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w3d

01:26

Finally... A Stack Exchange site for Software Recommendations! Has quickly entered the commitment phase. area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/60887/…

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Journeyman Geek

@w3d: I wonder how it'll handle things going obsolete

I'd also add, properly written, its possible to ask for software req on SU

just focus on a problem rather than ask for the ~~codez~~ software

Braiam

lol, here we should need to update the OT close reason

Journeyman Geek

and... its nice to have a central backup box again

Braiam

01:43

21

Q: How will out of date accepted answers be handled?

Proposal: Software Recommendations One of the reasons "shop for me"-type questions are generally disallowed on SE sites is outlined well in Q&A is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping!: ..technology moves so rapidly that the best shopping recommendations will be utterly obsolete within a year! What’s the...

technology

Psycogeek

@Braiam the best software in the world is "out of date" the only question becomes will it work on the OS version :-)

allquixotic

02:05

@w3d Hell yeah, baby!

Brilliant!

Braiam

meh, going for Tim Post ground rules several questions will be closed just after the private beta

allquixotic

> What if it works? What if you finally get these types of questions down to a science? If Stack Overflow decides to relax just a little when it comes to these types of questions, well - you get the drift, and need to keep it in mind. The ultimate form of success for this community might ultimately be rejoining larger, established sites.

does that mean that if the software rec site works that they're going to let people ask these types of questions on SU and SO?

Braiam

... oh noes!

Psycogeek

@allquixotic I wish they already were, which just leaves weeding out the spammers. Spammers have about 10 times more time to find a "relative software question" to toss thier crap into, than people who actually work with specific software, and know the one that would do the job that is being asked about.

allquixotic

@Psycogeek well... there are spammers, and then there are good-natured people who will recommend software that they wrote or the company they work for wrote, but only when they honestly believe it's the best tool for the job

Nicole Hamilton occasionally promotes her C Shell, but only when people ask for it, or ask about it, not just "a question about shells? TRY MY SHELL!"

Psycogeek

02:20

@allquixotic too bad it rarely is :-) The best software is made by that guy who never sees the light of day :-)

the worst software is the stuff that has more marketing skill than programming skill, but who sells C-shells on the C+ shore, the marketer, not the debugger.

Google - Were so popular you will use our software with the bugs .

(and the redirections, and trackings, and marketing , and personal information retrival system, and . . .)

Michael Frank

02:37

I gotta say, I'm not much of a fan of pop music, but Katy Perry put on a pretty wicked performance at the Grammys!

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank: heh. The one she did with elmo was awesome.

allquixotic

as long as she didn't swing naked from a wrecking ball

Journeyman Geek

naw, she's at least slightly classy.

Journeyman Geek

03:10

hmm

Anyone mucked around with 802.11 AC gear?

Braiam

go nuts flagging askubuntu.com/q/399738/169736

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek not yet.

Journeyman Geek

ah hah! Never mind, worked out what I was wondering

allquixotic

i thought my phone had it, but according to Motorola themselves, it doesn't, so I trust them over phonearena

Journeyman Geek

Its 5ghz only, and falls back to 2.4

which means any AC gear must support the 5 ghz band, and we won't have silly single band devices whoot

allquixotic

03:17

I don't think you can implement the AC spec without implementing 5 GHz, can you?

or maybe it's as broken as N and lets you do 2.4 only

Psycogeek

@Braiam Thou shalt not spameth (483rd commandment)

Braiam

oh god more askubuntu.com/a/411335/169736

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: no, this is good

allquixotic

@Braiam I'm out of flags

@Braiam they made so many accounts........

Braiam

man, I'm going to summon the big guns

allquixotic

03:21

@Braiam who? the devs? the mods?

