Paul

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Root Access

For all you Super Users out there. You have backups, right?

Paul

Sep 24, 2019 03:58

Wish I could participate as much as I used to

Paul

Sep 24, 2019 03:57

@ankii Thanks ankii

Paul

Sep 24, 2019 03:06

Hi all, I haven't been in chat a while, but I just noticed I clicked over the 50k rep mark. Mostly passive but still :) Happy 50k day to me.

Paul

Nov 27, 2016 22:53

@DavidPostill Oh, I see you just broke 60k :)

Paul

Nov 27, 2016 22:38

Oooh, today is my 40K "birthday"

Paul

Jun 2, 2016 02:23

@JourneymanGeek True, not out of scope though. Ramhound scared them off :)

Paul

Jun 2, 2016 01:32

You could probably do it with a scheduled task triggered by a Event

Paul

Jun 2, 2016 01:31

You could probably do it with a scheduled task triggered by a Event

Paul

Jun 2, 2016 01:31

superuser.com/questions/1083403/…

Paul

Jun 2, 2016 01:31

Why was this out of scope:

Paul

May 19, 2016 01:03

@JourneymanGeek Is that new or I just haven't come across it before? I am sure I have vtced this type of thing before. Does that mean there isn't a way to deal with this type of duplicate?

Paul

May 19, 2016 00:33

Q: Why cannot I ping computer name without dot?

In my home network I have a dhcp server and a dns server running on a router. Dhcp and internet access are working fine. I have for each device on my home network a dns record that associate some name to the device ip address. For example mycomputer resolves to 192.168.0.111. However when I i...

Paul

May 19, 2016 00:33

Q: Why do I need to add a period after hostname in order to get DNS resolution to work?

C:\Users\david>nslookup home-pi3 Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.1.1 Name: home-pi3 Address: 192.168.1.81 C:\Users\david>ping home-pi3 Ping request could not find host home-pi3. Please check the name and try again. C:\Users\david>ping home-pi3. Pinging home-pi3 [192.168.1.81] with 32 ...

windows networking dns

Paul

May 19, 2016 00:32

Is it new that you cannot mark as a question as a dupe when the duplicate doesn't have an answer?

Paul

Apr 19, 2016 06:09

"These are some of the attributes of questions that are answered quickly"

Paul

Apr 19, 2016 05:58

@Psycogeek Surely that is just about phrasing it right. "How to ask great questions that may or may not lead to a fast answer"

Paul

Apr 19, 2016 04:28

@MichaelFrank How about a "How can I get a fast answer" link underneath the stat that leads to the "How to ask a good question" help text? Ultimately, we want people to participate, and we accept that people don't always ask good questions. Setting an expectation, then explaining how you can get your question to meet the expectations may reduce the amount of low quals.

Paul

Apr 19, 2016 04:16

I think if I saw that I could get an answer to my question in a day, I'd be inclined to give it a go

Paul

Apr 19, 2016 04:15

29 hours is better .

Paul

Apr 19, 2016 04:14

Yeah, I was running the first one and it seemed to be suggesting it was 740 hours to the first answer :)

Paul

Apr 19, 2016 04:04

Does anyone know how to work out what the average time is to answer a question? I hang out in the Unanaswered/Newest area mostly, and in the sidebar it says how many questions aren't answered. On the main question page it shows how many questions exist. I am thinking that for someone new visiting the site, deciding whether to bother creating an account and asking their question, then it might be better to show a statistic about how quickly questions are answered.

Paul

Feb 29, 2016 03:46

Q: WEB chat application planning

I am building a web chat application. Chat.txt: { { $USER_ID:1, "TEXT":"Hello TOM!" "TIME":$TIME_STAMP }, { $USER_ID:2, "TEXT":"My name isn't TOM!" "TIME":$TIME_STAMP } } Obviously, i should not be storing the cha...

mysql html5

Paul

Feb 29, 2016 03:45

Off-topic and opinion:

Paul

Feb 5, 2016 04:34

Is it spam or just offtopic: superuser.com/questions/1035913/…

Paul

Feb 2, 2016 05:30

@qasdfdsaq Why would you use BTs DNS if it is broken like this?

