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@JourneymanGeek X220 question here you might be able to answer :) superuser.com/questions/391205/…
 
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Nice one :)
 
... burnt?
 
Er yeah, just saw that too
 
12:28 AM
superuser.com/questions/376215/… This guy has not fixed his problem now for 1.5 Months? It is shown in features , but it is so old?
I think he has a strange method of trying to find out what is wrong, concentrating on only one performace item, that could be completly meaningless to the actual problem. Getting hooked on something that looks like it going badly, can miss something that might be way more simple.
Been there done that myself , more than once.
 
 
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2:43 AM
Hello all!
 
Oh hi!
 
Hai!
I have created a monster!
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3:20 AM
I have my new monitor and it is amazing. Same size, but very thin bezel so it feels bigger. And it's sexy. And the image is just amazing on it. :D
 
Oh my, see the current trending topic on Twitter... :/
 
Oh my...
How did that happen? :O
 
@sidran32 Hold the end key, the end is fairly easy to reach.
 
I didn't click :o
Wow. Weird.
 
Could have just been a group of students at a LAN party or so...
 
3:25 AM
I guess
 
DMCA claims when you search that hash tag.
Well, it causes a second trending topic too (the last one).
 
I prefer to not think about it. On to more interesting things. Like my new monitor. :p
 
Sorry, now you'll think about it every 7 seconds. :(
 
Nope. I'm pretty good at switching trains of thought if I'm motivated enough. :P
This Symbian S60 hack to remove certificate checking is pretty awesome.
 
@TomWijsman It's not givin me feeds.
 
3:30 AM
Haven't paid notice to it...
 
Was so needed since my new replacement 6650 was erroring on most everything.
 
Indeed strange.
 
Yes.
Me is going to remove all feds but one.
 
@William: Start by removing all feeds, wait a few seconds and then insert a feed that you know works.
 
ill back up the list first.
 
3:31 AM
Now I finally have Opera Mobile on this thing. :)
The built-in Symbian S60 web browser is horrid.
 
I get an error.
 
What is that computer. It reminds me of our old 386 laptop but it's nicer.
 
@William: What caused that error?
 
When I remove a feed it gives me the error page. If I hit the back button the feed I tired to remove is still there.
 
lol
the spare/old phone?
actually the extra keyboard throws me off
also... @sidran32: for photo recovery, photorec, testdisk (to attempt to undo the format), recurva, in that order
if you can DD it first even better. then you could mess around with carving tools
 
3:38 AM
@JourneymanGeek The Nokia 6650 that I ordered since my old one broke a long time ago. It's the flip phone. I actually prefer it for a backup, over the E71x, if I can get it to sync my work email satisfactorially.
@JourneymanGeek Well, photo recovery stuff at this point isn't necessary. I finished that task a long time ago. It all happened before I even graduated. :P
 
lol
oops ;p
 
I was recommended by someone the program File Scavenger. Pay-for, but it's well-done.
Though what I used was something else, actually.
 
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Q: Can we have an answer filter when it more than X % of it is links?

Tom WijsmanOn Super User, I usually come around posts containing something like: Some software product allows you to do Y. Now imagine that that answer would instead be: Some software product allows you to do Y. In order to do Y: Do this instruction. Do that instruction. Do anothe...

 
 
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11:09 AM
@TomWijsman Have to agree with @JourneymanGeek there. Why not just downvote more? 10% of my votes are downvotes … I think we should spend them, otherwise people will never learn.
 
OTOH....
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Q: BLOCK QUESTIONS IN ALL CAPS

Matthew ReadRECENTLY ON THE ANDROID SITE WE GOT THIS QUESTION WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS. THIS WAS SURPRISING TO ME, SINCE I ASSUMED IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BY THE QUALITY FILTER — BESIDES BEING INDICATIVE OF OTHER POST QUALITY ISSUES, IT'S AWFUL TO LOOK AT AND REQUIRES A LARGE AMOUNT OF EDITING TO FIX (EV...

I TOTALLY SUPPORT THERE BEING A FILTER FOR THIS.
 
@JOURNEYMANGEEK CAN YOU PLEASE SPEAK UP I DONT UNDERSTAND YOU
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Like that dude we had recently. The sock who wouldn't write in small caps.
 
11:33 AM
ya
 
 
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1:47 PM
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Q: Setting up a US-landline/Europe-landline voip connection

Maxim V. PavlovI need to provide a clients in the US an ability to call a US landline phone, and have the call routed to the mobile phone in europe, where our office is located. I need to have it implemented at a lowest cost possible. Here is a system setup I have in mind: Signup with a company that provide...

