Root Access

1:22 PM

o.O

it is good to learn new things and new ways, it is bad to train for years with something that is assbackwards from how the rest of the planet will operate, in the case that you need to operate something normal :-)

Then ya end up being the one who keeps saying "At my last job we always did it like this" WELL YOUR NOT AT THAT JOB! :-0

ahh it is only for a chomebook, because google put out a chrome version (once) that also scrolled in reverse , they could apply it :-)

HackToHell

> Submit By: Sep 3, 2014 00:28 EDT

Final Submission: Sep 8, 2014 12:28 EDT

That means submissions start on September 3 and end on 8 right ?

Psycogeek

yes with 28minute leeway :-)

HackToHell

Then I have a decent chance of writing something good \m/

Psycogeek

And if you procrastinate you could still whip something out

what are you submitting (to:-) ?

HackToHell

1:38 PM

@Psycogeek this topcoder.com/challenge-details/30045449/…

Psycogeek

"The second payment will be made at the completion of the support period" Ahh , nice way to get it debugged too.

Journeyman Geek

TIL superuser.com/a/806148 - that dmidecode reports the actual IC socket name on your motherboard.

Oliver Salzburg

No matter how often I uncheck that box, I keep getting the notification wtf

allquixotic

Go go gadget pagefile SSD!

Journeyman Geek

o0

/me got a 1tb 2.5 inch drive for his brix today

was ~90 quid, but meh, I want the spare space.

Psycogeek

1:50 PM

@OliverSalzburg did you try and adjust it in the device item itself (for each of the devices) in the device manager in the advanced tab? Or did you want to fix the fact that it was not running correct speed?

Oh in the USB controller item itself.

Oliver Salzburg

@Psycogeek The "This device can perform faster" option pops up all the time (because the device temporarily connects to a VM). I would just expect the checkbox to do what it says it does

Psycogeek

allquixotic

@Bob must be that crazy thing that optimizes the installation... oh what was it called @_@

Psycogeek

@OliverSalzburg it is microsoft you expect what? :-) I only have that show up when something is not yet fully correct so something does need to be addressed to get it back working right.

@OliverSalzburg Oh Virtual, I see, well it is probably virtually right :-) just not really right.

allquixotic

ahh - NetOpSystems FEAD

lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/tech/2006-January/…

I wonder if the inheritor company Nosso's BitWrapper is also a GPL violation :P

Bob

2:22 PM

@allquixotic wat

@HackToHell I would interpret that as due 3rd with final deadline (+ late penalty) on 8th

"submit by"

@allquixotic ?

HackToHell

@Bob But there's no mention of a penalty

allquixotic

@Bob just turning on my work computer and 850 Pro pagefile SSD :P

@Bob you don't remember the thing that would beat drums for like 5 minutes while it claimed it was "optimizing for your system"? under the hood it was UPX decompression. lol

this was with Adobe products like 5 years ago

Bob

@allquixotic o.O

allquixotic

during the installer!

Bob

those installers took so long I never watched them

Journeyman Geek

2:27 PM

lol

I thought UPX was pretty fast tho

Bob

the only place I know of an "optimisation" stage during any installer is ngen

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek Adobe has ways of making everything slow.

Journeyman Geek

true

(back in my mispent youth, I actually tried to upx compress an entire windows install...)

well all the executables anyway

allquixotic

lol

Journeyman Geek

(it actually sorta worked if you did it on a running system....)

I think I got XP down to under 200 megs.

allquixotic

2:29 PM

just don't use it on NTOSKRNL.EXE

Journeyman Geek

then of course, I think I did it offline, while thing halted and caught fire, and I lost interest and chased a squirrel or something.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Oh, did it emit a HCF instruction?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: naw, it just died.

Its long enough that I don't remember ;p

Heya @Ale

Alejandra Garcia

hey!

Bob

I got some sushi. They gave me a fork O_O

Journeyman Geek

2:33 PM

o0

Bob

...what on earth am I meant to do with this

Alejandra Garcia

monsters!

