Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:19 AM

@soandos: only for questions I think

soandos

H'm. I kinda surprised this issue has not been raised/fixed before

Journeyman Geek

I suspect its one of those 'people should know better' things

allquixotic

12:38 AM

hey guys, is there any way for me to detect how many X11 clients are connected to a given Xorg server? better yet, the pids of each client?

Journeyman Geek

hmm

might need some testing but maybe w or some cleverness with ps ?

Tom Wijsman

12:54 AM

@allquixotic: Closest I could find is xfree86.org/current/xlsclients.1.html

allquixotic

@TomWijsman that's freaking awesome!

uh... well... it IS still awesome, but I'm freaking confused

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

@TomWijsman: vmware-vmx is actively rendering my Aero composited desktop in a Windows 7 guest; and yet, it doesn't show up as an X11 client, either in display server :0 nor in :8

I believe I am successfully running vmware-vmx wrapped in optirun (Bumblebee; Nvidia discrete GPU using proprietary driver with :0 display server running on Intel IGP)

but I have no way to verify other than visually guessing that the performance is better

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: maybe it isn't using x11?

hmm

unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38560/… may be of interest @allquixotic

allquixotic

1:20 AM

@JourneymanGeek it has to use X11

you can't just use libGL.so; you have to use the GLX protocol to initiate the window system

there isn't any support (yet; until EGL is mainstream) to directly tap into OpenGL or CUDA without having an X11 client

Journeyman Geek

1:55 AM

electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/47149/… this will probably end badly

allquixotic

2:07 AM

more hacks: github.com/allquixotic/vmxwrapper

Journeyman Geek

5:45 AM

ooh

I apparently got my pi running parasitically off a desktop

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek explain

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: raspberry pi is basically getting power off a desktop's USB port

allquixotic

power, that's all? /boring

Journeyman Geek

which makes hacking on it till I get it its own power supply so much easier

allquixotic

Cotton Candy (single-board computer)

The Cotton Candy is a very small, fanless single-board computer on a stick, putting the full functions of a personal computer on a device the size of a USB memory stick, manufactured by the Norwegian-based hardware and software for-profit startup company FXI Technologies (also referred to as just "FXI Tech"). Overview Cotton Candy is a low-power ARM architecture CPU based computer, using a dual-core 1.2 GHz Exynos 4210 (45nm ARM Cortex-A9 with 1MB L2 cache) SoC (System on a chip) by Samsung, featuring a quad-core 200 MHz ARM Mali-400 MP GPU OpenGL ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D graphics ...

i have that

Journeyman Geek

5:56 AM

also means, more interestingly you might be able to fit it inside a PC, get power off the PC, and donno, do whatever you can do with its GPIO

allquixotic

the firmware is designed in such a way that you can plug it into a computer (windows, mac or linux) and it'll actually display its screen on the computer's screen

Journeyman Geek

that is cool

this is dirt cheap, and I decided not to buy a power supply off the PI foundation assuming I'd get it when I had time to go to the computer mall

allquixotic

heh

Journeyman Geek

(it got delivered earlier than initially promised... )

which was 15 weeks + 3 week delay

allquixotic

o.o

I plugged in a monitor to my laptop and have windows 8 running fullscreen with a fully working WDDM driver running on top of the Intel open source driver on Ubuntu :P

Journeyman Geek

6:01 AM

apparently the pi is not using all its ram :/

wierd

lets see if an upgrade fixes it

nhinkle

so i ask a question about using priority inbox in windows 8

go to google and see if i can find my own solution

1st google result is my own question. 3 minutes old

thanks google. but that doesn't really fix the problem

allquixotic

lol

allquixotic

6:28 AM

@nhinkle at least it's extremely relevant ;)

nhinkle

@allquixotic LOL. That's true.

gah. cue the wild-shot-in-the-dark answers that haven't even tested their own suggestions

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A: Can the Windows 8 Mail app show Gmail's priority inbox?

There are 2 parts to the Priority Inbox Training: I am not aware of anything that will let you up rank e-mails with the exception of Google's own tools The emails: You can access the choices made by going to a folder usually called [Gmail], it will be per category, and will not be amalgamated. ...

