Super User Blog Editor Room

studiohack

12:03 AM

+1'ed

Ivo Flipse

12:19 AM

Looks great

All of them. The ad and the stamp on Chrome

Now for the Uncle Sam ad :p

nhinkle

oh! ivo's back!

KronoS

12:59 AM

@nhinkle that's perfect!!!!

KronoS

4:44 AM

we need to do a blog post about this:

azcomputerguru.com/useful-links/blog-and-tips.html

Feeds

5:41 AM

Who's the best of the best in browsers? Check out the #SuperUserBlog spring roundup of the top 5 browsers: http://is.gd/igRRBO

Tweeted by SuperKronos on April 12, 2011 at 5:36 AM

KronoS

@nhinkle excellent excel post... I think that perhaps we should do a collection of unknown or uncommon tips for excel as a blog post... what do you think?

nhinkle

@KronoS ad for my browsers post is live now

i could do an excel post sometime

would be a great thing to direct all my friends to who are constantly saying "hey how do I do _____ in excel??"

KronoS

@nhinkle already upvoted

@nhinkle exactly...

nhinkle

@KronoS I figured, but wanted to let you know that I had set the ad loose on the world :)

Sathya

@nhinkle some figures would be nice..

nhinkle

5:57 AM

and now to do some more homework :/

Sathya

nhinkle

yes @Sathya? what about it?

Sathya

← 2 messages moved from Root Access

nhinkle

@Sathya wdym "some figures"?

Sathya

these 2 images come back to back, it would nice to mention time(lower is better - 1st image) & score(higher is better - 2nd image)

nhinkle

5:59 AM

I'm pretty sure I mentioned that in the text of the post

Sathya

as for figure - %numbers next to browser name

@nhinkle yeah, but text is over skimmed over ;)

nhinkle

fair enough

when i'm done with this homework i'll go make that a bit more clear

if i have time i'll be uploading a different browser graph that also has stats for SU

Sathya

btw, love the post :)

also love the "approved" stamp. FTW.

nhinkle

thanks :)

wtf. @KronoS you around?

KronoS

ya what's up @nhinkle

nhinkle

6:04 AM

i keep trying to change the URL of the link around the main image to the URL of the post. and it won't stick.

it keeps reverting to http://blog.superuser.com/2011/04/12/spring-2011-browser-roundup/article-image-2/

and i want it to be http://blog.superuser.com/2011/04/12/spring-2011-browser-roundup/

in fact, no matter what I set it to, it reverts to that

ARGH

Sathya

takes a look. or not

KronoS

Hmmm weird... can you stop editing?

nhinkle

@KronoS got it to work now

idk what was wrong with it

i used the WYSIWYG editor to remove the link entirely, then put it in manually in the HTML

now it's working apparently

KronoS

Hmmm... well I edited it in the HTML... did you try that?

nhinkle

it works now

no idea what was wrong

Ivo Flipse

8:20 AM

@nhinkle that post looks reallly professional :)

Matt Jenkins

9:04 AM

blog.superuser.com/2011/03/28/iron-cladding-your-wi-fi-network

Ivo Flipse

yes your image formatting and such also looks great @MattJenkins ;)

Matt Jenkins

@IvoFlipse if I were to want to digest that post into an editorial for a local ads magazine, would it be possible? I know I'd have to get @bloodphilia to agree to it, but what about the SU point of view?

Ivo Flipse

I know you went through a lot of trouble making sure it's right :)

would you get to mention it's from the blog? ;)

Matt Jenkins

Possibly

I could slip it into the editorial.

Ivo Flipse

technically the creative commons license demands it

not that I'll sue anyone for repurposing our post, but it would be nice if superuser.com got mentioned in some way

Matt Jenkins

9:07 AM

I'm limited to 200 words, so it would be very brief.

Ivo Flipse

You could make your introduction like, I recently got a question on superuser.com: How should I protect my wifi network? Well let me tell you...

Matt Jenkins

I could include a short-url to link to it from the editorial so people can read the full article

Ivo Flipse

that would be nice too I reckon :)

what kind of magazine is it anyway

Matt Jenkins

It's just a little advertising magazine that gets spread around the local area.

I am advertising in it, and I have the chance of putting in a little editorial.

adsat.co.uk

Ivo Flipse

well you have my permission ;)

Matt Jenkins

9:15 AM

cool

Ivo Flipse

I was just wondering if it was anything regular you could do it more often ;)

Matt Jenkins

11:02 AM

@bloodphilia Here boy!

