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Journeyman Geek

00:42

@DanielBeck: this is why i'd never use a all in one style system from anyone. Granted anything thats not a laptop, i have to build myself ;p

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek They are somewhat upgradable, but not limited... it really depends on who is buying it.

Inside the iMac..

Journeyman Geek

@SimonSheehan: I can upgrade my current desktop with no tools. At most a regular medium screwdriver

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek I like how there are some new cases with Hot Swap, so you just slide the drive in, boom.

Journeyman Geek

/me loves the case, other than the fact that the metal front grills are rusting, and it has a window on the wrong side

@SimonSheehan: I think mine has 4-5 5 1/2 inch bays, and something like 6 3.5 inch bays, all tooless

*tool-less

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek I love the look of this case newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129087

Journeyman Geek

00:48

Its an older version of this coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6640

Simon Sheehan

Looks nice :O fancy

Journeyman Geek

holy crap, thats a LOT of fans

Simon Sheehan

Yeah :P No cooling issues there

Journeyman Geek

Its quiet ;p

well, ditto, other than needing to blow out the thick carpet of dust on the heatsink every few years

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek Oh god... But they do have these little covers you can pull out, that can easily be cleaned of dust

Journeyman Geek

00:53

@SimonSheehan: let me put it this way. I replace my PSU every 4 years or so on average, cause the ****ing things get dusty

and one day, just drop dead

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek Heh. That happened to my grandma's PC when I was using it. Except instead of dropping dead, it caught fire

If anyone wants to toss a vote in to help close this..

0

Q: Resetting Mac OS X Tiger administrator password without a disk

I'm currently in possession of an eMac G4 running OS X 10.4. I went to install some software, and found I didn't actually have the password. No one seems to know it, and it's not written down anywhere. These were purchased by the school many years ago and are not really maintained, since people j...

Journeyman Geek

oh dear

i've seen EXPLOSIONS

but not fire

... I am an idiot

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek Smoke, a little flame.. the works

Journeyman Geek

/me thinks he might be able to get his PIII running again

most fun i've seen is a voltage regulator explode

Tom Wijsman

02:39

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Randolf Richardson

@TomWijsman Children really are wonderful!

Pearsonartphoto

03:02

Well, I think it's time to get me a new phone battery.

I just had it off of the charger for an hour, used the internet for 2 minutes during that time, and it was 8% down on charge. Earlier today, I had it off for about 5 hours, using internet/phone for maybe 20-30 minutes during that time, and it was down 80%...

studiohack

03:13

anyone know of software (or what it is called) that will let me show slideshows/videos using more than one computer (and screen) at once?

like, in a slideshow, let me have the photo go off one edge and show up on the edge of the next pc?

Randolf Richardson

@studiohack That's an awesome idea (such software is of interest to me too).

Sathya

04:29

morning

studiohack

evening @Sathya

Sathya

hola

Blog bot

05:09

Stack Overflow Blog: Review early, review often

Posted by Sam Saffron on November 20th, 2011

Stack Exchange gets a staggering amount of questions and answers every day.

Our goal is not only to provide great answers to the huge amount of questions, but to create awesome fossils of knowledge that can be consumed by generations to come.

New users on our sites need some extra TLC. Without them we can not grow our communities. However, often they are not aware of the rich formatting capabilities and various rules we enforce. Occasionally, they post “answers” that are not really “answers”. Sometimes they simply do not belong in the community they are trying to participate. Sometimes we are lucky, they are awesome and need to be enticed with a few upvotes. …

Journeyman Geek

@studiohack: that would be awesome,but no one really seems to code multiscreen aware applications :(

nhinkle

05:45

@studiohack you want to use another computer screen as an extension of your screen? I swear I saw something like that once, but it was kludgy.

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Q: Can I use my laptop as a second monitor for my desk computer?

Is it possible to make my laptop's screen be a second monitor for my desk computer?

laptop multiple-monitors

Randolf Richardson

@Sathya Good morning.

Alan B

09:10

@studiohack You could take a look at Synergy: synergy-foss.org

Sathya

@AlanB synergy isn't for a single system, is it?

Journeyman Geek

hmm

could you do it with an extended desktop?

or.. er..

those USB thinggies matrox sells

(since they combine all the monitors they have into one large monitor)

Sathya

Windows' extended desktop mode does indeed do that

Journeyman Geek

ah hah!

win ;p

Sathya

but some apps are finicky about having multiple instances run

DMA57361

09:55

morning all

Sathya

10:53

@DMA57361 morning, how's the new place?

