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HackToHell

3:00 PM

bleh Fonts look terrible in Ubuntu, I think AA is not working ._,

allquixotic

@Bob I can't find any sites (not even cpuboss) that will compare the Pentium N3520 vs the Snapdragon 800 though

Bob

@allquixotic Where's that 7.5W from?

HackToHell

heh, @Sathya s blog was the second link when I googled on how to enable AA

allquixotic

@Bob you

Bob

The Z3470 has a "SDP" of 2W

@allquixotic O_O

fudzilla.com/home/item/…

allquixotic

3:01 PM

ark.intel.com/products/79049/…

@Bob yeah, I read that in another article

basically Snapdragons run between 2.5W (on the low end) to 5W (tablet-sized)

Bob

@allquixotic That's not a mobile chip.

allquixotic

@Bob I'm not saying it is -- but the power profile of the N3520, which is in my Yoga 2 ultrabook, is only about 1.5x - 2x bigger than the power profile of a Snapdragon

I was looking for benchmarks to see if the actual performance is on that scale too or if Qualcomm is more power-efficient (or if Intel is)

Bob

ark.intel.com/products/family/70095/…

Those are the phone/tablet chips.

sammyg

@Bob So this dude Ted Nelson came up with the word "Hypertext"?

Bob

@sammyg Read the article.

> Intel officially launches its latest LTE modem and first 22nm smartphone SoC.

> On paper the 7260 is a competitor to Qualcomm's forthcoming 9x35 modem, however it's built on TSMC's 28nm process compared to the 20nm node that Qualcomm is using for 9x35.

o.O

Intel is using TSMC?!

allquixotic

3:05 PM

@Bob LOLWAT.

Bob

anandtech.com/show/7789/…

I...

allquixotic

that's super bizarre... so you're telling me the SoC package contains a TSMC modem and an Intel 22nm application processor?

Bob

Intel is at a fab disadvantage by using TSMC??

allquixotic

Frankeinstein

Bob

> Intel claims its architecture is extremely power efficient despite the foundry disadvantage (an admittedly unusual position for Intel to be in). It will take Intel 2 - 3 years to bring its modem manufacturing in-house.

YOU DON'T SAY

They've had a fab advantage for how many years now?

> In the first half of the year, Intel will bring out Merrifield - this is the dual-core Silvermont based SoC that's effectively the phone version of Bay Trail. Despite being aimed at the performance and mainstream segments, Intel expects it to be performance competitive with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 and Apple's A7. On the modem side, Intel hopes to pair Merrifield with the XMM 7260 LTE modem.

I wonder how the power consumption is.

The previous-gen tablet chip had a SDP of 2 W.

Based on other SDP:TDP ratios, that's probably a TDP of 4-6 W.

allquixotic

3:09 PM

> It will take Intel 2 - 3 years to bring its modem manufacturing in-house.

I guess modem manufacturing takes some special processes that the good ol' Ivy/Haswell foundries can't do yet

Bob

@allquixotic If you look at the (Intel-provided) benchmarks on that page, they supposedly beat the snapdragon 800 by a wide margin.

allquixotic

@Bob if they're releasing a Silvermont (which is what my Yoga 2 has, lol) for smartphones/tablets and hoping it's competitive with the Snapdragon 800, they're in for a world of disappoint, since the 801 and 810 are already marching toward release

Bob

I'm also surprised to see how far ahead the A7 perf is.

allquixotic

hell, the 801 is out

Bob

Still never going to get an iOS device.

Yannis Rizos

3:11 PM

Hey all. Would this be on topic on Super User?

0

In basic networking, we talk about DNS servers, that they resolve human readable addresses (www.google.com) into an actual IP address. As far as I understand, at least using the basics, an IP address refers to a single device (say a router). Surely, www.google.com cannot be served up by one compu...

networking

Bob

@YannisRizos Ehhh... touchy.

Some of those are sometimes accepted, sometimes not.

