Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:17

ok, hell, I WANT ONE... ;p

and why's it that cheap o0

adds it to *the list*

HackToHell

00:43

Damn this room is filled men in blue

*the term men is used generically

Journeyman Geek

lol

THEY ARE WATCHING US!

Journeyman Geek

01:30

dufentech.com/keyball-controller-v2 whoa

Journeyman Geek

02:05

it.slashdot.org/story/12/07/25/2239257/… this explains so much.

nhinkle

03:01

da fuq?

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Q: Some websites don't work WITH the www. prefix

I came across a site that doesn't work when I type in the address with the "www." prefix. The following is an example: if you click on this link, it won't take you to any site, but rather display an error message. By simply doing away with the "www." prefix, as in here, the site loads up just fin...

@OliverSalzburg want to flex those new mod muscles?

Journeyman Geek

DUPE!

Journeyman Geek

03:25

@IvoFlipse techreport.com/articles.x/23291 funny a review JUST came up. Let me know what you think of them tho ;p

nhinkle

@JourneymanGeek he saw that before buying - we talked about it a little while ago

Journeyman Geek

XD

I was asleep when that came up

I'm intrigued '[

reads the waaaay backlog so he won't look like even more of a idiot ;p

Luke

03:44

Everning everyone
And I see @Sathya added me on Google as well... At least I hope that's who it was

Sathya

04:22

@Luke yes, that was me. Evening!

Gareth

05:09

Ha, just broke the Coke machine at work. Put in a 5 RMB note (it accepts that amount) but it didn't seem to like it. However it couldn't spit the note back out for some reason, jammed, so it just kept trying over and over again. Eventually it gave up and kept beeping and the whole thing shut off, very odd.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Gareth

Before it shut off I just imagined it trying over and over without stopping, then the motor overheating, causing a fire and me managing to burn down the whole office... all because of a small piece of paper

Sathya

@Gareth lolol

Journeyman Geek

there's a made in china joke there somwhere

paradroid

05:25

@JourneymanGeek Everything is made in China

Journeyman Geek

@paradroid: nearly everything ;p

Gareth

well, everything except 'Free Tibet' banners and good meat pies

I can vouch for the last one personally

paradroid

They also eat everything in China

Gareth

south China. the north are a bit better in that regard ;)

paradroid

I missed the opportunity to go to Shanghai when I was an architecture student. Stupid mistake.

That would have been around 2001.

My dad used to go there quite often

Journeyman Geek

05:37

@Gareth: I wouldn't be suprised if they made those banners too. ;p

Gareth

maybe they get made as Free libel, then after being exported someone crosses the T's ;)

Journeyman Geek

Precisely ;p

and they read it as flee riber

paradroid

@JourneymanGeek I've seen a pic of a USB cable package that said something about it preventing viruses

Gareth

I always find my Blu-Rays getting infected by viruses, I'll have to pick up one of those cables

paradroid

Oh, that's it. Duh

Sathya

05:57

Cassy Griffin

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calendar-management ipv6 multiple-monitors network-adapter networking outlook-2010 shares

mm

paradroid

@Sathya Why did you link that user?

Sathya

@paradroid new questions at a fairly brisk pace at a not so good quality

Gareth

probably preparing for later spam usage

paradroid

Unlikely. It's just a pretty clueless user with a lot of questions

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I can finally replace my anti-virus VGA cable! :D

Luke

06:16

@Sathya Just checking :P How do you pronounce your full name?

KronoS

@paradroid I disagree... he could be spamming

paradroid

@KronoS Zero evidence

KronoS

@paradroid now... but if he posts a ton of questions and answers, and then starts spamming he might go unnoticed... or that may be his though process

Gareth

well yeah, it's early days :P I've flagged enough spammers in my time to know they start off asking lots of questions like that, even answer things - then at some point they slip in a link to whatever blarb they're spamming

KronoS

but I doubt we'd miss that

@Sathya do mods have a way of tracking users over time? like favoriting questions?

Sathya

06:24

@KronoS nope. We can annotate users but that's pretty rare.

KronoS

@Sathya what's that?

really needs to start to get to 10k so I don't have to keep flagging everything for deletion

Sathya

@KronoS write a short note about the user. Ex: "user x is involved in vote fraud, keep an eye" etc

KronoS

@Sathya Ah got it...

