Root Access

Bob

00:11

lol

Hennes

@LewsTherin I had good experience with HDD caddies just plugged into the laptops SATA port (either in the optical media bay via sata) or via eSATA. However the text on the example makes me cringe.

reply laptop HDD? How about 2.5 inch DESKTOP harddisk. JUst scap the laptop word out of it

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic precisely

and if you arn't happy with it, you have more flexibility to replace it with another launcher and assorted widgets. Not to mention most OEM skins are massively bloaty

my one V is nearly a new phone after I replaced the firmware

Hennes

"Is black. 2.5" SATA disk drives. Has USB 3.0 interface and comes with screws." -> there. dumped 99% of the needless text\

Bob

@Hennes s/comes with/has/

save some characters ;)

s/Is //

Hennes

OK, point(s)

If they are going to spam, just put the relevant text in it and quote some Shakespear to meet your char quota.

Or use:
Black external HDD case for 2.5 inch drives.
Support USB3. COmes with screws.
Clay Shirky audience atomization overcome perfect for starting a campfire Nook NPR Flipboard the notional night cops reporter in Des Moines This Week in Review inverted pyramid Marshall

Journeyman Geek

00:19

o0

Hennes

Usually I reserve text like that for review questions.

Psycogeek

00:31

Tiny short sounds files, that are already Wav, space not an issue, should i convert them to MP3 for android phone app playback? If say i wanted there to be the least ammount of cpu used to play them.

Play meaning just beep, plink and click.

Or If you saw a sound resource packed into an android app, for short beeps, is it likely that the programmer put in wav mp3 or ogg ?

Bob

00:58

@Psycogeek Negligible difference.

PCM WAVs tend to be easiest to play, because just about everything supports it.

Journeyman Geek

also, they are not compressed so they obviously sound better ;p

/me hides.

on android, shouldn't matter really.

I'd guess it would depend on the developer's preferences more than anything else.

Bob

Psycogeek

Ok thanks.

Anonymous

01:46

@JourneymanGeek @Psycogeek but I'm sure you'd also want to make your app light (as in not Asphalt-2 GB .apk)

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek recommendations on free antivirus other than Common Sense 2014?

Psycogeek

@PatoSáinz I no program, just simple macro scripting kinda stuff. and as goofy and specialised, nobody else would want it.

Anonymous

@Psycogeek oh ok

Anonymous

@Psycogeek any recommendations on free antivirus other than Common Sense?

allquixotic

@PatoSáinz I use TrustGo

Anonymous

01:58

@allquixotic never heard of it. what company is it from?

Anonymous

Also, a quick google search says it's for mobile

Anonymous

I'm looking for Windows

allquixotic

@PatoSáinz oh, sorry... I saw .apk above and thought "oh, Android!"

Psycogeek

@PatoSáinz i only use that malware bytes thing, and only on the pc, and only manual. Downloads go into one folder, get scanned, installs get scanned. the web is all blocked from activex , until i am on trustworthy sites and need it. Java, well its in prayer mode.

allquixotic

that'll teach me to take a statement out of context

Anonymous

02:00

@Psycogeek I don't even have java installed

Anonymous

Well, any fire-and-forget solution? I don't want to scan shit manually

allquixotic

I use an OpenJDK build for Windows :) no Ask toolbar prompt, no Oracle proprietary bits

Psycogeek

Rarely i will upload weird stuff to virustotal.

allquixotic

@PatoSáinz back before I let Windows 8.1's built-in virus scanner handle everything for me, I used Comodo. it didn't seem to slow me down or impede programs.

virustotal is the best

funnily enough, no matter WHAT you upload, at least one vendor sniffs it the wrong way and calls it suspicious :D

you could upload Windows' own explorer.exe and half of them would call it a virus

Psycogeek

@allquixotic huristics, yes its suspitious , i knew that, but is it a virus :-)

allquixotic

02:02

and legit programs which have been "packed" by UPX (for instance; there are other good packers too) also get flagged very often, even though they are totally fine

