Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:00

morning

Journeyman Geek

00:12

@sidran32: if you want a low resource browser give qtweb a shot

also

mykeyboard.co.uk/microswitch DIY keyboard <3

KronoS

any linux pros here?

Journeyman Geek

pro, no

I know JUST enough to be dangerous ;p

KronoS

@JourneymanGeek lol... well you probably know more than me

I'm trying to mount a software raid I just built but can't seem to get it going right

I get this error uknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member

Journeyman Geek

00:30

urgh

I don't know anything about raid :/

sidran32

@JourneymanGeek I don't. That old laptop was given away. :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

I think i have a PIII 800 laptop somewhere around here...

sidran32

@KronoS Ya, that error is beyond me, too.

KronoS

dang

sidran32

Hehe. @JourneymanGeek I will be going. It's getting close to time for me to leave work.

Just was popping in. :P

Bye

Journeyman Geek

00:37

@KronoS: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309794

apparently you need to expliclity state the FS type

KronoS

> wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0....

this is so frustrating becuase they assume you're going to install the OS on the raid

but I don't want that.. I have a dedicated SSD for the main OS

they meaning about 80% of the tutorials out there

Journeyman Geek

00:52

hm, bad superblock would mean something is off ._.

KronoS

ha ha!

I didn't partition the raid

:P

Journeyman Geek

01:30

lol

iglvzx

02:17

@JourneymanGeek We are all fighting for the answer, huh? lol

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Q: How to open a large file with an .tar.xz extension?

I got a 1GB file with an .tar.xz extension. Apparently, inside this single file is PDF files and ebooks. How do I open this type of file and read these files? Does ExtractNow work? Any simple tools? Windows 7 64-bit. IE 8.

windows-7

Journeyman Geek

lol

I posted first ;p

iglvzx

Yes you did. Synetech posted at the same time as me.

Journeyman Geek

and i edited in 7zip after downloading the software i recommended, and reading the readme ;p

iglvzx

If only we could join our answers and all get reputation for it

Journeyman Geek

lol

well

upvotes the other two answers

both of which covers things i didn't... which also means you both get rep ;p

iglvzx

02:32

:D

Now with screenshots. I am waiting for Synetech to upload a GIF like he did last time to compete with me. :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

2

Q: Per-application audio control that works in Windows 7 64 Bit

On Windows 7, I'm still looking for a per-application adjustment of the focused program audio playback with control capability. Preferably it should have keyboard shortcuts. List of things I've tried: NirCmd: shortcuts for it pop-up auto hide taskbar, and it did not work on 50% of the programs...

windows-7 64-bit sound mixer

this one has EPIC screenshots

iglvzx

02:50

COLORFUL

Psycogeek

03:20

@JourneymanGeek For me it has been a Epic pain in the butt :-) such a simple thing with so many little buggies . I would hand another 1/2 my rep out to the person who can control "system sounds" item seperately

Psycogeek

03:39

microsoft (win7) from XP , tossed out my toolbars , I had to toss out old hardware, which tossed out analog CD control. To get color changes i had to toss Aero :-( , they discontinued the large database of Gadgets , first time i even saw them work, and next few days gone from thier web . Changed the taskbar, biggest problem being 10 windows piled on top of eachother. Tosed out my "Top folder organised menu". forced in Full Line select in explorer.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Psycogeek

They added some bug, that has thousands going crasy where a deleted or added file item doesnt refresh the file view. Add in some great UAC security that 1/2 the people turned off. Forced the install of everything, cross linking turns them "on or Off" at will.

Journeyman Geek

lol

UAC isn't that bad on 7

its easier for linux users

Psycogeek

it was worse on vista?

Journeyman Geek

ya

Vista's UAC was specifically designed to annoy

Psycogeek

03:48

I really dont mind if the system would tell me "did you want to Install" , "did you want this Driver" , and "did you know this POS program is trying to copy itself in 500 places, and is sending your keystrokes out over the web" :-)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Psycogeek

so far, all i got was , that all happens, without me :-) while it warns that i just pushed a mouse button.

