Root Access

allquixotic

3:00 PM

ahhh

thanks if that was you ;)

slhck

Me? *whistles*

allquixotic

i'm loathe to post a new answer until i get to 8888 because someone will be like "ACCEPT!" (and probably upvote too) throwing me past 8888 and making me have to downvote answers

i'm just going to capture flair of my 8888 once i get it haha

i like repeating numbers, isn't that sad?!

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic You better be quick ;P

slhck

… or just $(".reputation").first(…) and a little bit of .html() fun.

allquixotic

Got it! :D

Hennes

3:03 PM

Evil thought: quicly upvote two of slhck's answers

Tanner

haha nice

allquixotic

added my 8888 to my profile. it's like keeping a history of my conquests :D

time to answer some more questions =P

actually i'll wait until lunch then do it

thanks Oli :P

slhck

@Hennes Huh?

Why would that be evil? :P

allquixotic

@Hennes obviously @slhck loves the rep :D

Hennes

So he did not get the 8888 number

allquixotic

3:06 PM

@Hennes it's me, not @slhck who needed to capture 8888 haha

slhck

shh :P

Hennes

Evil thought: quicly upvote two of slhck's answers

allquixotic

i already did it, so i'm fine with gaining more rep now. i need 1112 rep to 10k mod tools

going to earn it the old fashioned way

Hennes

If we downvote you it is 1111 rep. Also a nice round number

allquixotic

um no

slhck

3:08 PM

@Hennes A downvote is -2 though.

allquixotic

if you downvote me it's 1113 rep

1114 actually

Hennes

AH.

My mistake. I do not pay all that much attention to the rep score. Though now I finally know how I got some of the -2's

allquixotic

i don't ask questions (much) so you'd have to downvote an answer. that's easy to find though.

Hennes

I used to search until I found two answers where someone disagreed with me

Journeyman Geek

lol

Hennes

3:09 PM

Hmm, questions.

I asked one question so far on SE

I guess that is below average

allquixotic

i ask a fair bit of questions on other sites than SU, since most of the other sites contain experts that know a lot more about something than I do

Journeyman Geek

I've asked 84 on SU alone ;p

allquixotic

SU really is the only niche where I truly fit and can answer tons of questions. I'm okay on some SO questions and some SF questions (answering them) but by and large I'm an asker, or worse, a help vampire, on non-SU sites

Journeyman Geek

and I do seem to believe superuser.com/questions/125951/… is my first question

allquixotic

LOL closed by tom

Journeyman Geek

3:11 PM

apparently not o0

superuser.com/questions/38076/… was my first ;p

Hennes

/me peers at e:/software/ My solution to that thing

Journeyman Geek

wierdly the one I linked is the first I remember

yeah

but in this case I was thinking of it for new installs

and occationally forgetting rarely used applications

Hennes

My E: drive is not shared with my OS drive

So a reinstall will not wipe it. It contains folders with software, and the URL to where I downloaded it so I can check for a newer version

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/questions/36825/… first answer

slhck

> Why do power hungry idiots go around reporting new users like myself from asking questions which are irrelevant?

Ah, MSO.

Journeyman Geek

3:14 PM

@Hennes: more like "I need to extract exif data from photos, and somehow have it dumped to text" kinda problems

I was having trouble remembering something PARTICULARLY obscure that day

Hennes

function moveImages {
        for img in `find ${SOURCE} -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.jpg"`; do
                echo "Found Image: ${img}"
                subDEST=`identify -verbose ${img} | awk '/exif:DateTimeOriginal:/ {print $2}' | sed 's_:_/_g'`
                if [ ! -d ${DEST}${subDEST} ]; then
                        echo "The destination does not exist... making directory ${DEST}${subDEST}"
                        mkdir -p ${DEST}${subDEST}
                fi
                echo "Moving ${img} to ${DEST}${subDEST}"

That one is useful

Journeyman Geek

lol

that's an example ;p

slhck

for img in `find

NOOOOOOOO

Don't do that.

