Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:35

hmm

youtube.com/watch?v=tFvkgfBXHPA&feature=player_embedded my second most favourite scene in babylon 5

Journeyman Geek

00:50

hmm, one nice thing about having everything back on the same router is i can play with mouse without borders

Gareth

01:23

@Sathya I'm still around ;) no Chinese firewall stuff stopping me. Just really really really busy in real life. Busy times at Amazon, and I'm running a small VPN service for expats here as well. No time for SU!

Journeyman Geek

@Gareth: ahh, turning a problem into an opportunity ;p

hmm. I need to see if my r61 supports WOL

on one hand, digital idiot. On the other... utterly no helpful information in the question superuser.com/questions/430829/…

Andrew Heath

02:51

hi Superusers, quick question: I've got a GTX460 derivative and am looking to switch to an ATI chipset. What are all the cool kids using these days? Is there a nice sweet-spot in terms of price:performance among ATI cards at present?

Journeyman Geek

>_>

nvidia guy myself, so can't help there

let me check the places i check...

tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html may be of help

Andrew Heath

@JourneymanGeek, thanks

Journeyman Geek

03:07

I know a few people here build with AMD chips, but none of them are currently doing a build

(i am, but i tend to go intel/nvidia)

studiohack

@JourneymanGeek Intel/ATI guy myself :P

Andrew Heath

Looks like an ATI HD 7850 would be a nice step up from the nvidia 460 for only modest cost.

Nice link mate.

studiohack

I have the 6770 - I like that one a lot

Journeyman Geek

If you weren't going ATI, i'd suggest a look at the 560, its a step up from what you have, and supposedly really good value

/me is pondering borrowing the 450 thats in the main desktop for messing around with having a dedicated physics processor alongside a 560 or 660, depending on what i end up getting...

Andrew Heath

@JourneymanGeek, " the Radeon HD 7850 does its job using about half of the power as both older boards based on 40 nm GPUs. As such, the more expensive GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Core loses its recommendation entirely."

shrugs

Journeyman Geek

03:12

@AndrewHeath: sorted then ;p

Andrew Heath

:-)

according to Tom at least

I'll poke around a bit more, but that's a good starting point.

Journeyman Geek

ya

also take a look at anandtech, arstechnica (they do a build every so often) and

er... there's the one jeff atwood uses

ahh yes techreport.com

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek Why are your buy vm guys counting down always ! Do they release small amounts for a long time ?

Journeyman Geek

lol

yes

they have small releases over a period, then none for the rest of the year

Sathya

@Gareth ah, glad to know you're doing fine!

HackToHell

03:18

That sucks, they can release a large amount and then sleep for a year, then atleast it will last for some time

Journeyman Geek

that ends up in it being a madhouse

HackToHell

03:29

lol lifehacker.com/5913945/…

HackToHell

06:39

Not cool, the HDD manufacturer are still keeping the prices up arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/…

Bob

@HackToHell Did you expect anything else? :P

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: i've noticed, and bitched about not being able to get decent cheap low capacity hard drives for a while ;p

iglvzx

I wonder if someone downvoted me because I answered my own question. That, or they have a thing against AHK

0

A: Windows - Launch Google Chrome in Fullscreen mode

If only there was a way to automatically press F11 once Google Chrome was open... There is! With a little help from AutoHotkey we can launch Google Chrome in fullscreen mode. Now, F11 is pretty standard as a fullscreen keyboard shortcut, so we will write a script that can work with any progr...

:P

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek yeah me too, i want an external HDD and prices are very high :/

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: dosen't help that we're down to what..

2 companies making them?

or was it 3

HackToHell

06:43

@Bob filthy corporate companies, no competition, no low price

Journeyman Geek

hm, the WD 1tb model i have has dropped back to pre-flood prices i suspect

least here

HackToHell

Usually it's 20$ to 25$ costlier here

Journeyman Geek

lol

HackToHell

than american prices

Journeyman Geek

my 500 gb drive is twice as expensive as it was when i bought it

which is annoying. 50 bucks is the sweet spot for 'random system drives'

iglvzx

06:45

@JourneymanGeek Apparently, four: "As of March 2012 independent manufacturers were Seagate, Simmtronics, Toshiba and Western Digital." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manufacturers

Journeyman Geek

i've never seen a simmtronics drive anywhere

HackToHell

I bought a 500 gig drive just one month before the flood :)

