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12:00 AM
@radp - Maybe my firing random SQL inputs in textboxes did something lol
 
↑ With programmers' dvorak you don't need to hold shift for that! Except for the 4! Which is where the 8 normally is!
 
@RebeccaChernoff Go see what the error message is so you can know if it's a hardware or software problem :p
@radp Yeah, but offering me the bounty is somehow more rewarding.
Guaranteed.
 
@RebeccaChernoff - Obligatory "don't use Windows" if that is the vibe I am picking up
 
@TimStone Hands off my bounty!
 
@RebeccaChernoff Hey, I don't see your name on it! ;)
 
12:01 AM
@TimStone You do have precious little rep.
 
@radp I know, it's rather sad. :(
 
Isn't the error message in the privatepaste I posted?
I thought it was.
Maybe
 
@RebeccaChernoff No, unfortunately not, just the numbers, and who knows what they mean? Heh
 
 
Crap. Just after booting up and getting things opened, it did it again.
@TimStone, oh. Where am I looking then?
 
12:07 AM
@RebeccaChernoff Normally when it BSODs it tells you that the error message was IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (or various other things)
 
it is auto rebooting though
 
Ah. Should disable that. :P
It's under System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery if you aren't familiar with the option.
 
NECESSITY_FOR_THIS_COMPUTER_TO_WORK_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
 
Even if I run as admin it gives me access denied trying to open the minidump file in notepad. ):
 
@RebeccaChernoff Get a linux live CD and read it from there
 
12:13 AM
I just copied them onto the laptop. They don't seem to be full plaintext.
 
debugging tools for windows, is what I think you need
Dumpchk.exe
 
Yep
 
eh, yeah, minidump is a memory dump after all is it not?
 
though just peeking at it in notepad will give you a hint
 
> Your debugger is not using the correct symbols
oy
 
yeah (:
 
Never really been sure why those don't just come with the debugging tools :P
 
hehe
In other news, we're up to Chrome 10 now.
 
:o
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I like to benchmark all code I write against the time it takes me to do laundry.
 
(;
Meh, even with the symbol path it still whines that the kernel symbols are wrong.
/me folds
 
12:59 AM
Hi all
 
@MarcelKorpel Hi
 
Anyone had a look at an interesting tag, lately?
 
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A: Why is stack overflow suddenly orange?

Jeff AtwoodKevin can elaborate, but we now infer a favorite tag based on what questions you visit, if we have a certain statistical confidence that you indeed love this tag. This is based on your history of what questions you've visited. It's not actually stored in the database, though -- so if you set a f...

I think this answers your question on Meta
If it does I'll post as an answer, otherwise, clarify. (:
 
Aha
"if one of your interesting/frequented/ignored tags is in the list of tags on a /questions/tagged/{tags} page highlighting for that tag will be disabled."
 
Gah. @MichaelMrozek ninja stole it. q:
 
1:03 AM
@RebeccaChernoff Just like him shakes head ;)
 
Seriously! Who does he think he is!
 
Hmm, thanks for explanation
Now I wasted my time creating a screenshot with FHC
 
You got some rep out of it
 
Yeah, nice, and when I click the green checkmark I get another two whole points!
 
1:06 AM
And who invented that 'You can accept this answer in X minutes' feature?
 
Though @MichaelMrozek gets +15. Highly sub-optimal. (;
 
Hehe
Still 5 minutes before I can get some sleep
 
I've pretty much done nothing today. Sick. ):
 
Ah, that's not fine
Lying in bed all day?
 
Couch. Had to watch the Jayhawks game! (:
 
1:12 AM
Hmm, I don't know that one and I don't think we have something like that in the Netherlands, though I don't watch telly that often (don't own one at the moment)
 
@RebeccaChernoff Seems like the symbols available for direct download are crap. You can open up windbg and set your Symbol File Path to srv*C:\Symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols and then open up the dump file from there and it should work.
 
