Root Access

Ivo Flipse

00:25

what's with the dog @TomWij?

TomWij

Which one?

Just cute, thought you might want to see them. :-)

Ivo Flipse

they're yours?

brb

just got home :P

studiohack

@IvoFlipse: no, they are not his dogs because the videos come from two different channels

KronoS

00:41

@IvoFlipse where you been?

Ivo Flipse

I had a meeting with my previous employer @KronoS

had to drive to belgium for it (though I guess the distance is fairly small for USA standards)

studiohack

how many KM or miles? @IvoFlipse

Ivo Flipse

100 miles

KronoS

lol... ya that is a short distance

Ivo Flipse

but then I went to visit friends who live near @TomWij, so had to drive another 50

so the way back was a 2 hour drive

studiohack

00:44

100 each way?

300 miles roundtrip then

TomWij

@IvoFlipse No, I'll send you a pic of our dog later.

studiohack

which is 3-4 hours, depending how fast you drive

Ivo Flipse

something like that yes @studiohack

studiohack

have you guys met in person @TomWij, @IvoFlipse

Ivo Flipse

nope, because @TomWij is always busy when I'm near ;P

studiohack

00:46

haha you guys should

TomWij

Previous time I had exams, this time too, so... Third time, best time? :-)

Unless Ivo Flipse his next trip is around my exams in May-June...

Ivo Flipse

had you heard I ordered the wrong CPU @TomWij?

TomWij

@IvoFlipse: No, ouch, were you able to return the CPU?

Ivo Flipse

well they hadn't send it out yet

but I couldn't pay from Belgium, so couldn't finish the upgraded order :(

studiohack

that's no fun

TomWij

00:54

:(

Ivo Flipse

yeah and the one I wanted turned out to be 30 euro's more expensive than 'normal'

because it's low on stock, they get to up the price :\

ah well, they should arrive on friday now, so I'll survive

@TomWij: I got this motherboard along with it: tweakers.net/reviews/1982/4/…

supposedly that's the one with 775 socket holes

TomWij

looks nice

Ivo Flipse

TomWij

nice

Ivo Flipse

which hopefully means it will be relatively painless to install my watercooling again

wonder if I need to get some more of that paste

btw how did your test go @TomWij?

TomWij

01:13

Fine, hopefully the test on friday goes well too.

Gonna go sleep, and meh... Learn more Linear Algebra proofs tomorrow. :-(

Ivo Flipse

good luck, I should be off too

TomWij

The moment after the test relieves that feeling a lot...

Good night. I hope I can get everything done tomorrow, have friday morning as spare time (as exam is in the afternoon).

studiohack

good night @TomWij

KronoS

02:23

@IvoFlipse that's not very exclusive... My EVGA p55 LE has combo holes for coolers

Mark Szymanski

03:03

Good evening, everyone.

studiohack

03:17

see vote to close @KronoS, anyone else with 3K

Hello71

03:44

10k+:

studiohack

@Sathya has 2, that's right, 2 downvotes!

Hello71

0

A: Can we increase Torrent share ratio using Local Peer Discovery?

studiohack

@Hello71: good job

Hello71

well it used to say "hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..."

studiohack

weird

hello @Hello71

Hello71

03:45

hey @studiohack

Mark Szymanski

Effing spammers.

studiohack

@MarkSzymanski: that's not spam, just a weird answer :P

Mark Szymanski

XD

studiohack

how is @MarkSzymanski & @Hello71?

Mark Szymanski

How is that not spam? XD

I'm doing great, thanks ^^

You?

studiohack

03:46

I'm good myself

Hello71

Also, I just realized Chat has a limit on message length.

studiohack

which is?

experimenting. this is a test. please star this. thank you. repeat. experimenting. this is a test. please star this. thank you. repeat. experimenting. this is a test. please star this. thank you. repeat. experimenting. this is a test. please star this. thank you. repeat. experimenting. this is a test. please star this. thank you. repeat.

ah, it doesn't say... just says too long

Hello71

"This message is too long".

studiohack

yeah...