Anonymous

well I have no problem with disabling the AV for my shit

allquixotic

You need to learn to be self-sufficient. Don't ask me (or anyone, for that matter) to spoon-feed you. Use a search engine. Google "sha1 java api". Read the JavaDocs. Being able to help yourself solve problems independently and learn in a self-directed manner will improve your career and academic success 100,000 times more than me teaching you how to use the Java SHA1 API. And don't just look for code examples; learn how to interpret documentation and translate it into code. You need to understand what you're looking at, and if you don't, obtain the knowledge you need by yourself. — allquixotic 7 mins ago

Psycogeek

I do not really see much point in continual scanning, when i am not continually changing anything. and everything else is scanned. Then the tons of media, as long as the viewers are incapable of excuting anything.

allquixotic

►

i feel like Picard :D

Anonymous

@allquixotic ok i'm downloading comodo

Anonymous

02:07

Hope it's not a resource hog

Anonymous

I've got enough with iTunes and Firefox

allquixotic

at least on my system it wasn't much of a resource hog

the thing i liked about it is that it stays out of your way

no constant nagging like others

Anonymous

@allquixotic alright. Also, custom Firewall y/n?

allquixotic

Comodo comes with a custom firewall; I just set it to defaults

Anonymous

I think the paid version does

Anonymous

02:10

not free

allquixotic

you'd only need to really care about it if you have to open ports

which i never do

Psycogeek

I use the winders firewall, it is just a matter of actually turning it on :-) so it does something.

Anonymous

@Psycogeek you spelt windows wrong

Psycogeek

thats the suthern way of saying it

or in eubonics is YoWins

Anonymous

lol

Anonymous

02:15

I see you banned @Utkarsh

Anonymous

Thank you @allquixotic

Psycogeek

... oh and "windows firewall notify" which does the "hey did you see this" for the windows firewall.

Anonymous

@allquixotic "I want to help comodo by setting my home page and search engine to Yahoo!" 0/10 would not install

Psycogeek

With them both working together, it is a lot like Zone Alarm was , way back in time when I used it. staying simpler, and just telling who is trying to talk out. then it is either HellNo, Just this once, or Make My day.

Anonymous

"Install PrivDog toolbar to only show AdTrustMedia ads"

Anonymous

02:22

wtf comodo

Utkarsh

@PatoSáinz what?

Bob

@allquixotic ok, got the s4 :D

Anonymous

@allquixotic thanks for the recommendation anyway, Comodo just installed

Anonymous

@Utkarsh what?

Utkarsh

12 mins ago, by Pato Sáinz

I see you banned @Utkarsh

Okay leave it! mmmm,,,I was about to ask you something...okay bye...meal break :)

Anonymous

02:29

@Utkarsh oh gee why did I summon ye. I confused mindjailed with an actual ban. Whatever.

Utkarsh

haha

Journeyman Geek

@pato I just use msse with occasional malwarebytes scans

Psycogeek

@Utkarsh So are you like a Genie in a bottle, popping out in a puff of smoke :-)

4

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek Hey! Good Morning

Bob

wtf

2A charger

Utkarsh

02:35

@Psycogeek you are really a geek?

nevermind

Psycogeek

@Utkarsh I used to be a nerd, but then i got contacts.

Utkarsh

XD

Anonymous

02:54

@allquixotic comodo says my ableton live patch and htc bootloader are malware

Anonymous

ehm i forgot how much i loved AVs

allquixotic

@Bob nice

@PatoSáinz every virus scanner will have false positives :(

comodo didn't have any on my PC, but I didn't use Ableton or HTC bootloaders

Anonymous

@allquixotic do you use the auto-sandbox?

Anonymous

and/or the behaviour blocker?

