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Bob
12:06 AM
> The time field is for letting an input source (typically a hardware device) say, "Hi, um, the mouse left button went down at 9:30 this morning. Yes, I know it's already 10am. The PCI bus got a flat tire, and then the spare was also flat, and really there's no point going into the details. Sorry this message arrived late." The window manager (and anybody else who bothers to check the time member of the MSG structure) uses this information to do things like detect double-clicks.
> If the input source later reports, "Hi, um, the mouse left button went up at 9:30:00.100 this morning, sorry for the late report," the window manager says, "Well, that was only 100 milliseconds after the button went down thirty minutes ago, so I guess that's a double-click after all. Could you try to be a bit more prompt with this information in the future?" (Sarcasm added.)
 
12:19 AM
@MichaelFrank LOL
 
@allquixotic haha I thought "I know that cat!"
 
@Ramhound it seems rather odd to me that a "cheat engine" can scan other programs memory but a AV program cannot? I am not sure i believe the whole of what he is saying. Could be by "blinded" he would mean "protected" and even that is a bit odd to me when without "accesses" to things and things functioning on other things etc, what good are they?
Trying to drive a car with the steering wheel locked , has never been a wise things to do, therefore even the more advanced security for a car, is not effective if they just jerk you out of the car with the key still in :-)
 
@Psycogeek - All I know is that Microsoft for about 4 months threaten to take away the ability to run a process in kernel mode ( what most av run as ) with Windows 8. AV companies then threaten court cases, Microsoft backed off, AVs continued to write bad code. Windows Defender isn't ran different then Norton though.
Microsoft wanted to though. For obvious reasons AV companies hacked together a solution. Microsoft can just write code, in the kernel itself, to support their own solution. They actually did they just allow anyone to use said injection.
hence the reason Av software is half as bad as it used to be/
 
I assume that windows might work with a few av companies to allow them to do thier job even if everything else is psudo protected. Not like needing to use an exploit. Seemingly even with the defender stuff they have encouraged the use of AV programs.
 
windows defender didn't change all that much between 8.1 and 10 so I am not sure how to explain the user's thought process.
 
12:30 AM
I doubt also that defender is YET the be all do all virus and malware catcher anyways, i would trust it to protect microsoft, but not all malware and viruses.
 
Weird thought for the day: If marajuana becomes fully legal for recreational use, will the FTC and FDA ask "herb" products to redefine themselves. Garlic and Herb things , Herb Teas, would all take on new meaning.
(of course Herb Brownies wont have any initial problems with definition)
 
1:08 AM
"Cortana isn't working and finding files on my computer"
-1
A: Cortana Search is not finding applications on Windows 10

Ivan ViktorovicIf nothing helps to repair the search then its possible to just install the well know "Windows Classic Shell". But i still hope Microsoft will fix this issues with the start menu.

shoots himself
 
Bob
1:23 AM
@allquixotic Ok, Matrix2 order placed :D
I can still cancel if I remember something else soon.
Amazon pls
 
@Bob it's the worst, right? Always with the false promises.
 
1:45 AM
Ahh... nothing says research like tab names you can't read.
 
@MichaelFrank Let's see. StackOverflow, Technet, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, MySQL (?), ...
@bwDraco rofl
 
@allquixotic Pretty much, no MySQL in there though. Couple of random blogs though.
 
he was just the distraction, while 53 TOW missiles were being imported in the RV that went through, while they were facinated by the guy with the turtles in his pants.
 
Bob
2:00 AM
@allquixotic Was looking at these but they don't do aptX ... they do have AAC, though, so good for iPhone? :P
BT 3.0 o.o
 
dija ever see that in your country (happens here) one drunk with a knife yelling things in the street, takes 45 cops off of patrol to deal with the sitation eventually filling him with enough lead he just drops from the weight. While on the other side of town 2 banks are robbed.
(luckily most criminals are not that smart)
And of course the news crews have to show up too. A drunk with a knife , only news on youtube, but 45 cops showing up, that is news.
 
