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jokerdino

11:00

I wish i had a tablet or something.

So nothing happened since i last left? Cool!

Niek Bergman

Wee.

My webserver is down.

But my website is still up.

omghex.com ;-)

jokerdino

Lol @nick

BBbl

Niek Bergman

Testing out Varnish gracefully handling the server being down.

Mahesh

o/

Niek Bergman

Webserver is back up now by the way :p

Mochan

11:11

It's so dead.

Is @kan or @JourneymanGeek still here?

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: no, its pining for the fjords ;p

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek You're here.

Journeyman Geek

Ya, I am @Mochan

Mochan

Good ^o^ -relieved-

Journeyman Geek

lol, for about 10 minutes or so. I have one last stanford networking video to work through ;p

Mochan

11:14

By this *The first parameter is a time in hours, the second parameter is a time in minutes (between 0 and 59, inclusive), and the third parameter is a time in seconds (between 0 and 59, inclusive). Return the combined time as a float value. (Please note: in a1.py, we have provided the completed docstring for this function, including example function calls with the expected return values.) * does that part that says '0 to 59 are inclusive' mean I have to put the 0-59 restrictions in or...

is that already done.

Journeyman Geek

no, It means that they won't give you a value outside that

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek So Python already knows not to exceed 59 or is it my job to tell it that?

Journeyman Geek

so you can safely assume you will get a number in the range starting at 0 and ending at 59

no, the tests will not exceed that. It means you don't have to worry ;p

Mochan

Hallelujah! The assignment is easy, but I'm overthinking it.

Journeyman Geek

lol

common mistake, according to the forums

Mochan

11:17

This is going to melt me...!

Journeyman Geek

lol

You're doing fine so far ;p

Mochan

Thanks ^^;

Journeyman Geek

Which reminds me... I need to copy my idle settings over to my laptop

/me has some theme and font mods that help me with dyslexia

Mochan

Oh! I didn't even read the preconditions! Haha

@JourneymanGeek You have dyslexia? Huh. I meet a lot of people with it

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: I do

I manage it pretty well, outside slightly obsessive theme tweaking ;p

Mochan

11:19

@JourneymanGeek How do fonts and stuff help? -curiosity-

Journeyman Geek

Oh yes

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek :P

wb @jokerdino

jokerdino

ty

Mochan

np

Journeyman Geek

Sans serif fonts help. for example

jokerdino

11:20

comic sans ftw

Journeyman Geek

(though, thank god, I'm not one of those poor souls who prefers comic sans)

One moment ;p

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Because the letters are more distinguishable? -curious, again-

@JourneymanGeek +29023 lol

Journeyman Geek

ya

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Hm. That's very interesting.

Journeyman Geek

I find droid sans and Source Code Pro Semi Pro more readable than say Courier

jokerdino

11:22

ubuntu mono is nice if you haven't tried it

Mochan

Yeah. I could read the rest quicker than the first one.

Journeyman Geek

(course code semi pro, is like fricking perfect for anything that needs plain code)

Mochan

@jokerdino Do you have dyslexia also?

Mahesh

notify-send Fortune "`fortune`"
notify-send -i cookie.png Fortune "`fortune`"

Journeyman Geek

oh, calibri is not bad. Courier is a textbook example or a bad font for dyslexics

Mochan

11:22

@JourneymanGeek Hm. I see.

jokerdino

@Mochan <insert extremely vulgar interjection>

Mahesh

@jokerdino a cron entry with notify-send is the simplest i can think of.

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: I also like light on dark

jokerdino

@Mahesh that works.

Mahesh

too bad notify-osd doesn't allow me to say fixed fint

jokerdino

11:23

use the binary

Mahesh

?

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Really? It doesn't offer any advantage to me, I almost roll my eyes to the back of my head trying to read white-on-black or similar.

jokerdino

paste.ubuntu.com/1278825 @mahesh

oops wrong one

paste.ubuntu.com/1278826 @mahesh

Mochan

bbs... assignment..

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: My linux cli consoles are classic green on black ;p

Mochan

11:25

@JourneymanGeek OoooOoooOOoooooh!! I used to do that in Command Prompt XD

Journeyman Geek

XD

@Mochan: You're a proper geeky sort then ;p

jokerdino

@Mochan FWIW, ubuntu mono is a font

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek FTW

@jokerdino I know?

jokerdino

and I'm NOT dyslexic.

now bye

Mahesh

umm... doesn't help.

Mochan

11:26

@jokerdino OK. It was a question. Plus, there's nothing wrong with it.