@RebeccaChernoff +25, actually :)
 
Hi Michael, you just earned 15 points (;
 
@MichaelMrozek Damn ninja.
 
@MarcelKorpel And @RebeccaChernoff's disappointment, which can't be measured in mere reputatoin
 
@MichaelMrozek Though I've been told it's worth can be counted in oys.
 
@TimStone will try.
 
The <center> cannot hold???
 
He's a singularity
 
I'm no longer surprised by anything when it comes to the rep graph; I don't even look at it anymore
 
1:15 AM
Look at the axis labels specifically.
 
Those are some precise measurements :P
 
@TimStone Fractional rep adds up
 
I've long sought after the legendary "leap rep", yes..
 
I've been stealing .25 rep from @RebeccaChernoff every day for months
 
1:16 AM
Oh, that's a decimal mark
 
@MichaelMrozek Be careful not to pull an Office Space.
 
@MarcelKorpel It is. And while the specificity of "47.000" is impressive, it'd be more impressed if he actually had 47 rep, instead of 146
 
Oy.
Actually that's ok. The rep bonus isn't shown there. But still.
 
I'm also skeptical that he got three up votes and the accept instantaneously.
 
1:18 AM
@RebeccaChernoff Yeah, I know the "status-bydesign"ness, but it's nonsense :)
Your rep graph should show....your rep
 
It might be outdated at the moement
 
I was specifically referring to the decimal display
but meh
 
I was mostly confused by it only showing one day; is that somehow intentional?
It shows a decimal because it's zoomed in too far; it's the zoom I don't understand
 
That's why I thought it's still outdated
 
All of his 45 rep have come in the last hour.
 
1:20 AM
Perhaps tomorrow it shows two days?
 
Oh, it doesn't show time before you signed up? I guess that makes sense
 
@RebeccaChernoff But not at that exact second, which the graph suggests :P
 
It is a normal graph now, refresh.
 
@MichaelMrozek That would be nice! Should it start at a negative number? And what if it reaches my birthdate?
 
@RebeccaChernoff Recalc?
@MarcelKorpel Well, it should start at 0 :)
 
1:21 AM
@MichaelMrozek Another up vote
 
That's how much rep you had
 
No, but I did upvote him.
 
Well, I just earned my 2.0000000000000000007 rep, going to sleep now. G'night and get well soon!
 
G'night!
 
1:23 AM
 
Click the blue thing :P
 
Hehe I did, it's going.
 
:)
 
/blames Chrome
 
1:29 AM
All of them have been Chrome. Explains why my preferences are corrupt after rebooting.
I suppose.
 
1:40 AM
@RebeccaChernoff Yeah...hrm. Seems like some issue with Chrome, although I guess you could run memtest to see if there's an issue with your RAM.
 
The last crash happened within 2 minutes of the previous one. Not much could've happened there.
 
To memtest! :P
 
@TimStone hehe
 
Ouch, heh
 
Chrome doesn't crash for me, it just thoroughly locks up the machine so I need to restart it
I've been running it at niceness 19 starting today; that seems to help. Take that Chrome
 
1:49 AM
@MichaelMrozek That's just its way of caring, and making sure you spend time away from the computer.
 
I've never had any troubles with Chrome before this
 
Any recent driver updates?
 
Hm, I guess we'll see if it's the memory then, although I don't think that's common for this error (but I'm not well-versed in this stuff, so who knows :p)
 
Hrm, I should probably run that when I'm not using the computer? Or is ok to use now?
 
1:58 AM
I think it only runs at boot.
But I could be mistaken
 
Nah, I started it.
shrugs
 
...mmk :P
> The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer __ that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{BD41C8CD-CD25-4741-A71F-4268C0B0F244}. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
gets a mental image of his computers walking up to the ballot box
 
heh, I used to have an NT machine at home, bridged to work's LAN over ISDN. Whenever there was an election and I was connected, my machine at home would become the master browser because it was NT and up the longest. Then my link got saturated with broadcast chatter :)
 
20% coverage and 0 errors so far.
 
