Root Access

That Brazilian Guy

15:06

giggle keeps segfaulting, what do I do?

Braiam

btw, if I ping Oli... which of them I will ping? Oli or Olivander Wand-maker?

@ThatBrazilianGuy JUST FIX IT! (TM)

That Brazilian Guy

@Braiam Sure, pay me years of programming courses, then invent me a time machine, then I will fix it yesterday.

For free, even.

Braiam

give me 400 years to invent the time machine...

That Brazilian Guy

Damn, it is still broken. Why didn't you buy me a time machine tomorrow?

@Braiam If you invent a time machine, you don't need 400 years. If you can live 400 years, you don't need a time machine.

Hm. OliverSalzburg isn't here but if I type @ his name shows up, but not allquixotic, terdon, slhck

allquixotic

15:26

@ThatBrazilianGuy Geek is here much more than me

Oliver Salzburg

!!tell 12434998 fixit

ChatBot John Cavil

►

Oliver Salzburg

It works \o/

@allquixotic btw, the new Firefox version of the extension was approved

Braiam

@OliverSalzburg that was meant for @ThatBrazilianGuy right?

Oliver Salzburg

@Braiam Well, you said "fix it" ;P

allquixotic

15:27

@Bob you select the background in the original image, then clear it, after adding an alpha channel to the original image. then you copy and paste the whole thing into a new layer in the dest image ;p

@OliverSalzburg awesome!

Bob

@allquixotic the original image didn't have a background

allquixotic

@Bob it probably had semi-transparency, then. you could've semi-flattened the layer first

@Bob i had to google a few tutorials to do my hattage for my gravatar in GIMP 2.8.10 on Windows, but it works well once you know what you're doing... which is pretty true of any advanced image editor

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

@allquixotic fully transparent as far as I could tell

worked perfectly fine in PS

allquixotic

then again, neither of my source images had a transparent background; they had a white background that I had to fuzzy select

Bob

15:30

if you ignore the ridiculous flickering due to Win8 + switchable D:<

allquixotic

@Bob for some reason, that emoticon is very hard for my brain to process

an angry disgusted face, I get it now, but I had to tilt my head to see it

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

I much prefer unicode with a stupid number of superscripts that breaks out of the boundary of the chat line :D

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

!!help fixit

ChatBot John Cavil

15:33

@allquixotic fixit: User-taught command: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhy7dXWjpAA

allquixotic

!!forget fixit

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Command fixit forgotten.

allquixotic

!!learn fixit '<>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhy7dXWjpAA'

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Command fixit learned

allquixotic

!!help fixit

ChatBot John Cavil

15:34

@allquixotic fixit: User-taught command: <>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhy7dXWjpAA

Gowtham

^_^ plus.google.com/+NikolayElenkov/posts/SnU689qHLaV

allquixotic

i should just patch the bot so it always prepends <> to link-only learned commands

Journeyman Geek

lol

Gowtham

!! learn uio '<>!! NO'

ChatBot John Cavil

@Gowtham Command uio learned

Gowtham

15:35

!! uio

ChatBot John Cavil

!! no

Gowtham

Hmm i could start a infinite loop if only Chatbot listens to his own messages :/

ChatBot John Cavil

@Gowtham Command uio learned

!! NO

Gowtham

!! no

ChatBot John Cavil

That Brazilian Guy

15:36

10 mins ago, by allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy Geek is here much more than me

@JourneymanGeek doesn't count. He's a component of the SE engine, therefore never offline.

3

Gowtham

lol

He has been here consistently since I found this place

@bob is here half the time too ;p

That Brazilian Guy

@Gowtham See? Proof!

allquixotic

@Gowtham even when it's 4:30 AM local time and he should be asleep.

!!help sleep

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Command sleep does not exist.

3

Gowtham

@allquixotic He's a crazy fox

allquixotic

15:37

!!learn sleep BOB, GO TO SLEEP.

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Command sleep learned

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy actually, I'm a dog. I just have odd waking hours

Bob

@allquixotic You're off by several hours.

I also have to point out your hypocrisy here :P

(Also, I wasn't even on here until i got pinged - that noise is.. distinctive)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Gowtham

oops, I woke up bob. Now someone needs to pat him until he sleeps :/

That Brazilian Guy

15:43

@JourneymanGeek SE has Clippy, why can't it have a dog?

