Root Access

Tom Wijsman

06:09

@jokerdino Stars? I thought it was display corruption!

nhinkle

@TomWijsman that wouldn't show up on a screenshot though

jokerdino

Source: I dualboot Fedora.

Actually, triple boot. I have Windows 7 installed too.

Tom Wijsman

@nhinkle Are you sure these are screenshots? The glare makes it feel like its pulled close with a camera. And it might be eye magic, but I feel like the black bars aren't even straight. But it might be just me being a bit sleepy... :D

@nhinkle And oh, not display corruption, but video card corruption can show up in screenshots.

jokerdino

How can you screenshot a grub menu?

Journeyman Geek

run it in a VM?

nhinkle

06:12

shrug IDK

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek discounting that.

Tom Wijsman

@JourneymanGeek emerge qemu && qemu /dev/sda I see what you did there...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Tom Wijsman

Probably not the best idea to do that from an installation that runs on /dev/sda.

KronoS

hey what's the thing called within windows that shares pc's

not remote desktop, but similar

like share... something

grrr.... why can't I think of this

Journeyman Geek

06:17

remote assistance?

file sharing?

KronoS

YA!

Remote assitance

thanks @JourneymanGeek

Sathya

@jokerdino if only it was asked elsewhere..

0

Q: How can I take a screenshot of the GRUB menu?

How can I take a screenshot like this? I tried pressing Prnt Scrn, and then trying to paste it in MS Paint after booting to Vista, but it did not work.

damn, not that :P

jokerdino

Haha

It was more of a rhetoric question.

Sathya

ah subanki, you <bleep>

jokerdino

(:

slhck

06:25

@SimonSheehan Good question. Do you remember doing anything to these Macs before they all started to fail? I mean, wouldn't be new to me to see similar models failing at the same time due to a hardware fault – it was the same with the 2007 MacBook Pros and their graphics cards. They all failed in September/October 2008 IIRC.

jokerdino

Now that i have a nice sweet break, I think it's time to learn python.

ronalchn

no! I don't like whitespace having a meaning

jokerdino

~_~

Bob

lol

python is nice to throw something quick together

I've gotten used to the quriks :\

HackToHell

06:44

@Sathya cccooool !

Damn I did not win anything else other than that t shirt, sucks

Rakib Ansary

Is that T Shirt Size chart more or less, the standard? :D

Sathya

06:57

this. I say is gold.

4 hours ago, by Matthew Wong

2

HackToHell

haha

nhinkle

=D

HackToHell

@nhinkle Have all the winners been contacted ?

nhinkle

@HackToHell I don't know. The announcement blog post goes up at 0800 UTC though

Sathya

pretty much

Bob

07:08

@nhinkle So.. in 1 hour.

nhinkle

nope, in 1 hour. i remembered wrong.

that

room topic changed to Root Access: For all you Super Users out there. (no tags)

jokerdino

Oh noes

Bob

@nhinkle D:

nhinkle

@jokerdino ?

jokerdino

I watch BillG and StevieG dance every day in the morning :(

nhinkle

07:12

oh. i was tired of billy.

if you guys are dearly attached i can put them back

jokerdino

nah

put something else

like Rickroll

nhinkle

LOL

Sathya

noooooooooooooo I want Willy :(

nhinkle

LOL

ok, fine, put will back

jokerdino

William Gates

HackToHell

07:51

Dota 2 takes 10 min to find a game :'(

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya I think the other one was funnier chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/6869898#6869898

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek hah yeah ;)

Bob

wee, confirmed: I just won a t-shirt

ah well, suspense over at least

jokerdino

I read that as suspension over.

Bob

08:06

lol

that ended yesterday, didn't it?

jokerdino

7 day suspension.

As in, your suspension got over.

Bob

Oh, I was talking about the suspension spree

Journeyman Geek

08:18

lol

@Bob: I'd kinda think you'd know if you were gonna be suspended

Sathya

any volunteers for getting a suspension :P

Journeyman Geek

but I guess I am wrong seeing those to comedians

If I'm gonna get suspended it NEEDS to be for something epic

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I mentioned that ended yesterday, in reply to @jokerdino misreading suspense as suspension

Journeyman Geek

ahh ;p

Bob

And then I mentioned I was talking about the suspension spree being over, since @jokerdino misread that as me talking about the timed_penalty ending.

Clippy

08:26

Super User Blog: Super User Contest Winners!

kronos on November 14, 2012

Great job everyone. We had a great go around with this contest and lot of participants. With over 2000 posts during the contest period there were plenty of questions and answers about Windows 8. For more stats, Bob put together a stats web app where you can compare contest stats and even personalize it! Go give it a check out for more details on the contest as a whole.

