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12:00 AM
if it's PowerPC, use...
Problem with that, last time I checked, is that it runs inside the OS so it can't check all RAM
but it did help me diagnose bad ram on a G4 tower
 
I'm fairly certain it's an Intel.
 
@mootinator What model is it?
"Apple Menu > About This Mac" will tell you the processor type
G3, G4, G5 are PowerPC, and not intel. Anything else is Intel
unless you're running some really antiquated hardware that's pre PowerPC G3. In which case I laugh at you (and admire you simultaneously)
 
It's a 2007 model iMac
 
@mootinator It's Intel
@Moshe Sorry, I got distracted. Did you see this tutorial ?
Welcome, @marcog
@mootinator I have the same one and have used memtest86+ on it no problem -- white, flat panel?
If you burn the ISO to a cd and boot holding down the 'C' key, it should fire memtest right up just like a PC
 
12:15 AM
hi @TheUnhandledException
 
@TheUnhandledException Silver, flat panel. I made a UBCD, which doesn't appear to want to work.
So, I'll just grab Memtest86+ I guess.
 
@mootinator Newer model than mine so that should have worked.... UBCD, you mean Ubuntu?
If that doesn't work, install rEFIt -- that will show a boot menu
 
@TheUnhandledException "Ultimate Boot CD"
 
Ah, ok, I'm not sure if that should work
never tried it
 
It claims to work, alas it doesn't seem to.
 
12:20 AM
Try rEFIt
@drachenstern thank you for saving me some money! I just checked some of the videos from the cams, while not using the USB extension cable. It was a good thought, but the symptoms persist
Also, I now realize I make really weird faces while I troubleshoot my code...
 
Ah, at last the familiar blue screen of memtest
 
as @RebeccaChernoff would say, \O/
OK. Dinnertime for me. Catch you guys later!
 
1:23 AM
@TheUnhandledException Actually, I think she uses an o, not a 0 - \o/ vs. \0/
Hang on, where is that girl? MY GOD SHE IS NOT ONLINE!!! It's the end of the world!!!
 
1:58 AM
sigh
@TheUnhandledException H/W tests pass and now I get the whole story. Oh no, Safari just restarts sometimes when I play flash games for a couple of hours.
status-bydesign
 
2:59 AM
I am unemployed for the next 12 days o:
 
Eep
 
@Rebecca: Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays
 
Hehe. Very excited for my new job. (:
 
@mootinator well that sucks
Hey there @Rebecca. Enjoy your time off!!
 
3:11 AM
@RebeccaChernoff Hopefully your new job doesn't involve...special...vendors :P
 
Dammit... I'm looking around for animated christmas gifs for this question
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Q: Celebrating Christmas on Stack Overflow

Patrick BeardmoreWill the site be celebrating the festive season at all?

Can you believe how hard it is to find good quality Christmas gifs?
 
I feel a deeper appreciation for the people who built Cornify
 
Christmify?
 
3:20 AM
Santify
 
@mootinator I like that one
 
Or should we go radp style and use the "StackExchange™ Christmasify™ Decoratingnator™ 2.0"?
 
StackExchange™ Christmasify™ Decoratingnator™ 2.0 (Powered by jQuery™)?
 
Well actually I'm not using jQuery for this one so that other, heretical, non-jQuery using websites can feel the Christmas cheer too
 
They don't deserve Christmas cheer!
 
3:28 AM
Yey!
@TimStone Boo. My sites deserve Christmas cheer too!
 
@TimStone don't make me ban you
 
hides
 
AHAHAA. Don't piss @Zypher off! :-)
 
:-D
 
How goes with you @Zypher?
 
3:29 AM
10 hours ago, by radp
Real Men™ suspend.
 
@mootinator RealMen™ PantsSuspenders™
 
@mootinator but ban has much more fun images
 
@Zypher DOOOOOOOO IITTTTTTTT!
 
user image
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well except the fair part
... never fair
@TheUnhandledException going good. have to umm do the xmas shopping my sister didn't do for me
 
3:31 AM
Why would your sister do your Christmas shopping? |:
 
@RebeccaChernoff cus it works out better for all involved :) she gets to shop with someone elses money ... and i don't have to shop (much)
oh .. and she did do 90% of my shopping for me
 
even got her own gift :-D
 
You made her shop for her own gift?!
 
