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00:04
You're missing the DOSBox/Turbo C++ world in which int is still very much 16 bits. I hate to say it, but if you're going to write about "today's cross-platform world", you can't ignore the entire Indian subcontinent. — Lightness Races in Orbit 2 days ago
@LightnessRacesinOrbit The entire Indian subcontinent writes code in Turbo C++ targeting DOSBox? Why?immibis yesterday
@immibis: I don't know :( — Lightness Races in Orbit yesterday
lol
Cause that's what the textbook is in.
 
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01:46
@Bob Why on earth would you want to target DOSBox? You might as well just build code for GCC under Linux...
@bwDraco I think that's a semi joke
Also I wouldn't be suprised if there were a ton of win98 boxen floating around
02:16
Heh, I had efficient, actually useful tech support from the cable company
They were like "how's it connected? No sound? I'm going to reset the device. Swap the connectors over from the right set to the middle set" and it worked
Bob
Bob
@bwDraco You seem to be ignoring the large quantity of legacy code.
Why the hell would there be this much DOS code in production that hasn't been migrated to Win32?
Bob
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I'm currently in the middle of migrating a system originally written ~2007. It's ridiculously difficult to maintain compatibility sometimes. And this is a webapp on a mostly-backwards-compatible platform, on top of a mostly-backwards-compatible framework.
Sawmills!
Bob
Bob
Migrating legacy code without breaking things is by no means a simple task.
Sometimes, migrations don't make sense.
Other times, it's best to just go with what you know.
That particular comment was a joke that made exaggerations for the sake of, y'know, a joke.
But unless you're willing to pay for the time and effort required to migrate code for often-negligible gains, it ain't gonna happen.
That said, everyone knows Indian programmers love targeting Java 1.4.
(that, too, was a joke)
 
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05:12
@Bob All engineering courses in India use Turbo C++...
@RahulBasu :(
OLD COUNTRY. WHY. YOU. DO. THIS.
for some reason, I am not even a little bit surprised
Bob
Bob
05:30
@RahulBasu Wait, seriously? O_O
05:46
Oy vey. Got carried away in Skyrim.
Alright. Back to work.
06:00
(20 million players can't be wrong...)
 
