Root Access

allquixotic

3:00 PM

yeah it didn't work from here because nslookup is blocked on my network

have to make dns queries through the proxy ;x

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic tcpiputils.com

Great site. Even greater Chrome extension :D

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/…

allquixotic

not usually one to turn down reputation, but seriously, I have like 100 rep worth of upvotes today that are past my max, so I don't get them. can't people wait until tomorrow? lol

gonna have to move on to SO I guess

avirk

@OliverSalzburg didn't know about that :)

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk It's really useful. Especially when moving websites around and you don't know what server you're actually on :D

Alright, I'm gonna upvote some of @allquixotic answers now ;D

avirk

@allquixotic I want to be there but a long time and not practiced to much and now I forget that world :(

allquixotic

3:03 PM

no!

avirk

@OliverSalzburg he hits the rep cap

but me not

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk I was kidding ;)

avirk

:P

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk Ah, I see your point :D

allquixotic

I have to be choosy about what I answer on SO, because so many questions are specialized to the extreme that anyone not "locked in" on that field as a matter of employment just go "uhhhhh.... what?"

avirk

3:04 PM

@OliverSalzburg :D

@OliverSalzburg :p

allquixotic

it requires much thinking, whereas on SU I can just spout things from memory and throw in a wikipedia link or two

also having to test your answers sux because I don't always have the querant's compiler or operating system available/installed

avirk

@allquixotic in short needs logic with different way :)

allquixotic

I'm a T-shaped person though, which is why I can answer so many things seemingly from memory on SU but can only answer about 1% of SO questions, but when I CAN answer them, watch out because I'll provide you an entire program that works 100%

avirk

0

Q: Internet connection in windows 7 laptop

I am connecting to internet in my windows XP PC (wired broadband). Now I would like to connect the modem to my windows 7 laptop and use internet. There are several connections being displayed in the network and sharing center. I have disabled all except the LAN. When I try to connect, the message...

I didn't understand that post

allquixotic

Very Low Quality. is he using ICS? is he trying to network from one PC to another?

can get clarification instead of voteclose/modhammering

avirk

3:07 PM

@OliverSalzburg can you tell me what he wants?

@allquixotic No he is trying to connect it through dongle and it don't let him.

allquixotic

bound variables. X = modem. Y = Windows XP PC. Z = Windows 7 laptop. User wants X --> (Ethernet or USB) --> Y --> Z

he doesn't mention "dongle"

r.tanner.f

Sounds to me like he's switching from an XP machine to a Win 7

but when he changes the ethernet/usb to the win 7 machine he gets "unidentified network" and no internet

allquixotic

yeah, it's not clear if he's trying to network two machines simultaneously and use one of them as a gateway (Internet Connection Sharing a.k.a. ipv4 masquerading plus DHCP) or if he just wants to move from one box to another

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk No clue. But I'm deep in work myself right now ;D

allquixotic

what's work? OH, right, that thing I'm supposed to be doing on my other monitor... right... well let's just say I have an extremely light load today.

r.tanner.f

3:10 PM

he sounds so confused that I think he would say he's trying to do something like that if he was. it would be something like "where do I plug my second computer in to my first computer?" xD

HaydnWVN

@OliverSalzburg thanks]

avirk

@r.tanner.f also could be a reason that if dongle is not come with a carrier then he needs to give an APN.

r.tanner.f

@allquixotic Have you looked at the traffic stats for SU? So dead on weekends and high during work hours, haha.

avirk

I mean to say as some carrier sold their dongle and they don't need APN's

allquixotic

who's voting close ;x it's an inexperienced user whose native language probably isn't English... we need to pry the real question out of him with pliers and other such dental equipment

r.tanner.f

3:12 PM

hahaha

avirk

@OliverSalzburg I've read it 10 time but over form my head :D

Oliver Salzburg

allquixotic

@r.tanner.f yeah that's hilarious how much traffic on SU during work hours (both questions about work and answers by bored workers) ... I have horrid stats on weekend myself

Oliver Salzburg

This is no way to work! :D

allquixotic

two huge textbooks -- is that academia or do you work in something like IC design?

r.tanner.f

3:13 PM

@OliverSalzburg What are all those strange white sheets? Are they made from trees?

allquixotic

i think those were produced by a printer, an antiquated device that uses ink (dyes) to put textual information on pieces of cured cellulose

what a wasteful practice; cellulose is so rare these days with the exhaustion of all our forests that we would never use it for such barbaric practices

