Root Access

10:00 AM

I live by the policy that if the author of an answer or question won't perform the edit themselves, I won't do the edit for them, unless they can't because of reputation.

Because most of those reputation limited edits improve the equality in other ways outside of just content itself

Journeyman Geek

yup

DavidPostill

I only remember being cheesed off at seeing the only edit to something was 'fixing' the quotes - mainly because I hate smart quotes - they are ugly ;)

Journeyman Geek

I'm fine with paragraphing and readability edits

smart quotes, meh

Ramhound

winbeta.org/news/…

if we win the 500 million dollar lottery pool with at work, thats the house i am buying, lol

also a private plane to fly me to work everyday, hA!

Journeyman Geek

;p

Ramhound

10:08 AM

Wow

"Do you slight deviations from the source material good or bad?"

Journeyman Geek

o0

Ramhound

Talk about needing a better editor....

qasdfdsaq

10:26 AM

@JourneymanGeek You're in the military?

Singapore has a military?

o_0

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq reservist, and yes.

qasdfdsaq

Interesting. Learn something new every day :-P

That'll explain why you may not have access to a proper PC too

Journeyman Geek

11:03 AM

yup

And well

I hang out here a lot, and tend to get pinged about mod stuff ;p

Bob

11:35 AM

@qasdfdsaq Hm. Not the Xperia Z5, LG G4 or LV V10. And apparently anything before the S6.

In fact, I can't think of a single non-Samsing (and non-Apple) flagship that uses UFS..?

Maybe something HTC.

qasdfdsaq

12:42 PM

@Bob Z5 and S6 are both already last-gen anyway

Although frankly Sony doesn't need it, they had UFS class performance even on the Z3 compact.

Samsung just uses it as a brute force method to avoid solving their bloatware performance hit

Journeyman Geek

12:59 PM

gah

Been poking around the crossover site with chrome

found manuals for every other UHD/28 inch model but mine

qasdfdsaq

Heh.

What do you need a manual for?

Journeyman Geek

to google translate into english

and hald the webpage is images so they don't translate

noooot to mention the manual seems to be wrong

qasdfdsaq

Lol, but are you having trouble operating it or just looking for information?

Journeyman Geek

hm

not sure what some of the options dp

qasdfdsaq

Ah

Bob

1:05 PM

@qasdfdsaq True. But Samsung is still the only one I'm aware of using UFS. Unless another one did it quietly without an announcement, or I missed said announcement.

(Looking at this from a "who's using it" perspective, out of curiosity, not so much performance... it's rare that what I do on a phone hits a storage I/O bottleneck anyway)

imgur.com/08Hsg7i.gifv

source

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq for example, there's a "HDMI MODE" option which goes to TV or PC

No idea what that does

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek That's probably input level conversion (16-240/0-255)

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq annnd there's another option that does that I think

called "color range"

qasdfdsaq

"TV" vs. "PC" levels are brightness only, shouldn't affect colour

Journeyman Geek

Also, super resolution only activates in TV mode

and I'm preeeety sure the manual says 2 of the HDMI ports are HDMI 1.4 (so 4k30). However my remix won't do 4K on any of the ports, while my desktop does 4k60 on all 4 and the website says the HDMI ports are all HDMI 2.0

Bob

1:15 PM

o.O

Journeyman Geek

yup

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Remix works with the Dell monitor?

ChatBot John Cavil

Journeyman Geek

@Bob nooot tried that yet

I should

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Might be a good idea to make sure that it does 4k at all.

Journeyman Geek

1:24 PM

>_<

next week

@Bob yeah

Bob

...what's with the random tay? o.O

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Surely you mean the week after next? ;)

Bob

@DavidPostill It's already Monday. Or nearly Monday for JMG :P

DavidPostill

@Bob ;)

Damn time zones :/

@JourneymanGeek Enjoy your holiday from Root Access. We will try to ensure the room is still active when you return ;)

Journeyman Geek

1:48 PM

It's Sunday. So next Sunday, since we typically have no training over the weekend

qasdfdsaq

O_o

Someone was comparing pistons with se215's and calling the se215's shite for $100?

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Uhm. I think that was Pato?

shrug. I've not used the latter so I can't judge them.

