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Sathya

4:23 AM

Good morning.

Sathya

4:52 AM

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nhinkle

5:30 AM

Hi guys

anyone around?

KronoS

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Q: What's the difference between a theorem and a law?

There are plenty of theorems out there as well as laws within Mathematics. For exmaple, in Boolean Algebra: Theorems Indempotent Involution Theorem of Complementarity Laws Cummutative Associative Distributive There are countless other examples out there, but my real question is this: W...

definition

if y'all know this feel free to answer...

nhinkle

hm, interesting question @KronoS

how're you?

seems like it's been ages since i was last around here

KronoS

@nhinkle thanks... doing good... right now studying for a big test on friday...

Good new though, I have an interview with Microsoft next week!

nhinkle

Awesome!! For an internship or a full-time job?

KronoS

internship...

nhinkle

5:37 AM

nice

that would be fantastic

i'm in the process of applying for a bunch of internships right now too

KronoS

ya I've applied to a ton, and have a ton more to apply to as well... where all have you applied?

nhinkle

applied for some things with local agencies that do things in my field, and at my university's internship program

going to apply to some other outside research institutions soon, too

what's the test you've been studying for?

KronoS

Dynamic Systems...

I gotta get back to studying without distraction... see ya l8r @nhinkle we'll get caught up sometime :P

nhinkle

See ya @KronoS. Best of luck on your exams!!

Sathya

5:56 AM

@nhinkle hey,

nhinkle

hi @Sathya

i have a question regarding closing etiquette. could you weigh in?

Sathya

sure @nhinkle how can I help

nhinkle

the following question is up for closing, and i voted to migrate it to webapps. is it appropriate to have answered the question (as I knew the answer) before it had been successfully migrated?

Sathya

@nhinkle sure, that's not a problem

any answers you would've posted will also get migrated

nhinkle

i know they get migrated, i just wasn't sure if it was appropriate to answer before migration was complete

Sathya

6:00 AM

pre-migrate-to-anywhere-situation I would probably have objected since it would encourage posting in wrong places, but now all posted answers get deleted and migrated, so that 's not a problem

nhinkle

and 2) now that the asker has marked the accepted answer and it appears he just wanted to upload files online, and given that it's going to be a duplicate of the question I linked to on webapps, it will probably be closed as dupe. but the answer i posted addresses what I thought his question is, which is actually quite a good one, and hasn't been asked there before. so then should i just remove my answer, and ask the question and answer it myself?

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Q: How to make files directly accessible online?

I want to make my kml files visible for google maps. I thought about a web service that allows me to upload the file and so it is visible online by direct link. Is such thing possible?

file web links upload

that is the question at hand

Sathya

@nhinkle you might want to keep the answer as-it-as, it serves the question well

nhinkle

ok. then do you think it would be reasonable to suggest an edit to his post making it more about what i answered, and point out in the edit reason that the question of just uploading files had already been answered and that it's likely to be closed otherwise?

Sathya

as for reposting the question & answering - if the question you have in mind distinguishes itself from the linked, then it's good to have that too

@nhinkle as of now it's been migrated to webapps, so feel free to post a separate question

nhinkle

hmm. i think i'll wait and see if it gets closed as dupe. if it does, i'll delete that answer and re-ask the question myself

Sathya

6:03 AM

sure, that seems good

nhinkle

thanks for the tips

how's life?

Sathya

you're welcome, @nhinkle!

life's going on, as usual. it's the daily chore. not much work at...work

wonder if anyone's posted a feature-request for convert answer to question

nhinkle

hm, i doubt that comes up much, except with "me too" sort of answers, which would often become dupes anyhow

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Q: Why is the usable memory on my Macbook pro shown as 2.74 Gb when there is 4GB installed with 32bit Windows 7?

I have a Macbook Pro with 4GB of installed RAM. I have installed Windows 7 on it which shows the usable memory as 2.74GB. Why is this? Don't tell me the 32 bit story; I program for a living. The maximum addressible memory on a 32 bit system is 4 GB not 3 GB. Need proof? MSDN: Memory Limits for W...

windows-7 macbook-pro memory-limit

how many friggin times is the "where is my RAM?" question going to come up. LKFDJHDSKJH!

Sathya

:))

> Don't tell me the 32 bit story; I program for a living.

