> For reasons that have been eaten by a wildebeest, “almost standards mode” is also called “strict” mode, even though it is less strict than standards mode.
> An interpretation of the remaining errors is left as an exercise to the reader. Note that understanding the eighth error requires a Ouija board, the eye of a newt, and the whispering of a secret to a long-lost friend.
> You do an Internet search for potential solutions, and you’re confronted with a series of contradictory, ill-founded opinions: your browser has a virus; your virus has a virus; you should be using Emacs; you should be using vi, and this is why your marriage is loveless.
@DragonLord Bingo. And that is why government involvement is the opposite of a good thing. Big corporations love being able to use the government to tilt the playing field forward, backwards and sideways. The big corporation adapts in the short term while its competitors are defeated through regulation instead of competition. Then, maybe the big corporation tries to get the regulation redacted later because the threat has passed.
Lets be honest people. Microsoft knows software. They might not know anything except software but the know software :-)
depends who you asked what they do or don't know
Anyways....So at work my workstation has a problem with the secure url on every SE website. Any way I can bypass the Login url and go straight to the OAuth page?
@DragonLord - They can request exactly what they want then order huge numbers of them
GHOST (CVE-2015-0235) just popped up. How can I quickly check if a system of mine is secure? Ideally with a one line shell command.
According to the ZDNet article "you should then reboot the system". Ideally the test would also indicate this...
During routine review queue patrols, I noticed that several microsoft-excel questions were being voted to close as off-topic:
http://superuser.com/review/close/335558
http://superuser.com/review/close/335491
http://superuser.com/review/close/335531
http://superuser.com/review/close/335561
In ...
It is not the only ones, "were not a excell script writing service" Well actually we are, and it Has worked out pretty darn well that there is are people willing to cover (is it? ) most excell questions with full answers that only apply to the one thing the person is doing.
So if someone wanted to get all semantic about it, or cross apply various other "herassments" about other questions, they could be classed that way :-( script writing or to localised to what the one person is doing, or off topic being not applicable to a larger audience.
The beauty of the excell questions is the quantity of people answering and helping people , and the large base of people who can answer them. Via the rules this could be allowed or Destroyed :-(
If I plug a line or USB microphone into my PC, I can record audio at 44.1kHz. That's one sample of audio about every 23 microseconds. The audio wave must be sampled and played back precisely or it will sound distorted. How do non-realtime OSes manage the very time-sensitive process of audio recor...
they are doing that here to (US) , that and requiring specific responces to questions in speech. the program is only accepting of the specified phrase. So saying "Gimme a fucking human", does not elicit a responce (for some strange reason:-)
I want to re-size the bounding box for an existing block of text. I found that by holding down the CTRL key on Windows, it will let you scale the text block, but I just want to resize the bounds of the text not scale it.
I've already looked at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd...
If I plug a line or USB microphone into my PC, I can record audio at 44.1kHz. That's one sample of audio about every 23 microseconds. The audio wave must be sampled and played back precisely or it will sound distorted. How do non-realtime OSes manage the very time-sensitive process of audio recor...
Does anyone know of anything that fits my requirements? from the second might be supported by 5 3-Klers, but maybe I'm to obsessed in my aversion to recmmendation questions, I did see to much spam on those in the 10k tools on SO
So... I was asked to convert some images (a copy of the letterhead) to a smaller size suitable for email signatures.
Given a 2.6 MB TIFF.
Ok, I can work with this.
Photoshop, PNG-8 (palettes), export for web. Boom.
Nice 50kB file. Almost perfect quality.
Text and solid colours, great for PNG.
Insert into Outlook.
Outlook...
It converts to JPG.
Now it's big. And looks like shit.
More than that... apparently Outlook thinks it's being funny and decides to scale the image because of course an image in an email designed for web use needs to be scaled to a certain DPI and what do you mean it's not going to be printed IT NEEDS A DPI AND BY GOD IT WILL HAVE ONE
So, not only does it look like shit from the PNG => JPG conversion, it looks even worse because it's been scaled from who-even-knows (unspecified...) to a DPI of 96 and what the hell does that even mean for an image that's not going to be printed?
@Bob I recently moved to writing all our email signatures by hand and dropping them in the %appdata%/microsoft/signatures folder. We also use a .png, no problem with that part, other than that you have to remember to set that one registry key to get Outlook 2013 to actually send the damn image
@Bob I found that Outlook's behavior regarding images is vastly different when composing as HTML vs. as "Rich Text", not sure which you've tried or if you tried both
in HTML mode, in Outlook 2010, I can Insert -> Picture a PNG and have it take up a very small amount of space and be preserved at 100% fidelity, literally embedding the PNG into the HTML
in Rich Text mode, Word does God-knows-what to absolutely wreck the email in every way
@bummi I have no idea what he's actually asking... is he just asking for a photo or is he asking what the devices that got merged with hubs to create modern network switches are?
