« first day (2099 days earlier)      last day (2911 days later) » 

12:32 AM
@SahibPrime "feelings" have no place in computing.
Check.
Find the bottlenecks.
0_0
2
A: How can I best browse without using my hands?

NonlinearFruitBrowse the Internet with Buckets of Water Yes, anything BUT hands is possible and a scrolling script could work This is a Windows solution that utilizes Autohotkey and this instructable for setting up a Makey Makey. Note, you can use Makey Makey with something less messy than buckets of wat...

 
@allquixotic Be sure to let us know when the problem is addressed and unpin the message when it's time.
 
annoyingly, I want one of these for the sheer lulziness of it dx.com/p/…
 
Bob
1:00 AM
o.O
 
there's also 3 footpedal variations
 
1:11 AM
Which actually might work for mom
"Ok, left footpedal for single click. Centre foot pedal for doubleclick"
 
you mean we've done too many google queries? from the chat.SE server?
 
Hi @Burgi! Congrats on 2K today :)
Or yesterday, since UTC
 
thanks!
i think i might flip flop to and fro over the 2k barrier for a few days though until i get another couple of upvotes or something
 
 
1 hour later…
3:07 AM
 
!!wat
 
4:12 AM
How stable or not is Windows 10 Insider Preview (slow ring)?
I've been looking into making the jump.
(Bear in mind that this laptop is my flagship system and I have no other computers that presently run Windows.)
Is this too much of a risk to take?
...you know what? I'm going to make the jump but start in the Release Preview ring. Probably not today, though, as one assignment depends on a highly specialized software package that could break if the system is upgraded.
...disregard. This may not even be allowed by the license as Windows Insider Preview is not allowed to be deployed in production.
I'll have to set up a separate machine for testing.
 
 
1 hour later…
5:36 AM
heh. There's a newbie who is hunting bounties
And his answers seem decent
0_0
0
Q: Windows 8.1 64 Bit OS

Nilanjan GogoiI purchased a windows 8.1 64bit OS recently and am facing a problem after boot up of the machine. Getting some popups related to .dll missing, the specific DLL which is getting popped up frequently is coworkerinbreathing.dll. Any leads regarding this would be appreciated !

 
5:53 AM
@Bob just got an email from the "new" Dick Smith online only store.
 
Bob
@MichaelFrank Yea. Kogan.
 
6:09 AM
Yup. I aftually didn't realise he was using the Dick Smith name.
 
 
2 hours later…
Bob
8:22 AM
Well then...
 
 
1 hour later…
9:24 AM
@Bob medical emergency + train repairs... someone got hit by a train?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Separate locations.
And times.
 
@Bob maybe it took them a while to notice?
 
Bob
Artarmon notice came before I left Wynyard.
Wollstonecraft notice came when I was at Waverton (the station just before...)
@JourneymanGeek Well, the mechanical issues came first, and at a later station :P
 
maybe the guy who got hit by a train didn't notice initially?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Though... they did say they were waiting for the ambulance on Twitter. So... hit by a train is possible.
Cause if it were just a 'normal' medical issue I would've expected them to just move off the train and let services continue.
Then again we started moving ~4 mins after they said waiting for the ambulance.
Hm. I've been clicking on too many of @HackToHell's links. Searching for train medial emergencies gives me a page of Indian news sites.
Even with the Sydney suburb specified...
> If there is a medical emergency where a customer cannot be moved, then the train must remain at the station until medical assistance arrives.
@JourneymanGeek Nearly finished the Uprising challenges... and almost out of games :P
 
9:32 AM
lol
I'm kinda stuck on the carrier, and desolator missions
 
morning
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Harbinger takes care of carrier mission easily
...same with desolator tbh :P
Wall off your refineries to stop the shinobis
 
if it is suicide they tend to say that in the announcements
at least in the uk they do
 
10:23 AM
@Bob I got the kirovs mostly under control
walls of AA
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Eh. Apollos did the job :P
Though now I'm looking at the Kirov mission... yea might need more than a couple Apollos. Jet Tengu spam maybe?
 
