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2:24 AM
@TomWijsman Naw, facebook does not allow animated gifs, but look at my cover photo, won me my war :D
@JourneymanGeek We need a humanoid 0_o
 
humanoid what? ;p
 
2:50 AM
0
Q: One-boxing for sites with large logos overflows in chat transcript

nhinkleWhen you paste a bare link to a Stack Exchange site in chat, it gets oneboxed as a clickable image of the site's logo, like so: When the site's logo is enormous, like CS Theory's, it overflows if the width of the chat area is less than the width of the logo. This causes the image to hang over ...

 
 
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4:33 AM
@TomWijsman Yeah, and finding a solution it's about as frustrating as it seems.
There's a reason I like your question, in principle :-/
 
4:50 AM
hmm
may have gotten another SE convert ;p
 
 
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8:10 AM
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Q: What was scientifically shown to support productivity when structural organizing/accessing file and folders?

Tom WijsmanMy Personal Information Management problem I have gathered terabytes of data but it has became a habit to store files and folders to the same folder, that folder could be kind of seen as a Inbox where most files (non-installations) enter my system. This way I end up with a big collections of fil...

Survives at Productivity as far as I can see (would've survived on Super User as well, if it weren't for the binding vote...)
 
@TomWijsman I am organising my Downloads folder now, moved all the pictures to pic folder, videos to vid, compressed stuff to zip and any file with the name setup or installer to a folder called installer and it's left me with just 300 items :)
 
266 items in my Downloads folder, of which 9 folders.
Still too much imo...
 
62 folders+300 files, i am considering it improvement from over 1000 files in the parent folder :P
 
@TomWijsman Great, now I'm all out of close votes :P
Seriously, a mod should go through that list.
 
8:26 AM
@slhck Was checking out for dupilcates, quite surprised by the amount I could find. :/
 
@TomWijsman yeah, it's impressive they all survived
I'm flagging this
 
Same, he's done such short answers more I think.
 
Oh yeah, his answers are mostly one sentence.
 
In fact, you can be quite surprised how some of our high reputation users got their reputation.
 
We could make a average reputation per characters written query :P
 
8:30 AM
29
A: Why don't you see binary code when you open a binary file with text editor?

Ignacio Vazquez-AbramsBecause you've opened it in a text editor, not a binary editor.

This one's for example just stating the obvious.
 
@TomWijsman Yup. Just take a look at @DanielBeck's answer >_>
 
@slhck Far too depressing, believe me.
Good morning everyone
@HackToHell That's something your OS should be doing for you...
 
Morning! @DanielBeck
Yeah, I wouldn't want to waste my time on these queries either :P
 
@slhck Quite close now, only have to get it to order itself.
Used score instead of reputation though.
Hmm, should change the query around to be user focused, not post focused... :/
Wait a mnute, score won't work as it'll > 0.
 
8:50 AM
Hardly surprising result.
@slhck How else are you forgetting too much of your SQL?
I V-A makes an average of 226 rep per character. Not bad...
 
@DanielBeck At some point I realized I would never ever need SQL anymore.
That was before Data.SE :P
 
I come in 11th (I just noticed when I changed the TOP 10 to TOP 100) with 41 rep per character.
Can this be correct?
Oh god I'm an idiot.
 
@DanielBeck: Yeah, you don't want to take the average but the sum if you want rep / character.
 
@TomWijsman Fixed.
 
And you could've used a Join there...
SELECT TOP 1000
  u.DisplayName AS [User Link],
  SUM(u.Reputation) / COUNT(p.Id) AS [User Reputation],
  SUM(u.Reputation) / COUNT(p.Id) / AVG(LEN(p.Body)) AS [User RPC]
FROM
  Users U
JOIN
  Posts p ON p.OwnerUserId = u.Id
GROUP BY
  u.DisplayName
ORDER BY
  [User RPC] DESC
 
8:56 AM
@TomWijsman The sums don't make sense... do they?
 
They are aggregative.
Hmm...
Could do it better, moment.
 
@TomWijsman I'm not sure your query makes more sense than my first one :D
Fixed mine now though, even if it's a bit convoluted with the subquery.
 
