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Journeyman Geek

12:05 AM

@studiohack: i'd hope not. I don't seem to recall anyone changing just the backlight before

studiohack

@JourneymanGeek it's FIXED! :)

pinched wires it seems.

Journeyman Geek

yay

HAH

i did warn you about the wires didn't i?

studiohack

I pulled the wire between the monitor and the mobo, and they were threaded like they were supposed to, but once I pulled them out of the tracking, it worked, so I carefully put it back @JourneymanGeek - I don't recall you mentioning the pinched wires?

Journeyman Geek

oh, i mentioned them being fragile more likely

I had them come off when i was fixing them

studiohack

@JourneymanGeek well, you still deserve thanks for all the help and suggestions, you did mention the wires being fragile, i think... thanks :)

Journeyman Geek

12:08 AM

@studiohack: honestly, monitor repair is slightly rocket science to me. laptop repair only less so ;p

studiohack

@JourneymanGeek lol

grawity

@JourneymanGeek laptop repair is not entirely unlike brain surgery, though

I wonder if repairing a spacecraft would be called "rocket surgery"

studiohack

hey @grawity - nice to see ya. I had issues after taking my laptop apart, and replacing the LCD backing, (hinge issues) and when reassembled, the LCD didn't have a backlight. pinched wires.

grawity

Hey @studiohack.

Simon Sheehan

Anyone know an easy way to rip a DVD? I wanna keep a few on my PC here

grawity

12:15 AM

@SimonSheehan I hear Handbrake is good (never used any, though)

studiohack

@SimonSheehan one sec - my way is ~~almost failsafe.~~ pretty easy. Handbrake I dislike personally

Simon Sheehan

Oh? Interested now

nhinkle

@wil no. I refuse!

William Hilsum

@nhinkle I refuse your refusal! It's only $3 and I couldn't pay straight away as my Paypal account had problems... but, it is all ok now... Please let me pay it!

nhinkle

If you can figure out my email address, you can do it. But you know the money would just go into my paypal account, to be used for some SU-related project later. Why don't you go buy yourself a $3 flash drive and blog about it instead :P

William Hilsum

12:19 AM

@nhinkle $3 flash drive? I'll be lucky!

grawity

On the topic of blogging, guess where telnet 0200.0xae.64315 takes you

nhinkle

Should I paypal you an extra couple dollars for a larger one?

Simon Sheehan

@grawity testing it

William Hilsum

@grawity no where? :/

Simon Sheehan

Connection failed for it

William Hilsum

12:20 AM

@nhinkle lol... that isn't what I was implying!

studiohack

@SimonSheehan this is what I use: lifehacker.com/355281/dvd-rip-automates-one+click-dvd-ripping - highly recommend - works well for me

@SimonSheehan it fails in FF. there's a blog post about it

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack I used telnet :P

William Hilsum

@grawity What is it meant to be?

studiohack

@SimonSheehan lol, I don't know anything :P

Simon Sheehan

@studiohack Thanks!

grawity

12:22 AM

@studiohack The IP address of miku.acm.uiuc.edu, only in an unusual notation

studiohack

@SimonSheehan :) I have too many dvds on my machine. no where else to keep them ha.

Simon Sheehan

haha

studiohack

@grawity that is unusual

Simon Sheehan

Oh god its the Nyan cat telnet

grawity

Dunno what OSes that kind of stuff works on... Linux accepts it, Windows does sometimes

Simon Sheehan

12:23 AM

William Hilsum

@grawity I don't remember where I read it, but, I remember something about that notation for IPs... does it need to be in [] or something, or is that just for ipv6? :/

I am so far behind on this... :(

grawity

@WilliamHilsum [] is primarily for IPv6, to allow IPv6 addresses with colons where addr:port is expected... in URLs [] actually has an optional version field and can be used for "IPv6 or any future version", but no program supports the latter yet

(sigh, markdown)

@WilliamHilsum but this IPv4 thing is different, I've no idea which standard allows for hex and octal, or why someone thought it would be useful

damn

Simon Sheehan

Trillian is a VERY cool chat client

Has skype chats support. Uses 1/3 the RAM :)

grawity

if I don't peel myself away from the laptop right now, I'm going to be stuck here until 6am, refreshing /questions or running pacman -Syu every five minutes

