Root Access - 2014-11-25

« first day (1572 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (3438 days later) »

12:18 AM

@JourneymanGeek have you looked at a full HTML report from the power thing in win7 ? >Powercfg -energy -output Somefilename.html , at the bottom there seems to be some of the "state" info, like S1 s2 s3 ? tons of "other" data, but not really a "this monitor is off", but then again :-) my monitor is on . I know a little about states, and they areally are not about monitors, but cpu and standby states.

Probably more like getting that info from the GPU card and that array of stuff , somehow would be the only thing that really knows.

It is easier to know if a screen saver :-) is running.

For those 2 people who still use screensavers , ever since standby was a way better choice.

12:37 AM

weird things a person could derive from the GPU: AMD/ATI locks the video memory high when 2 monitors are on, that info seems to be easily discovered, along with GPU load, and fan speed and all, some assumptions could be made about the screen standby state, based on hardware info from the gpu. On known entities, when using an aero interface.

the DWM.exe (desktop windows manager) process, which has something to do with the aero and themes stuff, is so Booorrring :-) it would only reveal information about the state it was in, in tenths of percents of CPU usage.

1:11 AM

Just FYI, this site has only existed publicly since 2009, so you're probably confusing it with another site if you've been using it since 2004. — heavyd 6 mins ago

No relevance to the current conversation, I just thought it was awesome, given the question context

Journeyman Geek

lol

And if he's been since 2-3 years before the network started....

1:28 AM

You guys are referring to dog years :-)

1:58 AM

Anyone going to watch the Ferguson verdict?

only if it helps to know how many bars i need to put on the windows :-)

There are already tons of people in the streets.. I feel like this will end worse than the previous riots

wgntv.com/2014/11/24/… ahh they are all sane, and just want proper justice

user image

Journeyman Geek

dude's clearly centauri.

2:23 AM

> people in crowd with gas masks

"lol gonna protest peacefully"

My Starbucks Gold card just came in today

Was reading random stuff and ran into this: espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/7967064/…

This is funny: Ochocinco (now Chad Johnson) loses wallet and iPod in car break-in, but gets angry about losing his Starbucks Gold card above all else

He got his wallet back, but it was missing the card

Fortunately, Starbucks promptly sent him a replacement

I know this was more than two years ago, but I find it a bit silly and funny for a sports star to vent like this over a coffee card

Sure, it takes a good deal of time and money to hit Starbucks Gold, but it still sounds rather silly

user image

@iKlsR, was something flagged?

2:42 AM

@DragonLord Yes, i'm here to ban you

:p

;)

Unfamiliar faces...

Mods from communities I've never been in

I just hit rejoin all, I get this like everytime I join the bridge

Is this one of your favorited rooms?

2:44 AM

yep

3:04 AM

"The Thief Will See This" http://twitvid.com/XURVH

Tweeted by ochocinco on May 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM

Crazy I found my wallet using (Social Media) Unreal how powerful this site is, they left I.D. n credit card but stole my Starbucks card WTF

Tweeted by ochocinco on May 23, 2012 at 4:04 PM

@ochocinco what a bummer! We gotcha your back... and we'll send ya a new card ;-)

Tweeted by Starbucks on May 23, 2012 at 5:42 PM in reply to ochocinco

Journeyman Geek

lol

@DragonLord: Well as SE expands...

and we're essentially the lowest common denominator between sites

SU is a catchall for computer-related questions that don't go elsewhere

You're right

@JourneymanGeek: venting over a coffee card... ;p

Journeyman Geek

lol

lol

Journeyman Geek

Beats me, I only have fancy coffee socially.

I tend to prefer the home made stuff, indian style ;p

3:14 AM

I'm sipping a cup of Gevalia French Roast as I type this

Simple drip-brewed coffee

Journeyman Geek

We tend to get this stuff narasuscoffee.in (god knows what is with the zombie-office worker stock art)

@JourneymanGeek best eva

Journeyman Geek

Prepared en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_filter_coffee?oldformat=true kinda like this

but none of that chicory garbage

@JourneymanGeek heeeeeeeeeeeeey

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: XD. We're snobs. Also, apparently gives my granma headaches.

3:16 AM

ah

Journeyman Geek

(That's the great schism in coffee in india ;p)

Besides, I'm bramin. Coffee is our other religion, and one most of us take even more seriously

@Hennes Nope.

