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Rinzwind

19:04

:)

@Seth 66 upvotes :D :D <3

Takkat

19:16

Its always nice to see my first thoughts in a comment already there "why in the world would you want to..." ;)

Rinzwind

>:)

Takkat

Nice to see you back being so active - you always have such good anwers at hand :)

Rinzwind

if he thinks: better speed I am going to force him to recompile his kernel with swapd

that topic might be better off closed :P

HEY I never was away from AU :( Just that I never find a good question anymore

Takkat

I know - I always saw bits of you, at least from comments :)

Rinzwind

well I currently am defending my 1st row spot against Luis :=D

and he is getting close >:)

Takkat

19:22

Luis will ask a question, and bam - you're down again ;P

Rinzwind

:D

@seth got me 2 more upvotes :D

Takkat

I bet if we only counted upvotes from questions he would be unrechable.

Rinzwind

yeah Luis asks alot... moderators should not ask but research >:)

Takkat

our first-rowers

Rinzwind

let's ban izx :+)

Takkat

19:26

Nooo - we can't he seemed to have himself auto-banned recently... hope not for long.

Rinzwind

aha.weird his page says he was last seen in 2012 oct. but he got some rep this year

Takkat

He got tons of good stuff posted here.

Rinzwind

can you get 25k+ rep with bad answers? >:D

Takkat

You probably can but you need tons of good answers for 40k+

We'll all laugh about these low rep figures in 2 years time.

Rinzwind

sigh

that emre has alot to learn :+)

5

Q: Is it possible to make a file that has full permissions for everybody but is impossible to delete?

Without using sudo, preferably?

that other answer is wrong :X

Takkat

19:35

I only upvoted one answer.

Rinzwind

so at least 3 ppl on AU do not understand file permissions >:D

that's why I love you takkat <3

Takkat

It's always weird when an unregistered user says something here.

The worst is when their bad edits get approved somehow.

Rinzwind

D:

what is even worse: answer that is just a bit off from the thruth :LD

"should I massacre this reply and make it correct or just comment?" :D

Takkat

Half answers - I remember the time when every answer with some good looking CLI fu was automatically upvoted 5 times.

@Rinzwind let time disappear it in insignificance.

Rinzwind

lol I made a few too. I type from memory and end up deleting my answer :D

Takkat

19:39

Me and my typos in CLI - I wonder that the code I do runs at all.

Rinzwind

I hate it that a dupe-close needs a topic with an accepted answer :(

sometimes I see answers that are correct in a dupe but if TS never accepts it....

Takkat

@Rinzwind isn't 2 upvotes suffcient?

Rinzwind

is it? :D aha.

Bruno Pereira

@Rinzwind + if its a dupe they should be flagged for merge

Takkat

merge \o/ yeah - we should do that more often.

Rinzwind

19:49

Bruno O

my pompoms keep getting removed in chat :(

* O *

ah I might be able when I add arms: \O/

darn

:D

Takkat

20:04

°O°

Rinzwind

throwing eggs Takkat? :+)

Takkat

Soon it's Easter - my next vacation \o/

Rinzwind

June is my next holiday :P

Going rock climbing West England

Takkat

Need to meet my kid's needs - no rocks no climbing. Chasing Easter bunnies...

Meeting grand parents.. I should better go to work, I guess.

Seth

@Rinzwind :)

Rinzwind

20:15

lol just saw someone kick a 2 year old topic

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Q: How to check if ubuntu desktop or server is installed?

I have a shared hosting. I have access to shell. OS is Ubuntu, and I want to check if it is server version or desktop version. When I login through shell, it shows following information: Linux [server-name] 2.6.32-24-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 28 06:07:29 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 10.0...

server

Seth

@jrg @jokerdino I fixed the Ubuntu twitter feeds :D

Marco Ceppi

No, I will veto any attempt to put those back in this room. They were removed from the feed in the main room for a reason.

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Rinzwind

lol

Seth

@MarcoCeppi I wasn't saying it was a good idea.. that's for sure.

@MarcoCeppi They're still there.

Stack Exchange

Marco Ceppi has stopped a feed from being posted into this room

Seth

20:19

You should see the Stack Apps room.. talk about O_O_O

Marco Ceppi

Just for good measure.

If you're really that interested in getting updates from Twitter, might I suggest this instead

Seth

That's the feed I did..

Anyway, I just noticed them talking about it.. so I fixed it.

Marco Ceppi

Yeah, Step 1: Sign up for Twitter. Step 2: "Follow" @AskUbuntu. Step 3: Check it when you want to

Seth

Sign up for Twitter?!?! :O

No worries.

I don't want to look at them anyway.

Marco Ceppi

Thanks (I guess) for making it work, or whatever. Just strongly opposing anymore feeds be added to this room

Seth

20:23

;)

Marco Ceppi

o/ \o

Seth

Do you know if there a way to post questions from a query every once a day or so?

