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@PopularDemand LOL I know how you feel sometimes. I used to keep up with all the latest CPU, RAM, GPU & mobo offerings. Then I realized it was bugging the crap out of me and I could do better things with my time.

Lasse V. Karlsen

My computer is 2.5 years old now, still running most games OK

George Marian

7:31 PM

Now, I just hit up my friends for the latest info and do research when I'm in the market for a new pc.

Lasse V. Karlsen

I mostly play on my Xbox 360 these days

balpha

@GeorgeMarian I got myself this one today:

amazon.com/JBL-Creature-III-Self-Powered-Multimedia/dp/…

really nice

Popular Demand

Ugh, New Vegas is so far away.

balpha

even if it looks weird

George Marian

@LasseVKarlsen My prefious PC was soooo ancient, it could barely run Eve Online.

Lasse V. Karlsen

7:32 PM

Starcraft 2 ran fine on this machine

I'm hoping Diablo 3 will run too

Popular Demand

Okay. No point in remaining at the office any longer. Talk to you when I get home, perhaps.

George Marian

@balpha Interesting and about the same price as the logitech 5.1.

Lasse V. Karlsen

Only investment I've done this year is a pair of Logitech G35 headphones

balpha

I also listened to the logitech one. I felt this one sounded way better.

Lasse V. Karlsen

"this one"?

balpha

7:33 PM

the creature

Lasse V. Karlsen

ah

I got a pair of speakers as well, an Altec Lansing set

George Marian

@balpha The reviews complaining about the sound quality of the logitech is one of the things that has me worried about it.

Lasse V. Karlsen

But I use the headphones a lot, playing team-based online games, like starcraft, wow, borderlands

And I needed a replacement set for my old one, which was starting to show its age

balpha

of course, this one was unbeatable when it comes to sound quality:

amazon.com/Bose-Companion-multimedia-speaker-Graphite/dp/…

but I didn't want to pay that price for computer speakers

George Marian

I finally upgraded for my birthday a few months ago. One of my gf's co-workers was looking to part out his system, so she bought me the case & PSU. I then proceeded to buy the rest of the system. LOL

@balpha Yah, that's the deal breaker for me. Not that I don't spend a lot of time in front of my PC, but I also need a sound system for the flat screen and a bunch of other things. Being unemployed sucks, but I hope I can maintain the discipline once I'm working again.

radp

8:03 PM

Can't SO just get its own .qa TLD and be done with it?

gaming.qa, webapps.qa, cactus.qa!

balpha

why quatar? why not sweden?

radp

q-a

questions-answers

<.<

I wish it took more than 8$ to register a .com domain.

balpha

i got it

again, why not sweden?

user151055

@MetroidFA thanks for the help

radp

@balpha Oh, I thought .se was for serbia

lol, whois.net/whois/gaming.se

balpha

8:16 PM

hehe

[HTTP: Unable to run web browser: /usr/bin/lynx: No such file or directory]

pros at work, there

radp

anyway gaming.se is taken

balpha

we could go the other way round

create lots of tlds, each with just two domains

questions.gaming

meta.gaming

radp

or create an .answers tld

gaming.answers

balpha

anyone have any friends at ICANN?

radp

guys?

Does "ludoers" make any sense to you?

or ludentes, which is latin for "gamers"

John the Seagull

8:27 PM

or luddites

or ludopaths

radp

luddites taken

John the Seagull

(luddites are people averse to technology, so even if available wouldn't make much sense, I was joking)

radp

can we please take over namedia so we can take over ludo.com?

:P

Lasse V. Karlsen

9:18 PM

Is there a new badge or something for resurrection old questions? The last couple of questions I've looked at are really old, either with new edits or new answers

Examples:

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Q: .Net 2.0 - How efficient are Generic Lists?

I'm creating an app that holds loads of loads of user data in memory, and it's mostly keeping it all in List<T> structures (and some Dictionary<T,T> when I need lookup). And I'm wondering... How efficient are Lists? How much memory overhead do I get for each of them? (that is, memor...

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Q: LINQ TO SQL error: An attempt has been made to Attach or Add an entity that is not new...

"An attempt has been made to Attach or Add an entity that is not new, perhaps having been loaded from another DataContext. This is not supported." I have scene a lot of solutions dealing with the Attach() method but I'm just trying to add in a new record. Not sure what is going on. Here is my...

c# linq-to-sql datacontext

Or is it the general rule, that people are just idiots? :)

Lasse V. Karlsen

9:50 PM

I can't begin to describe how much I hate MySQL... How can these guys be allowed to live? Seriously?

