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Journeyman Geek

00:11

Braiam

oh god... O GOD! Star Wars EP4 on the tv!!! D:

Anonymous

03:40

merry fucking christmas everyone

allquixotic

05:15

yep, merry christmas.

got my phone FXZ'ed to 4.2.2 OTA 1, but no KitKat yet because I can't get write protect removal to work

Journeyman Geek

05:38

hmm

Journeyman Geek

07:18

o0

The unsecured AP seems to have either vanished, or experienced a sudden massive reduction in signal strength

(the korean one)

Ash

07:30

can i serch a song with mp3 file ?

@JourneymanGeek happy xmas

Journeyman Geek

XD

hmm

nutsaboutnets.com/netsurveyor-wifi-scanner

I was trying to remember this - its a pretty nice ssid scanner (probably better than inssider on windows). A bit too information rich for most ;p

Journeyman Geek

07:50

wired.com/design/2013/12/case-mod-masterpiece/?viewall=true holy cow

(and I recognise the system - looks like an old dell inspiron.... probably a 530 or 531)

Ash

thats awsome :)

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/users/284460/nick-lan FLAG AWAY MERRY GENTLEMEN!

Journeyman Geek

08:08

hmm

Ash

@JourneymanGeek do yo know which language it is ?

yourlisten.com/spidermonkey/merry-song

or song ?

Hennes

Morning

Holy smoking Jesus. Now at 22 hours and 2k views.

ref

Also, Alderaan fired first

Hennes

09:02

Since when do we have a general room for tic-tac-toe?

Also, whilest being spammy: dadhacker.com/blog/?p=2092

Bob

09:23

@JourneymanGeek the NIS has stopped monitoring you :P

or they realise you're getting suspicious

@Ash Ghita by Cleopatra Stratan

Cleopatra Stratan

Cleopatra Stratan (born October 6, 2002) is Moldovan singer, the youngest person ever to score commercial success, with her 2006 album La vârsta de trei ani ("At the age of 3"). She holds the record for the highest paid young artist, the youngest artist to receive an MTV award and the youngest artist to score a No.1 hit in a country ("Ghiţă" in Romanian Singles Chart). As of late 2011, Cleopatra and her family have relocated and are living in Pipera in the capital of Romania, Bucharest. Early life Pavel Stratan, father of Cleopatra, was in a studio recording a song with three-year-old C...

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(Yay SoundHound)

(That was the fastest recognition ever...)

@JourneymanGeek ...looks like something Psycogeek would do

Michael Frank

QUICK! What' the minimum required partitions for a Win8 recovery on an HP laptop. The HP recovery keeps locking the Admin account out before the recovery completes.

(using the built in recovery partition)

Bob

whaaaa?

@MichaelFrank Start from the beginning?

Minimum required partitions?

Are you recovering from the firmware (BIOS) menu?

Michael Frank

Trying to recover from the HP recovery.

Bob

@MichaelFrank From where? From the firmware menu or from within a booted OS? What's the problem with it?

Michael Frank

Bob

09:32

What on earth does "locking the admin account out" mean??

???

The last few times I've used HP's recovery, I ran it from the firmware option - it has no concept of admin accounts AFAIK

Michael Frank

I ran it from the Win8 recovery menu (Start HP Recovery). I assume it's the firmware level.

Bob

@MichaelFrank Try lower.

Hit esc as you first boot.

I'm still not entirely sure what admin accounts have anything to do with what is effectively disk image recovery.

Michael Frank

I'm not sure why it's locking the admin account either.

Bob

@MichaelFrank "locking"?

???

WIndows Vista/7/8 come with an "Administrator" account that is disabled

you should never need to enable it

Michael Frank

"This account has been disabled. Please see your system Administrator"

Bob

09:36

@MichaelFrank ...where are you seeing that? what are you trying to do?

you aren't supposed to be able to log into "Administrator"

Michael Frank

at the end of the recovery, it restarts and boots into a log in screen with that message.

Bob

the built-in "Administrator" account should not be used - use a normal user in the "Administrators" group instead

Michael Frank

I don't have that option.

