Root Access

Ivo Flipse

12:42 PM

on to 10k @TomWij!

TomWij

My avatar is all over the unanswered list, I'm on my way... ^^

Gnoupi

You scare me, @TomWij

Ivo Flipse

if you have any special requests with questions @TomWij you can always ask them here

TomWij

I've flagged one or two so far... And there's still my meta question.

Ivo Flipse

12:57 PM

I plugged your question in the mod room, but guess the time of day wasn't ideal

I fear that they aren't going to do anything about them

but I would love some tool that shows me questions that need an answer and that I'm likely to know the answer off

Gnoupi

@TomWij - questions about user interface design are not really a "user side" issue. I migrated the question you flagged on SO

Ivo Flipse

perhaps a nice project for your Master thesis ;-)

Gnoupi

it will be a better fit for the user interface SE site, but it's currently in private beta.

Ivo Flipse

here's another Deposit for you @Gnoupi: superuser.com/users/45984/acai-optimum

Gnoupi

yes, I was already wondering

Gnoupi

1:01 PM

done

TomWij

@Gnoupi: I see... I thought he was wondering how "select all" in installers work.

@IvoFlipse: I'll just wait and see what the rest thinks of it...

Ivo Flipse

you should know that my response is more aimed at what the team will decide rather than my person preference @TomWij

but it's no use to raise false hope

TomWij

Is the [troubleshooting] tag considered a meta tag?

There are still 373 questions in there. (superuser.com/questions/tagged/troubleshooting)

I tagged a post as such but the user wonders if it is one, and I start to get unsure if people start to argue about such things. :-)

Ivo Flipse

1:16 PM

we'll it often asks for steps how to trouble shoot something, so in that sense, it coves the load

you must be having vacation right now, don't you?

TomWij

I thought so, it's like the tag [windows-7].

Yes

School starts again in late September.

Ivo Flipse

hehe remember me to buy you a donkere Leffe next week then ;)

TomWij

But I'll have exams before that.

Hehe, I didn't notice you live so close to me... :-)

Ivo Flipse

well I no longer live in Geel, I quite my job and moved back to Holland, but I have to visit my job next week to sort some things

would only be a 30 min detour ;)

TomWij

I don't even know if I like donkere Leffe, and I'm trying to stay away from alcohol as I need to study... My exams start 23 August.

Ivo Flipse

1:22 PM

auch hehe

you never tried it?

oh dear, guess I'll wait till after you exams to introduce you to it then

TomWij

xD

There are so much things to try... ^^

Ivo Flipse

hehe, I'm not bringing along weed!

TomWij

Uses the handy edit feature... I'm staying away from that too. :-)

Ivo Flipse

I actually never that myself :P

btw was your user picture taking in that restaurant in Antwerp? the one with the downstairs part?

TomWij

Nice try, but no.

It was in a upstairs in a café in Antwerp.

Ivo Flipse

1:34 PM

hehe, they have great food there though :P especially drinking Kwak with Americans is fun

what year are you in now (at the uni)?

TomWij

I managed to get myself a year extra, the year I'm about to start is the last year of my bachelor.

My mathematics aren't good and it caused me to take courses to the next year, causing troubles in the lesson schedule, etc...

Ivo Flipse

what direction are you aiming for with computer science then?

TomWij

Software Engineering

or in the worst case a Junior/Senior Developer

Ivo Flipse

is math's that important in that direction?

TomWij

It's important in the Bachelor years, it's less important in the Software Engineering Master.

Ivo Flipse

1:45 PM

ah crap :(

TomWij

I'm also aiming for the gaming industry or something else that interests me...

Ivo Flipse

I was lucky that I first did a Bachelor's degree, pass all the maths part and then went to a university, where I didn't have to do the maths anymore

TomWij

Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Numeric Linear Algebra

Those are pure mathematic courses, but then you still have those courses where a lot of mathematics are involved...

Computer Networks for example, efficiency proofs are based on what you learn in Calculus...

Ivo Flipse

yeah that's true, though it's often the way they teach it that makes it hard too

and they fail to explain where you could apply it

like signal processing, they start with all this boring theoretical crap, whilst they could have grabbed a wiimote and SHOW you what those things mean

TomWij

That's one of the things I hate the most

They explain something and you absolutely have no clue what you could use it for, it would increase your interest in it a lot.

Ivo Flipse

1:52 PM

I hated signal processing in college

but ended up working for a company that makes matrixes of pressure sensors. why? because if you walk over them you get loads of interesting information about human movement, that I do find interesting

TomWij

Did you know you can use a WiiMote on your computer?

