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5:00 AM

@mootinator Hahahahaha. I tend to write the readable version first, then save it to a separate file before stripping off spaces.

Michael Mrozek

@drachenstern Would you like some downvotes?

Chris Jester-Young

That way I don't develop any nasty coding habits.

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Well kind of, I need to figure out why it just happens to occur on that call, since it manages other calls fine.

drachenstern

@MichaelMrozek Not particularly

Chris Jester-Young

@MichaelMrozek That won't dent his rep all that much, but it'll dent yours!

Michael Mrozek

5:00 AM

:(

mootinator

^_^

drachenstern

@mootinator you need an IDE and a compiler apparently :p

They do those pesky space management things for you

@ChrisJesterYoung it'll dent mine half as much as it does his, up until he trips the fraud detector

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone and uh, what call was that?

mootinator

Yeah, that's the problem, every time I press enter Resharper puts those pesky spaces back in.

Chris Jester-Young

@drachenstern :-P

Tim Stone

5:02 AM

@RebeccaChernoff Whatever call to .attr() there is that happens to come after that specific list of other calls. ;)

Chris Jester-Young

@mootinator Bah, I just use paredit, it indents things the One True Way. :-P

Tim Stone

I'm trying to figure out a good way to find out where that might be, but of course trying to find out in a better way results in the error not happening...very tricky.

drachenstern

@TimStone that's why I chose the rarest element to start tracing on

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone I'm not sure that narrows it down sufficiently to start looking. q:

Tim Stone

@drachenstern Yeah, I'm going to try a potentially easier fix I just thought of first ;)

@RebeccaChernoff You have any better ideas? :p

drachenstern

5:08 AM

@TimStone she suggests you helping her figure out her video card problem and then reversing your smilies, but she won't say that :p

Rebecca Chernoff

I thought my job was simply to hand out blame - you want me to actually think???

4

Tim Stone

Well yeah, isn't that what we (and by we, I mean Jeff, through no association) pay you for?!

Rebecca Chernoff

oy

Chris Jester-Young

@TimStone Jeff doesn't handle the money. Remember? :-P

Tim Stone

Details, details. :P

Just because he hates dollar signs..

drachenstern

5:14 AM

@TimStone so he's ok with € and £ then?

I wish my keyboard had those by default, I could use those for my jQuery assignments ;)

Chris Jester-Young

@drachenstern xmodmap is your friend, amirite?

mootinator

I am disappointed that I can't abuse C# in this fashion.

drachenstern

@ChrisJesterYoung a) if I were using X probably so

mootinator

headers.Select((x, i) => ws.Cells[row, column + i].Value = x.Title);

drachenstern

b) If every computer that I used had that character so mapped and didn't require me to change it like thus

c) if everyone else's computer had that mapping

almost all "standard" computer keyboards have that symbol, that's why it was chosen

@mootinator in which fashion?

mootinator

5:17 AM

The assignment in that code doesn't actually accomplish anything, though it compiles.

drachenstern

@mootinator so ... I'm missing something here.

does it or does it not modify the data?

mootinator

The cell value does not change to the value of x.Title.

drachenstern

oh I see the problem that you want

Yeah, I don't think you can do it like that :\

mootinator

Yeah, I changed it to foreach (var title in headers.Select((x, i) => new {Index = i, x.Title})) works fine now.

For what I want to accomplish.

drachenstern

and resharper can't reduce that to a working bit of code?

that runs in one line?

mootinator

5:22 AM

It hasn't suggested it, lol.

drachenstern

@Earlz you're having fun tonight aren't you?

mootinator

I could always do .ToList().ForEach(lambda function) but that isn't really any easier to read.

drachenstern

1

Q: Woudn't it make sense to have more than one answer acceptable?

Or at least have maybe the ability to set some other answers as assisted answer. I find myself finding an acceptable answer unusable while other answers underneath it might be more suitable. Would it be safe to say that the accepted answer should only make sense to the asker whether or not the qu...

