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Psycogeek

14:01

@somequixotic Instead of crying about it on the web, and getting it eventually fixed (6months) we would just take the product back as broken. Today there are thousands of people, having to de-bug for the programmers (almost).

somequixotic

@Psycogeek Actually, most stores I remember that sold software would refuse to take back an opened product

You had to open the product in order to install it and figure out it was broken, and once you did that, the best you could do is sell it to a used pawn shop for a fraction of the price you paid for the retail box "new".

Gowtham

bleh xbmc takes forever to scan my drive -_-

somequixotic

So it's not much better than buying games on Steam (and even then, Steam will occasionally agree to process a refund for its customers)

Psycogeek

@somequixotic They began that more after they started patching everything. But there was still the licence :-) which can still be used today. Somewhere in the licence there is always a legaese out. there is a part of the licence which usually states "if you do not agree to the terms and conditions , you Must return it" :-) well there wasnt much they could do about that.

Oliver Salzburg

This weekend was Calypso Weekend on Steam and I wanted to get the DLC for Tropico 4. The whole thing was 75% off. But I didn't want to buy every single DLC because that was more expensive than buying the game with all DLC included. But I already own the game. So the Steam policy is, you don't get an extra game and you also don't get it cheaper....

Isn't that kind of messed up?

somequixotic

14:08

@OliverSalzburg not really -- they are offering a sale... if you don't need the whole thing, buy whatever is cheaper, whether that's the DLC you don't have, or the whole pack 75% off, and just enjoy it... it's clearly designed to get more money out of people who don't own Tropico 4 itself by selling them the game AND the DLCs

Oliver Salzburg

Like I was buying a pack of 6 oranges but I only want to eat 3 and the shopkeeper is like "Oh, well, sir, in that case you only get 3. But you'll have to pay for 6 nonetheless"

somequixotic

one thing is clear about Steam: it is enormously advantageous -- in terms of your wallet -- to wait 3 to 6 months after a game is released, before buying it, because you can very likely get it between 25 and 75% off depending on how good the game was (if it was really good, it won't be heavily discounted for a long time, but if it was bad or okay, it'll probably be practically free within 6 months)

Journeyman Geek

yup

somequixotic

in fact, if you get yourself on a schedule of only buying 6 month old games, you can afford to buy more games with your gaming budget, which makes you busier and fills out your library with more games to play, so that your free time is occupied, and all that with paying less money for the games

Oliver Salzburg

I always buy a couple of Humble Bundles and sell the keys a couple of weeks later on Ebay, then I use that money to buy Steam games on sale

Psycogeek

14:10

@OliverSalzburg I did not like the taste of the added items in tropico4. it sounds like they offer a totally different game play, but it was the same old same old. Because i played it (great game) for days and days, when i got to the Extras, I started a game or 2 and did not finish.

Oliver Salzburg

Actually I don't. But wouldn't that be kind of a dick move :D

somequixotic

for example, even though Saints Row IV came out today, if you were on a 6 month old schedule, you could buy Dishonored 75% off and enjoy that for a while, then buy Saints Row IV at 50% off in 2014

Oliver Salzburg

@Psycogeek Oh :(

Journeyman Geek

...

read my mind ;p

somequixotic

@JourneymanGeek who?

Journeyman Geek

14:11

@somequixotic: about SR4 ;p

somequixotic

hehe

Oliver Salzburg

wtf... buying Tropico again somehow deleted my existing installation Oo

somequixotic

@OliverSalzburg that's awesome :D free feature :D

Oliver Salzburg

@somequixotic Well, I just bought 3 during the summer sale. So that's exactly how I roll ;P

somequixotic

the grocer who sold you 3 oranges for the price of 6 (at 50% off!) went to your home and took all your other oranges and stomped on them brutally

Oliver Salzburg

14:12

@somequixotic I guess the game+DLC version replaces the game-DLC version

@somequixotic At least my orange juice is synced to the Steam Cloud :\

somequixotic

@OliverSalzburg it might have behooved you to have backed up the game directory first, that way, when it "replaces" the game with the DLC version, you can just paste in the old files, and tell it to verify the files, and it'll be like, "OH! everything is there! except for this 50 MB DLC"

but you couldn't have known in advance :/

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah, I actually thought that would happen

Without my intervention though

Psycogeek

@OliverSalzburg (tropico 4) Like the "modern" stuff was just new pictures for the same thing, and the "war" sounding stuff was just going through the same paces for many guns, instead of stable economy and all. Perfect to extend the game WHEN i go back to play it 2-10 years from now.