Boris_yo

@OliverSalzburg Version 25.0? Without .SVG image browser crash?

Oliver Salzburg

7

Q: Chat Reply Helper for Stack Exchange sites

Press : to start replying to a previous message. Press ↑ as many times as you need to mark the desired message. What does it do? First of all, the Chat Reply Helper for Stack Exchange sites provides a simple key combination to select a message to reply to. This removes the need to grab the...

Boris_yo

@Bob Especially when you have headphones on with 80% volume. It's like sound hammer hitting your eardrum.

Bob

@Boris_yo Yea, thank you for demonstrating -_-

Boris_yo

@Bob What do you mean? I only shared unpleasant experience I had recently.

Gowtham

15:48

lol

@Boris_yo He doesn't like getting pinged

Boris_yo

@Gowtham Oh that explains it now but previously Bob never complained about it to me.

Gowtham

Bob's moody ;p

Boris_yo

@Gowtham Okay I won't ping him today anymore.

HostGator 75% Off Cyber Monday. Who wanted blog here?

They had $72 for 3-year baby plan shared hosting. That's rare.

allquixotic

@Bob I disabled that sound right off the bat... it's the first thing I always do when I join chat on a browser that doesn't have my cookie

@Boris_yo I applied to work at HostGator :-)

they were willing to hire me, but I found a better (closer) job :-)

I would be much poorer if I took the job with HostGator because I would have to move several thousand miles and pay for more expensive accommodations

in the phone interview they gave me remote ssh into a test server they had, and they were monitoring my commands, and asked me to do a few things

they wanted to know why a given file couldn't be deleted even as root

Gowtham

@allquixotic ooh how is that not possible

hello @TomWijsman

Tom Wijsman

15:56

Hi

allquixotic

@Gowtham I looked at ACLs, UNIX permissions, SELinux, the logs, fsck, lsof, dmesg, and couldn't figure it out... I gave up... they said that their test kernel was custom patched to have that file and to deny the permission but they wanted to see the candidate try various things to figure it out to see what they know

on a real kernel that can happen if your filesystem is hosed

also you might have su or sudo mangled into something malicious or not functioning correctly, and your shell might lie about PS1 and actually display # for a regular user

Boris_yo

@allquixotic You mean you had to commute several thousand miles and pay for expensive accomodations? By accomodations you mean residence?

Gowtham

hmm, interesting, they compiled a custom kernel to recruit someone

allquixotic

@Boris_yo no, i would have had to move and live somewhere else, in another part of the US

Gowtham

I still don't understand SELinux :/

Boris_yo

15:58

@allquixotic That's called relocation?

Gowtham

And @TomWijsman doesn't come here often these days

allquixotic

@Boris_yo yes

Boris_yo

@allquixotic I guess this is the last to resort to?

Tom Wijsman

@Gowtham I'm here every day.

allquixotic

they were willing to pay a very small relocation fee, not nearly enough to cover costs

@TomWijsman but you talk less than you used to

Gowtham

15:59

@TomWijsman but you don't talk !

Boris_yo

@TomWijsman Last time we talked was months ago...

allquixotic

i see you pop up in the user list all the time (who could miss Taylor Swift?...) but you don't talk much

Psycogeek

@allquixotic ahh the "Kobayashi Maru" test :-)

Tom Wijsman

True, but I'm still here. ;)

allquixotic

@Psycogeek exactly lol

Boris_yo

15:59

@TomWijsman Your body is here but spirit is in another dimension.

allquixotic

speaking of, we seem to have missed the !!taytaytay command, due to bot memory erasure a while ago

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek How does one translate Kobayashi Maru?

Bob

@Gowtham Nah, I don't really mind pings.

Kinda like them sometimes.

allquixotic

@Boris_yo i don't know the literal translation but it's Japanese and it basically means "impossible test" or "unwinnable scenario"

Bob

And I do a lot of pinging, too - be a bit hypocritical to hate them :P

allquixotic

16:00

there are several interview / job application / military training situations where it can be useful

Gowtham

Kobayashi Maru

The Kobayashi Maru is a test in the fictional Star Trek universe. It is a Starfleet training exercise designed to test the character of cadets in the command track at Starfleet Academy. The Kobayashi Maru test was first depicted in the opening scene of the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and also appears in the 2009 film Star Trek. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Dr. McCoy referenced the test as an example of the no-win scenario that he and Captain Kirk were facing. The test's name is occasionally used among Star Trek fans or those familiar with the series to describe a ...

