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@Hennes laptop keyboard

Hennes

Ah.

That is why you always connect a regular (full-sized) keyboard to a laptop.

As well as a regular mouse.

no room on my desk for all that

I have a very small desk

Hennes

I could go an and suggest putting the laptop (aka the mobile desktop) in the docking station under the LCD...

what docking station? :)

company didn't pay for that for me; I'm not valuable enough

in a penny-pinching move, they gave me an old 2 GB RAM retread laptop with no docking station, mouse, external keyboard, etc... just the bare laptop

with a screen that's clearly TN and barely readable

hey, if they wanted high productivity out of me, they could start by treating me like I'm a valued part of their workforce

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6:29 PM

@allquixotic TIL!

@Bob TYL what?

6:45 PM

@allquixotic the shift+space thing

Dammit Swype, behave

Heh

Android tablets are still far from a good laptop though

that's totally me :O

6:50 PM

O.o

@Bob I think Android devices connected wirelessly to a projector are an awesome idea for giving presentations -- schools, workplaces -- WiDi or Chromecast or something.

however... imagine the embarrassment when your phone dialer pops up in front of the presentation. your mom is calling.

Eh, you know about my tab usage

My phone has 16ff tabs and 74 opera tabs right now

Laptop's far easier to manage though

commonmark.org

apparently the original creator of Markdown decided to be needlessly difficult and made poor Jeff Atwood register a number of domain names after he was explicitly notified of what they were doing, in advance, and refused to reply to their emails

Guy creates X and releases it unencumbered to the public.
Other people like it but want to make it better.
Other people email Guy and ask him if it's OK if they create something new called Standard X.
No response for years.
Other people launch website for Standard X.
Guy immediately sends angry spiteful email demanding that they take down their site, apologize, and pick a new name.
Other people pick a new name, ask Guy if it's OK.
Guy doesn't reply.
Other people launch website for Common X.
Guy immediately sends angry spiteful email demanding that they not use the term "X" at all in their p…

Huh. Github, Reddit and SE. Probably covers >90% of md usage

7:06 PM

!! s/md/cm/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Huh. Github, Reddit and SE. Probably covers >90% of cm usage (source)

Mokubai

@allquixotic [citation would be appreciated for the lulz]

7:29 PM

@allquixotic: I don't know if you are still around, but I followed "http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/a/default-gateway-windows-7.htm" and I think I found the IPv4 Default Gateway. Now what do I need to compare this to?

(It is me again with the website that I all of a sudden couldn't access)

On the two different computers (a windows and a Linux) I indeed see now that the IPv4 Default Gateway are different. So what do I need to do now? (the site doesn't work on both these two computers.)

@Thomas waitwaitwait, I thought you said it worked on the Linux box? or are we talking about a third Linux box now?

...last I checked, your question said that the site was fine on the Linux box.

Arg. Sorry! I am not very good at explaining my self. So I have two computers at work. One day I couldn't get access to aescrypt.com on my windows machine. It worked fine on the Linux until I tried to open a pdf file from the site. So now I can't get access to the sites from both computers.

O.O

@Thomas The site appears down for me, now, too. I think there may be a bug on the site itself, rather than your configuration, because earlier I downloaded the PDF user guide. I guess once you download the user guide, the site filters your IP. Sounds like a misconfigured stateful firewall.

And that's through a connection that I know is unfiltered.

:(

7:39 PM

The "solution" seems to be to get a new IP address each time you want to download a user guide ;p you should really just save them to a computer, email them to yourself, and stop visiting the site altogether

(As a side note: on the Windows machine I did try to disable the firewall also ... )

@Thomas disabling the firewall on your client computer won't do any good; it's extremely unlikely that it would be the thing doing the filtering

ok

IF there were any filtering going on, it would be on a downstream router or internet gateway within your company that you don't have direct control over (presumably because you're in development rather than operations), but since I can't get to the site now either, it seems that its availability is either intermittent, or it just stops letting you in after you've visited it once and downloaded a user guide.

if it's critical that you repeatedly access and download those user guides from that site rather than emailing them around, I suggest that you contact the owners of the site (whomever they may be) and alert them to this problem

otherwise, just try to access it from another computer, grab the PDFs, save them, and don't ever go back to the site

I will try to contact the guy behind the site when I get access to a computer that will let me see an email address or something. (There is a forum on the site where I had asked a question.)

7:43 PM

just keep in mind that webservers sometimes run for years completely unmaintained, perhaps even with their email inbox completely unmonitored, if the company is insolvent, bankrupt, no longer paying attention to that service, etc. -- it could just be a little PC tucked under someone's desk and forgotten for all I know

you may not even get a reply

I am pretty sure that the site is maintained... It is the site for the faily popular aescrypt

never heard of it

and I had contact with the guy behind it on a forum on the site just a couple of days ago.

Ok. (Aescrypt is a nice commandline encryption program, open source and evrything. I had used it much on Windows, but I switched to Linux on one of my computers ...)

Anyway, thanks for trying to help!

looks like the name is very overloaded: 1, 2 which are possibly unrelated to your aescrypt.com

@Thomas I think I've given you the most help that anyone outside of the sysadmin(s)/webmaster(s) of aescrypt.com can give you: I've told you the fact that the problem is not on your end; the problem is on their end

I am pretty sure that github.com/Gurpartap/aescrypt is related to the site. I remember seeing an announcement that one could download the source there...

7:47 PM

the only thing we can do now is inform them of this fact, and if they choose to ignore it or in fact aren't even home, then that's it

And I am beginning to believe you!

you can try reporting an issue here if you believe it's the same project, but it might get closed or ignored of course

the last commit there was over a year and a half ago

Yeah. I will have to dig around a bit to see if I can find a contact...

hmm, you could also hope for a Google Cache of the page

LOL I was just doing that.

