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Journeyman Geek

12:19 AM

lol

darn ;p

headesk I am connected to the wrong system

Journeyman Geek

3:52 AM

o0 candlepowerforums.com/vb/…

Bob

5:42 AM

@Boris_yo To hold the battery down? To prevent user servicing (Apple?)?

Glue does look better than using screws, but it makes servicing much more difficult.

Journeyman Geek

o0

Bob

?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: and batteries usually outlast phones ;p

least nowadays

Its a long time since the 3310

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Well, the phone doesn't die... it just gets replaced.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: mine usually die

my dad's last phone suddenly stopped detecting a sim card, before I talked him into getting a new one so he could ditch his horrid contract

Bob

5:49 AM

:S

Sathya

morning

Paul

@JourneymanGeek I use my smartphone as a smartphone, so it tends to suck battery. I have a spare in my pocket. I pop the cover when it gets low, swap in a new one, and off I go. Until phone vendors can maintain a permanent TCP connection over 3G for more than 18 hours, they should make batteries easy to swap.

Journeyman Geek

@Paul: I do too. lasts a day and half

data and wifi on all the time.

does want to get an external battery, but thats for a planned utterly horrible kludge

Paul

@JourneymanGeek With established connections - such as needed by IMAP IDLE and XMPP?

Bob

@Paul There are those external battery packs, though.

Journeyman Geek

5:50 AM

cause I love those

Bob

Swapping a battery isn't great if you want continuous power.

Journeyman Geek

@Paul: I use XMPP as a notification system. Works pretty well client side

server side is amazingly ugly

Paul

@Bob Yeah, I tried that, it was worse than swapping, trying to hold a phone and a battery pack at the same time. I got an S2 because it was light, not because I was happy for it to be light for only half the day :)

Bob

@Paul MicroUSB extension cable! :P

Paul

@JourneymanGeek I mean leaving data on all day and keeping battery drain low is easy provided you don't have any permanent connections - they sip, and deep sleep is easier to get to. But I like to have permanent connections.

@Bob No. :)

Journeyman Geek

5:53 AM

should probably try that but i'm a *little worried about data charges if i do this over 3g ;p*

Bob

You are lucky to get it to last 18 hours though.

Journeyman Geek

probably start an IRC connection and see what happens

Bob

I'm lucky if mine lasts 8 hours on 3G. With the screen on, though.

Journeyman Geek

o0

eh, screen takes up half your power

mine is VERY agressive about turning off the screen

Paul

@JourneymanGeek Ah... I don't use a lot of data, I just have permanent connections. Not many packets.

Bob

5:55 AM

My screen apparently accounts for 32% of battery usage

Followed by 17% on Android OS, and 13% on mediaserver

what the heck is Mediaserver?

Paul

@Bob Thats my point, I don't get 18 hours, so I keep a spare battery. So phones without swappable batteries are not considerable for me. And I can also rant about an absence of microsd if you like :)

Journeyman Geek

53% screen

Bob

@Paul I would have to swap it three times for that :S

Journeyman Geek

lol, THAT is worth ranting about

Bob

And I'm the kind of guy who hates restarting for any reason, and will avoid it for as long as possible :P

Journeyman Geek

5:56 AM

tho, my One V would not be very usable without a micro sd card

Paul

@Bob Yeah, you have to pick your compromises I reckon

Bob

Ah, MicroSD. I still rant about Samsung putting hte MicroSD slot behind the battery, exposing the SIM slot instead.

Of the two, I'm far more likely to want to swap my MicroSD. Without restarting.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Bob: mine is behind the ANTENNA

which is on the rear cover

Paul

@Bob Yeah for sure. Though I am pretty sure they did it this way so you couldn't pull the card out whilst powered. Not sure why though.

Journeyman Geek

so I pop out the cover...

Paul

5:58 AM

It can't be a mounted thing because it would hardly be unmounted safely when you yank the battery out

Journeyman Geek

most older phones had it on the outside

(even my dad's yari. which we use as a modem when needed. darned thing runs an outdated google maps which complains its not online cause it can't reach the T&C webpage... which google took down ;p)

Bob

@Paul You can eject the card via the OS, though. No option for ejecting the SIM.

