Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:00 AM

assuming we reach a point where I can just soak it up ;p

Bob

After one day things should be stable enough to not need active playing for half an hour

Ramhound

I want to submit an animated picture for an answer. Any suggestions on tools that can help create one?

Journeyman Geek

._.

83

A: How do I create a GIF screencast in Windows?

I've been using licecap in various Super User answers. It's dead simple to use as you can see from this animated GIF image - just extend it over your recording area, hit record, set a save file, do your thing and hit stop. It's free, works pretty well, and seems simpler than most of the alternati...

licecap on windows

Guitar Shoe Dave

Ramhound

wonderful

Guitar Shoe Dave

12:03 AM

This is how I roll

Ramhound

I remembered that answer just couldn't remember what the question was

Journeyman Geek

silentcast if its linux

Bob

@Ramhound ScreenToGif gives some editing options over LICECap :P

Ramhound

Thanks

Somebody submitted an comment that Shift+Windows+S does not work to an old answer I submitted

So instead of submitting a third comment that says "yeah it does" just going to provide proof :$

Although I wish I had oneNote 2013 installed still

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Ok I probably won't have to leave early Sun :P

Though Sat is still up in the air... federal election o.o

Also got to pick up a toilet :S

Journeyman Geek

12:09 AM

Ramhound

what game is that from?

Journeyman Geek

@Ramhound saints row 3

I think

Ramhound

I see

Journeyman Geek

IMO the best of a series that was highly amusing.

THe older games were buggy or console only, and the sequel went totally off the rails.

Ramhound

Man I wish I could talk about this new system I am an Admin of, which has been renamed to MCRASH, because how often we have to spend 10-12 hours recovering it.....

When technical support starts to laugh, after suggesting 5-6 solutions which can't be used due to the environment its in, you know your screwed.

Bob

12:13 AM

@JourneymanGeek no, I meant a real one -_-

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

@Bob holy fuck O_O

Bob

@allquixotic yea, that's about an appropriate reaction

Guitar Shoe Dave

Saints row, soo much better than GTA

Bob

StartCom's already dodgy reputation has just gone straight down the (SR3) toilet

Guitar Shoe Dave

12:21 AM

!!Doge saints row,better, grand theft auto, not as fun

ChatBot John Cavil

    wow
so saints row
                many better
                        much  grand theft auto
such  not as fun

Bob

> such not as fun

Journeyman Geek

heh

the next volation game seems just as fun

Guitar Shoe Dave

Lol

Journeyman Geek

feels a bit like SR meets NOLF

allquixotic

12:40 AM

reddit.com/r/playark/comments/4qoyzn/…

Ramhound

1:20 AM

wish i was able to capture the darn S....

illustrates my point i suppose.

Journeyman Geek

1:44 AM

I THINK sysinternals has something that shows your current keypress on screen

Michael Frank

Wasn't there that tech demo of a keypress software a while ago...

It was pretty cool, except all I can remember is the ASCII train Easter egg the dev put in.

Journeyman Geek

not zoomit it seems

30

Q: Windows utility to render which key I am pressing on-screen

I'm giving training to a large group of people remotely and will be covering a number of application shortcut keys. I've seen MousePose's on-screen display of keystrokes; is there a similar product for Windows? The other features of MousePose (fancy mouse pointers, etc.) aren't really useful ...

quite a lot of the other options there look good too

brookhong.github.io/2014/04/28/keycast-on-windows.html gives you more options

Guitar Shoe Dave

1:59 AM

There's an Auto hotkey on-screen keyboard script out there

You could easily customize it to function however

autohotkey.com/board/topic/16891-ahkosk-onscreen-keyboard

autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/KeyboardOnScreen.htm

Guitar Shoe Dave

2:20 AM

irisclasson.com/2015/01/30/…

Ramhound

2:31 AM

its not that important

lol

i spent 30 minutes on that...

Journeyman Geek

2:52 AM

heh.

Dad was asking me about replacing our rusty sink brackets. Drew a sketch of them to scale from measuring the brackets while they were still on the sink. To scale.

