Root Access

Canadian Luke

00:10

New ip address, just waiting for it to propagate

allquixotic

00:34

@CanadianLuke waiting, waiting, waiting. connection timeout.

Journeyman Geek

00:45

ditto

ekaj

Comp has been freezing lately, not overheating, no BSODs, no errors minus a kernel power error in event viewer

Clearing my logs to check closer next time...

Michael Frank

01:02

@ekaj Well it couldn't possibly be overheating AND freezing at the same time. ;)

Canadian Luke

I'm gonna have troubleshooting to do when I get home

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/q/741362/10165 This needs flags.

ooh, that was fast

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Damn... :/

Journeyman Geek

Naw, I suppose thats good ;p

allquixotic

it's a Sylvan kinda night for me

Michael Frank

01:07

I saw an answer yesterday on gaming.se that was just "This doesn't work, find a better way" by a user named 'fuck u'

allquixotic

why does SE let people set their display name to "fuck u"?

Anonymous

@allquixotic why not?

ekaj

fuck the police

(not really)

Anonymous

(really)

allquixotic

@ekaj ekaj having a busted down house door in 3... 2.... 1...

ekaj

01:10

My dorm door is wide open!

allquixotic

better board it up then

Michael Frank

@allquixotic It was an unregistered account. But I agree that it seems odd there is no banlist on offensive names.

allquixotic

01:29

@MichaelFrank maybe they think it'll just cause an arms race

"fuck u" banned --> someone makes it with the upside down "f" character, u with umlaut, etc.

Michael Frank

"For every gigabyte of data that you move, an additional gigabyte of transaction logs is generated at the source and target server. Verify that you have sufficient free space on your transaction log drives"

wow....

Anonymous

lol

allquixotic

O.o?

what software would keep full transaction logs of all app data?

i guess besides nsa

Michael Frank

01:47

MS Exchange mailbox move.

Anonymous

@MichaelFrank that's an alias for NSA

allquixotic

figures. my-crow-soft :-)

Michael Frank

chp11-99.org/membership

Membership with this foundation is effectively a get out of jail free card for speeding. o.O

could be*

priceonomics.com/can-you-buy-a-license-to-speed

allquixotic

02:24

@MichaelFrank that's despicable

people who speed excessively don't understand physics, and are endangering my life because of it and should serve jail time and never be allowed to drive a car again

slight speeders should be given some leniency but there has to be a line drawn somewhere so that we don't just keep ratcheting up the acceptable level until everyone is going 120 mph in neighborhoods

my favorite speeder defense is "well they need to increase the speed limit on this road, it's too slow!"

no, the speed limit is set to a safe level, and if they set the speed limit higher, you'd just speed even more

there is literally no speed limit that the sign could say that a compulsive speeder would stay within.... they'd just get better tires, faster car, etc up until they're bumping against land speed records

a compulsive speeder has the psychology that if they aren't breaking the speed limit, they are going "too slow" -- these people need to be removed from the road, permanently

Michael Frank

I would star that if I could. :)

allquixotic

why can't you?

Michael Frank

There's too many lines!

allquixotic

oh.

you could just star one...

GOOBY PLS

2

Michael Frank

I'll also star that one.

allquixotic

02:32

lol my cat just meowed higher pitch than i've ever heard her

she said "mummow! ^_^"

Bob

02:44

Speeding is relatively rare here.

The concept of "matching speed" doesn't exist.

That said, some people still speed.

allquixotic

03:02

@Bob meaning what? people don't tailgate the guy in front of them?

something like 80% of American drivers feel like they're standing still unless they are actively passing cars around them... they live for the thrill of passing

Michael Frank

They're all just training for NASCAR

allquixotic

my favorite thing is hearing speeders try and rationalize why they do it

"everyone else always goes way faster than me"

"I always get tailgated"

"the speed limit is too low"

"if you go slow, the cops will catch you instead"

and my favorite: "everybody does it"

we have a week's worth of headline news with dramatic drum-beating music and red banners and "BREAKING NEWS" marquees when 3 people get bombed at a race, yet 34,000 people die every year on U.S. roads

we worry about anything the news dramatizes while ignoring enormous problems on the roadways, the death toll of which is of the magnitude of having 17 9/11 attacks every year... ridiculous

that's like losing as many people as we lost on 9/11 every 3 weeks... killing ourselves on the highways

where's the apocalypse-like stern Presidential speech to address the nation every 3 weeks because another 2000+ people have died on the roads again? or do we only do that when it's rich people dying in big expensive buildings at the hand of our "enemies".

