Root Access

Oliver Salzburg

1:07 PM

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A: How can I remove the sorting in the Event Log?

You can right-click the column and select Remove Sorting to remove the sorting:

This took me way too long to find ;P

Sathya

1:35 PM

@OliverSalzburg installs

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya Please show off some graphs :D

allquixotic

Howdy folks

Sathya

@allquixotic 'ello

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Greetings

Sathya

Oliver Salzburg

1:40 PM

@Sathya I was expecting more! :D

allquixotic

SU: the best site since the su command.

Sathya

@OliverSalzburg it's from my home laptop which I use from 7pm-12am on weekdays :P

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya Isn't history synched?

Sathya

plus cleared history several times as well

Oliver Salzburg

Oh I see

Sathya

1:41 PM

@OliverSalzburg not the entire data afaik

Oliver Salzburg

You're excused then ;P

Sathya

just top x omnibox entries I believe

allquixotic

what a horrid morning. I forgot my wall wart for my phone, so now if I plug my phone into my backup wall wart the digitizer will go wacko while it's plugged in. And someone was in live-lock slowing down and speeding up with me (hanging right next to me) as I was trying to get out of a very small merge lane.

mumbles and goes to answer SU questions to feel better

Sathya

@allquixotic btw, good stuff with this. I"ll nominate it for @JourneymanGeek's bounty giveaway

allquixotic

o_O what's so good about it? the answer isn't even that enlightening... common knowledge etc

oh. the changing it from shopping to non-shopping

hahaha the OP unaccepted my answer

I was like, if I am going to be nominated for something, I'd rather it be for superuser.com/questions/464000/…

Sathya

1:46 PM

:-)

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic What's common knowledge to you is mystery to others ;)

allquixotic

all that work and only +2 and an accept :P

yet my short answer to the mp3 to wav question got me like 150 rep and a ton of uncredited accepts due to rep cap

s/accepts/upvotes/

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A: Why is a 7zipped file larger than the raw file?

It comes down to a concept called entropy. See Wikipedia. The basic idea is that, if there existed a compression operation that could always make a file smaller, then logic dictates that said compression operation would be able to reduce any file to 0 bytes and still retain all the data. But thi...

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic It's not like voting is closed after 24 hours. The answers can still collect votes over time.

allquixotic

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A: Convert mp3 to wav

No. This is an information-theoretic impossibility. MP3 is what is known as a "lossy" format, meaning that when you encode information into an MP3, some of it is lost (but, usually, not to the point that the listener can detect the loss in quality -- the goal of good lossy encoding is to lose in...

I know @OliverSalzburg but the questions that attract viewers/voters always confounds me

Oliver Salzburg

And a good answer benefits people for a long time, not just while it's on the front page.

allquixotic

1:48 PM

it's just ... the ... timing/ordering/frequency of views that I don't really understand, the trends or the ebb and flow of SU

like, I can pour my soul into an answer and get next to nothing, yet answer something off the cuff that isn't even that enlightened and get +48

effort != reward

jokerdino

hi @allquixotic. Last time I checked, you got more rep than me.

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic If you have an answer that gets a lot of votes in a short time, you can be sure that someone shared/posted it on some other site.

Questions go viral on the net

That doesn't mean they're useful

HaydnWVN

@allquixotic That was a great answer to a tricky question.

kudos

allquixotic

@jokerdino, I'm not complaining that I got a lot of rep, just that the whole thing is about as unpredictable as baseball, to me. I don't dislike it for that reason; I just find it curious.

on any given day I can answer a bunch of great questions with well-researched answers and spend a lot of time doing so and get a reward on the order of +35 total, and on another day I can answer a single question that maxes my rep limit for just a few paragraphs of drivel

but that's baseball :P

jokerdino

@allquixotic Call it unpredictability. I would have gotten more rep if I had more rep before hand.

