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| bazhang | <ubuntu-studio> hi did u know how to make fake webcam in ubuntu? | 11:28 |
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| bazhang | fake webcam? | 11:28 |
| IdleOne | never heard of such a thing | 11:29 |
| DJones | I've seen somebody ask that before, something about feeding a video file to an app rather than a webcam output | 11:32 |
| ubottu | In ubottu, trijntje said: !dd is The Unix 'dd' command can manipulate files on a bit by bit basis. It is an extremely powerful tool, and has the ability to severely damage your system. Do not run any 'dd' commands you see online unless you fully understand them. When in doubt, please ask people in the channel to verify if a command containing 'dd' is safe to use. | 11:35 |
| IdleOne | this needs a link to a decent wiki page. | 11:46 |
| ikonia | probably doesn't need anything | 11:48 |
| ikonia | if you don't know what dd is - should you be using it ? | 11:48 |
| IdleOne | no | 11:48 |
| cprofitt | yeah... no is the answer there | 11:58 |
| cprofitt | even if you do know what it is you had best be cautious | 11:58 |
| ikonia | I don't think we need to put factoids for commands unless they are missleading in what they do | 11:59 |
| ikonia | eg: dd is pretty clear about what it is, and it's syntax is not one you can "oops" | 11:59 |
| cprofitt | ikonia: I would agree with not needing a factoid for that stuff... no information is better than a small tid-bit | 12:00 |
| ikonia | I'm sure there are some commands that miss-lead the users in their function, I can't think of one | 12:00 |
| cprofitt | are you guys cleaning up factoids? | 12:00 |
| ikonia | eg: copydisk = I'll copy the disk but wipe the source | 12:00 |
| ikonia | but that's not a real example | 12:00 |
| * cprofitt nods | 12:00 | |
| IdleOne | I think trijntje saw some something that he thought could use a little extra warning and offered it. No harm no foul. | 12:01 |
| cprofitt | yeah -- I don't think factoids for those things are harmful (unless they slow down ubutto) | 12:01 |
| ikonia | I don't think they are good | 12:02 |
| ikonia | as everytime someone says "I'm using dd....." | 12:02 |
| ikonia | you'll get !dd | 12:02 |
| IdleOne | true | 12:02 |
| ikonia | where is the bottom line is you should have an idea what you are doing | 12:02 |
| ikonia | it requires sudo access to do damage | 12:02 |
| ikonia | so you "should" have done some sort of basic thought before typing the command | 12:02 |
| IdleOne | hah, that is assuming people think before pasting random commands | 12:03 |
| ikonia | thats their problem to be honest | 12:03 |
| ikonia | if you blindly cut and paste - no !dd warning or "!rm warning is going to save you | 12:03 |
| IdleOne | but I agree with you. dd is one of those commands that anyone who doesn't know how to use it they should automatically ask themselves, what am I about to do here!? | 12:04 |
| IdleOne | I remember thinking to myself the first time I saw a dd command that it looked like some hacker stuff I was way out of my league to be using. | 12:05 |
| cprofitt | IdleOne: lol... most humans see a command line and think it is hacker stuff | 12:08 |
| cprofitt | dd was one of the first command line things I did with Linux... but I was in to digital forensics... so not the usual user. | 12:08 |
| phunyguy | lol I know all to well the "oops" that can happen with dd. | 15:33 |
| rww | lol | 15:33 |
| phunyguy | that partition was toast. | 15:33 |
| phunyguy | too* | 15:34 |
| Pricey | phunyguy: There's a "fix disk" utility you can use to recover afterwards, fdisk something, I'll just figure out the options you'd want... | 15:53 |
| phunyguy | Pricey: that stuff is long gone. This was last year | 16:48 |
| rww | i think that was a joke, phunyguy :P | 18:03 |
| phunyguy | stop making fun of me :( | 18:03 |
| IdleOne | that's no fun at all | 18:08 |
| rww | scumdogmoney (in #ubuntu now) = lastdich (kicked out of -ot yesterday) = ivwanty (same) | 18:30 |
| ikonia | why persist with these idiots ? | 18:33 |
| rww | because I prefer giving occasional chances over banning for first offenses, not catalyzing, and then leaving bans set for months | 18:34 |
| ikonia | I don't disagree with giving people chances | 18:34 |
| ikonia | but entering a support channel and trying to talk about drugs | 18:34 |
| ikonia | after being kicked from the offtopic channel for something which I cn only guess was the same topic | 18:34 |
| ikonia | just seems pointless when they seem to know what they are doing doen't fit with the channl | 18:35 |
| rww | he's since left #ubuntu without further incident, and I don't ban cross-channel | 18:35 |
| ikonia | I'm not suggesting you do ban cross channel ? | 18:36 |
| rww | 'course he's now in #ubuntu-offtopic and PMing tensorpudding, so we'll see how that goes | 18:36 |
| h00k | scumdogmoney querying me too | 18:39 |
| rww | h00k: problematic topic, or...? | 18:39 |
| h00k | http://pastie.org/private/yxebhjvft2ixy8fmjbbzq | 18:40 |
| h00k | like a dis | 18:40 |
| h00k | who wants to swing. | 18:40 |
| rww | fun times | 18:40 |
| rww | i'll do it | 18:40 |
| h00k | let er rip | 18:40 |
| bazhang | ubottu, random hurd kfreebsd | 18:41 |
| ubottu | kfreebsd | 18:41 |
| ubottu | bazhang: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :) | 18:41 |
| bazhang | awww | 18:41 |
| Pricey | Thanks rww. | 20:52 |
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