@AbrahamVanHelpsing there is the place I bought mine from, not sure how they are on getting the order out the door, free ground shipping mcmelectronics.com/…
@Seth I still love how the discussions about the accept rate on SO boil down to "We removed it, because people commented with "Improve your accept rate first!".
To me, that reads "our users are trolls, so we need to remove a metric to prevent them from using it to harass".
And I disagree on that. We have tons of Qs that aren't accepted because there is no, or no sufficient answer around. That doesn't mean there is no answer, it just means noone with an answer looked into it - which is also easy to occur on rapidly-moving site like SO.
Then there's also - theoretically - this policy of "one question per question".
If you actually stick to that, you easily get five Qs in a couple of days, not necessarily answered fully.
Heck, during some of my ubuntu reinstalls, I ran into quite a bunch of barely-related issues. I'm just the "don't care, it kinda works." kind of person, which is why I barely ask :(
@AbrahamVanHelpsing: desktop dualboots. I didn't know if *buntus play well with windows 8, so I popped my SSD and installed it on a little laptop drive
On my HP laptop the Linux kernel takes 7+ seconds to initialize. Just to get to the root device. Encrypted/LVM or not. It's a bloody ACPI probe that takes 2 seconds, PCI scan of 3 seconds... seriously...
Anyway - circle of kids that's not an alligator picture...followed by:
An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that who ever got there first won the sweet fruits.
When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats.
When he asked them why they had run like that as one could have had all the fruits for himself they said: ''UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?''
like a weird problem with the folders that when you hover the mouse on top of them you are sucked in to a virtual world where you have to fight a bunch of monsters to get to a 3 headed boss. On your way there you can change your personality with this masks that literally change you to a fly, a tank, jason from friday the 13th and even a samurai
I'm logged in the ubuntu forum (http://ubuntuforums.org) and I can write an send mp messages to users, but when i go to my 'sent msg' box it's empty, as if i had never sent any message..
Why ?
and how to do it then ?
Thanks.
I noticed today we got a new interface for closing/flagging. Almost immediately after getting it though, both the close vote and flag menus won't load anymore. The little black dots just go on forever.
Example from random question:
Example from the close vote queue:
I see this o...
I've read a lot about using the following file to deactivate the backlight but for me it just doesn't exist:
/sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/kbd_backlight
The sony-laptop folder exists though.
Is there a new way to deactivate the backlight?
So I am hunting down an explanation on Virtual Hosts in Apache2 for 12.10; is anyone in here familiar enough with that to speak to setting up the /apache2/sites-available/ files?
Okay, a seemingly very simple problem:
I go to any question anywhere on the network. I try to flag it. The first dialogue opens just fine:
Then, when I select the "it doesn't belong here, or it is a duplicate" option, it loads for a moment, then closes.
When I try again, I can select the opt...
And, as ° just taught me again: ^° is also pretty much un-pressable. It moves, but the mechanism is nearly entirely broken and the pad below doesn't really seem to like me. Combine that with it being a pretty damn small key, and, well, no way of pressing that.
So, I'm still trying to find spare parts for that thing, so I don't have to replace the entire keyboard.
@Mochan: When you read this - please vote for 5 of the questions on the E-Books Area51 proposal. We have far more followers than we need. What we really need is votes for questions.
I my bashrc. I have a bash completion for the command scp implemented as follows
function _scp_complete
{
COMPREPLY=""
COMPREPLY+=( $(cat ~/.ssh_complete ) )
COMPREPLY+=( $( find . ! -name . -prune -type f ) )
}
complete -F _scp_complete scp
The idea is that when pressing scp [tab] I see...
A flag is disputed when at least one 10k user sees it in the 10k flag queue and considers it invalid.
So there are actually two ways to get disputed flags in your flagging history. One way is what you've seen; the other way often confuses users just as they've crossed the 10k reputation threshol...
[New changes to the system today](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/59446/195914):
- The auto inserted text for questions closed as duplicates has been changed to "This question already has an answer here:" followed by link to the other question and the number of answers it has.
- The close/flag/bounty dialogs lose their border, and are made draggable
^--- since when is formatting broken here in chat? (linking at least)
We've come to rename Markdown to Letdown in the C++ chat room because it lets you down so often. I've now just found a pattern.
It seems markdown fails for multi-line messages. That is, this
Letdown can't cope with multi-line comments.
Let's see code?
fails to display code marked as co...
I found a cool purpose for this, you can make ASCII art on multiple lines that ignores formatting, Here is a nice example,
.*..*. /),/) .*..*.
"-.-" ( ';' ) "-.-"
.*..*. c(..c) .*..*.
"-.-" OO "-.-"
So with this feature, you can make bunnies and unicorns, ignoring formattin...
@jokerdino Yes I figured that's (part of) what you were referring to. Rather I posted that for the benefit of others. For some reason people always think unicorns are apocryphal or metaphorical. It's important to show unicorns where they appear in life.
@jokerdino That's true. Hmm... On a peripherally related note, I think English should adopt the contraction/portmanteau "lessoteric" for when the esoteric nature of something is eroded or minimized. :)
I'm logged in the ubuntu forum (http://ubuntuforums.org) and I can write an send mp messages to users, but when i go to my 'sent msg' box it's empty, as if i had never sent any message..
Why ?
and how to do it then ?
Thanks.
I noticed today we got a new interface for closing/flagging. Almost immediately after getting it though, both the close vote and flag menus won't load anymore. The little black dots just go on forever.
Example from random question:
Example from the close vote queue:
I see this o...
I've read a lot about using the following file to deactivate the backlight but for me it just doesn't exist:
/sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/kbd_backlight
The sony-laptop folder exists though.
Is there a new way to deactivate the backlight?
Okay, a seemingly very simple problem:
I go to any question anywhere on the network. I try to flag it. The first dialogue opens just fine:
Then, when I select the "it doesn't belong here, or it is a duplicate" option, it loads for a moment, then closes.
When I try again, I can select the opt...
I my bashrc. I have a bash completion for the command scp implemented as follows
function _scp_complete
{
COMPREPLY=""
COMPREPLY+=( $(cat ~/.ssh_complete ) )
COMPREPLY+=( $( find . ! -name . -prune -type f ) )
}
complete -F _scp_complete scp
The idea is that when pressing scp [tab] I see...
We've come to rename Markdown to Letdown in the C++ chat room because it lets you down so often. I've now just found a pattern.
It seems markdown fails for multi-line messages. That is, this
Letdown can't cope with multi-line comments.
Let's see code?
fails to display code marked as co...
I found a cool purpose for this, you can make ASCII art on multiple lines that ignores formatting, Here is a nice example,
.*..*. /),/) .*..*.
"-.-" ( ';' ) "-.-"
.*..*. c(..c) .*..*.
"-.-" OO "-.-"
So with this feature, you can make bunnies and unicorns, ignoring formattin...