Oliver Salzburg

1:52 PM

@allquixotic The amount of effort you pour into an answer should be proportional to how beneficial the question will be to other people.

allquixotic

I definitely agree with you there

Oliver Salzburg

If your solution only helps to solve the problem for that single guy, don't expect to be rewarded.

But if it's a question you could see people type into Google exactly like that, go nuts

allquixotic

I do tend to give querants the benefit of the doubt and I'm somewhat liberal on the close / not-close judgment calls (I tend to vote in favor of not-close in most cases), and I also don't normally shirk people on my answers, preferring to put forth true quality regardless of how many it'll help

but sometimes I do put in even more effort if I feel like it's a question that will be widely applicable versus something that's just borderline not "Too Localized"

I do hope, however, that the upvotes rewarded for a question will scale proportionally with how widely beneficial the question's answer is to googlers, or people who post the question on blogs or news sites

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Consistent, quality contributions will always be rewarded in the long run.

allquixotic

well, yeah -- I almost consider SU and the other technically-oriented SE sites to be a sort of running resume of my knowledge and resourcefulness. if I ever wind up job-seeking again, I'll be putting my SE profile in my resume

I don't want rep just for rep's sake though. "Wow, that guy has 80k rep" is not going to be an interviewer's reaction. Hopefully they'll look at the actual answers and judge me from that.

Oliver Salzburg

1:57 PM

@allquixotic I feel obliged to mention Careers 2.0 ;D

allquixotic

yeah, yeah. ;) I haven't been there yet but I did get the invite, kinda brushed it off for now because I'm gainfully employed

but my SE efforts don't go away, so it's kind of like amortizing the future cost of obtaining re-employment should the need arise

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic It just allows you to directly include your profiles and questions/answers. It's nice

Sathya

Diamond studded question (10k only)

allquixotic

404

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya lol, Nice :D

allquixotic

1:59 PM

/me is not sure why a question about changing the date and time of a mobile phone using J2ME is a diamond-studded question

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Because it was deleted by 3 diamond moderators

And it usually only takes 1

allquixotic

oh, okay. deleted. fair enough

Oliver Salzburg

But when it was deleted, 2 of the people weren't mods yet.

allquixotic

I may run for the mod elections next time around if I can convince myself to drop gaming on the weekends and use SU instead

chatting makes it 10x more fun and bearable, especially on the days when I read nothing but crap questions and end up voting to close most of them or trying to pry out the real question with implements normally used for root canals

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Q: how do you install rarcrack on mac 10.5.8? new to the mac terminal

I have a rar I desperately need whose password was saved as a file on a site that no longer exists :(. I'm running it on a mac osx 10.5.8 and have never used the terminal before but I figured out enough to get up to the point where it says use 'make' and it always gives an error. I did figure ou...

I'm going to go with saying that's a valid question even though it's about installing a fairly shady tool. the question is just how to compile the thing. is compiling stuff from source on-topic or is that SO?

Darth Android

@allquixotic That's one of those things that I'd say is on-topic (using a compiler is software), but something that would probably get better answers from the community at SO

allquixotic

2:06 PM

I happen to have learned most of what I know about computers by compiling stuff from source so I'm going to go with the careful approach of encouraging him while simultaneously reprimanding him for using Tiny C Compiler instead of installing XCode/gcc

r.tanner.f

anyone ever use ODIN for backup? I have a 35GB .img from it that I can't open in 7-zip or mount >_> the backup was verified but I'm getting worried that it didn't actually work

Oliver Salzburg

@r.tanner.f Not me

Darth Android

.img?

