Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:00 AM

very

hm. since I have free drives, I probably should do a test run of my backup system over the weekend

JAN ORTS

@killermist yes , maybe, i will look at it...

Bob

I still haven't gotten around to proper offsite backups :\

Canadian Luke

@Bob how much data? What country are you in?

Bob

@CanadianLuke 4 TB+, give or take, in Australia.

Yea, not happening over internet. Just no.

Canadian Luke

12:16 AM

@Bob That's why I'm asking... You could get away with a few 4-6TB drives, and rotate them and keep one at a friend's house in a safe...

killermist

Doesn't Austrailia have some arbitrary quantity of bytes, above which they either lower the boom on maximum speeds, or charge extra bandwidth both ways?

... like Comcast, but worse...

nhinkle

Speaking of comcast, I've now been transferred 3 times and am back on hold.

HOORAY

killermist

If I had been forced to deal with Comcast or AT&T, I'd probably be looking seriously at ... that satellite company I can't seem to spell.

hughesnet.com

How am I supposed to intuitively remember how to spell that?

Bob

@killermist Depends on ISP.

ADSL is so slow that unlimited is pretty common.

JAN ORTS

is there som Blutooth software for hp laptop that works?

Bob

12:24 AM

1Mbps up... bleh.

@killermist "hug-hes-net"? :P

JAN ORTS

i downloaded and install the one that they have on HP website but I can't copy files from my Nokia phone to my laptop via Blutooth

Bob

@CanadianLuke I know how to do it; it's just finding the time and money to actually do it :\

JAN ORTS

if I try Ubuntu 14.10 it is gonna be easier?

Bob

Ok, seriously... how is this off-topic?

Looking at recent close votes, I'm beginning to wonder if we have someone badge-hunting.

killermist

@Bob It looks on-topic to me. I'm not entirely clear what it is asking, but it doesn't seem off-topic.

Bob

12:31 AM

@killermist I think someone just went "oh look code it's off-topic!"

DragonLord

No, we're not a script-writing service, but this is not a mere script-writing question.

It's reasonably well written.

The problem to be solved is clear and specific

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I'm using veem endpoint backup. It fails predictably, which is excellent, and file level recovery works fine, but I've yet to test it on a simulated HDD failure

Canadian Luke

-1

Q: Installing windows from USB goes to black screen

I am currently using Windows 8.1. But for the recent times my PC was really laggy. So i decided to Re install OS again. I had to do it with a USB. So i downloaded the .iso file,made the USB bootable (firstly via Rufus, then after the problem tried diskpart method too). I also made proper Boot seq...

killermist

12:47 AM

@JANORTS trying to copy files from phone to computer, especially by bluetooth, is not the most trivial thing.

If you can just copy the files to some cloud service and pull from there, you're significantly better off than trying to use bluetooth.

Bob

@killermist Urk. Just grab a USB cable -_-

Journeyman Geek

Also, BT 3.0 (IIRC) sometimes needs a BT 2.0 receiver to work. Some companies just add 2.4ghz support without normal BT support to wifi cards

killermist

@Bob I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've plugged my tablet into a computer. Easier to push/pull files over network/internet/wifi. @JANORTS seems to think bluetooth is some form of solution.

Bob

research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf

5

Journeyman Geek

da

Bob

12:57 AM

> A person who can debug a device driver or a distributed system is a person who can be trusted in a Hobbesian nightmare of breathtaking scope; a systems programmer has seen the terrors of the world and understood the intrinsic horror of existence.

> The systems programmer has written drivers for buggy devices whose firmware was implemented by a drunken child or a sober goldfish.

Journeyman Geek

I need to read that when I have time ;p

so star abuse.

Bob

> The systems programmer has traced a network problem across eight machines, three time zones, and a brief diversion into Amish country, where the problem was transmitted in the front left hoof of a mule named Deliverance.

> The systems programmer has read the kernel source, to better understand the deep ways of the universe, and the systems programmer has seen the comment in the scheduler that says “DOES THIS WORK LOL,” and the systems programmer has wept instead of LOLed, and the systems programmer has submitted a kernel patch to restore balance to The Force and fix the priority inversion that was causing MySQL to hang.

> A systems programmer will know what to do when society breaks down, because the systems programmer already lives in a world without law.

killermist

Any sensible programmer would gack at the use of the horrific 3 letter creature that is "LOL".

AOL-speak still needs to be heckled and consigned to the abyss.

Bob

> As a systems hacker, you must be prepared to do savage things, unspeakable things, to kill runaway threads with your bare hands, to write directly to network ports using telnet and an old copy of an RFC that you found in
the Vatican.

killermist

That stupid txting kids use it is proof of this.