Journeyman Geek

ditto

I need one or two more ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I got a 1.5TB external hard drive for media and backups about three years ago. The same now costs $40 more :\

iglvzx

@JourneymanGeek Indian company. I think some of our users may recognize it :P

HackToHell

06:46

Yes, too much movies and I am saving up for a laptop so no drive is within budget ;p

Journeyman Geek

am VERY seriously considering a no-name SSD off DX for one of my spare systems ;p

@iglvzx: ok, these guys are almost interesting

HackToHell

@iglvzx I have never seen a simmtronics drive being in India, and it's not on flipkart

Journeyman Geek

prices look sane, but ya, i'd actually need to find these on the market

OOOH

local distributor ;p

HackToHell

there seems to be one in Singapore

Journeyman Geek

ya

almost tempted to e mail them and ask if they'll sell hard drives to indivduals

HackToHell

06:51

lol

Journeyman Geek

e mailed

Sathya

apparently the company I work for got acquired

Journeyman Geek

is that good or bad?

jokerdino

~~The company you worked before? it shouldn't matter much right?~~

HackToHell

He did not say before

jokerdino

06:59

I read it as worked for. My mistake.

iglvzx

Hopefully that wasn't an unintentional foreshadow

Journeyman Geek

lol

NO SPOILERS!

jokerdino

Ouch.

Just don't tell me SE acquired it =)

Journeyman Geek

;p

that would be a good thing

but doubtful

Sathya

@jokerdino hah, I wish but yeah the 2 are poles apart

seems like Logica has been acquired by CGI http://www.nasdaq.com/article/logica-cgi-group-agree-terms-of-recommended-cash-acquisition---quick-facts-20120531-00039 http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/media-advisory-cgi-acquire-logica-creating-global-technology-champion-with-significant-tsx-gib.a-1663492.htm #fb wil have to see how that turns out.

Tweeted by SathyaBhat on May 31, 2012 at 6:36 AM

@JourneymanGeek will have to see. The operating regions are of the 2 are totally different, CGI is Americas, Logica is EU.

Bob

07:13

Do we have a 'FAQ' question to redirect questions related to accidental International keyboard layouts?

jokerdino

@Sathya hehe, I know it is more than unlikely.

HackToHell

@Sathya Then you will able to work in CGI in America :)

Sathya

@Bob I don;t think so

Bob

Well, found two that work.. superuser.com/questions/122625/… and superuser.com/questions/288003/…

In fact, the second one should probably be closed as a dupe of the first :\

What's the rule on old questions that are duplicates of older ones, and both are answered?

HackToHell

Better quality minecraft

►

jokerdino

07:19

Wut?!

oops wrong room.

Bob

:4780184 Isn't that the point of chat?

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino: if they want to use a forum, use a damned forum ;p

jokerdino

Reference link - meta.askubuntu.com/questions/3290/communication-between-user since I posted it anyway

Journeyman Geek

and that

jokerdino

I have no idea what he is trying to tell. :(

Journeyman Geek

07:21

and you can talk about stuff you can't on SE

like "what's the best tool for X"

iglvzx

"anti-activities"? O_O

Bob

@iglvzx Spam, I guess...

iglvzx

@Bob Ah. Like anti-matter...

Interesting word choice

jokerdino

lol

iglvzx

I love how everyone in this question posted the exact same answer:

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Q: Weird problem in windows XP - apostrophes and double quotes don't show up until the key has been pressed twice

When I type a single double quote, no character is displayed. if I type another character, the apostrophe and the next character appear at the same time. This applies to double quotes (") and apostrophes ('). What could possibly be causing this? This occurs in all applications I have tested -...

Bob

07:31

@iglvzx Not the exact same, they all posted parts that, if put together, could make a whole answer :P

iglvzx

Well, very similar answers. lol

Bob

There is a lot of overlap :P

Oliver Salzburg

Morning

Boris_yo

07:47

Morning! @OliverSalzburg

@Bob Morning!
@iglvzx Morning!

Journeyman Geek

(;p Its only fair i ask him a question once in a while )

>_>

Boris_yo

Pardon me for not knowing whether it is evening, afternoon or morning in your countries, but doing online time conversion for everyone of you seems like a hassle.

