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12:49 AM

Hmm...

I wonder if it's easier to do a fresh installation of Windows and reinstall all of my software, or wait several hours for this disk image to restore and hope that I can get my computer working again...

mootinator

Oooh, tough dilemma.

Tim Stone

Indeed

mootinator

I haven't done my weekly backup in about a month.

I should probably think about doing that.

Tim Stone

Might not be a bad idea. I made a backup after things started going bad, which is why I'm wary of waiting. :P

mootinator

I've just been installing so much junk I don't want to waste backup space on I've been putting it off :P

Like the Diablo 3 and Mists of Pandaria betas.

I need a "Don't back this up, ever" partition.

Then I can still do a disk image and not waste as much time/space.

Tim Stone

1:08 AM

Heh, nice

Oh, wait. Duh.

I forgot I had another desktop computer here.

mootinator

Tim Stone

Was doing the restore through my laptop over USB 2.0, heh

Perhaps this way will be faster.

jadarnel27

1:40 AM

sadface

Hahah, aw.

I know. How shall we ever remember the 10,000,000th post on Stack Overflow now?

@DanielFischer It was you!!!

Daniel Fischer

Actually, no.

mootinator

1:44 AM

My SO meetup was a huge success. If success is measured in having enough sponsor $ to cover free food, drink and stack exchange store stuff for everyone who showed up.

Tim Stone

I've confirmed it, those are indeed the units of success.

mootinator

Excellent.

Cause if you measure it in "Couldn't even bribe more than two other people to come out" it didn't go as well. ;)

Tim Stone

That's OK, I kind of forgot that was this weekend. Not that I think anyone planned anything anyway.

mootinator

Ah, I now understand why I was the only person who didn't know anything about SCADA at that table. phew

Thomas Shields

gaaah stupid "Let's assume all users with the same IP address are one user" rule...

mootinator

1:51 AM

Mwahahaha

I mean, oh no!

Thomas Shields

@mootinator (assuming that was directed at me) yeah. Signed my brother up for a Sports.SE account and now it won't let us both post a question... gotta wait 5 minutes first, lol

jadarnel27

@DanielFischer I know. You're too cool to do something like that. Must have been one of the meta-police. Or the nazi mods.

mootinator

@ThomasShields Heh.

Benny

o/ Hi all

Yi Jiang's Proble_

2:10 AM

-23

A: Change an element's CSS class with JavaScript

No offense, but it's unclever to change class on-the-fly as it forces the CSS interpreter to recalculate the visual presentation of the entire web page. The reason is that it is nearly impossible for the CSS interpreter to know if any inheritance or cascading could be changed, so the short answe...

The answers on this question makes me want to cry

Tim Stone

@YiJiangsProble_ >_>

I believe this is HTML5 dependent. — johnthexiii Oct 27 '11 at 17:16

...

No, I was just being stupid. Ignore me.

jadarnel27

You don't have to ask me twice.

/ignore TimStone

Tim Stone

No more features for you!

jadarnel27

Did you guys hear something?

jokerdino

Tim, he ignored you so he won't be reading what you say :)

jadarnel27

2:22 AM

Hahaha

Tim Stone

Heh :P

mootinator

gets pissy that he bought his stupid phone a year ago and the douchey carrier still hasn't let him d/l the firmware which enables hostpot.

Knu

Do you know where bill's at?

jokerdino

meta.stackoverflow.com/a/130617/177471 - I feel a little more creepy

But I honestly know what I am talking about.

7 hours later…

Yi Jiang's Proble_

9:50 AM

Q: Ads on Stack Overflow for jobs outside of US

I'm based outside of the US, and yet the ads that I see on Stack Overflow are always for US based jobs. Is this because SO does not have advertisers outside of the US, or because SO has some setting (that I have have not discovered) that allows you to set your locale? Please, get programmer job ...

Tag ordering on this question is odd - feature-request appears at the end instead of the front as it should

Interesting, it seems like it was a (hilarious) rollback that caused it

Seems like required tags were not always the first tag on Meta. Or maybe this was a bug

Daniel Fischer

10:10 AM

@jadarnel27 It's not that I'm too cool for that (I may be, but that's beside the point), I don't have deletion powers. That's why I didn't.

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Moshe

3:06 PM

Anyone here?

Daniel Fischer

3:20 PM

Yes, sort of.

awoodland

ditto

jokerdino

kinda

awoodland

I'm really curious as to who disputed a VLQ flag against stackoverflow.com/questions/10373216/…

Daniel Fischer

I have no idea.

But I know it didn't stop it from being deleted.

awoodland

it seemed to be the poster child for low quality

wow they've reposted a third self-duplicate of the question

somebody is desperate (for a question ban)

Moshe

4:08 PM

Hey

finneycanhelp

Hey

I like the Wheel of Blame :) jsfiddle.net/yijiang/AYPpF/24/embedded/result

( "Welded on for your ease of use" ) as the room says.

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awoodland

6:48 PM

why does chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=or&room=89 give an error page?

(and does too)

but not the

Tim Stone

7:10 PM

Hmm, good question.

awoodland

@TimStone I couldn't make select or where or group by do it though, but it does look like and+or are being handled "differently"

Tim Stone

Huh, indeed.

mootinator

Ooo ebay is borked

Tim Stone

@awoodland Ah, looks like SQL Server allows for boolean operators in the value passed to CONTAINS() for fulltext searches, which I assume it chokes on if you didn't give it valid left and right sides

awoodland

@TimStone ah so it fails ungracefully if you happen to type them in without intending them to be operators

Tim Stone

7:25 PM

Aye.

Of course, they're stopwords anyway, so either way you weren't getting anything back. I suppose it's bad that you end up on the error page though.

Although supposedly you can use AND NOT, but that doesn't seem to work for me, so perhaps I'm wrong. Let's all just point a finger in Marc's direction anyway, since he's here.

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