Journeyman Geek

lol

I'd rather use exiftool

then process the output however appropriate

Hennes

I just copied the script. I did not write it

Also, it starts with #!/bin/bash` which would fail on my server. I need /usr/local/bin/bash

slhck

3:16 PM

@Hennes Or /usr/bin/env bash ;)

Hennes

And If I wrote it it would have shabang /usr/bin/env bash

yes

I edited quite a lot of answers where I improved spelling and on-passant changed that part after the shebang

Journeyman Geek

lol

slhck

Oh my. superuser.com/search?q=%22for+f+in+%60ls%22

allquixotic

speaking of shell scripts, I found a file on a server once whose file name was ASCII art when you viewed it in ls -la on an 80 character terminal... it was a GNU constructed out of newlines and periods

ruda.almeida

@slhck What, I can be banned for asking too many downvoted questions?

Hennes

3:18 PM

An exit has been made to this file

slhck

@ruda.almeida Yeah. It happens more often on SO than it does here, but it happens.

allquixotic

0

A: SD card mounted as bootable image instead of FAT 32

Generally cameras tend to store photos in a folder called DCIM. See if its there, and the photos are in a subfolder of it.

upvoted :D poor little answer with a sad -1

slhck

You can also be banned from answering, of course.

ruda.almeida

@slhck Then it's a huge incentive to not asking any questions at all, as it seems everything I ask on SO gets downvoted.

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: how?

slhck

3:20 PM

@ruda.almeida Well. Don't get me wrong, but wouldn't the alternative be to ask… better questions?

@JourneymanGeek Having too many deleted answers, or downvoted answers.

Journeyman Geek

ahh

NOT too likely to happen to me ;p

allquixotic

SO's culture is ruthless towards questions, especially ones showing people either trying to do inadvisable things (even if the core of the question is valid), or ones showing less programming skill than the typical elite programmer

Hennes

This was my first question:

4

Q: Mixing SATA and SAS drives on same controller

I have a desktop at home with both SAS and SATA ports. (The SAS ports are supplied by a 3ware 9750 card). Currently I have 5 SATA drives connected to these. One small SSD to boot from and four larger drives to hold data. I now want to add a SAS drive. As far as I know this should just work. Howe...

slhck

@ruda.almeida You received two downvotes on SO, so I'd say you're fine.

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: one reason I hang out on chat ;p

allquixotic

3:21 PM

fortunately we haven't picked up the ruthlessness of SO as much over here

compared to SF or SO, SU is nice

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: quite a lot of coders .. kinda have a big ego

slhck

@allquixotic Wouldn't say so. You can ask a good question even as a beginner.

Journeyman Geek

SF has no patience for anyone who isn't a sysadmin type

slhck

It's just a matter of showing what you've tried.

Journeyman Geek

but if you are, they're ok

allquixotic

3:23 PM

@slhck true, but... okay, you're right

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: in general, Q&A comes after helping yourself? ;p

allquixotic

on SO I have asked 6 questions and the votes on the questions are 3, 2, 2, 1, 0, 0... so not great questions but people didn't pounce and downvote/close/ban for them

Journeyman Geek

I think the only rep I have on SO was a migrated edit ;p

ruda.almeida

@allquixotic Couldn't have put it in better words. I fall in the second case, as I'm quite a beginner when it comes to development.

Hennes

Heh, that is how I got on So and AU

slhck

3:24 PM

Thing is: I'd be too ashamed of getting a question closed or downvoted than not to spend the extra 5 minutes researching.

allquixotic

Raymond Chen from Microsoft commented on my question

I found that supremely awesome

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

but my question isn't getting any more votes (even though it does seem like a really good question based on the comments from veteran users) because I accepted an answer, so it doesn't show up on the front page

Journeyman Geek

like my case question ;p

more so when it turned out it was a standard mini atx case

slhck

-2

Q: Anyone here very good at hacking, and know a lot about security?

