Root Access

soandos

00:48

good job facebook...

I wonder which one I want

avirk

01:01

@soandos is that really ;P

soandos

@avirk, yeah, saw it a few minutes ago. Really annoying (not that I would be buying any of course)

avirk

Finally I updated my relationship status on FB

@soandos sudn't be

@soandos but what kind of FB credit it is?

@OliverSalzburg Hallo:)

Are you here?

soandos

@avirk 21 questions I think

avirk

@soandos Oh sorry but I was asking to Oliver

soandos

@avirk, sorry, my bad

avirk

01:14

btw can you suggest me about an android problem

@soandos no need to sorry I didn't mention him so its generally confuse any1

btw can you suggest me about an android problem

my phone just wake up automatically after few seconds. :(

that is very annoying for me

nhinkle

01:26

@soandos I think the real question is, why are you buying coins on Facebook?

soandos

@nhinkle i'm not. I just saw that, and thought that is a new low, even for FB

Paul

@soandos I don't get it (despite the obvious exchange calculation error), is that buy another virtual currency with another virtual currency? What are those coins?

soandos

@Paul, I think so, but i'm not sure

Tom Wijsman

@Paul Yeah, I think it's like real money --> facebook credits --> coins to be used in apps / games.

Paul

@TomWijsman Excellent. I imagine this helps disguise the value of the individual coins to make them more spendy

Tom Wijsman

01:39

@Paul Yeah, allows them to change the transfer ratio while not changing the credits / coins itself.

Why change the euro --> credits if you can change the credits --> coins instead, people pay less attention to the latter I think.

Paul

@TomWijsman For definite I reckon

soandos

02:26

anyone know how to shrink all text in a word file by x%?

sidran32

02:41

I just wanted to risk pointing this out... I see this question has 2 VTCs, but I don't think it should be... it looks like it's being VTC'd pre-emptively, out of the possibility that it could turn into a software request, except it isn't at all.

6

Q: Is it possible to watch a video in full screen on multiple monitors?

Is it possible to watch a video in full screen on multiple monitors? I'm using Windows Seven 64bits and I can only make it go full screen on one monitor.

soandos

04:01

@sathya, did you protectivly close and reopen superuser.com/questions/461269/…?

Sathya

@soandos yes

soandos

Did you receive a ping?

Sathya

@soandos yes I did :-)

soandos

strange. It was not a suggestion...

@soandos, testing old bug

Sathya

how do you mean? I see you've mentioned my name?

soandos

04:03

@Sathya yes, but I manually typed it (note the lower case 's')

Sathya

as long as 3 letters match, @soa you will get the notification

(as it should now)

soandos

@Sathya, I mean that you were not in the suggested user names. That usually means that you are not in the room/have talked recently

and if I ping you, nothing will happen

Sathya

that doesn't hold good for chat - I'll get notifications provided I've been seen in chat in past 48 hours

even if the name's not present

soandos

its like doing @nobody. He won't get a ping from this (I don't believe, feel free to correct me)

ah, so why is the suggestion list different from the users that can be pinged list?

Sathya

@soandos that is correct.

balpha explains here:

6

A: How is the comment/chat @ auto-complete implemented?

There's an event handler that fires for key and click events, and checks whether the cursor is currently on a word that's preceded by an "@". If so, there's your first bullet point; if not, there's the third (note that even when an item was inserted, the cursor is still on the word, and the auto-...

essentially, if you came in before me, then the chat doesn't know yet that I'm here.

soandos

04:08

got it. Interesting that its all client side

Sathya

that @balpha is a js ninja /wizard / <superlative>

soandos

its a great idea, just didn't see it coming :)

Sathya

hehe. be back in a bit, off for breakfast.

neersighted

04:23

@JourneymanGeek Oi, figured out superuser.com/questions/380473/how-do-i-delete-nginx for you.

Bob

@Sathya I thought it was a week... :\

neersighted

hrrrmmm

anyone know why that did not onebox?

soandos

@neersighted It has to be by itself

0

Q: How do I delete nginx?

