Root Access

Wil

12:17 AM

@nhinkle And I thought BT were bad and mixed up their units of measurement and took out half of London's phone lines...

PT Desu

12:32 AM

hello

Journeyman Geek

12:56 AM

@Wil: nasa did it too

ello

KronoS

1:40 AM

0

Q: How do I start silverlight on netflix in full screen automatically?

I know that there this great big button that I can click for full screen on the bottom left of the screen. What I'm doing though is launching the direct movie/tv episode in chrome from XBMC. It's like pasting the video html address in the address bar and going directly to the video feed. Here'...

any ideas?

Tom Wijsman

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First time I saw this, I only saw people running. Well, or should I say moving?

KronoS

That's so fake... well the guy falling that it

Journeyman Geek

hmm

out of curiocity, anyone want to see pix of a old sun keyboard? i think it was part of a mini 5

er.. ultra 5

Wil

Yeah, looks fake!!! and... IT almost crashed my chrome :/ Went unresponsive, then when I did close, it just crashed the flash plugin

I found a new way to vent all my anger!!! My last two posts on blog.williamhilsum.com :) ... Two weeks to write still!

DMA57361

9:28 AM

morning all

Ivo Flipse

gooood morning :)

DMA57361

9:46 AM

@IvoFlipse what's this I see on gaming about the blog being gold?

Ivo Flipse

@DMA57361 badp doing me a favor :)

DMA57361

so advertising then?

I thought it had gone official for a moment

Ivo Flipse

@DMA57361 technically, there's no reason for them not to, since they even tied it to the blog link

but meeh, I'll just not go there :P

DMA57361

indeed

Feeds

12:27 PM

Super User Blog: Super User Recent Feature Changes

Posted by ivoflipse on May 28th, 2011

After BloodPhilia asked you guys what the Super User blog should be focusing on, slhck pointed out that it would be nice if we could address recent changes to Super User and the Stack Exchange network. So here’s our first overview of recent changes.

From the start downvotes have “cost” rep: –2 from the post’s owner’s and –1 from yours. We all worked very hard for our rep and don’t want to lose any of it just to help moderate the site! The result? Users hardly ever downvote! Here’s a graph Jeff made with the upvotes vs. downvotes. …

Journeyman Geek

hm

it needs to be tuesday sooner

DMA57361

@JourneymanGeek ?

Journeyman Geek

lol

getting my x220i then ._.

DMA57361

ahhhh

Sathya

12:42 PM

some of the spam.. is just bizarre

Ivo Flipse

@Sathya almost worth the money as a short novel ;P

Journeyman Geek

o0

Sathya

@IvoFlipse funnily it was titled as "Footprints Filmworks: Abdulla 'arrives,' in the United State"

Journeyman Geek

its starting to become SELF AWARE

and what does it do? write slash

Ivo Flipse

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Why is the Indian accent sometimes completely incomprehensible? :\

Sathya

12:47 PM

@IvoFlipse :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

sometimes?

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek I'm assuming @Sathya is fully comprehensible ;P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Sathya

haha :D

we should have a SU mod podcast

Journeyman Geek

oh dear god...

Sathya

12:49 PM

and post to blog

Journeyman Geek

i thought that accent died with the british empire ;p

Sathya

then we'll know who's incomprehensible :P

Ivo Flipse

@Sathya @ThomasMcDonald wants that as well

Journeyman Geek

lol

Ivo Flipse

@Sathya I think my English is fine as long as we're talking about technology, as soon as we don't well then my vocabulary might fail on me at times

Journeyman Geek

12:50 PM

I KNOW i am

i talk too fast ;p

Sathya

@IvoFlipse let's test it then :P

Ivo Flipse

@Sathya Actually the video is pretty interesting, but the guys accent is so annoying, because his intonation is off :(

Sathya

that's incomprehensible? :\

Ivo Flipse

the talk is about converting 2D pictures to 3D messes

Journeyman Geek

lol

Sathya

12:51 PM

shalt not speak infront of @IvoFlipse

Ivo Flipse

@Sathya thank you! :P

Journeyman Geek

i know someone who might be interested in that...

if he turns up ;p

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek who's that?

Journeyman Geek

friend of mine from elsewhere

Ivo Flipse

@Sathya that and not finishing words completely, sounds a bit slurry

@JourneymanGeek in the back of your head?

Journeyman Geek

12:52 PM

works for a startup doing some crazyass glasses free 3d thing

lol

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek :O now that is interesting

Journeyman Geek

naw, the voices in my head totally deny they are nutty

Sathya

@IvoFlipse yeah.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek I like 3d, but I already wear glasses, so another pair is... awkward

Journeyman Geek

12:54 PM

lol

@IvoFlipse: i have clipons ;p

local cinema sells em for something like 3 dollars

Tom Wijsman

@Wil That's some odd crash you got there... :S

Ivo Flipse

btw do you guys have any suggestions for tests I should run with my brand new router?