Oliver Salzburg

But it actually got stuck on the "Installing Tropico 4" dialog and I never really checked what happened. Maybe it wasn't stuck at all, but just deleting my files ;P

@Psycogeek I had only gotten it during the summer sale and was reading a couple of Arqade questions on it. I read a couple of time "If you have DLC XYZ you can do..." so I was like, maybe I should have gotten the DLC while it was on sale :P

And then, BAM!, Calypso weekend

somequixotic

!!cowthink Calypsoooooooooooooo

John Cavil

14:16

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Psycogeek

The Super buildings were just nice artwork, and a place to unload a bunch of idiot immagrants, or if your people are breeding like flies :-) it was sort of depressing that the ziggerat couldnt fly , and that the massive office building only served 3 possible minor services.

somequixotic

what kind of game is Tropico 4? is it a 4X strategy game?

Psycogeek

@somequixotic it is a building and economy, and farming, and industry type strategy.

somequixotic

@Psycogeek is it like the "Anno" games?

I liked Anno 2070 and Anno 1404

Anno 1404

Anno 1404, known as Dawn of Discovery in North America, is a city-building game and economic simulation game, with real-time strategy elements. Released in 2009, it was developed by Related Designs, produced by Blue Byte, and published by Ubisoft. Anno 1404 is the sequel to Anno 1701 and is followed by the futuristic sequel Anno 2070. Though the game centers around a series of fictional events, the overall concept of the storyline is based upon real life aspects of medieval/renaissance history such as The Crusades, advancements in gothic architecture, construction of cathedrals, and hanse...

Psycogeek

@somequixotic it is simple and fun, a person can get right into it in seconds. I think anno is more complex, i have not played it yet, but it seemed to have a higher level of strategy, but still a end. Ok so you have built the masterpiece of all islands or worlds, now what.

somequixotic

14:21

@Psycogeek yeah, Anno games get complicated in the later campaign levels, various scenarios, or head to head multiplayer... complicated because of the number of resources you have to manage

Bob

@somequixotic There is a Compatible with Windows Vista thing, I think

Psycogeek

It is all about the struggle to get there, the journey. and in tropico it would even end cold when the struggle was done.

Bob

support.microsoft.com/kb/933305

Einsteins Grandson

is it possible to have a TXT file which has 3 GB?

Bob

> Programs that have earned the "Certified for Windows Vista" logo or the "Works with Windows Vista" logo are officially supported on Windows Vista by our independent software vendor (ISV) partners. The "Certified for Windows Vista" logo identifies products that are designed and tested to deliver a superior experience with Windows Vista. The "Works with Windows Vista" logo lets you know which software and devices offer baseline compatibility with Windows Vista.

@EinsteinsGrandson Why not?

somequixotic

14:22

as your empire gets more advanced in Anno, you raise new types of citizens, who have new needs, which require you to go out in the world and acquire new types of resources, which are expensive to acquire and defend

Bob

A text file is just data, at the end of the day.

somequixotic

and the effect is cumulative

jokerdino

What? Nothing changes at the end of the day.

Bob

msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/gg487360 @somequixotic

somequixotic

@Psycogeek I'll watch a video review of it / let's play and see if I want it :)

@Bob meh, isn't that mostly for hardware though? I mean, who except really high-rolling Microsoft-loving software developers (like Diskeeper, EMC/VMware, etc.) would actually go through the trouble to certify their software for an operating system release, unless it is enormously dependent on the OS version itself (usually due to a kernel module)?

Bob

14:25

@somequixotic I've seen a few with the works with logo floating around.

Spybot was one, I think.

somequixotic

VMware is one of the few pieces of software that I actually use that lives in that type of thinking, where everything they do has to be officially blessed by Microsoft

most of what I use is FOSS, and they don't even care about those Microsoft certification logos

Psycogeek

@somequixotic How many strategies i have played with the mental idea that i would build the best self sustaining master piece, then sit back and watch the little people thrive as i rule over them. But After the struggle , i last about 30 minutes max gazing over the masterpiece, then want a big volcano to destroy it all for some action. :-)

somequixotic

@Psycogeek lol... in Black & White you could almost create that volcano yourself, or at least a thunderstorm

it was funny to pick up your citizens and throw them into the water and let them drown, to instill fear and hatred in the other citizens

or pick up rocks and brutally smash houses

or tell your creature to poop in the granary to poison all the food, hahaha, i always got a kick out of that

Psycogeek

@somequixotic I struggled over the inteface for B&W for a long time. but it was good too, Then (as usual) i played it to death, and moved on. I Keep things like that installed (for a long time) then never go back, because it is still fresh in the memory. Like watching a movie again.

