Root Access

That Brazilian Guy

12:19 AM

@JourneymanGeek Do you like point-and-click adventures? Indie games?

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy oldschool? Yeah

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek New, but inspired by oldschool. Do you know / own The Dream Machine?

Journeyman Geek

oldschooliah I suppose, they're making a comeback

nope

That Brazilian Guy

Now you do ;p

(or more precisely in a few moments)

Sent you thru hangouts

Journeyman Geek

12:37 AM

accepted and installing

0_0

That Brazilian Guy

Hope you enjoy, it's a game I really loved back when it was released (2011 IIRC)

It's all handmade in clay and stopmotion, great soundtrack...

Journeyman Geek

initially released 2010... still is getting bugfixed and updated. I'm impressed

That Brazilian Guy

It's a 2-guys dev studio

There's 6 planned chapters, they have so far released only 5 (The code I sent you has the first three)

nodnods

!!caat

12:43 AM

!!taaco

@ThatBrazilianGuy That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

That Brazilian Guy

Bob

dream machine?

sounds familiar

@ThatBrazilianGuy you're making me hungry and it's not even 11 yet :(

Journeyman Geek

Ahh, SR swag is getting sent.

T shirt + sticker, so not as cool as say Worldbuilding, but I love the SR logo

Bob

12:52 AM

o.O

Journeyman Geek

(worldbuilding got a notebook with their really cool site background on it)

Journeyman Geek

1:10 AM

facedesk My mom wants to go to the garden festival. Guess who was expected to remember to make sure her camera's battery was charged?

cat

!! Cpa0tgggcnmk

ChatBot John Cavil

@cat That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

cat

...BBVA! Bv'z0£pčvvbjut

Ben N

Gesundheit

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob It's past 10 (PM) and I haven't had dinner yet ;___;

Journeyman Geek

1:33 AM

@cat cat-like typing detected

That Brazilian Guy

2:05 AM

@cat Z͜͜͞A͞͞L͜G̴͢Ơ̧ ̕det͟͡ect̵͘e͠͡͝d̶͘͠

Bob

2:24 AM

@ThatBrazilianGuy cthulhu-like typing?

That Brazilian Guy

Rahul2001

namaste!

That Brazilian Guy

@Rahul2001 Shalom!

cathulhu-like

Rahul2001

What is Talk About IT?

a popular website?

That Brazilian Guy

@Rahul2001 Canadian Luke's blog

Rahul2001

2:32 AM

oh...

which ran from a portable USB installation

he's seems a bit like me

I'm the kind of person who'll only make the effort to get up and fetch my laptop charger after it's been drained of all power and shut down...

Rahul2001

2:50 AM

hm... web.archive.org/web/20160417115000/http://www.talk-about-it.ca

bwDraco

3:41 AM

anandtech.com/show/10518/…

Interesting. A GPU with M.2 memory expansion. Sounds like it'll be an ideal solution for Big Data workloads...

US$10k for a dev kit!

Michael Frank

Sathya

4:48 AM

hey folks

@JourneymanGeek you have a Lenovo/Thinkpad?

my work has given me a new Lenovo E41 and it has the shity Fn-place-where-Ctrl should be keyboard. Any way to swap these two? No options to change in EFI and xev doesn;t detect the keypress

(running on Mint)

Journeyman Geek

5:36 AM

@Sathya Yeah, I consider that the 'correct' layout ;p

and no, its hardware level usually and there's no way to change it AFAIK. That said, I've never wanted to

(the reason the key's in that corner is so you can hit the top right and bottom left keys to turn on the keyboard light in the dark)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek !!no

Rahul2001

5:55 AM

@JourneymanGeek nonononono

Journeyman Geek

heathens ;p

Rahul2001

That's the only reason I didn't buy a thinkpad when I was given the opportunity

Journeyman Geek

(that said, I think in 2-3 models lenovo would likely change it cause everyone else does it the other way)

Rahul2001

It's funny how both the thinkpad's best feature and worst feature lie in the keyboard...

@JourneymanGeek I went with an ideapad instead... :)

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 they stopped making the classic Thinkpad keyboard now

Rahul2001

6:05 AM

@JourneymanGeek So... it's worse now?

