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cat
12:05 PM
Blargh
 
If I want to find out what graphics card is compatible with an HP 6090.uk desktop, what details must I know about that desktop?
 
motherboard expansion slots
 
I seem to only find limited info online. But I know it has had an ATI Radeon X1600
 
Bob
@allquixotic hi
@barlop if it has PCIe then any card would work given a big enough PSU
 
what card are you putting in it @barlop?
 
12:08 PM
haven't got a new one for it yet
just looking for a cheap card
aren't there different sizes of PCIe?
 
@barlop what is the model number again? the one you mention is a notebook
 
Bob
@barlop look at the PSU label. read off the total power, and the 12V power if that's listed. also grab a ruler and measure the physical space around the PCIe slot
@barlop yea you'd need a PCIe x16 slot
 
Bob
technically you can cut a card or board to fit a x16 card to a x1 slot, but that's nasty
 
@Bob What did you look at to know it was a PCIe x16 slot?
also, are number of lanes an issue when it comes to copmatibility? I don't know how many lanes it is
 
Bob
12:13 PM
@barlop lanes generally aren't an issue
just the physical slot
 
Bob
@barlop I don't know what slot it is. I'm saying what you need to have.
Go open it up and take a look.
Take a photo if you must.
 
i'm not in front of it right now..
 
it is surprising that they don't list the official specs
 
So PCIe x16 card will fit any PCIe then?
 
Bob
12:14 PM
@barlop IF it's physically a x16 slot
unless you want to start physically modding your card or slot
 
ok.. and regarding lanes and speed does it not matter re compatibility?
like it will work regardless of lanes and speed?
 
Bob
2 mins ago, by Bob
@barlop lanes generally aren't an issue
1 min ago, by Bob
just the physical slot
 
and speed?
so a faster one will slow down to the speed of the slot's controller?
 
Bob
also doesn't matter
 
ok,, thanks
 
Bob
12:15 PM
worst case the card will be slightly slower but unless you're getting a top-end card that shouldn't really be a problem
PCIe is largely backwards-compatible
 
Is it possible to tell from a photograph what size PCIe it is, or does one need to measure it?
 
Bob
you can count the pins
> Various slots on a computer motherboard, from top to bottom:

PCI Express ×4
PCI Express ×16
PCI Express ×1
PCI Express ×16
Legacy PCI (32-bit, 5 V)
 
@Burgi If you're just going to be looking at the file, try type <filename> ;)
A friend of mine made those for me...
I think that's going to be my new gravatar...
 
@Rahul2001 sorry what was that in reference to?
 
@Burgi text editor?
 
12:28 PM
from the win cmd line?
 
@Burgi yup
 
nice tip i'll try it
 
Oh, you'll have to adjust the buffer size first
 
that sounds like faff
sublime is fine
 
eh...
 
12:34 PM
@Rahul2001 those are cool
 
@Burgi sublime is the best.
 
Virgin Media strikes again :)
David Henshall returned to the Bolton home he shares with his wife and 11-year-old daughter this week to discover Virgin Media contractors had dug a trench in his street so they could lay a cable. The workers had then surrounded the trench - and Mr Henshall's semi-detached home - with orange barricades, making it impossible for the family to use their drive.
 
rofl
the fact the council allowed this is the funniest bit
 
I've tried to complain to Virgin but of course I can't get through to an actual human.
He sent an email to the company, telling them: 'I appreciate that workman have to dig up roads to get your product underground, but when I came home from work today to find my whole house barricaded off from rest of street, I was disgusted.

'My wife informs me the last workmen left at 2pm with no thought to the fact she could not move her car from our drive.'

Virgin Media have yet to comment on the complaint.
 
Bob
@DavidPostill wait that's you?
 
12:45 PM
@JourneymanGeek I need to download it then...
@Bob I don't think so...
 
@Bob I forgot the " marks ;P BTW I'm not married ...
 
@djsmiley2k I know, right?
He's pretty good at graphic design...
 
an englishman's home is his castle
 
@Burgi And castles sometimes get placed under siege!
 
well then now he has a moat
 
1:00 PM
Hello @JohnB
 
hi there Rahul
 
1:26 PM
> Rio 2016: Olympic athletes told to ‘keep your mouth closed’ when in contaminated water
 
Bob
heh
I wonder what @ThatBrazilianGuy thinks :P
these Olympics aren't exactly doing much good for Rio's international image
 
1:56 PM
@djsmiley2k Yes. Flagged :)
 
i had flagged it but confirmation is good
 
flagged
@Rahul2001 the commonwealth games in india nearly killed all the athletes for similar reasons
 
@djsmiley2k I shall have that user for dessert.
 
the only reason a similar thing didn't happen in beijing is because the government banned all industry and cars for a month in the run up to the games
 
Bob
2:10 PM
Some fun quotes:
> At that point generally the programmer will start to hold their head in their hands

At that point they'll generally start looking longingly at their intoxicant of choice

Then you look back and you notice that during World War II England had *double* British Summer Time

So it was two hours ahead of Greenwich despite... having Greenwich

Libya: cancels daylight savings time (with a couple days notice)
 
2:49 PM
heheheheheHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE: freetrumpscore.com
 
cat
@djsmiley2k What?
 
