Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:21 AM

@Shiki macrium reflect - its the one ivo linked

Shiki

Thank you both of you!

Journeyman Geek

@IvoFlipse: if its the non glass version you can always massage dead pixels

Shiki

okay I'll buy a Reflect Professional license tomorrow

he should pay your tip (both of you) for that. :D

hope it will really work, otherwise my father snaps and will grab the dev's throat.

Journeyman Geek

lol

satisfied user of their free version. Will likely get a paid version when i actually start having control of my home network ;p

Shiki

(after he got mine ... but heck, Acronis got a real sh*t-tier support. if anything goes wrong, it's over.)

Journeyman Geek

12:25 AM

this is why i test and retest backups

Petah

hi

any one know any apps that can play sound output from different apps out of different speakers?

i have a 5.1 channel sound card and sound output on the mobo

Journeyman Geek

OS!

Shiki

Virtual Audio Cable?

that is, if you configure it up

or if your sound card supports it

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/users/10165/journeyman-geek <- new profile sig , blame @Sathya for that ;p

Petah

@JourneymanGeek Windows XP

Journeyman Geek

12:30 AM

ahh, then ya, i think VAC would work as @Shiki suggested

Petah

@Shiki my sound card is a sound blaster audigy 2 vs

Shiki

VAC works with every hardware that can produce sound I guess

it's a digital (software) device, like an imaginary sound output

so you will have 3 "imaginary" sound outputs, for each cable. (green, pink, blue).

and you can choose these devices from any player software (winamp, foobar, whatever)

Petah

cool, im downloading it now to try it out

its for my custom arcade cab, wanna split the game output, then add a music player and output that from my stero

Shiki

(wonder when will Rockradio start it's premium service. I love the channels but I miss the 320kbps goodness)

it will work. the previous version of the software is free if I remember correctly.

software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac3.htm

Petah

hmmm

any info on how to use vac?

Shiki

12:38 AM

well, you need to use the "Virtual Audio Cable" folder from the start menu.

then just use the configure utility and add devices.
finally, you need to set your player apps to play audio to those devices.

Shiki

12:50 AM

well, good night guys. Thanks again, ivo and Journeyman. The Macium is still more pricy. Like 15$ more pricy, with less features. I'll decide tomorrow.

Petah

@Shiki seem vac only allows me to send all output to multi spekaers, not split it by application

Journeyman Geek

@Petah: hm, maybe ask it as a question on SU, but word it as a problem, rather than as a software request? ;p

Petah

rooger

Petah

1:07 AM

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Q: Play different applications out of different speakers

I have made a custom arcade cabinet running MAME, Mala, Windows XP, and iTunes (but could get WinAMP or what ever). I also have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card (5.1 channel), as well as on board (mother board) sound. How would I make it play the MAME sound out of one set of speakers, and...

Bob

1:47 AM

@Petah If you have multiple (physical) output devices, VAC won't do anything for you.

VAC just adds virtual output devices you can route whichever way you want.

Ideally, one of your applications has an output selection menu...

Then the other can output from the default output device, and the one with the selection can output from the non-default.

That sentence is confusing...

Petah

2:03 AM

@Bob do you know of a music player that can select the output device

i tried itunes but no luck

Journeyman Geek

OH

foobar?

Chris

hello

soandos

@Chris hello

Gareth

lol, remember that vending machine I broke yesterday? I just saw the engineer come and open it up, take the 5 RMB out, look at the mechanism and frown (no fix I guess then), and walk away before I had a chance to ask for my money back

Chris

2:21 AM

@soandos you have any experience with minicom?

soandos

@Chris, sorry nope. I know what KVM switches are, but thats about it

Chris

ehh, i am trying to use it on my iphone to test simple echo statement but it isn't even printing the echo statement :-/

0

Q: Using minicom on the iPhone (yes I'm jailbroken)

Alright, I have been trying to get TTL serial communication working on the iPhone without much luck. I recently installed minicom on the jailbroken iPhone, and wanted to test the functionality of minicom. Right now I have two ssh sessions open and in one window I have # echo hi > /dev/tty.i...

iphone ios serial

Journeyman Geek

wait, iphone questions are on topic?

Chris

where else would i post this topic?

soandos

@JourneymanGeek, don't think so

@Chris, We will ask a mod to move it to ask different

Please do not double post

Journeyman Geek

2:25 AM

^ that

Chris

this is more of an OS question than iPhone question

using the program minicom

Journeyman Geek

minicom is running on the phone...

what is minicom talking to?

Chris

itself

i am echoing "hi" to the serial port but it is not displaying "hi" in the minicom window

Journeyman Geek

so is there a computer anywhere?

