Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:15

bleh

I need my own test jabber server again'

Michael Frank

01:36

LM126, USA, New York

196 2

laptop windows-8 hp bios blackscreen boot brightness

This guy has some terrible reading skills.

Michael Frank

02:03

What's the deal with hp and their weird URLs? h10025.www1.hp.com

Psycogeek

02:51

new way to confuse robots? and reduce the server load.

HackToHell

03:15

Hmm, I want to update to Windows 8 just for that better ckeckdisk :P blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/09/…

HackToHell

03:40

►

wow

Psycogeek

1

Q: Within a wi-fi network, are all computers directly connected?

I tracerouted some computers on my home network and all were only 1 hop away. I sort of expected 2 hops because I thought maybe packets need to go through the router or gateway. Surely this can't always be the case, right? There's nothing to guarantee that two arbitrary computers using the same ...

wireless-networking

HackToHell

Network Layers are confusing ;p

Psycogeek

^ wish somone would answer that in english :-) I am using more wireless than before but all the techobabble didnt help splain it.

the question really did answer one question i had, 2 devices on the same IP group and router addressing thing , Can communicate to eachother direct. Just like wire.

Then if i add in , the part I let mentally slip "all wi-fi devices are 2-WAY" , they are not just recievers. it is logical again that it it is just like wire.

Then the last part, when networking between 2 WiFi connected devices and it is like:
Phone------------------------------Router-----------------------------Tablet
and the phone and tablet are too far away from eachother, but easily connect to same router, then what happens?

ekaj

04:14

54

Q: Al Gore won't leave me alone. How do I unfriend someone on Facebook?

In exploring South Park, I met a somewhat curious older gentleman hiding in he bushes over behind the movie theatre. It turns out that gentleman was former Vice President Al Gore. He promptly became my Facebook friend, and asked me to help him place some fancy science equipment around town. Afte...

the-stick-of-truth

also, I am never using a startup generator again

Journeyman Geek

o0

Bob

04:39

Meanwhile...

For the intimidation factor!

Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his secrets. (Also, I would be hard-pressed to find that wrench for $5.)

Boris_yo

05:11

Anyone can recommend earphones with playback control on Amazon?

Journeyman Geek

lol

Psycogeek

@Bob A Dead Island constructor weapon. (zombie killing video game) one big wrench 2 rags, wire , and lighter fluid.

@Boris_yo I can see ratings for single apps. I was hoping you had a search method that added ratings to the sort or something? Or any tricks for searching in the google apps store (on phone too) that can trim down some of the waste.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek What sort?

Psycogeek

05:28

@Boris_yo Well sort by "programs that charge you for ingame purchases making them $60 to play" for 2 days? Sort by "really popular for 5 year olds parents" , to sort by "the least number of Bug reports"?

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek You want to search for minimum ratings, reviews you can do that. I am logged out and I think you can't see ratings, reviews until you log in.

@Psycogeek That's some advanced sorting... Only on search results and not that kind of sorting.

Psycogeek

There are just too many Things in there , and (like you said before) to many people praising stuff that is either buggy junk , or a money ripoff.

Some way to find the Diamonds, which truely exist, in the coal.

I already have most of my needed programs selected. Weird one, i just paid for "speakerphoneEx" because the free (itself) works good for speakerphone change. But the Paid version wants to licence verify once every day. Arrrrgggg. So before i realise it, it has disabled itself, and i screw up answering the phone again.

Had to go back to the free version. grumbling all the way. glad to support the developer, dang ticked that the developer made the paid version useless for ME.

3-4 times now , the paid versions have had like zero value over the free version. Like the added features in the paid are just beta stuff that is really untested. or features that not many people would really want. or the paid version simply crashes :-) So i am donating, and happy to donate to good developers, but really getting nothing out of it.

Boris_yo

05:58

@Psycogeek Fake reviews?

@Psycogeek What it does?

