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Journeyman Geek

00:00

assuming it has one

Bob

00:16

@JourneymanGeek ON the topic of USB and ferrite beads: I just noticed my Dell keyboard has one -_-

Journeyman Geek

quite a lot of gear does :/

tapped-out

just curious, what's the issue with them?

Braiam

being old... perhaps?

Boris_yo

00:41

@JourneymanGeek Used for printers, yes?

Shashank Sawant

00:59

Here's my question:
http://superuser.com/questions/659327/how-to-run-autohotkey-script-as-an-admin-every-time-a-user-logs-in

I was just wondering if any of you gentlemen here could take a look at it.

Bob

...screw you paypal

confirmation SMS? NOPE, requires premium messages to be enabled

Mr. I Don't Care

I just dun care! waddup all

Bob

@ShashankSawant You'll want to create a task in the scheduler, on the General tab click Change User or Group and type in SYSTEM.

Then on the Triggers tab, add an At Log On trigger and click Any User

(and add the script on the Actions tab)

Shashank Sawant

@Bob In the object name field?

Bob

@ShashankSawant ya

though I'd actually recommend you use any other account with admin privileges rather than the localsystem - better for security

Shashank Sawant

01:11

@Bob Thanks Man! I will give it a shot...

tapped-out

weird

wasn't even looking at chat, yet provided nearly the same answer as @Bob

Boris_yo

01:53

Hive mind

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo no

that USED to be a parallel port

serial ports were kinda used where we'd use ps/2 or USB

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Weren't they used to connect computers to play Doom on LAN?

tapped-out

still used to interface with some programming interfaces

Journeyman Geek

yeah, using a null modem/crossover cable

so I guess its also used as a lan of sorts

now its primarily used for working with embedded systems

Bob

02:40

@tapped-out hardly ever native now, though

most often it's a USB-rs232 adapter

@tapped-out heh

"Fun Sized Bananas" - why, Aldi, why??

Journeyman Geek

o0

actually

smaller sized bananas are often tastier

Paul

Depends on your definition of "fun". For me, a fun-sized banana would be the size of a small car. Now that would be fun.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek they looked exactly the same as the normal ones on the other side

Journeyman Geek

04:56

Over 200 rep one day, 0 the next XD

Braiam

@JourneymanGeek what a dog life... yours, that's it :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

-1

Q: switching in between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

Respected sir i have an project on vertical handover in between bluetooth and wi fi. in this scenario i want to switch between the two network depend on the received signal strength. i am able to switch manually and by providing condition as per RSSI criteria in simulink blocks but it wi...

ow, india.

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Q: my usb drive not recognized in linux

My usb is not recognized in linux whereas it works fine in windows 8 Please resolve the below error ide: failed opcode was: unknown ATAPI device hdc: Error: Medium error -- (Sense key=0x03) Unrecovered read error -- (asc=0x11, ascq=0x00) The failed "Read 10" packet command was: "28 00 ...

linux usb

probably also :/

Braiam

dogs grammar sucks... fix the I's @JourneymanGeek :/

Journeyman Geek

@Braiam: done, I think

there was just too much to fix ;p

and I don't even get the damned question

Braiam

SE post editor FTW! D:

Journeyman Geek

05:07

true ;p

Psycogeek

05:46

@terdon (brother's we are not Christians) Okkkay. Brother I am not really a SuperUser :-) I am just some human with a computer , who has many of the same problems as everyone else. I hope I am not resented for not ever having booted to Linux :-)

ChatBot John Cavil

06:53

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Michael Frank

No thanks!

Also, why is my 64bit version of WHS2011 only able to use 3.24GB out of 4GB available RAM? :/

Bob

07:48

@JourneymanGeek Considering getting a cheap luxmeter for comparison testing :P

@MichaelFrank Graphics shared?

