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can someone explain me why I started watching Nightmare on Elm Street just before going to bed?
 
 
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3:02 AM
I have no idea what this is. But it looks cool.
 
 
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dba public beta gets only 289 visits/day as of now
 
@Sathya it says 871 for me
 
@nhinkle this is what it shows me :\
@nhinkle this is what it shows me :\
 
on dba.stackexchange.com it says 871 visitors/day on the sidebar
but on area51 it says 289 as you said
so idk
weird
 
6:25 AM
@nhinkle
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Q: What's the difference between stackexchange.com/sites traffic numbers and Area 51 traffic numbers?

Alex BLooking at the Money SE traffic numbers in light of the discussion about domain names, I saw this large difference: http://stackexchange.com/sites lists Money traffic at 434 visits per day. http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1721/personal-finance-and-money lists Money traffic at 1793 vis...

 
@Sathya, that explains it
 
@nhinkle yeah, it says [status-complete] but wonder if it broke again :\
fwiw stackechange.com/sites reflects A51 numbers
 
@IvoFlipse
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Q: Proposed tag wiki for Community-FAQ-Proposed and Community-FAQ

nhinkle This is a suggested tag wiki entry for community-faq and community-faq-proposed, tags which very few users can edit and would benefit from having a tag wiki. Please see "make editing tag wikis more accessible" for more details. Community FAQ Proposed Community FAQ questions are designed to ...

 
6:57 AM
Hello all
 
hello @Troggy
 
I knew someone had to be in here.
 
:P
@IvoFlipse should be here soon
 
Alright, so I have been out of the loop on SSD's for awhile. Anyone buy any recently?
 
think @IvoFlipse was looking at them
I'm out of touch as well :(
 
7:04 AM
I almost snapped up a gen2 intel drive, but wanted to wait till the rev 3 announcement.
The original reports 6 months ago implied that they were going to cut prices too at the size price points. I need a least 160gb, if not 256gb to make this move worth it.
I'm not too worried about price, but $400 for 160gb was pushing it.
and it still hasn't moved in price. newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167032
 
oooh that's steep
 
 
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8:25 AM
I'm late @Sathya, because I was annotating paws till 11 PM, so I went to bed a bit later
definitely wait for the new gen @Troggy, from what I've seen they look to be blazingly fast
 
mornin' all
 
good morning :)
 
why is it leaving my house for work 5mins later than usual adds 20mins to my journey time? it's a pain :(
 
@DMA57361 traffic timing.
 
auch
and there's @Troggy again :)
 
8:40 AM
@Troggy oh, I know. I just felt like moaning about it ;P
 
@DMA57361 Don't worry, it happens to many.
 
need the SSD for anything special?
 
pure performance. It is the one slow component of my machine.
 
8:57 AM
are you getting a sandy bridge?
 
It was the one thing I held off on with a new build just to evaluate to 4000 different models out there. Because of the extreme differences in performance between SSD's, I wanted more time to research and check out what the time lines were to be released once I realized I would find anything less than 160gb annoying
no, I already built a machine to last awhile, just need the ssd.
 
I have a 120 Gb OS SSD drive and 1 tb HDD, so space isn't an issue
unless you want everything to be fast
 
Yah this is just for the apps and OS. I've got banks of 2tb drives for storage.
and backups of course
Core benefit would bring my VM's to life, which can be very disk intensive.
 
not 100% sure when they'll release the new generation though :\
 
9:58 AM
@Troggy any idea what's important in picking RAM when you want to overclock?
if at all
 
 
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12:07 PM
> lknAnswer - Yahoo Answers Clone - Forum for Joomla
someone kill me...
 
... but then who's gonna deal with all the mod flags ;P
 
shoots @IvoFlipse
 
man these people really don't know anything about websites...
even worse, this project had huge grants to create this...
epic fail if you ask me :(
 
@IvoFlipse this as in ?
 
as in what they fail? life in general :P
these are the people who help set the health policies around here (at least for orthopedics)
if this is their level of competence, I'd rather chop off my feet than have them look at them :P
 
12:12 PM
as in I was asking about which project :P
3 mins ago, by Ivo Flipse
even worse, this project had huge grants to create this...
 
the project was creating this 'knowledge base' and framework 6 is the highest level of european grants, which typically have budgets of around 2-4 million euro's
 
@IvoFlipse :O
 
 
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1:26 PM
'ello @Mokubai
 
Hello @Sathya
How's things?
 
could be worse
 
Sounds like my motto these days ;)
 
my 'worst' problem is that the 2500k is out of stock :(
 
:O
may have to get the 2600k then ;)
 
1:29 PM
no thank you :P
 
Anything we can help with @Sathya?
 