Bob

@MichaelFrank Huh. Sounds a little like someone messed up the OOBE, but... that's really weird.

Michael Frank

There is only one account, Adminsistrator. I have a feeling the recovery image could be corrupted.

Bob

09:38

...

hm.

how about...

ok. do you mind hackish solutions?

Michael Frank

But what I'm trying to figure out, is if any of the partitions pictured above are NOT needed for recovery, and can I blow them away in the hopes that something is stalling the recovery.

I'm up for anything.

Bob

ok

firstly, can you access accessibility options from that login screen?

e.g. narrator, on screen keyboard, magnifier, etc.?

Michael Frank

Yep

Bob

cool.

boot into any other OS

Michael Frank

I'm using Ubuntu Live right now >.>

Bob

09:41

mount the Windows partition, navigate to the Windows installation directory (\Windows)

back up Narrator.exe, e.g. rename to Narrator.exe.bak

copy cmd.exe

rename that copy to Narrator.exe

reboot into Windows, open the "narrator"

there, now you have a command prompt with SYSTEM privileges - that's like root, and higher than Administrator, actually.

Michael Frank

hmm.... might have an issue here. =/

Bob

ah.

looks like Windows went into fast boot/hibernate

basically, "shutdown" actually logs out of users and hibernates the kernel

just use restart instead

Michael Frank

I can't boot Windows. :)

screen just flashes on and off.

Bob

@MichaelFrank ...I thought you could get into the accessibility options?

are you saying the recovery never actually completes?

Michael Frank

only after the restore image

Bob

09:44

gah

there goes that idea

any chance you can get into safe mode?

Michael Frank

recovery maybe completes, I can't tell.

I could try.

Bob

I mean, if you want to start wiping partitions you could, but make a backup first - I've never been in this situation.

do you have enough space to image the drive somewhere else?

wait...

Windows fails to boot, but leaves the partition in a hibernated state...

that's even weirder.

Michael Frank

I believe it was part way through the Win8.1 Upgrade.

Bob

oh fuck.

Michael Frank

I KNOW

I'm sorta just thinking about throwing a Win7 image on here and just pretending it's legit.

Bob

09:48

...that might also explain why you have five partitions

mpower

Hi! anyone here know ioncube?

Bob

my partition setup was similarly messed after that horrible attempt at an 8.1 upgrade :P

Michael Frank

Right, but I assume the HP recovery partition wouldn't be modified by an upgrade?

Bob

@MichaelFrank ...hopefully

Michael Frank

@Bob ...yea.

Bob

09:54

@MichaelFrank I wonder how feasible it would be to manually extract :\

or perform a manual installation of Win8/8.1 from ISO

you don't happen to have a backup image from before the upgrade attempt?

Michael Frank

It's not my laptop, and my brother isn't the best at backing up.

I wouldn't mind installing from ISO

Bob

..

yea, after my horrible attempt I just restored from image :P

Michael Frank

Yeah, I just got a text saying "FIX MY LAPTOP"

Bob

I would recommend you take an image now anyway, before further fiddling

I can tell you the partition structure of my Win8 HP laptop if you want

Michael Frank

entire disk? I don't think I have an external with that much space...

Bob

09:57

you can try deleting things until it matches

@MichaelFrank compression :)

Michael Frank

I can't mount any of the partitions (due to that hibernation issue).

Bob

@MichaelFrank you don't need to mount any drives to come in with a sledgehammer

(or a wrecking ball, I think that's the new expression)

Michael Frank

okay. I'm not at home right now and we've overstayed out welcome... So I'll be back on in about 30 minutes or so.

so ready the sledgehammer if you want.

Bob

heh

Michael Frank

catch you soon...ish.

Bob

10:02

I have a 400MB "recovery partition", 260MB "EFI system partition", my main partition and a 25 GB HYP recovery, which is a "primary partition".

...diskpart has a different point of view

 Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
 -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
 Partition 4    Recovery           400 MB  1024 KB
 Partition 5    System             260 MB   401 MB
 Partition 1    Reserved           128 MB   661 MB
 Partition 2    Primary            672 GB   789 MB
 Partition 3    Primary             25 GB   673 GB

in which case it looks a lot like yours

greeeeeat

Michael Frank

10:35

Yea, that looks similar.

