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Journeyman Geek

10:00

@Bob: windows 8 answers within the period, average rep I'd guess?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek which period?

Journeyman Geek

of the contest? ;p

Bob

I actually don't know what counts :P

questions/answers posted after the start?

or votes acquired after the start?

actually, the API only exposes post times, not vote times, so bleh

can't get that anyway

but do votes on previously existing posts count?

Journeyman Geek

nope

votes acquired after the start might work I guess

/me didn't really think this through ;p

Bob

lol

hopefully I'll have this done by tomorrow

...wait, why the heck am I fiddling with django?

Journeyman Geek

10:41

hmm

YES!

I managed to work out the right answer to the question I got downvoted on yesterday :)

Bob

huh?

Journeyman Geek

1

Q: Permanently remove/disable Touch Keyboard in Windows 8 taskbar?

I have Windows 8 (final, MSDN) on my Macbook Pro Retina. Windows 8's ongoing, continuous tantrum of insisting that it's on a tablet device is causing it to always have a touch keyboard 'icon' on the taskbar. The 'icon' is actually a toolbar and I can temporarily disable it by right clicking th...

I probably could have posted a new answer, but that felt like cheating ;p

Bob

lol

wow

5

Q: Portable Wikipedia without having to buy a smart phone

I read books, but do not carry my laptop everywhere. This makes it hard to find definitions of words refer new concepts in Wikipedia/encyclopedia For (1), I can probably buy an electronic dictionary. But what can be done for (2)? I prefer not to buy an iPhone or any other mobile phone for ...

portable electronics wikipedia

I can't believe that is still open :O

Journeyman Geek

device is still around

really cheap too

VTCed ;p

Journeyman Geek

11:33

1

Q: WWAHost.exe using same port as Apache

I have installed XAMPP 1.8.1. on my Windows 8 64bit machine. I'm now facing a problem with ports. This is what I got from XAMPP Control Panel: 11:52:43 AM [Apache] Problem detected! 11:52:43 AM [Apache] Port 80 in use by "c:\windows\syswow64\wwahost.exe"! 11:52:43 AM [Apache] Apac...

windows-8 apache port

thats a bit of an unintended concequence. MS made it harder to run a web server on a desktop windows OS

Bob

@JourneymanGeek You sure it was unintended? :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: hmm, maybe. It only breaks connections to localhost I'd guess though

since else they just broke IIS

Bob

lol

I swear Windows 8 got less in-house testing than MS Bob/WinME :\

Considering the number of quirks so far

Journeyman Geek

I'm starting to wonder if their devs stopped giving a crap after too many 'arty' types kept messing with things ;p

Bob

lol

"You want Metro? Go make it yourself!"

"Here, we'll assign our newest intern to the project."

Journeyman Geek

11:40

It does feel a little slapped together

dumping aero annoys me somewhat

(I mean there's a reghack, but I liked aero)

Oliver Salzburg

12:28

@Bob Given the huge amounts of early public beta participation, that's not really surprising, is it?

HackToHell

I am getting several downvotes since the contest began :/

yaaay tomshardware.com/reviews/…

Journeyman Geek

12:45

@OliverSalzburg: well there's some wierd bits we're finding

windows 7 backup? Almost no documentation for storage pools?

Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell Quite biased, don't even think they did several runs (they at least not mention so, which means they probably just did 1 run).

Journeyman Geek

13:26

and.. ars technica has a full write up on storage spaces

superuser.com/a/494635/10165 I didn't realise you could 'embed' an image in a keyboard tag

avirk

@JourneymanGeek a lots of dupe :P

Journeyman Geek

ya, lots of new users I guess

avirk

@JourneymanGeek I come over the problem of .net installation. So its good to ask and post for the future reference.

Journeyman Geek

go ahead

avirk

@JourneymanGeek what should be title? I'm struggling with that :/

Journeyman Geek

13:38

XD

If you know there's a question, ask the question, then distill that into the title.

avirk

@JourneymanGeek How to install .NET Framework 3.0/3.5 standalone installer on Windows 8?

howz about that

Journeyman Geek

"How can I install... " works better

avirk

@JourneymanGeek hmmm

Journeyman Geek

make it sound like a question, not the start of instructions, even when it is

avirk

@JourneymanGeek meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/152835/…

the bug was updation delay :P

Stack Exchange

13:41

0

Q: How can I completely hide all questions with a certain tag?

