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1:01 PM
 
1:41 PM
I'm feeling remarkably stupid. I spend embarassingly large amounts of time trying to troubleshoot an irc services package, when it turns out the documentation for the irc server dosen't take into account someone running the server on the same box as the services
 
@HackToHell you like jets
 
and it takes bloody ages to compile anything on a raspberry pi
 
@JourneymanGeek the worst feeling when someone other is using the same server :P
 
@avirk: I would not open up a server I didn't feel was set up to my standards ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek :D
 
1:52 PM
and I could have acutally asked dev of the services in question for help
 
@JourneymanGeek you need help, :/ strange :D
 
I mean, i could have asked for help
 
@JourneymanGeek aha! I missed that :P
 
prolly needed it, but I figured it was a minor issue
(it was)
 
@r.tanner.f hi.
 
Bob
1:58 PM
hi @avirk
thanks for the help; fixed it eventually
it was a driver cache file somewhere that got corrupted; just had to delete it
@JourneymanGeek do we have a backup if SE chat goes down? :P
 
@Bob: if you REALLY want to trust a tiny little cellphone grade processor, stuck to an old desktop like a remora ;p
 
@Bob Hi! great
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek sure, why not! :P
 
@avirk Good morning
 
@Bob hmmmm, and now the device is working properly right?
 
Bob
2:02 PM
@avirk yep
 
@Bob thanks =D
 
@r.tanner.f hey! morning :)
@Bob that's good to know :)
 
Bob
@avirk there was never anything wrong with the drive itself
just a corrupted cache on that one computer/OS
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A: How can I remove all drivers and other files related to a USB Mass Storage device?

BobIt appears to have been a corrupted driver cache. Following this guide, I deleted the INFCACHE.1 file located under %SystemRoot%\System32\DriverStore\. The first thing I did was erase all traces of past connected drives using the USBOblivion tool suggested by Moab. Then I deleted the driver cach...

 
hey @avirk, what do you use for screen shots? kind of looks like Jing
 
@r.tanner.f Greenshot :P
@r.tanner.f you checked out my comment for mounting the ISO?
 
2:12 PM
@avirk Yeah, I didn't want to drop my answer in there and make an even bigger mess xD
Pretty lame that somebody deleted his batch file tag
 
I would really love to know what caused Windows 8 to set my command prompt to this:
The window is tiny
 
@r.tanner.f yup! you did it very well, I came to your post throgh the Google :P
 
@OliverSalzburg aww it's cute! the letters are all pixelated
 
@r.tanner.f Smallest font size possible :D
 
@OliverSalzburg you can't maximize it?
 
2:15 PM
@avirk I have to increase the font size
 
@OliverSalzburg :D
 
It's 4x4 font :D
 
Bob
o.O
raster fonts?
 
Hey guys have any one seen the Bon Garret?
:P
 
thats pretty impressive
 
2:24 PM
It's always reset to that with every user after every reboot
Must be because I'm running it in Slovenian :D
 
o0
more likely Elbonian
 
ah! a lots of puppies avatar on SU now :P
@r.tanner.f is my screen shots are not good enough?
 
@avirk No I really like them and wanted to see what you use xD
I'm digging greenshot
 
@r.tanner.f @OliverSalzburg introduce me to that tool, and he come in touch with that through SU adds :P
Its pretty nice :)
 
Yeah I like it.
 
2:37 PM
@avirk ya
 
see that to use greenshot a little bit :P
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A: Is there a way to snip part of the screen with a hotkey?

avirkIf you don't want to run the snipping tool then there is a shortcut to take a shot of active window in Windows 8. Press the Alt+PrtSc, but it will copy the current windows screen shot to clipboard(it will not save it directly like Win+PrtSc) if you want to save it you need mspaint windows open a...

@HackToHell then you should have an avatar of that on SU :P
 
I had one a long time ago
3 more ques to get into level 4 !!
 
@HackToHell how much you away from your level 4?
 
