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Ramhound

12:00 AM

HURRY UP ACRONIS.....Finish my backup!

lol

jeffery

@MichaelFrank I'll give it a try. You said to put any colored pixel on the white background?

@JourneymanGeek I love that site!

Bob

> I discovered this by accident many years ago. I have no idea if this is a bug or a feature, but it still works!

Ramhound

Anyone with a Win 7 machine, can they run "rundll32 sysdm.cpl,EditUserProfiles" in an elevated command prompt, was told it only shows the current user profile but seems odd it would do that

Michael Frank

@Bob Doesn't that go away when you click off the little upside down dl icon?

Bob

shrug

@Ramhound I can see all local profiles (incl. domain accounts that have profiles on this machine).

Ramhound

12:12 AM

thats what I thought

He must have ran it without being elevated.

Michael Frank

I ran it as a different user and all I got was that users profile.

Ramhound

different user, non-admin?

Michael Frank

@Ramhound Yup

Ramhound

Alright, good

So my answer is correct ;-)

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Q: Shortcut to "User Profiles" manager under Windows 7

I'm searching, from a long time, to create a shortcut to the "User Profiles" manager. How is it possible? Windows surely has a link behind the button so why could I not get it?

Another one of those answers which will get some insane amount of votes and make me throw it at somebody who deserves it :$

Michael Frank

I can't elevate CMD prompts here... But I could elevate a Powershell session and got all users.

Bob

12:15 AM

@MichaelFrank that's even weirder

Ramhound

I have been sitting here, trying to run the command, in the search bar instead of run

Michael Frank

@Bob Run as Admin... is blocked by policy. But ran as different user... is not!

Ramhound

since I am running startisback lol

jeffery

@Ramhound it should work. I use CPL shortcuts all the time. Its probably a permission problem.

Ramhound

His, yes, i have confirmed

cmd -> rundll32 sysdm.cpl,EditUserProfiles one user; run as admin -> cmd -> rundll32 sysdm.cpl,EditUserProfiles - all users

I was searching for "rundll32 sysdm.cpl,EditUserProfiles" which doesn't work :$

Ramhound

12:32 AM

HEROES OF THE STORM (Honest Game Trailers)

►

lol

jeffery

@MichaelFrank I tried a white background in front of the squid and put a dot in it too. No such luck. It does not make sense that's the best shot at this problem. Maybe, I will change the help customized in OEM information and see if that is holding me back.

Michael Frank

1:25 AM

@jeffery Do you want the black background, or do you only want the shape of the squid? i.e. whatever colour the background of the page happens to be, this image will show that background?

That has a clear transparent background. You can see through whatever is behind the image.

This doesn't, as you can see it's black no matter what you put behind it.

MRS1367

2:31 AM

@djsmiley2k Hi mate

I got the answer

but as you and me was talking about it to doing it by URL Rewrite and/or Redirect Rules

I want to know can do it by them

Or since applying some limitations by WebsitePanel Developers' Team, it's not possible

Bob

3:15 AM

Halp :(

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Q: How can I make a descendent element of a flexbox item scrollable?

I am using a flexbox layout with the goal of expanding the last item to fit the available screen space. When that item is too large, I would like to scroll one of the descendant elements. However, I'm unable to get scrolling working as desired. Example layout: var node = document.getElement...

html css flexbox

Michael Frank

3:27 AM

@Bob I can't even get a picture to centre vertically, horizontally and scale to fit in the page. :P

Bob

3:57 AM

@MichaelFrank nah, vertical centering is black magic

Journeyman Geek

facepalm

Bob

?

Journeyman Geek

I just tried to turn on a box with no ram ;p

And tried the standard tricks before I looked up the error lights

Michael Frank

That's going up on the wall.

Journeyman Geek

(its at work, and it worked a few days ago!)

HackToHell

4:14 AM

Blah querying on a MySQL db with 2+ million column is sloooow

I need to give MySQL moar RAM :D

Atleast I think that should fix it

Bob

4:46 AM

@HackToHell You need better indices.

HackToHell

@Bob What should I do?

I am thinking of tweaking the schema

Currently some dates are stored as TEXT

and really small values are also stored as TEXT

need to make it into a string of a specific size

perhaps that should fix it

ooh no index is being used for the queries ._.

Journeyman Geek

;p

XKCD

6:23 AM

Mmmm, this is such a positive experience! I feel no social pressure to enjoy it at all!

djsmiley2k

6:48 AM

Morning all.

Journeyman Geek

7:14 AM

Woof

MRS1367

7:40 AM

Morning @djsmiley2k

djsmiley2k

7:55 AM

@MRS1367 how goes it?

MRS1367

@djsmiley2k every thing is fine :)

How about you?

Did you see this:

5 hours ago, by MRS1367

I got the answer

djsmiley2k

yeah, good stuff

glad it's sorted :)

Journeyman Geek

heh. I'm half considering one of those tiny mini pc things.

MRS1367

8:15 AM

@djsmiley2k ->

6 hours ago, by MRS1367

but as you and me was talking about it to doing it by URL Rewrite and/or Redirect Rules

6 hours ago, by MRS1367

I want to know can do it by them

6 hours ago, by MRS1367

Or since applying some limitations by WebsitePanel Developers' Team, it's not possible

djsmiley2k

So i was kinda right.