They really should have a "mean time to remployment" to see how badly they are messing up
 
3:14 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
a website has been broken forever and i fixed it during the last few days
the customer phoned up and complained that they are getting too many emails from their customers
it means that they have never received a single email from their customers before
 
3:42 PM
I guess he was joking
 
i wasn't
 
guess he wasn't joking after all.
 
the previous dev had not included the password for our SMTP forwarder
so i popped the correct one in and viola! email galore
 
4:18 PM
How do you ask/tell someone they're asking a X->Y question?
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Q: Server Manager For telnet

EliteGaming UnleashedI want to enable telnet,I have a windows 10.But only telnet cilent and no telnet server so I saw a guide telling me to open server manager and do a lot of stuff.But I don't have any server manager.Please help I want to enable telnet.

 
cat
!!caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
 
@cat That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.
 
@cat that's the advert I'm now getting on facebook :P I blame our discussion of these sorts of things.
@Burgi xD
 
cat
Oh lol
 
@djsmiley2k its your own fault for not running an ad blocker...
 
4:20 PM
I do, I just allow some stuff D:
 
cat
Facebook? Really? Of all the things to allow, you allow Facebook ads?
 
lol
Yeah I'm not actually sure when i started allowing them tbh
one of those times when 'crap stuff doesn't work unblock everything!'
 
cat
!!caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
 
@cat That didn't make much sense. Maybe you meant: maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
 
cat
wtf
!!caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
 
cat
!!maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
 
cat
Oh come on
Ah shit need to install Windows 10
ARGH
 
Well you convinced me. I blocked facebook ads (*and broke some but only some user profile pics).
 
4:46 PM
@cat Oh right, 1 day to go?
 
cat
Yeah
 
i'm installing it tonight
 
cat
I have crap tons of other stuff to do tonight and a bit worried I won't get time
 
it can take awhile
 
cat
Huh I watched that exact episode last night
First one I've seen in months too. What a coincidence
 
I just searched youtube for air crash investigation and it was the first one and I hadn't seen it :P
 
cat
> Scheduled Delivery:
Friday, 07/29/2016, By End of Day
Hah, unlikely
@allquixotic Same :-P
 
5:24 PM
win10 won't install on my work PC >:(
cleared the cache and redownloading it
 
use the media creation tool
it's far more reliable
 
i'm just waiting for the traffic to clear
then i'll set this attempt off again
the minion's PC is working fine
 
@allquixotic you got a prius right?
 
5:42 PM
snigger
is it worth asking for a question migration to apple.se?
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Q: Cannot Find ~/.profile, Only ~/.profile.swp (OSX)

Jonas PowellI am in the process of installing Homebrew, but, when I go to edit ~/.profile, I am finding that only the binary file ~/.profile.swp exists. I have been reading about swap files and trying to better understand their use, but have thus far only read about them in the context of backing up files th...

 
6:00 PM
@Psycogeek Yes, though it's built on the body of the Yaris. In the UK they call it the Yaris Hybrid :)
The engine block is considerably different (mainly, smaller) than the standard Prius, but the electric-driven traction motors are identical
And it uses NiMH batteries instead of Li-Ion
in the US it's called the Prius C
 
@allquixotic does the AC unit run off electric or tied to the engine?
done right the ni-mh batts could last longer.
 
cat
!!caat
 
cat
6:21 PM
Trying to install Windows 10...not even got to the boot menu before it crashes my computer. Good start....
 
@cat lol
 
6:44 PM
Okay. I have several photographs of a praying mantis that incidentally include substantial portions of a fingerprint (the insect was on my left hand). Should I be concerned about this?
Cropping will not help much here.
I'd rather not apply blur or otherwise manipulate the image beyond operations that affect the image as a whole.
 
@bwDraco What do you think someone might do with (parts of) your fingerprint?
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Q: Are photographs of fingerprints a security risk?

raindropIt should be trivial to get fingerprint patterns for many of the most important people in the world, as they frequently (enough) wave their hand, palms forward, to many HD cameras. Is it possible to gather this information of fingertips to overcome fingerprint security systems? I understand that...

 
Thanks for the link.
Well, my phone's fingerprint reader (Nexus Imprint) does scan subdermally (even a complete image of the fingerprint cannot be used to unlock the device), and the fingerprint in question is not presently used as an access credential to any of my devices.
I have no problems with internally printing the image or distributing it to friends and family. I'm just rather concerned about publication.
I've been using my fingerprint to unlock my laptops for years now with absolutely no concerns until now.
 
