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Journeyman Geek

12:00 AM

@Bob XD. Once I finish the inks on one of my cheapies ;p

Michael Frank

12:13 AM

sweeet! Passed my Admin test for the BP network! ;D

Canadian Luke

BP network?

Canadian Luke

1:35 AM

0

Q: Connect Ubuntu directly to Internet

I'm assuming this is an issue with the Raspberry Pi I have, but that will be another question... On my Mac, I am SSHing to my Ubuntu server (12.04, if it matters), and trying to run apt-get update and apt-get install ..., but it keeps erroring out. It is trying to connect to the IPv6 address of ...

Michael Frank

2:24 AM

@CanadianLuke The oil company, BP.

Canadian Luke

Oh nice!

What type of test did you have to actually take?

Gowtham

Gowtham

2:42 AM

Journeyman Geek

3:55 AM

io9.com/gang-of-feral-cats-attacks-woman-in-france-935340859

o0

slhck

6:41 AM

@Sathya Yay

And… meh

4

Q: What is the Asterisk program event in Windows?

What is the Asterisk program event in Windows?

windows system-sounds

> What is the Asterisk program event in Windows?

> Great question!

Um.. no?

But it'll be in the hot questions list and have 50k views soon, I bet.

Bob

7:01 AM

@CanadianLuke The 'default gateway' in both Windows and Linux is just what everything is routed through, with some exclusions.

route should be able to list the routing table

Canadian Luke

@Bob Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         dlinkrouter.loc 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth0
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     1      0        0 eth0

I don't know what it should be

Bob

never mind, it's probably fine

Canadian Luke

It's a head scratcher, but may also explain why other systems in my house have been having issues connecting to the network...

Gowtham

7:50 AM

jokerdino

Stop with the royal baby.

Gowtham

It's cat -_-

Can't you see

jokerdino

oh royal cat.

slhck

8:16 AM

@ŁukaszLech I actually have no point or question hahahahahahhaha — Skippy 40 mins ago

This person is so whack.

jokerdino

Skippy ~_~

slhck

If I was a mod on Meta I would have probably suspended them.

> This suspension has no point hahahahahahhaha.

jokerdino

lolol

Michael Frank

@CanadianLuke Super late reply... But it was basically just a test on Admin account policy. They gave me this 200 page pdf and said I'd need to read it to be able to answer the questions... Turns out I only needed the last 3 chapters. :/

Journeyman Geek

9:03 AM

oh him ;p

slhck

Supposed to be a "her"

Not that it would matter though

Journeyman Geek

How'd I know, all kangaroos ~~smell~~ look the same.

jokerdino

the females have exclusive pouch, no?

Journeyman Geek

9:22 AM

Probably

I however do not think its that obvious unless you get a LITTLE too close to a oversized jumping ground rat.

Bob

Huh.

jokerdino

ok the Aussie is mad.

Bob

confused*

jokerdino

It's their national animal

Journeyman Geek

Someone needs to post NO as an answer ;p

in the same way

jokerdino

9:28 AM

it's on hold. can't add an answer

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

Boris_yo

10:07 AM

@Gowtham Don't see the logic here...

jokerdino

@Boris_yo it means we are all dumb and stupid

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo: look harder

ok, skippy is just... hopping mad

Journeyman Geek

10:27 AM

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Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek The fact that other civilizations/aliens exist does not mean they are advanced enough to have technology that would allow them to navigate through galaxies.

jokerdino

@Boris_yo stop over-analyzing and bisecting a calvin joke

Boris_yo

@jokerdino Who's Calvin? Calvin Clein?

jokerdino

Calvin and Hobbes

Boris_yo

@jokerdino I guess you don't believe in aliens...

jokerdino

10:33 AM

I guess you don't know me at all.

Boris_yo

@jokerdino Do I have to know you to know whether you do or don't?

jokerdino

Of course.

Gowtham

@JourneymanGeek cat >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anteater/honeybadger

jokerdino

@Gowtham Honey badger

Gowtham

@jokerdino Cats will take over the world soon. io9.com/gang-of-feral-cats-attacks-woman-in-france-935340859

Boris_yo

10:36 AM

@jokerdino In order to cut through the process of knowing and getting familiar, why won't you just tell me straight answer?

jokerdino

@Boris_yo Where's the fun?