Bob

@somequixotic I've heard it described as "Sim city with more storyline/quests"

somequixotic

14:30

@Bob never really played sim city -- Anno series is as close as I come to city building games so far

usually the strategy I play is more combat-focused. 4X games like StarDrive, Sins of a Solar Empire, GalCiv 2, Civilization series

and RTS like Total Annihilation

sabgenton

Wow you can log on to someone else file history (at least that seems to confirm recovery) and screw up there metadata claiming it as you own!

My wife file history repository xml now has my user name all over it

Bob

...file history?

wut

somequixotic

@Bob perhaps he means volume shadow copy "Previous Versions" of files

jokerdino

@somequixotic IIRC, that was what he was talking about earlier too.

somequixotic

Vista, 7, and Windows Server >= 2008 can be configured to save previous versions of files as they change using the Volume Shadow Copy service

(but Windows 8 client versions don't do that anymore)

sabgenton

14:40

u guys are all mean

Bob

o.o

sabgenton

file history the new windows 8 backup tool ....

jokerdino

@sabgenton you mean the mean mean or just mean?

Bob

huh.

jokerdino

because i dont know what you mean.

sabgenton

14:41

lol

Bob

Eh, I gave up on Windows' backup tools after the disaster that is 7 (maybe Vista)

sabgenton

No I just thought your all joking that you didn't know what file history was

jokerdino

i think it is some crude attempt at version control

sabgenton

(In windows 8)

somequixotic

@jokerdino the mean value of meanness means that mean people mean to be mean a mean amount of the time

Bob

14:42

@somequixotic I'm pretty sure you quoted that before.

somequixotic

@Bob um, no

Bob

We really do repeat conversations in here.

sabgenton

@jokerdino it's just like rsync or robocopy

somequixotic

I have never said that before :P

Bob

I've also said that before several times.

jokerdino

14:43

@somequixotic mean people won't mean to mean only a mean amount of time. i am sure about that.

Bob

How meta.

sabgenton

It copies files to a repo and only copy's newer files after that

somequixotic

let's talk about pens, headphones and VMware some more though

sabgenton

time stamping the end of files

somequixotic

oh and our Android phones

Bob

14:44

@sabgenton No, I actually didn't know/remember the name.

jokerdino

@Bob tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RecycledScript

Bob

Mostly cause I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

jokerdino

ten food pole? must be tasty

somequixotic

lol

unless they are foods that don't go good together

Bob

@jokerdino Of course.

sabgenton

14:45

@somequixotic you can create a shadow with (Get-WmiObject -list win32_shadowcopy).Create("C:\","ClientAccessible") in windows 8
then use vssadmin to look at it mount it with mklink /d etc

Bob

@somequixotic Huh. Must be something similar, then.

sabgenton

but the removed the nice previous versions front end tool

somequixotic

the 10 food pole: cheese sauce, wasabi, ice cream, tomato sauce, sambar, 7-up, chocolate milkshake, pineapple cake, french toast, and peppermint paddies

sabgenton

at least with file history copies there on a different drive

somequixotic

all mixed together in a blender :-)

jokerdino

14:47

@somequixotic oh yeah~

such bliss

somequixotic

@sabgenton didn't know that, but doesn't surprise me that powershell can do it

sabgenton

annoyingly you can hijack someones file history and the other user gets confused and requires a stop start of the service to hijack it back

somequixotic

anyway we weren't trying to be mean; it's just that you haven't really said anything.... actionable or answerable yet

sabgenton

other than that it looks quite good

as it actually backs up to another drive unlike shadows

Journeyman Geek

lol

@somequixotic the last one, arn't those peppermint patties?

Bob

14:50

> If Police police Police police, who police Police police? Police police Police police police police Police police!