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07:14
Yep @Bob
I refused and used GCC
They took some marks off in my lab exams -.-
@RahulBasu What year ?
Bob
Bob
@HackToHell Ok, I've seen a lot of outdated crap being used (and taught?) in uni courses, but it's odd how widespread you guys are implying this particular one is :P
Well the people who teach Computer Science in lame colleges(like the one I study in) are the ones who could not get an job at an company due to their poor skills
And this person continues to teach what he learnt
This process goes on
And ta da Turbo C
Bob
Bob
@HackToHell "lame colleges" => diploma factories?
Yeah I suppose they mean the same
There are 552 college in my state alone and only ~10 are good
In the entire state
And it's impossible for the average person to get in
Bob
Bob
Or, not quite as bad as the technical definition of a diploma mill but not that far off apparently...
07:23
if it's based on merit and then there are these super expensive places to study that have good teachers cause they charge you that much
Bob
Bob
@HackToHell To be fair, a lot of the time you can effectively teach concepts even with outdated tools.
But at a certain point the difficulty in setting up the toolchain makes it an ... ineffective ... teaching tool.
Yeah, problem is no one knows anything :/
Good people in IT make a lot more $$ in companies than in teaching
So it's pretty rare to find someone who's a good teacher
In my college there is exactly one person .-.
That's the sorry state of the Indian Education System
Worst part is I have to code on paper to get marks
Write a program to do blah blah comes up in the exam
Which sucks
@HackToHell the lame colleges take capitation fees too, right?
Bob
Bob
@HackToHell Also, eh, I'm pretty sure we were on some early-ish version of gcc 3.x in the introductory uni courses
(the more specialised courses sometimes had more up to date servers)
No biggie. As long as you aren't intending to learn c++1x or something.
@HackToHell Heh. That was basically the high school exams. Uni... depends on the course. Some were computer-based exams, others paper. Usually the paper ones accepted some level of pseudocode and was, again, more for demonstrating concepts than writing a full working program.
The high school ones were murder on the wrist... damn all-caps crap.
Now you have me wanting to double-check which version was installed, but I don't have access to the cse servers anymore :\
07:40
@JourneymanGeek yeah
@Bob I simply sshed into my server and used the default gcc in my server ^_^
Bob
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Bleh. When your assignments are source submissions compiled by the marking script, that ain't gonna work.
07:56
Here, you have to simply compile and show em xD
There's no marking/grading thingy
Bob
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@HackToHell plagiarism?
@Bob is encouraged
Basically, the staff are like, if you can't get it to work
Download it off the internet
yes education is horrible here
Bob
Bob
...
That explains so many SO questions
And answers too...
"Here use this code" <500 lines of crap with no explanation and shitty formatting>
@Bob i'm expected to learn turbo c++ by eleventh grade
my teacher pronounces alpha as ulpha :(
not kidding
even the premier unis teach turbo c++
i know a guy who's IIT prof punished him beacuse apparently, ruby is not a programming language
!!wiki IIT
IIT may refer to: A number of technology higher education institutes: Indian Institutes of Technology, a group of 19 higher education institutes in India Illinois Institute of Technology, a private Ph.D.-granting research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA IIT Madrid (Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica), the research institute of the ICAI School of Engineering at the Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid, Spain Indiana Institute of Technology, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA Informatics Institute of Technology, in Wellawatta, Sri Lanka Inha Institute of Technology, the parent institution of...
08:11
!!wiki Indian Institutes of Technology
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are autonomous public institutes of higher education, located in India. They are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 which has declared them as institutions of national importance, and lays down their powers, duties, and framework for governance etc. The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 lists sixteen institutes located at Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mumbai, Roorkee, Bhubaneswar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Mandi, Patna, Ropar and Varanasi. Each IIT is an autonomous institution, linked to the others through...
^yep. those guys
What year/class you in @RahulBasu
I'm in grade 10
^LOLOLOLOL
At school level, the primary reference book is Sumita Arora and Yashwant Kanetkar. They never explicitly state the right compiler to use. Moreover most of their screen shots are turbo c++ ones.
2. The teachers that are appointed in schools are from early Win 98 era. They are both familiar and comfortable in using turbo C++. Therefore, students are also forced to adapt to this.
So, my school life is going to be pretty depressing the next few years :(
08:29
hey
got to go printer shopping today
@RahulBasu Not ICSE?
I had java for 8,9,10
@HackToHell CBSE
I was in ICSE...
CBSE has coding from 11th, not 9th :(
Oh sucks
08:44
ikr
09:26
@RahulBasu Meh, school's for the paper
You learn more outside school
10:07
User superuser.com/users/591928/md-mokter-hosssain is spamming his blog across multiple sites.
@Psycogeek Tried Silkypix Developer Studio? I have it on CD which came with Panasonic Lumix DMC-G5. Maybe it should be enough than buying Lightroom.
@DavidPostill he's sitting ona week's suspension.
@JourneymanGeek Hopefully the Ask Ubuntu mods will do the same ;)
They've deleted the post ;p
They might just nuke thr account
Yep, account nuked.
@JourneymanGeek lol. His blog is all about cracked software ;)
10:18
oh
In that case...
I didn't even bother to click
lol
do we even want links to them on chat?
Indexed and all that ;p
@JourneymanGeek Please delete it ;)
@RahulBasu did it for yer link too.
thanks ...
10:44
I need to find my face
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Try looking in a mirror
10:57
lol
@DavidPostill it's funny how he claims his website is DMCA Protected
My face is DMCA protected.
ah... I see...
@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Only if you travel to the US or are inside a US embassy.
12:08
wut o_O
,_,
I just got a fair amount of upvotes for a trivial answer.
Wondering if I hit a HNQ
Speaking of which
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A: SCSI-II to SCSI-III (and viceversa) compatibility

SamGibsonBe careful! Your question is (understandably) talking about SCSI, due to the connectors, but the MezIO-D220 card is not a SCSI HBA (it is a digital I/O module) and so any decisions made on the basis of SCSI compatibility are not applicable here :-( I also notice that you don't mention exactly w...