Journeyman Geek

up till xpsp2 there was a bit of software called winpooch that did that

it bitched at everything

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek A 3rd party item, that is lesser known, is often not addressed by a virus.

good viruses have all the MS tricks worked out. if i can toss the ms tricks, and replace them with virtually unknown tricks, I might be able to confuse the viruses :-)

bambuntu

hey, anyone understand root here?

iglvzx

04:03

@bambuntu Can you be more specific?

bambuntu

sure,

Psycogeek

@bambuntu base part of plant , brings water and nutrients to plant, term used in computers to designate lower level things that can be the root or lower levels

bambuntu

I think I might be in the wrong area. sorry

studiohack

@bambuntu root - for computers. yup, that's us

iglvzx

@bambuntu Not necessarily. Psycogeek is joking around

bambuntu

04:04

oh really? I'm so serious.

iglvzx

Also, if you need a more specific audience, there is Unix.SE: unix.stackexchange.com

bambuntu

Is that a chatroom?

iglvzx

No, but they have their own chat!

/dev/chat

General discussion for unix.stackexchange.com. If you have a q...

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bambuntu

well, could I run something past you?

iglvzx

I suppose so. I'm more familiar with Windows than Unix, however

bambuntu

04:09

I'm remastering Ubuntu as a live distro in order to run Firefox without beign connected to the user actuall hard drive. This protects viruses.

against viruses.

iglvzx

AH! Since you are using Ubuntu, we also have a specific site for that. :)

bambuntu

Oh, I thought this place was all Ubuntu

iglvzx

Super User encompasses all computer related issues, but we also have specific sites for more focused topics.

Ask Ubuntu General Room

Normally: General discussion around Ask Ubuntu, Ubuntu & offic...

3

bambuntu

I actually got here via Ask Ubuntu thinking it was just a sub site.

Ok, thanks for the heads up

iglvzx

It's ok. Anyway, welcome to StackExchange @bambuntu!

@studiohack So, what's the deal with these News chat rooms popping up?

Saw them on a few other SE sites, too

studiohack

04:19

@iglvzx News Chat rooms?

iglvzx

SuperNews

This room will collect technology news from various websites a...

studiohack

oh... hmmm. never seen that before

iglvzx

It's because they were literally added within the last hour

studiohack

@iglvzx let me get with my sources ;P

iglvzx

@studiohack lol. ok. It's just intriguing because there is no word on Meta.SO or Blog.SE

studiohack

04:21

@iglvzx Yeah, the first I've heard about it...

Okay, not a official SE thing - seems to be an independent user

iglvzx

Yeah. I just noticed. It looks like you can add RSS feeds to chat rooms.

Speaking of chat rooms, when I first joined Super User, I thought the room "Studiohack's computer" was a chat room hosted on your own personal server/computer

studiohack

@iglvzx you can

@iglvzx hahahaha :) nope - just discussing my PC build

iglvzx

So, I guess mystery solved, Detective Studiohack

studiohack

@iglvzx bows happy to be of service :) thank ye!

iglvzx

Haha

Journeyman Geek

05:15

lol

Boris_yo

06:32

@Sathya @Psycogeek @JourneymanGeek Hello guys. If you could enlighten me please, interesting but when my router was set to WPA2 and AES, my HP laptop with Windows XP SP2 with SP3 updates could not connect to it telling me to make sure network is active (or something) and that it is within range.

Today i set router's encryption to WPA with TKIP and VOILA! It worked! I don't understand how Windows XP does not support WPA2 with AES. Any ideas?

Sathya

seems more like your wireless chipset doesn't support WPA2

WinXP supports WPA2 +AES

Journeyman Geek

^ that

after SP2

SP1 didn't iirc

Boris_yo

Thanks guys!

@JourneymanGeek Ah you mean that SP1 did not support such encryption and SP2 can support?

Journeyman Geek

yup

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek So the problem is not within wireless NIC but Service Pack? Or both?

Journeyman Geek

06:39

Its probably not windows

Its more likely the NIC as satya said

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek But i have mixed SP2 and SP3

Oh

Yeah got it

Journeyman Geek

no, if you installed SP3, you have SP3

Boris_yo

Well the laptop is from 2006.

@JourneymanGeek I installed SP3 but it shows SP2

@JourneymanGeek I had SP2 and then after a few years updated to SP3

Journeyman Geek

something obviously went wrong with the SP install

Psycogeek

and it can.

Journeyman Geek

06:41

it should show the version you have

Boris_yo

@Sathya Cheers!

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek ah, thanks for clarifying

Psycogeek

After messing with service packs and upgrades for XP, i gave up and finnaly purchaced a Xp disk with the updates. If your messing with putting on tons of hotfixes and service packs, doing it slower and in order of time can help

Journeyman Geek

lol

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Well.. @JourneymanGeek What :)

Journeyman Geek

06:44

I just use wsus offline updates

Psycogeek

hey they were cheaper then too :-)

Journeyman Geek

I vaguely recall the SP2 disk being free

or bundled with something rediculous like a pack of floppies..

oh, no, that was IE

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek But who knows, maybe that update which is on your DVD now could have include bugs and online update could have newest version of that update.