Wil

@TomWijsman Chrome was unresponsive but then, when I clicked terminate, it was just the plugin that went, so it was alright... When I first saw the Asian characters, I thought possible hack attempt, but have no idea

@IvoFlipse can you connect to the internet? ... It's working :)

Ivo Flipse

@Wil I meant for a review :P

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, most of the times they are just because the title data is just invalid...

Get it to run a game server, @IvoFlipse... :P

Wil

12:59 PM

@IvoFlipse modern routers are so similar, especially if it is flashable, I would try to say things like interface speed (actual web interface), hardware (controller chip etc.), throughput (2 machines connected directly, test file copy speed).. and looks... in the age of Apple stuff, people care more about it than functionality!

Tom Wijsman

Well, I had that idea once because it is an always on device. But calculating out the upload one would generate it didn't seem to fit the limits at that time. Still wondering how much the processor of the router could handle...

Wil

I'm going out... lets see if the supermarket has anything ready so I don't have to cook.... sooo tired :(

Ivo Flipse

@Wil Well I was planning on trying to set up Calibre again @Wil and indeed test out its wifi strength/speed at different places

slhck

good afternoon, all!

Ivo Flipse

hellow!

Tom Wijsman

1:06 PM

Our router is hosting two networks, one 2.4 GHz 20 MHz mixed-NG (to support older devices) and one 5.0 GHz 40 MHz N-only to get up to 300 Mbps.

And when one fails or has interruptions it just switches to the other... :)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Ivo Flipse

@TomWijsman this one is dual band and actually sends out both at the same time

Tom Wijsman

@IvoFlipse: This one is too, but I set it to host two separate wireless connections.

Ivo Flipse

obviously my previous router was just crap, but I used to sit right next to it, but my GF was having poor reception in the bedroom

Wil

@TomWijsman Nice... I run a cheap Netgear dg834pn and... that's it :( .... lol

It freezes about once every 2-3 weeks, so may need a new one soon...

Ivo Flipse

1:08 PM

@TomWijsman oh right, forgot the part where it was one router hosting two networks :P

Wil

my "smart" infrastructure!

Tom Wijsman

The networks are named "Draadloos" and "Draadloos N" xD

Ivo Flipse

The network here is called Super User :P

Tom Wijsman

Well, I forgot to disable interference checks between the antenna's when I first did it @Wil, it crashed twice a day because of that mistake...

Wil

@TomWijsman YAY! You aren't perfect! :P

slhck

1:09 PM

@IvoFlipse Nice blog post, thanks for the wrap up :)

Tom Wijsman

And it was bogging the performance of both networks when we had simultaneous clients amongst both.

But now it's perfect, @Wil... xD

Journeyman Geek

lol, we have two different ISPs here by accident

Ivo Flipse

@slhck your welcome, should have posted it last week when I had actually written it, but luckily its not really out of date yet

@JourneymanGeek 'by accident'

Journeyman Geek

one's part of our cable package, one we have free for a year with our wasname ... iptv package

by accident

THESE THINGS HAPPEN

slhck

:D

Ivo Flipse

1:10 PM

@JourneymanGeek lol having free internet is always nice

Journeyman Geek

lol

quite

Wil

... If I upgrade, going to get a TP-Link, I am so impressed by chinese cheap routers recently, been using them more and more... you can configure so much, like up to 10-20 SSIDs, and every aspect of the driver is a variable so you can control EVERYTHING from signal power down to SNR without having to hack/flash a thing

... and ultra reliable.

@JourneymanGeek ha! good accident!

Ivo Flipse

@Wil Soooo you're saying I wasted 80 euro's on nothing?

Journeyman Geek

lol

i <3 my wrt54gl

Tom Wijsman

wrt610n here, i <3 it since we turned it into a DD-WRT :)

Wil

1:13 PM

@IvoFlipse not at all.... just a personal preference! most of the TP-Links I have seen are butt ugly, but they just work really well - sure you got a good one!

Ivo Flipse

@TomWijsman WNDR3700v2

slhck

@TomWijsman I have exactly the same

Journeyman Geek

its a router

Ivo Flipse

greaaaat I forgot the password :\

Journeyman Geek

stick it somewhere inconspicious ;p

Ivo Flipse

1:14 PM

@TomWijsman haven't gotten around to that

Journeyman Geek

routers should be like children... neither seen not heard

Ivo Flipse

checked the site, turns out it might not like my WD MyBook :\

slhck

@TomWijsman But the reception is really sucky.. does DD-WRT help?