@nhinkle Sounds like you have no important emails? Can you check if you have any messages tagged high priority? I suspect the sorting kind of functionality you want is not available in desktop clients. — Misha 1 min ago

allquixotic

i hate that

nhinkle

Yes, because I would definitely be asking for how to make this work if I had no important emails being filtered out. Thanks for that.

Bob

weird

allquixotic

@nhinkle: I've not tested this, but label:important is a valid Gmail search filter to reveal all your important messages, so if you can tie that into the Mail app somehow through that IMAP extension, you'd be good

Bob

6:31 AM

@nhinkle I do have an Important IMAP folder with Gmail

Journeyman Geek

@nhinkle: blame the contest ;p

Bob

of course, just about everything ends up there, but... :\

nhinkle

@Bob really? Did you have to change an option for that somewhere, because I don't.

allquixotic

however, Atwood said they oughta fire everyone on the Mail team, considering how bad it is; so I'd be amazed if it actually were capable of that

Bob

I'm also using Thunderbird :p

perhaps I should try in Win8

allquixotic

6:31 AM

@Bob is it a folder you created manually?

Bob

brb

@allquixotic no, it's under the list of IMAP folders

gah

I have a flash drive that works on one computer but the other can't find any volumes under it

:\

probably messed up drivers

allquixotic

I will try it in my win8 VM...

nhinkle

@allquixotic yeah I tried making a filter for important mail, and Gmail got sort of confused. I finally managed to get a filtered label for important mail, and it shows up elsewhere in the client, but I can't call it "important" because that's a system reserved label, so it's called IMPRT right now. So it's sort of a stop-gap solution, but then you lose conversation threads in the client (IDK why), and of course it won't be the default folder still.

hmm. this commentator/answerer also says he sees an "important" label. so that's weird that i don't.

Bob

you sure you're using IMAP and not POP?

nhinkle

well I used the default "add a gmail account" but that uses IMAP

allquixotic

6:37 AM

I do not see an important label in Mail on Win8

Bob

I do.

nhinkle

Hmm. @allquixotic @Bob I just checked in my Gmail label settings (online) and there was a setting for "show these labels" and "important" was turned off

so i turned that on, and removed/readded my gmail account in the win8 app, but it's still not showing up separately

Bob

:\

allquixotic

why does yours say [Google Mail] and mine says [Gmail]

nhinkle

@Bob whoa mine looks way shorter than that

allquixotic

6:40 AM

@Bob @nhinkle are you using the regular classic inbox or the priority inbox in the web interface?

nhinkle

o_O

@allquixotic priority inbox, obviously from the question :P

Bob

Difference between Google Mail and Gmail, maybe?

allquixotic

ok, i'm using the classic inbox so that's not a factor

Bob

Apparently Google Mail was used in the UK. I'm in Australia

nhinkle

huh now this is weird, too. there's checkboxes for "Show in IMAP" on the labels page. "Important" is checked.

allquixotic

6:41 AM

Just use Thunderbird... :/ (or, you know, the web interface)

Bob

Trying Thunderbird is a good idea :P

it's much more configurable from what I can see, so maybe you can narrow it down

allquixotic

I'm sure the metro app is wonderful if you use Hotmail with a Microsoft account on a touchscreen tablet, but for anything else it's basically an unmitigated failure

nhinkle

@allquixotic eh I usually use the web interface, but i'd like to be able to use the local windows 8 client, because of the OS integration

whoaaa

so when you add gmail manually via IMAP things are different

Bob

Why do we have both usb-flash-drive and usb-storage?