Anonymous

I'm tweaking the AV

allquixotic

02:57

@PatoSáinz I used the auto-sandbox, yeah, but I don't think it did all that much for most programs

"intrusive" programs that try to do a lot to your system might not like it, but those programs usually give you a UAC prompt anyway

and i think it doesn't try to sandbox UAC'ed procs

Anonymous

alright

Bob

ffs

can't even sign into google account

not off to a great start

allquixotic

well, my entire desktop won't boot, so welcome to the land of tech problems

Anonymous

:)

allquixotic

my friggen recovery USB disk shows the windows logo and reboots

Anonymous

03:02

@allquixotic virustotal.com/es/file/…

Anonymous

why do AV companies insist that "gens" and "patches" are "trojans"

allquixotic

what kind of a patch is it?

a hack?

Anonymous

@allquixotic piracy

allquixotic

oh, well it very well might have malicious code in it then

Anonymous

@allquixotic not all damn patches are malicious

allquixotic

03:04

a lot of pirated stuff is actively malicious; it's just silent in what it does so you don't suspect it

Bob

oh god

"Join Google+"

Anonymous

@allquixotic i'm very suspicious of everything, also, if you see its "score" in virustotal it's actually just a few who say it's virus

Bob

NOT HERE TOO

Anonymous

@Bob where's here

Bob

@PatoSáinz phone setup

allquixotic

03:05

@Bob hey Bob, I heard there were female foxes looking for male foxes to snuggle with and speak in morse to on Google+.... why don't you sign up for it?

Bob

50 GB dropbox account, great! ...for two years (awww)

allquixotic

I have a whole terabyte of google cloud storage now :D they upgraded everyone 5x

Anonymous

@allquixotic i'm also thinking of using malwarebytes instead... do you think it fares better than comodo?

allquixotic

I haven't tried malwarebytes

HackToHell

@Bob new phone ?

Bob

03:08

@HackToHell ya

HackToHell

Moto G?

Bob

> Smart stay works best under the following conditions: The device is held steady and upright; The device is in well lit conditions but the screen is not in direct light

read: completely fucking useless

@HackToHell S4

HackToHell

Oh :|

Anonymous

@Bob samsung is just half-baked ideas, poorly thought gimmicks and badly executed features

Bob

@PatoSáinz Way to echo @allquixotic :P

HackToHell

03:09

@Bob You could have bought a HTC one :P

Bob

7 hours ago, by Bob

One word: Beats.

Anonymous

The best antivirus is DBAM

Bob

@PatoSáinz I'm partial to thermite.

allquixotic

!! s/HTC/Beats/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic @Bob You could have bought a Beats one :P (source)

allquixotic

03:12

!! s/Beats/!!no/

ChatBot John Cavil

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

@allquixotic @allquixotic @Bob You could have bought a !!no one :P (source) (source)

Anonymous

@Bob who cares you can always bypass that bullshit

Anonymous

with a custom rom

Anonymous

because you are gonna rom it

HackToHell

yeah, GSE doesn't support beats and all

Bob

03:14

what the fucking fuck

0.92 GB / 1.7 GB used (RAM)

HackToHell

lol

SApps FTW!

Anonymous

this is what happens when you buy overpriced bs

allquixotic

@Bob does that count page cache? because if it does, that's perfectly normal; in fact I'm surprised it's not 1.7/1.7 if so

Journeyman Geek

lol

I have a HTC One (V)

and yes, it had beats.

allquixotic

had?

you, sir, are a leet haxxor

Journeyman Geek

03:20

@Bob for tablets.

Anonymous

I'm just gonna get a Moto G

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: that wasn't the problem. The fact that the damned thing froze up on phonecalls was

Utkarsh

I have nokia 3320

Journeyman Geek

Now it runs Pomega ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek came with a phone

allquixotic

03:20

the Moto G seems to be what all the cool kids are getting today -- but I'm going for the Galaxy S5 probably

HackToHell

sonelli.com/500k

Bob

@allquixotic ya, moto g is just a little underpowered for my main use phone :P

Psycogeek

jeez google thats not a URL, thats a book. Why you redirect me so.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: define underpowered

its about as good as a galaxy S3 benchmarkwise.

