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6:43 AM
anyone here one of the 3 downvoters of the twitter ad? if so, why?
 
 
6 hours later…
slm
12:43 PM
@strugee - wasn't me.
 
mm... someones doesn't like twitter...
 
 
2 hours later…
2:17 PM
ello chaps :)
 
slm
@DravSloan WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN???? 8-)
 
On mars mate :) hehe
 
slm
Missed ya
was wondering if something happened to ya
 
hope all is well with thee matey :D
 
slm
hoping you were just busy
yes been busy here
trying to pass stephane
just helping ppl tending to the site
 
2:18 PM
Busy busy busy, aye... Also I was a bit miffed with a few odds n sods here, so went for some cooldown time :)
 
hello everybody..
 
54k, jeez you is like Master Yoda ;)
 
slm
sorry to hear that, anything I can help w/?
 
can someone tell me why following not working in ksh
```
ParseDiskUsage() {
a=0
i=0
awk '!/Filesystem/' temp_df |
while read line;
do
set -A line
[[ $a = 1 ]] && printf ',,,,'
while [[ $i -gt ${#line} ]];
do
printf "%s," ${line[$i]};
[[ $i = 0 ]] && a=1
i=$(expr $i + 1 )
done
printf "\n"
done
}
```
 
slm
yeah I like helping ppl, it's like my smoking habit (i don't smoke)
 
2:20 PM
:D
I never use ksh shell
before..
it's hard
than bash
 
Arr, it's a bit akin to bash on steroids :D
heh, I gave up the smoking in Jan, good riddance to that! :)
 
slm
Good for you. Most of my wife's family smokes, luckily we don't, never have. Drives us nuts cuz everytime we visit we have to do loads of laundry to get it off ya
So what has been holding your time?
@DravSloan - So what has been holding your time?
 
visit to LA, migration of most of our servers from one blade environment to another, death of an uncle... you know .. that thing called life ;)
was searching on something I had an issue with today, fell across SE and thought "you know what, s'been a while"
:D
 
slm
2:37 PM
Well glad you're OK, hopefully you won't stay away so long, even though we've never face to face met I consider you a friend, wasn't the same here w/o ya.
how's LA btw, never been, only to San Fran.
 
Yeah, I'm good, glad all is well with thee Mr 54k rep!! (tips hat and likewise with the friendship ;) As to LA, I worked there in '99, it was my first visit back :) Did a whistle-stop tour of CA breweries and eateries :) Good company, good food n beer, good weather... if anything it was too short a holiday!
Thanksgiving in Carlsbad (near San Diego), was rather nommy too :)
I did SF when I was worked out there, a speed tour over a weekend, seemed a fun city :)
 
slm
I've only visited SF, I live in the east in NY (not NYC), we have lots of snow right now. You ever out this way?
we have beer too 8-)
 
Yeah, glad it was 78F+ most days in LA ... luckily we've not had any snow in the UK yet... but it's been high 30's to low 40's in the UK ... brrr
 
@slm have you ever noticed that sometimes you get a first post or low quality to review that is a day or more old instead of the 'normal' 20 minutes
 
slm
10 here now
 
2:50 PM
Why that's particularly clement!! [hands slm a eskimo outfit]
 
slm
@Anthon - yes, I have, I never could figure out why. I attributed it to some background task that was running through the data the next day against the previous days data.
Assumed that the checks were independent of each other
@DravSloan - got to use the snow blower today for the 3rd time. Some critters had gotten into a bag of bird seed I had in the garage. It only took them a week to find it
 
Is kind of strange, I have not found a pattern. For the LQ I can imagine some grey area depending on the responses. But for First Posts, IIRC I had one with 4 days delay. The OP could almost have had enough rep to do the review him/herself
 
some times community flags stuff and get again into the LQ review queue
or some user issues a LQ flag
 
slm
@Anthon - lol, I figured there was some background tasks that were going through the posts but not knowing the table structures (for example do Q's go into a smaller table initially and then get migrated into a full table of Q's later on - for performance reasons), it's difficult to read into what's going on
What's up with community btw
i know it owns Q's and does stuff on the site but is there an actual fully documented spec that explains what that account does?
i remember reading somewhere about it but have lost this page now
 
here is the flag path meta.superuser.com/a/7339/235569
check unix.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=flags&daterange= for some "auto" flags... that's community
 
slm
2:58 PM
Yeah what i wanted to see was info about community and the frequency that it runs tasks, and also what tasks exactly it runs
 
@slm that's a question for [meta.so]
RAGE
 
@slm don't know, only now of community as the one who is blamed if you indicate that a suggested edit was not useful.
 
slm
@Anthon - you have a better grasp of the results such as that than I, I haven't fully pieced it together in my mind yet
@Anthon - you've explained to users when an edit was rejected and then seemingly the changes were made and you know why, I've never understood your explanation (my own limited understanding)
@DravSloan - don't be a stranger! See all the fun you're missing with trying to determine what the Community user is doing? 8-)
 
2 reasons why community rejects a edit: 1) reviewers hit improved, then uncheck the "this was a helpful edit" 2) the question was in 2 queues and gets edited by someone with more reputation before yours get approved
 
[digs out the OuiJa board] Ooooo are you there community, please contact us!!
 