If they're coming one at a time 4-8 overlapping russian AA guns seem to work
 
Bob
4-8 Apollos work too and is more flexible :P
 
what game are you playing?
 
spam
 
Bob
10:33 AM
@Burgi RA3 Uprising
 
that was quick... i wasn't even able to click the flag button!
ah
 
@DavidPostill Taken care of
 
10:50 AM
Very sneaky audit superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/530510 almost impossible to see the changes (other than the title) ;)
 
its all in the code block?
not sure i can be bothered with GoT this season
 
@Burgi Yes.
You have to scroll the code blocks, or switch to markdown view.
 
i don't think I have had an audit check on edits yet
 
11:06 AM
@Burgi Most of them are obvious - that one is very sneaky
 
Ell
Hi folks
 
@JourneymanGeek you and your screw propelled vehicles!
 
Ell
11:23 AM
Anybody here magic with xrandr? :3
 
11:56 AM
sadly not
 
is it polling day today or something?
 
Yes
At least in Scotland
 
crap, brb going to go vote
 
Vote for the guy who you never hear on the news (hes usually the best candidate)
 
Lol
I had no idea it was polling day till people started posting about it on Facebook while I was at work
 
12:44 PM
!!/google is google still broken?
yep
 
Bob
poking it ain't gonna help, y'know.
 
Says, like, the only guy who can fix it
 
back
@GuitarShoeDave it is local council elections so i've never heard of any of them
 
hehe @bob :D
 
i tend to go for the party that most closely aligns with my views
 
Bob
12:58 PM
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface allq can :P
There really isn't an easy fix for this
 
in england we have a silly almost but not quite democratic system where as scotland has a much better proportional representation system
what is up with the bot? i thought it was just the server IP address that was blocked?
 
@Burgi Most of them are obvious - that one is very sneaky
 
@DavidPostill yeah you mentioned that earlier
 
@Bob: Got my dbrand skins today
 
Bob
How is it?
 
1:07 PM
So so. Looks really good, fits really well. Not really a huge help with the slipperyness though
 
@Burgi Strange. Ah. I restarted my browser and the text was still in the box so I thought it hadn't been sent ;)
 
Not had a chance to try it under different conditions though
I'll have a more detailed verdict for you once I've had a chance ot try it outside and using it horizontally
It's a textured vinyl back that I got, so it "feels" stripey, like brushed aluminium
I got the front in matte black which just has a rough, hard, leathery texture
Neither of which are really any grippier than any typical plastic surface.
 
Bob
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Ah... they had matte ones iirc
Better than glass? :P
 
@Bob it feels like a more resilient grip when you're holding the whole phone with your hand around both sides.
But when just balancing the phone with the back on the tips of your fingers, it's not really better. In some cases, worse.
For some reason when I was in Thailand the back glass was super grippy. Probably as a result of additional sweat or moisture on my skin. But it was grippy enough I could balance it on my fingers while on a moving motorcycle with no fears of it slipping off.
On dry-ish skin, the dbrand is definitely less grippy than the plastic backs on the S3/S4/S5 for example. I'd put it on par with the S2.
Overall verdict at this point would be unless you're looking primarily for a cosmetic skin or pseudo-screen/back protector, I would not recommend.
It's not a bad product by any means, but the plastic wrapper it came in is far grippier than the skin itself
 
Bob
1:33 PM
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface :\
That's... somewhat disappointing.
 
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface and that's somewhat funny :-)
 
@Bob Yeah, and the matte black front one makes my phone look cheap and plasticky... :-P
It definitely deals with the fingerprint magnet problem though
On the plus side, the adhesive is exceptionally strong, yet residue free, slip free, and can be easily reused.
If only they'd used whatever they used on the back on the front as well I'd be sold :-P
 
why does having hayfever make me feel so sleepy during the day?
 
