Software Recommendations

Braiam

21:01

it doesn't have active flags or close votes?

<--- poor mortal can't see close votes

Undo

@Braiam this? One too broad close vote is all.

Caleb

@Braiam You mean flash without McAffee?

Braiam

@Caleb ain't both the same? ;)

3ventic

No?

Caleb

@Undo I think Gilles suggested waiting for that whole question to die, but I would have nuked that answer already and left the question for a while to see it he is really interested in it.

@Braiam No. Same ilk, different vendor. They have some partnership going on to cross bundle apps.

Izzy

21:04

@Braiam Wasn't there Gnash (or whatsitcalled)?

Braiam

@Izzy yeah, I pointed it out ;)

Caleb

@Braiam It has my VtC. Techncially there isn't anything to flag. "close this" is not a flag reason.

@Undo My VtC is new. If you aren't sure what you think of the question, my VtC will have put it in the review queue and we can hope some will agree with me.

Undo

I think something needs to happen to the question.

But not sure what.

Actually, I should probably close it but I'm still afraid I'll smash my thumb with this hammer :P

Braiam

@Gilles any idea? ^

wait, lets wait for response to caleb's comment...

Undo

We're going to need quite a bit more information - it would be great if you could add info like what platform (OS) it needs to run on, where the ISO's come from, etc. What does the software need to do? What would be nice for it to be able to do, but not strictly required? — Undo 42 secs ago

^ FGITW'ing the bad questions!

Braiam

21:11

mm... that last game Q... might be good

Caleb

@Undo It takes a while (and a few meta-callouts) before you get comfortable with it. It's a big hammer to have glued to your hand all the time. But don't be afraid to use your best judgment and go with it too. Almost everything can be reverted and people won't hesitate to tell you when you've had a lapse of judgement (they will do that all the time, the trick is figuring out when they are right, but that's what the rest of us are here to help you with).

Undo

Yeah, true

Braiam

> they will do that all the time, the trick is figuring out when they are right, or when you should tell them to shut up

Caleb

@Undo Good comment. Now ... do you think that question is ready to have answers start rolling in?

Undo

@Caleb No. So I should thump/close it, right?

Seth

21:14

If it's unclear, DON'T WAIT

jumps in with no context

Yep. Unclear.

Braiam

congratulates @Seth for saying something useful with no context

Undo

okay, boom

Seth

@Braiam Thanks :D

At least being right prevents me from being slapped with a wet trout :P

Caleb

@Undo if (no) then close(impunity, haste); else answer()

Undo

now that I can understand :D

Seth

21:16

lol

Caleb

@Undo < 10 minutes. Not a bad start.

Undo

I got called out on another question for closing it in under ten minutes :P

Braiam

@Undo slap them with some trout...

Caleb

Wax Eagle and I (on Christianity) have gotten error messages for "can't close, this question is already closed) at below the 10 second mark because we both pounced on something from the new questions list. Sometimes you just KNOW something ain't right.

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Braiam

then tell them to fix their Q so you can reopen it

Caleb

21:19

@Braiam Yes, commenting with some suggestions on what it would take to re-open is pretty much a amust.

Undo

Oooh yay they edited!

Caleb

Speaking of, we have edit action.

-1

Q: Showing hidden files within mounted/unmounted .iso's

Sorry if this is in the wrong place. Just as the tittle says, how can I view hidden files within an iso?

Undo

still not perfect, though

Seth

enough that I removed my downvote anyhow.

Braiam

Hidden how? Using the hidden NTFS flag? On what filesystem? — Braiam 32 secs ago

Caleb

21:21

I'm going to clean up a bit

Seth

Since when was asking for websites ok?

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Q: Social network that allows following only particular tags or categories for a user?

Is there a social network where users can add tags or categories to their posts and when following a user you can decide which tags or posts you would like to follow? Native support would be hugely preferable to third party filtering support. Note: Circles / Facebook friend groups don't count a...

web-apps social-networks

Undo

@Seth I don't think it is.