@Mokubai that depends.. know Oracle discoverer?
 
So you're new rig is delayed @IvoFlipse? Any idea when they'll get them back in stock?
@Sathya Uhhhh.... no.
 
well it seems here the delay can be 10 days
had been checking out several webstores
 
@Mokubai so I thought :( thanks anyway :)
 
1:31 PM
but I don't want to have to buy my mobo and ram in different shops
 
I know a little SQL, and can just about bang a basic query together, but Oracle... shudder
I know the feeling, I have a local supplier who I generally use and if I can't get it all in one shot from them then I'll wait.
 
SQL and SQLite use the same syntax right?
 
yeah especially because I don't want to have to sent stuff back if something's amiss to three different vendors
 
A friend used to swear by a couple of online suppliers, lately he's just spent his time swearing at them....
 
I wish there were any shops that actually sell these thinks
but most of them are a 1 hour drive away...
though given the costs, what's one hour eh?
 
1:34 PM
@digitxp depends..
 
Well, the 2500K is quite new... stock must still be quite limited
Holy moly! where do you start with Oracle documentation??? oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/discoverer/documentation/…
 
Heh, for a moment there I thought you were talking about color temperature.
 
Ah, that looks a lot more approachable
And yet still as good a cure for insomnia...
;)
What is it that's actually giving you a problem @Sathya?
 
@Mokubai tl;dr version: I can't seem to figure out how to reference parameters from interface form in discoverer, in my SQL
sort of related to this
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Q: Calculating percentage of a row over total sum

SathyaApologies for the bad title, I wasn't sure what would be a good title for this. This is currently (simplified view of the) data I'm working with Agent | Commission ---------|------------ Smith | 100 Neo | 200 Morpheus | 300 I need to calculate the percentage of the t...

 
1:40 PM
I would say I had a similar problem using M$ Access, but I suspect I'd just get laughed at for using Access in the first place....
 
@Mokubai haha, not really :) I sorta had a similar problem with Excel, while trying to answer a Super User question
 
Access at least gave you the option of using a formula in their form controls so you could do the kind of thing you describe in your question
 
I haven't used Access - at all.
 
It is messy, and rather limited, and has a rather amusing way of dealing with problems (i.e. crashing horribly without letting you recover or save anything) but it is a nice way to provide a quick and dirty frontend to some cludge of data...
Rather worryingly I even used it to make a frontend for a document scanner...
 
@Mokubai woah
how in the world o_0
 
1:52 PM
using Microsoft Office VBA you can get control of a lot of stuff in Windows, including scanners, other parts of Office and all sorts of things that provide a COM automation object.
The worst part of it was that the software that was provided with the scanner was so horrible that my frontend was actually a good alternative...
Now I know a bit of Python I can use that to do everything instead, it's much cleaner than using Access
 
I was about to say @Mokubai, I love Python for it's abilities to access other programs and languages :)
 
I suspect that if any real programmer had seen how my scanner actually worked in Access then they would have either run screaming for the hills or had to kill me for "community service"
 
off course not, you used the tools available to get the job done
 
@Mokubai I don't think so
I hate that "real programmer" word.
@Mokubai see, you used the tools available at your disposable to make something crap usable. You should be lauded for that.
at the end of the day, no one gives a rat's ass about which programming language was used, as long as it serves the purpose well
 
:)
I'm much happier with it in Python, though the portability to machines without Python installed kinda sucks.
 