@DanielBeck Interesting. One should probably filter out all users under 5k
 
@slhck Just had the same thought, fixed.
36 rep per 1000 chars for me.
@slhck You have 29.
And I have deja vu... didn't we already talk about this a while ago?
 
Pffff.. what a meagre score!
No, I think we only talked about average post lengths. No rep involved.
 
9:02 AM
By the way @slhck you have an average post length of 1145 chars. I still have 771. IV-A has around 200 chars...
 
SELECT TOP 1000
  u.DisplayName AS [User Link],
  COUNT(p.Id) AS [Post Count],
  AVG(u.Reputation) AS [User Reputation],
  AVG(u.Reputation) * 1000 / SUM(LEN(p.Body)) AS [User RPC]
FROM
  Users U
JOIN
  Posts p ON p.OwnerUserId = u.Id
GROUP BY
  u.DisplayName
ORDER BY
  [User RPC] DESC
 
@TomWijsman There is one entry for each user in the users table. How does SUM or AVG make sense there?
 
@DanielBeck Because I am aggregating?
 
@TomWijsman To get around that annoying restriction that pops up otherwise?
 
Of course it pops up, because I am aggregating. Gives you freedom over how your data is aggregated...
 
9:06 AM
@TomWijsman It's just a useless annoying restriction in MSSQL. If I'm grouping by an ID column guaranteed to be unique, why not allow direct access to other columns in that table? Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense...
 
@DanielBeck: That's because you don't group it along, if you don't want the extra power it provides you then you can do this as well:
SELECT TOP 1000
  u.DisplayName AS [User Link],
  COUNT(p.Id) AS [Post Count],
  u.Reputation AS [User Reputation],
  u.Reputation * 1000 / SUM(LEN(p.Body)) AS [User RPC1k]
FROM
  Users U
JOIN
  Posts p ON p.OwnerUserId = u.Id
GROUP BY
  u.DisplayName, u.Reputation
ORDER BY
  [User RPC1k] DESC
 
@TomWijsman Yeah, I know, but still a workaround for something the software should handle for me.
 
@DanielBeck No, it is not, because if the software would do it for me I can no longer SUM / AVG them...
 
@TomWijsman Please give an example where I can GROUP BY a column with a guaranteed unique value and have meaningful aggregation of columns of that same table.
 
The second above example.
Unless you want to write COUNT(p.Id) * u.Reputation when you could just write SUM(u.Reputation).
 
9:14 AM
...wait
True. You have N rows as a join result, one for each post...
So AVG/MIN/MAX should be the same, because the same info is repeated in every row.
I know why I take every opportunity to write Data.SE queries, I need it :-) Thanks for the help @Tom
 
Hmm, interesting, if you do it by reputation you can also find some gems:
 
By the way @TomWijsman, noticed the flag was marked helpful but the post not deleted?
 
Which flag, @slhck?
 
IVA's "answer" @TomWijsman
 
Oh yup.
 
9:18 AM
Oooh my Terms & Conditions violation flag went through. Nice.
 
@DanielBeck ah … NDA stuff?
 
@slhck Mountain Lion isn't publicly available, only under these(PDF link) terms... so I suppose so.
 
Seems he got a fair share of reputation from just the e-mail obfuscation, pretty nice.
(btw, thinking about that, I'm still getting daily rep on the internet question, haven't got that happen for other questions)
First place How-To Geek, not a surprise given that he most likely copies already working information from his blog or something like that...
And well, the popularity of him (having?) being partner.
 
@slhck [blablabla] Unless otherwise expressly agreed or permitted in writing by Apple, you agree not to disclose, publish, or disseminate any Apple Confidential Information to anyone other than to other Registered Apple Developers who are employees and contractors working for the same entity as you and then only to the extent that Apple does not otherwise prohibit such disclosure. [blablabla]
Posting "This does no longer work" qualifies as disclosing Apple Confidential Information AFAICT.
 
9:22 AM
@DanielBeck Yup, I remember that being roughly the same for 10.7
 
@slhck There might be another agreement if you actually have it, but I don't, so...
 
@DanielBeck: Ah, you made your query by reputation instead of post count as well.
Ignacio is indeed high in the query.
 
@TomWijsman 200 average post length is just ridiculous...
 
