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3:00 PM
hi woofie
 
baa
least my tunnel is back up
 
@Bob @JourneymanGeek I just couldn't resist linking to lmgtfy and catb.org; PhantomJS ML for some reason is a magnet for idiots ;p groups.google.com/d/msg/phantomjs/jt8YtfMnFBo/HLV7R4o-H1oJ
@ton.yeung what pin?
 
:/ India
Just ask it here
At worst, we can move it over
 
@ton.yeung to solicit better community feedback about whether stuff is topical, I'd say you should ask on meta.superuser.com in the future; however, since you already asked it here, I'd say it's probably fine to ask here
that's one of those areas where we overlap with SF, but it's not off-topic
@ton.yeung .......that's an easter egg
!!wiki Clippy
 
@allquixotic Looks like Clippy got a fan! :D
 
3:03 PM
The Office Assistant was an intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character, which interfaced with the Office help content. It was included in Microsoft Office for Windows (versions 97 to 2003), in Microsoft Publisher (versions 98 to 2003), and Microsoft Office for Mac (versions 98 to 2004). The default assistant in the English Windows version was named Clippit (though Clippy is a common nickname), after a paperclip. The character was designed by Kevan J. Atteberry. Clippy was the default and by far the most notable Assistant (partly...
 
@ChatBotJohnCavil Clippy, why do you look so different?!
 
heh
mwelab.com/index.php/en/products/emperor-1510 Apparently there's a local distributor. Which means there's people here who'd plonk down 5-20K usd on a chair
 
@ton.yeung not being a sysadmin significantly hampers the likelihood of you receiving help on SF, in a practical sense, because many of them will disparage posters who demonstrate a lack of basic stuff that "all SAs should know"
granted, this specific question doesn't seem like an obvious "LOL U NOOB" question
it seems more like a "ugh, that's awful, let's start troubleshooting :/" type question
 
@ton.yeung: the whole hillariousness is how OTT is.
 
it's a friendly fork with a few minimal changes
@ton.yeung how do you host it?
I run it headless in PhantomJS 2.0 on a GNU/Linux (CentOS 7) virtual machine on my dedicated server, using a Java/Selenium-based driver that @Zirak assures me will soon be obsolete, as he's doing his own as part of the upstream bot in NodeJS
 
3:08 PM
lol
 
@JourneymanGeek In fairness, I've fielded nearly identical questions (answered by "lmgtfy") from USAians
 
@allquixotic: maybe ;p
it just annoys me. My folks are from thereabouts ;p
 
That clippy wikipedia article somehow got me to this video:
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy I LOVE that song. Though, I didn't discover it through the Clippy article, lol
In fact, a playlist I'm building for my SL tonight has that song on it
 
(possibly slightly NSFW because HotForWords)
 
3:19 PM
!! s/NSFW/watch it on your phone when everyone else is out to lunch/
 
@allquixotic (possibly slightly watch it on your phone when everyone else is out to lunch because HotForWords) (source)
 
just sayin
 
@allquixotic What SL means?
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy that's a long story, and it's an SL because the "S" is started with the vowelish sound "ess"
 
3:21 PM
o0
second life?
 
@allquixotic (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
 
Back in January 2007 I wanted to learn more about 3d rendering and sprites and objects and scripting and animation and stuff, and a bit of googling pointed me to Second Life, which I joined and found that it was an awesome platform to learn about technologies related to 3d and MMOs, everything from networking to rendering to coding
but I found that the enduring takeaway I've gotten out of SL was not the stuff I learned, but the people I met
 
As always ;p
 
every couple of Fridays (whenever I don't fall asleep at the keys before they get online) I meet with like 6-7 people and we talk on voice through our mics and stick our characters on dance poseballs and one of us DJs a music playlist, and we catch up on our lives and etc
most of them are much older than me; the youngest is like 3 years older, the oldest, is in his mid 70s
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy I hate it when I'm watching something on YouTube, thinking "Hey, when is this going to switch to non-crap resolution?" and it never does :(
 
3:23 PM
I'm the youngest now, but I didn't use to be... the youngest was a Chiari Malformation sufferer who passed away last year.
!!wiki Chiari
 
