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slhck

12:00

38 secs ago, by slhck

@Sathya That's meta.SO

:D

Sathya

@slhck :D :D

slhck

my favorite activity on MSO is looking for the worst questions of the week

Sathya

lol

7 hours ago, by Sathya

wtf question of the day

7 hours ago, by Sathya

-7

Q: friend who recently passed away

I will make this short and to the point. I had a very good friend who recently passed away, and I found this out by accessing his fb! Wow..i was logging on to communicate with him, not to say goodbye! With this said, I would like to know if fb has any ideas or possible affiliations with assista...

discussion

slhck

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Sathya

@slhck ah yeah @tombull89 said the same ;p

Journeyman Geek

12:05

i can't see that :(

tombull89

4 hours ago, by tombull89

@Sathya what?! too bad it's deleted -_-

Journeyman Geek

unrelatedly, this class is very managagery :(

Sathya

@slhck @tombull89 @JourneymanGeek webcache.googleusercontent.com/…

(not sure if it works.. for some reason that link's blocked)

Journeyman Geek

eh, she must have in confused with yahoo answers ;)

slhck

The funny thing is, Facebook actually manages these sort of things

tombull89

12:07

@slhck Yeah, I think you can set up some sort of "memorial" page.

Also, when I googled the question link there was no cached result in google's servers :/

Sathya

@tombull89 Chrome FTW!

put in cache:<url> in the omnibox & it'll fetch the cached version, even if the search doesn't return it

leaving office, back later!

slhck

chocolate donut, y u so small?

tombull89

Meh, I've recently moved from IE to FF...maybe I should think about a Chrome VM

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: that's taking a while to load....

Sathya

@slhck Y U NO GIVE ME?

//out

Journeyman Geek

12:10

@tombull89: why not just install it? its not that heavy

/me runs canary as a secondary browser since i have to balance two seperate sets of everything @ all ;p

slhck

@JourneymanGeek The canary is actually quite good since a few months. Before that it used to crash on me every day, but now it's awesome.

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: the crashyness is half the fun ;)

slhck

lol

Journeyman Geek

i think usually its the sync part that messes up

slhck

Sync is a bit weird. Sometimes it syncs back stuff I've already deleted (e.g. bookmarks, add-ons)

HackToHell

12:19

hello anyone free got a problem with paypal !

slhck

@HackToHell Not currently, why?

grawity

Grumpy grawity is baaack. "Blank media (CDs, DVDs, MP3 players) will be delivered to UK only", says Amazon. I assume that applies to flash drives as well? :/

HackToHell

@slhck WTF does paypal automatically withdraw money to my Bank Account that has not yet been verified !

yet !

slhck

@HackToHell How much? From stuff you ordered?

@grawity Taxes, same crap as usual

I can't even order blank CDs from Germany to Austria (!)

HackToHell

20 $ ... now after reversing the transaction I have got 5$ !

slhck

12:21

@HackToHell Can you be more precise? Did you order something?

HackToHell

No !

Here's the whole story .
I do not use PayPal at all when buying stuff , I always use my Card .
My friend compelled me into opening one and I had 20 $ transferred from him to me ... and I decided to add an Bank Account to get it as that is mandatory in India

slhck

yup

HackToHell

My Bank had some problem with NetBanking and told me it would not be possible so I decided to add another one

I deleted the one i had haded

but yet it was there

slhck

okay, still following, go on

HackToHell

I have not yet added another bank account ..... but then I get a mail saying PayPal automatically set my money to the bank so I log in and find the transaction and reverse it . and I get 5$ back ? !!

The money has been sent to the bank account I deleted and the transaction was marked as not done

slhck

12:26

I don't know why they would automatically send it to the bank account

HackToHell

Foul Play ?

slhck

I'd say contact their customer support. This is totally out of my experience with PayPal.

HackToHell

ok gonna call them thanks :)

slhck

Sure! They're normally very helpful when it comes to fraud – but I don't know about your case, so, sorry!

Tom Wijsman

Great that they invented Full HD, because this resolution is small...

Does anyone know how I pin Firefox to the Windows 8 start menu?

Or however that Metro Tile screen is called...

And is it me or do none of the apps work?

tombull89

12:34

Hmm...In Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror post about re-building his computer he's gone for a Asus P8Z68-V PRO Motherboard. What I want to know is, what's the difference between the Pro and the Asus P8Z68-V, apart from £10 and 2x extra 6GB/s?

