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You've likely eaten everything P.F. Chang's has anyway. (;

haha. Almost :-)

There's probably 4 or 5 dishes I haven't tried.

12:36 AM

Merry new year

Same to you @mootinator

How are you this evening?

Not bad.

Waiting on some DNS changes because cpanel is goofy :/

cPanel can be goofy, yes

thanks, that reminds me to check my mom's domain

she forgot to renew it and almost lost it, and when it was renewed the name servers were not set back to my name servers

I have two domains I'm waiting for the dns servers to change on so I can add them to my new hosting account.

I could have handled that transition better, but they're not particularly important domains, really.

It's a lot of work to make DNS changes very smooth

Thanks for the reminder @mootinator :-) I actually did have to do a bit of cleanup to get her domain back

Well, her website back

12:51 AM

If you can have the website hosted on the old and new machines, then nobody notices the DNS change... if you can't, then, sucks :/

@DanGrossman Right. There's also the issue of email

Check both mailboxes for a few days

That's the easy way, for the sysadmin :-)

The nicest way is to set the TTl down to a low value, wait for the old TTlk to expire, switch, and raise the TTL back up

<~ still being stalked by crazy person

that's a lot more work

@DanGrossman Yikes. That's not cool

What's going on??

Man Jimmy Wales looks pissed off!

12:55 AM

Complicated... amateur wannabe c*n arti*t pretended to be a friend for a while hoping to get me to buy her things. I found out, confronted her about it and cut her off. She's pretending it didn't happen, texting and IMing me, making new accounts to message me from. I'm just hoping her harrassment stays that harmless.

Oh jeez

That's not cool, not cool at all

I'd say do as you are -- ignore her. If she fails to get a reaction hopefully she'll move along

Yeah, hope so.

she gains nothing from you if she can't get a reaction from you

@DanGrossman My only problem with that is that this cpanel won't wait for the DNS to change.

but like you said, if she's more malevolent...

1:01 AM

What I need is a cron script

I'm good with those

What do you need it to do?

host -T NS [domain] | grep ns1.newhost.com with output emailed to me should do it :)

1:19 AM

mmmmmmm chinese food

Hey @YiJiang. How are you?

@TheUnhandledException Fine. My mother wants to go to the busiest street in Singapore on the busiest day of the year at the busiest time of day.

Sounds like fun... :-p

mmm digested pizza buffet pizza

@YiJiang Exciting stuff. :P

@TimStone Praying that I don't get squashed to death

1:21 AM

sighs a bit Meh

We hope you don't either, heh.

Also, WTF double notification?

@TimStone I second this!

And I don't mean chat/userscript, I'm getting two notifications from chat itself O_o

Chat wants you to talk more because it's been so quiet

Ah, could be.. :P

Ugh, headache again...the hell. :/

I'm arguing with someone on Kiva again.

This is a sign I need something more interesting to do.

1:30 AM

Hmmm... it seems that locationbar2 breaks the awesomebar on Ubuntu, but not Windows

Weird

Ugh. My house is such a mess. ): All my current office furniture is stashed in my living room to make way for new furniture.

@mootinator You do seem to be getting stuck with time-consuming, yet boring, tasks lately, heh.

@RebeccaChernoff At least you got new furniture? :)

Isn't here yet.

But wanted room in the office to assemble it when it does get here.

I know, but I mean, any progress... :P

(:

1:33 AM

I just jumped ship and went to a different state instead of tending to that stuff, so...heheh.

lol

yawns Wow...I am way too tired for it being this early.

1:54 AM

Oh, how lovely. Dual monitors on Ubuntu is wonkier than it is in Windows. =/

wonky?

Gnome panels are showing up on monitor 2, instead of 1. Worse yet, it's restoring windows to monitor 1.

Sounds fun.

Well, apparently the windows are showing up on monitor 1, as expected. It's the fact that the Gnome panels are on monitor 2 that's the issue. I think.

The only time I've had multiple monitors, I've had UltraMon.

2:10 AM

wonders what the difference is between a screen and a monitor

A screen keeps bugs out.

The screen is the portion of the monitor which displays images

Well, I solved my Gnome pane problem. Though, I still wonder why the 2nd monitor is considered #0 (instead of #1) by Gnome/X.

why should it be the other way around

Cause that's the way the drivers identified them. Well, using 1 & 2, instead of 0 & 1 for the id number.

2:15 AM

I'm baffled as to how someone would ever feel the need to use this language on a friggin charitable website:

So, Gnome/X and the drivers have their monitor identifications swapped.

their

@mootinator testosterone

@DanGrossman Right you are.