@OliverSalzburg It was originally in less-worse resolution, but the original creator apparently took it down and someone filmed the screen with a shity cellphone reupped it
 
Chiari malformation, also known as Arnold–Chiari malformation, is a condition affecting the brain. It consists of a downward displacement of the cerebellar tonsils through the foramen magnum (the opening at the base of the skull), sometimes causing non-communicating hydrocephalus as a result of obstruction of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) outflow. The cerebrospinal fluid outflow is caused by phase difference in outflow and influx of blood in the vasculature of the brain. It can cause headaches, fatigue, muscle weakness, difficulty swallowing, dizziness, nausea, tinnitus, impaired coordination, and...
better
:D I summoned a Zirak!
 
@allquixotic It already is (I think)
 
@Zirak ooooo
 
You've activated my trap card!
 
3:26 PM
though, how tempted am I to actually give up my own baby for some unknown NodeJS hax? WE SHALL SEE, SIR. ;p
I suffer from a slight amount of NIH
 
Sir, I'm sorry to inform you your baby is in Java.
It's time to move on.
 
@ton.yeung God The Creator The :D Face @Zirak is here; any questions for our benevolentish overlord?
@Zirak *cries giant tears* :'(
WHY?? WHY, GOD, DID YOU HAVE TO MAKE MY KID HAVE JAVA???
 
Sacrifice me pizza and I will award you with less annoying bugs
 
hmm pizza.
 
3:29 PM
Eh, I just get @Bob to fix all the annoying bugs. He's the Anti-Zirak. You can't extort pizza out of me, señor!
Besides, if I had pizza, I'd probably eat it before it got to you.
Though if it that was a serious solicitation for donations, I'll gladly chip in ;p
just need a PP email
 
I tried to eat pizza yesterday. Two giant-sized pizzas for the price of one. Nobody wanted to share ;_____;
 
Bob!? Who is that devil who steals pizza from right under me?
 
@Zirak Foxes are stealthy and sneaky like that. You sit your pizza on the countertop to go pour a glass of soda, and when you turn around, @Bob is dragging your pizza away by his mouth!
 
> pizza from right under me
Is that foot-flawored pizza or chair-flavored pizza?
 
Does this pizza taste like ass?
 
3:32 PM
I decorated my own place. The results are delicious.
 
@Zirak I know this too well; as a Java sufferer, I regularly decorate my walls with BasicAbstractBeanFactoryDecoratorStrategys.
 
@Zirak I know two kids named Hansel and Gretel, might sound familiar...?
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy You're the shittiest father I ever met. Thanks.
 
That's Bob for ya.
 
What is that? O_O
 
So this room's owner staff include a pizza-stealing fox and a container shaped cat.
 
@Zirak Better than your room's staff, which includes a troll laughing at his extreme trollness, and a guy who resembles Nightwolf from Mortal Kombat.
 
!! s/container/burrito/
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy So this room's owner staff include a pizza-stealing fox and a burrito shaped cat. (source)
 
3:37 PM
Besides, I'm lovable! =^___^=
Also, our room ownership is nearly entirely comprised of pets. @JourneymanGeek the woof; Bob the fox (I've already pinged him enough for one day); and me.
(I know people who have pet foxes..... don't judge)
 
We already have pizza and burrito persons, what's a food everyone recognizes as Brazilian?
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy ............I don't specifically recognize any food as "Brazilian"
except.. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA... BRAZIL NUTS :D :D :D
 
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The Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is a South American tree in the family Lecythidaceae, and also the name of the tree's commercially harvested edible seed. == Order == The Brazil nut family is in the order Ericales, as are other well-known plants such as blueberries, cranberries, sapote, gutta-percha, tea, gooseberries, phlox and persimmons. == Brazil nut tree == The Brazil nut tree is the only species in the monotypic genus Bertholletia. It is native to the Guianas, Venezuela, Brazil, eastern Colombia, eastern Peru, and eastern Bolivia. It occurs as scattered trees in large forests on the...
 
I think I'm gonna make me a caipirinha.
 
3:39 PM
@allquixotic Of course you are
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy you need it?
 
Well, if it isn't Lonestar. And his sidekick, Puke.
 
