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00:34
@MichaelFrank maaaan
Its fine here. Just.. totally batshit crazy.
@JourneymanGeek heh
Well that's fair enough. I wasn't sure, so I asked. :)
00:50
IE8, why you so bad?!!
why are you running IE8?
"Internet Explorer provided by ANZ bank" >_>
'cause policy!
@JourneymanGeek Yeah, you can change that in regedit apparently.
Bob
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01:32
@MichaelFrank You work at ANZ? :O :P
@MichaelFrank I'm thinking powershell
01:48
@Bob Ya
 
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03:18
maybe one of you know how I could remap a key to multiple successive keys with AutoHotKeys example &::foo
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@cyril use Send or SendInput
&::Send foo
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if you want to replace text rather than keystrokes, a hotstring is another option
a guy advised Sleep though
F12::
Send #P
sleep,500
send {left}{enter}
return
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@cyril that's only if you need the pause
most applications don't need it
03:23
ok
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(and a 500ms sleep is excessive)
a computer responds in the 50-100ms range at most. a human would notice 500... that's quite a long pause
yes totally, thanks
You could always adjust that ;p
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@JourneymanGeek well, you don't need the pause in most cases
I think they were discussing input to a game
yep, I just replace a useless key to ' <- '
03:28
you guys wants this here? askubuntu.com/q/356243/169736
is offtopic-ish there
:) AHK is great
sup
Hi @Chris
nada
@MichaelFrank how goes it?
Okay wow... Let's star everything!
03:42
:P
@MichaelFrank you wouldn't happen to know anything about NetBSD would you?
No, I don't Sorry.
darnit
good help is hard to find :\
@Chris ask jouneyman geek, the Real geek ;P
and the real helper
@Utkarsh I'm trying to dump of a bootloader of a NetBSD router :\ I have root access to the box, I just want to backup the current bootloader on the box.
@Chris maybe you must ask on the main site
03:52
feel like paypaling me $4.6k to attend this class tacnetsol.com/embedded-device-exploitation :P
@Chris: there's a chance the bootloader has nothing to do with netbsd
They do some crazy shit with embedded devices
!!tell 13938560 no
!!tell 13938560 yes
03:59
@JourneymanGeek i just wanted to have a back up of it, in case of the eventual bricking episode :\
hmm. jtag...
i don't have jtag wired up ...yet
i was hoping there was some way to get the bootloader through the root console :\
bye everyone!
l8tz
04:52
anyone try avast antivirus
?
Hi, are mobile spy apps real? I see them advertised in magazines. Is it possible for someone to install them on your phone under an hour? If a spy app has been installed, where would you find it in your mobile phone and how to uninstall it? — user302599 52 mins ago
ugh, sometimes I wonder why I even bother ;p
I bought a mobile spy app it comes with the decoder ring, and secret invisible ink pen
05:50
What makes it worse is it is a comment for something totally unrelated
thinking about it would probably take about 2 minutes to install to the usual android device. 1) sending a copy of all messages out 2)tracking them with gps location sends 3) sending their call log out. 4) opening their mic with a sms. 5) taking silent pictures and mailing out the current one. but somehow I think they might notice the bandwidth issue, and cpu load and battery vaccume
but why bother when all those companies will do that for them? :-)
06:17
that would make a cool website / blog. "My Phone tracked for a Week" with 4 frame display. Running AV, Map, reverse lookup phone log, and message log.
07:02
hm USB OTG works with my new phone, but one of the two supercheap USB OTG adaptors I bought is DOA
I need to try that myself, there is no special connecting right? it is just an adaption?
Of course i have 45 wires that go to and from all that stuff, but Not one like that.
5 wires, with two of them connected a certain way
Oh special recognising of it by the device , so can i charge at the same time too?
but It cost me 1.92 (and I got a spare one)
well, not really since you've got a USB drive plugged into it
I would have to have wire thing, so i dont destroy my port quicker than it already is going to get destroyed.
07:08
>_>
@JourneymanGeek I was thinking One of them port hub things , 4 out ? I donno, i only need hard drive, mouse , keyboard, the slim poort to the Tv and to charge , other then that keeping it simple :-)
But if already the port does a switcheroo, i would think that the slimport (hdmi type data out) would already not work.
-Next time they give me a features list, it should have more ORs in it :-)
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Q: Galaxy s4 charg port broke no warrenty

user54549Where can I find the part, how much is it, how much is the fix usually??

