> The most common Chinese ways of saying Happy New Year are Gong Xi Fa Cai (Mandarin) and Gong Hey Fat Choy (Cantonese

Huh. Well, back to school for me then.

The image I posted is very like the simplified 恭禧发财

The most common Chinese ways of saying Happy New Year are Gong Xi Fa Cai (Mandarin) and Gong Hey Fat Choy (Cantonese). Even though the pronunciations are a little different, both are written the same way.

I always though it was "Shin nian quai le" or something

Fuck it's embarrassing how bad my Chinese has gotten.

I thought that's happy birthday.

No, the first two words are definitely "new year"

And the last two are "good luck" or something.

Although if you misread it it can also be "New year fast now"

when wishing a friend a happy birthday in Chinese it is common to say shēngrì kuàilè [Birthday happy in a loose translation]. The written characters representing Happy Birthday in Chinese are: 生日 快乐. The word birthday [shēngrì] is written as 生日 and the word happy [kuàilè] is written 快乐.

It's the same kuàilè but definitely not shengre

So "Shin nian quai le" is New Year Happy?

(just to note, I might be totally wrong. I don't speak any chinese)

新年

Xīnnián

(Yes I just put "New year" into Google Translate -_-)

@DavidPostill Oh I get it now

Nor do I. I just do random googling.

I pronounce it more like "shēn rzi"

@qasdfdsaq You forgot the "good" :P

Never seen it spelt Shēngrì. The pingyin I learnt always kept words separate

Except in the name "pingyin" itself.

I don't know how to write pinyin. Or characters. But something like xinnian hao?

Ironic.

._.

I think we call it hanyu pinyin ;p

there's no g ;p

Oh, read up a big. whoops.

Yea, heard the quai le one too.

han yu pin yin

Dammit, spaces people!

It's like you're speaking german

SPAAAACEPEOPLE

@qasdfdsaq nah, we need @OliverSalzburg for that

Them germans basically take all the spaces out of a sentence and suddenlyitsanewword.

NEIN WEICHNOTSPRACHEDEUTCHRANDOMSCARYWORDS.

It's like auto mobile => automobile. But to the extreme.

And the dutch

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Someone pulled that out of a pre-built machine...

@Bob nice.

QA fail

Rind fleischet ikettierungs überwachungs aufgaben übertragungs gesetz

Those are literally all separate words. They just glued them together into Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

bestuurdersaansprakelijkheidsverzekering, "drivers' liability insurance";

You mean "driver'sliabilityinsurance"

exactly

I've heard people describe the way dutch sounds as "Drunken German"

Huh my audio notification is set to none but yet I get stupidly loud pinging when someone @'s me

The g sound is more drunken scottish

kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamheden

"preparationactivitiesforachildren’scarnivalprocession"

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Hm. Some people saying subaddressing works with O365.

Huh, it seems the gluing-words-together-ad-infinitum phenomenon exists in English as well

pneumono ultra microscopic silico volcano coniosis

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

@DavidPostill I read that as "Bestmurder...."

निरन्तरान्धकारित-दिगन्तर-कन्दलदमन्द-सुधारस-बिन्दु-सान्द्रतर-घनाघन-वृन्द-सन्देहकर‌​-स्यन्दमान-मकरन्द-बिन्दु-बन्धुरतर-माकन्द-तरु-कुल-तल्प-कल्प-मृदुल-सिकता-जाल-जटिल-म‌​ूल-तल-मरुवक-मिलदलघु-लघु-लय-कलित-रमणीय-पानीय-शालिका-बालिका-करार-विन्द-गलन्तिका-गलद‌​ेला-लवङ्ग-पाटल-घनसार-कस्तूरिकातिसौरभ-मेदुर-लघुतर-मधुर-शीतलतर-सलिलधारा-निराकरिष्णु‌​-तदीय-विमल-विलोचन-मयूख-रेखापसारित-पिपासायास-पथिक-लोकान्