@mootinator no, the foreach is much easier

mootinator

@drachenstern The normal one, you mean :)

drachenstern

@mootinator yeah, the one you used

I need a good meta question to post that'll give me 10 upvotes :p

mootinator

5:28 AM

Well, I seem to have solved all my excel problems except the issue of what magic number to put in FontWeight to specify bold text.

drachenstern

try 400

can you make it literally the text "bold"?

or is it an int?

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff528991(v=office.12).aspx

> On load, Excel 2007 maps the following values to the “Bold” font style: “bold”, “400”, “500”, “600”, “700”, “800”, and “900”. Excel 2007 maps all other values to the “Regular” font style.

(which is also the HTML/CSS fontweight version of bold)

mootinator

That's even weirder, since the default value I saw in the debugger was already 400.

drachenstern

Sooo idk

mootinator

Thanks for trying...

Yi Jiang

Hmmm?

So I see that the team's having another go at debugging the livequery/SO chat problem

Any progress?

drachenstern

5:37 AM

@mootinator did that link help out any at all? had you seen it? You are debugging with 2k7 Excel right?

mootinator

@drachenstern Yes.

Turns out I was thinking too much.

There was an enum for that: ExcelFont.BoldWeight.

drachenstern

oh, lol

See, I said "is it an int" :p ... I figured inspecting the type would yield more info.

mootinator

The property is, actually an int.

ExcelFont is a class, rather than an enum, strictly speaking.

No compiler hint there for me as a result :/

drachenstern

oh well damn

Interesting article about Da Vinci and his male assistant possibly being the "model" heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/…

mootinator

lol

Moshe

6:00 AM

Hi.

/me is exhausted.

Just filmed a concert.

mootinator

spent $3000 on something he doesn't think is a good idea today.

Michael Petrotta

@mootin: /me bites

mootinator

An elliptical trainer...

Michael Petrotta

Oh. Why isn't it a good idea, cause it costs so much?

mootinator

In my experience home exercise equipment doesn't get used.

Sort of a catch 22 there though. Often it doesn't get used because it's crap.

So we convinced me a more expensive one is probably a better investment somehow :)

Michael Petrotta

6:09 AM

It breaks in a month, and then sits there for a few years, gathering dust. Yep.

drachenstern

@mootinator oh, it'll get used. But it'll be a $6000 hour's worth of use

mootinator

lol

Yi Jiang

I'm curious, is it legal for SO to redistribute the OpenSTV binaries like this?

Michael Petrotta

@YiJiang: surely depends on the license. Got a link?

Yi Jiang

It seems like as of 4/12/2010, OpenSTV now requires a $5 donation min to use.

drachenstern

6:11 AM

> The downloads are licensed under the GPL, but to ensure that OpenSTV continues to be open source, please do not post these files online or share with others.

Yi Jiang

SO still hosts it on the elections page allowing users to audit the election results: stackoverflow.com/election/1

mootinator

Hmm...

drachenstern

@YiJiang I say either email Jeff/Team directly and lay out the question or post it on MSO (or get one of the community coords to answer the question directly ;) )

I'm leaning towards the first one, but the second one shows traceability if anyone has questions

Rebecca Chernoff

It is only for users with 300 rep or more. The download isn't provided for all users.

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Yeah, but does that buy them redistribution rights?

drachenstern

6:12 AM

@YiJiang it's not a specifically customized build is it?

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Ah, okay, I see

Rebecca Chernoff

That's all I know. (:

Yi Jiang

@drachenstern I haven't downloaded it, but it doesn't look any different

(Not very scientific, looking at the file name there, hmmm)

Should I still ask the question?

drachenstern

I'm still undecided

@TimStone what do you think?

@mootinator ?

@MichaelPetrotta you still lurking? ;)

mootinator

@drachenstern Humming about the OpenSTV question.

Tim Stone

6:16 AM

What am I thinking about?

mootinator

I should hit ye olde hay now though.

Michael Petrotta

@drachenstern: still lurking.

drachenstern

@TimStone the OpenSTV question

We're all undecided

@MichaelPetrotta you wanna weigh in?

