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There was a period in the Software development process when we had 7-8 hours long nightly builds. This was an year ago. I started making changes and today we have builds happening in 2-2.5 hours. The hardware: Intel Xeon E5-2650 2.0 GHz CPU Intel 500GB SSD 64 GB 1666MHz RAM The ...

Journeyman Geek

apt is python based iirc

so, bad move

Bob

well, fail: thedailywtf.com/Articles/War-of-the-Worlds.aspx

Journeyman Geek

10:12 AM

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Q: formatiing issue

I have formatted my hard disk in my friend computer . his configuraion is P4 processor and intel 845 series motherboard.. now i have attache harddisk in my computer, but after attaching my pc is not starting. my computer configuration is p4 processor and mercury pi845gnm mother board.. I am not a...

windows-7 motherboard formatting

yeah, LOTS of formatting issues, and not just on the computer.

Tom Wijsman

Which formatting issues? :angel:

Journeyman Geek

@Bibhas: superuser.com/questions/557231/… reference to this I think

its quite a bad ****up

amusingly, immediately reinstalling python might have fixed it

Tom Wijsman

Uhm... doesn't apt tell you it is a system package or something?

Bob

@HackToHell ... :S

unrealistic requirements, yay!

Tom Wijsman

 * Not unmerging package dev-lang/python-2.7.3-r3 since there is no valid
 * reason for Portage to unmerge currently used Python interpreter.

Bob

10:17 AM

@TomWijsman I'd test, but... yea.

Journeyman Geek

ditto ;p

Bob

WTF

pastebin.com/AhejuQFs

looks like it removes half the packages on my system -_-

HackToHell

@Bob That's a loooooooooooooot

Bob

@HackToHell I think you can skip the first half

HackToHell

10:47 AM

►

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: ALL you need to know is, really, its a BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD idea ;p

Bob

:P

Journeyman Geek

11:02 AM

sigh

superuser.com/questions/tagged/settings

sehe

I need to find a camera for a conference table. The table sits about 14 people. I would like to mount the camera permanently on the wall, so I am thinking a range of clarity for about 20 feet. It will be for video conferencing.

Bob

12:20 PM

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Q: What Firefox UI customisations can be used to improve productivity?

Most desk jobs these days involve the frequent use of a web browser. What Firefox UI customisations increase your productivity and make your working life easier? Not necessarily add-ons (although no reason why not as long as they're UI-related), but I'm thinking more along the lines of toolbar r...

firefox settings user-interface productivity

that entire question...

Journeyman Geek

12:58 PM

lol

Its a tag we 'killed off'

fires a closevote at that question

Bob

1:15 PM

@JourneymanGeek zombie tags?

jokerdino

> DO NOT USE - Removed as part of Super User mid 2012 cleanup - meta.superuser.com/questions/5054/…

lol, i see 360 questions.

Journeyman Geek

pretty much

metaed

jokerdino

> ... its used 36 times [...]

missing an order there

Journeyman Geek

order?

Bob

of magnitude

Journeyman Geek

1:27 PM

I see 65 o0

jokerdino

superuser.com/questions/tagged/…

@JourneymanGeek different tabs?

Journeyman Geek

fixed yet again

as always, the minions responsible have been taken out and shot

3

jokerdino

the minions who kept using the tag, yep.

Journeyman Geek

if only. I mean the ones responsible for the errors ;p

jokerdino

:P

Bob

1:37 PM

hmm.. apparently I will be taught how to Install C at Home soon

joy.

Bob

2:04 PM

huh

found your doppelganger, @Sathya

sathya

1

batch file

Bibhas

2:30 PM

lol

HackToHell

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

4:02 PM

o.O

apparently, ASUS's nickname is SNSV

HackToHell

what ??

Bob

google SNSV laptops :P

(source)

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HackToHell

4:24 PM

wow

Bob

4:45 PM

well now

►

Sathya

4:56 PM

@Bob haha

Hennes

DO NOT FORGET THE SCHEDULED TEMPORAL SHIFT!!!!

Tweeted by DalekThay on March 10, 2013 at 4:16 AM

Sathya

also, what in the world has linux-kernel got to do with PDF?

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Q: Unable to send a PDF as a attachment

This is my script context: DL="abcd@gmail.com" FilePath=CompletePath /usr/bin/uuencode $FilePath/Sample.pdf Sample.pdf | mailx -s "Mail Test" $DL I am receiving the mail but the PDF is coming up as junk data in the mail conext Can any one please help me here

linux-kernel

Bob

@Hennes you scared me for a second there

> Daylight Saving Time begins at 2am on the first Sunday in October, when clocks are put forward one hour. It ends at 2am (which is 3am Daylight Saving Time) on the first Sunday in April, when clocks are put back one hour.