Mark Szymanski

@studiohack: Just out of curiosity, do you have time limits for repeatedly sending messages in the chat?

studiohack

03:48

yes, I do

Mark Szymanski

Like you have to wait a set amount of time before sending another message.

studiohack

yup

Mark Szymanski

Do you?

Ok.

studiohack

I type so fast, I get that a lot

Mark Szymanski

Yeah.

I was just curious to see if it went away with rep.

Hello71

03:49

found it:

else if(c.length>500&&!t)p="This message is too long";

in master-chat.js

studiohack

so 500 characters?

windowsphonesecrets.com/2011/01/26/…

Sathya

@studiohack yey! I had one yesterday! :P

studiohack

you mean one?

@Sathya

and hello @Sathya!

Sathya

oops, yeah!Good evening @studiohack

studiohack

I had none until about 23+ and then boom. -1, and then -2 more overnight...

Sathya

03:59

you're doing pretty well though

I expected @nhinkle to fetch more :/

studiohack

That's exactly my thought...he has one of the best written nominations...

Sathya

anyhow, will fade away now, getting ready for work, laters @studiohack

studiohack

cya @Sathya

Sathya

looking at HP service guide, seems like I have a spare bay for a SSD. Need to disassemble and see for sure

@SuperKronos e-mail your name and address and if you have a laptop or desktop to [email protected] I will send it out this week.

Tweeted by KingstonSSDNow on January 26, 2011 at 12:14 AM in reply to SuperKronos

KronoS

@Sathya ya?

Sathya

04:04

nothing @KronoS :p

KronoS

oh ok :)

studiohack

I definitely have a spare bay if that helps ;P

KronoS

I sent them the email this morn... I'm getting pretty excited

Sathya

I got it in 2 days :O

It was Fedex'd

KronoS

@Sathya what?! no way!

Sathya

04:10

.. and addressed to wrong company :/

yup @KronoS

KronoS

that's so sick... I asked for three... two for a raid 0 and 1 for a regular install...

we'll see if I get all three

Mark Szymanski

I'm off to bed, goodnight everyone.

KronoS

night @MarkSzymanski

nhinkle

@Sathya, I was a bit surprised as well. Hopefully not too indicative of what'll happen in the actual election, but it does have me slightly disappointed.

how are you folks?

@KronoS, I think it's pretty great they're just sending you SSDs! And you get to keep them?

KronoS

good doin homework @nhinkle

@nhinkle Ya I'm pretty happy about it

nhinkle

04:21

@KronoS, same. I've been busy all day... had two tests, and all kinds of meetings this evening

If you decide after doing the testing for the blog that you have no use for all three... I can think of one or two things the extras could be put to use for :P

Sathya

ask them for it @nhinkle

( yes I was shameless in asking :P )

nhinkle

@Sathya, suppose I could. You think they'd send them to anyone who promises to blog about it? My personal blog doesn't have much readership, and the SU blog is, well, already doing it :P

KronoS

after testing I'll for sure share the wealth

Maybe I'll give it away for one of the featured questions or something of the like

@nhinkle you use matlab at all?

nhinkle

That would be a nice thing to do. Rewarding the community is always a great way to contribute

Sathya

Dec 9 '10 at 17:33, by Sathya

you know how / why they sent me ?

nhinkle

04:25

@KronoS oh do I ever use matlab

Sathya

Dec 9 '10 at 17:33, by Sathya

So @KingstonSSDNow is following me. Do I get a review copy or something ?

Tweeted by SathyaBhat on December 7, 2010 at 9:33 PM

nhinkle

the class i'm "learning" matlab in is possibly the most boring thing ever

Sathya

My blog doesn't get too many visits either @nhinkle

KronoS

when writing a m file... how do I output a matrix of answers?

nhinkle

by "output" do you just mean show on the display?

