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12:03 AM
> Venti iced quad ristretto caramel macchiato with whipped cream, lite ice, and extra caramel
 
Jon Ericson on December 14, 2014

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WINTER BASH!!!!!!!!1
Time for me to shine ;)
 
Bob
1:01 AM
ooookay this is getting bigger
mass evacuations in a bunch of buildings, more in lockdown...
seems to be preemptive
 
"Residential and Business customers may not even need firewalls, as they can sit behind NAT, so incoming connections are blocked anyways" ... isn't that just a bad idea?
 
1:13 AM
Its a clear misunderstanding
Though most home routers do have a basic firewall
 
In theory they all should, correct?
 
Bob
> Police said office workers on Hunter, George, Elizabeth and Macquarie streets bordering Martin Place had been told to stay indoors and away from open windows. Anyone outside that area was free to leave their buildings.
well fuck
I'm in the area bordered by those streets -_-
they never mentioned windows though
then again, we're too high up for that to matter
Strange that they mention George St, actually... that's quite a large area
 
o0
@Bob: what happened?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek smh.com.au/nsw/…
 
Bob
1:20 AM
it's... 200m, 3 min walk away :S
 
2:06 AM
if you look up "firewalls are routers" you'll see posts / webpages that say they all are or most are.
i'd have thought it's a separate function that maybe in a hardware firewall almost always comes with a router.
 
Bob
Once again, they are conceptually separate and are often (usually?) separate in an enterprise environment.
Consumer devices just chuck everything in one general-purpose box.
The job of a router is to route packets. Not to filter them.
 
Does anyone use RSS Still? Looking for a good free application for OS X. Or even one that can just run in a terminal lol
 
2:26 AM
@SimonSheehan: I do
lots of feeds or a few?
 
@JourneymanGeek just a few!
 
@SimonSheehan: sputnik might work.
 
@JourneymanGeek i'll check it out!
 
Its a bit horrid for a poweruser since it dosen't hide 'empty' feeds
orrrrr....
 
I was hoping the mail application had it, but apparently apple just hates RSS :p
 
Bob
2:28 AM
welp. there goes the train stations
not sure if I should head out for lunch...
 
Surprisingly Apple Mail doesnt suck
 
runs a web based rss reader on @allquixotic's server
 
I could prolly create an account for you ._.
 
I'll give sputnik a shot, I'm not too picky on this one!
 
2:30 AM
ahh
 
but If i dont like it, I shall let you know
 
sputnik is nice
 
@JourneymanGeek that it is, im impressed
 
It makes RSS not look so primitive ;)
 
2:34 AM
(It also has a bunch of things I need missing. It gets annoying with you have a few hundred feeds, some of which haven't updated in ages)
I'm still looking for a good desktop rss feed reader with ttrss compatibility
and/or for them to add that to akregator.
 
ahhh
time to build one ;)
 
2:50 AM
lol
user image
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Bob
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good one lol
 
Bob
@HackToHell We need to arrange a star-fest.
@HackToHell Pinned.
 
3:31 AM
@Bob Aye \m/
 
Bob
Fifty thousand people lived here. Now it's a ghost town.
^ What Sydney CBD currently feels like
 
I think this counts down to UTC 0 correctly timeanddate.com/counters/newyear.html?p0=136
 
Bob
I really should go home :\
but apparently trains might not be running
 
3:57 AM
@Bob What's the occasion ?
 
Bob
@HackToHell I linked somewhere above.
Hostage situation in Sydney CBD...
 
3 hours ago, by Bob
@JourneymanGeek http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-clear-martin-place-after-gunman-holds-hostages-‌​at-lindt-chocolat-cafe-20141215-127824.html
Found it
Holy shit
Don't go out then :P
 
Bob
@HackToHell Already went out for lunch :P
> Fifty thousand people lived here. Now it's a ghost town.
^ What Sydney CBD currently feels like
 
Printing a 350 page paper.. thanks to duplexing only 175!
 
At least it's not due to radiation ;p
 
Bob
4:07 AM
@ekaj Make it 4 per side :P
 
@HackToHell: Ironically? I suspect radiation might be less annoying
 
Bob
4:24 AM
oh real fucking classy
fucking murdoch bullshit
no, it's not confirmed ISIS, and looks to be indirectly related at most
no, a giant "death cult cbd attack" headline does not help
 
5:06 AM
 
5:52 AM
@Bob: Pondering picking up YNAB if its on sale - how good/bad is it?
 
