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1:34 AM
[status-zzz]
 
They disabled it :-(
Slow day in here huh? I guess everyone else was as busy as I was!
 
1:50 AM
[status-aww]
 
kinda slow week actually
 
works on chat.meta...
now [status-zzz]
 
Wil
Jeff said that it is just a Meta easter egg and we are going to have our own one - hence the item in the meta.superuser
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Q: Pick an easter egg for chat.superuser!

Jeff AtwoodOn chat.meta.stackoverflow, there's a little easter egg where text entered as [status-blah] will be rendered as a moderator only tag. We'd like to do something similar, but specific to superuser -- namely, when you type a magic string, something amusing and in-joke-y for superuser.com happ...

 
yeah
just not sure which one yet @Wil :-)
 
Wil
I don't think it will really be hidden, I am sure they will tell us what it is!
 
2:03 AM
:-)
:12244 haha, just followed the link from that to
so great!!!!
 
Wil
Yeah! like it!
 
Hello.
 
LOL
 
Wil
Lol
and Hi @MrMan
... I am going to go off... Got a telephone interview in the morning and trying to get in the right frame of mind! Quite nervous as I haven't done one in a long while...
 
And what if your monitor wasn't operational?
How would Mr. Paperclip tell you that?
 
Wil
2:11 AM
Then you wouldn't see that message, and no loss!
 
Hehe.
 
:12261 Exactly!
 
2:54 AM
@Sathya !!!!!! you busy?
 
 
1 hour later…
3:59 AM
:12264 hey, was taking a short nap before going off to bed (!)
 
lol... I figured it out anyways
 
extremely busy day/week
was tired, so grabbed so zzz
:12264 needed me for something ?
 
i did... it was a programming question... but then I figured it out...
 
ah
 
I'm still working on it though so i might still need some help
 
4:02 AM
sure, drop a q
 
 
8 hours later…
11:52 AM
yes @Wil you should give separate answers
 
Wil
:12287 Ok... Just as a mod remember you said that just in case anyone complains about me!
 
sure, add that as a comment to my answer, blame it on me for future reference
off course when users have a problem your answer can be multiple solutions
 
Wil
... If they are similar but the same sort of answer, rough example - different options in the same configuration, I will still as one answer... I will only do this when they are considerably different and/or not related.
 
but when recommending separate methods or applications, separating them makes it easier to distinguish which is the best
yup, that pretty much sums it up
 
Wil
Makes perfect sense!
 
11:55 AM
though on gaming, I vote to kill any question where you get a list of answers
but our site is different
and we are very strict anyway
 
Am I missing a question ?
 
Ah, gotcha @Wil
 
Wil
:12295 Lol, wish I had time for the gaming site - I haven't played a game in ages :(
 
I normally only have time for games on my phone
you do something, stuff it away for 3 hours, do something again, rinse and repeat
but I NEEDED to play Starcraft 2
but it's the last thing keeping me from working
chatting here or do stuff on the sites is a much bigger problem
 
Wil
11:59 AM
Lol - as shameful as it is, I never even played the first Starcraft - just don't have the time :(
 
though that SO question of mine wasn't a waste of time
I only bought the old one last year
 
Wil
I bought the Battle Chest edition about 4-5 years ago and it has been in my cupboard ever since!
 
but SC2 is a lot more fun to play, they made the controls a lot better
hehe, saw that in a shop here in Lithuania yesterday
 
Wil
The last strategy game (favourite genre) I played a lot was Red Alert 2!
 
old school!
you should work less :P
and have more fun
 
Wil
12:01 PM
Work got in the way and when self employed, it is either work+money or play - so, would rather work!
 
unless you get underpaid, have trouble getting a lot of work, are in a lot of debt or just love money: have some fun in life
crap
 
Wil
lol
 
Wil
XSS/CSRF ATTACK!
 
that looks like what I'm doing @Sathya :P
 
12:06 PM
LOL ;p
I'm just waiting for my new Envy, should be coming soon
after that I'll be getting SC2
 
very well
I'm waiting for the new oak trail processors
then I'm upgrading my whole pc
 
nice.
 
though I might already upgrade things like my GPU beforehand
 
getting ready fir office, be back in a bit
what's your system specs @IvoFlipse
 
if anandtech's review is an indication it rocks
hi @TomWij
 
12:08 PM
Hi
 
hehe, the most impressive part is the watercooling case :P
 
I really need to get SC2 too I think...
@IvoFlipse: That video, is that an upcoming Photoshop feature?
 
it's getting old: Core 2 Duo e6400, 2 or 4 Gb of Ram (running Windows crappy 32 bit) 2 6800 GS GPU's (not in SLI though) and a bunch of old 400/500 Gb hard drives
well it's by Adobe
 
