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avirk

02:36

Killing English-
1. Principal To Student..." I Saw U
Yesterday Rotating Near Girls
Hostel Pulling Cigarette... ? "
2. Class Teacher Once Said :" Pick
Up The Paper And Fall In The
Dustbin!!!"
3. Once Hindi Teacher Said...."I'm
Going Out Of The World To
America.."
4. "..DON'T TRY TO TALK IN FRONT
OF MY BACK.."
5. Don't..Laugh At The Back
Benches...Other wise Teeth And
All Will Be Fallen Down.....
6. It Was Very Hot In The
Afternoon When The Teacher
Entered.. She Tried To Switch The
Fan On, But There Was Some

hahahahaha :P

Luke

03:06

@avirk Where did you get that?

soandos

03:16

@OliverSalzburg out of curiosity, what percentage of questions on the close vote part of /review leave the queue without being closed?

Sathya

05:06

Journeyman Geek

facepalm

Some people need a hobby

Sathya

and wank too.

Journeyman Geek

lol

If you have such bad social skills that even miss right hand says no.... You might amuse yourself trolling websites!

Sathya

hah

Luke

05:25

... Is it just me, or do the chat rooms seem to really die down during the evening (+7 GMT)?

cricket chirp

Journeyman Geek

05:41

They do seem to

This period seems quieter than usual tho

Luke

Hmm

Questions about doing things that violate an EULA... Off topic? Flag for removal? Or just monitor?

Journeyman Geek

depends. Flagging wouldn't be a bad idea

I assume you mean the PS/VM question?

Luke

Yup

But none of the flag reasons really match it... I guess just leave a note

Journeyman Geek

actually, his idea is utterly fricking crazy

Luke

I agree

But instead of telling him that...

Journeyman Geek

05:44

lol, summer of love and all.

Luke

... Ummm, ironic you may say that

Journeyman Geek

lol. The SF guys have been bitching about it a fair bit. Apparently we need to be nice to new users ;)

Luke

But they aren't nice to me :(

Journeyman Geek

lol

Luke

Remember the phrase... Let me find the meme...

Journeyman Geek

05:46

I try to fit in, and earn folk's respect ;p

and not care if people are nice to me ;p

Luke

Journeyman Geek

o0

Luke

I do try being nice, showing research when possible, but most people are still... Well, mean... I was going to call them something but don't want a 5 minute ban

shifty eyes

Journeyman Geek

lol

'and not care if people are nice to me ;p'

Luke

But I'm a nerd, everyone is supposed to like me

:p

Journeyman Geek

05:49

lol

Luke

I know what you're saying though

Just makes it hard to ask for help on the other sites

Journeyman Geek

Well, with SF, the scope is the tricky thing

I hardly ask there, since I'm not really a professional sysadmin ;p

Luke

StackOverflow was good for my PHP/MySQL question, but still some arrogant comments got through before I knew to flag them

Journeyman Geek

lol

developers

Sometimes I think that the quirks of each sort of computer geek is almost as interesting as computers itself ;p

There's a guy on the python course who has pissed off a lot of people by going on and on about how C is better

Luke

... I know PHP, MySQL, Visual Basic and QBasic...

Lol

Journeyman Geek

06:01

thing is, different languages are better for different things ;p

and well, he's being insufferable ;p

Luke

That's what my boss tells me, and I agree

But because I don't code in the "better" languages, I stick to waht I know

Journeyman Geek

lol

I need to learn a language, python seems easiest

and my dad's doing it too ;p

Luke

I wouldn't mind learning C or a variation of it, or Ruby

Problem is, I don't ahve time to apply it to a project

Journeyman Geek

lol

right now doing networks and python. I want to plot out, and work on a small project, then see

I don't see me doing anything that needs C anytime soon

I'll leave that sorta thing to devs ;p

Luke

I got work 6 days a week, cadets 3 nights a week, and my son 4 or 5 nights/days a week

Journeyman Geek

06:17

lol. Spending about 2 hours a week on python, 3 hours on networking, about 4-5 hours a week each on my two school modules

(and mostly so I'm more employable. comp forensics is an unusual field, but if i can back that up with solid knowledge of sysadminish stuff...)

Luke

... I would LOVE to be in computer forensics!

