Root Access

Bob

00:00

@JourneymanGeek ...you don't have a hat

Journeyman Geek

Am so totally rocking a hat. It's a modly hat...

Bob

Huh, I thought you already ate that one :P

Journeyman Geek

00:11

Naw. That is the santa hat

@bwDraco I also like em as a backup

bwDraco

So, your thoughts on Ryzen 3?

I think they'll work well for entry-level gaming desktops.

Bob

Eh. Depends. It's still a rec for many games (especially the competitive Source-based ones) to go for single-thread perf wherever possible. One of the Pentiums was recommended for quite a while for overclocking potential.

bwDraco

Off-the-cuff Ryzen 3 1300X build:

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8fyhcc
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8fyhcc/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1300X 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($140.45 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI - B350M GAMING PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($71.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($85.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($104.75 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB SC GAMING ACX 2.0 Video Card ($158.98 @ Newegg)

$800 basic gaming PC for eSports and light AAA gaming.

(less than $700 if you exclude the Windows license)

Good quality parts selected, nothing truly bottom-bin. 80 PLUS Gold PSU, 8 GB of fast DDR4 RAM, proven Samsung SSD.

CPU cooled using the stock Wraith Stealth thermal solution.

I kinda think storage is the weakest link in this build, with only 250 GB.

Just a thought.

Journeyman Geek

00:32

Eh. Just throw in a cheap 1tb spinning rust drive

I've found 250gb is enough for an os drive and splitting/tiering storage is handy when you back up

bwDraco

00:44

There's not an awful lot of room to cost-optimize this build...

Swapped out SSD and case to save a few dollars, then added a recent-model 1 TB 7k rpm hard drive:

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xWBCXH
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xWBCXH/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1300X 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($140.45 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI - B350M GAMING PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($71.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($85.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial - MX300 275GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.98 @ Amazon)

on a build like this, even 25 GB of extra SSD storage can make a difference. Micron exploits the high storage density of IMFT 3D TLC NAND to add a bit more capacity, and the MX300 is generally considered to be a good performer.

The whole system is also smaller.

Rahul2001

01:31

Another English exam today...

Journeyman Geek

01:47

heh. tbh, that looks remarkably like how I'd build a NAS. Assuming I didn't get an off the shelf one.

bwDraco

04:02

Three years back... seekingalpha.com/article/2099473-amd-looks-finished (registration required for full access)

> AMD appears terminal.

Feb 27 '16 at 17:30, by bwDraco

AMD has virtually no place in the market, and it's not even clear if AMD's strategy of betting the farm and spending every last dollar it has on R&D of next-gen tech will actually pay off.

XKCD

This restaurant is great! I was feeling really sick, but then I ate there and felt better!

Bob

04:36

@JourneymanGeek we have a bunch of minosos now :S

where'd that happen

djsmiley2k

05:49

/me looks in

djsmiley2k

06:07

/me vibrates quietly in the corner

Bob

06:28

*pokes @djsmiley2k's corner*

djsmiley2k

:O

Bob

> The Archive does not generally use tape technology, having run into the classic "whoops, no tape drive on earth reads these any more" and "whoops, this tape no longer works properly".

archiveteam's wiki is hilarious

djsmiley2k

=)

we aim to please?

Bob

@djsmiley2k heh, you part of em?

djsmiley2k

from almost the very start

Now I do very little

as no free time and no spare b/w

The soundcloud stuff is... :/

I'm guessing that's how come you're reading it now

Bob

06:35

@djsmiley2k actually, no. what's the soundcloud stuff? o.O

I first heard of them over the twitch.tv vod stuff, wanted to get involved but didn't have time

djsmiley2k

we/they started archiving soundcloud, because shutting down.

oh, twitch was fun

Bob

now... looking at it again

@djsmiley2k wait what

djsmiley2k

posterious or whatever it was, was better

well now it's 'not shutting down, within 80 days'

so... maybe 90 days? :D

The funny bit is the strissland effect has happened

soundcloud asked us to stop, because uncertainties surrounding copyright on the stuff on there, or something

so instead, a group of redditors started grabbing it all...

Bob

lol

@djsmiley2k My main concern with helping is, well, I don't really have a consumer/residential IP to do it from.

