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Journeyman Geek

1:30 AM

github.com/wishstudio/flinux

This looks super shiny

ekaj

woof

3

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek neat! needs more features though ;D

ekaj

should be the opposite of WINe... like rum or something

MOONSHINe, idk

Journeyman Geek

1:49 AM

@allquixotic: true, but its pretty new

3

ekaj

human.. play..

Journeyman Geek

;p

naw, that, you can't photograph a wauzer in that mood ;p

HackToHell

2:06 AM

woof !

4

Interesting ;p code.google.com/codejam/distributed_index.html

allquixotic

2:24 AM

@JourneymanGeek you wolf-descendant, you!

Journeyman Geek

;p

(its kinda amazing how much variation there is amongst dogs ;p)

HackToHell

Apparently google code is shutting down o0

and all projects must migrate out

Journeyman Geek

yup

ekaj

on a side note, hear about google code closing?

DragonLord

@ekaj They're shutting it down because it's being overrun by spam and abuse

ekaj

2:30 AM

Yes.. because most people are moving to bitbucket and github

DragonLord

People were already migrating away to other hosts

ekaj

even google migrated their stuff to github

ekaj

2:43 AM

Bob

3:10 AM

allquixotic

@Bob "I should have run out of juice 21 minutes ago!"

ekaj

4:51 AM

Emailed EC2 about when my instance would end on March 9th, March 10th got the automated email, the 14th customer support actually replied, and the free tier ends on the 31st.. good timing I guess?

DragonLord

Any Android experts here?

I'm running CM12 on my 2012 Nexus 7, and want to try out a custom kernel.

When I flash franco.Kernel, however, I get System UI force closes and the system drops to a boot loop.

I have to flash the ROM again or restore from NANDroid backup to recover.

Is this some bug with franco.Kernel?

Psycogeek

superuser.com/questions/889453/… <--- kill de putz

DragonLord

I was just going to say.

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A: I can't uninstall the Ask Toolbar updater despite having admin access?

lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol

ekaj

valid answer

TIL stars apparently don't twinkle due to objects crossing the path of their light in space

Journeyman Geek

5:13 AM

No, its actually our athmosphere

objects crossing their paths would be somewhat rare, and may have more interesting effects

ekaj

yep =p didn't know that previously, people always told me it was objects crossing the path

DragonLord

5:59 AM

asot.es/2001/09/skyrim-mods.html

Hyper-overclocked Core i5-2500K (5 GHz!)

GeForce GTX 970 at 1.5 GHz

...and loads of Skyrim mods.

The clocks are insane for Sandy Bridge

It's a sponsored, super-enthusiast build

I will see if I'll ever build anything like this.

I guess I should start small and build a cheap system for experience first...

Journeyman Geek

lol

I would suggest midrange

You're unlikely to be processor constrained in most cases, and you have a good starting point for incremental upgrades

(actually his build, or its modern equivilent looks like a good place to start)

DragonLord

i5-4690K at 4 GHz sounds like a good place to start

(Let's be realistic, I don't want to dabble with liquid cooling)

...and a GTX 970 at 1.5 GHz (not hard to attain with any good card)

...or to keep costs down, a GTX 960 at 1.45 GHz

I try not to overclock unless the application requires the added performance

Okay, back to work.

It's 2:25 AM here and I have lots of work to do.

Journeyman Geek

7:07 AM

yay

Apparently we're getting an extra day off for national day

Can you say five day weekend?

allquixotic

9:57 AM

@JourneymanGeek congrats!

Journeyman Geek

(maybe 4)

@allquixotic: oh, its the 50th anniversery of us getting kicked out of malaysia

allquixotic

o_O

ahh, the fun of downloading Steam updates at 6:11 AM local time :D I'm getting steady 30 Mbps, with bursts to 35 Mbps

over LTE!

usually at peak hours I pull about 12 - 15 Mbps

Journeyman Geek

10:12 AM

;p

allquixotic

off-peak but still busy, I can get 20-24

but never 35

Journeyman Geek

Man. I was thinking of gaming this weekend

allquixotic

we should game together Ravi

something

Journeyman Geek

;p

I very rarely manage to get the time to game socially

(Just too much other stuff I guess)

I haven't touched homeworld in 2 weeks

(busy last weekend, semi sick this weekend)

But yeah, we need to see if we can ;p

allquixotic

awww, sorry you're not feeling well :/

Journeyman Geek

10:16 AM

it ok

mom's been giving me this pretty effective, very very nasty tasting brew ;p

allquixotic

heh

any games in my library that you have that we could play? steamcommunity.com//id/allquixotic

Journeyman Geek

TF might be a safe bet?

