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3:00 PM
(roughly)
 
Bob
So it's 6mm thinner :P
 
It varies between 1.3 and 2.0 :-o
@Bob Which is a LOT
 
Bob
Then again my Miix 2 10" is probably thicker still
 
@JourneymanGeek Well, no
Well, maybe
X260 starts at £800 for an i5 or £1000 for an i7
 
also
OLED probably still has (some) yield issues
and it kinda has the same issues with "its better but pricier"
like plasma
 
3:02 PM
X1 is £1000 for a i5 with double the RAM and and £1300 for an i7
 
Bob
@qwertyuiop ...point
 
how does thin assist in the transport of these, unless it is how it fits in a breifcase?
 
@Bob It's a convertible with a stylish dock
 
Bob
That hinge looks pretty dodgy
 
3:06 PM
That hinge was the universal standard for all business/enterprise convertibles before the Yoga came around
 
Bob
hm
too bad the XPS 15 only has a 960M
 
It's been used on high-end machines for over a decade
 
"Hairline-Brushed Aluminum Champagne Gold Cover" makes me really want to buy it ...
 
@qwertyuiop that thing fell down the ugly tree, hitting some of the branches on the way down
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Bob
@qwertyuiop :\ come to think of it, I might've seen one. once.
 
3:07 PM
!!s/@qwertyuiop that thing/JourneymanGeek/g
 
@qwertyuiop JourneymanGeek fell down the ugly tree, hitting some of the branches on the way down (source)
 
._.
That seems vaguely uncalled for
 
@Bob: If you're obsessed with thin-ness above all else you could always get one of these ^^
 
that's the new HP right?
 
Core M, 10.4mm thick, 1.1kg weight
Or in your extended speak
 
Bob
@qwertyuiop more likely that I've just spent too much time around chunkier laptops recently :P
 
> Dimensions (W x D x H)
32.5 x 22.9 x 1.04 cm

Weight
Starting at 1.1 kg
 
Bob
eh... I really should just grab a cheap Cherry Trail one and see how that goes first
 
By the new HP!
 
Bob
been saying that for so long it might've even made @JourneymanGeek's 3-month policy by now :P
 
3:10 PM
I would love to see the OMG on your face when you get it
Wait no it's Core i5/i7 not core M
Full-fat reduced-fat processor
Aka semi skimmed?
Do you have a job/money/rich spouse/large line of credit available?
If so, I demand you buy the new HP
 
Bob
lol
 
@Bob I was suggesting the cherry trail!
 
Bob
It doesn't even exist on the AU website yet!
 
Seriously, it's impossible to explain the OMG factor in words or even pictures
 
Bob
lemme know if you can find it www8.hp.com/au/en/premium/laptops/index.html
 
3:14 PM
I mean geez. Look at taht. Doesn't look all that impressive right?
 
its like hanging by the ribbon XD
 
Then you look closer. That's a USB-C port. Taking up almost the entire thickness of the back panel. Which is twice as thick as the rest of it because it houses the whole hinge mechanism internally
The Gigabye Aero is supposed to be thin... the USB-C port takes up 1/4 the thickneess of the laptop ffs
 
Bob
dammit, stop tempting me :(
@JourneymanGeek Oh, that other one was for my brother. Didn't really want to recommend that for him, especially since it was supposed to last four years+
 
key features - cooling somewhere? or batteries that like to be cooked
how about a lappy that uses the new Molten salt battery :-)
 
@Bob ahh. I suppose the stream does have the whole "if it eventually breaks, meh, throw it out and get a new one" aspect to it
 
3:20 PM
ok so the it support company we use is rubbish
 
but that's exactly why I'd think its a good school system
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek That's partially why I think trying one of the cheapos to start with is a good idea - for myself
Shiny new HP laptops aside...
 
@Bob and I had my stream in my backpack for a good chunk of when I was working, usually unprotected, its flown to india as my primary system...
 
they are "apple specialists"
 
if it had an IPS display ... and replacing the batteries was trivial, I'd have no complaints
 
Bob
3:28 PM
@JourneymanGeek Eh, for that price? Battery died? It's now a server with a mini-UPS. Buy a new one.
:P
 
@Bob True
I'm kinda fond of the little thing
its covered in stickers ;p
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek it was Celeron?
 
posted on June 01, 2016

plz send teh reviewz

 
3:47 PM
urgh
 
I was amused
 
Dell.com not loading images when i'm earching for a laptop adaptor
actually it's not loading any reuslts, but all the 'pages' for the results are there :/
 
@djsmiley2k Ouch. Perhaps just try Amazon?
 