Journeyman Geek

lol

tombull89

@JourneymanGeek dammit. too much markdown.

Journeyman Geek

@tombull89: its there, 2-3 screens down

>_>

where?

er...

@TomWijsman: scroll down, find the tile 2-3 screens down, drag it into position

grawity

Hm. Is there any sort of website or article describing how/when certain types of credit cards can/cannot be used online?

Journeyman Geek

also, the only non worky app for me so far is copper

@grawity: depends on your bank, most likely

William Hilsum

12:37

@JourneymanGeek That isn't the only thing... It puts it in a "fluc" state! I think either they have heavily restricted the preview for the demo, or, the start menu is only in their for compatibility reasons and it won't be in the final version... if you do winver, it also has a warning there which makes me think it is more about the preview... I blogged about it yesterday morning... blog.williamhilsum.com/2011/09/…

grawity

for example, if a website says "Visa", does it usually include Electron?

@JourneymanGeek Blergh.

slhck

@grawity You should check with your bank, definitely

grawity

Aha, I'll try :/

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum: they have explicitly said there will be a 'legacy' desktop mode.

William Hilsum

@JourneymanGeek Did they actually mention start menu though :/ ?

Journeyman Geek

12:39

no, they said explorer

however the context switching in this build is ... quite jarring

Tom Wijsman

@JourneymanGeek Nope, I did both the pins in the right click menu of Firefox.exe.

Scrolled all the way to the right, I see it nowhere...

Journeyman Geek

@TomWijsman: pinning via rightclick will click it on the legacy taskbar

you need to DRAG it into place

Tom Wijsman

How do I properly pin it then?

Clippy is effective these days...

Journeyman Geek

click, hold, pull.

Tom Wijsman

@JourneymanGeek I'm missing something there.

I have Firefox.exe sitting in a map on my disk...

Journeyman Geek

12:41

@TomWijsman: map? >_>

Tom Wijsman

Now how do I get that into the Metro Tiles Start Menu thing?

E:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox

Journeyman Geek

it should automatically go there

but further down

Tom Wijsman

Automatically?

Journeyman Geek

scroll 'down' or to the right, and there should be a series of tiles for legacy apps

yup

i might have a screenshot

Tom Wijsman

So if you start a legacy app it gets automatically added?

Store does nothing, the 6 big tiles (BUILD, ...) do nothing, is that normal?

Journeyman Geek

12:43

plus.google.com/u/0/photos/106187684082000485043/albums/… the one with 11 clients..

which build?

Tom Wijsman

The last two pages do nothing, remote desktop does nothing.

Journeyman Geek

in the gigantic one those work

... all those work for me

Tom Wijsman

I have the gigantic one, should I reboot?

Journeyman Geek

no, they should work >_>

Tom Wijsman

How exactly do I have to click on these things, just left mouse button?

Journeyman Geek

12:44

yes

Tom Wijsman

@JourneymanGeek: Well, guess I'll install NVIDIA drivers and do a reboot...

Because I do have the gigantic one.

And VHD worked because Windows 8 overwrote my boot loader...

Which means, that I can't boot into my Gentoo anymore. :(

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek plus.google.com/u/0/106187684082000485043/posts?hl=en-GB wow that's your workspace ?

Tom Wijsman

I hope I can find a way to chainload it.

@JourneymanGeek: Okay, drivers fixed it. Got to install my Dvorak lay-out customizations next because I'm creating a lot of typos...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum: Has a way been found to close the Plane application, or is Task Manager the answer?

Journeyman Geek

12:49

@TomWijsman: installed drivers for an unrelated reason in my case.

HackToHell

how are you guys installing Windows 8 ? VirtualBox or a side by side install ?

how well does it go with grub ?

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: dedicated, physical system ;p

tombull89

@HackToHell I did it in VirtualBox 4.1.0, worked fine for me.

Then I got home and put it on a spare laptop.

Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell Easiest way for me is just doing a VHD install.

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek :)

VHD , VirtualBox I will go with VirtualBox

Tom Wijsman

12:52

There is also a tutorial so that you can install it straight from the ISO without DVD/USB, but I didn't bother with that...

@HackToHell Why so, VHD isn't virtualised...

HackToHell

well it involves a complex process right .. and i tend to mess up

Tom Wijsman

And cool, I can run StarCraft II without problems. :D

Now I just make a junction point to my folder on Windows so replays come in the same place for both OSes.

@HackToHell Not at all.

HackToHell

@TomWijsman any tutorial for that ?

