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1:15 AM

I keep getting an error

@allquixotic Aviation chat? o.O

Got this question as a First Post review, literally lol'd when I saw the picture of the battery as an answer.

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Q: where and How the computer/mobile phone time and date stored

i tried something, i noted down the current time within my laptop(dell.. win 7) it was 12.15 PM 5 April 2014, and i did the same with my mobile phone(samsung galaxy s2, andriod jelly bean) it was 12.16 PM 5 April 2014.... . THEN i switched off my mobile phone and my laptop for for allmost appro...

windows-7 computer-architecture mobile-phone computer-parts

@MichaelFrank wow. just... wow

Journeyman Geek

lol

1:32 AM

Ugh... I have to service a machine that's probably as old as I am... without any service manual and no idea of the exact problem. Sounds fun!

@MichaelFrank :)

@allquixotic a lot? :P

1:54 AM

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@MichaelFrank What?

I meant, "what do you mean by you need to learn a lot of JS"

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@allquixotic I couldn't get your jumpstarter app to work, I finally figured out how to get the code running though I have a bot going in chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/14370/bluecheese-monsters-home

...

I dunno. I'm just bored at work.

1:59 AM

@Malachi it's complicated, but a guy over on Aviation knows how to do it

I don't really have the energy to walk you through it :/

@allquixotic Is that why you have a sad Gravatar? :(

@MichaelFrank nah

@allquixotic I will figure it all out, I have to bot running in that chat room, I am going to start looking through the code and stuff and seeing what I can figure out

2:17 AM

@Malachi the driver is just for headless operation so you can run it on a dedicated server

if you're running it on some beater desktop you don't need to worry about that

@allquixotic makes sense.

2:30 AM

heh...

clientsfromhell.net/post/83908099346/…

2:49 AM

@MichaelFrank hehehe

After reading 5 pages worth of these little stories, it's obvious there are some really insane clients out there.

@MichaelFrank that's Luke's favorite idle site at lunchtime :P

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Q: Is there a way to find who I sent an email to, after deleting the email in windows live mail from the trash folder, on windows 7?

I've sent an email with sensitive information, with Windows Live Mail, then put it in the trash folder of the software, then emptied the trash folder. The person on the other end never got the email. Is there an outgoing mail history somewhere on my computer, where I could check who I actually se...

email data-recovery email-client windows-live-mail

I don't even....

3:19 AM

how do i teach it to display a graphic like

!! taytaytay

ChatBot John Cavil

user image

!help

!!help

ChatBot John Cavil

@MichaelFrank Information on interacting with me can be found at this page

@Malachi github.com/Zirak/SO-ChatBot/wiki/Commands#learn

@MichaelFrank gotcha. thanks. now I have to learn some more REGEX...lol jk

4:14 AM

@Malachi if you have an image at http://malachi.com/lame.png and you want it to display when you type !!lame, give the bot this command: !!learn lame '<>http://malachi.com/lame.png'

@allquixotic lol, I fingered it out about an hour ago

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but thank you @allquixotic

@Malachi You fingered what?

@MichaelFrank I don't know if I should engage in this conversation for fear of going too far off topic.....lol JK I figured out how to teach my bot to post a picture

@Malachi off-topic? We're almost always off-topic here!

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4:37 AM

We are almost always exclusively off-topic in here.

1 hour later…

5:40 AM

@Bob I have tested it, I unplugged my laptop from my normal modem-router, and plugged it into the modem thing. It gave the laptop the external ip, said the gateway was that external ip. I did route print, it showed the same ip for interface as for gateway. Apparently that's normal with SLIP or PPP.

Anyone good with Wordpress themes? I'm getting sick of my default, and I can't find one for technology

@bob and funnily enough, the telephone cable was still in the modem router not in the plain modem thing when I plugged the comp into it but it still got that external ip from it. (so obviously the device stored it from the isp). The laptop didn't have that ip immediately before plugging it in. so it really got that ip from the device while the devicw wasn't plugged into the isp

so v secure test!

