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12:50 AM

> The new software build (version XXUQAPD1) boasts that touch screen palm rejection is now much better than before, so S7 Edge owners should find that there are fewer accidental presses when using the phone in one hand.

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface ^ :D :D :D

A: Does TRIMming too often reduce the lifespan of a SSD?

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No TRIM is a hint to the drive that the specified blocks are no longer in use and are safe to erase. The drive is not required to erase those blocks immediately and in fact is allowed to ignore the hint altogether. Hence, sending lots of TRIM commands should not reduce the life of any SSD that h...

It's important to realize that SSDs are not required to immediately respond to a TRIM command, and are technically free to ignore the command altogether.

Your answer is pretty similar to one that's already there.

@MichaelFrank Is this you? :P

Answer deleted.

@Bob Ha. Nope. But I did see the Queen St (Main Road in the Auckland CBD) branch advertising their fixtures on their digital storefront signage.

Must have been out of stock of actual product. :P

1:07 AM

@MichaelFrank Heh. I might drop by the George St (ditto main road :P) branch around lunch. See if they have any decently cheap phones.

I need one to use that data sim on :\

@DavidPostill dry newspapers work better.

I haven't even bothered to go in anywhere since the official closure announcement was made.

My parents have taken to turning the lights off and on to get my attention when I have headphones on ;p

which works oddly well, but I'm pondering just sticking a doorbell on my desk

Hm.

Tegra K1 in a Xiaomi tablet for 140 USD. Nice.

'cept the lack of any good games on Android :P

1:42 AM

how better is ntlmV2 and a hardcoded ARP cache

my password is v

ery weak

but I renember it

I could use syskey again but it means authenticating twice

user139252

2:07 AM

Any Windows people in right now?

roar

user139252

I (for some reason I've now forgotten) booted into my Windows installation, and I'm trying to clean it up by uninstalling things

user139252

Do I need all of these Visual Studio C++ installations?

@TheBrownOne Are they redistributables?

user139252

Also, if I have on-board graphics/audio and have the corresponding Intel/Realtek drivers, do I need these nVidia drivers?

user139252

2:10 AM

@MichaelFrank Yes

Do you have a lot of games?

user139252

Nope.

user139252

I have 0 games.

user139252

I had a few games, at one point.

Hmm.. If you uninstall them, the software that needs them will/may stop working.

2:10 AM

I wouldn't touch the redistributables. Let them stand.

user139252

I've got 10 of them D=

bloa

t

From memory they are there because that's the version of VS that the software was built with...

oh no!

If only cleanup utilities like CCleaner were smart enough to identify what redistributable package belongs to what app...

user139252

2:12 AM

This is why I dislike Windows :P

user139252

Alright, I'll leave them be.

user139252

Try to remember why I booted in here in the first place...

I'm sure you have many *lib files under whatever other OS you use. ;)

user139252

Those clean up when I get rid of the apps that need them :P

maybe theres databases on the net that say which software uses/does not use .net framework/visual c++/basic stuio and what version

some

2:14 AM

And maybe the moon really is made of cheese!

times the uninstaller itself tells you

it is made of cheese, fact

cant you use grep to scan for files containing the string '.net framework.

windows search should have this feature

or dependancy walker perhaps

I do heuristics all the time so I know about this stuff

user139252

Okay, running CCleaner

user139252

I see a TON of duplicate DLL files, mainly relating to Dell drivers...

user139252

Is it safe to delete to any of these?

well it wont kill you

this is why I hate installing 3rd party apps

and software in general

microsoft need to do something

cus nobody else is

doesnt ccleaner make backups

2:50 AM

@TheBrownOne The redists should also be cleaned up automatically when the package that depends on them is properly uninstalled.

@TheBrownOne Protip: unless you have a specific reason to remove something, the answer is always "no".

Visual C++ redists are the equivalent of, say, the glibc shared library.

Except that Windows actually does concurrent versions properly so it won't break if you have different programs depending on specific versions...

Linux 'solves' that by having everything in the repo standard package source depend on the same shared library version.

But god help you if you ever need to install binaries from third-parties.

(Of course, compiling from source is much more common under Linux and would also work. Arguably that's the better way when you don't depend on closed-source software.)