Journeyman Geek

03:19

lol

@allquixotic: a lot of people just... don't notice

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek 142,000 people die on the roads in India every year. that's crazy

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: India is just... crazy

allquixotic

how do they deal with an average of 389 motor vehicle deaths per day in India? do they just cremate people and their cars right on the side of the road and keep driving?

a country that size, I can't even comprehend that many deaths

Journeyman Geek

lol

India is a VERY big country

and very densely populated

allquixotic

we "only" have to scrape an average of 93 people off US roads every day, and we have a MUCH, MUCH bigger land area they're spread out on

Journeyman Geek

03:23

@allquixotic: and less people

allquixotic

4 times as many car deaths in about 1/3rd the land area... I don't even

Journeyman Geek

And india went from 60s designs to newer models pretty fast

allquixotic

I hear about like 1-2 fatal car crashes per week where I live

does that mean in India I'd hear of like 2-3 fatal car crashes in my metro area per day?

Michael Frank

@allquixotic Probably more, if you factor in areas with no roads.

And I imagine there is a large population without cars or roads to drive them on.

allquixotic

yeah, hundreds of millions of people just eating cumin and gram flour... yummy stuff... but they make it and then eat it all themselves! XD

Journeyman Geek

03:26

lol

allquixotic

they make 75% of the world's cumin and eat 90% of that which they make

Journeyman Geek

(i'm going to india on tuesday ;p)

spending a week there, my gran broke her hip

allquixotic

why are you going to India? :O

oh

don't get in a crash, journeyman dog!

it sounds like you actively dislike being in India -_-

too crowded?

Journeyman Geek

03:38

lol

depends on the place, but I'd rather go for happy occations ;p

and no worries, we have a local driver who takes all the backroads, and never talks on the phone while driving us ;p

(also, I'd add, flying is a pain in the ass if you're a dog. Worse if you're a pug. Which thankfully, I am not)

allquixotic

04:01

@JourneymanGeek I heard a horror story of a dog who got transported in the unpressurized, extremely cold cargo area of the plane and survived... poor puppy though :(

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: There's a JRT/Pug cross at the dog run. They nearly sent it to singapore from australia via vancouver

(Very few airlines will carry pugs - snub noses means they can have issues if someone fucks up and lets them overheat)

Boris_yo

04:14

Why 64k?

allquixotic

04:28

Because the length field of the heartbeat packet is 16 bit

Michael Frank

04:51

Huh... why can't you flag off-topic posts for migration to SoftRecs?

Canadian Luke

@MichaelFrank Cause it's in beta

Anyone wanna help me troubleshoot name resolution to my website? I'm home now

Michael Frank

@CanadianLuke Yea, it doesn't work.

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:47:14 NZST
Username:
Source IP: 165.44.4.31
URL: GET http://talk-about-it.ca/
Category: Infrastructure and Content Delivery Networks
Reason: UNKNOWN
Notification: GATEWAY_TIMEOUT

That's what I get from our proxy when I try and access the site.

Canadian Luke

I know. CloudFlare has the right IP address in the control panel, but it's not resolving if I do a nslookup talk-about-it.ca anna.ns.cloudflare.com

... Although now it's resolving on THAT DNS server...

Hmmm... Maybe I just needed to turn CloudFlare off for now...

Cloudflare Name Servers had it pointing to a 10. address

Canadian Luke

05:19

There, it's working for me now

Anyone else?

Boris_yo

05:58

How you guys call a person who doesn't do his job good but barely acceptable? Without dedication and efforts.

Canadian Luke

Slacker

Michael Frank

06:20

@CanadianLuke Not working here at the moment

Canadian Luke

Dammit

Well, I'll look in the morning

Bob

06:36

@allquixotic Meaning you don't go faster just to be at the same speed as everyone else.

Boris_yo

08:08

How many cellphones do you own? Do you have one to fall back on to when your main is about to undergo repair in service center?

I want to have mine serviced and I don't have something to fall back on to. Should I buy cheap $25 dumbphone or get another smartphone?

Bob

@Boris_yo Heh, I have a backup Lumia.

Got it more to check out WinPhone than anything else.

@Boris_yo Really, personal preference.

