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Journeyman Geek

12:09 AM

Why Wuppertal's Suspended Monorail Wasn't The Future Of Travel

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bwDraco

12:31 AM

Seems to be a white balance issue to me. The saved image should contain Exif metadata which specifies the settings the camera used. The D70s is also a very, very old camera (dating back to April 2005, more than a decade ago) and I strongly recommend that you consider upgrading to a newer model as sensor and image processing technology has changed dramatically since. — bwDraco 6 mins ago

Journeyman Geek

boingboing.net/2016/01/25/uk-film-censors-forced-to-watc.html

Awesome troll

Michael Frank

1:04 AM

It's only 10 hours... why does it says it's 2 days long? o.O

Journeyman Geek

It feels like 2 days? ;p

lol

Fasttrack related crash. 9:15 today

I should try to remember to keep it unplugged tommorrow

tested.com/art/makers/…

I love how they schedule everything with a giant wall of post-its

qasdfdsaq

1:21 AM

@JourneymanGeek That guy hasn't a clue what he's on about

Journeyman Geek

Also, job-1 was nowhere this cool

@qasdfdsaq meh. MONORAIL

And yeah a lot of it isn't really true. Monorails were raised cause it looked cooler

qasdfdsaq

Grade separation is an advantage, he conflates many different types of monorail, and thinks anything you can do with a monorail you could do with a bus...

... When's the last time a bus did 500 km/h?

Journeyman Geek

o0

The japanese bullet trains are monorails?

qasdfdsaq

Debatable... but the German ones were.

Looks like STO is still getting DDoS'd... :-/

To some extent that depends on your definition of "monorail", but that's partly the issue, the guy calls everything from maglev bullet trains to an upside down tram a monorail.

bwDraco

Our team is investigating the current connection issues.

Tweeted by trekonlinegame on January 26, 2016 at 1:27 AM

I don't play MMOs but this seems to be an awfully common issue these days.

qasdfdsaq

1:28 AM

I've played two, STO has been getting a lot of attacks on and off, the other MMO I played I'm not aware of it getting DDoS'd ever.

At least, not successfully.

The guys who run STO seem to be exceptionally bad at handling it, but then again, they're bad enough handling day-to-day player load as it is.

bwDraco

My hosting provider Linode was slammed with a series of DDOS attacks for more than two weeks starting on Christmas 2015.

qasdfdsaq

Did they manage to do anything about it or just sat around and prayed it went away on its own?

bwDraco

Linode worked with their colocation providers to get things under control, and had called in the FBI et al. to investigate.

qasdfdsaq

See, that's fine. At least they did something about it

Journeyman Geek

1:49 AM

heh

I keep spamming youtube links today

Pre Vis Action

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Made by one of the greatest action movie directors IMO. Granted he works with a bunch of super takelented martial artists who were criminally underused in the force awakened...

tereško

2:11 AM

so ... the internet

I stumbled across this gem and now will inflict it upon you all:

Do Dogs Even Have Brains?

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you can thank me later

Bob

@tereško ...that looks distinctly nsfw

Journeyman Geek

and by thank you mean blame?

tereško

@Bob you can just listen

qasdfdsaq

Does teresko even have brains?

Journeyman Geek

@tereško 10 seconds in. I think she's asking the wrong question...

Does she have brains?

Bob

2:15 AM

@tereško I think I would've been happier not to.

Can I flag that as offensive to all humans capable of thought?

4

Journeyman Geek

And dogs

Marvin Minsky died.

(I was convinced for years he was a mythical figure)

Journeyman Geek

2:51 AM

@tereško YOU KILLED CHAT, YOU FELINE....

qasdfdsaq

At least it wasn't me for once.

tereško

I might have unintentionally cause few aneurysms

Michael Frank

Right click > Rename... — Michael Frank 27 secs ago

Journeyman Geek

adds @tereško to the secret list

qasdfdsaq

Oi he doesn't deserve a place on the special list

Michael Frank

3:06 AM

nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/…

allquixotic

3:37 AM

@JourneymanGeek :(

bwDraco

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 15 mins ago, by bwDraco

Capturing—and transporting—such massive quantities of locusts is a megascale engineering problem.

allquixotic

> 1/25/2016 - Monday
1:04 pm Delivery exception LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, MD
Business closed - No delivery attempt

FedEx: they can't deliver my package because there's too much snow

bwDraco

@allquixotic Ironically, I just brought a UPS Next Day Air shipment to a UPS Access Point today.