The kids could probably go to the abyss with the language and not be missed.

nhinkle

1:06 AM

OK the result of all that bullshit is that nobody at comcast knows what they're talking about and it's not worth wasting your life on hold over 5 mbps.

killermist

Did I mention that my "faith in humanity" status dial has had the lower pin-peg knocked off forcefully by the indicator pointer, and the indicator pointer is trying to chew its way out the low-side of the dial?

Bob

> One time I tried to create a list<map<int>>, and my syntax errors caused the dead to walk among the living. Such things are clearly unfortunate.

> I have a network file system, and I have broken the network, and I have broken the file system, and my machines crash when I make eye contact with them.

> I had the modest goal of translating a file read into a network operation, and now my machines have tuberculosis and orifice containment issues.

killermist

I look at what are supposed to be humans, and I see zombies. Occasionally they speak and generate the illusion of intelligence that makes me think that maybe they're not a zombie. Then they mouth regurgitate some other noises, and I realize I've misjudged them.

nhinkle

@killermist are you a sysadmin by chance? :P

killermist

@nhinkle I periodically perform operator support in a channel on IRC. Close enough?

nhinkle

1:17 AM

@killermist being a BOFH is a lifestyle choice. It doesn't have to be your day job.

killermist

BOFH?

nhinkle

Bastard Operator From Hell

The Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) is a fictional rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users (often referred to as lusers), colleagues, bosses, and anyone else who pesters him with their computer problems. Several people have written stories about BOFHs, but the canonical one was created by Simon Travaglia. The BOFH stories were originally posted in 1992 to Usenet by Travaglia, with some being reprinted in Datamation. They were published weekly from 1995 to 1999 in Network Week and since 2000 they have been published regularly in The Register. Several books of the stories have...

Your statements that essential boil down to "users are idiots" correspond strongly to the BOFH worldview.

killermist

A number of users that use our project over it's bastard stepsister have proven at least some competence. But we get a fair number of incompetent questions.

Users aren't necessarily idiots. Humans are idiots by default in a number of cases. Breaking the default isn't hard, but too many don't try.

My parents taught me how to learn. Too many never get that advice. Too many more never seek it through all their schooling (to include associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctorate's degrees).

Journeyman Geek

Degrees are so others know you know shit

I have one. And maybe another degree or two worth of stuff I learnt myself. Formal lessons can be useful structure wise IMO.

killermist

@JourneymanGeek certifications of many sorts have been a bane to my existence. I knew things. I knew I knew things. Others knew that I knew things. I just didn't have those little annoying pieces of paper.

Journeyman Geek

1:32 AM

Lol. Took me 3 tries to get a degree :p

And I am learning things all over again :p

killermist

Associate's degree in CJ in progress. 7 quarters on Dean's List so far. Current and next to finish.

I don't want work in computers. I don't want to hate computers. Hating users and humans in general, I can deal with.

Journeyman Geek

Lol. I'm OK with both. Besides, hardware's my real passion

DragonLord

1:48 AM

Is being a sysadmin this stressful?

Why can't we all get along?

I am a firm believer in civility and getting along. There is no reason or need to be mean to others.

Share your experience. I'm planning to get a job somewhere in the IT and/or programming fields.

nhinkle

Not all sysadmins are like that, but they do have a bit of a... reputation, as a field

killermist

@DragonLord "Can't we all get along?" or "Can't we all just get along?" unfortunately implies the corrected version of the question, which is "Can't we all just get along, with me?" The asker is just a less-aggressive version of a tyrant, trying to moderate someone else's behavior.

Journeyman Geek

2:20 AM

lol

I prefer sometimes to rephrase that as "Why should I waste energy getting angry about people who I don't care about?"

Dosen't always work, of course

killermist

"Why should I waste energy getting angry about people who I don't care about?" resolves to "Why should I waste energy on people I don't care about?", which resolves to "Why the hell am I working here at all?", which eventually resolves in me quitting.

Journeyman Geek

Ahh, precisely!

killermist

Just simplified verbal math. That's all.

Journeyman Geek

I was thinking of it in terms of SU/SE tho. I don't work here ;p

killermist

@JourneymanGeek in general, since I'm not paid to be here, I'm at least partially here for philanthropic reasons. I'm trying to salvage zombies. "Super Users" are sometimes one of the easier zombies to salvage.

Journeyman Geek

2:28 AM

lol. I'm here cause sometimes questions are fun and I had a wider range of exposure to issues than I did at my old job

killermist

Um, what's up with the paperclip guy? Did someone set up a trigger of some kind?

hehehe. The paperclip guy asked if I was trying to salvage zombies. I clicked "yes", and it presented a search for "salvage zombies".

