Root Access

allquixotic

14:00

unfortunately :( :( :( there's still no UEFI GOP; the only UEFI GOP I was able to find was for an ASUS card, and I don't know if it's a reference design or not :S the VGABIOS ROM download from techreport.com has obviously binary data between offsets 0x10000 ~ 0x20000, which is the indicator of having a GOP, whereas if it's zeroes or FFs, it's not got a GOP

HackToHell

And now time to reboot and resize my ext4 partition (fingers crossed)

Journeyman Geek

1

A: Best PDF editor for Ubuntu

The absolute best PDF software that I've found for Linux is PDF Studio 8 Pro. It truly is the equivalent of Adobe Acrobat Pro. It's rich with features, and I challenge anyone to find a better PDF Viewer/Editor for Linux. I have it on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop, and wouldn't use anything else! Ta...

this is setting off my ~~spider~~ spammer sense

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek you're right

also, 16 flagged posts & 19 suggested edits, wtf?

Journeyman Geek

lol

I cleared out about 20, @kalina has been doing tag edits

Sathya

dude @kalina slow the fuck down

Journeyman Geek

14:09

flags, well not my department ;p

Sathya

don't wipe out the home page

kalina

@Sathya tag edits don't destroy the front page!

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: tags won't wipe out the front page

kalina

so chill out :P

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek retags do

Journeyman Geek

14:10

these arn't retags

least the ones I approved

kalina

@Sathya I haven't submitted enough retags fast enough to flood the front page

Sathya

allquixotic

editors are like windshield wipers; they're helpful when it rains, but annoying as hell when it isn't raining

Journeyman Geek

she just edited all the tags to say not to use them

kalina

she -.-

Journeyman Geek

14:11

@kalina: sorry about that

XD

kalina

happens

allquixotic

nice rep on arqade ;p

kalina

it's hardly Raven's rep :P

I get my first yearling badge soon though

Journeyman Geek

XD

I think I have three here

allquixotic

i've been playing dungeon defenders and stardrive lately

i love getting power leveled as a lowbie in a nightmare game in dungeon defenders :D

Journeyman Geek

14:12

currently playing plants vs zombies on my tablet ;p

allquixotic

i have one "Popular Question" silver badge on arqade, that's about it

kalina

@JourneymanGeek I haven't been around on SE in general for a year yet, and Arqade was the first site I signed up to :p

Sathya

0

Q: How do I invite people to a chat room in Thunderbird?

Following instructions from this SuperUser post: Chat room in Thunderbird with Google Chat I created a chat room in Thunderbird using my Google Talk account. How can I invite people to this chat room? I've looked all around for an invite option but haven't found anything.

thunderbird as a chat client?

allquixotic

@Sathya you may as well go back to the old Mozilla Suite ;p

Sathya

hah

allquixotic

14:14

remember the good old days when your mail client, IRC client, calendar and browser were in-process?

four fairly unrelated programs btw

i think there was an even an extension that did music playing in process

because having everything in the same VAS is great; nobody ever writes code that writes past the bounds of an array and crashes the process. ever.

2

Hennes

I remeber when nethack used to interupt me with 'you have new mail'

Tanner

@allquixotic Lotus Notes: Living in the past!

Hennes

The mailer deamon char was &

allquixotic

@Tanner Lotus Notes: because nobody will ever need more than 2GB of VAS, so why not have the entire userspace in one process

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

14:18

now we have Chrome with many subprocesses just for web browsing, whereas in the late 90s / early 2000s it was in vogue to have a lot of different things in the same process; c.f. Windows Explorer, KDE Parts, etc etc

I mean...

if you have tons of stuff in-process, IPC between components is extremely cheap and doesn't involve a context switch and the scheduler doesn't have to balance more processes... BUT...

first of all, IPC is pretty decent these days, and second, the security issues of stuff being in-process are just mind boggling, and third, you can easily run out of VAS if you're running 32-bit processes

I really wish more of Windows userspace started being 64-bit, but the compatibility provides virtually no incentive to go 64-bit, especially with third party programs

then there are annoying things like the XNA Framework being 32-bit only

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya They've added that a while back

