Root Access

Bob

02:51

anyone here who's done any programming with the Linux/POSIX APIs?

Or, knows how GNU structures their programs?

I'm trying to find how they implement time

Go away clippy

Supposed to be a bash builtin, but it's not in the builtins directory of the source, for some reason o.O

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

Ow..

I just lost ~600 tabs

And four windows.

Journeyman Geek

03:19

lol

nhinkle

Well that was one of the weirder flags I've seen recently.

Sathya

yearling#4 badge has arrived

I lost the 1000+ consec count because I couldn't login one day.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Sathya: I'm a month away from yearling #4 ;p

amusingly, its september.

But its always september.

;p

Sathya

lolol

Journeyman Geek

right, will be rebuilding my webserver VPS after lunch I hope

Sathya

03:34

well, Super User private beta started in august & went live in sept ;p

Journeyman Geek

yeah, I got in when SU was mentioned on /. ;p

Sathya

Blog - Stack Exchange: Super User Semi-Private Beta Begins

Jeff Atwood on July 14, 2009

That’s right, it is officially Ewok Time.

At any rate, if you wanted a community where (almost) anything goes, you’re about to get exactly what you asked for in the form of superuser.com. If your question has to do with computers, it will be allowed there.

But then again, so are Ewoks. Be careful what you ask for, I guess.

To get started, go to superuser.com and sign up with your OpenID. Here’s the password you’ll need:

ewok.adventure

Be sure to visit the accounts tab of your user page after you join, so you can get the +100 account association bonus on Super User! (Note tha …

ah July - August, private beta

Journeyman Geek

I didn't know of SE at the time ;p

and this was shortly before the dark teatime of the soul ended ;p

Sathya

:D

Bob

@Sathya :(

Journeyman Geek

03:39

I think I lost one streak cause I went exploring the railway tracks, and another one cause I was in india ;p

Sathya

03:54

@JourneymanGeek shakes fist at India

Journeyman Geek

lol

Sathya

ooh, Blender mod in room

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: my dad's crappy reliance dongle completely does not work in my SIL's home town ;p

Sathya

welcome to Root Access @iKlsR :)

Journeyman Geek

eheh. I found a folder full of scans of handwritten statistics notes on my VPS

iKlsR

03:56

@Sathya o_O

I've been coming here for weeks.. it's in my favs..

Journeyman Geek

I have NO CLUE, WHATSOEVER what they are doing there

Sathya

@iKlsR oh? my bad :)

been irregular here off late

iKlsR

;)

Psycogeek

04:16

Hey what color is that? Here the chat posts have a slight different color than the white background, what color do you see it as on your monitor? grey grey-blue or grey-majenta

nhinkle

04:37

@Sathya I've got 4 months to go

Journeyman Geek

04:56

@Psycogeek: sort of peach for my own stuff, lilacish blue grey for everyone else.

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek thanks, I have adjusted this LED IPS to something like , a lilac grey.

I swear it was grey :-) But i am changing the monitors around, the IPS has "better" color but all this stuff is driving me up the wall, because CRT had none of this. and the florescent backlight had more "CRI"

I seriously have to get used to totally fricking wrong colors, if i am to survive. not only are the old things obsolete, but i am delivering stuff to people who are probably using better newer stuff than my old school stuff.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Psycogeek: change is hard

Bob

@JourneymanGeek How the hell do people describe colours like that?

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Bob: ;p

Bob

I just can't associate colour names with the colours themselves -_-

Journeyman Geek

05:07

;p

Psycogeek

i have been trying to use some "charts" which i assume were correct on some day long ago . tedfelix.com/Photography/Big%20Grey%20Scale%20Original.png

That grey scale should be grey , grey , grey. And it is hard to get the very lite greys close, with other things still correct.

Then some charts had orangy reds :-( heck already got enough trouble with red. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/… this one had what looks like proper color bar colors.

Then of course the Twisted stacking. adjust the monitor, then the OS has monitor profiles, which adjust the colors, then the video card has profiles, then the photo program has profiles. UMM , if the colors were all Correct WTF would i have to be adjusting everything for. grumble grumble.

I wish things would go back where they were, That had all the colors and represented as they originally looked to the eye, then NOTHING was adjusted, because it was all correct. is that so hard?