Oliver Salzburg

@r.tanner.f Those are actually cut out books. That's where I keep my alcohol

allquixotic

btw I'm from 2027

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Right, eBooks are much better. Because we all know, our energy is produced by magical nature ferries :D

avirk

@allquixotic I did that as not a real question. As we are 4 here included a mod but won't understand what he wants.

allquixotic

3:15 PM

yes, it certainly is. faeries called deuterium molecules

r.tanner.f

@OliverSalzburg I don't care about saving trees. It's just that books don't have a search function. :(

allquixotic

again I'm from 2027

@Bob indeed, I wrote atoms but deleted it and thought hmmmm is it molecules or atoms

Bob

probably both :P

molecules consisting of two of the atoms

I think

Oliver Salzburg

@r.tanner.f Very good point. I'm using the search function in the above image btw ;D

allquixotic

yeah, since deuterium is just an isotope

so you can have a deuterium atom

avirk

3:17 PM

@r.tanner.f was typing aprox same there for a comment :p

allquixotic

+1 Tanner's comment on that q

avirk

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Q: Contents of Windows Update packages

I would like to get an overview of the files that are updated in specific Windows Updates. The reason behind this is that we had problems after the latest Windows 7 updates. I wonder which of these updates caused the file MSCOMDLG.OCX to be overwritten with a new version with a different COM ve...

windows windows-update

allquixotic

i like how many upvotes i got on superuser.com/questions/464222/convert-mp3-to-wav/464223#464223

makes my day boring and reputation-less though ;X

badge > rep

avirk

@allquixotic you had my 4th vote

allquixotic

i feel like i deserve more rep for superuser.com/questions/464000/… though ;x so much effort, so little reward

avirk

3:20 PM

hey guys slhck is back

r.tanner.f

@allquixotic So many people think sound is 'magic' or something and can be 'enhanced', or like there's a suck knob you can turn down. It's why I gave up going in to audio engineering...

avirk

who is gonna ping him

allquixotic

"slhck is back" --> shlck left? Huh?

he's got such a funny avatar, he's not allowed to leave ;x plus he's a mod or something, eh?

avirk

@allquixotic he was on a trip.

allquixotic

ahhh

jokerdino

3:22 PM

@allquixotic He's a mod yes.

Bob

@allquixotic Just a regex tip: \d usually represents digits, and you can use {6} to specify exactly 6 repetitions, as in \d{6}. Should work in VBA, makes stuff shorter (and less readable) :P

avirk

@allquixotic yeah he and @OliverSalzburg and Daniel got chooses mod in last election which was about 1 month ago.

Bob

@r.tanner.f If you went into audio engineering, wouldn't you be dealing with professionals who (in theory) know what they're doing? :P

r.tanner.f

@Bob No. :( The sound guy is always abused. Always.

Bob

@r.tanner.f D:

r.tanner.f

3:28 PM

Friend of mine is going in to it anyway. He got screamed at because a microphone stand was placed 6 inches too close to center stage... it doesn't get better, it gets worse =P

Plus late nights, lots of travel, and crap pay? No thanks xD I love sound, maybe more than IT, but I'll take computers over musicians and actors any day of the week.

allquixotic

@Bob I didn't want to assume that I could use repetition in VBScript's regex library; Microsoft is known for being extremely gimped

Microsoft's stuff that is

@r.tanner.f, I love audio stuff too (it's even in my SU profile) but I'd rather be on the processing / transcoding / user apps end, not working with artists directly. I can make the software and hide deep in a hole so that indignant audio engineers can't come screaming at me when their artists scream at them.

avirk

3

A: Edit that's less than 6 characters

See if there's anything else worth fixing in the post. Are there any spelling errors? Acronyms missing explanation? Capitalization issues? Could you add a little formatting to make it easier to read? Are there links to provide context? If your answer to all of these questions is "no" (and...

I edited the slhck's post :D

allquixotic

you know what would be awesome? if someone edited shlck's post changing less than 6 characters

Bob

@allquixotic The .NET version, at least, is almost completely Perl-compatible... not sure about VBA :\

avirk

@allquixotic O_o

he will punish me then as he is a MOD

allquixotic

3:38 PM

@Bob - I know about the System.Text.RegularExpressions stuff, and love it... but VBScript.Regex is a COM object from IIRC Windows 2000 Script Host

avirk

xD

allquixotic

I think "Windows 2000" and "advanced Perl-compatible regex" and my conclusion on the spot was "....naaaaaaaaaaah"

