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12:52 AM
huh... TIL (from SuperUser): when you dd on MacOS, use /dev/rdisk* not /dev/disk* and bs=1m or larger
difference between 1 MiB/s to 135 MiB/s
 
Bob
1:03 AM
o.O
@allquixotic Difference being?
 
1:15 AM
@Bob buffering.
are the W10 creators edition ISOs UEFI-only?!
they absolutely refuse to boot on my dad's BIOS-only X58
3 different USB devices, 2 different USB root host controllers (one USB 3.0, one USB 2.0)
 
Bob
@allquixotic ah
 
not as far as I know
 
1:37 AM
oh
@allquixotic also, I make my install disks with rufus
and that has options for making a disk for bios based systems. Might help, I donno
 
rufus rufus rufus rufus
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek no MCT?
 
@Bob I do not drink hipster swill.
I drink my coffee the way of my ancestors with the skulls of my vanquished foes with milk and sugar.
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek ...isn't rufus, as an unofficial tool, more hipster-ish?
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Q: Would Windows 7 run faster than Windows XP on an old notebook?

Adrian GrantI have a notebook that has an Intel Atom N270 CPU on board with 1.6GHz and 898MB of RAM. It runs on Windows XP Home Edition and is slower than a slug. Would it perform better if I flattened it and installed Windows 7? I am not technical, so an answer with easier words would be appreciated.

l.o.l.
 
@Bob I mostly use if for linux and it works
all the time
 
Bob
2:09 AM
@JourneymanGeek soooo, online just randomly adds servers through the day and night :S
at least that's what my alerts tell me!
 
@Bob My guess is its as people cancel them and they get processed ;p
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek I can get a SATA (HDD) one now or wait for SSD... decisions, decisions :P
 
lol
Not sure the SSD's a big advantage here
You're not really going to worry about boot times or latency on a remote system
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek ya, but if I'm gonna mess around with containers then HDDs can thrash a bit
 
unless yer going to chuck a bigass database on it
 
Bob
2:14 AM
@JourneymanGeek heh, lemme know if you ever want this alert script
(or if you ever find the site you mentioned)
 
lol
I'm not looking at upgrading till I get a hob.
Then I'll be busy, lol
 
wow, Minishift for openshift is pretty awesome as a dev platform
 
heh. My dad's way of deciding on stuff is pretty scary ._.
(he's looking at car options. Which seems to be "Could you dig up how much <car I saw on the road> costs?)
I'm not even sure he has a clear idea on what he actually wants/needs
 
@JourneymanGeek do we have the same dad?
 
@allquixotic >_> Maybe you're my brother from another all the things ;p
I kinda am trying to push him towards the PHEV version of mitsubishicars.com.sg/car-models/outlander.html (but it seems not out here yet) and he's looking at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_HR-V now
He was looking at honda.com.sg/cars/mobilio.htm before
 
2:31 AM
@JourneymanGeek Do you know if bias lighting should be white, or just bright?
 
what's his criteria for picking a car? and what's yours?
 
@MichaelFrank I prefer bright white
@allquixotic I don't know his criteria
 
if I could suggest a car now for fuel efficient driving it'd be the Prius C (Yaris Hybrid) or the Hyundai Ioniq
 
My criteria is.. dog friendlyness. Needs to fit at least 4 reasonably large adults.
 
I drive a 2017 Prius C. They're the best.
 
2:32 AM
@MichaelFrank oh really, I drive a 2015 :P
 
Its mostly going to be doing city driving. Dad mentioned wanting a 7 seater in case.
Giant boot would be nice.
 
2015 Prius C Two
 
I had a 2013 (I think), but the lease ran out so work gave me a brand new one.
 
My dad currently drives a volvo s60 from... 2007 I think
 
2:33 AM
wow. I don't do leases; I have it financed to own
 
It's a company car, so we have 3 year leases on them.
 
er. no, 8 years
2009
 
lucky
I don't get a company car
 
Yea, since I don't actually own a car myself. :P
 
and I put on a lot of miles for work that I can't claim as travel
 
2:33 AM
funny thing is on any new car possibility I need to check the armrest height and armrest to window height... for the roomie.
2
 
@JourneymanGeek for baroo to stick head out window?
 
