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Ariane

12:02 AM

...?

I'm not following. What post? What website? What coder?

Journeyman Geek

12:24 AM

the one I linked ;p

Ariane

That answer has disappeared.

somequixotic

hi

Bob

12:51 AM

...

that question exploded

Journeyman Geek

the microwave? ;p

somequixotic

@JourneymanGeek funny thing is, I've answered that question, directly, in tons of other wifi answers -_-

somequixotic

2:33 AM

umm... this is an awful tag wiki, but it's better than nothing; should I approve it?

superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/141557

Journeyman Geek

@somequixotic: its completely horrible

somequixotic

oh sweet; I found an edit by Ruda Almeida in the edit queue

that's a no brainer. APPROVED

Journeyman Geek

lol

geeze ;p

I did the same thing

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A: Windows 8 stuck on login screen after restart

All y'all some prison educated a$$ holes how bout u cut the smart comments and reply an answers or shut the hell up seriously if I knew who y'all was I'd be at your doorstep with a bat

needs flags

Ariane

2:49 AM

Large bug, about 1-.1.5 cm x 5-7 mm, relatively slender, brown, with long antennae. That one unexpectedly appeared in my shower to scare the hell out of me and then disappeared in my back before I could take a picture. WHAT is it?

somequixotic

@Ariane umm.... it disappeared in your back? what does that even mean?

Ariane

While I wasn't looking.

somequixotic

ah. I read that as "it burrowed itself in my rear-end" XD

Gowtham

o0

CALL THE CAT !

Journeyman Geek

lol

somequixotic

2:53 AM

@Ariane did it look like this?

Brown marmorated stink bug

Halyomorpha halys, also known as the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), or simply the stink bug, is an insect in the family Pentatomidae, and it is native to Korea and Taiwan. It was accidentally introduced into the United States, with the first specimen being collected in September 1998. The brown stink bug is considered to be an agricultural pest, and by 2010-11 had become a season-long pest in U.S. orchards. Description The adults are approximately long and about as wide, forming the "shield" shape characteristic of other stink bugs. They are various shades of brown on both the top a...

Ariane

Lol no, how is that remotely slender?

somequixotic

idk

Journeyman Geek

anything I can think of is nightmare fodder

Gowtham

@somequixotic i have seen those !

somequixotic

Gowtham

2:54 AM

okay, can we please change the topic ?

I hate bugs

Ariane

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forficula_auricularia
Looked a bit like this I say, but I'm not sure it was that because I don't remember seeing the "pincers" on its rear. And I think maybe it had longer antennae.

Journeyman Geek

Centipede

Centipedes (from Latin prefix ', "hundred", and ', ', "foot") are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda of the subphylum Myriapoda. They are elongated metameric creatures with one pair of legs per body segment. Despite the name, centipedes can have a varying number of legs from under 20 to over 300. Centipedes have an odd number of pairs of legs, e.g. 15 or 17 pairs of legs (30 or 34 legs). A key trait uniting this group is a pair of venom claws or forcipules formed from a modified first appendage. Centipedes are a predominantly carnivorous taxon. Centipedes normally have a drab co...

Ariane

Lol, I can recognize a centipede. x.x

Also how suddenly it vanished implies it can probably fly. Which scares me even more.

Journeyman Geek

ahh, earwigs

somequixotic

silverfish are quite common in moist bathrooms (you take a shower, and it's moist)

@JourneymanGeek new gravatar :)

Journeyman Geek

2:56 AM

@somequixotic: yeah ;p

Ariane

Also it clearly had the standard amount of legs.

I'm all paranoid now, and every funny feeling makes me panic. Being afraid of bugs is the worst. x.x

somequixotic

@Gowtham as far as I'm concerned, they can stay in Korea and Taiwan where they're native to! but they've been invading North and South America like a plague lately, taking over other bugs and wiping them out, and being pests to plant life too

Journeyman Geek

standard?

Ariane

And a couple of weeks ago one of those bugs fell from above on my hand, in my bathroom again. And a couple of months ago, there was a larva in my electric razor's head, and the larva's shedded skin next to it. And just two days ago there was a horrendously huge spider that infiltrated through the hole in my screen door. Seriously, this is a nightmare.

somequixotic

@Ariane o_O

late summer / early fall is the peak of creepy-crawly insect activity, by the way, as if you couldn't tell

Ariane

3:02 AM

I don't wanna. To hell with life and biodiversity, I want them all extinct. Immediately.

somequixotic

but then we'd all die

seriously, we would

we'd die of starvation because the ecosystem that we depend on for food would cease to function

and it'd happen quickly -- as quickly as the extinction of all bugs happened

Ariane

Blah, if I can survive for a week without bugs it's worth it.