3:23 AM

@TheBrownOne my rule of thumb is if you need to ask, leave it the hell alone.

@JourneymanGeek Hell, I don't like CCleaner in general.

There's no tangible benefit to running it. And the risk of breaking your system is pretty high.

Sure, you can talk about "less bloat", but at the end of the day some DLL that isn't running won't hurt anything as long as you have the disk space.

yup

@Bob if I wanted less bloat, I'd just do a fresh install ;)

Sometimes, it makes sense to clear out some specific cause of slowdowns. And sometimes some very specific parts of registry cleaners work (those that clear out broken links that are often enumerated, wasting time).

Problem is, most said registry cleaners are crapware that take a giant hammer to what is a pretty delicate database.

It's like carpet bombing a city cause you don't like the shape of a specific house.

@Bob so... kinda like the Empire? ;p

@JourneymanGeek THE MONUMENTS MUST BE REMOVED AT ALL COSTS

*sends in giant army*

literally giant in some cases...

3:38 AM

they should have had the shogun executioner as a super weapon ;p

anyway

@TheBrownOne I strongly recommend against deleting 'duplicate' dlls

windows has a pretty complex (and functional) way of dealing with different versions of libraries, and the performance boost is minimal

I need sleeping pills

a bottle a day

there addictive tho

Oh look! A hide posts button...

3:53 AM

I dont see it

radionz.co.nz/news/regional/301319/…;

@JourneymanGeek too OP :P

I have a good idea, eat as many salt and vinegar crisps without stopping due to it burning my lips

since I cant sle

@JourneymanGeek Ha, saw this earlier.

ep ,as usual

3:57 AM

@Bob most of the superweapons are one shot kills outside the re-loading time

The National Aquarium is really cool though.

granted, the fact that you can see them once built and the initial charge time helps

and erf

I want a headphone stand ;p

well holder

wireless headphones

p

found a design I liked, but it was ~50 dollars, and not in stock

roblem solved

3:59 AM

erm.

@JourneymanGeek Just bend an old wire coat hanger! :)

Clearly your problem definition is bad

@MichaelFrank might damage the headband and make it flake

wrap it in tennis tape.

wireless headphones are cool cus no stupid wires

store.treoo.com/audio-technica-ath-hph300-headphone-hanger.html ;p

looks like something I'd be able to jerryrig off of stuff I pick up off of ikea or daiso

but my tools are currently inaccessible

4:03 AM

what headphones u using

aliexpress.com/item/…

fischeraudio.com/shop/fa-003-ti

@MichaelFrank eheh. Yeah, I'm probably gonna go that route if I don't DIY

sony mdr rf 4000k

the best ive used

studio headphones are way too bassy

0_0

Fisher sells spares.

That's cool.

4:09 AM

fischeraudio.com/shop/fa-003ti-parts I mean, quite literally everything.

Huh... those seem more like accessories?

@MichaelFrank My headband's the part that broke

also, other than the 'original' cups, that's most of the parts of a FA003

obviously, more expensive to assemble it from parts but in my case all I really need is the headband and the ear cushions

Not quite buyer's remorse, but I might fix up the old one next month ;p

4:28 AM

But the wooden cups are surely not part of the original product?

Wow... So I came across a reason to use a script I wrote again. :O

@MichaelFrank no, the 'titanium drivers' are the stock ones. Wooden cups are an option some people like

Kinda wierd that they sell em with drivers tho

I thought they just sold the cups

@JourneymanGeek Daiso => banana stand? :P

4:48 AM

@Bob still looking out for those

gimme that script

tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory

5:33 AM

@DavidPostill I am alright. My ISP hasn't blocked SU yet.

6:05 AM

'yet'

6:15 AM

'ISP'

IDP?

"Internet Disservice Provide. How may I harm you today?"

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6:39 AM

@Bob THanks

@Bob I'm a nerd, this is what nerds do.

Also hello timezone change

@JourneymanGeek You may upgradings my broadbandings!

I will do the needful and give you the most special 1200 bps broadband dialup over pidgeon plan good sir.

@Bob Flightradar said even before I boarded it was going to be 4 hours delayed. But it wasn't.

May you have most joyous sojorns on the tubes of the internet sir!