7:00 PM
if someone wants your finger that badly....
 
they will just cut it off your cooling corpse
 
On further review, it seems the part of the finger in question is insufficient to establish identity.
 
you could litterally, give them the finger XD
 
cat
7:46 PM
Eh, so it took 6 minutes to install Windows 10.
And about 1.5 hours to sort out updates and activation and drivers and shit
Admittedly, I did have to disassemble and clean a phone with solvent while doing it
 
posted on July 28, 2016 by Luke B

For administrators without a WSUS server, you need this script.Well, I got good news, annoying news, then great news for this post! The good news is that the strike at my work is over now! YAY! The annoying news is that the staff systems haven’t been turned on for 4 months to do updates! The… Read More » The post Do your Windows Automatic Updates via the Command Line appeared first

 
cat
Lol. Windows fails if I try to shrink a partition by 400GB but is fine with me shrinking it by 50GB 9 times in a row
 
@CanadianLuke Please indent your code properly :)
 
8:03 PM
@CanadianLuke: Judging from a quick glance at Firefox's developer console, it appears your avatar for Talk About IT! (which is your website's favicon) is corrupt. Can you double-check it and put a new one onto your site?
 
weeee
 
cat
Argh I've got that feeling that there's important stuff I should be doing but I don't know what it is and it's distracting me from leisure time
 
cat
8:38 PM
Lol. My Tronsmart 5-port mains charger came with zero USB cables. My Tronsmart car-charger came with TWO USB cables
 
windows 10 update?
 
54 mins ago, by cat
Eh, so it took 6 minutes to install Windows 10.
@djsmiley2k Do keep up :)
 
8:54 PM
I'm inclined to migrate this to SuperUser.
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Q: How can I get the vendor id and the PID for a usb device?

ladsWhere can I find them? They are given by the company who manufactured the USB right? Thanks

 
Getty sued for $1B+ for making false copyright claims on content that was donated to the Library of Congress for free use by the general public with nothing more than attribution required (like the CC BY license we have today).
Getty Images already has a really bad reputation for making abusive copyright claims.
 
@NickAlexeev Yes please. Then I can answer it :)
 
> Getty Images has a bit of a well-deserved reputation as a giant copyright troll, sending all kinds of nasty threat letters to people who use the images that Getty licenses. And even though it's showed some signs of adapting to the modern internet world, it hasn't given up on its standard trolling practices. It's also famously bad at it, often sending absolutely ridiculous threat letters.
From the complaint:
> The Defendants have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people. The Defendants are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees to people and organizations who were already authorized to reproduce and display the donated photographs for free, but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner (or agents thereof), and threatening individuals and companies with copyright infringement lawsuits that the Defendants could not actually lawfully pursue.
 
@DavidPostill derp
 
9:10 PM
Hehe. First answer on EE :)
 
@DavidPostill the plugin I use for code doesn't indent nicely. I need to find another one. @bwDraco I'll need to find a new one
 
!!s/nicely/at all/
 
@DavidPostill @DavidPostill the plugin I use for code doesn't indent at all. I need to find another one. @bwDraco I'll need to find a new one (source)
 
ugh
i've been seeding gimp for AGES
i'm barely up to 60% of the reseed
 
So I answer my first question on EE and it get migrated to SU...
 
9:24 PM
the question already has an accepted answer though
 
@Burgi So?
 
its probably a duplicate too
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Q: vendor and product id of a mounted/unmounted usb device

MA1How to get vendor id and product id and mount point of a mounted/unmounted usb device in linux?

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Q: change USB vendor id / product id

Hugh AllenUnder Windows XP, is there any easy way to change or spoof the vendor- and product-id of a USB device? (changing the corresponding descriptive strings would probably be good too) Say for example there's a useful program which expects a particular device but you don't see why you should buy a new...

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Q: USB vendor and product ID

NareshI am an embedded systems engineer and eager to learn USB. So, I started by looking at the device manager in windows to get a persepective how the usb devices are identified and what are the specific features which gets listed in windows.Later, I have used usbview software to get more details rath...

 
@Burgi None of those are proper duplicates.
 
grumble grumble ;)
 
cat
10:01 PM
!!xaar
 
@cat That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.
 
 
1 hour later…
11:26 PM
Windows 10 free upgrade offer ends tomorrow, July 29.
May be worth pinning, at least until the end of the day tomorrow.
Bear in mind that you have 31 days to revert if you don't like it.
 
11:46 PM
@bwDraco What time do you get from microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-upgrade?
I get 1 day 10 hours which makes it sometime on the 30th :)
It is already the 29th here ... not that I'm going to upgrade ...
 
cat
!!caat
 
@bwDraco I think all the regulars know about the deadline. Anybody new to RA is unlikely to be coming here because of that.
 
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