Kidding. Partly.

somequixotic

we've been taking walks around the building at work to be social and get exercise, and when we do, we always get attacked by spiderwebs hanging from the trees

it's gross, lol

Ariane

It's gross, but if there's no bug on it it's not scary.

somequixotic

generally there aren't spiders in them but sometimes we've seen spiders crawling in webs along the side of the path

Ariane

3:06 AM

I didn't think I had a voice powerful enough to produce a scream. Hell, put a big disgusting bug in my face and then make me walk on something that makes me believe it might be the bug and you'll hear two big ones, horror movie quality.

somequixotic

forums.motorola.com/posts/e5e89f36fa?commentId=726354#726354

Ariane

I wonder how I became this way. I used to only be really scared of wasps and similar dangerous things. Now I'm even uneasy around ants.

Journeyman Geek

lol

I just hate small spiders

somequixotic

I've become slightly braver, but I still hate spider webs, even if there's no spider associated

Ariane

Only the small ones? Usually the bigger the worst for me.

somequixotic

3:10 AM

as long as the spider can't move extremely fast or jump, I don't mind actual spiders as much, especially if they're not on me

if they're on some other object and just chilling out, I really don't mind

Journeyman Geek

heh

@somequixotic: I'm still kinda in love with the moto X ;p

Ariane

Also pretty much every spider can move lightning fast if they feel like it.

somequixotic

@Ariane but jumping spiders are extremely rare in our part of the world

I think I hate jumping and flying things more than crawling things

Ariane

Oh, there are none that I know of here. Thank god. I would lock myself in a glass cage.

somequixotic

...with 100 spiders? XD

Ariane

3:11 AM

Not THAT cage.

Journeyman Geek

snakes?

Ariane

Snakes if they're not the dangerous kind are actually less scary than some bugs.

somequixotic

I don't like snakes because I know some are poisonous and that's bad, but I honestly would kind of tolerate a non-poisonous snake, in the "hey there little guy!" sense

Gowtham

Snakes, have seen a 7 foot one fighting with my cat ;p

Ariane

The heck. xD

But sheesh, that sucks. I'm completely paranoid. I'm afraid to go to bed.

Gowtham

3:13 AM

Get a cat ;p

somequixotic

domesticated snakes are awesome

wild ones, not so much

Ariane

I just must get a lover who isn't scared of bugs one day. I need a personal anti-bug knight. x.x

somequixotic

or a 42 gallon drum of Raid

and a refillable spray bottle

Ariane

I'll probably die too.

Not to mention that dealing with bug corpses isn't exactly fun either.

somequixotic

but better than dealing with live bugs

Ariane

3:15 AM

Yes. But there remains the issue of me dying.

Oh yeah, I want a house with futuristic security lasers forming a perfect box around it. It scans whatever tries to go through it and if it's a bug, it becomes black powder.

Now, if there's a little dysfunction, I'll annihilate visitors or even myself, but that's only a detail, isn't it?

Gowtham

A laser poweful enough to turn a bug into ash will melt your eyes ;p

Ariane

Not if it's magical futuristic technology that does absolutely nothing but the intended purpose. o:

somequixotic

@Ariane actually, even without the lasers, there are technologies and materials available for modern houses that, for both efficiency and anti-bug purposes, form a perfect seal around the interior of the house from the environment. it keeps the desired temperature inside without taxing your A/C as much, and it keeps bugs out unless you open a door or window and let them in.

older structures lack these features and so you'll see more bugs

Ariane

That sounds good. Although it doesn't help me in my 1960 apartment building with a broken screen door. xD

Journeyman Geek

@somequixotic: we have cobras and pythons

both are pretty dangerous to small terriers.

ironically the pythons are scarier, the cats chase off the cobras.

somequixotic

3:26 AM

@JourneymanGeek that doesn't surprise me; after all, a python can bite you with a TypeError when you least expect it, while a cobra just gives you a Command not found

that's my original geek joke for the day.

