Root Access

Bob

12:20 AM

@DavidPostill Gotta keep it at 16! :P

(I didn't actually d/v it)

Journeyman Geek

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Q: Windows 10 takes 2+ hours to boot

I am running a Dell T7600 workstation with RAID 5 configuration on a Perc 310 adapter running Windows 10. I just converted my partition from MBR to GPT. I changed the Bios to boot in UEFI mode. It wouldn't boot using any of the existing UEFI options so I used a Macrium USB boot drive to gain acce...

0_0

Bob

o.O

Sounds like a driver...

Journeyman Geek

I'd say its raid

But a T7600 should be pre-UEFI I'd think

Psycogeek

12:40 AM

one assumes it was working fine before he started messing with it :-) just get him away from it, and MSes wonderous self-repair features will kick in and everything will be fine. I am still wondering if anyone actually advantages from the self fix features, when all we see here is it collapsing in on itself.

oldmud0

uh oh, windows server doing the "preparing network connections" crap againn

it dos it 5ever

6ever, 7ever, until I have to go up to the attic and press the power buttons with 1000 metric newton-poundds of force

it's like watts per meter kelvin but much more intuitive :>

Journeyman Geek

lol

Psycogeek

is the oldmud Hour of power, with the liters of juice, running wattmiles

oldmud0

12:57 AM

how many minutes are in a dollar?

(1 U.S. dollar) per (Euro * gbp) = 0.628057211 U.S. dollars^-1

good deal

if you look at google earth it looks like notch's house is being remodeled

or maybe m$ is modeling it for him

so it has panels everywhere

anyone remember when microsoft was heading towards integrating windows in the home?

Psycogeek

It would have worked if apple did it first :-)

oldmud0

sure, yeah, DOS didn't work because apple didn't do it first

had 897087897560 viruses

covered biweekly by danooct

finished RAID reconfiguration without a hitch

Psycogeek

I already have to re-boot my central heating system, wasnt really interested in busting more stuff. Cool thing about appliances (what once was women) dont put up with that stuff not working.

oldmud0

does your central heating system have a /bin/ folder or a system32 folder by any chance

if so, you need to delete it right away

wow

diskpart totally violated the rules of CLI

DISKPART> select volume D

DISKPART> extend

DiskPart successfully extended the volume.

DISKPART>

really, without warning or confirmation?!

I was going to expand the system drive too!

Psycogeek

Oh crap, do you happen to remember the password for the toilet, i really gotta go now!

oldmud0

1:10 AM

root

it lets you take full control of the flush

Psycogeek

That requires admin privelages

oldmud0

yeah, it's gotta be root,root

you know how insecure e-toilets are these days

Psycogeek

all those bacteria and viruses floating around

oldmud0

or just buy a new toilet, they have parallel flushing, with 192 flushcores at 4kL/hr

Psycogeek

The update for the toaster stopped, now the front door lock isnt working

oldmud0

1:13 AM

reflash microwave firmware, richard stallman got a GPL one

Psycogeek

Screw it, i am , , , it is after all, , , going through the windows

oldmud0

window: Permission denied

gonna have to sudo that

anyone here still use nt4 server?

allquixotic

!!tell 25759354 no

ChatBot John Cavil

Psycogeek

i would have to obligatory downvote that, just on principal

oldmud0

1:17 AM

yeah well me neither

instead, I use server 2k3

ntvdm64 plz

allquixotic

Why would you need to run 16-bit applications still? Geez... On a server?!

oldmud0

nah the server already does that

Bob

@allquixotic Because vendors.

oldmud0

1:36 AM

Journeyman Geek

@oldmud0 someone on sf got rid of his last ones a few months ago.