Michael Petrotta

@drachenstern: wasn't really paying attention...

drachenstern

Should it be posted as an MSO question

Yi Jiang

6:16 AM

I don't think there's any harm in actually asking a question

drachenstern

@MichaelPetrotta hence I pinged you :p

@YiJiang no, and if there is they can always delete it to keep it off the site

Tim Stone

Feb 2 at 19:24, by Geoff Dalgas

we have donated to OpenSTV to bring this to you at no cost

drachenstern

This makes me say "duh uh what?"

Tim Stone

I'm assuming that implies a particular agreement.

drachenstern

0

Q: how to declare five variables and declare each variable on its own line.

I need a little bit more of a understanding with this. In the example I have I know I am doing something wrong because I can not pull it up in a windows screen. This is only one of the five variables I have. Another question do I have to put the javascript.css or can it just be the I am not unde...

javascript variables

Yi Jiang

6:18 AM

@TimStone Huh, okay

Tim Stone

Plus, wasn't it covered in the blog post?

mootinator

@TimStone Makes sense.

Michael Petrotta

Can't hurt to ask the question, I suppose. I haven't seen anything here that would imply "copyright infringement", though." please do not post these files online is not a contract.

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Not sure, I think they only mentioned the fact that they use OpenSTV

I don't really follow the blog too closely, I'll search

Michael Petrotta

I have enough to worry about keeping my work legal, even with my company's army of lawyers helping me

Tim Stone

6:20 AM

@YiJiang Ah, seems you're right. I'm not sure where I think I saw it mentioned then

drachenstern

Why does the quality of posts drop off so radically after midnight EST?

0

Q: What is the best way to sync multiple client SqlServers to one MS SqlServer 2005?

I have several client databases that use my windows application. I want to send this data for online web site. The client databases and server database structure is different because we need to add client ID column to some tables in server data base. I use this way to sync databases; use anoth...

c# database sql-server-2005 synchronization replication

mootinator

The method of counting votes in the Canadian federal elections is completely manual and scales rather well. I don't think I've ever seen that much competence in government before.

drachenstern

^^^^ makes my brain hurt

mootinator

ow

Yi Jiang

@drachenstern Purely anecdotal, but hrm... we should be able to poke around the data dump and associate the number of posts closed with time

Or number of -1 questions posted as a percentage of all posts. That should provide some empirical evidence

mootinator

6:28 AM

Hum

Michael Petrotta

My arm smells like cologne. I don't wear cologne.

Brain hurts.

So, what did I do wrong here, I can't see it right now:

`SELECT DATEPART(Hh, Posts.CreationDate) AS HOUR, SUM(CASE WHEN Score < 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)/COUNT(*) FROM Posts WHERE Score < 0
GROUP BY DATEPART(Hh, Posts.CreationDate)`

drachenstern

@mootinator did you read that db question I linked? :p

SELECT
    DATEPART(Hh, Posts.CreationDate) AS HOUR,
    SUM(CASE WHEN Score < 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)/COUNT(*)
FROM Posts WHERE Score < 0
GROUP BY DATEPART(Hh, Posts.CreationDate)

mootinator

6:33 AM

OH DUH

drachenstern

@mootinator what's it not doing?

mootinator

That didn't help

drachenstern

@mootinator I didn't do anything, I just reformatted it

mootinator

It isn't telling me which hour has the highest rate of -1 questions.

I said duh because I left WHERE score < 0 in so the rate was always 100% for each hour.

drachenstern

oh, lol

What's it telling you?

mootinator

6:35 AM

Now it's just doing int math.

drachenstern

take out the division, do you get a sum?

mootinator

And saying they're all 0.

drachenstern

So you need to cast to floats or decimals and then divide

I wonder if you change the summation to 1.0/0.0 if that would work to make it decimal?

mootinator

This works...

SELECT DATEPART(Hh, Posts.CreationDate) AS HOUR, CAST (SUM(CASE WHEN Score < 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS decimal)/COUNT(*)*100 AS Rate FROM Posts
GROUP BY DATEPART(Hh, Posts.CreationDate)

There is some evidence that there is a bad time of day there.

