I wasn't part of the band likes, and wasn't responsible for sound either. Although there's an injoke that one day everyone will be part of Hawkwind...
Also, one of the plus sides of your main control cable failing, is you get to set everything to auto, and basically walk onto the stage with the band and hang out with their roadies in the middle of the show. Like so:
I really wish I could have recorded/live streamed the whole show. But our primary equipment didn't arrive in time, and our backup equipment broke earlier in the day. And I was too stressed out by then to bother with Plan C.
@rahuldottech I did stream from my (secondary) phone, as that was plan B. That's also what broke during the day, and using my primary phone (plan C) was what I couldn't be arsed with because I wanted to be able to walk around and take pictures/videos/actually use my phone myself.
> primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software: certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
@rahuldottech Usually the optimal approach using purely free tools is testdisk followed by fsck (thouch MS chkdsk is better). Repair partition tables followed by filesystem. IIRC testdisk does limited things with some filesystems too.
Not as powerful as the paid tools, but I don't know of any free ones that do better.
Of course, the first thing you should do is ddrescue. Even if you're using paid tools.
No amount of smarts in a tool will help if your hardware is dying by the minute.
@Bob Interestingly, the first tool I ever tried for data recovery was testdisk back in seventh grade. Couldn't figure it out, went to a shop, saw them use GDB, and that's what I've used since
@Bob Agreed. Although R-Studio does have built-in imaging capabilities (with some tuning options, such as retry count, I/O block size, etc.) ddrescue is pretty much the gold standard.
Even if it's just corruption with no hardware failure 99% of the time I'll still prefer working on an image, just don't need to connect it up to a Linux box to ddrescue it.
@noitsbecky True, that would be an advantage. Now if you'd told me this 5 years ago before I started my current backup schedule, I might've actually bought it :D
@MichaelFrank Yup. That's a good idea too.
Image to protect from hardware failure. Copy of image to protect from human (or software) failure.
I need to stop looking at storage costs as $ per GB/TB just for the drive itself when buying storage...
I mean I'm entirely used to thinking that way when costing storage in business/enterprise, nobody quotes storage costs as just (cost of drive ÷ size of drive)
But thinking "Buying this £250 Samsung SSD will actually cost me £400 in reality" is just so unappealing
@Bob I only have one opened 8TB HDD available. And it's full. I yanked it out of my server's backup RAID-Z array several years ago and have been using it as an external drive since. In hindsight, probably not the smartest idea, as the array has now been non-redundant for years... but then again it's just a backup array and the primary is RAID-Z3
@rahuldottech Oddly the video capture quality on my phone turned out to be better than the stills images I took on the night. That said, Youtube makes you wait 24 hours to activate streaming on your account (not a clue why, but it meant I couldn't use it), my streaming audience had never heard of Twitch, and Facebook streaming defaulted to non-HD despite the input being 4K and the output being 200Mbps wifi.
Granted the sensor quality on my DSLR will be the crap out of any phone even at half the resolution in poor lighting conditions, but since I was running the lighting I can't possibly call the lighting conditions poor while retaining my dignity :-P
Also phones these days tend to have much better low-light optimized lenses than DSLR kit lenses, and just about any non-kit lens for less than $1000, and I didn't even have a generic cheapo low-light lens on me that day.
@rahuldottech Shrug. Blame your OEM for not labelling them in a sensible manner. Though TZx suggests they're both generic mainboard/ambient temp sensors.
Although generally a thermal zone is defined as such because it's positioned at/near something whose temperature is of importance.
@noitsbecky Things worth nothing aren't bad. My primary home server being worth <$25 and being as old as me and less powerful than a Raspberry Pi zero? Sad.
@rahuldottech Pfft. I could send you a free laptop that's more powerful if you wanted. Then again, what does a teenage kid need with multiple home servers when he should be chasing girls and doing drugs and alcohol?
@noitsbecky Since I have what is arguably the most important set of exams of my life coming up (in India, they decide everything about your future), I'm abstaining from all of those right now. At least lemme have some sweet tech which I can admire :P
@noitsbecky lmao
Also, I've like... never gotten drunk? Someday soon.
@noitsbecky Well, I certainly hope that's true. But it's not what I've seen. I know brilliant people who can't get jobs 30 years after high school ended because of their grades in 12th
Not that I'm suggesting they do it, but nobody checks your school results after 30 years. You can write whatever the heck you want on your CV and even if they do ask, forging it aint hard. Or they could apply for jobs in a different country, if they're really that "brilliant"
@rahuldottech Don't let that stop you, MIT or Ivy Leagues are one of the least effed up parts of the country, and you'll be hanging out with some of the least effed up people. Possibly less effed up than ones you're surrounded by now.
@noitsbecky I don't think I'll be going out of the country for undergrad (or if I even can), but I'm certainly still considering them for further studies and research.