Psycogeek

The AutoAnswer app that i am now using for the Car, it sets to just blindly answer the phone (no reject) anytime the phone is A) landscape B) not in pocket (proximity) C) plugged to power. The one called AppRite play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.presector.apprite totally free, and so far simple and better than many car docks. Rating on it is terrible.

@Boris_yo Change speaker on phone as you pull away from ear. Auto answer as you pull out of pocket and put to ear. Proximity, also could be used for "wave answer" when laying up on the desk.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Why rating is terrible for a good app?

@Psycogeek What call recording app you use?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo I assume it does not work right for 2.3 and down? But i am getting "better" results from "new" programs because they are more often made for 4.0+ So this is a "Low Maturity" program.

@Boris_yo I do not record calls. I am Using "RecForge" for stereo recordings , from the 2 mics.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Does that help you when driving?

@Psycogeek Your smartphone has 2 mics?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo Well i do not drive a lot, i walk more. But I Set up the (non tech) landlord with the same thing. I tried many apps, and watched him run off the road (just joking) when trying to answer. Finnaly ended up with blind answer.

@Boris_yo Yes, many do for the "noise cancelation" where one mic listens to you and the other one cancels the environment (noises around you). Then this also applies the 2 for "zoom mic" (another cancelling process using comparitor) and for stereo videos.

Boris_yo

06:10

@Psycogeek 1st mic is focused for close proximity and second is far proximity?

So they spot the difference and cancel it out?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo They are just on both ends of the phone.

One closer to where a person would be talking.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek What's the difference between refurbishing and fitting something? Bathroom fitting and refurbishment for example.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo Yea, it is more simple than it sounds. A simple cheap "shotgun" mic has a built in comparitor to make a mic cancel out anything that hits both mics at the same time. So the tech itself is old and can be done in very small and very little extra power.

Reverse the phase on an analog or even digital audio chunk , and it cancels out . The way they do audio it goes like +1 to -1 for a Sound pressure change. (speaker moving Foreward , speaker moving back). Positive & negative. So adding +1 to -1 = 0

@Boris_yo Refurbishing is to rebuilt it entirely. Fix up all the worn or broken, make it somewhat like new. . The use of the word "Refurbished" in selling stuff varies a lot "re-tested" to "still-broken" "lemon that works somewhat" "just re-boxed for sale" Could mean anything when you see stuff selling as a refurb.

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo: refurbish = take crappy old thing, fix. Fitting means putting things in place.

Bob

06:27

7

A: The Memes of Arqade and its Chat

Meme: kalina setting people on fire Originator: kalina Cultural Height: still kindling Related: Spreadsheet of people kalina has set fire to in the Bridge (2012, 2013, 2014)

hrm

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek And how refurbishing differs from renovating?

Journeyman Geek

You refurbish a specific component, you renovate an apartment.

Psycogeek

Latin renovâre, renovât- : re-, re- + novâre, to make new (from novus, new).]

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek You can't refurbish propery, building, house?

Journeyman Geek

sure you can

you USUALLY renovate an apartment though

Psycogeek

06:43

the common usage of the terms. so used to be hearing it that way, that it would sounds wrong to use it a different way.

Bob

@Boris_yo refurbishing in that context usually means more redecorating, replacing furniture, etc

but you'll find a lot of words in the english language can be interchangeable, and context-dependent

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

2

...wow

Journeyman Geek

07:00

o0

Boris_yo

07:20

@Bob Refurbishment is more like upgrade while renovation is total property repair due to problems?

Bob

uh.. not really

Psycogeek

@Bob 2 True, but lets not spread that around, or we will have "everything is wrong on the internet" , not just "something is wrong .

Journeyman Geek

oooh

you can link ttrss instances

I need to do a little work to enable it but this could turn out interesting

Bob

@JourneymanGeek One of these days, you're going to accidentally activate skynet...

Journeyman Geek

07:36

There's no plugin called "Kill All The Humans"

Boris_yo

Why Wikipedia do spell feng shui with lower case? It's a name, isn't it?

