Root Access

1:03 PM

@slhck: Ah, I think it recalculates the quality score once it's edited. It's now at 100 so I think it means that the low quality is gone... :)

slhck

eeeeeehh what the, I just dropped that comment, not Ivo

@TomWijsman perfect!

Tom Wijsman

@slhck: Huh? Did you do something under Ivo his name by accident? If I got your message right?

0

A: list folders by the number of files recursively

Try this: find . -type d | while read dir; do; echo "$dir" : $(find "$dir" -type f | wc -l); done | sort -k2 -t ':' -n

William Hilsum

Since you lot did it... Here is mine!...

slhck

Well I added the comment to this answer, then flagged it. Ivo deleted it and it shows the comment being made by him.

haha, awesome @WilliamHilsum

William Hilsum

If you are wondering, that is my dog updating his Facebook page - facebook.com/profile.php?id=1641241406

Tom Wijsman

1:06 PM

Space? Space! I can press Space, Space... Space.

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman :)

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum I see evil eyes... :(

slhck

Mana ಠдಠ

Oh man, Non Sequitur. I love that comic.

William Hilsum

I love that cartoon

DMA57361

1:08 PM

@TomWijsman Nobody is pressing space, mate!

Mana ಠдಠ

goes back to lurking

slhck

heh @Mana :D

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman He has updated it! That was years old

I just love this... put both my dogs on Facebook and...

They are in a relationship!!! ahh... Should get back to work!

Tom Wijsman

I've always been wondering to make a fake Facebook account and then just starting to add random people...

Or perhaps make multiple, and let funny things happen on my profile.

Mana ಠдಠ

@WilliamHilsum Aren't they too young to use Facebook?

William Hilsum

1:12 PM

Not in dog years...

slhck

haha, I love how our starred messages don't make any sense without context now :P

4

William Hilsum

:)

Simon Sheehan

1:43 PM

@Tom my friend made a fake account with a fake picture, and added over 400 people who didn't know him. Almost all accepted

Tom Wijsman

This is sick...

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Simon Sheehan

Pretty messed up flash mob... I thought they only did dances

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, dutch article I have it from calls it Flash Rob instead.

Obviously, they got the idea from London...

If I were the shop owner, I would seal of the money and lock down the store from the outside...

Easier said than done though.

Probably gets you some smashed windows too...

William Hilsum

Wow, chav robbery

slhck

anybody experienced in CSS?

William Hilsum

1:55 PM

Wouldn't say experienced, but, I may be able to help... What's the issue?

slhck

well, I have a page with a JavaScript image viewer, and I would like to create a popup

now this popup is bottom: 0; position: fixed;

but I want it to overlay the image viewer

William Hilsum

I think you need adjust/change the z-index or whatever it is called

DMA57361

you probably want to use position absolute (with it's parent set to position relative, but no top/bottom/etc) so you can position it in terms of it's parents location

slhck

well it should really be an overlay for the whole page

DMA57361

ah, ok, the grey bar at the bottom?

slhck

1:59 PM

yep

DMA57361

yeah, that's probably z-index

slhck

z-index didn't work though :/

Tom Wijsman

So, the grey bar should be in front?

slhck

yup

using OpenLayers to show the image

so that might be the issue

Tom Wijsman

How does the HTML look like?

Hmm

slhck

2:01 PM

well my popup is

  width: 100%;
  height: 240px;
  position:fixed;
  bottom:0;
  left:0;
  background-color:#333;
  color:#eee;
  display: block;

Tom Wijsman

CSS doesn't make sense if we don't know the HTML

slhck

<div id="slideUpBar">
  <div id="slideUpBarContent">
    <form>
</form>    </div>
  </div>

so that's all there's to it

DMA57361

right, but what about the image?

slhck

well this is really complicated, because it's loaded by this OpenLayers viewer

so it might be a bug with that

Tom Wijsman

@slhck: What is the z-index of the image?

DMA57361

2:04 PM

is that page in a location we can reach?

Tom Wijsman

(Firebug / Developer Tools can help you determine that)

slhck

@DMA57361 Wait a sec, I could make it public if my router does what I want!

Tom Wijsman

Because, z-index is supposed to work, I just think the image has a relative high z-index for one or another reason.

slhck

@TomWijsman That could very well be, it's a bit complicated to debug though

Tom Wijsman

@slhck: Not really...

If you have Developer Tools or Firebug: Right click the image, click Inspect Element and look at it's z-index in the right panel.

slhck

2:06 PM

the thing is, it's not an image

oh but now I see there's a z-index

so should I set mine to over 9000?

