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jrg

11:04

Whenever it comes through, that meta post will be fun.

Chan-Ho Suh

Eh, you woke up already? @jrg

jrg

Yeah. it's 7AM here.

Chan-Ho Suh

you got 6 hours... I guess that's plenty :-/

anyway, the S3-backed mirror is doing well and apparently they update it very quickly.

jrg

So it's something with archive.u.c

want me to put that in an answer?

Chan-Ho Suh

well, htorque said he uses archive.ubuntu.com and it's fine for him... and fine for jokerdino too

so I was thinking I'd test if there's a difference between using *.archive.u.c. versus just plain archive.u.c since I use * = us and some of the other people having this issue use *=zn, in, etc.

htorque suggested it might be related to some Oneiric bug report he saw long ago, but I don't think that is it, although I did upgrade from Oneiric...

jrg

11:10

idk

Chan-Ho Suh

anyway, your suggestion led to this workaround (or whatever this is) but I posted my own answer. If you want to put up your version, I'd be happy to remove mine... I mean, I don't need my own bounty :-/ I just wanted people to see the workaround.

Amith KK

►

jrg

nah, it's fine.

Amith KK

2KB of Cpu memory does that

jrg

hm...

i'll have to figure out if i should ethically refund the bounty or not

:S

Chan-Ho Suh

11:15

I'm too lazy to figure out the cause of the problem... I'd be happy to give the bounty to someone who figures it out, what's the deal with the servers.

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Chan-Ho Suh

Amith, that's a nice little device indeed

I don't get the "ulterior motive" comment in the question you just answered on meta, @jrg

What ulterior motive can someone have for encouraging an answerer to add content to his answer?

jrg

In the question? I didn't either

Chan-Ho Suh

I guess the "ulterior motive" is to make the site better? <shrug>

Amith KK

@ChanHoSuh Bounty

Shyam K

11:24

hi all

I'm back with my screen shot problem :(

cron tab to get a screen shot. Not working yet. :(

the python file is not executing.

#!/usr/bin/python
import gtk.gdk

def takeScreenshot():

w = gtk.gdk.get_default_root_window()
sz = w.get_size()
#print "The size of the window is %d x %d" % sz
pb = gtk.gdk.Pixbuf(gtk.gdk.COLORSPACE_RGB,False,8,sz[0],sz[1])
pb = pb.get_from_drawable(w,w.get_colormap(),0,0,0,0,sz[0],sz[1])
if (pb != None):
pb.save("screenshot.png","png")
# print "Screenshot saved to screenshot.png."
# print "Unable to get the screenshot."

Thats the code. Any ideas why the dumb file aint executing?

Chan-Ho Suh

@Amith, not sure what you mean.

Amith KK

@ChanHoSuh The motive is the bounty

@ShyamK Does it run whithout cron?

Shyam K

yes.

Chan-Ho Suh

The cron part is correct?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

1

Q: When is is NOT appropriate to use Links in my Answers?

I was first to answer this question yesterday with an answer something like (You will find all the information you need here. My link pointed to offical Ubuntu Documentation and the content answered the question in its entirety. In fact subsequent answers by others to this question had nothin...

discussion

Shyam K

11:32

@AmithKK yep and it still works.

@ChanHoSuh I think so..

26 18 16 5 * python /home/shyam/Desktop/python/screenshot/screenshot.py This was what it was.

jrg

did you export the x server?

Shyam K

@jrg eh? x server?

jrg

6

A: Hourly Deja-Dup Backups?

Although it seems like the Déjà Dup code could not be easily modified to accomodate an hourly option, backups can be manually initiated and this can easily be added as a cron job that runs on the hour. Here are the steps you need to take: Run the following two commands in a terminal to enable ...

26 18 16 5 * env DISPLAY=:0 python /home/shyam/Desktop/python/screenshot/screenshot.py

that should do the trick

Shyam K

@jrg okay.. I'll try it out..

