Root Access

12:07 AM

<sigh>

Why are people voting to migrate this question to StackOverflow. It's not even in scope there.

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The PHP Manual section on installation requirements says "As of PHP 7.2.0 Windows 2008 and 7 are no longer supported." The section on compatibility of version 7.2 says, near the bottom under Windows Support "The officially supported, minimum Windows versions are now Windows 7/Server 2008 R2." T...

It has no code, the question is about if PHP 7.2.x can run on Windows 7, seems sort of obvious the question is within scope.

Canadian Luke

1:02 AM

I'm simply downvoting, as it's too basic of a question... Download and try it out, FFS

heather

can you view two models at once in the windows mixed reality viewer?

Canadian Luke

No clue

heather

i'm trying to google it but all i'm getting is promotional "microsoft is awesome" type stuff.

do you guys have a bot in here? a weird little paper clip just showed up and put that message in the super user search bar.

Canadian Luke

Yea

heather

ah.

Canadian Luke

1:20 AM

@heather chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/45292532#45292532

heather

heh

Journeyman Geek

@heather clippy is a SE Easter egg

ADHD Cat

2:04 AM

@ThatBrazilianGuy I like Star Trek Online. It's a freemium money grabber, with an opt out of buying a lifetime subscription for like £140 or so (often discounted to £70).

Apart from getting a load of fairly mediocre stuff when signing up you also get a £5 monthly stipend of in game money. I've not logged in for two years so there's about £150 sitting in my account.

Canadian Luke

2:18 AM

But if you decide to join the game, let me know and I'll add you to our chat

ADHD Cat

> In 1999, successful Dutch artists Ferry Corsten and Tiësto joined forces to create the trance partnership of Gouryella.

Hah, no wonder I liked them then...

Ramhound

2:58 AM

@CanadianLuke - "as it's too basic of a question" it took me 20 minutes to determine if Windows 7 was supported.

Canadian Luke

3:16 AM

Yup

jokerdino

6:37 AM

how young must you be not to know Clippy by its name??

GDPR

6:49 AM

@jokerdino maybe just a free software or mac user

jokerdino

does Clippy violate @GDPR?

GDPR

@jokerdino Microsoft @Bob does

Bob

7:16 AM

@jokerdino Well... I mean... it's called Clippit

Clippy was a nickname :P

jokerdino

7:54 AM

I choose not to believe.

Bob

10:00 AM

slow day

ok I'm gonna hv a bit

what's the best way to wipe a zfs hdd :D

Journeyman Geek

10:10 AM

@Bob just hit the device with shred? ;p

djsmiley2k

12:01 PM

dd, shred, the disk that auto runs dd?

a hammer

Bob

12:14 PM

yea I'll just pivot_root away and dd it

300 MB/s isn't bad for HDDs

djsmiley2k

12:27 PM

indeed

Bob

damn, it dropped to 200 MB/s :P

djsmiley2k

12:46 PM

@bertieb the title here is wrong

First Play of Factorio | #2C

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bertieb

Whoops! Good catch thanks :)

I really need a more efficient way of managing YT uploads

I am scripting the heck out of doing the custom thumbnails

But doing similar titles, keywords, game/date etc settings is tedious

@djsmiley2k Fix'd 👍

djsmiley2k

how do you upload em, just on the site?

bertieb

The title card for DRG was an extra pain, as I had to figure out to to get imagemagick to do text gradients (ie generate a solid gradient then apply the text as an alpha mask)

@djsmiley2k Yea

Is there a better way?!

djsmiley2k

I dunno

I just upload directly from my PS4, no editing or nothing ;D

bertieb

Heh, fair enough :P

But now I've started doing the custom thumbnails etc I cant stop D:

djsmiley2k

12:51 PM

my friend does edit his

and one of his sonic ones went huge

few hundred k views

but now he's constantly just chasing that, and I couldn't care less.

bertieb

Yea, I'm torn between "if you're gonna do something do it right" and "eh, this is mostly for people who know me anyways"

I used to do full on editing (my favourite was a set of Flashpoint clips sync'd to Boom! Shake the Room) but you know the old saying

Ten minutes of footage is an hour of editing

I can just about keep up with myself if I just do uploads, custom thumbnails and descriptions

I have a terabyte of backlog to get through IIRC?

I used to do (timecode links to) highlight moments, but that took up too much time

Even watching the video back at 1.5x speed didn't gain much

(Been meaning to write an OBS plugin or AHK script to note a timecode on a button/key combo press)

But even that would rely on actually remembering to hit the button when something interesting/funny/cool happens :P

Run5k

1:15 PM

Please refresh my memory: isn't it Super User policy to not have generic tags that are simply the company name?

superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/766718

bertieb

2:11 PM

@Run5k Seems so, at least as of '14

Bob

Run5k

@bertieb that's what I thought... thanks for the reminder. It looks like the Microsoft tag was created less than two weeks ago and already has eleven different questions utilizing it. I assume that it would take a stronger Jedi to actually delete it?

bertieb

@Run5k 'pleasure! I think mods can prevent the [re]creation of a particular problematic tag, but I might be making that up...