Braiam

@allquixotic lsattr ¬_¬, no need to patch a kernel...

allquixotic

the point of the test isn't to win; the point is to observe how the candidate/trainee thinks about the situation to try and give themselves the best chance

Boris_yo

@allquixotic What department you were offered position in?

Gowtham

A test like that would probably drive me mad ;p

allquixotic

16:01

@Boris_yo sysadmin / customer service rep... basically someone who goes into servers and helps them configure stuff or troubleshoot

Tom Wijsman

!!/learn TayTayTay i.imgur.com/SYvAqgs.gif

ChatBot John Cavil

@TomWijsman Command taytaytay learned

Boris_yo

@Gowtham I knew it! HostGator are fans of Star Trek!

Tom Wijsman

!!/tell 12436221 TayTayTay

ChatBot John Cavil

Psycogeek

16:02

@Gowtham I would delete the whole system, and say there its gone :-)

allquixotic

@TomWijsman I'm going to re-learn that command with the <> (see the pinned message on the starwall), okay?

Boris_yo

@allquixotic Is it by chat, email or phone? Phone is my weak spot.

Gowtham

!! forget taytaytay

ChatBot John Cavil

@Gowtham Command taytaytay forgotten.

Bob

@allquixotic o.O cheating! :P

Gowtham

16:02

!! learn taytaytay '<>http://i.imgur.com/SYvAqgs.gif'

ChatBot John Cavil

@Gowtham Illegal /learn object; see /help learn

@Gowtham Command taytaytay learned

allquixotic

or Gowtham will beat me to it

@Boris_yo phone, with simultaneous SSH

they had a login script on the server so that when you SSH'ed in, you'd fork off a screen or something that they could observe your shell buffer to see you type in real time

the interview questions were given over phone but you "answered" by typing

Tom Wijsman

!!forget forget

4

ChatBot John Cavil

@TomWijsman You are not authorized to delete the command forget

allquixotic

most of my verbal answers were "there...." after getting the result desired

it started out REALLY simple but then got fairly complex

Gowtham

16:05

allquixotic

the first one was like go to the test directory in your home folder

then it was "get information about the running system hardware and software and tell me the important points"

so uname -a, cat /etc/issue, cat /proc/cpuinfo, etc

lol_unsolicited_spam_making_it_to_my_inbox_thx_gmail

JOB DESCRIPTION

You will be assigned to visit a shop.
You need to "pretend" to be a normal potential customer who is looking for a particular service or product.
You will then finish an on-line questionnaire to share with us your customer experience.

Requirements

16 Years old or above.
Can speak local language well.
Can read and write english.
No experience needed like shopping.

Job pay:

You will get $200 for each assignment.
Most of the time you will only need to spend 20 minutes on the visit.

> No experience needed like shopping.

So people who have never been to a store before, ever qualify for this... K

Braiam

> 16 Years old

???

now they also scam 16 yro?

Oliver Salzburg

I've been monitoring prices for some cryptocurrencies today and a question came up. Why don't people just purchase a ton of coins at an exchange where the rate is low right now and sell on another exchange where the price is high? It seems like there are pretty large price differences

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg I just noticed that the reply showcased on your stackapps page for the chat reply helper is a message by me, lol

I guess considering the high percentage of messages in this chat from me, that's hardly surprising

the only other ones it could've been are Bob and JMan

Oliver Salzburg

:D

allquixotic

16:18

!!tell 12436533 yes

ChatBot John Cavil

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: but a pretty large proportion of mine probably say lol

allquixotic

just testing the extension -- works fantastically!