Journeyman Geek

mod would be needed, at minimum

allquixotic

need someone who's a specialist in combating account spam >_<

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: You need someone with a lot of time ;p

allquixotic

SE has been inundated with spam lately, it's insaaaaaaaaane how bad it is

Journeyman Geek

honestly, blunt instrumenting this is the best way

allquixotic

03:24

we can barely keep up with it all

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: this is a special kind of crazy

Psycogeek

zombies

allquixotic

03:46

!!define zombie

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic zombie A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.

allquixotic

OK....

Psycogeek

05:11

What is the difference in an android between /storage/sdcard & Mnt/sdcard ? As in is one of them a "link" of some kind and another a more direct path?

allquixotic

@Bob what was the name of that hosting company that you found ridiculously good deals with for Core2-era dual Xeons with like 16 gigs of RAM and a 500 GB HDD? in the US? got a friend who may be in the market, leaning towards value more than performance or price or storage (it's not for me, so I don't need OMG TB of disk)

@Psycogeek /mnt/sdcard is an older (Android 2.x) path, but there are like 3 or 4 symlinks to the same thing, it's basically different ways of enumerating the storage devices on the device

my device has /storage/emulated/0 and /mnt/sdcard

some with microSD slots have /mnt/sdcard-ext or /mnt/external or similar

these days, /mnt/sdcard is typically the built-in r/w general-purpose NAND built into the device

Psycogeek

@allquixotic In the situation of me setting the paths for like folders (widget folders) how do i know which one is "real" (as if any are) and which one will have to bounce around more in links?

allquixotic

@Psycogeek if you're writing software or scripts that you intend to port across devices, /mnt/sdcard is a pretty safe path to use, as it exists on (AFAIK) all Android devices

if you're just deciding what to use within programs on the device, it really doesn't matter; performance is not a factor in symlinks on Linux on the filesystems that Android uses

you could have 20 levels of symlinks (and there are many fewer than 20 levels here) and you wouldn't notice a difference in performance

Psycogeek

@allquixotic ok well that helps, and it helps to know which is most used. but i wanted to know which one is not linked , or linked less.

allquixotic

@Psycogeek you can find out in the terminal

install the terminal app and run mount and find out which one it's physically mounted on

Psycogeek

05:21

@allquixotic ok. i havent done a terminal in eons.

allquixotic

my phone has a ridiculous number of mount points, but /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata is mounted on /storage/emulated/0 and I happen to know that /mnt/sdcard -> /storage/emulated/0 by running ls -l on it

the same device file can also be mounted to multiple mount points which means they are equivalent in terms of number of symlinks (0)

Psycogeek

Is there a reson why my phone LG optimus g pro does not (easily) set up for direct storage connections via the USB (to PC), like way back in 1.6 when the usb connection would "mount" the 2 storage areas as flash drive chunks?

Now Instead of direct Flash chunk access, i get 4 options to disconnect me from the storage via the PC. some stupid ass cam mode, some media mode, and a "pc software" mode which mounts them just as similar as some stupid Itunes software.

allquixotic

@Psycogeek Android did away with USB Mass Storage mode starting with Android 4.0

which was quite a while ago

Psycogeek

Yes that one mass storage

This method seems to be WAY the f slower for some reason. its like i am pulling rino teeth to load up the storage with lots a movies stuff.

ekaj

"Disk 1 has been surprise removed"... doesn't sound good.

Sathya

05:31

inb4 Recco Mods comes crying about spam,

201

Software Recommendations

Proposed Q&A site for people seeking advice and help finding software to get a particular task done. Desktop/mobile/web/libraries.

Currently in commitment.

this site will be spammed away to glory. Enjoy.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Sathya: ;p

hurt his knee yesterday :/

Psycogeek

@Sathya flaggers and closers will be so busy , they will lay off obscure questions on SU , making SU a happy place again . . . lol

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: I donno if the site is the worst idea ever, or I'm going to end up getting 20K there pretty quick ;p

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek lol. I'm guessing the latter ;p

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: maybe both!

Sathya

05:37

@JourneymanGeek yeah, that's my initial thought

also, broken links and dated answers

Psycogeek

@allquixotic it is good to know it's gone (mass storage) so I wont have to be trying to achive it. I struggled for a few hours trying to get at it.