Ariane

Cobra was a programming language too?

Journeyman Geek

lol

Ariane

I wish you could program stuff like if(!empty($bugs)) { foreach($bugs as $target) { unlink($target); } }

somequixotic

@Ariane No. that's the point.

Ariane

Hah?

somequixotic

3:35 AM

but a python will lure you in and make you want to use it, and then -- when you least expect it, like in a high-stakes sales demo -- you get a crash, and a TypeError.

so the non-existent language cobra is better than python because it doesn't fake you out and then ruin you at runtime.

Ariane

I... see.

Journeyman Geek

lol

somequixotic

3:50 AM

sleepy time, goodnight! snuggle some bugs when you get to sleep @Ariane ;-)

Journeyman Geek

jeff atwood, India

111 4

Ariane

Please die.

somequixotic

@JourneymanGeek riiiight... totally believable

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

4:07 AM

oh bloody fuck

I've been agonising over a program's failure to load a DLL with some cryptic error for a week

I forgot it was an AnyCPU build, which defaults to 64-bit. And that was a 32-bit unmanaged DLL.

That would explain why it worked on the 32-bit WIn8 VM and Win2008r2 server, but not the 64-bit Win7 machines.

Mr_Green

4:37 AM

Hi guys

Can I ask network related questions on super user?

Ariane

4:55 AM

I believe you can.

Mr_Green

the issue is with "websocket"

and there is no websocket tag

Ariane

5:14 AM

Use something related if the tag doesn't exist. Or I think you can create a tag as long as you fill some criteria, and then moderators will judge it. Something like that.

Anyway I'll be off to bed now.

Journeyman Geek

5:39 AM

Websockets might exist as a tag with an s. I'm on my phone so I cannot check

Bob

7:13 AM

BrowserPlus??

That's a new one.

Journeyman Geek

7:48 AM

lol

webpronews.com/…

it dead

ya, random linkfarm link >_>

Bob

8:05 AM

Urgh. Why do all my shitty answers get all the upvotes?

I feel dirty now.

Hey, @Jou got a new Gravatar too!

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Yeah ;p

Oliver Salzburg

Haha :D Nice one @JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

8:26 AM

got his keypuller and flashlight today ;p

Bob

9:16 AM

We should have a mass Gravatar change. Make everyone unrecognisable :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

I think my gravatar is recognisable no matter what ;p

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Great idea

Bob

Norton. Would you just fuck off and stop deleting my files without warning?

...I really need to uninstall that piece of malware.

And purge it from my system.

Perhaps with a hammer.

Journeyman Geek

9:42 AM

why did you even have that installed? ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek wasn't my choice at the time :P

Journeyman Geek

I think norton is a little like prescribing cyanide to keep away the common cold ;p

Paul

10:27 AM

@JourneymanGeek Norton prevents executables from running, therefore no viruses. You can't argue with that level of protection.

Unless of course you actually want to run an executable

slhck

What's the deal with everyone getting new avatars, @JourneymanGeek, @OliverSalzburg? :P

Bob

1 hour ago, by Bob

We should have a mass Gravatar change. Make everyone unrecognisable :P

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: lol. I switch every so often. I think its a reflection of I feel about how my worse answers IMO getting lots of upvotes ;p

@Bob: I changed yesterday ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek After me :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

10:29 AM

I just felt like changing.

Journeyman Geek

no, actually, it just took a whole to update ;p

Bob

Coming across a new photo might have had something to do with it.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

This is a weird picture, too.

Journeyman Geek

I have a whole folder of possible avas ;p

Bob

10:30 AM

The grass comes up as solid black on Opera Mobile.

@JourneymanGeek Hm, really? :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

yeah, I have a bunch of avas lined up on gravatar ;p

even a christmas hat ava, in case the SF guys annoy me about it ;p

slhck

@Bob I like that suggestion.

But I never know what avatar to pick.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@slhck: it probably helps that there's a theme for me

(that said, I suspect if we get another dog, I'll insist its called Journeyman... )

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck I don't know. I feel like @Bob suggested it

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Nah, that was definitely after @JourneymanGeek changed.

Oliver Salzburg

10:44 AM

I even switched it up once more a moment ago

22 suggested edits to review!

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: mostly retags

;p

Oliver Salzburg

Approve, approve, approve, approve, approve, approve, approve, ...

