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Nathan Greenstein

01:10

@RebeccaChernoff I've got another blog question, if you're here

I'm doing a comparison of a few similar apps where I rank each app on a bunch of metrics and tests. The 'best app' is determined by the app that has the best score overall, but I'd like to be able to customize that to each reader's priorities.

For example, if a user doesn't care about price, that's a factor in which app they choose. Or if a user doesn't care as much about ease of use as they do performance.

So, to do that, I'd like to include a little JavaScript 'widget'.

Is there any way that I could add an arbitrary script that works with arbitrary HTML in a post?

(bold = tldr, not yelling :)

Jason Salaz

02:49

Some days, XKCD is just too smart for me.

Hi! Someone call for me? I'm a superhero who specializes in the study of God's creation of Man in the Book of Genesi-- HOLY SHIT A GIANT BUG!

Daniel

thenextweb.com/apple/2012/02/03/… This change is a big deal to me. I'm much more on-board with using iBooks Author now.

Jason Salaz

Man, a software update just to update the EULA? When has that ever happened before?

Kyle Cronin

@JasonSalaz it's a joke based on the similar sounding etymology and entomology, the former being the study of the sources of words, the latter being the study of insects

Jason Salaz

Re: Daniel's link, tl;dr hahahaha I was right

Re: XKCD, the alt text of that comic talks about yet another joke then. I figured today's comic was referencing etymology man two strips back, but then I read the alt text and was further confused.

P.S. I think I mean title text.

Daniel

@JasonSalaz My concerns were valid for the EULA as originally written, but I'm delighted that you were right about their intentions. I can print the output of iBooks Author and charge to recoup my photocopy cost without violating the EULA now. I couldn't before.

Re XKCD, I got the joke in the cartoon, but I'm still lost on the alt text.

Kyle Cronin

02:57

@Daniel same

Jason Salaz

Kyle was of course right about businesses and assumed risk, I'm just glad I'm completely right now. It feels good. :)

Kyle Cronin

you were right about what, exactly?

@Daniel according to the xkcd forums, the third is supposed to be etiology, something I've never heard of

Daniel

But, as a wise man once said, don't explain the joke

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Jason Salaz

PDFs generated by iBooks Author being completely free to use however someone wants.

Daniel

They weren't. Now they are. Cool feature enabled by software update.

Although I hate to download the program again just to turn on that feature.

Jason Salaz

03:01

Hmmm, it's completely I possible to reply via the mobile interface?

Could be worse, could be Xcode :).

Daniel

Indeed. If Xcode only let you sell your output via the App Store, there would be an uproar.

Jason Salaz

Ba-zing.

Jason Salaz

03:13

Daniel really likes quoting me.

Kyle Cronin

►

Jason Salaz

Wow, what a terrible clip.

I forgot how much I hated TV shows and canned laughter.

Is that The Big Bang Theory?

Kyle Cronin

yeah

Jason Salaz

.o0(Note to self, keep not watching The Big Bang Theory)

Kyle Cronin

I hate them too, but I tolerate it if the show's enjoyable

Daniel

03:17

I like quotes. You're not the only one I've quoted here, Jason. They're even more fun out of context.

Kyle Cronin

31 secs ago, by Daniel

I like quotes. You're not the only one I've quoted here, Jason. They're even more fun out of context.

Jason Salaz

Perhaps not quoting, but actively referencing.

Kyle Cronin

12 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

31 secs ago, by Daniel

I like quotes. You're not the only one I've quoted here, Jason. They're even more fun out of context.

Jason Salaz

You quoted my standards one, and my trope now. That's more than anyone else I can think of.

Kyle Cronin

10 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

12 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

31 secs ago, by Daniel

I like quotes. You're not the only one I've quoted here, Jason. They're even more fun out of context.

this is fun

Jason Salaz

03:18

7 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

10 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

12 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

31 secs ago, by Daniel

I like quotes. You're not the only one I've quoted here, Jason. They're even more fun out of context.