They don't offer courses like that here though, I'd have to go to teh big city down south

Journeyman Geek

Ya, but only 2 of the modules are really forensics centric

One was desktop based, the other involved mssql databases

good fun, and I'm passing so far ;p

Luke

What is your goal when done?

Journeyman Geek

06:35

Generically? Work with computers, prolly be a sysadmin

Forensics itself, too small a field, and unless you're a cop, not worth specialising in

Luke

Seems odd you'd need to learn forensices

Journeyman Geek

but those skills mean I'd be better at working out whats happening

Hmm

Need to? No

but I used to do computer security, and the skills and mindset are useful

Luke

Elective?

Journeyman Geek

no, my major is computer forensics, information security and IT management

Basically its sysadmin 'soft' skills

Luke

Ahhh ok

Where are you studying?

Journeyman Geek

06:38

print.handbook.murdoch.edu.au/courses/…

SMA - the last school on that list ;p

actually they changed their name. AGAIN, from SMA Institute to SMA Institute of higher education to SMF Institute of higher education

Luke

Ahhh, didn't know you were Australian

Journeyman Geek

nope

Singaporean

the school is australian, but they have a bunch of affliate campuses elsewhere

Luke

Oh OK

... I've been out of Canada twice, and that was to the states and Cuba...

You live a long ways away lol

Journeyman Geek

ya

lol

I was in UK for a bit

I've been to australia, and india.

love travelling, but parents don't ;p

Luke

I don't blame them :P

Journeyman Geek

06:47

(part of the reason for the journeyman part of the name really, I realise I've been in a few places, and learnt stuff from everywhere. ;p)

Luke

I'd love to travel to many other countries, but being raised in Canada, I require certain... features

Journeyman Geek

both online and offline places

lol. cold?

Luke

I can deal with cold

Journeyman Geek

proper toilets?

Luke

I've spent a weekend at -50c temperatures

Toilets

Journeyman Geek

06:47

You get less picky when you need to dig your own.

Luke

..And that's pretty much it

I've done my survival and camping, I'm only up for luxury now

Journeyman Geek

lol, was in the military 2 years. failed basic 3 times, so spent a fair chunk of time outdoors

and ya, I can adapt

Luke

Oh wow

You've done a lot

Journeyman Geek

the ONLY thing I need it a flat surface to sleep on

lol, its compulsary here

Luke

I used to be like that

But I also got a bad back after a car accident

Compulsary??

That wouldn't fly here...

How long do you need to do it for?

Journeyman Geek

06:53

2 1/2 years total

Need to go back once a year as a reservist as well

Good time to catch up on reading ;)

Luke

O.O

I donno if I could do it

But it's getting quite late here, I'm going to put the laptop down and go to sleep

Journeyman Geek

lol. I failed basic 3 times. I obviously was not very good at it ;p

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

07:12

So, I've heard that SSDs live longer if you don't use full capacity all the time. Is that true?

Journeyman Geek

well, SSDs have a limited write cycle, so it might make sense

that said, modern SSDs have pretty impressive lifespans

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Well, I just got a new computer, and it came with an OCZ Agility SSD harddrive, and I'm looking at ways to ensure maximum lifespan. I've read that it does load balancing, which is why it should last longer when you don't use full capacity.

Journeyman Geek

well, its a little trickier than that

I wouldn't use it for short term data tho

going dual drive?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Right now it's the only one. I have some regular drives in the old computer that's going into this one.

Journeyman Geek

Ideally, keep boot and most programmes on the SSD for speed

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

07:17

I was thinking the SSD should just hold the OS and other programs, and then games and file downloads on the others.

Journeyman Geek

keep stuff that gets written and deleted a lot (like downloads) on a old school drive

ya

Easy way to do that is with symlinks

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Never used that before.

Journeyman Geek

its newish on windows - only really worked in windows 7 or better I think, basically its like hardlinks - you can simply link two directories together. As far as windows is concerned, the directory can be on one drive, when its sitting on another drive

frigging awesome

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

That's nice.

Removes the need to remember which drive holds which files.

Journeyman Geek

ya

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

07:27

It's interesting though. It's the first time in over 10 years I've bought a preassembled computer.

Journeyman Geek

lol

I just can't see myself doing that with a desktop

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

The reason I did it was because I could get this kinda of all-cover-insurance on it. Which basically means, in 3-4 years, I'll be pouring soda all over it, and they'll give me a brand new computer.

