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A T

01:42

hi

Journeyman Geek

lo

yay, planned/scheduled reboot worked as planned

Bob

@JourneymanGeek MSI, nVidia GTX 560

Journeyman Geek

oh, dual DVI?

IIRC one is always dual link, the other is single link/analog with the older cards

Bob

@JourneymanGeek (online) specs say 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

and dual-link is "yes"

:P

@iglvzx Didn't both of those get shot down over at MSO? (pity...)

HackToHell

@Boris_yo cool ;)

One of my questions was deleted, might I know why ?

iglvzx

02:06

@HackToHell Which question?

HackToHell

@iglvzx I do not have the link, since I am not a 10k user, see if you can find it from my profile page

iglvzx

@HackToHell I see you have -10 rep on June 19 for "user removed"

There is no link for that, unfortunately.

Do you remember what you wrote? Maybe I can find it with Google

HackToHell

@iglvzx I am searching for the link, will post it as soon as I find it

ta da

superuser.com/questions/401851/…

iglvzx

No reason was given or even WHO deleted it. It just says "Deleted 1 hour ago"

HackToHell

What happens now ?

iglvzx

02:14

I don't know. That is strange... @OliverSalzburg @slhck @DanielBeck What's going on here?

HackToHell

I am gonna ping @Sathya too

iglvzx

There are no answers, and you had -1 score, so if YOU deleted it, it would take us to the "Deleted by owner" page. I think

HackToHell

> Your question was removed from Super User for reasons of moderation

iglvzx

That's what you get?

HackToHell

I got that -1 recently

@iglvzx yes

Infact I got a -1 on 3 of my questions

iglvzx

02:18

I don't see why it would be deleted. If it needed moderation, you should have been asked to post your comment as an answer.

HackToHell

Let's see who deleted it and why.

Bob

@HackToHell that is/was rather random

HackToHell

Could be, I am providing details ;p

iglvzx

"net" is a big keyword/string in each of the questions

HackToHell

02:39

@iglvzx what are you implying ?

nhinkle

Glad to see that @gareth is back in some capacity. Where you been?

HackToHell

yay a mod

nhinkle

@HackToHell LOL. because we're so rare these days :P

HackToHell

:P

Journeyman Geek

We need moar mods! ;p

HackToHell

02:43

Anyway see my problem

nhinkle

@iglvzx that's really weird

there are no flags on the post

and the revision history doesn't show the deletion (which it usually does)

HackToHell

A bug ?

nhinkle

and none of our moderation histories show someone deleting that

Journeyman Geek

o0

nhinkle

i need to put a thing on the stove. will look into it more in a moment

HackToHell

02:46

or did a SE employee accidentally delete it ?

Sathya

@HackToHell it's an auto delete

HackToHell

o0

Sathya

31

A: Auto-deleting old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year?

Just to formally document the exact policies we have in place to remove old abandoned / dead questions: If the question is more than 30 days old, and ... has -1 or lower score has no answers is not locked ... it will be automatically deleted. If the question is more than 365 days old, and ....

( ccc @iglvzx )

nhinkle

Ah. Forgot about that. Thanks @Sathya

@HackToHell do you want the question or is it OK if it remains deleted?

They should change that to say "automatically deleted by community♦" or something like that.

Or have it automatically flag it "Auto delete due to <x>" and then have community delete it and mark the flag as valid.

Journeyman Geek

@nhinkle: though if it was recently downvoted, wouldn't it be a way of closing the question bypassing the usual methods?

HackToHell

02:50

@nhinkle I donno

nhinkle

@JourneymanGeek i suppose?

Sathya

there's a bug about auto delete

which I spotted on MSO

bug/feature request not sure, where the auto-delete should kick in after the -1 has come

nhinkle

@HackToHell you said in the comments that you fixed it yourself, but you never self-answered, so I'm inclined to believe there's no good reason to reopen it.

HackToHell

@nhinkle That self-answer is a thing pending in my to-do list, @JourneymanGeek told me to answer that ages ago xD and ok about leaving it deleted.

