Root Access

12:02 AM

By the way, I discovered this last week:

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A: How to set separate Home and Work network locations in Windows 8?

I recently got a new laptop (Sony VAIO Duo 11). On this computer, Sony has included a "VAIO Control Center" utility. Under the "Network" settings, they actually included this functionality. They call it Network Profiles. It actually appears to cover all the functionality (that I cared about) of ...

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, I haven't had many issues like that, but in my experience, they have been motherboard-related. A functioning motherboard should at least be able to alert you through boot codes (on-screen, LED, or beeping) that the CPU is faulty. A dead motherboard just fails with no explanation.

Journeyman Geek

@sidran32: well it did alert me through the CPU led

sidran32

Ah, good then

Journeyman Geek

falcon is still convinced its the mobo cause DOA processors are rare

sidran32

12:20 AM

Yeah. There's extensive testing done on each chip because of the variability even on the same wafer. So if a processor is DOA, it would have to be something that happened in packaging/shipping, and they are packaged pretty securely.

Journeyman Geek

Maybe RMA both? ;p

sidran32

Whatever you'd like. So long as the right thing gets replaced. :)

Journeyman Geek

XD

this really sucks, its going to take at least a week for a processor RMA, and about that long for the motherboard

I may only get my gaming PC working after school reopens

allquixotic

12:58 AM

:-/

Paul

1:26 AM

@JourneymanGeek That truly sucks.

Simon Sheehan

2:48 AM

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Q: USB 3.0 not functioning fully

After installing GNU/Linux today onto my Lenovo Y570 laptop, I ran into an issue quickly - the USB 3.0 support. 2/3 of my USB ports are 3.0 so I kind of need them. The ports are powered at the very least - my phone is charging from one, however, plugging in external drives, USB drives, or even ...

Paul

@SimonSheehan What distro, kernel are you running? Could be a driver / firmware issue

studiohack

3:28 AM

yo folks - how's it?

Journeyman Geek

4:19 AM

Ok, going to try asking at the place I got my motherboard to check what's wrong with it (and hope they swap)

else at the very least hope they check it and help me work out what to RMA

Journeyman Geek

8:32 AM

Yay. Shop Owner tested the cpu. Told me to rma the board and tell them someone else installed the cpu.it was bent pins and they swapped it for me.

At the distributor

Quite win.

Sathya

9:02 AM

@JourneymanGeek nice

Journeyman Geek

9:18 AM

XD, I feel sorry for the shop guy, he was like 'don't tell them you installed it'

Hennes

Morning

Journeyman Geek

I THINK the distributor was under the impression he broke it ;p

Hennes

Bent pins on the Motherboards CPU socket?

Journeyman Geek

9:40 AM

yup

superuser.com/questions/517871/… too localised? ;p

though I did learn those damned pins are tiny, and apparently I may have been just a little too heavy handed with them

Hennes

I got scared when I had to put in my socket 1366 CPU. I was afraid I would push the socket though the motherboard. Apparently it is normal to use massive force when installing a modern CPU :(

Oliver Salzburg

Greetings

slhck

Morning!

Nothing better than trying to get stuff done and finding Eclipse hanging…

Every effin day :/

Hennes

9:58 AM

Crap. I tried to move a long comment discussion to chat and failed because the Q lacks rep to chat. So much for planning

slhck

I think they should get rid of this barrier, at least when there's a high-rep user who actively invites someone to chat.

(It's their own fault anyway :P)

Oliver Salzburg

10:09 AM

You should simply be able to lend rep to other users. As a forms of delegating privileges

Hennes

It is not even a good question for the site. (How to get a PDF out of 81 files which are supposedly in ARC format)

Way to specific

I suspect corrupted files since the 81 files just have ASCII in them. That seems odd for a compressed format. And my own test.arc has binary data

So unless those files need to be concatenated and uudecoded (or base64 something) it might just be a set of corrupt files

@slhck Maybe I should add that as feature request: On the automatic 'yo!. Maybe move this to chat?' comment, grant OP permission to chat in that room

though in this case I created the room before the automatic 'you are doing something wrong. Move it to chat! Now!' comment appeared.

slhck

@Hennes It's been requested before.