Bob

@KronoS It builds up your flag count! :P

Though most of those would be flagged as spam, not moderator attention... meh

KronoS

@Bob I'm getting close to the marshall badge, but I know that the mods are probably getting tired of my flags :P

paradroid

06:27

@KronoS I'm over 10k, and I cannot just delete stuff just like that.

KronoS

@paradroid no but you can vote to delete

jokerdino

bah

paradroid

Vote to close I think. Deletion is different

jokerdino

voting to delete might make you look cool.

paradroid

If I can vote to delete, I haven't noticed the ability.

KronoS

06:28

> cast delete and undelete votes on questions

jokerdino

err well. SU has more active 10k+ users I guess. opinions may differ.

KronoS

superuser.com/privileges/moderator-tools

jokerdino

@paradroid the question should be closed and 2 days old.

KronoS

@paradroid you should be able to

@jokerdino 90% of my flags are old dead questions

> view deleted posts

this would be nice to have as well

Bob

@KronoS Doesn't there have to be a certain number of people voting to delete?

jokerdino

06:30

@Bob yeah depends on the votes and the answers

Bob

In which case, flagging would be more useful for older questions/answers :\

KronoS

@Bob yes... it's the same as vote to close

paradroid

It wouldn't be a vote otherwise

jokerdino

@KronoS i don't remember flagging a question for deletion.

KronoS

@Bob with the new review system it wouldn't be

Bob

06:30

oh yea

that

:P

Close votes come up there... I assume there's a similar queue for delete votes?

KronoS

@Bob low quality... but I don't think there's a "delete" section yet

jokerdino

sorta

there is a delete list in mod tools.

KronoS

I imagine that there will be... that or I can't see it

My problem is I'm too busy cleaning up the site, I don't have much time to really answer stuff :/

jokerdino

o.O

KronoS

@Gareth are you done with your whole images editing quest?

Gareth

06:37

on a large scale yeah, I think I fixed about 98% of broken images when I did it last summer. nowadays I just fix them when I find them, I don't actively seek them

Sathya

@Bob superuser.com/tools?s=1&tab=delete&daterange=today

KronoS

@Sathya :( can't access...

jokerdino

@Sathya :D

KronoS

@Gareth were you using data.SE?

Sathya

@KronoS not quite, higher voted posts require more delete votes.

Gareth

06:39

a mix of standard on-site searches, Google searches, Data.SE etc

Bob

@Sathya I'll assume that's an actual page :P

Gareth

it was surprising how much you could find just by looking in a certain date range

Sathya

@Bob get to 10k, you'll see them

Bob

@Sathya eventually

KronoS

> Gareth: Answer edits: 4237 Question Edits: 6382 Total Edits: 10650

Sathya

06:39

(@paradroid should be able to access them for now)

KronoS

That's a lot...

Gareth

not accurate though

I think I'm at 11585

superuser.com/users?tab=editors&filter=all

KronoS

@Sathya interesting... didin't know that

@Gareth that's crazy

jokerdino

Hmm lol Mr Jastro Castro has some 13k edits.. :{

askubuntu.com/users?tab=editors&filter=all

regardless, doing 10k+ edits is herculean on its own merit. Gareth deserves an applause.

goes off to randomness.

paradroid

@Gareth Is you house ultra-organised? I cannot understand your motivation.

I just noticed that I have 65 edits, and I thought I did quite a lot of editing. Hmmn.

Gareth

06:48

I'd say I'm reasonably organised but nothing overboard

I just like editing :)

paradroid

@Gareth Are you a Wikipedia editor?

Gareth

I used to a few years ago but got pretty burned out

KronoS

@Gareth I imagine that gets pretty mundane

actually... @Gareth you interested in blogging?

Gareth

if I had more time I would - ironic really when you look at my editing stats, must look like I have plenty of time. outside of work I probably have about 45 mins-60 mins free time very day after family/personal commitments. at work I am really busy but in short bursts with free time through the day, that's when I fit in bursts of editing

anyway, 3pm, I must dash home now - have to bike in the rain :( Beijing is crazy enough without adding water to the mix

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KronoS

07:08

l8rs I'm headed to bed

Journeyman Geek

oh crap

/me forgot to pay his school fees

jokerdino

owie

Journeyman Geek

50 dollar penalty, and much annoyance from the parents :/

they usually e mail a week before the deadline

jokerdino

eek, never mind that. King Lear is going on in the back of my mind.