How does 15 layers of bending something as it goes through 15 layers of stuff, going to have anything straight at the end?

"Hey man your pantones are off on the print there" Look is the sky blue and the grass green, then STFU and pay me.

Journeyman Geek

05:31

lol

just get a colour caliberator. ;p

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek I have thought about that more than once. Real stick on the screen color discover making another profile. Lots of the problem is you cant create a color spectrum that mostly didnt exist in the original backlight. Between the spectrum curves and the Digital adjustments, It is give and take, something is going to suffer.

With "white" leds they are actually blue leds with yellow phosphors. it looks like this for real jlaquatics.com/images/tunze/led/8810_spectrum.jpg

A person would think that RGB LEDs would represent the sun a bit too. Although RGB leds put out awesome light, what is really occuring is like this just-normlicht.de/uk/media/images/RGB-LED_13415_image001_2.gif

-- Luckily they have come out with much better high CRI leds, where a Phosphor mixing , a blending of phosphors and filtration , output a much better blend of colors. What they didnt say though, all of them so far , Change. Different phosphors burn out at different rates, or the filters wash out. So a few thousand hours later, a new color emerges.

Canadian Luke

05:55

Ummm... superuser.com/questions/628001/…

Duikboot

06:55

Hi

Saladin

hi guys i want some help with url validation

Duikboot

Is there a chat-channel where I can chat about hardware? :)

Saladin

is this a valid url format www.msn.com?d=3

Journeyman Geek

@Duikboot: here usually works

Duikboot

Am I allowed to ask a Q here? ( Because in de description is mentiond for you 'Super Users'?

Journeyman Geek

06:58

@Duikboot: we're pretty happy to talk about hardware questions

Unless it ends up going in circles ;p

so yes, just ask, don't ask to ask.

@Saladin: that looks funky, but it seems to work

Duikboot

Yeah I know but I wasn't sure :) Well, I have a modem (wireless) but it seems I can only reach a max of 9 meters. Now I am not sure about what to do, buy myself a range extender or buy a router and connect it with the modem? Is it possible to have a range of 50 meters for a router/range extender?

Saladin

@JourneymanGeek yes funny indeed i have a java regex that is matching this format

(((https?|ftp)://|(www|ftp)\.)[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-:]+)+([/?].*)?)

Psycogeek

@Duikboot 9 meters Through how many and what kind of walls ? With What kinds of other interferances possible in both the same location, and say outside that location?

Journeyman Geek

50 meters is pretty far

Duikboot

I made a sketch

sht.tl/MJO3 :)

It's maybe a bit more then 50 could be 60m

Journeyman Geek

07:13

at this point you probably need to look at outdoor wifi routers

Duikboot

Currently the internet is not going outside of my house so I have to buy a good router I think that reaches the garage and from there I need to add a range extender ( outdoor ).

Psycogeek

around here many of the neighbors indoor wi-fi signals make it to 3-4houses away, with an Ok signal. The area is sub urban.

Duikboot

Here are max 5 internet connctions from neighbours.

What is a good type of router I should buy myself

What about this one?
http://www.netgear.nl/home/products/wirelessrouters/ultimate-performance/D6200.aspx

Journeyman Geek

07:30

@Duikboot: find something that explicitly mentions the range

might end up not being cheap tho

Duikboot

I have a budget for about 200 euro , 265.66 U.S. dollars.

Journeyman Geek

the only company I can think of, off hand might be amped wireless

Duikboot

Never heard of ampedwireless :) is it a well known brand?

Journeyman Geek

they do almost entirely longer range stuff

they're supposed to be pretty good

Psycogeek

07:53

@Duikboot That is about the same here, in all locations i can get about 5-6 signals around any of the houses. In the garage do you want to aquire full 100% speeds of the wireless even when moving about? Or is it possible to lock down a reception location that the singnal reaches?

Duikboot

The actual plan is receiveing internet in the garden house

Journeyman Geek

@Duikboot: if you wanted a cheaper solution, outdoor rated ethernet ;)

Duikboot

Cables are no option :/

Psycogeek

Another thing that popped up a light bulb in my head. When trying to recieve radio signals, were Just recieveing. With WIFI there is no single directionality, the strength of the "reciever" is as important as the transmitter, because they are both "transmitters" :-)

So there is the Wi-fi antenna in the portables , wedged on a board somewhere inside. and there are PCI cards with real antenna :-) and strong signals both ways. Also with detachable antenna you can move the antenna easily, just use coax wire.