Can't wait until the next election

I'm not in a mood to do the (review) rounds today, though

I'm tied up with academics

Journeyman Geek

lol

I probably can/should catch up

Now that interview tension is gone ;p

@JourneymanGeek Not as amusing as some of their other vids but still not bad :P

3:26 AM

At least I still caught a spammer

41 3

microsoft-excel microsoft-excel-2007 microsoft-office microsoft-office-2010 microsoft-word-2003 sql tabs

Journeyman Geek

sigh

Found this through the 10k tools, looking at one of the recently protected questions

Journeyman Geek

Mod messaged, not suspended.

I kinda like his answers, but yeah, all his answers are for his app

@JourneymanGeek Spammy, yet reasonable quality

It's these borderline cases that always trip me up

Do I flag all of the user's posts as spam, or raise a mod attention flag instead?

The choice is pretty clear for users who post low-quality spam answers, but it's less obvious for these sorts of cases

@JourneymanGeek, your take?

I remember the old "please flag with care" boxes...

Journeyman Geek

3:50 AM

Depends. Single spam flag will do in this case

LQ answers... flag em all

@JourneymanGeek I suppose you'll just let the community judge on these flags

Journeyman Geek

Pretty much

@BenRichards: alas they missed out many of the greatest singaporean foods

Masala Dosa is kind of the "If we have no idea what someone will like/can eat..." food

(and usually people end up addicted to it)

Durians are always a blast.

@JourneymanGeek These are often love-hate relationships

Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord: Takes a brave man/woman/dog to even try it ;p

Some love the taste, others hate the smell

Journeyman Geek

3:58 AM

I'm both ;p

4:17 AM

@DragonLord free ? as in baitware, or as in shareware, but no intention to be a freeforall utilities this is a business.

the business is doing marketing, while it fits right in, if users had found that to be the thing to use or buy , they would say so. in fact a real free utility gets more free advertising than any business could spam.

The users rep does not add-up either, why because 1upvote and 1 downvote = some rep still

(unless it was you running around downvoting him)

so according to the users themselves the vote taley for his posts are net-Zero

1 hour later…

5:42 AM

0

Q: More RAM = increased lifespan of computer?

Does installing additional RAM increase the potential lifetime of a computer? For example, if approximately 100% of a computer's RAM is used on a daily basis, does this have a "wear and tear" effect on the lifetime of a computer? Would upgrading more RAM be less "stressful" on the computer (and...

memory lifespan

6:08 AM

@karel Interesting question. I'd say "opinion based" and off topic though. More ram means less swapping, so the answer is probably "yes", but for negligible values.

According to the logical principle of Occam's razor replacing the functionality of any moving parts in the computer with solid state parts would extend the life of the computer, but applying that principle in this case while logical is also "opinion based" unless there is any objective evidence that adding more RAM would increase the potential life of the computer by more than a negligible amount, even though IMO it would extend the useful life of the computer.

That's the purpose of a razor, isn't it, it's to shave a few bits off in order to gain an incremental benefit?

Journeyman Geek

6:41 AM

occam's razer has nothing to do with that ;p

6:58 AM

Fair usage of Occam's razor according to the Wikipedia article on Occam's razor is suggested by the cover picture: Sunlight over Earth as seen by STS-29 crew -- if sci-fi has insights into technology to offer, then so does Occam's methodology of lex parsimoniae, even though it is 700 years old.

Anticipating the logical criticism to this is that it's specious -- pleasing to the eye but deceptive.

7:58 AM

Is there anyway to restore the windows keybinding to firefox instead of the ubunut ones ?

Journeyman Geek

....

ubunut?

5

@jokerdino will be displeased at your insolence, knave.

6

;p

oi!

Journeyman Geek

I HAVE SUMMONED THE SHORT ARMS OF THE LAW!

6

lol

8:10 AM

Oh noes

Please don't call a air striken

Journeyman Geek

8:22 AM

Yanno, there's days I don't feel like getting out of bed...

and..

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2846228/…

8:40 AM

> dailymail

Is that even worth clicking on?

Journeyman Geek

For once? Yeah

i don't know but it melts the hardest of hearts

That was on reddit earlier

9:28 AM

gypsius.tumblr.com/post/63003867802/…

> You May be a Starbucks Barista (or Former Barista) If…

> … the phrase “half-caf triple venti two pump sugar-free hazelnut one percent extra hot no whip three Splenda mocha” makes perfect sense to you - and you’re automatically thinking that you need to start steaming two pitchers of milk.

Cup     Venti (20 oz)
Decaf   1/2
Shots   3
Syrup   2pSFH
Milk    1%
Custom  XH / -WC- / 3SP
Drink   M

(WC is crossed out as written on the cup)

Once again, I don't work at Starbucks

Why do people make such insane orders?

