Ask Ubuntu General Room

12:21 AM

@AbrahamVanHelpsing it still feels like cheating, even though I didn't ask you for the bounty... but I'll answer it if no one else does.

jrg

@AbrahamVanHelpsing haha... :)

has anyone tinkered with this? askubuntu.com/questions/140573/…

George Edison

Anyone?

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AbrahamVanHelpsing

i have not...i imagine there is some good documentation on making custom apparmor profiles though

Flabricorn

12:42 AM

Is considering moving to ArchLinux.

jrg

@Flabricorn if you are serious about interning with me, you need to use a real operating system, not a toy. ;P

Flabricorn

@jrg :D

jrg

speaking of which, i should send you an email with more details about what I hope to accomplish.

Flabricorn

Got it.

jrg

title.toastmanNumber@gmail.com is you, right?

Flabricorn

12:44 AM

askubuntuusername@greendoorgames.com

jrg

that'd be why you hadn't replied to my latest email. :P

Flabricorn

I don't care if these people have it, I doubt that I'm at risk.

Ah yes.

It would, however it should be forwarding to my new address.

jrg

ok, your card in my cyber rolodex is updated

Flabricorn

Fantabulastic.

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I feel like Ubuntu has no learning curve right now, which is something I want...

iSeth

its more like it doesn't have to

Flabricorn

12:48 AM

Good point.

I haven't found something I want to do with a learning curve in Ubuntu. I learned much more when I was on PPC and I had to fend for myself for everything, because community releases weren't the most polished and I had no support for applications.

Maybe I need a Rasberry Pi.

iSeth

@Flabricorn yup, that'd do it alright.

they do have a stack (as you're aware) in case you blow your self up :P

I am aware in fact.

I know.

Oh do you now?

@Flabricorn then don't do arch

do pure debian

arch = a pain in the rear, even for me.

Flabricorn

12:54 AM

Arch is that much of a curve?

jrg

debian = a slightly enjoyable pain in the rear.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

someone tried to easy-button arch as archbang

iSeth

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Q: Can someone give me a walktthrough in testdisk?

I would really appreciate it if someone could give me a walkthrough in testdisk.I wouldn't ask for this, but i caused this problem by trying to fix things myself using testdisk so now I'm nervous to try anything. I was messing with it trying to fix another problem and now I only have 1 partition...

is that off-topic? it seems to be more than one question...

jrg

i'd be willing to try out archbang.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

the lfs guys did a "adding a package manager to lfs" too if you're up for insanity learning curve

jrg

12:56 AM

look, @Flabricorn is slightly sane.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

oh, that's right. nevermind that last bit then ;)

Flabricorn

I have a little left I would like to hold on to.

jrg

ok, let me rephrase this: @Flabricorn, try ubuntu-server > desktop first.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

i like my ubu-alt openbox setup

Flabricorn

But... graphical user interfaces are nice too.

jrg

12:58 AM

something like that.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

the terminal is a user interface

jrg

use ncurse-based programs.

Flabricorn

That's how real men do it according to Linus Torvalds.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

and misterx...notice there is only ncurses gui for aircrack on linux

jrg

i must not have aircrack-compatible hardware, i wasn't able to get it to work.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

1:00 AM

? what card ? the one i dumped in ppa worked for intel and atheros

jrg

intel and realtek.

i should grab from your ppa then.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

disable hardware crypto in modprobe

it works for intel, but channel locking can be a little finicky

Flabricorn

Aircrack for me has no real world application as of yet.

jrg

well, that will change this summer if things work out.

(and yes,it will be a legal use)

Flabricorn

Got it.

jrg

1:12 AM

downloading archbang now, thanks for the tip @AbrahamVanHelpsing.

Flabricorn

You know what, let me know if you like it, it could be the official OS of Rainy Cat IT (Was that the name you came up with?)

jrg

i renamed to something a little more suitable to our latitude and the generic mission.

(which (the mission) is "Technology stuff")

Flabricorn

I love it!

jrg

so once i pick up the december check, i'll have enough to file the papers and that will be it.

George Edison

File papers?

What's going on here?

jrg

1:16 AM

i'm going to eliminate a ton of paperwork for underage IT workers in cleveland.

basically, i'll make it so once a year, my army of minions file their paperwork and minor wage permits with my company, and then we can go forth and make money.

(and be "we", i mean myself and @Flabricorn. mostly myself. no clue how much time he has for stuff. :P)

Flabricorn

I would like to be paid in Brazilian Chimpanzees please.

jrg

~~precisely.~~ uh, no.

Flabricorn

Ah there are some more out there. We can find minions if need be.

jrg

minions!

