Root Access

Burgi

1:00 PM

he should just turn up to work drunk

or get a doctor's note for stress and go off for ages

Journeyman Geek

the criteria make it hard

DavidPostill

"For personal/social reasons alone, I simply cannot quit." this doesn't make any sense unless he has a weird personality disorder.

Journeyman Geek

he basically wants to be fired, without doing any of the firables.

Tempted to say "Bribe your boss"

Burgi

he should implement the perfect sharepoint installation for my last company

it got me "fired"

Journeyman Geek

lol

I think someone suggested being overcompetant.

Bob

1:04 PM

Also, for anyone whose really interested, replace all my uses of the phrase "future employer" or "future prospective employer" with "wife", and suddenly, this whole question should make complete sense :-) well, to anyone whose married that is — smeeb 4 hours ago

Burgi

so he wants to go work with his wife?

Bob

So your wife won't let you quit, so you need a ruse to make it seem like you really didn't want to leave, but you were fired. Wow - sounds like you need help far beyond the reach of The Workplace. How sad. Good luck with your wife and your life. — Joe Strazzere 2 hours ago

Burgi

i saw that, sneaky deletes... ;)

DavidPostill

@Burgi Yeah, I saw Bob's post and realised the quote was from the OP so mine didn't make any sense.

Burgi

i disagree, i think yours makes way more sense

DavidPostill

1:12 PM

Ok. Here it is again. "Replace boss with wife and new job with mistress and he wants her to divorce him not the other way around ;)

Burgi

why would his wife stop him from going for a new, better job?

the key is to replace "job" with "mistress"

DavidPostill

@Burgi exactly

I wonder what the "numerous other perks" are ;)

Burgi

no wonder the "training up a teammate" idea was shot down

DavidPostill

@Burgi I wonder if his current job is a Priest (or whatever) of a religion that doesn't allow marriage? So he needs to be fired by the church in order to get married.

Burgi

i think most religions are pretty chilled on that front

i just realised how stupid that sounds

DavidPostill

1:22 PM

Not if you are a Roman Catholic.

Burgi

yeah i thought that

DavidPostill

Clerical marriage

Clerical marriage is the practice of allowing clergy (those who have already been ordained) to marry. It is a practice that must not to be confused with that of allowing married persons to become clergy. Clerical marriage is admitted in Protestantism, Anglicanism, some Independent Catholic Churches (not in communion with Rome), Judaism, Islam, and the Japanese sects of Buddhism. The Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox churches, while allowing married men to be ordained, have historically excluded clerical marriage after ordination. Their parish priests are most often married, having been...

The Roman Catholic Church, in sharp contrast to others, not only forbids clerical marriage, it normally does not allow married men to be ordained either (though a very few exceptions are granted in its Western form and a few more exceptions in the Eastern Catholic Churches).

Burgi

i have a sneaky suspicion that if the jedi council allowed knights to have a family then anakin wouldn't have been such an arse

DavidPostill

Defrocking, unfrocking, or laicization of clergy is the removal of their rights to exercise the functions of the ordained ministry. It may be grounded on criminal convictions, disciplinary problems, or disagreements over doctrine or dogma, but may also be done at their request for personal reasons, such as running for civil office, taking over a family business, declining health or old age, desire to marry against the rules for clergy in a particular church, or an unresolved dispute.

Bob

oh lol

10

Q: Wind from kitchen sink drainage pipe

We live on a windy coast of North Sea. High wind is a norm here. One of the problems I face with the wind: it comes out from kitchen sink drainage pipe. If it is blowy outside, you can feel a draft coming from the drainage pipe. I think the problem is because the drainage pipe finishes outside ...

The original plumbing was hilariously wrong :P

Burgi

1:26 PM

i thought defrocking was something the tabloids caught priests doing....

@Bob i had a similar issue in my old house but with slugs coming up the sink

Journeyman Geek

defrocking is done to priests.