Bob

@allquixotic lol

though basic repetition has been standard for some time

allquixotic

4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/090199-1.shtml

So apparently as of VBScript 5.0 (Windows 2000, AFAIK) repetition is supported

You win

goes back to his Linux hidey-hole where he doesn't have to worry about MSFT

Bob

lol

still, I wouldn't want to touch regex (at all!) in VBA

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974570.aspx

avirk

3:42 PM

Welcome to SuperUser. We respect your knowledge and need it but please don't hit the Post Answer button until you don't have the right answer. It is good fit for comment when you want to know more about the problem of the OP. — avirk 12 secs ago

allquixotic

actually, you'll want to claw your eyes out after reading the following statement (this is not a disclaimer): the group I work with on my day job deploys over 45,000 lines of VBScript (note: not VBA) as a "production" application. thank GOD it's an internal app rather than external customer-facing, but still

avirk

0

A: Internet connection in windows 7 laptop

Have you clicked on the red x's or yellow exclamation on the diagram? Have you tried to release and renew the ip's and flush dns...Have you tried to restart the computer?

Bob

Wow.. it's actually quite feature rich.. lookaheads?! regular-expressions.info/vbscript.html

avirk

Some one tell me if I'm wrong there :)

allquixotic

@avrik, grammar issue

you basically told him not to hit answer UNTIL HE KNOWS THAT he does NOT have the correct answer

avirk

3:43 PM

@allquixotic with me always

allquixotic

which means I should answer with answers like "hello, my name is John, I am a tree"

Bob

@allquixotic don't worry, I have a state issued "educational" laptop here with VBScript running as scheduled tasks on boot, login, every couple of seconds, etc... a couple thousand lines of it. I'm quite immune to VBScript disasters by now :P

allquixotic

@Bob: Error: Object Required

Type Error

Bob

Thankfully, errors are hidden. But there's one somewhere that keeps disabling the built in administrator account every couple of minutes :S

allquixotic

InputBox("Please type the path to the folder") [emphasis mine]

WTB browse dialog

Bob

3:46 PM

@allquixotic What you need is a fully CLI version. VBScript GUIs are scary things :P

avirk

@allquixotic na it meand he should not to hit it until he is not solving the problem of the OP doesn't it?

allquixotic

"until he is not solving the problem of the OP" is exactly the wording you should NOT use

"unless he IS solving the problem of the OP", or "until he is sure that he IS solving the problem of the OP" would be correct

Bob

@avirk Double negative... remove the second don't...

HaydnWVN

meta.superuser.com/revisions/5453/2

* sniggers *

allquixotic

lol

sidran32

3:49 PM

@JourneymanGeek I know! I saw pics! I'm frankly surprised that you have a modern phone, now. It looks sexy. :) It's like... @JourneymanGeek isn't supposed to have modern technology! It would be more normal for you to have created a frankenphone out of a couple broken ones. :P

Darth Android

@sidran32 I have this mental image now of @JourneymanGeek in a post-apocalyptic scenario, his frankenphone the only thing still working.

4

Bob

@sidran32 Who says he didn't do just that?

avirk

@Bob My server sucks today disconnected me and now I can't edit because it is more than 5 min :(

Bob

@avirk delete and re-comment? :P

avirk

@Bob good idea I was not on it :P

Bob

3:53 PM

Or add another comment explaining it? It's not a good idea to leave a mistake that changes the meaning so drastically..

allquixotic

now we need 4 character comment editing rights for other peoples' comments :D

Bob

@allquixotic 6*

avirk

@Bob Welcome to SuperUser. We respect your knowledge and need it but please don't hit the Post Answer button until you have the right answer. It is good fit for comment when you want to know more about the problem of the OP.

It should be like this or need more edit

@sidran32 where are the pics? Is those of his phone?

allquixotic

@avirk Welcome to SuperUser. We respect your comment and need it but please don't hit the Add Comment button until you have the right comment. It is good fit for comment when you want to correctly help the OP rather than mislead them.

Bob

Looks fine :)

@allquixotic what?

allquixotic

3:55 PM

j ust kidding lol

Darth Android

@allquixotic Lol

avirk

@Bob mine or its of @allquixotic

allquixotic

nooooo don't use mine

I was just trying to comment about your comment

avirk

@allquixotic I don't get it really :P

allquixotic

but I wouldn't post that to the actual question

umm

just imagine if I posted that comment in response to yours which is wrong

apparently @Darth got it

sidran32

3:57 PM

@avirk He posted on his G+.

avirk

@sidran32 link me there please

allquixotic

it isn't funny if I have to explain it!!

sidran32

@avirk I'd rather @JourneymanGeek linked you himself. I know him from elsewhere, which is why he friended me. He was the one who actually introduced me to this site.

avirk

@sidran32 thats great to know.