Might be a better price anyway
 
3:48 PM
haha
this is for work, I don't have a choice.
 
Ahh damn
 
hmmm help and support loads
it's just the products that don't :(
I don't know even how to try and debug it
 
Well that's silly.
Have you tried another browser?
 
Bob
Turn off adblock?
 
Dell's site is VERY slow for me all the time... hm
 
3:50 PM
no adblock on it bob
 
Yeah, any extensions you have running that might stop it?
 
just flat normal 'chrome
i think it's the corp firewall/filtering doing something stupid, but its working for everyone else
Trying now with IETab
 
Very odd
 
yup
 
Corporate firewalls.. ugh. We have one at my work, it's terrible.
 
3:51 PM
yeah
this one is a pita
Ok odd, same thing in IETab
 
Mines a PITA because we are mechanics... it's silly.
 
I'm in IT
Sites are blocked for reason: IT
:/
 
I feel like no IT firm should be blocking anything but hey
 
ok ietab was no better
it's not an IT firm, it's seat manufacturering
Trying in pure IE now.
but hey what do I know? :D
Oh really now dell... 'We are sorry but we are unable to sign you into your account at this time. Please try again later. If the problem persists contact the Premier helpdesk.'
 
@djsmiley2k Well that's just silly. Good one Dell
 
4:00 PM
yup
so yeahhhhhhh thsi is fun :/
and boss will be like 'WHY U NO GET QUOTES?!?!!?'
I'm like...... maybe we should use someone else :/
 
4:16 PM
@Bob yeah, mine's bay trail celeron
 
4:27 PM
Sorry that took so long, I'm a slow-as-fuck image manipulator
Everything to scale
Bottom one = yours. Top one = the new HP Spectre
 
Sooooooooooooo
a charity recuitment consultant, working for a partnership with MY SURNAME contacted me about my CV o_o
 
at this rate you'll be a mod on astronomy.SE by the end of the week @JourneymanGeek
 
@Bob
I've editied a bit
All to scale, +/- 2%
Top to bottom:
Gigabyte Aero 14 gaming laptop
HP Spectre 13 2016
Apple Macbook 12
Apple Macbook Air 11 (2014)
Toshiba Radius 12
Apple Macbook Pro (2015)
Asus UX305 (2016)
HP Spectre X360 (2015)
Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro,
Lenovo Yoga 900
Dell XPS 15 (2016)
HP Envy m6
 
4:50 PM
For a not so serious answer to your question:
Tremor may be caused by:

Certain medicines
Brain, nerve, or movement disorders, including uncontrolled muscle movements (dystonia)
Brain tumor
Excessive alcohol consumption, alcoholism, or alcohol withdrawal
Multiple sclerosis
Muscle tiredness or weakness
Normal aging
Overactive thyroid
Parkinson's disease
Stress, anxiety, or fatigue (can cause a postural tremor)
Stroke
Too much coffee or other caffeinated drink
 
Out of close votes again :/
Nevermind - was an audit ...
 
5:17 PM
@DavidPostill Those pesky audits
 
5:35 PM
hii
 
heya
 
!! s/h/n/
 
@allquixotic neya (source)
 
Afternoon
 
Evening
 
5:48 PM
posted on June 01, 2016

This is most definitely not a challenge idea.  And I mean, come on, you didn’t even include a useful command….

 
6:11 PM
Need Windows 10 enthusiast on this topic: superuser.com/questions/1081808/…
 
i don't think there is such a thing as a Windows 10 enthusiast...
;)
 
how about a win10 Euthanasia instead ?
 
heh
 
many of the people tweaking the heck out of windows 10, have disabled the tracking corporate linking, cloud hopping, microsoft controlling, even before completely understanding it (or reading the tou :-)
the rest of them just roll-over and pray they know what they are doing (like that's no misteak)
 
was that typo intentional, because its hillarious
 
6:21 PM
but the question seems popular enough.. @Unknown123 what would you want to see as a desired end results?
A cute pop-up that said it, even though it wouldnt prove it? A comparison routine that guarenteed the existance and data accuracy?
help files that covered anything beyond the base know-how that everyone already had?
how about 101 statements from techs that "the cloud is not a backup" ?
"•When sync is turned on, Windows keeps track of the settings you care about and sets them for you on all your Windows 10 devices." how does it know what I care about?
 
@Psycogeek lol
 
printer settings? pagefile settings? disk write cache settings? I kinda doubt that.
 
