Root Access

Psycogeek

12:00 AM

(and only once)

Scanning all incomming downloads, then scanning again, after any install or de-comress de-packaging

How you get stuff On the computer , when in all logic it should be checked Before it ever "got on the computer".

Which then just leaves stuff that is not detected.

Journeyman Geek

mbam's usually fine, the free version isn't resident

Psycogeek

There is some assumption that someone is buying it :-) Manuel is a feature for me .

DragonLord

No threats found.

@Psycogeek Norton Security has this trust feature which ignores known OK files (trusted source, signature whitelisted) when doing a quick scan. This greatly reduces scan times.

Journeyman Geek

4:41 AM

geeksworld.org/strip_1078.html

ekaj

I didn't get off of work until like 1.5 hours ago

today sucked

mainly because it looked like blind people did the cable installation in the building my god

Spent two hours in the ceiling with this, if only I could have gotten a panoramic to show the chaos that was the network

HackToHell

4:58 AM

I'll grow paranoid about an electrical fire

Journeyman Geek

lol

ekaj

don't worry i took out most of the bare wires =p

HackToHell

7:28 AM

My ISPs billing server is down

Time to download all the things \m/

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

8:45 AM

o.O

blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2015/03/02/…

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Journeyman Geek

I know a few people who'd love that

Bob

Ya, the switching between devices looks really nice.

Journeyman Geek

(I was thinking of getting a journo, which is the same concept, but the fact that its been on pre-order for years with no update on production status for months kinda leaves me doubtful it'll ever be released)

Bob

Re-pairing is a pain.

Bob

11:12 AM

cleaning keyboard...

pull keycaps off

vacuum the keyboard

CLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACK

...crap

dig half a dozen keycaps out of the vacuum canister and wash them...

reassemble keyboard

that took almost an hour o.O

Journeyman Geek

11:25 AM

lol

I have an old sock to slip over the vacuum hose for that

loses out some suction but it works...

Bob

@JourneymanGeek nah, I actually needed to vacuum the crap from under the keys

Journeyman Geek

ahh

or gunk

Bob

wasn't intending to slip and hover over the pile of caps for a second

Journeyman Geek

(which I can't seem to find any more :/)

ahh

Leathe

@JourneymanGeek for clarification, the sock or the gunk? :P

Journeyman Geek

11:29 AM

the gunk.

and I mean at the shops

Dogs Like Socks by PSYCHOSTICK [Official] "I'm a dog and I like socks"

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Yeah, that's what I wanted to link

Psycogeek

12:24 PM

@Bob i hate when that happens. luckily only 2 caps come loose with high suction on my pckeyboard thing.

Bob

@Psycogeek I took the caps off intentionally and put them in a pile

Psycogeek

if you got them all off, just put them in the dishwasher , or the clothes washer

I do not want to take them all off to clean again, pain in the butt, and never know if something might break. So i flip it upside down, and use a 3" paint brush and spray bottle of alcohol.

I spray it soaked upside down, then brush it off, shake it a few times, and wipe most of it down with a terry cloth towel

that just leaves the food, the cockroaches and the earwigs all under the keys :-)

Psycogeek

1:02 PM

Hmm, how is instant E-mail access with no password due to a cookie and using the web, "More Secure" than a e-mail program? . . . When I just fired up a different browser altogether, assuming it was somone else, and no password was required? (unless i specifically log-out) support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1044903

I have never really thought that "web E-mail" was secure at all :-) let alone more secure. If i remember right it was (none other than) web e-mail that people got Screwed by at college and library shared computers.

When they failed to log-out, and the next foo using the computer, is right there in your stuff.

I think this is more about Use Google apps, with the apropriate tracking, and advertising.

The "users" themselves have been anything BUT secure from googles tracking, the intermingling of everything (google plus) which takes a 1/2 hour itself to turn Stuff off so all your stuff is not "shared" on google plus

Google redirecting every search link through them (changed long ago) how the f-- is that more secure for users?

Putting more of your information into huge databases like your Phone number (completly unnesssisary for web activity) Databses that get broken into way too often. this too is "more secure"?

I say BullPuckey. the worlds largest advertising company , wants you to use thier programs, and prvoide them with your information, and if this huge company was instead called "Market Shares Advertising Inc." Instead of handing them everything, you would not even show up there Once.

They want to know where you are (location), what your mobile phone number is, the trace the IP itself your linking in from, and redirect everything you do through them. We would have to be NUTS to think this was "better" for users.