@allquixotic now you can't as answer deleted ;)

I just earned 2 badges on Meta today

HaydnWVN

cya all o/#

avirk

4:08 PM

@HaydnWVN tc cya later

HackToHell

►

allquixotic

Woo; the IT guy asks me for help about group policy / file ACL conundra and I'm not even in the IT department

ze mark of ze troo sooper yoozer.

"Real Fact #805 / India has a Bill of Rights for cows." -Snapple

dear lord! +34 on superuser.com/a/464381/144607 for not even a particularly original answer... what is wrong with people :D

silver badge, babeh. :3

Blog bot

4:24 PM

Blog - Stack Exchange: Stack Exchange Machine Learning Contest

Kevin Montrose on August 21, 2012

Over the last 4 years we’ve built up quite a bevy of moderation tools here at Stack Exchange. We’ve got closing, editing, deleting, flags of all sorts, voting, commenting, review queues, and more.

Plus our super secret mod tools.

These all work great, but all of them require action after a post is made. In a perfect world, we’d catch every post that ends up closed and deleted or voted down to a negative score before they ever showed up on the site. Less work for the community, less work for the moderators, and more consistent help for those unfortunate bad under-educated posters. …

Daniel Beck

@Blogbot Nooooo don't show everybody our cool moderator toys :(

allquixotic

LOL... "irradiate" wants me to become a moderator on gaming.se for Fallout 3 questions

sidran32

@allquixotic That actually reminds me... I had to implement a lossless compression algorithm for work once. I used arithmetic encoding. But the biggest problem with it that bugged me for ages was the fact that for small data sets (less than a few kilobytes), there was a chance that the compressed file would be larger than the original because I had to store the header with the file, which took up about a kilobyte (or less, depending on the file). It annoyed me a lot :P

However, for larger datasets, I saw some pretty awesome compression ratios. I remember 25% or so being common.

allquixotic

for situations like that, you pretty much need a wrapper file format that will first run the encoding itself speculatively, to see if it results in a larger file; if it does, then just include an extremely minimal file header and wrap the existing file like Zip Store compression. Or better yet, tell the user they shouldn't try to compress already compressed files and throw an error

the worst possible thing you can do is take the existing encoded data and try to run your compression algorithm over the data... but even if you don't do that and you still wrap it in your file format you're adding size, so reducing the file format to a minimum is one thing, or telling the user "don't do that!" is even better for certain operations where the user can accept files that aren't in your file format

Rob

@allquixotic Okay, fine. Taking my upvote off of that then.

sidran32

4:31 PM

The algorithm was to be built into our testing API. Its purpose was to reduce the size of random testcase dumps. :P Our blocks of data had potential to get hundreds of MB in size. :P

allquixotic

wh.... why did you have to write your own compression alg, though?

just use gzip streams or lzma streams?

sidran32

It had to basically be a couple C++ functions that operated on void pointers. Whether I used gzip or not, it would have still been similar amounts of work. The algorithm I used wasn't my own. I looked one up that I thought would be good and implemented it, basically.

Specifically, I used range encoding.

allquixotic

you mean like RLE?

avirk

@allquixotic but people don't want to follow it

sidran32

@allquixotic Nope. Let me see if I can get a good description...

Oliver Salzburg

4:34 PM

support.microsoft.com/kb/961655 Fun! :D

sidran32

@allquixotic Ah, here:

Range encoding

Range encoding is an entropy coding method defined by G. Nigel N. Martin in a 1979 paper, which effectively rediscovered the FIFO arithmetic code first introduced by Richard Clark Pasco in 1976. Given a stream of symbols and their probabilities, a range coder produces a space efficient stream of bits to represent these symbols and, given the stream and the probabilities, a range decoder reverses the process. Range coding is very similar to arithmetic encoding, except that encoding is done with digits in any base, instead of with bits, and so it is faster when using larger ba...

allquixotic

/me zones out ... do I really need to remember all that stuff from number theory class? cmon, just give me GzipInputStream....

or an istream decorator that does gzip encoding/decoding in C++, I guess

sidran32

Hehe. It actually is pretty simple once you get the hang of it. I never took number theory in college :P

I ended up implementing it in C, actually.