Journeyman Geek

Yup

It's nearly the same as everyone else.

Except when they change things with no good reason like with the x1 keyboard

cpx

6:38 AM

Do Firefox and Chrome have a spellcheck built-in dictionary that works offline?

Bob

@cpx Firefox: yes

Chrome, dunno

cpx

I just noticed when I blocked my Chrome in Firewalls and it could still squiggle incorrectly typed words.

Bob

@Rahul2001 My single Lenovo laptop (that tablet doesn't count!) did that dodgy fn thing. I decided then and there to never buy Lenovo keyboards again. Ever.

cpx

@Bob: The dictionary file seems to be well hidden.

Bob

Single absolutely most infuriatingly frustrating experience I've ever had with a keyboard.

And that includes the dodgy UK layout keyboards with funny backspace sizes and backslash locations.

@cpx It's not hidden at all. Firefox just packs most resources into omni.ja

Actually it's not even packed now.

It just sits right there in the install folder.

Psycogeek

6:46 AM

omni lol, that is what i call my disk with all manners of stuff in it, the one that the label alone couldnt designate what is stored in it.

Bob

Under the very hard-to-find folder named dictionaries

I'm shocked that they would pick such an obscure name. Shocked, I tell you.

Psycogeek

[Latin, from omnis, all.]

cpx

> en-US 563 kb

How small it is.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Ctrl is among my most-pressed keys. Fn my least.

@cpx That's pretty damn massive.

That's 563000 characters.

Assuming an average of maybe 5 chars per word, that's over 100000 words

cpx

52287 lines.

Bob

6:49 AM

Ok, my average was off :P

Ah, it has tags indicating category (noun, verb, etc.)

cpx

A user-specific custom dictionary too named as "persdict.dat". That's what I was looking for.

Bob

ah

cpx

The tags in dictionary are confusing.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob only laptops I've owned for decades are Thinkpads.

cpx

I was also wondering how does it check if a word in dictionary has to be capitalized.

Bob

6:57 AM

@JourneymanGeek It also differs from just about every desktop keyboard.

@cpx Proper nouns are always capitalised and are tehrefore capitalised in the dictionary. Otherwise it'd just follow sentence-case.

Psycogeek

"I stored all my data in the cloud, then one day it rained" :-)

cpx

> Orange/M
> Seattle/M

The last one is proper but it is tagged the same as common noun.

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek thanks. No backlight here, used to having my pinky on control key

Bob

@cpx Orange is also proper in certain contexts

There's a lowercase orange/SMP later

cpx

Ah.

Bob

7:08 AM

@cpx developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/…

> A spell check dictionary in Hunspell or Myspell format

MySpell

MySpell is the spell checker that was formerly included with OOo Writer of the free OpenOffice.org office suite. Since version 2.0.2, OpenOffice.org has replaced MySpell with Hunspell. == Background == MySpell was started by Kevin Hendricks to integrate various open-source spelling checkers into the OpenOffice.org build. With a little prodding from Kevin Atkinson, the author of Pspell and Aspell, a new spelling checker (MySpell) was written in C++ that supported affix compression, based on Ispell. == Locale (language) files == Every locale (language for a specific territory) can have files for...

Hunspell

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding and character encoding, originally designed for the Hungarian language. Hunspell is based on MySpell and is backward-compatible with MySpell dictionaries. While MySpell uses a single-byte character encoding, Hunspell can use Unicode UTF-8-encoded dictionaries. == Uses == Hunspell is the spell checker of: Hunspell is also used by the following which need to be included in the list above: Apache Solr 3.5 and later Evernote, note taking software. LyX, a document processor...

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek belated birthday wishes!

Bob

@Sathya support.lenovo.com/au/en/documents/ht074187 in case it's actually there and you overlooked it

some models don't have that though :\

Sathya

@Bob looked into EFI, doesnt have it

Bob

@Sathya maybe see if there's a firmware update

apparently they started adding the option in 2010... explains why my crappy little ideapad doesn't have it

maybe they stopped adding it at some point :\

Boris_yo

7:24 AM

Fuck AOMEI Backupper! Chinese clone of EaseUS ToDO!

This was my first SSD ever and was meant to be kept as keepsake. Not dead keepsake but a working one!