 
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3:22 AM
Going to convert from Lastpass to Keepass :D
Was stranded the other day with only my phone and it was too damn hard to open the lastpass wallet from the phone
 
3:50 AM
@Bob what browser integration plugin works best ?
 
@Ramhound Cortana is useless anyway ; )
@Psycogeek sounds eventful...
@Psycogeek they should of just brought out a tranquilliser gun and dosed him full of ketamine. I don't understandhow taking a life is first resort rather than last. They could caged him in, and wait for him to chill out
 
Bob
4:28 AM
@HackToHell ... I don't use one :P
 
they would only do that with a dangerous animal :-) gee i really do not know why they never thought of tranqs , even if it took some time to take effect (they do) these stupidity standoffs are long enough.
Tasers they got covered, i think it is even standard issue, because on policemans defence was, he had thought that he had pulled his tazer, the lightweight plastic thing, not his gun the heavy metal thing.
 
@R.Doto typically the moment you are armed using lethal force is fine.
And in some cases tasers don't work if you're drugged up enough
 
Yea if the cops are too drugged up, they have a hard time hitting the target with a taser :-)
 
5:26 AM
@Bob You copy paste ? ....
 
5:40 AM
@Bob Android app ?
There seem to be a bunch
I am using this one play.google.com/store/apps/…
 
Bob
@HackToHell Don't use that either. I've been meaning to put it on my phone, but never got around to it.
 
Bob
6:19 AM
I don't use that*
 
7:00 AM
0
Q: What lubricants can be safely added to a laptop fan?

RockPaperLizardI've got a fan in a laptop that occasionally makes some loud airplane-like noises. It mostly happens about 10 seconds after booting up and lasts for 10-20 seconds. It also occasionally happens when the computer is running, but very rarely. Interestingly, it does not seem to happen when the pro...

the real question is how do you get TO the location to lubricate.
Many of these fans have no way to get at the critical places, like a 1 Ball, you cant get to the sleeve which is usually not only The problem, but is so toasted by the time you hear it squealing.
And tiny fans are the worst for longevity.
real 2ball fans will outlive a sleeve bearing fan by 2-3 times.
But some 2 balls i have bought have no balls, just a shaft :-)
I have one set of fans that (couldn't be cooler) the blades pop off , assumption is for cleaning, but it allows for maintance. Those i can keep alive.
I have tried silicon sprays to try to get Into where the needed lube is, that is a total waste, it gets everywhere but where it is needed.
Some special fans have cool names that sound good, but all it is inside is "rifeling" on the shaft that is somehow supped to encourage the flow of lubrications. Completely useless, as a 600-2000 spinning shaft with lubrication rifeling would make a pump that could move 3 tablesspoon an hour. Yet the most possible lubrication they will have is 1/8th a tea on a piece of felt.
Fans that had lubrication points under the label on the back, that was cool, but i do not think most of them are made that way any more.
This all still leaves, If you waited until it was making noises, might as well throw it out. lubricating it at that point will quiet it for a while, but it is still so messed up it will be making noise again in a month.
700$-2400$ computers and have you ever seen one that had anything but a $2 fan in it :-)
 
7:32 AM
from insidemylaptop.com/take-apart-dell-studio-1537-laptop gee just 15 steps to get to it there, all to put a drop of lubricant on a crappy sleeve bearing that was worn out before you got it apart.
 
Bob
7:50 AM
@JourneymanGeek Problem: need to shrink heatshrink. Solution: get a heat gun (or butane torch...). New problem: want to find other uses for said torch. Solution: ???
:P
 
Melt them aluminium cans with the torch and make a new heat sink
 
Bob
@HackToHell Already tried that. Well, the first bit. Did you know most aluminium cans have a plastic coating on the inside?
Those fumes are nasty.
 
