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5:14 AM
is it just me... or are both this guy's questions about whether themes from a specific site safe? superuser.com/questions/299087/…
 
 
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9:08 AM
@JourneymanGeek Yeah, he seems to really want his computer to look like anything but Windows 7
 
9:21 AM
or.. he's trying to stealth-promote the site ;)
 
gooood morning slackers
 
hmm
lifeaccordingtopatrick.com/2011/01/04/… i do recall windows 3.x laptops being smaller than that...
 
> It shipped with Windows 3.1 (not even on Windows 95 yet?!?)
it was 1993 you Chipmunk
he's probably not old enough to have learned to count :P
I remember my computer before we got Windows 3.11
we used Wangs, which basically just a bunch of text based menu's to navigate through your apps
but it ran Commander Keen and Prince of Persia with no problems :D
 
9:52 AM
lol
my dad used to have an old toshiba with a really cool tabbed based interface as a work laptop
 
@JourneymanGeek well back then you had to launch Windows from elsewhere
it was awesome for putting things on floppy's, because of the GUI
I think we didn't even needed a mouse before that (or rather couldn't use it)
 
lol. the size!
 
:)
Hiya peeps
How're we this morning?
 
i think i had an xt clone
then a 486
 
@Mokubai I think I'm going to reenable some of it
 
9:57 AM
but the XT had a mouse ;p
 
I've had it a couple of times where stuff started to crash because I ran out of my 8 Gb...
@JourneymanGeek I remember starting out with a computer with a green + black screen, which couldn't do much useful stuff
then moving to 386, then 486, then the first pentium
then our minds were blown after that :P
 
lol. I had a CGA screen. I'd note tho, i went from XT -> 486 -> PII -> PIV
 
yeah back then the iterations came too quickly to buy every generation
my parents have had computers in their company since 1988 or so, when they were upgraded, the old ones moved to our living room :D
and it rocked having a cousin in CS, who would come by regularly with a load of floppy's, so we were supplied with new games
 
lol. we tend to go 5-7 years between systems ;p
office still has PIV 1.5s
 
@JourneymanGeek I can't wait for every XP computer in the world to die
 
10:01 AM
lol
 
btw @Mokubai I'm having my kernel power state failure errors again
 
@IvoFlipse I too will rejoice on the day that XP dies
 
I'm hoping very much that with Windows 8, Microsoft finally kills off some of the legacy support
 
my desktop's a c2d xp box.
 
@IvoFlipse Oh dear, any idea what's causing them this time?
 
10:02 AM
@Mokubai hardware :P
 
XP is the new 2k. it'll take a while to die
 
@IvoFlipse Not meatware?
 
something doesn't want to come out of sleepmode and I blame the GPU, but no idea what
@Mokubai How would I check
@JourneymanGeek well those who run it because they want to aren't the problem. those who run it because they must are
 
Nothing in the error logs?
soz, bbiab
 
I'm actually happy for the growth Apple is seeing, because you can't port your app to OSX without some rewriting
 
10:03 AM
@IvoFlipse: with my desktop, i'd rather wait till the next rebuild cycle. Ditto with the office boxen - which refuse to die ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek Even if employees only do text editing and browsing, a new computer just makes working so much more pleasant. The problem is the mess it is to upgrade several computers running crappy designed software
 
and i could prolly replace the office boxen with atoms which use less power, are good enough, and not lose much
@IvoFlipse: and that reformatting them is never an option ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek yeah that too
so many systems are kept running, because nobody knows how easy it actually is to migrate the stuff
 
we use fairly normal/standard software. Usually ANY reformatting or changes involves way too much explaination and retraining
lol. Our systems, thankfully, are primarily mail/word processing systems
 
though a lot of enterprise software doesn't do migrating very well I reckon. I mean, you can't copy the database + settings and install everything on another computer
 
10:07 AM
well, they probably arn't designed to. they DO get paid to install it, right? ;p
 
my parents have all this software for their shoe stock + client information, you'd expect reinstalling would just involve installing + connecting to a database...
@JourneymanGeek yeah the hardware pricetag is 3k, the install pricetag 5k
 
you're like: wtf do those guys do?!?
 
can't virtualise the whole box?
eh, we had a teleratiology setup for a while. they copy everything, then beats it till it works
 