I might have install media somewhere....

oldmud0

mail 2k8 media if you want this atrocity to end

Journeyman Geek

Lol

oldmud0

someone back in 2003 probably spent $4000 on the monster that is in my attic

Journeyman Geek

Oh its from my misspent and desolute youth, when I used to pirate software :p

oldmud0

1:51 AM

2k3 with 25 cals

who would do such a thing

Journeyman Geek

Lol.

oldmud0

how do you negative star chat posts

Journeyman Geek

Someone running a terminal server?

oldmud0

sure, I dunno how to run the terminal server but it's probably not useful anymore

it is like melting steel beams with jet fuel they tell me

allquixotic

2:10 AM

oldmud0

nice ocr

I don't like xaml, just because it's XML

allquixotic

2:25 AM

@oldmud0 OCR? that's not OCR.

that's me typing the characters you typed

oldmud0

joking

you actually took your time, effort and energies to copy my ascii art exactly how I made it in its full stupidity

allquixotic

"heyyoyooyyooyoyoyoyoyyoyoyoooyoyoooooo&#10;    @@@@@@@    ____________________________________________&#10;   /       \  / ppl stil run win10u1 \&#10;   | o | O |  |                      /&#10;   |   &lt;   |  |     wat             /&#10;    \ --- /   &lt;________________________________________/&#10;     ------&#10;       |&#10;       |  ^/^&#10;       |--/&#10;       |&#10;       |&#10;      / \&#10;     /   \&#10;    /     \"

oldmud0

heyyoyooyyooyoyoyoyoyyoyoyoooyoyoooooo
    @@@@@@@    ________________________
   /       \  / ppl stil run win10u1   \
   | o | O |  |                        /
   |   <   |  |     wat               /
    \ --- /   <______________________/
     ------
       |
       |  ^/^
       |--/
       |
       |
      / \
     /   \
    /     \

allquixotic

the underscores aren't rendered on a 1-for-1 basis in WPF for some reason

so they seem way too long there

i think you need only half as many

oldmud0

I can't star my own posts :(

But I will remember this

oldmud0

2:49 AM

What exactly are local security policies?

Where are they stored?

They're not in System32\GroupPolicy :/

Bob

@allquixotic monospace font pls :P

Leathe

@oldmud0 it doesn't say in the UI for them?

oldmud0

nope

thanks a lot to m$

Found it, it's at %winroot%\inf\sceregvl.inf

Leathe

3:14 AM

woot. figured out how to change the bloody language thing in Windows 10 where apps decide to use my native language instead of English

oldmud0

3:39 AM

asdf? adsf!!!

Bob

source

oldmud0

英語英語英語

It just says, "English" 3 times

By the way I still use good ol Winforms with good ol MainMenu

Sorry if that offends anyone

And I have no SSD in my computer

Again, using a computer older than 2 of my cousins might offend some audiences out there.

worst manual I have ever read in my life:

> When the airptane away from the ground in 30cm position,the helicopter will suffer by itself blade vortex to become unstable, we callit " effect response " ,when the helicopter weight lower. and the " elfect responso " affect will be bigger.

Bob

4:08 AM

@allquixotic So... current rumor is the iPhone 7 might drop the TRRS port entirely, and require a Lightning connection for wired audio.

Probably won't affect you as much since you're mostly on BT.

allquixotic

4:31 AM

@Bob @_@ wow

yeah, good thing I use Bluetooth :D

Journeyman Geek

5:14 AM

@oldmud0 Arf.

Journeyman Geek

6:08 AM

hackaday.com/2015/11/28/…

Hm, shiny

Tho I'm surprised you can power one of those directly

Bob

6:43 AM

@JourneymanGeek Power what directly?

Journeyman Geek

ANything. The RPI's kinda ...

Oh, they bypassed the USB port

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I'm confused.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob they fitted a nano USB wifi thing into a pi zero by soldering it directly to the test pads for USB data, and siphoning power out of the main power input

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Yea, but I don't really get what's so surprising about that o.O

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I thought they did it the semi correct way, and the pi 1 is kinda finicky over power draw

Bob

9:15 AM

@JourneymanGeek There's a correct way?

Journeyman Geek

No. But tapping directly into the power input seems dodgy to me ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek The entire concept of the RPi is a bit 'dodgy' :P

Hey, at least they put some kapton on it.

That is a nice way to get network connectivity.

