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Max Vernon

00:56

@PaulWhite wow that's good turnout. We're lucky to break 50%

5 hours later…

John aka hot2use

06:11

Morning (from HOMO)

@Vérace The dongle comes with any of the wirelss mice/keyboards from Logitech.

Basically you pari them and then you can even remove the dongle and use on another computer. The dongle and mouse/keyboard remain paired.

I have a big mouse for working at the desk at work and a small mouse for when I go to emeetings. Same dongle different mouse.

Vérace

@McNets Morning all - Dia dhaoibh go léir!

John aka hot2use

@Vérace aaaahhhh! Now I get it..... forget the unify option.

@PaulWhite wow!

Vérace

@Johnakahot2use Hello to the HOMO! :-) "The dongle and mouse/keyboard remain paired." - that's a nice feature. There is one thing that I would like to see with all of these dongle thingies - a place to dock the dongle in the device!

I've had a couple and they're deadly - but now, instead of losing the dongle (happens with alarming frequency - early onset Alzheimer's I think - now, what was I saying...), I lose the lot -but at least it might be of use to someone else with the set, but if you lose one or the other, it's only good for landfill!

John aka hot2use

06:40

The dongles are compatible. So if you buy a mouse and a keyboard, you already have two (sometimes three) dongles. Plug in one dongle to your laptop and pair the mouse and keyboard. Then plug the other dongle into your laptop and pair the same devices. Store the spare in a safe place.

I never unplug the dongles from my laptop. No need to. Even in the docking stations there is one USB port that is available on the laptop and that is where my Unify dongle is seated.

McNets

@Johnakahot2use +1

Morning

John aka hot2use

@Vérace Some of the mice (smaller ones/for meetings) have a compartment inside the battery area to store a dongle.

I'll take a picture of my meeting mouse when I'm at work tomorrow. To show the little compartment.

> MX Master 3 works with Windows, macOS, and Linux®6Sensor, wheel, and buttons will be supported without adding additional drivers in most popular Linux distributions. operating systems.

Taken from logitech.com/en-gb/products/mice/…

@Johnakahot2use Well apparently the newer mice don't have a battery compartment

Vérace

07:07

I'm currently studying for a Masters and not working much - a €110 mouse is a bit out of my budget ATM - maybe when I get a high-powered Quant job on Wall st.? :-) BTW, I think the acronym you're looking for is SOHO? Or even H/O?

Some readers whose native tongue is not English (and even some for whom it is) might, just might misconstrue the acronym HOMO and think that they've stumbled onto a Grindr subsite for database administrators! :-) Maybe there's a niche in the market? Any VC's out there willing to give me a start?

I Googled the Grindr site just to check that I'd got the spelling correct (never looked at it in my life before obviously :-) ) and guess what their number of employees is? Yes, that's right: 69!!! That can't be a coincidence! :-)

@Johnakahot2use The above was for you! :-)

John aka hot2use

I know.

Just goes to show that acronyms can be misleading. See my comments in the Moderator's Election Debate.

Slightly related

Tom V

07:25

@Johnakahot2use you just need to be careful not putting the laptop in a bag with the dongle facing the side you put on the floor too often (trust me I broke several)

John aka hot2use

off for my first coffee

8 hours later…

Max Vernon

15:08

looks to me like approximately 505 people have voted so far in this election, in just 19 hours of voting.

billinkc

I hope everyone stuck with the No EngloCanadians Moderators platform

jcolebrand

So we're kicking Paul out as mod?

billinkc

15:29

I only wish. He's a known liar and hacker of things so don't be surprised when he posts clearly doctored images in an attempt to slander people's good names

Max Vernon

@billinkc lol

billinkc

@MaxVernon I'm kidding, I predict you'll be in the top 3 for moderator results

Max Vernon

HAHAH me too

ypercubeᵀᴹ

Discussion revolves around dongles, homo, soho, 69, ...

billinkc

15:45

Very on topic

ypercubeᵀᴹ

16:30

Very On Topic, Eh?

(both puns intended)

McNets

16:46

DongleSQL, NOHomo, Mongo69, ...

DB related

jcolebrand

@billinkc Wait, he knows how to post images now? We're in trouble

McNets

candidate score 40/40

What means xx/40?

40 votes?

jcolebrand

There's 40 recognition slots for moderators, I think it's badges or some such, I forget now it's been so long since I've looked

McNets

jcolebrand

So like "do they review stuff in the review queues" and "have they gotten editor badges"

or where it's on meta

McNets

16:52

Calculated with these values I suppose

jcolebrand

Yah, but I forget what the full 40 are

McNets

Ah, ok, thanks

jcolebrand

so you have those 20 badges but that's only 20 of 40

rep counts, meta maybe?

780

Q: What are the badges I can earn on each site, and what are the exact criteria for earning each badge?

Formerly List of all badges with full descriptions. What are badge name's requirements? Why didn't I get badge name (right now)? Which badges can I earn multiple times? Jump to: Question Badges Answer Badges Participation Badges Tag Badges Moderation Badges Other Badges Area 51 Badges ...

There you have it. The 20 below plus score/1000

McNets

data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/298418/…

Candidate score SEDE calculation

jcolebrand

there you have it

Max Vernon

16:58

@McNets I used this one with 10832,110455,144393 for the UserIds input

McNets

@MaxVernon 35/40 is not bad

Max Vernon

@McNets for sure!

billinkc

17:14

@jcolebrand Well, by the time the packets get here, it'll be 2039

jcolebrand

@billinkc ha!

Tom V

@MaxVernon how can you tell?

Max Vernon

@TomV there are 60 people listed per page on my browser for the Constituent badge(those who vote get that badge automatically). When I last checked there were 8 pages (+around 25 users on page 9) that were from yesterday or today.

McNets

17:39

Is there any Badge table on StackExchange with all possible bagdes? Not the Badges table

Taryn

17:56

you mean this - dba.stackexchange.com/help/badges?

McNets

@Taryn hi, weren't you on vacation? I mean to use it on SEDE

wasn't sorry

It seems that I have another account on SEDE, can I replace it?

John aka hot2use

18:54

just reading up...

What happened to merged?

Q: What is the best query to use to monitor a SQL Server database's status?

I want to be able to run a query to get the crucial information about a database's status. I.e., I want the query to be able to tell what whether or not the database is in a good state. This is the query that I inherited for this check: SELECT name AS [SuspectDB], DATABASEPROPERTY(nam...

sql-server sql-server-2008

mustaccio

19:15

Observe the enthusiasm! Our new moderators-to-be are getting ready to play with their shiny new toys, to make this site oh so much more better!

2 hours later…

Paul White

21:42

@billinkc Holding that one in reserve buddy

@Johnakahot2use What do you mean?

billinkc

Poisoning the well

Poisoning the well (or attempting to poison the well) is a type of informal fallacy where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing something that the target person is about to say. Poisoning the well can be a special case of argumentum ad hominem, and the term was first used with this sense by John Henry Newman in his work Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864). The origin of the term lies in well poisoning, an ancient wartime practice of pouring poison into sources of fresh water before an invading army, to diminish the...

Drink deep

Paul White

tasty!

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