Root Access

Jonno

9:00 AM

@Bob I am not experiencing emotions of jealousy for you. Best of luck ;)

Burgi

it removed the user name and rep so much that the little author box was suspiciously empty

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi review tests are a bit lame

Bob

@Jonno Heh, I eventually put it aside and went home. Tomorrow is gonna be fun.

Burgi

right i have to prep my go live procedure

Bob

ow.

Journeyman Geek

9:04 AM

0

Q: Wireless Adapter Turning Off Second Monitor

I am having issues with my wireless adapter and my second monitor. When I enable the wireless adapter, my second monitor decides to turn off (no display, it is still powered) or just flicker on and off. I thought it might have been a power supply issue but I have just gone from a 450W PSU to 600W...

that's odd

Bob

Oh wow. The response here worked.

I think that's the first time I found a forum post that actually worked straight off.

Or at least the first time this year.

Also, that was weird. I haven't used this laptop in about a year but I swear the whole PC Settings thing was working before.

> Insert Media

> Some files are missing. Your Windows installation or recovery media will provide those files.

fml.

Oliver Salzburg

I had a pretty neat experience the other day

You know when you transfer a Windows key several times, it refuses to unlock unless you go through that horrible phone activation? (other options are not available in Germany)

Bob

ya

Oliver Salzburg

In Windows 10, you can simply click "Contact support" and someone from the MS support staff will remote into your system with 123rescue and do the painful work for you

Bob

O_O

Oliver Salzburg

9:10 AM

Well, you can probably do it on other versions as well, but I just saw the link and went the naive route

Was pretty cool

I had Home on my new laptop and wanted to convert to Pro, but it refused my key

So he pasted some other key into the box, which worked. After the conversion to Pro, he changed the key to my original one

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Well, at least you found someone at MS with a clue of what they're doing.

Psycogeek

cool, that beats trying to get my dog to type in those blasted numbers correctally.

Bob

I'm still waiting on a response from email support. I've given up on phone and chat.

Psycogeek

9:29 AM

youtu.be/8ucCxtgN6sc?t=213 entertainment company shows younger people what win95 was like, if your computer sucked completely and was disconnected from the web, and no software was installed, and your dumb enough to use a FreeAOL disk?

Hennes

Ofcourse you used OAL disks. What else would you put your coffee mug on ?

Psycogeek

it was bad, but what they are doing here , due to the lack of a time machine, is making it way worse.

"if you go somehwere and there is no wi-fi that is like the worst thing that could ever happen to you" 1st world problems much?

running out of water, starving to death, heat exhaustion, hypothermia or OMG no WI-Fi Have you been outside since you were born?

Jonno

9:57 AM

I'm so confused... Why aren't these matching -.-

Journeyman Geek

33

A: Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange

March 2016 2016-03-15: 15K users can't protect question if it has no answers from new users. 2016-03-??: Closed question banner now shows all close reasons voted for, rather than just attributing all the close votes to the majority reason. 2016-03-07: Hidden Communities no longer appear in th...

> 2016-03-??: Closed question banner now shows all close reasons voted for, rather than just attributing all the close votes to the majority reason.

As a mod who sometimes throws a closehammer with a different reason from other users...

Yay!

Bob

@Jonno ...the one on the left smells like Win8 (NT 6.2)

Jonno

@Bob Indeed. But they're both running on my Win 10 machine =\

Bob

Compatibility mode?

WoW64?

Jonno

Hmm..

Bob

10:01 AM

Oh, the manifest.

1

Q: Windows 10 RTM OSVersion not returning what I expect

When call Windows 10 version with: Environment.OSVersion.ToString() Return this Windows 8 and 8.1 version return 6.2 not 6.3 WTF??! Im using Windows 10 RTM (upgrade from Insider with windows update) VS 2015 RC and .Net 4.6 Now i need to get the correct version of windows, any solution?

c# windows debugging visual-studio-2015 windows-10

> Applications not manifested for Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 Insider Preview will return the Windows 8 OS version value (6.2).