I didn't realise I remembered how to do that ;p

oldmud0

3:47 AM

one day, will we be able to drag programs across computers

actual user from a forum that was hacked less than a week ago:

HackToHell

@GuitarShoeDave ooh

oldmud0

> They're not hackers, they're just kids grepping databases. They are harmless, don't worry.

HackToHell

from N ?

and what was that weird name given to N

oldmud0

what, android nutella?

HackToHell

I think CM13 already has that option to snap to windows togthe

It's nougat

I wanted nutella

oldmud0

3:51 AM

what

:(

I guess nougat fits android better, since just like a nougat, nobody really knows what android is made of

except of course people who do

I just finished watching The Martian for like the second time now

Journeyman Geek

Its a good movie

I preferred the book's ending tho

oldmud0

some scenes in the movie are kinda cheesy, like some of the on-screen stuff shows some sort of Lisp dialect scrolling really quickly

I do agree that the last third of the movie wasn't as great

HackToHell

It's better than other films in the genre

And there were some goose-bump moments

oldmud0

I guess the director was pressed on time (the final product is ~2h20m) so he just wanted to resolve the plot a bit more quickly

actually my statement is not very accurate at all

the director doesn't control plot

HackToHell

yeah, pretty much every single movie adaptation doesn't honor everything in the book

oldmud0

3:58 AM

it's just how the cuts were

HackToHell

It's just too hard I suppose.

oldmud0

making movies is a hard job

this one though actually had a degree of immersion

it would suck working 16 hours a day or more at JPL, hard pressed for time and results

all for the name of science

Guitar Shoe Dave

@HackToHell, nope cyanogen mod under development options you can enable it .. However I am using xposed framework on here to emulate N though too. It does a pretty rad job

Not sure if the N name was announced yet.

oldmud0

I rooted my nook and installed CM on it a few years back, but now it has about a third of the screen with no touch :(

Guitar Shoe Dave

:-(

oldmud0

4:06 AM

Found out when I was traveling

Also found out that my phone's external microSD was dying

HackToHell

@GuitarShoeDave yeah just enabled it

It was last night I think

what's the name of the module

Guitar Shoe Dave

HackToHell

oh wow

that's awesome

eeek

oldmud0

those numbers at the bottom have no antialiasing wtf

HackToHell

Is it n ify

Guitar Shoe Dave

4:08 AM

Yah xposed is rad

HackToHell

also too much fucking screen tear with nvidia driver in linux

switching to noveau

oldmud0

this is blasphemy against the sacred doctrine of material design and everything that the google family name stands for

Guitar Shoe Dave

It's one sec

Yup

Android n-ify

HackToHell

Also damn GoT episode 10 was purfect

reminds me of breaking bad

oldmud0

my brother has a motorola moto-whatever and he gets the whole android experience while I get the neutered touchwiz

Guitar Shoe Dave

4:10 AM

Battery home button is cool too

HackToHell

R+L=J scene was just awesome !

Guitar Shoe Dave

Get that as well

HackToHell

The cut form the baby to the face <3

I have an Asus

the ZenUI was ...

Unlocked and flashed cm13

oldmud0

is asus ace-oohs or ass-uhs

HackToHell

a sus

Guitar Shoe Dave

4:12 AM

Yeah I'm on cm 13 as well. Anyhow talk tomorrow. Bed time.

HackToHell

I modified a module for cm13, github.com/HackToHell/EnableCMCallRecording

Have to add autommatic recording to that

oldmud0

migration rejected from SE.weirdcrap, closed, locked, deleted

HackToHell

Still haven't figured out how to do that

oldmud0

and, because moderator privileges, let's just protect it just in case :^)

Rahul2001

4:36 AM

Fun fact: in India, you can piss in public, but not kiss on public...

Bob

4:48 AM

@oldmud0 join the club

mine died last week :P

that wasn't a good day

Journeyman Geek

5:08 AM

eh. Phone talks makes me want to bitch about one plus ;p

HackToHell

> gowtham 1886 1.7 1.9 10019152 233552 ? Sl 09:17 1:27 /usr/bin/plasmashell --shut-up

I guess plasma likes to talk a lot

hm, which is more slow?

ruby or python?

Journeyman Geek

._.

HackToHell

they both slow .-.

