Root Access

cause apparently i need to get wpa_supplicant set up to get the wlan up. however wpa_supplicant dosen't seem to connect to my ap, so i use wicd-curses for that

wicd-curses needs me to start dbus ...

but hey

IT BOOTS! <3

@MarkSzymanski: installed the base system. trying to install X now

Mark Szymanski

Heh, nice. Good luck configuring it XD

Journeyman Geek

which.. naturally... needs me to set up the kernel a certain way

pain in the butt, this is ;p

Simon Sheehan

@nhinkle my friend has a 15' laptop and gets 1600x1000 for some reason :S

Journeyman Geek

@SimonSheehan: my brother's old laptop was 1400x1050

Simon Sheehan

4:04 AM

Damn that's big. I'm not a fan of the 1366... Especially the 66 part. Something just not right. Desktop has 1650x1050 though <3

Journeyman Geek

lol

i'm not a fan of 16:10

or widescreens

i think my old laptop was a 1280x800

Simon Sheehan

Well I didnt really pick it for it's size - I picked it because it was the cheapest available at the time

Journeyman Geek

eh

its impossible to get 4:3, and "HD" is worse than screens we had in the PIII era sometimes...

though...

if money was no object..

Simon Sheehan

I do like wider screen, but 4:3 reminds me so much of the great CRT days.

Journeyman Geek

barco.com/en//product/1909

donno if you can run it off a 'regular' graphics card tho ;p

Simon Sheehan

4:12 AM

@Journeyman my school actually only uses 4:3 still.

Journeyman Geek

@SimonSheehan that's a 3280 x 2048 screen

Simon Sheehan

Lets see if I can find the monitor..

@Journey today when I was at the theater, I wanted to use their screen and sound badly :P would be brilliant

Journeyman Geek

eh, i have a 17 inch crt here ;p

Simon Sheehan

shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/webca/LenovoPortal/…

17 inch LCD :p

nhinkle

oh i love my 21" 1920x1080 external display, though I wish it were 1920x1200

but man it's hard to find a laptop with a good screen these days

but seriously, a 17" CRT? Don't people give away 17" LCDs these days?

singapore.craigslist.com.sg/sys/2421999074.html

Simon Sheehan

4:28 AM

@nhinkle What kind of hardware do you run on?

nhinkle

nathanhinkle.com/blog/hp-pavillion-dm4t-review

my HP dm4t is my primary computer. there's some crappy old desktops around the house, but I never use 'em

Simon Sheehan

Heh. Should use them for experimenting :p

nhinkle

and there's my external 21" Dell monitor, and my Microsoft Media Pro keyboard, and my 5 button Microsoft mouse

they're really not worth experimenting on. we're talking P4 here, and no hard drives :P

Simon Sheehan

@nhinkle pretty nice. I got my Dell only two weeks before the intel i series went out :p. And I use a P4 at school ;)

On my Linux machine

Journeyman Geek

5:11 AM

hmm

i got x working :)

Simon Sheehan

5:27 AM

Nice!

DMA57361

7:31 AM

morning all

tombull89

8:00 AM

@DMA57361 morning.

lololol - I've installed counter strike on my work computer but don't want my boss to find out, what can I do?

how about uninstall CS before you get sacked?

-2

Q: How to hide programs from Programs and Features?

I installed some games on my work computer and I want to remove them from the Program and Features list, without uninstalling them. Any ideas?

windows-7

DMA57361

O_o lol

isn't that what smart phones or netbooks are for? gaming at work?

Journeyman Geek

8:23 AM

and two hours later... kdemeta-base is still compiling ;p

loool

Boris_yo

8:34 AM

@tombull89 @JourneymanGeek @DMA57361 Hello guys.

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek ow.

tombull89

Hey @Borisyo. Did you get that screen protector problem sorted?

Sathya

> -1 Because your boss follows superuser.com

lolol

tombull89

@Sathya more like - a job.

Boris_yo

@tombull89 Yes Tom.

How can i transfer data from laptop 2.5 inch hard drive through USB?

What kind of adapter do i need?

Sathya

8:36 AM

from to where?

tombull89

USB > SATA addaptor? I've got one, brilliant pieces of kit.

that one, exactly.

Boris_yo

@tombull89 SATA > USB

Because hard drive is SATA.

So i want to connect it to USB port with adapter.

tombull89

yeah, well /\ that then

it'll pop up as an external disk.

Boris_yo

How do i know it will fit SATA of my laptop hard drive?