Jonno

Aha...

Thank you :)

Psycogeek

thats what it says here too johnkoerner.com/csharp/…

Bob

> In Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, the GetVersion and GetVersionEx functions have been deprecated. In Windows 10, the VerifyVersionInfo function has also been deprecated. While you can still call the deprecated functions, if your application does not specifically target Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, you will get Windows 8 version (6.2.0.0).

Jonno

10:13 AM

@Bob Yay... Helped when I realised I'd added it to the manifest but hadn't actually set it as the manifest to use for the project... :$

Bob

lol

Jonno

goes back and deletes a random hack to read that information from the registry when I couldn't work it out last time...

:$

Bob

> Resetting your PC 1%

well I'm in for a long night

DavidPostill

10:27 AM

Cunningly disguised spam:

-2

A: How to convert Word document to PDF with copy protection

@ jofel. Thank you very much for your answer. I tried to use the link you provided but it didn't work. I think you meant pdf-no-copy.com it says in the site that it is a tool to prevent the copy and paste function in your pdf files by adding DRM restrictions. Thanks James

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill gone. I guess the spammers are learning (the wrong thing)

DavidPostill

;-p

Jonno

How...?

independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/…

Thats like... 10 people going to see it or something? o.0

Journeyman Geek

0_0

most of whom probably figured they wanted an empty cinema to do things other than watch a movie in? ;p

DavidPostill

revenue - overheads = profit?

Jonno

10:30 AM

Sounds like it... Actually that sounds like good value when you put it that way.

Journeyman Geek

> The actor at least has company here; Richard Gere's The Benefactor, released at the same time, made an even slighter £25 in box office takings

@DavidPostill movie company economics is complex

they can make a loss even when they profit

Hell, I'm looking for a job cause of that craziness.

DavidPostill

If 1 person goes to see a movie in a cinema that's a huge loss (electrics, staff wages, ...)

Jonno

@DavidPostill Not sure, they've kinda worded it as gross, but even as net it'd be more surprising that it didn't just make a loss

But I guess that's more plausable

Journeyman Geek

(also, amusingly, I went and looked up a recruiter who'd contacted me on linkedin last year. Turns out the company did massive layoffs too :( )

DavidPostill

It only cost UKP 4.95 to watch a movie in my local cinema. UK minimum wage is UKP 7 ish per hour.

Journeyman Geek

10:33 AM

and didn't really pay any severance or anything, the wankers.

@DavidPostill and most of that staff would be there anyway. Granted I suppose you'd need to pay a projectionist, if that stuff wasn't totally automated

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, so you have to pay the staff anyway.

Then they also don't make any money on the popcorn sales ;)

Journeyman Geek

;p

DavidPostill

Or the overpriced drinks ...

Jonno

@DavidPostill Was going to say - one trip to the concession stand and you're looking at an overall profit for the day ;)

DavidPostill

independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/resources/…

Principal Areas of Expenditure

Staff costs: manager, deputy/relief manager, projection staff, box office and ushering staff, cleaners, etc.
Marketing and publicity
Premises costs: rates, insurance, maintenance, heat and light, cleaning, security
Office costs and licences (Performing Rights Society, etc.)
Programme enhancement/education costs (may be supported by public funding)
Finance costs, interest, audit fees

Psycogeek

10:37 AM

@Jonno does this mean i can pay Keanu Reeves to mow my lawn?

Jonno

What with that and online streaming/piracy, it almost justifies the mortgage you need to take out for a pack of M&Ms

almost

DavidPostill

Total annual net income £412,600 (i.e. net of direct costs: gross profit) based on 80,000 admissions as in example above
Wages £192,000 (8 ft equivalents @ £24,000 pa average)
National insurance @10.45% £20,064
Rent £70,000
Rates £12,000
Heat and Light £12,000
Insurance £8,000
Repairs and renewals £20,000
Audit/accountancy £4,000
Telephone £2,000
IT £20,000
Printing and stationery £4,000
Depreciation £6,000
Advertising £6,000
Bank interest £10,000
Total Overheads £386,064
Net Profit (before tax) £26,536

Jonno

@Psycogeek As long as you've got a cool £89 you can have him for the whole weekend I'd say

DavidPostill

That's a lot of bums on seats to make a small profit

Jonno

That's actually a crazy small profit margin for that amount of work..

