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Journeyman Geek

00:15

I appreciate the suggestion, however my employer has recently stated blocking stackoverflow so I thought I post it here. I'll seek other options... — Risho Jun 12 at 18:56

Riiight....

Bob

00:32

ugh

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Q: Can I restore the files of a deleted Windows user account?

I recently deleted a user from my Vista by going to Account -> Settings -> delete. I have photos under this users, can I restore them? I don't have any backup. Thanks.

slhck

01:42

@JourneymanGeek Heh – say goodbye to your question :P

avirk

02:23

@slhck hello

and congrates

:)

slhck

@avirk Hello there! :) Congrats for what?

avirk

@TomWijsman I've doubt! Did you not qualify for the primary vote cast or you withdrawn?

@slhck you are going to become mod

Tom Wijsman

Early withdraw.

avirk

@TomWijsman why?

you should be there

Tom Wijsman

Jul 13 at 20:17, by Tom Wijsman

2 days ago, by Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell: I'm grasping too high, which makes me only bump into negative comments and what not. It's not that I can't withstand and ignore them, but the lack of any positive feedback that's hurting. I don't want to be in a team where there's no support. Perhaps it's bad timing or who knows what, but I have to accept the position I'm in and will not nominate anymore in the future unless that's requested from me...

avirk

02:27

@TomWijsman hard commitment

Tom Wijsman

In short, last year doesn't reflect the years before that. I've not been around really much the last weeks / months compared to other nominees as well...

avirk

@TomWijsman like me

slhck

@avirk Well let's see ;)

avirk

I'm here after a whille

slhck

@TomWijsman I sure hope you're going to stick around

avirk

02:28

@slhck you are there is no doubt!

only fight for 2 mods among @OliverSalzburg @DanielBeck and @KronoS

@TomWijsman btw who is that girl in your gravtar?

Tom Wijsman

@avirk: I honestly think @DanielBeck is going to be there, he's been around for pretty long and his stats shine out.

@avirk Taylor Alison Swift

(And the cat is named Meredith)

avirk

@TomWijsman then there is only fight between @OliverSalzburg and @KronoS

@TomWijsman its her

you loved the cats hmmm

Tom Wijsman

As for Oliver and Kronos, I think they both make the third vote so had to eventually choose for one. I mean, Oliver's fairly new and KronoS hasn't been active lately so it's really a doubt who to vote for...

@avirk Preparing for cat day or something...

@avirk I too want to be there, but not if it doesn't reflect the better part of me. I also don't want to be in that top 2 fight, Daniel and slhck have committed way more than me.

Can't tell about the third place for sure, but hey, a fresh mod every now and then is also welcome. :)

avirk

@TomWijsman next year a fight will begin between me and you for a mod lol

Tom Wijsman

@avirk Maybe, bring it on...

avirk

02:35

most probably according to primary there are chances for @kronoS

Tom Wijsman

It could be that I skip next election, kind of depends on the nominees, my activity between now and then, etc...

avirk

@TomWijsman let see

Tom Wijsman

The big Master years of University might also pose a lot more work on me, so it could be as well that I'll fade out of the heavy activity (like how I was doing before the election, but rather because I was a bit more busy in the Programmers' world).

avirk

@TomWijsman I'll be active more in next year you will see I'll active more time than before but this time I was busy somewhere about for a month.

@TomWijsman soon I'll there.

Tom Wijsman

@slhck Yeah, I remember having played with the idea of leaving but I won't. It's pretty much meaningless and it doesn't change anything about what you've already contributed. I don't see any reason to leave either...

avirk

02:38

talk.sonymobile.com/thread/45121

they are very slow to respond the user

Tom Wijsman

@avirk Well, I'll see, might come back with a higher activity rate if things work out well.

avirk

I'm unable to use chat of SE on my mob now

:(

Tom Wijsman

Trying to actively swap between different tasks on the site instead of burning out on one and the same task.

avirk

@TomWijsman also with a good attitude I think this could be a good reason for you hope you'll understand it. I'll talk on this later have to go now bye.

Tom Wijsman

@avirk There's no hurry; now I can do this awesome contest, send moar flags, ... :)

avirk

02:42

@TomWijsman :) thats good bye TC.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Tom Wijsman

Have fun, cya.

Journeyman Geek

I'm 25 flags away from my marshall badge ;p

slhck

@JourneymanGeek And I'm 11 answers away from number 1,000 :P

Journeyman Geek

o0

Tom Wijsman

02:47

And I'm some hours away from departing on vacation to Italy. :D

slhck

@TomWijsman Nice.. where to?

