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Bob
12:00 AM
Who would bother? Just about anyone looking for an easy target.
@snipe The threat isn't some piddly userspace program.
The threat is a kernel exploit that either (a) installs itself without user interaction, or (b) escapes the user sandbox (i.e. a rootkit/priv-escalation)
Most hardware vendors no longer support it simply because it costs more to support yet another OS.
An OS that is no longer supported either, and has a relatively outdated API (which means it's not a clean port most of the time).
A WDDM (1.3) driver? Good luck porting that to XDDM.
 
12:18 AM
@Bob: I thought of a few, but it might be inappropriate.
But I get grumpy when people are blindly assuming older is better
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek ya
 
drool
tho, Its not triple 4K. It could be tho ;p
 
Bob
12:36 AM
oh, @JourneymanGeek, turns out the Idol+ is the China one :P
still, it's the one I've tested so I'll go with that
 
Honestly? **** them. This is precisely why governments can't be trusted to do the right thing
 
1:00 AM
@JourneymanGeek Image shot on a 5D Mark III with 16-35LII.
If only...
Probably has a very high-paying job.
My dream PC build currently looks like this:
PCPartPicker part list: pcpartpicker.com/p/tpCMxr
Price breakdown by merchant: pcpartpicker.com/p/tpCMxr/by_merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor  ($1052.98 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 140XL 122.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste  ($6.89 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus RAMPAGE V EXTREME EATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($475.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($529.99 @ Newegg)
 
1:26 AM
@DragonLord: meh. Any job and lots of patience ;)
(hell, I've been planning a and saving for my 4k display since jan )
The 3 month rule plays a role, but between putting aside a fixed amount per month, and planning far ahead anything is possible ;)
 
No current job.
 
Yeah, but 'high paying' isn't a barrier
I'm getting paid a fairly base level salary, and of that I'm trying to maintain total spending of under 400 dollars a month
 
One of my plans was to save extremely aggressively (50% or more of income)
 
lol
I have fixed expenditures of 150 dollars (phone, hosting, transport).
I'm spending between 50-100 dollars a month on top of that up to 300. Any left over cash goes to hardware
(I pack lunches. My mom is an excellent cook and being veggie, it makes sense to doggy bag my lunches ;p)
 
I hate colleges.
or however you spell that word, I am so over this program, winding me up daily now its the final 3 weeks
 
1:35 AM
I think it took me about a year to upgrade the dell I pulled from a dumpster to my current box.
 
I'm currently running on very tight limits due to a low weekly allowance (thankfully, food, etc are covered by my parents)
 
Speaking of dell
 
Current fixed expenditures are around $30 a month.
 
there a pn to be able to install a 2.5 ssd into a HDD bay?
 
1:36 AM
sure
just get a caddie.
Many better cases do both
 
well I did
and it was about 1/2 the size of the bay itself :$
 
maybe I misunderstand 'pn'
or just double sided tape it.
oh, lower profile?
like flat?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek part number?
 
it was a corsair 2.5 to 3.5 but that itself was smaller
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek my SSD is just resting in the case because I ran out of HDD bays -_-
 
1:38 AM
But yeah i ended up just using the ODD bay and using one screw
( what is wrong with me ) I am part shopping for a computer. What I have is more than powerful, only thing it needs, is the next generation GPU in a year :$
cause my 770 is starting to show its age.
and a 2TB SSD when its $300 :-)
( omg love ssd now )
 
@Ramhound 2TB SSDs from Samsung were just announced but they'll run you at least $800
 
Hence the reason I am waiting until they cost $300
256GB was $500+ relatively not that long ago.
 
Gotta get to learning JavaScript, see ya
 
$800, more like double that, shiesh
nevermind,, looking at reseller price, lame!
Dragon's posting some parts made me do research on the liquid cooler, are most liquid coolers, now seal-closed systems?
 
2:00 AM
@Ramhound Yes, they're sealed and maintenance-free.
 
So thats where that market went to instead of the huge radiators and customer tubing, ect..ect?
interesting
Well I am sure there is a market for that still on the extreme side, but good to hear, thats one reason i never got into it
 
2:13 AM
( very happy ) I fixed 3/5 vm's last night
lost my installed programs but was more worried about the data than anything else ( used it as isolation beds )
 
2:53 AM
@Ramhound: sealed ones have gotten more common. You can still buy a cooling block, pump and fans, but they have always been niche.
 
