Root Access

12:27 AM

I hate quicken at times

@Ramhound I used YNAB for a while. Haven't really done anything there recently though :S (cc @JourneymanGeek)

The problem I have is my account needs to be reconciled for some reason

its totally out of whacked....

@Bob nor have I

amusingly, switched over to a spreadsheet for a while, and I'm not getting any income at the moment

@JourneymanGeek How does gov welfare work in Sg anyway?

Quicken decided to remove my banking account

like omG!@

12:33 AM

Plenty, livable, not enough, none?

@Bob not getting any.

none

Ouch.

Living with my parents takes the sting off, and I did actually get paid till november.

@JourneymanGeek In general, does Sg welfare depend on current living conditions?

Or is it just an overall none?

@Bob We don't really have a welfare system unless you're older I think

12:41 AM

Ahh...

That's... not so nice.

meh, I'm lucky enough that I won't be out on the street.

Its just annoying how tough the job market is, and how it feels almost like 90% of job ads don't even bother getting in touch with you

wonderful

@JourneymanGeek Does the gov provide any assistance in finding work, or is is pretty much just a "you're on your own"?

quicken locked up..

lol

@Bob local jobs bank exists

12:45 AM

Though I suppose they wouldn't help much for skilled work anyway :\

but yeah, not much more useful than most jobs sites

@JourneymanGeek What kind are you applying for? If you don't mind sharing.

Its been 2 weeks + since my second interview, and no word yet. I'd assume at this point you'd at least get a rejection notice

@JourneymanGeek Might be worth calling them up and asking.

Yeah

(github is awesome about that)

12:52 AM

Can somebody explain the human condition of doubting somebody and just plain ignoring their suggested course of action?

0

Q: 0x119 BSOD solution?

This has only happened twice in the last 2-3 months, both times were when I opened Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta, it BSODs on the menu after the Mojang logo when it should be connecting to Live and doing its thing, but this is not an issue with Minecraft itself and I can usually play just fi...

In my experience getting a rejection note on 1:10 applications would be a great score.

Should be slightly better after two interviews though

Author: I am using build 10576 and there are no updates

me: Yes, There is the current build is 10586.11

Author: It says there is no updates :$

1:22 AM

flag handling on my end might be a little slow today. I'm at the last bits of curbstomping this annoying cold, and its trying its worst.

2:23 AM

boingboing.net/2015/11/19/an-animal-filled-a-microwave-a.html That's nuts

4:06 AM

@JourneymanGeek Hah, wow.

ekaj

4:57 AM

Is it possible for two users on SE to have the same name? I see two Sathyas, but one is the mod

allquixotic

@ekaj there is no restriction on duplicate display names

I could go change my name to ekaj right now if I wanted to

ekaj

5:29 AM

Interesting

@ekaj: usernames aren't unique

However, if you change your name to something to pretend to be someone else, you're in for it.

Sathya is fairly generic. Journeyman Geek is not ;p

@JourneymanGeek Eh, there's no specific rule against that either AFAICT.

More of a for-fun vs malicious-impersonation distinction.

I've seen a few Jon Skeets around :P

;p

Q: Jon Skeet impersonators running rampant?

shrug looks like no hard and fast rule, but they do revert on a case-by-case basis:

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At first I thought it was amusing because it is April 1st and thought it was another one of stackoverflow's attempts to troll me. Ha ha. But then I realized that users were changing their profiles to imitate Jon Skeet. http://stackoverflow.com/users/155407/jon-skeet http://stackoverflow.com/use...

discussion status-completed april-fools

It's also kinda hard to define if a name is well-known enough :P

yup

in any case its entirely fine to have a username called Sathya, if your name is Sathya, eh @Sathya? ;p

5:41 AM

> There's a difference between sharing the same name as another user, and pretending to be another user.

shrug I avoided this entirely by having an extremely common name :P

;p

Which confuses me, since there's a bob in hr/hw/hwr

:S

(whatever acronym people like this week)

Oh, the ava is usually a givaway

ANyway

@ekaj you have a unique per site ID (and maybe a global one). Your username need not be unique.