this is a scary awesome answer.
12:38
how about that imagemagick CVE..??? nice one huh @Bob?
Bob
Bob
oh, more fancy names
sucks that im having to disable uploads of pictures on my forums.
brb
Bob
Bob
GOOMHR
13:16
@XKCD That's so atrocious it's almost beautiful
13:27
Yup
HNQed again ._.
@ThatBrazilianGuy I've needed at least one of that before.
@JourneymanGeek ...*at least* one of those?
Let me guess... CPU temperature and....
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to work out which one it is...
OK, I give up
(I kid, I kid)
@JourneymanGeek is now known as @JourneymanCSAuthor
13:29
@ThatBrazilianGuy ;p
I've never done CS ;p
I've... I've dropped out of uni. -_-''
@ThatBrazilianGuy happens.
Yeah. I know.
(I did it twice ._.)
To be fair, the "analists" with "higher-education" are usually the clueless users or management-oriented types. A really talented colleague of mine gratuated recently and jokes constantly that now he can't work because he forgot everything.
13:32
If you want to go back, make sure you're mentally ready
I had a rough time my third attempt but graduated
I've just signed up for the entrance exam for an IT course in an uni. It's an online course. Not that it's easier, it's just that there are no uni public courses that won't require full time, and can't afford private unis.
Yeah
That's one nice thing about rivercorp and shifts.
In theory if I wanted to do another degree, scheduling for it shouldn't be implausible if I did it part time like my last one
@JourneymanGeek rivercorp?
@ThatBrazilianGuy I have an interview with a company that's named after a river, a home of a spider, and what you have to do to a car every year or so.
NileNestReplace?
SanFranciscoForestPayInsurance?
Strange names for tech companies, indeed.
@JourneymanGeek If I wait until I'm mentally ready, then I'm never coming back =/
13:42
I rushed my second time
I had some major issues at the time tho, personal life wise
Yeah, I had some too when I dropped out. Maybe not the single reason, but played a big role.
Anyways, I'm in a much better place now :)
13:59
Yeah
And I couldn't get a job at all without a degree
Its marginally easier with one ;)
14:40
I found getting the 'degree class' jobs harder
but randomly drop that you've got a CS degree on other jobs, and they suddenly interested
tho uni was what, 8 yrs ago now
hardly feels relevent
Sorry to be a pain with a question. I have Windows 2012 Server, and when I go to jam-software.com/spamassassin it updates me to jam-software.de (the server is in Germany). My Region Settings all shows as set to UK, as does language
What else do I need to do?
Or is this something not to do with the COntrol Panel settings and some web trickery?
@Dave it may well be checking on many many things
geoip stuff is bad at best
what country it think you're in ?
It thinks I'm in German
Germany
Also, hit that link for directly to the 'english' version
Which is where my server is
14:46
@Dave on the whatismyip.com site
I do @di
ah I see, well that explains it
I do @djsmiley2k and it automatically redirects me to www.jam-softare.de....
Bob
Bob
naughty webserver
Bob
Bob
14:46
trying to geoip
should be using Accept-Language header
but it probably isn't
yes, this is my guess as weell
I guess when it works it's great but when it doesn't it's a pain.
It also means when you click download, I can only download the duetsh/englisch version :(
Bob
Bob
download it locally and upload to the server
and send an angry email to the server operator
Yes, could do actually... tha'ts a great ida
idea
wait... what?? It's now doing it on my local P
C
PC
Is this coincidence, if you can following the link jam-software.com/spamassassin and click download (you get to a page, nothing downloads) are the options for German
I mean, is that the only thing they offer and I'm just getting confused
Sigh... I think it's that
Bob
Bob
@Dave Yea, multilingual binaries.
Probably not a problem..?
15:25
YEEHAW
FiOS is being installed on my street \O/
Bob
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O_O
Took them long enough!
ugh
attemptnig to play soase on my laptop... cursor's missing :S
15:40
ended up buying a canon
Bob
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watch where you point it
Bob
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@DavidPostill yea, I was gonna make a book/movie-canon joke but couldn't think of one
we also went to pc world :S
man
those are still around?
15:48
in the UK yes
I lived there for a bit ;p