@nhinkle Does Important come up?

allquixotic

@Bob because some usb-storage is specific to usb storage that isn't flash drives

Bob

6:51 AM

> Storage drives connected by USB devices known otherwise as flash drive, USB stick, USB key and thumb drive. Also includes larger storage devices such as portable hard drives.

allquixotic

flash drives have slow write (and usually also slow read)... the performance characteristics of a 32 GB cheapo flash drive are completely different from the performance characteristics of a 512 GB USB 3.0 external SSD

Bob

But it says there that it also includes flash drives.

nhinkle

@Bob it does when i do straight IMAP instead of the built-in "Gmail account"

Bob

@nhinkle Weird. Maybe MS filtered Gmail differently (and Google Mail gets through)

nhinkle

i was even able to add a secondary tile or whatever it's called for the important label

unfortunately it's not showing live tile updates or on the start screen though

but conversation view's working, so that's interesting

allquixotic

6:54 AM

@Bob when has overlapping categories ever been a problem on SE? for 90% of the things i want to formulate as a question, i can think of three different SE sites to ask it on with a low chance of it getting closed

nhinkle

hm this is weird, it doesn't always show sent messages though

like it does in "Sent Mail", but if I go into the Important folder, it doesn't show the conversations that started each thread

Bob

@allquixotic Point taken..

allquixotic

if anything, usb-flash-drive is redundant, because making usb-storage more specific to fan out to usb-hard-drive, usb-ssd, usb-abacus, etc. would be onerous and require a lot of editing of existing questions

nhinkle

sometimes i wonder whether such tags matter at all

Bob

usb-drive is already a synonym of usb-storage

allquixotic

6:57 AM

but usb-flash-drive could safely fold into usb-storage without losing much information, because very few questions tagged as usb-flash-drive would not apply to other types of usb storage

Bob

meh

nhinkle

but meh

Bob

I'll just use both for now (there's 700 under flash drive and 200 under storage)

nhinkle

you could always post this sort of thing on meta

allquixotic

tags are pretty stupid, on the whole. I mean, as it stands, it's so stupid that questions totally unrelated to windows 8 itself are getting tagged as windows-8 for the contest, just because the OS used happens to be windows 8, even if the fact that it's windows 8 as opposed to something else is completely irrelevant

Bob

6:58 AM

if it ever gets synonym-ed (this was in spellcheck?!) to usb-storage, well, I won't care.

@nhinkle if I actually wanted to see it change, then sure :P

but I really don't care about this :\

I was also wondering if there was a reason

allquixotic

I mean, to take a really extreme example, I might be able to get away with asking something like "How do I implement a linked list in Java on Windows 8?" (if the contest were on SO, at least)

tag "abuse", tag overuse and tag underuse are all problems, and it all seems really arbitrary, and the interactions between tags are complex and inconsistently applied

you may as well just index the words used in the post body text and summary rather than tagging it

you don't have to tag your webpage for google to search it...

nhinkle

after the contest is over (so as not to ruffle any feathers... after all i'm competing too) I should go through and do a massive cleanup of all the shitty windows-8 questions

allquixotic

oftentimes I'll read someone's question summary and they basically just pick out the nouns and the verb involved and throw them in as tags... wouldn't a semi-smart search engine do that anyway?

questions like, how can i save backups on windows 8 to an external drive, that question would almost assuredly be tagged windows-8 backup usb-storage

nhinkle

well hopefully SE will soon have a semi smart search engine

allquixotic

it's so obvious it doesn't add any information

nhinkle

7:02 AM

they hired a search architect recently

allquixotic

it just sucks up a lot of time for contributors who work on tag maintenance

and confuses new users

nhinkle

most new users don't pay attention to tags

Bob

@allquixotic the point isn't to add information, though. Ideally, tags wouldn't even be necessary.

nhinkle

they go "oh, another box to type things in!" and reiterate the title

Bob

I'd say the main point of tags is to add to RSS/subscriptions/ignore

nhinkle

7:04 AM

leading to odd tags like "and" and "how"

Bob

it's hard to ignore/subscribe to keywords, since they may not be a major part of the question (and therefore shouldn't be a tag)

allquixotic

I think they should license the Google search appliance, and throw it behind the search button on the homepage. Basically if you search Google with the scope of the entire Internet, you may or may not get hits from SE sites, but if you use the search bar on SE, it'd still be a Google search engine, but it'd only have results from SE

(or your specific site)

Bob

@allquixotic well, site:superuser.com

many sites do that with Google

allquixotic

ah, true

I guess having the Google search appliance is only really needed if you have a private intranet site

Bob

personally, I don't like it. It's nice having some organisation on the site itself. A pure keyword search can be useless at times.

nhinkle

7:06 AM

problem with that is, then you don't get search things like is:closed or deleted:1 or user:20088

allquixotic

hmm.... there must be a way to maintain those utilities while doing away with tags

nhinkle

there's also tag wikis, which are underused because the UI around them is horrible

allquixotic

yeah, I know about tag wikis but I've never used them or felt the need to work on them

Bob

it's quite annoying the people who keep suggesting to reinstall/'refresh' the OS. Could we please solve problems without nuking everything?

nhinkle

i tried for a while. then i realized it was futile

@Bob i know, right?