KronoS

04:27

no clippy I don't need your help this time... i.e. an iteration of 5 times...

no actually saved as an A x B matrix

nhinkle

@Sathya did you just ask Kingston for some and they're sending them to you? I know @KronoS asked them for some for the SU blog

Sathya

heading to work, later folks

nhinkle

ohh. we haven't gotten to the point of returning a result from a .m. I could check in my textbook though if i went and looked though

see ya @Sathya

KronoS

k I'll keep googlin @nhinkle

nhinkle

this class is excruciatingly slow, so i have yet to really do anything interesting

@KronoS, how does the SU blog work per se? Do you have a meta post about it or something? And is there any possibility for getting it to be official like the server fault blog?

KronoS

04:30

2

Q: Top Question of the Week #3

Now we're into week 3 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week. Please post any question that you feel is of worth and the reason why. Try not to promote your own questions or answers for publicity sake. We are lo...

@nhinkle kinda... we just started posting... I'm really trying to push for attention like the server fault one... but we're not there yet

nhinkle

Who owns blogoverflow.com?

Because the SF blog is blog.serverfault.com

and it would be nice to have blog.superuser.com

KronoS

Maybe with this KingstonSSD review we'll get more attention from users and also maybe jeff

nhinkle

Have you proposed it to him directly?

KronoS

Ya that's what I'm pushing for...

I think we need a little more content...

nhinkle

I'd post on meta.su and suggest it

i'll vote it up :D

KronoS

04:34

I think a post on MSO might be a better choice...

we'll see here soon though

nhinkle

^^ a friend of mine found this in his CS book

evidently the book uses that icon to show blunders and horrific code you should avoid

KronoS

Whoa... That's cool

nhinkle

we're wondering if that's where jeff got his avatar

KronoS

probably

nhinkle

so, I'd like your guys' opinion on something

do you think it's appropriate to quote in my nomination text a few of the positive/supportive comments people have made regarding my nomination? part of me feels like it's fair to show why people like me, on the other hand, part of me wonders if it's appropriate though. for what it's worth, i would be more than willing to support candidates whose nominations i said good things about putting that in there. but i'm just not entirely sure if that's appropriate or not

@KronoS, @studiohack, @Sathya, @ivoflipse ?

KronoS

04:45

0

Q: How do I output multiple calculations with an m file as matrices?

I'm writing an m file where and iteration of answers are calculated. I want to save each of these iterations in a matrix. How do I go about doing this? j = 0; for j < n; %n is a user input futurevalue = P*(1+i)^j; % each of these calculation I want to save j++; end

matlab matrix iteration m-file

@nhinkle I would ask for permission first...

nhinkle

@KronoS, yes. I'm not even sure yet if I want to put that in there, but am pondering it

KronoS

To be honest... your sitting pretty well...

nhinkle

I suppose. I'm surprised you got so many downvotes, @KronoS. I don't see any reason to vote yours down.

KronoS

Probably just think I'm not ready...

that and once one vote starts to lead one way I feel the crowd follows...

nhinkle

Could be perception of less readiness I suppose. You could definitely still get elected though. And even if you don't, by next year you'll have enough experience and an epic enough record that you'd probably be a high pick

I do think you have a point about the momentum of the vote

looks like joe still has no upvotes

KronoS

05:00

ya but I feel like he deserves that...

nhinkle

Indeed

Sathya

@nhinkle if you ask me, I think it'sbetter to leave that out, and mention some numbers on badges / edits / votes et al

KronoS

05:15

@Sathya do you know anything about matlab?

Sathya

05:36

@KronoS sorry nothing about it. last used it ~ 4 years ago!

KronoS

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

nhinkle

@Sathya, suppose I agree

@KronoS, what sort of problem are you having with it? I can check my book for info

KronoS

BAM! just got it...

nhinkle

:D

KronoS

@nhinkle I was having issue with number formating

nhinkle

05:51

what did you have to do?