HackToHell

08:08

@Bob what game o0

Bob

@HackToHell Train Simulator 2014, apparently

Boris_yo

09:36

@TomWijsman Hello

Psycogeek

10:08

@Boris_yo Where in the wiki does it say it was a name? translates as "wind-water" in English , dang and here i thought it was more like symmetry. like why there are 2 gargoyles at equidistant locations in front of a building. Why both french doors are the same size, and why a pontoon boat has 2 equal sized floats.

Because anyone OCD would feak out and say "one of these things just ain't like the other, can you guess just which one" (sesame street training).

Gotta love it when they say "it was aliens who aligned the Pyramids", or any other historically old monument items to some star, or the moon. When all it ever indicated to me is, they didnt have GPS , and (revelation) they went outside, even at night. " before the invention of the magnetic compass" it took that long eh.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek But aliens already had GPS. That's how they triangulated alignment of pyramids.

To lure humans into pyramids where they would use them as incubators.

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Q: How to setup K9 Mail properly for free email services offering multiple aliases for same email box?

Tried Googling for a lot of results but did not find any that can show how to setup email accounts that offer using multiple email aliases to users on same email. I am talking mainly about Outlook.com and ability to send from my email account there using different aliases like [email protected] ...

settings email accounts k9-mail

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo Trying to trap the 3 wise men as they followed the "brightest star" :-)

@Boris_yo that does not sound like "aliases" but more like seperate "accounts" . Seperate accounts to same inbox, is just "combined inbox" which many things support, although (for me) that only confuses where they were headed.

Michael Frank

10:42

@Boris_yo did you ever consider that perhaps K9 doesn't support the feature you want?

Psycogeek

RoboDremmel engadget.com/gallery/inventables-easel/2476214/#!slide=2476216 The anti 3d printer, to remove instead of place.

Bob

@Psycogeek "anti 3d printer", also known as cnc milling

Milling (machining)

Milling is the machining process of using rotary cutters to remove material from a workpiece advancing (or feeding) in a direction at an angle with the axis of the tool. It covers a wide variety of different operations and machines, on scales from small individual parts to large, heavy-duty gang milling operations. It is one of the most commonly used processes in industry and machine shops today for machining parts to precise sizes and shapes. Process Milling is a cutting process that uses a milling cutter to remove material from the surface of a workpiece. The milling cutter is a rot...

Psycogeek

11:04

I can afford a dremmel and 2 servo motors :-)

Bob

@Psycogeek but not as accurate :P

though, having worked with CNC milling in the past... it's not the accuracy of the machine that matters most (past about 1mm, ours went down to 0.05mm)... it's the accuracy of the program (grumble grumble)

Psycogeek

Because many of the 3d printers have slop all about because the resolution (and general properties of hot plastic) is low. A combo might just do all the work. 3D print mess, with a Dremmel cleanup

@Bob So did you do a lot of manual operation of the machine? to finish, or just regularly?

Bob

@Psycogeek mhmm, precision parts are almost always machined

your typical plastic moulding and metal casting tends to be somewhat imprecise, especially after temperature changes (e.g. cooling)

@Psycogeek well, we were machining one-off jobs, so we had to sit and stare and make sure it didn't cut itself

some of the people who drew their projects were... careless

one guy hadn't heard of "snap to grid"

Psycogeek

@Bob ohh

Bob

we couldn't even get the CAD drawing converted to a CAM program...

others got tolerances wrong

there was a lot of hitting the red button when it started cutting into the metal jig (the cutting bit was for balsa wood... it doesn't like cutting metal)

Psycogeek

11:14

I see the computer interface at the machine shop i rarely go to, and the expert is doing manuel. I wasn't Even going to say "would that there computer do it" :-) I dont think i had the kind of money to spend.

