Root Access

50-3

01:15

@JourneymanGeek Super off topic question, where do you get the ink for you Lamy pen from?

Journeyman Geek

@50-3: I bought a bottle of ink and use that - specifically a bottle of noodler heart of darkness

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek I still need to get a bottle of ink...

50-3

So you got the converter? do you have a preferred store in Singapore? My GF's bro was over here in Aus for a holiday and got a lamy but he's not sure where to go to buy stuff now he's back in Singapore

Journeyman Geek

not particularly, I tend to buy my pen-stuff online

and it came with the converter

There's a fairly active community here though, I'd probably check out artfriends, spotlight or kino

and there's the local noodler stockist, but they're a little expensive and a little posh

Journeyman Geek

01:50

tldr.es this seems useful

Bob

@50-3 ...Buying a Lamy in an Aus store is a great way to throw away money :P

If he were still here, Officeworks has pretty cheap Quink, and Dymocks and City Stationery both have a nice range of ink. Bit late for that, I guess.

But the Lamy pens are overpriced.

@JourneymanGeek Doesn't that apply to all FP-specialist stores? :P

Michael Frank

02:03

Ya know what would be awesome? A KVM that automatically functioned liked that Synergy program.

Something that would let me plug in a brand new OOB computer and be able to control it with my current keyboard and mouse.

50-3

@JourneymanGeek Oh Kino my GF loves that place went to sydney recently and found one, she almost cried in joy :)

Bob

@50-3 Wynyard? :P

Again, somewhat overpriced :(

50-3

@Bob it was only ~$40 which I wouldn't think was too bad, also what do you mean by Wynyard

Bob

@50-3 Wynyard is where the Kinokuniya in Sydney is. Unless there was more than one.

50-3

Books Kinokuniya - Address: Level 2, The Galeries/500 George St, Sydney NSW 2000

Is it a nick name for the location?

Bob

02:15

@50-3 $50 in all Aus stores I've seen, $40 most overseas stores.

@50-3 Uhh... more like the closest train station.

50-3

Isn't town hall a lot closer?

Sorry, Melbourne boy so don't know Sydney that well

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I wouldn't be surprised if there were still dingy specalist stores here.

@MichaelFrank so... kvm over IP?

@50-3: kinokuniya is probably the last great generalist bookstore in singapore :/

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Well... maybe? I'd prefer it just to be USB. :P

Journeyman Geek

we lost our borders, and page one decided to leave the retail business in singapore cause the rents are too damned high

Bob

@50-3 Maybe, but it's also rather smaller/further from where I am :P

It's like 5 mins walk between the two anyway.

Joe Stavitsky

02:20

so, I need to repair win8.1 enterprise boot. I have a blank usb3 hd, a working windows to go boot, and nothing else. Suggestions?

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank: ahh, so something you plug into a PC, pretends to be a ~~leopard~~ keyboard and mouse, and takes instructions over IP?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Heh. I wonder if @50-3 visited the one in the QVB.

Journeyman Geek

or USB on both ends?

Joe Stavitsky

Both recovery drive creation and windows 8 setup failed

50-3

@JourneymanGeek I miss Singapore you guys still have brilliant stores like that but the food OMFG the food

Journeyman Geek

02:20

@Bob: I haven't been to sydney in like... 15 years ;p

Bob

@JoeStavitsky Start with what symptoms show that the boot is not working.

Journeyman Geek

@50-3: @Bob will attest to the fact that I'm a daiso fanboy

and yeah, we still have stores like that. Quite heavily due to stobborness, and the way shopping centers were run in the 60s (strata properties rather than wholly owned by one owner)

Joe Stavitsky

@Bob: um, its not booting?

50-3

@JourneymanGeek I moved from the CBD of melbourne where I had 2 daiso's in walking distance and I was so sad that I would have to travel to the CBD to go to diaso

But there is still one like 5 mins walk from my house :D

Journeyman Geek

daisos are <3

how much are things there?

Bob

02:23

@JoeStavitsky At which point does the boot stop?

Journeyman Geek

Ours standardised on 2 dollars for all the things.