> 01234012340123401234012340123401234012340123401234012340123401234012340123401234‌​012340123401234012340123401234012340123401234012340123401234012340123401234012340‌​123401234012340123401234012340123401234
 
When we get our own "What Super User is not" Meta topic, we can add "Super User is not Twitter" :-)
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9:26 AM
Yeah, saw that too. If it wasn't for the code-specific lines, I would've replaced Stack Overflow through that whole question.
@slhck: With both approaches (salvaged not constructive, very constructive) and now these four characters I've found the mods to have became less strict these days...
 
@TomWijsman Mods are less strict? What?
 
I mean, high reputation users shouldn't be benefiting special treatment.
@DanielBeck This blog post
What's up with the big one boxes these days... :/
Less strict in the sense that they don't follow that, can't explain their close reason properly.
Finally Random told be something that made sense somewhere in the meta comments...
Now the same, "just a link" doesn't apply to him anymore.
And I've seen it more times in my flags...
 
@TomWijsman Which moderator are you talking about?
It's just a problem of consistency I guess.
In that case, @nhinkle probably handled it since he also closed the question.
 
Multiple moderators, which is why I said "moderators"
 
@TomWijsman ""just a link" doesn't apply to him anymore."
 
9:35 AM
@slhck him being Ignacio. :)
 
Ah I see!
 
@slhck So... We can look forward to the special 40k rep privileges..?
 
@DanielBeck What, being immune from anything?
 
@slhck Looks like it, doesn't it?
 
@DanielBeck Yeah.. should we just do it ourselves? (deleting, I mean) @TomWijsman, you in?
 
9:41 AM
Done.
 
Oh well.
Alright, I'm outta here, see you guys around!
 
@slhck Bye
 
10:13 AM
Psycogeek typed 385420 characters and only got 1512 reputation. :O
Which posts contain the most useless rant? <== Quite effective query I think.
Hmm, should turn it into a formula.
Funny that it showed Joe's nomination first, but I think I'm going to restrict it by answers.
Whoa...
The answers to this question:
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Q: Photoshopping a logo onto a curved 3D object like a can

leoraI have a logo that I want to place on a graphic. On certain graphics, the logo is bigger than the "flat" surface, so I want to "bend" the logo appropriately to make it look real. For example, on the image below: the 7-UP logo bends around the can. When I put a logo on a curved surface, it loo...

 
10:57 AM
Silly thing is the downvoted answer was the better one
 
11:39 AM
@DanielBeck as Libraries ?
@TomWijsman I am not there :'(
@TomWijsman Figured out fb's restricted list :D ?
 
@HackToHell: Your FB profile is not hidden to me when I accept.
So I've thrown you out again because I couldn't do the same to you. :/
 
@TomWijsman You sis it to me, when you accepted the friend request it was just the same as when viewed publically
 
@HackToHell: Ah, you were online at that time? You didn't see my full profile once I set it to you?
Because when I use "View As" it does. :/
 
Nope
 
Then why could I see your full profile?
It's interesting to be able to accept any people on Facebook, but would only work if I can properly block my personal Facebook from them.
 
11:43 AM
Interesting, maybe a bug in facebook, Sathya cannot see my profile, and view as does not show me anything 0_o
 
Perhaps cached or something, will make a fake account to sort out my permissions and invite you again in the future.
 
lol
watever...
:4163757 Nothing different ... other than every TS song being displayed :D
 
Putting all her songs in a playlist was quite an idea, now I can't stop listening... :(
Anyone good at regexp?
My automatic correction script is bugging URLs again.
(don't go search the edit summary, it's local; I do proof read the changes it performs)
 
@TomWijsman Can you write a script that shows the number of chars typed by me ? I do not know anything about it ..
 
11:55 AM
@TomWijsman Thanks, and that's from everywhere in the site including chat ?
 
@HackToHell: No, just posts.
 
Alright, excluded URL form the regular expression.
.replace(/(http:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-0\/.-]*)?([ ]*[.:!,]+[ ]*)/gi, function (orig,look,match) { return look?orig:match.trim().substring(0,1) + ' '; })
 
hate regex for this, lol
 
Huh...
There's something wrong with the edit diffs.
At the left side there are four icons, compare the two middle ones.
One of them show spaces after the dots and the other shows spaces before the dots. :O
 
12:10 PM
@HackToHell Not sure Libraries can do this (@Tom says they can't). OS X has "smart folders" (and had it since 2005), sort of like smart playlists in iTunes, but for file management: "All image files in ~/Downloads that are older than a week and larger than 2 MP".
 
