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1:19 AM
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A: How to reboot/shutdown Windows 8 without the mouse?

simoneTo resolve this problem i've created this small program : https://hotfile.com/dl/177253327/47c9d48/Power.rar.html pw: "power"

apparently legit user, but really? Sharing an app you created using a free file host, and in a password protected rar?
 
1:39 AM
@JourneymanGeek Yeah, no. That's crap... It's cool that he made something and wants to share it, but he's got a lot to learn about sharing tools in this kind of environment.
 
ya, commented to that effect ;p
 
Ooh just scraped in the bottom
 
also seems I am exactly one upvote from hitting level 4 superuser.com/questions/490663/what-is-windows-8-core
ow, my head. superuser.com/questions/451887/… I had to read it about 3 times before deciding it wasn't answering the question and wasn't worth fixing.
 
@JourneymanGeek That is a useful question, it is bound to come up. Upvoted.
 
@Paul: thanks, level 4 ahoy! ;p
It is, the reason I asked it was cause I was trying to work out imagex options, and for windows 7 pro, its 1 (pro) and 2 (core)
thankfully they dumped that old 20,000 version malarky they had with 7
 
Bob
2:18 AM
@JourneymanGeek Heh. I'm not going to run that without building from source...
apparently legit... how do you figure that? :\ A common reason for encrypted/"password protected" archives is to bypass virus scanners...
 
Intuition
and ya, that did cross my mind.
 
2:33 AM
Hmm. I think people are leaving their answered questions open so that they might attract more votes. This is probably obvious.
 
oh no! @JourneymanGeek beat me to the top level!
just you wait. i'll be catching up.
 
@nhinkle : ;p
is like a rogue... I come from behind ;p
hmm, hit 600 flags today
:/
I could have sworn it was a lot harder when i was trying to hit 500 flags ;p
@Paul: ya, though I think the good questions have dried up now.
 
@JourneymanGeek nah, we haven't even started to pull this sucker apart :P
I'm waiting for the "How can I do this via script/gpo?" questions to start cropping up.
 
@r.tanner.f: ooh, those I'd have trouble with
 
i still haven't gotten satisfactory answers on most of my questions
 
2:43 AM
@nhinkle: well, answers are another story
 
and there's definitely more good questions coming
i've got a few up my sleeves
 
hmm
win-x on windows 8 looks useful
oh crap
 
has anybody else had trouble with auto hide on the taskbar and chrome? it's starting to piss me off.
 
I accidentally activated the magnifier
 
@JourneymanGeek ??
 
2:47 AM
ooh THAT IS COOL
I didn't know <kbd>win</kbd> <kbd>+</kbd> magnified the screen
 
whoa, that is neat
 
its also on windows 7
was banging on win key combos to see if I could find anything juicy
 
i feel like it's only a matter of time until somebody figured out how to compile Windows apps for ARM to run on the Surface RT. it's going to happen
 
@nhinkle: 'desktop' apps?
cause I think metro apps probably will work across the board
 
@JourneymanGeek right
Metro apps do work across the board
 
2:50 AM
ya
and MS would be silly not to allow it
 
you can download a normal .exe to windows rt, but you click it and... nope! can't use it!
 
/me does wish there was a metro IRC client
oh, sorry, I mean cough ModernUI
 
i'm sure it's coming
i want a Google+ app, for no other reason than Hangouts. I'd hate to have to use Skype
 
@nhinkle: apparently office-rt applications are not metro apps
lol
ya
I want python, but I'm just wierd
 
This one is very annoying: superuser.com/questions/491344/…
@JourneymanGeek You want a python metro app ?!
 
2:57 AM
@Paul: I'd like to see python running on windows rt ;p
if nothing else cause it also runs on android
 
@JourneymanGeek Did you see the Zend announcement today/yesterday - php developers can now target IOS and Android via Zend
 
What's Zend? ;p
PHP?
not of much interest to me, I don't write it yet ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek Zend is a company that makes PHP products, the Zend optimiser is used on many web servers that deliver php content. Their new thing allows you to develop android apps using php. This is cool in a similar way to the way node.js is cool
Node lets you write the frontend and backend in javascript, whereas zend lets you write your frontend and backend in php - at least for the mobile app version
 
ahh
eh, people need to stop fishing for answers ;)
I just answered one where someone was just guessing. Granted, not many people have windows 8 and RDP set up...
 
3:16 AM
@JourneymanGeek Oh that was my question. I don't want to divert my windows combinations as I am using the local and remote machines concurrently.
You cant do Alt-Home-+ to magnify for example, the Alt-Home gets triggered instantly as the Win key
 
dosen't say very clearly ;p
Want to edit the question, I can afford to just dump the answer.
 