@Psycogeek "Finally, there’s the rather vague “Other Windows settings"
On the other hand it doesn't sync apps which might actually be useful for some value of useful
Hmm
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I have no close votes remaining ... :/
 
a good clone backup syncs , and the most important stuff, When the thing Borks miserably , a clone backup is like having your whole computer (cloned at that time) back again.
 
6:41 PM
I've been using cpubenchmark.net for like 3 years and just now I finally put it on my bookmarks bar
most useful URL on the public Internet, or definitely in the top 10: cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
I love how searching for "GTX 1080" on Newegg shows all these 980 Tis. "We don't have any 1080s; would you like the prior generation?"
that'd be like saying "Sorry Sir, we don't have any milkshakes; how about a glass of water?"
 
@allquixotic (ಠ_ಠ)
I won't even say anything
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy whaaaat?
oh, right -- it'll cost you $250,000,000,000 USD and take 10 weeks to get there if you wanted a GTX 1080 :P
maybe by 2020 you'll be able to get one for under $1000 USD -_-
 
@allquixotic I see you're an optimist! :D
 
6:59 PM
I could technically buy a new GTX 1080 for a markup over the MSRP of about $200 - $250 right now on Amazon, but I'm not going to do that
 
One, that just encourages the scalpers who buy up all the cards on release day and try to upsell them. Two, it's very likely that the card I receive might be opened or otherwise tampered with, or not even a true 1080 (maybe a knock-off or a 980).
I'll just have to wait until Amazon is selling them "ships and sold from Amazon" at MSRP, hopefully before the end of the year.
 
@allquixotic I can buy a Microstar - MSI / GTX 980TI 6GB DDR5 for BRL 3200, or in other words, if I don't leave home for a month, don't eat, don't pay for electricity, etc, then I'll still need BRL 200 to be able to buy one.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy that's 889 USD -- or about $200 more than you can commonly find them here. :/
 
well people who stand in line for a day , to pay full retail, deserve thier fees :-) me i will wait till the price drops , and Version2 :-) they fix the last bug.
 
7:02 PM
and there are certain brands of them that go for a bit less sometimes
not only that, but since the 980 Ti is now far inferior to the 1080, as soon as 1080 stock increases, the 980 Ti's price should plummet.
 
@allquixotic I don't believe in direct conversion, because salaries vary, average value of the work hour, how much of the population has low / high salaries, etc etc etc
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy well, okay, true enough, but even with direct conversion it's bad -- and it's considerably worse taking into account salaries in Brazil
 
@allquixotic I could also buy a Galax / Geforce GTX 950 EXOC White 2GB for BRL 795. Still a stab in my liver, but this time they don't take the liver away.
 
although the US government and corporations are working as hard as they can to ensure that our salaries match or are even cheaper than Brazil's
 
i hate it when you do an answer and the asker never replies or comes back to the site
 
7:05 PM
salaries in the US have been unable to keep up with inflation or cost of living increases since the mid-1970s
citizens who used to be privileged and on an "up-and-up" trend are now starting to feel the burn... and the trend is getting worse as cost of living mounts and salaries remain flat
 
so guys
as an IT contractor
 
medical and education costs are growing out of control... soon you will see people going into college today as freshmen, taking out a life-long mortgage to pay off their student loans, and living in a tiny shack while working as a doctor or electrical engineer or aerospace engineer, because they can't afford better
 
my employer stated at interview 'tehre is some shiftwork, is that ok?'
my recuritment agency confirmed the hours to be between 7am, 6pm, mon-fri
At first few weeks they were, then it was 'oh we need to cover production, so it's now between 6am - 9:30pm, with the shifts stretched out to cover this
Now it's the above, plus working 1 in every 4 sat and sunday, with no 'day off' in the week
 
ask, how often and ask for it to be written into the contract that it is temporary
 
It's not temporary
 
7:09 PM
@djsmiley2k They are paying extra for the extra time, right? Right?
 
they jsut don't want to hire more people
@ThatBrazilianGuy they are paying my 'base' rate, whcih isn't perticularly high in the first place
 
@Bob how was it? pretty good, wasn't it? interesting?
 
@djsmiley2k walk away
 
@Burgi ok,
that's my plan anyway, but wanted to check i wasn't being stupid or something and this is 'expected' of a contractor
If it was tempoary while they trained someone new, fine.
but this is just 'business as usual'
 
7:12 PM
they've threatened the perm staff to get rid of them if they don't agree to new contract stating this
 
you already have a job, this one isn't offering anything more or new so walk away
wtf...
 
No, this is the job I have right now
 
yeah iffy culture
WHAT
i thought you were looking elsewhere?
 
