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12:11 PM
@balpha is that ironic?
What are the symptoms?
 
@RobinHood Do you get an error message?
 
@RobinHood whats the message your are getting while you are posting the question?
 
can you get us a screenshot?
 
please provide us screenshot
 
I am not having any errors while opening this link
 
12:15 PM
although a quick visit to your profile page makes it easy to guess what's going on.
 
...
no, when you ask the question do you get a message or something else?
@RobinHood imgur.com
 
okay, so copy paste the text you get
 
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Q: What can I do when getting "Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account"?

ArjanWhile trying to ask a question, one could get: Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because: Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account Why am I getting this message? Are deleted questions taken into account too? Is a question ban the same as a suspension...

 
@balpha That's what I was thinking
 
Ditto
 
12:17 PM
@ManjotSingh whats that Ditto?
 
means I was also thinking same
 
@RobinHood, you've a history of asking poor questions, so the system is preventing you from doing more of the same.
 
@RobinHood where is the message?
 
That said it's a bit weird to have this on MSO, where downvotes also mean disagreement, rather than just poor quality
Couple that with downvotes being free...
 
@ManjotSingh please donot use such localised words here
 
12:19 PM
@Damodar it is english word I think so
 
@Damodar what? It's normal English.
 
Ditto refers to something that was mentioned previously or above, spoken or written to avoid repeating the statement. It may also refer to: In printing: * Ditto machine, a type of small printing press. * The sheets of paper printed by a ditto machine, or another copy machine. In media and popular culture: * Ditto (convention), an annual science fiction fanzine convention * Ditto (1937 film), a 1937 film starring Buster Keaton * Ditto (2000 film), a 2000 South Korean film * Ditto (Pokémon), a Pokémon species * "Ditto" (song), a song by American singer Cassie * Ditto, a character in the ...
 
... and the "words per discussion importance" ratio has reached a new high
3
 
dit·tos
1. The same as stated above or before.
2. A duplicate; a copy.
3. A pair of small marks ( " ) used to indicated that the word, phrase, or figure given above is to be repeated.
 
 
12:21 PM
:D
 
sorry couldn't help it :P
 
@Reno hey dude, how you often getting screenshots
 
meta is such a fun place :)
 
@Reno great artistic fellow
 
6 mins ago, by balpha
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Q: What can I do when getting "Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account"?

ArjanWhile trying to ask a question, one could get: Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because: Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account Why am I getting this message? Are deleted questions taken into account too? Is a question ban the same as a suspension...

 
12:23 PM
@RobinHood just read above post and get the reason behind that
 
another ditto ?
 
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Q: What can I do when getting "Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account"?

ArjanWhile trying to ask a question, one could get: Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because: Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account Why am I getting this message? Are deleted questions taken into account too? Is a question ban the same as a suspension...

 
yeah, enough now?
 
and that means?
 
that's one of the most horriffic manglings of "OK" I've seen.
 
12:26 PM
Why make it simple... when you can make it not understandable :P
 
My brain processed that as cookies
 
good boy
 
Ditto
 
How would they know the question you're asking is related?
 
12:29 PM
ParserException: Failed to parse text-speak word becoz. Please buy a dictionary and try again!
 
I treated that as a warning, but compile failed at "hapen"
 
It's rather a lexicalException for what it's worth
 
@OctavianDamiean why the post is stared ?
 
I'm not staring it so I can't tell
 
12:32 PM
which one?
 
Try to write correct and complete sentences
 
@RobinHood hey ban is make you to improve , and to get quality posts from you
 
@RobinHood that is an automated process it wasn't a particular user but the filter system that didn't like how you ask questions.
 
@RobinHood If you are getting "Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account", which we don't know 100% if you are that is an automatic system. It's not a "Ban", more a "suspension" as such as this can be reversed by going back, adding more detail, changing spelling and grammer and evetually you'll be allowed to ask again.
 
Skynet ?
 
12:35 PM
already?
 
[faq#icanhazcheezburger]
 
@RobinHood Skynet is a rouge AI from the Terminator mov...never mind.
 
> The Tavern on the Meta, the only tavern worth visiting...
 
They have hot babes here ... they said
 
12:39 PM
/resists temptation to post facepalm.png
in SE Podcast Live Chat on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 15 hours ago, by Michael Mrozek
@JonGalloway The hot babes aren't on Twitter, they're in the tavern
 
we are just random users, what power are you talking about?
 
@RobinHood when you post (or try to post) a question, what error are you getting?
 
well no you didn't copy the text you get when trying to post a question and paste it here
 
@RobinHood You've been auto-suspended for 30 minutes for having a message deleted as offensive. Learn to behave, please.
 