2:02 PM
@Mokubai I know, becomes really irritating when you're at work w/no privs to download something
 
@Mokubai for this end I carry a copy of the Win32 python interpreter around on my USB stick
 
can't you wrap it in some way @Mokubai?
actually I have to look into that as well
 
It's not so much that as Python lacks a native way to "compile" your stuff into a standalone file...
 
have you ever looked at py2exe? it's supposed to help get around that issue (note: I've never tried it, nor looked at it in depth)
 
@IvoFlipse the best I've found so far is PyInstaller, it's the "least worst" way of getting a standalone executable, though it does have some issues.
@DMA57361 py2exe hated my program with a vengeance, not sure why
 
2:04 PM
lol, fair enough
 
kept getting a lot of "WTF is this?!?!?" type errors ;)
 
I was considering buying a license for Enthought, I believe they have a solution for that as well (plus nice libraries)
 
I'll have to have a look at that, I've got the Python(x,y) distribution at the moment
 
right, dev & patch branches merged, I'm off for the day
 
so do I :)
omg the trains in Holland have a hotspot where they switch https pages to http without letting the users know
so much for security...
 
2:16 PM
Nice...
Have fun @Sathya
 
catchya all later @Mokubai @IvoFlipse
 
bye @Sathya
 
today's email from adminstrative office
As a part of Administration Solutions ongoing  activity to achieve employee delight,  we shall be installing snack and soft drinks vending machine across our offices at all locations. These machines will be installed and become functional February 01st  2011.

**However for Chennai office, the machine shall be installed sometime around April 2011**, as the service provider does not have a presence in Chennai, but shall be starting operations in Chennai within a couple of months.

These machines will be located in the canteen/pantry at each office.   They will serve varieties of snacks, cook
oh the joy!
 
w00t!
I should talk to my boss
I want some too
 
@Sathya will they spit the stuff out for free?
or does it state that in the full text?
 
2:26 PM
"fully automated and currency-based machines" - as opposed to those that make you pay in blood or tears?
 
funny, I thought they already paid him each month for all his blood and tears
 
2:53 PM
Anyone here know I can recursively search files on my drive and list them full path to any file containing a specific string?
On linux
 
not me :(
 
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Q: Twitter client that can filter and show only tweets that contain specified words?

Twitter QuestionHey, I'm currently using Twhirl because it looks good, clean, can be customized (text size) etc. I really want a Twitter client that can filter out random messages but still show the ones that contain links, so for example I would like to filter to only show tweets containing http:// Does anyo...

should this be migrated, or is it because it is a client, it should stay on superuser?
 
it can stay as far as I'm concerned
 
k, thanks :)
 
@oshirowanen I recommend asking it on SU itself, I fear that chat isn't occupied enough to have someone around who knows the answer right now
 
3:01 PM
@oshirowanen find -iname / <blargh> should do it
@David currency-based machines --> Nope
 
o that sucks @Sathya in a way. A free vending machine would be awesome. A vending machine is cool too! :)
 
@David we do have vending machine for coffee & tea which is.. free
for now.
 
cool
We have a keurig with a lot of K-cups. We also get soda stocked in a refrigerator.
 
@David nice
 
We did get free snacks, but the new CEO wants to do away with it...
o yeah... @Sathya I'm cheap, so sometimes, if they have coke-cola in the frig, I will not get a drink for lunch (maybe just water) and come back and drink a coke.
I don't normally drink that much during lunch anyways.
I inhale my food, then drink later :D
 
3:11 PM
eheh
when I was in US, we had a vending machine which would spit out soda cans for $0.25
 
WOW!
That's just as awesome as free!
 
needless to say, I would pay a daily visit to it
@David yep!
 
 
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4:32 PM
I hate it when people say RAMs (they are trying to say a plural version of RAM)
The plural version of RAM is RAM the singular version of RAM is RAM...
Don't say RAMs!
unless you are talking about an NFL team
 
4:52 PM
I needz ze RAMs now @David
 
:D
 
 
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6:35 PM
I didn't want to add a duplicate answer in the first place, but it turned out better than expected. ._.
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A: How do I install the Windows 7 boot loader?

Randolph PotterLet's try automatic installation and if that doesn't work there is also a manual installation method; you may have problems with drive letter allocations after this, but that's not too bad to deal with. Boot from the Windows 7 Installation Medium. Click on Repair your computer or press ALT+R...

 
So you made him (the answerer) look really good?
What a good samaritan...
 
Well, he can go and edit one of my posts in return.
 
