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slhck

21:00

@nhinkle Is that thing on the back the only ugly part?

nhinkle

@slhck the logo's all over the place, but that's the primary location

Luke

@nhinkle Remember my idea about a community wiki you suggested for the blog? About a contest for cable management and awesome computers, etc?

slhck

@nhinkle Bleh.. that sucks.

nhinkle

@Luke I thought it was going to be an overclocking contest? Something like that? But yeah.

Yeah. I could put my own sticker over it, but that's still tacky.

Luke

@nhinkle Can I invite you to a private chat room and throw some ideas about it to you?

nhinkle

21:01

And considering all the pain in the ass I've gone through with this, I should get something that isn't gross.

@Luke not right now, sorry. I'm at work and trying to figure out this laptop replacement issue right now. Make a new room, make it public, and invite some discourse! No need to keep it private, I don't think.

Ivo Flipse

@nhinkle You should always try asking for something 'better'

Luke

* Public, sorry. I just didn't want to clog up this room

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/4090/lukes-contest-idea

nhinkle

@Luke wonderful. Everyone, go help @Luke.

@IvoFlipse fair enough.

Luke

:)

nhinkle

OK. going to call them and try my luck

thanks guys

nhinkle

21:25

@soandos shhhhhhh... :P

soandos

@nhinkle, sigh :)

Any idea when community review will be back on ine?

nhinkle

So @Ivo I called and they seemed kind of confused when I asked for a nicer one. He said he'll look into getting that replacement and will let me know by Friday >_>

KronoS

@soandos if you become a mod then you'll probably know more about these things... I'm assuming

soandos

@Kronos, I can only hope :)

KronoS

@soandos then again, you may not want to know everything that the mods know... :P

Ivo Flipse

21:28

@nhinkle Just tell them you find it very very ugly

nhinkle

LOL. Well we're off the phone now, but if I do have to discuss with them again, I'll make that point, too.

"All my friends would think it was hideous and would never buy an HP laptop if they saw it!"

Stack Exchange

Ivo Flipse has added soandos to the list of this room's owners.

Ivo Flipse

Woops

Stack Exchange

Ivo Flipse has removed soandos from the list of this room's owners.

nhinkle

@KronoS was it you who spam-flagged all those posts for the Chrome plugin thingy?

KronoS

21:33

@nhinkle yes

nhinkle

:p

Well he's 534 rep in the hole from all the spam flags now.

KronoS

@nhinkle lol.. well I don't think that he was really planning on doing anything recently anways

nhinkle

Also found some possible sock puppets... looking into it

LOL I show up on the "suspicious voting report" because I voted on his posts as spam so many times.

KronoS

@nhinkle LOL!

@nhinkle Oooo... do tell, if you don't mind.

slhck

@nhinkle They're not from Indonesia, I guess? :P

nhinkle

21:36

@KronoS can't really say anything more about it, sorry.

Ivo Flipse

So when am I getting back my new review-beta page?!?

KronoS

@IvoFlipse I KNOW!!!!

KronoS

21:47

weather.com/weather/tenday/33.538652,-112.185987

Ugggg... Arizona gets sooo hot

slhck

@KronoS Heh. I'm so glad I only got to go there in January

KronoS

@slhck you vacation here?

slhck

@KronoS No, I was there for conferences, in 2009 and this year

KronoS

@slhck ah... makes sense

slhck

Met a couple of nice people though, so I'll come back eventually for vacation and just drive around and do whatever

KronoS

21:53

@slhck It's a great place... when it's not so freakin hot

and if you head north towards flag it's not so bad actually

slhck

@KronoS Yeah, next time I'm there I'll try and go hiking or to Flagstaff and then drive up to the Rockies

KronoS

@slhck the rockies is a lot of fun to drive through

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A: Can you actually Wash a laptop?

I have a $1400 laptop so, common sense would say not to risk it. BUT . . . once a month, I remove the battery and the memory and toss it in the dishwasher without soap. After the wash, I set it on it's cooling fan base, set up a hair dryer to blow into it, and let it sit for 2 hours. Pop the memo...

I love the comment:

if this is true, you are crazy — Magnetic_dud Nov 25 '10 at 9:01

slhck

@KronoS A friend of mine went there in January and got stuck in a snow storm

KronoS

@slhck that's common that time of year

slhck

They said it was a hell of an experience :P

KronoS

22:00

My parent live in CO so we go up there at least 2-3 times a year

@slhck no pun intended right ;)

slhck

Pun? What? Where? :)

nhinkle

@KronoS da fuq

slhck

►

Skip to youtube.com/… for the fun part

nhinkle

will do later

slhck

Oh, work. Forgot, sorry.