ekaj

5:59 AM

Yes, I saw the usernames are "not unique" the 3 times...land I figured each person had a global / site / other type of ID. I just wasn't aware people could have duplicate names until today

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek :p

as long as you're true to your name... :P

;p

you must be one with the Sathya.. to be a Sathya :P

Sathya

lol

6:23 AM

had an interesting error pop up the other day

"[DSR_XLDR] checksum mismatch - system halted"

never found out what actually caused it :F

the first part within the brackets yields no results on google

@Leathe Pop up where? On your toaster?

no, the microwave ;P

nah, a Dell Latitude E5440

it was solved by just reinstalling W7

but I'm just confused what caused it

I was trying to format a usb that had write protection on and messed around with diskpart, but I'm not really sure that actually caused a checksum mismatch

shrug searches say firmware reporting an inability to load from MBR, and potentially a HDD failure

6:38 AM

and a reinstall reformats and handles bad clusters.

I really need to get some analytics up

some total stranger found me.

I mean, my blog

Ben? :P

6:54 AM

Yeah ;p

(all posts are manually approved, I do deal with something like 200 spam posts to one real one)

:P

outside the ones akmiset chomps

I was just reading up on your server hax and started reading about key based auth :p

After I mentioned the blog?

yes

6:59 AM

XD

but disabling password auth on a server all together could cause some oopsie-daisies

Oh, if I lost the keys it would I guess

especially if you mess up and lose a pub key

and/or have a regular account to get it with

But that's what backups are for.

I suppose

7:02 AM

And I'd rather focus on security over oopsie proofness after that

7:18 AM

@Leathe If you lose a public key you really screwed up.

Losing a private key is no more likely than losing a password.

You do use secure random passwords that are unique to each account, right?

i.e. not ones you remember.

HackToHell

8:00 AM

Loosing a public key to a VPS isn't that big of a deal, if you have access to the KVM console or something similar

If not add two damned keys

lol

Its a dedi

and I just keep multiple backups of my keys

it isn't too hard to do with bvckup

(since obviously, I don't want to leave keys on dropbox, even if they're ambigiously named and at least one key is obsolete)

HackToHell

Yeah, a copy of the keys on all them cloud providers

Doubly encrypted with a zip password over the standard pass phrased key

ugh

Might as well leave them written in ancient aramic on a toilet wall ;p

(not a fan of sticking such things in the cloud)

8:33 AM

'lo. Anyone up to trying to give me live support with a machine that won't boot?

Have you tried turning it... oh wait

What sort of machine?

And what sort of "won't boot"?

(sounds like a yes)

It's a small fanless PC, with an SSD inside, Linux installed. UEFI capable but this is disabled, I guess. I've unplugged the system yesterday (without shutting down), and today, when plugging it in and booting it, I get to the Intel Boot Agent, then it says "Initializing and establishing link", then "Media test failure, check cable"

Bootloader error? Firmware error (e.g. can't find bootloader)? Beep codes? Nothing at all? Burps fire?

8:35 AM

Intel boot agent suggests that its not picking up the disk

its trying to pxe boot, not finding anything and barfing.

@JourneymanGeek Or that it can't find a valid bootloader on the disk.

And then it says "exiting" and I get to a boot menu where I get to select 1) the internal shell or 2) PCI LAN, and I can't do anything

UEFI should be enabled, secure boot should be disabled.

The system ran fine yesterday tho :P

That smells like UEFI mode.

8:35 AM

Lemme check that

Check if you have the CSM turned on.

^ that

Also, do you know if the system was installed in UEFI mode?

^ No idea

These are the boot features: Quick Boot disabled, UEFI Boot disabled, Legacy Boot enabled, Bood in Legacy Video Mode disabled, Load OPROM On Demand

...internal shell in "legacy boot" mode?

O_O

8:37 AM

The boot order seems correct; there are no other devices attached to it, and the internal SATA drive comes before the "internal shell" and the LAN anyway

Have you tried plugging it (the drive) out and in again?

Humm. Well if I knew how to open this darn thing :P

Also, do you have a boot USB?

Not at hand, but I could try to create one and come back with that later. So your guess is that something must've been going wrong with the SSD inside?

Could of course simply be fried but I dunno.

