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12:00 AM
Just heard someone cursing outside my house. I live in the bad end of downtown. Not the part that has $5-8k/mo condos which is only .3 miles away :(
 
Now you are here to keep an eye on things I can go get some zzzzzzzzzzzzzs ;p
Good night all ...
 
Ah. Only vaguely. I was informed there was some drama. I'll talk to those involved once I have a chance to review things.
 
@JourneymanGeek It wasn't drama. it was all fine. we were all done with the DISCUSSION and I think I was mistakenly given a time out for 4 minutes cause someone thought I was continuing when I wasn't. No big deal.
 
@RichManson I'll decide that for myself TYVM
 
12:15 AM
I'm not holding a 4 minute time out against anyone warranted or not. No big deal to me.
Was over it almost instantly. I'm not thin skinned and not related to Trump LOL
 
@RichManson the idea is really to go "Hey, we can do these things better" so we can avoid more of such incidents
 
What things? You speaking anythings, like generally things ....
 
Which is exactly why I need to review what happened, so I can make things better
getting kicked/suspended once a day here is a sign, well, things are not going too smooth for you
As the mod (and for all my sins, designated grown up of the chat) - I need to review things
sooooo
@RichManson you and ramhound clearly don't get along. His ignoring you is actually a positive step, at least until either we get used to you or you get used to us.
Otherwise, meh, nothing to say, folk handled things fine.
 
I don't have a problem with Ramhound. Or any issue with him. He spent a lot of time helping me the 1st 2-3 days which was about maybe two wks ago. So I don't know where you get that impression that we don't get along. Maybe its one-sided.
I wish there was private chat here.
 
We intentionally don't have that for most users
 
12:34 AM
Well just to say, and he can here this, initially he seamed frustrated and annoyed ..... only because I didn't understand exactly what he was saying or why. Before that I thought maybe he was too overly critical on a particular post. But I get over things pretty quick if not instantly and I am to old to take things personal. Yesterday was just a misunderstanding mostly on my part.
I am talking from the start two weeks ago
I personally don't get bent out of shape about anything and if I made a mistake I try to admit it. There's no need to save face in chat as I probably will never meet anyone here face to face even at some big digital geek convention.
 
12:52 AM
I am under the impression that there is no such thing as a 1TB AF drive and that AF is are only for larger 4TB drives .... and maybe 3TB possibly
Having trouble finding info on that. Can anyone confirm that assumption for me?
 
1:05 AM
@NathanOsman One of the best. SATA at least.
I have.... four?
 
Info I found state that per IDEMA that all HD manufacturers agreed to switch to advanced format drives by 2011 but on using fsultil in cmd it tells e my HD's I recently purchased all have 512 sectors.
 
That's an old green HDD. I don't want to take my drive out to see if it has a similar lable. But what does this mean? That they are really 512e (emulation) 4k dirves?
 
1:22 AM
Unless you're running an old os it shouldn't matter
 
@RichManson What's your point? I've shown there are plenty of things such as 1TB AF drives.
Heck even 500GB. Since all modern drives are AF
 
1:43 AM
I didn't know they are all AF now since I remember reading an article some time ago dated 2013 that made it sound like they were still being sold.
I just like to now how my stuff works. I am assuming again that they are 512e 4k since they report to the OS 512. My only question is what is the point of that if all OS's to handle 4k
 
Feb 14 '16 at 2:22, by bwDraco
> Advanced Format Drive. To achieve full performance:
• Windows® XP, multi partition and cloning software users – use WD Align software available on http://www.wdc.com/advformat
• Windows® XP, single partition – set jumpers 7–8 prior to installation or use WD Align SW
• All other OS configurations – drive is ready for use as is
Jan 10 at 4:19, by bwDraco
@allquixotic That's because it's damn near impossible to make a hard drive with 512n sectors that large.
 
I read that an hour ago ...... thanks :P that doean't answer my last question however.
@bwDraco Never heard of 512n ...... darn you, now I have to go read about that one.
 
2:05 AM
@RichManson Because BIOS.
 
512n is basically the legacy sector format. 512-byte physical sectors.
 
@noitsbecky BIOS what? I am in the mindset of UEFI/GPT and ws not going to even think about an XP partition. I guess my question is really ....
 
Because 512-byte sectors are positively tiny given today's multi-terabyte drives, it's a heck of a lot easier for a media defect to cause uncorrectable errors. This impedes the development of larger drives. 4K physical sectors allow for more powerful ECC, compensating for this trend. To maintain compatibility, most of these drives emulate a 512-byte sector format; however, misaligned writes or writes to parts of a sector will cause degraded performance.
 