@JourneymanGeek well that's another fun thing, they for instance don't support Windows 7 or they require some shitty piece of hardware
 
10:09 AM
dongles are... so 80s
 
now one company told my dad, that they needed a dedicated server, because it didn't allow another program to use ms-sql
@JourneymanGeek no I meant rather serial ports and such
 
ahh.
I think i have an atom box for that. not actually needed it tho
 
well I almost question whether they need a server to begin with
heck they have 5 computers or so hooked to it, of which only 3 actually interact with it. They're a small shoe shop/orthopedic company, how many transactions do they really get?
the only thing that matters is redundancy, well I believe its easier to guarantee redundancy with more computers than one solid server :P
that's why I hope ipads and crappy os-es get more traction
because it will kill all these lame ass companies
why can't they just fix their app to run on windows 7 or 8 (when its there)?
 
lol. I had a app (which had nothing to do with the web) not work if IE 7 was installed
 
@JourneymanGeek well it probably used some built in stuff
 
10:15 AM
it was a music production software ;p
they DID eventually fix it
 
don't think so
interesting advanced system care uninstalled itself :\
oh wait no it didn't nvm :P
where's this folder: %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP
ah C:\Windows
 
Wil
Hi all...
 
@Wil Hey Wil! :D
 
Wil
My brother has done something awful... I feel so ashamed... it is so terrible...
 
hi @Wil
 
10:27 AM
@Wil What did he do D:?
 
Wil
 
@Wil he hacked Sega?
 
@Wil Dear god no
Tell me it isn't so! D:
 
@Wil I think he's sick
 
Wil
:(
 
10:28 AM
he needs to go to a mental institution
 
Hiding behind an apple... The truth these days
Everybody does it
 
Wil
me to... going to see if I can get him sectioned...
 
I heard the blog got on HN again!
 
lol
@Wil: a local westie pup decided to go on walkabout... it was found about 9km, as the crow flies from home ;p
 
10k views friday :D
 
Wil
10:30 AM
@JourneymanGeek wow.... one day my westie got out (hole in the fence)... and I am convinced he went on a walk himself... at least a mile!
 
lol... well, this was a girl. they arn't as lazy as the mensfolk ;p
mine won't go 2-3 meters from me
 
Wil
when sometimes we double back/go on a route that involves the same bit twice, if he sees something he has already peed on, he wags his tale like crazy.... I took him out straight after he came back and he was wagging his tail at every tree etc.
 
@Wil bummer about your client! I assume you're going to charge them for the convertion anyway! Since that's what they ordered?
 
Wil
@JourneymanGeek I don't let him of the lead... he never goes that far any more...
@BloodPhilia oh yeah! Don't you worry... nothing changes as far as you are concerned... I did the homepage and I thought I did a good job (but I asked for higher quality images...) It is just one person who doesn't like it (the company owner) everyone else does... on Tuesday, I'm going to see if I can convince him... test.ezpcinternal.com
 
10:34 AM
@Wil: mine's a bit insecure i suspect. we usually keep him on the lead, cause he HATES motorbikes and bycycles, and we usually have people who ride em on the sidewalk and paths
 
@Wil I wasn't concerned about me... just about how ridiculous it is to order something and then just throw it in the trash... Like ordering a red car... getting it and then wanting a yellow one =/
 
Wil
@JourneymanGeek mine used to bark and try to chase after EVERYTHING.... he is ok now, but, some bikes he still does (mainly noisy/clicky push bikes with dynamos)
@BloodPhilia I know... I get things like this quite often with clients.... annoying, but part of the job
 
@Wil Yugh
 
10:49 AM
Time for some Half Life!
 
 
1 hour later…
12:08 PM
huh, since when do I get flags for spam displayed in the chat?
also, is that for real or just trolling? :D
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Q: Customer support not helpful

my name is LisaMy grandson bought me a laptop today. I have had some trouble using it. I have a box on my screen that i cannot get to go away. It says press ok. I tried to type ok but it does nothing. I called a help number that is on the box and they told me to press the return key, but i don't have a return ...

especially considering that the OP knows how to set up a WiFi? (although I find that question rather hilarious too)
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Q: Philanthropic wifi but...

my name is LisaI have a fibre broadband and plenty of spare bandwidth (and cash) so I decided to do a favour for my community and purchase a wireless router and custom high powered antenna so that people can use my wifi for free for a good 300 metres away. I called the network 'FreeNet4UbutNoPornPlz' and let i...