Journeyman Geek

and delete it before he sees what it is ;p

@Borisyo: this is why there is such a thing as good day

and hello

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Who are you talking to?

Journeyman Geek

or just not bother, like i do, and convince everyone you are a robot

you, presumably ;p

and the man behind the curtain

Boris_yo

07:49

@JourneymanGeek I am not. Will Smith is.

Not iRobot, heRobot.

Maybe he stole idea from Steve Jobs?

Journeyman Geek

...

the basic plot is all asimov

Boris_yo

What if Jobs would create SIRI speaking robot?

@JourneymanGeek Weird surname for a russian... Asimov? hmmm

Journeyman Geek

though they took elements from another story

American ;p

Isaac Asimov, one of the sci fi greats. Wrote the foundation and robot series

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Thanks, I will try to keep that undeleted on my headdrive.

@JourneymanGeek I am "The Randomizer". Earned "Most Random Question" medal yesterday.

Journeyman Geek

lol

I will have questions in august ;p

Boris_yo

07:53

And I am not bot. If i would, my name would be BOTis.

Journeyman Geek

well july/august

funds permitting

Boris_yo

Maybe Riddlerizer would suit too.

@JourneymanGeek "Unable to comply", "insufficient funds".

Journeyman Geek

lol

I'll have enough

question is really if i'll be able to do it in july, or wait till august to get a buffer

Boris_yo

Then get ready to farm Dune worms in your backyard and keep them well fed with vehicles.

Who could have thought that collecting worm's shit can be so profitable... Kudos to Atreides, Ordos and Harkonnen!

Bob

@Boris_yo Evening!

nhinkle

08:14

My damn laptop fan just died. Worst timing.

jokerdino

Use a mechanical fan dude!

2

Oliver Salzburg

08:27

Wow. This laptop has a hotkey to send the screen to sleep.

I remember a few questions regarding such a feature.

Bob

@OliverSalzburg My old one used to (it was backlight off, specifically - the screen was still on). I've been wondering for a while if I could do that on my current laptop :P

Oliver Salzburg

I was just checking all the Fn key combinations on this one :D

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Was it Fn + F2 by any chance?

Oliver Salzburg

F6 actually

Bob

Aww.. this was my one

Annoying Fn/Ctrl locations too, with no way to change them

Oliver Salzburg

08:36

Oh boy. Having the Fn on the bottom left would drive me insane. That's where I expect my Ctrl :(

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Exactly. By the time I got used to it, I couldn't use any other laptop. Took me a week to train myself to expect the Ctrl on the left again.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob That's frustrating

Sathya

@Bob if they are near identical, they're merged

@Bob that's a pain. thankfully my Envy has the buttons in correct(!) order

Maybe it's a Brownian mouse? ;-) — Keith 8 mins ago

I chuckled.

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya I don't get it :(

Bob

08:52

@Sathya This one specifically

@Sathya I'm particularly bad at choosing laptops with good keyboards..

That's my current one. The up/down arrow keys are painful

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Those up/down arrow keys...

HackToHell

09:08

@JourneymanGeek His books rock

Why do severs use Xenon, instead of i7, i7 is faster than Xenon or is it based on Power Usage.

Bob

@HackToHell Xeon?

> Xenon is a CPU used in the Xbox 360 game console.

@HackToHell

> Notably, the Xeon variants include support for ECC memory, VT-d and Trusted execution that are not present on the consumer models, while only some Xeon E3 enable the integrated GPU that is present on Sandy Bridge.

I'm pretty sure they have a higher RAM limit too

HackToHell

@Bob yes Xeon, typo

@Bob The ram limit might be a bad thing for servers, that's why they use Xeon I guess

Bob

@HackToHell From memory (no pun intended), the i3/i5/i7 CPUs only support up to 32GB of RAM, while Xeons support over 100GB

HackToHell

Wait there is a Sandy Bridge Xeon, looks like it is a brand name

List of Intel Xeon microprocessors

The Xeon microprocessor from Intel is a CPU brand targeted at the server and workstation markets. It competes with AMD's Opteron. P6-based Xeons Pentium II Xeon "Drake" (250 nm) * All models support: MMX Pentium III Xeon "Tanner" (250 nm) * Based on P6 microarchitecture * All models support: MMX, SSE * All models support quad-processor configurations * Die size: 123 mm² * Steppings: B0, C0 "Cascades" (180 nm) * All models support: MMX, SSE * Only Xeon 700 and 900 are capable of quadprocessor configurations {{cpulist|p6|cascades|model=Pentium III Xeon 80...

