Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:32 AM

@WilliamHilsum: works for me. Want me to dropbox it?

William Hilsum

12:56 AM

@JourneymanGeek It's ok thanks. Surfasb put it on Dropbox for me - thanks anyway.

Journeyman Geek

erf - superuser.com/questions/347233/… i'm trying to work out if he mispelled OCZ

hm, turns out the old sun keyboard i kept on a whim is a sun 5c. its totally incompatable with anything i have, but apparently is the inspiration for the happy hacking keyboard ;p

hm, no, people just seem to like it ;p

William Hilsum

1:26 AM

@JourneymanGeek Happy hacking keyboard?

Journeyman Geek

ya, low profile keyboard, often with no markings on the keys, supposed to be really comfy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard

is currently a bit of a keyboard expert, till the next upgrade ;p

Journeyman Geek

2:13 AM

hmm

2 answers to hitting 1000 answers :)

studiohack

2:42 AM

@bloodphilia Hey! haven't seen you in a hummm drummm while! :)

Journeyman Geek

>_>

/me still dosen't see him ;p

Journeyman Geek

6:58 AM

hm

for some reason voting to close isn't working for me >_>

and i'm not even on a experimental browser

superuser.com/questions/343919/… anyone awake enough to check if i'm the only one not seeing the vote to close radiobuttons?

Diago

@JourneymanGeek I am assuming it worked because your name is on the close.

Journeyman Geek

o0

nope. i never managed to vote to close that

unless i did and forgot, which would be bad, but probably a question for seniors.stackexchange

Diago

7:15 AM

@JourneymanGeek You did vote to close, probably why the second time you didn't see the buttons. I have that issues at work due to our proxies.

Journeyman Geek

ahh. so its just a memory error id10t ;)

no worries then

DMA57361

7:28 AM

morning all

Diago

Ello

DMA57361

not seen you in chat for a while @Diago, how are you?

Diago

Doing well thanks. Chat is normally blocked at work but we are testing a new proxy

DMA57361

ah, fair enough

Shiki

8:23 AM

Launchpad still won't work. :(

Journeyman Geek

8:45 AM

yay

1000 answers on SU

DMA57361

@JourneymanGeek blimey, impressive

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek 1056 total ones, actually

DMA57361

gah, @Sathya beat me D:

Sathya

:p

I've a little over 1100 Answers

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: I was going by my profile, not the seekrit mod stuff. besides, i wouldn't want to admit to 56 answers to closed questions ;p

DMA57361

8:47 AM

I'm at 279

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek :P I'm going by the profile... except it shows deleted ones too :P

Journeyman Geek

that is impressive, if you count rep per answer ;p

Shiki

Does Process Lasso worth it's price? Oo

I'm thinking of buying a license but the trial version lacks some 'pro' features. Does it worth the price? Oo

Sathya

9:10 AM

@Shiki never heard of that tool..

Diago

@Sathya Apparantly it is an optimization app

Optimize your processes, cores, and power consumption with automated rules, or just let ProBalance automatically restrain unruly apps to improve responsiveness!

Sathya

@Diago ah.

Shiki

@Diago And what do you think? Does it worth the price?

Diago

My markup skills has seriously died

Shiki

Or it's just some kind of marketing stuff?

Sathya

9:12 AM

@Diago :)

Diago

@Shiki Wouldn't know. I have never used nor will I. I use OSX everyday

Sathya

@Shiki I call shenanigans

Shiki

:<

Diago

I have never ever used optimization tools, either on Windows, Mac or Unix. They always cause more problems then what it's worth

3

If your trying to fix a problem using them, your not looking in the right place.

Sathya

Amen.

Diago

9:15 AM

The hardest part about learning Xcode and Objective-C? Getting the syntax right!

Sathya

meeting time, bbl

Shiki

If I could implement some better cooling to my ThinkPad T500... >.>

have fun, @Sathya

maybe I'll just try and put my notebook into a shoe box

Diago

@Shiki Every machine I have owned that had a cooling problem had to be replaced, because the problem was hardware related

Or I was using the wrong hardware for doing the wrong thing

Shiki

@Diago - I do the latter I guess. A business laptop is not made for gaming for example. But it would be awesome if I could "fix" the cooling.

Sadly, the 'rollcage' and the heavy plastic case won't even feel a 12cm cooler... or even a huge fan.. nothing. It's just too thick.

Diago

@Shiki If your heavy into gaming get a proper setup. Even my high powered MacBook frowns down on me doing heavy long term gaming.

