Root Access

Oliver Salzburg

00:22

lol flickr.com/photos/ochre_jelly/8543391139

Journeyman Geek

01:01

o0

I repcapped (perfectly) yesterday

Journeyman Geek

01:50

StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted.

lol @ the alt text

Journeyman Geek

02:37

quick sanity check, I have a VM in virtualbox, set up to be natted. I should be able to ssh in from the host,right?

Journeyman Geek

03:25

FFS

nearly all the alternatives to google reader seem to be crumbling under the load

Journeyman Geek

04:30

oh, nice, the tiny tiny rss reader page is down too

Clippy

06:31

Super User Blog: Cable vs DSL: Which Was Better?

kronos on March 14, 2013

I recently moved to a bigger city, and of course the first thing that I setup was my internet connection. I’ve had the same ISP for a couple of years now, and they’ve been alright. I’ve noticed drops in service here and there but overall it was a tolerable experience. However, as soon as I started watching my online shows in the new place, I noticed some dramatic changes in my viewing experience. There were long periods of waiting for the shows to buffer, and I felt like I was relapsing to my younger days of dial-up. I got so frustrated one night I even tweeted about it: …

Journeyman Geek

ooh

Bob

06:59

@JourneymanGeek yea

wait, no

..I think you'd want a host-only network for that

or a bridged one

Journeyman Geek

bridging worked

/me is looking for alternative newsreaders

prolly gonna end up setting up tinytinyrss at some point

Sathya

07:43

this is new

slhck

Yay. More incentives to close.

Bob

@Sathya what's new about it?

the /5? :\

Sathya

@Bob yeah, the (full) count wasn't shown

Bob

@slhck how does that offer more incentives to close?

@JourneymanGeek that LED has given up and died :P

Journeyman Geek

08:00

blah

this is proving more annoying than I thought

slhck

@Bob Well, you contribute to a number rising :p I wasn't being entirely serious though

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: ahh, kinda makes sense ;p

Bob

08:16

@slhck you always did?

wasn't the number of close votes always shown?

just not the /5 bit?

Sathya

08:29

@Bob the number of votes casted was shown, but not how much was required to close

now that extra calculation is no longer needed.. might act as a push ("ooh, one more vote reqd to close, lemme do it")

HackToHell

08:50

noooo :( omgchrome.com/google-reader-axed-shutting-down-july-1st

kali.org

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: we've been complaining about ti all day

I've already tried two desktop RSS feeders I don't like

and most of the web based ones people suggest have been crippled by the load ;p

I eventually got the one @Sathya suggested working, but the free tier is too limited for me :/

Bob

09:12

I used to use Thunderbird for RSS

then I just gave up on feeds

Journeyman Geek

I think reader's the main site I use on the internet

skunkfrukt

@JourneymanGeek Same. Looking for alternatives, now.

Journeyman Geek

@skunkfrukt: I'm currently setting up greatnews temporarily, its got a 2 pane format

then, I tried rssowl, and rss bandit, but both have issues

oh, and trying to spin up a VM to try tinytinyrss and Lilina ;p

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek newsblur, you mean?

@skunkfrukt tried theoldreader?

skunkfrukt

I created an account, but it won't let me import anything right now.

Sathya

09:21

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Q: Alternatives for Google Reader

Now that Google Reader is being retired, what are my options for consuming RSS feeds on the web and synchronizing with my Android device? Social media sharing is not as important to me as being able to keep up with many disparate sites/feeds in a single place and for the data to be stored in the ...

3

fwiw

Oliver Salzburg

wtf. computer shut itself down from hibernation O__O

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: trying a few

oldreader looks good, but they turned off importing for now

Oliver Salzburg

Damn you Windows Update!

HackToHell

@jokerdino wh00t

@JourneymanGeek Just back from school :P

Journeyman Geek

09:47

hmm

Bibhas

any free benchmarking tool for mac?

