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mootinator

23:00

I'm down to 2 sites now, so I'm switching to a similarly priced local provider instead of 1and1.

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Does @Pekka think we don't see his Gravatar pop in and out? ;-)

Dan Grossman

Why do Comcast HD boxes have to be bigger than an xbox with a noisier fan??

I'm talking to Comcast support once again, trying to activate the free DVR they sent as a result of last week's complaints

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Jeez

You have a lot of issues with Comcast @Dan. Makes me glad I don't have them@!

Hey there @Geoff, how goes?

Dan Grossman

It took a week of daily phone calls just to get things turned on when I moved in here. I don't mind as much now that their support chat seems to have all the abilities of the phone technicians.

Rebecca Chernoff

Crap. That just made me realize I forgot to call AT&T Uverse today. Fail.

Geoff Dalgas

23:07

not bad - ready for the new year

Dan Grossman

I can chat in here while chatting with them.

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@GeoffDalgas same here!

Rebecca Chernoff

I'm so ready for 2011! \o/

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@RebeccaChernoff I want Uverse or FIOS, but none are available here. Good news is I will be moving soon. Well, that's not good news but hopefully those will be available where I go

Dan Grossman

Oh yeah, that's coming soon...

Rebecca Chernoff

23:09

I have UVerse. Upping my internet speed.

I have Elite now. 6 down, 1 up.

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Time Warner Cable had the gaul to send me a letter explaining how they could have raised my bill by $x amount, but, since they value my business they're only raising my rate half of that amount. It was almost offensive! Asses...

Rebecca Chernoff

Tis mehish slow.

rofl

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I get "20 Mbps" down, 0.5 up. More like 15-18 Mbps down, 0.3 up

Rebecca Chernoff

nice down, crappy up

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exactly

and I can't get any better upload speed

until I move... here's hoping anyway :-)

Rebecca Chernoff

23:12

is tempted to go max turbo...

Have you found a new place?

mootinator

I have "640kb" up now.

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@RebeccaChernoff I found a few possibilities, but, nothing I'm in love with

mootinator

Hooray for my telco installing HSPA in remote areas last summer so I could get that pittance.

I was on "128kb"

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UG

Try carrier pigeons. I hear they have more bandwidth than that.

Rebecca Chernoff

(;

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23:14

Plus they don't eat much

Geoff Dalgas

bandwidth is good here

mootinator

@RebeccaChernoff Something wrong with your eye?

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@GeoffDalgas HOLY CRAP! drools

@mootinator Pigeon poop in it ;-)

another downside of that ISP...

Rebecca Chernoff

@mootinator hrm?

radp

@GeoffDalgas Use the upload button :)

Rebecca Chernoff

23:16

@GeoffDalgas jealous!

Dan Grossman

Is it cheating that Comcast runs my closest speedtest node?

Geoff Dalgas

nah, that's progress

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I asked my mom (in MA, with Comcast) to do a speed test when she was having some trouble downloading something. She reported 8 Mbps up. I was shocked.

Geoff Dalgas

I do like these desktop notifications - I do wish there was an easier way to dismiss them

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hahaha

@GeoffDalgas My thoughts exactly :-)

Rebecca Chernoff

23:18

@GeoffDalgas There is, just need Marc to come back. (:

Dan Grossman

1) fade away automatically, 2) have a "disable" link where the enable one was

Rebecca Chernoff

He's been conveniently absent. q:

@DanGrossman I don't think you can remove the permissions via the api actually. But if you click the wrench on one of the notifications, you can remove from there.

radp

@DanGrossman It merely asked for permission, I don't think browsers can request permission denials

Dan Grossman

ahh, darn

radp

Browsers have a domain whitelist for that.

Dan Grossman

23:19

If this DVR box actually works (activation takes up to 45 minutes, they say), I will be able to control the box from my Android phone with the Xfinity Mobile app. I look forward to that geekery.

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@DanGrossman Sweet!

Hey @Rebecca! I was reading that!

