Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:37

morning

KronoS

00:50

@JourneymanGeek hey! Know anything about circuits?

Journeyman Geek

a little

KronoS

you don't happen to know if I can reduce the resistors into one do you?

Journeyman Geek

er...

KronoS

I'm just having a dickens of a time approaching it

Journeyman Geek

the problem is the split power sources

KronoS

00:59

ya.. and that 2OHM resistor in the middle is giving me the probs

Journeyman Geek

eh, i could have done this easily 8 years ago ><

KronoS

lol...

Journeyman Geek

there's something about that circuit that bothers me, but i can't tell what.

(last time i did physics in school)

KronoS

ya this is what I get for deciding to do an EE minor at the last minute

sblair

01:13

@KronoS are you looking for something like the Thevenin or Norton equivalent?

that would reduce it to a single source + resistance though

William Hilsum

@KronoS ... It has been years since I last used it, but... I used to use Crocodile Clips to muck around with basic circuit design as it has a good simulator... just had a look and they merged it to a new product called yenka which is now free... yenka.com/en/Yenka_Science - you may want to have a muck around with that!

KronoS

@WilliamHilsum thanks!

@sblair not sure TBH.... I'm trying to find the power supplied by the voltage sources...

I think that if I use KVL i might be able to accomplish this... we'll see though

William Hilsum

01:39

@KronoS Really been ages since I did circuits (would love to get back in to it!)... I tried your thing, and, it blew the resistors! I love crocodile clips! (or yenka now!)

Journeyman Geek

01:49

erf. I wish i understood web design >_>

Sathya

04:11

@KronoS oh jeez.. it's been over 5 years since I had a look at it >_>

Journeyman Geek

04:57

gah

*fighting the temptation to add another answer to an olllld question for completeness/cool app sharage-es sake

Gareth

if you want to close 'owt, I've posted two in the VTC chat room

Sathya

what questions?

Journeyman Geek

'owt ?

Gareth

ha, UK slang for anything

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/questions/67207/how-to-join-mp3-files <- thinking of adding cuetools there once i have tested that it does what i need it to

Gareth

05:04

looks like you've killed them already @Sathya ?

Sathya

@Gareth yep

Gareth

05:31

hmm, keep getting logged out of SU today

three times so far

Journeyman Geek

eep

is that 3 or six times?

Gareth

argh

Journeyman Geek

>_>

Gareth

I guess I know what my issue is then :S damn VPNs

Journeyman Geek

loooool

apparently

Gareth

05:33

bloody GFW!

Journeyman Geek

hmm, lots of 'buying recommendation'/stale questions getting bumped today

Gareth

yeah, sorry, it's me reuploading some images... I'm trying to VTC/flag to delete any shopping ones I spot

just bung any you spot in the VTC room and I'll join you with voting!

just added 1 there myself

Sathya

@Gareth please, please don't edit if you're going to close them :|

Gareth

it's not my intention to... I've said this a few times in the past

Sathya

10k+ & mods have access to closed questions queue. I don't see why you're editing them if it's going to be closed :|

Gareth

05:46

it's because I might just see an image, so I go and edit it, then suddenly see the question at the top

if I do edit, it's an accident, and I don't go through editing the rest of the answers

there would be no point in me spending the time editing if it got closed/deleted anyway

anyway, sorry if it's causing any grief. I'm done with my queue for today...

Journeyman Geek

no worries. I'm voting to close those ;p

it was less a complaint than a statement ._.

DMA57361

07:17

morning all

nhinkle

@slhck, @Gareth, @danielbeck, @bloodphilia you might want to take a look at the blog ;)

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KronoS

not might... YOU MUST!

Clippy

Super User Blog: Announcing the Winners of the Super User Anniversary Contest!