allquixotic

I did, and hated it, but passed because my professor is like the great grandson of the guy who invented Kruskal's Algorithm

sidran32

I created a test binary for it that operated on files, like gzip. However, it blew up when I gave it files greater than 2 GB, due to how I stored the data in memory. But it wasn't a problem for our use case.

allquixotic

4:38 PM

he had a huge beard and took every question I asked as if it were some kind of new universal insight into algorithms that he'd be able to use to write a paper on over the summer

sidran32

Ah, heh

allquixotic

it was my after class discussions on the whiteboard that got me through because the book was useless, but the professor always built up his answer to a question on the basic principles of boolean logic so i could follow from the very foundations

r.tanner.f

anybody here handy with Citrix? I need a hardware-rec for a scanner...

allquixotic

so i could mind map the knowledge tree and find any mistakes or misconceptions as i went along

not "handy with Citrix" but I've been a user within a (godawful) Citrix MetaFrame environment before; what kind of scanner? the kind that scans paper?

are we talking about dead trees again?! Chris almighty, you people and your cellulose.

avirk

0

A: How to sort bookmarks by date in Chrome web browser

Chrome Bookmark Manager does allow users to sort bookmarks by name, but it only allows you to do this for one folder at a time. Chrome Bookmarks Sorter is a handy tool which will allow users to sort bookmarks recursively by name or date added through all of your bookmark folders. To recursive...

@OliverSalzburg one more handy tool for chrome :D

allquixotic

4:41 PM

@avirk TL;DR, upvoted

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic :D

allquixotic

looks legit

avirk

@allquixotic appreciated :)

sidran32

Oh... @allquixotic gzipstream is a .NET thing? Our code had to run cross-platform.

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk Nice, but I only use bookmarks to seed my omnibar :D

avirk

4:42 PM

@OliverSalzburg lol

allquixotic

GzipInputStream is Java and is cross platform for any J2SE compliant JVM; .NET also has a similar thing, as does Qt4

sidran32

Oh, we didn't run Java at all. It was all C/C++ code, which had to run on both Windows (using Cygwin) and Linux.

allquixotic

even Juce probably has it and that's a native C++ library, so take your pick between two leading VM languages and two leading C++ addon libraries

heck, if Boost didn't have a gzip stream class I'd fall over stunned

Oliver Salzburg

Wow. I just learned about the awesomness of DFS :D

avirk

IDK why I like so much chrome while its support is very bad ;P

sidran32

4:43 PM

Apparently there's zlib, but I was also a co-op so :P

allquixotic

Win32/Cygwin and Linux.... C++... so you can choose from Qt4, Juce, probably GLib/GIO, and Boost

and Zlib

sidran32

In the end, what I made ended up working pretty well :) And it was a fun project. I hadn't done anything like that since college when we implemented our own huffman encoding program.

allquixotic

always, always try to re-use existing libraries, even if there's a learning curve... +1000 if they're free/open source.... time wasted and bugs introduced from doing something that's already done is totally not worth it unless you can demonstrate that your use case is sufficiently unique that nobody's already done it

but it sounds like it worked out for you which means you're probably a good programmer

I'm a terrible programmer so I prop myself up on the knowledge of thousands of libraries that I can use to do my work for me

sidran32

@allquixotic I like to think so. :) But yes, I agree. Re-use is awesome. :P

avirk

May be someday there will be a bug and I will increase my 10 points myself :p

sidran32

4:46 PM

@allquixotic Recently I discovered the awesomeness of the GetOptions::Long and POD packages in perl :P

Previously, I was just using prints and parsing my own command-line options

allquixotic

/me mourns the loss of hundreds of rep points

avirk

@allquixotic :D rep cap

sidran32

Heh, I'm still surprised that so many people upvoted my answer here:

allquixotic

sometimes stupid off the cuff answers garner tons of votes, and my long, well-thought-out, heavily researched answers get maybe a +1, or an accept (but not both) if I'm lucky, plus a ton of whiny comments like "that isn't what I wanted" or "I need it PERFECT"

sidran32

135

A: Purpose of a "mystery key" on an IBM PC 3270 keyboard

I do know the symbol on the bottom right key as being the symbol typically used when proofreading written documents. It is a delete. When you write that over a letter or word in a paper, it indicates that it is unneeded and should be removed. Seeing as how this is an older keyboard, the users of ...

Granted, the question was featured on the front page. But still.

avirk

4:49 PM

@sidran32 no one can understand the users opinion.

allquixotic

that is a fantastic question/answer sidran, I've never seen that one, but rofling right now

the "person in a wheelchair being chased down a hill by a boulder" key.

avirk

I had asked a very good question but it didn't got much attention while it should had too.