Chan-Ho Suh

nice

Shyam K

11:36

should I do the x server part?

cos I got another file running without this x server.. maybe its already enabled?

jrg

just that line above should do the trick

Shyam K

k

09 17 18 5 * What time does this indicate?

please dont be May 18, 5:09.. pretty please

cos if it is then it didn't work. :(

any other bright ideas ?

jrg

11:56

@AmithKK hey, did you know that Fedora lets you encrypt the entire hard drive?

from the installer?

It's not just /home...

Chan-Ho Suh

I recall something to the effect that cron time is not the same as standard time

Amith KK

@jrg Woah! Cool!

jrg

Chan-Ho is correct, it isn't. iirc, cron time is 24 hour based, and is also UTC

Shyam K

so in cron what does this mean 09 17 18 5 * ?

Shyam K

12:18

aaah.. phuey !! I can't get an answer here..

jrg

5

Q: Make [home] a synonym of [home-directory] and merge the two tags

There are 135 questions tagged home 52 questions tagged home-directory The excerpts for both are nearly the same, implying the same use: home: Questions about users' home folders or the actual /home directory are appropriate. home-directory The home directory is the directory in...

support tag-synonyms retag-request

if anyone has anything to say to the contrary, speak now (or soonish) or forever hold thy peace.

(or just hold it until you can write on meta about what an evil person i am.)

Chan-Ho Suh

@Shvam K, you've responded to help given in a rather snotty fashion, and you also apparently cannot look up what UTC is

What further help would you give to someone who responds like you?

Sathya

@jrg ya'll do this style, eh

jrg

@Sathya if it has more than like, 20 posts then i just do that poll thingy.

saves us trouble when it's wrong. ;P

Sathya

I see

there are quite a few such single-plural tags

Chan-Ho Suh

12:27

I've been noticing tags are kinda horrible

Sathya

will combine them all and post a q

jrg

ok, if you're willing to do that that'd be great.

those i have no problem with just merging, they shouldn't exist anyway. :P

Sathya

hehe, just trying to keep things down before they go way out of control ;p

Chan-Ho Suh

Posters often like to use tags instead of writing out detailed questions. So tags get overloaded. Not to mention, the tag descriptions tend to be uninformative, possibly exasperating the situation.

Sathya

anyhow, back later. heading home

@ChanHoSuh oh yes, I've seen that in Super User

Chan-Ho Suh

12:29

laterz Sathya

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Make [download] a synonym of [downloads] and merge the two tags

There are 73 questions tagged download 69 questions tagged downloads The two tags are redundant, please consider making download a synonym of downloads and merge the 2 tags (note:downloads has tag wiki, so having this as a master would be nice) Also, consider merging download-speed with dow...

support tag-synonyms retag-request status-complete

Sathya

part of Super User's anniversary we had a contest, which included crap cleanup

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A: Ideas for celebrating Super User's 2nd anniversary

Based on the feedback in this meta post and in chat, here is what I'm proposing for the contest categories right now. We have until Wednesday to finalize this, so we can get a post up Thursday. The duration of the contest will likely be 2 weeks. Some awards will be determined based on activity ...

jrg

> I know it is not much significant , but a cleanup is never bad.

@Ashu well said

Ashu

@jrg Thanks

Chan-Ho Suh

I wonder how many people look at tag descriptions.

In particular, whether new posters do.

jrg

12:32

for the first 3 months of my AU participation, i never did.

Chan-Ho Suh

They should send us T-shirts once we get a certain amount of rep.

jrg

:O now there's an idea

Ashu

@ChanHoSuh yeah you are right but this method would be easily violated (IMO)

jrg

SE does send swag out to random users

Chan-Ho Suh

Ashu, you're referring to my T-shirt idea?

Ashu

12:40

@ChanHoSuh yes i am

Chan-Ho Suh

Well, that's the thing. The amount of effort to game the system would be prohibitive. The result is after all, just an inexpensive item (branded by Canonical, no less).

We could set the rep limit to be 5000, say.

Then you get a T-shirt that says, "I have over 5000 reputation points on Ask Ubuntu and all I got was this crummy T-shirt."

