Root Access

Bob

2:00 PM

@Kristian oneboxing

Journeyman Geek

XKCD is oneboxed automatically

Kristian

help me...

Bob

29

Q: Which links and sites are handled specially in chat?

There is special linking to some sites in chat. What is the full list of supported and integrated sites? Return to FAQ index

Kristian

too many tabs in my browser containing things I need to read about

I'm not gonna set up that new router today, am I? :/

Bob

O_O TIL Ubuntu manpages are oneboxed

sl - display animations aimed to correct users who accidentally enter sl instead of ls.

sl Displays animations aimed to correct users who accidentally enter sl instead of ls. SL stands for Steam Locomotive.

Kristian

2:01 PM

I'm having WAY too much fun here :)

Bob

@Kristian Too many tabs? Hah!

Where's that screenshot...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

Journeyman Geek

s/close/open s/Are you sure you want to continue/WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?

Kristian

there it is ^

Journeyman Geek

2:04 PM

Mind if I ninja edit that?

Kristian

go right on

Journeyman Geek

Better

Bob

Current tab count on this computer: 239

Kristian

but dont you DARE comment on the unsmooth edges of my homemade favicon for the intranet tab

Journeyman Geek

(Click and use the full link with the name. Or upload if you want to use SE's special imgur - with no expiry)

Bob

2:05 PM

@Kristian Tip: save as PNG-24 with transparency

Kristian

wait, what?

I need a link for that SE imgur

Journeyman Geek

Just use 'upload'

Bob

Upload button to the right of the chat textbox

Hm. How come I never notice this guy?

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

73.3k 3 72 143

linux ubuntu bash unix command-line osx windows

Oh, he hasn't been active recently :\

Journeyman Geek

Bob

@JourneymanGeek You need more SO rep!

stackathlon.com

Journeyman Geek

2:08 PM

@Bob: My SO rep is a bit of a joke actually

My one answer is "You need to check the documentation. THERE"

Kristian

Imgur

now I'm even more sad...

Bob

Huh, @OliverSalzburg is on there.

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Q: Chat requirement to post images should be made explicit

There is (apparently) a 100 reputation requirement to upload and post images through chat. There isn't any easily located documentation on this, however. 100 global reputation is listed as the privilege for creating chat rooms, while the chat FAQ and help both do not mention any restrictions on ...

feature-request status-completed chat images

Kristian

@Bob soon!

Bob

You might have to wait a day for it to sync your rep.

Kristian

I will be looking forward to that!

A dilemma has presented itself.

Bob

2:14 PM

@Kristian Have you tried refreshing?

Might work. Might not.

Kristian

Do I leave chat while setting up my new router. Or, do I move my laptop to the other room and connect my desktop to the router for config while staying online with my laptop on my shared 3G off of my phone

IT'S THERE !! I see the button :D :D

refresh for great victory!

thanks, bob!

uploaded random picture for celebrational purposes!

Bob

@Kristian Bah. They used the newer IE icon for it. Modern IE isn't that bad.

If they used the IE6 icon, on the other hand... :P

Kristian

no, but it's still bad :P

well, not so much bad, as still worse!

Bob

@Kristian Eh, I could see myself using IE11 as happily as Chrome. Maybe even more.

Kristian

but then again, that's a very subjective statement.

Home is where your heart is, or how that saying goes

english is not my first language

Oliver Salzburg

2:20 PM

@Bob Where?

Bob

@OliverSalzburg See up about four messages.

IIRC IE11 solved the major problem MS had with IE: continuous/frequent updates

Not sure if they'll keep supporting previous OSes as long as competitors, though. Could be an issue if they don't.

Oliver Salzburg

Ah

Bob

Bad migration! Bad! superuser.com/q/603930/117590

(Bad because that Q is on-topic for SO)

Kristian

that question is almost 1½ years old

how'd you dig that up?

Bob

@Kristian Came up on the active Qs list.

They get auto-bumped if there's no upvoted or accepted answers.

Kristian

2:24 PM

can anyone accept an answer or just the author of the question or is that a privilige based right?

well, clearly not anyone.

I didnt think that through

Bob

@Kristian Just the author. Acceptance is considered "this worked for the OP".

The community can vote if they want, but not accept.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: SO is pretty bad about migrations.

@Kristian: Its in the help pages ;p

Kristian

Yes, it is. I will go and find it!