They do tend to gain a bunch of upvotes and stay.

allquixotic

that's a marginal question for SU

Yannis Rizos

Yes, it's a bit bikeshed-y... Well, I guess there isn't much value in sending it here then. The OP already got a correct answer, we'll just keep it closed (and eventually deleted) on ProgSE. Thanks.

Bob

@allquixotic The Merrifield (Silvermont) ones are already released (dual-core).

allquixotic

@Bob ahh

Bob

3:15 PM

Second half of the year, they're apparently going to release quad-core versions.

Heck, if the dual-core can outperform the snapdragon 800 by that much...

'course, that's making the assumption that you'll ever need more than two cores/hot threads on a phone.

HackToHell

zz fglrx doesn't work with the 3.11 kernel >.<

allquixotic

@Bob i didn't realize that was a dual core -- nice -- the only thing I worry about is of course power consumption when you start throwing a quad-core x86_64 into a smartphone

jokerdino

hi @hack.

allquixotic

@HackToHell version?

jokerdino

you pinged about French on Twitter?

HackToHell

3:18 PM

@allquixotic I think it's nearly a year old :P

Bob

@allquixotic Remember that all these benchmarks are from Intel themselves, though.

Those chips haven't made their way into any devices yet.

HackToHell

@jokerdino Hi, I think so

allquixotic

@HackToHell update your fglrx to the latest beta

jokerdino

@HackToHell: Hmm. I am already doing the course. Jump in already?

HackToHell

I happen to be at 12.104

@jokerdino Okay, I'll try ! :D

Bob

3:19 PM

@allquixotic Intel's press release is saying they can last 30% longer than the S4 o.O

allquixotic

@Bob the Yoga 2 has a 34 Watt-hour battery to keep an 11" screen and a Bay Trail-M powered for up to 6 hours

jokerdino

@HackToHell: Good!

Bob

Remains to be seen just how true this is in real devices.

allquixotic

how many watt-hours would you need to have a smartphone that can go all day on a 5.5" screen and a Silvermont-based Merrifield?

Bob

@allquixotic Apparently ~8

allquixotic

3:21 PM

@HackToHell ancient -- use 13.12 at least

@Bob 8 Watt-hours? 8000 mAh? battery? in a smartphone? !!no

Bob

@allquixotic 8 Wh != 8000 mAh

allquixotic

oops

totally missed that

Bob

8 Wh = 2150 mAh @ 3.7 V

Perfectly reasonable.

allquixotic

ahhhh

HackToHell

This is painful to watch >.< youtube.com/watch?v=newNF1UsOcw&feature=youtu.be

that phone costs 1k USD

allquixotic

3:23 PM

anyway, I doubt any manufacturer besides Motorola would have the gall to charge customers ~$150 extra (on top of the normal price) for extra battery life, so I'll probably be going with Motorola for my next phone, and Motorola will probably use the Snapdragon 801 (the 810 is out too late for their next phone)

Bob

5 hours ago, by Bob

►

:P

@ThatBrazilianGuy has already expressed his displeasure

allquixotic

@HackToHell wait, there's a smartphone that costs $1000 USD? I've never seen one

jokerdino

Bob is before us everywhere.

Bob

@allquixotic Probably the equivalent in local currency.

jokerdino

What was the word? Omnipresent?

HackToHell

3:24 PM

@allquixotic It costs that much unlocked here

Bob

Hmm, Moorefield also doubles the caches.

HackToHell

It's actually 848$

Bob

And better graphics, too.

HackToHell

Gah, I need to update Xorg to update fglrx

Bob

@allquixotic If this turns out to be true in the real world, my next phone may well have an Intel SoC :P

allquixotic

3:26 PM

@Bob promising, but one of the biggest hurdles for x86(_64 or even _32) Android will be all the apps that have ARMv7-only natives

Bob

Ya.

Though, Android x86 support is increasing.

