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Kyle Cronin

00:00

I love flipping through Keynote presentations using my Apple Remote with my MBP

Daniel

sure

Kyle Cronin

especially when everyone else uses ugly PowerPoint slides and taps the space bar/right arrow

Daniel

Do you have an iPhone or iPod touch?

Kyle Cronin

iPhone

I'm aware of the remote app, but I think that requires the devices to be on the same network

which isn't a big deal, but I prefer the directness of sending the command directly to the computer, as opposed to blasting it through the network, which may have issues

and I prefer the tactility of a real button

Jason Salaz

use a pair of headphones

Kyle Cronin

00:09

um, what?

I suspect you know something I don't

Jason Salaz

Depending on what hardware the Mac is, you can use your headphone's button.

The headphone button works as play/pause, next, previous, on desktops too. As of... 2010 and beyond? 2011? Something like that.

I don't recall if the actual microphone aspect of it will work in the headphone port or not.

Kyle Cronin

interested, I didn't know about that, but there are two problems. first, I'd still be tethered to the MacBook with a wire - the headphones. second, I have enough of a problem getting my headphones to play/pause on my iPhone (don't know if this is an iPhone problem or a headphones problem (or both)) and I wouldn't be prepared to trust them with the task of changing slides during a presentation

Jason Salaz

interested indeed

Kyle Cronin

the ideal solution is one of those RF USB changers that professional presenters use, but I don't present enough to justify buying one

Jason Salaz

The ideal solution is using a wireless mouse.

Kyle Cronin

00:19

well, what I'm talking about is basically a wireless mouse, but without the mouse part

you didn't see Steve Jobs getting up on stage with a wireless mouse

for the purposes of changing slides

Jason Salaz

nope, just a horrendously ugly clicker.

Kyle Cronin

nor an iPhone for that matter

horrendously ugly, but super reliable

in Apple parlance, it needs to just work without failure

one needn't look further than the iPhone 4 announcement to see how unpredictable wifi can be

Jason Salaz

They could make a better clicker.

Apparently I haven't seen the iPhone 4 keynote, because I didn't get the reference.

#shameonme

Kyle Cronin

00:35

it was the one where Steve Jobs yelled at everyone about being on the wifi

it might have been edited out of the video they posted

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daviesgeek

00:59

@JasonSalaz That's what I want

I know I can make it more expensive, but that's the one I wanted.

jaberg

Late to the game–but I have a USB remote from Logitech or Kensington that wasn't very expensive.

daviesgeek

The specs on that MBP were:

# 2.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7
# 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM — 2x2GB
# 750GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
# SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
# MacBook Pro 15-inch Hi-Res Antiglare Widescreen Display

And actually I want Apple Care, which bumps it to 3 grand.....sigh

Daniel

01:22

@KyleCronin Awesome. Just awesome.

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Kyle Cronin

deleted

Daniel

Wow! that was fast.

Kyle Cronin

I'm here to serve

Daniel

I hope whoever gets elected can live up to your high standards

Kyle Cronin

me too

Daniel

01:29

Of course it's you & Nathan + the new three, so even if the new folks are lazy slackers, things shouldn't get worse unless they do bad stuff.

Kyle Cronin

right

my biggest concern is a new mod being overzealous with their new mod powers

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Nathan Greenstein

depends on whether or not I turn into a lazy slacker once we get new mods ;)

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Kyle Cronin

once you have a diamond you don't have anything to prove, but you could upset a lot of people if you don't mod with care

Daniel

@KyleCronin That's the big concern. Any mod is dangerous. Three new ones at once could be catastrophic. We must choose wisely.

Which is why aspirations of world domination might not be the most desirable feature in a mod...

Kyle Cronin

indeed

the important thing is to approach everything by giving people the benefit of the doubt

and never to lose that

Daniel

01:33

Yup

Power corrupts. You and Nathan don't let it go to your heads. That's a very very good thing.

Kyle Cronin

we try :)

Daniel

Which is why bmike would be such a safe choice, should he decide to run. He already has so much of the power anyway that it's unlikely to cause any problems.