Sathya

@OliverSalzburg I haven't looked at Thunderbird.. since eternity

allquixotic

4

Q: Out-of-process memory heap to work around 32-bit address space

Problem: A large-scale simulation game has a ridiculous number of distinct objects which have to be tracked, updated, and used for both visual rendering and for logical model updating. With only 4 GB of address space, you can only fit so many things into memory. If you resort to disk, things star...

c++ winapi ipc outofmemoryerror

;x

was thinking of something like char *arr = externalmalloc(2^33); //I allocated more than 32 bits of memory and didn't go OOM! where externalmalloc() actually goes out to a child 64-bit process, allocates the memory block, and transparently stores a mere handle to the IPC mechanism in the local pointer

Bob

@allquixotic The third point annoys me.

Otherwise, I like Firefox.

@allquixotic Easy enough to do now :P

allquixotic

I bet C++ could do something like that, as long as you don't expect to dereference the pointer to get to the memory block; if you use array accessors, you can overload operator[] for the pointer

HackToHell

14:26

hmm scarygliders.net/2011/10/28/…

Bob

@allquixotic btw, I think you might be misusing a phrase :P

Begging the question

Begging the question (Latin petitio principii, "assuming the initial point") is a type of informal fallacy in which an implicit premise would directly entail the conclusion. Begging the question is one of the classic informal fallacies in Aristotle's Prior Analytics. Some modern authors consider begging the question to be a species of circulus in probando (Latin, "circle in proving") or circular reasoning. Were it not begging the question, the missing premise would render the argument viciously circular, and while never persuasive, arguments of the form "A therefore A" are logically valid ...

@allquixotic Programs that need to do that are rare enough that I doubt there's a general IPC mechanism optimised for it...

allquixotic

@Bob I don't think those programs are "rare" at all

almost every game that doubles as a simulation (Skyrim, Stardrive, SimCity, etc etc) could benefit from it, because simulations, by their nature, use a sprawling amount of either memory or disk space; if they use disk space, FPS becomes untenable; if they use memory, they run out of 32-bit VAS

Bob

@allquixotic And most could probably just have a native 64-bit binary

Journeyman Geek

amusingly, minecraft does

Hennes

FPS devs have wanted 64 bit space for years (or so they claim in interviews)

allquixotic

14:33

if they ship a 64-bit binary, which nobody ever does, it would be great; but the main thing keeping them from shipping 64-bit binaries is that they depend on third-party middleware (for lip syncing, skeletal musculature simulation, advanced shaders, realistic foliage, or the engine itself e.g. XNA), which is 32-bit only

Hennes

Maps are nmapped and often trimmed down to only 2 GB (and 'loading next level') before releases

allquixotic

so basically they'd have to invent/write their own methods for all those things where they have 32-bit only binaries, and some of those things are patented so that they couldn't get the same result on their own

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya Well, they did add it an eternity ago ;D

allquixotic

there's simply no argument for not using 64-bit binaries anymore, yet 99% of game middleware is 32-bit only

Hennes

Meanwhile in another universe:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/3404432/creditcardgegevens-nederlandse-klanten-thomas-cook-gestolen.html
Summary: Credit card stuff is stolen. (so we KNOW it was not secured properly)
Press officer: We are convinced that is was and still is safe.

Daniel Beck

14:35

Firefox 20.0 is 'a security and stability update'? I mean, their versioning scheme is ridiculous, but come on.

Hennes

I can guess 'we ASSUMED it was safe', but ....

Bob

I vaguely recall a couple of games with a 64-bit binary

allquixotic

@Bob Hellgate: London was one, but it flopped

Bob

@DanielBeck 20.0.1

allquixotic

it was basically the poster child for 64-bit gaming IIRC

Hennes

14:36

Ffox 20 is twice as good as IE 10. ;-)

Bob

@allquixotic No, I'm pretty sure it was some AAA

@Hennes IE10 is actually decent..

IE9 crashes

Hennes

Sadly I am joking, but I am not sure how many consumer do just go for the highest number

Bob

IE10 is still a little laggy, but no crashes yet

Hennes

I never used IE.

