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Journeyman Geek

00:05

morning

Simon Sheehan

Morning @JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1468

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chuckles I've been using a greco-roman goddess theme ;p

Simon Sheehan

haha

@studiohack Logonstudio is awesome, by the way. Great blog post of yours!

@JourneymanGeek I usually name mine "Craptop." Currently on Craptop 2.2

Journeyman Geek

lol

Simon Sheehan

For laptops anyway

Journeyman Geek

00:11

I had a system by that name at one point

got stolen when i lent it to someone tho :/

Simon Sheehan

Ouch :/

Journeyman Geek

most of the systems i've worked with have been decent tho

even the second and third hand ones ;p

Tom Wijsman

01:35

Hmm, I could do a WTFriday about links like http://1076000527, note though that these don't work in every browser. But works in Google Chrome. :P

Also works in Internet Explorer, I think Firefox doesn't adhere to the standards (if there exist any for that type of link)...

@RebeccaChernoff: It's so cold here, just like it is at my place...

Perhaps should consider adding an option against automatic room freezes for associates. :)

studiohack

03:20

@SimonSheehan thanks! :)

Psycogeek

03:44

out of the darkness , into the light, whats the deal with all background being white :-)

Psycogeek

03:55

sure paper is white and expect that on a book, but computers put out light and retinas they cook. Like looking in the sun for some peyote trip, hours in the glow and brain cells slip. It is no wonder why the geek class is looking at life through a hunk of glass.

Sathya

05:04

@TomWijsman might want to edit your answer in light of this

Bibhas

05:47

@Sathya any idea why did the link to chat vanished from my top bar?

Sathya

it goes off for 24hrs whenever there's a new blog post

Bibhas

@Sathya why is that? o_O

Sathya

29

Q: Eeeek! Where did the chat top navigation link go?

The chat link in the top navigation bar is gone. Instead there is a shiny blog link. Where did the chat link go?

exposure to blog

Bibhas

hmm. was hoping there would be some other reason.

Sathya

60

Q: What's the best way to download all mail from Gmail?

My wife recently died, and she gave me access to her Gmail account. While I'm not sure whether or not I want to read the messages in there, I do want to make a backup copy of both the sent and received messages. Ideally, the backup copy would be accessible to me offline, though this is not strict...

gmail

did this get tweeted by JA or HN'd or reddited?

crazy numbers for a question just posted yesterday

@Bibhas the reasons are mentioned in the answer & in the linked answer. It was done part of a feature-request iirc

Bibhas

05:59

There is no way to track incoming links?

Sathya

mods have limited access to analytics but can't track individual question

Bibhas

06:14

Something is bugging my internet. Got two 408 since last hour. and both while opening SU.

Psycogeek

this wearable computer thing, just isnt working out as planned 1.bp.blogspot.com/_rc_3TrmUKN8/S_quVDEo9_I/AAAAAAAAAL4/…

Journeyman Geek

eh

someone posted his phone number on SU

Bibhas

@Psycogeek Whats that? The first mobile phone/tablet?

Journeyman Geek

0

Q: my laptop in of 3gb ram,320hardisc &64bit windows7. can i extend my ram to more ? is it effective?

my laptop is of 3gb ram, 320hardisk & 64bit windows7. I want to extend my ram upto 6gb. Can it possible ? where it can be possible. What cost i have to pay for the same.

google-chrome

(edited it out, but ugh... people need to learn the culture of places they're in)

Sathya

and tagged google-chrome

the heck :X

Bibhas

06:20

lol.

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek a deserved close

Journeyman Geek

i was thinking of editing it, but there's burning it with fire seems more appropriate

Psycogeek

superuser.com/questions/388227/… Got the tag right, just didnt corelate with the title noice/noise

Sathya

need to install Oracle DB & Application server on my system, there goes whatever performance I had

Psycogeek

I Luv the 2am (US time) ones, because english is not the primary language, so spelling is optional.