Bob

@MichaelFrank Well, I'm stumped. Anyone else have an idea?

Michael Frank

pirated win7 it is? :P

Bob

@MichaelFrank I'd recommend grabbing a win8 ISO

you can probably still extract the key

Michael Frank

will that work with an OEM key?

Bob

@MichaelFrank get an OEM ISO :P

Michael Frank

10:38

isn't the key built into the BIOS?

Bob

maybe

but it's worth at least mounting the partition in read-only and copying the registry hives

worst case you can extract the key later

in any case - while I wouldn't recommend upgrading 7 to 8, I also wouldn't recommend installing 7 fresh nowadays

7 will be going out of support at some point, much like XP is now

also, if your laptop came with 8 it might not even have complete drivers for 7

Michael Frank

I thought they had to offer downgrade support?

Bob

eh.. had to?

Michael Frank

Maybe?

Bob

Perhaps.

Michael Frank

10:43

Anyway, I can get into CMD using the Win8 advanced recovery tools. I can launch regedit from there. So I should be able to find the key, yea?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: NIS?

Bob

!!wiki NIS Korea

ChatBot John Cavil

@Bob No result found

Bob

gah

National Intelligence Service (South Korea)

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) is the chief intelligence agency of South Korea. The agency was officially established in 1961 as the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) (중앙정보부), during the rule of President Park Chung-hee's military Supreme Council for National Reconstruction, which displaced the Second Republic of South Korea. The original duties of the KCIA were to supervise and coordinate both international and domestic intelligence activities and criminal investigation by all government intelligence agencies, including that of the military. The agency's broad powers ...

@MichaelFrank ...yea

but if you can get to that point, there's a few other things you can try

e.g. list users and/or add user

or a system restore

or any number of things, really

I'm about to disappear for an hour

Michael Frank

I'm not sure if cmd prompt will have any effect on the Windows install, or whether it's just a PE

Does anyone know if Belarc Advisor (for extracting the product key) has a portable option?

Journeyman Geek

11:03

ahh

wrong country

we have the ISD

Michael Frank

oh wow...

Now it works. o.O

Journeyman Geek

Internal Security Department (Singapore)

The Internal Security Department (Abbreviation: ISD; ) is a domestic intelligence agency of the Ministry of Home Affairs of Singapore. It was formerly part of the Ministry of Interior and Defence until it was split on 11 August 1970. It has the utmost right to detain without trial individuals suspected to be a threat to national security. The stated mission is to confront and address security threats, including international terrorism, foreign subversion and espionage. The ISD also monitors and addresses potential threats from communism, prevention of racial tension which might affec...

Michael Frank

it's giving me sysprep options, this seems promising.

Fitzroy

I had a weird dream last night - I was at some kind of seminar and the host asked "What is a stack trace?". Someone replied "It's the truth." I kinda liked that answer...

Sorry - just remembered that...

bit strange

Michael Frank

11:20

XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-AAOEM - This is not a Win8 Key, is it?

I mean, obviously the Xs are placeholders. But that format seems odd.

ahh, it was showing that because it's not activated.

Finally got the key extracted! :D

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Singapore's indefinite detention

Ell

12:19

Merry christmas all :)

Fitzroy

I hate how London transport completely shuts down on Christmas day; no trains, no underground and no buses.

Ell

I can't for the life of me get my headset working through my front panel audio :/

Boris_yo

@Fitzroy Then you would surely hate this happening from mid Friday to evening of Saturday if you lives in Israel...

@Ell Ditto

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ASIO/ASIS here

where ASIO is the internal one (like FBI) and ASIS is external (CIA). Oh, and DSD is a little more like the NSA, I guess

@Ell does it work through the rear?

or are you using USB/HDMI?