I don't know how this program got on my machine, but it is giving me nothingn but grief. How do I get it off my computer along with Mystart.com? They are not in my control panel or anywhere else I have looked.

delete nginx

neersighted

ah

0

Q: How do I delete nginx?

I don't know how this program got on my machine, but it is giving me nothingn but grief. How do I get it off my computer along with Mystart.com? They are not in my control panel or anywhere else I have looked.

delete nginx

I see

KronoS

04:45

MT/s anybody know what this means?

soandos

metric ton?

KronoS

DDR3 SDRAM

In computing, DDR3 SDRAM, an abbreviation for double data rate type three synchronous dynamic random access memory, is a modern kind of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) with a high bandwidth interface, and has been in use since 2007. DDR3 SDRAM is neither forward nor backward compatible with any earlier type of random access memory (RAM) due to different signaling voltages, timings, and other factors. DDR3 is a DRAM interface specification. The actual DRAM arrays that store the data are similar to earlier types, with similar performance. The primary benefit of DDR3 SDRAM over its ...

it's from here

soandos

1 MT/s is 106 or one million transfers per second.

Transfer (computing)

In computer technology, transfers per second and its more common derivatives gigatransfers per second (abbreviated GT/s) and megatransfers per second (MT/s) are informal language that refer to the number of operations transferring data that occur in each second in some given data-transfer channel. It is also known as sample rate, i.e. the number of data samples captured per second, each sample normally occurring at the clock edge. The terms are neutral with respect to the method of physically accomplishing each such data-transfer operation; nevertheless they are most commonly used in the ...

KronoS

@soandos thanks dude!

soandos

@KronoS, its all google + wikipedia :)

Paul

05:16

@soandos What is this google thing people keep banging on about? I know wikipedia though, it is one of those insects right?

soandos

@Paul google and wikipedia are two of the smartest people I know. I just hit something when I want them to tell me something, and they do

Randolph West

So I've finally cracked 10k and now I have no idea what I'm doing :-). If I have any questions, I'll be sure to ask. But first, bed time.

soandos

@RandolphWest congrats, and good night

Randolph West

Thanks!

KronoS

05:53

Grrr... if only I could get rep for blogging on SU.... then I'd be at the 10k...

that or flagging or reviewing....

Seems to be all that I can do most of the time

Sathya

06:27

@RandolphWest 'grats.

KronoS

Oh BTW all... My iPhone app was released the other day:

itunes.apple.com/us/app/rainlog/id549171985?mt=8

Bob

@KronoS uhm... what does it do? :P

Paul

@Bob It makes it rain in your location

soandos

@KronoS looks sleek

Bob

06:49

oh... I just realised it's for hobby meteorologists/aggregating rainfall data... I'm an idiot.

@Paul I would want it in a couple of months, then! :P

soandos

You tricky southern hemisphere people :)

Clippy

08:05

Super User Blog: A Super User’s Guide to Memory (QotW #40)

kronos on August 14, 2012

Memory. Every Super User knows that they need it, and if you’re like me, you can never get enough. I know I somehow find ways to use up all 16 Gb of my memory on my desktop. In fact, back in Nov 2010 Tom’s Hardware suggested that the minimum system RAM should be around 8Gb!

But what’s really frustrating is buying memory. There are so many factors to consider that it can get overwhelming. This is the same issue that Super User nathpilland had:

So here we go. This blog post is a stab at defining the basics you need to know about RAM. …

Oliver Salzburg

09:10

Chrome lost my open tabs again >:(

And all because Windows rebooted to install some updates while the system was in sleep mode.

avirk

@OliverSalzburg why it lost it should open the last history where chrome shut down.

Oliver Salzburg

What the...

@avirk No it came up empty. The recently closed tab only showed tabs which I actually closed yesterday. The 30 that were still open were lost.

avirk

@OliverSalzburg What the F***

Oliver Salzburg

So I restarted Chrome. Then the recently closed tab was empty. And my phone showed that Chrome synched 1 open tab 1 minute ago.

