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Journeyman Geek

12:30 AM

hm

superuser.com/questions/484403/… software rec? cause otherwise I don't see why it needs to be closed.

Simon Sheehan

1:54 AM

Any computer building experts home? @JourneymanGeek perhaps?

problem solved!

avirk

@Boris_yo nah it is the latest one from Will Smith imdb.com/title/tt1409024

@Boris_yo Custodian awarded for complete a review task and its for on one per review completion :P

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Q: How does localhost 127.0.0.1 work?

I found some articles related to this, but they were not sufficient for me. I want to know how the localhost works and why is it the same on many different machines? How does the localhost block the access to the website when we use it in the host file to block the website?

My one more question reach on 2.5k view :P

One more silver badge :)

Journeyman Geek

3:37 AM

@SimonSheehan: was afk ;p

jokerdino

3:51 AM

yay 5 upvotes in Server Fault now.

Sathya

5:35 AM

this happened to my iPhone. Same what happened to @williamhilsum post.sathyabh.at/ok-iphone-battery-swelled-up-to-such-an-exten

jokerdino

woah

the last time i saw a phone battery swelling was in nokia 1100

Sathya

it's still expanding, fwiw

jokerdino

jeebus

will be right back

Journeyman Geek

5:59 AM

ow

Under warranty I hope? @sathya?

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek nope, close to 3 years old now

Journeyman Geek

Time for a new phone I guess? ;p

Sathya

6:18 AM

@JourneymanGeek it's my backup phone.. I use a S2 as my main one

Journeyman Geek

AHH

ahh

Well, ex backup phone ;p

Sathya

lol

jokerdino

7:23 AM

mail.yahoo.com

jokerdino

8:23 AM

what the hell, thank goodness i didn't type the password here as well.

William Hilsum

@Sathya It wouldn't surprise me if it is a factory default... they "recalled" mine, never let me know the outcome :/

Bob

@jokerdino lol

you actually type the whole address?

no history autocomplete? :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

or bookmarks

jokerdino

i had firefox and chromium open. i thought i was typing in chromium.

and i reinstalled ubuntu, so no bookmarks or anything yet.

i guess it was the window focus thingie that i didn't notice

Journeyman Geek

9:21 AM

ugh

Do we have an age limit on SE?

jokerdino

13 i think

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: If you're around, could you take a peek in the ask a mod room, please?

Sathya

9:36 AM

@WilliamHilsum did you get a replacement or something

Nifle

@Sathya - We have an underage user here superuser.com/questions/484496/…

Sathya

@Nifle yes @JourneymanGeek brought to my attention in ask a super user Mod room

Nifle

Yeah I saw that just after I posted

jokerdino

How'd you guys figure that?

oh oops. Saw the comments.

Sathya

bah can't search mod messages

Journeyman Geek

9:42 AM

lol

@jokerdino psychic powers from being a high rep user ;p

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek :P i saw where he just admitted ;p

Sathya

bah i hate doing this

Journeyman Geek

Ya :/

William Hilsum

@Sathya They promised me a 4s, but, I am still waiting

Sathya

welp, there it goes. cc @jou @Nifle

@WilliamHilsum heh. Well I don't know what'll happen in my case

William Hilsum

9:56 AM

@Sathya Please keep me updated... I kicked up a fuss via email =- Apple Care are the people to contact... not retail. Apple Care promised me a 4s, but, the person I was dealing with left and it was forwarded to someone else, then he left and it went in to limbo... been trying to get it chased, but, been a nightmare

Sathya

@WilliamHilsum thing is Apple's officially not in India

rather, the iPhone

the 3gs was sold via carrier, plus this is a second hand piece that I ahve

William Hilsum

ahh

:/ not sure what you can do

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: quite honestly. I'd dump the phone somewhere outside blast radius ;p

(lithium ion batteries have been known to catch fire)

Sathya

yes friend of mine's prepped me with instructions

(he's a safety inspector/auditor)

@SathyaBhat Take that phone away from any source of heat & store it at a safe distance. It can cause MAJOR damage if it explodes

Tweeted by ashwinsid on October 7, 2012 at 5:05 AM in reply to SathyaBhat

jokerdino

@Sathya isn't that smartguy talking about that other java question?

Sathya

10:02 AM

@jokerdino say what?

jokerdino

let me look it up. one sec

Sathya

@jokerdino he's not a programmer. Nowhere close. Not a techie either

jokerdino

ok it was some other guy.

Jul 2 at 6:17, by Sathya

@HackToHell I know him in RL. For a "security" consultant, he's full of shit.

security and safety :|

got confused. my bad

Sathya

@jokerdino that's another person

jokerdino

Yeah. just realized.

Journeyman Geek

10:06 AM

hmm

superuser.com/questions/132742/… <- I have another answer for this, though on hindsight... OT?

Sathya

yeah it is

post your answer, vtc

Einsteins Grandson

hey guys

anybody here?

i need to reinstall ms office 2007

but need to store all my sent and received emails

how can i do that_

?

and then after i install a new one

i will put all the sent and received emails back to Outlook

Sathya

find the pst file, move it else, uninstall, reinstall, reimport the PST file

Journeyman Geek

@EinsteinsGrandson: just backup all your pst files I guess?

Einsteins Grandson

great, thank you!

