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3:02 PM
Indeed, I would even go so far as to say that the focus of Pocket is more broad than that of the tab synchronization.
Pocket having a stronger focus on storage.
Man, stuff like losing my open browsing session, that can ruin my whole day.
You're in the middle of working on some high-pressure project, you just want to quickly reboot to finish installing updates and, bam, everything is lost.
And the bonus is, I went on a 30min hunt to find all open tabs from my history only to realize that the session is lost again after logoff...
By now I don't even know what I was originally working on :D
 
Bob
Ouch. I never trust Windows updates to actually complete in a reasonable time (waiting overnight for it to configure them springs to mind). Therefore I tend to put off restarting for a while. Like, a few weeks.
 
lol
I just let it auto restart ._.
 
Bob
That's a scary thought
 
then bitch that whatever i was doing got lost for about 5 minutes or so
 
@Bob Same here. I hardly ever reboot.
 
Bob
3:07 PM
@JourneymanGeek I've had overnight compilations and video transcoding interrupted by automatic updates, before I disabled them.
 
But I had to re-install Office and it required a reboot and I couldn't put it off because I require Outlook.
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg And lost the session :|
Sometimes, saving important URLs in good ol' Notepad works :D
I did that once when the sheer number of tabs was breaking both 32-bit memory limits and the session manager - had to close some.
 
Oh sweet, even more hotkey questions :D
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A: Change CTRL-X, -C, and -V hotkeys in Windows to different keys

Oliver SalzburgYou might be interested to learn that there are alternative hotkeys available: Copy: Ctrl+Ins Cut: Shift+Del Paste: Shift+Ins

@Bob I also have a real problem closing tabs. They are somewhat like bookmarks for me. If I bookmark something, it is unlikely that I will ever see it again.
 
bob: I have some systems set with that disabled just for that sort of thing ;p
but they don't run 24/7
 
ought to merge and . They seem the same
 
3:14 PM
Sometimes I have tabs open for so long that I lose interest in the whole topic in the mean time and then just close them
 
Bob
Whoops..
 
@OliverSalzburg deja vu, do the same here
 
Bob
And this is why we all need more RAM: tabs live forever.
 
@Bob you were saying ;p
 
lol
actually, the main reason i want 16 gigs of ram on my next desktop is.. MOAR TABS
 
Bob
3:21 PM
@Sathya Yea.. I realised exactly what I was saying a few seconds later ;)
 
@JourneymanGeek 16 is not enough :P
When I got this computer (which has 16) I thought it was amazing.
Until I had to run the first VM which required 12GB RAM
And suddenly, you're back to where you started :D
 
Bob
I was perfectly happy with 6GB on a laptop... until the third simultaneous VM I tried to start crashed with an out of memory error.
 
lol
@OliverSalzburg: 16 is the sweetspot cost wise. The most icy ridge can handle is 32, but 8 gig sticks are expensive
 
It was also the moment when I realized that RAM is actually reserved for virtual machines. Something I was not actually aware of previously.
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg Your note about the CUA brought my attention back to it... and I just realised Microsoft completely ignored a certain part with their "Ribbon" menus:
> The first menu is to be called 'File' and contains operations for handling files (new, open, save, save as) as well as quitting the program; the next menu 'Edit' has commands for undo, redo, cut, copy, delete, paste commands;
 
3:28 PM
I haven't read the whole CUA thing. But it was released a long time ago
Seriously...
 
Bob
Abbrechen?
 
@Bob Aborting
I tried copying a file through RDP on a remote server and then restarted (Office)
Now, I re-open the RDP session and see the Copy dialog still open
Obviously not doing a thing
So I click Abort
 
Bob
Wonder what it's doing..
 
And now I have an endless progress bar and a dialog that can not be closed on a remote Hyper-V host
Which I can not restart ever
 
Bob
Task Manager > kill explorer.exe > New Task > explorer.exe?
 
3:30 PM
Why are these things happening today :P
@Bob That worked surprisingly well
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg I had to come up with something with the number of times it's happened to me :P
What's truly horrible is when you accidentally enter Startup Repair: "The current repair operation cannot be cancelled."
 
