Root Access

10:15 AM

Fish becomes shark...

androidcentral.com/…

@Boris_yo well we could look at it this way, when all technology is owned by 2 companies, there will be less patent problems :-)

soandos

@Psycogeek, I have faith that apple can cause enough patent issues to last forever

Psycogeek

@soandos good because i live in california, and right now we only make 2 things, bad movies and lawyers which are bad :-)

Boris_yo

10:38 AM

@Psycogeek Bad lawyers because of a bad education?

@Psycogeek Don't understand regarding patents problems... Who owns all technology? Google and...?

Psycogeek

I am beginning to realise that volumouse is a really bad idea. It does not matter how many Qualifier keys i press down in Many of the programs, The program in focus is the first one to take the Scroll wheels input ?

@Boris_yo Lawyers by and of themselves are not bad, they just dont manufacture anything :-) Fact is i cant really figure out any productive accomplishments they make, when "there is no justice in the world" :-)

That is what all the people paying laywers are telling us (there is no justice), so they should know.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek So lawyers and bad movies are California's byproduct?

Sathya

Valentines Day 2012

This is a new Room for this year's valentines day. Anyone can ...

facepalm

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo byproduct, is something created/produced, when making another product. so movies are the product, and lawyers are the byproduct :-) Do not take anything i say literally.

Silicon valley (central cal area) designs many of the electronics, but most of them are manufactured in other countries. So IP (intelectual property) is the product, and Protection of that intellectual property is the byproduct.

That makes lawyers a byproduct of a byproduct of a thought , because law and lawyers remove all thought, and work with "law" and babbling points of law that make no sence, the word byproduct works out good . :-) Oh man i am gonna get sued

Journeyman Geek

10:57 AM

@soandos: until its no longer worth it

supposedly the current raft of patent lawsuits was cause Jobs was convinced everyone was ripping apple's ideas off

which is silly

tombull89

12:20 PM

@Sathya wut.

Boris_yo

12:30 PM

@Psycogeek :)

tombull89

Hey @JosipGòdlyZirdum, sorry about that. It's a nice enough machine although I would avoid playing minecraft one it. My (three-year-old) laptop has 512MB graphics and while it runs fine it gets very hot.

Clippy

12:49 PM

Super User Blog: What Browser are Super Users using and why?

Posted by daviesgeek on February 13th, 2012

Out of curiosity over a question I saw on Ask Different, I created a poll on web browsers for you. My main goal is to find out why people use one browser over another. Is it actually better, or do you just use it because it’s the default browser? The survey is for users of all OSes, including iOS and Android. We will come back in a couple of weeks to post the results from the survey.

Please feel free to take the survey multiple times if you regularly use multiple operating systems. You can visit my survey on Google Docs here. …

Tom Wijsman

1:19 PM

@Clippy: Huh! Have you been sleeping? :|

Psycogeek

@slhck you realise with that edit, i am now going to have to deal with the same round of answers, that are already in the other questions. I was trying to get more Agressive with finding something that Always works, and works in the specific platform. There are thousands of pages of this on the web ( i already read). As the operating system changed each one became almost completly useless. Many of the users who still use them are using them Limited.

Sathya

@tombull89 I know.

slhck

1:44 PM

@Psycogeek I did not remove anything substantial

What are you referring to?

You made it quite obvious that you don't want any pointers, but personal experience … it was very obvious to me when I read that question

Psycogeek

@slhck Yes, is a good edit, but I wanted the YOU FRIGGEN TESTED , and ALL in there :-)

slhck

@Psycogeek Ah, fair enough! :) I just embedded the image and highlighted the line you want to emphasize.

Psycogeek

@slhck oh crud, now i am editing, and i got your edit flag.

I was adding in the list and pictures.

slhck

2:00 PM

@Psycogeek Ah, just override mine then.

I guess I shouldn't edit your posts because you're continuously doing it :P

Psycogeek

@slhck I can just tell you when i am done :-)

slhck

@Psycogeek Sure

Psycogeek

It is just a bloody mess now. and I keep remembering all the programs that toss up some audio that i would far prefer to hear.

Daniel Beck

2:15 PM

@Psycogeek Just get a bigger screen. This is the perfect excuse.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Psycogeek

@DanielBeck Got one, a whole second monitor, then I filled it with Junk before the day was up. Just the pro edit programs have thier bundles of little windows things, and a second Full Screen display. After all the problems with these Programs hooking into the volume control, I should have just gone with " Smaller Mixer For Windows 7"

Journeyman Geek

has a physical volume control knob where possible ;p

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek I have 2 of those also :-) one for the speakers one for the headphones. but again that is just MAIN, which all of this stuff does control fine.