Doesn't seem to be.

mateo_salta

might be able to filter using this, pipes.yahoo.com/pipes , its really complicated, but you can make some advanced feeds with it

Seth

ooh, that looks cool.

Thanks @mateo_salta.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

20:44

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Q: Tag cleanup list

I have started a list of tags that need some cleanup per request. Please contribute. Burniate: bits z475 vm-guest-files slf4j binutils ubuntu-secure-remix bluez fabric Not sure: menu-bar parallel-port cloning If you think a tag should stay please mention why. When tags have ...

discussion tags

Seth

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Q: February 2013 Community Moderator Election

It's been 8 months since the last election on Stack Overflow. The site continues to grow, and with it the need for dedicated moderators. With over 1900 flags a day, the need for folks able and willing to devote some time to handling those exceptions has never been greater. So today we're kickin...

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Oh my.

Rinzwind

Pluto's new found moon is going to be named Vulcan.

Seth

What?? huh.

Rinzwind

:=D

George Edison

21:05

@amith: Okay, then here is where you need to start.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

21:20

1

Q: Is the off tag really needed?

I suddenly came across a question which had the off tag. The tag itself has no explanation and I asked myself what the purpose of this tag is. From my perspective this tag is somehow confusing. Would it be better to rename it the something like switching-off or make an alias for shutdown? What do...

feature-request tag-synonyms tag

guntbert

21:35

@seth, did you try the remote pro-forma scripts again?

Seth

@guntbert No I haven't. I guess I should try it out again.

Not on my Ubuntu machine right now though.

Does it work for you?

guntbert

I asked before trying :-)

But if you didn't then I will try

Seth

Yeah I'll try ASAP

guntbert

Doesn't look good, wait a while before trying yourself :-(

it is still "running"....

and I am exactly back to filed 1 - hummph

Seth

errg.

That's really weird.

@GeorgeEdison stackapps.com/q/3948

@guntbert You might bring the issue up here: stackapps.com/q/2116/14817

guntbert

21:48

@Seth will do - tomorrow :-)

Seth

OK :)

Is there a difference between gksudo and gksu?

Bruno Pereira

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Q: What is the difference between gksudo and gksu?

Is there any difference between the behavior of gksu foo and gksudo foo? Can they be used interchangeably?

gksu

Rinzwind

symlink :=)

Seth

Thanks @BrunoPereira, @Rinzwind

Rinzwind

22:08

:)

RolandiXor

22:26

Hi all*

George Edison

o/

RolandiXor

Wassup?

Seth

The sky.

The ceiling.

Superman.. sometimes.

RolandiXor

@Takkat :)

@Seth the cost of living, if you are a politician.

Seth

lol

George Edison

22:30

Another election already.

Seth

2 hours ago, by Seth

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Bin utils and garmin... why remove those? — RolandiXor 43 secs ago

O_o

really?? garmin

RolandiXor

Do you know what Garmin is?

Seth

Yes.

George Edison

Don't they make GPS equipment?

Seth

What does it have to do with Ubuntu??

@GeorgeEdison si

RolandiXor

22:33

Yes... and some users might ask about interfacing with their devices on Ubuntu. Maybe not often, but it might happen. I don't see a need to remove it.

If someone has asked - that is.

Seth

rolls eyes

shrug

If you want it.

RolandiXor

<--- hates to always be the odd ball.

@Seth No... that was my opinion, not the community's.

Seth

@RolandiXor Okaythen

IMO maybe gps, but not garmin.

Again, just my opinion.

RolandiXor

I am in between.

Because they make devices, it can be a very specific case - but only if someone asks.

So let it die, but don't remove it from a question if someone uses it.

(That's my view).

As for binutils... I will just leave that alone.

Seth

@RolandiXor That's exactly what we don't want tags for. Tags are for categorization, not specification (if I'm using that word right :S).

@RolandiXor I can see the point of that.

RolandiXor

22:40

@Seth in that case, we should nuke Hp, acer, etc - if they exist.

You see, these are manufacturers, not their devices. BIG difference.

Seth

@RolandiXor not exactly, because they are major computer manufactures... but I don't want to argue.

jrg

send reinforcements.

RolandiXor

lol my final point - HP makes printers, cameras, etc. Toshiba makes hard drives... if we remove on by this rationale, we must remove all.

Seth

The big difference I see is that Garmin makes GPS*s not a *computer. BIG difference.

jrg

what type of question are we talking about?

give me examples that would be tagged with this.

Seth

22:44

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Q: Tag cleanup list

I have started a list of tags that need some cleanup per request. Please contribute. Burniate: bits z475 vm-guest-files slf4j binutils ubuntu-secure-remix bluez fabric garmin off Not sure: menu-bar parallel-port cloning Synonyms dependency --> dependencies If you think...

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@jrg none.

(IMO)

@RolandiXor That's a good point. Questions about a Toshiba hard drive shouldn't be tagged toshiba.

jrg

we have a single question tagged garmin.

not anymore.

no point in a tag with one question.

with a device that isn't that popular.

Seth