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12:03 AM
looks like we do a pretty good job
cc @Bob
 
Bob
12:14 AM
:P
 
;p
@allquixotic: we're a reliable source tho, and we arn't trying to sell anyone ch3ap v1agr4fix.
Granted, if you're using viagraphics, here's a dime kid, get yourself a real gpu.
 
12:33 AM
Is there a way to retract a flag on a question that looks like it's going to continue to zombify and become a fossil?
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Q: Pc Does Not Boot Up After Adding Brand New DDR2 1 GB RAM

kabI have Lenovo ThinkCentre ThinkCentre M57e Type 9439 desktop.I Bought New DDR2 1GB RAM to extend my system memory but whenever i plug my new Simmtronics DDR2 RAM in slot My pc stop showing no screen and fan start running on High Speed,I tried on both slot but still no luck also one by one .i tho...

My flag against the question is still active, and the question still is valueless.
 
1:02 AM
Is that edit actually an improvement? Are angled quotes or apostrophes supposed to be superior to other ones that don't require special effort to type on a standard keyboard?
 
1:15 AM
@killermist yuk! curly quotes
 
Amen.
Every time I initiate a new instance of LibreOffice, I have to kill that behavior right off.
You'd think that I'd learn how to do that quickly, but every-friggin'-time, I have to go searching for where that "autocorrect" or "autoreplace" behavior is.
Kinda makes me wish there were a "stop helping me" option.
 
Bob
@killermist They are typographically correct.
But editing them into an answer screams unnecessary and annoying.
 
@Bob They don't smell right. There's [essence of superiority] about them, in addition to them not being on a standard keyboard.
Looks like he added angled quotes and apostrophes to my answer now too.
[sigh]
Rolled it back and made the few other changes.
 
1:44 AM
@killermist 2-3 minutes all wireless goes wackey , turns itslef back on after without changing anything. isnt that the symptoms people were describing when the Microwave (cooking oven) knocked out thier wi-fi with RF interferances? Although i have never had that problem, that is the first thing that popped into my head , based on reading about the problem via others.
2-3minutes, is the exact time it takes to warm a cup-o-java
 
man, java is messing with wifi signals too?!
 
:-)
 
@Psycogeek No. 2/3 minutes. As in two thirds.
 
nobody writes minutes in fractions :-) i just immediatly assume it was 2 / 3 like saying like/love
" 2/3 minutes " vrses 2/3rds of a minute (singular)
 
Well, the OP said it as a fraction. I was just reusing that measure.
" ~2/3 of a minute" is the measure I used in my comment. That seems fairly precise to me.
 
1:55 AM
that he did, it probably needs clarification to be sure.
 
2:18 AM
As far as the lease expiry . only via a search at SU, i can find people who have seen that. " because the machine's lease is continuously resetting to an expiration of just a few minutes in the future, at which point the ISP modem goes down. " & "My Netgear router invariably denies all ip lease renewal requests and assigns a different ip. Its DHCP behavior has zero configurability" &
"Sounds like a possible issue with DHCP lease renewal. Windows machines often 'hiccup' if they've got open connections during a lease renew operation."
So why the downvote for that not existing, when Depending on all the hardware and software used it can exist.
 
I don't understand the downvotes on my answer, or the question. But, I give up on understanding humans.
 
plus 2 close votes for "unclear what your asking" ? when the original question (prior to edit), was clear enough for the most part .
Could be we need a few more options for close voting ?
6) Not clear after 6 beers
7) Really nobody gives a rats ass about your stupid problem
8) How the heck would i know, close it
9) Reinstall is research
 
@Psycogeek sometimes it refers to "there's critical missing information to give you an accurate answer"
 
2:33 AM
there is missing info, there is always missing info.
 
not really
 
2:49 AM
Well, there's enough info to guess
tho sometimes you need to be a subject matter expert for that.
whoa simmtronics.
THEY ACTUALLY EXIST?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek ?
 
@Bob: remember the semi mythical 4th hard drive maker?
The one who I emailed about buying a drive?
 
Bob
o.O
@JourneymanGeek ...I those were all before I started coming to chat.
 
3:04 AM
@JourneymanGeek as long as is not a shot in the dark/guessing game
 
Oh ;p
Now you know.
sheet. that was 2012?
 
Bob
3:24 AM
> [Price Check] What's a Pentium 4 3.06GHz + LGA 775 motherboard worth?
 
almost nothing, practically speaking? ;p
 
Bob
Yep :P
 
tho for that matter, I would even dumpster-dive anything less than a core 2 these days
I would have said the same back then too ;p
Apparently the power bill dropped about $100 since I went to work ;p
 
India is a bit of an under-recognized country
 
@JourneymanGeek if you get newer systems it can drop even more
newer = power efficient
 
3:38 AM
@Braiam: Its not just computers.
 