Journeyman Geek

2:41 AM

Many of the main site channels have easter eggs

killermist

Should I consider myself egged?

Journeyman Geek

Speaking of which, if anyone is curious to what the place I do does io9.com/… they did the sfx for this amongst others ;p

Depends. You might be egged on.

killermist

[sigh] Ending a sentence in a preposition is becoming far too popular. (via incompetence)

"You might have been egged." -- mission accomplished.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo a little late, but Ni-mh and alkaline are said NOT to contain any mercury or cadmium. many button cell (coin cell) were mercury, and literally you could bleed usable mercury out of them. Ni_Cd was the one with cadmium , and is being phased out in european countries becase of the cadmium leeching out of landfills (kind of thing). Rechargable Alkalines were 99% similar in chemisty to regular primary alkalines (an alkaline can be recharged) except rechargable ones were sealed well.

The over the counter (primary) alkalines can also be recharged, but they are very likely to leak, very , so very that even with chargers claiming to charge the regular alkalines with various alogrythms are eventually rejected as fraud even by the people buying into it. A good rechargable alkaline is sealed many times better.

Bob

research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/theslowwinter.pdf

another one

> If her hard disk is active for more than a second per hour, or if her CPU utilization goes above 4%, she either has a computer virus, or she made the disastrous decision to run a Java program.

killermist

2:51 AM

Why does anyone listen to the research from MS anymore?

DragonLord

@killermist sigh

I have no choice but to flag your message

Psycogeek

(or she just has a MS OS installed :-)

Bob

@killermist ...these are for humour. They just happen to be provided as PDFs hosted at MS.

killermist

@DragonLord It's a valid question.

Bob

There's a lot of good research that comes out of MS anyway.

killermist

2:53 AM

@Bob Is there? I haven't seen any of it since ~2002.

"advances" in SMB, NTFS, ... has MS done much else in the mean time?

/me only half-jokes.

(that IRC reference was intentional)

Bob

> Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

killermist

@Bob You oversimplify. The Mossad has no interest in killing any but those that are direct threats to the state of Israel or collaborators thereof. (If you don't realize you are one, that's on your own head)

Journeyman Geek

3:09 AM

@Bob: the second PDF reads like something @Psycogeek would say 0_0

DragonLord

@killermist, what is with you today?

You seem to be in a bad mood.

Journeyman Geek

XD. Obviously everything is going well

Things breaking is a comfort.

killermist

@DragonLord I'm pretty dark generally. That's often cloaked in a ... cloak of helpfulness. The cloak is just a little weak today.

DragonLord

I don't see unusual activity on your main account, but you're acting weird today. Is something bugging you?

killermist

Could be that being in chat helps deteriorate that cloak with additional exposure to barbs.

@DragonLord I don't actively lurk chat often. With me, lurking leads to interactivity, which can go negative.

Most of the time I passively lurk chat or am not in chat at all. So, I'm less active in total.

Bob

3:15 AM

@JourneymanGeek there's six total :D

killermist

@DragonLord on New Years eve and day, I was a bit especially dark, and it reflected in some of my site-proper actions. I got called out on it. I regretted some of the actions I made on SuperUser-proper. Even while in a dark state, I try to be less obviously dark.

With chat being pretty ephemeral, I feel less constrained. Could be a mistake on my part.

DragonLord

superuser.com/review/close/335216

Bad audit?

Read a bit too broad to me.

Psycogeek

The real question is why is he (oh crap , why did I) read that stuff? It is like some psycotic ramblings of a person with a major in computer science a Minor in creative writing, and watching way to much tv :-)

killermist

It is broad and vague.

I didn't think that it warranted a flag. It seems like a valid question. And a number of different companies could have implemented it in any number of ways.

DragonLord

3:38 AM

-1

A: which media player has this feature?

Macgo Blu-ray Player will work as you expected. Plays well for AVI and zoom the video size. By the way, it supports the new Windows 10.

-1

A: Partition broken: Testdisk can see files and copy them, but I can't recover the partition

Your problem is also what many others have encountered. If you want your external drive be recognized by Windows, you should do some detailed things, such as check out whether the usb port is in good condition or not; besides, you can go to disk management to see whether it is there or not...this...

Spammers again.

Just give up, spammers. If you're desperate to sell your product, then actually make a good product and advertise on a more appropriate channel instead.

Bob

@DragonLord Yea, my comment was directed towards the existing two votes only.

I wouldn't object to too broad.

killermist

Incompetence deserves heckling.

Spam == incompetence (of a form)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Yeah, that's pretty dumb

killermist

Marketing == incompetence (of a very slightly different form)

DragonLord

> [...] This is pretty clearly spam, especially when given that the links are to different but related domains, signalling a intent to drive traffic rather than an actual attempt to answer the question.