Bob
6:06 AM
@JourneymanGeek I'm lagging behind by a month or so now, but it's generally good :)
just haven't had the time to reconcile credit card statements
 
ahh
is it easy to use?
 
Bob
the Android app is decently usable too
yep, easy
 
which is a plus
 
Bob
I'm not really using it as intended though
 
Bob
6:07 AM
you're supposed to create budgets before
I'm more using it to track spending
 
Oh, that works for me
3 month rule and all ;p
 
Bob
lol
@JourneymanGeek would actually work well for saving
you're supposed to allocate, say, $50 per month to some category, then let it build up
 
Well, planning on restricting spending when I'm living with my parents to ~400 quid ;p
Oh, that's perfect ;p
 
Bob
doesn't really work for me because my income varies too much at the moment :P
 
(since that's how I buy stuff anyway)
 
Bob
6:08 AM
(uni semester => days worked per week varies by up to 5x)
 
Bob
but, yea, I think it would work best with steady income
 
My current pay is regular, but small ;p
 
Bob
the android app: perfect for adding amounts while you're out shopping, and syncs well
doesn't let you modify budgets or accounts though
 
That works fine for me
I don't have a good way of tracking small impluse buys ;p
 
Bob
6:10 AM
(tip: if you want to add a transfer from one account to another, on the desktop program there's an obvious button. on the app? you need to start typing "tra-" as the payee)
(took me >6 months of use to find that out -_-)
 
lol
I'll pick it up next steam sale then ;p
(there's a winter one coming up it seems)
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek yea, I got it around the time I started buying a bunch of random crap off ebay :P
 
Bob
the main advantage is it's pretty easy to use - but there are free options/alternatives that might even have more features
 
easy to use is a pretty important thing here. I'm lazy ;p
 
Bob
6:15 AM
@JourneymanGeek I do find it too much trouble to enter things sometimes though -_- - still, that's no different from other similar programs
 
Bob
if you want, you can actually import from bank statements. wouldn't recommend that - you'd still have to add categories manually
 
"Petty cash"
Yup
That would make my life easier ;p
catagories?
 
Bob
budget categories
there's some default ones
you can add your own
things like "groceries" or "tech stuff" or "spending money"
guess which one I added :P
I'm actually also using it to track subscriptions/bills
 
tech stuff? ;p
Well, I have a longer term plan to save for a razer blade.
 
Bob
6:19 AM
so far 5 people have been let go/escaped from the hostage situation
 
(Its kinda in the wierd part where it passed the 3 month rule, but I'm not sure if I want it yet. Can't hurt to decide once I can afford one ;p)
Thats interesting
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek razor? or something else?
oh, keyboard
 
lol
Laptop
 
Bob
they think there were 13 in there, but not confirmed yet
@JourneymanGeek o.O
 
Essentially its the gamer/pc equivilent of a MBP. Costly as heck, but specced out the gills ;p
 
Bob
6:20 AM
@JourneymanGeek and probably capable of starting a fire
<=== not a fan of "gaming" laptops
 
@Bob: Yeah ;p
But this is prolly laptop + 1 or + 2
(That's to say, I kinda want it, but not badly enough for it to be a priority. If I do get it, it'll be a 2015 or 2016 purchase)
 
Bob
heh
that's where I currently have the next Surface Pro placed :P
 
;p
I think a 850 on my desktop, some new batteries for my x220 (and moving the 840 there) and dualbooting linux feels like a sensible option
 
Bob
> Large increase of police presence near the scene. Media have been moved back further than before
uh oh
it's about time for me to leave
 
be safe
 
Bob
6:27 AM
it's less than 100m to the barrier from the building door... though that barrier is a good 150-200m away from the cafe, around a corner and across another street
@JourneymanGeek thanks... not expecting trouble though
just an unnaturally quiet CBD :P
@JourneymanGeek that reminds me, I really need to look into putting that SSD on the desktop to use
after that caching disaster...
 
