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George Edison

00:22

Pulls out hair...

Why... why would something run under the same conditions produce different results?????

(This is not my day.)

jrg

they don't even provide that...

(I thought)

The Interrupter

Great answer: How are the programs in /bin directory compiled into a non-readable format? http://askubuntu.com/a/178601?atw=1 #bash

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on August 29, 2012 at 12:00 AM

jrg

00:52

@LucasKauffman mint is not on-topic.

George Edison

I gotta know what packages to put into my chroot.

Jeff

01:04

Hi. How do I extract a .tgz file (mpitutorial.com/lessons/mpi_hello_world.tgz)?

Journeyman Geek

@Jeff: have you tried tar -xf ?

1nova.com/blog/2008/10/how-to-extract-tgz-files-with-tar

via lmgtfy.com/?q=extract+tgz

Jeff

@JourneymanGeek nope! didn't know the command (well, i did try zip filename.

Journeyman Geek

XD

tar is like, bread and butter ;p

Jeff

haha. great "imgtfy" link! :D. tar -xf worked. TY

Journeyman Geek

XD

The Interrupter

01:27

Journeyman Geek

o0

is that an easter egg?

mateo_salta

too many XD's?

TheX

01:44

all of you have to promise me to never get married!

mateo_salta

so we will always have time for AU?

TheX

No, because people are freaking crazy!

izx

@TheX Is polygamy AND same-sex marriage legal in your jurisdiction? :P

TheX

no and I am not gay either.

however I do have 2 women living with me...

izx

@TheX Ah, you're female then ;)

TheX

01:58

No I am male ;-)

aking1012

@TheX don't worry i already did the married thing once...not making that mistake again...

TheX

I got married once... and wound up with the wifes sister as default (hence the two women)

izx

B1G1 free, eh :p

TheX

02:15

just one more to tell me what to do...

ajmitch

02:29

@GeorgeEdison sorry I missed your pbuilder question earlier

George Edison

That's okay.

I think I sort of have it figured out now.

smartboyhw

02:45

Hi all:)

George Edison

Lol... somebody created a website named configure.ac :P

Anyone familiar with the GNU build system will get the joke.

aking1012

nice...it's in japanese ;) kind of makes you wonder...

George Edison

I'm really having problems getting GTK+ to build.

aking1012

:'(

George Edison

@aking1012: Thanks for pointing out that question to me yesterday.

I was able to help him in the end.

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A: What is the correct way to use g_signal_connect() in C++ for dynamic unity quicklists?

Edit: okay, after a fair amount of investigation (which involved running valgrind), I have finally managed to figure out what's going on here. Your callback's signature isn't correct. The signature for the static method should be: void MainWindow::fake_callback(DbusmenuMenuitem *, guint, gpoint...

aking1012

02:50

awesome. and you got a fat bounty too

smartboyhw

I answered two questions, then I can gt to the channel:)

*get

aking1012

@smartboyhw all your points came from the one question though

smartboyhw

No, Wait a minute, I answered TWO questions, one gave me 10, one gave me 15.

Anyway, someone help solve MY question:)

aking1012

no. one upvote and an accept on the same question... ;) still. anyway...

smartboyhw

Ah.

aking1012

02:54

@smartboyhw check out psychocats psychocats.net/ubuntu/pureubuntu

haven't checked to see if any of the removals conflict with studio, but it should warn you if you remove something that has an rdepend

smartboyhw

Thanks @aking2012.

Sorry, I just playing with my Studio. Anyway I got it back:)

aking1012

np. like i said, not tested...but that's the source of most of those types of answers anyway

smartboyhw

:)

aking1012

@GeorgeEdison what's the problem? version mismatches and not building with latest?

also...some progress on the torrentstreamer. ogg looks like a really handy format for it, but i still need to test splicing streams in without headers in a way that works without "chop" between files...

that and i can't find a straightforward example of decoding ogg/theora/vorbis to an opengl surface and openal audio sink. everything i can find uses SDL and *insert a weird audio library here*

George Edison

@aking1012 Well... the problem is that some of the code tries to redefine isnan and isinf which are C99 standard library functions.

...and the root of that problem seems to be the configure script.

Well, the problem is that the compiler is using C99 mode and already has isnan and isinf defined.

Something in the configure script is messing up.