Journeyman Geek

stab someone and steal their chopsticks?

hm, new keyboard needs some getting used to.

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek you mean they actually make more than one keyboard model usable by dogs?

Journeyman Geek

lol

this is a MK220 bundle, its a wireless keyboard

logitech.com/en-sg/product/wireless-combo-mk220

@allquixotic: clearly, we prefer mechanicals ;p

also depends on the dog, great danes are HORRIBLE typists.

I can type in the dark on my laptop, and the blackwidow

(but my BW is backlit anyway)

Its a bit plasticky and cheap but it feels acceptable, my dad 'borrowed' my nice wireless mouse, and I need them for my brix ;p

@allquixotic: as long as its not a damned chicklet keyboard

Bob

2:40 PM

how much did it cost?

Journeyman Geek

~25 dollars

RRP is 30

Bob

for some reason the Microsoft wireless 800 bundle was going for $15 a few months ago, so I grabbed one :P

it's pretty good

Journeyman Geek

;p

this is super skinny tho

Bob

but I don't actually use it, so it's just sitting spare...

Journeyman Geek

almost no trim other than the battery compartment

Bob

2:41 PM

I have too many keyboards -_-

Journeyman Geek

lol

this is for my servers

I threw out most of my really crappy ones

Bob

@JourneymanGeek bit weird to need wireless for that o.O

Journeyman Geek

I have my SGI

@Bob: home server is in a wierd place

allquixotic

I just had a scary daydream that will never, ever become reality

Alejandra Garcia

you guys know what sleep is? hahaah

allquixotic

2:42 PM

Haswell-E becomes Haswell-EM (E Mobile), ships in Surface Pro 4 with an itty bitty dGPU

Journeyman Geek

its easier for me to plug that, the screen I'm ordering once my paypal credits, and do stuff

allquixotic

2 minutes of battery life

Journeyman Geek

@AlejandraGarcia: you'd turn into a werepanda.

allquixotic

@AlejandraGarcia no, I really don't.

Bob

@allquixotic next SP better be Broadwell with Iris Pro

Journeyman Geek

2:43 PM

also, you don't need to sleep to daydream

Bob

SP3 just came out here :P

I'm not getting it

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: eh. I consider the E processors a little like a ferrari

allquixotic

@Bob that would be worth the $1750 likely price tag, personally

Journeyman Geek

They're lovely to look at but I'll never really drive one ;p

Bob

@AlejandraGarcia what sleep (it's 12:45 am :P)

allquixotic

2:44 PM

@JourneymanGeek I consider the E processors like a dumptruck... and people like us (you, me, Bob, etc) haul dirt for a living

Bob

@allquixotic and not very portable :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Alejandra Garcia

lol, where you from bob?

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: I'm pretty happy with my high/mid range processors ;p

allquixotic

@Bob right, so we haul dirt in pickup trucks -_-

inefficiently

or in the back of Priuses

Bob

2:45 PM

@AlejandraGarcia Australia

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: I tend to like my laptops like a kei car

allquixotic

Iris Pro 6200 should be superawesomefuntimes for gaming

Journeyman Geek

and my desktops are usually oldschool volvo station wagons. (and my new one is a sportier volvo ;p)

allquixotic

still !!no Star Citizen, but every other game that exists...

at least medium detail 60 fps 1080p

I'll be mad if they make SP4 1440p or higher though, because pixels == less perf

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: Integrated graphics on a gaming desktop is for testing when the DGPU is messed up ;p

Alejandra Garcia

2:46 PM

@Bob where the spiders has bar life?

Bob

ya, since I'm skipping this one, when SP4 rolls around, depend on specs, I'll g o for one of three options:
discounted SP3
SP4
none

Journeyman Geek

Its not even 11 here ;p

Oh, apparently someone where my brother worked got bitten by a python. In the chest.