So I just killed all open Chrome.exe processes. Restarted Chrome. Now all tabs are back O__o

avirk

@OliverSalzburg You mean you are trying to open them on phone after shut down the PC

Oliver Salzburg

09:16

I guess this is an acceptable outcome :D

@avirk I only checked on Chrome on my phone to see when my desktop last synced.

The whole story happened on the desktop alone.

avirk

@OliverSalzburg Thats creepy I have not faced it yet. Have you Googled it?

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk Yeah. It happened quite a few times already for me. Always the same pattern. When I Google it, I get too many false positives from other, generic, sync issues.

avirk

@OliverSalzburg I have not try to sync it so may be that's why i didn't face it.

I will check it out if this happens to me

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Automatic updates...?

avirk

@Bob hello dude.

Oliver Salzburg

09:20

@Bob Possibly. When I restarted Chrome. I saw it spawned a setup.exe in Process Explorer. Then nothing happened. I started "another instance" and my windows/tabs from yesterday came up.

It's also impossible to reproduce intentionally. Or, at least, I have interest in breaking my Chrome :D

Bob

I wouldn't be surprised if they (automatic updates) were responsible for most work lost on Windows computers :P

@avirk hi

@OliverSalzburg Reproduce? Uninstall an update and leave it on overnight again? :P

avirk

@Bob Ummmmm I have never face that problem. I always finish my work to install the updates

Bob

@avirk Are they set to automatic?

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Oh, you were referring to Windows automatic updates. Yeah. I believe these automatic reboots, when there is a saved session in sleep mode, are part of the issue

Bob

As in, install without any user intervention and automatically restart if there's no one there to cancel that?

@OliverSalzburg But... it wouldn't be sleeping at the time of reboot, would it?

Oliver Salzburg

09:23

@Bob No, if my computer is on. It won't reboot. Only when it sleeps

Bob

Which means sleep shouldn't play a part...

avirk

@Bob aha! I missed it.. Nope let me choose to install it or not

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Weird. The last time I tried enabling automatic updates, it popped up a nice countdown threatening to reboot :P

@avirk Yea, that one's safe from auto reboot.

Oliver Salzburg

Like, I have never actually seen it. But at night, I press my power button and send the machine to sleep (suspend to RAM). The next morning, it is off completely and has to do a full boot.

When I log on, Windows tells me it installed updates.

Bob

@OliverSalzburg The default time is 3 AM, so that might be it.

Oliver Salzburg

09:25

@Bob Yeah.

avirk

@OliverSalzburg I think you should have to change them to manually instead of automatic.

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Also, says something about my sleep patterns, me being on my computer when it happened... :P

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob I'm currently in the process of shifting my sleep cycle. No more 3am for me :P

Gnoupi

For reference about answers linking to a personal blog, the bad way:

0

A: Free Photoshop Plugin or Software to auto remove backgrounds

You may check http://allittips.com/mask-pro-photoshop-plugins/ for the solution. I think it will help you.

And the good way:

1

A: Using XFCE4 with awesome

This article (my own blog) might help. Or the short version: use killall xfwm4 && awesome it is as easy as that.

Oliver Salzburg

People don't downvote enough

Bob

09:30

@OliverSalzburg Guilty as charged...

:P

Gnoupi

The first one is a good candidate for a boot up the lower back. He just puts the link, no information. The second one adds a disclaimer, and writes a short summary of the solution

Now I have no idea if his answer is actually right. But it does seem to answer the question, and it's a good quality.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob I just remembered that I'm a domain member... Damn! Now I gotta adjust this in the AD...

jokerdino

the answer should work.

not the most elegant solution but i can see how it can work.

Gnoupi

@jokerdino thanks

Other hint about the good and bad way. The first one is obviously an ad trap. Designed to attract people from search results, to show them 4 banners. The other one is just a personal/tech blog

jokerdino

I got to find a way to sneak in links to my blog. Hm

I tend to document things on the site instead of my own blog. :(

back to wander land.

avirk

09:42

4

Q: How to Disable Hovering Selection Block in File Browser?