@sidran32 + from me :)

allquixotic

you know what that question tells me? at least 135 people still use old IBM keyboards

sidran32

@allquixotic I thought that was funny too, but honestly, I just said something more or less like "I think it means delete, based on the peer-review symbols we used in highschool writing papers." Someone else edited in the image and whatnot. But that was even after it started getting upvoted.

@avirk Thanks :P

avirk

@sidran32 np dude

1

Q: Is it possible to format master windows on Dual Boot?

May be it is a silly question but i think its worth to me if it done. I had worked on windows 7 ultimate but as you all know that there are still some software which doesn't work on windows 7 so I came back on windows XP. Now i want a dual boot pc and for that I have install the Windows XP first...

windows dual-boot

allquixotic

4:52 PM

this is why I love SE/SU: "Stop and think for a moment about the nicest person you’ve met on Stack Exchange. Chances are, it wasn’t the guy who greeted you by name when you signed on – it was the one who answered your first question, convinced you to clarify what you were asking, and calmly pointed out your misconceptions before pointing you to a solution."

someone was "that guy" to me once and now I'm that guy to a lot of other people

Blog - Stack Exchange: Stack Exchange is not a forum: the role of “niceness” on a Q&A site

Shog9 on August 08, 2012

It’s been a few weeks now since Joel kicked off our “summer of love”. There’ve been some excellent discussions in the blog comments and on Meta, and we’ve tried to present some hard data on how objectively “nice” we are. But it’s high time to talk about what place “niceness” really has on Stack Exchange. And to do that, we need to start by talking about you:

You, sir, are a jackass.

And that’s ok.

Stack Overflow wasn’t created to be some utopian ideal of peace and love. When Jeff & Joel set out to create this system, they knew full well the sort of problems that face online commun …

avirk

7

Q: Unable to delete folder in windows 7?

I'm unable to delete some folder on my external hard disk. I tried them to delete in safe mode too but I'm not able to perform this. This a bid headache to me now even I'm the admin and it still needs the admin privileges to delete them. So how can I get rid of from this trouble? Please help me!...

windows-7 folder delete

it os Darth's fav one from me :p

sidran32

I love that picture in that blog post :P

I am stealing it!

Rob

D:

avirk

@sidran32 dumble door

Rob

I know it's a troll. I know it's supposed to bother me.

And it bothers me that it bothers me.

avirk

4:55 PM

@Rob then please don't bother for the bothering

sidran32

@avirk There are 3 things about that photo that make it awesome: Yoda, Gandalf, and Dumbledore :P

avirk

:P

allquixotic

That quote was used by Yoda when you lost in Super Star Wars on SNES / Sega Genesis back in the day

avirk

@sidran32 yeah Gandalf too i forget about him

allquixotic

Try not. Do or do not. There is no try

i think it was in Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

sidran32

4:58 PM

That was Yoda on Degobah when Luke was training in The Force. Yoda told Luke to raise his X-Wing out of the swamp but he failed.

Star Wars Ep V: Empire Strikes Back

allquixotic

yeah, that's why i thought that quote was from the second game

sidran32

Movie. Not game. :P

allquixotic

both

sidran32

Never heard of the game

allquixotic

you can play it with a decent SNES emulator (snes9x) and a ROM

sidran32

5:00 PM

Maybe. Maybe not. I gotta get back to work. Lunch is over. :P

avirk

@sidran32 Starwar I like it until the hero( I forget the name) doesn't change in villain

sidran32

See ya

allquixotic

uh... Luke Skywalker? you didn't like it because he didn't become a villain?

...well you can just read the books, then; Luke Skywalker becomes a Sith Lord in the expanded universe novels

or watch Episode III

where Anakin does become a villain

avirk

@allquixotic I have watched all series

@allquixotic people gonna insane they don't know you are losing how much worth of that rep :D

allquixotic

hmm Oliver rejected an edit on my answer

it was "too minor".. well okie dokie then... I'd have accepted it if I had seen it

avirk

5:08 PM

@allquixotic O_o

then oliver should had to.

