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j0h

00:26

@Seth thanks, i get it now.

I just updated a precise server to raring, and now php isnt working. Any ideas?

Seth

No, not off the top of my head.

JohnMerlino

there's just too much to learn

Seth

00:48

Finally Apple.. A version of iOS that.. well.. looks good. Not to mention your first innovation in years..

JohnMerlino

I will never buy an apple product again

Seth

I never will buy one.

Journeyman Geek

01:13

lol

Seth

01:29

Hmm. Anyone with PostgreSQL knowledge here?

JohnMerlino

01:44

I use postgresql with rails soemtimes

Seth

Well I give up on Discourse.

@JohnMerlino Thanks, but I figured it out now ;)

JohnMerlino

not too different from mysql

Seth

I was trying to drop a user with objects

JohnMerlino

are you using rails?

Seth

Not exactly.. but yes.

JohnMerlino

01:46

it abstracts the sql away so basically you dont really need to know the difference between postgresql and mysql

it takes some getting used to, but once you master it, nothing else compares

Seth

With rails?

JohnMerlino

yes, with rails 3 and rails 4 usability has improved

now you can use rvm

to manage ruby gems and different installations

plus ruby 2 is puported to be twice as fast as ruby 1.9

Seth

Interesting. I've been thinking about learning Ruby..

JohnMerlino

"the ruby programming language" is the best book right now

coding_corgi

Yo yo yo!

@Seth I don't think you should learn Ruby... Just saying... C++, Jawa, etc.

Seth

01:56

Heh. Why?

coding_corgi

@Seth I have heard good things about Ruby on Rails though... It's like that zone of code, that's useful but... You know, useful for Hello World, but useless otherwise, etc. :D

C'mon, are you going to use Lua instead of C++?!

Or Ruby instead Java?!

Seth

Yep.

For web development anyway.

I would prefer C# + .NET for desktop apps >:)

coding_corgi

People, please, make healthier programming choices!!!

Seth

'lol' is all I can say.

JohnMerlino

@coding_corgi "I don't think you should learn ruby". Blunt statement. I have used both Ruby and Java, and Ruby is definitely more compact and dynamic.

as a scripting language should be

coding_corgi

02:11

@JohnMerlino Ruby is not a standard language... EVERYONE! PLEASE! LISTEN TO OUR DEAR GOD BJARNE!

JohnMerlino

@coding_corgi the fibonacci algorithm in one line, courtesy of ruby: fib = Hash.new{ |h,k| h[k] = k < 2 ? k : h[k-1] + h[k-2] }

coding_corgi

@JohnMerlino That's great, go play with your friend MATLAB, Me is out

return 0;

Seth

Well what do you know. I actually got discourse working..

Except for sending emails.

FEichinger

04:30

@coding_corgi You say Java is not in that zone? Are you friggin kidding me?

Ruby can kiss my ass every day of the week, but Java is not useful for anything other than learning object oriented design.

Takkat

06:13

@CallmeV actually some users might also be a nightmare for ubuntu ;)

Nathan Osman

@Seth: What steps are missing?

I'm excited because my Ubuntu theme for Discourse is getting rolled out tomorrow.

... and I found the bug with the 2buntu app that was causing crashes on startup.

... and I've almost run out of internal memory on my phone I have so many apps installed.

I love the swipe keyboard though. I could play with it all day :P

Well, goodnight everyone.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

06:42

0

Q: Change the Ubuntu layout back?

I just upgrade for the 12.04 LTS version from the 10.04 (I think so). Is it possible to change the layout and get it as it was during the version 10 ?

ubuntu

Mahesh

07:03

@jokerdino ^

Andrew

08:28

hello

Aryo Adhi

10:43

going afk

Anyone still there?

Amith KK

11:32

appers

Amith KK

11:44

androidauthority.com/apple-drops-google-for-siri-224668

facewhat

fossfreedom

@AmithKK not entirely unexpected

Amith KK

Seriously

iOS 7 looks... wrong

fossfreedom

yeah - a mash-up of android and metro.