@allquixotic oh, oh, fun fact: If you (assuming malehood) eat tons of Brazil nuts and have unprotected sex with a nut allergic partner, the semen can trigger an allergic reaction.
 
@allquixotic Who are you calling nuts?
 
Which makes up a really good murder plot.
 
3:41 PM
NOTE : Sound drivers often rollback so check the version after installation and the reboot to
see if the version you installed is there, if not repeat the install - reboot until it is. It can take
several tries depending on how many rollbacks it does.
Never heard about this rollback... Sounds like OS driver protection?
 
@Zirak assumption is correct; however, you are making reference to a null hypothetical (a strict physical impossibility).
 
hrm, should've written it like "For any value of you where male(you), ..."
 
Recall the truth table of the conditional 'if' statement:
P | Q | P -> Q
T   T    T
T   F    F
F   T    T
F   F    T
where P = allquixotic has (any form of) sex and is set to F under all possible conditions
therefore anything you say about it is "vacuously true"
IF (I had sex), THEN (2=1)
the truth-value of that statement is true
@Boris_yo if Windows Update auto-installs what it thinks is an updated version of the sound driver, it'll overwrite a vendor-specific version of the driver that you downloaded manually.
happened to me at least once
 
I am now a redneck country girl
2
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy QOOC very starworthy
that's the best one since Bob's "why am I a toilet"
 
3:49 PM
@ThatBrazilianGuy And I've just eaten Brazil nuts, shoot.
@allquixotic Doesn't matter, had sex?
 
Caipira = redneck / hilbilly / hick
Caipirinha = little / small caipira of female sex
 
@Zirak Parse error: question context could not be verified
 
This room's better at some things. I oftentimes exclaimed that I'm a parakeet, was surprised a few times to discover I'm a potato, burst out and questioned my own existence, and all the room gave back was the blank abyss.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy ahhhhh "piranha" like "piranita" like "caipirinha" = "capirita" in Spanish... omg... mind = blown...
"inha" = "ita" :D
 
@allquixotic Certinho, meu amiguinho! \o/
 
3:52 PM
@Zirak yeah, because there's a new JS coder in your room every minute asking how he can handle click events
@ThatBrazilianGuy one problem: physiologically, relative to other humans, I am... large, not small
 
Before one knows how to handle lick events, one must know hot to handle the self.
 
@allquixotic Being a small friend is not a prerequisite to be a little friend. ;p
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy what's the Portuguese equivalent of Spansh ón suffix?
cabrón = coward, but the implied suffix is "you big, fat coward" lol
 
@allquixotic ão. Don't ask me what "pão", "mão" and "irmão" are augmentatives of.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy awesome
@Zirak nice lol
@ThatBrazilianGuy Curacão = big Curaco? :D
 
3:56 PM
Curacão = non-word
Furacão = hurricane
Coração = heart
 
oh, I was thinking of
!!wiki Curaçao
 
Curaçao (/ˈkʊrəsaʊ/ KUR-ə-sow or /ˈkjʊərəsaʊ/ KEWR-ə-sow; Dutch: Curaçao; Papiamentu: Kòrsou) is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, north of the Venezuelan coast, that is a constituent country (Dutch: land) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Formally called the Country of Curaçao, (Dutch: Land Curaçao; Papiamento: Pais Kòrsou), it includes the main island and the uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao ("Little Curaçao"). It has a population of over 150,000 on an area of 444 km2 (171 sq mi) and its capital is Willemstad. Prior to the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 10 October 2010...
 
ooh, X-class solar flare was imaged
not directed at us, though
 
@allquixotic Not everything with this suffix is an augmentative. Or, as a teacher once said, "just because frutose, sacarose and glicose are sugars, doesn't mean fimose and osmose are"
 
it's like watching your dad violently beat your brother
....I'm an only child so this is not a reference to my past
@ThatBrazilianGuy that'd be fructose, sucrose, and glucose in English
I don't think frutose, sacarose or glicose are sugars in English
point taken, though ;p
 
4:00 PM
@allquixotic That's why I left the foreign words in italics ;p
WHAT IT'S 1PM ALREADY
 
sacarose is surprisingly close to saccharin and sucralose though
 
I need some food
 
WHAT IT'S 12:00PM ALREADY
I need to sign my time card
I like to get paid
 
@allquixotic Wait, you don't sign/swipe your time card when you enter your building or whatever?
Not that I know what it's like, I never had to use a timecard in my life, I just extrapolate from movies and references.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy We have an electronic timecard. Our badge that we use for building entry does not determine when we're "on the clock"; we do. We can be in the building and not on the clock, or outside the building and on the clock.
It's this horrid in-house web app where you enter your hours worked, and on which project(s).
 