Ask Ubuntu Meta

12:59

0

Q: Make [vista] a synonnym of [windows-vista] and merge the two

There are two tags vista with 29 questions windows-vista with just 5 I know it is not much significant , but a cleanup is never bad.

discussion status-completed tag-synonyms merge

Ashu

one question.. who posts these ask ubuntu meta questions in chat

Amith KK

WHAAT?

Ashu

@AmithKK is that WHAAT? for me

Shyam K

is there any code to find out the path to user desktop in python?

:D

Sorry I asked it here.. Guess I got no where else to go to. :(

Amith KK

"All torrent and file sharing sites such as The Pirate bay, Vimeo and Pastebin is blocked in india to protect "3" from the piracy "

jrg

13:02

You can ask on the site.

@AmithKK yeah, pastebin

Shyam K

@jrg directed at me?

jrg

@ShyamK Yes

more eyeballs, since not everyone on the site comes into chat

Shyam K

k I shall do that also.. But it would be nice if I got a quicker response from the chat :D

@jrg lol

Ashu

@AmithKK yeah even dailymotion... what is "3"

Amith KK

@Ashu Its a movie

jojo

13:06

could anyone show me a good website for learning LAMP in ubuntu

Ashu

@AmithKK i gotta start watching movies...

Amith KK

@ShyamK Its $HOME/Desktop

jojo

i need to start learning to create a website using apache,php,html/xhtml but i dont want to learn in windows

jrg

@Ashu and support those who support censorship? Nah.

I'll just rewatch (for the thirtieth time...) some movie from the blender foundation. ;D

Amith KK

BBL

Chan-Ho Suh

13:25

Wow, are they blocking those sites to protect a particular movie?

jrg

Because someone has a lot of money

Jorge Castro

whoo!

a bunch of dupe votes in the queue!

jrg

13:41

ok, cool

Jorge Castro

13:51

not your queue

the normal people queue was pretty full this morning though, mine was like 23

jokerdino

@AmithKK ????

jrg

14:07

oh, the one i check every night

jokerdino

is it alright if I go around proposing RSS feed bots for our AU tags in IRC channels?

jrg

Only if it's relevant.

jokerdino

I am a little afraid Jorge might have other ideas.

jrg

and only if you think they'd actually benefit from it

jokerdino

juju, community and app-devel.

can't think of anything else.

jrg

14:09

drop community, but juju and app-devel works

community is a crap tag iirc

jokerdino

Fair enough

Jorge Castro

juju and app-dev want IRC integration

community is an awesome tag!

jokerdino

community on the borderline i guess

Jorge Castro

ok the first few suck, but those are like when the site first started

and we were kind of more open ended

@jokerdino are you sure the ubuntu bot supports RSS and all that?

jokerdino

i don't think the ubuntu bot does. but i think we can get a IRC bot to do RSS feed.

Alan Bell said some bots do planet ubuntu feeds

jrg

14:28

derp. @jokerdino

jokerdino

contributing all yours

@jrg good that it is fixed now.

jrg

true that

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How to make a script executable by double clicking just like exe files in windows? http://askubuntu.com/questions/138908/how-to-make-a-script-executable-by-double-clicking-just-like-exe-files-in-window?atw=1 #launcher

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David Pfeffer

14:56

Hey - weird issue but my mouse is inverted in X

is there a way to flip it?

jokerdino

Flip the monitor? :)

David Pfeffer

ha ha :-)

jokerdino

You mean it is scrolling the other way?

David Pfeffer

no, like literally the mouse goes down when i go up

not the scroll wheel

jokerdino

oh that

askubuntu.com/questions/137444/… ?

I seem to remember a similar question but can't seem to find it.

Jacob Johan Edwards

15:26

@QuestionsFeed That question... will probably be a honey pot for people searching for the 99% applicable solution

jokerdino

If you are free, please contribute - askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/contributing

@AmithKK can you see if you can make an IRC bot out of this? kstars.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/…

Jorge Castro

15:42

sigh, down to 81% answer rate

Shyam K

@jrg Got the required code. Thanks for your suggestion. :)

jokerdino

@JorgeCastro :I What should we be doing?

Jorge Castro

what do you mean?

jokerdino

i mean, do you have anything to say about bringing the answer rate up?