He's 12. Even considering the oddities of singapore car ownership...
@allquixotic not out, but he needs to look out ;p
 
LOL
 
and while its not 'safe'. he loves riding shotgun on someone's lap ;p
 
roar
Engadget disclaimer at the end of articles mentioning Verizon or related companies is funny:
> Verizon owns AOL, Engadget's parent company. However, Engadget maintains full editorial control, and Verizon will have to pry it from our cold, dead hands.
 
Bob
2:39 AM
@MichaelFrank RGB would let you pick something redder at night
 
RGB is fine, but somewhat pricier - I was toying with doing it with the ikea one
and you can buy decent, premade kits for not much money. Just won't be as bright as my slightly crazy setup
 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA COMPUTERS ARE CRAZY AND IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND
So I was using the same laptop I use everyday
The only "modification" I made was connect a second screen on the HDMI port.
 
and it caught fire?
 
As I have done I have many, many, many times before; but this time it was a 17" VGA laptop with a HDMI to VGA converter, instead of my living room TV and a proper HDMI cable.
@JourneymanGeek Makes as much sense as spontaneously combusting.
You won't believe what happened next!
I was using my "new" dual screen display for a few hours, and rebooted.
It wouldn't start Xorg, the boot messages would stop at "starting session for user ID nnn"
CTRL + ALT + Fn would change to a text TTY, but after a few seconds it would "hop" to a different TTY
There were some weird ACPI error messages
I removed the power cable and battery, pressed shutdown for 30 seconds, nothing.
I booted Windows to see if my hardware was borked and it would bluescreen... No issues there. Windows is fine. Huh.
I rebooted into Linux and... The shameless motherfucker is like "error? what error everything is fine and we've always been at war with eurasia"
 
2:56 AM
lol
 
Possibility 1) There's some sort of hardware registry-like storage that got "stuck" and Windows "unstuck" it.
 
gremlins
 
x sometimes does strange things
 
Possibility 2: Tinfoil hats and Tethans
 
2:57 AM
oh
@allquixotic another thing I'd like. Aircon vents at the back at dog nose height.
Roomie uses them to navigate by smell ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek At this point I don't even care if it kernel panics at Feb 29 if it's a friday, but only if I'm wearing kaki pants and I've talked to a girl named Anna two days before.
 
What I care is I HAVE REBOOTED, YOU M@#$@%#, WHY U NO WORK
and then I HAVE CHANGED NOTHING YOU #$%@#%$ WHY U NOW WORK
I don't want to feel like a regular non-geek user, it's frustrating. I want to be in control!
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy solar ducking flares.
 
@JourneymanGeek Emacs butterflies.
Why there are ducks in the sun?
 
3:10 AM
Because I need to set a good example, and use fowl rather than foul language.
 
3:57 AM
@allq: Has LTE performance noticeably changed over the last several months?
 
4:09 AM
 
4:49 AM
>_>
 
 
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Bob
6:06 AM
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Q: How to measure 10000A DC?

JuliaWhat is the standard way to measure a current of about 10000 A? DC clamp meters seem to have only scales up to 2000 A.

"From a safe, respectful distance"? — duskwuff 10 hours ago
Place a compass about 10 feet away. — analogsystemsrf 1 hour ago
 
hello
XD
I'd say putting the 2 leads of a voltmeter in short circuit and measuring the voltage would work.
 
"would work"
would also likely melt.
 
voltmeter
 
right. You do realise those things have maximum current ratings too right?
and 10 KA is crazy
 
6:14 AM
they probably have a shielding to dim it a little.
 
lol whut?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek I think 10kA over a ~20 AWG cable jumps from melt, straight past vaporise, to explode
 
@Bob Yeah, I considered that
amusingly, I think that's what the shunts do
 
Bob
Well, it does depend on voltage. But I doubt that's particularly low :P
 
Bob
6:16 AM
@JourneymanGeek Yea but that'd be more like 000000000 AWG :P
85
Q: Why is 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 treated so strangely in Swift strings?