Posted by nhinkle on September 7th, 2011

Super User turned two years old a few weeks ago. To celebrate, we held a Super Contest to reward you, our dedicated users! To read up on the contest categories, check out the announcement blog post. Today, we are excited to announce the winners of the 2011 Super User Contest! This year prizes were divided into four categories:

Level 1 Prize: An official Super User T-Shirt

Level 2 Prize: $35 of official Super User or Stack Exchange swag

Level 3 Prize: $100 of Super User or Stack Exchange swag and/or computer hardware or software …

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Journeyman Geek

;p

Sathya

Congrats @slhck @BloodPhilia @Gareth @DanielBeck @WilliamHilsum @JourneymanGeek @TomWijsman @breakthrough @Soandos @LordTorgamus @jonsca @SgtOJ @nikai @Digitxp @mechanicalsnail @Diogo_Rocha @grawity @SimonSheehan @lanceroberts @sblair @berk98 @jcrawfordor

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nhinkle

07:26

@Sathya you should @@ those ;)

Journeyman Geek

that, and i sort of didn't expect the tag wiki thing ;p

Sathya

@nhinkle oh but I have ;)

nhinkle

@Sathya wha? When I look (via edit) it doesn't show them as such. Huh. Well, good job then! :P

Sathya

@nhinkle not all are @@'d - those people who visit the room - I haven't, rest I have.

nhinkle

shrug

as long as they see their winnage

lol. i think this is not going to work @Sathya :P

Journeyman Geek

07:32

lol

well i noticed >_>

Sathya

edited the wrong message :P

@nhinkle @JourneymanGeek if you notice the message - the names which are in lowercase, they are @@'d

well, barring few anyway :p

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: that and i'm sitting here, so @ and @@ will work ;p

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek :p

Journeyman Geek

hmm. blog.superuser.com/2011/09/07/… typoe! ;p

tombull89

Mornin'

nhinkle

07:35

@JourneymanGeek where at?

tombull89

Off-topic?

0

Q: iPhone virtual machine

I would like to run some iPhone applications on my MacBook and be able to use them with the mouse. Is there some way to run an iPhone emulator via Parallels Desktop or any other virtual machine?

Journeyman Geek

@nhinkle: its spelled journaymangeek there

nhinkle

@JourneymanGeek hahaha ooops. will fix.

Journeyman Geek

@tombull89: i don't think so. its in effect a software recommendation

tombull89

@JourneymanGeek A-OK.

Journeyman Geek

07:37

(IMO. I don't see anything wrong with VTCing it, but in effect, he's asking if there's a emulator/SDK he can use)

nhinkle

it's a valid question, since it's about using it on his computer

Hm. Twitter's over capacity. I guess @KronoS's announcement of our contest results overwhelmed it!

Journeyman Geek

lol

Gareth

hey :) thanks @nhinkle and @Sathya :) It was all down to @Clippy really, though.

Journeyman Geek

XD

Gareth

you know that 'hot' question we have about spicy media files and how to kill them

there's a reason it keeps bugging me

I eat so much spicy (Sichuan) food over here all the time (every day pretty much). Every time I come across that question it makes me think of sweaty old Chinese men

Sathya

07:49

>.<

DMA57361

:S

Gareth

let's hope that's not what he's trying to delete!

Journeyman Geek

XD. In either case, its better not to know ;p

Sathya

btw, that message by Clippy about the winners might be one of the rare messages everyone loves :P atleast the winners ;P

nhinkle

Journeyman Geek

07:52

lol

Gareth

It looks like you're trying to downvote a MVSU nomination. Would you like a slap?

Sathya

lolol

Journeyman Geek

eh, I was a little miffed at that happening

Daniel Beck

Good morning

Gareth

all water under the bridge I guess

hi @Daniel

Journeyman Geek

07:55

till next year ;p

tombull89

From SF Chat:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

u4ik.us/custom.html

nhinkle

@tombull89 OH GOD MY EYES

Journeyman Geek

hopefully by which time i can get more people converted to SU MWAHAHAHAHA ;p

what no picture?

eh, could be worse.

RED ON BLACK. WITH ANIMATED GIF FLAMES.