If "Market Shares Advertising Inc." called you up and said, We are making sure your secure" & "Provide more data to us" , You would hang up the phone.

Journeyman Geek

1:31 PM

@Psycogeek: actually TFA is pretty useful, and if all else fails, you can set up a seperate, per app password

(and per app passwords are a neat idea)

Also. you always have the option of another mail provider

support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833

And where possible, TFA with burner phone numbers sounds like an idea

pity we don't have the option of completely anonymous prepaid numbers here

Psycogeek

The problem this presented was , OMG it is a less secure app, so use our stuff. Heck they do not allow it to work for the most part, untill you select it to be less secure. that makes it SOUND LIKE it isnt secure at all. Just push this button, If you Dare :-)

I would have ignored it for being akin to a Phishing e-mail "OMG look here, at these links" But it does not work at all :-) so I had no option to ignore it.

These non-ISP e-mails i only use for lesser stuff anyways, and get maybe 2 e-mails (average) in each each year that are actual useful e-mails. But each year i have to reconfigure something :-) Hotmail i had to log-in on the web (on average) more times than i got mail from it.

The ISP mail on the other hand, has worked for 10+ years non-stop with no user changes. only time i have to Play games with it again, is when setting up a different program or re-installed system.

Psycogeek

2:08 PM

whaaa ? Folding MS keyboard "using the on-screen keyboard is often slow, uncomfortable and prone to mistakes." Uhh wasnt it MS that specifically wanted to go to all touch as the "future" ? Oh but now it sucks :-)

"The Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard is the perfect travel companion — its ultrathin, lightweight" Made in china and selling for $100 , your crasy. But then again, hows that store working out for ya.

Bob

2:21 PM

@Psycogeek actually, MS has pretty heavily promoted having a proper keyboard :P

(see: SP line)

Psycogeek

2:41 PM

Is that the chicklet plus board? Those surface pro computers seem to cost (much) more than all the laptops they have been selling , including touch screen tablet convertables? From looking at the price, it seems the same as Apple products would be?

Why would people buy/want these over things like HP and Acer type of laptop convertables that have been on the market for longer, cost less, have more variety, made by companies that have more time in this business?

Bob

3:33 PM

@Psycogeek they're very well built, and they're about the same price range anyway

you need to compare similar specs

can't compare with the low-end convertibles that run Atom procs

Psycogeek

3:52 PM

looks like some of the acer products are not very well built. amazon showing them as having ~60% people not really happy (anything with that poor of user results i would not want), and this surface pros the opposite. but more time would be needed for them to break everything :-) first.

The HP models do not have so many problems as the acer.

Michael Frank

9:11 PM

@Psycogeek People don't go on the internet and praise how well their machine is made.

Michael Frank

10:25 PM

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A: Completely remove windows 8.1 taskbar

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lolwat?

There's no edit history.

Psycogeek

I think if you edit it fast enough, it does not bother to put in another revision. How they would have edited that fast based on a comment , I do not know.

DragonLord

blog.innovaengineering.co.uk

1 TB Samsung SSD 850 PRO. 1 PB written so far.

Network consulting company tests a Samsung SSD 850 PRO to see how well it fares under extreme workloads.

forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2311278

128 GB model fails after 1 PBW.

Psycogeek

10:45 PM

the entire test is invalid !!! They didnt compare the data :-) to see if it was bit for bit accurate.

DragonLord

Pretty sure the SSD itself would know if it ran into a data error.

Psycogeek

After all the "writing to death" test have shown that if the controller is still functional, the drive will be. but what about those specific files that get written millions of times , millions a day even. the file tables and bitmap. what if one of them is showing a slight problem, and it moves the block, but there is one bit :-) that just doesnt make it?

These most written file items , are also the most critical.

Psycogeek

11:06 PM

The sumsung 850 pro died
:(
It burned too bright for this world...

It what ?

after he beat the heck out of it for a year, it just borked.

". My best guess is this a firmware bug triggered by the power down. The drive certainly wasn't showing any signs of badly worn NAND."

Stuff like that is where i get the opinion that no mater how well they cling to data , before dropping it, it just is not a good idea to slam the power off on things , which can be doing stuff internally.

Add also that brown-out, crappy power can do more wackey things to electronics than just snapping the power off.

All Hail the mighty UPS , for whom power does not go to its head :-)

Journeyman Geek

11:40 PM

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DragonLord

AMD's High Bandwidth Memory ~~could~~ will be a huge gamechanger, one which will tip the scales

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