Amith KK

MIUI Was better

Amith KK

12:28

brawlcustommusic.com/~soneek/soundtwelve.txt

Amith KK

13:02

-_-

lifehacker.com/…

Bing?

Ok..

BBL

Alvar

13:23

1

A: While using internet on ubuntu, all other computers get bad internet connection

From @Matv1 comment: I'm a bit confused. I was going on the assumption that Ubuntu wireless was working well, just that it was impacting throughput on your other connections. Now I understand that the connection on your ubuntu is dropped sometimes as well. What I notice in your dmesgis...

can someone up vote my answer?

so we can close this uqestion as a dupe of my answer?! askubuntu.com/q/306802/10698

it's a community wiki answer so i wont get any rep

just so we can close the first question..

FEichinger

13:53

shakes fist GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATES!

Mahesh

@Alvar you got a vote, (not me), but does the proposed solution work?

j0h

soo... i posted a bounty, then arrived at a solution myself... But i want to give some points to a poster, though perhaps not all of them, for a useful comment. What should i do?

FEichinger

Related: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/…

(Comments sections in particular, it's MSO.)

Mahesh

@j0h get the person to post an answer before the bounty ends, and remember to award the bounty manually.

@FEichinger You referring to Billy? what happenned?

FEichinger

@Mahesh I just spent an hour trying to properly install new wireless drivers on my Windows install. The whole bleeding thing froze for tens of minutes until I decided on a hard reboot and system recovery. Right now I kinda want to murder him. Slaughter him, in fact.

Mahesh

14:05

@FEichinger reasons I don't use windows: If I find something's screwed up, I can't do a thing to find why, let alone fix it.

o/ @MarcoCeppi

FEichinger

@Mahesh I need it for two reasons: Gaming ('cause I sure as hell ain't working with wine at this stage) and Visio (we really have no reasonable equivalent for that, sadly ...).

Mahesh

hmm.. yup that.

Though I don't like the way Ubuntu's heading at times, I still love it for the freedom I have to tinker.

found that friends-app opens facebook timeline from every post. Took out half an hour, fixed it, proposed a merge.

found that lxml fails to submit forms in python3. took out an hour, fixed it, proposed a merge.

jokerdino

lol you need to write tests for that.

Mahesh

found that my own baby doesn't play nice. someone tells me, i investigate and fix it.

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FEichinger

0

Q: where is the upgrade manager?

I can't seem to upgrade to the latest version ubuntu. It asked me once, but I was doing something else at the time. Now that I ant to do it I can't find it. I can find software updater, but that just seems to update programs that are on the computer.

updates

Mahesh

14:09

Yeah. The friends one is pending merge coz I didn't write any tests.

FEichinger

^-- Anyone got the dupe to "how to upgrade" at hand?

Mahesh

actually more because my patch caused the tests to fail. i went nuts over finding the cause. Hasn't moved an inch yet.

But you get the point.

eventually, I'll figure it out. Or someone else does.

open source is fun.

Alvar

@Mahesh the solution worked for the question i wanted to close that's why I put it there.

Mahesh

On a sidenote, I finally have a script that auto-logs-me-in to the moronic proxy system of our institute. drop it in if-up.d and my life is much much easier.

@Alvar Just wanted to confirm. You'll get both an upvote and a VTC dupe.

done.

Alvar

@Mahesh thx, I'm not read up on the question and can't really tell if the answer works, can't test it either.

but it worked for this user so it might help future users too.

Mahesh

14:14

yup. makes sense.

Alvar

@Mahesh wanted to write this: if you type update-manager in a terminal? does the computer explode then while still not displaying the update manager?

to this question askubuntu.com/q/306852/10698

but didn't.. is still afraid of the mods it seems...

Mahesh

:P

AU mods are the coolest in the entire SE network.

Alvar

yeah they allow some trolling :)

Mahesh

And the community too. I find AU much friendlier compared to other SE sites.

Alvar

me too

jokerdino

14:17

there is no upgrade manager.

Jorge Castro

Why do you leave crap like that on the site?

