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With hitting 3000 answers today I thought I'd start looking at we need to finish off. This is an extension of Oli's original question about steering this ship. Mat T from the Canonical design team and Jin from StackOverflow are linked up and working on the design, I expect them to start a threa...

Marco Ceppi

yeah, I noticed that a week or so ago - what brings it up now?

Jorge Castro

you asked me like 17 hours ago

Marco Ceppi

Oh I was referring to the future

after public release

Jorge Castro

6:53 PM

I will bring it up at UDS

Marco Ceppi

What I was saying is when this becomes ask.ubuntu, what's the liklihood that this chat platform will replace (or maybe not replace, but become the primary place) for support? do you think the community would be that quick to drop IRC?

Jorge Castro

though I suspect they'll want to see how it goes for a few months

hah, no way

people love IRC for some dumb reason

Marco Ceppi

Especially if the authoritative place for Q&A is here

that message was also a notification that U.SE will have it's own chat software like this where we can make rooms at chat.askubuntu.com

Jorge Castro

ah

I prefer this method of chat to be honest

I guess we'll see when people use it

Marco Ceppi

true. I think it would be most epic if this was adopted. Notifications, persistancy, and hooked into the QA site

Jorge Castro

6:55 PM

yeah, it's pretty awesome

2500+

I can't wait to hit 3000 users!

Marco Ceppi

the stats are getting pretty sad though

visits and new users are on a downward trend :(

page views yesterday hit an all time low

Jorge Castro

ugh, still?

well, it was a sunday!

Marco Ceppi

haha, that's true

here's the screen cap

Jorge Castro

oh, you know what

Marco Ceppi

Yesterday was three lower than the previous lower point.

@JorgeCastro what?

Jorge Castro

6:59 PM

on the top topic thing, when we added the beta bits and the voting we dropped the link to "spread this site"

maybe add that back?

Marco Ceppi

it takes the top 5 active in the featured tag

OR, do you mean on the banner?

Jorge Castro

the banner is what I meant

Marco Ceppi

I'll add that back in

Jorge Castro

I need a few mails on the dev list today, maybe that link will bring people in

though the refers still mostly show people coming in from google right?

Marco Ceppi

You know what I did for the first time. Plugged in an HDMI cable and had both the audio (And pristine video) appear on my 37' tv

yes - like 12k

banner's up

Jorge Castro

7:08 PM

wow nice

I need to try hdmi on mine

I am all set for the boxee box, I have a cable standing by, heh

@MarcoCeppi the banner looks perfect!

Marco Ceppi

cool!

Marco Ceppi

7:28 PM

I am just breaking this poor sales men's mind. I wish they would be more technical in answering my questions.

George Edison

8:43 PM

I have an HDMI port but I doubt I could use it... I have a super weird xorg.conf :)

Marco Ceppi

It worked with my ATI card

George Edison

I'm also not using the nvidia driver... at least I don't think I am.

I still have hardware acceleration... I think. Even though Compiz doesn't work... or maybe that's Xinerama.

It's messed up.

I see we have yet to crack 3k users?

Marco Ceppi

I'm having a hard time getting FGLRX to work on 10.10 due to the ATI driver update that's broken within the kernel

Jorge Castro

@GeorgeEdison 3k is so doable before launch!

Marco Ceppi

Just gotta step up the hype

Jorge Castro

8:53 PM

I'm out of steps to step up!

George Edison

9:23 PM

@Jorge: True... and I can't wait.

Are we still on track for 10/10/10?

Marco Ceppi

Not sure, haven't heard much

George Edison

9:37 PM

I hope we are. I'm holding off on the Update Manager until then.

Then I'll do a dist-upgrade.

Jorge Castro

9:50 PM

yeah, we're on track

they're all ready to go, just the design is all we're waiting on

Marco Ceppi

SHOOP-DA-WOOP!

►

George Edison

10:05 PM

I love the 'Tabs Menu' extension for Firefox.

I don't know how I survived without it :)

Makes Firefox usable again... though I mostly use Chrome.

Marco Ceppi

This message brought to you by: 2 seconds too late!

George Edison

I am.

But Chrome doesn't work well with large POST requests.

So I use Firefox for those types of things.

I usually have both browsers open at any given time.

Marco Ceppi

Do you use Ubuntu for your servers?

George Edison

I don't own any servers.

I have a shared hosting plan.

Marco Ceppi

oh

George Edison

10:11 PM

It runs CentOS.

Marco Ceppi

figured.

George Edison

If I ever get my own server, it'll run Ubuntu.

* server edition!

Marco Ceppi

I've always done CentOS servers, Ubuntu desktop

George Edison

Is CentOS better?

* for servers

Marco Ceppi

only because I hate how ubuntu manages it's software setups and paths

George Edison

10:12 PM

How so?

Oh, and I have SSH access to 'my' server... it uses Zshell (zsh) :P

Marco Ceppi

The things that always get my "knickers in a twist" when I've used Ubuntu as a server

apache configuration management

I have always known Apache as httpd

(because I'm "classically trained" in managing RH servers)

you've got one httpd.conf in /etc/httpd/

and that's the way it should be IMO not this crazy /etc/apache2 sites enabled, sites disabled stuff

but honestly - it's "the same thing", I've just always used CentOS/RH for servers

George Edison

Hmmm... but then how can a script add or remove modules from httpd.conf?

The way ubuntu does it, you just create a symlink.

Marco Ceppi

yum remove

:P

I also ended up scripting my own Apache configuration generation tool

George Edison

Seriously though... how does a shell script remove or add lines to the file?

I almost forgot about yum... haven't heard of it since I used to use Fedora :)

Still got a VM for Fedora lying around somewhere.

Marco Ceppi

11:18 PM

Just converted another person to ubuntu

Jorge Castro

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Q: What is the strangest, most controversial thing you've heard about Linux or Ubuntu?

The title explains it: "What is the strangest, most controversial thing you've heard about Linux or Ubuntu?". Let us know what the weirdest thing you've heard about Ubuntu or Linux. If you have a link to a forum post, video, etc. that would be cool too.