My response to the second post

Journeyman Geek

3:44 AM

Sad thing is I've used and liked the product of one of those companies, and switched cause they were spammy XD

DragonLord

Would any of you have seen these as spam had I not flag them?

Journeyman Geek

(easus backup , went from them to macrium free (which is great - I still use it with my last XP box), to veem endpoint backup)

Yup

Prolly over lunch

killermist

@JourneymanGeek @DragonLord If a link to a product that must be downloaded is necessary, then that thing probably isn't worthy of being publicized. Unless you're using windoze, and you have to download every useful tool...

Psycogeek

@DragonLord no this site would be helplessly cripped and flooded with spam if it was not for you. We are right now erecting a statue of you in front of the oregon server site for SE , it will sit along side some short legg4ed dog statue they put up last year for some reason :-)

DragonLord

:-)

307 helpful spam flags and counting :)

Glad to be of service to the Super User community.

killermist

3:50 AM

Windoze installs by default are short on useful tools. Adding SSH, SFTP, rsync, and a number of other useful functions are almost herculean. And that's the tip of the iceberg.

Back when I was actually using windoze, my laundry list included WarFTPdaemon, TMPG codec pack, Gordian Knot, several games, TweakUI (because the windoze control panels already hid too much), Winzip, WinRAR, and several others I can't remember off the top of my head. That was AFTER minimum 9 hours of "critical security updates".

I think there was a firewall like Kerio in there somewhere.

Journeyman Geek

lol

DragonLord

@killermist 7-Zip, CCleaner, Firefox, PuTTY, Notepad++, disk monitoring tools, VLC, GIMP

Journeyman Geek

@killermist: I tended to do ok with just GOW (for linux tools) and some stuff off ninite - 7zip, a better browser (chrome/ff) , windirstat etc...
Oh and sublime text

Oh and related to an older convo techreport.com/news/27728/…

killermist

With almost any form of Linux, my install list is fairly short and all in repositories, oddly enough.

ssh (for server if absent), sshfs, python-setup-tools (to install tvnamer), dropbox, transmission-qt

I think all can be installed in one command.

Bob

I need to look at Chocolatey sometime.

DragonLord

4:10 AM

> Very, very sneaky, but Tenorshare is known spam and I'm flagging this answer as such. For context, see the user's other answer and [...]—all of the utilities listed there are mentioned in this answer.

-1

A: How to convert mkv file to mp4 with subtitles and changing DTS audio to AAC or AC3?

If ffmpeg can't work, you can try others. As far as I know, Handbrake, Format Factory, Tenorshare Video Converter. All are great and every of them has its own advantage, like Tenorshare Video Converter, which allows you to edit videos when you are converting videos

Psycogeek

killermist

Handbrake is credible. It doesn't need spam to encourage it.

I use Handbrake.

DragonLord

The problem is Tenorshare, not HandBrake

killermist

Right.

It's the mix of credible and free with less-credible and non-free that is the issue.

Journeyman Geek

io9.com/…

Oh, that's classic spam. Suggesting reputable stuff, and then linking their own

DragonLord

4:20 AM

@killermist I've seen precisely this sort of activity from other spammers promoting Tenorshare, including posts without links (asking users to look it up), links to CNET Download.com, shortened links, and more.

killermist

@DragonLord Sneaky bastards.

DragonLord

@Psycogeek ...except the cat there is really a dragon who knows that lizard can only hide for so long before he's toasted :P

killermist

In my "Information Literacy" class, my instructor introduced the misguided attempt to use URL shorteners to make Facebook links from Twitter appear to be something they weren't.

DragonLord

roar

Another spammer down.

killermist

I told her that if facebook haters got more than one facebook link masquerading as something else, the source would start ignoring the source because they're generating facebook links, so every link is ignored.

DragonLord

4:26 AM

Not really a lizard, but whatever

killermist

She still didn't seem to get it.

DragonLord

!!s/that lizard/that critter/

ChatBot John Cavil

@DragonLord That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

@DragonLord Not really a critter, but whatever (source)

@DragonLord @Psycogeek ...except the cat there is really a dragon who knows that critter can only hide for so long before he's toasted :P (source)

DragonLord

Dec 25 '14 at 21:13, by fixer1234

I don't have an incognito window or sandboxed browser, but I'll have to check out virustotal (wasn't familiar with that). It sounds like flagging posts as spam isn't enough; they need to be flagged specifically to your attention (and what are the odds that you haven't already found it).

See ya

Journeyman Geek

makezine.com/2015/01/26/…

This seems super cool

Psycogeek

4:43 AM

Some of these movies they are putting out should go "Straight to YouTube" not straight to dvd .

killermist

Um. Duh.

