Root Access

9:25 AM

Peeking at task manager might be a start

Although the warranty on my SSD is officially limited to 150 terabytes TBW, consider that AnandTech found the internally indicated endurance for the SSD 850 PRO is 6,000 P/E cycles

Assuming 5x write amplification (very unlikely in a consumer workload), this is 600 TB host TBW

In practice, the endurance of the drive is probably no less than 1 PB host TBW

The 150 TB host TBW limit is only there to exclude write-heavy enterprise use cases

slhck

I have 4 tabs open -_-

DragonLord

(I have the 512 GB version of the SSD 850 PRO)

Journeyman Geek

I see high processor usage ._.

superuser.com/questions/240794/… may be part of the issue

What sorta laptop?

slhck

9:41 AM

Crappy Fujitsu Lifebook S

Your run-of-the-mill 5400rpm hard drive

Journeyman Geek

eh. that's an odd system. Its got a better processor than my x220, and the same amount of ram

Bob

outlook email rules are the most fucking obscure crap I've ever had the misfortune to encounter

2

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck I think extensions run in their own process as well

@Bob They get even more messed up when they are translated to German

Bob

It's taken me half a fucking hour to add a simple fucking out-of-office auto-reply

And it still won't fucking work!

It worked last night!

What is this sorcery?

I even took all the conditions out!

Receive email => send reply with template.

WHY WON'T IT WORK

WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT

slhck

9:57 AM

@Bob Huh? You don't a rule for that, no?

Bob

@slhck ?

slhck

@Bob Don't you just go to File and click Out of office or something?

Bob

Nope! No such thing!

That requires Exchange!

But of course we're all using POP!

slhck

Ah!

I'm sorry for you, then.

Bob

-_-

I've sent over ten test emails.

I've gotten... one, ONE reply so far.

And that was with an inconsistent rule condition that matched the email address but fucked up when the address included the descriptive name.

jokerdino

9:58 AM

I think they expect no one to go out of office.

Bob

Who designed this sack of crap?

slhck

I guess that using another mail client is not an option?

Hell, if I'd only have POP, first thing I'd do is ditch Outlook

@OliverSalzburg I guess that contributes to the issue. But something has changed a few weeks ago; it didn't run that slowly before.

It's even unresponsive in Explorer when selecting folders or creating new ones.

Hennes

Boot windows 8.1
We encountered a rpblem.

Crap unstable OS

DragonLord

Just broke 15k!

slhck

Oliver Salzburg

10:13 AM

Why is it that this Windows Anti-Malware process uses tons of resources when I download a tiny 10 MB .exe?

This is ridiculous

And then it will finally open the file in 15 minutes or something like that

slhck

@OliverSalzburg But then you're safe :P

Oliver Salzburg

Ah, good point. I already feel much better ;D

slhck

Speaking of which.. is it weird that I'm the only person at work or should I feel good about that?

Oliver Salzburg

Funny part about it is that it's the new, security patched version of git

@slhck I'm alone here as well :D

I even left the lights off

slhck

If only they hadn't taken away the milk for the coffee machine :(

Oliver Salzburg

10:17 AM

I have lots of spare, fresh milk here. Shouldn't forget to take that home

slhck

And then you'll have to figure out what to do with lots of fresh milk

Bob

> A rule will only reply once per sender per Outlook session.

WELL OK THEN

sigh

slhck

Which actually makes sense

Bob

@slhck Now if only they mentioned that somewhere.

Oliver Salzburg

The git installer is still not opened O__o

slhck

10:23 AM

@Bob See, they did the thinking for you! :P

Bob

@Hennes s/OS/drivers/

The core OS is pretty stable.

It doesn't mix well with certain (third-party) drivers, though.

About par for the course.