And Jason (hi @JasonSalaz) has such a great history of working with the two of you.

Kyle Cronin

Jason and I don't always agree on what should be done in terms of moderation, but the important thing is we're able to discuss it

Daniel

I somehow doubt you and Nathan always agree. It's rather natural for people to disagree from time to time.

Kyle Cronin

not always, but often

I think that having moderators that actually talk to one another on a regular basis is quite unusual for a SE site

most of the other sites' moderators only talk to each other if there's a problem that needs resolving

AD was like that too, until I started the podcast and Nathan and I started talking a lot

it's hard to imagine what this site would be like if there were no blog, no podcast, and no chat

Jason Salaz

01:45

No kidding.

We don't really have a frame of reference without it. I know I've been in chat for forever and a day.

jrg

@NathanGreenstein Thanks again.

Nathan Greenstein

@jrg No problem! Best of luck in the AU election.

jrg

@NathanGreenstein :) Worst can happen is I don't get elected.

Daniel

02:59

@KyleCronin I think it's easy to imagine, but not a particularly happy image. The chat room makes this all so much more human.

daviesgeek

05:26

@Daniel I was kidding!

@KyleCronin that would be really hard....

Daniel

@daviesgeek I know. If you really aspired to world domination, you wouldn't announce it.

daviesgeek

haha

Daniel

(but it's starred in the sidebar; it must be true, right?)

daviesgeek

Yessss...... (laughs like a maniac and rubs hands together)

Daniel

[Maniacal laugh] (did you see The Muppets?)

daviesgeek

05:33

No.

Which one?

Daniel

The one that came out this past year. I think it was called "The Muppets".

daviesgeek

Then, I didn't.

Daniel

The villain kept saying the words "maniacal laugh" to prompt his henchmen to laugh.

daviesgeek

I am most definitely not up to date on movies/tv shows, etc.

Daniel

He was bent on world domination.

daviesgeek

05:34

Except for Hawaii 50

That is one tv show I do try to keep up on

Daniel

I can't say I know what Hawaii 50 is. I'm in my own insulated bubble.

daviesgeek

That's one of like 5 TV shows I actually know about.

And I'm even worse with movies

Daniel

So if this is going to turn into some sort of chat about pop culture, I suspect it won't be a very interesting one.

daviesgeek

:-)

hello Kyle

Daniel

Hi @KyleCronin

Kyle Cronin

05:37

hi

Daniel

Do you know more about pop culture than we do?

daviesgeek

(What he said)

Kyle Cronin

oh, definitely not

Daniel

Wait, you and Jason were just talking about your odd TV habits.

So a bunch of socially challenged people meet in an internet chat room. Hmm, what a concept.

:-)

BTW, @daviesgeek I'm not convinced that downvotes on meta necessarily need comments -- since they don't affect rep, some people use them just to say "yes" or "no" -- an additional comment wouldn't add a whole lot of information.

daviesgeek

:-)

@Daniel I think it'd be helpful

Kyle Cronin

05:39

I used to be awesome at all the sections of Brain Quest except the culture

Daniel

OK, but it's not "completely useless" as you asserted.

Kyle Cronin

and I would just have no idea

daviesgeek

@Daniel That was a canned comment

Daniel

Is a "I agree" or "I disagree" comment really that helpful? People with something to say usually do.

Canned comment?

daviesgeek

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Daniel

05:40

@KyleCronin What's Brain Quest?

daviesgeek

(^What he said)

'cuz I was going to ask the same thing

Kyle Cronin

@Daniel brainquest.com

Daniel

@daviesgeek Wild!

Kyle Cronin

yeah, it's for kids

daviesgeek

@Daniel i love it!

@KyleCronin hey I did those things!

Daniel

05:41

I think I saw some of those at a garage sale once.

daviesgeek

Now I remember what they are

Kyle Cronin

basically, something educational parents could buy their kids

daviesgeek

yup

Kyle Cronin

I liked them, but they had a culture section I would always have to skip

daviesgeek

@KyleCronin Isn't it like 12:00 over there?