4:05 PM
@allquixotic makes sense.
Lots of places here are like that, but some places here still use those:
 
hah ewwww no no no
the closest I remember to doing that, is when my mom took me to work as a very young kid (maybe 9, or 10), and she had to use a centralized kiosk computer that was a networked client that went to a VAX mainframe and was basically still an electronic timecard
 
Or a "modern" version that still requires inserting a piece of paper:
 
I've never seen or worked at a place that used a paper timecard or "punch in / punch out"
 
The last time I've personally seen something as ancient as that 1st picture is about 10 years ago.
But I think most places I ever been as a visitor, IT external support or anyhting, IIRC don't even have time trackers. They just assume you arrive on time and your direct boss is supposed to report on you if you don't.
I might be wrong, I never actively searched for those devices, I just subreptitiuosly noticed them
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy Hour tracking is very important for us, not universally in the US, but in my line of work, because we have a contract with a customer, and we bill them for each hour that our employees work, and the numbers have to be accurate
 
4:11 PM
:O
my hours are so inaccurate, both in the plus and negative
 
if I do work for a different customer, or if I work "for the company" on a project that is unrelated to the customer, I have to modify my timesheet accordingly
 
@allquixotic Yeah, makes sense. Probably a similar position here would track time quite similarly.
(horrid in-house web app and everything) ;p
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy the only good thing I can say about ours is that it uses https, and the version of https is new enough that Chrome and Firefox don't cross out the https
yo Taylor
(@TomWijsman) LTNS
 
Is there a way to force Excel 2013 to use absolute hyperlink paths instead of relative ones?
Or, alternatively, to get the full path in VBA?
 
@Egor where is the hyperlink being stored?
I assume you're talking about the file:// schema, because I've never heard of a relative path being used in http(s):// outside of webpages
 
4:31 PM
Right, I'm talking about files
I have the hyperlink in just a cell
Right Click -> Insert Hyperlink -> choose a file
 
did you explicitly type out the absolute path?
 
The insert hyperlink options opens up a file browser
So no, I don't type out anything explicitly
 
if you select the cell I think it'll give you the URI in the formula bar...
Might be something like ctrl click to not go to the uri.
 
I can see the full path if I hover over the cell, but I can't seem to get it in VBA
I can click on the link too, and it does open the file fine
But in VBA I'm having trouble opening the file for read if it's in the same location as the excel doc (that is, the relative path is just the filename)
 
if you explicitly type in a file:// URL, it'll keep it absolute
the problem is with the Insert -> Hyperlink dialog box
so, don't use that
 
@dj
woops
@djsmiley2k yes, but that's for 2010, 2013 doesn't seem to have that option of base path
 
ah :<
 
@allquixotic that's fine, but I don't want to force users to type out the path for their files, I want to give them the nice, easy, user-friendly file browser
@allquixotic and if I hover over the relative link, the tooltip actually has the full absolute path including the file:// prefix
I just can't seem to get it in VBA
 
Agreed :)
 
4:38 PM
"Here is the many ways this may break but we don't actually tell you how to avoid it
Use a different drive for the file and it'll be absolute. 'D
 
And yeah, another problem is that if you move the excel file to another location, all the links break instantly
Even just clicking on them breaks
 
yup
slow clap microsoft.
it's not like it's hard to display a relative link but store the absolute path
where are you looking for the base path option?
 
