Ask Ubuntu General Room

George Edison

00:10

@James: Took me a while to figure that out myself... :)

Stefano Palazzo

On natty, log into Gnome Classic (love the descriptor), and run setsid unity :-)

James Gifford

@george Heh. He seems to be coming around to the idea.

Stefano Palazzo

that demonstrates exactly what unity is, and what it does

James Gifford

@StefanoPalazzo Not called "Gnome Classic" anymore - it's "Ubuntu Classic" - not exactly sure about that name...

Stefano Palazzo

Ah. right.

James Gifford

00:13

And what happens if I run setsid unity in Unity? ;)

Stefano Palazzo

It replaces the current unity instance, and binds stdout to the terminal you run it from

a bit like "unity; ^Z; bg; disown -a"

James Gifford

Oooohhhh.... cool stuff....

Stefano Palazzo

yeah, quite handy

James Gifford

Any plans to add a keyboard shortcut to the AU lens?

Stefano Palazzo

I suppose so, yeah. There's a bug that needs to be fixed before.

James Gifford

00:22

Ok.

Stefano Palazzo

Lenses with no shortcut still display black box when pressing super

Binary package hint: unity Take a look at the screenshot. This was taken whilst pressing the Super button. The first ten application launchers are labelled 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0. The next two have no "black box" because we run out of numbers (expected behaviour). We then have the lenses. The Ask Ubuntu one has not specified a shortcut, so just has a black box with no letter in it. Presumably it should either be compulsory to specify a shortcut, or the Unity Launcher should not display the black box if a shortcut is not specified. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: unity 3.6.8-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.38-generic 2.6.38 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,resize,regex,vpswitch,move,animation,imgpng,shift,mousepoll,grid,gnomecompat,place,workarounds,wall,wobbly,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher,session,fade,scale,unityshell] Date: Sat Mar 26 08:24:07 2011 …

unity (Ubuntu)

Medium / Fix Committed

James Gifford

Sweet.

Stefano Palazzo

There's a very cool new feature about to land in the PPA version.
Type a search like "@su ipod hard disk repair" to search on superuser.com

and a whole load of other stackexchange sites (soon every one of them)

this is next

Jorge Castro

woo

James Gifford

Can hardly wait. :D

Marco Ceppi

00:35

Populating questions with tags

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

Bookmarked Mar 2 at 16:03 by Marco Ceppi

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi heh thanks

Marco Ceppi

:)

Stefano Palazzo

@MarcoCeppi can you add body-text in the url as well?

Marco Ceppi

@StefanoPalazzo I think so, I know you can do title and tags at least

ajmitch

I just can't get natty to be stable with unity in virtualbox

I don't know how much of it is the fault of the vbox 3d drivers

Stefano Palazzo

00:47

I can't figure out the argument

Marco Ceppi

@StefanoPalazzo Don't think you can. Tried body, content, message

Trufa

Any recommendations for programs that make graphs?

Marco Ceppi

Anymore requirements other than "graphs" otherwise I would say OpenOffice/LibreOffice

Trufa

@MarcoCeppi sorry, yes

it needs to graph (complex) math functions

much like grapher does in mac

Stefano Palazzo

@Trufa you don't happen to be using R?

Trufa

00:54

guides.macrumors.com/Grapher

@StefanoPalazzo sorry what is R?

Stefano Palazzo

oh okay :-) R is a language for statistics and data mining, the interpreter comes with a powerful graphing engine

Trufa

@StefanoPalazzo ok, I'm definitly not using that (thank god?)

:)

Stefano Palazzo

I presume you'd be happy with something that works a bit like Mathematica/Matlab?

Trufa

@StefanoPalazzo yes indeed!

Stefano Palazzo

check this out: apt.ubuntu.com/p/gnome-genius

Trufa

00:59

freemat?

@StefanoPalazzo it's telling me I'm not running ubuntu

(and I am)

Stefano Palazzo

@Trufa then just open the software centre and type "genius"

Trufa

@StefanoPalazzo already did

but thats weird anyway, they must have there algs wrong...

ironic?