Journeyman Geek

lol

I guess thats a reason

slhck

07:59

@Luke Doing things violating the EULA… this is nothing we can enforce as moderators. We're not the ones who can decide whether something is illegal or not. In this case, the answers clearly explain that it's not a nice thing to do, so I guess it's okay to leave the question as-is.

Bob

08:34

@William'MindWorX'Mariager The files are still actually stored on one drive, though, so space will be taken up on that drive. They're just accessible under another folder name, potentially in the other drive.

Journeyman Geek

08:54

ugh

-1

Q: Where may I get the EDX platform, the LMS open source project?

I have just found a query on the edx platform in which I am interested, being a significant piece of Learning Management System open source. I assume superuser platform cares about computer software, and therefore I don't see the question irrelevant. Besides I would like to know why a question i...

"I know its off topic since I want to know why this question is closed"

slhck

09:05

@JourneymanGeek did they ask this before? can't seem to find it

Journeyman Geek

This is why I am confused ;p

slhck

1

Q: Where can I download edx opensource learning platform? What other learning platforms are opensource?

From wikipedia's EdX page: The "learning platform" will be developed as open source software Did they opensource it yet? I've been searching for it but couldn't find it. I can't find any updates on that too. Are there any such opensource learning platforms (other than khanacademy)?

website

maybe he means this one

yeah gonna close as a dupe of that

Journeyman Geek

ya

er no, actually

move it to meta

then I can post the second part as an answer ;p

slhck

too late, cba

:P

Journeyman Geek

boo. I will throw a hissyfit and go cry in my room now ;p

slhck

09:09

hm, why not complain about the trigger happy mod regime instead?

@ivoflipse What do you think about this old one? superuser.com/questions/13620 :P

Ivo Flipse

@slhck What's the problem with it? :P

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: I'm not used to complaining ;p

Ivo Flipse

I just wanted to know if I could throw even more money at the wall to see what sticks

Journeyman Geek

lol

Ivo Flipse

Or were you referring to the answer?

Journeyman Geek

09:12

bit of both

slhck

@JourneymanGeek exactly, haha

Journeyman Geek

I think that's one of those 'historical' questions

slhck

Yeah, I just saw.. 2009.. dual core.. wait?

Ivo Flipse

What's wrong with it? That it asks if something is possible?

Journeyman Geek

It was perfectly in scope before scopes were narrowed down

Ivo Flipse

09:13

@slhck Not dual core, dual processor

slhck

Yeah that's what I just saw

Ivo Flipse

There was actually a model on the model on the market, but not really meant for desktop processors

Plus, I don't think Windows 8 would really make use of it :P

Journeyman Geek

still not really common

er, unless there's skulltrail boards that do that

Ivo Flipse

Well those just got launched back then, but probably the performance gain was minimal, so they stopped making them

Sathya

@slhck restrain me from not deleting it now

Ivo Flipse

09:17

@Sathya Go for it :P

Wait, what are we talking about?

Did you contact Apple yet?

slhck

@Sathya We could actually delete both now.. the OP knows now

Sathya

@IvoFlipse no, yet to

slhck

I just noticed.. don't you have to have x rep to post on meta? @JourneymanGeek

Sathya

@IvoFlipse the question @JourneymanGeek pointed

@slhck 5

Ivo Flipse

Apparently my new hardware is already going to be delivered this afternoon :D

Journeyman Geek

09:20

sweet

I need to pick mine up at some point ;p

I FINALLY have money but no time ;p

Ivo Flipse

Which means I'll probably have to break my computer to install the parts

Pray that I can run two GPU's simultaneously

slhck

@soandos I'm afraid we don't have the stats on this, only the site developers do. Maybe they'll answer here at some point: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/142037/…

Sathya

@IvoFlipse nice

Oliver Salzburg

@IvoFlipse Congrats! :)

Ivo Flipse

Yeah I bit the bullet and just bought it

Too bad I'll have to wait with buying Windows 8

unless I can get a key somewhere beforehand

Oliver Salzburg

09:24

@soandos So would I, but I don't access to that data :(

slhck

Yay, I've caught a help vampire.

Those where you have to suck every last bit of ~~blood~~ information out of them yourself.