Ben LeggieroI must start out by saying that I know how strange "👩‍👩‍👧‍👦" is (family with two women, one girl, and one boy). This is encoded as such: U+1F469 WOMAN, ‍U+200D ZWJ, U+1F469 WOMAN, U+200D ZWJ, U+1F467 GIRL, U+200D ZWJ, U+1F466 BOY So it's very interestingly-encoded; the perfect target for a ...

 
I mean both leads together, they never touch 10kA
 
what exactly would they measure then?
 
the induced current in the voltmeter cable.
well, it's not the standard way x)
 
well, mistake, you should still use an ammeter. (with leads coupled together.)
 
6:26 AM
....
Not sure if trolling or likely to roast themselves by accident
 
if my calculations are correct, it's only about 11.2 times the magnetic field of the earth at the pole.
at 3 meters
(6.5 gauss)
> if my calculations are correct.
famous last words.
 
almost as famous as AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
 
6:47 AM
I'm pretty sure at 10m it would be fine.
worst case, you burn a 5 bucks ammeter.
 
Anything insulting I'd say would burn less than that ammeter blowing up ;)
 
@JourneymanGeek ok, do it on the end of a 20 ft pole behind a blast shield.
I'm pretty sure it would only read 1 A or something like that.
 
Citation Needed
 
So apparently I don't have any good, working USB Mini cables. :/
 
7:02 AM
0_0
 
Oh, apparently this one does work. The HDD just doesn't enjoy being used in a USB 3.0 port.
 
@JourneymanGeek that should be equivalent to 1000 turns of wire at 10 amps, and I've not seen my ammeter blow near any of my audio amps, even opened.
 
7:44 AM
morning
 
morning
 
we spent over £50k getting a facebook game developed
guess how many people have played it since december?
 
close, 4
 
I woke up today to find my PC wont boot. I don't know what's wrong. There are no beeps or anything. When I switch on my CPU, it feels like its on from inside but the monitor shows nothing. I searched 'computerhope' and they provided me a list of things that would be possible error. But, nothing could help. Anybody?
 
7:56 AM
hm
 
checked the power cables?
 
> it feels like its on from inside
means nothing
 
Yes, they are uptight.
 
are fans powering up?
LEDs?
 
Yes. The lights on the cpu is on, I mean. yeah.
 
7:57 AM
spam to user nuked 34s :)
 
dosen't count if its smokey affected ;p
 
Could there be an issue with CMOS Battery?
 
@JourneymanGeek I saw the smokey report, cast the master flag on the post and nuked the user
 
@AnimeshAshish probably not
at leas that won't stop you from booting
 
I can't flag through smokey as mods are not allowed to on their own sites.
 
8:00 AM
@DavidPostill heh. I used to catch them on the front page
 
@AnimeshAshish have you checked a different screen?
 
@AnimeshAshish from what you've said so far, I donno if you really have the skills to diagnose it ._.
(also wondering if this is a good community FAQ)
 
I see a black screen on my monitor after the CPU is switched on. It feels like the CPU is on from inside.. Yes, I have tried the other monutor. Nothing. Turns green to yellow.
 
how can you "feel" the cpu?
have you tried a different graphics card?
 
@Burgi Use those sausage things attached to your hand
 
8:02 AM
@OliverSalzburg i think i see the problem.... ;)
 
I mean the LEDs turn on. Fans work right. No beep. That's my working CPU right there.
Am I missing something?
 
are you sure you've tested the graphics fully?
 
I had an internal graphics. No graphics card per se.
The CPU, PSU and RAM is up and running. I have integrated graphics. So..
@OliverSalzburg Help. :(
 
connect up an external screen
 
8:17 AM
I tried a different monitor with the same CPU, i Said. Is that what you ask?
 
yes, and what happened?
 
