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12:58 AM
@voretaq7 Have you had problems with Bacula incrementals?
 
1:16 AM
@ewwhite whatd u mean - running it at actually 2560x?
 
@lsiunsuex The real resolution is 2880x1800
but I'm running that on a 15" screen
 
whatever it is
i mean, u got it out of retina and using the actual resolution ?
honestly i wasn't impressed when i played with it last weekend at the mall
some of my websites looked a bit subpar but nothing OMG it looks like shit
 
@lsiunsuex it's out of retina mode now, using native resolution
 
nice. didnt know they allowed that to happen
thought it would be a shame to let all that resolution goto waste
the regular 15 isn't cutting it anymore :( thinking a thunderbolt display. i need more room.
 
hm
which reminds me... but i forget who i was talking to about it...
never mind ;p
 
1:31 AM
@JourneymanGeek the korean IPS for $300 ish on ebay?
 
lol, yes. Jeff Atwood has a 3 monitor setup of those ;p
drools
 
saw that
same thing as buying a fake louis vuitton bag - it looks real, it feels real, but when you check the tags, fuck no :(
 
lol
You arn't buying a porche
 
i know but still
 
you're buying a kit car, that happens to go pretty fast
and is more fun than your old toyota, while costing about the same.
 
1:33 AM
right, with a transmission from a chevy and an engine from a dodge
 
Who cares as long as the thing goes like stink? ;p
 
i do when i look under the hood - for those of us that actually look under the hood :)
 
and I'm wondering if one could put the money you save from that into one of these hughski.com
@lsiunsuex: Shocking news. Only 3-4 companies make the panels. These are A- rather than A+ panels, but they still beat the crap out of most TN panels
 
i have the one by huey - works well
i know only 3-4 companies make the panels
 
(which should sort out the lack of OSD)
So there's not much difference under the hood ;p
(granted, i use a budget asus, which dosen't do full HD, and was bought cause it was the cheapest monitor i could live with ;p)
 
1:38 AM
if i run into that kind of cash before i goto vegas, i'll probably get the louis vuitton bag at ceasars anyways and wait on the monitor haha
 
o0
eh. Different strokes for different folks i guess.
 
fucking $1800 laptop bag
cost almost as much as the fucking laptop it carries
 
Every spare dollar of my REALLY meagre allowance/pay is going into a desktop build ;p
I use a 20 dollar sleeve inside a backpack ;p
 
fuck, my current bag was $300 from oakley
i just really want the LV
 
@lsiunsuex link me
 
1:40 AM
the LV or oakley
 
eh, I'm asian, part of me would die before i spend that much on a bag ;p
 
louisvuitton.com/front/#/eng_US/Collections/Men/Mens-Bags/… (its flash) backpack style - i dont like thier briefcase style ones
 
(and i carry around a decade old, faded canvas manbag for dog walking - just to see how long that old bastard lasts)
 
@lsiunsuex Sooo pretty
 
the prada one is nice also (and slightly cheaper) - store.prada.com/en/US/man/bags/messenger-bags/VA0958_ASK_F0002 - but a little bland
the wife has signed off on the LV once we pay off the furnace so in time i'll have it. just maybe not in time for vegas unless i score a few more side jobs
anyone need a website done? 2 grand - whatever you want - blog, cms, flash, strait html 5 - mobile version - i'm flexible :)
offer valid until sept 3rd :)
@JourneymanGeek everyones into different shit. some people drop $$$ on video games, tools, whatever
 
1:46 AM
XD
understood ;p
and quite true
 
10 years ago? fuck no i wouldn't spend that on a bag. but i'd be in line for a ps2 at midnight release + 2 games + additional controller
now - a little style impresses some clients (and girls)
 
2:08 AM
@JoelESalas nope
@lsiunsuex if my consultant shows up with a $500+ laptop bag I automatically deduct 5% from what I'm willing to pay them
Hell the bag I got at the apple store for my mac was only $150
("only" -- fucking highway robbery for some ballistic nylon and faux fur)
 
why?
thats funny cause my wife is a juror right now for a dental case
and they made a big deal of a specialist charging $10k to fly up here to be a witness
if my consultant comes in with jeans and a t-shirt, i automatically dont let him touch my shit
1800 on a bag i know is excessive - but to judge someone for it is dumb.
 
@lsiunsuex Because I place a higher premium on competence than I do on appearances, and I don't need people to try to impress me.
also because frankly if you're willing to drop basically a good-sized mortgage payment on a bag you've got lots of disposable income so unless your rates are really reasonable I'm gonna assume you've got a healthy cushion built in that I'm going to negotiate against :-)
 
doesn't anyone just strait up work their ass off anymore?
 
