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fahad

3:00 AM

newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/comp99/CS036.htm

So we have faster memory locations than RAM,like registers and cache

KronoS

I believe registers are used for CPU operations...

there's really no "data storage" per say just flow of information via use of registers...

fahad

hmmm..

KronoS

wishes his embedded computer systems textbook was here

fahad

lol.I am very much interested in embedded systems

I am doing my computer engineering

KronoS

Systems engineering here

fahad

3:04 AM

or Systems engineering I must say

: D

Same here : p

KronoS

so I dable a little with computer engineering...

what?! no way?

where you going to school at?

fahad

St Patricks High School...

KronoS

oh... lol...

I'm at the university level ;)

St. Patricks High in Pakistan o_0 ?

fahad

Even I am at the university level : P ...You asked me about my school : D

@KronoS:yes

KronoS

That's cool... doing dual credit courses then I assume?

fahad

3:07 AM

No!Just university thing...I misunderstood your statement about the school

KronoS

so now I'm confuzzled... where are you currently going to school? a university or a high school? :)

fahad

I have done my schooling !

I am now at university level.Dont push me back to school : P

3rd semester going on ..

KronoS

lol ok... we in the US we call all "schooling" school... elemntary to university

That's cool... what courses are you taking?

fahad

I am doing OOP,LDST and instrumentation etc

KronoS

LDST?

just took OOP last sem

fahad

3:12 AM

Logic Designing and Switching Theory

KronoS

ah! I believe that's similar to my current Embedded Computer Systems class I'm taking right now...

fahad

right now?

Your in your university?

KronoS

lol... no I'm at home... I mean this semester

fahad

Oh..Oki

No its not that like embedded systems.We will study that in the last semester.Its an optional course

KronoS

sounds interesting then...

fahad

3:16 AM

I saw your blog..

I think you could do far better than that..

think*

Mark Szymanski

I'm finally going to stop being lazy and rewrite About.

digitxp

@MarkSzymanski No need. It's a lot easier just to become famous and then have Wikipedia write your About page for you.

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Mark Szymanski

Haha XD

About is an IRC bot I'm making XD

KronoS

@fahad how so?

hey @MarkSzymanski how are you?

Mark Szymanski

Hi, @KronoS. I'm doing fine, like I said, I'm going to be rewriting About, an IRC bot I made :P

KronoS

3:20 AM

lol good...

fahad

@KronoS: Saw your SuperUser reputation.I think you have got much better information to share on your blog

Mark Szymanski

Haha, I'm surprised that no one asked what it does XD

KronoS

@fahad well my attention has been placed into this:

superuser.blogoverflow.com

@MarkSzymanski was about to... what does it do?

Mark Szymanski

It's for storing information about people, could be a short bio or something. Its intended use is for FurNet, for storing information about people's fursonas :P

digitxp

fahad

3:23 AM

@KronoS:What makes you blog?I mean if your not getting paid,why do you write?

KronoS

@fahad why do you use SU?

fahad

To increase my knowledge by asking and sometimes helping out...

digitxp

@KronoS @fahad Let's just say self-expression and be done with it.

KronoS

@digitxp lol

my point was that I like to share knowledge with others... like you @fahad

digitxp

...and in turn, I feel the need to search for knowledge.

fahad

3:27 AM

: ) ..

@KronoS:What embedded systems have you made yet?

KronoS

just started the class so none yet :)

fahad

My friends call me "Embedded ": p My interest in embedded systems is increasing at a high pace

KronoS

one of my classmates and friend is a Navy vet and already took this class in the navy... He's so giddy about taking it again its funny

fahad

He might not have understood it in the first class :p

studiohack

I'm off for the night. see you all at the Town Hall! ;)

KronoS

3:37 AM

@studiohack later

nhinkle

'night @studiohack

KronoS

@fahad no NAVY credit doesn't transfer

hey @nhinkle when did you come in?

nhinkle

@ivoflipse, I've got another tag wiki modification suggestion for you. It looks like there's now the ability to propose edits on tag wikis too, but the site melted before my eyes when I tried that

@KronoS about 10 seconds ago :P

I've was doing some stuff on meta but didn't have a chat window open

KronoS

oh :)

nhinkle

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Q: Proposed tag wiki for Google Chrome

This is a suggested tag wiki entry for google-chrome, a tag which very few users can edit and would benefit from having a more detailed tag wiki. Please see "make editing tag wikis more accessible" for more details. Short Description Web browser developed and released by Google. Uses the We...

(@ivoflipse)

KronoS

3:38 AM

you might as well just wait for a couple of days and then you'll do it yourself @nhinkle ;)

nhinkle

We'll see @KronoS. Hopefully so, but may as well not count my chickens before they hatch :)

and besides, I have time to do it now :)

KronoS

always the truly humble one we are @nhinkle

yes ;)

nhinkle

well gee, thanks :)

anyhow, how're things going for you?

