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George Marian

7:14 PM

Hmmm...go figure. An update to GDM didn't require a reboot/relog.

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian If only more updates were like that.

George Marian

Agreed.

How can I keep an amazing uptime with updates that make me reboot? ;)

Exactly!

Exactly!

Exactly!

7:17 PM

lol

Tim Stone

Plus, I've got 160 processes going (OK, so half of them are probably Chrome), like hell am I going to restart that shit :P

R. Bemrose

In other news, don't run Ubuntu if you want that uptime. I swear, they release a new kernel once a week.

Tim Stone

is a trendsetter

George Marian

@RBemrose Ironically, I'm running Ubuntu. :)

R. Bemrose

...that was weird. I could have sworn I heard the STTNG door buzzer thing from Picard's ready room.

George Marian

7:19 PM

@RBemrose Eh?

R. Bemrose

Must be something the person in the next cube over has.

George Marian

ah

Gah! WTF happened to my screen session?

R. Bemrose

I took it over!

Actually, I can't live without screen, and that's not just because I run like 3 different Source game servers and periodically use their consoles.

George Marian

Yah, screen is pretty cool. Though it has a slightly unfortunate name for searching about it. :)

R. Bemrose

@GeorgeMarian Yes, I found that out the hard way.

theregister.co.uk/2011/04/01/elop_leaves_nokia <-- I loled.

George Marian

7:24 PM

heh

R. Bemrose

"At the press conference, Google also announced that it will abandon work on its Android mobile operating and join Nokia in backing Windows Phone 7"

Tim Stone

> One person familiar with the matter told The Reg that Elop's high-school summer stint as a Dairy Queen soda jerk lasted a mere afternoon.

:D

Ahahahaha

funnyordie.com

R. Bemrose

@TimStone Ha... wait, you linked to Rebecca Black's site? Someone's going to flag that and get you suspended!!!

Tim Stone

If that were to happen, my vengeance would be swift and merciless. >_>

Be sure to keep an eye on the URL bar there too :D

drachenstern

hahahaha @ Url

R. Bemrose

7:33 PM

I like how the usual Funny and Die buttons are now Friday and Monday respectively.

mootinator

lol

spoulson

Hmm, C# room isn't very active anymore. :/

Tim Stone

0

Q: Limiting Line length in SO's WMD editor

When you type a really long word in WMD editor the word overflows the preview div: However if you try the same thing on this site, it turns it into the next line: dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd...

Er, so the question has been deleted on SO, apparently..

Anyone have 10K to see who migrated it?

R. Bemrose

@TimStone migrated to meta.stackoverflow.com by CD, Shog9♦ 14 mins ago

@TimStone deleted by Shog9♦ 14 mins ago

Tim Stone

@JoshuaHHeyer the hell? :P

Popular Demand

7:39 PM

@TimStone Who's "Shog9"?

Tim Stone

Oh right, he morphed into a real person didn't he?

drachenstern

@TimStone that was it's own sick joke I believe

R. Bemrose

@PopularDemand This is.

I see Scott Hanselman talking on his blog about some great JSON processor for .NET, but doesn't .NET already include a JSON processor?

Joshua H. Heyer

@TimStone Hmmm?

George Marian

shakes a fist at Ubuntu

Moshe

7:45 PM

shakes fist at people who shake fists often

Joshua H. Heyer

@TimStone Oh - I'm pretty sure there's a previous layout bug where the fix resulted in this behavior, but I got interrupted before I could look for it.

George Marian

So, they, sorta, renamed screen to byobu. However, they sorta screwed something up.

R. Bemrose

@GeorgeMarian You should switch to Canterbury!

Tim Stone

@JoshuaHHeyer Oh, I thought they were bitching because their copy of WMD didn't behave the way that the one on SO did, and they wanted to know why (even though they never came close to asking an actual question).

George Marian

@RBemrose Heh. This is the first I hear of it.

Oh, it's OpenSUSE?

R. Bemrose

7:47 PM

@GeorgeMarian "Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community distributions formerly known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand up in a combined effort against proprietary operating systems, to show off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together for a common goal instead of creating more diversity."

Tim Stone

So I was confused about the migration under the assumption that it's actually a WMD implementation question, but rereading I honestly have no clue what it's supposed to be.

Joshua H. Heyer

@TimStone No, I don't believe that was the intention... The original tags were "stackoverflow" and "wmd-editor". If I'm wrong, I guess he can re-ask it.

R. Bemrose

@TimStone It's clearly about Weapons of Mass Destruction

George Marian

@RBemrose Heh. I'm reading that now. I was going on the fact that is was on www.opensuse.org. :)

Tim Stone

@JoshuaHHeyer Well, they didn't even ask a question, so I'm not confident in the appropriateness of their tags either... ;) I mean, I guess they could be complaining that the text doesn't overflow on SO, but that seems rather silly. Their screenshot isn't of the SO WMD editor, which is why I figured they were asking an implementation question. But yeah, they can always re-ask (or actually ask, rather).