:)
 
Linked to that question in How do I troubleshoot problems that occur during boot? as it's community-faq-worthy but shouldn't be community-wiki.
Oh, a link in the answer does also link both questions, nice.
 
nice work @TomWij:)
 
6:44 PM
There should be reputation in some way for improving things rather than answering yourself, I'm too often doing reputation-less things. :D
 
why do you think my rep has only gone up 3k in one year @TomWij
 
someone should recommend that... Then, people should be able to up-vote the editor for doing a good job to promote good editing.
 
they are planning on doing something like that
but I think they're planning to put a rep cap on it
probably to stop people from 'hijacking' posts just for the additional rep
I think it's a slippery slope though
 
@TomWij you should go and edit this one:
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Q: symbol appear in index

user575462hello all... i need hlp... hw cn i set de symbol to appear in the secnd or thrd index in textbox while i`m type in the frst index is 1 or etc .. eg : in indx 0 is 1 ,i want the scnd indx will appear @ or any smybol ... tq :)

 
btw @Wil you should accept a quest in WeRule, will let you level up faster
and install Restaurant/Bakery Story @Wil,I need to expand
 
6:50 PM
oh and then there's this:
 
Wil
@IvoFlipse I just did and ordered something from you... tbh, I am doing it as it doesn't take up that much time - but it really isn't that much fun :S
 
hehe, isn't it fun to have an awesome city of your own? :P
I saw you bought something
 
Wil
starting restaurant story now!
 
just wasn't sure if it was a quest or not
 
Wil
... i can't believe how many people do it, I could make a better game... just wish I had the time
 
6:55 PM
@Wil @IvoFlipse what is this "WeRule"
 
Wil
right, ive signed up to storm8... what's your id? It's asking me for my friends id...
 
It's an ipad game @KronoS
 
Wil
its a game on ipad... ngmoco.com/we-rule
 
in what game @Wil, I don't think it's a global number
 
apparently iPod touch has it too
 
6:57 PM
it's an ios game mostly @KronoS
 
Wil
restaurant story, i clicked on social, and it said to sign up to storm 8 to invite friends, I did that, now it says what is my friends ID
... Kronos, if you get it, add us!
 
@Wil Installing right now
 
It's Espilfovi @Wil
 
Wil
added... now its asking me to choose a name for my restaurant :S Wil's restaurant :S
 
What's your ID then?
 
7:00 PM
 
Wil
wilhil
 
lol found this while doing research for the floppy blog post
 
It said: you were already invited by Mcdonalds to be their friend
 
Wil
lol, I called my restaurant Mcdonalds! ... I hope I can change it later! lol
 
@Wil are you wilhil or wilhil64?
 
7:06 PM
I think I can send you crap, should help you getting started
 
Wil
Ahh, thanks, I like french toast!
 
don't built too many tables, because else they'll eat your food faster than you can make it :P
 
Wil
These games are so... boring... as gamers, there must be something better that can be made!
don't get me wrong, I can see it passing the time, but it just isn't really "fun"
 
it's exactly what you say: something to pass the time
 
@KronoS If I would have 500 more reputation, I would correct it and vote to reopen. :D
Saw that in:
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Q: How can I make McDonald's type French Fries

MovieYodaI have eaten french fries from most popular fast food joints. McDonald's has been the best by far. Crisp & crunchy on the outside yet moist inside, still maintaining the potato taste. Also it does not go soggy after taking it out of the deep-frier. I have tried my best to recreate what they...

 
7:12 PM
oeh Johnny Lee (johnnylee.net/projects/wii) joins Google
 
this game reminds me of sim farm
 
Wil
lol
 
so... what can i do in your little kingdoms?
Holy CRAP @IvoFlipse you got a lot of stuff!
 