@HackToHell lol I was staring at 12/15 scored 3 for so long o_o
 
2:41 PM
@HackToHell ?
 
ya, that tends to happen
 
Not many win 8 questions being asked and they are answered too fast :'(
 
@avirk he needs 3 more 3 point questions
 
@r.tanner.f Oo, not so far away :)
 
2:42 PM
@HackToHell superuser.com/q/498041/146694 This one got 3 answers within 20 minutes of each other... it's madness out there
 
Yeah, I cannot be online all the time so it will take some time
 
@r.tanner.f After I cleared my Imgur history, it has drastically improved as well :D
That caused a lot of my issues with it
There were hundreds if not thousands of entries
 
haha
 
I make a lot of screenshots since I got Greenshot :D
 
would be cool to get it to upload to the stack exchange imgur
 
2:44 PM
@r.tanner.f Would LOVE that
I always upload to imgur then select "from web" in the image upload box
I assume they just have to copy it locally then :D
 
Yeah, I wonder if it would make much of a difference? It's already pretty exposed, so I can't imagine they'd be too worried about security
Then we could just drop the link straight in to markdown =D
 
@avirk ermahgerd the greenshot editor is awesome
 
whats greenshot?
 
2:54 PM
@JaredTritsch getgreenshot.org
github.com/github/gollum is also so awesome
I should have never waited so long to set it up
 
@JaredTritsch open source screenshot program
 
@r.tanner.f yup its somehow more useful than Pain to me :P
 
ok sweet
I got a snagit though so i dont need it.
 
@avirk I was loading up GIMP every time I had to pixelize something... lol
@OliverSalzburg what are you using it for?
@JaredTritsch How do you like SnagIt? I've been eyeballing it...
 
@r.tanner.f Wiki
@r.tanner.f I'm currently using it to keep track of data we have to put on a clients website
 
2:56 PM
ah
 
But, it's "just a wiki with markdown"
 
@r.tanner.f I like it a lot. It costs money but it can do everything I've come up with to do. It even does video capture.
 
Built on git
Great editor with live preview
 
Nice
 
@r.tanner.f I never used it for that due to my slow bandwidth :P
 
2:57 PM
I actually spent half a day once searching for just a wiki, with markdown
 
It's not really a full wiki, but it's the best solution I ever used
@r.tanner.f Same here
I also had solutions in the past, but this is very mature
Except for the fact that there is no user/rights management of course :D
 
@r.tanner.f all is over from my head :P
 
hosting one of these yourself
 
hey @OliverSalzburg Ive been using that dark theme you made for SE. is there any way we can lighten up the username/rep at the top of the page? its too dark and hard to read.
idk which style that chunk uses.
 
@JaredTritsch And you're using the latest version?
 
3:00 PM
@OliverSalzburg That wouldn't be a problem for me. Anything I would wiki is going to be maintained by a maximum of 5 people. =D
 
@r.tanner.f Not a problem for me either. Someone even built something to plug that hole, but I'm too clueless about Ruby to set it up
@r.tanner.f The benefits outweigh the costs for me. It's just too perfect :P
 
@OliverSalzburg well... IDK. maybe... linky?
 
@r.tanner.f my bandwidth makes me to cry :(
 
Well, I just updated it, so you can't have the latest version :D
 
3:01 PM
@r.tanner.f hmmmm, good stuff
@OliverSalzburg make a light version with balck :)
 
Makes me want to do one in Solarized ethanschoonover.com/solarized
 
@OliverSalzburg Yeah im on the latest version, but im using the one for stylish, since im on FF
 
@JaredTritsch Oh, I see
Maybe I should try to update that one real quick. Sec
 
@OliverSalzburg howz about CM1 :P
 
Myth busters do cpu vs gpu with nvidia !
 
3:06 PM
@avirk Huh?
 