DMA57361

@Sathya hi, and I don't know; I start on Wednesday :)

Sathya

@DMA57361 ah, my bad.

DMA57361

yeah, opted for a couple of days off as a breather / time to hammer out some Uni work

Sathya

sweet

I'm going to take my final set of vacations for the year

2 weeks

Dec 2 - 18

DMA57361

going anywhere? or just time off?

Sathya

11:01

@DMA57361 home +weekend getaway at a coffee estate(hillstation/sweet weather) + off-road rally (not me driving :P) + some more not yet finalized

DMA57361

ah, you beat me to both my questions with that edit :P

Sathya

@DMA57361 hehe :P

DMA57361

sounds good

Sathya

indeed

@RandolfRichardson hi, are you still having problems with your account?

surfasb

11:48

@Sathya Really? I'm curious which ones. Surely it isn't a web browser, VS2010, Office, Acrobat, or Expressions.

Sathya

@surfasb .. you're right, can't recall now :\

surfasb

I think you are more likely to see programs just straight up botch installs and uninstalls. Which is frustrating, considering it is 2011

Ivo Flipse

17:16

Well @DMA57361 I got my RMA granted and a new motherboard should be underway

DMA57361

motherboard? I thought it was a HDD failure?

Ivo Flipse

It was

because of the Sandy Bridge motherboard (or P67 really) S-ATA bug, which haunts 6% of all the P67 Intel motherboards

and it took a while to kick in, but probably caused all the weird error I had over the past year

so perhaps my drive wasn't even dead, just that my OS couldn't reliably connect to the HDD

so perhaps I even formatted it for nothing...

DMA57361

oh right; nasty :/

Randolf Richardson

17:45

@Sathya Yes. I'm unable to login through the Stack Exchange OpenID system.

nhinkle

18:22

@RandolfRichardson one solution would be to just create a new account altogether, and then we could merge your old account into it. Might get rid of the login issues and whatnot.

Randolf Richardson

@nhinkle I seem to be having some problems with Stack Exchange's OpenID system, which I'm beginning to suspect might be where the problem with logging in may have originated from.

Tom Wijsman

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Ivo Flipse

@TomWijsman They have a similar one by the Onion where they have replaced the keyboard with their wheel

►

Boris_yo

18:44

@RandolfRichardson Are you Nick Fury?

@TomWijsman @IvoFlipse So this is a faster way of typing?

Don't know but i prefer to type on a real keyboard instead of smartphone.

Ivo Flipse

@Boris_yo Definitely!

Boris_yo

With smartphone, my productivity suffers.

Ivo Flipse

I hate onscreen keyboards, but I haven't seen a smartphone with a keyboard that I want either

so with the Galaxy Nexus coming out I'll be stuck with one for another year

Boris_yo

What is so special about its keyboard?

Anybody knows what "Enable Desktop Notification" does?

Ivo Flipse

nothing, but the phone looks great :P

If you enable it and I go @Borisyo you'll get a Desktop Notification with my message :)

Boris_yo

18:56

How to disable it?

Ivo Flipse

Click it again?

Boris_yo

Yes. So only because of smartphone's appearance you want to switch?

Ivo Flipse

@Boris_yo Off course not

Boris_yo

Which smartphone you have now?

Ivo Flipse

HTC Desire HD, which I'm passing along to my GF which has my old HTC Hero. So really I'm not doing it for myself ;)

Besides my contract is up for renewal

Boris_yo

19:09

What are you doing with old smartphones?

Ivo Flipse

with my old HTC Hero? Might pass it along to my little cousin

Daniel Beck

@Boris_yo There's a topic on SU somewhere about that

Boris_yo

@IvoFlipse And then it goes on and on to future generations :)

@DanielBeck Topic about what to do with smartphone?

Ivo Flipse

@Boris_yo I can't wait for my next next phone

Boris_yo

Strange but i cannot message @shlck

@IvoFlipse And i cannot wait for my next next next next next next phone.

I have an idea for smartphone app/software! To create something that helps people remember or organize their deeply hidden stuff.

Daniel Beck

19:13

@Boris_yo Yes I think so. Probably closed as off topic though..

@Boris_yo Like what? Bodies?

Boris_yo

@DanielBeck No thats for serial killers/psychos.

@DanielBeck Maybe some of them would be interested however, especially Cannibal Lecter.

