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William Hilsum

3:31 AM

superuser.com/questions/350607/… not really sure to flag or not? :/

Flagged as not welcome...

George Edison

3:50 AM

Does anyone know if there is a version of WinPCap that works on Windows 8?

...or a suitable alternative that can capture network packets from an application I'm developing?

William Hilsum

4:15 AM

@GeorgeEdison Until Windows 8 is finished, I doubt you will be able to do much :/

You can probably try to download the DDK and develop something yourself, but, until winpcap or another drive updates, I don't think it will be possible

Sathya

4:33 AM

thanks @JourneymanGeek wish you the same!

George Edison

@WilliamHilsum I don't even have Visual Studio installed on here :P

I have VS 2010 Express installed on Vista.

Sathya

5:13 AM

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Boris_yo

5:28 AM

Sathya

6:07 AM

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel

Happy Diwali everyone!

Tweeted by JensonButton on October 26, 2011 at 6:01 AM

DMA57361

7:10 AM

morning all

William Hilsum

@Sathya Happy Diwali to you! (Only Indian guy I know!)... When did it actually start? My dad lives right on the border with Little India (Brickfields) and I could barely hear him with all the fireworks a couple of nights ago!

Sathya

@WilliamHilsum :) thanks William!

festival's today, but the fireworks go off a week in advance ;p

William Hilsum

Ahh... Thanks!

@Sathya - THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.... I was just typing up a question on SO (been a godsend through this project) and I alt+tabbed, and for some reason, the form cleared/couldn't undo... I installed Lazurus when you told me about it, and it saved the day!

Sathya

7:38 AM

@WilliamHilsum :) glad to help William!

it's been a life saver for me too!

Diago

8:19 AM

I have so much work and just to lazy to get started on it.

In other news... The new proxy at work is driving me batty in every possible way

None of the imgur images display, so looking at questions and answers are filled with broken image links.

slhck

11:07 AM

And now SU is down :/

Journeyman Geek

>_>

no it isn't

DMA57361

@slhck status-norepro

slhck

@DMA57361 @JourneymanGeek I can't open a single question

Journeyman Geek

ahh

now its fubared

slhck

same on meta

DMA57361

11:08 AM

... :/ still working for me

slhck

O_o

Journeyman Geek

meta seems to be working for me

slhck

weird

ah, seems to be working again

oh well, that was the most exciting thing today I guess

:(

DMA57361

@slhck oh dear... one of those days?

slhck

@DMA57361 Well, I've caught the flu, and it's a national holiday today, plus, the weather sucks :/

so, not much going on

DMA57361

11:22 AM

ah, lovely :/

slhck

how are you?

DMA57361

OK; a bit bored atm but looking forward to changing jobs

slhck

oh, that's nice! doing different kind of work there?

DMA57361

yeah, going from generic tech guy / data query guy to Ruby on Rails Dev

slhck

I love RoR – so you've been working with it before?

DMA57361

11:29 AM

nope :) it's a Graduate position, and they were looking for someone competent at programming to train up (or someone with RoR exp as a bonus)

"train" might be too strong of a word, but you see what I mean

slhck

ah I see, well, I've really enjoyed learning it

DMA57361

I've done quite a bit of Python over the last year or so, and understand there's some similarities, so hopefully that'll help

(similarities to Ruby, that is, not necessarily RoR)

slhck

yup, they're very similar – but the Rails framework adds so many magic helpers and idioms, it's really easy to get used to

and I managed to get away without needing an IDE :P

DMA57361

well I've enjoyed Python quite a bit; coming from mostly C / C++ it's rather pleasant to have something high level :)

slhck

haha, I know what you're talking about

DMA57361

11:34 AM

just got to trudge through the hand-over period from here now

slhck

ah, is it going to be complicated? :/

DMA57361

my current team is being broken up and moved around (which is what pushed me to change jobs) and some of the work it currently does doesn't have anywhere to go... but can't really be stopped with having serious negative impacts on other teams that rely on those functions...