Daniel

05:42

Culture... isn't that what they grow bacteria in?

12:42, to be exact

Kyle Cronin

@daviesgeek Nathan uses TextExpander for that

daviesgeek

@KyleCronin I know.

Daniel

TextExpander FTW

Kyle Cronin

believe it or not, Daniel and I share a time zone

I'd love to get TE if it weren't so expensive

speak of the devil

Daniel

I think I got it as part of a package once.

I didn't know @NathanGreenstein was evil.

daviesgeek

05:43

I don't have a use for TE

Daniel

He seems nice enough to me :-)

daviesgeek

me too

Kyle Cronin

@Daniel not so much evil, but coincidental that he showed up just as we mentioned him

daviesgeek

@KyleCronin Nathan and I share a time zone

Daniel

I know. Just being obnoxious. As I'm apt to do after midnight.

daviesgeek

05:44

@KyleCronin that is pretty funny

Nathan Greenstein

I'm only evil on Wednesdays. You guys are fine for awhile.

Daniel

Oh good.

daviesgeek

Whew...

Daniel

You didn't even @ him when you mentioned him.

daviesgeek

hey i gotta go to bed.....

Daniel

05:45

So what time is it on the west coast?

Kyle Cronin

@daviesgeek bye

Nathan Greenstein

9:45

I shouldn't be here either :)

daviesgeek

9:46

Kyle Cronin

we're talking to people with bedtimes, Daniel :)

daviesgeek

I was trying to say to my Dad's macbook outside where he's working

by using ssh

Daniel

05:47

@KyleCronin As opposed to people like us whose lives would be better if they did have bedtimes.

daviesgeek

but, ssh wasn't enabled, so I thought I'd check out the chat room.....

Kyle Cronin

@Daniel true

daviesgeek

Definitely true...

Daniel

The snowman is gone. :-(

Just because no one keeps you from staying up all night doesn't mean your body will be happy about it in the morning.

daviesgeek

It is.....:-(

Kyle Cronin

05:47

you're right, I wonder why... winter's not over

daviesgeek

I have to go...

Just as you're talking about snowmen too.......

Daniel

Maybe it melted. Although I heard that there's actually some cold weather up in Maine, or so a friend of mine in Orono said.

Kyle Cronin

bye

Daniel

bye

Nathan Greenstein

I'm gonna leave too

daviesgeek

05:48

I don't know what that has to do with anything, but

good by

Nathan Greenstein

Kyle, I'm leaving you with that flag. Have fun.

See you guys

Daniel

Wow, an actual logout

Is @JasonSalaz really here, or did he just drift away but not log out?

Kyle Cronin

I'd guess it's open in a tab on his computer

but he's otherwise idle

Daniel

Right

I do that far too often.

Kyle Cronin

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Q: Triple Boot Lion+Win7+Linux

I have a challenge for you. I've been doing lots of research, and I've found quite a few questions here left unanswered. I know this is possible, I'm interested in hearing from people who have actually done it and learn from their direct experience. Currently, I'm running Snow Leopard, dual bo...

osx windows linux

Daniel

05:51

Insanely too localized?

Kyle Cronin

I'm not sure

they certainly put a lot of work into the question

Daniel

True.

Triple booting is a nice general scenario, but those are some specific roadblocks.

But the solution, if it isn't too idiosyncratic, should help others.

Maybe it should stay...

Is this the flag to which Nathan referred?

Kyle Cronin

yes

I'm trying to see if there's some way to edit the question to get to the heart of the problem

Daniel

I hate to lose information, but the wall of text is more than a bit intimidating.

Kyle Cronin

yeah

Daniel

05:54

I can't believe I got to field a suggested edit when both mods were logged in. That stays open in a tab, though.

apple.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/2857

Kyle Cronin

oh, the suggested edit queue is a low priority for me

there are a lot more people that can handle them than can handle mod flags

Daniel

Good. I'm working on proofreader. 65% of the way there.