What's the format of the .img ?

allquixotic

Run file on the image to see what it is. if it's a raw filesystem then you probably need to mount it on a loopback device (assuming Linux/BSD) and mount the loopback device

Darth Android

I've only ever seen that extension for proprietary, application-specific formats

allquixotic

2:17 PM

because you can't directly mount a file; you can only mount a block device

@DarthAndroid: that extension is common for raw dd images of partitions, or partclone images

Darth Android

Ah.

allquixotic

(both of which are publicly specified file formats; in the former case, it's whatever the filesystem itself laid out at the block layer; in the latter case, it's an open source tool with a custom yet simple format)

Darth Android

Nero has their own .img format

And there's a few other windows utilities that have their own .img format

allquixotic

not sure what ODIN does but if it uses partclone or dd in the background, then there are plenty of ways to mount that image

the only thing that annoys me is that the use of the .img extension is so polluted by different incompatible implementations that it has about as little meaning as ".exe" or ".bin" or no extension at all

Darth Android

yeah

I just use .iso for raw filesystem images

allquixotic

2:19 PM

that's pretty incorrect as far as adhering to convention

.iso is for the ISO9660 filesystem format, which actually has its own explicit specification separate from other filesystems

r.tanner.f

doh I'm on a Windows box right now, no file command. hang on...

Darth Android

I see your point.

back to using .bin then.

allquixotic

you can use whatever you want if you aren't sharing the files with others, but .iso almost always implies the UDF or ISO9660 filesystems as a raw image, not other formats

now if you have an actual UDF or ISO9660 filesystem and you dd that out to an .iso, you're good

as for UDF, I personally disagree with Microsoft conflating ISO9660 with UDF by using .iso for UDF files. they're incompatible filesystem layouts although they're tangentially related due to the frequent use of the filesystems on CD/DVD images

they should use .udf for UDF files; I've never seen .udf used for other purposes

r.tanner.f

hm, file command returns "data"

Oliver Salzburg

@r.tanner.f Awesome :D

Don't you feel a lot better now? :D

r.tanner.f

2:24 PM

lmao ya

allquixotic

"data" usually means it's an unrecognized file format

Oliver Salzburg

@r.tanner.f This is ODIN as in Android, right?

r.tanner.f

@OliverSalzburg ODIN for Windows

Oliver Salzburg

@r.tanner.f Yeah, but the application to interface with your phone?

allquixotic

Windows?! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

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r.tanner.f

2:25 PM

@OliverSalzburg No for drive backup

and the table flipping begins =P

Oliver Salzburg

@r.tanner.f I was thinking of a different ODIN then...

r.tanner.f

@OliverSalzburg what does that ODIN do?

Oliver Salzburg

But I guess you're using odin-win.sourceforge.net

Sathya

@r.tanner.f it's for flashing Android firmware

Oliver Salzburg

@r.tanner.f It's primarily used to flash custom ROMs on Android phones.

r.tanner.f

2:28 PM

@OliverSalzburg yup that's the one

Sathya

though when I first googled for Odin, I found Odin Win and I was like what should I use this or the other :s

Oliver Salzburg

> ODIN supports snapshots can be run from command line or with a GUI and runs on 32-Bit and 46-Bit operating systems.

Nice

46-bit

allquixotic

I think they used to have 46-bit IBM mainframes

that's pretty wide portability

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic I'm not buying the whole 64-bit hype either! I'm rolling on 46, thank you very much

r.tanner.f

new su question: how much ram can a 46-bit machine allocate? =P

Oliver Salzburg

2:31 PM

google.com/…

Luckily there aren't 1000s of results

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A: Snow Leopard 64 bits mode (EFI64 Firmware)

Hold down the keys "6" and "4" when booting and this will put you into 64 bit mode. Make sure you hold down "6" and "4" and not "4" and "6", otherwise you will go into a halfway 46-bit mode.

O_o

avirk

Good eve guys

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk Greetings

r.tanner.f

@OliverSalzburg lmao gold.

avirk

@OliverSalzburg cheers

Hey guys have you any Idea what is Accel key?

Darth Android

Can I upvote deleted questions?