Daniel Beck

@Gareth Hi Gareth congratulations on making 3rd place ;)

Journeyman Geek

the rest of their site dosen't look too bad

nhinkle

07:57

superuser.com/q/15798/20088

Gareth

@DanielBeck ha thanks, and to you too indeed!

tombull89

@nhinkle 10k only?

nhinkle

yeah we weren't really expecting a tie...

@tombull89 yeah. sorry.

actually that's not even the one

tombull89

Well, it's that one, or yvettesbridalformal.

Journeyman Geek

@nhinkle: could be worse. at one point, there were 4 people tied

nhinkle

07:59

meanwhile in the crappy website department, there was nelsonideas.com

web.archive.org/web/20100825173019/http://www.nelsonideas.com

Ahhh here it is: worst web site design ever? (10k only, sorry)

Daniel Beck

@nhinkle There's a bug in your blog post :P

nhinkle

@DanielBeck what's that?

(I'm sure there are. You know how many hours we spent figuring this all out? Well anyhow... there was bound to be some problem)

Journeyman Geek

@tombull89: that website is what i'd use if i needed to torture a web designer. 5 minutes of it projected on a wall.. and anyone would cry for his mommy...

Daniel Beck

@nhinkle I'm a registered blogger but never actually came around to writing something ;) My post on OS X scripting and automation is still a work in progress...

nhinkle

@DanielBeck eh? You submitted it to the meta post didn't you? Or did you not?

Daniel Beck

08:03

@nhinkle I did, but that was my first post ever.

... intended for the blog

nhinkle

Oh, I see what you mean. OK well that's an easy fix.

Gareth

hmm, I see that iPhone emulator one got migrated to AskDifferent in the end

I would have said it's on topic for SU but nay' mind

Journeyman Geek

08:35

superuser.com/questions/333179/… I think the correct answer to that is "Yes"

darned kids, not appreciating the classics. All this newfangled linux and stuff...

tombull89

08:48

dammit I keep forgetting I don't have edit privs on MSO and SF (without preer review)

Journeyman Geek

neither do i >_>

actually, i have laughable rep elsewhere

DMA57361

08:59

hmmm, is out current hot question a dupe?

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Q: Is it possible to run an old 16-bit DOS application under Windows 7 64-bit?

Here at work my new development machine is Windows 7 64-bit (so I can use extra memory and run VMs). However I have a dilemma: it appears that 16-bit DOS programs do not run under Windows 7 64-bit. I have an old legacy program written in Clipper that I need to run periodically. I cannot access ...

windows windows-7 64-bit dos

Sathya

I think..

2

Q: 16-bit DOS on Windows Vista+

I have a friend that uses some really old business software and for whatever reason doesn't want to check out a new version (if one even exists, he's in a niche market). The software ran as a 16-bit DOS program and he'd like to upgrade his computer to something running Vista or 7 but still run t...

virtual-machine emulation dos dosbox ntvdm

DMA57361

@Sathya yeah, that was all I could find... and I'm not entirely convinced by it

Sathya

@DMA57361 why not?

DMA57361

I'm not entirely sure tbh

ah, the 2nd isn't strictly about 64bit, although no one answering seems to have noticed that

Sathya

09:20

@DMA57361 hmm good point

William Hilsum

@Sathya I just read the blog post! YAY, I finally get a SE Sharpie! - After last year, I laughed when I read your "Congratulations to the winners" comment at the bottom!

And...

Well done everyone - @slhck @BloodPhilia @Gareth @DanielBeck @JourneymanGeek @TomWijsman @breakthrough @Soandos @LordTorgamus @jonsca @SgtOJ @nikai @Digitxp @mechanicalsnail @Diogo_Rocha @grawity @SimonSheehan @lanceroberts @sblair @berk98 @jcrawfordor (And thanks @Sathya for having the names already in a list!)