;p
hmm, that's another option actually
 
Bob
the laptop cache is fine afaict, except that failure to boot that somehow resolved itself
 
sticking an msata SSD and using that for linux. Could get a cheapie one, but I'm not confident enough about the install process.
would be trivial to find somewhere to install it, especially if I up the ram at the same time
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek My msata cache is a huge help, and it's working well
though I haven't tried dual-booting
 
I do a dualboot with OSes on different drives
 
Bob
6:33 AM
@JourneymanGeek well, msata and sata are the same as far as software is concerned
 
Bob
Crowd's gotten bigger, wtf are they waiting for
Roads still closed, streets still quiet
I have never seen the CBD this empty before
...since when was there a Daiso here
 
6:57 AM
lol
 
Bob
7:37 AM
@JourneymanGeek It's amazing what you see when there isn't a lot of people -_-
 
7:54 AM
Wee, cleared
Do I get a hat now? O__O
 
Duuude you get a hat for showing up :-)
 
Uuuh, secret hat
 
I guess you do ;p
<--- SANTA CLAWSKI!
 
No, I guess the one I got is for something else
Doesn't go well with my avatar though
The phone booth crushes my pink ribbon
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A hat for a chat,
a hat for pictures of a cat,
a hat for this and that,
A Hat for Friday
A hat for sunday
A hat cause you showed up on one day
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A Hat for you
A hat for me
a hat for the dog
Who went outside to pee
Hats here,
hats there
Hat for people who do not care
A hat for those without any hair
The only thing that is hard with the hat
Is what your going to wear with that.
 
8:03 AM
Clearly. peeing in the house is uncivilised
 
@Bob So did they shoot em all and drag them out in body bags yet?
 
Bob
@Psycogeek ...please don't joke about that
anyway, I'm home now
hopefully it's resolved by tomorrow
...maybe I should pack lunch
 
8:18 AM
@Bob I meant the bad guys (of course).
 
Bob
@Psycogeek even then
don't need them becoming martyrs
 
Be a good citizen and go in there and clean-it-up it'll save the taxpayers 12 million dollers in court bs.
slip em some good dope in the back door, it will counter the negative effects of the caffiene and they will forget why they were there and go home.
 
@Bob The live news broadcasts have dried up here, has there been anything major since the 5 hostages got out?
 
Bob
@MichaelFrank Not that I know of.
still some live updates => abc.net.au/news/2014-12-15/…
> All the hostages now huddled at one end of Lindt Cafe, one is covering the window at that end with an apron
well. shit.
 
Thanks
Hope this gets resolved super fast
 
Bob
8:34 AM
Isn't looking that way :\
 
Twelve hats in less than nine hours
 
Not at all aye.
 
I'm really surprised at what I could achieve when I put my heart into it
 
@DragonLord Unreal Tournament?
Oh...
derp.
@DragonLord So are you talking hats in TF2?
 
@MichaelFrank No, I'm talking about Winter Bash
 
8:39 AM
Ahh, I think I got like 2 last year...
 
I got 6 last year
I'm doing this because I lost the last mod election by such a narrow margin
in Super User 2014 Election, May 7 at 0:21, by DragonLord
JMG finished with 449.53, Mokubai with 445.70, and I finished with 431.25.
...and because it's my passion and commitment to serve the community
 
I need one of those Eye Masks for my avatar :-) "Answered while sleeping" Get this hat for answering questions when you should have been in bed 3 hours ago.
 
Just for giggles...
!!/taytaytay
 
And a mug. "Commenting while drunk" Your comments do not make any sence, and are full of grammer and spelling errors. plus your a mean drunk :-)
 
9:16 AM
!!taytaytaycat
 
!!/info taytaytaycat
 
@DragonLord Command taytaytaycat, created by Tom Wijsman on Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:41:13 GMT, invoked 1 times
 
@ChatBotJohnCavil 2 times!
 
Bob
10:13 AM
On second thought, let's not post that.
 
10:44 AM
office has installed new $6k MFC printer. Shoved all trays with A4 papers. Try to print letter size: fails. Called IT, raised a complaint.
instead of conf w A4 & letter size, their reply: take screenshot & fit into A4 size. Ticket closed. Action: no action reqd. face, meet palm.
say hello to 'Katharine Smith'
no prizes for guessing where 'she' is from'
 
This is getting out of hand :(
O____O
 
dafuq
 
Bob
...what am I looking at here? O_O
 
16k log files
 
Bob
Chuck em all in an archive? :P
 
10:54 AM
Generated by some MSI. Apparently it is related to a buggy Visual Studio install or something
 
Bob
Someone needs to fix their log rollover.
 