Journeyman Geek

sometimes

Tom Wijsman

@IvoFlipse: Seems about the same specifications as our router.

Journeyman Geek

1:14 PM

you can use it to boost up the power

Wil

@JourneymanGeek And when they go wrong and you hit it, no one will complain :/ ... (sure there is a joke somewhere)

Journeyman Geek

;p

Wil

right, bye for 30mins or so!

Tom Wijsman

@slhck What do you mean by sucky reception, I have no problems with that.

Be sure to set your wireless channel so that it doesn't interfere with your neighbors.

slhck

@TomWijsman I keep it in the living room and I couldn't even watch movies from the NAS when I was in the next room

Ivo Flipse

1:16 PM

@TomWijsman Was planning on writing a post about installing DD-wrt, then HowToGeek came by :\

Journeyman Geek

ahh there's that

Ivo Flipse

@TomWijsman Might still write a rant about how hard it can be to pick routers :P

Tom Wijsman

@IvoFlipse: From what I've read you have to be careful, but if you do it as described it should work. Be sure to keep copies of the recovery information or just connect with your old router in case your new starts failing...

@slhck:

Journeyman Geek

tools.meraki.com/stumbler this is really nice for working out who's on what channel

slhck

ah thanks @JourneymanGeek

Tom Wijsman

1:18 PM

Blue (Draadloos) are we, Red (Guy) is neighbor and Orange (bbox-...) is probably some other close neighbor.

slhck

Gotta find something for OS X though

Journeyman Geek

that's platform independant

as long as you have java

slhck

> The Meraki WiFi Stumbler Java applet may be having trouble loading

Tom Wijsman

And 5.0 Ghz

is

slhck

@TomWijsman Hehe :P

Tom Wijsman

1:21 PM

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Hmm, there was another song that would describe the "Alone" feeling better, but until I remember it "All By Myself" fits the purpose...

slhck

@TomWijsman You could have also used that: i.imgur.com/CUJBU.png

Tom Wijsman

But well, @slhck: DD-WRT allowed me to set up two SSIDs instead of one, amongst tweaking some other settings.

And it now hosts a host file which blocks ads and spyware and all those nasty hosts from the whole network, unless someone manually configured his DNS...

slhck

@TomWijsman I'll look into it, didn't know DD-WRT was even available back when I bought it, so thanks for the pointer :)

Tom Wijsman

Well, just read a lot of documentation on how to install it before doing so, because you can imagine a lot of things going wrong.

Hmm, left inSSIDer running, here you see the effect of interference:

The top blue line is the 2.4 GHz, really shaky. The top gray line is the 5.0 GHz, really stable.

slhck

Nice visualization

Wow, that's the software that'll help me write my next report

Tom Wijsman

1:30 PM

Well, there is one more optimization I can think off and that is hanging the router on the wall near the ceiling; because it's now on a lot of cables, next to a monitor and behind a printer. But it's not worth it as it would look so weird... :P

slhck

scribe.googlelabs.com

Journeyman Geek

lol

slhck

@TomWijsman Nah, I have a very neat looking setup now and I wouldn't want to change that :P

Tom Wijsman

@slhck: Well, it would be like "Can you hold the router up for me, I want to see if it improves the performance by 1% in different sections of the house..." :P

Really not worth the effort.

@slhck: Well, it's all cool. Until the moment I realized a lot of hot-keys don't function there...

Let's erase and type a new sentence... CTRL+A Bummer! Hmm, let's select the words then... CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT Bummer! Characters? SHIFT+LEFT Ah, that works... :D

slhck

@TomWijsman Yeah I noticed that :D

Nice concept though

Tom Wijsman

1:35 PM

Hmm, @slhck: There is an extension for Google Chrome

but I'm using Firefox now... :(

Which should give more proper editing if you use it in Google Docs I think...

Anyhow, I'm going to play some Frozen Synapse.

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slhck

@TomWijsman Yeah, haven't really used any of their stuff yet, I'm fine with a plain text editor :D

tombull89

2:56 PM

low quailty/dupe?

0

Q: install the XP(sp3) os using the usb hard drive

I want to install the XP(sp3) os using the usb hard drive. Please tel me the steps to follow. Thanks in advance.

windows-xp installation

Sathya

dupe

also, totally low quality

Wil

3:15 PM

@TomWijsman Looks good... but work time :(

Just back from the supermarket - I saw all the Ben and Jerrys and thought of the earlier chat!!!

Journeyman Geek

;p

the ice cream one?

Wil

nah, the person! ...

yes! Is it as expensive world wide? I usually buy when on offer but, £4.50 a tub, it just seems too expensive for Ice Cream

mind you, Hagen Daaz isn't much better...