@JourneymanGeek or ;p

Oliver Salzburg

:D

I was hoping you have information for me :P

allquixotic

I have no idea why people don't just buy low and sell high -- my only thought is transaction fees can be high

you would think that the exchanges would fairly rapidly equalize on the same price level if there were enough of a difference that simply buying and selling, even including transaction fees, would net you a significant profit

I mean heck, someone could create a bot that scrapes all the exchanges' prices and makes incremental money, even pennies on the dollar, by selling whenever it's profitable, and just run that on a VPS somewhere and pay for the VPS and then some

that kind of "work" is beneath me, though... fruitless moving of money is the kind of stuff that HFT scum do

do something of value to society ffs

Bob

16:21

@allquixotic also takes a while, and the market's volatile enough that prices can change a fair bit in that time

allquixotic

@Bob true

That Brazilian Guy

> I have no idea why people don't just buy low and sell high

When price is low, people think "meh, no value, me not wants it"; when it is hight, people think "oh, shiny, me wantsss"

Back in 2009 I was in the crew of a video channel for stock market lessons, and learned 95% of people behave like this

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy he's talking about low and high at the same time in different exchanges

That Brazilian Guy

Oh!

Braiam

@Bob I would buy in one and sell in the other, then profit the difference between sell/buy values

or he's telling that people do not do that?

Bob

16:25

...that's exactly what's being discussed, yes

my theory is that the prices can change enough in the time a transaction takes to go through that it's rather risky

remember that bitcoin transactions are not instananeous

hm. apparently only about 15 mins average... not as bad as I thought

blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time

then I suppose it depends a bit on how big that difference is, and how quickly it changes

Braiam

I remember times were lagging because someone started to make several (about thousands) transactions in a very short span of time... miners were happy tho...

That Brazilian Guy

Wait, is it a single bitcoin worth ~USD1000?

I think I had about USD5 in bitcoin months ago

Does it mean I have now USD50? Hmmmmmmm

Journeyman Geek

yeah

value shot up recently

That Brazilian Guy

Now I just have to remember in which damn HDD my coins are

Bob

lol

That Brazilian Guy

16:35

(and go back in time and kick myself really hard for not having bought A LOT of coins)

Oliver Salzburg

I wanted to invest today, but that is crazy territory. First of all it's insane how hard it is to get coins from real money. And every step along the way you have to pay a cut

Until you get your 500€ worth of BTC, you've paid 520€

That Brazilian Guy

Nah, wait for all the BTC craze to pass.

Oliver Salzburg

And if you want to sell, you have to pay the same cuts again

That Brazilian Guy

Or mount a mining cluster

Oliver Salzburg

@ThatBrazilianGuy That's what I did 2 years ago!

@ThatBrazilianGuy It seemed like trading is a lot easier and has much higher gains than mining

That Brazilian Guy

16:37

A few months back I have been in a room here at my work that has a machine that was in the top 100 list once. At the moment I thought "it might even render Crisis 2". Now I have.... other ideas ;)

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy the value of bitcoins has gone up, but the value of a fixed amount of hashing computation has gone down exponentially

Oliver Salzburg

I'm all ears ;D

btw, reading the chat on btc-e is mindblowing

That Brazilian Guy

Just kidding, obviously I'm not gonna break into a huge lab to mine bitcoin.

Oliver Salzburg

It's hard to believe that these people have money

@ThatBrazilianGuy obviously

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy you should convince them to mine bitcoin "For Science" and give it to you

Oliver Salzburg

16:39

lol

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

also, depends on how long ago it was in the top 100 -- if it was in 2004, you might be able to produce similar amounts of computation with a single GTX TITAN

if it was in 2010... well, that's very nice

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic Join effort between CS and Economy studies, right? To test theories in a real, fast changing environment?

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy yes, exactly

interdisciplinary studies in the monetary ascension of a lowly sysadmin (or whatever it is you do) and subsequent migration to the first world ;p

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic #1 in LA in 2010. 7k processors, 65 teraflops.

allquixotic

16:41

for the purposes of the test however you have to agree to have brain scanners attached to your head (electrodes)

65 teraflops is about 12 GTX TITANs :P

oh, #1 in Latin America... gotcha

That Brazilian Guy

World #86 (back in 2010)

allquixotic

the modern worldwide supercomputers (global top 100) run thousands of current-gen Nvidia ASICs, usually attached to AMD Opterons due to their high core density

