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Journeyman Geek

00:05

because js

Journeyman Geek

00:58

amazon.com/…

this was mentioned on the comms room (admittedly mockingly). That sound you're hearing is my head hitting the desk.

if it uses no power why is it plugged in?

DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek Snake oil. Current scientific studies indicate that EM radiation has at worst a very minor impact on health. It's not a real concern.

Anonymous

no shit sherlock

Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord: thats understood. I'm mocking it too ;p

DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek I don't quite understand why people have this superstition that there's some health concern about EM radiation. It's not ionizing radiation, so it's not damaging the way radioactive materials are.

Journeyman Geek

people are stupid.

And its "radiation", radiation is the new bad joo joo

Anonymous

01:04

because tarot

Anonymous

because homeopathy

Journeyman Geek

(though, all the other wifi networks in the channels I want to use are bad radiation, and need to go away)

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek So if I live under a pylon, will this prevent me from getting cancer?

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank: You are wearing your tin foil hat, and taking your homeopathic plutonium pills, right?

allquixotic

@MichaelFrank First you need to construct additional ones.

Pylons. Pylons. Pylons. Pylons. Pylonspylonspylonspylonspylonspylonspylonspylons.

Michael Frank

01:12

Also, that reminds me of the time I was working in retail... I had a lady come in for a new SIM card, and she asked me to install it for her. I opened her phone, pulled the battery and a little piece of copper less than 0.5x0.5cm fell out. Her husband instantly shot his hand out, picked it and and told her not to lose it. "Don't lose this, it's that radiation protection thing!"

It was all I could do not to burst out laughing.

I think I found a better Amazon listing...

amazon.com/Quantum-Pendant-Scalar-Energy-Negative/dp/B004OGZ8BC/…

Anonymous

WHAT THE FUCK

Bob

@JourneymanGeek wut

> The Whole House Neutralizer contains a natural compound made up of paramagnetic matierials found straight from the earth

...????????????????

Michael Frank

BREAKING NEWS: Mass SuperUser Chatroom users die in massive brain hemorrhage after reading about Scalar Energy Pendants.

4

Bob

@JourneymanGeek you see, its method of operation is it causes a surge to fry everything. broken electrical devices can't release any EMR.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

01:23

@DragonLord heh, I seem to spend half my time ranting about it in here

along with Beats

Michael Frank

@Bob what about living under pylons!

Those things must give off mega EMR

Bob

> volcanic lava natural minerals that are fused and structurally bonded together at a molecular level

Journeyman Geek

so. rock?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek :P

allquixotic

I'm opening that quantum pendant article in a private tab so Amazon doesn't bug me about buying them for 3 years >_<

2

Michael Frank

01:26

@allquixotic ugh... I hate that!

Journeyman Geek

(amusingly enough tho, I'm pondering looking at/for power filtering gear)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ...yea...

Journeyman Geek

One of those amusing things about homeplug, everywhere its useful, its right next to things that do unspeakable things to its signal quality

Bob

good luck finding something genuine

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: oh, they exist

Bob

01:27

@JourneymanGeek I know, but there's also plenty of... other stuff

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: yeah ;p

or get passthrough gear (but thats not always practical)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek search for noise filters?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: precisely that ;p

Bob

forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=912691

Journeyman Geek

or move things around

Bob

01:28

heh

Journeyman Geek

mine is not that bad

Bob

> power conditioner

yea, that's gonna return a lot of bullshit results

@JourneymanGeek funny thing is, I didn't even search for anything to do with networking

Journeyman Geek

actually I'm getting the same sort of speeds most people around here report

Bob

just power filters

Journeyman Geek

actually, in places like india, they use those super regularly

or used to.

OOOH

wait just a second. I have a spare plug in the other end of my room, and there's nothing critical on a SMPS there

I'll test my switch there

Bob

01:31

o.o

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: homeplug reacts badly to ... AC motors, switch mode power supplies, and probably small rodents

(ironically, its still subjectively faster than wifi, but I want/need to refine my testing methods first, lan speed test is too brittle)

Braiam

> I am very electromagnetically sensitive and bought this pendent hoping it would help me.