Heheh :)
I honestly have no clue what the role of the master browser is, or why the master browsership was being contested, heh. shames
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Q: What steps do I need to take to host a SERVER at my house?

Hello! I just buy a Dell PowerEdge T110 Server, what kind of service do I have to look for hosting at my house? Thanks, Alex.

I see a slight misstep in the OP's process. :P
 
2:28 AM
@TimStone lmao
 
Just saying, I figure that's the kind of thing you should figure out prior to the purchase..
 
Answer: If you're doing it at your house, a regular desktop PC probably would have been fine. Jussayin'
 
"And if you were planning on running the next Facebook from your basement...Your ISP disagrees."
 
3:01 AM
Memtest made it past 100% coverage with 0 errors.
Left it running, but eh.
 
Hm, yeah. I didn't think it'd be the memory, but I figured it couldn't hurt to check.
Not really sure what it would be at this point, outside of Chrome misbehaving.
 
3:52 AM
@TimStone, didn't actually view, but saw the link posted: reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eo29l/…
 
I'm pretty sure I would make way more mistakes if 2000 people were watching me code live
Assuming it's possible for me to make more mistakes
 
hehe
Crap. Fever went up, not down.
Wrong direction!
 
4:26 AM
@RebeccaChernoff Hahah :p
 
OY!
 
Heheh :)
 
gg. way to destroy me. >_<
 
4:39 AM
Good game!
It was close for a while, I just got lucky towards the end I think.
 
@RebeccaChernoff Blame the fever
 
g/ night all
 
@belisarius night.
@MichaelMrozek works for me!
 
..G'night :P
@RebeccaChernoff In that case you'll have to get better for a proper rematch ;)
 
Did you start a game? I got an alert but it isn't showing a new game?
 
4:45 AM
Oh, no, not yet.
 
Hrm.
I'm hallucinating?
Wonder what the push notification really said, heh.
 
...You might want to go take something to lower that fever. :P
 
I did. ):
 
It was not effective. Your eyes are upside down :) != ):
 
@belisarius Weren't you going to sleep? >_<
q:
 
4:47 AM
HA!
):
 
Hahah
 
just drinking a glass of wine at 1:50 AM ... my eyes are also upppppsidde dawgn (:
 
Hehe, do we have 2 games going? (;
 
Ah ha, it would appear so :P
 
5:18 AM
So many vowels!
 
Damn it. I hate Worms 2
 
Hah, why's that?
 
Worms 2?
 
@RebeccaChernoff It's a video game, that I'm bad at
The difficulty curve leaves something to be desired. There's 35 levels, I beat the first 28 in about 3 hours and have been stuck on the 29th for 10 days
 
5:44 AM
@MichaelMrozek Ohhh like LISP ... you can read the first 28 ((())) levels in 3 mins and get stuck with the following 3 for your whole life :)
 
 
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6:49 AM
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Q: Heuristics for detecting a bad answer?

Jeff AtwoodA lot of bad answers are slipping through the cracks on Stack Overflow. You can see some examples at Thanks a lot for this post ... and other first time user curiosities I've been paging through hundreds of these first answers by new users and I've identified a few heuristics that, when applie...

 
 
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11:51 AM
For the Think of the Children Series!
Fhhk that. You must be bullshhtting me, what the hBEEPk is this fhhhing crap. The fhhking bBEEEPs swearing is the mBEEEEEEEEEPg point.
 
12:09 PM
 
1:02 PM
 
1:20 PM
@DanGrossman ATM machines now are now fortune tellers too?
 
Where do you see an automatic teller machine machine?
 
@DanGrossman That totally looks like the kind of ticket you'd get from an ATM. The only "out of line" thing is the font.
 