Journeyman Geek

and most wasabi isn't wasabi ;p

somequixotic

York Peppermint Pattie

York Peppermint Pattie is a dark chocolate enrobed peppermint confection produced by The Hershey Company. It was first produced in York, Pennsylvania, by Henry C. Kessler at his York Cone Company in 1940, for sale in the Northeastern United States, Ohio, Indiana, and Florida. In 1972, the York Cone Company was acquired by Peter Paul, which launched the York Peppermint Pattie nationally in 1975. In 1978, Peter Paul merged with Cadbury. York passed to the Hershey Foods Corporation when it acquired the US operations of Cadbury Schweppes in 1988. Recently production of the York Pepperm...

sabgenton

@somequixotic I kind found my own answer then just keep acting like a rambling ass as I was on a winning streak anyways

Bob

@JourneymanGeek That damn horseradish.

Still hunting for real wasabi D:

sabgenton

I still do a VHD of C as well

Journeyman Geek

14:51

@somequixotic: yeah, you mispelled ;p

sabgenton

gnight!

Bob

Hm. I'm supposed to write a simple webserver with bash scripting.

sabgenton

morning etc

jokerdino

@Bob i hear you

Bob

The example given, which uses netcat, works locally. It does not, however, work with a remote server :S

@sabgenton night!

Gowtham

14:52

4

Bob

wait, no, it's morning!

I am confused.

sabgenton

@Bob always double quote your "$variables"

Gowtham

Does anyone know a good Upnp server ??

Bob

Better yet, it works through telnet, etc. But FF: connection reset. IE/GC give similar errors.

Yay!

somequixotic

@Bob are you allowed to call any external commands, or do you have to implement the HTTP I/O in bash itself?

Bob

14:53

@sabgenton Of course. But that's hardly the issue.

sabgenton

the bash irc chat room will get very upset if you don't

Bob

It's reproducible with a single netcat line.

Eh. I only need to get it working locally anyway.

But it is a rather intriguing problem.

jokerdino

@Gowtham i was expecting sex

Bob

2 mins ago, by Bob

The example given, which uses netcat, works locally. It does not, however, work with a remote server :S

Journeyman Geek

@somequixotic: yeah, you mispelled ;p

somequixotic

14:54

@jokerdino are you kidding? he doesn't get that

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek dejavu? :S

Journeyman Geek

lol

my network is acting up

somequixotic

@JourneymanGeek you mispelled mispelled

sabgenton

for no reason use bash sockets instead of nc

Bob

@sabgenton No thanks.

sabgenton

14:55

unless your on debian

Journeyman Geek

I THINK we have a rogue, badly configured torrent client here.

Bob

Wait, did I say bash?

Journeyman Geek

you did.

jokerdino

@somequixotic he probably doesn't :D

Bob

I meant generic POSIX shell.

somequixotic

14:55

hahahaha, "bash", I get it, that means pass a script to ruby, right? lol

Bob

@somequixotic HRM

(No, not the TLA)

sabgenton

I'm gona get the bash if I don't go to sleep

somequixotic

His/her Royal Majesty?

Gowtham

@jokerdino ;p

Bob

> "Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"

jokerdino

14:57

just don't do that one with 7 buffaloes in it.

Bob

> Ship shipping ship shipping shipping ships.

somequixotic

@Bob wow.... talk about escaping/overloading/whatever that's called

that's like trying to pass a script to screen as a parameter of su as an argument to bash -x

where each step has to have its own quotes and then you have to quote stuff (with all types of quotes) in the script passed to screen

jokerdino

@Bob human resource management?

somequixotic

and to make it better, you have to include escaped quotes in a sed invocation in the screen :D

toothpicks within toothpicks within/next to eyelashes... that's what it starts looking like

\\'\\\\" etc

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo Which would be worse? Finding out that you are a clone, and there are many of you, or realising that your girlfriend is a clone and there are many of her? (Oblivion the movie)

somequixotic

15:08

@Psycogeek it'd be nice to find out the latter, because then you can invite one of the other clones over for dinner... or two of them, or three, or 100

Psycogeek

@somequixotic sure but they are clones, that means they would all be on thier period at the same time :-)

Einsteins Grandson

After 5 hours of suffering, Ramhound from Georgia saved me

Gowtham

o_o travel.stackexchange.com/questions/12947/…

Einsteins Grandson

It was just dragging and dropping the folder with 3500 emails to Outlook .....

and now I can filter the emails any way I want to...

jokerdino

@Gowtham that was pretty old

therealsingapore.com/content/… here's some fodder

Journeyman Geek

15:14

@jokerdino poor dears must be cold.

jokerdino

lol

Gowtham

15:37

@jokerdino ah yes

somequixotic

@Gowtham good thing I'm an older, unattractive man :P

(not that I'd ever go to India, even if one of my coworkers directly asked me to)

Gowtham

It actually depends on where you are are :-P

Canadian Luke

15:51

How can I grep a file, but only show lines that do NOT have a # at the start?

somequixotic

@CanadianLuke grep -E '^[^#].*' ?

