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I have a server, running Fedora 12 with Amahi Home Server running on it... It has the option to allow me to use Amahi as my DHCP and DNS server which gives me some benefits inside my LAN. See this FAQ question: Does Amahi require to be running as a DHCP server? Why would I want to do tha...

Mark Szymanski

Hey, @studiohack. What do you think of this answer of mine?

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A: Can I run a single Mac application inside a virtual machine?

You can't. You simply cannot run just a Mac app in a VM without installing OS X. Installing OSX in a VM is also against the Mac OS X Software License Agreement where it is stated: "you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a...

(Looking for constructive criticism)

Heh, migrated already @studiohack :P

studiohack

looks good @MarkSzymanski, I wouldn't edit it if I saw it :P

Mark Szymanski

Heh, thanks @studiohack.

studiohack

wow? okay? did not know that was off-topic :P

Mark Szymanski

2:01 AM

Yeah, it seems like an SF question to me @studiohack.

Hey, I just remembered.

Didn't there used to be a SE site for San Francisco stuff?

studiohack

dunno @MarkSzymanski

Mark Szymanski

And there used to be Doctype, for web design, right?

Doctype is still up: doctype.com

As is the San Francisco one! sfanswers.com

studiohack

interesting @MarkSzymanski

The Journeyman geek

2:20 AM

doctype isn't 'official' SO tho, right?

Mark Szymanski

@TheJourneymangeek: I think it used to be, a long while back it was in the SO footer.

The Journeyman geek

/me was under the impresion they were just run by people who knew each other

Mark Szymanski

3:26 AM

Goodnight everyone.

KronoS

3:39 AM

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Q: How do I create custom axis' in excel?

I'm creating a "histogram" and need the values of "frequency" to be displayed in ascending or descending which means that I need custom values for the x-axis. Instead of having: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I need to have this be values of cells: 85 93 45 43 67 89 43 Is there anyway of doing this?

graphs excel-2010 axis

Any help would be appreciated

nhinkle

anyone else having issues loading SU?

i can get to chat, but not to su, so, or any other se site

> This webpage is not available
The webpage at http://superuser.com/users/20088/nhinkle might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.

KronoS

@nhinkle nope no probs

nhinkle

now it's working again

please check out the vote-to-close room, people

studiohack

took care of VTC

nhinkle

thanks @studiohack

studiohack

3:46 AM

np @nhinkle how are ya?

np @nhinkle, I understand

nhinkle

how 'bout you @studiohack?

yup yup

studiohack

how's that going? I'm sure it is nice :)

blarg @nhinkle

yah

:P @nhinkle

lol, this reminds me of your comment in the recycle bin room, after that conversation between me and BloodPhilia

nhinkle

yah what was all that about?

studiohack

ah, glad we have something in common ;)

did you see my reply to you in that room?

nhinkle

yeah. i wasn't sure if that was the truth or not though

studiohack

4:00 AM

it was, @nhinkle

nhinkle

i figured you wouldn't delete a bunch of stuff just for being slightly off-topic...

studiohack

no, it was just a conversational thread, and i figured it was easiest to just delete the whole thing

pretty easy as a mod

nhinkle

@studiohack well aren't you special :P

studiohack

gotta go! have a good night @nhinkle and enjoy the rest of your you-know-what! :P

you know I'm kidding ;)

nhinkle

haha i do

goodnight! talk to you soon

nhinkle

5:03 AM

@KronoS are you there?

studiohack

he was seen 37s ago, @nhinkle

nhinkle

hmm

(thought you went to bed, @studiohack :P )

studiohack

actually dinner @nhinkle, it was a late one :P

but I should be in bed as well lol

nhinkle

haha

studiohack

thanks for your support on that meta answer ;)

nhinkle

5:07 AM

no problem, @studiohack :)

what?

The Journeyman geek

lol

KronoS

oh sorry @nhinkle I am now lol

studiohack

hey @KronoS

KronoS

hey @studiohack

nhinkle

hey so i'm looking at your excel problem

and am slightly confused about what you're trying to do

do you want 85 93 45 43 67 89 43 to be the values on the x-axis?

studiohack

5:11 AM

as I said earlier, sorry to hear about your internship being turned down @KronoS :(

KronoS

in essensce yes @nhinkle I want a group of cells to be the values of the x-axis that aren't in order

nhinkle

like that?