Journeyman Geek

10:39 AM

I may or may not pop by the 7-11 next to my local cinema and smuggle in snacks.

Burgi

cinema tickets cost way more than a fiver here

Journeyman Geek

14 dollars here I think

less on weekends

DavidPostill

Probably why most cinemas in the UK have closed :/

Journeyman Geek

tho I tend to end up in the imax

Burgi

£8-£10 normally

Journeyman Geek

10:40 AM

@DavidPostill I think the only real way to run a cinema now is to make it an experience again

Jonno

For me to bother going to the cinema to watch something I'd really want to watch it. Deadpool is about the only movie I've actually wanted to go out and see in a very long time.

DavidPostill

My local:
Ticket Prices

Adults: £4.90

Children: £3.90
Balcony

Adults: £5.90

Children: £4.90
Plaza Wednesdays

For selected Wednesdays our tickets are just £2.60.

Burgi

when i went to see star wars, it was non-imax opening week

£12 per ticket and then £10 for a drink and a huge bag of popcorn

Jonno

My local... Granted I'm living in a place where average staff wages are $100 USD a month.. Is $3 for 2D or $5 for 3D

At home we'd only ever go on a 2 for 1 special day.

Otherwise we'd be haemorrhaging money left right and centre.

Journeyman Geek

I watched star wars in imax

DavidPostill

10:42 AM

I've just realised that my local cinema is run by volunteers - hence the low prices ...

Burgi

ah

Jonno

I guess that's one way to do it..?

Don't pay anyone

Burgi

we tend to go to the odeon or amc in the city centre

Journeyman Geek

I need to watch deadpool if its still running ._.

DavidPostill

We are an independent, volunteer-run cinema in Waterloo, Sefton. ... The Plaza Community Cinema is a unique community resource that offers dynamic film based education programmes to schools, the voluntary sector and the general public. We are a community cinema run by volunteers.

Jonno

10:43 AM

@DavidPostill Is there a charity or organisation they're doing it for? Volunteering for a cinema doesn't sound particularly rewarding..

Oh

That answers that one

Journeyman Geek

sounds like fun actually

Jonno

@JourneymanGeek For the first few times I'm sure

DavidPostill

It is, as far as we are aware, one of the few charities in the UK to provide essential community facilities and encourage social inclusion through a cinema.

Jonno

@JourneymanGeek Especially if you can hook up a PS4 or something to the projection whilst it's out of use

DavidPostill

They are their own charity.

Bob

10:48 AM

@JourneymanGeek Hollywood accounting?

Psycogeek

movie theatres here "got what they deserved" when they took a real theatre and real screens and traded it up for a "6pack" theatre with screen no bigger than a home projection, and sound that might have been pro created, that still sucked.

Bob

Hm.

!!wiki hollywood accounting

ChatBot John Cavil

Hollywood accounting

Hollywood accounting (also known as Hollywood bookkeeping) refers to the opaque or creative accounting methods used by the film, video, and television industry to budget and record profits for film projects. Expenditures can be inflated to reduce or eliminate the reported profit of the project, thereby reducing the amount which the corporation must pay in royalties or other profit-sharing agreements, as these are based on the net profit. Hollywood accounting gets its name from its prevalence in the entertainment industry—that is, in the movie studios of Hollywood at a time when most studios were...

Bob

There we go.

Psycogeek

sure the 6pack idea was going to make them big money, and did, but in the long run, it wasnt a theatre anymore, i quit visiting as much.