KronoS

good... just workig on the resume for internship/study abroad

nhinkle

nice, nice. I've been doing a lot of that recently too

I have a bunch of scholarship applications due on the 1st, so I did a lot of resume/application writing this weekend

KronoS

3:43 AM

that's nice... I don't know what I'd do without free money from scholarships and grants

barlop

echo a | xxd -p <-- how do I then write the hex to a file?

nhinkle

@KronoS, same here

I was super lucky - I got a nearly full-tuition scholarship, one of only 50 they give out to top students in the state. That's making college waayyyy more affordable. Books, room & board, etc. all cost a lot too though

KronoS

I got married... and then the government finally felt bad enough to start paying some... :(

and a small scholarship as well...

I've still had to take out a few loans, but not nearly as much as I thought I would...

nhinkle

anyone else having/can confirm this problem?

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It appears that the new suggested edits feature was only partially implemented with tag wikis. I experienced this problem on SuperUser, but suspect it's a system-wide issue with the engine, so am bringing it up on MSO. I was given the option to edit the tag wikis for tags which already had one...

support bug tag-wiki suggested-edits

KronoS

@nhinkle this has already been posted on meta.SU I believe...

nhinkle

3:51 AM

Hm. I posted on MSO and searched there first, but didn't check MSU. I'll go look

KronoS

i can't find it at the moment, but I remember reading about it at one time...

nhinkle

@KronoS you're probably getting confused with the discussion I started about lowering the bar for editing tag wikis in general

or the discussion about not showing an edit link to users who don't have the privileges to do so

this is a new problem brought on by the onset of proposed edits, a feature (or bug) which is very new

KronoS

maybe... I don't remember and am too lazy/busy to search for it...

@nhinkle you mind taking a look at the most recent revision of the blog post for SSD's? I'm going to post tonight I think and just need a third pair of eyes...

nhinkle

I'll go look at it in a few minutes

KronoS

k thanks

nhinkle

4:06 AM

@ivoflipse, here's another

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Q: Proposed tag wiki for Microsoft Excel

This is a suggested tag wiki entry for microsoft-excel, a tag which very few users can edit and would benefit from having a more detailed tag wiki. Please see "make editing tag wikis more accessible" for more details. Excerpt Microsoft Office Excel is a spreadsheet application written and d...

discussion tag-wiki tag-wiki-suggestion

ok @KronoS, I'll go look at the blog now

let's see if i can remember my password :P

KronoS

:) lol

nhinkle

"the starting of our SSD journey"?

Mark Szymanski

Well, I'm off to bed, goodnight everyone.

nhinkle

'night @MarkSzymanski

KronoS

later @MarkSzymanski

@nhinkle yes

nhinkle

4:08 AM

k

reading now

this may be oversimplifying as we do have a technical audience, but might we want to at least give a brief definition of what an SSD is, and why they're relevant?

if you think that would be good, I'll go ahead and write it

KronoS

@nhinkle i do... but I wanted to do that in a later post...maybe when I get them and install them... if that makes sense...

nhinkle

hmmm. why not now though? it doesn't have to be in-depth, but just a very short - even one sentence - blurb

KronoS

Go ahead and put it in there... if I don't like it I'll take it out when I post ;) j/k

nhinkle

> SSD stands for "solid state drive". They use solid-state memory (similar to flash drives) to store data, and serve the same function that a hard drive does in most computers. Because they have no moving parts, they are much faster than regular hard drives, but solid-state memory is currently much more expensive per-gigabyte than hard drives. We'll have more posts soon about the technology behind SSDs, and some of the interesting hybrids between traditional HDDs and the new SSDs.

how's that sound? a bit more than a sentence, but I think it sums it up alright

KronoS

I like it...

nhinkle

4:15 AM

OK. I'll take that out then, and stick it in the post somewhere where it fits

Will let you know once I've edited it

KronoS

nvm

k thx

nhinkle

perhaps rather than saying "much more", just say "more expensive". makes it sound less drastic (which kingston would probably like) and is still true, and a part of why we're testing: to see if the price is worth it

KronoS

@nhinkle ya I like that wording better

nhinkle

@KronoS, draft saved

or in-progress of saving

KronoS

pulling up as we speak

nhinkle

4:17 AM

gah my internet is suddenly being suckily slow

KronoS

How to answer a question on #stackoverflow - a step-by-step guide. http://bit.ly/e9etPW

Tweeted by rchern on January 31, 2011 at 4:16 AM

lol

nhinkle

@KronoS there we go

KronoS

sweet just looked at it... looks good... going to post...