Shiki

9:20 AM

Well, I'll get a better laptop when I can, but for now, nothing :/

The sad thing is... if I limit the CPU usage for gaming, the game will behave weird

like the mouse will lag

the game runs with ~200+fps

but the mouse behaves weird

surfasb

12:08 PM

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/…

I found this particularly amusing

I remember when "enable advanced performance" was all the rage.

But it turns out that the option actually doesn't do anything. . .

Psycogeek

I do not understand most of this "buggy behaviour", we have had UPSes since win95 , and never pulled anything or even did a normal restart until well after data was completed writing. If "accounts" wasnt using a UPS , they shouldnt be doing accounts :-)

Of course if we ask Accounts, they will say , " How the Mailroom sends out packages be that UPS or USPS , is none of our concern" :-)

surfasb

2:31 PM

@Psycogeek What in the world are you talking about??

William Hilsum

Psycogeek

@surfasb nothing important, i was just reading your link about the cache flush.

"They fixed the bug but left an option to return to the old buggy behavior". AKA the speedy blind write , that i would far prefer.

Tom Wijsman

3:05 PM

@WilliamHilsum: BEFORE CPU 61°C GPU 56°C, AFTER CPU 50°C, GPU 48°C

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman before/after what?

Tom Wijsman

Dust cleaning... :D

William Hilsum

lol

wow

Tom Wijsman

That's exactly the same use case, just watching the stream...

William Hilsum

dusty house?

Tom Wijsman

3:06 PM

Haven't cleaned the laptop for a long while.

I noticed I did something FUBAR after all 12 screws were back in place...

Booted up, watched stream, a minute later suddenly the laptop shut down.

Boot it back up, hmm, BEEP BEEP BEEP (and the icons started blinking)...

Seems I connected the GPU Fan to a connector for an additional fan instead of the GPU Fan connector. >_<

Psycogeek

@TomWijsman Missed it by --->||<---- that much

Tom Wijsman

So, in case it does hit 100°C, the safety mechanism works! xD

William Hilsum

ouch... hopefully no lasting damage!

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum Nope, on reboot it doesn't use the GPU so it's just a spike...

William Hilsum

ah, ok

Tom Wijsman

3:12 PM

Well, now I hope to not see the crashes for a while, it probably spikes the temperature at the moment of a crash or something.

Because from weekly it suddenly started to become daily...

Going to see what FurMark tells me.

William Hilsum

This is so annoying... I am not getting a lot of email... Is Google DNS down or something? I am using afraid.org for dns which is usually good, but, some people have rung me up and said their mail isn't working... nslookup ezpcltd.com fails from google dns (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) but it works from opendns

so, not sure my dns provider is to blame... but, so annoyed... just so busy and this is all I need!

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum I'm on Google DNS and I can visist that site.

William Hilsum

I can visit it, but, queries are failing and mx lookup is returning nothing

Tom Wijsman

C:\Users\tomwij>nslookup ezpcltd.com 8.8.4.4
Server:  google-public-dns-b.google.com
Address:  8.8.4.4

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    ezpcltd.com
Address:  87.194.162.98

William Hilsum

argh, and, it seems to be back up here as well :/ Sorry for that

Tom Wijsman

3:15 PM

:D

William Hilsum

maybe it was just down briefly and cached or something

So fed up of third party services failing on me... I think I may just self host DNS on my webserver.

Psycogeek

I always wondered about that, does my secondary DNS server , get applied when there is no resolve, or no DNS server at the locaction? In other words can it be a backup in all occasions?

William Hilsum

MX Toolbox (brilliant service if you haven't used it) - is still showing my server/dns as offline... I guess I just have to wait for the timeout/TTL and for it all to update. mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3aezpcltd.com

@Psycogeek dns 2 gets queried if there is a timeout on dns 1

Psycogeek

so only if the first server doesnt work at all?

William Hilsum

only timeouts on querying, it isn't application aware, e.g. will not failover if a service fails... e.g. web server doesn't respond... with the exception of clients/applications that are smart enough. e.g. a mailserver may query mx2 if mx1 is down...

Psycogeek

3:20 PM

thanks. I often wonder if i should use 1 ISP provided dns, and one "other" dns that i scrounge off the web.

or use both ISP DNSes having no real backup

surfasb

@Psycogeek It's not a speedy blind write though. It's the default cached behavior. The buggy behavior merely ignores flush commands.

William Hilsum

right now, I am thinking I am going to put DNS on my own server... only real problem is putting all my eggs in one basket, but, if the server goes down, I am rather screwed anyway!

Tom Wijsman

85°C - 86°C using Furmark for a while.

Psycogeek

@surfasb "But once Windows 95 fixed the bug, these programs started to run very slowly since the Commit calls were suddenly doing actual work." ok, and ignoring the flush calls, doesnt that allow the thing to keep pumping out data without wating for the flush to return that it finished?