Journeyman Geek

See, this is why i should be listened to ;p

even when i forgot i said that ;p

HackToHell

02:52

Then do my homework for me ;p

Journeyman Geek

lol

@HackToHell: I actually use SU and SF to document problems since it helps me do rubber duck/stuffed wolf debugging ;p

So, least for me, if i can spend time troubleshooting, i can spend time answering ;p

nhinkle

rubber duck? stuffed wolf?

Journeyman Geek

lol

codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/rubber-duck-problem-solving.html

(I have a load of stuffed wolves for some reason, so i refer it to stuffed wolf/plush wolf debugging

nhinkle

ohhh

jokerdino

sup guys

oh my, someone else does rubber duck debugging too??!

Journeyman Geek

03:05

lol

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek I scribble it down in my dairy ;)

Journeyman Geek

pre SU, i'd settle to talking to computers

which also works ;p

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek I used to talk to my cat, it was an avid listener ;p

Journeyman Geek

03:21

lol

my dog hangs around when i do hardware

he finds software boring tho.

jokerdino

lol

i can imagine.

i used to talk to the dino but he doesn't really respond much ;p

Journeyman Geek

03:43

responding isn't important ;p

hmm

what's the current/updated auto comments script?

jokerdino

1.2.4?

Journeyman Geek

naw, i mean, a link ;p

stackapps.com/questions/2116/… this one?

jokerdino

oh yes

same script.

iglvzx

You should look into clay tablets. 3400+ years of data reliability! — iglvzx 1 min ago

jokerdino

03:58

bahaha

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

05:45

so I can delete a old quesion with no votes and anssers by down voting it without a check from anyone else - maybe there should be a delay after the downvote before the delete kicks in. — Ian Ringrose May 20 '11 at 9:43

HackToHell

06:20

nhinkle

06:50

Any apple experts awake?

HackToHell

07:03

Any AutoHot key experts here ?

Saturday is a boring day in Root Access :/

jokerdino

yep

Bob

@HackToHell Depends what you want to do...

HackToHell

@Bob I want to launch Everything on pressing Ctrl+Alt+q without the Run as Administrator prompt

It's simple but apk is extremely weird for me :/

Bob

07:21

@HackToHell "Everything"?

HackToHell

lol gusnyc.com/10-possible-future-apple-products

@Bob srry voidtools.com

Bob

@HackToHell ...I could just imagine them suing bicycle manufacturers...

HackToHell

It's a software

@Bob It has a wheel and we own the patent for that xD

Bob

@HackToHell Running it woud be easy. Bypassing the UAC prompt... not so much

Some methods described in this answer:

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A: How to Run an app as Administrator without the prompt?

Read the following forum post: How to disable the User Account Control Prompt for certain application It tells you basically, that you have to download Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6 and create a custom App fix database where you assign the 'RunAsAdmin' fix to the exe. I tried i...

The AHK script itself is pretty simple, something like ^!q::Run "path to executable"

HackToHell

@Bob Bypassing UAC using scheduled tasks is awesome ;)

Bob

07:34

@HackToHell Pretty weird, too :P

I was thinking something with runas, but that probably wouldn't have worked

HackToHell

@Bob That requires the password to be entered, I tried doing it with that, could not get it working properly

Daniel Beck

good morning everyone

HackToHell

@bob thanks, got it working

@DanielBeck good morning db

Bob

@HackToHell Scheduled task?

HackToHell

@Bob yep

Bob

07:44

@HackToHell Cool, I'll have to remember that :P

HackToHell

@Bob Now I want the command to be run only is Everything is not running, I tried this pastebin.com/WnZKzBJb but it did not work, where did I go wrong ?

Bob

ah

firstly, are you sure the ahk_class is EVERYTHING?

Use the AutoIt3 Window Spy that comes with AHK to check

Secondly, you can't use IfWinActive like that.

