Root Access

01:27

I is out of moderator fags... would someone be so kind as to take a look at the following not-an-answers and handle them as appropriate?

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A: Laptop as wireless IIS Server

"The OP doesn't even have a router or internet connection. Port forwarding applies to WAN ports, which in turn require an internet connection, so your answer doesn't really answer the question, sorry." Ahhhh that hurts my brain, you can still setup port forwarding even if you don't have an inter...

-1

A: How to disable the navigation sound in Windows Media Center?

Yea, I am not here for removing the sounds, I'm here to find the WMC directory that has the sounds because I like them, I just can't find them. But yea, I don't see a Windows Media Center thing on the sound tab, even after scrolling through the whole thing. Guess I'll post a directory location on...

allquixotic

01:38

@HackToHell @JourneymanGeek O_o I didn't know there were Indians in MLB :D but apparently there are/were en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Arm_%28film%29

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: why not? Baseball is the debased american bastard version of the gentleman's game of cricket ;p

HackToHell

@allquixotic And Rahman's music is usually nice

Michael Frank

02:37

oh wow... Twitch Plays Pokemon is experimenting with being able to send touch screen commands via x,y coordinates! :o

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek yeah but there haven't been any Indians in MLB ever except those 2

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

you're silly. you reply ;p to almost anything

Journeyman Geek

What else do you expect a dog to do?

(also, the comment about baseball was entirely tongue in cheek)

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek I didn't know dogs could put their tongue in their cheek

Journeyman Geek

02:47

sure they can.

(funny thing is I started doing ;p cause its less keystrokes than :), people started commenting on that and it turned into a trademark)

allquixotic

03:13

@JourneymanGeek also, dogs often wink, and are usually hanging their tongue out, so it works perfectly

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: yeah. I am SURE I have a photo of that somewhere

allquixotic

(cc @Bob)

Journeyman Geek

03:34

apparently not. Not suprised since photgraphing a winking dog is hard ;p

though

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek :D

Psycogeek

looks more like a twitch from playing too many video games

allquixotic

I had your dog thinking about the mod elections for perfect in-character dog RP :P

those are doge's eyes and paws shopped in (poorly) btw

Psycogeek

""there's no question it's one of the worst shooters in the history of the world. " "is a travesty, an abomination, a festering sore on the backside of the third-person shooter genre." Oh now you tell me :-)

Journeyman Geek

03:50

lol

I'm a little nervious about that, to be honest ;p

Michael Frank

ugh why is the Lifehacker Australia site so terrible. :/

There's a link for the international version at the bottom that does nothing.

slhck

05:53

@MichaelFrank Heh, it's the same for the German Gizmodo.

Awal Garg

Why can't I ask questions?

@slhck you seem to be a mod, you would know...

slhck

@AwalGarg There's a message that says why. Basically too many downvoted/closed/deleted questions.

Have you self-deleted any questions? If so, that's quite bad.

Awal Garg

@slhck deleted seems to fit...

@slhck yes, i have. why is that bad? they were dupes

slhck

@AwalGarg In that case they should have been closed as dupes, not removed altogether.

Awal Garg

@slhck I thought both mean same.

How do I lift the ban?

slhck

06:00

@AwalGarg Yes, exactly. If you ask a question that happens to be the same as another, we close that one as a duplicate usually.

Awal Garg

@slhck no, that, I mean, close and delete. aren't they almost the same thing?

slhck

@AwalGarg It says so in the link you're given with the message. Please read it carefully.

@AwalGarg No, "delete" means it should've never been there. Closed questions can be improved and reopened if possible.

Awal Garg

@slhck it redirects me to the help center.

slhck

@AwalGarg Right

Awal Garg

@slhck ok, so if I ask a duplicate question, should I edit it to make it a non dupe?

slhck

06:02

@AwalGarg If that's what you wish, but if the other question answers yours perfectly, then there's no need to edit it. It can stay as a duplicate. That's not a problem. It's worse when it's closed for being too broad or unclear, etc.

I undeleted three of your self-deleted questions which should make it easier for you to lift the ban, but there's nothing else I can do.

Awal Garg

@slhck No, it did not, the question(s) was closed. I did not get an answer. Certainly, no-one bothered to read the post entirely just by seeing the comment saying it is dupe

@slhck thnx

:P

@slhck So, should I now add, that the other question did not answer me correctly?

slhck

@AwalGarg Yeah, if you can explain why the other question does not answer yours, please edit that in. Your question goes into a queue where others decide if it can be reopened. Or you can come to Meta Super User and ask others to review it.