All winners will receive an email from the Stack Exchange team with instructions on how to get your prize. (Note: the T-Shirt emails have already been sent, so if you achieved Level 1 and didn’t get the email, check you spam folders and make sure you weren’t suspended for cheating.) …

Journeyman Geek

whoot

Sathya

yay!

who better than Clippy to announce the winners :P

also, TIL Super User blog comments support Markdown

jokerdino

> Bounty Recieved:

*received.

Bob

o.O

The API user object has both a user_id and account_id

and they seem to be the same thing

jokerdino

it is linked to your account.

Bob

08:34

weird.

jokerdino

one is SU account and the other is SE account?

Bob

oh, wait

yea, probably

note to self: don't use userid 1 (Jeff) as a test ID

Sathya

@Bob use -1 :P

jokerdino

comm bot

Sathya

though I still say Clippy's chat id being -42 is the bestest ever chat.stackexchange.com/users/-42/clippy

Bob

08:37

if "backoff" in wrapper:
    print "Backing off for %d seconds" % wrapper[backoff]
    sys.stdout.flush()
    time.sleep(backoff)

being nice to the API :P

and hoping it doesn't kick me out

jokerdino

hm, it tells you to backoff too?

Bob

yep

jokerdino

@Sathya how'd you do that?

Bob

api.stackexchange.com/docs/wrapper

jokerdino

neat

Sathya

09:10

@jokerdino coincidental :P

jokerdino

wow.

you can't get a negative number

Sathya

@jokerdino you can :)

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/118/root-access?tab=feeds

add a new feed, create user

jokerdino

Oh

Bob

09:21

wtf..

for some reason, my dictionary in python has multiple values for the same key

o.O

HaydnWVN

morning

Sathya

morning

Journeyman Geek

morning

Bob

evening

HaydnWVN

lol @ the amount of Windows-8 accounts suspended due to 'voting irregularities'

jokerdino

09:27

evening

Journeyman Geek

lol

HaydnWVN

seen some great answers from users with 1 rep and thought wtf

jokerdino

lol

Journeyman Geek

@HaydnWVN: I know, right?

HaydnWVN

just been browsing around and noticed 4 this morning and i'm not actually looking for them

there must be hundreds?!

Journeyman Geek

09:28

only? ;p

naw, last I heard, 30 ;p

jokerdino

30? O_O

HaydnWVN

What voting? Feel like i missed an opportunity (to probably get my account suspended lol)

Journeyman Geek

24 hours ago, by nhinkle

i think the total was almost 30, in fact

jokerdino

they create sock to vote on each other accounts

Journeyman Geek

@HaydnWVN: least 4 of the people who got into level 4

Bob

09:29

5

jokerdino

What are we counting?

Bob

corwin, root, user, sant and some other guy

I think

jokerdino

Chin

Chin, Neverland

1 13

windows-8 windows google-chrome windows-7 skydrive deep-freeze movies

Bob

!@#$#@$!#@$!@#$!@$@#!@$!@#$!@#!@#!@$!@#$!@#!@$!@

HaydnWVN

@JourneymanGeek Wow, level 4 had 24 users, does that include that 4 or not?

Journeyman Geek

09:31

yes

HaydnWVN

either way that';s a high percentage :o

Bob

apparently, you can have two of the same string as a "unique" dictionary key in Python - provided one is Unicode and the other is ASCII

FML

Journeyman Geek

@HaydnWVN: well depends on how many of the 30 people are the same person

jokerdino

You sure?

HaydnWVN

@JourneymanGeek conspiracy theories this early in the morning? ;)

Journeyman Geek

09:33

@HaydnWVN: no common sense ;p

you need at least 15 upvotes for a single question for level 1

HaydnWVN

I 'attempted' to join the comp and failed badly, have only using win8 (in a VM) for 15 mins... So attempted to create a question from some thoughts i'd had about codecs lol

@JourneymanGeek What are you using your $200 for? :)

jokerdino

I never got myself a win 8

Journeyman Geek

new SSD

trying to work out how to get it shipped to me, the model I want isn't shipped internationally ;p

jokerdino

no, my new hard drive

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino: I don't think so XD

jokerdino

09:34

NOOOOooooooo

HaydnWVN

lol

@JourneymanGeek Which SSD are you looking at and why's it not shipped? :(

Journeyman Geek

anandtech.com/show/6337/samsung-ssd-840-250gb-review

cause amazon doesn't ship that model internationally

so I need to use comgateway to ship it

HaydnWVN

Ahhh, annoying

i went OCZ Vertex

Journeyman Geek

or plan B

HaydnWVN

Plan B?

Journeyman Geek

09:38

I have a friend in boston I can paypal shipping money to

HaydnWVN

Ahhh, fair enough... I'm in the UK (not that it probably helps!)