So i got my site nearly ready, although i am scared about its security, does anyone genuinely know how to attack a website? I want to know if anyone here is proper. If you do not think you are, please don't say you are. Anyway, sorry to sound blunt. So if a person does claim they have a good amo...

hacking

allquixotic

3:27 PM

So, I'm actually going to ask another SO question, and post all my source code. Where is the socially acceptable place to pastebin the code? It's a lot, so I don't know if it makes sense to put it in the question itself?

ruda.almeida

@allquixotic Either pastebin.com or gist.github.com. It appears that gist is a bit more preferred on SO.

allquixotic

the source of one file is 6 KB and I have 3 files

slhck

If you have to put in so much code in your question then be warned that the question might be closed because people won't care to look at it.

allquixotic

oh cool, gist works

@slhck I might be able to trim it down slightly, but it's Win32 API, so the code is extremely verbose. and the question isn't "why doesn't this work", just so you know

slhck

@allquixotic Then I guess you're fine ;) Having the code for completeness never hurts.

allquixotic

3:30 PM

I have a few cartel-coded #if 0 statements that I could remove from the gist to reduce the length of the code

(experiments I tried that didn't work but I keep them around in an #if 0 block in case I need to refer back to them)

slhck

I don't know if anyone posted this already, but…

what is it?

Ah, nvm

Second one's better.

@slhck I was watching the news on TV just 5 min ago about it. Jaw-dropping.

The fire trail in the sky reminds me somewhat of Back To The Future

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck Damn...

I saw something like that earlier and thought it was DA14

allquixotic

3:37 PM

@OliverSalzburg if DA14 had impacted, or even entered the atmosphere, millions would die

it wouldn't eliminate all of humanity but it'd be Hiroshima and Nagasaki scale disaster

slhck

Which reminds me of:

►

> Oceans don't like having holes in them.

allquixotic

is there an equivalent of xev for windows?

Journeyman Geek

2

Q: Equivalent for xev on windows

While futzing around with the reverse engineering the blackwidow, i came across xev - a piece of software that intercepts and prints to screen any mouse and keyboard keypress. Ive had a few situations where this would be useful in windows - is there any software that has the same functionality in...

windows keyboard

apparently not ;p

allquixotic

going to try Spy++

Journeyman Geek

post that as an answer if it does well enough ;p

the BW question is worth a read too

Oliver Salzburg

3:48 PM

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, Spy++ should work. rohitab.com/apimonitor if you need to "go deeper"

allquixotic

9

Q: How to avoid Outlook security alert when reading outlook message from C# program

I have a requirement of reading subject, sender address and message body of new message in my Outlook inbox from a C# program. But I am getting security alert 'A Program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this'. By some googling I found few thir...

c# outlook

this is simply unacceptable... "buy a $299 product" is not how I roll, especially not at work

trying to rouse up $299 for a procurement would take... oh, I don't know, about 6 years

OMG

I can't believe this

I spent 12 hours yesterday coding up hundreds of lines of Win32/C++ trying to get around the outlook security warning, only to find that FIVE LINES of VBScript code do the job perfectly

F. M. L.

no need to inject code into explorer.exe, no need to send a window message or... or................ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Well, VBScript is awesome

Hennes

Do I understand this question correctly. How to share a printer on server 2012 as a DOS printer?

superuser.com/review/close/83589

Oliver Salzburg

4:04 PM

@Hennes I faintly remember setting up an LPR connection to set up our print server on Windows 8

Hennes

I remember remapping lpr: to a printer on server 2003, but yuk. Scan and print DOS style in 2012. Drop that. It should have died a decade ago. About the time we moved away from DOS

Oliver Salzburg

download.level1.com/level1/faq/…

That's the document Level1 sent me when I asked them how to connect the damned thing :D

I would assume he's trying to get something like that going, for whatever reason

allquixotic

0

Q: How to avoid Outlook Security Alert when sending Outlook message from VBScript?

I have this situation: Code must be in VBScript (outside of my control) Unable to disable programmatic access restrictions in Outlook preferences (group policy, not admin, and Windows doesn't recognize the valid virus scanner which is installed) Can't use SMTP because it is disallowed. I thou...

vbscript outlook security-warning

for posterity's sake. sheesh.

/me closes Visual Studio in a huff

hey, I just had a weird thought

Tanner

4:20 PM

?

allquixotic

does SE work with Google to push higher voted questions and answers to the top of search relative to low voted questions and answers?

ruda.almeida

@allquixotic Ask it on meta!

Tanner

Dooooo it.

