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Jorge Castro

16:01

@MarcoCeppi last time I promise

but how to link to asking a question prepopulating with a tag?

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro :( :O :P

Allan

@MarcoCeppi Hmmm sounds like a job for............ somebody else

Marco Ceppi

Populating questions with tags

Oct 15 '10 at 18:23, 33 minutes total – 12 messages, 4 users, 1 star

Bookmarked 7 secs ago by Marco Ceppi

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Allan

I vote Roland

@MarcoCeppi A question about cloned sheep or Western Singers

Kaustubh P

@Allan why arent there more females?

Allan

16:06

@KaustubhP in general or here specifically

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi @Oli @StefanoPalazzo Ok I am tagging things hardware-certification for questions about that process and I've asked the team to subscribe to the tag

Kaustubh P

here specifically :D

Allan

@KaustubhP sounds like a meta question

Jorge Castro

also, they will be linking to it from the cert page

"ask us about hardware cert" or some such

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro I foresee a butt load of "WHY ISN'T X CERTIFIED"

Jorge Castro

16:07

it's ok they have model specific pages which sends crap to launchpad

they're going to sort it

Marco Ceppi

cool

Jorge Castro

of course if we end up with tons of those we can ask them to fix it

Allan

@JorgeCastro might get a better answer than mine then

Jorge Castro

@Allan yeah after that question I was like "ooh, let's get them in on this"

Allan

@JorgeCastro I think Kaustubh would say the same about Ubuntu-Women

Jorge Castro

16:10

I'll get to them eventually, I am going team to team

Allan

We need a female touch around here (no double meaning keep it clean)

Marco Ceppi

@Allan Who's to say there isn't a few females among us now?

Allan

@MarcoCeppi is that your real face Marco /-0

Marco Ceppi

Who knows?

Kaustubh P

:D

Allan

16:14

Some one does goes to ask new question

TheX

@Allan I saw @MarcoCeppi ridding wheelies on his moped one day...

Kaustubh P

@TheX rly? was it at the X games?

TheX

unfortunately he had a helmet on so I couldn't see his face

Allan

@TheX you have games :D

TheX

@KaustubhP no it was right in front of the White House, right before the Secrete Service took him out...

Allan

16:19

@TheX how could you tell did he have a Hammer with him?

Kaustubh P

^_^

TheX

@Allan yes several

@Allan that and he showed me a picture of his moped last week

Allan

hmmm got to get a ambience version of that!

gtk+

Marco Ceppi

@TheX @Allan Is that what you saw?

Allan

@MarcoCeppi rofl

TheX

16:27

@MarcoCeppi pretty close... lol

@MarcoCeppi you are missing the sniper in the background though...

Allan

@TheX who was that guy asking about the video from a bike question.........?

TheX

@Allan don't remember just a second

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Q: Video stabilisation software

Is there any way, either through a graphical program or a command line utility to "stabilise" video in Ubuntu? By stabilise I am referring mainly to a feature of iMovie where shaky video is analysed, and then frame by frame altered to make it look smoother. This method looses video quality throu...

Allan

zapruder

no that was the grassy knol

Kaustubh P

mehehahahrehee! is that @MarcoCeppi in green-yellow glasses?

Marco Ceppi

2

TheX

16:41

@MarcoCeppi lol that is awesome

Marco Ceppi

Those horribly (awesome) glasses are from a random boutique in Newport News. I used to wear them all the time

A few more shots of them - and other people wearing them - are on this Flickr page

Kaustubh P

:O

@MarcoCeppi you have nice teeth!

Allan

@MarcoCeppi did a bit of sailing me self boat was about the same size too

TheX

@MarcoCeppi you geocache?

Octavian Damiean

17:15

is back

DoR

@MarcoCeppi

1

A: Using Python applications

You can easily install comix via software center (or by clicking here) that way it is automatically added to your gnome menus and updated via the update manager.

This person is linking to apt.marcoceppi.com

That doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

Marco Ceppi

@Allan Yeah, I have a 42' Catalina Hull number 63 :)

@TheX Of course!