Bob

@allquixotic you should be able to decrease res though

allquixotic

@Bob lol @ the "none" option

Journeyman Geek

I have no idea how that would happen ;p

Bob

2:47 PM

wouldn't be running native res anymore, but it shouldn't be too bad

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: or use it as a frontend for steam

Bob

especially on a 10-12" screen, halving it to 720 would be acceptable

allquixotic

@Bob apparently that makes a huge difference -- the benchmarks of the Haswell version of Iris Pro were screaming at 720p but basically died at 1080p; from like 58-60 fps to 10

I would be happy at 1080p but probably not 720p :P

Alejandra Garcia

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allquixotic

@AlejandraGarcia rofl

Bob

2:48 PM

@allquixotic probably not for browsing, reading, etc., but gaming? maaaaaybe

allquixotic

I didn't get the reference initially

also, jesus christ. remove element

Bob

@AlejandraGarcia it's the small ones that'll get you

Alejandra Garcia

small ones? lol

allquixotic

small spiders are deadlier

lil shits

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: actualy, I think pixel density is important for text

Also, you don't see the small ones coming.

allquixotic

2:49 PM

black widows are pretty small and not all that intimidating if you are used to seeing spiders

Alejandra Garcia

why so afraid you can have superpowers @Bob

allquixotic

the one in that pic is probably harmless :P

Journeyman Geek

Time to dance in front of Mary Jane! If I'm lucky, she'll turn out not to practice pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism!

allquixotic

we have daddy longleggers here (which are not true spiders but many people think of them that way), which are extremely poisonous, basically lethal unless you are treated right away, but they can't penetrate human skin, so you only run that risk if they get you on an open wound

Bob

@allquixotic I think it is :P

Journeyman Geek

2:51 PM

lol

we have spitting cobras

and erm... peacocks.

Bob

the long leg ones are usually huntsman spiders, which eat other spiders

allquixotic

those sorta remind me of Reapers from Mass Effect D:

well, except for the baby human reaper

look what you guys did to me! T_T I just picked up my headphones gingerly and looked all around them to check for spiders

Bob

@allquixotic waitwhat

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

the daddy long legs I know of is completely harmless to humans

Journeyman Geek

2:53 PM

Or so they want you to think

Bob

australianmuseum.net.au/daddy-long-legs-spider

> There is a persistent belief that the Daddy-long-legs Spider has the most toxic venom of all spiders. However, there is no scientific evidence to back this up. The myth probably grew from observations that the Daddy-long-legs Spider will kill and eat a Redback Spider. However, the venom is not actually that potent, even for insects.

It had been thought that the fangs of this spider were incapable of piercing human skin. Recently, however, it was shown that the tiny fangs (about 0.25 mm) were actually capable of piercing human skin in a test done on the US television show, Mythbusters, bu…

the one you really have to watch out for is the drop bear

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

@Bob oh ok. thanks mythbusters!

Journeyman Geek

some interesting questions today ^^

allquixotic

@Bob never coming to Australia

Bob

2:56 PM

@JourneymanGeek huh, I don't remember seeing that... OMG GOOMHR

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: and the alt text ;p

Psycogeek

drop bear good reason for a center post tent

AKA drop bear spindle

Bob

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jokerdino

I saw it too!

allquixotic

@Bob clearly the most versatile animal is one that can fly, swim, walk, and breathe underwater -- ducks don't have that last aspect, so the fish still has something on him

Journeyman Geek

2:59 PM

..... lol

@allquixotic: clearly someone needs to cross a flying fish with a lungfish.

Psycogeek

Proof that evolution has barely begun, and extinction still outpaces it by centuries.

Journeyman Geek

I have this installed, I'll need to get it running tommorrow

(it never ceases to amuse me I can buy a drive in a baggie)

allquixotic

Hmm

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ?

antistatic bags are pretty standard...

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: they are, its just oddly amusing to me.