Oliver Salzburg

2:34 PM

@avirk Accelerator keys

Darth Android

*answers

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk Another term for a keyboard shortcut

@DarthAndroid No

avirk

@OliverSalzburg what are those I got this when searching something for FF

allquixotic

I personally think we should introduce an IPv5 as a transition between IPv4 and IPv6. Make it 46-bit. That's 7 * 10^13 IP addresses, which is more than enough for now. If only Tim Berners-Lee had the foresight to know that we needed that many IPs, he'd have chosen 46-bit for IPv4.

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Oliver Salzburg

Accelerator table

In Windows programming, an accelerator table allows an application to specify a list of accelerators (keyboard shortcuts) for menu items or other commands. For example, Ctrl+S is often used as a shortcut to the File→Save menu item, Ctrl+O is a common shortcut to the File→Open menu item, etc. An accelerator takes precedence over normal processing and can be a convenient way to program some event handling. Accelerator tables are usually located in the resources section of the binary. Accelerators and menus Each accelerator is associated with a control ID, the same kind of IDs which are as...

avirk

2:35 PM

@OliverSalzburg melesat.com/how-to-active-paste-and-go-for-url-in-firefox

allquixotic

Plus, since modern computers consider a word to be 16 or 32 bits, you either have to store a 46-bit IP address in two ints or in a long... which means that programmers get 18 bits to play with to insert application-specific data :D

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk Oh. I guess he means Alt then

HaydnWVN

@allquixotic There are more IPv6 addesses than all the cells in all the oeganisms in the world

Darth Android

That sounds immensely fun. Programmers would never misuse that.

allquixotic

we all know that sneaking data into unused segments of words is a great strategy. Right, all you guys who used the last bit in memory addresses whose programs are now incompatible with Large Address aware?

Darth Android

2:37 PM

But I was told we'd never have to deal with more than 640K of memory!

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HaydnWVN

If IP addresses had volume and the IPv4 address space was a jelly bean, the IPv6 address space would be a sphere containing the entire solar system

avirk

@OliverSalzburg I want to make an answer but it seems to trouble for me until I wouldn't check it myself :\

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic I hope we'll switch to a base30 some day and then we'll simply use the DNS names for addressing :D

HaydnWVN

340 trillion, trillion, trillion

avirk

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Q: Google Chrome Google Translate

Google translate will translate Jp to Eng pages once then not again. Have uninstalled, uninstalled Google folder updated Java, reinstalled. It used to translate pages and then the pages that were linked to pages, not now.

google-chrome translation

Ah that's a weired question :\

Oliver Salzburg

2:39 PM

@avirk Start a new question: "What's the Accel key?"

HaydnWVN

340,282,366,920,938,431,374,607,431,768,211,456

addresses :P

allquixotic

if IP addresses had volume and the IPv4 address space was a jelly bean, the IPv5 (46-bit) address space would be ... let's see... two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four, one hundred twenty-eight, two hundred fifty-six, five hundred twelve, a thousand twenty-four, twenty fourty-eight, fourty ninety-six, eighty-one ninety-two ... 8192 jelly beans.

avirk

@OliverSalzburg you will upvote :P

@allquixotic have you any idea of Accel key?

HaydnWVN

@allquixotic 8192 jelly beans are quite a lot smaller than the solar system

xD

r.tanner.f

@HaydnWVN part of me dreams that we'll eventually use IPv6 for home addresses >_>

allquixotic

2:40 PM

not if they're really, really big jelly beans

HaydnWVN

lol

allquixotic

@avirk what do you mean Accel key? speak English, man!

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk: Yes, I would, because I just found the answer :D

Seems like the term "Accel" comes from the use in the browser UI.

Accel is platform-dependent.

HaydnWVN

@r.tanner.f There's enough to assign each human on earth many trillions each

avirk

@r.tanner.f your avatar is more cool now

Oliver Salzburg

2:41 PM

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XUL_Tutorial/…

r.tanner.f

@avirk xD ty. yours made me jelly so I had to change.

avirk

@allquixotic its English man :P

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk Looks like it's Ctrl on Windows.

allquixotic

my dedicated server host gave me an entire IPv4-sized subnet in IPv6 space

for FREE

they're like, here, take it, it's sitting here doing nothing... here's the entire IPv4 space just for you

avirk

@OliverSalzburg hmm let me check

@r.tanner.f lol

allquixotic

2:42 PM

noms on his jelly bean gently, like a hamster

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic I still don't understand why they do that.