DoR

unless you are planning on hosting that forever

Marco Ceppi

@DoR It's technically not - though when apt.ubuntu.com comes online I plan on having apt.mc.com redirect to it

@Allan I also sail Flying Scotts - this is my dad's boat:

I also frequently throw dinner parties on my boat

Allan

@MarcoCeppi haven't been in anything that small but its a lot of fun, get closer to the action not so much "stuff" to think about.

Marco Ceppi

17:29

@Allan Dingy racing is a little too compeditive for me. I love sailing on big boats if you don't have a perfect trim you loose maybe 1 kt over a few miles. In a dingy not having a perfect trim is the different between first and 10th place

This is probably the best view of the boat:

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi I suspect with A3 coming out on Thursday that we might want to run a banner on 11.04 questions on the site

DoR

@MarcoCeppi VERTIGO ATTACK

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro Any idea on the verbiage? Or should we meta it?

Jorge Castro

if you meta it I will just participate there

is trying to get more in the habit of metaing

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro Awesome give me a min to make a post

Jorge Castro

17:32

no worries

we have until thursday, heh

Allan

@MarcoCeppi looks familiar watch out for those seagulls though mad animals

George Edison

@Marco: I figured out how to edit questions without using the API.

(Which doesn't allow it anyway.)

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison Oh?!

George Edison

Ya, I wrote a script.

...it's designed for Meta and it allows you to draw freehand circles on images...

...and then save the changes to the images in place...

...it uses HTML5 canvas, and later an injected iframe for submitting a specially crafted form.

Marco Ceppi

0

Q: Should we have a banner for potential 11.04 question askers?

With 11.04 Alpha 3 coming out tomorrow should we have a site-wide banner to help stem the tide of these questions? If so what should the text say, potentials links to include, etc?

discussion banner

Jorge Castro

17:36

oh wow

tomorrow is thursday!

is dizzy

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison Ah, is that what the JSFiddle was for?

TheX

@MarcoCeppi I have found all the geocaches within 10 miles of my house... :(

of course there were only like 3 to be found

Allan

@MarcoCeppi Is that like the Irish version of JSViolin

George Edison

@Marco: Which Fiddle?

Marco Ceppi

@Allan haha yes

@GeorgeEdison This one

George Edison

17:39

Oh yeah.

That was it, all right.

Allan

@MarcoCeppi cool like the try it bits in w3schools but 100x better

Marco Ceppi

18:04

@Allan Yeah, that's an understatement :)

Allan

@MarcoCeppi any good at math?

Marco Ceppi

@Allan Good, but probably not as good as someone like @StefanoPalazzo

Allan

@MarcoCeppi agreed

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4.75%C3%9710^11kg++*+speed+of+light+squared

@MarcoCeppi approximate amount of energy contained in humanity

Epic

Marco Ceppi

@Allan So basically that's how awesome Ubuntu is then?

Allan

@MarcoCeppi or could be

Just need to find the plug....... and the switch :)

@MarcoCeppi just noticed the tool tip for month most viewed has "the most" twice

Sid

18:16

Any Irish here?

Marco Ceppi

@Sid 1/4th Irish

Sid

@MarcoCeppi You should be proud today! :)

espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket_worldcup2011/content/current/story/…

Marco Ceppi

@Sid Should have asked if anyone was Irish and a lover of Cricket :P

Sid

@MarcoCeppi :) Haha. :) But still! An Irish victory over England is an Irish victory over England! :) The match was in Bangalore, I was at the stadium, and the atmosphere was unbelievable! :)

Marco Ceppi

@Sid Nice!!

Well I'm actually also 1/4 English

Sid

18:21

:)

Octavian Damiean

So I'm setup with a tumblr blog ... what now? :D

at least I'm cool and totally web 2.0

Marco Ceppi

@OctavianDamiean Now you write stuff that is > 140 characters - any less and it belongs on Twitter

Octavian Damiean

and thats it?!

Marco Ceppi

basically

Sid

Yup! :)

Marco Ceppi

18:30

Just start following other random blogs. Mine and @JorgeCastro are a pretty good start. (More him than me)

Octavian Damiean

well I'm not very impressed but at least now if someone asks I can say yes I have a tumblr blog

Sid

Woofer: minimum 1400 characters: woofertime.com

Octavian Damiean

@MarcoCeppi can't find you on tumblr

Marco Ceppi

Have you tried marcoceppi.tumblr.com ?