Bob

@HackToHell Sandy Bridge is the architecture, Xeon is the server class of CPUs...

HackToHell

09:20

@Bob And it can support more memory, it can support 1500 gigs of ram

@Bob And i5,i7 are sandys...

Bob

@HackToHell Actually, the first were Nehalem

Then Sandy Bridge

Then Sandy Bridge-E

Ivy Bridge is next

HackToHell

I do not a lot abt Intel CPUs, know everything abt AMD though

@Bob And i did not know that

Bob

@HackToHell And I know nothing about AMD! :D

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: there will likely be an ivy ridge e as well

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Is Ivy Bridge even out yet?

I haven't been keeping up lately..

Journeyman Geek

09:30

also xeons seem split, low end use the 1155 pin layout the SB/IB procs use. and the high end ones use 2011 pins

ya, my local stores have it ;p

actually they had it pre-release, labelled as AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD on the price lists

Bob

o.O

0

Q: recover windows7 drive, over that linux installed

I installed linux minikernel over my windows drive, that was supposed install on my external harddisk,, but wrongly i did it on the windows7 drive,, now in in windows7 that drive is invisible and is showing as linux, when i give command fdisk -l,, plz help to restore all my directories which were...

ssh

Nuked his Windows partitions, is actively booting from and using it, wants to recover, completely failed to tag appropriately, and he is "expecting valuable answers to the problem quoted"? :\

Journeyman Geek

lol

Use testdisk. come back fi it dosen't work

Sathya

@OliverSalzburg physics..

Brownian motion

Brownian motion (named after the botanist Robert Brown) or pedesis (from "leaping") is the presumably random drifting of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) or the mathematical model used to describe such random movements, which is often called a particle theory. In 1827 the biologist Robert Brown noticed that if you looked at pollen grains in water through a microscope, the pollen jiggles about. He called this jiggling 'Brownian motion', but Brown couldn't work out what was causing it. The direction of the resultant force is constantly changing. At different times t...

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya Thanks :)

Journeyman Geek

10:47

@Bob just to note, i've done the very same thing. And recovered. One hell of a learning experience ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek How did the recovery go? Did you get everything back? I assume the Linux installation only rewrote the partition tables, and didn't actually zero the drive (that would be bad).

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: ya, i caught it partway

and i got lucky even despite a full format

fun fun

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I never tried to recover in this kind of situation..

Journeyman Geek

testdisk has saved my ass a few times ;p

(and my data)

Bob

I'm going to have to try testdisk next time :)

Journeyman Geek

10:52

worth running through a few scenarios on a VM if you want to use it without panicing ;p

Bob

I still haven't figured out how, but fsck corrupted my boot partition (in a VM) when run on a flash drive.

Even if I had run it on the wrong drive, it shouldn't be corrupting anything :\

Went for the snapshot restore, since my data was stored on a VirtualBox shared folder anyway

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

I'll give testdisk a shot next time :D

Journeyman Geek

testdisk repairs boot sectors

Bob

(And there will be a next time)

Journeyman Geek

10:54

the ones i hate are NTFS failures which arn't failures on linux

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: won't mount on windows. Mounts perfectly on linux

so i mount the drive on linux, copy the files out, wipe and reinstall

well, copy back the files

both times its happened, its been a data disk

Bob

@JourneymanGeek This convoluted juggling of OSes! Wait, didn't you have a quad-boot system?

Journeyman Geek

lol

only 2 of those OSes work well

(gentoo.. is WIP. needs more compiling and patience. OS X... is a mess. half the hardware is unsupported or has wierd ass glitches

Bob

@JourneymanGeek About the checking of the monitor.. perhaps check EDID (if on Linux)?

Journeyman Geek

10:59

windows

Bob

@JourneymanGeek It'll probably try to switch the monitor on when checking EDID, so never mind :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

i could just tell it to switch off the monitor each time

(gonna poof a bit. Law class. darned business school lecturers assume you're chatting in class, even when you're taking notes. Especially when you're chatting)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek lol

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek I HAVE A VPS !! YAY

@Sathya Bought it ! :)

And PayPal finally allows to pay via Debit Card :) :)

Bob

11:16

@JourneymanGeek wmic desktopmonitor get availability

3 should be running/full power, there's some numbers defined for power save, etc

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek Do you run a GUI in your VPS ??

