Root Access

Bob

12:03 PM

o.O: thedailywtf.com/Articles/Human-Heat-Sink.aspx

It hit (and exceeded) 110 degrees C without a thermal trip?!

@TomWijsman uhh... non sequitur?

Tom Wijsman

@Bob Can't tell until you replicate it or he reports it and it gets fixed.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob old AMD?

youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Sw9-aP__lJA&feature=endscreen

obligatory ;p

Oliver Salzburg

12:30 PM

@Paul Serial downvoting. Seems like it was already reversed :)

Journeyman Geek

hm, looks like I missed that

@Paul: -2 is invariably manual

generally system things are more

HackToHell

@allquixotic nikki the airhead ? :P

Bob

@JourneymanGeek There was a great video of a Pentium 4 exploding

but it was on Google Videos, and it's gone now :(

user88311

12:46 PM

I came in at the right time

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?p=3219040

it's wicked sick

Journeyman Geek

yeah, it is

and almost obsessively neat

Paul

1:16 PM

@OliverSalzburg Yeah, thanks it was. I wandered what would cause someone to do that

Journeyman Geek

@Paul: I wish I knew ;p

Hennes

Or old Intel. (p2 era)

I had a nice part of celerons in a Asus dual socket board. I tested a few things, set the FSB to 83MHz instead of 66MHz and then forgot I did that.

Ariane

'Mowning!

Paul

Hmm. What do about this - came up as a first answer. The answerer is saying his own software is the answer, so spammy, but then it does answer the question: superuser.com/users/196939/dennis-cafiero

Hennes

As a result they ran at 5.5 * 83Mhz (456MHz, a 25% overclock). I put that server in the attic (room temp 35C) and ran dnet on it for 3 months

When I took it down for cleaning the thermal paste had become a cake

Paul

1:25 PM

And the question wasn't a software request

Ariane

@Paul If it's apparent that this was an ad, I think it should be closed.

Paul

@Ariane It was an answer

Ariane

@Paul Sorry, misunderstood. I thought the answerer was the asker.

Well, I don't think it's wrong, then. A bit like "I coded you up a solution", so.

Paul

@Ariane It looks like the answerer signed up specifically to give this answer

Ariane

I understand this, but I don't think that's a reason to make it a bad behaviour. "Oh, but I have a solution for this, and it would do promo for my new software! Great opportunity!" Sounds okay to me.

Paul

1:31 PM

@Ariane Yeah - I didn't automatically think it was bad behaviour, hence the question. It is late here, so I'll leave it.

Ariane

Well, perhaps someone else's opinion would be good, because I don't trust myself to really know what's wrong and right on SU.

Hennes

Re investments: I think I need to stock up on this. bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21392257

Ariane

Lol, not so sure. :p

Today I'm in a suspiciously good mood with no reason to be.

Journeyman Geek

1:56 PM

@Paul: comment pointing at the FAQ too

also, flag

Hennes

2:36 PM

I love editing descriptions like this: "Fixed capitalisation. Removed sign of a diseased mind (double explamation marks)"

I hate 111!!111!1elentyone!111???!!'s

Ariane

Lol.

About the editing system, I wonder why there's a character limit. I mean, even if it's just one character you're changing, it can make a huge difference. Like Mb/s -> MB/s.

Journeyman Geek

@Ariane: only for low rep users

I've on occation asked folks to do minor valid edits on other sites cause one charecter fixes just HAD to be made

Ariane

Why is there even a limit on low rep users? There's already a limit on edits altogether. ^^'

Journeyman Geek

beats me ;p

I can do one char edits here now ;p

Ariane

Heh.

Oliver Salzburg

2:49 PM

@Ariane Low-rep users shouldn't "get the idea" that it's fine to do single-character edits

While there are legitimate reasons to do a single character change, it's rare

And it might be best left to those that have earned a certain amount of trust in the community (through reputation gain)

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: I tend to think outside organised and carefully planned edits, editing stuff off the main page usually ends in trouble

Ariane

But the limit is super low. There are as many pointless 15-character edits as 1-character ones. Besides, I think if you don't trust people to do small edits, you shouldn't trust them to do edits at all.