I didn't have much trouble interpreting the order, but why?

Are these customers just being smart alecks?

9:53 AM

...sigh

10:12 AM

Alright, succeeded in changing the tumbleweed command to use i.stack.imgur.com.

The command previously used an image at i.imgur.com

@OliverSalzburg, I suppose you're just cleaning up

Oliver Salzburg

→ 17 messages moved to Trashcan

@DragonLord Correct ;)

10:39 AM

260

Q: Feedback Requested: Stack Overflow design update

As you can see, Meta.SO looks a bit different today. Over the years I've gotten a lot of requests to "redesign" Stack Overflow. I've always felt SO's site design had good usability and was very functional. However, I did and do agree, aesthetically, it could use some polish. Today's new Meta the...

discussion featured design

meta Stack Overflow also has a design update

I'm guessing it will come to Super User in 6-8 ~~weeks~~ years

Great move forward

It's about time to modernize the Trilogy site design

SO/SU/SF can look so bland compared to some of the other sites

Especially SO

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya I like it

11:24 AM

Whoa hitting empty working set brings down my RAM usage from 3.9 GB to 1 GB

12:02 PM

@Bob I have ceiling fluorescent light, or maybe it's halogen? The bulb is long and emits cool temperature light and is considered energy-saving. I have only 1 bulb because the other in second slot no longer worked so I took it out. I assume if I bought replacement I would have 2 bulbs that would provide sufficient lighting, though it would come from ceiling. The tent I got has foldable cover on top so I could fold it back to allow light inside.

@Psycogeek The further away - the less dimensional effect you say? When you shop online, do you feel product photo that has dimensional effect conveys product better helping you better evaluate product that you cannot touch physically?

@Psycogeek Yes bought this one and another one 1M of cable length smaller. I don't know if it's a cat5 or dog6 but they have very flat cable. Both fail to establish link between Dell E6420 and lenovo G560 laptops unless I set up splitter or other routing device in the middle.

Journeyman Geek

12:44 PM

Him. Both gig e?

@Boris_yo Well, if you think there needs to be more light, try adding a lamp. Better to supply more light sources than try to get the camera to capture more, since the latter sacrifices other things.

Generally, I prefer warm lighting for indoor photography. But it does depend on your subject.

1:13 PM

Morning. Could be wrong but I think help.howproblemsolution.com/669707/… is screen scraping SU - Based upon this superuser.com/questions/844790/…

Although i don't see any notice that is where the data comes from

not sure if any one cares or not, but thought I'd share it any way

:)

1:27 PM

user image

where is the cartoon from @HackToHell

@Dave I found it on reddit

Do a reverse image search

i... did... a what?

I really need to learn JS

I've just done that

JS

1:30 PM

@Dave Google Reverse Image Search Google

I came in as a dev, with C sharp and HTML and CSS, they explained HTML5 but it turned out they wanted all of that and a JS developer

That was a difficult 6 months!!

Do you know how ti works

I mean, doe sit just read the name of the file

or does it actually read the bytes and try to match against a databvase?

@Dave JS is ... hard to learn

It simply refuses to throw meaningful errors when it does throw them :/

well... yes and no

Are you using the console in Firebug or similar

That normally provides enough

although with JQuery, it often doesn't :( @HackToHell

Yeah I was using JQuery to handle some clicks and stuff

Since doing more JS, I've realising I've moved more away from JQuery to do it myself due to these types of bugs and oddities

1:38 PM

I also tried using WebSockets with node.js and atom.io

I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't connect

No fucking errors

In the end wrote a GET/POST apish thing :/

Hmmmm. I am possiblly still going to have to go down the node.js route. I admit, I'd rather not :S

:)

Bleh anything that uses Javascript sucks >.<

ha ha ha ha

well, I'm still amazed at what it can do. From a flat web to suddenly desktop like environments...

That being said, I should find a good book about it.

@Dave yeah, all the more reasons to learn it.

You can write a Windows Desktop(Metro),Windows Phone,Android,iOS(Cordava) app using JS

JS is everywhere !!!

I suppose it's the next big thing ;p

yes, definately agree. I finished reading a W8 kick start video ... thingy... and it covered that too

so a powerful languae

Although the GUI thing is very over used IMO

For example, when we leave the room, our icon falls out (from right side of screen). I guess they know this is overkill hence why they leave it off their main site :)

Journeyman Geek

1:53 PM

@HackToHell: JS is a hammer for webdevs ;p

ha ha, so is C++ . I have created a hammer. No, 50 hammers. 50 instances of hammers? Wait, no, that's just a pointer.... hang on, what?