Journeyman Geek

06:25

@Sathya: can't virtualise/run it on a spare box?

eh, i'm leaning towards the search-dog

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek unfortunately not

Journeyman Geek

ugh

that does suck

Sathya

yeah :/

thankfully it's for a short time

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek Me too, Q said "loud sound" , then "from the computer" hard drive going into lost seek mode , i dont think most people would say was loud.

but it would be "too easy" to pick the lamest , most often occurance, and unfit for super users to even suggest that it was the search dog :-)

Bibhas

Now someone wants to capture all his Google contact pages as screenshots.. :|

paradroid

06:41

@Bibhas You could use the mechanize python library for that.

Bibhas

@paradroid Answer here then

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Q: script open and capture each GMail contact page?

I wish to remove my GMail contact data and not all of the fields with automatically sync with Outlook because I foolishly renamed some of the fields. The Google csv export format does not import cleanly. So I would like a way to capture all of the GMail contacts as screenshots (over 500 of them...

gmail contacts extract capture

Journeyman Geek

07:05

hm

1

Q: Very Specific Keyboard Needs

I'm in the market for a new keyboard, and I'm having trouble finding one that fits what I need. I've seen these questions answered here and other places before, but they're usually along the lines of "What's the best keyboard?" or "What's your favorite keyboard?" My question is: Is anyone awar...

keyboard

personally, i consider NKRO a bit of a myth. VERY few things need it

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek nkro?

Bibhas

n-key rollover.. read about it while in college i think.

Psycogeek

MTOKAAT (more than one key at a time) Would it be so hard to simplify :-)

Sathya

ah

soandos

@Bibhas, instead of removing the link to the program, try to edit it in as a link with text to make it more readable, as opposed to removing information

@Bibhas, nvm, could not see what was going on inthe review pane, sorry

Bibhas

07:17

@soandos which edit are you talking about?

Psycogeek

try holding both SHIFT Keys , and type The quick brown fox?

soandos

It was superuser.com/questions/388129/…, but you did it fine, I just did not see the link in the review pane. My apologies

Bibhas

@soandos Oh. No problem. :)

Sathya

@soandos there's an option to view diffs as Markdown, I have that set as my default view

soandos

@Sathya, where?

Sathya

07:21

soandos

Got it, thanks

Sathya

cheers

Bibhas

@Sathya I assume that's for the ones with Reviewer badge?

Sathya

nope, for anyone who has access to a suggested edit

Bibhas

ok.

Journeyman Geek

07:25

@Sathya: n-key rollover = if you're an alien, or want to mash all the keys at once, it'll work. contrast with 6kro (you can press up to 6 keys at the same time) and 2kro

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek heh, alien :p

paradroid

I made a comment on the keyboard question

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: yanno, with dozens of psudopods ;p

I'm not convinced he'd done his homework, no mention of the more unsual keyboard brands ;p

opened up his sun model 5c. Looks like it should be semi trivial to convert it to use a teensy, once i've worked out the interfacy bits

amusingly its an oldschool membrane keyboard

soandos

How does one insert the windows key in kbd tags?

Journeyman Geek

i usually go <kbd>win</kbd> ;p

soandos

07:30

Is there a unicode for it?

Sathya

I don't think so..

Journeyman Geek

not as far as i knpw

nor have i ever seen..

soandos

Strange

Journeyman Geek

though i'm semi certain i've seen the apple four leafed clover and t shirt keys before

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/115032/… colour me confused.

soandos

⌘

is the apple key

Journeyman Geek

07:33

i call it the clover, or the snake orgy key

Sathya

snake orgy

also, whee! install done.

Now I have a database server, an application server & an HTTP server running on my piddly workstation.

/sob

Bibhas

clap clap

Journeyman Geek

lol

depends on what piddly is ;p

paradroid

ÿ

Sathya

C2D E7500, 2 gigs

Journeyman Geek

07:42

lol

paradroid

@Sathya Why don't you use Amazon EC2?