I wonder if a warrenty would even be usefull in such cases? All they have to say was you were not extreemly carefull with our tiny little part poorly soldered flat to the top of the board (with no super ground metal through the board like was done 10+ years ago).
07:53
I found out that although there are top wired capacitive touch screens, that the front can be easily damaged, they are usually used on Big Screens. The phone things use a protective capacitive, with the wiring under a layer. This did not solve my question, because now i want to know what Layer is on top of the glass like was shown in the guys pics. Mabey the data is a bit old :-(
avadsty
Hello. Do you know how to see destination links version from Google search results so I don't get their tracking URL?
08:09
@Boris_yo in my status bar? Right click go to properties, select starting at the HTTp of the real address, end at the & ?
@Psycogeek That is longer way. I wanted a short way like plugin for Firefox that allows me to see real destination address?
(and paste into address bar)
Such exist for shortened URLs but what about Google tracking links?
block them ? with hosts :-)
@Psycogeek Not block. Instead of tracking link display real URL of webpage.
Finding URL in properties and converting it from ANSI or whatever since it has 20% stuff is time consuming for a quick copy+paste
08:13
@Boris_yo There must be things out there that disconnect this redirect and track, it has been out for a long time. If it had been done by other locations there would be 50 tools for it. but in passing i still have not read of one.
cool, another reason to switch to da fox.
More importantly, it completely breaks sites that use google search internally.
For example, https://stackexchange.com/search?q=regex
Which wouldnt be a problem, if the sites own search was a little better.
(This review is for a previous version of the add-on )
Life Is: Just following all the redirections till you get to the dead link :-)
I try and use DuckDuckGo, and it is like using a search engine from 1990, the only problem is for a 2014 Web, with a page of SEOs to have to scroll past.
08:36
@Psycogeek they usually deny physical damage under warranty
morning
@JourneymanGeek And due to the reliability and safety features of the rest of it, that leaves ? a real actual failing memory chunk ?
@Psycogeek: probably the phone blowing up would be covered ;p
If fragility was a warrentable factor the phone would weigh 3 Lbs :-)
08:55
mmkaaay. comp decided to crash
09:15
@Psycogeek: or we'd still be using nokia 3310s
Bob
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10:00
yay
picked up some graphite powder
18g was $6, 50g was $5.50 o.O (different brands)
how on earth would the other brand sell
 
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11:37
oh, dear god
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@JourneymanGeek ?
Apparently someone on a forum a old console repairing friend of mine stuck a master system in an oven.
Whole.
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@JourneymanGeek ...?
???
!!idonteven
@Bob That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.
Its in french, and I can't get it translated
also, no pictures of the aftermath
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11:45
@JourneymanGeek probably cause the house burned down
and/or the magic smoke killed him
I'm apparently not allowed to chuck the graphite powder down the toilet or into a bin...
o0
set it on fire?
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@JourneymanGeek Well, that'd probably be a decent way to dispose of my room and hair, too.
@Bob: You can't chuck those down the toilet either
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@JourneymanGeek Have you ever tried?
Well, dogs have a VERY different definition of the toilet...
 