 
8:11 AM
@Bob I find that with most tools, you often find uses. Just not always the tools.
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Not always ... the tools?
 
@Bob Yup
I have no idea where my buthane torch is ;p
 
Bob
ParseError
Ohhhh
@JourneymanGeek What type? :P
I was looking at the ones that sit on top of hte stove cans, but they feel dangerous
 
The little one?
 
Bob
...little one?
 
Bob
8:49 AM
 
Argh. I just joined a computer to a domain and assigned a computer name that was already in use O__o
I need to quickly unfuck this before the phone starts ringing...
 
9:08 AM
And of course that specific error code is not mentioned in the list...
actually, it is in the English list fortunately
 
@qasdfdsaq Yes, I have a gold
 
> The installation failed in the FIRST_BOOT phase with an error during SYSPREP operation
Gotta get to bed, though.
 
9:25 AM
Error code is 0xC1900101-0x30018
Please don't tell me this is because of my USB debit card reader, because I have no idea how to uninstall that one (this is a rhetorical comment)
 
9:42 AM
@Bob 0_0
@Bob Yeah. I've gotten too used to the usual dance of spamming entirely unread resumes, then striking it lucky all of a sudden.
 
 
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11:09 AM
I have a group policy to map a network drive. Now I changed the network location for that mapped drive in the policy yesterday. However, the mapped drive on my machine still points to the old location. wtf?
The policy is set to replace, which should mean that the mapping is overwritten when the policy is applied
"Apply once" is also not checked
@NateKerkhofs It appears the solution is 0xC18D00E9
 
11:33 AM
@OliverSalzburg did you run gpupdate on the machine?
 
11:56 AM
@Leathe No. But it was rebooted
 
hm. in my experience sometimes rebooting doesn't quite do it, for some reason :b
 
Well, I just hope that it didn't work for some users :P
What the...
 
 
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1:23 PM
Instant consumerism brainwash: youtube.com/watch?v=SFmM5CWnmtE
 
1:43 PM
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Bob
That's ooold
 
How about this one?
with picture included
meant to show you that yesterday
 
2:00 PM
nice
12 cores HT?
 
2:19 PM
wtf 506GB 100% usage?
 
Bob
@Leathe DB servers (caches) tend to do that.
 
2:41 PM
@Leathe: yea i allocate 95% ish of the memory for sql server caching.
rest are reserved for the OS
@JourneymanGeek: Amd Opteron(tm) Processors6348's
@Leathe: More caching = less disk io.. less disk io = happy luns..
 
@Dave do 16 cores or 16 modules?
 
cores
i believe
not sure, didnt buy the hardware
 
You can never have enough RAM :D
 
2:56 PM
lol
 
3:19 PM
@Dave Ahahahahahahaha!
@HackToHell Yes, I learnt that after filling our 1TB RAM machine
 
Bob
Doesn't ship here though :(
Hm. This does though: amazon.com/dp/B00JFOP688
Would be a good excuse for me to add an 802.11ac AP
...not much cheaper than the Archer C5 normally is. Bleh.
 
Bob
3:41 PM
(they still haven't shipped the meelec ones yet so I'm looking for other things to add :P)
 
4:25 PM
@Bob Dumb-Link? :(
 
4:50 PM
I'm keeping this whole Windows 1511 update until I'm back from holiday and have taken care of unemployment stuff. I'll probably have to uninstall the smartcard software for the card readers I have to use for my bank and unemployment
or I'll uninstall all that jazz today and try the 1511 update again tomorrow, after I'm back
Is there a way to show more information in the device manager beyond just a basic name of the device? It's hard to find what drivers I should uninstall
 
5:10 PM
I'm trying to think of a funny thing to anonymously send a friend of mine whilst he's at work. Any ideas?
Something that'll leave him speechless and confused
 
check the frontpage of Reddit, there should be something there
 
Just been there ;)
 