HOW IN THE WORLD YOU KNOW THAT????!!?!?!??!?!?!?ELEVEN

> I wore it I started getting headaches again and sharp pains in a specific area of my head

?!?!?!?!?

allquixotic

@Braiam he or she probably ate food poisoning on the same day as they had a long conversation on their cellphone with someone

Journeyman Geek

@Braiam: THEY FEEL THE WAVES INTERFERING WITH THE LEYLINES!

allquixotic

obviously two things that happen near each other in time must be caused by one another (eyeroll)

omg a piano is playing downstairs... JourneymanGeek, is that you???

you JUST wrote a message and now I hear piano!

Braiam

01:36

I think I will most likely die from brain cancer reading the entire reviews rather than living in Hiroshima... seriously

Journeyman Geek

;p

(I react badly to bullshit too)

Michael Frank

@allquixotic what? Like literally ate a bowl of food poisoning?

allquixotic

►

Braiam

> I take it as fake because the box came with 3 typo errors

... you have 3 loose screws in your head if you brought it in first place...

Michael Frank

@allquixotic hehe, he looks so silly.

Journeyman Geek

01:39

@MichaelFrank yes.

@allquixotic: everytime a butterfly flaps its wings, there's a hurricane on the other end of the world. I'd rather not say what a dog does to cause a piano to play.

Braiam

@allquixotic WRONG!!! it's @Gowman @HackToHell

Journeyman Geek

* @gowtham

Bob

@Braiam sounds a bit like actual radiation poisoning... wouldn't it be great if it turned out that the pendant actually had plutonium or something in it?

@MichaelFrank great, now I'm ~~giggling~~ chuckling at work

@allquixotic reminds me of the whole MSG thing. apparently some doctor ate at a chinese restaurant, felt sick afterwards, wrote something saying it might have been the MSG

some other idiot took that and ran with it

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: fun part is? Psycosomatic food allergies probably exist.

I can't eat pineapple cause I had a bad experience with it as a pup.

(and the very smell of artificial raspberries gives me headaches)

Michael Frank

01:55

I don't like butter or margarine unless it's melted. I never knew why until recently when I mentioned it to my Mum and she said it was probably because my Nana used to leave the butter in the cupboard.

Braiam

the things I can't eat is because I don't like them... I don't have issues with eating anything just that some give me creeps

Journeyman Geek

hm

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek Psycogeek probably knows all about those

(note: it's psyc h o)

Journeyman Geek

picked up a power bank. I've confirmed it tops off my phone, and my tablet when its switched off. I need to drain my tablet a bit and try when its switched on (even if it reports it charges)

;p

Bob

02:11

@JourneymanGeek how much did it cost?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: ~60 dollars discounted for a 8400 mAh version

Bob

I've been considering one, but those things so often have crappy batteries (cheap imports...), and the Belkin ones at Officeworks cost something like $15 per 1000mAh

@JourneymanGeek not too bad, I suppose

assuming it actually lives up to its rating, that's pretty good

DragonLord

This is what I use:

amazon.com/…

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: wierdly, its not listed on their site

my bad, 7800

dyslexia strikes again

DragonLord

The efficiency claims are definitely accurate to me: It gets only slightly warm even when under a 2 amp load

Journeyman Geek

02:16

valore.sg/Valore/…

not sure if it charges my galaxy tab when its running, it shows an odd symbol

(Valore is the 'store brand' of one of the local big box retailers. They're not a bad place to get stuff if you have store card with them)

DragonLord

12000 mAh of high-efficiency power for $50. Worth every dollar.

Journeyman Geek

(and don't forget exchange rates)

Bob

...

Looks like your 'file' binary itself is 32 bit. Hence it will not be able to detect 32 vs 64 bit. You need 64 bit version of file utility. Check here: cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2013-07/msg00030.html — anishsane Sep 4 '13 at 12:25

wat

that's just plain wrong

@DragonLord Aren't the Anker batteries the ones that would go up in flames? :P

probably either not ship here or cost $50 to do so anyway :(

DragonLord

@Bob No--read the customer reviews. I've never had a serious issue with my Astro3.

Bob

there was this one company that wanted to charge $200 ($100 per shipment, $100 per item) for a pack of pens

Journeyman Geek

02:36

o0

I suspect I could get a cheaper, dodgier one off dx or some local store ;p

Braiam

@Bob they ain't Bic...

Bob

@Braiam ?

Braiam

@Bob company that makes half of the pens sold in the world?

Bob

02:52

@Braiam What has that got to do with ridiculous shipping costs?

