The Comms Room

10:00 PM

@WesleyDavid Just a single GTX 780 overclocked to about 116% for the moment, it can do SLI but I don't need it with my normal monitor

Cole

@Chopper3 so jealous. I need to put my stuff in a new case

Adrian

@voretaq7 Regarding that train post you made earlier, the trains here do that with a several of cameras on each car and door status sensors.

Chopper3

@Cole got back from the hospital (oh look, 10 hours ago, I can see from the star wall) - so it's taken about 9 hours in total - went with Windows 8 - pleased I did in the end

Cole

@Chopper3 just put Windows 8 on my desktop as well

I'm really starting to like it

Chris S

@Chopper3 Only one video card? No SLI?

Chopper3

10:06 PM

@ChrisS it is a 780

@Cole I did it for 8.1 really

Cole

8.1 looks like it should help

coming out soon

Chris S

I guess I'm not "up" with nVidia cards...

Cole

@ChrisS super mega awesome beastly card

newest one I believe

That had to cost a good $500-$600, no?

voretaq7

@Adrian door status sensors have a dead zone wide enough to hold on to a purse strap

Chris S

@Cole There's no card that could compete with a quad-SLI setup of the right "inferior" cards.

Jacob

10:08 PM

@Cole 650

voretaq7

@Adrian and we have platform cameras already at some stations because you can't see around the curve - and that's with a guy in the middle car :)

WesleyDavid

Ergh, loading storage drivers into the RedHat installation process is a total folding chair to the head.

voretaq7

the RedHat installation process is a total folding chair to the head <--- FTFY

Adrian

@voretaq7 The entire system here is only 4-5 years old. The cars can't be more than 7-8 years old since it hasn't been that long since the vote authorizing the building of the system.

voretaq7

@Adrian the system here is... um... 109 years old, give or take :)

Cole

10:09 PM

@ChrisS I'm too lazy to SLI

Adrian

@voretaq7 Yes. And you guys should really retire those steam engines too.

voretaq7

AND YOU'RE NOT GETTING A NEW ONE SO YOU SHOULD STOP TREATING THIS ONE LIKE SHIT!

Chopper3

@Cole £550

WesleyDavid

@Chopper3 Nice card! I do prefer Nvidia. I had two GTX 465s a while back, and then two AMD HD6770s. The AMD ones were hot and loud. Decent performance, sure.

Chopper3

@WesleyDavid I like the extra physx stuff you get with nvidia

Cole

10:10 PM

@Chopper3 so jealy

I have a 550 Ti

voretaq7

Matt Bear

@voretaq7 thats so cool

I like trains

voretaq7

@Adrian There's nothing wrong with that car. It still runs. (on special trips. Occupancy not permitted in tunnels)

Matt Bear

and turtles

voretaq7

(and yes, it's made of wood.)

Matt Bear

10:16 PM

@voretaq7 its cool lol

voretaq7

@MattBear that particular set is somewhere between 106 and 110 years old.

Matt Bear

@voretaq7 new york?

voretaq7

@MattBear yup

Matt Bear

@voretaq7 ever been to Hong Kong?

the metro system there is a thing of beauty

voretaq7

They usually break out the other antiques for regular passenger service over the holidays

@MattBear nope

Matt Bear

10:20 PM

I did a study abroad over there for my last business classes, it was so cheap and efficient, getting a car would of been stupid

voretaq7

"*Vintage service is subject to equipment availability and favorable weather."
Translation: "This shit is about 90 years old and the yard spends a good 2-3 months every year making sure it's still in operational condition. We're SO not taking it out in the rain."

Matt Bear

how well does the NY system work?

voretaq7

@MattBear Considering the fact that major portions of it at 90-100 years old? Remarkably well.

Matt Bear

@voretaq7 whats your average wait?

voretaq7

@MattBear to get on a train? Depends on time of day

Matt Bear

10:22 PM

@voretaq7 rush hour

voretaq7

@MattBear 5-7 minutes between trains.

Matt Bear

@voretaq7 about the same then

voretaq7

(for a trunk line)

if you're waiting at a terminal or something I think they dispatch every 10-15 minutes

Adrian

@Ward And how is my fellow Cascadian this fine afternoon?

voretaq7

@MattBear The MTA ~~fiction department~~ RTO publishes subway timetables

ewwhite

10:25 PM

@voretaq7 Envious of your subway system.

Michael Hampton

The MTA has timetables? I thought they just ran randomly.

voretaq7

@ewwhite I wish I still lived in NYC :/

@MichaelHampton nope. There's a master schedule too.

ewwhite

@voretaq7 you CAN... we have a job for you!

Matt Bear

@voretaq7 hong kong has been my only expierence with a subway system, if I lived there I probably wouldnt have a car lol

voretaq7

@ewwhite would you pay me enough to afford a manhattan apartment? :P

Matt Bear

10:26 PM

of course the roads are just insane

Ward

@Adrian Just sitting around, watching someone get pumped full of toxic drugs...

voretaq7

(and all the other expensive shit I like - cuz I make enough to afford a Manhattan apartment but it would mean giving up other stuff)

ewwhite

@voretaq7 average rent in mannahatta is $3200/mo.

voretaq7

@ewwhite rent?

Adrian

@Ward Ugh. =(

Ward

10:27 PM

@MattBear God, trying to drive in HK would be awful.

voretaq7

I purchase my domicile thankyouverymuch

Matt Bear

@ewwhite shiiiitt, thats more then this cowboy makes!

voretaq7

A man's home is his...shares in a holding corporation that owns the building!