@Gowtham Meow?

Boris_yo

Who saw Prometheus?

Gowtham

hmm plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/MTinJWdNL8t

Journeyman Geek

10:55 AM

@Gowtham: 6 big kitties < 1 honey badger.

and thats an ant eater. ;p

slhck

12:04 PM

Man, it's so quiet. What's everyone up to?

Journeyman Geek

wierdly enough? Bouncing between stuff

don't really feel like doing anything, yet I am bored

slhck

I know that

Journeyman Geek

;p

and there's no one heeeeeer

slhck

haha

Bob

boo!

Journeyman Geek

12:07 PM

hi!

Turned off the underclock on the shared desktop, looks like its down again

slhck

Ah, a Bob ghost.

Journeyman Geek

XD

slhck

Today's supposed to be the hottest day in Austria's history.

Journeyman Geek

also just finished mona lisa overdrive ;p

turns out being stuck for over an hour a bus helps you get started on reading stuff you had issues with before XD

Bob

@slhck hm?

slhck

12:11 PM

@Bob Well, we never had 40°C, but today's supposed to break that record.

@JourneymanGeek I know that as well :P

Bob

@slhck ehhh stay inside and you'll be fine

slhck

@Bob I don't know how it's like where you live, but around here, nobody has A/C in their apartments.

Bob

@slhck I don't have AC either

Journeyman Geek

lol

I'd die without AC >_>

slhck

haha

I was even thinking about going to my office today, just slacking off under the A/C.

Journeyman Geek

12:15 PM

lol

@slhck: probably cause these are the tropics

Besides...

can't always cool off in the mud ;p

slhck

haha

mmmmmh, mud

Journeyman Geek

XD

Bob

@slhck can we swap weather, please?

slhck

@Bob Yes, please.

hands weather

Bob

freezing my ass off here

yes, I consider 10 freezing

@Gowtham Yes, @JourneymanGeek does look awesome.

Journeyman Geek

12:23 PM

XDXDXD

Gowtham

booooo

Journeyman Geek

@Gowtham: I think its a RA/SU meme that I'm in fact a dog ;p

slhck

Really? I didn't know that. You definitely beat cats at typing.

Journeyman Geek

bitboost.com/pawsense <- says catproof ;p

slhck

haha

Journeyman Geek

12:32 PM

tho

superuser.com/posts/355322/revisions I'm impressed someone found that typo, in that wall of text

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek lol?

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino: quite seriously. I missed that through three rounds of edits and improvements.

jokerdino

yeah really.

slhck

12:46 PM

Does anyone know how the "Print Server" feature in my router would work? It has an USB plug… so can I connect a printer and share it?

I assume that's what it does, but it looks so dead simple I can't imagine it works :P

Journeyman Geek

I think so

RTFM? ;p

but thats how its supposed to work, in theory

(thank $deity, we inherited a wifi/network enabled printer from the old office)

slhck

Manual doesn't say…

Journeyman Geek

INCONCIVABLE!

SACRIFICE THE SCRIBE! MAUL THE MANUALATOR!

I do think you just plug it in ;p

Bob

@slhck ya

slhck

tp-link.com/common/compatible/print-server

Bob

12:51 PM

might need some configuration on the router admin panel

slhck

Last updated May 2012 :P

Journeyman Geek

tp-link.com/en/article/?faqid=415

;p

Bob

I imagine it just uses generic PCL/PS drivers

slhck

prolly

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I have half a mind to sand off the smiggle branding

slhck

1:12 PM

Man, I have to resist compiling new builds, it's already too hot in the room.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: wet sanding if you can

wet sanding is awesome on plastic

Boris_yo

Is SuperUser, or SE open-source platform or it is proprietary?

Journeyman Geek

closed source

the material on it is CCSA I think tho

Boris_yo

1:31 PM

@JourneymanGeek I saw other websites using this platform. Layout and template looked like SE, SU etc.

Journeyman Geek

oh, there's clones

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Legal clones?

Journeyman Geek

well SE dosen't have a monopoly on the Q&A concept

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Yeah but those use its proprietary design.

slhck

@Boris_yo Do you have an example?

Or do you mean osqa.net ?