Journeyman Geek

Eh, you probably have a better rep-answer rate than me ;p

Tom Wijsman

But I won't see the election results unless I find internet. :(

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: its amusing since i said the same thing last month, when for some wierd reason i thought it was 400 flags to the badge ;p

slhck

@JourneymanGeek Haha.. little disappointed eh?

Journeyman Geek

02:49

lol, ya

Tom Wijsman

@slhck Different places, first swimming pool in Switzerland, then down to Calabria (I guess a stop somewhere along the coast line before that), then back up and a day in Rome, then up to Liguria.

It's mainly from swimming pool to sea to swimming pool to a day trip to whatever...

slhck

@TomWijsman Sounds awesome.. all by car I guess? I believe you did a trip like this a year ago, did you?

And how do you manage to stay up so late, if I may ask? :P

Tom Wijsman

@slhck Mobilhome. Yeah, good memory, we did a bit too much back then, so now we're dropping out Venetia

And instead do a day trip to Rome (we didn't do that last year for some reason)

I guess it was because we had to be back home by a certain date and adding in Rome would've not given us enough time in Liguria and make us tired as well.

Delayed sleep phase disorder

Delayed sleep-phase disorder (DSPD), also known as delayed sleep-phase syndrome (DSPS) or delayed sleep-phase type (DSPT), is a circadian rhythm sleep disorder, a chronic disorder of the timing of sleep, peak period of alertness, the core body temperature rhythm, hormonal and other daily rhythms, compared to the general population and relative to societal requirements. People with DSPD generally fall asleep some hours after midnight and have difficulty waking up in the morning. Often, people with the disorder report that they cannot sleep until early morning, but fall asleep at about the ...

slhck

@TomWijsman Oh, I see

Tom Wijsman

It's kind of a side effect of the thing I had an operation for.

But well, it got 1 - 2 hours further this week... >_<

slhck

02:54

Oh :/

Tom Wijsman

Hope I can reset that as I'll somewhat need to adjust to waking up with the family. >_>

@slhck: The problem there is that it's not about going to sleep earlier, but rather about getting to wake up earlier.

Another trick is to not sleep for one night so that you won't make the next night and basically fall asleep at somewhat the right time because of that. :P

slhck

@TomWijsman Yeah, typical day schedules..

Tom Wijsman

But well, I'm too tired to even pull that off.

slhck

I'm gonna be like that on Monday when I take my red eye flight back. I hate those.

Tom Wijsman

@slhck: Well, if I were to go to America I probably would have a normal sleeping schedule because it negates the delay... :P

slhck

02:58

@TomWijsman Haha.. yeah, it would be interesting to see how the effects are. It's 11 PM now here

Tom Wijsman

So, means I have to go sleep now, I guess... Night everyone. :)

slhck

Haha, night @TomWijsman!

Tom Wijsman

Need to do some more stuff but better do that in one take tomorrow with a fresh mind.

= Earlier wake time = Not much sleep = Sleep once we're on the road

Well, see you guys in two weeks (apart from some mobile chatting, election results check-up)... :)

slhck

@TomWijsman Have a great vacation!

Tom Wijsman

I hope so, it's gonna feel weird not being all day on the laptop. On the other hand, can finally take a rest from exams / usual days / ...

(Insert Super User somewhere on that list. xD)

Luke

03:30

Just reinstalled my Mac OSX, and Firefox... Does anyone remember the stack app for auto-comments?

Journeyman Geek

rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CUqck2p-jN4/… Valve is plain awesome :)

Bob

03:54

121

Q: AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE

No more re-typing the same comments over and over! This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments, which you can easily click to insert. This script was inspired by answers to this question on meta....

script

Though you probably found it by now :P

@TomWijsman o.O

I don't know if it's the low res, angle or a combination of both, but that's pretty surprising to me...

Then again, I'm horrible at recognising people :\

Luke

@Bob thanks! No, just found it from your link

KronoS

04:09

@tomwijsman have fun on ur vacation! I've always wanted to go to Italy.

Bob

O.O

-5

Q: Job Opening, Positions

! Source " Justice Lubbie Harper Jr. and Senior Associate Justice Flemming L. Norcott Jr. will retire in the next 16 months. The last time so many vacancies happened in such short order was from 1991 to1993, when Justice T. Clark Hull, Justice David Shea, and Justice Robert Glass all turned...

grammar

Currently at 27 revisions by 5 users, 49 comments and a score of -5...