Does he know about Ploft?
Or would that be too offensive?
You didn't specify it has to be NSFW, you only implied that
 
Hmm, I wouldn't think so :P
It can be NSFW
 
@R.Doto Ploft it is then
 
5:13 PM
What is ploft? Haha. I searched it - a cartoon?
I mean as in an actual parcel btw
I was thinking a non- stop card, that plays the audio of a porno. Once you open the card, the sounds only stops once it's ran out of juice
A large dildo seems to common and he'd be able to hide it haha
 
Send him an an inflatable sheep.
In a large box
@R.Doto yeah, it's a cartoon about a literal piece of shit that lives in the rectum of a farmyard animal from a caricature of a Welsh farmer (aka someone who loves his sheep a bit too much).
 
@NateKerkhofs hahaha sounds like a great idea
@NateKerkhofs Deserves an Oscars. I bet it's an incredibly emotional cinematic.
 
@R.Doto especially when the piece of shit takes a chainsaw to the farmer's genitals
That's all I'm going to say before I get into trouble
 
5:29 PM
@NateKerkhofs oh my. If you find that a good watch, I'm sure you'd enjoy ' the evil dead' just as much
 
Just logged into chat and what is the first thing I see? Some line about genitals.
 
@qasdfdsaq Read the history
it makes sense in context
 
I'm not sure I want to
 
We were discussing Ploft
 
Plofting genitals?
 
5:31 PM
@qasdfdsaq just search youtube for the Ploft video and then come back to read the chat
 
@qasdfdsaq hahaha, no comment
 
Just be careful. we were discussing something to send a friend that leaves them speechless and confused, and Ploft definitely qualifies for that
 
@qasdfdsaq now that you're here: can you think of a greater idea than @NateKerkhofs did? (For an anonymous parcel to a friend at work)
 
I suggested an inflatable sheep
 
@NateKerkhofs i must include a note inside of the box too. Something in context of zoophillia of course
 
5:35 PM
@R.Doto Maybe a 1 week pass to a zoophilia website?
 
@NateKerkhofs I've found the perfect sheep. I'll link you
@NateKerkhofs How do you rate it?
 
This shit is so NSFW
 
5:56 PM
Where can I learn to include encryption in my programs?
 
@CanadianLuke ClosedTooBroad
 
@allquixotic Alright then. How can I forum?
 
@CanadianLuke no.
 
-.- fine...
 
6:42 PM
I just spent 30 minutes clean installing my drivers to hopefully fix a texture corruption issue. I swear to %Deity, if my game textures look like a sieve one more time,...
 
@NateKerkhofs It could be a "known issue" with a particular game/GPU configuration, that might not be resolvable at all. What GPU and what game?
 
@allquixotic Geforce GTX 770. I have issues in AC: Syndicate and in the Battle.net desktop client.
Like in that picture
@allquixotic I have been having the issue with the Battle.net client for months now, and AC:Syndicate sporadically
I also get black flashes when turning my sound up or down using the Windows controls, like happens when your drivers crash
I used DDU to wipe my drivers in safe mode, installed Geforce Experience from a fresh download, then patched to the latest game ready drivers
 
@NateKerkhofs Good troubleshooting steps. Have you tried updating your chipset (motherboard, PCI Express, etc.) BIOS and drivers?
 
@allquixotic No i haven't, and I haven't got a clue how I should do that
Doesn't Windows take care of that for you?
 
