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user136984

20:00

@kos: It now wants me to type something:

user136984

Nathan Osman

Anyone interested in trying my script?

user136984

@NathanOsman: No, don't trust it. ;P

Nathan Osman

It's open-source - you can read it if you want :P

user136984

Can't be bothered. :P

Nathan Osman

20:01

:(

Even George is disappointed.

George the Dev

:(

user136984

@NathanOsman @GeorgetheDev: Just kidding! I'll give it a go! :P

Nathan Osman

Cool.

user136984

How do I run it?

Nathan Osman

It's a UserScript: github.com/nathan-osman/auchatstatus/raw/master/…

kos

20:04

@ParanoidPanda Missing single quote at the end of the command. Sorry, I just ate, my brain is somewhere else.

Nathan Osman

Do you have GreaseMonkey installed?

(You use Firefox, right?)

user136984

@kos: I got the same long line as I gave before.

user136984

@NathanOsman: Firefox, yes, GreaseMonkey sounds familiar but I am not sure...

Nathan Osman

It lets you run UserScripts.

user136984

Right, is it a plug-in or something?

Nathan Osman

20:09

If not, it's here: addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/?src=ss

kos

@ParanoidPanda No idea then. Something obviously installed it, but as to what...

A.B.

@NathanOsman I will check your script tomorrow :)

Nathan Osman

Cool!

A.B.

Looks promising

Nathan Osman

Soon it'll also show how far each user has read.

user136984

20:13

@NathanOsman: Ok, I have got the add-on, just getting the script working now... :)

Nathan Osman

Remember to reload (F5) the chat page once the script is installed.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman what did I just install?

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 Once installed, you will need to refresh the chat page.

It will then show you who's typing.

Zacharee1

ooh

Is it Firefox only?

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 It's a UserScript, so it'll work in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.

Zacharee1

20:16

It doesn't seem to

brb

Nathan Osman

Which browser?

Zacharee1

Torch

(Chrome)

Nathan Osman

Ah.

Then you need to open chrome://extensions and drag the file in.

Chrome doesn't let you install UserScripts from links anymore.

Zacharee1

Torch apparently has an auto-installer for this

It installed by itself

Nathan Osman

Oh.

Zacharee1

20:17

let me restart Torch quickly

OK

Nathan Osman

Still not working?

Zacharee1

Nope

Let me try something else

OK I did the drag and now it's installed

yes!

Nathan Osman

There we go!

Zacharee1

it works

Nathan Osman

\o/

Zacharee1

20:19

Can you only see people typing if they also have the extension?

Nathan Osman

Yes.

It's opt-in and unless the SE folks adopt it, that will always be the case.

Zacharee1

OK

It's pretty amazing

I was actually wanting something like this

Fabby

@Zacharee1 Did you?

Nathan Osman

Me too - so I wrote it :)

@Fabby I fixed some bugs in the script.

Zacharee1

@Fabby ?

@NathanOsman Well thank you

Nathan Osman

20:21

You're welcome. They'll be more to come soon. It will also show you how far each user has read kinda like Hangouts.

Fabby

@NathanOsman I'll leave and rejoin the chat room as it doesn't seem to updateitself...

Zacharee1

ooh

Nathan Osman

@Fabby: no, you have to install the script from the link again.

Fabby

Yup, leaving and rejoining gave me a notification bar I needed to do that...

Nathan Osman

In the (hopefully not-too-distant) future, the majority of the UserScript will be served from the server itself.

Fabby

20:22

Is there a possibility to add the link to the script in the notification bar?

Nathan Osman

Yup.

That's been fixed in the update :P

Fabby

Cool!

Oooh! and the large icon is gone too!

Nathan Osman

I see you, so it must be working :P

Zacharee1

Notification bar?

Fabby

@NathanOsman peekaboo!

@Zacharee1 chat room notification bar...

Zacharee1

20:24

umm

Nathan Osman

It's a little white thing that drops down from the top of the page when the chat wants to notify you of something.

Such as an invitation to a room or an upcoming event.

Zacharee1

ohh

that

Nathan Osman

I'll be AFK for a bit, so feel free to @ping if you have a question.

da Boss

I installed ubuntu,.,, now what?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: Btrfs shows different files on different systems

I have a laptop which uses Arch Linux. My setup uses a separate partition for /home to make it easier to swap operating systems. For one of my classes I needed to use some software (ROS) which formally only supports Ubuntu (and has been a pain to setup on any of my existing non-ubuntu machines). ...

kos

20:34

Guys any idea on this?

