Ask Ubuntu General Room

8:00 PM

@rlemon Yes, superimposed. No combining characters. Just one unicode character.

Funny, in highschool I was big into drama - in Ontario we have the Sears Festival and my first year (grade nine) the first ever student play I ~~did~~ saw was called Interrobang, and was based around that character.

ObsessiveFOSS

Hmm.

rlemon

it was a comedy about some business that was failing? I remember it was funny and it was about the Interrobang (was the name of the play)

ObsessiveFOSS

Ah. I just don't ask questions anymore. I start an interrogation then I make a bang.

ObsessiveFOSS

8:23 PM

BBT

Jorge Castro

askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/…

@jrg it's baaaaaaaack!

Marco Ceppi

AWWWW YEAH

ObsessiveFOSS

Man all defense craft!

I'll be back tomorrow with edit powers.

jrg

@ObsessiveFOSS you can retag things at 500 rep, whenever you have time please go for it. ;P

Jorge Castro

ok so I'm not going to waste close votes on those since there's like 300-some in the review queue

jrg

8:25 PM

@JorgeCastro don't waste close votes on those, i'll get them.

Jorge Castro

hey so maybe instead too localized

dupe the freeze canonical one?

Marco Ceppi

probably a good idea

get some SEO juice out of it

jrg

that'd work.

@TheX I think you need another summer job, if you reply to twitter that fast you're insane.

or just bored.

where is that canonical freeze one?

Jorge Castro

uberwriter.wolfvollprecht.de

from the app contest!!!

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Q: What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?

All operating systems freeze sometimes, and Ubuntu is no exception. What should I do to regain control when... just one program stops responding? nothing at all responds to mouse clicks or key presses? the mouse stops moving entirely? In what order should I try various solutions before decidi...

jrg

the whole thing is a massive link to a youtube video. JUST EMBED IT ALREADY

Jorge Castro

8:34 PM

It's the #1 hit for me on google now for "ubuntu freezes"

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro I feel like you wrote this under a pen name :P

Jorge Castro

hah

jrg

Needs moar markdown.

Jorge Castro

I'm pretty much in love with sublime though

jrg

Sublime doesn't do markdown rendering/preview, does it?

Jorge Castro

8:37 PM

not preview

that one editor you showed me did, but it was crashy for me, I forgot the name

jrg

retext.

i like retext, it's been stable for me on precise. quantal is a little nutty, but that's ok.

Jorge Castro

@jrg how come closing them bumps them?

jrg

@JorgeCastro because i'm also editing out the tag.

Jorge Castro

ah!

Marco Ceppi

Gotta kill that tag

jrg

8:52 PM

askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/…

i'm writing on meta.

and then i'm going to nag someone until its removed from all questions.

i never finished that tag, i kept getting 3/4ths of the way there and then it'd grow back.

Jorge Castro

@Marco on the plus side it does give us one place to find them all

jrg

funny. jorge gave me a hard time about that last time i suggested that. ;P

Jorge Castro

I did?

lol

Support keyboard shortcuts

It'd be nice to have keyboard shorcuts. I am biased so IMO they should mirror the web's best markdown text editor widget from stackoverflow.com/askubuntu.com: ctrl-b - bold ctrl-i - italics ctrl-l insert a link ctrl-q blockquote ctrl-k code sample ctrl-g insert image ctrl-o numbered list ctrl-u unordered list ctrl-h heading ctrl-r horizontal rule

UberWriter

Undecided / New

I shamefully just tell the guy to steal the SE ones.

jrg

yeah, you did.

oh, might not have been you. might have been someone else. shrug

Jorge Castro

this outta keep us away from 78% for a bit longer

jrg

8:55 PM

i can spend some time tomorrow cleaning it up, that'll bump us a little bit.

aking1012

@izx you still around?

I believe the "NOT A SUCKA MC" in the intro means it's not for "n00bs"... — izx Jul 15 at 8:55

^--- there's snark and then there's snark man

The Interrupter

9:20 PM

How do I legally make an open-souce version of a closed-source game? http://askubuntu.com/q/176692?atw=1 #open

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on August 16, 2012 at 8:55 PM

George Edison

9:33 PM

Still stuck on this: stackoverflow.com/questions/11979078/…

Oh my! I haven't performed an SQL backup on my website in a while.

Time to fix that.

There. Now I can sleep in peace.

jrg

@MarcoCeppi did you write your own control panel?

George Edison

Could this be the mysterious Compiz freezing bug?

ajmitch

mornin'

aking1012

@ajmitch hi fella. haven't seen you speak in chat in a while

ajmitch

no, I haven't really visited chat for a little while

George Edison

10:34 PM

According to Wolfram-Alpha, the scheduled maintenance on Launchpad was supposed to end 3 hours 32 minutes and 54 seconds ago.

Well it hasn't yet.

aking1012

i would have thought you would have used duck before wolfram for that type of query...

hakermania

@GeorgeEdison is this usual?

ObsessiveFOSS

@GeorgeEdison What's the Wofram|Alpha query you used?

jrg

@aking1012 no thats me.

George Edison

@ObsessiveFOSS "19.00 UTC 16th August 2012"

That was the estimated time of completion according to the LP blog.

ObsessiveFOSS

10:36 PM

@GeorgeEdison Ah.

ajmitch

@hakermania they're moving servers to a new datacentre, so it's not the usual downtime

aking1012

@GeorgeEdison are you saying the whole of launchpad or just the build system. i can browse it here...

George Edison

Just the PPA builders.

hakermania

@GeorgeEdison oh no! I have a ppa for building :P

Pfff, I said the bug reporter that the fix would be available within a few hours :/

jrg

the status of #launchpad says "build delays due to hardware move"

sounds like someone forgot the special ethernet cable

ajmitch

10:40 PM

@jrg they have someone printing out the uploaded source & typing it back in at the new DC

aking1012

you can't fault them on a move of that scale. it was probably an astronomical amount of gear

jrg

@ajmitch Oh, forgot about that one.

@aking1012 oh no i can't.

George Edison

Will this result in improved performance?

jrg

probably. hopefully. maybe.

aking1012

maybe canon/ubu did everthing right and there's just some lag on the spy-room ;) wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619

i know, not funny, not funny

jrg

10:43 PM

yeah.

ObsessiveFOSS

I somehow got +1 rep for an upvote. Is this abnormal?

hakermania

@ObsessiveFOSS probably, haven't heard of it

Marco Ceppi

@jrg yes

jrg

@MarcoCeppi ok. was just curious.

aking1012

@jrg oh on your "impressed" at skyrim the other day: the only reason i don't have all the accomplishments is that i didn't have resources to get the expansion pack (pre expansion i had them all)

jrg

10:59 PM

loading fine for me.

George Edison

@jrg That's not the problem :P

jrg

oh.

delete that and email it to him.

yeah, until i click a link

aking1012

yessir it does

George Edison

There. I've pinged him on G+.

hakermania

With the Ubuntu App Showdown contest it seems that Wallch has another competitor (which is a good thing) Variety: vimeo.com/47004984 , launchpad.net/variety

George Edison

11:03 PM

I wish there was some way I could temporarily disable logins.

LnxSlck

do we support other distros than Buntu family?

like backtrak

jrg

@LnxSlck nope.

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Q: Linux Mint (and other unofficial derivatives) - on topic?

(Inspired by this question about Mint. ) You only have to look at Wikipedia to find a long long list of Ubuntu derivatives - should we allow, or even actively encourage, questions regarding these on Ask Ubuntu?