Stefano Palazzo

something is wrong with this chat, No idea where that image came from

Trufa

':761592 was that for me

Stefano Palazzo

no, it appeared the moment I clicked the "upload" button, for no reason

this is what I wanted to post

:-)

Trufa

01:04

@StefanoPalazzo hehe you were making me feel like a little boy who eat his supper :)

Stefano Palazzo

@Trufa When you start genius, take a look at the Manual. It's really good (and you have pretty much no choice but to read it)

Trufa

@StefanoPalazzo ok thanks for the heads up!

Stefano Palazzo

freemat is supposed to be very good too, I've never tried it.

you're welcome :)

@Trufa there's a lot more; If you're looking for something easy to use, check out KAlgebra, it's a graphing calculator from the KDE-EDU project (i.e. easy to use)

there's also Maxima and Extrema (which I've never tried)

this is pretty cool! :D

Trufa

@StefanoPalazzo Thank you, If i don't like the previous two I will try them out

@StefanoPalazzo I'm installing KAlg

to see if it's easier

Jorge Castro

03:59

1

Q: Are x11 bitmapped fonts necessary?

Are the x11 100 and 75 dpi fonts absolutely necessary? If Ubuntu has TrueType support, (as well as OpenType) why do I need all those bit-mapped fonts hanging around? Can I delete them? (and/or generate ttf/ot versions for those I want to keep) If I delete those fonts, will some ancient primit...

Nice, a xorg developer on Ask!

3

htorque

05:37

> 2011/03/31 Beta 1
\o/

Takkat

06:14

Good morning all

htorque

'lo

Takkat

Still waiting for a new Virtual Box video driver for ABI 10

htorque

i will do a bare metal installation when beta 1 arrives

Takkat

@htorque can't do that because this would be on the box my kids use for gaming. They'd kill me if it was broke :P

htorque

whew, that installation has been a 8.10 once :-)

Takkat

06:24

@htorque a lot has changed since then :)

htorque

"sorry, i broke your gaming box, but i bought you some cool math books" :D

Takkat

lol

htorque

a lot of crap has filled my hard disk since then :P

time for spring cleaning

i don't know what half of the dot-folders in my home dir do

i'm sure most aren't used and obsolete by now

Takkat

@htorque I usually upgrade the drive before dong that - less time consuming

@htorque somwhere in a dark dusty corner of my brain there is a knowledge crumb that says there is an app to find out...

htorque

i just want a fresh start, as i usually use ubuntu +1 all the time (only got one machine with a stable release :D)

unfortunately i wasn't clever enough to tag all the configuration files in /etc that i changed, so it's going to be a surprise what i missed to backup before doing the install :D

Takkat

06:30

@htorque fresh makes good sense. I've done upgrades mostly because of the 6 users and some ppa stuff I'd have to create and restore otherwise

htorque

i really thought using the dev version all the time would break the upgrade-awesomeness, but no - you can't break a linux system :D

3

Takkat

@htorque true that you simply can't - unless deliberately ;)

htorque

07:21

> [Branch ~unity-team/unity/trunk] Rev 1049: merge panel shadow branch

that will make a lot of people happy

and me, if i can disable it :D

Takkat

It's my shadow darling

htorque

:D

that's dedication

Octavian Damiean

07:47

morning

Takkat

morning @OctavianDamiean

Octavian Damiean

lol just earned my fifth enlightened and my sixth nice answer badge :p

Takkat

@OctavianDamiean well done :)

Octavian Damiean

finally registered my father for the UDS :)

Octavian Damiean

08:05

oh boy today we'll get the first beta of Natty :)

Alvar

09:10

Goodmorning! :)

Takkat

God morgon @Alvar

Alvar

I hate the first of april..

I alwayd go for those silly fake news everybody talks about GAH!!!

Takkat

09:28

@Alvar today's news may not necessarily be related to April 1st :P

Kaustubh P

10:35

Anyone know any good resume templates?

