User talk:Linus

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Hi. 20:00, 15 January 2008 (EST)
 * Vandalism archive
 * Three minutes. Impressive. --Linus (plot evil tech) 20:01, 15 January 2008 (EST)
 * Hey, could you fill me in on what has happened with the TK block? Was he unblocked? user talk:Bohdan 17:11, 16 January 2008 (EST)
 * So no permaban. Thats good.  And is cracker leaving the mob? user talk:Bohdan 17:16, 16 January 2008 (EST)
 * Cracker apparently has a "life", whatever that is. And wants to address it without the constant distraction of our wonderful entertainment possibilities :( human  20:35, 16 January 2008 (EST)
 * What? Is Cracker on hiatus?--PalMD-Did that sound a little harsh? 20:42, 16 January 2008 (EST)
 * Check the block log; and, if you have access to the seekrit cabal (there is no cabal) forums, read his post there. We'll miss ya, Pommer! human  21:07, 16 January 2008 (EST)
 * As a licensed physician, I am disqualified from the seekritz.--PalMD-Did that sound a little harsh? 21:14, 16 January 2008 (EST)
 * I thought it was the pants...... 21:18, 16 January 2008 (EST)

Blogs
I messed with the appearance, and possibly broke it, but I don't think so. Still playing around. Wordpress's domain stuff is down, so I can't look up my domain mapping info, damn it.--PalMD-Did that sound a little harsh? 19:30, 17 January 2008 (EST)
 * Doesn't look broken to me. --Linus (plot evil tech) 20:01, 17 January 2008 (EST)

Following Linkage
Quick question - are all of RationalWiki's external links set to nofollow? Does that mean any and all spamvertising is ultimately in vain, google-wise? I had a spider crawl my user page a while back (when it was still covered in spamvertising), but it didn't end up where I wanted... I dunno if that's a function of nofollow links or just a function of me not understanding Google. Anyway, just wondering, if you could help explain that'd be great. Uchiha KATON! 12:49, 14 January 2008 (EST)
 * Yeah, external links are, by default, nofollowed. --Linus (plot evil tech) 16:26, 14 January 2008 (EST)


 * Addition to my previous question - does that mean that all my spamvertising here is in vain? Also, due to Jimminy overruling the nofollow vote at Wikipedia, will spamvertising (and not being caught) succeed there? Uchiha KATON! 16:30, 19 January 2008 (EST)

Template help
I gather that you are the go-to guy for the more technical aspects of the wiki? Well, regardless, I've created a template (here) for pointing readers towards a serious articles' equivalent Funspace article. I'm trying to make it appear on the right (as of now it orients to the left), but I don't know how the wiki-code works (what I do have I pilfered from other places). Any other tweaks you have for it would be welcomed. -- 06:08, 22 January 2008 (EST) Nevermind, Linus. Genghis fixed it. -- 06:29, 22 January 2008 (EST)

IRC
Care to join our little party? NightFlareSpeak, mortal 13:39, 9 February 2008 (EST)
 * Already did :). --Linus (plot evil tech) 13:46, 9 February 2008 (EST)
 * Where's it at? Haven't been on IRC so long I forgot the 'address'... -- AKjeldsen Godspeed! 13:50, 9 February 2008 (EST)
 * irc.freenode.net and the channel is #rationalwiki TimoT 13:53, 9 February 2008 (EST)
 * Correct. --Linus (plot evil tech) 13:55, 9 February 2008 (EST)

Hmmm--never learned how to do IRC properly... maybe in a bit... got to get some stuff done.Sterilexx 14:31, 9 February 2008 (EST)
 * I had to leave because I have this essay to write… :(. --Linus (plot evil tech) 16:11, 9 February 2008 (EST)

Template talk:Edit0
I want to make this "float", as well, so it doesn't push the start of text down a line. Any helpers? human  15:32, 12 February 2008 (EST)


 * This is utterly worthless. Let me take care of this… :). --Linus(plot evil tech) 15:51, 12 February 2008 (EST)


 * You know, I made this after I thought of asking you if there was a way to make just such a tab earlier today ;) In fact, I thought of searching MW to see if they had a workaround for this "bug" yet. Thanks! human  16:19, 12 February 2008 (EST)