Sathya

12:36 PM

Post authors: As with Super User questions, please use the tag field appropriately. I've seen that the categories is being used as a pseudo-tag. Please use tags to describe the content!

Ivo Flipse

12:56 PM

I suck at tagging, so I'm staying away from it :P

Sathya

well I'll take care of that then

in Root Access, 11 mins ago, by Sathya

if ya'll have installed lots of Windows software which require license keys, do drop me an @. I need few screenshots for the SU blog post.

Ivo Flipse

what kind of screenshots?

Sathya

screenshots of detected software. With the keys blurred out, ofcourse

Ivo Flipse

done with Belarc?

Sathya

well it's for

13

Q: Is there a product key finder for a PC?

Is there a product key finder for a PC?

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Ivo Flipse

1:07 PM

lol good point, sadly the first one doesn't support 64 bit nor any interesting keys :P

Sathya

oh, it works fine on 64-bit

well atleast it did for me,

picked up Windows key

prolly your localized edition is causing the problem?

Ivo Flipse

1:21 PM

no I just read it off the page

Wil

2:31 PM

@IvoFlipse - can I have the interview link again please, I will try to finish it now... I don't have it on this machine

Ivo Flipse

@Wil docs.google.com/document/d/…

Wil

Thanks... Sorry for the delays

Ivo Flipse

well survive ;)

Feeds

@kingstonHQ and @KingstonSSDNow : On behalf of the #SuperUserBlog we wanted to say thank you for your support thus far.

Tweeted by SuperKronos on April 12, 2011 at 2:29 PM

Ivo Flipse

3:12 PM

what the heck happened in that Google Docs?!?

Wil

it just crashed

Ivo Flipse

yeah, we must have been trying to edit the same thing at the same time :P

I'll let you write first and then respond ;)

Ivo Flipse

3:27 PM

btw @Wil it should be working again, so feel free to fill in the rest as well!

Wil

bah... ok...

Ivo Flipse

4:16 PM

it's not that hard now is it? ;P

installing the right CPU! that's hard!

either way, I've gotta run

Feeds

5:46 PM

@WesternDigital The #SuperUserBlog (blog.superuser.com) needs some help! Can you come to our rescue?

Tweeted by SuperKronos on April 12, 2011 at 5:41 PM

random

6:01 PM

Do I have to be invited back here all the time?

Ivo Flipse

lol, I keep forgetting who I invited in here :P

Did you see the MSU post by Mehper btw?

random

The idle wild? Yes. Didn't feel the need to chorus

Ivo Flipse

is there any way I can tempt you to write about anything? given the post on Gaming?

studiohack

@IvoFlipse that would be sweet if @nhinkle got the position

Ivo Flipse

yup I'm not sure if I'd be happy with any of the other candidates

else I'd rather pick someone like yhw42 :P

random

6:06 PM

@IvoFlipse What post on gaming now? Is it the one about the games?

studiohack

agreed @IvoFlipse, @nhinkle just crossed 10K

Ivo Flipse

the one about getting stuff sponsored

is there anything you would like to mess around with if all you had to do was write a blog post?

morning @KronoS

studiohack

hey @KronoS

random

Someone needs to write about ergonomic keyboards again. These wrists are hatching bones where bones shouldn't be

Ivo Flipse

I have such a twisted Logitech keyboard

would you have any suggestions for other keyboards to test?

I'd always wanted to try a mechanical keyboard :)

random

6:10 PM

When your work space is the size of only your laptop, such a keyboard is monster

studiohack

money money money @IvoFlipse (mechanical keyboard) :P

Ivo Flipse

are there any ergonomical laptop keyboards?

studiohack

is that real?!

Ivo Flipse

I don't know

random

Keyboard on the laptop would then need to adjust for the angle of the monitor since you may not want to stare down all day. (As one of those who stands while working on the computer)

Ivo Flipse

6:17 PM

are you forced to work on a laptop all day?

why not use an external laptop?

studiohack

I use a laptop all day

random

Standing vs sitting at the computer. Need to find someone who uses a slow moving treadmill too

Ivo Flipse

hehe, I'd be tempted to get that ;P

studiohack

→ 3 messages moved to Teachers' Lounge

Ivo Flipse

actually, I can hack that one together myself, I might persuade my old employer to 'lend' me a treadmill for testing purposed

random

6:21 PM

Seems like a good idea if standing is a better alternative than sitting all day long. You move about and don't get the rickets or whatever.