:D

MRS1367

9:14 AM

@djsmiley2k I asked it from you mate

can do it or it can't?

djsmiley2k

I don't know exactly

Thats' what I was trying to test yesterday, but tbh if you got it working, I'd stick with what works.

HackToHell

9:58 AM

djsmiley2k

LOL

Bob

@HackToHell You forgot the second half i.imgur.com/oIubRW4.png

HackToHell

lol

Journeyman Geek

0_0

djsmiley2k

I guess those links show it means idiot?

Journeyman Geek

10:12 AM

Have you tried turning it off and on again is working well for me today.

In a sense

djsmiley2k

I need to turn my brain off and on again, lol

Journeyman Geek

Except for the system which the user restarted while I was remoted into it fixing her real problem ;p

Bob

@HackToHell Prooooobably troll => reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/30j7ye/…

(see username)

HackToHell

All his posts are well .... asshatish

Bob

fox! i.imgur.com/rXJsGfZ.gifv

Bob

11:24 AM

@JourneymanGeek btw the hi-tecpoint feed + wick looks identical to the vpen :P

Journeyman Geek

12:14 PM

I think I mentioned the vpen is essentially the hi-techpoint's FP version

Hell, they call it the v5 and v7 here ;p

djsmiley2k

well that's fun

had our first house evaluation today, they came back £10k higher than expected.

HackToHell

12:30 PM

A small SQL questiion, I am trying to do a DateDiff between two dates and store it in another column

I did insert into table1(deff_column) select datediff(col1,col2) from table1

slhck

2 messages deleted

Bob

@JourneymanGeek this is the v5 hi-tecpoint :P

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, that ;p

Bob

I have the grip one... not cartridge

the v7 is apparently just 0.7mm

too broad for me

Journeyman Geek

12:46 PM

Yup

djsmiley2k

/me likes v5 and v3

tho the v3 can get bent/busted rather too easily for my liking.

barlop

2:17 PM

does anybody ehere do regular image backups? how regularly? and do you have another task to delete all backups (so the backup drive doesn't fill up completely with image files)?

djsmiley2k

I use rsnapshot

it does all that for me.

Tho it's not an 'image'.

Journeyman Geek

@barlop: what OS?

Windows?

Linux?

Haiku?

tereško

only shit what is worth backuping on my box is some php, and that get backed up on github

Stack Exchange

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Q: New visitors can add images - should we review it

Is it worth having, within the Review/Tools section (http://superuser.com/tools), thumbnails of all images posted to be reviewed. I'm not suggesting the image has to be approved first or not, that's up to those who implement it, but I think this is more important now that "new" (low rep) users ...

discussion feature-request

Journeyman Geek

does daily incrementals with merging

which essentially does what you want to do, but a bit more cleverly

djsmiley2k

2:20 PM

@tereško I wouldn't concider github a backup....

Journeyman Geek

veeam.com/endpoint-backup-free.html is what I use on windows

tereško

for code - it is

Journeyman Geek

Not found a linux backup thing I like yet

djsmiley2k

backblaze seem cool, tho i've not signed up as they s itll don't do linux support

I've concidered signing up and running a VM just because ~_~...

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k er there was that other one...

djsmiley2k

2:22 PM

@JourneymanGeek if you can remember the name let me know, but i wouldn't trust them i don't think

Journeyman Geek

where you could let a friend back up for you

djsmiley2k

Hell, the only truely important things I have are my wedding photos

Journeyman Geek

ahh

crashplan

djsmiley2k

they are.... at home, on 2 pc's + external hdd. On DVD's at home, at father in laws on DVD + PC, on Google Photos.

Didn't that close down?

So 3 locations at least.

Plus they are on flickr too if I was really desperate ;D

Journeyman Geek

(and if its to people you know, its essentially free)

heh. My desktop and laptop backup to my brix. And then I sync those backups back to my desktop ;p

Bob

2:42 PM

@djsmiley2k I can't find any v3s, let alone cartridge ones

aus isn't that big on FPs and similar

djsmiley2k

yeah

well i dunno about the fp ones

Bob

(on that note - lemme know if you find any, @JourneymanGeek...)

djsmiley2k

but the 'normal' sealed ones.

I used to study graphic design, they were almost as good as the £150 set we were told to buy.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: so fuff thrumyeye.deviantart.com/art/A-Million-Views-yay-537596755

@Bob: never ever seen one

Bob

@JourneymanGeek but you weren't looking for em? :P

Journeyman Geek

2:44 PM

naw, I meant the cartridge v pens ;p

(and I haven't been to popular in ages)

Not since I started work at least

heh

djsmiley2k

right home time

o/

barlop

@JourneymanGeek windows.. I could use acronis I suppose.. incremental backup.. what is the advantage of incremental backup vs just one backup that copies over changed files to the main backup?

jeffery

@MichaelFrank @MichaelFrank the first picture you replied to is what I was going for (Possibly with a white background). Hello, everyone else.