I get the whole "We have a lot more addresses now!". But if you start handing them out by the trillions because, hey, why not?, then aren't people repeating the same mistake they made with v4?

When they implemented that, they also thought they had more addresses than they would ever need.

r.tanner.f

@OliverSalzburg Just goes to show you that nothing ever really changes. A million years from now they're gonna go "Crap! We ran out again! Time to roll out IPv8"

allquixotic

true, but people renting dedicated servers are a lot more likely to give up their trillion IPs on a whim and let the pool reclaim them

giving them out by the trillions to mega corporations is braindead stupid. giving them out by the trillions to people who'll probably be using them for only a few years? meh

and if we truly get to the point where we're worried about IPv6 space, reclaiming a few trillion trillion unused IPs should be a no-brainer

avirk

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A: Difference between CC and To e-mail

The people you include in the To field should be the people you expect to read and respond to the message. The CC field should be used sparingly. You should only CC people who have a need to stay in the know. The BCC field should be used even more sparingly. People you include in the BCC field wi...

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic The thing is, there might be new approaches in the future that eat up IP addresses. Stuff we can't even anticipate right now. Exactly as it happened with v4. Now every toilet brush has an IP address.

avirk

2:46 PM

Mine was quite useful but wata luck only 4 upvote :P

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Billions*

Oliver Salzburg

Maybe we'll consume addresses at a much larger scale than we do right now. I just think it's needlessly careless

Bob

But even then that's 8 x10^28 groups of 2^32, so...

allquixotic

But @OliverSalzburg, why would anyone need more than a handful of IP addresses for a device? I mean, I'm still using 640K RAM, just like they predicted back in the 80's!

Bob

Well, let's just say it's orders of magnitude larger :P

Oliver Salzburg

2:49 PM

People always forget to plan for the unpredictable :D

Bob

It's orders of magnitude larger than the estimated number of bytes of data worldwide...

allquixotic

I could actually see us assigning, say, 24 IPv6 addresses to every computer, smartphone and appliance in everyone's house. that wouldn't be terribly unrealistic, although a bit awkward and not very practical for certain of those devices, unless you plan on hosting your website on your washing machine

Bob

@allquixotic Well, the idea is to get rid of NAT

allquixotic

one thing I can say for certain is that I can see a direct application for assigning every device at least one public IP address rather than being behind a NAT

that allows asynchronous communication by opening up listening ports again

it also allows many more buffer overflow attacks and such to become relevant again

Bob

lol

allquixotic

2:50 PM

in other words, yay, hacking time again

Bob

Hopefully our OSes have evolved to the point where they can discard such attacks as well as any router...

allquixotic

NAT sucks, though. why do consumer devices always get such a terrible gimped platform for routers, smartphones and other devices that are commonly expected to perform IP masquerading (NAT)?

like most routers run on 200 MHz processors still, but if they'd throw some kind of ARM Cortex A9 dual core 1.2 GHz in there -- smartphone-grade stuff -- they wouldn't end up with situations like "Son? Are you using the router webpage again? I can't download anything!"

it's why my preferred solution for a home IPv4 NAT for a broadband connection involves a desktop computer, or at worst, a laptop

Bob

@allquixotic Actually, RAM is often the greater issue... especially with P2P stuff

The processors should be fine, normally...

allquixotic

RAM on the router/modem?

makes sense if you have a lot of active sockets to keep track of

Bob

@allquixotic Well, whatever they use for memory.