Tom Wijsman

@slhck: Yes, you can just click through them and see what the highest would be and go over that.

But the divs are properly named, so I think you can figure out what the image would be.

By the way, clicking/hovering on/over the elements should highlight them on the screen.

slhck

I know @TomWijsman :)

Tom Wijsman

<svg> is used to draw things, but I kind of think the shown image is in the Zoomify <div>.

slhck

okay seems to work with a really high z-index

thanks all :)

Tom Wijsman

@slhck So, I guess something like 2000 should work.

Because it enumerates 1000 values by it's looks...

I wonder if the Web Developer Toolbar can show the different z-indexes.

slhck

2:10 PM

it'd be neat to see a three-dimensional view of a website

DMA57361

sorry had to run off for a second, but clearly you both have it under control :)

Tom Wijsman

Time to write another renderer that allows us to rotate the view. :D

slhck

@TomWijsman That would be sooo awesome!

Tom Wijsman

And then two modes: Just z-index or do a +1 for every deeper level element.

Gareth

for some reason when I think of 3D websites, I remember the "3D navigation" in Jurassic Park: mimg.ugo.com/200903/15412/jurassic-park.jpg

Tom Wijsman

2:13 PM

And implement shadow and light, or it will look weird...

@Gareth That's a computer program that exists, can't remember it the name though...

Used it once, very fun. :D

Gareth

IRIX 3D

Fsn

fsn (File System Navigator) pronounced as "fusion" is an experimental application to view a file system in 3D, made by SGI for IRIX systems. Even though it was never developed to a fully functional file manager it gained some fame after it appeared in the movie Jurassic Park in 1993. In a scene in the film, the character Lex, played by Ariana Richards, finds a computer displaying the interface. She exclaims "It's a UNIX system! I know this!" and proceeds to "discover" the security code making the laboratory's doors lock. After the release of the film, some incorrectly perceived the vis...

slhck

heh, interesting

by the way, when I'm done with writing this app, I'll probably ask some of you to click through it and test it if that's fine :P

Tom Wijsman

Let's make a space flight simulator where you would have to fly to your file...

Destroying files becomes an easy task. :P

Prepares his SQL injection tests that he doesn't have...

slhck

@TomWijsman Aaah, don't! I have not a clue about webapp security!

although I expect my framework to do the basic stuff for me

Gareth

just create a user called: slhck');DROP TABLE Users;-- - then login :)

slhck

2:21 PM

@Gareth Hah, I don't fall for this classic!

Tom Wijsman

Got to love YouTube. Users uploading parts of a theater show I watched back in 2010, of which I thought they would never come online.

Fun thing is, I found something so rare through the new YouTube Music Recommendations... :S

Simon Sheehan

The "new" YouTube music recommendations are very old

It's still trying to get me to watch I'm on a Boat

and Eminem from 2 years ago

Journeyman Geek

lol

assuming they don't geo-block it

(which gets on my nerves)

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, they don't work 100%.

Simon Sheehan

Geo-blocking is brutal :/

Tom Wijsman

2:30 PM

You watched X - Y, would you like to watch X - Y? :P

You listened to song Y from X, here is a recommended artist: X.

Simon Sheehan

My biggest issue is geo-blocking anime, since its all japanese, such an annoyance :/

Tom Wijsman

My logged in YouTube was cached, got to log out and log in to actually get the recommendations yesterday. Weird...

Gareth

My biggest issue is... I can't get on YouTube!

if I use a VPN I can but it's horribly slow - no point really

Simon Sheehan

@Gareth You are saved from its horrible distractions....however, that is a bit much :/

I could never survive with a block like that

Gareth

we have www.youku.com and www.tudou.com instead - do they work for you guys? (sometimes bizarrely they block the US from accessing Chinese sites)

sorry, no links: youku.com

Simon Sheehan

2:33 PM

I thought my ISP's throttling methods were bad

tudou.com

It loads

@Gareth Yup, works

lol. its the great fireall of china!

Gareth

it's interesting because for ages they had pirate stuff on there... all the American TV shows etc

Simon Sheehan

2:33 PM

@Gareth Both works, and are in full Chinese!

Gareth

but now they want to become "real" companies! IPO, USA funding etc

so they are signing up for tons of copyright deals, going legit

slhck

it's a crazy world

Tom Wijsman

5

Q: How to speed up small parts of a video file to match an audio file?

Currently, I have a video which has been originally made in language X. Now, I have the audio of the same song in language Y and I want to dub the video but there are some slight moments where they run out of sync. These moments can be corrected by changing the speed of the video or audio at cer...