the staff were useless of course and only there to act as insurance sales people
@JourneymanGeek at pc world? ;)
but it was useful to let my mother prod, poke and physically examine the printers
15:51
@Burgi no, in the UK
;p
i guessed, i was being facetious :)
i'll type up my observations for HWrecs later
ahh
k
yeah
I tend to get my printers at the local equivilent of that
(though I think my canon's hitting 5+ years or so)
easily
creative's a patent troll now :(
basically:
hp - solid build but all the printers missed one or 2 requirements
epson - we skipped the aisle even though i tried to insist we at least look at them
brother - ticked all the boxes but the build quality felt flimsy and the display models looked shabby
samsung/other - poor selection and not enough models to make an informed choice
canon - solid, ticked all the boxes, looked surprisingly unprinterish but is a good way, slightly on the expensive side
I think our current one's a pixma MX868
Old model, but we've typically had good experiences with them
My next printer has to have refillable ink tanks tho
they had a £45 canon MFP which I would have bought if it were me that wanted a printer (i rarely print)
there was a hp laser MFP that was amazing, but the cost of the toner meant we skipped it
roughly £159 for a colour laser printer!
i'm fairly certain that if my mum was still working i could have convinced her to get one of the laser printers
16:20
much as the iPod supposedly duped Zen players a decade ago
Wow, I never realised that was an actual thing, as such just a thing I'd point out
PC world still sells old school style mouse pads
for like £8 each
oh, £3.99 on the webby, still terrible but not as bad as they were in store
16:54
love schooling our sysadmins
@GuitarShoeDave Do elaborate... I'm applying for a sysadmins job
sure
People complaining that a website is taking forever to load a page on a IIS server that connects to the same environment as the old..
the old has no issues which accesses the same exact database.
yet when i reproduce the same issue on the new.. the server responds with a redirect page for the page that doesnt have the same issue as the old.
when the redirect occurs.. the site never answers the request... it just sits there after the request is sent to the server.
socket open
ive ever attempted to change the referrer header to reissue the request (incase if the server's expecting a FQDN)
and it still just sits there.
told them its a configuration issue.
with either the customfieldlist.aspx page's datasource (potentially) or something misconfigured in the web.conf file if it inherits its connection strings from it.
im the dba
im not supposed to be doing this work.
But its been going on for weeks, so I was like whatever, ill do their work for them.
17:07
so yeah fun stuff.. I should teach classes on HTTP fundermentals.. teaching client / server responses... and how to manipulate and troubleshoot requests.
Its really not rocket science (then again, im sure you can agree)
i know @RahulBasu wants me to teach him some stuff... Maybe I could make a profit doing it.
i learned everything reading rfc's though.
off to lunch
:)
17:21
would you do them as twitch or something?
Burgi wants to learn what?
tergiversation!
not sure, more advanced SQL stuff would be interesting.
maybe it is something SE should consider doing. getting high rep community members to do basic video lessons over some sort of web meeting
the ones on the microsoft virtual academy are really good
18:01
Not really a good fit for a Q&A site
they were doing that documentation thing iirc
18:42
Hey I'm not sure if this is the 'right' place to ask; I'm having an issue connecting to a particular site (facebook). And it happened when I put a bunch of domains in my hosts file (windows; redirect to localhost) to prevent ads from showing in my browser. If I tracert facebook.com, it goes there: ad.doubleclick.net [127.0.0.1].
Why does the address resolve to localhost?
so facebook is loading localhost?
just wondering why you aren't using a traditional ad blocker?
@Burgi Apparently!
Hmm, well I find it simpler this way...
is ad.doubleclick.net in your host file?
Yes, it's the first one on the list. There was another one above that before, so I commented it out, but then the 'issue' transferred on the now first again.
18:58
what does a ping do? how big is your list? is this on your own computer and your the only one setting up blocks ? or a work computer ? are there any normal resolves in the list or only blocking ones?
C:\Windows\system32>ping facebook.com