I am changing from Windows XP to Windows 7. One thing I cannot stand about Windows 7 is that whenever you mouse over files in Explorer (or other file-browser), it highlights the files with a semi-transparent block. This is nice, but I want to be able to double-click on the white area background ...

windows-7 windows-explorer infotip

any1 have Idea abt this

Sathya

5

avirk

@Sathya why?

Sathya

why what? I see 5 animals

avirk

@Sathya nope 5 is wrong check it out again

jokerdino

i see 6

Oliver Salzburg

09:51

@Sathya One is a unicorn, which is not an animal. So 5

2

jokerdino

elephant, monkey, horse, dog, cat and a rat

@OliverSalzburg Hmm fair enough

Sathya

@OliverSalzburg bingo

avirk

@OliverSalzburg no its not unicorn its horse whose ear are just stands.

@jokerdino you got it 6

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk Oh please ;D

avirk

@OliverSalzburg ;D

That was very interesting for me however it is just very small pic to find out

I had a book in which a tree and there were many pic to find out inside that

]I liked that very much and enjoy that

-> i.sstatic.net/TqqBm.jpg

som1 touch my heart

1 is fortune and 1 is fashion

Sathya

09:59

try not to get me into trouble at work.

HaydnWVN

Going on a downvote spree is dangerous to your rep, i only tend to do it after winning a bounty lol

avirk

@Sathya what kind of trouble at work

HaydnWVN

@avirk NSFW links :P

well its safe, but some proxies would pick that up - too much skin pigment colours in the image lol

avirk

@HaydnWVN aha

well which is the good movie release in the last days

@Sathya sorry for that trouble

Sathya

@HaydnWVN yeah, it's not really NSFW but I prefer to keep it clean around here,

HaydnWVN

10:08

@Sathya that's a good view and looks enough like an advert to be SFW ;)

needs moar txt though

@jokerdino still here?

have a quick one for you...

need a shell command (on ubuntu) to list all files (by extension - *.jpg) created within a specific timeframe (last 2 weeks) in a particular samba share

jokerdino

hi?

ls *.jpg

wait, timeframe? o.O

HaydnWVN

(our backup failed last night and i want to place some blame on who's saved 10gb+ of images the last couple of weeks after getting a new camera lol)

jokerdino

i got to look that one up

16

A: How to make Downloads folder behave like a temp directory

Instead of changing how the directory works, you could have a little clean-up script. It's easier to implement and probably less dangerous in the long run. The following will delete anything over 7 days old in your ~/Download/ directory: find ~/Download/ -mtime +7 -delete You might want to te...

HaydnWVN

ahh don't worry then, i'm trawling through some info here to do it anyway :)

jokerdino

that should give you some idea.

you see, no one takes me serious when i say i am a noob.

HaydnWVN

10:17

lol :D

where i work we have several different departments and IT is reponsible for them all... half the time we're placing 'blame' to claim funds from different departments to get funds to fix/solve

jokerdino

o.O

HaydnWVN

the past couple of days we've hit some backup issues so rather than out generic funding going on new machines for one department (which we'd then get funding back from) we'll probably have to divert it to some newer backup drives. Now if i can place blame for who's saved so much extra to the shares in question i can get funding back for that too rather than just having to absorb it

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Do you know if there are alternative group policy editors for AD?

jokerdino

@HaydnWVN ok i got to help you on this.

Oliver Salzburg

10:44

dornob.com/…

Neat :)

HaydnWVN

@OliverSalzburg very cool, looks like quite a large amount of cash used though lol

Oliver Salzburg

@HaydnWVN I try not to think about that aspect when reading that blog ;D

Daniel Beck

hi everyone

Could any non-reviewer click here and tell me the numbers of unreviewed posts in each of the top three queues?

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Huh?

