Root Access

My goal is to change the output of the =today() function in Excel. The workbook is locked with a password, so I can't change anything about the functions itself. Does anyone know if this might work?

Or if there's another way to go about it?

I have to replicate the output from a previous date, but I have to make Excel believe it's 2018.

Journeyman Geek

Erf. I guess test it

That's a hacky but legit thing to do

And harmless.

Stewie Griffin

I will, I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't ruin anything.

Journeyman Geek

I've had time drift to 1970 on older pcs due to dead cmos batteries

And I tried the changing the date to get around a time limited license for software for an assignment that really needed to be done (I got a new license latetmr)

Stewie Griffin

@JourneymanGeek and that worked?

Journeyman Geek

Much to my joy and horror

Stewie Griffin

9:37 AM

:)

djsmiley2k

@StewieGriffin in a vm....

djsmiley2k

10:15 AM

wtf

Journeyman Geek

....

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Q: Feature-Request: Rename search bar to 'Question Bar' and auto-suggest questions (with answers)

Right now when 'searching' - you type in a question or term, hit enter, go to another page, sigh, retype your question etc. If you happen to have clicked the ask question button, and start typing your question it's already helpfully suggesting what your question might be and showing you the ques...

feature-request

rahuldottech

10:38 AM

So I shared this draft with someone and here's what they had to say:

> Article? You mean ad? You know, ads trying to look like an articles are an old thing now. Even South Park made an episode about them...

And if you think Apple give a shit about your privacy you are beyond naive. Every big company collects as much data as possible, as it is just stupid not to do so. Hell, Apple probably has the biggest collection of biometric data on the planet.

Thoughts?

(cc @bwd)

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech for most part no one cares about the individual. Only the demographic

Apple wants to sell you hardware so it's a great marketing pitch

FML Cat

11:11 AM

@Bob what are the data costs in Australia like these days? I've managed to get an 80 GB UK contract for £30 a month that includes AU roaming for £5 a day, my other one has 15GB with free roaming and was considering upgrading that before I travel if its cheaper than getting a local sim

Bob

@FMLCat Telstra, Optus or Vodafone? :P

Vodafone has 30/$30, 50/$45, 60/$50, 100/$60, 150/$80

$50+ gets 1.5Mbps unlimited after the cap

Optus has 200/$60 and 500/$80 broadband only plans

Telstra's still the most expensive, 30/$49, 60/$59, 90/$89, $49+ gets 1.5Mbps unlimited.

@FMLCat Basically: I'd say not bad, as long as you're fine with 12month contracts.

There's prepaid plans too but they tend to be a fair bit less GB/$

How much data do you want/need?

Very different options if you need 30 GB vs 100 GB

Burgi

11:35 AM

rahuldottech

2:48 PM

Lol

Blog bot

3:15 PM

Recapping Stack Overflow’s First Ever Make-A-Thon

Rich Moy on February 14, 2019

After an exciting end to 2018, we kicked this year off with the first “hackathon” in Stack Overflow’s 10-year history. Unlike a traditional hackathon, it wasn’t just for our developers. Any employee working on our products or directly with the Stack Overflow community was encouraged to participate, which is why we dubbed the event a “Make-A-Thon.”

Employees from our engineering, design, and support teams spent a full week working on projects outside of their typical day-to-day responsibilities. For our inaugural Make-A-Thon, participants brainstormed improvements to our power user and moderator experience on Stack Overflow. …

Burgi

@Blogbot wtf... do you read your own crap before posting it?

"there aren't any goals...."
"... apart from these two..."

Journeyman Geek

It's not it's fault ;l

bwDraco

roar

@allquixotic cnn.com/2019/02/14/business/a380-airbus-news-emirates/… :(

Burgi

the 737 and the 777 are the better aircraft for the modern world

bwDraco

Dec 19 '17 at 4:33, by bwDraco

The A380 is supposed to be cheaper per passenger to run at capacity than the 787, but filling ~500 seats is hard.

Burgi

3:23 PM

it is also limited by ground infrastructure

bwDraco

Yup. Airports had to set up special terminals for them.

Bob

@Burgi No love for the 787? :P

Burgi

@Bob i forgot about it

Journeyman Geek

@Bob has it stopped catching fire?

Burgi

i guess in the late 80s/early 90s when the plans for the A380 were drawn up it seemed like a good idea economically

Bob

3:30 PM

@JourneymanGeek After the first year or so, yea.

I'm not sure I've ever been on a 777, but I do much prefer the 787 over the 737.

Burgi

i think most of the planes i have been on are 737-300/400s or airbus A340s

i'll be catching my first jumbo in april

bertieb

@Burgi Bring a big net!

Burgi

heh

bwDraco

I've been on several Boeing 777-300ER flights before.

Burgi

i don't think the tail number has been announced yet...

although i know my seat and where the exits are

abobakrdy

4:15 PM

do anybod here uses chocolatey for windows? i cant seem to uninstall a certain package that just keeps popping up everytime i search for it after uninstalling it "succesfully" according to chocolatey

bertieb

I've used it but wasn't terribly impressed

ISTR some weirdness around install/uninstall

abobakrdy

4:34 PM

also seems to be a lack of info on the details for the install, which is important in many cases

bwDraco

4:49 PM

The first AMD high-performance mobile processors are here: wccftech.com/…

Full-power laptop processors, not the low-power 10-25W stuff commonly found on thin-and-light machines.

Canadian Luke

5:32 PM

@abobakrdy I don't use it, but I was always curious about it. We use PDQ for installing software to workstations, so that it's repeatable and done by the tech

Ovie Adese

5:56 PM

What is anyone's thoughts on using Ubuntu 18.04 for a small home business?

abobakrdy

6:20 PM

@CanadianLuke looked into PDQ but i see its not free.ill just manually install the one extension this time

Canadian Luke

8:14 PM

@OvieAdese Using Debian, works very similarly. Working well, but a learning curve if you've never used bash

@abobakrdy They have free versions as well, they just don't unlock the package library, so you need to compile your own packages to distribute

bwDraco

8:46 PM

anandtech.com/show/13953/…

Fancy NVMe storage on USB 3.1 Gen 2?

(got one too many USB 3.1 Gen 2 portable SSDs right now :P)

I'm actually more curious about random I/O performance, the kind of thing that NVMe excels at. With a high-performance SATA SSD in a USB 3.1 Gen 2 enclosure, IOPS can be bottlenecked by the underlying drive.

Nov 27 '18 at 20:52, by bwDraco

That StarTech USB 3.1 Gen 2 enclosure is awesome enough that I actually got a second one for my (currently unused) Samsung SSD 850 EVO. Just like the one used for the 850 PRO and connected to this laptop, it supports TRIM and pushed upwards of 550 MB/s sequential reads.

550 MB/s is plenty for me... but being able to push a full 1 GB/s on mainstream hardware has its allure (most newer machines have USB 3.1 Gen 2, even my father's cheap HP desktop).

(on the front panel: two USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A ports and one USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C port)

Biswapriyo

9:22 PM

Is bash script male or female? superuser.com/questions/1405827/automating-task

bwDraco

lul

@Biswapriyo To answer your question: Given that the writer is Russian... скрипт ("script") is male.

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