Root Access

12:01 AM

Can't really test it myself :/

I think I should enable it for music purposes, but I wonder what the side effects are.

I usually have music that's of different volume, it's sometimes annoying to crank up the volume for one YouTube video and then turn it back down for another.

I usually put the volume back lower at the end of the video though...

I wouldn't really consider enabling this option for gaming though, it will only cause to be more noise.

studiohack

yo RA.

Tom Wijsman

If there's a grenade exploding near you; dodging that grenade, figuring out where it came from or making sure you are ready to shoot is way more important than knowing about footsteps that are far away.

studiohack

@TomWijsman best thing when a grenade goes off is to get down on the floor and cover yourself

Tom Wijsman

And if explosions disturb you, your volume is probably set way to loud anyway...

studiohack

12:04 AM

(in real life)

Simon Sheehan

evening @studiohack :p

studiohack

at least we're in similar time zones @SimonSheehan :P

Tom Wijsman

@studiohack Or... throw it back.

studiohack

@TomWijsman HAHA - good point :P

Tom Wijsman

Depends on where it lands and how long he pulled the pin and the type of grenade and probably some other things.

Simon Sheehan

12:06 AM

@studiohack Amen to that :P Its when people go "Morning*"

studiohack

considering buying a new motherboard for my Zune 30... when I had it looked at, it needed a $80 part - I can get it for ~$20 on ebay...

Simon Sheehan

I could never handle the insides of something that small :p

studiohack

@SimonSheehan haha :P you and I can say evenin' - 7 PM for you, IIRC

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Something like that :P

studiohack

@SimonSheehan a Z30? those are not small. they have been nicknamed bricks :P

Journeyman Geek

12:08 AM

There was this video of this israeli special forces guy... he has a grenade thrown at him. He grabs the guy who threw the grenade, and throws him over the grenade...

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Haha, wow. Can't say i know anyone with a zune though :p

studiohack

@SimonSheehan nope, and they've been officially discontinued... I have three :P

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Oh really? Heh.. thought they still had some Zune stuff... just the store or something right?

studiohack

@SimonSheehan yes, Zune as a service lives on as the music provider in Windows Phone - but individual hardware is done and gone... I really like them and am disappointed to seem them gone... if you look up the HD on Amazon, they are very highly rated (1600 reviews - 4.5 star)

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Pretty good :O Everyone here has an iPod.... or a blackberry.

studiohack

12:11 AM

@SimonSheehan blargh on both counts :P

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Well I like my iPod... EVERY kid here owns a Blackberry for that silly BBM service, except me of course :p

studiohack

I've always been somewhat of a champion of the underdog - and Microsoft has been that the past few years... plus, I tend to be pretty loyal most of the time...

@SimonSheehan IIRC, you don't have a cell phone?

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack I have one - Some cheap samsung thing the phone company gave to me for $0 :P

studiohack

@SimonSheehan nice! I don't :P

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Well my parents pay for it and gave it to me, so I'm not complaining... Its useful for the most part. Nothing fancy though!

studiohack

12:14 AM

@SimonSheehan :P I'm hoping to get a WP at the end of the year, but we'll see :)

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Why a WP?

studiohack

@SimonSheehan because it integrates tightly with Outlook and Windows, has Zune inside, and I'm interested to see what a Windows Phone will be like... its also the most innovative mobile OS right now...

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack I really haven't seen much of it... All RIM over here :P

studiohack

@SimonSheehan yeah? around here, people have mostly Android or cheap stock phones (with no major OS), iPhone is starting to trickle in, since we just got them about a year ago...

some RIM...have yet to see a WP in the wild (except for maybe once) lol

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack I don't even understand the point to BBM... seems useless to pay for instant messaging when you have text.

studiohack

12:20 AM

@SimonSheehan I don't even know what BBM is? Blackberry Messenger? is it really IM?