3:06 PM
@Braiam 1) was what I had done, the review then had 3 markings, one from slm, one from me and one from community.
 
right time for late lunch, back in wee while
 
slm
I guess I should head into work.
 
 
3 hours later…
5:44 PM
I always feel really pleased with myself when Gilles, slm, Anthon, and Braiam haven't been super active in the review queues and I get a review in
also, I wonder why chats don't propagate to the sidebar thing in the main site right away
 
6:27 PM
unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/32863 ... ugh. I don't want to cast the final close vote on that because it'll result in migrating crap, even if I don't vote for migration...
Flagged for diamond-mod attention...
 
slm
If ever I needed a Perl guru
2
Q: How do I access the content data that's being uploaded in a multipart/form-data POST?

slmI have the following Perl code that I found on this SO Q&A titled: Perl HTTP server. Specifically this answer. Here's my modified code: httpserver.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use CGI qw/ :standard /; use Data::Dumper; use HTTP::Daemon; use HTTP::Response; use HTTP::Status; us...

@terdon?
@strugee - I've been trying to lay off the review queues to let others in
mainly focusing on close and late as of now
@derobert - I didn't think that Q was nec. crap, but it's probably well covered on SO, no?
 
@slm if I was less busy today, I'd take a look at it...
 
slm
@derobert - thanks. I'll keep digging, there is some linkage i'm missing b/w http::daemon and CGI
daemon gives me a request object, i don't know how to get the file uploaded out of that.
 
does the PROCESSING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD part of the CGI doc not help?
 
@slm ah, now I see. your efforts to make less effort are appreciated :P
 
slm
6:37 PM
8-)
 
@slm Its either stackoverflow.com/questions/79165/… or alternatively "questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow" ... of course, that's the first two results from plopping svn git migrate into the SO search box.
 
I can never tell if there are not a lot of reviews because we're small or because the review queue regulars are getting them all
 
slm
regs get them all
look at the history around 6-7PM EST
you'll see the total reviews there in a given day
 
@strugee check the history
 
slm
@derobert - it still seemed like a good Q, just a "already been answered one" IMO
 
6:41 PM
@slm sorry, very busy, deadline. I'll have a look when I get the chance.
 
slm
@terdon - no worries if you get a chance is all
 
@slm Its not really by SO standards, they require much more of question askers (quite reasonable, with the question influx they face)... And it seems like SO standards are what matter, as that's where the move is to. And migrating something that they'll immediately need to close just makes work for their mods/high-rep users. We can just as easily point to the answer on SO in a comment and close it here, without migration.
 
@slm It's just annoying, I'd love to get the chance to help you for a change :)
2
 
ah, good idea
 
slm
@terdon - I'll prob. be spinning my wheels until you guys get a chance to help 8-)
 
6:45 PM
 
slm
@derobert - point taken, I'll try and be more attentive of that if it comes up again w/ a migration to SO Q.
i'm at 2775 8-(
 
Anyway, I flagged it, so hopefully @MichaelMrozek or one of our other mods can just close it here.
 
slm
mis-read the of our as four
 
@slm Booo
 
slm
@Braiam - thanks..working on trying to get >3k there just for that feature 8-)
 
6:51 PM
@Braiam I left a comment pointing here, and voted to close
As a side note, I don't think there is really a good way to do what OP wants.
-m owner used to have --cmd-owner, but I think it was removed as it didn't really work
 
 
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10:45 PM
3
Q: What problems does udev actually solve?

BandramiFor that matter, what exactly was wrong with a bunch of static files in /dev? It's apparently unsatisfactory enough for developers to have reinvented this wheel by my count 3 times now (devfs -> udev + HAL -> udev), and now apparently it's going into the Grand Unified Init Program too, so four ti...

I'd appreciate any corrections on my answer there... That was written from memory, and that was events that are a decade ago. And which I wasn't hugely involved in, but mostly an observer.
 
slm
11:13 PM
@derobert - nice answer.
That Q + A's should be over here too 8-)
 

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