HOW FAR DOES IT GOOOOOOOOOO

Kyle Cronin

17 secs ago, by Jason Salaz

7 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

10 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

12 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

31 secs ago, by Daniel

I like quotes. You're not the only one I've quoted here, Jason. They're even more fun out of context.

Jason Salaz

Oh hey I can just right click the arrow, I didn't know that.

12 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

17 secs ago, by Jason Salaz

7 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

10 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

12 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

31 secs ago, by Daniel

I like quotes. You're not the only one I've quoted here, Jason. They're even more fun out of context.

This is nuts.

I can only imagine the expression on people's faces when they come in and see this.

Kyle Cronin

indeed

Jason Salaz

I suspect this could go into infinity.

42 secs ago, by Jason Salaz

12 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

17 secs ago, by Jason Salaz

7 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

10 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

12 secs ago, by Kyle Cronin

31 secs ago, by Daniel

I like quotes. You're not the only one I've quoted here, Jason. They're even more fun out of context.

Kyle Cronin

by the way, I suspect it's not a coincidence that you said this shortly after I CC'd you on an email to CHAOS where I said the same thing

Jason Salaz

03:21

hahahahahahhaa, hmmm

I don't remember which one I did first!

I didn't read my e-mail until the early afternoon, and I know I had the SE Blog open when I said that.

But I might have had the SE blog open because of your e-mail.

I love the days I can remember my train association brain, but this is not one of those times.

Simon Sheehan

@JasonSalaz I saw your thing about having the SE styled blog... it got proposed a while ago actually

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Q: Using the Stack engine for the blog – a long-term idea for maintaining a healthy blogging culture

What's the current status? Let's say this first: The Super User blog is a great idea, and we've had enormous success with it. We've had a lot of diverse contributions, inspired by our Question of the Week posts on Meta, and several regular writers. Even more so, Stack Exchange has launched a num...

Jason Salaz

Kyle's thing, actually (likely) XD.

Kyle Cronin

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Q: Power the blog content and discussion with Meta instead of WordPress

In addition to replacing UserVoice, would it also be a good idea to replace the blog itself with Meta? Given WordPress' recent flakiness, I think that a more stable replacement is in order. The idea isn't as crazy as it sounds - a blog moderator tag could prevent people from posting their own stu...

feature-request meta blog wordpress

that was from mid-2009

Jason Salaz

hooooooooooooolyc rap

(and that was your link I didn't click on in the e-mail)

Kyle Cronin

yes

Simon Sheehan

03:23

Ahh, a while ago. Was that before BlogOverflow?

Jason Salaz

oh yes

blog overflow is less than a year old

Kyle Cronin

granted, my idea wan't about Blog Overflow, but it's gained more importance since its introduction

Simon Sheehan

Ah okay, I've been around less than a year :P

Gotta go now though, cya all later.

Kyle Cronin

I've been around since August 2008 :)

bye

back when Bush was still president

Jason Salaz

ha

I love visiting 3 years of history in 10 minutes

link spam, 4 in a row:

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Q: Power the blog content and discussion with Meta instead of WordPress

In addition to replacing UserVoice, would it also be a good idea to replace the blog itself with Meta? Given WordPress' recent flakiness, I think that a more stable replacement is in order. The idea isn't as crazy as it sounds - a blog moderator tag could prevent people from posting their own stu...

feature-request meta blog wordpress

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A: Power the blog content and discussion with Meta instead of WordPress

It's not a bad idea, but I think it has some downsides too many eggs in one basket meta is already stretched as a semi-discussion site, stretching it into a blog feels a bit like kitchen-sink-itis would be additional coding work specific to meta

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Q: Using the Stack engine for the blog – a long-term idea for maintaining a healthy blogging culture

What's the current status? Let's say this first: The Super User blog is a great idea, and we've had enormous success with it. We've had a lot of diverse contributions, inspired by our Question of the Week posts on Meta, and several regular writers. Even more so, Stack Exchange has launched a num...

discussion feature-request blog blog-overflow

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A: Using the Stack engine for the blog – a long-term idea for maintaining a healthy blogging culture

We're definitely looking at this and I, at least, feel it is strongly on-mission. However, it would be a major feature and will take (seriously, no really) 6-8 months to put together. And of course there are other things we're working on, but just know that we think this is a great idea that so...

