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12:15 AM
100 consecutive days, finally!
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@studiohack: Congratulations! :)
 
thanks @TomWijsman :)
somebody starred it?
 
Yeah, I did it, so others can read. :)
 
12:34 AM
ah cool @TomWijsman :P
 
 
9 hours later…
9:10 AM
hmm
yay, i managed to work out how to get the middle mouse button to work correctly in FF4 - turns out if scrolling is turned on in the trackpoint driver in thinkpads, it fails. BUT if its off, scrolling works anyway and middle mouse button closes
 
 
2 hours later…
10:44 AM
I'm not completely sure what's going on with this one:
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A: How to resize images without loss in quality ?

Trip ArticlesI am a little confused. This is an example where a person shrinks an image and then want to later enlarge it again, correct? And suffers resolution degradation. That to me is the obvious. But why would the image resolution degrade so bad just going from very large 3000 x 2000 to much smaller 300...

 
11:23 AM
lol
 
12:09 PM
@Wil this is your friendly daily reminder :D
 
Wil
12:20 PM
@BloodPhilia Hi... I doubt anything will happen on the saturday, I will take a look... And also, some good/bad news possibly...
 
Wil
12:36 PM
bank phone line shut, and not showing up in my account still... so bloody annoying as a transfer out I made yesterday went straight out!....
Anyway, bad news is after approving and stuff, they want a different site and do not like their original SWF, I don't really understand and am going to have a meeting with them on Tuesday as I was doing what they told me... however, good news... probably more money/another job for you!
 
 
2 hours later…
2:17 PM
@JourneymanGeek You have to sacrifice the middle button clicking on trackpoints, as the standard scrolling (or whichever one has the little scrollbar mouse pointer) works much better. And how come you did not know about that already?
 
@paradroid: kind of forgot. its fairly trivial to switch between the modes, and the middle mouse + nub to scroll works the same with firefox
 
@JourneymanGeek I always keep it in ThinkPad mode. There is porbably trackpad gesture that you can use instead.
 
for middle mouse click?
well, middle mouse click to close tabs...
 
Yeah, I would have thought so.
 
eh, trackpad is disabled.
 
2:21 PM
heh
 
and if it wasn't, it would be what i'd use to scroll ;)
its a odd little trackpad tho. it has a 'button' so you can click it, but tap to click also works
 
Yeah, I would think it could still be useful for gestures, while still maintaining your true-ThinkPadder credibility.
 
prolly ;p
ooh
pinch to zoom seems neat
 
@Wil good/bad news?
 
Wil
1 hour ago, by Wil
Anyway, bad news is after approving and stuff, they want a different site and do not like their original SWF, I don't really understand and am going to have a meeting with them on Tuesday as I was doing what they told me... however, good news... probably more money/another job for you!
 
 
2 hours later…
4:39 PM
Any idea how to measure the strength of my wifi?
 
@IvoFlipse: InSSIDer
 
downloading
going to test my wifi before and after I flash it
 
Do not run speed tests while running that, or you'll get bad results. ^^
 
Hmm I should run speedtests as well, but all I can think off is speedtest.net
wouldn't know how to test my network connection properly
 
But I get higher results on SpeedTest myself too, although that's supposed to be my ISP (but I guess it's hosted somewhere else by the service in the bottom left).
 
4:51 PM
RSSI is the strength?
too bad I don't have gps :P
 
Yeah, closer to 0 is better.
My N connection is worse in strength but serves higher rates.
It's not really stable but it does work. Configured my laptop to fall back when N somehow fails or when it isn't detected by my laptop yet.
Although it's all by itself on the 5 GHz range... xD
 
it drops from 30 to 50 in the bedroom
but overall pretty decent
darn should check 5ghz too
d'oh what did you just say
14 mins ago, by Tom Wijsman
Do not run speed tests while running that, or you'll get bad results. ^^
Sigh... bad memory :P
 
Oh no, at this site they made the tag cloud even more annoying...
 
downloading + that file
ping increases with 100 due to that app
 
@IvoFlipse: Yeah, I benchmarked the whole time while InSSIDer was on and wondering why DD-WRT was performing so crappy...
 
5:04 PM
@TomWijsman downloading heatmapper, so I can try to visualize it
but fear it uses gps or something
 
Don't think it needs GPS
GPS comes with one of the business versions.
 
well I don't have a map of the house either :\
 
I think the grid would reasonable work, if you live in a rectangle like me.
Hmm, I think I could even map 1 grid space to 1 tile or 2x2 tiles :D
although there are other tiles in the kitchen >_<
Changed the congestion windows of my DD-WRT, I probably shouldn't be messing around with it but just want to see it's effects. :)
 
meh its hard to make a map without a mouse
I can't move the grid either
so I was drawing to large and that screwed it up
but its great signal everywhere
now to flash the thing
 
evenin' all
 
5:18 PM
I wonder if there exists something to test congestion.
 
@DMA57361 hi @DMA57361
wonder if I can keep chatting :P
 
@IvoFlipse ?
 