Journeyman Geek

09:59

hmm what was that called

@Bibhas: I vaguely remember cinebench had an OS X version

any mods around? superuser.com/users/207046/liza This user is tickling off my spidey sense.

@Bibhas: maxon.net/products/cinebench/overview.html

Bob

thedailywtf.com/Articles/Im-Sensing-Some-Tension.aspx

this is excellent

Journeyman Geek

if its video card testing, throw one of the unigene benchmarks at it

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek BAM! Hit him with the spice weasel!

HackToHell

Damn, couldn't flag him !

The lastest ff beta is really sluggish :(

Bob

@HackToHell 20?

HackToHell

10:12

yeah 20.xx

Bob

that's been semi-stable for a while.. it's probably similar to 19 in terms of performance?

perhaps an addon? high memory usage? something?

HackToHell

It updated from 20.xx ro 20.(xx+1) day before yesterday or something now it's super sluggish

Bob

try the FF profiler

HackToHell

@Bob Didn't install anything new only ^^ happend

Bob

if you can identify something specific, file a bug report quickly

@HackToHell you updated the browser

there's a chance one of your existing addons is not fully compatible

Oliver Salzburg

10:14

@JourneymanGeek Google+ Pro Tip: Create a single-photo gallery for the images you put in a post. Makes them look more nice-like :D

HackToHell

Could be, will try ff profiler

Bob

@HackToHell developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Performance/…

> Switch to the nightly build or build with ac_add_options --enable-profiling (optimization recommended to get accurate profiling).

:S

HackToHell

gah, need to shift to nightly :(

Bob

or build it yourself?

or maybe see if you can grab a nightly copy of your current version?

or just try running the profiler, perhaps it works on Beta anyway :P

HackToHell

Doesn't work ;p going to switch to nightly

Bob

10:19

@HackToHell ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/…

that's the nightly build of 20.0b5

try to grab the equivalent to your current copy?

HackToHell

thanks :D saved me from googling ;p

@Bob i prolly have 20.0b5 as ff says that I have the latest verison

Bob

@HackToHell it should list the specific version number :P

also, try clearing your profile

HackToHell

about:buildconfig this does tho

@Bob I think it's because of my overly large history file ;p

Bibhas

@JourneymanGeek Looks good. will try. Thanks. :)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek try newslike.comeze.com

:P

HackToHell

10:28

moztrap.mozilla.org/results/runs

Bob

it's a little thing a friend created for a project.. I can't remember how complete it is

@HackToHell ?

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg I tend to be super random about those >_>

Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell s/nightly/chrome/

Firefox's performance has been horrible lately.

HackToHell

And have you figured out why ? You would have done so by now

@Bob I am trying to find out what it is ;p

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: no import option

at the moment the old reader is the closest to what I want, but I can't import feeds in it yet

Bob

10:33

@JourneymanGeek it was written more or less from scratch in his spare time :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: well, blah ;p

it also made me solve a captcha for some wierd reason

HackToHell

okay ff profiler is weird ;p

Journeyman Geek

o0

Bob

lol

@JourneymanGeek if you actually want to use it, we can hack up an import script XD

HackToHell

Ah ! it's like that Windows Performance monitor

Journeyman Geek

10:38

@Bob: an OPML import script is pretty much essential here

one issue I have is I have FAR too many feeds on google reader to actually prune ;p

Bob

so.. uhh.. take a look at the UI, do you actually want to use it? :P

this was never really released or anything, it's been sitting there for a year

Sathya

looks like spammers are getting to grips with Stack Exchange's suggested edit system superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/93418 superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/93419

Journeyman Geek

one momment

let me import something and see

Bob

@Sathya O.O

ohshit

waiiit

one approval?

oh, OP approval

Sathya

yes, because it's OP

Bob

10:40

well, that would be quite obvious (and it would be bumped), wouldn't it?

Journeyman Geek

lol

its not wworking for me

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek Don't like feedly ?