1

Q: Why is neither /root/.bashrc nor /root/.profile executed after sudo -i?

I have export PATH="$PATH:/opt/local/bin" in /root/.bashrc and /root/.profile and /bin/bash is the login shell for root in /etc/passwd. Yet invoking sudo -i (which according to man sudo starts a login shell and should run ~/.profile) causes /opt/local/bin to be absent from PATH according to echo ...

bash sudo bashrc .profile

Fabby

@daBoss Delete Windows is the next step!

@kos reading

@kos sorry, no clue off the top of my head...

kos

@Fabby No worries, I was just curious

Fabby

@fossfreedom: could you review this one please? (I just pressed "skip")

user136984

VTC this as a duplicate of this please. :)

Fabby

@ParanoidPanda You ask more questions then 10 wise men can answer...

3

(VdTC)

kos

20:47

@ParanoidPanda By the way do you try to google questions before posting them?

Fabby

@kos No, he doesn't...

I have to quote him/her/it lmgtfy.com all the time!

>:-)

kos

@Fabby For some reason I suspected it.

Serg

To be perfectly fair, sometimes finding duplicates is hard :)

@kos ping me plz, when OP responds on that question. I'm gonna be AFK for a tiny bit

kos

@Serg Yes but...lmgtfy.com/?q=text+to+speech+ubuntu, third result (the second one being another valid Q/A)

user136984

Anyone know anything about this? :)

kos

20:51

@Serg Ok, but I'm off as well shortly, so I'll ping you whenever I'll read it

Serg

cool

kos

@ParanoidPanda Should work on a camera too, which filesystem does the internal / external memory use?

user136984

@kos: That is a very good question... I will have to check...

user136984

But I will do that tomorrow... Bed now!

kos

By the way here it's saturday night, so I'm off for some beer(s)

user136984

20:55

Goodnight! :)

kos

Have a good one guys!

Fabby

@ParanoidPanda Pumpkin! ;-)

Serg

21:20

That awkward moment when you have to do java homework , but someone mentions beer <.< @kos

hbdgaf

21:35

My spidey sense just tingled. I think someone said java or beer.

da Boss

@Fabby lol

@Fabby I need Windows to play Civilization I, II, III, IV, V, and Beyond Earth...

Nathan Osman

*cough* Wine *cough*

da Boss

Wine is terrible...

hbdgaf

It's not so bad, once you get used to it.

Personally, I think it's awesome work. Anyone working on that project deserves a beer.

da Boss

21:50

I like the concept...

but I have never been able to use it productively...

Nathan Osman

Wine is an amazing piece of technology.

blade19899

@NathanOsman It is. I have Played League Of Legends with it smoothly!

hbdgaf

If you want to talk using it productively, it's how I used Visio for college. They wouldn't take gliffy images, but they did take openoffice. Still needed Visio and Project to finish some things.

blade19899

Project: gnome-planner

visio: libreoffice-draw? There are alternatives posted on AU

hbdgaf

I know there are analogs, but I'm talking about what the college would take. Not what exists. And gliffy is better than libre-draw.

blade19899

22:01

@hbdgaf Googling gliffy xD

hbdgaf

They're down for maintenance at the moment. Try tomorrow. It IS better though.

blade19899

I said googling, but meant DuckDuckGo: duckduckgo.com/?q=gliffy&t=canonical&ia=about

hbdgaf

They're back up. It can do UML and Network diagrams (just search for router, switch, etc in the search bar once you start drawing)

hbdgaf

22:27

Any flask experts in the house? I'm wondering if flask session variables are stored client side or server side in memory.

Nathan Osman

@hbdgaf client-side I believe. It uses cryptographically-signed cookies.

hbdgaf

Good to know. I'm already looking at using a global instance of Game to handle the data. I'm just wondering about how hard I have to work on user tracking.

Also, this is nice youtube.com/watch?v=YZdqtpSDl1w

Nathan Osman

@hbdgaf Basically, the user can see the data, but they can't change it. Also, cookies are usually limited in size, so storing more than a couple KB could be a problem.

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman I'm just figuring out how I'm going to get users to say "I'm blue" or "I'm red". If the client and the server disagree on the board it just disconnects both players.

Nathan Osman

Ah.

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