Burgi

i just have a whole load of carry on movie quotes in my head now

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I have this awesome visualisation of someone running in, grabbing the frock, and running off.

Burgi

lol

Bob

"YOINK!"

Journeyman Geek

1:36 PM

I guess you could say they were ex-padreated.

Burgi

tumbleweed

!!tumbleweed

ChatBot John Cavil

Burgi

superuser.com/users/589704/mr-economist - is this user setting themselves up for spamming?

djsmiley2k

They are going to a lot of work about it if they are @Burgi

more a case of they just don't 'get' the site

@Bob Why is there no trap D:

Also, after we moved, we've found the washing machine drains.... onto the lawn :/

Burgi

its grey water, thats fine isn't it?

djsmiley2k

1:46 PM

@Burgi that bit isn't such an issue

as it's using a normal 'down' pipe... which runs down the side of the wall...

there was a reason that part of the lawn was really REALLY soggy

dumping gallons of water beside your house every day isn't clever for your foundations

Bob

@djsmiley2k The scary thing is, wiring is often more messed up than plumbing.

It's just not as obvious until your house burns down.

@djsmiley2k If they're concrete foundations then that part doesn't really matter.

Will damage the lawn and make stepping there a pain...

Journeyman Geek

Apparently I'm number one user on hardware recs now \o/

Burgi

ugh

i wish someone would invent something to cancel out noisy neighbours

Bob

Burgi

:)

Bob

1:55 PM

Might have a bit of trouble getting it through the door.

Burgi

its really hot in my room but i can't have the window open because the noise of the wind chimes, loud talking chavvy neighbours and the people having a new roof built is REALLY irritating

i hope i get a job soon so i don't have to put up with this

Journeyman Geek

:(

Burgi

its the wind chimes that is doing me in

Journeyman Geek

ahh

Burgi

its all day and all night

djsmiley2k

2:00 PM

@Bob they are foundations from the 1940's, so I'd expect brick/mortar

@Burgi noise cancelation

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi clearly, you need to sneak in the middle of the night and encase them in concrete.

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek i am seriously considering it

Journeyman Geek

also, job = moving elsewhere?

Bob

Use the expanding foam stuff, it's easier :P

Burgi

the job will mean i am not at home during day

Journeyman Geek

2:01 PM

ah hah

Burgi

method to the madness

Guitar Shoe Dave

nice

need one of those speakers too @bob

Burgi

ah GSD, there was a DBMS question i saw the other day and thought of you

Journeyman Geek

German shepard dog?

Bob

German Shepherd Dog?

Journeyman Geek

2:02 PM

GSD?

Guitar Shoe Dave

@Burgi: Oh man, wish i WERE!!!!!! here.

Bob

(how2spell)

Journeyman Geek

meh ;p

You made the same mistake ;)

Bob

lol

Guitar Shoe Dave

fixed, spelling's hard :(

im actually not here right not and wasnt before so it makes sense right to use were?

Burgi

2:06 PM

@GuitarShoeDave found it

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Q: Query optimization in Data stream

I am confused about the idea of query optimization in stream of data. As a background, I know that optimization for any query is happening inside the DBMS with using of system catalogs which contain infomation about the tables, columns etc., whatever, the optimization or evaluation process happen...

streaming database query optimize

Guitar Shoe Dave

ah, tds protocol stuff

answer is parallelism being able to gather multiple streams @ once.

read up on it!

Burgi

i don't think i'd still be able to answer it sufficently well

Guitar Shoe Dave

ideally you'd want to store tables / non clustered indexes on multiple filegroups on different luns so you can benefit the greatest from parallelism.

since you can read from multiple drives across multiple filegroups to gather everything @ once.

for joins / etc.

Bob

Automatic lock screen image.

I like :)

Guitar Shoe Dave

Thats a nice lockscreen image.

Bob

2:10 PM

A couple of other nice ones.

jokerdino

W10?

Bob

Ya.