As it turns out everything at Heathrow was delayed on the way out cause they ran out of pushback trucks

@jokerdino Yeah that's the one. Quite a weird, circuitous route as it turns out

uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/BAW31/history/20160413/1740Z/…

That's interesting, spent four hours gradually climbing and losing speed

And that bit at the end... they had to hit the speedbrakes pretty hard several times. I have a video!

Oh wait, that was just a 3 hour gap in the readings

Because flightradar didn't know where we were for 3 hours o_0

That went well

took out the crusty old metal forks from the old headphones

I'll order the replacement bits next month

looks like these darned things are pretty much designed to be torn down and fixed tho

6:55 AM

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Oh, did you see the new S7 update? :P

I'm still confused over the lack of absolute volume and the BT battery level display :\

@Bob No. There's another one?

Well I guess the April security update was due

Urgh, fuck off Skype, it's even worse than Clippy.

Q: What's the baseball bat for? (seen in CRS-8 berthing NASA TV broadcast)

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Watching the CRS-8 Berthing live broadcast on NASA TV I noticed a baseball bat resting on top of a console in the front left part of the room, so I took some screenshots. Looking closer, it seems to be about a meter or two away from a large, delicate-looking model of the International Space Stat...

@JourneymanGeek It's not a baseball bat, it's a LART

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Yea, apparently another big palm detection update for us Edge users :P

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface That's the technical term, yes

7:03 AM

Only some countries so far, though.

@Bob Nice

Wonder if it helps at all for non-edge users

Now that Jokerdino mentioned it, I do have some really long flights...

Prior to the last year the longest haul flights I've been on were 6 hours to the US or 8-9 hours to Beijing

furthest I've flown is 12

Amusingly enough, to the UK

Now I've had 12 hour flights to/from Singapore and Hong Kong, and a 13.5 hour flight from Koala Lumpers.

It goes by fairly quick if you sleep through it though

Man, two gigantic planes just pulled up beside me in the last half hour and I failed to notice either of them.

The sound insulation in this airport must be seriously good.

@jokerdino askubuntu.com/users/530193/david-eddings spammer.

Both Boeing 777's.

Also, the Israeli one has a weird hat.

If anyone wants to track/cyberstalk my next flight it's flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/b-kpf

7:22 AM

@JourneymanGeek got him

Of all the things one can spam

Braces

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface they skip Ukraine. It's a no fly zone.

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Apparently focus is on single-handed use so if you don't have trouble with that then it probably makes no difference.

There's a dirty joke hidden somewhere in there.

Don't you use your phone one handed?

@jokerdino Yeah I noticed that on my Singapore flight. But this one seemed to go over Mongolia and then make a 90 degree turn, which is a bit more extreme.

@Bob hmm. I have more trouble with two handed use than single handed.

Mainly because my hands are too small for single handed use anyway.

7:28 AM

I tend to have smaller phones

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface interesting. My biggest problem is that if it's anything but horizontal, or if I'm reaching across the screen, I tend to put my palm against that damn edge

Also, I've got pretty big hands

Huh. Apparently they want all cellphones switched off before boarding this Chinese plane.

ha. told ya :P

you can use a laptop ~~in flight mode~~ with wifi disabled though

Bleh. But your link said "by 2016"!

7:29 AM

not airplane mode?

But all my music is on my phone not my craptop

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface more or less.

@JourneymanGeek nah, not by Chinese regs

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface heh, that was a year ago and largely speculation

Ironically the airplane mode switch on my laptop doesn't work.

Yeah, some of them don't want you to meddle with phones or other electronics.

7:30 AM

my link was more to point out that China still had those regs after europe and the usa relaxed them

Probably they have experience with faulty electronics.

Weird. They changed my seat at the boarding gate.

@jokerdino that doesn't make sense. if a plane were that easy to interfere with don't you think someone would've brought a powerful wide-band jammer aboard?

Still can't figure why your plane didnt fly over Kazakh.

I'm probably on a list now.

7:32 AM

there's a post on this on aviation.se

@Bob lol

@Bob Die Hard 2?

They don't want journos to sneak in.

Q: Why aren't cell phones allowed to be used in aircraft?

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What problems do cell phones cause? How is using a cell phone in the air different than using it from the ground?

safety passenger electronics cell-phone

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A: Why aren't cell phones allowed to be used in aircraft?