Journeyman Geek

07:48

eh

falls over

this IS the last payment so, least that can't happen any more

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek It was why I decided to try it

Journeyman Geek

ahh ;p

Ivo Flipse

Well that one and reading several other topics that were reasonably satisfied

Only thing that has me worried is some guys from DISQUS had ordered several of them and had 30% failure rate after 3 months

we'll see :)

Journeyman Geek

lol

funny thing is that dosen't scare me as much

Ivo Flipse

What does?

jokerdino

07:52

Getting a 50 dollar penalty for defaulting on school fees perhaps. :p

Journeyman Geek

If its the usual failure modes, i'm not averse to cracking it open and fixing it

@jokerdino: scare, no, make me feel like a complete and total idiot, hell yes.

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek Well the taxes could be a disappointment, we'll see

Journeyman Geek

lol

In my case 7%

still not too bad

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek aww

Journeyman Geek

ugh, should i take afternoon classes for databases or night?

Luke

07:55

Night

Ivo Flipse

Night @Luke

@JourneymanGeek what's the difference to you?

Luke

@IvoFlipse Meant that to @JourneymanGeek :p

Ivo Flipse

Well played

Luke

:P

Journeyman Geek

@IvoFlipse: known or unknown classmates vs, ending early or late ;p

Ivo Flipse

07:58

unknown, so you'll actually concentrate rather than chit-chat

Journeyman Geek

though, classmates arn't that useful, and i may get shunted to evening anyway

lol

I don't chit chat much anyway

unless someone needs help

OTOH, most of my classmates probably cleared this term 1

so...

afternoon it is

with the management classes its a no brainer, i'd rather not do such things at 7-10 ;p

2-5 seems better

Ivo Flipse

ebay.nl/itm/…

With what organization would he be shipping that

I've got a tracking number, but no where to check its status :P

The follow package link of ebay itself does nothing

> Thank you for an easy, pleasant transaction. Excellent buyer. A++++++.

This guy is hilarious

Journeyman Geek

overclock.net/t/1225919/yamakasi-catleap-monitor-club this may be of help ;p

Ivo Flipse

Not with FedEx, unless I live in Salt Lake

Good call @JourneymanGeek

that link they have on the forums wants me to install

Yeah right

Journeyman Geek

just hit cancel ;p

twice

Ivo Flipse

08:10

How's your Korean?

Journeyman Geek

lol

non existant

jokerdino

meh

why did i not try to learn more languages??!

random fact: hakkuna matata is Swahilese .

Gnoupi

@ivo

Ivo Flipse

@Gnoupi, no way

Gnoupi

please merge me that with deposit before i go cray over my lack of powers: superuser.com/questions/453745/…

:p

jokerdino

08:16

@IvoFlipse epic reply ;p

Ivo Flipse

@DanielBeck you around?

How about you collect your first scalp? :P

Sathya

sorry beat ya :p

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse Depositing the battery guy?

Journeyman Geek

lol

Daniel Beck

@Sathya O noes :(

Ivo Flipse

08:17

Yeah, but Sathya beat us to it

well @Sathya did you notice I ordered a Catleap?

Journeyman Geek

Don't worry, there will be more ;p

even if i intend to ease of on flagging ;p

Sathya

superuser.com/questions/tagged/dv

one mess of a tag

@DanielBeck I'll pass the next few to you.

@IvoFlipse :o let us know how it went

Ivo Flipse

You haven't lived if you haven't taken such a risk :P

Sathya

@IvoFlipse sure, gimme 400 bucks I'll take that risk too :P

Daniel Beck

@Sathya I'm sure there's no shortage of spammers on the site.

Ivo Flipse

08:19

We need a large enough sample actually, to verify the risk, hehe

Journeyman Geek

lol

Gnoupi

@DanielBeck if you don't want to make a mistake, just take away the ones i flag :]

Journeyman Geek

@IvoFlipse: If i don't screw up school, i am SO getting one ;p

Daniel Beck

@Gnoupi I noticed, pretty impressive flagging.

Ivo Flipse

@DanielBeck Pretty impressive everything

We still miss Gnoupi

Though with the latest batch, I think we're covered :)

Gnoupi

08:21

@IvoFlipse : damn site is addicting, especially with the new "review tasks". I guess I'll just flag by from time to time and run away whenever I see tom

or random, for that matter

Journeyman Geek

@IvoFlipse: hm, I'm wondering if Jeff Atwood's rig can actually power three of those ;p

@Gnoupi: yeah ;p

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek He'll probably have bought a new GPU or have the biggest he can buy

I've found it easy to avoid almost anyone

except kino, his flags come back to haunt me

Journeyman Geek

@IvoFlipse: more importantly, he blogs about such things ;p

Gnoupi

well, not planning on staying on chat, though, unless there's a Bat-signal unanswered for more time than necessary

cya

jokerdino

for a sec, i thought kino was a typo on dino.. Whoo

@Gnoupi cya

Journeyman Geek

08:23

lol

Bob

Hmm..

