Root Access

Burgi

14:00

so our dave should be the one to change his name

or we could make them fight it out

beyond the thunderdome style

Bob

Dave and evaD?

ǝʌɐp?

Dave

who is "our" Dave? @ Burgi

Me or "imposterDave" tee hee hee

Burgi

mind explodes

Bob

@Dave He was referring to Dave

Dave

Ok, thanks @Bob

Dave

14:05

Alright i'm changing my name.. Bear/Bare with me. Lets fix all this madness.

Dave

You can't

Dave is great

It's 4 letters, D is the 4th letter of the alphabet but can be extended to David (5 characters, the sum of the first 2 characters), 4 letters is also some rude names so it's a little naughty, in the UK there is a TV channel AND, people have websites like this thegreatdave.com (not been to so not sure if safe for work)

Burgi

KerbalSpaceDave?

then a month later you will turn round and tell us you are actually a "Frank"

Dave

I am being Frank yes. I'm really Dave

Dave

Im thinking DavidBaseAdmin

DavidBases

Dave

You play the bass?

Dave

14:08

No but i'm a database admin

Dave

hmmmm. That sounds difficult but a job shouldn't name you

What DID you want to be

when you were 10 years or so

Burgi

if another @Burgi arrives I will have to fight them to the death like in highlander

Dave

ha ha ha

Dave

Well i was hoping to be /sbin/dave

but that wont work..

Burgi

hang on are we over on our dave quota?

@Dave @Dave and @DavidPostill

Dave

14:11

Yes, I did consider this, but he is (I think) a David

Burgi

is having 3 of you like having 3 doctor whos?

Dave

was hoping to use dbo.dave too.. :(, not worky

Burgi

the !!dave command will have to be updated

Dave

ah nm.. dbo.dave works not sure how long it takes to propogate though.

Dave

Oh dear me it's wrose... much worse

Burgi

14:20

quit and rejoin?

Dave

superuser.com/users - Search for Dave

Burgi

lol

Dave

There are about 200 of us

All being annoyed by this stupid thing

Dave

Dave's united!, Daves all over.. daves taking over the world..

Dave

ha ha

Journeyman Geek

14:22

lol

Dave

We really need to make the Dave Room. Dave's only

Dave

Not a bad idea actually.

Journeyman Geek

17

Q: How do I ping the right bob?

We have two bobs at the moment. Bob (with the fox avatar) is a long time user, and bob, with the green avatar. I'd like to ping Bob, without bothering bob with my pings. I see two ways to do this - It's trivial for me to get the username - so could we have a way to ping a user by user id numbe...

Burgi

there is another @Burgi!!!!!

Journeyman Geek

@Dave (Both of you!) ^

Dave

14:24

Oh nice, but I can ping the right dave in my chat.. Assuming im dave and i cant ping myself

Dave

Hmmmmm.... I'm not sure with Bob that you'll get enough support. It's only 3 characters and the first character is a b, 2nd in alphabet...

I think you should put a comment explaining it's also affecting Dave

Journeyman Geek

@Dave you can't ping yourself

Dave

Which would explain why I can only ping @Dave

Journeyman Geek

@Dave you could!

Dave

Could... I. He? Wait what?

Journeyman Geek

14:25

@Dave If I reply to one of your posts I only ping you

Dave

hmmmmm I see

so the issue is only in the chat rooms?

Journeyman Geek

hmm

might be an issue on main site if two people of the same name comments

its just more obvious here

Dave

yes, I see that

Burgi

so if i ping one of the legions of @Dave in a comment on the main site do they all get a notification?

the other @Burgi lives near me...

Dave

If you're a @Dave and you're reading this mesage.. come check out root-access in chat on superuser...

Burgi

14:36

i have more internet points than him though!

Dave

I'm thinking that we need to alert all... Hi @Steve

ha ha ha, havoc

I don't know any Steve's

:)

May be I am the evil twin....

Burgi

told you

Journeyman Geek

lol

naw

you need to be involved in the thread somehow

amusingly superpings work per user

so If I modping a dave, I ought to get the right dave, and not all the daves

Dave

ha ha ha ha

I assume we normal folk can't do @id or similar?

Journeyman Geek

nope

Dave

14:47

OK

allquixotic

hi

Dave

Is there a strong use case for having non-mod pings which are in chat pinging outside of chat? I mean, if I ping some one here, I'd expect the icon beside the text box to flash (as it does) but not put an alert in my inbox

Journeyman Geek

I'd like ping by chat id in addition to ping by username ;p

hi ~~@notdave~~ @allquixotic

Dave

Or, can I turn off chat notifications?