Feedly is ok, but it's too slow ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek :\

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: Don't like the UI

I wouldn't move off reader if they weren't killing it off

Sathya

@Bob yep, but still..

Journeyman Geek

10:41

so basically I want reader, just not

HackToHell

You can customize it tho ;p

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

works for me if you just add a feed, like http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/34697/fe.ed/feeds.smh.com.au/rssheadlines/top.xml

Journeyman Geek

getting a vm up

@Bob: added the serverfault feed ;p

it tells me it was added, but I don't see it

HackToHell

And steam is taking forever to launch tf2 ;p

Bob

10:42

hm

I've forgotten how to get the feed addresses for SE

:P

Journeyman Geek

not too bad

I'd use it if I didn't find anything with inline images ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek are you talking about newslike?

Journeyman Geek

ya

it gets things nearly right ;p

Bob

ok.. lemme know if you do want to use it and we'll move it to a proper server :P

(and that import thing)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

10:46

@JourneymanGeek url? or, how do you get a link? :P

Journeyman Geek

add a /feeds at the end

Bob

o.O

Journeyman Geek

I'm probably going to end up with the old reader

so don't trust me to stick around, unless you want feature suggestions XDXDXD

Bob

uhh... no one's actually using it, but if you actually want something added, sure :P

@JourneymanGeek http://serverfault.com/questions/feeds?

oh. found it.

Sathya

this is for @JourneymanGeek blog.superfeedr.com/state-of-readers

Journeyman Geek

10:55

;)

@Sathya: I'm also gonna try a few of the self hosted ones

might toss it on my lil old atom box or raspi or something ;p

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek newsblur is FOSS.. but requires tons of servers :P

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: too complex! ;p

there's a tinytinyrss package in Ubuntu 12.10

Oliver Salzburg

Is that new?

It's glorious! Now I'll always know that it takes 5 votes \o/

Bob

3 hours ago, by Sathya

this is new

Apparently, yes :P

Oliver Salzburg

Damn! :D

Bob

10:59

now we have the matching dark theme screenshot!

you two should have coordinated more; they're slightly misaligned :P

Oliver Salzburg

:D

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek apparently lacks atom support :(

Journeyman Geek

I'm seriously tempted to redo my VPS setup ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek why?

Journeyman Geek

11:06

quite a lot of things I want to change ;p

the only thing I have is a wiki that uses flat file storage

so I could swap for a lighter web server, going to offload the DB anyway...

Oliver Salzburg

Sweet! rc.getbootstrap.com

Bibhas

Bootstrap has been overused too much. Was getting bored of that UI. Hopefully, 3 would look fresh for sometime.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Oliver Salzburg

11:24

Yay, Google Takout worked \o/

Sweet. All my Latitude data in one JSON file

Journeyman Geek

ugh

I installed tt-rss....

only I have no idea how to use it

its not in /var/www for starters

Bibhas

what are those two seal doing there?

is that the same guy in disguise? o_O

Journeyman Geek

12:12

@OliverSalzburg: ooh, I just remembered I had an album of pix of my current system

plus.google.com/u/0/photos/106187684082000485043/albums/… ;p

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Seen it

Journeyman Geek

added new pix ;p

(which I should have done instead of sticking it on a post ._.)

Oliver Salzburg

Alright, now I'm up-to-date again :D

Journeyman Geek

XD

next up, speakers, and maybe a monitor. NO IDEA where I'll find space for either ;p

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah, space! That would be something! :D

Journeyman Geek

12:19

lol

Was tempted to stick the speakers on wallmounts

but I can't really do that without taking down the stuff on the wall

Oliver Salzburg

13:04

It's snowy

Bibhas

cool.(literally). Reminds me of day after tomorrow movie

studiohack

13:42

@OliverSalzburg nice

Oliver Salzburg

@studiohack It's still going O__O

BloodPhilia

14:15

Hey!

@OliverSalzburg That's what's going on in my neighbouring country?