Ivo Flipse

completely changes your perception of the topics at hand

If I tell you I have engadgets, gizmodo and slashgear in my Google Reader feeds, what do you think? ;)

TomWij

:D

Ivo Flipse

though I can't wait for Kinect and hack that

Gnoupi

i worked on a small project in my school years to have a wiimote to use for powerpoint presentations, as pointer and remote control

Ivo Flipse

1:54 PM

I would pay 10k€ for Kinect with high def cams

TomWij

I didn't know of SlashGear yet.

Ivo Flipse

nice :D

hehe, we should add that to the SU blog question then

TomWij

Yeah, Kinect really looks nice from what I've seen from it.

Gnoupi

I was in specialty for image treatment and computer vision for a while, so I basically have seen how kinect works with cheap webcams :p

Ivo Flipse

1

Q: What are the must read blogs?

Which blogs do you constantly read and visit daily? Ones that you couldn't do without and have gotten a ton of useful information from. (this disqualifies digg =) )

Gnoupi

1:56 PM

don't remember algorithms and else, though

Gnoupi

though if interested, I recommend to check OpenCV

Gnoupi

opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki

Gnoupi

@Ivo - if you poke this question i'll have to close it as off-topic

Gnoupi

sorry, already done

Ivo Flipse

well I'm in a European project with my current/previous employer where we have to use 3d scanners and pressure measurements to manufacture insoles (for shoes) with 3d printers

TomWij

1:57 PM

@IvoFlipse: That question looks nice.

Ivo Flipse

so I'm planning on getting myself a 3d printer and have some fun with that

zsolutions.eu.com/z650_zcorp_3d_printer.htm

TomWij

Yeah, that would be awesome.

Ivo Flipse

thanks for that link @Gnoupi I'm actually interested in computer vision with Python

though I'm just starting with it

I need to learn Python to do some basic data analysis: recognizing dog paws walking over a pressure measuring plate/matrix

Gnoupi

8

Q: Learning about Computer Vision

I am really intrigued by the field of computer vision and the potential it has. Are there any examples (preferably implemented in .NET) which I can study along with a reference book?

computer-vision sample

Gnoupi

9

Q: Machine vision in Python

I would like to perform a few basic machine vision tasks using Python and I'd like to know where I could find tutorials to help me get started. As far as I know, the only free library for Python that does machine vision is PyCV (which is a wrapper for OpenCV apparently), but I can't find any app...

python library matlab computer-vision

Gnoupi

2:01 PM

I love these sites

TomWij

C# wrapper and an O'Reilly book, nice.

Thanks for those links... :-)

I'm off to some Gaming, Studying and other things...

I became addicted to Super User and the Meta Chat yesterday. :-(

See you later... :-)

Ivo Flipse

good luck on those ;)

so where do you work then @Gnoupi?

Gnoupi

shh, top secret

Sathya

Morning/afternoon/evening

Ivo Flipse

hi @Sathya

Sathya

2:13 PM

HI @Ivo

Ivo Flipse

have you tried out any other SE site?

Sathya

Gaming, Meta, Web apps

and SO

all tiny contributions :p

SU's where I spend most of my time.. its more... me :)

Ivo Flipse

I hope somebody makes a great stackapp to help me find SU questions I can actually answer

I know there's skeetstalker, but that's too much of a hazzle

Sathya

why not stackguru ?

Gnoupi

@Ivo - the Feednotifier + tag feeds is not good for you?

Sathya

2:18 PM

34

Q: StackGuru: a near realtime bot for all StackExchange sites

Update: Now with wildcards StackGuru is a Jabber/XMPP bot which gives you a command line interface to Stackapps sites, including Stackoverflow, Serverfault and Superuser. The bot allows you to follow questions tags by giving you a notification each time a new question is ask on the followed ta...

app chrome-extensions notifier xmpp bot

Ivo Flipse

naah and I don't have the Feednotifier installed on my home pc (going to do it now!)

Sathya

Stackguru's pretty fine for me

what're you looking at in an spp ?

app*

Ivo Flipse

I actually want something that looks at my votes, my questions and answers and from that creates suggestions for questions

and most likely ones that off course have no answer, as @TomWij nicely pointed out

Sathya

ah, that's a neat idea

Ivo Flipse

it got flamed on stackapps, which I can understand, it would open up our votes to others which is uhmmm unwanted

but that doesn't mean I don't want the team to work on it

they could ask it on SO, stats.SE and math.SE and see what they come up with

partially that's what Quora does and what the new SE startpage is trying to do

show us hot stuff from all topics

now they should take it one step further and personalize it

Sathya

2:23 PM

put in a feature request at meta ?

