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OMG CRT SCREEN

@Bob do you only do full backups with nothing in between? that is not incremental or differential, it's just a full backup every week. i.e. copying everything every week.

@JourneymanGeek I'm using one now >.<

@Bob also, What advantage is proper backup software e.g. Acronis, in doing that?

6:14 AM

@HackToHell: I threw out my last one after it started spitting lightning

@JourneymanGeek sick :D

@allquixotic that site where you didn't write a description/warning first, that is superuser at its worst, cutting the links

@barlop: just hover over the link and see the full addie at the bottom?

@JourneymanGeek ah, thanks!

And LOTR is huge ....

6:17 AM

@HackToHell isn't lord of the rings for kids?

...

and animators!

/me feeds @barlop to a Warg

meh, I am not sure kids will read it

@JourneymanGeek i'll just open maya and deal with warg!

6:18 AM

It's bloody huge

well, the book probably isn't for anybody, kid or adult

so I just meant the film

I have been reading for around 5 hours now and I have finsihed just one book :/

oh, that it is

course I've read the 3 'main' books, the hobbit, the silmarillion....

the hobbit!!!

sounds like you're reading off a school reading list

that probably put me off reading for life

If you like boring books, try To kill a mocking bird

it's a small book

Hobbit was nice

So what real books do you read @barlop

And I was tempted to buy Cryptonomicon

6:22 AM

none really. and that's not good I know.

And you are raging at how bad hobbit is

lol

It is bad! It's one of the few that I read bits of.

cyptonomicon was awesome

before I was put off reading for life

6:23 AM

the hobbit was a kid's book

yeah this was early in school days

I liked narnia.. then they gave us the hobbit

I basically ploughed through my school library ;p

And there is not enough killing in LOTR so yeah, I can be classified as a children's book

@JourneymanGeek i have finished every novel in my library :D

lol

And that was 2 years before I finished school

6:24 AM

@HackToHell: Very little graphic killing

mainly cause it was a story of its time

it does get plenty dark

do you enjoy it when a book spends a few paragraphs talking about what the day is like? It was a beautiful day, the clouds were moving vigorously across the sky, the trees blah blah blah.

do you enjoy that?

If you want bloodshed, and bloody complicated politics, a song of fire and ice is great

GoT tv series is awesome, books were bloody costly

lol

yeah

The Hunger Games books are bloody darn awesome

6:25 AM

and huge!

either of you, i'm curious ^^

And pretty much every book of Michael Crichton has been made into a movie

And his books are really awesome

@barlop: sometimes

then again, I read larry correia...

he writes great pulp novels

though, he seems to be a fan of chekov's ~~gun~~ armoury

6:49 AM

Luke

7:39 AM

@Bob a script to zip, then sftp. I am backing up a Windows 2000 data server

8:04 AM

quite the derp

superuser.com/a/591976/4377

interesting.. that internal usb expansion card, it says it gets power directly from the power supply rather than the motherboard.

I wonder how much of a limitation it is to have a pci card get power only from the motherboard

I have a PCI USB card that gets its power only through the motherboard.

9:01 AM

@barlop As I said in the first place, daily incremental and weekly full

even if I were to use it only for plain 'file copy' style backups (it can actually backup 'in use' files, via VSS), it has automatic schedulaing and rolling support

far easier than doing it by hand

10:01 AM

@barlop: usually for PCI, not much, I think you're referring to the nzxt one? Its basically a powered hub, rather than a PCI card

Q: Should StackOverflow run a programmers' matrimonial service to prevent marriage-fraud?

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My question may seem a little odd and long,but my grievance is genuine.And I hope the top-moderators and owners of StackOverflow would consider it.This is related to StackOverflow but not a direct programming-related question.I posted it in Meta but seems like people are not available there to an...

discussion

WHAT IS WRONG WITH US INDIANS!?????!?!?!?!

@Sathya There are a lot of you guys, thus, higher potential for weirdness ;)

@Sathya: Thats... Special....

Capital S, as in Short Bus

this is seriously depressing shit :|

@Sathya wtf

10:04 AM

offlate, every time I come in here to post about some WTFness I spotted. And more often than not, it's.. ta da an Indian involved

This mixed language Office is driving me nuts... It's really great for answering questions on SU, but horrible for writing actual letters :P

@Sathya maybe the problem is india has a lot of stupid customs, but is basically a tolerant place. That is an unusual mix. In the west we have tolerance but no stupid customs. In the islammic world they have intolerance and stupid customs, so there's not much innovation there. Indians are tolerant but haven't thrown off the stupid traditional customs liek arranged marriage or whatever.