Now that Windows 8 is out, my questions feed is overrun with Windows 8 questions. At this moment in time, 31 out of the 50 questions on the main page are about Windows 8. I've got no experience with Windows 8 and I don't have that much of an intention to run it any time soon - so I cannot answer...

support feature-request tags

Journeyman Geek

hmm

now that this is a moot point, and never answered...

delete or close?

0

Q: What happens if insufficient people reach a certain challenge level in the Windows 8 Challenge

I doubt it'll happen, but hypothetically, how would Stack Exchange deal with it if no one reaches a specific challenge level, or if there's fewer people at a challenge level than there are prizes? What about the same for tiles?

discussion windows-8-challenge

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Yes :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

avirk

2

Q: How to enable .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 8 without downloading it?

Since I installed Windows 8 Preview on my personal computer, during the installation of some programs and drivers(Windows 7 ones) started to pop me a message warning that .Net Framework 3.5 was needed: I could use "Install this feature", start to download some dependencies(300MB) and that's it...

windows .net-framework windows-8 .net-3.5

already asked by diogo :P

0

A: How to add the Windows defender(MS essential) in Windows explorer right click menu to scan a particular drive/folder on demand?

Ok after digging it some more I able to add it in the drives and folders right click menu but there is still I need to add it with all file types as well but no success yet. here are the keys which will let you add it in the right click menu Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_C...

Finally I have MS essential in right click menu every where :P

agent86

14:11

@Ivo glad it helped somewhat/maybe :P

avirk

@OliverSalzburg ping :P

@HackToHell are you success to install win 8?

HackToHell

nope

avirk

@HackToHell tried with other tool or not?

HackToHell

I did that using that tool the first time

avirk

@HackToHell any error message when you installing it?

HackToHell

14:20

nope!

avirk

@HackToHell link to question please?

HackToHell

3

Q: Windows 8 install fails

I have the windows 8 release preview 32 bit iso and it fails to install when booted out of a flash drive, it copies the files and the boot loader installs but the install hangs when I boot into Windows 8 the first time, it simply keeps on spinning forever. I did a vhd install of Windows 8 develo...

windows-8 freeze

@bob your clone !

Bobb

172 3 8

windows windows-7 windows-8 windows-live-messenger wireless-networking ad-hoc-network audio

Bob

lol

HackToHell

14:36

Hmm, need 3 more Q/A to get to the next level sigh

avirk

Before judge my question is wrong just read the story line first.

So here is the story behind my question....

One of friend seen the Windows 8 on my laptop and requested me to install it on his PC, I agreed and installed it on his system in dual boot with Windows 7. I told him that I've only trial version its not the full activated version as its only 30 days Windows 8 Enterprise version. He agreed and said to me that he just want to check the new features of Windows 8.

After installing Windows 8 for two days he didn't boot in Windows 7, but when he did he got the message that his Window…

@Bob is that right to ask on SU or not?

however I'm very surprised after that Oo

Bob

I don't know :\

avirk

@Bob should I go ahead?

Bob

:\ I dunno? :P

Worst case, you catch a couple of downvotes and it gets closed

Journeyman Geek

@avirk: considering it involves piracy, better not to

HackToHell

14:38

I think Win 8 botloader bypasses Win 7 bootloader

Windows Loader depends on Win 7 boot loader for key injection

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: why're you using the RP?

avirk

@JourneymanGeek Ok if I only ask How they are preventing it then?

Tom Wijsman

rofl... Just sent a SMS containing (6) and forgot that's a smiley, hope the other end won't receive it like that because that'l be amusing... :D

Journeyman Geek

and using the regular tag on a rp question?

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek I downloaded 8 iso

It too does not work

Journeyman Geek

14:40

@HackToHell: hm, wierd, maybe try the alternate method with imagex?

and you may want to edit your question to reflect you're using the RTM Iso

HackToHell

i lost my patience, might vbox it

@JourneymanGeek edited

And WIn8 ads are out on Adsense

Bob

@HackToHell lol

there were a couple on YouTube the other day

avirk

Whoaa i won the tile for link refer :D

jokerdino

14:59

This just in.

hacktohell never heard of M$ Bob.

HackToHell

@Bob ping test

did you get the ping at AU

Bob

@HackToHell ?

what?