Wonder how many people are starting to stand/walk at the computer

Ivo Flipse

too bad it's slightly overbudget

studiohack

you know, @IvoFlipse, it would be fun to have a SU mod meetup

Ivo Flipse

hehe, well you guys live close to each other in the states. But @random, @diago and @Sathya don't :P

studiohack

yeah but still, an international meetup would be fun :P where does @random live?

Ivo Flipse

Down Under

studiohack

6:31 PM

South America? Africa? @IvoFlipse

Ivo Flipse

Let me Google that for you

studiohack

thanks for the google @IvoFlipse :P

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse lol, got to love lmgtfy :)

Mokubai

7:24 PM

Somebody stop me, I'm getting carried away again! Too many words!

Ivo Flipse

is there a draft we can laugh at?

Mokubai

blog.superuser.com/?p=1860&preview=true

Please don't laugh too hard...

My brain hurts

Ivo Flipse

I'm liking it so far :)

Mokubai

I think it started well...

I have some serious respect for microchip designers and operating system engineers.

I just realised I've not actually answered the question at all :(

Ivo Flipse

7:52 PM

oh dear :P

I love reading Anandtechs articles about Intel chips :D

KronoS

Gah!!!! "uncategorized" ?!

Stack Overflow Blog: Stack Exchange Traffic Still Growing

Posted by Joel Spolsky on April 12th, 2011

We had a crazy month last month, growing about 18% across the board. Today I was excited to log onto Quantcast, which measures our traffic, to see that for the first time, our network rank now fits into a single unsigned byte!

There are several different ways we measure our traffic, and each of them gets vastly different results. For example, Quantcast puts us as 14.1 million people a month (globally). They measure that using a little JavaScript widget you’ll find at the bottom of the HTML on every one of our pages. …

forsee's record amount of visits this week

@Mokubai post looks good... through in a picture for the "skim" readers... :P

Mokubai

bbiab

Ivo Flipse

SU's traffic has increased pretty good

can't say the same for SE though, at least measured in uniques

KronoS

9:08 PM

lol @IvoFlipse you can "request" access to a private room?

Ivo Flipse

who wants access?

KronoS

well I was going through the "stats" on the blog and saw the "teachers lounge" chat room as a referrer...

Ivo Flipse

ah I linked it :P

KronoS

I though to myself "Teachers Lounge"?! clicked and there's a button to request access...

then I realized what it was :)

Ivo Flipse

skooped 7 hits, w00t!

studiohack

9:10 PM

@KronoS yes, that is the mod only room for SE mods

KronoS

@studiohack I realized that after the fact

@IvoFlipse we're hitting close to 200 again today... hoping to break the 1300 this week

Ivo Flipse

yeah I hope we can stay above 200 every day

but looking at Fitness's graphs, I fear that's going to be tough

quite some comments already though

that's a good thing :)

KronoS

@IvoFlipse agreed...

WOOT Broke 200!

studiohack

talking about views, @KronoS?

KronoS

@studiohack ya :) my rep has been suffering with all the attention to the blog I've been giving it...

Ivo Flipse

9:20 PM

fah, my work suffered :P

studiohack

lol I've noticed. you'll pass me soon though, as I never go anywhere

Ivo Flipse

d'oh ==> we need to make more n00b posts

Mokubai

@KronoS likewise :( trickle rep from old answers is keeping me going at the moment...

Ivo Flipse

9:59 PM

great, both yhw and Peter want to cooperate on the interviews

nhinkle

what the hell

i just received a package from kingston

and @IvoFlipse was right

it contained a 16GB flash drive. not an SSD

o_O

Ivo Flipse

seriously?

omfg

nhinkle

i kid you not

and i'm rather confused

Ivo Flipse

well... there's always the post about portable OSes...!

nhinkle

i'm going to email kingston and ask what that's all about

studiohack

10:02 PM

how did you get that @nhinkle?!

nhinkle

well, I had contacted them about an SSD for review

and they sent me... a flash drive

i don't want to open the package in case they want me to send it back or something. i really don't know what the deal is. There was no note or anything. IDK if they just sent it as a consolation prize because they didn't want to send an SSD, or if somebody just goofed up or what.