3:05 AM
and heh. I'd be happy with my 660 if not for my upgrading my display.
 
3:18 AM
(its perfectly fine up to quad HD I suspect. 4K needs a modern/high end card)
 
3:38 AM
My actual first PC build would probably target 1440p QHD.
The system may be asked to drive up to three such displays, although full-screen games will only use one display.
 
a midrange card can do that easily. (Its what I'm gaming at these days)
I was experimenting with a second display, but win 8.1's 'automatic' scaling of dissimilar displays is a bit shit. It takes into account resolution, not screen size
 
Right now, I'm running a total of three displays, two 1080p and one old 1280x1024 display, on my laptop.
No issues whatsoever even on the integrated graphics.
 
Problem with my current set up is its a 1600x900 20" paired up with a 4K/27 inch.
Windows assumes the former is a tiny screen, but won't let me adjust scaling for it to fit, so everything is huge on that screen
 
Monitor talk again? What is it, last week? :o
 
;p
Just trying to broaden the topic from headphones and fountainpens ;)
 
3:54 AM
In the local paper each day they have this "odd stuff" section on the back page. Today there's a picture of a lost dog notice...
"
4lb Tea cup Yorkie
Like our own child!

If found, GMO-free treats only, filtered water only (no tap water!)
The picture they included was this little dog wearing clothes and jewelry. o.O
 
0_0
No wonder it ran away.
Also, 4lb is too small for a dog. Ugh. Humans and their meddling.
 
System display is a 15.6-inch 1080p wide-gamut TN panel
Display on left is a 21.5-inch 1080p eIPS panel
 
Laptop?
 
Yes
That's the "system display".
Display on right is a 19-inch 1280x1024 TN panel
All displays are LED-backlit.
 
How does text look? I thought cleartype didn't work right if you'd set it for two different display technologies?
 
3:59 AM
All text is crisp when not scaled. DPI scaling does introduce some blurriness, but turning it off altogether makes text on the system display too small.
 
yeah, that's what I was wondering about
 
ClearType is tuned for each of the displays.
 
you can tune that per display?
 
Yes. Just move the ClearType Tuner window to the display for which you want to tune ClearType at the start of the process.
 
ahh. I'll need to muck with that. It still looks horribad due to the res difference
 
4:01 AM
Actually, in Windows 8, you can select the display to tune for.
 
ahh, shiny
 
The Acer H226HQL is excellent value for money
 
as far as displays go, I'm unlikely to get anothing other than a dell P or U series ;p
 
Response times are very good for an IPS display—doesn't beat TN, but very good.
 
I'm doubtful most people would notice
 
6 years since Super User private beta started
8
 
All displays are 8-bit color per channel.
 
4:26 AM
hm
http://www.howtogeek.com/175664/how-to-make-the-windows-desktop-work-well-on-high-dpi-displays-and-fix-blurry-fonts/ this seems completely counterintuitive
hm, tho, windows 10 is coming ;p
@Sathya heh. I wasn't around for that ;p
(I turned up here cause of slashdot ;p)
 
5:01 AM
@JourneymanGeek :) I just right after reading that post
 
Mogges
@DragonLord Who.a. Expensive dream build.
 
@Hennes Yeah ... and it's just the beginning.
 
Slightly different from mine. E.g. I would skip on an optical drive
 
That's two TITAN X cards; the system could scale to four.
Optical drive isn't used often, but it comes in handy at times.
Perhaps a media reader would be a better idea...
 
My dream desktop would have two CPU's in in (2x Xeon E5 something) en one cheaper graphics cards though. And less PSU. And more SAS :)
 
5:07 AM
@DragonLord: the big advantage of titans is 12gb of vram, The 980tis have half the ram, but very close to the same processor power.
@Hennes: my current "nutty" design is a xeon E (Which will happily take up to 128gb of ram) and a 980ti or titan... in a mini itx box. The model with a fan also does 2x 10gbe ;p
 
@Hennes I don't plan to do SAS on a desktop. I might choose SAS drives (on an LSI 9207-8i HBA) for a storage server with a big disk array, but not on a gaming machine.
 
