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12:00 AM
@Psycogeek rofl
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1:08 AM
Faulting application start time: 0x01ccfe1e3e206d42 <--This is a date code i have seen these interpreted before. I have to know the bits? how many hex items per chunk?
I keep trying to convert it in groups, and nothing makes sence. There is also something about converting it again too , to get to human, or it is just hex-decimal?
 
 
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7:14 AM
@Psycogeek:
> System time is a count of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601. This value is computed for the GMT time zone.
It's the time KeQuerySystemTime returns.
 
7:40 AM
Can anyone find a flaw in my logic?
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A: How do I decode the "Faulting application start time" in a Windows event log entry?

Tom WijsmanThat is a value that KeQuerySystemTime returns, and is stored in CreationTime of EPROCESS. System time is a count of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601. 01ccfe1e unsigned corresponds to 30211614, 3e206d42 unsigned corresponds to 1042312514. Now, it's a matter of multiplying the...

 
@TomWijsman Typo where you said milliseconds but meant nanoseconds. Also, your final date is wrong: wolframalpha.com/input/…
Err, more precise: wolframalpha.com/input/…
 
@iglvzx: Hmm, I wonder how to get that query to show time too.
 
@TomWijsman See second link :)
I don't know how to show the time. But the date is June 16, 2012 + 15 hours 58 minutes 33.17 seconds
 
Yeah, ofc.
@iglvzx: Updated my answer, but still doesn't make sense that the process would start in the future.
 
@TomWijsman Why did you break up the hex value?
 
7:54 AM
@iglvzx: To be able to convert it to an integer.
It's a 64 bit integer, didn't find a converter...
 
@TomWijsman Oh. Ok.
@TomWijsman I get the same value for nanoseconds with the following: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0x01ccfe1e3e206d42+*+100
 
Hello Super Users!
 
@legospace9876 Hello
 
8:10 AM
@TomWijsman The answer looks good. I can't find any mistakes.
 
8:47 AM
ugh
Anyone really good with regex?
needs a very quick, urgent bit of help - i need to extract 4 lines BEFORE a certain string
 
@TomWijsman Not useful.
@JourneymanGeek grep -B 4 expression [file] | head -n4
 
hm
coming up blank
 
@JourneymanGeek Remember to specify the correct expression parser, e.g. -P for Perl Regexp.
@slhck It worked! In the future, just use all-caps in flags to prevent wrong decisions. "user mentions in the question this does not work. DO NOT REJECT THIS FLAG FOR TECHNICAL INACCURACIES IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT!!!!!!!!!! – 12 hours ago helpful"
 
9:02 AM
@DanielBeck Wow, not bad!
Morning, btw
 
Does that sound legit?
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A: How can I install iTunes in such a way that it can't put any "hooks" or helper programs on my computer?

JakeYou can go here... http://www.ajuaonline.com/custom-installers/ to get the latest version of iTunes with all the unpleasant dependencies removed.

 
@slhck Morning
@slhck Site looks real enough. Here's a description of iTunes: ajuaonline.com/custom-installers/itunes
 
hehe
@DanielBeck or... i could export to CSV, load it into a spreadsheet, and bobinder singh, is NOT my uncle!
 
@DanielBeck Oh, yeah that looks good indeed.
 
9:19 AM
Stupid Windows 8. I selected US International as keyboard layout, and German (Germany) for formatting. The computer name screen defaults to German keyboard layout.
... and it resets to German again once setup is finished.
Right... and it's US, not United States International. So far, I'm underwhelmed.
 
Hmm. Did Windows 7 manage this?
@DanielBeck Btw the thing. Not sure. QuickTime is a piece of software. MOV is a container format. You can work with MOV files without ever needing QuickTime.
 
9:38 AM
@slhck Isn't QuickTime Player the software?
 
@DanielBeck True, but we don't have that tag and we cover everything (like plugins, etc.) under "QuickTime" only.
 
@slhck Not the container format though ;)
 
@DanielBeck Heh. Yeah. Okay, you convinced me.
 