@lsiunsuex yeah, me :-)
 
i woke up today at 4:50am - did my 11 hours at my day job
came home, at dinner and since 5pm been doing my freelance work - which is what pays for this stuff for me
its what, 10:20pm and i'll probably be up till midnight and change, on a friday
and its 2 mortgage payments for me
so for working um... 19 hours today, if i wanna blow 2k on a laptop bag, i'm fucking blowing 2k on a laptop bag :)
 
2:22 AM
@lsiunsuex hey I blow a sizable chunk of cash every month on recreation
that's what you get for working hard
but I've been a consultant and I know how the billing works (at least here in NY) :-)
I always quote a number that's 33% over my minimum price to take a job
 
my freelance work if i billed u by the hour (which i try not to - i think it gouges ) i'm at $75 to $100 / hour depending on what you want
i'm not high, but i'm not cheap - in buffalo ny
 
I used to offer retainer + hours
 
i try to look at the job, see what needs to be done and bill flat. if i fuck up and it costs me more hours, thats my fault
 
I never offer a flat fee for contract work unless I've got an actual spec
otherwise the project tends to grow
 
well yeah, with spec
not flat and u get whatever u want - need a clear, wtf i need to do, list
 
2:24 AM
@lsiunsuex most people around here wouldn't know a spec if I shoved it up their asses
 
i wont take a job without one
 
(that includes the C-level officers of my current F/T job)
 
but, i only work for 2 designers, and we all understand the game
we dont do shit till 50% down, not without contract and i sure as fuck dont start working till the design has been approved
last thing i need is some asshole changing photos, fonts or god forbid layout and i have to reprogram something 3 times - i'll tear the client a new one myself, let alone my designer on my behalf :)
whats your recreation of choice?
 
@lsiunsuex flight lessons
and music
 
there u go - i'm terrified of flying - id never drop any kind of money to go in a plane if i didnt have to :)
 
2:30 AM
@lsiunsuex chance of dying statistically lower than the chance of dying on the way to the airport -- I'll take those odds :)
 
unfortunately, its a 36-40 hour drive non stop to vegas from buffalo, or else id drive :)
i know its safe. i'm a pussy and i like to be in control of the vehicle i'm in
 
@lsiunsuex so you'd do fine in a light plane - the controls are right there :)
 
i'll just have one the dentists write me a script for a sleeping pill maybe
we're getting a rental so i'm not sure if it'll wear off by the time we get there
*car rental
 
heh
 
god i'm fucking exhausted - rushing to finish 1 website just to work on another
 
3:10 AM
my cat is sitting in the corner, stairing at the walls
 
@voretaq7 Still on?
 
he just left
 
d'oh
 
3:25 AM
@ewwhite kinda
I just discovered there are crossover USB cables. Thinking I deserve some scotch or something for that.
 
mac and pc can use them to transfer files between - usually during migration
i prefer to do it over crossover though
 
@lsiunsuex USB cables?
 
i all of a sudden just became very confused. theres a dried contact stuck to my phone (mind you, i've had my phone on me all day) so either the contact is not mine, or i suddenly have perfect vision
 
I've never seen such a beast before -- I've seen XO ethernet, and firewire
 
@voretaq7 Where the party at?
It's bumpin' here in the meatpacking district!
 
3:28 AM
@ewwhite parrrrrr-teeeeeee?
heh idk I have a flight lesson at noon tomorrow assuming the looming storms don't wreck those plans, so I'm kicking around at home right now
 
theres a crossover usb cable - the rectangle kind that goes from pc to pc
like that?
 
@lsiunsuex as I pointed out to the misguided soul on the main site, that's not a crossover cable - It's a USB device with all sorts of circuitry going on inside it
 
@voretaq7 I just have so many questions about NYC living.
 
@ewwhite You wander around until you see something interesting, then you head toward it
's pretty simple actually :-)
 
fine, its not crossover in the traditional ethernet cable kind
 
3:31 AM
@voretaq7 are there places where people aren't welcome? I see lots of basement bars
 
thats kinda a odd question to ask @ewwhite :)
 
Well, just walkign around... I feel like a noob...
 
things to see: Central Park (Bethesda Terrace, The Ramble, Shakespeare Garden, Belvedere Castle), The High Line (meatpacking district, ~12th to the high 20s - look for the big elevated thing with plants on it), Bryant park (mostly for the subway station & the library), The statues with testicles (14th street/8th ave subway station)
Don't go into the doors marked private? :-)
I generally avoid places without a sign of some kind too unless I've been previously introduced to them.
 
i'd really like to see the new trade center towers
 
oh and best (free) view of the statue of liberty is from the deck of the SI Ferry :-)
@lsiunsuex bah - just a giant metal and glass monstrosity like the old ones :)
 
3:35 AM
@voretaq7 I always stay in this area, so I've been all over the High Line.
 
parents saw the statue of liberty... when they imigrated from italy
 
@lsiunsuex not doooone
 
heh then you've probably seen most of the stuff on that list
 
lets see you're around my age... if you don't mind college kids there's washington square / macdougal street / bleecker street -- always something going on there
@ewwhite Support Kitty!
 