KronoS

@studiohack thanks man... still lookin for something else.. who knows maybe I'll even be workin for @IvoFlipse's R&D department lol :P

@nhinkle That's EXACTLY what I'm looking for!

nhinkle

answer coming your way then :)

i just wasn't sure from the wording if that's what you wanted

stay tuned!

studiohack

@KronoS I was hoping you would get the job, so I could brag that I knew someone at Microsoft :P j/k

nhinkle

5:13 AM

(i made up some values for the plot, mind you)

KronoS

@nhinkle sorry I'm a little under the weather and therefore not very willing to ask good questions

studiohack

and you would move to the netherlands to work for @Ivo? lol

nhinkle

no worries

KronoS

@studiohack I was hoping to get the job for some good blog post and awesome free goodies!

nhinkle

my condolences regarding the MS internship :(

KronoS

5:14 AM

@studiohack no it'd be a telecommute

@nhinkle thanks man... can't win them all though

nhinkle

indeed

i'll start hearing back about internships soon

we'll see what happens

KronoS

best of luck to ya @nhinkle I've still got quite a few others that I'm waiting to hear back from

nhinkle

best of luck to you as well

*goes to write answer for @KronoS's question*

studiohack

@KronoS goodies? I'm jealous! and the best of luck to your other opportunities as well

KronoS

@studiohack ya one year they gave xboxes to all the interns... also had a BBQ at Bill gates house

studiohack

5:17 AM

@KronoS yikes! wow lucky

KronoS

Ya I don't know if they do the whole BBQ thing anymore though

studiohack

whooooopps! just deleted a 'first question' in the /review tab, I thought I was in the late answers tab... yikes

whew! fixed

nhinkle

can you undo that?

evidently. good :)

The Journeyman geek

lol. no way to roll it back?

studiohack

yeah, I went to the recently deleted page...

then undeleted

KronoS

5:20 AM

rolls his eyes @studiohack and his new MOD tools :P

studiohack

/me rolls his eyes @KronoS and his lack of power ;P

KronoS

Touche :(

The Journeyman geek

lol

4000 more rep to go XD

/me thinks he'll have vaguely godlike powers in a year

nhinkle

i'm getting closer... only ~1400 it looks like

studiohack

I'm shocked at how I worked on SU without mod tools

nhinkle

5:21 AM

at ~960 this month, i could probably do that in a couple months

i do wish there were a way for mods to appoint useful people to have access to some mod tools earlier

4

The Journeyman geek

i'm quite slow :(

/me is suprised i'm in the top 2% of posters

nhinkle

since it would just make everyone's life earlier

studiohack

@KronoS, btw I'm curious where your user name comes from? since your name isn't Krono ;) (that is, if you want to share and don't mind my asking)

I was thinking about that the other day @nhinkle, how that would be really helpful to us mods

KronoS

@studiohack really wanna know?

The Journeyman geek

blah, there's a question i USED to know the answer to ;p

nhinkle

5:25 AM

eh?

KronoS

@studiohack name the movie the pic comes from :P

nhinkle

dangit i'm having a hell of a time taking a pretty screenshot of all of excel when there's a dialog open in excel and the pretty-screenshot-taker wants to just capture that dialog

studiohack

some super man movie @KronoS lol

KronoS

close @studiohack

studiohack

what does Kronos mean though, @KronoS?

The Journeyman geek

5:26 AM

hmm

studiohack

did you just like the word?

The Journeyman geek

one of the Xmen movies?

KronoS

Cronus

In Greek mythology, Cronus or Kronos (Ancient Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos) was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, divine descendants of Gaia, the earth, and Uranus, the sky. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own sons, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon, and imprisoned in Tartarus. Cronus was usually depicted with a sickle or scythe, which was also the weapon he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was he...