Oliver Salzburg

:D

Journeyman Geek

lol

just hangs out and absorbs knowledge by osmosis ;p

slhck

haha

oh dear.. we got our cats some grass, the one you grow yourself.

turns out you shouldn't keep it too moist

it became a little… gross after a while

I even had to throw away my trash bin because it smelled so bad, haha

Oliver Salzburg

09:40

Keep it damp ;)

slhck

Well, it got moldy, so…

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah, happened to me as well :P

I even had a nice back-and-forth with Gimpet about their cat grass

slhck

But it was funny watching it grow.. took a timelapse video of it

Oliver Salzburg

They have a product called Hy-Gras that's supposed to work without watering

And it does

Well you water it once, and the water is stored in some kind of gel

slhck

ah, sounds nice

Journeyman Geek

09:42

water absorbing gel? pretty common

cool stuff

Oliver Salzburg

But the gel would expand too much and push some of the cork/earth-like stuff out of the container

Journeyman Geek

(though for proper geek cred, build an automatic watering machine that detects surface moisture ;p)

Oliver Salzburg

So I made several pictures of the process and wrote up a proper report :D

slhck

haha awesome

Oliver Salzburg

In return I got goodies :D

Journeyman Geek

09:44

yay ;p

Oliver Salzburg

But I have to put in new seeds myself... Maybe I should do that today

Cats get pretty crazy when they don't get their "drugs"

Journeyman Geek

o0

Sathya

10:01

While trying to retrieve the URL: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/63665/…

The following error was encountered:

Unable to determine IP address from host name for gaming.stackexchange.com
The dnsserver returned:

Server Failure: The name server was unable to process this query.
This means that:

 The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.
 Check if the address is correct.
Your cache administrator is root.

:/

slhck

Change DNS :P

Sathya

at work

some sites are going through, some aren't

not too sure what's happening

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya They're on to you...

Oliver Salzburg

10:22

kickstarter.com/projects/mikedoyle/…

Neat

Dear Customer,

Hope you are doing well.

We are a professional USB Flash Drives factory in Shenzhen, mainly producing
USB Drives with customer's logo stamping or with customer's shape in new molding for promotion.

Bob

samsung.com/au/support/usefulsoftware/KIES/JSP <= They seriously can't get someone to write good English?

Oliver Salzburg

Oh well

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Only use the > at the beginning

Or not :P

In any case, multiple > s never worked for me in chat. Chat markdown is dodgy.

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah :\

Bob

1

Q: Does email services send senders IP?

If I'm going to receive/send email through Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo would I be able to see the IP of the sender? I know there's nothing to do with the IP but would it give away the location from where I'm sending emails? Just curious if such email providers send this information.

email gmail hotmail yahoo-mail

One migrate vote :\

I get the feeling it'll be (incorrectly?) migrated soon...

Oliver Salzburg

10:35

Let's watch :D

@Bob I have no clue who Samsung hires for translations, but they need to switch

I was playing with my girlfriends Galaxy Tab, which runs a German Samsung Android abomination.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Oliver Salzburg

They translated "On battery for X days and Y minutes" to "Remaining battery life X days and Y minutes"

Bob

One of the largest (multinational) companies in the world... can't translate/write a major part of their site in one of the most common languages in the world. facepalm

Oliver Salzburg

Like, the "low battery" alarm was going off. I go into the "battery use" menu and it tells me "remaining life 5 days"

Oh really? You're on 5% battery and you'll do 5 more days? And every time I refresh the display the battery life increases...

Bob

@OliverSalzburg "remaining life 5 days", in English, isn't too bad... maybe add a colon..

The estimation needs fixing, though :P

Oliver Salzburg

10:38

@Bob I mean they changed the meaning around in the translation

Bob

Ahhh... ok, that's just a fail.

Oliver Salzburg

There's more, but that's the one I saw yesterday :P

Bob

Why the hell is the Kies installer, for a clean installation, installing hotfixes?

A whole lot of them too...

Oliver Salzburg

Not a fan of Kies :\

Bob

An OTA update just failed, I don't have much choice (if I want that update).

Wait, why do I want that update anyway? :\

Oliver Salzburg

10:42

The only time Kies worked for me was shortly after I took my first Samsung phone out of the box. Everytime after when I tried it, it never connected with the phone :(

Bob

I can't even install it.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob I guess that's worse :D

Bob

It's been on Installing HotFix..., with the bar restarting whenever it reaches the end, for about 10 minutes.

