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Mark Szymanski

03:12

Evening, everyone.

Mark Szymanski

03:53

sighs, for he has just lost every single subscriber to his website's RSS feed

studiohack

how come @MarkSzymanski?

Mark Szymanski

I have no idea.

studiohack

how many did you have?

Mark Szymanski

It could have something to do with my uploading a bunch of photos I took.

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studiohack

You mean your website might have lost them? or someone manually unsuscribed?

Mark Szymanski

03:54

I think everyone manually unsubscribed.

Because, there is still one subscriber.

Me.

studiohack

heh lol

Mark Szymanski

And, the photos aren't very good quality, seeing as how they were taken with my iPod Touch.

But, meh. Who cares. It's my website, and I'll do what I want with it. I'm not going to change it just because of what others think.

studiohack

some of them were good though...oh well.

Mark Szymanski

Yeah... Thanks ^^

studiohack

how are you otherwise? lol

Mark Szymanski

03:56

I'm doing great, thanks. I got four upvotes on a quite simple answer of mine that I just posted, so that's making me happy :3

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A: On Mac OS X how can I see how much memory is being used by what programs?

You can use the Activity Monitor application. It is located in /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app.

Forty rep in the bag.

dances :3

studiohack

that's awesome. you kept it simple and answered the question so you deserve it. :) 10 of the rep is mine haha

Mark Szymanski

Thanks! ^^

Well, I'm off to bed. Goodnight @studiohack, @everyone.

studiohack

good night @MarkSzymanski

Sathya

04:14

morning folks

KronoS

evening @Sathya :P

Sathya

:) @KronoS

KronoS

how was your sleep @Sathya?

Sathya

very nice :P

KronoS

Homework Help

Help on homework for all you starving students out there...

oh and we made a new room

good @Sathya I'm looking forward to mine :)

Sathya

04:20

yep, saw that room earlier @KronoS

@KronoS yey!

KronoS

listening to mumford & sons and realizes... they're amazing!

Sathya

googles mumford & sons

Mumford & Sons

Mumford & Sons is an English folk rock band. The band consists of Marcus Mumford (vocals, guitar, drums, mandolin), Ben Lovett (vocals, keyboards, accordion, drums), "Country" Winston Marshall (vocals, banjo, dobro), and Ted Dwane (vocals, string bass, drums). Although the band members have claims on certain instruments, they switch instruments during live shows according to convenience, for they each play a variety of instruments. The band formed in October 2007, rising out of what some in the media labelled the "West London folk scene" with other artists such as Laura Marling, Johnny Fly...

KronoS

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although it swears this one is one of my favs

Sathya

English folk rock, interesting. Will listen later.

now I'm off to work

KronoS

worthwhile IMO

later @Sathya

Sathya

05:34

This takes the cake

Access to this URL is currently restricted due to a blocking rule.

URL: ur.ly/BC3Y
Rule: Block URLs of type Disease Vector

nhinkle

05:49

oh my

"disease vector"?

do other url shorteners like goo.gl and bit.ly work?

Sathya

yes @nhinkle

bit.ly, goog.gl works

nhinkle

now that's just silly

tinyurl?

Sathya

t.co is blocked as a "social network" :|

nhinkle

sounds like your work's filtering is pretty ridiculous

Sathya

@nhinkle tell me about it

Access to this URL is currently restricted due to a blocking rule.

URL: news.ycombinator.com
Rule: Block URLs of type Games

:|

nhinkle

05:58

O_o

where do you work?

Sathya

currently --> 3i-infotech.com/content/index.aspx

nhinkle

hm. what do you do there? it looks like they make all kinds of things

ooh, this is classy:

> Site best viewed with Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Netscape 6.0+ in 1024x768 resolution.

