Root Access

qasdfdsaq

12:19 AM

qasdfdsaq

12:47 AM

Quill

3:08 AM

Can we not abuse flags please?

Dave

Speaking of abusive flagging, just finished writing my first telegram bot

HackToHell

lol youtube.com/channel/UCE7GJmyq98mUcfirauukbEA

Dave

Nerf blades

Lol that's great

Successful flyer is unsuccessful

HackToHell

3:31 AM

@Dave Cool, what does it do ?

I wrote one too xD

nc4pk

4:19 AM

superuser.com/questions/1036946/… lalalalala don't ~~feed the trolls~~ onebox the spam

nc4pk

4:31 AM

superuser.com/questions/1036948/premium-products-for-skincare and another one

poof

Faheem Mitha

5:15 AM

@JourneymanGeek Ok. Thank you.

XKCD

6:44 AM

Why did the chicken cross the road? It begins over five thousand years ago with the domestication of the red junglefowl in southeast Asia and the development of paved roads in the Sumerian city of Ur.

Journeyman Geek

7:30 AM

arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/…

Bob

7:56 AM

o.o

paradroid

8:55 AM

Are IoT questions allowed in superuser? Like, can I ask a question about if it possible to get a Nest thermometer to work with a Samsung SmartThings Hub?

Journeyman Geek

ehhhh

IMO no

But no one's really asked, and that is something we really ought to have on meta

Bob

10:00 AM

git-blame-someone-else

git-upstage

@JourneymanGeek Not as we currently define it, but it miiiight be worth broadening the scope. Or maybe that's a terrible idea. shrug

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I'm not fond of how confusing the last time we broadened the scope ended up

Bob

@JourneymanGeek That's more how it was handled, and partially because the market wasn't all that well established yet.

Maybe wait a few more years.

Journeyman Geek

unrelatedly

ugh

People keep flagging a post I put on hold

Bob

...I just went to look up the tablet thread on MSU, found this in the search, and it turns out I was the one who added that notice -_-

Journeyman Geek

FOR THE VERY SAME REASON I PUT IT ON HOLD

._.

"Stackbabies" ?

Bob

10:07 AM

Oh. Speaking of. @JourneymanGeek could you close that Q as a dupe?

dunno why I didn't just do that in the first place...

Thanks.

@JourneymanGeek stackwhat

Journeyman Geek

See my answer there ;p

I referred to the then newer SE sites as the stackbabies ;p

Bob

LOL

Hennes

Morning

Intergration tests are important.

Faheem Mitha

Does this room have an automatic XKCD feed, or something?

And good afternoon.

HackToHell

Yep

Faheem Mitha

10:23 AM

Hmm, I didn't know there was such a thing.

Coworker with a whip

10:45 AM

@JourneymanGeek Which post?

paradroid

@JourneymanGeek I asked about IoT questions on meta...

0

Q: Smart Home networking questions?

Are IoT related question allowed, or going to be allowed, on superuser.com? For example, I would like to know if a Google Nest thermostat can be made to work with a Samsung SmartThings Hub. I know there is a hacking culture related to these things, but isn't there any place to ask on Stack Exch...

discussion

There are already lots of X10 questions on superuser.com by the look of it, and that is proto-IoT

qasdfdsaq

11:03 AM

I had a dream that I was banned from a StackExchange chat room. But it wasn't this one.

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq that canbe arranged

qasdfdsaq

Intel Skylake overclock record of 7025.66MHz achieved

> To achieve this speed an i7 6700K CPU ran only one thread, voltage was set at 4.032V.

I'd like to see all the naysayers claiming 1.5v+ is dangerous on Skylake.

qasdfdsaq

11:59 AM

So, need to save up £3500 for a new monitor next month

Journeyman Geek

o0

qasdfdsaq

I'll be finally joining the 4K brigade. In style ;)

Journeyman Geek

3.5k for a single new monitor...

sounds like something reference grade ._.

NEC?

qasdfdsaq

Yeah, but it's the perfect monitor I've been waiting for for a decade

Dell.