I am a private pilot, and sometimes, the cellphones cause interference with the radio. Most of the time, cellphones are not a problem, but once in a while, I have to turn mine off because it is causing parasitic noises on the radio. I don't know how bad it would actually be in a passenger aircr...

this one's curious

@JourneymanGeek this is the one I have heard the most.

@JourneymanGeek Private pilot in a small plane is quite different.

@Bob comms issues makes more sense than the whole plane catastrophically crashing tho

7:39 AM

@JourneymanGeek Still. The plane itself forms a nice faraday cage around the passenger compartment.

8:32 AM

@JourneymanGeek Please take look at superuser.com/questions/1065152/…. OP is getting angry when told his question is off-topic.

Three comments flagged.

@bwDraco Thanks. I also flagged the first one.

10:29 AM

User self deleted

Had been dragged out to carry stuff for mom ;p

are you in your teens/20's

jman

10:48 AM

I wonder if Windows can be tricked into thinking a logon is local when its actually remote, by spoofing somebodys mac and ip address, user name and SID, hostname, etc

probably illigal unless you say do it in your own setup

actually doing that to the ip will probably shun any network connection anyway

@CMDEmu nope

the ip may not matter

why windows check it when its only designed to logon locally in this case

why would*

11:24 AM

computer analogy, what your computer should be able to do all at once, and how that really turns out most of the time :-)

montereyukeclub.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/… What most people end up really doing with one.

11:42 AM

@Bob well turns out no such restriction on my plane.

Cod use electronics throughout the flight. Just some weird outdated notice at the boarding gate, or perhaps that only applies to mainland China flights.

@Bob lol not as bad as my list!

As it turns out that last minute change of seat at the boarding gate was them giving me a free upgrade to business class.

11:58 AM

@Bob Heh, touching my phone while it was connected to the charger on my first flight caused the in flight entertainment system to give out a deafening buzzing noise

At first I thought it was my accidentally left on WiFi hotspot, but no, it was the in-seat power itself.

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface there is no list. That said, you're clearly on the list that dosen't exist.

Note to all users: Never trust JMG when he talks about non-existent lists.

@Cat, you are not in any list that we can tell you about.

djsmiley2k

yaaaaaaaaaawn

wife's nose finally fixed \o/ and they released her

12:14 PM

nose? wouldnt that be more like \oo/ or did they cut half of it off :-)

12:28 PM

A nose will be indicated by /oo\. \o/ is a sign of jubilation.

ahh your right, i was doing snout

12:58 PM

@DavidPostill morning / evening / good day to you.

@GuitarShoeDave morn/eve/day to you too.

Just getting into work :) Had a SAN failure last night, still recuperating from lack of sleep.

Oliver Salzburg

Client: "Here is a CSR which our contractor XYZ generated for us. Please use it to purchase a cert for us." Me: "Sure thing, but that CSR uses SHA1. I can't use that" Contractor XYZ: "Terribly sorry, please use this SHA1 CSR instead."

Getting this cert generated so much work, you could buy your own CA with the money spent

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface O_O

1:39 PM

8 hours ago, by jokerdino

@DavidPostill I am alright. My ISP hasn't blocked SU yet.

What wait what wait what what whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

!!wat

ChatBot John Cavil

djsmiley2k

shoot me

And I thought it was bad here with 90% of the nation's ISPs ~~threathening~~ promising to ~~fuck us~~ benefit us with data caps that will ~~prevent any decent internet use~~ improve experience for everyone by the end of the year ~~(doubletalk is dupliplusgood)~~

But really, @jokerdino? Your ISP blocks random sites at will? Or just the useful ones?

no one has any clue why they block what and why

Is your ISP friends with the UK and China?

1:47 PM

no, at least those countries are competent in blocking

djsmiley2k

we are?

I'm doubtful about that

Q: Why is Superuser.com blocked?

:29008389

19 hours ago, by DavidPostill

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The page loads for 20 seconds and says :- This website has been banned by the Department of Telecom, India

discussion

Wait

SU is blocked in my country ?

treachery I sayeth

i thought it would say due to the incompetent authority , if it was really a country wide block.

@Psycogeek Indian ISPs seem to have a habit of blocking things they are not told to block and not blocking things they are told to block ...