Journeyman Geek

I suppose it is piddly

@paradroid: work constraints i suppose

Sathya

^ what @JourneymanGeek said

Journeyman Geek

It wouldn't be that bad if it was running on a system not used for other things as well, i suspect

paradroid

I've got a transcontinental VPN. Have a lot of fun with it.

paradroid

08:00

@JourneymanGeek Have you seen the new ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook?

Journeyman Geek

@paradroid: i believe so. two words. chicklet keys

eww

paradroid

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, not too happy about that, but it is supposed to be improved, and the ones they use at the moment on the Edge are already better than the ones on Macbooks and VAIOs. The rest of it seems really good.

But I am disappointed that there has been no mention of a 12" X-series ultrabook yet.

Bibhas

Anyone uses the X220?

paradroid

JourneymanGeek has one

Latest ThinkPad I've had was an X200s

..which got stolen ;(

Bibhas

I used X201 for few months. Loved it..

paradroid

08:07

You have fine taste

Bibhas

Sadly X series are rare here. Have to look for them a lot.

paradroid

Just noticed that we are all Indian

We should rename the chatroom

Bibhas

@paradroid You and @JourneymanGeek too?

Paul

Am I? How cool!

paradroid

Yeah, as far as I know

Bibhas

08:11

Ah. just noticed. X220 is available in Lenovo India shop. Last time I checked few months back, it wasnt.

paradroid

@Paul You have to at least like ThinkPads

Paul

@paradroid I have to like ThinkPads to be accepted as an Indian?

Excellent! No more being a dull British Australian

Bibhas

This is so messed up..

paradroid

@Paul You're learning to fly?

Paul

@paradroid - I had some lessons a while back - what prompted that?

paradroid

08:20

@Paul Had a look at your website. It's something that I have always wanted to do, but it's far too much money. My dad used to be a fighter pilot, so I have always been interested in aeroplanes.

Paul

@paradroid Aaah right, yeah that might be a bit misleading, it is a few years since I have had any lessons, but I still kinda feel like it is something I am "doing" but on hold

It is expensive - I got lucky

paradroid

@Paul Your business doing well then?

Paul

Yeah great. A small business with modest goals, this year will be our best so far

Bibhas

Women can Program.. smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2516

paradroid

@Bibhas Quite a few men who are extremely technical even become women

Like the guy who invented the ubiquitous ARM chip, which we all have over a dozen of by now. He is now a woman.

Sophie Wilson

Sophie Wilson is a British computer scientist. She is known for designing the Acorn Micro-Computer, the first of a long line of computers sold by Acorn Computers Ltd, as well as the instruction set of the highly successful ARM processor. Life and career Wilson was educated at Cambridge University. In 1978, she designed the Acorn Micro-Computer, the first of a long line of computers sold by Acorn Computers Ltd. In 1981, Wilson extended the Acorn Atom's BASIC programming language dialect into an improved version for the Acorn Proton, a microcomputer that enabled Acorn to win the contr...

Moshe

08:34

Hullo.

Any programerry types in here?

ideone.com/UNlXv

soandos

I can try

Moshe

@soandos It's a program that should work, just need to make a change here.

soandos

What change?

Moshe

ideone.com/tjkf0

Done

I just had a return 3 in main, which according to someone in the Lounge C++ might cause problems with portability.

Anywho, if you know how, compile that and have fun with it.

soandos

ok

soandos

09:12

superuser.com/questions/388279/… too localized?

Journeyman Geek

09:37

@paradroid: and @ satya as well

for being indian, that is

Daniel Beck

10:11

@JourneymanGeek Yep, using pagan gods for computer names is seriously underrepresented on that chart. Although there's probably some issue with doing that in any real workplace.

Journeyman Geek

@DanielBeck: greek/roman ones are relatively safe

now if you have someone name a computer Nyarlathotep ...

Psycogeek

My computer should be called medusa, its got dangling snakes connected to everything, and when I go to use it I wish i was Stoned.

Bibhas

So, if someone's PC has earthing issues, s/he'd call is Zeus? :P

Daniel Beck

... and with insufficient cooling Apollo?