A surprising number of Google searches for electronics will produce suggestions like "...price in India"
 
Airconditioning as well
 
Can anyone explain?
 
@DragonLord: I'd suspect its cause indians are more price concious, and a lot of them buy electronics online
@Braiam: I leave my desktop on sometimes ;p
Its mainly air conditioning
 
Bob
4:38 AM
@JourneymanGeek youtube.com/watch?v=D7bpYI6-XBc (a "when you see it" one) :P
 
5:13 AM
@killermist - Saw your discussion above. My guess at the reason for the downvotes on your answer: the information was contrary to conventional wisdom and looked like speculation. If you had included some citations like Psycogeek found, the response probably would have been different. Just guessing.
 
@fixer1234 Meh. I give up. jerks are gonna do what jerks do.
 
5:40 AM
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A: Is it possible using software (or hardware) to combine 2 monitors sound

Journeyman GeekThe easiest way to do this would be at the cable level. Assuming I didn't want a bespoke cable for this (which would be a couple of dollars of parts at most... and a little time with a soldering iron). I'd go with a 3.5mm male to 2x 3.5mm female (used to plug two headphones into a jack), to a pa...

I wrote that, and now that I read it, I wonder if there's any uglier solution to that
 
5:52 AM
@fixer1234 I'm tired and going to sleep. I figured the OP deserved a heads-up about JakeGould's edits. Just from my personal experience today, the guy seems like a jerk. Maybe he's just having an off night. Don't know. Don't care (now). I'm off to bed.
 
 
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8:24 AM
hmm
playing dark forces
Tried XLengine, its prettier but there's something about playing a 20 year old game as it was ;p
 
@killermist Fella, you might not agree with my edits. But your whole convo here reeks of you trying to beat the drumhead in response to my edits. Newsflash: My edits were minimal at best. Fixing simple misspellings of “access points” as well as removing groveling from the original poster complaining about downvotes. And oh yeah, “smart quotes”… You might not like that, but when you state “There's [essence of superiority] about them…” that is your projection of your own insecurities.
 
heh
@JakeGould: actually...
Mind if I ask about one of your edits?
(just cause I THINK I missed some regional context somewhere)
 
@killermist Additionally, I am not the only own who has downvoted that question and flagged it as well. There is no great conspiracy here: The question as posted by the original poster is just bad, open-ended and unanswerable in the current form. Additionally when you state in your answer “pause for station identification” is the reason for the Wi-Fi to time out, that has a basis in what exactly? Yes, I know about how DHCP works. And DHCP lease renewal alone does not cause that behavior.
@JourneymanGeek Actually, yes I do mind if the focus is the use of commonly accepted UTF8 characters such as smart quotes. When I edit I often do far more than just edit “smart quotes” and I do not do it because of superiority. In fact these screeds I am posting here comes from @killermist insisting that somehow some magical other-being come down and revert my edits. Yes, please revert my edits where I do things like fix grammar, fix formatting and make things readable. But most of all…
 
@JakeGould: unrelated ;p
I have no issue with the edit itself with superuser.com/a/873113/10165 (though I improved it since I didn't think the edit caught the essence of what I was trying to say). I'm wondering if there's some cultural context I'm missing.
(Since I do prefer to use the term when refering to a specific class of repurposing)
 
@JourneymanGeek Don’t care. I consider this isolated chat area to be the most useless and worst message board aspect of Stack Exchange sites that encourages “drum head” beating behavior like what @killermist enaged in. Disagree with my edits? Revert or improve them.
@JourneymanGeek Oh that edit? Yes, using the term “ghetto” is considered racist on the U.S. And other places as well.
 
8:36 AM
ahh ok
 
@JourneymanGeek And now, farewell. Bye! Why @killermist is insisting one horrible question deserves this treatment—as if my actions alone made the question bad—is not my dysfunction. It’s his. Anyone looking at that question and my edits as well as the comments and his baiting and concludes that somehow I am at fault for a bad question being treated that way is past comprehension.
 
 
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Bob
@JourneymanGeek O_O
 
Yeah ;p
@HackToHell ^^^^^
 
11:44 AM
whhhhaaaat
That's funny and sad :D
 
 
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3:13 PM
can someone drop the last flag? webapps.stackexchange.com/q/73669/43673
 
 
5 hours later…
8:00 PM
Back to work after 2 months off... No work for me to actually do. -_-'
 
@allquixotic hi! You remember you helped me compress large lectures once? Can you tell me how did you do that?
also, I don't know if that would ping you or not, because IIRC, you changed your username to some zalgo thing?
 
I think he changed it back...
 