Bob
2:00 PM
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface maybe swap the two around? :P
sounds like the front has better grip
 
@Bob I meant the back of the skin not the back skin
aka the adhesive backing
 
@Burgi upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/… foreign object damage :-) and drugs.
I would far rather allow the body to extract such things.
 
i think the pills mess with a certain hormone that also regulates sleep
 
Oh. Duh.
Antihistamines? Probably.
 
yes
 
2:07 PM
Someone trying to sell me something asked me if I was singaporean.
Twice.
 
they were trying to sell you?
 
I got annoyed enough to ask "What? Don't I sound singaporean?" In my annoyed psudoenglish accent.
Actually, was a dodgy investment product
so... slightly possibly accurate.
in pyramid schemes, the next schmuck is the product.
 
For sale, one slightly used @JourneymanGeek. Decent mileage, one lady owner, will work for dog biscuits. Full service history.
 
ahem
bespoke home made whole wheat ones.
Not that store bought garbage
And cheese. Not that plastic things.
And boiled peas.
 
2:13 PM
@Bob "why Apple hasn’t been sued yet, it’s because the iTunes Terms of Use vaguely warn of this issue." Court systems are made up of humans, don't let a little TOU stop you, if those humans are tired of the same things they will judge accordingly.
 
Bob
@Psycogeek Ya, the real reason they haven't been sued is cause no one can afford it...
 
more like.
 
google could
 
This is why my music is backed up in triplicate
 
or maybe the government through a class action
the simple solution to this is not to use the apple music subscription
 
2:18 PM
yup
 
In other news, AdBlock now is making a way to pay web-sites . If the web sites (general) had controlled thier own ads , the extended use of adblock was way less likely to occur. They splattered and spammmed and frauded, and obnoxioused and even malwared us into it.
 
not sure if i should clean this keyboard or just bin it and get a new one
 
One could say a "few" websites messed it up for everyone, but it is more like "few" websites ever controlled thier own ads (thats way old school)
 
@Burgi depends. Have the crud gained sentience yet?
 
don't think so...
 
2:24 PM
Do you want to cleanse the keyboard....
With fire?
 
2:36 PM
i just wiped it with a damp cloth, the stuff that came off the keyboard was gross
 
so weird, it was 76*F yesterday (california), today it is Hailing, and was about 70* before.
 
3:14 PM
OK, I seriuosly need help. I installed the wrong vídeo drivers and now my work PC won't boot.
 
-_-
Safe mode, video driver uninstaller.
 
> Merge says the antivirus froze access to crucial data acquired during the heart catheterization. Unable to access real-time data, the app crashed spectacularly.

The company claims that they included proper instructions in their documentation, advising companies to whitelist Merge Hemo's folders in order to prevent crashes from happening, so it seems that the whole incident was nothing more than an oversight on the medical unit's side.
Fail?
 
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Yeah, I figured about safe mode. Trying to remove the package I installed using dnf
 
All "critical" pieces of equipment should be designed to be fail-safe. Crashing "spectacularly" in the event of a second or so of delay in communication is... spectacularly bad design.
 
3:25 PM
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface I'm on Linux, but thanks
That toolight be useful later
I managed to boot into Fedora and manually remove the kmod nvidia drivers
I hadn't removed nouveau so it still boots :D
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy Oooooh
Would have been useful to mention that a bit earlier...
 
my interview has just been postpone for a day... :S
 
3:42 PM
So, I'm back, and the bug I had before that made me switch drivers in the first place... Is gone! 0_o
0
Q: Corrupted video drivers causing x to go insane

That Brazilian GuyI think X is borked. It's been working for months, then suddenly: There's an extra, immobile mouse cursor stuck on the screen. CTRL + ALT + Fn doesn't work. The screen stops responding, but I can still type commands "in the dark" and they work. All the while, I keep seeing the screen as it was ...

New month, time for a new avatar!
Test
dafuq
Sense it does make not.
 
I see the new one
 
I only see it besides the message box. The chat room shows the old one.
 