That Brazilian Guy

Damn, I gotta stop giving info that can be used to track me +_+"

allquixotic

most of the compute punch comes from the Nvidia Teslas

the CPUs are mainly for I/O and coordination, not for number crunching

which apparently AMD is really good at

TSMC must be happy as a frog in a gnat swarm with AMD and Nvidia releasing multiple generations of devices on the 28nm node, and giving them so much value out of that process

I'm sure they've been asking about the 22nm node or smaller, but TSMC is probably like !!no until we make tons of B$ on 28nm

That Brazilian Guy

TSMC?

allquixotic

16:47

tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-20-nm-lithography-hkmg,24487.html

@ThatBrazilianGuy Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

i.e., one of the very few companies on the planet capable of HKMG bulk semiconductor fabrication at process nodes smaller than 45 nm

Intel does their own thing with GlobalFoundries (funded by Intel) so they run on different node sizes than TSMC, but TSMC makes both Nvidia and AMD GPUs

meaning every AMD APU, every AMD graphics card, every Nvidia graphics card and compute card, most smartphone and tablet SoCs, and probably a lot of other assorted stuff, rolls off of TSMC's foundries

oh and let's not forget the PS4 and Xbox One APUs (which are both AMD parts)

Journeyman Geek

isn't globalfoundries AMDs old fab division?

That Brazilian Guy

> ... a lowly sysadmin (or whatever it is you do) ...

In fact, what do I do? I wonder each day. The application process is for one area, the team is (supposed to be of) other area, and the actual work is... well... whatever shows up x_x

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek I don't recall... I thought Intel spun off GlobalFoundries but you may be right that it's AMD... ah well... yeah Intel appears to own their own fabs

Journeyman Geek

5

@allquixotic: intel does

allquixotic

16:52

AMD is basically entirely dependent on a third pty company for their revenue/profit though because they're fabless... Intel would never fab AMD GPUs or CPUs, so TSMC is their only choice

Journeyman Geek

and recently opened up to outsiders.

@allquixotic: intel might!

allquixotic

I would be astonished if AMD broke their long-standing tradition of fabbing with TSMC and convinced Intel to fab for them

Intel seems to be in command as far as the speed of spinning up their fabs on new nodes and scaling it up, even better than TSMC, but they want to reserve that goodness for Intel products

Journeyman Geek

intel is 2 generations or more ahead on process sizes

That Brazilian Guy

Guess you all knew it

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek and right as TSMC is planning to slightly leapfrog Intel by moving to 20nm (20nm is smaller than 22nm obviously), Intel is getting ready in 2014 to release the die shrink of Haswell

@ThatBrazilianGuy yup

Journeyman Geek

16:55

intel's looking at 14 nm ;p

allquixotic

then again, Intel only has to spin up their fabs for their specific ASICs -- TSMC has to produce a more general purpose fab because they have to support both Nvidia's style and AMD's style

Braiam

!!help billgates

Journeyman Geek

iirc they're currently making arm processors for someone

ChatBot John Cavil

@Braiam Command bil does not exist.

@Braiam Command bill does not exist.

@Braiam Command billgates does not exist.

allquixotic

AMD's parts tend to be bulk CMOS, whereas Nvidia's parts are Silicon on Insulator

Journeyman Geek

16:57

ahh

allquixotic

those are very different processes, and TSMC supports both at 28nm

they have to, because GCN parts are bulk, and GTX 680 and later are still SOI

and TSMC makes both at 28nm

IIRC bulk is easier on the fab as far as difficulty and defect rate, but the end product has to be engineered a bit more conservatively because of worse leakage

Braiam

so, what it's stoping AMD is the revenues of the maker of chips for the competency... noted

allquixotic

@Braiam well, TSMC has a huge financial incentive to resist allowing AMD and Nvidia to tap into a smaller node at a faster rate, because the more value they get out of continuously producing chips at a given node, the more their investment (which is enormous) is leveraged

they put many $MMillions into the process and get many $BBillions out... but if they jump node to node to node every few years, the $BBillions out is less

they can basically profit by being complacent

and since Intel still has no answer for discrete GPU, there's an actual market for the same old process node chips

with very incremental improvements based on chip layout R&D and software and firmware stuff like new Direct3d

(and of course die size increases)