KronoS

well first off the numbering was coming out all funky... 1 ==> 1.0e+5*0.0000

o_0

but since I'm dealing with monetary figures I was able to change the format to "banking"

: format bank

@nhinkle

nhinkle

huh. interesting. i've never seen that format before

what're you using matlab for?

KronoS

This is for my numerical methods class.... but I'm also going to be using it for System dynamics, embedded computer systems and probably statistics

nhinkle

Wow. Sounds like your school is big on matlab

Did you have to purchase a license or do they provide it to you for free?

KronoS

Ya we have a compus wide license... I can use it on my personal pc or laptop for free....

It's pretty cool

Sathya

06:00

@KronoS ah, that's great

KronoS

Ya it's amazing... we get quite a bit with it too.... simulink, aerospace and biology packages... in fact we had a rep come through and said that our school has the best that you can take home...

nhinkle

That's cool. The college of engineering here has a certain number of shared licenses. The application is wrapped in this scary thing by VMware which checks the licensing server for how many licenses are currently in use, then loads a semi-virtualized copy locally, but it interacts with everything just as if it were installed normally

KronoS

06:54

And... done with homework... time for bed... only to get up in about 5 hours... :( night...

nhinkle

07:04

'night @KronoS

Ivo Flipse

08:38

@KronoS, just put something like round(1.0e+5*0000) and it will round it off to 1 for you

@nhinkle blogoverflow is owned by one/some of the guys from WordPress.Stackexchange to allow the community to blog about their site

we can add you as an editor, then you can edit posts or write your own :)

@KronoS the next test would be to test some GPUs ;)

nhinkle

@IvoFlipse, that would be great

Sathya

morning @IvoFlipse

nhinkle

I'm about to head to bed. Just went on a closing spree... seems like there were more off-topic questions than usual tonight. Found a question that I ended up writing a pretty detailed answer on though, which was nice. Haven't been enough opportunities for answering lately

Sathya

heads over to 10k tools to find the closed questions

nhinkle

@Sathya, i posted a few in the vote to close room, too

Man, if I don't end up being voted for mod, I'm going to have to work my butt off getting to 10K so I can at least have access to that stuff :P

Sathya

08:48

you'll probably hate the you-can-view-deleted-posts-too thingy though

nhinkle

-shrug-
guess i'll find out, someday :P
anyhow, i'm off to bed now. 'night all!

Sathya

@nhinkle night!

DMA57361

09:24

morning all

Sathya

09:36

morning @DMA57361

DMA57361

13:58

blimey... a quiet day in here today...

David

yup...

Hi @DMA57361

Ivo Flipse

I've been trying to work for a change @DMA57361 ;P

DMA57361

hi @David

@IvoFlipse ..work?! madness!

David

I have been reading the Network+ book on Safari...

DMA57361

oh, how'd you're presentation go?

Ivo Flipse

14:01

great! :D

there will surely be a follow up

DMA57361

excellent news

Ivo Flipse

the only downside is that I don't have an written contract that says when it will start and how much I will get for it

so I'm writing my report asap, so I can wrap up the project this month, even though it was planned to be finished next month

but then I can speed things up to make sure we can get going again :)

DMA57361

fair enough

Ivo Flipse

and I visited a friend, who's a manager in my previous employer's other companies (a specialized running shoe store)

he's a firm believer in natural running, so he wants to do a project to research the benefits of shoes like the Nike Free or rather show how it can be beneficial compared to regular running shoes

Sathya

No one to give me company :(

@IvoFlipse great to hear that

Ivo Flipse

14:09

but unless I see a check coming my way, I can't really cheer to early :P

well it would be nice to actually earn something for a chance :P

Sathya

:)

Ivo Flipse

especially after spending 500euro on my computer again :P

Sathya

heh

Ivo Flipse

and I still need to buy Office, because OpenOffice messed up my presentation yesterday :@

Sathya

I'm sure that investment is worth it

tombull89

14:12

@nhinkle yeah, check codinghorror.com/blog/2004/02/about-me.html and scroll down about halfway

Ivo Flipse

oh it's going to last me some time yeah

Sathya

time to head for home

bbs

DMA57361

gah, sorry, I moan it's quiet in here and then get dragged away from my desk suddenly..