It's a damaged DSLR lens, and this is the fifth attempt to repair it.

It was out of warranty, so we did have to pay for it, but all subsequent attempts are their responsibility under the repaired product's service warranty.

Precision Camera and Video Repair is the company in question.

At least this time they gave me a shipping label for Next Day Air...

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

I guess not

@bwDraco dried and powdered!

bwDraco

Already suggested.

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 43 mins ago, by tchrist

As paté.

Journeyman Geek

3:47 AM

pate means its wet

bwDraco

...but that's a very similar approach.

It's still a problem on an extremely large scale.

qasdfdsaq

No worse than a ship shipping ship shipping shipping ships.

Anonymous

4:06 AM

@JourneymanGeek WAIT WHAT

Anonymous

FUCK

Anonymous

FUUUCK

Anonymous

I didn't really pay attention to his babble on AI

Anonymous

but he was after all the fucking inventor of the CCD sensor

Anonymous

4:18 AM

nb: his research on AI wasn't babble, do not read it in a literal way. I also think CCD > AI

allquixotic

Anonymous

fuck, it's the serial starrer

allquixotic

can whoever's starring every message please stop

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Anonymous

@allquixotic I just starred you: as a PSA

allquixotic

@PatoSáinz -_-

Anonymous

4:34 AM

@JourneymanGeek I see you're star-purging

allquixotic

no, I am

Anonymous

@allquixotic oh I didn't remember you had admin powers here

allquixotic

just a room owner

Anonymous

yea

qasdfdsaq

@allquixotic Err, as for 5 > 2... isn't 2-day two business day over there?

Journeyman Geek

4:46 AM

Yeah

I was having lunch

Totally not me

@PatoSáinz Funny thing. I used to think Marvin Minsky did not exist

He was a fictional charecter.... and people made him up

Its a bit like finding out there actually is a santa claus.

qasdfdsaq

And then finding out Santa Claus has died.

Journeyman Geek

Oh I knew he existed a while.

Twas hillarious

I wonder if there's a feature request for seeing who starred things...

meh

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Q: I'm seeing stars! (I can see who starred a message and so can you)

So I was making a chatbot in Ruby for SE chat, and I discovered that I could find out the starrer of a message. I'm pretty sure stars, like votes, are supposed to be anonymous. Although this knowledge would help for cases of star trolls like this. Here's the specific slice of code that do...

You USED to be able to

@allquixotic the snowzilla is pretty damned funny tho

qasdfdsaq

Would be nice to see who flagged something too.

Journeyman Geek

yeah

But that should be a mod only thing

qasdfdsaq

But for now I bad people can drive-by flag everything with impunity.

Journeyman Geek

4:54 AM

ahh good

Now I can blame any mysterious drive by flags on you ;p

Anonymous

@qasdfdsaq have you been affected by them drive-bys?

qasdfdsaq

Many times.

Journeyman Geek

naw

Actually in your case we actually line you up against the wall...

qasdfdsaq

Once resulting in a drive-by *Hot Modding*™

Anonymous

modiding

Anonymous

4:56 AM

modederators

Journeyman Geek

I can't do a drive by if I AM SITTING HERE

!!baroo

hm

!!list

Anonymous

MC Hawking - All My Shootings Be Drivebys

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Journeyman Geek

See? SITTING HERE.

DOING UNDER THE TABLE THINGS.

(like sitting here, clearly)

and adding people to the secret list

Anonymous

Taylor Swift - Diary of Me (Lyrics On Screen)

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Anonymous

the diary of shit people

qasdfdsaq

5:03 AM

The only people allowed to have me on their secret list are smart, sexy lady modders.

And you're none of the above.

In fact, you're a dog.

Dogs can't write lists.

Journeyman Geek

By that, dog's can't chat either ;p

@PatoSáinz She should do a B-sides album XD

lol

Played that on the speaker.

Roomie was glare

qasdfdsaq

See what did I say all along. JourneymanGeek is a cover.

Journeyman Geek

That classical music loving snob ;p

qasdfdsaq

He/she/it isn't real.

Real dogs can't chat.

@PatoSáinz You guys clearly have some unhealthy infatuation with this Becky character.

Journeyman Geek

Its Becky.