@OliverSalzburg why not?
OK then any other light version :)
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Q: Unable to delete folder in windows 7?

avirkI'm unable to delete some folder on my external hard disk. I tried them to delete in safe mode too but I'm not able to perform this. This is a big headache to me now. Even I'm the admin and it still needs the admin privileges to delete them. So how can I get rid of from this trouble? Please help...

my gold badge is 143 clicks away :P
 
@avirk nice
 
@r.tanner.f thanks :)
This is great site, thank you everyone for very nice answer. — Mohd. Ismail 3 mins ago
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A: Loading and unloading ISO files in Windows 8

avirk Is Windows 8 creating a new drive for every ISO? Or does it have one fake drive to load all ISOS in? Yes Windows 8 will make a virtual drive itself for the every ISO file but only if you try to open the more than one ISO file at the same time. How can I know if a file is really ...

 
There
Just built that one. Stylish version is now always built from the Stylebot version
But I would assume that changes nothing about your contrast issue
 
@HackToHell I saw that before. thats actually a very good example of serial vs parallel processing.
 
3:18 PM
yeah
@OliverSalzburg Do the textarea colors work ?
 
@avirk I still don't understand the question :D
 
@OliverSalzburg it still doesnt look like it does in the screenshots.
 
@HackToHell Ouch. Seems like they don't
 
all the text in my header bar looks 3-5 shades darker than normal.
 
@OliverSalzburg I tried to fix it but could not figure out what the problem was :/
 
3:20 PM
the "review chat meta about faq" bit is nigh invisible.
which style affects that? or does it just take form a generic text style?
 
@JaredTritsch #hlinks a
 
and which one is the rep counter block?
 
@JaredTritsch .reputation-score
Wow the textareas are messed up
The background-color is simply not taken into account at all
It shows the right background color in the CSS panel, but the textarea is drawn with another color... great :D
And Firebug isn't being a great assistance either
Sweet. Seems to be fixed: -moz-appearance: none !important;
I'll update once I've fixed a few more things ;P
 
3:41 PM
lol I just tried to pig my router... more coffee...
 
ping.
 
No I definitely tried to pig it. Windows wasn't sure how to pig a router.
 
Wow, -moz-appearance is really a bi... it's really special!
 
@r.tanner.f can you get the PC is in idle state with command line?
 
@OliverSalzburg I set hlinks a to #fff and .reputation-score to #eee. looks nice.
 
3:52 PM
@JaredTritsch Sounds seriously wrong
The same foreground/background color values are used in several other places on the site
So, I don't understand why especially the top bar looks weird
Maybe you're just looking at your screen at a weird angle and the top has lower contrast :D
Could you take a screenshot please?
 
Like, .reputation-score is used all over the page where there's reputation
 
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Q: How Can I Move a Window That Cannot be Moved by Mouse

MichaelI have downloaded a version of Finale Notepad on Windows 7. When I first used it it functioned perfectly. Every time I opened it a popup asking me about downloading a different version would show up that I could just click out of. When the pop up appeared I was unable to quit out of the window or...

 
Humm, okay. Looks like I would have assumed. Well, if you like it better that way, great :)
 
I think it fits a little better with the SU logo. easier to read on screen for me.
plus it makes the rep counts stand out a litlle better.
now if i can just find the notificaiton center one...
the alert still pops red. I want to make it blue to match everything else.
 
3:58 PM
@JaredTritsch I haven't adjusted those yet
Well, the StackExchange dropdown anyway
 
wth? the chat window just popped up clippy?
 
@JaredTritsch Yeah, we have clippy
 
Bob
@HackToHell the irony of the video being 360p :P
@JaredTritsch not that great
a better example (talking about CPU/GPU) would be to have the latter one less powerful (individually) :P
 
@Bob HD version.
 
4:04 PM
Anybody know if there's a place where I can download (legally) an iso of any win OS?
 
Bob
@JaredTritsch lol thanks
@KronoS digitalriver for Vista/7?
 
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Q: Where do I download Windows 7 (legally from Microsoft)?