Journeyman Geek

bleh

superuser.com/questions/750643/… OT?

I'm guessing its fixable, but I have a slight bias since I know the answer more or less

6:00 AM

@JourneymanGeek I leave it to the community if doubtful, but I'd say ot

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Sathya I actually know the answer. ;p

Which is a pain in the ass.

(he's looking for direct monitoring, which most proper DAWs have)

then go for it

Journeyman Geek

I'll just wait for the closevotes, then kill it off/comment ;p

lol

Journeyman Geek

ooh

LOOPHOLE!

the second part of his question isn't

6:08 AM

@JourneymanGeek ftfy

ok this is driving me crazy

Journeyman Geek

what is?

is there a way to follow focus to to where my curosr is

esp on extended desktop system

Journeyman Geek

winaero.com/blog/…

seems to work for me

hmm still not activated with that on

oh wait it does

thanks!

@barlop I wanted to see what it said for the ext ip destination (expecting on-link)

ah well, close enough :P

@Sathya "focus"?

there's an option in mouse properties to have ctrl show an animated circle over the cursor

6:18 AM

@Bob no as in if my mouse cursor moves from a window on desktop1 to window on desktop2 , window2 should have focus

ah, then that's the one jou posted

yeah, works well

6:35 AM

@Bob pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Z9Ym6ReA

Journeyman Geek

7:27 AM

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4

small arms ?

@jokerdino ^^

8:15 AM

Hi all. Is this the right SE to ask the following question?
as a user of FB, is it possible and if yes, how (FF extensions, GM scripts) to avoid geo-ip redirection from pages?
There are certain product pages (e.g.: film, videogames) that basing on your ip automatically redirect you to the locale of where you are living. This forces me to see only pages (and updates/feeds) in German, when I want the English ones.
I know that a proxy might do the job, but would be my last resort (right after stop caring for those pages)

Journeyman Geek

8:26 AM

hm. that makes no sense. I am trying to print a 825kb pdf. My computer is sending a 2gb document to the printer

@Federico: if its browser extentions and such, possibly

chances are the there's a similar question here, or on webapps already though

@JourneymanGeek is the pdf made up by images?

@JourneymanGeek ok, will search a bit

Journeyman Geek

probably

its a legal document

isn't there an option to turn off "print as image"?

Journeyman Geek

it should be off already

(i'm just being grumpy. Thing things work when you bitch about them)

searched "facebook redirect" but haven't found any relevant question. I will wait for another opinion and then eventually post my question.

8:34 AM

@Federico you see, this probably requires some extensive testing. You need to determine if it's really based on IP or not. If it's IP, then proxy (or extension which handles proxies) would be only option. However, if it's based on some cookies or maybe browser preferences, then certainly it's adjustable via JS script (or preferences).

If it's based on what it thinks of your profile internally in its database, you are probably out of luck unless you are willing to invest a lot of time in reverse engineering it

I see.
I there a way in which I could test this?
An example page: https://www.facebook.com/TotalWar
I get redirected to: https://www.facebook.com/TotalWarDE
To see the english one I have to go here: https://www.facebook.com/TotalWar?brandloc=DISABLE (notice the option in the url)
but if I "like" the page I get the updates from the german version :|

8:56 AM

so if you like it, option no longer works?

the option is valid only for when I visit the page through the link, not for the feeds I get

what if you visit the feed page with that option?

or did you mean RSS?

if I like the page, I can still visit the page with the option, but my wall feed are in german

no RSS

Journeyman Geek

does anyone but me use RSS any more? ;p

I use RSS for lots of stuff, but that's not what I want in this case

Journeyman Geek

9:02 AM

<--- total RSS geek. Have a nice setup built around ttrss ;p

i gave up on RSS

so, to wrap up, you 2 are even mods here. do you think I can post the question?