12:50 PM
@balpha agian suspention
 
@Damodar auto -suspended
 
@OctavianDamiean filters are working awesome :)
@Hogan hi dude
 
Hello
 
~/Development/BlackBerry/SDK/net.rim.eide.componentpack4.7.0_4.7.0.46/components/‌​bin to your $PATH by editing the ~/.bash_profile file as follows:
where do I get bash profile?
 
Are you using bash BTW?
 
1:04 PM
I am trying to run emulator of Blackberry
 
What is your Operating System?
 
Mac OS
 
is it OSX or Ubuntu?
 
Mac OSX
 
1:08 PM
0
Q: NPM Cannot Work! "Error: ECONNREFUSED, Could not contact DNS servers"

soasmeWhen I type "npm install express",It show these tips. soasme@ubuntu:~/Desktop/nodeex$ npm install express npm ERR! Error: ECONNREFUSED, Could not contact DNS servers npm ERR! at IOWatcher.callback (dns.js:74:15) npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at: npm ERR! <http://github.com/isaacs/...

Questions like that, do they fall under serverfault.SE ?
or is that a programming problem (for stackoverflow)
 
It's sometimes difficult to say
 
like now :)
 
Could also fit on SU
But since the asker may be a programmer...
 
I feel it belongs here Node.js is pretty new
there is a chat room on Stack Overflow even.
 
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x33c534
fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\system32\\gecko\\1.0.0\\wine_gecko\\components\\xpti.dat" 1 536870916 0x0 0x0 0x19271c 0x0
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0xa62f518, overlapped 0xa62f520): stub
fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\system32\\gecko\\1.0.0\\wine_gecko\\components\\compreg.dat" 1 536870916 0x0 0x0 0x1d2a944 0x0
how to fix this thing
 
1:21 PM
easy dump it on meta and ask for advice
 
is that OSX related?
 
Mac OSX
 
You have Xorg on mac?
 
what is that?
 
Linux X display
 
1:27 PM
I am having X11 on mac
 
Hum then it does not support the required extension. But I'm unable to help you there
 
(process:64100): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-j1qvmV/org.x:0".
 
have you searched for "Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display"?
 
searching
 
1:44 PM
It's not a bug; apparently it's a bit tricky to support the Rotate and Resize extension when not talking directly to the hardware (OSX X11 translates X11 operations into native window system operations
 
1:56 PM
@Reno but the question is defiantly to do with server permissions in terms of downloading a file (through npm). So it feels like SF
 
@ManjotSingh if only there was a web site you could post a question like that to and get an answer.
4
 
XD
If only there was a Apple
 
I am looking into it hope find some solution
but this is in terms of Blackberry development
not with Apple
 
@Mvy Say again? :P
 
BTW @balpha : the links [apple.se] are awesome :P
 
2:05 PM
hmm
 
2:44 PM
@balpha the links are GORGEOUS. I've already been using them!
 
2:55 PM
@jcolebrand which links
 
the ones you were using in here which got moved to the sandbox
 
Ref for those of us who weren't around earlier:
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A: Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments

balphaMost of these now work. My comment below has the following markdown source: On [main], you are expected to write proper English (as advertised on [english.se]), but here on [metaso] it's more important to have freehand circles, so please [edit] your post, otherwise I'll have to flag you (see ...

 
^^^ that's my only non-joke guru badge on meta
 
3:08 PM
heh nice one :)
 
@balpha I just got my first Guru on any site with the beer stein suggestion. I don't even know whether that counts as a joke post or not. Also, I just posted to chat feedback about that message.
 
Why is there an open bounty on the question BTW?
 
we're still looking for suggestions for more magic links
 
Google :D
 
Oh right!
Then I may update my answer if I get more ideas
 
3:18 PM
we already have , do we also need ?
0
Q: Opt-in to display post images?

IncognitoBrowsing over this thread here: How to lose manboobs? Massive page-wide image of a topless fat guy. Nothing "wrong" with that, but given the fact about 10 other people can see my screen at any time, I'd rather not run into scenarios like this again. I don't want to feel like browsing stackove...

 
@balpha but of course :p
Also, this is the internetz, this is SRS BSNS
 
@balpha what are those tags, what kind of questions can be tagged to those
 
@Damodar what do you mean? and ?
There was a meta post a while back that had a picture of some buttocks in it, and a lot of people spazzed out
 
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Q: Mysterious Butt

theChrisKentI was attempting to answer a question today on SO and include some screenshots to help illustrate what I was talking about. Everything was fine until I went to upload my fourth image. Here is what the post screen looked like before I selected to upload: Once I pressed the Image button I got t...

 
also see my answer on English Language and Usage that was re: breasts
omg, @balpha you made them work in chat too? I think I love you (platonic and all that... {fist-bump!} ... or is it oatmeal style? :p)
 
3:21 PM
heh
 
...
 
