Root Access

3:36 AM

this is annoying..

i can't seem to connect via sftp to my server within the same lan. I know it works from home, and ssh works... but not sftp. created a firewall exception for cyberduck.. so its not that...

Mark Szymanski

3:53 AM

@JourneymanGeek: Perfect question for Super User, eh?

Journeyman Geek

4:56 AM

@MarkSzymanski: not enough info to work out what's wrong... ;p

studiohack

2

Q: Windows 7 Regional wallpaper packs: Where in the world?

Is there a list somewhere of the geographical location of the Windows 7 wallpapers? I'd love to know more about some of these places, but apart from the region they're bundled with, there's not much information I can find. Any hints?

-

Journeyman Geek

ok, its not cyberduck, its apparently either the 'work' location option, or the office lan.

Clippy

Super User Blog: Clouds & Droplrs: Comparing CloudApp and Droplr

Posted by Mark Szymanski on June 24th, 2011

If there is one thing that almost anyone will need to do sometime in their life with any operating system is upload a file. Whether it be an funny picture they want to show a friend, or a draft of a report they want to have someone proofread. On Mac OS X, there are two small programs out there that make this task very simple. They are CloudApp and Droplr. Both are menubar apps, and both are for the same thing: uploading files to the web. Like any other piece of software, these programs have their strengths and weaknesses, all (or most) of which I will cover in this post. …

Mark Szymanski

Yay

Sathya

Mark Szymanski

5:06 AM

Heh.

Journeyman Geek

o0. darn that dratted AI. IT WILL END US ALL!

Sathya

Clippy has got AI?

Journeyman Geek

annoying idiocy ;)

Mark Szymanski

I am so. Freaking. Tired.

Goodnight, everyone.

Journeyman Geek

hm. another pet peeve. cmd is NOT dos superuser.com/questions/301505/browsing-the-internet-from-dos

Sathya

5:41 AM

@MarkSzymanski good night

Sathya

5:53 AM

sonofagun. Team Fortress 2 is now free to play

DMA57361

7:14 AM

@Sathya well... that was unexpected, although not really surprising

morning all

tombull89

7:36 AM

@Sathya what? hmm. Looks like I might have something to distract me from Minecraft.

Journeyman Geek

lol

bckbck

9:30 AM

@JourneymanGeek are you a singaporean?

Journeyman Geek

@bckbck: yes

bckbck

@JourneymanGeek ooh

a fellow singaporean

Journeyman Geek

lol

if you see anyone on the streets wearing an SU t shirt, there's a reasonable chance its me ;p

bckbck

ah, i see

i'm waiting for my apple.se shirt to ship to me

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek wait, you have a SU t?

Journeyman Geek

9:33 AM

yes!

Sathya

neato

Journeyman Geek

eheh. OS X sadly will be the last major OS i'll dabble in at this rate

is planning to throw together a openindiana install at some point to mess with zfs

@Sathya: got it for being on one of the first two pages of users i think

gmm

bckbck

i remember the shirt was also somewhere on the SE store

Journeyman Geek

i found an Acceptable SIW replacement

@bckbck: that's new. also, hm. not the same as getting it for awesomeness XD

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek ditto

Journeyman Geek

9:37 AM

cpuid.com/softwares/pc-wizard.html is nice. rh-software.com/downloads/siv.zip is bizzare but useful for seeing per core speed precisely

bckbck

hmmm

my neighbours wifi is lagging

gah

tombull89

I hope you've got permission? :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

stealing wifi in HDB is almost an art

i had a neighbour whose signal strength was ... dependant on the weather

bckbck

@tombull89 they said yes, but there are too many routers using linksys as a SSID

so i randomly picked one

@JourneymanGeek i used to hang my wifi stick outside the window

Journeyman Geek

i thought it was harder now, the stock Singtel routers are 2wire, and have wpa by default

tombull89

9:42 AM

@bckbck haha, I see.