Ok guys CU later tc good night

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Q: how to use my PCs internet connection for my samsung S6802 mobile phone

I don't want to take a GPRS connection and want to use my PC's internet connection to access internet on my mobile phone. Is it possible? i have samsung GT-S6802. I have a data card to access my PC's internet.

wireless-access-point gprs

@TomWijsman that one for you from me :D

bye now.

r.tanner.f

@allquixotic haha, yes, back to the cellulose... Now we're printing, writing, and then scanning again... I might have need for a scanner that's compatible with Citrix. I don't know whether to just pony up for the cost of a scanner, or throw down the $600 for Adobe Acrobat and hope it works on the user's local pc... 'cuz we sure as hell aren't putting Acrobat on a terminal server.

allquixotic

Adobe Acrobat? why do you need that?

r.tanner.f

*$450

editing PDFs

...now that I think about it that doesn't make sense either

KronoS

Anybody know if there is a task management app for Windows 8?

allquixotic

AH... I had this issue many years ago at an internship... some stupid custom application that you don't have permission/source to modify and you need to put stuff on it like a signature or whatever, and people have to print, scan and email instead of just generating the right data from the start

r.tanner.f

5:15 PM

riiiiight, I think it's a situation like that, but I'm not 100% sure.

allquixotic

use a PDF modification library and write a program. assuming that the generated PDFs are at least somewhat predictable in structure, you should be able to walk the PDF document model, get to the appropriate element(s) and insert the correct data, whether it's an image or a table or text

iSED QuickPDF was great back in the days but i don't know if they still maintain it

@KronoS, search SU, if the question isn't already there, ask it... that's not a software-rec, is it? you could frame it as "how do I do <whatever you're trying to do> on Windows 8? I used to do it <this way> on Windows 7."

Windows 8 valid questions are a prized item right now

KronoS

@allquixotic IMO this is a app recomendation

allquixotic

not if you frame it as "how do I do X"

what are you trying to use the task management app for. answer that, then ask how do I do that thing

KronoS

I still think it's pretty borderline. I would personally VTC a question like that....

allquixotic

really? I don't understand that at all. it's not borderline in the slightest to me. it's not a shopping recommendation; it's a question about how to accomplish a task. that can be either using a built-in facility of the operating system or some third-party program. the distinction is a technical detail rather than material to the question.

if you can't ask how to accomplish a task on SU, then there should be about 2 questions on SU. total.

Boris_yo

5:23 PM

Who has Google Nexus 7?

soandos

@KronoS looking for something like MS Project, or something smaller?

(Part of dreamspark premium)

KronoS

@soandos something way smaller. Similar to OS X's Reminders

soandos

@KronoS I know nothing about it. What are the key features?

KronoS

@soandos apple.com/osx/apps/#reminders

soandos

I got nothing, sorry

allquixotic

5:27 PM

Sunbird wouldn't work? (btw I thought you were talking about like Task Manager the applet itself at first)

KronoS

5:38 PM

@allquixotic Ah that makes more sense... how a Todo app? That make more sense?

allquixotic

yeah, that pretty much demands some kind of third party / shopping recommendation, but as long as you don't come right out and ask for an app, it's usually not closed on SU

although there have been a lot of close reviews lately so maybe people are feeling the need to shut down questions that are borderline

KronoS

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Q: I have a suggestion on what to do with the Software Rec Tag

With the upcoming release of Windows 8 we expect an influx of users and questions. I feel that we need to prep for their coming. With that in mind, the software-rec is a nuisance in mine and others opinions. I believe that the general consensus of this tag is that anything that is of a recomme...

discussion questions superuser-blog software-rec

Boris_yo

6:07 PM

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A: Tablets: What's the difference between the Android 2.1 $169 tablets and the Galaxy at $600+

What are the risks and disadvantages of cheaper chinese tablets compared to tablets of known brands guys? Let me emphasize some of my points and let me know if I missed something or been wrong somewhere. I keep observing as new tablets made in China keep emerging like PIPO, Ainol Novo etc. and m...

soandos

6:23 PM

What comment should be left here:

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A: How can I make tha language toolbar change the input layout globally in windows xp?

Practically the same question as the one described here the posts refer to two programs: KBSwitch and Switch it! hope that helps

allquixotic

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Q: Why Don't Security ACLs Refresh Automatically?

I have a Windows Server 2003 box acting as a file server. It hosts numerous shared folders with various permissions. The 2003 box is not the Domain Controller / Active Directory host; Active Directory is run on a server outside our control but we believe it is Server 2008 R2. I have discovered t...

windows-server-2003 acl

soandos

@allquixotic why should they?

allquixotic

Because the shared folder is on the local system and you're viewing the Security tab (closing and reopening it). On a client operating system not associated with a domain controller, the semantics is that the security tab for a folder ALWAYS displays the most recent permissions. Of course they don't update while you're viewing the tab, but they update each time you load the tab.

