Root Access

Psycogeek

12:00 AM

@JourneymanGeek whine , i want my old school :-)

Journeyman Geek

and wait. How old is your keyboard?

I haven't seen a pure PS/2 keyboard in ages

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek some of them are almost new. ps2 only is not so easy to get.

Journeyman Geek

but practically the active converter is your best option

@Psycogeek: oh, dualmode keyboards are common

and I can understand keeping an old trackball

Psycogeek

The one i am trying to hook is a cherry with trackpad, has 2 ps2 things. What i am wondering is if there is simple adaption (not another buffer) for these single PS2 ports. Ahh the manuel again, that might say nothing about it.

Journeyman Geek

simply? not as far as I know

which can mean no

Psycogeek

12:13 AM

they use the word combo port, keyboard/mouse. but i suspect your right it is Keyboard OR mouse

There is a Cable that combines both . amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000067SLZ/… But as you can see from the reviews, it must have a very limited hardware that suports it.

somequixotic

►

Psycogeek

12:37 AM

Up next is all the fun connections to the case

They make that easy to do where you can see something. These things hold all the connection, and slide onto the whole thing in one move

Journeyman Geek

I've not had much luck with that terminal block

mine fell apart

Psycogeek

Huston we have a problem :-) looks like I have to rearrange the pins in the speaker one already . assuming it actually is the way it says it is

Journeyman Geek

12:50 AM

looks about correct to me

Psycogeek

I was thinking the speaker should be on speaker and ground, as no power is required for the board speaker thing.

Journeyman Geek

yeah

Psycogeek

It would work on speaker and 5V just start with a huge "offset"

Journeyman Geek

but the leftmost connector is probably ground too

Psycogeek

right, i mentally reverse it and it is still wrong.

shift at least one wire, or shift both so the label is on the outside.

Journeyman Geek

12:56 AM

nope, since if you have mono speakers it dosen't matter

with stereo speakers, yes cause you don't want em going out of phase

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek yes we wouldnt want the beep to be out of phase :-)

@JourneymanGeek Indeed the block is crispy feeling, like it could easily break.

Journeyman Geek

heh, the pins popped out for me

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek the speaker connector itself was actually marked (tiny) where the 2 lines should have been put.

Psycogeek

1:49 AM

UEFI , this is going to take a while. Wonder if there are any tests in the thing. its just sitting there . memory is set 1333, cpu all sleepy , booring :-)

The 2 digit LED readout thing has always got some stuff in it. now that i am in the bios, could they translate that into english . CPU DXE is initilised, oookay

""DXE is the opposite of SXE which is a life of no drugs, no sex, nothing that would hurt your body in any way. DXE is the idea that you drink as much as you can you do as many drugs as you can and you have as much sex as you can. It also in my mind promotes violence and all illegal activities. Also it is a lifelong commitment once you choose to be DXE theres no goin back"" thanks Urban dictionary, guess my computer is now on drugs, and about to become violent

--- heck just give me 4 analog controls on the front of the thing, I can turn them to 11.

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy politicians?

John Cavil

@maletin Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help.

NewProgrammerJames

Has anyone here taken a course in Human Computer Interaction?

Michael Hampton

I'm a human and I interact with computers.

NewProgrammerJames

yeah me too, I was just wondering if anyone who had taken the course found it to be a handful of decent nuggets of knowledge wrapped up in a whole bunch of common sense crap

Journeyman Geek

2:04 AM

that sounds like most of the courses I've taken

NewProgrammerJames

I honestly don't care what the term is for the space between lines of text, if you tell me there is an optimal size for the space, I find that useful, but the rest of it is crap

Journeyman Geek

@NewProgrammerJames: on the other hand, that lets you communicate effectively

NewProgrammerJames

what do you mean?