Burgi

@Bob a friend suggested sellotape and putty in the tubes

jokerdino

Why do I don't get such nice ones?

Bob

Burgi

2:11 PM

for me today's is a autumnal sunset

jokerdino

Does anyone happen to know where these lock screens are downloaded?

djsmiley2k

I get my work background :(

Bob

@jokerdino I've only gotten the first one so far, but I copied the others out of the folder :P

@jokerdino %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\‌LocalState\Assets

jokerdino

@Bob cheating!

Burgi

@jokerdino

0

A: How to enable the geographical location of the image seen for the lock screen in windows 10?

Edit I have just found an option on the settings for the lock screen to enable tips and extra information. I don't know if this will give you the information you expect as I have it disabled on my machine. Original Answer I suspect your friend has got an extra app to retrieve the geographic...

jokerdino

2:13 PM

downvoted

I dont have that option..

Guitar Shoe Dave

^-- need to find a large resolution version of that

DavidPostill

@GuitarShoeDave lh6.googleusercontent.com/-HLdVF-s36GU/UDjvNq4P1HI/AAAAAAAAKjI/… 800x600

Guitar Shoe Dave

nice

DavidPostill

@GuitarShoeDave google image search ;)

Bob

Can't find a high-res of the original one :\

Burgi

2:25 PM

i have a similar picture to that westie one, just not as well done

Bob

That was my avatar for a while :P

Burgi

now that is a silver fox

LMFAO minecraft

2:29 PM

dumb dog moved too fast so she's all blurry

Journeyman Geek

lol

dogs are hard to photograph

Burgi

the hosepipe is pinsharp though

Journeyman Geek

ESPECIALLY if they know you are photographing them

Burgi

imgur.com/a/zz75y

Journeyman Geek

lol

this is bizarre.

Burgi

2:41 PM

last two imgur.com/a/OQF7X

what is bizarre?

Journeyman Geek

Runt and Rita - Do you Hear the Poodles Bark and Dig Down

►

Its an entire les misables pastishe

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

2:55 PM

@Burgi Nothing to do with movement. The image is just out of focus.

Burgi

i was using manual focus

prior to her runing down the garden she was doing the classic westie pose on the top step

Journeyman Geek

The sitting down, looking magestic? ;p

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek basically yes

Journeyman Geek

yeah

westies are adorable beasties.

Burgi

i prefer cats but if i were to get a dog it would probably be a westie or similar terrier

Journeyman Geek

3:01 PM

Snauzers are great

except for their voices

Burgi

my sister loves dogs

Journeyman Geek

We kinda adopted one by accident ;p

My parents think/thought its too much work

Burgi

in fact she wants a small holding type thing

Journeyman Geek

even if I did most of the walks before last year

Burgi

with horses, chickens and sheep

Journeyman Geek

3:03 PM

I think a norfolk/norwich is the smallest I'm ok with

tho, I kinda prefer bigger dogs. Ash has a big personality so... he counts ;p

Burgi

heh

Journeyman Geek

my gran has a GSD who's adorable

Rahul Basu

I prefer dogs...

Burgi

on sandwiches?

;p

Rahul Basu

lol

Journeyman Geek

3:08 PM

in soviet russia, dog eat sammich.

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek is that your haircut for the interviews ? or is that some other dog? where is the tie :-)

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek in most of the world too if they get half a chance

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek totally not wearing a tie for the interviews ;p

Rahul Basu

Burgi

i remember once our dog stole a sandwich of my sister's plate, so my sister made another after telling the dog off. she sat down to eat the new one and the dog leapt up and swiped it just as she was going to take a bite

i've never laughed so hard

Rahul Basu

3:12 PM

my dog used to do that... :P

Journeyman Geek

My dog would never do that

Psycogeek

that's what forks are for

Journeyman Geek

he just sits down and just gives you the sad eyes o doom

Burgi

@Psycogeek you eat sandwiches with a fork?