 
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11:07 AM
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Beta Object Model Language Pack - ENU
Internal server error (500).
Wow.
 
Why was this even edited o0
 
@JourneymanGeek It's in the user name.
If you don't edit, you don't get the taxonomist badge for a totally unnecessary tag.
 
headesk
granted, i cheated in a way to get mine ;p
 
11:26 AM
I'll probably get mine later this year.
The tag has been created, now I'm just waiting for 49 questions.
 
mine is windows-8-preview
which i think i suggested ;p
 
At least I got Ubuntu 12.04
:P
 
@JourneymanGeek ... and if I weren't too lazy to edit 40 questions or so, I'd almost have the badge for now.
 
11:33 AM
Do you guys remember an WebGL site like ro.me ?
The cover image had doctors in it ..
 
 
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12:40 PM
@JourneymanGeek Oh no, did he went tagging again? :(
 
12:55 PM
Did half the front page and stopped.
17 left at the bottom of superuser.com/questions/tagged/cd
Let's try to schedule 4 or so each time the front page has cleared.
@kinokijuf: Could you try to organize these retaggings on chat?
If it's a big amount that has to be done, we could go through them with at least two persons such that the front page is occupied for less long.
For smaller amount it's just a matter of phasing them out over time...
Good that you decided to do it on the weekend though. :)
 
@TomWijsman What do you mean by organising?
 
Just ask here if someone is up to help do the retaggings, as well as ask if moderators agree with doing so.
For example, you could start at the top and someone else could start at the bottom. You don't interfere and you are through the retagging double as fast...
Once we're don on that tag we somehow need to monitor and check each new question to it to see if it needs to be retagged.
 
@TomWijsman You do realize that @kinokijuf was banned for 10 days for doing a lot of edits in a very short time? How would this help?
 
@DanielBeck If two different subjects are in the same tag you have to do manual retagging anyway, no way around that.
 
@TomWijsman cd was used both for the storage media and a command line command.
 
1:02 PM
Of course, not trying to defend him on the other hand. He should have let us know.
 
@DanielBeck I think that should be renamed to disambiguate.
 
Related:
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Q: Difference between CD tags

RaystafarianThere are currently 239 questions tagged with cd and no distinction between Compact Disc and Change Directory. Additionally, there is no [chdir] tag. My thoughts are that there should be a chdir tag and all the non optical-media questions could be migrated to that tag. Forgive me if this isn't me...

 
@TomWijsman Sure, but this particular advice ("Do what you did that you got banned, only more of it!") isn't exactly helping.
 
8 mins ago, by Tom Wijsman
@kinokijuf: Could you try to organize these retaggings on chat?
 
@kinokijuf Probably would be somewhat useful, except that someone would recreate the tag anyway. It's a weakness of the software, really.
@kinokijuf Thanks by the way for doing some of the edits today, on a low traffic day.
 
1:05 PM
7 mins ago, by Tom Wijsman
Just ask here if someone is up to help do the retaggings, as well as ask if moderators agree with doing so.
That's why I have invited him to the chat in the first place.
 
@TomWijsman Those quotes were the useful bits, true.
 
@TomWijsman How do you invite someone to chat?
 
@kinokijuf: At chat.stackexchange.com you can click Users at the top and then search for the user and on his chat profile you can invite him to a room.
That's an indirect way for an user to talk with someone on the main site. Moderators get a more direct way as they can ping anyone on the main site...
 
Okay, who here is messing with the stars?
 
Not me...
I can for instance not star my own message. I think Kino is bored...
 
1:11 PM
@TomWijsman Looks like it.
 
@kinokijuf: Thanks for removing them, what were you trying? Yes, there is a limit on the amount of stars you can give.
 
1:23 PM
@kinokijuf: To summarize: 1) Please get permission / consensus from the community / moderators before flooding the front page. 2) Please be in chat when you are retagging a batch of posts so that coordination can take place and we can participate. 3) It might help in some occasions if you get to know the site better, participating in answering / reviewing / meta / flagging and such. Don't only leave negative comments (eg. bashing Google).
in Ask a Super User Moderator, Feb 26 at 15:25, by slhck
It seems that the community agrees that he's taking it too far, so he'd just need to accept that and move on. The retags are fine if they're in order and in accordance with what we established on Meta. The low quality answers are another issue, and if ZaB got suspended for them, at least kino should know that he should invest more time there.
 