LOL

nhinkle

heh

i love the comment about the taxi driver :D

I'm going to go edit this to be a community-faq

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Q: Windows XP and RAM 3.5GB+

I have recently upgraded my RAM to 4GB. I'm using windows xp, however it appears that windows uses only 3574MB of the RAM. How to make Windows XP utilizes the full RAM size?

windows-xp memory

and update it slightly so it's not just windows xp

Sathya

6:10 AM

@nhinkle indeed :D

nhinkle

i'm going to skip the community-faq-proposed step because it already has excellent answers

Sathya

btw, did you know, if you post a link to an existing question ( like so --> superuser.com/questions/27086/windows-xp-and-ram-3-5gb ) the Markdown parser automagically transforms into a question title + link ( like so --> Windows XP and RAM 3.5GB+ )

nhinkle

in chat? or just in comments and posts?

i'd seen meta discussion about implementing that

Sathya

what about you, @nhinkle what's been up at your end ?

@nhinkle in posts, not sure about comments

nhinkle

yup, i did see that. rather nifty

i'm thinking of proposing that they do that for all bare links. if somebody just dumps a link, it gets that page's <title> attribute if possible and puts that in. truncated if it's too long. if they need it to be just the URL, for example to say "Go to google.com/"; then they can specify that manually as the link text.

Sathya

6:17 AM

@nhinkle indeed, I'd support it. Guess it'll come to @balpha to implement it

nhinkle

i'll go post on MSO

Sathya

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Q: StackExchange™ SuperCollider Freehand Circle™ Editor

Note: My imgur API key only allows 50 requests per hour, so if someone else is willing to host a small PHP script (and they have allow_url_fopen set to on), then I can have the script randomly select a server to use. The Greatest Thing on Meta Since Waffle Day! I humbly present to you one o...

discussion fun meta-meta tools

nhinkle

that is freakin' brilliant

Sathya

yeah

nhinkle

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Q: Automatic titles for external links

Automatic titling was recently enabled for internal link to questions, to lower the number of plain links with no descriptive text. I think this is a great change, and think it would be great to extend this to external links. When a plain link is posted, the URL could be fetched by the system, a...

feature-request hyperlinks

Sathya

6:28 AM

up-voted

nhinkle

thanks ^_^

i feel like it's the sort of thing they might shoot down, but it's worth a try

and who knows, maybe people will like it

just answered a bunch of questions. gotta catch up to @TomWij!

Sathya

@nhinkle It is a worthy feature-request, IMO

Sathya

6:44 AM

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Q: How to kill a tag with fire?

We have determined, 179 questions too late, that we positively need to kill an ambiguous bad tag, and kill it with fire (= remove it from all questions). How can we: Ensure no questions would remain untagged as a result of this operation (I only found two questions that only were tagged with t...

support tags moderator-abilities

DMA57361

8:13 AM

howdy all

ooo, just spotted the "top voters" tab on the users page

blimey... I'm I 7th overall :D (see superuser.com/users?tab=topvoters&filter=all)

there's only 20 users on the "month" list :/

ah, I see, it only counts users who've voted more than 10 times

Sathya

9:12 AM

nice tab there @DMA57361

DMA57361

yeah, saves having to write queries for the same info in data explorer :)

Ivo Flipse

god that Benny is annoying

DMA57361

what now?

Ivo Flipse

accepting every first answer to his posts

leaving in stupid texts in his question like: The title says it all

DMA57361

9:27 AM

this on SU? or elsewhere?

Ivo Flipse

Fitness :P

DMA57361

ah, other than that, how's it going over there?

Ivo Flipse

the stream of questions has been tempered somewhat

and the questions are still a bit general

and I truly despise one-liner questions: should I run in the cold? without any context

how cold is cold? Is there snow? how fast do you run? how long do you run etc

DMA57361

wow... yeah, not really "high quality"

but par for the course of a private beta?

Ivo Flipse

we shall see what happens when it goes public

at least we don't get discussions like those on scifi here

DMA57361

9:33 AM

lol, still haven't stepped foot in to the world of scifi.SE :)

Ivo Flipse

well I'm impressed with how the mods are dealing with bad questions

though I still disagree about story-identification, but meeh

Sathya

@IvoFlipse tell me about it

Feeds

10:44 AM

Ivo Flipse has been automatically appointed as owner of this room.

Sathya

11:37 AM

today's trivia post: seems I have given away 1.1k of my rep in bounties

DMA57361

on SU alone?

Sathya

11:48 AM

yes @DMA57361

DMA57361

wow, impressive... I think I've probably give about 75 :/

Sathya

12:02 PM

:D

25% of my bounty rep went to @nhinkle & @TomWij

Wil

Replacement motherboard has finally arrived.... lets see if this one catches on fire

Linker3000

1:20 PM

@Wil o_O

hey all :)

Afternoon

morning

@Linker3000 fyi blog.williamhilsum.com/2011/02/computer-chip-fire.html

Linker3000

1:41 PM

@Wil Nasty - and very inconvenient.

tintincute

@Hi all...I'm back again...