@Bob They are recreated constantly
DEBUG: Error 2746:  Transform RTM.1 invalid for package C:\WINDOWS\Installer\3bf9c4f4.msi. Expected product {7781AFF2-D0BE-364B-B18A-D7DBEF8B712D}, found product {9C593464-7F2F-37B3-89F8-7E894E3B09EA}.
This seems to be the root issue. Maybe I just need to reinstall VS2013
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Q: Too many log files being created in Temp folder

achinthI am running Windows 8. Suddenly one day I got an error that C:\ is low on disk space. After doing lot of analysis found that every minute 4-5 log files are being written into Temp folder. File name is like "MSI1d567.log". Googled but did not get any answers. How do I stop the errors. Here are th...

> Thank you for your feedback, we are currently reviewing the issue you have submitted. If this issue is urgent, please contact support directly(support.microsoft.com)
How helpful :P
> Posted by Microsoft on 3/17/2014 at 6:36 PM
Nice
 
Bob
11:25 AM
@JourneymanGeek Not sure if it's the detergent or nib tweaking or both, but I think I fixed it :D
 
 
2 hours later…
1:02 PM
why pinging always timed out? but can browse it via browser
 
Bob
@JanakaRRajapaksha Browser = HTTP over TCP over IP
"Ping" = ICMP over IP
There's many firewalls that will block ICMP.
See the "tcpping" utility that attempts to reimplement ping with TCP
 
Smoke was coming out of my docking station... doesn't seem to work any longer
:(
Not sure why that happened. I just inserted a disk and poof
 
1:29 PM
00
 
Bob
You're supposed to catch it and put it back in.
 
@Bob ?
Catch what?
 
Bob
Magic smoke (also factory smoke or blue smoke) is a humorous name for the very strong, caustic smoke produced by overheating electronic circuits or components. The smoke typically smells of burning plastic and other chemicals, and sometimes contains specks of sticky black ash. The color of the smoke depends on which component is overheating. The name is a running in-joke that started among electrical engineers and technicians. It was more recently adopted by computer programmers. The joke's humor operates via the logical consistency of what is observed, versus knowledge of what is actually occurring...
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Ha ha
Good to know
 
That might help
Ugh
There we are
Its good to abuse unlimited edit rights on chat ;p
 
1:46 PM
lol thanks
i think i have warranty on this
 
Oops
clearly smartphones aren't designed for dogs
 
Is there a reason why the backlit on keyboard turns off after wake on sleep or restart
So annoying
 
2:39 PM
lol
My ol blackwidow occationally has the backlight on when I turn off my desktop.
End up having to switch off the PSU (it has a hardware switch) and holding down the power button
 
3:05 PM
"Why half of the users doesn't have avatars"? Because Ghostery. =/
 
Anyone excited about the upcoming Hobbit movie?
 
Not really
0_0
I hit something and
!!taytaytay
 
@JourneymanGeek Became magically transformed into Taylor Swift?
(This looks like the plot of some anime, but then we already have talking dogs and whatnot...)
 
3:25 PM
;p
Naw, that's clearly Becky
Also, that would be so derivative of ranma ;p
 
Becky who?
 
3:43 PM
TIL @JourneymanGeek is a Ranma 1/2 character, a computer geek who turns into a schnauzer when he hits something
 
;p this may explain a lot
 
He's supposed to have a dog called Ash, but suspiciously the two have never been photographed seen together on RA
 
4:44 PM
Somehow I feel like I'm in Root Swift or Taylor Access.
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I wish I was in Root Swift...
Preferably the younger, curlier version.
@ThatBrazilianGuy Yes, very much so. But it's not really upcomming anymore, is it?
 
Well, Google says it will be released Dec. 17, so I guess @Bob has already watched it in a movie theater by now?
 
It premiered here on the 10th
I am going to see it on thursday. And I am quite excited about it
In fact, the only thing that would make me more excited about it would be rumors about a Taylor Swift cameo..
..as a hobbit!
..with shaved feet!
 
Damn it... it premiered here last Thursday.
@Kristian That's a really specific (and weird!) fetish you have but... to each his own, I guess
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy That's okay. I am quite specific (and weird!)
 
