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@Ramhound I find that most of the worst of the worst cannot do what it wants to do without ActiveX IMO the worlds biggest vulnerability to "run programs" on the computer itself, not to just "display web garbage". The old maxthon browser can have that off normally and when any page is re-opened, and it requires the user to manually releace the dogs on the site if they deem it to be a trusted site. Because they at least have the sence to not trust things implicidly
And have to actually push the button to releace the evil on the site. it stays pretty safe.
After all the blocking, when i turn that off, or use something that does not support all the blocking, I go on the web RAW, and it is like OMG what have they done to the web :-) How can anyone even think this is fun anymore.
Without all the blocking , that lots of people employ, it is like walking in a minefeild with Advertisements pointing where to step . . . on the mines .
Bob
Bob
05:39
> Your
@allquixotic We are...
@Ramhound That's surprising. Your first step is to remove the Java plugin.
too late to fix it now.
 
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08:17
@allquixotic Have you come up with a good NLE video editing app? Adobe Premiere is annoying, as is blender. My linux install is broken at the moment, but that would get me back to using kdenlive which I was fairly happy with.
 
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09:40
I am having one major brain fart. What it called when a program like Firefox is unable to escape its own memory space? It might be because I have been up for way to long...
Bob
Bob
@Ramhound escape... memory space?
I'm afraid I don't follow.
cramming some school material. Chrome has a built-in PDF view but its safe because it can't escape the address space its assigned to. There is a Windows program that will do that with any program. But I having a huge brain fart and can't even remember what that security feature its called
Bob
Bob
@Ramhound Uhh... sandboxing?
thank you
Yes
I spend the last 5 days learning about acquisition strategy, 8+ hour classroom + really late night doing corp fiance homework :$
10:08
program i was think was sandboxie, i had the boxie stuck in my head
 
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11:28
WOoo! i5 2500K, 8GB RAM, 2x 60GB SSDs, 24in 1900x1200 monitor, bunch of other PC stuffs...
$400 :D
11:41
A good friend is moving overseas, and sold me his computer. :)
Wow... I just read a 'relevant' meta question and couldn't understand why they didn't just point the user to webapps.SE or Wordpress.SE...
Turns out it was from a couple years ago. >.<
12:46
a router generally has an interface for setting of network properties if you connect your browser to its IP address. I don't have a router, does this mean it's impossible to do any settings management? I did hear you can send serial data to it as instructions, but I can't find any tools to do that, or the instruction set it my arris uses.
Actually I'm not sure those would be the same kind of settings as in a router. Maybe I can change router-like settings in my TL-WN722N running in AP mode (which i set using netsh)
i want to mess with the dmz settings
Anyone have recommendations for a good CPU cooler? I don't need much... I was looking at the Hyper 212 Evo but it's 2cm too tall :(
14:17
@AnnonomusPerson unless you're overclocking or your ambient environment (house) is consistently very hot, you probably don't need a custom CPU cooler. just saying
I'm not overclocking, but I want something that if I do want to overclock later (i.e. after my warranty), I'll have a good cooler.
My current one is quite loud.
@Paul "video editing" is too vague; depends on what specifically you're doing with your video. but I use Sony Vegas Pro
@AnnonomusPerson if you're going to lay out money for a custom cooler, I'd look at liquid if I were you; heatsinks are relatively less effective and take up a lot of room; personally noise is not an issue for me so I'd rather have many high velocity fans than a big heatsink, but liquid cooling is still best
14:44
I seem to remember the Hyper 212 wasn't very high
@allquixotic: actually, not really. Liquid cooling is about as good as a good air cooling system
ahh my bad
@AnnonomusPerson: intel or AMD?
My intel stock fans are whisper quiet
I have had loud AMD fans and quiet AMD fans.
I have had loud Intel fabs and quiet Itel fans.
Which does not help except to point out that there is no generic, always correct answer
The stock cooling for my i920 was nice and quiet. The after market cooler made even less noise (a nehalems cooler. 800 grams of metal and a large, slow turning fan)
I got it with the idea to OC when the current system got slow (basically the same idea as you have).
But now, 5 years after buying the desktop, it is still fast enough.
Maybe I will OC from 2.6GHz to 4.0GHz in a few years.
On the other hand, depeing on what you do with video editing more RAM, faster RAM or fast disk IO might help a lot more than a fast CPU.
And a PC is only as quite as its loudest part (ok, that is not 100% true).
But a hyper silent fan next to a load GPU fan will not help you as much as you might hope
15:23
@JourneymanGeek AMD.
15:56
There was a company that just released a new revision to one of their award winning products ( 3+ years )
I will find what it is in about 30 minutes.
Lets just say I can do a 10% overclock without sweating even a little :-)
Haswell without the refresh thermal changes too
But my thermal paste skills are very good. Follow the supplied directions exactly ;-)
17:43
hello guys any idea why im getting this error in logging to localhost ssh?debug2: channel 0: rcvd eow
debug2: channel 0: close_read
debug2: channel 0: input open -> closed
debug2: channel 0: rcvd close
debug2: channel 0: almost dead
debug2: channel 0: gc: notify user
debug2: channel 0: gc: user detached
debug2: channel 0: send close
debug2: channel 0: is dead
debug2: channel 0: garbage collecti
 
