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12:23 AM
@JourneymanGeek they all seem to be using just windows-8
I wonder if we should synonym it for now.
 
maybe, but there's some questions that are generic enough that they arn't really win-8-preview taggable >_>
 
Ah good point
 
imgur.com/b89vG hm. too localised to ask, yet so annoying
 
@JourneymanGeek are these generally off topic? superuser.com/questions/335698/hardware-compatibility
 
eh, it really can't be answered properly, unless someone had all the same hardware
if there was a SPECIFIC issue with one or more of them, maybe
 
12:33 AM
So flaggable?
 
not enough rep to VTC?
 
I need 93 rep to VTC :P
Looking for a good question to get it.
 
I wouldn't flag that. there's enough VTC votes going on. Personally, its only worth flagging things that are spam ;p
 
Heh, okay, thanks.
 
also.. 93 rep... is one good question ;p
 
12:38 AM
Any one have know of tablet PC that are x86 so that dev preview can be tested on?
 
Haha, yep.
Just picked up a +1 and an accept tonight :D
 
lenovo has em, and there's a bunch of atom based ones
 
Thanks. I'm always forgetting is Lenove is a legit OEM. @journeyman
 
lol
i use a lot of their systems >_>
 
Its name sounds like a cheap China company.
 
12:46 AM
it used to be. don't forget, they swallowed up IBM lock stock and barrel
 
I remember the IBM deal. It's a S Korea company? Right?
The latest version of VMware is 3.1.4? I thought I saw an answer that said ver4 was out now with Win8 support.
 
chinese
erf. ended up downgrading the drivers for it to work with the 8300gs on juno
 
1:02 AM
@SgtOJ I prefer VirtualBox, open source and uses less resources on less fancy ui :P
 
niiiceee
win 8 detected something needed .net 3.5 and autoinstalled
 
That's probably what I'm going to go with. I don't multiple vm software. XP mode and one other. @Simon
 
Sweet, 3rd nice answer badge.
 
1:18 AM
woot, another badge. I'm on a roll tonight.
 
@SgtOJ VMware what? :/
 
1:37 AM
I thought I saw an answer of yours that stated that VWware Player 4 was released. Is it so? I may have skimmed it too fast. @william
 
Oh Sorry... You just wrote VMware... I wondered if you meant Workstation/Player/what exactly... Sorry... 2:40 AM - late nights... I seem to act rather stupidly
 
I c... Np
 
 
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2:47 AM
hm
firefox keeps crashing on win 8 this session
 
3:05 AM
Why about Chrome?
 
3:32 AM
not installed yet
is still expecting a properly spectacular crash and burn I is dissapoint ;p
i can work around anything annoying ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek well I did curse you with a thousand BSODs
 
I got ONE
and that was apparently due to the sysinfo software i use being buggy on win 8
 
great! only 999 to go
I gave up the dl in the end, just went to the cinema instead
 
i might swap the box for win7 in a week or so ;p
lol
@Gareth: there's a torrent... alternately i can split it up into chunks and dropbox it or something
 
ah it's ok, it's down'ing now at home. should be ready by tonight
 
3:57 AM
@Gareth ... I am going to bed now, if you have problems, you are welcome to VLC in to my virtual machine and play around with Windows 8.... but... to be honest, apart from developing (which is what it was intended for), there is little to really do in the preview.
 
thanks for the offer Wil :) I'm quite busy this afternoon but if I don't get it working tonight I may take you up on the offer tomorrow!
I was planning on doing some dev analysis
 
4:35 AM
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Q: Apache passenger issue on RAM usage

bl4d3I'm running apache2/passenger with a Ruby on Rails 3 app and I have an issue with RAM usage on my VPS. Here's the passenger status Anyone could give me some hints about how to tune the server performance? I have 2GB RAM on it. [root@IT152 htdocs]# passenger-memory-stats --------- Apache proces...

apparently the server dudes think this is a valid question, my flag on this was denied. shrugs
 
4:50 AM
@Sathya Why did you want to close? Certainly not a brilliant question, but, I think it is valid :/
 
@WilliamHilsum oh? Well, me fail then.
 