Tom Wijsman

microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/…

Journeyman Geek

@TomWijsman: i can't even get HL2 working. I ended up using an older driver since the latest nvidia drivers don't seem to work properly with the utterly crappy card this system has

Tom Wijsman

12:54

That's if you need to put it on an USB if you can't get it on a DVD.

In the Disk Manager in Windows 7, you can create a dynamically sized VHD of 60 GB or something.

HackToHell

@TomWijsman hanselman.com/blog/… this makes it look complex !!! I have never VHD'd before

Tom Wijsman

Then you boot from the installer.

HackToHell

and it will show the vhd ?

tombull89

@HackToHell Holy long page name, batman!

Tom Wijsman

And the only hardest part which is pretty easy is to hit SHIFT+F10

Figure out where the VHD is by typing in the drive letters, like C: to H:

HackToHell

12:56

@tombull89 lol

@TomWijsman okay i am gonna do that .. instead of creating a partition

Tom Wijsman

and then type DISKPART, then SELECT VDISK FILE="H:\Path\To\My\vhd.vhd" then ATTACH VDISK

and then you refresh and you can install to the VHD, remove your installation medium upon reboot, done.

tombull89

What versions of Win 7 do you get the ability to make VHDs?

Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell Same thoughts here, it even works on Windows 7 Professional which doesn't support VHD booting.

Because it updates the boot loader, that's pretty awesome...

HackToHell

@TomWijsman how do i create it the gui way ?

Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell The really awesome thing is that the VHD is dynamically sized.

HackToHell

12:59

Disk Management?

like in VirtualBox :)

Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell Yes, then in File you can create the VHD, select GB then type 60 or so and make it dynamical.

HackToHell

ok

it installed vhd hba that seemingly makes it work ...

How do I mount it ?

Tom Wijsman

No need to mount it in Windows 7

HackToHell

It is asking something abt my MBR what should I give ?

William Hilsum

hehe... Alt F4 worked in the end...! :) ...
I am not sure why it didn't work at first - I think gremlins in the beta, but, alt f4 works in all apps for me now.

Tom Wijsman

13:04

You don't need to do anything except creating the VHD, HackToHell. I didn't get that dialog...

HackToHell

I hit the cancel ... :)

Tom Wijsman

Just click Cancel would be the best option, I guess.

HackToHell

I think it adds it as another HDD to my boot table (MBR) ... researching ....it can be got by right clicking my Disk 1 (the VHD ) and selecting initialize disk ...

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum: on the metro apps?

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum Not here yet, my ALT TAB is filling with things. xD

tombull89

13:07

@TomWijsman alt>tab>tab>tab>tab>tab>fml>tab>tab>tab.

Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell No, that just means you can initalize the VHD with a MBR on it.

But the setup does that stuff for you.

So, you don't explicitly need to do it here...

Does anyone know if VHDs support Linux?

Journeyman Geek

or linux supports VHDs...

HackToHell

@TomWijsman oh ..

Tom Wijsman

@JourneymanGeek Hmm, that'll probably be the problem.

SHIFT+F10 and locating where you stored, then that screenshot, then a refresh of the disk window with F5, is all you have to do different from a normal installation.

William Hilsum

@JourneymanGeek Yep and @TomWijsman all I can suggest is if it is a VM, suspend reopen, or if that doesn't work or it is a real machine, restart.... For me, alt+tab, Alt+F4 were not working at all... after a restart, everything is working fine and as expected, it is weird and I have no idea why

Tom Wijsman

13:10

And use " characters around your path if it contains spaces.

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum: i've restarted it quite a few times

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum Yeah, it looks to me that the first boot is extremely buggy.

I think if I start Firefox again it will get seen by the start menu...

William Hilsum

@JourneymanGeek Sorry, not sure then :(

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum: tis ok. there will be updates!

Tom Wijsman

Wait, I think that I know what's up with Firefox.

It gets legacy apps from the old start menu, right?

Well, I'm running a compiled version so it's obviously not in the start menu... :D

Journeyman Geek

13:13

ahh

Tom Wijsman

Hmm, wonder what User Tiles is for in the User Folder.

Journeyman Geek

pfft

that's not something most people would guess ;p

HackToHell

all of you guys are in Win 8 ... darn I still have an hour left on my download :(

Journeyman Geek

lol

Tom Wijsman

Okay, placing a shortcut in that folder does nothing, it probably needs to be in some kind of new tile shortcut format or however that works.

