that was wierd and annoying. Until I rebooted, win-c was bringing up narrator, and the charms bar wouldn't open with the mouse guestures

What a day...

no boom?

Well, I just returned from the fair

3:00 here

I got some nice shots of the booth, but this is my favorite:

I'm such a rebel!

lolololol

The amount of "shine" at fairs is really impressive. All this nice stuff that they build...

But nothing is built to last and everything only looks clean :D

lol

That's the front

whoa

The back :D

;p

thats a LOT of compressors o0

They're for this:

superuser.com/users/203247/kendybrown ugh. Nice try, but go home spammer, you are drunk idiotic

ooh

what does that do?

There's giant shower heads up top

You can make out 3 rectangles in the ceiling

Those are shower heads you can buy

They even have scents! So you get a nice smell while showering

Ahh, technology ;p

I wouldn't mind a shower like that :P

But if I had the money to buy that, I probably wouldn't :P

And I'd also love to jump through this :D

They have a control panel in front of that. Seemed like you can play with the fountains

o0

so many lights

Looks like a standard bathroom, right? :D

lol

actually, reminds me of the zoo toilets

thats pretty nuts cool

ooh

its march

I have basically all of last month's allowance intact, and this months

Anybody know how to remove search.conduit.com from being automatically pulled op on my tabs when I open Chrome?

nvm.. I figured it out

quack

I can't wait for my wifi module to arrive :P

@Bob what kind?

@nhinkle laptop

dual band mini pcie

@Bob ah, cool. I did that recently too. Big difference!

What're you getting?

an RT3592

What laptop's it for?

my built-in one can't connect to 5GHz networks, which is a killer in Uni where the 2.4GHz networks are congested to the point of unusability

an HP one

stupid wifi whitelist

Yep. I was in the same situation. Got an Intel 6305 for my Thinkpad. Now when everyone's struggling to load a plain text page I can do whatever.

I can't use an intel one, because they are far from guaranteed to work

Most manufacturers have whitelisting. It's because of FCC regs.

o.O

well, they could have at least done the manuals properly

the cards listed in the manual are knwo to not work

and the part numbers are mislabelled too -_-

That sucks. Typical HP, right there. With the Thinkpad I had to get one with the right hardware ID, but they do list in the service manual which ones are on the whitelist, and it seems to be right.

ooooh, here's why

at least a score of 2.4GHz networks on the same channel

that's for all three main channels

too many wifi access points can be a bad thing -_-

Indeed. Although if they're all the same network, and properly distributed and configured, it's fine.

they are the same network

at least 50% ping loss

3 second ping

Gross. Sounds like your uni's network services isn't doing a great job.

@nhinkle maybe :P

@Bob what program did you use to generate that?

@nhinkle inSSIDer

Going to pick up my replacement mouse whoot

There is a question on wifi scanners on su actually

I would find it if I was not on my phone

@OliverSalzburg a rock and some pillow ? ???

<3

new mouse works perfectly

it's even better when they write it on a white/blackboard

and inevitably get something wrong

and, desktop apparently needed me to pull and reinstall the same sticks of ram. Everything works perfectly now ;P

uhh

dirty contact?

donno actually

it didn't detect earlier, it does now ;p

that or my reverse pauli effect field works again ;p

XD

sadly all too true

Makes my head spin !

Wtf

ooh, we haz troll

Thats interesting, the asus driver disk is bootable

hi all

lo

I have windows 7 in my laptop and I set up ICS(Internet connection Sharing) in my laptop. I want to change the dhcp range that is alloted through ICS. Currently it is in the 192.168.137.x and I want it to be 192.168.1.x range(i.e the same range as my wifi router)

Can I do this?

If so how?

hm, wouldn't you then need to turn DHCP off to avoid IP address conflicts?

Someone stole my Ebay product description :D

noooooo

I accidentally installed norton :/

stupid driver installer

stupid stupid stupid

That reminds me that i have a copy of norton !

BURN IT

BUUUURRRRNNN IT

lol. I uninstalled it before the post install reboot

:D Idk if the key is expired or not :/

seems cleanly removed and Windows Defender seems to be in play

I got it with a Asus mobo like you

mine's apparently expired ;p

I was like... "what?"

oh, its there

FFFF

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE.

at least norton remover works fine

other than the captcha

AHHH! HELP!!!! /me acts like a panicked clueless user

in Excel my row and column numbers are gone! GONE, I SAY!!!

@OliverSalzburg that checkbox does nothing >_<

@allquixotic That is scary

Because it's supposed to hide/show column and row numbers :D

@OliverSalzburg it seems to only be affecting a single spreadsheet

it's something about this file in particular. other files are displaying the headings just fine

Humm, never seen that before, but I'm hardly an Office expert :\

I have my Excel hacked (per my question I asked last week) to start a separate instance of Excel for each spreadsheet, but if I do File -> Open on the offending spreadsheet and force it to open inside an instance with a spreadsheet displaying the row and column numbers, it still doesn't display them

so even when the offending spreadsheet is running in-process with a properly-behaving spreadsheet, it's still broken

Macros?

no

wtf, this spreadsheet is completely hosed -- Ctrl+W doesn't close it O_O

umm

Maybe it was created with ooo and this is MS way of telling you that it doesn't like it :P

@OliverSalzburg actually it WAS modified with OO.o................ crap

yeah, what's happening right now is when I open the spreadsheet, it kills the MDI interface of Excel and it opens as "the one and only" spreadsheet in that process of Excel, kind of like how Word documents open now

gotta love LibreOffice for killing my spreadsheet

originally I was thrilled that it had regex find and replace

I really want to try out your Excel hack, but I'm scared :P

It's one of those majorly annoying things...