No don't do that - the answer is useful, just not for me
I'll clarify the question though
 
Ya, and to the second part, use the onscreen keyboard
 
@JourneymanGeek Heh "onscreen keyboard" is an oxymoron to me
 
3:28 AM
Damn two people downloading the bitcoin blockchain from me at the same time
 
o0
is that bad?
 
It is making my RDP session into W8 slow
 
ahh
My 'rdp' session is on a cable directly between the two systems ;p
 
My uplink is 1Mbps roughly, and I have had to use shaping to stop them using more than half of it - but still seems to swamp things
 
I'm entirely using it for testing, and late night answers.
 
3:31 AM
Yeah me too, just a vm for tinkering
 
crap crap I missed the Win 8 challenge
oh noes!!!1
THIS SUCKS !!
 
@HackToHell It is still going isn't it?
 
Yeah,I need a tshirt
Everyone will be getting one :/
 
@HackToHell you have still chance :P
 
wow all the Win8 questions have been answered
 
3:35 AM
@JourneymanGeek how they will send a T-shirt to me or I need a passport to collect that :P
 
curses BSNL
 
@HackToHell hahahahaha all the time :P
 
Me wants a Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse
 
@HackToHell Lots of the Win8 questions have answers, but in a lot of cases the answers are not that good. Also, there are lots have have good anwers that aren't accepted. So it is a case of trawling though them all. Oh and upvoting anything of mine ;)
 
@HackToHell me a monitor :D
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A: Why can't I pull up the taskbar when Chrome is maximized?

avirkFrom here its a bug. But there is a different version of Chrome than the latest one. The latest version is 22.0.1229.94m while the bug issue is for the version 21.0.1180.89. Be sure you are up to date with the Chrome.

 
3:41 AM
@Paul lol, ok
is win8 out ?
 
@Paul I'm doing already just on your new Q :P
 
@avirk: over mail
 
@JourneymanGeek :(
 
@avirk: Why? Indian mail is that unreliable? :(
 
Forget your answer though :P
@JourneymanGeek Not at all
 
3:48 AM
I think what they'll do is contact you to check your information. The 'higher' level prizes may be in the form of vouchers (typically for the local amazon branch), folk who did better than me in the last SU contest may know
 
@JourneymanGeek yup! you know better. Over mail sometime mails misplace in the way :P
 
@avirk: In singapore. Our mail is great. Though the postie was confused that there was a package for a "Journeyman Geek"
(I suspect thats why they're going to contact winners to check names ;p)
 
@JourneymanGeek Gmail is good for me in India too. Just kidding :P
 
@JourneymanGeek btw you can upvote me If you can upvote my comment then you should my answer too :P
 
3:51 AM
I didn't upvote your comment ;p
@HackToHell: Quite a lot of people are running the evaluation edition - I'm personally doing it on a VHD.
superuser.com/questions/490233/… if you want to do this, DON'T download WAIK, the link i referenced from technet has imagex as a separate download. no point downloading over a gig for a 600 kb or so file ;p
the main/actual release is not yet I think
 
4:50 AM
@KronoS: clearing out your old questions?
 
5:14 AM
@JourneymanGeek yep!
 
darn, I would have VTCed the second question then
 
@JourneymanGeek I just put up another
 
went back and VTCed outside the review queue
 
6:25 AM
wait @JourneymanGeek reached level 4? Congrats yo~
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@Sathya: yeah, I did ;p
 
woo!
 
@Sathya: if nothing else, I have bragging rights ;p
 
I need 4 more posts to reach lvl 3, but not sure I want that level, lol. The SSD would be sweet though
 
@Sathya: I've been trying to quality shotgun posts for that reason
(answer lots, answer well)
 
6:27 AM
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Q: Does Windows 8 bring in any changes to DirectX (specifically Direct 3D) pipeline?

SathyaWindows Vista brought in DirectX 10, thereby breaking compatibility with apps/games which are exclusively designed for DirectX 10. Does Windows 8 introduce any such APIs, thereby breaking compatibility? I know Metro UI Modern UI apps are one such change, I'm looking at from a 3D Applications/gam...

just started a bounty on this
though wonder if 50 is enough.. perhaps should bump it up..
 
I'd phase it personally
(in short, wait a while.)
 
well, done.
 
quick check suggests it runs a slightly improved point release of DX11
ugh
posted a BIT of an answer. All this is over my head tho
@Sathya: does posting a bigger bounty mean a top-up of the bounty or a full 100 point deduction?
damn, close to 1K rep this week
despite rep-capping twice.
 
7:30 AM
@JourneymanGeek since I'm a mod I can cancel (ie refund bounties). So the 50 pt comes back, the 100 rep goes then
 
@JourneymanGeek damn
 
Hi all, I need one suggestion
Is it good to buy external graphic card if i will use photoshop on computer or motherboard which comes with inbuilt nvidia/ati gpu will be enough?
 