DavidPostill

2:03 PM

I don't want to see animated TayTay gifs in chat. They are very irritating and IMHO add no value whatsoever to any conversations (apologies to @qasdfdsaq who seems to be overly fixated on this particular singer). What is the easiest way for me to block such posts?

Bob

@DavidPostill Ignore the bot, maybe. Or we were developing a onebox-hiding extension at one point but that got shelved.

It might still work.

If there's interest, it could probably be fixed up.

I think Oliver ended up taking it over a while ago.

DavidPostill

@Bob Yeah, but I don't want to ignore the bot. I want to ignore bot postings by @qasdfdsaq ;)

It's the animated gif's that are particularly annoying ... I keep feeling I'm about to become epileptic :/

Static images are fine ;)

Bob

GFSE

2:20 PM

GemsFromStackExchange: Concerning dragons, conjoined twins, and radio waves.

posted on January 10, 2016

Concerning dragons, conjoined twins, and radio waves.

HackToHell

@Bob dayum

Rahul Basu

This could've been released earlier :(theregister.co.uk/2016/01/08/windows_10_upgrade_blocker

^^For all those geeks who love wndows 7

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill adblock I'd guess

Rahul Basu

@DavidPostill I believe that there is a chrome extension which blocks GIFs

Journeyman Geek

@Bob doubly impressive since the linkage seems mechanical

DavidPostill

2:39 PM

@JourneymanGeek uBlock Origin ||i.imgur.com/*.gif seems to do the trick ;)

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill would be nice to just block off the taytay links tho

there's actually useful gifs

DavidPostill

Sometimes ...

Journeyman Geek

;p

DavidPostill

I can't figure out how to allow gifs but block animated gifs :/

Journeyman Geek

._.

Do people still use the other sort? ;p

DavidPostill

2:42 PM

Ah. addons.mozilla.org/En-uS/firefox/addon/toggle-animated-gifs

"Start/stop GIF animations through a keyboard shortcut or by clicking them. You can also restart animations from the beginning, or disable animations by default."

Rahul Basu

Not for chrome :(

Faheem Mitha

@DavidPostill I second that. I find animated GIFs annoying too.

Rahul Basu

@FaheemMitha @DavidPostill No 9gag fans here??

Faheem Mitha

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A: How to stop animated gifs in Google Chrome?

Apparently there are now the Pause! Pause! Pause! (or Paused!) and Stop animations Chrome extensions. Or perhaps the Stop gif animations on escape user script?

I haven't tried these. Perhaps I should. Though extensions do tend to eat a lot of memory, though.

@RahulBasu No idea what that is.

DavidPostill

Even better. For Firefox goto > about:config and set image.animation_mode to none. Works perfectly ;)

Sorted!

Faheem Mitha

2:49 PM

@DavidPostill Congratulations.

DavidPostill

@FaheemMitha Thanks ;)

Rahul Basu

3:04 PM

Does anyone know of any stackexchange easter eggs??

HackToHell

Konami code

Rahul Basu

??

DavidPostill

58

Q: What Easter Eggs do the chat sites have?

According to balpha, the SE chat sites may have individual Easter eggs, depending on the site. If you find them, please post. Edit: Because it's so easy to make this stuff up, a screenshot as proof would be nice. (Although Photoshop ain't that hard either...)

26

A: Hidden features of Stack Exchange?

While in the /about page aka guided tour of any site (e.g. Stack Overflow about page) in the network, press the following keys in the following order: upupdowndownleftrightleftrightBAenter. This is known as Konami code, and will cause the site icon on top of the page to become the Stack Exchange ...

@RahulBasu You have been a member of the SE network for almost a year and have joined 20 different sites. That means you you know how and where to search for things ...

Rahul Basu

@DavidPostill ;D

DavidPostill

!!s/you you/you should/

ChatBot John Cavil

3:14 PM

@DavidPostill @RahulBasu You have been a member of the SE network for almost a year and have joined 20 different sites. That means you should know how and where to search for things ... (source)

Bob

4:27 PM

KAZAKHSTAN NATIONAL ANTHEM FAIL!

►

Normal

4:52 PM

The site has two substantial posts with adf.ly links in them (which are normally spam). I don't know how to fix this one: after sitting through ad delay, all you get is redirect to a broken link. The OP was last seen in 2013.