Braiam

@Seth webapps, yes, websites (read static content) no

Undo

So is that a webapp or website?

Seth

I don't consider a social network a webapp.

Where was that definition..

Undo

21:22

I feel like we've done this before :P

Seth

A webapp is something that does a thing IMO.

Undo

Yes.

Seth

Facebook/Google+ does not do a think IMO.

Undo

no

Braiam

> The files are hidden for copy right reasons.

still...

Izzy

21:24

@Seth Sometimes I wish it were, so I could delete it #D

Seth

@Izzy LOL

Caleb

ERG, my suggested edit got clobbered

Undo

I knew that would happen!

Braiam

@Caleb don't you hate when that happens

(specially if you are used to have edit privileges in other site)

Izzy

Ahhh... what that? My phone vibrates and makes funny noises... Oh: SE-App notify for a comment on an answer. Ugh. Must get used to that... #D

Seth

21:26

You can turn the notifications off if you want.

Caleb

Quick, suggested edit approval plz

Undo

Oh, the iOS app now buzzes every time someone posts something on our meta :P

@Caleb done

Seth

in Ask Ubuntu General Room, Jan 30 at 15:24, by kalina

this Stack Exchange application for Android just turns my phone into a vibrator

Braiam

in The Bridge, May 22 '13 at 9:05, by kalina

must have a powerful vibrate mode

Seth

no new questions I can answer D:

Izzy

21:28

@Seth Mega-LOL!

Braiam

@Seth bye context ;)

Izzy

@Braiam OK, so give her the new LG Flex ("bends like a banana") with the SE app installed?

Braiam

@kalina ^

Caleb

@Braiam Uh huh. There are lots of things that I hate about not having a a diamond :)

Izzy

Heh! #D

Caleb

21:31

@Undo Meta posts generate inbox notifications for all sites that you have a diamond on (presumably MSO excluded).

Seth

I just need 12 more upvotes before I can edit.. There must be something out there I can answer... I should favorite some tags.

@Caleb Really? Ouch. The AU meta can be really active sometimes.

Undo

@Caleb Yup. Unless you're ChrisF and you broke the system into thinking you're an employee :P

Seth

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Q: A free Facebook sentiment analysis tool?

Wondering if there's a lightweight sentiment analysis tool out there that's free and works with Facebook. I know there are a few decent free tools that do this for Twitter (Sentiment140 comes to mind), but the only "free" options I can find that include Facebook are free trials for more robust ...

gratis facebook

Ugh.

Caleb

@Seth Yup. But if you get elected there (you have one of my votes) you will want to keep a weather eye out on your meta. Not that you have to deal with everything, but that is the pulse that matters most for knowing how the community is faring.

Seth

@Undo did it really do that? I remember some jokes about it, but I didn't realize it really happened.

@Caleb I already keep a weather eye on the meta, so that shouldn't be hard :)

Undo

21:34

@Seth Yeah, the system assumed anyone with five (?) or more diamonds was an employee. ChrisF got his fifth, and the system quit giving him meta notifications :P

So they just moved the threshold up to ten and hoped he doesn't run for more diamonds :P

Seth

@Undo I'm sure he appreciated that though. Imagine getting a notification for 5 metas..

@Undo lol

Caleb

@Seth Ditto. I decided I couldn't in good conscience vote on that because my vote would only mean "I hate social networking".

Izzy

Our "hidden files" got another edit.

Undo

So can softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/1539/… be reopened?

'A Windows 7 program to view hidden files in an ISO' is specific enough, no?

Izzy

I was about suggesting Linux in a VM and mounting it there. But I don't have his ISO, so how shall I know whether it works?

Caleb

21:36

@Seth Doesn't excuse him from doing his duties, he asked for that much trouble. But I assume SO is somehow exempt from the meta thing at least until it gets it's own.

Undo

read it somewhere

it is

Caleb

> I know the files are hidden because the displayed files only add up to 8kb while the iso it's self is 2.3gb

Seth

@Caleb I wasn't saying he should forget about meta, it would just be annoying to get TONS of notifications for something I already do.. (of course, assuming he keeps an ye on all the metas)

@Caleb hmm

Caleb

Huh. This guy is up against reverse engineering somebodies security measures.