George Edison

I want a turtle.

Flabricorn

1:19 AM

Join our cause.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison basically, the current workflow for a project I'm interested in getting paid for is: Get asked to do the work, ask when they need work done, find out they need it done in the next 2 weeks, and then have to say no because I'd need to file a minor work permit with the school board for 10 hours of work.

George Edison

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^--- Like that one.

Flabricorn

OH GOOD LORD WHY IS IT SO CUTE?!

jrg

don't let @RolandiXor-TheIceMan see that.

George Edison

Wait until you watch it :)

jrg

1:20 AM

he'll melt.

George Edison

@jrg Why not? I got it from him.

jrg

youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=npGYoFTZdlI&feature=fvwp

@Flabricorn this one is better, it's got epic music

George Edison

It's not the music! That's not what makes it awesome :P

Flabricorn

The house in New York I am staying in has a turtle in a tank that likes to bask in sunlight and have panic attacks every time it goes back into the water.

jrg

lol.

Flabricorn

1:23 AM

Nice little guy, name's Tortilla.

Arch Bang looks pretty cool. Wouldn't mind that.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@jrg no problem

archbang looked interesting, but i'm more of a "fix things on one distro altogether" type of guy

jrg

is ubuntu one note sync broken in tomboy for anyone else?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

i don't use it...so no idea

FEichinger

o/

AbrahamVanHelpsing

o/ FEichinger. on the thing we talked about earlier, i decided to do a single keyboard poll and world maintenance inside one python file and have it poll every three game ticks (so at 60 fps that's 20 times per second)

jrg

1:37 AM

i wonder if i broke ubuntu one note sync.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

yes @jrg - it's your fault. you're the only one on the wheel of blame now. we're taking satyha off ;)

jrg

no, i'm serious. i've added in 20-30 notes this weekend, and all of them are really, really really long.

FEichinger

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Neat.

jrg

ah, that was it.

tomboy's .net thingy doesn't like ampersands in note titles.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

soap requests on salesforce bork on ampersands too fyi

FEichinger

1:43 AM

That's why you either code a fallback for special characters, or at least give a friggin error ...

AbrahamVanHelpsing

salesforce does throw an indiscriminate error, but it doesn't realize it's in parsing. it thinks it's an insert into other field a non-number into number exception. it doesn't even check right number of fields

jrg

[ERROR 20:39:48.926] Synchronization failed with the following exception: a name did not start with a legal character 32 ( ) Line 4, position 74.
at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadName (System.String& prefix, System.String& localName) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadName () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadEntityReference (Boolean ignoreEntityReferences) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadReference (Boolean ignoreEntityReferences) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

so it does that. it's stupid though, it should escape those.

FEichinger

If it has a defined legal character set, why doesn't it do something as stupid as replacing a non-legal one with a dash or something? ...

AbrahamVanHelpsing

maintain code you didn't write...just saying

jrg

how do i figure out my bugzilla username?

FEichinger

1:49 AM

Take two mirrors.

Align yourself in-between.

Read the number on your neck.

jrg

lol

AbrahamVanHelpsing

you mean you don't have one of these? heh

it's really an rfid tag they implant up your nasal passage total recall style

FEichinger

@AbrahamVanHelpsing See, if it wasn't about @jrg, I'd joke about reading the RFID tag in the wrist ... But that sounds a little too close to reality.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

har har...was that a young buck joke? it might have been

jrg

nope, my rfid tag is in my pocket. it's called "the cell phone".

eff.org/issues/cell-tracking

AbrahamVanHelpsing

1:55 AM

we know, we know

jrg

</end-dangerous-political-topics>

AbrahamVanHelpsing

that's why open hardware never gets funding. the off switch actually works if you build it yourself ;) and /thought

Flabricorn

</ " ">

jrg

@AbrahamVanHelpsing true that. :P

FEichinger

Look, guys, it's the 24th in some parts already. Let's all just put our cute little conspiracies in a chest and leave them there for the rest of the year.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

1:58 AM

okay end conspiracy and topical linux message:

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jrg

hey, my cute little conspiracies managed to stay in a chest all weekend around the extended family members who think i'm a insane maniac for reading the newspaper before i'm 30, so I'll rant if it's appropriate. :P

Amith KK

appears

FEichinger

@AmithKK o/

Amith KK

I just had the weirdest dream.