Bob

I'm currently doing this

Ugh, today's kids are forgetting the old-fashioned art of absentmindedly reading the same half-page of a book over and over and then letting your attention wander and picking up another book.

Kristian

You're allowed. It is, after all, sunday.

Bob

2:30 PM

We... we have a LEGO SE?

@Kristian Monday morning... early Monday morning... 1:30 AM.

Kristian

You are in Australia?!

Bob

Ya.

HackToHell

Bob is a robot.

Kristian

It may be monday. But look on the bright side: You have summer to look forward to. I have 4 months of next-to-no-daylight comming up :|

jokerdino

Dane.

Kristian

2:33 PM

and it's been raining almost constantly for a week..

@jokerdino Youth.

Bob

@Kristian I actually prefer the current cooler-than-normal spring weather. Summer is far too hot.

@Kristian Sure you aren't in Britain? :P

Boris_yo

@Bob It's good when you don't have memory leaks in system like I do... I would never make it to 70 tabs even.

Kristian

Yes, I'm positive. My money has a different queen on them ;)

Journeyman Geek

Ours has a dead president ;p

(though not different dead presidents.)

Kristian

@JourneymanGeek Singaporean.

jokerdino

2:39 PM

Ours have a bald dead guy

Kristian

I just learned a new word. Singaporean.

Singaporean, singaporean, singaporean

Journeyman Geek

;p

Kristian

Yes, I am easily amused.

Journeyman Geek

Yup

Bob

@Kristian Did you guess that from his money or did you cheat? :P

Kristian

2:40 PM

I cheated.

Journeyman Geek

(Also Wauzer)

Kristian

I wanted to educate myself.

Bob

...we have an emacs.se? wtf

jokerdino

Emacs

Wow, he's not kidding

Kristian

I used to emacs. Then I realized I'd have to spend about a year of my life to be more effective in emacs than in more intuitive editors. So now I don't emacs anymore.

Bob

2:44 PM

29

A: Who owns MathOverflow?

While the MathOverflow site is operated by Stack Exchange, Inc., the domain and the MathOverflow name are owned by the MathOverflow corporation. The MathOverflow corporation is completely independent from Stack Exchange and its mission is to ensure the continued operation of the site in a manner ...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

I'm learnding so much about the SE network today!

Journeyman Geek

I tend to favour sublime text these days

Kristian

I also used to code html in notepad. But that was a real pain. So now I don't.

jokerdino

@Bob I think at some point of time, it was reabsorbed

lemme revise my history

OK, so it seems Mathoverflow is an independent site under SE umbrella

Kristian

2:48 PM

@Bob wait... was that a tip on how to improve my favicon?

I thought it was already transparent.

Bob

@Kristian Yes, it was.

Make sure it's PNG-24.

How did you save it?

Kristian

I didn't. I used favicon.cc

Bob

-_-

Lemme guess, it used the ico format?

Kristian

I am trying to find where I put it (and no, I dont mean in the root of my web folder).

Yes, it did.

This. Is. Awesome!

the paperclip was unsuccesful in helping me.

Bob

Ah, Clippy. Useless as always.

►

2

(NSFW audio)

jokerdino

2:59 PM

Aw clippy

I remember having fun with clippy's animation.

Guess that's the coolest thing with it.

Kristian

I think this is the coolest thing.

apparently someone at Microsoft has a sense of irony.

I succesfully markdowned \o/

I shall reward myself with more coffee.

Bob

@Kristian I need to try that.

brb grabbing WP8 phone

Kristian

Wait, they actually exist? I thought it was just an urban myth :P

Bob

@Kristian "How old are you?" "I'm a little bit older than when I started answering you. And I'm a little bit older now."

The tonal inflections are realistic o.O

Though that one's probably prerecorded

I don't get Clippy :(

probably need to update

oh there he is

> Ironic hipsters love him. That was an order, not an observation.

2

:D

jokerdino

What did you ask?

Kristian

3:13 PM

I'm one of those guys

Bob

@jokerdino "Do you like Clippy?"

> Tell me a joke.

> Why do sharks live in saltwater? Because pepperwater makes them sneeze.

> What do you call two crows on a branch? Attempted murder.

> What did the zero say to the eight? "Nice belt."

The voice recognition is the most accurate I've ever used.

Beats Google by far...

