Electrical Engineering

jippie

20:00

@CamilStaps does it require a specific browser?

user61389

@jippie I tested in FF and the user that answered uses Chrome, it works there as well I suppose

jippie

@CamilStaps would it reload any page or just pages on SE?

user61389

@jippie this one checks for /review/$ and only reloads if there's nothing to review. What browser are you using? I believe there's a better add-on for firefox.

jippie

and how would I install it, if I click on the link, nothing happesn

user61389

@jippie what browser?

jippie

20:03

ff 20

31

21

user61389

I think firefox doesn't work with user scripts itself, you can download the greasemonkey add-on and that will be able to install it, I think

jippie

@CamilStaps Do you remember the ChatJax button?

user61389

addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/greasemonkey

user61389

@jippie yes

jippie

What I want to do is have a similar button like that, but with a different action. It should refresh the current page every so often.

I don't want to use frames and html refresh

I was hoping you had that solved, but it seems a different (why am I typing in English)

user61389

20:06

@jippie I don't think that's possible. A bookmark will load a new page or JavaScript, but when a new page loads the javascript is flushed

user61389

Let me try

jippie

you have a good point I think

user61389

You see, this works:
javascript:(function(){window.setInterval(function(){alert('hi');},1000);})();
But this doesn't (only the first time):
javascript:(function(){window.setInterval(function(){window.location=window.location;},1000);})();

jippie

eh

how would I do that?

right I need a button

let me try that

user61389

@jippie right-click in the bookmarks list, add new bookmark, and use this as the link

jippie

20:13

@CamilStaps the first one shows a pop up box

and it keeps pop'ing up until I refresh

user61389

@jippie that's the alert('hi'); - it does that every 1000 ms, until you refresh indeed because then the javascript is forgotten

user61389

The second code attempts to do a similar trick but not with an alert but with a refresh (window.location=window.location), but that doesn't work because the javascript is forgotten after the reload

jippie

@CamilStaps so sad

user61389

@jippie I don't think there's a solution without an add-on, but I might be wrong - why don't you want an add-on?

jippie

second refreshes once

@CamilStaps didn't really look into that. Didn't expect there would be a periodic refresh extension

user61389

20:17

@jippie addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/reloadevery or addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/tab-auto-reload

jippie

who in his right mind would use a dutch translation of a computer program?

user61389

@jippie oh shut up :P

jippie

restarting. trying the Tab Auto Reload 0.0.0.6m

David Kessner

He's back: electronics.stackexchange.com/users/24643/tony

Remember, flag answers as spam.

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jippie

@DavidKessner I saw the anser, but is it really that bad?

I know the history, but it feels wrong to flag good answers

user61389

20:27

Yes, his answers of today seemed to be okay.

David Kessner

@jippie Well, it's wrong for starters. He is saying that an unregulated 18vout supply will spit out 13.6v. You can choose to wait for more wacky answers if you want.

jippie

I realize it may just be a way to get more rep to do more harm ...

@DavidKessner let me double check

David Kessner

I misquoted his answer a bit, but he's still wrong.

user61389

@DavidKessner the spam flag isn't for wrong answers..

jippie

@DavidKessner I'm curious how long I could flag all (any) answers/questions as spam until it backfires on me.

David Kessner

20:37

@jippie You should do some research on that. :)

jippie

@DavidKessner can I borrow your login/password while you're not using it?

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David Kessner

@jippie Login=Korturk, Password=IAmGod

jippie

you are online only couple hours per day

@DavidKessner works :-|

should I join chat?

@CamilStaps hasn't your home network been nuked by now?

user61389

@jippie yes, I wonder what happened to that..

user61389

Btw, will there be a hangout tomorrow?

jippie

20:44

Next scheduled event: "EE.SE hangout"

Jun 1

user61389

It was scheduled for last week as well, but there wasn't one, hence the question :)

jippie

@CamilStaps everybody relies on @kortuk to post the link, but basically anyone can post one.

don't know why nobody does.

user61389

Okay, I'll just see and try to be around then

user61389

Time for bed.. good night all!

jippie

@CamilStaps I think the benjamin of the room should do that anyway

good night.

angelatlarge

20:49

@DavidKessner Password: IAmGodHere

@jippie Benjamin? Is it all about the Benjamins?

jippie

@angelatlarge yeah @kortuk is Nestor and @CamilStaps is Benjamin

angelatlarge

@jippie What's the domain of that statement? Still Animal Farm?