Journeyman Geek

04:46

oh

that guy is a known troll on ELU. Apparently the edit war is to push it into CW ;p

Bob

04:58

31 revisions by 6 users, 69 comments, score of -7

@JourneymanGeek How the hell is it not closed/deleted/the user banned, then?

Actually, the question looks fairly valid...

Other than the scary number of revisions/comments :|

jokerdino

05:17

@Bob why is not locked yet?

Bob

@jokerdino 99 comments?!

At least it's finally closed

jokerdino

And million revisions.

Bob

@jokerdino For some reason, the question itself looks valid to me :\

jokerdino

it was plagiarised and he is reasking.

it's not the question; it's the person they hate

Bob

@jokerdino o.O

That seems to be the gist of the comments, but they became went off on really weird tangents... I got lost.

jokerdino

05:22

blah, lunch

Luke

05:39

Sometimes, I wish I could upvote more than once for a good answer

KronoS

Sometimes this is the only thing you can do:

jokerdino

@Bob it's still going on. and it's hilarious.

KronoS

jokerdino

lol

KronoS

What's frustrating is that most of these people wouldn't even dare to act this way in the real world but once they get online it's like they feel like god and that anything goes.

jokerdino

05:45

yes ofcourse

Bob

@jokerdino 138...

jokerdino

xD

Bob

Is that the most comments on any SE Q/A?

jokerdino

no.

Bob

o.O

KronoS

05:47

I wonder why the mods haven't locked the question and tried to quel this comment war.

Bob

@KronoS A mod replied to it at some point

Around comment #100

141 now

KronoS

I noticed. I'm just wondering if there was a reason to keep it going. Personally (and this is from an outside perspective as I don'tl know everything the mods are seeing) I would've locked the question and migrated any convo to chat

jokerdino

@Bob probably it is.. o.O

i can't find anything that beats

KronoS

Did they delete it?

Nvm. Problem with my browser :)

Bob

@KronoS With 142 comments... I wonder how many deleted ones there are?

jokerdino

05:53

See, we are not doing anything better here. @simchona @Mahnax

Bob

@KronoS We're all waiting for that :P

simchona

Hi all

Mahnax

Good evening, folks.

We're the ones egging him on.

simchona

The original user (english.stackexchange.com/users/23135/nortonn-s?tab=activity) just got unbanned after a month. "Winner" is his latest sock.

He's been on a streak of at least 3 new accounts per day

Mods can't IP ban him because it always changes

Mahnax

At last count, he's had over 60 accounts.

jokerdino

05:54

O_o

Mahnax

He's quite the issue.

KronoS

Wow.

jokerdino

wah, it's quite fun times for the moderators.

Mahnax

So we decided to have some fun this evening.

simchona

One of our mods said there shuold be a new way to deal with this by Monday

Mahnax

05:55

@simchona Oh, I must have missed that bit. I hope it works.

simchona

@Mahnax Yeah, he said we'll find out more this week

Mahnax

@simchona Good good.

KronoS

Ah that makes more sense. I still think it should be locked though.

jokerdino

How did y'all track all of his accounts?

Mahnax

I'm free, at last! — Nortonn S 30 secs ago

simchona

05:56

@jokerdino Same questions, similar comments, similar name patterns

jokerdino

That guy is a loser then. Can't even cover his tracks ;p

simchona

Discussion

Productivity levels dropping.

He came in!

Mahnax

Go there! He's here!

simchona

Y'all are welcome to join

jokerdino

i am there.

Bob

06:11

Ok. This has got to be the most... random... quote from SE chat I've seen.

in Discussion, 1 min ago, by simchona

And so what made you want to post porn on ELU?

Journeyman Geek

lol

jokerdino

oi. join the EL room and meta discuss

simchona

Hey, he posted smut at least 3 times

jokerdino

yuck

Bob

o.O

Journeyman Geek

06:12

whoot We're down to under a hundred questions with close votes

simchona

And an ASCII picture of a middle finger

Journeyman Geek

lol. Nothing wrong with smut. IN CONTEXT.

IE, not most of stack exchange ;p

Bob

> Sexually Explicit Material. Accounts that use Stack Exchange to post sexually explicit or pornographic material, or links to it, will be suspended.

Hmm.. :P

@JourneymanGeek Not any of SE :P

At least not according to the content policy.