@OliverSalzburg It looks like you're writing a letter! Would you like help?

> but is basically a tolerant place

far from it

@Bob Yes, please :P

10:16 AM

@Sathya well, who is it intolerant towards?

@Sathya there was this story in the news years ago, about how tolerant india is. Maybe you missed it, or were too young at the time. orkut.com/…

orkut @_@

lolOrkut

the story was in newspapers.

but it is 11 years old.

it wasn't plastered all over the internet.

I read it 11 years ago, not on that webpage. I just searched for the story now and just found it there. But I read it in print at the time.

@barlop newflash: media is ignorant of ground reality

oh so they made the story up?

10:26 AM

no, there's more than meets the eye

xkcd.com/radiation

o0 why is the star wall full of fights these days ? ;p

@Boris_yo old ;p

A: Do mobile phones have anything to do with brain cancer?

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This study of 420,000 danes found no correlation between mobile phone use and instances of cancer. We found no evidence for an association between tumor risk and cellular telephone use among either short-term or long-term users. Moreover, the narrow confidence intervals provide evidence that ...

@Boris_yo I saw a program showing people that lived in areas of higher natural backgroudn radiation, lived longer

program was called Horizon I think.

like background radiation from rocks

@barlop And it probably destroys cancer cells too.

10:28 AM

hehehehe

grrr cancer cells need concentrated dosagse of rad to be killed

@HackToHell Buy this one:

wtf

Anyway got to run, this is gonna be one hell of a week :(

@Sathya you should at least recognize that compared to Bangladesh and Pakistan, your neighbours, India is an oasis of tolerance

@barlop What do people tolerate there? Heat?

10:31 AM

@Boris_yo freedom of speech

@Boris_yo freedom of religion

They have freedom to tolerate? That's a bad thing?

it's a good thing

that's my point.

@barlop haven't been to either, can't comment

Ye heard about Walmart's supplier factory's workers killed in Bangladesh?

furthermore if there is a national religion in india, it's hinduism, which even at its most extreme, doesn't seek power over the world, only in India, which I think is fair.

10:34 AM

@barlop Catolicism seeks power over the world?

@Boris_yo no or barely. but some forms of islam do.

Alright, now I got a proper letter template. Only took me 4 test prints to get it right \o/

And every religion touts itself as the most righteous of all.

@Boris_yo hinduism doesn't even seek to spread in the world.. hindus just go about their thing quietly.

@Boris_yo ideologies compete, so what.

Hinduism doesn't actually tout itself at all. You never even hear of it

maybe privately they say they're right but so what. they're welcome to. If you take offense at that then that's a problem with you, and you should be more tolerant.

Q: Does a cell phone emit 1000 times more radiation when its battery is low?

Found similar statement in newspaper today:

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Found this gem on G+: The rest seems all extremely circumstantial except the very last item. The 'radiation' they're talking about, I'm assuming, is electromagnetic radiation - which would be weaker by a low battery, not stronger. Any evidence showing that cell phones emit more radiation whil...

environmental-health technology radiation mobile-phones

10:40 AM

@Boris_yo I wouldn't share anything that's written in Comic Sans with someone I love

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@OliverSalzburg Comic being emphasized?

@barlop I think the problem's also that we have a halfassed adoptation of western culture

and hinduism, like the honey badger, dosen't give a crap

We don't want to convert people or anything. ;p

The issue is really that a lot of people get ideas about romance from movies

without being in a culture where romance is, well, socially acceptable enough to talk about

So.. people make stupid choices

Ironically, one 'advantage' of the old school matchmaking system was quality control

there was a process, you'd actually get to know the person to an extent

You sure as hell wouldn't marry a halfassed java programmer.

(like seriously, You love the guy. NOT THE FACT THAT HE PROGRAMS IN JAVA. YOU IDIOTIC GIRL.) ;p

I have a realistic view of romance. It sucks

Sometimes you get lucky and find someone you can live with.

most of the time, if you're an indian? It ends badly, cause you arn't emotionally equipped for that crap

Ouch, that was a rant. It was a Rant. I shut up now ;p

11:07 AM

@OliverSalzburg :D

tombull89

@JourneymanGeek should have sent that Karen across to The Comms Room >:D

@tombull89: eh, probably ;p

@tombull89 shudder

I didn't know the young 'lady' was quite that nutty.

also, I don't have any popcorn.