Also, if Becky Music is not to your taste, Have some heavily accented polish metal. youtube.com/watch?v=LapknbGS7Os

TechTreeDev

7:48 AM

Is there anyone who can help me with this problem; http://superuser.com/questions/1031261/get-function-of-table-of-values-in-excel

Thank you in advance

Journeyman Geek

reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/428vdq/… reddit broke rss feeds for nearly everyone to fix a XSS vulnerbility for thunderbird...

Bob

@JourneymanGeek youtube.com/watch?v=azEYUncK1C8 ... or maybe youtube.com/watch?v=TdOYXlcKjGY

Journeyman Geek

@Bob yeah, aware of em. For some reason not really a band I listen to for some reason

Bob

@JourneymanGeek lol, it started coming up in one of my Spotify radios recent-ish-ly

they're alright

Journeyman Geek

I'm trying to find a specific wierd playlist

It had pretty good symphonic metal, mixed in with japanese girl rock

sadly it randomly pops up every now and then than vanishes

Bob

8:01 AM

@JourneymanGeek ...is it that one you linked before with the really weird videos?

Journeyman Geek

define really wierd

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I actually prefer the Eversleeping-style songs more than the others ... so it really was kinda accidental that I stumbled on it -_-

Journeyman Geek

shh

Ahh

Its a autoplaylist

Bob

Sep 6 '15 at 7:16, by Journeyman Geek

BABYMETAL - メギツネ - MEGITSUNE (Full ver.)

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Journeyman Geek

XD

Naw

That's earlier

and that's not that wierd....

Bob

8:03 AM

Oh I even said it wasn't really weird at that time too.

Journeyman Geek

RUSSKAJA - Energia | Napalm Records

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This is wierd

(I don't really like it. Its just wierd)

Bob

o.O

Journeyman Geek

Its apparently "My mix - Rock music"

Which is dynamic so...

stuff changes

tereško

8:19 AM

Rahul Basu

8:59 AM

@JourneymanGeek sorry, i didn't have access to the internet yesterday...

you wanted to ask me something??

Journeyman Geek

9:11 AM

@RahulBasu Oh your PDN version....

Rahul Basu

The latest ;P

Journeyman Geek

I ended up posting an answer. Then editing it cause I realised I was wrong

Oh, then you have hardware acceleration

Rahul Basu

yeah I saw...

Journeyman Geek

but its direct2d

Not quite the same as the sort of stuff you'd find in say, PS

Rahul Basu

yeah...

also...

what app did you use for that gif??

Journeyman Geek

9:13 AM

Licecap

Rahul Basu

ohkay...

Journeyman Geek

There's another one @Bob likes with shinier features, but I keep forgetting to try it

Rahul Basu

@BOB

PING!

Journeyman Geek

cockos.com/licecap

Rahul Basu

yeah... I already downloaded it :D

Journeyman Geek

9:17 AM

I wonder if they fixed the highdpi issues...

ahh they have

Rahul Basu

yep

Journeyman Geek

9:34 AM

Updated a question/answer combo on that

Bob

10:01 AM

@JourneymanGeek ScreenToGif @RahulBasu

screentogif.codeplex.com

It's a tiny bit buggy but you can delete parts and add title screens :P

And captions

qasdfdsaq

10:57 AM

Oh nice

cpx

11:22 AM

Can a 1 TB SATA HDD have 16 heads? It almost has a single platter.

Maybe the 'Speccy' software is wrong.

qasdfdsaq

16 heads is the limit of the traditional CHS addressing system. It's obsolete.

Bob

11:41 AM

@cpx They just report a fake number of heads.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek I keep seeing they push these modules: http://www.frys.com/product/8068394

Ever heard about Pacific Sun? Are they as compatible with laptops as Crucial?

qasdfdsaq

@Bob And cylinders. And sectors.

@Boris_yo All memory is just as compatible as any other memory

Also Pacific Sun just rebadge Micron chips, same as Crucial.

