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12:38 AM
@Robusto Poo makes you feel shitty, so instead of poo just pee.
 
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@RegDwightѬſ道 Well, I am not in a position to judge the correctness of that, so I have no comments. But let us be fair to him and not think he is wrong if we are not sure.
 
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@Jez What do you mean exactly?
 
user19161
@Jez What comes to mind is boisterous.
 
1:10 AM
@Jez 'vocal' isn't as colorful as your examples, but it captures someone who speaks up to hopefully get what they want.
 
Jim
I would like some feedback on a feature-request I submitted in Meta. I asked for the ability to "favorite' an answer. It seems to be getting no traction at all. I saw JohnLawler's answer earlier today on Quantifier/Determiners vs Adverbs and thought, "Wow, that's great. I'd like to favorite that" - but there's not facility to do that. I don't want to favorite the question because, really, it's nothing special. So, what's not to like about my suggestion?
@Jez squeaky wheel brings to mind 'whiner' in my book... (Is that 'whinger' on the other side of the pond?)
 
1:54 AM
@Jim I support your idea, though I don't have a need for it personally (favouring the question works well enough for me).
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 OMFG
 
2:11 AM
@WillHunting Thanks for the tip.
 
Jim
2:29 AM
@Cerberus Thanks Cerberus
 
2:45 AM
@Jim Good luck on your quest, hehe.
 
Jim
heh
You could upvote it if you really wanted to support it...
 
3:10 AM
Done! I hadn't seen the question yet.
 
Hello.
 
Hi!
I'm creating a home network, for the first time in my life.
I wonder whether it will work.
 
Jim
3:36 AM
How complicated will it be? DMZ, firewall, separate subnets for wireless and wired?
 
Ah, cool!
I've decided to read LotR again.
 
Jim
@Mahnax I have been thinking that recently as well- I last read it about 1977 I think.
 
@Jim Heh. I read it four years ago.
But I was 11 at the time.
 
Jim
I would have been 14
 
3:51 AM
@Cerberus there read it when he was 11 too.
 
Jim
So I was really into the parts with Frodo and Sam and really wanted the big tactical battle scenes to be over and done with as quickly as possible.
 
@Jim Very simple: just two computers sharing a wireless router.
But I can't get it to work.
@Jim Haha, understandable.
@Mahnax Yay, then we were both young!
It is like the Battle of Austerlitz in War and Peace.
 
@Cerberus Yes, we established this yesterday or the day before.
 
Jim
Hmmm. you've got the router set up for DHCP server and the two laptops for DHCP client.. and the sercurity types set correctly (WPA2, WEP, etc)
 
@Cerberus Goodness. I tried reading that and was bored out of my mind for the 100 pages that I did get through.
 
3:54 AM
@Jim Ehh I followed the instruction on the MS website. I was able to see the other computer under Network Places (XP). Then I rebooted, but now each compute can only see itself in Network Places.
@Mahnax Really? But it's great!
Perhaps try it again sometime when you're in the mood.
 
@Cerberus Meh. It was just Russian and French people socializing.
 
What's not to like about that?
 
snores
Not my kind of reading material.
 
I suppose you want aliens firing laser guns, huh.
 
I got 550 pages into the Wealth of Nations once.
@Cerberus Not even.
I want a storyline, a plot.
 
3:56 AM
@Mahnax And you didn't find that boring?
 
So far, there hadn't really been one.
 
W&P has a great plot. With many subplots.
 
@Cerberus I did, but I had accepted a challenge.
 
Haha.
 
The challenge didn't even exist.
 
3:57 AM
You accepted nothingness?
 
My social teacher said "this will put you to sleep" and I said "challenge accepted."
 
Jim
Have you read George RR Martin?
 
Moi ou Cerb?
 
Jim
either
 
Nay.
 
3:58 AM
Nope, but heard good things about it.
 