Journeyman Geek

meh. just write them in ASM.

;p

HackToHell

I did a gem install gollum

and it's running for 5 mintues now

sigh

Journeyman Geek

5:16 AM

Its probably looking for its precious.

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek sure, it shouldn't take me more than 12 hours for an hello world

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell but it would be a proper 1337 h3770 w0r7D

HackToHell

Too leet for me, I'll leave all ASM to your capable hckr hands

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic engadget.com/2016/06/30/… guess tjey finally listened

Bob

6:16 AM

@JourneymanGeek hetto wortd?

Journeyman Geek

cleaty.

HackToHell

6:36 AM

> $15 per gigabyte

Wtf

allquixotic

7:04 AM

@JourneymanGeek yeah but the real value of having Karma was the unlimited data; now that they don't, fuck them

Bob

7:15 AM

@allquixotic I wonder how many customers they lost

Burgi

7:29 AM

morning

ah

Helloooo

Oh, its you.

i found a great youtube channel last night

called alternate history

Dave

HI. Has anyone had good/bad experience with MSI laptops?

Burgi

7:41 AM

i didn't know they made laptops

Journeyman Geek

they do

pretty good reviews on wirecutter too

Dave

It looks like their designed at gamers

I'm wondering if they are targeting that audience if it would also appeal to graphic designer

Burgi

*they're

sorry

Dave

they're ?

eh, yours made sense

ah

mine

yes, good spot. Sh*t, I usually pride myself on writing ...

Burgi

yeah sorry i don't normally correct speeelig in chat but that one annoys me ;)

Dave

7:45 AM

In fairness, I did re-write the sentence as I wrote it... "It looks like their laptops are designed at gamers" was original

Burgi

we're doing a 2 minute silence in a short while

heh :)

Journeyman Geek

who died?

Dave

What, for my spelling error? :D

I assume Battle of the Somme ?

Burgi

about 100,000 people during the somme

yeah

Journeyman Geek

somme men died, others were never the same again?

Dave

7:47 AM

20000

100,000 is not right is it?

It is about 20k, independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/…

Burgi

oh wait...

my broadcast is time shifted

i did wonder why is was at a weird time >.<

Dave

Well, this big data thing is turning into a very difficult thing to understand

and I'm tempted to buy a new guitar

2

Burgi

one that doesn't look like a shoe? ;)

Dave

ha ha ha

It is an acoustic next...

Although the guitar I want doesn't exist!

:(

which means a custom, which is expensive

Journeyman Geek

ah

Dave

8:04 AM

any one else a msuciain?

Journeyman Geek

Not I, though I listen to a lot ;p

Burgi

its canadia day

Bob

8:51 AM

Wow.

> Gender quotas should be used to increase the number of women in Parliament.

Apparently that's one of the issues in the Au federal election.

Didn't see that one coming at all :S

And apparently two of the parties here want to become a republic. Huh.

Journeyman Geek

hm. auxit?

Bob

lol

Bullet Train for Australia

Bullet Train for Australia is an Australian political party, registered in 2013. It is a single-issue party campaigning for a fast implementation of high-speed rail. It advocates that the first stage of the bullet train should run from Melbourne to Newcastle via Canberra and Sydney, and be built within 5 years. The party grew out of the Bullet Train for Canberra party led by Tim Bohm, which at the 2012 ACT elections gained around 9,000 votes, representing 4% of first preference votes. The party had 18 candidates in the 2013 federal election, in the ACT, NSW and Victoria. The party has been involved...

Journeyman Geek

o0

Psycogeek

9:09 AM

they were going to build one of them high speed railways here between San Francisco and Los Angles 400+miles. it never gets very far, because of many thing. like whos gonna "commute" with it , nobody. how many properties will the giverment have to claim to get it through. who will be able to afford the trip on it, those with money, who will pay for it, those without money :-)

Psycogeek

9:21 AM

latimes.com/local/california/… 68billion dollers :-O and that is before the usual 2X goverment cost overruns

now if you charge $68 for a trip, then they only need 2 billion riders . dream on.