Joshua H. Heyer

7:51 PM

@TimStone Well, now I'm doubting myself, since I can't actually reproduce the problem he's describing on SO... So, hmm, maybe he was just asking how SO implements it.

drachenstern

@RBemrose not a great JSON processor. Link to the blog handy?

R. Bemrose

@drachenstern hanselman.com/blog/…

@GeorgeMarian By the way, I hope you realize that Canterbury Project is an April Fools joke...?

George Marian

Yah, I kinda figured that after looking through the site. :)

Popular Demand

@RBemrose Psh. You just watch. It'll be there tomorrow, like GMail was. Keep hope alive!

George Marian

lol

R. Bemrose

7:55 PM

@PopularDemand Anything that says Debian and Gentoo linux are merging is clearly fiction. ;)

One has the philosophy of "package management made easy" and the other has the philosophy of "build everything yourself."

Popular Demand

@RBemrose I don't see how that would impede a merger.</deliberatelyObtuse>

badp's sockpuppet

«building everything yourself made easy», or rather «package everything yourself»

drachenstern

contacting another dead site for a hopeful domain acquisition. I expect the next one to go even less swimmingly than the last one.

George Marian

8:15 PM

Oh, my. 37signals is relocating all of their employees to Chicago

Apparently, they couldn't deal with the virtual organization any longer.

Of course, it could be an april fools joke. /facepalm

mootinator

@GeorgeMarian Pwned.

Tim Stone

@GeorgeMarian lmao

George Marian

@mootinator Yeah, pretty much. I'm just gonna shut of the rest of today. :D

mootinator

> "In the past months we’ve experimented with holding two-hour status meetings..." didn't give it away huh? ;)

George Marian

LOL Good point.

R. Bemrose

8:34 PM

My favorite part was

> It is a unisex, one-piece, uniform that is functional and minimalist, just like our apps.

So... a bathing suit?

Joshua H. Heyer

Speedsuit

A speedsuit is an item of unisex exercise attire. It consists of a single piece of clothing which tightly fits the torso and, optionally, varying amounts of the arms and legs; overall, it is similar to a leotard, though intentionally made especially tight and constricting to hug the body for varying purposes of warmth (when used in snowboarding or skiing) and hydrodynamics (when used in swimming and other water sports). In popular culture A running gag in The Venture Bros. episode "Hate Floats" is that Dr. Venture wants to buy his son a speed suit for his birthday; in what is either a v...

drachenstern

@RBemrose Good lord I hope not

I look like shit in a bikini >.>

R. Bemrose

I wanna go home, but my timesheet says I'm here for another 50 minutes or so. :/

Tim Stone

@TheOutOfStarsException !

The OutOfStars Exception

Only here for a moment

R. Bemrose

8:37 PM

On the other hand, being one of the last people here on the day after a party with a huge cake, I get to take a bunch of said cake with me.

The OutOfStars Exception

just unpacked my desktop

Tim Stone

\o/

The OutOfStars Exception

wanted to see what the April 1 joke turned out to be :-D

Tim Stone

Up vote a question, if you haven't yet :P

Popular Demand

@TheOutOfStarsException Consider investing in a laptop if you're going to be carrying your computer around with you.

mootinator

8:37 PM

@TheOutOfStarsException :/

drachenstern

@TheOutOfStarsException JOSH!!!

R. Bemrose

@TheOutOfStarsException There are no april fools stuff. waves hand

Jon Skeet's Left Hand

Unicorns, for the third straight year. yawn

drachenstern

@TimStone Or downvote a question, if you haven't

mootinator

@TimStone I like the downvoting better, personally. :/

Tim Stone

8:38 PM

@PopularDemand It's better exercise that way.

R. Bemrose

Well, my own site had nothing done for April Fools day. The first year we haven't since I started the practice in 1998.

Tim Stone

@mootinator Yeah, true.

Jon Skeet's Left Hand

@TheOutOfStarsException Also, the new @Josh in town isn't you.

drachenstern

Glad you guys got moved in, now hurry up and get online full-time so I can bug you with Prototype questions dangit

Joshua H. Heyer

Kicks @mmyers for pinging

drachenstern

8:39 PM

kicks @shog9 for kicking other people (in the shin)

mootinator

@TheOutOfStarsException Check out this question too:

294

Q: Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?

I am having some difficulty compiling a C++ program that I've written. This program is very simple and, to the best of my knowledge, conforms to all the rules set forth in the C++ Standard. I've read over the entirety of ISO/IEC 14882:2003 twice to be sure. The program is as follows: Here i...

c++ visual-c++ g++ compiler-errors clang

The OutOfStars Exception

@PopularDemand Yes, I have a laptop, thanks. But my router is still in an unknwon box!

Jon Skeet's Left Hand

Ha! You can't kick mmyers because there is no mmyers!

R. Bemrose

I think I should @random words @just to see @who responds.

The OutOfStars Exception

So desktop is acting as ad-hoc wifi sharing for now

Jon Skeet's Left Hand

8:40 PM

@RBemrose Oh, he's in the teachers' lounge right now.

Joshua H. Heyer

There's always mmyers. Always has been, always will be. We're just waiting for him to find himself again...