Journeyman Geek

@Borisyo: i just run the update script again. and store the updates on USB so i can refresh them

Psycogeek

When i was putting on these crasy layers of hotfixes, i am going through the Drivers and Dlls , trying to figure out what occured. there are some things a person should never have to see

Boris_yo

06:46

Well this probably saves you gigabytes of bandwidth and time which is most important...

Journeyman Geek

@Borisyo: it also means i can set a system to update overnight and get it updated

Boris_yo

Where can i learn how to do this Offline Update?

Journeyman Geek

download.wsusoffline.net

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek you are not running this everytime there is update, right?

Journeyman Geek

naw

just for initial post first install patches, or if i am unsure if a system is up to date

Boris_yo

06:52

@JourneymanGeek Supposedly after new Windows setup?

Journeyman Geek

ya

or in cases like yours

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek I feel if i run this now, it will do more mess.

Journeyman Geek

this downloads offline installers in bulk

and applies them

up to you

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo make a image backup of the system first. if it all works , make a backup image of the system all "updated"

keep both to test between the one and the other , then you can report bugs for an OS that is discontinued :-)

Offline whole service pack install superuser.com/questions/347245/… For deployers , works better for users than the winders updater , when attempting to do to many at once.

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek @Psycogeek Is there a way i can "Favorite" Superuser questions?

Sathya

07:01

@Boris_yo click on the star

Boris_yo

@Sathya Thanks.

Psycogeek

back in XP updating, many users would report a specific problem, then along comes "mister never had that problem, your all wrong" who has 50 computers all running perfect. Well mr perfect used deploying, not the windows updater.

we wont mention, that mr perfects computers were all the same also, with all the same hardware, and all the same limited software, and were locked down, and had nothing to do with everyone else :-)

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek And that mister is Journeyman?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo no, ask him, but I think he has a wide and diverse knowhow

lets try this @JourneymanGeek Is windows a completly bug free operating system, that nothing ever goes wrong ?

Journeyman Geek

07:47

@Psycogeek: bug free operating systems don't exist

sure there's issues. And it can occationally be annoying. A lot of what i know is built around mitigating those annoyances

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek That proves it, Journeyman geek has not been replaced by a stack exchange bot :-)

Journeyman Geek

and i use offline updates primarily cause windows update borked an update to SP2 ;p

and i had to reinstall and waste a day waiting for patches to download and install

Boris_yo

I am connecting through smartphone's tethered bluetooth dial-up connection to internet now. I can see i can set baud rate from 115K to 921K. How do i know which baud rate my smartphone's bluetooth is capable of?

Journeyman Geek

bluetooth... dial-up?

brain breaks

Its not dialup i think

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek It is Bluetooth DUN

PDANet is app that allows to do so.

Psycogeek

08:05

@Borisyo with old modems and older serial stuff, often I would just set it all the way up, then see how it worked, lower it as it fails (untill it works reliable), and any manuel setting of was to set it close to the max. usually negotiation speeds were adjusted by the programs , when it gets packet losses, and fails?

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek use PING to test for packet loss?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo i only rely on ping when normal activity fails. I have tethered before, but only one style of teather, and only based on software that existed on the devices. they never even gave me any manuel controls

Boris_yo

08:43

@Psycogeek Whoah! Smartphone's CPU is at 78% usage because of a bluetooth tethering.

Psycogeek

then it must be working :-)

Paul

@JourneymanGeek while it isn't dial up in the traditional sense of a modem dialing a number, you still do an ATDT*99***1# to call the number via the same mechanism you would with an old analog modem

Psycogeek

When we had some tethering going, seeing if i could get rid of an ISP, the phone did sit there and cook (slang for, it was staying hot). That phone did not have Cpu use indicator.

Journeyman Geek

ahh

eww

shows how little i know about phones, and how much i've forgotten about dialup ;)

Paul

@Borisyo I don't think any attention is paid to the baud rate when it isn't a real modem. I could be wrong though - are you seeing a speed issue?

