Root Access

@nhinkle Thanks.

Oo. The Google Doodle today for Alan Turing's birthday is fun.

This is sad: "In 1942, Turing was found guilty of homosexuality. He agreed to be chemically castrated which entailed being given female hormones. Two years later he killed himself at the age of 41."

12:31 AM

any recommendations for a good 500GB hard drive? cousin is building one and I don't want him to have to spend $100 on one

@studiohack Internal?

@iglvzx yes

he's a gamer as well, if that helps

So, RPM is important?

yeah, he picked out a 7200 RPM one

is MicroCenter legit?

microcenter.com/…

IDK. I've only purchased from Newegg or Amazon.

12:38 AM

amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Cache-Desktop/dp/B00461G3MS/…

I think I'll recommend this

he did pick out a SATA 6 - that explains why it's so high in price

Yeah. That model came up as the least expensive for 500MB [x 1K] - studiohack :P, when I searched Google Shopping

@iglvzx it's not Win98 anymore ;)

@studiohack ... :)

@iglvzx it says 500MB. should be 500 GB

@studiohack 500 MB * 1000!

Fixed it

12:41 AM

@iglvzx hahaha

@iglvzx edited ;P

Haha

You and your mod powers

I know - not a fair playing field. lol

he's getting this one:

newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148756

still pretty new, it looks like

12:55 AM

@studiohack: 7200 is the 'standard' as far as desktop drives go

@JourneymanGeek right, what about the 5400?

sata3/6 wouldn't matter in this case

@studiohack: 5400 is for 'green'/ 'quiet' drives

not really worth it IMO

@JourneymanGeek oh. that's interesting

goes for low cost, high cap, the hell with the noise.

@JourneymanGeek Yeah. You can live with noise. But having to wait 2 seconds longer because your disk is slow is unacceptable. :P

It adds up.

12:58 AM

@iglvzx EXACTLY! :P

Is this little guide easy enough to follow?

@iglvzx: Fans are louder (especially when they fail). Decent cases have sound isolation as well

A: Firefox Add-On for closing multiple tabs except some

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Without add-ons, you can make use of App Tabs to close all but a few. Let's say you have n tabs that you want to keep open: Pin tabs Tab[1], Tab[2], Tab[3], ..., Tab[n-1] by right-clicking them and selecting "Pin as App Tab". Right-click Tab[n] and select "Close Other Tabs". Now, you will o...

If i needed silence, these days, i'd just go for a SSD

@iglvzx Or should I make a little video to go with it? :P

1:02 AM

ugh, MWB isn't working for me today

I really whish it had a direct connect by IP option in addition to the easy but apparently finicky zero config option

MWB?

mouse without borders

MS's synergy equivilent

Oh. You were talking about it yesterday

ya

Its been brilliant so far but currently the two systems arn't seeing each other

@studiohack: ahh, the drive off amazon you linked is an enterprise grade one

the extra cost is probably better warranty and testing.

(not that i've had very many issues with seagate's warranty, drive died totally, RMA was quite painless here)

hm i seem to have beaten it into working

maybe

@JourneymanGeek cool program

Q: How can I remap the physical memory

1:17 AM

@studiohack: its awesome when it works

I really need to get a cheap router and secure it under my desk for my systems tho

...

0

I recieve the memory map from my bootloader.I have purposely installed a RAM in slot 0 and slot 2.I want to remap the memory (RAM) so that I can use the Solt 2 RAM as Slot 1 and remove the holes between Slot 0 and 2. Is there any way for this?

This question, it makes no sense.

... or bring back the little computer to computer 'network'

@JourneymanGeek Does it matter if you don't have RAM installed adjacently?

honestly i have no idea

(though i'd think not. I think you MUST use slot 0, and use slots in a certain order for dual/triple/quad channel goodness)

@iglvzx Now with video! superuser.com/a/440441/100787

@JourneymanGeek Yeah. I think that is the only time it matters. But the OP doesn't say any of that. So, we need them to not be so vague and mysterious.

@iglvzx: ya, and he's posted a bunch of questions at once

Hmm... Oh. There we go: Malang, Indonesia.

1:32 AM

lol

I was trying not to let that influence me too much ;p

Q: How do I sent an "over-sized" video via my Anrdoid?