All HDD are AF 4k but of the 1TB variety seams like they are really 512e
4TB maybe full 4k sectors
 
@RichManson No, most consumer drives (except for external drives) are 512e.
 
2:09 AM
@bwDraco I get that but even at 1TB AF drive that I have is reporting 512 secors ..... so that makes it by default a 512e
Am I crazy or am I wording things wrong
Oh that explains a lot
 
Even Seagate's 10 TB helium drives (with the exception of a few enterprise models) are 512e.
 
I have a 1TB external Seagate I purchased last year that is reporting 512 though
Maybe thats why they put it on sale
 
512e or 512n?
Are the physical sectors 4K or 512?
 
fsutil fsinfo fsntinfo is reporting 512
 
...then that's an older drive. The vast majority of hard drives on the market today are 512e.
 
2:13 AM
I guess formatting a 512e partition to 4k sectors doesn't actually change the physical drives sectors either does it. I always thought it was a matter of formating but as I read I guess I was wrong.
 
Ash got attacked by another dog :(
 
The big issue is partition alignment.
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A: What's the point of hard drives reporting their physical sector size?

bwDracoThe 512-byte emulation is intended for compatibility with older systems. However, writes involving only part of a physical 4K sector can cause reduced performance because the sector needs to be read and modified before it can actually be written. When a legacy operating system tries to write to ...

 
reduced performance is what I would like to avoid but isn't possible if all consumer HDD's are 512e
 
If your disk was initialized, partitioned, and formatted in Vista or later, then you have no problems.
@JourneymanGeek ouch :(
 
Ow :( Is ze OK?
 
2:22 AM
He's not too bad. Was scary tho.
 
2:40 AM
@noitsbecky Thanks - managed to pick one up for a decent price.
 
2:59 AM
I was getting cluster size that you can choose mixed up with sector size which must be physical only and unchangeable. I just brain farted
 
Yeah, seems ok
A boxer we know... went a bit nuts
pinned him down, tried to pick him up by the head
Owner got them seperated, brought his dog out. Bit of bleeding around the ears but nothing major. Got him home and cleaned up
 
3:26 AM
Ash the schnauzer driving the boat?
Schnauzer rule Boxers Drool!
actually they both sort of do <shrug>
 
@Ramhound mine dosen't drool
He's a bit shaken and trying to hide it
 
I know schnauzers don't drool, it was a dog joke, :$
Got any tips to keep their beard clean, my miniature is a guys guy, and his perfect beard is always stained. Our other two miniatures had were black schnauzers so their beards never got stained but our black and pepper beard is always stained :-(
 
3:42 AM
@Ramhound 2 brown lines on either side?
Ash has that. We just got used to it.
Might be a question for pets.se ;p
 
No; Just stained like if you dipped a nice clean schnauzer in a mud puddle and then only washed everything but their beard :-)
For whatever reason
 
yeah, that's normal
 
4:09 AM
Spoken like a real schnauzer owner, yeah I realize, even if I were to wash his beard the stubbornness in him, would make it dirty 5 minutes later
 
Woof
 
Roar
 
Bob
5:04 AM
floof
@JourneymanGeek ow.
 
5:49 AM
@Ramhound it isn't dirt, its character ;p
 
Bob
6:13 AM
> Neat and tidy daywear is appropriate.
gee, thanks for narrowing it down
 
puppy!
 
Bob
7:00 AM
@JourneymanGeek puppy! some nicely composed videos too
 
the slow mo string buts look unreal
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek something to do with rolling shutters iirc :P
 
yup
Blah
 
7:21 AM
Bleh
 
Bob
@Rahul2001 that's my line!
 
@Bob Seriously? My best friend and I do that all the time... If she's offline I'll leave a "blah" and she responds with a "bleh" when she comes back online :D
 
@Bob lol, I never noticed
 
Bob
technically, Diogo was first and geek soon after, but I'm probably responsible for some 80-90% of blehs in RA :P
hm, no, only about 50%
o.O
*shrug*
hm
it's so hot I think my fan's dying
 
7:29 AM
@Bob MSE stuff ;p
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek oh.
 
I'll pop it into gitter
 
@JourneymanGeek Man, I just noticed you posted an answer 11 min sooner than I did. And since it took me more than 11 minutes to write mine, it was obvious you posted while I was in the middle of writing. Grrrrrr
 
lol
the fan one?
 