Psycogeek

Not sure yet which is worse "lost footage" films or "shot this on my phone" films.

The worst part about them is knowing someone worked , to make it look that way on purpose.

killermist

I think "Blair Witch Project" and "Cloverfield" were the last two movies I watched that could be confused for those categories.

Journeyman Geek

I didn't mind cloverfield, but I probably would have enjoyed it more as a traditional kaiju movie.

(And we did godzilla. I missed out on a chance to get movie swag :/)

killermist

Meh. This uber-dark guy is off to bed.

Psycogeek

4:48 AM

The bitch slap project, i watched (wasted hours) that thing to see what the fuss was about, and i was really wishing someone would come along and put a bag over her head to stop her from hyperventilating.

then later a plastic bag, then a while later i was thinking a rope , and heck I was just hoping whatever boogidy man would come along and finish the job.,

I think even "nature" makes provisions for putting something out if its misery, when so tortured, so even a bear would work in a pinch.

Psycogeek

5:19 AM

THe movie would have been scarier if they had accidentally bumped into one of the Pot farms out in the woods while running from twigs forming occult signs, and things that go bump in the night.

Aparentally they never have been outside, people like that would run back to the car when seeing the above :-)

Psycogeek

7:03 AM

Instagram and facebook are down tunight?

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, Guess its not only us

Psycogeek

they reported it on the TV-News.

" My name is Sarah Connor, and today is the day facebook went offline. Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The facebook, would never go back online. It never left him, and it never hurt him, never shouted at him, or got drunk and hit him, or said it was too busy to spend time with him. It would have always been there. And yet, it would die, to protect him.

Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, this facebook, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice..."

Journeyman Geek

You can stop being dramatic, its back up ;p

Boris_yo

7:32 AM

http://www.woot.com/plus/alienware-gaming-laptops

Since DELL acquired Alienware, things were no longer the same?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo the price is :-) even if the original idea of high quality high end laptops isnt

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek By default alkalines that leak are the ones that sealed not properly? Are those the ones that say on them "May explode or leak if recharged"?

@Psycogeek They were good but quality gone south since...

Psycogeek

normal alkalines primaries are sealed enough to only leak sometimes, especially when old and dead. and they do have the warning not to recharge.

Boris_yo

7:49 AM

@Psycogeek But they are rechargeable, yet have risk? Or you were talking alkalines that are officially states as rechargeable?

Psycogeek

alkaline rechargables are a different thing, it is alkaline chemistry in a thick metal shell. it is like the differenace between chocklate drops and MMs :-)

the normal ones in the store are officially not rechargable , although they could be recharged (because it can). but without the extra containment it is a very bad idea to do so.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek That's why they made the market for NiMH? It's all plan to diversify production?

Psycogeek

8:08 AM

alkaline rechargables have a lot of problems, must charge before it gets to low, only charges 25times max, looses capacity holding ability each time (generally it had a purpose but not great). ni-cd was like built to be totally rechargable and abusable, the ni-mh sort of replaced/improves ni-cd.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Reminds me of lithiums that must not have reached low voltage to stay alive. Reminds me of memory effect NiCD have.

Psycogeek

yup

as if most of the battery chemistry is "advancements and changes" from the original 13th century beginnings :-) That is where an alien infusion of knowlege becomes useful :-) so somewhere in the whole process they think different.

Journeyman Geek

9:13 AM

formlabs.com/en/company/blog/2015/01/06/new-year-new-resolution 3d printers are cool

Erik

No offline installs available for .NET Framework 3.5? Every package I download comes up with "Download and install this feature"

Journeyman Geek

9:30 AM

hm. I think wsus offline update manages to snarf one

Boris_yo

10:16 AM

@JourneymanGeek How is finished product solidity and durability-wise?

Bob

3

Q: Install .NET Framework 3.5 offline

Is there any way to install the .NET Framework without having an internet connexion ? Thanks

.net frameworks installer setup offline

@Erik microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=25150

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo: what finished product?

Boris_yo

10:51 AM

@JourneymanGeek Finished product - product that was printed from raw materials using 3D printer.

Journeyman Geek

11:03 AM

ahh. No idea. Probably a bit shit ;p

heh. Just opened up a 1gb text file, which killed gedit. I snuck in a copy of sublime text to handle things like that now ;p

Oliver Salzburg

11:40 AM

Today is my 5yr Stack Overflow anniversary :D

4

Psycogeek

Sorry no cake, as we all know it was a lie.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek cmon man, vim! :P

Bob

12:55 PM

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allquixotic

1:17 PM

@Psycogeek that's definitely a Maine Coon! <3

Psycogeek

1:35 PM

0

A: User Interface quality issue with some programs on windows 7

90%+ of UI-related problems in Windows Vista and 7 are due to AERO. To test your app without interference, open a cmd and type net stop themes After you study the effects on your applications, you can type 'net start themes' to reload everything. Later, you can tweak the windows GUI to fit your ...