I originally made a patch against configure.ac which worked on my machine.

aking1012

03:10

fair. and you're trying to script the thing so just adding -ansi really isn't an option i suppose. or am i steering this down a road that didn't work for you

Roland Taylor

03:27

Hey guys.

aking1012

o/

George Edison

\o

(I'm right handed.)

Roland Taylor

o|

aking1012

\o/ i'll just wave with both from now on ;)

Roland Taylor

Guess who got 2 laptops to replace a broken one :D

]o[

x plane wave

The Interrupter

03:30

Can you answer this? KDE fonts not rendering bold in Ubuntu 12.04 http://askubuntu.com/q/135003?atw=1 #kde

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on August 29, 2012 at 3:00 AM

aking1012

<3
]o[

Zelda

Roland Taylor

:D I am a zelda noob

aking1012

i was going for this in ascii

Roland Taylor

oh I see :D

George Edison

@RolandTaylor I just read your post on G+.

That's so awesome.

Roland Taylor

03:33

in unicode it would be:

♥
]o[

@GeorgeEdison and it gets better!

Each one has two batteries (one in place of the floppy drive)!

AND

I have potentially 2 EXTRA batteries as well :D

(I found one in the house, and if it works...)

George Edison

Er... CDs that is.

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison lol you bet!

I have to buy some more - and I'm so excited now ^_^

George Edison

With two machines... [glances around] somebody might have a use for NitroShare... :)

aking1012

oh speaking of two machines, my tower just got here

no keyboard, mouse, monitor. here's hoping i had openssh-server installed...i think i did

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison >:)

@aking1012 most likely, knowing you

lol

@GeorgeEdison 3 technically

I need another power cord for one of the laptops since one of the cords I had has a shortage and I gave away the plug part :P

Journeyman Geek

03:46

lol

Amith KK

Hello all

:D

Roland Taylor

@AmithKK hey

Amith KK

@RolandTaylor Hello

And Happy Onam to everybody

DoR

04:11

Whoa, someone just asked 5 questions on one topic in a row.

aking1012

must need a watch like this:

note that it doesn't display exact seconds...or even minutes afaict

George Edison

/bin/bash: no: command not found

aking1012

chroot or are you on non-ubu? some distros put it in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin shouldn't on the latter

George Edison

I'm using a chroot, yes.

What package provides no?

aking1012

oh i glossed over no

i have no idea. apt-file doesn't know what provides 'bin/no$' either

George Edison

04:32

Ah, I might have found something.

mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2011-August/msg00008.html

> "You have a missing gdk-pixbuf-csource"

We'll see if that helps.

Argh! Didn't work.

aking1012

I wonder if I could make myself a watch like that out of a digispark? probably...

Amith KK

@aking1012 The answer is a yes :D

aking1012

speaking of. a desktop widget like that could be nice...or an animated wallpaper that shows a clock face. weird ideas...i know

njallam

05:34

Screenshots shall triumph!

0

A: How to completely remove ALL flavours of Ubuntu from Ubuntu Studio

When booting into the Ubuntu Studio install disk and installing Ubuntu Studio. It will give you several options on how to partition the disk before installing. You will want to select the option "Erase Disk and Install Ubuntu-Studio" Your installation will probably not show "This computer cu...

Amith KK

05:53

What?

njallam

:P

The Interrupter

06:09

Bounty offered: How can I get multi-threaded sound back again? http://askubuntu.com/q/179945?atw=1 #sound

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on August 29, 2012 at 6:00 AM

Amith KK

@njallam What's your Google ID?

:P

njallam

06:30

New Firefox is E-P-I-C!

Roland Taylor

@njallam it is?

njallam

Well, it has just crashed...

:@

Almost did it again...

George Edison

I figured it out..... YEAH!!!

njallam

@GeorgeEdison what?

George Edison

libgtk2.0-bin - the missing dependency!

1 problem down... 2 to go!

Roland Taylor

06:38

@njallam but what is epic about it?

(I use 18, normally, so I wouldn't know).

George Edison

WHOA... sick! I just solved the second problem.

I am on a roll!

Roland Taylor

O_o

George Edison

The third one will have to wait until tomorrow.

It's getting really late here and I am just getting over a cold.

In three weeks I've used half the space in my PPA.

njallam

06:58

@RolandTaylor The fact I thought it wasn't going to crash! (It did)

Roland Taylor

@njallam the nightly build doesn't.

njallam

@RolandTaylor So the Nightly is more stable than the Stable?