Journeyman Geek

1:34 PM

40

Q: Am I allowed to make a Stack Overflow clone?

SO is not Open-Source, but I like the whole idea of Stack Overflow : Giving bounties for Questions Up/Downvoting Questions The Badges The intelligent use of Ajax-Technologies Highly Rated users have administrative powers Reputation system Editing posts like a wiki So I would like to program a...

discussion stackoverflow clone

slhck

Man, OSQA is butt ugly.

Boris_yo

@slhck Yes! So it is open source? Anybody else can use it without legal complications?

Journeyman Geek

391

Q: Stack Overflow clones

Listed here are clones of the Stack Exchange sites model.

discussion stackexchange clone

it is

Boris_yo

@slhck It isn't same as SE? Looks same to me.

slhck

@Boris_yo Well, no, it's uglier :P

Journeyman Geek

2:04 PM

lol

You can always reskin it. ~~rome~~ stack exchange wasn't built in a day

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I'll need to get some finer grit sandpaper :\

only have 40 and 80 here

Journeyman Geek

o0

Bob

mostly 80

@JourneymanGeek awesome in what way?

(I've done it before, but I wanna hear :P)

Journeyman Geek

Much smoother finish than what you'd expect

Assuming you have wet and dry sandpaper

Bob

@JourneymanGeek No, it was built in six-to-eight weeks.

Yea, I've done that before :P

after cutting it with one of those saws I forgot the name of

it was rather jagged

Journeyman Geek

2:15 PM

lol

When in doubt, its very often one of these

Bob

@JourneymanGeek nah, not quite a hacksaw

Journeyman Geek

bigger smaller?

Bob

Oh! Coping saw!

Journeyman Geek

That was my second guess!

Bob

xD

Journeyman Geek

2:20 PM

They're two saws I seem most abused

Bob

:P

Journeyman Geek

and of course

Hand saw

In woodworking and carpentry, hand saws, also known as "panel saws", "fish saws", are used to cut pieces of wood into different shapes. This is usually done in order to join the pieces together and create a wooden object. They usually operate by having a series of sharp points of some substance that is harder than the wood being cut. The hand saw is a bit like a tenon saw, but with one flat, sharp edge. In woodworking and carpentry, hand saws, also known as "panel saws", "fish saws", are used to cut pieces of wood into different shapes. This is usually done in order to join the pieces t...

Bob

Well, in that case, our IA teacher specifically said to use that particular saw.

And, considering our other manually operated saws were of the hack and tenon variety...

@JourneymanGeek Those things scare me.

They flex pretty much every way possible.

Journeyman Geek

lol

tenon saws are <3

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Everyone in the workshop was abusing hacksaws and tenon saws. Not so much the coping saws.

Journeyman Geek

2:22 PM

lol

Bob

Tenon saws on metal ಠ_ಠ

jokerdino

hack saw?

Bob

(they didn't get far)

honestly, I'm amazed no-one lost a limb.

Journeyman Geek

I need one of those

jokerdino

hacksaws are called acksaws here.

to a point i didn't realize it's an English word

Journeyman Geek

2:24 PM

No one in india speaks english anyway. ;p

jokerdino

in the same way as people call petty shops.

Journeyman Geek

o0

potti shops?

jokerdino

it's honestly 'petty' shops

not potti

Journeyman Geek

I always thought it was literal, and they were little metal boxen

jokerdino

it's a bloody english word

Journeyman Geek

2:25 PM

Of course, that makes more sense in tamil

Bob

Huh. Petty shop? Potti shop? Wat.

2

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Bob: small corner store selling sweets smokes, and newspapers

jokerdino

petty shop = trivial silly small shop round the corner

Bob

I think we just call them convenience stores. Or corner stores.

Journeyman Geek

XD

its an indianism

Bob

2:26 PM

Or the ubiquitous 7-11

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek see, you never knew it was an English word being used :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

totally not the same

Bob

Incidentally, every single 7-11 I've been in (at least a dozen) always has an Indian cashier. That's far more than any other store/chain.

I wonder if that's intentional.

Journeyman Geek

yeah since it was always called பொட்டி கடை to me

Bob

@_@

Journeyman Geek

2:28 PM

er, typo!

jokerdino

i thought it was பெட்டி கடை until i read one of the history literature book.