I appreciate that things change for a multitude of reasons, it's just funny.

Super-wailing-bonus, this answer to Kyle's post:

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A: Power the blog content and discussion with Meta instead of WordPress

No. Not everybody can be bothered to keep up with MSO. blog.stackoverflow.com is a better outlet for Jeff's propaganda because it is almost always on topic, and almost never repetative posts are 100% official has a much higher signal-to-noise ration than MSO lower volume of posts, which suits...

No. Thanks Stu.

You're just ahead of your time, Kyle.

Kyle Cronin

03:32

yeah

I remember when I created the phpBB-based meta site, and Jeff created the real meta shortly after

then on meta.SE, I was pushing for free metas with every SE site

and now we do

Jason Salaz

so, meta.se existed back in the day?

Kyle Cronin

yep

Jason Salaz

and now it should do so again? and MSO should be only about SO? sigh

Kyle Cronin

meta.SE was about the SE 1.0 product

Jason Salaz

actually, I do remember that.

lolololol zerg overflow

Kyle Cronin

03:34

but I agree, they should rename MSO to meta.SE and make a meta.SO for SO-only stuff

Jason Salaz

now it just redirects to MSO? sigh

Kyle Cronin

yeah

I know there was a lot of stuff there that's no longer relevant now that SE 1.0 no longer exists, but I still think that the content should be preserved somewhere

Jason Salaz

why?

same reason as 'legacy' community wikis?

"memories"?

ugh, when I type app and wait, chrome's first result is .blogoverflow.com and not .stackexchange.com, UGH. blogoverflow is not my majority browsing case

p.s. stack exchange. 'blog.askdifferent.com' and 'askdifferent.com' would go a LONG WAY TOWARDS FIXING THIS.

Kyle Cronin

well, one example was on my mod election bio from last year I linked to the original Apple proposal I made on meta.SE

and as soon as the election went live (and I couldn't edit the bio) they took meta.SE down

so I looked stupid with a broken link

Jason Salaz

Doesn't seem to have deterred you.

Kyle Cronin

03:48

what, looking stupid?

Jason Salaz

Doesn't seem to have deterred your election chances*.

Kyle Cronin

no, but it was frustrating

it's also part of Ask Different's history

Jason Salaz

indeed

Kyle Cronin

there was a whole discussion I had with Robert Cartaino about overlapping subject areas for sites

it's because I pushed for this proposal that sites can overlap

Kyle Cronin

04:08

@JasonSalaz can you test this? if it's true, this could be a good candidate for the iOS 5 tiny things post ios.finerthingsin.com/post/16982049392/…

Jason Salaz

oh wow

that is fancy

yes, it works. the button width is very large by comparison

Jason Salaz

04:45

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A: What tiny thing in iOS 5 makes you smile, or has caught you off guard?

Ghost Buttons on the iPad's Split Keyboard Many have complained about the split keyboard not matching their natural finger choice for the middle letters (TY / GH / VB), but as it turns out, those keys all exist on the both sides of the keyboard. Want to hit Y with your left finger? Do it, it's t...

That site is absurdly unstable. Who posted about it?

Kyle Cronin

04:59

no screenshot?

Jason Salaz

It's not exactly screenshotable...

there's no button depression, and I can't screenshot my finger.

Kyle Cronin

you could do what the article did

Jason Salaz

meeeeehhhhhhhhhhh

I'm already editing pictures for the blog.

Kyle Cronin

Jason Salaz

indeed

Brant

18:13

@JasonSalaz I hate that question but I love that tip.