1:44 AM

lol. Maybe I should work as a Dropbox recruiter:

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When I try to e-mail my 10-minute videos to my gmail account, but when I try to attach the videos the phone gives me this error: 'File is too large and cannot be attached'. Can't reproduce because my Android is hooked up to USB, but I'll edit-- S3x-- What's any convenient way to upload/send a ...

video email android upload attachments

yay, answered a SF question.

wait. WHAT ? superuser.com/questions/417055/…

@JourneymanGeek I think you are a beautiful dog.

lol

I'm just curious to why thats a comment when it has nothing to do with the answer

(and of course, lousy eyesight)

Now, THIS dog is less pleasing to the eye:

(there are far more "ugliest" dogs. But this one is pretty tame)

lol

that is rather gnarly

but cute in its own glarly way

1:51 AM

Literally "gnarly"

I can't wait until the day faxes are no longer sent

lol

@JourneymanGeek You okay? It looks like you're drowning?

naw ;p

DID get a legit, probably correct answer on SF, YAY

I tried ascii art. It didn't work out

Dumb MarkDown and its collapsing whitespace. :D

lol

ahh, oliver superuser.com/a/406037/10165

Must have gotten distracted halfway through answering

2:09 AM

@JourneymanGeek Does SE send your post if you keep it open for too long? I've seen many posts that seem cut off for whatever reason.

nope

not as far as i know, and i DO occationally take hours to answer a question ;p

3:55 AM

Oh. Gaming.StackExchange finally got rebranded!

5:24 AM

@JourneymanGeek Now if only you said that before I got my drives :P

@Bob: Well, its a matter of opinon ;p

@JourneymanGeek My drives are painfully slow at times

In some cases i suppose a green drive would be good

IRST trying to verify (or even rebuild!) my RAID array every other minute does not help at all :\

loool

wait

5:27 AM

Actually, IRST is so bad it's actually slower with reading, let alone writing, in RAID 1. Much slower than the individual drives.

you tried to build a raid array with green drives?

WHYYYYY?

yup! :D

lol

I MIGHT consider them for bulk jbod storage

In theory, it should have worked. If I used a proper RAID controller. Or even Windows software RAID may have worked better.

In any case, the only thing keeping me from dismantling this is the lack of time to pull one drive off RAID, image it using the other drive, use it as the primary boot drive, and pull the other off RAID.

I don't have the time to sort out the multitude of things that could go wrong :P

Q: Chrome displays a page for split second then it goes blank

7:48 AM

2

Google Chrome has been getting worse and worse over the last few months. When I open many (but not all) web pages, as soon as the page is done loading, the browser window goes completely blank. Others have spoken about this: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/3oJZY2Qu-Mk The ...

google-chrome

This seems to be happening to more people

8:32 AM

@HackToHell Same OS?

8:45 AM

@Bob No, happens in 7 32-bit and Ubuntu 64-bit when i open up too many tabs

8:55 AM

Time to go aww

►

9:05 AM

Strike 2!! :D

9:34 AM

Neat

9:50 AM

@OliverSalzburg lol

> You need to keep looking.

Not the nicest answer, but it's pretty accurate

@Bob I thought about a better way to put it :(

But I would consider it highly unlikely that this isn't caused by some third party application.

two wierd things i noticed. Two of harrymc's answers were invalidly flagged, and someone is flagging anything with HTML as belonging on SO, which is stupid.

discussion retag-request tags tag-synonym-request

10:10 AM

@JourneymanGeek Yeah. Weird

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Q: The DOS tag is ambiguous

As it is, the dos tag is ambiguous. Even the tag wiki excerpt is split: DOS is an acronym for "Disk Operating System." DoS is an acronym for "Denial of Service." Do not use this tag for questions about Windows command line programs or scripts. To make matters worse, nobody seems to read th...

We're done! \o/ :D

Now on to:

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Q: Super User mid 2012 tag/question cleanup

During my course of reviewing, editing & general janitorial cleanup, I ran into few tags that were pretty much useless. Since there's too much for me to take action up, I'm posting the list here. Some guidelines: Don't just fix the tag; review the question and fix anything else you can fi...

support tags clean-up

10:21 AM

O.O

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Q: Change user agent with PHP

How to change the user agent with PHP, while visiting other site? I want to allow visiters to change the user agent to visit other website.

php

I'm reading this as "I want to use a server side scripting language to change how the client appears to sites outside my control"...

:\

@Bob So am I

I am reading that as IWANNAPONY

2

It's really hard to pick the right close reason for that one. Most fit :D

10:39 AM

computerworld.com/s/article/9228360/… i am confused to how this makes any sense at all

Q: windows 7 explorer crashes upon opening a folder

Can file names cause explorer to crash ?

