The Rec Center - 2015-09-25

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Andy

00:26

@Adam, I added a few excerpts but no full wiki entries yet

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HDE 226868

01:34

We're going public ~~next week~~ today!

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@Adam Incidentally, this site was just cleared for public launch for this coming Tuesday, I believe. Congrats! — Robert Cartaino ♦ 19 mins ago

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Cfinley

Man that is good news

Only a handful more days left until the flood gates open

I wonder if I can get the day off of work Tuesday...

Adam

01:54

Getting off of work for the opening of a website? People these days. :)

Cfinley

Even at work I have three tabs open for this site: one for the main site, one for meta, and one for chat, so I can see when something new happens

I'm like obsessed or something.

Adam

Hey, nothing wrong with being active in a community built to help other people.

I'm guilty of it as well.

enderland

02:25

@HDE226868 wow, sweet

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ArtOfCode

08:30

I'm an obsessive as well. A late-to-the-party obsessive. Congratulations, everyone!

5 hours later…

Andy

13:53

waves to the room

1 hour later…

enderland

15:16

hola

Cfinley

15:37

Thats it? All we are going to have is 4 nominations for moderator? That seems low to me.

enderland

@Cfinley you can nominate people, too ;)

I thought about self nominating

Cfinley

I know. I will nominate people when I get home from work if there are not any new nominations.

I just want others to think about it, because if this site gets released to the public on Tuesday, we don't have a lot of time to choose our moderators.

enderland

Some sites end up with no moderators for a while too

Cfinley

I guess I should ask when do the moderators get appointed? I thought that it was when the site goes public

enderland

I think it's around then, but doesn't have to be then

I can't figure out for Workplace when the beta moderators were appointed

Ah, May 1, 2012 - meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/248/…

Cfinley

15:47

Here is the link for SR.SE moderator announcement meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/608/…

Andy

@Cfinley To be fair, we don't get to choose our moderators. They are appointed by SE. SE does take user input, but votes aren't a guarantee of who will be selected. True elections don't come until graduation.

Cfinley

I was aware of that. I didn't type that, but I was aware.

Andy

Well, carry on then. :)

Cfinley

SE uses only the people who are nominated right?

Like they wont pick me if I wasn't nominated.

Adam

They won't pick anyone who isn't willing, so yeah.

Jez

16:11

hey guys!

who here has experience with KVMs? :-)

Cfinley

Your question might be solved with two cheaper KVMs. I can't look into it right now, but I can sometime today.

Jez

two? hmm.

trouble is signals going through 2 KVMs seems dodgy :-)

it's bad enough with 1 KVM

Andy

@Cfinley They'd ask you first.

+--------------------+--------+--------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
    |        Name        | HR Rep | SR Rep | Account ID |                                Link                               |
    +--------------------+--------+--------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
    |        Andy        |  665   |  113   |   63984    |        hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/57/andy        |

@Undo, there is the list of users active on HR and SR that have any rep value on both that isn't 1 or 101

sorted by rep here

Cfinley

@Jez Nothing would be going through two KVMs. One monitor would be on its own KVM. I still have to work it out though before I recommend anything.

And that is only if I cant find a single KVM that meets your needs

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Undo

17:44

@Andy Neat, that's quite a bit of overlap

enderland

@Andy REPRESENT!

wait I have 185 rep on SR?

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Andy

Surprise!

enderland

I was figuring I'd be one of the only folks without rep tehre

but alas

Andy

18:16

@Undo, I don't have a specific recommendation, but for your question about closet servers, I've gotten 3 rack mount servers via ebay for $20-40 each. The hardware was about a year old each time, but have performed wonderfully. I just stalk ebay when I'm in the mood for a new one. I wipe the drives - though all have been empty anyway - and install whatever OS I'm in the mood to play with

Undo

@Andy hm, I'd never even considered a rackmount

One year? Wow

ebay.com/itm/181882102580 <-- If that's at <$100 when it ends, I'll be dumbfounded. And probably buy it.

So you're saying you got servers like that?

Andy

That looks exactly like one of mine.

Oh...more ram though

Undo

I suppose the professionals with the big pockets aren't looking on EBay for their next server

Andy

Heh. Probably not.

I am not one of those people. I'll take a hand me down for $25 with those specs

Undo

What does running those do to your power bill?

And what kind of cooling do they need?

Andy

18:28

I have several machines at home, usually always on. I've had these 3 for a while and don't remember a big shock on the bill when I started each one (I didn't get them all at once).

Mine are all cooled by the fans. It's a bit noisy, but they sit in a utility room with a door.

in the basement

That may be important too

Undo

Ah

Me no has a basement

Andy

Dig a hole :)

Undo

And I wouldn't want to put one in the dusty dirty crawlspace

Andy

Understandable.

