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Burgi

22:02

quick question about reviewing LQP's...

i've noticed the in the last few that i have been given that @DavidPostill and others have commented on the post. then at the end of the comment is a "from review" and a link to that review.

This does not provide an answer to the question. Once you have sufficient reputation you will be able to comment on any post; instead, provide answers that don't require clarification from the asker. - From Review — DavidPostill 14 hours ago

an example

does that get added automatically?

or are the comment authors adding it manually?

Ben N

It's automatic

Well, kinda. The one used is determined by your choice in the "Leave a comment for the author?" box when you choose Recommend Deletion

The resulting comment for each choice is shown there too

Of course, people can manually add a From Review link to a custom comment as well, if they so choose

Burgi

i see

DavidPostill

@Burgi Added automatically when you choose a close reason from the dialog.

I also have a AutoReviewComments GreaseMonkey script to add canned comments

from here > stackapps.com/questions/2116/…

Burgi

how long do you normally give people to improve their posts before clicking ~~NUKE FROM ORBIT~~ delete?

DavidPostill

I don't if I'm in the review queue or voting to close/delete. If it gets closed the OP can edit which puts it in the reopen queue,

Burgi

22:18

ah, good point... welp, i've been doing it wrong :(

Psycogeek

@Burgi not nessisarily wrong. if you have loads of extra time to waste, and want to give people an oppertunity to correct before kicking them in the teeth, then some percentage of the time they will self-correct, including deleting themselves, but the percentage is low.

Psycogeek

22:56

so where is the SU question to disable readyboot? or How to make my boot slower , and reduce the thrashing of everything running at one time.

disabling readyboot in services, one time , cause me great greif, like no booting kind of grief.

Burgi

i've just noticed that win10 has sneakily installed my mother's new printer on this PC as well as hers...

Psycogeek

did you get too close to it? :-)

Burgi

must have

W10 must poll the LAN for new network printers and stealthily add them for you

Psycogeek

how would that work in a office with 25 different types of printers hanging about on the lan somewhere? probably no different than the system having drivers ready for 25 different raid cards that nobody owns.

how would linux handle that? you would have to compile each one :-) . how would apple handle that? there is only 1 apple printer :-)

Bob

23:25

@Burgi win8 did that

@Psycogeek iirc only one universal driver (per major manufacturer?)

Usually talking some pcl version on a standard port

Burgi

ah, i skipped 8

Bob

could always turn off printer discovery

or designate the network as public

Burgi

i was ignorant of the fact it even did that. all sorted now

@Psycogeek was this what you were talking about? superuser.com/questions/1074954/…

Michael Frank

@Bob Doesn't Windows come with a lot of preinstalled printer drivers? Or are they all part of that one brand specific roll up?

Bob

23:43

@MichaelFrank not too sure. I do know that I've seen a lot of modern printers auto-installed under a generic driver

for the most part, printers actually speak a few common languages these days

the main differences driver-wise tend to be the options available

Burgi

this sounds highly suspicious:

Q: Finding a headless machine on a restricted network

I own a Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu on it. It's configured with a wireless card and a microUSB for the sole purpose of charge, and I need to find it on the network to connect to it over SSH. Unfortunately, however, I'm restricted in what I can do. Hostname resolution over LAN is not permitted, and ...

Bob

absolutely reeks of xy problem

Burgi

my first thought was "loop through all the addresses in the subnet until you hit your device" but then i thought "if hostname lookup isn't enabled, how would you know if have the right machine without attempting a log in..."