I've never managed an AD before :P

soandos

@OliverSalzburg there are quite a few boot disks that can do it

Oliver Salzburg

10:50

@Bob Oh. I don't know why I figured you'd know :D

@soandos The default editor just has one quirk that annoys me. I need something that works in Windows.

Bob

The most I've done is play with gpedit, but only the local policy

HaydnWVN

@DanielBeck 33, 0, 7 (greyed out)

soandos

the .pl files are, if I can recall correctly, plain text

Daniel Beck

@HaydnWVN Thanks.

HaydnWVN

np

soandos

10:51

or is it .pol ...

Its been a while

HaydnWVN

@OliverSalzburg I've not come across any, but not activly looked or that heavily involved with AD

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob What annoys me is this, you have a GPO and you edit it. It's a pain to find the actual template that was used for the GPO in the policy editor.

HaydnWVN

(only support 1 Windows server here)

Oliver Salzburg

@HaydnWVN I haven't looked at all either yet. Should do that

HaydnWVN

@OliverSalzburg like the original?

soandos

10:53

(only ever abused/violated the integrity of those files)

Oliver Salzburg

@HaydnWVN I wish I had an English server for some screenshots right now :P

soandos

@OliverSalzburg technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907 ?

Oliver Salzburg

@soandos No, that's different... Unless it has features I don't know about :D

HaydnWVN

@OliverSalzburg grab a VM? I've got an SBS2011 i can get something from if you want to send me the details?

soandos

> Active Directory Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor.

HaydnWVN

10:55

@OliverSalzburg but it's a live server os i'm not changing enything :P

*so

*any

(typing why making patch cables = fail)

*while!

Oliver Salzburg

Seriously Greenshot...

soandos

@OliverSalzburg what is it missing?

Oliver Salzburg

@soandos A working plugin to upload screenshots

There

soandos

I don't do german?

Oliver Salzburg

Like, you have all the GPOs on your left and you can see clearly, on the tab on the right, which templates were used for it (as they are shown in various shades of blue).

HaydnWVN

10:58

lol love how some of its german, others blatantly not

soandos

OK, and...

Oliver Salzburg

@HaydnWVN Some objects are automatically named by SBS and are always English

@soandos And when you select a GPO and edit it, you just get the plain old normal gpedit

Personally, I would like it if the branches that contain used templates are shown in bold, or something like that.

soandos

Even when using susternal''s tool?

Oliver Salzburg

The you'd instantly find the templates you may want to adjust. But this way, you always have to open the settings tab and follow the shown path.

Sathya

0

Q: What in the world is a "code block"?

I'm trying to edit an answer I wrote a while back to correct an important item. When I select "Save Edits", it gives me an error with the following: "Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because: Your post contains a link to the invalid host '192.168.1.254'. Please correct it by specifying a n...

ip editing blocking code

heh

Oliver Salzburg

11:00

@soandos I guess I better double-check

soandos

(I have no idea, and can't check right now, but it would surprise me. The tools are usually standalone)

Oliver Salzburg

@soandos I wasn't even aware that you could invoke the group policy editor through ADExplorer. In fact, I wasn't even aware that the GPOs are stored in the AD.

I thought they were stored in the SYSVOL

Seems like it's both :D technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779838(v=ws.10).aspx

soandos

Nope. I think they wanted to keep it all together, and it was relatively simple to make it work that way. As of 4 years ago, I seriously messed with these files to get the AD permissions I wanted locally

huh

Good to know :)

Daniel Beck

0

Q: Collecting antique CPUs (as an investment) - is it wort it?

So I've been thinking about collecting some of the oldest CPUs out there (8088, 8086, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium I, Pentium MMX, Pentium PRO (and the corresponding non-Intel clones of these)). Let me ask you from a commercial perspective: would such a collection be worth it? To clarify my tho...

old-hardware collection

"what kind of a proportional return of the original investment would you estimate?" None?

soandos

There is some metal content that could be worth something (some gold, platinum, rare earths) Its not much though

Bob

11:16

@DanielBeck Well, not much as antiques considering the millions made :P

Sathya

makeuseof answers

C is a mid-level langauge. OK then.