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13:27
If they try really hard, I wonder if they can get more bureaucratic than this.
I work at a government institution. The hiring process includes providing A LOT of papers.
Bob
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@ThatBrazilianGuy Since when was there a limit?
So far, so good.
I work here for more than a year
Each and every new activity I have to fill a form they ask my data again and again
And boy, oh how many many forms there are
We are an IT team
Filling papers forms
Today we start taking lessons
On the subject of remote courses
It is a local class
With zero use of technology
We had to fill paper forms
We're going to learn moodle
But everything is offline
And they're asking form my uni diploma
I have none, my position requires none
They have this info. I provided it when I started working here. If they didn't have it, I wouldn't even be on the damn payroll
Did I mention I have been using moodle as a tutor for months now, the very purpose of these classes?
Oh, Bureaucracy, how I love Thee. I'd write a poem, but I don't have filed the mandatory forms.
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13:54
I wonder if @JourneymanGeek is still around
user58869
what is moodle?
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@Alex a ridiculous piece of software for web-based education you're better off staying away from you should definitely use
in all seriousness... I suppose it's not too bad, but I've only been on the user side
user58869
oh
user58869
what have you used it to learn?
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shrug
That would be implying I actually learnt something with it.
14:09
@Bob: yeah
It is not that bad if who installed it uses something other than the ugly default theme, and use a little common sense to organize the content and schedule. It's really ugly from the admin side: levels and levels of nested menus, terrible usability
reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57619338-78/…$25-smartphone-push/ this looks potentially awesome
assuming you can hack on it
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@JourneymanGeek after all added costs, it'll be at least $100 in-store here (probably)
And at least $500 for @ThatBrazilianGuy
I'm more interested in the reference design, actually.
@Bob: If its 25 bucks in india, I can probably pick it up on holiday, or get a cousin to ;p
And this is including a screen and a battery, unlike a raspi ;p
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@JourneymanGeek and wifi and mobile connectivity
but less hackable
14:24
@Bob: precisely
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and no USB/eth
@Bob: initially
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@JourneymanGeek eh, unless they add GPIO, camera, etc., for whatever crazed reason
@Bob: USB - don't forget there's a eth-less raspi varient for the same cost.
likely to have a camera
USB is possible
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@JourneymanGeek I meant the camera header :P
14:26
(but I wouldn't get my hopes up)
@Bob: actual camera! ;p
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true
14:44
@Bob I just read your comment:
> ran it under load for 24 hours What kind of load? There are many different loads, some of which would not stress the same components as what you are doing with it (e.g. artefacts are often memory/vram-related, not the GPU itself - and games can load a lot of textures into memory). Are you only seeing the effects while gaming? Is it a specific game? I mean, it's theoretically possible for a monitor to cause issues, but I wouldn't expect video artefacts. — Bob 1 hour ago
I'm curious, how could a monitor cause issues with the graphics card?
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@terdon Improper grounding/high voltage leaks (@JourneymanGeek?) (more likely with CRTs, but still very unlikely). Sometimes corrupted EDID data would cause driver crashes (especially older video cards/drivers).
I'm sure there's more.
But I wouldn't expect them to be related to crashing/artefacts only under load.
Ah, OK, so either very general hardware stuff (grounding) or specific software issues (drivers).
@Bob: naw, that would merely hurl mini lightning out the connector.
@Bob yeah, I got that from your comment I was just wondering when it could happen
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@JourneymanGeek I get the feeling that might cause some issues with the card :P
14:53
You just got me thinking whether I should think twice before trying out an old screen from the garage or whatever
@Bob nice
;p
@terdon: generally thats a good idea
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@terdon Eh, I'd say it's safe the vast majority of times. Negligible chance of something like this happening.
i spent my Sunday doing some awesome development
I've had screens go out quite dramatically before, but its never taken out a system
14:54
once i get it into a releasable state i'll push version 0.1 to github
even the time it was hurling lightning.
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@allquixotic some hints? ;)
@JourneymanGeek heh, worst I've seen is actual smoke coming from my hard drive.
I've had a PSU explode internally ;p
@Bob C#/.NET 4.0; dual-mode GUI-based or CLI-based; P/Invoke bindings to libspotify (native/proprietary, but available for Win/Mac/Lin/Android x86/x86_64/ARM); P/Invoke bindings to libmp3lame (native/FOSS, mp3 encoder high level wrapper lib); pure .NET dependencies: CommandLineParser, taglib-sharp, and ssh.net. Spotify Downloader.
paste in spotify URI; downloads it to your music dir; uploads it to your server over sftp
planned to run on my windows desktop as well as on a headless Linux box if desired
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14:57
@allquixotic remember you might not be allowed to redistribute LAME (IIRC)
there was some reason, I think it was patent-related, that prevented some projects from distributing LAME with their software
@Bob I have a policy of not shipping binaries of anything in my source code repos, so it's just going to be the project/build files and the source code
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the user has to download it separately
although technically MP3 patents are no longer applicable, not even for encoding
that's a historical issue at this point
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@allquixotic huh?
(I haven't kept up)
@allquixotic CommandLineParser? Not Mono.Options? :P
@Bob MP3 is effectively royalty-free I think, except in extreme edge cases... other MPEG-LA formats aren't, but MP3 is
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14:59
@allquixotic sounds nice :D
I'm planning to possibly fire up an EC2 Micro Spot instance on an as-needed basis (in Virginia, US, which is basically indistinguishable GeoIPally from where I actually live) and run the downloader...
@JourneymanGeek what? How did you manage that (and define "explode")?
Bob
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(except.. lawsuit from spotify? bleh)
sure beats the upload I have on my home net connection

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