@Duikboot When stringing along a signal that is already RF, an actual cable is not "as" required :-) we have done RF via microfine wire, set very close to the antennas. Of course i am a cheapskate , and try and find every way. I even have simple Parabolic around a little usb Wifi device, made of a pie pan :-) but that again is only for solid locked down location, not free roaming.

Duikboot

Sounds cool :) a few years ago I used a parabolic reflector and that worked for me to get a larger range.

Arn't D-LINK or netgear routers good?

Maybe I can go for this one : ampedwireless.com/products/rta15.html

Psycogeek

08:10

@Duikboot check out which one of them neighbors signals makes it the furthest as "good" still , then ask em :-) Around here Mr. Dlink and Mr. Belkin had good 2 house range, before they went all secure :-)

some dude who has marked all his 2-wire ? makes it blocks and blocks

@Duikboot sounds good? is there any way to move the router within the house to closer to the garden house? And miss any faraday cages?

Duikboot

@Psycogeek is it better to have the router near the modem? Or can I put the router for example here : sht.tl/F2oU

Psycogeek

@Duikboot the cable company here prefered that we run the Cat5 from the modem close to the inlet, Vrses extending the whole cable itself. I had no trouble doing either.

I got almost everything Wired, although i will eventually have to adapt to the new way of doing things. so @JourneymanGeek should be consulted before taking my advice. I do more crasy experimenting , than run stuff wireless.

Journeyman Geek

08:28

lol

@Psycogeek: I really don't have the buy in, so to speak, to get new gear ;p

i'm running an old WRT54GL

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek You saw what he linked to though? and his pic? Wonder if a person could put 2 antenna for the router in 2 different locations ? And i still think having a good something on the other end is as important. The Spec sheet says they are "detachable"

Journeyman Geek

yup

I don't think its a great idea tho

Duikboot

Hmm

Journeyman Geek

OH

Duikboot

modem -> router vs modem -> router -> range extender

Journeyman Geek

08:33

@Duikboot: that looks potentially sensible

but you're best off testing and tweaking

wifi is a bit of a black art to set up correctly

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek Yea, it aint gonna go through the door at will, a mere 1 foot of movement in a direction could bounce it different.

Duikboot

Yeah but I was thinking a few years ago at school it was all possible to have a large wifi connection in and outside the school.

Maybe I have just to start buying a very good router? When the range is not good enough I'll start adding a range extender?

Journeyman Geek

@Duikboot: many routers, and probably wired up

@Duikboot: oh, and good wifi adaptors

there's some with pretty decent antennae

Duikboot

With wired up you mean I have to connect them with UTP cables?

Journeyman Geek

yup

16

Q: Running cat5 cable outdoors

I'm trying to extend my network to an unconnected garage that's about 20 yards away from my house. What's the best way to do this? Is there special outdoor-rated cat5e/cat6 I should use? If put it in a dug trench, do I need to put it in conduit? If I run parallel to electric, how much separat...

might be of interest if you consider that route

Duikboot

08:40

It's very hard to put wires in my garden.

Journeyman Geek

powerline units might be an option too, if they're in the same circuit

true

Duikboot

They are not the same circuit,

living room / kitchen and outdoor are sperated circuits

seperated*

Journeyman Geek

ahh

was worth a try

Duikboot

True :) How many change do you think I will achieve success with this one:
http://ampedwireless.com/products/rta15.html to 'bridge' 50 meters?

Journeyman Geek

it might work out of the box, with good positioning ;p

I'm not too familiar with AC tho :/

Psycogeek

08:50

@Duikboot When you get it hooked up make sure you give me the wi-fi password, sooos i can test it :-)

Duikboot

:D haha

Ill be a world-wide-access-point.

So i'll order this one : amazon.com/Amped-Wireless-Power-Router-RTA15/dp/B00DKX0NI8/…?

I never heard of the brand im more famillar with linksys- d-link, netgear :P

Psycogeek

@Duikboot now you got reviews, so you should check newegg and get reviews there too, they are usually really techey newegg.com/Product/… Only 2, Its the money probably.