@TomWijsman What low quality answers?
 
in Ask a Super User Moderator, Feb 26 at 15:03, by Tom Wijsman
Most of his answers are just one or two-liners, occasionally you see a paragraph or two somewhere.
 
@TomWijsman I asked about my low-quality answers.
 
Those are about yours, @kinokijuf. You might want to read through the whole conversation there to get an idea...
It doesn't mean that they are necessarily bad, though. But in some occasions you leave the questioner wondering, or there's just context missing...
 
@TomWijsman Thanks, added the link.
 
1:32 PM
To get an idea, these kinds of posts show up here.
 
@TomWijsman btw, who’s ZaB?
 
That guy showed up a lot in /review and none of his answers made any sense.
Got suspended, started again after he got his account back so his account is now unregistered.
 
@TomWijsman Are you implying my answers don’t make sense too?
 
@kino most of your answers are extremely low quality and vague
You don't contribute positively to the site
 
1:48 PM
@SimonSheehan what answers for instance?
 
@kino basically most of them, the ones I've commented on that you never comment back on. It's not just answers though. Your edits and tampering with things are just straight up annoying
Brb while I move to a computer
 
@SimonSheehan I’m not a native english speaker. Sorry if my answers are too vague.
@SimonSheehan ?
 
@kinokijuf No, yours make sense. But some could be better...
Just saying that due to the short length some of them are missing context.
 
@TomWijsman What ones for instance?
 
@kinokijuf Thanks for the edit. The original topic draft didn't include options, and I forgot about the tags.
 
1:56 PM
@DanielBeck You know, your reply is not relevant to my message.
 
@kinokijuf: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Again not saying they are really bad; but in some occasions more details / context / links / text / images could help.
 
General rule: If your answer is only one or two sentences, it's not a good answer.
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That's my 2 cents.
 
@TomWijsman Can you tell me what that odd split-screen feature in Windows 8 is good for?
 
@DanielBeck: Haven't used it extensively (but I think that's mainly because there aren't much Metro applications yet), but I used it once when chatting with someone in the Messaging app next to doing something else.
If you don't have multiple monitors, I feel it's an easy way to keep track of something while doing something else.
 
@TomWijsman Thanks for finishing!
 
2:09 PM
@TomWijsman Makes sense. Thanks.
 
You know this stand here guys? Is it available for regular laptops? Only seen it used with MacBooks
user image
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@SimonSheehan I only know this for MacBooks
There are similar ones too … but also only for MacBooks :P
 
@SimonSheehan: Don't think so, width of the stand would differ.
 
Okay, I have a slight feeling someone is abusing stars here..
 
@slhck ....take a wild guess.....
 
2:10 PM
@slhck No, I genuinely find this stand amusing.
 
@kinokijuf: Star the image instead. :)
 
@SimonSheehan I have it :)
 
@DanielBeck Heh... I wouldn't mind something like that, I have a keyboard and mouse here, so it would take a lot less desk space (which I don't have much of) If i just bought a monitor
Its just the question of "Where the hell do I put my laptop?"
 
@SimonSheehan Behind the monitor?
 
2:13 PM
@SimonSheehan But dual monitor setup is more useful.
 
@DanielBeck I should learn to write some Metro applications, I think I would heavily use it.
 
@kinokijuf no room for it
@slhck just leaning on its side? I feel like I would just fall fast :P
 
@SimonSheehan Put the laptop on the monitor stand (if it's not a really exotic design)
 
I almost want to sort of make it into a bit of a desktop when it's at home.
It could fit inside the drawer of the desk where the keyboard / mouse usually go
 
Or lay something next to the stand that raises the laptop slightly above the stand.
I should buy myself one big screen too...
Working on a Full HD laptop, but I think I could benefit from a second screen.
 