Journeyman Geek

9:39 AM

;p

maaan, how did we get so cynical? ;p

(Oh, I love the concept of the RPI, Its just utterly impractical for the sort of stuff I use it for ;p)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Most of my devices are impractical, but I use them anyway -_-

Journeyman Geek

9:53 AM

;p

Most of my devices are sensible other than the rpi, and maybe the remix

but the remix would make sense if any of our TVs did HDMI ;p

I need to set up my rpi again actually

but the monitor issues is making that too annoying

Bob

11:21 AM

@JourneymanGeek Any plans?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: not reaaaly

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

If I extend the network again, maybe a streaming box for the main PC

HackToHell

mysql seems to be faster at reads than postgres hmm

With a time range filter

And mysql doesn't like a million parametrs

Bob

Who would've guessed?!

HackToHell

11:30 AM

Works with postgres tho

@Bob :P

Bob

(seriously though, if you're feeding it a million params perhaps there's a better way?)

HackToHell

I was using this pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/…

lemme just split the data frame and load

Bob

@HackToHell chunksize?

HackToHell

Ahh, there's an option for that :D

Bob

@HackToHell yea, the option I looked at before suggesting :P

HackToHell

11:40 AM

;p

HackToHell

12:23 PM

postgres takes 21 seconds for a select and mysql takes ~70sec for a date range select with a million records

Journeyman Geek

1:59 PM

hm

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Q: How to make a installer for an self made operating system?

I am making a operating system project. Everything is working fine, but i need to make a installer for it. I tried to search a tutorial at Google, but i didn't get anything useful. The idea is that it is a .iso file, you burn it to a CD, then on boot install it to a hard disk. Is there a tool on...

windows-7 operating-systems bootable-media installer

"Is there a tool on Windows i can do that? " whoa?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Uhm. I find it hard to believe this guy had anything to do with writing an OS.

Smells like school project...

Journeyman Geek

@Bob what scares me is its a VERY low level problem, meant for a high level programmer...

and a total lack of idea where to start

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Well, no, it's actually pretty easy. If you understand how an OS works. Put a mini-OS on the install media. Simple as that.

Heck, even if you didn't, you could probably fiddle with a Linux init script (on LiveCD/USB) to do the install.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob actually writing an installer from scratch? Assuming you weren't stealing bits from other OSes when they weren't looking? ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek The basic principle is fairly simple. The hardest part would probably be hardware compat (drivers), but since your OS should support said hardware in the first place... that should already be figured out.

DavidPostill

2:07 PM

If it is a school project it would be more suitable for a group rather than an individual.

Bob

Apart from that you could just write an image over to the permanent storage, once you have access to it.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob see, we are pulling possible answers out of thin air already ;p

DavidPostill

VTC "too broad"

Journeyman Geek

I was thinking DD

Bob

That's assuming the OS can actually boot from removable media. And that's a reasonable assumption.

Journeyman Geek

2:09 PM

@DavidPostill yeah, but rather than modhammer it... I figured I'd let the crowd here chew on it a bit like pilfered footwear ;p

Bob

Basically summed up as "boot yourself and install yourself"

@JourneymanGeek Looking at your comment - those are nice-to-haves for a polished OS, but not necessary for a basic "installer".

Basically, the core of what he needs to do should be simple and bleedingly obvious if he's actually written an OS.

DavidPostill

http://mikeos.sourceforge.net/write-your-own-os.html
"This document shows you how to write and build your first operating system in x86 assembly language. It explains what you need, the fundamentals of the PC boot process and assembly language, and how to take it further. The resulting OS will be very small (fitting into a bootloader) and have very few features, but it's a starting point for you to explore further."

Bob

Anything on top of that is too vague a question anyway.

The fact that he wants "a tool" is a bit of a giveaway... just copying bits and pieces without thinking about it.

Journeyman Geek

yup

DavidPostill

2:29 PM

"Operating Systems Design & Implementation 3rd Edition - Appendix A. Installing MINIX 3"

wiki.osdev.org/Getting_Started has lots of useful links

Boris_yo

I hear some cracks from laptop...

Can it be battery?

DavidPostill

@Boris_yo Your screen is about to explode?

Boris_yo

Am I playing with fire here?

Last time I checked the shape is normal. No inflated surface.

Journeyman Geek

Sure its not the speakers?

Is there any unusual warm spots?