Journeyman Geek

if you're talking to another UX designer

you're using the same lingo

NewProgrammerJames

I see... I guess that makes sense... it would probably mean more if I was working with people like that then

Journeyman Geek

2:07 AM

same reason I have a 360 page book on how to write technical reports ;p

NewProgrammerJames

thanks for taking my frustration and making me feel dumb because I was frustrated with standards :)

Journeyman Geek

sorry ;p

as I've probably mentioned before, I'm also a management major, so I know exactly how bad the language barrier can be between disciplines

NewProgrammerJames

it's all good... who knows... maybe someday I will be a real programmer and I'll find myself discussing these things with other people

I remember the first time I was told I needed to "patch" some network cables... and I was so confused... until I learned that meant "plug it in the hole on the switch"

Journeyman Geek

lol

more precisely, connect it to a patch panel

which is basically something that you use so you can manage cabling more effectively

Patch panel

A patch panel, patch bay, patch field or jack field is a number of circuits, usually of the same or similar type, which appear on jacks for monitoring, interconnecting, and testing circuits in a convenient, flexible manner. Uses and connectors In recording studios, television and radio broadcast studios, and concert sound reinforcement systems, patchbays are widely used to facilitate the connection of different devices, such as microphones, electric or electronic instruments, effects (e.g. compression, reverb, etc.), recording gear, amplifiers, or broadcasting equipment. Patchbays make it...

once again, the importance of specialised language

Psycogeek

@NewProgrammerJames And here i thought Patching, was a Quick repair job, Patch up them cables so we can get this thing working.

NewProgrammerJames

2:12 AM

true... but I felt so dumb at first... because I wasn't asked to do anything hard... I am still building my professional geek experience... I have been a home geek for so long... I've really only had a couple years of experience now in the professional IT world... I never knew that had a real term... I just plugged cables into ports

Journeyman Geek

lol

@NewProgrammerJames: I know this cause I used to do audio-video stuff in school

NewProgrammerJames

I still to this day have learned so much on my own at home that when I learn there is a technical term it sometimes throws me for a loop

Journeyman Geek

lol

I know the feeling

one reason I hang out here and SF

learning by osmosis ;p

NewProgrammerJames

like the term concatenate... I always just said put two variables together

I had a teacher start using that term and I was completely lost until I figured it out

maybe I need a better understanding of the english language

Psycogeek

@NewProgrammerJames They say chinese language has many different words for many different things, instead of few words and 50 meanings for each use of the words. With tech it is 500 abreviations besides, with 50 (other) meanings in 50 other fields.

I wonder how much more difficult it is to say " it will take 2456 years to get to the planet meglon with the FTL drive" Vrses "it will take 2456 years to get to the planet meglon with the Faster than light drive" .

If a few abbreviations work so well, why not more? Googles GCB is OSWB , it allows you to BTW , while SRRS , WCUs Find it is a APMWA , and hope that WCAT.

That Brazilian Guy

2:29 AM

@JourneymanGeek Bizarre stuff made in Brazil source of WTFs and facepalms. Sort of.

So, yeah, politicians also.

@Psycogeek ~~From what I see online~~ AFAIK, all English speakers ~~communicate in abreviations~~ use TLAs, IIRC

Psycogeek

@ThatBrazilianGuy uhh what did he say :-)

I think the solution to the problem lies in technology that has been around for ages. TTS and STT .

That Brazilian Guy

@Psycogeek IDK. WTF. OMG.

Psycogeek

oh oh now that little LED says 99, Super IO initilisation.

I knew i should have waited another year, when the BIOS will have a 5" color IPS display on it

Super IO initilisation

Super Io inititilaisation is . . .

I need to do something with this computer that will really put it through its paces. Install winders :-) that oughta put me through the paces.

Porbably i just hook up the web cable and push 2 buttons to do that right?

Bob

2:52 AM

ahhhh annual "spring festival"

I forgot about it

far too many performancE stands with people who can't sing

NewProgrammerJames

I would acronym drop... but I'm so mentally AWOL that I should be sent AFK for trying to fill out ID 10 T forms

Journeyman Geek

lol

NewProgrammerJames

not acronyms... but almost related and funny imgs.xkcd.com/comics/mnemonics.png

Gowtham

3:08 AM

!! xkcd 992

John Cavil

@Gowtham Don't be annoying, drop the @, nobody likes a double-ping.