Bob

03:21

I really really don't understand JS, or at least the common practices.

One recommendation is to always use typeof(x) === 'undefined' instead of x === undefined

because, undefined itself is a variable that can be redefined to be something else

ok, fine.

but anyone who redefines it is doing it wrong, and they'll probably find other ways to break your code anyway

there's coding defensively, and then there's just plain overkill

Journeyman Geek

No such thing as overkill, only fire and reload.

And people do stupid things

Braiam

> Unexpected 'typeof'. Use '===' to compare directly with undefined.

Crockford says so

Journeyman Geek

03:46

bbc.co.uk/news/business-25620755 only in india

Bob

04:12

@Braiam JSLint is stupid.

@JourneymanGeek Yes, but this is so high on the scale of stupid that you'd find just about anything else that could break your code is less stupid anyway.

JSLint enforces a very very specific style so strictly that you'll spend the majority of your time trying to ignore the warnings it throws.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the typeof method. It's just unnecessary.

Oh god. Crockford is the source of that bloody supplant, too.

!!beatingbloodoutofarockwithascythe

ChatBot John Cavil

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I actually saw one of those animated signs IRL ;p

Bob

04:28

@JourneymanGeek wut

heh: anton.kovalyov.net/p/why-jshint

> Here I would like to quote Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript: "JSLint can suck it".

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: one of those mobile led signs ;p

Journeyman Geek

05:17

hm, nice. Apparently trying to do a speed test over wifi might crash my router

:/

this makes data gathering a pain

gparyani

@JourneymanGeek Do you subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud?

Journeyman Geek

@gparyani: nope, why would I?

gparyani

@JourneymanGeek I thought you would know the answer to my questions about it, because, after all, you are one of the top users on Super User, as you say...

Journeyman Geek

@gparyani: I'm not totally sold on webapps

also, skillswise I'm pretty heavily invested on paint.net

gparyani

@JourneymanGeek It's NOT a webapp, despite what the name says. Anyway, look at the Community Bulletin.

@JourneymanGeek ...for more information on it.

Journeyman Geek

05:21

ah hah!

gparyani

@JourneymanGeek Are you friends with BoltClock by any chance?

Journeyman Geek

nope

gparyani

@JourneymanGeek I know that he is the first SE moderator from Singapore...

Journeyman Geek

singapore is a small place, but with many people ;p

(as for the one of the top users bit, I'm still in the top 10, and thats mainly for possible employers XD)

Bob

In the name of Bwian of Judea, what is this... — nitro2k01 Dec 29 '13 at 12:08

gparyani

05:23

@Bob I know that you have Adobe CC...

...do you know the answer to my meta question on it?

Bob

@gparyani I have it, yes. I don't use it much. And your meta question, I already answered, didn't I?

Journeyman Geek

@gparyani: @Bob's answer sums it up pretty well.

Bob

I've decided to just consider the management app broken :\

It's failed to update a good number of times for me already.

gparyani

I know that you mentioned about the applications that are part of it, but my questions ask about the CC desktop app, which your answer does not cover.

Journeyman Geek

and both those questions are fine

Bob

05:25

> If the question is about a local application (e.g. Photoshop CC), then it would be on-topic.

If it were about the interaction between a local application and the online service (e.g. uploading from Photoshop CC), it would be on-topic.

gparyani

@Bob They seem localized to me since (I'm assuming) a rare margin of users actually have the subscription...

Bob

The management program would fit under either or both of those categories.

Generally, if it's installed locally it's good.

@gparyani We removed 'too localised' as a close reason ;)

gparyani

I haven't been encountering the issues that you have with updating.

Bob

but, yea, the thing is a black box anyway

There's not much we can do in most cases

gparyani

Do you know the answer to my question about the Edge Reflow question?

I know you probably don't have Windows 8 Enterprise or Windows Server so you can't answer my RemoteApp question...

Journeyman Geek

05:28

@gparyani: being localised would be the reason you're not getting answers ;p

gparyani

Thankfully they removed the prerelease close reason.

Bob

@gparyani No, I don't use Edge at the moment, sorry

@JourneymanGeek Too localised as a close reason wasn't intended for questions like this anyway.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: agreed.

gparyani

I have posted a couple of questions (including that one) that seem to be about prerelease software at first glance, but really aren't.