Journeyman Geek

starhub i donno. they stopped giving wifi routers ages ago

bckbck

@JourneymanGeek i thought it has always been WEP

Journeyman Geek

@bckbck: 25th floor ;p

no. wpa.

tombull89

@bckbck My brother used to do the same, usb dongle > 3m USB extention lead > computer.

bckbck

@JourneymanGeek must be the newer ones

@tombull89 ah i used that

Journeyman Geek

9:43 AM

yeah

these are decent. the old singtel modems cannot make it

bckbck

yeah

Journeyman Geek

starhub is no wifi, but the motorolas never die.

bckbck

i'm not a fan of singtel's broadband and miotv

give me the red light everytime

Journeyman Geek

lol

we have both ;p

we had just mio, then singtel threw in free ADSL

bckbck

wa

Journeyman Geek

9:45 AM

and we've had starhub for donkey years... and its a package with the TV

bckbck

miotv is unreliable

starhub is goooood

miotv constantly suffers from teh purple screen of death

(for me)

while on my grandfathers starhub tv the software on it is screwed

Journeyman Geek

ooh

you on starhub now?

bckbck

erm

not really

starhub is on my neighbours' wifi

Journeyman Geek

good enough

bckbck

while my router is locked by my parents in the drawer

:(

Journeyman Geek

9:47 AM

can you reach www.vexxarr.com

whats that

webcomic

Yes.

i haven't been able to get to it via starhub for the past few months

bckbck

can't load

Journeyman Geek

9:48 AM

lol

see, THATS the problem with starhub

bckbck

but most likely because the signal is one bar

Journeyman Geek

they have wierd shit like that

bckbck

if my wifi stick didnt drop down i would have 3 bars now

Journeyman Geek

no. it just won't work ;p

bckbck

lol

Journeyman Geek

9:49 AM

it pings fine too

bckbck

oh

i think my neighbour is using the internet right now

lag spike

tombull89

Hey @WilliamHilsum, looks like you're not the only one.

0

Q: When I use the "Upload..." button, the last picture is sent again

Today, while educating my users on the wonders of the flag as spam button, I noticed that using the 'Upload' button causes the last picture I've uploaded to be submitted again. Case in point: I uploaded this picture. I then clicked "upload" again to put up the next picture, and while I picked th...

bug chat uploader

Journeyman Geek

@bckbck: i think i built every system, and more or less handled the home network since i was 13 ;p

so that was never a problem

William Hilsum

wow... Thanks!

bckbck

@JourneymanGeek i basically handle every tech device at home

since i was about 9

Journeyman Geek

9:56 AM

in my case. especially the router ;p

bckbck

ah the router

2wire routers are pretty much un-hackable in terms of customizing it

Journeyman Geek

well, my other router is a DD-WRT

more specifically a WRT54GL

bckbck

i dont think dd-wrt is installable on the 2wire

according to my research

which dissapoints me

Journeyman Geek

yeah

singtel's modems also have special firmware i think

yanno, for the IPTV stuff

bckbck

yea

my parents still don't understand how miotv works

Journeyman Geek

10:02 AM

lol

magic!

witchcraft!

bckbck

i keep on telling them that it works by teh internetz

thru the modem

Journeyman Geek

a modem locked down to connect to a single ip...

bckbck

but they still think that its like cable tv

Journeyman Geek

(or a standard modem with QOS to their servers... and as much bandwith as required for it)

i want fiber, but its not cost effective

bckbck

starhub had a great offer during the pc show

Journeyman Geek

10:03 AM

(granted, i also want to upgrade my network to gig-e. most of my computers support it..._

if i can swap either of my connections to fiber at the same cost... then yes

else its a hard sell

bckbck

never trust ISP speeds

the speeds are great for singapore-based servers

Journeyman Geek

lol

bckbck

international speed? much much lesser

Journeyman Geek

yeah, i noticed

my 'server' is at the office. its much faster over singtel than starhub

bckbck

my aunt is planning a home network system

and blindly followed a random salesperson's advice of buying expensive WAPs, $300+ each

Journeyman Geek

10:06 AM

well, the 'hard' part is if you want a wired network

its worth it, but...

geeze. r

bckbck

yeah

if internet speeds are fast or same-network transfer

Journeyman Geek

afk foodage ._.

paradroid

@WilliamHilsum Can you get Vista Business OEM licences for a good price?