Plenty of server IPs but some sites block those

djsmiley2k

that's fine

we have blockdetection stuff, if you're blocked, you won't screw anything up

it will just not archive.

we provide a vbox vm to run, or you can run the scripts manually yourself

If you happen to have lots (Multi-TB) of space spare, we can use you too as a dump for content

Bob

07:08

@djsmiley2k Heh. I have lots of spare space (~20 TB) ... on the poor connection.

djsmiley2k

thay maybe ok if you can let them borrow some.

Bob

The good connections only have 10 GB - 200 GB - 2 TB space.

djsmiley2k

it all depends what projects on going at the time

Bob

I'm not donating space out of that 20 TB, cause it'd absolutely kill the connection it's on :\

djsmiley2k

k

Bob

07:15

> Dropbox for Business Advanced is currently billed at $20 per user per month, with a minimum of 3 users, for "as much as you need" storage. They'll probably get cranky as we near 50/100TB though.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob lol

Bob

> Note: New nodes are not being accepted right now. (as of July 2016)

:( @djsmiley2k

djsmiley2k

@Bob why :(?

Oh, because you can't sign up for dropbox business?

Seth

Because "as much as you need" usually is not expected to be 50-100 TB.

djsmiley2k

I'm wary of clickign the link in superuser.com/questions/1235316/…

Seth

07:24

You could ask Microsoft about that.

@djsmiley2k looks like a normal cPanel page, though images are data:

Bob

@djsmiley2k because archivebot isn't accepting new nodes

djsmiley2k

for... anything?!

/me will have to check what's going on tonight via the IRC

Bob

@djsmiley2k idk, just what the wiki says!

archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot

djsmiley2k

@Bob hmmm the wiki is a little off sometimes

Oh right, Archivebot

yeah, that's an IRC controlled bot that does crawls on demand

You want to run a vm?

Bob

@djsmiley2k I'm not entirely sure what I want to do right now :P

djsmiley2k

07:32

Search for archiveteam warrior

Bob

reading up on ... stuff

@djsmiley2k oh, as for why...

oracle.

djsmiley2k

@Bob part of the problem is education

you're helping, by learning :D

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k It's clean

djsmiley2k

@DavidPostill I didn't even think about that.

Seth

They can also scan URLs? Hmm really didn't know about that.

DavidPostill

07:38

@Seth Yep. Useful :)

djsmiley2k

ok

that windows XP end of support post... what?

and it's gone

Burgi

morning

DavidPostill

'lo

djsmiley2k

sup

Burgi

@DavidPostill no but i was stuck in the traffic caused by the police cordon

djsmiley2k

07:50

ah

was gonna say last night, it say the incident was at like 13:30?

Burgi

i think they caught him at about 5pm

djsmiley2k

urgh

Burgi

what gets me is that he stole the crossbow from a shop

what sort of shop stocks fracking crossbows?

djsmiley2k

tech.slashdot.org/story/17/07/27/216225/…

cc @Bob @ThatREDACTEDGuy @Boris_yo

can't remember which of you were discussing youtube red and google music with me lately ;D

Seth

A sports good shop or something maybe?

djsmiley2k

07:55

@Burgi archeryworld.co.uk/about-us

This one? XD

Burgi

i don't think we have those here

@djsmiley2k i think i read somewhere that google has "secretly" launched a 3rd mobile OS

> Archery World, Airfield Approach, Moor Lane

are they trying to shoot down the planes with arrows?

Seth

Depending on the bow that would probably be possible.

And depending on the plane ...

Burgi

oooh they are nextdoor to the cartmel sticky toffee pudding factory

@Seth i can't see any on the runways...

goo.gl/maps/A35vKsYQdiu

Seth

Having a contest between archers and drone pilots could be fun. How long can your drone evade the arrows? Though, thinking about the drone taken down by spear video probably means it would be a rather short contest.

Burgi

he looked quite pissed off

Bob

08:03

@djsmiley2k neither can I :P

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi sports shops? Now if it was a longbow...

Burgi

we don't have american style "sports" shops in the uk

Seth

You probably have some kind of "this is stuff for people that hunt" kind of shop and cross bows are generally not handled like firearms.

Burgi

they tazered the guy

and they had police with machine guns chasing him....

i have to admit the bit when he got zapped in the video made me laugh

djsmiley2k

08:28

@Burgi I bet the americansa were like 'shoot him, shooot him!!!'