HackToHell

in Ask Ubuntu General Room, 3 mins ago, by Eliah Kagan

Microsoft Bob

Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft software product, released in March 1995, although widely publicized prior to that date under the codename "Utopia", which provided a new, non-technical interface to desktop computing operations. It was one of Microsoft's more visible product failures. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer mentioned Bob as an example of a situation where "we decided that we have not succeeded and let's stop". Origins Microsoft Bob was designed for Windows 95 and Windows NT, and intended to be a user-friendly interface for Microsoft Windows, supplanting the Program Manager. The project ...

Bob

:S

Henning Klevjer

Good evening/morning. Do any of you know a Windows file extension in which HTML code contained in the file is presented to the user embedded inside a lightweight application (probably using IE)? I remembered it as .htx or something, but that didn't work..

Bob

15:09

o.O

xht is XHTML (short for xhtml). mht has embedded images/content, a kind of archive file, short for mhtml

There's also svg (vector image) and htm/html (well, HTML)

nothing else IE sets itself as the default for, at least on Win8

Henning Klevjer

Yeah, I know. It might have been a one-time feature from long long ago. But I'm VERY sure it has existed ;)

From around the time when Microsoft Comic Chat existed

and probably Microsoft Bob too

Bob

lol

ocx, activex control?

Henning Klevjer

Nope. I'm pretty sure it had a x and an h inside. And it required the IE ocx for rendering web pages.

You could for example write <marquee>Happy Birthday!</marquee>, save it as this executable file, and it would work externally to the browser.

If you're familiar with the Secure Download Manager (works with .sdx files), it behaves similarly, but where .sdx files contain URLs, the original one contained pure HTML.

Well well, it's a thing of the past anyway..

Bob

urgh, secure download manager

Henning Klevjer

haha

Bob

15:19

used it once to download Win7

Henning Klevjer

There's no security as far as I can see. The links in the .sdx files are perfectly available in the browser, if you append a small version-id or something.

That's all the Secure Download Manager seems to do.

Bob

could you be thinking of chm (the help file format, 'compiled html') by any chance?

Henning Klevjer

Nope, nothing like that either.. I'm considering opening a question for it, but it really isn't that important either ;)

Bob

hxs?

successor to chm

Henning Klevjer

hmm

allquixotic

15:30

herro

Henning Klevjer

might have been

HackToHell

@allquixotic Hows the cyclone ?

Bob

@HackToHell it's been postponed ;P

Henning Klevjer

@Bob I'll fire up XP and take a look in the registry for traces..

Bob

@HenningKlevjer As the successor to chm, it is likely a type recognised by default in 7...

or not :P

Henning Klevjer

15:33

Yeah, .hxs didn't work as I expected in Win7. I don't think it's correct.

Sathya

head back to Bangalore

my vacation is over :(

Henning Klevjer

@Bob Found it! It's .hta!!!

Bob

lol

congrats

Henning Klevjer

Yeah!

Bob

@Sathya D:

allquixotic

15:36

@HackToHell it's slow. like a train being ~12 hours late

Bob

Hm.. that's odd... how the heck did I just get an upvote on a closed question?

allquixotic

now it's looking like Monday/Tuesday, not Sunday/Monday

Bob

I need to figure out the secret to getting a lot of upvotes on one post :P

Based on @JourneymanGeek, part of it is MOAR SCREENSHOTS

jokerdino

And stop using a M$ Bob gravatar :P That thing annoys people.

Bob

...that's actually a good point, at least for those who recognise it :P

great, now I need to find a new gravatar

allquixotic

15:44

@Bob nope, moar screenshots doesn't do it. superuser.com/questions/464000/…

Bob

O.O

allquixotic

also, this post has no screenshots, just me talking like a professor: superuser.com/questions/464315/…

Bob

sigh.

allquixotic

I attribute it to (1) luck, and (2) having your question posted on some popular site with a lot of hits

Bob

lol

the latter... if only I actually used such a site! :P

allquixotic

15:46

pay Michael Larabel $100 to post your answers on his phoronix.com site

he'd do it

jokerdino

I thought you were on reddit.

Bob

@jokerdino I can't think of anything that would be worth posting, too :P

jokerdino

You would at least get the 50 referral tile covered if you shared something worthwhile :P

Bob

Problem is finding something worthwhile to share :P

and an appropriate place to share it, too

anyways, how's my new gravatar? :P

allquixotic

@Bob @JourneymanGeek would like it

Bob

15:54

:P

allquixotic

stupid floofy dogs... ugh... we need more cats in here

Bob

heh

considering I grabbed it from the front page of /r/aww, it's surprising it's not a cat

avirk

@Bob new avatar :P

2

A: What is the Charms Bar?