DragonLord

Protected preemptively:

2

Q: Preventing Avira from detecting Autorun.inf as a virus (everywhere)

I have created an autorun.inf to specify an icon and label for my removable drive. Unfortunately Avira detects it as a virus and won’t let it show the icon or label. This is frustrating because I made the file myself, so I know it’s clean! How can I prevent Avira (on any system running it) from...

Journeyman Geek

XD

Protection is generally for spam magnets IMO

Bob

@DragonLord Better to refrain from protecting unless there's a large stream of useless/spam answers in a short period of time.

Protection should only be for extreme cases.

DragonLord

Still learning how to use the feature

slhck

10:27 AM

We have quite a few cases of old questions migrated over from SO where the auto-protection does not kick in.

Bob

I don't think I've found reason to protect anything yet.

DragonLord

I'm sifting through the 10K tools to see what I can find

Bob

@slhck Still, if we take that one for example, it got two non-answers in the space of a year.

slhck

The list of newly created tags is worth checking

Bob

Only one of them after it fell off the recent list.

slhck

10:28 AM

@Bob Yeah, not really worth protecting, I agree

DragonLord

Question is unprotected.

Bob

ooookay... didn't really expect that question to explode

actually, I was more expecting it to be downvoted/closed o.O

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob It's funny that you say that while I watched my session freeze and had to reset ;D

DragonLord

data-recovery may have some good examples

slhck

superuser.com/questions/tagged/computing-environment

wtf

Bob

10:31 AM

> Tweeted twitter.com/#!/super_user/status/547284294444777472

That explains it.

slhck

Who created that stupid tag?

Bob

@slhck superuser.com/posts/328518/revisions

slhck

@Bob sigh

And 2010

Bob

work-environment => computing-environment GOOD JOB

slhck

Wow, are people stupid.

Bob

10:33 AM

@slhck Well, I wouldn't say stupid.

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck Humm, that gave me an idea. Maybe we should tag questions with dates... and the names of the authors

slhck

@Bob I meant the "2010" tag.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I think I used the word "irrational" ;p

DragonLord

8

Q: How can I get data off of a damaged thumb drive?

A guy I work with just came by to ask me about a damaged thumb drive/USB flash drive. Apparently his son dropped it on a hard surface and it won't power up anymore. They've tried plugging it into multiple machines without success, even though each port they tried was able to power other USB dev...

usb-flash-drive data-recovery

Oliver Salzburg

23rd december 2014 oliver-salzburg question

slhck

10:35 AM

@OliverSalzburg That's awesome! Now we can find all questions asked on one particular day by one particular user!

Who needs search, right?

0

Q: How to tell wget to skip arbitrarily nested, named directory?

I know how to tell wget to skip an absolute directory, e.g. -X images/thumbs. But I can’t seem to get wget to skip all directories named thumbs, no matter what the ancestor directory is named. -X '*/thumbs' doesn’t seem to work.

wget exclude nested directories pattern

wget exclude nested directories pattern

Oliver Salzburg

:D

slhck

It's almost like a story.

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck You're close to becoming editor #1 O_O

slhck

Really? Didn't check, sec

Woah. Thought I'd never surpass Gareth.

Oh, and I kicked Wil out of the top #4

Bob

@slhck ok, I'll give you that :P

DragonLord

10:40 AM

I think this is a better candidate for protection

53

Q: Opened up a USB stick and it looks a bit odd

We opened up the case of a USB stick (that didn't work before we opened it) and it looks like this: Has the memory been taken out of it or do some USB sticks actually look like this? Note that it was probably cheaply-produced.

usb usb-storage

slhck

@DragonLord Sorta, yeah. But it's not like you have to actively seek questions that need protection. When you stumble upon one that has a large number of deleted answers, then sure, go ahead. But otherwise, moderation time is better spent on reviewing.

DragonLord

> Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality answers, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site.

Journeyman Geek

11:15 AM

Yup

There's no need to be overenthusastic ;p

Boris_yo

12:05 PM

@Bob Hi. You recommended graphite lubricant to me a while ago. This is what I am concerned about:

"Should not be used in ignition switches or other electrically actuated locks"

Is this flammable?