Chris

me?

yeah

Journeyman Geek

2:37 AM

where?

Chris

im sitting in front of it

soandos

@Chris he means with regard to the problem

Journeyman Geek

lol

yes!

Chris

yes i hook my computer to the iphone, thats how i ssh into my phone

Journeyman Geek

and minicom is running on your phone talking to a serialport?

does the phone even have a serial port?

Chris

2:48 AM

sort of

its builtin to the dock connector pins 12/13

TX / RX

Bob

3:35 AM

@Petah Windows Media Player, Foobar2000, VLC, etc... I assume iTunes has such an option, it's pretty standard in music players.

Sathya

5:13 AM

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this is sweet

Journeyman Geek

5:41 AM

WANT

neersighted

Whoa

SE sites have chat

neet

Journeyman Geek

lol

they do

neersighted

*neat

anyone know if there is an irc gateway?

/me likes the oldschool way

Journeyman Geek

lol

neersighted

as evidenced by the /me

Journeyman Geek

5:51 AM

People always ask that

neersighted

:p

Journeyman Geek

there's an addon that allows /me to work properly ;p

uses that

neersighted

orllynow?

I see that chome notifications work

can you link to it for me?

Journeyman Geek

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script chat

is a heavy irc user

though mostly obscure servers ;p

neersighted

/me is also

yeah, I have ZNC instances on 9 networks, including one I founded

Journeyman Geek

5:53 AM

lol

SE chat has some nice things tho

like you can edit your own posts within a short time

neersighted

sexy

tampermonkey to the resuce?

here we go!

Journeyman Geek

lol

@jokerdino: Amma Laptop again! superuser.com/questions/454229/… ;p

neersighted

/me test

jokerdino

w00t

neersighted

refreshing

test

ohh, timestamps!

sexy

now it just needs better css

Journeyman Geek

5:56 AM

and someone needs to do a canonical answer on that, maybe @hacktohell if he ever gets one ;p

Luke

6:19 AM

So, anyone know how to find a PUK number for a cell phone when the cell provider is closed till morning?

Journeyman Geek

has no idea what a PUK number is, so not i ;p

Luke

I was going through the options on my phone, and apparently I can brick my SIM card if I enter the wrong code twice... Google found Yahoo Answers, who told me to check the SIM card, but the code isn't on there :(

Journeyman Geek

lol

ahh

Luke

Ya...

*not twice, 10 times

Bob

@Luke Well.. call your provider :P

I'm pretty sure there's no other way, since it should be unique to your SIM

so if your provider is closed, well... you'll probably have to wait

unless you happen to have some SIM reading device

Luke

6:27 AM

Not that I know of

I know I was able to root my phone and unlock the device to work with my carrier... But I don't knwo if such a thing exists to break past that point

Luke

6:46 AM

Weird... Although it's pretty much bricked (i.e. I can't access the phone itself), it's still getting email notifications pushed to it...

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek PUK numbers are to be provided by carriers, afaik.

Journeyman Geek

7:13 AM

hm, I really need to get my paws on the pro forma comments script

Journeyman Geek

7:35 AM

hm

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek How'd you measure the degree of deadness of something?

Journeyman Geek

degree? no

manner?

Daniel Beck

Well, how dead is dead?

Loved that comment. It gets better the less context you have :-)

Journeyman Geek

Is it a magic smoke escape ? Has a chip lost its will to live and blown up? Is it just minor data corruption (AKA only almost dead?)

actually

superuser.com/questions/454253/… cookie if you can work out why i flagged this ;p

@Sathya probably remembers Oliver from New Jersey.

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek Flagged what? I deleted the spam.

Journeyman Geek

7:40 AM

lol

I flagged it for deletion ;p

Daniel Beck

That's why I deleted it. I'm sure you had a stellar reason to flag.

(turns and runs away)

Journeyman Geek

(sad thing is, that company has done themselves NO favours here ;p)

XD

@DanielBeck: One of my clients is a good example. She had a 'dead' drive, with NTFS corruption. Fixed. Now same drive has a broken USB port ;p

I told her no, cause i don't think i can solder a microusb port ;p

but to her the drive is still dead

or if it made wierd noises

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek ah yes, him

@JourneymanGeek lolol

Journeyman Geek

7:55 AM

Might actually change my gravitar as well. I have some nicer mugshots ;p

Sathya

congrats @DanielBeck

in Ask a Super User Moderator, 3 mins ago, by shrx

Moderator Daniel Beck closed my question: http://superuser.com/questions/454125/how-to-style-numbers-differently-with-javascript I don't think it's justified.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Daniel Beck

@Sathya Thanks, it was hard work, glad to see it paid.