Journeyman Geek

lol

;p

Daniel Beck

10:25

@JourneymanGeek There are too many Norse/Germanic neopagan movements though, so I'd probably piss someone off...

Journeyman Geek

@DanielBeck: well... my local ISP names routers after beer...

Daniel Beck

Good idea on Greek/Roman though.

@JourneymanGeek So? What's offensive about that? And it's not exactly visible in the "network neighborhood"...

Journeyman Geek

@DanielBeck: Well, its an inoffensive naming scheme... unless your muslim neighbours care ;p

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek Good point.

Journeyman Geek

or junk food i suppose

"Cheetos isn't booting!"

Bibhas

11:17

captured right on time.

Does anyone know if there is any standard guidelines for ecommerce websites?

Journeyman Geek

in general?

its prolly country specific

Bibhas

Where can I find em?

Google results are too vague for my requirement

Found something ekmpowershop.com/support/articles/…

Sathya

11:38

It's been about a year since I became a #SuperUser Moderator. Time sure flies.

Tweeted by SathyaBhat on February 10, 2012 at 4:49 AM

1yr +1 week, to be specific

Bibhas

Congrats. Send beer. :P

Sathya

lol

Sathya

12:01

mind boggles

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A: How to write a macro to get selected words an emphasis mark?

I am from Taiwan. We use traditional Chinese characters, and people in China use simplified Chinese. I am trying to write a macro for OpenOffice Writer and LibreOffice Writer. This macro will add a toolbar in Writer, similar to the Chinese punctuation toolbar in the Chinese version of MS Word. T...

Bibhas

He kind of created a nest of his own there..

Sathya

cleaned it up, somewhat. I hope

heading home, back later

Bibhas

12:24

First glance at the title and I was like .. o_O

-1

Q: Is it possible Connect landphones to mysql?

I have a land phone that displays the caller ID. I want to use a some interface or cable to connect the phone to a pc and then connect it to mysql, check if the user is available in the database, and if not, I add him, (name, number, location)

mysql database phone

Daniel Beck

13:04

@Bibhas You're not the only one.

@Sathya I've had a status I disagree with assigned to an MSU topic. What now? Repost to MSO? Flag for status removal and migration?

Bibhas

Awesomeness, my wireless adapter just crashed without any warning, notice, anything. :| had to run troubleshoot to reset the adapter to fix it. #windows

Tom Wijsman

@DanielBeck: @Sathya: @JourneymanGeek: Feel free to proofread blog.superuser.com/2012/02/10/wtfriday-http2915189091 if you have time.

(You need to be logged in on the Wordpress Dashboard)

Paul

13:35

@Bibhas I guess some people just don't know where to start, so the question gets vague. Plug the phoneline into an asterisk box with an FXO port and doing the caller id with mysql is trivial

Sathya

@DanielBeck agree to disagree. Which question?

Journeyman Geek

13:58

@TomWijsman: i don't have access to that ;p

Daniel Beck

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Q: Reputation related badges exist and are attainable on MSU

There is reputation on Meta Super User, after all. Three badges are awarded for reaching the daily reputation cap: Mortarboard Epic Legendary Mortarboard has been awarded repeatedly, the last time in August 2011.

bug status-bydesign reputation meta

As there is no visible reputation, no reputation tab in the user profile, and /reputation claims there is no reputation on MSU, the badges and their attainability just make no sense. While random's explanation from a programming POV makes sense, it's just a cause analysis, and not an explanation or justification why this needs to be so, and he doesn't reference other (e.g. dev) sources.

@TomWijsman Are you sure about that Unicode bit? What about UTF-8?

Tom Wijsman

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 110,000 characters covering 100 scripts, a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding methodology and set of standard character encodings, an enumeration of character properties such as upper and lower case, a set of reference data compute...

CTRL+F for stretched, 8 bits = 1 byte, 16 bits = 2 bytes.

And I think UTF-8 means 8 bits, just like ASCII. Not compeletly sure on the UTF standards which is why I didn't thought about them / mentioned them.