(granted, I've never played that, entirely on account of it being mainly MP ;p)

allquixotic

Team Fortress 2?

Journeyman Geek

yeah

(heh, I have no idea what games I have, I tend to pick em up, play em, sometimes get distracted, then pick em up again...)

allquixotic

hehehe

Journeyman Geek

10:59 AM

channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/aug-7-declared-a-public/…

4 days ;p

Journeyman Geek

11:43 AM

ooh

I just realised what that sort of bandages that stick to themselves and nothing else is called

allquixotic

12:15 PM

@JourneymanGeek only 50 years? ya noob :P

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: ;p

allquixotic

....actually, I have little standing to say that, since 1776 is basically yesterday compared to the age of, say, China, Russia, or England

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

and I mean as a continuous government, so India doesn't really qualify since they got colonized

Journeyman Geek

ya

india rarely had a central government either

allquixotic

12:17 PM

because otherwise the US could be said to go way back because of the native Americans

Journeyman Geek

in any case, its our 50th and there's a very good chance of a snap election too

(so another day off, yay!)

allquixotic

heh

Journeyman Geek

May have another walkover tho

allquixotic

"snap" election?

jokerdino

@all, @Bob, on that photorec I ran on my sister's drive, I managed to recover some 8 photos.

just to give that a closure.

Journeyman Geek

12:19 PM

Yeah, government tends to officially announce elections only a little in advance

allquixotic

@jokerdino only 8? yikes

jokerdino

@allquixotic yeah, should have shut the computer early.

Journeyman Geek

We've had a very generous budget, some moves towards trying to weaken the opposition party in the multiseat ward the opposition won last year ....

(and one of our MPs may not stand this election)

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek I dont see PAP getting dethroned in the next 3 decades

allquixotic

better to have elections on a pre-set schedule, I think

Journeyman Geek

12:21 PM

@allquixotic: yeaaah....

allquixotic

otherwise you can have elections when people are happy and capitalize on that

Journeyman Geek

I do believe that's the point here ;p

jokerdino

heh, elections are a formality in Singapore. Only one party rules.

Journeyman Geek

XD

allquixotic

!! s/Singapore/the US/

ChatBot John Cavil

12:22 PM

@allquixotic heh, elections are a formality in the US. Only one party rules. (source)

Journeyman Geek

and this

allquixotic

still true

Journeyman Geek

Group Representation Constituency

A Group Representation Constituency (GRC) is a type of electoral division or constituency in Singapore, the Members of Parliament (MPs) of which are voted into Parliament as a group. The Government stated that the GRC scheme was primarily implemented to enshrine minority representation in Parliament: at least one of the MPs in a GRC must be a member of the Malay, Indian or another minority community of Singapore. In addition, it was economical for town councils, which manage public housing estates, to handle larger constituencies. The GRC scheme came into effect on 1 June 1988. Prior to that date...

@allquixotic ~~war~~ politics, politics never changes

allquixotic

wait, wasn't there some game that starts out the cinematic with "war.... war never changes."?

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek that was the H something GRC wasn't it?

allquixotic

12:23 PM

Sins of a Solar Empire? :P

Journeyman Geek

hougang was a single seat

jokerdino

Guess I forgot things.

Journeyman Geek

they lost aljunid last election, and have been claiming the WP town council is incompetent in parliament

WP also won ponggol-pasir ris during a byelection

Amusing thing is? I'd vote PAP for certain if the current finance minister was PM

jokerdino

When did the last election run?

I remember one in 2011 (I was in Nepal at that moment).

Journeyman Geek

2011

jokerdino

12:25 PM

Missed holiday and all that.

allquixotic

the only foreign political systems I semi-understand are those of the UK and the countries that decided to keep a system similar to theirs when they were made sovereign nations, like Canada and Australia

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: ours is unicameral with either single seat wards, or 4-6 seat wards which must have at least one minority candidate.

