 hi did u know how to make fake webcam in ubuntu?
[11:28] <bazhang> fake webcam?
[11:29] <IdleOne> never heard of such a thing
[11:32] <DJones> I've seen somebody ask that before, something about feeding a video file to an app rather than a webcam output
[11:46] <IdleOne> this needs a link to a decent wiki page.
[11:48] <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
[11:58] <cprofitt> yeah... no is the answer there
[11:58] <cprofitt> even if you do know what it is you had best be cautious
[11:59] <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"
[12:00] <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
[12:01] <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)
[12:02] <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
[12:03] <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
[12:04] <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!?
[12:05] <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.
[12:08] <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.
[15:33] <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.
[15:34] <phunyguy> too*
[15:53] <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...
[16:48] <phunyguy> Pricey: that stuff is long gone.  This was last year
[18:03] <rww> i think that was a joke, phunyguy :P
[18:03] <phunyguy> stop making fun of me :(
[18:08] <IdleOne> that's no fun at all
[18:30] <rww> scumdogmoney (in #ubuntu now) = lastdich (kicked out of -ot yesterday) = ivwanty (same)
[18:33] <ikonia> why persist with these idiots ?
[18:34] <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
[18:35] <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
[18:36] <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
[18:39] <h00k> scumdogmoney querying me too
[18:39] <rww> h00k: problematic topic, or...?
[18:40] <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
[18:41] <bazhang> ubottu, random hurd kfreebsd
[18:41] <bazhang> awww
[20:52] <Pricey> Thanks rww.