 
1:05 PM
@slhck Im fairly sure that customer support one is a troll :P
 
 
1 hour later…
2:14 PM
@SimonSheehan Well if he hadn't posted the other one it wouldn't have been that suspicious :P
 
2:50 PM
@slhck correct me if I'm mistaked, but wasn't the first wifi post under the name of "bigblk" or summat?
 
@Sathya No, see my posts above, they have the same user icon, etc.?
 
I'm aware of that.
the user changed their name
I've seen the first WiFi post since the moment it was posted
 
Oh, okay. Yeah you edited it. Well did they try to change the name and then act as if they were two persons?
I don't really get it.
 
indeed, see this comment
@slhck yes, that's what happened.
I'm more concerned that there's no record of change in name.
Need to file a bug.
 
Some people are stupid, I must say
 
2:53 PM
yeah
wonder if the fact that user is unregistered as got anything to do with it?
 
Hey. How can I remap mouse "scroll to the side" action to simulate "scroller click"? AutoHotkey can be used.
(in Windows btw)
 
@BlaXpirit Not a Windows user, no idea. Any reason for not asking a proper question on the main site?
@Sathya Hmm, well, maybe the system just doesn't track it then
 
@slhck I suppose the question would be too simple. Remapping is a kind of trivial task now. And yet, it's hard to remap this particular "side scroll" action.
I want this because the scroller is broken, and I already did this on Linux easily. But I occasionally log in Windows...
 
@BlaXpirit Well if it's hard to do that, why not ask then? :)
 
@slhck perhaps
@slhck I;m about to post this for testing. please don't downvote :P
 
3:09 PM
lol
 
Ah, it was actually easy. AutoHotkey does support that action. Solution in AutoHotkey:
WheelLeft::MouseClick, Middle
WheelRight::MouseClick, Middle
 
@Sathya SE should have a public playground for trying out stuff you never dared to do
 
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@slhck well.. you can user meta :p
aw c'mon! 3 down votes. I said, please don't mind :p
 
Wasn't me :P @Sathya
@MarkSzymanski nyanicorn.com
 
3:18 PM
btw, @slhck @MarkSzymanski
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( and hi @Mark!)
:p
 
Hai, @Sathya. How are yoU?
Yup, saw that @Sathya. Downvoted :3
 
4 mins ago, by Sathya
aw c'mon! 3 down votes. I said, please don't mind :p
:P
 
Hehe.
 
@MarkSzymanski I'm good :)
wonder how much more it'll get :p
 
Some mod will probably delete it, eventually.
And then figure out it was you, and hellban you.
 
3:22 PM
heh
 
lol :D
well gotta go, see you later!
bye @Sathya @MarkSzymanski
 
see ya
 
Bye, @slhck!
 
hmm, ever faced
> virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
problem, @Mark?
 
No, I haven't.
Windoze?
 
3:24 PM
Nope, Debian on OpenVZ
 
Ah, well no I haven't. Try restarting?
 
I'll resort to reboot for last :)
 
Why?
Is it really that difficult? :P
@Sathya: You will have to learn that just about any issue with Linux can be solved with a reboot. ;)
 
/s?
 
Hmm, @Sathya?
 
3:27 PM
thought reboot and fix was a Windows thing :p
> privvmpages 9986 49169 49152 49152 5
this seems to be the problem
 
ah, ok
Also
why are you logged in as root? :P
 
:p
that's what Super Users do :p
 
that's what Super Users who want to screw their system over do, @Sathya ;)
 
3:32 PM
hehe. it's a sandbox anyway so don't mind :p
 
Super Users use su or sudo, which actually have super user in their name ;)
 
yeah, I know.don't login via root on any of my local or remote webservers. Got this new box, setting it up first
 
Alright.
The only time I log in as root is so I can install sudo XD
 
hehe
> -bash: sudo: command not found
 
:P
apt-get install sudo
 
3:38 PM
done :P
 
 
2 hours later…
5:35 PM
Does anyone know when the next mod elections are?
 
hm probably not for another few months atleast, I guess. tbh no clue
 
Alright, thanks.
 