2:01 PM

They should block SO.

whatever saves you bandwidth

(then we can sit back and watch the lynch mobs ;) )

lol 182.79.218.37:8080/webadmin/deny/…

“Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact administrator for more information.”

Netsweeper Cloud manager

Ah yes

http://182.79.218.37/ is netsweeper, a Canadian web filtering software co. Airtel filters your internet access. https://twitter.com/coderzombie/status/720497703889813504

Tweeted by nixxin on April 14, 2016 at 6:32 AM

Saw this in the morning

I guess they passed another bout of blocks

Should read the news

182.64.0.0 - 182.79.255.255
netname: BHARTI-IN
descr: Bharti Airtel Limited

2:06 PM

hello

The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye

goodbye

►

so i thought i had seen every sort of bad website possible in 2016

then i came across the realtek corporate website

realtek.com.tw/default.aspx

@Burgi You clearly haven't seen theworldsworstwebsiteever.com yet ;)

with the confidence inspiring quote of "Best viewed at 800x600 with IE 6.0 or Netscape 7.02 or Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or higher. " in the footer

Speaking of bad websites

I have one

2:09 PM

> Best viewed at 800x600 with IE 6.0 or Netscape 7.02 or Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or higher.
©2016 Realtek Semiconductor Corp

Wow

@ThatBrazilianGuy my point exactly

@DavidPostill that website loads in a reasonable amount of time

@DavidPostill yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net

those are deliberately designned to be bad

realtek are a huge multi-national electronics company who really should know better

webpagesthatsuck.com/worst-websites-of-2013.html

2:15 PM

!!hr

ChatBot John Cavil

@DavidPostill mine is BSNL, a government ISP. Airtel is private.

sadly realtek's employment page is in chinese

Private ISPs deploy gov blocks faster than gov ones.

@DavidPostill was hoping to see a <blink> tag in there somewhere.

@DavidPostill: was also expecting to see microsoft frontpage within meta tags in the source.

2:19 PM

i managed to catch the flu last week

i had to go into my old job last wednesday to sign paperwork and collect my stuff. EVERYONE in the office was coughing and sneezing

so i think i caught it from them

jerks fire me and give me flu!

ooh

Made it to the second round

@JourneymanGeek the google job?

@Burgi naw, web services wing of a company named after a south american river

seems like nature designed it so carriers of viruses would seem like something a person would want to avoid. They grouchy make loud sneezing and wheezing noises and have bloodhsot demon eyes. Luckily the medical establishment has ways to hide most of those symptoms so it can spread.

ah my cousin used to work for them

2:24 PM

ahh

how are they like?

he hated it

This is a data center tech job, so shift + on call, which I don't min. Hopefully pay's decent.

said they were narrow minded, unreasonable and not open to change (weirdly)

he was the european director of logistics

ahh

I'm somewhere lower on the totem pole ;)

nods

i suspect at his level you run into the bezo ego a lot more often

2:28 PM

So the new chrome build 50 material design interface is pretty

have to enable it in chrome://flags though

i think the final straw for him was they made everyone stay on christmas eve until 10pm to pack boxes

he then had a 200 mile drive home

meh

@DavidPostill from your link: dsrny.com "i know this, its a unix system"

2:49 PM

@JourneymanGeek User superuser.com/users/539581/ali-raza is spamming the same link across multiple SE sites.

@DavidPostill hm. dosen't feel like the classic spammer tho

WASP!!!!!!!!!!

WASP!!!!!

SOMEONE KILL IT!!!!

WHAT DID THAT WASP EVER DO TO YOU?

SHE PROBABLY HAS A FAMILY AND 8000 KIDS!

heh

actually . . . wasps have killed more people in american than bears and alligators combined (wasps and bees)

2:56 PM

i think that was the first ever time that a wasp has flown in my window and managed to exit the same window on the first try

@JourneymanGeek His link has nothing to do with the questions though - some sort of wireless data transfer crap

yeaaaah

meh. Handled.

@Psycogeek guns have killed more people in america than bears, alligators, wasps, and bees combined.

Did DHS think this no-fly-list thing through? lets see, people who hate the country and the politicians and have made various death threats about them are now forced to stay in the country :-)

@Burgi she's probably telling her whole family you're good people

2:58 PM

malaria has killed more people than anything else ever