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22:40
Hmm.... so completely new computer just arrived. Best way to migrate over? Just transplant the HDD or go for a full reinstall?
Bob
Bob
@MichaelFrank Depends what you have right now, and what you want to do :P
What are you going from and to?
How long do you plan to use the new machine?
Personally, I view new hardware as a great time to start fresh, leave the built-up crud behind.
Migrate the user profile, keep everything else on a storage partition.
Now's also a good time to install Win8.1.
I have 8.1 installed.
Bob
Bob
Well then :P
@MichaelFrank Again, it depends what you go from and to.
Sometimes, it's not worth the trouble of fiddling with drivers.
Currently 8.1 is installed on the SSD in this computer, along with a bunch of applications and whatnot.
But you're probably right. I'll just need to take the time to migrate over.
23:10
Hmm... My Win8 is just an upgrade key. I don't really want to install 7 and THEN 8. D:
@MichaelFrank I was able to download the ISO with my upgrade key and just install it in a fresh VM when I tried it a few months ago
23:33
hello peoples! Would anyone be able to recommend me the most comfortable, most affordable and most practical keyboard known to this planet?
What do you use for your keyboard? I want to avoid mechanical keyboards, as I'm not convinced I can maintain the same level of typing performance with one of those....
just realised there's only one other person here...
@CiaranGallagher There are many other people here
Michael I have had a ton of success with Acronis True Image + ability to restore to dissimilar hardware.
And I don't know what the "best" keyboard is, but I use this one: microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000
Very comfortable
i went from a 4 year installation to brand new hardware
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 14 Suite would be an alternative.
Bob
Bob
@MichaelFrank I've only ever upgraded to XP, but all it neded was the 98 CD :P
23:40
@Ramhound I could have used those tips the other day when I was trying to restore the Windows 7 installation of a client on a new system
There is a free route but its not the "best" way
Bob
Bob
@CiaranGallagher Heh, mech is supposed to be better :P
@OliverSalzburg - Sorry :-)
Bob
Bob
Just go into a store and test them out.
Paragon also has a product geared toward HDD to SSD
23:41
The initial problem was that I couldn't log on, because it told me no domain controller was available. Which is understandable, because the installation didn't have any drivers for the network adapter in the new system
Later I found out that the real problem seemed to be that the system drive got the drive letter D: assigned and nothing matched up
Didn't get around to fix it. We chose to just make a fresh install
Struck me as an interesting issue though
@Ramhound I tried EaseUS Partition Master, which has a migration mode like that, but that was a disappointment
@CiaranGallagher Actually, mechanicals are quite a lot faster once you get used to them
Yeah; I don't suggest EaseUS :-)
@Ramhound Neither would I at this point :D I just read about it on howtogeek IIRC
partially because in the most recent versions just added some of the features the other two have had for awhile.
I've used a black widow ultimate (the old one with cherry blues) for the past few years
23:44
i.e. WinPE 3.0 boot disk
Anonymous
have any power users used flume here?
Acronis already migrated to 4.0
they have made the process of making a x64 WinPE with x86 support easier.
@Ramhound After the migration process on my work desktop, it had created a 25 GB partition for the previously 100 MB Windows reserved partition. And the system wouldn't boot as a bonus :P
Their tool doesn't do it for you but its much easier.
@OliverSalzburg - Sounds fun
The only thing you have to be careful about either program I point out. If you were on a BIOS/MBR you have to force the disk into UEFI mode otherwise it won't migrated the image to GPT.
I figured out how to force that to happen a year after my system build was finished
@Ramhound Someone on here suggested to use DRBL Live, which worked great and felt a lot better to use. Didn't help me with the clients machine though :P
23:47
Never heard of that tool
Can you actually migrate from BIOS to EFI setups?
Bob
Bob
@OliverSalzburg Not easily.
@Ramhound It provided a Debian environment from which I could run GParted and Clonezilla. That's all I cared about
Bob
Bob
Different bootloader.
@Bob Luckily, I never had to do attempt it. I was just wondering while working on these migrations in the past week
23:49
@OliverSalzburg - Yes, You indeed can
Which is the reason I use a paid solution because it is difficult :-)
@OliverSalzburg That's good to know.
Hmm... Another question, will my 8 key activate 8.1?
@MichaelFrank a Windows 8 key is NOT the same as a Windows 8.1 key, even though every user entitled to a Windows 8 key can get a Windows 8.1 key free
@allquixotic Ahh that's what I thought.
@allquixotic If I buy a Windows 8 off Amazon, I can install that and upgrade to 8.1 just fine, right? Because that's another question that came up recently
Buying an 8.1 licence off Amazon seemed to be like 50 € more expensive and I didn't understand that
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