Wil
6:08 PM
And... Home!
Hi all!
 
7:03 PM
hmmm
I'm trying to download these images
but somehow I can't wget them
 
7:25 PM
oh, turns out Ruby does it :P
 
8:23 PM
Ooooooh
got an idea for a SU Blog post :D
 
@MarkSzymanski Are you an editor for the blog?
 
@DarthAndroid: I'm not an editor, no, but I'm a contributor.
 
Ah. Can you see my pending post on hardware? If you can, mind giving it a look over and offer any suggestions you think of?
 
@DarthAndroid: I'm sorry but I'm not able to see any posts other than my own. But if you have any other way of showing me the post, I'd be more than happy to offer some suggestions!
 
8:39 PM
*Can
 
Yup!
Very nice, @DarthAndroid. I'm not quite all the way through but what I've read is great!
 
Somebody spank that Brian dude
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Q: Internet connection keeps dropping. Is there a background app that can reconnect it?

Brian Erikson Possible Duplicate: Need a way to automatically reconnect to the internet I use EasyTether to connect my Android O/S phone (Ally) to the internet. The problem is that EasyTether constantly drops the connection. (Every few minutes - a bit random.) I have checked the forums and many, ma...

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Q: Need a way to automatically reconnect to the internet

Brian Erikson Possible Duplicate: Need script to automatically reconnect EasyTether to the internet I know there are ways you can write scripts/macros to do things on Windows XP. What I probably need is one that will run as a background process. Someone closed my question as "not real" yesterday. ...

 
8:56 PM
Yeah, there's a bit of a war starting on Meta
 
@DarthAndroid: Very nice post, I don't have any suggestions.
 
@IvoFlipse sorry I've been slack on the blog lately...
 
@MarkSzymanski Thanks for looking it over!
 
Slacker :p
 
No problem, @DarthAndroid!
 
8:59 PM
lol
Oh lord, now there's a witchhunt brewing on meta
 
@Mokubai I think this Carl guy is taking it a bit too far
 
Seems like someone out to make trouble rather than do anything productive...
What's going on, all the puppets crawling out of the woodwork?
 
Wil
FIREFOX HAS PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS...
user image
3
 
Haha XD
 
@Mokubai with all the calls for moderators to lose their status, I to am wondering if we have some puppets that have been hiding.
 
9:14 PM
It definitely seems that way to me
 
I've been playing Half Life for 7 hours straight O_O
 
But I actually like how the witchhunt is completely backfiring on them. That's why I love this community, it's generally self-moderating.
 
I feel strange :(
Dizzy
 
The majority are on the side of the moderators
@BloodPhilia Any vision problems, tingling in the arm?
 
@Mokubai Yes, and yes
 
9:18 PM
@BloodPhilia How so? What do you see that is wrong?
 
@Mokubai Well... I've been playing Half Life for 7 hours... straight?
 
Ah
Right
 
My eyes take about 10 seconds to focus XD
Lolll
 
That'd probably do it
 
@IvoFlipse can you pop into the mod room for a bit?
 
9:19 PM
And there I was concerned you had a migraine or something more serious
 
@Mokubai Nah! :D
 
Original Halflife or HL2?
 
Just the first
With its AWESOME graphics xD
 
Not really played that one past the first 5 minutes...
 
@Mokubai I'm nearly finished..
I played Portal 1 and 2
And apparently Portal 3 will get linked to HL?
So I have to play that D:
Portal 2 refers to HL a lot
 
9:22 PM
I mustve missed the references, I've only played HL2 and so on
 
9:33 PM
@Mokubai "Black Mesa" is mentioned literally by Wheatley and GLaDOS lots of times throughout Portal 2
 
Yeah, but that's in HL2 too
 
@Mokubai What is?
 
It's more just that Aperture Science was a rival company to Black Mesa
 
Black Mesa, mucho often :)
 
Lol
Black Mesa is from Half Life!
Black Mesa is to Half Life as Aperture is to Portal
 
9:35 PM
@BloodPhilia Never thought of it like that o.o
 
They're all like "Black Mesa this" and "Black Mesa that" and "Aperture who?"
 
