Root Access

@ave I am able to type text in text editor on mac but when I try to change the modifier keys on mac I am not able to change them as it does not show my keyboard.

Bob

4:05 AM

Do I want to know what your job description is? — Marcus Müller 22 hours ago

@statox The person who wrote this answer may not be the one who lost the password. Just the one he lost it to ;) — JollyJoker 17 hours ago

Journeyman Geek

Oh that guy ;p

user226528

4:50 AM

This guy has been doing this since I came to SU and I twice complained about it on Meta.

user226528

I remember you told me to assume good faith but this is clearly getting out of hand.

Journeyman Geek

5:18 AM

Saying someone is on drugs is not cool.

shrug

Flag and move on.

user226528

You do that all the times.

user226528

Flag for what?

Journeyman Geek

shrug

If you're not happy with a comment, you flag the comments

not make acccusations like that in a public space.

ADHD Cat

I'm on drugs and I'm cool.

user226528

Translation: Shut up and be harassed?

Journeyman Geek

5:19 AM

Also, please do not say someone else is on drugs.

user226528

@JourneymanGeek Then lead by example.

Journeyman Geek

@FleetCommand no, deal with it appropriately, through proper channels

@FleetCommand who exactly have I accused of being on drugs?

ADHD Cat

Someone else is on drugs.

user226528

@JourneymanGeek Me

Journeyman Geek

Evidence please?

user226528

5:20 AM

Hold on while I search the record.

Journeyman Geek

Cause I do think we've had conversations about what I feel is your tendancy to gaslight folks.

ADHD Cat

@JourneymanGeek If that was directed at me I recommend you Google "Drug consumption statistics"

Journeyman Geek

and if you're going to keep making accusations like this, and not backing it up, I'm not going to be happy

@ADHDCat If you're on drugs, its fine to say you are in many cases.

Using so as an accusatory or even compansatory thing about someone's behaviour is not cool

ADHD Cat

Oh, FleetCommand has accused people of being on drugs

Journeyman Geek

er... actually, he just did

bwDraco

5:22 AM

le sigh

Journeyman Geek

and I'm not happy about it

user226528

@JourneymanGeek Why can I not see more than 39 chat search results?

Journeyman Geek

donno

here

let me help

chat.stackexchange.com/…

this is every time I have said "on drugs" on chat

user226528

Thanks.

user226528

There it is.

user226528

5:25 AM

May 29 at 12:05, by Journeyman Geek

Oct 5 '13 at 4:53, by Journeyman Geek

Go away spammer. You are drunk. Or on drugs. Or posting using baysian algorithms. While drunk, and on drugs, AND abstract mathematics. — Journeyman Geek 11 secs ago

Journeyman Geek

ah

Do you even remember the context?

user226528

There was a context too? The message is quite clear: You are calling me a spammer who is drunk or on drugs.

wait

...what?

Its a quote

5:26 AM

if you read ... about ... two messages above that

May 29 at 12:01, by Journeyman Geek

I got bored and decided to history-chat-stalk myself

Journeyman Geek

If only you knew what I was...

WAIT, I'M a MOD! I SEE IT ALL!

@FleetCommand I'm mildly concerned that you think I'm insulting you, when I'm talking about a spammer.

user226528

@JourneymanGeek Huh? You weren't?

Journeyman Geek

Now that we have cleared up what was obviously a misunderstanding...

user226528

Actually, I didn't come here to complain about you today, so yes, we are cool.

Journeyman Geek

I've consistantly told folks not to do that.

user226528

5:29 AM

And that pro tip you gave me the other day about Windows ISO was extra cool.

Journeyman Geek

Any form of personal attack is unwelcome, and if I actually do do that, you guys are free to yell at me, or tell on me to the CM team.

we cool?

(also in context, I'd find being called a spammer, or being on abstract mathematics far more offensive)

user226528

Okay... awkward question: I am assuming good faith right now but I am wondering what this is:

user226528

May 16 at 0:42, by Journeyman Geek

@TMLCat Stop being off your head on drugs :(

user226528

It is a joke, right?

Journeyman Geek

@FleetCommand oh he was quite literally talking about having blackouts

user226528

5:31 AM

Thanks God. Another matter cleared.

Journeyman Geek

May 16 at 0:20, by TML Cat

I don't remember a thing about yesterday

You really need to read a few lines up. I'm notorious for not using replies.

user226528

Yeah. I am reading the search results you sent me and I dare say people who are dead set on assuming good faith must read a hell of a lotta lines there.

