Root Access

12:00 AM

I think I'm gonna found a dissident country on an island and use Stack Exchange as a gvmt system.

12:16 AM

@CanadianLuke I think you accidentally presented yourself as a human, and other humans observed this in the question. After the edit it looks much more like a machine talking to another machine, and is much better :-)

Psycogeek

12:28 AM

@ThatBrazilianGuy They can vote here on specific propositions, which can include policy changes, and vast expendatures, but generally this is only reserved for items they wish to discard , and or blame the voters for the choises made. Works ok.

when some of the most twisted and illogical and highest priced things, and most likely to rearrange the entire political landscape and corporate and government operation, are of course never left up to the peasants, it would cut into the royaltee or royalties to much .

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: and/or remove the secrecy behind political power

Let any citizen propose laws, ensure they are machine parsable. Simple majority to pass it, 75% to repeal, with a quorum required. Anyone who tries to pass a rider for an unrelated thing should be subjected to the pillory and thrown rotten fruit ;)

Though another solution would be to force all governmental functions to happen in public...

Psycogeek

12:46 AM

like watching CSPAN (often with full long term coverage of legislature) is like watching weeds grow (slowly), you want to pull them and stop it, but you cant :-)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek if they take out riders, where would the 500 lawyers who carefully craft them in , via 500 page legalese fluff , designed to hide from all who do not have a lifetime to read, where would they work? they may end up in society , could be worse :-)

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: meh, toilets need cleaning.

Laws need to be simple enough for the average person to understand IMO

phi

Can someone help me with grep on OSX 10.7 ? This is not returning what I expect?
sw_vers | grep -c ':[:space:]\+'

I expect the count te be 3

Psycogeek

funny thing is some republicans have made bill items (proposed law) that read exactally the way it would be, simple to the point and understood without the extra text used later for loopholing, and circumventing and re-interpreting.

Bob

12:56 AM

eww, posix bre

Psycogeek

Reading through both a complex law designed mostly to clarify, and a lame simple (you know what were saying) law, the complex one seems it is more likely to be spending 5 years in court for every person who wishes to challenge, the simple one the judge says "ignorance (of the law) is no excuse", get outta here.

Journeyman Geek

Actually

another weakness with the commonwealth and american system is the reliance on case law

Psycogeek

That it is, like the, we know you did it, but but this (other hugely complex) law was not followed properly, so after taking 5 years of the courts time, you are free to go. cool thing about it is this causes more torture :-) to the person than taking them out back and shooting them.

I stay a good boy not because the prison system is so bad, not because death is so terrible, but for fear of years and years of never ending torture via lawyers $$$, stress from "story creating" prosecutors, and the whole load of carp that occurs in the (anything but) search for the truth in the court systems.

Journeyman Geek

1:17 AM

Whoa

Good news is the celeron seems to run pretty happily capped out at maximum processor load for over 12 hours (I think)

(trying lrzip with zpaq... its a bit of a complete and utter hog)

Bob

1:51 AM

@allquixotic VBA abuse at its finest

source

Psycogeek

2:13 AM

wha? is spreadsheet video editor?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Niccccce

Psycogeek

4:05 AM

how does a person use an EFI file item? Without drivers in windows working (code 10) i cannot even firmware update. so i am trying to go backwards, like to dos or something. I have a UEFI motherboard, they gave me a EFI driver thing, a bunch of hoopla about how wonderfull it is, but after another book of reading , no info on that either.

so far i have spent another day reading about all the wonderfull features and operations of a card i am probably sending back.

""UEFI 2.0 provides MegaRAID customers with expanded platform support. The MegaRAID UEFI 2.0 driver, a boot
service device driver, handles block IO requests and SCSI pass-through (SPT) commands, and offers the ability to
launch pre-boot MegaRAID management applications through a driver configuration protocol (DCP). The UEFI driver
also supports driver diagnostic protocol, which allows administrators to access pre-boot diagnostics."" yea bla bla bla, but HOW?

StorCli is the command line tool thing capable of updating the raid cards bios, in the folder for this StorCli is the operating systems , linux windows, vmware, solaris , ubunto, And EFI. So it pertains somehow to the cli thing. licence indicates this EFI file item is a C++ and JSON type programming.

.
I have heard of the same noise about integrating the Intel Raid into the UEFI also. Still as a seperate bios item here, some people said they configured intel onboard raid IN the MB UEFI.

Psycogeek

4:34 AM

UEFI Shell:
"Methods used for launching UEFI shell depend on the manufacturer and model of the system motherboard. Some of them already provide a direct option in firmware setup for launching, e.g. compiled x86-64 version of the shell needs to be made available as <EFI_SYSTEM_PARTITION>/SHELLX64.EFI. Some other systems have an already embedded UEFI shell which can be launched by appropriate key press combinations. For other systems, the solution is either creating an appropriate USB flash drive or adding manually (bcfg) a boot option associated with the compiled version of shell"

UEFI Extentions:
Extensions to EFI can be loaded from virtually any non-volatile storage device attached to the computer. For example, an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) can distribute systems with an EFI partition on the hard drive, which would add additional functions to the standard EFI firmware stored on the motherboard's

Simpel bios yesterday, whole messed up operating system tomorrow :-)

Get started early with EFIrefox and EFIchrome browsers Efi-Mail, and Efi-Viewer

And of course microsoft will have to have the EFIIE aka Iffy browser or IE-Efi-Ei-Ei-oh.

which will only work with EFI shell 3.7

This is real, some things you just cant make up, but are way funnier.
"I have a FAT32 EFI partition on my thumb drive that has a GPT partition scheme. In that partition, the EFI file is: "BOOT/BOOTx64.EFI"" Fat32 to get booting, GPT partition for UEFI , and it looks like a person just tries to boot to the device with the file?

