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12:15 AM

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Q: Chrome uses 100% cpu on youtube after update

Chrome 40 is using 100% cpu when playing youtube videos full screen My CPU is core i5 @ 2ghz with intel 4400 gfx card. it should be able to play them and I dont remember having this issue b4 Chrome 40. Does anybody else have this problem.

google-chrome cpu youtube cpu-usage

Always seem like the Easiest things to fix . Un-Update it.

But , but how can i live with myself if i dont have the latest Broken version to beta test and cause me greif.

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Journeyman Geek

1:26 AM

sploid.gizmodo.com/…

2:12 AM

Anyone know if when you update from windows 8.1 to 10 (currently, so the preview) you will keep install programs? It seems to say "apps" but I don't really know what that means

2:27 AM

@soandos apps would be Windows 8+ Metro apps

@allquixotic so everything else would have to be reinstalled?

@allquixotic Normally Windows upgrades try to preserve programs.

Dunno about 8.1 => 10 specifically though.

@Bob, do you know how easy it is to restore from a windows system image (created via the create system image thing in the control panel?)

well, I'm not upgrading until RTM anyway, because I don't trust that things won't break

Clone backup what you have , then party on

2:32 AM

@soandos My only full restore so far is via Acronis.

That was pretty easy.

Presumably the system image should be similar.

My only concern is I don't know how to restore from it

@allquixotic I might wait until the first patch cycle :P

Also, gotta make sure there's drivers for my desktop.

I see this

@soandos You need the image, and you need the bootable disk.

windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/…

So I need some bootable media? (can't do it via control panel?)

2:34 AM

@soandos The system image utility should create the bootable media for you.

Or you can use the Windows DVD.

Or the WinRE startup option.

@Bob it just created a folder on a drive

@soandos Read the third option on that link.

The folder it creates is where the data is stored.

You need something to actually perform the restore.

And I can't do it from within the OS?

The second option on that article is for WinRE.

(first part of the link)

2:35 AM

@soandos You probably can, but I'd not recommend it.

@Bob got it

for stability reasons?

Always make sure your backup restore will work even if the OS is completely nuked.

IMO it is best to do both the OS backup and the restore from "outside" the operating system. I get used to how to do it from a bootable CD then if ever i should have to restore it, i just reverse the process.

got it

And does anyone know if there is a nice way to do a batch install of a dir full of .exe and .msi files, or just write a script to call them sequentially?

@soandos Use PowerShell and WaitForExit

Even then it's not perfect (waiting for restart, user input, etc.)

Without WaitForExit, non-console programs will not block the execution of the next line.

2:38 AM

@Bob, thanks, never head of that before (of course, its not like I have unattended.xml files for everything even if they were supported)

@soandos Look into ninite and chocolatey

They're better than trying to manually script something that actually works for disparate programs

either of those support random .exe or .msi files, or only those that are in the library?

@soandos The latter.

But they have large libraries.

I'll take a look, but most of my software is not free (ms programs, acorbat, etc)

Pausing and requiring user input to start the next install would be useful. Even something like a ATI mega catalyst install can get out of order (been there done that) when any install initiates a download , or another install package.

Big messes with requesters asking where to put the stuff. Requesters always hitting center screen, hiding another requester behind it. added to windows not doing the on-top correct, and one lone requester hiding out behind a few windows (you see 5 minutes later), what a mess :-)

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4:16 AM

Dang Mr. downvote has made his pass on the front page again.

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6:58 AM

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7:09 AM

placekitten.com

@Bob, @allquixotic, @Psycogeek all programs are preserved in the migration

Yay! , but can you get back again? (without an image backup)

@Psycogeek, I don't think so

Cool, now i will just collect my commision from microsoft for that win10 licence sold :-)

lol

7:25 AM

So how is it working? Are your other (non ms) programs working? Drivers for hardware ? What cool features did you like?

@Psycogeek all working as far as I can tell

I'm mostly interested in the multi-desktop support

7:49 AM

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Journeyman Geek

@soandos: 0_0

I'm slightly tempted to try that now

I have excellent tested backups too!

@JourneymanGeek even better

so far, the only thing that had to happen was MS office had to "install" for about 30 seconds

Journeyman Geek

(and I do mean tested)

I unplugged my SSD, popped in a HDD the same size as the SSD and tested a recovery

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8:52 AM

@JourneymanGeek there are some issues with services

though almost all made it without modification

9:30 AM

Wow that new game costs 40 million dollers to develop
5 1/2 years in development
full virtual reality photo realistic stereoscope
AI that is indistinguishable from human players
"What are You Playing?"
"Gemdrop"

10:01 AM

What is Angular JS

I don't really understand it's purpose

10:25 AM

@HackToHell its designed to make templating things in HTML easier

10:36 AM

@soandos I still don't get it ._.