Journeyman Geek

I'm roughly the worst person not to assume good faith about ;)

user226528

But back to our discussion.

user226528

There is no flag for a comment that introduces abhorrent technical inaccuracy. Especially, there is no flag that reverts the downvote.

Journeyman Geek

5:35 AM

"no longer needed"

or something like that

he's free to vote as he likes

I can't undo that

or you could go "Hey, maybe you misread - I did answer for 2003 instead of 2013"

hell, I'd comment for you but you didn't link the comment

user226528

A -2 point isn't something that I'd complain about. Are you paying attention to the context?

Journeyman Geek

I'm all about lighting candles rather than cursing the dark

If you flag the comment I go "hmm, actually!" then probably talk to ramhound about it, maybe with another comment

then he'd flag me back for an obsolete comment and I go "k"

user226528

He has been doing this since when I had 1 rep. I am concerned that may have wronged him before coming to this site... or worst, he is a systematic harasser, the same person responsible for this blog post having come to being.

Journeyman Geek

and I go on with whatever it is I do on days off work. Chatting I suppose

erm

No

that's cause of SO and twitter

but hey

arn't we talking about assuming good intentions?

user226528

Yeah, and there is a saying about that:

user226528

5:39 AM

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, third time is the enemy action.

user226528

But I guess you are right about one thing.

user226528

I'm letting it bother me for no reasons.

Journeyman Geek

5:53 AM

See?

I handle maybe a few dozen people a day

Just flag em, and move on

better for your BP too

user226528

Alright. What's up these days?

user226528

Any computing news?

user226528

By the way, I was shocked to learn that John Lasseter went the same way as Harvey Winstein and Kevin ~~Timey~~ Spacey.

user226528

Pixar is one of my top favorite film studios.

user226528

6:07 AM

Wow. This is one high-quality answer: superuser.com/a/1330555/477799. It has a blog post quality.

user226528

Good work, @hanxue

Boris_yo

7:01 AM

I remember Chrome's context menu had characters underlined for shortcut keys. Currently there are no longer underlined characters. I don't know shortcut keys now.

Journeyman Geek

erm

it says what the short cuts are to the right

Boris_yo

Ooops. Then not those shortcut keys.

I used to right click and tap a key on a keyboard.

For Copy it was right-click + C

It is now too but I want to know how to open in a new tab for example.

Or new window.

There.

How to copy link address?

ADHD Cat

It seems that Windows 10 is missing them generally

Journeyman Geek

try rightclick e

Bob

Those are access keys

@ADHDCat nah, they're there

Boris_yo

7:06 AM

@JourneymanGeek To serve humanity.

Bob

you generally only see them if you opened the menu by hitting alt

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Works! How you found out?

Bob

works on firefox, works on windows explorer

doesn't work on chrome cause alt doesn't do anything on chrome

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo I run a chrome fork that's apparently lagging XD

Bob

congrats, google, you broke 30 years of UI conventions

ADHD Cat

7:07 AM

@Bob For drop down menus, yeah. But not in right click menus

Bob

@ADHDCat hmmm, that might be a side effect of not showing them by default

@ADHDCat btw, ordered a S9+

ADHD Cat

Actually I think something might be broken in my specific install

Bob

which can either go very right or very wrong

Journeyman Geek

lol

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Chrome Fork? A fork plated with chromium?

Journeyman Geek

7:09 AM

basically another browser with chrome as a base

Boris_yo

And you run it through keyboard?

Bob

@Boris_yo more like a chromium fork plated with something else

Journeyman Geek

naw, but it still shows the keyboard shortcuts

my workflow is kinda unique to me

Bob

I would also suggest not running a fork through your keyboard

though it probably won't do much to most mechs

djsmiley2k

/me wibbles

joy oh joys

work disabled the ms office previewer in outlook, because of some virus trouble (fine, i can understand that)

Journeyman Geek

7:11 AM

middle mouse button for new tabs, scroll up and down's mapped...

djsmiley2k

cept.... it's just caused outlook to go beserk.

Boris_yo

Heh. I ran keyboard with vacuum cleaner and it sucked some keys in. I went to HP support and they replaced keyboard.

^ . ^ JUst remembering it makes me chuckle.

ADHD Cat

See in my case it does show the underlines if I hold down Alt while opening the menu or press Alt while the menu is open. Except pressing Alt also closes all menus when I press it.