Matt Bear

@Ward the taxi drivers were nuts

Ward

Yeah, the MTR is awesome.

voretaq7

10:28 PM

@Ward Hong Kong, or Hell's Kitchen? (either way I guess it applies)

WesleyDavid

@Ward Militant Turkey Rustlers?

Matt Bear

though seeing Skylines, and the new diesel mercedes was cool

ewwhite

@voretaq7 well, it'll be $800k-$1.2 million for you!

Ward

And, unlike most places, they were smart enough to give the MTR a bunch of land around each station so the subway is sustainably funded by the real estate.

voretaq7

@ewwhite that sounds about right. For a cardboard box next to a subway station with broadband connectivity, right? :)

@Ward NYCT is funded by "well it's this or a taxi."

Ward

10:29 PM

Subways in St. Petersburg were cool, some of the stations seemed to be 1/2 mile underground, the escalators went on forever.

Adrian

@Ward Built to double as bomb shelters in the '40s, right?

Matt Bear

travel.cnn.com/explorations/life/10-best-metro-systems-746919

ewwhite

What $2,000/Month Can Rent You Around New York City

Ward

@Adrian Moscow's were, not sure about St. Pete... probably

voretaq7

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Adrian

10:31 PM

@ewwhite Which is 50% more than the mortgage on a 1.5 story, 1000 ft^2 Cape Cod on the outskirts of the city on an 1/8th acre lot.

Ward

One cool thing in Moscow I've never seen anywhere else... the fare gates are open most of the time, if you don't put in the card or ticket to show you paid, they slam shut in front of you.

Matt Bear

$2000 a month in Fresno lol

fresno.craigslist.org/apa/3853854286.html

Adrian

A 2000ft^2 home in this neighborhood with a view would be about $2000/mo.

Matt Bear

visalia.craigslist.org/apa/3794758623.html

84104

I dislike (i.e. I am on quite the verbal blue streak right now) interoperability problems.

Why can't we all just go back to sticks and clay tablets?

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Matt Bear

10:34 PM

3500 sq ft, 5+ bedrooms, 2000 a month

voretaq7

@84104 My chisel doesn't work!

84104

@voretaq7 You have to take it out of your butt before using it.

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Ryan Ries

@MDMarra Well, there's no denying that I can still run ipconfig/registerdns when the DHCP Client service is stopped, but I cannot run ipconfig/registerdns when the DNS Client service is stopped. However, I find it strange that when I run ipconfig/registerdns, the DHCP Client service still calls a function named DnsDhcpRegisterInit in DNSAPI.dll. Maybe that's vestigial. Or maybe there's something deeper going on.

ewwhite

Do you guys like your Outlook Reading Pane to the right or below?

Cole

the right

ewwhite

10:47 PM

I've been doing right for a few weeks...

but think I'm going back to below..

I prefer the bottom.

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Ryan Ries

I had heard that about you

ewwhite

I feel like I can see more information that way.

Cole

I prefer to bottom FTFY

ewwhite

@Cole oh lord.

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite O*****k? Watch your language!

Cole

10:48 PM

@MichaelHampton well its not like her said the N word

Ryan Ries

I'd never though about putting the reading pane on the bottom. I'll give it a try.

Cole

Notes

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton I mean, alpine... er.. mutt... or Eudora.

Ward

@ewwhite ALPINE! Yay! I still use it...

ewwhite

@Ward Never!!!

Ward

10:51 PM

And all my terminals are set to green characters on a black background!

ewwhite

whoa :)

Nathan C

Ooh.

So, skype ...anyone have it freeze when video calling someone?

i can hear them and my camera works ...but it's locked up lol

Jacob

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Nathan C

@Jacob Why yes, yes i did

And it worked ...

Jacob

My job here is complete

biab

Ward

11:16 PM

Classic Robotman!

WesleyDavid

11:48 PM

@Adrian So there's a certain forum that I'm a moderator of, along with two others, and one of the three of us is planning on moving away from the canned CMS and building one from scratch. Guess what framework he's doing it on? RoR. So mayhaps I'll move to Ruby since that what it seems like all the cool kids are doing. puts away Python trucker hat

@MichaelHampton Will be happy!

Michael Hampton

Don't piss me off.

Adrian

@WesleyDavid Yeah, don't be a Brogrammer dude. Ain't Nobody Got Time For That.

Michael Hampton

(I wasn't referring to @WesleyDavid)

WesleyDavid

@Adrian It's too late: thenubbyadmin.com/2012/07/05/…

Michael Hampton

you're right, I apologise (after a few hours with the same error it gets extremely stressfull!). You did provide the right answer and it now works, thank you! — rusty009 40 secs ago

WesleyDavid

11:49 PM

And my brogrammer number has risen since that blog post, I think.

@MichaelHampton nowkiss.jpg

Michael Hampton

And, honestly, I would see more Rails devops projects unleashed on the world than more PHP trainwrecks.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton Might be a little hope for that one. I think we can mark this one a success.

@MichaelHampton Yes, especially since I was the engineer behind one particular train wreck. Glad I threw that abomination out years ago as it wouldn't stand up to today's continuous automated attack algorithms.

Nathan C

So I decided i wanted to try Windows' speech recognition since i got a webcam with a microphone

yeah...no.

Michael Hampton

Windows has speech recognition?

WesleyDavid

@MichaelHampton Dude, it's awesome.

It's almost as good as Dragon.

Since Vista.

Probably one of the most underrated features of Windows.

Michael Hampton

11:55 PM