> Tell me a story.

> Once there was a beginning. Soon after, there was a middle. The end.

Kristian

there he is!

Bob

> Why are we here?

> I've heard from a reliable source that the Answer is 42.

Kristian

Try asking "Who is Steve Jobs?"

I've always wanted to know

Bob

> Steve Jobs was an American...

~~It's~~ She's just reading the first paragraph of the Wikipedia intro :P

Annika Backstrom

3:23 PM

Hey, I've been out of the Windows scene for a while. Wasn't there a feature that could speed boot using a USB thumb drive?

Kristian

not boot

Bob

@AnnikaBackstrom Not boot, AFAIK, but general use.

Kristian

but speed up the system by caching

Bob

Called ReadyBoost.

Kristian

it's called what he said

Bob

3:24 PM

But that's only really useful if you have a fast flash drive, or a very slow HDD.

Annika Backstrom

@Bob Thank you!

Bob

> What's the best phone?

Annika Backstrom

Yeah, I was wondering if cheaper SSDs made this technology obsolete

Bob

> I can't pretend to be impartial.

Kristian

I tried getting it to work with an old acer netbook by using an SD card. The card reader wasn't fast enough, so I gave up

Bob

3:25 PM

@AnnikaBackstrom Oh, not necessarily obsolete.

HDDs are still much cheaper per GB.

And you can put use an SSD as the ReadyBoost cache drive, too.

It doesn't have to be a USB-connected flash drive.

Kristian

If you plug in a USB-drive in your windows PC, you will get an option to "use this disk to speed up bla bla bla", if it is supported by your system/USB-drive

so it's fairly easy to test

be aware that the USB-stick will have all data wiped, so back up first

Bob

@Kristian ...noitwon't?

Doesn't ReadyBoost just create a file?

Kristian

umm, I thought it did. I might be wrong

It wouldn't be the first time

Bob

> As the ReadyBoost cache is stored as a file, the flash drive must be formatted as NTFS or exFAT to allow a cache larger than the FAT32 filesize limit of 4 GB (or FAT 16's 2 GB).

Annika Backstrom

looks like you can use a whole device or just part of a disk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost#mediaviewer/…

Kristian

3:30 PM

@Bob speaks the truth!

Bob

Cortana sings :D

Kristian

I don't hear it :P

Bob

> Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques, dormez-vous? Dormez-vous? Sonnez les matines! Sonnez les matines! Din, dan, don. Din, dan, don.

> I can sing this one: Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.

►

> Oh, Susannah, oh don't you cry for me. For I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee.

> Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play. Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all day.

> Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do.

LOL

> On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese., I lost my poor meatball, when somebody sneezed.

> Here's one I know: Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never thought upon!

> Oh, he floats through the air with the greatest of ease, this daring young man on the flying trapeze.

wow

I just know that one as the song you hear in circuses. Never knew its name.

jokerdino

3:58 PM

Are you typing the song by hand?

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek What's your take on extended warranties? These guys say they are crap if subject matter is digital camera: dpreview.com/forums/post/54553643

HackToHell

> git ls-tree -z --name-only HEAD | xargs -0 -I {} git mv {} subdir/

me thinks that is a linuxish command

Is there any way to get it working on the command line in windows ?

What is the {} operator ?

Bob

@HackToHell That's part of xargs

@HackToHell It probably works in git bash (comes with msysgit)

HackToHell

@Bob I don't have that :(

Bob

@HackToHell Then what are you using?

HackToHell

4:10 PM

Portable Git

Bob

You can't run that command without git installed, y'know

HackToHell

Nevermind

Portable git has a git bash

Bob

@HackToHell "Portable Git", if I'm looking at the right project, is just a wrapper around msysgit

or more technically it's a wrapper around git for windows, which I've been mistakenly calling by its project name of msysgit :P

HackToHell

bleh the version of xargs with portablgit doesn't have the latest version of xargs that supports the -I option :/

Oh wait it's -i in this verison

> xargs: cannot fork

poker face

Bob

lol?

