Root Access

Journeyman Geek

14:00

@OliverSalzburg sigh

the universe has conspired, and I still have these little logitechs I bought as temporary speakers ;p

Oliver Salzburg

Didn't you get other ones you liked even better though?

Oh!

Journeyman Geek

Total complete lack of availability here, bought... 2 laptops, 2 monitors a video card and a SSD...

;p

also lost my job after most of those

Oliver Salzburg

:(

Journeyman Geek

I just use headphones for "audiophile" listening

Mokubai

@JourneymanGeek tee hee "phile" ...

Oliver Salzburg

14:03

Wait

Journeyman Geek

Well, Even finnier cause I was watching youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKQmBWTRnw

Oliver Salzburg

Is the reason that I can't find the transparency setting for images in PowerPoint, because it doesn't exist?

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg this seems plausible

Oliver Salzburg

So I can render it in all kinds of weird filtered ways, rotate, scale, move, transition, but no transparency?

This is normal

Mokubai

I'm sure I've used it before... isn't there some stupid option hidden near the "compress images" button? I can't find out as the machine that had Office got nuke this morning...

Oliver Salzburg

14:07

@Mokubai Yeah, I feel like I used it before

But then I caught myself messing with the transparency of the shadow for a minute :P

Mokubai

Rather than a colour palette selector it's a "pick the colour in your image" type thing

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg Make a picture transparent

Oliver Salzburg

A fill!

@DavidPostill Thanks

Mokubai

@OliverSalzburg "Set Tranparent Color" (sic), at the bottom:

Oliver Salzburg

@Mokubai Oh!

Mokubai

14:12

That's the one I remember

Oliver Salzburg

One would think they put it in the huge "Format Picture" sidebar

It's probably there and I keep missing it :P

user226528

Speaking of hidden PowerPoint settings, not long ago, I learned to access them by unpacking .pptx files with 7-Zip and modifying the XML files in them.

user226528

For example, PowerPoint does not allow you to adjust the paragraph's right margin.

user226528

But all PowerPoint files created by Adobe Acrobat have them.

Journeyman Geek

assuming you know what to change, and the tag existed

Oliver Salzburg

14:25

@FleetCommand Neat

user226528

@OliverSalzburg And difficult. But yeah.

user226528

@JourneymanGeek Oh, since I wanted to remove the right margin, it was plain sailing. I hope I never have to plunge through ECMA Open XML documentation.

Journeyman Geek

ya ;p

djsmiley2k

hooodor

Mokubai

14:42

When in the hell did we start doing AAAA batteries?

DavidPostill

@Mokubai They are included in ANSI C18.1M, Part 1-2001

Mokubai

@DavidPostill The voice of reason as ever :)

DavidPostill

:)

djsmiley2k

how small are they o_O

DavidPostill

AAAA battery

The AAAA battery (usually read as quadruple-A) is 42.5 mm long and 8.3 mm in diameter. The alkaline cell weighs around 6.5 g and produces 1.5 V. This size battery is also classified as R8D425 (IEC) and 25 (ANSI/NEDA). The alkaline battery in this size is also known by Duracell type number MN2500 or MX2500 and Energizer type number E96. == Uses == This battery size is most often used in small devices such as laser pointers, LED penlights, powered computer styluses, glucose meters, and small headphone amplifiers. These batteries are not as popular as AAA or AA type batteries, and consequently are...

Why am I the only person here using google to answer stupid questions? :)

Rahul2001

14:56

!!s/to answer stupid questions? :)/

ChatBot John Cavil

@Rahul2001 That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

Rahul2001

:(

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill cause I google my stupid questions myself.

DavidPostill

lol

user226528

!!/help

ChatBot John Cavil

15:00

@FleetCommand Information on interacting with me can be found at this page

Journeyman Geek

Robert Rodriguez 10 Minute Cooking School: Volcano Cookies

►

this is rather cute

Rahul2001

15:51

Hm, any opinions on Movable Type?

@Burgi

Ben N

@Rahul2001 Jeff Atwood seems to like it

Rahul2001

@BenN Nice, but a lot appears to have changed since 2009. Will give it a try though, daringfireball.net also uses it

Installation Error :(

That Brazilian Guy

The most practical way of sharing a screenshot:

Rahul2001

@ThatBrazilianGuy What on earth...

jokerdino

16:06

alias google = @DavidPostill

That Brazilian Guy

@Rahul2001 Advanced cooling!

Mokubai

16:28

Is it a bad thing that MS Edge actually feels... usable...

Ben N

Nothing wrong with enjoying an MS browser :)

Mokubai

Heck, it even has a tampermonkey extension and Adblock. It's almost good.

@BenN It feels wrong.

Like Marmite

That Brazilian Guy

@Mokubai You can ~~like~~ stand Edge, don't worry, MS injecting adverts on their file browser hugely overshadows any redeeming qualities their web browser might have ;)

Mokubai

16:46

@ThatBrazilianGuy I saw something along those lines a while ago, can't remember what it was for now...