Journeyman Geek

but I think @jokerdino gets what I mean

jokerdino

then i realized everything in a montage

@JourneymanGeek fixed

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Really? I couldn't tell.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: potti kadai, or "potti" "shop" potti meaning box in tamil, or apparently petty mispronounced

Bob

2:30 PM

(perhaps it's time to learn another language)

jokerdino

@Bob one had one hook and the other had two hooks

Bob

@jokerdino Thank you so much!

jokerdino

பொ vs போ

@Bob :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: you're obviously illiterate in the language of ஔவையார்

XD

jokerdino

i am quite sure he is only seeing boxes :P

Bob

2:32 PM

@jokerdino Nah, international font support is pretty good in FF/Win7

Journeyman Geek

Naw, I think the SE standard font is unicode enabled

Bob

I cant remember the last time I saw boxes where it looked normal for others.

@JourneymanGeek Ya know, there is no single font that contains all Unicode codepoints :P

jokerdino

@Bob oh so you saw one hook and the two hook variant?

Journeyman Geek

I'm very sure he's looking at unintelligible squiggles rather than mysterious boxen

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Bob

@jokerdino Ya :P

Journeyman Geek

2:33 PM

@Bob: tamil is pretty well established on the internet.

jokerdino

i think he likes how curvy our alphabet is :P

பாபு ராவ்

Journeyman Geek

sadly google transliterate is kinda not really supported any more

its the main way I type in tamil

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek there was one other service i was using recently.

google.com/inputtools/cloud/try

Journeyman Geek

yeah, thats google transliterate

it used to be built into gmail

Bob

I'd type in Chinese, except I can't read or write it.

jokerdino

2:35 PM

@JourneymanGeek it still is

@Bob welcome to the exclusive club

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Does Windows come with an IME for that?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: you can install one

My dad uses it. I'd rather hand write tamil honestly

easier

jokerdino

Bob gonna learn Tamil? I would help you get an award if you do

@JourneymanGeek yeah, phonetic typing is pretty hard

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino: and you're forced to code-switch TRICE

Bob

@jokerdino Hm?

jokerdino

2:37 PM

i haven't learned the tamil layout

Journeyman Geek

from tamil, to tamil in english, then back to tamil to check

@jokerdino: eh, which one? ;p

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek tamil99

Journeyman Geek

there's the TN government one, then there's the kamban one and then...

jokerdino

@Bob the club who don't read or write Chinese :P

Bob

-_-

Well, it's the only other language I know how to speak. Kinda.

Journeyman Geek

2:38 PM

lol

my neighbours only speak chinese ;p

jokerdino

@Bob ooh~

I forgot Oz has quite a bilingual programme

Bob

huh. Google Translate copes surprisingly well with simple phrases.

Journeyman Geek

Mandarin or dialect?

Bob

The phonetics underneath read write for this: 我不能读或写中文。

@JourneymanGeek Mandarin.

Cantonese is sometimes understandable.

Some of the other dialects... more or less gibberish to me.

jokerdino

like Hokkien?

Journeyman Geek

2:39 PM

lol

ahh hokkien

the best language to pollute the air with beautiful expletives.

Gowtham

Bob

@JourneymanGeek lol

jokerdino

@Gowtham selfies have one other meaning ~_~

Bob

> Microsoft Resume and Interview Skills Workshop

o.o

Gowtham

@jokerdino which is ?

jokerdino

2:41 PM

@Gowtham never mind.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Apparently there's epic poetry in hokkien, consisting entirely of expletives

Gowtham

hmm urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=selfie

o0

lol

2:46 PM

@Gowtham just don't look up ffet

Gowtham

@jokerdino ^_^

jokerdino

@Gowtham thank you!

Journeyman Geek

ooh

thats interesting

the first answer review audit also fudges rep somewhat

jokerdino

link?

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/review/first-posts/132227 it read 31 rep when I handled it

tapped-out

2:56 PM

yeah that's new i think

i got a (obviously) very high quality answer from a 21 rep user w/no badges as an audit

Journeyman Geek

That was an actually good audit

tapped-out

suggested edit audits are just laughable xD

superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/131892

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

I occationally reject with a custom reason "TOO OBVIOUS!"

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