I see
The fortune was funny
If you plan to be spontaneous, you're not being spontaneous
 
badp@delta:/usr/share/games/fortunes$ grep plan.*spontaneous *
badp@delta:/usr/share/games/fortunes$
:(
Clearly I need more fortune files.
 
2:19 PM
Fortune Cookie: A routine task will become an enchanting adventure (in bed).
 
 
3 hours later…
5:07 PM
HELLO
 
5:51 PM
Being sick sucks. ):
 
Finally understanding something is excellent.
 
@RebeccaChernoff Fever still not down? :(
I finally went out and got my hair cut. I no longer look like a crazed hobo. Victory achieved.
 
6:07 PM
Nope, I'm pretty damn miserable to be honest. Heh.
 
@TimStone Now you just look crazed but well-groomed?
 
Uncool :/
Exactly ;)
Actually I probably do look a little crazed/zombie-like heheh, I think I only slept an hour or so..
 
Wow. Took me long enough to get to 10k on Stack Overflow! http://twitpic.com/3hiix2
haha
 
Hah, nice.
Hooray, more meta reps
 
6:19 PM
\o/
 
Need 12 more rep
 
I'm not sure that I'm quite that evil. :P
 
ehhhh
(;
 
:p
 
 
1 hour later…
7:47 PM
@RebeccaChernoff I know you're trying to do serial upvotes to guilt trip me into looking into your phantom upvotes thing but I told you already I can't repro it :(
(besides I already attempted a fix, update the thing and let me know if it helped.)
 
8:32 PM
anybody having issues loading meta?
 
8:45 PM
status-norepro
 
I either get that emptiness or a 404
For about the last hour or so.
But just on MSO.
 
@RebeccaChernoff That's probably dummy HTTP put in by Chrome. I'd rather check your Resources/Network tab to see what actually was transferred
 
I thought of that, but Fiddler agrees.
 
...although the "source" for about:blank doesn't have a title tag.
What IP do you have MSO on, @RebeccaChernoff?
I have it on 64.34.119.12
 
Fiddler2 says response is 200 ok, content length = 162, and the text of the response is:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"  "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><title></title></head>
<body></body>
</html>
64.94.107.29 ):
Not like the Oregon ips either wth
 
8:55 PM
Time to flush your DNS?
 
Yup, that fixed it. Weird.
My router uses Google DNS >_<
Anyways, if you've been getting votes, they aren't from me, oy.
 
I needed somebody to blame so I just reached for the WoB.
Also.
Yay Windows XP.
I really missed that baloon, not.
 
What's the link to update SO[Chat]Live?
 
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Q: SO Live! -- live updates to your reputation score.

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Q: SO Live! Chat Edition. — live updates to your reputation score, while chatting.

badpScreenshot About This userscript, based on SOApi.js, injects itself in all SE sites' chat pages and polls the API for reputation changes every 60 seconds. When your reputation changes, this is announced at the top of the page. SO Live! Chat Edition uses the same notification system chat use...

 
Oh, right. I blame my not thinking of that and general laziness on being sick. >_<
 
9:03 PM
who do you blame for sitting at your computer working when you should be watching bad TV and dozing?
 
I'm not. q: I'm laying on the couch with laptop on my stomach, watching football and I have been dozing off. Heh. Yup, pitiful.
 
oh right, it's Sunday, football is great background ambience.
 
@RebeccaChernoff Has the desktop decided to behave?
Also, good to see I didn't miss much while sleeping :P
 
TIMMAY
 
Hahah, 'ello :P
 
 
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10:33 PM
Hello P
 
11:09 PM
How am I supposed to go to my last 2 days of work when I have a fever over 101? |:
 
:( @rchern ... hope you get better quickly
3
 
thanks, me too. i feel so useless and pitiful, heh.
 
@RebeccaChernoff Drugs.
Then you can laugh at the work you did in the last two days when you get back.
 
I don't want my parting gift to be getting the office sick lol.
 
Oh, right you aren't going back... /facepalm
 
11:21 PM
Really long and permanent vacation. (;
 

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