Journeyman Geek

10:50 AM

@Bob yes

@Jonno my old workplace had a small cinema set up like that

alas, no one used it for gaming

Psycogeek

to add to how bad the 6pack theatres were, they couldnt even sound isolate them proper, and you get to hear rumblings and screams and gunshots and all, , , for the movie you arent even watching. Heck I can do that Here

Bob

@allquixotic Huh, OVH is pretty proactive about offering compensation for busted SLAs

Oliver Salzburg

Is it just me or is printing in Chrome incredibly fucked?

I have a large table on a website, I want to print it, the result is a huge magnification of the upper-left corner of the table on a single sheet of paper

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Psycogeek

is this after applying the "fit to page" settings? did you preview (everything)?

Oliver Salzburg

10:58 AM

@Psycogeek Where is that setting?

The preview already looks fucked

Psycogeek

fit to page is usually parts of the printer driver, you should be able to somewhat access in any program worth using

Oliver Salzburg

@Psycogeek So, there "should" be a setting there and if it's not, I should use a different program?

Thanks!

Burgi

my boss just asked what rickrolling is....

perfect opportunity or....

Journeyman Geek

;p

Nirvana vs Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up

►

Psycogeek

@OliverSalzburg yea both actually, the program itself feeding data to a printer driver, often has a way to adjust, and the "preferances" for the actual printer driver. it usually drives me up the wall that i have to adjust 50 things. not that i really want a See-It-Print-it quick GUI.

Page Setup ?

Oliver Salzburg

11:04 AM

@Psycogeek I know how to read a print dialog

If you want to actually help, open Chrome and check which options are available

Psycogeek

chrome, uhh no, all the people complaining about it, plus it looks lamo from the start, and it abuses memory (while making good use of it) so far ,, wouldnt touch it.

out of desperation, the sceen snipping tool, But WAIT, MS didnt put a print dialog In the snipping tool. But they could re-arrange the whole OS with junk. So drop that snip into photoshop and finnaly . . . Big magnified image in the corner , , ok adjust the DPI

the real question is Who Tests this stuff, and what group of people thought that was a good way to do it? same ones saying XP sucks :-)

not to worry, we will bring in a "focus group" for an hour, so they can tell us what a wonderfull job we did. Billy get $50 and go fetch us 10 homeless people, we need to test this thouroughly.

Bob

11:22 AM

@OliverSalzburg You tried using native print?

Maybe it's just the print CSS that's fucked.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Well, I managed to work around the issue with custom print CSS

Bob

No one ever tests the print CSS

Mainly cause it's a pain in the arse

Both to write and to test

We're still undecided if we want to go the print CSS route or just export to a server-side PDF generator :P

Psycogeek

@Bob you mean the print button on a web page? who is going to push those in todays age?

Hennes

All the secretaries, so that their pointy haired boss can read the webpage content.

Psycogeek

[PRINT] thank you for opt-ing into our mailing list, please download our printing package (virus) , and while your waiting for the print , take a look at these fine web pages from our affiliate advertisers (opening in 10 windows).

Hennes

11:31 AM

Weee. my Core i5-6600K - Boxed is at the local postoffice

djsmiley2k

Any nagios gurus around by any chance? :D

Bob

@Psycogeek print CSS applies no matter how you print. The browser activates CSS with media print when you print

This is independent of any print button on page

Hennes

gizmodo.com/…

300GB HDD

Sadly not compatible with SATA, only with USB

Psycogeek

this print preview (both browsers) is common MS print thing it looks like, has "shrink to fit" (not fit to page) in 2 places

Psycogeek

12:00 PM

in the printers own, okidata only has "scale" option. Brother provides both scale and fit to papersize . Epson has Reduce/enlarge option.

And SU would like to see answers that would work for everyone :-) there is fully 3 layers of things that can change (printing frames or not) and 2 of them can "conflict" besides.

Ok finnaly, SuperHigh res pictures dont work with the fit stuff in the preview. they have to be scaled instead.