As I said, when i started it was mon-friday, 7-6
which was fine, i could get home in reasonable time and get there too
I am looking :/
Not finding anythign suitable, and i doubt I will til I'm driving (way to pile on the pressure!!)
 
harvey nash and michael page are decent agencies
 
7:16 PM
Looks like we're exchanging happy news about work...
Well, looks my workplace is undergoing some restructuring.
More specifically, our IT teams are.
 
oh god
good luck @ThatBrazilianGuy
 
So far, no lay-offs. And to be honest I don't expect to be many (or any)
 
you'll either get paid off (nice), get kept on (not so fun, as people leaving == more work for who's left), you'll get moved around (fun if you like learning), or nothing will actually change (utter waste of time).
 
As I said many times before, it's really, really hard to be fired on government jobs here.
To be fired here you'd have to miss work for a month, then come drunk and high, stand up on your table, naked, and harass your boss.
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that may change in the current upheavals though....
 
7:19 PM
@ThatBrazilianGuy So if you miss work for a month, come in drunk and high, stand up on the table fully clothed and harass your boss, you'll be fine?
 
@allquixotic You'd be surprised at the level of crazy people we have here. As in, clinically insane.
 
they'll class it as a mental breakdown :D
 
It's like this place is a crazy-people magnet.
 
hmmm I have mental illness
 
Everyone is mentally ill. Everyone.
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7:21 PM
@ThatBrazilianGuy nah, you've just not realised like 90% of the population is already crazy
 
@djsmiley2k Come work for us, then you won't be fired! Ever!
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy I wish
 
wow. can't believe this room is live today !
 
you can't say that about your wife @djsmiley2k ;)
 
oh she agrees
she's not as crazy as me tho
 
7:21 PM
usually everyone is sleeping..
 
lol
 
Come work for $RandomBrazilianGovUni! Thepay is shit, but less shitty than the rest of the market. Rock solid job stability, flexible hours, and lots of challenges.
 
@Developer I'm having a bit of a mental break down, it's good fun
@ThatBrazilianGuy sounds like my ideal role
 
@djsmiley2k There is a slight possibility that I get moved to another team, or rather, our current 3-person team gets absorbed into another team that performs the same task.
 
@djsmiley2k mental break down ?
 
7:24 PM
@Developer I hate my job
 
@djsmiley2k what part of it
 
stress makes me a bit... odd
 
Problem is, it took me 3 years to get to work with what I like, and this other team works in bizarre ways with bizarre results (they only use hammers so everything to them is a generic Joomla 1.5 template nail). So either this other team will be extinct or we'll get absorved into them.
 
@Developer the expected hours, the place, urgh
 
Im not-so-secretly wishing for them to be extinct.
 
7:26 PM
@djsmiley2k whats stopping you to change your job
 
??
oh
i'm trying, sure
but it's not easy
 
what u r working as
 
Right now I don't drive, so that's a massivel imit
IT Administrator
 
lots of jobs for that these days
 
Vodafone just asked me to sign up for beach model pictures with the caption "spice up your life" :/
 
7:28 PM
pass driving test then, it's not that difficult, unless u already got 22 points of learning one :P
anyone into LAN security ?
 
@RahulBasu 1) Sexism, 2) aren't you a minor?
 
@Developer yeah sure
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy they don't care :(
 
@djsmiley2k why people can discover shared folders but can't access them
why windows don't hide them instead
 
hmmm
because the visibility is decided at a different level to the access?
you're right, it could just hide the inaccessable folders
 
7:34 PM
when a domain machine is used without internet, can it still expose information about domain network
without internet or outside domain
 
to whom?
if someone stole it? sure.
 
Attackers on the same isolated network?
But yeah, physical access is total access
 
@djsmiley2k to the person using that machine
for example employees sometime take there machines home with them
 
Domain DNS name, Group Policy settings, cached hashes...
Plus the data stored on the machine, of course
Machine password, which could be used to poke around Active Directory
 
Somebody please give me some more close votes :p
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7:39 PM
@BenN Machine password, hmmm never heard of it
 
Computer accounts are just like normal user accounts, they have passwords and permissions too
You can find the machine password somewhere in HKLM\SECURITY
 
@BenN I have always seen them like this, computerName\$
didn't knew its a machine password
 
That's an account name
The password is randomly generated and looks like line noise
 
don't think it's in SAM database
 
It's not stored with normal user accounts and password hashes, but IIRC it is in that Registry key somewhere
 