@Paul And there is that :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: nothing too bad happens when you pull a sim on a running phone

other than.. er... well the last time I did it, i needed to restart, and prey thought my phone was stolen

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Except this particular phone won't accept a replaced SIM without a restart anyway...

Journeyman Geek

most of them don't ;p

Paul

6:01 AM

@Bob Yeah I was considered the idea that most non SU users wouldn't think to eject

Bob

It just stays disconnected until the next restart. Which means it's pretty pointless letting you change the SIM without touching the battery.

@Paul TBH I normally don't bother explicitly ejecting (yes, I know it's bad...)

I just make sure there's nothing actively using it.

Bad habit probably from Windows always doing something in the background with NTFS formatted drives.

Which makes ejecting/unmounting safely more or less impossible.

Paul

@Bob Well you'd have to pull the battery, so you'd be inclined to power off the phone first I think, which would sync the sd card

Journeyman Geek

people actually do that? ;p

Bob

@Paul Every other phone I've owned that accepts SD cards (all Nokias, incidentally) do it the other way around - SIM change requires battery pulling, Micro SD does not.

Paul

I used to use an n900 and would routinely corrupt the fat partition through power off through battery drain. So I got into the habit of shutting down

Bob

6:05 AM

FAT was never that resiliant :\

Paul

@Bob Yeah totally. I am agreeing that I don't get it.

Could be nothing to do with anything, and just where they had to put the card to get it to fit inside the case.

Bob

Could be.

Wouldn't have been too hard to have the card come out of the side, though (still behind the battery cover).

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: so did my dad's old SE

I want this engraved on my tombstone like the Epitaph of Stevinus.

Clippy

8:09 AM

Super User Blog: Super User Review of Hyper-V for Windows 8

kronos on September 17, 2012

This weeks question of the week come from these two questions:

Windows 8 Hyper-V – how to give VM internet access?

How do I install and use Window Virtual PC in Windows 8?

One of them asked by Graham Clark, and the other is a self post by myself. This prompted me to do a more formal review of Microsoft’s Hyper-V for Windows 8.

Hyper-V for Windows 8 is really called Client Hyper-V. It’s similar in many aspects to the Microsoft Server’s Hyper-V (2008 and the upcoming 2012). What’s different about Client Hyper-V is that it was customized to fit the portable environments, such as laptops, that developer’s find themselves in. What does Hyper-V do? …

HackToHell

8:32 AM

Damn chkdsk sucks

It just deleted the file i spent all night downloading

Journeyman Geek

lol

fire up recurva and see if you can pull it out from there?

HackToHell

Waiting for it to download <_<

Now waiting for the scan to finish ~_~

Bob

9:59 AM

@HackToHell I do hope you aren't downloading onto the same partition?

Oliver Salzburg

10:25 AM

Sweet. The SGS I revived yesterday, I let it run all night with WiFi on, only drained 20% battery (or so it seems).

Oliver Salzburg

10:55 AM

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A: Can a huge coiled LAN cable have some trouble for transmitting a signal?

I have done extensive testing at work with various cable and the answer is... possibly, but unlikely. It really depends how tight the coil is - with Cat 6, the chances are high that you could cause problems with even a slight bend, but, with cat5e, you could tie it in knots and I doubt there wou...

Nice :D

Bob

Nice to see you have 100m of Cat 5e just lying around to abuse, @WilliamHilsum :P

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob He works for an ISP to my understanding

This is somewhat sad: webapps.stackexchange.com/election?cb=1

Such little participation

Oh, I see now that only 1 position is available

So @Sathya can add another diamond to his gem collection :D

tombull89

@OliverSalzburg Evan Carroll is running for mod. snerk.

Bob

@tombull89 Isn't he always?

Oliver Salzburg

@tombull89 I was a bit confused by the low rep, but webapps also has shockingly low rep all over

tombull89

11:06 AM

@Bob Don't know, that's the first time I've seen him run.

@OliverSalzburg I guess it's a low-traffic site compared to the otheres. Must be high enough to warrant a new mod though.

Oliver Salzburg

28k visits/day

wow English Language and Usage has a perfect 100% answered score?