I think we might see one more (that totals three generations) GPU iteration from AMD and Nvidia on the 28nm process before they start 20nm

I'm sure AMD and Nvidia are working on 20nm right now, but they also probably have one final product on the pipeline closer to release that's 28nm

Ash

@JourneymanGeek how ash looks when he becomes a hipster

allquixotic

TSMC would only worry and have to speed up their node shrinks if Intel was like, today, "Introducing the new Intel Tiger's Den platform, a flagship PCI Express 3.0 gaming-focused GPU with 8 TFlops built on the 14nm node, debuted as the Xeon G5000"

they'd have Nvidia and AMD basically saying "if you don't give us 20nm or smaller now, we will stop selling GPUs"

also to follow up on earlier bulk vs CMOS discussion

> The primary barrier to SOI implementation is the drastic increase in substrate cost, which contributes an estimated 10–15% increase to total manufacturing costs. (link)

that accounts for Nvidia being 10-15% more expensive at comparable performance to AMD :P

Ash

17:09

and how he looks when its Christmas

allquixotic

lol

Braiam

O_O, SO close queue will hit 100k in next days...

allquixotic

@Braiam they should just handle the issue by automatically closing every question asked on SO, and only manually voting to reopen the questions that are known to be valid

or questions posted by users with more than 10k rep

Braiam

@allquixotic I flagged to close a >10k rep user question (of course I answered it first :P) so maybe you can't do that...

allquixotic

@Braiam ah, so you're a mixed messenger

1. user asks terrible question
2. answer it
3. VTC and flag
4. upvote

Braiam

17:14

dun hav 3k rep... :(

Oliver Salzburg

@Braiam We need to crowdfund someone to take care of it

Or maybe I should just go in there and crush through it ;P

Take a couple of days off, buy a sack of cocaine, close some questions

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg amazon mechanical turk!

Braiam

17:30

@allquixotic err... I don't upvote bad/ot questions :(

DragonLord

I was busy trying to set up one of these (the Chinese "FAST" version, though): newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704121

I already had one of these working as an AP, but I was trying to get another of them to work in client mode

This is so that my father's desktop (which doesn't have Wi-Fi) can get online wirelessly as well

In client mode, to access the configuration control panel, you need to turn off DHCP and set a static IP. When finished, you remove the static IP and re-enable DHCP. Why? The documentation says that this is because of a "DHCP conflict".

I don't fully understand why there would be a "DHCP conflict".

Ash

damn you google ads

That Brazilian Guy

@Ash I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

Ash

17:45

o.O

Braiam

17:57

@DragonLord because you can't have two dhcp servers in the same network offering ip's right and left

first make sure that the static configuration works as intended then once everything is a-OK leave DHCP doing it's magic

DragonLord

Well, both computers are now online. I simply find it odd that I need to assign a static IP to access the control panel.

Boris_yo

@Ash What is this ad about?

That Brazilian Guy

@Boris_yo The Beatles "I am the Walrus" song.

Ash

18:50

@Boris_yo that made you curious too ?

long story short : I dint see it.

I am now using an old laptop with less than 200 mb of RAM.(midori browser ) & midori crashes at any image that it encounters.Sadly , it crashed when i tried to load that page .

@ThatBrazilianGuy whats it about the "I am walrus song "

I dont quiet get it.

more over every single web page I search for it crash before me except root acceess

Damn you midori

Boris_yo

@Ash Why you are using this laptop?

Ash

If you ment "For what are you using this" - mainy for typing something with kate .

Also when there is rain and thunder outside.

I can't risk my PC when its thunder outside

well "for why " - i dont earn

so i cant buy a new one as long as i am unemployed.

@JourneymanGeek lessons form adafruit are so damn good.

@Boris_yo you know what this "walrus song " is about ?

openclipart.org/people/GR8DAN/showbizframe.svg : this aint crash midori while it crashed firefox.

Boris_yo

19:08

@Ash Why exactly link to it and let others suffer the crash? You could specify address without hyperlinking to it. You almost owed me second core of my i5 processor.

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek I dub her "JourneywomanNerd":

terdon

19:45

@allquixotic please, no porn.