7:45 PM
can we access machines on network using hashes @windows 10 enterprise
 
Depends on your domain controller's settings
Cached domain user hashes are never immediately usable though
 
@BenN really, how so
what a useless article - http://allhacksandtricks.blogspot.com/2013/12/access-shared-folders-over-network.html
why use CMD when one can see shared folders in network discovery anyway
 
DCC2 hashes are hashes of hashes
 
@BenN that means no chance of cracking them
 
You can crack them, it just takes forever
It's PBKDF2 with >10K iterations of the NTLM hash
 
I was reading somewhere can't remember where that, we can force accounts to login automatically (if they were once logged into system) then get there plain text passwords
 
I'm fairly certain that's bogus, since Windows doesn't write the plaintext password to disk anywhere unless you use some poorly-designed third-party authentication package
Or do something inadvisable like logging onto a domain with a PIN or picture password
You can force accounts to log on automatically, but without entering a password, they won't be able to access any network resources
As soon as a domain controller saw such a token, it would say "Nice try."
 
ok, we spoken about all the limitations, now we need to talk about vulnerabilities :D
how long would it take a local ntlm hash to crack
@BenN I agree
 
NTLM hashes are pretty quick, they're just MD4 with no salt
My machine could do >10M hash/s
 
@BenN what software do you use
I tried cain but it seems to be slow on virtual box with windows 7
 
8:03 PM
I've fiddled around with hashcat, but I don't know much about that field
 
telling me 107 years or so lol
 
Cain is appallingly slow for any kind of hash breaking, I wouldn't even try
 
@BenN did u used it on your personal computer
 
Yeah, it can use a GPU
 
won't anti virus going to complain
 
8:03 PM
Again, I'm not an expert hash breaker, I only did some tests with my own hashes
Maybe, but you can turn them off if you have to
 
what graphic card do you have, I might give it a go, but am afraid if hashcat start sending my own passwords to attackers lol
installing a rootkit :L
 
Heh, it's open-source, so you can check it or compile it yourself
Or run it on a throwaway machine with useless password hashes
 
ntlm hash, 6 hours with such a powerful machine, are they kidding me !
 
8:22 PM
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Pamela Scott0 down vote I have a LG, Slim Portable DVD Writer. I have used it on this computer before, Dell XPS 12, but today when I am trying use it to install a new software I just received, it "does not recognize it". How do I get it to show up to install my new Print Shop software?

Optomist :-)
thats why there are no women on this site. Well you see I was drying my nails when I put in the dvd into that thing there in the computer, then this little pop-up came up that said , do you like that color ? So honey could you just fix that, does this lipstick match the nails?
 
> Know what you have: The Family Hub™ has three built-in cameras that take a photo every time the doors close. You can use your phone* to access photos from anywhere, so you always know what you have and what you're missing.
Or maybe, just maybe, dunno, open the friggin' fridge?
It's like that japanese book of useless inventions becoming true!
 
@Psycogeek That is borderline offensive to the women who are on the site. And there are some. "there are no women on this site" is false.
 
there is a computerised hot water heater here, it actually connects up with bluetooth, it doesnt light proper or always give hot water, but it does connect to somebodies phone.
@DavidPostill sexist
 
8:37 PM
@Psycogeek Yes. I'm sexist because I don't like sexist comments from either men or women.
3
 
when they make women without estrogen, and men without testosterone , and men can pump out babies, you can tell me how alike they are
 
@Psycogeek A dumb woman isn't dumb because she's a woman. She's dumb because she's dumb.
 
because They Can :-)
 
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8:39 PM
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8:40 PM
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Damn, why are all these women so dumb!!!
 
!wiki all the rest of the men in the whole world , who didnt get a web page for doing the same things, because for them it was nothing special.
 
What are you on? I want some of the same stuff, it's pretty good.
 
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8:53 PM
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Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939 as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who is an institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ford Professor of Engineering in its School of Engineering's electrical engineering and computer science department. She is a Turing award winner and has developed the Liskov substitution principle. == Life and career == Liskov was born in 1939 California, the eldest of Jane (née Dickhoff) and Moses Huberman's four children. She earned her BA in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. In 1968...
 
yea yea, and hillary can do e-mails too, whooptidy
 
Radia Joy Perlman (born January 1, 1951) is a software designer and network engineer. She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation. She also made large contributions to many other areas of network design and standardization, such as link-state protocols, including TRILL, which she invented to correct some of the shortcomings of spanning-trees. She is currently employed by EMC Corporation. == Early research == As an undergraduate at MIT she undertook a UROP...
(actually saw a quick talk of hers on my workplace, she's amazing)
 

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