Journeyman Geek

10:11 AM

@Sathya: can haz mod-close? ;p

Sathya

ask and ye shall get

Journeyman Geek

XD

sniffles

Funny I remembered that question after 2 years ;p

And its scary that i've been using droid sans mono that long

Sathya

:)

time for a quick nap

back later

Journeyman Geek

(though, adobe's new coding font is probably THE best dyslexic font i've seen)

and unlike read regular, its actually available

Einsteins Grandson

bug maybe i would not have to reinstall the whole office

but...

i have it in egnglish

but want to have it in different language

is there a way to do that

for example downloading the language pack for the whole offie?

office

that would be 10 times quicker

i suppose

soandos

10:34 AM

@EinsteinsGrandson get a language pack for office?

office.microsoft.com/en-us/language-packs

Einsteins Grandson

11:12 AM

ok thank you

Bob

11:45 AM

@JourneymanGeek If by catch fire, you mean go up in a burst of flames...

Journeyman Geek

how is that NOT catching fire?

Bob

Well, it's at least an order of magnitude worse than simply 'catching fire' :P

Rather large amount of highly flammable gasses + source of ignition (lithium oxidising) = boom

well, more or less :\

Gah... it's still early Sunday morning in Canada.

One more day...

Journeyman Geek

2:42 PM

@Bob: Catching fire. WITH STYLE.

Bob

:\

slhck

3:01 PM

Man, Sundays are so boring

Yup.

Right.

lol

How many misspelled Ubuntu would I bother fixing? :|

slhck

haha, but everyone's lurking

Journeyman Geek

3:02 PM

I submitted an assignment with half an hour to spare , and a malfunctioning uploader ;p

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek Yay!

slhck

@jokerdino How many misspelled "mispelled" would you bother fixing? :P

jokerdino

@slhck I think they got to me!

Bob

@jokerdino Isn't it Ubunuto?

slhck

But seriously, how do you misspell Ubuntu?

jokerdino

3:03 PM

@Bob It's ubunut.

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: too may ways to count

jokerdino

1 and 2

i fixed the rest of the misspellings. just these two remaining ;p

slhck

Ubunto Ubunut Ubunutu Ubunu Ubntu Ubutnu Uuntu Unbuntu Ubunty Ubunt Ubintu Ubutu Ubantu Ubbuntu Ubnuntu Ubnuto Ubnutu Ububntu Ububtu Ubuhntu Ubuhtu Ubunbtu Ubunti Ubuntuu

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hilarious

jokerdino

i have the full list in my user profile ;)

about 8 links.

slhck

@jokerdino They should just fix those automatically with a db query :P

jokerdino

3:04 PM

i wish they did :(

but what's the fun in that? :D

slhck

(where's the rep in that?)

but with 12k not so much

jokerdino

I don't get any rep in AU :|

slhck

dude, you have 12k on AU? didn't know… sick

Bob

Now I have to decide between Debian and Ubuntu Server... :\

Coin flipping time!

jokerdino

@slhck I just need about 8k more :D

slhck

3:06 PM

@Bob I'd pick Ubuntu if only for the availability of tutorials.

Bob

@slhck For a headless server? They should be more or less the same...

jokerdino

Debian releases once every two years.

So, I think you are good with Ubuntu LTS.

Bob

Let me correct that. Debian 6/Ubuntu Server 11.04 (not LTS)

yay.

jokerdino

You are getting a VPS right?

Pick Ubuntu, really.

Bob

I really don't see the difference, apart from branding :\

jokerdino

3:07 PM

You get free support in Ask Ubuntu!

@Bob You get advertisements right from the shell.

Bob

@jokerdino You know, that's actually a very good point :P

jokerdino

Like this.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Ubuntu has newer packages

somewhat

Bob

Bah, packages.

jokerdino

@Bob aye, I can put a bounty if you need urgent help or something.

Journeyman Geek

3:09 PM

lol

and PPAs!

jokerdino

PPAs ftw

Journeyman Geek

Even if everyone loves to hate on em

Bob

As a Windows user, I wouldn't really mind uploading a .deb and installing from there :P

jokerdino

but PPAs let you manage the dependency easily

Journeyman Geek

ya

and have packages that arn't quite in the mainline

Bob

3:11 PM

@jokerdino ...seriously?

jokerdino

@Bob ok it is just a joke.

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek fixed my problem last night, we forgot to plug in the EATX cable ;)

Journeyman Geek

lol

the 4 pin?

jokerdino

nice lol

Journeyman Geek

lol

Simon Sheehan

3:13 PM

@JourneymanGeek 8 pin I think.

Bob

Oh yea, whatever happened to that guy who fried his HDD circuit board?

@Bob: underaged user

poor sob.

Pity..

I like how someone used the very same words I used in a comment as an answer ;p

Simon Sheehan

3:15 PM

@JourneymanGeek we had no idea there was a second cord for supplementing power to the CPU... so we kept insta-failing POST.

Journeyman Geek

@SimonSheehan: lol

that happens to everyone

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek oh yeah. Plus it didn't say anywhere in the instructions

All it said was to do the 24 Pin one to the mobo.

Journeyman Geek

XD

Its happened to me, once, and another guy building a system

its the scariest, non risky thing that can happen

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Well, not the people who plug any available cord where it looks like it fits. Those people tend to see a lot of magic smoke...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Simon Sheehan

3:18 PM

@JourneymanGeek Well there's some great red lights on the motherboard, and it halted on the "CPU" light. My first thought was "great, we managed to kill the CPU already"

But once we got the power in on that, it passed POST.

fancy EUFI bios came up too

William Hilsum

@Sathya Apple ensured me that was impossible... the swelling is to stop it from happening... but, I am not sure how much to trust them after my ordeal!

Bob

@WilliamHilsum The swelling is the expandable pockets filling with flammable gas. It's fine as long as the pockets don't burst...

Journeyman Geek

For some reason when I hear impossible...

Bob

3:56 PM

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