Can someone please help me why this link doesn't work: <html>
<a href="http://wikima4.com/assets/images/logo/pdf.png"></a>
</html>

DMA57361

it doesn't have any content

tintincute

but if I just copy the link itself then the image will show up but if I put this in html, the image is gone...

@DMA57361: What do you mean?

DMA57361

eg : <a href="http://wikima4.com/assets/images/logo/pdf.png">This is the text people see and can click on!</a>

you need something inside the <a> tags

and are you trying to post this on SE somewhere? If so I don't think you need the <html> tags either

tintincute

This is what I got: html>
<table>

<tr>
<td style="">
<a href="http://wikima4.com/assets/images/rb/rolebee001.png"></a></td>

<td style="padding-left: 45px; padding-bottom:3px;">Test</td>
</tr>
</table>
</html>

of course the first html is <html>

I am putting it inside the table with 2 columns

DMA57361

1:45 PM

then you just need something inside the <a> tags

tintincute

ok is that possible to show the image right away?

Linker3000

@tintincute You need to use a IMG tag

tintincute

by not clicking the link

DMA57361

you need an img tag

so <img src="http://wikima4.com/assets/images/rb/rolebee001.png">

tintincute

@Linker3000: I see, ok... could you give me an example?

Wil

1:47 PM

... Depends what you want... If you want a hyper line - people to click on it and go to the target try...

<html>
<table>

<tr>
<td style="">
<a href="http://wikima4.com/assets/images/rb/rolebee001.png">LINK HERE</a></td>

<td style="padding-left: 45px; padding-bottom:3px;">Test</td>
</tr>
</table>
</html>

If you want the image to be visible, try

<html>
<table>

<tr>
<td style="">
<img src="http://wikima4.com/assets/images/rb/rolebee001.png" /></td>

<td style="padding-left: 45px; padding-bottom:3px;">Test</td>

Linker3000

Example (not mine): <img src="angry.gif" alt="Angry face" />

^^ or see Wil's

^^ or DMA57361's

tintincute

got it

This is what I have now:

thanks :-)

Hi Wil...

I am finished listing all the apps that I need but I can't figure out how to find the license. Will go through with our pdf's listing and see if i can find it there. The problem is the PDF's are all password protected

Linker3000

@tintincute If you need more info: w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp

Wil

cool - I can't hep today (got one computer to rebuild, and insurance to compare/buy).. and a few other jobs... busy busy busy

tintincute

no problem. I am not at home too. so it's ok probably this weekend

I just got my cable modem I also have to set-up the internet connection

arrrghh, so much work

@Linker3000: thanks so much yep I found it too!

I got it

Wil

2:15 PM

So bloody fed up - all my details are correct on the website, and yet payment fails and tells me to ring them. When I do, they stick the price up by over £100. Really angry

I just recorded the screen of the entire process. Does anyone know of any easy to use - quick (and possibly free) video editor that I can quickly just blur credit card details from it, then I can submit it somewhere... just getting so angry

tintincute

sorry to hear that Wil

I'm not sure if Handbrake can do such job.

or SUPER

Wil

They are just for converting... (not sure on Super)... I just want to mask out a few personal details.

tintincute

2:36 PM

@Wil: found this for you: ehow.com/how_4453087_video-mask-quicktime-movie.html

or there is also Mask Pro 4

or this one: freedvdripper.net/free-video-editor.html

Wil

Thanks, but that isn't exactly what I want... I need to actually edit the video and just fuzz a few fields

tintincute

how about this: video-editor.reviewstown.com/movavi-videosuite.html

Wil

I have some programs that can do it, I just was hoping of an easy all in one tool rather than going down this route.

tintincute

hmm oh i see...if I find, I'll let you know

Wil

hmmm... Im worried to plug this computer in... all built with a new psu... The cpu and memory are both supported so there isn't any reason why it shouldn't work... I am now not going to use the 24 pin plug, just the original 20 pins in case that blew it... but I don't understand why it gives the option if it didn't support it

TomWij

2:47 PM

mumbles something about you-should-not-use-tables-for-structuring-in-HTML. :-(

tintincute

@TomWij: is this for me?

TomWij

For anyone. :D

@Linker3000: w3fools.com :-)

@tintincute: w3.org/TR/html5/tabular-data.html#the-table-element

> Tables must not be used as layout aids. Historically, some Web authors have misused tables in HTML as a way to control their page layout.