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k joy

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek yup

ADHD Cat

7:11 AM

So it shows the access key underlines for about 1-2 frames before the menu disappears.

So it's there, and pressing the button to show them works, but that button also hides them.

Andy K

morning

user226528

@Boris_yo Make Windows Underline Menu Shortcut Keys

user226528

This feature has been part of Windows since Windows 3.1. But starting with Windows XP, Microsoft decided to hide them by default.

user226528

7:28 AM

I remember developers trying to add, say "Search & replace" to their menus, only to end up getting "Search replace", with the second space being underlined.

user226528

Now, "&Search and replace" produced "Search and replace" with "S" underlined.

Burgi

8:04 AM

morning

user226528

o/

Burgi

got another update on the missing dev

user226528

So, did Borg kidnap them after all? 😉

Burgi

it is nearly as outlandish as that

user226528

Hmm... Color me intrigued.

Burgi

8:10 AM

he re-emerged at the other agency

> Yes he turned up out of the blue and i let him go there and then. He said he had been in a car crash and was limping. He said the crash destroyed his phone. Thanks for checking. Really appreciate it.

message from the other agency

Journeyman Geek

0_0

faked a limp?

Burgi

apparently so

Journeyman Geek

also what about the laptop?

Burgi

i'm guessing they got it back

user226528

In my past experiences, most car crashes didn't leave any visible mark. But those acronym-ladden medical scans show that there had been serious damage.

user226528

8:13 AM

To this date, I don't know what's the difference between X-ray, CT scan and MRI scan, without looking them up in Wikipedia.

user226528

Anyway, a healthy-look person might actually have 14 bones fractured.

Journeyman Geek

also, this person kinda reminds me of hans moleman on the workplace

workplace.stackexchange.com/users/62992/hans-moleman @Burgi ;p

Burgi

how so?

Journeyman Geek

increasingly fantastical stories

oh

79

Q: What's the story with this user

I refer you to one user's exceptionally exciting life: Jan 17: Gets fired by an intoxicated boss, but just went back to work anyway to find out he has a new manager Jan 26: Wasted a lot of time at work making an inappropriate video about themselves as a "joke" for their new manager ...

Burgi

turns out there are crazy people out there

Journeyman Geek

8:21 AM

cliffs notes version

djsmiley2k

yah

so my friend who i game with

at his old (very weirdly ran job)

some woman got her ***s out on webcam for her fiance, in the middle of the office.

user226528

That's precious...

djsmiley2k

I wonder if @Burgi would get banned on workplace, for making stuff up

user226528

ROFL. Mark Henderson certainly has writership skills.

Burgi

@djsmiley2k my sock has two off-topic questions

djsmiley2k

8:28 AM

as in they were marked off topic?

Journeyman Geek

0_0

"in the middle of the office"

whut?

Burgi

@djsmiley2k yeah

Journeyman Geek

Aibobot, The Internet

145 4

careers contracts leaving new-job resume

My sock's done ok

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek yeah.

exactly.

she was a french feminist, who was breastfeeding her 5 yr old son or something, and loved to tell everyone too

wait no

it wasn't her fiance

it was her brother D:

/me screams

Not even joking.

However that workplace was very very odd

Journeyman Geek

....

Ok, that's just unusual

but some folks just have different levels of acceptable clothing?

djsmiley2k

8:43 AM

lol

Michael Frank

@ADHDCat Hold Ctrl when you right-click, it'll show them then.

Burgi

9:25 AM

@JourneymanGeek she was french... they are "unusual"

Journeyman Geek

I'm sure normal french folk exist

2

djsmiley2k

9:46 AM

'ThatNormalFrenchGuy'

Burgi

Brazilian French?

djsmiley2k

;_)

user226528

10:13 AM

Er... guys? There is a short story about an electrical company that accidentally discovers eternal life and hushes it up in shame. Does anyone remember its name?

user226528

I don't normally forget things...