SATA of desktop and laptop is different in size?

tombull89

all SATA addaptors are the same, be it 2.5 or 3.5" drives

Journeyman Geek

8:53 AM

hmm

there any way to search for one of my answers using keywords?

is feeling remarkably stupid... and found a better answer for a VERY old question

DMA57361

@JourneymanGeek user:me <other search terms> in the search box when logged in

Journeyman Geek

ahh

superuser.com/questions/304533/… his tech needs to be shot

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek I just wanted to know main thing - does SATA on desktops differ in size from SATA on laptops?

Journeyman Geek

no

i believe @tombull89 said that.

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek @DMA57361 @tombull89

Anybody knows good alarm clock with sounds and descriptions for Windows 7 64-bit?

DMA57361

9:09 AM

@Boris_yo there's really no need to ping people in the room for every random question. Some of us aren't joining in the conversation because we're busy you know...

Boris_yo

@DMA57361 Ah okay.

You mean disturb?

Ping = disturb?

DMA57361

@Boris_yo ping = use the @ function to sent people a notification

Boris_yo

Someone in Gmail had status "Do not ping me"

I thought it means "disturb"

DMA57361

@Boris_yo well pinging someone (in these contexts) usually involved disturbing them at the same time, so it's pretty much the same thing

Boris_yo

@DMA57361 No problem

tombull89

9:16 AM

You could try ClockX, alarms, various clock faces, etc.

(I know this is XP, but try it on Win7x64)

Journeyman Geek

9:42 AM

i don't need an alarm clock. i have a dog.

Sathya

10:14 AM

oo 8500 flat for @DMA

DMA57361

@Sathya lol, I think I've been on that for a while now

although my rep audit tells me I should be on 8503

Sathya

didn't spot it earlier :p

DMA57361

f/e

I need to make a push and get that climbing again really

Sathya

10:27 AM

I'm only about 500 rep away from the magical 20k mark

DMA57361

O_o blimey, speeding away in to the distance

I'm still like 2.5k from getting 20k across the entire network :/

Sathya

10:48 AM

heheh

Sathya

11:29 AM

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 11 mins ago, by Marc Gravell

I will investigate, but in summary: we snuck in some code that detects short answers with links to posts, and makes it a comment automagically

DMA57361

@Sathya ahhh

Sathya

beautiful.

DMA57361

A very nice change, but something is apparently broken :)

PriceChild

1:18 PM

@Iszi I did not know that, shame.

Iszi

1:45 PM

@PriceChild Yeah, the output of TREE /A is what I used as a basis of the folder structure formatting in my question.

Rob

Anyone know offhand whether Shockwave is part of the Adobe Flash Player plugin?

I've been getting pretty bad performance with Chrome lately and I think Shockwave is related, but nothing mentions it under Programs

Iszi

@Rob No, it's a separate plugin.

Chrome may have it included still, though. That much, I'm not sure of.

tombull89

@Rob No, it's not. It's a seprate thing (as to my cost the other day I had to update Shockwave, Flash, and Adobe Reader)

Rob

weird... guess I use HijackThis to rip it out?

I'm going to assume it was included, since it's not in my installed software

Iszi

In PowerShell, is select an alias for something?

PriceChild

1:50 PM

/me imagines the downvote 'cost' being refunded upon your flag being valid

"look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves"

DMA57361

@PriceChild ... how is downvote cost linked to flagging?

Simon Sheehan

2:05 PM

Yes, Downvoting and flagging are... Irrelevant.

DMA57361

@SimonSheehan I think you mean unrelated

PriceChild

Meh I guess not all flags... but say i'm flagging for "just a crap question in general" like 'low quality' or 'too localised', i'll downvote too for good measure.

DMA57361

@PriceChild ah, well if they get deleted then yes, you get the rep back

PriceChild

Anyway, I was just 'imagining' it so will not defend the idea, just explain!!

DMA57361

but you might need to trigger a recalc (superuser.com/reputation)

PriceChild

2:09 PM

oh really? cool. I guess not closed though?

DMA57361

no, only deleted

PriceChild

meh i'm not too bothered, its only 1/2 rep a time no? was just random musings :-)

DMA57361

indeed

PriceChild

1

Q: Is it better to use an offset or manually set CPU voltage (with respect to CPU longevitity)?

Background: I recently purchased a new computer, and I'm working with an ASUS P8Z68-V Pro motherboard an an Intel i7 2600k. This question does not pertain specifically to my hardware, but I mention what I have to explain why I get the voltages/temperatures I get. Details: In my motherboard,...

cpu intel amd overclocking voltage

Simon Sheehan

I've never seen that page before, neat. Although I'm tempted to hit the recalc button... Don't want to lose rep though

PriceChild

2:12 PM

@PriceChild Swap it out for a 2600 and leave the damn thing alone!!