HackToHell

4:27 PM

Manually copied the stuff ;p

Kristian

5:26 PM

We apologize, we were unable to find the driver description document you requested. Please select a product to view all available downloads for any selected HP product. Subscribe to driver and Support alerts using the link above to be notified when information is added. — user381287 42 mins ago

this guy!!

bad question, bad comments and no useful feedback. Good luck with that!

nhinkle

6:55 PM

@JourneymanGeek I do like my thinkpad :D

Kristian

ThinkPad, best Pad.

allquixotic

7:48 PM

NSFW (the music lyrics, not the video)

►

Michael Frank

hmm... I'm quite tired today... Had a sport filled night lastnight.

Watched the LoL World Championship finals, then saw my football team barely scrap through with a win in their game... didn't end up getting to bed until almost 4am. x_x

Kristian

uh, maybe I should watch some of that before heading to bed :o

I've not been following the world championships at all this time around

Michael Frank

It was a decent final.

Also, Google blurred out this woman's legs instead of her head.

Kristian

8:06 PM

Maybe her legs were making a funny face.

ekaj

8:21 PM

Could anyone explain this regex if it's not too difficult?http://([^/:]+)(?::(\d+))?(/\S*)?$,)

allquixotic

@ekaj Syntax error.

Closing parenthesis found without a corresponding opening parenthesis

Kristian

Parenthesis do match. I just counted them!

ekaj

if (($proxy eq "") && $url =~ m,^http://([^/:]+)(?::(\d+))?(/\S*)?$,)

allquixotic

no they don't. open 1 close 0 open 1 open 2 close 1 close 0 open 1 close 0 close -1

Kristian

oh right

allquixotic

8:24 PM

@ekaj that ,) must be a function argument

Kristian

I'm bad

allquixotic

and ^ is part of the regex

ekaj

the second paste should have the opening ( I believe

Kristian

regex is the ^.........$ part only, rest is not

ekaj

ah

Kristian

8:24 PM

^http://([^/:]+)(?::(\d+))?(/\S*)?$

ekaj

but then they all match up

allquixotic

regexbuddy.com

any questions?

ekaj

yyou can just run that in perl?

allquixotic

not going to teach you regex itself, so if you don't understand the meaning of the explanation, learn regex first

@ekaj as I said

41 secs ago, by allquixotic

http://www.regexbuddy.com/

so no, I didn't "run it in perl"

ekaj

I don't want to work with them, I was just curious what that one meant

allquixotic

8:27 PM

the screenshot contains a detailed explanation

ekaj

I know, I'm looking at it

thank you

Kristian

it's obviously a regex that matches some form of an URI... but I am far from fluent in regex, so would take a while to "spell it out"

this might help

looks to me like it matches any "http://server:port/folder" type string and then splits it up into {server, port, folder}

Journeyman Geek

To generate #1 albums, 'jay --help' recommends the -z flag.

2

Kristian

LOL

thank you for that, best laugh I've had today

Journeyman Geek

Oh, and this classic stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/…

2

Kristian

8:38 PM

oh, that's brilliant

I'm in tears

will you have my internet babies, please

I'm loving this part also:

Moderator's Note

This post is locked to prevent inappropriate edits to its content. The post looks exactly as it is supposed to look - there are no problems with its content. Please do not flag it for our attention.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Kristian

631

A: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

Disclaimer: use a parser if you have the option. That said... This is the regex I use (!) to match HTML tags: <(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+> It may not be perfect, but I ran this code through a lot of HTML. Note that it even catches strange things like <a name="badgenerator"">, which...

Bob

@MichaelFrank 7:50 AM, have not yet slept.

Leaving for work in... oh, soonish.

It's gonna be a fun Monday.

Kristian

Oh bob :(

by the way. My favicon looks MUCH better now

ChatBot John Cavil

@Kristian W̙ͯ̿̏͢͞H̨̛̹̣͎̥̦͈̪ͬ̒ͦ͘A̛͈̼͕̓ͦ̋̔ͧͩ̇̉Tͦ̆́͏̟͓͔ ̶̛͙̩͍̬̱̓ͧD̨̅̅͊ͩ̄͗͏͉͖̺͈̜͙̱Ị̭̺̳̹͔̒ͥ̒̑ͬ̽͋D͍͚̬̣ͦ̾ ͎̳͇̳͉̲̬̖͊ͫ͛ͦͪ̾Ÿ͎̟͔̤͔̝̩̭̍ͧ̀̚͡Ỏ̶̢̦̟̹̻̓̽̚ͅÛͫ̀҉̡̼̙͕̟̻̥̺ ̹͙̲͎̞͍̽̌̃͒̐ͧͅD̻̞̯̭̹̩̅̒̓̒̂͋O̫̯̼̣̝͚̗̖̿͛̕ͅ