@allquixotic That's mostly browsers, video players and games.

allquixotic

usually the "choice" between natives on Android is "do you want natives that support NEON or not" -- in any case, ARM

Bob

Games are they only ones I see not updating.

allquixotic

@Bob considering how infrequently you upgrade, Intel may already have a 90% market share on Android devices by the time you upgrade next :D

HackToHell

> X.Org X Server 1.11.3
Release Date: 2011-12-16

Okkkay

Bob

3:28 PM

lol

allquixotic

!!tell 14784312 no

!!tell Cavil live

Bob

@allquixotic Hey, it's only been two and a quarter years since my last phone.

I just tend to get them shortly before the new one comes out :\

> Still going to be much slower then AMD jaguar

random comment on random blog

!!no

allquixotic

@Bob "ONLY".

in January 2012 I had the original Razr Maxx, IIRC

since then I've upgraded to the Razr Maxx HD, then the Droid Maxx :P

my upgrade frequency is directly related to the expense of the device :P

Bob

@allquixotic I think the best part is the possibility of Windows x86 on a phone :P

allquixotic

I'll have my car for many many many more years, even though its bluetooth 2.1 is hideously obsolete and doesn't work well, and I need a hybrid for all the damn stop and go on the highway (kills fuel efficiency)

I'll have my 3770K at least through all of 2014 at a minimum

but my Droid Maxx phone is probably going to be replaced before January 1, 2015. I won't be able to resist the $700 outlay to the next gen

Bob

3:32 PM

I tend to either keep using things till they break, or get noticeably slow.

Haven't really reached that point yet.

Heck, unless I seriously ramp up my phone usage, this should last me at least another 3-4 years.

Assuming it doesn't break.

allquixotic

for me, !!s/phone/modem-router/ and you can see the need for me to upgrade :P

Bob

@allquixotic I've upgraded my networking equipment many times more than my PC and phone :P

Though, I did buy a few low-powered devices in the meantime.

allquixotic

@Bob well my phone IS my networking equipment :D

Bob

Lumia 520.

-_-

allquixotic

I think my Yoga 2 does 802.11ac (not 100% sure), so if I upgraded my phone to a 802.11ac model, I would get an 802.11ac USB stick for my desktop

right now I have a 3-4 year old 802.11n Draft Spec 2.0 USB stick in my computer, which works okay

it's Linksys by Cisco

Draft n 2.0 seems to interoperate reasonably well with "final" n devices like my phone

and it's dual-band, so yeah, it's using the 5 GHz spectrum

Bob

3:36 PM

I just have a wired network. Like a sane person :P

allquixotic

@Bob if I go wired, I lose native IPv6 :(

only the wifi hotspot does native IPv6 properly

Bob

:(

I probably won't get native IPv6 until sometime around 2040...

allquixotic

you know, I'm tempted to ask DediDirect how much money I could save by going IPv6-only on a dedicated server, and see if I can leave Hetzner for them while keeping a similar price point

if chat.SE supports IPv6, I'd be golden

Bob

@allquixotic Just be careful...

WholesaleInternet had a power outage.

allquixotic

ip6.nl/#!chat.stackexchange.com

Bob

3:38 PM

I received no notification.

zero

allquixotic

@Bob that sucks

Bob

A whole day after I had to submit a support ticket asking why.

allquixotic

we finally resolved the problem I was having with my buddy's server at DediDirect

apparently there was a guy being slammed by a DDoS in the same cabinet as my server

he disconnected the DDoS victim

Bob

It's sad when $8/year VPS providers can communicate better than $80/month dedi providers.

@allquixotic Only found out when all the vservers went down, then had to snoop around the IPMI logs and system logs.

Urk.

allquixotic

@Bob -_-

Bob

3:40 PM

I'm kinda happy I wasn't using RAID - I don't think there's a BBU in there.

allquixotic

at least my LSI 2-port RAID controller at Hetzner has a BBU

Bob

@allquixotic Apparently they had three outages in quick succession, which killed one of the UPSes. That just happened to be powering thousands of dedi servers -_-

allquixotic

hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/04/08/1255200/…

Bob

@allquixotic If DediDirect is good, I might consider switching.

allquixotic

well here's a great example of what GPU I won't be buying!