Journeyman Geek

oh. OLED?

man

that's probably more than my whole setup cost ;[

qasdfdsaq

12:02 PM

4K, OLED, 120Hz, zero response time, infinite contrast, 100%+ AdobeRGB wide gamut

Journeyman Geek

wait

How do you do 4k and 120hz?

qasdfdsaq

10-bit colour, Thunderbolt, wide viewing angles.

Journeyman Geek

The interfaces arn't there

qasdfdsaq

DisplayPort 1.3 supports it. And was finalized in 2014

The monitor specs are a bit dubious though, apparently it's only supported "over the USB-C connector or Thunderbolt 3"

Journeyman Geek

annnd

I've never seen a GPU that does either

qasdfdsaq

12:03 PM

Ah - DisplayPort over USB-C supports 8K60/4K120

Journeyman Geek

o0

curious

qasdfdsaq

But seriously, it has every feature I've wanted in any monitor for the last ten years.

Journeyman Geek

and costs more than my entire setup...

qasdfdsaq

It's extremely rare, probably never, that I ever find a piece of technology that ticks all the boxes.

> The monitor should be released at the tail end of March with an initial price of $4999. We expect this to fall a bit once retail competition kicks in and of course we expect to see other more affordable alternatives begin to surface as well.

If I sold all my existing monitors... at full RRP it'd cover 1/3rd the price :-P

But all my existing monitors have 1/400th the contrast and 3/4 the resolution combined

Ooh, NEC just announced a 4K 120Hz monitor too, IGZO, $2,999

Hennes

@qasdfdsaq Aye. that is weird. TB3 simply uses the USB-C connector. It is not an 'OR"

Journeyman Geek

12:10 PM

yup

qasdfdsaq

Honestly I don't mind if it can't run 4K at 120hz anyway, what I wanted was any monitor that could do 4K when I wanted it, and 1080p120 for gaming, at other times.

(Since the graphics horsepower required to drive games at 4K120 would cost as much as the monitor again)

paradroid

12:36 PM

Why do you need a monitor with 100% AdobeRGB?

qasdfdsaq

Because I'm a photography enthusiast and my existing monitor is 100% AdobeRGB and I don't like going backwards.

paradroid

Most pro photographers use sRGB

qasdfdsaq

s/pro/web/

My camera shoots in AdobeRGB and I have 10+ years of images in AdobeRGB.

paradroid

You can find quite a lot of webpages that say that's not a good idea for photography.

Although I made my decision many years ago and never really looked into it since.

qasdfdsaq

Tough, can't change what I did 10 years ago.

And I can't see why a wider colorspace than crappy arbitrary web standards is ever not a good idea.

That's like saying shooting at full resolution is not a good idea.

You can always scale down. You cannot scale up and recover data that was never recorded.

paradroid

12:47 PM

I'm planning on getting a ThinkPad X1 Yoga, which came out recently, but in a couple of months an OLED version is coming out. Not sure if I should wait for it, as 1st generation laptop tech is usually quite dodgy.

Quite probably has screen burn-in issues. I've heard there is some sort of tool that comes with it on Windows, that reduces the brightness of stuff like the taskbar, so this seems like a big downside. Also, when running linux what do you do?

But reports from CES 21026 says it looks pretty amazing.

Journeyman Geek

OLED's not really first gen.

paradroid

It is for laptops. Also, one of my best friends was part of its invention!

A university friend who has been working at DuPont for nearly 15 years now. Did papers on the blue LED life problem, for Samsung.

See if I can find his stuff. It's mind-blowingly hard reading.

Journeyman Geek

I'd go for IPS now, personally

(My main monitor's IPS. Not redunculously pricy, and good ones are decent)

paradroid

Oh 9 years., This is him, anyway... linkedin.com/in/marc-sims-4a51276h

Journeyman Geek

9 years is a lifetime for PCs ;p

I suspect the big issues with OLEDs is burn in (which is vaguely handleable) and yield (which is why most OLEDs were small)

paradroid

12:56 PM

@JourneymanGeek You seen the X1 Yoga? First ThinkPad that seems amazing enough since the keyboard change for me to want it.

