Root Access

slhck

21:01

@Boob Nope, not at all, it's video quality assessment

Linker3000

Evening

(where I am)

slhck

evenin' (here as well) @Linker3000

Linker3000

"video quality assessment" - sounds dodgy ;-)

Boob

@slhck Hmm, Is there a field like that in MCS?

slhck

@Boob MCS?

Boob

21:05

Master of CS

slhck

@Linker3000 Kinda hard to explain, mostly about objective evaluation of video quality (using metrics) and subjective evaluation by means of user experiments

@Boob Oh ok. No it's not a special field, I'm doing a normal Master's program, but it's my research field

Linker3000

@slhck Fair enough

slhck

@Linker3000 Then again, who knows what we do in our experiments :D

Linker3000

@slhck ...all in the name of research!

slhck

@Linker3000 Exactly!

Boob

21:08

@slhck Didn't hear about that

Mark Szymanski

Sometimes I think that people should be required to be fluent in English before being able to use SU.

slhck

@MarkSzymanski I know what you're talking about :P

Kinda hard to edit something like this

Mark Szymanski

And why title a question: "ok my dad is really silly"

LIKE SERIOUSLY?

HOW DOES THAT TELL US WHAT YOUR QUESTION IS ABOUT.

Boob

@MarkSzymanski Calm down Mark, give me your hands

slhck

@MarkSzymanski OH that explains where "he" came from

Mark Szymanski

21:10

@Boob: What the heck? Give you my hands? Creep.

slhck

I couldn't figure out who "he" was just by reading the question itself

Linker3000

@MarkSzymanski Was that the Ubuntu disk formatting question?

Mark Szymanski

@Linker3000: Yes.

Linker3000

@MarkSzymanski I think he's singing 'Eternal flame' ..close your eyes, give me your hand...

Boob

@MarkSzymanski :/

slhck

21:12

@Linker3000 Ohnoes, now I have that stuck in my head

Linker3000

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Mark Szymanski

And with that question, what's with the fake-centered text?

slhck

Nice visual effect! Makes it stand out :P

well, think I'm gonna leave.. see you guys around! :)

Boob

@slhck Have fun

Linker3000

@slhck Bye

Mark Szymanski

21:19

Bye, @slhck. Take care!

Boob

And how to put @someone in the middle of sentence

Mark Szymanski

@Boob: Type the @ symbol. And then their name.

And why are you on English.SE? That's not very proper grammar :/

Boob

@MarkSzymanski As you see, my English sucks

Mark Szymanski

I can see that. So why are you on English.SE?

Boob

@MarkSzymanski I was too lazy to type their name , myself

@MarkSzymanski Where else, please?

Mark Szymanski

21:23

And why are you in this chat room if you aren't even a user on Super User?

@Boob: What? That makes no sense.

Boob

What do you mean by why are you on English.SE? WHY or English.SE should be emphasized ?

Mark Szymanski

Umm... I think the question is pretty simple. Why are you on English.SE if your English isn't good? Especially if you admit your English isn't good.

Boob

@MarkSzymanski The answer is really simpler, to ask questions and improve my English skills

Mark Szymanski

Alright, then. And why are you in this chat room if you don't even have an account on Super User? Do you even know what Super User is?

Boob

@MarkSzymanski As people said , it's about software and hardware problems .. and I am here cause there was no "no entrance" on the door

Mark Szymanski

21:29

Well the site is more for the problems with software and hardware. The chat is for discussions related to software and hardware. Not for questions.

Boob

@MarkSzymanski You wish, in the last 2 hours I didn't find any discussions about software and hardware here

Mark Szymanski

@Boob: There's nothing wrong with going off-topic. Discussions don't strictly have to be about computers. My main point is that this isn't the place for questions. And that the site itself is the place for that.

Boob

@MarkSzymanski I don't have any questions in that area, should i leave SU chat?

Mark Szymanski

I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying that you said the chat was for computer problems. And I'm saying that the site is for your problems. While the chat is for general discussion.

Boob

@MarkSzymanski These are all cause of that hand getting suggestion?