I thought I had seen that occur before, but i just used PrintScreen and NewClipboard in photoshop.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/… test image here.

allquixotic

12:25 PM

Basically how rootkits work https://t.co/q1kGbCslyZ

Tweeted by SwiftOnSecurity on March 11, 2016 at 5:04 PM

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Dave

12:53 PM

@allquixotic: nice one

Bob

Would be nicer if it actually worked on FF mobile

I assume there's more to it than the rear end of a cat?

jokerdino

it's a GIF

Bob Ebert

hello, if I wish to install this theme in ubuntu 14.04, do I have to change my desktop environment to gkt2.0 ? gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=74813

Bob

Not on my phone it isn't :P

Bob Ebert

I have the default, lightdm

jokerdino

1:00 PM

Now Bob has ditched Debian and is on Ubuntu.

Bob Ebert

yep, couldn't handle it

jokerdino

@BobEbert OK, those look old.

Bob Ebert

had a hardware problem, but I fixed it. Now I don't want to go back to it

jokerdino

I doubt you could have that appearance on Unity

@BobEbert Try for any gtk3 themes.

Bob

@jokerdino I ditched Ubuntu ages ago and moved to Debian :P

Dave

1:03 PM

Heres a gem:

How to send an 'E mail' - Database - 1984

►

Bob

@allquixotic Ok, watched the full gif.

...yup, it's still the rear end of a cat :P

jokerdino

@Bob This is about Bob-E.

Bob Ebert

this? @jokerdino gnome-look.org/content/show.php/…

Bob

@jokerdino I know, was a joke

jokerdino

@BobEbert are you using Unity or gnome-shell?

@Bob It's not funny for the several hundred people using it. :(

Fortunately, I use Fedora.

Bob

1:07 PM

@jokerdino ...weren't you the Ubuntu guy?

Bob Ebert

unity?

jokerdino

Let's keep this between us. Don't tell my other guys over there.

Bob

lol

jokerdino

@BobEbert do you have launcher icons to the left?

Bob Ebert

yep

should be 3d, not 2d

jokerdino

1:08 PM

That's Unity interface.

Bob Ebert

2d*

jokerdino

You are looking at GNOME themes, which are meant for gnome-shell. Those look different from Unity.

Bob Ebert

I have all the default things :p

Which means they won't work? I mean it's just a theme, idk if it matters

jokerdino

@BobEbert sure, they will work..

@bob, follow this - > noobslab.com/2015/11/delorean-dark-unity-theme-created.html

Bob Ebert

@jokerdino in the download section, there are only download options for gnome, which one shall I use?

jokerdino

1:13 PM

@BobEbert I linked you to PPA version with instructions which will make the whole thing much easier.

Jonno

I just learned the hard way that I should be designing winforms with my machine set at 96dpi to prevent things going horribly wrong :)

Yaaaay

Bob

@jokerdino nice ping

:P

@Jonno WPF? :P

I still need to learn WPF

Jonno

@Bob I haven't actually looked at it properly

Bob

WinForms and hidpi hasn't really been a prob for me

Jonno

I had a quick look once and thought it looked like so much more work for the same results

Bob

1:15 PM

mostly cause I usually work on fairly standard monitors

Jonno

I just tried something I was using on a freshly installed VM and realised half my controls are missing off the form

Burgi

0

Q: problems starting django for the first time

New to Django I downloaded a django app (DefectDojo) and I'm following instructions (on windows) to start Django. So far, I've used pip to install Django and a host of other libraries. I understand I need to set the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to something.settings. For this app...

python django python3

is this off-topic?

jokerdino

@Bob :P

Bob

@Jonno I was thinking about picking it up but then ended up working with web languages (HTML/CSS/JS)

Bob Ebert

Thanks Jokerino, worked perfectly

jokerdino

1:17 PM

@BobEbert glad it worked. Have fun with Ubuntu.

@Bob, Ubunterinos have their own chat -- chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/201/ask-ubuntu-general-room

Jonno

@Bob Yeah that seems the best choice for wide level of support.