;-)

Rebecca Chernoff

if (window.webkitNotifications && (window.webkitNotifications.checkPermission() === 0)) {
	var n = window.webkitNotifications.createNotification(imageURL, notificationTitle, notificationText);
	n.show();
	setTimeout(function () { n.cancel(); }, 10E3);
}

Dan Grossman

In 30 years, we will have DVR for computers

Rebecca Chernoff

was trying to format it better.

Dan Grossman

You'll be able to rewind and see what was on your screen X seconds ago

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23:20

@RebeccaChernoff oh, OK. You're allowed then ;-)

@DanGrossman You could set that up now

For chat, it already exists. It's called the "SO XMPP Bridge" ;-)

Rebecca Chernoff

still not the easiest to read, stupid long lines. (;

Though I'm not on the best res right now, so there's that.

Dan Grossman

Last time I tried to run Camtasia Studio recording the entire screen, everything else was darned slow

radp

lol, I tried to get a speedtest for this stupid slow connections and got a bad license message instead

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@DanGrossman what framerate?

Dan Grossman

I don't remember

Rebecca Chernoff

23:22

Anyways, all you need to do to age away the notification is keep a reference to the notification and call cancel on it in a setTimeout.

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@RebeccaChernoff I was going to say, the code you posted looks like it would work

Rebecca Chernoff

@TheUnhandledException I copied from the userscript. (:

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I disabled both notifications, no fault of the userscript :-)

Rebecca Chernoff

And yeah, the ones from the userscript age away after 10 seconds.

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that's much better

but still, they don't go into my syslog :-)

Rebecca Chernoff

23:24

Assuming Marc adds in aging them away, then we'll just totally remove from the userscript.

radp

otherwise, notification wars?

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Welcome back @drachenstern

Rebecca Chernoff

If not...there's not really a good way to use them in the userscript but not use the ones in core.

Since they're just domain driven permissions.

radp

You could go around it with Chrome Extensions.

drachenstern

only for a moment ;) needed to grab a mental idea of when I left so when I rejoin later I'll remember where to go

Rebecca Chernoff

23:25

It makes sense to keep StackFlair around even with SOFlair, but desktop notifications not so much.

radp

Alternatively you could post a bug against Chrome.

Have notifications eventually age away anyway.

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@RebeccaChernoff It very much does, please do not drop StackFlair!!!!!

Pekka

@TheUnhandledException Naah, I know I know :)

Rebecca Chernoff

@radp Eh...I'm not sure that's something the browser should force.

Pekka

(That my Gravatar is flying in and out at times, I mean)

Rebecca Chernoff

23:27

@TheUnhandledException StackFlair isn't going anywhere.

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@RebeccaChernoff Awesome

@Pekka Bah! In and out again before I could reply! I was too busy creating freehand circles :-p

Rebecca Chernoff

Free hosting, domain was registered for a year. So even if I stop contributing (which I do want to get back to it...), there's nothing gained by taking it down. (;

Josh's Socks

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^^ MSO chat mentions in my syslog :-D

Rebecca Chernoff

\o/ iron time!

Josh's Socks

23:30

@RebeccaChernoff yikes!!!!

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LOL. Socks / Jabber on my Mac, Chrome on my laptop :-)

my poor-man's multi-monitor setup ;-)

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23:45

Argh, crap, I just realized my design fro this new feature has a major flaw. Back to the <strike>drawing</srike> white board...

Tim Stone

Is the major feature flaw that it doesn't make me dinner?

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Ok. two flaws. :-)

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone Hey, where's my milk and McDonald's??!

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff points Where's the teleportation feature? :p

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status-planned

Rebecca Chernoff

23:49

@TimStone You're the one checking code in today. Ask yourself where it is! (:

Tim Stone

Ah, I knew that one was coming, heheh ;)

mootinator

Iron time?

You're going to The Keg for an iron supplement?

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@Rebecca was going to iron my sockpuppet

Rebecca Chernoff

oy

Tim Stone

shakes head and decides its dinner time

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23:54

@RebeccaChernoff and @Tim too much? :-p

Rebecca Chernoff

hehe

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Ok so I've decided need a new class and a new database table, my existing structure won't support what I had planned...

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