It is literally the same memory as a Crucial stick with a different label on it.

cpx

Fake cylinders and sectors too?

qasdfdsaq

CHS addressing is obsolete. Any numbers listed in the cylinders, heads, sectors fields are fake.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq You mean the entire stick, or just the memory chips?

qasdfdsaq

11:51 AM

@Bob The entire stick.

cpx

@qasdfdsaq Including tracks?

qasdfdsaq

Hell, they'll supply the exact same stick with a "Pacific Sun" sticker or a "Dell" sticker or a "Crucial" sticker or a "HP" sticker or whatever else on it

pacificsunmemory.com

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Huh, interesting. Micron doesn't seem to sell the sticks retail.

qasdfdsaq

@Bob That's because Crucial is the name for Micron's retail product.s

Bob

lol

Oliver Salzburg

11:53 AM

So a client sent me a guide on how to use their web portal to send then encrypted files

Because, well, sensitive data apparently has to be transported through web portals

qasdfdsaq

@cpx Tracks ARE cylinders.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Oh. Didn't know it was the same company.

Oliver Salzburg

And they give the address of the portal with `https:\\` :(

cpx

@qasdfdsaq Ah, right.

qasdfdsaq

@OliverSalzburg At least it is https.

Bob

11:53 AM

@OliverSalzburg It actually makes sense. Emails are not confidential.

Unless you apply encryption (e.g. PGP) on top. Which is rarely supported.

All-in-all, HTTPS is easier.

Oliver Salzburg

I was referring to their use of backslashes

Bob

1 min ago, by Oliver Salzburg

Because, well, sensitive data apparently has to be transported through web portals

qasdfdsaq

Chrome interprets backslashes as forwardslashes automatically it seems

Bob

It really does have to.

qasdfdsaq

So does internet explorer

Bob

11:55 AM

Of easily-accessible methods, you're basically left with HTTPS and FTPS/SFTP.

qasdfdsaq

Maybe they've been using backslashes for everything their entire lives and never noticed it was being silently changed to forwardslashes when they press enter? :-P

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah, they take security very seriously. Which is also why they sent me the guide as a Word document

qasdfdsaq

If it's already an "encrypted file" and it's being sent through a secure web interface, that's pretty much industry standard.

I mean banks use it, government agencies use it, educational institutions use it, etc.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Most don't even require the file to be encrypted first, AFAIK.

qasdfdsaq

@Bob I was literally in the process of typing that

Bob

11:57 AM

And it really adds little. Unless they don't control the web endpoint.

cpx

Still the values are different and probably fake: Cylinders 121,601 and Tracks 31,008,255.

qasdfdsaq

31008255 divided by 121601 is exactly 255

Bob

@cpx Cylinder is distance from centre. Track is distance from centre on one platter. Track is a combination of head and cylinder. Number of tracks is number of heads x number of cylinders.

...I think.

qasdfdsaq

Probably 255 heads x 121601 cylinders.

Bob

Yea, sounds like it.

qasdfdsaq

12:03 PM

> For a single or double sided floppy disk track is the common term; and for more than two heads cylinder is the common term. Strictly speaking a track is a given CH combination consisting of SPT sectors, while a cylinder consists of SPT×H sectors.

Journeyman Geek

also with modern drives isn't all that abstracted out?

cpx

I doubt if any drive has 255 heads. It sounds ridiculous.

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek I did say it's obsolete.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

@cpx Again, those numbers are all fake.

Journeyman Geek

12:04 PM

yuuup

Bob

Drives use LBA now.

You give it a block number. You don't know, or care, where on the drive you are.

qasdfdsaq

Drives have been using LBA for over a decade

Bob

The drive might not even have heads (see: SSDs)

cpx

@qasdfdsaq Since SATA I think.

Bob

CHS itself originally reflected physical layout but now it's just an abstract, and obsolete, addressing model.

qasdfdsaq

12:05 PM

@cpx No, since way way way before SATA

CHS is only capable of addressing disks up to 8GB in size in extended form, and 0.5GB in standard form

> With an old BIOS limit of 1024 cylinders and the ATA limit of 16 heads[9] the combined effect was 1024×16×63=1032192 sectors, i.e., a 504 MiB limit for sector size 512. BIOS translation schemes known as ECHS and revised ECHS mitigated this limitation by using 128 or 240 instead of 16 heads, simultaneously reducing the numbers of cylinders and sectors to fit into 1024/128/63 (ECHS limit: 4032 MiB) or 1024/240/63 (revised ECHS limit: 7560 MiB) for the given total number of sectors on a disk

ANY drive over 8GB uses fake numbers. I don't know why they still exist tbh.

