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Koveras
Koveras
04:03
can anyone here help me with a debian install?
 
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Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
09:50
@Koveras What help do you need?
 
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Ollie Ford
Ollie Ford
18:06
I just accidentally cat'd a file, but missed the pipe to an executable - what's all the junk I'm seeing?
i.e. I did cat file ./exec
Braiam
Braiam
@OllieFord the junk that is in both files
Ollie Ford
Ollie Ford
It looks kinda like obj code, but malformed somehow.. did cat just take it as a second file?
Braiam
Braiam
or in this case, the binary
Ollie Ford
Ollie Ford
@Braiam Ah so it should just be file1 directly followed by file2?
Braiam
Braiam
cat file1 file2 file3 just outputs the content of file1, 2 and 3 in that order, nothing else
Ollie Ford
Ollie Ford
18:08
Ah awesome
thanks
Koveras
Koveras
18:31
@FaheemMitha I will just create a question :)
i asked here last night because i was in a hurry but now i'm at work so i can just create a question
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Koveras ok
Koveras
Koveras
by the way does anyone here know of a linux chat that's more active than this one?
i tried a few irc channels too but not much luck
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Koveras what you are looking for, exactly?
And the activeness of this chat varies, though it seems to have been going down in recent months.
derobert
derobert
18:53
@Koveras It's been a while since I've been in the Debian IRC channels on Freenode and/or OFTC, but they used to be fairly active...
Other places to look would be if you have a local LUG.
Braiam
Braiam
@Koveras most of those chat has their communities of lurkers, they know each other and only talk the absolutely necessary (not a long threat of catpics) so they may look inactive but they may have many eyes
derobert
derobert
/me grumbles about git always failing to merge changes to EXTRAVERSION in the kernel makefile
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@derobert The toils and travails of using git.
Gilles
Gilles
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@Braiam We haven't had a thread of cat pics in here since forever! Let's fix that.
derobert
derobert
19:09
@Gilles -1, cat looks insufficiently frightening :-/ 
@@ -10,11 +10,9 @@ NAME = Shuffling Zombie Juror
 # Comments in this file are targeted only to the developer, do not
 # expect to learn how to build the kernel reading this file.

-# Do not:
-# o  use make's built-in rules and variables
-#    (this increases performance and avoids hard-to-debug behaviour);
-# o  print "Entering directory ...";
-MAKEFLAGS += -rR --no-print-directory
+# Do not use make's built-in rules and variables
+# (this increases performance and avoids hard-to-debug behaviour);
... and that's why my cherry-pick failed. Well, easy enough to fix. Let's hope they don't rewrite that comment every version
But its apparently ok to print "Entering directory" now!
Gilles
Gilles
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Oh man, there's a REALLY SCARY one
derobert
derobert
@Gilles +1, attempting to collect that cat will surely cause a long GC pause.
Gilles
Gilles
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How dare they associate such a cute picture with such a horrible topic?
derobert
derobert
@Gilles Clearly a mistake. Were it not a mistake, it'd have a reflected BSOD in its eyes.
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
In a playful mood, @Gilles? Or, should I say, kittenish?
The minute I say this chat is not active people show up. Apparently in an effort to prove me wrong. Kudos.
@Gilles Ah, an imaginary book. That had me going for a second.
Braiam
Braiam
19:45
@FaheemMitha we aim to please ;)
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Braiam Well, it seems to have subsided again. What we need here is a vigorous discussion about the respective merits of emacs vs vi.
Does anyone know anything about telegram.org?
Gilles
Gilles
20:01
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Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Gilles ?
Gilles
Gilles
@FaheemMitha sorry, you have to have a sense of humor to get it
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Gilles That's not very nice.
Braiam
Braiam
tough question, but don't worry Jon Skeet will answer it... oh wait a second ... — CriketerOnSO 5 mins ago
 
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derobert
derobert
23:58
@FaheemMitha You say that as if there were any merits of emacs (ok, other than M-x doctor) to discuss.
At least for people with fewer than 8 fingers per hand.
/me runs

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