Fosco

... how come?

Lasse V. Karlsen

It is apparently impossible to reinstall on a machine that has already had it installed

Fosco

windows?

Lasse V. Karlsen

Yes

A fresh install, after uninstalling it, and I don't give a crap about existing information, I've deleted everything I can find

... still insists on asking what the current password of my server is

and fails to start because the password is wrong, which it isn't

Fosco

hmm.. that sucks

Lasse V. Karlsen

9:57 PM

yeah, but what can you expect from a database built by kids

Fosco

have you checked the windows services list?

Lasse V. Karlsen

yes, there is a service there

starting it, runs for 5 seconds, then it stops, leaving an "Error 17 occured" in the event log

Helpful, it is not

Fosco

maybe if you run it from the command line it will give a more helpful answer

Lasse V. Karlsen

How do I do that?

Fosco

i'd find mysqld.exe and try running it (you know how to use the command line right?)

Lasse V. Karlsen

10:00 PM

yes, I do know how to use the command line :)

Fosco

I'm glad

Lasse V. Karlsen

Running mysqld gives me nothing, except for a new prompt

Fosco

new prompt?

Lasse V. Karlsen

yeah, no message

Fosco

ah.. sorry I can't be more help.. party here, company just arrived.. see ya!

Lasse V. Karlsen

10:09 PM

:)

John the Seagull

10:29 PM

Google says that mysql error 17 means it is trying to write on an existing file for which it doesn't have permissions. Does that give a clue? Also try mysqld --verbose

Lasse V. Karlsen

mysqld --verbose also gives nothing

the error log in the data directory says that it just crashes, and that "you might have encountered a bug"

I'll find a .NET-based blog-software instead I think

Or at least something that wasn't originally built for MySQL

Lasse V. Karlsen

10:48 PM

Well, I give up

Finally made MySQL start, by manually doing all the configuration, now I am trying to connect to my database for my blog and get "Table 'vkarlsen_blog.wp_users' doesn't exist.

Although show tables clearly shows the table

user151055

Can anyone tell me where can I get programming problems like ACM ?but of a bit low level, I mean intermediate

Lasse V. Karlsen

What is "ACM"?

radp

Ask Comment get Moderated

Lasse V. Karlsen

I still don't know what "ACM" is.. Is it a site?

C. Ross

@LasseVKarlsen Association for Computing Machinery

they have programming tests, contests, publish papers

I suspect he means problems from one of the contests

Lasse V. Karlsen

11:03 PM

Ok, I don't really want to "suspect" though

Sounds an awful lot like "I assume"

C. Ross

@fahad Did you mean the problems from the contests or some other problem set?

John the Seagull

It's a pretty safe bet though

Lasse V. Karlsen

I'm sorry, I'm a bit grumpy because of MySQL tonight :P

My blog went down and I have pretty much given up getting my data back without reinstalling the whole machine

John the Seagull

You could probably blame Windows as well

Lasse V. Karlsen

At least Windows runs :P

MySQL failed to load, when I finally coaxed it into running, it won't recognize my database

John the Seagull

11:06 PM

MySQL does too, it just doesn't on your machine

Lasse V. Karlsen

Like, show tables lists all my tables, yet MySQL will subsequently say "table XYZ does not exit"

John the Seagull

This looks like an awful lot of user permissions problems

Lasse V. Karlsen

Could be, but granting user access doesn't work either

John the Seagull

did you reinstall with another user? Have encrypted partitions? Some other weird thing?. BTW, did you try the standard recovery procedures?

Lasse V. Karlsen

And the main problem is that I don't know, because no error message gives me something to go on

I upgraded MySQL

from 5.0x something to latest 5.1x version

First I upgraded Wordpress, then it had a warning about me running an older version of MySQL

So I upgraded MySQL, after which it won't recognize my database

John the Seagull

11:09 PM

MySQL has their database files in a single directory and two (or three) files per each database

can you read those files with MySQL server's user?

Lasse V. Karlsen

I don't know, how do I "read" them?

John the Seagull

open them for reading

Lasse V. Karlsen

You mean like in Notepad or whatever?

user151055

@CRoss yes

John the Seagull

Notepad is a bit risky, I'd try an hex editor if you have one

Lasse V. Karlsen

11:11 PM

I'm not going to save the files

But considering the mysql database is currently running as administrator, I sure hope it can read the files

user151055

@CRoss I found stackoverflow.com/questions/185742/… thanks

C. Ross

good

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