@Sathya: 39,991 on the 17th 41,108 today
@JitendraVyas: by external do you mean PCI-E or one thats actually sitting outside your system?
I'd go with a discrete if my budget allowed it.
ATI built in GPUs as part of AMD APUs arn't bad, but the CPU isn't supposed to be very poweful
 
@Sathya - actually i didn't know about external. yes i'm talking about PCI-E
 
7:37 AM
and even the best integrated cards arn't as good as a decent mid range card
 
and i don't play games on computer
 
the newest Photoshop come with CUDA/OpenCL support, don't they
 
also i don't do any 3d work on pc. i do web and graphic design so want to would it be worth to invest money in card or inbuilt will be enogh for my needs
 
@JitendraVyas: do you have any specific motherboard/processor in mind?
 
7:41 AM
for web/print design I don't think the investment would be worth - the usage will be basic enough, I assume you won't be making use of too many filters
 
No. looking for that too. Should i invest money in SSD or external GPU? for better performance
 
@JitendraVyas: planning on going multi monitor?
Most modern GPUs should be 'good enough'
 
@JourneymanGeek yes but not now
 
I'd say a RAM (>=8GB) + SSD would be a better investment
 
^ that
 
7:44 AM
@JourneymanGeek, @Sathya After your answers I think inbuilt gpu comes with mother board would be enough for me. Can you suggest which motherboard i should buy.?
 
@JitendraVyas: that needs a little research. And deciding if you want to go AMD or Intel, and whether you want to go MATX or standard.
 
I'm clueless about motherboards
 
MATX = cheaper but less expandable in many cases
 
been a while since I built a desktop for myself/others
 
Its a changing market
/me is gonna be looking around in nov once this term ends ;p
i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af150/The_FalconO6/… this is a good starting point for picking hardware combos
 
7:49 AM
OK. And I'm sure any laptops cannot become powerful than desktop , right?
 
lol. You can build some spectacularly crappy desktops ;)
 
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Q: Does Flip 3D exist in Windows 8? If so what is the key combination?

MehrdadWindows 7 and Windows Vista both had a Flip 3D function accessed by ⊞ Win + Tab. Now the ⊞ Win key takes you to the home screen, so ⊞ Win + Tab doesn't seem to work. Does it exist in Windows 8 (Developer Preview)? How do I do it (just to satisfy my desire to see something 3D)?

does Flip 3d exist in Rtm?
thinking of retagging it from to
 
no
it just opens a sidebar to switch apps
 
well here's your chance to answer then :-D
(or let me? ...)
 
It dosen't matter any more but would a retagged question be counted?
honestly? can't be arsed. You would need to crop the screenshot yourself tho ;p
 
7:59 AM
@JourneymanGeek nope retagged questions aren't counted - but posts?
 
I have no idea ;p
 
> Users may compete and win in both levels and tiles. All posts must be tagged [windows-8] to count.
 
thats what win-tab does
 
cool thanks
I'll edit @WilliamHilsum's answer since I can't add anything new
 
go ahead ;p
 
8:02 AM
> ⊞
 
well that's a nice key for Win
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Q: Does Flip 3D exist in Windows 8? If so what is the key combination?

MehrdadWindows 7 and Windows Vista both had a Flip 3D function accessed by ⊞ Win + Tab. Now the ⊞ Win key takes you to the home screen, so ⊞ Win + Tab doesn't seem to work. Does it exist in Windows 8 (Developer Preview)? How do I do it (just to satisfy my desire to see something 3D)?

 
ya, it is
and with that, poof dog walk time
 
have fun!
 
lol. he is gonna drag me all over the neighbourhood. if he can get out of bed.
 
8:04 AM
haha
 
8:29 AM
Anyone there?
Need a link to something several 100mb to download to test a BT fibre install
(getting 33mbps down and 1mbps up which doesn't seem right!?)
 
@JourneymanGeek i am downloading it !
@JourneymanGeek wow you got a tablet !!!
 
4433 KB/s - 8.9 MB of 100 MB, 3 mins left :D
 
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A: How to make a Backup of Windows 8?

HackToHellWindows 8's backup system differs from Windows 7's one. Windows 8 has File History that stores ca copy of your data. You can read more about it in HowToGeek's article here. Be aware that Windows 8 only supports the backup of userdata. There’s been a major philosophical change in Windows 8. Y...

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@Sathya does win 8 rp allow switching to classic startmenu ?
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A: Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows 8

Sue VillaRight-click on the taskbar, choose Toolbars -> New Toolbar Enter the path to the folder inside, % userprofile% \ AppData \ Roaming \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Quick Launch And then press Enter. right-click on the taskbar blanks, untick Lock the Taskbar. And then right in the Quick Launch...

 
8:59 AM
hmm some guy asks a easy question, answers it himself and gets upvotes :/
 

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