I'm an idiot.

Two weeks ago, I found out my monitor had speakers... after using it for a year.

Today, I found out it takes HDMI input.

I clearly need to actually read the specs properly

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jokerdino

@Bob I am twitching to star that. :]

Journeyman Geek

lol

Mine does, i don't use em tho ;p

Daniel Beck

@Bob Don't be ridiculous. How about you start by looking at the available connectors?

Bob

@DanielBeck D:

It's actually rather inconvenient to look at them, so I set it up by touch :P

Journeyman Geek

08:28

lol

got this in my spam mail box today i.imgur.com/HkOrv.png

people fall for this? ;p

jokerdino

it looks pretty legit to me.

Bob

Person described above?

refresh

Nope, the image is fully loaded.

...I just checked my spammed-to-death account...

Apparently the "FBI DIRECTOR" wants to send me a text file :P

A 6kB file. Which returns a page Virus found, courtesy of Google. Just how does a plain text file contain malware? Unless it's an EICAR file or something...

And here it is: pastebin.com/FLzwmXH1

Daniel Beck

08:49

@Bob Hahahaha. And people fall for this?

jokerdino

hilarious. they sent them to non US residents?

slhck

Morning!

Bob

@jokerdino I live in Australia ;)

jokerdino

@slhck sup diamond?

Bob

never even visited the USA

jokerdino

08:50

@Bob even better ;p

slhck

@jokerdino Sup! Start flagging already :P

jokerdino

@slhck oh. chilling out in Ask Ubuntu review queue for now. Will try to get to deputy in SU sooner. :-)

Journeyman Geek

looool

jokerdino

wait, they call themselves FBI and ask people to send money to Nigeria? LOL

Bob

@DanielBeck I'm a little worried about my impending 'arrest' 'carried out in the next 48hours', considering that email has been sitting in my spam inbox for a couple of weeks ;)

Journeyman Geek

08:54

lol

Daniel Beck

@Bob Clearly, they took you, drugged you, and you're only hallucinating this chat.

Bob

@DanielBeck But... that means you're one of them! NOOOOOOOOO!

jokerdino

No that means DB is a figment of your imagination.

Bob

@jokerdino I actually wonder, why Nigeria? You'd think they would have chosen a new country by now..

@jokerdino I choose to believe all of you guys are real, even if you're out for my blood. Better than the alternative!

jokerdino

@Bob I am guessing they rightly figured out half the people using the Internet are too smart to think about that.

@Bob =)

Bob

08:58

Wait, I just realised... they're addressing the recipient as a Beneficiary... O.O

And the request for money is buried so deep, it hurts my brain just skimming this mess

On another topic, I appear to have lost my collection of recovery CDs... D:

Oliver Salzburg

@nhinkle Sorry, I was sleeping

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Oh hi Oliver Salzburg ♦!

Journeyman Geek

XD

Oliver Salzburg

09:14

@Bob Hi :)

jokerdino

hey diamond!

Bob

09:40

Suspicious user! Any of our new mods want to check it?

Cross site, too: his attempts at 'answering' SO questions are rather bad :P

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Not his only account either...

slhck

I'm up for burnination.

Oliver Salzburg

I removed his answers for the time being and flagged his stuff on Stack Overflow.

Gnoupi

@slhck the big "delete user" button is tempting at first, but it's more useful for later if you merge it with Deposit, generally.

jokerdino

i don't know what this deposit button is but I generally agree with @Gnoupi.

Gnoupi

09:56

Deposit, .

1 1 6

browser outlook-2010 outlook-addin ssl ssl-certificate visio-2010 web

jokerdino

wut

Gnoupi

If you had 10k reputation, you'd be able to witness the horror :)

jokerdino

he is not suspended in AU yet?!

Gnoupi

It's not a "he". It's a "it". It's a thing. A monster.

Made of the corpses of all the spammers

jokerdino

lol i see ;p

slhck

09:59

@Gnoupi True… but I guess that Deposit merging thing is rather SU-specific is it?

jokerdino

yeah i never heard of depositing all the spammers elsewher.e

Gnoupi

@slhck There never was anything official about it

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Q: What is the purpose of the Deposit account?

