Root Access

3:32 PM

@jokerdino london makes people grumpy

jokerdino

Singapore MRT has 'no food & drinks' sign too.

Singapore Journal; Love It or Hate It, This Is the Forbidding Fruit

@DavidPostill That reminds me of the problem with queues

@jokerdino Probably no worse than unwashed armpits on the tube ... ;)

Like there are different efficiencies for queuing systems, and we commonly use a shitty one because it feels better

3:33 PM

i saw a documentary about queuing and they found putting a bollard in front of a fire escape increased the speed at which people evacuated the building

@Burgi split into two columns of people?

i think so

newscientist.com/article/…

@Burgi Huh. Interesting as well

Known shit like that is what makes my life so hard :P

People are weird.

Tell them not to panic? They panic

3:43 PM

Yeah

Tell them not to run? They run

Tell them there is a lost child? They all start looking..

Dad's Army: DON'T PANIC supercut

►

@JourneymanGeek amazing

that's probably true, since escalators seem to have about 50% uptime here, and we have that same rule of stand on the right, walk on the left

a LOT of people will just push right by you if you stand on the left on an escalator here

Rahul2001

Maybe if we all emailed the Constitution to each other… The NSA will finally read it.

!!caaaaat

4:01 PM

are questions about sonos on topic in SU?

And the Most Realistic Developer in Fiction is…

@Burgi is it you that had the annoying people playing it loudly?

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Rahul2001

@Burgi sonos?

@Burgi No If it's controlled by your computer, then maybe.

@Rahul2001 Wireless sound system.

Rahul2001

ah

4:07 PM

sonos.com/en-us/home

Sonos

Sonos is an American consumer electronics company founded in 2002 by John MacFarlane, Craig Shelburne, Tom Cullen and Trung Mai, based in Santa Barbara, California. It is widely known for its smart speakers developed and manufactured by itself. After foundation, MacFarlane introduced a prototype at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show, which was released in a bundle called the Digital Music System later in 2005. The company expanded upon the prototype and product design, adding mesh networking with AES encryption to allow the speakers to play music in any room with setup. Between 2011 and 2014, the...

@Rahul2001 @burgi has one in his office he wants to hack because marketing play music he doesn't like

@DavidPostill This is why developers can't have nice things.

4:25 PM

ebecause @Burgi hacks them

4:40 PM

Damn the WiFi at this hostel has become incredibly not shit

In fact I'm now ridiculously spoilt for connectivity here :-(

I now have fast and reliable connectivity from five different providers here :-/

Kinda hard to hate the place for having shitty wifi when it's now pretty good

Still have to hate the palce for other reasons though

A: I get a creepy popup periodically after installing MySQL

I'm sensing this might go HNQ

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Look in Windows Task Scheduler. On the left, open: Task Scheduler Library\MySQL\Installer Right-click in the ManifestUpdate entry and select "Disable". Blatantly copied from https://forums.mysql.com/read.php?10,626478,626575#msg-626575 As per the comments, this appears to just c...

@djsmiley2k @DavidPostill @Rahul2001 its too loud, i want to lock the volume to about 25% which is reasonable for "background" music

They've gone from shitty 16/1 ADSL to 100Mb+ business fibre

@djsmiley2k :-(

I tried to get a HNQ today and only got one upvote

Along with 7 downvotes

@TOWMN you posted a shit question, what did you expect?

In meta, if I agree, should I just upvote? Comment? Answer agreeing?

@Burgi I wanna know what it was now.

@TOWMN stop being homeless.

4:55 PM

@Burgi It was as clear as can be

fffffffffffffs cleaners in a place where people have to take calls :(

Just because you don't understand CPU leveling up doesn't mean it's shit

And if you thought it was so shit why did you edit the tags to [performance] instead of [shit-question]

@TOWMN i agree but it was still terrible and trollish

-7

Q: How do I level up my CPU?

I want to level up my CPU. Bob's motherboard has a keybot that converts a keyboard into a level up controller Unfortunately my motherboard doesn't have a keybot or a button to level up. Is it possible to level up my CPU? If so, how? What is the max level my CPU can reach (level cap)? Do I nee...

Still no closer to the mystery of level up

Maybe I should just ask Asus

oh that was you?

that was like wtf is this a troll or just a stupid user.

Sooo... congrats on looking stupid

5:00 PM

@djsmiley2k I'm not a stupid user I want to LEVEL UP

...