Bob

@Psycogeek mostly, it was just put the wood in and let it go, if you have a good program

e.g. if we were redoing a known good one

afterwoods, there's a bit of trimming (the areas near the clamps can't be machined) and a little sanding (we did fairly rough cuts because we had little time)

but it was pretty accurate

of course, you also have problems reaching some more recessed areas that need some manual work

depends a lot on the job

@Psycogeek yea, those things allow manual control

of course mass production is gonna be automatic

but sometimes you don't want to spend time drawing it up

for simpler jobs, you can type in individual instructions

or you can control the cutter with the arrow keys :D

CNC Simulator 2014

weirdly, our machine control program actually came with a virtual mode (simulation)... was pretty broken

also, the first time you set it up you need ot set the zero coordinates to match the jig you use... that's a moderately painful process

Psycogeek

What was the general types of items that you were making (having it make)?

Boris_yo

@MichaelFrank I did not. Does it?

Psycogeek

11:30

Just rediculous google.com/… (killer sharks in the snow with bikini contest)

I am going to watch it, and see If at the same time i can measure my intelligence dropping below borderline retarded.

Boris_yo

12:05

@Psycogeek This is only temporary drop which you can restore by buying intelligence restoration option in you local pharamacy. You don't need prescription letter for this. In severe case you can get permanent intelligence drop and potions will be useless. You will need to see alternative medicine shaman for cure which will leave hole in your pocket.

Psycogeek

hmm, mabey some chinese herbs

Boris_yo

Somebody entered my gmail email address for Apple ID registration ... Who is onto me?

Psycogeek

Xvid is Divx spelled backwards, why you no tell me.

Boris_yo

12:44

@Psycogeek Thanks. You have abstract viewing on things.

@Psycogeek Want to stay productive at work, feeling energized and not tired like lazy ass? You and your employer both with. You perform optimally, improve your health and employer gets optimal performance from you. Here's what to do:

1. Don't eat until afternoot
2. At most eat once an hour small fruit

Psycogeek

then why arent starving ethiopians more productive?

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek We are superior ;)

Psycogeek

or some of us could afford to eat less, while others cannot afford to eat more.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek You told me once that Black Friday is not the best day for deals. Can you tell me which day is? I juts have wishlist items that I want to buy in one snap so I am looking for that day which will offer me most reduced price.

Psycogeek

13:00

@Boris_yo i was trying to explain that , it is not predictable, when the exact same product will be cheaper. Black friday does not define cheaper, even though it is "on sale" It could very well be that 2 months later it is on sale for way less.

In fact many items purchaced in Way to large of quanity for specific sales or holidays, will sell for less, once the Hype is over, to get rid of them.

There are price trending charts on the web somewhere, for singular products.

It seems to be happening more often now, that a really popular item , or highly reviewed item, will go up in price, as a item with similar specs (or better) that did not make it to EX: Toms Hardware Top list, will drop in price.

Sometimes it is a very crappy item, that nobody wants at all, that sells for $3 on black friday. The hype can get it moved off the shelf.

Any really new items , may very well be price reduced in the FIrst sale of them. But a few months later the Bugg free version comes out V2 (like motherboards) , and the initial hype is over, and the same board goes for $40 less.

So getting caught up in the Hype and new, and price , could be not only more money, but V1 too

When the dust settles , and the truth is known, and the reviews are out, but before it is sent off to china to clone.

anoldgangstah

13:19

hi i have a question. how do i set up my own vim attach where my counterpart can see my screen vice versa?

Bob

o.O

@anoldgangstah tooky.co.uk/remote-pairing-with-gnu-screen-and-vim

@anoldgangstah remotepairprogramming.com/post/43644503063/…

@anoldgangstah floobits.com

@anoldgangstah blog.stevenhaddox.com/2012/04/11/…

!!tell 14174133 google vim screen sharing

ChatBot John Cavil

@anoldgangstah remotepairprogramming.com/post/43644503063/… ; tooky.co.uk/remote-pairing-with-gnu-screen-and-vim ; floobits.com

Bob

eh, the same results anyway :P

HackToHell

lol

wait, did you reply using a bot

Bob

@HackToHell hm?