Jim
yeah, I really enjoyed it, but it takes him so long to put the next one out. I waited over a year for one and over 2 (maybe 3?) for the last.. And there's one more to go. I hope he doesn't die before finishing it
 
@Mahn I'm sure you will eventually appreciate the great Russian writers.
 
@Cerberus I have the book on my iPod so that I can finish it.
 
@Jim Yikes, yes, waiting for book to come out is looong.
 
I will finish it.
 
4:00 AM
Is it an audio book?
 
No.
 
So you read books on a tiny screen?
 
Yes.
One real page = 5 or 6 iPod pages.
Definitely usable, for me.
And the books are free with the app I got.
 
Hmm.
It sounds ehm suboptimal.
Okay, I give up on this stupid network.
 
It's not bad.
I rather enjoy it.
 
4:03 AM
Dropbox works well enough anyway.
 
It's actually easier than holding a book, especially in bed, or in the dark.
 
I often read the news on my phone, but I don't enjoy it.
But the tiny pages!
 
Jim
@Cerberus so the machines are on the network they just can't see each other?
Are you running any firewall software anywhere?
 
@Jim Each machine says it's on the network, but it can only see itself.
@Jim Only default XP firewalls.
But at first they could see each other (until I rebooted both), but I was unable to actually map a network drive somehow.
 
Jim
no routing restrictions in the router? Can you ping one's IP from the other and get packets?
 
4:07 AM
Ehh how do I do that?
I'm a total layman.
Some command line IPconfig thingy?
 
Jim
open a dos shell and say > ping 192.168.1.2 or whatever your machines IP addrs are
 
How do I know what they are?
 
Google "what is my IP address".
 
Jim
yes, to find the IP addr you can run ipconfig /all
 
Just the IP address that the internet sees?
 
Jim
4:09 AM
yes, find the adapter for your wireless and look at the Ipv4 Address
 
Is that not the same as what Google tells?
I tried, but it said "request timed out" several times.
 
Jim
it is likely not because the router is likely doing Network address translation- I.e., it gets its IP from your service provider uses it, while it hands you out an address from its private subnet likely in the 192.168.x.x subnet
 
Okay, I tried the one I found in Ipconfig, and it seems to be working.
0 % loss.
 
Jim
so you can ping the second's from the first
s and vice versa
 
I can ping from my laptop to my desktop, which I am on now.
With the 192.168.1.6 address.
The other way around works too.
From desktop to 192.168.1.7.
 
Jim
4:16 AM
ok, cool, that means that you have connectivity
 
Hmm...
 
Jim
now you need to get Windows configured to share
 
I did that.
Ran the Network wizard thingy on both computers.
I shared a folder.
But each computer thinks it is alone in the workgroup.
 
Jim
but the workgroup you have them assigned to is the same?
 
Yes, the exact same name. And at first I could see both computers under the workgroup on this computer.
 
Jim
4:19 AM
I don't have an XP machine any more- ( I moved to Win7 last year) but somewhere there should be a setting to enable Network discovery
 
I think the network-setup wizard was for that.
I did it, and it worked, briefly.
Hey, somehow the workgroup name show up differently in this other screen.
 
Jim
maybe you can bypass that and use the IP address directly- So if your folder is shared as let's say: PublicShare then you could do "Map network drive" and give it a url of \\192.168.1.6\PublicShare (use the IP addr of the machine that owns the share)
 
Oh, yes good idea! I will do that if this fails.
Now it wants me to restart again...
 
Jim
I hate that
 
settles in, begins reading
 
4:28 AM
Back.
 
Jim
so you fixed the workgroup names?
 
Yes. They are now the same again. But I think they were the same all the time, except for that brief moment when I had run that identification wizard again.
 
Jim
wierd
 
Should I use the name WORKGROUP, then? I'm using a different name for both now.
 
Jim
nope, doesn't have to be
 
4:35 AM
@Jim So what does "owning a share" mean?
 
Jim
the computer on whose disk the directory resides "owns the share" and the other computer "mounts" the share...
 
Ah OK.
Trying to add the laptop by IP address as you suggested, but it says the folder is invalid.
 