If so how what ?

Bob

Unfortunately, running that command turns the monitor on, so it gives 3 even if it's in power saving (at least with my tests and turning the monitor off through nircmd).

This is stupid.

@JourneymanGeek If you don't mind having a program live in the background, you can have one intercept the screensaver/power message and hold the last value. Then you can ask this background program for that value... this is getting convoluted.

Similarly, you can register for a power event

7

Q: Is there any way to detect the monitor state in Windows (on or off)?

Does anyone know if there is an API to get the current monitor state (on or off) in Windows (XP/Vista/2000/2003)? All of my searches seem to indicate there is no real way of doing this. This thread tries to use GetDevicePowerState which according to Microsoft's docs does not work for display d...

windows winapi

user1111261

12:20

Hey guys, is there a single Cloud web operating system that let me browse flash websites?

I cannot browse website in flash since I do not have it installed

I am in the library right now and cannot install flash of course...

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell no, not even plain naked X

@Bob: I'll give that a poke over the weekend. You might want to post those things as an answer. I'd like to avoid convoluted however

would like to avoid making a better potato peeler

@user1111261: essentially anything running cloud would cause a bit of a performance loss. And while there's workaround for video (html5), server side conversion of flash of other sorts of interactive things sounds messy

user1111261

so will it work?

i can at least give it a try

which one should i try?

neither Kohive nor glide does not have a browser

at least i cannot find it in there

i mean whick online cloud OS....

which

Journeyman Geek

Ok, let me put it this way

Its on the cloud. Running a browser in a browser... just seems silly

3

and even running a full fledged remote desktop instance won't work very well

Bob

12:38

@JourneymanGeek Inception! :D

(No, I haven't watched the movie)

@JourneymanGeek I'd rather not post this as an answer. It's nothing concrete; I have no idea if it could even work or not. I don't have the time to test it right now.

user1111261

i just want to try it

maybe it will work for me

:o)

Sathya

13:02

@HackToHell grats, which one?

user1111261

14:17

.

Journeyman Geek

14:43

@user1111261: we don't have a no idle rule here ;p

HackToHell

15:18

@Sathya The 128 mb plan, others are too costly

@JourneymanGeek hmmm okay

Journeyman Geek

lol

@HackToHell: nor was i hinting we had one. just confused by the .

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek lol, I was talking about X in VM !! My bad, I did not respond correctly :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

Tom Wijsman

@OliverSalzburg: I think I found me a book...

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: basically, you need a gui on a linux server like a fish needs a bicycle

Tom Wijsman

15:22

amazon.com/Inside-Windows-Debugging-Practical-Strategies/dp/…

Oliver Salzburg

@TomWijsman Which one?

Oh yeah. Amazon is constantly recommending that :D

Because I have so many similar books on my wish list I guess :)

HackToHell

@TomWijsman As if you do not know enough already ...

Oliver Salzburg

Maybe I should buy one some time...

jokerdino

.

KronoS

0

Q: How do I force excel (and other office products) to stop opening files in the same application?

Whenever I "double click" on an Excel file and another Excel file is open, the newly opened file automatically opens in the same application window as the previously opened Excel file. This isn't limited to just Excel, as I've seen Word do this as well. This poses a problem when wanting to compa...

windows-7 windows-xp office-2007 office-2010

anybody got a solution?

Sathya

15:35

@KronoS let me know if you do

KronoS

@Sathya for sure

its such an annoying thing...

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/suggested-edits/11755

I seem to keep finding these amusing suggested edits to reject

HackToHell

And it's earth4energy

A spam site

Spam a spam site, an interesting proposition

jokerdino

That made me laugh.

Tom Wijsman

@OliverSalzburg: The problem I'm experiencing now is quite similar to George Edison's

3

Q: Why does my wireless network card need to be reset everytime I start or wake my machine?

Every time I start my notebook, it fails to connect to any wireless access points. I can still view available wireless networks and attempt to connect to them - but it always fails. The only thing that seems to work is to visit Network and Sharing Center and click Troubleshoot Problems. After ru...

wireless-networking windows-8-preview event-viewer

And I had something similar on earlier versions of Windows, so it's not really Windows 8 bound.