@NewProgrammerJames xkcd.com/992

'Sailor Moon's head exploded once' and 'Some men have explosive orgasms' both work for the Great Lakes from west to east (Paddle-to-the-Sea order).

Gowtham

@NewProgrammerJames If you post a xkcd link here it oneboxes by default ;p

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/11117446#11117446 bot get's a touch of quixy ;p

NewProgrammerJames

I'm going to have to plead ignorance... what is "onebox"?

you can make fun of me if you want

Gowtham

Foursqare Automates Process Of Becoming A 'Superuser' In A Move To Steamline Venue Database Edits http://tcrn.ch/17Af2wz by @loyalelectron

Tweeted by TechCrunch on September 5, 2013 at 6:06 PM

^^ oneboxing

NewProgrammerJames

I see, thank you

sorry about that

Gowtham

3:18 AM

no need to be, it's one the ways we like to confuse new guys :D

Also @Bob buyvm apparently enabled /64 block ipv6 thingy

Psycogeek

@NewProgrammerJames Exactally so why is it i can remember Illuminatie , New world order, alex jones, 5 charachter names on star wars, but i forget what my moms first name is (other than mom)

NewProgrammerJames

I would have to guess it is due to lack of use... I never call my mom by her first name

Psycogeek

The key to the whole thing is application, if i wanted to know about the planets of the solar system, travel to each one in order. Not going to forget that trip.

You shoulda seen it first we stopped by mercury, that shit was Hot, and it was really hard to breath there . We had a great time jumping high because of the low-gravity.

Journeyman Geek

3:34 AM

@Gowtham: and are looking at ssd based accounts with half the space, and possibly extra ipv4 addresses on some plans

Gowtham

@JourneymanGeek yeah

John Cavil

@user252102 Hey there! You're pretty special, aren't you? :)

Bob

3:52 AM

why the fuck are a bunch of primary school girls dancing on a stage to "tonight" by pitbull?

Gowtham

@Bob lol

Psycogeek

OK i got one of these psudo flash sticks, a USB card reader with a microSD in it, and i just toss the contents of the win7 DVD on it, and the new UEFI just boots right up to it . . . right?

Bob

@Gowtham yea, I mentioned it a while go - I actually posted that here

I do get their emails, ya know :P

Gowtham

oh ok :P

Bob

4:23 AM

holy shit

What happened yesterday? :O

Gowtham

@Bob you server ?

Bob

@Gowtham my home router...

reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1lve8v/…

@somequixotic > I really loathe how Amazon thinks every Amazon link you look at indicates you have keen interest in buying that thing. I'm sure some geeky data miner somewhere out there just came himself, "Oh shit, notonetocomment just bought a pressure cooker and a candy thermometer last week, now he's looking at a meth test kit?!"

and the next comment down

> Fuck now Im going to see that in all my Amazon ads

Gowtham

@Bob ok ...

Psycogeek

@Bob funny

well blast it did not boot, where is the file exlorer on this UEFI thing .

Journeyman Geek

4:58 AM

thats the standard DDWRT traffic screen, right?

Simon Sheehan

Somehow my question got 10k views... last I checked it was like 1k :O superuser.com/questions/293735/…

Bob

@JourneymanGeek yea

Psycogeek

6:24 AM

a bootable USB, uhh, ok lets try

The winders own USB install bootmaker does not indicate an ability to make the bootable USB from a Windows DVD, only from an ISO. sorta weird when it will make it from a crack :-) (or a legit MS download)

John Cavil

@Dan Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help.

Dan

@JohnCavil ok, anyone else ever emulate an Android phone on Ubuntu 10.04 and run into issues with Launcher crashing continually?

Psycogeek

6:39 AM

Finnaly, now if i can get the windows install to pass stage 2.

Bob

@Dan Maybe, but you're talking to a bot :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

heh, discourse install is a slight pain in the ass

Bob

You might have some more luck searching and/or asking a question on the main site, though. Super User. Ask Ubuntu and Unix & Linux could all accept this question, though the first two may be more relevant.

@JourneymanGeek I'm not bothering with that for now.