Jim
hmmm
 
Pinging still works.
Now I tried to add just the IP address (no \SharedDocs), but it says I need a shared folder.
 
Jim
So if you go to the directory above the one you want to share (so you see it as a directory in the list) right-click Properties, Sharing tab- what Network path does it show?
 
4:40 AM
In Explorer?
 
Jim
yes
 
The box "share this folder" is ticked.
Share name is SharedDocs.
 
Jim
ok, good
so you should be able to see it as \\192.168.1.6\SharedDocs
 
And yet it says the folder is invalid!
 
Jim
that is strange
I'm starting up a XP virtual machine so I can see XP-style dialogs...
 
4:44 AM
Haha cool.
I tried the Wireless Network Setup Wizard, which wants me to use flash drives to create a network, but that doesn't work either.
 
Jim
I had to configure Network Sharing on the VM
 
Through the wizard?
I think I did all that properly, and it seemed to work for a moment.
 
Jim
yeah, it was a brand new VM instance
 
Hmm...
 
Jim
Well, it looks like XP doesn
t give you the full network path for the share
(apostrophe too close to the Return key)
 
4:54 AM
Did you know you can edit an old line by pressing Up in the empty typing box?
 
Jim
No I didn't
 
@Jim Indeed it does not, but it allows you to brows network places, and that's where the workgroup and its computers show up.
 
Jim
Well, if you can see it in there then you should be all set
 
The problem is that I don't.
 
Jim
that's what I thought
 
4:56 AM
On my desktop, I see only my desktop in the workgroup, and vice versa.
Well, not vice versa, but you get what I mean, hehe.
 
Jim
yes
 
But I saw both computers in the list at first.
I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong.
Actually I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.
 
Jim
In Control Panel: Windows Firewall "Exceptions" tab, is File and Printer Sharing checked?
 
Yes.
On both computers.
 
Jim
Hmm, seems like it ought to work
 
5:00 AM
kicks stupid computers
 
Jim
I dunno
 
Yeah it's weird.
Team Viewer work fine between them.
 
@Cerberus Ha.
 
But that goes through the Internet.
@Mahnax You laugh, little apple!
 
@Cerberus I am, and shall continue to do so!
 
5:01 AM
Perhaps it is something with my router-modem.
@Mahnax Pah!
I'll get you yet! shakes fist
 
@Cerberus Cool it, gramps!
 
shakes other fist
and vodka-martini
 
Careful, you have arthritis!
 
At least I have learned how to walk already.
 
Jim
Oh, that could be. It needs to configured to pass NetBEUI
 
5:03 AM
@Cerberus Yeah well I'm young and spry!
 
@Jim But would it allow pinging if it weren't so configured?
@Mahnax And yet you have a wobbly gait!
 
Jim
yes, pinging is ICMP - a different protocol
 
@Cerberus Still practising!
 
And now I can't log into my router any more.
I'm sure the password is right.
 
Jim
Oops
 
5:08 AM
Now that I think of it, soon after I got it, somehow I was unable to connect to it through cable (only wireless).
Which was weird too.
 
Jim
are you wireless from both computers? Sometimes routers are configured to allow administration from wired connections only (for security)
 
Yes, both wireless.
But I changed the password two weeks ago.
And wired hasn't worked for a year or so.
I could reset my router, but it's working now, and I'd rather not tear open who knows what.
I can live with not having a network.
Or wired internet.
 
Jim
I can understand that
 
Or access to the modem.
But thanks for trying to help me!!
Now I know it's not my stupidity.
 
Jim
Well, sorry I couldn't be of help...
 
5:12 AM
You have helped in as much that I now know it is impossible, haha.
 
Jim
Ha!
Good night all
 
Night.
 
Night!
 
 
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9:35 AM
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Q: Neihter and either usage in negative sentence

PietroI would like to make sure I understood the usage of these: Do you want A or B? I do not want either //none of them I want neihter //can I say that?