Journeyman Geek

@paradroid I don't typically like convertables

paradroid

I've never had one, but I've been waiting for something like this. With the stylus, it's like having a much more functional and portable Wacom Cintiq for a fraction of the cost.

Great for Photoshop (and OneNote).

Journeyman Geek

(my current objects of drool are surface pros and the razer blade stealth)

even then I'll prefer my real computer for actual work ;p

paradroid

Ah, I was planning on getting a Surface Pro, in addition to a new Thinkpad, until this came along. Beats it in every way and I only need one device this way.

Journeyman Geek

(for that matter, the closest thing to a daily driver laptop I have's a HP stream, and a X220 ;p)

paradroid

1:01 PM

I had been planning on getting another X220 to go along with the Surface Pro, but no need now.

(My X220 was stolen, ages ago)

Journeyman Geek

:(

I upgraded my x220 a fair bit from stock

SSD, and doubled the ram from the original 4gb

paradroid

Mine already had an IPS screen and fingerprint reader, webcam, second best CPU in the range etc. Upgraded to SSD and 16GiB RAM.

Journeyman Geek

(Actually, the x220 gets any hardware that's left over. Did a 3 way switcharoo with drives and ram, since I upgraded my desktop to a 850 pro, and replaced my brix so the ram from the brix got moved to the x220)

allquixotic

o/

paradroid

The 16GiB RAM was massive overkill, as I never used many concurrent VMs or anything, so I regretted splashing out for that

Journeyman Geek

1:04 PM

my desktop has 16gb

paradroid

Yeah, fine on desktop, essential on home server..

Journeyman Geek

(secondary box/home server has 8, but I might want to run VMs on it, and it needs dual channel ram to do 4K)

It can go to 16, but its a quad core braswell, so it felt like overkill

(also its rediculously small)

Bob

Very... demanding.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob ._.

robots don't have phones?

Bob

...apparently not?

paradroid

1:07 PM

They probably want to spam you through SMS

Bob

Nah.

Office 365 Business.

This is the kind of thing that won't spam - because that's a terrible image for them.

paradroid

I use that. Never seen that dialogue though

Bob

Speaking of, there was the default-unchecked option for "promotional offers" :P

allquixotic

@paradroid yeah, but you never click around with the speed of a fox, so you never trip their possible-selenium-script detection algorithm :P

paradroid

heh

Bob

1:10 PM

Eh, I went for the 1 month trial.

Will probably go on Business Essential after.

Got 365 Home anyway.

paradroid

Which plan?

allquixotic

Bob

@paradroid Business Premium trial. There's no plan choice for trial.

paradroid

That doesn't come with Exchange Online though

That's like the main thing for me.

Bob

@paradroid Yes it does...

Journeyman Geek

1:11 PM

@allquixotic @Bob got a tablet?

;p

DavidPostill

repcapped ;)

allquixotic

apparently

paradroid

Oh, does it? Okay. I'm on E4 or soemthing.

Bob

"Business Essentials" is email. "Business" is Office. "Business Premium" is both.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill nice ;p

Bob

1:12 PM

@paradroid Ah. The Enterprise range is different.

And entirely unnecessary for me, considering I'm the only one using it :P

Just wanted to finally start moving out from Gmail.

I don't like being at the mercy of one ('free') provider...

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill superuser.com/questions/1036740/… this keeps getting flagged

Its 1. closed. 2. I've added a mod comment why

paradroid

Same here, but I got onto it when it was free for authorised resellers, which I am, but I've only sold to two clients, but they still seem to be giving me the whole lot for nothing. Even though the free usage ended well over a year ago. Don't know how I snucked under the radar...

Bob

>

Service:
Office 365 Business Premium Trial

Trial Start Date:
2016-02-08

Trial End Date:
2016-03-07

@paradroid Heh. I'm happy to pay some $7-$8/month for email. My only gripe is the lack of subaddressing.

paradroid

My SharePoint, Exchange Online, everything seems to work still, apart from the Office subscriptions

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Ah. That question ;)

Can you tell who is flagging to reopen?