Rahul Basu

@JourneymanGeek That's what happens once they get mature...

Psycogeek

3:13 PM

no you fend off you meal with a fork, hey they got teeth.

Journeyman Geek

@RahulBasu we've never had food swipage happen

Burgi

you fend off your meal.... who is eating who here?

;)

Rahul Basu

lol

Psycogeek

dog understand the pecking order in only a few minutes, bite thier ears.

Burgi

lol

Rahul Basu

3:17 PM

Burgi

marital arts vs modern arts would be a whole different gif....

Journeyman Geek

Indiana Jones vs. The Swordsman

►

@Burgi apparently cats are supposed to be unclean in my culture

also, my government apparently thinks cats are too noisy for apartment living

Burgi

wtf?

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek is that the whip stunt?

Journeyman Geek

no

Its the one where there's a guy swinging a sword around, and indy shoots him

Rahul Basu

3:21 PM

Someone ought to tell them that it's the dogs who bark...

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi they also banned any dogs outside specific breeds.

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek lmao, just watched it.

Journeyman Geek

@RahulBasu apparently cats yowl

Burgi

they did that here too but only for dangerous breeds

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi JRTs arn't very good apartment dogs.

On the other hand, some large breeds are ok

Burgi

3:22 PM

@JourneymanGeek apparently harrison ford was ill the day they filmed that and really couldn't be bothered

Journeyman Geek

and until recently you couldn't have a local mutt.

@Burgi yup

jokerdino

@Burgi read the comments too?

Rahul Basu

@jokerdino yep

Burgi

@jokerdino no i read an article about it a few years ago

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

!!caat

ChatBot John Cavil

3:24 PM

jokerdino

Becky is back for caat.

2

Rahul Basu

Turns out when connected to a PC, a selfie remote acts as 'enter'... I'm gonna have so much fun pranking my friends tomorrow... ;p

Burgi

a selfie remote?

Guitar Shoe Dave

this is great

"You can be a kernel hacker!" by Julia Evans

►

:)

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@Burgi Probably one of those bluetooth selfie sticks

Burgi

3:30 PM

ah

DavidPostill

3:49 PM

@JourneymanGeek Only when they are mating ;)

Straw poll:

Psycogeek

@GuitarShoeDave knowing this is who you are likely to be hacked by , helps :-)

Guitar Shoe Dave

good april fools prank

:-)

DavidPostill

Is a "Jack plug" a) a pointy thing that goes into a socket b) a socket that accepts a pointy thing

Context:

0

A: Why both my speaker only work when plugged directly into laptop?

I mentioned the MP3 player or phone because I wanted you to try it with a different source than your laptop. This was to be a troubleshooting step. However, since you reported it works fine with headphones, and you have the same issue with a different laptop, we can be pretty confident that it'...

See the comments ;)

Psycogeek

Jack is the socket, Plug is the item that goes in it. in electronics-speak.

DavidPostill

lol. US answer.

"In the UK, many Commonwealth countries and some non-English-speaking countries, the word "jack" may refer to the plug on the end of a removable cable. These connectors were originally referred to as "jack plugs", or plugs intended to be mated with fixed receptacles, or sockets (which North Americans would call "jacks"), but the second word was dropped. This variant usage is in direct contradiction to common usage and official standards in North America. "

Psycogeek

4:04 PM

why yous guys call it a Lift ?

DavidPostill

Because it lifts you up?

Psycogeek

carry groceries in your bonnet ?

I really think US speak is lamely simplified.

(and like it like that)

DavidPostill

Why you guys call it a trunk? Does it look like an Elephants nose or something? ;)

No insult intended. Just expressing the vehemence with which I hold, and will continue to hold, these positions. — Jamie Hanrahan 49 mins ago

Psycogeek

trunk like steamer trunk , foot locker, luggage.

DavidPostill

Are all Americans so obstinate that their version of English is the one true version?