:P

@Federico Web Applications is more suited

so I still didn't get, excuse me if I misunderstand. What if you visit wall feed with the option? and how did you even discover it?:)

but honestly I don't see a way out

9:06 AM

Or is it not acceptable to make wall English>

?

@Sathya thanks, I will ask there.

@Gear54rus I don't know how else to explain it, I hope someone else can succeed where I fail

Alright, good luck

10:01 AM

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Q: Update migration options to migrate software recommendation questions

We can close (vote to close) as some questions are not relevant here but are on other SE sites. I'm surprised Software Recommendations isn't in there... We must be closing a huge amount (I would even guess (without any data to examine) the majority (or one of the highest contributors) of questio...

feature-request

Oliver Salzburg

10:30 AM

OMG .club is going live soon

10:55 AM

@Mokubai Decent price for KSP: humblebundle.com/store/p/kerbalspaceprogram_storefront

@JourneymanGeek postscript printer?

Or, really, non-postscript printer

a postscript printer could accept the PDF directly

Journeyman Geek

I have no idea

non postscript, networked

its connected over wifi

@JourneymanGeek Barnd? Model?

Journeyman Geek

it eventually printed. I was having trouble with it before

canon pixma MX860

its a MFD, wired and wireless capable

@JourneymanGeek hard to tell if it's ps, pcl or somethign else :\

probably something else

Journeyman Geek

Probably

the drivers for it are a PITA to find

11:18 AM

consumer printers suck. Like, all of them.

12:07 PM

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Q: Boot loop on thumb drive, but flash drive works fine

I have two USBs containing the same operating system, with legacy boot. I have put the system onto two different USBs, where one is detected as a "Thumb drive" and the other is detected as a "Flash drive". However, the one marked as thumb drive goes into boot loop on many PCs that I have tested, ...

thumb drive? flash drive?

12:52 PM

o/

1:15 PM

\o

oh god, it's you! *runs*

Journeyman Geek

1:29 PM

chases

Oh wait, its not the mailman

sleeps

@JourneymanGeek heh. it was rlemon I was running from :P

Journeyman Geek

(on the other hand, the canine alter ego loves DHL delivery guys. He got a teddy from them ages ago. Recognises the uniform)

lol

don't break character like that; it's so immersion-shattering! God, Ravi! -_-

> the canine alter ego

lol

pfft. I was hoping to sed it into his message, not realizing I had just immediately quoted it

Journeyman Geek

1:36 PM

lol

which reminds me, I need to log into facebook.

My cousin has got a lab puppy. He's an adorable not quite so little rascal ;p

Oliver Salzburg

Oh damn, .fish is going live as well!

What a day!

@OliverSalzburg those TLDs...

eh, I'm avoiding them

cost too much, and don't sound enough like traditional domains

I just picked up Auditorium. Wonder if it's any good.

Huh.

It's certainly interesting and well-made.

1:54 PM

@JourneymanGeek When I asked you about configuring a modem safely, you said about turning off dhcp on a modem, rather than turning off nat. If you turn off DHCP you need a static ip to configure a modem, but how is that more secure than getting the IP via DHCP? aim is to configure modem safely when it is giving an external ip

@barlop you're approaching this from the wrong direction... just get a good software firewall on the internet-exposed machine

heck, I say "good" but Windows Firewall on default-deny-all is good enough

granted, it does depend on what you're doing

@Bob can you elaborate on depends on what you're doing

@barlop on what level of security you require

whether you're actually hosting any services

etc.

whether you need to disable nat

as bad as nat is in many circumstances, it does contribute to defence in depth

unless you wanted to get a dedicated hardware firewall, but those are expensive and likely overkill

Journeyman Geek

2:10 PM

@barlop: I also said it makes sense to unplug the modem from the wider internet ;p

if you're that paranoid

@JourneymanGeek i'm curious why you said you don't disable nat you disable dhcp.. What benefit is there to disabling dhcp?