Simon Sheehan

Actually, I'll hit it

DMA57361

@SimonSheehan it tells you what will happen

Simon Sheehan

@DMA yes, I see now. Down 4 rep :P

DMA57361

or rather, it tells you your real rep score, if it's different from the normalised one on the site then you know what will happen

PriceChild

But I can't put that as an answer can I :-(

Rob

2:13 PM

lol I gained some rep with a recalc :D

at least on SO, I think I gained 7

Simon Sheehan

@PriceChild leave it As a comment

Sathya

quite some time ago I had asked Diago to perform a recalc. (this was before I was a Mod). The difference was about 500 rep.

0

Q: Requesting rep recalc

Can any of the mods please do a rep recalc on my account ? There's a rep difference of about 500 points between the rep on my current profile and the /reputation report, and I'd rather get it down now than have it climb to about 1000 points or so.

support status-completed rep-recalc

Simon Sheehan

@Sathya 500? Wow, quite the drop. I'd hate to watch that get lost :/

Sathya

although nothing beats @WilliamHilsum hitting 50k rep <s>twice</s> 4 times :P

DMA57361

lol, yeah that was mildly amusing

Sathya

2:19 PM

Feb 28 at 17:57, by Wil

I am at over 50k AGAIN and unless someone deletes or moves something... my reputation page shows I have only lost 20... so... I am at 50k for the (I think) fourth time!!!

3

Simon Sheehan

Haha.

I think I like the image in that transcript more

2

DMA57361

@SimonSheehan must...resist...urge...to...decode...

Rob

lol what

@SimonSheehan, where did that come from?

Ohh didn't realize Sathya's post was a link, heh.

Sathya

2:39 PM

hi @balpha

balpha

hey hey

tombull89

I don't know why, but I'm laughing at this wayyyyy more than I probably should...

Sathya

....

Darth Android

....

Brb finding out how to set that as my screensaver

Rob

too many drugs?

tombull89

2:45 PM

@DarthAndroid better: desktop, tiled.

Darth Android

I never see my desktop :(

tombull89

now you've got an excuse...

Darth Android

I already have an excuse, my lovely background art!

Doesn't help much though.

Linker3000

Hi

Rob

yhello

Linker3000

2:50 PM

Y'all up for a question...?

Rob

That is a question :)

(yes)

Linker3000

How many 100 Watt lamps does it take to test a UPS??

DMA57361

How strong is the UPS?

Linker3000

Sathya

@Linker3000 light bulb isn't a very good load indicator...

Linker3000

2:52 PM

12 lamp strong

..or how to raise the temp in the server room by 2C in 2 mins...!

@Sathya It was fine for what we were doing - looking at how the UPS monitoring s/w triggered on low/dead batteries.

1.2KW load on a 2KVA UPS

Sathya

with a pf of ~ 0.6.

@Linker3000 okay.

Linker3000

@Sathya I would have thought closer to unity being mainly resistive - these are all standard tungsten lamps (albeit with some inductance in the coiled filaments).

Sathya

just curious, what's the UPS going to power?

Linker3000

@Sathya Well, it's really a 'spare' - the server underneath the lamps is running VMware and on that server is a Ubuntu VM running the apcupsd UPS monitoring daemon and I'm testing that the USB port passed through to the VM is signalling properly.

Next step will be for apcupsd to issue a power off command via ILO (the management port on the server) so that VMWare will trigger an ACPI shutdown of all the VMs and itself.

The lamps are used in our manufacturing area as test loads - I didn't have to sit there and wire them all up - just grab the boards from 'next door'.

I reckon we should go for coloured lamps next time and get some music...snacks...

Sathya

@Linker3000 dj party :p

Rob

3:09 PM

Anyone else read the article on stuxnet?

Reads like a Tom Clancy short :p

wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/…

2

Linker3000

@Rob Had a glance.

Rob

Pretty crazy stuff

Linker3000

@Rob I'll stick to my lamps...literally if I get too close to them!

Sathya

@Rob there was this TED talk

hold on

TED Talk on Stuxnet

if you haven't seen this, go watch it now.

Rob

Yea, it's insane

I liked the details in the article on how they hijacked the PLCs and then masked the hardware signals so that operators had no idea

Pretty ridiculous how well the entire thing was put together

tombull89

3:23 PM

@Rob @Sathya, looks utterly fasicnating, I'll give it a read later on.

Mark Szymanski

Good morning, everyone.

Sathya

@Rob yep!

Simon Sheehan

4:17 PM

0

Q: My friend's Mac Book Pro isn't working

i hope you can help me out because my friends just got a Mac Book Pro recently and it stopped working after a while, this is what happened: she placed the Mac Book Pro on a cooler, after 3 days to a week, the Mac Book Pro froze and had a pop up window that told her to restart her Mac Book Pro. af...

apple sleep macbook-pro dead

Needs a bit of editing I think. Anyone want to grab it before I get to a computer?

