cool, googles doing 1boxing on stackoverflow answers.

PHPExcel looks like the right way

@JourneymanGeek "very old" -- literally the same as the one I just replaced, that had a CPU I was happy to keep using...

@djsmiley2k welcome to PHP!

it could be their motto

@Bob :D

"PHP: it just silently fails \o/"

i've used php on and off for a few years

since uni infact, which was errrr about 8 years ago?! XD

because being an american president ages you at about 4X rate, what will donald trump look like in 4 years?

a wotsit?

@Bob I'm lolling cause I'm using a web browser on an even older machine...

without any magic mods. Just a simpler DE, which is exactly what he dosen't want to do

@djsmiley2k google has gotten rich by making your data look like thier data then sticking ads on it and tracking it. oneboxing in this case is ownership :-)

I wonder how much the 8tb hdd weighs

is it a new 7 platter?

@Bob I'LL TAKE DAT PHONE

idk, seagate expansion drive

oh god it weighs 5kg

@Bob Automatic power saving takes a few minutes to settle in?

not shipping that one by comgateway

@Bob wot

@Bob thats the shipping weight?

@Psycogeek the HDD's physical weight

for once it outweighs the volumetric weight

Mine was 0.78kg

@Dog ...1.7kg. I can't read

If they were 5kg each my server would weigh near 200kg...

@Bob 1.2? 1.0? 1.7? :-o

Google results confused me :P

That page has it the wrong way round

1.7lb. 0.78kg

Google showed me "5.787/146.99 Weight (g/lb) " in the preview snippet

@Bob You should know better -_-

@Dog I DON'T KNOW, IT SAYS g/lb

@Bob IT'S WRONG

yea 0.78 sounds more like it lol

I should get them to fix that -_-

@Dog I thought it sounded wrong, but I'm dumb

its one of them chineeze drives, it has a flash stick in it and 20 lbs of lead

Coincidence? :-O

yes, yes, I'm dumb, why not rub it in :P

lol

hm. I can get it external and attach via USB, or get internal ones and go with good ol' sata

except internal costs $30 more

Err yeah I think this ath10k driver is still a bit unstable. :-/

@Bob wut

get external, remove chassis...

@djsmiley2k cbf

I tried to find a php chat room and failed :(*

knowing my luck it'd just have a permanently soldered board anyway

....aaaand we're back

Well I suppose it survived nearly two days without crashing, which is better than the two seconds it used to do -_-

GODAMMIT WHY EVEN ANSWER

github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel

looks healthy :/

@Bob -100 users found this answer useful

Gah

:D

if it was on SU we could edit it then close it

I really want a new gaming laptop

But I also really want that new Lenovo vaporware

guise, where can I get php help? :/

D:

ugh

I need a new chair

@JourneymanGeek fix not good?

Yeah

@Bob Done

2 options

buy a new chair

or redo the tension straps and screw a metal plate across the break

I really wanted to put it off till I got a job though

lol

ok, ordered another two HDDs

they cost another $20 more than last time

except this lot will be going through comgateway

if the last lot turns up... welp

if not... hm. to refund or to get them to resend... :P

tbh, half jokingly wonders if he can buy car seats in singapore

amazon.co.uk/Razer-Laptop-Computer-Discrete-Graphics/dp/…

This looks dodgy

dodgy how?

£760 for a current-gen high-end gaming laptop from a car dealership

ok, it is rediculously cheap

and the model is out of stock on the official site

> I CȦN'T SHlP T0 ȦLL ADDRẸṢSES. BEF0RE "ȦDD T0 BȦSKET"; C0NTȦCT US: ◚info[ẚṫ]mail592.com◛

Seems legit.

They also have a 4K dell XPS for £562

that is to say... not

4,000 items for sale but only 30 feedback in a year? :-/

pretty sure its a scam ;p

@Dog lol

> We want you to buy with confidence anytime you make a purchase on the Amazon.co.uk website or use Amazon Payments; that's why we guarantee purchases from third-party sellers when payment is made via the Amazon.co.uk website or when you use Amazon Payments for qualified purchases on third-party websites. The condition of the item you buy and its timely delivery are guaranteed under the Amazon A-to-z Guarantee.

"fix"

I'm using a local account.

@Bob Yeah I had that too after deleting a microsoft account, seems to be unclean removal

@Dog Reported!

Now where do I collect my Amazon mod points?

@OliverSalzburg Ooh you can report? Nice

@Dog Well, you can start a chat with the support team ;P

Was wondering if there was such a button. But there's two sellers listing it at that price, one has decent feedback but is an outdoor/camper van/trailer sales place

@OliverSalzburg Eh, I was hoping for an automatic "Report" button, chatting with sales is too much effort

@Dog I never had a MS account in the first place.