Night and day much

Oliver Salzburg

@BloodPhilia What the... :D

Well, it's looking a bit brighter on my end now as well

So bright in fact, that I had to close the shades

Snow is blindingly reflective :P

BloodPhilia

@OliverSalzburg I can imagine :P

allquixotic

bit of a diversion to get to work today -_- someone was struck by a car and killed on the inner loop of the beltway right in my way

Tanner

"But we were delayed en route when a Stingray in front of us killed a pedestrian."

allquixotic

wbal.com/article/98266/48/template-story/…

Tanner

14:29

Oh gezz, hit and run too?

allquixotic

they don't know

availability of my coworkers at this time is extremely spotty

some are here, but a lot are still out there on the beltway because they didn't take the alternate route

Journeyman Geek

@Tanner car or fish?

Tanner

car

It's from fear and loathing

Journeyman Geek

;p

the fish did in the crocodile hunter

Tanner

ahahaha

allquixotic

14:35

a loss of one life can cause millions of gallons of fuel to be wasted

(all the fuel burned idling / moving in low gear / traveling longer routes to get around the closure)

HackToHell

Oliver Salzburg

I hate it when I can't find that picture of the guy who is annoyed about the sunlight :(

allquixotic

14:47

@OliverSalzburg is it a "Y U NO" meme?

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Nah. People love to use it around new years, with fireworks in the window

allquixotic

I could probably do a Y U NO meme for my 1st world problems getting to work this morning

DEAD PERSON ON HIGHWAY
Y U NO DIE AT HOME???

4

Oh, look, question #1000000000 about router dropouts :D

0

Q: Periodical Internet connection loss with TP-LINK 4300 router

I have an issue with my TP-LINK TL-WDR4300 router. Since I bought it, I had some issues with connectivity, but after I disabled the hardware NAT option and reflashed the firmware to the same latest version, everything went ok for the long 2 months. I actually haven't had any problems with it unti...

networking router internet-connection tp-link

I would imagine that if his internet connection is IP-over-Periodical, he'd have fairly high latency, so let's hope he responds to us in about 6 months time

Periodical literature

Periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar examples are the newspaper, often published daily, or weekly; or the magazine, typically published weekly, monthly or as a quarterly. Other examples would be a newsletter, a literary journal or learned journal, or a yearbook. These examples are typically published and referenced by volume and issue. "Volume" typically refers to the number of years the publication has been circulated, and "Issue" refers to how many t...

at least the journal editors are a "friendly" MITM -- they read his posts and correct grammar etc

Journeyman Geek

lol

HackToHell

15:15

allquixotic

15:29

fbcdn blocked

jokerdino

it's a cat pic with some letters.

2

allquixotic

o

I could have guessed

the probability of any picture on the internet involving a cat is about 80%

jokerdino

allquixotic

lol

jokerdino

reuploaded.

allquixotic

15:32

i.stack.imgur is a godsend

Tanner

@allquixotic Would kill to be able to greenshot directly to it.

Journeyman Geek

I'd settle for directly being to paste for i.stack.imgur

like you can on the main site if you dig a bit

allquixotic

chat is kind of neglected by the developers once they got it to an okay state

they probably figure that a small percentage of the SE users ever touch chat, so they should apply a proportionately small percentage of their developer hours to it

jokerdino

Call me crazy. I just proposed a site for Google glass on area51. D:

allquixotic

@jokerdino you're crazy

jokerdino

15:43

Thanks. a bit of relief.

allquixotic

it hasn't even been released yet

not even for early adopters

jokerdino

yeah, i might have jumped a little too early.

allquixotic

won't Glass use Android anyway?

googleglass.SE would have enormous overlap between Android.SE, Unix.SE and SU if so

my intuition is that, since Glass is the first device of its kind, it will really suck and have lots of limitations, but the concept of it will swirl around silicon valley for a few years and then someone (Apple? Google themselves? Microsoft?) will polish it to something that your slightly tech-savvy mom will want to use

maybe Google Glass 2 or 3 will be good, or Microsoft Window Pane or Apple iEyes will be good

jokerdino

Augmented reality from Yahoo.