Simon Sheehan

Haha

grawity

12:43 AM

hacking at stuff at night, until 6 am is actually easier than during the day... if only I didn't have to wake up at 6 am and spend half a day pretending to be listening to a lecture about conditionals in C++ or something like that

or about how using void main() [in C++] is better since "the return value is meaningless anyway"

headwall

Tom Wijsman

1:16 AM

@grawity That teacher should get fired. :P

> [basic.start.main] 3.6.1.2 An implementation shall not predefine the main function. This function shall not be overloaded. It shall have a return type of type int, but otherwise its type is implementation-defined. All implementations shall allow both of the following definitions of main: int main () { / . . . / } and int main (int argc , char * argv []) { / . . . / } [and some irrelevant information...]

> [basic.start.main] 3.6.1.5 A return statement in main has the effect of leaving the main function (destroying any objects with automatic storage duration) and calling std::exit with the return value as the argument. If control reaches the end of main without encountering a return statement, the effect is that of executing return 0;

So while you are allowed to use a different type depending on the implementation (meaning it's not standard and doesn't work everywhere), it's not like it is completely meaningless... :)

And well; if you don't know where I quoted that from, a second reason for the teacher to get fired... ^^

Journeyman Geek

1:55 AM

@grawity: thats how i feel listening to my computer forensics lecturer ;p

Psycogeek

3:30 AM

Anybody know how to get this: --> for %A in (*.lnk) do SOME.vbs "%1" <-- to do all the sub directories too

studiohack

hey @iglvzx - how are ya?

iglvzx

@studiohack Hey. Pretty good, just being lazy. :P And yourself?

studiohack

same thing actually - lazy day :P

iglvzx

Fun

studiohack

it is. but it makes it harder to re-enter real life @iglvzx :P

iglvzx

3:35 AM

True. Procrastinating is hard to avoid

Halfway through my 3rd year in college. Already feeling 'senioritis'. lol

studiohack

@iglvzx oh I feel you

Pearsonartphoto

Just installed a new video card.

First time I've ever installed one that needed a special plug from the power supply...

The power supply I had in there didn't have this plug, but I had another computer that did have it. So, I blindly took the supplies out, to switch, and realized they weren't the same size...

I managed to cut one of the cases open a bit so that the larger one fit inside the spot for the smaller one, and was about ready to close both cases up, when I found that the HD in one of them is along the side, but the power plugs weren't quite in the right shape to get it right...

Finally, after trying a whole bunch of things, I managed to get a solution that is working. Whew! Original estimate: 15 minutes. Actual: About 2 hours...

But, I have an awesome video card, if only I can get the driver... ETA: 1 hour.

Psycogeek

@Pearsonartphoto when computer upgrades turn into Shop Projects.

Pearsonartphoto

LOL.

Actually, it wasn't that bad. I already had aluminum cutters, that I never actually had used to cut aluminum... And the cases are really thin, so...

I don't think I've ever actually replaced a power supply, so that was fun.

Psycogeek

3:50 AM

the only hard part is when you have to add metal back :-)

Pearsonartphoto

Well, I probably should have, but right now I have a small hole in one of the systems...

And my power supply is only being held in by 2 screws...

Psycogeek

thats what they make self tapping sheet metal screws for :-)

Pearsonartphoto

Might have to look into that...

Psycogeek

I just found the 2 bits i was looking for. now if i could just find a real programer, they could make the winders 7 shortcutkey seeker program.

Pearsonartphoto

How is that supposed to work?

Psycogeek

3:59 AM

unbelievable load of stupid junk i go through to do the most simple things. I just wanted to be a user

@Pearsonartphoto Slooowly i am trying to figure out how to find a shortKey assignment made in .LNK (shortcuts) , so a person can discover what holds up making another ShortKey . because they are global the system Smartly does not allow an overlap.

Pearsonartphoto

Hmmm.

Psycogeek

So when a person has a global hotkey that is F---up, there is nothing usefull that i can find out there to locate it, let alone remove or re-assign or anything.

i have gone through 400 pages of people with problems, just trying to find the answer, and the lack of even knowing how it works is , , , , and example of how stupidly complex the system has become.