I wonder if Google checks the votes?

allquixotic

like if you had 4 or 5 questions with highly variable votage (a -1 closed, a +20, and a +3) would the -1 be first on google just because its question string is a closer match to the search?

ruda.almeida

I guess there are SEO techniques that SE could implement to position higher on Google the most voted answers... Maybe they're already doing it?

allquixotic

4:23 PM

I looked for "google" on meta.SO and found a link to Google Baraza O_O what the heck

google.com/baraza/en

Baraza is like the entire SE network in one page.... the top questions on Baraza are "How important are SMBs?", "Do ginger and lemon juice help you lose weight", and "When can erythroblastosis fetalis not possibly happen in the child of an Rh negative mother?".... couldn't possibly be more unrelated

Tanner

You got yourself a nice little chunk of SO rep from that self answer

ruda.almeida

@allquixotic I see no option on how to order the questions there.

allquixotic

@Tanner lol yeah =D

just wanting to help random VBScript code monkeys googling "how do i get rid of this stupid security warning"

maybe even my boss will see that in google search after a while, lol

that'd be great

bwahahahahaha I figured out that checking "Run with highest privileges" makes this VBScript (from my SO question) work in Task Scheduler :D

Tanner

@allquixotic Nice.

Anyone have an external hard drive enclosure they like?

allquixotic

8

Q: Do trilogy site votes influence external search engine results?

I was wondering if, when I say search using Google, the results I see that point to StackOverflow trilogy sites are influenced in any way by the votes we make. I don't know much about these sorts of things so it may well be a completely obvious answer to everyone else. I understand that back link...

discussion voting search

already asked, so I don't have to ask it again

Tanner

4:47 PM

Hmmm... the new OptiPlex 7010s that came in have USB 3.0...

Pretty sure I'm shipping out my 790 soon. ¬_¬

Hennes

Did they finally fix the Optiplexes BIOS so that you can use a PCIe card without loosing video

(Non graphics PCIe card)

Tanner

Haven't tried it.

allquixotic

@Tanner the medium model, eh?

Tanner

SFF

Hennes

I tested a PCIe RAID card in an optiplex 745 (or was it 755, not sure). The BIOS went "hey, a card in my PCIe x16 slot. Lets just guess it is a graphical card and lets turn the internal graphics off"

Tanner

4:53 PM

Awesome!

Wouldn't surprise me if it still did that.

Hennes

Sadly that is not just Dell specific. Too many desktops get tested that way. Which is why I prefer workstation or server grade hardware for desktop usage

Now if Tyan only made affordable hardware.

allquixotic

@Hennes or ASUS -- it works fine on my custom build ASUS

it's custom build (assembled parts) but ASUS mobo

Adaptec 6405E works fine in an x16 slot running in x4 mode with a PCIe 3.0 x16 Radeon HD7970

Hennes

Aye. Asus used to be good. I have not used them in a while since they seem to have moved to 'We are damn good' to 'We are decent and high performance'

While Tyan is usually a few % slower on benchmarks (Last comparison I did 7% slower), but rock stable

allquixotic

@Hennes I've noticed the opposite, that Asus quality has improved in the past few years

hated my P6T Deluxe mobo but my P8Z77-V is really nice

just wishing i got a i7-3770 instead of i7-3770k

no VT-d/iommu :/

Hennes

My last Asus boards where two P2-D's (intel 440BX chipset, dual slot 1 CPUs) and a el-cheapy P5 board with an Nvidia chipset. I barely used that chipset, moved stuff got moved to an intel dual copper GB card and a IBM PCI RAID card).

Nivdia drivers Drivers for BSD were Sh*t

Also, Asus shipped an USB card because the onboard USB was broken.

allquixotic

5:01 PM

lol

broken by design?

Hennes

5:12 PM

I gue4ss so. Known problem with the motherboard version 1.0

So I specified on my order that I wanted motherboard version 1.1 (which was already out)

And then ended up not using it since USB support was still flaky.

Insert pen drive, mount pendrive, unplug drive (without unmounting) --->> PANIC

allquixotic

> OS Protection: An OS may define a domain containing its critical code and data structures, and
restrict access to this domain from all I/O devices in the system. This allows the OS to limit
erroneous or unintended corruption of its data and code through incorrect programming of
devices by device drivers, thereby improving OS robustness and reliability.