Reminding me of the moment my IT life got easier. Technological breakthough of planet earth's IT. Masterpiece of alien storage technology albeit low level by their standards but highest by ours!

Psycogeek

all technology Dies, all Links Die. trust me i am an authority on it pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2014/03/03/05/26/… technology is the zombie money apocalypse.

charge double have a nickle when your done.

Burgi

7:46 AM

morning

djsmiley2k

heyhey

DavidPostill

@Burgi Morning. Your car park saga turned out OK then as you clearly survived going home ...

Burgi

yeah they all disappeared after the last drug deal

and it is a lot cooler and damper today so it is unlikely that we will get the same saga today

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Which one is you there?

@Psycogeek Doesn't make sense because I didn't stress it. Used only for office tasks. SMART said everything is fine (last time I checked)

Psycogeek

8:04 AM

@Boris_yo take it apart and look ? not like it is filled with helium :-) how many years old was it? I (myself) always thought SSDs should have the Controller chip so it heatsinks to the outside of the case. I think one company has done that so far. I mean really did anyone think when they wrapped these things up in a case with no air holes?

Half this stuff was designed in california, i am assuming in a AirConditioned room :-) stuff it in a poorly cooled laptop, and . . . did anybody think?

it is ~100*F here in Ca this week. half the stuff they designed wouldnt work outside this week.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Yeah I wonder. Why no air inlets whatsoever? Did anyone noticed this too? Was this discussed in internet SSD forums?

Psycogeek

I cooked my phone battery, and hurt it real good. Sitting on my well designed GPS mount with air gap. the GPS 3D maps really take power, then in CA you cant have it on the windshield, which means it sits on the hot dash. I should have paid more attention as it was cooking. I even have both temps on the home screen.

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek Ouch

Boris_yo

8:20 AM

@Psycogeek It's 32c here in my room which is not proper temperature for SSD cooking.

I doubt it was cooked. Cloning process took place 3 times. Before Windows 10 upgrade and 2 times after. First time after it mentioned "bad sector" and second time it cloned successfully.

I really could run SMART at that time...

Psycogeek

How old was it?

ya do have to figure that cloning or syncing huge data or any flat-out just filling the drive, is harder on it than added a few things here and there, or running things out of it. sooo there is much work going on, but they should all handle it.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek 8/20/12

With 3-year warranty...

o.0

I should have crushed it with hammer weeks before 8/20/15 ...

Just to use that warranty to see how they put their mouth where money is.

Or they put their money where their mouth is?

Psycogeek

if you remember the "sandforce" fiasco, more than a few people attributed the fails of them to the controller chip itself dying. During that time it was when SSD reached the 500m/s speed. one could say that the new technology was untested.

Sathya

@bob the uefi update seems to be only for WIndows OS

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Even if Samsung is TLC, Intel is MLC drive. Is controller more important?

Psycogeek

8:31 AM

@Boris_yo the only place they put thier money is in the lawyers mouth anymore so they can write a warrenty that doesnt mean anything to the consumer. Had it died 2 weeks before the warrenty ran out, they would "Pro-Rate" it hand you $3 and say that covers it :-)

@Boris_yo I do not know for sure, Thermal pictures (that probably exist) would show. on things of that type, only the power curcuit stuff, and the controller for all I/O are the heat "problem".

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Didn't know there are cooling solutions for SSDs. Are there really?

And where do you get Helium? The only place I know of is too far from earth... riddick.wikia.com/wiki/Helion_Prime

Should be combined with unobtainium for bullet proof data carrying.

Psycogeek

when parts of a drive , say a block of nand, or the alogrythms for wear leveling, or the power conversion (that should not be needed on that) starts getting dirty, these things always Show as a drive (existing) that is failing.
When the drive no longer shows up even, which is most of the SSD fails (so far), it proabably is the microcontroller. The one that could have had a cooling method.

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya thanks.

@Boris_yo easus is Chinese too

@Boris_yo ~~wakanda~~ oil wells.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo No it is completely unnessisary to extra cool a SSD. They should work fine without it for real. I just believe they could address it, and have happier curcuits.

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek ow. I hope it's not bloated?

Boris_yo

8:43 AM

@JourneymanGeek Whichever came last, they cloned former's interface!