Journeyman Geek

nooooo

the front page! She is filling up! ;p

whoa

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Q: all dd copy do not work why whyyy?

I try to copy one partition 500GB sudo dcfldd if=/dev/sda12 of=/dev/sdb12 sudo dd if=/dev/sda12 of=/dev/sdb12 it do copy only 1GB it do it in to ram memory after this /dev/sdb12 size is 1GB it is standard file not device dd automatically is off and no count= is on in any command all disks h...

linux truecrypt fstab dev

Oliver Salzburg

wat

I need to request the 1 downvote per question rule to be lifted for moderators

And I will cite that question as the reason why

mojo706

11:03 AM

?

slhck

@JourneymanGeek Known user. Comes back with crappy questions posted by unregistered accounts.

His… writing style is too extravagant though.

So if you spot poems disguised as question, flag and let us know.

Sathya

@OliverSalzburg was at 41

Bob

@slhck ...is this the guy with the search engine 'guide'?

Sathya

oh hey, happy birthday @kronos

Bob

o.O

happy birthday, @Kronos!

slhck

11:16 AM

@Bob Don't think so

Hah, success. I just made the perfect cappuccino.

Sathya

@slhck awesome

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: will do. Next time you'll get a custom flag "Not proper haiku" ;p

Journeyman Geek

11:39 AM

@Sathya: superuser.com/questions/638183/… webapps or just shoot it in the head? ;p

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek the latter

Journeyman Geek

Thought so ;p

Bob

@slhck For some reason your tiny Gravatar reminds me of @Gowtham...

slhck

11:56 AM

@Bob Don't know how it looks like atm

somequixotic

Gravitas updated. :D

Gravatar dyac

Oliver Salzburg

Actually, we're all new guys

slhck

Except for me.

… and I have a new one as well. Who would've guessed the theme.

Oliver Salzburg

12:11 PM

Is it a bird?

Is it a plane?

lol nice

Boris_yo

12:38 PM

@OliverSalzburg Is it your new avatar?

Oliver Salzburg

What kind of a question is that? Is slhck's new avatar my new avatar?

Bob

12:51 PM

xD

o.o

@Sathya the writing style...

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Q: Right click drag drop not working

I used to be able to right click and drag and drop into a new folder. To move a group of files into a new folder using tortoisehg source control. The right click drag drop doesn't seem to be working. On doing some research people are suggesting that a window management addon breaks right click...

windows-7 right-click

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I guess they're not used to the way newlines are handled in markdown

Bob

@JourneymanGeek That usually has the opposite effect.

Those hard breaks look quite intentional

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: try 'editing' it and moving the hard breaks up

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Hm?

Oliver Salzburg

Seems like the author isn't used to writing paragraphs. Must have twitteritis

We have a health tag O_o ...and now it's cleaned up

Vignesh4303

1:20 PM

hi all,is it possible to use the empty space of windows hard drive to mount on ubuntu?

the windows drive is with ntfs

is it possible to mount the empty space to ubuntu on a dual booting machine?

Gowtham

@Vignesh4303 empty space as of unallocated space ?

Vignesh4303

@Gowtham yes its unallocated

Gowtham

@Vignesh4303 Use Gparted or something similar to make that a partition.

Vignesh4303

@Gowtham one question arises maybe its dump,how come the unallocated space on windows allocated to linux in a dual boot machine?i.e they both are diffrent format partitions,how they share space b/w them?

in a dual booting machine

Gowtham

Both the OS have RAW access to the HDD, they should both be able to read the data in all the partitions

Windows will be able to read ext4(using some ext4 mounter) and Ubuntu should be able to read NTFS using ntfs3g

Vignesh4303

1:28 PM

got it thanks :) i ll try it out with the gpart :)

somequixotic

New Gravatar!

Gowtham

Now I have to change my gravatar sigh

somequixotic

I read a comment by someone earlier that they wanted us all to change our gravatars, so I figured I'd play along :)

I still have a cat in my gravatar, but not JUST a cat, now, lol

it's Data from TNG "holding" Spot (very awkwardly)

Gowtham

@somequixotic The video from your profile is gone ;p

somequixotic

oh well :(

Boris_yo

1:37 PM

What are you guys? Got some kind of virus that everybody changed their avatar recently?