 * You're quite welcome, sorry if my facetious aggression came across as serious… --Linus (plot evil tech) 16:32, 12 February 2008 (EST)
 * Oh, not at all. After all, I described it as being probably useless myself.  The reason I had got to thinking about was when you popped that "edit new section" code on a debate page.  The trouble with that method, of course, is it would require an arcane edit to the page to put the link on it, so I made a template without remembering to ask you (or search MW) if it could be done automagically.  By the way, what was the actual technical fix? And does this mean Trent finally gave you the keys to the root sandbox password? human  17:06, 12 February 2008 (EST)
 * He actually did, but I simply edited MediaWiki:Common.js to include the JavaScript I had already put into personal use. --Linus (plot evil tech) 18:54, 12 February 2008 (EST)
 * Sweet. Hey, why not ditch the margin between "0" and "+" as well?  Can you do that?  Seems to make sense. human  19:57, 12 February 2008 (EST)

useful things below edit box
WHile we have

How do you query this database to return only the most recent date and data per name. Attempted queries have included:

select * from table group by Name having date=max(date);

This doesn't return duplicate tables at all.

select distinct name, max(date),data from table;

this returns only one name, the max date but does not link the data column to the date.

Any ideas? 17:53, 24 June 2008 (EDT)

I don't know if it's possible to achieve this via raw SQL, you may have to run it through some sort of secondary program. Don't believe me, though, I need to brush up on my (My)SQL. It seems to me, though, that this is not something that SQL is well-suited to. Off the top of my head, what you would want to do is break it up into individual names, and then select the greatest dates from each set. --λινυσ (☮) 18:01, 24 June 2008 (EDT)
 * Yea I might try some subqueries next, but subquery structure gives me a headache. 18:03, 24 June 2008 (EDT)
 * I know, wheels within wheels… within boxes… within plastic peanuts. --λινυσ (☮) 18:05, 24 June 2008 (EDT)

Arr
I have added your Turbonerd blog to my blogroll, along with every name I recognised on the RationalBlogs list. I demand you reciprocate! :) 04:41, 7 July 2008 (EDT)
 * Link reciprocated. Does anyone want the extra three-or-so people a month that I'll send your way? --<font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 08:23, 7 July 2008 (EDT)
 * That would more than double my current readership, Linus :) At the moment it's just Anders and me. And, occasionally, Rational Afikomen. 08:38, 7 July 2008 (EDT)
 * 'Tis the quality of the readers that matters, not the quantity, Jelly! -- 08:40, 7 July 2008 (EDT)
 * I agree! But the quality of my readership is not strnen, so your moot is point. 08:50, 7 July 2008 (EDT)
 * Oh, mercy. This is practically a disease of conceit. -- 10:17, 7 July 2008 (EDT)
 * I'll explain mine if you explain yours. 10:24, 7 July 2008 (EDT)
 * I understood yours perfectly well, thankyouverymuch - The Quality of Mercy is not Strnen by that band whose name escapes me at the moment. Disease of Conceit is, naturally, a song by Bob Dylan from his album Oh Mercy. You would know these things if you listened to real music instead of all that electronica... stuff. -- 10:36, 7 July 2008 (EDT)
 * AK, did you just attack electronica? On my page? --<font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 13:15, 7 July 2008 (EDT)
 * He did indeed. And earlier when you weren't here and couldn't have seen it but nevertheless it is true he said that you were a "teacup factory". And I don't even know what he meant by it! Oh, Anders, won't you give up your Liberal Profanity?! 13:20, 7 July 2008 (EDT)
 * WHAT? --<font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 13:41, 7 July 2008 (EDT)
 * Do not listen to these ramblings, Linus. Chaos has a long history of Scyzophoan deceit. -- 14:18, 7 July 2008 (EDT)

Tending towards libertarianism
Since you say you tend towards libertarianism, what keeps you from becoming a Libt?

Given that tendency, are you kidding about being a communist? If not, how do you reconcile the two?

You chose Linus because of Torvalds, and you are a Linux guy?

Rem Beau  22:08, 8 July 2008 (EDT)


 * Well, I really am pretty much an economic communist, ideally, but I tend to be socially libertarian. So I'm pretty much a hard-line economic liberal, while being somewhat softer on social politics.
 * And my name is actually Linus. It's something of a long story. --<font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 09:55, 9 July 2008 (EDT)

I have watered your plants
Marginally Less Chaos!Audacity! 22:52, 16 July 2008 (EDT)

I have also eaten your cheese
Marginally Less Chaos!Audacity! 22:55, 16 July 2008 (EDT)

I have liberated your milkshake
21:16, 26 July 2008 (EDT)
 * You never reply to my silly musings :( 21:31, 26 July 2008 (EDT)
 * I'm sorry. :( --<font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 21:33, 26 July 2008 (EDT)
 * I don't know what waveforms are :( 21:36, 26 July 2008 (EDT)
 * Would it help if I said that I'm too tired to distinctly recall myself? I think they're the way an object described as a wave. --<font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 22:05, 26 July 2008 (EDT)
 * Aren't you tired of that symbol in your signature turning into a black blog on you talk page? 22:11, 26 July 2008 (EDT)
 * Erm… no, I suppose? --<font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ ( ☮ ) 22:44, 26 July 2008 (EDT)