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo or it's the same software.

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek it is not, but it has lowered in capacity holding. (has to be charged more) It is zerolemon and aged enough. problem is (as always) a replacement battery for an older model, might be older too, last on the shelf etc.

Journeyman Geek

Ah. So dying not dead.

Psycogeek

smart thing for me to do with my old phone, is to finnaly update the phone ;-( But i am so happy with it, and it is soo customised for weeks, and it works 99% great.

I could even get one of those Evil 2 Year contracts with the POS phone company, because everyone loves them, so it is good to throw them roses and money :-)

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek You mean they acquired resellin license for it?

Journeyman Geek

9:00 AM

Donno. Or they're the same company, or one stole it from the other or.....

Boris_yo

9:19 AM

@JourneymanGeek Replica. What China can best do.

djsmiley2k

9:30 AM

0

Q: Exact hour of Windows 10 free upgrade period end

Everywhere I look I see "the free update period ends on July 29th". Well, okay. Would that be on July 29th, 00:00:00 GMT+0, July 29th, 23:59:59 GMT+0 or some other obscure time? Even Microsoft's FAQ page only states the date, not the hour. What is the exact time (within one hour error margin) of...

wut.

there's no reason that matters, other than being weird.

Journeyman Geek

quite

Burgi

is there a limit to the number of subdomains i can have?

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi I don't think so, especially if you run the dns for it.

Burgi

thats what i was thinking

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k I miss the too localised close reason. Would be perfect here

Burgi

9:35 AM

more crazy shit from my ex-boss has hit us this morning :(

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek i went for opinion based

Journeyman Geek

Its not quite

djsmiley2k

@Burgi urgh

wtf why has my keyboard reverted to US?!

Journeyman Geek

I'm leaning towards a plain off topic

djsmiley2k

grrr

how on earth do i remove the american language/keyboard from win 10

Hennes

9:37 AM

Unselected simplified engish

djsmiley2k

every setting shows only normal english keyboard

yet in the language bar us keyboard is there, and my cats some how manage to change it constantly

cat

!! Caat

ChatBot John Cavil

Rahul2001

Data recovery is fun... (as long as it isn't your own data that you are trying to recover)

djsmiley2k

@Rahul2001 agreed ;)

Rahul2001

9:45 AM

Shit, this flash drive is seriously messed up

djsmiley2k

abort!

image it via ddrescue

then testdisk

Rahul2001

hm... getdataback isn't detecting it...

:/

DavidPostill

@Burgi What is it this time?

Rahul2001

never mind...

Burgi

simple one, partially my fault

Rahul2001

10:00 AM

Pro tip: never buy one of these

The USB portion always breaks off...

This is the third flash drive I'm seeing which broke off from the exactly same place

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 I have a retractable sandisk

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill Those have metal connectors, so they don't break

DavidPostill

Bob

officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/…

I have 20 of those :P

Was some $3.50 ea

@Sathya What makes you think that?

iirc they often come with a .exe extension that can be loaded straight from the firmware (via a flash drive)

DavidPostill

Yeah, but I have a big one :) 64 GB lots more $$$

Bob

10:06 AM

lol

@DavidPostill USB 3.0, I hope? :P

I have a few... PNY and a nice all-metal ADATA one

DavidPostill

@Bob Good question. What's the easy way to tell?

@Bob It's an old one - USB 2.0

Burgi

@DavidPostill we host landing pages for email campaigns but they aren't logically hosted on the same server or in the same location

Sathya

@bob ^

Burgi

some of them were returning 404 because they were on the server i turned off because it was hacked

DavidPostill

@Burgi oops :)

Burgi

10:16 AM

the lack of documentation meant i wasn't to know

the account managers are the ones that send the email campaigns

djsmiley2k

meh not your fault then

Burgi

they didn't check it last night when they scheduled the emails

i know

djsmiley2k

Unless you're the documentor

Burgi

still my fault for turning off the server

shrugs

@djsmiley2k i'm doing documentation for everything now

djsmiley2k

:D

Bob

10:22 AM

@DavidPostill Benchmark? USB 3.0 is usually blue :P (the plastic bit inside the plug)

@DavidPostill ach

any idea what the speeds are like?