(Australia)

Hennes

Lovely. Different DST zones.

Bob

heh

the last time it was changed... I had an old smartphone, out of support

Hennes

5:01 PM

Also. "Unable to send" and "It works, because I actually receive the PDF data"

Bob

no more firmware updates

if i had it on auto-time, it would be an hour out

ended trying to change the timezone, but it wouldn't let me specify a timezone relative to UTC

so, I had to look up a country that was in the correct timezone -_-

Hennes

I just switched back to a smartphone from 2006

It is a joy to use compared to my modern smart phone.

Bob

lol

less crashes?

more reliable?

heck, probably feels faster

Hennes

It feels a lot faster. It is more intuative

I can touch the touch screen rather than pressing hard on it to get it to react

It has reception where the old phone failed

Bob

5:21 PM

@Hennes what. is your modern one resistive and your '06 one capacitive? o.O

Hennes

No idea.

Old one is a so called "T-mobile MDA vario"

Which is a rebranded HTC

Bob

my '07 phone didn't even have a touchscreen :P

you can press the screen as hard as you want and nothing will happen

incidentally, I have two phones of the same model; they've gone through a lot of abuse

one died, I have no idea why

the other suffered a cracked screen, so I swapped the screens... then the charging circuit died

-_-

Hennes

Accoding to wikipedia the original name is HTC Wizard 200

Bob

that looks an awful lot like Symbian, specifically S60

oh, Windows Mobile?

Hennes

Aye. Mobile 5

195 MHz Omap (ARM). Yet it feels much faster than the HTC touch G2.

4 front buttons. Only two are ever used.

A volume control which you press (and thus change) every time you pick up the phone.

2 second lag after screen presses until you didable the Tmobile overlay.

And even then it feel sluggish, despite having four times the CPU power of the other phone

Bob

5:38 PM

@Hennes Can you flash a stock ROM?

Hennes

No idea. I feared bricking it.

But right now the newer one has a badly scratched screen from using (and eventually breaking) the stylus

Bob

o.O

so.. may as well try? :P

Hennes

Aye.

Or throw it in a bucket of water. Which might be more 'fun'

Hmm, april 1 is aproaching.

Bob

my favourite method of flashing at the moment is to use the stock recovery to flash CWM (temporary until reboot), which i can then use to flash something else onto the phone :P

busterarm

I wish there were an Android phone I liked

Nexus 4 comes close

That's probably not very superuser of me though :B

KronoS

5:46 PM

hey guys I'm looking for a good torrenting program that's lite and won't install a bunch of extra crap

Bob

I actually still like Symbian^3

@KronoS grab an old copy of uTorrent?

KronoS

@Bob link to the old one?

busterarm

Grab the old Mainline source and build it? :D

KronoS

lol

busterarm

that's the lightest it gets

Bob

5:48 PM

Something 2.x would be good

busterarm

but you didn't say what OS

Bob

oldapps.com/utorrent.php?old_utorrent=8134

busterarm

Probably comes down to Deluge vs Transmission at this point. Deluge if you're on Windows. Either if you're on anything else...or maybe rTorrent if you're Linux

KronoS

Windows

busterarm

if you don't like µTorrent then yeah I'd say try Deluge

Hennes

5:50 PM

I do not usually care about the OS. I just want to be able to
* Make and receive calls
* have an addressbook
* Tether to the laptop
* Set an alarm

Optional: Run google maps or tomtom or some other mapping software.

I think just about every modern smartphone can do that

busterarm

yeah

Honestly I'm about ready to go back to flip phones though

Bob

Heh. The main reason i favour Symbian^3 is cause Nokia Maps is good

prolly the best free offline maps package

KronoS

@Bob that was perfect! thanks

busterarm

iPhone is pretty simple but now with other devices with 3g (kindle, etc) and having a GPS, I could probably ditch having a smartphone and save a lot of money

Bob

@busterarm well, it's the difference between one device with many functions and keeping track of many devices

busterarm

5:52 PM

one device, one battery

Bob

each has its advantages and disadvantages; it's all preference

busterarm

but yeah I agree

It's just that I'm going to have those devices anyway -- need a smartphone less and less

Bob

@busterarm not if you get one that has replaceable batteries ;)

busterarm

Not using a million apps saves a ton of battery life. I charge my phone once or twice a week. :)

Hennes

I considered an old iphone-1, but they are broken by design (read: you can not replace the battery)

Bob

5:53 PM

I have enough spares to last maybe 24 hours on battery with GPS navigation/the screen on

much longer in standby

the screen accounts for.. wait, lemme check

about 50% of power usage. bleh.

busterarm

but yeah, when my contract ends I'm ditching my iphone and contract and switching to Ting (carrier here in the US) on a flip phone

will save me $750/year

Bob

far too many background apps too, damn

need to clean up

busterarm

yeah

my friends who are real power users on android have terrible battery life problems, no matter the phone

either charging 2-3 times a day or carrying three batteries around

Bob

2-3 times a day?!

