesses what the activity field is for?

Zanna

fun stuff?

Nathan Osman

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Jacob Vlijm

@Zanna yeah, that must be it of course.

edwinksl

@NathanOsman looks like the number of messages you have in this chat

Zanna

08:02

@JacobVlijm sorry, crappy non-answer, downvote

Jacob Vlijm

Haha, yeah, it's an answer.

Zanna

08:13

I feel the same and enjoy moaning about it, I knew it was not a question asking for an answer haha

how can I copy a file from /foo to /bar in 14.04?

Jacob Vlijm

or in 14.08? :)

Zanna

what actually gets my goat is when people add the entire output of lsb_release -a and uname -a to their post

I know I am just really grumpy

but the redundancy hurts my eyes

Jacob Vlijm

:)

Yeah. I was just decompressing for removing the n-th useless version tag.

Zanna

08:30

good job ^_^

I can't access these images :/ askubuntu.com/questions/235863/…

Jacob Vlijm

Me neither. dead links...

Zanna

08:45

even on wayback... on the homepage I get 403

Nathan Osman

09:07

Does stock Android have screen-off gestures?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

09:27

0

Q: Extremely high memory usage Android studio and emulator

After upgrading Android Studio to 2.3, I've encountered extremely high memory usage. Previously, I would keep my pc(including Android studio and emulator) on for several weeks, and RAM usage would stay below 12GB. However, after upgrading to 2.3, it takes about 6 hours of work until system runs o...

ubuntu qemu android

Rinzwind

10:37

@NathanOsman dont think so :P

cl-netbox

Hello :)

@Thijser Good morning ! :) I checked your bug report and saw that nobody confirmed the bug so far ... did the other users you mentioned yesterday forget to do it ? They should do it soon, because otherwise the developers won't start looking into it. :)

jokerdino

10:53

@Zanna web.archive.org/web/20131110080008/http://askubuntu.com/…

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1

Q: How to install package with -t option from ppa

I'am running ubuntu xenial in virtualbox. I bound some PPAs in my System with apt-pinning. An Example cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/xbmc # Apt-pinning für ppa:xbmc Package: * Pin: origin ppa.launchpad.net Pin-Priority: 50 How can I install kodi with apt install -t something kodi LANG=C ap...

ubuntu apt

Zanna

11:09

@jokerdino genius ^_^

I am going to edit that when I get back. Thank you!

Pavel Sayekat

What is the Ubuntu Server's default firewall?

iptables?

jokerdino

I think ufw

anonymous2

12:00

Can't believe. AU pulled this answer for a VLQ review audit. Um, yeah.

VannTile Ianito

12:28

Hi. Anyone has any idea why is this - use nvidia-prime to select igpu over dgpu from config-prime-select-intel-all - selected in Adittional drivers. Or even what it is?

Rinzwind

12:45

@anonymous2 I can! it is a post by @terdon :=D

anonymous2

@Rinzwind Yes, that was like the second thing I noticed about it. First thing I noticed was its length. Then I started reading and thought, "This has got to be a review audit, there's nothing else it could be.

Rinzwind

see http://askubuntu.com/a/661924/15811 for instance
You need to start a program and select it

@anonymous2 post by Terdon are always suspicious. He isn't a Ubuntu user :=D

anonymous2

@Rinzwind Serious?

Rinzwind

lol

anonymous2

He must at least be a Linux or at very least a Unix user?

Rinzwind

12:48

he uses debian or arch

anonymous2

@Rinzwind Ah.

Rinzwind

yeah he is an U+L mod :D

anonymous2

@Rinzwind Yeah, I know.

Double mod-ship.

Not as bad as Rory Alsop.

He's got 7 diamonds beside his name.

Rinzwind

:D

that's a lot

anonymous2

@Rinzwind Admittedly, some of them are on beta sites, which generally take less work, but still... a fellow has to sleep sometime.

saveit

13:21

oli

Rinzwind

... aint here :=)

cl-netbox

Rinzy ! :)

Rinzwind

Boxy!

we also have an Anony! today :=D

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind what is that ? :D

Rinzwind

see 7 lines above this oen

cl-netbox

13:24

aha ... hahaha

Rinzwind

bbl. vpn kills internet

cl-netbox

@saveit You invited me to another room ... I'm there ! :)

@saveit If you don't post something, there won't be a conversation ! :)

@saveit Okay, I left the other room, when you want something from me - just ping me ! :)

saveit

13:56

Hi I need help in spark mapr streaming

Can any one help me in this

David Foerster

14:32

@Zacharee1 Thanks for the recommendation! With some equalizing they're good given the relatively low price. They also block out external noise quite well. I still prefer my Samson SR850 over-ear headphones even though they're far bulkier.

Zacharee1

you got em?

David Foerster

Yep

Zacharee1

I like them too

they do better than the $150 B&0 earbuds I got with my phone (for free)

David Foerster

Is Brainwavz one of those brands that copy popular name-brand headphone models to make much cheaper no-frills versions of them with roughly the same audio quality?

That's what Samson does to AKG.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidFoerster yup

they do a apparently very good clone of the old version of my favourite headphones ever

(Fisher audio FA003)

David Foerster

14:39

The headband of the Samson version is made of on of the cheapest suitable plastic materials I've seen for this kind of stuff (compared to (faux) leather), but as long as I retain a think layer of hair between it and my scalp I don't care.^^

Journeyman Geek

lol

Compare amazon.com/Brainwavz-HM5-Studio-Monitor-Headphones/dp/… and head-fi.org/products/fischer-audio-fa-003

David Foerster

The velour on the ear cushions is actually not that bad even though it could be much better. Apparently they're compatible with AKG's cushions which are relatively cheap as replacement parts.

Journeyman Geek

( fischeraudio.com/shop/fa-003-ti is the newer model, and essentially, you can, in theory swap out any of the parts on rhe m5 or the old fa003 with the new model

David Foerster

I should really get around to reinstall the dedicated sound card that I have lying around since I rediscovered it in my supplies box over a year ago…

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