I was reading about that the other day, but it was just called "Silicosis".

antidisestablishmentarianism

Speaking of, I should be booking my tickets to Thailand alraedy

@qasdfdsaq English doesn't glue nouns though.

o0

Sanskrit: In it, the distress, caused by thirst, to travellers, was alleviated by clusters of rays of the bright eyes of the girls; the rays that were shaming the currents of light, sweet and cold water charged with the strong fragrance of cardamom, clove, saffron,

Has anyone here taken the 2014 Security+ exam?

camphor and musk and flowing out of the pitchers (held in) the lotus-like hands of maidens (seated in) the beautiful water-sheds, made of the thick roots of vetiver mixed with marjoram, (and built near) the foot, covered with heaps of couch-like soft sand, of the clusters of newly sprouting mango trees, which constantly darkened the intermediate space of the quarters, and which looked all the more charming on account of the trickling drops of the floral juice,

which thus caused the delusion of a row of thick rainy clouds, densely filled with abundant nectar.

@DavidPostill see somebody is playing XCOM2

@Ramhound Sorry, I don't get the joke

XCOM2 involves aliens and classified reports written in an alien language, I just assumed, nevermind

Ah, we were discussing longest words

I see

Steam is annyoing

I suppose Sanskrit is alien to most people ;)

Its starting, stopping, starting stopping, never did this before

hm

( the download ) not the application

What is odd it just went 10-20 minutes without doing that

Its not a signal problem since, I am currently doing, 12.2 MB/sec on 802.11ac

Hm. There's also FastMail

Also the cheaper option o.O

neowin.net/news/…

I find that article funny

Canonical does exactly what Microsoft is did with Windows 10 :$

They've been at that a while tho

Tech people are funny. If Apple did something like that, with OS X and iOS, people would think its the best thing since sliced bread

iOS 10 is in the future, wonder if they will call it 10 or X :$

office365.uservoice.com/forums/273494-outlook-and-calendar/…

Would appreciate it if people here could vote on that ^ :P

Hm. Looking at options to get the brix back up. Annoyingly lmsensors gives me the same readings no matter what despite me hitting it with a stress test that I think made the box shut down.

@Bob +3.... o_O

@JourneymanGeek Instead of multiple bricks, it's a singular brick right now? :P

:p

lol bricks

@allquixotic Hm?

Oh. Yea, uservoice. You get 10 votes total on the O365 one.

I think I'm pretty much settled on O365 now and will probably just manually create aliases in the hope that they eventually support subaddressing.

@allquixotic essentially the brix was bricking

@JourneymanGeek well, they did kinda jinx themselves with that name

I sometimes wonder why there are even forums today with answers to questions like these

neowin.net/forum/topic/…

4-5 people replied not a single person even answered the question :$

@Ramhound Because they also exist for social purposes.

It's a forum. It's a community.

Just shocked anyone would ask a question anywhere else other then Superuser :$

Eh, lots of people prefer a more chatty community.

Personally, I think the Reddit comment model is probably the best mix for the asker. You can simultaneously have semi-independent chatty and helpful threads on the same post.

Not as good for future visitors, though.

That is what SE excels at.

@Bob and bad thermal design

It runs hot

The beebox is slower, but has a fan (which never kicks in)

Anyone notice with IE11 that the performance is absustely horrible on Windows 10?

and since there's turboboost, I can kick up clock speed if needed

but here's the tricky thing

How do I determine if its shutting down due to heat and when...

@JourneymanGeek stick a thermometer on it and see when it usually goes down?

Stress test + (lm_sensors + timestamp appended to a text file in a bash loop?)

@Bob that would mean taking out the motherboard

the heatsink is inaccessible

@JourneymanGeek is that so hard?

That would yield invalid results

since my theory is bad thermal design

(I'm rubber ducking this, sorry!)

What's the CPU?

Bay trail Celeon N2807

Hmm.

ark.intel.com/products/81072/…

I know very little about those.