But that also seems to be slow on my side

7:51 PM

looks like it's run by a company called Packetizer

but www.packetizer.com is on the same web server, apparently

Yes, I think the forum that I had used is: forums.packetizer.com

But that also seems down (for me at least)

Anyway, I will leave you alone now and get back to work.

same webserver

;)

@Thomas ^

@MichaelFrank: Thank you!!

(I will be away from my computer(s) for about an hour)

do you need anything else from the site while I'm not locked out?

7:57 PM

@MichaelFrank get all the documentation PDFs :D

quick, before their hair-trigger IDS thinks you're a DDoS bot

@allquixotic There are only two on the documentation page. Windows/Mac/Linux and iOS.

...get them! what are you standing around talking to me for?!?!? :P :P

I already did. :P

well ain't you a fancy pants

maybe you can mail them to thomas once he's bac

Yea, I saved all the individual pages as well, figured they might be of use.

8:12 PM

heh nice

I haven't been locked out yet either. :P

Vinayak

Has anyone noticed that the tour page for Software Recommendations, Ask Ubuntu, Christianity and Arqade have a hilarious, unicorn themed example question?

WordPress and Freelancing have these as well

8:33 PM

@Vinayak That is amusing. :)

Vinayak

Apparently it is the default question used on a lot of SE sites. I googled the question in its entirety and found out there were Harvard CS50 and similar edX-CS169 StackExchange sites (in beta). That was an interesting find :)

But what really amused me was that CS50 is using edX's logo! Haha :D

Vinayak

8:52 PM

CS50x is actually a course offered through edX. Disregard my last comment.

9:14 PM

heh... got a job to replace a power supply for a users laptop as it's not powering on. Turned up on site and found that the user had ripped the charge port contacts straight outta his laptop...

I am back @MichaelFrank. I don't think I need the documentation, but thanks for downloading them. I have set an email to the addresses listed (on the image file that you showed.)

@Thomas I downloaded the entire site just in case. Let me know if you want it.

ok thanks.

welp, may as well say I'm "working" while I go AFK to heat up my oatmeal, since FooSlowApplication is doing its thing (single-threaded, hangs GUI; awesome)

if anyone asks...

!!xkcd compiling

ChatBot John Cavil

'Are you stealing those LCDs?' 'Yeah, but I'm doing it while my code compiles.'

terdon

9:22 PM

How does the search work? Do they just use google?

!!xkcd perl lisp

!!xkcd perl

Hmm, apparently.

@terdon yep.

9:25 PM

@allquixotic Ah, straight from the horse's mouth. Cheers.

DragonLord

10:38 PM

Who here has heard of a benchmark called HINT?

hint.byu.edu

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_INTegration

It's very old, yet capable of holistic assessment of all levels of memory

Minor changes were needed to get it to take full advantage of the memory available in 64-bit machines

It was necessary to change MSIZE, one of the supposedly nonadjustable parameters in hint.h

...otherwise, it would fail to handle more than 2 GB of memory

Builds are with MinGW-w64 GCC 4.9.1, x64, tuned for Haswell

(specifically, MSIZE was previously long, but has been set to __int64 to force the use of a 64-bit integer--the internal memory size variable overflows, causing the benchmark to fail after 2 GB)

I'll post results, the source code, and Windows 64-bit binaries online when I get a chance

Be careful--as the program is designed to assess all memory layers, from CPU cache to disk, you should expect swapping towards the end of the benchmark.

Hierarchical INTegration

Hierarchical INTegration, or HINT for short, is a computer benchmark that ranks a computer system as a whole (i.e. the entire computer instead of individual components). It measures the full range of performance, mostly based on the amount of work a computer can perform over time. A system with a very fast processor would likely be rated poorly if the buses were very poor compared to those of another system that had both an average processor and average buses. For example, in the past, Macintosh computers with relatively slow processor speeds (800 MHz) used to perform better than x86 based systems...

Expect swapping to happen even if you have hundreds of gigabytes of RAM

(Note: builds will run on any 64-bit system but are optimized for Haswell, using -mtune=haswell.)

All builds are single-threaded

RienNeVaPlus

10:53 PM

hello superusers! i hope this is the right place to ask: i'm looking for a program to observe a flash-app inside my browser, wait for a specific event (like an appearing image, or a sound played), then click at a defined position and repeat the whole procedure. is there a tool for doing such automated stuff on win7/firefox? thank you guys!

Psycogeek

@RienNeVaPlus clesest thing you could easily do such thing would be to use a standard Key Mouse Macro program. they do not make stuff that watches videos and finds pixels in them :-)

RienNeVaPlus

@Psycogeek thanks! I'll give it a try

Psycogeek

The end goal that your trying to achieve though could possibly have other methods of acheiving, the way you ask , it would be easy to deliver the answer NO, even if such nitch product exists to do that. By asking how to accomplish say "skip ads" or "Click on game tiles" , "go to Next video" or "jump to annotations" might have been done more often.

RienNeVaPlus

You gave me the right keywords to google a little more! For everybody interessted in this topic: the firefox iMacros addon (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imacros-for-firefox/…) looks promising :)

Nacht

11:38 PM

hello?

Journeyman Geek

ehlo!

Nacht

ha

superuser seems rather quiet compared to other stackexchanges

other old ones anwyays

Journeyman Geek

0_0

@Nacht we have the second most traffic behind stackoverflow

Journeyman Geek

we're pretty active. Not as much as so, but good enough

Nacht

11:42 PM

oh ok

maybe i just made a bad question then

uninteresting*

DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek heard of a benchmark called HINT?