So why don't modern OSes (even without a guest) use Intel VT-d to do this? Then if a driver crashes you just get a temporary black screen while the protected core kernel resets the driver.

Hennes

NT 3.5 did that. graphics drivers crash? No problem, we keep up and running. Just remove in

Also, why use VT-D ? Just use modules and memory protection.

And I think windows does that

allquixotic

@Hennes without VT-D hardware support, can a kernel prevent another kernel module from writing all over physical memory in ring 0?

I thought the answer was "no"

Hennes

Do not allow the modules to run in ring 0

Core in ring 0, drivers in ring 1

or even 0/1/2/ (3 user progs)

allquixotic

5:27 PM

at least on Linux and most other monolithic kernels, kernel modules are basically DLLs that run "in-process" in the same ring as the kernel core. maybe Windows doesn't, but I know Linux works that way

and adding a bare metal hypervisor on the bottom like Mach/L4 (Xen) or Hyper-V won't help, because then you just push the kernel core and the drivers "up" by one ring

it's a completely different kernel architecture to run drivers in a different ring than the kernel core, and only microkernel based systems make any attempt to do that

you could keep on using a monolithic kernel architecture like Linux if you used VT-D to protect the core OS code from misbehaving drivers using a domain

Hennes

Mach has its advantages. If it ever gets to a working state

allquixotic

it would allow for sane recovery from NULL pointer dereferences or writing over the bounds of an array in a driver, with zero risk of these behaviors impacting the core kernel

the only possible core kernel upset you could still experience is if the core kernel does something it shouldn't with a parameter passed to a core function, which is actually considered a bug in the core kernel because it should never crash even on "insane" inputs

which means you have to start treating the core kernel interfaces like the server side of an HTTP conversation -- assume the client is evil / compromised

not entirely sure if Linux's internal driver APIs operate under that assumption right now, since there's really no point, since the drivers are (for all intents and purposes) the kernel, due to a lack of memory segmentation

Are there rules against self-promoting your own (proprietary, $$$) software on SO with an answer that basically links to your website?

Dmitry Streblechenko, Arizona

2.9k 1 3 11

outlook mapi c# exchange outlook-redemption outlook-addin c++

the author of Outlook Redemption, which sells for $300 and solves the Object Model Guard problem with a very roundabout solution

posts an answer to my question on SO with NO explanation, just a link to a site advertising his product

Tanner

5:45 PM

Even uses the same icon...

Isn't it supposed to come with a disclaimer? There's also the whole "link only" thing.

Wish I could downvote on SO...

Doubt I'll ever be able to xD haha

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic I guess it's fine if it's really the only solution :P

Tanner

stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A332059+Redemption

50 out of 207 answers involving his product lol

2

Tom Wijsman

6:06 PM

0

Q: .Hacked Computer

How do I get someone off my computer who has used virtual machine and bridging. they have taken total controll of my computer.settings are changed,internet settings are changed.can't get into e mail.change security settings.

windows-7 windows

Hennes

Yipes.
A suggestion to move it to http://security.stackexchange.com/
I predict a reject from them.

Tanner

6:26 PM

amazon.com/gp/product/B003X26VV4/…

Look ok?

Hennes

6:46 PM

Which port multiplier protocol must it support?

Tanner

I probably won't even use that.

Just the USB 3.0

slhck

7:08 PM

Ah. @OliverSalzburg got the joke :P

Oliver Salzburg

:D

I really like this aspect of it:

slhck

You missed the small footer.

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck Oh no, I got that :)

I was hoping to find a photo of a large crowd with "WE WANT CHANGE" signs

No such luck though

slhck

haha

Oliver Salzburg

eyes.nasa.gov

8 minutes left!

Warning! It's highly anti-climactic!

Tanner

7:18 PM

Are we gonna die? o_o

slhck

> Java(TM) needs your permission to run

No thanks.

Oliver Salzburg

No, DA14 will be at its closest point in 6 minutes, then it'll get farther away

Tanner

Despite the Java it's pretty cool.