superuser.blogoverflow.com/qotw/the-starting-of-our-ssd-journey

and published!

nhinkle

'grats

well done

nhinkle

4:41 AM

oh dear, this is all kinds of broken

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It appears that the new suggested edits feature was only partially implemented with tag wikis. I experienced this problem on SuperUser, but suspect it's a system-wide issue with the engine, so am bringing it up on MSO. I was given the option to edit the tag wikis for tags which already had one...

support bug tag-wiki suggested-edits

(waffles posted some info and is looking into it, in that process, we discovered that none of it's working as it's supposed to with proposed tag wiki edits)

digitxp

5:04 AM

Anyone else using Opera 11?

nhinkle

nope

chrome :D

and firefox, because i can't live without firebug for doing web development

digitxp

@nhinkle IMO Opera is so much faster than Chrome at this moment and has more features at that, but the pesky rendering engine keeps getting in the way of things.

Sathya

@IvoFlipse indeed, maybe we need another round of top-newcomes-get-T-shirts or something

nhinkle

@Sathya or top not-totally-new-but-missed-the-last-round ;)

Sathya

indeed ;) @nhinkle

nhinkle

5:13 AM

how are you @Sathya?

Sathya

I'm good, thanks @nhinkle had a good Sunday ?

nhinkle

Indeed I did

Slept in, made delicious food this morning, did a bunch of useful stuff on SU, played an epic game of ultimate frisbee, and even got a small amount of homework done

Sathya

nice :)

the town hall thingy is in another 10 hours or so

nhinkle

yep. Means I"m getting up early tomorrow :/

Sathya

:D

it's going to be great time for me :P 20:30

nhinkle

5:18 AM

lucky duck

and now i ought to go do some more homework

Sathya

:D

nhinkle

see you at the town hall session @Sathya

'night all

Sathya

alright, take care @nhinkle see you then!

Good night!

Sathya

5:45 AM

oo tag editor badge

Ivo Flipse

10:12 AM

gooooooood morning

►

oh man I see need to start messing around with Kinect :D

Sathya

morning @IvoFlipse

Mokubai

Morning @Sathya @IvoFlipse

Sathya

morning @Mokubai

Mokubai

Are the elections blind now, until they close and the votes are counted?

Ivo Flipse

yup

well counted, it's not like Jeff and Joel are going to sit down and count straws :P

Mokubai

10:16 AM

I reckon they should throw a dice to decide who gets to be mod :)

I've cast my votes, it remains to be seen who the people choose now...

Ivo Flipse

yes, it's too bad the commons get to have a say ;P

Mokubai

You think there should be a minimum rep to vote?

Ivo Flipse

no, I was just kidding

plus there is a minimum rep, only 4000 users are allowed to vote (or something like that)

Ivo Flipse

10:39 AM

2

Sathya

@IvoFlipse guess 150+ rep ?

Ivo Flipse

> Any community member with 150 reputation may vote in the election.

Sathya

just put in my resignation

Mokubai

:O

At work?

Sathya

@Mokubai yep

Mokubai

10:50 AM

Wow, got another job lined up? Or was it just that sucky that you had to leave?

Ivo Flipse

didn't you have the interview @oracle this saturday?

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse I can't stop watching this

Ivo Flipse

you can't indeed, because it's on the same page :P

Sathya

@IvoFlipse yep, I cleared the tech interview. Got the HR interview day after tomorrow

@Mokubai mix of both

I was associated with a long term project ( for which I was in US). That got scrapped.

and the new one.. I've got assigned to trivial stuff. Started looking. Got a confirmed offer, another possible offer*

(* hopefully will be confirmed on Wednesday/later)

Ivo Flipse

I hope you get the job you want :)

did I mention my new processor runs laps around my old one?

Sathya

11:01 AM

Thank you @IvoFlipse :)

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse You got your new machine then?

Sathya

@IvoFlipse I missed it, if you have

Ivo Flipse

yup, well built it @Mokubai

Sathya

can you give an indication past v/s present comparison ?

Ivo Flipse

no I just tried my Python code

Mokubai

11:02 AM

@Sathya good luck!

Ivo Flipse

it runs in like 15 seconds vs 3 minutes or more :P

Sathya

@IvoFlipse oh wow!

Mokubai

Nice

Sathya

thank you @Mokubai!

Ivo Flipse

nearly double the frequency, double the amount of cores

Sathya

11:03 AM

is there a ModRewrite-like extension for chrome ? :-s

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse You OC'd it up to 4GHz then?

Sathya

atleast redirect foo.com/xyz to bar.com/xyz

Ivo Flipse

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse 4.4?!? Yowza!

Ivo Flipse

it's watercooled too :)

did have a random reboot just now, but I'm suspecting Windows Update to be the cause of that

Mokubai

11:08 AM

What processor did you have before?