Einsteins Grandson

When I try to upvote my own question... Is my question downvoted automatically?

Stupid question, I know...

somequixotic

@CanadianLuke yep, i tried that and it works

user@computer ~
$ echo 'foo' >> x

user@computer ~
$ echo '#bar' >> x

user@computer ~
$ echo 'baz' >> x

user@computer ~
$ echo '#fly' >> x

user@computer ~
$ grep -E '^[^#].*' x
foo
baz

user@computer ~
$

just a simple regex...

Canadian Luke

@somequixotic Thanks! Maybe I should ask that as a question since it doesn't exist on SU yet, give you some free rep?

@EinsteinsGrandson No, not automatically

somequixotic

@CanadianLuke it's too localized imho

Einsteins Grandson

15:56

OK, thank you!

somequixotic

I have about 10,000 - 15,000 "rep debt" from all the stuff I answer in chat anyway, I'm used to it

Psycogeek

@EinsteinsGrandson it should be :-) I think your question got downvoted for the insane problem you have. This time it seems to be written ok, and does not seem to suffer from a language barrier.

Canadian Luke

I search for "grep remove line matching string", and get 7 results that have nothing to do with it

somequixotic

meaning if I put in the same amount of effort to answering questions on the mainsite as I do in chat, I'd have 25k rep or so on the main site :P

Canadian Luke

Yea yea yea...

:P

somequixotic

15:57

@CanadianLuke well you can ask the question and make it more generic if you want

Einsteins Grandson

Haha,.... people commit suicide for insane problems....

Canadian Luke

OK

somequixotic

don't ask it about lines that don't start with #

Canadian Luke

@EinsteinsGrandson Link/story?

somequixotic

try to abstract it a little bit

Einsteins Grandson

15:57

I had a friend who commited suicide because he was in debt of 10.000 USD

Finishing high school

Playing ice hockey

Canadian Luke

That's no reason to kill yourself... I'm sorry for your loss

Einsteins Grandson

He was supposed to go to university in 6 months

somequixotic

that's terrible

Psycogeek

-1

Q: Is there a way to import emails in Microsoft format MSG into newly installed Outlook 2007?

I have 3500 emails from old Outlook in one folder. All the emails are in file format: MSG . They were somehow downloaded / exported from the old laptop when the user was using Outlook and knew that he has to backup those emails. Now, I need to import these emails into newly installed Outlook 200...

somequixotic

his life was just getting started

Einsteins Grandson

15:58

and could have saved and payed back those 10.000 USD in 1 or 2 years

somequixotic

lol why is the answer to that question CW?

Einsteins Grandson

he was the most handsome guy in high school

every girl was crying....

Canadian Luke

0

Q: Remove lines matching string in grep

I have some long configuration files to go through, and I would like to see just what is actually active in the .conf file, without any of the # tags. What can I use to output the lines without a # on it? I'm running Debian Wheezy with this command.

linux grep

Einsteins Grandson

What I'm trying to say is that: There is no insane problem

One problem can be insane for somebody but perfectly sane for somebody else and vice versa...

Canadian Luke

@somequixotic Seems like he thought he'd get downvoted for the short and sweet answer

Psycogeek

16:02

@EinsteinsGrandson messing with 3500 emails, insane. I would make a copy, then start tossing as many that were spam, and sales and all.

Einsteins Grandson

No spam, no sales!

All the emails were important!

They were already cleaned from spam and unneeded emails...

Journeyman Geek

@EinsteinsGrandson: actually, thats pretty much what I do at school ;p

outlook 2007 isn't it?

Einsteins Grandson

There are managers who get 300+ emails each day and maybe 5 to 10 % is spam at most...

including weekends....

so in 3 years that would be around 300.000 emails !!!

And it's still not insane...

Just the world we live in .... in 2013.