Sathya

@WilliamHilsum Cheers William!

our guest of honour has arrived :p

slhck

aah thank you all for the congratulations! @WilliamHilsum @Sathya and @nhinkle

hehe

don't make it such a big deal, sheesh :P

William Hilsum

►

Annoying, can't multi tag...

tombull89

RECAPTCHA, Y U NO GIVE ME UNREADABLE TEXT?

DMA57361

09:29

...because you're a robot?

slhck

@WilliamHilsum Heh, thank you :D

@tombull89 I think we should make you do a turing test now!

tombull89

@DMA57361 dammit, you found out initiate self-destruct

slhck

@tombull89';) DROP TABLE Brain;--

tombull89

tombull89.exe > quit

Journeyman Geek

lol

Journeyman Geek

09:50

hm

slhck

@JourneymanGeek sup?

Journeyman Geek

not much ;p

trying to decide how little stuff i want to lug to school >_>

and...

poof

slhck

heh :D

William Hilsum

@tombull89 Its readable! "<space> <space>"!

DMA57361

@WilliamHilsum isn't that just three spaces?

William Hilsum

09:56

suppose so :P

William Hilsum

10:07

wow - 10k'ers, look at this! superuser.com/questions/332975/…

tombull89

grr. >:(

screeny plz? plzplzplz?

slhck

that's really.. umm.. yeah

tombull89

o.O

interesting choice of insult. How old is he, 12?

slhck

the profile text is also ... interesting superuser.com/users/97095/ddrambo

William Hilsum

sorry, phone... well done @slhck - that's why you won! :P

slhck

10:12

oh, now, take a look at that: superuser.com/posts/288099/revisions

it's also from him

tombull89

Just checked the Profile and other answer.

hmm.

William Hilsum

lol

slhck

anybody know how I share a link to a suggested edit?

should this pending edit be approved? superuser.com/questions/67128/…

I'd just make it another answer

ah whatevs, I'll make it a CW answer

Sathya

@slhck the way he goes, it won't be long before the question ban gets hit on him

William Hilsum

Doesn't it just have a unique url at the top?

tombull89

10:25

@Sathya Imagine the fury and bile that would be contained in a m.so post...I'd be almost impressed.

Sathya

@tombull89 -69 in no time!

tombull89

also, from the profile: Uh-Huh! You think you can figure me out. Well, yeah. He's a moron.

@Sathya is that the record?

Sathya

@tombull89 that was an arbit number, -65 is the lowest I've ever seen

tombull89

@Sathya guessing that's deleted?

Sathya

-65

Q: Don't close questions where the user has requested that it not be closed

The system should search posts for the word "please" in proximity to the phrase "don't close" or "do not close", and if found together disable the close link for the following reasons: They asked nicely They knew enough about the system to understand that posts can be closed, and thus are exper...

discussion vote-to-close always-waffle-in-iceland

slhck

10:28

@Sathya dang, beat me to it

:D

Sathya

@slhck nyan-nyan :p

tombull89

that's a Adam Davis request? o.O

And not an Evan one, that's a surpise.

slhck

this one from yesterday was also very ... interesting

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Q: I want to transfer/direct my 10k unique visitors from my website to - participate into my created - area51 proposed website category

I want to transfer/direct my 10k unique visitors to - participate into my created - area51 proposed website category. Its a category for SHOPPING Users will > define > commit > public beta Isn't this a great idea. Also, how can I gain monetary benefit.

discussion feature-request support idea ideas

Sathya

@tombull89 he tends to throw way rep ;p

plus check the tags

@slhck lol yeah,.

tombull89

@slhck ow...my face.

slhck

10:40

does the facepalming hurt already? @tombull89

tombull89

/megaultrasuperduperdoubleneutronstarcollapsingfacepalm – Won't ಠ_ಠ♦ says it all.

the stupid...it burrrrns. BUUURNS.