Roland Taylor

@njallam for me, yes

njallam

@RolandTaylor Wow

I blame Windows then

Roland Taylor

Oh you are on Windows?

njallam

07:02

Universal Solution: It's Windows' fault

Roland Taylor

lol

njallam

@RolandTaylor unfortunately

I run Ubuntu via a VM

Roland Taylor

:[

You are BANISHED from the Ubunties...

njallam

D:

Cmon. My TV runs Ubuntu!

Roland Taylor

:P

Lol have you ever seen American Gypsies?

njallam

07:05

No

Please tell me that's not a TV program

And that you watch it

Roland Taylor

It is, and no I don't

I have seen it, but I don't watch it :P

njallam

OK then

Whatever you say :P

Roland Taylor

There is a scene in an ad for it that I find pretty funny though

and it's where I got the "You are BANISHED" thingy from

"You are... BANISHED from the Gypsies!"

njallam

Wow...

I'm browsing incompetech.com for some musics :D

Amith KK

@njallam What?

njallam

07:10

@AmithKK Media Pc

totally not for watchseries.eu stuff...

Amith KK

XMBCUbuntu?

Roland Taylor

sudo sed -i 's/precise/quantal/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

njallam

Nope. just plain Ubuntu

@RolandTaylor yes?

Roland Taylor

sudo apt

njallam

apt-get moo

Roland Taylor

07:12

sudo amith --kk

njallam

Seriously

What I posted is an actual command

Roland Taylor

lol I know

so is the first one I posted

I'm upgrading to Quantal on my nc8000

njallam

aptitude moo

aptitude -v moo

aptitude -vv moo

aptitude -vvv moo

aptitude -vvvv moo

aptitude -vvvvv moo

Roland Taylor

sudo apt-get install nyancat

(it's real on 12.10)

njallam

:D

Booting to quantal vm...

Roland Taylor

07:15

there's even a server package

njallam

@RolandTaylor Oh wow, it's real...

OOOOOOhhhh wow

$ nyancat

OK, now I really need to get back to my game deving

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError <-- grr

Roland Taylor

:D

:O

JAVA?!

njallam

yes

Java

Roland Taylor

YOU ARE banished! FROM THE CODIES!

njallam

D:

Roland Taylor

07:22

:J

njallam

It was either that or C#

And you would hate that

Roland Taylor

lol no

I like mono

so C# is okay

njallam

Just for the record:

AU rep >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SU rep

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

Oh boy

My favourite...

Roland Taylor

:P

njallam

at org.newdawn.slick.Image.<init>(Image.java:95)

OK, so it's not finding the image

Gotcha!

or not

It's loading fine

Roland Taylor

07:28

I'm going in as soon as my XFCE upgrade completes

njallam

Now to put this all over my code:

System.out.println("Still Working...");

@RolandTaylor oh OK

Amith KK

lol

Roland Taylor

@njallam lol

Amith KK

@njallam Good Idea

njallam

you can probably tell I hate debugging

Amith KK

07:29

Our School has code like this:

Roland Taylor

@AmithKK ,

Amith KK

class Myprogram
   {
      public static void main()
        {
            System.out.println("Hello World");
        }
   {

when It's supposed to me

njallam

@AmithKK What could possible go wrong with that?

Amith KK

public class Myprogram
   {
      public static void main(String args[])
        {
            System.out.println("Hello World");
        }
   {

@njallam Nothing

Roland Taylor

public private virtual void

njallam

07:31

OK OK

Amith KK

It's just not meeting the standards

Roland Taylor

@AmithKK those are only needed if your program takes arguments

Amith KK

:P

njallam

My school's website is all Baklava code. Source: codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jargon.html

Amith KK

My school does not have a website

:P

I should really approach the principal :D

Roland Taylor

07:37

@AmithKK dentition

njallam

Well when I tried, my mental stacks overflew. (literally 100 pages to render homepage)

Roland Taylor

(let's see who kill catch the mistake :P)

njallam

Why am I listening to Manian again?

Oh yes, Year 8 ICT lessons...

Don't ask

Roland Taylor

@njallam what?

njallam

@RolandTaylor We had to make a game in Scratch

I made a tap tap style game with his music

(I lost because teh teacher broke the speakers...)