3:39 AM
just watch out for the people dressed in all latex late at night. bondage can hurt
 
@lsiunsuex The safety word is Banana.
 
@ewwhite u still dj ish ?
 
4:10 AM
d'oh.... I'lNAW
 
 
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6:27 AM
morning
 
6:44 AM
Really?
 
noobs everywhere
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Q: Citrix Xen Center to Manage XEN 4.1 running on ubuntu 12.04

Kevin ParkerI have been using virt manager to manage XEN and it crashes often so i moved to Citrix Xencenter but i can not make it work. Details: using XEN 4.1 running on ubuntu 12.04 citrix XenCenter Installed on windows XP No firewall or network issue exist as i can ping XEN running on ubuntu 12.04. when...

lol having a convo with cleverbot:
*force choke*.
*Force Push*.
*pushes light sabre in chest*.
*is pushed against the wall be you*.
*cut out heart*.
AH! What did you do that for? Are you emo? *heals your cut*.
 
7:05 AM
The freaks come out at night.
 
G'day
 
:)
 
3.08 am here. I'm trying to crash a live server and it's completely refusing to crash...
This is good. It means the exorcism worked!
 
8.10 here and I'm having a coffee thinking about going for a spin before watching the Olymp[ic coverage
 
7:11 AM
Ha. I'm having a coffee and dreaming of bed.
 
I'm just to lazy to go and make myself a coffee, still in bed
 
I just realized I didn't have ntpd installed on my workstation. It must have been this way for at least a couple of months, since I installed fedora 17...
 
pops a bottle of champagne There are no items for you to review.
 
I see 34 - so you must have passed on a few - I have
 
I see 38
 
7:23 AM
don't ruin this for me!
 
Ruin what? I"m too busy staring at my cacti graphs and waiting for something to break.
 
why don't you just shut down a service or close a port?
providing ur cacti runs remotely
 
Oh, I know that part works. I'm waiting for something specific to break.
 
@MichaelHampton go home and get to bed, that's sure to make it break
 
@Iain I AM at home. Bed is in the next room :)
 
7:37 AM
I liked the base jump from the helicopter
 
@LucasKauffman the opening ceremony ?
 
yea
brilliant
 
Getting the Queen to play a part was Genius, Mr Bean had me laughing so hard I was crying
 
I need to look that one up
FAAART
xD
@Iain where there any other comical highlights?
 
8:46 AM
*Were
 
9:05 AM
@Iain I was deeply impressed, went in all cynical but just loved (almost) every minute of it - seen some tory MP having a go this morning? saying it was too 'leftie' and 'multicultural' ffs
 
9:19 AM
@Chopper3 lol you're joking? I thought that was one of the most important goals of the olympic games, bringing cultures together
 
exactly - what a dick
couldn've done without paul mccartney though, pandering to non-brits there I think
 
@Chopper3 That was the biggest disappointment for me
 
was it that bad?
 
saddo I know but I 'teared up' a bit when I saw Tim Berners-Lee's NeXTcube - I used to have one
@LucasKauffman He was quite poor I thought and I didn't think it was the best bit - I really loved the fire thing at the end and how of ALL the people they got to light it they chose young future athletes
 
The biggest mistake was Ali - bit of a freak show for me
 
9:24 AM
two songs by the arctics was a bit odd too I thought
 
Muhammad Ali
 
and too much ken branagh as well - but I genuinely went into it expecting to scoff at it but watched every last second of it absolutely enraptured and weirdly for me, someone who doesn't exactly wear his englishness/britishness on his sleeve, felt about as patriotic as I think I've ever felt
@Iain he looked properly on his way out didn't he
 
@Iain the boxer?
 
yeah
they dragged (and I mean dragged) him on as an 'outstanding sportsman' etc. but he just looked fucked, like he could die actually on stage
 