It quite literally says on Bob's motherboard page there's a button to LEVEL UP CPU and INSTANTLY BOOST YOUR SYSTEM

erm

downloadmoreram.com

I still don't know what the heck it means

you better post about this one asking how come your ram hasn't increased

5:02 PM

> DDR4-2400
10-12-10-27
1.65V

1.65v isn't supported by my board :-(

Mine only takes 1.2V DDR4

:(

ask where the update is

the race to 0k for you is a short one if you do it right

I clicked to download 32GB but it only downloaded 4MB :-(

Highly compressed RAM

A: How to make pulseaudio activity dictate sleep state (Caffeine workaround)

Now for my most helpful answer of the month

0

You can check for any sinks feeding to an output in pulseaudio which would 'ideally' do what you want, however it'll have the oddity of if an application is playing while muted (such as you muted the youtube video) I believe that'd still count as 'playing'. http://unix.stackexchange.com/question...

Can't tell if supposed to or not

5:20 PM

@TOWMN haha poor guy

at least it's not a gorilla

they plot stuff

GemsFromStackExchange: ♫ It’s a hard knock life, for us… ♫

So do cats!

See? The level ups are important!

Jim Bob! Bob!

This looks suspiciously like JMG

> Pig in Australia Steals 18 Beers from Campers, Gets Drunk, Fights Cow

Only in Australia...

GFSE

5:45 PM

posted on March 28, 2017

♫ It’s a hard knock life, for us… ♫

tereško

6:02 PM

@TOWMN isn't that a bit too much chicken for a single person?

like 4x too much

Probably for the dog

tereško

then it would be raw

so, either the author is extremely fat or dumb

6:17 PM

woaaah?

Mah turtles neck must hurt

You're a turtle?

no but i have one

if I'm a combination of my animals, I'm a cat-turtle-tadpole-fish

6:34 PM

if I'm a combination of my animals, I'm a cat

Dammit @Bob, I knew I was forgetting something

Forgot to test my phone in Cat 10 LTE mode in Australia

cat 10?

not sure if joke.

@tereško dunno, i'd eat it

love me some chicken

7:03 PM

My bike battery died today

So instead of getting home at two o'clock I got home at now o'clock

< 1 hr to go!

What's the deal with images posted on GemsFromStackExchange being super fuzzy?

</Seinfeld>

7:41 PM

Urgh I broke the 3G mode on my phone

@TOWMN broke it, or just turned if off?

Bike? Battery? Bikes in this country use pedal power not batteries

@Mokubai broke it

@TOWMN Motorbike, as well you know :P

Although you may have missed it earlier

7 hours ago, by bertieb

Oh, on that note, Aldi are doing gear this week I think

That again being motorbike gear :D

Bleh. I guess I'm stuck on 4G until I have time to reflash this thing... #FirstWorldProblems

@bertieb eh, I usually use the term motorbike to refer to motorbikes...

Oh Aldi in the UK?

I'm needing some new gear...

7:57 PM

Both terms are acceptable!

Yup, from Thursday IIRC

Election closing in 2 minutes peeps

Also, EuroCarParts have a sale on at the mo; got my battery for £28 quid (down from 40ish... slightly overpriced to begin with but reasonable discount overall)

Seconds remain!

Though you have to reserve online and collect in store for some bizarre reason

Or just go in without reserving and complain at them until they give in

SmokeDetector

Unofficial results: Winner is DavidPostill.

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Loading ballots from file votes.blt.
Ballot file contains 8 candidates and 1887 ballots.
No candidates have withdrawn.
Ballot file contains 1887 non-empty ballots.

8:00 PM

@DavidPostill, congratulations.

Congratulations @David!

I just ran the results.

Now eat those pings

@bertieb sure, but i tend to find most people mean pushbike by default when using the word bike. More people pedal cycle than motorcycle in these parts

It's a landslide victory.

8:01 PM

Indeed

@everyone Thanks.

Eh, let 'em be confused :P

(I figured context here would be known as I mentioned it earlier, mb)

Q: 2017 Community Moderator Election Results

DavidPostill won with 1139 points. Ben N is the runner-up with 288 points.

This was no surprise at all.

Riker

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Super User's fourth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators is: He'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank him for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with him as he learns the ropes! Also, please join me in tha...

discussion featured election

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Congrats to David; but commiserations to those that missed out- there's always next time

8:03 PM

I for once have not run for mod this time around.

Congrats @DavidPostill

Oh great my arch enemy in chat won the moderator election

I guess if I didn't have enough reason to ragequit permanently before I have one now

@TOWMN I'm not your enemy and never have been :)

@OliverSalzburg Thanks for being a mod for all those years! Enjoy your "retirement" and don't be a stranger!