1

Windows explorer restarts everytime I open the downloads folder in My Documents, I have some video files in it. I have run virus checks but nothing has been found, also moved the files to another folder but it still happens.

windows-7 windows-explorer crash

@HackToHell It's most likely trying to render the video previews

And it loads some broken codec dll or somethng

Something like that ;D

That's what I thought, K-Lite installer can remove previews .. and I have no idea what else can do that..

Not the kind of solution I like :P

I'd run Process Monitor first to see what's going on

10:55 AM

Wanna find the root cause of the problem huh ;)

Heh, I just got a "You haven't voted on questions in a while. Questions need votes too" notification on Programmers :D

Thanks for the edits, but I closed the guys question anyway :P

headesks

Apparently the guy who said my dog was ugly, was cause i helped get a purchase rec question closed >_>

VERY mature

Also if you start mass flagging questions for deleting as part of the clean up (I'm looking at you @KronoS), then it helps if you leave a comment saying why, because else we'd have to do it. Unless its already been closed for several months, those can or should be safely deleted

@JourneymanGeek What's wrong with your dog?

A: Is there a way to make my hard drive inaccessible to everyone but me?

lol

43

One phrase - Full Disk Encryption, preferably with a a nice, long, non dictionary key. You might also look at systems that do this with an external keyfile. Basically, since the entire system other than the bootloader is encrypted, short of a direct memory access attack - that is to say use a fir...

11:01 AM

troll him

BEST part is i didn't even close the question! I deleted tags!

Maybe not :/

@JourneymanGeek Why did you not flag his comment?

> I dono werz d fault in PC. :?

4

Quote of the day

OH

sorry, out of it today

11:03 AM

@JourneymanGeek Out of comment flags?

is getting his rear kicked by an assignment

lol

What are you supposed to do ?

@IvoFlipse So we get free "flag everything you want deleted" flags during the cleanup? ;)

So flagging old arse questions that are out of the scope of faq is bad ?

@HackToHell Well, with 10k, I have privileges to delete questions, so I shouldn't be flagging them, really.

11:06 AM

@slhck We could ask for more flags if you run out

But we don't have enough 10k people who follow up on pending delete votes, so we need moderators to do that

@IvoFlipse Well, I don't have the time right now to do a thorough cleanup, so I won't run out of flags I guess :)

@HackToHell Flagging is fine, but the team expects us to leave comments explaining why we deleted stuff. So unless its been closed (for ages) and you still think it should be deleted, you should explain so in a comment

the solution is: flag for delete if closed, vote/flag to close if not

So me flagging old questions that are out of topic is Ok

@HackToHell Yep.

Especially if they're like 2+ years old and closed, don't hesitate to get rid of them

11:10 AM

@IvoFlipse I tried to salvage that question, could be reopened I guess superuser.com/questions/440556/dota-is-hanging-after-launch

I am feeling sorry for this guy

Dude. I added other info also. Plz help this innocent gamer :( — Inz4n3_DeviLop3R 5 mins ago

@HackToHell Don't feel sorry, the question was crap before :P

Done

The only closed question you should ignore are duplicates, though sometimes I wish I could delete some of those too

But off-topic, NARQ or argumentative: boom headshot them!

looking through gaming closed:1 gives a few deletion candidates

I used a query last time to find closed questions, low views and no upvotes

but honestly, I don't even care about upvotes

if its old and closed, it needs to go

11:19 AM

Indeed

Q: Edit HTML template on Blogger website

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This is a question about the website www.blogger.com. I am trying to modify my active template like this: I want to add a github ribbon to my template page, like the ones seen here: https://github.com/blog/273-github-ribbons I have tried pasting in the templates in the head tag and in the b...

html templates blogger

Is this Webmasters or Web apps?

I cast a few delete votes, maybe a mod can just follow up on those through /tools?

bit lowly for webmasters I reckon

@IvoFlipse I voted to move to Web Apps, but it could be both I guess?

@IvoFlipse Web Apps

11:20 AM

@HackToHell: investigation 5 spreadsheets, two of which have over a thousand entries

Hates excel because my father knows more about it than me

@JourneymanGeek That sucks

lol

I am converting some of it to text and filtering using grep and uniq

Btw try to keep a 2-3 month grace period, because we'd like to offer users the chance to redeem their question. I guess it doesn't matter if its crap and/or always going to be off-topic

STILL a pain in the butt

strange, the list with delete votes is empty

11:23 AM

Who likes some hAcKiNg ?