It's a greek mythological god

studiohack

wow, now I'm really quaking in my mod powers @KronoS ;P

KronoS

Kronos (computer)

Kronos is a 32-bit workstation of a proprietary architecture developed in the mid-1980s in Akademgorodok, a research center of the Russian Academy of Science near Novosibirsk. Instruction set design was based on Niklaus Wirth's Modula-2 workstation Lilith, developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, which in turn was inspired by the legendary Alto (computer) developed at Xerox PARC. The Kronos Research Group (KRG) was founded in 1984 by four students of the Novosibirsk State University, two from the Mathematical Department: Dmitry "Leo" Kuznetsov, Alex Nedoria, and two from ...

but this is the reason why it was used in the movie

studiohack

5:28 AM

I like, @KronoS, you have multiple meanings behind your username

KronoS

:) Yep... but the reason why I selected it was I liked it...

it's from the movie Incredibles

studiohack

ahhhh! nice - never seen the movie though @KronoS

KronoS

I like it (obviously) and recommend it

studiohack

name a movie, and I probably haven't seen it :P

KronoS

@studiohack you not a big movie watcher?

studiohack

5:31 AM

I've seen a few, just not many of the big blockbusters (especially the recent ones) @KronoS

KronoS

Well I haven't watched many blockbusters mainly becuase they suck

studiohack

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Q: 6 simple tips to get Stack Overflow reputation fast

From "6 Simple Tips to Get Stackoverflow Reputation Fast": Be the First to Answer. Even at the cost of quality. Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically Use obnoxious in-your-face formatting and lists. Be Aware of the 200 rep/day Limit Edit, But Don’t Edit Too Much Associate your other accounts...

discussion reputation article strategy

@KronoS yes, they suck for a lot of reasons, language, sex, and violence...too much

The Journeyman geek

@studiohack: the second set makes more sense

tho, i do try to get the first answer, if only to avoid being sniped ;p

studiohack

you forgot the @ sign @TheJourneymangeek

nhinkle

there's your answer @KronoS

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A: How do I create custom axis' in excel?

Lay out your data in the following format: Category Frequency 85 3 93 6 45 12 43 20 67 13 89 5 43 2 Start by inserting a new blank chat. Do not select any data. I would suggest using a column chart for this. J...

studiohack

5:34 AM

and yes lol, I agree

nhinkle

(i swear i could post twice as many answers if i spent less time taking screenshots. but i can't help myself!)

The Journeyman geek

did i?
@nhinkle : you can always edit later ;p

studiohack

@nhinkle will up vote in 18 hours :)

good night all!

The Journeyman geek

night

studiohack

@nhinkle, @KronoS, @TheJourneymangeek

nhinkle

5:36 AM

'night @studiohack, for real this time!

studiohack

its for real this time @nhinkle :)

Sathya

5:56 AM

morning folks

nhinkle

hi @Sathya

Sathya

how goes things @nhinkle

nhinkle

pretty good

Sathya

good to hear

I need a random name & address generator :\

nhinkle

(internet sucks where i am at the moment, so apologies for delayed responses)

Sathya

6:05 AM

where are you @nhinkle ?

nhinkle

@Sathya fakenamegenerator.com

hm i remember using one where you could literally download a csv with as many fake addresses as you wanted

i'll try to find it

oh there we go

Sathya

fantastic, just what I wanted. thanks @nhinkle

nhinkle

fakenamegenerator.com/order.php

everything you could ever need

you should post that as a question on webapps. then i can go answer it :P

Sathya

I will

nhinkle

:D

Sathya

6:08 AM

I can't thank you enough. Why didn't I ask this before :\

nhinkle

no idea :P

what're you using it for?

Sathya

aw crap, webapps isn't associated with MyOpenid

my job @nhinkle you remember I develop on an insurance software

nhinkle

ah, right

that would make sense

i hear you just changed jobs, right?

Sathya

I need to test out the things I work on, which means issuing policies and claims. And I'm tired of typing in names such as

Mr. dlsfkjglzgdfjkgjkl dfjklghf the III

nhinkle

LOL

yep

i was working on a simple webapp for organizing contact info for members of a sports team

Sathya

6:11 AM

I've resigned, on the last month of my notice period

nhinkle

that's when i decided to go find something like this

Sathya

will be joining the new company on Apr 25

nhinkle

because "John Doe 3", "John Doe 4" living at "1234 S BLAH street" and "12345 S BlahBLah street" gets annoying

Sathya

yeah

I used to create characters from video games lore

sadly there are very few named characters and almost none of them come to my mind when doing the entry

nhinkle

Gordon Freeman
PO Box 5033
Black Mesa Complex

bah, i can never get blockquotes to work in chat

Sathya

6:14 AM

me neither :\

right associated MyOpenID on my cell, composing question now

nhinkle

:D

Sathya

ugh, I can't think of tags ;\

go for it @nhinkle

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Q: Website for generating random names and addresses