Don't say that! :P did they give a reason for denying it? ... That being said, on further looking, he doesn't give his current config, just a list of running apps (unless I am wrong)... but still, it is along the lines of saying "I have 2GB of memory, how can I optimise xxx"... if someone knows xxx, I am sure they can help him... it isn't the best quality, but, not sure invalid :/
 
:|
 
@WilliamHilsum not sure if you know but we have canned & customizable flag decline reasons now
 
I remember editing "I am not a pedo" out of a question last night, can't remember which one though. I thought it was odd that someone felt they needed to assert that in the question
 
4:57 AM
and it was moderator reviewed your flag, but was unable to confirm it
@WilliamHilsum IMO it's not a valid question - it's basically it is a list of all processes and OP's saying - I have a memory issue.
 
@Sathya I heard about that / guessed from someone else complaining about their flag. ... oh well
 
there's no details about load, concurrent connections et al
but anyways nothing much to bother about - they know what's best for their community & specialization anyway
 
@Sathya Good point... without config details, I say not enough information then.
yeah, and in combination with the comment, I agree...
I will flag as well then (too low to close)...
 
lemme know what happens :P
 
Hmm, I did not a real question, but... it is a real one, just a bad one! Oh well... as you said, they know what's best! probably some negative flag weight coming my way!
Can I even see my flag weight/comments or is my rep too low? I don't even see flag weight listed under my profile.
 
5:04 AM
@WilliamHilsum your flag weight is at default then..
 
5:22 AM
wtf question of the day
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Q: friend who recently passed away

Christine YamasakiI will make this short and to the point. I had a very good friend who recently passed away, and I found this out by accessing his fb! Wow..i was logging on to communicate with him, not to say goodbye! With this said, I would like to know if fb has any ideas or possible affiliations with assista...

 
5:43 AM
apparently when you reg-hack windows 8 to have the classic menu, this happens imgur.com/xEFV9
 
6:03 AM
Any opensource replacement for Alcohol 120%?
Any opensource replacement for Alcohol 120%?
@JourneymanGeek It looks like Vista's bar.
No problem.
I wish I had some NZT... the pill from Limitless.
 
7:07 AM
hmm
if i have a question on how to configure gmail to a desktop client , is that here or webapps?
 
@JourneymanGeek here
 
ahh
asked
 
morning all
 
7:23 AM
@JourneymanGeek answered :P
@DMA57361 morn
 
7:34 AM
@Sathya: thanks.
 
8:06 AM
@Sathya what?! too bad it's deleted -_-
 
8:16 AM
chuckle INFINITE LOOP ARGHHH
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Q: Outlook 2007 Infinite Folder Nesting

RossalussThere's a user on our exchange who moved a subfolder of his inbox into a subfolder beneath that, and now an infinitely nested folder loop has been created (see screenshot). This is prevalent on both Outlook 2007 and on OWA so it appears to be an issue server side, however I can't think what wi...

 
@tombull89 O_o rofl
 
8:39 AM
superuser.com/questions/335663/… eh. on one hand that's a lot of stuff to put as one answer. On the other... it seems suspiciously like someone trying to flog a personal site...
 
8:52 AM
If you guys haven't catched it...
Forget about virtualisation.
 
But I guess that doesn't count as an answer for the question as it's no longer virtual, right? ^^
 
Apparently win8 is being tested on a thinkpad x60, and i know of someone running it on a old 1.4 ghz laptop...
 
Is Windows 8 usable on a daily basis, also for Gaming?
I'll probably be going to do try the VHD first, although I don't know if that will work if the VHD is not on the boot device.
 
eh, HL2 crashed for me
 
8:56 AM
@TomWijsman No. I woudln't want to try it.
 
blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/13/… they have a list of what hardware MS is using to test it there
 
Hmm, then I probably use it on a VHD as to test-drive it...
It would be nice if I liked it and could switch, but I guess that's not going to happen till the beta...
@JourneymanGeek Did you install graphics drivers, or where you testing virtual?
 
installed the most recent drivers, then rolled back to an older windows 7 driver which has better compatibility
 
Meh, I feel more tired than expected after my crazy birthday...
 
happened to have a spare box lying around to test ;p
 
9:01 AM
Waited 12 hours for Avril Lavigne's show so I could be at the front row. ^^
3
 
XD
I don't admit i like her music ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek Same. Installed in VirtualBox in work, then on a spare laptop when I got home.
@TomWijsman Really? Really?
 
@tombull89 Really.
Her show is way less dynamic than Taylor Swift's was, but it's way more intensive so that makes it equivalently good in another way.
 
@TomWijsman Bit of a love/hate thing with her. The video for "what the hell" really irritates me, although the song is quite catchy.
Now, Taylor Swift I've got a bit more time for...
 