William Hilsum

Sorry... Is the CSS issue fixed now?...

Tom Wijsman

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William Hilsum

2:34 PM

I have been trying for the past ~30 mins to find a website I went to in the past, can't find it in my history or anywhere - annoying :(

slhck

@WilliamHilsum Yes it is, thanks for the pointer!

Tom Wijsman

Finally don't have to go through matching different languages anymore for that, still might want to put the clean audio from their CD instead of the bad audio. (Which are both live recorded anyway)

William Hilsum

@slhck Did what I say help then? Cool if it did!

slhck

@WilliamHilsum In the end, yes, I just had to take a really high value

William Hilsum

Cool

Tom Wijsman

2:36 PM

(Dutch production of the German Tanz Der Vampire, by Jim Steinman; in case you are wondering. There are also productions in the USA, Dance of the Vampires; but their reproduced broadway version is bad, I believe there will also a be an original version)

slhck

@TomWijsman Heh, a good friend of my family used to play in these here in Vienna

Journeyman Geek

Jim Steinman sounds familar for some odd reason...

ah yes freewebs.com/batman_themusical/home.htm

Tom Wijsman

mljs.evilnickname.org

Related to Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler.

If you know Total Eclipse of the Heart, here's a Dutch version of it:

►

Gareth

how much difference can changing your WiFi channel feasibly make to the signal strength? I want to know if it's worth the effort of using something like inSSIDer, or nuking my neighbour's apartments

Tom Wijsman

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Meat Loaf classic of which music has been adapted.

Journeyman Geek

2:43 PM

@Gareth: supposedly a fair bit

Tom Wijsman

Anyhow, that's that. Just like how something that has been recorded back then is uploaded after more than a year...

slhck

@Gareth I think @TomWijsman will soon tell you that it's absolutely worth it

And I have yet to try it, but it looks promising

Gareth

I tweaked Clippy a bit ;)

Terrorist Clippy!

Tom Wijsman

May 28 at 13:18, by Tom Wijsman

May 28 at 13:21, by Tom Wijsman

May 28 at 13:27, by Tom Wijsman

slhck

@Gareth If you were in the U.S. now, you'd probably have somebody knocking at your door within a couple of minutes

Tom Wijsman

2:46 PM

See the relevant chat history for some information around it.

Gareth

thanks Tom, I'll take a look

Tom Wijsman

Anyhow, I don't have comparison screenshots.

Gareth

there's about 30 networks my adapter can see from here though, so some competition :(

Tom Wijsman

But for Gaming purposes it's sure better as there is less interference.

And you don't spent much time on it; look what's free in InSSIDer, change, see again, done.

Ouch...

If you can; get on 5.4 GHz, it's completely free here... :P

I have both for backwards compatibility...

slhck

I recently switched back to a wired connection

Gareth

2:50 PM

yeah, I might pick up such a router at some point. I think the other problem I face is just the way this place is constructed... it gets very weak quickly as you go into other rooms. I've tried everything

I might go back to what I had back in London and get ethernet over power adapters - they were good

Tom Wijsman

Agreed, even with the best reasonable WiFi I tweaked out here; cable is still much better.

Especially when you enable jumbo packets (for local transfers over the network)

slhck

@TomWijsman Well, I'm on a Gigabit network, so it's all very fast anyway

Tom Wijsman

Jumbo packets removes overhead a lot, if both computers support it then it looks near local/USB file copying speeds.

slhck

I'm mostly copying from/to a QNAP NAS, so I'll have to look if it supports that

Tom Wijsman

Speed tests show 60-70 Mbps on Wireless, 90-100 Mbps on Wired.

Simon Sheehan

2:53 PM

So tempted to rage at my ISP. I open bittorrent by accident, now i'm subjected to 15 minutes of throttling.

Tom Wijsman

There are new routers out with improved N standards where you can get next to the Wired speeds I heard from my dad...

@SimonSheehan Protocol encryption should prevent throttling, if you have that option.

slhck

@TomWijsman Hmm, I'll stick with the WRT for a while

and the QNAP supports it, so I'll try to give it a shot. Might break compatibility with my TV though.

Simon Sheehan

@TomWijsman I have it, doesn't stop it, it seems. All P2P content is throttled, even gaming will trigger it

Tom Wijsman

I mean, in the options of your software.

Simon Sheehan

And because of how my ISP is, it keeps throttling everything for up to 15 minutes after P2P stops

Tom Wijsman

2:54 PM

Ah, then indeed blame the ISP.