Psycogeek

4:08 PM

no they watch british movies and BBC

Still have to mentally translate

Rahul Basu

shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/02/cheap-bluetooth-buttons-and-linux

Psycogeek

besides in reality an elevator is a motorised verticle transport device, we should all agree to call it a MVT

Rahul Basu

He never found a way to detect the keypress...

DavidPostill

" Less familiar (now) is the telephone switchboard, for which an operator had to be able to selectively connect together pairs of the thousands of possibilities, as quickly as possible.

Charles E. Scribner, a man of great ingenuity, developed the “jack-knife switch” to make fast switching possible. This was a plug with a jackknife-like handle (hence the name) that could be inserted into a socket to activate the switch. Two such plugs at either ends of a cord allowed the connection of any two sockets, yielding an active telephone connection.

Psycogeek

really it is a Jack-Plug, it is the plug that goes in the Jack. so if somene edited my question to say that, not sure how much time i would waste over worrying about it..

DavidPostill

4:16 PM

"Although switchboards are no longer used today, the same jack-knife switch design was used to design audio connectors — which is why we refer to those plugs as “jacks”,"

Psycogeek

And jack-knife switch was based on a jack-knife , and the socket and plug are nothing like any of that.

DavidPostill

I prefer to know where words actually came from and use them correctly in my native language. Just because some other country decided to change the rules doesn't make them right ;)

Psycogeek

now we know it is all wrong.

DavidPostill

lol

Psycogeek

and its not a jackknife, it is a "folding knife" pocket optional , jack probably didnt even invent it

Blog bot

4:26 PM

Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment - 2016 Edition

Nick Craver on May 3, 2016

The third in a long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture explaining how we deploy code.

Rahul Basu

What's up with blogbot's gravatar? :/

jokerdino

broken asset

Psycogeek

it is a bot, just be happy it isnt armed :-) or driving down the road in front of you.

DavidPostill

"jack-knife (n.)
also jackknife, "pocket knife larger than a pen-knife," 1711, probably American English, apparently from some sense of jack (n.). Perhaps it originally was associated with sailors."

djsmiley2k

 The entire point of tooling from an ancient hammer to a modern Git install is to save time and effort of the user. Use whatever saves you the most time and effort. Unless it’s Emacs, then consult a doctor immediately.

lul

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

4:39 PM

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Turns out I did both.

djsmiley2k

Congrats?

Burgi

its here to steal your posting job!

djsmiley2k

urgh so bored of this job and this place

and it's only been 5 weeks :/

This is not a good sign

Burgi

maybe it will improve in the next few weeks?

Psycogeek

4:55 PM

ahh i knew it at least one of those ransomwares uses windows (own) API. Because i do not use encryption, potentially the thing could be shut down and even with ransomware running on the computer, it wouldnt touch me. Because (way more often than we would think) these programs Are highly dependant on available holes and functions of the OS.

djsmiley2k

@Burgi doubtful tbh, it's been bad since i started.

I had a senior recruiter talking to me about a role at cisco...

(yes, yes, yes!!)

Burgi

ask for something more challenging?

Rahul Basu

Check this out: rahul2001.com/weblog/aescodr

djsmiley2k

but.... it's gone quiet for the last 2 months too

everythings gone quiet since I moved house, annoying

Ah well, driving test tomorrow D:

Burgi

gl with that

Psycogeek

4:58 PM

It IS possible to form 3 Layers of protection against this stuff, Like i always over do it :-) Javascript , ActiveX , can be the Web vectors. Attachements in e-mails are the e-mail vectors. then the user activly downloading stuff , wait 6 months for the version of virus to arrive in the virus databases.

Burgi

what job are you doing at the mo?

djsmiley2k

IT support

it's very much first line support, tho that's not how it was sold ;/

1st line and an obcession with paperwork

Psycogeek

make that 4 layers , when all else fails, a clone backup of the OS, and a file backup of all file items.

