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10:01 AM

@Hennes Hello. What glue bonds polyethylene?

ugh. That is that white stuff with the horrible noise?

None?
use hot-welding or mechanical fasteners?

@Hennes Actually it's language keyboard stickable and transparent character tags. I have English keyboard by default but I need multilingual capability as well.

1 tag came off and won't stick back.

Q: Recover from failed recovery of software RAID5 failure

Glue on plastic does not often work well. The solvents could be a problem (either as in not working well as with polyethylene) or by dissolving the keys.

Not sure how you would properly solve that without risking a keyboard and a few spare tags

What is wrong with this post that it seems to attract vultures posting links to commercial solutions?

I have the pleasure ;-) to have been handed the task to try to get data off a server that had a RAID5 array problem and a failed attempt to recover it. Background: the computer in question is some server from IBM with a 6-port SATA2 backplane. Four identical harddrives with 1 TB each are attache...

10:16 AM

its software recovery

and there's one specific, very persistant vulture I just booted

11:06 AM

@Hennes Gum.

Re New feed item: We should send them to the dark side. They have cookies.

Aug 19 at 19:02, by Bob

Yup. Got that one in my _stuff folder with various stuff :)

Right next to a picture with the shirt I own (the traditional come to the dark side, we have cookies shirt)

11:34 AM

laughingsquid.com/… 0_0

12:16 PM

Q: Golden strip of RAM broke

I have a 4 GB transcend DDR3 RAM which was working fine until now. The golden strips at the bottom of RAM got removed while installing it on motherboard. Is there any solution for this or do I have to throw it away?

memory

I wonder how that even happens

12:29 PM

@JourneymanGeek The same way this happens.

@Bob: he's mucked up a SINGLE trace

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2:35 PM

sigh

Ethical dilemmas.

@JourneymanGeek Hm?

One of my questions is facing close votes for overbroadness. I don't think its overbroad, and its a useful troubleshooting guide for a clear, plausible issue ;p

I can, of course just invalidate the VTC in the review queue (which I've been trying to trim down) ;p

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IT WAS AN AUDIT ><

(0 upvotes, but I know someone upvoted it.)

ethical dilemma solved ;p

@JourneymanGeek ... ... ... welp.

should change audits do you can't get any question you've interacted with directly (edit, answer, asked, maybe commented/voted)

So, patent has validity for 20 years or up to as soon as it's validity is challenged? corkscrewnet.com/EllisCsinCourt.htm

2:46 PM

Windows probably won't boot from external drive at all, it's possible with Linux though. This discussion is went off-topic, but it could be a good question, consider asking it. — gronostaj 3 hours ago

lol

Its incorrect that windows won't from an external drive. Esata is external too, and should work. There was also an old hack that let you usb boot XP, and various PE environment setups that worked reasonably well.

3:33 PM

I should really update my computer, GNU Octave has been compiling for the past 20 mins ._.

lol

20 mins is nothing for compilation -_-

well, depends how complex Octave is

The source is ~70 mb

So I kinda expected a 5-10 mins compile time

It finally stopped compiling at the folder is 3 gigs now o_0

Can I delete that folder after doing a make install ?

Or are the contents simply symlinked

3:55 PM

you can delete it

I'd suggest checkinstall over make install

(it creates a package, so its easier to uninstall if need be)

4:18 PM

okay

Q: Can I use a ethernet splitter to connect a router to two devices?

@_@

I have a portable mini wireless router with different functions (AP/Client/Router). Can I use a ethernet splitter to give internet access to two devices? The router only has a ethernet port and connects to a wireless network (Cliente mode). I know that a switch would be the best option but I do...

networking router ethernet switch splitter

allquixotic

@Bob sure! :D

@allquixotic Sure, it'll connect (physically). Getting them to communicate, on the other hand... :P

4:45 PM

VTC'ed as duplicate after writing an answer.

I guess I should have know it was asked before

5:26 PM

O_O support.microsoft.com/kb/2908279

> Mouse pointer stutters or freezes when you play certain games in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2

!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

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7:17 PM

@Bob Hey! I'm looking over the import/export PR, it's really nice

There're some stuff I'd do differently, do you mind if I just go ahead and mangle it up, or would you like a "CR" of sorts so you can do it?

@Zirak Oh, go ahead and mangle it :P

puts on the bear claws

@Zirak I'm curious to know what you'd change, though. Not very JS-experienced here (even if that's technically my day job -_____-)

@Zirak Noooo! Not the claws!

@Bob Well for one your use of a synchronous XHR made me sad

But I intend to move all the memory-handling logic (the actual export/import) into bot.memory, which should be moved to its own file already, and have the commands just call that

@Zirak ...yea, I couldn't be bothered figuring out delayed bot responses at the time. Probably should've peeked at one of the other commands.

The other thing is the requirement for a manual bot restart to get it to load the updated memory. Haven't looked at that either.

7:28 PM

The latter can be fixed by overriding properties inside bot.memory.data instead of the whole thing

@Zirak But would that, for example, clear old commands from the dictionary?

AFAICT, that's a "no".

Correct, it won't do that. But we have the technology.

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