Sathya

@nhinkle I develop, customize & implement this --> 3i-infotech.com/content/insurance/insurance_software.aspx

@nhinkle yeah, the roll-over menus don't work on Chrome :|

nhinkle

it looks like it worked for me

on that product page you linked to:

> Browser - Internet Explorer 6.0 / Firefox 2.0

Does that mean you have to target those old browsers when you're developing?

or is the info page just out of date

Sathya

@nhinkle both

I don't deal with Web dev, mine's database development

nhinkle

06:05

ah. bummer they restrict your internet so much :/

Sathya

well I'm happy I have access to this and stackoverflow

for the blocked ones I have this

marklets.com/Mobilizr.aspx

@nhinkle

nhinkle

back when i was in high school, they blocked all sorts of stuff

the teachers actually complained to the IT department about youtube being blocked because they couldn't show videos which were actually instructional and useful, so they ended up unblocking it

some of us discovered that even though www.facebook.com is blocked, www.www.facebook.com is not blocked, and happens to work just as well, as long as you're already logged in

as a matter of fact, justabout.anything.www.facebook.com works

Sathya

ha!

Access to this URL is currently restricted due to a blocking rule.

URL: justabout.anything.www.facebook.com
Rule: Block URLs of type Social Networking

worth a shot anyway. Not that I'm ever going to open fb at work. I'd rather use my phone

nhinkle

your blocking software is probably a bit smarter and is blocking *.facebook.com or even facebook's IPs directly

Sathya

it's Web(non)Sense

> You can ensure that no DML operations occur by adding the WITH READ ONLY option to your view definition

And I told you can do so using Roles & Privileges ( during my interview)

nhinkle

06:15

i find the whole notion of web filtering software impractical. if workers/students want to goof off and waste time, they will. firewalls should already be keeping out viruses and the like, though it is appropriate to filter for known harmful sites. but the fact is, you won't be able to block everything you don't want people accessing, and you will end up blocking things which should be helpful.

i think it's more appropriate to say, "we're logging every page you visit. if you're not getting your work done, we'll look at your browsing history, and if you're on facebook all the time, you're fired." then people have an incentive to get their stuff done, but don't feel like they're being bullied when they use the web

Sathya

@nhinkle that's very true. Unfortunately, the policies are generally dictated by Management who don't seem to grasp those concepts

nhinkle

of course in some situations you have to filter things strictly, like if you're in a scenario where you don't want data being accidentally leaked to the outside world, for example if you're working in defense, etc. but at an IT company? bah

Jeff Atwood

07:40

FYI, anonymous / low rep user edit suggestions are now enabled ; if you see edit (1) on a question it is a suggested edit. Diamond mods can view queued pending edits via a topbar count notification which leads to a tab on /review

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Sathya

08:28

thanks for the update @JeffAtwood

DMA57361

@nhinkle probably because as I said goodbye I switched off my server and cycled my IP address :)

and morning all

Sathya

morning @DMA57361 saw your earlier post about and noticed Home IP, figured it might have been shutdown

DMA57361

yeah

one link was a leadertable for the primaries, the other was an attempt to get the number of edits a user had made (but the latter overuses the API, so I'm going to drop it I think)

Sathya

ah

I had a look at the screenshots tho.. very impressive :) @DMA57361

DMA57361

@Sathya meh, not necessarily at the code level thou; I had to add an arbitrary 1 second delay to the JavaScript of the edit one to get the results to work correctly - and I don't understand why :/

Sathya

08:39

@DMA57361 :D hacks

DMA57361

indeed! :)

Sathya

09:38

hi @IvoFlipse

Ivo Flipse

hi @Sathya

Sathya

zero productivity today :/

been reading some documentation on same database basics :/

Ivo Flipse

sounds like me waking up at 10:30

but I guess in your case it wasn't voluntary

Sathya

yeah

Ivo Flipse

flexible and agile support for IE6? ;P

Sathya

09:43

LOL

catching up on the transcripts eh @IvoFlipse

Ivo Flipse

yeah

Sathya

:)

DMA57361

morning @IvoFlipse

Ivo Flipse

hi @DMA57361 :)

DMA57361

stuck at home on ill-child watch again today

Sathya

09:47

would

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Q: What is the best media center software

What's the best media center software for watching your movie/TV library in your living room? I'm looking for something that has the following: download movie/TV posters and details. keep track of what episode I'm on. Resume where I stopped watching last time. Easy navigation using a remote. ...

be a reasonable dupe for

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Q: Looking for video clip collection management software for Windows

I am looking for video clip collection management software for Windows. Something like iDive on the mac. The sort of features I'm looking for include: Scans video library and builds a database. Browse collection with preview clips. Allow me to dynamically filter or view based on metadata (e.g....

windows software-rec file-management media-center

Ivo Flipse

@MarkSzymanski I'm still subscribed, just don't post any crappy pictures ;P

not sure @Sathya

I guess every media player does it

Sathya

hmm just left a comment to have a look at the other question

Ivo Flipse

> @Nicholas, have you tried any programs from this other SU question? If not, try some of those and report back what did and didn't work – Ivo Flipse♦ 0 secs ago

So I noticed

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Q: Why is Windows default IP address 169.xx.xx.xx?