Octavian Damiean

oh boy I'm a total social-web fail

Jorge Castro

18:46

@MarcoCeppi I don't suppose we'll get love for apt-linkage before 11.04?

Marco Ceppi

Pending the fix for one more thing and more translations it's done

Or are you talking about SE?

I'm really upset because Firefox has dropped it's Useragent jazz. So it's really important to find a permanent way to determine the OS from outside of useragent

Jorge Castro

yeah

@MarcoCeppi I was also asking about SE heh

and when you say "done" do you mean, "deployed on apt.ubuntu.com"?

Marco Ceppi

When I say done I mean "I'm completely finished awaiting for whoever can to deploy on to APT.U.COM"

Jorge Castro

is there a bug report or an RT ticket for that?

what did mpt say?

Marco Ceppi

They did an initial review a few weeks ago and got a preliminary green light for deployment

someone found a potential security issue that I've patched (and am in the process of unit testing) the rest is just minor CSS issues

Jorge Castro

18:53

nods

Marco Ceppi

However, now that Firefox is bascially saying "We're going to go User Agent crazy" I'm starting to think that I may need to approach browser detection differently

Doesn't Ubuntu ship Firefox with an Ubuntu Plugin pre-installed?

sadmicrowave

Hey guys is there a function similar to Net Send in windows for ubuntu?

Octavian Damiean

wall

but only for system users

sadmicrowave

what do you mean only for system users?

Octavian Damiean

probably not what you are looking for

that is only for currently logged in users on your system

sadmicrowave

18:58

oh, can you specify a different host with that via IP address or hostname?

Octavian Damiean

nope

sadmicrowave

ok, nevermind, looked it up, not what I need...is there anything else?

Octavian Damiean

I'm not aware of any command for that

@sadmicrowave apparently linpopup could be what you are looking for linpopup2.sourceforge.net

MJB

Hello all. I have a quick question. Is it possible to run "Midnight commander" in "deamon" mode? Like elinks has the -remote option, and vim has vim-server option?

Octavian Damiean

@sadmicrowave you should definitely checkout xtell!

sadmicrowave

19:10

@OctavianDamiean, I'm looking into the smbclient -M syntax right now but can't figure out how to make it work

Octavian Damiean

@sadmicrowave you should really really checkout xtell first!

Octavian Damiean

19:23

@MJB have you already checked its man page?

MJB

19:49

@OctavianDamiean Yes I did. Google and irc can't seem to find it.

...typed to soon. Checking out xtell.

Jorge Castro

20:04

@sadmicrowave hey did your nfs thing get sorted?

Allan

@JorgeCastro trying to share var so needed to open nautilus as root to get permissions

Octavian Damiean

what day is tomorrow?

Allan

thursday

Octavian Damiean

and what is so special about it?

Allan

0303

Octavian Damiean

20:09

Natty A3!! YAY :D

Allan

@OctavianDamiean hmmm..... ok..... ;)

Octavian Damiean

@Allan hmm interesting 0303 ... Natty Alpha 3 :D

Allan

@OctavianDamiean just like 10.10 10/10/10

perfect 10

:)

Octavian Damiean

@Allan hehe yea

why is that dude on every freeze so scared? wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule

Jorge Castro

hahaha, never noticed that before

that is awesome

Octavian Damiean

20:14

he is like "Oh teh noes a freeze!"

Allan

@OctavianDamiean 0.0

@OctavianDamiean and the last ones look kind of evil (developers blood shot eyes)

DoR

Octavian Damiean

@Allan well the last one is pretty weird tho ... I mean scared on release? Shouldn't he be happy?

Allan

@DoR Santa meets Jason

@OctavianDamiean drunk

Octavian Damiean

@Allan hehe

Allan

20:43

@OctavianDamiean still around

?