Bob Ebert

Will be reinstalling everything in a month when the new ubuntu comes out

jokerdino

You can upgrade it from 14.04. No need to reinstall.

Bob

@Jonno Eh I want my async/await and other various syntactic sugar :P

(which apparently ES7 is bringing but I'll get to use it in about 10 years when we stop supporting IE)

Also, dealing with prototypes is a pain in the arse but being able to monkey patch is fun. Until everything blows up and you have no idea where or why.

Jonno

@Bob Never seen the term "monkey patch" before. Wiki'd it and found it's also called "duck punching"? Whaaaa..

Bob

1:22 PM

...never heard that one before o.O

Jonno

!!wiki monkey patch

ChatBot John Cavil

Monkey patch

A monkey patch is a way for a program to extend or modify supporting system software locally (affecting only the running instance of the program). This process has also been termed duck punching, based on the term "duck typing". == Etymology == The term monkey patch seems to have come from an earlier term, guerrilla patch, which referred to changing code sneakily – and possibly incompatibly with other such patches – at runtime. The word guerrilla, homophonous with gorilla (or nearly so), became monkey, possibly to make the patch sound less intimidating. An alternative etymology is that it refers...

Bob

@Jonno Basically JS has no real concept of private.

You can touch and override pretty much everything

Want to change what Foo.x() does? Foo.x = function() {console.log('weeee!');};

Jonno

I have enough issues with strongly typed languages ;)

Bob

Of course, it gets more complex than that.

@Jonno lol

the flexibility to do anything you want is nice, but maintenance is obviously a nightmare

Jonno

1:25 PM

#define TRUE FALSE - gl hf

djsmiley2k

mah work so funny

Bob

well, true and false are actual keywords

djsmiley2k

not sure why this isn't blocked.

Bob

but undefined = true is fun

Jonno

Ew..

DavidPostill

1:25 PM

@Burgi Look on-topic to me.

Bob

can't do that in ES5 strict mode though

and some people code so defensively they check typeof x === 'undefined' cause they don't trust the undefined variable

Jonno

Seems fair with that in mind lol

Bob

@Jonno It's like a mix between C# reflections and extension methods :P

@Jonno Eh... there's a real good comment on SO about that

Huh, apparently modern browsers don't let you redefine it at all :P

Burgi

cheers @DavidPostill

Bob

@allquixotic just got a month compensated by OVH o.O

that was for a 4.5h power outage

which should only technically be some 15-25% under their SLA, I thought

ah, not complaining about this one, though. took forever to fix ZFS after that outage :\

Burgi

1:58 PM

do usb Y-cables transmit data to both "heads"?

Journeyman Geek

Nope

The bit that branches out is power only

Burgi

didn't think so

0

Q: Android tablet micro usb port = usb devices + connection to PC possible?

I am developping an app on tablets that dialogs with usb devices. My tablet only has a micro USB port. I use that port to connect the usb devices. My question is : is it possible to have a cable that allow me to communicate with the usb devices on one branch and the other branch to connect the t...

usb android cable tablet

Bob

@Burgi It is possible. Just with a hub, not a cable.

Psycogeek

@Burgi I look at stuff like that and say "how could it" , it has communication protocals , acknolegements and flow control , well it could if it and the devices connecting were complex enough to cope with that.

so yea someone could possibly make something to work like that. ex look what they did with the more simple serial ports. it just isnt setup to work that way now. and they got HUBS so they dont ever need to?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob but USB can't do gadget and device mode at once... No?

Bob

2:07 PM

@JourneymanGeek Hm. Point.

Psycogeek

the particular cable linked, is a "doubble power" cable, use 2x (limited in power) ports.

in all probability one of the connections is not even wired for data.

Journeyman Geek

I'm at the airport. Everyone is watching cricket :p

Burgi

i heard that Afghanistan is doing really well

which surprised me

jokerdino

yep.

Journeyman Geek

Lol.

