Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:09

erg

superuser.com/questions/348484/… this guy is posting a whole load of crappy answers >_>

Tom Wijsman

My explorer.exe managed to get up to 4 GB today, then a bit later it suddenly dropped back to 140 MB. o_O

On the other hand, my system hasn't crashed in the last four days (which includes playing both StarCraft II and Skyrim a lot) so I think did something good with the excessive driver updating.

Simon Sheehan

00:42

@JourneymanGeek I flagged that one.

Journeyman Geek

I posted a reply on another one of his answers here superuser.com/questions/348484/…

He's prolly trying to get 'easy' rep... and failing.

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek Indeed... he's got just overall bad answers

Journeyman Geek

well, there's a certain.. lack of effort

Simon Sheehan

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A: How to start wuala on the linux commandline with auto login

there is a probably a config file where you can store your username and password

But that's just.... awful.

Journeyman Geek

01:30

@SimonSheehan: yeah. I mean, i don't expect the sort of super-human effort will puts in (i mean, he actually has written software specifically to answer questions!) but... at least poking around the program minimally...

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek Indeed :/

Journeyman Geek

hm, my dad apparently kills his computer mice...

apparently the scrollwheel stopped working on his current one, and it was running for god knows how long with a leaky battery

Simon Sheehan

I never used a wireless mouse until we got one at school :p

Journeyman Geek

my dad has this thing for tiny wireless mice

Simon Sheehan

we got my aunt a nice $15 logitech one :p

Journeyman Geek

01:35

XD

I cannot stand tiny mice

or tiny anything. I like my hardware rather hefty

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek Go big or go home? :p

Journeyman Geek

lol

I have clumsy fingers ;)

and i have this thing called the lethality rule

Any 'tool' i have must at least look and feel like you can beat someone to death with it

Simon Sheehan

haha

Journeyman Geek

Ok, its actually meant for kitchenware...

Simon Sheehan

My hardware apparently just lasts forever

Like everything I own

Journeyman Geek

01:56

lol

my recent stuff has been pretty solid

actually there's a few things i would replace if it would just die ;p

Tom Wijsman

02:44

@DanielBeck: twitch.tv/tomwij/b/299960407

Just some running around, I think it is limited by the CPU now. Should look into a lower FPS, lowering the CPU the game uses, changing their affinities so they are on separate cores.

Also need to do some net monitoring, because this probably uses quite some bandwidth...

Tom Wijsman

03:00

Also shows on local recording, it's definitely CPU related then.

Casting uses a solid 40%, well, that explains...

A local recording of doing something on Windows / YouTube is just fine. Seems I got to resolve the battle for the CPU then... :D

Journeyman Geek

is it just me, or is everything on the featured tab appearing multiple times?

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Q: featured tab shows entries more than once

Running firefox 8.0 (the current latest release version), on windows 7 32 bit - it dosen't seem to be everything, but a good subset of them

bug

Tom Wijsman

03:19

@JourneymanGeek: Just you... Firefox 10.0a1 here.

Journeyman Geek

hm

fixed itself on reload

daxelrod

03:37

@JourneymanGeek, still need an Adium user to test something?

And does it have to do with my question, perchance? :)

Journeyman Geek

04:05

@daxelrod: yeah, just wanted to ask how themes worked...

but if you're the one testing, well, it would be easier to leave it to you ;p

daxelrod

What do you mean by "How they work"? How' they're installed, what they do?

Journeyman Geek

yeah

from what i can tell, the contact list format is similar, but replacing the default with another one keeps emescene from starting

daxelrod

Awww. :(

Journeyman Geek

I could have sworn there was another one that might work....

ooh

instantbird might support adium themes

daxelrod

blog.instantbird.org/2009/07/…

Looks like it for message styles

Wow, I admire your encyclopedic knowledge of IM clients

Journeyman Geek

04:18

lol

i need to test it, and thats in another box

and its almost lunchtime!

daxelrod

Don't let me keep you from sustinence

Journeyman Geek

updated my answer with instantbird related stuff ;p

lol. I was looking for a pidgin replacement

daxelrod

Thank you!

Journeyman Geek

I know about a dozen clients, most of them are stuff i wouldn't use

daxelrod

What do you prefer?

Journeyman Geek

04:21

pidgin for now

i've been toying with instantbird for a bit, and yattm for when i need an uberlight linux client

William Hilsum

06:23

Does anyone know if Truecrypt works well through dropbox? ,.... I know it probably won't work on more than one PC at once... Just want a safe way to transfer sensitive files from home to work.