►

jippie

@angelatlarge 1984

big brother

@angelatlarge no I actually have no clue where I picked that up

@angelatlarge you were saying?

angelatlarge

@jippie Weird Al Yancovic parody of "It is all about the Benjamins music video"

jippie

in dutch it is

negentienvierentachtig

negen = nine

tien = ten

vier = four

tachtig = eighty

angelatlarge

21:00

@jippie Yeah, like German. English is in theory a Germanic language, but we don't do that.

jippie

so sometimes I confuse digits, apart from the fact that my eyes mess up sometimes. (very happy with spelling checker in FF)

angelatlarge

vier und achtzig it would be in German, I think. With a better spelling. But presumably you guys all write the digits in order of descending significance, always. Otherwise it would be very weird.

jippie

neunundneunzig Luftballons

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@angelatlarge I always confuse which 9 comes first in 99 in German

angelatlarge

@jippie It's not nein und n{o|a}inzig?

jippie

@angelatlarge now who is better in German?

you

or

googleTranslate

?

angelatlarge

21:09

@jippie Don't know. I haven't tried Google translate. If it says devyanosto devyat' then probably me :)

coding_corgi

Yo yo yo!

jippie

o.

hey there @rawbrawb

rawbrawb

@jippie grEEts

angelatlarge

Free diesel for the next few hours around where I live: a tanker turned over and diesel is running in the streets. Hopefully the river will catch fire soon.

coding_corgi

@angelatlarge Ha ha!

angelatlarge

21:25

boston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/31/…

Not flammable my butt!

rawbrawb

@angelatlarge no wonder you never go outside!

angelatlarge

You could smell the gasoline from a mile away. Passed it by on my way home: it very much stank of kerosene. I didn't bring my gas canister (or a match) though...

jippie

@angelatlarge Can you go there and wave to us on the next video clip?

angelatlarge

@jippie Why don't I just join in the next hangout instead?

@jippie I passed by there before the news helicopters got there, though the intersection was already blocked off by the police.

jippie

@angelatlarge because my idea is much cooler than yours?

angelatlarge

21:30

@jippie Or warmer, if the thing finally catches on fire...

jippie

@angelatlarge what problem are you trying to solve?

angelatlarge

@jippie Current problem: people trying to make me get out of the house.

jippie

@angelatlarge ah you are suffering from a phobie?

coding_corgi

@angelatlarge Same problem here!

angelatlarge

@jippie You mean phobia?

coding_corgi

21:35

@jippie I thought laziness is the root cause...

jippie

no, google translate says phobie

coding_corgi

@angelatlarge Hilarious!

jippie

@angelatlarge oh wait it was still translating to German ...

angelatlarge

@jippie Which language are you translating into?

coding_corgi

@jippie Neverheard of the term GoogleRetard?

jippie

21:35

@angelatlarge (removed)

angelatlarge

@jippie (too late)

coding_corgi

@jippie Oh, then I guess it is GoogleUserRetard JK JK!

jippie

no way jose

@angelatlarge I can still edit mine before yours

angelatlarge

@jippie Do I get a @AnindoGhosh tag for this? Also known as annoying-nitpicky-prick tag

@jippie Way too late now

coding_corgi

@angelatlarge Oh, I thought that was @jippie's new badge...

jippie

21:37

@angelatlarge what is the description that goes with that tag?

angelatlarge

@jippie Corrected at least 10 misspellings/misusages in chat when it was perfectly obvious what was meant. That's the bronze version.

jippie

hmmm I thought we were forbidden to star any joyful/funny comments.

angelatlarge

@jippie It is forbidden to star anything that will get me in trouble with the sock master!

The Photon

@jippie We are not allowed to star things that W5 would not star.

jippie

@ThePhoton didn't I say just that, but in other words?

The Photon

21:44

@jippie Well he is a grad student (or post-doc?) --- Joy and fun are foreign to his lifestyle.

Also, neunzehnhundertvierundachtzig, I'm pretty sure.

jippie

@ThePhoton I like the dutch edition better

The Photon

I think the Dutch flows together better---which only makes it harder for foreigners to interpret.

angelatlarge

21:57

@ThePhoton Yeah! Stupid foreigners!