William Hilsum

@paradroid Vista - Nope... Need to get Windows 7 professional and downgrade to vista business

paradroid

@WilliamHilsum Well, the whole point of getting them is for a cheap way to upgrade to Win7 Enterprise

William Hilsum

10:13 AM

@paradroid I highly doubt you will find them cheap anywhere... OEM dies with the machine, so, no one will sell second hand - and - distributors just get their money back/change to Windows 7, so, they are never sold cheap

...perhaps though, I can help you and get your MS SA licence (or whatever you are choosing) cheaper?... Windows 7 Enterprise/all the licensing options, I never really understood why you need to have a OEM license - it feels like you are paying twice...

but... happy to help where I can

paradroid

Microsoft Action Pack. I have used 4 of the 10 Win7 Enterprise upgrade licences, and the Ultimate, but I need a couple more now, so I need two Windows Vista Business to upgrade from.

William Hilsum

Ahh... well, can't help :( sorry

when did they change it from full to upgrade licenses?

paradroid

It would have been so much easier and cheaper if they were all Ultimate. They are exactly the same apart from licencing.

William Hilsum

... Since I became a MS partner, I no longer have an action pack... sort of miss the binder and nice info you used to get!

paradroid

You have to be a partner to get it

I get media free anyway. It's quite a bit cheaper.

Journeyman Geek

10:23 AM

back

@WilliamHilsum: well, if you're a DIY builder its still cheaper than retail

Sathya

I never knew Quora also does the ExpertSexchange hide crap. http://i.imgur.com/9cTnO.png

Tweeted by SathyaBhat on June 24, 2011 at 10:23 AM

William Hilsum

@JourneymanGeek ? IF you mean I never understood OEM, I mean, I don't understand why you need one to purchase SA/licensing... doesn't matter...

@Sathya Never knew Quora even came up on google :/ Mind you, haven't head of them much recently... wonder if their bubble has burst

Sathya

@WilliamHilsum that's a good point, never seen any of their articles indexed

Journeyman Geek

ahh

paradroid

@Sathya I come across them time to time, normally when searching for something quite arcane

Sathya

10:32 AM

@paradroid so far, IIRC I've come across Quora only via direct links

paradroid

@Sathya I checked my Google history see that I got there after a couple of Google Chrome queries, RemoteApp Aero Glass, and searching for "Why do people like watching sports?", lol

Sathya

@paradroid LOL

still not getting the spelling right, @paradroid :p

paradroid

No, I blame my typing angle. I really need to clear my desk.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@paradroid: that's why i raise my laptops.

paradroid

10:48 AM

There's a few European language Vista Business OEM packs selling on eBay for £50 each, from what looks like a reputable seller.

I know a guy who buys OEM licences quite a lot, so I'll ask him what he thinks when he appears online

Or I can just revoke the Ent licence I put on my dad's laptop. Hmmn.

Journeyman Geek

wait...

if its just to upgrade, can't you just use a 'trial' install, not activate it, and just upgrade over that?

William Hilsum

@paradroid ... you do know Action Pack is for internal company use only? :/...

paradroid

@WilliamHilsum Yeah, of course. But I do a lot of work with my dad and it is my thinkpad anyway

William Hilsum

but anyway... I don't understand why anyone would sell OEM at under cost, or old versions... unless an end user overstocked, as I said, suppliers get their money back and always get the latest version because it is free to them and end users can downgrade if they want... so, it makes no sense to stock old stuff

ok... just being friendly about it, don't want to see you get in to any trouble!

paradroid

@JourneymanGeek I doubt that is possible, and I don't want to risk MS partner account getting disqualified

Journeyman Geek

11:37 AM

good day... i hit the rep cap

Sathya

show off

Journeyman Geek

lol

well, i HAVE been quiet the last few weeks.

Journeyman Geek

11:58 AM

erf

Tom Wijsman

1:01 PM

is now an Apple on a Book.

slhck

@TomWijsman any specific reason for that? :P

Tom Wijsman

@slhck: I'm hanging around Personal Productivity lately, got bored of my previous avatar (which resembled a moment in time anyway)... :)

slhck

The Euratom?