Daniel Beck

allquixotic

14:37

I can't think of any AAA in recent years that ships a 64-bit binary; unless it's completely platform-independent / open source and can therefore be compiled to 64-bit

minecraft, for example, its only 32-bit native components are open source dependencies that can be recompiled for 64-bit

Bob

@allquixotic yea, I can't really remember

Hennes

IE has the disadvantage of being different from my normal browser.
and it did not use to be stable in the past (IE 3 times) nor did it work on most computers (I ran a lot of non windows stuff).
That does not mean it did not improve, or that it is not good after all these years, but neither do I see a reason to switch to another browser

allquixotic

IE 10 is about as fast as Firefox, meaning, still a long way behind Chrome

Bob

@allquixotic Crysis apparently had a 64-bit version

allquixotic

of course, every web browser will have certain microbenchmarks that make it look hugely faster than competitors

Bob

14:39

@allquixotic Funny enough, I get the opposite ;)

allquixotic

but in general use cases I didn't find IE 10 to be any faster than Firefox, and way slower than Chrome

@Bob aren't you the guy with 2^128 tabs open at a time though?

Bob

@allquixotic 1027 right now

allquixotic

you have enough tabs open that finding the right one is cryptographically hard

Bob

...with 1027 tabs open, Firefox is still faster than vanilla Chrome

Sathya

@OliverSalzburg :P :D

Bob

14:41

:S

Chrome just hates my computers. I guess.

allquixotic

"my public key is: " + foreach(tab : tabs) tmp = tmp + tab.name

@Bob could also be that your graphics driver / hardware makes Chrome go into software mode, or it goes into hardware mode but would be faster in software mode

really depends on the hardware and whether software rendering or hw rendering is faster, and whether chrome detects the faster of the two correctly

Bob

@allquixotic That's a pretty funny mix then.

I mean, I have one machine on Nvidia (GTX560)

And one on Intel HD/ATI Radeon HD.

That covers just abotu all the major ones.

If Chrome can't optimise for that, well...

allquixotic

at work, I have a Nvidia NVS 300, which is a very low end card based on the last generation of Nvidia GPU prior to Fermi, with drivers from 2010, and Chrome with all GPU hardware acceleration features enabled is fantastically faster than any other browser I have access to

speaking of, I also realized that WPF is fantastically faster than GDI, even though WPF uses Direct3D, which you would think would be heavy weight and slow

Bob

:\

allquixotic

no idea how a driver from 2010 on an old GPU is so blazingly fast when using the 3d pipeline for 2d ops

Bob

14:44

All flags are on default

@allquixotic I still haven't bothered to learn WPF development

allquixotic

@Bob WPF is pretty difficult :/

Bob

@allquixotic Not just the difficulty - I actually prefer the default WinForms look.

Why go to the extra work of getting WPF to look like it?

allquixotic

I just hate that Microsoft tries to force XAML down your throat, even though you can write perfectly good WPF using pure C#

Bob

Ah. XAML.

allquixotic

I like the functionality and performance and look of WPF, but coding it up using the visual designer gives you XAML, and it's sucky

Bob

14:46

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

that about sums up my first experience with XAML

allquixotic

the visual designer should have "generate C# plz" checkbox

I can't figure out how to get a WPF DataGrid to automatically provide the "new row" row like the DataGridView in WinForms

it just provides 0 rows by default and I think I have to add a "New Row" button that the user can click and programmatically insert a row, which sucks

Stack Exchange

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Q: Why aren't spam and offensive answers simply deleted from the database?

Given the recent spate of spam by a, let us say "disgruntled" user, why is it that the account is deleted but the deleted questions/answers still remain visible on the site (to those with the necessary rep of course)? While Qs/As deleted for other reasons can be retained I guess, is there a good...

feature-request

Bob

@allquixotic keep a blank element in whatever it's bound to?

though that's kinda stupid

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic GDI is 100% software, Direct3D is only an API to hardware features

Bob

15:09

> Direct2D and GDI are both immediate mode 2D rendering APIs and both offer some degree of hardware acceleration.