The Photon

@angelatlarge At least we got that Roswell question cleaned up before the Dutch woke up.

angelatlarge

Roswell UFO incident

The Roswell UFO incident took place in the USA in 1947, when an airborne object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, on July 7, 1947. Explanations of what actually took place are based on both official and unofficial communications. The most popular theory of what happened is that the object was a spacecraft containing extraterrestrial life. Since the late 1970s, the Roswell incident has been the subject of much controversy, and conspiracy theories have arisen about the event. The United States Armed Forces maintains that what was recovered near Roswell was debris from the cras...

coding_corgi

@ThePhoton Hee hee hee...

jippie

@ThePhoton Dutch is easier than German (for me)

@ThePhoton No I read it this morning. Is it deleted?

coding_corgi

@jippie Ooh! I want to read it!

The Photon

22:12

@jippie No sign of it now...I searched for "roswell" and "alien" and it doesn't appear.

jippie

@ThePhoton electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/71137/…

@ThePhoton you may upvote a maximum of 4 random answers of mine now.

time for bed

/me is out

clickkk

coding_corgi

@ThePhoton What was it about?

The Photon

@coding_corgi Guy says he's writing a book and wants evidence that semiconductor technology was developed by Operation Paperclip German engineers using material from the Roswell incident;

David Kessner

@ThePhoton I say we give him the "information" he wants.

The Photon

@DavidKessner He was worried about "them" taking "our" knowledge out of the country, so I advised him not to talk too freely on an internationally-accessible web site.

coding_corgi

22:27

@ThePhoton Oh, thanks... I guess he is an ex-Area 51 guy, and wants to know the truth... ;]

@ThePhoton Hee hee hee hee...

The Photon

@coding_corgi There are no EX-area-51 guys...

coding_corgi

@ThePhoton Oooooh...

@ThePhoton His poor buddies are locked up

The Photon

"I am planning a book so please only post if you are OK with being quoted."

jippie

@ThePhoton I think it was reversed german tech

David Kessner

@ThePhoton You should have brought him into the chat, where we could explain how the Dutch and Indian engineers are really alien lizard people with IQ's in the thousands.

angelatlarge

22:29

@DavidKessner Aren't they?

coding_corgi

@DavidKessner I knew you were going to answer that audio answer

@ThePhoton Ha ha ha! What a freak!

jippie

@angelatlarge are you referring to "lizard people" or to "IQ's in the thousands"?

David Kessner

@coding_corgi How could I refuse?

jippie

/out

coding_corgi

@DavidKessner +1, that must've been a peanut to you...

@jippie See ya!

angelatlarge

22:31

@jippie Both. Of course

David Kessner

@angelatlarge Well, we all here know that. But it is hardly common knowledge. It's time that our lizard overlords are revealed, and their true plan for human enlightenment come forth.

angelatlarge

@jippie Don't eat too many flies. Make sure you are some place warm. Hope your new tail grows nice and long.

David Kessner

@angelatlarge LOL

The Photon

@angelatlarge "Make sure you are some place warm."...um, he's in Holland...

Or anyway, the Netherlands.

angelatlarge

@ThePhoton Hmm... wouldn't that be a problem for a lizard? They probably have heat lamp technology though.

The Photon

22:33

But not in the overseas territories of Antigua or St Marten.

angelatlarge

@ThePhoton And I suppose they don't really need to move while sleeping anyway.

David Kessner

@ThePhoton They have heat-lamps there. Besides, their plan for Global Warming is working beautifully.

angelatlarge

@DavidKessner ++++1!

coding_corgi

@angelatlarge No wonder he's so lazy to capitalize anything JK! JK!

The Photon

@DavidKessner I thought that was Canadian real estate barons.

angelatlarge

22:34

@DavidKessner So the Global Warming deniers are correct: it isn't human-caused!

coding_corgi

@angelatlarge Take 'em out ;] ! I love this planet! I am going to buy a bunch of freaky eco shirts!

David Kessner

@coding_corgi Embrace your inner lizard!

coding_corgi

@DavidKessner Dude, I am in the US,

Midwest to be exact

David Kessner

@coding_corgi We won't hold that against you.

angelatlarge

@DavidKessner Or at worst, embrace some outer lizard, like @jippie

@DavidKessner We will not? Are you sure?

David Kessner

22:38

@angelatlarge Oh, we will hold other things against him. You can count on that! Just not being in the midwest.

angelatlarge

@DavidKessner Are you absolutely sure on that? I once spent a few weeks in Mobridge, SD....

David Kessner

@angelatlarge Oh, well Mobridge is unforgiveable!

coding_corgi

@angelatlarge You grumpy Bostanians!

David Kessner

I gotta run. Later all!

coding_corgi

@DavidKessner See ya!

angelatlarge

22:42

@DavidKessner Have fun! Don't sniff too much diesel!

I think I'll punch out too for a while: it improves productivity. Later all

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