Well, now the part that allows me to copy files through RDP is broken...
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg Probably either blocked by the old explorer still alive (nice zombie process there) or it was linked to a specific explorer process :|
 
@Bob Well it won't even allow me to Paste the file. Of well, copying through drive sharing over RDP now.
Luckily I know how to help myself in this situation now ;) superuser.com/questions/387501/…
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg If that breaks, you can still install FTP! :D
 
3:41 PM
@Bob I think I might, given that this is what I'm seeing now:
This day is fucked :P
 
Bob
Well, I'm off to sleep. Bye.\
 
 
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7:07 PM
Hell yeah!
The proposal you've committed to is over halfway to beta! To get it the rest of the way, we need more people to commit to using the site.
 
7:18 PM
Surprised this is so popular, somehow...
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Software Development (in Turkish)

Proposed Q&A site for professional and enthusiast programmers in Turkish. Profesyonel ve meraklısı programcılar için önerilen soru-cevap sitesi Türkçe.

Currently in commitment.

 
I miss the old badge notifications :(
 
8:10 PM
@OliverSalzburg In chat? What changed?
 
@iglvzx No, on the main site.
 
@OliverSalzburg Oh. You mean the new notifications tab and blue or red badge?
 
I kinda liked the yellow bar.
There used to be this yellow notification bar on the top of the page when you gained a Nice Answer badge or something.
And now it's in the Notifications in the dropdown thing.
Which is less spectacular :(
 
@OliverSalzburg It was glitchy, though. In my experience, if you had X multiple SE tabs/windows open, you had to close the notification X times, even if you reverted back to one SE window
It was stubborn :P. I would be okay with that kind of pesky notification for "Please edit your question with missing info" requests.
 
Hehehe
Sweet. Pet Care & Training got 10 new commitments in the last 24hrs :D
 
8:17 PM
Well, there is a Parenting Beta, so Pets would make sense
 
@iglvzx Took 11 months to reach 50% commit. :(
But the last 10 in the last 24hrs pushed us over :D
 
Cool
I should find an Area 51 proposal to support. :)
 
@iglvzx Chose more wisely than I did :P I thought it would be cool to commit to the Computer Science proposal. When the beta started I quickly realized, I have no clue about CS.
 
Are we only suggesting Stack Exchange sites on this FAQ post?
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Q: Where can I ask questions that aren't Super User questions?

fretjeThank you for your confidence in our abilities! But have you read our FAQ? We get a lot of not computer related questions on here. Yes, someone here might be able to help you, but you'll find that other forums more focused on your topic can give you a much better answer than a bunch of Super U...

 
@iglvzx I asked about that in the moderator room.
 
8:27 PM
What was the answer? I made an edit, but now I'm not sure if I should undo it.
 
in Ask a Super User Moderator, yesterday, by Oliver Salzburg
@Sathya Why were none of the non-SE sites included in the summarized answer?
I don't really know what the answer to your question would be.
 
Ok. Well, the little icon is here to stay for now. :p
 
8:42 PM
in Ask a Super User Moderator, 17 hours ago, by Sathya
didn't have time to look at all sites.
 
@Sathya Please don't get me wrong, but that doesn't strike me as the best reason to delete a contribution.
Not that I have checked the links ;D But I was a bit confused nevertheless.
 
@OliverSalzburg you seem to have misunderstood me
I wanted a consolidated answer, hence I deleted all existing ones
including the ones which had SE
posted a new answer for which obvious SE sites exist.
the rest I intended to add, but haven't got the time to comb through
 
8:57 PM
Oh, sorry. Yes, that was a misunderstanding then.
 
and it's open for edit, don't know why no one's bothered to edit
every one complains, yet no one acts
 
@Sathya Because it seemed like that was done on purpose and non-SE sites are not welcome.
Because, you know, a diamond mod did that and all :D
 
on that note, it's half past 2, I'm cranky & I'll move
lest I say something I'll regret.
ciao.
 
Cya
 
@iglvzx I guess that means your icon is misplaced :(
Oh...
 
9:01 PM
 
@OliverSalzburg Privet!
 