Journeyman Geek

nope

takes a CM to blacklist a tag, and its hard to get one to do it. We just delete all references to a tag and hope people know better

bertieb

Ah okay

I stand corrected :)

Journeyman Geek

2:30 PM

if its a small number of posts, and its got a meta post - especially with shambling undead tags like company tags...

just edit them away at leisure

Run5k

Understood. Thanks for the feedback!

Journeyman Geek

and now I have had a long day and will go to bed ;p

djsmiley2k

2:57 PM

My way was (I killed at a tag that had 400+ questions at one point) - you edit the description on the tag to 'DO NOT USE - use xxx instead where appropriate', and then you start editing

Bob

3:21 PM

well ok then

jokerdino

6:04 PM

@djsmiley2k 400+ could just use some shog cleaning

ADHD Cat

@Bob ...

On the feedback form:
"Were the Postage rates reasonable?" "-5000 stars"

djsmiley2k

@jokerdino lol

it was part of the mass tag clean up

djsmiley2k

6:40 PM

wow the entire internet is quiets

ADHD Cat

lies

djsmiley2k

yup

I speak all teh untruths.

sup homecat anyway?

ADHD Cat

7:21 PM

@djsmiley2k Listening to some ancient music throwbacks to the 90's

Ancient by my standard, anyway. Stuff I was listening to as a pre-teen

djsmiley2k

I'm listening to vnv nation ATM :D

ADHD Cat

Somehow I've never heard of them :-(

I used to have a library of around 12,000 music tracks before I was a teenager. Halfway through university it'd gone up to a bit over 30,000. Until I lost the whole lot. So far managed to find/rebuild about 3000 of those tracks on Spotify, gonna be a while before I reach the whole lot

If I were going by chronological order I'd say I'm about halfway through 1998 now.

djsmiley2k

7:51 PM

lol

i realised there's no point anymore hoarding music

ADHD Cat

8:18 PM

It's not hoarding if it doesn't belong to you!

djsmiley2k

8:35 PM

:D

Nick

hi, anyone here use Visual Studio?

DavidPostill

@GDPR 9to5mac.com/2017/04/26/clippy-microsoft-office-mac

> Perhaps most notably, however, Atteberry himself designed Clippy but then never had to see the character again. As it turns out, Clippy was designed on a Mac and Atteberry is a Mac user:

As much as people hate Clippy, when I meet [fans], they say, “Oh god I HATED THAT! That’s so cool!” But I totally understand the annoyance factor there. I didn’t really experience it myself, because I’m a Mac guy. In fact, I designed Clippy on a Mac.

And for the truly insane: It's Clippy! Back as a Mac App Store utility

@Bob The designer called it "clippy"

GDPR

@Nick Plenty of folks do -- just go ahead and ask your question

Nick

I got an error MSB42
26: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\Micr
osoft\WindowsXaml\v15.0\Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets" was not found. Also, tried to find
"Microsoft\WindowsXaml\v15.0\Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets" in the fallback search path(s)
for $(MSBuildExtensionsPath) - "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild" . These search paths are defined in
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\15.0\bin\MSBuild.exe.Config".

DavidPostill

@Nick Well does the file exist?

@Nick And is it in on the search paths?

Nick

8:44 PM

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\Microsoft does not contain WindowsXaml

it should have come with uwp, i think

@DavidPostill Oh! thank you. I found C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\WindowsXaml\v15.0\Microsoft.Windows.U‌I.Xaml.CSharp.Targets

do i have to rename things now or should i update msbuild.exe.config?

Nick

9:08 PM

Yes, copied the WindowsXaml file from where I found it to where it was needed. My build is going without error!

xD 1 Warning, 2 Error

XamlCompiler error WMC1006: Cannot resolve Assembly or Windows Meta
data file 'Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract.winmd'

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\Microsoft\WindowsXaml\v15.0\8.2\Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.Common.targets(266,5): Xaml Internal Error error WMC9999: Type universe cannot resolve assembly: Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract

Nick

9:25 PM

the prob is the using of the FileAttributes from the Windows.Storage namespace which is located in the Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract assembly

gah, giving up. uninstalling. g'night all.

djsmiley2k

lol?

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Keshav Srinivasan

11:55 PM

Can someone tell me a simple way to download a video file if you have an m3u8 link?

I used the instructions given in this link, but the resultant mp4 is corrupt and won’t open:

tubeoffline.com/download-M3U8-videos.php

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