No it doesn't.
@NateKerkhofs Go to the manufacturer website for your motherboard and see if they have any updated drivers for your chipset, or any BIOS updates
those can sometimes resolve issues integrating a GPU into a system
 
6:50 PM
@allquixotic I'll do it once I see the problem return
No use in fixing something that you're not sure is broken
 
just as a forewarning, the specific issue you're referring to sounds a lot like a hardware damage problem I had with an Nvidia G90 chip a long time ago. I happened to be renting out a room in the house of a coworker who was an experienced computer engineer, and he used a magnifying glass to inspect the board for hardware damage
It turns out one of those little hard metal nubs (a solder point or a capacitor, can't remember) had been damaged while I was messing around inside my computer (installing an HDD or something), and it caused a certain area of the GPU to malfunction in weird scenarios
like, certain games would trigger full-screen random pink artifact corruption, and cause a BSOD, while other games were fine
 
Well this is dumb. I thought I uninstalled my livecam driver when I removed it through device manager. Turns out, the driver was still present in add/remove programs
@allquixotic That sounds delightful... Would give me a reason to upgrade my 770 to a 980 Ti if it indeed turns out a hardware issue
Because, yes, I did recently install an SSD
 
but try all software means first :P
 
7:16 PM
mornin'
I am home at last, yay
 
Hello
Is there anybody Android Savvy here? :)
 
you will have to be a bit more precise before getting any answer
 
Since a few weeks, I've been getting random static noises, with no idea why
some are related to my phone, which I hate the most, but I sometimes here like a small pop or crackle
 
I was just curios as to why, in Android browsers you're more prone to those persistent pop-ups saying 'you've been found guilty of zoophillia' etc
 
If anyone here owns a MadCatz F.L.Y. 5 stick? I have been thinking of buying it for my gaming PC and would really appreciate any direct impressions.
 
7:22 PM
My initial impression would be due to differences in the cache system
@NateKerkhofs when your phone is running!?
 
@R.Doto It's because Android isn't as well secured with regards to random redirects.
 
@NateKerkhofs bluetooth?
 
@NateKerkhofs static noise in what? Ears ringing, headphones, smartphone, TV, built in speakers, home theatre audio system? There is this thing called "Theory of Mind" .. do you comprehend it?
 
In my 2.0 speakerset on the corners of my desk
 
Maybe your hearing aid got a bad update
 
7:24 PM
@tereško I don't use a hearing aid, but thanks for the suggestion
 
@NateKerkhofs do you get the same issue using headphones?
 
@NateKerkhofs ah sounds fair to be honest. But, do you know what causes the persistence of the pop-ups?
 
@tereško couldn't tell, I don't use headphones with this computer
 
@NateKerkhofs try. That would let you rule out any internal issues and focus on finding what's wrong with your speakers (if they are really at fault)
 
@R.Doto Because Android popups are different from other popups. If you have an adblocker on your computer, most popups are blocked, but android doesn't have an adblocker
something silly maybe, but does Displayport transmit sound?
 
7:26 PM
yes, it does
 
@NateKerkhofs Uh. Yes it does. Use Firefox, or Privoxy
 
@NateKerkhofs I have adblocker on my android by default
 
@R.Doto ya know. Using "built in browsers" is always a pretty bad idea :P
 
really? how?
I use Chrome on my android, not the builtin browser
I don't want to root my phone btw
 
Chrome is Android's default browser on most phones now.
Just use Firefox..
 
7:28 PM
@allquixotic privoxy is just a browser with an integrated proxy server, right?
 
@allquixotic I use Chrome for a reason: integration with the rest of Google
Really useful to have my bookmarks etc from chrome Desktop accessible on mobile
 
@R.Doto No. It's a proxy server that filters connections based on a blacklist, and blocks connections to ads.
 
firefox has bookmark/password sync too
 
@allquixotic is it free?
@tereško to and from Chrome desktop?
 
@NateKerkhofs It's free and open source. You can google it; it won't hurt you.
 
