@SimonSheehan nope. it's locked, so it can't be reopened by non-mods now. which is why we locked it. any question getting closed and reopened that many times in such a short time span is becoming a distraction to the community and needs to be stopped.
Knowing the amount of bits in a byte doesn't really solve a problem in the Super User context, you either know it or don't know it but there really is not a problem because of not knowing it...
@TomWijsman I would say that no one really needs to know A or B any more... The last time I used a physical floppy was probably about 7+ years ago - to be honest, I barely use cd/dvds any more... I have used virtual floppys a few times but I think anyone who needs to use them would already know what they are
Anyway, I never argued it shouldn't be closed (sorry if it came across like that) I knew it should, I just felt like I wanted it to be open, which is the whole reason/context of my MSO post... and it looks like from reputation, it is a split!
@Wil Yeah, but there might be some people still using it. I agree that it gets to be a bit "Too localized" but well, that's another edge case I don't really care about...
Well, @Wil, the top 3 results on Google all give me an answer so it's kind of "general reference" too, but the "practical" rule already covers it...
Like someone said on your question; we are Q&A, not an encyclopedia.
There is a certain amount of questions that are absolutely trivial in nature: How to format a date, how to concatenate a string, et cetera. Questions that could be solved by taking a look into the manual.
Random examples from the tags I frequent:
Editing binary image
Inverse date function? - n...
Hmm, @nhinkle: Now I can't prune my comment on that question anymore, can you delete it for me under the reason that it's not my decision any longer? :(
oh well, still like this site and it won't stop me from coming, just interesting to bring it up.... and if I didn't, it would just annoy me every time I see posts get shut... but... I am happy to go with the communities decision, and it looks the majority don't agree it needs to be changed
Thanks, I thought that adding a link to the meta answer might be handy, but it's not really necessary and users will complain/search it anyway otherwise.
@nhinkle: We are behaving, we were just learning how to interpret the FAQ (after gaining so much reputation we still don't completely get it)... :P
Now we're into post 13 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and the reason why. Try not to promote your own questions or answers for publicity sake. We are l...
Now we're into post 14 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and the reason why. Try not to promote your own questions or answers for publicity sake. We are l...
Now we're into post 15 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and the reason why. Try not to promote your own questions or answers for publicity sake. We are l...
Now we're into post 16 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and the reason why. Try not to promote your own questions or answers for publicity sake. We are l...
Now we're into post 17 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and the reason why. Try not to promote your own questions or answers for publicity sake. We are l...
This seems to be a recent thing - questions migrated are now being shown as "closed off topic" and "migrated to ...".
This was before the change.
This is how it looks now
This is the episode #4 of the Ask Different Podcast, an unofficial podcast created by members of the Ask Different community about Apple and related technologies.
Your hosts this week are Kyle Cronin, Jason Salaz, and Nathan Greenstein.
This episode was recorded on Saturday, May 14th. You can subscribe to this podcast via RSS or iTunes. If you have any feedback or questions you’d like for us to answer on air, leave a comment on this post or e-mail us at podcast@askdifferent.net.
PLEASE I WOULD LIKE YOUR COMPANY TO PLEASE SEND ME THE METHOD OR FORMULAS I CAN USED TO MONITOR THE WORK GOING ON MY PUBLIC CYBER CAFE IN ODER TO PREVENT THE SECURITY AGENT. ALSO TO QUICKLY REPORT ANY FRAUD.
THANKS
My impression is that they use a predictable cryptographic routine to generate a number every 60 seconds, because the starting values are the same it is possible to work through a series to get to the current value and so it's relatively easy to have two systems synchronised by them
It would be possible for the server to to easily have the last, current and first future number pregenerated so that if they get slightly out of sync then it's not so much of a problem
so all the user sees is their number but the server expects it to be one of three options...
We have them here too, and they have caused me some speculation... everyone assumes they are secure but I'm not convinced.
hmmm. As it has the key number in the number we pass back resynchronisation is easier for the server, it could (with a bit of work) recalculate the entire chain of numbers (or at least from a last "known good") to get to where your key is now...
I mean if for some reason the server gets a series of wrong answers it could potentially figure out if they are actually valid but working to the wrong time and so it could synchronise itself to the key
The numbers generated have to be predictable, otherwise the system cannot work
The thing that makes it secure is presumably the starting point and whatever "salt" the server and key have in common
I'd assume that salt value is lasered into the crypto chip in the key at the fab where the chips are made, so that a user cannot just take the key apart to find out what it is. Then somehow that value is given to the server during some initial synchronisation process
@DrJackal @ManjotSingh @Wanted I've had enough. I'm suspending you from chat for 30 days. Those messages I understand are enough; I don't even want to know what the other ones mean. If you don't know how to behave among human beings, you're not welcome here. You're free to come back after a month if you're ready to show you can behave.