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STARS PLEZ

Did a full refresh. Congratulations—your name now appears in blue, @DavidPostill.

8:05 PM

The moderator election is over - DavidPostill wins!

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angussidney

@DavidPostill congrats! Enjoy ~~abusing~~ your new powers!

@allquixotic Pin plez

First action as mod: Correct a CM's grammar. Yup, this one'll do just fine. — ArtOfCode 5 mins ago

@allquixotic I was wondering whether anybody would spot that :)

victory for the good guys: the Maryland House and Senate passed a bill to ban fracking in Maryland, and Governor Hogan is going to sign it into law

nice to know the chance of sink holes, earthquakes and mercury arsenide water won't markedly increase where I live

8:21 PM

Congrats @DavidPostill

@Riker Congrats to David. Better luck next time to @BenN, looks like you're a solid personality for mod duties when your chance comes.

Thanks :)

Riker

@GypsySpellweaver he's already a mod, so I think he'd be a pretty good one here :P

I got 42 \o/ destiny

OOps

Riker

8:23 PM

:P

@BenN Since you're here; something's gone wonky with the google sheet for the images.

What's wrong?

When I create a temp filter to sort on any column, the go to File -> See revision history, I get an error about "something went wrong, reload the page"

It started yesterday (today in ZULU) and just checked it now.

Huh, that's weird - I'm not sure what to make of that :/

Does it let you use the sort options on the drop-down menus from the column headers?

I'm gonna bet that you have to not be you to do it, cause my rights don't let me create a regular filter.

Actual text is "A server error occurred. Please press 'Reload' in your browser."

8:30 PM

Huh, when I view it with an incognito window, the revision history option is disabled

you have to be signed in as a google account to see that option.

happens in Chrome 57 and firefox 51

fine line to walk, sing in with google, but not as yourself. Hope you got some spare gmail accounts handy :D

Heh, unfortunately I do not

I don't know if it's possible, but the sheet might have to be rebuilt or something. All the entries from anonymous (semi-) users in the status column may have corrupted it somehow.

I suspect Google logged the error; it's a server-side thing, so I'm not sure if there's anything we can do :/

Q: Odd behavior in Google Sheets with filtered view

On the third error last night I submitted an error report, an option in the second error box that shows up. That would have been ~02:30Z.

The reason for even looking at revision history is explained in my Q in WebApps

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I am using SeaMonkey [2.46] and Firefox [51.0.1 (64-bit)] on OpenSUSE Leap 42.2. These are my extensions in Firefox, there are none in SeaMonkey: I am accessing a Google Sheets spreadsheet that has been shared publicly. I can see the entire sheet, but only have edit privileges for column B sta...

google-spreadsheets firefox firefox-extensions

8:58 PM

@allquixotic Hey, thanks :D Sure, I'll hang around. Now that I can finally speak freely! ;)

9:08 PM

@OliverSalzburg y u no blu!?!?

Oh noes!

;) Been good working with you, all the best dude.

9:27 PM

ugh!

umph!

we came 6th of 9 in the quiz :(

whaaat happn'd

we lost it on the all or nothing round

the last question....

"according to the daily mail, who had the best legs; nicola sturgeon or teresa may?"

teresa may

9:30 PM

thats what i thought

it turns out it was nicola sturgeon

why sturgeon? who wants a memaid?

i have no idea

still.. three did worse.

after last weeks quizgate scandal i'm taking a week off! ;)

we did joke with the quiz master that we should have a recount

lol

9:37 PM

@OliverSalzburg which one of the mods snores the loudest?

which one orders the PlayDog Puppies Monthly?

@DavidPostill congrats, liking the bling

@Burgi Ta very much ;p

I demand a recount! I voted for La La Land! — Burgi 3 mins ago

How did this even make it into a question as an image link? ![device in use](c:/users/desktop/006.jpg)

Someone typed it

@GypsySpellweaver ah the famous ID10-T error

9:41 PM

PICNIC error

Who doesn't understand we can't see his desktop

I figured the system wouldn't even let that one get submitted?

In the end it's just text, the system thinks the user wanted it. An image is just an automated uploader and a text insert that points to something somewhere...

No way I'm gonna try and recreate that one, just removing it as unneeded and moving on.

GemsFromStackExchange: +1, huge fan of your wife’s oven.

Yep

GFSE

9:43 PM

posted on March 28, 2017

+1, huge fan of your wife’s oven.