KronoS

22:11

itunes.apple.com/us/app/chrome/id535886823?ls=1&mt=8

What?! is this true!

Luke

@KronoS Yup. I can't remember where, but I saw an article explaining why EVERY other web browser, except Safari, would be slow on the iOS by design... Wish I remembered where it was

slhck

@Luke Chrome for iOS review: syncing is great, but still just an iOS WebKit wrapper | Ars Technica /cc @KronoS

It's not that slow though. I switched to Chrome from Safari and I didn't notice any performance issues really.

soandos

22:40

Anyone know how to save open tabs in chrome so they will sync across machines?

Tom Wijsman

23:02

@soandos Look in chrome://flags, I think I remember it's one of the flags there.

soandos

@TomWijsman, I set it to sync open tabs, but it didn't

Annoying, but whatever

Tom Wijsman

On both machines?

soandos

Yes

Tom Wijsman

Guess you need to wait until the developers work out that feauture more.

soandos

Yeah, I guess

Tom Wijsman

23:04

@soandos: You're on stable though, right? Trying dev or nightly is another option...

@soandos techie-buzz.com/browsers/google-chrome-tab-sync.html

It seems to add a "other devices" on the home / new tab page.

Dunno whether you can click on the name and get all the tabs, or whether clicking on one of the tabs will open all tabs for you. But I guess accessing a tab instead of not knowing where you was is already a huge benefit.

soandos

@TomWijsman, thanks, I just saw the otpion, its unobtrusive

screen shotting it now:

Tom Wijsman

There was an error running gnome-screenshot:

Failed to execute child process "gnome-screenshot" (No such file or directory)

Still need to fix this on my Gentoo Linux.

Seems en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Screenshot is a good start.

> Fix me: Please update this section if you know how to configure shortcuts in Gnome.

soandos

Tom Wijsman

Saw it, looks good.

soandos

@TomWijsman, yeah, just forgot to edit out my e-mail address (and that contained name)

Tom Wijsman

23:13

@soandos: What about the other e-mail address?

soandos

@TomWijsman, in the previous pictures, my google account was showing

Tom Wijsman

Now that I've seen your full name, I'm wondering where your nick comes from.

soandos

pretty boring actually

so and so

swap last two letters (soandso was taken in many places)

I use it all over the place

@TomWijsman, I wonder how you picked yours ;)

Tom Wijsman

Ah, a true "whatever" nick handle. :D

TomWij in short, just decided to take three letters of each and use that so I don't have to type out full name or anything.

I've never actually used an anonymous handle.

soandos

huh. At this point, I can't possibly change over all of the accounts I have

Just going to stick with soandos (I am not aware of anyone else on the net with that handle)

Or at least (other than some travel company) I dominate the google results ;)

Tom Wijsman

23:20

My handle is safe in overall too, apart from someone who ripped my YouTube. :(

So in that case I've added a X at the end.

soandos

Thats annoying

I think I just got lucky when I picked soandos 10 years ago

Tom Wijsman

Hmm, I'm wondering why you still have that deleted comment thread in your bookmarks.

soandos

@TomWijsman, what do you mean?

Tom Wijsman

This one, am also wondering what the text under the black from me was. :D

Glad they got rid of that system, a lot of people were a bit focused on it... :)

soandos

@TomWijsman, I always meant to look back at then when I hit 10k (so I could see the whole thing), but now just happy its over

dinner time :)

KronoS

23:29

Where did the user go? ;)

Tom Wijsman

@soandos: Ah, I understand what has been blacked out, good thing. :)

blog.michaelboman.org/2012/06/…

That's cool, has a pool of VMs and can launch of a malicious executable in a free VM from his pool and get a full sample check + analysis + report back from it.

So it becomes as simple as runing a single command to automate the whole process one would take to get information about executable and be presented with a nice report.

KronoS

23:46

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Q: How do I create a data validation list WITHOUT using cells?

I have a simple data validation dropdown that I'm trying to do, but I DO NOT WANT to use cells to populate my list. Something similar to what's below, but this obviously isn't working. What formula do I need to input to create a list of strings in a cell?

Tom Wijsman

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