Seth

08:38

Would they really say that? Wouldn't it "Why wasn't he shot yet?" be more likely?

Could someone finally make Intel announce Coffee Lake please? :/

Oliver Salzburg

How do you "fix" broken references on Wikipedia. Like, can you just flag a broken link or something?

Seth

Replace it with a working reference if it's available? Otherwise maybe mention it on the discussion page. That would be my approach.

Oliver Salzburg

The link-rot on Wikipedia is extensive

Whenever I click a reference, there is decay

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi fuchia

Seth

That's the web for you since there SEO became a thing or something. The advantage of book references. Those usually remain the same - if you're able to get your hands on the book.

Burgi

08:52

ask @FleetCommand, he is a regular top wiki editor

djsmiley2k

@OliverSalzburg link to archive.org version?

:/

@Seth so..... basically the same then?

Oliver Salzburg

@djsmiley2k Meh. I wanted to offload the actual work to someone else :P Now I fixed the ref

djsmiley2k

not able to access the website, is pretty much the same as not able to access the book

@OliverSalzburg hmmmm :D

Oliver Salzburg

And the quote...

djsmiley2k

@OliverSalzburg and the whole dang page?

Oliver Salzburg

08:54

@djsmiley2k Not yet :D

djsmiley2k

:D

what's it on, anything good?

Oliver Salzburg

It's MS MVP page

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional

According to Microsoft, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award is given to "technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community." The awarded are people who "actively share their ... technical expertise with the different technology communities related directly or indirectly to Microsoft". An MVP is awarded for contributions over the previous year. The MVP program grew out of the software developer community, as the initial MVPs were some of the most active on the online peer support communities such as Usenet and CompuServe. It has since grown to include other...

Seth

Yes @djsmiley2k but books usually have a longer lifetime than web pages (depending on the kind of page). Oh and I certainly feel like that since SEO became a thing that pages break more often. Especially if they strip IDs from their URLs and instead rely on e.g. the title of a blog article for access.

djsmiley2k

yeah, that stuff sucks

but... books lasting longer.

true, but also can be far harder to access.

and index

Seth

Reminds of the Google Digitization project and the data that has been generated by it that might still be kept somewhere.

djsmiley2k

09:04

it is kept somewhere

google book search

Seth

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/…

Which is way different from the original intent

djsmiley2k

@Seth This is basically what powers Jason Scott.

the fact people who appently work for educating.... (libarians etc) would do something like this.

I wonder if someone, some day, will do the google leak project

where this kind of info just.... leaks out

I'm sure Sergy and Brin would be approving...

sadly not so much shareholders.

Seth

Oh~ textfiles.com, yeha really cool project as well.

djsmiley2k

@Seth Glorious leader of Archiveteam

Seth

Sounds like the Opening of the (not quite so bad) TRON 2.0

Sorry I'm not that invested in Archive though I really, really appreciate their work.

user2284570

10:06

Hello, does anyone has an idea for this one month old question with an open bounty and no answers nor comments?

0

Q: Getting openal audio on nvidia hdmi directly without pulseaudio

I want to get programs that use openal to send sound over the hdmi output of my nvidia card by using alsa libraries directly. Here’s my configuration : root@localhost /root % cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH HDA Intel PCH...

Seth

10:26

Sorry, not my field of expertise.

Well ... assuming I have one.

Oliver Salzburg

Now that's a specific question

Rahul2001

Hello

Exam was goooooood

@Seth that place is amazing

Seth

You mean textfiles? Yeha.

Or, if you meant Archive, yeha, they're awesome as well. :D

Rahul2001

@djsmiley2k Sergey and Brin are the same guy ;P

djsmiley2k

10:49

oh yeah

:D

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 He meant Sergey and Larry :)

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill lol, I know

djsmiley2k

yah I did, ty

Was directly quoting something :D

superuser.com/a/1235362/38001 << direct nuke on this plz, don't click.

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Eeeeew. It's gone.

I hope you weren't too traumatised.

djsmiley2k

I'm at work, fortunately I was already wariy as it seemed a odd way to link a image as an answer.

I've seen worse.

DavidPostill

11:06

I'm trying to find out if there is a policy for nuking those kinds of images ...

djsmiley2k

'instant and utter nukage' ?

Hahahahahahahaha

that moment someone comments on my answer saying 'that's not what they asked'

and the asker immediately comments on the question, refining it to what I've answered.