@surfasb I think of things overly simplistic because I am not the one writing the program, just the one waiting for it.

surfasb

@Psycogeek The whole point of making a flush call is when performance isn't as much of a priority as file integrity. So if the program wanted to make the flush call without waiting for it to finish, it shouldn't make the call in the first place.

BloodPhilia

3:33 PM

@studiohack No indeeed! Although I've been slightly active on the site even though not on chat! I've been terribly busy these last couple of weeks!

surfasb

@Psycogeek Yeah, that's the suck part. The only way to fix it is for the dev to unwind his head and fix the program :(

@Psycogeek Hence the existence of the setting in the first place.

The article highlights the perils of "fixing" a bug.

RedGrittyBrick

@sufasb: Re superuser.com/questions/347233/… I guess you are right, user27449's cable marked "eSATA" is really SATA. Odd.

HackToHell

hello

Journeyman Geek

not really. I vaguely recall early sata cables being similar

RedGrittyBrick

@HackToHel: Hello

HackToHell

3:37 PM

howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/… this ain't working! Any ideas why ?

os win 7

surfasb

@Psycogeek I remember a similar episode at work. I noticed a test database was in the wrong spot. That weekend, I moved it into the test lab network. Lo and behold!! That monday I get a call "Hey where is our Test11 database?"

@HackToHell What's the error?

Psycogeek

@HackToHell that same zip worked for me.

surfasb

@RedGrittyBrick I figured he thought you needed special cables to get SataIII speeds. . .

Tom Wijsman

63°C with StarCraft II maxed out, seems it does fine...

surfasb

@TomWijsman That's about how hot my GPUs (4870s XF). But I need three fans on them otherwise they downclock, because the memory overheats. . .

Journeyman Geek

3:41 PM

ow

HackToHell

@surfasb sorry for the delay , here is the error

pastebin.com/BSAKM0Aq

any ideas why ??

William Hilsum

You shouldn't start messing around with system folders... it is there for genuine NTFS issues such as getting to other users files / locked out ACLs etc. If you mess around with ACLs on System Volume Information, you can seriously damage your system.

HackToHell

@WilliamHilsum lol i do that on my xp vm regularly ... i will try not to do anything extremely stupid

Psycogeek

@HackToHell thats new, never tired it on that folder, doesnt work on that folder here either.

HackToHell

@Psycogeek hmm

William Hilsum

3:49 PM

superuser.com/questions/347468/… read comments

Tom Wijsman

@surfasb: Man... I love the effects on the maxed out settings, they also allow for much better micro.

Better to identify what unit they are shooting at and what units died and so on...

You can even see what unit a Stargate is producing. (Saw that once as a Day9 tip)

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman ...Stargate?

oh... skim reading... SC2

got to try it one day!

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum The starter's edition is free, allows you to do Campaign and the Terran race in Custom Multiplayer on a few maps.

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman I get too addicted to games... if I download, I will play non stop!

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum Hehe, I just discovered how to make the AI in the downloadable version of Galcon more hard. Getting addicted to that game... >_<

Usually pro gamers lower settings to be able to play the game better.

But it seems that for StarCraft II higher settings actually give a benefit...

William Hilsum

3:56 PM

... where can I get it from? I can't see a download :/

HackToHell

@Psycogeek got access !! restart explorer as Administrator ! bye guys !

William Hilsum

is it hidden on their page :/ found it via Google, but, can't find a link on the main starcraft page

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum eu.battle.net/account/sc2/starter-edition/index.xml

Dinner time...

William Hilsum

that sucks, the sign up page prevents pasting... so I can't copy a random one straight fro keepass... I hate sites that do that

7GBs... I need to clean some room first! lol

Blog bot

5:16 PM

Stack Overflow Blog: Meet Bubbles (The Stack Exchange Mascot)

Posted by Alex Miller on October 17th, 2011

This past weekend, CHAOS was working the New York Comic Con (NYCC) here in New York City. It was kind of amazing. But CHAOS wasn’t the only one working hard this weekend….

Meet Bubbles, the Stack Exchange mascot! Some of you might recognize her from her cameo on the podcast video stream a few weeks ago, but her official debut was this weekend at Comic Con. We’ll be honest: not everyone here at Global Domination Headquarters was completely sold on getting Bubbles. I’m not naming any names, Joel, but some people just didn’t see the value in it. Well, the joke’s on those people, ’cause Bubbles was a smash hit. …

William Hilsum

@Blogbot With a name of Bubbles, I am just going to think of the Little Britain character