@Damodar there were quite a few people that freaked out over a question on breasts on a grammar site ... so stupid.
 
Rule 34. There is porn of it, no exceptions.
 
@Crickets very funny.
 
@Mvy hey hey hey, we are NOT talking about porn here. This is a family friendly site. You want porn, try reddit or imgur ;)
 
3:22 PM
@Crickets wait user ID of -24?
 
@tombull89 haha, welcome to the joke ;)
 
Rule still applies :P
 
@jcolebrand so can we create such tags
 
lol don't :D
 
@Damodar there are rules to creating tags, but sure, if you see the need to do so.
@balpha we need to OB privileges links ;)
 
3:26 PM
@jcolebrand iam not asking previlages to create tags, can we create tags with such names as buttocks, breast , manboobs etc i feel they are pronability
@jcolebrand do SO encourages such things ?
 
@Damodar if you have the privilege and feel the need, then yes. I don't know how much more clear I can be.
@Damodar SEI encourages and supports the creation of useful and on-topic tagging.
 
@jcolebrand hey you are more clear at your explanation
 
I said "if you see the need to do so" and pointed at the privilege required. Then I reversed those two statements in my next comment.
 
@jcolebrand but i was supprised about hearing that .... :)
 
I don't know how. You've been around long enough.
 
3:28 PM
Hmph... @Crickets always gets a star.
 
any how, iam about to leave now, wife already called me :) .... have a nice day guys....
bye
 
bye
 
night night
 
Ya Good Night.....
 
3:46 PM
what are some online slide building tools besides the one in google docs? I need to give a presentation tomorrow and want to build a ~10 slide deck.
 
have you looked at that thing @Benjol built his SO demo with?
not sure if that's good for plain ol' presentations
 
@balpha sweet. Lemme see what that looks like. I'm supposed to give a 15 minute talk tomorrow, and haven't built a slide deck (I know, I'm the worst kind of lazy) and have my talk prepared on a legal pad with bullet points and topics and phrases, but figure I should put something behind all that on a screen.
 
well you're better than me then, I had mine on a beer mat :D
 
holy crap that site is awesome, and will be exactly what I need, I think. SWEETNESS.
Thanks @balpha (cc @benjol)
 
4:56 PM
@jcolebrand: Hi How do u do?
 
5:11 PM
> Lord of the Rings In Concert: The Fellowship of the Ring
WTF?
 
Is there any Community Coordinator, here?
 
@SankarGanesh well, I suppose I do. That is probably sufficient.
 
prods @RebeccaChernoff
 
@kiamlaluno there were. Shoot with the Q
 
I just wanted to know if Stack Exchange stuff gets my emails.
@jcolebrand Bang!
Did I shoot well? :-)
 
5:15 PM
Yeah, that question has been posed before. It's a matter of "did it warrant an immediate response to your message" versus "did it warrant no response"
They get the mail pretty quickly and act on it, often, but they don't usually reply to everything.
 
@jcolebrand In my case, I wonder if my emails are blocked. :-)
 
Additionally, did you email team@ or community@, because community@ is for the community people directly, but I don't think it's advertised anywhere in particular.
team@ goes to the team global inbox
 
@jcolebrand I used team%2bdrupal@stackexchange.com, which is the email used in the "contact us" link in DA.
 
if you send us an email, assume it gets received.
 
@kiamlaluno then that was probably sufficient.
@RebeccaChernoff oh come on now, email is probably the worst form of internet communication for "ensuring that things got delivered"... it's the equivalent of the USPS, and you know it as well as I do :p
 
5:18 PM
lol
 
yes, most mail gets there quickly and with no fuss, but sometimes it gets lost, delayed or misplaced.
@kiamlaluno if it was incredibly important and was not user-specific then I would just post it on your meta. Then you know that it will be addressed publicly
 
Hello
 
@RebeccaChernoff I already sent an email about an important matter, and I didn't get any reply. I cannot assume my emails are being received, at this point.
@jcolebrand It was user-specific, in a way, but it was about the DA site performance, in the other one.
 
I wonder how many times I've said Hello in chat...
 
@kiamlaluno feel free to assume your email was received.
 
@balpha A new record
"Phrase Most Said by a Single User ... Ever"
 
@RebeccaChernoff The problem is not that, but knowing if my emails are being considered just noise. If that is the case, then I will stop sending them.
 