LukeI just bought a serial for Windows 7 on-line from the Microsoft store (the most painful shopping experience EVER!). I selected that I wanted to download my version of Windows 7 after purchase. After payment I was listed a Product Key but no download link in sight. Where do I download my Windows...

We have similar for Vista and 8
 
Bob
There's one for 8?
 
Other than that, you'd have to get an MSDN subscription, I guess
 
MSDN ftw :)
 
4:06 PM
@MatthewWong They don't have Vista Home
 
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Q: Where do I download Windows 8 (legally from Microsoft)?

JoeI have the licence key for Windows 8 through dreamspark, but is there a way to download windows 8 iso image like you could for windows 7. I am on a non windows machine and so cannot use the Secure Download Manager to download windows 8 using dreamspark.

 
Bob
MSDN (and TechNet) licences are quite restrictive, though
one is development only, the other is evaluation only
you're not supposed to use either for playing a game, typing up a report, etc.
 
Technically, If you do any development at all on an MSDN license its legit to do other things as well.
idk about technet.
 
Bob
@JaredTritsch no it's not? at least not last time I checked
 
My work we all have MSDN accounts to spin up and test things. we arent the devs, but support.
and i work for seagate...
 
Bob
4:09 PM
> Many MSDN subscribers use a computer for mixed use—both design, development, testing, and demonstration of your programs (the use allowed under the MSDN subscription license) and some other use. Using the software in any other way, such as for doing email, playing games, or editing a document is another use and is not covered by the MSDN subscription license.
> When this happens, the underlying operating system must also be licensed normally by purchasing a regular copy of Windows such as the one that came with a new OEM PC.
 
hm. interesting...
 
Bob
it covers testing
 
im doing this on an MSDN machine.... oops.
 
Bob
lol
 
im sure though, given that we have thousands of msdn subscriptions some deal probably was made between Seagate and M$
 
4:11 PM
my god....
 
all rules can be changed if one throws enough money at it.
@MatthewWong thats just the new CHKDSK
nothing to worry about just yet.
 
...at least with the old chkdsk you could see the progress. i don't even know when it'll be finished
 
yeah... you can see the prog if you run it yourself... but when startup does it it gets wrapped in that "startup experience" stuff
 
Bob
O.O
 
probably to not scare any 12:00 flashers away from their surface tablets :-P
 
Bob
4:14 PM
I just realised I could get a free copy of Win8 :P
 
@bob where?
 
dreamspark?
 
Bob
@JaredTritsch my school (state gov actually) gave us all a special dreamspark account for WIn7/Office2010 a couple of months ago
when they release a couple thousand netbooks
Win8 got added to the page :P
no one was told, apparently
I wonder if this was intentional... eh, may as well
I never knew onthehub was the dreamspark website o.O
 
@OliverSalzburg I need those links, but only for Vista
 
@KronoS Vista seems to be an issue. We have respective questions, but they lack the answers
 
4:19 PM
Gr... I can get Enterprise, but I need the home version
I have a valid key as well.. just need the installation media
 
@KronoS I somehow remember that being an issue
 
Bob
> Note these .iso files may be used with a Dell/non-Dell OEM product Key but phone activation is required (see note at end). This key is typically found on the COA attached to the base of the system. Retail/upgrade product keys can be used with these .iso files and activated over the internet or phone. See note at the end for phone activation.
 
@Bob Interesting... we'll see how this works
 
Bob
If you search digitalriver vista, there are a couple of other results
 
hey guys why Windows 7 is very slow after Hibernate?
I have read that post can anyone refer me that.
 
Bob
4:26 PM
@avirk could you define slow? It's fine for me
 
@Bob It hangs, some program doesn't work correctly, I read that hiber.sys file has to do something but forget what to do?
 
Bob
I don't know, sorry...
maybe try recreating the file?
powercfg -h off
powercfg -h on
 
@Bob hmmm, I will try.
 