Journeyman Geek

not sure :(

Dave

14:52

0

Q: Multiple names means multiple notifications

When people chat in chat rooms, with the same name, our inboxes get full. It can also happen if 2 people with the same name reply to the same post (I think) but appreciate this is not common. This has been discussed many times on the SE sites. Can we have an option within our profile to turn on...

feature-request

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek :D PUPPY

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic did I mention what happened with the roomie and the air con install guys? ;p

allquixotic

I just got a BSOD in usbaudio.sys - first time

@JourneymanGeek no O_O

Journeyman Geek

Air con installer was outside on the ledge. Roomie decided it was too dangerous. Barked at him (from a safe distance), mom said it was fine. Huffed and went somewhere else where people weren't that crazy ;p

allquixotic

lol

funny that he was a safety conscious little guy

Journeyman Geek

15:00

he hates heights

(and as such, humans ought to stay on the ground too, where its safe)

DavidPostill

15:16

@Dave Nothing wrong with cygwin ;)

Dave

@Dave "Added note This is also a potential vulnerability related to privacy where users are able to easily monitor others actions to know if people are logged on the network and gives the user a front row seat to monitor."

DavidPostill

@Dave Yep, I'm David. Anybody who calls me Dave gets a Scouse Kiss ;)

dbo.dave

LMFAO

DavidPostill

@Dave There's 68 pages of David and only 29 pages of Dave

dbo.dave

97 pages worth of Dave/David goodness.

DavidPostill

15:26

@JourneymanGeek Aren't you on the 29th floor or something? Did he wear a safety harness?

tereško

15:58

i-am-so-sorry youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWeueTF8l82THrHwihtcmhQdjcBQBXjT

HackToHell

16:13

Starting in 90s, NSA used underwater drones, delivered by submarine, to tap undersea cables. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmatkinson https://t.co/ASfgshBEuX

Tweeted by csoghoian on March 31, 2016 at 2:33 PM

kerbalspacebecky

@Burgi I did not such thing. Stop spreading rumours!

!!dave @dbo.dave

ChatBot John Cavil

trouts dbo.dave around a bit with a large @Dave!

trouts @dbo.dave around a bit with a large @Dave!

dbo.dave

lol

ChatBot John Cavil

@kerbalspacebecky Please enter some output

kerbalspacebecky

!!learn shoedave '<> guitars \@'+"$0" around a bit with @Dave's shoe!"

ChatBot John Cavil

16:23

@kerbalspacebecky Command shoedave learned

kerbalspacebecky

!!shoedave Dave

ChatBot John Cavil

@kerbalspacebecky Input not matching /guitars/. Help: User-taught command: @'+"$0" '<>

kerbalspacebecky

urgh

!!forget shoedave

ChatBot John Cavil

@kerbalspacebecky Command shoedave forgotten.

@kerbalspacebecky Command shoedave learned

kerbalspacebecky

!!shoedave dbo.dave

ChatBot John Cavil

16:24

@kerbalspacebecky Input not matching /guitars/. Help: User-taught command: @'+"$0" '<>

kerbalspacebecky

!!forget shoedave

ChatBot John Cavil

@kerbalspacebecky Command shoedave forgotten.

kerbalspacebecky

I give up

Bob Ebert

hey! Do you guys think the new insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/29/… is worth it?

kerbalspacebecky

Again.

!!help

ChatBot John Cavil

16:25

@kerbalspacebecky Information on interacting with me can be found at this page

kerbalspacebecky

!!> ['hello', 'world'].join(' ')

ChatBot John Cavil

@kerbalspacebecky "hello world"

kerbalspacebecky

!!> ['@', $0].join(' ')

ChatBot John Cavil

@kerbalspacebecky "ReferenceError: Can't find variable: $0"

kerbalspacebecky

> This wiki assumes (for demonstration purposes) that your username is Dave, your user-id is 5318008 and the message you sent has an id of 42.

lol

dbo.dave

16:32

Where are you reading that? lol

kerbalspacebecky

!!learn shoedave "<> guitars @$0 around a bit with @Dave's shoe!"

ChatBot John Cavil

@kerbalspacebecky Command shoedave learned

kerbalspacebecky

!!/shoedave test

ChatBot John Cavil

guitars @test around a bit with @Dave's shoe!

kerbalspacebecky

-_-

dbo.dave

16:33

:D

kerbalspacebecky

Three days I've been trying to get it to do that and all I had to do was type / when calling the command -_-

!!forget dave

ChatBot John Cavil

@kerbalspacebecky Command dave forgotten.

kerbalspacebecky

!!learn dave "<> trouts @$0 around a bit with a large @Dave!"