You should always have some popcorn handy.

11:12 AM

between that and the MSO post @Sathya linked? I'd need QUITE a lot

tombull89

@JourneymanGeek Oh? Is this recent?

Q: Should StackOverflow run a programmers' matrimonial service to prevent marriage-fraud?

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My question may seem a little odd and long,but my grievance is genuine.And I hope the top-moderators and owners of StackOverflow would consider it.This is related to StackOverflow but not a direct programming-related question.I posted it in Meta but seems like people are not available there to an...

discussion

this

Its just so many different levels of stupid ;p

tombull89

what

wut

WAT

@barlop religious extremists are everywhere, and Hinduism has it's fair share of them. Again, you've a 5000-mile perspective of things where everything is sunny and bright. Things here are very different, and you probably don't hear about them. I wouldn't Indians are tolerant, nonchalance is better suited

@tombull89 I'm still recovering from the WTFness

that must goto gemsfromstackexchange

lol

11:21 AM

@Sathya hi

A: How do I repair a trackpad/touchpad that has lost it's click?

@TheUnlucky hi

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crossing all peak levels of WTFness, today we are

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i have quest in windows 8

@Sathya: ... whoa...

@TheUnlucky For the holy grail?

The service is starting.
The service could not be started.

A service specific error occurred: 0.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3547.

its my error message on starting the installer service in windows 8

can any one help me

11:26 AM

Sorry, Monty Python reference...

have you tried doing what it says?

@JourneymanGeek yes

and?

ah

the first step o fassisted troubleshooting

dig information out of the user -_-

NET HELPMSG 3547

A service specific error occurred: ***.
@JourneymanGeek

11:29 AM

hm, says the same on mine

Okies

unlucky:(

you should try asking a question on the main site

not having much luck with MS's KB either

Q: 18 dead insects between my laptop screen

11:46 AM

o.O

another bug-in-screen question

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I'm stuck with 18 dead insects between my laptop screen. It appeared to be thunder-flea's or storm bugs. ( Thysanoptera ) This happened during the extended warranty period of my Toshiba Satellite L505. Toshiba won't repair this for warranty, they ask me to pay € 450 to replace the screen. Then I ...

laptop display warranty

@JourneymanGeek Taking about dumb hollywood toiled-humour comedies?

@Bob: ... dupe ...

Its hard to believe

@JourneymanGeek yea, I VtC'd it :P

;p

seconded. Its still mindblowing, ESPECIALLY since I took apart an LCD panel once and its pretty damned hard for anything to get in

I get the feeling it may not be inside the panel itself, just the outer plastic cover

lowendspirit.com/home.html

$4/year for a VPS

hmm

no dedicated public IPv4, though

11:57 AM

> Google Sued at Tamil Nadu Court for Showing “explicit” Content on Hotmail Keyword Search

someone wanted to search hotmail, started typing, wrote hot and google showed what it's supposed to and the dude got offended I guess. :P

@Bibhas Yeu! I haz Pleystashion. Bai it nau!

@Bibhas: sigh. OLD COUNTRY. Y U DO THIS

and TN is really old country to me XD

@JourneymanGeek What's TN?

Tamil Nadu

Land of my ancestors

12:07 PM

Krypton to Superman = TN to @JourneymanGeek

lol

I don't have super powers here tho XD

Krypton? Crypton

only super user.

@Boris_yo Krypton

@Bibhas Who's talking? Lex Luther?

Or Lex Luger?

12:08 PM

@Boris_yo Some kind of derivative of Steel.

without the steel

@Boris_yo is that you?

@Boris_yo That is entirely unecessary for those in work environments...

Actually.

Considering a userscript to hide image oneboxes... Hmm...

No that's wrestler. @Bibhas

1:13 PM

@Bibhas WTF

Stupid aholes ....

2:08 PM

lol

hmm

is there a way to look up questions I VTCed?

hm

got deleted I guess

hm, no. Its missink

allquixotic

2:24 PM

missink (GstMisSink): an element class for gstreamer that puts your data... somewhere that you can't find it again

(not to be confused with GstNullSink)

;p

2:38 PM

o.O

Windows 8 has new TTS voices? :S

allquixotic

@Bob John Maddon

I need a TTS voice that sounds like the mw3 mech voice ;p