ChatBot John Cavil

08:36

@flote Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! I am this channel's helpful chat bot. Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help. For bot commands, type !!listcommands

flote

mornin

how can I escape the spaces in a password in a net use command in a bat file? just put it in quotation marks? e.g. net use u: \\server\share\folder "my password" /user:domain\user ?

Journeyman Geek

oh dear god

my dad's SERIOUSLY fucked up his system

flote

@JourneymanGeek just admit it was you in your grand scheme of convincing him to get the chromebook

Journeyman Geek

lol

if only

I need to fix this

flote

what happened?

Journeyman Geek

08:47

there's about ... 20 instances each of some program

not sure what it is yet

and he has ask set as his search provider

so... he installed some random crap again

Journeyman Geek

09:03

suprisingly no

the problem was some canon driver going nuts

Journeyman Geek

09:34

hm

cd rom drive on the shared box sounds like a buzzsaw

I wonder how long the damned thing is going to limp along

Journeyman Geek

10:00

anyway, disabled a lot of startup entries that didn't belong, cleaned up a few things...

and next week, it will be fubar again, I think ;p

ChatBot John Cavil

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Alraxite

Okay.

Um, I had a question.

.....okay, so I'll ask

If you have a laptop with Intel HD graphics 4000 and another with a 1 GB dedicated graphic card, then the one with the dedicated card will consume more power, right?

I guess no one's around.

Bob

10:19

@JourneymanGeek Nuke and repave.

Journeyman Geek

lol

an't do tht either

@Alraxite: probably

Bob

@flote You could just try it and find out? :P

But, yes, quotes work. Alternatively, the command prompt escape character (^) might also work (before every space).

Alraxite

@JourneymanGeek Okay, thank you.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Set up CrashPlan to take incremental backups to a NAS, for the future?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: yeah, probably

Bob

10:20

@Alraxite Depends.

Journeyman Geek

XD

or bitorrent sync

I THINK he backs up stuff periodically

Bob

Laptops with switchable graphics will normally leave the dedi card disabled until you need the additional computing power.

In that case, any extra power use will be negligible.

@Alraxite Of course, sometimes the switchable graphics drivers eff up and get stuck on one card or the other :P

Normally you can force power saving modes (use integrated only, leave dedi off).

@JourneymanGeek We had an early CD drive, I think it was 4x. It would break if you blocked the tray while it was moving.

@JourneymanGeek AKA Java :P

My dad would take apart the drive and shift some gears back into position. Pretty sure you can't do that with a modern drive anymore :\

Oliver Salzburg

MySQL issue solved \o/

flote

@Bob yeah, but I don't have a windows pc available atm :)

Journeyman Geek

10:41

lol

@Bob: oh, its an old c2d

and yes, java, and something called putfiles downloader

the DVD drive is only 3-4 years old tho

Everytime someone forces a search engine change on you, you make puppy dogs sad.

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

*they

Bob

Just got this thing:

it's tiny

a little wider than a Pi, and about the same length

Journeyman Geek

lol

does it run some cool alternate firmware?

can you stack it with a pi?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek it's a switch :P

tombull89

10:49

Does it come with a backdoor in the firmware?

Bob

unmanaged switch

surprisingly, it was a fair bit cheaper than the much larger TP-LINK equivalent

now I'm just hunting for a halfway-decent cable

too much cat5 crap lying around

tombull89

I picked up a majorly-reduced Linksys dual-band router the other day, and as a bonus DDWRT works on it.

I don't have any 5ghz stuff though. derp.

Journeyman Geek

ahh

neither do I, I was bitching about that

Bob

half my stuff is 5GHz-capable now, but I don't use it

my router's an Aetheros one, and its copy of dd-wrt doesn't play nice with dual-band

tombull89

I don't think mine does either, I can't find how to create a 5ghz network anyway

Bob

10:55

@tombull89 Oh, mine can create one

problem is keeping the damn thing stable

oh ffs

now I'm down to 100Mbps

figures that the cat5 cable wouldn't work

YES

some good ol' cat5e

gawd I need some cable ties

digs bag of 500 out of closet

aha!