I have to go to work now.

Awal Garg

@slhck I did so for one of them, I got no answer by anyone..

slhck

@AwalGarg Then Meta Super User should help. Ask if there's anything you can improve.

Bye!

Awal Garg

@slhck yeah, that was what I did...

@slhck ok, thnx for your time. bye

ekaj

06:27

Anyone know how I would be able to take a column of email addresses in an Excel sheet and put them in the format [email protected], [email protected], etc... so I can email them all?

Bob

@allquixotic o.O

@ekaj What's the current format?

ekaj

A column with 1 address per row

I wouldn't mind so much if it weren't 120 email addresses

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Q: Convert a column into a comma separated list

I have the task of creating a simple Excel sheet that takes an unspecified number of rows in Column A like this: 1234 123461 123151 11321 And make them into a comma-separated list in another cell that the user can easily copy and paste into another program like so: 1234,123461,123151,11321 ...

microsoft-excel

Bob

@ekaj Just export it to a text editor and find/replace \r\n with ,

ekaj

now to craft an email...

ekaj

06:47

20 of those addresses failed instantly lol

34 now... settled at 37

nhinkle

@Bob this is pretty much the most common thing I use Notepad++ for.

And with regex search-and-replace, it's even more useful

ekaj

I just used n++

Trying to contact fraternity alumni.. ugh

nhinkle

See that's what happens when you join a frat

Oh and please use BCC if you weren't already planning on it

ekaj

I did

nhinkle

Thank you.

Being one of 5 dozen TO: recipients is a surefire way to get me to ignore or at least severely judge an email :P

ekaj

07:00

Nah, I made sure to do BCC.. most of these people have probably never been emailed from our fraternity

This is going to be a loooong job

Bob

@nhinkle Pretty much :P

Just reformatting text with find/replace

@ekaj You could also do a mail merge from MS Word.

That can take an Excel sheet as input.

ekaj

bah already got it

Bob

Sends individual emails, and you can substitute names in if you want a more personalised greeting.

nhinkle

@Bob that requires using Outlook though.

Which is great if you use outlook, but not so great if ya don't.

Bob

07:17

@nhinkle Huh, I thought it worked with any MAPI client.

Not that there are many other MAPI clients.

nhinkle

Maybe it does. I've only ever used mail merge to print things (usually to a PDF)

Journeyman Geek

07:32

grrr

poked the edit queue. One edit. Was an audit.

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek 2 back to back for me.

Journeyman Geek

07:58

Thats annoying ;p

Bob

08:15

OH FUCK ME

...

turns out the wifi troubles were because there was a second access point with the same name

but a different password

and I forgot about that one

laptops were fine, android was fine, iphone tried to roam aggressively and kept disconnecting

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

08:37

saw it pretty quickly once I tried inSSIDer

@JourneymanGeek new gravatar?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: yeah

cropped down version of

Psycogeek

08:52

@Bob Can i ask what would happen if they had the same name and the same password? would it confuse these things too?

Journeyman Geek

they'll connect to whichever one is stronger

its a pretty common way to handle large networks

Psycogeek

09:07

The friendly names is not what the computer uses right? the computer talks/connects wireless in Mac addresses?

Journeyman Geek

for wifi? It uses the ssids

Bob

@Psycogeek it would roam to the stronger AP

depending on the roaming aggressiveness of the client

Sathya

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Q: I need to change a video file to be playable only with my own software

I am vb.net Developer,I am new in Directshow and C++. Issue is: I need to change a video file(change in bytes of file with hashing or ....)to be playable only with my own software.As if it was copied by someone not playable. so I need to write player for turn back file to original format in pl...

directshow

Psycogeek

Ok. I tried to search, and mac addresses came up for wireless, real helpful.

Bob

(more aggressive = will roam with a smaller difference, less aggressive = prefers to stay)

@Psycogeek 802.11 has two ways to identify an AP

there's the ESSID and BSSID

the BSSID is like a MAC address - it's unique to each AP

normally you connect to an ESSID + password pair

an ESSID is the human-friendly network name, usually just called the SSID

if two APs share an ESSID, the client can roam to the other one

however, they have different BSSIDs, and that's how the client knows which one it's currently communicating with

Psycogeek

09:15

Ahh. one of the thing i see around here, some house has 3-4 wireless and they are different by a number 2Wire345 2Wire346 2Wire347

Bob

@Psycogeek some people prefer that

if you have the same ESSID, the client can auto roam

Journeyman Geek

"vb.net Developer" THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM!