That Brazilian Guy

2:09 PM

How do I enforce HDD sleep / spin down on ubunut?

4 hits only on AU for "hdd+sleep+OR+spin" ;____; => askubuntu.com/search?q=hdd+sleep+OR+spin

2:22 PM

pm-powersave can so that

help.ubuntu.com/community/PowerManagement/ReducedPower

That Brazilian Guy

2:37 PM

@HackToHell by calling hdparm ;)

in Ask Ubuntu General Room, 14 mins ago, by Journeyman Geek

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Tune-Your-Hard-Disk-with-hdparm

@ThatBrazilianGuy Yeah the page I linked to also says that :P

That Brazilian Guy

but hdparm will set my HDD on fire and nuke it from orbit ;___;

or something like that

Journeyman Geek

naw

You just need to treat it with proper respect.

That Brazilian Guy

O mighty hdparm I humbly and solemnly ask thy assistance

And may dd deliver us from ~~evil~~ data loss.

2:55 PM

may thy swap if and of

That Brazilian Guy

The GNU is my shepherd, I shall not `win`.
He maketh me to write text in green characters
he leadeth me beside the still routers
He restoreth my disk images
he leadeth me in the paths of Free Software for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the silicon, I will fear no evil

3:15 PM

Hi all, what would be the appropriate stackexchange site to ask for an ios app recommendation? I'm looking for an iOS witter client with a few specific features. Thx -- used to be pretty active on SuperUser/StackExchange, but haven't been kept up.

err, Twitter client

@ThatBrazilianGuy an ubunut is a crazy person (a nut) who is fanatical about Ubuntu. CSB.

1 hour later…

4:29 PM

Hey Root Access!

Can I redeem an answer for silly windows question token?

Errr... Got it. Bye!

@Unihedron What do you mean by that?

4:46 PM

wat

6

Q: The word for a man who hunts a dangerous mountain cat without prophylactic?

Hello once again special team stack exchange and a usage. I search many hours dictionary for a man goes into woods for hunt dangerous mountain cat or similar enemy despite no protection or prophylactic caution. Maybe he take only small catpalt for kill crow or moose. So when cat comes he catch h...

O_O

that about me... not sure if trolling

That Brazilian Guy

> because I am a glotton for the punishment!

@allquixotic I wasn't able to figure out a small thing in Windows. I got it now though.

That Brazilian Guy

!! s/got it/redeemed it/

ChatBot John Cavil

@ThatBrazilianGuy That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

@ThatBrazilianGuy @allquixotic I wasn't able to figure out a small thing in Windows. I redeemed it now though. (source)

Cool, SuperUser has a chat bot too!!

That Brazilian Guy

4:52 PM

!!yay

ChatBot John Cavil

user image

I had my File Explorer save my password for an ftp server I use, and I can't change the password afterwards, so I spent my day figuring out how to wreck it.

@Unihedron it's just Zirak's chatbot, with some modifications: github.com/allquixotic/SO-ChatBot

@Unihedron Credential manager.

runs on my dedi

4:52 PM

@Bob ... Yep.

also blah

amazon.com/dp/B00A1ZTZNM/… 100$ :/

5:57 PM

Huh. $29 Razer Deathadder

6:29 PM

@HackToHell $100 for 240GB. So just the regular everyday price?

6:43 PM

uh, visions of the future [1930. Funny how that came true.

user image

@JourneymanGeek I'm sure. Can't get everything in a couple minute video. :P

@Hennes I like this. More recent (1993 ad campaign by AT&T) but still very accurate. :P

@Hennes ooh, I like it :) needs fewer wires though

The car-ish plane is the background was a nice touch

except that even today the vast majority of the people have no means of flying, outside of large corporate-controlled commercial aviation, so yea

everyone having a plane in their backyard is still not a thing

Well, everyone can fly. It is just the landing part....

7:08 PM

user image

7:41 PM

Blog - Stack Exchange: Podcast #61 – The “What Jay’s Done Wrong” Podcast

Abby T. Miller on November 25, 2014

Welcome to the 61st installment of the Stack Exchange Podcast, brought to you by okra (yes, that okra). On our show today are David Fullerton, Jay Hanlon, and Joel Spolsky. It’s been a long time since we last did a podcast, so let’s get started.