Sathya

you've unlocked a new achievement!

"Chat callout within first week or reporting to Moderation!"

Journeyman Geek

XD

They ought to have a badge for that!

Daniel Beck

7:57 AM

I'm a bit disappointed that I missed the (gold level) "... within one day of election..."

Sathya

8:07 AM

2Journeyman Geek ha ha)) no, in one moment i can't see it in BIOS, not any physical damage on it and it looks fine, no undead voices inside it, yep it's so old six years ago it happend)) 2Sampo What about guide i think it'll be very good for me, and maybe other people who have same problem say thanks too) — Ishikawa Yoshi 18 mins ago

~~possible~~ broken shift key syndrome. Unlike the typical always stuck shift key syndrome.

Journeyman Geek

lol

His computer is haunted. ;p

Sathya

sysadminday.com

> July 27, 2012 13th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day

Ivo Flipse

Darn, my tracking number over at DHL still isn't live :(

Bob

8:38 AM

...

"Ooh, badge notification!"

Journeyman Geek

@IvoFlipse: :/

Bob

"Oh, it's just Meta..."

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek I'm not worried, doesn't Paypal/ebay screw him if he doesn't ship it?

Besides, I don't think it will be delivered today, so it won't be here before monday most likely

Bob

@IvoFlipse Didn't that guy reviewing have tracking issues?

Ivo Flipse

@Bob No clue, but its a 3-5 day shipping, with a lot of satisfied customers

Bob

8:40 AM

techreport.com/articles.x/23291/2

> The buying experience was a little shaky at first. The listing promised a tracking number, but I didn't receive one, even though the eBay status of the item changed to "shipped." Then the monitor didn't arrive within the seller's stated delivery window, leaving me to sweat it out for a weekend before it showed up the following Monday in the hands of our local postman.

Ivo Flipse

Lol, feels very similar, though I do have a tracking number

it just doesn't show up on DHL

Bob

hm

anyone know how I can tell if my video card is dual link DVI capable?

the specs don't mention it :\

The max resolution is listed as 2560x1600, so I guess it is, but it does have a HDMI out, so it might be referring to that? :|

I'm confused :P

bleh

Ivo Flipse

@Bob Check the connection, it should have a ton of pins, no space in between

I need to buy a second GPU to power it, not sure what would be a nice choice

Bob

@IvoFlipse Can I trust that the port matches the card's capabilities? :\

It's a dual link port, but I'm not sure... :P

Ivo Flipse

If you have the port, you should have the capability

Bob

8:47 AM

Had an older card that used a dual link port but only supported single link

gah

the online specs say yes. Stupid paper manual.

Ivo Flipse

If you don't have it, upgrade :P

Bob

not time for a new monitor yet

just wanted to know, for future purposes :P

though that 27" one looks very nice

cya

Ivo Flipse

Later :)

Mixing Nvidia and Ati was a bad idea right?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: what card?

@IvoFlipse: not really these days, windows 7 supposedly seems ok with it

Ivo Flipse

Hmmm, else it might be tempting to get an Ati rather than a Nvidia

Journeyman Geek

8:56 AM

@IvoFlipse: Waiting for toys is a pain ;p

Ivo Flipse

but I think for now I'll just unplug one of my current screens and wait until after my vacation to buy more toys

Prices always go down somewhat :P

Just pray there won't be floods this year

Journeyman Geek

lol

Ivo Flipse

I needed a new drive last year, when 1 tb suddenly costed as much as a 2 tb drive 3 months earlier :(

Journeyman Geek

I wonder if giving somehow verified accounts for vendor tech support is a bad idea.. superuser.com/users/148638/manuelg-at-nvidia

@IvoFlipse: I hear you there

I miss being able to buy drives for 50 dollars

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek Why would it be?

Journeyman Geek

8:59 AM

Well, more like, should i suggest it on meta ;p

makes it easier for legit officialish folk to be known

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek I wish we could have those, but I think we already had this discussion on MSO

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NOTE: This is purely an idea I had and in no way represents an intended feature we're going to add. I'm posting it to see if it could be shaped into something useful, get feedback, etc. I haven't even asked the rest of the company what they think yet, because I'm not even sure this idea would wo...

discussion feedback

soandos

@JourneymanGeek didn't SO have something like that for google maps?