Jeez! Bye!

jokerdino

@Mahesh i'll write one. hold on

Amith KK

@jokerdino bye

Mahesh

wait..

jokerdino

@AmithKK what?

i just came back from dinner. i am not going

Mahesh

what do you think I want? i've been known to be bad at expressing myself

Amith KK

11:27

58 secs ago, by jokerdino

now bye

Joshua Robison

intel atom is not x86 right?

jokerdino

@AmithKK i was saying bye to my bro

Joshua Robison

I would need ubuntu for arm right

Journeyman Geek

@JoshuaRobison: atom is x86

Joshua Robison

wow really

jokerdino

11:28

@Mahesh you tried notify-send from cron and it didn't work. right?

Journeyman Geek

yup

Joshua Robison

that changes everything O_o

Mahesh

@jokerdino nope.

jokerdino

@Mahesh ok

Journeyman Geek

@JoshuaRobison: how else would you have so many crappy windows netbooks? ;p

Mahesh

11:29

try ascii art in notify-send.

you'll get what i am trying to say.

jokerdino

oh

i see now

Joshua Robison

@JourneymanGeek, so you think I would not have a hard time putting ubuntu on this amazon.com/ZOTAC-Intel-Barebone-Mini-PC-ZBOX-ID41-U/dp/…

Journeyman Geek

@JoshuaRobison: oh, hell no

Joshua Robison

these zotac machines come with either atom processors or amd or sometimes intel ... but the atom processor ones often have the best specs

for the money that is

Mochan

@JoshuaRobison Damn. That's smexy.

jokerdino

11:31

l

Joshua Robison

my media machine just died and I need to replace it

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: I love atoms for random low power boxen

Joshua Robison

the power supply went out O-o

Journeyman Geek

I have an old 1.6 ghz box

Joshua Robison

I never had that happen to me before

Journeyman Geek

11:32

@JoshuaRobison: you could just replace the power supply

unless it uses something particularly exotic

Joshua Robison

@JourneymanGeek, but it is old.. hard to fine... and the power supplies Ive found were almost half the price I bought the pc for

Journeyman Geek

o0

Joshua Robison

dell omniplex

160W dell power supply ... ranging from $25 to $50

Journeyman Geek

lol

got an exact model?

Joshua Robison

I bought the thing for $80

Journeyman Geek

11:34

mini/sffish box?

Joshua Robison

@JourneymanGeek dell optiplex gx520

not even mini

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek for this:
` def to_float_hours(hours, minutes, seconds):
'''(int, int, int) -> float

Return the total number of hours in the specified number
of hours, minutes, and seconds.`

I did` return (minutes / 60) + (seconds/60) + hours. `
The first example (0, 15, 0) is right, but the others are a bit off. 2, 45, 9 is supposed to be 2.75 but results in 2.9 and 1, 0, 36 is supposed to be 1.01 but I get 1.6. Is my math wrong? I wouldn't be surprised...!

Journeyman Geek

support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx520/en/ug/sindex.htm this?

@Mochan: I'd double check

Joshua Robison

@JourneymanGeek, I bought it used

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek ty

Joshua Robison

11:35

yes that looks like it @JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

@JoshuaRobison: support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx520/en/ug/… PSU uses a standard input...

so If you feel hacky.. ;p

and ya, PSUs on those arn't worth replacing. System can still be reporposed

Joshua Robison

wish I could gazelle it but i live in japan

at this rate I will have to pay to trash it

Journeyman Geek

gazelle?

Mochan

@JoshuaRobison Seriously?! You lucky thing! OMG I'm so jealous! -dies-

Joshua Robison

gazelle.com

@Mochan, huh?

did I miss something O_o

jokerdino

11:39

@Mochan he said he can't because he lives in Japan.

@JoshuaRobison conflicts and confusion. no worries

Mochan

@jokerdino No, I mean the fact he lives in Japan!

jokerdino

@Mochan o.O

Journeyman Geek

lol

jokerdino

What about someone who lives in Korea?

Journeyman Geek

Someone wants to move? ;p

Mochan

11:40

@jokerdino ?

jokerdino

??

Alvar

hi all! :D

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek I hate to be annoying like this, but do you know if my math is OK? I have about 20-40 minutes to finish the assignment (;; )

@Alvar o/

@jokerdino You mean Ga-in?

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: without looking at your math... ;p

jokerdino

@Mochan I mean Gwon

Mochan

11:41

@jokerdino LOL XD

Alvar

Does anyone have a link to a tutorial on designing web pages? I really can't design anything. But I know some HTML, CSS and PHP...

Journeyman Geek

ohhhh

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Oh man... what did I do wrong?

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: arn't you supposed to use the % for that?

er no no my bad

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek What's % again?

@JourneymanGeek Really?

Journeyman Geek

11:42

mod

look at your seconds

jokerdino

0

Q: Question No 207630 replied by Marco Braida

Question No 207630 replied by Marco Braid After your reply I could install Synaptic,then AptonCD,Gdebi and some other applications. I had made APTONCD. I was convienced that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is working well. I had removed everything ( Ubuntu 12.04,Fuduntu,Linix mint 13) from my hard disk and re...

synaptic

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek What about them?

jokerdino

weird case scenario

Alvar

@Mochan 24 % 24 is 0 if it's math or programming you are talking about...