@Bob U.S. -- did you end up going with AUS, or did you go US?

Bob

3:42 PM

A guy over in the SF chat suggested ServerMania. They have a really good network to me, too.

allquixotic

@Bob it's a very small-time op with only a few employees, but very affordable

Bob

But I'm having trouble convincing myself to spend that much more.

allquixotic

he still hasn't gotten back to me on my request for a quote for the server I want :P

Bob

@allquixotic AUS is completely unaffordable :\

allquixotic

> - Intel Dual Quad Harpertown L5420
- 16GB DDRII Memory
- 500GB SATAII HDD
- 100Mbps Port Speed
- 10TB Premium Bandwidth
- 1 IP Address

All Dedicated Servers Include:
-100.00% Network SLA
-Free Reboots

1 month FREE when you prepay 6 months
3 months FREE when you prepay 12 months
9 months FREE when you prepay 24 months

$99.00 one-time setup fee

$35.00 per month

that's my deal with DediDirect, except free upgrade to 24 GB DDR2

still Core 2 era Xeon, but they sell some newer (relatively speaking) ones too

I don't think they sell anything Ivy or newer, probably due to prohibitive purchase cost of those procs

looks like they run E3-1230V2s too, but they're out of stock

and it looks like they jacked up prices outside of the WHT deal-takers (like me)

maybe i can get you in at a lower rate since i'm an existing customer

they don't allow unsolicited bulk email (spam), and other fairly obvious bad behavior, but their AUP is reasonable. they even allow IRC

Bob

3:49 PM

@allquixotic That price per month... heck, I almost want to downgrade :P

allquixotic

@Bob even more impressively, if you manage to scrounge up $840 USD in one go, you get a $315 value worth of server (9 months) in addition to that, free

'course you're stuck with it for 2 years, but if it satisfies your needs.....

Bob

@allquixotic Damn it, stop tempting me :P

allquixotic

"spend $840, get $315 of value free" is nice. I didn't go that route yet, and I wouldn't suggest you do either; if you were to go with DD, I'd say go month to month at first, and ONLY IF it rocks, do something like a 6 month prepay, and if even that goes swimmingly, THEN, consider 24 months

Bob

@allquixotic That's how much it costs me for 10 months here :\

But it is a higher tier.

allquixotic

@Bob I preemptively emailed my contact at DD to see if he can get you in at the $35/mo level on that box -- I didn't commit to anything, I'm just seeing if the offer is still available

if it's available I'll let you know that you at least have the option of doing it

Bob

3:54 PM

@allquixotic Heh, thanks.

That Brazilian Guy

Tonight I had a nightmare and @bob was in it.

5

Bob

But it's also hard dropping what I currently have :P

@ThatBrazilianGuy :(

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy did he try to sell you a server?

That Brazilian Guy

Worse. Someone was forcing him to use UOL as hosting provider

Braiam

O_O

allquixotic

3:56 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy did he bear his fox-teeth at them?

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy UOL?

That Brazilian Guy

You know, the one that started as a news portal. And whose support one told me to fix an error 500 issue by resetting my modem

*once

Damn Mobile

@allquixotic no, he had no teeth, in fact on my dream nobody in RA had physical bodies, everyone was just chat messages disembodied

Except for @journeymangeek, he's ALWAYS a dog.

2

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy was OliverSalzburg at least bald in your dream?

or was he not there?

That Brazilian Guy

I don't remember much, except a discomfort for having to deal with the terrible hosting

Bad support, follow you even on your dreams

"Sir have you tried waking up then falling asleep again?"

allquixotic

we should analyze your dream in terms of Freudian psychology. your inclusion of Bob in your dream and discomfort related to his discomfort with his hosting situation (forced upon him by an insidious salesman) indicates that you have a Freudian desire to see Bob comforted and alleviate his hosting woes

Braiam

4:02 PM

@allquixotic just what crap have you typed out?

allquixotic

you should definitely avoid offering Bob hosting at your university though. it'd be down 80% of the time, and when it's up, have about 5 Kbps throughput

@Braiam sarcastic crap

That Brazilian Guy

No, I have a desire to see bad hosting going out of business.

allquixotic

@Bob aptitude update && aptitude full-upgrade going on on superuser VM at the moment

then going to manually reboot cavil (why hasn't cron been restarting him??!?!)