Journeyman Geek

No, its conductive

Which is worse.

Journeyman Geek

12:26 PM

0_0

0

Q: can we use unix hardlinks on a mounted windows share?

ln command can create hard links on the mounted windows share, but cp -al fails. Is this expected behaviour? I'm trying to save disk space by creating copy on write style backups using cowdancer, rsync and cp -al. backupuser@lan0:/mnt/backup/share$ mkdir a backupuser@lan0:/mnt/backup/share$ touc...

linux backup samba rsync cifs

I'm pretty sure that linking wouldn't be exposed by smb, but I've never thought about it.

Hennes

@Bob This is the factory install with windows 8.1 with bing (with bing disabled my me) and tons of realtek drivers

@Boris_yo It might be conductive. And yes, carbon is also flamable. As as more fine powdered things.

Hennes

12:50 PM

Ah, here is goes again.

Bob

@Hennes You'd be surprised just how unstable many "factory installed" OEM drivers can be.

Boris_yo

@Hennes I have juice extractor. It has grinder and it is assembled on top. Grinder is on plastic that has steel balls that lock-in when grinder is assembled.

Hennes

After being left idle for over 2 hours it suddenly blue screens with a sad face

Boris_yo

There's no friction so no need to worry about flammable?

Hennes

/me ponders getting thw win7 DVD and installing a working OS

Boris_yo

12:51 PM

I don't think this will come in contact with juice...

Hennes

(s/OS/os plus driver combination/)

Bob

o.O

That was a completely unexpected repcap.

Journeyman Geek

Thats the best sort!

Also, that's a classic fan favourite answer ;p

Its wierd and it works

Oliver Salzburg

…like blowing into a NES cartridge

Bob

@JourneymanGeek That part was just a passing "eh, why the hell not"!

Journeyman Geek

12:57 PM

;p

Bob

I... didn't actually expect that part to be useful beyond giving him something to try :S

Bob

1:26 PM

> - Fixed sometimes Crisis fail after long press power button.

Note to self: never buy Lenovo again

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Bob

Anyone know a good laptop vendor? :S

Lenovo is shit.

HP is better but still pretty bad.

Haven't directly dealt with Asus much, but their website alone is far behind HP.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Alas, no

Bob

Journeyman Geek

o0

Thats a really old cat.

Bob

1:35 PM

4

Bob

3:23 PM

O_O

Journeyman Geek

sweden or stackexchange?

0

Q: Is there a standard or professional way to call off because you're too drunk to drive in to work?

So, something that's been happening to me a lot lately is that I've been waking up to my alarm clock in the morning, but still pretty drunk. Well over the legal limit, and probably unsafe to drive into work. This is a problem because I already have a few DUIs on my record, so if I get another o...

sickness time-off disability

ahh ya

allquixotic

@HackToHell yes, why

meda

3:41 PM

Hi guys

what is the best way to make a copy of a windows server from a back up

this back up does not have the system state

just the C: and D: drive

Bob

@meda Install from scratch and copy data files only when needed.

Is the original server still running?

In any case, with a server you want stability.

Not some hacked-together mess that barely works.

meda

@Bob yes the server still running

usually I use the system state to restore it

Bob

@allquixotic Oh yea, @JourneymanGeek was looking at a dedi today :P

meda

this time I do not have it

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

3:44 PM

@meda If it's running why do you need to restore anything?

:S

Journeyman Geek

I was considering it ;p

meda

I want to make a copy of my server

that all

Journeyman Geek

@meda: ahh. Imaging software might be useful here

meda

something like clonezilla?

Bob

@meda What is the purpose of this copy?

An offline copy is fine.

meda

3:45 PM

@Bob backup ?