4:55 PM
Aha! Chrome have a new feature for grammatical mistakes or it was there already?
 
5:15 PM
@avirk Was added a while ago
 
@OliverSalzburg hmmm, I noticed it earlier today :P
 
anyone want to be a hero?
 
@JaredTritsch go ahead you can too :P
 
@JaredTritsch let's see if its good I'll :)
 
5:27 PM
its already an accepted answer, but its the one vote i need for iter 3
 
@JaredTritsch Its not good to demand for +1 here :P
 
thats why i asked if you wanted to be a hero first :-P
 
@JaredTritsch lool
 
you dont have to. no worries.
 
@JaredTritsch go ahead and hit the link :P
 
5:31 PM
sweet! thanks!
 
guys.....??
 
@FasihKhatib we are here.
 
@JaredTritsch and @JourneymanGeek are u there?
Hey avirk glad to see u here
The new HDD is acting mad
 
@JaredTritsch your strongly welcome :P
@FasihKhatib me too :P
 
much like my previous Seagate
 
5:36 PM
@FasihKhatib you and your HDDs nver play well ;)
what happen?
 
yeah, they dont. See the link i.imgur.com/6TqWo.png
 
im here
 
You see thats why I bought WD Black cause that is the only one that offers 5 years warranty.
For people whose HDDs are crazy, this is a respite
 
@FasihKhatib whats up?
 
Whats up? A crazy HDD
 
5:37 PM
You doing any heavy writes when this report was generated?
or was it idle?
 
not at all!!!
Idle
I will run the test again, hang on
The same results
 
@FasihKhatib do you really believe on CrystalDiskInfo?
give a try to other one's
 
its a little weird, with your pending sectors so high, but not enough to constitute a problem per se....
hang on, looking something up
 
WDC's tool also says 1 sector is bad
LifeGuard
Yes, not enough to constitute a problem BUT this shouldn't happen within 2 weeks of buying the drive. This is insane..!!
 
yes, you may have a bad sector, but Crystal would say if its a catastrophic bad.
seems like you may have a bad sector in an unwritten section
did you do a full format when you installed it or just a quick format?
 
5:41 PM
Quick.
disk making strange sounds now..
 
:-/ I would try formatting it again, full this time. that usually fixes "Bad" sectors on new drive. Short answer is that the sector orobably isnt bad, but has some innacuracy in the platter. a full format (which overwrites data in each sector should fix
.........? noises? return it.
 
like beeps
I will use DIXML to back up my drive quickly before something catastrophic happens
 
beeps? Caviar blacks dont have speakers to make that sound....
 
Scorpio Blacks
somehow do
will be back in 15mins
 
is it like a sound like bad car brakes squealing?
and in regular intervals about 5-6 secs apart?
like, whirrrrrrrr -soft squeak- whirrrrrrrr -soft squeak-?
 
5:48 PM
yeah
but like a min or two apart
@JaredTritsch yes
@avirk whatpart of India are u 4m?
 
@FasihKhatib I'm from Uttar Pradesh & you?
 
maharashtra
So, I was planning on using DIXML to image my C: and store it somewhere
 
@FasihKhatib hmmmm.
 
So, I will uninstall all the unwanted programs?
 
@FasihKhatib after that perform a clean format and also don't forget to run the chkdsk /f
 
5:55 PM
@avirk I can hear head scratching against the platter. squeak spinnnnnn squeak
@avirk is there any program that lists the installed softwares?
 
@FasihKhatib strange, i have my segate from 6 months and no prob.
@FasihKhatib Revo Uninstaller can do that.
 
Could it be the electric line that is causing the problem?
 
So what's the correct name now?
"Windows Store Apps"?
 
@avirk ok drive is partitioned as C:, D: and E:
C: has OS and drivers
D: has all the programs
so if I back up C: adn format, D: programs won;t work so there is no point keeping them
there are only 2 actually
So I should uninstall them?
 
@slhck Metro UI and Windows store apps are the same IMO.
 

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