I got this the other day and fixed the issue, but was wondering why Microsoft chose this address as default. Why not 1.xx.xx.xx or 255.xx.xx.xx? Did one guy at Microsoft say "Hey, pick a number 1 to 255....who just said 169?! Ok we're going with that for our Windows default IP address"

ip-address dhcp tcpip apipa

we have a new QotW ;P

DMA57361

heh, I've wondered that before, but never bothered to look it up :)

Sathya

Indeed @IvoFlipse was about to ask you the same

Ivo Flipse

09:59

but we need to add something that explains a bit more I guess

Wil

10:18

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morning all!

DMA57361

morning

Sathya

morning @Wil

Ivo Flipse

good morning @Wil isn't that the guy who did that song with justin timberlake, that mother lover song

Wil

I think he is the I jizzed my pants / just had sex guy!

Ivo Flipse

I love how they get all these famous people to join them

haha, did you check the other video's from that account?

NSFW: youtube.com/watch?v=z4iiyRv_NrQ&feature=channel

Wil

10:25

nope, my brother just put this on my Facebook, il take a look now

lol

Ivo Flipse

omg the Natalie Portman Rap needs some censoring

Wil

... They made a macgruber film.... so many good things never reach the UK! :(

@IvoFlipse Do you have a link, I can't see it?

Ivo Flipse

it's too NSFW I fear :P

Wil

lol

safe for home office?

Ivo Flipse

metrolyrics.com/natalies-rap-lyrics-the-lonely-island.html

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not that I care about NSFW stuff, but Google likes to index every word that comes out of my keyboard here on chat

Wil

10:41

@IvoFlipse OMFG

Ivo Flipse

told you so

Wil

lol

DMA57361

11:02

btw, (sort of) graphs: 85.210.194.203/primary.html (yes, I've too much time on my hands today)

oo, look at the shiny colours :P

Sathya

ooo nice slide in :P

you're scraping @DMA57361 ?

DMA57361

@Sathya jQuery - soooo easy to slide :D

@Sathya scraping to get the ID's of the nomination posts, and then API to get the votes

Sathya

I really need to learn it a bit

mind showing the code @DMA57361 ?

DMA57361

a fair chunk is nicked from se.awio.com/election.html

@Sathya sure, h/o

Ivo Flipse

I knew third place was going to be very hard

I wouldn't object if this was the final outcome of the elections :)

DMA57361

11:09

curiously thou, blood has more + votes than me - and you can't - vote in the finals; so is he technically ahead?

@Sathya dl.dropbox.com/u/9761428/Temp/primaries.zip.zip

Ivo Flipse

could be sympathy votes

Sathya

well first votes get more weight in elections right

DMA57361

sort of

Ivo Flipse

hmm then I need a strategic first vote

Sathya

Access to this URL is currently restricted due to a blocking rule.

URL: dl.dropbox.com/u/9761428/Temp/primaries.zip.zip
Rule: Block URLs of type Software Downloads

Ivo Flipse

11:11

assuming @Sathya will come ahead in sheer quantity

Sathya

meh

I'll catch it at home

thanks tho @DMA57361

DMA57361

@Sathya how about the short version? db.tt/HJW1qEt

Sathya

Access to this URL is currently restricted due to a blocking rule.

URL: dl.dropbox.com/u/9761428/Temp/primaries.zip.zip
Rule: Block URLs of type Software Downloads

DMA57361

do'h

Sathya

it expands to the same, so blocked

Wil

11:12

Lol, you need to slap your admin!...

DMA57361

you can d/l the CSS, JS and HTML from the site directly

Wil

I wonder if Joe's - score will match Sathya's + score!