(the replacement is essentially the same clock speed, 2x the cores, higher TDP, smaller case and runs cooler

On Core i3/i5/i7 series there's a bunch of MSRs that show whether it's throttling, and whether thermal protections are being tripped

MSR?

@JourneymanGeek Get a thermocouple and run the wire in

minimal interference

Machine state registers.

Basically CPU registers you can read with lmsensors or the like

@Bob hm. Maybe.

@qasdfdsaq lmsensors reads 48 degrees. All the time.

There's ones dedicated for temperature monitoring too, which I've never seen misreport temperatures. But I dunno if they exist in Bay Trail s

@Bob now you're making me want a IR thermometer or camera ;p

@JourneymanGeek nah, that wouldn't really work here

(also, I need to get the brix up again, since I stole its hard drive)

you want internal temps, not case temps

I have an IR thermometer and my housemate recently bought a $1000 thermal camera >_>

thermocouple stuck to the heatsink is the way to go

it has the undead drive of impending doom in it tho.

@Bob and more hardware to monitor something that's essentially going to be the equivilent of the trabby in the garage ;p

Have you tried i7z or turbostat or something other than lmsensors?

Also have you modprobe'd msr?

Well

I need to reinstall the OS on it now

reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/44bh2y/…

....

I haz a plan.

cron + whatever monitoring tools + text file + date = awesome.

@JourneymanGeek doesn't tell you the temps, though?

@Bob always +46 degrees

that's why I suggested something external :P

@Bob or just see how long before it shuts down

and/or try something else like @qasdfdsaq suggested

oh hell, maybe windows

aww

my ex-employer did sfx for this io9.gizmodo.com/…

Ah, gizmodo. I feel dirtier for having clicked that link.

It was io9 ;p

@JourneymanGeek still gawker. bleh.

._.

I agree ;p

I think somebody is randomly serial upvoting my answers....

Damn fleximize.com/from-millionaires-to-billionaires

Mark Zuckerberg is worth a fuck ton of money

And what are you going to do about it?

I am going to be unsatisfied with my life

I suspect I shall be doing the same.

facepalm

I set a lockscreen pin on NEXT lockscreen. They emailed me the pin number in plain text.

granted

the pin is there to avoid butt dialing but

Hmm... company name is required. Urk.

What to do... what to do...

Make something up?

@JourneymanGeek I'm not-so-surprisingly bad at that.

I use my dad's defunct company or lupinenet for that all the time

might just use my domain name

which also took a rather long time to choose -_-

@JourneymanGeek NEXT?

Yeah, the microsoft one

It lets you launch apps from the lockscreen

Handy on one sense, but the new dynamic app selection thing... well, I don't actually want to make calls from my lockscreen.

o.O

add all the wings

hm. Wierd

Can't get an install of xubuntu to run, but the livecd works

Trying a few unspeakable things on it

xubuntu seems to run in a very narrow temperature range tho, and the machine isn't seemingly hot. We'll see in an hour tho

hm. Now I'm wondering if I was running fedora on this the whole time.

facedesk

Yeah, looks like its fedora related.

now I need to let this run an hour, test with fedora kde the same way and I can confirm

o.O

@JourneymanGeek I had a fun one with Knoppix... turns out that after boot it set monitor backlight to 0

._.

Hit the installer option. Screen went black

Lets try another HDD...

Man, things seem doge.

the install usb I made of ubuntu server failed a self test

@JourneymanGeek Why aren't you using Debian? Or shouldn't I ask?

Familiarity and secure boot support.

I ran Ubuntu for years and this box and my dedi run fedora.

@JourneymanGeek Are you free? I want to discuss on this question.

@Pandya most of the methods I'd use wouldn't be applicable to you ;p

I typically do my installer USBs on rufus on windows

is there a way to check the integrity of the install media?

I've started bounty yesterday. Today I've tried to check/mark all the options provided by F6 (similar to this of Ubuntu) and I've successfully installed Trisquel GNU/Linux on that PC!