The Charm Bar extremely new feature in Windows 8, you can access it through anywhere no matter if you are in desktop UI or Modern UI. You will see two boxes on the screen. A small box just above the taskbar on the left. It displays the current date and time along with the battery and connectivit...

Henning Klevjer

What do you guys think about the guys asking lots and lots of semi-obvious windows-8 questions to win?

jokerdino

@HenningKlevjer lame

avirk

15:56

heay guys why I'm not getting upvotes for that while other answer is shorter than mine :/

Henning Klevjer

@jokerdino Seems too easy..

jokerdino

Answer it or ignore it.

allquixotic

@HenningKlevjer i think the contest is seriously degrading the quality of SU and I can't wait until it's over.

Henning Klevjer

They might as well answer it themselves, right? Or doesn't that give points?

allquixotic

the questions are stupid; they're diverting attention away from other non-win8 questions, many of which are going unanswered; and they're generating arguments about who has the best answer and stuff because people want to get progress in the contest

3

Tom Wijsman

15:59

3

Q: How to make sure nothing is shared from Windows 8?

One of much praised features as I read in Windows 8 is sharing. I do not use any social networking and I don't want to share (however I use SkyDrive to keep some of my files accessible from different PCs but the folders all are private). I went to the Charms - Settings - Change PC Settings - Sh...

security windows-8 privacy

jokerdino

Anyway, how do I turn on my computer again?

Tom Wijsman

Answered that question with a lack of Windows 8 knowledge. Old methods FTW... :D

Henning Klevjer

The reason windows-7 is just below windows-8 is probably because the questions are mostly revived windows-7 questions..

allquixotic

I tried to explain to my dad how the Modern UI IE10 is different from the one on the desktop, and failed

he ended up saying "I don't see the point of all that extra stuff" and learned how to get out of the start screen / modern UI and never looked back

also put a shortcut to the control panel on his desktop

avirk

@TomWijsman have you checked the screen shot I posted of user script bug?

allquixotic

16:03

he uses it like windows 7

Bob

@allquixotic get him start8 or something

Tom Wijsman

@avirk Ah, right, 2 messages I still need to check on chat.

Henning Klevjer

I fail to find a reason to update to 8.

Tom Wijsman

@Paul Huh, UK is Farnell, I've ordered from RS and I thought you did too, but only slightly longer than a week sounds good.

@avirk: You just have the extension running twice, lol...

Bob

damn, I need to find a python webhost now

Tom Wijsman

16:08

(It can't move the related messages up twice, hence the second one has an empty right side)

Oliver Salzburg

16:20

Sweet. I am now a paying Google customer. Hopefully this opens up new support channels :P

Bob

@OliverSalzburg hm? paying in what way?

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob For space.

Bob

ah. drive?

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Yeah, also includes Gmail and Picasa

But I bought it for Drive

Henning Klevjer

If SU had a Google contest I'd ask "how much is it?" and get a t-shirt.

allquixotic

16:36

@HenningKlevjer I think Win8 solved some driver problems -- it did for me at least... the underlying kernel and low level stuff did change a bit

I'm not a Win8 fanatic by any means, but I support the evolution of the underlying platform to eradicate annoying bugs

Aphex5

Which flag should I use to suggest a question should be moved to another Stack Exchange site?

Bob

@Aphex5 off topic, belongs on another site and there should be a list. Alternatively, you can leave a message to mods

Aphex5

@Bob Oops, flagged off topic but it didn't give me a list, won't let me unflag :(

Bob

you could add a comment pointing it out

Henning Klevjer

@allquixotic Fair point. But the advertised benefits, IMO "it's beautiful-er" and "things you don't need are abstracted away", doesn't cut it.

allquixotic

16:40

@HenningKlevjer I agree... and I'm not actively using it

Henning Klevjer

And it's horrible without a touch screen.

allquixotic

for sure

Bob

@HenningKlevjer works quite well if you stick to the desktop

allquixotic

don't catch me saying good things about Windows 8. I'm a Linux guy.

Bob

MUI still is rather awkward with a mouse, especially in some (poorly designed?) apps

but then, that was always going to be an issue: the whole thing is too damn touch-centric

Henning Klevjer

16:44

@Bob Seems it's Win's intention that as many apps as possible are paid-for Metro UI apps.

or Modern UI, was it?