Shyam K

what applications do you recommend I have installed on my lap to use in 12.04?

jokerdino

15:48

apps that you think might be useful to you.

you need to be more specific if you expect a better answer.

Shyam K

Also someone had suggested rfkiller for bluetooth connection.. but my lap still doesn't have a bluetooth connection :(

works fine in windows though

so any idea how to solve this issue?

Amith KK

@jokerdino Yo!

Hello all

jokerdino

@AmithKK hi

Shyam K

@jokerdino Apps that might be useful to me? No I just want a general perspective.. Something in the context.. 10 Apps that you must have on ubuntu 12.04

Something like that :)

jokerdino

ah, tomboy, shotwell. etc

Amith KK

15:51

@jokerdino The answer is yes

jokerdino

Nice. Get it to working for one of the AU tags.

Amith KK

@jokerdino Gtalk Please

Shyam K

so how to use rfkill ?

bluetooth issue please.. Any drivers of some sort that I may need to install?

Jorge Castro

@jokerdino reviewing, editing, voting to close, etc.

jokerdino

i am doing them as time allows.

I need help with this answer

0

A: Where does Unity store the chameleonic launcher/dash color?

As I was digging around the dconf settings, I found this setting. I am not sure where to find this in the system though.

Good night for now. If I can find it over night, I will update the answer tmrw.

Amith KK

16:00

@jokerdino Good Night

Shyam K

@jokerdino Good night then.

good night all. :)

Amith KK

16:47

The bot works @jokerdino

Amith KK

16:59

BBT

Good Night

Mahesh

17:15

ok, i'm back. :D

Bruno Pereira

hey o/

Mahesh

hi. @BrunoPereira. sorry didn't notice. was reading transcript and meta to update myself.

and can we make a question sticky in community bulliten?

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Q: Plea to the decentralized sense of opinion - use your vote!

Ask Ubuntu, as any other site in the Stack Exchange sites network, works with the help of a rating system. Sometimes its hard for people to understand the importance of a single vote but votes are the base for the site and in truth what makes it work. Up and down voting has huge consequences on ...

discussion questions

Bruno Pereira

Think not, sticky, no...

Mahesh

^ This one needs special attention. we need people downvoting crap.

any way we can highlight that? to all future visitors?

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htorque

17:27

so few time for voting :-(

Bruno Pereira

We can make a system notice, it will stick on the main site for 2 days max, thats it all as far as I know

htorque

i sucked at voting the last two months

Bruno Pereira

@htorque ta hell is your avatar? I go for a few weeks and is changed???

is it the 12.10? What is it named of?

Mahesh

@BrunoPereira lets consider community opinion and see if thats really needed.

12.10 is quantal quetzal, iirc.

Bruno Pereira

@Mahesh The site is all about public opinion! :)

Mahesh

17:30

:)

Bruno Pereira

Quetzal

:For other uses, see Quetzal (disambiguation). :For the best-known species in this group, see Resplendent Quetzal. Quetzals ( or ) are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family. They are found in forests and woodlands, especially in humid highlands, with the five species from the genus Pharomachrus being exclusively Neotropical, while the single Euptilotis species is almost entirely restricted to western Mexico. They are fairly large (all over 32 cm or 13 inches long), slightly bigger than other trogon species. Quetzals have iridescent green or golden-green wing coverts, bac...

ehhhhhwe

Mahesh

@BrunoPereira if that doesn't hurt, the system notice, IMO we should have it. once in a while. but i guess it will be annoying if its repewated toomuch, and not so effective if not repeated.

so, i ask for community opinion.

and starting a meta post to discuss about hilighting another metapost would be funny i guess, so as of now, i'm not considering it.

Bruno Pereira

@Mahesh What are we talking about? Just votes or a specific situation? Those can also be exposed in meta

Mahesh

we have a problem with voting, on AU.

people dont vote with a thought.

a lot of random votes we have,

and when someone downvotes,

imean, when the system works, we get complaints in meta.

so i have a feeling that the voting system is not working effectively.

we need not change it, and infact its good now, so i dont see the need.

but we need to pass a message to the community, to wake up. (ok, i assumed we're sleeping.)

hope i make some sense. :|

Jorge Castro

so go vote!