Bob

7:08 AM

Sure, 'refreshing' keeps data files and MUI apps. But I want my Desktop programs too.

allquixotic

I think SE needs to reexamine some of the site's features and get closer to a minimalist approach. I think the SE architects don't really realize when they are designing something that's basically just a re-hashing of a feature that essentially already exists, and we get a lot of "redundant clutter"

the redundancies come from several places: one is overlap between different SE sites that have very subtle differences in topicality; one is different UI elements (like tag wikis and community wikis) which have very subtle differences in functionality.

when things have such subtle differences, the purpose of having them is rather dubious; it's likely much less confusion and more centralized information if you just incrementally improve the few core features already there and expand their use cases to whatever you're targeting with your new gee-whiz feature that overlaps 75% with something else

nhinkle

@allquixotic site scope overlap - although confusing - is here to stay. they feel pretty strongly about developing strong niche communities, and there is some evidence to support it.

i can't say i entirely agree with it, but that's unlikely to change. over joel, jeff, shog, rebecca, and others' dead bodies.

allquixotic

I don't think the site scope overlap builds niche communities. Rather, it just leads to sites that all become a carbon copy of eachother as time goes on

I observe a natural, very gradual expansion of the accepted items of topicality at each of the sites, as they grow longer in the tooth

Unless that is curbed, I think you will see virtually no difference between SU, SF and SO within a couple years

the same questions being asked and not migrated or closed as OT

nhinkle

@allquixotic that makes no sense whatsoever. SOFU at least have very different scopes

where you do see convergence is sites like Unix and Linux vs. Ubuntu vs. SU

allquixotic

I don't know... I've hit several cases where a question is asked on SU where the answer is on SF and I just link them to there, and it doesn't get closed here because the mods think it's okay to have a separate question here for it because it's not a "duplicate" if it exists on another site

and I've answered very substantial programming questions on SU that got upvoted and had views from moderators with no close

nhinkle

7:16 AM

there's a little overlap, but really, programming, computer usage, and sysadmin are all substantially different

Bob

huh

@JourneymanGeek askubuntu.com/questions/211578/…

allquixotic

at their core they are different, but when anomalies start showing up where the strict niche community topics aren't being strictly adhered to, it contributes to the gradual widening (using precedent as justification) of the topicality

for example, how many server-related questions that are not related to the desktop user experience get asked without being closed on SU? I'd say I've answered about 100 of them

at first it's just one or two questions that seem not to get closed because they have good answers, but over time the lines between the sites are noticeably starting to blur

it's almost a popularity contest now

the site where people think their question gets the most views -- that's where they ask it

nhinkle

yeah but you're not going to show up on SU asking questions about how to configure your active directory forest or your DNS round robin or something like that. and if you did, we'd shunt it to SF

it's OK for those things that are near the edges between subjects - unavoidable, really. but you aren't going to see C# programming questions on SU or windows personalization questions on SO

Bob

@allquixotic Except SF prohibits questions being asked from a home environment, server or not.

nhinkle

yeah, that too. SF are your stereotypical BOFH's in a way

allquixotic

7:22 AM

well, the veteran consistent users of the sites behave in a very different way from the casual people who have very low activity... once you have been around the sites enough you pretty much know where to ask your questions

Bob

If you're good enough, you can pretend you're not at home, assuming the question itself is acceptable :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: precisely what I'd do

allquixotic

but if you look at the activity overall on any of the SE sites, there's a very dense population of people at the top (in terms of reputation and activity) consisting of about 100 to 200 people, and then a loooooooooooooooooooooooong tail of thousands upon thousands with rep from, oh, 1 - 100