> There are a variety of alternatives to using HTML tables for layout, primarily using CSS positioning and the CSS table model.

tintincute

@TomWij: I agree with you. Started to learn CSS but didn't finish it yet. I still have to reinstall my laptop and then from there I should start learning with it.

thanks for the link

Wil

Woot... Turned it on and IT DIDN'T BLOW!!!! Now... was it...

a) Old motherboard was defective
b) Old PSU was defective
c) I shouldn't of used a 24 pin power unit, despite it supporting it...

I will never know... and I don't really want to test!

When I plugged it in, I didn't stop staring at the chip to make sure it didn't burn!!

TomWij

The thing is, if you place it in a table and suddenly want the items to be listed under each other, then it translates to either changing the whole structure in HTML OR changing a single thing in CSS.

tintincute

3:04 PM

hopefully by weekend i can finish all of this especially setting up now my own internet connection. I so love this- it's a challenge though :-)

bye for now :-)

Linker3000

4:19 PM

@TomWij Interesting.

PriceChild

bah just decided to edit the title of superuser.com/questions/252148/… as its rubbish but then at first attempt, explained it the wrong way around and now I can't figure out a decent way to name it. Any suggestions?

DMA57361

"how do I split comma delimited data in to rows?" ?

PriceChild

(sorry whoever finds that attempt in their queue, didn't notice till after!)

that sounds more than sensible!

DMA57361

I've dropped the current suggestion - as you say, it's backwards

@PriceChild true, but it's not great - "comma delimited" often implies CSV files

so it needs something else really

PriceChild

tyvm

bah yes... now i remember that annoying me halfway through rewriting it

i'm sure there's a fancy name for this process... its odd how the cell is comma delimited

Sathya

4:31 PM

by the way @Wil I popped up my right arrow key

Wil

@Sathya good/bad?

Sathya

@Wil good, just took a visiting card & slid it into the gap, it popped up

Sathya

4:46 PM

@BloodPhilia what wrong room ;)

BloodPhilia

@Sathya Not a clue :O

Sathya

:P

KronoS

5:12 PM

mornin fellas!

DMA57361

howdy @KronoS

Sathya

morning @KronoS

Wil

5:36 PM

@Sathya back to springy? ... To be honest, I think I have used it (I think it is what my laptop has), but I haven't lifted a key up for some years... so I am interested to know if the "springyness" is from the mechanism or the plastic membrane etc.

Sathya

@Wil yes, it's back to springy

KronoS

sorry was answering this meta question:

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A: Why is superuser moderated so strictly?

The question you quote has been removed and can only be seen by mods and/or 10k+ user, and therefore I cannot answer your specific reason as to why THAT question was closed, but I can answer your general question "Why is Super User moderated so strictly?" Stack Exchange is a place where one come...

hey @Wil you busy? (well more than usual :P)

Sathya

5:51 PM

nicely answered @KronoS

Wil

@Sathya cool

KronoS

@Sathya thanks... if only I could answer a question like that on SU... been real dry here lately

Wil

@KronoS I am, but what do you need?

Sathya

@Wil though I cannot answer if the springyness is from the mechanism or the membrane

KronoS

I'm looking for a crash course in group policy... you don't have to exactly give it to me, but do you know of any good site/books to point me in the right direction?

Wil

5:54 PM

@KronoS if you have a specific question on a certain feature, I would recommend technet. If you want a general overview, wikipedia... if you want a quick guide, the help file. Problems - server fault. as for in depth training, go for a MS approved course or get a few good books

@Sathya no problem! glad it is working for you!

KronoS

@Wil sweet thanks...

Wil

I can't really recommend any books. I started in NT4 server and generally upgraded/learnt "on the job", but tbh, I have hardly used 2008R2 (well, specifically any new feature) and I am out of the loop as I haven't had a job using it for a while

KronoS

@Wil my current setup would be 2003

and really what I should do is setup a 'server' at home and play with it there, and then it doesn't matter what happens

Sathya

6:14 PM

I'm out, see you tomorrow @KronoS & @Wil

KronoS

l8rs @Sathya

Wil

Bye @Sathya... @KronoS VMs rock for training/learning!

KronoS

@Wil oh snap!!! I didn't even think of that.

Ivo Flipse

see you later @Sathya

TomWij

7:13 PM

@DMA57361: I'm in doubt about this answer:

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A: Fastest RDP client on Windows

You should look at Ericom Blaze, a software-based RDP acceleration and compression product that provides improved performance over WAN and congested LANs. Besides delivering higher frame rates and reducing screen freezes and choppiness, Ericom Blaze accelerates RDP performance by up to 25 times, ...