The worst hour being 5.

at 1.71%

Michael Petrotta

right when I tend to read SO.

drachenstern

6:40 AM

but did you restrict that to questions only or questions and answers?

hell, does that matter?

mootinator

It could, I suppose.

drachenstern

create table #temp (value decimal, timestamp datetime)

insert into #temp values (1.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (2.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (3.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (4.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (5.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (6.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (7.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (8.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (9.0, getdate())

SELECT SUM(CASE WHEN t.value >= 5 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)/count(*) from #temp t

create table #temp (value decimal, timestamp datetime)

insert into #temp values (1.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (2.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (3.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (4.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (5.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (6.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (7.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (8.0, getdate())
insert into #temp values (9.0, getdate())

SELECT SUM(CASE WHEN t.value >= 5 THEN 1.0 ELSE 0.0 END)/count(*) from #temp t

one of those gives a ZERO, the other gives a 5/9 as a decimal (expected)

So there you go

mootinator

Restricting to question doesn't appear to make a big difference.

drachenstern

ok ya'll, I'm out, cya tomorrow

mootinator

Actually the wee hours seem to have less downvotes.

Probably indicates lack of people to downvote questions rather than better questions though.

Need a different metric.

mootinator

7:00 AM

Eeh, whatever...

data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/897/…

Yi Jiang

0

Q: Is is legal for Stack Overflow to redistribute OpenSTV binaries?

Here are the facts: Stack Exchange elections results are calculated using OpenSTV. OpenSTV is, as of December 4th 2010, open source, but not free. Stack Exchange sites provide the binaries of OpenSTV for users with reputation above a certain amount (150 according to Douglas, 300 according to Rebb...

support legal elections

Michael Petrotta

@YiJiang: I'm still not seeing any indication that distributing OpenSTV would constitute copyright infringement. What are you looking at?

Yi Jiang

@MichaelPetrotta I didn't mention copyrights anywhere in there

Michael Petrotta

that's what your whole question is about!

"Is is legal for Stack Overflow to redistribute OpenSTV binaries?"
What is the legality concern if not copyright?

Yi Jiang

@MichaelPetrotta Well, you might want to consider reading the actual question body rather than just the title

Michael Petrotta

7:08 AM

I read pretty fast, @YiJiang.

Chris Jester-Young

@MichaelMrozek: Doesn't the version that comes with Debian work?

Michael Mrozek

@ChrisJesterYoung It does, and if I used Debian that would've been very convenient :)

Chris Jester-Young

Hahahahaha.

Michael Mrozek

I ended up pulling the source for the Ubuntu version from Launchpad

Chris Jester-Young

*nods*

Michael Mrozek

7:13 AM

Gentoo doesn't have an OpenSTV package

Yi Jiang

@MichaelMrozek I don't believe the site says anything about this been a copyright issue, more of a courtesy, to support the project

But it does require you to pay, and it does request that you do not redistribute

Michael Petrotta

But see, that's what I haven't seen. "But it does require you to pay" Where? I certainly might be missing that.

Yi Jiang

@MichaelPetrotta "Although OpenSTV is open-source software, downloads are being sold for $5 to pay for expenses, such as the operation of this web site...."

Michael Mrozek

> Although OpenSTV is open-source software, downloads are being sold for $5 to pay for expenses, such as the operation of this web site. The downloads are licensed under the GPL, but to ensure that OpenSTV continues to be open source, please do not post these files online or share with others.

Michael Petrotta

"please do not"

Rebecca Chernoff

7:16 AM

@MichaelMrozek scandalous!

Michael Petrotta

Downloads are being sold from the OpenSTV site. Doesn't imply that others can't provide that same content.

Yi Jiang

The legal position of OpenSTV itself is very strange too - open source but not free? How does that work?