Daniel Beck

@TomWijsman You should mention that it'll only work for appropriately configured web sites. Shared hosters with multiple sites will just display nothing, or something unexpected instead.

Tom Wijsman

Mentioned that in the part about the Long IP converter.

Daniel Beck

@TomWijsman UTF-8 uses the high order bit to indicate the beginning of a multi-byte character. ASCII characters are still only 1 byte wide.

Tom Wijsman

14:09

Hmm, feel free to add a paragraph or so for that; but I don't think we should be going into the details /alternatives too much; tried to go to the point of this is needed to explain it and not any further.

Daniel Beck

@TomWijsman Call it UTF-16 in the text and you should be good

Tom Wijsman

Call what UTF-16?

Ah, I see; I'll add (UTF-16) behind Unicode.

Daniel Beck

@TomWijsman Or with unicode you will need the double, 26 bytes

Just write "UTF-16" or "Unicode (UTF-16)" or somehting like that instead.

@TomWijsman That should work.

Journeyman Geek

erf: superuser.com/users/117757/anne this user keeps linking erotic poetry on scribd ;p

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek Only one post though?

@JourneymanGeek Haha OK, new question

Journeyman Geek

14:17

naw, there was another one previously

i think it was deleted

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek Yeah I know, I commented on it.

Was deleted a minute or so later.

Journeyman Geek

lol

"May be NSFW" "appear to be of a certain genre of poetry" ....

Tom Wijsman

Hmm, copying a database in SQL format over clipboard over a Remote Desktop connections doesn't seem to be the brightest idea...

Journeyman Geek

I think i apparently used a very british understatement ;p

Tom Wijsman

Well, other than hang the target program that even didn't seem to do anything.

Journeyman Geek

14:25

@DanielBeck: a cursory read of the first few pages... its not the eroticness... its how HORRIBLE it is... ;p

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek The text in the linked document is totally unreadable :-/

Journeyman Geek

lol

precisely

Daniel Beck

both the content and the presentation. Or my fonts are broken somehow.

Tom Wijsman

I wonder if Notepad++ is capable of loading in ~90 MB.

Journeyman Geek

lol

its just borked

Tom Wijsman

14:27

I can read it, a bit blurry though.

Journeyman Geek

@TomWijsman: the formatting is terrible

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek It's published though. ISBN 1876347821...

Then again, it's not originally in English, so it could just be the horrible translation.

Journeyman Geek

cough

its unspeakably bad ;p

Daniel Beck

14:49

@Sathya Maybe someone should ask kino to stop retagging everything to a bug, or at least have him explain the reason to do so?

Sathya

already told him couple times.

Daniel Beck

@Sathya Although in this case he followed your example I see.

Sathya

@DanielBeck how so?

Daniel Beck

@Sathya He retagged the Precognitive badge topic to bug, you retagged the Beta badge topic to bug.

Sathya

Hmm

Daniel Beck

14:55

@Sathya What's your advice on the reputation badges bug report?

Bibhas

@Sathya how many domains are you hosting at SecureDragon right now

just one?

Daniel Beck

LOL... I just noticed I have just as many MSU posts as the eight moderator candidates on Apple.SE have combined on Meta.Apple.SE...

Sathya

15:18

@DanielBeck I'd just let it be. I doubt team would bother on that

@Bibhas two domains, few subdomains and directories

Daniel Beck

@Sathya Then at least assign status-declined...

Sathya

why? it is status-bydesign on meta. You collect ups & downs. Your overall rep gets overwritten

Anthony Mastrean

15:59

Alan Stevens is talking about Chocolatey (windows package management) today over at jabbr.net. t.co/YgQtYdd4

chocolatey.org

tombull89

@JourneymanGeek He did it over at SF as well...odd person.

Bibhas

Whee. Can chat from mobile. First time trying. :-)

@sathya 96mb enough? Ec2 instance has about 600mb tab and hosting two domains make apache eat around 300mb. :-/

Sathya

@Bibhas I don't use Apache, I'm on nginx

Bibhas

Oh. Right. Almost forgot.