Octavian Damiean

11:22

@Alvar today is 31. March ;)

Alvar

Whaaaat?!
I was a 100% that today was the first of april LOL

Octavian Damiean

nope :)

Alvar

Tomorrow isn't the 32 of march? Or is it?!?!

Octavian Damiean

so todays news are all for real

lol

Alvar

Cool...

Octavian Damiean

11:31

@Alvar I have yet to see a month with 32 days

Alvar

Tomorrow may the first then ;)

This mobile version isn't that good really, if you press enter you just get a new row.. Annoying! Lol

Octavian Damiean

it is because it is on an Apple device

Alvar

Lol not

It works on my Mac PRO ;) the site is jud from the stoneage....

Octavian Damiean

@Alvar what the chat?

dude the chat is made for StackExchange and it is quite new, so no it is not from the stone age

Takkat

@OctavianDamiean @Alvar is way ahead of his time :D

Octavian Damiean

11:44

@Takkat hehe I see :D

Alvar

12:17

@Takkat how did you know? :)

Takkat

@Alvar it's obvious!

Alvar

Hehe

I kind of expect every programmer to set a new limit of what you cab do

I hate that you can't edit a post on the mobile chat...

Octavian Damiean

@Alvar what is that mobile chat you are talking about?

I mean for what platform and how do you access it?

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro was that you dropping comment flags on the Unity keyboard question?

Octavian Damiean

woot why was my flag rejected?

flagged this question

0

Q: Ubuntu 10.10 login problem..

I cannot enter to the normal Login interface.. if I do it will enter into tty1 mode.. I just can enter using recovery mode... How can I solve this problem?? This happened 3 month before and after I just updating the ubuntu.. Its just a normal update..

login

as a dupe of this question

0

Q: Login problem..

I cannot enter to the normal Login interface.. if I do it will enter into tty1 mode.. I just can enter using recovery mode... How can I solve this problem???

login

Takkat

12:32

0

Q: I'm looking for rEFit for PPC Mac

http://refit.sourceforge.net/ What is Mac PPC's version of rEFit?

live-usb refit

What can we do here?

Octavian Damiean

He can't seriously expect everyone to have the time to go through that site ...

Takkat

@OctavianDamiean I'm not sure if this is on or off topic here :/

Octavian Damiean

@Takkat I don't know either because I won't go through that entire site. If someone fails to communicate enough information in his question I generally cast a not a real question close vote

Takkat

@OctavianDamiean hmm maybe good idea - let's give him some more time ;)

Elgreco08

hi to all, just got my 20 points!

Octavian Damiean

12:41

@Elgreco08 nice, welcome :)

Marco Ceppi

@Elgreco08 Hello and welcome!

Elgreco08

thx!

Takkat

Hi @Elgreco08

Marco Ceppi

@OctavianDamiean They're also the same people. I've merged the users, closed the crappier of the two questions. Thanks for the flag :) <3 more edits so you get notified even more. I think I misspelled something. Nope, just making sure. I FORGOT PUNCTUATION! but I fixed it. Just because you said so

Octavian Damiean

@MarcoCeppi my pleasure :) Alright, cool man! Glad you found the mistake. :P

lol yea thanks :D

I love notifications, keep going :D

Marco Ceppi

12:46

It's been one of those mornings :P

Greg

good afternoon

Marco Ceppi

Octavian Damiean

hilarious :D

@Greg good afternoon.

Greg

its so windy here, the internet keeps dropping (even though our lines are underground)

Marco Ceppi

@Greg crazy!

Greg

12:51

ah, just as I typed that a BT engineer called to say the lines are being fixed (not due to wind damage)

so I'm forced to tether a 3G connection

can someone tell me how to search for a line of text in a lot of directories?

Marco Ceppi

@Greg grep

Greg

cool thanks

Marco Ceppi

What I ususually use is grep -ri "text" /path/to/dir/*

the -r makes it recursive, the -i makes it case insensitive.

Greg

lovely, thanks

Marco Ceppi

Typically it spits out the path/to/file: matching line of text but if you just wanted a list of files you could use the -l flag.

