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Hennes

12:05 AM

Grah, this laptop has HDMI out. I do not have a spare TV. I only got monitors (with dp, mini-dp and DVI in)

That Brazilian Headless Horse

@Hennes There are HDMI-to-DVI adapters

Hennes

Aye. I have none

Usually I just connect DVI to DVI or DP to DP.

I own HDMI to DVI adaptor, I guess that might work.

That Brazilian Headless Horse

> There are HDMI-to-DVI adapters
> Aye. I have none
> I own HDMI to DVI adaptor, I guess that might work.

!!wat

ChatBot John Cavil

Hennes

With even more frustration attached to it>

An USB to HDMI graphics card which might work, but which failed badly with 90 degree rotated monitors.

That Brazilian Headless Horse

12:10 AM

There are blue cars. Aye. I have none. I own a blue car, I guess that might work.

Hennes

I lost track of that gadgets in it package of horror

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse Shht. Or I will ship to a 80486.

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse You cannot have the blue car and eat it.

That Brazilian Headless Horse

eeew, no. no. no.

That Brazilian Headless Horse

1:06 AM

I'm going to assume whoever starred this ---^ is a mod or room owner and thus was able to see what I had removed.

In this case: I'm sorry. I truly am.

Ben N

I didn't see it, but I can guess

That Brazilian Headless Horse

...and now I made every non-RO curious or confused.

Good. Good.

!!theplan

ChatBot John Cavil

That Brazilian Headless Horse

@BenN Whatever you think it is, that's exectly what it's not.

Rogue Wave - Memento Mori (Official Audio)

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That Brazilian Headless Horse

1:24 AM

Air - Moon Safari (Full Album)

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Rahul2001

5:37 AM

Hi!

@Burgi Did you get a chance to look at the code?

allquicatic

6:17 AM

hi

DavidPostill

Morning!

I woke up really early (5.30 am) as smoke alarm was beeping (needed new batteries). Can't get back to sleep :/

So I might be a bit grumpy today :)

Oliver Salzburg

6:50 AM

@DavidPostill I hate when that happens :P

allquicatic

oh god, I had a traumatic experience with that a few years ago

due to low battery, my smoke detector malfunctioned and went off instead of just the occasional annoying beep

it went, "BEE-DOO BEE-DOO! BEE-DOO BEE-DOO! FIRE IN CHILD'S BEDROOM!"

that sent a chill down my spine and I wasn't able to have a normal resting heartrate for at least an hour or two after that

scared the absolute shit out of me at 3 AM

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill We... don't have smoke alarms

I remember that when I'd gone for an international robotics competition to Australia, someone from Thailand smoked inside the complex and all the alarms went off. The whole place had to be evacuated... That wasn't fun.

Journeyman Geek

8:04 AM

ugh. Its almost 4 and I've not had lunch yet

Rahul2001

8:56 AM

Updated: Rickroll WiFi

Hm... is there a subreddit for funny stuff related to tech?

Journeyman Geek

9:56 AM

networkworld.com/article/3122864/hardware/…

djsmiley2k

klol

Bob

10:36 AM

OSOD

Journeyman Geek

0_0

RSOD?

Rainbow Screens of Death?

HackToHell

10:55 AM

Damn with a QR code

Journeyman Geek

that's a thing these days

I think its handy, but the QR codes point nowhere yet

djsmiley2k

its a url then?

Journeyman Geek

iirc it should point at a specific error page

It points to windows.com/stopcode

imagine if you could point your phone at an error page and it'll immediately point you at the KB page

djsmiley2k

yah thatd be xcool

djsmiley2k

11:44 AM

then agin that error page right now tells you nothing

at least provide some kinda error

Journeyman Geek

"point nowhere yet"

see? ;p

djsmiley2k

what if your phone has no interwebs

give me an error as wel

Rahul2001

giveawayoftheday.com/gdocsdrive/?utm_source=push_chrome_test3

Bob

12:41 PM

@djsmiley2k @JourneymanGeek the only really useful pages are the MSDN ones which have details (including what the parameters mean). unfortunately, they're not really designed for consumers, and the new bsods don't have the params on them anymore anyway

djsmiley2k

1:02 PM

'When I boot it, it always fails the first 1-3 times'

cleearly doesnt understand always

DavidPostill

1:14 PM

@djsmiley2k Could well be a non-native English speaker. We do have a few on the SE network ...

jokerdino

hi

DavidPostill

Afternoon!

jokerdino

You were talking about me?