some 2.0 drives can still get pretty fast

@Sathya Apparently you can run it from winpe: forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-B-and-G-Series-Notebooks/…

so if you have a windows install usb that would work

otherwise you can build winpe pretty easily if you have a windows machine somewhere

Burgi

oh and i missed the htaccess file from a WP site

Bob

@Sathya if you want to go the pe route, lemme know

Boris_yo

Any options to fix bricked SSD?

djsmiley2k

10:38 AM

@Boris_yo restore from backup :/

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Please nuke my previous post

@Bob

Sathya

@Bob thanks for this, will try to do this.

cat

@Burgi Turning off a compromised server isn't anyone's "fault"

2

Bob

@DavidPostill Huh, that's pretty good for USB 2.0

Boris_yo

@djsmiley2k And then SSD will fix itself so I won't need to spend money on a new one?

Bob

10:40 AM

Faster than some 3.0 drives

cat

That's like jailing a criminal... it was my fault for reporting him to the police!

God dammit it's gonna rain on my bike again isn't it

Time to buy a rain cover. Amazon Prime here I come!

Bob

@cat Welllll you do live in Britain

Burgi

@cat that isn't the way the account managers see it

Bob

If it's not raining it's probably snowing :P

Burgi

apparently i should have known instinctively

Bob

10:43 AM

@Burgi Now would be a good time to update that resume and GTFO

cat

@Burgi Account managers can gtfo and die with Clippy

Bob

it's a quickly sinking ship you're on there

Burgi

also @cat how did you not lose you license when you did 120 passed the police?

cat

@Burgi I didn't get caught

They were probably too busy eating donuts

ducks

djsmiley2k

lol

s/he did it safely

Burgi

10:44 AM

extra deep fried doughnuts because it is scotland

cat

Or <shocker> I am the police! Mwahahaha!

Nah, it wasn't even in the UK

djsmiley2k

:OP

Boris_yo

2

A: How can I recover dead SSD drives?

I haven't tried this solution myself, but quite a few articles on the web are referring to over-heating the SSD (in the oven!) to somehow rejuvenate them. http://www.futurelooks.com/cooking-your-solid-state-drive-in-an-oven-might-make-them-last-longer/ http://ales.io/2014/03/09/how-to-bake-a-ma...

As a last resort?

cpx

What? I thought when an SSD fails, the data becomes read-only and you cannot write to it. But it should be possible to read and copy data from it.

Bob

@cpx nah, most controllers just give up entirely and die

Oliver Salzburg

10:53 AM

I doubt it becomes read-only when I smash it with a hammer

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi deep fried doughnuts dipped in batter and fried?

Oliver Salzburg

Then again, putting it in the oven after that is also unlikely to help

cpx

Ah, right when controller dies nothing can be done.

Bob

@OliverSalzburg well, you can't write to it anymore can you?

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek exactly

cat

10:54 AM

@cpx That's maybe how they theoretically should work in an ideal world but in practice only 1 in 10 actually does that

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob I'd say I wrote to it pretty hard!

2

Bob

lol

cat

11:11 AM

£60 for a one port Anker car charger... yikes

I think I'm beginning to prefer Tronsmart now

"Capacity capacitance" uhuh...

Unlike Aukey's crap it seems all Tronsmart stuff is actually spec compliant

Burgi

i'm now getting shouted at for taking too long ensuring a non-backed up site from the hacked server is clean and fixed

pick one: speed or security....

cat

Shout back at them that you can't magically pull a non-existent backup out your backside

Burgi

they also refused to order a new server on friday so we had to wait all day yesterday for it to be built

cat

@Burgi Did you ever ask what happened to the last person who held your job?

Burgi

yes

he moved back to pakistan

cat

11:26 AM

Job related reasons? Or just personal?

(As in did he ragequit and move back to Pakistan, get fired and move back to Pakistan, or just chose to move back to Pakistan and had to quit because of it)

Burgi

not sure

i think the last one

Bob

11:42 AM

@cat lol

Anker is only cheap if you live in the US

cat

Some of their stuff is cheap on Amazon UK, like the portable battery I got for £10

Bob

@Burgi yea, you need to get the hell out of that place

then again, you have some amount of job security there... sounds like you might be the only one holding it together :P