Ivo Flipse

e6400 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo

Mokubai

Not a bad processor by all accounts, but as you say, your new processor smokes it completely

Ivo Flipse

indeed

I never really overclocked that one either

though I could have

didn't really understand how to get it stable

now it was just one setting in the bios

Mokubai

Mine's running at stock, it's a generic manufacturer machine and the cooling isn't that great, but as a machine I have absolutely no complaints about it

But yeah, seems these days the mobo manufacturers have the overclocking down pat, single setting change and there you go

If I remember rightly AMD even have a tool to overclock in Windows...

Ivo Flipse

I think I have too, but it boots in 30 seconds

I can live with a reboot :P

Mokubai

11:14 AM

I hate SVN

Just running an SVN update from our remote site takes upwards of 2 hours now, and it's only getting worse as people add more stuff

And you have to do an update to make sure you're working with the latest versions of everything

Ivo Flipse

I use git, the guys in here made me do it!

Sathya

:D

Mokubai

I'd prefer to use Git, as I like the way is basically downloads all the revs and builds your working copy from that, but someone chose svn and "externals" don't work in Git

Oh I hope that SVN 1.7 with the new local cache works with 1.6 repos

if svn-externals worked in Git, I'd be using git-svn for everything

Sathya

what's svn-externals @Mokubai

Mokubai

It's a way of pulling a part of a repository into your local project, we generally use it so that one set of documentation can have all it's dependencies in one place

Except that the part that gets pulled in is updatable to it's original location

The only problem is that it makes an update painfully slow as it has to check the version and update every external separately

Sathya

11:23 AM

ah ouch

Mokubai

It's useful, and a nice feature, but the fact that I'm at a remote site and working over an ADSL link means that the connection has a lot of latency and so all that checking is slooooooow

The people on the same network as the server say it's fine for them

Which is nice...

Sathya

:)

Ivo Flipse

great I updated my IDE

now some things don't work the way it used to :P

I seriously need to set some standards, to stop that from happening

Sathya

see, now you know why corporates stick to IE6 & Win XP

:P

Ivo Flipse

no, I said I'm going to set some standards to prevent it, not live with the old ways

Mokubai

11:38 AM

@Sathya SHUDDER

Sathya

@Mokubai my current working condition =.=

Mokubai

IE6 should be banned, I think the Geneva convention says something about "Cruel and Unusual Punishments"....

Ivo Flipse

they should all be hit by some terrible virus

that kills the hardware

Sathya

well we'll get new hardware and Win XP & IE6

TomWij

@Sathya Privoxy

Sathya

11:42 AM

@TomWij I see that you haven't experienced web(non)sense

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

URL: privoxy.org
Rule: Block URLs of type known disease vector

TomWij

@Sathya: And why is that?

Sathya

Websense

Websense is a San Diego-based company specializing in Web security gateway software. It enables clients (businesses and governments) to block access to chosen categories of websites. The company has come under some criticism from civil liberties groups on the grounds that it provides repressive regimes with a way to restrict freedom of speech. History Websense was founded by Phil Trubey in 1994. It went public in the year 2000. Apart from Web filtering, also known as Internet content-control software, the company provides email security, and data loss-prevention technology. The softw...

TomWij

@Sathya: Yes, I know, but why didn't I experience it?

Sathya

@TomWij else you wouldn't point me to privoxy

Ivo Flipse

@TomWij any experience with Eclipse?

TomWij

11:46 AM

But you've asked for it

Sathya

@TomWij when ?

about the ModRewrite ?

TomWij

Yes

Sathya

well privoxy doesn't work, and for most sites i have a bookmarklet which fetches the page using instapaper

TomWij

There's not really something on the Privoxy site that is malicious.

Alternative: sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa

Sathya

Jan 21 at 6:05, by Sathya

http://marklets.com/Mobilizr.aspx

@TomWij blocked.

TomWij

11:50 AM

And here is the rewrite rule section:

privoxy.org/user-manual/actions-file.html#REDIRECT

But I guess you'll have to wait till you get home then...

@IvoFlipse Yeah, a bit, why?

Meh, I don't like it when people remove their comments. Then it's in my inbox and I can't get to read the other part of the comment nor who wrote it... :-(

Sathya

@TomWij it's for my work pc

TomWij

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Q: Change the current URL in Chrome using a regular expression or similar

When a deprecated URL is entered in Chrome it should be changed to an updated URL based on a regular expression or similar. I would like to do the following Input a rule to the system that changes "olddomain.com" to "newdomain.com" Enter a URL like "olddomain.com/stuff" in Chrome Chrome change...

google-chrome

Sathya

@TomWij very nice, thanks.

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