Lets say you have an array of strings in the JS code

and you want to fill a table with the values

with angular you can "template" the text in the table so that it fills "automatically" from the array

ohhh

you familiar with MVC?

You don't need to find the element and edit stuff

@soandos Not really

Sort of

it makes it much eaiser

angular is meant to used with that

basically, you have a model for your data (M)

a view

(V, a way to take the data and present it)

and C, controller, a way to "modify" the data

angular comes in because you have a model of data

and you have "names for things in the model

but you just want to use the "names" to place things in the HTML

not handcrafted anything

10:41 AM

hmm I think I sorta get it now'

It takes practice

what are you trying to do with it?

I am trying to create a appish thing that loads and removes images dynamically

what do you mean by dynamic?

Well the images are pushed from a server based on the time

and other params

And they are also re arranged and stuff

got it

so with angular, you define a layout (view) that will hold all the images as it arrives and knows how to present it

11:05 AM

Trying to do that now :D

11:25 AM

"Error! Your sign up can not be completed due to We're sorry." o_O

Okay, no "+" in phone number when registering for Google Earth Pro...

11:40 AM

Or maybe just refreshing helps...

12:02 PM

@Psycogeek Do you know how to fix this one?

12:23 PM

ooh there's a pretify source button in Firefox's debugging tools

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1:39 PM

Windows 7 Calendar is No Longer Shown, No Wireless Signal Icon Shown and Resource Monitor Does Not Start

TEmptEd to anSwer that wIth some iNTErEsting crapalisation

In other news: Camelcase is for marketing and spam only.

2:12 PM

@Hennes That's fairly standard title case.

Aye. It still annoys me every single time I see it (both here and everywhere else)

Apparently it's unique to the English language => ux.stackexchange.com/a/72817/21792

@Hennes It's standard in English.

Becoming less common now, but was taught as normal for all titles while I was in primary school...

Ah. It was not common in my school, but that was a non-English school.

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2:31 PM

@Hennes While I don't mind seeing it, I don't like using it.

I can never remember which words are supposed to be capitalised.

(All except two-letter? Three-letter? Or was it just propositions? It's not even consistent across style guides, if there is one. Bah!)

It also looks out of place in a list of titles, like an SE question list.

In print, where it's actually a headline/title above an article, it looks better.

2:57 PM

Hola @jokerdino

hi @HackToHell

You still alive ? :p

I suppose so.

How have you been these days?

Mostly bored :/

You doing anything interesting ?

Haha.

Lol, I don't do a lot of things either.

You got any plans?

3:09 PM

Not really

I have doing lame stuff as usual, nothing big.

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Q: USB flash drive not working or is appearing as an empty disk drive, Disk Management reports "No Media" with 0 bytes size

I have a USB flash drive which is no longer recognized by my computer. Windows Disk Management and DiskPart report No Media with no storage space (0 bytes) on the drive and I cannot partition or format the drive: Source If the drive appears in Windows Explorer, trying to access it returns an e...

usb-flash-drive data-recovery hardware-failure community-faq

There's enough of these flash drive "No Media", "0 bytes", and "Please insert disk" questions that a canonical question is needed.

List of duplicates: superuser.com/q/538383, superuser.com/q/871762, superuser.com/q/431073, superuser.com/q/311111, superuser.com/q/819820, superuser.com/q/692929, superuser.com/q/746344, superuser.com/q/373508, superuser.com/q/200910, superuser.com/q/73754, superuser.com/q/101190, superuser.com/q/327707, superuser.com/q/426218, superuser.com/q/445728, superuser.com/q/839177 — DragonLord 34 mins ago

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Q: "One question to rule them all" questions on SuperUser

SuperUser is haunted by repeated questions on topics as: Antivirus suggestions Virus/Spyware removing Best practices for troubleshooting common problems Best buy guides for hardware and software In contrast to StackOverflow and ServerFault, SuperUser visitors aren't always as computer savvy o...

discussion exact-duplicates canonical-answer

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4:23 PM

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Oliver Salzburg

7:14 PM

You got to be fucking kidding me. I created a PSD with Photoshop CC at work and wanted to edit it here at home. So I open it in my Photoshop 5.1, it tells me it can't open it because the versions aren't right. So I though, okay, let's try the GIMP, which didn't support the adjustment layers. So I say, well then, let's just install CC, which I then did. When I try to open the PSD, I get:

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Oliver Salzburg

7:38 PM

And now I can't connect to the company VPN for some reason, Bridge CC installation is stuck, our CD server is having weird timeout issues…

wtf is it with today?

o.O

Anyone got a spare 3 seconds?

