Root Access

Look guys, That fact is... you can have as much RAM as you'd like but it all depends on the operating system and the application you're running - as someone else stated so... Let's be sensible here. If you're running an hungry CPU intensive application that's also itensive on other hardware lik...

Paul

12:10 AM

@Bob I'll do it

It will be calming

Bob

@Paul Thanks!

I really shouldn't be on SE at all right now :P

soandos

@Bob why not?

Paul

@Bob - this is NAA

@Bob it doesn't address the question

Bob

@soandos Good question. But seriously, I just shouldn't - there's other things I should be doing. Like paying full attention to the guy speaking :P

soandos

@Bob, have fun

Bob

12:16 AM

Can't...resist...SE...

:P

Journeyman Geek

12:49 AM

lol

Journeyman Geek

1:12 AM

loving the new google doodle

Paul

Oh cool. Is that Amelia?

Journeyman Geek

ya

I was meaning the plane tho ;p

Paul

Yeah it is cool, they should make a real model of the Google doodle plane

Journeyman Geek

(Yes, i was an airplane geek before i was a computer geek ;p)

Thats nice, i uninstalled borderlands on DVD to install the steam version (which was on sale). It retained my old savegames

Synetech

1:30 AM

@AJ., your 32x32 avatar looks a lot like Jere Burns. :-)

soandos

3:17 AM

@Paul want to take a look at the code?

It needs a serious performance boost

iglvzx

@Bob More like crackexchange, amirite?

2

iglvzx

3:53 AM

Whoa, this is my first time using the Opera web browser. It's pretty impressive. Very well designed.

soandos

@iglvzx I used to use it, then switched to chrome. Never really looked back though

iglvzx

@soandos I keep trying to go back to Chrome but it always feels like it's missing something. The UI is not my favorite, either.

soandos

@iglvzx I hear that, but at the end of the day it is "good enough"

iglvzx

@soandos Well, it's definitely really fast. Firefox is memory-bloated. :(

soandos

@iglvzx I think that is the reputation, not sure it is true anymore

iglvzx

3:57 AM

@soandos No. Still is. Firefox is my favorite browser. The memory issues are the only thing that bug me.

soandos

try it in windows 8

It will cache the heck out it

(assuming that its appropriate)

I am at 1.7GB caches

And no speed decrease that I can see. Its quite remarkable

iglvzx

Cool. I should give Windows 8 a try. I tried it out when it was Dev Preview. It was buggy. :P

soandos

I switched full time a week ago

no real complaints

(few minor bugs, but nothing that stopped me)

@iglvzx, 14 tabs in chrome, 150 MB in RAM

Paul

@soandos Sure, is it up somewhere? I won't have time for a few hours but I'd like to take a look

soandos

@Paul no rush, where do you want me to put it?

it has very serious performance issues...

Its all in two files

Sathya

4:11 AM

morning

soandos

morning

Sathya

-1

Q: Cisco IP Telephony

I have installed 5 x CISCO IP Phones SPA502G on a SMC SMCGS10P switch which has an uplink to a Netgear FS116P. The problem that I have is that my IP Phones will either reboot on its own periodically and lose network connection and the other problem is that 1 out of the 5 IP Phones will not get no...

cisco

0

Q: How much battery power does Near Field Communication require from a phone?

My new Samsung SGS3 is equipped with Near Field Communication, which allows the phone to read a unique RFID code wirelessly from a nearby physical tag. The tag doesn't have any power source. Does constantly listening for an RFID tag drain my battery significantly? I am trying to make a cost be...

nfc rfid

2 ot questions closed and I'm just starting. awaits meta callout

3

Paul

4:32 AM

@soandos Github? Or just something simple like getdropbox@airbred.com or cubby@airbred.com

soandos

@Paul what are those last two?

Paul

@soandos My dropbox and cubby accounts respectively

soandos

So I can just send them an e-mail?