Daniel Beck

@Boris_yo Darn. You could have solved a real problem for me there ;)

Boris_yo

@DanielBeck Are you Lecter's relative?

slhck

@Boris_yo What message?

Boris_yo

@DanielBeck How was the brains dinner anyway?

@slhck Okay when i type @s i do not see anything popping up, however when i add l your nickname does.

slhck

19:18

@Borisyo I've had the same problem with not auto-completing usernames as well

oh well

Boris_yo

@slhck Until you added sufficient characters?

slhck

@Borisyo Yup. At least two. But now it works again

Daniel Beck

@Boris_yo Om nom nom

slhck

@DanielBeck Oh by the way, would it be okay to pester you with small questions about information retrieval in the coming weeks in case I get stuck?

Daniel Beck

Since when are chat favorites just a link list? Doesn't anyone here have anything interesting to say?

@slhck Sure

slhck

19:22

I wish the favorites included thumbnails of pictures.

Daniel Beck

@slhck I totally hate helping others with their computer issues, you should know that by now…

slhck

@DanielBeck Haha … if it just were a computer issue!

But actually I managed to implement a crawler for web and local documents, including a crawling tree and a graph representation, in about six or seven hours today.

Boris_yo

@slhck Actually it works but for all other kicknames but yours.

Daniel Beck

@slhck Yeah I know, astronomers and telescopes. But still, close enough for me.

slhck

So I have a better run than a few weeks ago :)

Daniel Beck

19:24

@slhck Nice.

slhck

@Borisyo Hmmm, interesting!

Boris_yo

Software that would allow end users to click on drawers, shelves etc. and see their stuff popping up.

I have a lot of stuff i don't remember where i put so i would use that software to locate.

slhck

@Boris_yo … "What is stacks in OS X?"

Daniel Beck

@slhck What's the origin of your username anyway?

Boris_yo

@slhck Wha?

Daniel Beck

19:26

@slhck A horrible idea

Boris_yo

@slhck I don't have MAC.

slhck

@DanielBeck "soulhack" with the vowels stripped out, named after a music track I really loved years ago

@Borisyo Don't take it seriously, I thought we were playing Jeopardy :P

Daniel Beck

@Boris_yo Click somewhere and see your stuff pop up: lif3.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/MacOSXDockStacks_thumb.jpg

Boris_yo

Well i need pictures of drawers.

Good search.

This could be web based app but charging monthly would be bad idea.

Daniel Beck

@slhck It's not the one I find when googling for that, is it?

slhck

19:29

@DanielBeck The nice thing is that it's not taken anywhere yet. Except for Gmail.

@DanielBeck if you mean this?

Daniel Beck

@slhck That's cool. But your real name is uncommon enough to not be taken either, isn't it?

Boris_yo

Any opinion about this one?

http://www.tinydeal.com/blue-flexible-usb-silicone-waterproof-keyboard-foldable-key-panel-for-pc-laptop-clapkb01-p-2193.html

Daniel Beck

@slhck That's the one. Not my kind of music.

slhck

@DanielBeck Note mine either anymore :)

that was long ago

Daniel Beck

@Boris_yo Will be absolutely horrible to type on.

Boris_yo

19:32

@TomWijsman @Greg How is it going?

@DanielBeck Tried? Personal xp?

slhck

at some point I figured I'd just use my real name online, yes, but the pseudonym sticks around because it's short

Tom Wijsman

Fine, procrastinating, last week was a lot of work...

Boris_yo

@TomWijsman Say, you know why my laptop's battery charges way slower when laptop is on compared to when laptop is off?

Daniel Beck

@slhck I always thought it's like xkcd, some random character sequence not used by anyone else.

slhck

@DanielBeck Haha, yeah.. I thought that would be confusing for others. I think I've missed a few @-replies already because of that.

Daniel Beck

19:34

@Boris_yo No. Just a lack of imagination I guess.

@slhck "Would be"? Am I the only one who didn't get it?

slhck

@DanielBeck ah … most probably you're not the only one! you're the first one who asked though

I should reaaalllllly do something other than sitting in front of the computer all day.

Boris_yo

@slhck Go for a run.

@slhck Bicycling

slhck

no thanks :P

Boris_yo

@slhck Or skipping with 5M HDMI cable

slhck

@Boris_yo That's more like it!

Boris_yo

19:39

@slhck How about changing hard drive for 30 minutes to give it a rest in sauna?