Is there a website which can generate random (fake) names & addresses ? If it can also provide random fake Credit Cards, SSN that would be great, as is the capability to generate a whole set of data which I can download in various formats

website contact-address

The Journeyman geek

lol

i know one ... one moment

@Sathya : fakenamegenerator.com

nhinkle

answered :)

The Journeyman geek

lol. sniped! ;p

nhinkle

6:28 AM

hahaha @TheJourneymangeek, we've been over this a few minutes ago :)

he posted the question specifically so i could answer it ^_^

The Journeyman geek

XD

amusing thing is i have rep on that site, without ever posting

nhinkle

how? migrations?

Sathya

@nhinkle seems so

The Journeyman geek

ya

amusingly i answered THEN voted to move. which was sneaky ._.

Sathya

well I do it often @TheJourneymangeek

and thanks for the link @TheJourneymangeek though @nhinkle beat you to it :P

The Journeyman geek

6:32 AM

lol

nhinkle

:D

The Journeyman geek

yeah. first answer and all XD.

nhinkle

i have decided to take it upon myself to solve this problem:

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Q: Question and preview might be better side-by-side

Every time I post a question of sufficient length, I need to scroll down past the editor in order to see my question's preview. It might be more effective if the question and preview were side-by-side so you could see both at the same time. When you can't see both at the same time, it almost defe...

feature-request preview

The Journeyman geek

ooh

nhinkle

(wrong link, oops)

Sathya

6:36 AM

I'll leave the question open for another 24 hours to see if I'll get more answers @nhinkle

nhinkle

sure thing @Sathya

i'd love to see what other options are out there :)

Sathya

indeed @nhinkle

they offer an API too @nhinkle fakenamegenerator.com/api.php

nhinkle

sweet

that would be really useful for large-scale stuff

KronoS

@Google This is another reason why I'm not always happy with your services... http://twitpic.com/4ccoqj

Tweeted by SuperKronos on March 23, 2011 at 6:50 AM

Sathya

6:53 AM

aha, API is not free

DMA57361

8:15 AM

morning all

Matt Jenkins

8:55 AM

mornin DMA

Ivo Flipse

9:08 AM

hello random reboot/crashes!

Sathya

@TheJourneymangeek I assume you're talking about Vote to Close, not tags. If I'm wrong, do rollback my edit.

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Q: Suggestion for new Vote to Close Reason: Shopping recommendation

Now, a good number of questions I get around to closing are obvious shopping questions, and tend to be closed off topic when I do. Considering shopping questions are a definite no-no, could we have 'shopping question' as a reason for vote to close? This (hopefully) would make it a little more o...

feature-request close-reasons vote-to-close

morning @IvoFlipse @MattJenkins & @DMA57361

DMA57361

@IvoFlipse having problems again?

Ivo Flipse

hellow

still, I'm 100% sure my headphone drivers are f-ed (unless it's the thing itself which is highly unlikely), never buy a usb headset if you don't have to

I think it conflicts with Nvidia's 3D audio drivers for some reason

either way, the dumps pointed at my video card drivers for some reason

so now my computer crashes when I shut down, expect when from Safe Mode

The Journeyman geek

9:35 AM

@Sathya : i think that's what i meant, so no need to rollback ;p

@IvoFlipse: i was under the impession they're standard USB audio devices?

Ivo Flipse

well when I use my headset, it quits halfway through video's

so unless it's flash, the thing simply stops working

Matt Jenkins

9:59 AM

mutters

root@dell:~# ./diskimage /dev/sdd disk1.img
Disk has 976773168 sectors
Block size: 8225280 bytes
Reading cylinder 243 (0.39%)...Out of memory!

Just a little perl script, but it thinks it's running out of memory.

All it does is read a block from disk (8225280 bytes) and write it out to a file

Just like DD, but resumable

It's like it's reading the entire image file into memory (even though it's opened O_WRONLY)

root@dell:~# ulimit -f
unlimited

No limit on file size...

It's in ZFS, so: 16 exabytes (16×10^18 bytes) — Maximum size of a single file

Maybe perl has a 2 gig file size limit?

although I'm using sysopen() not open()

mutters more

Per was compiled with -Duselargefiles according to perl -V

I don't understand what is going on here.