We should be launching nukes at it or something for target practice. =D This chance doesn't come around often.

allquixotic

what if they miscalculated and it'll hit anyway?

slhck

4 hours ago, by slhck

> Oceans don't like having holes in them.

Oliver Salzburg

7:22 PM

@allquixotic Then I'll try to take control of the asteroid through this Java applet!

Fly it right into the sun!

slhck

lol

allquixotic

@Tanner i have the USB2 version of that. basically it stinks. hope that new one has a better eSATA controller. the one I got requires that the host SATA controller has FIS based port multiplication or you can only use one drive at a time... USB 3 might be easier / more reliable though

Tanner

@Ben talked me out of eSATA and those new OptiPlex boxes have USB 3.0 on 'em so... hopefully.

Was that the only thing that sucked about it?

allquixotic

everyone suck in!!!!!!!!

here it comes! :O

Oliver Salzburg

BAM!

Tanner

7:25 PM

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Oliver Salzburg

allquixotic

it's time!!!!!!!!

Oliver Salzburg

Bye 14!

See you next time

Hopefully I won't be needing Java to see you then ;P

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg you really don't want to see '14 again next time, because it's probably going to be even closer in 2020

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic They just told me it'll be fine.

They said it'll pass by a third time around 2080, then it'll be real close

But they're assuming that that will change until then

Which I found to be an interesting statement coming from a NASA scientist

As if they would just calculate it away

allquixotic

7:38 PM

well it may come under the influence of other gravitic bodies out there (large meteors, moons, comets, etc) which can cause a chain reaction and lead it to impact even when they don't think it will

when predicting flight paths of asteroids, the nearer to the present the prediction, the more accurate

Oliver Salzburg

Makes sense

Oliver Salzburg

7:57 PM

@allquixotic Oh, what, you keep a collection of all the awesome rep numbers in your profile? O__O

I wish I had thought of that

Oh wow PhotoShop source code released!

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg what?! CS6?

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic 1.0.1 actually :D

computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-code

allquixotic

d'oh..

Oliver Salzburg

Thanks for asking btw :P

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg asking what?

DragonLord

8:15 PM

Continuing a discussion from last night about mice.

I've read many reports that the Roccat Kone and Kone[+] mice have scroll wheels that eventually stop working or malfunction due to problems with the scroll wheel encoder mechanism.

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic For asking "which version?"

DragonLord

I've got a feeling that this issue has been addressed with the new Titan Wheel in the Kone XTD and Kone Pure, but should I still be concerned about the scroll wheel?

allquixotic

8:32 PM

@DragonLord no experience with their mice, but this sounds like a meta-problem: either it will or it won't, and unless you buy hundreds of the mice and test their scroll wheels for years, you won't have any idea about how long they'll last. All moving parts eventually fail in all mice, so if it's the difference between 10 years of use and 12, that won't really matter.

DragonLord

@allquixotic: Search Google for "roccat scroll wheel problem".

allquixotic

still, nothing that anyone could tell you would be able to properly (using data to back it up) rebut an assertion like "X eventually stops working or malfunctions", unless testing a very large, statistically significant sample size of devices, which would probably require automation.

DragonLord

@Bob, anything to say on the scroll wheel problem?

allquixotic

8:50 PM

there're no shortage of mice vendors, so there's no reason really to buy them if you have doubts

I have very positive personal experience (long time usage with no issues) on Logitech and Steelseries mice.

DragonLord

@allquixotic: Another nagging question: I always seem to break the middle mouse button because of the pressure exerted on it while I carry the mouse in a backpack or handbag. Is there a better way to carry a mouse without risking damage to the middle mouse button?

Also, are gaming mice more resistant to this sort of failure than ordinary consumer mice?

allquixotic

@DragonLord the "general build quality" of the mouse (which generally correlates to how much money you paid for it, how heavy it is, and the type of material used in its construction) determines more about durability than categories like gaming / professional / casual mice

there are very cheaply made gaming mice and there are very high quality MS Excel mice

awesome first answer:

0

A: Windows Action Center notification icon says Backup in Progress when no backup is occurring

It means maintenance is in progress, see action center, maintenance, then under automatic maintenance. I think that will answer your questons...