Sathya

one of the proposals I started following recently on A51

area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/…

Wil

@Sathya I don't know how anyone has the time for so many places to be! I love it here, but I can't keep up with SO/SU/SF, let alone more!

Sathya

@Wil well I'm only on SU

SO is ~ 30minutes thats about it

Wil

3:24 PM

@Sathya Yeah, but you blog and do those other forums as well! your a busy bloke!

ChrisF

Can anyone cast an eye over this and see if a) it makes sense and b) is good value - lambda-tek.com/computing/…

Sathya

@Wil hehe :D you're busy with your work! for me it's compilation time that I'm free, and make use of

(nice designer)

Wil

@ChrisF if you are on skype or something much quicker to talk to me... william.hilsum if not, il type... just fingers are killing!

ChrisF

@Wil OK

Wil

3:43 PM

Weird hearing someone's voice who you have seeing around the place!... makes the community feel real!

Sathya

:)

I've heard @Wil's voice, but can't recall when/where.

Wil

Half Life? Swearing when you killed me? :/

Sathya

ahaa yes :D

ChrisF

4:10 PM

Most useful conversation - thanks Wil.

Quick question - what search terms do I want to use to find box that takes a wireless signal as input and wired outputs. i.e. something I can plug a PC, XBox etc into that then wirelessly connects to my network

Sathya

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Q: What kind of device receives wireless signal and provides wired output?

My wife uses an old computer which doesn't really like having an Internet connection via a USB wireless adapter. I've tried several, and none have been satisfactory. The connection gets dropped frequently, which is frustrating for her. A wireless card also had the same trouble. Repositioning the ...

wireless-networking terminology wired

does that.. look like what you wanted, @ChrisF

ChrisF

Looks promising

Can't see how many wired ports it has though :(

Sathya

fwiw I queried for "wireless to wired output device" & the SU question was the first result.

ChrisF

@Sathya Result!

Sathya

@ChrisF yep,

ChrisF

4:24 PM

Though I could get a small switch as well - which would push the cost up though

ChrisF

4:37 PM

Who said shopping was easy :(

Wil

@ChrisF huh? ... ehh... wireless bridge?

ChrisF

@Wil That's what I thought but when I used that term what came up didn't seem to fit the bill.

amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-Nfiniti-Wireless-N-Ethernet-Converter/dp/…

Should have looked harder ;)

This seems to be what I need. 4 Ethernet ports, good wireless connection.

Mark Szymanski

5:05 PM

Good afternoon, everyone.

Wil

@ChrisF Sorry, had a telephone call... in all honesty, wireless bridges typically are just one port ethernet switches with wireless clients built in.... What I recommend you do is try to find any cheap wireless router and manually mod it to do that - all you really need to do is find one that supports "Wireless client" (instead of the usual wireless server/infrastructure), and then disable all the router bits such as DHCP, NAT etc... and it should work fine

That amazon link looks good, but I have certainly seen cheaper... I don't know if you can find it going up, but personally, I am a fan of TP Link and some other chinese cheap brands - so configurable and you can do pretty much anything on them (and very stable)... may be worth a look

@ChrisF also, to finish what I said in Skype, any new I3 2xxx series has the new Intel HD built in - It is an actual core, but you need to have a matched board to use it... I recommend h67 ones, they are good spec/price, (on par with what you already chose), you can also get away with h61 if you want to save a bit of money.

ChrisF

5:23 PM

Thanks - you've confirmed the m/b I'd found. Might end up upgrading this PC (new M/B, CPU & memory) and then hand this one down to the kids with an extra 2GB memory stick. Still need the case, PSU and hard drives though.

@Wil That's probably the right thing to search for. I'd like one with 4 wired ports so I don't have to buy a switch as well.

Wil

@ChrisF You may want to double check it supports wireless bridge or the techie term which eludes me at the moment, but I think even the cheap tp link £20 router does it (as i said, I am a bit fan of their stuff at the moment... don't let brand names fool you, they are AMAZING)

Sathya

did ya'll record the conversation?

Wil

Didn't know you could :/

Sathya

CallGraph can

4

Q: Skype: How to record a podcast?

I am doing a podcast with some friends. We are planning to do this by getting onto a Skype conference call and discussing our topic. Is there a way to record this Skype conference conversation into a MP3? (The OS is Windows XP.)

windows skype recording podcasts

Wil

All I need, more stuff! I'll remember that for future, but, I doubt I do anything important enough worth recording!

... off topic... about a week ago, I replaced someones Iphone screen that they smashed, it is CRAZY how cheap replacement parts are - not the actual LCD panel but the glass/digitizer only cost about £5.... I wish I was better at electronics and I knew how to implement the digitizer in other things but it is silly how cheap something so amazing is