Aphex5

@Bob Good call

Bob

the latter

but I just call it MUI now

@HenningKlevjer yep. guess why they lowered the OS price? D:<

I give it three months before someone cracks the Windows Store/most popular apps

probably less

Henning Klevjer

;)

Bob

also in three months: I move back to Win7, until whenever 8's successor arrives

Henning Klevjer

Slightly off topic: Did you know that the picture-based password and the PIN simply unlocks the actual password of the user, instead of using the data from the picture-logon or PIN to authenticate. Really sucks security-wise. arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/experts-windows-8-features-make-account-passwords-easier-to-steal/

"The key that unlocks the password, however, is easily extracted by users who have administrative control of the computer, allowing them to recover the plaintext passwords of any accounts that use the alternative login features."

Bob

16:52

eh

if someone has administrative control, they could install a keylogger anyway

Henning Klevjer

Right. Still it's bad practice by Microsoft.

Well, gotta go.

allquixotic

ahh i missed the (removed) comments

Tom Wijsman

17:08

Heh, cool, his user profile has cse.iitb.ac.in/~pratnala looks very Metro-ish.

allquixotic

who?

Tom Wijsman

Why do you ask who if you have his name? :D

allquixotic

don't know his @ handle

Tom Wijsman

You don't have to. These are private messages to JG... :P

Oh...

Be careful about which Windows 8 "managed" full screen apps you let idle in background - some cause GPU temps to idle 10C higher or more!

This is interesting...

allquixotic

but not surprising

Tom Wijsman

17:15

@allquixotic: Actually, apps should suspend.

And I really believe they actually do by default. So there must be something up here...

allquixotic

you mean a bug? oh ... well, I guess so... :( I like to attribute to malice, even though that stupid quote says never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence

Tom Wijsman

@allquixotic: Yeah, mobile devices (WP7 thus too) are very focused on the suspended state of an application where it first saves the state and when you come back load it again.

Or at least let it not act unless you explicitly make a background task.

Windows 8 does something similar.

Feels like the GPU might continue to compute things on its own, weird...

avirk

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A: How to enable glassy Aero theme in Windows 8?

However MS removed the feature of Aero in Windows 8 but you can still enable it by tweak in Windows 8 RTM. Before we proceed Note: Please create a restore point or a backup of registry in any kind of buggy situation. Press the Win+R and type regedit now navigate to the following ke...

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Fixed the tag editor finally: github.com/oliversalzburg/superuser-dark-theme/commit/…

Also hopefully got the editor width right now ;D

Wow

I have never seen that :D

That must have been really close :D

r.tanner.f

18:05

There's only 1 entry for the blog O_o is anybody working on anything?

Oliver Salzburg

@r.tanner.f Last time I checked there were 2

r.tanner.f

whoa

there's a few now

could've sworn I checked this morning and saw one O_o

I need to stop doing things before coffee

allquixotic

gravatar changed

>_> i think

slow

Einsteins Grandson

18:56

anybody here?

allquixotic

19:14

yep

Einsteins Grandson

19:28

how much power does a PC use?

100 W ?

50 W?

200 W?

Fasih Khatib

19:40

@WilliamHilsum: Is it normal for teh laptop adaptor to get heated when using it to supply AC power? I am using laptop without a battery. Heat up but not to melting point.

allquixotic

@EinsteinsGrandson it depends on a lot of things

@EinsteinsGrandson number of peripherals, size of screen, form factor (laptop or desktop), number and size of GPUs, power management capabilities, currentness (how new it is), etc

some desktops can use up to 1500 W (I've seen power supplies rated that high) with 8 hard drives and 4 GPUs... some small laptops/netbooks can get by with 10 W

and newer systems tend to decrease their power usage when the system is idle, so it's not constantly consuming that much power

even a big bulky desktop with big GPUs can reduce its power consumption down to laptop levels when nothing is going on, but it can consume more than a kilowatt when under load

allquixotic

20:02

I'm getting a 800f020b error from windows update on win8 for an atheros bluetooth bootrom driver update... doesn't even "try" to install...

sidran32

@FasihKhatib It will generate some heat. The amount differs depending on the adapter itself, and how much power is being drawn (for instance, it will remain pretty cool when it's just charging a laptop on standby, but will potentially get pretty warm if you're using it to supply power to a laptop while you're playing a game.

@EinsteinsGrandson My computer is relatively powerful, and I've gotten it to draw up to 600W under load. Though I haven't measured it in about a year.