Psycogeek

3:07 PM

How do i overclock my PC with my phone? It is actually comming the UEWIFI (UEFI+WIFI)

Journeyman Geek

especially since they usually have them in a small pile behind a counter

allquixotic

!!tell 17461815 no

ChatBot John Cavil

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek I enjoyed the "patented bag-in-can technology" of the saline spray I buy (soothes sinuses)

I was like: ORLY. never would've thought to put a bag in a can.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Canadian Luke

3:42 PM

Morning all

Bob

o.O ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1071

allquixotic

pretty sweet article find @Bob

Bob

I wonder if MS ever patched that.

Alejandra Garcia

Any news about sp2 for windows 7?

allquixotic

@AlejandraGarcia I figure there probably won't be one, but they'll continue to roll out incremental updates to stuff

Alejandra Garcia

3:55 PM

its a pain in the ass to up to date a fresh install...

Psycogeek

Pc techs never die , they just quit booting up one day.

allquixotic

you shouldn't really be installing Windows 7 fresh anyway

Alejandra Garcia

did you guys see the screens of the new windows 9?

allquixotic

if you're in an enterprise context, you have a disk image that you pave over the HDD with that contains the updates

if you're in a home user context, just run Windows 8.1

if you don't like the lack of a start menu, use Start8

there's NO reason to use Windows 7 at home

none

Alejandra Garcia

it seems start menu its back

allquixotic

3:57 PM

@AlejandraGarcia image not found

Alejandra Garcia

hold on

allquixotic

hotlinking is bad; use the upload feature

Alejandra Garcia

yup

Canadian Luke

clientsfromhell.net/post/96262811311/…

Alejandra Garcia

can you see this image?

Psycogeek

3:59 PM

@allquixotic I have seen a few, more software again obsoleted by the OS update, even though it is basically the same thing. some older games that people cant get working, and i am sure there is some hardware that will also have to be replaced. Never say never until your investment in the OS is teeny tiny compared to your investment in everything that worked in it.

Canadian Luke

Looks like the 12-year-old's Windows 8.2 mock up

allquixotic

@AlejandraGarcia yup

Alejandra Garcia

basically its windows with start menu lol

jokerdino

it looks like a new skin

Alejandra Garcia

a new skin of 60 bucks lol

jokerdino

4:02 PM

skins for sale?

Bob

> Integration of generational garbage collection

o.O

in FF32

allquixotic

yaay

jokerdino

Let's not rejoice too early. They'll probably postpone it until FF50.

allquixotic

funny how all the blind Java haters hate on Java because of 2 vulnerabilities in the applet plugin that should be permanently disabled anyway, while Java has had generational GC since Java 7.0, then Mono adopted it, then V8, now FF's JS engine... go figure

Bob

@jokerdino ...it's in FF32's release notes. and I have it installed. and running. right now.

allquixotic

4:04 PM

but yeah keep hating on Java

Bob

@allquixotic Oh, I hate Java for far more than that -_-

jokerdino

Hold on, FF32 is released?

Bob

@jokerdino today

jokerdino

Ah cool then. I'll get the updates in 2 weeks time.

Bob

might be 'cause I'm stuck on Java6, but meh

I dislike .NET 2.0 almost as much.

allquixotic

4:05 PM

people who write Java programs that only run on Java 6 and won't run perfectly on Java 8 deserve to be whacked up side the head with a very heavy object

that's a developer breaking the language/runtime, not the runtime's fault

Canadian Luke

@allquixotic Google 'BCeSIS'

Will ONLY run on Java 5.14

allquixotic

as far as their TCK (which is comformant to all their formal specifications) is concerned, Java8 is 100% backwards compatible to running Java6 programs

Bob

No fancy new features here :\

@allquixotic Nono, I'm stuck developing for Java6.

allquixotic

@Bob ~~oh, ok~~ what the bloody hell

Bob

Also, I just like how C# handles some things a lot more than Java, and those are unlikely to change.