2

you only have 69 votes! That's like barely 2 day's worth of votes!

reverendj1

17:39

I've only been a member of the AU community for a few days now and have been trying to vote or answer questions when possible. One thing i couldn't figure out how to do was unvote

Mahesh

:) currently searching for questions that need cleanup.

Bruno Pereira

@Mahesh Sure, but 1-3 downvotes is no issue, the vote up when you see nice content, vote down when it sucks bad or makes not sense what so ever (not only for you, watch the comments), vote around, its imba!

@JorgeCastro that!

reverendj1

I accidently voted on the wrong answer. thankfully both were equally good answers, so I voted for them both

Mahesh

you vote for 'good'. not just 'best'

Bruno Pereira

@reverendj1 You can click the same button within 5 mins (or so) to revert them

Mahesh

17:40

but if you wish to unvote, click again.

reverendj1

that makes sense

Mahesh

@BrunoPereira theres no time frame i guess. we can unvote anytime.

Jorge Castro

askubuntu.com/review/…

Bruno Pereira

@reverendj1 Also if a post has been edited and you have previously voted on it you can always revert your vote

Jorge Castro

^^^ If you review questions you can edit/improve and vote on things all in one step!

Mahesh

17:42

@JorgeCastro a good place to start. :)

Jorge Castro

though we've been behind, so you might want to do the week or month view instead of the day view

Bruno Pereira

(so lost atm)

Mahesh

and i prefer editing/commenting when the post can be improved, so i am one of the culprits, not voting.

Bruno Pereira

Edit all you can!

(and should)

Jorge Castro

I just vote when I edit/review, problem solved

Bruno Pereira

17:51

its a methodology thing ;)

Chan-Ho Suh

Huh, for a moment, I thought that was a poem by Mahesh

Mahesh

I need to message a user. he edited sometyhing, and i have suggestions for his future edits. and he is editing things around the site, so we'll be better if he gets the message.

and i know we dont have pm, and we probably wont need it. all i need is a workaround, for now

@ChanHoSuh I stopped writing poems some 3 years ago. ;)

Bruno Pereira

@Mahesh And lets all drink to that!

(its a joke in all senses)

Mahesh

lol. i dont drink, yet.

Jorge Castro

@username should work I think

Mahesh

18:01

even if he just edited?

i mean, no comments, and i dont get the username suggestion by tabbing, so i'm in doubt

Jorge Castro

12 more questions to get to 82%!

Mahesh

18:12

i was talking of random upvotes, right? here, i have an example.

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Q: Installing MySQL in ubuntu with putty

So...i'm trying to install MySQL Server in Ubuntu 10.04 (i don't want other version of ubuntu) and it don't works... I tried : sudo apt-get install mysql-server and also sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.1 and i get this : https://i.sstatic.net/0axDL.png I also tried : sudo aptitu...

server mysql putty

ok, justified may be, and may be i found one coz i was looking for one. never mind.

i have a question.

when exactly is it justified to use 12.o4 tag?

Chan-Ho Suh

so someone is suggesting to me that the Amazon S3-backed mirrors aren't being updated, and in fact hasn't been updated for several weeks

does this seem right?

Mahesh

no idea @ChanHoSuh

Chan-Ho Suh

The old mirrors are at most only a couple days behind... so I'm suspicious about that.

Mahesh

i see almost every question tagged with 12.04, and i'm not sure if i should just go untagging where its not version-specific.

Jorge Castro

it's in the tag description

basically, hardware specific things

most of them don't need to be tagged 12.04 if the person mentions 12.04 in the question

Mahesh

18:25

so most questions that carry that tag dont deserve it.

Jorge Castro

probably

most of them don't need "ubuntu" and "12.04" in the question either

Mahesh

trying to retag things as i find.

i work lil slow..

and review screen is not so helpful. i cant see answers when reviewing questions, and if i retag, i'm taken to that q. i need to go back in history. :(

Ryan Murphy

18:40

superuser.com/q/426133/42769 pleaseeee help

Mahesh

i wanted to vote, but all i do now is flag, edit,retag. huh!