Michael Mrozek

I suppose technically "please do not post these files online" isn't the same as "you're not allowed to post these files online", but it's still kind of uncool to do exactly the opposite of what the author asked

@YiJiang I completely don't understand that. I thought I was misunderstanding when I first tried to download it from their site

Yi Jiang

@MichaelMrozek Compounded by the fact that you can find it in repos of Linux distros

Michael Petrotta

@MichaelMrozek: sure. I just don't like to see "not legal" being thrown around. Tends to scare the horses.

Yi Jiang

7:19 AM

@MichaelPetrotta Meh, it's more of a 'is it right' question, strict legality would require a lawyer to discuss

Michael Petrotta

@YiJiang: "is it right" - I would agree with that. "strict legality" - seems pretty clear-cut to me, but I'm really, really not a lawyer.

Rebecca Chernoff

@YiJiang, who is Douglas?

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Erm... oops

Michael Mrozek

For that matter, who is Rebbeca?

Yi Jiang

'Geoff' is correct, isn't it?

Rebecca Chernoff

7:27 AM

haha, I didn't even notice that @MichaelMrozek

Also, it definitely is 150. I would have never said 300 as that is incorrect.

Yi Jiang

1 hour ago, by Rebecca Chernoff

It is only for users with 300 rep or more. The download isn't provided for all users.

PHOTOSHOPPED!! >_<

):

Every weekend I tell myself "this is the one -- I'm going to keep a normal sleep schedule". And then I wake up at 3pm on Saturday and think "sigh. Well, I'll just go to sleep early tonight". And then it's 2:30am and I've not even considered going to sleep yet

Yi Jiang

7:38 AM

Dammit! Someone downvoted that OpenSTV question! Now I'll have to downvote another question to get my rep back to that nice rounded number I have there...

Rebecca Chernoff

> @RebeccaChernoff So you say.

Michael Mrozek

@YiJiang @RebeccaChernoff edited it a few minutes ago; she attracts downvotes

Rebecca Chernoff

You doubt my correction?

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff :)

@RebeccaChernoff Well, you didn't delete my question there, but just to make sure, it is 150 across all sites isn't it?

Michael Petrotta

Bit of OCD there, @YiJiang?

Rebecca Chernoff

7:40 AM

Pro tip: Don't doubt someone that looked at the code and the settings.

3

Yi Jiang

@MichaelPetrotta Not at all! Having a nice, rounded rep number is more important than anything else!!!

Michael Petrotta

@YiJiang: Oh, I'm with you, believe me. I especially hate downvoting to drop below a rep divisible by 50. It's a magic boundary for me.

Michael Mrozek

@YiJiang It's especially important to hit multiples of 1k directly, and not overshoot them

Michael Petrotta

Aren't we all a mentally healthy bunch.

Michael Mrozek

@MichaelPetrotta Someday we're going to discover that rchern is a collective delusion

Rebecca Chernoff

7:45 AM

oy

> I presume the reputation required to download the binaries is equal to the amount needed to vote in the elections.

@YiJiang, just stick with that.

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Yeah, you just have to tell me that 10 seconds after I deleted that line from the question

Rebecca Chernoff

um, of course? (:

Better to use that than give it a number that may be different say in 2 years or something shrugs

Michael Mrozek

SO won't be having elections in two years; I'll have seized power long before then

Rebecca Chernoff

Pfft.

Michael Petrotta

Long as people keep confusing the @Michaels, I'm ok with that.

Rebecca Chernoff

7:49 AM

hahaha

Tim Post

I just answered it

Yi Jiang

I just accepted Tim Post's answer, so that's +2 back to me again, and nice rounded rep \o/

Tim Post

so glad I could help, lol

Yi Jiang

But, the answer does not resolve the very serious problem of incorrect capitalization of the OS names. /blames @RebeccaChernoff for that

Rebecca Chernoff

not my fault ):

Yi Jiang

7:55 AM

@RebeccaChernoff Solve it now. It's incredibly important! I can't stand looking at that page when it has the word 'windows' and 'mac'!

Michael Petrotta

/me expects a followon to the pluralization tweet from Jeff on the subject of capitalization.

Tim Post

@YiJiang All the cool kids use JQuery and lowercase these days. It's web two dot freaking oh!