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Oh, dear our obscene poster is back (and really doesn't like you).

djsmiley2k

wow someone hates me :D

##winning

I Am A Bot

11:21

@djsmiley2k That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

djsmiley2k

@IAmABot No

Journeyman Geek

whoo

And, I have this now amazon.com/dp/B00S3G12E6

djsmiley2k

I prefer software encryption, but nice.

Michael Frank

11:46

@djsmiley2k It's a multi-ISO usb drive.

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Now that says "Hacker" to every non-technical person

Journeyman Geek

multi ISO and boots VHDs natively

djsmiley2k

@MichaelFrank ooo

now that's funky

Journeyman Geek

yup

Rahul2001

12:07

Pakistan's prime minister disqualified: en.dailypakistan.com.pk/headline/…

Journeyman Geek

so.. they are sans sharif?

3

djsmiley2k

lol @DavidPostill reckon that question is going to go HNQ from the sheer amount of comments? XD

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Unlikely. I think it takes multiple upvotes to go HNQ.

djsmiley2k

yah

sadly

ah well, it's fun to see Kali Linux users attempting to be clever

while not actually having a clue

even the questioner can tell xD

djsmiley2k

12:30

I don't even...

Good job, djsmiley2k. But I don't have access to this computer. I can't create bash script on these computers and add it to the cron. I only can work with info that remains in the system tables or system cache of OS Fedora. — Oleg Gopkolov 9 mins ago

I write the most beautiful answers and this is what I get.

'I can read memory of the machine, but I can't save a script to it' -- really, get real

IPS site is just all 'How do I not hurt feelings...'

lol, pffft.

In reality all the questions are: 'How do I communicate effectively', which sadly lots of people can't do, and won't learn from a website.

Journeyman Geek

12:48

I personally don't get the IPS site ;p

djsmiley2k

You hurt my feelings :()

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Be grateful he didn't hurt your ankles :)

djsmiley2k

:D

That Moment when you start asking yourself if maybe your providing help to the KGB...

...

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k there's some things in life that don't quite fit well in a QA format IMO

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek such as life, indeed

Journeyman Geek

13:02

As is workplace and IPS is basically workplace without the work

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Huh. The answer to that is proven to be 42 :)

@JourneymanGeek Subjective vs Objective. And very little scope for providing citations/references :)

Journeyman Geek

yup

djsmiley2k

I can sense that IPS will get very very few accepted answers

as no one wants to hear 'nope'

Journeyman Geek

pretty much

user2284570

ok pulseaudio is acceptable but pavucontrol complains the cable isn’t plugged.

2

Q: Getting openal audio on nvidia hdmi

I want to get programs that use openal to send sound over the hdmi output of my nvidia card by using alsa libraries directly. Here’s my configuration : root@localhost /root % cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH HDA Intel PCH...

linux debian hdmi nvidia-geforce alsa

Journeyman Geek

13:12

and?

(as I remind people, randomly tossing in your questions here for attention is not really good chat etiquitte)

user2284570

@JourneymanGeek it makes pulseaudio answers acceptable.

Burgi

@djsmiley2k what was the image of?

djsmiley2k

I'm not even sure, I closed it too fast lol

DavidPostill

@Burgi A montage of pron and worse.

Burgi

13:47

pr0n and worse...

sounds like a bad punk band

Rahul2001

Okay I'm pissed

I went on the terrace to see the sunset

Now my mum is very mad

Bob

hm. my pc is making a funny buzzing noise

DavidPostill

@Bob Is there a flying fox inside? ;)

Bob

14:05

probably not

satibel

14:20

hello beautiful people.

Rahul2001

@satibel 💜💙

satibel

how are you doing @Rahul2001?

Bob

@DavidPostill I wonder how you find all these links :P

DavidPostill

@Bob Google-fu :)

satibel

@JourneymanGeek I have the non encrypted version, it's great, one of the best purchases I made.

Rahul2001

14:28

@satibel goody

DavidPostill

@Bob Feel free to include them in your answer and I will delete my comments.

Bob

@DavidPostill no need to delete :P

DavidPostill

@Bob Too late - no longer needed is the new comment flag :)

Bob

o.O

DavidPostill

For your amusement:

-1

A: What should be the Aviation.SE consensus on spam posts?