@Sathya Yeah, just looked at it ;)
 
@Sathya Yes. It's clear now.
 
@iglvzx Privet!
 
@Boris_yo Hi! :)
 
@OliverSalzburg Congrats!
@OliverSalzburg At least you got it on a question that is a bit more computery than I did. :P I'm still surprised my answer got so many votes. :o
 
@sidran32 That one was awesome! :D I had upvoted it as well.
 
I wasn't even drawing from computer knowledge, but from my writing classes from back in gradeschool and highschool. :o
Haha
Every now and then I look in my rep changes panel and I will still see someone randomly upvoting it. :P
 
Well I only knew that answer because it happened to me as well and I was asking myself the same question he did. Until I realized, the problem was with my fingers, not with my computer.
 
Aha. :P I've had the same problem, actually. Except it usually was in Linux, and me accidentally pressing backspace while still holding down ctrl+alt from paging between workspaces. :p
Not a fun thing to do accidentally while working.
 
9:30 PM
What does that do?
 
It restarts X!
 
Oh! :D
 
:P
I think Ubuntu disables that key combo by default now. But at work I was running into it especially on RedHat. :p
 
@OliverSalzburg I heard on radio today that all tablets produced in China break fast.
 
@Boris_yo Aren't that like all of them?
I mean, aren't most tablets made in China?
 
9:33 PM
If it's produced in China, chances are that it will break fast, regardless of what it is. :P
@OliverSalzburg Actually, Foxconn is kind of ubiquitous in the tech sector as a manufacturer.
 
I've recently become aware of at least 1 Chinese company that produces quality goods.
I previously thought it was a German company. And that is actually intentional.
It's Haier
The Chinese have been catching up in quality very rapidly.
 
@OliverSalzburg Their fridge that I have bought, knocks on its own walls usually every evening.
 
And now they're buying western company names to sell their goods. So people don't know the product is from China.
Because of the bad image.
 
@OliverSalzburg Haier don't make tablets.
@sidran32 And what about Ainol Novo tablets?
 
@Borisyo I have no idea. Never heard of them.
 
9:38 PM
@Boris_yo Right, but, in general, I believe Chinese products have a bad image in regards to quality and I think that perception is (at least partially) incorrect.
They produce a lot of crap as well, don't get me wrong ;P
 
@OliverSalzburg They've deserved it. Partially because historically China had really lax regulation controls over industry and manufacturing processes. They are starting to get better due to international pressure but it was an image that they gave themselves, really.
 
@sidran32 I agree.
The plagiarism isn't helping either.
 
China does also have really lax copyright and patent laws. So ya, copycat products are rampant over there. :P
 
I just found it sad that Chinese companies have to buy western companies so they have a name that provides them a chance to compete in the west.
 
Some of it is to compete in the East too, actually. Which can be somewhat amusing.
 
9:54 PM
@sidran32 Wow
 
Yup
I gotta go. See ya all.
 
10:12 PM
@sidran32 That will cause misnformation.
@sidran32 @OliverSalzburg Just like i would rent retired pumped army soldier and ask him to tell my friend that he is my first bodyguard.
 
@Boris_yo Yeah, that's the whole point.
 
@OliverSalzburg But they will keep on improving if they want to compete...
 
@Boris_yo I assume they will.
 
10:33 PM
Cool :)
 
@OliverSalzburg I think BitCoin is risky. Think of what will happen if some hacker decides to create inflation in the whole system?
 
@Boris_yo I don't use BitCoin
 
@OliverSalzburg I was just speaking in general if risks of online non-governmental economy.
 
10:48 PM
BitCoin is an early approach. Better approaches will follow.
Remember Napster?
I'll wait for those better approaches until I pass judgement ;D
 
@OliverSalzburg Yes, they were accused of hosting pirated music?
 
@Boris_yo Well, they kind of made the concept popular ;)
 
11:24 PM
@OliverSalzburg In the movie "The Social Network" the founder of Napster also took part. Justin Timberland played him.
 
11:59 PM
@sidran32: remember the little test irc server i used to run? Its currently running on/as a liveDVD on a VM ;p
 
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