2

now i understand why no one votes.

jrg

@ChanHoSuh Um, according to what I'm seeing, they are up-to-date.

@JorgeCastro are the s3 mirrors being synced every hour still?

Chan-Ho Suh

maybe I should try your east coast mirror then... according to a comment i got http://askubuntu.com/a/138774/43660 the mirror is not being updated for almost a month, which seems... unlikely.

Ashu

0

Q: Upgrade to 12.04 from Natty?

I'm trying to upgrade to Precise, i'm on Natty now. Tried This guide to upgrade, but the update manager only lets me upgrade to 11.10. Tried also to check "Only LTS relases" on the settings. So, how to upgrade directly from Natty? //TheGatorade

11.04 12.04 update-manager

isnt that answer incomplete

srry for asking it here but i didnt know where to do that

jrg

Hm

Mahesh

18:49

ok, lets see if inviting to chat works this way. @Nirmik, your presence requested here.

^ if he gets the notification and joins, i probably have something to say.

jrg

@Mahesh it won't work

whats his ask ubuntu profile?

(url)

Mahesh

Nirmik

289 10

12.04 11.10 installation flash sound upgrade usb

jrg

And you're inviting him for what reason? (i need all these variables in order to help you)

Mahesh

@jrg but i get a notification if i'm mentioned in a different room.

jrg

@Mahesh you already have a chat account. I don't think he does

Mahesh

18:51

ok, that kind of, makes sense.

jrg

nope, he's got a chat account - chat.stackexchange.com/users/38981/nirmik

Mahesh

i see him editing and answering a lot, but somehow find his answers not so good.

that kind of, is not good i guess.

can you look at some of his answers and give your opinion?

jrg

Ok, sent him an invite to this room

Mahesh

also, i saw incomplete edits from him.

jrg

and i agree

so if you're trying to help him out, go for it. :)

Mahesh

18:53

thats what i plan to do, not sure how its going to turn out

and @jrg i'm not quite satisfied with my answer on that bountied question. what can i add there?

Jorge Castro

@Ashu that link does tell the op exactly their answer

jrg

@Mahesh it is a sufficient answer

i like it, it's not that bad

Hm, @ChanHoSuh - that guy is correct

Jorge Castro

@jrg there's a problem with them right now, ben's been working on it for the past few days

they sync every 15 minutes usually

jrg

@JorgeCastro ok, so they know about it

Jorge Castro

yeah

Mahesh

19:01

@jrg but still i'm searching for something better. may be coz i got that bountied, and i've got a dream about that last night.

^ that dream accused me of stealing rep. so if i get that bounty, i'll spend it on bounties.

jrg

heh. welcome to the bounty club

Mahesh

:)

and i need to find whats wrong with those proforma comments and my machine. i still jump between two. guess i need to make my own source and stick to that instead. atleast until i find the culprit.

Mahesh

19:15

coz i just got a doubt. was about to flag, and probably i flagged it already.

@jrg does the site warn if i'm flagging the same thing a second time, same reason

@ChanHoSuh you said you love terminal,right? make sure you checkout collumn80.com (incase u hven't, already)

ruffEdgz

19:49

@GevorgHindoyan already here ;)

@GevorgHindoyan you trying to complete a clean install of Ubuntu 11.10?

Gevorg Hindoyan

ok

yes

ruffEdgz

@GevorgHindoyan you are using a live CD correct?

Gevorg Hindoyan

I just want to make a clean install of 11.10 on my computer, and i have enough(500GB) pace

Yes

@ruffEdgz yes

ruffEdgz

@GevorgHindoyan cool, while in the live CD, can it see your HDD?

Gevorg Hindoyan

now will check

ruffEdgz

19:53

ok, you should be able to run this in the command line to see if it can: sudo fdisk -l

Gevorg Hindoyan

just wait

nothing hapening when typing sudo fdisk -l nothing hapening and its bringing prompt again

@ruffEdgz

ruffEdgz

@GevorgHindoyan well that isn't good :/

what do you get if you run this command: ls /dev/sd*

jrg

20:09

@amithkk @lazyPower I think you two might get a kick out of the last part... - twitter.com/#!/vatshy/status/203528510638276608

aking1012

that's hilarious...long live...