Octavian Damiean

13:05

interesting, the reputation number seems to be refreshed asynchronously

Greg

@OctavianDamiean which one?

Octavian Damiean

@Greg the one on the main site, at the top

Greg

cool, I know they were doing a lot of work to that part of the site

the whole stats page was ridiculously inefficient

Marco Ceppi

13:21

Stack Overflow Blog: R.I.P. Envelope, Hello Improved User Pages

Posted by Jeff Atwood on March 29th, 2011

If you’ve used any Stack Exchange site over the last year, you’re probably familiar with “the envelope”.

The envelope was a notification system that … sort of … let you know when things happened on the site. As time went on, it became clear that the envelope was a deeply flawed design. I began thinking of it as a curse, as our Windows Vista. Yep. That bad.

What was wrong with the envelope? So many things:

Clearly, the envelope had to be terminated … with extreme prejudice. …

Octavian Damiean

meh Careers 2.0 starts pissing me off

I've signed up for an invitation like ages ago and still nothing, no sign at all

@Elgreco08 care to explain that a bit?

0

Q: runlevel change

hi! how can i change the runlevel in ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10 as far as i recall ubuntu changed the runlevel with sometginh else/ if i want to change the startp to terminal only and not X what and r

gnome

James Gifford

13:46

Morning/Afternoon.

EvilPhoenix

god, i'm sick of people posting answers that just link people to 'lmgtfy'

morning indeed

James Gifford

I'm with you there @EvilPhoenix.

Octavian Damiean

oh wow I love it when people accept an answer, run into another problem by solving the first one and then unaccept your answer because they have another problem ...

so stupid ...

EvilPhoenix

@James, i actually flagged an answer today because of that, and linked to the meta discussion about it

7

Q: When is it acceptable to link to LMGTFY?

I just ran across a link to LMGTFY on Ask Ubuntu. In the past, I've found it offensive when users have posted LMGTFY links for me. When, if ever, is it acceptable to link to LMGTFY on Ask Ubuntu?

discussion newbies searching

James Gifford

@EvilPhoenix Nice. #Sarcasm

EvilPhoenix

13:48

that was the meta

i mean seriously, people come here expecting either information or good links to information, not a link to a site that shows you how to google things.

James Gifford

Precisely.

EvilPhoenix

in my opinion, answers which link someone to "lmgtfy" should be purged the moment they're flagged by users.

and the consensus seems to show that moderation of answers posting a link for lmgtfy is necessary, per that meta discussion

James Gifford

You aren't hearing an argument for lmgtfy from me.

EvilPhoenix

indeed

but i woke up in the argumentative mood today, so meh

James Gifford

hah.

Jorge Castro

14:21

@MarcoCeppi yeah that was me, I just flagged all of them since they didn't make sense

it was a guy asking me to post his feature on a mailing list or something

lazyPower

14:33

Hello everyone :)

Jorge Castro

@EvilPhoenix I just edited the guy's question to remove it, shrug

James Gifford

@lazyPower 'ello.

lazyPower

whats news @JamesGifford?

James Gifford

Looking forward to this weekend. You @lazyPower?

lazyPower

Working through some jquery madness

James Gifford

14:42

Ooohhh. i need to dive into jQuery/JS sometime.

lazyPower

just remember, $this is not always what you would expect $this toi be

the value changes based on the context, constantly. Its kind of a headache to keep up with $this selector.

James Gifford

So it's got a weird scope?

Jorge Castro

2

Q: Where can I get Natty Narwhal beta 1?

I'd love to test is, but I can't find it anywhere

11.04 testing

someone can make good rep today!

(when it's out)

James Gifford

I'm waiting for the ISO's to show up... ;)

Also, I noticed that they had a slide up on the slider on ubuntu.com, but it's gone now. :(

lazyPower

no, its got a rather sane scope, but the $this pointer will change on its context of use

it can refer to the parent calling object, and then in a sub-method be referring to the child selector. it does not use the same context as other languages (that i'm aware of)

James Gifford

14:48

interesting...

ntechi

hii everyone

need small cron help

lazyPower

my suggestion: read this.

amazon.com/gp/product/1935182323/…

James Gifford

From what I was reading yesterday, I should learn JS, then jQuery.

lazyPower

in my personal opinion, jquery is easier to pick up than straight JS. but thats my 2 cents.