I disagree with flagging first. I understand that the polite, constructive, ethical, academic and honourable procedure is to message author first, requesting whatever improvements/changes one believes should be applied to post. Only after giving the author sufficient time to state her case and/...

Read the whole thing for maximum ROTFLMAO :)

Bob

14:34

@DavidPostill I was kinda on board for the first two paragraphs. Then... he kinda went off the rails :\

@Federico You demonstrate a rare inability to comprehend the written language and a propension for nitpicking. My first paragraph, i.e. my thesis statement, regards procedure and behavior at the individual level answering the question precisely. Changes to policy come as an afterthought. I apologize for not writing for an audience with limited command of the English language. — tony gil 3 hours ago

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh boy

oh they're talking about blatant spam

bwDraco

Wow. WTF.

Bob

@DavidPostill I think you broke the comments :P

click it and nothing comes up

DavidPostill

@Bob Hmm. I see this:

:)

Rahul2001

15:10

Hello!
I need some help with a cryptic hunt. One of the levels has something to do with esoteric languages

Hint1: tsl ! tsl ! tsl !

Hint2: #@$%<--esolang-->#@$%

Does this ring any bells for anyone?

Avery

reminds me of someone

Bob

@Rahul2001 ask the pccg chat

Rahul2001

@Bob did

user226528

@Oliver Salzburg Hi. Yes it is possible to flag a dead source. Just edit the page and insert {{dead link}} after </ref> (if it is a citation) or after ] if it is an inline external link.

Oliver Salzburg

@FleetCommand Awesome. Thanks

user226528

15:15

@OliverSalzburg Also, please feel free to drop me a note there. (Search my name in User namespace.) You can also ask User:Codename Lisa for help. Tell her I sent you. Still she is the kindest person I've ever seen there.

Rahul2001

Hint3: joe newmans favourite shape GO IN BETWEEN!

Hint4: pbs.twimg.com/media/DF1NbjzUAAAke2N.jpg

@satibel You good at cryptic stuff?

satibel

@Rahul2001 triangle/delta

Chris Morris (cricketer)

Christopher Henry Morris (born 30 April 1987) is a South African international cricketer who plays first-class and List A cricket for Titans. He is a member of the Delhi Daredevils team, who play in the Indian Premier League. He is known for his aggressive middle order batting, death bowling and steep bounce as a seam bowler. == Domestic career == The right arm fast bowler who has taken 35 T20 wickets from 24 innings at an average of 16.68 at an impressive economy rate of 6.57. Morris is also a handy big-hitting batsman lower down the order and has a strike rate of over 175. Morris gave a standout...

Rahul2001

Joseph Westley Newman

Joseph Westley Newman (July 2, 1936 – March 6, 2015) was an American inventor and author who claimed to have developed a perpetual motion machine. This device greatly influenced the "free energy movement" in America from the late nineteen seventies until his death in 2015. He described this device in a book, The Energy Machine of Joseph Newman. Newman alleged that he had a mechanical explanation for Albert Einstein's unified field theory of physics. After applying for patents on the perpetual motion motor, he battled for over seven years against what he claimed was a government conspiracy to suppress...

@satibel solved!

The Nineteenth Byte

The Nineteenth Byte: General discussion for codegolf.stackexc...

13

10

See here ^

satibel

@Rahul2001 undertheradarmag.com/reviews/alt-j_review

@Rahul2001 good

fixer1234

15:45

@JourneymanGeek, "so.. they are sans sharif?" -- Excellent!!!

bwDraco

Main server at fierydragonlord.com is being upgraded. Some downtime should be expected.

bwDraco

16:07

...and everything seems to be working as expected

Rahul2001

17:05

@Avery You can join us

Cryptic hunt

For discussion of the cryptic hunt I guess?

djsmiley2k

17:54

hmmm

Charlie Gard has left this mortal coil, may we hope another never has to go through his pain :/

bwDraco

19:21

##/headdesk

I Am A Bot

bwDraco

My router lost its settings after a power outage.

djsmiley2k

ah teh joys

bwDraco

19:34

At least a couple of devices have static IPs, which eases the configuration burden a bit because they're client-side, but still.

Router AP and password reset to the previous configuration. DNS set to Google Public DNS. Dynamic QoS is set up. UPnP is disabled for security. Port forwarding set up. IPv6 set up.