I've always hit Y with my left index finger, for some reason.

gentmatt

20:16

Great! Filevault 2 is so easy to crack when you have access to the password on the RAM. You only need 995$. lostpassword.com/kit-forensic.htm

:(

gentmatt

20:38

I meant 'bypassing' instead of 'cracking'. This solution only steals the key from the RAM.

@KyleCronin I'd be cool if you would talk about his on the next podcast. tuaw.com/2012/02/03/…

Jason Salaz

21:43

@gentmatt Physical access is total access.

stuffe

Hasn't this always been the case? Firewire goes straight on the BUS, gain access and you gain, well, access....

Anyone used WunderKit?

gentmatt

22:20

Well, this is just saaaad. I can't believe that the RAM allows such risks. Maybe special hardware is necessary for the 99,99% protection?

stuffe

Nothing is 100% secure, at the end of the day computers are designed to be used, security is almost always retrofitted

Jason Salaz

23:13

@gentmatt

1 hour ago, by Jason Salaz

@gentmatt Physical access is total access.

If someone has physical access to your computer, you can deter, but you cannot prevent. Period. End of discussion.

It depends on what you're trying to prevent exactly, but given enough time, effort, skill/knowledge, and access, they can get in. It's really as simple as that.

stuffe

The only secure computer is the one that has never been used for anything by anyone

Unless you want to type in your unencryption key for every bye of information that is unencrypted as and when required.

And even then your key is in emory for the length of time it takes to sign the hash etc.

There really is no way around this, if it can be made available to 1 user it can be made available to more given the right tools, enough time, and sufficient access whether remote or local.

daviesgeek

Hey @JasonSalaz Do you know anything about wireless mics?

I have a lavalier mic that is only transmitting one channel.

And I think it may be the power supply, I don't know....

@stuffe What about you?

Do you know anything about this stuff?

Or Nathan.

As you can tell, it is an "urgent" problem.....

Urgent as in I want to get it done, not have to.

stuffe

23:29

Nope, sorry

daviesgeek

too bad

stuffe

Although my gut instinct says I can't see why a power supply would affect such a thing

daviesgeek

That's really the only thing I can think of

The mic was working not too long ago

I am not using the original power supply and I think it isn't the right voltage/amps

so it's causing it to only receive one channel

stuffe

OK, does the unit have it's requirements stated near the input socket?

daviesgeek

yes

Nathan Greenstein

23:32

@daviesgeek What model is the mic?

daviesgeek

And I've checked it

@NathanGreenstein It's a Shure PGX1 transmitter

And a Shure PGX4 receiver

PGX4

Nathan Greenstein

And it was working until recently?

daviesgeek

PGX1

it was

yes

Nathan Greenstein

Did it stop working immediately after you switched the power supply?

daviesgeek

That's where I don't know...

Nathan Greenstein

23:34

Do you know if it worked at all after the new supply?

stuffe

So it's the PGX4 receiver you think has the problem,, not the PGX1 transmitter which you can run on batteries by the look of it

daviesgeek

@NathanGreenstein no

@stuffe Yes

stuffe

Power Requirements: 12–18 Vdc at 150 mA, supplied by external power supply

Seems relatively loose requirements, what did you replace with?

Nathan Greenstein

Afraid I've got to leave again atm, but if it seems likely that it stopped working after switching the power supply, that's probably the problem. Strange as it sounds...

daviesgeek

A 12V 300mA supply

I just realized the 300mA part

stuffe

23:35

Basicaly anything at 12v and more than 150Ma would work, you can exceed no problem

daviesgeek

Ok...

stuffe

Should be fine

daviesgeek

Maybe it's the output that I'm using on the receiver.

stuffe

What would be bad would be if it needed 300Ma, and you gave it 150Ma, it would work twice as hard and burn out

daviesgeek

I'm using the 1/4 out, not the XLR

@stuffe Ouch.

Unfortunately, I don't have an XLR cable...

stuffe

23:38

Time to beg borrow or steal.

Battery says I gotta go!

Night all

daviesgeek

ok

night?

ah, you are UK

stuffe

23:39

daviesgeek

15:39 here

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