3:33 AM
(i think i need a new keyboard)
 
Blaming it on the keyboard, eh? (;
 
Anyway, just a little taster. (I'll try to make the background transparent later)
 
var bunny = document.createElement('img');
bunny.src = 'http://imgur.com/qgDUe.gif';

bunny.onload = function(){
	for(var i = 0; i < 3; i++){
		setTimeout(function(i){
			var b = bunny.cloneNode(false);

			b.style.position = 'fixed';
			b.style.bottom = 0;
			b.style.left = (200 + i * 99) + 'px';

			document.body.appendChild(b);
		}, 2000 * i, i)
	}
}
 
@RebeccaChernoff Please, we all know there's far better targets he could use his ban hammer on :P
 
3:33 AM
Also, I may have had a bit too much to drink at my farewell happy hour. >_<
@TimStone @MichaelMrozek?
 
made no ... i had every intention of getting her a gift but she found a purse she just HAD to have
 
Everyone watch out, Rebecca's drunk!!!
 
You can never have too much to drink before it kills you.
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Yeah, that works :P
 
@TimStone I am going star-crazy tonight!
 
@RebeccaChernoff WOOHOOO
 
3:34 AM
@TheUnhandledException All stars must go!
 
@TheUnhandledException oy.
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there are only 10 left @TheUnhandledException
 
@RebeccaChernoff I've been on chat drunk too. Hey, we are in a tavern after all ;-)
 
who hasn't been drunk in chat
 
3:36 AM
@Zypher 9 now. What, you querying the database directly? ;-)
 
@Zypher hmm, good point.
 
Uh... legally I can't drink yet
 
Bunny needs moar Z-index!
 
@mootinator Hehe... sure
 
It's not in the way AT ALL!
 
3:36 AM
@TheUnhandledException of course !
 
Someone throw @YiJiang out of here!
 
:D
 
(j/k @YiJiang ;-)
 
@YiJiang Fight the power
 
Now I just need to figure out what to do with the next 12 days.
 
3:37 AM
Although you do get a little depressed when you're in chat drunk .. at 4am on a friday
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@Zypher Has this happened before? :P
 
once ... it was lonely
 
@RebeccaChernoff There's a site called stackoverflow.com, I hear it can be very addictive...
@Zypher That's the life of a sysadmin :-)
 
true I've heard rumors that people stop accumulating rep when they get a new job
 
or something...
 
3:38 AM
@TheUnhandledException Oooh, good idea. She can answer all those questions I've been meaning to answer for me, as me.
 
@Zypher Not like I've earned any SO rep lately anyway. MSO rep though... (;
 
haha true ... hmm i havn't checked my rep graph to see how flat it's gotten
 
Dec 17 at 5:49, by Yi Jiang
@mootinator Downvote squad, go! I said GO!!! Why are you all still milling around!? What? Rep? What's that? If you can't eat it it ain't worth nothing, ya hear? Now go downvote!!!
 
i stopped checking the rep leagues when i had a 100+ drop in position
 
^=======SO, MSO=======^
 
3:41 AM
@RebeccaChernoff yeah your MSO rep gains are really impressive!
 
so has become a mmporg :T
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@Zypher Yeah, the rep leagues make me sad :P
 
@RebeccaChernoff Hmm... a lot more points of data on the MSO one. Are we out of beta yet?
 
> Are we out of beta
 
pwonage
 
3:42 AM
??
 
20
A: Doing a long-running command on ssh

ZypherThe best way is to use screen to start a session to run the command in and then disconnect the screen so it will keep running, and you can do other things, or just disconnect from the server. The other option is to use nohup in combination with & so you would have nohup <command> &

(20 upvotes is like 200 on SO)
 
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Now these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we're out of beta.
We're releasing on time.
Grrr...
 