ChatBot John Cavil

HAMMERTIME!

50-3

They are <3, $2.80

How much in Singapore?

Journeyman Geek

2 dollars

and I find different ones are better for different things.

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Doesn't have to be over IP (unless that's the only way it'd work). Ideally it'd just be a regular 4 port USB KVM switch, that happens to also have a video passthrough so that my main computer is always displayed on one monitor, while the secondary monitor has the video from another computer.

50-3

02:24

I know have justification to make the trip to singapore again :) I only need to find 1000 things in daiso I need and the flight pays for itself

Journeyman Geek

ahh

50-3

now*

Michael Frank

We do a lot of out-of-box builds here, and having 2 keyboards and mice on the desk is annoying.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Michael Frank

So the box would need to handle the 'moving between computers' part.

Having software installed on the main computer wouldn't matter. So it could capture any mouse traffic that goes out the left of the screen and redirect it over to the secondary computer.

Journeyman Geek

02:28

ahh

sounds almost like something someone could hack together with a microcontroller

sadly, that person is not me :/

Michael Frank

Yeah, something like mouse goes off screen, box switches the USB connection and the mouse appears on the second computer.

Joe Stavitsky

@Bob: the hp logo and the swirly cursor

Boris_yo

04:26

Will USB 2.0 extension cable attached to USB 3.0 extension cable work together?

Journeyman Geek

yes, but as USB 2.0

Boris_yo

USB 2.0 1.5m extension cable for $1.50 or (Unitek) USB 3.0 1.5m extension cable for $7.22?

Both are flat cables. Feature I want.

Bob

O.O

@allquixotic The S4 has "Near Field Communications" written on the battery

wtf does NFC have to do with the battery

pocketnow.com/2013/03/12/samsung-galaxy-s-iv-nfc-battery

wtf

Journeyman Geek

04:43

I think the NFC unit is in the battery ;p

well the antenna

Bob

@JourneymanGeek yea, some argument over whether it's just the antenna or the chip itself

either way

this'll make replacement batteries a bitch

Psycogeek

@Bob and who's that man behind the curtain

So because the battery is usually designed with much better contact items? than peoples overly removed cases , with plastic clippy things that cannot last forever? And the flimsy small metal contacts that hope to connect correctally everytime a user messes with the back case?

If they would make it so the external SD cards would come out without removing the case . Ahh i miss that. Now Instead of pulling the chip and passing the data the fast way. I get to Network (blaaa) Last time i networked, the 2 phones data, i could have took the case back apart , pulled the chip anyways and been done with it in 1/2 the time.

They were showing on a video how to do a glass repair on my phone model. Pulled out this tiny waraparound board , that takes up the last bit of space tha battery doesnt use. . . And said "here is the motherbaord" I was not sure wether to say WHAT? Or WOW ? Is so tiny, and zero cooling.

They could stuff the whole of my computer in a normal sized watch (already) amazing. Just need a fanny pack battery and a high-res viewer.

If they could just draw the image on the back of my retina , with 3 lasers. Think they could install that right behind my eye-balls? Ahh then changing models every 6mo probably not as fun.

bizarremag.com/images/front_picture_library_UK/dir_28/… <-- not to worry, just upgrading my phone.

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Utkarsh

05:11

Horrible!

Psycogeek

@Utkarsh Women get to update thier "upper frontals" and the reality of that is far worse. Nobody says that is horrible, although it is.

Utkarsh

True

Psycogeek

I dont know if they ever explored the idea of putting battery in them though. That new tech Li-ion Silicon based battery has to expand and contract. Then we will know if she needs a charge.

Journeyman Geek

dosen't make sense to put the whole chip in the battery

it would need to be certified seperately. More likely its just the antenna

Psycogeek

Augmentations. the future of man is to have a half broken computer in them with buggy software. Sure it wont go well with the first few people :-) but they will bridge us into the future.

Boris_yo

05:30

Quickly guys: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=lp_16318031_nr_n_9?rh=n%3A16310101%2Cn%3A!16310211%2Cn%3A16310231%2Cn%3A16318031%2Cn%3A2251592011&bbn=16318031&ie=UTF8&qid=1395120353&rnid=16318031

Do you see star ratings in Firefox?