Indeed.
My gaming is mostly 5 year old games of stuff from gog
 
NVMe's probably a better option for a crazy gaming box anyway
 
4 hours ago, by DragonLord
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tpCMxr
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tpCMxr/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor  ($1052.98 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 140XL 122.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste  ($6.89 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus RAMPAGE V EXTREME EATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($475.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($529.99 @ Newegg)
 
all drool worthy. can't really afford them here
 
5:12 AM
It's called Lucifer and it's my dream build. Unlikely to be the first build, though, and by the time the funds are available, it's likely to be Skylake-E or whatever the current HEDT chips are codenamed.
 
lol
I'm starting on upgrading nyx with the same budget I had as a student. Prolly sticking to a 'regular' non E processor tho
 
Bob
Heh. If I were to have a "dream build" it'd be fairly storage and RAM-heavy.
 
Actually nyx's been doing pretty good with whatever I threw at it
 
Bob
I almost never peg my i7-2600, so CPU perf isn't really a worry for me.
 
@Bob: I'll prolly end up splitting off storage eventually. Not sure how I want to do it tho
 
Bob
5:17 AM
GPU... something decent. IMO multi-card is too much trouble.
(And by trouble I mean the driver and game issues, not money.)
 
@Bob 980ti's on my wishlist ;p
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek I'm currently running 4-year old hardware (i7-2600, GTX 560). No performance issues yet.
 
(may get a 980 or a 970 instead, but yanno. Aim high)
 
Bob
Could do with some more RAM, hence that purchase last week. (8 GB => 24 GB).
 
@Bob: the 660 does up to quad hd happily
 
Bob
5:18 AM
Need more storage (12 TB => 17 TB with that 5 TB drive ordered but possibly not available [on backorder])
 
Having some trouble with backups tho
 
Bob
I have something like 4-6 TB of backups.
 
sigh
 
(laptop backups fail. I can do an initial backup, but updates don't work. Identical setup works on another system tho)
 
Laptop just BSODed again
This time, it's IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
 
5:20 AM
I hope I can do a fresh install on my thinkpad once win10 comes along.
 
WinDbg isn't very helpful, but this could be another driver problem
I hope my CPU isn't bad
RAM issues are likely ruled out after a 4-pass run of Memtest86+ (which required upwards of 7 hours).
Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.3.9600.17298 AMD64
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


Loading Dump File [C:\Windows\Minidump\071515-5531-01.dmp]
Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available


************* Symbol Path validation summary **************
Response                         Time (ms)     Location
Deferred                                       SRV*E:\sysdebug\debug-symbols*msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
Symbol search path is: SRV*E:\sysdebug\debug-symbols*msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
 
Ruled out -> deemed unlikely.
 
I'm starting to suspect a faulty CPU.
The Dragon has a history of Intel HD Graphics driver issues, though.
 
Bob
@Hennes Very much this.
I will mention again that I've had RAM errors crop up on the 10th pass.
It could take even longer than that.
It only takes a single error to ruin your month (depending on what exactly got corrupted). That error could occur once every other day.
 
6:18 AM
heh. One nice side effect of the hacking team breach. A whole load of vulnerbilities no one knew about are in the open. The bad thing is, everyone has their posteriors flapping in the breeze till they are fixed.
 
6:59 AM
Yet another BSOD, this time 0x1000007E SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M.
They say it's a video driver issue.
 
2 hours ago, by DragonLord
The Dragon has a history of Intel HD Graphics driver issues, though.
Apr 26 at 2:22, by DragonLord
I just updated the Intel HD Graphics driver and it's crashed on me twice so far. Twice in the same session.
 
@DragonLord which is wierd since I've always considered intel drivers the most stable but boring. Does it do switchable graphics?
 
@JourneymanGeek NVIDIA Optimus
NVIDIA GPU not on at the time.
Also had an odd Hyper-V networking glitch; I've sorted that out.
 
Client hyper V is an odd bird, period ;p
 
7:07 AM
@DragonLord there is no answer there , even if the powers that be self accepted thier scripts
 
As much as I hate having to expand the page file to the size of system memory, I had to do that to enable complete memory dumps.
 
@DragonLord maybe try upgrading/downgrading the driver? Assuming that's an option .
 
Hopefully, if and when this happens again, I'll be able to tell exactly what's going on.
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Q: Windows Crashes on nvlddmkm

user108589I recently in installed Windows on my computer after having Linux for over 1 year. Now whenever I start any game I get a bluescreen from nvlddmkm. I understand this is form nVidia, which makes sence since I am playing a game. I tried: Reinstalling the driver which didn't work. Installed Windo...

It's commonly associated with video driver problems.
 
Yeah. We have wierd hardware/needs (quadro cards) so we tend to have known good driver versions for specific cards we stick to"
 
From what I'm finding, it's usually some sort of driver issue that causes this kind of crash.
 