Same thing. How the last montor used to behave. The CPu is on but the monitor's light turns yellow. It says 'Monitor going to sleep'
It however does not 'beeps' when I switch my RAM out too.
 
sounds terminal then
 
I'd try a different psu... Just in case
 
oops
 
8:28 AM
I will.
 
<joke> use a different motherboard, cpu, ram, and psu, it should solve it.
 
That's typically the first thing I try
 
if there's no sign at all, I ask them if the room lights work.
just in case their whole power is down.
happens sometimes x)
 
8:44 AM
So your fans are spinning but black screen?
Did you plug in the additional CPU power? ;P
And did you retrieve that one screw that slipped under your mainboard during assembly?
 
@OliverSalzburg too true.
 
8:59 AM
@OliverSalzburg this happens a lot
 
a friend of mine had ordered a pc for some guy, that guy managed to put the heatsink in the wrong way so that it hovered about 1cm over the cpu.
"my pc starts but beeps and shuts down after 10 sec."
 
9:18 AM
@satibel That's like pick up the keyboard and swap the rest or my mom's version, pull the steering wheel, replace the rest.
 
@GypsySpellweaver That is roughly my PC
It was a 2007 era Dell 530. Once.
I don't think I have any parts of it 'stock' left
 
@JourneymanGeek That was almost my plan too. Kbd and Monitor, swap the rest. Y'all got me to keep the PSU too, so that helps the budget.
 
@GypsySpellweaver the dell stock PSU was terrible
I didn't get it with a monitor or hard drive.
 
Is the case stock?
 
Its the second oldest part of the current build
 
9:26 AM
most of my spinning media will transition, as secondary space, the IDE's are going though.
 
and no, Its a cosair 600T ;)
I think the hard drive I bought for the fixed up 530 is in my old (and non functional) desktop
 
Well, I finally got my foot in the door at Security.SE. Came across a question that I actually have real experience with and could answer.
 
@JourneymanGeek I know. And you always think it doesn't happen to you. Because you're a pro ;D
 
@OliverSalzburg lol. Happened to me, pointed it out when @sathya had issues and...
 
my pc used to be an asus mobo with a core 2 duo, 4gb ddr2 and an msi gt 430 in a beige case.
 
Bob
9:38 AM
@GypsySpellweaver nice answer, but "MIT attack" => "MITM attack" (or MitM)
 
@Bob Doh! And I thought I found all the typos. :(
 
@JourneymanGeek I have a new PC build coming up soon. I wonder what new things I will not know :P
And I really wonder what that machine will be capable of
Definitely the most powerful system I ever put together
...on paper so far ;P
 
Bob
@GypsySpellweaver I think the closest you can get to DV'ing a wildcard is the assumption that if you have control over <domain> and the ability to add a (randomly generated) subdomain to <domain>... but that's difficult to automate, as you say. At least not without some kind of API to the DNS server.
You certainly can't do it by files hosted at the A record
@OliverSalzburg Depends what you're coming from and going to :P
We can pick it apart if you post the builds here :D
 
There is an alternative build on Skylake, but I'm favoring this setup
The only thing the Skylake build has going for it is the RAID0 M.2 SSD capability
 
@Bob That's the one point everyone can be sure of, if it can't be automated, LE won't do it. How they define can't might be up in the air, however.
 
9:45 AM
it had in order:
hd 6790 gpu swap
new mobo, 8gb ddr3 and phenom II 1090
hd 7970 gpu, huge case, replaced noname 500w psu with a bequiet 750w, and thermalright silver arrow heatsink.
new mobo again (itx), ssd, i5 6600k, and a node 304 case.
still "the same" pc x)
also the screen, keyboard, and mouse were changed about 3 times each.
 
Bob
@GypsySpellweaver Actually, it's not impossible. It can be trivially automated on the issuer side.
It would just require manual work for the requester, or custom bindings to popular DNS servers and registrars.
 
@Bob Even within the ACME protocol?
 