If there's less than a certain number of opposition MPs in parliament, there's a topup of NCMPs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-constituency_Member_of_Parliament

jokerdino

They get appointed by the ruling party. lol

Journeyman Geek

Our head of state is semi symbolic in theory (and fairly symbolic in practice) and is an elected president (tho that's a recent thing, and 2 of 4 EPs were walkovers)

so we're quite diverged from westminister (no upper house for example)

Bob

@jokerdino did you try testdisk first?

photorec won't recover fragmented files

testdisk will

jokerdino

12:30 PM

@Bob yes I did. Nothing showed up on testdisk.

Then proceeded with photorec.

Bob

@allquixotic I swear I saw that in CoD

jokerdino

Got a big bunch of useless files and some relevant photos.

Bob

oh, apparently it's Fallout

Journeyman Geek

;p

Its fallout

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek, is that old man still alive?

Journeyman Geek

12:31 PM

As far as we know

jokerdino

MM Lee I think

Journeyman Geek

He's one of my MPs ;p

jokerdino

lol

I dont think any other country has a MM cabinet

Journeyman Geek

(sadly I don't know who the other two are other than him and indranee.)

nope, we also have a Senior Minister Emeritus.

Bob

@allquixotic can I join? :P

jokerdino

12:32 PM

Yeah me too.

Just not tomorrow, I got some serious stuff.

Journeyman Geek

I'm probably out till next weekend ;p

jokerdino

Next weekend is fine for me.

Journeyman Geek

(also gives me time to play TF2 in bot mode to try to work out gameplay ;p)

Bob

eh... tried TF2 once

didn't really like it :\

why is there so much "colon cleansing" spam

I guess this is where they dump the results of their cleansing

jokerdino

Been playing Dota2 these days.

I hate you hacktohell. I didnt even ask you to gift me one.

Journeyman Geek

12:38 PM

@Bob: I wish they would take that spam, and...

Bob

we need more variety in the starwall :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: alternative might be one of the borderlands games?

You mean the woof wall? ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek hm. I think I have a copy, but never played :P

I liked Sven-Coop, but that's only really suitable for people who like FPSes (HL)

Also, the latency would be painful

Journeyman Geek

I'm not a big FPS fan

lol

Bob

speaking of, TF2 probably wouldn't fare well either

Journeyman Geek

12:40 PM

thinks it can't be as bad as work

Bob

Dunno about Borderlands

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: oh, I've played borderlands 2 with americans before

Bob

@JourneymanGeek well, if you like teleporting and rubberbanding everywhere :\

Journeyman Geek

Worked well

lol

beats me

What would work well intercontinentally? ;p

jokerdino

some kind of text based game

ekaj

12:43 PM

Moving two server racks today :( hopefully doesn't take all xay

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek shrug I'd like to know

Turn-based?

Journeyman Geek

Chess!

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Surprisingly, no!

Not for a timed game.

Journeyman Geek

;p

ekaj

7:28 PM

Quiet today..

William Hilsum

8:24 PM

Boo

enough noise!?

DragonLord

9:29 PM

roar

Hello

William Hilsum

10:14 PM

Hi!

DragonLord

10:26 PM

I just got hit with a malicious redirect on the NotebookReviews Forums.

This was on a Private Browsing session.

Wasn't signed in and didn't want to on my main browsing window, so just decided to report it through the contact form.

I have an account there, and it's a great place to talk about laptops of all sorts (especially for us Clevo owners), but seeing a malicious redirect makes me a bit scared.

The recent migration from vBulletin to XenForo might be part of this.

(Correction: it's NotebookReview.com, not plural.)

allquixotic

11:34 PM

@JourneymanGeek Hearthstone! :D

@Bob sure! :P

DragonLord

@allquixotic: Just installed Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

Is it okay to have MBAM and Norton Security scan the system concurrently?

Okay, I just went ahead.

MBAM came up clean on the first scan.

Norton scanning now.

Psycogeek

11:57 PM

@DragonLord sure just dont have 2 "active" scanning going on. windows 2 partial protections only scan rarely (compared to something like mcafee and norton), and MBAM you should be able to set to manuel.

If somehow you control all downloading, which probably would include java stuff, and activeX and any .Net that runs from the web (meaning all scripting). then a person only ever need scan that which is new.

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