Pinging facebook.com [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
cool, I mean thats wrong :-) first assumption would be faceybook is in the list somewhere.
There are 57 items on my hosts list
It's my office computer, I'm the only one using it, and I don't think there is anything fancy set up in there (network-wise).
facebook is not in the list...
I've commented out everything, I'll try to reboot to make sure it's still not working and that it's effectively that that makes it not work :S
brb
next test is to revert back to a "stock" hosts. flush the dns , you do flush the dns? then test again. when working with hosts block it can help to disable (at least temporily) the "DNS Client" in windows services, which is the cache.
And given all the information , this would make an usable , and probably solvable question on the main site.
in a question you could provide a percentage of the Host list, which would include the Top stuff, and a few blocks below that. The output of the tracert. what happens when you actually try and visit there. and the entier router logs :-) ok maybe not that last one.
The other probable solution is that whomever is running your DNS services has added the facebook.com zone to it and set it to resolve to 127.0.0.1
what's your primary / secondary nameserver?
run->cmd.exe
type
nslookup
and then facebook.com
and paste the output
Example...

C:\Users\dt>nslookup
Default Server: pri.haveachallopa.net
Address: 2.3.4.5

> facebook.com
Server: pri.haveachallopa.net
Address: 2.3.4.5

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: facebook.com
Addresses: 66.220.156.68
my pri is pri.haveachallopa.net
19:17
i would just install ABP...
19:28
I'm back
Apparently, and I asked a colleague, they blocked facebook without telling us.
my hosts file is now empty and I still can't connect to it.
Then i call you on your testing method , bad tester :-) test before, make changes, test after changes. Backup everything.
In fact, I commented out everything in there, I just need to put everything back now.

Yeah, I should have done that basic test first.
@Burgi and adblocker only works with a browser? what does one do if the browser itself needs to be blocked?
@GuitarShoeDave It looks like the address for facebook is in fact 127.0.0.1...
@Burgi I think ABP slows down the browsing a bit, and I read/heard that it sometimes "forgets" to block "some" ads..?!
cool then it's being done by your provider.
its not you.
19:37
@AlexandreVaillancourt that is an option in the plugin
@GuitarShoeDave By my employer, yes :) It's not me. That's unfortunate, I would have needed facebook in the couple of next months... Oh well!
@Burgi I'll maybe reconsider, then!
@AlexandreVaillancourt
hosts blocking can also be "slow", the way microsoft systems load the hosts into the cache (or something) is some terribly stupid method. with the dns cache on a huge hosts list can slow the booting/initilising process down by minutes, not seconds. Therin the dns cache has to be turned off and one is back to getting DNS off the web each time, which is slow depending on how fast the web dns then is.
and depending on the browsers own dns caching , caches cache can , and more endless crasyness.
@Burgi Oh there seems to be a bunch of features in there!
@Psycogeek Can this be why it's slow to connect my laptop to the wifi?
@AlexandreVaillancourt it happens when you have a huge list, like 1000 and more.
mine is like 9 megs now :-Phht
19:53
Oh wow, ok, I'm not there yet :P<
I can only assume (something like) windows transferring them like , onsies and twosies , and had no intention of (and has even said so) having it be a blocking list thing.
@Psycogeek @Burgi @GuitarShoeDave Thank you all for the help provided!
np just busy over here
any time
I shouldn't have to wait 7min for a docker image to download
20:09
i heard that ISPs are now caching Speed tests, so now none of them mean anything :-)
(other than your speed to your isp, and your own equiptment to them)
@ThatBrazilianGuy how big is a docker image? you should be able to download a whole dvd in less than 7 minutes , assuming that speed was also provided by the server your getting it from, and through and round the world, and . . .
!!doge traffic,shaping
     wow
                           such traffic
many shaping
dont suppose wget does a 50 connection download? that is always an evil way to beat the heck out of servers, and walk on top of other poor users in the slow queue.
20:17
@Psycogeek This particular image I'm trying to get is 95 MB.
@Psycogeek What's a "50 connection download"?
Dont quite know how it works, but a downloader that starts the download of files in 2 places, 2 connections to the server, each one pulling half the file.
95 megs isnt a reason to use it though.
> Wget does not support multiple socket connections in order to speed up download of files.
For speedtests lately, we've been generating 150MB files of randomness, then wget'ing them between servers
i'm not sure if the racism in this game is meant ironically, is a bad translation or actually malicious
there are 2 types of downloading that exist, 1 you wait for, watch it happen. the other doesnt matter if it takes 24 minutes or 24 hours, I am not watching/waiting for it :-)
By the time download type 2 comes in , i already have to mentally re-think what I was doing that for.
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