I looked in options, but it doesn't have a "summary" section
I went through all the options but didn't see anything similar
 
Applies To: Excel 2010
 
4:43 PM
try file -> infomation about workbook (if that exists)
/me gives up
urgh
 
Wait, think I found it in "info"
Yep, looks like it's in "Info -> Properties -> Advanced"
yay, gonna try that out
 
wooo
hidden ~_~
 
5:02 PM
@allquixotic But I'm always here... :(
They should introduce chat badges, I'm in line for "excessive lurker". :P
 
Public hb As String

Private Sub Workbook_SheetChange(ByVal Sh As Object, ByVal Target As Range)
    If IsEmpty(hb) Or Len(hb) = 0 Then
        For Each i In Sh.Parent.BuiltinDocumentProperties
        If i.Name = "Hyperlink base" Then
            hb = i.Value
            If IsEmpty(hb) Or Len(hb) = 0 Then
                hb = Sh.Parent.Path
            End If
        End If
        Next
    End If

    For Each h In Target.Hyperlinks
        If InStr(1, h.Address, "//", vbBinaryCompare) = 0 And InStr(1, h.Address, ":\", vbBinaryCompare) = 0 Then
@Egor ^^
put that in ThisWorkbook and save as a macro-enabled workbook
then enter a relative path link, and it'll be converted to absolute path
 
@allquixotic thanks! I found the excel option that forces absolute paths in 2013, and it seems to be working well
 
setting a base hyperlink doesn't necessarily force absolute paths, though...
well maybe it does, I haven't experimented
just thinking if you save it to D:\Documents and insert a link to D:\Documents\blah.xls will it be relative
anyway if you find yourself needing to set the hyperlink base in other documents, you can use that loop I posted above
 
yey everyone has gone home
i'm the only person in this office.
I should point out it's safer for me to go home at lunch time and work from home for the rest of the day/evening.
 
5:09 PM
once you find the Hyperlink base DocumentProperty, you can set it programmatically
@djsmiley2k work in a dangerous area?
 
@allquixotic set it to the system drive gnerally.
@allquixotic you can die in an office.
@allquixotic you can die in an office on a friday night, and have rigor mortis before monday morning when they find you with that red bull can in your hand
at my old job, we couldn't even drive between sites without logging in if we were lone working.
Ok, that is because some guy crashed his van once and only because he had done so they did know.
And once someone had a heart attack on a site and died... but still.
 
my boss had a heart attack last week and is still out :(
skinny little guy ... must've been all the stress
 
at least he survived
 
I'm curious if anyone here has used a Pentium D Extreme Edition 965 processor.
Presler multi-chip module, 2C/4T @ 3.73 GHz.
 
5:21 PM
@allquixotic it seems to be relative to the base, regardless of where the excel document is
 
@DragonLord ages ago, yeah
pretty sure I ran XP64 on it
 
@allquixotic The only (slightly) tricky part is other drives. So I need to either append the base to the front of the path, or just use it as-is if it's a different drive
 
Intel was pushing for insane clocks without genuinely increasing performance.
Today, we have 4C/8T processors that exceed 4 GHz stock and have dramatically better performance for far less power.
Better semiconductor processes, better microarchitectures...
 
5:43 PM
@Egor according to my earlier post, a different drive will mean it gets an aboslute path
So set it to C:\ and be happy, it'll always be realtive from C, even if that's C:\..D:\blah\doc.xls
:D
 
wtf. Google Drive keeps a log of all synchronizations since it was installed Oo
Close to 1M lines
 
o_O
yey incomplete instructions
I've been instructed not to do anything not listed/explained in the process docs
 
@djsmiley2k well, from experimenting it looks like that's not the case. If I set it to C:\ then any documents in C:\ will get a relative path to C:\
@djsmiley2k but a doc in D:\ will get the absolute path (D:\blah\foo.doc)
 
right
so set it to Q:§
errrr Q:\
right
 
@djsmiley2k right. I actually set it "N\A"
apparently garbage is OK, everything just becomes absolute :D
thanks for the help, by the way. It's working great now :)
 
5:57 PM
:D
awesome random fix!
 
@Egor actually what happens if the users path contains N\A ? D:
 
"Undelete Recovery" and "Lost Partition Recovery" are known spam utilities.
I had already flagged one of this user's previous posts for suspicious activity.
yesterday, by DragonLord
User's posting in a frequently-spammed topic, disk partitioning, and the answer has spam indicators despite evasion attempts.
 

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