Paul

I meant if you had access to either of these services you could host the files on dropbox or cubby and give me access by using those account names

soandos

I think I have a dropbox, 1 minute

Paul

4:35 AM

If it is something like dropbox then you can give others access aswell

iglvzx

What are you guys working on?

soandos

Will a .rar be an issue?

@iglvzx dupe finder, but based off of the data dump

dropbox.com/s/gv3bx4yr2wrceya/SU%20Dupe%20Finder.rar

As of now, its not that good at getting results, and has absolutely terrible performance

Paul

Why does a high rep user like Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams leave so many one-liner low quality answers

iglvzx

@Paul He's also too snarky/rude to new users. :/

soandos

@Paul hes just in it for the rep (as far as I can tell)

not the only one as far as I can tell

@Paul does the link work?

Paul

4:39 AM

Yep got it

iglvzx

@soandos Cool

soandos

Just change the file path to point to the location of your data dump

Paul

@soandos Cheers

soandos

@Paul, see if I am making a logic bug with the find all pairs part

Its taking WAY to long to run (you might want to use the non-parallelized version)

I think the program should have to make about 533,255,348 total comparisons between posts

I think I am somehow making far more than that

@Paul let me know if you have any questions as to how it works

@Paul you might need dropbox.com/s/fj2xr5o6i23sllk/tagnames.csv also

iglvzx

5:01 AM

Holy Mother of God, this is one long answer:

1

A: How to find the static ip address of my router?

The dd-wrt.com wiki has a page Obtaining Router IP. It says to use the arp command. From that page: If you still receive no response, the IP address may have been changed from the default. Disconnect all other machines from the router and run arp in a command window to find out what the IP add...

soandos

What the hell...

Gareth

someone downvoted it - nice

soandos

27k characters...

Paul

@iglvzx Jeezum crow

soandos

Lots of plagarism as well

Paul

5:07 AM

@iglvzx I don't see why that nmap answer is getting upvoted, it is rubbish

Sathya

@iglvzx --->

> Low answer quality score [57], /questions/how-to-answer shown and skipped

(oh hey @Gareth!)

Gareth

@Sathya hey!

Sathya

huh, new gravatar too :P

how you been!

Paul

Aah, the mightly @Gareth. I have heard the legends of your copy-editing prowess

Gareth

I'm good. finally after years here I will be leaving Beijing! hence why I've not really been around much for a long time

soandos

5:12 AM

@Gareth where for?

Gareth

Seattle

should be leaving next month

soandos

I know someone that calls it see-tle

Sathya

@Gareth ah

no more shuttling through VPNs

Journeyman Geek

lol

Gareth

yeah, glad of that ;) although I'll keep my VPN service going for other folks left behind

gravatar is blocked here so it's annoying using SU without being on the VPN

and imgur has been on and off the last few days

KronoS

5:16 AM

@Gareth did you change your avatar?!

Journeyman Geek

lol

Gareth

yeah, thought it'd been a while ;) got bored of the old owl/wingman pose

KronoS

@Gareth lol... I saw your avatar and I was like who's that? They don't deserve to be called Gareth... and then I realized it was probably you.

Gareth

haha. maybe I should change back to save confusion

looking forward to the election results, some great candidates

KronoS

@Gareth agreed. I'll be happy whether or not I'm elected. There are some good running mates this year.

Sathya

5:19 AM

@Gareth +1, previous one was better ;)

Gareth

ok, changed back. kind of ;)

wonder how long it takes to propagate

Sathya

@Gareth I see the new, old one

KronoS

@Gareth ah... that's the Gareth I know

@Sathya can we get the "featured" tag on this guy:

7

Q: Question of the Week #38

Now we're into post #38 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week. Please post any questions that you feel is of worth and the reason why. Try not to promote your own questions or answers for publicity's sake. We ar...

discussion superuser-blog question-of-the-week

Stack Exchange Stats Blog: An open call to participation for the Cross Validated Journal Club

andyw on July 20, 2012

One of the community projects we have started at Cross Validated is a journal club. The journal club is mainly intended to engage the community in general discussion related to really any statistical material (either theoretical or applied). In a meta thread we subsequently propose papers (that are publicly available), and then once enough community interest seems to be in place we set a time and invite the author of the article to come and join us in chat.