Bittorrent, for example, overflows NAT tables on low end routers very easily

allquixotic

2:54 PM

although the REAL problem is usually buffer bloat, not hardware, but it's easy to push / break the limits of the hardware too

I have a dream... that someday, somehow, all routers will be free... free of the shackles of TCP ACK priority inversion; poorly conceived AQM algorithms; and resource-constrained hardware

Bob

...

keep dreaming :P

allquixotic

I have a dream that one day this hardware will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all routers are created equal.

Bob

Meanwhile, grab a Raspberry Pi and a switch and set up your own router..

HackToHell

labnol.org/internet/amazon-glacier-for-online-backup/25000

Cheaper cloud storage

Someone was backing up stuff here ....

allquixotic

I have a dream that my four little ethernet ports will one day live in a system where packets will be judged not by the priority of their QoS but by the length of their data flow.

CODEL AQM for the win.

actually my primary internet connection is 4G LTE from my smartphone; but if I were setting up a home internet connection, I'd buy a cheap ITX computer with modern specs and slam a multi-port ethernet card and a DOCSIS card or DSL card into it, run NetBSD or Linux on it (probably Linux because they implement CODEL)

Bob

3:03 PM

primary? o.O

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

unlimited data, 10 Mbps symmetrical; what are you laughing at?

r.tanner.f

have you used 4G? totally do-able

allquixotic

hopefully no Verizon employees lurk in here

Bob

ah

cost?

allquixotic

3:03 PM

but I tether

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: a good router is more power efficient

allquixotic

uh like $40/month

Bob

4G is barely available here, and costs more than getting fibre

klyonrad

wow this chat interface actually is very intriguing :)

Journeyman Geek

actually, interesting thing that came out of my new phone is I just realised how little bandwidth I use ;p

@allquixotic: what country?

Bob

3:04 PM

@JourneymanGeek wait, that reminds me... wasn't this discussed in here recently? twice?

allquixotic

I get really good signal both at work and at home, so for $40/month 10 Mbps symmetrical with a highly variable ping that averages between 45 ms and 150 ms and 0.01% packet loss measured over long periods, I don't feel too bad about it

r.tanner.f

@klyonrad It's awesome. =D It's like some strange combination between chat and message board

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek, Maryland

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: maybe

@allquixotic: so its good for everything but gaming? ;p

actually 150 ms is not bad

allquixotic

the only downside of 4G is that, like all long range cellular communications, the ping and jitter are highly variable

Journeyman Geek

3:05 PM

ya

allquixotic

it's great for all gaming except FPS. FPS games do not tolerate jitter well at all

the jitter is only between 50 ms and 150 ms, but even that is huge for FPS

Bob

is it susceptible to interference from, say, thunderstorms?

allquixotic

not really, in my experience

weather doesn't have a large impact on the 700 MHz LTE band like it does to, say, AM radio

lightning "broadcasts" on higher frequencies than that

Journeyman Geek

ok, there is something screwy here

DD-WRT seems to think I used 20 gb on a particular day

allquixotic

besides, the FCC directly controls the licensed bands

they'd never allow Mother Nature to broadcast unlicensed on 700 MHz

they'd have her in handcuffs in minutes

HackToHell

3:07 PM

lol

Journeyman Geek

lol

I'd LOVE to see them try

HackToHell

Humans have already have done that

But a storm can wipe us all out ;p

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: 3g for me for now, the only carrier that does 4g is a fair bit more expensive, and their plans are not as nice as my current provider

allquixotic

the main thing LTE is susceptible to is losing signal deep in the interior of large buildings

also, basements

if you can SEE a window, you're probably fine

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

3:09 PM

I used to have about 1 Mbps down in a totally cloistered-off part of the lower level of this building, where I couldn't see a window without standing up and looking over the cube wall about 60 ft away

now my desk is right next to a window on the middle floor and I get 4 bars and 10 Mbps steady

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: my test for signal strength is the elevator

allquixotic

also, I get 0 Mbps in a Faraday cage. I've been in one. it was a SCIF that was declassified but they kept the equipment

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

the door lock required multiple people who had different pieces of the code memorized (not written down anywhere)