Duikboot

newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833281032

Somepeople seems not to be so happy with Amped Wireless.. AmpedWireless "JUNK"

Will never buy anymore of their devices! Lesson Learned!

Psycogeek

Only 1 review, repeated on that one, and it looks like it was written by the company

@Duikboot at amazon 4 good 4 terrible, not to good of odds at all :-(

You do realize that this a dual band router... running in 2.4GHZ and 5GHZ. I don't own this product but it is fairly common that consumers attempt to connect all devices to the 5GHZ network because it is faster and complain that the range isn't that great... That is because the higher the frequency, the shorter the range. 5GHZ should only be used for products close to the router

Duikboot

09:05

oh now I now thx

What a bout this one?

netgear.com/R6300

Psycogeek

- That sucks. Weird thing here we went from 900Mgz phone to 2.4G phone (for regular tele) And the 2.4g units were not allowed to have as much power as the 900. That and the new tech, my old system would get 1 block away, the new 2.4 only 3/4 block.

Duikboot

Is a dual band router not good then?

Psycogeek

I am pretty sure it was not about the frequency, but about the FCC (our communications regulators) allowable Mw output of the devices.

Then on the different frequencies, of such varied quantity say from 900 to all the way to 5G, the way they bounce around is completly different. Supposedly longer freqs are good for one type, and shorter for other type. I forget which.

Duikboot

So its also important to know wich devices will work in that 'large area'.

Most of the time it will be a macbook pro and an iphone ;)

Psycogeek

09:23

If i remember right, given the exact same power output, the lower the frequency the easier it is to get Through stuff, like walls and trees and all. The higher the freeqency the further a signal can go, but the more easily it is effected by non-line of site.

Duikboot

What do you mean with 'non-line of site' ?

Psycogeek

Then the highere the frequency, the better to get great data rates.

@Duikboot meaning if you want to talk to the guru on the highest mountain :-) you would prefer to use a high freqency and find a high clear place to transmit from.

the other factors indicated, were What else is using the same frequency (interferance)

Duikboot

oh ok, but normally that netgear router will do a good job?

( netgear.com/R6300#two )

Psycogeek

09:39

@Duikboot Did you have to find the highest price thing on the planet again :-)

Duikboot

I don't want the highest price, I want a stable product that I can use for a long time and will do what I want it to do :) Is it to high priced?

Psycogeek

I do not know how people put up with this stuff. newegg.com/Product/… Only ~50% of the people happy, the other 50% having connection and speed issues. no wonder why i like wires :-)

Duikboot

Hmm

Psycogeek

Is like a SD card will hold 32G , and i am beginning to think that has been getting me much further than people are going.

Bob

@Psycogeek Other way around, IIRC.

Duikboot

09:46

:P btw linksys.com/nl-eu/home

is this one down for you to?

Bob

Lower freq (longer wavelength) bounces more. Higher freq (shorter wavelength) penetrates more. I think.

Psycogeek

@Bob Hey Bob, mabey you can help. Super speed super distance router, that works right, money not the issue.

Bob

I really dunno. Sounds like an oxymoron.

huh. No real answer on penetration:

3

Q: Penetration versus Frequency

I would like to know the relation between penetrating ability and the frequency of a wave. For example, gamma waves have high frequency and high penetrating power: intuitively I imagined this as attacking a target rapidly in quick succession and managing to get through. But the penetrating abili...

electromagnetic-radiation radio

@Psycogeek I'd recommend a single router with multiple wireless access points connected via wire..

Basically, you're never going to get great distance/speed performance with a single access point.

Duikboot

What for hardware would you buy of you were in my scenario? ( And you have to do it wireless? )

Psycogeek

@Bob Yes from all the info, I think i would concede that your going to have to get it closer out there, or hop it.

because this wireless stuff still Sucks :-)

From now on I am going to read all the adds like this "Our wireless router Bla Bla Bla, same room, 30 feet , bla bla bla."

@Bob Here is the pic, duikboots situation is wardkennes.be/upload/uploads/…

Bob

10:01

Range extender? No. Use a wired link between the access points.

Duikboot

I can't put wires between the 2 locations.

So it has to be wireless :/

Bob

You might look into a powerline adapter, but I'm not sure how that compares to wireless.

Most likely better.

Duikboot

My electricity circuits are different. So there might be a problem.