Yi Jiang

@TimPost And JQuery! That's the worse offender to me! I correct that almost every where I see it

Rebecca Chernoff

WHERE DID ALL THE CAPS GO???

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff TO THE ALL CAPS ROOM!!!

Rebecca Chernoff

7:57 AM

oy

Michael Petrotta

@RebeccaChernoff: you stole them for your last chat message.

Tim Post

@YiJiang - Indeed, it should be a capital offense :P

Michael Petrotta

@Tim: I will shoot you.

Rebecca Chernoff

groan.

Yi Jiang

I'm sorry, I giggled at that. ducks

Tim Post

7:58 AM

I'm as funny as I am electable. I don't mind coming in last in either regard :)

Michael Mrozek

8:15 AM

@TimPost I think you need to reevaluate your definition of "last" :)

Tim Post

@MichaelMrozek - strictly in the sense of the last node in a sorted list. All that matters is that you are in the sorted list :)

Yi Jiang

Looking through some of Community's interactions with old answers reveal some hilarious questions from SO's past. Example:

15

Q: How to cook turkey programatically?

It's Thanksgiving in the United States tomorrow. Please describe your favorite method of cooking turkey in the form of runnable code using your favorite language. For example in Java with java.utils.concurrency.

language-agnostic fun methodology

Tim Post

is it programatically or programmatically?

Yi Jiang

@TimPost My spell checker says neither, and suggests 'melodramatically' instead

Tim Post

@YiJiang Indeed, and more appropriate in most cases.

badp

9:32 AM

badp

10:33 AM

bah, I'd started doing that path finding code golf in Python, then I realized it wanted the shortest simplest path, not just any

while I was using random.choice

oh well

Nyuszika7H

Hi all! :)

3

Q: How do I associate my keyboard's media keys with VLC?

I've got an ASUS K50AF series notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I'm using VLC, and I want to use media keys (play, pause, rewind, forward, stop) with it. Currently, it's associated with Windows Media Center. I've tried MK2MP. Unfortunately, it didn't fix my problem, and crashed after r...

windows-7 windows-media-center vlc media-keys

Hmm, what happens if I don't award the bounty to anyone?

badp

@Nyuszika7H If nothing changes in the next 7 hours, nothing will happen

all rep is lost

Nyuszika7H

@badp after it expires

Yi Jiang

@Nyuszika7H Eh, all reps will be lost

Nyuszika7H

@YiJiang Huh? I know I won't get it back…

badp

10:42 AM

and no one will get any rep either

Yi Jiang

0

Q: Which web design site discussed embedding single characters like & using base64?

I'm looking for a well known article site on site design which made an article about embedding just a single character (in this case, '&') from a font to save load times. I believe the site used fixed width, pale colours. Thanks

html css

badp

the problem is at line 559 of that program

Yi Jiang

Erhm... [identify-the-tutorial]? -_-

badp

if you don't have the source we can't really help

Yi Jiang

I vaguely know of the technique, it's gone out of style recently though, hrm...

badp

10:43 AM

@YiJiang well, after identify-this-game and identify-this-thingy...

Nyuszika7H

loves HTML5's doctype

<script>
window['321LetsGo'] = (function readySteadyGo(type) {
    if (type == 2) {
        // 321LetsGo
        alert('3, 2, 1… let's go!');
    } else {
        // ReadySteadyGo (default)
        alert('Ready, steady… GO!');
    }
});
</script>

Yi Jiang

@waffles Where did the 'thanks' filter go for the /review pages?

Yi Jiang

12:54 PM

There's currently exactly 3 candidates for Webapps filling three spots. Does that mean that they'll automatically become mods if no one nominate himself before tomorrow?

@waffles Why does the diff seem so... arbitrary about which of the added whitespace it highlights?

badp

@YiJiang I guess so

Nyuszika7H

1:38 PM

Hi! :)

Yi Jiang

2:35 PM

@badp So erm... post feature request for spell check on MSO?

It would be network wide, hrm...