@DragonLord one thing you could try is buying a small bowl or large soap dish type container to store your mouse in, that way the container will protect the mouse from crushing pressure, unless the container itself breaks

Hennes

9:10 PM

@Tanner I keep forgetting that USB 3 is no longer something ultra rare and new.

Tanner

Me too, haha

I kind of shrug it off as something that my motherboard probably won't properly support and will be hard to find anyway

But I suppose it's probably matured by now

Hennes

Depend. FIS or command based switching

Some ICH chipsets did those

DragonLord

@Hennes, any comments on gaming mice?

Hennes

Not much. Get a has a mouse which is comfortable and which has no more than 3 buttons

And disables all other displays.

I keep switching to other windows while gaming if I have mouse control

drag mouse left to turn left, drag up to turn up, drag right to enter extended windows and return to the desktop. Whoops.

Oliver Salzburg

9:51 PM

Didn't see this style before

allquixotic

i need a rubber ducky

Tanner

They're handy =D lol

Tom Wijsman

@OliverSalzburg Actually looks better on a black background than a white background.

Oliver Salzburg

@TomWijsman I'm not gonna adjust the look, that's for sure :D

allquixotic

@Tanner you're my rubby ducky!

Tanner

10:03 PM

haha

allquixotic

IE 8 Automation with VBScript (don't ask)...

Tanner

That made my eye twitch.

allquixotic

using standard W3C DOM calls to latch on to things and interacting with them

successfully logged into web application, click a few buttons, all is good

get to a page with 3 frames, and an HTML form with a <select ... (item list) control. Try to GetElementByID on the Document, and it doesn't find it by ID. Doesn't find it by name. Doesn't find any forms in the whole daggone document. WTF

just need to get a reference to that control so i can change its SelectedIndex, then click next

F ME... I wonder if I can iterate through the controls using a For loop and test their Name property for equality with the name i need

THANKS RUBBER DUCKY YOU ARE THE BEST

Tanner

=D

allquixotic

@Tanner don't judge :P

Oliver Salzburg

10:14 PM

Is it new that you can XHR your changes in, on your activity tab?

I need to look around the profile page more often

Tom Wijsman

10:27 PM

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Q: Which linux filesystem works best with SSD

From wiki: The vital TRIM function is supported by the Linux OS starting with 2.6.33 kernel (available early 2010). However, support amongst various filesystems is still inconsistent or not present. Proper partition alignment is also not carried out by installation software. So, which filesyst...

linux filesystems ssd

^ Blog worthy...

Tanner

Ordered that drive bay plus a 1 TB WD Blue drive and an extra stick of 4GB RAM so I can properly utilize my VMWare Workstation. =D Love my BYOD environment.

Oliver Salzburg

Damn... SU is getting responsive styles now and StyleBot doesn't support that

Hennes

10:51 PM

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Hennes

11:18 PM

When you get it, could you test the difference between USB3 and eSATA?
I am curious how much the extra overhead of USB slows it down.

Tanner

Don't have anything with eSATA :(

Was going to be a requirement for my next laptop, but that's what Ben talked me out of.

Tanner

11:31 PM

Wonder if there's a PC around the office that does... I'd like to know myself.

And now Clippy is getting all existential on me.

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Hennes

I made eSATA a requirement for my desktop and my laptop.

Though for my next ones (in a year or two) I might go for thunderbolt instead

Hennes

11:45 PM

First time I reject an edit with "It is complete bollocks."

Tanner

lmao

allquixotic

First time I upvote someone else's answer who has an equal number of upvotes as mine

"competitor. grr. ... oh, yeah, he's right. CRAP."

I so want to spend lots of money on the Steam for Linux store, but I'm actively playing games on the Windows-only side. :/

maybe I'll see what Killing Floor is all about since I never tried that. And Left 4 Dead, and a few others

Oliver Salzburg

Could someone offer some guidance on this little script? gist.github.com/oliversalzburg/4964608

When I run it, it will print a zip command line and execute it.

The latter always results in zip warning: zip file empty

When I then copy and execute the printed command line, it runs fine

The command line would be something like zip -r ignored /var/www/garbage -i 'data' '*.jpg' '*.pdf' '*.png' '*.psd' '*.zip'

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