Because statistical methods are applied to such a wide array of topics, there is really an expansive set of topics the journal club can cov …

This is an interesting idea

Sathya

5:35 AM

@KronoS done.

KronoS

@Sathya thanks

jokerdino

6:10 AM

english.stackexchange.com/election/2#post-75670

Holy, EC is running for mod in English!?!?!

soandos

@jokerdino who is he?

jokerdino

hmm let's say, a widely popular troll on MSO?

soandos

Got it.

jokerdino

> For anyone who doesn't know Evan Carroll: He's a known troll on the Stack Exchange network. For people who have been following the history of the network, he has somewhat become an interesting figure of entertainment on the sites. So if you're thinking "Can I take this seriously?" -- probably not, but make up your own mind. – balpha♦ 7 hours ago

balpha did comment on the post. Nice

Bob

@jokerdino Hmm.. Troll, you say?

> I won't just answer questions, I'll suggest radically new ideas and directions for the language.

I couldn't tell...

</sarcasm>

jokerdino

6:22 AM

haha

@IvoFlipse thanks. But I don't think I made the query. It was lunboks' hard work. I just changed a AND to an OR or something simple like that. :-)

slhck

6:35 AM

you should all follow @TheEvanCarroll who is bar none the most sophisticated troll I've ever encountered. It's a compliment!

Tweeted by codinghorror on February 24, 2012 at 7:53 AM

jokerdino

:D

Sathya

6:49 AM

@jokerdino O_o

same reaction ;p

lol

1

installation operating-systems windows-7

Meh

> Sadly, one year later, Scott died -- but his brilliance of mind and spirit lives on. Simply put, Proxomitron is a reflection of its creator: To know Scott's program . . . is to know Scott Lemmon.

dafuq

0

A: How to disable permission to read 'System Fonts' and 'Browser Plugin Details' in Chrome and Firefox

Absolutely possible with Proxomitron. Prox is like NoScript, HTTP LiveHeaders, RequestPolicy, CookieSafeguard, BetterPrivacy, and whatnot, all put into one program. It's not developed further, but still guarantees me privacy no other tool can do... www.proxomitron.info The Proxomitron is a univ...

That was an emotional answer :P

Sathya

7:06 AM

huh, the link button has been replaced with a share.

threw me off for a bit

slhck

haha.. yeah, me too

Sathya

I was looking for "link" button while reviewing

and I'm like where the hell are those!

jokerdino

yeah, just happened 5 hours ago ;p

slhck

haha.. yeah, me too

Sathya

7:22 AM

how nice that the Clippy user I created to push Super User blog posts into chat has a user id of 42

chat.stackexchange.com/users/-42/clippy

jokerdino

lol

Bob

@jokerdino Would have to be longer than that :P

I only noticed about five hours ago, and I'm normally very slow with this kind of thing :P

Wait, seven. Eh, I'll never understand SE chat time.

jokerdino

oh? maybe. i don't share much anywayz

Bob

The mobile version doesn't have a link/share yet, pity...

Sathya

TIL

26

Q: Stack Exchange Blogs Authentication, now with 80% less suck!

You may have heard that a portion of our Wordpress Blogs were compromised on July 2nd. We took down the blogs immediately on detection, identified the problem, cleared it, and gave people instructions to reset their password. We also made the decision to change the security on our blogs - by int...

discussion blog-overflow

jokerdino

7:27 AM

i just read the newsletter.

so, good thing i signed up for one. i would have missed it otherwise o.O

Bob

@Sathya Not SU yet D:

jokerdino

that's rather unfortunate though :/

Sathya

> This is currently enabled for all Stack Exchange blogs except for Server Fault, Super User, and Stack Overflow (the first two are using a separate theme that will need to be converted first, and the latter is not part of Blog Overflow)

boo. we want Super User theme for Super User blog.