Tanner

I just hope it doesn't flop and we end up waiting another decade before somebody will try again...

Oliver Salzburg

16:34

@allquixotic I'm hoping they'll actually name theirs eyePhone

The selection of nasty screencaps is extensive! Nice!

Too easy :P

allquixotic

16:48

GOD DAMN IT!

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Link?

allquixotic

11

Q: Why does Linux still use Tar?

I know that tar was made for tape archives back in the day, but what's the point now? Modern compression standards can handle multiple files, so all it does it waste time in having to decompress it?

linux compatibility tar standards

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Heh, I was thinking about closing that one myself :D

allquixotic

yeah, let's close a general question with good explanatory answers

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Just formulate a similar question that isn't NC and post it as a self-answer

allquixotic

16:51

that question sucks but it could just be edited to be more specific -- the OP doesn't really know what he's talking about but the answers really do

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic True

So edit the question and flag for reopen

Tanner

Ya

> but what's the point now? Modern compression standards can handle multiple files, so all it does it waste time in having to decompress it?

Remove all that and add in something else :P

Oliver Salzburg

The whole "Linux uses tar" part is just bad

That's like asking "Why does Windows still use WinZIP?"

Tanner

Good point.

> I know that tar was made for tape archives back in the day

There's the good bit :P

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah

So, in my mind, the question boils down to "This tool that was written a long time ago still exists, why?"

Rudá Almeida

16:55

@Tanner, I've found out (part of) the answer to my own question you had set a bounty on: superuser.com/questions/561268/…

Tanner

@RudáAlmeida ah good =D

Rudá Almeida

@Tanner There are 3 0-voted answers, including my own. What happens to the bounty in this case?

Oliver Salzburg

I could accept something like "What is the advantage of using 'tar' today?"

Rudá Almeida

Not that I cares about bountises... No my precious.... Me not wants nasty bountises....

Tanner

already awarded it :P

Rudá Almeida

16:58

@Tanner Whee.... @Tanner is a good master, yes, gollum gollum

allquixotic

12

Q: Why does Linux still use Tar?

I know that tar was made for tape archives back in the day, but today we have archive file formats that both aggregate files and perform compression within the same logical file format. Questions: Is there a performance penalty during the aggregation/compression/decompression stages for using ...

linux compatibility tar standards

Tanner

haha

allquixotic

and flagged

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Yeah, I got your "an edit has been made to this post" :P

Tanner

Is saying "RAID array" redundant?

...Is saying redundant array of independent disks redundant? nvm.

allquixotic

17:09

0

A: What is the advantage of using 'tar' today?

Part 1: Performance Here is a comparison of two separate workflows and what they do. You have a file on disk blah.tar.gz which is, say, 1 GB of gzip-compressed data which, when uncompressed, occupies 2 GB (so a compression ratio of 50%). The way that you would create this, if you were to do ar...

Jesus Christ I went overboard... hopefully that's a canonical enough answer though

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Y U NO use 4 space indent for code?

allquixotic

@Tanner I have a redundant, independent RAID disk array

4

@OliverSalzburg edit plz <3

Tanner

In any case, I just learned that we have 28 sets of RAID5 in our iSeries.

Does that... sound weird to anyone else?

allquixotic

@Tanner Yes. Permission to bang your head on the wall is granted.

Tanner

Thank you.

Oliver Salzburg

17:11

@allquixotic Done.

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg thankies :D

Oliver Salzburg

I like those blocks slightly better, the full-width background often provides additional structure to the post IMHO

allquixotic

I think the original OP poster (I like this redundant acronym thing!!!) was thinking of my "Way 1" and complaining about that

Oliver Salzburg

lol

Tanner

Your answer is already starting to percolate. I wonder if it will go above Kruug's?