Wil
order stuff... but not sure why/what the benefit actually is for doing that.... and it takes so long when you switch to other players, it is annoying tbh!
 
you should accept quests and order stuff
I also have City Story or something like that and Farm Story
I bought the Empire State Building
which was freaking expensive, that's the fun part :P
 
7:18 PM
I'm so lost... lol... I'm going to lunch now.. talk to you all in just a bit
 
buying the most expensive stuff and laugh at all the girls ;P
smakelijk @KronoS
> As with past Intel platforms, there's not a massive amount of real world performance to be had from running the memory at super high speeds, so my advice, for the best balance between performance is to grab yourself a mid range 1600MHz kit with moderately tight timings, (ask on the forums for details) this should offer good flexibility when overclocking.
> Don't worry if you already have your memory, or can't afford a higher specced kit, the great thing about Sandy Bridge, is that you can set the memory and forget it, so even slower kits will work just fine. All you need to make sure, is that the modules are rated for 1.65v or less***.
great news
then I know what to buy :D
 
7:44 PM
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A: How do I troubleshoot problems that occur during boot?

MoabSometimes a simple chkdsk /r will restore the system to a bootable state when you get errors like "file missing" or "corrupt" messages before Windows loads. chkdsk /r (scan and fix files system errors and do a surface scan to locate/repair/replace any bad sectors.) chkdsk /f (scan for file syst...

That answer looks like it's just copied from another site without any effort to format it properly... :-(
 
I'm sure he'll fix it
 
8:02 PM
I need to get myself a Trenta asap!
 
wow
 
Ya no you never see trolling on SU
I wonder why...
 
because I kill it dead @David
I make it evaporate like boiling water in the cold
 
Wow...
Thats a cool video
Do you know that person @IvoFlipse
 
know who? the chick from the video?
 
8:08 PM
yeah
 
nope, why?
I just stumble across stuff online
 
I was just going to tell you to tell them that it was a cool video.
 
I can't believe there isn't a generic smartphone StackExchange site, but there are Android and iPhone ones. Where am I supposed to go with my maemo question?
 
SE
jk
LOL
 
they killed gadgets.SE, even though it was doing better than some other SE sites
 
8:10 PM
I wonder why...
 
kidding off course @oKtosiTe, but I don't expect them to make one as Jeff's a firm believer of communities
 
@IvoFlipse It does sound a bit broad.
 
LOL... I thought you said Jeff is a firm believer of communism the first time I read through that statement @IvoFlipse...
 
We need a WP7 site, but we don't have enough consumer users yet.
 
what's going on here :P
 
8:12 PM
everything...
 
@badp: discussing SE sites for smartphones
 
and @IvoFlipse killing trolls dead like evaporating water...
 
do you have a WP7 @studiohack?
perhaps WP7 would fall under a Microsoft brand site
 
@IvoFlipse: I sure wish I did! don't need a phone yet, but it's my first (and only) choice
we could create a Microsoft branded site, but then how would we deal with WIndows questions, as opposed to Server for ServerFault and Windows 7 for SuperUser?
 
we would be screwed...
 
8:16 PM
@David: what are you referring to?
 
Having a windows SE site
 
it's really simple @studiohack, if a question 'feels' at home at that site, it get's to stay
 
People would have to migrate so many questions
and teach so many people of the new site, it would be crazy
 
the larger the network becomes, the more overlap there will come around the edges of each site
it works for Apple @David
 
O yeah
I forgot about the Apple SE site
good point @IvoFlipse
 
8:17 PM
@IvoFlipse: yes, Apple worked. and being a veteran user of SE, I have noticed some overlap...
 
Super User would be hollowed out, perhaps they would simply migrate a lot of the content to other sites and refocus SU
 
To what, non-server linux?
 
that would be crazy. we have ubuntu.SE
 
if you ask me, it's all about communities, you clearly don't have the same questions as your mother, should you be asked questions on the same site too?
 
If this happens, the search engine needs to search through multiple SE sites to improve the accessibility.
 
8:21 PM
It would be very interesting to see a Microsoft branded SE, because they have a broader market (or a bigger one) than Apple...
 
really the top level domains are just a way of clustering questions with similar topics, that's all
 
It would involve Windows, Zune, XBox & Kinect, WP7, and any other MS technologies
 
I still hope that one day we'll get more basic Windows and Office questions
check how many questions there are for those topics, it's insane
 
@IvoFlipse: questions you get for those? what do you mean?
 
there was a question on social.technet that had like 450k views
 
8:24 PM
wow... I wish one of my questions had that many views...
 
that would be a lot of views. and badges! :P
 
yeah :D That would be the Scheiße @studiohack
 
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