Gareth

I can't imagine what would happen if they introduced throttling here - the country's entertainment practically runs on P2P/piracy/streaming

Simon Sheehan

Indeed, they aren't nice.

Gareth

even though most connections are capped at 4Mbps, people get a lot out of them!

Tom Wijsman

Does Full HD YouTube trigger it, @SimonSheehan?

Simon Sheehan

You can do a surprising lot with that.

@TomWijsman Nope, doesn't seem to.

Tom Wijsman

2:56 PM

@SimonSheehan: And a FTP download?

Simon Sheehan

Tom Wijsman

It might be port related...

Simon Sheehan

Just ran that test from my bedroom.

Tom Wijsman

Mar 8 at 0:19, by TomWij

Local Speed Test
Last Result:
Download Speed: 95681 kbps (11960.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 4709 kbps (588.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 9 ms

Simon Sheehan

Very nice :o

Tom Wijsman

2:59 PM

And oh...

Gareth

that's one of the best connections you can get here

DMA57361

what happen to the speed test thing everyone on SU was doing? then I could show off my embarrassing low result

Tom Wijsman

Don't know who I was talking to about my router, but I solved the random reboot problems.

They were indeed power related, so down-clocking the CPU and the antennas a bit worked.

@DMA57361 Should be between the starred messages somewhere.

speedtest.net/wave/6162f3b18c231eb6?

DMA57361

yeah that's probably it

woo! I'm no longer 3rd from last :D

I'm now 5th from last :/

Gareth

this is over my anti-blocking VPN:

seems about right on the DL, UL is definitely not right!

Simon Sheehan

3:02 PM

@Gareth "Faster than 61% of CN." :O

Gareth

yeah, and even that's going to be skewed a fair bit - not like most internet users in China will have run Speedtest

Tom Wijsman

@SimonSheehan: Noticed only one difference in 9.0a1 so far, the "site has no favicon" icon has changed.

Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/12/10) mega
Time: 17:03:07 up 4 days, 19:28, load average: 0.06, 0.11, 0.06

Yay, no more daily reboots...

Simon Sheehan

@TomWijsman It really just jumps up a version number to keep up with the release cycle.

Tom Wijsman

Maybe

I wonder if 9.0a1 would actually include all features, they might work out 8.0a1 into a beta further with new features that get added later to 9.0a1 through a merge.

Simon Sheehan

@TomWijsman There wouldn't be any changes...yet. Since its Nightly builds, we really don't see the feature change quite like normal users do when jumping from 4>5>6, etc

Fx6 wasn't a huge change either

about:permissions, a permissions manager. The user can choose what information can be shared with other sites, e.g. passwords
New tab scrolling feature
Domain highlighting in address bar[43]
Enhanced developer tools

Tom Wijsman

3:07 PM

Found another one:

Simon Sheehan

@TomWijsman You may find "The burning edge" resourceful: squarefree.com/burningedge

Tom Wijsman

@SimonSheehan: Yeah, I know of it but find its bold highlights biased. Or just follow the hg itself...

This chat costs me at least 36 MB of my memory... :(

Simon Sheehan

@TomWijsman But that takes so much effort :P

@TomWijsman 36 MB? And how do you know this chat exactly?

Tom Wijsman

Yeah.

rooms/118

Gareth

I don't know why I'm finding this so funny: my.telegraph.co.uk/beanbean/beanbean/4054721/…

2

Tom Wijsman

3:11 PM

And now it's using 21 MB, muhahaha....

Gareth

there's actually a picture of it. what a bizarre typo

DMA57361

O_o wtf

nhinkle

3:35 PM

@TomWijsman regarding eligibility for bloggers: you are not eligible for the blogging portion of the contest, but are eligible for any other category

we should really remove the citizen patrol badge requirement, since if you have 200 flag weight, then by definition you've raised a flag

@SimonSheehan multiple nominations sound fair to me, but don't go nominating the whole userbase. keep it reasonable ;)

slhck

@nhinkle It was me who asked :P

but, yeah, I was thinking three users max or something

Simon Sheehan

:) I've got a nomination or two in mind myself

For now, time to tune Winamp for optimal bass output :D

slhck

3:57 PM

boooo

Simon Sheehan

Thats new :o

DMA57361

I don't think so, it's been there since the start I believe

Simon Sheehan

New to me :P

slhck

Well I have to admit, I approved quite a few of those

so I guess there's a good reason for the implementation

Sathya

@SimonSheehan it's been there for a while

nev mind I see @DMA beat be again :\

Simon Sheehan

4:07 PM

Haha

wassup ppl!

Hello

hi @SimonSheehan

Hows it going @Megan?