Journeyman Geek

I do think its on topic

and part of the answer is "adobe is releasing buggy crap"

Bob

05:29

@JourneymanGeek ^

Journeyman Geek

oh ffs

Bob

I've considered trying Edge Code, but..

Journeyman Geek

the management software for my homeplug gear crashed.

Bob

well, I spend most of my time at work in JS these days

and EC is only CSS/HTML

bleh

Journeyman Geek

is writing stable software some kind of lost art?

Bob

05:31

or maybe it does do some JS

@JourneymanGeek ayup

gparyani

By the way, I don't encounter the Edge problem on Windows 8.1 64-bit (the question is on Windows 7 32-bit)

Journeyman Geek

(well, there's a workaround, I need to install this on a system, and actually go to each plug I want to reconfigure)

Bob

(I seriously can't think of a single hardware manufacturer that also writes excellent software. At this point, it seems like "it doesn't crash" is too high of a barrier too...)

@gparyani You could try watching process monitor to see how it tries to detect installation status

but it's a fairly tedious process

personally, too much trouble

it's remotely possible that they hardcoded a 64-bit Windows' path in the detection

gparyani

I code Java(not Script) in Edge Code these days...

Bob

or a 64-bit Windows' registry entry

@gparyani wut

..???????

gparyani

05:34

(And I do believe it supports C++ too, but I haven't tried it yet.)

Bob

heh

There's also (formerly Adobe) Brackets

it's open source now

gparyani

I sure hope Fireworks becomes open source...

Bob

... no wonder they looked so similar

> A code-based HTML editor, Edge Code is designed to complement the other applications in the suite. It is built on the open source Brackets platform, which Adobe launched in June 2012. Rather than replacing Brackets, Edge Code is designed to make it more accessible, and integrate its functionality into existing Adobe applications. As with Edge Reflow, Edge Code is available as a public preview, launched alongside the announcement of the Edge suite.

I wouldn't see the point of using Edge Code or Brackets on other languages though

it becomes effectively a wrapper around the CodeMirror editor

gparyani

I used jEdit for Java previously before switching to Edge Code...

I still use Visual Studio for C++...

Anyway, let's talk about something else.

As you may know already, I use Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode...

Do you have Windows Virtual PC?

@JourneymanGeek Do you have Windows Virtual PC?

Journeyman Geek

nope

I use virtualbox

Tried Hyper V, but it didn't integrate well with my set up

Bob

05:41

@JourneymanGeek I couldn't even get it installed :P

VMware works better than VBox for me, when it comes to 3D accel support

gparyani

@JourneymanGeek I have Windows Server which I believe integrates much better with Hyper-V, but the only problem is that it disables sleeping and hibernating (which is problematic considering that I have it installed on a portable computer).

Michael Frank

bloody Massdrop... robbing me of all my money! :|

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

@gparyani Weeeeellll... Server kinda might not be designed for laptops, ya know?

Journeyman Geek

@gparyani: neither does running VMs

gparyani

05:42

I like that Windows Virtual PC is an extension to the Windows Shell, instead of a separate program.

Michael Frank

@Bob I was just thinking this.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I have a copy of vmware from someone, but I'd loose access to my os/2 vm :/

Bob

@JourneymanGeek lol

@gparyani Actually, that's something I strongly dislike about it.

gparyani

@MichaelFrank What were you thinking of?

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek There's a fridge magnet at work that say something like "If you ain't using OS/2, you're working too hard!"

Bob

05:43

I prefer a nice configurable control panel somewhere.

Virtual PC just doesn't have that.

Michael Frank

@gparyani That WinServer is not really designed for a laptop.

gparyani

You've got the "Settings" button at the top...

Bob

huh the ads on SE have the alt text Click Here

gparyani

@MichaelFrank Well, my computer is an Asian model, so it has a nice 2.8Ghz processor and 6GB RAM, which is pretty nice considering that it's a 13.3"

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank: I mainly use it for the sheer horror value of it

Michael Frank

05:46

@gparyani Oh, I'm not judging. Just remarking on the peculiarity of the scenario

gparyani

@MichaelFrank Well, you can use it in a laptop. You've got the battery meter and power plans...

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I need to see if I can grab an Atari or C64 emulator sometime

gparyani

Anyway, do any of you know how to do RemoteApp?