I'm not sure if this is on topic for SU
 
@JourneymanGeek Seems a bit like a non-home-user question indeed
Don't know if SF would take that
 
2:17 PM
@slhck I don't see how that learns them.
If I'm a new guy and I come to Super User and know the answer on question X and I say something like "LINK really helped me do this" (longer than 30 characters, so passes the quality filter), then I won't even notice it was down voted OR won't know why.
If I have to comment on every single occurrence of this, why can't we have a filter in place that warns them?
 
@TomWijsman: Thing is we might end up with unintended censorship of useful answers as well
I've had to work around the lameness filter at least once (though not for wordcount) and there's the thing were you can't use the word problem in a title and...
 
@JourneymanGeek: Yes, but a warning would work. Not something that literally prohibits you...
 
Its still an attempted technical solution to a social problem
I could live with reminders that ask you "do you REALLY want to do this" but it just dosen't feel like a logical solution
 
People also skip How to Answer
so it really wouldn't work anyway
just go ahead and improve what's there
if they're long-term users, downvote
 
@slhck: Indeed, if all you want to do is answer you just skip a wall of text.
But really, people do read a single line of red text on the other hand...
Why doesn't it post it, what's wrong with my answer??!!11oneeleventyone
 
2:26 PM
Yeah, but that's what the low quality flag is for anyway.
Most of these answers are in that queue.
They won't know automatically how to write a good answer with context.
Most people aren't used to the SE format.
Yay, new silver badge!
 
Heh nice, remembers met hat I haven't used my 20k privilege a lot yet...
 
Most tag wikis are still very empty or meaningless around here.
 
I always set myself too high goals. Like yesterday I was trying to go through all the Low Quality Posts of all time.
18,964, before I begun it was something like ~19,070 or so...
Seems that really is a long way to go.
 
Oh dear.
19000 now again
 
@slhck: Well, your count is different from mine. If I work it out the whole way to 0 it would still be 19,000 for you.
 
2:37 PM
lol
 
A post disappears after two people reviewed it, to not let it depend on a single person.
 
thats been around since KDE4
i need to play with that more
 
Hmm, that doesn't give you KDE itself, though, right?
Just went through the installer not selecting an application, that was the most useless installation I ever did. :P
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Q: Cleaning an LCD

Nick MeyerWhat's the best way to safely clean dust, smudges and fingerprints off an LCD?

Hmm, if we migrate over the keywords that one could be deleted, sadly there is no close / delete link.
 
@TomWijsman Interesting, didn't know that.
 
First brain image of a dream created (Misleading title, though)
No SE keyboard shortcuts at all on the review page? cries-in-a-corner
Hmm, there are apparently, but the help box isn't there. Ah.
Ah, that Google Chrome extension is the cause of that. :D
Nope, seems broken on Google Chrome to me. :/
 
3:04 PM
@TomWijsman what exactly? /review has almost no keyboard shortcuts
you can J/K, but you can't really inline edit anything
 
3:32 PM
? doesn't work on the Super User front page at all for me, weird.
 
@TomWijsman This gizmodo.com/5843117/… is a lot cooler
 
3:59 PM
@HackToHell That looks very fake.
 
@TomWijsman what makes you say that ?
 
@HackToHell: The reconstruction clearly forms letter when the text is shown.
When the ink drop happens there are subtitles viewable underneath it.
Why is there powershot in the reconstructed video afterwards?
And some kind of house roof.
During the elephant part letters are visible in the black smoke thing.
At the end of the birth scene you see a man instead of the bird.
The doctor scene is just a scene switch between two people.
French text when the airplane is landing?
Well, the next video explains why it is so. But really, too high noise / signal ratio to be any useful.
 
The videos are from Youtube
 
At best you get an idea of the composition, but past that you'll only see noise...
 
4:15 PM
Something is better than nothing.
 
@HackToHell: I really doubt that, because I really don't see any feasible use cases.
 
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A: How to make my display Grayscale?

JohnI use Macintosh computers, which can natively turn on/off the greyscale/color option, so it's easy to do what you want. To explain the "why" anyone would like to do that, I say that it generates much less radiation, so it's much easier on your eyes and, therefore, you can work for many hours wit...

 
@TomWijsman for the common man.
 
For anyone.
 
This answer seems like speculation/spam to me...
I ended up flagging it as "very low quality."
@Sathya, anything to say on this?
 