Journeyman Geek

cause I misunderstood what you were trying to do

mainly cause I didn't and still don't see how turning off nat on a consumer router does anything

there's two reasons to have nat enabled

@Bob yes I know I can see benefits to NAT i'm aware of that

one is to have a separate private IP address space, which is necessary if you want multiple internet-connected devices on home IPv4

the other is to act as a poor-man's firewall

well, the third reason is it's easier :P

Journeyman Geek

2:14 PM

and we don't have ipv6 everywhere ;p

I wonder if people will stop using NAT and use proper firewalls and stuff when/if people have IPv6 everywhere

I reckon it's not possible to configure the modem when it's giving an external ip.

Journeyman Geek

>_>

I don't have a network level firewall for ipv6

@Bob have you tried the deny all option in windows 7 firewall? where is it?

@allquixotic now I'm really annoyed at our gov aborting the NBN rollout

tpg.com.au/…

$90/month unlimited 100/40 FTTP was possible!

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: .... I can get gigabit FTTP for that much ;p

er... actually possibly less

2:19 PM

@JourneymanGeek hey, we're getting ADSL2+ for $60/month

this is amazing for Aus

Journeyman Geek

we're paying 70something for cable internet, TV and phone

;p

if we switched to fiber its ~5-6 dollars more

Steffen Winkler

hey. I'm not sure where this question fits best...I've a problem with Horde (after installation and configuring it), it does not create it's database tables but instead throws me a bunch of errors because some SELECT statements fail (missing tables). Should I ask that on SU or on ServerFault?

Journeyman Geek

er...

Steffen Winkler

(sorry for disrupting your conversation)

Journeyman Geek

does the user you're ran the install script have proper permissions?

Steffen Winkler

2:22 PM

uh, it was the root user ...so I guess?

@Bob I can't actually find a deny all option in the win7 firewall

Journeyman Geek

@SteffenWinkler: its not exactly SU territory, but it might get chewed up and spat out on SF

Steffen Winkler

@JourneymanGeek also the installation went via something called PEAR

Journeyman Geek

for your database?

"went via something called" ...

ruh ruh raggy.

Steffen Winkler

oh, yeah I created a user and assigned a database to it

2:23 PM

@barlop windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/…

Steffen Winkler

also, yeah it already got chewed out by SF but I'm not sure why I got downvotes...well not entirely

Journeyman Geek

I tend to like to install those things from scratch. Also PEAR iirc is a php package manager

(oh and roundcube is a prettier webmail client)

@SteffenWinkler: SF has... a certain culture

Steffen Winkler

@JourneymanGeek it's "PHP Extension and Application Repository"

Journeyman Geek

precisely ;p

Steffen Winkler

I just never heared of it before ;). So it's 'something' to me.

2:25 PM

@Bob ta.. there's also this I see win7 FW setting, superuser.com/questions/268902/… gives a screen for blocking outbound too allegedly. Untested, will see!

Journeyman Geek

I don't tend to like those

@barlop Apparently, at least on Windows 8 w/ advanced firewall, it defaults ot blocking all inbound that are not on the allowed rule list

Steffen Winkler

@JourneymanGeek oh I'm not using Horde as a webmail client, but I'm more interested in the calendar/contact frontend and the integrated SyncML server

so you can just review that list and remove everything off it

@SteffenWinkler PEAR?