Clippy

Guys I got a question, I don't have a si ngle example of a successful startup without a geek/develop founder, do you guys know some ? By startup I mean internet startup such as Facebook / Twitter

allquixotic

@Clippy I don't know of a single car company that was founded without the help of a mechanical engineer, either. This is sort of a no-brainer. You don't create a (successful) product without someone who bloody knows how to build it.

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Psycogeek

@Utkarsh I am getting Error 492 , clear the google play cache first. in |System Settings | Manage Apps | “All” tab|. Also see if there is a clear cache for the google services thing. When clearing the cache alone does not fix it. then "clear Data" (reek havoc) and reset all the google settings, including stuffing your account in.

allquixotic

Your question is based on the false assumption that things would go perfectly fine if you had a bunch of business and marketing guys sitting around a conference room table talking about how great their product is going to be for 2 years, and no one to actually write the code

Utkarsh

I somehow managed to fix it for me.
I'm not sure if this is reproducible, but:

- I cleared the cache and uninstalled the update of the market app
- I logged in to another googlemail account, then switched to this one in the market properties.
- after switching back to my original gmail account everything worked as intended

allquixotic

05:33

even if they have perfect ideas, you need someone who has the long term technical vision enough to tell them when something they thought of is feasible or not -- your marketing guy might say "we're going to have our app install itself on everyone's computer as soon as they connect to the internet!" with no idea that this would be either (a) illegal, or (b) impossible (or both)

Utkarsh

@Psycogeek Anyways, Thanks for Helping!

Clippy

@allquixotic Alright that was unclear, I said "founder" it can also be an investor who would hire a "mechanical engineer" (taking your example) Soundcloud is the only good internet based startup who was founded by non-developers, but it's clear that they hired some technical guys, and I'm looking for more example, that's it. Thanks for your answer :p

Psycogeek

@allquixotic or C) the users put them in Virtual Mindjail, and avoid the site like a plague.

Clippy

I should have said companies "founded by employees and not independent developers"

Journeyman Geek

wait. CLIPPY WENT SENTIENT?

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Psycogeek

05:40

"founded by ex-employees" Dont forget a few laywers :-)

Clippy

:(

Journeyman Geek

@Clippy: You're going to need people who at the very least have some idea how to throw something together

besides, everyone and their dog is expected to be able code these days.

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek Wait we cant prove that yet! If we bend clippy into a pretzel will he feel it? Does it still hold paper together without expecting pay?

If clippy had achived a conscience state, will it soon realise all the times it was wrong? Or could it be a SkitzoClippy

Bob

@JourneymanGeek That's my reaction every time I see it post :P

It scares me.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

05:53

@JourneymanGeek Yea, you really should learn to code.

Whatever happened to Python?

Journeyman Geek

>_>

I need to pick that up again

Psycogeek

How could we tell a clippy "expanded responce" from a real sentient chunk of metal with googley eyes? Would it fear magnets and water?

If it was used as a electrical conductor would it disrupt its thinking?

Michael Frank

09:00

@Bob ever since I installed ddwrt my wifi range has been kinda terrible.

Bob

:S

check the transmit power?

Michael Frank

I did... Not sure what a good value is though :P

Bob

dunno

Michael Frank

currently both bands are set to 20db

Bob

mine's at 20 dBm

Michael Frank

09:08

I might try it in a different position... Perhaps it's getting interference.

Bob

@MichaelFrank grab some channel analyser

inssider was great, but no longer fully free :\

Michael Frank

@Bob hmm... will need to find something for Mac or Android. No Windows wireless devices in the house.

Bob

@MichaelFrank There's a couple good Andrid ones.

You probably know my stance on Mac :P

Michael Frank

Oh... there's a built in one for Mac. :P

Bob

.

Michael Frank

09:16

But the wife is using the Macbook. So Android it is!

Hmm... the range isn't bad... but the strength drops pretty quickly.

Psycogeek

is it that 5gig band?