HackToHell

@Bob It is still faster than your SII :P

Utkarsh

03:22

OMG!!

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I don't mean CPU/processing power.

Journeyman Geek

oh, and since when did the stock android keyboard do swiping?

Bob

More, lacking certain features.

No 5 GHz WiFi

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek since 4.4 iirc

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: like?

ahh, thats a PiTA

Bob

03:22

Only 1 GB RAM

Journeyman Geek

and true of too much of my gear

the ram is rarely an issue

Bob

Battery not removable.

No MicroSD support.

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek your RAM? or your PC's ram??

Bob

@JourneymanGeek For me, it is.

I get hit often by the OOM killer on my S2 (which had 1 GB)

Journeyman Geek

no microsd is an issue. VERY few phones have removable batteries.

o0

HackToHell

03:24

@JourneymanGeek RAM is an issue

Bob

@JourneymanGeek All Samsung ones do.

Journeyman Geek

(but then again, its a baby nexus)

Bob

Very few is perhaps an overstatement.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: only Samsung ones do.

HackToHell

I can't live on 1 gigs on ram :?

Journeyman Geek

03:24

;p

Psycogeek

@Utkarsh did you do the scan in the window like it said ? When you get that many viruses the next thing to do is drop it out that window :-)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek And Huawei.

Journeyman Geek

almost

I've had this phone for a while. I can't complain ;p

Utkarsh

@Psycogeek what do you mean by window? You mean, kill the explorer.exe?

Psycogeek

@Utkarsh it was a play on words, nevermind

Anonymous

03:27

@Utkarsh i'm not surprised

Utkarsh

@PatoSáinz How?

Anonymous

The only problem I've got with the Moto G is the limited storage

Bob

the sim card trim worked :D

looks like shit, but meh

Anonymous

My music library is 6 gigs, but I think I should just reencode everything to opus (i'm not gonna use mobile internet for everytime I want music)

Utkarsh

@Psycogeek can you suggest any other tools?

Seth

03:28

Speaking of the moto G, Republic Wireless will get them in April. Dunno what country you're in.

Anonymous

@Utkarsh a nail and a hammer, through your head

Seth

em, what?

Anonymous

@Seth are you talking to me?

Seth

@PatoSáinz Not specifically. You did mention the Moto G though.

Utkarsh

Anonymous

03:30

oh, @Seth, I'm in Chile and we can get the prepaid Moto G for...

Anonymous

174 USD

Seth

Cool! We can get em a bit cheaper here.

Utkarsh

Ah! Its much Cheaper in India!

Seth

Oh?

Journeyman Geek

I just shoved all my music on google play music, and then copied a random subset to my old phone

which does have a micro sd card

Psycogeek

03:31

@Utkarsh which one did you use? some of the virus tools can use the word "threat" to mean a tracking cookie. scares make money.

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek I like to own my music and have it with me, not with ma' google

Utkarsh

Seth

@Utkarsh Doing a virus clean up?

Journeyman Geek

@PatoSáinz: only 6 gigs?

Utkarsh

@Seth Yes!

Journeyman Geek

03:32

@PatoSáinz: I like to have lots of backups.

I have two copies of my 'usual' music collection.

Bob

@Psycogeek Well, it is a threat. In the same way a goldfish is a threat. You might accidentally drop the fishtank on your foot.

Journeyman Geek

at least. Maybe 3.

Utkarsh

@JourneymanGeek 4?

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek iTunes says: 792 songs, approx. 6 gigs

Anonymous

most of them are 320kbps MP3s

Bob

03:33

...

Anonymous

@Seth I think it's still dirty cheap

Bob

> I like to own my music

> Gets music from iTunes

Journeyman Geek

(the joys of a completely automated backup system)

Bob

ahem

Journeyman Geek

lol

Utkarsh

03:33

@Psycogeek I'm just scanning with NOD32 + MBAM + Hitman

Anonymous

@Bob >implying I buy from iTunes

Journeyman Geek

If I was buying music, I'd try to go lossless.