Undo

@Seth The meta notifications go the a different inbox, though, not the big red number.

Izzy

21:37

@Caleb Maybe. Or he just want to grab some content.

Braiam

@Undo err... wut?

Undo

@Braiam For the system thinking you're an employee.

Seth

@Undo oh well that changes everything. I was thinking about how few notifications I get, and yet I still miss some.

Undo

yeah, it's kinda nice.

Braiam

@Undo yeah, but that flag is quite idiotic, I mean, system shouldn't assume you are an employee...

just because you are mod in several sites

Undo

21:40

I dunno. It doesn't really matter.

Caleb

@Braiam Of course that makes sense now that there are >100 sites and hundreds of mods.

Seth

I think it would be cheaper to just have an employee flag, instead of counting diamonds.

Caleb

@Seth They do. Now.

Undo

Oh, good

Seth

@Caleb ah.

Still trying to decide whether or not to cast a reopen vote on that.

Braiam

21:45

@Caleb I bet the disk is UDF but identifies itself as ISO..

windows dvd's did that

if you didn't have UDF support in linux

Caleb

It might be worth opening that ISO thing. I wouldn't have closed it in it's current state and now I think an expert would be able to answer with an app that does more that open archives, it needs to analyze and show what funky stuff is going on with the disk. That is something an expert should be able to recommend based on the info we have. I think.

That being said, I am not that expert so I'm guessing a bit there.

Seth

agreed.

Caleb

The problem is at this point if he knew how they were obscured he wouldn't be out here looking for a solution and I guess we have enough data to recommend a solution.

Undo

reopened

I just love it when that system works :D

Seth

this --^

Caleb

21:53

@Undo This is the question cycle working as it should. Now we just need an expert to answer!

Seth

wrong room.

Braiam

@Seth FYI I have only 8 out 35 pending flags

Caleb

@Braiam AU 10k queue?

Seth

@Braiam 8 out of 35 pending? I don't understand.

I've got 30 active.. if that's what you mean.

@Caleb yep.

Undo

I suppose we can purge the comments on that question except for Caleb's last one, right?

Seth

21:55

I'd say no.

Well, maybe the first two or so.

Caleb

@Undo Not necessarily, yours for sure, after that they are sort of still relevant.

Undo

okay

Seth

In case someone was curious, I was talking about this answer in reference to flags.

Braiam

@Seth 35 total... (you know that they show even handled flags)

Seth

@Braiam what shows handled flags? I'm not following your logic here..

Braiam

22:03

@Seth out all the flags we have in the 10k flag queue, I had pending to flag only 8

Caleb

@Seth train wreck!

Undo

22:17

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A: Manage email subscriptions within a company

You can subscribe to Google Apps for Business and use the corporate ("Google Apps") version of Google Groups for this. It has all your required features, and while it doesn't integrate with Outlook/Exchange as such... you can post messages to groups via the web interface.

Gilles

22:29

@Undo whack

GnomeSlice

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Undo

I can't wait until we get some 4kers that can delvote answers :D

Braiam

@GnomeSlice wrong room?

Gilles

1 user with 15 rep + 6 users with 1k rep can delete an answer, through the VLQ queue. But it's hard to achieve

GnomeSlice

@Braiam eh

Izzy

22:34

@Undo "I'm doing my very best..." :)

Undo

:)

Braiam

arg! my internets is dying!

Izzy

@Undo Doing next 10 rep #D

@Braiam Huh? Medics!!!

Undo

@Izzy yay!

Izzy

@Undo only 30 today, hm. But the few weeks here on SR I've made more rep than in 1.5 years on AU. OK, looong way to go for what I've made in the same time at ASE (34k+)...

Braiam

22:42

seriously, is a pain going through the queue and things timing out...