2:16 PM
The good news is... my laptop does have an HDMI out at least.
 
Same, one HDMI out, no DisplayPort yet...
 
I'm in "Süd, Germany", according to Windows 8's Weather app. Only that "Süd" is German for "South".
 
Displayport seems to be quite prevalent on the MacBook's mostly.
 
Meant to be everywhere at some point. You can attack any number of screens to it. In theory, because in practice at some point your Graphics Card / Computer won't handle it anymore though...
 
It'll be nice when we start seeing Thunderbolt more
I'm extremely pleased with my Laptops graphics (GT 555M)
Basically taken anything I throw at it, and this laptop does not generate nearly a third as much heat as some laptops I've used with similar specs.
 
2:22 PM
Same on my laptop, apart from the occasional crashes I've had.
 
Which laptop do you have @TomWijsman?
 
Had them again after reinstalling my Windows. But doing the Paged Pool fix works...
@Simon: Too lazy to install Speccy, but here is an older link that still works: speccy.piriform.com/results/cpRcqT7NNXaUJXmLXF1wjvJ
Motherboard lists the laptop I have.
 
Pretty powerful
 
Let me run Speccy real fast here.
 
2:26 PM
@Sathya: There are some simple synonym requests in ask a SU mod.
 
rofl @ (Illegal Vendor ID)
 
Haha I laughed at that too. It might be because its Optimus and it doesn't detect it properly.
Half the time I launch games and it says im using "Intel HD" graphics, but then all the Nvidia stuff overrides it.
 
Whoa, the statistics it gives have improved somewhat.
 
for some bizarre reason CPU-Z and speccy both think I have 4 RAM slots
 
2:30 PM
@TomWijsman looking
 
@Sathya: Found those using software with finds the tag pairs with the least distance between the tag names. I retagged those where I only had to tag a few questions (like ~5-6 or so), but the remaining once where a bit bigger (so it also makes more sense to make synonyms for those and not doing those manually).
Have to make it somewhat easier to use that script, using the locals pane of Visual Studio became slow after 250 tag pairs or so. So I stopped after doing those with edit distance 1. :D
 
Good time of day to you all. I'm here on mod business today :( Got a question like this (or do you want it?)
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Q: MD5 encryption in Windows batch script

Nathan PiercyI am making a script in Windows batch to have a registration and login system that stores the passwords in a SQL database using SQLite. I need a command line MD5 encryption program to encrypt the passwords (like the md5 function in PHP) but all I can find is programs to checksum files. Does anyo...

 
Sounds on-topic, but gonna look for a dupe.
 
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Q: Is there a built-in method for computing a sha1 or md5 hash in windows 7?

hamlin11Is there a built-in method for computing a sha1 or md5 hash in windows 7?

That maybe?
@Ninefingers But it's on-topic, so I guess you can move it over.
 
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Q: What tool can generate MD5 from the command-line?

StanIs there any tool that can automate by script to generate file MD5? I used to use Cygwin but I am looking for another solution without having Cygwin installed.

 
2:35 PM
@slhck Nah, not much point if it is a dupe. I'll close as OT our end with a link to the question.
 
Well, the answer is the standard "get the output from this tool" which is something findstr.
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A: What tool can generate MD5 from the command-line?

corgrath Download md5 from Fourmilab. You can calculate the hash of a string by using this command: ./md5 -dblahblahblah or if the string has white space, you can enclose it in quotations. ./md5 -d"blah blah blah" — Source: Computer Help Forum (No longer available, they switched forum...

I feel like this answers the question you shared. In the other case a temp file is a work-around...
@SimonSheehan: See the bottom of your Speccy, I feel like they are including too much information these days.
 
@TomWijsman Thanks, I've linked him to you guys and closed as OT; if he really wants migration I'll send it over, but I suspect you'll be closing it if I do :)
 
@TomWijsman Whoops. I wouldn't wanna share that, really.
 