Sathya

7:49 AM

0

A: excel cells protection

Protecting the sheet locks the whole sheet for me also

FFS WOMAN. HOW MANY TIMES SHOULD I SAY ANSWERS ARE NOT FOR COMMENTS >_>

Bob

@Sathya Does mod delete/convert-to-comment end up in an answer ban if done often enough?

Sathya

I believe so.

Bob

Then, however long it is until that kicks in :P

Just how obvious are your warnings, anyway?

I could easily imagine a new/unregistered user ignoring the notifications

Sathya

jeez 4 unregistered accounts by her.

I really wish they'd impose the registration required clause on Super User too

Bob

@Sathya What? There's a SE site with registration required?

Sathya

8:04 AM

@Bob Stack Overflow requires reg.

Bob

@Sathya AutoReviewComments! :D

@Sathya Never tried posting there before I registered :P

Sathya

@Bob yes, can't live without it, heh

Bob

Hmm

> I found this article in about seven seconds with Google. I can only assume that Google must be non-functional in your geographical region, otherwise you would have found it as well :-)

That has to be one of the nicest ways to say it.

@Sathya NAA? superuser.com/a/452822/117590

Very slight modification to the command, which shouldn't make any difference (see comment)...

Sathya

8:21 AM

@Bob yeah, duplication

Bob

10:08 AM

Should this edit have been approved? It seems to change the meaning (store as text != store as number and display without scientific notation).

Sathya

Stack Overflow's question #1

83

Q: Why does the /winsxs folder grow so large, and can it be made smaller?

A Vista virtual machine I use only has a 10 GB virtual hard disk -- and I'm worried about it running out of space over time. I used TreeSize to check for the culprits.. And the primary culprit is that /winsxs or "Windows Side-By-Side" folder. What is the Windows Side By Side folder? Well, ...

windows disk-space winsxs

and Super User's question #1

Bob

o.O

@Sathya I've seen that question a few times. Never realised it was the first question... Never realised Jeff asked it, either :P

Sathya

@Bob hehe :D

jokerdino

lulz - superuser.com/questions/greatest-hits?userId=104400

i have 3 answers that are apparently good ;p

or other applicable analysis.

Sathya

10:31 AM

> closed as duplicate while that duplicate entry is not found there

0

Q: How to install Mac OS on non-Apple hardware?

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to install Mac OS X on customized hardware? How to install Mac OS on a non-Mac product i.e., other than an Apple computer?

osx

I want to reply with a "k"

:\

jokerdino

nice one clippy!

Bob

@Sathya Yes, would you like some help?

That is so patronising... D:

Sathya

@Bob make me a sandwich

Bob

@Sathya What? Make it yourself.

Sathya

@Bob sudo make me a sandwich

Bob

10:34 AM

@Sathya Okay.

jokerdino

:D

Bob

@jokerdino Greatest hits? :S

jokerdino

hmm yeah? :S

Bob

What exactly does that mean? :P

Number of views?

jokerdino

yeah

Bob

10:36 AM

Oh wait.

I can't read, apparently.

Sathya

@Bob where's that sandwich?

Bob

@Sathya Here it is.

Just print it out. <some assembly required>

Sathya

@Bob k

Shiki

11:04 AM

and now, let's see how NetBeans 7.2RC1 performs

Bob

:\

stupid Java

Shiki

heh

Bob

I'm not entirely sure how, but a recent Java update installed a binary that came up as incompatible

Shiki

that's where the money is!

Bob

Something about a x86 or x64 binary (javaw.exe)... on a x86-64 machine.