Octavian Damiean

yes

brb

Allan

@OctavianDamiean just did a crazy calculation ;)

sadmicrowave

@JorgeCastro, sorry for the delay, "@sadmicrowave hey did your nfs thing get sorted?", yes it did

Octavian Damiean

@Allan tell me

Allan

wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4.75%C3%9710^11kg++*+speed+of+light+squared

which is the approximate potential energy of the Human race

muhahhahahaha (mad scientist)

Jorge Castro

20:52

@sadmicrowave can you make sure your thread is updated with the right answer? That way we have it in good shape for reference

(if you haven't done so already)

Octavian Damiean

@Allan lol :D

Allan

average human weight 70kg

* aprox world population

* c squared

@JorgeCastro added as the folder being shared is a root only folder (it acts exactly like it would on your own machine) you will need to open nautilus as root to be able to edit files.

Octavian Damiean

I could eat mozzarella with balsamic vinegar non-stop ...

Takkat

Hello everybody

Octavian Damiean

@Takkat hello

Takkat

20:57

@OctavianDamiean where do you get the basil nowadays?

Allan

@Takkat ?

Takkat

Hi @Allan how are you?

Allan

@Takkat feel like doc brown from Back to the future ;) (scroll up)

Takkat

@Allan I, II or III ?

Allan

@Takkat Invents something in I then he just does R&D for II, III

Takkat

21:09

@Allan ended up in 2015 - that's pretty soon :D

only 11 years from now we'll end up with soylent green for dinner.

Allan

@Takkat funny I was watching it a few days ago. any other film dates coming up?

@Takkat classic

Octavian Damiean

@Allan your calculation of the energy

is that really potential energy?

Allan

@OctavianDamiean more matter/antimatter total conversion style potential /:)

Alvar

21:23

Hi gang!

Takkat

Hi @Alvar how are you?

Alvar

@Takkat awesome! folowed the apple event on macworld.se that really made my day! ipad 2 really owns the robots! and you?

Octavian Damiean

@Alvar in your dreams ;)

this is by definition not possible :p

Alvar

@OctavianDamiean apple.com/ipad/specs

@OctavianDamiean sorry, by the robots I of course mean android!

Octavian Damiean

@Alvar yea I was aware of that hence me telling you that this is only in your dreams ;)

Takkat

21:31

@Alvar had a big rofl the day before when reading from a guy who needed to run my app in a Vbox ubuntu on a Mac host to get his music streamed to an Airport Express :D

Alvar

@Takkat kool, sorry that I didn't get your app to work :( didn't know what went wrong. What kind of app do you use to catch the stream at the client? I think that is my problem...

@OctavianDamiean Sorry I will always think apple is the best and that is the end of it godbye!

Takkat

from 1. page iPad tech spec :D

Alvar

yes?

?

Takkat

@Alvar I usually catch the streams with an internet radio hardware attached to my stereo. But it works with other players as well (only tested Ubuntu)

Alvar

I'm completely sold on the quite new macbook pro! store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/…

Marco Ceppi

21:41

@Alvar Meh.

Alvar

@MarcoCeppi what? 13 inch is perfect! ( the 2.7 ghz one)

Marco Ceppi

It's an Apple product - meh.

Octavian Damiean

@MarcoCeppi :D

Alvar

@MarcoCeppi you are so microsoft brainwashed! grrrrr

Allan

Im getting out of here before it gets ugly!!

Takkat

21:42

@MarcoCeppi +1

Octavian Damiean

@Alvar why microsoft? lol

Takkat

@Allan: we need you :)

Alvar

@OctavianDamiean microsoft hates apple more than marco!

Marco Ceppi

@Alvar Really? Microsoft? I dislike Microsoft products far more than Apple

Alvar

@Allan Grrrrr

Allan

21:44

I told you 0.0

Octavian Damiean

@Allan it is just not reasonable to pay more for a product just because of its name ...

Marco Ceppi

But, I digress

Alvar

@MarcoCeppi if you se an apple product with your best friend. Will you A: throw it into the gorund or B tell him to buy an android?

Marco Ceppi

@Alvar I'm forced to use an iMac almost every day at work.

Alvar

@OctavianDamiean well you don't, you pay for the amazing operatingsystem and that it always will work!

@MarcoCeppi lucky you! you are blessed!

Marco Ceppi

21:45

@Alvar If my friend wants to buy an Apple product (and my friends have iPhones) that's fine. I'm not a fan though.

