Root Access

Sathya

01:00

ok 1k more to 10k! ONWARD MARCH!

TomWij

Oh, I'm so far away from that... :-(

Good luck anyhow, about a week if you put some effort in it. :-)

Sathya

I've never given stupid answers, but this one totally deserved :)

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A: What's the cheapest PC configuration that can achieve a Windows Experience Index of 7.9 on a Windows 7 machine?

Cheapest way ? Alter the files storing the number. Cost = Zero.

Gonna try, My avg rep per week's about ~300-400!

digitxp

I hate it when you want to screenshot a notification system and you have to wait a week for a notification to even come up.

Sathya

:13865 ?

TomWij

There was a time where I went like mad answering Super User questions...

Now it's hard for me to find any question to answer.

Sathya

01:05

btw nothingtoinstall.com is back to webapps.stackexchange.com ?

TomWij

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Q: Webapps.stackexchange.com versus Nothingtoinstall.com

Related StackOverflow Blog post: Domain Names: The Wrong Question Nothing to Install is a fine name, probably one of the best in the network. Yet, it's confusing to have half the people talking about Webapps and half Nothing To Install. Considering... Naming (domain name selection) i...

digitxp

:13870 Was wondering that too.

:13868 M2

TomWij

It's weird...

SO I had such a time too, but the site became hard to answer on me...

And I only have questions for that site when I really have an isse with something.

Sathya

:13870 THat's ridiculous. Why bother with name selection et al then ?

TomWij

The same has now occured with SU.

SF is not my thing...

At Programmers I have the feeling that it will happen too there...

Game Dev, also too hard for me...

The only site where I can reasonable answer questions at the moment is at NothingToInstall.

Sathya

01:09

on topic, SU is probably the one place where i can answer some questions, apart from NTI

TomWij

Because there is a new flow of users because of the domain going public and its advertisement... But well, for how long?

Next thing I'm focusing on:

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Personal Productivity and Organization (GTD, Covey, etc.)

Proposed Q&A site for productivity experts and individuals trying to find more efficient ways to manage their tasks and priorities, Lifehacker readers, etc.

Currently in commitment.

Sathya

:13885 sooo not for me

TomWij

The only way I can find reasonable questions to answer (before others answer them) is by the thing I am currently looking for:

A way to monitor multiple sites for new questions.

Sathya

rss ?

TomWij

In the same train this could also have an effect on helping to moderate the site:

A way to monitor multiple sites for new answers/edits/...

Sathya

01:14

yahoo pipes

TomWij

Perhaps: But will adding RSS feeds from multiple sites work out clean? I wonder...

Sathya

Hmm

TomWij

Oh, that looks nice.

Sathya

pipes ?

TomWij

Yes

I've been looking for that for a long time.

Sathya

01:17

Ah

TomWij

I've had a bunch of RSS feeds but my program (FeedDemon) had the lack to filter things out...

Yahoo Pipes seems like a solution although I don't think I like the UI.

Sathya

common complaint :P

TomWij

So for that issue I think I still rather be writing my own Twitter/RSS aggregator. :P

<hr />
And I think I will have to write a custom solution to monitor things across all sites too...

It would allow me to do so much more by doing so much less.

See more, do more; refresh less, waste less.

Or something like that. ^^

Sathya

cool

TomWij

I want to insert a <hr /> between my sentences. :-(

Done! :P

I really should spent a lot more time programming instead of doing useless things...

Sathya

01:22

userscript eh ?

link please

TomWij

userscript?!

Sathya

?

<hr />

:P

TomWij

:D

Sathya

<hr />

TomWij

That stands for horizontal rule.

Sathya

01:24

dang
<hr />
this
<hr />
sucks

:P

TomWij

To denote the separation in that alinea.

Sathya

yeah I got it

TomWij

But no, I don't have an userscript to do that.

Would be funny though...

Don't you see the line across your screen? Perhaps you are using an old browser... :D

Sathya

Oh yes, I use IE6

TomWij

Regarding IE6: I don't understand that this question hasn't been closed yet:

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Q: When will IE6 be irrelevant?

Question edited to meet new guidelines I consider Netscape or IE5.5 to be irrelevant for the following reasons: Market share is negligible Mindshare is minimal - few developers still talk about the IE5.5 or Netscape problem and most web frameworks don't bother to support them. They are not off...

prediction internet-explorer

Sathya

01:27

> Market share is negligible

how much is IE6 share ?