I wonder who's upvoting this.
 
10:00 AM
@RegDwight - the world would be less interesting if everybody had the same opinions as you.
 
It's not about opinion.
It's plain about form.
If you gonna upvote a question, at least fix the blatant misspellings.
 
I can understand why lots of people wouldn't do that.
 
Of course.
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Q: Why do some non-English words become English words?

John Isaiah CarmonaWhy do some non-English words become English words even though there is already are English words meaning the same thing that are more universally understandable? For example, He received kudos from everyone on his performance. - dictionary.reference.com The word kudos [koo-dohz, -dohs, -d...

 
@RegDwightѬſ道 I didn't upvote, but I did edit.
 
Hahaha check out the comment exchange.
 
10:11 AM
And I answered both. Sue me.
 
@Robusto Yeah I noticed. Thanks for doing the legwork for him.
@Robusto I will sue you later. Now go check out that comment exchange.
 
I did. Pretty funny.
 
Well, on to sueiueing you, then!
 
You can't sue me from my back yard. Lawyers do not like to go there.
 
Don't gonna sue from backyard. That one guy you will meet in the next twenty-odd years might, but also mightn't, be a lawyer of mine.
 
10:15 AM
In the middle of the day I would let neihter pass, but when I just get out of bed it is such a bare burning lightbulb of error that I have to do something about it.
 
Like, stomp foot?
 
Like, stomp misspelling.
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Q: What are the references of the words in the paragraph?

xEnOnWhile reading an article about persuasive games, I stumble upon this paragraph, which I do not understand the meaning of the sentences from the way they are structured. The concept of authorship incorporates another feature of art more broadly: the pursuit of a particular truth irrespective...

More pineapple humor, I suppose.
 
Yeah I liked the title so much I was afraid to click and read more.
 
Do words require references to be in your paragraph, good sir?
 
They do not exactly require, but I do them the favor.
I'm like generous and such.
 
10:18 AM
You generous and such are.
 
There was another funny one that fell off everybody's radar.
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Q: Present perfect tense

lovesackWhen changing a sentence to present perfect tense, is it compulsory the verb changes tense too. For instance 'David begins his training today' changes to 'David has begun his training already'. Does the sentence 'David runs every day' changes to 'David has run as many as five miles today' or 'Da...

 
We are becoming the Dinner for Schmucks of SE sites.
 
Actually it only occurs to me now how awesome the first sentence is.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 I saw that, and even thought about answering, but then I said to myself, "What's the use?" This guy has a verbal leg off and here we are putting bandaids on it.
 
If you change a sentence to another tense, you also have to change the verb to another tense. Simply changing the sentence but not the verb won't cut it!
 
10:22 AM
2 mins ago, by Robusto
We are becoming the Dinner for Schmucks of SE sites.
 
I blame capitalism.
 
That's your excuse for everything.
 
Well I have only watched it once, but I did laugh.
I'll get back to you after the remaining 99 times.
 
'Ello, can I use "breaking into one's house" when it's police who is doing it?
break in/break into sth: to get into a building or car using force, usually to steal something
 
10:34 AM
Thank you.
Is "people are getting doubtful about something" correct?
 
@Gigili - for "break in", the OED gives "To force one's way in, enter forcibly or abruptly; to make an irruption". This is the 1971 edition, but I don't believe the meaning has changed since then.
"People are getting doubtful about something" sounds awkward to me, and I would probably try to write it differently. But I don't think it's ungrammatical.
 
@DavidWallace Yes, that was the CDO definition.
@DavidWallace What would you say instead?
 
@Gigili Can you give me more context?
 
Are getting pessimistic?
 
What's the "something" that people are getting doubtful about?
 
10:44 AM
"People are pessimistic about X, and they have gotten away from it; they are skeptical about the origin and the basis of it"
 
What's X?
 
But it doesn't sound correct to me because it has not happened yet.
I cannot give you more context =\
 
How about reversing the whole lot. "People are skeptical about the origin and basis of eggnog, and are starting to express their doubts about it."
 