Boris_yo

2:53 PM

@JourneymanGeek You mean on ejected battery?

Bright spots maybe?

Journeyman Geek

If there;s bright spots on your battery, its glowing, in which case RUN.

jokerdino

Battery's on fire?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo did you buy the battery on a black friday super special deal last year :-) what type of battery does it use? a pack of cylindrical cells, or the li-poly puff monsters which can baloon up into breaking stuff

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek It's original.

Psycogeek

3:12 PM

well it is probably dead , once they reach an actual 80% capacity holding, they go downhill fast(er) , assuming the calibration or method of reading the thing uses knows anything.

Just toss together 50 AAs , and get on with it :-)

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Have you ever bought studd from non-authorized dealer?

Boris_yo

3:44 PM

*stuff

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo of course, all of the above, a dealer that is not shown on the companies own web site is more likely to sell a clone or a old or refurb or whatever. in the same sence a non-authorised dealer could have something that is just fine. A authorised dealer could still (possibly) sell unbranded knockoffs, and could still get a Great Deal on some crap they need to unload. The more likely parts are like 10-90%

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Frys sell Razer Headphones and they are not in company's authorized dealer list.

Psycogeek

Define frys? Does frys , like many other people now have a (frickin) Marketplace, where they online run through a checkout anybodys products?

Because frys itself , would normally not sell Fake Branded clone items, much junk possible clones, and much branded, but less likely to sell Fakes that the laws would have issue with. because they have a B&M presence that is needed to be upfront and survive

Boris_yo

frys.com/product/8453698?site=72premail112915

Psycogeek

i wonder about the BT stuff, the one i was going to get once, was a Simple "reciever" that ANY thing could plug into. one high quality BT reciever and amp, and any headphones ear buds or ear plugs that i already have to plug into it?

seemed to me to be a good idea, broken headbands, added weight inside a head piece that is already clampy and weighty, to be able to change to any style or frequency responce for the need.

Buying a Great excellent quality pocket reciever with long running battery and use it with anything .

Boris_yo

4:01 PM

@Psycogeek What brand?

Psycogeek

there was this cute sony thing, about the size of 1/2 a fountain pen, it looked ok. I was looking for anything that was Most compatable and least problematic (based on user speak, which is all that counts)

oddly for the rare instances that a wire doesnt work, and i use stuff like that , i still like FM (one primo fm transmitter) no delays from buffers, not direct cut out , no pairing, but Noise when it is to far away.

completly different is the wirelss mic stuff for the video, which is huge bucks and high transmit and digital and low-delay also, which has little to nothing to do with headphones.

a 1 frame delay 25ms , which oft exists with BT, when watching movies or playing games would drive me batty, because some of my job includes syncing audio to video, and lip syncking and all. it really Irks me when they dont match even the slightest ammount

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Can't find Sony pocket bluetooth receiver on Amazon.

Psycogeek

one could also look first at B&Hphoto for things that are "good enough" to work , that they would sell them. it is more rare for B&H to carry pure junk. might not be best prices, but better place to see what Da Experty like people think

amazon.com/Sony-SBH52BLACK-Stereo-Bluetooth-Headset/dp/… there is one here? I dont see the round one there anymore. as long as i could change what goes in it (3.5mm head jack), which also means it has to have enough output power

least power possible is (weird) a crystal radio in-ear. in-ear phones are highly power efficient at getting sound to the ear. The rest on the ear outside ear-Buds are less efficient, i use those a lot portably. the Full sized speaker headphones, require the most power to drive. Variations in "OHMs" of the things change the percieve levels and impedance matching for "outputs".

That and Loud music, is what brings up the huge variations in how users (reviews) think about the power levels out of anything.

amazon.com/dp/B00C1CGZT0/… i assume something like this cheaper model, probably doesnt have long battery time , might not pair with new stuff .

"are the included headphones any good" no junked them :-) and that is what you cannot do with a complete system.