Oliver Salzburg

Ah. Great blog post :)

@Sathya "TOP GENIUSES THIS WEEK" We need that! :D

Sathya

11:32

@OliverSalzburg :p

Daniel Beck

12:50

Oooh first insult since I've been elected. Nice.

Diogo

@DanielBeck where?

Oliver Salzburg

@Diogo I already deleted it, if we're refering to the same insult ;D

Daniel Beck

@Diogo Sorry, moderator only deleted comment.

@OliverSalzburg You did. How could you?!

Oliver Salzburg

@DanielBeck It was flagged for being insulting, I agreed :)

Daniel Beck

Well, yeah, it was.

Tom Wijsman

13:05

Listened to the same song 39 times in a row so far, yeah... This is fun. :D

Daniel Beck

@TomWijsman Which one?

Tom Wijsman

listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=KtFFQJiwSxU

Catchy... :P

So... That's a full 2 hours already! Wonder how far I can take it.

Rocketmagnet

Hello everyone.

Is it a faux pas to mention a stackexchange proposal in order to enlist followers ?

Tom Wijsman

Did that before myself, so go ahead.

Rocketmagnet

Thanks

barlop

13:17

if a network has a few routers, and one router connected to a modem, then is the one connected to the modem naturally the default gateway one?

Rocketmagnet

If anyone's interested in robotics, then please check out

39

Robotics

Proposed Q&A site for professional robotic engineers, hobbyists, researchers and students.

Currently in definition.

Tom Wijsman

13:32

Oh, she made it already to #1... apple.com/itunes/charts/songs

HaydnWVN

14:01

@barlop usually, but not always... You could consider it as your own 'upstream' router and run your NAT tables/firewall/etc on another, but bear in mind the one with the firewall should really be the one acting as the gateway

Journeyman Geek

14:33

mwahahaha

My cousin has an almost decent connection

Stack Exchange

-2

Q: Why can't we allow one user one i.p?

Consider the following scenario: Imagine that there were two people let us consider them as A and B. User A works at night and used to use superuser at night. User B works at day and used to use superuser at day Now as per the community rules if user A gets blocked with his account then obviou...

feature-request

Sathya

:=|

@OliverSalzburg dammit Oliver. I'll have to cry for Mod Abuse

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya What?

Sathya

@OliverSalzburg um, that was /s :P

Oliver Salzburg

Was that a mistake?

Sathya

14:48

@OliverSalzburg no, no..

Oliver Salzburg

I'm a bit confused right now ;D

Sathya

2 hours ago, by Oliver Salzburg

@Diogo I already deleted it, if we're refering to the same insult ;D

2 hours ago, by Daniel Beck

@OliverSalzburg You did. How could you?!

@OliverSalzburg ^ wrt to this. I was joking that they'll be cryout for Mod abuse. Clearly I'm the only one who thought this would be funny :\

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya It may have been funnier if I hadn't misunderstood ;D

Sathya

@OliverSalzburg :D

okay, off to the bus stop

Tomorrow's India's 65th Independence Day, so Happy Independence Day!!

3

jokerdino

@Sathya !!! :D

say happy birthday to her on my behalf

Stack Exchange

15:08

-2

Q: Why we can't we show that chatting user is typing?

Consider this scenario A and B were chatting for an specific answer and why can't we show the specific user is typing when he types the post on a chat?

feature-request status-declined chat

HaydnWVN

@Sathya Congrats... I think?

<-- British :P

@StackExchange lol at the amount of rubbish questions from that user :/

Oliver Salzburg

15:27

Woah. This might end up being my longest answer. And I don't even know if that's what the guy wants to know :D

otaupdatecenter.pro/?page=home# Humm

I bet those guys use app.nirvanahq.com :P

jokerdino

@HaydnWVN hey look. you are in my list

KronoS

hey.. since when do downvotes not hurt anymore?

jokerdino

o.O

it should

KronoS

15:42

@jokerdino I just downvoted two questions and it didn't do anything

jokerdino

downvotes on questions are free for so long

downvotes on answers aren't

Oliver Salzburg

@jokerdino Yep

jokerdino

Yep.