Journeyman Geek

11:11

lol

I just used one today to keep a leaky showerhead from spewing water all over a soap holder

ChatBot John Cavil

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Vignesh4303

hi all i am facing one wierd problem,i have sata hard drive and cd roms appeared on initial restart,

while restarting for second time it doesnt show up sata drive in boot device

any advice welcome :)

i checked for connections and all stuff,first time startup the machine detects hdd,while booting second time it doesnt show up hdd in list

what might be the problem?

i have enabled auto detect of sata enabled in bios

Vignesh4303

11:31

@JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

hm

drive might be dying

Vignesh4303

but it was properly booting at first startup

and i ran chkdsk too :(

but the problem is now need to repair the hard drives for boot.ini issue

any ideas welcome @JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

if its not detected by bios, its pretty bad

Vignesh4303

so hard disk gone :(

any temporary ideas to repair it?

@JourneymanGeek

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ...how does a cable tie help with that? o.O

Journeyman Geek

11:36

@Bob: it stops water from flowing past the showerhead holder, down the tube, and into the soap

Bob

lol

@JourneymanGeek our showerheads are all leaking from the back :(

might try to shove an extra oring in there

ChatBot John Cavil

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Shyam

@Boris_yo Hello Sir

Journeyman Geek

@Vignesh4303: when the drive is running, do a full image with ddrescue

if its totally dead, then well, there's little you can do

Shyam

@Vignesh4303 hey

Journeyman Geek

11:50

honestly? the moment the drive starts vanishing from being detected, its probably the controller.

and thats... fixable, if you're a professional data recovery guy. Otherwise, its a leading cause of sudden, inexplicable mortality in hard drives

Boris_yo

12:02

@Shyam Yes?

@JourneymanGeek What do they do with controller to bring it back to life?

allquixotic

♬In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Christopher Columbus (basically a tyrant, racist and asshole) sailed the ocean blue♬

♬In 2013, govvies and their loyal corporate lapdogs got a holiday thanks to him♬

@JourneymanGeek you guys ok? cyclone hitting you?

@jokerdino too! :(

Journeyman Geek

lol

superuser.com/users/263398/larry-the-lobster <- y'all know what to do?

@allquixotic: cyclone? What cyclone?

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek o nvm, you live far away from india, i always forget

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo: you do that voodoo

@allquixotic: we have Sumatra and java between us and any inclement weather

tombull89

what? a year ban?

Journeyman Geek

12:13

who?

tombull89

larry the lobster

1

Journeyman Geek

ahh

@tombull89: known troll

he's been a PITA for quite a while

tombull89

Only on SU?

Journeyman Geek

yeah

oh suspensions are network wide I think

allquixotic

►

Oliver Salzburg

12:16

@tombull89 I'm tired of constantly destroying his accounts

Journeyman Geek

12:27

@OliverSalzburg: so, IP ban? ;p

has never been able to get into the mind of a troll

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek I don't have access to that

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: ahh

alas.

oh well

Oliver Salzburg

But constantly deleting all evidence that ties to the IP is probably not helping :P

So suspension it is

Journeyman Geek

if it comes back, we can just flag it into oblivion

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tombull89

12:35

!!listcommands

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tombull89

uh

We got some IRC in our Chat over here

allquixotic

@tombull89 huh?

tombull89

Sounds like an IRC chat bot

allquixotic

the bot has been here for 2 months, and it has nothing to do with IRC (although Bob is thinking about making an IRC gateway to SE chat)

tombull89

12:38

I only thought it said "hello" didn't think it did anything else.

