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jrg

14:00

Ha. Ha. nice one. ;P

ObsessiveFOSS

Stick 650MB on the PD cartridge.

Lord of Time

14:14

~~behold!~~ i mean, hi!

how goes it?

Roland Taylor

@LordofTime 010100100101 010100100100 1001001 10100001 010 011001 000 1001 0101 0101 01.

rlemon

var a = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890.',
    i = 18, j = 0,
    b = [a[i++],a[++i],a[++j],a[--i-1],a[i],a[--i-1],a[++j*(j+j)],a[--i-(j+j)],a[j*j+j]].join(''),
    f = function(x,y) { switch(x){case(1):o=y;break;case(0):l=y;break;} return y; }, o,l,
    c = [a[b](i+j)[0], a[b](i++,i), f(1,a[b](--i-(++j),i-(--j))), f(0,a[b](--i-((j++)+j), (i++)-(--j+j))) ].join(''),
    e = o + l,
    d = c+Array(++j+j).join(e);


console.log(d);

mines better (and by better I mean bigger waste of my time) :P

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jokerdino

sigh

rlemon

who doesn't love javascript... i mean, common now.

jrg

raises hand

@RolandTaylor morning

rlemon

14:27

@jrg I forgot... you're a Ruby guy. you'll probably LOVE coffeeScript

Roland Taylor

@jrg hey :)

jrg

@rlemon No, I just do backend stuff. I rarely touch JS or coffeescript.

@RolandTaylor hows it going?

rlemon

@jrg it's fun. :P

not coffeescript, javascript

SirCharlo

way to waste my time.. now im reading up on coffeescript

jokerdino

also read up on applescript

SirCharlo

14:32

ah that i know

and love

jokerdino

o.O

SirCharlo

my first app was in applescript studio

rlemon

in a nutshell: someone didn't like js syntax and decided they preferred pseudo strict typed ruby syntax... so they made a pre compiled language called coffeescript and the compiler to compile it down to js.

jrg

AppleScript is actually pretty nice.

rlemon

personally if you like the syntax sure... but I think it's a waste.

SirCharlo

14:32

its a realy cool language for beginners!!

its so 'natural language'

Roland Taylor

@jrg been an interesting morning

Sort of caught up in the details of the Dark Night shooting

Lord of Time

@RolandTaylor its been a hell morning here, internet going wonky, emails going away..

systems breaking

and, oh, its pouring rain

Roland Taylor

Ouch

Lol you got our weather from yesterday

Lord of Time

we had this weather yesterday too

jrg

@RolandTaylor yeah, it's... disturbing.

Lord of Time

14:34

i'm on my 4th cup of coffee of the day already...

and i've only been at work for two hours

jokerdino

these tag wiki edits :/

rlemon

@SirCharlo coffeescript.org/…

SirCharlo

here its gorgeous outside

bu.mp/Z251Dn

Lord of Time

you, sir, are on the receiving end of /doom.

SirCharlo

@rlemon seems interesting

jokerdino

14:38

no, applescript is worse than php

SirCharlo

Well it's not suitable for anything really serious

but it's still a nice intro to the general thinking behind programming

jokerdino

xD

it is timing out if i post things about php ;p

here's the link: jwz.org/b/ygax

SirCharlo

sircharlo sad

Jorge Castro

@jrg I'm ready for some more black screen flaggage

Roland Taylor

e_e

jrg

14:46

@JorgeCastro ok, go for it.

jokerdino

@_@

Roland Taylor

6_6

jokerdino

time to dig into the review now, just for giggles

9_9

Anwar Shah

All of my packages is showing deinstall with dpkg --get-selections command. what to do?

3_3

jokerdino

s_s

Anwar Shah

14:48

<_>

Lord of Time

COMBO BREAKER

Roland Taylor

(: lol

jokerdino

@LordofTime ?_?

Anwar Shah

> please answer my technical question

(_)

Roland Taylor

@AnwarShah not quite sure what to make of your technical question.

Jorge Castro

14:49

@jrg the last 5 or so are abandoned too

jokerdino

Debianites are mad.

Roland Taylor

Did you mark anything for removal? @AnwarShah

jrg

@jokerdino insane!

Anwar Shah

@RolandTaylor no, i made dpkg --get-selections

Roland Taylor

@AnwarShah that's possibly a bug.

jrg

14:51

@JorgeCastro you done are are there more incoming?