@DanielBeck Nope libraries can't, I thought it was some hidden feature I did not know about.
 
I think I might have to pull my words back, there's a save search there...
 
@TomWijsman THere's Save Search. Looks promising.
 
Didn't saw this ribbon bar before, but where searches used to be stored, that's gone.
C:\Users\Tom\Searches
Interesting...
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<persistedQuery version="1.0"><viewInfo viewMode="icons" iconSize="256" stackIconSize="0" displayName="Search Results in Programs" autoListFlags="0"><visibleColumns><column viewField="System.ItemNameDisplay"/><column viewField="System.DateModified"/><column viewField="System.ItemTypeText"/><column viewField="System.Size"/><column viewField="System.ItemFolderPathDisplayNarrow"/></visibleColumns><sortList><sort viewField="System.Search.Rank" direction="descending"/><sort viewField="System.DateModified" direction="descending"/><sort viewField="System.ItemNameDisplay" dire
XML, so I guess you can even do more advanced stuff with it if the Ribbon doesn't suffice.
But yes @DanielBeck, this essentially seems like "smart folders" functionality.
It adds it to the "Searches" folder under the "User Folder" as well as under "Favorites"
By changing <scope><include knownFolder="{0139D44E-6AFE-49F2-8690-3DAFCAE6FFB8}"/></scope> to have more include chidren you could even search multiple folders.
 
How much data is loaded off the HDD when I boot my Windows 7 pc ? Wanna see how it compares with hibernating..
 
12:16 PM
I guess you can make "OR" conditions with the conditions structure as well.
@HackToHell Can't you see that with WPT (WPR + WPA)?
 
@TomWijsman Very nice. Need to check whether this existed in Windows 7 tomorrow.
 
@DanielBeck: Well, I think with Windows 7 it was somewhere near Win+F.
But now it has handy ribbon stuff. They've actually changed the search functionality in every version of Windows as far as I am aware of...
 
@TomWijsman I installed only WPR, not WPA(it's tooo big) will download it later.
 
Uhm, WPR doesn't come stand-alone?
By WPA I mean Windows Performance Analyzer, which is just XPerf and that should come with the same installation.
In fact, WPR calls xperf and that (WPA) isn't big.
 
@TomWijsman Oops, confused that with some other thing, I do have it.
WPR does generate a report file but it's 1.9 gigs and my ram is just 2 gig...
So it does not load.
:'(
 
12:21 PM
:/
@HackToHell: Select less things to measure, you'll only want information about your disk.
In fact, the presentation about this new version mentioned explicitly to not tick everything for performance reasons.
 
Okay
 
For the same reason the top check boxes do nothing.
So if you just measure disk you should have a much smaller file and still the information you want, I think...
 
Ok, will see which is better for the HDD, hibernating or booting.
 
@Sathya - I don't suppose you can tell me again the name of that American proxy program? (I think it was you who told me about it)... tried looking but can't find it...
 
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Q: Inconsistency regarding spaces around dots

Tom WijsmanRevision So, what did I do to this post? I removed any spaces before comma/point and made sure there was one space after each comma/point. But I am seeing inconsistent results when checking the edit summary... Wrong, it thinks that I replaced the space after the comma: Should instead show th...

I'm in space, spaaaaaceeeeeeeeeeeeee...
@WilliamHilsum Tunnelbear?
 
12:33 PM
@TomWijsman That looks like it... I think
 
Whoa, who downvoted me? Sigh... Meta.SO. :/
 
I am buying so many games, I don't know when I am going to have time to play them :/
 
@WilliamHilsum tunnelbear
 
but, just seen gamersgate having a large offer and it is cheaper in USD - going to see if I can purchase through that
@Sathya thanks
 
@Sathya It's trustable ??
 
12:34 PM
@HackToHell that's.. upto you. Seems fine. Haven't done any CC transactions, full disclosure.
time to leave home.
 
@Sathya have a safe journey!
 
12:48 PM
The only reason i need a US proxy is for Spotify, but I have found a better solution than slooow VPN.
 
what do you use?
 