I mean enabling the following options helped me:

Should I post it as answer @JourneymanGeek ?

ahh

they are kernel options

erm

Seems like a waste of bounty

Last time that happened to me I popped into chat and went "hey, I did this. Anyone want 50 free reputation?"

yes; If I wait 6 hours or tried F6 options before, then I didn't offer bounty

(in theory I could refund it...)

We typically don't tho

Oh, the bounty.

Now, I want the suggestion is:

Anyway, it should be fine to post an answer (and let the 50 rep go into the ether) if you want

Also note that F6 has six options but I don't know which exactly helped because I've enabled all

hm.

why not try not using the options one by one till it fails?

I've tried first two which didn't help me and then I selected all (because I didn't have time to check all one by one)

wierd

I'm pretty sure edd=on and nodmraid are not relevant

Feels like nomodeset

@Bob You have 3 votes for your request.

Well I've posted an answer. Should I make it as community-wiki so-that other can contribute to improve post?

naw, I'd leave it as is

funny thing is I'm having linux install blues too..

"naw" means "no" right?

naw means no, yes.

sorry for not understating as my 1st (speaking) language isn't English

Neither is mine

;p

Ok I'm leaving it as it is

@DavidPostill Thanks :)

how big would be the practical difference between i3 and i5 in a laptop?

@tereško You're gonna have to be more specific with which exact models/chips you're comparing and what you intend to use that laptop for.

The practical difference could be from "nothing" to "significant" when your info is as generic as "i3 vs i5".

btw, "significant" could also mean the i3 is faster than the i5, depending on model and workload.

And thermal capacity of the device it's in... but that's relatively minor, assuming they're both going into similar devices.

yeah, well, I am looking at i3-5020u vs i5-4210U

@tereško Ah... see, that's even a generation apart :P

Rule of thumb for me has been that in general a core i3 of a generation has similar performance to the core i5 of the previous generation of the same line.

@Bob yes, but is the i5 worse?

@tereško Still depends on the workload and what you're going for.

In general, if you want longer battery life then go for the Broadwell i3.

the laptop is likely top be used for games, actually

If you're going for raw CPU perf, the Haswell i5 is probably slightly faster for most uses. Assuming it can maintain burst freq (depends on how good the device cooling is).

If you want graphics/GPU perf, the i3 is probably better again... though I don't have numbers on that.

cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4210U-vs-Intel-Core-i3-5020U

Some general info: ark.intel.com/compare/81016,84699, cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2259&cmp[]=2597

actually, depending on how aggressively the i3 steps down and how much time you spend idle vs at base freq vs at burst the i5 miiiiight get you better battery life too o.O

The key is that Broadwell has similar (slightly better?) CPU perf, better GPU perf and lower power consumption than Haswell, all else being equal. But your i5 has a significantly lower base clock (1.7 GHz) than your i3 (2.2 GHz) - enough that it's probably slower at base. But your i5 can also burst to 2.7 GHz, where it's probably faster - the question is how long it can maintain the burst, which includes factors like how multithreaded your gaming is and how good the cooling of the laptop is...

Personally, I'd go for the Broadwell i3, for the probably-better GPU perf. But I tend not game on laptops and lower-end devices anyway :\

@JourneymanGeek wat, some of the info there is plain wrong..?

"Better turbo clock speed 1,000 MHz vs 900 MHz " - the i3 doesn't even do turbo

>_>

Also, they don't even mention the microarch...

@JourneymanGeek That site also says the i3 doesn't support EM64T... wat.

Yeah, that bit was wierd.

(but as with any information on the internet, clearly it should be taken with a bit of squirrel )

Hm... since it puts such high importance on clockspeed... I wonder...

cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-4-570-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770K

"Higher clock speed 3.8 GHz vs 3.5 GHz"

Ah, yes. Let's take a Pentium 4 over a Haswell i7. Because it has a higher clock speed.

;p

so, not the best source of information

Eh. I use Ark for general info - it's usually correct.