Dunno, it's not an exact duplicate but he could get away with the answer.
@slhck Seems I'll have to include a caution to close any programs not to be captured next time.
Dunno if they give you the option to include that or not...
 
2:56 PM
Interesting …
Didn't know they were planning next-gen Xboxes for 2013 already
 
@slhck isn't that still a rumour? been hearing it since the past 2 days
 
@Sathya I'm a bit behind when it comes to tech news :P
 
@slhck (generally) so am I :P
 
But yeah, still seems like a rumor
 
@TomWijsman you use rescue time?
 
2:58 PM
@Sathya Had used it in the past. How do you see?
 
@TomWijsman the free or the paid one?
 
Didn't reinstall it as I found myself not using the dashboard often.
The free one. I'm actually thinking of getting rid of my account if possible...
 
@TomWijsman does the free one give an application-level breakdown of time spent?
I use procrastitracker
 
There's a rep requirement for creating tags, right?
 
there is, 500 iirc 300
 
3:02 PM
@Sathya Yeah, it does.
 
@TomWijsman ok, thanks.
giving it a spin
 
I remember you sharing your tool before.
 
@Sathya Thanks.
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Q: A real solution to ambiguous tags

Daniel BeckIntroduction Some tags are inherently ambiguous, even within a site's relatively focused range of topics (it's unlikely anybody on SO will think sun refers to the solar system's star). There are currently two unsatisfying options: Declare that the tag is only to be used for one of the possibl...

 
Alternatives include ManicTime and Wakoopa.
 
I use wakoopa too, but it doesn't give a day-wise breakdown
 
3:05 PM
Indeed.
 
@DanielBeck That's a pretty awesome idea.
 
@slhck Thanks.
 
@DanielBeck The whole user-based tagging is bound to fail anyway, since on the internet, "more people" often means "more stupid".
I thought showing the excerpt when selecting tags would help, but in most cases it doesn't.
 
Hmm, "erase all time" means "erase January and March but not February" apparently...
 
@TomWijsman Can't handle the leap year?
 
3:13 PM
@DanielBeck: I think some weird caching involved.
Used it for 3 - 4 months of so. Sounded like a good idea but I barely check it so it's more like a privacy issue than any useful to me...
 
@slhck It's a joke referring to my user picture.
 
@DanielBeck Hrm. Redacted. Wasn't funny though.
 
@slhck True. I mean, what possible other meaning than 'me' can there be?
 
Hey @Sathya, congrats on the 10k on MSO. Now you can see all the crap there as well!
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@DanielBeck: That comment on your meta Q... :D
 
3:17 PM
@slhck hahah yeah :P wonder how long that 10k will last though...
 
@Sathya Why? Deletions?
 
@slhck the impending meta.se / meta.so split..
 
@Sathya MSE will probably keep the rep system. Did you get your rep from SO related topics?
 
@Sathya Hm. I haven't grasped that in its entirety. Where will MSO rep go?
 
@slhck rep for deletions is updated pretty fast nowadays, recalcs are no longer needed
 
3:19 PM
@DanielBeck Yeah, I thought MSE would just get the MSO rep and MSO inherits the one from SO.
Everything else would be inconsistent.
 
@DanielBeck not sure, there'll be few Stack Overflow-specific questions
@slhck yeah but if the Stack Overflow specific questions are migrated, the rep will no longer be there
 
@Sathya True that. Dunno how many of those are really affected. That's gonna be so hard to split.
 
yea, anyways, lets see how that goes.
 
I was really unsure about that topic. Now it's a Nice Question in just 15 minutes.
 
@DanielBeck I like the pop-up screenshot.
 
3:25 PM
@slhck It's real :-)
 
@DanielBeck Yeah, Firebug et al. for the win!
 
@slhck I use XRAY to get element properties, and then simple javascript in the address bar. Works well in Safari without addons and anything.
It's a modified blacklisting error, and javascript:(function(){document.getElementsByClassName('error-notification')[0].firstChild.innerHTML="sorry, please choose an alternative to the ambiguous 'vm' tag.";})();
 
@DanielBeck Ah, that's neat.. so you get the selector?
SO has jQuery, so you only need $(".error-notification") etc
 
Also, has anyone noticed how the SE folks don't seem know what element IDs are for?
 