Hmm, it works only for media stuff that's regionally blocked unotelly.com
Minimal setup, spotify works perfectly !
I have an unlimited premium account...
 
well, I am going to try and buy this - gamersgate.co.uk/DDB-1CBIGPACK/1c-complete-pack-bundle it works out much cheaper in USD ... During the last Steam Sale, I really wanted Star Wolves/Space Rangers... and, this only works out a tiny bit more with TONS of extra stuff
 
You may want to upvote this answer:
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A: Paint doesn't draw at cursor position

Tom WijsmanAh, doing a Google search I came on a YouTube video which mentions a solution: Clicked start. Went to the Control Panel. Typed "cursor" in the Search of the top left hand corner of Control Panel window. Clicked "change the mouse pointer display or speed". Go to the Pointer Options ...

'Ello, BTW.
 
@TomWijsman You got another fan :D
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1:00 PM
What?
 
lol just kidding
 
argh - guess I won't be using tunnelbear :(
 
@WilliamHilsum: You're missing C++ or .NET run-time stuff.
 
@TomWijsman You beat me to answer it ;p
 
1:02 PM
@TomWijsman From wallbase :P
 
Nah, that's just a content farm.
 
@TomWijsman is that all :/ I thought I had them installed on this VM / didn't recognise from that error... doesn't c++ usually say a .dll is missing :/
 
It's an gr8 site not an content farm :P
user image
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best wallpapers on the planet wallbase.cc/toplist/0/12/eqeq/0x0/0/100/32/0
@TomWijsman That image is not directed at you(showed it to a friend and he was frowning at me), it's just truth
 
It's 20$ for guys and 9.50$ for gals, not fair !!
 
1:09 PM
@Tom Regarding the aggregation issue before, I don't get it. Since you GROUP BY a column that has guaranteed unique values, it doesn't make sense (from a usage POV) to have to use aggregate functions to get other values from that same table. I just addex MAX,MIN,AVG and SUM to your query for u.Reputation and it's always the same value.
 
@DanielBeck SUM doesn't give the same value, only when you divide it.
 
@TomWijsman Thanks. Your query provided top results from users with one post. Now I see it.
 
I just prefer joining and grouping over queries inside queries, because then you end up writing duplicate SQL words.
 
Something to clean up bookmarks in Chrome : chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/…
 
 
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2:40 PM
Can't help but share this, it's tiger vs mantis :)
 
@Sathya Nice, Skyrim soundtrack ?
 
No need to click that one. ^^
 
@HackToHell yes.
even more incredible that's it's done by the dude's voice and the female's violin
 
Okay guys...
Awesome extension! :D
 
2:49 PM
@TomWijsman that is kickass
 
3:44 PM
Meh, Facebook has no identification for its ad.
 
Waiting for my GPU then I will be able to play Skyrim
:) :)
@TomWijsman cool
@Sathya You +1s that extension ;p
 
@HackToHell yeah
 
Did it as well now. :)
 
Reminds me of X-Ray goggles hackasaurus.org/en-US/goggles
 
.ego_column:last-of-type
{
    display: none;
}
There we go, no more sponsors on Facebook (I think). If they do show again I know it's hiding somethnig else.
 
3:55 PM
It does make it disappear :)
 
#watch-player
{
    width: 970px;
    height: 471px;
}

#watch-sidebar
{
    margin-top: 10px;
}
This one makes the YouTube video player the expanded version by default and moves the sidebar down.
Doesn't increase the quality on the video though, guess that requires JS. But it's in any case better. :)
 
@TomWijsman Ahead of you, use this chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/…
 
@HackToHell Hope it doesn't interfere with my YouTube script.
I made it so that when I watched a video it hides the video...
 
@TomWijsman What's that? The CSS above ?
 
No, way more complex script. Involves localStorage and what not...
 
4:06 PM
@TomWijsman linky ?
 
Might release it in the future, it contains too much side-effects to just upload / link it to you.
 
Why ?
I am bored, let me try it out.
 
Removes a lot of elements, changes styles, adds other elements, not just advertisements.
Okay, moment.
 
Save the raw as a .user.js and open it in your browser to install.
It also preloads images that would normally appear under the border but now appear above the border.
 