TomWij

StatCounter June 2010: (UK Only though, crap...)

Sathya

wow. never thought it had dipped so low

TomWij

Guess the computers of the good ol' XP users are failing, so they end up buying a new one with a better OS thus a better browser.

Sathya

my eny 14 was delivered today. I wasn't at home to pick it :|

now,it'll have to wait till monday :|

bah.

TomWij

ouch

Sathya

01:35

I'm off for a beer. catchya'll later.

Bye @TomWij @digitxp

TomWij

Let it taste, cya...

Should go sleep, it's too late again.

I'm off too... Night (or day) every1.

Josh

02:59

I'm off for the night but wanted to mention:

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Q: Webapps.stackexchange.com versus Nothingtoinstall.com

Related StackOverflow Blog post: Domain Names: The Wrong Question Nothing to Install is a fine name, probably one of the best in the network. Yet, it's confusing to have half the people talking about Webapps and half Nothing To Install. Considering... Naming (domain name selection) i...

discussion domain-name

Sathya

04:16

The Inbox now features @replies from chat, cool.

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:13949 yeah, that looks.. >_>

barlop

13:35

are community wikis for subjective questions?

Sathya

14:30

:13953 No, CW are for those which do not have a single definite answer

barlop

16:53

over here they call anything like that subjective!

Sathya

:13955 Need not be.

barlop

subjective=argumentative=discussion=not a question=no right answer=closed!

what about a question of what are peoples' "must have" motherboard features?

Sathya

:13958 list questions, not allowed

Those are, btw subjective

barlop

not for a wiki either?

Sathya

As we keep saying, CW is not to be used as a shield/excuse for asking subjective/list/best-of questions

USB3.0 support might be a killer best feature for you, while not for me

barlop

16:57

yes, I understand what subjective means

what about a poll question, where people name a favourite feature and people -vote-, so we see which most people find most useful.

do you see no use to that kind of question?

Sathya

:13965 not allowed either

barlop

and has it nowhere to go?

Sathya

:13968 I don't think so

:13968 perhaps, read the next few lines from here:

in Root Access on Super User Chat, Sep 30 at 16:33, by Cawas

@Sathya that's good news to me, but still not offtopic. maybe I should just suggest it on SE.

barlop

what's the reason for it not being allowed? are the guys in charge, so keen on people scoring points with answers that they want objective criteria.. and wouldn't want to answer otherwise?

'cos answering would not be so worthwhile.

Sathya

:13973

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Q: How should one ask polling questions?

I recently asked a poll question on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109880/what-do-you-call-the-punctuation-marks-and-closed. The question was created as community wiki, seemed (to me) concise and unlikely to spark controversy, and was at least peripherally programming-related. I seede...

discussion questions

DMA57361

17:20

evenin'

Sathya

:13976 hello there

DMA57361

so, WebApps, eh.. :/

Sathya

:13978 what a farce

DMA57361

indeed

a very late reversal

I wonder why they didn't feel the need to question until after the new domain was set in place

Sathya

and no official word as well, as to why that was reversed.

and by official I mean a post on the blog

DMA57361

17:23

quite

just the question on meta.WA that is already further up this page

Sathya

:13982 I actually posted few answers on nothingtoinstall.com whileI was at work

I come back home, and boom!

absolutely to reference to nti

DMA57361

so when was this? the last few hours

Sathya

its Oct 2 12:23 Central Daylight time now

I'd say somewhere between Oct 1 13:00 - Oct1 16:00

DMA57361

f/e

Sathya

Funny that @JeffAtwood tweeted the new domain

DMA57361

17:26

yeah

Sathya

heck Marco Arment has even put a blog post with the new domain

marco.org/1223864297

DMA57361

it did receive a quick burst of support

which just makes it even more unusual

Sathya

I think it's fair to say more people are (um, upset?) about the way the reversal was done, rather than the actual reversal itself

DMA57361

yes, it seems to have been a bit .. sudden

I mean, tbh, I'm not entirely sure which side of the argument (seperate domains vs SE sub domains) I personally think is better. There's apparent merits to both..