Sathya

@tombull89 :p

hey @balpha

tombull89

quick, another blue. Look busy.

wait, I've made that joke before. not funny any more.

balpha

morning

slhck

lol

DMA57361

10:47

@tombull89 .. it was funny to start with? ;P

slhck

morning @balpha

DMA57361

@balpha mornin'

tombull89

@DMA57361 ...probably not.

Journeyman Geek

yup, definately an IT module. Lots of laptops in class, and extention cords snaking around the floor

slhck

11:03

aww we just found a small swallow on the side of the road

Sathya

@slhck awallow?

slhck

@Sathya en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow sorry :D

Journeyman Geek

african or european?

slhck

@JourneymanGeek European, I guess? We'll take it to the vet, be back later!

Journeyman Geek

>_>

tombull89

11:05

chuckle don't worry, @JourneymanGeek, I got it.

Journeyman Geek

you should ;p

Journeyman Geek

11:17

lol (on a t shirt)"To err is human, to arr is pirate"

4

Journeyman Geek

11:47

blah. the lecturer's spending too much time talking about his credentials.

GET ON WITH IT. MEATY STUFF. NAO! ;p

DMA57361

lol

Akash

12:42

How can we get a badge like the one in the left column on codinghorror.com/blog

tombull89

Stack Overflow Blog: Flair: Now Even Flairier

Posted by Jeff Atwood on September 22nd, 2010

When we introduced user flair back in May 2009, we provided two ways to embed flair, either with an iframe, or JavaScript.

That may have been fine for a programming website like Stack Overflow, but it wasn’t so hot for … normal people. That is, people who do not live and breathe markup like us programmers. Embedding an <iframe> tag or <script> tag is complicated. It implies you run your own website, or otherwise have extremely low-level access to (and understanding of) the markup. …

DMA57361

@Akash your network Flair? Goto your profile and click the flair tab in the bottom right

tombull89

(You have to have at least 200 rep on a site for it to "count")

Akash

Thanks.. I didnt know it was called flair

yes.. Just crossed 200 a few days back.. Thats why I was looking for it

Sathya

13:59

hey @Breakthrough

Lord Torgamus

14:25

@Sathya Wow, thank you! I checked the editor users subpage after the contest ended, so I expected the upcoming editor prize, but not the overall editor prize. Congratulations to everyone, especially @slhck!

Sathya

@LordTorgamus you deserve it! The gang will be in touch with you about your prizes!

Lord Torgamus

@tombull89 Yeah, Adam puts a lot of joke posts on Meta. The difference between him and everyone else is that he's actually funny.

tombull89

14:45

wut.

0

Q: How to provide instructions to email printscreens of errors so easy a caveman could do it?

I need to instruct individuals how to email issues to IT and include screenshots. They do things in very ridiculous ways, that "get the job done". So, I get emails that read. Do not know why this is happening, can one of you tell me how to fix? Every time I enter data and scroll or hit en...

issue-tracking

seems more like a trianing issue

Gareth

@Clippy could help him

David

That's a good one @Gareth

lol...

tombull89

How can I provide instructions to email printscreens of errors so easy a caveman could do it?

eventually, Clippy.

Gareth

Clippy, you slow bugger! the question's already closed!

we should get the Root Access chat SP1 installed

tombull89

I tend to feel a bit guilty when I see my name on "question closed by"

Gareth

14:51

you should see it positively - you're helping keep the site trim

sblair

@Sathya @WilliamHilsum that's awesome, thanks!

Journeyman Geek

15:37

ooh

@tombull89: actually thanks to that, i learnt something new ;p

Gareth

night all

Breakthrough

16:22

Yes @Sathya

Sathya

@Breakthrough oh, just thought I'll greet you, haven't seen you in here bfore

Breakthrough

Ah, thank you sir

Sathya

Kiedis looks weird with his 'stash

►

Tom Wijsman

16:44

@DMA57361, @Sathya: Is the mail regarding prizes still to be sent?

Sathya

@TomWijsman I've no idea, @nhinkle is looking into that I believe

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, typo; a bit tired of exams...