LBA has been around since 1986.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Huh. That's a decade earlier than I expected.

qasdfdsaq

> The IDE standard included 22-bit LBA as an option (1986), which was further extended to 28-bit with the release of ATA-1 (1994) and to 48-bit with the release of ATA-6 (2003), whereas the size of entries in on-disk and in-memory data structures holding the address is typically 32 or 64 bits. Most hard disk drives released after 1996 implement logical block addressing.

Kids these days will probably grow up having never heard of CHS addressing.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Oh, they'll hear of it.

See: classful networks.

qasdfdsaq

@Bob Kids these days probably won't hear of that either

By the time they're old enough to understand networks we'll all be on native IPv6.

(Yes yes I can dream)

Hennes

12:22 PM

@qasdfdsaq And 'LBA' for SCSI since 1978 :)

Hennes

12:33 PM

Forthcoming OpenSSL release

qasdfdsaq

@Hennes Better off on SF.

Hennes

Aye, should also link that there

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq Lots of folk here run our own servers tho, or things that rely on OpenSSL

qasdfdsaq

Then again, they probably got the email themselves.

So yeah, maybe it's more useful here :-P

@JourneymanGeek PolarSSL!

Hennes

I am running a pkg update ... check info... oh, more to do later

qasdfdsaq

12:50 PM

> A password reminder has already been sent within the last 24 hours. To prevent abuse, only one password reminder will be sent per 24 hours.

FUUUUU

Anonymous

@Hennes openssl considered harmful

Anonymous

@qasdfdsaq boringssl! libressl!

Hennes

Ant TSL in a storm.

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq here?

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek Wikipedia

21 hours ago, by qasdfdsaq

Grr. My Wikipedia login is fucked.

Still fucked.

Grr. lol. Turns out usernames are case sensitive in the login box, but NOT case sensitive in the recover password box. And they removed the message saying so.

AND they don't tell you if the email address you entered is correct and only let you try once per 24 hours.

AND it would have been futile anyway, as the actual email address on the account was one I lost access to five years ago.

Anonymous

12:58 PM

yea mediawiki logins can be... unreliable

qasdfdsaq

"Frustrating the hell out of me for 21 hours" is more than just "unreliable"

Journeyman Geek

1:27 PM

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Q: How do I evaluate 2 different hardware specs for an application?

I have a single-threaded, CPU-bound application that's currently running on a multi-core Windows machine (32-way 2.1GHz Pentium Pro/II/III). It's stuck at 100% of one of the "cores", which equates to about 3% CPU. Unfortunately, the application can't be easily modified or made multi-threaded. We'...

windows performance cpu

Something fishy about the hardware here

qasdfdsaq

What makes you think that? >_>

Journeyman Geek

(32-way 2.1GHz Pentium Pro/II/III)

qasdfdsaq

/s

Pentium Pro/II/III didn't have hyperthreading either. I suspect it's just some generic "x86-compatible" processor ID string he's going off.

Bob

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Q: Could I recover the content of file from its checksum/hash?

Let's say I have a video file that is splitted in multiple parts. Each piece is long 2 Megabyte. Imagine also that i have a list of the Sha256/checksum/any hash type for each piece and and also for the full file. Now assume that i have somehow misplaced/lost/fubar one of these pieces. Could I r...

hash brute-force rainbow-table time

qasdfdsaq

@Bob I'm actually needing to do something similar to recover my last ZFS array

The amount of time would be on the order of the time required to brute-force a 10-million character long password. We're not even in the realms of geological time here, let alone human time. — qasdfdsaq 2 mins ago

:27106393 Size limits, plus it has to match both SHA-1 hashes

In the case of my ZFS array, I have the actual data, the possibilities are only where they lie on which disk

Which is slightly easier to brute force. Incidentally, not sure if I'm running fletcher4 or sha-1 checksums, but if the latter, a CPU upgrade might help drastically.

Hennes

2:17 PM

My mum has nothing to do..." the mother bored "

3

DavidPostill

@Hennes LOL

qasdfdsaq

2:31 PM

Oh I see what you're talking about now.