Gowtham

bleh need to reset my wp password to change my gravatar

Boris_yo

@somequixotic And your avatar? White Star Trek guy strangling cat. Why so cruel?

somequixotic

@Boris_yo umm, you really had to have watched TNG to understand

first of all, he's an android, so he's clumsy and not fully human in his social interactions

second of all, he has absolutely no malice towards that cat, and is merely trying to hold it, and the cat doesn't get hurt after all

notice he's holding it by the body and not by the neck

en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Phantasms_(episode)

KronoS

@Sathya Aw thanks man.

@Bob thanks!

Gowtham

hbd @KronoS !

KronoS

1:49 PM

Gracias @Gowtham

Gowtham

btw, Please don't get overly excited and destroy the solar system

somequixotic

@Gowtham that's Qo'noS...

jokerdino

why is everyone on a new gravatar suddenly?

i need a dino theme related new gravi!!!!

somequixotic

@jokerdino because peaches

jokerdino

oh peaches.

I miss her.

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somequixotic

1:53 PM

@KronoS happy birthday!

jokerdino

oh that day?

@KronoS Happy birthday!~

lol meanie guys you are.

somequixotic

:D

we like to star messages about guys' feelings towards women :P

2

people starred stuff by Hennes and me about Ariane

jokerdino

lol

that's about as desperate as we can be :D

Boris_yo

@somequixotic I see it now.

@somequixotic Hennes is not man?

jokerdino

O_o

somequixotic

1:56 PM

@Boris_yo he is....

Gowtham

lololol

somequixotic

the name Ariane is a little different for Hennes though because he knows a different person named Ariane in his life, not the Ariane who talks in this chat

KronoS

Thanks guys... if you really wanted to wish me happy b-day then you could get me a couple of these:

2

amazon.com/gp/product/B00DHW4HXY/…

;) J/k

Gowtham

heh

KronoS

@somequixotic Except she's a cat

somequixotic

1:57 PM

@KronoS only the 760? if you were going to want a birthday present, why not GTX Titan?

KronoS

@somequixotic Well if you're really feeling generous then....

somequixotic

@KronoS wait, Peaches is a cat? I thought Peaches was a person

KronoS

@somequixotic Isn't Peaches Data's cat?

Gowtham

Micro soft cat peaches is

KronoS

Oh wait nope... that's spot

somequixotic

1:58 PM

@KronoS um, no. Spot is Data's cat.

KronoS

I know not of this person "Peaches" aparently

somequixotic

there were actually something like 10 different cats that appeared on the show and/or movies that played Spot, I guess because their owners kept not wanting to re-appear the same cat... and probably at least one of them died... although TNG was only produced over 7 years, so one cat could have easily outlived the show, before and after

Gowtham

She's a girl who used to frequent AU chat room and JD misses her

KronoS

Ah... young binary love torn asunder over the ages

Gowtham

Aren't you 18 -_-

oh wait that's nhikle

Who never comes here these days :C

jokerdino

2:01 PM

@Gowtham What? That's Peachy.

Gowtham

Peaches is someone else ? o0

jokerdino

Yeah, Peaches is apparently the one I miss right now.

somequixotic

Sweet, Motorola is going to repair my old phone for free under warranty and then I can give it to my mom, good as new :D

the back of it is warped because the battery protrudes out -_-

KronoS

@Gowtham Tack on another 9 years and you'll have it :)

jokerdino

I forgot that one is still in business.

somequixotic

2:10 PM

@jokerdino Motorola, you mean? They got bought by Google and have made a comeback.

Gowtham

@jokerdino It pulled out of India

jokerdino

@Gowtham so that's why.

somequixotic

They make excellent Android smartphones.

jokerdino

@somequixotic i remember that. 'patent trove'

somequixotic

But not for India apparently :(

Gowtham

2:12 PM

@KronoS lol :)

KronoS

@Gowtham at least he got the date right ;)

Gowtham

lol

somequixotic

Privacy

Privacy (from "separated from the rest, deprived of something, esp. office, participation in the government", from privo "to deprive") is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public realm. When something is private to a person, it usually means there is something within th...

Gowtham

@somequixotic So says the american

it's a joke man ;p

somequixotic

@Gowtham it better be :P many American citizens are outraged at how certain parts of our gov't are disrespecting privacy

Gowtham

2:24 PM

@somequixotic :P :P

KronoS