Ivo Flipse

@soandos They have it for tags, not for people

soandos

@IvoFlipse I thought there were supposed to be google employees around

Or something like that

Ivo Flipse

I think they argument was: they can say so on their profile, there's no need to highlight official employees, our users rock too or even more so

soandos

9:01 AM

ah, got it

Ivo Flipse

They do, Android, Dart and Google App Engine use SO as their official support/FAQ platform

but @JourneymanGeek I fully support the idea, just fear the team doesn't

even though I feel like SO and SU are very different

Programming != fixing hardware

Or rather, SO usually has access to the code and/or can work around it. We have a black box that needs fixing

Journeyman Geek

yup

and i also wonder if that should be a comment ;p

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek What? His answer?

Journeyman Geek

Ya ;p

Gnoupi

9:24 AM

@IvoFlipse The guy was useless, he just answered the canned answer "sorry about your trouble, please contact our support"

that's not an answer, that's merely a comment

Journeyman Geek

@Gnoupi: Precisely.

Ivo Flipse

I know, but just let me naively hope that he'll turn around and be awesome :P

Journeyman Geek

posted a meta question on it ;p

Ivo Flipse

Though probably he's on some Mexican helpdesk

Gnoupi

he won't, he's probably not even allowed to give support outside

of their own structure

here, it's just "oh so sorry about your problem, we can take care of you"

Journeyman Geek

9:25 AM

lol

@Gnoupi: Hence me wondering if there can be a more formal arrangement ;p

Gnoupi

basic "nvidia cares, don't write bad things about it"

Journeyman Geek

"You get these shiny badges saying these people are ACTUALLY from Nvidia, as long as you lot behave. In return, we'd like you to feed back what you can to the community, since these people are having around anyway"

Gnoupi

@JourneymanGeek well it would be interesting to have actual support teams working with SU, for sure. A bit like GetSatisfaction, but free, in a way

Journeyman Geek

yup

Gnoupi

but that's a higher topic that the great community managers and other CHAOtic people should wonder about

Ivo Flipse

9:28 AM

@Gnoupi That's exactly my point, how do we get higher up the food chain, like they do on SO with Google and the likes

jokerdino

I am thinking if Ask Ubuntu can pull it off, SU should be able to.

Ivo Flipse

@Gnoupi I told Jeff that 2 years ago, but they probably didn't think it important

Gnoupi

well we told jeff (and others) a lot of stuff, and not really everything stuck

jokerdino

(I mean, we have made Ubuntu founder answer questions on the site early in the days)

Gnoupi

and with jeff away from the team now, it feels even less accessible

Ivo Flipse

9:30 AM

@Gnoupi Guess I should have said it more often

Gnoupi

SU is particular

AU is easy, your site is already collaborating, and branded after the distro

jokerdino

is sleepy. Needs more coffee.

Ivo Flipse

The problem we have, is that we don't focus on one vendor, so if you ask about hard drives, WD would have to compete with Seagate

Gnoupi

SU is a melting pot for all kinds of software

exactly

jokerdino

@Gnoupi fair point. i agree the community is well knit around Ubuntu.

Gnoupi

9:31 AM

imagine having several software representatives. You get a question about "how to do this?", and you have two products able to do it

both guys jumping to answer and advertise their solution

Ivo Flipse

Though they can choose to ignore the fact that there's competition or embrace it, sadly not many have the confidence to do the latter

jokerdino

if done correctly, it can benefit people though.

Gnoupi

probably, but at same time, we have strong policies against self advertising

so with this, you open the pandora's box, and wonder where you draw the line

Journeyman Geek

@Gnoupi: Having an official account policy means you can draw the line though

jokerdino

hah, i can see it getting even messier.

Gnoupi

9:33 AM

where do you draw the line on who gets an account, then?

jokerdino

if there is something like twitter verified profile or something, we can probably avoid spammers.

Journeyman Geek

Give them more leeway when it comes to their own products (since thats all they will answer). Make sure they realise they shouldn't overtly self promote, and where possible they should answer with what actually happened

@Gnoupi: Contact chaos, and give them a list i guess, or 'official' e mail accounts from the company?

Gnoupi

not the point. If we have an expert on "Superconverter iPad-iPhone-Coffee", who was worknig on the product

should he, or not, be allowed?

Ivo Flipse

But obviously if you give away free hardware for the blog, you're allowed to spam a bit more ;P

Journeyman Geek

Basically, if its actual people asking questions on Superconverter blah, there should be nothing stopping someone from going "I'm from superconverter inc , contact me.." as long as he comes back and posts "The problem due to a malfunctioning coffee widget"

Gnoupi

9:37 AM

and what if "i need to convert my coffee in a sock, how can i do that?"