Journeyman Geek

it might be a crappy emulator

Bob

Still need to get the wordpress install up, but then I need my domain first, but then I want to get my laptop repaired first

Journeyman Geek

6:42 AM

@Bob: heh, might be letting a bunch of cool people play with my instance

Bob

@Psycogeek o.O CRT screen?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: just so many dependancies o0

Psycogeek

@Bob its a crappy craig LCD TV . only thing i have with HDMI other than dragging out the 42" tv.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ah

@Psycogeek that's LCD? O.O

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: initial set of dependancies. Then another set for ruby

Dan

6:48 AM

@JourneymanGeek true

somequixotic

7:22 AM

sup

Journeyman Geek

lol

waiting on discourse to pull in ruby stuff ;p

and suprisingly its not using as much memory as the docs seem to indicate to install

somequixotic

gems?

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek wait till it spins up

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: its supposed to use over a gig to install, I'm using 230mb active, and the rest is buffers ;p

@somequixotic: lots of gems

Sathya

it doesn't take a gig to install

I've tried to deploy it on a free heroku tier

Journeyman Geek

7:30 AM

<_<

Sathya

grabbed all the gems

failed at asset something stage

Journeyman Geek

"If you have errors building the native extensions, ensure you have sufficient free system memory. 1GB with no swap isn't enough, we recommend having 2GB as a minimum."

Sathya

and datgemslist.png

Journeyman Geek

I seem to be installing everything so far

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek oh

Journeyman Geek

7:31 AM

if it dosen't work, just throw a shitload of swap at it ;p

Sathya

it'll work fine on 512

Journeyman Geek

yeah, this VPS has a gig

Sathya

heroku's free tier is 512 iirc

Journeyman Geek

8:00 AM

heh, turns out YML is super picky about indents

John Cavil

@StaceyAnne Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help.

Stacey Anne

can i copy a .so file from one pc to another? say, from one ubuntu1304 to another ubuntu1304?

Bob

8:16 AM

ok. now stuck on shitty netbook with opensuse

heh, it's on FF 15.0.1

somequixotic

8:38 AM

:/

Bob

not even gonna update

I never use this machine anyway

it'll just be week

@somequixotic how're things going?

I've only got two tabs open D:

somequixotic

@Bob good, good!

Bob

@somequixotic for some reason I read that in the voice of some evil character

can't remember which, though

Journeyman Geek

@StaceyAnne: In theory, I do believe so

not a good idea unless you have to tho

John Cavil

@Bernhard Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help.

Bernhard

8:47 AM

@JohnCavil haha, thanks, didn't know there were bots around here ;)

Anyhow, I am looking for suggestions for nice video editing software (Windows or Linux), I used Windows Movie Maker, but it can't do what I want, e.g. simulataneous double captions. Any suggestions?

Journeyman Geek

XD

let me know if you find one

Bob

@Bernhard simultaneous double captions? o.o

I'm not even sure what that means.

(though, if price doesn't matter, I'm pretty sure After Effects would be able to)

Bernhard

@Bob Basically I want to compose a movie of several fragment of good wishes spoken by people, but I want both subtitles AND a caption of who is actually telling something

I know I can make a seperate srt file or something with subtitles, but I want to avoid this if possible

I am now installing macromedia flash professional to try a few thing, but I highlt doubt if it is worht it.

@Bob, well, price does matter to me, as it will be a one time project anyhow

Bob

@Bernhard uh... do you mean you want a name and separate text?

and do you want soft or hard captions?

somequixotic

9:02 AM

@StaceyAnne as long as they're the same version of Linux, it should work

Bernhard

@Bob, something like that indeed

What are soft and hard captions?

Bob

soft is a separate text stream or file

hard is part of the video itself, rendered onto the video

Journeyman Geek

ok, I officially hate yml

Bob

soft is greatly preferred in most circumstances

something is eating my spaces D:

@Bernhard perhaps give virtualdub a shot

virtualdub.org

Gowtham

> Proof that I had too much free time in college

:O

Bob

9:06 AM

oh wait

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

@Bernhard I think I mean avisub

trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAviSub.php

I forgot which one

oh wait

no I don't

virtualdub is probably the right one :P

hm. might not even be either of these

Bernhard

@Bob I think I would prefer the hard captions, it is not like I want to ship it to multiple languages, only one for private environment. Hard captions would be more failsafe, I suppose

Bob

there was a good one, but I completely forgot hte name D:

Bernhard

I stumbled across virtualdub, do you have experience with that?