Alvar

@jokerdino you mean the upgrade manager is a lie?

Mahesh

@jokerdino umm, why did I not see that? :P yup, never heard of upgrade manager.

Alvar

i put a useful comment below..

jokerdino

yeah well. we need to bring the quality of new questions up.

Mahesh

14:18

@Alvar He must be refering to the upgrade notification, but there is no such thing as a upgrade manager afaik

Alvar

@Mahesh that notification si shown in the update manager

but is it always there?

I have the auto updates shut of so never see it..

Mahesh

Once it finds a new release, it shows the notification.

and it stays I guess.

Alvar

is it always shown even when not pressed?

ok then

Mahesh

I've never seen it myself. I use a personal offline mirror of ubuntu repos since I am behind a moronic proxy.

and nothing connects to the outer world easily.

I miss out all the cool stuff.. :(

Alvar

@Mahesh put an answer to the question, hope it is what he/she is looking for

@Mahesh haha i stick to sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade when i have the time..

started to use awesome as a desktop viewer, it's awesome! :D

like a cleaner classic desktop! :)

Mahesh

14:23

@jokerdino btw do-release-upgrade -d works, but only when I try it from outside IIT. Absolutely no idea why. :P

Alvar

haha

I actually use windows more often thatn Ubuntu, on a gaming computer right now..

Mahesh

I've last used windows a couple years ago.

Alvar

haha

it's quite stable actually, never crash. but I never update it :P

Mahesh

they gave me a windows xp with firefox 3 at work. I said screw you, I'll use my personal laptop. :P

this was less than a month ago.

Alvar

but I get strange bugs after it's been running for 300 hours or more.

it's a quiet chassi so it's on 24/7 :P

@Mahesh lol firefox 3 xD

Mahesh

14:26

windows is not designed to have a double-digit uptime.

Alvar

the memories of ff3 :)

I realised that...

so I restart it every 250-300 hours.. :(

Mahesh

@jokerdino Good news! I'll be receiving my pay check in a couple days. :D

Alvar

haha

Mahesh

@JorgeCastro which one were you refering to?

Is it just me or does everyone see tons of enter image description here on the site. :|

Aw! crap! looks like I can't reach imgur from here.

Alvar

haha earned a revival badge for that cwiki answer.. :P

proxy fail! .P

got my 100mbit/10mbit internet yesterday, it's so awesome! :)

only cost me 30$/ month :P

;)

myusuf3

14:34

how do I map an external port to an internal port

for web traffic

Mahesh

external and internal ports?

can you explain a little?

myusuf3

so

i want to hit an externally available server on some port

and have it server up data from an internal port on my machine

Oli

3

Q: Reverse port tunnelling

I need to show somebody a website running on my local machine tomorrow. Normally I'd accomplish this by port forwarding on my local router but thanks to the miricle that is failing hardware and its replacement being awful, my current router doesn't let me do port forwarding. So stuck with this d...

tunnel

You can do this with SSH. It's a little slower than a direct connection (encryption plus the extra distance packets travel) but it's a good on-demand system.

This requires the external server has OpenSSH and GatewayPorts turned on (or at least has the ability to have it turned on). Without that, you can't do much.

To neaten things up (assuming this is a HTTP stuff) you could also use nginx (or other) to proxy the SSH-tunnelled connection and provide a service-down page if the connection isn't in place. I've never gone that far but it should be possible.

myusuf3

@Oli thanks dude thing that wasn't working was the gateway setting sshd_config

Mahesh

15:07

> Employees will never be poked with a sharp stick

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Look at the last 'Benifit'. :P

@Oli That is a beautiful use case. I'm having some beautiful ideas right now. If only my proxy plays nice, I'll do some crazy stuff this weekend. :d :P

bbl. dinner.

Aryo Adhi

15:33

Am I missing something?

Mahesh

16:16

o/ @AmithKK

Howz you?

Amith KK

@Mahesh Hey!

I'm fine

Mahesh

Made any progress 'talking' ? :P

jokerdino

oh I see your FB account.