Also, gratz on 13,337.

allquixotic

a few of the commands are useful but most of them are for entertainment... I still think the automatic greeting is pretty useful

and I improved the greetings significantly, especially for new users (< 20 rep)

unfortunately we have no way to greet anonymous chat viewers who aren't logged in, but a logged in user who doesn't have enough rep to chat gets a different (friendly) message

github.com/allquixotic/so-chatbot

github.com/allquixotic/SO-ChatBot/blob/master/source/plugins/…

tombull89

I can't code for a damn but it's always interesting looking through it

allquixotic

there are a lot of ... strange comments in the chat-bot source code, but I only wrote about 0.5% of the code; Zirak from the chat.stackoverflow.com javascript room wrote the rest

jokerdino

12:57

@allquixotic absolutely no impact here. Cyclone too far north.

Bob

@allquixotic well, finally got my laptop back, so, next step: blog! :D

not sure if I should do like @JourneymanGeek and host on BuyVM w/ offloaded MySQL, or just run my own instance of MySQL on WLS...

also, I just learned of the existence of recursive regex

the horror...

Simon Sheehan

13:36

@Boris_yo Sorry! Never responded to you yesterday. I was lurking around :)

Boris_yo

@SimonSheehan Apology not accepted! You will pay for this!

Simon Sheehan

Oh dear

Boris_yo

@allquixotic What's this about?

Simon Sheehan

Boris_yo

@SimonSheehan How much do you have in your PayPal account?

Simon Sheehan

13:38

@Boris_yo I dont have a paypal account!

Boris_yo

@SimonSheehan Then pay with your blood! (references to Elder Scrolls: Oblivion)

Simon Sheehan

hahahaha

I still need to play that, I was pretty into Skyrim for a bit

Boris_yo

@SimonSheehan I think Skyrim is improved upon Oblivion.

Simon Sheehan

Ah, so im not missing out on too much :)

Boris_yo

@SimonSheehan And what is this reference I keep hearing "I shot my leg with arrow" or something?

Simon Sheehan

13:40

I'm actually currently on Assassin's Creed 3, it's quite enjoyable over the first game :)

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Only 3Dfx does Voodoo.

Boris_yo

13:53

Wudup? @Hennes

Who remembers period when games were ripped the heck out of resources for taking less space on media? How movies, soundtrack were gone in games.

flote

@Boris_yo good old 56K days :)

Boris_yo

@flote That was the main reason for ripped games?

Psycogeek

what will they think of next: new windows vulnerability FONTS :-) ""A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Windows parses specially crafted OpenType fonts (OTF). An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full administrative rights.""

Boris_yo

Ripping game resources takes away from games' atmosphere.

flote

@Boris_yo I guess. I remember I was still on a modem when I played them

Boris_yo

13:59

Playing Fallout games without animated deaths, without music, without videos makes it boring and pointless.

There were series of Classic Fond discs made between 90s-99s that contained different games of this period, all were ripped and strongly packed. That's why one disc contained many games.

Company got closed when games occupying more than one disc started being released.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo they shouldn't be ripping out the main components of the game, I can think of other things to toss out :-)

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Main components like?

Animations in Fallout games? That made people to die having same animation regardless of weapon used. There was only one animation of them falling to the ground. Heck why need even that of you can remove that as well so people will disappear instead?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo I don't know. just seems like every piece of software nowadays has tons of crap in it that can be thrown out, that does not effect the way it works.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek You are speaking of software, not games.

Psycogeek

So when people are tossing out stuff that does effect the way the software worked, that seems like crasy ness

Simon Sheehan

14:11

@Boris_yo Its took an arrow to the knee.... soldiers would say it randomly, it was funny

Boris_yo

So ripped game is pointless because you compelete it for nothing, no outro or end of story.

Bob

@allquixotic Nice. Reminds me far too much of games of Mafia, though...