Bob
Manual work isn't unheard of; there's DNS-based validation already part of the ACME spec.
@GypsySpellweaver Yup, I see it as a trivial extension of the existing DNS challenge: serverfault.com/questions/750902/…
And the bindings to the specific servers would be an implementation detail (just as the whole cron/schedtask and apache/nginx/etc. stuff are all implementation-specific)
There's probably some reason this wouldn't be quite so smooth, and more analysis of the consequences would be necessary.
 
vin
Hi, I use Windows 7 with SP1 and AVG just told me it has quarantined DelRegInfo.exe. What is this file? I was unable to find answer on google. FYI, I was installing RGK viewer, RGK being Russian geometric kernel, something to do with CAD rgkernel.com/what-is-rgk.html.
 
Bob
But I think if you can prove that you are able to create, say, <random>.example.com, and maybe in addition add <random> as a TXT record on example.com, you've probably proven enough control over the domain to be given a wildcard cert
Adding the TXT record would prevent this being used on TLDs and other domain registration services where people can pick a subdomain name
@vin If it's part of a software package you're trying to install, then you need to decide whether you trust that package as a whole.
@OliverSalzburg You probably don't need the paste; I think that cooler comes with it :P
 
vin
10:00 AM
@Bob Ok. I asked because I thought it might be some OS utility being replaced by the application. Thanks.
 
Bob
@vin Do you know what path AVG found it in?
AFAIK there's no Windows/Microsoft util by that name.
There's reg.exe, which has deletion commands...
 
@Bob Sure, let me save the $2 and risk not having any when I put the system together
 
Bob
lol
 
;)
That was my reasoning anyway
 
@OliverSalzburg suggestion: get a mini atx mobo and case if you plan on moving your pc.
 
vin
10:11 AM
@Bob I checked the log. It says c:\program files\RGK Viewer 1.0 x64\... So I guess it is not part of OS.
 
Bob
Probably not :P
So now it's just up to you to decide how much you trust RGK Viewer
@satibel suggestion: get a macro atx mobo and case if you plan on working on your pc
(well, eatx)
tradeoffs, tradeoffs...
unless you don't have enough space, or need to move it weekly, a smaller case might do more harm than good
 
my pc looks kinda like that.
 
vin
@Bob I uninstalled it immediately. Seemed like a legit source though. Now I am not sure what other spywares lurk, so would have to reformat the disc etc. :)
 
Bob
@vin false positives are a thing, but it can be hard to tell sometimes
 
@vin, that's why you install new stuff on a vm first.
 
10:16 AM
@satibel I don't. And I specifically picked this board and case for their capabilities
There aren't many miniATX workstation boards, I think
 
you need that many pcie slots?
 
vin
@satibel The source seemed legit, so didn't expect this to happen. It could be a false positive as @bob says. Anyway, I will contact them to check what its all about.
 
@satibel Those are actually not that interesting to me. It's more the overall feature set and available interfaces. Also the promise of higher quality. And the simple fact that the choices are much more limited for Broadwell-E, compared to Skylake or other consumer lines
And given the age of the platform, the features of the board are really a bit dated in comparison to latest gen products
So picking something smaller or cheaper or whatever is likely to bring even less
But I'm up for suggestions :)
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg Wait for Skylake-E :P
Hopefully also a nice price drop to counter Ryzen
speaking of, you could also go for Ryzen if that's your thing
 
@Bob I wish. But that is likely to be too expensive for my budget
@Bob It's not
I'm an Intel fanboy
But I was a bit shocked to learn that the -E don't even come with a GPU
Or without that feature unlock or however they do it
And I don't even understand why I care so much about those HD Graphics. It's not like I ever use them. But I still feel like I'm being ripped off!
 
10:34 AM
lol
 
the Asus X99-M WS seems like a good alternative in the micro atx size.
 
@OliverSalzburg I like em as a backup in case my GPU dies
But in most situations its a ton of processor space that we're not really using at all
 
if you are using a vertical case.
 
@satibel The full-size has more of everything. Especially 8 DIMM slots, which is where I want to put all that sweet memory in the future ;D
 
those 128gb ? :p
how many vms do you want to run?
you might want to check the clearence on the heatsink too ^^
and
also, why this processor specifically?
 

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