Oliver Salzburg

@Ariane How often do you review suggested edits?

Journeyman Geek

@Ariane: two options - either get up to the right amount of rep to be able to do it, or ask someone to do it for you ;p

Oliver Salzburg

While I would normally agree with your point, you also have to take into account how people are editing right now

Ariane

2:52 PM

I can't review suggested edits yet. I can edit but not check others' edits.

Oliver Salzburg

@Ariane Oh, I see. Well, that makes it harder to get a good impression about the status quo

Ariane

Strange how English has half-translated the expression statu quo when it's usually so into latin expressions.

Oliver Salzburg

@Ariane What?

Journeyman Geek

status was latin

Oliver Salzburg

"status" is a term both in Latin and English

Journeyman Geek

2:56 PM

english probably stole it from the goths

(after kicking the goolies out of them)

Ariane

Really? Then I really have to look up who had the weird idea of making "statu" for the expression used in French, when we have "statut" for that, pronounced the same way.

Oliver Salzburg

words ending in "-us" are often Latin, as it's the normal masculine form IIRC

But then again, almost everything is rooted somewhere in Latin :P

Ariane

I know, but I saw the weird "statu" and figured it was the latin word.

Status quo

Status quo is a Latin term meaning the current or existing state of affairs. It is a commonly used form of the original Latin "statu quo" – literally "the state in which". To maintain the status quo is to keep the things the way they presently are. The related phrase status quo ante, literally "the state in which before", means "the state of affairs that existed previously". The opposite of status quo is Anti-status quo - literally "refusing to compromise with the status quo." This relatively new term was popularized by Pakistani politician Imran Khan. Political usage The original phras...

I was actually right.

Oliver Salzburg

Now I'm confused.

So while "status" is the correct Latin term, in the phrase it's supposed to be "statu" for grammatical reasons?

Ariane

I guess so. Maybe in this contects it's statu for some reason.

Latin words all have a ton of different forms after all

Oliver Salzburg

3:07 PM

It's been quite a few years since I received my Latin education ;D

Ariane

You received a Latin education? They still do that nowadays?

Oliver Salzburg

@Ariane Well, not in every school

Only in those leading to even higher education ;D

Which I never completed obviously

Ariane

So they teach near-useless things to rich kids? Okay.

Oliver Salzburg

@Ariane Money really doesn't have anything to do with it

But Latin is still being used in the real world

Like in medicine, biology or sciences in general

Hennes

@Ariane Aye, like philosophy ;-)

Oliver Salzburg

3:11 PM

So, you could say it has its uses

Hennes

Though I might have anegative idea of that because both ethic & philosophy and economics lessons came down to "answer what the teacher wants to hear", rather than think about it and give a correct answer.

Ariane

Advanced philosophy where you study ancient untranslated texts is the only use I see. In medicine, how and why would they use Latin? Besides, no matter how useful Latin can possibly be, I can't see it matching Spanish, French or Mandarin. ^^'

Ah, and priests. Priests might need that, perhaps.

Oliver Salzburg

How old are you? 13?

Jesus christ...

I'm gonna go do something else :D

user88311

Notre Diem

Ariane

I'm 21. But what's wrong? It's just that I really don't see a use for Latin. oo'

Journeyman Geek

3:18 PM

actually I agree with her to an extent

latin is really a historical relic

and in both medicine and the life sciences the names of many things, animal, vegitable or components thereof are named in latin

Ariane

Right? Unless you're studying historical relics, you shouldn't ever need it. And even if you were to actually need it, you'd be needing another living language much more often.

Yeah, well, you don't need to understand the language for that eh

Journeyman Geek

but it helps ;p

but then again, I don't speak any archaic languages, greek, latin, sanskrit, lisp...

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Ariane

Heh.

I wish we all had latin as a mother language. It's so complicated, learning anything else would appear easy. I think English speakers are unlucky for that. They get one of the simplest languages, so learning any other is made harder. :/

Journeyman Geek

lol

thank god no

I like my mother language ;p

I'm not a native english speaker after all

Ariane

What's yours?