Tom Wijsman

5:16 PM

@Boris_yo "HDMI with low network?" You're the first I come across that actually makes power plans. But yeah, given the rest of your screenshot I can see why... :)

user285oo6

5:26 PM

Hi my handsfree once disconnected doesn't get the sound .The sound plays through the system audio only

i.e although its connected the sound plays through system speakers and not the handsfree bluetooth headset

Here the sound activity is there only for the speakers whereas the Headst which is although set as defaultdevice doesn't play the sound

I can only hear the system sounds in headset

Hennes

6:22 PM

This is not the tag you are looking for.... Finally got a sort of SW reference in a comment. :)

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Q: DEV C++ : No error while compiling any program but it is not running

All are working fine with DEV C++. Suddenly it stop working well. Program is compiling with no error messages. But when i hit run button nothing is happened. This is happening with all program. So there is no issue with program. This was also happen earlier with me. Then i reinstall DEV C++ then...

c++ dev

Boris_yo

7:48 PM

@TomWijsman I am a power plan startegyst holding Microsoft certificate in corporate OS power management and fallback planning.

@Psycogeek How about this one? amazon.com/dp/B00P24XKS8

bwDraco

8:29 PM

Spam: superuser.com/questions/951737/mouse-sensor-stopped-working/…

Flagged as spam because the linked video promotes, and its description mentions, DriveTheLife, which is known spam. This is in addition to the spammy "Make up to $100/ hour" text in the video description. The post is reverted to its original form. — bwDraco 2 mins ago

...and I think I've seen Alan Smith as a spammer several times before.

I'm still the spam hunter you know and love.

DavidPostill

@bwDraco Flagged and it gone ;)

Psycogeek

9:35 PM

@Boris_yo sure something like that (Bluetooth transmitter) to complete the "bridging" of any audio device. like i said i use a high end FM thing, and BT has some issues, sooo if you check it out, be sure to tell me how failed, i mean how much fun it is :-)

and 7 hours before needing a charge is Poop. for continual usage it will just be plugged in again, or you spend more time charging than enjoying. Battery ! stuff should have some.

"RAPID RECHARGE: Runs for an extended period of up to 10 hours on a full charge. No interruptions, no problems" 10 hours is "extended" now huh? i think people have now completly forgotten that a simple radio could run for weeks on battery, like the one in the garage . small electronics is wonderous tech, now we just need the nuclear battery still to run them.

That reminds me of a joke. This guy getting off the jet at the airport carrying 2 large bags, is headed off to CES (consumer electronics show) in nevada. He keeps looking at this watch he is wearing, when along comes this big texas suit. The texan asks the geek what is up with the watch? The geek tells him it is a tv, phone, video recorder, camera, wi-fi hotspot, tv, music player , that plays games, and . . .

(this joke was funnier when that didnt actually exist)

Anyways, the texas guy says i will give you $3000 for that cool watch. the geek says , he was headed to CES and it was just a prototype, so he couldnt sell it. The texan said he must have it and offered him $5000.

The geek hands him the watch and the texan puts it on his wrist and starts walking away. The geek says "hey wait mister, you forgot the batteries" handing him the 2 large bags.

Dave

10:03 PM

sup

using prebuilt boot.img from BOOTABLE_IMAGES...
boot size (6531072) is 62.29% of limit (10485760)
running: openssl pkcs8 -in build/target/product/security/testkey.pk8 -inform DER -nocrypt
running: java -Xmx2048m -jar /usr/cm/android/system/out/host/linux-x86/framework/signapk.jar -w build/target/product/security/testkey.x509.pem build/target/product/security/testkey.pk8 /tmp/tmp8NpC52 /usr/cm/android/system/out/target/product/jfltevzw/cm_jfltevzw-ota-5c0e6d5132.zip
done.
Package Complete: /usr/cm/android/system/out/target/product/jfltevzw/cm-13.0-20151129-UNOFFICIAL-jfltevzw.zip

built my own jfltevzw cm13 rom ..

android marshmallow thats where its at

hopefully all the hardware's detected this time around.. was missing the firmware blobs last build i did.

:]

@OliverSalzburg yo where's that keybase.io invite?

ah time to install this marshmallow loveness crossing fingers

hopefully my phone doesnt brick

chances of that happening is like 1/100000 though

Dave

11:40 PM

ugh

ChatBot John Cavil

11:56 PM

I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.

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