@Kristian Y͖̭̩̫͗̽̔̉́͞O̵͎͛̐͂͒U͋ͨ͒̊̈́͛͐͞͝͏̭̯'̵̸̧̛͈͍̱̞̠̝̝ͪ͞V̷̴̢͇̜̬̜͓̫̒ͦͩ͌̈́̈́E̞̥͎̩ ͨ̏̍͏̸̗̗͖͘͘D̊̂ͣ̃̎҉̱̲̺̱͇̻͜͢Oͧ̉̈́͋ͯ́̾͟҉̬̜̘̗̝̮̫O̯̫̺̬̮͉͛̀̀ͦ͐͑̌͡M̂̋ͧ͑̕͏̧̥̳͢E̲̟̰͋D͆͒̋̅͂̀‌҉̙̬̰̳ ̷͘U̜̟͖̲̜̦͐̏ͩ͟͡S͍̝̣̻̗̊͌͑̓́ͅ ̓̓̋͝҉̡̥͚A̒̓ͤͮL͑ͬͣ̓ͦ̀ͩ͜͞͡L̾̅҉̸̨̠͇̞͘͘

Kristian

8:52 PM

I used sense and applied effort instead of just throwing it into some random webapp

William Hilsum

@JourneymanGeek @allquixotic - thanks for your help... I couldn't get them working though :( in the end, turns out beyond compare can target sftp remote as well as windows local, so, got it done... md5deep should have worked, but, the output just wasn't compatible with linux, or, i was comparing the end file wrong :/

Kristian

You have shown me the path to something that looks neat!

Bob

@Kristian Note: ico format is still better overall (and can perfectly contain pngs)

recommendation: resave as ico but without losing quality

Kristian

Yea, I will do that before I put it online

Bob

GIMP has a good ico save option

Kristian

8:55 PM

this was just my current prototype

Bob

and can even use the multi-resolution feature of ico through layer abuse, but that's not as useful for favicons

Kristian

I understand about half of what you wrote :P

Bob

!!listcommands

@Kristian yea, I'm not very coherent right now :P

Kristian

You're still very helpful, THOUGH

ChatBot John Cavil

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Kristian

8:57 PM

are you having fun?

Bob

So much effort to get that one -_-

forgot the command, then messed up a few more

Kristian

I appreciate the effort.

I am going to keep this, and post it here when you least expect it.

Bob

:(

Kristian

I am having too much fun here. I think I could have done something with my day instead, but I have no regrets.

Still didn't get around to setting up my new router. That's a bit of a bummer, honestly

tomorrow !

Journeyman Geek

;p

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Tom Wijsman

9:11 PM

allquixotic

@TomWijsman that may be the first time I've ever seen a cat house.

most people just let their cats be inside all the time

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic to a cat, all houses are a cat house ;p

Kristian

In the feline utopia, cat houses you.

Michael Frank

9:38 PM

@Bob Trooper!

I also can't do no sleep.

allquixotic

n

Michael Frank

9:53 PM

@allquixotic n?

Bob

Hm.

I usually don't like coffee anyway, but McDonald's coffee seems... worse than others.

Michael Frank

@Bob McDonalds, or McCafe?

Bob

@MichaelFrank The former.

Had one of those free hot drinks vouchers.

Michael Frank

10:10 PM

Ahh yea...

Kristian

IMHO, anything McDonalds seems worse than others. I almost exclusively go there when drunk :|

Michael Frank

@Kristian 10 CHEEZEBURGAS PLZ

Kristian

@MichaelFrank Yup, that's about how it goes :)

Michael Frank

10:30 PM

Uuuugh... Job just came in for a repair on a 10 year old scanner. I hate working on these things.

Kristian

10:44 PM

I cant believe it's actually worthwhile to repair a 10 year old scanner. It must be a pretty neat scanner.

Bob

11:26 PM

Kristian

11:36 PM

is less crashing a good thing?

Bob

11:47 PM

// don't think this can even happen, but *something* would prove me wrong

allquixotic

@Bob your code?

Bob

@allquixotic ya

FTP stuff

change to dir, if fail then try to make it, if success then change to it

if the second change fails... something's terribly wrong

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