William Hilsum

15:45

... Tom, Any chance you can quickly grab me something off of Steam? store.steampowered.com/app/10110

Oliver Salzburg

@TomWijsman Damn, at a client right now. Gotta check that later

Tom Wijsman

@OliverSalzburg: It connects badly on boot, so I need to go to the IP settings thing and click OK a few times.

And sometimes my connection randomly falls away, then I need to disable and enable it like two times.

Already removed the device, didn't help.

No problem, you can read later...

@WilliamHilsum: Yes, talk to me on Steam. :)

Bibhas

Hi everyone

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman buying/selling isn't really allowed... worried if Steam keeps logs! Anyway... transferring now

Bibhas

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to make call and play certain audio using a gsm modem?

Tom Wijsman

15:50

@WilliamHilsum Hey hey! I'm so-called gifting...

Sathya

@KronoS I know :/

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman done... and, I don't remember if I did gift or purchased something... if it does a transaction fee/less money, let me know asap and i'll give more

Sathya

meh

-3

Q: Installation of Windows XP on Dell Inspiron fails due to BSOD

I have a Dell Inspiron with an i3 processor and I need to install Windows XP. When I try to install it, I get this blue screen: Why is that? What can I do to install Windows?

windows-xp bsod

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum: We'll have to wait a min for it to display what it did...

In any case, try asking different persons to do it if you're afraid of logging. Or make multiple accounts so they have to do cross-IP checks. But well, I don't think they go that far.

It's actually more like the countries that would need to check it than them themselves.

And why does PP have the stupid This list doesn't include your most recent account activity yet. thing. :(

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman Im not that worried!

just a little worried!

and... wow ... someone just sent this to me

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TH0Wwl0A7QY#!

maple_shaft

16:02

I'd like to see the easter egg

nice

Sathya

welcome @mapleshaft ;p

maple_shaft

@Sathya Hi...

I don't come in here often...

I'd like to but I get so caught up with work

hehe

Tom Wijsman

Ah, I figured out that's NSFW right on time.

Sathya

@maple_shaft haha

William Hilsum

sorry!

HodofHod

16:11

How do I see this easter egg without annoying everyone in the room with pointless messages?

Journeyman Geek

kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html

kik

HodofHod

response: impossible

Journeyman Geek

did someone mention the easter egg?

Sathya

LOL

@JourneymanGeek yeah, @Aarthi found out about Clippy

HodofHod

@JourneymanGeek These aren't the easter eggs you're looking for.

..and so now all the mods are flocking here to try it out.

Journeyman Geek

16:15

lol

only now? ;p

you eventually find clippy. or he finds you. Usually when you want something you'd rather not need help with

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek just like Clippy ;p

that's what happened

HodofHod

How do you know that?

shucks, that didn't work

Journeyman Geek

lol

its very specific

how do i invoke the horror that is clippy?

i want to invoke the horror that is clippy

hmm

only how do i seems to do it, i could have sworn i want to does as well

Sathya

I'm trying to find help for myself

that works.

Journeyman Geek

instructables.com/id/Wooden-mice-by-AlestRukov/?ALLSTEPS shiny wooden mice

dnbrv

17:12

I'm suspecting that a driver installer executes cd c:` -> rd * /s`. How can I make sure it's the case?

KronoS

17:25

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A: How do I force excel (and other office products) to stop opening files in the same application?

I have Office 2010 and the only app that does this for me is Excel. A posting on PC Review, How to open vista excel in multiple windows versus 1 window? explains how to set this up: Use the File Association Settings You have to tell Excel not to use DDE to open the worksheet. Open Wi...

@Sathya this appears to work

Sathya

sidran32

18:31

Holy crap, @Sathya. That's so amazing. XD

Sathya

XD

sidran32

I just posted it to my Facebook. :P ¡Es Jefe Maestro!

Sathya

:P

Win 8 Release Preview ISOs are live

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paradroid

19:38

Has anybody installed the Win8 RP yet?

Sathya

@paradroid just put it for download

another 3 hours to go, so I'm off to sleep. 'night!

paradroid

@Sathya ;night

Luke

23:39

Why, in this day and age, do people still insist that we (a computer shop) are responsible to re-install pirated software when their Windows installations are dead?

Journeyman Geek

lol. cause people are stupid >_>

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