Q: What next after hacking the WPA PSK?

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I have get a WPS PIN and the WPA PSK of a wireless network with Reaver. How do I get the password to connect to it?

wps

Great timing @HackToHell

@IvoFlipse Of course mine is empty because I can't view deleted posts. Oh the irony.

@IvoFlipse Isn't that not legal is SU ?

But here's two more for deletion: superuser.com/questions/122946/…, superuser.com/questions/76752/…

Well he could be trying to break into his own

11:25 AM

:/ How do I de flag the post 0_o ?

@HackToHell You can't

agile-workers.com/web/2012/06/leadership-strategy-and-qt

Great, guess what product we're using on our next product...

< is going to have 2 declined flags :'(

@HackToHell I didn't decline your flag, it was helpful

I just want to hear what he has to say for himself

ok

11:29 AM

If its stays like this, you know where to find me to nuke it anyway

@IvoFlipse Does the page not loading mean anything?

ok, will more volt lead to extra heating in laptops, all the voltages are strictly controlled, so this is prolly wrong, but then i may be wrong.

@Bob I had to load a cached version

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4150539

I guess they'll simply become Trolltech or something like that

Hacker News looks and functions like reddit

Why would someone use Qt if you could use Visual Studio for Windows Phone 8

11:35 AM

@IvoFlipse Isn't that the original <whatwordgoeshereagain> of Qt?

oh, it is :P

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://…

Here's the cached version

reddit.com/r/finance/comments/utf5u/… This explains a lot abt money to me :)

@IvoFlipse Thanks

11:50 AM

Hey everyone, I'm looking for a laptop with discrete graphics, a minimum of six hours of battery and a sturdy build. Any recommendations?

@oKtosiTe The battery life depends a lot on what you're using it for.

@Bob Fair enough. Six hours on surfing, idling.

Oh dear, now I'm causing problems, I should really stop using SU on my mobile

@oKtosiTe Any other requirements? If you can get an expanded battery, just about any laptop with switchable graphics should fit the battery life requirements.

@Mokubai what did you do?

@oKtosiTe MacBook Pro Retina? :P

oh that doesn't have a discrete GPU

11:54 AM

@IvoFlipse: That's a little out of my price range... thought it did have discrete graphics, though.

You can wait for the Surface tablet :P

@IvoFlipse I caused the extra comments here

Though I had noticed a sudden flux of "Not an answer" on harrymcs answers...

which I find suspicious

@Bob Not too noisy, but the build quality is kind of a big one. I'm looking at a Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 right now...

@oKtosiTe: What do you want to do that needs discrete graphics?

Somebody seemed out to get him yes

11:57 AM

@oKtosiTe All I can personally say is stay away from the HP Pavilion g6. Long life, works well for me, but it's almost literally falling apart :P

I just invalided the flags, I loved seeing what you guys thought of it

@JourneymanGeek: ...games?

:-)

I wish that if 5 high rep users invalided a flag, it would just ditch it

@IvoFlipse There are a few little tweaks like that that would improve things...

@oKtosiTe: ahh, some integrated graphics has gotten enough to the 'usable' stage

lol

12:00 PM

@Mokubai Well perhaps we should propose those on Meta then

@Bob: For some reason i remember there being a LOT of HP DV6 and inspiron 530 questions.

@JourneymanGeek lol

@IvoFlipse: thats a good idea actually

I'm just lucky it's rather cheap to buy a bag of screws for this laptop :)

I'm full of good ideas :P

12:04 PM

I have a fun IRC help case. Apparently her mobo is uniquely fubared, and one of her ram sticks blew out... she was asking if having raid would affect recovery off a non bootable system...

at this point, i told her to call someone to help ;p

goes back to beating up an excel spreadsheet till it confesses.

12:17 PM

Argh, there's only so many characters you can get in a tag wiki edit comment field :(

I hate insubstantive edits that I reject, then they re-edit and it gets approved

lol

The approver needs to be beaten about a bit with a wet noodle?

Or the submitter, I'm fine with either... ;)

@Mokubai don't reject my edits okay?