Are you using that ridiculous Coding Kitten logic? ):
 
haha yes
 
3:46 AM
@RebeccaChernoff You are, Still Alive, aren't you?
 
can i get to 13.5k
 
@RebeccaChernoff I met Coding Kitten the other day. I didn't understand him
@Zypher post more answers :-)
 
@RebeccaChernoff I am also very confused. Maybe there's a reference I'm missing, or maybe @YiJiang has gone insane :P
 
@TheUnhandledException yes yes nothing interesting on SF right now
 
thinks of something to ask on SF
Hrm.
 
3:47 AM
@RebeccaChernoff Do you manage any servers? :-)
Your Icon ByteStream question would be good, if you were going to change the server's config ;-)
 
Not anymore to be honest! HAHA
 
@RebeccaChernoff Want to manage some of mine for me then? ;-)
 
has so many servers..
 
They're so annoying, always texting me in the wee hours of the morning :-p
 
servers are easy ... it's the devs that are difficult
 
3:48 AM
Actually I still have that Rackspace cloud server running for absolutely no reason. Son of a...
 
cloud shudder
 
@TheUnhandledException Your servers are texting you? :P
 
@YiJiang mine call me
 
@YiJiang Yes. Distant Early Warning is our monitoring server, it textes me when other servers have issues
 
Though I did already sit down on the couch and reach for the laptop I turned in today. Whoops!
 
3:49 AM
"Zypher, we neeeeed you! Heeeeelp ussssss!"
 
@TimStone basically
 
@TimStone HAHAHA. My stepfather used to have a building where the boiler would call him
 
although MSO is generally quicker than our monitoring systems
except when everything is donw
 
"The devs have pushed out a new build and it's causing the load to instantly triple!"
 
3:50 AM
"This is the boiler. The pressure is too high."
 
lmao
 
hahaha nice
hmm laptops ... i knew i forgot to do something today
stupid verizon
 
@RebeccaChernoff Does your new job come with a new laptop? :P
 
Hmmm... 6 images... well that's not nearly enough isn't it?
 
@YiJiang wha?
 
3:52 AM
 
@YiJiang I demand 60
 
@YiJiang change page colors to reg & green :-)
 
@mootinator Nice, hahah
 
is doing too many things at once
 
3:54 AM
@mootinator Sorry. Ignore me :-)
 
shakes head
 
@Zypher ROFLMAO That is so awful
 
Haha, np.
 
@Zypher Credit where Reddit is due.
 
yes
laughing too hard
crying a little bit
 
3:55 AM
My log files are just not as interesting, LOL
Try as I might, I just cannot be engrossed by them :-)
 
oh i searched our logs for my old companies ip one day
aparently they where having an iis issue
 
My boss' wife found me on SO today.
 
3:56 AM
HAHAHAHAHA
That's great
Did she tell your boss?
 
Yeah, he told me.
 
and what did you say to him?!
 
Did you breathe a sigh of relief that it was SO and not MSO? :-)
 
Thankfully I have (despite what it may seem) been working hard, especially instead of answering SO questions, so. ;)
I don't think that she went so far as to look into my chat history, thankfully. :P
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@TheUnhandledException s/MSO/The Tavern/
 
3:58 AM
@Zypher I think he'd be screwed if it were The Tavern :-)
 
true
 
Props to whoever decided not to (or was too lazy to) put a reverse link from the main site profile to the chat profile. ;)
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I am glad I am no longer "Josh" on here, hahaha
 
Well, it's not like my boss didn't know I was spending time on SO, I have the t-shirt...Kind of a giveaway.
 
@TimStone I smell a feature request :P
 
3:59 AM
Speaking of, this reminds me...
 
My boss knows I spend time on SO. He just doesn't know about Meta. I had a hard enough time convincing him SO was a good use of time ;-)
 
refills her wine glass and does a toast to saying goodbye to Websense.
 
@YiJiang I will down vote you with the extreme prejudice of all of Josh's clones. :P
 
@RebeccaChernoff I'll toast to that
 
AHG websense those bastards
 
3:59 AM
better yet, a toast to @Rebecca's future!
 

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