@allquixotic Hey, we might be moving to 7 soon! :P

Ever tried getting government to upgrade their servers? ohwait you probably have -_-

allquixotic

4:07 PM

@Bob you should buy your boss (or whoever made that decision) a pet sloth

it'll move about as fast as him

Bob

@allquixotic He's not the one who's holding it back :\

allquixotic

@Bob have you met the person who calls the shots? are you sure they aren't an actual sloth?

they might be typing the email authorizing you to use Java 8 as we speak

...they started composing it in 2012

which means it should be sent by 2017 or so

Bob

@allquixotic Wait, what's so special about java7 having generational GC? o.O

allquixotic

@Bob I might be mistaken; could be GGC was already present in Java6

Bob

> Beginning with the J2SE 1.2, the virtual machine incorporated a number of different garbage collection algorithms that are combined using generational collection.

HackToHell

4:12 PM

This avast is causing timeouts :/

Bob

@allquixotic yea, try about ten years earlier :P

I think .NET has had it since the 1.0 release, too

allquixotic

at some point they also implemented multithreading in the GC, which is supposed to nearly eliminate threads being blocked during GC except in programs with thousands of user threads

HackToHell

Java 7 has some kinda special garbade collection thingy for Strings.

allquixotic

even in Ruby 1.9.3 I can occasionally feel the GC blocking the GUI thread sometimes

Bob

o.O

areweslimyet.com

FF memory usage has been going up for some itme

allquixotic

4:15 PM

lol

Bob

FF and Chrome have been nexk-and-neck with Octane scores for a while: arewefastyet.com

...meanwhile, Safari is allllll the way over there in the slow corner

allquixotic

lol

Safari uses JSCore, doesn't it?

Bob

no idea

allquixotic

QtWebKit does :(

though they are looking to rebase QtWebKit under Chromium

which is slightly scary considering how heavy Chromium is

Bob

lol

@allquixotic how's pale moon working out?

allquixotic

4:19 PM

@Bob fine, though the SSD is so fast I can't tell what's in RAM and what's swapped out

I've quietly been using Chrome instead of late and it's also fine, oddly enough

much of Chrome's footprint appears to be shared across each of its processes

Chrome's biggest advantage seems to be its startup time, and new tab time

once FF is going, it's fine

Bob

Also, new caching backend in FF32: janbambas.cz/new-firefox-http-cache-enabled

lots of core changes this time

@allquixotic FF startup and new-tab are completely smooth for me, assuming I have under 50 tabs loaded

above that, it lags a bit :P

allquixotic

Pale Moon needs to rebase

but they don't want Aurora, so wtf

Bob

huh, some cert store changes: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/…

> CN = Certification Authority of WoSign

SHA1 Fingerprint: B9:42:94:BF:91:EA:8F:B6:4B:E6:10:97:C7:FB:00:13:59:B6:76:CB

CN = CA 沃通根证书

SHA1 Fingerprint: 16:32:47:8D:89:F9:21:3A:92:00:85:63:F5:A4:A7:D3:12:40:8A:D6

uhhhhhhhhh

> WoSign is a privately-owned CA in China which issues certificates to the
general public. WoSign started their CA business in 2006 as a SubCA of
Comodo. WoSign setup its own root CA in 2009 and started to issue
certificates in 2011 under this root CA that cross-signed with a
Startcom CA. WoSign has issued thousands of certificates to customers in
China. WoSign SSL certificates are deployed in top 10 eCommerce websites
in China; for bank, telecom, enterprise etc., and most software
developers in China choose WoSign certificate since it supports Chinese.

groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security.policy/…

allquixotic

@Bob I have absolutely no doubt that 沃通根证书 is completely uninterested in helping Chinese "companies" forge certs for the purpose of malicious attacks ;-D

Bob

was added to Chrome at some point, too: code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=265799

@allquixotic That's also WoSign

> Vibration API updated to latest W3C spec

oh, so now websites can cause phone vibration? uh-huh.

allquixotic

4:28 PM

what's next? PutinCA? NS(C)A?