I thought themes service was tied to themes (skins, non-classic) and it was the DWM service that is aero? Ahh i cant test it right now.

Then google chrome, and unity, those are both 3D render capable? so disabling aero would solve because aero is no longer using the 3D that it did not really need, so chrome can use the 3D that it didnt need either :-)

bummi

this one would fit for skeptics.stackexchange.com

Psycogeek

LOL, yea it corrupts the human sences too, like watching bad blu-ray rips compressed to death, you soon start seeing life in smaller blocks and see edge artifacts on everything, You'll go blind!

bummi

@Psycogeek I would not see this OT on SU ....

Psycogeek

1:52 PM

Well there is always some overlap. how about sound.stackexchange.com

although dsp.stackexchange.com while it seems more "video" based has Qs of the sound quality type in it.

bummi

@Psycogeek did't know this site, I'm not sure if it would fit there ...

Psycogeek

then physics , where the could contemplate mathamtically the effective change of sound pressure, then pass it over to biology fo analisis of the ear canal.

after it comes back from biology, we can send it to music.stackexchange.com because they probably have the best handle on what music sounded like originally.

bummi

still opinion bases, same for biology, some references and skeptics might fit IMHO (perhaps)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: work loves vim

I kinda prefer my hipster text editor tyvm

and, finished SR:GOH.

Psycogeek

2:14 PM

@bummi I have seen things at skeptics that are opinion also, although they tray as hard as they can to not be opinion, pulling a scientist blog off the web :-) does not make things fact. not arguing about it being a good bashable for skeptics being a place where they are more likely to say "no Proof" just that some stuff on the web is not usually proof of anything :-) especially if there is some vested interest involved.

Look how strongly some studies (across the world) have shown a correlation to Cellphone RF exposure , for persons with a cell phone stuck to thier ear for extended times. Yet it is still not a big deal to microwave your brain in that manner :-)

bummi

@Psycogeek Argumentum baculinum!

Psycogeek

skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/569/… And skeptics brings us FACTS? or just more data

bummi

@Psycogeek I've seen both, but in general you might be right

it's getting philosophical :)

GFSE

GemsFromStackExchange: When two not-an-answers collide…

posted on January 27, 2015

When two not-an-answers collide…

Psycogeek

I am just of the general opinion that there is much and much that we do not know facts about. some we eventually will.

Psycogeek

2:43 PM

Do buttcandles actually reduce flatulance? buttcandle.com/index.html well the web says so :-)

HackToHell

2:59 PM

bbbuttcandles ?

Psycogeek

3:12 PM

Yea i think that web story comes after a huge reptillian mutant creature comes out of the pacific ocean where some nuclear plant has dumped toxic nuclear wastewater for 3 years. it is said that it is headed for tokyo. For some reason it is intent on tearing down all the power lines along the way, and talks to small children.

DragonLord

3:26 PM

roar

Well, the worst is behind us

Didn't lose power or anything, though we got a lot of snow

killermist

We got a weak dusting in Indianapolis. I'm unimpressed.

allquixotic

ditto for Baltimore

all the major east coast storms in the past few years have just given us rain or 1-2"... they seem to just miss us

DragonLord

3:42 PM

superuser.com/review/close/335402

This was not a good audit

There was good reason to believe that the question was too broad

studiohack

4:11 PM

@allquixotic remind me where you're at in this storm that aint happening?

@killermist it was windy and swirly for a while in IND, but it wasn't too bad. Icy for about 15 hours.

That Brazilian Guy

everyone talking about snow storms and I'm having to deal with 30 celsius at 11 PM :(

DragonLord

Highly doubt Aero or the DWM would explain the problem. In fact, the DWM is a core system component since Windows 8 and the system will drop to software rendering if no 3D acceleration is available. — DragonLord 44 secs ago

studiohack

@ThatBrazilianGuy i do prefer the cold

HackToHell

o_0 diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips

allquixotic

@studiohack ummmmm......

> Baltimore

that's close enough

Baltimore

Baltimore (/ˈbɔːltɨˌmɔr/, locally: [ˈbɔɫ.mɔɻ]) is the largest city in the State of Maryland, the largest independent city in the United States, and the 26th-most populous city in the country. It is located in the central area of the state along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. The independent city is often referred to as Baltimore City to distinguish it from the surrounding Baltimore County. Founded in 1729, Baltimore is the second largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic United States and is situated closer to Midwestern markets than any other major seaport on...