Sathya

editing is nice & all, but please - how many are going to bother with that?

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: not too many

and I feel (on hindsight admittedly!), the way we handle that sort of thing now is better

focusing on the problem the OP is trying to solve, and suggesting tools and methods, rather than "dah, have this program. Done!"

allquixotic

@Sathya AU is getting absolutely slammed, so it's hard to say SR would be unique in any way

@Sathya the plague of every site; no information is eternal... absolutely none... I'm sure by the year 3000 we''ll have some more evolved sense of mathematics that makes even 1+1 not equal 2

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: AU is trolling rather than spamming tho

The goal of that idiot isn't misguided SEO-ness. Its obviously to annoy.

Sathya

05:44

@allquixotic true that

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: techniques can be adapted.

Psycogeek

@allquixotic they already do that 2+2=5 in the physics and mathmatics geeks. I can prove they are wholey wrong about that, with 4 stones .

Journeyman Geek

If you had a well explained answer with steps and figures, you might be able to 'just' swap out a program for a different one.

allquixotic

today I was reading some answers on SO about MS Office add-ins that were from ~2010 and they are wrong in Office 2013, and wrong on 64-bit build of Office... which probably didn't exist at that time

I'd say less than 1% of answers on SF, SO and SU are truly eternal in the sense that they're purely knowledge based and have nothing to do with the ever-changing ever-evolving software ecosystem

Psycogeek

But of course i have to route the stones through floating point windmill before they come out that way :-)

(and the 11th sub dimentinal universe)

Journeyman Geek

05:46

@allquixotic: ooh, like bullfighter

(That was probably one of the biggest reasons I only write as badly as I do now, rather than worse ;p)

I wonder if its still around...

allquixotic

it may be the case that the SR mods will have to be more vigilant than mods on other sites, to combat people trying to "advertise" their own software, but on the other hand, there ARE people who actively promote their own software in answers on the network, but the quality of their contributions is so high that they're allowed to stay

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: there's kind of a rule for that

You need to be open about it, and your main goal here should not just be to promote your own software

allquixotic

a lot of them also use SO as a way to interface with their users and provide direct "tech support"

Journeyman Geek

(IIRC we have/had a macrium dev here, and I've seen the easybcd dev answer a few too)

allquixotic

those questions aren't about promoting their software but helping people use it

hell, the WiX developer is active on SO

Journeyman Geek

05:54

@allquixotic: in which case, full disclosure is awesome

of course

there's this superuser.com/questions/419070/…

allquixotic

also the Outlook Redemption developer

@JourneymanGeek lol. 3k rep and one answer on the entire site

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: only cause he got repcapped I suspect ;p

allquixotic

he couldn't even bother to register lol

highest rep unregistered user? :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

Its John Carmack.

nuff said

allquixotic

or a very convincing simulacrum

on the internet, no one knows you're not really john carmack

Journeyman Geek

05:56

true ;p

allquixotic

!!meme okay

ChatBot John Cavil

allquixotic

i intentionally keep the transfer speeds low so it won't use up too much bandwidth in the background

it can go much faster on LTE but i am careful

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

i've noticed at 55 kbps (little b) upstream, i can do anything else including playing games and watching videos without negatively impacting my experience

it doesn't even come close to saturating the pipe, leaving most of the throughput in both directions for whatever i'm doing in the foreground

@Bob webhostingtalk.com/… looks nice.. "BuyDown" that one-time $99 setup really cuts down the price a lot! after which it's super affordable

Psycogeek

06:08

@allquixotic hows that gonna work, i would have changed 81 things by the time it backs-up making the backup rather back-wards.

i bet any needed recovery goes a whole lot faster though :-)

Gads, i need that back NOW

asprin

Good morning everyone

I have hardware query

Consider the following scenario:
Desktop - Dual Core 1.8GHz processor
Laptop - Dual Core 1.8GHz processor

Would the processing power be same in both the systems (For the sake of argument, let's say both systems have exactly identical hardware w.r.t RAM, Motherboard etc)

Michael Frank

In theory, it probably would.