Mark Szymanski

21:36

What?

Boob

@MarkSzymanski Nothing, thanks for your clarification

Mark Szymanski

Mhm.

josmh

Where's the page that lists all of the user privileges and my percentage toward achieving the required reputation?

DMA57361

@josmh superuser.com/privileges

(available from the drop-down next to your username at the top for future reference)

Boob

Gotta go, night all

josmh

21:40

@DMA57361 oh thanks!

DMA57361

np

Mark Szymanski

Bye, @Boob.

Linker3000

Blimey, I turn my back and it gets all surreal

hands....problems...English...!!

josmh

22:11

why do some questions in the list have a light blue background? I noticed links change if I've been to them, etc, but one has a light blue background currently and I have not interacted with it at all

Mark Szymanski

@josmh: I think that means it contains a tag that is one of your "favorite tags".

studiohack

Yes! work is on like donkey kong!

Mark Szymanski

Hi, @studiohack! How are you?

studiohack

@MarkSzymanski hey! how are ya? I'm good, excited for work to start next week

Mark Szymanski

I'm doing great, thanks!

studiohack

22:15

what's up with you?

Mark Szymanski

Nothing much, just migrating from MacPorts to Homebrew :P

Two package manager type things for Mac OS X

studiohack

oh, btw @MarkSzymanski saw your blog post came out today, congratulations and good work! :)

Mark Szymanski

Thanks, @studiohack! :D

studiohack

I'm trying to tweet it but Twitter is slow (as usual)

Mark Szymanski

Are you using the web interface, @studiohack?

studiohack

22:19

@MarkSzymanski yeah, I'm not a huge twitter fan, so I don't have a desktop client

Mark Szymanski

Ah, ok.

studiohack

ah, protected tweets don't onebox, that's what I thought...ah well

josmh

someone please upvote this answer (superuser.com/questions/284953/…) once so I have enough rep to tell the other guy answering that his answer will not work

studiohack

@josmh outta votes - sorry :P

Mark Szymanski

Done, @josmh.

Linker3000

22:21

Other guy here!

@josmh Wassup

josmh

@MarkSzymanski thanks :P

studiohack

hey @josmh and @Linker3000

josmh

@studiohack hi. Did you have a question?

Linker3000

Is it national "I can't be bothered to use Google to find the answer for myself" day?

josmh

@Linker3000 oh hi! :)

sorry didn't see you

studiohack

22:25

@josmh sorry, no I didn't? did something imply that I did? (was just saying hey, that's all :P )

this is one impressive laptop: maximumpc.com/article/news/…

Linker3000

@josmh Just seen your comment - you're right. Somewhere in the past, MS have changed the SUM command as it used to ignore non numerics. Hmmm.

Simon Sheehan

Lovely dinner, i have returned!

Linker3000

@josmh Actually, it's not the sum, it's the minusing of the cells - just fixing it

Journeyman Geek

22:44

@studiohack: it is. prolly going to cost a bomb tho

Mark Szymanski

I cannot stop listening to this for some reason. chickenonaraft.com

studiohack

that is weird @MarkSzymanski lol

Mark Szymanski

XD

Linker3000

@MarkSzymanski How do you actually go find things like that - or was it a tip-off from someone else?!

Mark Szymanski

Someone else showed me :P

studiohack

22:51

@MarkSzymanski can't tell what they are saying lol

Mark Szymanski

NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN.

Simon Sheehan

oh Nyan Cat

I had that going for my entire class today

Every few minutes, turn volume up a bit..then back down

rinse & repeat

Linker3000

@SimonSheehan That's just....just....well....

Makes the badgers look good!

Simon Sheehan

@Linker3000 Annoying? Yeah, probably. But when your a week ahead on assignments, what can you do! :P

@Linker3000 The narwhals are great too lately ;)

Linker3000

For those really not into ancient memes:

badgerbadgerbadger.com

Simon Sheehan

22:55

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Tom Wijsman

@nhinkle:

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From google.com/events/sciencefair/projects/…

Linker3000

23:11

Right time to go get some sleep. Night everyone.

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