Does anyone know the Start Menu folder's location out of their head?

Nevermind, got it.

Journeyman Geek

13:16

@HackToHell: i started dling the moment it was out + i used axel to speed it up

somewhat ironically

Tom Wijsman

Took only 20 minutes for me, but had to wait til now to install it.

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek axel ? and i was asleep when it was out and the dll ran alnight yesterday and it is not yet complete !!!!!!!!

Tom Wijsman

I don't see how a download accelerator is going to improve the speed...

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: linux cli download accelerator

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek I use uTorrent to boost my speeds

@TomWijsman sometimes MS speeds suck

Journeyman Geek

13:19

well, there was no torrent at the time

but i think i went from 250 kbps to 4 mbps ;p

HackToHell

4 Mbps ! I am downloading at 70 kbps ...

and my stupid isp limits it to 40 in the night ..

Journeyman Geek

lol

ADSL?

HackToHell

yes in theory ...

Tom Wijsman

yesterday, by Tom Wijsman

5.1 MB/s here.

Journeyman Geek

cable in my case

tho i could have used the office ADSL if need be

Tom Wijsman

13:21

It's a direct download, there are no mirrors. How can it go any faster with an accelerator?

HackToHell

this is India guys ! ask Sathya ...

@TomWijsman multiple connections

Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell That's more likely to slow it down to speed it up...

Unless you have a per-connection speed limit if that even exists.

Which I don't have as far as I know rather than the overall speed limit.

But okay, it might make sense that way.

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek Just curious .. how come I see you all day here :)

U come here frm office ?

superuser.com/questions/275894/… wow this question is cruelly good :)

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman Don't know if you saw my link yesterday... just you wait... hyperoptic.com (crossing my fingers it will come to me... but looks like they are only going to be in new build apartments for the time being :( )

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum Nice, we got 100 Meg here.

HackToHell

13:30

@TomWijsman u work at a datacenter or something ?

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman Lucky you :( ... It is sad, but, when I saw that web page, I got so excited... I am on 10-15Mb here, and I just hope that gets launched here... I will switch so quick to it!

Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell Home. EuroDOCSIS 3.0 connection...

tombull89

@WilliamHilsum Static IP and "unlimited" downloads? WANT EVEN MORE.

HackToHell

@TomWijsman proably costs hell

Tom Wijsman

Meh, weather is only in Fahrenheit.

HackToHell

13:37

Wats Windows 8 official logo ?

Tom Wijsman

WP7-ish.

HackToHell

:)

Tom Wijsman

13:57

With which program do you want to open this .html, nice...

Sathya

2

tombull89

dammit. I'm trying to clean my glasses but it's not making them any better.

No, clippy. Go away.

Sathya

14:22

hahaha Duke kicks ASS!

Sathya

14:43

GlobalInbox now has sends emails

DMA57361

@Sathya ah, spotted that the other day and completely forgot to click on it >.<

would be handy except I'm here every day anyway

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: i usually have a computer on. I'm not necessarily at it

Sathya

@DMA57361 yep..

William Hilsum

15:04

@Sathya Love it!

Just found this... Any UK Dragon Den Likers?!

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DMA57361

17:15

right, installing this Win8 malarkey in a VirtualBox VM

badp

Yo superusers

0

Q: How to run Windows 8 dev preview on native hardware without burning?

This blog post explains how to use the diskpart utility on the Windows 7 install DVD/USB to create a virtual drive you can mount and install Windows onto. At next startup, you’ll see Windows 7 in the boot menu! Is this still possible with the Windows 8 dev preview DVD? Can I do this without...

virtualization windows-8 rescue-disk

the pieces are mostly all there, now make a nice comprehensive answer of the whole shebang!

DMA57361

sounds like maybe what @TomWijsman was messing about with earlier... Tom?

I'm too lazy for that - just shove it in a VM, look at the pretty colours then forget about it

badp

I know a friend who tried, it won't work in Virtual Box

DMA57361

... I've got it working of Virtual Box

badp

fine. jeez. :(

I guess the issue is he was using Linux

DMA57361

17:24

it's running right this very second :)

could be, or hardware? or something else? there's a lot of factors here I think

anyway, I've food to eat, bbl

Sathya

@badp I'd check if APIC, VT-x, 2D & 3D acc is enabled for VirtualBox

@badp also, this is the blog post @TomWij mentioned earlier

Tom Wijsman

17:57

Yup, you can even make the VHD from the DVD using diskpart.