Izzy

Hopefully I'll reach 2k here next week, so I get the mod tools to help you out a little :)

Undo

@Izzy Yes yes please do ;)

Undo

22:55

Ooooh good answer

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A: HTML to PDF pretty-printer

To create PDFs output of web pages I see a valuable solution by using the Mozilla Firefox browser, together with ScrapBook and Print pages to PDF plugins: The Scrapbook plugin perform the pages capturing into the browser sidebar (by choosing a command in the right-click menu of the browser win...

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Q: Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

Is it ever inappropriate to recommend software which, while it technically fulfils all the requirements, actually bundles a huge bunch of irrelevant stuff with it as well? I ask because I gave the answer of Google Apps for this question, and my answer was actually deleted because it did not prov...

discussion answers

^ What an awesome title.

Journeyman Geek

;p

it is

Stack Exchange

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Q: Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

Is it ever inappropriate to recommend software which, while it technically fulfils all the requirements, actually bundles a huge bunch of irrelevant stuff with it as well? I ask because I gave the answer of Google Apps for this question, and my answer was actually deleted because it did not prov...

discussion answers

Undo

@StackExchange Too late :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

Braiam

23:16

ok, lets see if internet doesn't die on me...

Seth

23:44

So I've got a memory dump off one of my machines, it's a .RAW file and I have no idea how to read it. I suppose asking for a tool that would let me analyse .RAW memory dumps wouldn't be specific enough?

Izzy

@Seth If you can give specific enough requirements, why not? Didn't we just have a question asking for a similar thing concerning ISO images?

hichris123

Mm... aren't RAW files the files for pictures?

Journeyman Geek

blah

I should know this

hichris123

Raw image format

A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are named so because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor. Normally, the image is processed by a raw converter in a wide-gamut internal colorspace where precise adjustments can be made before conversion to a "positive" file format such as TIFF or JPEG for storage, printing, or further manipulation, which often encodes the image in a device-dependent col...

Seth

@hichris123 they share an extension, but they aren't the same thing iirc.

hichris123

23:46

@Seth Huh.

Seth

although technically a memory dump could be a raw image file I think.

hichris123

Yeah, you're right.

Seth

Maybe they are the same thing.

Journeyman Geek

@Seth: apparently something called volatility

Seth

@JourneymanGeek Yeah I saw that.. Was hopping for something more specific.

Journeyman Geek

23:47

@Seth: what OS though? I seem to recall modern versions of windows don't let you dump memory with DD

@Seth: its been about 6 years since I even came across it ;p

Seth

Windows or Linux. I'm in Linux atm, would prefer not to reboot.

Braiam

@Seth something like this? forensicswiki.org/wiki/Tools:Memory_Imaging

Journeyman Geek

@Seth: no, the dump ;p

I'm trying to jog my memory, or at least remember what we used

Seth

oh, the dump is from a Windows VM.

@Braiam No, those are the imaging tools.

Braiam

> The physical memory of computers can be imaged

Seth

23:49

I already imaged it.

Braiam

> Analysis of physical memory from Windows systems can yield significant information about the target operating system. This field is still very new, but holds great promise.

source: forensicswiki.org/wiki/Windows_Memory_Analysis

Seth

@Izzy The problem is, I don't have any requirements except runs on Windows or Linux. Since I've never done this before I don't know of any other features this tool might have.

@JourneymanGeek Seems like they're being DDoSed right now.

or they moved their site.

Journeyman Geek

also. its for linux memory dumps, not windows

Seth

> Volatility supports memory dumps from all major 32- and 64-bit Windows versions and service packs including XP, 2003 Server, Vista, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, and Seven.

Journeyman Geek

hm, maybe not resources.infosecinstitute.com/…

Seth

23:56

> We also now support Linux memory dumps in raw or LiME format and include 35+ plugins for analyzing 32- and 64-bit Linux kernels from 2.6.11 - 3.5.x and distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Fedora, CentOS, and Mandrake. We support 38 versions of Mac OSX memory dumps from 10.5 to 10.8.3 Mountain Lion, both 32- and 64-bit. Android phones with ARM processors are also supported.

Journeyman Geek

code.google.com/p/volatility

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