7:13 AM
from techie from that link ", sometimes certain driver revisions are buggy with certain chipsets."
Some people will keep trying the "latest" some people will make sure they get them from the chip implementor (the manufacture of specific model) some people just cling to what the freak ever works without bugs :-)
I do a online survey , find the ones with a highest accept rate , and the ones with the highest version of the series (if possible) right before they add a new feature and break 17 things again.
 
7:35 AM
(That's the company my workplace meged with)
 
8:14 AM
._. Someone in egypt tried to call me twice in the last week 0_0
 
Bob
8:39 AM
@JourneymanGeek scammer/telemarketer
 
Yeah, but I missed both calls cause I can't be arsed ;p
(also I'm avoiding dhl if they call my phone. I keep telling them to call work ;p)
o0
ahh. Dell survey. Politely told em I was busy.
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Nice way to get your package returned :P
 
@Bob Oh, we need to return a package through them. ;p
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek ...Nice way to get your package not-returned?
 
There's a very long story about that I won't talk about on public chat ;p
Also, I've not had enough sleep and I'm grumpy
 
Bob
9:05 AM
@JourneymanGeek Go to sleep!
 
I'm at work!
 
Bob
(Yes, I am well aware of the hypocrisy.)
@JourneymanGeek Go to sleep anyway! :P
Also picked up two more reams of that paper, which should last me about a decade :P
 
Bob
(I'm tempted to order one online to see which one they give me...)
 
For science!
(and you could build a throne out of reams of paper)
 
Bob
9:30 AM
@JourneymanGeek LOL
 
Neat. New Process Hacker feature
 
Bob
...that doesn't look very neat
 
;p
What's it?
 
Bob
in fact, that looks just like the multitude of desktop gadgets that were popular 5-10 years ago
 
ELI60.
 
Bob
9:40 AM
it also doesn't provide useful information most of the time
@JourneymanGeek computer magic
 
Bob
(looks to be a list of the top X processes/process-groups in terms of CPU usage)
 
which can be useful if you're troubleshooting slowdowns
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek not really. heard of task manager?
 
;p
Its a pinnable widget tho! Beats me
 
9:44 AM
@Bob For a quick mouse-over glance, I like it. Before, it was just a regular old tooltip
And, yeah, it displays the top CPU consumers
 
Bob
shrug if I actually feel the need to check CPU usage, I can launch task manager with a quick finger movement
 
(as I said, not enough sleep. Waking up a 4.30 the last two days. Least today I went back to sleep. Then got woken at 6.30 ;p)
 
Bob
(ctrl+shift+esc is conveniently on the left side of my keyboard)
though, normally I need to check memory more
see above re: my overly-idle CPU :P
 
Yeah, and if I want to, I can just check the CPU temperature by getting under my desk, opening the case and measuring it with a thermometer. However, I do kinda like it that there are more convenient ways ;)
 
lol. We used to have a wall thermometer at work. Now we have networked sensors ;p
 
9:48 AM
My point was, it's not like this is an amazing feature I have been waiting for for centuries, it's just an improvement over what was previously offered
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg 'cept I wouldn't really find this more convenient.
Likely less because I have somewhere between 10 and 100 notification area icons already :S
 
>_>
This explains much
 
Bob
(of course that's my opinion)
 
I put all those unwanted ones in the fold
 
Bob
In all seriousness - anything that requires me to move my mouse is going to be less convenient from an easy key combination.
 
9:51 AM
so much so I tend to forget how much crap is collected :(
 
@Bob But I would have to move the mouse to "sort by CPU usage" in the task manager anyway ;D
 
@Sathya The fold is a scary place ;D
 
@Sathya: I just periodically go through what I have installed and purge things I haven't used in a while
or are broken
 
ever had that.. "um, no I might need this later" syndrome >_>
 
9:52 AM
Nope. I could always reinstall it
 
halp mee
 
(seriously, Unless I paid for it, and its not on steam, meh, I can reinstall it)
At the moment that's erm... 2 pieces of software
(one of which I may uninstall cause its broken)
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg Not if you leave it like that!
@Sathya Story of my life.
 
@Bob But I need to have it sorted as parent-child tree :(
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg Welcome to the world of Process Explorer!
 
10:01 AM
I thought taskmanager does that these days ._.
 