I am having trouble RemoteApp-ing the Creative Cloud desktop application...

Welcome @jokerdino!

What's up?

jokerdino

Auto joined.

gparyani

Oh yeah, I didn't notice that you are a moderator on AU...

Michael Frank

05:51

serverwatch.com/server-tutorials/…

gparyani

@MichaelFrank Oh, and it has Japanese characters on the keyboard...

Michael Frank

Huh... that article makes a couple good points on why you would install WinServer on a laptop.

jokerdino

@gparyani Oooh. I didn't notice either.

gparyani

...which I don't know how to use since I don't know a bit about Japanese...

Bob

@gparyani I hate to say it... but have you tried asking on Technet? (I will not be held responsible for any damages resulting from this advice, including but not limited to loss of hair, imprint of head in desk, flattening of face, liquefaction of brain matter, defenestration of electronic devices and autodefenestration.)

Journeyman Geek

05:53

....

Whoever wrote this utility should have his shoes stolen, slobbered and hidden in the darkest corner of the UnderBed in the dead of winter. And made to walk, uphill, both ways in the snow.

gparyani

@Bob You mean banging my head on my laptop keyboard?

Journeyman Geek

oh wait

it isn't crashed yet

Bob

Damn, I wanted to add murderous rampages, but it's too late to edit :(

gparyani

@Bob But you will be responsible if any of these Japanese characters end up imprinting on my head, right? You did not say that...

More specifically, my laptop is a Sony VAIO VGN-Z56TG with custom installs of Windows 7 Professional 32-bit and Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter.

@Sathya What happened to SuperNews?

I found a loophole that permits me to flag any answer as "not an answer" multiple times...

Journeyman Geek

headesk

this is not going well

gparyani

06:07

Even though you get an error message the second time you flag, you can type in "not an answer" (without the quotes) exactly into the custom flag box and the system will accept the flag, but treat it as a normal not-an-answer flag.

Journeyman Geek

I think the homeplug utilities just don't work on windows 7 and 8

dosen't really want to get an XP box up for this ><

gparyani

This, therefore, enables one to flag twice as not an answer in case the first time it was declined or disputed...

@JourneymanGeek >>Windows XP Mode<<

Journeyman Geek

@gparyani: I need a physical ethernet connection

or to do some song and dance at each node

Sathya

@gparyani super news?

gparyani

@JourneymanGeek Just change the option for network adapters in the settings panel of the VPC VM to your computer's network adapter from "Shared Networking (NAT)".

Journeyman Geek

06:10

@gparyani: erm. I'm probably talking to the device at a lower level than tcp-ip

gparyani

@Sathya The old chat room that is now frozen due to inactivity...

Sathya

last activity on that was more than 670 days ago

Journeyman Geek

and I need to downgrade winpcap for an alternate utility

gparyani

@JourneymanGeek This treats the VM as a different computer on the network than the host OS.

@Sathya But what caused it to become inactive?

Journeyman Geek

@gparyani: this works at lower than network level.

gparyani

06:14

@JourneymanGeek Oh, now I see better.

Just use Windows 8 boot from VHD and boot from a Windows XP VHD...

Journeyman Geek

@gparyani: homeplug adaptors are very typically 'dumb' devices

@gparyani: I found an alternate utility that mostly works

unfortunately it looks like I need to reset all the devices

Bob

@JourneymanGeek layer 2/ethernet is probably all you can do

remember that you can only send what the NIC lets you

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I need to take down the whole power line networking set up ;p

Michael Frank

So.. my only two miners with my only two pickaxes are now stuck in the bottom of a hole, and I can't get them out. D:

Sathya

@gparyani no one posted anything

Journeyman Geek

06:17

I can see one of the devices from here with the alternate software but not the other.

which makes no bloody sense

Bob

@MichaelFrank that's exactly the situation I ended up in :P

eventually figured out the scroll for viewing different layers

and constructed a ramp

but that was painful

@JourneymanGeek unless the software has custom drivers for the NIC too, it can't really be a 'lower level' than what the NIC allows

you can't send arbitrary signals AFAIK

Michael Frank

@Bob - aaaaaaaaand they drowned...

Bob

O.o

Michael Frank

The only way I could think of getting the out was to dig into the pond... and contruct the ramp there... But it filled with water before they could get the ramps up.