ChatBot John Cavil

@kerbalspacebecky Command dave learned

kerbalspacebecky

!!/dave dbo.dave

ChatBot John Cavil

16:34

trouts @dbo.dave around a bit with a large @Dave!

kerbalspacebecky

!!/dave kerbalspacebecky

ChatBot John Cavil

trouts @kerbalspacebecky around a bit with a large @Dave!

dbo.dave

best command ever

Wish we could rate them.

kerbalspacebecky

So I save on typing the '@' but have to type a '/' instead. Net saving: None

dbo.dave

Or have some sort of karma system in place. Where we can add karma points for users in chat.

kerbalspacebecky

16:35

You mean a bit like the reputation system on the main site?

dbo.dave

yea but managed by the bot for users that come in rooms and say unique interesting things.

like !!addkarma @kerbalspacebecky +1

!!karmaleaders

Karma Leaderboards
kerbalspacebecky - 9001
DavidPostill - 100
Dave - 321
dbo.dave - -3000

etc

ChatBot John Cavil

@dbo.dave That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

kerbalspacebecky

My karma level is over nine thousand?!

2

dbo.dave

You saw what i did there =P

DavidPostill

@dbo.dave Yeah, you called me not-interesting ;)

dbo.dave

16:40

Oh it was just random numbers.. Well 100 isnt that random..

DavidPostill

@dbo.dave Why don't you write a query that sums up the number of starred messages we all have (for some value of star==interesting)? ;)

dbo.dave

easy peazy

DavidPostill

I would hope so for a DBA

Otherwise your fired ;)

allquixotic

data.stackexchange.com

dbo.dave

totally writing one now there..

brb

bwDraco

16:43

anandtech.com/show/10211/intel-cloud-day-2016-live-blog-9am-pt

I know cloud and datacenter is priority one, but Broadwell-E can't be far off.

dbo.dave

(I dont know the db model yet but im looking at it)

I dont see any part of the model related to chat / transcript

:(

kerbalspacebecky

Yay 9919 in Agar, and troll'd

dbo.dave

16:58

no chat within db model

kerbalspacebecky

!!shoedave dbo.dave

ChatBot John Cavil

guitars @dbo.dave around a bit with @Dave's shoe!

kerbalspacebecky

Look harder.

Burgi

welp

dbo.dave

PostHistory, posts, Comments tables dont have chat communication within them.

Burgi

16:59

the company has cancelled my project

kerbalspacebecky

Is that a good or bad thing?

Burgi

bad for me

anyone hiring a web dev in the north west of england?

3

kerbalspacebecky

Wait cancelled project = fired?

Burgi

yup

kerbalspacebecky

o_0

My condolences.

Burgi

17:02

they've been dragging their feet for ages over implementing it

but thanks

The company has decided that there is not a business requirement for an intranet/sharepoint

so they've canned it

DavidPostill

@Burgi :/

Burgi

meh, it happens

i'm more pissed off at myself for not having a backup plan

i should have started looking a couple of months ago when they stalled deployment for the nth time

Oliver Salzburg

17:27

So I'm working on a small C# application right now and it was compiling and running just fine at work. I come home and pull the latest updates and Visual Studio refuses to run the application. It says some namespace wouldn't exist in the referenced assembly, even though it was right there

I started messing around a bit, renaming things, removing the references, adding it back and suddenly, it started working

So, naturally, I check the diff...

Mokubai

@Burgi What kind of work you after?

Just web dev or related fields?

Boris_yo

Is Ancronis 2016 the best for cloning? That's what I keep reading.

It's for $15 now...

Rahul Basu

@Boris_yo Which OS?

Boris_yo

W7

Ben N

Personally, I use a ye olde version of Ghost that comes with Win8 PE SE

Rahul Basu

17:44

If it's a lenovo, then it probably came preinstalled with a Cyberlink one-key recovery software

I use this and find it to be good enough...

@Boris_yo there are quite a few giveaways for acronis online though...

Boris_yo

@RahulBasu Is it where you have to sell your soul to win?

Rahul Basu

umm.. no

allacronis.com/acronis-coupons.php

Burgi

@Mokubai ideally web dev but the last 12 months i've been supporting the partial rollout of SharePoint. prior to that i was 2nd line helpdesk support

Rahul Basu

@JourneymanGeek you have a 'link my next chat message as a reply to this' option...

Boris_yo

@RahulBasu newegg.com/Product/…-EMC-033116-Index--BackupUtili‌ties-_-32200094-S0D

Burgi

17:52

i think this link will show my careers.SE profile....

Rahul Basu

@Burgi nope. 404 error

Burgi

damnit

they've totally changed the careers.SE site, its now not easy to share the profile

Rahul Basu

Sorry, wrong pic...

Is that a bug?

dbo.dave

@Burgi: check out fraedom.com/current_vacancies

@Burgi: Its a subbranch of my company that I work for.. I know they're hiring over there in the UK.

@Burgi: fraedom.com/careers/190/senior-web-developers

Burgi

thanks, i'll check it out

heh! auckland

dbo.dave

17:59

Is that far??