Gevorg Hindoyan

just wait some time more...

jrg

@aking1012 yeah, that's what i thought

@JorgeCastro empathy desktop sharing is working now, i'm going to edit that answer

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Can you answer this? System reverts to 87Hz refresh rate at every startup after I have installed nvidia... http://askubuntu.com/questions/126928/system-reverts-to-87hz-refresh-rate-at-every-startup-after-i-have-installed-nvid?atw=1 #nvidia

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aking1012

Also...I found my new favourite quote:
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in --Edsger Dijkstra

Gevorg Hindoyan

20:21

@ruffEdgz don't think that i can't write ls /dev/sd* but by friend can't. he is gived up. i will delte question :(

@ruffEdgz thank for help anyway

jrg

20:34

Ok, i'm out. I'll be back sunday, which means my inbox will be at... oh, i think it'll be at 20 by the time i get back.

Chan-Ho Suh

20:58

@Mahesh thanks :-)

@Mahesh although I don't know where you got that I "love" the terminal... I might have said prefer it in some cases... browsing the web in a text-based browser is something I would never go back to doing!

belacqua

Looks like a spammer -- askubuntu.com/users/64365/sdfsdf

aking1012

@ChanHoSuh - thx for the +1 over on G+ btw

Chan-Ho Suh

It was a good link... should get the +1 :-)

Now if we go by the usual statistics on G+... you are very unlikely to get another, unfortunately (I read some article a few days ago where they analyzed how many +1's posts get)

Buck the trend!

aking1012

@belacqua both answers flagged. thx for helping keep the site clean

@ChanHoSuh working on it. i'm thinking wherever you read that, it was essentially emotional posts get +1s and analytical posts don't. i'm just guessing from what i've observed

does SE have a way to flag a user? if not, it should with its growing popularity and getting targeted by spammers

Chan-Ho Suh

Anyone know where I can get updates on the status of Amazon S3-backed mirrors for the Ubuntu repositories?

aking1012

21:10

I don't know what you mean by status updates

Chan-Ho Suh

Other than pinging the bot "Jorge Castro" periodically?

See how much it's lagging behind the main servers, and/or whether it's working properly

Jorge said earlier they are experiencing some problem right now for a few days

aking1012

I would anticipate that once the "issue" whatever it is will be fixed. Once they get the newness sorted out on S3 mirrors, I think it's a much better platform(I consider it in alpha/beta so I just accept it).

Best answer I could come up with is check the contents against a non-S3 mirror and diff it

Chan-Ho Suh

For the usual mirrors, there is this launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors

aking1012

Exactly. When they get it sorted out, I would anticipate the S3 mirrors would be the preferred distribution medium...and hence permanently 0 lag

jrg

@ChanHoSuh Well, i've got a box on them that i'm monitoring

and i know that the normal repos have updates for it

so when those come through, it'll be all set

and i'll notify you

Chan-Ho Suh

21:14

great news

aking1012

Cool. @jrg I thought you were gone until Sunday?

Chan-Ho Suh

so both @aking and @jrg, you do not experience large updates like I do? ~13MB or so

aking1012

I have it run in the background, so I don't really know.

jrg

I'm mobile.

(for a few moments, and then i'm out for the rest of the weekend)

Chan-Ho Suh

jrg, what are you viewing this on?

jrg

21:15

my iPod. i already shut down my laptop.

spammer destroyed @belacqua

aking1012

thx @jrg

ruffEdgz

@belacqua hey, I was looking over some of my favs and I still have your questions about wireless... does it still happen?

aking1012

Okay, I hate to ask if a list question is okay...but I have a friend who is struggling with setting up a SoftAP. I think a list of buyable cards/usb adapters that can verifiably run hostapd would be great. Any objections to that type of list question?

aking1012

21:37

If it's not okay just ping me and I'll delete it. It's here: askubuntu.com/questions/139123/…

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