Root Access

I bought this as I was fed up of teamviewer... and getting paid for support/it felt cheap... just a shame it doesn't have a html client or something... other than that, it is a really good remote support tool

djsmiley2k

heh I've used it with other clients tbh

how much it cost you?

William Hilsum

screenconnect?

got it on legacy pricing... bought before the connectwise takeover, so, about $300 I think

then hardly anything / about $60 a year renewal.. (off the top of my head)

Bob

o.O

that's pretty pricey unless you use remote access stuff a lot :P

I wonder how Windows Remote Assistance is these days

William Hilsum

lol, look at teamviewer! it is dirt cheap...

but, I use it a hell of a lot... all my clients are on it, single click to connect in...

Bob

@WilliamHilsum I'm in... but at a glance you already have it!

Ya that's an nvidia driver

William Hilsum

1:26 PM

just wonder why it no longer says it on the BSOD, or in blue screen view...

just going to try to look at the other crashes...

Bob

@WilliamHilsum I've found that happens fairly often... seems the quick analysis can't dig into ntoskrnl, probably because of missing symbols.

So they just stop there and say that's the cause.

William Hilsum

ahh

and, I feel like such a noob, can't clear/reopen! lol

Bob

@WilliamHilsum I normally just reopen windbg entirely! :P

William Hilsum

ha

Bob

I only know how to use it for minor bsod diagnoses

judging by SE chat, there's something like 5s lag on this connection :P

but not sure I can help further - you've found the cause

now the trick is fixing it...

first port of call is completely uninstalling nvidia drivers and installing fresh/updated ones

William Hilsum

1:29 PM

its the latest version, and, my friend with the same card/driver doesn't have the issue...

Bob

if that doesn't work... I'd begin to suspect the hardware of possibly being faulty, but tbh there's any number of odd interactions that could be the cause

William Hilsum

I'm thinking I may just reinstall windows...

DavidPostill

Why have you deleted your account? Doing so means we can't @comment reply to you ... — DavidPostill 32 secs ago

Bob

it could be other software/drivers conflicting

ok, time to hop out of that session and reset the VM :P

William Hilsum

heh, i wouldn't give anyone viruses! but, better safe than sorry...

second one shows this :

Bob

1:31 PM

@WilliamHilsum yea, I trust you, but I tend to be a bit iffy about these remote access sites/clients :P

William Hilsum

no worries! I understand

Bob

@WilliamHilsum any chance you can copy/paste the text?

if you hit ctrl+k after pasting it'll even format it nicely :P

William Hilsum

STACK_COMMAND: kb

THREAD_SHA1_HASH_MOD_FUNC: a46f769f9bb88b377fa260529f59dcef5f50e990

THREAD_SHA1_HASH_MOD_FUNC_OFFSET: f87adda27567ee9cb993f198237a3dad384d5de6

THREAD_SHA1_HASH_MOD: dcad533a74a3db89beeba48522fb4c242f2efae0

FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: GenuineIntel

IMAGE_NAME: GenuineIntel

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 0

nothing about nvidia there

Bob

@WilliamHilsum could you grab the whole thing? bits above and below too

should also include the bugcheck id

William Hilsum

*******************************************************************************
* *
* Bugcheck Analysis *
* *
*******************************************************************************

WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR (124)
A fatal hardware error has occurred. Parameter 1 identifies the type of error

Bob

1:33 PM

uh oh.

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/…

@WilliamHilsum if you want to dig more, you're going to want to dump ffffce0322a00028

heck if I can remember how to do that, though

William Hilsum

I've been doing so much sysadmin work over the past couple of years, I feel out of the loop of these... I feel like such a moron that I can't do this myself!!! Thanks so much... well, so much further than I was...

Bob

@WilliamHilsum this is pretty definitely some kind of hardware issue

easiest thing to test would be RAM

run memtest86+ overnight :P

or... @WilliamHilsum how often does this happen?

if it's really rare/random, then it'll be a real pain

William Hilsum

it can be 2/3 times a few minutes apart, then, nothing for days

Bob

gotta go, bbl

William Hilsum

k

Bob

1:36 PM

@WilliamHilsum imo, try the memtest first, then maybe try pulling the video card and see if it stops happening

short of starting to replace parts, it's pretty much remove things till it works again :P

@WilliamHilsum tbf usually when a sysadmin is faced with a bsod the easiest thing to do is call vendor support :P

well, a bsod reporting a hardware error anyway

William Hilsum

I need to go out at 3, I know not scientific, but, I can give it about 4 hours...