@tombull89 I wish I tried front row for TS, but didn't know what time I would have to come.
Yeah, Taylor > Avril.
I believe Avril played like 19 - 20 songs, so really a mix between the old and new stuff.
She should really work out her show more, rather than just her and her band...
@tombull89 I have that for a girl, I like how she is and looks like but she drinks and smokes a lot and probably doesn't know at a later point what she is doing and ...
 
9:09 AM
Oh, irony. Adding a comment to this question and a link to the SU blog is in the sidebar saying "what causes my computer to overheat".
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Q: Is the computer freezing due to high temperature?

x4d33746153706c306974The problem is that my computer suddenly freezes, the mouse and keyboard halt and nothing works. So I checked the CPU temperature, and I found that under BIOS H/W monitoring CPU Temperature -> 94+ -105 Deg C Internal Temperature -> 45+ Deg C Remote Temperature -> 45+ Deg C Here are ...

 
But well, she has a bf now, so that kinda fixed it for me so I can look for a better person.
 
@TomWijsman wasn't she married/divorced in the space of a year or something?
 
@tombull89 Is there such a question, when I click on it I just go to the blog.
@tombull89 Who? The last part is not about Avril.
I've just turned 22 so married/divorced is still a bit out of reach.
Well, some people do it so early, but still...
 
@TomWijsman oops my bad.
 
@tombull89: Right before you said the irony thing, you might have missed that as you were busy with the question and pasting that in.
I don't know much of Avril's history.
 
9:12 AM
@TomWijsman Yeah I was probably trying to do too much at once.
@TomWijsman Same. I was 22 in July. I know engaged/married/with child people from school and I don't know how some of them manage it.
 
Okay, my sister is forced to use Mac on school...
Continues from:
Sep 5 at 15:31, by Tom Wijsman
My sister needs to buy a Mac and Adobe software for it for school, while she already has a costly Windows laptop with Adobe software...
We even let a 18 inch Toshiba bag come from America.
Her laptop doesn't support it-which-should-not-be-called, so that's not even an option. ^^
 
they're forcing her to use a Mac so she can use software she already has on another OS...?
 
@DMA57361: Yes, kinda, they don't want to be special for a single person although the rules say she needs a laptop.
So, as we don't want to buy it she'll have to carry a disk and attach it to the Mac PCs at school.
 
will they not let her use it on the grounds that they "won't support her" if she has technical problems?
 
@DMA57361: They need to be able to watch her screen, and that's probably one of the many Mac-specific things they need to be able to do.
Well, that program does support VNC though...
Apple Remote Desktop 3, I believe i was.
 
9:24 AM
ah
 
@TomWijsman: the drive wouldn;t be that bad but needing to watch someone's screen smacks of laziness ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek She'll tend to lose some data sooner or later by carrying it around... ^^
 
cloud! ;p
oh crap
my assignment e mailed bounced
 
9:44 AM
O_o
how's that
 
i copied it correctly, so... i'll prolly have to make nice with the lecturer
apparently the mailbox dosen't exist
i have school in an hour so i can manage then
 
Scary vacancy of the day:
Database Adminstrator No Experience Needed / Support / Office
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10:08 AM
As Ballmer said this morning in the keynote, more than 500,000 downloads of the preview. #WINdows
how... what.... half a million downloads in ~24 hours for a preview?
 
10:19 AM
@nhinkle I wonder if that if you download two different things it's counted twice.
Or perhaps Windows 8 news is spreading like wildfire even beyond the non-developers...
 
@TomWijsman Well, I'm a not-dev and I'm finding it interesting. Also gathered some interest over at SF.
 
ha, has anyone seen this?
 
@Gareth That...was quick.
 
@tombull89 it's been on for quite some time, IIRC
 
@Sathya Sunday, I thought?
 
10:29 AM
@Linker3000 :O
 
Oh, maybe that was latest release
 
@tombull89 no, no - when was the first time Win 8 was shown?
 
@Sathya Oh,, right, back in May.
 
First Release!
Jul 27 2011, Alpha
from the releases page - newgen.codeplex.com/releases/view/73177 @tombull89
I'd spotted it on twitter back then - didn't use it coz I hate the transformation packs
 
Ah. That'll teach me to have a casual glance.
 
10:32 AM
and yay! 5k in Meta!
 