Michael Frank

nah only 2.4GHz... I don't have a 5G wireless device that's free.

Psycogeek

09:37

What is the router item?

Boris_yo

Roam Tendency

This property adjusts the roaming thresholds for the Broadcom 802.11 Wireless LAN Adapter.
Moderate (default). Roams to APs having a signal strength at least 20 dB greater than the current access point.
Aggressive. Roams to APs having a signal strength at least 10 dB greater than the current access point.
Conservative. Roams to APs having a signal strength at least 30 dB greater than the current access point.

Greater = dB less than current? Or greater = current + more?

Psycogeek

""DD-WRT Wiki page warns about router damage if the user increases TX power more than the default, overheating the radio chipset"" like i would worry about that when smoke starts rolling out of it right?

Boris_yo

Conservative is 30dB greater, meaning greater on what scale? Better connection or...?

I think it roams aggresively to find access points with 10dB less than current access point.

Bob

remember dB != dBm

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo To switch to different WiFi connection points available, if the signal strength is that much more. 10db different , to hop quick to the other on a minor signal improvment, 30 to not hop until it is much stronger signal?? That is what it sounds like.

Bob

09:55

@DarthAndroid stackoverflow.com/a/22467611/1030702

Psycogeek

superuser.com/questions/730385/… ""I accidentally removed all partitions on my external USB HDD. All my pictures were on it, as this device was my Photo backup"" well if it was only your backup, just get the photos back from the original. (i suspect that backup in this case means archive)

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Then why is 30dB considered conservative? I think 30dB should be considered aggressive. While 10dB is a conservative improvement.

Michael Frank

@Bob I stuck the router on the wall and seem to get a more consistent signal out in the lounge now.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo Conservative because it is way less likely to Hop when set to the 30. It just stays with an active connection untill it sucks completly compared to the other.

Bob

10:15

@MichaelFrank I suppose that's one way of dealing with it...

Michael Frank

@Bob Yea, it was sorta sitting under the desk at about the same level as a mattress. I'm guessing it was running up against interference.

programmer1

10:37

hello

how can i detect which one of windows version is there in my windows dvd (7 or 8) without installing process and only with dvd content

Psycogeek

Look on the front of the disk?

programmer1

@Psycogeek dvd is copied

Psycogeek

buy printable disks :-)

programmer1

and there is not any label

Psycogeek

paper labels bad anyways.

File item dates?

programmer1

10:41

please help me, isn't there any other solution for example by see some file in dvd

Journeyman Geek

@programmer1: you could try booting into it on a VM

Psycogeek

Crud, I thought i could find a complete list of files that are on each DVD , via the web. But with all this huristic search stuff, I didnt find.

The file size of a setup item, anything. I have some win7 Dvds i could check but mine are often weird, because they are post the Service Pack releaces.

programmer1

@JourneymanGeek you suppose we don't have any os to run on vm!

Journeyman Geek

10:58

@programmer1: let the installer start, see what happens

I'm kinda tempted to get myself a lock picking set.

programmer1

@JourneymanGeek that's right but really this is only a fun question and i want to detect that without booting dvd

Psycogeek

as a fun question, Windows8 is the one that comes via the web , a download to copy to flash disk. Win7 was the one you bought in the brick and mortar store , comes on a dvd :-)

Win9 is the one you purchaced with Bitcoin.

programmer1

I found the solution:
http://www.waynezim.com/2012/10/how-to-determine-the-version-of-your-windows-iso-file/
Super users are you really ? :)
bye

Psycogeek

11:14

yea super user, means i havent had to see my install disk Once since the first install :-)

@programmer1 Source : superuser.com/questions/443357/…

Psycogeek

12:03

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A: Why is Skype memory usage so high?

The problem is that Skype is using P2P connection typology, hence the application needs to use some users as relay nodes or super nodes to host the connections between other users. This issue happens when your computer is so powerful that the program chooses you to host the connections. To solv...

^ this one has a job pencil link in it, for no purpose to the question. The Answer itself seems to be nothing more than generic stuff tossed in , that does not seem to answer the question itself.