I've used Process Hacker for quite some time now, suits me well
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek It probably does in Win8 :P
@OliverSalzburg I just don't see the benefit of a NA-icon over a quick keyboard shortcut, regardless of which program you use.
But that's just me. I like my keyboard.
 
lol. I'd just macro it. ;p
 
@Bob The thing is, you don't even have to touch your keyboard or mouse to get the information if your CPU is saturated. And pressing said keyboard shortcut would still not show me the same information, because I don't have my processes sorted by CPU usage by default
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg I would, because my taskbar is hidden.
 
10:11 AM
It depends on the level of detail you're currently interested in. Sometimes you want nanosecond accuracy, sometimes it's fine to just have a quick look at your wrist watch
@Bob Well, in that case I am utterly shocked that you don't see the benefit of a NA icon ;P
 
Bob
lol
I also don't need an icon to tell me my CPU is saturated
almost nothing can do that, and those that are are launched manually.
 
@Bob someone did that to a 12 core machine here....
(and with these babies, you can hear it)
 
@Bob You're like those people that refuse to use the GPS in their car because they "don't need a machine to tell them where to drive"
Grow up! ;D
 
@OliverSalzburg: My dad has a GPS. He routinely ignores it.
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Q: Non native resolution is blurry on laptop

John SmithI have 1920x1080 LED display. If I set any lower resolution, is a bit blurry. I have the latest drivers, what to do?

._.
not counting the lack of OS
(someone at work did that. Then complained the screen was blurry ;p)
 
10:33 AM
I need to teach my mom to text.
(she called me at work for a grocery run. )
Also dosen't help that I've had to do one of those 3 times this week. And its only wedneday!
 
Set up a virtual call center and redirect her calls to it
 
Sounds a bit passive agressive. A ticketing system would be nice tho... ;p
 
:D
Nice :P
 
Bob
10:59 AM
@OliverSalzburg More like it'll only be saturated when planned.
I don't run anything that can eat up 4 cores.
 
Bob
11:49 AM
@allquixotic ok, just enabled bridging
now... how to restart networking without kicking me out permanently... :P
hmmmm should I be suspicious that it seems to have come up without knocking out my ssh session? O_O
ohhhh there it goes o.O
 
Bob
12:09 PM
reboot fixed it
for some reason I can never figure out how to restart networking live o.O
systemctl restart networking and systemctl stop networking && systemctl start networking manage to bring up the bridge, but the networking drops out soon after and no amount of restarting the service brings it up
:\
 
 
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2:35 PM
@JourneymanGeek Nice!
 
@Bob how are you enabling bridging though?
 
urgh php and xml
can i even do this:

$readValue = $xml->xpath("/readings/reading[last()]")->readValue;
 
Bob
@allquixotic the same way you did
I've had issues bringing up a network alias without a reboot before, too (on the old server)
 
2:54 PM
@Bob which is what, exactly? brctl? /etc/network/interfaces?
 
Bob
@allquixotic interfaces
 
3:07 PM
@Bob in order for the bridge to work, your physical ethernet adapter has to be up but have no IP assigned, and the bridge device has to be assigned (at least) the primary IP of the server.
then you may have to tweak /etc/sysctl.conf
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables =0
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0
 
Bob
@allquixotic shrug it seems to work now.
I just had issues bringing it up.
 
Bob
3 hours ago, by Bob
reboot fixed it
That always happens.
24 mins ago, by Bob
I've had issues bringing up a network alias without a reboot before, too (on the old server)
No idea why restarting the networking service inevitably breaks things.
@allquixotic What's that for?
> These control whether or not packets traversing the bridge are sent to iptables for processing. In the case of using bridges to connect virtual machines to the network, generally such processing is not desired, as it results in guest traffic being blocked due to host iptables rules that only account for the host itself, and not for the guests.
shrug I don't have any rules defined yet
 
@Bob a lot of posts on various forums say "I had to set those values to get the bridge to work on Ubuntu 14.04" ... might not be a Debian issue though
 
Bob
@allquixotic I'll add them anyway.
 
 
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4:59 PM
@Bob any thoughts?
 
 
1 hour later…
6:23 PM
Yeah the hotwatch has bugs but it is nice.
I kinda like it
 
 
1 hour later…
7:40 PM
windows 7 doesnt obey fittzz law its a crap UI end of story!
fittss*
and mac OSX is just a faggot
and you cant even consider it with stupid tiny touch screens
you good luck trying to tap that button but tapping another one by mistake
 
you know C
 
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