Bob

A running copy could be disastrous.

meda

yea I wont run it

I want to swap on new years and see if it work

Bob

Ok - why can't you use system state?

That's the official MS-supported method.

meda

because freaking DELL added a FAT32 partition

Bob

There are alternatives, but it's hard to recommend any without knowing what you don't like about system state.

@meda o.O

meda

3:47 PM

I love system state

Just could not get it to work on that server

Journeyman Geek

ahh

meda

I want to do this just in case of disaster

Journeyman Geek

@meda: I'd give veem endpoint backup a spin

meda

I want to be able to swap my server

Journeyman Geek

Its in beta, but very polished.

meda

3:49 PM

@journey Im not sure what you are telling me?

Journeyman Geek

@meda: IE - use another backup software?

allquixotic

@Bob "dedi"

Bob

@meda Wait - is Windows running on he FAT32 partition? O_O

I hope not...

@allquixotic ?

meda

@Journey and what is the one you recommend "veem" ?

@Bob no it seems to be a pre install partition

Im just nervous to remove it

o.0'

Journeyman Geek

@meda: go.veeam.com/endpoint

I run this on my desktops (and it supports windows server)

meda

3:53 PM

yes but does it care about the drive format?

allquixotic

@Bob I put the dedi in air quotes if it's a low-end Atom :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

it may have a dedi's uplink and uptime/SLA, but the components within don't really seem very "dedi-like" to me anymore :P

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: Oh, in the sense that I could run a good chunk of what I need on something like that ;p

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek is the VPS on my box working alright for you? my box is having good uptime last I checked

Journeyman Geek

3:55 PM

@allquixotic: Yeah

Just planning ahead for when I don't get paid kibble ;p

Its working great

Bob

1

Q: Hot network questions sidebar does not show some favicons in Firefox on a high DPI display

I'm currently on a high-resolution display, using Firefox 34.0.5 on Windows 8.1 with display (Windows DPI) scaling set to 150%. This seems to cause favicons to not show up for some sites in the hot network questions list: This seems to only affect those favicons more than ~4050px down the spr...

bug hot-questions firefox rendering

:S

meda

@JourneymanGeek I read that this product is meant for virtual servers

Journeyman Geek

@meda: Naw, this is a new one for actual systems

Bob

@meda If you're planning for a full restore onto identical hardware, a basic image might work.

If the hardware will not be identical, then you have a high likelihood of running into issues.

meda

@Bob I plan to make the copy a virtual one

Journeyman Geek

4:01 PM

oh wait

meda

But you are right clones make issue sometimes

Journeyman Geek

You're doing p2v?

meda

I have seen that

what does that stand for

@JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

hm. I'm out of touch there, but there's specific tools for that

physical to virtual conversion

meda

I think I will have to do manually

I will need a way to export iis settings

this will take hours to do, thats why I wanted to clone

but maybe its not good idea

Journeyman Geek

4:14 PM

and heh.

I'm generally happy with my hosting. Just looking around at stuff I wanted to do and couldn't to see if they made sense ;p

meda

@JourneymanGeek it seems interesting

Im downloding now

I will try it out

is this opens ource

Journeyman Geek

Nope

HackToHell

whoa techcrunch.com/2014/12/23/…

meda

well it says free though lol

now free does not really mean free anymore

Journeyman Geek

free means no cost

in this case, its gratis, not libre

HackToHell

4:20 PM

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Okaaaay

It's a good deal

parents noped out of it

:/

HackToHell

4:36 PM

Uhm someone please make me a room owner ;p

assuming rooms owners can see deleted messages

meda

4:51 PM

What happens if I do a schedule backup and the drives gets full

@Bob do you know

@JourneymanGeek

I know time machine on mac will delete the older ones, what about window

Canadian Luke

5:13 PM

@Bob If you think Outlook rules suck, learn a program called 'First Class'

That Brazilian Guy

@HackToHell You know what?

allquixotic

I wish I could star removed messages

DragonLord

7:03 PM

Looks like we have spamming here

-1

A: Why are my games slower on battery power, even with the power plan set to High Performance?