4:21 PM
yeah, don't do vlq if it's readable & makes sense
 
@TomWijsman for getting information from spies maybe o_0
 
perhaps not an answer / perhaps custom - speculation reason but not vlq
 
It can't represent the room I'm in, it can't represent any websites, it can't see the difference between a 72 yo woman and a 18 yo teenager, it can't give you any textual details and doesn't have any sound either.
 
@Sathya, thanks - I'll use the free-text flag for this sort of post in the future.
 
@TomWijsman So you will accept it's good tech only after getting an clear (i do not think that will happen) image ?
 
4:24 PM
Yeah, in that case it would be; but as I said I don't see that happen as the way they are doing it just has way too much noise which doesn't allow them to get it any more clear.
 
Facebook thinks that I have JS turned off if i connect via Chrome !
with HTTPS :/
 
I'm just saying: Unless you film a few days in my room, it will never appear clear.
And that's just my room, not any super secret items / storage location / ...
 
Watever
Can anyone tell me why fb is like this in Chrome alone !
 
Not experiencing that, did you try a cache refresh? CTRL+F5?
 
@TomWijsman Cool it works now! I tried to refreshing my cache using Ctrl+Shift+r, but it did not work.
 
4:34 PM
@JeffAtwood, you have created a resource I can't imagine being without. Farewell and best wishes...
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Hello everybody here on this beautiful day - Saturday, where people are resting and enjoying their time with their family.
I saw USB wireless NIC on DX (dealextreme) and think why wouldn't i get one for $7-10.
Anyone had any experience with buying wireless NICs from China? Or at least electronics from China like laptops, smartphones?
 
4:52 PM
@sparkubullet not me..
 
@Sathya I know it can be perceived as non-quality stuff but there is some good stuff to be found.
 
@sparkubullet well, half the suff gets built there ;)
 
@Sathya Quality control and quality materials is what matters?
 
of course, never implied that we don't get good stuff ther @sparkubullet
 
@Sathya hi
 
5:03 PM
hi
 
can you suggest me good monitor for gaming n development
 
not with those details
 
LED
 
@Ravi about all anyone can do is tell you to get the best monitor you can afford
Iiyama are usually well respected, and for playing games you want a monitor with a fast response time, typically less than 5ms
 
@Mokubai good luck getting them here :P
 
5:09 PM
oh ok, can u suggest some monitors. even can u tell me how to choose best one
 
get an IPS
 
:) ok. any brand u can suggest or model ?
 
whatever fits your budget. Personally I prefer a Dell
 
ok, thank u :) will look on it . it will be costly na ?
 
I've literally just bought a Samsung SA350, so far I'm pretty happy with it.
 
5:17 PM
like I said depends on your budget. I hate when people say "what's best x for me" without knowing what's "best" for them or not mentioning the budget. I'm going to drop the most expensive thing out there
 
I thought that IPS panels tended to look better (better colour reproduction) but TN panels tend to be faster (better for gaming) and are cheaper
So it basically always boils down to what you can afford and what tradeoffs you can live with
 
budget will 6k to 8k
 
@Mokubai actually, no - IPS tend to be more responsive & don't inherently have a ghosting problem
 
sorry , that i not known about this hardware things. willl do homework n tell details, when i ask some thing again
 
@Ravi at that budget you don't have much choice & can't get an IPS
 
5:21 PM
ok, then can you tell me alternative, for that budget. or i can afford upto 10k. will it come in that range ?
 
nope. You'll have to settle for a 22" tN
 
ok :)
 
5:54 PM
@Sathya Ah fair enough, I stand corrected :)
 
@Mokubai :)
 
As with all things you get what you pay for, monitors are no exception to the rule
 
aye, totally.
had a friend over the day - he was raving over his 24" TN screen. He was shell shocked seeing my IPS screen :))
said it looked like a canvas :)
 
Aye, I'd heard that IPS panels did look a lot better, and I can believe there's a lot of improvements you can get over a TN panel, but TN is dirt cheap and is good enough for my eyes ;)
This new monitor is miles above the monitor it replaced, faster, better colours, but still a good amount of room for improvement colour-wise...
 
yeah, whatever works good :)
in my case, it wasn't that much of a difference in terms of price so I went for the IPS
 
@TomWijsman LOL
 
@TomWijsman We should have more answers like that, pity they'd get deleted.. :)
 
6:32 PM
This looks mighty!
Hesitating to spend $25 on this however...
 
7:30 PM
@TomWijsman Hello?
 
@Mokubai 1 April it's on.
@sparkubullet Hello? :)
 
@TomWijsman hehe :)
 
@TomWijsman Yes. Imagine way people look at me when i greet them like this.
@TomWijsman @Mokubai I actually wanted both your opinions about my question above?
 