@Boris_yo ...I don't really agree with #6

if you see that B is better than A, and after going to B you see that C is better than B, it does not mean B is not better than A

just because there's always some place "better" does not mean taht there aren't places worse

also, "Better" is greatly oversimplifying

Ell

12:34

@Bob Yeah

the problem is

the right channel audio doesn't work on the headset

It might be a dodgy headset to be honest

Boris_yo

@Bob I don't understand what it is talking about. Place of living or something?

So it is not about staying in your comfort zone and not moving with life?

Ell

also I'm getting a weird issue with my hard drive :S

a capacity mismatch for a reason I have no clue :/

Bob

@Ell looks like filesystem and partition sizes don't match

how did you creat that part?

Ell

@Bob Can't remember... I think it was gparted

Bob

what have you done to it in the past, e.g. resize operations, editing with non-Windows tools, etc.?

Ell

12:46

As far as I can remember I have only ever created it and that's all

with gparted

Bob

partition size is stored in the MBR/GPT

filesystem size is kept within each filesystem

they are supposed to match, but when one is changed and the other isn't updated... yea

Ell

Is the capacity the filesystem size or the partition size?

Bob

the one in that dialog is probably FS size

Ell

right

Any idea how I can update the filesystem size?

Bob

hm

you could try ntfsresize

and give it the size of the partition (you can probably find that with fdisk -l or something)

this is all linux by the way

make sure you have a backup

Ell

12:49

@Bob that's the issue really :/

I've been putting this off forever because I have nowhere to backup

Bob

resizing partitions and filesystems often work, but doing so without a backup is still stupid

Ell

and a christmas day drive catastrophy is something I want to avoid :p

Bob

@Ell ah.

pick up a $60 1TB HDD? :P

if you can afford that

Ell

Haha that's the issue to be honest

But I did just get £50 for christmas so I'll probably get one soonish :P

I just need a job haha

Bob

yea, that does help :P

> If both --info(-mb-only) and --size are omitted then the NTFS
filesystem will be enlarged to the underlying DEVICE size.

huh

looks like if you just run ntfsresize on the partition without specifying a size, it'll just make it fit the part

Ell

12:51

Oh that's handy

I also have just downloaded paragon partition manager free on windows

and there is a update MBR option

Hopefully it wont mess up booting because I boot from my ssd

Bob

:S

@Ell that probably won't do anything helpful

AFAIK there are no Windows tools that can resize a filesystem independently of the partition

Ell

hmm okay

Maybe I should try chkdsk

or whatever it's called

It's worth a shot I guess

Journeyman Geek

hm. this is probably not good.

I have having trouble connecting to my router to mess with settings.

Ell

I'm gonna restart

talk in a while maybe guys :) thanks for the help :)

Journeyman Geek

ahh fixed

Boris_yo

13:11

Anyone heard about Amazon Locker? amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201117870

Bob

@Ell that checks FS integrity

it won't resize the FS

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek That's the state of society today. Adult just can't come close to child and talk to child or say what cute of child he is. PedoAlarm is so sensitive these days...

Bob

@Boris_yo Which is, frankly, ridiculous. Statistically the biggest threats are family members or friends.

Gowtham

wheee amazon.com/b/…

time to buy swiftkey <3

Bob

meh. Swype for me.

Boris_yo

13:22

@Bob I have Swype + Dragon.

Gowtham

Does anyone here have an HTC device ?

Do i have to switch to S-OFF to flash a new ROM ?

Bob

@allquixotic I only just realised that George Takei played the Emperor in RA3 :\

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also, the 'code' that scrolls across the screen near the beginning of the second one... that's HTML

with a lot of links to http://www.lotsofcode.com scattered in it

and the 'code' at the top left of the screens when Ackerman is working properly, that's HTML including CSS

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this guy needs far too much handholding -_-

Journeyman Geek

13:54

blah

Gowtham

@JourneymanGeek you have a HTC phone right ?

Journeyman Geek

@Gowtham: yeah, but I never reflash it ;p

Gowtham

oh ok ....

Journeyman Geek

I did see your question, I have no idea

Bob

bored... someone say something interesting

Oliver Salzburg

13:57

@Sathya @Bob @Boris_yo @Braiam Thanks :)

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