It's just strange and counterintuitive that you have to log out of your session to see the latest permissions in this environment, when that is never necessary on a client OS. Plus it seems like something that should be able to be updated at runtime without having to logout/login.

due to my inexperience with server OSes and domain-connected Windows computers in general, I don't know if this is something by design that every sysadmin in the world knows about and takes for granted (that they have to constantly logout and login to see the latest permissions) or if this is a peculiar issue to me.

Mokubai

Anyone got any ideas how I can make this just a bit more sarcastic while still being helpful?

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A: Brother 8880DN Scanning

You can get a manual for your printer from Brother, it will tell you what you can and cannot do. It appear that there are two methods, one is using the software provided with the printer/scanner to present an option on the scanners LCD screen as a "Scan to:" option. The other method is via "Int...

soandos

6:39 PM

@Mokubai you want it more sarcastic?

"Of course, if you don't want to use USB or some other networking technology to network your printer, the superluminal ether is always available (its like ethernet, but faster)"

Mokubai

I'm wondering if I can make the "RTFM" any clearer...

Darth Android

7:10 PM

I'm wondering if the "another way to skin the cat" idiom is too graphic for those who might not understand it :x

Diogo

I'm pretty sure I already seen this answered on SU before, but I cant find now... Does someone know how could I split two discs on Windows to be shown as just one partition/volume??? can I do something like that with diskpart?

Darth Android

Do you mean something along the lines of a RAID 0 array?

or a spanned volume?

allquixotic

"split... two discs to be shown as one partition" ... does not compute

split implies breaking up something that is whole into two or more parts

Darth Android

Yeah, I'm kinda stumped by that too. You have two disks and want to make them appear as one large disk in Windows, correct?

Diogo

@DarthAndroid I have two disks, the first one is almost full, so I want to increase it's volume by adding another one, but keeping all files structure, windows will show 1 partition but this partition is composed of two disks

allquixotic

7:19 PM

whoa... I don't think you can just tack on another disk if your disk type is already "Simple Volume" (the default)

Darth Android

Diogo, well, first I would make a backup of anything you can't afford to lose

allquixotic

you can probably just tack on more storage if you already have it set up as a dynamic disk, but if it's just a simple volume, adding storage to the same logical drive letter would involve wiping the disk clean and re-partitioning

Diogo

I have a service running on my C: and I can't set it to start to run on D:

allquixotic

well, one thing you CAN do is set up a symbolic link to a folder on the drive with space

Darth Android

I believe windows has "Just a bunch of disks" (JBOD) in the soft-raid that it supports under the disk manager

JBOD should do what you want - it'll just treat one disk as a continuation of the first

allquixotic

7:20 PM

so you can set, for example, C:\extern to point to D:\ or D:\somefolder so that a program can write data to "C:\extern\haha" and it'll actually be written to D:

Diogo

hmm, that is something I thought, I will give a try

Darth Android

from there, you can just expand the partition

you can also format the second drive as NTFS and tell the disk amanger to mount it in a folder instead of under a drive letter

Diogo

sure, thank you darth

allquixotic

I'm uncertain whether setting up JBOD / software RAID on Windows would require wiping the existing basic disk though. my gut feeling is that it would require a wipe first

because it fundamentally changes the disk format

Darth Android

@allquixotic Eh, I don't know either way JBOD shouldn't, because it just reads from the disks 1-for-1

the only catch I can see is if it decides to put the new disk in front of the old one in the array

because then you have a disk without a partition table

allquixotic

7:23 PM

superuser.com/questions/461506/… also in case @Diogo doesn't understand the basic different types of RAID, although that question is more about Linux than Windows

only tangentially related, but good reading material for accruing knowledge

Darth Android

I think a spanned volume might give him what he wants, and windows might have better support for doing a live conversion of that than JBOD or raid

allquixotic

mounting a drive as a subfolder or using a symbolic link is the least risky procedure though because it involves no low level manipulation of the filesystem and you can seamlessly detach the two disks so that they're separate again whenever you feel like it

the only downside of that approach is that you only get more space if you write to files within a given subfolder; the rest of the subfolders are still on the mostly full drive

but I don't see how you can make sense out of "de-spanning" disks that have been spanned so that operation at least would have to be permanent

Darth Android

I would agree fully, @allquixotic

the only way to safely "de-span" the disks would be to shrink the partition back down to an appropriate size

and then remove one drive and make liberal use of --force.

Which, I wouldn't recommend that.

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