Bob

allquixotic

so far, libc upgrade but I don't see an openssl upgrade yet

Canadian Luke

4:04 PM

cpuboss.com/blog/…

Bob

@allquixotic Better question: why is he dying??!?!

That Brazilian Guy

It's not THAT bad where I work. Speed can reach 100mbps on the main campus, and if your server goes down you only have to chase the whole campus for the responsible department

Bob

Might have to revive my plans for retarded-redundancy

@allquixotic openssl version -a afterwards, check build time (should be on the 8th of April)

Braiam

@Bob cuz he's lonely :(

That Brazilian Guy

(By foot, usually)

Bob

4:06 PM

@CanadianLuke Those are so so bad, they're not even good.

Canadian Luke

@Bob I laughed my ass off! I LMAOd!

allquixotic

Mimi "Meme" L'mao, from France?

@Bob better question: why does it take Debian so long to come up with a security fix? apparently they've approved the source package but it'll take "hours" to build and push out to the mirrors.

Bob

4:22 PM

Hm. Apparently the new Nvidia beta drivers massively improve gaming performance.

@allquixotic Hm? I installed the fixed version about 14 hours ago.

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0160

> wheezy (security) 1.0.1e-2+deb7u6 fixed

@allquixotic What are you running?

wait, u6? o.O

I installed u5... there was another patch?

Braiam

@allquixotic stable (security) and sid are patched several hours ago... testing is still vulnerable :P

allquixotic

@Braiam blah. come on!

Bob

@allquixotic Testing has a fix according to this: debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2896

allquixotic

@Bob jessie on SU box; wheezy on my box

Bob

@allquixotic I updated wheezy just fine. I'm running sid on the vservers.

allquixotic

4:28 PM

sid on a server? lolol living on the edge man

Bob

Wait. Was it jessie or sid? o.O

allquixotic

jessie is testing

sid is always unstable

Bob

Wait, they're running jessie.

allquixotic

k

Psycogeek

Canadian Luke

4:40 PM

@Psycogeek Why do you punish yourself like that?

Psycogeek

Which one of the next 2 pictures looks most like windows 8 ?

Bob

Neither, really.

Psycogeek

Ok then how about this ?

Naw more sofisticated

With connections too :-)

DragonLord

5:07 PM

It's 1:00 PM EDT, and the final patches for Windows XP have been released. Farewell...

blog.fierydragonlord.com/index.php?/archives/…

Bob

@DragonLord way ahead of you (literally) :P

DragonLord

@Bob Patch Tuesday updates come out at 1:00PM ET or 10:00AM PT

Bob

@DragonLord Ya. Just happens that MS's website uses local time for its countdown.

DragonLord

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Psycogeek

5:47 PM

3

Canadian Luke

LOL

Hennes

6:07 PM

Stack Exchange will be offline for a few hours tomorrow while we upgrade our web servers from Windows XP.

Canadian Luke

... @Hennes You do know they don't run on XP right now, right? It's all 2000?

Hennes

Uh, then it is safe. ;-)

Stack Exchange will be offline for a few hours tomorrow while we upgrade our web servers from Windows XP.

Tweeted by StackStatus on April 8, 2014 at 1:16 PM

I miss having the time to see those jokes as they are being posted.

But alas, work means no browsing fun sites between 8 and 17:00

Canadian Luke

Wow lol

Boris_yo

The most active question of recent time!

21

Q: Why half of my RAM of 8GB is missing?

Have been sitting with 8GBs of RAM for 2 years still thinking I needed another 4GBs and never questioning why so often I get message about low physical memory that would close all open programs (Firefox mostly since it is mainly what I use) if not paid attention to immediately. I would then have ...

windows-7 memory swap-file

MINE!