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg no, GDI is not 100% software, at least not as of Windows 7

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/…

GDI uses the GPU to operate on data stored in system memory and copied to video memory when dirty

Direct2D / Direct3D / etc. use the GPU to operate on data stored in video memory exclusively, which is more efficient, but the fact remains that GDI's operations are accelerated by the GPU

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah but that only refers to composition as far as I'm aware

It's not like if I would draw a line into a bitmap that that would somehow run through D3D

Bob

> More importantly, GDI's rendering does not map easily to 3D operations, and a modern GPU renders most efficiently on the 3D portion of its rendering engine. For example, Direct2D's aliased lines are designed to be implemented simply as two triangles rendered on the GPU, whereas GDI uses Bresenham's line drawing algorithm.

allquixotic

> For example, text rendering, BitBlts, AlphaBlend, TransparentBlt, and StretchBlt are all accelerated in these cases.

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Exactly

But GDI is a lot more than blitting :P

allquixotic

15:12

modern GPU drivers for several years don't even use the GPU's 2D ring; they use the 3D ring exclusively even for 2D operations because it is faster, they will probably phase out 2D rings entirely in the next gen hardware

basically almost anything is done as a 3D hardware-accelerated operation of some sort, unless you do application-side manual software rendering like drawing pixels on a canvas

Bob

@allquixotic whoops

wtf

in Mathematics, 1 min ago, by MJD

shobon: I enjoyed your answer to the recent question about a square whose digits add to 2011.

why the heck did that get flagged?

allquixotic

a lot of things get flagged in the Mathematics chat that aren't remotely offensive

kalina

@Bob because: Mathematics

Bob

:\

kalina

in The Bridge, 57 secs ago, by kalina

I think if somebody has 5 flags invalidated it should ban them

Journeyman Geek

15:15

lol

actually that makes sense

kalina

yes it does

it means Mathematics would be constantly banned, but c'est la vie

Journeyman Geek

beats going into a room and very politely chewing people out

kalina

I don't do that very often, in fact you were there the first time I ever entered another channel because of a flag, @JourneymanGeek

(yesterday)

Journeyman Geek

lol

ELU?

kalina

yeah

well, one of the language channels

Journeyman Geek

15:17

yeah, I hang out there occationally

cause the AU guys invaded it, and ELU is sometimes amusing

kalina

I generally avoid telling other channels how to apply their own rules, the Bridge is very relaxed in terms of how we apply the rules

Journeyman Geek

well, as a 10K+ user, I do have to deal with this tho ;p

(and flags, more often than not are invalid in this context)

kalina

I've never seen a valid flag come out of the mathematics channel

Journeyman Geek

lol

I can say the same of the bridge

(or anywhere else)

kalina

a lot of our flags are stupid flags, we do have some valid one though!

Journeyman Geek

15:23

the one time I was tempted to slag someone, it was someone obviously delusional, convinced that the mods hated him and there was some secret cabal downvoting him ;p

Hennes

Speaking about math and flags:
|--------------
| P = True  |
|--------------
| P -> Q
Q

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

@Hennes modus ponens!

Hennes

I think I did that wrong. THe Q needs to be inside the flag

Journeyman Geek

lol

Hennes

15:24

Been ages since I used flags like that

Journeyman Geek

+--------------+
| P = True     |
| P -> Q       |
| Q            |
+--------------+
|
|
|
|
|

like that?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek which one was that?

we've had a couple...

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Pat?

also got banned from SF for the same crap

heya @BenRichards

(almost typed in sidran32 ;p)

kalina

@JourneymanGeek god we have so many repwhores on gaming

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ohhhhhhhhh

kalina

15:28

you downvote any of them and they come in chat with their "ZOMG pls stop downvoting me!"

Bob

so that's where I've seen that Gravatar before...

Journeyman Geek

@kalina: this guy was basically posting links to his program, and when we tried to tell him how to avoid getting bannzored, he blew up at people.

kalina

@JourneymanGeek those are my favourite kind of people

Journeyman Geek

he didn't have enough rep to repwhore

besides, I don't mind downvotes, as long as someone comments to why, and they are right

kalina

commenting why is not a requirement of downvoting

Journeyman Geek

15:30

nope

kalina

I will admit it's not friendly to new users to be on the receiving end

Journeyman Geek

but that means I learnt where I went wrong

Bob

I found you, @JourneymanGeek

2

Journeyman Geek

and learn something new

kalina

but there is a difference between politely asking and demanding

Journeyman Geek

15:30

@Bob: naw, ears are too small ;p

kalina

we have quite a few people who demand

Journeyman Geek

XD

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Your younger brother?