Ivo Flipse

I guess I could

Sathya

it is a good idea

Ivo Flipse

the stupid thing is: people will burn it down because THEY don't need it

but using tags on SU sucks

first off: users can't tag properly which makes the useful tags way too broad

and it's often a specific combination of things that makes it worthwhile

Sathya

true that.

Ivo Flipse

oh dear: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10620/…

Sathya

2:29 PM

if I understood it right, OP wants a place where (s)he can muck with SE code ?

Ivo Flipse

well it was so he could try and come up with something to suggest questions

Sathya

Hm

Ivo Flipse

but perhaps the downvote was for the API (which didn't exist back then)

Sathya

o_0 didn't realize when it was first posted

Ivo Flipse

18

Q: Suggest "Questions you may have an answer to"

Based on user's previous answer history and, especially, reputation gains assotiated with each tag, provide an automatic selection of recently asked questions which "you may have an answer for". Of course the method would be heuristic, but it would help users to discover interesting questions. T...

feature-request questions

this is exactly what I'm asking for

I knew it was asked before

Sathya

2:31 PM

yet to be implemented ? The tag & answer is contradictory

Ivo Flipse

what was the tag again for making small text?

Gnoupi

sub?

Ivo Flipse

thats the one

Diago

What did I miss?

Gnoupi

:O

Gnoupi

2:34 PM

/me bows

Lolz

a lot!

O-0

nice you could make your way to chat ;)

Diago

You'd be surprised :P I've been around

Sathya

2:35 PM

LTNS @Diago

Diago

Yeah. Been a while.

Ivo Flipse

I know, you DM me on Twitter for the beta password ;)

Gnoupi

How was your vacation "away" from these sites?

Diago

Lolz

Sathya

where's ~quack btw

haven't seen him since @gnoupi became a Mod

Diago

2:36 PM

@Gnoupi Been good

Gnoupi

:78658 I don't know, it's been a month, and I'm almost worried

Diago

He's probably on vacation

Gnoupi

for a month and without a word? possible, but a bit odd

Diago

Agreed

Has anyone asked Jeff to contact him?

Gnoupi

he has been in copy of all moderator mails for a month

Ivo Flipse

2:38 PM

yup

Gnoupi

there is no other contact address

Diago

Lolz.

I wonder if I should ask Jeff.

To add me back to those emails

Gnoupi

so besides, the moderation went from you trying to keep up, alone, to a team of vicious moderators closing everything on sight

Gnoupi

well, mostly random

Gnoupi

we go after him and reopen, simply

Diago

2:41 PM

lolz

I saw. It looks good.

Gnoupi

we have a new way to deal with spammers, it's fun

Ivo Flipse

18

Q: Suggest "Questions you may have an answer to"

Based on user's previous answer history and, especially, reputation gains assotiated with each tag, provide an automatic selection of recently asked questions which "you may have an answer for". Of course the method would be heuristic, but it would help users to discover interesting questions. T...

feature-request questions

hijacked!

isn't it awesome to be a mod

Diago

Hate the idea

Going to downvote it right now

My first vote coming back

Ivo Flipse

you want to be a mod again @Diago?

Diago

@Ivo That's up to Jeff and the team. Won't say no.

Ivo Flipse

2:43 PM

I don't see how you can have too many mods

as long as they agree on how the site should be ran

Diago

True

Ivo Flipse

and while Gnoupi disagree, I think diamond mods should be mods everywhere

Diago

I agree with Gnoupi

Gnoupi

I still disagree

Gnoupi

i dont know SF, i don't want to be able to mod them

Ivo Flipse

2:43 PM

they should refrain from edit wars and closing sprees, but they should help out when it is necessary

Gnoupi

same for other sites

Gnoupi

if you need a cross-site mod action, you have the mod chat, now

Diago

During Beta the skills are usefull

But any other time it is a pian

pain*

Ivo Flipse

If I can't judge if it's off-topic, I wouldn't use it

but I can delete spam anywhere

or edit posts to make them better

without having to get rep on 12 sites

Gnoupi

you can always flag

Diago

2:45 PM

@Ivo damn you. Now I am can't stop thinking about mailing Jeff and asking him.

Gnoupi

so how is the addiction going?