Anwar Shah

Who got the reason for being my request to answer as displayed like quote?

jokerdino

@jrg it's on the debian planet

Jorge Castro

@jrg there will be more

Lord of Time

@JorgeCastro the moderators' war against the flags queue never ends :P

Jorge Castro

some of these need either merges or deletes for autoforwarding @jrg

Anwar Shah

14:53

@RolandTaylor the man page says this
> Set the requested state of every non-essential package to deinstall.

So, how to clear that selections?

dpkg - package manager for Debian

dpkg is a tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. The primary and more user-friendly front-end for dpkg is dselect(1). dpkg itself is controlled entirely via command line parameters, which consist of exactly one action and zero or more options. The action- parameter tells dpkg what to do and options control the behavior of the action in some way. dpkg can be also be used as a front-end to dpkg-deb(1). The following are dpkg-deb actions, and if they are encountered, dpkg just runs dpkg-deb with the parameters given to it: -b, --build, -c, --contents, -I, --info, -f, --field, -e, --control, -x, --extract, -X, --vextract, and --fsys-tarfile. Please refer to dpkg-deb(1) for information about these actions.

jrg

do dpkg --get-selections | grep "deinstall" ?

Lord of Time

Install ALL the packages.

:P

jokerdino

@JorgeCastro the mozilla devs are mad Ubuntu devs didn't consult them during web app making.

> However, I wonder why Ubuntu developers didn’t contact us in order to create their webapps using our method (so they’d have chromeless windows, for example).

Anwar Shah

@jrg I have done that, it list every packages

jrg

Stop nagging Jorge. He's a server guy. ;P

jokerdino

14:54

He's the only Canonical guy that I know ;p

jrg

Go complain on IRC like the rest of the malcontents. ;p

jokerdino

i don't want to lose my ubuntu cloak ;p

Anwar Shah

technical

Jorge Castro

afaik we did

but who knows, there's like 500 people @ mozilla

jokerdino

LOL

Jorge Castro

14:56

1

Q: after new install 12.04 black screen with blinking cursor

I installed 12.04 and I got after boot black screen.Next I started in filesafe mode but filesafeX (all options)do not work(black screen.Then I started root shell , remounted rw HD and on prompt built xorg.conf with: $>X -configure I have edited xorg.conf to delete obsolete monitors and screens. A...

This one has higher hits that the others jrg

you might want to remove the answers on that one

.... that takes care of all the unanswered ones.

jokerdino

whee.

jrg

DELETE ALLLL THE ANSWERS.

Roland Taylor

@AnwarShah back

Anwar Shah

I am answering this askubuntu.com/q/165951/61218

jrg

Well, many of them.

Anwar Shah

14:59

but In my system all are` dselect`

Roland Taylor

I'm stumped.

Anwar Shah

and when i ran sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade it wanted to clear 3.5GB

You can try this
first `sudo dpkg --clear-selections`
then `sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade`
all clear. New system !

Roland Taylor

O_o

doesn't like the concept of playing with fire

Anwar Shah

just try it. and don't forget to reboot !!

I fear the fire

jrg

oh, @JorgeCastro - i didn't get a very good answer on that nvidia question.

Jorge Castro

15:03

which nvidia question?

jrg

the black screen nvidia you had me bounty.

Jorge Castro

oh I forgot about that

is the bounty still on?

jokerdino

it went south

jrg

No.

jokerdino

btw, @jrg can we prep a nice canon on low quality mode thingie? i heard there are so many ways of hitting the failsafe x

jrg

15:06

11

Q: Blank screen after installing nvidia restricted driver

I've installed the current nvidia restricted driver and rebooted my machine and now I get a black or blank screen. How can I fix this?

drivers nvidia black-screen

Jorge Castro

got a link handy?

jokerdino

3

Q: How to fix "The system is running in low-graphics mode" error?