This machine was local from the start.

AFAIK there is no real report feature

@Dog Yeah, I agree

But I do it anyway because these scammers piss me off so much :P

Always teasing me with their low, low prices

@Dog Write a template email, and just copy/paste it :P

@OliverSalzburg Did you report Hammersleys or "I CN'T SHlP T0 LL ADDRSES. BEF0RE "DD T0 BSKET"; C0NTCT US: info[]mail592.com" or both?

> Samsung has updated its S7 and S7 Edge handsets to Android 7.0 Nougat. As part of the update, the resolution is downscaled to 1080p.

WAT

CC @Bob

@Dog o.O

> The default of the QHD (1440 x 2560) display to FHD (1080 x 1920) is the result of Samsung wanting to improve users' battery life. The display is able to be set as low as HD (720 x 1280) and as high as QHD, and if you want to change the resolution back to either of them according to your taste, you only need to go to the Display settings to do so.

Ooh user settable display resolution

@Dog :D :D :D

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I could do with 720 tbh

Same

This old-ish game I play runs fine with the CPU set to 1.2Ghz max and the GPU at 200Mhz. It'd be better if I could set the resolution down too

speaking of which

I want to make the media on my laptop accessible on all the smartphones and tablets in the house. Tell me what I need inorder to do it.

my OP3 just got nougat

@Nick magic

@JourneymanGeek congrats. How's it in comparison to marshmallow.

@Nick no idea

still installing

@JourneymanGeek Mr.sysadmin, I expected a less Peter Pan response from atleast you.

also for media sharing, wouldn't UPnP work?

@Nick VTC "too broad"

@DavidPostill lol. how about if I say, stream videos on my laptop through my phone browser. That sounds achievable.

@Nick It does indeed. lmgtfy.com/…

@Dog The latter. I just gave them the URL you posted here

I usually just send them 1 line: "I found a suspicious listing at: …"

@Nick I might lose miracast support

@JourneymanGeek how do I check if my devices support UPnP?

@Nick you'd at most need an app for it

Sounds to me that all I need is a good server program for windows 19

go poke wikipedia ;p

19?

Yes. 19x more leet than Windows 1

YAYAYAY! WE WON!

We won we won we won, oh my god, I'm the best presenter on earth...

enthusiasm fades away as I realise that Donald Trump just became the president of the United States

Won what?

If it was 'Person most likely to become the next President of the US' then I'm sorry, so so sorry.

Huh. Visual Studio is free now?

@Rahul2001 WRONG

Still four hours left to go

Ah, right, time differences

@Dog The free one is

@OliverSalzburg Hmm. Dreamspark aka Imagine seems to only have the free one now

The free one is the Community edition AFAIK. Then there's also Professional and Enterprise

The last two are not free

At least not for the general public AFAIK

@Dog That's enough time for an action movie to still do something to fix this historical error.

@JourneymanGeek I meant 10. typo. Anyhow, can you reccomend any server applications?

@Nick not off the top of my head

Any server applications?

I recently found an app called AirDroid which lets me remotely access files on my phone through its ip.

@Nick Yeah and it also allows everyone else the same access ;D

@OliverSalzburg I mean one that will run on windows and give me the feature I need.

...I think they fixed that now

@Nick What are you looking for? Couldn't find it in the previous messages

@Nick Ah, gotcha

Why not sync the media with a central server?

well it depends on the smartphones and tablets, and what kind of access they have

something like plex works, if each device can load plex (or the plex webpage)

Or you can share them via filesharing, such as smb

@OliverSalzburg Laptops are perfectly fine as servers ;)

@OliverSalzburg I'm a college student with one laptop and a phone. I can't afford to even think about affording to afford a central doohickey.

lol

@Nick anything can be a central server

you just need to have an idea what you have lying around and what you need

@Nick then turn on windows file sharing, download SMB client apps and away you go! not sure what's so hard about that

@JourneymanGeek Lenovo Ideapad, I choose you!

(assuming all the devices are on the same WiFi network and can ping eachother)

@allquixotic that's a go. So, I found a client called AndSMB. I'll tell you guys tomrrow if it worked.

gramps says hi

and if not for the namespace I'd totally call this system gramps ;p

wooo runnin outta mem

[Fri Jan 20 13:28:25.580140 2017] [:error] [pid 5916] [client 10.0.2.2:49489] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 18874368 bytes) in /var/www/html/Classes/PHPExcel/CachedObjectStorage/PHPTemp.php on line 65, referer: localhost:8080/upload.php

oh wait, heh fail

@JourneymanGeek motorcycles...?

@allquixotic example given in the book I was using

see the massive list of better IDEs I should be using from earlier ;p

@Nick So the devices you want to share your media with aren't your own devices?

Because that is somewhat limiting in regards to solutions ;D

when is that pic from?