(it has now been edited , that removed the link)

allquixotic

13:09

hii

Psycogeek

13:48

good morning

allquixotic

14:56

well, 3 upvoted answers and 2/3 accepted this morning; a few flags and a few VTCs... I've done my civic duty for SU today... going to do some Other Stuff now

Journeyman Geek

crosby-steam.com/sounds/125orgs.wav new phone alert sound ;p

(since people kept confusing the stock moto alert with the samsung one... for some wierd reason)

(off crosby-steam.com/scd.htm . Very web 0.95)

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek tags in caps? :P

<HTML>

(didn't click, just guessing)

Journeyman Geek

lol

...

worse

much much worse.

allquixotic

what was Web 1.0? IE 6? 7?

web 0.95 must've been, what, Netscape 4?

Journeyman Geek

its created in MS office

allquixotic

15:09

O_______O

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek don't tell me. he opened Office 95 and Clippy asked him if he wanted to create a webpage and he said yes

dear lord it hurts

Journeyman Geek

more like no no no no no

probably old person

but cool steam whistle and pipe organ sounds ;p

allquixotic

15:10

@JourneymanGeek AU NAU NAU NAU NAU NAU NAU NAU! *licks lips* OOOOH NONONONONONONONONUUUUH!

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

need gif of that Russian nononono cat

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

@allquixotic Oh yea, I found a site "designed for Netscape 2.0" the other day

Journeyman Geek

lol

I do have a copy of mosaic on my linux box now...

Bob

15:14

acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~gurwitz/core5/nav2tool.html

> NOTE: this page requires Netscape 2.0 or better.

allquixotic

the backwards compatibility of web standards is amazing

Bob

<FONT COLOR=ff000 SIZE=2>NOTE:</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2>this page requires
Netscape 2.0 or better.<P>
</FONT>

colour ff000? o.O

allquixotic

capital letter tags in that page :D

Bob

is that even valid?

Journeyman Geek

I'll try it on mosic tommorrow ;p

allquixotic

15:16

also, in that javascript, they don't even use the keyword var lol

Bob

@allquixotic did it even exist?

allquixotic

@Bob probably not....

that must be javascript targeted for the original release of javascript in netscape navigator

Bob

heh

also, it appends

if you click convert twice, it appends the result :P

allquixotic

it's working correctly in FF Aurora O_O

oh. is that correct? no, i don't think so

i think the += on line 31 of the html source (inside the second for) had different semantics in the old javascript, maybe

Bob

@allquixotic No errors in console!

allquixotic

15:18

used to mean "assign", now it means "append"?

Bob

@allquixotic @JourneymanGeek will have to test that.

allquixotic

could it be?

Bob

@allquixotic I don't think it ever meant assign... that would be just plain weird.

I mean, it means 'add to' in C

allquixotic

@Bob as long as he doesn't test it on OS/2. If he does, I'll have to get out the rolled-up newspaper.

Darth Android

I don't think += has ever meant assign

Journeyman Geek

15:21

I have 4.x on os/2 ;p

so nothing nearly that old

allquixotic

*picks up JourneymanGeek's dog persona and places his paws on an OS/2 PC's keyboard* Ravi. This is OS/2. OS/2 is no. *places his paws on a PC keyboard* This is Windows. Windows is OK. *places his paws on a ThinkPad running Fedora* This is GNU/Linux. Linux is good.

Darth Android

at least not on C/C++/java/javascript styled languages

Journeyman Geek

lol

Darth Android

x += y has always been an alias to x = x + y

Journeyman Geek

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allquixotic

15:22

then is the page behaving as it was designed by adding the numbers?

@JourneymanGeek is that a look of confusion? :P

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: grumpy confusion. ;p

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek lol

Darth Android

@allquixotic It's behaving as written as far as I can tell.

I mean, I can't discern the author's memories and intentions

Journeyman Geek

(Thats a picture of the war doctor as a schnauzer. I find the look amusing)

Darth Android

I do too.

Journeyman Geek

15:25

boingboing.net/2014/03/17/if-doctor-who-was-a-dog.html

there's the rest ;p

yro.slashdot.org/story/14/03/18/1455222/… whut?