@SankarGanesh look when she was uploading images of bunnies then all are saying dont upload images and complaining against reno then why dint he took an action against why is she a girl thats why or she is having good vocabulary of english
@Sathya looking back through the logs seems to suggest they're ongoing offenders as "reno" seems to be a very common word for them, not sure if it's a real word in hindi or if they are constantly referring to whoever reno is...
along with the word "gayyi", which I have my suspicions about...
While trying to ask a question, I got the error message
Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:
It does not meet our quality standards.
Why am I getting this message?
What can I do to get the system to accept my question?
Can you be more specific?
What are good resour...
Hi all,
I want to know how moderator make decision on just flagging..There might be some misunderstanding or moderator may took decision which is not correct.People are getting afraid of room owner that they might kick off them from the room or flag the message to the moderator.How moderator get...
i want to know what are the reasons for banned me from stack overflow ?
actually i was banned from 23/5/2011 witout any warning
i am not getting any reasons for getting me banned from stack overflow
How moderator gets elected
Stack Exchange conducts elections at varied intervals.
they do have salary for do the job of moderator
No, it is voluntary.
If person wants to become a moderator,How will he/she be moderator
Win the elections!
moderator may took decision which is no...
haha, a friend paid us a visit yesterday and .. well my girlfriend's from Germany and she told her that (due to rainstorms) there was "quite an apocalypse" going down there last weekend.. and our friend actually thought for a moment that the rapture was actually happening :D
"God's infallibility will surely be some comfort to New Yorker Robert Fitzpatrick, who blew most of his $140k life savings on a poster campaign promoting the end of the world, but was left firmly standing in a drizzly Times Square at 6pm on Saturday, with the jeers of tourists rather than a fanfare of celestial trumpets ringing in his ears"
I just check the spec of my new drive and old drive, currently I am using the old drive as OS, here is the comparison:
old: 320GB, 7200rpm, 16mb cache
new: 1TB, 7200rpm, 32mb cache
If I reinstall the OS with the new drive, will I feel a significant boost of speed?
And if I don't do that, Let s...
@Mokubai One of our local customers was a large salad crop farm and they sent in a faulty data logging PC that lived in a shed - the engineer's repair ticket listed the cause of the fault as 'half a field inside PC'
@Mokubai Not this time. Wierdest one was a keyboard repair (when Olivetti keyboards were 160 GBP each to replace) - the engineer found a whole strip of sandwich dried crust underneath the space bar. We never worked out whether someone managed to push in the bread (no way it would have fallen in) while it was fresh, or whether they cultivated a dry strip expressly for the purpose of jamming the space bar.
@Linker3000 looking at the keyboards round here I can only imagine that someone prised the spacebar off and put the sandwich crust there then replaced the 'bar
@torbengb can you explain why i was stopped from posting just now? I come back from a meeting to find I had been blocked for 30 minutes, apparently on my own?
To build your virtual appliance,which includes your applications,database and library files pre configured and ready,you need to create an image of virtual machine with a stripped down os and your application and port that machine as a virtual appliance. In order to do this,you have two options. ...
> Hej Hej Torban, hvordan går det med dig? I see Hairy still is stuck firmly in the British Empire Days. Ugh, I see things didn't get any better from this morning on the thread.
There is a certain amount of questions that are absolutely trivial in nature: How to format a date, how to concatenate a string, et cetera. Questions that could be solved by taking a look into the manual.
Random examples from the tags I frequent:
Editing binary image
Inverse date function? - n...
This seems to be a recent thing - questions migrated are now being shown as "closed off topic" and "migrated to ...".
This was before the change.
This is how it looks now
PLEASE I WOULD LIKE YOUR COMPANY TO PLEASE SEND ME THE METHOD OR FORMULAS I CAN USED TO MONITOR THE WORK GOING ON MY PUBLIC CYBER CAFE IN ODER TO PREVENT THE SECURITY AGENT. ALSO TO QUICKLY REPORT ANY FRAUD.
THANKS
While trying to ask a question, I got the error message
Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:
It does not meet our quality standards.
Why am I getting this message?
What can I do to get the system to accept my question?
Can you be more specific?
What are good resour...
i want to know what are the reasons for banned me from stack overflow ?
actually i was banned from 23/5/2011 witout any warning
i am not getting any reasons for getting me banned from stack overflow
I just check the spec of my new drive and old drive, currently I am using the old drive as OS, here is the comparison:
old: 320GB, 7200rpm, 16mb cache
new: 1TB, 7200rpm, 32mb cache
If I reinstall the OS with the new drive, will I feel a significant boost of speed?
And if I don't do that, Let s...
