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3:01 PM
@Boris_yo rainmeter !!
 
@Boris_yo The key is to make the new toolbar so small that you get that little pop-out menu
 
@OliverSalzburg Means short folder name.
 
Bob
@Boris_yo You can remove the folder name entirely
right click on it, there should be a show title option
note that you'll need to temporarily unlock the taskbar for the right click to work
 
Does anyone want 240+ wallpapers(compressed 123mb) scraped off wallbase ?
 
@OliverSalzburg do toolbars stay after a restart?
 
3:15 PM
@barlop yes
 
@barlop Yes
Mine does anyway :\
 
Mine too
 
@Bob Yeah and 1 icon will be instead and next to it will be >>> to being up list.
 
@OliverSalzburg social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproui/thread/… Taskbar extra toolbar disappearing after reboot randomly
I have a book on 7 that says the feature isn't that good 'cos the toolbar disappears after a restart!
 
@barlop What book is that? "The 100 mysteries of IT?"
 
3:18 PM
@barlop Maybe recent updates fixed that?
@OliverSalzburg There's only 100?
 
Bob
@barlop always worked for me
 
@Boris_yo Make that "TOP 100!" :D
 
@OliverSalzburg no, it's a quickstart guide to windows 7, it's extremely thorough. it's more polite than saying the feature is not that good. it just says the settings aren't preserved after a restart, or something. if i recall.
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg The Windows 8 version would be at least ten times thicker :\
 
it's about 500 pages
 
3:19 PM
@barlop Humm, weird. Never had problems with it. But I only use those on my laptop and only recently started using them
 
Bob
They can start by devoting a hundred pages to explaining that bloody licence
 
@barlop They have not disappeared for me, I have been using them for a year and a half now ...
 
4:05 PM
@barlop Very nice! How much?
 
@Boris_yo what?
 
4:18 PM
@barlop The book
 
Oh, the Win8 printer test page looks hot! :D
 
It is in flames?
 
Do not tell that to your counterpart
 
@Hennes Not that hot :D
Well, they changed it from the way it looked since 95 ;P
 
4:37 PM
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Q: Battery charge percentage jumps from 100% to straight 93%

Little ChildI have a new laptop battery that I charge to 100% and then discharge to 50% and charge again as Li-ion batteries should not be totally discharged. However, today I noticed that after it showed 100% and I unplugged it, it jumped to 94% in a split second. The moment I put it back in charge, it show...

 
@Boris_yo library, but I can't say I recommend it, it should be called the slowstart guide not quickstart.
 
Is this a local thing with wall outlets?
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Q: Is it ok to to plug your laptop charger in 16 A socket?

krunalI have an Asus (core i5) laptop. Is it ok to charge my laptop by plugging into a 16 Ampere socket which is normally used for ACs or refrigerator.

I never saw a place where they put a note on a wall outlet with 'this outlet is connected to a group with a XXX amp fuse'
And 16 amp. seems quite normal for fuse size and groups.
 
 
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7:01 PM
@Hennes He is from my country, I can say that from the name. Here we have two lines, a 220V,15A line and a 220V, 5A line. You know it, intrinsically, because there will only be one or two 15A lines in the house. Probably in the kitches when the fridge is
 
Ah
Over here I do not expect anyone to know what size the fuse is.
And in praxis they all tend to be 10 (older) or 16 (newer houses) ampere
 
 
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8:13 PM
Is it possible to run this bash script in a MAC ? http://karve.in/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The_Hindu_Delhi.sh
It was made for running in Gnu/Linux OS
 
I am finally seeing the value of drawing/writing out programming or web site projects before coding
 
@DanialJose It is a bash script. If you have bash installed it should work.
Ofc. you will need to have ghostscript and wget installed as well, since it uses those programs
 
8:28 PM
Yes, you are right!
 
And it makes silly assumptions, such as having bash in /bin
Not sure how true that is on a mac.
I know it is not true on *BSD, nor on some GNU/Linux distributions
 
I'm using Ubuntu OS and it is working
 
I always try to get people to use either sh (plain shell, working with just about all shells, but less features. But heck, as long as those features are not used....) or to let it start with env (#!/usr/bin/env bash)
 
But one of my friend have a MAC and he needs to work this bash script in his system
 
Does a mac come with ghostscript and wget in the default setup? Or will hebneed to install it?
Ditto with bash, and the location of it
 
8:32 PM
I just type bash on my OSX 10.6.8 Terminal, and it goes into Bash
 
I a never used a MAC in my life, and I do not know how to do it
 
I used OS7. That is old mac os :)
macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/24/bash.html -> In the switch from Jaguar to Panther, one of the footnotes that has occasionally been mentioned is the switch from tcsh to bash as the default shell in Mac OS X.
 
I don't have wget or ghostscript on my system though
 
So it does come with bash
mac ports?
 
Je ne sais pas.
 
8:34 PM
Is it possible to install "wget" and "ghostscript" in a mac?
 
it seems bash is in /bin afterall
I wonder why a mac requires (why else put it in /bin ?) 5 shells to boot
And yes, I a a purist that way. I know
 
If the answer is "yes", how to do it?
 
@Hennes To appease tech-like *nix people
 
But those expect non essential stuff to be in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, or /opt/bin
And only statically linked, always working, needed stuff in /bin and /sbin
Daniel he can download the tarball with a browser or use curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.14.tar.gz
Or edit the script to change from wget to curl. Both grab files from webpages
Fetch (curl)., extract, cd to dir, ./configure && make install should do it
possibly ./configure --with-ssl=openssl
Luke: does OS/x have a package manager?
I do not have a mac. I know some unix stuff so I can guess
But everything about homebrew, macPorts etc is just guessing
 
I will try it
 
8:50 PM
@Hennes shells aren't that big anyway; also, the filesize of /bin/bash and /bin/sh is the same, so I'm guessing that /bin/sh is either a copy or hardlink to /bin/bash (it's not a symlink because I can see it from the attributes)
fairly mystified at why csh and tcsh are there since they suck a lot, but there is a very significant fringe fanbase of zsh
 
On several Linux distrubutions /bin/sh was indeed a hardlink to /bin/bash. On startup the program checks argv[0] (its name) and if that was sh it behaved as a posix compatible shell with no bash features.
As for [t]csh. elm sucks as a mailer. Bit I have used it since 1991 and see no good enough reason to change. Might be the same with [t]-csh shell users
 
wget --spider
curl --?
 
Check what that does.
Aha --spider
When invoked with this option, Wget will behave as a Web spider,
which means that it will not download the pages, just check that
they are there. For example, you can use Wget to check your book-
marks:
 
--spider don't download anything.
ok, i understood
 
I never used curl, si I am peeking in manpages atm
Error code 22 might be used instead.
HTTP page not retrieved. The requested url was not found or
returned another error with the HTTP error code being 400 or
above. This return code only appears if -f/--fail is used
 
9:14 PM
ok, i just installed curl on my Ubuntu
 
 
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11:49 PM
I think there are alot more people who want to know:
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Q: How to run an directx or opengl application as desktop background?

Gam ErixWell, on windows 7 you have only the ability for slide shows, but there is fortunately a trick to enable desktop video background on Windows 7 using the Vista DLL files. Now I was wondering if it's possible to run a Full Screen DirectX/Opengl application AS a desktop background in Windows 7? Is ...

wondering, anyone knows how to achieve this? :o :D
 
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