Trump has a solution though, he is going to put up a wall at mexico, and they can tunnel thier way up to SF , once the tunnel is in, it is a piece of cake to put the rail in :-)

Burgi

it does surprise me that larger countries like australia, usa and canada don't have bullet trains or at the very least a TGV system

@Psycogeek lol!

Psycogeek

what the US needed was to not destroy the trians they already had, that transported billions of goods across the country.

Burgi

can you imagine if a bullet train hit a kangaroo at 300 mph....

Psycogeek

the government had subsidised railways for ages, then while the railways were riding the goverment gravy train, instead of pulling profit, the goverment pulled the subsidy.

Burgi

words like "vaporised" come to mind

Psycogeek

9:32 AM

in one decade set, transportation switched from much train to mostly truck, trucks were covering the roads, while the train routes along those same roads, which would move the same goods 200% more efficientaly were falling into disrepair.

moving goods from known pointA to known pointB would have been and still is the most efficient way, especially now when much of the goods arrives in huge ports, in containers that can be switched from truck to train at will.

heck trains were the way to go when the containers were not easy to just drop on a truck. now the roads are the trains, packed out , and more dangerous, and terrible efficiency. but the goverment does tax the trucking to death, wheras the trains were costing taxes.

Bob

@Burgi Yea, the train would be vaporised.

Burgi

are kangaroos that tough?

Michael Frank

@allquixotic Have you played much Hammerwatch?

Psycogeek

Bob

9:55 AM

urghk. @allquixotic => reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4qpieg/…, youtube.com/watch?v=F7N254MTA4Q => Louis is probably facing a lawsuit and/or takedown of his YT channel.

Michael Frank

10:10 AM

@Bob Ooh, VideoGameAttorney posted in that thread.

Psycogeek

well you know what they say "there is no defimation of charachter, if what you said is true" :-)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob dang

@Bob What/why are they trying to take him down?

I'm not exactly a fan of his, but that seems wrong to me.

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Cause unauthorised repairs cost Apple $$$$$.

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank oh, that's the real reason, but I mean what he's saying.

Psycogeek

remember the dragonlord? probably something along the same lines of some psudo law BS tossed his way that has no validity and wouldn't stand up for 2 minutes in a courtroom, but is no less really scary.

Bob

10:24 AM

@JourneymanGeek Some Reddit users suggested it was for showing where to download schematics.

And actually doing so on camera.

Michael Frank

Ooh, I saw that video. laptop-schematics or whatever it was.

I think that was the Drunk Guy vs. The Genius Bar episode... He was drinking Jagermeister straight outta the bottle.

Bob

Michael Frank

Uuuhh...

Burgi

i see...

many many questions arise from that

qwertyuiop

11:52 AM

!!caat

ChatBot John Cavil

Rahul2001

!!rdoze

ChatBot John Cavil

@Rahul2001 That didn't make much sense. Maybe you meant: rlove, doge

Rahul2001

!!rsleep

ChatBot John Cavil

Bob

12:13 PM

i.imgur.com/u3uBnNZ.gifv

Rahul2001

12:34 PM

lol

Pencils could be made with erasers at both ends, but what would be the point?

Guitar Shoe Dave

I totally have to remember that one

I have one for ya.

A SQL query walks into a bar.. Stands between two tables and says... "Hey mind if I join ya?"

Another one of my favorites, 'Id tell you a UDP joke but you probably wouldnt get it'

@Dave Finally upgrading your shoe?

Boris_yo

http://www.photome.de/download_en.html

Sorry, this file is infected with a virus

Only the owner is allowed to download infected files.

"Download PhotoME Version 0.79R17"

Do you get this message?

djsmiley2k

woah, is @GuitarShoeDave named after @Dave because his guitar looks like a shoe?!

Guitar Shoe Dave

@djsmiley2k: I was originally named the same name as @Dave .. And he was recieving all of my @Dave's when people would @Dave me in notifications. So I changed my name.

his avatar from the distance looks like a shoe

so yes.. I made myname after it as a pun

;)

barlop

12:52 PM

if I do \\myip should I be able to view network shares on my own computer?

win7.

Guitar Shoe Dave

you need a couple things enabled first

File and printer sharing for Microsoft Windows serviceinstalled..