Still need to set DNS reservations for a couple of devices.

(this is a NETGEAR Nighthawk X4S, model R7800)

Reservations set, rebooting...

Priority set to all devices currently on the network.

Backing up settings...

Burgi

20:05

hey

does a dell service tag publicly expose the entity that originally purchased the device?

Avery

I back up settings after changing them

bwDraco

Essentially everything is set up, settings backed up.

Burgi

i've got 13 desktop towers

can anyone recommend any software to annihilate the drives?

DavidPostill

2

Q: Completely erase hard disk

Possible Duplicates: Securely format a hard drive Erasing data before selling a computer I'm looking for open source bootable program to completely erase my hard disk content.

hard-drive

bwDraco

@Burgi I'd tend to use the ATA Secure Erase command.

ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase

Burgi

20:19

cheers guys

Michael Frank

@Burgi Do you need any sort of verification that the data is wiped? If it's corporate, you often need an audit certificate. Look into something that will generate a cert for you.

Burgi

i had a vision of turning them all into linux boxes and selling for at £20 each or something but i'm now a little daunted looking at the tower in my living room

@MichaelFrank apparently my word that they are wiped is good enough for my boss

he just wanted them gone

basically where we are based in the city centre is prime for office space

bwDraco

techradar.com/news/…

Burgi

so the owners of the company are going to refurb the basement and rent it out

so all the crap needed to go

bwDraco

Updated Firefox on the main laptop – SHOR'S BONES!

The browser used to lag a bit when refreshing more than a dozen pages at a time. This lag is just completely gone.

Refreshing 32 tabs.

Burgi

20:26

i still have issues when FF creeps over 2.5GB of RAM

bwDraco

It used to not be able to fully utilize the processor. Now it does.

Jan 19 at 3:37, by bwDraco

Firefox is bottlenecked on the UI process. Yuck.

...no more.

It actually pegs all eight hardware threads when refreshing all tabs at once for an extended period of time. It used to not do that.

Refreshing 45 tabs.

Burgi

omg... i have to burn a CD

bwDraco

The Firefox UI used to lag noticeably when I did this.

Wow. Just wow.

(Firefox Developer Edition 55.0b13, x64.)

Burgi

does windows burn ISOs these days?

bwDraco

@Burgi It does.

Burgi

20:38

who knew! :)

bwDraco

The feature has been present since Windows 7.

Windows 8 added the ability to mount ISOs, assigning them a new drive letter. It's built right into the system – no third-party software required.

Burgi

i just noticed that

NotAdmin Dave

However 3rd party software if needed would be MagicDisc

It's great, I never have to burn cd's.. Ever

bwDraco

@Bob: MASSIVE performance improvement with multiple tabs on the latest Firefox beta. Tabs open and close virtually instantly. Refreshing dozens of tabs no longer causes the browser to lag. The browser is actually able to fully utilize all processor cores without the UI process getting in the way. techradar.com/news/…

Tabs open and close virtually instantly.

Burgi

@NotAdminDave what if you need to run something on a standalone machine?

NotAdmin Dave

20:42

@Burgi: Then Ill need to burn a cd lol

Burgi

;P

NotAdmin Dave

However, I use EsxI for everything thats considered standalone hosted in a VM and still not needed. Just add the ISO to the datastore and attach with ease.

But its not standalone obviously ;P

Burgi

i want to nuke these towers before i start mucking about with them

bwDraco

@Bob: See also metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder

It was a huge "ohmigod" moment. The difference was noticeable the moment I updated Firefox Developer Edition to 55.0b13.

Avery

mobile browsing in a nutshell

Burgi

20:55

brilliant... i have 10 USB-> PS2 connectors but no PS2 -> USB ones...

Burgi

21:09

sigh

i'll just have to go to PC tomorrow and buy a new USB keyboard

bwDraco

22:30

What happens when you try to run a 220W CPU on a board with just 4+1 VRM phases?

MSI AMD 970 Krait with a 9590 on fire

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Burgi

22:48

wtf...

i think i've broken my girlfriend

after last weeks huge success of her playing firewatch she's been sending me links to games she wants us to play together

anyway in other news, have you guys seen this? PC Building Simulator

bwDraco

@Burgi I have - wondering if I could simulate Astaroth with this :P

The Nineteenth Byte

Cryptic hunt

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