@Bob I can't imagine any other default for a windows firewall

Journeyman Geek

2:26 PM

ahh

Steffen Winkler

@Bob pear.php.net

@SteffenWinkler No, I mean "are you talking about PEAR"

I don't usually see it spelled out

Steffen Winkler

@Bob oh, no. Just something I installed via PEAR

(the installation also went fine from my point of view)

according to Horde's documentation, after installing Horde, I've to copy a config file (and eventually adjust it) and then open up the webfrontend

that works.

but the next step is to configure the database and according to their documentation there should be a button to update/create the database schema. But there isn't. I already wrote an e-mail on their mailinglist but I got a response back that it should be there

I guess I'll do some php reading later this day ;)

wat

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A: Ways to physically secure laptop that has no kensington lock

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free NAA flag ^

!! learn codeworks <>"http://i.stack.imgur.com/MOXHy.png"

ChatBot John Cavil

2:31 PM

@Malachi Command codeworks learned

wonder if that will work.

that photo wasn't uploaded here

!! codeworks

huh

ChatBot John Cavil

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10kers can't see flags anymore? (@JourneymanGeek?)

Steffen Winkler

scratches head alternatively...does someone coincidentally know a SyncML server?

2:32 PM

@SteffenWinkler never heard of it :\

Root Access has just been Malachi'd

Journeyman Geek

I think they removed a lot of the 10Ker tools

Steffen Winkler

@Bob It's to synchronize contacts/calendars

@JourneymanGeek :(

Journeyman Geek

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Q: Let's get rid of the 10K flag queue

The 10K tools are pretty cool... You get a birds-eye view of activity on the site, a "dashboard" view of what's happening. Some of the individual tools haven't scaled particularly well with Stack Overflow's growth, but the concept behind them is still sound: we trust you to enough to be a bee wat...

feature-request status-completed review 10k-tools flag-queue

Steffen Winkler

2:34 PM

and for some reason there are dozens of clients and programs that support it, but (as far as my google fu took me) only 2 servers that support it: Funambol (which I'm not fond of) and Horde (which is, apparently, not fond of me)

@JourneymanGeek I just found that :P

So, no more disputed flags either? Huh.

Journeyman Geek

;p

@Bob: Thats new

I'll probably notice if I flag stuff on ... er... AU or SF I guess

hm, Being able to One Hit Close questions feels like poking an egg with a stick, and having it explode in a massive fireball.

@Bob: I am playing some tag pro..

HTH is missing

@allquixotic Remember that guy going on about how LXC is "secure"? The guy affiliated with Docker?

Hehe:

in The Comms Room, 5 mins ago, by MikeyB

"This is now a security bug as well.": https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/5619#issuecomment-42434217

@jokerdino Singapore?

yeah

2:41 PM

@jokerdino There's actually 31 players on the Aus server :P

I'm surprised they have two.

wow

It's 12:45 o.O

@jokerdino You in a group?

no

there are two matches going in the server i think

Steffen Winkler

hm, well have a nice day everyone :)

thank you :)

2:45 PM

@jokerdino want to make a group?

oh sure

@jokerdino You make?

(I warn you, I have little idea of how this works :P)

(also, not logging in just yet, screw logging in with google)

tagpro-sector.koalabeast.com/groups/cfxrykki

@jokerdino ?

@Bob lol no problem

2:46 PM

it just redirected me back to the start

this one? tagpro-sector.koalabeast.com/groups/olsgqixm

@jokerdino Oh, someone else's group?

eh

ok how do these groups work

no idea

@jokerdino tagpro-sector.koalabeast.com/groups/vmpgcglx

does that link work?

i joined

2:48 PM

yup

launched the game

let's see if it works

all games full...

> Wow, all games are full. Waiting...

i am in

@bob ^

you Elu?

@jokerdino same... but I don't see you

@jokerdino ya

loading

just changed name, that was surprisingly fast

@jokerdino yea, no idea here :(

you are in the game right?

2:53 PM

@jokerdino yea

you don't get the game?

it's easy. let me explain

it's a capture the flag type game

you get the other team's flag and go to your flag point.

you can score a point if your flag is not taken by the opponents.

if you get touched by other team when you have the flag, you die.

try to kill the other balls when they take your flag. prevent them from scoring and you should try to score as well.

@jokerdino yea, I get the concept. I just suck at the execution :P

why were you not in the game?

nah, you were brilliant

@Bob it's a 4v4 game

oh

i am in

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