I wish they finished the Black Mesa: Source mod :(
 
Are Portal 2 "spoilers" allowed yet xD? @modsssss (@nhinkle I thought came up with the rule?)
 
@BloodPhilia well I've played it now, so I don't really care personally. But in general it's polite to at least give a spoiler warning, and give people in the room the chance to say "wait, don't say it!"
 
@nhinkle Well, I'm not actually giving spoilers... Just wanted to talk some more about the HL-Portal relation
 
9:39 PM
@BloodPhilia don't worry, I'm not going to suspend any of you for talking about Portal, it was mostly a joke in the first place anyways :)
 
@nhinkle Lol I know! :P Mind the "xD" in my "question"
 
9:58 PM
@nhinkle:
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A: studiohack (mod) closed VALID question as "not a real question"

Tom WijsmanIf you really have a valid reason why a moderator should have his permissions revoked then you should go and click the Contact Us link at the bottom of Meta Stackoverflow, although I would suggest you not to as a lot of people already showed that they disagreed with you. We're humans, we do make...

This isn't going anywhere with his ALL CAPS and copying his argument over to each comment thread.
 
@TomWijsman we're dealing with it. Thanks for the heads up.
He's actually a sockpuppet of the user who asked that question. They've been merged on the main site, it might take a while for that to propagate to meta.
 
Basically all the rabble-rousing was one guy.
 
@nhinkle: Happened instantly as far as I could tell. At least explains why he is defending it so much...
 
That shouldn't be happening right?
 
10:02 PM
There was a post on meta about that a while ago
 
Several others have been taken offline as well
 
BRB, dealing with that bad user
 
Multiple have the problem.
Err...
@BloodPhilia:
It's on i.stack, weird!
 
@TomWijsman Everything uploaded from SU goes to i.stack
 
10:05 PM
What I meant: It's weird that i.stack images get deleted...
It's non-standard behavior if you ask me.
 
@TomWijsman Ye I know...
@TomWijsman Perhaps it autoscans for logo's/otherwise copyrighted material?
 
@BloodPhilia: Dunno, anyhow I made up a meta post:
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Q: Why are `i.stack.imgur.com` images being removed?

TomWijOn our Community Ads Meta Post, some of the images suddenly got removed for no reason. Can someone of the Stack Exchange team colaborate on what happened? I consider this a network-wide risk...

 
@TomWijsman LOL! You JUST beat me to it!
 
Because if this is a network wide risk...
 
@TomWijsman I think you mean "Elaborate", not "Colaborate"...
Elaborate = uitleggen/duidelijk maken
colaborate = samenwerken
 
10:09 PM
Indeed, @BloodPhilia, fixed it and added link and your screenshot.
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Q: My Stack Overflow imgur images are disappearing

KevA while back I answered this question and used the official Stack Overflow image uploader: Using ServerManager to create Application within Application I just noticed that some of the images I had in my answer seem to be no longer available from imgur and look like this: These images use...

 
@TomWijsman If you change i.stack to i.imgur, then they work!
 
@BloodPhilia: Just remove i. and leave the stack. in place.
 
In other news, Carl's been dealt with.
 
@nhinkle Sent to outer space?
 
Spaaaaaaaace! He's in space!
We only put him into orbit for 7 days though.
 
10:15 PM
Or well, @BloodPhilia: It doesn't really matter...
 
@nhinkle That sounds awfully familiar :P
 
@nhinkle: Enough time to get some ear plugs...
 
10:35 PM
Lol
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Q: Resize a File in Command Prompt?

MehrdadHow do I resize a file from the command prompt (or in a batch file)?

0
A: Is this Really a Bad Question?

BloodPhiliaWell, it can be interpreted in many, many ways! Are you trying to: Resize an image to another resolution? Resize a file by cutting away/splitting data? Resize a file by adding/removing data? etc? It's too vague to tell what you actually want to resize in its current form. Furthermore, we don'...

 
10:47 PM
I'm off to bed!
 
hey @BloodPhilia
sorry I missed you :P
 
11:37 PM
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Q: Would it be handy to have a live activity tracker for moderation purposes?

TomWijWould it be handy for high reputation users to have a live activity tracker available for moderation purposes? Not a tracker that solely tracks a tag or a question but a tracker that covers all activity. As this would be locked to high reputation users only there shouldn't really be a scalability...

 

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