Journeyman Geek

yup

Psycogeek

@asprin i think you would have to speak of the exact processor chip. Mobile processors used to be weak kneed low power things , that a desktop could walk all over, the laptop power supply couldnt even keep up with the power requirements for that. But now days they got some power full stuff under the mobile hoods.

Journeyman Geek

tho practically, the desktop would have a slightly faster hard drive, and better cooling, so it can run at full power more easily

asprin

06:19

Thanks, according to some of my friends, the laptop would have a slightly better performance than the desktop

Journeyman Geek

Thats probably illogical

asprin

I asked them the reason and they couldn't answer..so I thought of asking it here

Michael Frank

Maybe the desktop is faulty?

asprin

lol

allquixotic

@Psycogeek well the things I'm backing up is data that changes VERY slowly

Psycogeek

06:21

@asprin shorter paths :-)

asprin

Exactly

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: I'd like to say... ow

Bob

@allquixotic L5420? Hm. Not bad, I suppose.

Journeyman Geek

even if you have a grandfathered data plan ;p

allquixotic

@Bob well, this would be an upgrade from an existing server that's $70/month (double the price!!) for dual L5140s, rest of the specs the same

5140s are even older... dual core no HT... L5420 are at least quad cores

it's pretty much a no-brainer, wouldn't you say?

Bob

06:23

@allquixotic Upgrade? For whom?

allquixotic

@Bob for the guy who's paying for the L5140s right now

Bob

@asprin Impossible ot say.

I keep saying this. You must provide the specific architecture/generation, or better yet the specific model.

You cannot compare, say, a Pentium 4 and a Haswell by clock speed alone.

@allquixotic Which guy? o.O

(also, you might need to research the provider a bit...)

allquixotic

@Bob a friend >_>

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: purely hypothethical magic identical PCs ;p

allquixotic

he's considering upgrading from dual L5140 16GB RAM 500 GB HDD to dual L5420 16 GB RAM 500 GB HDD at half the price of the 5140s

Journeyman Geek

06:25

and folk involved in vocalisations eminating from the posterior area ;p

allquixotic

it's REALLY a no-brainer

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Even then, there's so many different laptop and desktop chips...

A mobile Haswell vs desktop Haswell is again completely different from mobile Pentium 4 vs desktop Pentium 4

@allquixotic Well, what's he using it for? :P

allquixotic

the problem with the laptop/desktop comparison is, if you are comparing a quad-core Haswell i5 on the laptop to a quad-core Nehalem i5 on the desktop, even if they both have 500 GB HDDs and 8 GB of RAM, the Haswell will win every CPU benchmark

@Bob AFAIK, minecraft

and other random stuff

Bob

@allquixotic Huh. And that works well on 5140s?

allquixotic

!! s/well//

ChatBot John Cavil

06:27

@allquixotic @allquixotic Huh. And that works on 5140s? (source)

allquixotic

there's no well :P it just works

still, can you think of any reason why not to take the upgrade when it's half price for the better CPUs?

double the number of cores and higher clock rate to boot

!!stats

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Ortwin Gentz has 103 reputation, earned 0 rep today, asked 1 questions, gave 0 answers. avg. rep/post: 103. Badges: 0g 0s 4b

Bob

@allquixotic RAM? Network? Bandwidth? Storage?

allquixotic

@Bob same, same, same, same

Bob

Lack of IP addresses?

Those servers only have one IPv4 and no IPv6

Psycogeek

06:29

@asprin Best way to fact it out would be 20 seconds of some CPU benchmarking stuff.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: lack of IPV6 is fairly trivial to fix, and common ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Not on a server.

On a server, if you want IPv6 at all you want it native.

And if you're lacking it you're just holding yourself and everyone else back.