Burgi

is it an arthur c clarke story?

user226528

Hmm... No, but I am thinking Arthur Conan Doyle or another author whose name is Arthur.

user226528

a voilà!

user226528

Le Fiasco de Los Amigos

Le Fiasco de Los Amigos (The Los Amigos Fiasco en version originale) est une nouvelle d'Arthur Conan Doyle parue pour la première fois dans la revue The Idler en décembre 1892 avant d'être reprise dans le recueil Sous la lampe rouge (Round the Red Lamp) en 1894. La nouvelle a été traduite en français et publiée en avril 1899 dans l'hebdomadaire La Lecture n°81 sous le titre Le Fiasco de Los Amigos. La nouvelle a ultérieurement été traduite avec un titre identique par Pierre Vigneaux pour l'édition intégrale des œuvres d'Arthur Conan Doyle éditée par Robert Laffont. Les éditions Actes Sud on...

user226528

10:25 AM

Well, thanks @Burgi. My memory needed a nudge. I must really start reading Arthur C. Clarke. Funny how I never did, since I low sci-fi and have read Asimov, Verne, Dick and Tolkein.

user226528

...and Crichton.

user226528

...and probably others.

Burgi

is there an english version of that article?

user226528

No.

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi now now. EVERYONE knows its Brazillian Spanish @ThatBrazilianGuy

user226528

10:30 AM

@Burgi But try Googling "The Los Amigos Fiasco".

user226528

"The Los Amigos Fiasco" on The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek Brench

or Branish

djsmiley2k

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

why is it so hard for people to follow simple processes properly

user226528

Hey, cool guy.

user226528

Someone I knew had the exact same feeling.

user226528

10:42 AM

He took out his frustration into a script

djsmiley2k

lol yeah

this place is too messy currently for a script

user226528

Oh, wait. I think I mentioned it here.

user226528

2 days ago, by Fleet Command

This cheeky fellow of mine has a designed script that at one point stops, gives some instruction and says "Press the Space Bar to continue...".

Burgi

thats one way to alienate your users

user226528

LOL. I bet that's the purpose.

user226528

10:45 AM

DavidPostill certainly thought it was insulting.

user226528

Of course, now that I am re-reading David's message, it appears he didn't notice the script required "Space Bar".

Burgi

it is the admonishing your users bit that is bad

user226528

Not my users. Believe me, if this guy did that to my user, I'd need a new pair of shoes because there is no way I wear the one with which I kicked his ass.

user226528

Now that I think about, I don't think that script was meant for any form of distribution or use by non-admins... Funny...

Burgi

you should design your interface in a way that doesn't even allow them to try doing something wrong

user226528

10:54 AM

Oh, I do. I even wrote that in my Bible of Making Excellent Video Games.

djsmiley2k

11:10 AM

sup

tis lunchtime, feel like I'v got nothing done >_<

user226528

Same here.

user226528

I'd really love to see my boss dead.

user226528

Well, maybe I didn't mean that literally but you get my point.

Burgi

calls the police

have you seen horrible bosses?

djsmiley2k

i quite like my boss

Burgi

11:21 AM

mine is ok too

user226528

I've seen a horrible boss. Not plural.

Burgi

Horrible Bosses

Horrible Bosses is a 2011 American black comedy film directed by Seth Gordon, written by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein, based on a story by Markowitz. It stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, and Jamie Foxx. The plot follows three friends, played by Bateman, Day, and Sudeikis, who decide to murder their respective overbearing, abusive bosses, portrayed by Spacey, Aniston, and Farrell. Markowitz's script was bought by New Line Cinema in 2005 and the film spent six years in various states of pre-production...

user226528

Well, I certainly don't plan on murdering him. Murder is a sin. That's it for me. But when he eats one of those doughnuts, I can't help but imagine him clutching at his own chest and then dropping... you know.

user226528

In fact, I definitely know I won't do anything. For years, he shouted at everybody and acted as if anyone who disobeys him would be punched flat into the wall. Yesterday, I discovered that due to his age, he cannot beat anyone... or even bend. He is a harmless giant.

user226528

And everyone knows this. Nobody is respecting him out of fear. It's mercy respect.

user226528

11:26 AM

Like everyone is being the bigger guy... but me.

That Brazilian Guy

12:02 PM

@FleetCommand I can understand like 75% of that onebox. I don't speak French.

My boss is quite nice

In fact, every boss I've ever had ranged from "OK" to "really nice"

I always say that, somewhere, there's an awful boss waiting for me to counteract and balance all the years of nice bosses

Seth

12:30 PM

My first boss told me on my first day of work that I wasn't really their top choice but the other guys wanted more money/declined. Well, she wasn't my boss for long.

But what the hell is happening here. Just scrolling back a bit and skipping lines it's about odd bosses, strange scripts and feminists breastfeeding?

That Brazilian Guy

@Seth 'Tis a strange place.

Seth

Yes I know but sometimes...

djsmiley2k

ok seriously

The world is just weird. Trump actually seems to be making progress with NK o_O