I "did" have bad memory...

had 4x 8gb sticks and 2 were faulty, so, I took them out and I had a clear memtest run about 2 years ago...

I haven't run since...

Bob

@WilliamHilsum usually I (unscientifically) recommend 10, maybe 20 test passes before considering RAM "probably good"

because I've seen detections crop up on the 11th pass

but memory errors can be really random

failing hardware is never fun :(

William Hilsum

me too... on 30th run for one client... took like 2 days, I left it on over the weekend and came back to an error... replaced and all good...

Bob

@WilliamHilsum try this

> You can use !errrec <addr> to display the WHEA_ERROR_RECORD structure using the address provided in Parameter 2. The !whea and !errpkt extensions can be used to display additional WHEA information.

Burgi

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38714404

William Hilsum

1:40 PM

===============================================================================
Common Platform Error Record @ ffffce0322a00028
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Record Id : 01d2736cd5eb525f
Severity : Fatal (1)
Length : 928
Creator : Microsoft
Notify Type : Machine Check Exception
Timestamp : 1/21/2017 15:23:33 (UTC)
Flags : 0x00000000

===============================================================================

Burgi

ALTERNATIVE FACTS!!!!!!!

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k I thought that's normal ;p

Bob

@WilliamHilsum also read through this blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ntdebugging/2011/01/28/…

> Error : Internal timer (Proc 7 Bank 4)

ow

Burgi

@djsmiley2k @JourneymanGeek communicates by smell

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi >_>

Bob

1:43 PM

@WilliamHilsum oh, you have an unlocked CPU... any overclocking?

William Hilsum

got a k cpu, no overclocking

Bob

it could be the CPU on its way out :(

William Hilsum

It's been on 24x7 since I got it... so, ehh... maybe, but annoying!

Bob

looks like the go might be to ask Intel for a replacement: social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/…;, tomshardware.com/forum/286016-28-internal-timer-issue

but they might want you to test on a different machine/mobo first :\

Journeyman Geek

0_0

William Hilsum

1:44 PM

also, used internal graphics quite a bit - so, maybe gpu strains it? :/

I'm an intel platinum tech partner... meant to get express warranty/support... I'll just ask my account manager... see what they say

wonder if I should try updating bios/firmware/efi first... don't think I have ever done that... just in case

Bob

@WilliamHilsum maybe, yea

I'd still do the memtest, personally, but this doesn't smell good :(

Burgi

we need an image macro for alternative facts

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi politics :(

William Hilsum

I'm just wondering if my first thought - heat/power could still be relevant.. e.g. overheating and not doing what it should (but, I would guess that it would turn off before going funny)... or wrong voltage, but, would expect a warning on restart

HackToHell

ir

Journeyman Geek

1:48 PM

@djsmiley2k I actually spent about 2 years practically as a shutin, with no online or offline social interaction

I still have a little arkwardness in real life

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek is it still banned? i thought that was just friday

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi it isn't explicitly banned

but politics is just so... dreary

Burgi

but i have so many alternative facts to share!

Journeyman Geek

Babylon5 TV Show reveals Politicians Playbook

►

(this show might possibly be older than some of the folk here ;p)

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek lol. I be rewatching season 1 at the moment :)

Journeyman Geek

1:52 PM

hm, 1997, 1998.... so, yeah, totally is

this is pretty late. I think 3 or 4

Anyone who wants a spoiler warning needs to get off my lawn, by the way

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek I'll get to it eventually - I'm watching everything in order, including all the movies :)

Journeyman Geek

ah

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek I've seen them all before several times ...

Journeyman Geek

I usually skip the movies when I binge watch them

DavidPostill

Except the movies.

Journeyman Geek

1:54 PM

ah!

Burgi

i seriously dislike B5

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi why?

Burgi

well for a start they have a character named after a biscuit

Journeyman Geek

>_>

two words

DavidPostill

!!/slap @burgi

Journeyman Geek

1:55 PM

Kit Fisto

Burgi

then the bad acting and terrible production

Journeyman Geek

"terrible production"

You do realise this is a 90s scifi show right?

Burgi

there is cheap and then there is B5

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi farscape has obviously styrofoam blocks for destroyed buildings.

Burgi

similar era shows had MUCH better acting and better production

Journeyman Geek

1:57 PM

I think you might have stopped at season 1

The one where the lead actor was literally losing his mind the entire time

Burgi

i watched until the galactic war thing

Journeyman Geek

dude. Gkar and Londo!

Better love story than twilight!

(they end up strangling each other. To save londo from a mind controlling alien trying to destroy the goodguys)

Anyway, I respect your dislike of the show ;p

I'll leave it at that.