:P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: experiment X21789 I guess ;p

I mean, how would the average dog manage to use a computer, without the power of mad science?

kalina

assuming wolfram alpha's filters are correct, one would assume that dogs wouldn't be able to use a computer on account of not being able to distinguish the different on screen visual elements

Ben Richards

15:36

Hi and holy toledo, tons of messages!

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/04/the-rise-and-fall-of-amd-how-an-underdog-stuck-it-to-intel/
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/04/amd-on-ropes-from-the-top-of-the-mountain-to-the-deepest-valleys/

Great 2-parter there on the rise and fall of AMD.

allquixotic

@BenRichards as long as they continue to do bulk CMOS fab of small, price-competitive GPUs, I don't see AMD itself tanking, but they're going to become a purely GPU business pretty soon I'm afraid

also the huge wins with selling their GPUs to console manufacturers

the article should be more aptly titled "the rise and fall of AMD's CPU business"

Ben Richards

Great articles nonetheless :P

HackToHell

Time to install Arch Linux :O !

@BenRichards The story of how AMD was created is inspiring

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/… yay !

Ben Richards

@Bob So cute! Cannot look away!

HackToHell

whew, nearly wiped my windows drive with windows still running @_@

Hennes

15:50

Yay, first time I ever used regular expressions with grep.

Answering questions on SU is useful and a learning experience. :)

0

A: Regular expression to find senders IP using grep or other languages

I am pretty sure it can done better than this, but if I copy your example to a testfile and remove the markup (the extra 4 spaces at the start), then this works: >cat testfile | grep -E "[1-9]{1,3}\.[0-9}{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[1-9]{1,3}" | cut -d. -f1-4 Output of just the grep filters down to: 1...

Ben Richards

Regular expressions are fun. :P

Also, relevent:

Hennes

When you read the mails you will find that the email originated in the 192.168.0.0/24 range.

Ben Richards

Also relevent:

3

(That's from a recent episode of NCIS)

Hennes

What is NCIS?

kalina

@Hennes navy criminal investigative service

@BenRichards I saw this episode, made me laugh

Hennes

15:55

Ah, new series?

kalina

@Hennes 10 seasons in...

Hennes

Ok, so relative new. :)

Ben Richards

I've been watching NCIS for a long time, now. It's my favorite crime drama on TV. :)

HackToHell

NCIS is booring ;p

Ben Richards

Way better than CSI.

kalina

15:56

way better than CSI

Hennes

I do not often watch television. Too much advertising, no way to pause a broadcast when you have to go to the batchroom or answer the door

HackToHell

I prefer Supernatural :D

kalina

and better than its spinoff as well

Hennes

Bsically so last century. ;-)

kalina

not really sure NCIS LA is that great

still probably better than CSI though

Ben Richards

15:57

I love the technology bits too, because they keep relatively up to date with new tech, and their usage of it is relatively realistic, but very obviously played up to make it flashy for TV. And buzzwords. Like "I realized it was a stream because it uses the flash codec". It's facepalm worthy sometimes, but in a good way. :P

Tanner

@BenRichards oh god

kalina

all the NCIS shows are currently going through that "hey guys, Microsoft supplied us with a load of MS Surfaces, look at this kick stand" phase

Ben Richards

Or beating a hacker by mashing on a keyboard. :P

HackToHell

hmm there was a crime series that was real good, it was way better than NCIS/CSI, can;t remember it's name tho

Ben Richards

@kalina Yeah they are. I find that amusing :P

@HackToHell Well there's also Monk. ;P

kalina

15:58

@BenRichards they overdramatise that kick stand so much

HackToHell

@BenRichards Never heard of it :D

Ben Richards

@kalina It is amusing. But I can ignore it. :P

HackToHell

And i recently started watching Game of Thrones, sooo awesome !!