@mootinator Did they really? :|

Yep :|

2:37 AM

@GeorgeMarian ask on unix.stackexchange.com!

OK. I will finish this new code tonight!

@TheUnhandledException heh. Not a bad idea. Even though I fixed the Gnome panel issue, I still have lots of questions about all this.

Post a link if you do

I'm looking at the stats for the current round of ads, and I have to say, I'm finding it difficult to find out what makes a good ad

What makes a good ad is not an easy question @YiJiang

Of course it also will have something to do with the general population on SO

That ruby framework ad will definitely get a lot less than the one for a C# framework

2:47 AM

This doesn't surprise me :-)

As far as I can tell, this one has the highest click-through rate:

The one for R is one of the lowest, but at only 5 times less than the one above, it's not bad actually for something so specialised

I actually really want to look at the stats for the first round - does any one here know where to find them?

Sorry, not I

The first round contained many great ads - far better than the second round

Before my time hehehe

Where are the stats for 2H.2010?

I'll ask a question

2:54 AM

@YiJiang Post a link afterwards

@RebeccaChernoff rads.stackoverflow.com/ossads/all hover over the stat button for each ad

I'm wondering if it would even be kosher to be advertising about SO userscripts on SO hehe.

@RebeccaChernoff Sure it would.

That's what I was leaning towards. (; Tis just interesting.

Kosher law dictates you can't mix milk and meat. So following that analogy, it wouldn't be kosher to advertise Yahoo Answers userscripts on StackOverflow. But advertising to StackOverflow users something which complements StackOverflow is perfect!

That's my logic anyways ;-)

2:59 AM

Is SO the milk or the meat here?

I'd say the meat :-)

I guess my point is, whichever SO is, milk or meat, userscripts for SO are the same

or maybe userscripts for SO are breading... SO is the meat, with your userscripts now it's deep fried!

Just don't call them toast or @Tim will whine about their lack of doughy goodness

oy

6

:P

@TheUnhandledException Deep fried userscripts... mmmhmmm....

Sorry for waking you for no apparent reason @Tim ;-)

@YiJiang Everything's better when deep fried!

3:03 AM

The funny part about that is that I had dozed off for a second, hahah.

shocking (;

LOL

I feel like dozing off

@RebeccaChernoff Yeah! We all know @TimStone doesn't just don't sleep, but it is actually physically impossible for him to close his eyes to sleep!

he glued them open?

@YiJiang Exactly...!

3:06 AM

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Q: Make Open Source Advertising statistics available even after the ads stop running

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I'm building a advertisement for the next round of Open Source Advertising that will (presumably) start soon. You can see the stats for the current round of ads here, and that is helpful for me in determining what might type of ad might be more successful for Stack Overflow. Unfortunately, the ...

But no, my head still hurts, so I think I will go properly sleep for a bit. Back later!

@TimStone Sleep well, feel better!

Q: It is possible to control which monitor is identified as "monitor 0?"

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I just added a 2nd monitor and I ran into that oh so typical issue where the monitors are swapped. Apparently, the 2nd monitor has been identified as "monitor 0" by X.org, but it's # 2 according to the ATI configuration applet. (The applet numbers the monitors starting with 1, not 0.) That sai...

xorg dual-monitor

Thanks wanders off

3:09 AM

@GeorgeMarian I don't know the answer myself but if Gilles doesn't answer right away I'll direct some people to it :-)

@TheUnhandledException Thanks. :)

normally he's all over new questions on Unix.SE though :-D

Wow, last.fm is playing all sorts of good new (to me) music tonight

Cool. Though, as long as it doesn't tumbleweed, I have some time to wait for an answer. I'm just borrowing the gf's monitor while she's sleeping over at a friend's house. :D

HAHA

If I weren't so pressed for time I could probably find an answer for you, I've hacked xorg conf files quite a bit over the years

I really don't want to be working all day tomorrow though so I must finish this code tonight

and I'm fading faster than I'd like

growl

@TheUnhandledException I figure something can be done in a config file, but I don't have the motivation to go digging for the info right now. :)

3:19 AM

haha, I just wrote a for loop which ends with c++

sighs

Can you tell I'm burnt out? :-/

Heh. You know you're tired when...

@GeorgeMarian The only thing you've done for the past hour is to stare at MSO chat messages scroll by

I also almost just broke the company policy I set up and committed code without a Trac ticket explaining why, because I was just too damn lazy to find it

(Josh is an idiot)

@TheUnhandledException I was continuing his sentence! :P