Daniel Beck

Heh. Recently a colleague asked me whether I knew that web site that's on the top of Google results lists all the time with programming questions. And there's even a complete network of sites for all kinds of topics, like cooking and physics!

Boris_yo

One investor contacted me and wanted to by my SuperUser nickname for 300K but i said no!

Who needs 300K bills. I am not his accountant.

slhck

@DanielBeck That's neat. I'm still trying to get my girlfriend to sign up for some sites.

@Boris_yo Uh, what?

I almost felt ashamed of SE when I saw that our course material linked to this question, particularly when it was at its first revision.

Daniel Beck

@slhck So you fixed it. That's what happens with these "Wikipedia vs. real encyclopedias" comparisons, too.

Boris_yo

@slhck Joke gone bad

@DanielBeck You don't like the foundation of Jimmy?

slhck

19:44

@Borisyo haha … well I can imagine some people would pay real money to get rep here.

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Q: error: invalid suffix "b11111111111111111111111111111111" on integer constant

I am using g++ version 4.1.2 on a RHEL 5.7 x86_64 box. This builds just fine with g++ version 4.4.5 which comes with RHEL 6.0 x86_64. What does this compiler error mean and how do you fix it? [mehoggan@hoggant35002 C]$ g++ -Wall -o binary ./binary.cpp ./binary.cpp:2:5: error: invalid suffix "b1...

c++ g++

best error I've ever seen

Daniel Beck

@Boris_yo I don't care that much about it. But it's usually some computer magazine that does the comparison and finds some articles on Wikipedia lacking. After the article is released, they're then usually fixed and expanded within hours, no matter what topic. It's been a while since I read something like that though.

Boris_yo

@slhck Are you a programmer? Is it CURL?

slhck

@Borisyo I'm not a programmer … I write programs from time to time :)

Boris_yo

@slhck Programmers do not write programs?

@slhck I thought it's their job...

slhck

@Borisyo Programming is not my job ;)

I think you could call @DanielBeck a programmer.

Boris_yo

19:48

@slhck What is the difference?

slhck

Apart from that, I don't even consider myself a good programmer. In fact, I don't even like programming.

Boris_yo

@slhck What is the difference between programming and writing programs?

Randolf Richardson

@Boris_yo No. Who's Nick Fury?

Boris_yo

@RandolfRichardson Punisher's sidekick.

slhck

@Borisyo That's not what I said. I said there's a difference between people who call themselves "programmers" and those who (also) write programs.

At least in my opinion there is.

Boris_yo

19:52

@slhck "...and those who actually write programs". Is that what you meant?

slhck

@Borisyo No, but … I mean, it's just a definition thing. Some people can play the guitar, but they wouldn't call themselves a "musician". You know?

Daniel Beck

Sounds more like a hobbyist vs. professional distinction @slhck?

Boris_yo

@slhck Self-called programmers, got it!

@slhck Enthusiasts but not programmers. Got it!

slhck

@DanielBeck In a way. Or at least with regards to passion/dedication about what you're doing.

Just my two cents though.

Boris_yo

@slhck Just as i would call myself smartest technician when actually i lack certifications.

slhck

19:54

@Boris_yo Haha.. well you could be, even without certifications!

Boris_yo

@slhck Would you be ashamed to bring this thing to your most important business meeting if you had no other choice of what to bring?

http://www.tinydeal.com/superman-shaped-4-ports-expanded-usb-20-hub-adapter-for-laptop-notebook-computer-blue-chb-40998-p-33115.html

@slhck In terms of USB hub.

slhck

@Boris_yo Of course I would bring this.

Daniel Beck

@Boris_yo At least they didn't make the obvious... err... slot placement mistakes.

slhck

hahaha

In fact I asked my supervisor if we could buy this webcam

Boris_yo

@slhck This could hurt your reputation and impact on deal.

slhck

19:56

ditech.at/watermark?name=GEEK140

Boris_yo

@slhck Star Trek?

slhck

yup.

Boris_yo

@slhck You like Star Wars less?

Daniel Beck

@Boris_yo Nobody answer this question, it cannot end well!

slhck

I was gonna say …

never mind :P

runs

Boris_yo

19:57

@DanielBeck A war between fans?

Daniel Beck

@Boris_yo Who knows. I just want to keep the peace.

Hey @slhck you no longer have the least pronounceable user name in chat!

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iglvzx

Hello!

Boris_yo

@iglvzx Yes

slhck

Hi @iglvzx

Daniel Beck

@iglvzx Hi

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