Root Access

3:11 PM

Hello everyone. Does anyone have any idea what a good place (if any) on SE would be to ask about advertising on Facebook (ugh)?

Journeyman Geek

hm. webapps or webmasters?

Burgi

webmasters probably

they do more SEO type stuff there

allquixotic

@FaheemMitha Start an Area51 about facebook.SE? :P

Faheem Mitha

@allquixotic Ugh.

allquixotic

@FaheemMitha I take it you don't really like Facebook :P

Faheem Mitha

3:17 PM

@JourneymanGeek @Burgi Thanks. I was looking at webmasters.

Burgi

in my experience the ROI with advertising on facebook is extremely low

Faheem Mitha

@allquixotic That's an understatement.

@Burgi Hmm. Care to elaborate?

I'm thinking of putting in an ad for a part time legal assistance type job.

Here in Bombay FB is heavily used by the young. Unfortunately. Hence I thought it might be a reasonable place to try.

Burgi

the companies that i have worked for/with that have used facebook advertising have found very little traffic fromt he adverts

however it could be the type of products we sold

Faheem Mitha

@Burgi I see. It might depend on the kind of ads. What kinds of ads were they?

Burgi

financial services was the main user, others have been office stationary and building contractors

Faheem Mitha

3:20 PM

@JourneymanGeek I hope this doesn't sound too eccentric, but I know if you have Indian connections. If you happen to know any halfway decent Indian lawyers, we'll looking for legal help.

@Burgi I see. I imagine FB probably works better with certain types of ads than others.

But I know very little about it. I was just looking at the help pages, and found myself bewildered. I know very little about social networking/media.

Journeyman Geek

@FaheemMitha er, not really

The only indian lawyer I know is, well, dead

Faheem Mitha

@JourneymanGeek Oh. Well, too bad.

Thanks for answering.

Journeyman Geek

Also, most of the people in india for me are in TN

DavidPostill

Result: Recruitment spam (addressed to Mr/Mrs Postill) from a Romanian company advertising jobs in Dublin via mailchimp. Reply from mailchimp "The account has been suspended"

Journeyman Geek

quite out of the way

Faheem Mitha

3:29 PM

@JourneymanGeek That isn't that much of an issue, actually. I could do quite a lot with a remote lawyer. Plus they would probably be cheaper than around here.

The key is really talking to someone who know his (or her) stuff. That's a surprisingly big problem in India.

Journeyman Geek

ahh

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in which case you want a lawyer who specialises in the field in question

Burgi

3:46 PM

someone needs to invent a HTML code editor that has a live preview with outlook's actual render engine

>:(

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi You're welcome

allquixotic

> >:(

Burgi

@ThatBrazilianGuy, doesn't work

it looks fine on litmus but in reality it is squished

That Brazilian Guy

ahh

Burgi

also turns out the mac and win versions of outlook render things differently

even if they have the same build number

That Brazilian Guy

3:53 PM

Yay! \o/

I thought crossbrowser was annoying. Until I learned more about email clients.

Burgi

nods sadly

That Brazilian Guy

Read: a coworker and I had to build a newsletter template.

Well, mostly him. I got mad just by looking at him get mad at the discrepancies

Also, flashback to the 90's, lots of inline styling, tables everywhere.

Burgi

:'(

Faheem Mitha

@JourneymanGeek That might be helpful. But really, I'm not trying to do anything super-esoteric.

Someone who isn't actually going to give me misinformation would be plenty good.

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek superuser.com/questions/1080776/convert-numbers-in-words needs migrating

That Brazilian Guy

4:13 PM

O_o

My coworker sitting besides me is getting connection timeout.

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy were you the one who appreciated English grammar corrections?

!! s/des/de/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic My coworker sitting beside me is getting connection timeout. (source)

That Brazilian Guy

Oh. I see it now. Thanks!

allquixotic

yw

Burgi

weird question, can you simulate slow connections?

DavidPostill

4:23 PM

111

Q: Simulating Slow Internet Connection

I know this is kind of an odd question. Since I usually develop applications based on the "assumption" that all users have a slow internet connection. But, does anybody think that there is a way to programmatically simulate a slow internet connection, so I can "see" how an application performs un...