Rob

I would if I had the rep :p

Simon Sheehan

@Rob you can edit it and someone will approve the edit :p

Sathya

and will net you +2 rep

Simon Sheehan

^ yep. Keep editing and it helps push to that 2k rep for free edits

Rob

Alright I'll do it then :)

Done, once it gets peer reviewed

Mark Szymanski

4:32 PM

@Rob: I approved it ;)

badp

4:42 PM

Again I had to answer my own question by myself

I am disappoint, super users!

Sathya

the vlc font cache one?

badp

No, wish I had an answer for that one

2

Q: How can I remove compatibility settings that are not editable from the Compatibility tab?

Yesterday, Windows decided Steam needed a compatibility setting to run properly and showed me an informative dialog that left me with no choice but to acknowledge this. Steam ran fine, until it needed to be restarted for a beta update. Steam however doesn't like compatibility settings one bit. ...

windows-7 compatibility

Mark Szymanski

I hate Xcode. So much.

Rob

Why's that?

Mark Szymanski

It's slow, and it's the only thing you can use for developing Mac apps.

Technically, I could make them with vim and a bunch of the Xcode command-line tools, but that'd be more work than it's worth.

Rob

4:46 PM

That's depressing

Why hasn't someone else developed a decent IDE? (slightly rhetorical)

Mark Szymanski

@Rob: There's vim, which I love.

Rob

Are iOS developers shoe-horned into using Xcode also?

Mark Szymanski

Yep.

Rob

That seems odd to me, I'm used to writing C from a terminal anyhow

I don't see a technical reason for forcing developers to use Xcode for Obj-C, but then again, I've never written Obj-C

Are makefile's still used?

Mark Szymanski

Nope, it's Xcode's own, weird system.

with build targets and all this other craziness.

Rob

4:50 PM

Wow :/

I lol'd when I heard Apple wants people to pay for their SDK, I'll just make my software for Android thanks

Sathya

5:14 PM

0

Q: Does SO have a community-faq similar to that on SU?

The Superuser site has a [community-faq] tag, description of which is: These questions have been selected by the community as high-quality posts with generalized answers to questions which come up frequently on Super User. They are more canonical answers which can apply to many differe...

feature-request stackoverflow community superuser

Simon Sheehan

6:23 PM

@Sathya I actually do not really understand how our community FAQ works

William Hilsum

6:52 PM

@Sathya It was about 5 or 6 in the end I thought!? .... Why not close a few more of my good questions (not just you! :P ) and I can hit it again!

Simon Sheehan

Looks like Linux Kernel 3.0 will be out soon, RC7 was pushed

paradroid

7:34 PM

@SimonSheehan Apparently it is not so different to warrant a new major versions number as some previous 2.x releases. Looks like they are going for the Firefox/Chrome fashion for major version number changes for minor updates.

I don't like this trend. Like who remembers anything about Chrome v7, v8 or v9, or what changes they brought?

Who is going to remember Firefox 5 or 6 or 7 or 8?

Simon Sheehan

7:59 PM

@paradroid or because we had 2.x for like 6 years and a new number starts fresh... And isn't as confusing yet.

slhck

0

A: Is there a GUI 'cat'-like program for any platform?

OpenOffice.org:Writer (as well as LibreOffice, maybe similar Word): Menu File-Open (select file 2) Menu Insert-File- (select file 1) ENTER (to make an enter between them ((CR)|(LF)) Menu File-Save as- (select new name, type: txt)

Evenin' btw :P

paradroid

LOL

Tom Wijsman

9:49 PM

(Please Star) I'm going on vacation for two weeks, see you later! :)

5

William Hilsum

11:05 PM

Reading through a few jokes... Funny, but I don't condone this! ....

3

Windows: "You may be the victim of software counterfeiting..."

Me: no Microsoft, it is you who is the victim of software counterfeiting here, not I.

William Hilsum

BBC News: "Illegally downloading pirated films is costing hundreds of millions of pounds a year"

Fuck, what site are they downloading them off? It's free for me...

William Hilsum

I can't see an end.
I have no control and I don't think there's any escape - I don't even have a home anymore.

Definitely time for a new keyboard.

William Hilsum

I currently own a system which is exactly 14 times better than Windows 7.

I call it: Windows 98.

William Hilsum

I bought a new iPod the other day, called it 'The Titanic'.
Imagine the shock I got when I tried to put music on it - "The Titanic is syncing!"

William Hilsum

Is it just me......

or does anybody else find pressing F5 refreshing?

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