Journeyman Geek

09:10

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors this i learnt from SU today. Gaze upon its awesomeness, and dispair that you probably can't have one ;p

Daniel Beck

09:27

@Sathya Are the times on the suggested edits list deliberately in UTC–08:00?

slhck

09:39

@DanielBeck Do you have an idea if the Desktop in OS X can be easily replaced by a symlinked folder that actually exists in the Dropbox?

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek I dont know what i would do if 8pt fonts were only 2mm tall

Sathya

@DanielBeck the API sends epoch, I just do a epoch to time conversion per my server's timezone. Will correct that soon

@JourneymanGeek :o

> The IBM T220 and T221 are LCD monitors with a native resolution of 3840×2400 pixels (WQUXGA) on a screen with a diagonal of 22.2 inch (564 mm).

Psycogeek

I should have known that "going against the grain" on this one superuser.com/questions/390947/… would get me shot full of holes

On one side, I have breeched the religious practice of the god of 7, and on the other side i discounted the existance of satan. I guess i am just luckey that i wasnt saying anything bad about an apple product

slhck

10:22

Hm. Is it normal for Stack Overflow flags to be in the queue for 21hrs without being handled?

Daniel Beck

@slhck I tried it when I read your question. It worked with limited testing (i.e. making screenshots) just fine.

Don't know how e.g. AppleScript will like it though.

slhck

@DanielBeck So, setting it up via another user account?

Daniel Beck

@slhck What do you mean?

slhck

Can you just replace the Desktop while being logged in?

i.e. ln -s ~/Dropbox/Desktop ~/Desktop

Daniel Beck

@slhck I did it. Had to sudo mv the original desktop folder though, since there's an ACL.

slhck

10:27

Ah, thought so.

Daniel Beck

Don't know how the periodic "I just recreate all of these useless folders like Movies, Music, etc." task will handle it.

slhck

Well, doesn't have to do with Desktop really

Daniel Beck

In earlier OS X versions, you were able to delete those, but they were recreated automatically. No idea what did that, and whether that's still the case despite ACLs.

I never tried deleting the Desktop folder before, so it might.

slhck

Well if you tried it feel free to add your two cents there

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Q: How to sync OS X desktop to Dropbox?

How can I sync all my Desktop files to Dropbox, so that my desktop still feels, looks and works like a normal Desktop?

osx sync dropbox

Gotta do some grocery shopping, bbl

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya Precisely ;p . It basically stomps anything currently made in terms of resolution and pixel density, and takes its lunch money

Daniel Beck

10:37

@slhck For that my testing was too limited.

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek BIGGER FONTS

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek sure, just ask MS for a new set of DPI adjustments

Journeyman Geek

and its a chicken or egg thing

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek It has a fan. Seriously? A screen with a fan?

Journeyman Geek

windows dosen't support it since its uncommon

@DanielBeck: Yes. Its insane

The only monitor that comes close to that kind of density is a 10MP monochrome LCD ;p

Psycogeek

11:26

cute Siri youtube video youtube.com/watch?v=a_SRhnis6f8&feature=related

Clippy

15:41

Super User Blog: WTFriday: What happens when Windows runs out of Disk Space?

Posted by George Edison on February 17th, 2012

I have been using the Windows 8 Developer Preview for about 5 months or so and in order to install it on my PC, I had to create a rather small partition on my primary hard drive consisting of only about 16GB. Thankfully, a clean install of Windows 8 will fit comfortably within that space and still provide enough room for some basic utilities and drivers (of course, I do have other secondary partitions that I use for installing applications).

During the installation of a particular application, the free disk space on the partition dropped to about 28MB. One of the users over in the Root Access c …

Boris_yo

16:08

I have set baud rate to max but later discovered CPU usage on smartphone was almost 80%

Yet i am not sure if this is what resulted in slowdown and i will have to check this with default 115K baud rate.

Amith KK

17:05

How do I summon Clippy?

cool

Daniel Beck

17:17

@Clippy I like "What happens when OS X runs out of Disk Space" better, because it actively causes data loss. Nothing like a first-run experience for a highly customized application.

slhck

@DanielBeck Have you been there already?

Daniel Beck

@slhck Sure, you haven't?

slhck

@DanielBeck I run on 120GB HDDs just fine. I've never had less than 40GB available on any system I've ever been on.

External drives ftw

Daniel Beck

To prevent loss of data (hahahaha) the preferences property lists of running applications are periodically re-written to disk. What happens when said disk is full is that the writing fails. So once you restart such an application, instant first run experience.

slhck

So the plist is deleted before it's written

Daniel Beck

17:23

@slhck Don't know. If I were at the machine at that time it wouldn't have filled up.