@Bob that would never be used to startle you and get your attention to an advertisement. never!

"YOUR PHONE HAS BEEN HACKED! THAT'S WHY IT'S VIBRATING! INSTALL THIS APP TO FIX IT!"

Bob

@allquixotic Most American CAs might as well be NS(C)A

> Assistive technologies may cause performance issues on Windows XP

heh.

allquixotic

> Windows XP

I thought they stopped supporting that?

or was that Chrome

Bob

O_O microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36512

@allquixotic FF32 still supports XP SP2

allquixotic

@Bob wow

Bob

> Recommended Hardware

Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2
512MB of RAM
200MB of hard drive space

heh.

allquixotic

4:32 PM

@Bob Pale Moon basically switches that to required hardware.

Bob

looks like FF 13.0 dropped Win2k

allquixotic

such tragedy

Bob

so it dropped Win2k ~2 years after MS EoL'd it

expect to see XP dropped around 2016?

though, it was far more popular than Win2k...

allquixotic

people still like Win2k because it doesn't validate serial numbers with a server :D just find any serial number that's ever been valid, and bam

Bob

LOL

FF added support for public key pinning in this update, too

allquixotic

4:35 PM

LOL?

Bob

rather coincidental, no? :P

allquixotic

coinciwhat?

Alejandra Garcia

update: whatsapp will mark the message as read in the next update lol

Bob

@allquixotic adds certain new CA + adds support for public key pinning

allquixotic

@Bob ahh

"we won't add this super untrustworthy CA until PKP is implemented"?

you reckon? :P

Bob

4:38 PM

incidentally, wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/…

if you change security.cert_pinning.enforcement_level to 2, you can block company MITM :P

that's assuming you can't just remove the cert, of course

allquixotic

@Bob yaaaay!!! woohoohooooo!!! *does the blobby cloud person dance*

that's actually a perfectly appropriate cartoon for this situation.

"Life is GOOD!
Yaaaay!!!!"

Bob

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Q: Why are gaming graphics not as beautiful as animated movies?

I remember watching the Tomb Raider pre-rendered trailer, and wished those graphics could be in the game itself. Why there is such a big difference between the trailer and the actual game? I understand the game is a completely different concept, it has different pipeline, it has to go through di...

allquixotic

@Bob duh!

Bob

"why can't my single piddly GPU render in real-time at >= 60 FPS what movies render with huge server farms with as much time as they need at under half the framerate, without sacrificing quality?"

allquixotic

@Bob lol

I think it would actually be pretty cool to see a technology developed that does pre-rendering for non-interactive scenes, though. like, you could (1) make cutscenes look amazing, and (2) not have to ship gigabytes of video, just the relatively smaller component textures and meshes and stuff, and display a little loading bar while the GPU "buffers" a bunch of finished frames

basically something in the middle of "server farm taking hours" and "can render the frame in 6 ms"

even if it can chunk out, say, 10 FPS, for a 2 minute cutscene you could start pre-rendering, then once you reach the crossover point where you can finish pre-rendering while the cutscene plays (like a video buffering on the internet), you can start playing back frames, which is just taking the pixels and dumping them onto the framebuffer

so you could display visual fidelity that would normally yield you 10 FPS, but at smooth 60 FPS

doesn't work if the user interacts with it in any way (aside from moving the mouse cursor which can be added in easily)

Bob

4:46 PM

@allquixotic but the waiting time...

shipping gigabytes of video is probably preferable to most people

allquixotic

@Bob maybe even start pre-rendering while you're playing the game, if your regular game is sufficiently low-end that it can do the real-time crap and have a few cycles left over

Bob

@allquixotic if your regular game is that low-end, I don't think cutscene quality will matter too much :P

allquixotic

or just have a long install time and tell people to come back tomorrow, and overnight you do all the in-engine prerenders out to disk