@JourneymanGeek What are you doing this time of day?! :P
 
Woke up, couldn't sleep ;p
happens sometimes
I'm an early morning person anyway
 
8:12 PM
@JourneymanGeek yes! That's it! Now I am doing algos, but this time I have a lil VPS so I don't have to bug allquiz :P
 
(I was about to tell you to use search, but I realised it was non trivial to find when I searched so. There. zee codez)
;p
 
hehe
well, now I can maybe copy his username from there
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ ^^^
 
@somequixotic :-)
 
there
my mouse sucks :(
 
I think he's back to a spellable allquixotic now
 
8:15 PM
@JourneymanGeek Auto-complete seems to think so.
 
oh yay!
Jul 9 '14 at 21:38, by ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ
http://tiyukquellmalz.org/awal/orig/encoding_command.txt
 
ya. I didn't wanna ping him for no reason
 
shit, now it returns a 404
oh :(
 
The avatar comes from the Windows 8 BSOD
 
8:17 PM
haha yea, I remember him talking about it once
 
> Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.
Funny the first time you deal with this, but not when it comes up every hour
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Q: Recurring BSOD 0x139 KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE in NETIO.SYS (bugcheck analyses within)

DragonLordProblem description I've been encountering some intermittent 0x139 KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE blue screens with first parameter 0x3 on my Windows 8.1 laptop, once every 20 minutes to an hour. These crashes are happening in NETIO.SYS, at either the NsiEnumerateObjectsAllParametersEx or NsiGet...

 
> My insides have stopped working, please restart me!
 
I hope they add unicorns to Windows 10 BSOD screens at last...
 
lol
I need to get a fresh copy of windows up and crash it :/
(Need to write up debugging procedures for windows for work)
Been too busy over the weekend, gaming ;p
/me was going oldschool. Vanilla dark forces!
 
gah... work proxy is messing with Udemy. :/
 
8:23 PM
Jul 10 '14 at 14:52, by ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ
@AwalGarg of course it's ok. pretty sure I linked to this anyway, but here's my ffmpeg command line (this WILL NOT WORK unless you have the very latest versions of libvpx with vp9 enabled, and libopus): http://tiyukquellmalz.org/awal/orig/encoding_command.txt
ok...
 
First comment is about cable elevators...

/facepalm
> "For best results have the arrow pointing in the direction of the flow of music."
 
 
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Bob
10:29 PM
@JourneymanGeek o.O
 
10:57 PM
Anyone know where to get laptop screws?
 
errrrrr
those arn't standard in many cases
a quick amazon search suggests they SHOULD be M2 screws but length may vary
 
I mean even if I have some example ones to compare two (and I can break out a ruler and measure) where would I go
 
I'd probably just grab something like this randomly picked bunch of screws amazon.com/Notebook-Applicable-THINKPAD-TOSHIBA-GATEWAY/dp/… so I didn't need to worry about size.
 
Huh, good idea
thanks
 
I'd also suggest getting one of those boxes with many compartments ;p
that many tiny screws....
 
11:05 PM
Yea. Im suprised I never thought to spring for this beofre
seems to always be useful
 
lol
I rarely open up laptops pre mortem so its not been an issue
I have a box of screws from my current desktop stashed in a box inside the desktop
 
lol, howd you come by the spares?
 
came with the case
 
That was nice of them
 
cosair, can't recommend them enough
 
11:10 PM
they make something other than drives and RAM?
 
heh
Their cases are a bit pricy but oh so good
I have one of these, black, mesh sided.
Jeff Atwood has the same case in white ;p
And probably a nearly identical setup ;p
 
nice
im still a student so I need a laptop
but it so far has 24 GB of RAM
and three HD bays
so not so laptop like
 
Oh, my laptop is a lightweight.
 
what do you use it for?
 
the desktop?
Gaming, some VMs
 
11:13 PM
ah
 
I run a three computer setup at the moment, small nuc-class system as a home server (for bitorrent and the like), laptop for normal use, desktop for gaming.
laptop MAY be following me to work in future.
laptop's an old x220 with 4gb of ram
 
what do you do now>
 
Tech support at a visual effects company
 
Bob
@soandos You can take a look on eBay.
I looked up my old laptop's model on there and found a complete set of its screws for $3 :P
(though, I've lost that bag since then... whoops)
 
11:41 PM
;p
37 mins ago, by Journeyman Geek
I'd also suggest getting one of those boxes with many compartments ;p
 
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Q: Thunderbird email from sepcific user is causing perfromance issues

BenIn our office we are using Thunderbird. One user in particular, when using Thunderbird, has issues with sending and receiving emails. Whenever he sends an email, it takes 3 times as long to connect to the domain to send the email, and the same for any user that attempts to send emails to him. ...

wut? o.O
 

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