Let's see. I've always wanted to end up as a professor, eventually
Dunno how that'll work out. I wanna do lots of different stuff first, though
@Bob With an equivalent aperture lens, yeah. But phones come with F/1.7 to 2.0 lenses these days, whereas standard kit lenses are in the F/3.5-4.0 range. That's 1/4 the light coming in, before you even start zooming and quartering it again. A 22mm F/2.0 non-zoom prime lens for a DSLR costs £200, and a 24mm F/1.8 costs £520, and those don't have image stabilization either whereas smartphones do.
Getting a F/1.7 22mm for a non-full frame (aka sub-$1000 and super large) DSLR is basically impossible, as is getting image-stabilized wide aperture primes.
Which means you basically need a $3000 full-frame DSLR with sensor-shift image stabilization and a $600+ lens to get equivalent light input to that of a high-end smartphone, at least at wide-angle, although you'll see the benefits of the larger sensor before then.
Due to timing constraints only one rental shop was open, and they only had 20m cables. So I had to use 20m cables for every 20cm cable run.
90% of the cabling required was between 20cm and 4m, with only two exceptions being one 8m and one 15m. Had to use 20m cables for everything - power and data.
@MichaelFrank I had to draw the diagrams to send to the venue/event staff for planning purposes anyway. And had to do most of them in mspaint due to time constraints as well
@Bob Also did drugs. Always did drugs. Not sure if helped or made things worse tbh.
Erf why are there no good non-Apple Thunderbolt docks
You can either get a decent TB3 dock for a Macbook with proper DisplayPort MST or some lame USB-C dock for Windows PCs where you get one USB-C alt mode HDMI output and everything else is USB DisplayLink
It's not like I need 4K60 outputs or anything but running 4x FHD displays over USB? No thanks. Especially when one is a 120Hz gaming monitor.
Maybe if the rumours about Apple switching away from Intel CPUs are true Intel will finally start promoting decent TB3 adoption in the Windows ecosystem?
> Request Entity Too Large The requested resource /oafed does not allow request data with GET requests, or the amount of data provided in the request exceeds the capacity limit.
SSO pls, u had 1 job
Mind you, it's not every day you see a 413 error
Unless your job is fuzzing webservers
Then you might see 413s every day
Funny thing is, it worked earlier
My session was aggressively timed out
Clearly a sign I was not meant to get any work done today
> 2. The Rule First of all, love the Lord God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole strength. Then, love your neighbor as yourself. Do not murder. Do not commit adultery.
Being still somewhat reluctant to open any port on my host, I wonder if I could use a second VM to act as a firewall (behind my router), e.g. running pfSense, creating a virtual DMZ with a different subnet to separate the guest from my LAN. Any thoughts out there on how this could be achieved? — silentsurfer4 hours ago
> However, Nissan says the introduction of a one-pedal system - in which a button press turns the accelerator pad into an "e-Pedal" that can start, accelerate, brake and stop the vehicle - will provide added energy efficiency gains.
> Motorists can, however, drive with both a separate accelerator and brake pedal if they prefer.
@noitsbecky Heh, I thought I remembered that being the case but didn't want to assume :P
@bertieb If it were me, being uber lazy and uber ghetto and uber frugal, I'd glue an old Android phone to the back end somewhere and use wired or wireless IP webcam to some sort of display at the front (or another Android phone on a dashboard mount)
@bertieb Yikes. Never heard of that one, but I'll be sure to be aware of it from now on... I've had my keys nicked once already (while parked, my own fault for leaving them in the bike) so I'm paranoid about chaining it up now. I need the ignition and steering lock assembly replaced again anyway, because someone had another go at it and broke it again, but cba with the £360 cost.
@bertieb Actually, now that I think about it you can get a USB-OTG Android camera (for different purposes, but I'm sure the only change you'd need is lens/form factor) for like £11.99
Micro-USB plug (and full size USB if you want it in a PC), several metres of cable, and you can use it as a plug-and-play remote camera on any Android phone.
I had this. Now that you mention it, it's got built in LEDs for lighting too, but again you'd want a different size/form factor. But at the end of the day, the actual cost of the electronics/construction is evidently cheap enough to be manufactured by no-name OEMs and sold as a sub-£20 product all-in.
I wouldn't rely on the £14.99 one lasting too long if you mount it externally, but that was a 5 second search and I'm sure you can find cheaper and/or better on Ebay. Amazon is generally fairly poor for low-priced low-margin electronics vs Ebay due to flat fees vs. percentage fees.
But anytime someone mentions remote camera I instantly think "old Android phone" because a) Just about every Android phone of any age has a camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a USB port, and b) Just about every Android phone of any age has a screen.
@bertieb I've never had an issue - plug it in, and if it's set to auto-launch it's up on screen in less than 5 seconds, barely slower than the built-in camera. My main phone's pretty powerful though.
Soz I would have had that video done that a lot quicker/better if it weren't for me having cracked the screen on my main secondary phone doing the gig on Sunday.
Apparently running around in a panic climbing stepladders with a spanner and camera battery in the same pocket as your phone (which already has a cheap, badly mounted replacement display off Ebay) is prone to damage...
Literally only replaced the screen two weeks ago -_-
Mind you I wonder if the original is now dry enough to work again...