-3

Q: how to activate wireless network on hp elitebook

forgive me for wrong grammar and spellings .last month I bought a refurbished HP elitebook 6930 which is using windows 7 starter,im struggling to activate wireless network (Bluetooth and WiFi) because it needs BIOS admin password which I don't know even the dealer who sold me doesn't know either

windows

Doesn't sound dodgy at all

Bob

5:03 PM

Always fun finding nice songs and then the album art looks like a portrait from a 2006 camera phone.

qasdfdsaq

5:30 PM

Dave

6:09 PM

thats always been one of my fav animated gifs

Oliver Salzburg

New phone \o/ Nexus 6. Let's see what it can do...

Dave

good choice

you get all your ota's directly from google.. i despise you.

;]

Oliver Salzburg

Now, if only I hadn't left my SIM ejector for the One at work :(

ws04

?

oh wrong room lol

Bob

s/get all your ota's directly from/give all your data directly to/

:P

@OliverSalzburg Paperclip?

Oliver Salzburg

6:13 PM

@Bob Just found a different wire that would fit (yay)

Fuck me. The Nexus requires a Nano SIM :(

Dave

;[

Oliver Salzburg

So much for that

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Get the scissors out!

Michael Frank

@OliverSalzburg Snip snip!

Bob

(I just printed a template and cut mine for the mini => micro)

Oliver Salzburg

6:16 PM

I'll go WiFi for now ;D

Bob

6:30 PM

imgur.com/a/jdz2X

Oliver Salzburg

Okay, so there's Tap & Go. Just touch your phone to your old phone and your accounts are magically transferred and everything is awesome. I try it. It transfers something, then pops up a toast "Restore from backup failed". I am very impressed!

Bob

lol

Oliver Salzburg

The things that are possible with today's technology. Endless possibilities!

Dave

if you want to be able to use android tap and play with it for sales transactions make sure you DONT unlock it.

Oliver Salzburg

Alright, so that "completed". Now I'm notified that I can upgrade to Android 5.1. Awesome! Let's do it. It downloads the update... and then shuts off the device :(

Dave

6:34 PM

meant to tell ya that

Oliver Salzburg

Let's try turning it on again!

Dave

tap and pay*

Oliver Salzburg

But, apparently, my account was still transferred alright, because I'm already getting email. What I don't get though, I still had to enter my password for my Google account. So, what exactly did Tap&Go do? Transfer my email address?

Now it's running on Android 5.0.1, while my CMOS on the One was based on 5.1.1, and it says there are no more updates available

Michael Frank

@OliverSalzburg Well you wouldn't want someone quietly tap&Go'ing your phone at a party without you noticing, would you?

Oliver Salzburg

@MichaelFrank You still have to press "Confirm" like 3 times when it's initiated

Michael Frank

6:41 PM

"hey is that the x? Can I compare size to my one?" taptaptap

Dave

Rockwell Retro Encabulator

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I want one of those ^^^

Bob

7:46 PM

Hmm. Debating going from 24 GB to 32 GB of RAM

qasdfdsaq

Not worth it.

Bob

True... I rarely go above 50% (12 GB) used

But it's cheap! -_-

qasdfdsaq

That said, just because I didn't notice much of a difference doesn't mean you won't

Boris_yo

8:20 PM

@qasdfdsaq My laptop officially supports up to 8GB RAM however people had luck with some brands by installing 16GB. Intel CPU supports 16GB but some complained it didn't work in their laptop. It was mentioned among them that Crucial memory modules resulted in highest success rate.

Canadian Luke

8:32 PM

I've decided that other than recovering servers... I really hate imaging systems, just to realize that I forgot ONE WHOLE CRITICAL STEP... Luckily, it was still on my testing system -.-

qasdfdsaq

Did you forget the... imaging step?

Michael Frank

@qasdfdsaq Forget to make image. Wipe machine. Attempt to image system with a blank USB?

Bob

@MichaelFrank First mistake is using the same machine as both source and target.

Canadian Luke

It's because our organization uses FOG, so that is what we use to image. We also still use Samba 3 domains, which requires us to force Windows to use Local Profiles only. That didn't work, and I realized that I forgot to do all the Group Policy stuff before capturing the image. Luckily, I am back in SysPrep mode, so I can do what I need

allquixotic

@Dave wat

Canadian Luke

9:03 PM

What I'd really like is to properly learn how to deploy universal images that pull whatever drivers they need, AND the settings, all while using free software (since we don't have Windows Servers to do deployments with)

Dave

9:28 PM

@allquixotic: youtube.com/watch?v=lVZ8Ko-nss4&list=RDlVZ8Ko-nss4

playlist ;)

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