Bob

1:15 PM

Speaking of which, if you don't mind, could you vote for it? office365.uservoice.com/forums/273494-outlook-and-calendar/…

:)

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill they arn't

they're flagging it cause it is strange

paradroid

@Bob Where in the web interface did you copy that?

Bob

@paradroid That was in the email.

I'm trying to get people to vote for that suggestion - hopefully they'll add it soon...

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek I just voted to delete ;)

Bob

It's already supported on their outlook.com service :\

Journeyman Geek

1:17 PM

@DavidPostill that's fine

thing is it'll get roombaed

Bob

@paradroid Was the "Welcome to your Microsoft Office 365 trial" email.

DavidPostill

It's on -5 so probably not worth keeping around.

Faheem Mitha

Do you guys get a lot of questions here?

paradroid

DEPROVISIONED

Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Intune - Trial

Office 365 Enterprise E3

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online internal use rights (IUR) benefit for MPN members (100 seats)

Faheem Mitha

We seem to be getting more questions over in U&L as time passes.

paradroid

1:17 PM

Still all works though...!

Journeyman Geek

@FaheemMitha SU or RA?

Faheem Mitha

Though I don't keep track.

@JourneymanGeek SuperUser. What is RA?

Journeyman Geek

RA is here ;p

@FaheemMitha fair amount

Faheem Mitha

Oh, the chat room. No, I meant the main site.

Bob

For all you Super Users out there. You have backups, right?

5

DavidPostill

1:18 PM

@FaheemMitha Root Acess

qasdfdsaq

@paradroid Yes, I've been tempted by the same laptop, but decided to wait for the OLED version. Been using OLED displays on all my phones for some time now, and still annoyed that the contrast on laptop/desktop displays is so inferior.

Journeyman Geek

@FaheemMitha ~150-200 questions a day I guess

Bob

holy crap that's a lot of options...

this reminds me of the sharepoint admin panels

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek I dunno if it's my personal experience on desktop displays but I had the vague recollection IPS displays have higher power drain.

Bob

that's not a good thing btw :P

Faheem Mitha

1:19 PM

@JourneymanGeek Ok. That's probably more than U&L. And that's a lot of questions, actually. The mods must be kept busy.

Journeyman Geek

yup

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Compared to TN or OLED?

or, what was that other one

VA

Faheem Mitha

@JourneymanGeek How many flags do you get in a day on SU?

Journeyman Geek

somewhere north of a hundred I recon

paradroid

@Bob Subaddressing? You can make aliases, if that is what you meant.

qasdfdsaq

1:22 PM

@Bob TN, I think. Discussing OLED's power consumption is like entering an Apple vs. Android argument.

Faheem Mitha

@JourneymanGeek Seriously?

Bob

@paradroid I meant the automatic 'aliases'.

Faheem Mitha

Checking to see how many mods you have here...

qasdfdsaq

My professional desktop display has very high power consumption, and I recall reading reviews mentioning IPS was a part of that.

Bob

As set out in RFC 5233

paradroid

1:22 PM

@Bob IPS

Bob

Having to manually create aliases for every little thing would get tiring, fast.

@paradroid Oh yea, IPS's power consumption is so much lower than IPS's power consumption.

paradroid

OLEDs??

Faheem Mitha

Oh, I see 9 listed. That's quite a lot.

qasdfdsaq

@paradroid IPS

Journeyman Geek

@FaheemMitha we had 10 at one point

Faheem Mitha

1:24 PM

@JourneymanGeek And one left?

paradroid

Well OLED power consumption depends on what is being displayed. Very little for a black screen and lots for a white screen.

Faheem Mitha

Or retired?

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

Faheem Mitha

Are the 9 all active?

Journeyman Geek

to varying extents

Bob

1:24 PM

@qasdfdsaq Interesting. I've never really cared much about power consumption of desktop monitors. Laptops though...