George Spena
I brought this up with tmt until he reminded me that this is your area. There's a blog at RationalBlogs called George Spena that is probably a splog. Could you look into it? ThunderkatzHo! 15:47, 3 September 2008 (EDT)
 * And while you're at it, seo2727 and yesido are possibly splogs as well. ThunderkatzHo! 18:01, 3 September 2008 (EDT)

Done. RB seems to have become a target for spammers, aggravatingly enough. --<font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 18:43, 3 September 2008 (EDT)

Insanely cute
Yes, it is, isn't it! ^_^ 18:18, 6 September 2008 (EDT)


 * Entirely so. I think that perhaps the best description of it is "d'awwwwwwww! :3", or something to that effect. --<font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 18:23, 6 September 2008 (EDT)


 * I think the W in the name makes it cuter still. 18:27, 6 September 2008 (EDT)


 * I thoroughly concur. This is my new favorite icon. --<font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 18:30, 6 September 2008 (EDT)

Something is wrong
That's what you said on the WIGO CP page, but your link doesn't actually say what is wrong, it's just a permalink to the whole page. I know the whole thing's wrong, but can you be a little more specific? --Kels 18:18, 7 September 2008 (EDT)


 * That doesn't help as much as you'd think, we already know there's something wrong with Andy. Do you mean his obsession with Obama?  Do you mean jumping on the "my Muslim faith" thing?  Do you mean sticking all the smears in the lede?  Most of that isn't terribly new, help me out here. --Kels 18:28, 7 September 2008 (EDT)
 * I changed it to a couple diffs before when he added the "Muslim faith" quote, since that seemed to be what was intended. Did that help? <font color="#DD00DD" face="comic sans ms"> ħ uman  19:33, 7 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Well, I was kind of trying to point to the whole "OBAMA IS A MUSLIM" thing in general… --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 21:51, 7 September 2008 (EDT)

RationalBlogs is under attack!
Well, kinda. But we're getting a lot more splogs: holmstroem - the diary of, Harrison Bellace, the blog of sergeeva, mignonsin cool things, my mindholmquist, and applebaugh - just another weblog. The following are probably splogs, but aren't known for sure: Jeramiah Heath, Jazzy Reading, Questionable Hackers, Douglas James, and seo2727. ThunderkatzHo! 19:41, 8 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Gaaaah! I'll have to close registration, I suppose… --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 21:58, 8 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Direct people to a page on here to request blogs. Would better integrate the two sites. 24.141.72.100 22:02, 8 September 2008 (EDT)
 * I'm thinking (again) of migrating my old blog to rationalblogs. I own the domain name, so I can redirect it, with the right info.  The only traffic it really gets is when I refer to my old posts, but it would be nice to have it here rather than at WP.-- [[Image:Asclepius staff.png|8px]]-PalMD -- 19:04, 1 October 2008 (EDT)

Another one!?
Is your name actually Linus? You're the second one I've come across online in as many days! Not counting myself, of course. I found one just the other day on Profane Existence! Keep the hope alive when Schultz's comics shall blight us no more...(echoes)....24.3.14.157 13:59, 1 October 2008 (EDT)
 * I think his real name is Linus.  15:15, 1 October 2008 (EDT)
 * (The original statement was by me, not realizing I hadn't logged in. Drinks and apologies all around). Radioactive, that's what I'm saying. It's just a very rare name, I've only come across 3 others in me whole bloomin' life! Harbinger 16:48, 1 October 2008 (EDT)
 * Yes, my real name is, indeed, Linus, and yes, I am named after the comic strip character. It's a rather long story. --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 17:00, 1 October 2008 (EDT)
 * Very cool, dude. We gotta form a league. I'm named after Linus Pauling, so I don't know if you win the namesake arguement. Time will tell. Harbinger 17:27, 1 October 2008 (EDT)
 * Another Linus? On RationalWiki? This is astonishing! Yes, we must form a league. --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 17:30, 1 October 2008 (EDT)

RBlogs
Is currently not what it was. Is this permanent? An accident? Que pasó? ThunderkatzHo! 21:43, 1 December 2008 (EST)
 * Oh dear… It would appear to be an accident, but it may not be able to be rectified without the expenditure of money… --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 22:54, 30 December 2008 (EST)
 * * grumble* It's been like that for a while.  *grumble*  That was what I linked to when I commented on blogs; my old comments link to a damn placeholder page.  *grumble grumble*   23:36, 30 December 2008 (EST)
 * Is there a "purchase this domain" link, or the like?… --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮)