Burgi

i gave it a good go

if they remade it with better acting, direction and production i'd watch it

Journeyman Geek

You might get your wish ;p

though they want to remake it into a movie

Burgi

that sounds like a bad idea

Journeyman Geek

2:01 PM

and part of the appeal of b5 was that it was essentially a single long arc from S1 to S4

S5 was odd. They assumed the series would be cancelled so they crammed that plot into s4, so s5 had a meh A plot, and brilliant individual episodes

Burgi

i struggled to care about the characters

especially biscuit guy

Journeyman Geek

(who is biscuit guy?)

Burgi

Journeyman Geek

.....

I'm not sure what to say

cause I'm pretty sure, in good bad sci fi tradition, the ganked the name from an actual historic figure

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ɡariˈbaldi]; 4 July 1807 in Nice – 2 June 1882 on Caprera) was an Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy. He is considered, with Camillo Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II and Giuseppe Mazzini, as one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland". Garibaldi was a central figure in the Italian Risorgimento, since he personally commanded and fought in many military campaigns that led eventually to the formation of a unified Italy. He was appointed general by the provisional government of Milan in 1848, General of the Roman...

Burgi

i know that NOW

Boris_yo

2:06 PM

Okay, another (4th reason) why I want upgrade Nexus 4. Camera.

Burgi

i didn't when i watched it in the late noughties

Journeyman Geek

And sheridan? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sheridan

lol

Battletech was terrible about that.

Boris_yo

From what I can tell iPhone is on par with Nokia camera quality-wise. Then who takes 3rd place? Samsung galaxy?

Burgi

i think it was on channel 4 in the UK during the 90s but at weird times (late in the evening)

Journeyman Geek

Entirely relatedly to the current conversation imgur.com/gallery/N8wza

oh god. Local TV would show all the sci fi shows at sat 4pm for half a season

then suddenly switch it to weekday late nights.

Burgi

2:08 PM

where as the BBC showed star trek at 6pm

6pm on a weekday

it was star trek, followed by buffy

then fridays at 6pm it was thunderbirds

djsmiley2k

rofl ubuntu you so bad

why when I installed the desktop version did files upload as my desktop user

but with the 'server' version, they upload as www-data?!

and that's then broke the phpexcel lib too, yey

Journeyman Geek

0_0

djsmiley2k

2:25 PM

yeah

awesome!! thumbs

up

That Brazilian Guy

2:48 PM

@JourneymanGeek You tell me...

@JourneymanGeek There's a great solution to that: the mute button.

"Oh TBG why aren't you on the 'zapzap' group"
"No, auntie, I am, see?"
"Oh that's great"

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy that's what I do

and then my mom complains about her siblings so I know what's happening anyway

That Brazilian Guy

Anything I need to know my wife will tell me anyway

Journeyman Geek

but I was refering to, yanno

chat etiquette

That Brazilian Guy

LOL we said pretty much the same thing

@JourneymanGeek Oh don't even start me with that

Journeyman Geek

That's kinda the point I was trying to make ;p

That Brazilian Guy

2:51 PM

When I was in the previous team at work, one of my random-tasks-that-came-from-who-knows-where were tutoring random final users, "normal people", from all across the organization

I did it the first time, was accordingly paid

Then, the second time they asked me to do that, they were "oh, you have to take a course on Moodle Tutoring so we can certify you and then pay you".

The "Moodle tutoring" course was held... via moodle. [>_<]"

99.999999% of the users were "normal people", non-techies, who apparently had zero previous experience with online communities, web interfaces and nettiquete of any kind.

The forum part was.... ~~OMIGODPLEASEKILLME~~ messy, let's say.

Journeyman Geek

lol

That Brazilian Guy

The whole thing was a torture.

Journeyman Geek

I mean, contrast this place to tech IRC

That Brazilian Guy

Instead of a single "classroom", they artificially split the forums into groups of 10 persons.

Journeyman Geek

we arn't as busy, but there's a certain amount of community culture that keeps things sane

eww

That Brazilian Guy

2:55 PM

There was pre-approved threads that we had to post into.

There was not a "one subject, one thread" mentality.

Journeyman Geek

lol

That Brazilian Guy

Rather, "this thread is for class B-3".

AND THEN EVERYTHING THREW IN THERE AND SHAKE A LITTLE

People would post replies as level-1 posts

and new messages as random replies

djsmiley2k

i remember at uni, the system meant that replies got 5-10px slimmer than the previous post

That Brazilian Guy

Nothing made sense.

djsmiley2k

que us doing 100's of replies on a post until it disappeared up it's own .... ;)

That Brazilian Guy

2:57 PM

I tried to use logic arguments to the course creators... To no avail.