Journeyman Geek

In theory we put in something like half an hour of moderation a day

qasdfdsaq

@Bob Yeah me neither (except when they heat my room) but I'm assuming the fundamental technological differences translate over to laptops too.

Faheem Mitha

@JourneymanGeek That's a fair amount.

Bob

Moderate in moderation.

qasdfdsaq

Especially now that the screen uses the majority of the idle power in a modern laptop.

Journeyman Geek

1:25 PM

(I do somewhat more at the moment)

Faheem Mitha

There are some days I feel like I'm probably not doing 1/2 hr productive work.

Journeyman Geek

but I scale back if I'm busy (I was ~~rolling in~~ walking along a muddy ex-train track this morning)

Bob

wtf are Sway/Yammer?

paradroid

Some chat/collabaration things from Microsoaft

Bob

Storytelling... 'enterprise social network' o.O

paradroid

1:27 PM

Oh. Sway is that thing to make powerpoint-like websites easily.

qasdfdsaq

Wasn't their purchase of Lync/Skype for Business meant to be the enterprise communication shit?

paradroid

Yammer is the social thing

Bob

> Sorry, we can't process your request.
We're investigating right now. Please try again later.

I can't even add a domain.

Not off to a great start.

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq from what I heard... shit's a good way to refer to it...

paradroid

Skype for Business is just a new name for Lync

Bob

1:28 PM

Oh look. A primer on what DNS does, and what domains are.

Uhh... somehow I get the feeling that if someone doesn't know that then they really have no business being on this page :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

paradroid

There are a fuckton of DNS records to add for O365 stuff

qasdfdsaq

@Bob A lot of small businesses don't have dedicated I.T. staff and just use the geekiest normal person they can find in the office to do the I.T. stuff.

Bob

> Watch the video to learn more about domains and DNS (3 minutes)

paradroid

@qasdfdsaq That's what the cloud is all about...

qasdfdsaq

1:30 PM

Boeing released a video a while back on "How to doubt an ILS - A free lesson!"

Bob

Ha, they detect it as Enom, not Namecheap.

paradroid

Outsourcing servers..

Bob

hm

I should change my password

qasdfdsaq

@paradroid Yes, outsource the LAN DHCP and DNS servers. Real clever.

Bob

> Changed on Oct 6, 2012 3:16 AM EDT

lol

paradroid

1:32 PM

@qasdfdsaq Of course that is not what I mean. MS still want AD onsite.

qasdfdsaq

@paradroid Do you even read what you reply to?

paradroid

Yeah. Just double checked... ??

qasdfdsaq

@Bob boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_21/… Boeing has revised its flight crew training manuals and operations manuals and has sent all airline customers a 26-min CD-ROM video, “New Zealand 60 — A Free Lesson.”

Here, have a CD-ROM teaching your pilots on how to not fly a plane into the ground.

Bob

O_O

qasdfdsaq

(AKA if someone doesn't know how to read an ILS probably has no business flying a passenger jet)

paradroid

1:34 PM

I thought it was all GPS based these days, rather than ILS

Well, I would expect it to be, anyway

Makes it cheaper for small airports too

Bob

> No alarm sounded in the control tower because the cable that fed information to the tower navigation status displays had been cut during construction.

...

@paradroid You don't land by GPS.

paradroid

I can't see accurate GPS cannot be used for that. I know what ILS is. I'm an aviation nut.

GPS with altimeter, of course

Joint Precision Approach and Landing System

The Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) is a military, all-weather landing system based on real-time differential correction of the GPS signal, augmented with a local area correction message, and transmitted to the user via secure means. The onboard receiver compares the current GPS-derived position with the local correction signal, deriving a highly accurate three-dimensional position capable of being used for all-weather approaches via an ILS-style display. While JPALS is similar to Local Area Augmentation System, but intended primarily for use by the military, some elements of...

Bob

=> gpsworld.com/professional-oemlanding-airplanes-with-gps-11540

Correction. You don't land by pure GPS.

Though I don't know how much more or less reliable than ILS the LAAS equipment is.

qasdfdsaq

@paradroid Do you even read what you're replying to?