@KyleCronin That's really an intense question.

Kyle Cronin

yeah

Daniel

Is the core question about triple booting?

Kyle Cronin

right

I think I'm just going to leave it, I don't know enough about this guy's problem to edit it and it's on topic

Daniel

05:59

Or about installing without a working internal drive?

Kyle Cronin

well, he his goal is in multiple parts

triple booting, installing the old HD in the optical bay, etc

Daniel

To give @daviesgeek credit, this one would actually be much easier to understand if the subject line were more of a complete sentence.

Kyle Cronin

indeed

Daniel

It's like the War and Peace of AD posts.

But he's wrong that you have to boot from internal drives. I boot from a USB stick all the time. Well, not all the time, but when I need to.

Kyle Cronin

what OS do you boot?

Daniel

06:01

Lion

Kyle Cronin

Mac OS X is quite flexible about where it's booted, but I'm not sure about Linux and Windows

Daniel

Fair enough

It's on topic. I'm still leaning toward "too localized." There's a core question that isn't too localized, but it's a duplicate

Kyle Cronin

indeed

I'm hoping someone can help him

Daniel

Well, maybe it could happen.

I'm sensitive to our unanswered question rate. If this one doesn't get an answer, I'd want to see it closed in a cleanup sweep sometime in the future.

Kyle Cronin

definitely

Daniel

06:08

I'm not generally trigger-happy on closing (indeed, I started out at the opposite extreme), but a particularly specific problem on an odd hardware setup just doesn't seem likely to me to get helpful answers.

But if you leave it, someone might answer. Which is good.

Kyle Cronin

right

it's situations like these where I wish we had the ability to revisit questions a few days or a week or two later

Daniel

Can you flag it with a note to yourself/Nathan to revisit it after x date?

Or is the flag queue like inbox zero?

Kyle Cronin

well we already do have some flags in there that we're waiting on

but it's not designed for that kind of use

it's best to keep it clear

Daniel

I didn't know how bad of a kludge I was suggesting. I do see how clear is good.

Well, you could always use that best of all databases: Stickies to track the post number and revisit it later.

Kyle Cronin

yeah, there are definitely out-of-band solutions

Daniel

06:15

nudgemail

Kyle Cronin

I'd probably go with a google doc so all the mods can share it

Daniel

Right. I forget about those.

Kyle Cronin

so have you listened to your podcast yet?

Daniel

No. I hate the sound of my voice, so I've been putting it off. But I should.

Downloading.

1 minute remaining

Kyle Cronin

I think a better microphone will do wonders for you

Daniel

06:19

I'll still have my voice.

:-(

But yes, it could help.

I want to record some lectures, so getting a better audio input might help for a number of things.

Kyle Cronin

some of the better setups record the same kind of sound you hear in your head when you're talking

for example, I absolutely love the sound I get from my mic

really sounds like 'me'

Daniel

What do you use?

Kyle Cronin

a Heil PR 40, connected to a Joemeek threeQ preamp, then a Mackie Onyx Blackjack audio interface

I went a little nuts

basically, I just bought everything Dan recommended: hivelogic.com/articles/podcasting-equipment-software-guide-2011

Daniel

He makes his living doing podcasts.

Kyle Cronin

yeah, and he's had a lot of experience trying out different setups, so I trust his opinion a lot

plus Leo Laporte also uses the PR 40

Daniel

06:24

Well, that all looks outside my budget at this point, but something better than a $12 USB headset might be possible.

Kyle Cronin

yeah

Nathan uses a Samson Q2U

Daniel

I'll have to check that out.

But for now I think I might take a cue from the young people on the west coast and try to stop pretending I'm nocturnal. Be well.

Kyle Cronin

you too

bmike

15:03

Have the moderator nominations been closed early or did I miss the boat?

Kyle Cronin

they're still ongoing

but the banner expired

apple.stackexchange.com/election

bmike

phew - I'll get my nomination posted this morning :-)

Kyle Cronin

looking forward to it :)

bmike

15:23

@KyleCronin the proverbial hat has been tossed into the ring ...