You can have that kind of check within the hotkey

HackToHell

@Bob I found that using Window spy so it's correct

@Bob Ah yes, I am being dumb xD

Bob

Or you can use a directive, like #IfWinActive. In this case, probably something like this:

#IfWinNotExist ahk_class EVERYTHING
^!q::Run schtasks /run /tn Everything

@HackToHell No you're not, AHK is just confusing at first :P

HackToHell

pastebin.com/YtP4Qjjg This does work either

Bob

07:54

@HackToHell Ok, so you want to show the window if it's there? Hmm..

I'm not sure, but perhaps:

^!q::
IfWinExist ahk_class EVERYTHING
{
    WinActivate
}
else
{
    Run schtasks /run /tn Everything
}
return

You can specify an argument for WinActivate, but if you don't it'll just use the last one found (by IfWinExist in this case)

HackToHell

@Bob That's nt working too

Bob

@HackToHell In what way?

It worked for me with Notepad

HackToHell

@Bob The scheduled task is only run, the window is not brought up

Bob

hm

Can you confirm the class is correct?

HackToHell

Also, the Window is not minimized but in the notif area so it needs double click to activate

Bob

08:00

The class is case sensitive

@HackToHell That... might be an issue.

HackToHell

@Bob That's the issue :/

It works if it is in the task bar

Bob

@HackToHell DetectHiddenWindows On

DetectHiddenWindows On
^!q::
IfWinExist ahk_class Notepad
{
    WinActivate
}
else
{
    Run Notepad
}
return

HackToHell

@Bob Still not working :/

I will post in SU, thanks @bob

Bob

@HackToHell Think I've got it :P

Add a WinShow just before the WinActivate

It works with KeePass/minimise to tray

HackToHell

08:17

@Bob I will check it out as soon as come back from the theater, going to see TDKR, srry, I am already running late

Bob

@HackToHell lol, have fun!

Journeyman Geek

10:32

ugh, am a neep

I usually tag tracks to stage3 and then if they are lossless convert and store them as mp3 in stage 3

mixed the two up

I was trying to figure out why the new tracks i had added to itunes didn't show up

Bob

11:31

...

recorded the olympic opening with windows media centre

hello, 16GB file

playback gets very stuttery about halfway through, I think it's choking on the massive file :P

jokerdino

o.O

16GB :O

mail me later

Boris_yo

@HackToHell Then you should visit Tallinn - the capital in Estonia.

Hey @jokerdino and @Bob ! How are ye mates doing todays?

jokerdino

hey

me doing fine

Boris_yo

@jokerdino Cool

Guys I want to make video clip about my trip with included U2 - Beautiful Day soundtrack. First 10 seconds I want to include my time lapse short clips. Can you suggest fast, with as much less learning curve way to do this?

Bob

12:10

@Boris_yo Does Windows Movie Maker (XP version) have that functionality?

Journeyman Geek

i vaguely recall it let you insert stills

but this was like, years ago ;p

Bob

The pre-Live Windows Movie Maker was one of the most intuitive video composition programs

With quite a few basic features

@Boris_yo Oh, and hi

Journeyman Geek

it was ;p

Bob

@jokerdino when something says it's going to take 5 hours to transfer over the network... and considering this is Windows networking... I might be done next week.

Journeyman Geek

looool

or in 5 minutes

Bob

12:13

@JourneymanGeek 16GB @ 1MB/s?

Even worse, this is a wireless 'g' network where theoretical maximum is a little over 6MB/s...

Journeyman Geek

Its a windows file transfer time suggestion...

its totally variable

/me prefers sneakerneting larger files tho

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Sneakernet?

Journeyman Geek

I copy it to a usb hard drive, walk over... ;p

Bob

lol

my last portable hard drive died :\

Mokubai

otherwise known as flashnet if using flash drives

Bob

12:15

...annnd I only have 8GB flash drives, none of which are empty. might be time to install 7zip :P

Actually, I'll go do that.

Journeyman Geek

lol

jokerdino

@Bob mail me dude.

Journeyman Geek

/me has two, in case one gets borrowed

I need to clean them out a bit tho

jokerdino

ok

Journeyman Geek

especially with my plans to reformat my laptop and to do a rebuild on the desktop ;p

jokerdino

12:16

i have found firessh too hot.