@Bob Well the miltary stuff is military stuff. Civilian aircraft use either ILS or MLS, MLS being more accurate but not available as widely.

Although you could land with pure GPS. Enhanced GPS can be extremely accurate.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq But is it reliable?

qasdfdsaq

1:41 PM

The French used GPS for building the Millau Viaduct, to an accuracy to 1cm across a 2.5km span.

paradroid

@qasdfdsaq Not sure what you are referring to.

qasdfdsaq

@paradroid The fact that three times now you've replied to messages saying things completely unrelated to what you replied to

Bob

Hm, actually. I wasn't aware of LPV. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

qasdfdsaq

I like how European WAAS has better coverage than American WAAS.

paradroid

@qasdfdsaq Sorry man, but I don't know what you mean, as I looked back and the ones I think you may be referring to, are linked to your comments that I intended them to be.

qasdfdsaq

1:47 PM

@paradroid I don't know what you mean would be an appropriate response to most of your replies.

paradroid

@qasdfdsaq Example(s)? Genuinely confused, but whatever. Let's chill

qasdfdsaq

@paradroid The last one

paradroid

Last?

Bob

Yay, domain verified.

qasdfdsaq

> last1
[last, lahst]
Spell Syllables
Synonyms Examples Word Origin
adjective, a superl. of late with later as compar.
1.
occurring or coming after all others, as in time, order, or place:
the last line on a page.
2.
most recent; next before the present; latest:
last week; last Friday.
3.
being the only one remaining:
my last dollar; the last outpost; a last chance.
4.
final:
in his last hours.

paradroid

1:50 PM

@Bob You got onsite AD?

Bob

@paradroid Nup.

paradroid

@Bob Just wondering if you were doing single sign-on for O365

Bob

> Sorry, that didn't work
This doesn't look like a valid user ID.

@_@

@paradroid Nah.

This is just for personal use.

paradroid

ok. Not tried it, but now it is much less risky, as you can use Azure AD as like a secondary , so you don't get totally locked out of O365, if your single AD server goes kaput.

...as far as I understand it, anyway..

Bob

I have enough AD/SSO-related nightmares at work, thanks.

qasdfdsaq

1:52 PM

@Bob You should post a question on how to make it valid:

-6

Q: How to change my number to valid number?

I want to know how to change my number to valid number. ringht now! Please faster do the job. My number is 0122584653

resolution

Bob

lol

allquixotic

> I want to know how to change my user ID to valid user ID. ringht now! Please faster do the job. My user ID is sneakyfox123

Bob

hmm

mobile device management

actually that sounds interesting... but not now :P

allquixotic

main problem with BYOD is that it tends to lock down your device to ridiculous levels and monitor just about everything you do -_-

phones need VMs or containers where you can isolate your work stuff from the non-work stuff

qasdfdsaq

@allquixotic s/I|My/Bob/g

@allquixotic Yep. Lots of people complained about that at my last company

(In respect to Exchange/Office, but outside Exchange there were no restrictions)

allquixotic

1:56 PM

wasn't Samsung messing with some kind of containerization on the Galaxy platform?

qasdfdsaq

@allquixotic They do! Samsung Knox!

paradroid

@Bob It only restricts things or lets you sideload company apps, I think

Bob

@paradroid I'd be interested in the remote wipe :P

Maybe later.

paradroid

Oh yeah, that too.

qasdfdsaq

@Bob That was the biggest thing users complained about, particularly students moaning why does my university need the ability to wipe my phone just so I can use email?

allquixotic

1:58 PM

hmm... I would really like to see some kind of broader support for Samsung Knox and whatever else comes along that's similar... on the Android side, I think the ideal would be to have Google push it into AOSP, so all vendors will use it

on the iOS side, well, it's hard to imagine Apple doing anything remotely compatible with the rest of the market

Bob

@qasdfdsaq yea that's overkill for a uni...

allquixotic

and they'd probably be several years late to the game, if indeed anything like that ever comes at all to iOS

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