But if you use Linux and have no FAT/NTFS store, that's probably the problem...

Tom Wijsman

18:09

How Super Mario should have ended.

William Hilsum

18:39

@TomWijsman Did you see my link the other day to the mario portal thing?! I wonder if they are linked or just a funny coincidence!

Blog bot

19:09

Stack Overflow Blog: Welcome [Valued Associates That Make Up] CHAOS!

Posted by Alex Miller on September 15th, 2011

For the past couple months, we’ve had a new team starting up out of our NY office, CHAOS (or if you’re not into that whole brevity thing: Cheerful Helpful Advocates of Stack Exchange). You’ve probably seen them around some of the sites or run into them in one of the chat rooms – but here’s your official introduction:

CHAOS works directly with Joel and me to come up with, and execute on, new ways to promote all of the new SE sites and bring in new users. Looking at the original job posting we put up, you can get a bit of a feel for what they’ll be doing: …

SgtOJ

Looking for a replacement for Alcohol 120%. Prefer an opensource one and/or one with a minimal interface/gui. Any ideas?

badp

What did Alcohol 120% do that the inbuilt Windows tools won't do?

William Hilsum

@SgtOJ I have been using Slysoft Clone Drive for the past few years... not open source, but, works well... slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

SgtOJ

@WilliamHilsum Thanks. Will try it out.

@badp I have own Alcohol 120% since my XP days. I continued to use with Vista and 7. Since I bought a licenses, if figure I will use it. Now, I am looking for something that is minimal and does everything it did.

badp

19:29

And I asked, what is it that it did that Windows doesn't do

otherwise I can't suggest you

SgtOJ

I don't remember the file types but I ran in to some image file type that it wouldn't open. Also mounting. I want mounting.

slhck

20:14

Does that look like spam to you?

0

A: Need Software to Monitor Internet Uptime

I looked for a program to do this myself - for months! So many choices, all too complicated or expensive. Just found http://www.netuptimemonitor.com. This program just does one thing - the exact thing that you want! It monitors your internet connection, alerts you when it's down and writes a p...

SgtOJ

Definitely... I flagged it. @slhck

slhck

@SgtOJ Neat, I <3 community spam flags

Mokubai

Yep: whois.net/whois/netuptimemonitor.com

Registered to the dude who posted

SgtOJ

lol

slhck

neat, have to remember that @Mokubai

Mokubai

20:23

Gotta love the fact that you can find out who owns a domain

slhck

Well I'm absolutely for that. If you didn't have to register with your address / name, the internet would be a much scarier place than it already is.

Mokubai

Dang was just about to post a helpful comment as it got locked

The guys other answer is slightly better.

slhck

@Mokubai It's because Gareth edited it

I'm gonna flag it anyway

Gareth edited quite a few Spam posts to make them look nice and shiny :P

Mokubai

Left my helpful comment as well. Yay me!

slhck

nice, thanks @Mokubai

Tom Wijsman

20:34

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slhck

woah wth

Tom Wijsman

Keyboard shortcuts. ^^

slhck

I just pressed Enter O_o

Mokubai

@TomWijsman That looks potentially lethal

slhck

@TomWijsman Ahh.. Is the script broken?

I remember just updating it

Mokubai

20:36

The Health and Safety Guy in my head was stricken silent in horror...

Tom Wijsman

Dunno, perhaps your enter made it type out the tag thing. Sounds unreasonable, well, I don't know what could have happened...

@Mokubai Yeah, kinda. Think these are professionals though...

DMA57361

@TomWijsman O_o christ, that was rather close with the dog @ ~0:37

Tom Wijsman

@DMA57361 Oh right, I forgot that...

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman crazy, you can't really do anything other than watch it to the end!

Tom Wijsman

That second video made YouTube suggest the first one.

slhck

20:45

Those races always remind me of this one level in MW2

SgtOJ

What is Haali Media Splitter?

or should make it a SU question?

slhck

@SgtOJ software that enables thumbnails for all video files on Windows I guess

@SgtOJ afterdawn.com/guides/archive/…

Mokubai

@SgtOJ I can explain what it is, it'll just take a while...

slhck

actually it's a directshow filter, now I see

never used that really

Mokubai

It's more of a directshow splitter, it sits above the actual video and audio codecs

SgtOJ

20:53

@slhck Me nether. I am looking for something to show MKV thumbnails.