Journeyman Geek

@barlop: basically I can roll back to any backup in the last N days

but it also prunes the oldest backups into the main one

barlop

2:59 PM

what kind of setting does that?

Journeyman Geek

donno

veem does that by default

barlop

what program?

Journeyman Geek

39 mins ago, by Journeyman Geek

http://www.veeam.com/endpoint-backup-free.html is what I use on windows

barlop

what if one of the files of the incremental goes bad?

does that mess up every one after it?

Journeyman Geek

Its not happened to me

My guess is if it can't backup it'll just fail tho

barlop

3:02 PM

does n days of backup take up much more space than one day?

Journeyman Geek

Which has happened

er... not much more?

barlop

do you worry if it's weird special backup files that only your backup program can open?

Journeyman Geek

hm. Most of them do that

barlop

do you mean other programs can open the veem backup?

Journeyman Geek

However since I have this on more than one box, its free and it works...

barlop

3:04 PM

or that other programs also can only open their own backup?

Journeyman Geek

yes

The latter ;p

Unless you use standard disk images or file based backups most programs can only open their own backups

barlop

what would a standard disk image extension be?

Journeyman Geek

.img I'd guess

I suppose you could do a qcow image, and have snapshots there too... but never seen that.

barlop

do you image the entire c partition?

@JourneymanGeek is incremental backup even based on images?

Journeyman Geek

Yup

yup

barlop

3:18 PM

to which?

Journeyman Geek

To both

and you can load a snapshot to get the files from it.

hii

lo

3:43 PM

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tereško

4:11 PM

it was covered in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=1fQkVqno-uI

it also briefly touched in a bit more interesting subject: what if the "amount" of science and technology left to discover is actually really small ?

allquixotic

4:35 PM

where's @Bob ?

HackToHell

4:48 PM

@tereško reddit today :D

Canadian Luke

5:23 PM

Got Proxmox running on a test box! Gonna get a few VMs going, then try out the live migration

djsmiley2k

5:35 PM

About to start FF Type 0 HD :O

hmmm wrong chan :D

allquixotic

7:09 PM

@snipe why aren't you already using a VPN?

snipe

am now

because I have to,

and it does not work as usual

thats why. cus there shit

CCproxy isnt working

snipe

7:59 PM

looks like I found one but it may have limitations

Hennes

8:52 PM

Whee. Thunder. Rain! Yayayayay! :)

33°C (91.4F) to 18°C in about 3 hours. Still way to warm.

Oliver Salzburg

I'm seriously considering starting to set the TTL for our DNS records to 1

Hennes

Do DNS implementations accept that ?

Oliver Salzburg

@Hennes I don't know actually :D

They might enforce their own internal minimum, I guess

Hennes

I would if I wrote one.

Assumption: config corrupt or user is insane. Lets make sure we (program) does not get blamed.

@Mokubai You just made me hungry again with the starred message about pastafarianism.

Not that SU has average users. But I do not trust most users.

Canadian Luke

9:24 PM

Anyone good with Proxmox?

Oliver Salzburg

Not me

Can a DNS client distinguish if the answer they received was based on a wildcard record or a specific match?

Like, I changed the wildcard record on fm.mg hours ago. And the TTL was 3600

But, no matter which host I look up at 8.8.8.8, they resolve it to the old IP address

But how is that possible unless they know a wildcard record existed and they're caching it?

When I query our DNS servers directly, I get the new IP address

And when I query 8.8.8.8, they even respond with a TTL that is pretty close to 3600

And I query for 41f07d04a2107b120f17194d2a28162b299eefe4.fm.mg or similar, which is only matched by the wildcard

Canadian Luke

9:40 PM

Not sure, @OliverSalzburg. I never got to play with wildcards

Mokubai

@Hennes you should embrace your inner meatball and eat it!

Canadian Luke

9:52 PM

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Q: Can't install VirtIO Network Adapter in Win 7 Guest

I am playing around with different hypervisors, and I'm on to Proxmox VE. I setup an old server to test it out on, and installed Windows 7 as my first VM, using virtio drivers for everything - networking, disk controller, etc. I followed the recommendations from this page on the Proxmox Wiki, and...

windows-7 proxmox

Oliver Salzburg

10:07 PM

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Q: Can a DNS client distinguish if the answer they received was based on a wildcard record or a specific match?

I had a * record on one of our zones and I changed it. But when I queried certain, random names on that zone from public DNS servers, I still received the old IP address. This makes no sense to me. The server I queried could not know the correct IP address for the name, unless they know there wa...

domain-name-system bind

Got help

Stupid 24h zone TTL :\

Welp, that's it for tonight then, I guess :P

Time to get drunk!

So our own infrastructure servers can get push updates. But gandi only pulls and, thus, has the old zone and resolves requests based on the old wildcard :(

Canadian Luke

10:34 PM

Lovely... I hate dealing with DNS issues, just in my limited experience.

Oliver Salzburg

10:51 PM

Well, whenever I think I know my way through DNS, I get surprised by things like this

Turning down the TTL on your records doesn't help much if you're allowing other servers to transfer you whole zone and it has a TTL of 24h :P

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