The battery cannot provide enough power for your laptop at full performance given that it is probably a Li-ion battery. If this is really a major problem for you, you may want to consider a Li-po battery (lithium polymer), as they are designed to have a higher output current, but it may not run f...

ekaj

7:35 PM

@DragonLord While it's not the best written post, I wouldn't consider it spam.. he's essentially saying OP probably has a li-ion batter, and should consider switching to a li-po battery for a higher output

allquixotic

@ekaj Yeah, but "get a li-po battery" isn't a viable solution. one does not simply switch battery chemistries by the act of will alone. For one thing, that would very likely void your warranty, and you'd be buying some poor Chinese knockoff that probably would be worse in every way than the OEM battery. Second, the software and firmware are already configured to limit TDP, so even if your new battery is capable of higher TDP stably, the system simply won't draw that much anyway.

the query parameters in that URL are somewhat suspect, too. tbm=shop?

Canadian Luke

@allquixotic Feel free to post that as an answer

allquixotic

@CanadianLuke it's not an answer; it's a response as to why the -1 downvoted answer is a bad answer and possibly spam.

an answer would offer a constructive solution for how to achieve the same performance/TDP targets on battery power as on AC power, or to explain that it is impossible.

I don't know that it's impossible, just that that's not the way you do it.

Canadian Luke

Unfortunately, there's no </joking> tag available

That Brazilian Guy

7:50 PM

So, I have a Duron 900 with 1GB DDR RAM. I can't decide if I should install Lubuntu or Xubuntu on it.

The official sites list similar system requirements for both distros

I need something that will run on an 8-year old PC as smoothly as possible

Canadian Luke

@ThatBrazilianGuy I have an old-ass netbook that I upgraded to Windows 7, only 2 GB of DDR2 RAM, Atom processor. The biggest upgrade I made on it, was a simple SSD. Does that system have SATA ports?

Also, try Puppy Linux

That Brazilian Guy

@CanadianLuke No, only IDE. I managed to find a 20GB IDE HDD and a single store on the whole city that still sells 80-pin IDE cables.

@CanadianLuke I was reading about it the other day. It loads completely to RAM and then saves sessions to disk in a similar fashion to CD/DVD burner sessions, IIRC.

Too complicated for the end user

I want to donate it to charity

Yes, clippy, but not for you

Canadian Luke

Puppy Linux can also be installed to the hard drive. Boot it up, then choose the option to install it

Once it's up and running, it's actually a decent speed

That Brazilian Guy

I prefer an ubuntu-based, Canonical-supported LTS distro that I can just set unnatended-upgrades and just rest assured that it will receive updates silently for at least 2 years ;p

Both xubuntu and lubuntu have 14.04 LTS releases

Canadian Luke

Not a problem, just offering suggestions

That Brazilian Guy

8:02 PM

I just remembered a friend suggested elementary OS

from the sreenshots it looks quite visually appealing

and my friend says it's lightweight

Latest Elementary stable is Aug/2013 O.o

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy Duron? DDR1? IDE? Throw it away.

That Brazilian Guy

> [Elementary Luna] is based off Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. So far all elementary versions are based of the Ubuntu LTS versions.

allquixotic

Just... no.

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic I was literally going to throw it away with my 15" CRT monitor. They both have been just accumulating dust for at least 6 years or so under a desk.

allquixotic

If you want to do something useful with a low-end system, give me your address and I'll ship you a $99 current-gen tablet with a 5x faster processor and twice as much memory.