Psycogeek

@EinsteinsGrandson of which 3 are important enough to keep for a year?

Einsteins Grandson

it depends

somequixotic

16:08

@CanadianLuke the other answer to the question you just asked, the guy who was sitting right on the unanswered questions list and posted his answer before mine (because he was so damn quick), is technically correct and shorter, but he doesn't offer any explanation as to why... up to you which one to accept :P

Psycogeek

@EinsteinsGrandson but what world is it that we would collect what every person said to us, or say texts or even voice messages? NSA :-)

Journeyman Geek

office.microsoft.com/en-sg/outlook-help/… would be of use

along with the tool I suggested

....

doggamit

I am going to kill whatever's messing up my network connection

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek oops, ok well i can stop running my torrents through it untill you go to bed :-)

somequixotic

@CanadianLuke actually see my comment and downvote on Rich's answer, mine is better

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: I think my cousin set up a torrent client on my dad's system

lol

Canadian Luke

16:16

Sorry, was on the phone... I'll take a look

I HAVE VOTED! MUAHAHAHA!

somequixotic

@CanadianLuke updated my answer to be even more useful

John Cavil

16:33

@NewProgrammerJames Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help.

NewProgrammerJames

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind

Journeyman Geek

lol

@NewProgrammerJames: thats automated

somequixotic

on September 9th @JohnCavil is getting renamed to BOT_JohnCavil

Journeyman Geek

lol

somequixotic

I wish I could use something like *JohnCavil (the * meaning "AI" as in Christine Love's visual novels), but it's disallowed by SE to use special characters in display names

speaking of, hateplus.com it's out eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee \o/

Journeyman Geek

16:44

lol

somequixotic

maybe that should be my equivalent of Einstein's pringles face

|:oeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Is this question reference to my previous reply out this is a question out of nowhere? P.S I thought oblivion is a game...

Journeyman Geek

lol

somequixotic

@Boris_yo it's a game; it's a movie; it's a gamevie! a mome! (and the game and movie have nothing to do with one another)

Journeyman Geek

@somequixotic: sequel or extended edition?

Boris_yo

16:49

@JourneymanGeek I installed uTorrent app on tablet. Saves some time because I prefer to watch on it.

@somequixotic " gamevie! a mome!" Don't speak French to me.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo out of nowhere.

somequixotic

@JourneymanGeek i.imgur.com/77AwkJo.png

Journeyman Geek

@somequixotic: at the bottom?

somequixotic

thought you'd like that @JourneymanGeek because you're a dog

Journeyman Geek

there's no other string saying dog in the page.

somequixotic

16:52

@JourneymanGeek wrong; there's actually a dog in there somewhere

Journeyman Geek

lo

there isn't ;p

somequixotic

Journeyman Geek

oh ;p

Psycogeek

@somequixotic another poor soul searching for god.

Journeyman Geek

my bad. I was looking vertically and horizontally

Boris_yo

16:53

@Psycogeek If I had clones, it would be better I think. I would be more productive and could be replaced by clones in case I wanted days off.

somequixotic

I've had teachers, bosses and friends say "I wish I could clone you!" when I helped them

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo but you have to feed clothe and shelter them all, Course setting up their computers would be easier

Boris_yo

@somequixotic Blasphemy!

somequixotic

we need clones of JonSkeet in the world

that way every SO question would have two (or more) great answers

Journeyman Geek

lol

somequixotic

16:58

you know, since StackOverflow is named after a common programming blunder / problem, SuperUser should be too

unless Super Users are really a problem and we just don't think of them that way

those damned Super Users! they are a blight upon this earth!

Psycogeek

@somequixotic call it Crash

Boris_yo

"The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey - Why make $1billion on 1 film when we can make $3 billion on 3 films." That's the summary.

somequixotic

@Psycogeek or BSOD :P

illegaloperation

Psycogeek

@somequixotic i was going to say that, but then how do we cover unix and mac? "Error Request"

@somequixotic that works.

Bugs & Blunders

somequixotic

unix.stackexchange.com would be nsfd.com or "nosuchfileordirectory.com"

(most common unix error, imho)

ask different could become ds-store.com for the .DS_Store files that Mac loves to create to tick everybody off

Psycogeek

17:05

Wonder if it would be harder to get advertising. With it called IllegalOperation? Mabey run some escort adds.