Ben N

I got one for a bigger OneDrive plan when I went to my OneDrive folder

That Brazilian Guy

@Mokubai Microsoft now puts ads in Windows 10 File Explorer, because of course (extremetech.com)

Ben N

I know you can disable the ads on the login screen with some switch in Settings; might that apply to this too?

That Brazilian Guy

I wasn't aware, because (1) I use Windows 8.1 and (2) only for steam...

Ben N

I can't load that page because I'm still getting insane outbound packet loss :/

That Brazilian Guy

16:49

Oh yeah, there's also ads on the login screen and popups when you open $not-Edge...

Ben N

Fortunately the Edge ads can also be switched off

That Brazilian Guy

Yeah, just some easy-to-find, intuitive setting!

Mokubai

@ThatBrazilianGuy I know if you search Firefox in Edge you get an advert saying "But we're not slow anymore, and we've got extensions... Please use us..."

Ben N

Also, the inconsistency of capitalization in the OneDrive ad buttons bothers me :p

That Brazilian Guy

@Mokubai Google does in in a non-inrusive way. You open google.com on a non-chrome browser, they show you a small chrome logo on the upper right corner. Once. (IIRC).

Ben N

16:54

Hmm, I wonder if the "Turn off all Windows spotlight features" GP setting would hit all of these ads

Hennes

17:22

@ThatBrazilianGuy That is why we have regedit. Just a single doubleclick on a fix_this.reg file and no need to browse to hidden menu settings.

HackToHell

Reminder: UP's population is 2/3rd of entire US population. (Also: Mumbai is HALF of Canada.)

Tweeted by nileshtrivedi on March 11, 2017 at 4:46 AM

This blows my mind

jokerdino

17:36

@HackToHell we need to do more.

Mokubai

@jokerdino What, more breeding? I'm not sure that's a viable solution to overpopulation....

Rahul2001

Ben N

Edge doesn't support all IE features

Some old corporate Intranet web sites might need IE to work right

Mokubai

!!s/IE to work right/to be set on fire/

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ChatBot John Cavil

@Mokubai Some old corporate Intranet web sites might need to be set on fire (source)

jokerdino

17:40

@Mokubai But how else will India be number one?

Mokubai

@jokerdino Uhhh, you're not to far off, no need to push it...

jokerdino

Sorry, it's our unofficial national sport.

Rahul2001

lmao

bwDraco

@Mokubai Many legacy corporate Web applications are designed with the assumption that IE is the only browser used to access them (to reduce development and support costs).

The fact is, most corporate IT departments are already overburdened in trying to support their employees.

Oct 4 '16 at 22:20, by bwDraco

Moving to a new browser could, in some cases, require a total rewrite of entire web applications, with all the costs that doing so entails.

Mokubai

17:55

@bwDraco And? That doesn't mean that they don't need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century. Most of the sites I've seen are designed for IE6 FFS.

@bwDraco I know this. I'm well aware of how much work it is to support a burgeoning system. I'm also well aware of how much more it costs every year you ignore the problem.

Small updates every now and then can help mitigate this sort of problem and ignoring the problem just makes it worse when you finally do do major front-end changes (like an update to Win10) which mean that that crufty old nonsense you mandated 15+ years ago is suddenly gone

bwDraco

18:12

Yeah. Legacy systems are a pain in the butt. The real problem is how do you redesign the system without breaking things? It's not necessarily a matter of cost.

It's a matter of business continuity.

Mokubai

Then that needs to be addressed. But carrying on just saying "IE6 only" is the pinnacle of stupidity. It's not the IT guys fault that's what they're stuck with, but eventually someone's got to get on and replace the crufty rubbish.

Burgi

18:36

@Rahul2001 hmm?

Mokubai

The screen on the Surface Pro 4 is fantastic

bwDraco

18:58

wccftech.com/geforce-dx12-game-ready-drivers-quick-performance

...and I will go through another round of AotS benchmarks.

DavidPostill

I presume this is a side effect of the SE https changes but now SE pages are refreshing as they should when messages are received, new questions added, or new answers added. This was broken before when using httpseverywhere.

bwDraco

19:22

...yuck. Performance has actually regressed.

(blue is old, orange is new; lower is better)

Tellingly, the number and severity of large frame time spikes has increased.

Oddly, towards the end, frame delivery is more stable as evidenced by the narrower frame time band.

(@allquixotic)

Old driver 378.66; new driver 378.78.

Blah. NVIDIA does not want to optimize for Kepler any more.

bwDraco

19:47

Huh?

allquixotic

@bwDraco ah... so the 9% increase might only be for Polaris, or Maxwell and Polaris

bwDraco

!! s/Polaris/Pascal/g

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco @bwDraco ah... so the 9% increase might only be for Pascal, or Maxwell and Polaris (source)

@bwDraco @bwDraco ah... so the 9% increase might only be for Pascal, or Maxwell and Pascal (source)

bwDraco

20:24

...and after giving substantial thought to the choice of platform, I think I'm going with AMD, by reason of the fact that AM4 is going to last longer than Z270.