Pearsonartphoto

Interesting.

Psycogeek

Oh the viruses will find it :-) it doesnt matter if they put stuff 50 layers deep, they just make it hard for Me :-(

studiohack

hey @Pearsonartphoto - nice to see you here :)

Pearsonartphoto

4:09 AM

I should hang out here more often...

Psycogeek

I worked on computers back when they were Simple, a virus would just go in and say BOO and the whole system would collapse :-)

Now they have 40 hurdles to cross to get in, and 80 for the user to jump to get them back out again. the net gain seems fruitless.

wierd thing is , after searching for correct terms for it, i finnaly found some people who have worked with it before in XP, by using the search "where the hell are they" :-)

Psycogeek

4:45 AM

I wonder how far the programmers can kick me out of thier chat room, if i ask them to make a "One Hour Program" :-) that means one day, and 4 days to debug.

Journeyman Geek

5:45 AM

@Pearsonartphoto: there's molex to that kind of power adaptor plugs

Psycogeek

I found a program, that shows all the active hotkeys and the program/item they belong to. "windows Hotkey Explorer" it is not fully stable under win7 64, but i got to see, right before it locked up. It could be a possible solution to 2 SU questions asking about what program would show them.

Bibhas

Ummm. retagging doesnt require any administration? I just retagged a question and it didn't say that it'll be available after peer review(like it does while editing stuff).

Psycogeek

6:03 AM

@Bibhas re-tag only requires a small ammount of rep.

Simon Sheehan

@Bibhas you only need 500 rep to retag

Bibhas

Ohkay. Got it.

Simon Sheehan

@Bibhas superuser.com/privileges

Bibhas

@SimonSheehan Got it. Thanks for the link. :)

Simon Sheehan

No problem :)

Psycogeek

6:52 AM

with Windows it is all about "location , location , location " C:\Users\Me2Know\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup Location, location, location . . . etc :-)

Bibhas

more like blah\blah\blah\blah with a back / ..

I wonder if Windows chose to use \ knowing that unix uses / .. or if it was just coincidence

sorry DOS.

Psycogeek

I want to combine all the "all Users" menu junk with the "me only user" menu junk and reorganise the disaster. But i am skeered of touching it, it was so much simpler before. Now if I go to change it , i feel like i am burrying it in the back yard , or sprinkling its ashes over the lake.

Journeyman Geek

@Bibhas: more likely that VMS used it

Bibhas

@JourneymanGeek And DOS borrowed that?

Journeyman Geek

7:08 AM

naw

windows NT was pretty much designed by the same person who designed NT

a lot of internals are from there, same way the CLI is dos, and as such CPM influenced

Bibhas

Ah. ok

Journeyman Geek

though, ya, in this case, more likely dos style paths

which are likely done, cause CPM did it that way

Bibhas

CPM?

Journeyman Geek

CP/M

CP/M (Control Program/Monitor) was a mass-market operating system created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initially confined to single-tasking on 8-bit processors and no more than 64 kilobytes of memory, later versions of CP/M added multi-user variations, and were migrated to 16-bit processors. The combination of CP/M and S-100 bus computers patterned on the MITS Altair was an early "industry standard" for microcomputers, and this computer platform was widely used in business through the late 1970s and into the mid-1980s, expanding t...

Bibhas

Wow, learned a new word from that document, - backronymed

Journeyman Geek

7:14 AM

lol

darned american portmanteaus

hm

i didn't realise dr dos was a CP/M decendant

Psycogeek

7:51 AM

Well I finnaly got kicked out of programming back to Su where "they can answer it there " .

Bibhas

kicked out? What did you do?

Psycogeek

kicked out "migrated" :-) They said to go ask on SU, because (of course) i am not a programmer.

If i had some Code to toss around that didnt work, but i dont, and i dont even know how to code.

Psycogeek

8:04 AM

The problem is "how to find shortcut files with Global KEYshortcuts in them" i.stack.imgur.com/yBpc5.png This is the stuff i finnaly came up with after hours of research. there is a few bits in the .Lnk (shortcut) that change.

So, >For $A *.lnk HexSearch here 60 30 for 00 00 Else Spew out file name , repeat on whole folder. But they dont make a compiler that talks in psyco :-0

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