James Gifford

Heh. That's what I dislike about opinions. Every has a different one. ;) i'll go with jquery then. Or maybe CoffeScript, since that's got a Ruby-like syntax (And I'm learning Ruby)

lazyPower

15:04

in all reality, learn what suits your fancy. its all about the right tool for the job

James Gifford

I'll remember that.

Wait, isn't Natty dropping the RC for a second Beta?

Jorge Castro

correct

James Gifford

That's what I thought.

Kaustubh P

15:29

'allo @lazyPower @JamesGifford @JorgeCastro

lazyPower

Heya @KaustubhP

Kaustubh P

wats cooking?

EvilPhoenix

yawn

greetz

Jorge Castro

hi!

EvilPhoenix

i hate php... its a pain at times >.>

Kaustubh P

15:43

@EvilPhoenix cant seem to find it at the moment, but someone tweeted that php is only useful for XSS, and injection attacks :D

although he could have been sarcastic.

who knows

Marco Ceppi

@EvilPhoenix <3 php

lazyPower

@KaustubhP working on a video display module. I went the long route around the bend this morning, and hacked together some control code thats "working".. but there is a much better way to do it through an application level object with JSON that gets updated only when the database content changes, so it will reduce the number of trips to the DB

Marco Ceppi

I wish they kept up with PHP Gtk

lazyPower

@MarcoCeppi did you publish that abuse script you wrote yesterday?

Marco Ceppi

@lazyPower Naw, I thought about it but it's so silly stupid simple

I found out it was all my fault anyways - I wasn't getting DDOS'd

lazyPower

15:53

i hate it when that happens...

Marco Ceppi

Yeah, don't ever enable mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http unless you know what you're doing.

lazyPower

ah understood man. I stay away from that

i'm afraid I would open up my box to being a proxy for unscrupulous use.

Marco Ceppi

That's what I did :)

All I wanted to do was proxy a domain to a rails server

running on the same machine. Now I'm doing it via passenger but it's so much slower

lazyPower

@MarcoCeppi theres a good reason for that tradeoff in speed.

Marco Ceppi

Tempted to just spin up it's own instance so I can run webrick

lazyPower

15:55

@MarcoCeppi have you looked into using your load balancer front-end as the "proxy" to the rails server?

Marco Ceppi

@lazyPower huh?

lazyPower

@MarcoCeppi i've read a few tutorials on that, and it seems to be a viable route. However i havent tested it in application.

Marco Ceppi

I don't use a load balancer

lazyPower

@MarcoCeppi there are a few load balancing applications out there that could be used as your proxy to the rails server that wont expose an open-proxy on your server.

Marco Ceppi

ah

I'm trying to use fastcgi instead

lazyPower

15:57

it seems like using a chainsaw to cut cake though, however, in the long run it could be beneficial in the aspect that it gives you the option to scale later on and its already in place

shrug YMMV

Marco Ceppi

I want this setup to be as vanilla as possible and in line with the current vhost setups

lazyPower

ah, ok :)

Marco Ceppi

:D

lazyPower

const uint32_t RAGE = 0xFFFFFFFFU; <-- hahaha

4

EvilPhoenix

16:15

well that was strange... internet crash o.O

@lazyPower lol at that

lazyPower

@EvilPhoenix ahh the joys of wasting time on twitter and the crazy programmer anecdotes you will find :)

EvilPhoenix

lol indeed

Marco Ceppi

16:42

@lazyPower Just got the word from SE: Looks like there'll be some shwag to give away at the meetup :D

@StefanoPalazzo are you around? I'm trying to make something with your Python script that pulls reputation for users

lazyPower

SICK!

i <3 free stuff

IDWMaster

Hi. My company was planning on doing some commercial software development for Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Windows. To make our product work on all platforms; we were considering using Mono, as we have already invested a significant amount of work in .NET; however, I've heard that Mono is often frowned upon in the Ubuntu community. Could someone please clarify what is wrong with Mono, and whether or not it's good to be using it in a commercial product?