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic I don't like being wrong, and although is not pleasant being called out on being wrong, I like learning the proper way of things.

@Burgi Yes, that's possible.

@allquixotic What's "yw"?

DavidPostill

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Q: How can I simulate a slow connection for page load?

I have a fast server, and a reasonably fast home Internet connection. How can I simulate my page loading on a slow connection?

performance page-speed

@ThatBrazilianGuy You're welcome ;)

djsmiley2k

doesn't firefox developer tools have that built in!

That Brazilian Guy

Oh, ok

DavidPostill

241

Q: How can I simulate a slow connection, or limit the bandwidth that Firefox can use?

Is there a way I can simulate various connection speeds from within Firefox? I need to be able to check http://localhost with varying speeds. I know there are standalone applications that can do this, but I'd rather do this inside Firefox via a plugin or similar.

firefox bandwidth firefox-extensions

Burgi

4:25 PM

cheers

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy being wrong is good if someone corrects you, because you won't always be wrong :D

Psycogeek

use one of those free open proxies , or "on the edge" of a wi-fi rf signal , it wont be a simulation :-)

allquixotic

the "it's impolite to correct people" culture leads to the creation of "sub-languages", like Indian English

Burgi

english is a very forgiving language

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic I hate this reasoning, like "it's impolite to point to people that there's something wrong with their appearance"

DavidPostill

4:29 PM

And chinglish ;)

@Burgi Sorry I don't agree with you ;)

djsmiley2k

s/forgiving/confusing :D

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy I won't tell you next time your fly is open then ;)

That Brazilian Guy

I still remember when, years ago, I was leaning on a fence and, unbeknownst to me, there was grease on it. A lot of it got stuck on my shirt. I had lessons the whole evening, lots of people, including dozens of classmates, saw it pretty close and well. I only noticed hours later and got really pissed.

@djsmiley2k Protip: don't even try learning Portuguese! ;-)

Psycogeek

english is a buggered up mess of a language, that YOU cant further mess it up without some english teacher correcting it. It was Ok for them to originally decimate it

Burgi

@DavidPostill i think it is more forgiving to new words and meanings than french or german

DavidPostill

4:34 PM

@Burgi You missed the point ;) You said "forgiving" and I replied with "sorry" ;)

Bad joke :/

Burgi

:/

i'm flummoxed with this "bug"

allquixotic

I'm fine with new words. I'm not fine with arbitrary re-definitions or re-purposings of existing words. And I'm definitely not fine with non-standard grammar. If you're going to introduce new words, use them grammatically as valid parts of speech.

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek It's not surprising it's messed up. It's been changing for 1500 years ;)

Burgi

customers are reporting that when they save in this web app it "deletes" some of their information

DavidPostill

Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc) or Anglo-Saxon is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers probably in the mid 5th century, and the first Old English literary works date from the mid 7th century. After the Norman Conquest of 1066, English was replaced for a time as the language of the upper classes by Anglo-Norman, a relative of French, and Old English developed into the next historical form of English, known as Middle English. Old Englis...

Psycogeek

4:37 PM

@DavidPostill that too

Burgi

cannot replicate....

:(

DavidPostill

@Burgi Which bug? I've lost any context ;)

Some web app? Yours?

@allquixotic That's what annoys me about the usage of "hacker" ;)

And txtspeak or whatever it's called.

allquixotic

txt isnt english so its np

Burgi

its a webapp at this company

allquixotic

txt is txt not engl

Psycogeek

4:41 PM

everyone became a hacker , just to keep a computer running :-)

Burgi

no docs

DavidPostill

@Burgi reverse engineering time ;)

Burgi

right home time

allquixotic

or forward engineering if he has sources

Burgi

well i can't replicate the issue that is being reported at all

i've even used IE8 on XP

allquixotic

4:42 PM

or lateral engineering if he can't understand their code

Burgi

^-- this :)

DavidPostill

that's not unusual for customer complaints - they are very bad at describing what they actually did.