Ben Richards

@HackToHell Dude! Former cop now consulting detective for the police in Chicago, totally has a ton of phobias and OCD. It's pretty awesome. Like Sherlock Holmes, but way funnier. :P

It's on TBS.

Tanner

Anyone watch Archer? I love the episode with what amounts to a Dodge commercial xD

HackToHell

15:59

@BenRichards I think my dad watches that one (and no I have no idea what channel tbs is )

Ben Richards

@HackToHell Oh, USA, I mean :P

usanetwork.com/series/monk

Hennes

I ran into movie fans. on this channel.

Otoh, maybe I can use this.

Just who the heck is this Jean Luke Skywalker?

Was he in babylon 7 or Blake's 5 ?

HackToHell

And i have to watch Star Warz stuff

Ben Richards

There's also Castle (which is doubly awesome if you're a fan of Firefly/Serenity): beta.abc.go.com/shows/castle

Hennes

Beam me up Buck. Beediebeeidebeedie

HackToHell

16:02

@BenRichards Castle ♥♥♥

Reminds me of good old star world

I used to watch castle, dexter, two and a half men and friends once

Ben Richards

NCIS is the only one that is on my DVR, though. :P (And not that crappy NCIS:LA. I haven't bothered with that one.)

kalina

meh I run out of TV shows to watch

HackToHell

globalrichlist.com

kalina

as a result I have ~1.5tb of TV shows at the moment

HackToHell

Feel bad .....

Ben Richards

16:03

I mainly watch NCIS, comedy as I run into it (primarily Daily Show and Colbert, but also other stuff), and anime on Crunchyroll.

HackToHell

@kalina :O

kalina

granted about 200gb of that is every stargate episode and spinoff ever

HackToHell

/me wonders how people find time to watch serials

kalina

easy enough, I watch them back to back and suffer varying amounts of ADD so I skip between scenes picking out plot points

Ben Richards

Oh I finally got SDL to build in Cygwin (had to use g++-3 apparently b/c -mno-cygwin was deprecated in gcc4). But now I'm on my way to build Tetris again. :)

kalina

16:06

hour episode takes ~30 minutes to watch

HackToHell

And Arch does not show the progress of the download ~_~

Ben Richards

Right now, I used the tutorials to make a black window pop up that I can close. :P

HackToHell

@kalina I do that while studying at Coursera ;p

The prof there speaks too slowly :D

kalina

:p

HackToHell

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Window_Manager

whoa, there a lot of WMs

Ben Richards

16:12

I wonder if this is off-topic for SU:

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Q: How can I display an Android Screen on a computer monitor

I am using a mouse and keyboard with my Android phone, a Samsung Galaxy S3, but I want to use a monitor with it. Is there any way or any programs which allow me to display what is on the android screen on a monitor, or a laptop screen? If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comme...

laptop display android samsung

Hennes

I miss Ami WM on that list

HackToHell

@BenRichards weren't you sidran32 ?

Ben Richards

@HackToHell Yes.

HackToHell

ok ok

tempted to encrypt my entire arch linux install

HackToHell

16:30

finally gizmodo.com/5995258/…

it's based on PhysX tho

Ben Richards

Lunchtime!

HackToHell

Interesting onsoftware.en.softonic.com/…

2

allquixotic

16:50

@BenRichards > In 2009, AMD sold its Imageon mobile graphics unit to Qualcomm for a mere $65 million; Qualcomm soon managed to turned this tech into the Adreno GPUs included in its immensely popular Snapdragon processors.

ridiculous - Snapdragon is worth billions

not the least of which is because of its small, efficient GPU

HackToHell

17:01

Arch linux needs more mirrors :/

Hennes

Are you offering them one ? With plenty of bandwidth. ;-)

HackToHell

no ;p I am downloading at 10 kbps -_-

Hennes

At that speed it might be better to use a torrent.

Assuming they do official torrents.