@DavidWallace Much better, thank you.
 
No probs. How are you today, anyway, Gigili?
 
10:49 AM
I'm fine, thank you. How are you?
 
Quite tired. This is my last week with my current client, and I'm trying to finish off as much of my work as I can for them.
 
Good luck, is it late there?
 
It will be midnight very soon, and I shall turn into a pumpkin.
 
hi people. are questions about old english on or off topic or does "it depend"?
 
Nobody knows what's on-topic and off-topic on ELU. It depends on the mood of the moderator.
I'd say, ask it and see what happens.
 
10:55 AM
specifically i wanted to know if a class of questions would be acceptable here, namely questions of the type "what word did english use for "glory" or "honour" before these were borrowed from french?"
 
@RegDwight - hippietrail is talking to you.
 
Oh.
@hippietrail the current consensus is that these would be on-topic.
 
well to anybody who has a better feel for the site than me. i can also ask on meta if it's a good question
my followup question is "is there a tag for these questions?" (-:
 
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Q: Are Old and Middle English questions really on-topic?

Jon PurdyI asked a question recently (Send, sent; end, *ent?), which hasn’t yet received a straight answer. It leads me to wonder if questions about Old and Middle English are actually on-topic for this site; while it’s certainly acceptable for answers to draw on historical English to substantiate specula...

 
thanks i just found the post independently (-:
 
10:58 AM
@DavidWallace Huh, I keep saying that every night from 1 A.M. and I go to bed at 5 if everything goes well.
 
@Gigili - yes, but you're younger than I am, and no doubt you don't need quite as much sleep as I do.
 
Is this correct: "no right was grossly and obviously destroyed"? Rights will be violated, not destroyed - right?
 
@hippietrail It's possible you won't get good answers to these questions.
 
that's ok i know they're long tail questions - if they were easy i would just google them (-;
 
11:02 AM
@hippietrail or try linguistics.SE.
 
Rob and Martha might happen to know.
 
@Gigili I think you're right. Destroying a right sounds incorrect; "violated" is a safer option.
 
@DavidWallace: yes i'm more active on linguistics than here right now but single language and single word questions are not fully accepted over there and this would pretty much fall into both of those categories
 
@Gigili or "trampled on" if you want to be a little poetic.
 
Uhum, thank you @DavidWallace.
 
11:05 AM
@hippietrail - you could ask something like "What would be a good way of finding answers to questions such as - what word did English use for honour or glory before yadda yadda yadda".
 
hmm it seems the answer might be ār
hmm that would be meta and a bit disappointing to me but if the site is so much more about usage than the other aspects of english so be it
 
@hippietrail No way am I playing YOU at Scrabble!
 
@DavidWallace: or just play me when neither of us have internet access and/or time limits per turn are imposed d-;
 
@hippietrail Yes, but if you asked a dozen or so questions that were all of the form "What word did English use for X", people would stop answering them after the first 2 or 3. Which is why a "teach a man to fish" option might make more sense.
@Gigili Are you writing about recent events for a newspaper?
 
well that would be so if there is an easy way to find such answers, but it would be akin to directing all asking usage questions to buy a style guide would it not?
no i'm commenting on a recent elu question about kudos
which has piqued my interest (-:
 
11:13 AM
Funny, some of us were discussing the "kudos" question here, just before you arrived.
Hey @RegDwight, I've just re-read the FAQ for ELU. There's something on it that makes ZERO sense!
 
i've always read with interest topics on looking for the anglo saxon equivalents of loanwords in modern english. it's come up before at least in works by douglas hofstadter and the site languagehat
 
@DavidWallace Not really, but something like that.
 
@DavidWallace I'm still waiting.
 
There is a prohibition against - "Explain this joke to me", except in the case where the crux of the joke relies on an aspect of English covered by one of the welcomed topics above. But if you need the joke to be explained to you, how can you know what the crux of the joke relies on? To know that the question is acceptable, you have to know the answer already.
 