My mouse is quite good, but unfortunately the USB wireless receiver is as big as an adult's little finger (pinky). It breaks easily when the laptop is moved. I want a micro receiver and the company does not make those for my model of the mouse.
Okay, I already saw this question and it does not ...
@DragonLord what do you ever write on your blog that isn't publicly available anyway? I don't see the point of disabling SSL; all it can do is harm you if you're on an unsecured wifi hotspot and someone uses FireSheep on you, sniffs the password and defaces your blog. If you want the government to snoop on you, keep in mind that your site's contents are publicly accessible even with SSL on. I really don't get the point of your discussion there.
@DragonLord I'm not sure how to reply to that...? If your account needed to be suspended, a mod would've done it. They are really on top of that kind of thing, especially for a user as visible as you.
Take the fact that your account is still active as a ringing confirmation of your positive contributions to the community from the mods :P
If they will eat a user for making one or two spam posts within ~5 minutes, what do you think they'd do to a veteran user who's made many thousands of posts and reviews, if they were a problem?
aaaand it's at this point that I'll just mention that there are qualified people who are able to help you with problems like these if you feel that "something isn't right" -- they'll help you find out what, and to address it.
feel free to blow it off if you think you're fine, but I had to throw it out there
@DragonLord More than anything we are concerned for you. If you need us to do something to help you we can, but you are a good contributor and so we have no reason to even think of suspending you. If you think you need a "timeout" then perhaps as @allquixotic mentions you need to first seek qualified professional help to find out what the root problem is...
Or just take the timeout voluntarily and see if it helps... honestly, I've reached the point before where I really didn't feel like I was "right" for SU, where I got unlucky (or had a bad day) and people started questioning my decisions, complaining in comments, etc.... I ended up just taking a short break (several days to a week) and came back refreshed and fine
@DragonLord Don't get hung up on things like that, time passes, chat and the site moves on, and people forget. Let now be what counts. As far as I've ever seen your contributions are solid and good so you've nothing to be sorry for.
In the words of the penguin from Fight Club: "slide". Just let it all go and see where your determination and fate takes you.
and this is why I don't think I could be a mod -- I'd feel pressured by the implied responsibility to do more on SE than I really have the time / willpower for... as a "regular user", I just do whatever I want to do, and no more
in my opinion that's really the only sustainable way to do something -- if you're not doing it for yourself; i.e., if you're doing it for someone else, you're gonna get burned out
(where sustainable = over many years)
besides, we already have more than enough McNamara in the SU moderatorship
everything else is absolutely horrible and mortgaging the future for the present etc etc, but at least we can buy headphones with our tax returns
@Mokubai I can! my Meelec cans seem to be responsible for the bluetooth dropouts and weirdness I keep getting with my Note 4 (and Galaxy S5, and Droid Maxx...)
I do virtualization, I do pro audio, I do video composition, I do high-end gaming, I do coding... pretty busy system
kinda worried about my storage subsystem mostly. four 7200rpm 4TB HDDs in hardware RAID10 -- definitely no problem with redundancy or storage capacity, but concerned it will be loading stuff too slowly compared to an SSD
maybe I can just tack on a Samsung 850 Pro 1 TB on the mobo's SATA controller and use that for the OS and programs
although back in '08 I had a dedi on a Core 2 Quad with Linux md doing RAID5 and I'd get terrible CPU bottlenecks... the MD subsystem would eat 100% CPU for long periods while calculating parity, blocking all I/O when the queues fill up, for several seconds, when doing intensive writes
what would happen would be like... I dunno... writing a 2 GB ISO image... you'd get fast writes for the first ~500 MB or so, then all writes would be blocked system-wide for like 7 seconds while it processed the buffers, then rinse and repeat
if they fixed the bottleneck, or if it was hardware-specific, then yay
but in '08, RAID parity calculations were killer on the CPU and a major source of bottleneck
you didn't even have to write a lot of data, if the access pattern were very random, since it has to tear up the entire stripe and recalculate parity for the whole stripe each time any write is made
The entire product portfolio available In the UK&I Sofon catalog contains over 1000 configurable products from IS, US and PCMS. We have also added products from Respironics
From IS (imaging systems): maybe a handfull From US (UltraSound, which can be claimed as part of IS): 1 product also from Respironics (both of them?)
Still, I need to learn to write censoredcreative like that.
GHOST (CVE-2015-0235) just popped up. How can I quickly check if a system of mine is secure? Ideally with a one line shell command.
According to the ZDNet article "you should then reboot the system". Ideally the test would also indicate this...
During routine review queue patrols, I noticed that several microsoft-excel questions were being voted to close as off-topic:
http://superuser.com/review/close/335558
http://superuser.com/review/close/335491
http://superuser.com/review/close/335531
http://superuser.com/review/close/335561
In ...
My mouse is quite good, but unfortunately the USB wireless receiver is as big as an adult's little finger (pinky). It breaks easily when the laptop is moved. I want a micro receiver and the company does not make those for my model of the mouse.
Okay, I already saw this question and it does not ...