Bob

hm

allquixotic

the thing is, you could use the same super high-res textures for the cutscenes that people with dual GTX TITAN Zs can use in real-time, but even if your GPU is a single GTX 480 or something that has to play on "Medium" or "Low" detail normally, the cutscenes would still look awesome

and not have to download 5 GB of videos

honestly, even the video route is pretty awful as far as quality is concerned

1080p H264 at certain bitrate/quality targets is still pretty muddled (in the colors and the way you occasionally get squares and stuff when the scene changes dramatically, etc)

losslessly compressed rendered frames that were rendered in-engine to an offscreen surface or ray traced using OpenCL would look better than lossily compressed video, and would look about the same as you would expect to get with the highest-end available dual GPU solution on the market, but would still play at 60 FPS no matter how low-end your GPU is

you'd just need, as I said, an overnight installer "optimization" routine

Bob

4:53 PM

@allquixotic we'd be happy to do that, but many others won't

allquixotic

some games, such as Star Wars: The Old Republic, already enable additional graphics eye candy that is usually disabled, during cutscenes, because they remove all characters from the world that aren't directly involved in the convo, so they can control the number of draw commands

it enables an awesome Depth of Field effect and some advanced SSAO, while carefully being performance tuned to not drop much below 60 fps on a single-GPU high-end card.

if you enabled the same in the "regular" game, the FPS would tank because you can have 50 or 60 characters on the screen at a time sometimes

they might also enable triple buffering temporarily, not sure (that would smooth out the framerate, and input responsiveness is irrelevant during cutscenes)

damryfbfnetsi again:

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Q: Blacklist the company tags

The company tags are obviously meta tags, and there has been countless attempts to remove them before. However, even if those attempts go through successfully, those tags just keep being recreated and resurrected. I suggest that we put a stop to them altogether. By adding them to the blacklist, ...

support tags blacklist

Bob

5:24 PM

hm

is it just me or is SE really slow right now?

oh it's better now

allquixotic

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Q: Not able to copy my file 1 hdd to anther

hiiiii i have 2 harddisk in my pc of 160 gb and320 gb my os is installed on 160 gb hardisk . and it is working properly and another hard disk is showing in my computer an my some data are saved here but i am not able to copy my data from 320 gb hardisk to 160 gb hard disk or in any removal devic...

windows-7

@JourneymanGeek hiiiiiii i just keep talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt; it was really quite hypnotic

Bob

o.O

allquixotic

> mohan

in the user's name

is that your alter ego? :P

...on second thought, pup is probably napping in his doghouse by now

ears down and all

jokerdino

5:42 PM

If you ping him, his phone buzzes.

allquixotic

really? @_@

I don't want to ping him then :( I'll let the old dog sleep

jokerdino

@allquixotic He described his setup somewhere. Let me see..

Bob

5:57 PM

hm

I just thought of a really convoluted way to do that

allquixotic

Who did? @J ... er... ah... nevermind :S

Bob

use a modified chatbot to listen for mentions of my name, send a request to a local webserver, that request executes a cgi script that sends an email to me which will trigger a notification on my phone

hm... nah, not worth it :P

allquixotic

@Bob Rube Goldberg

Bob

lol

@allquixotic no chat api :\

allquixotic

won't the SE mobile app buzz when you get a ping tho?

Bob

5:59 PM

it'd be easier if I could skip the chatbot/webserver step

webserver step could be skipped by running the chatbot on phantomjs

chatbot step... eh, cbf figuring out the auth and protocol

@allquixotic I don't use that app

jokerdino

I can't seem to find it. But here was the context. Journeyman was up early, he said someone mentioned his name, phone buzzed and he was in chat soon-ish.

And then he went on to tell about his setup, think it used a firefox extension like bullet?

Mokubai

6:16 PM

@allquixotic It does. And it's vaguely annoying. I get notifications for every meta post as well now.

jokerdino

Mod diamonds with benefits.

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