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo I have even seen it in games. Putting on the whole level creation tools (without a option to remove) leaving in SDK things instead of client packages. Options to remove stuff like "how we made the game" and "developer movies"

allquixotic

@Bob I'm home :D off from work today :D holiday :D

Simon Sheehan

Its thanksgiving!

allquixotic

14:13

so I can click on your links and not get Access Restricted

Simon Sheehan

So everyones off right now in Canada :)

Bob

lol

allquixotic

I've been playing Planetside 2 for a few hours

I'm really interested in Hearthstone, but of course I'm not important enough to be invited to the beta

Simon Sheehan

It's a good game, although I stopped playing a few months ago, just wasn't as exciting for me

Boris_yo

@SimonSheehan When americans took land of root americans?

Simon Sheehan

14:15

@Boris_yo Not quite, since we seem to time ours differently than the american one :p

allquixotic

you mean when European invaders took the land of the native Americans

Boris_yo

@allquixotic Then european invaders became dwellers in USA?

Simon Sheehan

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: or those pesky upstart modern humans chased off the pre-historic homids?

Psycogeek

@allquixotic then we celebrate having raped the land and killed all the natives, by pigging out on way to much food, and drinking till we pass out. Or you can go to the casino :-)

Bob

14:17

O.O

Drones delivering textbooks. Wat.

Oliver Salzburg

> I don't have any malicious intentions, just creating a simple hack for a game online

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek That's where "stuffing your face" expression came from?

Oliver Salzburg

@Boris_yo That expression was coined by a famous face stuffer in 1457, way before the raping of the Americas

Hennes

Lo all

@SimonSheehan Somehow I doubt that Canadian would build something like that. The Canadians I know would reject that because it does not have enough insulation.

Simon Sheehan

@Hennes Well we usually have to bundle up and hope the oil powered stove is running at the BK Lounge, so it can be tricky

Journeyman Geek

14:33

@Hennes: canadians would go "this is not cold, eh"

Hennes

No. But there is no snow on the roof. Either that is a heated roof or it is not cold

So, ehm, yes. In case of that picture: "Yes, this is not cold"

Simon Sheehan

Very good analysis of Canada ;)

Journeyman Geek

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Q: How do I find an IRC channel?

Normally when I discover an awesome library or technology that I can use, its website has its server and irc listed, so it's easy to communicate with the community. But how do I find IRCs that I'm not sure actually exist? I'm trying to get to grips with Curses, a library that allows for fullscre...

irc

I'm not entirely sure if this is on or off topic

Darth Android

I don't see how it relates to computer hardware or software.

Hennes

cursus! Or maybe ncurses ;-0

Darth Android

14:39

It relates to internet technology, but I would say that's off-topic in the same way webapps are off-topic

Hennes

Well, software support. I did not VTC it since it was nicely generically asked.

Journeyman Geek

if its per channel, its /list

Hennes

How do I find something. Not how do I find $this _specific_thingy

Journeyman Geek

if he means a global irc search, it dosen't exist.

Simon Sheehan

Well /list can load a LOT of channel...if your on something like freenode

Darth Android

14:41

I figure searchirc is as good as /list; both will have omitted entries.

but return a good majority of the popular results

In any case, the user asking the question still has some basic googling they forgot to do, "irc search engine" brings up a lot of good stuff

allquixotic

@DarthAndroid I've been hearing more and more around the place that we aren't against people who refuse to google, and basic questions are fine

i.e. lack of google-fu is not a reason on its own to close a question (although you can downvote it if you feel it's egregiously bad)

Simon Sheehan

@allquixotic If we closed it for that reason, we might as well close down the site lol

Psycogeek

I don't need google, I use ass-fu I pull all my answers right out of my butt :-)

Journeyman Geek

ok... wtf?

superuser.com/users/263434/glenda-peter this user has odd answers. I right clicked on her ava and got graph.facebook.com/100006695373960/picture?type=large . Then, I removed the last bit to get graph.facebook.com/100006695373960

creepy much?

Simon Sheehan

14:58

what

Seems... not very legit

Journeyman Geek

yeah, spammer

Simon Sheehan

for sure

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