Sathya

:14002 true

:14002 /selfplug:

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A: What's the cheapest PC configuration that can achieve a Windows Experience Index of 7.9 on a Windows 7 machine?

Cheapest way ? Alter the files storing the number. Cost = Zero.

DMA57361

17:32

it also seems a bit odd that they'd go to this effort on a Saturday...?

Sathya

your votes ( up/down) are appreciated :P

DMA57361

rofl

probably not quite what the OP was after

Sathya

:14006 something must have SERIOUSLY gone wrong

DMA57361

but I cracked a smile :)

Sathya

I don't post such answers, but 'm sorry I couldn't resist

DMA57361

17:33

:14010 yeah, that's what I was starting to wonder...

Sathya

lest I get accused of being a consipiracy theorist, I'll stop. Will be interesting to see the reply

DMA57361

:14012 got the disciplined badge yet? it's quite a worthy candidate.. ;)

:14014 yeah, until there's official news there's no point speculating really

Sathya

Oooo I'm tempted to get that badge, but no I'll stick to the answer until the OP revises the question @DMA57361

DMA57361

(thought I'd add that the ability to have multi-threaded chatting, thanks to the back links, is just peculiar)

:14017 tbh the question is a bit of a subjective close candidate, it looks like a hardware recommendation in disguise

when'd image uploading get added to chat?! just spotted the button :/

Sathya

:14020 it's been there for atleast a week

:14019 yeah, you can say that

DMA57361

17:39

:14021 D'oh, need to pay more attention

Sathya

:14023 heh!

DMA57361

Woo! Looks like I've recieved my first ever (non-meta, non-CW) downvote!

Sathya

:14025 wow. that's impressive. No downvotes so far

link ?

DMA57361

someone downvoted my (rather old) answer here

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A: Core i3 and core i5 processors. What is the difference? What do I choose?

Background i3 is an Intel "low-end" processor range. i5 is an Intel "mid-range" processor range. i7 is an Intel "high-performance" processor range. Generally speaking, the i7 is better (faster, more cache), then i5 and the i3 being "worst" (slower, less cache), but obviously the cost scales as ...

apparently 19hrs ago according to the envelope page

Sathya

ah,

DMA57361

17:43

"ah"? - was it you!? ;P

Sathya

I'd never seen it before :P

DMA57361

lol

Sathya

well you have now 1 extra +vote ;)

DMA57361

hurrah, all is better again now lol

hmmm, you know what, I think I may have been downvoted for something on cooking before

oh well

doesn't really matter

Sathya

in The Tavern (General) on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, Oct 2 at 17:42, by radp

At any rate, I'm saving this here

in The Tavern (General) on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, Oct 2 at 17:42, by radp

and saving this here

DMA57361

17:47

lol

Sathya

> At any rate, I'm saving this here

DMA57361

yeah

Sathya

just so that it is mirrored :P

DMA57361

is everyone drifting in the realms of conspiracy again?

Sathya

:14046 oh nooo. just for reference and history

DMA57361

17:49

but, it's maybe a stronger indication that it'll be staying as WA.SE?

:14047 lol, that's alright then

the pages are actually saved with absolute links to the live servers though, so if they remove the NTI image it'll still break.

eg: blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/…

Sathya

ah lol

badp

:14050 [status-norepro], the image URL has been rewritten

Sathya

:14053

[status-easter-egg-doesn't-work-here]

DMA57361

:14053 was about to post in MSO chat saying I've changed me mind, beat me to it :)

badp

:14056 no worries :)

:14055 wouldn't have worked anyway with extra text on the same line

btw you shouldn't chat with root access!

you fools!

Sathya

17:57

:14059 LOL

DMA57361

lol

Sathya

We are Super Users!

badp

Super Users know when to drop their privileges.

Sathya

:14064 ... and when to use 'em ;)

(ps: root access is via sudo ;) )

badp

:14067 sure, so why are you using Chromium as root?!

Sathya

18:02

:14068 Chromium isn't ;) root access is via a VM

sasuke

Yo folks!

Sathya

:14070 hello

sasuke

never knew something like this existed, heh

Sathya

:14072 :)

Senseful

23:43

@Diago: I was the one that recommended that this question be moved to superuser.com. Originally it sounded like it was a browser configuration issue.

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