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: which is kinda normal

Bob

@JourneymanGeek funny thing is, even with that rule people asking about configuring apache, etc., are getting shunted from SO

allquixotic

7:23 AM

the people at the top know what's going on and we don't have to police them or even doubt the topicality of their questions, most of the time

but the rest are going to just bombard the sites with questions that are quite often off topic

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: thats why I hang out on SF chat

Bob

And those people typically are asking about setting up a personal server, you know, at home :P

Journeyman Geek

gotta learn the culture, and the topper guys know me

nhinkle

@allquixotic 1-101 :P

Bob

@nhinkle can't we exclude 101, which is those who've made 200+ on other sites?

well, back to win7

nhinkle

7:25 AM

i trust users with 96 rep with more than those with 101

Bob

brb

nhinkle

@Bob that was my point

allquixotic

be glad I'm not at the helm of SE because I'd merge SF, SO, WA, AU, AE, AD and SU into a single "Computer Technology" site and leave it at that. Programmers is out because it's too touchy-feely and not directly about the tech.

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

then the other religion sites, language sites, productivity, etc. all have fairly well-defined borders

Journeyman Geek

7:26 AM

noooo

allquixotic

but the sites that are about, you know, computer technology...

nhinkle

@allquixotic according to the folks in charge, we don't do that because then we'd be massive and there'd be no community and we'd be just like quora

Bob

@allquixotic then you'd need tags or... something... to determine how technical the response should be

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: cultures on the site are really different

I don't know about SO, but SU and SF arn't that alike culturally

Bob

SO's culture just bleeds everywhere :P

allquixotic

7:27 AM

well there are plenty of sysadmins who hang out on SU

I probably honestly belong on SO, being a proficient programmer in several languages, but I enjoy employing programming techniques to end-user problems, hence SU

Bob

@allquixotic but we have to keep in mind that questions here are often from people who have no clue

which SF doesn't normally have to worry about, especially considering the no home user rule

allquixotic

bleh... okay, okay, okay, okay, okay... you got me... I just basically defeated my own argument with an admission of my own

Journeyman Geek

lol

BITCHSLAPPED BY THE COLD HAND OF SELF-LOGIC!

allquixotic

My favorite color is blue. No, wait! Yellow!!!

O_o

A user named "stackexchange" just came in, and only has 1 rep... am I to believe that the site is participating in our chat now? (Clippy aside)

nhinkle

stackexchange

1

allquixotic

7:32 AM

RUN AWAY, IT'S BECOME SENTIENT!!!!

nhinkle

hmm. registered with a mailinator account, too. cute.

allquixotic

Quick! Tell Joel that they need to pull the plug on the server!

Don't let it hack into NORAD!

Bob

wut

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Q: Ontology advantages and disadvantages

what does distinct ontology from databases and knowledge-bases? Ontology advantages and disadvantages from them?

Journeyman Geek

ITS TOO LATE!

nhinkle

@Bob want me to delete it or do you all want to get your cheery close votes in first?

Bob

7:35 AM

I don't even know what the heck he's asking :P

nhinkle

reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/12gxmu/…

allquixotic

@nhinkle let me flag it so I can get a helpful

nhinkle

@allquixotic why did you even bother editing?

allquixotic

:D

nhinkle

man i spoil you guys

allquixotic

7:36 AM

it sounds like a homework question from a master's level databases course

nhinkle

@allquixotic you gonna flag that or what?

allquixotic

nope, i just VTCed it

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

i'll forego the flag. I'm going to trudge through the Late Answers queue (again...) and flag some really poor answers that are either spam or like "uhh, i have a question, this site is weird" etc

i have a decent helpful to declined ratio

Journeyman Geek

what's with the massive influx there?

allquixotic

7:38 AM

no clue

it's under 1000 now though

nhinkle

oh man so close. just got the 14th/15 posts with 3 upvotes i need for the contest

allquixotic

man, i really hate answers that contain about 2-3 sentences that more or less rehash something that someone said in the comments or as an answer....