@sparkubullet sorry, what was the question?
 
What question above? The only question I see is Hello?... :P
 
7:33 PM
Bingo!
Kidding of course.
1 hour ago, by sparkubullet
This looks mighty!
This looks mighty!


http://www.dealextreme.com/p/sigal-pro-x9-high-power-3600mw-802-11b-g-54mbps-usb-wireless-network-adapter-2-4ghz-36dbi-115883

Hesitating to spend $25 on this however...
 
There's an implied query there, but not an actual question... ;)
Is it worth it? Maybe, depends on what you're after...
 
@Mokubai Yeah, concealed query to hear other people's thoughts.
 
Will it work? It looks a bit cheap and plasticy to me...
I had a look and can't see what it's supposed to actually do
 
At the moment i want to try to work with it and disable built-in WI-FI.
This is external high gain NIC.
39dBi + it is over 3600
Maybe it is a bit much to me so i also looked on that:
 
7:59 PM
I'll just leave this here
 
@sparkubullet At that price that antenna is one of two things 1) The greatest thing you'll ever need to solve your poor reception issues at a good price, or 2) a plastic piece of rubbish that's no better than making your own "Cantenna"
 
@badp old news :P
 
@studiohack I just found that hilarious :P
 
SU is down... so is SF and the 2.0 sites
@badp lol, I personally dislike the new logo.
 
@studiohack meh, I think it'll make sense in context.
Also they have to change logos to sell the new keyboards! with the new logos!
Just in case somebody had started producing keyboards with the old logo.
 
8:13 PM
@badp though, I am confused about the Screens1 thing?
 
@studiohack I guess It's a joke about how Win8 really doesn't have windows, just screens.
 
lol :P I just now saw the comment in context lol
 
8:45 PM
Windows 8 DP extended by almost a month, for those who are on it and might somehow not install the Consumer Preview.
VLC reaches version 2.0 named "twoflower". Go update! Faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs... Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers.
And our blog seems to be down for maintenance?
 
user30
Stack Overflow & API are still down
 
9:08 PM
Ooh, new VLC, nice. Will definitely update.
@ThomasMcDonald SF is still down too.
Boxes must be going up slowly.
 
probably hardware + OS upgrades...
 
ooh nice. I expect a server fault blog post soon then.
 
Hi guys, not sure whether this is a right room, but .... Do you think it is possible to slightly modify windows live mail (client built in Win7)? Mean just some icons and fonts :-)
 
@Juhele right room :) welcome!
 
@Juhele Eh, its closed source.. Unless the icon files are in the Program Files directory, I doubt it
 
9:14 PM
hola all
 
I know it is closed source, was thinking about resource hacker. Ok, I know I should not do it .. :-)
 
Well beyond my knowledge :p
 
@SimonSheehan It is because Winmail does not respect fully the Hi-vis settings of windows and the icons are very poorly to see for visually impaired user.
 
What is going on with SuperUser login?
 
@Juhele Ahhh. Perhaps you should try another mail client like ThunderBird?
 
9:19 PM
I can't logout and login.
 
@sparkubullet The network has been offline and parts of it are still coming up, give it a few more minutes :)
 
@SimonSheehan Are you administrator?
 
@sparkubullet No, but it's common knowledge - try visiting stackoverflow.com and you will see
SuperUser only just came back up
 
@SimonSheehan It is a little bit complicated: superuser.com/questions/391355/outlook-express-in-win7
 
@SimonSheehan Weird, in SuperUser i am logged in under one account and in chat under another account.
 
9:22 PM
@sparkubullet You must be under different openIDs then, you need to get that corrected
that is not you?
 
@SimonSheehan No, I can find hi-vis themes for TB or FX, but this does not solve the problems with voice output via Zoomtext. Unfortunately, currently only winmail works.
 
@Juhele Ah okay, thats unfortunate. I'm sure someone will get a good solution :)
we have a lot of smart people here.. I'm not one of them ;)
 
@SimonSheehan Yes...
 
@sparkubullet Link me to whatever account you're saying your logged into on SU
 
@SimonSheehan I remain hopeful :-)
 
9:27 PM
@SimonSheehan Weird. Logged out. Still in chat!
 
Chat and SU login are separate from what I know.
 
Double You Te Ef!
How to logout from chat?
 
@SimonSheehan Chat.SE, yes
@SimonSheehan we all know that's.... not true :P
 
@studiohack :P Kidding around
 
@SimonSheehan yes,looks so. I was a little bit surprised as I had to login again when joining the chat - although I was already logged in another tab in SU.
 