DavidPostill

@jokerdino Really? ;p

jokerdino

I am non-native speaker of Englando.

DavidPostill

1:22 PM

@jokerdino Of course, Dinosaurs are extinct, so they cannot be native to anywhere :)

jokerdino

:(

DavidPostill

Luckily they are not people either, so you can't take anything said as a personal insult ...

@all Please flag this question superuser.com/questions/1128109/…

jokerdino

I was reasonable.

DavidPostill

@mukbai @JourneymanGeek Can one of you please deal with superuser.com/questions/1128109/… and the user superuser.com/users/645125/user628916?

We need more flags to get it closed and off the Super User questions page :/

jokerdino

1:39 PM

Why do you even engage him?

DavidPostill

@jokerdino Because I'm feeling grumpy!

7 hours ago, by DavidPostill

I woke up really early (5.30 am) as smoke alarm was beeping (needed new batteries). Can't get back to sleep :/

jokerdino

fair

DavidPostill

7 hours ago, by DavidPostill

So I might be a bit grumpy today :)

jokerdino

No!

@DavidPostill I instaflagkilled the comments.

Journeyman Geek

2:10 PM

@DavidPostill I can nuke his SU account, but the others...

right, flagged

DavidPostill

Thx

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill but people like this do it for attention.

I didn't even bother with a mod message here

alas, there is no way to send someone to bed without dessert over the internet...

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek His other accounts look well behave at first glance.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill maybe so that he can get on chat...

also, mostly tumbleweedy questions

but someone who posts a string of cusswords here clearly isn't here to learn/share

djsmiley2k

2:52 PM

or is dumb yoff ewho doesnt know thats not acceptavle

Journeyman Geek

same difference

Stack Exchange

3:03 PM

0

Q: Can I get notified when my comment is deleted

Two days ago I replied to a comment (under my own question, which happened to be closed later). To my surprise my last comment was seemingly deleted by an admin. The comment was acceptable, as I recall. But it was maybe no relevant anymore (since the question was then closed). But that's prett...

Bob

3:23 PM

@DavidPostill Too bad PS just does an implicit -join on arrays when you try to use them in string interpolation :(

DavidPostill

@Bob Whoosh. That went right over my head :/

Bob

heh, whoops. @BenN I was toying with dropping the $ but forgot to :P

oh well

Ben N

You only need that inside an interpolated string :)

Bob

@BenN yea, it's something I got used to from bash

maybe I should've made that answer a comment..?

bleh. comment formatting sucks.

DavidPostill

3:52 PM

@Bob Question has hit HNQ :)

djsmiley2k

4:41 PM

revolutionary!

bwDraco

5:22 PM

aww

Answered a couple of HNQs elsewhere, one on the iconic Monopoly "do not pass GO, do not collect $200" card, the other on an axial inductor

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A: Should I get $200 for passing "Go" if I then get a card that says "don't collect $200"?

Yes, the player collects $200. To understand this, let's step through each action the player takes. First, the player passes GO during normal movement of his/her token. The GO square reads: Collect $200.00 salary as you pass GO Read plainly, this means the player collects the $200 the mo...

Seth

anyone familiar with office 365?

Ben N

5:46 PM

A little, what's up?