I mean, I can't really flag it because it's not offensive, and it's not entirely wrong (even that wouldn't be enough to flag it unless it would destroy data or something), but it's just... duplicate information

it's just noise....

crap like this: superuser.com/a/381166/144607

nhinkle

i take great pleasure in deleting old, useless, 0-score answers

allquixotic

oh really?

some of the other mods declined me for flagging stuff like that, so i've been a bit more careful

nhinkle

oh yes. i cackle maniacally while stroking the evil cat on my shoulder

ok maybe not quite.

allquixotic

7:41 AM

lol

nhinkle

hm. we all have a different style, and it depends on the specific post of course

i rarely decline a flag though if it looks like it was made in good faith and isn't completely misguided

allquixotic

for some reason, I keep coming across 0-vote late answers by new users that were edited by slhck or dbeck

if they're edited by a mod, I'm very unlikely to do anything but skip it

unless it adds to the discussion, then +1

nhinkle

why not -1?

allquixotic

because I'd run out of rep

-1 would be fine if it didn't take rep... the other day I lost like 10 rep for reviewing and downvoting dubious answers that weren't bad enough to delete

nhinkle

yeah but you make that up with 1 upvote

allquixotic

7:45 AM

or maybe they were, depending on who you ask

nhinkle

0

Q: Is it possible Installing a Windows 8 Modern UI app without the Windows Store?

I was wondering if there was any way at present to install a Modern UI/Metro app without using the native Windows Store app on Windows 8. It would be also helpful if you provide information on how exactly the app gets installed from the Windows Store, and weather or not piracy of apps could be ...

windows windows-8 modern-ui piracy metro-app

i'm not sure i'm comfortable with where this is going

> It would be also helpful if you provide information on how exactly the app gets installed from the Windows Store, and weather or not piracy of apps could be possible in the near future or not. Thanks!

allquixotic

well they could be asking from a perspective of an app developer trying to prevent piracy

but an app developer would be smart enough not to mistake "weather" and "whether"

Bob

@allquixotic you have too much faith

nhinkle

@allquixotic have you ever looked in an app store?

or for that matter, on stack overflow questions tagged i-phone or objective-c?

allquixotic

@nhinkle not really -- I hear about apps on the web or word of mouth and search for specific apps by name and they're usually good

I don't search an app store for a search term for an app I want because I know I'm going to get cruft

> /yoo partition is 16 GB, vfat filesystem

ROFL... /yoo ? What is wrong with this guy :)

nhinkle

7:52 AM

ooh just what i needed

downloadmoreram.com/download.html

allquixotic

lol

that's great.... as soon as the download finished I re-ran cat /proc/meminfo and it showed my RAM doubled

i love 3 AM infomercials

there's this vacuum cleaner advertisement and this woman is crying because she's so happy about her new vacuum cleaner

"this vacuum cleaner really sucks!"

Journeyman Geek

actually, there's this trick where you COMPRESS YOUR RAM for more ram ;p

which is wierd

allquixotic

I've played with that, but it has a goodly performance overhead, and the system likes to keep around a cache of the decompressed data from the compressed ram too, which also defeats some of the purpose

transcendental memory, zram, etc

that would be incredibly useful on a computer with slow, small capacity RAM and a very high-end processor, but I don't know of many such systems

usually the CPU and the RAM go hand in hand... either you can afford to trick out your system or you can't or don't think it's worth it

nhinkle

that sounds extremely useless

allquixotic

depends on the data stored in RAM

if you have a 10 GB text file containing highly compressible English language text, you could probably shrink it down into the 3 GB range by compressing it, and be able to store the entire file in RAM (compressed) rather than hitting up the disk a lot

nhinkle

8:09 AM

true

ah. good ol' "do the needful"

good job @Bob

superuser.com/questions/tagged/wundows-7

allquixotic

i think zcache also compresses the disk page cache, so if you need to repeatedly read from very low entropy data, it can be good

Bob

@nhinkle oh damn.

allquixotic

lol, wundows

the wunderful wurld of wundows

Bob

wait, how did that happen

> drivers usb-flash-drive usb-storage windows-7

that's the list of tags under edit

allquixotic

where'd you read "do the needful"? XD people say that at work all the time

Bob

8:13 AM

Unless @nhinkle fixed it, in which case thanks

allquixotic

damn, I want Integer.MAX_INT bit color now

Bob

lol

o.O

@nhinkle seriously, how did that happen?

allquixotic

i love wine

Bob

there's no tag synonym for wundows-7 to windows-7, the question hasn't been retagged...