More gaussian blur courtesy of GFSE

What is GFSE?

its just tumblr enlarging the image

@GypsySpellweaver GemsFromStackExchange

!! s/enlarging/ENHANCE!-ing/

In the CSI magic fairy dust sense

Except in this case the dust is between the sensor and the lens

lol

9:47 PM

Oh bubbling hecksauce you're right, that original image is tiny

how do we see the actual number of votes for each candidate?

Was the screenshot taken with the intention of being viewed through a microscope?

@bertieb i had to build a tumblr template for my friend's band website last year

@Burgi I'm terribly sorry

its an awful platform

9:52 PM

@Burgi opavote.com/results/6642873269223424/0 and hover over the yellow bars

Or scroll back a couple of pages for the unofficial results post.

you know when you rig an election you are meant to make it look a lot closer than that....

lol

I blame my Smokey supporters. The room info starts with "Where diamonds are made"

lol

the best 3 candidates all got the highest votes

it was really close for me to decide who my 2nd vote went to between @BenN and @music2myear

I'm amazed at the low number of votes cast. Only half of the folks that went to the election page voted. Why go to the page and not vote? I mean, you already loaded the page, what's the point of leaving now?

it wasn't immediately clear how to vote iirc

9:57 PM

And the visitors to the election page were less than half of the visits to the site during the election

@Burgi I'm new to SE as a whole, not just SU, and I figured it out.

shrug

@DavidPostill when are you going to start on fixing the roads?

@Burgi After I've fixed all the broken windows and removed the graffiti :)

also can you stand for mayor in manchester? all the other candidates are ~~bastards~~ politicians

we voted to not have a mayor and for reasons beyond my comprehension we are getting one anyway...

greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/info/20077/the_mayor

LOOKS LEGIT!

@Burgi So.. Stand for election, get the job, issue a decree abolishing the office of mayor, step down gracefully.

Mayor of Greater Manchester

seems like a lot of work

The Mayor of Greater Manchester is a planned directly elected political post responsible for the strategic government of Greater Manchester, including health, transport, housing, strategic planning, policing and skills. The creation of the Mayor of Greater Manchester has been agreed between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Greater Manchester's 10 district council leaders, but requires new primary legislation. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is proposed to continue, but the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner is expected to be rolled into the new mayoralty. The first election...

> To stand validly nominated on 4 May 2017, by no later than 4pm on Tuesday 4 April, the Combined Area Returning Officer must be in receipt of the following:

A nomination paper with 100 signatures and elector numbers

Candidate Consent to Nomination

Request for a party emblem (party candidates only)

Certificate of authorisation (party candidates only)

£5000 deposit (cash or bankers draft only)

can you lend me £5000?

10:15 PM

@Burgi That's a bit beyond my means at the moment. :/

music2myear

Congratulations @DavidPostill! We're in good hands here.

commiserations @music2myear

10:30 PM

Achievement unlocked! \o/

Alright, now reinstate me please

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@music2myear Thanks!

music2myear

@Burgi naw. I'm happy with the outcome. Now if you'd been elected....

Bob

morning

congrats @DavidPostill

Feeds

Journeyman Geek has added Oliver Salzburg to the list of this room's owners.

I don't think anyone would disagree ;p

10:39 PM

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!!

@JourneymanGeek Definitely not.

@DavidPostill congratulations

i can think of some objections if you need them

his profile pic is too arty!

@JourneymanGeek Thanks (also for the push to stand) ;p

his rep isn't at a nice round number

;)

10:41 PM

@DavidPostill I think that's a minor tradition at this point ;p

and I suspect you got a better margin than I did

I'm busy reading all the new help pages ...

@DavidPostill to me being a mod is not that different from having gold badges in all the tags + being a high reputation user XD

and when in doubt, there's all the metas

@JourneymanGeek And people to advise in the secret rooms :)

@DavidPostill pretty much

also mod tools suck on mobile ;p

Paul Vargas

11:18 PM

What is the equivalent of NSA in UK?

GCHQ

11:29 PM

4LA!!!!

<.< >.>

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi Sounds like the name of a cool, hip urban outfit company from Los Angeles.

i can neither confirm nor deny that

@Burgi lol

A: How to find some unknown backup process

11:46 PM

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"Things To Try" Random sampling / poking around Chance of finding the culprit: 50% Difficulty: Easy assuming you know what you're looking at Look in the following places for unusual/unexpected commands: ~/bin of any interactive users ps -ef (as root) for anything you don't know what it is ...

Bob

@allquixotic Or enable SELinux on permissive mode and check accesses :)