Burgi

@djsmiley2k can you start on older tickets or cataloging the inventory or something?

they might give you more interesting things to do then

Rahul Basu

@GuitarShoeDave My first serious project: rahul2001.com/weblog/aescodr

Psycogeek

5:06 PM

Every one of the analisis of the ransomware that actually gets its "key" from an internet server (not all of them do), would have to get through the firewall to get said key. thats 5 . just how many bloody thing have to be incorrect (IMO) to get this stuff.

Boris_yo

How is it that Facebook Android app takes over 300MBs?

How is it that many apps take over 130MBs?

djsmiley2k

@Burgi all tickets that I can do are done, I still don't have access to lotso f things.

stock room already been tidied

Boris_yo

When I had HTC Desire smartphone with Android 2.3.3 apps tool 100MB at most and then I would consider those fat bastards.

djsmiley2k

@Boris_yo people are lazy

Boris_yo

@djsmiley2k I don't see connection?

Psycogeek

5:18 PM

@Boris_yo you would if you saw what was in them :-)

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Oh then that's coders who are lazy then? Not consumers?

djsmiley2k

why make it smaller, when you've jjust installed the 350Mb goliath anyway

Boris_yo

Running out of 16GB space...

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo i was looking at your standby reboot problem question on SU. that is some nasty question, because it looks like your dealing with 2 different problems issues in one question. It can make it harder for sure to "fix" without (like said there) somone looking at your machine there.

Guitar Shoe Dave

@Boris_yo: consider using Face Slim app instead of facebook.

Boris_yo

5:21 PM

@Psycogeek Sometimes I have to create canvas around image because it is not in the ration I want. But it's not displayed as sharp when viewing it online, unless I fully zoom. Do you think this is because I got ratio wrong?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo You also show 3 different styles of BSOD, which (to me) dont look to have any similarity.

Guitar Shoe Dave

@RahulBasu: Interesting :P

Rahul Basu

;)

That Brazilian Guy

They blocked WhatsApp. Again. And arrested Facebook's LatAm CEO. Again.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo the pictures are fine, it is the problem itself, muddeled in layers of fails.

Rahul Basu

5:23 PM

lol

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Maybe it's interlaced vs progressive scanning or something?

The way image is saved?

I noticed that when I change canvas and modify image so it's horizontal and vertical resolutions changed, it may regain its sharpness.

@Psycogeek BSOD? There was no blue screen. Is it black screen of death?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo superuser.com/questions/1052378/… this one. the problem itself and the presentation is messy, NOT how it reads or the pictures. The problem itself. Look like you have either 2 problems, or a minor hardware issue.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek I am checking if I am Windows Repair Disk dependent now. I think as long as it's in DVD reader it's okay. Strange theory...

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo at the least , you probably should have asked about only 1 "problem" in the question. either the way it fails out of standby, or the reboot problem, even if they are probably related. To keep all the errors and info down to the one problem also. That is my opinion.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Create 2 questions?

Psycogeek

5:39 PM

@Boris_yo no, have 1 problem at a time. Like i said it could be related. showing errors from startup and errors from standby , presenting both problems in a pile, is not helping that question. Concentrate on only the one aspect of it, and ignore the other untill the one is fully operational.

@Boris_yo It is probably to late for that question, to be changing it now. that is just what i noticed about it, and how that could prevent you from getting help.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek It makes it a lot harder when there are variables involved.

djsmiley2k

arugh nervous now! D:

/me was ignoring it up until talking the boss shortly before he left

Boris_yo

5:55 PM

Lol the imagination of 80s gamers: gamefaqs.com/boards/961032-mortal-kombat/59597994

That was 5 years ago. That generation had imagination but next generations would probably won't.

That game is part of nostalgie so I am biased...

Kung Lao a salesman with cutting hat? Should you make a choise of not buying As Seen On TV latest and greatest gadget Kung Lao will cut you in half!

Baraka - a chef in Chinese restaurant?

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