Jorge Castro

Mono is in main and fully supported in Ubuntu

Marco Ceppi

@IDWMaster Some of the free software enabled by default in the upcoming releases of Ubuntu use Mono also.

IDWMaster

OK. Thanks. I was just a bit concerned after reading this article (fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono)

Is there a chance of Microsoft suing the Mono project?

Or ending it abruptly?

Marco Ceppi

16:57

Micosoft doesn't control Mono so they would have to try pretty hard to end it abruptly.

I don't think Microsoft really has an ground for a lawsuit - if they did, I'm sure they would have gone after Wine a long time ago.

Jorge Castro

heh, the FSF has certain interpretations of things

IDWMaster

True.

There's probably nothing to worry about.

I'm surprised the FSF never went after Wine

Marco Ceppi

Wine and Mono - from my understanding - are like incestuous cousins. Constantly sharing back and forth.

IDWMaster

It's amazing how easy it is to make cross-platform apps these days.

Our company is also working on an OpenGL implementation for WP7, which will allow us to deploy to that via Mono as well.

Marco Ceppi

Is this correct? I'm not sure if I interpreted this correctly:

0

A: "2.6.35-28-generic-pae", what does the 28 mean?

This doesn't have anything to do with Canonical but is part of the Linux Kernel Version Convention which states: Since 2004, after version 2.6.0 was released, the kernel developers held several discussions regarding the release and version scheme and ultimately Linus Torvalds and others decid...

Allan

17:03

@MarcoCeppi didn't know they were from the deep south 0.o

James Gifford

@MarcoCeppi Looks ok to me. But I'm not sure.

Marco Ceppi

it's weird because it's not in standard . notation.

James Gifford

Yeah.

Jorge Castro

@Oli updated your Beta answer

@JamesGifford sloooow! :)

Marco Ceppi

2

A: Is there a useful software for filling out pdf-forms except Adobe Reader?

Evince Document Viewer Which is pre-installed by default in my Israel Remix Team System but I don't know if it comes pre-loaded in a plain Ubuntu System. However, you can reach it in the Evince's official site. Here is a screenshot of an editable PDF file being filled in my desktop for you to...

Looks like no more wartermark attacks

htorque

17:19

is it there yet? is it there yet? is it there yet?

Jorge Castro

ok Beta 1 is out

theoretically, we should be busy from now on until release.

htorque

\o/

Jorge Castro

unleashing the hounds and all that

htorque

releases.ubuntu.com/11.04

first i'm going to do a reinstall on that fine originally 8.10 natty system :)

Marco Ceppi

►

htorque

17:25

how sweet, those little cuties

James Gifford

@JorgeCastro haha. ;)

Can I plead that I was off eating lunch? ;)

user8592

18:16

can i upgrade to natty from maverick by running update-manager -d?

Marco Ceppi

@user8592 Not sure if that will work yet - since it's beta

You could ask it on the main site :)

Jorge Castro

that should work

user8592

ok

Jorge Castro

11

Q: How do I upgrade to the development release (aka. Ubuntu+1)?

I've seen that Unity with compiz is availiable as a ppa for natty, but I'm using Maverick. How do I 'upgrade' my system to Natty so I can try out the new nifty Unity desktop ?

upgrade release-management

user8592

thanks :D

George Edison

18:34

Anyone want to see something funny?

Stefano Palazzo

@MarcoCeppi you mean every user's rep at once?

Marco Ceppi

@StefanoPalazzo Oh goodness no - I'm building name tags for people who come to the meetup - I want to try and make it as similar to the flair badge you can put on your site - only it will be a sticker

Stefano Palazzo

nice

Marco Ceppi

Something like that only bigger

George Edison

@Marco: Wider perhaps?

ajmitch

18:38

I really shouldn't be in the office this early

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison taller too

Something that sized

ajmitch

heh

George Edison

Oh...