Seth

@PatoSáinz Most certainly.

Anonymous

I can use foobar2000 too but I just stuck with iTunes

Utkarsh

@PatoSáinz how much songs you listen?

Bob

03:34

@PatoSáinz That's the implication, when you use the program.

Seth

@Utkarsh I also recommend rkill. Doesn't actually remove anything, but it gives good pointers.

Anonymous

@Utkarsh each one

Bob

There honestly isn't any other reason to use it.

Anonymous

@Bob I used to have an iPod

Utkarsh

@Seth okay :)

Anonymous

03:35

I sold it to buy a Canon DSLR

Utkarsh

I'll scan with rkill also

I've only one folder of Songs

Journeyman Geek

Utkarsh

OMG!!!

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek You could convert it all to Opus :P

Psycogeek

@bob , do you already have that phone In hand? How you do that? Amazon Air Droid delievery?

Journeyman Geek

03:40

!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

Journeyman Geek

though its a mix of different formats

not everything is Flac, though I prefer it when I can

Bob

@Psycogeek Car + road to store :P

HackToHell

Do you have any music in your phone ?

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek well of course it's easy to have 114 gigs of flacs

Journeyman Geek

03:41

@HackToHell: no

@PatoSáinz: its only about a quarter flac

Anonymous

but i don't care that much, also, I started building my music library in August 2013

Journeyman Geek

a lot of this is off my brother's collection and he's not an audiophile

Psycogeek

@Bob what you couldnt download it ? do we get pictures?

Journeyman Geek

I've been trying to talk him into letting me rip his music collection for him

HackToHell

It's been a long time since I downloaded music.

Utkarsh

03:41

Oh No! When I was cleaning up viruses, my taskbar is gone! I'm only left with my chrome open!!!

HackToHell

Spotify FTW

@Utkarsh Ctrl+Shift+Esc --> Run --> explorer.exe

Anonymous

@HackToHell i'm not gonna subscribe to eat up my monthly cap and then just after paying, finally stream 320 kbps mp3s

Anonymous

local storage ftw

Anonymous

@Utkarsh You should get Common Sense 2014

Utkarsh

@HackToHell should i do it or wait as Hitman Pro was cleaning Viruses??

@PatoSáinz ^

Bob

03:43

@Psycogeek I'd take pictures, but my desk is too messy to bother :P

Seth

@Utkarsh restart the computer. And I suggest you use only products that you're sure are legit.

Journeyman Geek

@PatoSáinz: at home no monthly cap

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek I spend a lot of time outside home so i'm out of luck

Utkarsh

No, I earlier used Hitman and it was legit

Journeyman Geek

my current phone plan has 12gb free data, and I use ~600mb a month at the moment

If I upgraded to LTE, its down to 1gb at the same price so... I'll stick to my current plan

Psycogeek

03:44

@Bob ok maybe later you can take pics of (or with) the new phone.

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek i've got 121 MB mobile data plan for $15

Utkarsh

Thank God!

Journeyman Geek

@PatoSáinz: though, since the local motos are dual sim, if all else fails, I can just get a PAYG card for extra data

especially if I am going to need a shitload at once.

Utkarsh

OH! @ThatBrazilianGuy is now ThatBrazilianGirl

ekaj

asdf

Utkarsh

03:58

ekaj asdf asdf asdf asdf

ekaj

I don't know what to do

Journeyman Geek

then do nothing. or something. Or everything in between.

That Brazilian Guy

@ekaj When one knows not what to do, doing nothing is what one does.

Utkarsh

and if anything has to be done then we have everything to do

That Brazilian Guy

What's mindjailing?

Psycogeek

04:01

Do or do not there is no try _Yoda

Utkarsh

@ThatBrazilianGuy banning anyone in his/her own mind

like allquixotic did :P

Psycogeek

@ThatBrazilianGuy stopping a person from having control of a cylon, so they do not destroy the battlestar fleet.

ekaj

I need to set it up soon so I can access my shell accounts on my school's network from my house >.>

allquixotic

@Psycogeek :)))

That Brazilian Guy

@Psycogeek And how that applies here in Root Access?!