9:27 AM
@Chopper3 sadly, he looked like he didn't know who he was let alone where
 
yeah, has bad Alzheimer's, my gran went that way - sad to see - I just loved how they didn't try to compete with the chinese - went 'our' own way
 
sad really what parkinson did to him
he also has Alzheimer?
I thought he just had Parkinson
 
oh yes, that's right, got my congenital diseases mixed up
 
The new bod girl is 86 :)
 
at the next olympics they're doing kite-surfing and one of the best in the world is the daughter of my wife's best friend - she'll be 24 at the time so stands a good chance of competing
 
9:33 AM
where are the next games?
because kitesurfing needs a bit of wind and all
 
but even this year the water based games aren't in london
oh and Rio
 
aah they have other locations for it?
could have been fun tho, surfing in the thames :p
I wonder if we will be able to take out Cavendish, I'm really hoping we at least can have Silver and Bronze
 
10:00 AM
yeah - rowing's in henley and all the sailing's not far from me in weymouth
 
 
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1:18 PM
I think I'm leaving Google Chrome to go back to Safari... Since Mountain Lion, they've added some sort of hardware acceleration.
 
thought chrome was hardware accelerated
what the fuck
trevorbond.ca - the row of 4 icons in the middle - they have a 2px grey boarder in between them
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE BOARDER COMING FROM
like really starting to piss me off
omg you mother fucker, font-size in the body tag was effecting it
 
1:45 PM
@lsiunsuex everytime you swear god kills a little kitten
 
good - he can kill one of mine
 
1:58 PM
@ewwhite Really? that bit a deal?
 
Kev
2:26 PM
Hey Folks
 
hi
 
Kev
@Chopper3 - does this work on SF: stackoverflow.com/questions/11698167/…
it's a bit "meh"
as in not a lot of research
 
Subject yes, quality no - so throw it over and we'll see if we can draw bit more detail out, thanks for asking
 
Kev
@Chopper3 appreciated
all yours
 
@LucasKauffman: don't you mean everytime you fucking swear, god kills a fucking kitten. THINK OF THE KITTNS ASSHOLE!? ;p
 
2:56 PM
 
 
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4:52 PM
@HopelessN00b will addblock plus work for you ?
 
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Q: Choices in choosing a new VPS host

CodeTalkSo, I've tried to do my research into getting a new vps. My application (currently developing) will have a lot of updates from multiple users submission comments. This server will primarily have needs for Text (Comments) Constant streaming of content from the database this information just be...

 
@Iain I don't know. I saw that answer before you deleted it, and was putting up a comment. My basic question/concern with that is that the page will hit the filter before ay client-side apps do, so I'd think it wouldn't work. (Does seem that if it worked, that would be a major flaw in the web filter.)
 
@HopelessN00b I'm not sure how it works but it's worth a try
 
Yeah, I plan to. It can wait until Monday, though. I'm already feeling like way too much of a geek being here on a Saturday... I don't think I'll compound that by testing the webfilter on my own time too. :/
 
5:09 PM
mannn... it is rather difficult to connect USB drive to transfer some vmware hosts (without using eth bandwidth).
 
it is?
 
@Chopper3 Yes, Safari is way faster than Chrome right now.
 
oh wow - interesting
 
@chopper3 - This is why.
Wrong link..
but it's the GPU acceleration
 
5:46 PM
RIP Onslow
 
6:01 PM
sorry for this - I voted plain OT and thought my vote was the 4th but it seems it wasn't and I was the only one not to vote to migrate.
 
@Flexo link me, I'll vote
 
@LucasKauffman the link was in my message: serverfault.com/questions/412135/server-for-huge-video-site
 
That's a shitty question
 
yeah I can't quite believe 4 people with > 2k rep voted to move it and didn't even edit it
 
@Flexo Thanks for giving us a heads up - we appreciate it :)
 
6:08 PM
2 more close votes to go. And thanks for the heads up.
 
Gaaah, I still haven't gotten to 3k.
 
They really need rejected migration feedback - even just stick something in the fancy new "notifications" inbox when a migration you voted on was rejected.
 
So I can't help
 
@ShaneMadden it could work like rejected edits - too many rejected migrations to a given site and you can't migrate to that site again for a fixed period.
 
We really can't blame the users who vote to migrate the bad questions, when nothing tells them it was bad. Out of sight, out of mind :)
@Flexo Yeah, I think that one's been shot down before actually
 
6:46 PM
@Flexo ty for telling us :)
@ShaneMadden would be a great idea, if you put that on meta, I'll definitely upvote it
 
7:00 PM
SF meta or MSO?
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A: Provide direct feedback for rejected migrations

yodaIn addition to the ability to provide feedback directly from the target site to the close voters on the source, I propose that if enough number of their migrations (5 is reasonable) are closed on the target site either by the community or a moderator (or reversed by a moderator on the source site...

is a proposal as an answer on MSO
bountied :)
 
@Flexo there probably isn't a way I can throw in an additional 50 of my MSO rep into that bounty?
 