Seth

6:00 PM

@BenN well I was trying to add my institutions email to the Windows 10 Mail app. It asked me some question about adding my device to their network or authorizing it or something like that (I wish I had grabbed a screenshot). I said yes, but now it wants to change security settings on the PC, to fit their security model. I can't seem to figure out how to un-authorize the machine/undo what I did.

I'm sorry the question is kinda of vague.

Ben N

Ah, it seems they have some sort of device management policy on their mailboxes

I haven't worked with such policies before, but I'll try to find something...

Does this do it? windowsitpro.com/windows-8/…

Seth

@BenN Yes, that's what it is. I the account set up on both the Outlook Android app and the actual desktop Outlook app with no issues so it can't be mandatory.

@BenN nope, that option does not appear in the Control Panel.

I never actually accepted the changes, but I can't view the inbox without accepting them. Hence the need to undo whatever I did to make it think this device belonged to the institution.

Let me dig through the Windows 10 settings.

All the institution/work settings are clean in the Windows 10 settings. Whatever happened happened on the other end, I think.

Ben N

Some forum post suggests updating the Mail app, though I'm not sure exactly how to do that

Seth

huh. let me check the store

not sure why that would fix it tho

hmm, nope. No updates for the Mail app. It was updated yesterday.

Ben N

Are you a local admin on the machine?

Seth

6:13 PM

@BenN yes. it's my personal machine.

I think I'm going to have to contact the school... It must have been some change somewhere on their end that I opted in to in that dialog.

Ben N

It might have also set something in your local Group Policies; is there anything configured in gpedit.msc?

Seth

ooh I might have just found it.

@BenN Group policies aren't enabled..

Ben N

I had just seen a forum post mentioning some entries in the Policies section of the Registry, so I was just checking :)

Seth

@BenN I'm pretty sure it happened somewhere in my office365 settings online, not on the local machine.. It had to connect to the network and add my device to something.

I really wish I had taken a screenshot.

I guess I am just stuck using the desktop Outlook.

That Brazilian Headless Horse

6:41 PM

Something so bizarre happened.

My connection wasn't down, I could view websites just fine, but youtube videos and facebook wouldn't start.

I had to restart my computer, and things wordked afterwards. I felt like I was back in Windows.

Burgi

6:53 PM

sounds like a dns issue

That Brazilian Headless Horse

Who knows. But I doubt it. I changed no network settings, nothing.

Maybe if was Firefox.

But I'll never know

Boris_yo

7:05 PM

"Yahoo confirms major breach — and it could be the largest hack of all time". Kind of late as of 2014...

Burgi

so i ordered a new mobile for my mum last week. the website said it was in stock and i got a confirmation email saying it would be delivered by friday

it still hasn't arrived

so i phoned them up today querying it

turns they haven't had it in stock since august and they have put it on backorder

their advice was check all the local stores to see if any of them had it

which kind of defeats the point of ordering it online

also why can't they check the store stock for me and tell me which one to go to

or even get the fracking store to mail it to me?

bwDraco

7:42 PM

2 days ago, by bwDraco

Historic Yahoo breach from late 2014 discovered—conside‌r changing passwords if you haven't done so recently

My account, oddly, might not be affected, but I've taken preliminary steps to add security.

Burgi

7:55 PM

how do you find out if you were affected?

DavidPostill

@Burgi haveibeenpwned.com is one place to check. I don't know if they have access to the yahoo data yet.

Burgi

hmmm..... why does that feel like a honeypot....

> Good news — no pwnage found!

Hennes

8:12 PM

Now I have a sudden desire to register honeypot.com.

Sandro

hi

where is the system error in windows 10

i got a message that says my graphic stop rendering

Ben N

Are you looking for the event logs? eventvwr.msc is the Event Viewer

Sandro

yes

DavidPostill

Hmm

I don't think I will open it @Hennes

Hennes

Why not.