@Sathya Nice. Now the long slog to 10k.
 
dammit I clicked the rep tab :(
I hadn't clicked on that rep tab since my rep was ~900 :((
@tombull89 yeah :/
 
10:47 AM
@Gareth Yes, buggy software.
 
it looks rubbish anyway :) doesn't really appeal to me
 
Be aware that your VHD needs to be on an internal drive or SATA drive.
Okay, putting Windows 8 on a VHD on my non-boot drive should technically work...
And I have space free, time to install Windows 8 DP there, sadly I need to remember the installation instructions I have to do in the setup itself... :(
 
which is?
 
Mounting the VHD in the setup. :D
 
@TomWijsman: why would you have to remember them? also, which software is buggy?
 
10:52 AM
@JourneymanGeek The Windows 8-like thing Gareth linked.
@JourneymanGeek Because it involves diskpart, I could probably use the help though but it's easier to remember it anyway but it would be even easier to launch up a different laptop but I'm too lazy for that.
Get yourself a USB stick that will hold at LEAST 10 gigs.
Uhm, does the ISO expand when placing it on an USB, does anyone know?
 
er.. i could check when if i was at home
but i KNOW it will work on an 8 gig drive
 
How do you know, how sure are you? Because I need to unpack something from our computer store...
...and once I do that I can't hang it back. :P
An ISO doesn't compress and it writes 1-to-1 to a DVD, so, I guess it isn't 50%-compress-ish...
 
Fully installed, the 32-Bit non-dev build is around 6.3GB.
 
Just need the setup to be on the USB drive, @tombull89.
According to
which has a 8 GB USB, it will work.
Scott Hanselman is pretty safe in his instructions... >_<
 
@TomWijsman I see...does the Windows Live USB/DVD creator not work for that?
 
11:01 AM
@tombull89: Yeah, that's in the instructions.
But he also mentions to have a USB drive of at least 10GB, that's weird...
Or he doesn't know the existence of 8GB? ^^
 
@TomWijsman Wasn't sure if the site was using that, school's filtering picked up on the "hack" in the URL and blocked it.
 
it works perfectly there
er.. for that
tho if you have a 32 bit system and want to build a 64 bit installer, you need to find and run the 32 bit bootsect manually
@tombull89: eh, my school blocks anything that ends with a .com unless its a tld
 
Argh, inserted it upside down, lol...
 
@Sathya Score of 4.
 
11:12 AM
@Sathya "44" apparently. Pretty much dead average for my age / gender it seems. But I wonder how much of an effect this monitor is having.
so is that good? I hate these things that don't have a "scale" :P
I'll just assume the lack of bars at the top means "I have awesome eyes"
 
Yeah, I only had those 4 in the middle.
But, don't get tricked by the test, spending a little longer lowers your score.
 
@TomWijsman the same with almost everything thou, but I'm not bothered enough to try again
 
Same, it's a long test by itself.
Booting from VHD is not supported in Home Premium and Professional. You need Ultimate or Enterprise.
Hrrm...
 
> Your score: 163
 
@TomWijsman Win8?
 
11:22 AM
:(
 
@DMA57361 I'm going to install Windows 8 on a VHD that's on my second drive of my Windows 7 installation.
But I'm wondering if it needs the Windows 7 Boot-to-VHD function for that.
 
@Sathya lol, still - what does it actually mean?
 
@DMA57361 think it's a measure of how well your eyes can judge colour
not too surprised with the result, tbh. My eyes are rather bad
 
@Sathya I got that bit. But is 163 good, bad or what? There's no real context
 
@DMA57361 lower the better
 
11:25 AM
I know that, but that still doesn't indicate if 163 is good or not
 
> A lower score is better, with ZERO being the perfect score. The bars above show the regions of the color spectrum where hue discrimination is low.
 
AAAH, I see gaming people!
 
that's what the bottom line says
so towards the cyan-blue zone, I can't see shit
 
@Sathya yes, but it's like saying "I score 14 marks on the test". 14/1000 is very bad, 14/15 is pretty good. We lack the context to know if any score is good or not... the graph however, does help
@Sathya you can see it, but it's all just one big blur ;)
 
@DMA57361 hehe exactly
 
11:28 AM
Argh, might be best to just install it natively...
 
again thou, monitors vary so it might be the monitors fault, potentially
 
LOL
 
@slhck WINNAR!
 
@DMA57361 The border line is subjective, the test is flawed anyway given that spending more time gets you a better score and that monitors can have a serious effect. Disabling/changing digital vibrancy could potentially change my result.
My DV is set slightly too high...
 