Ivo Flipse

that's odd to say the least :\

nhinkle

very much so

studiohack

talk about tantalizing

nhinkle

seriously! i got the automated email saying "A package has been delivered for you", went to the mail room, picked it up, and it was this light bubble wrapped envelope from kingston, and though "man, I didn't know SSDs came in such small packaging!". and of course they don't >.<

studiohack

10:08 PM

that made me laugh @nhinkle :P

Ivo Flipse

well they are quite small though

on the bright side @nhinkle, you're blog post looked uber professional

nhinkle

thanks @IvoFlipse, glad you liked it!

Ivo Flipse

If both Kingston and Western Digital don't bite for more sponsorship, I'll arrange you that SSD + bay

nhinkle

78 views... not too bad

Ivo Flipse

I'm not sure if that's correct, since the homepage got a bunch as well

nhinkle

10:10 PM

@IvoFlipse if Kingston doesn't respond to my email I'm going to send asking for clarification, I'm going to tweet Intel and OCz. If I don't hear anything from either of them, then if you could help out, that would be lovely

Ivo Flipse

wonder if those are unique or not

nhinkle

idk. i'd like it if we started using Google Analytics on the blog

Ivo Flipse

I don't know how to set it up properly

I'd ask @thomasmcdonald

nhinkle

I know how to set it up, the only question is if the SO team would want it as part of their corporate account

I'd ask @rebecca or maybe @jeffatwood

Ivo Flipse

oh, because we can't leech it you mean?

nhinkle

10:14 PM

well we could set up our own google analytics account

but they already have an account they use for all the SE/SUFO sites

user30

We are using GA on the blog, but it's on SEs account.

Ivo Flipse

meeh :(

nhinkle

ah. then can we be granted access to that data @ThomasMcDonald?

they should be able to add individual accounts to a specific site's stats

how does this sound as a message for kingston?

user30

I very much doubt it. I think GA has a low upper limit on total users added to sites across a single account.

nhinkle

> I have been in contact with Kingston previously about receiving an SSD for review, and was informed that the representative would try to send one in a few weeks from then. Today I received a package in the mail from Kingston containing a 16 GB DataTraveler 101 USB flash drive. I am confused, since I had not intended to be reviewing flash drives.

> Might the wrong product have been mailed to me by accident? I have attached a picture of the drive I was sent. I have not opened the packaging yet, as I believe I was sent the wrong thing. Please let me know the status of this, and if there is any additional information I can provide. Thank you.

> Regards,

user30

10:16 PM

that statement might be bull, however, because it's a while since I've added people to GA.

nhinkle

@ThomasMcDonald I've never had a problem, but I've never added lots of people

i doubt it would hurt to ask @rebecca though

user30

Okay, I did make that up

nhinkle

well there you go then :P

@IvoFlipse, @studiohack, what do you think of the email? would that be good?

user30

but regardless, I can set the JS to just push to an alternate account as well.

studiohack

@nhinkle sounds perfect

Ivo Flipse

10:18 PM

sounds polite enough @nhinkle

user30

What's wrong with the wp.com stats anyway? :)

nhinkle

@ThomasMcDonald far less detailed, the interface doesn't expose things as well, and I <3 GA

message sent. we'll see what they say

it is now time for me to go enjoy the sunny outside with my friends. i shall speak to you all later. cheers!

user30

GA has sucky subdomain support.

studiohack

cheers @nhinkle

KronoS

10:59 PM

@nhinkle your post has received over 80 views alone today

Ivo Flipse

woehoe!

if everybody only reads one page, that's nearly as much visitors as Fitness gets :\

Tom Wijsman

11:25 PM

@IvoFlipse, @KronoS: Took some time to improve the Google Docs document. :)

Ivo Flipse

Looks nice @TomWijsman

KronoS

Dido

Ivo Flipse

btw @KronoS are you an admin on the Gaming blog too? can't add you to the users for some reason :\

KronoS

checking

Tom Wijsman

Ivo Flipse

11:30 PM

yeah that has happened at a lot today

Tom Wijsman

I got this during my editing (probably had the tab open for too long?) and it shows that too for the revision history, another reason to not go for the Cloud.

KronoS

@IvoFlipse Hmmm nope I'm not... don't even see it... but I do see fit and nut

Ivo Flipse

gaming.blogoverflow.com/wp-admin

KronoS

11:47 PM

@IvoFlipse ya thats the link that I used, however i don't think I have access to the gaming one

Ivo Flipse

jeffbullas.com/2011/04/13/…

KronoS

@IvoFlipse will you have an interview ready for tomorrow?

Ivo Flipse