I don't like Java, Java doesn't like me :P

Shiki

11:09 AM

well, Java is quite unpopular

famous for it's slowness

Bob

lol

That kinda scares me

Shiki

!

That picture smells from marketing.

Bob

Printers? Routers? Parking meters?

Shiki

I wonder how much memory would these devices need. 2gb for Kindle to open a book? A lagging television? CREDIT CARDS?

Bob

Home security systems? Cable boxes?

And yes, the cards/passes. How does that even work?

Shiki

11:14 AM

:D

"Of course it runs JAVA" lol.

Bob

@Shiki I always wondered why my router was so slow... I guess, now I know.

Shiki

guess my cable company and the cable uses Java as well :/

and now, time to freeze

(opening a project with existing sources)

Bob

Time to freeze?

Oh.

Ouch..

Shiki

yeah, Netbeans like... kills my laptop :D

Bob

How much RAM?

Shiki

11:16 AM

6g

Bob

Oh, and I guess the CPU is important too xD

How much does NetBeans use?

Shiki

yeah, pretty much :/... but it's like never enough.
And they go like: "oh you just need an SSD... and a better CPU... "

600mb for now, and I just opened the project

Bob

I mean, before opening any projects.

Shiki

588mb. :D

Bob

Wait, what?

That's just the IDE, without anything else open?

Shiki

11:18 AM

It's java. it loves memory.

Bob

...

VS2010 clean is only about 60MB :|

Shiki

the point is, that you can code a huge C# project even on a small laptop

with Java, you need an SSD, a powerful CPU and tooons of memory

Bob

:\

Perhaps it's time to look for another IDE?

:P

Maybe one not written in Java?

Shiki

never heard about one for Java, that is not written in java ^^"

Oh! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Bob

There's a relevant question for any programming topic :D

18

Q: Lightweight Java IDE

I've bought a Compaq Mini 733 (1.6G Hz Atom CPU, 1GB RAM, 4200 RPM HDD, XP Home) primarily for my girlfriend but also for me to use while on holiday, traveling about, etc. The rigorous of my job necessitates being able to write patches, small enhancements and system maintenance via ssh even when...

java ide lightweight

I wouldn't even try Visual Studio with those specs...

Shiki

11:23 AM

I'll check JCreator. It's written in C++, it should be faster

Bob

lol

Shiki

JEdit is nice, but it's an editor, not an IDE imho.

Bob

Eh, sometimes Notepad++ gets the job done.

Shiki

yeah but I rely on refactoring and other advanced features

Bob

Ah.

jokerdino

11:26 AM

i use vim.

Shiki

wow, 8mb. oO

jokerdino

it doesn't matter what the topic is.

Shiki

emacs!

jokerdino

nano!

Shiki

I use notepad++/WinSCP nowadays, but I hate when WinSCP forgets to transfer the modified file.

Bob

11:27 AM

@Shiki It's funny seeing you shocked by that size :P

Shiki

but a full IDE?

Bob

@Shiki I prefer FileZilla, personally :\

Shiki

FileZilla is faster, so I use it for transfers, but if you want to edit files, WinSCP is more convenient. Seriously, give it a try sometime.

Bob

Is that the installed size?

Journeyman Geek

;p

You could use cyberduck, which i recall lets you use a text editor of your choice.

Shiki

11:29 AM

daaamn this is really REALLY snappy!

Bob

lol

Shiki

but yeah, this IDE lacks the same functionality as every text editor does. It's a simple editor with output/task view windows.

Bob

:\

Shiki

the problem is: the code contains errors. the one I want to import. so I have to fix them. but relying on the java output every time I run the app makes the fix slow.

Oh well, I'll stop crying and just use Netbeans. :D

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Apparently, written in Java and developed in VS2010 O.O

Journeyman Geek

11:35 AM

why not?

Bob

Honestly, I would like to know how that worked.

Shiki

Count me in.

Bob

11:49 AM

@Shiki I\Have you heard of IntelliJ?