Stupid search engine indexes take up too much space :(

Tom Wijsman

@DanielBeck: Forgot to include your name, I've responded.

Boris_yo

I remember having first 1GB hard drive... Man i had to delete games to install other new games.

Tom Wijsman

There are 0 characters left so I don't bother with trying to fit your name in there. I could opt for [at]dan perhaps, but a ping on chat suffices as well...

Daniel Beck

@TomWijsman It does.

Boris_yo

I still have diskettes which i can sell for $$$ in next 20 years.

Thomas Ward

17:27

any SU mods around?

slhck

@ThomasWard Do you need help? At least three 20k here atm

Daniel Beck

@Tom I still think the bad outweighs the good in your controlled approach. Besides, given the international audience, I don't think it'll be feasible to gather all users in chat or somewhere at the same time.

Tom Wijsman

Ask a Super User Moderator

For moderation, spam, troublesome users and related issues you...

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@Sathya: @studiohack: ^

Sathya

@ThomasWard yeah

studiohack

@ThomasWard here!

slhck

17:29

@DanielBeck About the 304: Not Modified, I still got that when doing Cmd-Shift-R. That's why I questioned the answer.

Thomas Ward

@Sathya @studiohack i'm concerned about a specific SE user who has been creating "News" chat rooms for more than one site. I noticed this initially in AskUbuntu, and have been discussing this with their mods, but he just today posted about creating an SU News chatroom

slhck

So it's not like I didn't check :P

Thomas Ward

i'd like your inputs on whether this is concerning... this "track record" suggests he may be creating chat rooms without cause or reason, just to do it

Daniel Beck

@slhck I didn't. Odd. What dite did you test it with?

Sathya

well, anyone's free to create rooms & without activity, it gets culled @ThomasWard

Thomas Ward

17:30

@TomWijsman yes, that. he also created one for Ubuntu News on AU

Daniel Beck

@TomWijsman Using Reddit for a "news" source is one of the most ridiculous ideas I have seen in a long time.

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Amith KK

SuperNews

This room will collect technology news from various websites a...

studiohack

@Sathya One could argue that it won't die if news keeps being pulled in

Sathya

@studiohack it will.

slhck

@DanielBeck Hm, I don't even have the force reload entry

studiohack

17:31

@Sathya okay, good to know

Sathya

rooms require activity from at least 2 different people. Feeds are excluded

Daniel Beck

@slhck Press Shift. It shares an entry with reload.

Thomas Ward

@Sathya define "activity", i've seen users lurk in the room without doing anything, so...

jrg

@ThomasWard activity = messages posted

Thomas Ward

i see... so if even William just posts one message a day it remains active even if nobody else posts?

slhck

17:32

@DanielBeck Hm, true, but I still get countless 304s.

Sathya

@ThomasWard at least 1 message posted by 2 distinct users at least once every 15 days. Feeds don't count as regular user.

Thomas Ward

at which point you can see my concerns

Tom Wijsman

@Sathya: In that room's feeds, this doesn't make sense, does it:

Thomas Ward

ah. two distinct users.

Tom Wijsman

http://feed://www.reddit.com/.rss?feed=e5e8bdc71c7ed4fe51c96c024934397256fbcc23&‌user=williamtdr posted by Stack Exchange

Daniel Beck

17:32

@slhck What's your test case?

jrg

What Sathya said.

Thomas Ward

o.O

Daniel Beck

@ThomasWard So he'll have to register a second account?

Tom Wijsman

Explicitly the http://feed:// and perhaps the &user=williamtdr part.

Thomas Ward

i agree with @Tom on this one

jrg

17:33

@TomWijsman Wait, hes using it now for his reddit thing? Oh great.

Thomas Ward

@jrg so was i right to be concerned? :P

Tom Wijsman

But well, as Daniel said, Reddit is probably not the best source to pull from.

Thomas Ward

actually that link redirects incorrectly

jrg

@ThomasWard Yes. I didn't mind with the AU one, i figured it would die soon enough, just like the other rooms that tried that and failed.

Tom Wijsman

Rather add official companies blogs / real news sources rather than aggregated ones.

Thomas Ward

17:35

rests his case

Tom Wijsman

eg. blogs.msdn.com/b/b8

slhck

@DanielBeck Well, before I hosted a simple HTML site with a CSS that I changed, but it would always force refresh, which is awkward. Now I'm just on SU.