GFSE

4:37 PM

GemsFromStackExchange: Well, at least he’s complementing us on our...

posted on January 27, 2015

Well, at least he’s complementing us on our genius-issness.

That Brazilian Guy

4:59 PM

Me too, wearing thick clothing is easier than stripping my own flesh. .___.

DragonLord

5:24 PM

The upcoming AMD Zen architecture looks really promising, but I'm not sure if they can hold down the fort long enough before the architecture and its associated 14nm process are ready...

14nm FinFET process, multithreaded architecture, up to 8 cores

allquixotic

multithreaded as in (finally) HT-alike?

DragonLord

@allquixotic As far as I can tell, yes

allquixotic

hmm

HT-alike with 16 cores will certainly fare well for workloads that are very multithreaded, or just a large amount of multitasking

DragonLord

By that time, though, the Intel Gen6 (Skylake) chips will be around and I'm not sure how long AMD can hold things down

allquixotic

it'll probably be about as fast as Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge on single-thread perf though... several years behind

DragonLord

5:34 PM

@allquixotic I seriously doubt it's going to be that bad

The Zen uarch is totally different

allquixotic

different != better, as the Pentium 4 showed us

DragonLord

It'll probably have Haswell-level performance, but with better performance-per-watt thanks to the 14nm process

allquixotic

total perf across all cores has always been competitive between AMD and Intel

the high-end Opteron chips, even today, have ridiculous GFLOPS with all cores utilized

DragonLord

As I've said before, AMD must focus on selling as many APUs as it can and putting the latest GPU technology onto the chip

allquixotic

the headache is writing code that's able to take use of all those cores

DragonLord

5:36 PM

APUs are what really matter for AMD's bottom line right now

allquixotic

usually you have two classes of workload: either a workload that really sucks when trying to parallelize it (the overhead of the parallel process equals or outweighs the gains of parallelizing small pieces, for example); or embarrassingly parallel workloads that are better suited for OpenCL on GCN

it takes a lot of work to utilize more than 8 cores unless you're just running the same thing over and over, like those game hosting companies that run N instances of, say, Call of Duty dedicated server on one box

if you want to run one game with one rendering thread (or two, if you're lucky), you want single thread perf... and I don't think AMD has the knowledge capital to challenge Intel on that

unless they've done some impressive recruiting of former Intel employees in recent years :P

Join the Internet Countdown especially if you're in the US, but even non-US citizens should be worried about the precedent this might set

DragonLord

@allquixotic The problem here is that the people can't win

The people just don't have the money to match corporate America in lobbying

Unlike last year, I have no current plans to implement this widget on my website or otherwise participate (but this is subject to change)

allquixotic

@DragonLord a defeatist attitude ensures defeat. a winning attitude at least gives you a chance.

the elitists aren't stupid; they realize that if they push us past the breaking point, we'll make Occupy Wallstreet look like an anthill compared to the mountain of stink we raise

they have to make some concessions or else be prepared to set up concentration camps in the US for hundreds of millions, and I don't think they're done building the camps yet :P (but they're working on em)

it's the same reason grandfathered unlimited data plans are still around. they don't want to push people past the breaking point.

it's been well over 2 years (the contract renewal date) since the last unlimited LTE plan was handed out on either AT&T or Verizon, yet both still have unlimited data users around

DragonLord

What the heck am I doing :/

in Ask a Super User Moderator, Jan 14 at 23:05, by DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek I'm very sorry to say that your fears have come true. I cannot contribute at my full pace any longer and may retire from Stack Exchange completely within the next few months.

This is getting out of hand again.

allquixotic

o.o

DragonLord

5:52 PM

That was almost two weeks ago, but I feel like I'm on the verge of collapse again

in Ask a Super User Moderator, Jan 24 at 3:42, by random

You're in some kind of "full on" election mode setting. And time is just on the other side waiting to see when you're going to snap from stressing yourself out

This is not good :(

Something is just not right

@allquixotic, I know you've gone through this, too, so tell me about how you dealt with it.

allquixotic

@DragonLord as I've said since the first time I spoke to you probably more than a year ago, you're trying too hard to get elected as a moderator

just chill out, take it easy, contribute to the site as much as you can stomach, then stop and do other things, take care of real life, play games, etc

don't worry about what people will think of you if/when election time comes

much better to have a long tail of steady contributions over the course of years than to sprint for 2 weeks and get burnt out

DragonLord

The election is off my mind for the most part but I still want to contribute

allquixotic

it's kind of an addiction; I had it when I first joined but it wore off pretty quickly when I discovered chat

