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12:34 AM

@terdon Don't know if this makes a difference but if dangling quotes bother you, you can use (quote cperl-mode) instead of 'cperl-mode

Gilles

12:50 AM

@terdon next, do some logo

print "hello

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Jenny D

7:20 AM

OK, I've got a solution for you. You need to have an SSH key without password. Then, on the clients that you want to start a connection from, do
`while true; do ssh -with-your-options to_your_machine; done`

That will immediately reconnect when the ssh session dies.

5 hours later…

Jenny D

12:01 PM

@terdon if you want to write in a functional language that doesn't have a metric shitload of parentheses, have a look at Erlang. It's beautiful.

terdon

thanks

Anthon

12:42 PM

This

A: Tracking down where disk space has gone on Linux?

You can use DiskReport.net to generate an online web report of all your disks. With many runs it will show you history graph for all your folders, easy to find what has grow

and

A: Tracking down where disk space has gone on Linux?

You can use DiskReport which is a simple script (no GUI needed) to generate an online report on www.diskreport.net This report allow you to browse all files and folders in your system. The good thing with this tool is that if you have a previous report, it will show the difference, so it helps to...

might be spam. The services are free for personal use, but the post and run of the 5th looks like spam to me.

terdon

@Anthon Yeah, I was just looking into that. Not sure yet

Well, the site seems legit and it is for Linux (windows "coming soon"). There also doesn't seem to be any obvious connection between the users and the site. I think it's legit.

@FaheemMitha yay! We got a new Debian dev: unix.stackexchange.com/users/118526/wouter-verhelst?tab=profile

Faheem Mitha

1:08 PM

@terdon Go us.

Oh, yes. I know him.

Stephen's been flying past everyone else. I wonder how quick this one's score will increase.

@terdon how did you spot him?

terdon

Just happened to come across a good answer from a new user and checked his profile

Faheem Mitha

@terdon Oh

Well, comparatively new.

terdon

> Member for 19 days

Faheem Mitha

@terdon yes, I would have noticed him eventually, I expect. DDs tend to stand out here.

At least for me, because I tend to answer Debian questions.

terdon

Oh, I meant new user, not new DD

Faheem Mitha

1:27 PM

@terdon Yes, I understood what you meant.

edward torvalds

rhythmbox is not playing and able to search mp3, i have ubuntu restricted extra installed

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Helio

3:32 PM

Hi! Can I improve this code?

read -p "Number to convert: " number
for ((number; number>0; number/=2)); do binary=$((number%2))$binary; done
echo $binary
unset binary

Faheem Mitha

3:46 PM

Does anyone know, do any of the chats have math markup?

casey

@FaheemMitha are you running chrom(e|ium)?

if so, chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/se-chat-mathjax/…

is a chrome extension that turns on mathjax in SE chat

$\dfrac{\partial\mathbf u}{\partial t} = - \mathbf u \cdot \nabla \mathbf u -\dfrac{1}{\rho}\nabla p-2 \mathbf \Omega \times \mathbf u + \mathbf g + \mathbf F$