Journeyman Geek

let me look @ my solution ;p

@Mochan: seconds/ 3600

Alvar

11:44

or seconds %60

Journeyman Geek

my bad, not mod

no no

Alvar

% gives the rest on what you divide by

AbrahamVanHelpsing

0

Q: Question No 207630 replied by Marco Braida

Question No 207630 replied by Marco Braid After your reply I could install Synaptic,then AptonCD,Gdebi and some other applications. I had made APTONCD. I was convienced that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is working well. I had removed everything ( Ubuntu 12.04,Fuduntu,Linix mint 13) from my hard disk and re...

synaptic

Mochan

I'm so confusd...

Journeyman Geek

@Alvar: made a mistake ;p

Alvar

11:45

what programming language is it?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

what is this even trying to say?? - the question

Mochan

@Alvar Oh yeah, the remainder

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: return hours + minutes/60 + seconds/3600

Mochan

@Alvar Python

Alvar

ok

yeah that will work too

Mochan

11:45

@JourneymanGeek Why /3600?

jokerdino

i get it. someone said don't post a comment as an answer but start a new question and he did exactly that

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour. 3600 seconds to an hour

Alvar

60*60

jokerdino

@mochan are you processing time?

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Oh! Hahah thx

Journeyman Geek

11:46

@jokerdino: ya ;p

jokerdino

paste.ubuntu.com/1278825

I did that a while ago --^

coz i am messy

Mochan

@jokerdino Yeah. I'm doing an assignment on a course. I have to translate time.

Alvar

@Mochan some basic stuff you might fins useful! tutorialspoint.com/python/python_basic_operators.htm

Journeyman Geek

@Alvar: her code is fine. Thats what caught me ;p

Mochan

@Alvar Thanks very very much

Alvar

11:48

@JourneymanGeek lol

@Mochan remember google is your friend. ;)

AbrahamVanHelpsing

floor rounds down, mod gives you remainder:
is that how you did it?

Journeyman Geek

I've been helping my dad, his logic is great, his coding, less so ;p

@AbrahamVanHelpsing: I totally misunderstood what she was asking

(story of my life) ;p

AbrahamVanHelpsing

oh... end thought

Mochan

@Alvar Google is always the answer. Always.

Journeyman Geek

facepalm

jokerdino

11:50

42 is the answer.

3

Journeyman Geek

I just tried to install fonts I already install and use

AbrahamVanHelpsing

is hitchiker's guide reference the new unicorn? if so i can break out some towel quotes

Alvar

@jokerdino divide by zero always gives the solution to every problem.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

idk, i don't think google is ALWAYS the answer... i mean the search results for world domination are pretty useless

4

Alvar

@AbrahamVanHelpsing but on a programming issue it is...

jokerdino

11:54

facepaw

2

Alvar

FTW

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek, Write your get_hours function definition here:means that I should say...?

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: write the function according to the recipie

Mochan

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Jokes

@JourneymanGeek So... write it all again?

??

jokerdino

ok wow, who is that mystery fan of mine?

Journeyman Geek

11:55

pretty much

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek What fun. But without the instructions they supplied, with my own description?

htorque

still no RR name?

jokerdino

@htorque nope

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: 'complete' it - the instructions are the stringdoc, yes?

htorque

:..(

jokerdino

11:56

I am predicting Rowdy Raccoon.

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek S**T. I put it in the normal bit--! -editing-

htorque

Rancid Rat

:D

jokerdino

lol

kan

Here. :)

Mochan

So this is *exactly* how it should look like?
### Write your get_hours function definition here:

def seconds_difference(time_1, time_2):
'''(float, float) -> float

Return the number of seconds later that a time in seconds
time_2 is than a time in seconds time_1.

>>> seconds_difference(1800.0, 3600.0)
1800.0
>>> seconds_difference(3600.0, 1800.0)
-1800.0
>>> seconds_difference(1800.0, 2160.0)
360.0
>>> seconds_difference(1800.0, 1800.0)
0.0
'''
return time_2 - time_1

Or do it need this?

Journeyman Geek

11:59

pretty much

Mochan

Or this?
### Write your get_hours function definition here:

def seconds_difference(time_1, time_2):
'''(float, float) -> float

Returns the difference in seconds between time_2 and time_1

>>> seconds_difference(1800.0, 3600.0)
1800.0
>>> seconds_difference(3600.0, 1800.0)
-1800.0
>>> seconds_difference(1800.0, 2160.0)
360.0
>>> seconds_difference(1800.0, 1800.0)
0.0
'''
return time_2 - time_1

Journeyman Geek

mine reads return (time_2 - time_1)

AbrahamVanHelpsing

you mean you won't get a good grade with a
'''
#TODO - add docstring
'''
???

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