Paul

Jan 22, 2016 05:58

Is anyone here using sslh?

Paul

Jan 22, 2016 04:02

Paul

Jan 22, 2016 04:02

@JourneymanGeek Quick, get the backups :)

Paul

Jan 22, 2016 00:37

@DavidPostill Absolutely :)

Paul

Jan 22, 2016 00:30

So I think we should have SU respond with a warning to anyone who starts a question with "So". It is a silly way to start a sentence.

Paul

Dec 10, 2015 05:58

@Insane Well a sharpie is definitely cable related so that can go in the box afterwards

Paul

Dec 10, 2015 05:36

If I had a label on mine, it would say "cables and other stuff that fits in the cable box somewhat related to cabling"

Paul

Dec 10, 2015 05:34

"Video cables, assorted decades"

Paul

Dec 10, 2015 05:33

@JourneymanGeek Is the box labelled "cables"?

Paul

Dec 10, 2015 00:41

@qasdfdsaq You mean active answering questions, or generally active - reviews, flags etc?

Paul

Dec 8, 2015 03:11

Probably pre-historic ethernet cables made from catgut

Paul

Dec 8, 2015 03:11

I have mine in a box. No one knows what is on the lower stratas

Google-Fu

General chat room for webapps.stackexchange.com

Paul

Jul 27, 2016 00:42

webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/95765/…

Paul

Jul 27, 2016 00:42

Any takers for this:

Paul

Jul 27, 2016 00:42

Sadly for tumbleweed

Paul

Jul 27, 2016 00:42

Oooh. Just got a new webapps badge

Discussion between barlop and Paul

Imported from a comment discussion on superuser.com/questions/...

Paul

May 9, 2016 14:37

So what is the intention of this discussion? The question I have provided will serve the community better than a comment based discussion. If you'd like to help further, summarise your discussion into an answer or clarify my answer. Comments are not the place to answer questions.

Paul

May 9, 2016 12:47

@barlop This is precisely the point I am trying to make. Perhaps you can help make it clearer, or to add your own answer?

Paul

May 8, 2016 23:28

This was ultimately my point, that to describe something as web vs non-web based on protocol does not align with end user experience. And to include everything that you can possibly interact with via a web browser doesn't align with the underlying technologies. So the question is opinion in the end.

Paul

May 8, 2016 23:27

@barlop Yes. All of this. I think that this question is down to perspective rather than technical definitions. If I am on a web interface to an IRC channel then from my perspective I am on the web. Just because one of the protocols involved is not http doesn't matter much to the end user. In the same way that Hangouts and Messenger might use XMPP as transport somewhere in the path, but I am using firefox on their website.

Paul

May 8, 2016 02:31

@barlop - Oh I see, where I say "many aren't"? I meant many uses of http are unrelated to the web.

Paul

May 8, 2016 02:31

@barlop I did mean encapsulated in the technical sense. Consider an http based tunnel. non-http services? I can't see where I wrote that :) I chose "service" to encompass internet delivered.... services. It is a common term in my circles, perhaps there is a better one?

Paul

May 8, 2016 02:31

So the two are unrelated, except that they happen to be what websites use for transfer (http) and documents (html) most of the time.

Paul

May 8, 2016 02:31

http is a transfer protocol, so it's role is in having the endpoints agree a method of getting data from one place to another. It has a series of commands: GET, PUT, POST etc, and various request and response parameters. Beyond that, it doesn't much care what is transmitted - it can be binary.

Paul

May 8, 2016 02:31

HTML on the other hand is a document language. A way of adding semantics to words: "this is a header" "this is a paragraph" "this is a link" etc. HTML does not care how it gets from one place to another.