9:29 PM
Reporting bug to Admin: logged under 1 account constantly in chat even though fully logged out from SE. Cache cleared - nothing.
 
@sparkubullet You can report that bug on Meta.SO meta.stackoverflow.com
 
From Meta.SO, there is more going on with the chat... :P
 
@TomWijsman Copy that.
 
@sparkubullet Probably because some sites are offline.
 
@TomWijsman Affirmative.
 
9:32 PM
If you somehow need to log in for privacy reasons (public computer), clear your cookies.
 
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 2 hours ago, by Marc Gravell
the stackoverflow/stackexchange is hardware love, primarily. Hitting OS updates while there too.
 
Never understood why soldiers say always "Roger, roger"... Who is Roger anyway?
 
400 helpful flags now :)
 
Ok, does anybody here have more experience with Resource Hacker? I just used it few times to create a localized version of some app - translated those strings to other language, maybe changed a size of the text boxes to fit the translated strings and menus, but nothing more. :-)
 
@SimonSheehan I waz right :P
 
9:37 PM
@studiohack Yep, nice find :)
 
@SimonSheehan lol
 
SO is back up, now only the blogs...
 
@SimonSheehan Ah works now.
Was trying to get over here to speak with Mokubai.
PCI or USB wireless NIC for laptop for business use? That is the question. I suppose USB is cheaper... But PCI is stronger.
 
9:55 PM
Another question - does somebody of you use some custom CSS extension for SE?
 
10:31 PM
@sparkubullet Googled a little and found this: ask.yahoo.com/20030811.html :-)
 
Cheers!@Juhele
 
@Boris_yo Hi, just though that all the people here are already sleeping :-)
 
Saw this. Thought it was a genius idea and I'm surprised no one has mentioned it.
Lame, redirect jacked.
there we go
 
@studiohack Ya, they announced that a while ago I thought.
 
10:45 PM
@surfasb really? I learned about it a few days ago. I know they stopped making the hardware, but the brand?
 
I heard they were merging the brands.
Zune + WP = WP
It already uses a Zune account and the Zune software
I thought that was rather cool.
THAT should of been the Windows 8 icon.
 
@surfasb Yeah, that Zune was a music service in Windows Phone. but they plan to get rid of it, it seems
 
@studiohack Ya?
 
some xBox thingy
 
I figure the music service was going also.
 
10:48 PM
it is, they want to rebrand it with zune xbox
 
I just read that a lot of the zune team were getting reassigned to other teams.
 
yeah. :( it's really sad. great product
 
There was no point in having a separate team for the Zune IMO.
It's not going away
Just getting better IMO.
 
eh, we'll see soon enough. I know that Zune the brand will disappear
 
The Zune has a lot of good things. It lacked integration with the rest of Microsoft.
The player interface is what Windows Phone has.
The WP7 Marketplace uses a Zune account.
Uses the Zune software to sync, backup and restore.
I see it as a very good thing.
 
10:51 PM
@surfasb they're moving away from the software...
 
When talking about WP, it is a pity that Meego is not much active. I also though that Ubuntu is also going mobile, but Kubuntu Mobile does not have much progress...
 
@studiohack Where does it say that.
@studiohack They are just getting rid of the brand name.
Which is a good thing.
The reason why Zune doesn't use a LIVE account is mind boggling??
 
@surfasb read it somewhere - it might've been a rumor
 
@studiohack my friend says that MS always did a good HW. But the software ... :-D
 
@surfasb It does.
 
10:53 PM
@studiohack Rumor is untrue.
 
@Juhele MS makes great hardware & software
 
@Juhele Compare the Zune and the WP. Your friend is wrong.
 
@surfasb that I hate. never cared for xbox
 
@studiohack I WOULD care for the xbox if they started integrating it with the rest of the ecosystem.
 
@surfasb Just tried Lumia 800 in local Vodafone store and was disappointed. Never would give such a lot money for such phone. Rather take some Sony with Android.
 
10:57 PM
@surfasb xbox is nothing but gaming. and I don't game. I might like an xbox some day to hack it :P
 
@studiohack Ya, if the xbox was more of a media center extender, then it would tear things up.
Opps, wrong reply
 
@studiohack The SW is not always great. For example, I know so many people complaining about the ribbon interface and few other "improvements" :-D
 
@Juhele Phones are a very personal thing. Nothing to do with brand integration.
@Juhele The complaints about the ribbon is BS.
 
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