Sathya

so it looks.. not too sure if this is some IT experiment gone wrong or what :\

ok looks like I'm back

Bob

I get the feeling it's not really doing anything. Come on Samsung, who the hell designs the crap you call software?

Oliver Salzburg

10:45

Humm they just said on the radio that, according to new statistics produced by the German government, Germany has the lowest birth rate world wide. :(

List of sovereign states and dependent territories by birth rate

This article includes two versions of the list of countries by crude birth rate. Crude birth rate refers to the number of births over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is expressed as number of births per 1,000 population. The first list is based on the United Nations Population Division's quinquennial estimates and projections. Figures are for the period 2010-2015 using the medium assumption. The second list is based on World Bank Data for the year 2010. The third list is based on CIA World Factbook estimates for year 2012. Depe...

70% of all households are without kids O__O

...and only Japan has more elderly people

We need to import some kids...

Journeyman Geek

11:08

lol

@OliverSalzburg: you need to produce more!

Least thats what my government is trying to do

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek That is seriously concerning

Journeyman Geek

to the point where there's a office inside the government trying to get people to hook up

Oliver Salzburg

We already have a pension/retirement problem. The fact that people aren't "multiplying" isn't helping

Journeyman Geek

Social Development Network

The Social Development Network (SDN), formerly known as "Social Development Unit" (SDU), is a governmental body under the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports of Singapore, which works closely with the community and commercial sectors to foster opportunities for singles to interact in social settings in Singapore. Besides coordinating and facilitating dating activities offered by the private sector, it also serves to educate the public on singlehood issues. Other responsibilities of the SDN include providing the necessary infrastructure and support for the dating industry, as...

@OliverSalzburg: There's no easy fix to it

you can't just 'import' people without social problems

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Indeed

Journeyman Geek

11:10

especially if you arn't an immegrant society

even if you are

Oliver Salzburg

If you don't like immigrants, make your own people! :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

our situation is more complicated

government was encouraging people to have 2 kids. then 3. then realised we had an aging population.

Now its bringing in large numbers of cheap labour. Local chinese and mainland chinese don't get along.

Local tamil-indians occationally have issues with new-immegrants who're from north india

locals get along, mostly

tho we had someone fired from the local labour union's admin staff for posting racist comments on facebook

(My parents are immegrants tho, they fit in. ;p)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek immigrants*

Journeyman Geek

ya, that ;p

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek How did the government achieve that? Or didn't it?

Journeyman Geek

11:24

@OliverSalzburg: massive social engineering

Oliver Salzburg

Could you point me to some reading material possibly?

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: not really, I've lived this

we even had TV ads!

Oliver Salzburg

Well, no matter how ludicrous it may have appeared, if it worked, I'd like to know about it

Would be nice to be able to learn how much the whole program cost, etc.

Sathya

0

Q: Where may I get the edX (edx.org) LMS open source platform?

It is said in the edX web site that edx is an open source platform but I cannot find the web site anywhere. I have checked also sourceforge without success. If this is not the right place to post the question, please advise. It seems there is none focused on open source stuff.

open-source education

cc @slhck

Bob

Sigh... apparently Kies will refuse to perform a firmware update if the battery is under 50% charged. The difference between 49% and 50%...

Journeyman Geek

11:42

1

Q: what's the quickest way to count the number of each character in a file?

I want to count the A's T's C's G's N's and "-" characters in a file, or every etter if needed, is there a quick unix command to do this?

command-line unix shell file characters

I love this question, and not only cause I answered it

jokerdino

woah, the next QOTW

i would go with wc myself

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino: you'd need to repeat the command per charecter then

jokerdino

yeah.

but i mean, i would use wc somehow

Bob

@JourneymanGeek For some reason I want to try making a PowerShell solution, just to see how short (long) it is :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: do it ;p

I'm still not sold on powershell ;p

It lacks the elegance of the *nix shell script or the sheer bloody mindedness of cmd scipting.

Bob

11:55

@JourneymanGeek Personally, I like batch (cmd) scripts and the bash interactive shell. Bash scripting gives me a headache...

jokerdino

i think bash is simpler compared to powershell.

Bob

PowerShell scripting makes more sense to me than Bash scripting, but it's still quite painful.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: a good chunk of bash scripting is throwing together stuff on the interactive shell

Bob

lol

I meant constructs like [ some random conditional thing ]

Probably jsut not used to it

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