Burgi

its in new zealand

dbo.dave

Oh

Guess their website is garbage. It doesnt work right.

You should fix it.

Burgi

but thanks anyway

lol

stackoverflow.com/cv/burgi

i need to change my gravater

dbo.dave

Your site's awesome :D

meep

Rahul Basu

@dbo.dave I was about to say the same thing :P

Burgi

18:06

you know how it is, almost everything in life is suddenly more important than your own website

Rahul Basu

@Burgi Getting such good domains and using them for nothing should be illegal :/

@Burgi Although I know the feeling, I haven't updated mine in ages

Burgi

well i guess now that i am banned from entering the office i could update it

actually 1 second

dbo.dave

@RahulBasu: I have some good ones.. ;]

Burgi

nope my account is disabled

dbo.dave

@Burgi: Ill call over the UK tomorrow and see if we have anything @ our main branch.

Offices are closed

Burgi

18:11

tbh @dbo.dave i think your main office is out of my reach

DavidPostill

@dbo.dave It's only just gone 5pm here! ;)

Burgi

@DavidPostill its 1900

dbo.dave

@Burgi: Google HRG on maps.. you tell me. www.hrgworldwide.com

DavidPostill

@Burgi So it is. Time flies :/

Burgi

what is really annoying is the fact i have uncommited code sat on my local PC in the office

dbo.dave

18:12

@burgi: How far is...

55 King Street
Manchester
M2 4LQ

from you?

Burgi

20 minutes, thats very close

dbo.dave

Thats one of our main offices where i work in the UK

Farnborough, London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leicestershire, Manchester

Burgi

thanks guys

i honestly didn't expect you all to be so supportive

sorry for doubting you all

Ben N

<3

Burgi

i do need to go blow up some spaceships for a little while

Mokubai

18:17

@Burgi Sadly it looks like our lot up north want electronics guys and managers rather than web devs, sorry.

I can have a look at the internal boards in the morning, see if they say anything different

Burgi

@Mokubai thanks for looking, i appreciate it

i'll be back in a couple of hours probably

DavidPostill

@Burgi linkedin has 98 php labelled jobs in manchester

Mokubai

Welp, April 1st is here already it seems...

Journeyman Geek

18:39

@DavidPostill Yeah, he was wearing a safety harness

damn

its april 1?

bwDraco

19:34

Looks like I'm going to rep-cap for the second day in a row.

160 rep with more than four hours to go.

DavidPostill

19:47

@bwDraco

Journeyman Geek

o0

Journeyman Geek

20:02

io9.gizmodo.com/… seriously?

bwDraco

20:21

Welp, dropped my phone, dented the bezel a bit, but screen did not shatter (multiple shallow scratches, though). I've ordered a case for it.

Michael Frank

@bwDraco That's like buying condoms because your partner gets pregnant...

DavidPostill

20:47

What is it with everybody dropping their phones? I've had 3 different phones in 10 years and never dropped one once, or several different iPods ...

3

dbo.dave

i drop mine all the time. My kid throws it around the house.. Everything is still awesome with it.

Michael Frank

Dave's phone^

DavidPostill

Nah, it's one of these

Michael Frank

21:04

!!shoedave

ChatBot John Cavil

guitars 0 around a bit with @Dave's shoe!

dbo.dave

hehe

DavidPostill

7

Q: Can I ride the unicorn? If not, can I kill the unicorn?

I'd like to ride the unicorn as pictured both in the ad on the right as well as in the game main menu: The unicorn seems to be an unkillable monster and I am unable to defeat it; I have to either dodge or use the photon blaster to set him back a few inches. I tried goomba stomping it, tried c...

unikong

Michael Frank

twitter.com/S_Jones76/status/714390814294732800/photo/1

ruh-roh!

DavidPostill

lol

Daniel

21:12

WOW

Burgi

22:14

@DavidPostill thanks i was going to check that in the morning

DavidPostill

@Burgi Good luck!

Ben N

22:43

I hope people will eventually stop assuming that everything in a computer with a non-English name is a virus

-1

Q: Weird-looking Registry entry under HKCU\Software\Classes (is it a virus)?

I wanted to set Photoshop as my default image viewer (need a workaround because Windows doesn't recognize it), so I have to edit my Registry. In the tutorial on the official Adobe website, they say to navigate to the location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\Photoshop.exe\shell\o...

windows virus malware

bwDraco

23:17

Two more answer upvotes to hit the rep cap, but less than 45 minutes to go!

bwDraco

23:31

!!/meta

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco Please don't ask to ask; if you simply ask your actual question, we will help you if we know the answer or can help you find it. This is much faster and simpler than asking if it's OK to ask. As a rule, it is always OK to ask in this channel. Please go ahead.

ChatBot John Cavil

23:59

I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.

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