Yaay!
You're back! 12:21, 6 March 2009 (EST)
 * I will attempt to be! --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 15:43, 6 March 2009 (EST)
 * W00t! BTW, do you still have any access to the server? We've been having trouble on RWW. 16:35, 6 March 2009 (EST)
 * I think so, theoretically… What is needed? --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 22:34, 9 March 2009 (EDT)
 * The site needs the ConfirmEdit extension and Trent's WIGO voting extension added.  23:01, 9 March 2009 (EDT)
 * As a personal request, could you also throw in Trent's editcount extension?  23:01, 9 March 2009 (EDT)
 * This is unbelievably good. We're getting back old members. Next up: AmesG. -- 00:16, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Er, you're two months late to this party, centipede. 01:21, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hooray for AP tests, theses, etc. :/ --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 23:04, 19 May 2009 (UTC)s

Hello
Hi. Now that's a name which has been absent from recent changes for a while.--BobNot Jim 22:02, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi
Hello stranger. Nice to know you're still around. 22:04, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey there! 23:02, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Greetings, everyone! It's nice to see you all here. : D --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 23:08, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey, dude! Sterile 23:47, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Hang on a minute
You're Jewish and Christian? 22:14, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Messianic Jew, until recently. --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 22:24, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * What do you mean "until recently"? Back to Judaism or now a full blown Christian? Or maybe you've seen the light and converted to the path of unbelief? Anyway, nice to see you back, do you feel up to upgrading the forum to the latest version of the software (not that many people visit it much any more). 22:39, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The third. Anyway, I shall attempt to do so, if I get the password, and have time... My high school's senior thesis is due on the fourth. It's a bit of a nightmare. --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 23:07, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Well make sure you have your priorities right. The forums have ground to a halt because of the outdated bb software. 23:16, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * You could've asked me to upgrade the forum... I always assumed people didn't care any more, so I didn't bother with it. -- Nx  / talk 23:24, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Pretty much my thoughts on the matter as well. tmtoulouse 23:26, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Is it truly due to the older phpbb software? Anyway, good to see you Linus. Seeing as how we are no longer hosted on any of the machines you used to have access to I don't think you have any passwords anymore. If you are truly interested in picking up the forums as a project again let me know and we can work something out. tmtoulouse 23:20, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the fora have been supplanted by the saloon bar. 23:22, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Logo
By the way, the copyright status of our logo is rather mixed, while you are here do you think you could go ahead and release copyright "officially" over to me? tmtoulouse 23:23, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

You're missed
04:37, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Balloons.svg Welcome back! 01:14, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Obviously just see any crat for your old hat back if you want it. Nice to see an old timer around. I'm Nutty. What's up? [[file:Nuttysexpistols.png|60px|link=User:Nutty Roux|Nutty Roux]][[file:Nuttytalk.png|35px|link=User_talk:Nutty_Roux|never mind]] 01:21, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Don't trust Nutty. Fuckthat 01:40, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Ignore the noobs, they are evil scientists! Wow, you almost made it to one full year without an edit!  Nice to see you around again.  01:56, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you, everyone! I think I'll decline the offer of enhanced privileges -- I'm rather occupied with college -- however, I plan to regularly drop by! You guys are fantastic. --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 08:23, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Good luck with your studies, Linus. Glad to see you're working hard. 08:56, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Fuck me! (request, not an exclamation)
I haven't "seen" you in such a long time, mate. Not see you in a long time.-  <font face=times color=black>π    09:24, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I know! My real life has be pretty intrusive for... a really long time. --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 09:25, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi. That was a long break.--BobSpring is sprung! 10:13, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I do concur. --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 13:02, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey there :) We should start an old-timers club.  A "cabal", if you will. We could take over this place with our old-school wiki-fu!  02:55, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Linus, I sort of took over while you were gone. I'm a big deal. Let's talk. 03:56, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Human: we should! I do concur. Nutty Roux: But I didn't do anything besides be vaguely noncommittal about things (a situation which has, thank goodness, changed) and somewhat helpful technically! However, I concur with you (re talking) as well. --[[Image:Cyan mowse 2.png|25px]] <font color="#00FFFF">λινυσ (☮) 05:11, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There is no cabal. sterile 13:21, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * So I slept with Nutty for nothing then? Disappointing. 13:36, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Not for nothing, I'm sure you got a good experience and some personal enjoyment out of it too. 13:48, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Come visit?
Hey, you. Wiki's been kinda in a strange spot lately, lots of yelling, and I was hoping to get some familar faces to give it some love. Edit a bit. Say hi. I know you're probably busy, but if you have some time, say hi at least! steriletalk 01:46, 19 May 2011 (UTC)