Tom Wijsman

Don't know what Euratom means, but if you mean Atomium, yes.

slhck

Errrr yeah that one xD

Tom Wijsman

1:09 PM

European Atomic Energy Community

The European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) is an international organisation which is legally distinct from the European Union (EU), but has the same membership, and is governed by the EU's institutions. It was established on 25 March 1957 along with the European Economic Community (EEC) by the Treaty of Rome, being taken over by the executive institutions of the EEC in 1967. Although other communities were merged in 1993 and 2009, the nuclear program has maintained a legally distinct nature from the European Union. History The Common Assembly proposed extending the powers o...

Didn't ever hear about that one... :O

slhck

I just knew it was that atom thing in Belgium :P

Tom Wijsman

Talking about avatars, learning new things...

slhck

seeing that apple made me hungry

so I guess I'll go grab something to eat

Tom Wijsman

I should add a bottle of water next to it in the same style. evil smiley

What's up with the "non constructive" close votes lately, I'm seeing those being cast on questions where they don't really make sense.

slhck

Which one for ex?

Tom Wijsman

1:16 PM

3

Q: Flash continually asking to update

Each time I boot into Windows, I get an update request from (my already updated to current) Adobe Flash. I'm seeing similar across a range of laptops and other Windows 7 installs. Either Adobe is just pushing out that many minor updates that need to install every other week or so, or the updater...

windows-7 flashplayer

12

Q: Encrypted HDD 100% safe?

I guess am a bit of a paranoid ha... anyway i encrypted my HDD with truecrypt using all printable ascii characters and the password is 64 characters long. It is quite random, certainly no dictionary words but it is still possible to memorize easily. Can it be brute-forced? The thing is, i know t...

windows hard-drive encryption truecrypt

Journeyman Geek

er...

oops

Tom Wijsman

0

Q: Does a rack mounted computer need back rails, or can front rails (steel/alu) handle the weight?

I'm trying to put together a DIY computer rack; the thing is, I've never seen one in real life. My question is: Do i need rack rails in the back also, or can the front end of the unit/front rack rails handle the weight of a 3U/4U computer? The length of the rails would be about 1 meter each. I...

rack

slhck

Hmm yeah wouldn't have voted on these as well

Tom Wijsman

Even this last one can be answered with advice on how to determine if it can handle it.

slhck

Yeah

Tom Wijsman

1:19 PM

It depends on the computer's weight isn't really helpful when you are building a DIY computer rack.

Journeyman Geek

that might be better for SF tho...

Tom Wijsman

I feel that this last question is more off-topic (towards diy.stackexchange.com) than it is not constructive...

slhck

0

Q: how download bz2 file with chrome/firefox ?

How download bz2 file with chrome/firefox ? example: http://domain.com/file.sql.bz2 Thank you

firefox google-chrome

Tom Wijsman

Or indeed, SF is also eligible.

slhck

eeerrrrr

Tom Wijsman

1:20 PM

@slhck: Vague! :D

slhck

@TomWijsman Not constructive? ;D

I'm tempted to answer, "click on the link and save it somewhere"

Tom Wijsman

@slhck: No, not constructive is where subjectivity comes to play a role. This one is just vague as there isn't a real question as there is no problem...

Or at least no problem that we can see, perhaps the "enter in the address bar" helped him. And that's just trivial and not really of an expert level to the wide community.

slhck

Maybe a layer 8 issue

3

Tom Wijsman

1:44 PM

Perhaps he is faced with a ReCAPTHA before he can download the file...

tombull89

I see your Captcha and raise you mine (this is one I have got myself)

Journeyman Geek

ooh

William Hilsum

2:02 PM

cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20073666-85/…

slotishtype

2:12 PM

Hey guys

Journeyman Geek

ello

slhck

hey there

slotishtype

how's tricks.....

Nokia phone leaked I see

slhck

I also read there was a N9 seen with Android on it or something

slotishtype

Bring back Symbian, that's what I say :-0

Journeyman Geek

2:17 PM

yup

wishes they'd just have standardish platforms and let users pick the OS ;p

slhck

I once had the joy of programming for Symbian

that was a trip to hell

No wonder the platform's dead now

Journeyman Geek

lol

it was a nice OS for... phones

has a S30 phone he thinks. monochrome screen ;p

slhck

Our bz2 file guy has some revelations

-5

Q: how download bz2 file with chrome/firefox ?