@Alvar No exactly how I would put it. :P

Octavian Damiean

@Alvar sorry but that is the most stupid reason

Alvar

@MarcoCeppi well you haven't seen the light yet! it will come, it will come.

@OctavianDamiean what?

Octavian Damiean

1 min ago, by Alvar

@OctavianDamiean well you don't, you pay for the amazing operatingsystem and that it always will work!

Alvar

@MarcoCeppi then yes you don't hate apple more than microsoft.

Marco Ceppi

@Alvar It hasn't now and it won't. Die hard linux and open source software fan. Just because you can make others pay for a jazzed up Unix system with a crippled interface doesn't mean you'll win me over

Alvar

21:48

@OctavianDamiean it's true! an ubuntu doesn't always work, and unfortinally you must use a terminal to be able to use it...

Octavian Damiean

@Alvar neither does Mac OS X

Alvar

@MarcoCeppi hihihih look at the linux fan when he is mad :)

@OctavianDamiean what? inmac os x you don't have to use a temrinal unless you use ssh

Octavian Damiean

I'm not mad I'm just trying to make you understand that it just is not true that Mac OS X just always works ...

Marco Ceppi

@Alvar I think you may be more interested in this room

Alvar

aah.. I'l go to bed now and let you linux and open source fans be. Have a nice day And I hope you will see the light some day.

Marco Ceppi

21:49

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/38/ask-different-chat

Alvar

@MarcoCeppi they are lame...

Octavian Damiean

lol

Alvar

@MarcoCeppi too mainstream ;)

Marco Ceppi

@Alvar They are Apple :P

Alvar

@MarcoCeppi no they are apple fans! they go a bit crazy if you tell them linux is better.. Apple is a secret religion! :D

Octavian Damiean

21:51

I know someone quite similar :p

Alvar

well bye gang! :D

@OctavianDamiean no you don't :D I am just a bit sarcastic....

Allan

@MarcoCeppi so marco on the main page of AU I found a boo boo!

Marco Ceppi

@Allan Oh?

Allan

changes subject

Octavian Damiean

hehe

Allan

21:55

Index page top questions month tooltip

"the most the most"

DoR

0

Q: When I try to minimize windows, they close!

When I try to minimize windows they close!

windows

Allan

so good they named it twice

DoR

...

Allan

@DoR its basic!

Octavian Damiean

@DoR rofls

Allan

21:57

@DoR when repeat questions they get smaller

Octavian Damiean

and 0% accept rate

Allan

like an example of <h1> <p>

@MarcoCeppi found it?

DoR

Allan

@DoR thats the one

DoR

@Allan That bug is on SO and meta.SO and probably every SE site.

Octavian Damiean

22:04

@Allan nice find!

Marco Ceppi

0

Q: Typo on alt tag

On the main page when you hover over "MONTHLY" - they text has a typo:

bug design typo

Allan

@OctavianDamiean well it ain't an Easter egg :(

Octavian Damiean

@Allan no it isn't but you've found a bug which now gets fixed. Quality improved. ;)

Allan

@OctavianDamiean shweet!

Can't Imagine no one's seen that yet meh

Marco Ceppi

0

Q: Typo on alt tag

On the main page when you hover over "MONTHLY" - they text has a typo:

bug design spelling

@Allan It's on M.SO now

Allan

22:09

@MarcoCeppi they - the

don't want a typo in a question about a typo that's kind of ironic

don't you think it like raiaiaian on your.........

Octavian Damiean

wouldn't it correctly be .. that text has a typo. instead of the text has a typo.

TheX

hello

Allan

@OctavianDamiean the tool tip text?

@TheX meh

Octavian Damiean

@Allan yea well I mean the recent question edit

TheX

@Allan what??? goes and hides behind the sofa and starts to cry

Octavian Damiean

22:13

@TheX lol. hey there

DoR

@MarcoCeppi Two typos while reporting another typo.....

Allan

@TheX Good evening TheX did you like my Alanis Morrisette impression

Octavian Damiean

anyone of the native english speakers?

TheX

@OctavianDamiean I speak English natively... infact it is the only langauge I speak

Allan

@TheX sorry only having a laugh ;)

TheX

22:15

@Allan I don't like Alanis Morrisette, so no...