Yup
 
Bob
7:42 AM
@RichManson FGITW
 
What is that?
Oh Fasted Gun In THe West
 
fastest gun in the west.
 
Ok Yeh I might just break his trigger finger :P
Well,I think mine is better Na na na na nah
<------ Thumbs are in ears and tung is sticking out
 
@JourneymanGeek Yeh that's a big problem here in the US, dogs shooting people. Well guns period
You should here Canadians. They think were all mad and crazy with all the gun violence they hear about. When they come across the border to visit the US they wear Kevlar.
 
8:13 AM
@RichManson also FWIW, my answer is entirely based on the fact that I took apart a cheap molex fan to power part of my bias lighting initially.
 
@JourneymanGeek that didn't make any sense. Sounds like your sluringyour words. You gota bear in your hand :P
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek dat cable tie
could've at least gone with self-adhesive velcro :P
think daiso has those
or adhesive magnetic strips
 
@Bob was planning on redoing it eventually
its kinda jerryrigged
 
8:32 AM
I need help from another reviewer to review this new question: superuser.com/questions/1175223/why-is-sdk-demo-not-opening about an Arduino project that uses a fingerprint scanner. The arduino tag says Questions about programming on an Arduino are off topic and should be asked on stackoverflow.com but what about a question about the Demo SDK not opening?
 
@karel hm. It's not a very good question.
Also if you were inclined to migrate... Arduino has its own site. But what is he running the SDK on? How and what is the fingerprint scanner connected to?
 
The SDK Demo looks like it's running on Windows 8.
 
 
1 hour later…
9:58 AM
vectormagic is down, does anyone know of a good online svg conversion tool?
I need to convert a gif file to an svg
 
@DavidPostill Doesn't work, turns color to b/w
 
10:48 AM
I need rep.
 
@noitsbecky for anything in particular?
 
11:05 AM
@Mokubai Not really
 
11:29 AM
> Is this a glass half empty or glass half full situation?
We're engineers, it means the glass was manufactured to the wrong specifications
 
 
1 hour later…
12:35 PM
 
@Rahul2001 Do you have a question? Or is this some kind of disguised political statement?
 
@DavidPostill It's... an ironic joke
 
Which is basically saying that well-informed people are rare... It's not meant to cause any offence
@noitsbecky I need rep too.
 
@Rahul2001 so do I >_>
 
12:48 PM
lol
 
@DavidPostill He's not kidding, he's only 6th place on the site... superuser.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=all
We need to push @JourneymanGeek up to 1st.
 
>_>
I was thinking 100K actually ;p
 
@Mokubai I know. He's been wanting to get 100K for some time :)
 
(also being entirely ironic, since I think I have the most rep of the RA chat regulars ;p)
 
@JourneymanGeek That'll happen on the way, we'll get you there.
 
12:56 PM
@Mokubai I'll get me there too.
 
He's just greedy ;p
 
lol
tbh, its the journey that's important, not the destination
No pun intended
 
We're gonna need a pretty big army of accounts to get @JourneymanGeek over 200K tho
 
duuuude, vote fraud >_> :(
lol
 
I should catch him up. I was #1 yearly rep for 2015 and 2016 ...
 
12:59 PM
Just steal bounties off of people. That should help me catch up XDXDXD
(and all y'all lots of reputation)
 
@JourneymanGeek I never mentioned fraudulent accounts. Bounties, twitter and such... what kind of unscrupulous signpost do you take me for?
@JourneymanGeek Bounty hunt the bounty hunter
 
@Mokubai ;p at least I don't need to chase a moving car target ;p
Also, spending less time on MSE drama ._.
 
Everybody above me on the all time list has at least 6 years membership - I have only nearly 3 ;p
 
@DavidPostill I've basically been trickling in reputation, outside of those bounties/HNQs anyway
 
@JourneymanGeek Seems to be entirely too much drama going on these days
 
1:04 PM
@JourneymanGeek Ditto.
 
@Mokubai well, feels like I got caught up in it somewhat ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek I've been static in reputation. Period.
 
@Rahul2001 what have you done about it?
 
@Rahul2001 You have to answer questions ...
 
ask silly ones about DVDs!
:D
 
1:06 PM
lol
 
I have an annoying number of HNQ answers lately. Good way to get rep if you can manage it, but no way the rep is deserved.
By that I mean HNQ inflates rep unnecessarily
 
@Mokubai ._.
Like what happened to aibobot ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek The heck?!?!
249
A: My cat sat on my laptop, now the right side of my keyboard types the wrong characters

AibobotThat's the standard tenkeyless Num Lock key layout found on many PCs. Turn off Num Lock - on my Lenovo, it's Fn + F10, but the combination may vary by manufacturer.