DMA57361

and it has a single PHP file called fetch.php that looks like so:

<?php
$contents = file_get_contents( $_GET['url'] );
echo( $contents );
?>

for grabbing pages cross-domain

but I can't promise great quality code; I'm quite new to JavaScript really

Sathya

@DMA57361 baby steps here, just trying to see what it does :)

DMA57361

f/e

Sathya

11:20

can never get my head around DOM :|

DMA57361

ah, that doesn't help

Sathya

:(

DMA57361

you much good with CSS?

Sathya

nope

Ivo Flipse

I think @nhinkle knows a thing or two about it

Sathya

11:24

web dev isn't really my cup of tea

and I suck at design & UI too :P

DMA57361

fair enough

ah well I suck and design an UI, but that's not the point ;)

Sathya

I'll probably create the fugliest piece of UI with bigass buttons everywhere :D

btw miny typo in CS Theory spelling @DMA57361 :)

DMA57361

opps, fixed!

Sathya

Is CS Theory broken or has only 1 person voted ?

DMA57361

I don't think their primaries are open yet

Sathya

11:29

ah

I think I might have hit API limit

all zeroes for SF

DMA57361

that's because they went straight to election

Sathya

ah

my bad

DMA57361

did I ever show off my cheap knock-off of SE I built for my data handling module?

Sathya

nope, push the link :D would love to have a look

DMA57361

--> 85.210.194.203/DH

I think the database for it is still up..

yeah, seems to be

Sathya

11:38

nice @DMA57361 PHP/MySQL ?

DMA57361

yeah

module's focus was on the PHP and database design

netted myself 91% in the module too :)

Sathya

sweet

DMA57361

yeah, but to be fair, the lecturer wasn't the most knowledgeable in the subject...

as in, he hadn't heard of SQL injection...

Sathya

> ERROR: Query failure: INSERT INTO 0715924_PostTags ( tagID , postID ) VALUES (32 , 25);

:D

DMA57361

do'h

Sathya

11:42

dupe tags seems to have caused that

DMA57361

ah

yeah, I don't think I check for that at all

Sathya

(don't mind me, I'm just going nuts with posting random garbage)

DMA57361

that's fine

I've got a hidden reset page ;)

Sathya

@DMA57361 heh :D

DMA57361

it destroys all the tables, rebuilds them and then adds example data

twas necessary because I kept moving between home (on my "server") and the Uni's server

.. did I not set a post length limit :/

Sathya

11:44

:P

DMA57361

lol

I set a minimum limit

and min/max for title

but no max for the boy

oh well :P

Sathya

is there no max limit for body at all ?

wonder when it'll break :D

DMA57361

nothing is enforced in the PHP

so it's entirely up to the database :/

it's of text type...

Sathya

hmm

DMA57361

yeah

Sathya

11:47

85.210.194.203/DH/question.php?id=29

is quite a question :P

DMA57361

indeed

possibly I need to add flagging for low quality :P

Sathya

heh :D

so I deleted that question anyway

DMA57361

aww, and I just started to down-vote you ;P

Sathya

I got -ve rep :(((

:P

DMA57361

yeah

Sathya

11:49

there's another question + answer there ;)

> voting on own post

DMA57361

yeah

the error messages are a little unfriendly

but only 5% of the mark was for the UI :P

Sathya

btw I gave a bogus email on registering

@DMA57361 that explains :P

DMA57361

@Sathya how bogus?

Sathya

[email protected]

so technically it's still a valid email

DMA57361

that's OK then ;P

hehe

in my PHP:

/* TODO: check for valid email */

Sathya

11:53

@DMA57361 yey!

DMA57361

oic

Sathya

btw, how did you fetch for nomination posts in the graph thingy ?

DMA57361

it grabs superuser.com/election?tab=primary via the fetch.php and trawls that for the post numbers

it then uses the post numbers to get the data via the API

again, a fair chunk of that bit was borrowed from se.awio.com/election.html

Sathya

okk

you've had a look at this ? (I suspect not)

plsqlchallenge.com

DMA57361

nope, let me have a nose

ah, nice

what sort of things do they ask?