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Q: Invite low rep users to participate in chat

I'm aware of the preference for 'general answers to general questions' attitude on SO, and wholeheartedly agree that questions that are focused on specific, one-time issues are not as valuable to the site. However, where an issue is potentially useful but getting to the heart of it is taking som...

feature-request chat

Journeyman Geek

@Hennes: apparently I used too much ;p

and needed a lighter touch

right, front panel headers (too tired to actually see them) and OS install and we're gravy

Hennes

11:19 AM

Hmmpf

I think I saw this exact question before: (now posted by a 'new' member

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Q: All my folders and files on my flash drive have been renamed automatically and I can no longer open them... I need those files

I opened up my flash drive this morning and all of my folders and files are normal, except for one folder and all its included files, which is the most important folder. The subfolders and files are renamed with bizarre characters and when I click to open them, a pop-up appears saying it's not ac...

hard-drive usb flash

Journeyman Geek

11:30 AM

YES IT BOOOOOOOTS

I can't find my mouse dontle tho

Sathya

dontle O-o

Journeyman Geek

dongle ;p

I need to replace that mouse with something nicer eventually

prolly got lost in the mad rush of assembling and disassembling

I apparently forgot how to install ram properly too

/me needs to build more often than every half decade

hmm, things are going wrong enough

this is a good sign

Bob

11:56 AM

@JourneymanGeek nice!

Journeyman Geek

XD

ya, installing windows now ;p

modular power supplies are awesome too ;p

Hennes

12:17 PM

Modular power supplies rock. Sadly I rarely have the cables I need.

Journeyman Geek

for some reason I installed the british version of windows

I need to fix the locales

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Windouws

HackToHell

12:35 PM

coooool rebootfilm.com

Oliver Salzburg

@HackToHell That's today \o/

APC PowerChute Network Shutdown (an application thats sole purpose is to shut down a machine when it received the appropriate network signal) has a setup that is 50 MB in size

50 MB! For a simple shutdown utility

Not only that, it depends on Java!

And that's not even contained in the setup

HackToHell

lol

Oliver Salzburg

Well, obviously everyone wants to run Java on their servers...

Oliver Salzburg

12:51 PM

Ok, seems like the do include a JRE, which causes the size. It's just not the right one for my system

kickstarter.com/projects/1061646928/…

Neat

Gonna kickstart the hell out of that one :D

slhck

1:17 PM

What is wrong with people? O_o

Oliver Salzburg

2:09 PM

CrashPlan has a console O_O

Journeyman Geek

new computer is up and very fast :)

Sathya

nice

what're the specs? Haven't kept up with the transcript

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: core i7 3770, gforce gtx 660, 16 gb of ram

and that lovely SSD I got from stackexchange, the samsung 840

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek nice, I'm thinking of going the same route soon

Journeyman Geek

having a LOT of program compatibility issues with 8 tho

Sathya

2:17 PM

replacing my HP envy

@JourneymanGeek oh?

Journeyman Geek

be VERY careful when you install the processor

ya, mostly drivers

and I'm currently having some issues with steam freezing all the time

Sathya

damn

never had steam problems though

Journeyman Geek

trying a reinstall

Tom Wijsman

So... I thought TF2 Beta was the only thing available in Steam for Linux, apparently I can just go and download TF2 itself in the Store... Now I can download the 11 GB AGAIN. >_<

Journeyman Geek

did SE chat just go boom?

allquixotic

2:29 PM

@JourneymanGeek yes, I thought it was my network.