@Chacha102 Moshe is catching up
 
@MichaelMrozek You mean "Nippon"?
 
@kiamlaluno Well, we get a lot of email. We can't deal with them instantly
 
5:24 PM
iOS beats out Nippon by quite a bit
Dec 17 '10 at 16:15, by Michael Mrozek
Can we just assume from now on that when you join there's an implied "hello"?
 
Well he can use that phrase multiple times in a single conversation. I can only say Hello once
@MichaelMrozek If we did that, I'd loose my uniqueness...
The blue square is all I'd have left
 
@RebeccaChernoff I didn't meant that. I will never take the assumption that my email must be an immediate deal.
Should I have said "hello" too, when I entered?
 
@kiamlaluno Yes
 
I have never been in a tavern, before; I don't know exactly how I should behave, except paying a drink to anybody.
 
room topic changed to The Tavern (General): Say Hello! Or Else...
 
5:30 PM
Yikes!
HELLO!!
 
room topic changed to The Tavern (General): The Tavern on Meta - The only one worth visiting...
 
@kiamlaluno For most people, their gravatar flying across the screen is enough of an entrance
 
@MichaelMrozek But that only happens once, and there is a chance not everyone is looking....
 
@MichaelMrozek Does that mean I don't have to pay any drink?
 
@kiamlaluno You can checkout anytime you like, but you can never leave...
 
5:32 PM
@Chacha102 Well, it would be tragic if the whole room weren't alerted to your presence
 
@MichaelMrozek I know right?
 
@kiamlaluno no :p
 
Ah, drachensternyfinklesteinbergdandysmith is here!
 
I always hope to pass unobserved.
 
@MichaelMrozek not for me. I need cannons shooting off fireworks, an announcer, girls in bikinis with fringe on their arms (don't ask me how, just do it damnit) and unicorns. Lots of unicorns. I want to ride in on a herd of unicorns marching in syncronicity.
@Chacha102 dracole is the new version, I think
@Chacha102 I'm thinking of changing the name... The Tavern on the Meta
or The Tavern on Meta
 
5:35 PM
@jcolebrand The only issue is permalinks..
they don't redirect
 
I hope that is not methanol. :-)
 
not that anyone gets here that way..
 
@Chacha102 whose?
 
Actually
the ID stays the same..
nvm
room topic changed to The Tavern on Meta: You can checkout anytime you like, but you can never leave...
 
yah, the only URL of note is http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/89/the-tavern-general and that doesn't care about the title
Yatta!
I just wasn't gonna make a unilateral ;)
 
5:36 PM
I like the Meta better
room topic changed to The Tavern on the Meta: You can checkout anytime you like, but you can never leave...
 
Another airplane just landed.
 
Yeah, flows like Tavern on the green.
room topic changed to Tavern on the Meta: You can checkout anytime you like, but you can never leave...
 
There we go
 
slightly shorter, seems to flow even better
 
not like anyone would mistake this room with another one..
 
5:38 PM
 
and now that that picture frame is straight. My job is done :p
 
it has too much history, and terror, built into its name
 
Javascript eval() is not dangerous... fighting 2 people who are saying it is.
 
YES IT IS!!!!!!
(I didn't know Javascript had an eval...)
 
Cooking is more dangerous.
 
5:39 PM
Since every browser available has a javascript console, everyone has access to eval whatever they want.
 
@Fosco But it leads to Javascript injection! Think of all the Javascript users would be able to run locally
 
I mean, if eval has access to the scope it is called in, that could make it dangerous
 
@Fosco the problem is that, like goto, it can be horribly abused.
 
@MichaelMrozek Exactly... as they can with any browser... I want to punch these 2 people arguing with me, with no backup.
 
I'm not gonna say that it should NEVER be used.
I just don't think that it's the first thing a newb dev should be introduced to in javascript.
 
it should be like black magic ;)
 
@jcolebrand There's a difference between "using eval is terrible code style" and "using eval causes security risks"
 
@MichaelMrozek yeah, I know, and I'm in the former camp here.
 
@jcolebrand You dick.
 
@Fosco you're welcome. I'll go upvote two or three others for you
"suspicious voting pattern" say what? :p
 
5:42 PM
that almost deserves a pin...
 
Hah
 
You're not supposed to downvote answers that work. Mine is actually the only answer that gives the OP exactly what he asked for.
 