Okay, given that the blog post has been up for quite a while (at least I don't see Wil's congratulation when scrolling) I thought the mail might've not reach me, but I'll wait as there is no hurry...

Sathya

@TomWijsman the entry was up late last night US time

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, I missed a lot over the last three weeks. But exams are over now...

So can be more active again! :)

nhinkle

17:38

@TomWijsman yeah we haven't gotten that far yet. Still working out some details. You'll get an email soon.

tombull89

17:55

@JourneymanGeek you mean that Problem Steps Recorder? I stumbled across that by mistake. I know it's Win 7 only but it's still pretty decent (and idiotproof -_-)

Sathya

lolwut.

-2

Q: How can i deploy Ruby On rails Application in apache in lamp on ubuntu without installing Ruby and rails

Please provide me the guidance for deploying the ruby on rails application in apache in lamp without installing Ruby or rails .

ruby-on-rails ruby linux apache lamp

Tom Wijsman

18:08

http://superuser.com/questions/how-to-ask-beta :D

William Hilsum

18:28

@TomWijsman huh?

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum: I wasn't here when you pinged me, and it isn't in the scrollback buffer.

9 hours ago, by William Hilsum

Well done everyone - @slhck @BloodPhilia @Gareth @DanielBeck @JourneymanGeek @TomWijsman @breakthrough @Soandos @LordTorgamus @jonsca @SgtOJ @nikai @Digitxp @mechanicalsnail @Diogo_Rocha @grawity @SimonSheehan @lanceroberts @sblair @berk98 @jcrawfordor (And thanks @Sathya for having the names already in a list!)

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman ahh, ok!

Boris_yo

Does anyone know how Gmail uses my webcam without permission?

The other party can activate my webcam.

Tom Wijsman

Webcam... In an e-mail web application?

Boris_yo

Yes Google Talk

Tom Wijsman

18:38

Yeah, Google Talk can do that if you have Flash auto-allow to use your webcam.

Boris_yo

I don't know if other party sees me however.

So other party saw me?

Tom Wijsman

Or is that a desktop client (because you got me confused by starting of with Gmail).

Boris_yo

It is web interface.

Tom Wijsman

However, by default you always need to accept something. There is no way in which you can send me an URL and you would be able to see through my web cam. Unless there is a yet undiscovered exploit floating around...

Boris_yo

Do you have Gtalk?

I need to test this.

Tom Wijsman

18:39

So much typos today, I'm tired...

@Boris_yo No, but I would suppose that it uses Flash.

I don't gave anything Google apart from Google Reader and Google+.

Eh well, I also have YouTube...

Never used Gtalk or Gmail...

Tom Wijsman

18:52

@Sathya lolwut.²

0

Q: Weekend Planning

Just on curious note. How we as a programmer plan our weekends for better productivity and work on hobby projects and improve their skills. My whole weekend goes in playing computer games and watching movies Any tips to improve my weekend for improving my programming skills

procrastination productivity home

> Do you expect an answer other than "stop wasting your entire weekend on games & movies"? – Tom Wijsman

Boris_yo

19:26

@TomWijsman Okay it seems that though webcam is activated, it needs your permission for other party to see it.

Tom Wijsman

20:51

Sigh. Someone actually went and took my answer to answer that question, argh...

Tom Wijsman

21:30

0

Q: How can I test my heatsink?

Is there any way I can heat up my CPU and see if the heatsink works?

cpu heatsink test

William Hilsum

Im having a hell of a time setting up NAT forwarding with a ESX box... Does anyone know a program (if one exists) where I can load on my machine, load on the remote machine and basically type a port on both ends and just try to send something... just in order to test that the NAT rule works?

Linker3000

21:45

@WilliamHilsum What OS at both ends?