Journeyman Geek

heh, its funny, we're having the same, or very similar conversaion on the comms room

allquixotic

@Bob don't need IPv6, and I got a /30 for $5/mo, which is reasonable, and same as the old host

!!stats 10208

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic User 10208 not found

allquixotic

06:32

!!stats JourneymanGeek

!!stats 10165

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Journeyman Geek has 60811 reputation, earned 37 rep today, asked 90 questions, gave 2038 answers. avg. rep/post: 28.57. Badges: 15g 95s 186b

Bob

@JourneymanGeek switches tabs

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: ipv6 is the future!

@Bob: I'm of the opinion the big 'issue' with ipv6 is ISPs supporting it

mine's the only one of... I donno 5-6 local ISPs that seems to

and I have wierd issues with my primary router ;p

allquixotic

*whistles* just helping my friendly neighbor who runs the aviation chatbot; lookie

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

06:35

@JourneymanGeek that's exactly the issue -- IPv6 support is very strong at the "hub" of the internet (in the traditional hub-and-spokes model); but it's extremely weak in the "spokes"

getting IPv6 out to all the end-users is the #1 problem and should be the #1 priority

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: my ISP does ipv6rd

which is pretty neat

allquixotic

at least LTE users get IPv6 for free, no matter what carrier they use, since the native layer 3 of LTE worldwide is true IPv6

it's specified in the standards and deployed as such

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: considering some local ISPs do CGN already, it kinda makes sense here

Bob

@allquixotic but does it work with chat users?

that's probably more useful

@allquixotic problem is, most sites don't support it either

chicken and egg

allquixotic

@Bob lots of sites support it... major ones, anyway... minor ones, not so much, but they'll follow once the majors lead the way

the websites and corporations and organizations that seriously need to be supporting IPv6 on their sites are already doing so

can't say the same about ISPs

Bob

06:42

@allquixotic far from enough

reddit.com, yahoo.com, even microsoft.com doesn't have an AAAA entry

I'd check SO/SE, but for some reason lookups to Google's DNS servers are timing out for those

github.com is another one lacking

australia.gov.au? nope

allquixotic

oh well, it's worse than i thought then

cavil has been restarted with Zirak's commits from this weekend

Bob

usa.gov? nope

allquixotic

7 commits

ekaj

1

Q: What responds to a ping? The modem, or the router?

Just a very simple question I'm sure you all know. When I ping my public IP address what is responding to the ping? Is my modem responding to the ping and never reaching the router or is the modem just passing it to the router and the router responds? Thanks!

router ping

Would edit the answer but I didn't want to mess it up as I don't understand network layers very well

Bob

Sites with AAAAs are in the very very small minority, based on that sample of a whole lot of major sites.

slashdot.com, sourceforge.net, nope

allquixotic

06:46

there are probably some sites with an AAAA that don't have working IPv6 too

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

google.com and facebook.com are the only ones that I can find AAAAs for out of all I've tried

allquixotic

!!info

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic I awoke on Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:44:47 GMT (that's about 1 minute ago), learned 55 commands

allquixotic

@Bob irc.freenode.net :D

Journeyman Geek

06:46

I was about so say google

Bob

spotify.com, netflix.com, nope

amazon.com, ebay.com, paypal.com, nope

allquixotic

lol the site that is responsible for half of all internet traffic ... no IPv4

er, 6

Bob

@allquixotic which one? netflix?

allquixotic

yep

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/questions/707472/de-blasios-big-test free spam flags ;p

Bob

06:49

@allquixotic freenode.net is also IPv4 only. irc.freenode.net is CNAME'd to chat.freenode.net which has AAAA

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: only in the US ;p

Bob

@ekaj well, a modem is effectively a bridge, I think

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: tho, most modern modems arn't modems ;p

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek technicalities :/ when I say "internet" I mean the United Internet of America, of course, since we're the ones who made it for all you freeloaders ;) j/k