Bob

lol

perhaps if I set up a FTP server...

hmm

Journeyman Geek

lol

too hot?

Bob

What's this rsync everyone's talking about?

Journeyman Geek

hmm

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek i mean, it is actually working. i can ssh without worrying about the proxy / firewall and what not

Journeyman Geek

12:19

oooh

nice ;p

Boris_yo

Internet speed in Estonia:

In Prague airport from free Wi-Fi hotspot:

jokerdino

12:40

@HackToHell watched Billa 2 yet?

Boris_yo

12:59

Speed at my friend's house:

That's in kiloBYTES guys, so 6 megaBYTES download and 2.2 megaBYTES upload is really not too shabby!

avirk

13:28

@OliverSalzburg r u there?

BTW hi all

jokerdino

hi

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk Always ;)

avirk

@OliverSalzburg congrates for being a mod nw ;)

@jokerdino hello

jokerdino

hah

Oliver Salzburg

Thanks. It really is more work than glamour though ;)

avirk

13:29

so have any1 miss me here

:\

jokerdino

@OliverSalzburg IKR

just kidding. i don't really know

avirk

@OliverSalzburg when you got the power then responsibilities increases automatically :)

@OliverSalzburg I'm looking for a way to backup my official ICS rom without root my phone but still have not any success. Have you any idea regarding this?

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk Without root? No idea

Journeyman Geek

hmm

Oliver Salzburg

The only good backups I've ever done were through ClockworkMod Recovery

avirk

13:33

@OliverSalzburg actually I don't want to void my warranty

Journeyman Geek

can i ping someone who dosen't turn up on autocomplete but has been on semi recently

rolled back one of kino's edits on meta

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Not that I know

avirk

@OliverSalzburg nandroid

Journeyman Geek

darn

avirk

@JourneymanGeek link

jokerdino

13:34

@jou you can if the person has been on chat in 3 days

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk I haven't messed with my phone since my last ROM upgrade

avirk

@OliverSalzburg actully I'm looking for JB and I heard rumors that Sony will not launch the official update for my model so that's why ;)

Journeyman Geek

meta.superuser.com/posts/2198/revisions @kinokijuf Harry Potter reference, and in no way detracts from the answer. Rolled back cause frankly, the edit dosen't add anything to the answer and well, Harry Potter rocks ;p

Boris_yo

Lol:

tinydeal.com/…

Journeyman Geek

o0

avirk

13:39

@JourneymanGeek very bad edit just with the word WTF :\

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek That rollback didn't really contribute to the answer either though

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: no, not really

But editing a year old, and obsolete answer for a minor reason...

Oliver Salzburg

I still don't understand the reference

jokerdino

@OliverSalzburg rollback war!!

Journeyman Geek

Naw, one more and i stop giving a shit.

avirk

13:40

@jokerdino still not

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: In Harry Potter, students get merit and demerit points for their houses

jokerdino

@avirk no, i am asking you to start one.

Journeyman Geek

and its a reference to that ;p

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Thanks :)

avirk

@jokerdino hehehe

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A: Command prompt takes 7-8 seconds to load in Windows 7

Download Process Monitor (procmon.exe) from Microsoft's SysInternals micro-site. Filter the output such that you're only looking at a Process Name of conhost.exe or cmd.exe. Add the Duration column to the output. Fire up a CMD.EXE and see what's going on.

I think it need the download link refrence :\

What do you say guys?

Oliver Salzburg

13:44

That answer needs a lot of things :P

Argh, my comment got swallowed wtf

avirk

@OliverSalzburg you are an expert of process monitor you can do anything

@OliverSalzburg you can fix that WTF :)

Oliver Salzburg

Done :P

The answer is still bad, but now it's easier to follow

avirk

@OliverSalzburg you should had to answer it :P

@OliverSalzburg have you consider to answer it or not because I'm not in mood to answer it.

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk I commented. Wouldn't really know what else to answer

And I'm inspecting new tools right now which I bought earlier :)

avirk

@OliverSalzburg you bought smthing new?

I think its mod tools........ :P

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