Many won't even reach half that, though.

allquixotic

@sidran32 hi sidran :)

sidran32

@allquixotic hi allquixotic :P

allquixotic

i'm sitting in my living room with my laptop watching my dad try to get things running on windows 8... he's a "utilities" freak (he doesn't know about them but he wants to own all the little tweak/cleanup tools in the world) so I'm trying to see which of CCleaner, PCtools, etc. is compatible with windows-8

and he was wondering about Windows 8's file recovery and had a windows update that was failing

i'm running ubuntu 12.10 :D

sidran32

I don't know about Windows 8's file recovery. Nor what's compatible with Windows 8. I usually get CCleaner (use it on Windows 7), and since most things are still in the same place in the filesystem, I'm sure it'd work fine in Windows 8, for the most part,.

allquixotic

20:13

i think my dad just likes to watch progress bars

sidran32

Hehe

I used to love watching Windows 98's defragger utility :P

allquixotic

pctools says it's compatible with win8

sidran32

I was a weird kid

allquixotic

@sidran32 me too, i still get a kick out of watching defraggers, but i think they're mostly snakeoil now

especially with SSDs where fragments impose very little overhead because "seeks" don't really happen

the disk isn't all turning

sidran32

@allquixotic It depends. ext3 doesn't need it. Windows has it run on a schedule so you mostly don't need to manually run it anyway.

Well, defragging an SSD I think actually slows things down. Or at least lessens the life of the drive with no benefit to it.

Einsteins Grandson

20:14

i mean desktop PC

allquixotic

@sidran32 right

Einsteins Grandson

a monitor is 17 LCD

allquixotic

@EinsteinsGrandson does it have integrated graphics or a GPU?

Einsteins Grandson

i need to check it

sidran32

@EinsteinsGrandson I meant desktop PC. Most will probably run around 200W, I think, unless you have an uber gaming rig like mine, which can draw up to 600W :P

amazon.com/P3-International-P4400-Electricity-Monitor/dp/…

You can use something like this to find out how much you're drawing.

Einsteins Grandson

20:17

h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/…

this is it

the monitor is LG 17 LCD

allquixotic

2006... compaq... ancient.... probably low power

@sidran32 my desktop runs at <100W when idle and >800w when gaming :P

becoming more common to see large deltas between idle and full load

sidran32

@EinsteinsGrandson That computer has a 175W power supply. So it probably uses at most about 70% of that.

allquixotic

for power savings when idle

Einsteins Grandson

what is idle?

i mean browsing internet

watching movies

excel

word

winamp

sidran32

Idle means on but you're not doing anything on it.

@allquixotic Mine idles about 200~ish W (last I checked) (I need to find my Kill A Watt)

I gotta go, see ya!

Einsteins Grandson

20:25

so it's 70% of 175 W or 100% of 175 W ?

when browsing the web

allquixotic

@EinsteinsGrandson since your computer is so old, it probably gets about the same power usage all the time

only real new computers have figured out how to reduce power usage when idle

you probably run at about 125 - 150 W all the time

Einsteins Grandson

ok

how about 17 LCD monitor?

30W ?

allquixotic

see what it's rated, should be printed on the unit

William Hilsum

20:45

@FasihKhatib using to supply AC? I am not really too sure... I work with loads of different ones, some get very hot

I would sniff it (not being weird here), if you are not picking up any burning smells, and it doesn't get any hotter, it sounds like it would just be working within normal operating range

studiohack

How would I got about reinstalling Windows XP Media Center Edition on an HP Pavilion that I got 2nd hand, without recovery media?

I don't have the original hard drive either - but it now has a blank one in there

I do have a product key for the XP install, but I'm not sure how I would go about installing XP?

@sidran32, @WilliamHilsum any ideas?

allquixotic

21:00

off topic: wtf is their angle with Question H on this ballot? elections.state.md.us/elections/2012/…

they trying to get a month off or some shit?

Ivo Flipse

@studiohack Upgrade it to Windows 8 :P

Ivo Flipse

21:18

@WilliamHilsum I'd go with upgrading and delete your message

but chat is broken in IE10 :S

Meeh screw slower :P

allquixotic

21:46

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee i'm excited a hurricane is coming right up the bay :O

12 hours until the full force of it starts to bear down on us

we're already starting to see elevated winds

studiohack

22:04

@WilliamHilsum I'm headed out to ride my dirtbike for a few hours - I will be on later

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