Burgi

2:15 PM

i don't know why it surprised me

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Sounds familiar somehow :P

Burgi

especially seeing that part of the world has the best cricketers

jokerdino

which part?

Burgi

india, pakistan, et al

Journeyman Geek

@Bob no free Wi-Fi. Teathered off my Indian phone :p

jokerdino

2:17 PM

@Burgi Are you UK?

Burgi

yeah

jokerdino

They are not at the level of beating established nations yet.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Wait aren't you some 12h early for the flight? o.O

jokerdino

But they beat up every other country still learning the sport.

Journeyman Geek

Naw, flight here is at 9. Then next flight at 2am

Burgi

2:25 PM

@jokerdino they beat scotland

jokerdino

Scotland is no good.

Burgi

admittedly scotland isn't a huge cricket nation but....

jokerdino

England & Wales are good. That's about it.

E&W actually play as one entity.

Burgi

thats because wales is just full of dragons

2

jokerdino

lol

Psycogeek

2:28 PM

superuser.com/questions/960198/how-is-a-usb-y-cable-designed similar but different USB Y question answered fine

OTG is different, being a host usb, and the same port also being a device usb.
But you never get Both at the same time at the device either right? in phones.

the archos MID 5" media device, had both at the same time, and i had used both at the same time, but it had 2 seperated ports, one via a dock that card-edge connected.

Jonno

2:45 PM

Uhm... Image number 6... I... They... That's... ?!

aliexpress.com/item/…

Psycogeek

thats how to secure a cpu socket , so the data doesnt get taken off it after disposal :-)

Would you believe ? how to apply a conformal coating prior to liquid nitrogen cooling

ok then, its how you apply a intel stock heat sink after the pins break

Burgi

what an absolute arse.... the change manager has rejected my code because i have not included all the lines of code that make up the solution....

Psycogeek

3:39 PM

superuser.com/questions/1053176/memtest86-which-dim-is-failing And just when I thought my spelling was bad. 1 memory error? One?

djsmiley2k

my addr245 changes soon

hopefully friday

:D

allquixotic

@Bob I don't think they ever ended up compensating me for anything

bwDraco

3:58 PM

8 hours ago, by Journeyman Geek

The right time to think about this is before you hit the post button

So I looked into what happened yesterday and it seems that Meta post got past my normal content vetting process without a full check for ad-hominem attacks. In the future, there will be tighter checks to prevent something like this from slipping through, and such posts will be more carefully worded to target specific actions or patterns of actions rather than the person who took took those actions. Sorry for what happened yesterday.

bwDraco

4:11 PM

Availability on SU main is going to be very limited as I attempt to recover from this and other recent issues here. I'll also be very busy doing coursework. I'll try to remain on chat but may not respond to events on the main site and may respond slowly to chat pings.

9 hours ago, by bwDraco

I'll try to avoid posting answers, reviewing posts, or otherwise performing any moderation work to allow myself to clear my mind. I'll just take it easy and chat peacefully.

See ya in a bit. Got work to do.

allquixotic

@Bob when Ubuntu 16.04 LTS releases on April 21, I think I'm going to mount my 500 GB of OVH backup storage and dump my ZFS tank on there, then reinstall the OS fresh as Ubuntu 16.04, then manually migrate over programs and containers.... probably the safest way to go

not sure what storage format makes the most sense for the ZFS image though. zfs send won't work when trying to just create a file, AFAIK, and dd would be horribly wasteful of space

I want something like a disk image that I can mount on a loopback device over FTP or SMB, but not a literal dd image

bwDraco

Not familiar with ZFS, sorry. I checked out the documentation and the best suggestion I could find was to create a tarball, but not much else.

Psycogeek

I am opting for a new close reason on SU, to solution the problem of the wrong close choice being applied over and over again.
STUPID QUESTION: The question does not provide enough information, or you didnt do your homework, read the manuel , or search the web. Please refer to our Stupid Question help page, follow the required steps in the help page, then ask the question somewhere where they give a damn.

bwDraco

@Psycogeek That's what "unclear what you're asking" is for. We could expand that close reason to cover cases where there's inadequate research effort, but I can't really bring this up on Meta after what happened yesterday.