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Yep, thats it.

studiohack

@SimonSheehan I've heard of it, never knew what it was... I text for free and unlimited via Google Voice - ideally I should get Android and text for free...since that would integrate the best... or even iPhone... lol

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Haha... I love my iPod touch, couldn't go without it :p

studiohack

@SimonSheehan I feel the same with my Zune HD :)

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack :). So whats new with you? Since yesterday at any rate :p

studiohack

12:24 AM

@SimonSheehan hmm good question...not much :P slept a little, ate some, been on SU :P

I did take a picture of my workspace in the dark, let's see if I can get it up :P

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack I'd like to see that :p

studiohack

if it was taken during the day light, @SimonSheehan, it would be very embarrassing and too many identifying details :P

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Haha, oh well, works anyway :p

studiohack

I have a very cluttered space :P

Simon Sheehan

Mines full of...paper

studiohack

12:27 AM

haha lol

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack hopping off for a bit, cya later :)

studiohack

@SimonSheehan sorry, still working on the photo. talk to you later! :)

William Hilsum

6:53 AM

@TomWijsman As far as I understand, they don't mean equalise, e.g. if loud is 15, quiet is 7... putting equaliser on will make quiet 15 (when there is no other loud noises)... What they are talking about is swapping - so, 15 = 7 and 7=15... I think!

DMA57361

8:22 AM

morning all

Journeyman Geek

8:42 AM

yay, my desktop is working again

got a new PSU for about 50 dollars. Also... hard drive prices have roughly tripled here

Tom Wijsman

9:02 AM

Spotify in Belgium, yeah!

Not that I didn't use it before today, now I don't have to log in using a proxy every two weeks anymore... :)

Also, I quote RescueTime "you're more distracted than 73% of people". o_O

Ivo Flipse

11:27 AM

Oh the irony: Having all your ebooks backup up with Backify, which sounded too good to be true (512 Gb of free storage!) and the day after your hard drive fails, they get kicked out as a LiveDrive reseller...

DMA57361

@IvoFlipse ah :/

Ivo Flipse

I believe I still have a copy I made yesterday, but its annoying, because it would have been easier to just download it

DMA57361

yeah, still not good

Ivo Flipse

and its not like I can't download all the books again, but I had actually finally sorted them out a bit :P

Sathya

@IvoFlipse what a load of crap.

Journeyman Geek

11:33 AM

lol, i remembered them, and i was thinking the same thing

Ivo Flipse

I told you it was a hoax, but I thought what the heck, I'll give it a try and just upload stuff I can miss

but with that I meant can miss if my HDD doesn't fail :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Sathya

@IvoFlipse yeah I did tell the same

Journeyman Geek

I didn't use it, i was considering using it as a thirtiary backup for my music but was too lazy

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek I did exactly that :P

only my music and ebooks were there

guess I'll have to get a legit livedrive account instead

which does seem quite affordable

Journeyman Geek

11:36 AM

@IvoFlipse: i have two backups of nearly everything ;p

Sathya

@IvoFlipse I knew that was unfeasible, never bothered setting it up

Ivo Flipse

apparently the prices of HDDs have gone up threefold in the past 2 months

livedrive.com/ForHome/#CompareProducts

Sathya

yeah the floods have hit bad

Ivo Flipse

2 terabyte of storage for 10$/month

Sathya

Posted to Hacker News

Ivo Flipse

11:37 AM

about the same price of buying an actual 2tb drive really

Journeyman Geek

@IvoFlipse: yeah, even retail

the drive i got for the dell cost me 49 dollars. its up to over 150

Ivo Flipse

your title is wrong @Sathya termiantes :P

Yeah I just wonder how reliable livedrive is off course :P

given that its soooo much more than mozy

Sathya

@IvoFlipse corrected :P

Ivo Flipse

perhaps I should review it for the blog ;)

and use a general password to store crap there

Sathya

why not Live Skydrive or whatever MSFT offers?

Ivo Flipse

11:41 AM

@Sathya 25 Gb? You think my ebooks fit on that?

Or my vacation pics :P

Sathya

@IvoFlipse ah yes

why not Amazon S3?

if it's only for backup..

Ivo Flipse

aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing

I was just looking into that :P

dreamhost.com/unlimited-policy

a dreamhost server sounds interesting too, but only because I want to mess around with one

Uhh this sounds wrong too: carbonite.com/en/home/online-backup-pricing

> No. Carbonite is online backup – not online storage. It is meant to be a backup of the files that are on your computer – not a place to store files in order to free up space on your hard drive. If you remove any file from your hard drive, we wait 30 days for you to recover it, and then we delete that file from our servers, too.

Ah I guess that's the catch

They can probably fix their redundancy if they can simply redownload files when they 'accidentally' lose them

Journeyman Geek

11:56 AM

I think backblaze does the same thing

unlimited storage for 5 dollars a month a computer

but certain filetypes don't get uploaded

Ivo Flipse

lifehacker.com/5749845/…

Sathya

12:15 PM

WTFH is this person thinking ?!

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