How download bz2 file with chrome/firefox ? example: http://domain.com/file.sql.bz2 Thank you

firefox google-chrome

loved his old phones, they'd last for a week without charging...

slotishtype

I had to do a project on it too ....It was either mine or Symbian's fault but nothing ever worked :-)

slhck

@slotishtype Nokia would probably blame you for not understanding it ;D

Journeyman Geek

2:21 PM

only a week? ;p mine does something like..2-3. granted i hardly USE it

slhck

except for playing Snake or something :P

man that was a great game

fires up emacs

slotishtype

And they would be right because it was sh1t....:-)

Snake, now there was a game...

Journeyman Geek

lol. mine has that.

oh, and there was a nice frozen bubble port

slhck

@JourneymanGeek Like with the penguins and all or just same game concept? :D

I'm losing all my hope over the bz2 thing

heh, I made a trip to Bratislava earlier today, look what I found

slotishtype

2:43 PM

You are always looking for a penguin shop and then three come along at one....

slhck

lol

slotishtype

@slhck How's your ruby project coming along?

slhck

@slotishtype Well, like most of my Ruby projects, it was finished in a couple of hours -- didn't have that many requirements ;)

slotishtype

That is the beauty of the thing....

slhck

Yeah, I've never had the feeling of wasting time over something

So what I did was writing a gem that converts TV Anytime XML data (which is just ordinary TV programme data) to RDF, linked to a film database

slotishtype

2:54 PM

ah, is there RDF support in Ruby?

Still don't dig semantic technology that much

slhck

Me neither, I more or less had to do it

Yes there's a library for it (RDF.rb)

slotishtype

I had to do a project in OWL before, ended up with mysql and a lot of hoodwinking....

slhck

Heh... I just love the looks of something like

Statement.new :subject => program, :predicate => RDF.type, :object => @po.Episode

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: exactly the same

slhck

@JourneymanGeek And that works on a tiny screen? :o

►

Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

interesting talk

although a bit older

slhck

4:09 PM

Sometimes I really think they should put more weight on question downvotes

-3

Q: Purpose of Firefox 4?

why did they even make firefox 4, if they coming out with firefox 5 right away? what was the purpose of it? And i've read there won't even be any updates to 4.

firefox browser

Lost 8 rep through downvotes, but got 5 + 2 by an upvote and accepting the only answer shortly before the question was closed

Tom Wijsman

4:25 PM

@slhck: Well, it's now: +10 +2 -12 = 0 :)

slhck

All the trouble for nothing! ;)

Tom Wijsman

If it were still open, I would've posted "What's the **** purpose of Firefox 6? If you can have Firefox 7 already." :P

Daniel Beck

Good afternoon everyone

slhck

Hey there @DanielBeck

@TomWijsman Yeah, and then in a few months, we could open a series of questions like "wtf why is there Firefox 12?"

Tom Wijsman

And then come up with historical question like "Why didn't they stay with Firefox 1?"

Daniel Beck

4:29 PM

@slhck Is it not possible to accept answers to closed questions?

Tom Wijsman

@DanielBeck: It reads "before".

slhck

@DanielBeck I was under the impression it was not, but I could be wrong

Tom Wijsman

Oh...

@DanielBeck: superuser.com/posts/301705/timeline

It indeed got closed afterwards, weird...

Daniel Beck

@slhck JUst asking because you seemed to emphasize the "shortly before closed" bit

slhck

@DanielBeck Not intentionally :)

@TomWijsman Oh, okay, learned something again

Daniel Beck

4:31 PM

@TomWijsman Pah Firefox 1. Phoenix 0.3 was an outstanding release, don't see why they had to continue working on it.

Tom Wijsman

Well, @slhck, @DanielBeck, just checking...

0

Q: Should people be able to accept answers after the question has been closed?

As you can see on the timeline of this question, an answer has been accepted after the question has been closed. This results in reputation for accepting the answer to both the questioner and answerer, for a question that isn't welcome to the community in it's current form... Should people be ...

bug accepted-answer closed-questions

slhck

@TomWijsman Well for what it's worth I don't have as much of a problem with the person answering getting rep, if the answer is useful and provides references (like in that example).