2

Bob

sometimes, manual network switching is preferred

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek heh

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Heh. But in all honesty, VB.NET isn't too bad.

Oh wait he wants to do C++.

Yes, it is that bad.

Journeyman Geek

09:16

@Bob: true but thats hillarious

Bob

@Sathya I'm really sick of those "how do I stop people from copying X file off my flash drive" questions -_-

this guy's actually better than most, since he's proposing to create his own player (most don't even get that far)

but still... yeanokthnxbye

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: which transcodes the video on the fly from one format to another...

Bob

@JourneymanGeek That's not too unbelievable. Effectively, built-in encryption with a key embedded in your software.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: kinda heavy though?

If you were going to go into all that effort, why not a 'simple' drm enabled codec?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Not necessarily.

A simple XOR (horribly insecure, though) would be faster than the file could be read off a disk.

Journeyman Geek

09:21

hmm

rot 13? ;p

Bob

AES can easily be in the hundreds of megabytes per second, with AES-NI (~400MB/s for AES-128-CBC). Something like 60MB/s without AES-NI with a C2D proc.

The main issue is it would be trivial for someone to take the key, or re-record the video, etc..

@JourneymanGeek Yea, that would be the smart answer :P

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek rot 26 ftw

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: meh, do it twice to be sure!

Bob

@Sathya rot9022! IT'S OVER 9000

Sathya

@Bob secure lyk nythin

slhck

11:13

10k: superuser.com/questions/747058/…

Journeyman Geek

what... just what?

Bob

@slhck I... please tell me that wasn't written by a human.

slhck

I mean, I get handbags and drugs, but...

Bob

My brain hurts.

So.

Shitty SEO attempt. Prolly autogenerated.

I hope no one actually living in the UK would throw words together randomly like that.

slhck

Dental doctor relocation spam™

Well guess the IP location.

Bob

11:17

@slhck India, India, hmm... maybe India? :P

slhck

@Bob How on earth did you know? :P

Bob

> If you connect with do dentistry in Oral Care UK and get in subsequently do it now!!

I mean... does that even mean anything?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Clearly it was not written by a dog. Wait, do SEO drones even count as human?

Bob

Huh. IE zero-day: gizmodo.com/…

(don't read the comments. written by clueless fucktards. and that's putting it nicely)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: you don't ever read the comments

HackToHell

12:45

ooh TIL imgur.com/a/rSTHl

allquixotic

13:11

:D

@Bob according to my buddy who's now using the DelimiterVPS server, he "had no idea" that RDP could be so fast over his internet connection; he thought he just had a bad ISP before.

he told me he "loves me platonically" o_O (I got him a whole year subscription to cut down on the per-month cost significantly)

also apparently the HyperV VM is "ridiculously fast" (I would presume it was ridiculously sluggish on the Core2 Xeons he had before)

Bob

13:32

@allquixotic o.O

@allquixotic O.O

@allquixotic O_O

allquixotic

@Bob that's always your response to my @Bob messages ;-)

different-sized eyes

jokerdino

poke

Bob

@jokerdino o.X

@allquixotic So, dedidirect had a bad connection?

HackToHell

13:53

@jokerdino choke

allquixotic

@Bob not just bad; it was unreliable at the best of times, and the DC null routed my box when it was actually another bad actor in the same cabinet doing DDoS

apparently DediDirect has little/no control over its customers or its servers

Malachi

I just flagged something that I don't think i should have flagged, hard to understand the question

Bob

@allquixotic :S

HackToHell

14:40

My headphones SUCK :(

Screw you phlips

All I hear is high pitched screeching

allquixotic

@HackToHell they are a low quality manufacturer, what do you expect :/

HackToHell

fuck, they suck big time

Journeyman Geek

o0

high pitched screeching?

HackToHell

Can't get myself to listen to anything in this crap

Journeyman Geek

Thats not... right

HackToHell

14:48

@JourneymanGeek No bass

Journeyman Geek

even for bad headphones

allquixotic

@HackToHell what kind of music? :P

HackToHell

Everything is schreechy

Journeyman Geek

oh, tried mucking with equalisers?