@OliverSalzburg my Excel hack seems to be working fine here

this problem is definitely not the fault of my hack

the fix, for now, is to use the clipboard to copy and paste the raw data from OO.o to Excel, then save it in Excel

dafuq

rendering is all hosed even in OO.o

the first row and first column are painting over the row/column labels

don't tell me. there's a flag in OOXML that says "break my spreadsheet?"

<spreadsheet broken="yes" ...

Maybe you can put CSS on each item

position:relative;top:-50px;

CSS? in my Excel?

it's more likely than you think.

man, weird morning

Excel problems, mom's car wouldn't start, the janitor (who really doesn't speak English hardly at all) asked if he could plug in his iPhone but it has a proprietary charger and I don't have the right cable

lol

sounds like my last week

my new mouse was DOA, The military was bringing me to museiums I never knew existed, and half the ram on my desktop was missing

I did manage to co-opt a not-so-old smartphone for a different purpose over the weekend though

ooh

problem: the only computer in the kitchen / dining room area is a ThinkPad X61T w/ 10.1" screen, which sits on the kitchen counter, and the user has to sit on a stool which is uncomfortable

solution: buy bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth mouse, and micro-HDMI to HDMI cable

we have a 30" modern-ish HDTV (1920x1080 @ 60 Hz with two HDMI ports in the back) in the dining room

so I got the Razr Maxx (original, not HD) out of my sock drawer, charged it up, removed all my stuff (don't even ask), un-rooted it, flashed it just to be sure I nuked my stuff, found an unused wall wart, paired the bluetooth peripherals, connected it to the JetPack wifi, plugged it into the TV...

so now we have an Android 4.0.4 smartphone acting as a permanent "desktop" fixture with no cellular network access (except 911 emergency phone calls)

plays good video, and it's much more comfortable to sit in the dining room than in the kitchen because the screen is larger and the chairs are better

plus two people can use a computer in the dining room / kitchen area at the same time

Chrome has a feature that it detects if your resolution is high (or if an external display is plugged in, I guess?) and checks "Request Desktop Mode" by default, so it really does feel like a desktop

performance could stand to be improved, but it's a tiny processor so I don't expect much

@allquixotic Neat!

Every story that has "So I'm using Android for..." is always relevant to my interests :P

lol

So my boss just called from the fair with a weird networking issue

There are like 4 computers, plugged into a switch, but some of the lights on the ports won't light up (and the network also doesn't work)

Naturally, he assumed a broken switch, tried another one, it worked

Great

So he bought a fresh new switch this morning and used that one, it shows the same problem the first switch did

Which is kinda weird...

Cable problem? Hmm, multiple cable problems? Not that likely

Why does one switch work and the other doesn't?

And here's the best part

It's not one switch, it's the identical case at 3 spots in the network

So he threw 3 switches in the trash yesterday because they were diagnosed as faulty

lol

Got 3 new D-Link DGS-1080D or something like that

Identical problem

I can say one thing: that boss cleans up. Better than a room full of ancient hardware.

But once he uses one of "those old Netgears" everything is dandy

What is similar with those 3 (or possibly more) points in the network?

If the LEDs on the ports don't light up... what can even cause that, other than broken cables?

Same model computer which refuses to work in all cases?

(just guessing here)

@Hennes Probably, yeah.

Like, we have a big D-Link switch at the core. From there, we rolled CAT7 to the different corners of the fair booth

@OliverSalzburg I'm basically using a commercial shrinkwrapped Android smartphone (soon to be updated to Jelly Bean) for a web browser and Netflix video player

Where we put RJ45 sockets on the cables

Now, when you plug the problematic computers directly into the sockets, everything is fine

Any weird settings on the clients? E.g. always 100 half duplex and a switch which tries to auto negotiate and fails ?

Plug in one of those problematic switches, plug the computer into that switch, nothing works

@Hennes I'll look into that, good call

@OliverSalzburg don't discount what @Hennes just said -- I had an issue on an Ivy Bridge server where the crap Intel NIC was autonegotiating to half duplex

apparently, they do this to save power, but it vastly increases latency; I don't know who at Intel thought that might be acceptable

@allquixotic Yeah, I had a similar issue once

A switch was set to auto-negotiate on one port

Setting it manually to 100Full fixed the issue

It is not the most likely answer, but it is the best option I have. All the obvious ones (broken switch, broken cable etc) have already been ruled out

half duplex is really freaking awful

Boss will call back from the fair ASAP, then I'll ask him to check it out

Hopefully he won't say "Get in your f-ing car and get over here and do it yourself!!!"

We also had a really interesting thing happen on that core switch

At one point, I had to use a different cable to connect my laptop, suddenly Windows was completely going crazy

It constantly switched between identifying the network and saying the cable is unplugged

Different ports or different cables were not able to resolve the problem

So we ran a cable diagnosis in the web interface, came out A-OK. And then, suddenly, everything worked again :P

And it kept working the whole day

That was the first WTF-moment

Are they all single homed hosts, or is one of the computers setup for forwarding network traffic and thus creating a loop ?

Well...

He told me "Get in your f-ing car and get over here and do it yourself!!!"

Crap.

@OliverSalzburg that sucks. I hate it when people act clueless

good luck man, sorry about the drive

@Hennes They should be all single-homed

@allquixotic Well, it's not like he couldn't handle it, but there are other jobs to do as well

And he was at the fair with me until 3am last night

lol

And he had to be back there at 8am...

...with new switches

I can't believe we're still having basic ethernet problems in 2013

but it seems that ethernet problems have re-occurred of late

90's: tons of ethernet problems because it was new

early 2000s: no ethernet problems, all the bugs worked out, always "just works"

2010s: manufacturers start diddling around again and things start to break

@allquixotic: and probably trying to cut costs

needs another mousepad