4:53 PM
I'm a bit generic, but quite weird nonetheless :P
 
I am quite specific about generic weirdness..
also, why am I still at work? I was supposed to leave an hour ago :|
and I haven't done any work for the past hour
 
@Kristian Because it is > 40 degrees celsius outside? Oh no, that's me.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy I wish...
 
Forgive him $deity, he does not know what he wishes for.
 
it's < 5 degrees celsius outside. That might also be a reason why, however.
 
4:58 PM
Wanna trade? Because I do.
 
Yes!
 
> Thermal sensation in Rio can reach 49 ° C on Wednesday
Heat accumulation is about estado.Segundo meteorology, there is no forecast of rain.
49 ° C (120.2 degrees Fahrenheit)
And we're still 3 months away from the peak of the summer
 
Me: "Weird... 36, 37, 41... Almost like herOHWAITITSFAHRENHEIT"
weather.com/wx/today?locid=BRXX0201:1:BR&locale=en_US Today is actually quite bearable, but last week was hellish
 
Well, I wanted to cater to non-SI weirdness :P
who needs meaningful standards for measurements anyway!
And now. I'm going home! Bye!
 
5:07 PM
@Kristian Apparently, (n-1) where n = countries of the world
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Bye
I'm going to lunch
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy I'm loving that comment ! <3
as they say; It's US versus them.
 
@Kristian (edited) ;P
 
5:20 PM
@ThatBrazilianGuy Gulp... Is this real?
 
5:34 PM
> "Who dares seek to cross the Southbridge?!"

"It is I, Sir Asus Maximus of Bios. I have returned from the Raids. I have faced the Ram of Dimm and survived the CrossFire of Sli! I now seek to cross the channel, as I have important intel for the seat of Rom! Please, allow me across the southbridge!"
5
Source: That site
 
"Very well, good Sir Knight, but first you must answer me these questions 0000 0011." WTF? :)
 
> You're a wizard now, Harry. Use your wand and scan these documents
Is this site for real?
>
woot asks
Do you have a problem with recursion?

Do you have a problem with recursion?
Do you have a problem with recursion?
Do you have a problem with recursion?
Do you have a problem with recursion?
break;
 
>
HP Laptops

Unlike the sauce, this is not delicious on shepherd's pie.
 
@CanadianLuke You shall not paasssss!
 
5:40 PM
@Boris_yo Because I kept falling asleep trying to watch the LotR series, I only know that line from the Epic Rap Battle with Gandalf vs Dumbledore (NSFW)
 
@CanadianLuke Oh my...
 
@Boris_yo Oh I know what it's taken from. I was WTF'ing the fact someone would put that on a shopping site. ;)
 
Techie (since I can't @ you), check out the bottom of the page, with their disclaimer...
 
@CanadianLuke Yeah those extended characters are mean. ;) That site is like a site of wanna-be comedians doing product reviews.. Good times......?
 
5:47 PM
Fun reads, for sure... But I'm shaking my head enough that I'll need to contact my chiropractor when I'm done
> None of that makes any sense to me. What is Woot?
Why didn't you say something earlier? OK, so Woot is a group of ecommerce sites that launched with Woot.com in 2004 and has since expanded to specialize in various other product types. You can get to those sites through the links at the top of this page. Each one caters to a different product category. In that way, we're kind of like a catering company. Or actually, no, we don't do anything like what a catering company does, except use the word "cater" occasionally, so never mind. Woot is nothing like a catering company.
> What?!? You consider today's product a computer? It doesn't even have (a power cord/buttons/a screen/etc.)!
When you're in the business of providing great tech deals 365 days a year, sometimes you have to interpret "computer" a little more broadly than the typical circuit-head might. Like, take us, me and you: Are we not just fleshy computers ourselves, biding our time here on this network that is Earth, waiting for the day when our motherboard ceases to pulse life through our veiny circuitry? Okay, that's grim. But at least we're wireless! Suck on that, desktops!
 
@Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Good times ;) Makes shopping experience more fun affecting our emotions because people buy when they feel good. Agenda!
@CanadianLuke Why chiropractor?
 
@Boris_yo Shaking my head so much
 
@CanadianLuke You shake your head because reads are fun?
 
Some are, but come on! Some are just ridiculous!
 
@CanadianLuke How are they compared to Saturday Night?
 
5:54 PM
I don't watch SNL
 
6:05 PM
Tetris @ Tue:
What else do you need a tall building for?
 

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