it would be bad enough if we had time to sort everything out; but I leave in 3 weeks and still haven't got anyone to hand over some of this stuff too... it's now devolving in to a bit of a check-all-the-procedure-docs exercise

slhck

that sucks! well, I hope you still manage to sort it out somehow :)

DMA57361

well, worse case scenario is I that I have to leave stacks of instructions for other people to fumble over... but I'd just rather know these things were sorted, I'd hate to leave people here in the lurch - but realistically I'm not hanging around just to try and smooth other some planning flaw

slhck

And then there's always the possibility of people still needing you after you leave

At least that's my biggest concern I currently have for the company I'm doing IT stuff for

DMA57361

11:46 AM

@slhck how big is the place your work for?

slhck

roughly 20 PCs

so it's not that much to do

DMA57361

fairly small then; and that makes leaving a bit more painful

slhck

@DMA57361 Yes, exactly … it's like a small family. But luckily, my boss knows how to do most stuff. He can even administer all our mail accounts, reboot our firewall, and even fix a hanging VM :P

DMA57361

ah, that's good then

slhck

12:08 PM

arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/10/…

that's funny :P

DMA57361

@slhck to potentially save me reading it: how so?

slhck

well "funny" is probably the wrong expression. but, it's a review of the first iPod.. kinda makes me think of when we still had our 128MB MP3 players

DMA57361

oh dear... never owned an iPod so shrug

slhck

haha, fair enough!

DMA57361

in fact, I don't think I've ever owned a dedicated portable music device

Diago

12:28 PM

@DMA57361 I had too many. And I get bored with them. Quickly.

The iPhone has been the only exception to that rule, but it does more then just music.

DMA57361

I don't even use the music functions on my phone. I'm rarely anywhere I would listen anyway... although I guess that may change when I start catching the train, but I'm more likely to read

Diago

@DMA57361 I used it in my old car a lot. The new one sadly didn't come with an iPod or AUX interface

DMA57361

@Diago we've a short range FM radio transmitter thing my wife users with her iPod to get around the lack of connectivity issue in the car. I just stick the radio on...

Diago

@DMA57361 Yeah, but the quality on that is quite bad here. The current car is only transitional till I get to buy the one I want.

DMA57361

fair enough

William Hilsum

3:21 PM

Any SQL/.Net Gurus!?

Not even SQL programming, just SQL management really!...

Diago

Depends what you consider a guru otherwise ask on SO :)

(I have 5 minutes and then I need to leave, so if it's quick...)

William Hilsum

@Diago hehe... I feel like I have already asked too many questions there recently! ... Yeah quick...

I have been developing locally, everything fine.... Trying to deploy to a real SQL box and just having problems - at the moment, biggest is SQL just doesn't want to be found - I have tried every guide I have found without any luck :(

just not sure on the connection string

ezpcltd.com:81 (seems to have a few problems - trying to resolve now)... all database queries just time out with a yellow screen sql error

Diago

That's not a quick one, and I am out of time. I will look at it as soon as I log in again.

William Hilsum

@Diago No problem, thanks anyway!

Mana

6:22 PM

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Q: Web games to an analog display for the retro feel

I've been enjoying a lot of Flash web games and emulators lately. I want to play them on a 15" CRT TV + joypad hooked up to my PC for the retro feel (actually an iMac, so I'll need the overpriced mini-DVI to video adapter). I assume emulators should work ok as a fullscreen app on the second monit...

I'm debating tossing this one over to Super User since it seems like that the main domain of the question isn't really gaming-related but at the same time I'm kind of eh about the question in general. Any thoughts/opinions?

Blog bot

7:08 PM

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Luke

7:18 PM

Hey all

Diago

7:31 PM

@Mana Nope. Close it out right, that is borderline for SU, and will require a lot of editing to get it right. To be honest I can't actually see what's being asked. Also asking for resources is also offtopic

Mana

7:55 PM

@Diago Cool, thanks!

Diago

8:08 PM

Why does this question just scream shopping rec? Or at worse which is better?

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