I think you also need Client for Microsoft Networks installed

and if you're logged in as an admin you can use the admin shares.. like c$ d$ e$ f$ etc..

ie: \\127.0.0.1\c$ \\127.0.0.1\d$ \\127.0.0.1\e$.. you can however create other shares too

manually

barlop

and if \\127.0.0.1\c$ works then I suppose \\127.0.0.1 works too

so if I can't do that and i have ms client for ms networks and file and printer sharing installed, then i have a weird problem

Guitar Shoe Dave

yea essentially \\127.0.0.1 is the same thing as typing net share from cmd.exe minus admin shares.

Dave

Groan at all jokes

Groan at pings ! :)

My guitar is a thing of beauty... bloody shoes.. Ah you pesky kids with your music

DavidPostill

barlop

1:04 PM

I might try this superuser.com/questions/323598/…

true @DavidPostill

I think java programmers just do java because that's what they learnt in school

'cos it's free

c# is perhaps less well known as being free(no cost) or in some way has a cost.

DavidPostill

Dave

We're potentially moving from .NET (C#) to JAVA

d'oh

barlop

y?

Dave

827

Q: What is your best programmer joke?

When I teach introductory computer science courses, I like to lighten the mood with some humor. Having a sense of fun about the material makes it less frustrating and more memorable, and it's even motivating if the joke requires some technical understanding to 'get it'! I'll start off with a cou...

language-agnostic

I think the issue we have is deployment... You can have a load of VMs all running different' OS's at a much lower cost compared to them all being Window based VMs

barlop

mono?

Dave

1:07 PM

I've done C# for 10 years, but am looking forward to trying Java properly if I'm honest. I suspect conceptuatlly it's the same/ similar

Well, these days it is Xamarin

djsmiley2k

wow my superuser rep is flying up from that duplication question

and I didn't even think that RAID 1 was the best way

Dave

But the issue with mono is just another framework which would be best to avoid

I'm not overly keen on Mono - it appears that (not in all) many situations it is about forcing the choice of language, as opposed to using the right language

Plus our customers would rather no Window OS machines as they run mostly automation

barlop

How does Xamarin run my C# code on Android?
On Android, Xamarin ships a fully functional implementation of the .NET runtime, called Mono, b

^

Dave

Yes, I don't disagree with that, but Xamarin is now owned by MS so we'd go full package

however, we're not looking to deploy to Android

:)

Nor mac

Just... Linux...

Just....... Ubuntu

djsmiley2k

NEVER GO FULL PACKAGE MAN.

D:

never go full package -_-;

Sorry, not funny :/

Dave

1:11 PM

Which I've also found fascinating. The UI reminds me of an old Amiga but it's generally been a nice eye opener

I see why so many go Linux now!

sigh @djsmiley2k

DavidPostill

1:25 PM

10

Q: What to do when a moose blocks the trail?

We were hiking in Colorado a couple of weeks ago (i.e., mid-June). One day, I took Trail A and my husband took Trail B. As he rounded a bend, he saw a moose on the trail about 50 feet away. He stopped. The moose did nothing. He continued walking towards the moose. When he got to about 30 fee...

hiking wildlife animals moose

@Psycogeek You should post that image as a joke answer to the following HNQ:

Burgi

1:35 PM

hehehe

we left my boss in the pub

Guitar Shoe Dave

@dave: Hey, you love guitar.. Have you heard of the band called 1023 MB?

@Dave: They dont have a gig yet.

Burgi

...

That Brazilian Guy

Hello fellow humans and animals and abstract entities

Guess who's on vacation for the next two weeks!

Well, officially not until monday, but let's not focus on the details, right?

I know I self-depreciate my job a huge amount, but there are upsides

One of those is asking your boss "Hey, do you mind if I leave a bit early on friday? I'm traveling 7 pm" and he answers "You don't even have to show up on friday, nice travel"

Both my former boss (same workplace) and current are the same regarding this ;p

So it's now 11 AM and I'm in bead eating a hot cheese sandwich :D

allquixotic

1:52 PM

@MichaelFrank hilarious game but my friends got bored of it quickly

That Brazilian Guy

Speaking of which, here's an advice, don't let your sandwich on the stove while internetting. >_<

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