O.O

busterarm

Yeah

They have reddit addictions

and games

Bob

5:56 PM

with the most draining activity I can think of (as mentioned above), I go through three-four batteries in 24 hrs...

hm

actually, maybe not the most

never really got into phone gaming

busterarm

I just don't use my phone that much I guess

Bob

if I'm just generally web browsing, even if it's pretty much nonstop, a battery can last 8-10 hours

busterarm

see, ting has this $30 access point I can buy

Bob

you could always go for a no-phone plan

busterarm

and I can just not have a data plan and whenever I actually need maps, it'll cost me like $3 that month to look something up

Bob

5:58 PM

get one of those $10 phones

busterarm

I have to have a phone for two-factor authentication for work

Bob

they last weeks

@busterarm I meant, no bundled phone

busterarm

Not sure I know what you mean

I'm in the States, where you either have horrible lock in contracts or buy pay-as-you go phones with numbers that drug dealers used to have before you

Bob

well, here you can get a plan that does not come with a phone for about $10/month cheaper than the cheapest plan with a phone

busterarm

ahh

I'd rather just have no contract

like the most basic phone contract here with data costs $900/year

Bob

6:00 PM

prepaid is horribly expensive here

busterarm

that's why Ting is such a big deal now. No contract, only pay for what you use

Bob

hm.. actually, the no-phone plan I was talking about doesn't lock you in to a contract

I just checked o.O

busterarm

ahh

It's because you're not subsidizing a phone

Bob

yea

busterarm

it's messed here. Even after they unlock my phone at the end of the contract, I still can't go activate it on another carrier

this iPhone 4S is likely the last smartphone I will ever buy

Bob

6:03 PM

hm.. Ting is still cheaper than the cheapest plan here :P

Hennes

I am at unlimtyed data and 200 minutes per month for Eur 30.

(aur 8 for the data)

busterarm

i'm thinking flip phone + iPad mini wifi and the $30 tether with no data plan

Hennes

Grandfathered account

But I only phone for 1-2 Euro per month

Might be time to ditch the old account. Preferably on a day where T-mobiles computers actually work

Bob

:P

busterarm

the $30 hotspot would only cost me $6/mo plus whenever I want to use data i pay for the data

Bob

6:04 PM

@busterarm wait what

why not

Hennes

Cancelled it before, ordered a new phone.... No sir, not record of that in our computers

busterarm

why not what?

Hennes

Just the print screen of the confirmation on my desktop'

busterarm

on ting you only pay for what you use...so I could just skip the data plan and they upgrade me to whatever amount of data I use every month

Bob

2 mins ago, by busterarm

it's messed here. Even after they unlock my phone at the end of the contract, I still can't go activate it on another carrier

busterarm

6:04 PM

oh

because of how the carriers work

Bob

huh

busterarm

So the AT&T iPhone only works on AT&T

not Verizon or Sprint

Bob

..

Hennes

Changed from old plan (30 eur/mont) to a new one (7 eur per month).
Filled in all the details
Makde a print screen of the confirmation
...
And t-mobile conveniently lost that data

busterarm

and Sprint will only activate phones that they've shipped -- no matter what

Bob

6:05 PM

here, you cam have carrier locked phones but they're pretty easy to unlock

busterarm

by hardware ID

yeah

Bob

assuming the support the correct bands, which they normally do

busterarm

i can get my phone unlocked, but I don't have any other carrier that I can bring it to in the US

if I go anywhere else in the world, no problem

Bob

ok, that's just..

busterarm

that's just the monopolistic telcos in the US ;)

but our phones are subsidized with our contracts. A smartphone costs $free-200 because you're locked in for 2 years and you pay for it monthly (whether you're under contract or not you still pay the same though...so people without smartphones still pay for them)(

At least my internet isn't metered. :D

Hennes

6:09 PM

It is mostly the same here.

I looked at a 5 euro per month abbonement (120 minutes)

12x5 is 60 euro.

Price with free phone: 160 euro

busterarm

oi

Hennes

And that was for the cheapest phone I could find on the site

Bob

I'm seriously considering replacing my wifi card with one that supports 5GHz :\

Hennes

In a laptop ?

In which case:
How many antenna's does the laptop have, and how many spatial streams can the card use?