Journeyman Geek

lol

That Brazilian Guy

Today said person works on the same office as me

And we constantly interact

She's a really nice person, but technologically... well...

djsmiley2k

que stabbing?

obv. not murder

we don't talk about that here, but mental stabbing?

That Brazilian Guy

@djsmiley2k ¿Qué Stabbing?

Paul Vargas

I installed Linux Mint 18.1 "Serena" - MATE. :)

djsmiley2k

3:01 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy queue... cue!

CUE!

Paul Vargas

Perhaps it brings something good.

This distro comes with xed.

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k maybe a nice gift in their shoes?

stabbing sounds... antisocial, and impolite.

2

Nick

@JourneymanGeek I guess that's what Julius Ceaser felt at the end of his play, "oh boy, these men are very impolite". Impolite, good description there.

Journeyman Geek

@Nick what could be more so. One moment you're all imperator and shit, and the next thing you know BAM, MOMENTO MORI!

and you get a terminal case of iron poisoning.

djsmiley2k

who was talking about 000webhost the other day?

they got pwned to the sound of 13 million creds?

Journeyman Geek

3:10 PM

pretty much

Nick

what do you mean -> what happened to them?

That Brazilian Guy

> 000webhost: In approximately March 2015, the free web hosting provider 000webhost suffered a major data breach that exposed over 13 million customer records. The data was sold and traded before 000webhost was alerted in October. The breach included names, email addresses and plain text passwords.

Compromised data: Email addresses, IP addresses, Names, Passwords

That Brazilian Guy

haveibeenpwned.com

Nick

@ThatBrazilianGuy Geez, they're like the go to place for people with no wallets to host stuff.

That Brazilian Guy

';--have i been pwned?

Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach

> Oh no — pwned!

Pwned on 8 breached sites and found 1 paste (subscribe to search sensitive breaches)

-.-'

DavidPostill

3:39 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy "Good news — no pwnage found!"

XKCD

xkcd.com/1789

NotAdmin Dave

ah one last step of my sync process to build

DavidPostill

Hmm. Why isn't xkcd oneboxing?

NotAdmin Dave

almost done..exciting

Hmm, others work

3:57 PM

it's ALIVE.

@djsmiley2k I've been for quite some time, it seems.

djsmiley2k

hehe

it made it work

now to load it with the huge spreadsheet

Awww, ran outta memory

(unsupprisingly)

djsmiley2k

4:45 PM

so it has this built in caching to disk mechnism, that I can't make work now :/

Daniel

5:30 PM

*after almost a year in exile, Daniel himself returns to SuperUser*

DavidPostill

@Daniel Wat? You last asked a question on Nov 9 '16, that'snowhere near a year! :)

Daniel

I haven't been active hardly at all though

DavidPostill

@Daniel Why did you exile yourself anyway?

Daniel

I just got busy with school and work and shit

DavidPostill

Ah. OK. Welcome back ;p

Daniel

5:34 PM

Thanks XD

I'm gonna be building a new rig soon and I'm wondering if I should do i7-4790K or a Xeon...

DavidPostill

I don't know much about hardware but I'm sure some of our regulars will chime in when they are online ...

Daniel

yep

ping @Bob

DavidPostill

@Daniel and @JourneymanGeek and @Dog (but @Dog won't see my ping because he has ignored me ...)

And @allquixotic. That's most of the H/W guru regulars :)

Daniel

Also @TheBrownOne if she's still around

DavidPostill

@Daniel Never heard of her ...

Daniel

5:40 PM

Maybe I'm thinking of a different chatroom

Yeah I think she's from AskUbuntu

djsmiley2k

it's ALIVE

it takes over 850Mb to process, but it works \o/

I wish I knew hardware

but time, and keeping up with th trends, is hard

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k I used to back in the days of the IBM PC and XT machines :)

Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days - 1968

►

djsmiley2k

6:04 PM

urgh

users

randomly corrliating events to get causation

Hennes

6:21 PM

Have you tried pointing them to relevant information pages ?

djsmiley2k

lol

Mokubai

@DavidPostill Somewhat apt these days...

Every day seems to be another reason to say "Wasn't it better when..."

Hennes

All those iphones today; We never had so many neonazi's before we had those.

Slighly more relevant than global warming and the lack of pirates

My first non-working dayt is tomorrow (contract starts on the first of Feb, but this is a pre-work workday to make things go smoother).