Jon Skeet's Left Hand

Will Shog9 find himself again?

drachenstern

@JonSkeetsLeftHand no, he went and found a tie

he sold out man ... to the Man man

Joshua H. Heyer

@JonSkeetsLeftHand I'd have better luck, if I could google myself without all this Comic Sans

Jon Skeet's Left Hand

@JoshuaHHeyer You need a better autocompleter. I've been lucky today; I think the last guy was pretty good.

R. Bemrose

8:50 PM

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. ;)

George Marian

@RBemrose Birthday suit?

R. Bemrose

@GeorgeMarian A birthday suit would be a no-piece. ;D

George Marian

@TheOutOfStarsException Ah, the joys of moving. :)

@RBemrose How's that? It's one large piece. :)

R. Bemrose

arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/… <-- I can't tell if this article is real or not.

The OutOfStars Exception

10,000 support tickets waiting for me, LOL

@GeorgeMarian it's CRAZYNESS. I can't believe how long this is taking!

George Marian

8:56 PM

@TheOutOfStarsException Heh. We still haven't found 3 bowls that the gf packed away. (We moved last September.)

The OutOfStars Exception

LOL

OK, back to unloading. Later everyone!

George Marian

@TheOutOfStarsException see ya

Popular Demand

9:30 PM

If any of you didn't think to check SU today: superuser.com/questions/265114/… and superuser.com/questions/265255/…

George Marian

lol

badp's sockpuppet

@RBemrose Did you mean... Comic Sans?

badp's sockpuppet

9:56 PM

@RBemrose I think so

George Marian

@badpssockpuppet Heh. Which? Real or not? :)

badp's sockpuppet

@GeorgeMarian I think Real; I haven't seen Ars running fake stories

George Marian

Not to mention that it would be a fairly elaborate prank.

rchern_sockpuppet419

10:21 PM

Mayhaps this should receive more attention, Ladies and Gentleman:

4

Q: Egad!!! Tally ambulations nonpresent on transportable aether mechanisms!

I'm reclining at an institution of youthful learning, waiting to retrieve my heir from his extracurricular exertions, when I determine to entertain myself with the frolicking frippery of delightfully pastel uniprong ponies. Revealing my transportable computing mechanism I languidly key in the lo...

bug down-votes up-votes ios

George Marian

Nice.

mootinator

@rchern_sockpuppet419 I already up and down tallied that dozens of times.

Rebecca Chernoff

oy

2

Jon Skeet's Left Hand

@RebeccaChernoff But you just posted... oh, never mind.

2

Rebecca Chernoff

heh

George Marian

10:34 PM

@RebeccaChernoff Don't you just love April Fool's day? :)

Popular Demand

@GeorgeMarian Which one of us am I asking?

George Marian

LOL

Fortunately, I managed to avoid refreshing chat. :)

Rebecca Chernoff

yeah...it is just wonderful

Myles Gray

10:49 PM

beta.mutant-tractor.com/?p=37 - 4kg thermite tonight :)

rchern_sockpuppet419

11:13 PM

Joel on Coal: joeloncoal.com

drachenstern

parkingmobility.com

rchern_sockpuppet419

11:33 PM

@RebeccaChernoff Thanks for allowing me to intern as your sockpuppet!

Adam Davis, Ann Arbor, MI

28.1k 5 59 149

discussion feature-request support reputation stackoverflow status-completed bug

Rebecca Chernoff

WAIT JUST A DAMN MINUTE!

You were interning?

I could have made you do stuff for me?

I WANT A DO-OVER!

rchern_sockpuppet419

Well, I was your sockpuppet after all. So, yeah.

Make a list for next year. And find a new intern.

Rebecca Chernoff

Well in that case, I live on Hawaiian time, so I can put you to work for 10 and a half more hours! q:

drachenstern

lmao

George Marian

Well, apparently chat hasn't refreshed but gravatar has. lol

rchern_sockpuppet419

11:40 PM

You wish you lived on hawaiian time! If that were true you'd need a cabana boy, not an intern.

@GeorgeMarian Yeah, when I changed it to rchern yesterday it took some time for the names in chat to sync up.

Rebecca Chernoff

chat syncs hourly

George Marian

@rchern_sockpuppet419 Well, the names aren't synced up, and now I notice that there is some funkiness with the gravatars.

rchern_sockpuppet419

So it'll happen right at the end of apr 1 utc, which is convenient.

Rebecca Chernoff

living on hawaiian time != living in hawaii. I am quite the night owl you know. (;

George Marian

I just noticed yours changing, when it displayed the larger image.

rchern_sockpuppet419

11:43 PM

The gravatars are based on the email hash, and I didn't change my email - I went to gravatar.com and made the change there, so it propagates separately from stackoverflow's caching system.

@RebeccaChernoff Oh you!

Rebecca Chernoff

haha

George Marian

Heh. The notification toast still displays the old icon and as does the smaller icon display in chat.

drachenstern

FTR: you're updated in chat entirely here on the avatars

rchern_sockpuppet419

I am made of winning.

And uniprong pony.

I mean Winning and Uniprong Pony are my parents.

Flabbergasted? Me too. I just found out moments ago.