Passmark serves for generic benchmarks - they tend to have enough samples to be reasonably accurate.

But, especially for laptops, a lot depends on the machine the chip is in. Cooling, etc..

I pay suprisingly little attention to laptop processors ._.

Too much variance. One might be better off looking at reviews of the actual laptops rather than the CPUs (@tereško)

If said reviews exist...

yeah , that's not gonna be an option

there are different setups for laptops that end up in eastern-europa and elsewhere

well, they are broadly similar for the model

I think I will just recommend the I3 version, because it also comes with GTX 920m

Heh... a 920m isn't much better than a Broadwell iGPU these days :P

It does take some thermal load off the CPU though. Depending on how the cooling is laid out.

@Bob I think you are comparing highend iGPU with mid-range mobile GPU

Perhaps.

It's hard to find solid data on them though.

You can measure yourself after you get the laptop? :P

well ... at least it wont be mine

Dunno where they get the "performance" ratios from, but this says 3x faster than a 4400.

So maybe 2x-2.5x faster than a 5500? shrug.

._.

Installed failed partway

Pretty certain now the damned things are just cooking themselves

right. Got the brix sitting on its side over a lapotop cooler now

Hope that works ;p

Oh and its hanging over the edge of my desk

..... Aaaand the HDD that used to be in the brix may have failed. After I did a full reinstall of Linux :(

bad week o.0

Quite :(

I got it in September 2014 so chances are warranty is over too. Going to check tho.

shodan.io/search?query=kibana

People are lame

@HackToHell ?? What are you trying to tell us?

@DavidPostill Logs out in the open

Ah

That sounds like it's good information for some with the username @HackToHell ;)

Lol, I really regret the decision of 15 year old me in picking that name

But hell there was zero results in google with that name ;p

You know you can change your user name, right?

How to ask a too broad question :)

@DavidPostill But it's how everyone recognize me on the interwebz :(

I tried changing it back to my old name

Didn't work out ;p

Couldn't they be more obvious?

Google has low free space in it's data centers?

0_0

IT LIVES AGAIN!

Blood 3D reference?

@DavidPostill PC is better, obvs

@JourneymanGeek Brix or bot?

would someone mind to rollback (or close) this post superuser.com/q/1035400/172747

@bummi Done

Morning.

@DavidPostill That one would be easy to answer: "Quite a lot". (end of answer).

@qasdfdsaq the 1tb hard drive that used to be in the brix

looks like the drive is in trouble tho

Mutters at amazon. All amazon.co.uk USB-C to USB3 micro B cables I found have a "we do not ship to ..."

Warranty's until 2017

Tested the n-key rollover at microsoft.com/appliedsciences/KeyboardGhostingDemo.mspx. Can confirm that any combination of up to 30 keys may be pressed and will register correctly.

The 30-key limit appears to be a communication limitation; the underlying keyboard matrix is not the limiting factor. Every key on the matrix is fully isolated.

also, you have 10 fingers ;p

Even if you type with your toes...

This is unlike any of my other keyboards, which have partial isolation on select parts of the matrix (e.g. WASD).

> THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG

Not surprised this works with both Shift keys held down.

My laptop keyboard has QWER and WASD fully isolated (it is gaming-optimized) but other combinations of three or more keys may fail.

@JourneymanGeek Chinese New Year is in two days.

@bwDraco monday and tuesday for us, tho eve's significant...

and I might forget

especially with the week I'm having

@JourneymanGeek The full celebration runs 15 days. Most people observe the first three, which are public holidays in China and Hong Kong.

We do a full cleanup in the days prior as a matter of tradition.

Technically it begins 11pm local time the night before.

...which means all cleaning has to be finished by then (we don't want to sweep up the good fortune)

I'm not superstitious but I just try to follow tradition.

Hmm, this flying pig is tasty.

@bwDraco 15 days? I suppose ~10 of those are spent in nose to tail traffic jams?