Annoying really that the drives are manufactured over your side of the globe and probably flying over your head/floating past you as you type

jokerdino

@HaydnWVN I just waved to a cargo flight.

Journeyman Geek

lol, I know, right?

HaydnWVN

@jokerdino Did they have JG's drive on board? Could you hijack it? ;)

jokerdino

It's raining outside. So didn't bother.

HaydnWVN

09:41

lol

Journeyman Geek

actually one of the level 3s might have it worse

he's in india ;p

jokerdino

that's where the customs folk have fun

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek level 4 you mean?

Journeyman Geek

yup

level 3 ;p

one of the level 4's is from 'parts unknown', the other is polish

jokerdino

Pole

Journeyman Geek

09:46

yes, from poland ;p

jokerdino

Warsaw?

19

Q: Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()

I was looking at the new APIs introduced in Android4.2. While looking at the UserManager class I came across the following method : public boolean isUserAGoat () Used to determine whether the user making this call is subject to teleportations. Returns whether the user making this cal...

android

Journeyman Geek

donno

jokerdino

Hmm, they document weird stuff.

Journeyman Geek

I'm not gonna look up up unless you're female, cute, and slightly suspecious

Sathya

2

A: Do you like hats?

Yay Hats! It's just a bit of harmless fun. If somebody doesn't like it, they can just click the I hate hats button, and the hats will all go away. See. None of those hats hurt anybody.

HaydnWVN

09:47

@JourneymanGeek Or have a dog avatar

Journeyman Geek

@HaydnWVN: not worth looking up

I think i've looked up a grand total of one user on SE ever ;p

Sathya

there was a pic with @JourneymanGeek's dog with a Christmas hat

Journeyman Geek

there is on G+ ;p

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek Let me guess.. Rachel.

Rachel Solando.

Journeyman Geek

nope

is rachel the one who stood for mod elections on the cuteness platform?

I didn't even know her last name ;p

jokerdino

09:50

O_o

Rachel Solando is the one in Shutter Island.

Journeyman Geek

lol

jokerdino

Now who is this Rachel that stood for mod on cuteness platform.

Oh wait. I think that's Alex.

Journeyman Geek

I am shit with names ;p

jokerdino

Almost

Journeyman Geek

at least I got the gender right?

jokerdino

09:53

I don't know actually.

Journeyman Geek

lol

ya

jokerdino

Hm, who has seen the baldie Sathya?

that looks too big.

100 rep to the first one who guesses which one of that is Sathya.

/me goes for a walk.

Sathya

@jokerdino LOL

HaydnWVN

@Sathya OMG i LOVE hats!

@JourneymanGeek Still reading about that samsung 840... But why take the risk (reduced lifetime) of TLC?

Journeyman Geek

@HaydnWVN: I tend to consider the reduced lifetime thing with SSDs with a pinch of salt

I'll be using two drives anyway, and if things go well, I may end up upgrading in less than a year ;p

jokerdino

10:06

@Sathya can you also post the hats on our meta :P

Sathya

@jokerdino it was an email sent to all Mods, so they should have it up soon if the Mods aren't sure

btw, that baldie could totally use a hat

jokerdino

Ah, alright.

Journeyman Geek

a cunning hat

jokerdino

I'll badger our mods to put it up soon.

HaydnWVN

@Sathya Nothing wrong with us baldie's :(

Sathya

10:09

@HaydnWVN :P (I was specific, that baldie as in that pic above)

Journeyman Geek

lol

@HaydnWVN: as I always say

hair today gone tommorrow.

Bob

@KronoS @JourneymanGeek Suspended users here: win8challengestats.tk/cgi-bin/suspended.py

good lord that is laggy

19 'suspended', 11 'deleted' o.O

Journeyman Geek

lol

jokerdino

O_O

Journeyman Geek

Joe

1 4

autohotkey download dreamspark java windows-8 parser google-chrome

jokerdino

10:12

the page lags

Journeyman Geek

ITS JOE

jokerdino

Wow, I see too many indians

Bob

@jokerdino it's probably the gravatars

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek JOE IS BACK!!!!!! JOE IS BACK!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Journeyman Geek

lol

Joe is becoming legendary

Sathya

10:14

oh wait he's not

WTF yo

:/

@Bob lots of 'gravatars' listed

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino: I wouldn't be suprised if it was like 4-5 people

Bob

@Sathya well, I fail at HTML it appears

Journeyman Geek

which would explain it

its pretty easy to tell which ones are real too

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek yeah, two of them from Roorkee that I recognize from AU

Bob

Hm.. perhaps i should move the majority of the users to a separate list

cbf implementing pagination :P

Journeyman Geek

10:17

lol

Have the suspended/banned users seperately

I mean, who cares about the boring goody 2 shoes ones? ;p

Bob

10:31

there, separated @JourneymanGeek

oh wait

internal server error -_-

gimme a sec

there we go.