Oliver Salzburg

Blog - Stack Exchange: Optimizing For Pearls, Not Sand

Jeff Atwood on June 13, 2011

In March 2010, we rebalanced our reputation system to favor answers.

While we value good questions (and asking a great question is absolutely an art), we want to explicitly encourage people to provide the best possible answers. Without people interested in providing good answers, the questions are moot. We know that answers have more intrinsic value than questions, and the reputation balance should reflect that.

The question asker already enjoys a substantial benefit beyond reputation gain from upvotes on their question — namely, they get great answers to their question! Thus, the asker shouldn’t need as much reputation gain. …

> Downvotes on questions no longer cost the casting user 1 reputation, so they are effectively “free”.

Daniel Beck

Should never have been changed for MSO though. Good questions are at least as valuable as good answers.

KronoS

15:52

ok quick! ONE person up vote one of my quesrtions (and ONLY ONE!!!) please :P

that wasn't so quick :/

jokerdino

@KronoS D

A bit busy.

Oliver Salzburg

Nice :D

KronoS

2

Tom Wijsman

Thanks for removing that comment thread, whomever it was.

KronoS

I can die a happy god now... :)

Oliver Salzburg

15:55

@KronoS :D

Tom Wijsman

Some people don't read the positive in comments... >_<

jokerdino

@KronoS ok shop is closed.

KronoS

@jokerdino lol... thanks... that's all i wanted.

jokerdino

:P

HaydnWVN

16:13

@jokerdino List?! :o

@KronoS 7,788 now, that's love man! ;)

Tom Wijsman

Hmm, 10 hours long videos on YouTube no longer seem like a challenge after doing this for 5 hours...

HaydnWVN

@TomWijsman why would you choose to listen to that for 5 hours? Burnin testing a soundcard? :P

KronoS

I feel like it's my burfday

Tom Wijsman

Notice something odd here? @KronoS

@HaydnWVN Dunno, wanted to listen to it a few times, went gaming, didn't turn it off. So made it into a challenge...

KronoS

@TomWijsman My about? o.O

Tom Wijsman

16:18

@KronoS Hint: We're talking about reputation.

Or wait, maybe 15k is just your network rep? :P

KronoS

@TomWijsman ya that's my network rep

Tom Wijsman

Thought it was counting double, ignore me...

It should say parent user and then 7,777 and then network user and then 15k to be correct.

HaydnWVN

@TomWijsman sounds like more torture than a challenge :P

@jokerdino i'm off now, but catch me tomorrow if you've had a chance to check that command out - i've not had time to get back to it today!

cya all o/

KronoS

Now that ^^ makes me even more happier

Tom Wijsman

@HaydnWVN Catchy songs are meant to be torture! muhahaha

Oliver Salzburg

16:58

@soandos Thanks for the hint ;) (the restore point question)

soandos

@OliverSalzburg, no problem. In my opinion, thanks are important :)

and now off to lunch

nhinkle

17:14

whoa whoa whoa

Surface RT rumored to be only $200?

upon closer reading, it may be just random speculation

sidran32

@nhinkle Considering another retailer somewhere in the EU speculated something closer to $1200, I'd say "no one has a clue how much the Surface tablets will cost".

nhinkle

The RT version is the ARM version, and MS has said it'll cost about the same as current tablets, so no way it'll be $1200 for that version

sidran32

Ya. I think it later came out that they priced it that high for pre-orders and planned on refunding however much over they went, when they actually get a real price.

I'm hoping Microsoft is right, though. They could be forced to raise prices, depending on market factors. So we'll see.