@Psycogeek Or that is just a fancy way of saying "Johnbot now ignores this user"?

ekaj

04:07

@Psycogeek

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy he's obviously a battlestar galactica fan

(so am i; so say we all)

That Brazilian Guy

Battlestar what?

allquixotic

die

or drop what you're doing and watch it

That Brazilian Guy

(And I said that just to make you mad).

allquixotic

mission accomplished

Utkarsh

04:08

That Brazilian Guy

But actually I have only watched a few episodes of the 70 's? 80's? series, a loooooong time ago.

ekaj

Everyone should keep pinging @Psycogeek.. because he likes it

Utkarsh

Can anyone help?

this code is not workking

That Brazilian Guy

But now I have Netflix so I might watch it in the near future.

allquixotic

watch the new series;it's so much better

That Brazilian Guy

04:09

That remindes me: Does Netflix block content based on IP, or on account creation?

Because I strongly suspect my content is restricted.

HackToHell

@ThatBrazilianGuy Brazil has netflix ?

That Brazilian Guy

Yes.

But I created my account with a Brazilian IP and set to a Brazilian credit card

So I wonder if I somehow use a proxy or VPN will I get the full content?

I have to research into it

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy not sure, but some similar services go by GeoIP

That Brazilian Guy

I have to find some content that is confirmed to be USA-only and check.

Does USA-Netflix has Simpsons? Because I got Futurama and Family Guy but no Simpsons :(

HackToHell

bleh MPC_HC keeps crashing

And I can't figure out why

That Brazilian Guy

04:13

But lots and lots of SpongeBob :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

LIVES IN A PINEAPLE UNDER THE SEA

SPONGE BOB

SQUARE PANTS

Journeyman Geek

o0

Psycogeek

sounds like womans pad for that time of the month

(but whats with the pineapple)

That Brazilian Guy

@Psycogeek WHAT YOU DONT KNOW SPONGEBOB

Psycogeek

@ThatBrazilianGuy OMG , now more than i care to

ekaj

I've been visiting 4chan lately... I need to stop.

ChatBot John Cavil

04:18

HAMMERTIME!

Utkarsh

@ThatBrazilianGuy patrick!!

@ThatBrazilianGuy and near spongebob's house, lives Squidward who lives in an idol. Am I right?

Boris_yo

06:53

Wake Up America!

infowarsshop.com/-Coffee_c_84.html

Bob

07:06

..

wow

phone comes with "HP Print Service Plugin" and "Samsung Print Service Plugin"

Journeyman Geek

The HP plugin seems standard for android 4.4

no idea about the samsung one

Bob

@JourneymanGeek double wow

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, I find its kinda odd myself

Bob

07:31

@JourneymanGeek also, mine's still on 4.3

Journeyman Geek

I can't remember if my moto G had it with 4.3

Boris_yo

You drink Cola too?

See what happens to your body in the process: whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/09/…

Bob

@Boris_yo You really need to work on your scepticism.

Boris_yo

07:58

@Bob There are many sources claiming the facts. That's why I cannot be sceptic here.

Bob

> Source: Get Holistic Health

Yea, no.

"many sources" != "good sources"

If you follow the chain of sources:

> Sources:

http://wikipedia.org

Author: Tsvetan Petrov, a health blogger from “Get Holistic Health” blog.

Yea, how 'bout !!no

Boris_yo

08:13

@Bob Chain sources? Like going through chain to discover origin to avoid information disruption?

Hmm Google Store ranks #1 for "play" No wonder...

Lews Therin

09:49

@Psycogeek Ha yeah ok :)

@Hennes Yeah perhaps, but nothing I can do about it :P

Bob

11:13

Ah, eBay descriptions.

> Clear and matte design, so fashion.

> so fashion

Oliver Salzburg

11:35

such design

Journeyman Geek

11:55

.... doge descriptions?

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