Boris_yo

@somequixotic Why it creates these file?

Daniel Beck

@Boris_yo Similar to Thumbs.db

@somequixotic Don't forget the ._files on inferior file systems.

Boris_yo

@DanielBeck Image cache files?

Daniel Beck

@Boris_yo More general metadata for the file browser (Finder).

Boris_yo

American comedies get more vulgar, offensive, gender reversing, following same predictable template to degrade society

Daniel Beck

17:11

Anyone remember this answer?

1029

A: Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen?

The time to send a packet to a remote host is half the time reported by ping, which measures a round trip time. The display I was measuring was a Sony HMZ-T1 head mounted display connected to a PC. To measure display latency, I have a small program that sits in a spin loop polling a game contro...

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo watch leave it to beaver instead.

Daniel Beck

"This is very unfortunate, but it is all fixable, and I hope to lean on display manufacturers more about latency in the future."

Now: oculusvr.com/blog/john-carmack-joins-oculus-as-cto

Boris_yo

Noticed how Hollywood slowly reverses genders? Females act more like makes and vise versa?

Thanks for contribution to gay trend and their rights.

@Psycogeek Where would I get all seasons?

somequixotic

@DanielBeck lol John has one answer SE-wide and garnered 3k rep for it alone

incredible. I missed that somehow

Boris_yo

@DanielBeck Whoah! Dang did you notice it has over 1000 votes?

Daniel Beck

17:16

@somequixotic Which means he has all significant privileges (except maybe the tools).

somequixotic

@DanielBeck is that the most upvoted answer on SU?

Daniel Beck

@somequixotic By a wide margin. The next ones are the cURL (540) and floppy drive (490) answers.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo ebay.com/bhp/leave-it-to-beaver-dvd

somequixotic

@DanielBeck this one is mere pedestrian dreck by comparison: superuser.com/questions/565883/…

Daniel Beck

@somequixotic Dont' complain, at least you have the 100 score badge. ;-)

Boris_yo

17:21

@Psycogeek uhm, well, errm... okay.

somequixotic

@DanielBeck hehehe

Boris_yo

What's "Ermagherd"?

somequixotic

@Boris_yo it's a heavily modified alternative pronunciation/spelling of "oh my God"

imagine saying "oh my God" with an American accent, then clenching your teeth tightly together and say it again

Boris_yo

@somequixotic Say it after putting on teeth braces?

somequixotic

@Boris_yo yes :D

Boris_yo

17:27

@somequixotic Then girls would find me unattractive. I already wear glasses.

Psycogeek

@DanielBeck i dont get that huge VR box thing, when there has been sleek small lightweight 3D Vr head pieces that are way less ugly and smaller?

Boris_yo

Anyone saw "Act of valor"? Must see for COD fans.

Psycogeek

These things were not full HD at all, but at that same time they had chips that are full HD. vrealities.com/products/featured/vr2200 these people have been silently selling this stuff long before the hype hit. and like all 3D it never gets boyond gimick, and always has some stupid thing that makes them unusable for long periods of time.

Daniel Beck

groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175

slhck

17:51

@sathya Do you still have that video of your password management presentation? I remember wanting to watch it but never got to it. Gotta convince someone to manage passwords better :P

somequixotic

18:15

@DanielBeck :'( (read it earlier from slashdot)

Sathya

@slhck yep.. Here youtube.com/watch?v=s_Oa2a3FDwI

John Cavil

18:32

@tapped-out Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help.

tapped-out

essidc

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video audio download dvd

yay spambots :P

John Cavil

18:48

@CoolEulerProject Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help.

Boris_yo

Riddick is back! imdb.com/title/tt1411250

slhck

@Sathya Nice, I'm gonna steal part of your slides if that's okay

Sathya

19:26

@slhck sure, go ahead!

slhck

Because Excel is not a password manager.

Psycogeek

19:57

wow I was looking at the oculus rift,and i cant believe how genius it is on one side, and udeniably stupid on the other :-) On one side he took 1980s tech of having a video screen in your face, and mixed it with the new high res lcd and amoled phone screens. So basically he has 2 aspheric lenses going to a cell phone. Brilliant.

Michael Frank

morning all

Psycogeek

This, shot off my keyboard to show size, is a Lcd screen, they make and sell these things for about 4 years now, that could provide 2 eyes full 1080x1920 type resolutions. (but expencive for the high res)

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