Einsteins Grandson

hey guys

which format is native for Amazon Kindle Fire?

Epub?

Mobi?

AZW?

it loooks like it's the last one- AZW

busterarm

6:21 PM

all kindles are azw, yeah

epubs have to be converted

Bob

@Hennes what

Hennes

Wireless-N comes in many flavours.

2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands

And the ability to use multiple streams

Einsteins Grandson

do you have Amazon Kidle fire? Busterarm?

Bob

uh.. if it's like my other HP laptop, one loop around the screen

with two antenna connectors

I have no idea about the streams.

Hennes

a 1 steam N card can do up to 150mbit/sec (theoritical max)

busterarm

6:21 PM

no, i have a paperwhite 3g

Hennes

with 2 up to 300

with 3 up to 450

Bob

oh. prolly 2

Hennes

with 4 up to 600

Assaming both transmitter and receiver have matching capabilities

Bob

It's currently got an Ralink RT3290

Hennes

IEEE 802.11n-2009

IEEE 802.11n-2009(802.11n *lite) is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11-2007 wireless networking standard. Its purpose is to improve network throughput over the two previous standards—802.11a and 802.11g—with a significant increase in the maximum net data rate from 54 Mbit/s to 600 Mbit/s (slightly higher gross bit rate including for example error-correction codes, and slightly lower maximum throughput) with the use of four spatial streams at a channel width of 40 MHz. 802.11n standardized support for multiple-input multiple-output and frame aggregation, and security improvements, among ...

busterarm

6:23 PM

depending on your laptop brand you might wanna be careful about changing wireless cards

Lenovos seem to really not like wifi cards not shipped by them

Hennes

Aye

Some laptops are incompatible by design.

Einsteins Grandson

my eyes are burning... i can't readn more than 10 minutes on Kindle Fire

Bob

oh, up to 150 Mbps. Bleh.

Hennes

If model A then this else if model B then this else PANIC!!!!

Einsteins Grandson

maybe i should use White Text on Black Background instead of vice versa

Bob

6:23 PM

wikidevi.com/files/Ralink/RT3290%20product%20brief.pdf

busterarm

that's why I went with an eink reader and skipped the fire

Einsteins Grandson

Or turn the Brightness down...

Hennes

eInkt++

Einsteins Grandson

OK, but there are eBooks that are colorful

Bob

@busterarm I'll be looking for an 'HP' card

Hennes

6:24 PM

I do not need coloured text. :)

Bob

seems to be about $10 on eBay

Einsteins Grandson

with graphs and pictures

Bob

the interface is standardised

so worst case, it won't work

busterarm

ahh

Einsteins Grandson

especially PDFs ... magazines etc...

busterarm

6:25 PM

if you have an expresscard slot there are add-in cards you can buy

?

Einsteins Grandson

for example McKinsey Quarterly...

etc....

Bob

wikidevi.com/files/Ralink/RT3290%20product%20brief.pdf

crappy PoS

Einsteins Grandson

also, the screen is very small

busterarm

i can't hate on ralink too much

they were the first decent chipset to support mac/linux

because Broadcom basically didn't give a shit

and intel didn't make usb stuff

Bob

I'm looking at replacing it with this one: intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/centrino/…

@busterarm It's not Ralink I'm complaining about

Einsteins Grandson

6:26 PM

so i have to turn the pages horizontally but it makes me scrolling all the time

Bob

it's the lack of 5GHz band support in this particular card

Einsteins Grandson

;o)

busterarm

ahh :D

Einsteins Grandson

i mean turning the Kindle by 90 degrees

Bob

there's also a couple of Broadcom cards out there (slightly cheaper too)

but I'm leaning towards Intel

busterarm

6:28 PM

intel makes the best stuff as far as networking goes

just not their software (PRO/Set Wireless suuuuuuucks)

Hennes

Dells software is worse,

After a dozen attempts I got wireless N working... with two sets of drivers installed

The windows one for wireless at 2.4GHz, the dell one for the 5 GHz band

Bob

heh. Looks like I might be going Ralink after all

I can find HP Intel cards, but without BT or 5GHz. I can find Intel cards, but for Acer, etc.

sigh

Hennes

6:43 PM

/me sniggers

busterarm

what did you just call me? lol

Hennes

Mum’s predictive recipe texts continue to alarm.
Last week: “admonish garlic."
Today: "wear gloves when boning the Christian."

busterarm

tell me more... :)

Hennes

No. I suspect chicken plus typo plus autocorrect

busterarm

oh

Mum is texting you cooking tips?

Hennes

6:47 PM

Not sure what precisely she is trying to do

Or what changed the text

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