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_ITHREADS
***USE_LARGE_FILES*** USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API

Mokubai

It's like watching a geek-action movie... c'mon @MattJenkins, you can win!

We're rooting for you here!

Matt Jenkins

lol

Mokubai

I was entranced, watching as the story unfolded...

Sathya

10:15 AM

why on earth would anyone convert a date to character and then query by date :| :\

Mokubai

Bwuh?

Matt Jenkins

Well, it looks like this is a common problem (and failing) of perl. I didn't want to have to do this (cus I do some regexp) but looks like I'm going to have to use C.

cries

Mokubai

Is it worth looking at the source for dd to see if you can add resume support?

Matt Jenkins

nah

I could resume with DD, but I want to have other things too. This is for trying to image a drive with bad sectors

I want to copy one cylinder at a time for the good bits, but then any bits that fail I want to copy a sector at a time - recover as much data as I can from the damaged area,

The Journeyman geek

ddrescue? ;p

Matt Jenkins

10:24 AM

didn't see that one when looking in apt...

The Journeyman geek

there should be some varient of it

geek@tamandua:~/vangaax$ apt-cache search ddrescue
ddrescue - copy data from one file or block device to another
gddrescue - the GNU data recovery tool

I see two! ;p

Matt Jenkins

gives it a whirl

nice...

Ok, that's made things a little easier for me ;)

But it still seems to be a bit awkward for resuming. My proggie maintained a bitmap of transferred blocks so it could go back any time and resume, or retry the bad blocks, etc.

But this is tons better than DD

The Journeyman geek

this is meant for that specifically

and it works XD

Matt Jenkins

There is an apt for that

The Journeyman geek

10:39 AM

lol

I've been using a apt varient called apt-fast recently - uses axel to download stuff

seriously shiny

granted, i'm only running ubuntu on my server. I haven't booted into my linux install on the laptop in a while

Sathya

@TheJourneymangeek love apt-fast :)

The Journeyman geek

@Sathya : I'm a fan of axel too ;p.

Matt Jenkins

10:52 AM

Well.. 4% cloned so far...

Just bought myself a stethoscope on ebay

For listening to hard drives. It used to be easy to hear what they were doing when they were big clunky things, but now, with smaller, quieter, faster, hard drives it's hard to tell if they're failing or not, or which one in a computer is actually spinning right

The Journeyman geek

lol

you know, there's a reason for SMART ;p

does miss the old, charecterfully noisy boxen in general tho

Matt Jenkins

When you have 4 drives in a system and one isn't being detected by the BIOS it's nice to be able to listen to that drive and hear that it is spinning up properly. yes, you could disconnect all the other drives, but what if it's the PSU not providing enough power? Could be spinning up ok by itself, but not with other drives...

Plus I can play Doctors and Nurses ;P

30 gig imaged... 470 gig to go...

And i have 3 of these to do :(

The Journeyman geek

11:12 AM

;p

that's the real reason, innit

/me wonders if a contact mic would do as well

Mokubai

11:26 AM

Ahh, the good old days...

"It'll take about 3 hours to clone your drive to a new one @£20/hour"

fires up clonezilla, starts the clone, then plays Quake3 for 3 hours

Matt Jenkins

heh

Now it's "It'll take 3 days to clone your drive at £1,000/day"

Anyway - I cured my FF4 graphical corruption problem

turned off hardware acceleration

The Journeyman geek

lol

hm

Mokubai

God I love the face that modern machines have USB support in the BIOS, means you can clone an internal drive to USB then swap the drives around. Makes single drive lappy cloning easier...

The Journeyman geek

i thought FF4 will have a built in omnibar

Matt Jenkins

50 gig copied...

...zzzZZZzzz...

Mokubai

11:33 AM

Is your graphics card having trouble @MattJenkins? Seems odd that you have to turn off graphics acceleration...

Matt Jenkins

no, graphics card is fine - it's just ff4

and it's only ff4's acceleration I have turned off - not the whole graphics card

I think I know why this hard drive was failing... ouch

straps a fan to the top of it

The Journeyman geek

lol

overheating would point at other problems i suspect

Matt Jenkins

11:57 AM

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Q: Writing limits in SD card?

Hi all I need to update a particular sector in SD card twice in a second. In that case, I would be writing in a particular sector for 86400 times for 12 hours. Will this cause sector to wear out so fast? Jai

sd-card sd

How to toast an SD in one easy move

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