Journeyman Geek

3:26 PM

Tamil

Tamil language

{{Infobox language |name = Tamil |nativename = தமிழ் ' |pronunciation = |states = India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Réunion, Mauritius |speakers = 70 million |date = 2007 |ref = |speakers2 = 8 million as a second language |familycolor = Dravidian |fam2 = Southern |fam3 = Tamil–Kannada |fam4 = Tamil–Kudagu |fam5 = Tamil–Malayalam |fam6 = Tamil languages |script = Tamil alphabet (Brahmic)Tamil Braille |nation = n states: Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, , and .{{Citation|url=http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/DisplayContent.pl?DOCID=1999-REVED-CONST&VID=931158661-00360...

Ariane

Eeeeh. An Asian language with yet another script. There are many, eh.

This one has a slight Arabic feel to it though with its rounded symbols.

Hennes

Ariane: loop up Russian language. Historical fun.

Greeks moving north, teaching written language. But using a large part oo the western (roman) alfabet

Mix and merge. Shake well. Welcome to Russian

lol

Mix with what?

Mix greek and roman

3:34 PM

I'm fairly certain it was designed by a italian

Hennes

Ariane

Wait, isn't Roman alphabet just an "evolution" of the Greek one? How can you mix an old and a new version of something and come up with something very different?

Hennes

Languages grow apart over time

Ariane

Hmmmmh. Russian is complicated.

Hennes

Aye. Tried 4 lessons in it. Just enough to get a taste of the language and to realise that I will never properly learn it

 #include "stdafx.h"
    #include <Windows.h>
    #include <WinBase.h>

    int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
    {
            char testdata[1024];
            char name[] = "TestVarXX";
            BOOL result;
            HANDLE handle = NULL;
            TOKEN_PRIVILEGES tp;

            ZeroMemory(&tp, sizeof(tp));

            if (!OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess(), TOKEN_QUERY | TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES, &handle))
                    printf("Failed to open process\n");

            if (!LookupPrivilegeValue(NULL, SE_SYSTEM_ENVIRONMENT_NAME, &tp.Privileges[0].Luid))

FUn thing of you have an Acer. Do not compile and run.

Or you have anew brick

I guess it is not really possible to code ransomware

Ariane

3:40 PM

Is there a way to force a game that doesn't have a windowed mode to be in a window?

(I'm not sure I understand hwat you're talking about.)

Hennes

re game: not that I know off, unless you run it in a VM and let it go 'full screen' in the VM window. Which will work for most 2D games, but fails for most 3D ones

Ariane

Yeah, okay. :/

Hennes

re code: Acer released a few laptops with a dangerous BIOS/EUFI. Call it the wrong way and the laptop gets bricked (made useless)

Ariane

I guess that's what you get when a company designs a game for a console and doesn't put enough thought into the PC port.

Oh, that's... Great. :p

Hennes

3:55 PM

Oh, fun:

CPU Intel Pentium i200 - 0.20 GHz,

First time ever I see the 200MHz (p54/p55 chip) written as 0.20GHz

Ariane

Lol, bad marketing or good marketing, I wonder.

Hennes

I am not sure who would still use them.

And bad marketing. Thay added 16KB cache, but not that it was the P200MMX

Which needs different voltages than the P200

I used those chips... way back with linux 1.2 and win95

Ariane

Hehe.

Hennes

On the up side. If you run win95 on an upgraded 486 with SCSI drives, a P1-200 (original: 486-33MHz) and 128MB memory (the original install had 4MB) then it is blazingly fast

It had no recognised harddrives, but you could access and use c:

Not sure how windows reconciled that.

@HackToHell Oh. Opera turbo ~~mutilates~~ compresses the images? Good to know.

Oliver Salzburg

4:23 PM

I want this now! :( ultraeverdrystore.com

stackstatus.net

Hennes

6:29 PM

Do you want that now or do you want that soon™ ?

Sathya

:P

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