Ivo Flipse

if you don't mail him, I'm asking it in the mod chat room :P

but the mod chat only works if the right mods are online

Diago

@Ivo So ask. Then it's not me asking :P

@Gnoupi Managable

Ivo Flipse

and I don't need their consent to delete questions

Gnoupi

in a way, he is a former mod. He could be on the white list for the mod chat

Diago

2:46 PM

My reasons for leaving was personal btw

Well I can't see it in the list of rooms

Ivo Flipse

I said: @JeffAtwood can Diago be reinstated as a mod? he's afraid to ask it himself

so when Jeff reads it, he'll let you know

Diago

@Ivo I am going to kill you.

Ivo Flipse

you're welcome

Diago

Slowly and painfully. But Thanks!

Ivo Flipse

I'll come your way so I can at least die in a nice country :P

though I should have come during the WC then I guess

Diago

2:50 PM

Be thankful you didn't

Biggest Waste of Time Ever

Gnoupi

well, at least there was the French team

Diago

@Gnoupi The durban stadium is 2Km's from my office

I had great fun every time there was a game

Getting to and from work

Ivo Flipse

uhm we made it to the finals, think we got our money worth for that

the finals sucked, but who cares!

Diago

Hell, we didn't even make it to the second round

So you have a lot to be proud of

Sathya

I presume there will be loads of new posts on Meta.SU cursing @Diago :p

Diago

2:57 PM

Doubt it

Nothing on Meta is even assigned to me at the moment

Ivo Flipse

where's the SU feed button again?

or what's the feed

Gnoupi

superuser.com/feeds

Ivo Flipse

oh right, doh!

Diago

Is there any good questions worth answering?

Ivo Flipse

hehe, you should have upvoted my meta question ;)

Diago

3:10 PM

Oh bleh

Walked into that one

Ivo Flipse

or have a look at @TomWij's suggestion for unanswered questions:

6

Q: Unanswered questions that are answered without upvotes or accepted answers.

The Unanswered tab at the top shows that there are more than 8,000 unanswered questions, it also seems to increase every day. I think it's a bad behavior that this keeps increasing... Don't understand me wrong, I'm not trying to nitpick but I'm trying to get questions answered... This tab is the...

discussion feature-request unanswered

Diago

Have now :P

Happy*

Ivo Flipse

very ;) and it's good to have you back

Diago

Thanks

Ivo Flipse

especially if I have to actually start doing work in the near future

Diago

3:16 PM

Lolz

I am on a permanent vacation thank you very much.

Ivo Flipse

:O you quit your job then?

Diago

Lolz

Just taking things very easy

Gnoupi

3:35 PM

I like when sometimes there are really objectively off-topic questions like this one:

Gnoupi

0

Q: Soundproofing wall

I'd like to sound proof my existing walls because of the train horn is quite loud. What will be the better solution for this problem.

sound

Gnoupi

at least for this one, it's sure, nobody will argue that their iphone is a computer or that gmail is a program

Ivo Flipse

hehe no but they will never come back and ask another question :P

check the comments @Diago

2

A: Suggest "Questions you may have an answer to"

Although I initially hated the idea, I just got caught on this same exact problem. I have been gone for a while, and now that I am back the list of questions to go through is well, long. It would be nice if there was a way the system could suggest questions I could potentially answer, without me ...

Gnoupi

mmyers is just a mod, why you are telling him to make diago a mod?

Ivo Flipse

is he?

comment deleted :P

Gnoupi

3:40 PM

and also, with all due respect, while I have nothing against Diago coming back as mod, go easy with it

Gnoupi

asking jeff is far enough, and even maybe a bit fast, he just came back :p

Ivo Flipse

ok, ok :$

Gnoupi

don't go shouting this everywhere yet ;)

Ivo Flipse

funny btw how I'm not getting any rep for that question, while I did invest quite a bounty

Diago

4:02 PM

Does the new bounty system allow you to earn rep on questions you add a bounty too?

Sathya

Nope

Gnoupi

no, it's only to get an answer, no other reward

Diago

@Ivo. There's your answer :P

Actually never mind

I seem to still be asleep

Diago

4:14 PM

How do you copy a question to chat?

Ivo Flipse

just paste the link

in a separate sentence

Diago

superuser.com/questions/172736/…

Shouldn't that be a SF question?

Ivo Flipse

I can transfer it for you

Diago

I know you can. Just wondering if it is.

Ivo Flipse

interesting to see what happens to the bounty

Diago

4:17 PM

Needs to be.

Ivo Flipse

it can't be migrated as long as it has a bounty

Diago

Remove the bounty then migrate

If you still can

It used to be a mod feature

Ivo Flipse

it is, didn't know it was

nor if it was wanted :P

Diago

I use to play this game with people posting bounties

Because they use to do it to protect their questions from being closed

used*

Ivo Flipse

hehe quite smart really

Diago

4:19 PM

So Jeff added the feature without telling anyone one day

Users are amazing creatures

Diago

4:29 PM

migrated from stackoverflow.com 24 secs ago
closed as off-topic by Ivo Flipse♦ 24 secs ago
Questions on Super User are expected to generally relate to computer software or computer hardware in some way, within the scope defined in the faq.