Eh. So the latest Iris/Iris Plus GPUs can run Crysis

@allquixotic about 5 minutes ago

recently? O_o

@Dog as in Kaby Lake only, or...?

@allquixotic Nah, Skylake too.

@allquixotic its an older machine. Its offline - and has a pretty nice keyboard for a laptop

@JourneymanGeek yup

its very good for avoiding distraction

There's actually zero improvement in Iris from Skylake to Kaby Lake

@JourneymanGeek I use the net constantly when coding

to check things and such, i hear it's quite normal...

The stock (non-Iris) GT2 iGPUs got faster, the Iris/Iris Plus ones didn't. Iris Pro's aren't out yet AFAIK

@djsmiley2k oh, the idea here is context switching

but I've got quite good self control even when I don't want to do something

I keep getting distracted by shinier things

@Dog I have Skylake Iris 550 on a U-line CPU (5657U?) and it plays Elder Scrolls Online at 1440x900 on high texture detail, no MSAA, medium shadows and such at 30 to 60 fps depending on the scene

the PC is right next to me and I have the book, fullscreen on a display

But the Skylake Iris Pro beats the GTX 940M in most games, while using half the power

@allquixotic IIRC 550 is Iris Pro

o_O it is??

Nope

ark.intel.com/products/91167/…

Yeah, that. I want one of those.

@JourneymanGeek ah nice.

The 28w U-series Iris (now Iris Plus 550/650) beats the 940M in most titles

that's a good way to make yourself pratice by doing too

@Dog it's in the top-model Macbook Pro 13" :P

you've got to type everything, rather than copypasting it.

The 15w U-series Iris (now Iris Plus 640) is about 20% the 940M

@OliverSalzburg they're my own devices but I'd like the general for-the-crowd solution.

@Dog are they branding the 550/650 (same chip/same perf?) as "Iris Plus" in Kaby Lake? and I already have that? cool....

Bearing in mind, that 940M is 35w + a quad-core 47w CPU whereas the Iris (Plus) is sharing 15w between CPU and GPU :-/

@allquixotic Dunno about the 650 (not released yet AFAIK) but the 540 Iris and 640 Iris Plus are identical

@djsmiley2k more or less that's the idea

bookwise nostarch.com/pythoncrashcourse seems nice

I tried python the hard way

errr

since apparently there's a "teach your kids to code" and no "teach your dog to code"

@djsmiley2k yeah, picked this up on a humble bundle

I'd imagine the Iris Plus 650 is basically identical to the Iris 550 too, since the 540 and 550 are identical just with different TDPs.

and python the hard way is basically python 2 and never moving off

and python 3's kinda what I am used to

yeah

Either way, it's a heck of a lot more efficient than these "dedicated" 9xx series Maxwell parts people keep shoving into Kaby lake laptops for the marketing kudos

errrm

@DavidPostill scary if a dog could code better than most kids.

Most kids can't code

Now if only Sony errr Vaio updated their Z Flip to have Thunderbolt...

most people don't need to know how to code ;p

@JourneymanGeek the world as it ideally should be.

(however, its probably a useful skill to be able to throw together basic things so... meh)

@allquixotic Yeah but that lacks a touchscreen/flip. The only other machine I know of that has it is the Vaio Z flip which lacks Thunderbolt instead

So @Bob, any plans to upgrade to Nougat?

@Dog Yea, but I'm still on old-Marshmallow :P

maybe when I have more time

twitter.com/KrisSanchez/status/822421757344837633 - pretty funny

morning btw

Could we not talk about murdering people?

The world's gone a little mad

but there's probably at least some rationality there somewhere underneath.

@JourneymanGeek Not helped by dogs and cats taking over the internet.

also, ugh, politics.

@Dog oddly enough, there's only been 2-3 people unhappy with me as your glorious canine overlord ;p

!!s/canine/feline/

@Dog @Dog oddly enough, there's only been 2-3 people unhappy with me as your glorious feline overlord ;p (source)

nothing glorious about felines.

@JourneymanGeek lol

Strange felines :)

> Great and glorious alleged canine overlord.

hmmm

i've not yet maanged to just save out this xls as a csv

surely this isn't right

I can do it in excel, maunally, in like 3 seconds

ffs the script timed out XD

@JourneymanGeek ^

we tend to find it cute and endearing

trust me they don't want me speaking their language with a manc accent

@Burgi I don't sound 'typically' singaporean

0_0

dem life goals

ffs

constantly running outta mem just loading this worksheet D:

Ohhhhhh I think i booboo'd

what I thought was setting the size 'before' using the temp space, is actually setting the size OF the temp space

/me hopes for no more memory errors

well it hasn't died yet, success is growing.

still taking litterally hours to process. this isn't right