@LucasKauffman can't stack bounties. I started at 50 and I'll work up from there from time to time. The "fix" for bad PSE migrations isn't scalable but the current setup is pretty bad.
28 out of the last 50 rejected migrations from SO were to SF
 
7:17 PM
@Flexo 14% overall reject rate
 
some of those are ancient questions though so it might be that there was a recent spate of deletions distorting that
 
where can you see these numbers?
 
@LucasKauffman 10K tools - on SO it's stackoverflow.com/tools/posts/migrated/rejected
 
ah nice
still need to get used to the tools
 
7:21 PM
there's quite a lot of buried interesting data in there
 
mmmm don't know how I should react on this one, you guys decide:
OK, but can you remove the whole 'second link' business, I'm familiar with the whole 'Google' concept and it makes me look lazy, I resent that :) it isn't the second link for me, infact it's not even on the 2nd page. — dsjbirch 1 min ago
this was pointed out by about 3 users
 
7:35 PM
Please remember that Google gives different results based on the country from which you connect to it, or the Google site you use. Searching on www.google.com and www.google.co.uk give rather different result sets.
Aaagh, I had to stop myself from typing "Comcrap" in an answer.
 
I don't think it adds any value to the answer - the answer is no less valuable without it.
 
@Flexo automatic migrations should just be stopped. Their utility as a convenience to the OP is far outweighed by the angst they cause on receiving sites and the time spent correcting/moaning about them
 
@Iain there's nothing inherently mod-only about the action though if people are familiar with both ends of the migration. Migration beats cross-posting without any connection between the two questions by a long way too, which I'd have thought would happen a lot more if users can only comment.
 
I was thinking why there isn't an approval queue of migrated questions (mods of the site where the question gets migrated to can approve or disapprove), but this would increase their workload significantly no?
@MichaelHampton @Flexo per you suggestion edited the answer, ty for the input :)
 
7:53 PM
@Flexo Most people aren't familiar with both ends but many believe they are. I (pretty much) don't migrate anything unless someone from a receiving site asks for it. It's not like an OP can't easily copy+paste when their question is close OT.
 
very true
 
8:24 PM
I love you, @Iain.
Or maybe it's just your avatar. I can't tell.
 
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A: How to continue an interrupted mencoder converting process?

Michael HamptonYou can't. You will have to start over from the beginning, and keep your cats away from the power strip this time. :)

 
@MichaelHampton Shouldn't that have gone chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/118/root-access ?
 
Quite possibly.
It's more likely that I really should just avoid the temptation to go slumming at SU
 
@WesleyDavid what have you been drinking/smoking ?
 
9:29 PM
Now I know why so many Windows admins are bald... serverfault.com/questions/412176/…
I so want to make a really snarky comment.
 
9:45 PM
@MichaelHampton he's not an admin - he's a developer
 
Off with his head!
 
@MichaelHampton will removing the Order/Allow clauses fix the problem ?
 
Oh, he needs to reload apache too.
 
@Iain hic I'm not nearly as think as you drunk I am.
I've only had two.

Fifths.

This hour.
Actually, I don't drink. Except for one beer, especially if it's imperial stout.

Can you imagine what I'd be like drunk? I'm not sure the world is ready.
 
Not to mention, Order breaks if you have a space after the comma.
 
9:59 PM
I'd bet on it being a perms issue
 
Or he's got a Deny elsewhere. Friggin' .htaccess.
 
Friggin Apache.
Apache is like the MS Office of web servers.
 
friggin people who don't (appear to) read logs
 
Haven't seen any horrible questions where someone's writing an application in 2.4's awful new <If> conditionals. Hopefully people continue to not notice that feature.
 
Never touched apache 2.4 and hopefully never will. I am a very happy nginx user. :)
 
10:08 PM
Yes, thank you! There's 'permission denied' for the .htaccess in the dir in question, which is odd, concerning it has 644 permissions... — cbaby 2 mins ago
 
I smell selinux!
 
Oh look, I got a downvote!
 
@ShaneMadden /var/www/html should by default be set up correctly ?
 
@Iain Yeah - maybe he moved that stuff from elsewhere and kept a bad context though.
 
perhaps
 
10:12 PM
It SHOULD, but... the usual way the scontext gets screwed up is by moving a file from somewhere else.
 
 
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11:31 PM
@MichaelHampton can you update your answer to reflect the selinux context issue here please as right now your answer doesn't answer the question serverfault.com/a/412182/9517 and is useless unless someone reads the comments to the question
 

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