So I guess so... xD
 
and it's a special camera lens that has an array of lenses or camera's
 
12:10 PM
Oh... It would have been awesome if it could be done without that lens. :-(
The new inbox across the SE sites is awesome... :-)
 
> I wonder if I can push ↵ and @ to that inbox yet...
I would like to see that happening
well you can't @TomWij but the idea would probably to use like 50 cheap ass camera's in an array (like smartphone camera's) and capture at the same time
it's simple statistics that you can get a better image by simply filtering the end result
 
12:41 PM
@IvoFlipse: Can you check the comments at
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Q: How to speed up Adobe Acrobat Reader ?

radihi , i think Acrobat Reader is the best pdf reader because its rendering feature (high res) , but it is too slow when jumb from page to page and when display large pdf file . so how i can speed it up ? i am using windows version 9.3 thanks

 
Wil
Like seeing other people having arguments, makes me feel like I am not the only one when I get involved in one!
 
I've been a bit less at Super User the last days, I'm starting to doubt if I said the right things there...
I'm probably confused over the changes that happened over the year.
 
Wil
You are not wrong and I am in the middle of his answer...
Foxit is a good alternative, but nothing compares to Adobe on certain features
 
True, it's a good alternative if you'd have to...
 
Wil
e.g. I often have to do company related stuff - Tax return, Accounts etc, they come as encrypted / certificate protected PDFs - other readers usually jam up/freeze or come up with an error.... Once Adobe is in memory / not shut down, it is usually quite fast
 
12:47 PM
They are using it at the university on Linux so you don't have much choice to use an alternative there.
But it's rendering looks bad in comparison to Adobe Reader...
 
Wil
Personally, never noticed a problem :S
 
Or maybe it's more a Linux VS Windows font rendering issue that's plaguing me.
 
Wil
Possibly
 
From a cold start, I find it to be even fast when not running the speed launcher at boot.
It was also fast on my HDD (7200 rpm) and on computers (5400 rpm) we had in our computer store.
 
Wil
... I am going to try to get a bit of sleep - I had a telephone interview this morning and I couldn't really sleep last night, only had two hours and I can't really concentrate now, and my eyes keeping closing!...
 
12:50 PM
But well, it may differ for some.
@Wil: Actually, I'm in a similar phase right now. :D
 
Wil
I agree - it is faster with the quick start, but I certainly don't think it is that slow - even on older hardware
 
Went to a party this night, haven't slept after the party yet... :S
Hmm... I wonder if I can rack up till 2k reputation today at P.SE, then I can finally see the 10k mod tools and hope that they help a lot in maintaining that site.
 
Wil
Lol - well, party, only got yourself to blame!
 
:D
Stupid me, why did I went to it?! :-(
And hope that I can divide my workload back to Super User one of these days because I want to hit 10k there too.
 
Wil
You are not missing that much - I only check it every so often, you sort of forget it is there
It just shows you flags and interesting to read deleted items
 
1:00 PM
Oh, didn't know of the deleted items yet... But well, they could be funny to read I guess.
 
1:12 PM
so who voted for subjective and argumentative for
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Q: How to speed up Adobe Acrobat Reader ?

radihi , i think Acrobat Reader is the best pdf reader because its rendering feature (high res) , but it is too slow when jumb from page to page and when display large pdf file . so how i can speed it up ? i am using windows version 9.3 thanks

 
1:30 PM
About to head into a meeting so I can't talk, but wanted to say Hello and wish you all a happy Friday!
 
:12387 WEEEEEEEEEEEKENDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2
 
Wooohooo!
 
/me cheers
OK, BBIAB!
 
Didn't know of that slang yet...
 
be back in a bit
more of IRC lingo than slang
these spam captchas are infuriating me. You think they'd disable them for a person who's on SU for year+
 
1:39 PM
Yeah, might not be such a bad idea...
Or at least decrease it to a more acceptable level.
If you go wild on retagging, correcting titles, correcting post, ... then the captchas are really annoying.
One trick though: You only have to type one of the two words correctly... ^^
 
:12401 typing them is still infuriating
it's been proposed and declined before on Meta, IIRC
 
1:56 PM
lol, a captcha just contained: movies_xml :D
 
Cawas
Im still to see a captcha kick_ass or something
 
Atleast you guys haven't hit greek letters and mathematical symbols which can be described in LaTex
 
2:14 PM
in true Super User style
"How Facebook fixed the site: they turned it off and on again "
 
Nice...
 
 
2 hours later…
4:14 PM
man it's a good thing the contest wasn't going on this week... I haven't been able to answer anything! Nothing up my alley
 
 
3 hours later…
7:36 PM
welcome to my world @KronoS
@TomWij nice to see a non-Apple flame war, now we're moving on to Adobe products?
Anyway, I'm ignoring the comments
 
tada
gone is the crap
and I need to get into bed...
need to go to the airport at 5 AM
 
thanks.
 
thanks for spotting it
 
have a good flight @IvoFlipse
 
7:54 PM
thanks, I'll need it :P
 
:12435 ahah.. and welcome to the US :D
 
hehe, well first I fly back to the Netherlands, then I'm flying to the US
and hopefully have some internet there, so I'll let you know if I like it!
so see you later!
 