Kyle Cronin

excellent

we have some great people in the running (you included)

bmike

@KyleCronin Oh my goodness - there are numerous great moderators in the pool. It will be very hard to pick from the many deserving ones. I hope a few more step in as well.

I've just pinged three I think would be great in comments to answers they made...

Kyle Cronin

I think a short blog post about the position and how to apply might be a good idea

might get some more prospective mods

jaberg

Good morning. Plus hat tip to bmike for tossing his own hat.

Kyle Cronin

15:38

lots of hats

stuffe

Mine's a wooly one with flaps you can tie up on top or un der the chin

Kyle Cronin

fancy

jaberg

So many hats… but for today's discussion I'm pretending to wear the long-leather-billed "Hemingway" hat in my profile photo.

Daniel

16:30

Thrilled to see @bmike is running. An obvious first choice!

stuffe

I'm voting for @bmike

I'm also going to try to knobble everyone else into thinking I am @Daniel by asking people to refer to me by my first name ;)

daviesgeek

18:17

@Daniel :-)

@KyleCronin IIRC, Linux is as flexible as OS X as to where it can be booted.

I think the problem is Windows

@Daniel What about Trello?

daviesgeek

18:35

Ooo...This is cool!

I can add myself to the elections.stackexchange.com page to see how I compare to others running for mod without nominating myself:

Moshe

19:53

Hullo.

Jason Salaz

afternoon

Daniel

Afternoon in this part of the world too.

I know, I'm only two time zones over. But some of our readers are in much more exotic locales.

Jason Salaz

What Time Zone are you in, Moshe?

Jason Salaz

20:32

Hey @KyleCronin @NathanGreenstein, (1) any idea why podcast #22 is listed as " - Standard" in the blog post list? Otherwise, (2) could you ping Rebecca Chernoff to come take a look? I don't get her in my @ list anymore.

(That list shortens way too fast.)

Unless... @RebeccaChernoff just happens to work anyways even if it's not in my autocomplete list?

Apparently it does? That's nice :). Hi Rebecca.

Any idea what that "- Standard" is? I've never ever seen it before, and can't seem to find info on it.

Rebecca Chernoff

hmm no >_<

Jason Salaz

Actually, I think I may have just found it.

But the source link is dead... sigh.

And then I realize, there is a stack exchange site for wordpress.

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I'm looking to display an image for all the "standard" post formats on my site. I have done some research on how to add quote, video, photo, etc and have been able to implement these images into the site but when it comes to the "standard" post type I get nothing! I have done all the necessary s...

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So I think I'm right, it's a Post type that was enabled as of the last WP update, but I don't see how to choose the type.

codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types#Custom_Types

I suspect I can't change it, because we only have one type, nothing defined for any others. I'm fine with that :).

Daniel

20:53

Hey all you folks whose search-fu is better than mine: Is there a way to do a search to find out how close you are to the sportsmanship badge? I feel like I've upvoted a ton of answers that compete with answers I've written, but apparently that ton is less than 100 answers.

Jason Salaz

isn't it 100 and 25% of your overall votes?

Daniel

21:10

Oh. Most of my votes are for questions, so that would rule me out. I see.

Thanks, Jason. Helpful clarification.

Jason Salaz

Did that explain why you don't have it?

25% or greater, you should have it.

I think. Perhaps I should go look at the badge definition.

Oh, right, Sportsmanship is competing answers. I had Electorate in mind.

I'm not sure that there is a way to search for that, considering that votes are hidden to (more or less) everyone.

Jason Salaz

21:56

You know, it's actually kind of painful jumping out to a blog. I'm reading through the Main (big M) Stack Exchange blog, and it sucks. No voting, no flagging, no nothing. I think there's room for a SE-style blogging engine.

Comments on a blog = answers, comments on answers (and the question/blog post) disappear entirely.

The medium is different, the activity really isn't.

bmike

@Daniel Aw shucks - thanks. cc/ @stuffe

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