4 mins ago, by DMA57361
again thou, monitors vary so it might be the monitors fault, potentially
I know :)
 
11:34 AM
@DMA57361 I used a sort-of quicksort algorithm on that one :P
 
@slhck lol, I just did a "shove the most obvious ones down the end then tidy up the middle" sort
 
haha, that should do the trick as well!
 
guys, I wouldn't normally ask but pretty desperate... big favour. I need to get unblocked in China, even google.com is timing out at the minute. Can anyone who has Gmail/Gtalk handy send a message (can literally be anything, even the word 'hello') to fg.bridge@gmail.com ? It's a bot that will ping you back some IPs
then paste the IPs here
(I'd do it myself normally but even Google isn't working right now - it happens sometimes)
 
@Gareth: Doing so.
 
cheers @TomWijsman
really appreciate it!
 
11:37 AM
@Gareth Same here – should I get an e-mail back instantly?
 
yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear - it should be an IM, not an email
you might have to invite them onto Gtalk (either the client app or inside Gmail) first, then send them anything
can delete afterwards... it's totally safe, I assure you
 
hmm, I can only invite it to chat, but can't write
at least over Gmail's built in chat
 
Oh, no e-mail, woops...
 
@slhck hmm that is odd. normally after you've invited them you can mouse over them on the left-hand contact list and click Chat
 
11:39 AM
> 126 Clicks
 
then write garbage on the bottom right chat window
 
on my Amazon wishlist put in my SU profile.
 
 
@slhck: You forgot the dot between fg and bridge, or doesn't it matter for Google?
 
hmm. I wonder if despite being a bot, someone has to actually go and approve it
(at least the first time round so they get added to your list)
it doesn't normally matter for Google Tom. they ignore dots
ok well no worries :) thanks a lot for trying guys, honestly appreciate it. I'll try later with the hope Google is back up
at least SU is working!
 
11:43 AM
@Gareth I could hook you up with VPN or something, wasn't there something @Sathya mentioned yesterday or so?
 
believe it or not, I've got 3 VPNs and a VPS that I have in the states... but they're currently slowing SSH traffic down so the VPS (which I'm tunneling to) is no good. the 3 VPNs I have are IP blocked at the moment
I'm using a proprietary thing that's normally super reliable and gets around every block... but today seems they've done something. the IPs from that bot allow me to down a newer version that gets around the block
 
Argh, I'll just try the VHD boot. Hopefully I don't get a license error given the setup is smart enough to create the boot entry...
 
silly government - they might as well give up, they can't hold back the net forever
 
@Gareth Ah, that sounds bad :/
 
@Gareth: And only that bot gives you IPs?
 
11:46 AM
@Gareth: if it helps i can set up a ssh -able account on my vps
 
@TomWijsman yeah, they keyword block the actual software (it's a proprietary VPN-like thing, not PPTP, SSL, IPSEC etc) so if you try to download any updates or search for it, Google gets blocked for 15 minutes
my VPN providers will normally move the gateways to new IPs but it can take a day sometimes
 
@Gareth: Yeah, I know what FG stands for.
 
please don't mention it here :) it really will get SU blocked temporarily
 
@Gareth: I know, but are IPs obtainable from the software, or could you use an update?
 
thanks Journey - I'll wait it out a bit and hopefully Google will work again shortly (unusual to have this long for it timing out). I'll let you know, thanks a lot.
normally it uses what it calls an 'A tunnel' (uses their own packet driver) to go and grab IPs in situations like this and fix itself, but the firewall beavers have obviously finally cracked it
 
11:48 AM
@Gareth So, if I change my name to it you wouldn't be able to browse SU anymore. ^^
 
it's cat and mouse, FG will be working again tomorrow (or in a few hours)
yeah, pretty much
without a VPN
 
Ouch, painful.
Ah, makes sense.
I'm off to try the VHD thing
and hope that I don't break anything.
 
see you. Thanks again for trying with that bot! Appreciate it.
ahhh, nice. it seems they weren't limit rating SSH traffic, only port 22. works much better on 8080
 
@Gareth I feel your pain...yesterday in SF chat there were a few word flying around and as soon as they enterted the trascript the school filter picked up on it and went "nuh-uh-uhh".
 
so, who wants to drop in 4 votes on Met a and make me hit the rep cap :D
 
11:54 AM
go on then, link?
 
upvotes or downvotes? :P
 
+4
 
\m/ \o/
+552 rep this week :D
 
@Sathya That's meta.SO
:P
 
11:59 AM
all this.. over 4-5 answers
 
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