Good answer definitely, but 249?
 
@Mokubai ... I posted that on my office PC, 20 seconds before leaving my desk for lunch
@Mokubai IKR?
 
HNQ also tends to favour TFGITW
 
1:10 PM
I'm probably giving up that rep eventually
I do have a habit of posting bounties for interesting things, so I'll just use aibo for that
 
@DavidPostill That's sad... :/
 
Fair enough. I keep meaning to post bounties, but the things I find interesting I write answers for...
 
rofl
>_>
 
@Rahul2001 You could ask questions instead.
 
yeah. I once posted an answer to a year old, unanswered question cause @allquixotic mentioned the user here...
 
1:12 PM
@Mokubai That's... not so sad XD
 
@Rahul2001 Just don't ask answers or question answers. We don't like that.
 
@Rahul2001 I got (almost) all my rep from answering questions - I've only asked one question ;p
 
@Mokubai lmao
 
Is... answers ... the right word. It looks wrong. Brainfart and now it looks like a nonsense word.
 
I have 3007 answers to 120 questions
 
1:15 PM
1767 A : 1 Q
 
21 A : 22 Q
 
@JourneymanGeek its not fraud if the answers are good
 
@noitsbecky yup, but people should find answers naturally, and vote accordingly. Not "hey, geek needs rep, lets review their questions" ;p
 
I NEED REP GO REVIEW MY QUESTIONS! :P
 
1:31 PM
@JourneymanGeek what are you gonna do, ban us for it?
Mokubai included since it was his idea?
 
@noitsbecky naw, I'd just get investigated, maybe demodded, and lose a ton of rep
Nothing too bad I suppose ;p
Also, I am taking things far too seriouslu
falls over
 
i end upvoting anything that helps me, or is interesting
 
I don't ask questions generally
and I rarely answer too :/
I suck.
 
I answer lots cause I have quite a bit of free time at the moment, and sometimes stuff interests me enough to test
 
1:44 PM
-1
Q: Join twitter handles to a short list of tweets

Matthew BroadbentI've got a list of 500 twitter handles in an Excel file I've got another Excel file with 15 tweets. I want a third Excel file, with one twitter handle to the front of each message, in rotation, so that I end up with 500 tweets - one from each of the 500 twitter handles. eg Twitter Handle file wit...

Is this someone asking for help with soem kind of spambot?
 
Kinda feels like it
 
I've never asked a question I don't think.
I'm too impatient.
 
I think my last question was a self answer ;p
ah no
it was something on chat @Bob figured out
 
"I've never asked a question" on SU that is correct.

"I don't think" - I'm not sure about this bit - you could be right ;P
 
Bob
1:51 PM
@JourneymanGeek ?
oh.
 
actually, a good chunk of on topic things I bitch about here end up as questions eventually ;p
 
@DavidPostill Double negatives!
@JourneymanGeek superuser.com/questions/699278/… Why did you require this? Just curious
 
@Rahul2001 >_>
Its one of those things I'd rather not talk about on open chat ;p
lets just say it involved a ton of family drama
 
0_0
 
@Rahul2001 the comments cover all you need to know
 
2:05 PM
uh huh
 
@JourneymanGeek Did you ever choose an answer and "do it"? ;p
 
@DavidPostill Funny thing that...
but no
My personal ethics did not allow me to
Jan 9 '14 at 16:12, by Journeyman Geek
anyone wants some free rep?
This has happened at least twice >_>
 
@JourneymanGeek Why has this not happened anytime while I was online?
 
lol
The other time I had a bounty
then found the answer myself
 
PSA: Next time that you have free rep to give away, ping @Rahul2001, he could do with some
 
2:12 PM
Apr 6 '13 at 2:11, by Journeyman Geek
http://superuser.com/questions/569683/kinect-pictures-come-out-broken-blotchy - the link I posted has more of the details, but in effect, the PC kinect is designed to handle shorter distances from the user than the xbox kinect. The simple solution is to move back or to switch to the PC version of the kinect
@Rahul2001 if it happens again, I'd probably just drop it in here, and let whoever's fastest get it ;p
@Rahul2001 that involves answering questions though
which you can do anyway ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek then my ratio will be 22:22
 
@Rahul2001 answer something every week
In a year you'll be at 74:XX!
 
Lol, ok, I'll try
How can I remap function keys while ensuring that they retain their original functions?
As in, I want F4 to mute volume, but ALT+F4 to still close applications...
 