I wanted to try out Pantheon from elementary-os and hence installed it following the instructions from here. I didn't like it and then proceeded to purge the PPA. After rebooting, I was then greeted with this error message and a failsafe X: How to fix this error and how do I get back to my n...

lightdm login-screen

make it CW first.

jrg

@jokerdino there are a bajillion ways to get to failsafex. I can do it, but I'll be out of town starting Sunday and won't be back until Saturday next week. Wifi will be intermittent, but I should be able to do a checkin at least two or three times

jokerdino

great. we can work on it as we see fit

Anwar Shah

I'm sorry I can't upvote you 10 times. Thanks man, you made my day!!! — lorenzo-s May 7 at 20:29

jokerdino

15:12

spam

jrg

Fixed.

jokerdino

thanks

Anwar Shah

actually i tried to get attention at his problem

didn't see that link

jrg

well, i meant i fixed both issues.

jokerdino

yes. thanks for both.

Anwar Shah

15:16

I missed the flag

jokerdino

i didn't flag it either

Anwar Shah

@jrg can you show us your mod power by deleting the comment from the chat message also?

There is still that link

jokerdino

i can flag that as spam ;p

Anwar Shah

wow

jokerdino

and then you will be booted

Anwar Shah

15:18

NO

Lord of Time

@jokerdino were you there for the social experiment...

where someone posted NSFW stuff in the "unmoderated" channel, and then operator hell came in?

jokerdino

yeah

Anwar Shah

See, there wasn't any link!

Lord of Time

that was the most evil thing i'd ever seen xD

there was just... like... EVIL HELL raining in.

jokerdino

i get those flags whenever there is ;p

Lord of Time

15:19

its like /dev/deathanddespair, /dev/chaos, and /dev/hell all opened up at the same time

Anwar Shah

Can you revert that link?

jokerdino

so, if you think the room is empty, flag a message and mods will flood in ;p

Lord of Time

lol

flag abus!

Anwar Shah

let's try with ^^ this

doing.......

fossfreedom

... there are many powers we can use to those that abuse flags... ;)

Lord of Time

15:21

@fossfreedom you mean nukes?

jokerdino

or pokes

Anwar Shah

I didn't use.

fossfreedom

... total wipe out powers...

Anwar Shah

may be @jokerdino did

jokerdino

@AnwarShah if you flag, i WILL be notified

Anwar Shah

15:22

I guessed so.

Lord of Time

@fossfreedom PURGIFICATION WITH FIRE?!?!?

Anwar Shah

because before 10k , you said ,noooo

jokerdino

yeah

jrg

grumble crazy kids and their lousy sense of humor. THEY THINK FLAGGING IS FUN!

9

jokerdino

I like colourful flags.

grumble crazy kids and their lousy sense of humor. THEY THINK MODERATING IS FUN!

2

Lord of Time

15:24

@jrg then proving it is not fun is the solution.

SirCharlo

@LordofTime make me

jokerdino

sudo make me

Lord of Time

@SirCharlo grabs the BFG

Jorge Castro

LESS TALKING MORE EDITING

5

jokerdino

grabs a crummy bear.

Jorge Castro

15:25

@MarcoCeppi secleanup.com busted again

Anwar Shah

I didn't star that for the sake of series

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro 2buntu noobs keep breaking it :P

4

Anwar Shah

2, 2, 2

jokerdino

@MarcoCeppi don't tell me i didn't annoy you before ;p

jrg

@JorgeCastro yeah, he knows. he keeps blaming 2buntu. And I keep telling him that we've got an API key.

Marco Ceppi

15:26

I'm moving to a different server later today

need to get some deployment stuff sorted

jokerdino

79.065669218 napkin math

jrg

OH WAIT.

it's stackads.

Jorge Castro

ah no worries

jrg

stackads is whats causing the API stuff, not stacktack.

Jorge Castro

hey so I realized last night

htorque

15:27

are there some good jenkins books?

Jorge Castro

with webapps in ubuntu

jokerdino

@jrg didn't i not tell its stackads?

Jorge Castro

we can basically have stackapplet built into the OS

5

htorque

advanced hardcore level

jrg

@georgeedison: Hey, stackads is using a crapload of API requests. Request for it to be cached.

Jorge Castro

15:29

@georgeedison also hey we should talk webapps for Ask Ubuntu

jokerdino

oh wait, Trello and irccloud needs web app integration -p

and SE sites

Jorge Castro

indeed they do

I am asking what needs to happen now

jokerdino

i am making a list of stuff that i love and i be looking into this

looking at the api now.