I mostly stick to answering questions that I find genuinely interesting nowadays, and answering meta questions

I really don't care if that makes me a bad person for having mod tools and not using them to clear the review queues or whatever

I do what's fun for me, not necessarily what's good for the site (as long as what I do commit to doing, turns out to be beneficial to the site and not actively harmful)

DragonLord

Well, if you look at the recent starred messages in Ask a Super User Moderator, it is clear the current mods are very concerned about my recent activity

allquixotic

they're not concerned about your activity; they're concerned for your health (mental or otherwise)

DragonLord

6:02 PM

Not that I'm doing anything bad to the community, but it may very well escalate to a formal moderator warning or even a suspension if this continues

allquixotic

seems like you're doing good work

DragonLord

I just can't get myself to scale back my contributions

I feel like clearing the review queues is my duty

allquixotic

hmm

here's another idea... if you seem to be unable to pry yourself from SU, then maybe change the focus of what you are contributing to

instead of worrying about the review queues, let them go for a day or two, and focus on answering good questions

find a good question, do some research (googling...) or answer based on your knowledge

just post answer after answer until you're tired; nobody will ever tell you you're bad for answering tons of questions, as long as the answers are good

if you get nitpick comments, just silently edit your post incorporating their feedback, and avoid responding to them beyond "Thanks!" (unless they're wrong, in which case you can tell them why :P)

DragonLord

Then again, the storm was very exhausting for me to deal with

I think I'm just getting bored

I still eat spam(mers) for lunch :-)

allquixotic

good ;D the natural reaction to boredom is to contribute less, which is what seems to be best for you right now

Canadian Luke

6:18 PM

Option 2: Minesweeper

DragonLord

7:04 PM

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Any good business explanation for using a proprietary power supply?

Blog bot

7:16 PM

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Canadian Luke

8:42 PM

@DragonLord Cause they want to make sure you don't use generic parts

Also, I have a great idea for you, @DragonLord. If you are concerned about "over doing it", why not try writing a blog post?

It'll get your name out there, and hopefully take your mind off of some of the review tasks

killermist

9:02 PM

@allquixotic The problem with putting government in position to declare fair/unfair is that... it puts GOVERNMENT in a position to declare fair or unfair. That's not neutrality. That's just rebranded tyranny. As with most things, the government needs to just butt out.

allquixotic

@killermist Thanks for summarizing the libertarian political viewpoint :) Not that I haven't heard it 10,000 times before

but our corporate overlords could not possibly do any wrong if left to their own devices, right?

because if the only monopolistic ISP to offer you internet service at your house is exercising unfair business practices, you always have the option to move to another place where a different monopolistic ISP is also exercising unfair business practices. :-)

I'm glad the government "butted out" of regulating the wireless bands too, so the fucktard next door to me can legally transmit garbage data on the 700 MHz LTE band and disrupt my smartphone's data connection... boy am I glad the government butted out of that!

the only way the libertarian philosophy works is if there is competition, and the only way competition is sustainable is if there's some degree of regulation to prevent monopolies... because every single goods market, if unregulated, will tend towards monopoly, and an unregulated corporate monopoly is the very definition of tyranny.

DragonLord

Government only works for the people when it is controlled by the public at large. However, it is effectively controlled by large corporations that pour millions of dollars into the system to produce legislation contrary to what is desired by the people. The people are effectively silenced through corporate lobbying.

DemCodeLines

10:30 PM

anyone here?

studiohack

passin' through

DemCodeLines

So I'm using Windows 10 Preview Build 9926 (the current one) and having trouble connecting to VPN.

Everytime I try, it says, "Debugger terminated thread."

and I have no clue what that means

studiohack

means some kind of automated debugging running in the background is automatically killing the program

other than that, I don't know. But that could be tricky to work with

especially since 10 is not a final build

Bob

10:50 PM

> A modern Web page is a catastrophe. It’s like a scene from one of those apocalyptic medieval paintings that depicts what would happen if Galactus arrived: people are tumbling into fiery crevasses and lamenting various lamentable things and hanging from playground equipment that would not pass OSHA safety checks.

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Bob

11:08 PM

> CSS is not so much a description of what your final page will look like, but rather a loose, high-level overview of what could happen to your page, depending on the weather, the stock market, and how long it’s been since you last spoke to your mother.

allquixotic

11:23 PM

@studiohack usually the "debugger" would get attached due to a crash in the program and not otherwise

which implies that the VPN service is crashing for some reason and the debugger isn't the responsible party, just that it isn't letting you debug it (maybe because you don't have the source code...)

pre-production windows builds have all kinds of bizarre things in them

er.............

!! s/pre-production//

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic windows builds have all kinds of bizarre things in them (source)

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