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9:09 PM

most amazing bit of kit I've ever purchased: amazon.co.uk/Netgear-XAVB5004-Powerline-4-Port-Theater/dp/…

takes Ethernet signal from router, modulates it into your home mains electricity, demodulates it upstairs in the attic where your xbox is in a custom LAN hub

no signal loss, no noise... perfect home LAN setup without any (extra) wires

Takkat

@Greg don't operate an old fridge in the same line :P

jk: powerline is quite a good alternative to Wi-Fi.

Greg

hmm, I tried to get noise to be noticable, but nothing seemed to affect it ... and I live in an ooooold house

microwave oven, tv, vacuum cleaner and hair drier on at the same time ...

no noise

Takkat

good to know. I was thinking of a powerline solution to my kid's rooms where Wi-Fi is too weak.

Greg

I was extremely impressed seeing as our house's wiring is from the 1970s

Jorge Castro

@Greg I have a set of those, they are awesome

Greg

9:24 PM

@JorgeCastro when I first plugged them in, I walked around looking at all my light bulbs thinking "there's internet running inside you..."

Luis Alvarado

@greg Silly boy, I was scared when last year our house caught on fire because the wiring was from the 40s

Greg

could the signal leak out of my light bulbs allowing me to visualise what's happening in the network?

Seth

@Greg that would be cool!

Greg

@LuisAlvarado but £3K to rewire the house ... and think of all the decorating that would need to be done.

I'll live on the edge if it means I don't have to paint any walls

Luis Alvarado

@Greg O.o is that a K after the 3?

Seth

9:27 PM

ah, I see you were being sarcastic. nvm.

Luis Alvarado

yeah I was scare of that.. wayyy too much money

Greg

@LuisAlvarado Yes, but before the 3 is a pound symbol, implying that I'm in the UK where we don't bastardise numbers

Luis Alvarado

lol

Jorge Castro

@greg apparently the new spec is all gigabit too

Luis Alvarado

I don't believe they are as fast as the speeds in my country, we have blazing lightning fast 32kb!!!!

Greg

9:28 PM

Am I right in saying that in America, a thousand is written as 1M?

Luis Alvarado

no, that would be a million

Seth

@Greg no.

Greg

I thought a million was 1MM ?

(or is this just financial terms?)

Luis Alvarado

yes in my country a million is 1MM

but in the US the same value is called a billion

which ironically is another bigger value for other countries, which in turn is another for the US which also is.... yeahhh look at the loop go!! go loop go!!

Greg

oh yeah, 1 billion (american) = 1,000,000,000

1 billion (european) = 1,000,000,000,000

Luis Alvarado

9:31 PM

european numeric system (SI) = latin american (SI)

Well I have to agree.. Seth is so hungry he is actually eating his own comments right now... sesame street cookie monster anyone?

Greg

yeah, latin is the key. 1,000 (one thousand) being interpreted as "milli"

as in "millisecond" == 1 thousandth of a second

Luis Alvarado

@Greg correct

Seth

ahhh

Luis Alvarado

Good boy... yum yum yum...

Greg

nom nom nom

bcbc

9:32 PM

I invited a user to chat (to avoid extended comments) but it appears they are not able due to not having 20 rep. Any way around this?

Seth

@bcbc What room is it?

bcbc

I didn't use the automatic feature - I created the room myself - does this make a difference?

Seth

No. If you add me as room owner I'll show you how to fix it.

Luis Alvarado

@bcbc you could get his/her email or link to some outside chat to help (Ubuntu IRC)

Seth

There is an option for it in the room settings.

actually, its on the same page as room owner.

Luis Alvarado

9:37 PM

awesome seth

Seth

@bcbc Have you got it?

@Greg actually, the Europeans changed to the American standard.