Sathya

16:14

btw, 96MB is the minimum dedicated RAM that you get - it goes up to 192MB

Bibhas

Hmm. Ok.

Sathya

Daniel Beck

16:26

@Sathya What are you referring to?

Sathya

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Q: Reputation related badges exist and are attainable on MSU

There is reputation on Meta Super User, after all. Three badges are awarded for reaching the daily reputation cap: Mortarboard Epic Legendary Mortarboard has been awarded repeatedly, the last time in August 2011.

bug status-bydesign reputation meta

Daniel Beck

@Sathya Yes. But what are ups and downs? What has it to do with rep getting overwritten?

Sathya

> There is reputation on Meta Super User, after all.

yes & no

> Mortarboard has been awarded repeatedly, the last time in August 2011.

yes, questions & answers collect upvotes and rep

but the overall rep gets replaced with your parent rep

Daniel Beck

Yes. That's the whole point of the post. I replaced the description, maybe it makes more sense now.

While there might be some reputation internally, the devs have removed all references to it and replaced it with parent site rep. All references to it, except the badges.

And since the badges exist, as well as the background worker awarding them, /reputation is publicly visibly lying.

One could say that meta reputation is almost dead code left overs from the adaption of main site code, but it's not properly hidden.

Daniel Beck

16:59

What do we do with duplicate answers that don't add anything that hasn't been said before? @Sathya

Tom Wijsman

17:18

►

Bibhas

17:41

@DanielBeck I want to know that too. @Sathya

Sathya

@DanielBeck @DanielBeck downvote + Comment why dv. Personally I'd add a comment + delete.

Bibhas

This once happened that me and two other guys posted the same answer almost at the same time. Only few seconds apart. I didnt even get the notification that someone posted an answer.

Is this intentional - You can start writing your post while you wait, we can **later later** import it ...

that later later part..

Sathya

well if the timestamps are close I wouldn't do anything, Perhaps an upvote

if the timestamps are far apart then yeah

@Bibhas not really sure what you mean by import

Bibhas

blog.superuser.com/?blt=1

sidran32

Wendy's make a gooood chicken sandwich :)

Bibhas

17:49

Point 2.

Sathya

yeah.

blog's basically wp powered

sidran32

Ya I noticed that @Bibhas. "Later" is duplicated in that sentence.

Sathya

oops

I missed that

cc @TomWijsman

Bibhas

hehe, @Sathya missed it. :P

sidran32

:P

Tom Wijsman

17:51

@Bibhas On it.

sidran32

@Bibhas Apparently!

Bibhas

I should be a proof-reader. :P

Sathya

sheepish grin

sidran32

@Bibhas I'm good at proof-reading, but I'd get bored very quickly at that job :P

Tom Wijsman

There we go, nailed that one. spell-check-should-underline-duplicate-words

Bibhas

17:52

@sidran32 same. :P

Sathya

btw @TomWijsman did you check my previous ping about the dns answer

sidran32

@TomWijsman I think Microsoft Word does, actually :P

Tom Wijsman

@Sathya: Yeah, added a sentence and responded on Facebook.

Sathya

cool

sidran32

Good 'ol Word 2010. :P

Tom Wijsman

17:55

Hmm, now we only need an "open in Word" link.

Bibhas

@TomWijsman hehe.

sidran32

I wrote my blog posts in Word and then copied them to WP.

Tom Wijsman

Well, the resulting blog link could be opened once it's published.

@sidran32: Makes me wonder if Windows Live Writer does that check...

Bibhas

Use Live writer maybe?

sidran32

I'll find out :P

Tom Wijsman

17:57

omg slow Windows Live...

sidran32

It does not.

Live Writer has a spellcheck but it doesn't catch duplicated words.

Tom Wijsman

I hope nobody catched that temporary post by visiting / RSS / Clippy... :P

Bibhas

damn.

sidran32

@TomWijsman I just skipped that step :P

I don't know how Wendy's does it. Their burgers are bad but their chicken sandwiches are oh so good. :P

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