Burgi

ttyl

Psycogeek

@Burgi stand behind any one of the users, and you will see it fail regular like.

allquixotic

uh no

Burgi

4:43 PM

its customers of the customer that have the issue

allquixotic

standing behind the user guarantees it won't fail

someone should troll IT with a problem that literally always works when the IT guy is standing there behind the user watching them

using a pressure plate in the floor to trigger a script to cause the problem

DavidPostill

lol

Psycogeek

Reminds me of the times I have spent 15 minutes filling out a form, just to have to answer a capcha and have the form come back cleared . I am not a robot, because robots have no emotions, so they wouldnt be REALLY TICKED OFF!

They need the Blood Pressure capcha, for reporting bugs :-)

As we have seen before by the time the message arrives through the "systems" out to whom can effect solution it reads much shorter :-)

User reports a bunch of swear words and something about the telephone system we use, can anybody fix that.

That Brazilian Guy

10 mins ago, by allquixotic

someone should troll IT with a problem that literally always works when the IT guy is standing there behind the user watching them

O CARA DO TI

►

Psycogeek

5:12 PM

My new kewl keyboard has a firmware update poping up.
Push De button and hope?
No, I go on the web site and spend an hour trying to find out what it breaks (fixes) or anything.

The users report it ruins everything (of course), so much for hope.
The company reports they do not put out a changelog because it is usually "internal"? Whats that mean, they dont want to admit that they had to fix about 17 things.

The last word, is oh we gonna fix that, "we will have the developers look into that". That was 6 days ago.

So why was it still trying to push the update?

With a RGB lighted keyboard and cutsey lookie mom what we can do software , i would think that the worst that could happen would be it doesnt light up correct. But Nooooo , the keyboard then doesnt even work at boot, and had to be disconnected and reconnected to even work.

That Brazilian Guy

Psycogeek

thats not an IT guy, there is no butt-crack showing :-)

Canadian Luke

6:30 PM

I don't understand that GIF

qwertyuiop

!!caat

ChatBot John Cavil

allquixotic

6:53 PM

@qwertyuiop do you say that every time you pet your cat or something?

That Brazilian Guy

@CanadianLuke A guy removes the power cable of his PC. The PC keeps working. Another guy is tied under the table. The caption says "it works if the IT guy is here".

The meaning of the gif is: reptilian aliens control the white house.

Canadian Luke

7:11 PM

Ahhh

jokerdino

@ThatBrazilianGuy that makes sense

That Brazilian Guy

I blame @qwertyuiop.

DavidPostill

8:18 PM

lol

May 22 at 18:25, by Burgi

Man is an imaninary IP ....ufff i am not inteersted about fishy IPPPP — Muntean Cosmin Manim 21 secs ago

He's back ;)

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Q: can someone help me with this .bat script?

So i have a crypt for ncrack to run dict.txt lists one after other,and when finds a Hit stops.So i start ncrack and running dictionar nr. 1 and everything is ok,but the problem is after dict1.txt finishing,dict2.txt doesn't start something is wrong so can someone take a look to my script?please?I...

script batch-file

"can someone take a look to my script?" How can we? It is not in your question. — DavidPostill 4 mins ago

Ben N

8:31 PM

migrated to psychics.stackexchange.com just now

Also, huh, GCM doesn't like links to just #

DavidPostill

@BenN GCM?

Ben N

Ghetto Chat Markdown

(or Comment)

DavidPostill

@BenN Ah.

More psychics required (and I'm out of close votes for the day)

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Q: Is our home internet router a symmetric NAT?

The question is very much as in the header. Is the NAT included in our home Internet router a symmetric NAT technology?

nat

I'm not psychic so I can't read your mind to find out the make and model of your home router. — DavidPostill 28 secs ago

And another one:

Unfortunately we can't read images that are stored on your computer. — DavidPostill 40 secs ago

"/Users/qfixen/Desktop/Screen Shot 2016-05-12 at 7.26.16 PM.png Could someone look at my formula and assist me with a resolution?"

Kamil Maciorowski

9:03 PM

@DavidPostill Maybe they think there are users here who can hack any home router and peek every file on somebody's desktop. Now that's a reputation!

DavidPostill

9:34 PM

@KamilMaciorowski lol. Well we are SuperUsers! ;)

Psycogeek

9:46 PM

Se-EE they are so nice there, upvote everything, even spam :-) electronics.stackexchange.com/a/84226 while most appropriate for the answer all the user would need is some affiliation disclaimer in the profile?