Hennes

Now if you only had a RAM disk to swap to ;-)

Boris_yo

6:22 PM

@Hennes RAM disk? SSD as cache?

Canadian Luke

Anyone ever play Untrusted?

Boris_yo

Yes, you are right, I did leave out one piece of information regarding why I use such a small page file. It's because I have 96GB of RAM in my system. I rarely use more than 64GB of that for apps. In such a case a page file of more than a GB or so is simply wasting disk space. — Ausmith1 yesterday

0.o

Hennes

@Boris_yo surprisingly enough using ram as a RAMdisk has its rare usages.

And not just when you connect a nice amige 500 with 1 MB RAM via parnet (paralel port network) to an amiga 3000, enable virtual memory and back that against RAM: on the A4000. (Insane, but I saw people do that)

Real work usage is mostly for a 32 bit OS with no PEA and > 4GB RAM

Boris_yo

@Hennes PEA - Pulseless electrical activity

Hennes

PAE

Boris_yo

6:33 PM

"During the system maintenance, impress on the service provider on the need to clean cooling coils and clean drain pans"

@Hennes Off-topic. Does above sentense make sense?

allquixotic

@Bob DediDirect says you can get the same offer as I have for the same price and they're in stock, FYI

Bob

@allquixotic Oh, thanks!

goes off to think

Actually, trying to figure out if my phone is vulnerable to heartbleed

Hennes

I have no idea what cooling coils and drain pans are, but otherwise: Yes. Probably.

allquixotic

they have Nehalems too but probably pricier

the insane value is apparently only on the Core2 Xeons

Hennes

From a chat channel on A2 mud: My $deity that thing is ugly.
Even for its era.
Don't do drugs & design

Bob

6:35 PM

@allquixotic Wait, those are Core2? :S

allquixotic

@Bob FSB

Boris_yo

@Hennes Okay. What does "impress on service provider" mean?

allquixotic

they have dual L5520 systems too (L5520 = Nehalem) but their website says they're out of stock

Boris_yo

@Hennes Here's another one:

"EPA impresses on avoiding contamination of the unit on the onset."

Darth Android

@Boris_yo If you impress something on someone, then you are making something very clear to someone

e.g., "Impress upon your brother how important it is for him to clean his room today."

dictionary.reference.com/browse/impress - Definitions 2 & 3

Hennes

6:42 PM

How much speed do you need? Except when compiling I am quite happy with an ancient Xeon X3363 (core2 gen, 4 cores, FSB).

If you need faster memory access go core i3/5/7 or AMD

Bob

> AMD

!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

Bob

Also, the only dedi servers with AMD chips in this range are from 2006. At best.

Darth Android

@Bob What's the offer from dedidirect that allquixotic has? The prices listed on their website don't look super spectacular...

Bob

3 hours ago, by allquixotic

> - Intel Dual Quad Harpertown L5420
- 16GB DDRII Memory
- 500GB SATAII HDD
- 100Mbps Port Speed
- 10TB Premium Bandwidth
- 1 IP Address

All Dedicated Servers Include:
-100.00% Network SLA
-Free Reboots

1 month FREE when you prepay 6 months
3 months FREE when you prepay 12 months
9 months FREE when you prepay 24 months

$99.00 one-time setup fee

$35.00 per month

Darth Android

6:49 PM

Ah

Boris_yo

@DarthAndroid Hmmm, thanks.

Boris_yo

7:24 PM

@Psycogeek Yeah... youtube.com/watch?v=2mcdFAALv4g

Hennes

8:13 PM

AMD used to rock for memory access (back when Intel still used stones, rocks and FSB). Today they only rules two things:
1) Cheap atom like CPU's with sufficient GPU power.
2) Decent performance at low cost (and higher power usage)

Ofc. I am very happy that there is some competition

Hennes

8:45 PM

Oh yes. Yes! yes!
https://securityrecht.nl/europese-bewaarplicht-voor-telecommunicatiegegevens-vernietigd/
(Goodbye EU law on keeping some communication and data records)

allquixotic

@Hennes if only the US were as forward thinking

Hennes

Of. the US is keeping a copy of everything we know. :(

allquixotic

"Of"?