HackToHell

13:24

nevermind

anoldgangstah

Thanks for the quick response guys.

so that was a bot... amazing :)

HackToHell

Bleh, Dota 2 servers lag every damn weekend

Bob

@anoldgangstah The last one was a bot. I'm human.

At least, I think I'm human.

anoldgangstah

LOL

Psycogeek

@Bob but that is what a bot would say :-)

Hennes

13:56

Morning.

Yawn. 13 hours of sleep (and 17-ish hours without coffee -> headache)

Bob

@Hennes Soo... I can confirm yawns are contagious through computers too...

Hennes

Heh.

Gowsput on Crimson Red (watremelon).

The time difference is two days.

Bob

:D

Boris_yo

14:26

@Psycogeek In my case I do not zero in on certain item. I have 2 figure items in my wishlist and want to get them anytime soon but for lesser price all together. That's why I am looking for some kind of amazon promotion that at least applies to certain categories. In my case I have 33% of items belonging to personal care category, 20% to electronics category, 15% for Tools category etc. I need at least to catch the perfect moment where 2 categories would be discounted.

Boris_yo

15:07

@Bob Which one would work for home DIY?

1. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001FB3Y6U/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TX6RB8SC2AAG&coliid=I1IFYWMP50P4AW

2. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000K7TOLE/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TX6RB8SC2AAG&coliid=I56S9CWL2AT8R

Bob

shrug

Boris_yo

@Bob There's also silicone industrial lubricant but I remember you adviced graphite so I will take it.

@Bob Do you have portable travel charging battery for situations when you are out of power or can't find power source for your smarphone/tablet/MP3?

anoldgangstah

15:30

any care to discuss more about git submodule? :D

Bob

Sorry @Hennes, I seem to have a rather bad habit of adding info on questions you already answered :S

@Boris_yo if you can get into the fan bearings, apparently graphite is best

but this is not from my personal experience

@Boris_yo yea; it's my laptop in my bag

Boris_yo

@Bob Do you know how long those portable batteries chargers last? I won't use that product often and I am thinking if i should take 6000mAh or 9000mAh capacity.

Hennes

As long as it improves the posted material that is a good thing.

I did assume he meant windows 1.0, 2.01 (I had that for years), 3.0, 3.1. 3.1 WTF (oh, for wo4rkgroups) and ending with the top of the line product scheduled for release in 1998 (aka win95)

Bob

WOW

social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/…

> I need to start working on a project developed using Windows SDK 3.1 and port to the latest. Where can I get any references related to Windows SDK 3.1 and Download link for the API.
Thursday, August 01, 2013 7:27 AM

@Boris_yo no idea, again, I use my laptop

fully charging my phone takes about 10% of a laptop battery

my laptop batteries are rated 62 Wh

9000 mAh @ 3.7 V would be about 33 Wh

of course, there's a lot of (in)efficiency to factor in

cool bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/borland/…

allquixotic

16:09

@Bob may as well rewrite -- there was an enormous non-backwards-compatible change in the kernel ABI between pre-NT and NT versions of Windows

Bob

@allquixotic 3.1 didn't even use Win32

that came with 95

3.1 used WinAPI, 16-bit, and he could probably run it in DOSBox with a copy of 3.1 o.O

vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=9405

> - DO NOT ASK FOR A COPY OF WINDOWS 3.x Even though Windows 3.x is really old now, it is not freeware. **But cheap copies can sometimes be found on ebay or thrift shops. **

...who the hell still has a copy to sell?

hm, I broke Ghetto Chat Markdown (TM) again

@allquixotic but is the move from 95/98/ME to NT really "enormous non-backwards-compatible"?

there's plenty of software designed for 9x that'll still run on XP or even 7

> Charles Petzold, writer of several books about programming against the Windows API, has said: "The original hello world program in the Windows 1.0 SDK was a bit of a scandal. HELLO.C was about 150 lines long, and the HELLO.RC resource script had another 20 or so more lines. (...) Veteran C programmers often curled up in horror or laughter when encountering the Windows hello-world program."

heh

Boris_yo

16:25

Heard news about Microsoft cancelling DirectX12 so those who bought latest video cards would be disappointed...