Journeyman Geek

people already go "I'm from superconverter inc , contact me..", question is can we use this to convert them from that to posting answers

Gnoupi

is the official guy allowed to answer? would be a mess to disallow him

Journeyman Geek

In theory, he's just stick to part of the question. We shouldn't be asking multipart questions anyway

Gnoupi

but anyway, not sure it's really a debate. Because besides this kind of intervention, I haven't noticed so far a lot of help from actual support guys

jokerdino

true -^

Journeyman Geek

9:38 AM

Other than the macrium guy ;p

who is awesome

(this is why this is a debate rather than a feature request ;p)

Ivo Flipse

The problem is not that they're not allowed, its that we want them to be encouraged to participate like real users, as in posting real answers, preferably in the boss's time

Journeyman Geek

Also, i should not ask questions right before dinner.

Gnoupi

@IvoFlipse - it can make sense on a PR point of view, you show that you care. But again, it has to escalate to take that kind of decision

it's not a simple decision from support team

jokerdino

well, it can happen if SU rules the world.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Oh dear god.

Gnoupi

9:47 AM

About chaos, they weren't here when i was active previously. What are they actually doing?

Journeyman Geek

I had to ask someone "Have you turned it off and on"

Gnoupi

@JourneymanGeek Yes?

@JourneymanGeek well it does work 90% of the time

jokerdino

@Gnoupi they promote the sites.

but i don't know if they are still functional.

Journeyman Geek

@Gnoupi: friend of mine hasn't rebooted his computer in a month

complains its slow ;p

Gnoupi

so those are the people behind the facebook page, the youtube videos and the twitter?

Journeyman Geek

9:48 AM

The only one we see here is @aarthi

jokerdino

yeah

Gnoupi

Well. that's money well spent

jokerdino

Aarthi is not chaos member anymore.

Ivo Flipse

@Gnoupi Didn't you see what they did at Gaming?

Gnoupi

I stopped following the fb page after getting tired of countless clueless "oh, look at this"

Ivo Flipse

9:49 AM

Mostly they organize contests, which if you're lucky, drive a lot of content and visits

Gnoupi

@IvoFlipse that's the skyrim effort

Sathya

@IvoFlipse you mean apart from toss-money-that-way-for-more-contests?

Ivo Flipse

That's Skyrim, Mass Effect 3 and Diablo

Gnoupi

placing this site as a reference for skyrim

ok, in this case, obviously, it worked

but honestly, the rest I've seen so far, meh

Ivo Flipse

Gaming is one of the poster childs of SE 2.0 which as already one of the larger ones before Skyrim

Gnoupi

9:51 AM

the facebook/twitter is boring

Ivo Flipse

the rest just didn't get this dramatic uptick

Journeyman Geek

Oh, fishsticks, i can't find my laptop sleeve ;p

jokerdino

IIRC, the gaming twitter is NOT botted anymore?

Gnoupi

and the worst is that they repost popular things without understanding them anyway, so the comments are silly

Ivo Flipse

They also try to syndicate our content to the likes of Lifehacker, but the questions that do well there, don't do well here

@Gnoupi Amen :P

Gnoupi

9:52 AM

the one that made me unsubscribe was about UX, where they exactly said the opposite of all the answers

Journeyman Geek

lol

Gnoupi

and the youtube... well, i didn't pluck my eyes out

but it was close

Journeyman Geek

@IvoFlipse: honestly? Lifehacker is perfect for the stuff we don't want here ;p

Gnoupi

so i hope that there are indeed some "behind the scenes" efforts which are better than that

facebook.com/stackexchange/posts/250294785075470

Ivo Flipse

I think they're doing an OK job on scifi too, even though Jeff thinks all their content is "who cares"

jokerdino

9:57 AM

who cares anyway?

BTW, can I flag this as off topic? superuser.com/questions/454310/data-used-skype-vs-facebook

Ivo Flipse

Hmm AskDifferent seems to be plugging away nicely too

Amazed Web Apps gets used that much

ELU is really strange

jokerdino

I think AU is doing a good job lately. Could be bias but we are attracting quite a bit of traffic over time.

Ivo Flipse

We had a couple of 'hits', like Sharepoint and Drupal, though those didn't need love from CHAOS

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse Big surprise, given that they give away Apple stuff twice per year.

Ivo Flipse

@DanielBeck We grew more, only giving stuff away once

jokerdino

10:00 AM

web apps gets traffic for older questions though. I don't see great content that much lately?

Ivo Flipse

@jokerdino AU is going to overtake SF

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Q: How do I delete my Facebook account?

I don't trust Facebook's new privacy settings and have decided to delete my account, but I can't find the kill switch. Does anyone know how I can delete my Facebook account?