Michael Frank

@allquixotic Quite possibly an abbreviation for 'of course'.

Or perhaps..... 'ofviously'.

allquixotic

@MichaelFrank lol

or Officially

Canadian Luke

9:00 PM

alexnisnevich.github.io/untrusted <-- I need help on level 9. Any takers?

Hennes

ofc stood for ofcourse. Shorthand which I should not type

allquixotic

@CanadianLuke veryinteresting

Canadian Luke

I got through the first 8 by myself, although I posted about Level 7 on Arquade just before figuring it out

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9:15 PM

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Canadian Luke

Got it!

allquixotic

@CanadianLuke took me about 5 minutes to get to level 7

Canadian Luke

I know, then it took a while at Level 7... I forgot the if... then syntax for JS

Michael Frank

@CanadianLuke I clicked your link... and all I got was a black page. :(

IE8 FTW?

Canadian Luke

Yup! Lol

I'm using FF

Oliver Salzburg

9:30 PM

Sweet, new Spotify UI

Black is the new black!

Canadian Luke

Got someone else addicted to it as well! Posts are appearing on Arquade

Oliver Salzburg

@CanadianLuke Addicted to what?

Canadian Luke

Untrusted - alexnisnevich.github.io/untrusted

Oliver Salzburg

Oshi- someone posted that to me this morning

I guess I'm lucky that I dismissed it ;D

Canadian Luke

Found it in TL

Oliver Salzburg

10:01 PM

6

FU!

Canadian Luke

LMAO

Darth Android

@CanadianLuke It's thwarting my mad hacks like me.onCollision = function() {} ;.;

Canadian Luke

I know lol

Daniel Beck

How do you solve the river level (9 or so)? I created a bunch of 'raft2' that don't move and don't get validated, but I assume there's a solution with reversing the raft's direction?

Darth Android

10:24 PM

@DanielBeck yeah, that's the solution, more or less. just remember that the player has to move with the raft to not fall off

Daniel Beck

@DarthAndroid Could you show me the gist? I have no idea how to get a reference to the predefined raft object to replace its behavior

Michael Frank

forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/04/07/…

Anybody understand what this 'shingling' thing is?

Oliver Salzburg

@MichaelFrank I'm assuming this is not in reference to roofing?

Daniel Beck

@MichaelFrank anandtech.com/show/7290/…

Michael Frank

@OliverSalzburg Nope.

Oliver Salzburg

10:34 PM

...fucking double negatives

Michael Frank

@DanielBeck Ahh thanks. :)

Daniel Beck

> SMR shrinks the guard space between tracks and allows tracks to overlap one another, like roofing shingles. Although data is written to the entire width of the track, a smaller/trimmed portion of the track (the width of the read head) is all that the drive cares about. By allowing tracks to overlap, areal density can continue to scale without further shrinking the size of the heads.

Michael Frank

For your help, an article that pretty much sums up stupidity:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11234962

Canadian Luke

@DanielBeck map.getPlayer().setPhoneCallback(function() {
raftDirection = 'up';
})

Daniel Beck

...

gist.github.com/anonymous/… !!!

I built a bridge!

Canadian Luke

10:39 PM

Ahhhh, OK

Daniel Beck

Because I couldn't figure out the raft direction :(

Canadian Luke

I'm on 14, and it reminds me of Chips Challenge

... And no JS allowed in this level!

Oliver Salzburg

So much yay!

Darth Android

11:03 PM

@CanadianLuke stuck on 14 here too

not sure what to switch the green lock to.

Psycogeek

11:26 PM

@MichaelFrank I wonder why they cant just make a taller hard drive with more platters? seems like it would fit in most cases where an 8T drive would be used?

Canadian Luke

@DarthAndroid I started by having it drop the redKey, which is all that makes sense. You need the computer and phone to proceed, but you need a blue key and yellow key to get the Algorithm

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