William Hilsum

Ideally Windows as it is already configured, but, I don't care - just need to test NAT... outgoing works fine here, just need to test incoming, I can install any OS and set up a rule

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum Incoming from the web?

canyouseeme.org ;)

William Hilsum

I have never used PFSense (testing it as the firewall) and just not sure I am doing it correctly... the host has a weird setup which requires manual ARP/route setup... I have internet going out, but, I think I may have done something wrong on incoming

@TomWijsman That should work! :)

Linker3000

@WilliamHilsum Saves me some typing!

Tom Wijsman

It tries to make a connection to the port, when it gets a handshake (TCP) or something along the lines of an ACK (UDP, not entirely sure) it will tell you that it works. So, you do need something listening at the endpoint...

William Hilsum

21:51

I am trying to get the VMWare vCenter Mobile Access working.... I think the problem is with that rather than the firewall... just retested and, it doesn't work (as per manual) even from same network... (I installed a small XP machine inside the ESX server on the same network for testing)

Tom Wijsman

In other words, opening the port alone isn't sufficient.

Linker3000

Not an HP server is it?

William Hilsum

@Linker3000 Nope, not yet! Need to set up those HP Mini servers soon!

@TomWijsman That will hopefully be good enough!

Linker3000

OK - just a side note then - I was having problems with an ML330 server and to cut a long story short, they have two NIC ports but one doubles up (IP address wise) to talk to the ILO (Integrated Lights Out) remote admin controller in the server and if you use this as the main NIC for ESXi strange things happen - sometimes!

William Hilsum

@Linker3000 Oh joy!!!

Just annoying - been doing so much desktop support in the past couple of years, I have hardly touched big setups and I feel out of my depth touching ARP and routes etc.

Linker3000

21:58

Well, while we're on the subject of desktop stuff and networks, the Netgear GS105E (note the 'E') 5-port gigabit switch sometimes responds to PINGs travelling through the switch to other kit. Tracking that issue down took a few hours. Fix is latest firmware.

William Hilsum

@Linker3000 Is that a managed switch then?

Linker3000

@WilliamHilsum It has a few features like QoS and VLAN support - it's sort-of-smart. We didn't know when we bought 5, but my suspicions were raised when I noticed a MAC address on the bottom and wondered WTF a plain switch was doing with one!

William Hilsum

@Linker3000 hehe, dumb-smart-switch!

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I just got 4x 8 port Netgear gigabit switches for a client, I think they were just unmanaged... will check that out - thanks!

Also, many thanks both of you... got the thing working perfectly now! NAT is working and I did ARP correctly!!! Damn beta documentation! It says port 5480 on the appliance and in the documentation... but... just read through a load of forum items and it is actually using standard ssl/443 - opened that up and it works!

Linker3000

Glad it's working.

William Hilsum

^ 3x 8 port not 4... and checked, they are just unmanaged/basic (gs108)

Linker3000

22:08

@WilliamHilsum Good - you're clear!

William Hilsum

I'm glad it is fixed for you though... Netgear is one company I (sort of) trust... after you said that, I was a little worried!

William Hilsum

23:39

There is a PDF on this page, an article I was reading linked from Slashdot... and, as per the warning, it crashed my Chrome and Internet Explorer (tried it in both) - IE with Adobe Acrobat, Chrome with Chrome PDF viewer... It is the PDF you click on from this page - thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/08/17/… ... Just wondering how that is possible :/ restarted, clicked and it worked fine.

Simon Sheehan

Yikes o.o

Tom Wijsman

Eh voila, the hottest question on Stack Exchange is now closed as a duplicate. ^^

Simon Sheehan

@TomWijsman Which question?

Tom Wijsman

@SimonSheehan: superuser.com/questions/333502/…

Simon Sheehan

heh

Tom Wijsman

23:51

The next one is also a duplicate: superuser.com/questions/333103/…

Simon Sheehan

Well with so many questions, i guess its bound to happen a lot

Tom Wijsman

Seems it's better to write -d instead of -p if you want upvotes, or perhaps Getting rid is SEO-hot...

Simon Sheehan

It probably wouldn't hurt to get rid of the SEO-hot

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