Nice

:P

Ivo Flipse

yup

random

@Diago is coming back then?

Diago

Bored much?

Ivo Flipse

me & my feednotifier are one nasty couple

Diago

@random I am sure I am right here :)

Only if you want me back @random

random

4:31 PM

Of course @Diago we'd love to see you back

Diago

Well apparently I have big footsteps to follow :)

@Ivo There is something really scary about that sentence :P

Ivo Flipse

it's supposed to be, people who post crap should be afraid

random

:79295 Probably a different kind of afraid from the sentence context

Diago

@random - Yeah like the whole couple part :P

random

4:48 PM

Mods are many in this: superuser.com/posts/106010/revisions

Ivo Flipse

lol

Diago

Lolz

It is even funnier to see posts I had closed in the past

1 Vote. No Mod.

random

That makes you the prototypical Super User

Diago

Yeah. I have magic powers

Direct access to the database

I don't read the questions on the site

I run SQL queries

@random Another one for you: superuser.com/questions/96743/record-streaming-audio

Or this one: superuser.com/questions/87124/burn-iso-to-usb-flash-drive

random

:79354 So bad it needs four mods to close it

Diago

4:58 PM

It's an example from an old meta post you posted.

random

Really? Have lost track of all the posts posted

Ivo Flipse

5:12 PM

1

Q: How should I generally manage my computer?

Possible Duplicate: Looking for a tool to manage all maintenance work on my PC So I guess these questions are a little basic for this form, so sorry to come across as a fool! I've been using mac's for most of my life, I do a lot of software development on the mac side, and am currently...

windows-7 pc maintenance

random

Use the search for one

Time to close that question as a multi-dupe!

Ivo Flipse

yeah

I cleaned it up a little bit

wow, you can update links, if you edit them

0

A: Can't delete file named ЃϵϳЅЂϿϽϯІχϯπρЂϻϵЉЃϵϳЅ

Had the same Problem Saw your thread and tried the it over DOS Commandlines I navigated to the folder and used: del \A:H \F * \A:H selects all hidden files \F ignores read only status it worked for me.

is this hurtful to type?

del \A:H \F * \A:H

random

5:32 PM

:79470 \a = attributes; \h = hidden files; \f = force delete read-only; *

But the slashes are the wrong way

Not sure about the second half of that \A:H though

Ivo Flipse

I would be afraid he would delete his whole drive or something like that

random

* should only work to delete files in the current directory

Diago

However if I recall windows treats the * only for files without extensions

In Linux * is valid for any file.

random

Windows/DOS should also wipe any file at all if using *

Diago

Give me a sec

Interesting

I has changed

So ignore my comment

random

5:42 PM

:79429 Sathya wins this round on closing out as a dupe

Ivo Flipse

didn't I use his link?

ah yeah nvm I see what you mean

TomWij

7:20 PM

Meh... I only have 30 reputation today... :-(

Ivo Flipse

no you didn't :P

here's the solution to your SU problem:

4

Q: Archive Questions

How about we create a new status, Archived. A moderator could Archive a question. This would allow rep from the question to still be counted, and a special search 'isarchived' could be used to find it, but it wouldn't come up in normal searches. This way old questions that aren't currently rel...

feature-request questions meta history archive

Sathya

meh only 10 today for me

TomWij

@IvoFlipse: Cheater... ^^

Yeah, that would be another solution...

Ivo Flipse

but I simply wouldn't be worried about them, as long as we can find a way to find you new good questions

TomWij

Rather than a moderator accepting a question he could archive the question and don't temper with the 'answered' state.

Ivo Flipse

7:27 PM

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Q: Suggest "Questions you may have an answer to"

Based on user's previous answer history and, especially, reputation gains assotiated with each tag, provide an automatic selection of recently asked questions which "you may have an answer for". Of course the method would be heuristic, but it would help users to discover interesting questions. T...

feature-request questions

if we get that, you don't have to search using our current crappy interface

TomWij

Yeah, I read through the transcript... :-)

But I wonder if it's a good behavior to forget about old unanswered questions.

Ivo Flipse

some aren't worth answering

because they were asked crappily

TomWij

Yeah, but people with a similar problem end up creating a new question which then would be a duplicate.

So that duplicate is closed, but they can't improve the old question...

Ivo Flipse