Canadian Luke

Apparently, my proxy system (past my network) blocks the bizarremag.com domain

So much for checking out the stars

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy your government is making you ThatIsolationistGuy

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek Technicaly, it's scheduled to strat blocking non locally-homologated devices by the local version of the FCC.

So, an iOS owner of a model that is sold here (and thus, is locally homologated) will not get blocked

But an owner of an LTE 4G device will, in theory, get blocked, because we don't have LTE here, so probably there's no one issuing homologation for LTE devices

Also, it's shceduled, that probably means in the next 10 years it will start (maybe).

Costing about 2938490237 trillion BRL, of course (per semester).

But worry not, because the phones are evil. They are responsible for the low quality of the network, because they introduce so much electronic noise (whatever that may be).

Meanwhile, the telco is taking 1 month to even show up at my door and replace the ancient copper wires.

Bob

15:42

@ThatBrazilianGuy Wait, they actually replace the copper?

That Brazilian Guy

I am assuming they do. Or whatever they do should be doing to replace the shitty noisy landline.

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy regulatory capture sucks :(

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic TBH the only way of making a bank actually listen to you and act is to file an online form in the national regutaltory banknig agency. I had a reply in less than 24hs for stuff that was taking me weeks.

Twice.

Psycogeek

@ThatBrazilianGuy well it will be whatever the least they could do to get it operational :-) Usually just remaking the connections at both ends, checking to see if most of the outter insulation of the wiring still exists. Ignoring the idea that it is rarely shielded, and sometimes not even twisted (as if that was shielding). Then top it off, if you go to the store to buy some New replacement, it is copper coated, with a steel/iron wire.

That Brazilian Guy

One of those times, the lady from the bank called me to check if everything was solved, apologized because the (illegal) charges were coming from a debt collect service, gave me their phone number, then 10min later asked if I'd been sucesfull in talking to them, then said she had tried contacting them as well and because their number was offline she was reimbursing me. On the spot.

Filing a similar report on the central telecom agency's site has a similar effect, but navigating the site to fill it is a kafkian nightmare. I had to ~~print~~ write a tutorial for my coworkers. It had more than 40 steps. I kid you not.

Psycogeek

15:58

Pic stolen from cgi-communication.com/CGI/residential-repair-line.html

That Brazilian Guy

Funilly, when I performed the steps in order to create the tutorial, I filled with mocking info (THIS IS A TEST PLEASE IGNORE IT). The next day I got a phonecall from the ISP asking if everything was okay, and then another call from the regulatory agency asking the same thing.

@Psycogeek There's similar stuff hanging around the corridors here.

Psycogeek

@ThatBrazilianGuy File report with the goverment agency around here that controls the public utilities, would be similar. It would be rare that anybody gave a crap though. It might envoke a return call from the telecom marketing, to see if i was ready to upgrade something :-)

allquixotic

@Bob -_- it.slashdot.org/story/14/03/17/0138210/…

That Brazilian Guy

@Psycogeek Back in 2011 I did tech support in a small, 3-man firm. One of the clients had a network like that, despite it being a dentist clinic in a fancy neighborhood.

When I asked an older coworker WhyTF was the reason of such madness, he said "Oh, they just call some John Doe from the janitors and offer extra money for a quick cabling service. Everyone always do this, everywhere".

Well, they get what they pay for. (And a 2-hours bill where half of it was me trying to untangle the cables)

Bob

@allquixotic :\

Psycogeek

16:12

Austrailia doesnt pull any punches about government getting up to speed with the USes NSA. Course with the NSA it was mostly illegal. In OZ they are just flat out trying to get it all EASY to do, not just legal. Bob who is the evil King in that place :-)

Privacy in austrialia, is like they never had a constitution.

There is only one way to change it all. Do a snowden on each political figure one by one. posting thier private chats, and them yanking off in the shower, and broadcast a few of the phone calls to thier mistresses on you_tube. about 2 years later, the politicos will have privacy laws re-instated.