Well, you could wait for StackImage 2 to come out :P

Marco Ceppi

I needs to be ready before next Wednesday

Stefano Palazzo

import urllib
import gzip
import cStringIO
import json

def get_rep(user_id):
    url = "http://api.askubuntu.com/1.1/users/%d" % user_id
    response = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
    return json.load(gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=
        cStringIO.StringIO(response)))['users'][0]['reputation']

print get_rep(1067)

this is pretty basic, I still don't like this cStringIO gubbins

George Edison

18:40

@MarcoCeppi What's next Wednesday?

Marco Ceppi

I've got the data - just not sure how to best and easily transpose it to a layout whcih can be printed

Stack Overflow Blog: Stack Overflow MeetUps – April 6

Posted by Rebecca Chernoff on March 17th, 2011

We’re excited to announce that Wednesday, April 6th, 2011, is World-Wide Stack Overflow MeetUp Day!

We commonly say that Stack Overflow is run by the community. We also commonly say that Stack Overflow is not a social networking site. There’s no private messaging. There’s no “friends” list. The entire focus is on the knowledge shared. So, when interest arises to organize world-wide “meet ups”, we need a little help from you.

Stack Overflow users are a diverse group of people, spread all over the world (there’s a lot of green on that map!). To get everyone involved in this year’s MeetUp, we would like to organize into local groups by getting everyone in each area together… all at the same time. We are making it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the groups already meeting up face-to-face. Meetups.com provides just that service. …

George Edison

Ah, I see.

Marco Ceppi

I'm running the DC meetup

ajmitch

@MarcoCeppi your answer about the kernel version is pretty much wrong, sorry :) While it contains fixes that are usually backported, it refers to the kernel ABI, just a number assigned by the kernel team

Stefano Palazzo

@MarcoCeppi you could create an SVG and then replace some text programatically, save a copy

Marco Ceppi

18:41

@ajmitch Ah thanks! I wasn't sure why it would it was #.#.#-# instead of #.#.#.#

I can accept being wrong :)

Jorge Castro

ok I need a volunteer to make something awesome

help.ubuntu.com/community/NattyUpgrades

ok so look at the bottom of the page

it refers to an old third party blog post and some old forum thread

I need someone to basically make something awesome to replace that for AU so I can link to it in the official wiki instead

ajmitch

referring to gutsy? that is a bit old

George Edison

@JorgeCastro I'm confused... we're creating an AU question that's getting linked there...?

Jorge Castro

ptcbus.blogspot.com/2008/04/…

ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4784633#post4784633

are linked from that wiki page

I am updating the wiki page for the release

ajmitch

@GeorgeEdison question is created, make a good answer for it

Marco Ceppi

18:45

Jorge wants to ask a Question on AU that will get linked on the wiki which has the best and most up to date version of the answer for that question

Jorge Castro

and that info is crap, so I was thinking, good chance to update it with content from AU

gtg

@ajmitch if I am not around and the answer is awesome can you fix the wiki page?

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi Ah, that makes sense.

ajmitch

@JorgeCastro sure, I think I can edit that page

htorque

\o/ installation complete

James Gifford

@htorque You talking about Natty?

Marco Ceppi

18:55

@StefanoPalazzo Not a bad idea. I could give it a try. Not the best at SVG

Stefano Palazzo

@MarcoCeppi no need to be :-) Just create your svg, make the changeable strings something unique and use something like open(user + ".svg", "w").write(open("test.svg").read().replace("{REP}", get_rep(user)))

Jorge Castro

@StefanoPalazzo the update to Unity tomorrow will have the horizontal view you need

Stefano Palazzo

@JorgeCastro YES! :D

Marco Ceppi

@StefanoPalazzo Right, but I'm just not good in general with graphics stuff :P

I shall give it a stab tonight and open source my results

htorque

@JamesGifford yeah, just reinstalled my main system - now comes the boring backup part

James Gifford

18:59

@htorque Cool.

Stefano Palazzo

I've used this method before to make little ticket labels for people to wear

what a night that was :P

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