Journeyman Geek

lol

did it have a red button?

allquixotic

3:11 PM

the A/C and air handler was inside the lab itself rather than on the roof. hearing protection was required. it was this ancient late-70s air handler that weighed several tons and emitted about 85 dB of rushing air sound

it was green and dirty and mucky like it was removed from a roof somewhere, and we nicknamed her Lucy

also we had the office weatherman who would describe to us in very weatherman-like fashion the jet stream patterns for the air moving around the room, and cautioned us to stay away from the derecho, which was a section of the room where you could almost get knocked off your feet from rushing air

albeit he had to do this while screaming due to the 85 dB of noise

r.tanner.f

@HackToHell That Amazon Glacier actually looks pretty cool

allquixotic

we stopped trying to communicate vocally after about 2 weeks and resorted to setting up a Jabber server within our LAN

HackToHell

yep, seems to be cheaper than anything else

allquixotic

installing a Jabber client on the defense operating system BAE STOP is not fun

@r.tanner.f, Glacier is awesome :D great for storing your music collection

a penny per gigabyte. chrissalmighty.

I toured a retired datacenter at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, once. they had a room full of these washing machine-sized hard drives. total capacity of the entire room: about 189 megabytes.

cost at time of construction: millions

today: a fifth of a cent

a FIFTH OF A CENT!!!

XTS-400

The XTS-400 is a multi-level secure computer operating system. It is multi-user and multitasking. It works in networked environments and supports Gigabit Ethernet and both IPv4 and IPv6. The XTS-400 is a combination of Intel x86 hardware and the Secure Trusted Operating Program (STOP) operating system. XTS-400 was developed by BAE Systems, and originally released as version 6.0 in December 2003. STOP provides high-assurance security and was the first general-purpose operating system with a Common Criteria assurance level rating of EAL5 or above. The XTS-400 can host, and be trusted to s...

wow, silenced the room a bit there

Oliver Salzburg

:D

My progress bar finished... I have to continue work

allquixotic

3:32 PM

I'm waiting for a document to land on my desk. Once it does, I probably won't be back here today

Gnoupi

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A: Looking for an application that scrolls or pans netbook screens running Windows

This works a treat on the Acer Aspire One netbooks when running XP. – robsoft May 23 Thanks for your comments, because I was looking for a way to solve my own problem using BPM-Studio 4 Profi in one netbook Acer Aspire One and with NBWinScroll was possible to use it... “NBWinScroll” is ...

now that's the kind of answer, i'm not sure mods have the tools to deal with

Because it's "convert to comment", but in 3 different comments :P

allquixotic

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Q: we can able connect more than a single modem (same modems) in a windows xp system?

I had one doubt. I want to connect the 2 (2 or more) modems (same modems) in a windows xp laptop. Through the modems i want to use network at a same time. Please send the details it is possible or not.

windows-xp networking laptop modem

soooooo bad... I want to say, SIVAKUMAR. Why you are using such bad grammar?

jokerdino

@allquixotic lulz

allquixotic

what the heck?! "Clippy" from MS Word popped up on my screen! Is this an easter egg?! Is this real life???

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r.tanner.f

@allquixotic oh thank god I thought it was the booze when I saw it o_o

allquixotic

3:40 PM

what IS that?!

jokerdino

@allquixotic it is an easter egg

allquixotic

that's not funny, Jeff Atwood! Joel Spolsky! Wherever you are, that is NOT funny!!!

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avirk

@Bob I think you will like this one

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A: Is there a keyboard shortcut for "Paste & Go" in Firefox?

A modified version of Paste and Go2 is available. To install it you have to go through some steps if you have the latest version of Firefox. Doenload the .xpi extension file on your system wherever you want to and now follow these steps. 1: Extract (unzip) the .xpi file. It is simply a zipped ...

allquixotic

Bad, bad MicroSofties!

jokerdino

@allquixotic Blame @balpha.

allquixotic

3:41 PM

I want to say, testing

yep, that's it

avirk

@allquixotic It is an Indian name :D

allquixotic

I know.