Ah.
But that's the case with many questions.
Chicken-and-egg.
Has to be decided on a case-by-case basis.
 
11:17 AM
More like deranged-owl and egg if you ask me.
 
No bashing owls in this chat.
 
@Gigili You're being deliberately abtuse.
 
In the case of questions about jokes, the clause is only there in the first place because TPTB wanted to rule them out wholesale.
The community pushed back.
This wishy-washy blabla is the result.
 
My goodness! The people on math.SE are very very nice. Somebody asked how to simplify (3 * 4 + 2)^2 and nobody downvoted it.
 
@DavidWallace Why downvote?
I bet it got 8473 answers already, people like such easy-to-answer questions there.
 
11:24 AM
@Gigili You're one of them aren't you? You're one of those nice people! What are you doing over here at ELU?
 
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@DavidWallace That should be closed as too localised.
 
@Gigili Yeah, sometimes I look at math.SE, and questions like that are the only ones I can understand!
@WillHunting Please don't. I'll feel like I was the evil snitch.
So, I wonder, did Will Hunting go off to close the question? Or to answer it?
 
To not see you in evil mask?
 
Isn't it a bit redundant to have all the tags , and ?
also i hereby present
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Q: Would questions seeking native Anglo-Saxon equivalents to English terms borrowed from foreign languages be on-topic?

hippietrailIn a recent question, the OP wanted to know why English would borrow a foreign word like kudos from Greek when we already had two perfectly good English words, honour and glory. I wanted to point out that both of these English words were themselves borrowed from French but I did not know what wo...

 
@Gigili Huh?
There, I've just made up for it by providing a good answer to another "should be closed as too localised" question on math.SE
 
11:36 AM
@DavidWallace You need to add dollar signs
 
I think I did. I edited it after my original posting, to put them in.
@hippietrail Yes, but you don't need an awful lot of reputation to be able to create your own tags. And people do. Often without consulting ME!!
 
I think you mean \times or \cdot by star.
 
@Gigili You're right, of course. I am a computer programmer by profession, and I become far too used to using asterisk for multiplication. I'll fix it now - thanks for the save.
Anyway, the OP used asterisks.
 
i'll see if i can suggest synonyms yet. i personally prefer the tag but when suggesting synonyms i usually go by which has been the most popular
 
@Gigili Are you happy now, my pedantic friend?
 
11:41 AM
@DavidWallace Hih, looks great now. See, 3 upvotes so far.
 
4 now
Let's see if it'll beat my record for math.SE (46)
 
"But the society has been damaged afterwards because of mismanagement and governance of some nonspecialists" - Does it make sense to you @DavidWallace?
 
Is this a particular society, or society in general? If it's the latter, I'd lose the "the". I'm not sure what you mean by "governance" here. Also, I think "non-specialists" has a hyphen.
Maybe you could write "poor governance" in place of "governance".
 
A particular society
 
OK, I guess it depends how recently you mentioned it, before this particular sentence. Is it absolutely clear what "the society" refers to? Or would it be better to say "that society" or similar?
And do you mean that it was the non-specialists who did the governance? Or was the governance being done to them? It's ambiguous the way you've written it.
 
11:47 AM
Right, I mean it was the non-specialists who did the governance
 
Then I'd say "by", not "of".
 
@DavidWallace I guess it's clear enough which society it's referring to
 
@Gigili, I think I'm going to go to bed now. If you have more English sentences that you want me to look at, could you email them to me and I'll take a look tomorrow after work?
Good night everyone. Nice chatting to you all.
 
@DavidWallace Thank you so much. Good night, sleep well.
 
12:32 PM
Holla
 
Shall I spend a bar?
 
@KitFox oh yes, please.
Though half a bar might suffice.
Oh yeah, 700 ahead.
 
12:48 PM
Oh. Well.
I spent it all.
 
I am determined to level up today, though.
 
A level a day keeps the apple away.
 
Or maybe I won't. But soon.
 

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