Ivo Flipse

all the figures dropped out of the presentation

DMA57361

do'h

relative / absolute file path confusion maybe?

Ivo Flipse

14:14

no idea, Powerpoint just stores images IN the presentation

DMA57361

I see. I've never really had to use either

Ivo Flipse

well stay away from it ;P

tombull89

heh, when I was in school I managed to create a 800MB powerpoint with all the pictures from my leavers dinner...the sysadmin wasn't impressed.#

I didn't think the powerpoint would store the images inside but in the end I'm glad it did.

DMA57361

nice

(or not, depending on which way you look at it really)

Ivo Flipse

not storing the pics in the presentation is like making a presentation from a html file or something :S

awkward :S

if it doesn't keep a local copy of the image, what would be the use to put the presentation in dropbox :\

tombull89

14:31

indeed...this was 2005 so I'm pretty sure dropbox wasn't around.

I had to get clearance from the admin to make it anyway as our work areas were limited to 40mb...and then it was too big to put on a CD and we didn't have any DVD burners :/

Sathya

ouch @tombull89

KronoS

@Sathya how did you google search how many questions you closed/edit

Ivo Flipse

"closed as" "by Kronos" site:superuser.com

Sathya

google.com/…

well @IvoFlipse beat me to it :)

DMA57361

surely that'll pick up ones you've answered, edited or commented on that happen to be closed, even if you weren't someone who voted to close?

KronoS

14:46

148... that's better

Sathya

@DMA57361 that's the caveat

KronoS

oh time for class... I'll be back though...

pulls out his iPod :)

Ivo Flipse

probably will @DMA57361, so I guess he has to do it for all the close reasons

DMA57361

@IvoFlipse "do it for all the close reasons" - sorry, not sure what you mean?

Ivo Flipse

"closed as off-topic by Kronos"

oh crap, that wouldn't work either, he's not always the first

DMA57361

14:53

indeed

but that's probably an interesting stat as well :)

Sathya

ugh, my WiFi keeps getting auto-disabled :-s

any idea why ?

Ivo Flipse

not disabled

it's going to sleep

oh wait, what device @Sathya?

Sathya

but I do have active connections :-s

Ivo Flipse

hehe, actually it is

Sathya

my Envy @IvoFlipse

Ivo Flipse

14:54

I thought about your Nexus S ;P

Sathya

ah

that's set to no sleep :P

maybe do the same fr this

Ivo Flipse

44 questions for off-topic on my conto :D

23 narq

5 subjective and argumentative

44 dupes

actually adding the close reason doesn't seem really necessary @DMA57361

DMA57361

I wonder if the API reveals this information?

Ivo Flipse

it does

data.stackexchange.com/superuser/s/792/…

Sathya

oh ?

DMA57361

14:58

no, data.SE !== API

Sathya

Ivo Flipse

oh right ;P

DMA57361

45, 35, 8, 4, 1 : total 93

based on the data.SE query

doesn't look like it, I can only see closed date and reason on the API spec... :(

KronoS

see... Data.se show 43... while google 148

Sathya

@DMA57361 which route ?

DMA57361

15:05

@Sathya api.superuser.com/1.0/help

Sathya

yeah, I'm looking at that but I seem to be missing something :/

DMA57361

it's the spec for the various types of API pages

for example this -> api.superuser.com/1.0/users/39366 <- is my info (save it somewhere and look at it in a text editor)

Sathya

I got that @DMA57361 I'm not sure where to look at ( or rather which method) which returns closed date & reason - is it just /questions/id ?