2:32 PM
I thought those were independant of each other
 
Nope, doesn't work for me after I remap
 
yeah
that should just work
alt f4 is a completely different key code
 
remap using what?
 
Bob
alt f4 isn't a different code... alt is just a modifier
 
2:35 PM
erm
 
Bob
scancodes apply to individual keys
 
I think the tool of choice should be AHK?
 
Bob
(with maybe the exception of fn)
@JourneymanGeek I'd call it "nasty but necessary"
also any key interceptions involving modifiers tend to be iffy
 
@Bob If I needed to do nasty...
I have a standalone keypad or two... ;p
and I think there's tools that can actually set macros per arbitrary keyboard
(also, my macro keys. )
 
I'm just going to ask a question on the main site
 
Bob
2:46 PM
@JourneymanGeek ya, there's a low level api that provides device id on keypress
 
that's a good idea
@Bob tom scott's emoji keyboard used luamacros for that I think ;p
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek eh. ahk would work for the general case. until you realise that fiddling with modifiers has a billion edge cases dealing with when each keydown happens, etc
@Rahul2001 search first. probably a dozen dupes. all providing the simple answer without even considering odd cases.
@JourneymanGeek which uses said api
 
yup ;p
but that's what made me think of it
and I'm tired
roomie had a terrible day and needed a LOT of carrying
he got attacked by a dog, ants...
 
The guy reviews lightning cable:

"But the charging speed leaves a bit to be desired. It takes well over an hour to charge my iPhone 7 from 0 to a 50% level. So again great to use bedside so it's not overcharging your phone for 7 hours or more while you sleep each night. But if you use it with the expectation of rapid charging, you are going to be dissappointed."
The length of cable does not determine the charge, right?
 
Bob
@Boris_yo "so it's not overcharging your phone for 7 hours or more while you sleep each night" -- whoever wrote that is absolutely clueless and has no idea how charging works
"overcharging" only happens with old and/or crappy timer-based chargers, and never for Li-ion
you know what an overcharged Li-ion battery is? a bomb.
@JourneymanGeek :D
 
4:12 PM
@Bob wait, so I can bomb my school with a couple of batteries? This needs looking into...
 
HI NSA!
(kids, terrorism is not cool)
 
Lmao
 
does india have an NSA equivalent?
 
I'm in India... Not sure if trump exactly loves us for "stealing" all the jobs
 
@Rahul2001 I don't blame the workers
they're exploited
 
4:16 PM
@Burgi we tend to have just one or two security agencies none of which are technologically apt
 
@Burgi I think actually the CBI or RAW would be more topically correct
 
like GCHQ?
 
CBI's a federal police organisation
RAW"s intelligence
 
4:35 PM
omg my ankles hurt :/
 
3
Q: Can one Molex power cable power a 12v fan and one IDE hard?

user694000My set up has only one Molex cable which is hooked into a 12v fan which is workning fine but now I want to plug in one IDE hard to the machine. Can one Molex power cable power a 12v fan and one IDE hard?

HNQed it seems
 
haaaarrrrddddddd
 
not sure how >_>
 
@JourneymanGeek Yep.
 
@DavidPostill userscript?
 
4:37 PM
@JourneymanGeek SOX
 
seems handy. I just saw it on a sidebar
ah
 
Lots of other handy stuff in SOX ;p
 
4:50 PM
0
Q: How can I remap function keys while ensuring that they retain their original functions?

Rahul2001I would like to remap certain keys but ensure that they still retain their original functions with modifiers. For example, I want to remap F4 to mute, but I want ALT+F4 to still close applications. Is this possible? I am currently using KeyTweak, but after remapping F4 to mute, even ALT+F4 just...

 
I just found a 128 MB USB key. Been trying 5 minutes to figure out why my partitioning tools show fucked up information. Turns out, no, the key is actually that old
 
@OliverSalzburg lol
 
The other one in the same box was 1 GB! And it even had treasure on it
 
@OliverSalzburg My first flash drive was 2GB. I'm young, folks...
 
:D
I think this key is fucked
 
4:56 PM
My first USB flash drive was a 2 GB Memorex. I don't think I still have it...
 
Zalgo has your files now.
 
@bwDraco Is it live, or is it memorex?
D:
My first 'mp3 player' was 16Mb
It was litterally a usb stick, with a headphone port added
so odd.
 
Back in the day, it was part of my job to put like PowerPoint presentations of hundreds of USB keys. Those were given out at events
 
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