HackToHell

yep, again no bass

Bob

14:49

Heh.

@JourneymanGeek budgetlightforum.com/node/24568

Journeyman Geek

(just for the record. I HATE any form of equalisation but... its worth a shot)

Bob

$22

I'm considering it :P

@JourneymanGeek Is that my cue to complain about Beats again?

HackToHell

Oh bot, this sucks

allquixotic

I love Meelectronics Air-Fi Matrix2 bluetooth 4.0 headphones w/mic :D

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: lol

google play music has a equaliser that increases bass by default

allquixotic

14:51

!!doge batterylife,clarity,comfort,ease,happy,balance,fidelity,kevlar

ChatBot John Cavil

          wow
                      so batterylife
such clarity
              very comfort
                        much ease
many happy
           much balance
                      such fidelity
very kevlar

Journeyman Geek

and that usually sounds off.

deactivated it and I'm a fair bit happier with it

HackToHell

@allquixotic ANY KIND :(

allquixotic

i canceled my Google Play Music All-Access :D Spotify it is

Journeyman Geek

ugh, can someone approve/reject this and fix the other mispelling of ubuntu? superuser.com/questions/42898/…

I missed it when I approved ><

@allquixotic: I just use it as a way to access my own email on the move

Bob

14:54

@JourneymanGeek "unbuntu" @jokerdino :P

People see a computer and they suddenly forget how to read. It's ridiculous.

jokerdino

Guys. I hate that crap

Anyway, I sent an edit away.

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek you.. use... Google Play Music... to access.. your email. uh.

!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: >_>

music.

Bob

15:09

> 30 soldering irons later and I've come to the conclusion that the problem is the person using the iron not the iron itself.

Heh. Sounds like me.

Journeyman Geek

... 30?

I've had 2, and only cause my first one was already broken when I got it

Malachi

15:38

@slhck thanks for cleaning that up. I reversed my down vote as well, there is also a flag that I raised that is no good, on that question.

Bob

O_O

msy.com.au/nswonline/peripherals/…

Who knew WD made routers?

(@allquixotic ^)

sammyg

how can you have more than one file with the same name and extension in windows?..............

i thought this was impossible

Bob

@sammyg You're probably looking at a library folder.

A library folder is not an actual location on the file system.

It's an abstraction provided by Explorer that represents a union of one or more directories on the file system.

allquixotic

@Bob O____________O

sammyg

@Bob then what are these two objects? are they both files?

i am looking at Pictures library

allquixotic

15:52

sounds like a Netgear based product since it's called an "N900" (that's a Netgear model number)

Bob

@sammyg They are files in different directories.

@allquixotic Doesn't look anything like a Netgear N900. (yea, I noticed that too)

amazon.com/N900-Dual-Router-Wireless-Accelerate/dp/B007KZQMO6

Heck, for $29 I might get it just to use as a GbE switch.

sammyg

@Bob thanks! you're right

Bob

It's dual stack too.

sammyg

@Bob properties dialog shows C:\Users\Name\Pictures and the other shows C:\Users\Public\Pictures.

Bob

@allquixotic Turns out "N900" isn't a NG model number (WNDA4100/WNDR4500).

sammyg

15:55

i also noticed in cmd there's only one listing when i do dir

Bob

"N900" just means "900 mbps" on 802.11n

allquixotic

o.o

Bob

@allquixotic Marketing speak :S

allquixotic

then how come I bought a boxed Netgear product at a retail store a little over year ago called a "Netgear N900"

you're replying to yourself? wat

Bob

@allquixotic netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/WNDR4500.aspx

Another example: officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/…

And stuff like this: officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/…

sammyg

15:57

@Bob i'm thinking why i would want to see two sets of desktop.ini files in my pictures library... this doesn't just apply to them, this applies to all files in .\public\pictures and .\some_user\pictures right?

Bob

"AC1900" => "up to 1900mbps"

sammyg

i don't use the public folders at all

Bob

6 mins ago, by Bob

It's an abstraction provided by Explorer that represents a union of one or more directories on the file system.

allquixotic

@Bob that's what I bought :| the winder 4500 hehe :-)

Bob

@sammyg The command prompt can't display libraries.

You aren't looking at a library.

@allquixotic back to the original issue: WD makes routers???

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