Rudá Almeida

17:15

@allquixotic We should create a 3-letter TLA acronym for it!

allquixotic

it's kind of an amalgamation of other answers, but the main thing I contributed new that isn't already there previously in the existing posts (I'm being very intentionally and deliberately redundant now) is Part 1 about Performance

@RudáAlmeida maybe we could call it Redundant REA Expansion of Acroynms

Akshay

hi

can anyone out here guide me in c#

2

?

allquixotic

no
(but if you have a SPECIFIC question, you can ask it)

Tanner

@Akshay mit.edu

Rudá Almeida

@Akshay if you have a SPECIFIC question, you can ask it on Stack Overflow.

Akshay

17:18

I want to use the MS Excel inbuilt functions in my c#.net project

allquixotic

@Akshay That's nice. I've done that before. It works. Next!

Akshay

like the solver function the graph function and show the graphs in the c# forms

how can i do that so?

Rudá Almeida

@Akshay ...ask it on Stack Overflow?

allquixotic

Hmm.... interesting approach.

Akshay

0

Q: How to use MS Excel inbuilt functions in a c#.net application?

I m building a portfolio management software using c#.net i need to analyze financial data of more than 10 years historical data of 25 companies i am doing the same using the MS Excel inbuild functions of variance, standard deviation and PV,Fv and many others I have feeded the large amount of dat...

c# excel yahoo-finance

chk this

no ansers since long time i mean months

allquixotic

17:20

@Akshay Do you know anything at all about the Excel Automation API? Have you successfully set up the .NET Office automation bindings?

I don't know how far you've gotten or what you've successfully done so far, so I don't know where to start.

Akshay

can u help me with using solver functions through my C3.net applications interface

allquixotic

@Akshay So what you'll need to do is to instantiate a new instance of the Excel.Application in the background; hide it from the user so they don't see it by setting Visible property to False; insert your worksheet function formulas into cells using the Range API; then get the value out using the Value property.

If you don't know how to do that, then you need to answer the questions I asked above before I can give you any more help.

Akshay

okay

allquixotic

0

Q: How do I get the cell value from a formula in Excel using VBA?

I have a formula in a range of cells in a worksheet which evaluate to numerical values. How do I get the numerical values in VBA from a range passed into a function? Let's say the first 10 rows of column A in a worksheet contain rand() and I am passing that as an argument to my function... pub...

vba excel-2003

Akshay

thanx for this help ill try something and get back

allquixotic

17:25

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Q: C# and Excel interop

Hey guys. One of my users is having an issue when trying to open an Excel file through my C# app. Everything works ok when I run it from my machine and it works for other users. I am no Excel interop expert so hopefully you guys can help me out. Here is how it is setup: I added a reference to...

c# excel interop

Akshay

ll check

allquixotic

Okay, now that I've done my civic duty for the day both in rescuing a malformed question, providing a nice answer to it, and helping a random person with C#, it's time to do things that I need to do in order to keep my job.

back later

Akshay

@allquixotic thank you so much thats really nice of u

Stack Exchange

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Q: Multiple edits accepted?

I recently attempted to edit this ansewer made by user207162. To my annoyance I found I could not. I was reviewing him because it was his first post and was almost forced to click no action needed due to the fact that I could not edit. Why aren't multiple edit suggestions allowed. When doing this...

discussion feature-request

Oliver Salzburg

18:00

- octodex.github.com/images/nyantocat.gif

That is intense!

Enough of that

BloodPhilia

18:23

Ordered a RPI Model B! Thoughts anyone?

jokerdino

make it serve beer.

BloodPhilia

@jokerdino That would be rather awesome, wouldn't it?

jokerdino

yep.

i would give you some wookie jesus poster for it.

BloodPhilia

I should make it brew it first

Oliver Salzburg

18:55

@BloodPhilia My thoughts are, hopefully mine arrives before yours :D

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