Octavian Damiean

@TheX right so check this question out then

5

Q: Typo on alt tag

On the main page when you hover over "MONTH" - the text has a typo:

bug design spelling

Allan

@TheX isnt that Ironic

Octavian Damiean

4 mins ago, by Octavian Damiean

wouldn't it correctly be .. that text has a typo. instead of the text has a typo.

TheX

there is deffiantly something wrong with it...

Allan

@OctavianDamiean ask a question english.stackexchange.com

Octavian Damiean

22:16

@Allan oh boy not that site :p

TheX

"the most" needs to be taken out of there, I think it was put in there twice

Octavian Damiean

@TheX lol yea well that is something we are aware of my question was another tho :p

TheX

oh?

besides the lack of capitilzation and punctuation?

Octavian Damiean

@TheX well no I actually wanted to know if the current version "... the text has a typo." is right or if it would rather be "... that text has a typo."

Allan

@TheX its on there site and they didn't even notice and they call them selves english specialists meh

TheX

22:24

@OctavianDamiean I think it should be the

Allan

"You're missing the Kanye West quantifier" huh?

Octavian Damiean

@TheX ok thanks

TheX

or it could be dat...

or da'

Octavian Damiean

@TheX lol

Allan

@TheX dis

TheX

22:26

@Allan yeah that too

That

The word that is used in the English language for several grammatical purposes: * to introduce a restrictive relative clause ("She took the test that was hard.") * as a demonstrative pronoun ("That was hard.") * as a demonstrative adjective ("That test was hard.") * as a complementizer/subordinating conjunction. ("He asked that she go.") * as an adverb ("The test wasn't that bad.") In the Old English language that was spelled þæt. It was also abbreviated as a letter Thorn, þ, with the ascender crossed, ꝥ ( ). In Middle English the letter Ash, æ, was replaced with the letter a, so that...

the clause in question does not fall in any of those categories...

Allan

@TheX that is enough of that

TheX

@Allan I will do what I want, when I wan't, don't tell me what I can and can not do when I rock you!

Allan

@TheX nuff said

@TheX we will we will.........

TheX

what?

Allan

ROCK YOU

TheX

22:31

oh wow

Allan

come on everybody

TheX

I am going to go dope up now like the Rocket

Roger Clemens

William Roger Clemens (born August 4, 1962), nicknamed "Rocket", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Clemens won seven Cy Young Awards, more than any other pitcher. He played for 4 different teams over his 23 year playing career. In each of his two seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays, Clemens won the pitching triple crown (leading the league in wins, ERA, and strikeouts) and a Cy Young Award. Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees for the season, where he had his first World Series success. In , he reached his 300th win and 4,000th strikeout in the same game. Clemens is one of ...

Allan

@TheX hmmmm........ ok........ Killer Queen

TheX

maybe I will lie to congress about it when I am done

Allan

@TheX sounds like a plan they usually lie to everyone else

TheX

22:35

Yeah... Congress just didn't like it when the "rocket" gave them some of their own medicine

Allan

@TheX ROID RAGE

TheX

No... that was that Chris guy from WWE...

Chris Benoit... even his name is gay...

Allan

@TheX how many in wwe are gay?

TheX

I am guessing 100%?

Allan

23:06

@TheX night x have a good one

Octavian Damiean

@Allan night

htorque

i wonder how much the people of china and north korea know about what's happening in the middle east... now would be a great time for spring cleaning :)

Octavian Damiean

lol

TheX

23:22

@htorque what are you going to clean>

htorque

there's no dictatorship around here, so i'll just stay put :P

TheX

@htorque where is here?

htorque

on the other hand... self-appointed benevolent dictator for life >:)

@TheX at home!

TheX

where is home?

htorque

somewhere in the middle :D

Jorge Castro

23:34

@MarcoCeppi oh hey

@MarcoCeppi did you ask at the mod meeting if we could get the Apple.SE keyboard css layout? :p

runs

DoR

@JorgeCastro Apple.SE keyboard CSS layout 4 LYFE!!

:P

Jorge Castro

23:55

@DoR maybe we need a user css

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