Psycogeek

5:10 AM

EFsploits and EffingWare, and thanks to pre boot web access (even when the computer is in the off state) we will need the EFirewall, and EfiAV.

Robin Hood

6:17 AM

I'm very poor at bash, but I started making this out of boredom = https://copy.com/r8xmWwL4EkmyVF9b
It's a pretend command prompt, with basic ping support, `ping #.#.#.#`.

Kristian

7:00 AM

just a tip:
If you make the very first line read "@echo off", then you can remove all your "@"'s from the beginning of every other line.

Boris_yo

@Kristian What is up?

Kristian

getting ready to leave for work

Boris_yo

Are you familiar with photography softboxes?

Kristian

just having a coffee and a quick root-access-fix :p

no, I'm afraid not

but I'll be around much more in 3-4 hours

will be working from home then

Boris_yo

@Kristian Working from home... ain't it great? Not great if you are ADD though...

I think I am better and more productive when I have someone holding gun to my head...

Kristian

7:05 AM

I'm only suffering from RAAD

Boris_yo

@Kristian Red Alert Attention Disorder?

Kristian

Root-Access-Attention-Disorder!

Boris_yo

Yeah, Red Alert 1 and 2 are always in my thinking... What a game.

Ah...

Kristian

I preferred the original C&C

Boris_yo

@Kristian Original? The one without "Red Alert" in it?

Kristian

7:06 AM

anyhoot, must leave now or I'll be late. visiting a customer :P

yes, that one

Command & Conquer (1995 video game)

Command & Conquer is a 1995 real-time strategy video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive. Set in an alternate history of modern day, the game tells the story of a world war between two globalized factions: the Global Defense Initiative of the United Nations and a cult-like militant organization called the Brotherhood of Nod, led by the mysterious Kane. The groups compete for control of Tiberium, a mysterious substance that slowly spreads across the world. Westwood first conceived Command & Conquer during the final stages of the development of Dune II, and it expands...

^ THAT one!

anyway, I'm outta here. TTYL

Boris_yo

@Kristian Cool! Bye!

Angelo Neuschitzer

7:59 AM

Hi, over on SoftwareRecs we have a question and in the comments the discussion goes if the (actual) question (not the posted one) would fit better on Super User. As I'm not active on SU, could you have a look?

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Q: Windows: Searching for a good open source Full NTP Client (not a simple NTP Client)?

Due to strange behaviors in the system clock (it seems a bit crazy: battery is OK, but it loses many minutes randomly) I need to sync the time of my computer automatically via internet. I am testing NetTime that seems to be working fine, but if has a 15 minutes frequency limit. Its docs say: ...

Question is in short: Whats the difference between a simple NTP client and a full NTP client.

Journeyman Geek

8:15 AM

@AngeloNeuschitzer: "Full" and "Simple" ought to be in the question ;p

as part of the problem definition

Psycogeek

@AngeloNeuschitzer the question re-worded might fit in here? Problem is it will get killed if the user directally asks for programs or services on SU.

Journeyman Geek

So, nah, not really a SU question IMO (And I'm a longtime SU user and a mod on both)

Psycogeek

there are about 3-4 software & bios solutions to the computer not keeping time, and a simple change of the scheduler in widnows would get many more time syncs, than the nist time might prove to be more reliable when syncing is critical

The problems with the time and "precision clock" and the Quartz dll stuff get very complicated, some aspects of it may have been solved in updates. Sooo happy i did not have that problem) there are simple changes for one of the problems on the web. That leaves when the entire base clock of the computer is changed (overclock underclock) and the timer that is being used is effected by this. EX: for some few years an overclocker could end up with sped up time, all fixed by updates.

Unless the OS software is not up to par or rolled back wrong, or the bios hardware is set really strangely , they should no longer be having problems of this type.

I got the LSI (raid) card firmware updated YAY! (grumble grumble) using DOS , like real dos, surprised i didnt have to do it with a floopy too.

It of course changed nothing, because there is still some sort of driver (or resources) problem.

The Card itself could be seen while in DOS, the disks themselves have not showed up yet in acronis (which uses linux like os) and of course nothing in windows.

there are some 35 versions of the .sys driver according to the web, but searching at the LSI site is really tough. and me still being lost.

pages and pages of stuff in thier own little "programming" language (paramters to mess with 45 features), i just want a cookie.

Oliver Salzburg

10:11 AM

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A: How can I get a reliable debugging connection?

Try enable USB mode debugging inside your mobile phone.

wat?

So you're saying I need to enable debugging to debug?

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Uh... portable devices is unrelated

that refers to MTP or PTP devices, IIRC

try reinstalling adb drivers?

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Isn't that what's happening when I un- and re-install the phone?

Bob

developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html

@OliverSalzburg try explicitly doing that

Oliver Salzburg

I already did, several times IIRC

The dialog even still has the path selected

Psycogeek

10:58 AM

crasy title of the week

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Q: How to convert Japanese characters into roman characters when you accidentally type an English word with Japanese input turned on (on Windows)

In windows I often find myself trying to write an English word, but with the Japanese Input method selected (unintentionally). So what I get is something like this えぁmpれ. At the moment, I just press escape and then start writing again. Ideally there would be a shortcut I could use to convert it a...

ime input-languages windows

Psycogeek

11:41 AM

Stay up for 30 hours trying to get the hardware to work, pass out 20 minutes before office opening for tech support, wake up 8 hours later when the office is closed again Repeat as needed.

Psycogeek

12:04 PM

Psycogeek

12:40 PM

if that was to cryptic , facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1064577264634 this video should clarify.

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