What if they're edits that say "FKLMDKLvvkldfnklvnadfklvnjher 90u" or something similar? ;)

or "http://buymywonderfulcannedspam.com"

ESPECIALLY those ;p

YAY. I found suspecious activity in one place and no where else

now i just need to link it to my suspect

i can't link it to the perp tho, for some reason

12:23 PM

CSI:SuperUser

@JourneymanGeek, @Bob: Sorry, baby needed attention. BBL.

Thanks so far.

@Mokubai: I LOVE full system work. I am just so shit at massive spreadsheets

there's just no trail here

I basically just beat the shit out of it. Filtered out ones that weren't dupe. Filtered dups there. and THEN cross referenced it with ANOTHER list

Part of me wished I could've gotten into that sort of line of work...

Does anyone know what the button from Tom's autocorrector script looks like?

Looks like a little grey document with a darker grey spanner on it

At least that's what it is for me

Hmmm, I appear to have lost the link for the corrector

12:35 PM

Strange, I don't see it

@JourneymanGeek Perhaps import it into a relational database? :P

@IvoFlipse It should appear with all the other formatting options

Not there

@Bob: I managed to narrow it down, eventually

@IvoFlipse Browser?

@Bob Chrome dev

12:37 PM

Ah

In Firefox I'd just open the error console and refresh the page

Whatever the Chrome equivalent is, there's probably an error somewhere.

A: Is practising techniques on both the left and right sides beneficial or detrimental to martial development?

Wanted to fix this wall of text:

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from a street fighter. i'm right handed 6'1 and 160 lbs. like the others i have no scientific facts to support my claims other than experience. in real fights, you are typically (if not the aggressor) in the position of defense; if you survive you win. if you are on the offense, total submission ...

@IvoFlipse What the fu-

I thought it was a great example to try it on :P

Someone give it a spin

I... don't think that script would cope too well with this :P

i'll do it.

12:38 PM

Hehe, great testing example then

I'm not sure most PEOPLE would cope well with that

Most of the corrections are targeted towards technical terms

Which might screw something up "\

oh ffff. school website is down

hoping my browser won't crash.

Also, the reason you don't see the option @IvoFlipse is probably because the script is not enabled for that page

You're going to have to add it to the enabled pages, however Chrome does that

12:39 PM

@Bob And how do I test that?

Script failed. hahaha

Ping @TomWijsman you're script doesn't work on that clusterf*ck post some lines up

@IvoFlipse If you take a look at the source

// @include     superuser.com*
// @include     askubuntu.com*
// @include     stackoverflow.com*
// @include     meta.superuser.com*
// @include     meta.askubuntu.com*
// @include     meta.stackoverflow.com*

@Bob Ah

GreaseMonkey lets me add extra 'user' included and excluded pages

which is easy

12:41 PM

it still won't work. :/

They should just add a whitelist option *.stackexchange.com

Chrome might have that. If not, you'll have to add an extra line before installing

Or that :P

That would cover any SE site, seems like a useful feature request

... GreaseMonkey user included http://*.stackexchange.com/* doesn't seem to work :\

Wait, it's enabled on the page, just no button :P

stupid regexp :P

12:44 PM

I wonder if I need an account?

...

wait a sec

the button appeared over the bold button

o.O

Something to do with the site design :\

Works on Super User, Arqade. Breaks on Martial Arts, Mathematics

Sounds messed up

@IvoFlipse: The reason I don't want to do that (and you should use George instead, although I don't know if his one will be further developed) is because this one was explicitly aimed at SU and might thus start replacing SU specific stuff which would not make sense on others.

@TomWijsman Ah, tha tmakes sense

I could make it more broad though, but I was just wondering about the consequences and "issues that don't aim at Super User".

@TomWijsman And you would also have to fix that weird button placement bug (unless it's FF/GM specific again...) :P

12:53 PM

Perhaps if it's works alright we can still do that.

@Bob What's wrong with it?

occasionally, the button disappears

9 mins ago, by Bob

the button appeared over the bold button

It's fine on SU

Fine on Arquade

Breaks on some of the SE sites

I assume it's fine on SO and AU too

So if you want to make it work over all of SE, that would probably have to be fixed.

The button still works, it's just breaking/replacing the Bold button.

@Bob: And you didn't have this before? That's odd. I feel like they must have changed something to their editor because I don't know of any reason why it would be there now. Perhaps you can blame the file if you'd really want to know.

martialarts.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/201 whee

@TomWijsman No, that's just on some sites

It's in the right place on SU

Of the sites I've tested

10 mins ago, by Bob

Works on Super User, Arqade. Breaks on Martial Arts, Mathematics