@DMA57361 keep chatting while flashing my router
its still updating
 
oic, lol
 
@IvoFlipse: Normally you can just chat till the moment it reboots.
 
5:23 PM
well my router settings screen is down, which means it must have flashed that
lots of lights flashing :P
> Hold the reset button under the router for 30 seconds and do not release it, while still holding the reset button unplug the router and leave it unplugged for 30 more seconds. Still holding the reset button, plug the router back in and wait yet another 30 seconds. Unplug the router again and release the reset button, plug it back in and wait at least 2 minutes, this is critical as the router is building NVRAM settings.
unplug it from what?
Use Internet Explorer (or Safari) unless specifically stated that other browsers are okay.
uhoh :P
 
@IvoFlipse: Unplugging refers to the power cable.
 
well I guess I should do that then
> The wireless LEDs should now be flashing, and if your NIC card is gigabit, you should also see one orange LAN led, if you see these your flash is complete and you can now proceed to the 30/30/30 or triple 30 reset (step 4.).
hmm, should they have stopped blinking?
nope its flashed
huzzah :)
be back in 2 mins
 
Good luck!
Chat.SE: No annoying reconnects like on IRC. :)
 
repeat why should I?
 
Yay! @IvoFlipse is back. :)
 
5:31 PM
well I need to power cycle it, so I'll at least do that
so be back in a bit AGAIN
 
I find the comments this guy left on my answer pretty funny.
 
@IvoFlipse: Have fun configuring, going to eat, see you later...
 
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A: Can I restore my Macbook?

Mark SzymanskiIf you didn't keep a backup, then no. Your data is gone. Forever. Especially assuming you've used your MacBook after restoring it. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to restore using special disk restoration tools.

> This is S***. Apple had to do something about it.
OOoooohkay. So you want Apple to do the impossible?
 
He could still try to recover some files
if they aren't overwritten yet
 
@IvoFlipse: I'm assuming he still used his MacBook after reinstalling, so they probably were overwritten.
 
5:35 PM
Yeah, he probably can still recover things as probably the OS itself would be overwritten.
Unless he did a full reformat instead of a quick one...
 
hmm @DMA57361 now we need to set up that Calibre stuff :)
which level of protection should I use?
 
@IvoFlipse that'd be handy, my Dropbox is at 96.7% :P
 
well exactly
everything could just remain on my computer
or at least most of it
just need to figure out how
this dashboard is a lot better though
darn the usb support feature is very linux aimed :(
they want me to SSH into my external HDD?
 
6:01 PM
lol did I tell you I dishwashed my keyboard and forgot to put back a piece
turns out my media keys no longer work properly :P
 
lol @IvoFlipse
how are ya, btw?
 
@studiohack meh-ish
 
you've been pretty busy lately @IvoFlipse, I'm sure you would feel mehish
 
Hai, @studiohack.
 
hey @MarkSzymanski! how are you?
 
6:04 PM
I'm doing great, thanks. You?
 
pretty good, thanks for asking
 
No problem.
 
work is good, haven't been on SU nearly as much
 
I almost never chat these days either...
lurking a lot :P
 
6:06 PM
Yeah, I haven't been on chat much, either.
This is the first time in a while I've been on.
 
yeah?
 
just noticed a new close reason: not constructive (@IvoFlipse noticed that?)
 
I heard
 
Yep, I've noticed.
Seems to replace "Subjective & Argumentative"
That close reason has been on Programmers.SE for a while now.
 
6:08 PM
This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.
made my 4,007th edit today :P
 
anyone else any experience with dd-wrt?
I would like to write up some of the advantages
 
nope, I've always wanted to try it @IvoFlipse, but my home router is also the family's so I can't mess with it
 
its really simple :)
 
I'm gonna try and mess with AudioTool some more. See if I can't make something marginally better than some of the other things I've been making.
 
6:28 PM
@IvoFlipse WPA2 Personal AGN
If you go for older standards you can't reach the full 802.11 N-speed
 
yeah I think I used one of those
 
@IvoFlipse You can set up FTP
but well, if your external is NTFS it can become a bit harder...
 
@TomWijsman Well I'm not sure if I can get the external HDD running through the router :\
too bad I don't have a comparison with my old router
but don't feel like setting it up again :P
what other things can I try to do with a router?
other than setting up Calibre?
I could try setting up a VPN, though I'm never away from home :P
 
6:47 PM
I use a USB stick to host my hosts file for the whole network
So the router overrides the DNS requests so my laptop doesn't have to do it anymore.
Other than that, it's just a router...
 
@TomWijsman lol why would I want that?
 
Dunno, someone else here did that too.
Blocks the whole network of downloading known nasty viruses/spywares along blocking ads and so on.
 
 
2 hours later…
9:11 PM
I think the words "current user" need replacing with "developer" in this one:
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A: PageRage found mysteriously on my system

OliviaPageRage can be either installed by going directly to their website www.pagerage.com or by installing as a bundling package offer through an affiliate of theirs. The problem with affiliates and software is that, sometimes, they don't tell you what is being installed when you choose one of their o...

 

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