Cfinley

@Undo I have a basement

>.>

Undo

18:32

A machine like that would probably be a dream desktop machine if one could throttle the fans down a little bit

Although even my MacBook Pro gets a little noisy with fans at 6k RPM, a server has to be worse

Man this is so tempting

I would probably already have one ordered if I wasn't allergic to spending money

Andy

You sound like me.

I do love my toys, but I dislike buying them

Undo

Oh, these probably don't have WiFi. So it would have to be in the no-airflow-closet, or the dusty-dirty-crawlspace

enderland

allergic to spending money? Reporting for duty!

Undo

My house a data center is not.

@Andy It's even worse for me since the only expense I have is half an Internet bill, which is like $20 now.

And I still can't make myself buy new toys.

Cfinley

I have been slowly building a desktop and was planning on turning it into a server. I should checked to see what was on sale first.

Undo

18:40

I wonder if I could justify poking a hole in the central air conditioning duct that runs through that closet wall.

Andy

I'm guessing no.

Undo

@enderland I'll spend three hours building a tool instead of buying it for thirty bucks. Which makes no sense

I should buy one of these cheap ones and carry it to Code Camp this year. I'd be king

Have it sticking out of a backpack.

It would be worth it to buy some of these just for the hard drives and RAM in them

Cfinley

I already has enough hard drives...

too many in fact

Adam C

well, damn, I will be traveling when the site goes public beta (London, then Brighton)

Cfinley

I just need systems to put them into

enderland

18:45

@Undo why? what do you make per hour? that's like $14/hour pretax or more

Undo

@enderland consulting for a consultant, I get half of what he makes an hour

It's comfortably more.

Adam C

yeah - I spend hours building my own computers, and the money I save from doing that is completely wiped out if you factor in my hourly rate

and that's salaried, I used to charge a premium for one-offs

Cfinley

I build my own computer because I love doing it

Adam C

exactly

I took 6 months off work post-layoff once, know the first thing I did? built a gaming rig

Cfinley

If I ever hit the lottery, I am building fancy computers for all my family, friends, and even strangers

Adam C

18:49

and then played Warcraft, LoL and others on it for most of the remaining time :)

enderland

you play World of Warships by chance?

Adam C

I've seen people talking about it in here

(work for a games company)

but not played myself

Undo

@enderland World of Tanks is fun

2 hours later…

enderland

20:56

@Undo I'm not really a gamer, but have really enjoyed world of warships

Adam

21:23

I've played World of Tanks for over a year now. Never gets old.

Cfinley

21:40

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A: Who should our moderators be?

Enderland Enderland has been a SE member for about 4 years, so he knows how the site works. Enderland is also a mod over at The Workplace. He is currently in the top 5 of the users with the most rep on this site. I believe Enderland would make a great addition to the mod team here.

@enderland

Adam

21:58

Finally another candidate :)

Zizouz212

@enderland Looks like you've been nominated :)

HDE 226868

22:13

This (smart) recommendation can be boiled down to "I should do my research."

Serves me right, I think.

Andy

Or... ~~steal~~ borrow some high quality military tech :)

Cfinley

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A: Who should our moderators be?

Gilles Gilles moderates a few other sites in public beta, so he knows what beta sites need in order to grow. One of those sites is Software Recommendations, which just got the green light to graduate. Currently he sits inside the top ten of users with the most rep on this site.

@Gilles

Adam

22:29

Ah, the ol' candidate double-down.

HDE 226868

Fun Fact: Gilles is active in so many places on Stack Exchange that he is the Stack Exchange network.

Or at least a manifestation of it.

@Andy Man, if I could get my hands on some of that stuff. . .

Adam

@HDE226868 Gilles is actually Robert's non-work account.

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HDE 226868

@Adam So this and this are just him arguing with himself? :-) Man, meta just go waaaay more interesting.

Adam

Exactly. He wants to blend in.

Jez

22:50

hi

Adam

Hey Jez

Jez

sooooo

HDE 226868

@Jez Hi.

Jez

anyone know much about KVMs?

Adam

I've used a 4-input KVM that went to one monitor, but that's about it.

Jez

22:54

ive actually used one or two in the past

but always very simple ones that switched all input

i really need a much more sophisticated setup

Adam

23:08

I'm thinking you'd need two switches for that setup. One for mouse/key input, one for screen output.

Jez

even then though

im wanting one mode where it's dual screen, and one where each screen displays a different device

Adam

We're going to open beta sometime around Tuesday so hopefully the new people that join can help you with it.

Jez

hmm

i just signed up for the site and i hadn't committed

enderland

23:34

aww just not going to rep cap on workplace today

Adam

Why's that?

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