(I would certainly welcome that change; I habitually turn on spell check manually on the title field all the time)

badp

@YiJiang either make a new post specifically about adding the attribute or flag for migration to MSO I guess

Yi Jiang

And apparently there isn't an about:config option :(

badp

weird, Chrome somehow remembers the settings :)

Yi Jiang

I would actually like to turn it on globally for all fields

@badp Well, if I start a new post on MSO, I can include the technical detail (well, just that attribute)

I'll post then, hrm...

@badp spellcheck="true" doesn't work in Chrome, it seems

badp

@YiJiang well, if it does no harm either it's still a possible improvement.

Yi Jiang

2:54 PM

0

Q: Enable spell check on title, search and tag input element

This is a repost of Spell-checking in question titles on Meta.Gaming, except that this post furnishes the necessary technical details for it to work. All input elements do not, by default, do not have have spell check enabled on Chrome and Firefox. This option can be turned on by the client by ...

feature-request html editor spelling

Tim Post

@YiJiang All input elements do not, by default, do not have have spell check spell check won't fix everything you know :P

Yi Jiang

@TimPost But it sure helps!

Tim Post

Did you really mean to say "do not, by default, do not" ?

Yi Jiang

Erhm... oops

Hmmm... I just found out SE beta sites logo font: dafont.com/sketch-block.font

drachenstern

apparently SE needs a private font geek to design new fonts for them

Yi Jiang

3:06 PM

First seen on DaFont: 01-19-2008
1,182,890 downloads (1,096 yesterday)

It's a pretty popular font too, fancy that

Moshe

Morning.

drachenstern

morn

Robusto

3:52 PM

I see SLaks is now a moderator. Good job & congrats, @Slaks. I presume that means the new moderators have been chosen? Was there an announcement? If so, I missed it. Is there a list somewhere of who the moderators are? I tried C&P'ing the ♦ into the Search Users field, but that did nothing.

drachenstern

See the about page for the site

Robusto

Ah ... had to do a text search to find it.

Thanks, @drachenstern.

Tim Stone

4:10 PM

Oh wow, three votes away from the rep cap on Meta today O_o

Rebecca Chernoff

@Robusto, one, two, three, four blog posts in the last month mention the elections...

drachenstern

huh, I've got 175 on meta today too

Robusto

@Rebecca: That may be, but I only have a passing interest. I'm not very active on SO these days, though I do drop by from time to time. I was just glad to see @SLaks got the nod, as he was my top choice. I can't even remember who else I voted for, frankly.

Rebecca Chernoff

You asked if there was an announcement, I answered. (:

badp

yay, the printer scanner that needs no configuration under Linux fails to setup without cdrom from Win7

@RebeccaChernoff speaking of announcements, how about the gaming THC?

Rebecca Chernoff

4:19 PM

Didn't I edit the post yesterday?

badp

Yeah, I figured I'd missed the memo

Rebecca Chernoff

Hrm. I totally thought I did. Damn.

badp

I was expecting an email notification too tbh but oh well.

Rebecca Chernoff

It isn't there: meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/1698/… ):

It will be in a minute though!

badp

We do have 11 candidates btw

Jeff shouldn't have said primaries are mainly for SO only :P

Robusto

4:37 PM

@Rebecca: Sorry if I came off a bit churlish. I do thank you for the links. I wasn't aware there was a blog.

But now I know.

Nyuszika7H

Hi! :)

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Q: How do I associate my keyboard's media keys with VLC?

I've got an ASUS K50AF series notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I'm using VLC, and I want to use media keys (play, pause, rewind, forward, stop) with it. Currently, it's associated with Windows Media Center. I've tried MK2MP. Unfortunately, it didn't fix my problem, and crashed after r...

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Update 2: It seems that when I try capturing that key, all programps (including HIP, Key Mapper and AutoHotkey) thinks I pressed the H key. Huh?

Moshe

5:00 PM

@TheRenamedException - Are you near a computer?

guess not

Rebecca Chernoff

Doing 2 town halls for Gaming. Oy.

Moshe

5:38 PM

What's with the "Complain about your rep" event, scheduled for 7 days?

Tim Post