I am very confused right now.

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic you work with indians, thats why

allquixotic

8:19 AM

lol

i've heard lakh and "do the needful" and all kinds of stuff

Journeyman Geek

either I've gotten better at reading docs, or this IRC server has great documentation

allquixotic

Indian English really is a separate language

I'm a translator, that's my job (for the tech writing part of my job)

nhinkle

@Bob you typed wundows?

allquixotic

it looks like i'm correcting bad English grammar. I'm not. I'm translating Indian English into US english

Bob

@nhinkle but there's no traces of it now

nhinkle

8:20 AM

@Bob i did a tag merge

Bob

either you did some mod-hack retagging, or... I dunno :P

ah... you can do that without setting up a synonym?

thanks :P

allquixotic

@Bob never doubt the ♦

"Can...?" is answered by "Yes" when it comes to ♦

/sleep

nhinkle

@allquixotic except for when the answer is "no we have to pester an employee to do that" or "ummm i don't think that exists"

@Bob i figured no point setting a synonym for a one-off typo

alright folks i need to sleep so i can study my brains out tomorrow

Journeyman Geek

8:51 AM

o0

I got the windows 8 media pack e mail... in hebrew

soandos

9:06 AM

@JourneymanGeek if need be I can translate

Journeyman Geek

@soandos: gmail did it automatically, its just odd ;p

soandos

got it

Bob

o.O

I get the weirdest driver issues: superuser.com/questions/499333/…

@nhinkle ah, right, thanks.

Bob

10:04 AM

@r.tanner.f congrats on level 4

njallam

11:03 AM

Anyone know how to solve the "The paper size of section 1 is different" message appearing every time I try and print something with Word. (Other than my printer just hates me, I know that much already)

My Printer is A4 and my settings are A4

Bob

@njallam Do you know where the sections are defined?

njallam

@Bob Page Setup?

Bob

I mean, do you know where your section breaks are?

njallam

Wait a sec.... While herp derping in the Print setting apparently my printer currently thinks it is printing letter size...

Lemme try something

Bob

lol

njallam

11:12 AM

Why do printers hate me?

Bob

somethingofthatilk.com/index.php?id=454

njallam

That graph is 100% truth

Ivo Flipse

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Q: How to really turn off hibernation in Win7

I've tried everything I can think off to turn off hibernation. I have disabled it in power management, used powercfg -h off and it almost works. It works when I execute the command but when I reboot the file hiberfil.sys is created again. How do I do to turn off hibernation and delete the hiber...

windows-7 hibernate

Would turning it off also remove the hibernate file?

njallam

Problem solved

Bob

@IvoFlipse IIRC. Wait a sec, I'll check (can't you? :P)

Ivo Flipse

11:15 AM

I think it does, just want to be sure

njallam

I love how when I tell someone about a problem I'm having, I figure can immediately figure it out

Bob

yup

Ivo Flipse

I do seem to have more disk space

Bob

hiberfil.sys just disappeared

Ivo Flipse

Great, because I only use Sleep mode anyway

and this 64 gb drive could use the space

I'm reading HowToGeek's guide to Windows 8

Bob

11:15 AM

He said it gets recreated on reboot, though

so I dunno

also, you can increase compression of the file

Ivo Flipse

howtogeek.com/127539/the-howtogeek-guide-to-windows8

Bob

@IvoFlipse powercfg -h -size 50

Specifies the desired hiberfile size in percentage of the
total memory. The default size cannot be smaller than 50.
This switch will also enable the hiberfile automatically.

default is 75%

Ivo Flipse

Well I'll first have to wait for it to return

Bob

lol

yay, my flash drive works :D

...and I have to wait two days to accept my own answer

:\

njallam

@Bob theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

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Bob