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BMitch

12:33

I found some new music for PUT:

vimeo.com/47875656

Tester101

12:45

@BMitch Do old rotary phones even work anymore?

BMitch

I wouldn't be surprised, but don't call any of those "press 1 to ..." numbers

Tester101

Hmm... I'll have to dig one up and test it out.

BMitch

I remember swapping out the big 4 prong telephone plugs when I was a kid for the RJ11 (I think that's right) version we have today

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Niall C.

15:11

In this question, should "console" be "conduit"?

Q: Can I run electrical cable and sound cable in the same console?

I have home theater system, There is no underground console fitting for home theater speakers. There is only underground fitting for electrical cable in the house . And I need surround sound with front and rear speakers. So I need to pull underground cable for rear speakers. Question:- Shall I ...

electrical

lsiunsuex

conduit

Niall C.

The front page caching is weird these days; the edit was already made. I just approved it

BMitch

@NiallC. I was really scratching my head on that question, thought I didn't know some foreign term or something

lsiunsuex

plenum ? but i don't think that fits

Chris Cudmore

15:38

Another great review on those BIC for Her pens: My inner goddess bit her lip as my Postman, Chris Gray, inserted the package between the tight clamped petals of my eager letterbox. I begged him to release the trademark Amazon perforations...

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Tester101

16:45

Am I missing something? Companies have been doing this forever.

Tool kits

Tools

cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-pointlessly-women-specific-products

wax eagle

@Tester101 we were given a toolset that was specifically "tool set for women" or somesuch, has purple handles etc.

the amusing thing with the for her is the reviews not much else IMO

Aaron

I think target used to have half a wall or something for womens tools

Tester101

Dump truck for women.

Backhoe for women.

lsiunsuex

mary kay cosmetic line cadilac giveaway in pink

Aaron

I saw one of those on the streets once

lsiunsuex

16:54

i've seen a few here

wax eagle

wth female targetted computer shopping websites? what's next

lsiunsuex

@waxeagle isn't that called QVC ?

wax eagle

@lsiunsuex lol

lsiunsuex

i had to threaten to block qvc.com from our lan if the wife didnt change her shopping habits

Tester101

What the... How did the Community user just edit this answer?

BMitch

17:04

proposed 18 mins ago
by an anonymous user

and then approved

Tester101

I thought maybe it was learning.

Niall C.

@Tester101 ChrisF approved an anonymous edit

diy.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/861

lsiunsuex

17:20

i think we need more stars in this chatroom

the comms room has over 13k

lets just start staring everything

Aaron

yeah the comms room is full of weirdos though!

lsiunsuex

17:36

someday, my stars will be worth something. someday

Chris Cudmore

I'm getting parser errors

Any one else getting errors on:

diy.stackexchange.com/review-beta/close/stats

lsiunsuex

i got it

Tester101

@ChrisCudmore You broke it!

Niall C.

Here too. Win7 64, Chrome 21.0.1180.83 m

Aaron

yep

Chrome linux Version 21.0.1180.79

Chris Cudmore

17:45

lsiunsuex

OS X 10.7.3 firefox 14 - but why is everyone listing browser / OS ? its clearly a server side error

Aaron

@lsiunsuex because we're nerds and we always supply more information than needed .... just in case

Chris Cudmore

It's working now.

Niall C.

Quick work, @ChrisCudmore

lsiunsuex

i aspire to score atleast 1 star a day in the chatrooms. no matter how ridiculous my comment may be

wax eagle

17:52

@ChrisCudmore it's being worked on

Chris Cudmore

18:26

SQL Date formats suck.

lsiunsuex

always do my dates as a 10 char INT and generate it with mktime() in php

Chris Cudmore

And why do all MS products insist on datetime, rather than Dates and Times as separate objects?

So YYYYMMDD?? What are the other two chars for?

wax eagle

@ChrisCudmore slashes

lsiunsuex

mktime generates a 10 int date code based on GMT or something - you use date() to make it readable

so date("m-d-Y", mktime())

Chris Cudmore

How do you put a / in an int?

wax eagle

18:29

@ChrisCudmore magic? i dunno :P

lsiunsuex

only numbers

1346264987 is what mktime outputted when i ran it just now

Chris Cudmore

if (bugs) (new Magic()).perform();

lsiunsuex

mktime doesn't generate /'s

Chris Cudmore

So it's seconds from epoch or something like that.

lsiunsuex

yes, i think so

to lazy to go look it up on php.net

Chris Cudmore

18:31

Which sucks when humans want to look at raw data.

lsiunsuex

yes, but it makes it easy to take that 1 string of numbers and convert it into something else

wax eagle

@lsiunsuex like a seed?

lsiunsuex

i could very well do date("m-d-Y @ h:i a", mktime(date("h"), date("i"), 0, date("m"), date("d") - 30, date("Y")))

and get 30 days in the past of right now and show the hours and minutes

Chris Cudmore

If it's seconds, 10 digits is good for 317 years.

lsiunsuex

"Returns the Unix timestamp corresponding to the arguments given. This timestamp is a long integer containing the number of seconds between the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) and the time specified. "

Chris Cudmore

18:34

Beware the 2287 bug!

lsiunsuex

i can compare it also - "select dtetme from events where dtetme < '" . mktime() . "'"

theres a shit ton of ways to date / time in php - thats proven most reliable for me

and i can set the timezone with another function and the date function will auto comp for it

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Aaron

20:29

iaei.org/magazine/2000/07/arc-detection-with-the-afci

This is interesting - how an AFCI works