Mokubai

6:36 PM

@Hennes I'm willing to attribute the decline of society on iProducts if you are...

Hennes

Still, I have to post this

I have very little iproduct experience. The lack of a replaceable battery is a killer for me

Burgi

7:31 PM

i think i have got a phishing email

yup its fake

Thank you for your reports. Please avoid opening the email or clicking any links https://t.co/uwFW1fCPcP

Tweeted by lbbdcouncil on January 23, 2017 at 3:45 PM

the target server is in australia

bwDraco

8:15 PM

Note7 battery fires: Two different causes from two different manufacturers

Problem had nothing to do with protection circuits or electronics. Faulty battery design and manufacturing was the cause of the fires.

Mokubai

@bwDraco Samsung hardware: perfectly good. Demanding more battery in smaller space: bad.

bwDraco

Going forward, Samsung will implement a new battery inspection process to address these issues.

Mokubai

Not entirely unexpected findings, good to know that it's attributable to manufacturing faults rather than a fundamental design problem though.

Although it being difficult to assemble without damaging the cells might be considered a design issue

Pity it cost the company so much to learn that batteries make good explosives though.

bwDraco

@Mokubai What if you drove a nail through a battery with a Paslode nailer?

Jan 19 at 6:36, by bwDraco

Shooting 8000mah Lipo Battery with Nail Gun

►

:P

Mokubai

Aye, someone linked that the other day

bwDraco

8:26 PM

...that was me

Mokubai

lol, should have read the quote

Hopefully the Note 8 comes out later this year when my upgrade comes due

djsmiley2k

@bwDraco i see a face in the flames o_O

Mokubai

@djsmiley2k it's Aslan!

djsmiley2k

I read that as 'it's Asian!' and started wondering about racial stereotyping of flames...

Mokubai

^^ @djsmiley2k made clearer.

Blog bot

8:48 PM

The Requested Operation Requires Elevation

Jess Pardue on January 23, 2017

Welcome to the Stack Overflow podcast #99 recorded Thursday, January 19 at the Stack Overflow HQ in NYC. Today's podcast is brought to you by Reverse Polish notation.

djsmiley2k

9:22 PM

got my daughters amazon fire here

and i can'#t see this otg device

tho actually it's not showing up on my other phone either, ffs

or maybe my wife didn't insert the usb key properly XD

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k lol. Always blame the other half, right? ;p

djsmiley2k

hmmmmm works on phone

but not tablet :/

or not

i'm annoyed as I had a good cable

and she let the kids bend it

and now this one don't work

do i need to do something special in android to get otg to work?

the very first time it popped up

and now it wont

ok, flash stick was too far in, ffs

Burgi

10:21 PM

i just had the weirdest dream

it involved a volcano on the south coast of england

and children swimming in the water filled caledra

it probably means i'm going mad

Psycogeek

@bwDraco i would believe that to be true. you can have 2 batteries of very equal actual original (not china overspeced) batteries, and one of them could last 2 years, and one could last 4+ . (to 80%) . they just dont age well, or puff up, which happens with Junk.

I have had batts from specific manufacturers that have lasted longer than any li-ion battery ever should. and batts bought new that were already high resistance, and (in that case) probably were shelved longer and carp too.

heck china knockoffs can even screw up a (how old school) ni-cd . I had to get china knockoffs of my old electric screwdriver. they have terrible self discharge, which can indicate a bad manufacting process, impurities or bad seperators.

I always thought that the issue with china products, was they did not Care about the americans they were sending them to. Then i watched some YousaTube videos done by a english speeking resident.
Thier Houses , dont last 6 years ???? While i might complain that a cheeply built american house might not last as long as the 30 year mortgage does. this dude was showing cheaply built china hoses that are falling apart 30 DAYS after they were built.

Bob

10:41 PM

@Mokubai Not sure it can be blamed on 'more battery in smaller space' either... S7 Edge had a higher battery capacity.

Burgi

that reminds me of a satirical joke

but i think they are banned at the moment

Bob

Though I dunno the respective densities.

And the second lot wasn't even a design issue, just poor manufacturing processes. Which sound like they could've happened regardless of capacity.

Psycogeek

what would be totally cool is if they solve this, and have better batteries put in the phones . . . before i buy one :-) burn while you learn.

<--- still remains amazed at the quality and perfection put into hard disk drives. squeesing all that data on live in microscopic ammounts over and over again for years, with all that mechanical prone to fail stuff, added to the electrical curcuits.

DavidPostill

10:57 PM

@Psycogeek Yeah, you would think batteries would be easy to get right by comparison :)

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