DavidPostill

8:16 PM

@Hennes It might be nasty :)

Ben N

VirusTotal thinks the site is clean, but I'm not going to try it :)

Hennes

Real life example (around the year 2000-ish).
Outlook is vulnerable to a virus. Open an i love you.doc.exe mail and you get infected.
Admin (us!) warn the users,
A secreatary reads the warning, receives an infected mail AND OPENS IT JUST TO SEE HOW A VIRUS LOOKS!

Burgi

8:33 PM

understandable reaction

Guitar Shoe Dave

9:29 PM

dont see anything wrong with that firefox dialog

i see a misconfigured server if anything

mimetypes r hard mkay

:)

now back to work, bbl8s

DavidPostill

@GuitarShoeDave It was the result of browsing to honeypot.com ...

Hi @ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse

That Brazilian Headless Horse

Hey hey

DavidPostill

You feeling more awake today?

That Brazilian Headless Horse

Well, I am awake. I am also in bed, still wearing pajamas, at 6:40pm.

DavidPostill

Hmm. I can't think of a witty response to that ...

Burgi

9:52 PM

@DavidPostill are you on XP still?

DavidPostill

@Burgi What? I've been on Windows 7 almost since it was first released.

Burgi

it doesn't look like a win7 dialog...

DavidPostill

Windows Classic - I just hate Aero :)

Burgi

it has been a long time for me though...

Guitar Shoe Dave

@DavidPostill: tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2425

Burgi

9:56 PM

ah lol

Guitar Shoe Dave

bbl agan!

That Brazilian Headless Horse

@DavidPostill Wait, is that a real dialog?

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse Yes. When I browsed to honeypot.com.

2 hours ago, by Hennes

Now I have a sudden desire to register honeypot.com.

Guitar Shoe Dave

yeah httpd server using content type httpd/unix-directory for a directory and his browser doesnt understand how to open it.

DavidPostill

So I thought I'd see if there was something there already.

That Brazilian Headless Horse

10:00 PM

I wget'ed it and opened the HTML file in nano. Seems ~~legit~~ like one of those parked domains

Guitar Shoe Dave

HTTP/1.1 200 OK..Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:05:33 GMT..Server: Microsoft-IIS
/7.5..Set-Cookie: referrer=honeypot.com; path=/..Set-Cookie: caf_last_page_
url=http://honeypot.com/; path=/..Set-Cookie: caf_remotehost=10.22;
path=/..Set-Cookie: caf_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fhoneypot.com%2F; path=/..Set-
Cookie: caf_ipaddr=69.132; path=/..Set-Cookie: caf_geolocation=United
+States; path=/..Set-Cookie: Template--honeypot.com=3D_Bars; path=/..Set-Co
okie: FeedProvider--honeypot.com=Google; path=/..Vary: Accept-Encoding,User

odd i dont get the same response headers

IIS: BARF

Ben N

It appears to serve a basically blank page but sets some cookies

StatusCode        : 200
StatusDescription : OK
Content           : <html>
                    <body>
                    </body>
                    </html>

Guitar Shoe Dave

Im curious if daves behind a proxy of some sort

(transparent proxy perhaps)

That Brazilian Headless Horse

@BenN Huh? I don't get the same

Ben N

Maybe it varies based on user agent?

That Brazilian Headless Horse

10:09 PM

> $ wget honeypot.com
--2016-09-25 18:59:40-- http://honeypot.com/
Resolvendo honeypot.com (honeypot.com)... 184.168.221.104
Conectando-se a honeypot.com (honeypot.com)|184.168.221.104|:80... conectado.
A requisição HTTP foi enviada, aguardando resposta... 200 OK
Tamanho: não especificada [text/html]
Salvando em: “index.html”

index.html [ <=> ] 29,30K 132KB/s in 0,2s

Burgi

@BenN are you running an adblocker?

Ben N

@Burgi Not in PowerShell

That Brazilian Headless Horse

It's a 29.30 KB file

Guitar Shoe Dave

Good point

@DavidPostill: Post the User agent string

of your browser*

DavidPostill

@GuitarShoeDave Not that I know of. Unless my mobile provider has some strange proxy.