Chat room now shows an error box for me.
Meh, it takes a while for the various caches to update
 
CTRL + F5 doesn't work.
Wait, now it does!
 
4:08 PM
@ThatBrazilianGuy is so tiny, crop the whitespace. doesnt fedora have a paint program :-)
 
@Psycogeek Pero señor, soy brasileño, I am mucho lazy! I'll do that after la siesta, si?
 
El sombrero es bono.
 
¿Qué es él?
 
4:23 PM
!!trump
 
@jokerdino Bono y su sombrero.
9 mins ago, by jokerdino
El sombrero es bono.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy Yo veo.
 
@Psycogeek Done. Now I'm wearing an even bigger sombrero.
 
4:40 PM
that works
 
4:56 PM
0
Q: Turning off/disabling white flickering line on LCD monitor

PandacoderOut of the blue yesterday while I was watching a video a white flickering line appeared on my monitor. It starts at around maybe 2-3 pixels on the right side and goes down to what looks like 1 pixel on the left. I know it is not my GPU or the DVI cable going to the monitor because this line is s...

These tell a lot. "Can't we just Hide this stuff and go on ?" lol, i would forever know it was there myself.
Similar: well I have 20 processes (virus/malware/toolbar/crap) running that shouldn't be, but until it stops my computer cold, it is all Ok.
Next week same user: I have 1/2 of my monitor blocked off with Post-It notes, do you think it is about time to address the real problem?
 
Are images we post in this chat temporary and have countdown deletion timer?
 
@Boris_yo they live forever. too long even sometimes.
 
How are there videos on YouTube that are up to 480p but video downloaders offer them up to 1020p?
Why would YouTube hide them?
 
lol. I was looking for the first image posted in RA and noticed that @Sathya posted a NSFW image ;)
 
5:16 PM
 
Ell
hi
 
@Ell hi
 
5:47 PM
@Psycogeek removed.png
 
Morning all
 
6:22 PM
Is there a cmd command that requires admin privileges by default??
I need it to test something...
 
Ell
(that's a joke, don't attempt that)
 
6:45 PM
@Ell remove it please.
 
Ell
I can't
I'm not a mod.
 
All right, I will do it for ya.
Hm, who flagged that?
 
@RahulBasu I think su does
 
@RahulBasu What OS?
net session Administrator privileges are required to run the NET SESSION command, if run from a non-elevated session it will return an ERRORLEVEL = 5 Access is Denied.
 
7:11 PM
I am a duck
@RahulBasu runas /user:administrator
@Ell What was?
@jokerdino Damn, I missed something interesting?
@ThatBrazilianGuy su is not a cmd command
I am a duck
4
 
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface nothing really happened.
 
Catty McDuckface?
 
7:27 PM
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface It was an infamous Linux command
 
I think I upset Ramhound :/
 
 
1 hour later…
9:09 PM
@DavidPostill i don't think that is very difficult to do...
 
9:43 PM
@Burgi yea, pretty much just saying "that's wrong" is enough.
@DavidPostill Jeez that question though.... ha
 
@MichaelFrank How did you guess ;)
 
round about 2pm in the afternoon UK time i've noticed he comes on and is very grumpy for an hour or so then maybe the coffee kicks and the grumpiness fades...
 
@Burgi It only happened a couple of hours ago ...
 
i said the grumpiness fades, i never said it went away completely
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy funsubstance.com
 
Ell
9:55 PM
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface it was a sue do space are em space dash are eff space dash dash no dash preserve dash root space forward slash :P
 
Hey I was wondering if It was possible to make a device that is usually not able to access the wifi range able to connect to it using a device in a middle (between the router and the device that is in the wifi's range). The device in the middle is a linux box. With routing, would it be possible to set the middle device to act like the router(be the gateway for the far away PC and forward the traffic to the real router and finally forward the replies from the real router that far away device
 
@BobEbert Short answer; Yes.
 