Psycogeek

@bwDraco inadequite research is supposed to be a downvote, but thats ok they got that covered too, all over everything.

All i am saying, is they are really closing what they concider stupid questions.

bwDraco

4:26 PM

If there's a genuine concern, you can always ask on Meta. I can't do this myself at this time, but you might have a good case for a "general reference" close reason.

See ya in a bit.

Psycogeek

@bwDraco my meta doesnt go any better than your worst meta :-)

bwDraco

4:42 PM

@Psycogeek: anandtech.com/show/10112/…

You have the Strafe, right?

Psycogeek

@bwDraco yes, really figured out how to configure it too , still some really lame ways to do thing. it has blues, and they are not loud to me at all, but the bottoming out , silicon o-rings fix that a lot, then it is way less clack and all tickety tick

JMG said i shouldnt be bottoming out, I can do that, but only much slower.

my final design, is to have it all color coded, then have explodotype , where the keys surrouding the typed key light up white. because having the typed key only "change color" does nothing, my finger is On it :-)

then to have the "lock" keys change color if they are on or off. instead of the stupid leds that are upper right, far from the actual key.

Psycogeek

5:06 PM

they actually only had the strafe in Red and Brown in the store. Being used to buckling spring keys, the browns (even) were way to mushey and non feeling for me. I had to leave the store with nothing , so sad.

Psycogeek

5:18 PM

jokerdino

@Psycogeek nice

Psycogeek

because of the white under the keys, i did blue (darker color) for the Func, that row gets looked right at

and i still dont like the white under there, it does make for more reflective light, but adds too much light noise, and i have no idea how it is going to be or look when a meal, and a few toenail clipping, and a candy bar, some soda, and dog hair is under there :-)

bwDraco

Feb 3 at 20:45, by bwDraco

Psycogeek

@bwDraco WSA ?? why no D man you going to be going in circles :-)

bwDraco

@Psycogeek That's with Control held down. It's to highlight keyboard shortcuts.

allquixotic

5:28 PM

Steve WASniak would approve of WAS without a D

Psycogeek

oh so this is not gaming profile?

bwDraco

I have separate gaming profiles.

In any case, I've got to get back to work. See ya in a bit.

Psycogeek

notice like the razor the "Shifted" items are in the wrong place? They put the non shifted items in the light, so now i can type the wrong 'quotes' and hit the wrong {brackets] for a while.

it is 9nothing0 > i wont get used to< i assure you> I know exactally how it is suposed to work>

Hennes

5:45 PM

Well Sh*t (and other colourful expressions)

I thought boxed Iten CPU's came with their own cooler

Apparently this one does not.

So I got a motherboard, memory, a i5 6600K and no cooling

Psycogeek

@Hennes all mine have, even the cheapo one, want some stock intel coolers

Hennes

The cheap one had a cooler

Pentium 4400 (dual core skylake)

allquixotic

Skylake K's don't have a stock cooler

Psycogeek

for $20 the old standby 212 cooler will blow the stock intel out of the water.

Hennes

The expensive one (EUR 250 vs Eur 60) did not

Psycogeek

5:49 PM

and if you dont need way better cooling, then at least you wont have fan RPMs, larger fan that parks at about 600-900 rpm even when working a core.

bwDraco

6:18 PM

welp. Just nabbed a deal on printer ink cartridges at Staples.

Hennes

6:43 PM

Aye. 212X ordered

The low prifile zalman also looked quite nice. (And blew air to the board)

Frustrating to have a whole system in house, except cooling.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, it would be. I'm lucky to have decent local computer stores.

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek We have a Micro Center that's only a short commute away, and plenty of office supply and electronics retailers nearby. Perks of living in a big city...

Too bad RadioShack has shut down...

...and I'm not running out of ink anytime soon.

Back to work.

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