I've noticed that several answers that I've flagged as spam whose accounts have been deleted have been assigned to the Deposit account. What is the purpose of this account, and why is it needed? Note that this is not a duplicate of "I can see answers from Deposit?", which is about the visibilit...

discussion spam deposit

You have seen the tools, so you can see the point of agglomerating the spammers in one account

SU is targeting a wide range of public, so it's a particularly good place for "try this software" kind of spam.

slhck

Absolutely. The spam we get comes in all flavors.

Sathya

> This user has been suspended 121 times. 503 user accounts have been merged into this user.

only.

jokerdino

w00t

Gnoupi

10:04

And in some cases you have something more original and sophisticated (meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/46074/…), and this kind of "deposit" is helpful to detect links, imho

superuser.com/users/148124/kun-yan I thought this one got deleted

Expect him to be on most "partition related" questions

slhck

@Gnoupi Which user?

Gnoupi

thought so

jokerdino

i see your excitement in spam hunting.

Gnoupi

Yeah, it was kind of my hobby

jokerdino

lol ;D

slhck

10:11

It starts getting funny once you know all their tricks.. like when they use four or five users and set up bait questions to harvest spam answers a few days later.

Sathya

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A: How do I stop the digital interference from my wireless Microsoft mouse in my plugged in headphones?

It basically means that your headphone cable is improperly shielded or the laser mouse is electrically noisy. Some people claim that ferrite beads might help with such interference, but it depends on the frequency. They're dirt cheap so its probably worth trying. I'd note that this dosen't happ...

I was searching for "mouse ferrite beads" and I ran into a ~~dog~~ @JourneymanGeek

Gnoupi

@slhck True. Then you learn to read the "first answers" review page (you kids have it easy)

and see the suspicious patterns by reflex

Sathya

btw, nice to see you in here @Gnoupi

slhck

@Gnoupi Yeah, that first answers queue was/is my home. Hope they'll convert it to the new system soon.

Gnoupi

In my most active time i had rss on the new questions

was killing spammers in the minute they posted

which of course lead to me burning out after 2 months

about burn out, diago gave up again?

Sathya

10:13

yeah.

slhck

… "again"?

Gnoupi

that's a shame

diago was the first moderator

he single-handled the site for the first 6 months

the other moderators with him were not active, so it was all on him

Sathya

he was out for few months, came back.. ran into a problem

Gnoupi

only after you had more moderators appointed

Ivo, quack, random

Sathya

quack burned out too :/

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Q: What happened to "quack quixote" ?

quack quixote is a moderator of SuperUser, and I realize that he's not been around quite a while. I checked his profile, and he was last seen on July 13th 2010 at 17:17. Does anyone (esp. the moderators) know what happened to him? Has he left Stack Exchange community? Will he be back someday?

support moderators

Gnoupi

10:16

Ivo learned to be distached

slhck

Yeah.. I've never gotten to catch up on the site's history before the time I joined.

Gnoupi

random is not human

and since then, moderator elections, so I guess it goes better

(yeah, and i was in the appointed ones for a while also, before burning out)

anyhoo, off to lunch

Sathya

@Gnoupi bon appetite

Ah, random

jokerdino

@Sathya random. The name is enough.

paradroid

Huh? Random is not human?

slhck

10:21

@paradroid Why would you think he is?

Bob

@Sathya I'm tempted to make a (de)motivational poster out of that :P

paradroid

@slhck Why would I think he isn't?

slhck

@paradroid Because of his … well, randomness! Ever read his edit summaries, meta comments, or suspension messages?

paradroid

Random's profile says he's 31

random ♦, Pacific Ocean

5.4k 19 42

discussion support status-completed retag-request closed-questions specific-question questions

So what is random?

slhck

4 mins ago, by Sathya

Ah, random

Lunchtime, bbl!

Journeyman Geek

10:44

4

@Sathya Dog ears man, can't go wrong with dog ears. Other than it being a pain to find headphones

0o

something seriously glitched

jokerdino

o.O

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Q: Do multi-core CPUs still suffer from diminishing returns in today's world?

It has been shown in other questions that due to the state of computer applications, multi-core processors suffer from diminishing returns. Is this still the case in today's world? Do most new applications embrace multi-threading, and thus take advantage of having multiple cores? If not, do the ...

cpu multi-core community-faq-proposed

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek lolol

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