Journeyman Geek

as did I

so I switched between the 3 systems I had running ;p

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek yes

@allquixotic heh, same here

allquixotic

I thought they'd blocked the SE network on our corp internet

Sathya

:P

site as well

allquixotic

wouldn't surprise me

Sathya

2:30 PM

We're looking into the current outage, we have a network failure somewhere - hang on.

Tweeted by StackStatus on December 12, 2012 at 2:27 PM

Journeyman Geek

no one expects SE to be down!

allquixotic

for a production site with a large userbase and significant web presence, SE has tons of stability issues

Tom Wijsman

Yes, back!

Hmm, chat is still acting up a bit...

allquixotic

I'd expect it of a 1 year old startup with a $100k budget

but SE is older and richer than that

The SE servers/routers/datacenters/network hubs are doing this: （╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Tom Wijsman

So... I thought TF2 Beta was the only thing available in Steam for Linux, apparently I can just go and download TF2 itself in the Store... Now I can download the 11 GB AGAIN. >_< I've assumed free games to appear as grey in the games list, it appears that's only for games that have been bought or are somewhat relevant to what you've bought... <-- Tried to post these two messages for the last few minutes, meh... Editing FTW! @allquixotic HI!

allquixotic

2:36 PM

@TomWijsman uh, I saw all the messages, multiple times, edited, re-edited, quoted, then removed

Tom Wijsman

@allquixotic Well, I wanted to quote one and then post the sentence underneath it.

Can I type a second time now?

Yes! :D

allquixotic

o_O

I blame Windows for SE's instability :D

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"Restart your computer to install updates"

...
"Windows is restarting..."

Tom Wijsman

Anyhow, appears the previous download was for the previous bandwidth period so it won't really hurt downloading it again. Unless someone here plans on transferring a few hundred GB this month.

allquixotic

@TomWijsman you might try copying and pasting all the TF2 Beta files into your TF2 folder and see how many of them don't get overwritten because they match

Tom Wijsman

@allquixotic Yeah, I first thought QoS was acting up here when I started the TF2 downlad.

allquixotic

2:39 PM

hehehe... it can't hurt

Tom Wijsman

@allquixotic I've actually thought about removing it to spare out some fragmentation.

But then came around the thought to keep it around in case TF2 itself somehow doesn't work...

It isn't a bad idea to assume the Beta has better Linux support than TF2 itself.

allquixotic

@TomWijsman well, have fun hammering away on your sentry gun once you do get it working :P apparently I'm not important enough to get invited to the Valve beta, despite having been their customer since HL1 and being fairly proficient at debugging graphics driver issues

I mean, if I ran into an issue, I could send them an apitrace... how many other people would even know to do that

Tom Wijsman

@allquixotic Yeah, and it appears they have fixed the workaround to launch it without an invitation.

allquixotic

they're idiots for not making it a full-on open beta, or for not having a more sane invitation algorithm than "lol random"

so many people just sign up to anything that's a beta, regardless of whether they can/will ever use it, that random choosing is completely worthless

there should be some kind of Linux CLI competency test to get enrolled into the beta waiting list

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live, with a 5 minute time limit

Tom Wijsman

@allquixotic I'm usually trying to stab a ton of people as a spy.

allquixotic

2:44 PM

@TomWijsman I hate spies!

definitely not a fan of spies

my #1 most played class is engineer, and #2 is pyro

Tom Wijsman

People don't always check you, so you can easily get up behind them, just don't be too obvious to walk the completely opposite direction.

allquixotic

it's fun to whack spies with the wrench while they're cloaked because i know where and when they'll be, even if I can't see them :P

Tom Wijsman

And control points sometimes have nice hiding spots, and when they're capturing they stand still, so... :D

But yeah, engineer is nice too, if you put the sentries in the right place you can rank up a lot of kills when defending.