HackToHell

I'm downloading individual packages using pacman

Something is wrong with NAT in VirtualBox

HackToHell

17:25

sigh virtualbox.org/ticket/3400 howtogeek.com/howto/4922/…

Ben Richards

@allquixotic Oh I know. I always said that in hindsight that was a very bad move, but they almost had no choice because AMD was bleeding cash and had to get something from somewhere in order to prevent going under.

Those guys used to work across the hall from me at the old ATI office. :P

@HackToHell I use a bridged adapter in VirtualBox for my CentOS VM to let me get it to work as a server that I can ssh into from the web (after connecting to my home network via VPN).

Works great. Still need to figure out how to have split tunneling with outgoing VPN connections from that VM though.

allquixotic

18:44

@BenRichards I ended up using WinForms after all; data binding in WPF is an unmitigated disaster

Brad Patton

Just want to call out what I think is a good first time answer to not that great of a question

0

Q: Force IE to use one process per tab

I've noticed that IE occasionally groups several tabs into one process. Unfortunately, this ends up being self-destructive as eventually all the 10-12 tabs I usually have open end up on just one or two processes, which rather defeats the purpose of a multi-process browser. My current "solution" ...

internet-explorer process tabs internet-explorer-10

The answer includes lots of research and detail and I ended up learning something

My answer would have just been use Chrome :)

allquixotic

always good to be helpful

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A: UTP Cat-6 low speeds

UTP = Unshielded Twisted Pair, right? It is possible that you are getting alien crosstalk, i.e. interference from EM spectrum emitted by other devices externally to the cable. In my experience, video cables (VGA, DVI, HDMI) like to do this if you lay them on top of an unshielded ethernet cable. ...

@BradPatton that's an informative answer for a first time poster...

that user has existed for 2 months though so he has been lurking for a while, maybe learning our rules

Brad Patton

seems like it

Ben Richards

20:11

@allquixotic Aha.

allquixotic

@BenRichards actually things are looking a lot better now that I'm using a typed DataSet

before i was just using the raw view values of the DataGridView

i still want the row being edited to resize accordingly (as well as its child edit control) when entering enough characters to make it wrap

Ben Richards

@allquixotic Ah. I've not used WPF before really (to any extent) so I'm not familiar with it so much. But I did play with Visual C++'s windowing capabilities. I don't think that's the same thing though :P

Not sure what VC++ uses

allquixotic

@BenRichards Visual C++? has nothing to do with .NET, that's for sure, unless you're using that weird C++.NET (which is deprecated)

the builtin VC++ toolkits are: ATL, MFC, and native Win32

in approximately decreasing order of amount of beard required to be able to use it

discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/…

Ben Richards

@allquixotic VC++.NET is deprecated? I seem to remember it just being new :o

allquixotic

Ben Richards

20:24

Ah, no kidding. It is. Probably used Win32.

My code is elsewhere so I can't look :P

Speaking of, when I get to it, I should start pushing my code projects onto github.

allquixotic

@BenRichards VC++.NET came around 2001-2002, claimed to support the best features of .NET and native programming (as well as allowing direct, mixed-mode programming in-process, so like, System.Windows.Forms and native pointers) but it was so complicated that nobody used it

Ben Richards

Aha.

allquixotic

also very easy to shoot yourself in the foot... for example by mangling the managed runtime's data structures

Ben Richards

I rarely do GUI stuff in native languages these days. Though it's fun, but most of my stuff that I do for work or anything else lives in CLI land.

Ah.

allquixotic

the safe way to mix managed and native code is to use well-tested bindings that use something like P/Invoke to do safe marshalling to native and back (of course, you can still crash if you hit a bug in the native code in-process, but good native code won't do that)

works well enough for Gtk# for instance... GTK+ 2.x for Mono/.NET

Hennes

20:52

Drat http://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/106101
1:1 rip from wikipedia

allquixotic

@BenRichards ducky? <3

having one hell of a time figuring out how to make a cell in a DataGridView automatically expand (height-wise) when the underlying TextBox editing control expands its height by wrapping

it works if you click off the row then go back, but not while typing

slhck

@devid Do not plagiarize content please. Even for tag wikis. Use Wikipedia if you must, but keep it minimal and quote it properly. Tag wikis should rather give pointers about how the tag is to be used on this site.

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