The windows 7 added feature of Per-app control is the best thing in the world. 2 years of the OS out later , it is still not under control.

If i ask windows developers to put a slider on the apps taskbars, it would only be 3-4 years before it didnt blink, mess up other windows, and not maintain transparency settings .

at least it would solve the focus problem :-)

Daniel Beck

2:41 PM

@Psycogeek Can't be that difficult to find out the front application to display and change its volume only, can it?

Psycogeek

@DanielBeck Piece of cake, if I have the mondo mixer up. Its just a audio mixer, it is 118 times bigger than my internet radio :-)

Even XP allowed the mixer to be shrunk to about 1/3rd its original size, which was 1/2 the size of this one.

In XP they had a 3rd party mixer, that took a skin, then they had "small skin" 11 items in 2 inches. Why woudnt there be a 3rd party mixer (that actually works) for win7

Psycogeek

3:41 PM

how about hacking SndVol.exe or its dlls, it is only tied to some 30 dlls, and directally to the kernel.

Boris_yo

Anyone used Greenshot?

HackToHell

@Boris_yo seems interesting .

Boris_yo

Are you going to try it? @HackToHell

HackToHell

@Boris_yo tried it already

Boris_yo

3:58 PM

Watched Green Hornet?

Psycogeek

I found 4 different "sizes" in the sndVol.exe . something about it being DPI aware. But DPI in the system doesnt go below 100% , and there is even smaller items in there. Plus some indication in the .mui , that originally there may have been a programming intent to hide/show specific items. I can understand why they wouldnt implement that.

BloodPhilia

4:28 PM

Hi people! :D

Sathya

hey Fruity

BloodPhilia

:D Hey @Sathya, how are you?

Sathya

good, good :)

how be you?

BloodPhilia

me be ok! (:

Secretly busy behind the screens on SU

Boris_yo

Anybody knows what is this sticker that i found on product in shop?

Sathya

4:41 PM

@BloodPhilia busy with?

BloodPhilia

@Sathya Reviewing, community ad creation, suggested edits... Sometimes answering a question or asking for clarification :P Haven't been online a lot recently, thought I'd pick it up slowly by performing "maintenance tasks" if you will.

@Boris_yo It's used for shop security to prevent shop lifting. If you walk through the shop's security gates with one of these active, the alarm will go off. Usually they're deactivated when you pay for your product.

Boris_yo

@BloodPhilia Can this be removed sneakily?

BloodPhilia

@Boris_yo Usually these are placed on plastic surfaces (Like CD Jewel cases) and are highly adhesive. They can't be removed easily.

Boris_yo

@BloodPhilia Maybe i can Telnet this chip and disable it...

BloodPhilia

@Boris_yo Haha no, it doesn't actually have a real firmware interface... It's a highly simplified version of an RFID chip

The coil like spiral is actually its antenna

Boris_yo

5:04 PM

@BloodPhilia Maybe i can implant this stuff into my tissue and receive highly classified signals?

iglvzx

Goodmorning!

Sathya

@BloodPhilia nice, always good to have you back :))

iglvzx

@Sathya Did my Npad AutoHotkey script work for you?

Sathya

@iglvzx haven't tried yet, thanks for reminding :P

studiohack

hey @iglvzx, @Borisyo, @Sathya, @BloodPhilia

Sathya

5:11 PM

will try tomorrow - need to use it at work since I'll have to do lot of typing in Finnish

iglvzx

@Sathya Haha. No problem. OP is being picky about using Alt codes to enter Unicode chars. :( Perhaps I should ask a new question specifically about using normal numbers as Numpad numbers. Then post my script there.

:P

@studiohack Morning!

studiohack

gah, valentine's day sucks for singles. :P

morning @iglvzx - looks like you have 6,000 total rep! (next to your name in chat)

iglvzx

@studiohack Yeah. Nearly 4K on SU alone! :)

Most of my rep on the other sites is from migrated SU posts and the +100 free rep

Psycogeek

5:28 PM

So did everyone get themselves, some of those genetically engineered sticker bushes, grown in greenhouses in cuba (roses), cut down in the prime of thier lives, to hand out to your GF as a token of your acknowlegement of the manufactured day of love ?

Sathya

@iglvzx could you post it here

iglvzx

@Sathya Ok.

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A: How to type zero-width space character (U+200B) on a laptop keyboard?

I have written a small application for just this purpose! It is called Npad, and it is a simple AutoHotkey script to conditionally remap the normal number keys to behave as the Numpad keys. This allows you to enter Unicode characters using their Alt keystroke combinations with any keyboard. Inst...