allquixotic

my record is like 81 kills without dying on 2fort, most of them my sentry but about 6-7 spy wrench kills are hidden in that number :P

that one particular round the enemy team was extremely inept at killing SGs, they only managed to ubercharge against it three times, and i had another engy there to help, so we were able to repel the soldier that was ubered until he lost his uber, then he died

i think what kept me alive more than anything was that our team had an anti-medic pyro who would use the backburner to almost insta-kill medics trying to push through with an uber... he was really good at it

hosted.verticalresponse.com/263406/ae6afa22b3/1563000115/… o_O

not sure if that's good or bad... DRM? in my gstreamer?

gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=wut.mpg ! drmsink ?

might be a precursor to Moonlight Netflix support if that's what Netflix uses, though

Sathya

3:16 PM

We were down a few minutes this morning due to a failure on our linux load balancer:

Dec 12 14:22:13 or-rtlb01 kernel: igb 0000:07:00.1: Detected Tx Unit Hang

stackstatus.net/post/37789095378/outage-dec-12th-2012

Journeyman Geek

XD

Its a linux box that failed? INCONCIVABLE

allquixotic

d'oh!

@Sathya "Detected Tx Unit Hang" sounds like their TCP offload hardware failed... hardly Linux's fault :-/ (unless it's a driver bug that caused the hang, hopefully they'll get to the bottom of it)

Sathya

5:05 PM

Zeitgeist 2012: Year in Review by Google. Enjoy.

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Blog bot

Blog - Stack Exchange: Stack Overflow localizes Careers 2.0 in German

Bethany Marzewski on December 12, 2012

After months of work from our dev team, last week marked the official launch of our first localized site with Careers 2.0 in German. We celebrated the occasion in style on December 5 with a blow-out party at Betahaus in Berlin complete with product demos, free food, free t-shirts, oh, and German beer of course.

But why Germany? Well, aside from the fact that it gave us a great excuse to make these really cool t-shirts, we have a few other pretty good reasons for this expansion:

Germans are the largest non-English-speaking group of Stack Overflow users in Europe To date, visitors from Germa …

Oliver Salzburg

5:47 PM

@Sathya I spotted Honey Boo Boo O__o

Luke

!!!!

Oliver Salzburg

6:08 PM

I've just installed this APC PowerChute Network Shutdown Client on a server. It told me after setup, to open a given URL in the browser and accept the certificate. So far so good

Now, when I open that URL in IE (the only browser available), I can either select "Leave Page" or "Continue"

The "Continue" link links to res://ieframe.dll wtf...

Tom Wijsman

@OliverSalzburg Nice to see the Belgian "drama" event made it in there too.

In the same category as the above video, the Best and worst media errors and corrections of 2012.

Oliver Salzburg

6:24 PM

Oh, the "advanced security" of IE affects that...

Luke

7:01 PM

allquixotic

7:53 PM

I had a loud "clackety-clack" keyboard and just got a new one at the office... both of them are pretty similar, definitely not mechanical, but I don't understand why the new one is much quieter than the other, when they are essentially the same type

some keyboard connoisseurs occasionally walk this place (@JourneymanGeek) so figured I'd ask if you know why bog standard office keyboards vary so widely in clackety-clackiness

the new one sounds like beating on a bass drum

Luke

8:23 PM

@nhinkle Thanks

Hennes

10:27 PM

icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/…

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Now I want a rPi

Tom Wijsman

> This means that all you need to do to turn the Raspberry-Pi into a (ridiculously powerful) FM Transmitter is to plug in a wire as the antenna (as little as 20cm will do) into GPIO pin 4 and run the code posted below.

That's awesome.

Hennes

11:21 PM

I wonder if the new model (the 512MB one) uses more power.

Bob

on second thoughts, as cool as this is, that's $35 for a FM transmitter without an included battery

unless you're doing other things with it, of course

Hennes

Stream from one place in the house to all radios? No cables, no modern radios, ...

Bob

I'm sure that, with a 100m range, it would be violating radio broadcasting regulations here :P

but yea, that's a much longer range than i expected