I was sleeping in my dream and this happened and that happened

sleepception

FEichinger

... You know ... the whole "-ception" thing doesn't work, when you're cepting the ception.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

2:00 AM

it's a conversation within a conversation within a conversation

FEichinger

Obligatory Turducken:

Turducken

Turducken is a dish consisting of a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which is in turn stuffed into a de-boned turkey. The word turducken is a portmanteau of turkey, duck, and chicken. The dish is a form of engastration, which is a recipe method in which one animal is stuffed inside the gastric passage of another. The thoracic cavity of the chicken/game hen and the rest of the gaps are stuffed, sometimes with a highly seasoned breadcrumb mixture or sausage meat, although some versions have a different stuffing for each bird. The result is a fairly solid layered poultry dish...

George Edison

NO BACON???

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AbrahamVanHelpsing

6

George Edison

You sir win one Internet.

Amith KK

Wish me luck

Flabricorn

2:03 AM

I think that's half an internet.

George Edison

@AmithKK What are you doing?

Amith KK

When I come back, I'll probably log on from amith-desktop-2

FEichinger

@Flabricorn That's 1*(1*(1*(1))) Internets.

Amith KK

Rebuilding my pc with a new motherboard and stuff

George Edison

@AmithKK Okay, good luck then.

Amith KK

2:03 AM

@GeorgeEdison Thanks

George Edison

That sounds like a difficult task.

Hope it all works out - don't forget to use thermal paste.

Amith KK

Not really

the CPU comes preassembled with the board

George Edison

Oh, okay.

Amith KK

it's a core 2 duo

George Edison

Not bad. I have one of those.

No wait - mine is a Centrino Duo.

Amith KK

2:04 AM

And Nvidia Onboard Graphics

it was the Geforce 7xx series I guess

FEichinger

A wild @Mochan!

Amith KK

Hey @Mochan :)

Mochan

@iSeth I have been active in the reviews because the chatroom is too dead to be active in

Yo @FEichinger and @AmithKK!

@FEichinger Mochan uses Chat! It's very efffective!

Amith KK

@Mochan Don't worry, my holidays are back ;)

FEichinger

@Mochan We aren't dead. We're just ... sleepy.

Mochan

2:06 AM

@AmithKK Woo! Yay~

Flabricorn

Arch Linux + KDE = Beauty.

Mochan

@FEichinger Lies. You're all dead.

Amith KK

And I'll go to an internet void place tommorrow

Flabricorn

@Mochan We're not dead, we just think we're piglets.

Mochan

@Flabricorn WTF? .__________.

Amith KK

2:07 AM

I have 2GB of 3G left on my phone

Mochan

I want to be a piglet too T_T

Flabricorn

@Mochan Precisely.

Amith KK

sudo pigletify 'mochan'

Mochan

+1

Flabricorn

Join up.

FEichinger

2:08 AM

AskUbuntu Chat, assemble!

George Edison

I only see bacon.

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Flabricorn

@GeorgeEdison I see fried turtle.

George Edison

What video?

The turtle?

No, that was me.

Flabricorn

Oh, I'm a bit sleep deprived. Forgive me.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

yeah, that was george

who called the assembly?

FEichinger

2:10 AM

Now that is creepy.

George Edison

I didn't know pigs had incisors.

...or lips.

Mochan

@AbrahamVanHelpsing That's creepy... ._.

I liked it when there were like 800 review tasks. Now there are 0.

4

AbrahamVanHelpsing

it's excellent. the rabid bunny is better

Amith KK

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Mochan

O________________O

FEichinger

2:11 AM

@AmithKK And that was awfully fast.

Amith KK

Early morning GIMP skills

Brb, lunchtime :3

cya @Mochan

That was my first bacon.

Amith KK

2:12 AM

I should have applied a perspective transform

George Edison

The bacon plush toy! (Helpful if you still have some last minute shopping to do.)

AbrahamVanHelpsing

speaking of bunnies and rawr: th05.deviantart.net/fs30/200H/f/2008/057/e/c/…

okay, i'll stop with the images for a while

Flabricorn

@GeorgeEdison juicetheblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/SlicedPig.jpg

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George Edison

BACON BACON BACON!!!

12 mins ago, 11 minutes total – 69 messages, 6 users, 10 stars

Bookmarked 7 secs ago by George Edison

4

There. Bookmarked for future generations.

Flabricorn

They'll be honored to look upon our past.

Amith KK

2:14 AM

O                 O
 ________________

George Edison

We have used up our stars for the week by now.

FEichinger

@GeorgeEdison Noes, now it looks like I started this!

George Edison

@FEichinger :P

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison BackFire

AbrahamVanHelpsing

superbly effective brakes

George Edison

2:17 AM

I better stop.

This is getting out of control.

Making all of those snowmen would have been epic fun though.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

reminds me of the calvin and hobbes yard of horrors

Amith KK

BBL

Flabricorn

@jrg When do I use puts as opposed to prints?

jrg

2:33 AM

Flabricorn

Nevermind, too tired for ruby learning tonight, did two sections just now so I'm going to sleep now. Goodnight everyone.