Bob

@allquixotic I'm currently with wholesaleinternet, but the one you found is even ebtter if you're happy with 5420s and 8/16 GB of RAM :P

allquixotic

06:51

@Bob yeah, it's pretty good value

you get 6 free months if you sign up for a 2 year billing period, but I don't have that much money to toss up-front, so I'm going to go month to month for a while; if it works fine, I'll go 6 month intervals and get 1 month free per year

i can kinda understand how they might get away with those prices, considering the lowish power needs of L5420s

Bob

apple.com is also lacking AAAA

ekaj

Is there a rule such that, if a question gets 5 spam flags in 5 mins, it is automatically closed or something similar?

allquixotic

yeah, something like that

Bob

so, the vast vast majority even amongst major sites lack it

not a good sign :(

!! s/closed/deleted/

ChatBot John Cavil

@Bob Could not process input. Error: null is not an object (evaluating 's.firstElementChild.classList') on column 1926

Bob

06:54

...wut

allquixotic

for some reason, for the substitution command, you have to put a space after the !

ChatBot John Cavil

@Bob Could not process input. Error: null is not an object (evaluating 's.firstElementChild.classList') on column 1926

allquixotic

!! s/sign/:(/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Could not process input. Error: null is not an object (evaluating 's.firstElementChild.classList') on column 1926

ekaj

die

allquixotic

06:55

so Zirak's patch broke !!s

Bob

!! s/Zirak/ThatRandomGuy/

allquixotic

github.com/allquixotic/SO-ChatBot/commit/…

ChatBot John Cavil

@Bob Could not process input. Error: null is not an object (evaluating 's.firstElementChild.classList') on column 1926

allquixotic

we need to file an issue on github to let them know about that, but meanwhile, sleep... sucks that i am going to sleep with a broken !! s///, but it's not the end of the world

Bob

@allquixotic I don't know how we can push ISPs into IPv6 when it offers no real benefit at this time :\

And I don't understand why so many major sites don't add it.

allquixotic

06:58

yeah

!!afk sleep

Bob

Come on Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, PayPal - you telling me you lack sysadmins who can implement IPv6??

Journeyman Geek

yay

reassembled the raspi-stacked-nas

just need to set up wifi, and decide if I want to try throwing another HDD on it

(USB hub, raspi, 500gb hard drive, held together by rubber bands ;p)

Bob

o.o

Journeyman Geek

I don't know what to use it for, now that I have my atom box back up

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I think I'd prefer my external HDD :P

uncomfortable powering a portable HDD off a rpi

Journeyman Geek

07:06

@Bob: its a poor man's nas ;p

Bob

also, the USB2 is too much of a bottleneck for my liking :(

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: naw, powered USB hub powers the rpi and the HDD

@Bob: this is just a low power backup box

Psycogeek

@Bob I thought they would just tell us they Own all the IP4 addresses, and waste them like gluttons, and therfore they are the reason that Everyone Else will need IP6 ?

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: actually, more like, we're running out of public ipv4, and eventually most consumers will end up on consumer grade nat

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek i hope when that happens that little box thing connected to the web knows what to do

( i did upgrade it once)

Journeyman Geek

07:10

@Psycogeek: for most people? It won't make a difference.

Hell, I can't currently give you a compelling reason why I need a public IPV4 address, outside people potentially banning my IP address cause someone else on the same one did something bad. (and that happens anyway cause of the ISP transparent proxy folder for our 'symbolic' blocklist)

Bob

@Psycogeek Heh.

There's actually swathes of IPv4s owned by universities sitting unused.

And some early companies.

@JourneymanGeek I've been on static IPv4 for many years now, and it's a great thing to have

Psycogeek

@Bob yea auction off all those companies addresses so the indians and philipenoes now doing thier jobs can have them :-)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: in what ways?