Psycogeek

@Duikboot That link is working here. It is not my language linksys.com/nl-eu/home

Duikboot

I receive a blank screen

on an other browser it's work ok....

thx

Duikboot

10:28

What about this one? :) store.linksys.com/Routers/…

Maybe in comination with : store.linksys.com/adapters/…

Psycogeek

@Duikboot reviews look worse than ? what was it the netgear? newegg.com/Product/…

@Duikboot 6 outta 6, newegg.com/Product/… Big Boooo on that.

@Duikboot did they have anything at the apple store :-) I hear they have great support and easy returns too. Question, your iphone is it the one with a pretty bad wi-fi receptions? And the Ipad that thing has good wifi right , nice room for antenna?

Oliver Salzburg

11:19

YouTube Adds Play Icon To Page Titles To Show Which Tabs Are Making Noise

Slashdot with the ground-breaking news again

Bob

@OliverSalzburg I have 1772 tabs here. Prolly not gonna see that anyway.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Especially since it only applies to YouTube tabs, so, who cares?

Like I always have 20 YouTube tabs open and can't figure out which one is playing right now

Duikboot

I've got an iPhone 5 and the wifi is ok, and my new macbook pro's wifi seems to be more bad than my previous macbook pro

What could you guys advice me then as a good router for my needs?

Boris_yo

11:40

@Duikboot Seems you're complaining about wireless cards of devices but think a good router would be the solution? How can you be sure router will solve this problem?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo hi, he is not (actually) complaining, just trying to find a good router, plus solve a long range issue , this is tha layout wardkennes.be/upload/uploads/…

JAN ORTS

Anybody knows if it is possible to set up Skype so that the person I call to ... will see on his mobile phone my cell phone number?

When I am using the basic Skype..... Buying credit by credit card 10 Euros / Dollars...

Boris_yo

@JANORTS I think you will need to setup private Skype number.

JAN ORTS

and calling people around the world

So I will have to pay for the Private Skype number ... like 3 euros a month or maybe more?

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Hello. He also prefers to buy WiFi extender?

@JANORTS Skype website has all the information.

JAN ORTS

11:45

Pardon me?

OK...

How can I send it in English?

if I want to Google my problem

;o))

Boris_yo

@JANORTS You thought private number can be gotten for free at first?

JAN ORTS

I don't want a private number

I just want that the person I am calling to will see my cell phone number.... instead of Anonymous Caller

Boris_yo

@JANORTS If you don't, how otherwise Skype will display it to the other side?

JAN ORTS

It is possible

There is one company that offers calling somebody and you just type what number you want the other person will see on his cell phone

I have tried it, it worked

Which is kind of crazy

You can just find out the FBI number and beep people to scare them off

;o)

Boris_yo

@JANORTS Which company is that?

JAN ORTS

11:50

I am not gonna disclose it

;o)

Boris_yo

@JANORTS Make sure you don't violate the laws.

JAN ORTS

OK

I was just surprised it was possible

Duikboot

Im not sure what's the best solution that is the reason why I am here maybe a wifi-extender only will solve the problem?

The current modem is just not strong enough to reach 50 meters.

Boris_yo

@Duikboot Why not try WiFi extender first? Do you get good connection quality from your current router when in close range?

JAN ORTS

Don’t be an unknown number. Let people know who’s calling with free caller identification.

Here’s how:
Sign in to your Skype account.
Click on the ‘Caller ID’ tab and enter your mobile number. It will then be shown when you make a call from Skype.

So, it is possible and it is free !!!

Boris_yo

11:54

@JANORTS I thought you need to be monthly subscriber for this to work. Monthly pay and not pre-pay.

Duikboot

Yes absolutely speeds are good but it only reaches about 9 meters distance.

Boris_yo

@Duikboot If you were to buy extender, where would you buy from? Amazon?

Duikboot

Local shop.

Boris_yo

@Duikboot I thought it's less cheaper locally...

@Duikboot dx.com/p/…

Duikboot

Yeah but I don't want to start a disucssion about prices ;) I just want good hardware that can solve my issue :)

yeah dx.com is also a very nice website

alternate.be/Linksys/Linksys+RE1000-EU_WL-N_Range_Extender/html/…? I was more thinking on things like that :)

What is the difference beteween an extender and a repeater?