KronoS

@nhinkle I think your source is a little closer to what it will be

They're trying to compete in a VERY saturated market. Make it cheap enough that everyone is willing to try it, and they might just get hooked enough to pay more later

plus there's the apps and stuff too.

sidran32

@KronoS I don't think it's as saturated as you might think. Android tablets (aside from the Kindle Fire) have had a very hard time getting traction, due to differences in perceived quality. The tablet market is essentially all Apple right now. So, I think there's room for Microsoft, here. Android is only just starting to get up to speed with Project Butter, so I think competition in the tablet market is going to just start getting good.

KronoS

17:28

@sidran32 Although I don't consider it a "tablet" Kindle has had a lot of traction as well...

and many other consumers do look at those as well.

sidran32

@KronoS I did mention the Kindle Fire. The original Kindle (and other similar products) are in their own market segment, really, as e-book readers.

Though the iPad and the Kindle Fire together hardly constitute a saturated market, IMO. :)

KronoS

You're right though... the market is predominantly Apple, and coming in at more than 1/2 the running iPad price is very appealing

r.tanner.f

for 200 bucks I don't even care, I'll pick one up.

sidran32

I think Microsoft may be able to differentiate themselves quite a bit with their unique UI, too. And that they're Microsoft, I think, might get their foot in the door a little. They have been doing tablets for a long time, even though they only were able to reach a niche market.

But it means they have a potential IP base where they can very quickly come up to speed.

Was that star intentional or did I "photo-bomb" @r.tanner.f, there? :P

r.tanner.f

intentional lol I think the tablet market is going to get really interesting really quick

sidran32

17:33

Ah :) Ya. Looking forward to it.

I've been missing having a tablet since my last laptop (a Win 7 convertible laptop/tablet) died and was replaced. I could repair it but my mom owns it now. :P

Oliver Salzburg

Is there any truth to this? superuser.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/12813

sidran32

I've been holding off on Apple because I'm not a fan of the UI and I don't want to have to deal with Apple software for Windows. So we'll see.

@OliverSalzburg I don't know about Super, but I've seen OpenCandy bundled before in other legitimate software installations. I forget what, though.

r.tanner.f

what don't you like about the UI? never heard complaints about it

Oliver Salzburg

@sidran32 I've never heard of it. Even though I used some of the applications listed here: malwaredictionary.com/opencandy

sidran32

@r.tanner.f It's just preference. The grid of icons feels old, boring, and I just don't like that kind of organization, anymore. I had it on my old Palm PDAs, it's on my Vita, and there's just no love for it. I use a Windows Phone so I've kind of come to love (what's formerly known as) Metro and its live tiles, personally.

r.tanner.f

17:39

@sidran32 hm, I could see that. things tend to be lost in a see of icons, and I do miss widgets

but then the primary apple user in the house is actually the 3 year old so... >_>

sidran32

Oh wow, a few of my programs have been bundled with OpenCandy. runs a scan with SpyBot

Oliver Salzburg

@sidran32 BTW, about that Outlook thing. I wonder if there is a size (or other) limit to that behavior.

sidran32

@OliverSalzburg I think most email services (including Exchange) have a size limit for attachments. I don't know if Outlook enforces one, itself. Of course, when using Outlook, though, it's only courteous to not send very large attachments. If it encroaches a couple MBs, I'll usually compress it, if possible, or transfer it some other way (like providing a link, or bittorrent).

Oliver Salzburg

@sidran32 I meant, I'm not sure if Outlook still makes such a copy even if the file is 1 GB in size. I know it wouldn't be reasonable to attach such a file to an email. But maybe there are other factors where Outlook would decide against a copy.

sidran32

@OliverSalzburg Ah, I see what you mean. Maybe it will just refuse to attach a file over a certain size since email probably isn't the best way to transfer such a file, anyway? I never actually tried.

Oliver Salzburg

17:54

@sidran32 I just wanted to make sure you're not relying on my answer for 100% correctness ;)

sidran32

@OliverSalzburg I think you are correct. So I accepted it. I wouldn't ever attach files that large, so it's outside the scope of my usage, anyway :)

Interesting note, email was never designed for transferring large files, like that. File attachments were sort of tacked on in a kludgy way, later. Same with using HTTP for transferring files. FTP is better. :P

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