@slhck Well, we have little-to-no information to go on.

8:39 AM

It sounds somewhat plausible.

Its not picking up the bootloader on the SSD...

You could try turning UEFI boot on (why is it disabled? why can you disable it?)

hm

wouldn't you be able to see if the SSD is detected in the 'bios'?

@JourneymanGeek Could be detected but corrupted. But I'm not sure if that'll show a "bootloader not found" or just skip it entirely.

In UEFI mode it should skip. No idea what happens with the CSM.

Let me try turning it on

It's nice that they have a screwdriver kit next door but why are they all frigging Torx?

I'm in the EFI shell now

That's not going to do you much good.

8:42 AM

there should be a button to go into some menu thing.

as soon as you start up hold down...

er it could be f2, esc or del

Hmm. Nope, as soon as it turns on it says "Press ESC in … seconds to skip startup.nsh, any other key to continue", but now I'm always in this shell.

0_0

and lol

this is why I kept a basic screwdriver kit at my last job.

Well, I can type exit and then I'm back where I started

Found one

Good morning all

So, removing SSD and putting it back in didn't help.

8:46 AM

I got 54 upvotes after I was rep capped yesterday ...

I guess I should either a) boot with a flash drive and check if that SSD works at all or b) put it in another machine and check there

@JourneymanGeek I have a handy kit with just about every screw type I'm likely to encounter. Got it recently when I needed a triangle bit. Triangle.

Too bad I have my enclosure at home

@Bob Triangle bits? What's next — Triforce bits?

Hm... the awkward thing is I can't find it in my ebay purchase history

oh maybe I got that one off dx

Oh here it is banggood.com/…

That's quite cheap

8:50 AM

It's not a particularly good set, but it works in a pinch and has most of the odd bits I'd never find elsewhere.

Especially the "tamper-proof" crap.

@slhck pentaloab.

which I need, and triangle

I have a good basic set tho

Ugh. Will not boot off a USB disk either?

I created a DSL Linux flash drive with unetbootin.

When I select it in the Boot Menu, it just briefly flashes and goes back to the menu.

Will deal with this later… stupid machine. Thanks for your help, @Bob, @JourneymanGeek

DSL isn't a great choice here

I'd go with ubuntu or fedora, and a more modern version if possible

@slhck Did you end up turning UEFI boot on?

@Bob Yeah but I only got to the EFI shell and that was it

9:03 AM

Hm.

I've never used unetbootin :\

I usually use YUMI

Which opens up a syslinux menu

My supervisor just tells me that there had been problems with this machine before.

No UEFI support there though

@Bob No YUMI for Mac :P

But unetbootin uses syslinux as well I think

@slhck Bah. You're the one who decided to use OS X :P

@Bob Eh. I have a Windows PC as well which I need for plenty of other things — at least to be able to interface with other colleagues' stuff

9:10 AM

I use rufus, which works great on windows ;p

A colleague tells me that there have been problems with a loose connection in this model.

Good to know, huh?

yup

;p

HackToHell

9:23 AM

hmm, there seems to be no way to recover my phone's fastboot gets corrupted

There seems to be no xFSTK downloader available for flashing the eMMC

and xfstk never seems to work proper

me has a bricked galileo board

hello guys a silly Q, in MS access 2013, tables are being opened in new windows, how to open them in new tab, like they do by default?

I don't think anyone here actually uses Access...

i dont either, it's just this project fro someone else

im a nixer

kinda embarrassed to ask on the main site about it cause it's silly

something like that?

@Leathe exactly how to make it like that

9:38 AM

Form Design -> Arrange -> Tabular

I.. think

I had it like that by default ;P

@Leathe no i think design arrange tabular is for form design, so the design of input fields and not the preferences of access itself. yes it's by default like that, i don't know why now it's different

i'll ask on the main site if it's not an easy answer, hoping they don't vote it down too much

hmm

if anyone knows the answer please post it here so I can vote it up and accept it, superuser.com/questions/1003109/…

bye gtg

found it ;PO

10:15 AM

Saw this on FB ;p

10:56 AM

Amusing troll

11:20 AM

@JourneymanGeek plz don't use what-gon?

baygon is a brand of insecticide.