Braiam

I just switched chat because @terdon mentioned "porn"... what kind of human I'm??

terdon

@Braiam a male one

A disappointed male one I hope, else you may have more serious problems... ;)

Nathan Osman

I have a Raspberry Pi that provides a network share (via SMB). I have one of the shares mapped to a network drive on my Windows box. However, every time I boot the box, I get an error that "Windows could not reconnect to all network drives."

The Raspberry Pi is always on, so I don't see how this is possible...

Braiam

@NathanOsman maybe windows is trying to connect before it gets an ip...

terdon

@NathanOsman are you mapping using IPs or server names?

Nathan Osman

19:57

IP addresses... I think...

They are handed out from my router via DHCP.

Oliver Salzburg

@NathanOsman I have the same behavior with some remote shares as well. Look for a solution on the Windows side

Braiam

@NathanOsman try with static ips, check if it gets better...

Nathan Osman

Is there any way to delay reconnecting to remote shares when the PC boots?

terdon

Damn, I had this issue with a WD drive that was acting as a NAS, could connect to it fine on Linux but windows machines had issues like this. @NathanOsman try setting it up to use the IP, not RASPBERRYPI, but 192.168.1.whatever

Nathan Osman

I'll try that.

terdon

20:03

If that solves it, just switch your Pi to static IP. That tends to be a good idea for devices that are always part of the network anyway. A surprising amount of network issues come down to dynamic IPs.

Braiam

@terdon you mean NetBIOS :P

Nathan Osman

Well, the IP addresses are not random - the router always hands out the same IP addresses to the same devices via DHCP.

terdon

@Braiam yeah. Among other things

@NathanOsman this is the voice of experience rather than any actual knowledge. I have just very often fixed random connectivity issues by giving things fixed IPs.

Name resolution is surprisingly finicky (at least if you're not an expert which I'm not) and I find that static IPs solve most of my problems.

Nathan Osman

I can't seem to set it up that way. I browse to "\\192.168.1.103" in Windows Explorer and click "Map Network Drive".

That seemed to work after signing out.

terdon

@NathanOsman so it works? Oh, and which Windows is this? I saw differences in the same network between a vista machine and a win7 one

Nathan Osman

20:12

Windows 8.1.

I haven't tried an actual reboot yet.

One sec.

Braiam

*drum rolls*

Nathan Osman

Seems to have worked.

terdon

cool

Nathan Osman

Thanks!

terdon

You're welcome :)

Oliver Salzburg

20:26

wtf is going on with GitHub? I'm getting unicorns all over the place!

Braiam

@OliverSalzburg I don't see any unicorns... only ponies D:

Oliver Salzburg

@Braiam It's normalizing now

Darth Android

@OliverSalzburg I'm not seeing anything at all.

Braiam

status.github.com/messages

> Exceptions

Oliver Salzburg

Anyway, new version of github.com/oliversalzburg/i18n-node-angular is up. Yay ;P

Einsteins Grandson

21:30

Anybody knows how many people in the world have access to internet every day?

;o)

i tried Google

already

terdon

12

Einsteins Grandson

more than 12 for sure

allquixotic

@terdon 42

terdon

:)

Of course!

Einsteins Grandson

i think its 1 billion

or 1.5

allquixotic

21:35

a long time ago when I was talking to some guy on IM, I "invented" (air quotes) a mathematical system called ansal (shortened answer + "al") where the sequence of natural numbers consisted of { 42, 42, 42, 42, 42, 42, 42, ... } and applying any operation (elementary function, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, derivatives, integrals, everything) to any number always produced 42 as a result

log(42) = 42, 42^42! = 42, -42 - 42 = 42, etc.

indeed, under such a system, it is impossible to "count" (in the sense that we think of counting) anything other than 42 things

so we have 42 fingers, 42 mothers, 42 fathers, 42 hearts, etc

allquixotic

21:57

!!help no

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic no: User-taught command: <>http://i.stack.imgur.com/M0Ngk.png

allquixotic

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A: BSD fortune for Windows command prompt or DOS

From examining the source code of fortune.c from fortune-mod, it seems like significant porting effort would be required to make this compile natively on Windows. Cygwin is probably your best bet; all you'll have to do is ship the Cygwin runtime DLLs alongside the built EXE, and you won't have to...

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