Bob

oh ffs

> Mantle is a graphics API specification developed by AMD as an alternative to Direct3D and OpenGL, primarily for use on the PC platform.

@allquixotic ^

yea, like we need yet another...

!!xkcd standards

ChatBot John Cavil

@Bob xkcd.com/927

Bob

huh.

@allquixotic did you ever pull the xkcd fix? ;P

and then there's NVAPI too

gah

yea, we really need all this (/s)

allquixotic

18:00

@Bob you're just now hearing about Mantle...?

@Bob userspace. the kernel stuff is all new with NT.

@Bob not yet

Boris_yo

18:31

Kinivo ZX120: amazon.com/Kinivo-ZX120-Portable-Speaker-Improved/dp/B00ECKG706/…

Anyone has it?

Hennes

18:56

Nope.

I got some nice headphones though. Which do not get heard by my cow-orkers. :)

Boris_yo

@Hennes You know of good earphones for $20-25 range preferrably with playback control?

Hennes

No. I just used plain ones (though tasty ones according to my cat)

I had these, my cat ate them and I replaced them with the same model:

amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001EZWNUU/…

Boris_yo

19:29

You can run Google Chrome OS from USB drive? howtogeek.com/128575/…

@Hennes No playback control...

Hennes

I know. And none needed (for me)

I just connect them to the PC when I want to listen without disturbing others, or to the Samsung YP-1 when I am mobile

I am not sure how expensive an ipod is, but this is smaller and was quite cheap (15 euro). And it has lasted many years.

Anonymous

19:43

@Hennes a close friend got them recently

Anonymous

all I've got to say is that those Senn in-ear are a bang for the buck

Hennes

Aye. I am not audiophile, but they sound nice.
Certainly a lot better than all the cheap one I previously used.

Anonymous

I'm going to build my own eGPU for some VJ needs... I hope I don't break anything

Hennes

eGPU as in external GPU on a laptop via PCI-e? Or some thunderbolt version

Anonymous

@Hennes I'm going to do it via Expresscard

Hennes

19:49

OK. So via a PCI-e lane on the expresscard bus

Anonymous

yea

Anonymous

I'm going to run some mild stressing live music visualisators in the thing

Anonymous

And I don't want to build a PC from scratch if I can just use a spare notebook and an eGPU

Hennes

Calculation power should be uneffected. But transfer speed to and from the card might be relative slow. (only one lane, often at older PCI-e versions. So 2.5GHz or 5.0GHz)

Still, sounds like a real fun project. :)

Anonymous

@Hennes indeed, also, well, it's not like i'm raytracing and rendering shaders of shaders of grass within grass, just some abstract geometry and latency is the most important issue in my use case, not bandwidth

Anonymous

20:01

@Hennes it's gonna be a quite interesting setup

Anonymous

the notebook will get the music from just the aux-in and run the visualisators but i've got ahold with a script that fetchs metadata from Traktor

Anonymous

And if i manage to somehow communicate the VJ notebook with the DJ notebook (without adding too much CPU stress) I will add current song title and artist (or previous, depending on the latency and how good the Traktor metadata script is) to the visualisator

Anonymous

The visualisator will go through the eGPU to a projector

Anonymous

The projector doesn't need to be a fancy 1080p thingy nor to be very bright tho, the use case doesn't require it

Anonymous

So it'll be sorta a cheap installation :)

That Brazilian Guy

22:38

14 hours ago, by Bob

@HackToHell Train Simulator 2014, apparently

Every DLC costs orders of magnitude more then what I consider acceptable to pay for an entire game.

Stack Exchange

23:19

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Q: Is there a way to get a email whenever there's a new answer in a thread?

Is there a way to get an email alert whenever there's an new update (such as an answer or a comment) on a thread? I know you can just use IFTTT (check out ifttt.com) and set up a trigger, but I want to know if you can do that without having to sign up for another service. If that is not possible,...

feature-request email

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