:12439 see ya! Have fun!
 
Wil
8:11 PM
:12438 Have a good flight(s)
 
Hey guys! How's life?
 
dragging on
 
@Sathya TGIF man!
 
grumbles while waiting for the clock to hit 16:30
 
football games galore tomorrow too!
@Sathya I still got 3 hours before then
 
8:21 PM
:12450 just about an hour to 16:30, you're on PDT then
 
ya
 
Cawas
:12425 link broken already! o_O
 
0
Q: How to chat with a person who's not following you?

JenkoI've found a guy I need to speak to on Twitter, but when I write him a message with the @person: syntax is there any way he can read it? I'm following him but he doesn't even know me! How do I begin a conversation? Send an email invite?

can you say...
STALKER
 
:12412 Same issue here, the questions got a bit harder I guess...
 
:12454 yeah @IvoFlipse "fixed" it ;)
 
8:28 PM
@Wil The high reputation tools seem nice... :-)
 
@TomWij High rep tools?
 
10k+ on Super User, but on the SE sites it's 2k+ so it's the first time I see it now.
 
oh wow... I got a ways to go on SU
 
I'm not 10k+ yet on Super User, but I was reffering to when you get it.
Still 4k to go on SU, have 2k now on Prog.SE.
 
oh nice... that's pretty sweet...
 
8:33 PM
Cool
 
so how does SE calculate "hotness"
 
"See all recent edits in chronological order" is pretty awesome...
 
:12468 perhaps a combo of views+answers + votes
 
that's what i was thinking but wasn't sure if there was an "official" formula
 
zomg...
 
8:41 PM
:12471
3
A: How do the "arbitrary hotness points" work on the new Stack Exchange home page?

David FullertonBasically what's documented here: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions We have a few tweaks: Succeeding questions from the same site are penalized by increasing amounts. So, the first question from SO in the list gets multip...

 
[lolwut] tag... I'm eliminating it. xD
 
so my answer
in Root Access on Super User Chat, Sep 24 at 20:39, by Sathya
@KronoS perhaps a combo of views+answers + votes
or guess, rather was right
> I believe it would be better to just consider amount of activity, recentness of activity, and total upvotes minus downvotes in discussion.
 
@Sathya Sweet thanks man
 
atleast according to 1 metric my rep is > 10k hehe
 
9:05 PM
how many of ye young 'uns seen this ?
3932
A: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

bobinceYou can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool th...

 
yawn 4chan yawn move on... :D
edit history confirms (i done a typo dur)
and man... what a long alinea :O
 
heh
 
9:26 PM
Hey @Sathya
Want some amusement?
 
I am on meta :P
@Josh
 
LOL
 
check your question ;)
 
Happy Friday...
 
I had this weird spidy sense you'd that post a question and come here :-s
 
9:27 PM
LOL
Thank you :-) I promise I have only good intentions
 
:-)
I'm leaving office @Josh will join you in a bit.
 
:12502 LOL. Thanks again :-)
 
Cawas
@Josh isn't there an old saying about good intentions and hell?
 
Cawas
as it's full of them or something.
 
:12504 Close. The road to XMPP is paved with good intentions by sockpuppets, or something like that
 
Cawas
9:33 PM
XMPP?
 
Cawas
lol
 
Jabber
That's why I needed this account
so I could reply to myself in chat
 
Cawas
I just noticed there is actually a "get a room" feature in superuser chats! o_O
 
LOL
Yes
I'm off for the night. Have a good one everyone
See ya later @Cawas and @Sathya!
 
Cawas
cya @Josh
 
Cawas
9:43 PM
dream with sock puppets
 
10:01 PM
:12465 Oops, that had to be 6k... :-(
 
10:56 PM
Hmm, IvoFlipse is usually online later, right?
 
:12521 he's going to be off, I guess for few days
 
Just bought StarCraft II, I'm playing too much Quake Live but that tends to bore me so I want to be able to have some variation.
Also play League of Legends sometimes but that's not a game to play much as it's the same gameplay over and over again...
Haven't bought any games for a pretty long time, so as I like the concept of it and it's one of the best games of the year I think I didn't spent it wrong.
7 GB download, ouch... xD
 
well I'm waiting for my new laptop, after which I can play mafia II in all its glory XD
right now, I have to play it at 1024x768 for it to be playable :-$
 
I think I saw that on television, it's a bit in a story setting, right?
 