That Brazilian Guy

8:17 PM

I'm ressurrectig this system in order to donate it to charity

I already got a 20GB IDE HDD for free

and 2x 512 MB DDR1 for USD 5 each

and 1 IDE cable for USD 2

and 1 mouse and keyboard

Now I just have to install the OS and give it to charity

I was going to throw it away, but there are people and organizations that could use it

Specially in lower income areas

So instead of creating more trash, I'll create something good for someone else

At least, I expect to

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy OK, you win

I cave to your extreme practicality and frugality

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic Hahhaha, I'm anything but practical and frugal

But this is also an effort in improving myself

Also, thanks for offering me the tablet but I fear you'd have to pay shipping and I'd have to pay import taxes even if you declared it as a gift (not sure tho)

Journeyman Geek

9:22 PM

@meda you can set veem to do that

@ThatBrazilianGuy: Debian ;p

tho, ya, LXDE or XFCE is a good idea, but you're likely to get better performance with debian than ubuntu.

Bob

My lightweight VM experiment found Lubuntu easier/lighter than Gnome Debian OOB.

Psycogeek

9:41 PM

@DragonLord Did everyone pick power on this laptop performace via battery question? seems that way, why nobody tossed in the possibility that it is just getting hot like many laptops do and slowing down just to stay somewhat cooler? on battery it is not like you can run non stop gaming for 4 hours straight. Li-Ion batteries can potentially be run at 1C (complete discharge in only 1 hour) depending on the type. There are also many settings that "know" it is on battery.

Plugged in a person could spend the whole day gaming, on battery not likely to be doing so. plus it is more likely to not be on an inuslated surface (like playing in bed or on the couch) . The user didnt provide squat for info, like checking FOR the temperatures, or checking for the "processor frequency" (stepping).

there exists some HP laptop platforms where it is the AC power adapter thing that is the weak point . Some users of these models reported that without the battery :-O the thing ends up slowing down.

On those the battery suppliments the extra needed power of the momentary high power drain, of course the users finding out, were on a constant high drain .

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic could be worse.

There was a guy asking about upgrading the video card on a PIV of that era

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek no

Journeyman Geek

9:56 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy: I've actually passed up on an athelon of about that era.

Granted, I already had a dumpster diva c2d at that time ;p

Psycogeek

I think for all practical purposes, and the gpu engines provided in most of this mobile stuff, playing the easier 3d work games and 2D+ kind when mobile , would be a good method. But why a beastly laptop in a case with some real cooling and battery, and slide in desktop docking system , is rejected, when with todays processing and gpu shrinkage and power reduction it is about time for a Real computer to be real mobile. (like for 12hours+)

Ohh its gotta be Thin, thin is in. well speed is in too, and if they are going to keep making stuff that doesnt work at spec, when run hard AT that spec, then it is about time they balance out thier Thin Marketing, with Truth.

Having the entire base of the unit be a passive heat movement capability instead of plastic which is insulative, getting the batteries themselves out of the heat of the processing. have docking units which sock in some real cooling without tiny noisey fans.

They are too busy making marketing noise and cheap junk, to be bothered with making todays portablle machine that begins to use what they are handed, follows the specs for things like batteries and capacitors and all. works out in a portable situation which includes outside (the sun). and has the battery needed to run it for some time.

DragonLord

10:12 PM

@Psycogeek Look at the HP Omen.

Alienware 13 is another example.

Psycogeek

10:26 PM

The real grafics engine :-) fit that in your backpack .

I dont get the thin thing still, what or where does a laptop not fit, when it is (say) a full inch thicker?

Still makes me wonder, buy cheap laptop to do what mobile devices can do, and forget about it being a desktop. or fork over 2X$ to try and get a laptop to be both . (and it still does not happen)

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek:Though, there's mini PCI express/expresscard pci breakouts that would probably do the same as this

Not terribly pricy either.

That Brazilian Guy

10:51 PM

So my IDE DVD drive is dead and this mobo cant... boot... from.... USB

Journeyman Geek

ow

@ThatBrazilianGuy: floppy?

;p

Not sure if something that old can pixie boot, but that's another option

That Brazilian Guy