Boris_yo

12:02

@Duikboot They are same.

dx.com/p/…

@Duikboot You're from Germany, I see.

Duikboot

Belgium.

Boris_yo

12:15

Do stupid people at least admit to themselves they are stupid? clientsfromhell.net/post/1463952121/…

Hennes

line of site ? Interesting way of writing.

MY eyes just sited that. :)

Boris_yo

@Hennes Where is it written?

Hennes

" , but the more easily it is effected by non-line of site. "

Boris_yo

@Hennes Shouldn't it be "line of sight"?

Gowtham

Boris_yo

12:29

@Gowtham What did human try to accomplish? Tease them?

Oliver Salzburg

@Gowtham Given how fat the white cat is, skipping a meal won't hurt :P

Duikboot

arh

Gowtham

@Boris_yo probably

@OliverSalzburg lol

Hennes

12:46

The cat with the least fear of water will have a rather large meal. :)

Hennes

13:06

somequixotic

sup pups

Hennes

The sun. Also the value on my thermometer

somequixotic

@Hennes oh you're a dog now? i was talking to the "pups" ;-)

like @JourneymanGeek

ruda.almeida

13:32

3

Grace Note

Has anyone heard of Redhawk SDR?

ruda.almeida

(sorry @jokerdino @tapped-out and other assorted animals)

Duikboot

Meh still no clue about what router to buy

somequixotic

@GraceNote heard of ? yes... used? no

Journeyman Geek

nope

@somequixotic: what's that?

somequixotic

13:43

freaking awesome though

Journeyman Geek

ooh

totally over my head, but bloody cool ;p

somequixotic

@JourneymanGeek you has an antenna, you has a transceiver, you has a device that would make the U.S. FCC go ballistic at just how flexible it is, because it isn't locked to any specific band; then you do RF I/O on arbitrary frequencies :D

Grace Note

@somequixotic Is it the kind of thing that questions could be asked about here?

I couldn't fully tell if it was a device (thus off-topic) or a thing that does indeed fit here.

somequixotic

@GraceNote could be? sure. although if your question is about actually developing a program using redhawk, like using Eclipse, StackOverflow would be better.... if on the other hand your question is about using redhawk with existing software defined functionality, that could be on-topic... or questions about the Eclipse plugin itself

Journeyman Geek

If its the hardware maaaaaybe EE.se

somequixotic

13:45

what it really comes down to is this: does your question probably require non-trivial source code to solve? if yes, StackOverflow. if no, here.

Journeyman Geek

tho, they seem to recommend using SO on their page

"To resolve REDHAWK technical issues, refer to stackoverflow.com using tag redhawksdr. "

somequixotic

now redhawk itself is just software; I believe you have to buy your own compatible software-defined radio hardware

Grace Note

@somequixotic I've got some folks who were happy in Stack Overflow with the tag but are being pointed at Super User for certain inquiries ("hardware/system inquiries") and I need to make sure this is proper and not "NO STAY AWAY".

@JourneymanGeek Oh, hey. That's probably related. They might be wanting to point at both SO and SU as appropriate, but I still need to make sure that SU is, indeed, appropriate.

Boris_yo

@ruda.almeida I am wolverine. You should add that too.

somequixotic

@GraceNote well... we don't generally do questions like "what sort of hardware should I buy for Redhawk?" because that's a hardware-rec (off topic for SuperUser)

Journeyman Geek

13:47

@GraceNote: no offence but, SO folks are rather well known for not knowing what belongs where. Any specific questions we can look at?

Grace Note

@JourneymanGeek 'tis an email, not a flag, so I have nothing but let me see if I can dig it up. Also? That's precisely why I've come here to ask, haha.

somequixotic

if the question is more like "I have hardware XYZ, how do I get it to work with Redhawk Eclipse framework?" that could be on-topic for SU

jokerdino

@somequixotic that's a hardware-rec. Boo

Journeyman Geek

If its to do with installing it, or hardware or high level software specific error messages it might work here.

Grace Note

Anyone have 10k on SO?

Hennes

13:48

Nope.

somequixotic

not eye

Journeyman Geek

"I'm running redhawk with a yoyodyne broad spectrum SDR, I'm getting an error message about insufficient bogomips when i try to connect to the device" might work on SU

(warning, random gibberish, meant to make a psudoplausible question)

somequixotic

@JourneymanGeek that would definitely work, yeah

Grace Note

Hm. What we have on SO is... quite an understatement to say it is junk that I'm glad was deleted and not moved.