Will it show MKV preview thumbnails? @Mokubai

Mokubai

@SgtOJ Try the DiVX Codec pack, it enabled mkv thumbnails for me

divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/codec-pack

SgtOJ

@Mokubai okay

@Mokubai Thanks.

Mokubai

I can't update my version of it at the moment as it breaks the audio in my mkv files, think my computer needs a reinstall, something is bugged.

Something about the filter chain is f*cked, and updating divx seems to kill the ffdshow codec that knows how to handle vobis audio

which is weird

I don't think the divx pack is the actual problem though

SgtOJ

That is what I just did. I did a complete reformat and install of Ultimate. I am trying to prepare my computer for its initial backup image. @Mokubai

slhck

I envision a world where every video codec is patent-free and open-sourced, and every OS has native support for every codec.

Mokubai

21:00

@slhck Sounds like a nice place...

SgtOJ

@slhck LOL. I do not share your vision. I wish it, though.

slhck

It's a royal PITA, really.

Mokubai

Software patents are a retarded idea anyway

"Hay, I can haz a patent on how ewe uze ur fingurz to 'touch' buttunz on a skreen!" Apple Patent Lawyer (official application)

slhck

I mean, how ridiculous is it to sue Samsung for making a tablet thin and a rectangle? Should they make it a triangle and extra fat?

Mokubai

And Nokia for coming up with a GSM radio first, and HTC for daring to use touchscreens at all

SgtOJ

21:04

In fairness Microsoft is at it too.

Mokubai

And next they'll sue the bible for using the name "Job" as one of it's characters

SgtOJ

lol

Mokubai

@SgtOJ Yeah, but they're more likely to buy their rivals than sue them

slhck

Seriously.. Nokia had that patent on "how to reduce battery consumption" on a mobile phone, and guess what they got the patent on? Reducing the CPU voltage!

WOW, genious!

SgtOJ

Yep. Or agree to sort of payment plan. I heard that Microsoft is making $15 for every Android sold.

BloodPhilia

21:07

Mokubai

If I owned the patent office most applications would be rejected with a little note saying "stop being a retard and make something. kthxbai!"

BloodPhilia

Nice infographic for you guys!

Mokubai

Very nice

BloodPhilia

:D makes it nice and clear who's suing who!

slhck

@BloodPhilia Nice graphic yeah :D

Anybody knows how I get "fixed" cells in Excel?

Like one column that stays fixed while you can scroll the others?

Mokubai

21:13

@SgtOJ Did the DiVX pack do any good? Just curious if I reinstall my compy whether my video will be playable...

SgtOJ

Just finished it. Right now, no.

Mokubai

@slhck check either just above or below the scroll bar for a really small bar, you can drag that to set the "fixed" area

Might be what you're after

slhck

@Mokubai Ah.. well I'm on a Mac here, and when I drag these, I kinda split the window

Mokubai

Might be that you can only "fix" the top or left hand area iirc...

slhck

So ideally, I'd only have column A fixed and the rest scrollable, but that splitting should do as well

Mokubai

21:17

Or I might be misunderstanding, it does kinda split the areas

slhck

Found it!

Mokubai

-.- Mac stuff looks weird.

slhck

Mac Office looks weird!

Mokubai

It's like it's almost got the Office Ribbon that I know and kinda like, and put those old gray buttons on it....

slhck

yeah, it's really ugly

I don't even want to use it, but … I don't have a choice

Mokubai

21:28

Wow, looking through Google Images for for the Mac version of Office makes me happy I've only used it on Windows. It's like they took the liveliness and usability of the Ribbon and then gave it a grey, boring, corporate-drone style makeover

The little "jelly" buttons in the corner are the most colourful parts of the window...

slhck

Still it's better than what they had before (i.e. 2008)

Mokubai

slhck

The thing is, they didn't take the usual frameworks you would use for creating apps on a Mac, but partially rolled their own stuff. Which makes it worse than any cross-compiled Java app.

You can't even use the default keyboard shortcuts.

Mokubai

Oh the joys of application porting...

slhck

Yeah, Office for Mac was ported straight from hell.

:D

Mokubai

21:35

Anyway, it is late.

Have fun y'all!

slhck

you too, see you @Mokubai

Mokubai

@slhck G'night :)

Simon Sheehan

22:29

Office 2010 is nice!

Journeyman Geek

23:31

@SgtOJ: cccp does it. if you use an intel video card with vista or better, take a look at this imouto.my/watching-h264-videos-using-dxva-clearvideo-version

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