Sathya

@tombull89 lot many hit-n-run, very few votes

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Q: Full Control Over CD/DVD burning

Suppose I want to burn just the 6000th byte(if thats not possible say the 10th sector) on a CDR without touching anyother region. Sounds possible but is there any tool to accomplish this. Yeah sure, there may be no clear point doing this but is this possible technically?. (Doesnt matter maintai...

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Q: Reading Data from the Entire Surface of a CD, DVD

Is it possible to retrieve data from the entire surface of a compact disc. Suppose a CD written with 300MB of data where the remaining 400MB is blank. Normally, computer doesn't bother with the 400MB region when reading it because the filesystem ends at 300MB. But, is it possible to make the ...

compact-disc

wonder what's the next question he's going to ask

@OliverSalzburg :-D

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya Humm, we had a question like that once

About being able to "draw" images on the data side of a CD

And there was some OSS for it IIRC

Can't find it :(

Sathya

oh

Oliver Salzburg

I bet it was deleted and I'm searching myself crazy

HackToHell

11:21 AM

@hacktohell Unlike SE chat, it isn't mostly my fault when that happens.

Tweeted by JourneymanGeek on September 16, 2012 at 10:05 AM in reply to hacktohell

tombull89

@OliverSalzburg Not thinking of LightScribe, are you?

or actually on the data side?

Oliver Salzburg

@tombull89 No, but that obviously came up in the discussion :D

It was about the data side

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Q: How to "paint" the data layer of a CD using a CD drive?

I am looking for software to "paint" geometric shapes, dots or lines on the data layer of a writable CD (or DVD) using a standard drive. These do not have to be visible to the naked eye; I'd try to abuse the small dot size on the CD for some scientific measurements. Most of the software availabl...

compact-disc

But thanks for mentioning lightscribe, adding that to my google search made it turn right up :D

Sathya

hehe

HackToHell

@Bob it's 2.8 mb, the file I downloaded is 700 mb, recuva cannot find it :'(

Oliver Salzburg

But no reference to the software I was thinking about :\

Bob

11:24 AM

D:

My Black Mesa archive download won't resume :\

Well, that's 1.5GB down the drain :P

Bleh. Sites that don't support resuming... :(

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Use the torrent

Still has almost 20k seeds :P

HackToHell

@Bob And simply paste it over the torrent

Oliver Salzburg

@HackToHell Smart

HackToHell

I wonder where chkdsk pushed my file to

Bob

@OliverSalzburg I try to avoid torrents, it kills my router..

Oliver Salzburg

11:29 AM

@Bob Oh :(

HackToHell

@Bob 0_o how ?

Bob

@HackToHell Cheap router; too many connections.

Even if I limit the number of connections, the simple act of searching for seeders can do it.

HackToHell

@Bob my 110 Mhz router does that,if I limit UBR to 1000 ,it works :)

or I bridge my connection and dial from windows

Bob

110 Mhz? UBR?

I'm talking about a wired LAN router connected to an ADSL (2+) modem :P

Oliver Salzburg

My router has 680MHz! Hah! :D

HackToHell

11:32 AM

@Bob I am too talking about that :P

@OliverSalzburg is it 20$ :P :P

Oliver Salzburg

@HackToHell Was more like 120€ actually

netgear.com/home/products/wirelessrouters/high-performance/…

HackToHell

I was actually implying something else, but nvm

Bob

That's the modem side.

I'm having more issues with the router side :P

HackToHell

lol

I confused them xD

Journeyman Geek

11:46 AM

oh blah

thinks he broke his test vm

oh, its just being slow

HackToHell

is really pissed off with chkdsk

tombull89

12:01 PM

Yeah torrents kill my router too :(

slhck

Oh dear…

He even sent his CV

And I'm not even a professor yet :P

tombull89

Integrated Dual Degree In Electronics and Communication Engiineering with Master of Technology in Wireless Communication.

Bit of a mouthfull.