It will be slower for gaming, but the difference in single-threaded performance between the Ryzen 7 1800X and this laptop is minuscule.

Multithreaded workloads, on the other hand...

Hopefully, this SMT performance issue will be fixed soon.

tomshardware.com/news/…

Interesting. Kinesis, the makers of the original ergonomic keyboard, has decided to break into the gaming market.

Fun fact: The Cherry MX Brown key switch was originally designed for the Kinesis Advantage.

(my mechanical keyboard uses Brown key switches)

(@JourneymanGeek, see above)

tereško

20:45

evenin

bwDraco

roar

tereško

any recommendation for windows-only SSH client?

somthing that isn't putty

because it doesnt really play well with proper keys

djsmiley2k

define 'proper keys' plz

because putty behaves proeprly afaik

tereško

you have to use a tool to transform a private key in a ppk file for putty

Run5k

@DavidPostill, IIRC you previously mentioned problems seeing Super User pages refreshing. While the SSL migration may have an impact, during the five months since I joined SE I have been using Firefox with only one extension (Adblock Plus), I manually navigate through both the http and https pages, and I have always seen "pages refreshing as they should when messages are received, new questions added, or new answers added." Perhaps there was something else unusual regarding your configuration?

djsmiley2k

20:49

right

bwDraco

(speaking of which, just updated PuTTY to 0.68 x64)

tereško

also, I think there still is no support for ed25519

bwDraco

@tereško Actually, I have Ed25519 keys and they work.

tereško

then they have made some changes in past 6 months

DavidPostill

@Run5k I know what it was - "This was broken before when using httpseverywhere." as I said in my comment.

djsmiley2k

20:50

...... :D

bwDraco

Just be sure you're running the latest version of PuTTY. The last major release was less than three weeks ago.

djsmiley2k

PuTTY-User-Key-File-2: ssh-rsa
Encryption: none
Comment: created on asuspea
Public-Lines: 4
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAlLelb

you realise the ppk file is just plain text ... right?

tereško

it has some shit comments at the start and end

also, who the hell uses RSA

Run5k

@DavidPostill, I missed that part... my apologies. I am glad to hear that the problem was alleviated during the big SSL migration!

djsmiley2k

////

ah so now we've got to personal insults?

I was attempting to help you

but never mind, you have fun

and you're using windows

copy and pasting a key into a window is too hard?

bwDraco

22:06

brb

That Brazilian Guy

@HackToHell A grumpy old man, a little boy, a dog and a dodo are 2/3rd of the US population?

DavidPostill

23:12

What's that site where people post stupid/funny SE question/answers?

Ah. Found it.

That Brazilian Guy

@Mokubai waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

size of china... size of india.... almost the same population

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy Bit of a difference between Indian and Chinese trains :)

Journeyman Geek

@tereško moba xterm

That Brazilian Guy

@DavidPostill Are chinese trains made in China?

Last month there was a (really small) celebration of the chinese new year in my neighborhood

It was just a stage with a few minor politicians and people from the chinese community

It was small and looked poorly made, like a small college fair or something

And in the middle of a dance and sing show the audio stopped working... twice.

DavidPostill

23:28

> China's early high-speed trains were imported or built under technology transfer agreements with foreign train-makers including Alstom, Siemens, Bombardier and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Since the initial technological support, Chinese engineers have re-designed internal train components and built indigenous trains manufactured by the CRRC Corporation.

That Brazilian Guy

Meanwhile, the chinese new year in São Paulo is much more impressive, there's a big parade and stuff

But then, the japanese and chinese community is SP is huge, amidst the biggest outside of their countries IIRC

Brazilian McDonald's in São Paulo ----^

Brazilian bank in SP

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy BR is way down the list (#20). Thailand is top.

Overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese (traditional Chinese: 海外華人; simplified Chinese: 海外华人; pinyin: Hǎiwài Huárén) are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside the People's Republic of China (the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau) and Republic of China (Taiwan). People of partial Chinese ancestry living outside the Greater China Area may also consider themselves overseas Chinese. Overseas Chinese can be of the Han Chinese ethnic majority, or from any of the other ethnic groups in China. == Terminology == The Chinese language has various terms equivalent to the English "Overseas Chinese" which refers to Chinese...

See the table on the right hand side of the page.

Bob

23:49

@bwDraco holy wtf is going on in the comment section there

@bwDraco eh, doesn't 'lasting longer' only apply if you plan to upgrade the CPU soon?

which'll still cost a lot if you start with a high end one

otoh at least you have that option open

I've actually found myself wanting to upgrade the motherboard more than the CPU; the latter was a side effect of the former.

dunno how AMD deals with tech changes during the lifecycle of their chipsets

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek M-Audio situation seems to have resolved itself. For now

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg \o/

@ThatBrazilianGuy and there's brazillian daisos ;p

Oliver Salzburg

I just realized that I still had them cranked to 100%. So I turned them back to normal and everything is as always

Journeyman Geek

o0

Oliver Salzburg

I had already forgotten about the problem actually :P

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