Jorge Castro

0

Q: quickly submitubuntu fails

I got a reviewer mail for my app submited for the Ubuntu app showdown: Thanks for your submission. Please resubmit your app to your PPA using 'quickly submitubuntu', so all the files in the package are placed into /opt. To see an example of how your debian/rules should roughly be looking, hav...

application-development quickly

one more vote!

jrg

@jokerdino they already have subway, it shouldn't be that hard to add irccloud.

And Alice, since @JorgeCastro has a soft spot for Alice.

Lord of Time

15:36

@JorgeCastro done

jrg

darnit. too slow.

Jorge Castro

yeah but they did Subway IRC already, so I am looking to switch

jrg

Subway is expensive though, since you have to host it yourself. If I could get it hosted on Heroku for nothing, then I'd be interested.

jokerdino

@jrg sounds promising

Marco was gonna do it for us =[

unfortunately, i haven't even setup web apps here yet. will do it tmrw

Marco Ceppi

@jokerdino I was trying to setup subway

but it's still...not mature enough from what I've seen

jokerdino

15:39

oh.

you have highlight mode on Marco or something?

Marco Ceppi

@jokerdino no, Subway mult-tennant login isn't really working

jrg

Subway is pretty immature right now, but i'm willing to deal with it. It's pretty cool.

jokerdino

oh dear. i am sticking to irccloud for the time being.

htorque

@jokerdino whaaat? don't delete stuff :P

jokerdino

or until irccloud boots me out ;p

@htorque was for the last close vote =)

htorque

15:41

ah

sry

busy (all the time :P)

jokerdino

we all are =)

Lord of Time

lies

work email's down, so i cant do work

and i cant fix it since the issue is out in harrisburg

so therefore i'm not busy

htorque

is there a pay-to-get-a-bug-fixed offer somewhere?

Lord of Time

i'm sitting here BORED AS HELL

@htorque its called > $17000 donation to a project.

jokerdino

@htorque you can pay me and i will do that for you

jrg

15:42

oops. Sorry everyone who has sent me email over the past week, it all went to spam.

jokerdino

but i got to learn the basics first though

jrg

I was wondering why my inbox was so empty after I cleared out q-uploads...

jokerdino

you cleared out q uploads?

htorque

i want this bug fixed:

Multi-monitor - Windows maximize on the wrong monitor

For windows maximizing on the wrong workspace, see bug 776435 instead. Binary package hint: unity I have a notebook, using it with an external monitor attached to it in a dual-screen setup (See attached screenshots, the little screen is that of the notebook, the large screen is that of the external monitor attached to the top of the notebook's screen. If I maximize windows, two things go wrong: 1) the maximized windows always end up on the large screen, all the same if it was originally on the smaller one. 2) their top window-frame-bar (containing the minimize-maximize-close buttons) ends up on the top of the small screen. See screenshots: Screenshot-1 is showing the situation before maximizing, Screenshot-2 shows the situation after maximizing. I am not 100% sure, but I guess this is only this way since my last natty update. ------------------------------------------------------------- Desired Solution: - When a user maximises a window, the window should always maximise on …

compiz (Ubuntu)

Critical / Confirmed

jrg

@jokerdino i'm subscribed to the silly upload email notifications.

jokerdino

15:43

Use gentoo. Problem solved

jrg

have been since day 2.

htorque

i'm willing to pay a few bucks. :P

jokerdino

@jrg same here. but i filter them out. so i read them when i am bored

jrg

@jokerdino I read them anyway. It's so sad to watch the ruby packages be two or three releases behind. :(

jokerdino

my filters are pretty good that i barely get any emails in inbox at all

@jrg file a bug?

developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.04/javascript/index.html time to get started

Roland Taylor

15:46

:> I am working on something imposing.

jokerdino

?

github on the list too?

jrg

?

jokerdino

is it supported yet?

jrg

don't think so

Anwar Shah

asked

jokerdino

15:50

wordpress on the list.

George Edison

@jrg: I thought StackAd did include caching.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison shrugs i hereby point you to 2buntu.com - look at the community ads.

George Edison

I noticed that on Sunday.

But I'm pretty sure StackAd does cache data.

jokerdino

i guess someone broke it?

George Edison

Is there anything else running on the server that uses the API?

jokerdino

15:54

@GeorgeEdison secleanup.com

SirCharlo

hmmm... interesting question here

1

Q: How to search a network share?