DMA57361

yeah

this -> api.superuser.com/1.0/help/method?method=questions{id}

http://api.superuser.com/1.0/help/method?method=questions/{id}

^^ that one

scroll down to the "Returns" section, and that's everything a call to that URL will return for you

"closed_date" and "closed_reason" are both in there

Sathya

yep

but doesn't display the current votes cast

api.superuser.com/1.0/questions/238525

DMA57361

15:11

votes = score, up_vote_count and down_vote_count

Sathya

the question I referred to has atleast 1( by me) close vote @DMA57361

DMA57361

0

Q: gmail: sort by subject

Hello. is there a way to sort the e-mails in gmail by subject? i don't mind if using a greasemonkey script for that job but i did not find anything relevant. i also do not want to use any 3rd party email application to do. i want to be able to sort using the web interface. thanks!

gmail sorting

no it doesn't...

oh wait

close votes

facepalm

yes, that's correct, there's no details of close votes in there

Sathya

try this

api.superuser.com/1.0/questions/238525?answers=true

DMA57361

but it does have fields for when and why it was closed (which presumably only appear if a question is closed)

@Sathya OK...what am I looking at this time?

Sathya

it's migrated now :)

passed a parameter ?answers=true

DMA57361

15:15

yes

KronoS

@Sathya what about edits... any goolge searching magic there?

DMA57361

my point was that we can't use the API to find out how many people have closed questions

Sathya

yep, I agree with that @DMA57361

@KronoS I don't think so

KronoS

well updated the nom profile with some specific stats... I'm not sure it's gonna help though lol... stats aren't really that good

studiohack

15:53

@KronoS: creative way to count your close votes! I like it

Sathya

hmph

DMA57361

@Sathya ?

Sathya

my wireless

DMA57361

ah

Sathya

in the past half hour I've had to re-enable it manually 5 times

DMA57361

16:04

ouch

studiohack

life's hard sometimes... @Sathya

Kyle

16:20

1000 rep, yay :D

Sathya

grats 'Kyle

Kyle

thx

Sathya

tho I voted to close the question on which you crossed 1k rep

Kyle

That post was very difficult to read.

lots of spelling errors too

studiohack

17:50

congrats @Kyle

Nyuszika7H

18:15

Hi there! :)

KronoS

18:59

lol I just earned the critic badge for voting at SO :)

studiohack

nice :P

David

I wonder if tooth implants hurt(sigh...)?

I just jacked one of my teeth up during lunch.

stupid taco bell with Fritos.

nhinkle

@Sathya, @IvoFlipse, @KronoS: there's a data query for finding closed questions actually, it even breaks it down by close reason

data.stackexchange.com/superuser/s/792/…

KronoS

lol... I'm sorry @David but that's funy

@nhinkle yes but the data is old..

Ivo Flipse

I think I linked that in the blog room yes

nhinkle

19:11

@KronoS, true, the data isn't very fresh

KronoS

That's why i did the google search instead

nhinkle

Makes sense

Ivo Flipse

I'm not 100% sure if that doesn't show questions twice or doesn't show others at all

Ivo Flipse

19:37

0

A: Old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes

Can anyone give me a good reason why to keep closed questions around after a certain grace period for appealing the closing? Every question that's off-topic, not a real question or argumentative/subjective becomes a dead end. Keeping them around to serve as an example for new users apparently ...

KronoS

@IvoFlipse Are there any situation where a question is closed to prevent answering more? But the quality of the question is still good and a good answer has been found?

nhinkle

@KronoS in that case it gets locked

Ivo Flipse

indeed

and I'm protecting questions more and more, to prevent 1 rep users to answer

nhinkle

questions can be "protected" to prevent answers from people with <10 rep, and can be "locked" to prevent all further answer

KronoS

fair enough... then I can't think of any reason to keep them...

nhinkle

19:48

perhaps it would be worth considering automatically protecting questions which have an accepted answer with at least n upvotes and are greater than m months old

KronoS

@nhinkle I think that's a good idea, but there a vague line in drawing that... and who decides to draw that line?

Ivo Flipse

put it up on Meta @nhinkle ;)

though I guess it would be rejected

because the answer could get outdated

but in that case, I think the whole question is invalidated

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