If the dev had a history on SO of working with javascript, then I would be all for it, because your way is so much faster.
@Fosco I'm supposed to downvote answers that show problems :p
I know, tomato tomatoe
 
You're supposed to downvote answers that are unhelpful, technically
 
5:44 PM
@MichaelMrozek and do you think my answer is unhelpful, technically?
 
in R on Stack Overflow Chat, 30 secs ago, by Chacha102
Is R a nickname for Ruby?
someone's going to kill me...
 
@Fosco No, that was my point; it shouldn't be downvoted
 
no it is the nickname for R
 
@Chacha102 you do know ....
 
5:45 PM
@jcolebrand eval is actually used in a bad way in the one place I've noticed it on SO, so. :P
 
I'll just pretend you know
@TimStone do you mean on the SO source?
 
Yes
 
Is it in a lib that they used from someone else?
 
No. :P
 
did you smack @nickC with it yet?
 
5:45 PM
@OctavianDamiean Yes I know, but I think it would be funny to get a reaction out of them
@jcolebrand I'm thinking 'Tavern by the Meta' sounds better
 
ok peeps, I'm out for a bit. bbl
 
@jcolebrand It's related to a bug that Jeff closed as a duplicate incorrectly that's on my to-fix list, so I'm getting around to it.
 
oy, I didn't notice you've asked it in the R room, never mind :D
 
@Chacha102 hmmm, perhaps so
 
@jcolebrand Think it over, get back to me
 
5:46 PM
@Chacha102 jup
cya
 
A Tavern by any other Meta would smell as sweet.
 
6:04 PM
heh, who changed the room name? +1 for them.
 
lol that question is still heating up...
 
6:19 PM
@Fosco It hit 20 comments now; mods might get involved
 
fun... what might they do, prune comments?
 
ban hammer
 
no way, no one did anything wrong.. :)
 
0
Q: FlackBot - Making Conversation in the Chat Rooms

George Edison Screenshot About FlackBot (whose name was inspired by this app) is a chat bot for the Stack Exchange network of chat sites. It currently hangs out in the Sandbox but it it designed for the Ask Ubuntu General Room. It is capable of understanding quite a few commands and those commands resem...

 
6:39 PM
@GeorgeEdison What in the world would you need Qt for?
 
6:52 PM
@MichaelMrozek Webkit.
It needs to authenticate with the SE servers somehow.
So I created a GUI that embedded the Webkit engine.
 
Ah, this is way more sophisticated than I thought then. I would've just hardcoded an fkey somewhere and changed it as needed :)
 
@MichaelMrozek This was much easier though.
This way I can write the majority of the code in JavaScript.
...and yet fallback to C++ for any complex processing thanks to Qt's JS to C++ bridge.
 
7:47 PM
shakes a fist at PHP
 
Hah, why's that?
 
ears perk up
 
I'm figuring out how to use their data/input filtering functions. Apparently, it makes sense to sanitize a float as an int by simply removing the decimal point.
Why not truncate? Or, at least, give me the option.
Gah! It's the same behavior when sanitizing as float. =/
 
What are you using?
 
filter_input_array() with FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_FLOAT
So, 123,456.78 becomes 12345678. =(
 
8:05 PM
(cc @jcolebrand)
 
Oooh, shiny!
 
My new toy, so I can be one of the cool kids. :P
 
It would have been funny if you were flipping the bird. ;)
 
Hahah
 
Which tablet and how do you like it?
 
8:08 PM
It's a Chromebook
And I just took it out of the box, so we'll see. ;)
 
I need to get my parents hooked on Chromebooks so I won't need to fix their computer problems anymore
 
8:22 PM
@TimStone Awesome... I look forward to hearing your thoughts after using it.
 
8:58 PM
I'll let you know how it goes. :D
 
Hello
 
I'm tempted to start spam-flagging, but that would probably just annoy mods
 
How did the lot of you not see that it was samsung and stamped with Chrome and not know it was a chromebook?
 
@jcolebrand By "the lot of you" you mean "one person"
 
@MichaelMrozek this.
@MichaelMrozek shush with your logic. I saw it and immediately sic'd the skype window for exclamations
I figured somebody would've piped up with "chromebook" before tim had to explain it ;)
 
9:06 PM
Oh, so you did. I'm on the phone, my bad :P
 
haha, I wasn't gonna keep after you, I figured you'ld respond when you could
 
@jcolebrand It did take him a whole 39 seconds
 
15:05:57 -> 15:08:32 ...
 
15:05:57 was when he copied you; 15:07:53 was when George asked what it was
I'm pretty sure you suddenly lost your mind: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/94386/…
 
@MichaelMrozek why, because Grace and I are having a sidelined conversation via comments?
 
9:26 PM
Living in a browser is going to take some getting used to, heh.
 

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