Journeyman Geek

lol.

fine ;p

Sathya

@Bob show 93 more comments WTF?

simchona

06:16

english.stackexchange.com/questions/73999/explosive-orgasms

Bob

@Sathya It was 143 last I checked

Some got deleted? :P

simchona

If you happen to have 10k access

Bob

@simchona The title itself is.. O.O

simchona

And that's not the only one he wrote

Bob

Well, it's not something I want anyone glancing at my screen to see. And the title does stand out :P

Might just have to go back to viewing SE sites zoomed out

Sathya

06:19

tl;dr anyone? :|

Bob

@Sathya lol

simchona

@Sathya A porn-writing user was complaining about his month-long suspension for plagiarism and vote fraud, and tied that to the "DemoRats" ruling the world.

Sathya

I see

Bob

3

Snagit glitched near the end :P

A 3.1MB screenshot of the comment chain

Journeyman Geek

.... EPIC SCREENSHOT

Bob

06:25

Hm, it appears to have glitched in the middle too

KronoS

He's in that chat room above ^^ @sathya but he's really just pulling people's legs.

Bob

Note to self: "capture vertical scrolling area" has its limits

Sathya

wow

Luke

Sathya

speaking of bad

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Q: Kaspersky Virus Definitions Update to Another Computer

hai sir i want to copy kaspersky update from anoter computer, ow can i copy te update file tel me te steps? is it possible or not reply soon with regards yogish

windows-xp

Journeyman Geek

06:32

...

Luke

@Sathya Amazing

Sathya

@Luke tell me about it..

KronoS

@luke @sathya I've seen some worse but this is def bad. My fab though was the how to get rid of spiders in your computer one.

*fav

Luke

@KronoS Link or it never happened

KronoS

@luke I don't have a link as it was deleted. Maybe @sathya can find it.

Journeyman Geek

06:38

wasn't spiders

was ants ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek That one got deleted?

Something about ants in a laptop

Journeyman Geek

Amusingly, we were discussing if it was a dupe of the one with thunderflies.

Sathya

there's thunderflies and ants too.

KronoS

Ah yes that's the one.

Bob

O.O

Also

in Discussion, 5 mins ago, by simchona

If you "interrogate" then you might get suspended again

lol

Luke

06:41

@Sathya W... T... F...

Bob

19

Q: What's the best way to get ants out of laptop keyboards?

What's the best way to gets ants out of a laptop?

keyboard cleaning

It's still alive! :D

Journeyman Geek

yay ;p

KronoS

Lol. The things we turn a blind eye to.

Journeyman Geek

lol. Its historical!

and the top answer is frigging epic

KronoS

Ya it is.

Bob

06:46

Wait a sec, it only got protected 11 hours ago?

:S

Was it active lately, or did Synetech just come across it? :P

Journeyman Geek

bumped by a new user methinks

Bob

Oh, there it is

Luke

Yup... Wow

Can we just make a tag for wtf?

Bob

O.O

Journeyman Geek

meta tag!

Bob

06:49

30

Q: Removing dead thunderflies stuck inside an LCD monitor

This summer my flat was "attacked" by hundreds of tiny thunderflies, some of which managed to get behind the screen of my LCD. A few of the cursed creatures went and died right in the middle of the display: And yes, this is real. Imagine my surprise when I saw one of these things crawling acr...

screen lcd cleaning dead-pixel

@Sathya The thunderflies one was completely unexpected.

Now, time to check what a thunderfly is.

Journeyman Geek

lol

small bugs, fly around when it rains?

Luke

Going to bed guys... Have a good night. I posted a new OSX question if anyone's interested

Bob

o.O

The ELU Discussion chat room has become a weird argument

just like the comments! :P

@Luke Good night.

Sathya

why are the interacting with that user? it's obvious he wants attention and the folks are giving him that attention :\

do not feed the trolls!

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

07:04

@Sathya No one listens when it's about birds, why should trolls be any different? :P

in Discussion, 2 mins ago, by Mahnax

room topic changed to Discussion: Productivity levels dropping. (no tags)

Journeyman Geek

07:21

lol

and closed ;p

nhinkle

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!!

Journeyman Geek

lol

OUT OF VOTES. SEND MORE CHEESE.

nhinkle

I meant in the election. Or perhaps you did too.

Journeyman Geek

yes ;p

Was a little easier cause some of the people i wanted to vote for were out early :/

nhinkle

Which is unfortunate.

Journeyman Geek