Mahesh

O_O

@jokerdino mine?

jokerdino

yeah.

i only bothered to search today :P

Mahesh

16:27

Me too. :P

Now I get the chance to post a ~~trex~~ T-rex joke every day on your timeline. :P

jokerdino

haha :P

feel free

Amith KK

@Mahesh :P Mostly Nope :P

@Mahesh Friend Request Sent

jokerdino

i just need to find a way to cut down on the amount of useless worthless picture reshares

all those low effort humor needs to go

Amith KK

@jokerdino That's hard

That's like 50% of my FB feed now

BBT

Good Night

jokerdino

nights

Seth

16:58

Jorge Castro

hah, awesome

Seth

Sorta.

I guess I could have worded that reject better..

Jorge Castro

I accepted it

Seth

shrug

It was border line.

Jorge Castro

I don't reject many things

Seth

17:01

I see that ;P

Hmm. askubuntu.com/review/close/126671

@jokerdino I am told this is a spam user: askubuntu.com/users/165936/user165938

learner

hello guys... I have a different question... how can I send message(private message) to members of askubuntu ?

Seth

You can't.

There is no private messaging system.

You could email them if they list an email on their profile though.

learner

:(

Seth

You could try pinging them in chat, but that's public and not all users come to chat.

Jorge Castro

186

Q: Any way to send a personal message to another user?

There has been quite a few times that I wished I could send a message to another user on SO - not ask a question for everyone to see, but just a short message informing them of something or requesting them to do something. Are there any plans to allow this to happen in the future? Related: Ho...

feature-request status-declined stackoverflow private-messaging

learner

17:17

mm... Thank you...

jokerdino

@Seth w@w

Seth

I'm taking it that was a yes.

jokerdino

destroyed

Seth

Yep.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

17:33

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Q: How to install CLang using precompiled binaries?

How do I install CLang on Ubuntu, using precompiled binaries of CLang that I downloaded? Here's how I downloaded CLang: "LLVM Download Page" -> "Download LLVM 3.2" -> "Clang Binaries for Ubuntu-12.04/x86_64" ( http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/clang+llvm-3.2-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-12.04.tar.gz .) Then,...

ubuntu install c++ binary

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

18:12

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Q: extracting attachments from mail that is coming to my postfix inbox

how do i extract attachments from mails arriving at my postfix mailbox and preferably send the content of the attachment to another email account. I am interested in being able to acquire/read the content of the attachment on ubuntu terminal. Please give some insights.

ubuntu cron postfix ruby fetchmail

learner

18:32

hi @seth

Alvar

tsup @seth ;)

Seth

@Alvar Not a whole lot. Except studies ;P

@learner Hey there.

Alvar

@Seth nice, I'm taking care of dishes :P

Seth

That's fun :D:D

learner

are u student ?

Alvar

18:38

who isn't a student?!

Seth

Yes.

@Alvar LOL

Anyone know of a music player other than VLC that will play m3u files?

Alvar

music player?! what is that?!

I stream all my music from Spotify :P

FEichinger

On the note of students: My conclusion of today's CompSci:

try { $life->live(); } catch (Lemon $lemon) { $lemon->concat("ade"); } When life throws a Lemon, append ade.

Tweeted by FEichinger on June 11, 2013 at 11:08 AM

(Quite obviously, Exception handling was the topic)

Seth

@Alvar This is a radio stations stream ;P

Alvar

@FEichinger this is especially true if your name is @lemon

Seth

18:42

@FEichinger ROTFL

I sure hope that was supposed to be funny.

Alvar

@Seth why not use the web browser then?

FEichinger

Oh, it sure was. But it was more of an accidental train of thought that led me there.

Alvar

still funny though :P

mm bear on a Thuesday, being a student sometimes is awesome! :P

Seth

@Alvar I trying to run it over a server, there isn't a GUI.

Not that I even have the audio set up yet...

Alvar

@Seth hmmm, subsonic music server could work

I think..

@Seth subsonic.org/pages/features.jsp

put the server on the server, and then go the address on a laptop or such

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