Journeyman Geek

06:47

i think lifehacker recommended doing it

lifehacker.com/5794486/…

you would need to sync the whole volume each time tho

Journeyman Geek

07:29

whoa superuser.com/questions/77404/… does this dude SWEAT acid?

surfasb

@JourneymanGeek LULZ

DMA57361

08:28

morning all

DMA57361

08:41

@JourneymanGeek I thought TrueCrypt was block encrypted and Dropbox only sends modified file parts; that's why people recommend that method because you don't have to send the entire volume each time

Journeyman Geek

09:16

@DMA57361: i thought dropbox compares the files... I could be wrong

DMA57361

it won't compare byte for byte thou, will it? it will compare hashed sections of the file or something of that nature

Journeyman Geek

09:37

I actually have no idea >_>

but i don't think it was block level upload.

DMA57361

@JourneymanGeek dropbox.com/features "Dropbox transfers just the parts of a file that change (not the whole thing)." as the 5th bullet. I don't know the specifics, but I'm sure it doesn't send entire files if it can avoid it.

Journeyman Geek

@DMA57361: My bad there.

DMA57361

09:52

np, and now you know you can safely use it without fear of uploading 5GiB a day ;)

Journeyman Geek

why would i worry about that? ;)

we actually have fairly well planned IT infrastructure here

DMA57361

oh yeah, you have really good internet out there

Journeyman Geek

ya. and apparently 3 different sets of backbone

(2 of the big three ISPs run their own, fiber is done by a consortium, including most of the major players involved)

Shiki

10:39

@WilliamHilsum - Wuala works like Dropbox, only uploads changes.

(Also, it uses AES256 by default, Dropbox removed this feature. Both from the software, and from the homepage, where they advertised the service as 'secure'.)

(For some weird reason, the page DMA linked still contains the encryption. AFAIK they never really used it ... check the EULA ... it should be there)

Tom Wijsman

16:39

@DanielBeck: twitch.tv/tomwij/videos Seems 1080p won't work because I think my CPU restricts running both simultaneously, I think 720p / 24 fps / 4000 kbps is about to be the right setting. Gonna do one more test later on to confirm that...

slhck

17:48

Does anybody know if it's possible to tell Windows not to search Windows Update for drivers but rather just prompt me to give it a local file?

oh, and if I send in a external WD hard drive with a broken controller to Amazon, they'll probably not give me back my data, right? :P

studiohack

18:31

@slhck probably not :P

slhck

That's so stupid. If I take it apart and verify that the enclosure is dead, but not the drive, I won't get a new one.

If I send it in, I'll lose the data.

Daniel Beck

Guys, please read this Meta topic. I'm not sure anymore whether the votes by @slhck and me were correct, so if you disagree, please vote to reopen.

slhck

@DanielBeck Hm, as you said, if an Android Tablet is not a computer, why should this one be?

Tom Wijsman

@DanielBeck: Even if it were a computer, it would still be too localized.

slhck

18:47

then again

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Q: Vintage computer on-topic?

Are questions about repairing and maintaining vintage computers and peripherals on-topic? I'm thinking, for example, of Commodore 64 Atari 800XL S-100 machines IBM PC XT These would seem to fit within the scope of the FAQ, as they are computer hardware, and not videogames or consoles. On th...

discussion scope

Daniel Beck

@slhck It once was a computer. No idea if this is relevant. Just wanted to give the user some exposure in case we've got it wrong to speed things up.

slhck

seems like a consensus

Daniel Beck

Linked it from the new Meta topic

And added why I think we should revise that older topic.

slhck

well, yeah …

see my other answer

Daniel Beck

+1 @slhck

Looking forward to how this is resolved.

slhck

18:54

I definitely won't argue over it, but if it's been closed by a binding vote, then I think Sathya should have the final say

studiohack

since DLink's US site didn't have driver's for my wireless adapter, I went to Australia/New Zealand and got drivers there. :P

slhck

@studiohack That's … weird?

studiohack

@slhck it is... the US site had info and specs, and officially stopped supporting it in 2008...so I randomly checked Australia, and their site design is different and everything, and I looked up the exact device number and it had several downloads for my device...works super!

slhck

That's clearly a bad way of offering support :P

studiohack

I know, right?! I'm amazed that it worked, I was worried about language or region stuff

so yeah, something to consider when you can't find drivers...if it is international enough, you can try other regions

slhck

19:05

Haha, you mean that your driver now speaks to you with an Aussie accent?

studiohack

@slhck hahaha :P no, its english and everything, can't tell its an Aussie .exe

LOL

yesterday, by slhck

slhck

@studiohack That post was so nasty you had to delete it twice!

studiohack

@slhck that's quite likely :P plus Ivo had to come and add a triple whammy. :P

studiohack