(yes turn arounds a beech)

FireFox fans like bob and allquixotic might be able to figure out this one superuser.com/questions/730434/… (so i can delete my stupid comment)

Bob

hehe

Oliver Salzburg

16:37

We have some really weird tags

intermittent wat

Darth Android

@OliverSalzburg Yeah, people only seem to have problems with that tag off and on, so we've not been able to properly remove it.

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Oliver Salzburg

Argh wtf

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Q: Windows Vista: Intermittent Network

I do a ping -t www.l.google.com and this is the output: Pinging www.l.google.com [209.85.229.147] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 209.85.229.147: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=52 Reply from 209.85.229.147: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=52 Reply from 209.85.229.147: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=52 Reply from ...

Bob

@OliverSalzburg He must have been bored.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob I bet he was thinking "This is stupid, there should be a better way to do this!"

Ash

17:04

> The discussion in this chapter is, as one would expect, centered on an example driver
that implements a block-oriented, memory-based device. It is, essentially, a ramdisk.
The kernel already contains a far superior ramdisk implementation, but our driver
(called sbull) lets us demonstrate the creation of a block driver while minimizing
unrelated complexity.

@Bob is far superior ramdisk implementation ramfs ?

Canadian Luke

Apparently, my 2 year old son needs glasses :-/ Yippee...

allquixotic

17:19

@CanadianLuke aww, sorry to hear it bud

it's OK though; the glasses route tends to lead you toward knowledge work. he'll be like his dad :D

if you were hoping for a football player, fighter pilot or artillery gunman, you might be disappointed

Canadian Luke

I'm just worried cause he only likes his sunglasses for a few minutes, then takes them off and throws them

I just don't want him breaking his new glasses, especially if they're needed. And his mom isn't very forceful with getting him to improve himself

allquixotic

then either get cheap ones or very durable ones

getting fragile ones made of titanium frames and glass lenses is not gonna work if he'll just throw them

Canadian Luke

I hope that's what she picks... Welfare is getting the bill for these first ones

allquixotic

titanium frames are durable but it's easy to damage the little screws or scratch the lenses

Canadian Luke

Yay...

I only needed glasses for one semester, cause I sat at the back of a long classroom

allquixotic

17:23

I have fairly expensive glasses -- transition lenses, titanium frames, strong prescription, UV coat -- they are fine for a responsible adult who will treat them with care, and they have survived accidental drops onto carpet, but not the kind of thing you can drop onto asphalt and hope they survive

Canadian Luke

We have hardwood in our house, she has carpet in hers... Gah, I'm not looking forward to it

Hoping it's temporary though

allquixotic

maybe see what the military does, and see if you can get a pair of those :P when you enlist in the military in an industrialized country (and even some third world countries), if you need corrective lenses, they give you glasses that work perfectly well for your prescription, but they're mil-spec... like, goggles... you can see fine, but they're heavy, and you couldn't crush them even if you deliberately stomp on them

durability somewhere greater than "what a human can reasonably inflict with their bare appendages" and lesser than "stops a bullet"

Canadian Luke

He ain't joining the military, unless he wants to after high school

And I'm not starting that process myself again

allquixotic

I was kidding... but the durability would be nice for a tantrum-prone 2 year old

Canadian Luke

True

Also, found out with my work that I can't put my spouse (currently, gf) on my medical plan until we've lived together for a full year... Luckily, she's getting a year off for the new baby

allquixotic

17:32

so glad I don't have to worry about all that stuff

Canadian Luke

Not yet... One day you may though

allquixotic

I do live in the US; I'm pretty sure any action I take will result in massive and overburdensome taxation by our benevolent overlords :D

taxed if I don't reproduce; taxed (more?) if I do

@CanadianLuke yeah, "may" in the same sense as Microsoft "may" natively port the full Office suite to GNU Hurd

ask a Microsoft PR drone when Office will come to Hurd: "We have no plans to support that platform at this time." --> "no plans" = ain't gonna happen

I have no plans™ to support a child or significant other at this time.

technical writing gems (GemsFromTW.tumblr.com -- not really, but it'd be appropriate, in the same vein as Sathya's GemsFromSE):

typo of "testing team lead": "teasing team lead". "You ol' kidder!"

the "Automated Testing Team" -- so our team members are electromechanical automatons who unthinkingly execute their automated tests :-)

Canadian Luke

18:02

@allquixotic How old are you?