Daniel Beck

5:21 PM

@slhck Haven't seen this one yet, thanks for the link

slhck

5:41 PM

@DanielBeck I could actually watch TED talks all day long

Daniel Beck

5:59 PM

@slhck The TED app is one of the first I installed when I got my iPad. It's quite nice.

Darth Android

6:49 PM

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/96313/… Someone make this guy our official historian.

slhck

7:09 PM

Does anybody understand what is meant in the comments?

0

A: Multiple instances of PowerPoint (2007)

Actually click on the PPT files, don't just click the shortcut to open Office 2007 in the start menu. I just did this and attached a screen shot of my task bar. You can see the two instances to the right. I do not have dual monitors to show the whole application open. As a note, in Office 2010, ...

Darth Android

@slhck Did you send him a private message of sorts about the edit? I think he's asking about a notification/message that he got which wasn't an actual comment on the answer

slhck

@DarthAndroid Heck, I don't even know how that would work :P

> Any help is appreciated as I need to fix it by tomorrow or I lose my job.

hmm

what kind of employer is that

DMA57361

7:27 PM

@slhck KCotreau just got your edit summary in their inbox AFAIK

Thiago M.

@slhck that's the kind of employer that expects you to figure out your own computer problems, especially when you're an IT intern

Darth Android

@slhck Or the kind of employer that expects you to not mess around on a production server.

slhck

@ThiagoM @DarthAndroid heh :D actually, thinking about that it makes sense

I was only lucky to have a really really nice employer back when I did some sysadmin stuff

@DMA57361 Is that possible? I mean I don't recall having a post of mine edited or at least getting a notification about it

DMA57361

@slhck tbh, I'm not really sure, but he'd quoted your edit summary so that's all it could have been, so it was easiest just to point them at that and have that be the end of the comment trail :)

slhck

@DMA57361 Yeah I saw you take care of that. Thanks ;)

Tom Wijsman

7:45 PM

@DMA57361: I took your question up to a higher level.

0

Q: Can we please have better tag wiki excerpts?

There are a lot of tag wiki excerpts that are in the style of: Questions about/specific to <tag-name>, <description of object>. or even Tag for questions about/specific to <tag-name>, <description of object>. Do we really need these trivial elements in front of...

discussion tag-wiki

Because looking at the SO tags they have the same problem there, and I can think of the same happening on other websites around the network too...

DMA57361

@TomWijsman f/e, but you caught me off guard there for a second before I realised you'd changed your gravatar!

Tom Wijsman

What's f/e for? :)

slhck

"fair enough"

Tom Wijsman

@DMA57361: Kind of reflects my late activity on Personal Productivity, and also a lot of studying... :)

slhck

To be honest though I've never given care about the tag wikis whatsoever, only in the case where we disambiguified (<= is that even a word?) atom

Tom Wijsman

7:48 PM

Where as my previous was for a visit in Brussels and the one before that was captured sufficient time ago.

DMA57361

makes sense

Tom Wijsman

disambiguated is a word, and that's what you meant I think...

slhck

Thanks @TomWijsman :)

That avatar has been driving me crazy all day though

Tom Wijsman

But apples are good, they keep doctors away...

Or is it the book this time?

slhck

No, it's green apples that make my mouth water!

Tom Wijsman

7:55 PM

The small version of it looks like a pie... ^^

DMA57361

<- prefers red apples

Tom Wijsman

@DMA57361: Me too... :)

Is there any specific reason for the number in your name? I just typed it wrong for the first time, does @DMA work for notifying you?

Oh wait, there's tab complete, but I type too fast for that... :(

DMA57361

lol, yes @DMA works, but tab-complete in chat is handy ;P

and the number is completely 100% meaningless

I literally mashed the number pad one day when I was much younger and needed an online handle for the first time...

(the DMA is my initials, so that bit isn't random)

Daniel Beck

"Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?"

slhck

lol

@DanielBeck Yeah, seems to be new (?)

DMA57361

7:59 PM

@DanielBeck 'tis a new feature

slhck

0

Q: How can I boost the performance of my HP Pavilion dv6

How can I improve performance on my hp pavilion dv6 notebook PC Intel Core2 Duo CPU with windows 7 64 bit. Are there any pre-installed HP programs that it is safe to remove?

laptop performance hp

Daniel Beck

I wouldn't call it a feature though

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