Megan

good .. just browsing for a good lappie at an affordable rate really

will find it eventually :)

what about you? @SimonSheehan

hey @Sathya

Simon Sheehan

4:12 PM

Playing some Mass Effect, waiting for a download to finish

hi @Megan

hi

howzit goin @Sathya

after i take the power off and its turned off it does not start for a long time

i have to wait for 1-2 hours for it to start. is something wrong with my processor

i mean overheating

Megan

you should post a question

you will get better replies, here not many will see your chat message

Simon Sheehan

4:20 PM

@lovesh 1-2 hours? Thats insanity.

lovesh

oops my question didnt post completely

Sathya

good, @Megan

lovesh

actually my laptop freezes sometimes when i run lot of programs

and then i take the power off because i cant even shut it down

Simon Sheehan

Then you may need to close programs, you may have run out of RAM / processor power

And we heard you the first time.

lovesh

there is something wrong with the internet

Megan

4:22 PM

:)

lovesh

i ll try later

Simon Sheehan

You might just be lagging behind

Megan

what's ur connection speed?

256 kbps?

Tom Wijsman

@lovesh: Wait...

@lovesh: You should get a computer store to clean the inside of your laptop.

lovesh

its 2-3 kbps now actually it sucks at this time usually

Tom Wijsman

4:24 PM

Or if you can do it yourself, you could use a compressed air can to blow the dust out of the fans.

Simon Sheehan

Are you on dial up?

Tom Wijsman

It's most likely your processor clocking itself back due to overheating.

lovesh

@SimonSheehan yes

Simon Sheehan

Oh. that could be your issue then

It may be time to upgrade

Cable is very cheap these days

Megan

yea its darn cheap in india

try a cable operator

512 kbps is 400 bucks a month

lovesh

4:27 PM

@Megan ur in india

Sathya

@TomWijsman please don't remove possible duplicate stubs unless question is reopened. superuser.com/revisions/324954/4

lovesh

@TomWijsman u knw when my laptop freezes there is a murmuring sound i can hear continuously

Gareth

alright, super users, I'm off to bed. have a good one!

Simon Sheehan

Cya later @Gareth

lovesh

@Sathya hi

can a processor overheat if its not cleaned up?

Sathya

4:39 PM

yes

Simon Sheehan

Absolutely yes.

slhck

heh, reminds me of the only time I tried to build a computer and forgot to attach the CPU cooler properly

almost fried the CPU

Simon Sheehan

Oh my.

Tom Wijsman

@Sathya Ah, okay. Thanks for the reminder...

Megan

@lovesh yea

William Hilsum

5:06 PM

Google new feature? Just got a bit of a shock whilst searching for a little problem I am having with VS...

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum Seems they are taking links from Google+

profiles.google.com/codinghorror1/about

Simon Sheehan

@William what browser is that?

William Hilsum

Chrome

With the Bookmark bar turned on

I'll be back in a few hours, bye!

Simon Sheehan

5:22 PM

Cya!

Tom Wijsman

5:43 PM

Doing a stability test; Prime95 x4, FurMark highest, HD Tune error scan to keep everything busy

Running fine for 18 minutes already

Simon Sheehan

Pretty good.

Tom Wijsman

Still wondering why my computer would sometimes freeze in StarCraft II

Simon Sheehan

@TomWijsman Perhaps its a graphics issue?

Tom Wijsman

FurMark is running a stability test on the highest settings for 19 minutes so far.

Hmm, perhaps I should look into FPS limiting StarCraft II a bit...

There must be something there triggering it, dunno.

Nice to see how responsive the computer still is while running all things together. :D

Simon Sheehan

Indeed. I limit my FPS to 59, helps me a lot

Mostly because my GPU is mediocre at best. But I like it!

Very quiet

slhck

6:29 PM

-7

Q: Could you have accepted any of these questions?

Sorry for wasting anybody's time but please have a look if you like these 8 known questions that appeared: "Is this a question?" (Not to be confused by a non-question and then we know? It's not even an answer to answer this. I don't understand this question about a question or even if questions...

discussion questions asking-questions exact-duplicates closed-questions

what was that? O_o

Simon Sheehan

@slhck I honestly don't even understand the first line.

17 minutes and hes -8

Next question...

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Q: Resolve non-genuine version of windows xp without complete reinstall

I am trying to do the right thing by letting an aquintance use a legitimate version of Windows XP instead of the cracked one he is now using. So far I have tried to use the WGA website to convert this illegal copy to a legal one. Unfortunately, that is no longer possible. All I can do here is ...