@DanielBeck Which element IDs? :)
 
3:31 PM
@slhck Exactly.
 
Okay, chat notifications are weird
I'm talking here the time
Suddenly
 
@slhck: Have you clicked away the notifications in the bottom left?
 
@TomWijsman Well, I've been talking here all the time, so yeah
I guess so
 
@TomWijsman Hm. Looks fancy.
Make it a headline :P
 
3:45 PM
The linkified <kbd> looks fatter. The tag one is probably useless, but wanted to see if it was possible...
Using code tags inside kbd removes the top border from the kbd.
 
4:05 PM
If anyone needs sliders...
 
@slhck I don't think the concept of big and small letter translates well into English ;) superuser.com/a/399098/36744
 
4:23 PM
@OliverSalzburg Then why is there a Big O Notation? :)
 
Capital explains it better ..
 
But yeah, "capital" makes more sense
 
Or making it a headline...
 
@slhck I've been wondering about that too, yeah :D
 
4:28 PM
I wonder if I really need to know the difference between little and big O notation
 
@OliverSalzburg I don't think it's too hard to explain. But don't ask me to do it :P
 
If you nee a new user with the name aaa, sure his/her answer can't be any good.
 
@TomWijsman aon isn't better.
I see a pattern there.
 
Sort posts by user name length / repetition of letters / interpuntion / spaces? :D
 
@TomWijsman That'd probably work. Don't forget missing capitalization.
 
@slhck Data.SE is giving me false results with users name of zero length, guess it wasn't filled in at that time. So I have to perform a JOIN with the Users table I guess. But here is an interesting one with long names:
 
5:07 PM
lol … couple of nice names there
 
Nothing special there though.
Hmm, clicking some (the iiIIIIILlLILILll thing) it seems it records it at the time of posting. So yeah, a JOIN it is...
 
Oh la la!
:D
 
@slhck: Updated again, added reputation which seems to give even better results. :)
 
@TomWijsman Check my restarting meta post
75% of "restart" question are actually "reboot"
 
Meh, all have one reputation. Seems I have to divide that like the post length.
 
5:21 PM
@slhck The question URL parser just gave up...
 
Yup
 
@slhck ¿Would it make a difference if you wrapped it in <http://...> brackets?
 
@DanielBeck Nope, there's just a limit to how many the parser does.
 
Am I too optimistic here, or why does one user think the "ambiguous tag" feature will take 6-8 weeks?
I'd say there's a prototype in a week, and another two weeks for testing and polishing.
 
5:26 PM
@slhck Ugh. I really hate MSO.
 
@slhck :P
 
lol
 
5:44 PM
I'm starting to see broken images... :(
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Q: Using pfSense, OpenVPN Connects but Still Can't See the Network

nicorelliusI am having an OpenVPN issue. I have a pfSense box at home configured to allow traffic through a VPN tunnel. The client computer is Windows XP Home, behind a standard Comcast connection and a Netgear wireless router. I use OpenVPN to access my work network (from where I am trying to get out of...

 
Hm, I have a string like "https\u00253A\u00252F\u00252Ffbcdn-video-a.akamaihd.net"
How do I quickly decode that?
Ah, nvm, got it.
 
 
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8:47 PM
hello @Iain
 
hi
can you do anything with this serverfault.com/questions/368405/… ?
 
@Iain afaik that's technically impossible. Can be migrated though
 
BT isn't my thing
 
I second that, there's no HTTP over Bluetooth. The closest thing is sending a .html file, but still... Why? Who in his right mind...?
 
why isn't it possible ?
@TomWijsman right minds - since when has that been a requirement ?
 
8:52 PM
my BT knowledge is minimal, but faik there's no "streaming" of data, every file will have to be copied over to the client & then rendered from there. Now when you have further linked resources, well good luck
 
@Iain: Too localized... :)
 
plain OT will do but I left a note agreeing it was a crazy thing to do.
 
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