:12529 yep
 
11:03 PM
I bought this laptop for gaming, but all I did so far is play QL (which doesn't have that high quality graphics) and LoL (which does but is boring to play over and over) so need to play some other games too.
I'm waiting for Portal II too, looks awesome from what they showed.
 
:12531 specs ?
 
@Sathya: One moment, let me install Speccy.
 
@TomWij I'm so looking forward for portal
I still have fun with the original
 
:12534 you don't know specs of your laptop :-O
:12535 yeah, me too
 
@Sathya: Too lazy to type it out. :-(
 
11:06 PM
wow.
how much did you pay for this ?
 
Well, I got it for distributor price instead of customer price as my dad runs a computer store.
 
and wtf are you doing playing only QL >_>
:12543 which comes to ?
 
1500 euro instead of 2000 euro
 
ok
 
And with the SSD it's at 1900 or 2000
 
11:08 PM
>_>
 
dang that's spendy
 
Well, it's the thing I use the most in my life...
 
youch
that's like a third of my yearly salary
 
It's 1 or 2 months of work at my dad store, which I like to do...
 
:12556 can I get job there ? :P
 
11:10 PM
Hmm, how can it be a third of your salary... Something's wrong. :S
 
@TomWij Where do you work?
 
:12558 oh no, definitely not.
 
What do you do for work then?
 
what ?
 
11:11 PM
sweet... don't understand a word written on that site but cool
@TomWij me? or @Sathya ?
 
whom, you mean @TomWij
 
@Sathya.
 
I work at 3i @TomWij
 
Lots of stuff... poorly translated
 
11:12 PM
i.e. not translated
 
Yeah, it's dutch... IvoFlipse could read it. xD
 
But that site actually isn't written by me and we might want to get rid of it.
It's a site provided by one of our distributors, which also creates folders for the company.
@Sathya: I would say from the look of that site that there is something wrong in our calculation...
 
:12577 well the economy's wrong, that's what
 
Or the economy.
 
11:15 PM
hey anyone know how to edit a .xpm photo in windows?
 
But by a month I mean 4 (weeks) x 6 (days) x 8 (hours)
 
:12581 4x5x8
well that's the "official" figure anyway
you build/assemble systems @TomWij ?
 
The software side of it most of the times, although I'm capable of building/assembling them too.
 
:12585 cool
 
Virus Removal, Back-Up, (Re)Install, Update Windows/Drivers/Software, Fix problems like in the 0xDEADDEAD room.
The nice thing about it is that short operations are relatively quick, and you can leave long operations running...
So at some times there are like 3-4 PCs and 2 laptops running simultaneously.
Meh, waiting 2 hours to play a game you just bought is annoying, but well...
No shops open at this hour anyway. :-)
 
11:27 PM
hehe
> I'm trying to do my best to become a moderator to help maintain the community
still, eh
you ought to update your bio - you are no longer 20 XD
 
oi...
 
yay! My user page crossed 1k views! does a jig :p
 
There's only one thing I know about cooking:
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A: How to peel hard boiled eggs easily?

TomWijWhy don't you people just peel an egg in five seconds? :P

(Link in the answer, seems not to be shown here)
Done that for quite some time at home, it's annoying to peel an egg in the morning. :D
 
11:42 PM
@TomWij is that you?
 
no
Go Go Gadget Turn-Link-Into-Picture? :-(
 
that's a lot of links
 
whoa :O
 
@TomWij
@KronoS see, now that( ^^ )'s @TomWij :P
 
One of the best pics my old cell phone could produce, taken in a cafe.
 
11:46 PM
lol... looks great
 
I guess you guys will have to keep me busy for the next ~ 70 minutes
 
till the download gets over ?
 
1 MB/s, my connection supports 12 MB/s but I guess the Blizzard P2P system can't get to that...
Yeah
 
nice
 
11:49 PM
ten minutes more!!!!
 
:12621 ? for ? the game ?
 
no til I'm off work... game is tomorrow
 
ah
 
Oh
200 KB/s upload rate
not good :O
Let's see the speed without the P2P option.
 
i would think p2p is faster
 
11:52 PM
Meh, indeed better with P2P.
Well, then I'll have to handle the 25% more bandwidth used.
Hmm...
 
:12630 how much with the regular d/l ?
 
Regular 700 KB/s, P2P 1 MB/s
 
dang that's fast
peace out fellas I'm outta here
 
I want it to be 4 MB/s at least... :-(
Cya.
 
:12636 cya
 
11:58 PM
 
:12637 well have pity me,a torrent is spitting out at 77KB/s :(
well make that 43 KB/s now :/
 
Belgium ISPs had bandwidth limits, now we work with a Fair Use Policy.
My arrow is still in green so it's fine.
 
:12643 how much is the fair Usage limit ?
 
One should start worrying when it comes in the orange zone but it's not there...
 

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