HaydnWVN

@allquixotic Man i love your IPv6 rant and the NASA story, really made my day (thanks!)

allquixotic

I work on a program with about 30 Indian-Americans and 7 people who were born here. I know Southeast Asian English so well that I sometimes let it slip into my own writing and speech.

Worse, I have to do technical writing for their documents before we submit them to the customer.

In a few months I'll have mapped out all of the common mistakes so well that I can just write a VBA macro with a series of find/replace statements and auto-TW any document they send me

can't auto-TW clarity or semantics though, so I still have to look at them for that

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Here's a starting point ;D github.com/TomWij/SuperUser-AutomaticCorrector/blob/master/…

allquixotic

3:46 PM

very interesting

does that do word order, like "you are" instead of "are you" in a question? most of the issues I find are with word order, certain misuse of words, and the absence of words

also, I find a lot of verbs entirely omitted, so no algorithm can fix that.

avirk

@Bob you make an edit of that :D

allquixotic

@Gnoupi, good call on migrating the Google Drive question to webapps

added my vote and it's done

avirk

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A: How do I sync multiple g-calendars to the new Windows 8 Calendar?

At the moment most probably this can't be achieved as same Question has been asked on MS Support and they have replied with no. Question Syncing Multiple Google calendars with New UI Calendar app Answer Currently per Google's request for bandwith, Calendar App only Sync root calenda...

Bob

@avirk I'll just leave it as a comment.

@allquixotic Insert random verbs!

avirk

Finally I put that for @KronoS

@Bob feel free to edit it :P

allquixotic

3:49 PM

@Bob, I end up inserting the correct verb. I can usually tell what verb it is that's omitted.

I'll switch to chatting here in the style that they write documents in and we'll see how it goes

Bob

@avirk If by MS Support you mean Microsoft answers, I personally don't trust those 'professionals' :P

allquixotic

@Bob why you don't trusted those professionals? Many of them are Microsoft employee.

avirk

@Bob But atm they are only the hope for Win 8 until we don't dig it up

Bob

@allquixotic They've told me to try to increase page file size to fix Windows Live Messenger constantly using a whole CPU core in the background.

allquixotic

Why that is not a good fix? We always increase page file size to CPU core problem. We do the needful, if it works, and it works.

avirk

3:52 PM

@Bob sometime they are completely dumb and their KB's are not good too expecting few ones :D

allquixotic

Seriously though, that does sound pretty dumb.

I am tempted to buy TechNet just so I can get an early jump on Windows 8 and start asking and answering questions to build up SU's knowledge base on the new Microsoft fail.

imho Microsoft should give me a free copy because I'm helping them so much by doing that

Bob

@allquixotic Because there is no lack of physical or virtual memory. I would consider it a bug if WLM, at under 100MB memory usage, was using a whole CPU core due to a small page file. For the record, physical RAM was 6GB, page file was 6GB and cache/free physical RAM was over 50%. Yea.

allquixotic

I'm not arguing with you on technical grounds, Bob. I agree that it was a completely unfounded recommendation. I was trying (and apparently failed) to emulate the language and reasoning of my coworkers.

Bob

eh

allquixotic

Still, some decent stuff does occasionally come out of that site.

avirk

3:57 PM

@Bob edited it with your link :D
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Bob

they needed a Task Manager screenshot before they 'concluded' that RAM was not causing the abnormally high CPU usage..

allquixotic

has anyone who's tried Windows 8 found that there are actually compelling changes under the hood to the kernel or the operating system that makes existing software/drivers/hardware run any better? Any new optimizations or removing some of the lock contention that you run into during early bootup? Or is it just more cruft on top of cruft?

I'm pretty fed up with the way Explorer hangs for inordinate periods of time on login/bootup due to various things holding on to locks. That, and regenerating thumbnails on the desktop takes a very long time

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