The Chat/Spam Thread

**Master Razor** · 05.10.15, 17:58

So I take it you don't like any of my suggestions?

**anon** · 06.10.15, 04:41

Having a massive giveaway is a top-notch idea ('tis the season), I just wouldn't have any invites to offer myself, let alone high-level ones. As for Skype, we had an IRC channel and it didn't work out, and I'm not convinced video chatting on a critical date would fare any better.

Sorry for sounding pessimistic! I do want something to be done.

**Master Razor** · 06.10.15, 17:50

I don't think anyone wants anything around here.

**Master Razor** · 06.10.15, 19:00

How about 160 filelist invites at Christmas? On me as a token of my appreciation to the forum.
These are very hard to come by and I ow it all to a good user here that is helping gather the needed points to obtain those invites.

**anon** · 07.10.15, 03:21

Originally Posted by Master Razor

I don't think anyone wants anything around here.

It's not bad faith, just lack of good ideas.

Originally Posted by Master Razor

How about 160 filelist invites at Christmas? On me as a token of my appreciation to the forum.
These are very hard to come by and I ow it all to a good user here that is helping gather the needed points to obtain those invites.

That sounds great!

**Master Razor** · 07.10.15, 18:32

Let's just hope I finish in time. All I need is 70,000 bonus points. I guess you know how hard it is to gather that much.
But even if I don't finish by Christmas, I will buy 5 invites at 5,000 bonus points, so the least I'll provide is 30 invites.

**anon** · 08.10.15, 04:29

Someone's been stealing stuff from my office

Three optical drives and a power supply were missing today, and the past disappearance of two laptops suddenly makes a lot of sense.

Thank goodness all the money (from our business operations) and most valuable items (like a $300 laptop) stored there were under a second lock.

**anon** · 08.10.15, 04:43

Also, here are some technical curiosities. There are lots of numbers and that's how you know they're true

The original 8-bit FAT filesystem didn't support subdirectories and only stored a single datestamp for each file - its creation date, with a resolution of one day. For comparison, NTFS stores the creation, modification, last access and last entry modification time and date of each file and folder with a granularity of 0.0000001 seconds.
An Ethernet device operating at 100 Mbit must wait 0.96 microseconds before it can transmit another frame of data. Also, the maximum length for a cable before you have to add some sort of repeater is 100 meters.
The draft for the first Compaq computer was made on a café's paper napkin.
Compact Discs explode if spun faster than 56x (11200 RPM). Higher speed drives use a slower speed and compensate with multiple lasers. The maximum is 72x, 100x is a scam.
Under Windows NT, command1 && command2 runs the second command only if the first one was successful; command1 || command2 runs the second only if the first failed.

**Master Razor** · 08.10.15, 13:47

Thank goodness all the money (from our business operations) and most valuable items (like a $300 laptop) stored there were under a second lock.

Why exactly do you care? It ain't your company.

Under Windows NT, command1 && command2 runs the second command only if the first one was successful; command1 || command2 runs the second only if the first failed.

Neat, but common knowledge.

**anon** · 08.10.15, 16:09

Originally Posted by Master Razor

Why exactly do you care? It ain't your company.

I don't think I need to explain why theft on my own work environment, which until now I presumed to be safe, is a worrying issue. Also, one of the DVD rewriters was mine.