The other one seems still functional. The OP last seen in October 2015.

Hennes

Grah. Getting windows installed is HARD on a EFI system

I've been installing for hours now and it still does not start

EFI system, EFI files on USB pendrive. GPT disk. Even manually created the partitions.
But windows can not be installed to the sleected disk. The selected disk is off GPT type

Which is what is needed.

qasdfdsaq

5:50 PM

Need moar cowbell

nc4pk

6:01 PM

@Hennes weird, I recently did an EFI install of Win7 that went smoothly. do you have a multiboot or some other complicating factor?

Hennes

6:26 PM

No. Maybe the problem is that I used microsofts USB generating tool.
And that formats the pendrive as NTFS

Reformatted as FAT32 and retrying.

llso renamed bootx64.efi to BOOTX64.EFI

Ah yes. Either the renaming to caps loader,
or doing it manually rather than using Microsofts tool may have helped,
I now get the pendrive twice in the bootmenu. Once prefixed with EFI

Strange that it would boot the other when legacy is turned off.

qasdfdsaq

Would help if you mentioned what version of Windows... the 8.1 and 10 installers always format as FAT32.

Hennes

The partitions on the disk are not in the recommended order...
Hmm, I guess I should not have used the information from Microsofts website

qasdfdsaq

There never was a Windows 7 media creation tool

Hennes

There is one. It just does not mention 'only works in legacy/CSM/MBR mode'

qasdfdsaq

Where?

Hennes

6:34 PM

Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool from the microsoft website

qasdfdsaq

That's... a download tool. Not the same as the W8/W10 media creation tool.

Hennes

microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool

I do not have w8 yet.

And w8.1 always failed to install (probably for the very same reasons as todays attempts)

But I made an ISO from my own legal win7 ultimate disk.

Used above tool to copy it to a USB pen drive

Which works fine on legacy systems

remove ei.cfg

Ran the tool to add Intels USB 3.0 drivers

qasdfdsaq

You don't need any tool to copy it onto a legacy install disk.

Hennes

All works in MBR mode (with booting set to EFI only)

qasdfdsaq

I think you're talking about this tool, which is nothing like the W8/W10 media creators: wudt.codeplex.com

Hennes

6:37 PM

Seems to be the same tool

Or same-ish

qasdfdsaq

They are nothing like each other and nothing to do with each other.

The W8/W10 MCTs are part of the official installer ecosystem. There is/was no direct equivalent for W7

Hennes

We seem to be crommunicating.

I was talking about an MS tool to create bootable media from an iso.
Not one that also downloads that iso

qasdfdsaq

The only tool that exists that formats the disk is the MCT which only exists for W8/W10

The W7 is basically a third-party post-release utility that is not an official part of Windows or Windows setup and does not do any formatting.

> NOTE: The USB device should be formatted manually before running the tool.

If you formatted in the wrong format, you formatted it in the wrong format. The real MCTs always format in the correct format. The real MCTs do not exist for Windows 7.

bwDraco

9:37 PM

Easily the most useful feature of CrystalDiskInfo is its ability to generate graphs. If you have the program running in the background at all times, it'll keep track of key disk statistics over time, and the graphs reflect this history. This gives me invaluable insight into how much I'm using my disks.

Bob

10:25 PM

Hm.

NetBeans 8.1 was released last November.

I didn't even notice o.O

qasdfdsaq

11:16 PM

Michael Frank

Whoops... Accidentally ran a rule on my inbox.

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek I fired live ammo once. It was painful.

oldmud0

Trying to set up IPv6 behind a double NAT with DD-WRT... anyone done it before?

qasdfdsaq

Why would you even want single NAT for ipv6, let alone double?

tereško

oldmud0

11:32 PM

@qasdfdsaq nono, I don't want to set up a NAT, the ipv4 is set up as a double NAT

ISP supports IPv6, modem is getting a v6 address, but router isn't

Bob

11:48 PM

> It has also been established that tight or loose packing of books; the amount of alkaline reserve; reactions of DEZ with degradation products, unknown paper chemicals and adhesives; phases of the moon and the positions of various planets and constellations do not have any influence on the observed adverse effects of DEZ treatment.

ChatBot John Cavil

11:58 PM

I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.

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