Ah

I thought it was some horrific mis-spelling of ray-gun or something

spam

@Hennes spam's cooked.

XKCD

11:33 AM

You know what they say--if you don't like the weather here in the Solar System, just wait five billion years.

The 5-trillion year forecast is sad :(

lol

Heat death.
Hmm, I wonder if that will actually happen.

11:49 AM

You'll never live to regret it.

Maybe, but we will always be > 0Kelvin

> Arriving tomorrow
Shipping today
Track package

Microsoft Band 2 - Medium
Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L.
£199.99

@Hennes Not neccessarily.

If we're in a false vacuum, 0K might not be absolute 0.

well, absolute 0 kelvin isn't possible in practice :p

> On the other hand, if the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct, the explanation for why there has been no vacuum decay yet despite many high-energy particle collisions changes entirely. In this case, the corresponding collisions did trigger the vacuum decay, and we're not observing it simply because every such event excludes any observers in its causal (light-cone) future - and there are always worlds exactly identical to such a world in everything except the decay event and its future cone. More generally, the same applies to any set of future light-cones - that is,…

12:08 PM

@Leathe "absolute 0 kelvin isn't possible in practice". Hmm if you can have 1K and -1K what is in between?

you can't have -1 kelvin

Negative temperature

In physics, certain systems can achieve negative temperature; that is, their thermodynamic temperature can be expressed as a negative quantity on the Kelvin or Rankine scales. In colloquial usage, "negative temperature" may refer to temperatures that are expressed as negative numbers on the more familiar Celsius or Fahrenheit scales, with values that are colder than the zero points of those scales but still warmer than absolute zero; this usage is not treated in this article. A system with a truly negative temperature on the Kelvin scale is hotter than any system with a positive temperature. If...

sure yeah, but that's not colder than 0 kelvin

it doesn't transition over

Ah, I see +0 K, … , +300 K, … , +∞ K, −∞ K, … , −300 K, … , −0 K."

Weird ;)

> A substance with a negative temperature is not colder than absolute zero, but rather it is hotter than infinite temperature.

Makes sense. Not

12:12 PM

Much physics.

Still doesn't rule out classically negative temperature arising from a vacuum nucleation event

while not completely accurate, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has been used to describe why |0|ºK isn't possible

I find it easier to think it in the way that, to cool X down, you have to use something colder than X

God I hate quantum physics.

I'm basically Einstein

@JourneymanGeek False vacuum homies, false vacuum.

12:16 PM

"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. " - Richard Feynman

@Leathe: I'm uncertain of this.

@Leathe Quoting someone on the internet doesn't make him right.

a good quote by niels borh "For those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. "

@qasdfdsaq do you know who Richard Feynman was? ;P

@Leathe Yes. Do you know who Albert Einstein was?

yes :p

12:20 PM

I'm with Einstein on this one.

wait, are you saying there is someone who understands quantum mechanics?

or was.

and I don't mean in the sense of e.g understanding English

No I'm saying quantum physics is wrong.

12:33 PM

right :p

12:49 PM

@Bob @JourneymanGeek The SSD is simply fried, that's all. Tested it in three other machines and one enclosure.

Ah.

The enclosure didn't even recognize a hardware contact.

@slhck that's the more common failure mode on SSDs I guess.

ow

Yep, had a few go like that. More often than not, the controllers fail before the NAND flash

Which is why anyone who is concerned about NAND wearing out is not too bright.

12:53 PM

@JourneymanGeek Or just misinformed.

There's such a huge amount of misinformation going around that it's hard to blame end users for not knowing what's right and what's not.

@qasdfdsaq or outdated.

@qasdfdsaq I post a LOT of answers referencing tests about SSD endurance cause of that.

Yeah, I've even had to school some of my old friends over at storagereview over that, now that they're drinking a lot of the "enterprise support" kool-aid.

@Leathe Counter example: cooling down RB-85 with a laser.

Oh, I'd go MLC over TLC if I was worried about endurance a little.

(but my one TLC drive seems fine)

I'm happy with TLC V-Nand

12:59 PM

Oh, the 850s do come with a decade long warranty

and backups.