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

06:35

@Bob: the utility that isn't a crashy piece of shit uses win pcap

Journeyman Geek

06:51

ooh there's a newer utility

Sathya

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yep. keep yer spam flags ready

slhck

07:09

@Sathya We've been getting so many of those in the last weeks…

Journeyman Geek

whoot

slhck

Does anyone else know these kinds of people who think "wh000t!!!" is another form of writing "what??!"

That really grinds my gears.

Journeyman Geek

lol

I do mean whoot as in whoot

;p

slhck

I wouldn't have expected otherwise :P

Journeyman Geek

hm

curious

HackToHell

07:46

wtf

dailydot.com/technology/tor-botnet-microsoft-malware-remove

Microsoft can remove programs remotely ?

Bob

07:58

@HackToHell prolly the malicious software removal tool

which is released with every montly update

you can deselect it if you want, or turn off automatic updates entirely

jokerdino

it is using MSE

Bob

@jokerdino wouldn't be

MSE isn't installed by default on Win7, and WD (the renamed version) isn't activated on all Win8

I mean, MSE probably catches it

but that's an obvious A/V program, and not remotely newsworthy

the MSRT is a little more obscure, but even then hardly hidden

jokerdino

> He surmises that Microsoft used its Microsoft Security Essentials software to eliminate the programs, a program users must install themselves.

Bob

@jokerdino That's someone else's guess.

I'm saying it's unlikely.

Then again, neither MSE or MSRT are completely silent about their actions.

In fact, both pop up nice big warnings.

jokerdino

@Bob That's a possibility too -- in order not to get anyone to file lawsuits.

Bob

08:00

Yup, my guess was right:

> Yeah, no shit. Microsoft explains the whole thing here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2014/01/09/tackling-the-sefnit-botnet-tor-hazard.aspx

The method Microsoft uses to "reach into certain computers and delete programs" is called Windows Update.

Microsoft sends out it's Malicious Software Removal Tool through Windows Update every month. Every month a new family or two of malware that Microsoft has seen proliferating will get signatures added to the MSRT. This has been going on for years. If you don't want them doing it simply deselect the MRST from Windows Update once a month.

That was in the comments.

>

October 27, 2013: We modified our signatures to remove the Sefnit-added Tor client service. Signature and remediation are included in all Microsoft security software, including Microsoft Security Essentials, Windows Defender on Windows 8, Microsoft Safety Scanner, Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection, and Windows Defender Offline.
November 12, 2013: Signature and remediation is included in Malicious Software Removal Tool and delivered through Windows Update/Microsoft Update.

They added it to MSE (obviously), but also to MSRT

MSRT will run on every computer by default, unless updates are turned off (or it's explicitly disabled)

obv doesn't run on every machine if you look at that graph

Bob

08:14

..

@JourneymanGeek

> This converter allows you to use bottled ink with most fountain pens (except Aurora, Cross, Lamy, Parker, Pilot, Platinum, Sailor, and Sheaffer).

soo.... all the big brands? :P

Oh, Mont Blanc, Monteverde and Pelikan use standard international

I wonder why converters for converters (to different fittings) don't exist...

Journeyman Geek

its not just fittings tho

hm, homeplug switch isn't working in my room, but is fine elsewhere

I wonder what the hell is going on

tho, connection quality is a bit naff

nonetheless, one thing ruled out

Bob

08:31

@JourneymanGeek oh?

sparkubullet

Question: Why not double-check that Java will prompt you before running any plugins/apps on webpage?

Answer: You couldn't be more wrong. Java is a binary file, the java virtual machine interprets and runs the java bytecode in the applets. Put the right magic into the applet and you exploit the java runtime. Just like opening a corrupted pdf file can exploit acrobat reader.

Does that guy know what is he answering about?

Journeyman Geek

08:47

@Bob: set up security on the homeplugs, and figured it was that (since there is no way the confounded things tell you what the networkname is) - moved the unit closer to the other homeplugs and it worked. Moved it back, and it didn't....

eventually? I think the plug was SLIGHTLY loose

its a fincky black box ;p

Bob

@sparkubullet wtf is that question

my brain hurts

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I have a few platinum carts

they are odd

they're sealed with a metal ballbaring at the end

Bob

GPU surgery scheduled for tomorrow

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Journeyman Geek

Nurse, Scapel.... small screw driver..... CHAINSAW!

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