First point of business: we have an iPad app! It’s got a snazzier feed and a fancy live preview in the Compose view. We’ve been getting more posts from mobile than we expected, because computing via iPad is the way of the future (according to Joel), so lots of features in the iOS app are now better optimized for posting as opposed to reading. …

8:10 PM

Just got an iced #ristretto #caramelmacchiato at the local #Starbucks—heavenly is an understatement #StarbucksforLife

Tweeted by fierydragonlord on November 25, 2014 at 8:02 PM

That reminds me to bring some coffee with me on my trip to the states.

Journeyman Geek

9:09 PM

I have a definite bias here but

1

Q: Is there any difference between computer speakers and a hi-fi?

At my parents house I used my computer hooked up to my stereo, I got my sound through there. It always sounded much better than typical cheap little £20 computer speakers. Now I have moved elsewhere and don't have my stereo and am thinking of what to do to replace it. I am not sure whether I wil...

I like this question

@JourneymanGeek s/source/DAC/ ?

Otherwise you're kinda mixing "source" with amplification and others.

Journeyman Geek

Oh, my choice there is intentional

Ah.

I just find it odd you mention amplification explicitly but not the DAC stage.

Heh, these certainly look fancy: catchoftheday.com.au/event/40248/product/…

Journeyman Geek

I was just considering the speakers

You could pair up a nice pair of bookshelf speakers, and replace a reciever or gigantic speaker amp with a class T or D you could slip into your pocket

Hm. Quick search => some people saying they're better than the m50 :P

Journeyman Geek

9:15 PM

M50s are currently anti-hipster ;p

(IE, people hate em cause they're popular)

Eh. 2013: head-fi.org/t/672956/ue-6000-vs-ath-m50s

Journeyman Geek

Its one person fanboying ;p

And I got my ATH M50s ages ago, and they were already hit with the AH effect by then

@JourneymanGeek there's a couple more on other pages, but I can't find good detailed reviews unfortunately

Journeyman Geek

ya

I can tell you from personal experience (and dog ears) that the ATH m50 is solid and sounds awesome

Bit bassy, but I prefer neutral sounding gear anyway

@JourneymanGeek but rarely discounted - this pricing puts the ues under half the m50

That's also a factor if they sound similar enough :P

Journeyman Geek

9:26 PM

@Bob: There's that

But well... audio is my other expensive hobby ;p

I really need to find a local store with at to test with

Journeyman Geek

ya

I'm really lucky about that

also, take anything you read on head fi with a healthy pinch of salt ;p

Not like I can find better comparisons :/

YouTube? Hah.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Your youtube movies will sound sooooo much better with these speakers. ;)

Journeyman Geek

9:32 PM

Sorry, I'm just a little disgruntled with all the BS I got off the audiophile community ;p

I even got a ban somewhere ;p

That is because you do not use the right audio cables. For full inmerssion in that rich sound you need a LP player, real time digitise it and use the right digital Ethernet cables. Forge then by moonlight from pure silver. Coat them in gold and sacrifice a rooster below an ancient oak. Only then will you get that full, rich sound.

Journeyman Geek

rofl

And magic rocks!

@JourneymanGeek seems everyone agrees it's rather bass-heavy with anc turned on

Bleh

The most fun part I've seen yet were Ethernet cables for digital audio. With one end marked for the amplifier.

Journeyman Geek

Which is wierd

ANC tends to volume boost

9:37 PM

@JourneymanGeek well anc also turns on the internal amp

Journeyman Geek

yup

anc is also useless in many situations

lol

Journeyman Geek

On a plane? Best thing since squeeky toys. In most other situations, less so

Actually, I could see it being useful on the train

Constant low-freq noise

...but the high-pitched scraping against the rails won't help

And I don't like over/on-ears outdoors anyway

Journeyman Geek

yup

I tend to use a pair of creative earbuds outdoors

pretty good passive attenuation

(or a specific model from daiso I can't find any more)

9:43 PM

I have no idea how to interpret these innerfidelity.com/content/…

Journeyman Geek

Neither do I ;p

2 hours later…

11:49 PM

O_O

The zip archive format allows multiple entries with identical paths and names

:S

@Bob Yup. I mentioned that to one of our distributors. Couldn't extract the drivers myself, had to use the setup program because of that single problem.

« first day (1572 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (3438 days later) »

Transcript for

Nov '1425

Root Access

For all you Super Users out there. You have backups, right?

computers technology

join this room
about this room

00:00

06:00

12:00

18:00

all times are UTC

site design / logo © 2024 Stack Exchange Inc; legal

mobile