@BobEbert It's easier just to use a wireless repeater ;)
 
It is in order to learn linux and networking haha + it is always good to know how in case I need something like it (when I don't have the perticular hardware such as the wireless repeater)!
 
is it worth asking for this question to be locked to stop iffy answers like it is attracting?
 
10:04 PM
Could any of you expans a bit on it because I have been reading routing for a while and all the answers I see are about commecting 2 subnets together (ping the other subnet)
 
3
Q: TeamViewer: protocol negotiation failed

Ash KingProtocol negotiation failed. Please try again After scouring the internet, I have not had any luck in finding what causes this issue. I have tried so far the following: restart teamviewer enabled windows logon for all users (This popped up in a few posts I have read) Re-installed + updated ...

 
@Burgi It's a bad question (too broad). But the answers aren't too bad.
 
kk
hmmm... Lernkurve is adding a load of <kbd> tags to posts
 
@Burgi Yeah, I've been rejecting as "no improvement"
 
10:20 PM
i wouldn't have noticed but i got like 5 in a row from him
 
@bwDraco you mean you going to have to start putting reviews on your site so nvidea (and others) send you cool boxes of free hardware :-)
 
AMD will start with 8C/16T for Zen. 4C/8T parts will likely come later.
I have already taken the update.
Folks, patching this requires updating the baseband. You'll need to grab the latest factory image and flash the baseband at the bootloader using fastboot flash radio.
...or actually, the vendor image (fastboot flash vendor). This, too, is in the factory image.
 
10:47 PM
@DavidPostill was this the comment you think upset him?
@DavidPostill - When will I learn to walk away from certain types of users, before I bang my head against my desk out of frustration, and have to explain to my boss why its broken? * I should point out, that I left "it" intentionally vague, in a lame attempt to be funny. — Ramhound 3 hours ago
 
Kind of. He said something wasn't possible (comment deleted). And I responded with
@Ramhound You can use netsh wlan show profiles name=profilename key=clearDavidPostill 3 hours ago
etc
 
11:00 PM
fair enough
 
silly question but my mind is feeling fuzzy
does VGA allow for HD images?
 
@Burgi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA 3rd paragraph suggests that it does.
 
thanks
my head is feeling all.... like being tipsy without the fun of alcohol
 
11:16 PM
0
Q: 1920x1080 resolution over VGA

kylehotchkissIt's been a long time since I've last played with VGA but I know that the standard doesn't just do every resolution out there - I was wondering if the graphics card can support it (computer is an iMac, not an issue) - if a VGA connection can actually handle a resolution of 1920x1080 or if DVI is ...

@Burgi
 
ty
 
That's essentially the maximum most monitors do over a VGA connector
 
11:32 PM
did you see the win 3.1 question?
why does superman fly with his fist out in front of him....
heads over to scifi.se
 
which win 3.1 question?
 
0
Q: Error while installing Windows 3.1

SteveDevI'm trying to install Windows 3.1 on an old machine with already formated hard drive to fat16 (5 GB capacity). I'm booting ms-dos from floppy drive than booting setup from the hard drive but on the setup screen there is an error saying you need atleast 6MB to install Windows, but i have more than...

 
25
Q: Why does Superman put one or both arms up when he flies?

Monty129When Superman flies his typical position is either one arm, or both out in front of him (either flat palm or fist closed) There are occasions where he does fly with his arms at his sides (usually when he's going for maximum velocity) Obviously he doesn't have to worry about aerodynamics...

 
Also, ooh, the search box now has a fancy glow when you mouseover it
 
That is lulzy and trivial to test.
 
11:51 PM
is there a question sandbox on SU Meta?
 
Like a place you can keep a draft of a question?
 
yeah, i have an idea for a question but it might be a broad
 
Questions on meta are usually given some more leeway when it comes to broadness
Or do you mean you want to seek advice on meta for a question to be posted on main?
 
@BenN yes that
 
Ah, usually chat helps with that, if you can find a way to share the question text
 
11:56 PM
righto, let me go make a drink and compile it
 
I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.
 

« first day (2099 days earlier)      last day (2911 days later) »