Journeyman Geek

If its "redhawk is throwing syntax errors when I to to enfrobulate the component"

It clearly belongs on SO

somequixotic

13:50

@GraceNote it's ok; 85% of SO users surveyed thought that the word "trash can" was spelled "SuperUser"

we're used to it :(

Journeyman Geek

;p

Grace Note

But if we put aside the content and look at the problems associated, "How to properly update an existing redhawk installation", "How do you connect REDHAWK devices on different machines?", "REDHAWK Hardware Requirements".

Duikboot

@JourneymanGeek I was reading the whole discussion of today over again. What is the conclusion, going wireless is bad but when it's the only solution I have look for a router with a low freq?

somequixotic

/me gets plonked on the head by a heavy plastic bag of awful SO questions clumped in cat litter; the bag falls out of a large chute in the ceiling

....Ow.

Journeyman Geek

1 might work, rephrased. 2 would probably need to be device specific IMO. 3 is kind of verging on HW reecommendations.

somequixotic

13:52

@GraceNote first one: depends on what was actually being asked; "properly" is subjective but if they have a specific query...

agree with jman on the last two

Grace Note

Okiedokie.

Journeyman Geek

@Duikboot: I'd go for high transmission power, and 2.4 ghz - 5ghz is purely indoor, short range, high speed.

Grace Note

Y'all are a great help here, thank you much ♪

somequixotic

no prob o/

jokerdino

welkommen

Journeyman Geek

13:53

@Duikboot: I have a bunch of vague ideas, directional antennae for example ;p

Duikboot

You mean home-made?

Journeyman Geek

@GraceNote: I'd also note that this is the sort of thing in all 3 cases, their internal documentation SHOULD contain, and we'd merely end up referring back to them ;p

@Duikboot: yeah, possibly

Duikboot

What material would you use?

Gowtham

Better change the URL to 'https' before downloading.

Simply put the XKCD link here

it will expand

Hennes

I already used the special link

jokerdino

13:56

@Hennes but there was no hypertext

Gowtham

you don't need that

g xkcd.com/1247

jokerdino

or is it called tooltips?

Duikboot

Gowtham

:10641127 You don't have permission to access /images/yagi-router-cable.jpg on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

somequixotic

@Gowtham CIA-BIN?

Duikboot

13:57

oh

wait

somequixotic

I'm never using fastcgi again

Duikboot

ab9il.net/wlan-projects/wifi7.html

Gowtham

@somequixotic why o0

somequixotic

@Gowtham CIA-BIN :P CIA

it's supposed to be cgi-bin

Gowtham

rofl

somequixotic

13:59

meh you don't get the joke :/

Gowtham

I geedit now

Didn't see it in the comic :P :P

Duikboot

Can this help? instructables.com/files/deriv/FZV/222S/FTTOTR81/…

Boris_yo

somequixotic

i would laugh a lot at saving somequixotic with my gravatar in it

and other RA members in there too :D

Gowtham

@somequixotic RA ?

somequixotic

14:08

@Gowtham root access

jokerdino

Root Access

Gowtham

oh okay.

Boris_yo

@somequixotic Saving @somequixotic? As you would want your avatar in place of Brian's?

Duikboot

Does size matter, when I generate an antenna

if I create on from 1 meter instead of 10 cm will the range be increased a lot?

Journeyman Geek

@Duikboot: not really

I'm not an EE, but the best lengths for an antenna are basically multiples of its wavelength IIRC

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14:50

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It refers to country specific youtube sites. I'm in singapore, so it says SG

headesk

The two questions I have answered today are amazingly basic

somequixotic

@JourneymanGeek it's funny how very basic questions can be on-topic but very complicated questions can be closed :P

Journeyman Geek

@somequixotic: that got migrated out of SU

The answer to the other question I answered was, embarassingly "swap the cables"

Bob

@somequixotic rather sad, actually

@Duikboot You're going long distance and through many walls.

You will not get good WiFi with that kind of setup.

Your only real options are wired, or a repeater (preferably minimising walls between bast and repeater and client)

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