4:10 PM
okay testing ..
 
Also shows in playlists at the bottom using a border around it, if that still works.
 
Th script doesn't work for now, debugging
 
Dunno if everything in my scripts works 100%.
Using only the "highest quality" feature and not everything that breaks down the page of what you just gave me, my script still works.
You should see Browse | Upload | Show Seen in the top.
Watching a video from your subscriptions (on the front page) should hide the video if you go back to the front page.
 
The script is totally not working, nothing in it is working .. what did i do ??
 
Oh wait, Chrome, @HackToHell?
 
4:16 PM
@TomWijsman Yep, is it for ff with greasemonkey?
 
You need Tampermonkey because I use some Greasemonkey specfic things, hence is why I mentioned it is not releaseable too. :)
Since it was meant for my own I didn't care much about making it cross-browser compatible...
 
hi all
 
Gonna eat now, hope you get it working. I use it extensively because it brings back some older functionality and makes YouTube more bearable to use...
 
It's partially working with Tampermonkey 0_o
hi @clabacchio
 
@HackToHell hi!
am I in the middle of a conversation?
 
4:20 PM
No probs
 
I was thinking to this: since both .docx and .odt are XML-based, is it likely that they are more compatible than .odt and .doc?
 
4:46 PM
Good Night guys !!
@clabacchio No idea , sorry
 
@HackToHell nevermind :)
 
@clabacchio I am not sure about being compatible. With what? It's an open format, I believe, and the spec is available for implementation by others. It is supported in OO, last I checked, for instance. ODT is also open though, so it can be implemented by anyone as well.
@HackToHell What'd you buy?
 
5:30 PM
@sidran32 yep I haven't been very clear: what I would like to understand is if it's safe to convert from a format to the other
 
@clabacchio I'm sure it'll be fine... just try it! Save both versions and check if anything changed.
But for basic rich text documents, I often suggest saving in RTF since it's an old, open format supported by nearly everything.
 
@sidran32 usually it's ok, but for instance the table in the european cv template is screwed
@sidran32 is it missing any feature?
 
@clabacchio I don't know what it supports and what it doesn't but I suspect it probably doesn't support embedding objects. You'll have to see if it's good for your purposes
{{Infobox file format | name = Rich Text Format | icon = | logo = | screenshot = | caption = | extension = .rtf | mime = text/rtfapplication/rtf | type code = 'RTF.' | uniform type = public.rtf | magic = {\rtf | owner = Microsoft | released = | latest release version = 1.9.1 | latest release date = | genre = Document file format | container for = | contained by = | extended from = | extended to = | standard = | free = No | url = }} The Rich Text Format (often abbreviate...
Apparently I'm wrong, it does support objects.
But only in a very limited fashion, I guess?
 
@sidran32 I didn't know it was Microsoft too
 
Ah, it's not open. But it is an old standard. :P
@clabacchio Yup. It used to be the default format used by Microsoft Write in the early versions of Windows.
 
5:34 PM
@sidran32 my first thought was that odt and docx, being both XML based, are easier to map one in the other
 
@clabacchio What really matters is how the word processor renders the text and symbols. It's easy to convert between formats, so you shouldn't have to worry about that.
 
@HackToHell P-p-partially?
 
Oh, I'm wrong again! It wasn't the default for Microsoft Write. It used its own proprietary format. In any case, it also supported rtf. :P
I went to PAX East on Saturday and pimped out my new Superuser t-shirt while I was there. :P
 
 
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Ell
7:59 PM
hi guys
oh it's just me :L
 
and some guys. :)
 
Ell
yay
vlc crashes when I try to screen record using h.264 :'(
you have any immediate ideas? i'll post a question if no one has any immediate thoughts
 
tricky one... video drivers OK?
Or perhaps there is an update to VLC / codec too.
 
Ell
well I just updated to the new vlc (it prompted me)
and video drivers are good I think, everything else is fine
so I don't know what to do really :P
Is there a way I can just get it raw
and then encode it later?
>.<
 
8:53 PM
@sidran32 nice! :D
 
@Sathya - Many many thanks... That program worked fine - although paypal gave me quite a few problems... @TomWijsman you were correct... It needed .net 3.5 - I thought it was already installed... headpalm
 

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