Daniel Beck

@slhck Well.. you're doing it wrong then. Cmd-Shift-R gets no 304's, only 200 and a single 204 No Content (the pixel).

Version is 17.0.963.56

And I'm not logged in to the site on Chrome.

My previous test case was heise.de, also without personalization.

slhck

@DanielBeck Hm, for me it doesn't :) But I'm on 19-something. So it's possible they broke it again.

@DanielBeck Same results for Heise. Lots of 304s.

Daniel Beck

@slhck And people wonder why I don't use Chrome. Previously I found a bug every time I started the program. Now I don't even need to start it myself anymore to find bugs.

slhck

17:40

@DanielBeck Arguably, it's a feature I rarely use. But yeah. That's what you get for running the Dev version.

Sathya

@TomWijsman thing is, the signal to noise ratio with feeds is very low ( -- thanks @DanielBeck corrected )

and anything particular that's interesting will be manually posted in here

Daniel Beck

@Sathya You mean low?

Tom Wijsman

Yeah.

Boris_yo

Anybody here has GPS implanted in shoulder?

slhck

@Boris_yo Sure, but it kinda interferes with the WiFi Repeater in my left kneecap.

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studiohack

17:48

@slhck :P

Sathya

18:19

that's the official Windows 8 logo

studiohack

@Sathya So officially it'll be called Win8? okay...

horrible logo

Sathya

yep & yep

Boris_yo

The problem with implants is that we will be controlled puppets. It is concealed enslaving device.

What is all this privacy concerns trend in latest years?

I will let you answer.

I think my wireless NIC malfunctions. Don't know what could have caused that but i don't remember dropping laptop.

Tom Wijsman

18:35

rofl @ Paula asked us a simple question, “your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?”

2

@slhck: Was it you that posted the Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts thing? I was wondering how you use that when you currently have a text box focused...

For example, on Google it just adds the two characters to the search instead of going to the link when I type it and press enter.

Boris_yo

If anyone feels like it, here is a link to my question:

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Q: Why Wireless NIC Loses Its Lease To Router?

This constantly started to happen some time ago. I connect to my router andand lose every few seconds connection to router and it reconnects again. I have screenshooted most errors that Event Viewer reported. First comes overview: And now 3 events that happened at the same time: As you ...

wireless-networking nat disconnects hotspot event-viewer

surfasb

@Sathya Well, it doesn't look like a flag anymore.

Tom Wijsman

surfasb

0

Q: How to automatically move files to the network

I'm looking for an open source solution to a piece of Windows software that will monitor a folder on a Linux server via Samba and copy them to the local machine. I need this to run on a virtual machine and I need the VM to do the copying so my web server isn't exposed to the outside world. I've...

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They might as well say free.

I hate it when people use open source and free synonymously.

Not all open source is free. And not all free is open source.

Boris_yo

@surfasb Analogically

@surfasb Actually open source tend to be freemium. I mean all is free but not technical support.

@surfasb tend happen

Need to strikethrough word "tend"

Bibhas

18:57

Free is a tricky word. :P

@surfasb Agree with that.

Boris_yo

@Bibhas Free is a salesman's word.

@Bibhas Free is only cheese in mousetrap

@Bibhas Free is what everybody wants to be but it has a cost

Bibhas

@Boris_yo Relate that to the concept of Free Softwares

surfasb

@Boris_yo what is this crap?????

Boris_yo

@surfasb What are you referring to?

surfasb

The three lines you wrote. It has nothing to do with what we are talking about.

Boris_yo

19:05

Yeah, after i saw link it has nothing to do.

I thought we are speaking in general.

Until this day i thought synonymously about these words.

surfasb

In an economic sense, you are right. No free lunches.

Boris_yo

This is what i was talking about. Did not know there is really a difference between open source and free.

I did not know free software can be modified just as open source software.

I am also a little suspicious about software/apps that can be modified by everyone.

What if someone has unscrupulous intent? Or only qualified only people are allowed to modify?

slhck

@TomWijsman Oh, yeah … well, it works only when not in a text box, obviously

wow, that question attracts a lot of spam

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Simon Sheehan

19:56

hey @studiohack, you there?

Tom Wijsman

@slhck The thing is, starting to type if the text box is not in focus causes the textbox to be selected, at least at Google.

slhck

@TomWijsman Yeah, Google's a bit special with their instant thing though. Plus, Google already has keyboard navigation for search results.

Daniel Beck

@surfasb I always wonder whether they actually want to change the software when they ask for that.

Tom Wijsman

Ah, good point. :)

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