Hennes

Ah, the joys of restoring old backups: Internet exploder has been upgraded to version 8!

140 more updates until the next reboot. And probably a few more after that.

Canadian Luke

!!s/upgraded/downgraded

ChatBot John Cavil

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

Hennes

I got two pieces of software which need XP and do not run on a modern OS.
So I put a ghost of an old XP disk (2010-ish) on a pen drive

Canadian Luke

That sucks

That Brazilian Guy

18:17

My wife just called me. The telco/ISP technician told her the "only option" was to downgrade from the current 5mbps plan. When she replied why they don't just replace the cables: "Oh, it isn't in the jurisdiction of the company".

I WONDER WHOSE BUSINESS IS REPAIRING ADSL CABLES THEN.

Psycogeek

here with the House cabling (coax or copper) I either pay seperate, or do it myself, finding premium cable to do it. From the "Box" out they have to fix it, but they will only do so when it is so bad (according to a meter) that it probably wont work.

Canadian Luke

That's fucked

Psycogeek

but . . . there are always exception. If they want to sign you up for crap, like new service, competing company. or anything else where they suck up a connect fee, and monthlies for the rest of your life. they will certannly get it going, all the way into the house and to multiple locations.

allquixotic

@CanadianLuke 28

!! s/!!s/!! s/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic !! s/upgraded/downgraded (source)

Canadian Luke

18:32

Alrighty

allquixotic

yeah, I pretty much know what direction my life is taking me now :P

YEEAH

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A: Why does Netflix perform better (more efficiently) in full-screen mode?

It almost certainly has to do with the desktop window compositor. When you have a video playing within a web browser window, and worse than that, in a plugin, the web browser has to render its page thusly: Draw our window decorations (address bar, bookmarks, buttons, etc.) Draw the first parts...

+225... repcapped :D

Canadian Luke

thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Corruption-of-Dennis.aspx

allquixotic

also, 17.1k rep nao

That Brazilian Guy

> here with the House cabling (coax or copper) I either pay seperate, or do it myself, finding premium cable to do it. From the "Box" out they have to fix it

That's how it works here, or at least as commonly believed

> but they will only do so when it is so bad (according to a meter) that it probably wont work.

ditto, it t looks like

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Nice!

I killed a tag today!

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Canadian Luke

18:41

Michael Frank

I have a BBQ like that, but it's 4 burner.

Also, no USB ports.

Daniel Beck

@CanadianLuke That awkward moment when you go from reading the Daily WTF and thinking that it's just an elaborate joke because there is no way this is real, to reading it and thinking that you could beat that weak story with what happened to you yesterday...

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allquixotic

@DanielBeck lol

Michael Frank

@DanielBeck While that hasn't happened to me yet. I can totally see that

Canadian Luke

I forget what happened yesterday, I tend to forget things that piss me off :)

allquixotic

18:48

wait, do bounties not count toward rep cap?!

+325 today :D

Darth Android

@allquixotic I thought they counted, but they could also go over

allquixotic

i got an upvote that gave me rep after i got my +200 bounty

Daniel Beck

@allquixotic Hmm... 'Let me help center that for you' is missing something.

Darth Android

ah, then I suppose they just don't count then.

Daniel Beck

a maximum of 200 reputation per day from any combination of the activities below. Only bounty awards and accepted answers are not subject to the daily reputation limit

allquixotic

18:50

@DanielBeck lmhctfy.com ?

Daniel Beck

@allquixotic Doesn't look right though.

Darth Android

@DanielBeck There's a difference between "not subject to" and "does not contribute to"

I assumed the former, though it appears to be the latter

Daniel Beck

I blame my lack of caffeine for my lack of reading comprehension.

allquixotic

i will have to keep contributing with fervor (as I did this morning) to get to 20k... I want trusted user :>

Darth Android

I wonder what % of my total rep is from reputation interest, and how much is from answering the questions.

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