Sathya

404 :(

Bob

@Sathya go back to the homepage

I renamed the file :P

Sathya

ah

HackToHell

My luck sucks :'(

Bob

How the hell did Joe ask 23 questions on different accounts?

@HackToHell eh, try again next time :P

at least we get t-shirts :D

Graham Wager

10:44

I think I must have stolen a few peoples luck...3 wins on the Win8Challenge, and an e-mail saying I've won the EuroMillions lottery...

Journeyman Geek

lol

one of these things is not like the other

3?

Graham Wager

woohoo! £2.60!

Journeyman Geek

keyboard, level3 and t-shirt?

Graham Wager

wish they'd just tell me how much in the e-mail, rather than make me login...

yep!

Journeyman Geek

T-shirt dosen't count ;p

Graham Wager

10:47

yes it does, it says "Winner" in the e-mail ;P

now i just need to buy a surface so i have something to use the keyboard with...

Journeyman Geek

lol

@GrahamWager: blah, get a nexus tablet ;p

What're you using your level 3 for?

Graham Wager

lol, nah, don't need to be paying for the same app twice, desktop and tablet :P

i really don't know if i'm honest

probably go with SSD as i don't really need either of the other 2

Journeyman Geek

same as me then ;p

HaydnWVN

@GrahamWager Congrats

Journeyman Geek

which is useful since I'm building a desktop in december

HaydnWVN

10:49

@HackToHell Comiserations :(

Graham Wager

wish i could pay the extra and have the $200 towards a tablet tho lol

@HaydnWVN Thanksss :)

HaydnWVN

@GrahamWager Would be nice if the $200 was like a gift voucher

my sister got me £50 in amazon gift vouchers last christmas and i've only just finished using them as never tend to buy anything big from amazon lol

Graham Wager

@HaydnWVN Yeah definately

have to admit, the L3 prize seems a bit odd as everything else is MS based (well, except the NAS)

HaydnWVN

We need a link to the prize page adding to starred comments/topic guys

Graham Wager

11:05

@HaydnWVN ooh, didn't realise the blog post was up!

Super User Blog: Super User Contest Winners!

kronos on November 14, 2012

Great job everyone. We had a great go around with this contest and lot of participants. With over 2000 posts during the contest period there were plenty of questions and answers about Windows 8. For more stats, Bob put together a stats web app where you can compare contest stats and even personalize it! Go give it a check out for more details on the contest as a whole.

All winners will receive an email from the Stack Exchange team with instructions on how to get your prize. (Note: the T-Shirt emails have already been sent, so if you achieved Level 1 and didn’t get the email, check you spam folders and make sure you weren’t suspended for cheating.) …

7

HaydnWVN

JG: anandtech.com/show/6337/samsung-ssd-840-250gb-review/6 - i've got the OCZ Vertex 4 256GB but i think mine came with FW 1.5 and i've not looked at downgrading to 1.4... :o

Oliver Salzburg

Yay timeline support in in dark theme :D

HaydnWVN

@GrahamWager Star away guys! :)

Bob

12:08

Eh, five mods asked/answered a windows-8 question in the competition period with at least one upvote.

Oliver Salzburg

12:26

@Bob Is that good or bad?

Or just a fun fact :D

Bob

@OliverSalzburg the last

jokerdino

12:37

Meta.So is down!?

Oliver Salzburg

@jokerdino Works here

jokerdino

ah, its back!

in The Comms Room, 3 mins ago, by Iain

https://github.com/Manishearth/Manish-Codes/blob/master/StackExchange/SpecificStuff/Punch-a-user.user.js

A.Antri

Is it reliable to give India address for shipping prizes from Stack Exchange (Win8challenge) ?

HaydnWVN

@A.Antri Speak to @JourneymanGeek as he's in a similar situation

Hennes

I just got reminded why I never want to fly to Jwk...

A friend flew there for a conference. 3 people in line at the border check. 15 minutes per person (!). Then they closed the desk. No sorry, no please use the other line, I am running a lot slower than expected. Just simply close it as rudely as possible

Journeyman Geek

12:52

I am planning on using comgateway to transship it

I also think you can ask if they can reimburse you for buying locally

HaydnWVN

@Hennes JWK?

Hennes

airport.

jokerdino

JFK You mean?

Hennes

Eh yes. John F. Kennedy International Airport

Sorry, I got a friend with jwk as a handle, was close to jfk

jokerdino

My memory seems good.

Oliver Salzburg

12:58

@A.Antri Why wouldn't it be?

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