His profile lists that website too.

DMA57361

as in "is it spam"?

TomWij

Yes, now I saw his profile I think it is.

DMA57361

and I agree

dealt with, thanks

nhinkle

10:12 PM

@IvoFlipse you around?

(or any other moderators... @DMA57361?)

Linker3000

_______@_______ Tumbleweed blows by....

Ivo Flipse

ah yes I am @nhinkle

nhinkle

do you think you could merge my answer to this question with the duplicate it got closed to?

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Q: Should I use an HDMI cable with my video card?

Possible Duplicate: HDMI vs Component vs VGA vs DVI vs DisplayPort Is it better to use an HDMI cable or a standard VGA or DVI cable to hook up my Radeon 6850 graphics card to my monitor?

graphics-card hdmi

people seemed to rather like my answer, and i hadn't noticed that it was a dupe

Ivo Flipse

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A: HDMI vs Component vs VGA vs DVI vs DisplayPort

There are currently four common ways to connect displays to video cards. Depending on what ports your video card has and what inputs your monitor has, choose whichever one you have available or will work the best for your needs. VGA (video graphics array) has been around the longest. VGA is an ...

Here's a cookie for you :)

nhinkle

thank ye much :)

how are things?

Ivo Flipse

10:20 PM

I've been trying to read the last chapters of Learning Python, decorators and metaclasses... what a pain [Decorators aren't that bad. --bp]

nhinkle

blah

Ivo Flipse

and I'm going crazy on answers on fitness.se :P

nhinkle

oh cool, i hadn't seen that one

looks like it's still in private beta, so i can't partake

but i'll check it out when it goes to public beta

Ivo Flipse

next week :)

sadly not enough questions I actually feel like answering right now

nhinkle

yeah, i know the feeling :P

Ivo Flipse

10:24 PM

but now at least I have questions I can answer!

badp

Sorry, I was trying something.

Ivo Flipse

I'm not stopping you @badp :P

badp

Well, I'm done trying that one thing :P

Ivo Flipse

There's also a lot of nutritional questions, but no dietitians to answer them, so a lot of the answers are a bit meeh

and a bunch of general questions that I'd rather not try to answer

anyway, I need to get to bed, so I'll see ya'll probably on Saturday

which also means I'll probably be too late for the gaming session @badp :(

badp

@IvoFlipse I'll miss it anyway, unless a miracle happens.

Ivo Flipse

10:37 PM

and I sadly don't have TF2 this time ;)

and I still haven't found a vendor for the awesome guitar

Mr Woody

Hi

nhinkle

mmk, bye @IvoFlipse

Mr Woody

does anyone know if there is a way to reproduce osx behaviour in linux? e.g. open an already open application from console

badp

@MrWoody What would that do exactly?

Mark Szymanski

10:54 PM

Good afternoon, everyone.

nhinkle

hey @MarkSzymanski

Mark Szymanski

Hi @nhinkle. How are you?

nhinkle

pretty good

finally getting a bit of a break from school - no more tests for a couple weeks

Mark Szymanski

Awesome ^^

I'm just going to be adding a few features to an IRC bot I've made.

TomWij

Hmm...

What's the difference between

superuser.com/questions?sort=unanswered and superuser.com/unanswered

Mark Szymanski

11:02 PM

@TomWij: I have no idea.

TomWij

It's confusing me. :D

nhinkle

huh

that's weird

the definitions would appear to be the same but the questions listed are not

TomWij

Whatever tab you pick under unanswered, it doesn't match up to the unanswered tab from questions...

nhinkle

11:28 PM

@TomWij, maybe post on meta about it?

TomWij

Yeah, planning to seach Meta.SO soon, must have confused someone else before.

I'm mass closing & flagging at the moment.

nhinkle

posting in vote-to-close?

TomWij

@nhinkle: That would make me flood there...

nhinkle

right, but the rest of us can't vote to close if we don't know what's being voted on

doesn't hurt

TomWij

@nhinkle: 10k+ and moderators can

nhinkle

11:36 PM

yeah, but a lot of people who vote to close frequently are neither mods nor 10k+

TomWij

@nhinkle: It would take a lot more effort for a lot of us to get enough close votes together than a moderator noticing a long list and throwing in some binding votes.

nhinkle

ok

TomWij

I just popped ~25 questions into that list.

But you've got a good point, I should learn to post in VtC more. :-)

TomWij

11:53 PM

First time I get out of close votes... :D

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