Journeyman Geek

has never heard of that specific branch of IIT

some of them tend to be REALLY good tho

Blah, my hungarian friend needs to get online so i can horrify him

Sathya

@slhck oh dear :/

@JourneymanGeek I lol'd at CGPA of 7.7 till IIIrd sem. That's like I have 100% record in Kindergarten

slhck

@Sathya I wonder if I could get him to do home assignments for me as an application test

Journeyman Geek

12:12 PM

@slhck: that is what interns are for, yes? ;p

tombull89

@slhck haha! sounds like a good idea

slhck

A friend of mine did that once with one of these applicants. Made him program a Java RSS reader. Not bad work, I have to say :P

Sathya

@slhck lolol

:p

tombull89

@slhck and then said what after? "sorry it's not good enough?"

slhck

@tombull89 I believe so, lol

Journeyman Geek

12:14 PM

ooh

I NEED AN INTERN! That way i don't need to learn to code ;p

Oliver Salzburg

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Q: what is the meaning of www2

Possible Duplicate: What does wwws mean? Today I got one link from my friend that starts with www2.zzzzzzzz.co something like that what is difference between www1, www2 and www3 in url

internet url

I bet @RedGrittyBrick was like "Hey, I wrote something like this before, didn't I..."

tombull89

Poor bloke could have give up and jumped off a cliff :P

Journeyman Geek

hmm

slhck

Or he could've made the software shareware and hosted it on free-rss-reader.blogspot.co.in

scnr

Journeyman Geek

lol

then posted it everytime someone asks about it

slhck

12:17 PM

:D

Bob

@slhck I was half expecting that to be an actual site.

Journeyman Geek

1:56 PM

looks like I need to update the wiki

needs to work out how to send a jabber message on login on windows next ;p

and, half the answer is on SU ;p

William Hilsum

2:15 PM

@Bob hehe and @OliverSalzburg yep... We have so much lying around! I actually bought 6x 305 meter boxes just for this testing! Glad I could post a picture rather than just saying the result!

Journeyman Geek

o0

thats dedication for an answer ;p

r.tanner.f

2:37 PM

@WilliamHilsum Wow. That's freaking awesome.

Oliver Salzburg

Wow

I just tried to make a screenshot, as always, with Greenshot

Sadly, I still had Picasa open, which registers the same global hotkey

What a mess that caused...

One of the two tools suspended the process of which I was trying to capture a window. Which caused excessive lock ups throughout the system

I had to switch to another user session to resume the process and revive my shell :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

William Hilsum

@r.tanner.f I felt bad how much went in the bin! But... there were a lot of holes in it!

Oliver Salzburg

Interesting tool though :D

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A: How can I minimize Visual Studio 2010 to the system tray to save taskbar real estate?

You can use Tray It! to achieve this. Run Tray It! and start Visual Studio. Select the Visual Studio process and click the Place in System Tray! button. Visual Studio is now moved to the notification area: Please note that Visual Studio will now always minimize to the notification area un...

And if he had asked the question about the actual problem he's having, it would have been even more useful :P

Maybe I should just make a "How can I minimize any application to the notification area" question and close all others as dupes

Tom Wijsman

2:54 PM

The solution is to not use a task bar. :D

Oliver Salzburg

I'm trying to come up with a scenario where I have Visual Studio running, but it's not important enough to have it on the taskbar, but it's still too important to close it.

I assume they have an application, but it only runs in Debug mode, so they just run it through VS all the time :D

avirk

hello guys!

@WilliamHilsum I overcome that problem and it was very weird one.

@OliverSalzburg you mean you want it to on taskbar after close?

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk No, I'm trying to understand why kind of a weird setup that user is running.

avirk

3:12 PM

0

Q: How can I minimize Visual Studio 2010 to the system tray to save taskbar real estate?

I was wondering if there was a way to run Visual Studio 2010 in system tray? Does anyone know if that's possible?

visual-studio-2010 notification-area

@OliverSalzburg that one?

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk Yes

avirk

@OliverSalzburg your answer seems to be good and should be acceptable

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk My point was, if you have Visual Studio running, but it's not important enough to have a button on the taskbar, maybe it shouldn't be running in the first place.

It usually sucks between 1-2GB of memory on my desktop, there really is no point in having it running if you're not using it :D

avirk

@OliverSalzburg yeah that is the right point :D

From last week my days are not going too good for mr :(

Oliver Salzburg

@avirk No good questions?

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