Sathya

12:03

mostly Oracle PL/SQL related

once in a while there's standard SQL questions too

DMA57361

well, yes :)

do you happen to take part then?

Sathya

@DMA57361 I tried to pay a daily visit

lost touch, I think I hadn't paid a visit in over a month

resulted in drop in my ranking

currently at 1028 :/

DMA57361

and what were you?

Sathya

with 63.2% correct answers :(

plsqlchallenge.com/pls/apex/…:::

DMA57361

erm... error

Sathya

12:05

try the link again @DMA57361

DMA57361

still can't get in; and I'm not sure chat parsed it correctly (the colons)

Sathya

ah yes

Try this

DMA57361

that's worked

no wait

it goes back to the home page :/

Sathya

should be fine now, my apologies

DMA57361

afraid not

Sathya

12:09

:(

have tried this in Chrome incognito -> u.sbhat.me/ehIxv2

DMA57361

ah

that short link worked

how odd

Sathya

Oracle Apex's URL structure is funky weird and not at all user friendly

DMA57361

yeah, I'd noticed

not bad, mid-2010 you were pretty high up

Sathya

yeah I didn't login in, though I'd get 2 reminders everyday :/

//baaad bad @Sathya

DMA57361

lol

Sathya

12:15

I was on a streak for one particular week, was in top 50

afair, question toughness bumped up suddenly and I was more or less doing random guesses, think that was one of the reasons why I stopped

I could've learnt more but didn't <s>get</s> didn't make enough time

DMA57361

yeah, know that feeling

Sathya

I have an interview tomorrow at Oracle, and I'm just wondering how it's going to be

DMA57361

yes, you'd mentioned it after your interview earlier this week; IIRC this one is the more preferred position?

Sathya

yep

I'm fairly upto to the mark when it comes to the basics, but I haven't had too much exposure to the more advanced stuff

DMA57361

depends on what they're after I suppose, what sort of position is it?

Sathya

12:25

Senior Dev / Team Lead

DMA57361

ah ok, well team lead positions don't just need the programming skills, people skills etc probably play quite a factor?

Sathya

@DMA57361 yep, tbh I'm not too concerned about that but I need to clear the technical test first

I did fairly bad on some of the more advanced topics on my tuesdays' interview ( was blank when he asked about IOTables, Clustered Tables & Collections) but I told him I hadn't used them much so I don't know about them

Ivo Flipse

phew I went running for the first time in like 2 months, that was needed badly :P

DMA57361

@Sathya ah ok, but presumably you know what to work on now? (FYI: I've no idea what any of those things are :P)

Sathya

eh, getting too lazy @IvoFlipse :P

DMA57361

12:29

@IvoFlipse how far?

Sathya

@DMA57361 yep, been reading up on them.

Ivo Flipse

pff only 20 mins, I use Adidas Micoach, so I'm just following orders so to say :)

Sathya

@DMA57361 collections are equivalent of dictionaries/hash tables & arrays

Ivo Flipse

Sathya

but getting to use them... is like ugh

DMA57361

12:30

@IvoFlipse lol, orders are often more effective than setting your own target

Ivo Flipse

something strange happened in the beginning

but it might just be the hillside here

DMA57361

@Sathya ah, ok

Sathya

download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96624/…

@IvoFlipse what's that ?

Ivo Flipse

that's an overview of the run, using a heart rate monitor and an accelerometer to count my step + estimated step lengths (so pacing)

then the colors are heart rate zones where they order you to stay in

Sathya

1 min ago, by Ivo Flipse

something strange happened in the beginning

@IvoFlipse I meant :

guess you're referring to the spike ?

Ivo Flipse

12:32

yeah :P I must have hit a small hill

but going up to 80% of my max. beats per minute is quite insane :P

Sathya

@IvoFlipse seem so

Ivo Flipse

for just a stroll

Sathya

avg of 146bpm, and 2.7 km/h nice

Ivo Flipse

well the run was very short, but if I start running at what I 'could' run I'd have an injury next week

so I take it slow

digitxp

Last night I dreamt that I asked a duplicate question. And then unicorns with guns appeared at my door.

Ivo Flipse

12:42

who says that was a dream?

your dead now, this is all just a dream ;P

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wow that Isaac Asimov is quite educated o.O

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