Bob

9:08 AM

@Bernhard at the same time, it is horribly frustrating if you ever want uncaptioned videos

@Bernhard if nothing else, virtualdub does let you hardcode subtitles

Bernhard

true,

Bob

generally, you edit first in a soft format (alternate stream or file) and then hardcode it later

Bernhard

and nametags simulataneously?

Bob

since the rendering process should be done once and cannot be edited later

@Bernhard if you have fixed positions, you could actually do two passes

@Bernhard but... why can't you put the name as part of the main text?

like, Bernhard: Hello

Bernhard

because it looks lame :)

Bob

9:12 AM

o.o

3

A: How do I hard code a movie with subtitles?

Use Subtitle Edit to edit the subtitles the way you want. Then you can use VirtualDub to hard code the subtitles into the video file. You can find the instructions here. "Subtitle Edit" Features: Visually sync/adjust a subtitle (start/end position and speed). Create/add subtitle lin...

Bernhard

it is for a wedding abroad, and I want to bring the celebration wishes of everybody that can't attend in a nice format. Looking awesome is more important to me than portability and editability later :)

Bob

@Bernhard but the process of reencoding the video will always reduce quality

Bernhard

so I'll also need some functionality to stack separate movies together

Bob

you don't need to do all that in one program

you can stitch them together in program 1, add subs in program 2, render subs on top in program 3 (if you really need to)

Bernhard

That is a fair point

how good is windows movie maker in stitching movies together?

Bob

9:16 AM

no idea

I use After Effects now

Bernhard

hmm, okay

I am glad I have some time still, but don't want to switch programs once started

:)

I should work as simple as possible, that's what I like about windows movie maker

easy to use

Journeyman Geek

discourse is up ;p

some minor things to fix, first tho

Bernhard

thanks @Bob for the advise

Gowtham

9:32 AM

whee looks like no school on monday

somequixotic

nice!

Gowtham

Have to find something to do ...

hmm

somequixotic

code!

Gowtham

@somequixotic yes!

Bob

9:53 AM

ok

this netbook's keyboard sucks

actually have to hammer each key all the way down D:

in comparison, my desktop and other laptops' keyboards behave far more like mechanicals - works with partial press

Journeyman Geek

lol

netbook keyboards tend to suck

somequixotic

@Bob why are you on an OpenSUSE netbook?

Boris_yo

@Gowtham Hhhhhhhah!

Bob

@somequixotic taking an image of main laptop's hdd

getting the hinge repaired tomorrow

somequixotic

ah

Bob

9:59 AM

I'm currently rather sad

this laptop is that bad

somequixotic

sad? why? :(

Bob

and I'll have to survive with it for a WHOLE WEEK! D:

somequixotic

...upgrade to Firefox 23 at least. it's pretty easy. or should be.

Boris_yo

@Bob Because of keyboard and openSuse?

Bob

@Boris_yo it's a netbook

first gen atom

1024x576 screen

'nuff said

@somequixotic really don't need to break anything right now

it's on 12.2. newest is 12.3

somequixotic

10:03 AM

:P

oh well... the screen res on that would hurt for me more than the OS or Firefox ver

BBL

Bob

@somequixotic ya. the CPU is pretty shit too

another thing is, this was my opensuse experiment, which was abandoned

I'm far more familiar with kubuntu

Boris_yo

@somequixotic Netbooks hurt eyesight?

Journeyman Geek

10:38 AM

@Bob: plug in an external keyboard?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek not portable enough :P

I'd just use my desktop at home

Journeyman Geek

lol

I have a tiny little scissor key keyboard somewhere

tenkeyless, half sized

Boris_yo

10:57 AM

"Launched in 2020 and placed at Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, its mission duration is six years, during which time it studies the nature of dark matter and dark energy." - Dark matter and dark energy is not the same? I right dark matter is anri-matter?

Transcript for