Usually when I want to find a particular file on my local machine, I'll open up a terminal and do find . -name "*blah*" from the directory which I want to search within. Now I want to search from a network share, which I can access in nautilus by browsing to smb://192.168.1.x/blah/ ... or by ssh...

nautilus ssh files samba search

George Edison

@jokerdino That could be it.

jokerdino

but it is not high volume usage though

George Edison

But does it exceed the throttle.

Because if the API receives multiple requests in a certain timeframe, it will block them.

So SE Cleanup should be broken too.

Amith KK

Hello all

George Edison

15:59

Yeah...

P.S. Isn't the error message a bit too verbose?

/home/marco/domains/secleanup.com/html/lib/vendor/stackphp/src/paged_response.php

Amith KK

Wait

George Edison

Wait - SE Cleanup is using Stack.PHP???

Amith KK

all api stuff is broken?

@GeorgeEdison Yeah

George Edison

No, only the stuff on this IP address.

Not only that, I now know the API key for SE Cleanup...

Anwar Shah

this question is showing modified by JorgeCastro in this page , But there wasn't any sign.

Amith KK

16:01

@GeorgeEdison MWAHAAHAAH

George Edison

@Oli: Your site has some security vulnerabilities...

Lord of Time

@AnwarShah read this

lrn2checkrevisionhistory

Mitch

@AnwarShah See my question please, I have updated info.

Jorge Castro

16:19

@GeorgeEdison hey did you see the webapps stuff?

@GeorgeEdison we could basically roll stackapplet's functionality into it

Lord of Time

@GeorgeEdison launchpad.net/~stackapplet-bugs see if you can't "accept" the invite as the admin of devs.

jrg

@RolandTaylor - placekitten.com/g/2200/200

Lord of Time

holy god... the ending... i sense... the ending... it is approaching. it's getting closer. IT'S GETTING EVEN CLOSER HOLY LORD, IT'S HERE.. IT'S... IT'S... WINDOWS 8!

</run>

has to test windows 8 for feasibility as an OS with work

SirCharlo

and?

Lord of Time

its evil

and will be the end of Microsoft

:P

SirCharlo

16:32

:P

i played with server 8 a bit

its interesting

Lord of Time

i'm not being asked to try out the server

i'm being asked to try out the desktop version

SirCharlo

yeah, the one that keeps switching back and forth between metro

the server version is actually quite nice and polished

much better than 2008 when it comes to configuration etc

ObsessiveFOSS

I have created a Data Explorer query(though unfinished) that searches for "Thanks" comments--and will sometime ignore questions with an accepted answer

data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/75754/…

It currently fails.

Amith KK

BBT

Good Night

Flabricorn

Player "Flabricorn" joins the fight!

Lord of Time

16:45

Player "Lord of Time and Space and Matter" joins the fight!

"Lord of Time and Space and Matter" uses "Universal Destruction Device"

"Lord of Time and Space and Matter" has just obliterated all other players.

"Lord of Time and Space and Matter" has won the fight.

:P

The Interrupter

Is it possible to add the Ubuntu Software Center to sources.list? http://askubuntu.com/questions/166017/is-it-possible-to-add-the-ubuntu-software-center-to-sources-list?atw=1 #apt

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on July 20, 2012 at 4:34 PM

Flabricorn

Flabricorn: Shit.

Lord of Time

Lord of Time and Space and Matter: BEHOLD, MY AWESOME POWER! Oh wait, the fight continues...

"Lord of Time and Space and Matter" uses "The Reality Bomb"

Flabricorn

Windows Eight must perish.

Lord of Time

"Lord of Time and Space and Matter" has just destroyed the entire map!

Emerson Hsieh

16:47

＠Lord of Time Then I will rather be dead than joining the fight

Lord of Time

@EmersonHsieh lol

i was just doing that to see what @Flabricorn's reaction would be xD

apparently nobody joins the fight instead

Flabricorn

_ Player"Flabricorn" has been reconstructed in the form of a earthworm!_

Player "Flabricorn" died!

Player "Flabricorn" left the game.

Eliah Kagan

Let's close this as off-topic and migrate it to meta:

0

Q: Is there a way to send PM via Askubuntu?

Sometimes I would like to contact one Askubuntu user directly (for example to talk about a subject which is not directly related to Ubuntu). Is there a way to send a message to somebody? (like PM in forums) (sorry if the answer is obvious or already present somewhere-else)

messages

jrg

i think it's a dupe

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