I'm stuck on doing a transcription of 3 seconds...my hearing must not be very good :( Could anyone please help?: picosong.com/LjL8

what I've got is: the ??? is there to rectify the person who's helping

7:55 PM

On my way to my friends' for a superbowl party, but I just want to make my question visible.

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Q: My laptop will not sleep when I close the lid

I've tried to look into everything I know of but this has stymied me. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 15" currently running Windows 7. The laptop will not enter sleep mode when I close the lid. When I close the lid, all it does is turn off the screen and lock my Windows session (requiring a passwo...

windows-7 laptop sleep power-management

> Important note: This form contains a security feature called CAPTCHA. If you need help to complete this form, please call Opal Customer Care on

security feature??

Oliver Salzburg

8:18 PM

So I just drove to the office to check if the PSD is working over there, I assumed maybe it was just broken in git, but the file is broken on my work desktop as well. And the previous version in git has the same error.

How is that even possible?

@OliverSalzburg Are you sure it's being stored as a binary in git?

If it's recognised/stored as text, git will (depending on core.autocrlf) translate line endings.

Which can... break things.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob No, which is why I assumed it got broken through git. But I originally created and saved the file on my work desktop, so I would assume it would open fine there

As in, it's still in my local working copy where I originally saved it

@OliverSalzburg Now you have me wondering if git translates the working copy on commit.

Or if you ended up doing a reset at some point.

Oliver Salzburg

Humm

Maybe I switched branches or something

And that removed/recreated the file

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Q: How to determine if Git handles a file as binary or as text?

I know that GIT somehow automatically detects if a file is binary or text and that gitattributes can be used to set this manually if needed. But is there also a way to ask GIT how it treats a file? So let's say I have a GIT repository with two files in it: A ascii.dat file containing plain-text ...

> checks for any occurrence of a zero byte (NUL “character”) in the first 8000 bytes

...I could see it mistaking a PSD as text

Oliver Salzburg

8:23 PM

@Bob I was just reading that ;D

lol

Oliver Salzburg

According the command in the last answer, the file isn't treated as text

*.psd binary

^ that should fix it

Oliver Salzburg

Well, either way, I usually don't use autocrlf anywhere

(use -text to disable autocrlf while still allowing diffs)

Oliver Salzburg

8:24 PM

Because it usually just fucks things up and has never given me anything but trouble

lol

My editors can all cope with both formats anyway.

Except Notepad.

I need to get a lightweight Notepad replacement -_-

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob I replaced mine with Notepad2

Well, the weird thing about the PSD is, GIMP can open it, it just doesn't seem to support all the features

@OliverSalzburg Eh, too complex.

I have Notepad++ for complex stuff.

Oliver Salzburg

Humm, maybe they just have a more robust PSD parser

All I really need from Notepad is support for LF-only files :P

Oliver Salzburg

8:27 PM

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I have it set like that. Works for my taste

Startup time?

Memory usage?

That kinda stuff.

Oliver Salzburg

Ah

Notepad2 apparently uses Scintilla.

Scintilla is not light.

It's not too heavy, but not exactly light either.

Notepad++ is enough for me as far as Scintilla-based editors go :P

Oliver Salzburg

I was originally only looking for Notepad with LF support. Didn't want something as "heavy" as Notepad2 either. In the end, I just accepted it

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9:50 PM

Hello, any ideas for this :

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Q: Should I really use exFAT on SDXC?

exFAT is said to be optimised for flash devices with sequential access (they do contain MTD, but there is an hardware converter) so it is better than FAT32. But I a am wondering if it is really better than other modern filesystems (Many of them have special option for SSD) like ext4 or BTRFS or ...

10:05 PM

Thank you for downloading Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1 Redistributable Package.

And it installs on Windows 8.1 despite a warning; though, still missing MSVCR71.dll... :P

Ah, there it is... C:\Windows\Microsoft.net\Framework\v1.1.4322

lol

10:54 PM

Hey guys... MSI CR640 is showing boot mgr is missing. Press Ctrl + alt + delete. But I can't get into bios.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob In the end, that's really what was needed. I guess the git grep from that one Stack Overflow answer wasn't working right

Even GitHub renders the new file fine, after I set it to binary

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@OliverSalzburg GitHub renders PSDs? O_O

> Linux overcommit behavior: "We've got too many passengers in the air and need to send more. Let's randomly shoot a plane".

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Yeah, many other crazy stuff as well

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