Oh, gots it.

jrg

puts automatically adds a carriage return to the end of the string.

you can also do this, but it's rather silly and lame.

Flabricorn

I haven't been told to use echo yet, and it gets angry when I add unnecessary code.

jrg

echo is a unix command

they won't tell you to use echo.

Flabricorn

Oh my mistake, well, that's good.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

2:36 AM

get a pipe to stdout and write to it. that will be normal-ish joke

jrg

they won't let you use it either, since what happens is you can do rm -rf / and nutty stuff.

Flabricorn

Something for tomorrow.

Goodnight everybody!

jrg

ok, stackexchange, I love you, but you really suck. GIVE ME THE MARKDOWN DIFFS BY DEFAULT FOR /REVIEW EDITS! grrr

Mochan

Oh my God!

FEichinger

You called?

Mochan

2:41 AM

Haha

Is this chatroom dead again? //cries

FEichinger

It was quite alive until you went "Oh my God!" out of the blue.

Mochan

Wah ;__;

AbrahamVanHelpsing

yeah, look at the recent stars...we were all talking about bacon and the holidays

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Mochan

I said "Oh my God!" because my laptop died. lolthatwasawkward

AbrahamVanHelpsing

removed

Mochan

2:47 AM

Ssh
I may have kept it there if I knew how to strikethrough

@AbrahamVanHelpsing LOL XD

AbrahamVanHelpsing

three - is ~~strikethrough~~

Mochan

FEichinger

Because markdown hates tags.

Mochan

;__;

hi

:O

FEichinger

Yeh, markdown is mean like that.

Mochan

2:49 AM

UNNECESSARY BOLD AND ~~STRIKETHROUGH~~ !

AbrahamVanHelpsing

~~;__;~~ (;,;)

Journeyman Geek

~~BLAH~~

FEichinger

Where is Web 3.0 when you need it? ... You know, automatically omitting such nonsense? :P

AbrahamVanHelpsing

web 3.0 is a cli browser with grep -v....you know how this stuff goes in cycles

4

Mochan

@AbrahamVanHelpsing XD

Hi @JorgeCastro :)

The Anime & Manga is up in beta for those of you who wish to participate :3

Amith KK

4:35 AM

back

when will my motherboard arrive

I need to do packaging magic

@Mochan \o/

@Mochan The use of the spoiler tag is invietable

iSeth

4:48 AM

@Mochan don't tell me its dead until you've raised your hand! you'll probably get a response :)

anyway, I'm off to bed

night all!

Amith KK

@iSeth Good Night :)

iSeth

@AmithKK oh, BTW, why do you want my Google ID? Its mostly for family/close friend things

Amith KK

@iSeth ohkthen

That's just my online life contact list :P

iSeth

ah, OK.

haha, look at this... lol

Amith KK

5:04 AM

@iSeth XD

lazyPower

@AbrahamVanHelpsing have his people talk to my people. You know the address :)

jokerdino

@AmithKK Hey.

Amith KK

Hello :P

jokerdino

I have stuff importing to LP from git.

you don't need nova. LP does them all

Amith KK

@jokerdino Yeah, reading the docs on my phon right now

jokerdino

5:14 AM

Oh on your phone.

Amith KK

Yeah

24/12/2012 08:57	Out for delivery	Shipment Outscan	TRINITY

It's pretty near now

jokerdino

That's today.

Amith KK

Yeah

I'm near Trinity Circle

jokerdino

Yay

Amith KK

Should I go with amith-desktop-2 or another name :P

Flabricorn

5:16 AM

Amith Desktop 2 sounds good.

Amith KK

lol I forgot to backup ./home

it's 47GB

Flabricorn

Ubuntu one?

Amith KK

nah, 1TB drive

Flabricorn

I was wondering if you could recover any of it as a solution. I personally use a home FTP setup.

Amith KK

I didn't delete anything yet

Flabricorn

5:21 AM

Oh!

I though this was an afterthought, my bad.

Amith KK

lol np

jokerdino

@AmithKK the code is being imported to LP now - code.launchpad.net/mechanig

so, when you have the time, help us write a setup.py and another bzr branch with just the debianizing.

after that, we can create a packaging recipe.

Amith KK

5:39 AM

Yeah :)

►

Sad song :(

@jokerdino Autoimports right?

jokerdino

yep

jokerdino

5:57 AM

Let me know if you need any help.

Amith KK

ok :)

Mochan

Ah! No dead?

jokerdino

We are undead.

BACON BACON BACON!!!

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