Greg

@Seth UK haven't

bcbc

I tried that (both adding as Owner and granting Write access but it gave me this: "Welcome to The Stack Exchange Network chat! You'll need 20 reputation to talk here. This site is moderated by the community, so please be respectful of your fellow The Stack Exchange Network users. And while you're at it, check out the FAQ"

Seth

Hmmm

@bcbc Thats really weird.

mateo_salta

anyone else get "unusual behavior" message

Seth

9:39 PM

@Greg oh really? interesting.

bcbc

@mateo_salta yes

Luis Alvarado

@mateo_salta well am having very sloowww connections to askubuntu and messages everywhere that I need to refresh because something happened

mateo_salta

@Seth yep me too

Luis Alvarado

That and Seth is eating everything here

mateo_salta

hope some of it is sorted before the town hall

Seth

9:41 PM

@bcbc What happens if you add someone else as room owner?

mateo_salta

they can remove you as owner, so be careful

Luis Alvarado

At least I have a pic of Seth

bcbc

@Seth I tried to add the user both as Owner, and then granting Write access, and neither worked.

Luis Alvarado

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bcbc

@mateo_salta There wouldn't be much point in them removing me since it's a discussion to help them... but okay ;)

Seth

9:42 PM

@bcbc Try adding someone else

mateo_salta

@bcbc yeah.

Seth

could be a bug

oops, sorry. Connection timed out.

was giving me errors

oops, sorry. Connection timed out.

FEichinger

Or the fact that SE seem to be tinkering with the chat and/or its servers right now.

mateo_salta

everything else is on the fritz so....

FEichinger

I love how technical stuff on SE happens right during our elections.

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Seth

9:45 PM

well i'll be around every once in a while.

need to do some stuff somewhere else

@FEichinger ★

George Edison

Le sigh.

FEichinger

That seems like the system is telling them "Shoulda used Ubuntu!" :P

George Edison

So the town hall meeting is in 1.2 hours, correct?

FEichinger

I believe so, yeh.

George Edison

I want to make sure my timezone adjustments are correct.

bcbc

9:47 PM

@Seth thanks for help. With all the timeouts I'm done! cheers

Seth

okay then.

Luis Alvarado

apologies for any service disruption at the current time; we are investigating some unusual network behavior

click here to remove the notification bar

mateo_salta

Room owner war

Jun 27 '12 at 14:18, 4 minutes total – 40 messages, 8 users, 2 stars

Bookmarked 14 secs ago by mateo_salta

George Edison

@LuisAlvarado We all got that.

Luis Alvarado

But I got it prettier, with colors and a rainbow

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FEichinger

9:50 PM

@mateo_salta Participants Stack Exchange 27%

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Q: Is there a way to move the flagging dialogue?

Sometimes when flagging a question I would like to look at those parts of it which are hidden by the dialogue.

mateo_salta

@FEichinger hm, most of that "stack exchange" was me... until jokerdino.

George Edison

docs.google.com/document/d/…

^--- We're drafting up questions for the town hall chat.

mateo_salta

does the favorite send notifications to your inbox?

or just in the favorite list when things change

Luis Alvarado

10:17 PM

Anybody here from Detroit?

Seth

This answer could really use some more upvotes.

I would bounty it, but there has already been a bounty on it :(

FEichinger

@Seth What does that have to do with it?

Seth

@FEichinger AFAIK you can only have one bounty per question

FEichinger

One running bounty at a time.

Seth

Oh wait. I just found the link

lol, I looked all over for that.

kinda hard to see.

FEichinger

10:21 PM

It's a red link, how hard can that be? :P

mateo_salta

I always look for it by the "share" "flag" links (its not there!)... the best hiding place it right in front of you.

Seth

@FEichinger its pink

FEichinger

It's a light red, perhaps rose, but not "pink".

mateo_salta

nah, looks more like Bubblegum Crisis Salmon color to me

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Seth

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10:27 PM

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Q: Is there a way to subscribe to a Q&A and get notified of _all_ activity (in the StackExchange Inbox)?

From other online "forums" (e.g. http://forums.mozillazine.org/ which is "powered by" https://www.phpbb.com/) I'm used to having a feature to subscribe to a thread. I realize that here you can use things like @username to notify someone (at least in a comments thread). Is there (currently) a st...