I still hate her for that

Literally weeks on that project

Roland Taylor

07:41

lol

njallam

Seriously that teacher was stupid

No idea why she was hired in the first place

(she was fired a few weeks later :D)

PROBLEM SOLVED!

Typo in Constructor definition

It was pointing to the wrong variable

Roland Taylor

cool

Well guys,

njallam

Now there is another NullPointer...

Roland Taylor

I'm getting sleepy

njallam

argg

OK

see ya

Roland Taylor

07:46

@njallam ?

njallam

@RolandTaylor java.lang.NullPointerException

again

Roland Taylor

oh

lol

well, good night ya'll

Amith KK

@RolandTaylor I think I already got my teeth

BBL

Good luck @njallam

njallam

@AmithKK thanks

Amith KK

May the pointer be with you

njallam

07:49

:D

msPeachy

is it okay for a user to post 4 different questions all at once?

njallam

@msPeachy I see no problem with that.

msPeachy

or all at the same time?

njallam

I wouldn't know

msPeachy

okay, I'll post the links on the crusaders room

jokerdino

08:28

@njallam how was the developer week session yesterday?

njallam

09:06

@jokerdino :S * 30,000

Well not really

I discovered the problem

My VM software cut the network link randomly causing most of the downloads to fail

jokerdino

right.

njallam

If one package fails, I have to start again

I kept trying for about 1 hour and then gave up

Oh wow

Read this: gaming.stackexchange.com/q/4999/29478

Eliah Kagan

@njallam "I saw this question linked on stackexchange.com and thought it was on from Cooking site. It's far less interesting on this site..." – James McNellis ;-)

njallam

@EliahKagan yes

That

:P

The Interrupter

Can you answer this? Wow is very faster on GNOME Shell comparing to unity http://askubuntu.com/q/181606?atw=1 #unity

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on August 29, 2012 at 9:00 AM

jokerdino

09:19

@TheInterrupter the heck?

njallam

D:

howtogeek.com/122934

jokerdino

whoo. answered a bounty question after a long time

njallam

If a question has a bounty on it, it means I'm too stupid to answer it.

jokerdino

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Q: How to upgrade Compiz to 0.9.8 in 12.04?

For a very long time, I'm experiencing this bug in Compiz. It makes my windows flash, when rotating the desktop cube. None of the animations work properly execpt the Wobbly windows. However the temporary fix I found on the bug page helped me to reduce the effects, but it's not 100% perfect. Now ...

fossfreedom

10:33

@jokerdino - unless I've missed something - post #149 in that bug report should be your answer.

The Interrupter

12:27

Bounty offered: How to upgrade Compiz to 0.9.8 or downgrade to 0.8.6 in 12.04? http://askubuntu.com/q/177640?atw=1 #gnome

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on August 29, 2012 at 12:00 PM

jrg

13:16

Howdy!

GrSr

Urgent help needed askubuntu.com/questions/181774/…

askubuntu.com/questions/181774/…

smartboyhw

13:32

OK, I

am here!

jokerdino

hey @smartboyhw

smartboyhw

Hey jokerdino

*Hey @jokerdino

jokerdino

you can edit your previous chat message by pressing up.

smartboyhw

Thanks, I only got 39 rep, I'm new:)

jokerdino

i dont have a lot myself :)

@fossfreedom whoo thanks. i'll fix my answer.

smartboyhw

13:42

:)

Sorry, I closed the tab:(

jokerdino

@smartboyhw :(

Amith KK

Greeting to all of you

jokerdino

@fossfreedom heh apparently, there is a newer Compiz package in precise.. that PPA won't help unless vanvugt updates his PPA.

Amith KK

gizmodo.com/5938382/…

smartboyhw

Cool:)

LOL

Thanks Amith KK:)

fossfreedom

13:51

@jokerdino ok - I suppose you could always remove compiz - install via the PPA and then hold the packages from being upgraded.

... something like this answer - dunno why this one was closed. askubuntu.com/questions/181377/…

smartboyhw

Well, I think it is a bug or the info is not enough. I don't know what it means actually

jokerdino

@fossfreedom dont know. i just started preparing my package..

smartboyhw

@jokerdino What package?

jokerdino

@smartboyhw compiz SRU package

smartboyhw

@jokerdino OK. I'm trying to start the QA meeting now:)

jokerdino

13:58

@smartboyhw ooh it's today.

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