7:29 PM
@allquixotic Samsung have their own ;) It has adblocker too - it's just awful haha
 
@NateKerkhofs it has nothing to do with "chrome desktop"
 
@allquixotic I assume it works globally?
I've tried using Adblock mobile, but that requires me to configure every connection manually for a localhost proxy
And I can't figure out how to set a global proxy on 5.0.1
which is what Samsung Galaxy S4 is still on
 
@allquixotic yeah, that's what I meant man. I use 'Block this!', it's just it's an automatically configured proxy server so it's hassle free (appies a black list also). I fear about the privacy concerns of it, however. I just use it when I'm on putlocker hehe
 
@tereško Look, I got a ton of bookmarks on my Desktop Chrome, along with my google account. Can Firefox automatically sync bookmarks between the desktop version of chrome and the mobile version of firefox via internet?
 
no
 
7:34 PM
@tereško Hence why I use Chrome mobile
 
13 mins ago, by R.Doto
I was just curios as to why, in Android browsers you're more prone to those persistent pop-ups saying 'you've been found guilty of zoophillia' etc
then if you too have this issue, there is nothing we can help you with
 
I hate how everything is integrated on modern phones now, though. All photos/files are auto synced unless you disable it. It's just a security flaw imo
 
it's to curse of using "the popular browser"
 
@tereško I have that issue as well, although I'm being redirected to porn apps, not zoophilia accusations
 
@R.Doto are you saying that you did not disable majority of "cloud shit" as soon as you got the new phone?
 
7:36 PM
@NateKerkhofs haha, I'm innocent
 
@R.Doto Me too. Zoophilia is currently legal in Belgium
 
@NateKerkhofs actually that zoophilia-thing sounds more like virus that I have seen on some windows boxes
 
so technically I can't be guilty of it
 
@tereško oh no, I did ASAP. It's such a pain.
 
Whee. Ghost pepper pods ordered
 
7:38 PM
@Hennes ghost naga chilli?
 
@Hennes ouch
 
Yup
 
awesome
 
I already harvested half a dozen butch scorpion T peppers from the plants in the kitchen.
I would love to add more taste, but my in-door growing space is quite limited
 
though I prefer "bird's eye", because ghosts burn lips too much
 
7:40 PM
Right now I just grow banana pepper (not hot), ring of fire (typical), habanero orange, habanera chcolate and the scorpions
 
To clarify: I'm not COMMITING the act of zoophilia, I just have a certain interest in erotica related to it
 
But without garden and with lots of normal herbs there is only so much I can grow
 
which is also legal in Belgium, mind
 
As for the coffee drinkers under us. Ground arabica beans in a coffee grinder used to grind habanero's is interesting
 
lol, that reminded me that next time I make something with habaneros, I need to buy some surgeon glows
 
7:41 PM
It does help you wake up
I use barbers gloves
 
.. last time I had hands buring for something like 32h
 
Thin, disposable, cheap
Yup.
 
@tereško Possibly. Although unless i've download and ran a dodgy, .exe, files or have an old version of a java plugin it's unlikely.
 
Learned the hard way
 
@allquixotic So how do you configure Privoxy for mobile? all I'm finding about it is how to configure it on desktop
 
7:44 PM
@NateKerkhofs search it on Google play
 
@NateKerkhofs did you google "privoxy android"? the first three hits are links to it in the play store and the website of it
 
@NateKerkhofs it's already configured from the instance of download I think
 
For some fun reason, the Play Store won't connect to the server...
Currently rebooting to see if it fixes it
 
@NateKerkhofs feel your pain. Pornhub has been down for 3 days tehe
 
Does Privoxy work with Youtube?
Because when I tried ABP, Youtube would just crap out until I disabled it
 
8:34 PM
ew privoxy
 
@Dave haha, what do you use?
 
squid running as a transparent proxy
then again ive been playing with it for over 15 years.
 
@NateKerkhofs I can't see why it wouldn't! I've never had any issues with using an "adblock proxy" on YouTube
@Dave that's too deep for me :P
@Dave just curious; why do you use a transparent proxy? (Presuming that you're using one for home use etc)
 
8:52 PM
@R.Doto, prefer not having to configure proxy settings.
@R.Doto, I like the just forward anything dest tcp/port 80 to just be redirected to a proxy servers port.
liekwise for anything destined to port 443
 

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