My ISP specifically disallows me from running servers ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Urgh

@JourneymanGeek I've run a webserver before when I didn't have a VPS

also running game servers from time to time

Journeyman Geek

I mean, I've done it before

then they blocked port 80... occationally

I've run internal servers (I have a web server for my rutorrent instance), but anything world-facing is on a VPS

Psycogeek

07:19

@JourneymanGeek here the difference between "business" class and "fast web" is only $10-12 more in costs. business class never got capped (none are capped right now). I think they would allows a person to run a web site off it. Meaning it isnt much more money than the fast connection around here to go "business".

(completly different division of the company)

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: those would. 'business class' internet is ~2x the cost of what I'm paying now, and without cable ;p

Journeyman Geek

08:00

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Q: 56K USB external fax modem

I ordered this New 56K USB V9.0 V.92 External Dial Up Voice Fax Data Modem for Windows7. Now I found that it NOT support windows 7 64 bit . I have 2 questions : 1) Does that USB modem need any installation or just connect its USB is required ? 2) Is there any solution to work with that USB m...

windows-7 usb modem fax

man, I miss the old modems and those noises they used to make. I used to be able to tell if it dialed properly from the sounds they made ;p

Psycogeek

08:11

@ekaj the answer is pathetic and incomplete indeed.

Psycogeek

08:30

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Q: Large PDF book very laggy slow

System: Win7 64-bit Ult. Ed. 32GB Ram Nvidea GTX 670 I'm trying to read a book in PDF format that has images and text. Scrolling through pages is very slow and if I scroll too fast it takes a few to load the page. Is there a setting anywhere that I can fiddle with so Adode uses more resources t...

windows-7 performance pdf adobe-reader

kalina

morning

Psycogeek

Is it true that some PDF reading is done via streaming the pdf off the web? I remember some stuff opened in the browser that was dog slow. and downloading whole pdfs and running off locally was never slow.

@kalina having fun yet?

kalina

having fun yet?

It's 8:40 on a Monday morning

I've barely had caffeine yet.

Psycogeek

oh that morning. its the after midnight morning here 12:42 am kind

kalina

-.-

Sathya

09:12

lol

Thor

09:33

Sometimes I die a little bit inside. i.imgur.com/iJucSEb.png

Journeyman Geek

@Thor: Then you realise you just stopped another idiot vandal ;p

Thor

@JourneymanGeek the beauty of the summary... oh my. "hehehehe idiots"

Journeyman Geek

blah, can someone custom flag this and mention its using vulgar language in tamil, or possibly some related language? superuser.com/questions/707534/what-is-best-kusi-or-kundi

I don't think its tamil, but I recognise some of the words.

Michael Frank

I could do that.

Journeyman Geek

wierdly, I get most of the non cursey words

Leathe

09:41

@JourneymanGeek I.. what? Is there even a real question there?

Journeyman Geek

@Leathe: nope

Leathe

even the printf is total nonsense

>:|

Bob

@JourneymanGeek why do you need someone else to flag it? o.O

Thor

I just flagged it as low quality, because that part there is no doubt about.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I forgot to custom flag it, and its obcure enough that not all the mods may get the reasoning? Hell, I didn't understand most of the vulgarities myself ;p

Journeyman Geek

10:13

ahh, it IS a fart joke

Michael Frank

Well, I'll be undoing my flag then. Fart jokes are the pinnacle of humour!

Journeyman Geek

his transliteration leaves a lot to be desired ;p

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek killed

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: thanks ;p

Sathya

np

Thor

11:23

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I'm fascinated.

Journeyman Geek

11:41

o0

Bob

12:36

@Thor uhhh

I think my brain broke.

Oliver Salzburg

13:10

Oliver Salzburg

13:23

I can't shake the feeling that the UI is supposed to look differently

Braiam

@OliverSalzburg oh god... is network wide

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg grr people like this need to have their ankles savaged, and their shoes mangled.

Braiam

check this out google.co.uk/#q=site:stackexchange.com+%22vashikaran%22

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Journeyman Geek

I'm suprised thats not blacklisted yet

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