Me? I'd probably go pick up a $100 Android phone.

There's some decent Huawei ones at that price point.

Boris_yo

@Bob $100 with dual cores?

@Bob That means ordering from chinese store and giving it a crap shot?

Bob

@Boris_yo No, local stores carry Huawei :P

@Boris_yo Ya.

HackToHell

@Boris_yo Probably MediaTek phones

Bob

gsmarena.com/huawei_ascend_y300-5386.php

@HackToHell That particular one is a Qualcomm MSM8225 Snapdragon, surprisingly.

Boris_yo

08:21

@Bob And what is the price difference compared to online ordering from China?

Bob

@Boris_yo I dunno. Probably not much.

Heck, it's $50 for a Huawei Y201.

very basic, but it works

Boris_yo

@Bob Dual core? Okay. 1GHz each? Not okay!

Bob

@Boris_yo What on earth are you expecting?

Boris_yo

@Bob I traded in one-core 1GHz HTC for Nexus 4 and cannot think how I suffered with former.

Bob

Heck, the Y300 is not $78.

HackToHell

08:23

LOL NSA forced india to do this xD

National Cyber Security Policy 2013

National Cyber Security Policy is a proposed law by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India. which is due to be passed by parliament, aimed at protecting the public and private infrastructure from cyber attacks. Reason for Cyber Security India had no Cyber security policy before 2013. In 2013, The Hindu newspaper, citing documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, has alleged that much of the NSA surveillance was focused on India's domestic politics and its strategic and commercial ...

Boris_yo

@Bob Something that would not perform sluggish after 15 apps installed.

It hurts to see low specs because it reminds me of unpleasant experiences...
Well for calling only I guess it could be a choice, but then simple dumbphone would take care of that.

Ash

can you spot any error in this : String sqlcreate = " CREATE TABLE " + " ? " + "(no int primary key auto_increment," + "question varchar(300)," + "op1 varchar(100)," + "op2 varchar(100)," + "op3 varchar(100)," + "op4 varchar(100)," + "answer varchar(100))";

Bob

@Boris_yo "15 apps" is meaningless.

Also, if it's supposed to be a backup phone anyway...

Oliver Salzburg

@Ash What's with all the concatenations?

Boris_yo

@OliverSalzburg concatenations?

@Bob Maybe I did mistake trading in HTC...

Oliver Salzburg

08:27

Ash

@OliverSalzburg thats how I saw the code back in a tutorial page.

Bob

...good lord.

Ash

Now I would substitue ? with ps.setString(1,somevariable);

Bob

@Boris_yo The CPU isn't something you should care about, unless you're gaming...

HackToHell

@Boris_yo Get some mt6577 phone, the SoC is decent

jokerdino

08:30

hey @hack

Ash

but I some how gets an error , but I couldn't see why.

HackToHell

Oh hi @jokerdino hides

jokerdino

bye :P

HackToHell

lol, anyway I kinda forgot about Kanban

jokerdino

so, how's thing going?

Bob

08:32

@Ash Then you look at the error message.

It tells you why.

They also generally include the character it trips on.

jokerdino

i have learned the basics of JS so far. Just started on classes this morning

still to start on qt5 or qml

@HackToHell O_o

busy with semester?

HackToHell

I failed a paper in the previous semester >.<, so yeah I working on improving my hand writing

jokerdino

oh oops

better do

HackToHell

And that's not really an excuse for not learning about Qt anyway :P

jokerdino

I think the Qt designer tutorial is very good. But I think it uses QML or something.

Ash

08:48

@bob here is the error screen, I removed the concatenations as oliver mentioned 'em and they works fine (from sql command line).But from within java program with concatenations they some how manages to throw me an error.

Journeyman Geek

09:40

@HackToHell: ow

ahh joy

File transfer off my fileserver seems to be processor limited

kinda makes sense that the old atom boxen were 10/100 only, even if I'm getting a little extra performance off the gig-e card

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek And I am not sure if that's going to affect my future >_>

Bob

10:24

heh dafont.com/i-hate-comic-sans.font

Ash

11:07

@Bob got it : table name can't be used as a parameter. It must be hard coded.thats why it didnt work

allquixotic

12:17

@JourneymanGeek yep, those old Atoms don't even have a fast enough throughput into and out of the CPU from the FSB (I think they were still using FSB) to do 100 Mbps of TCP packets :P

Bob

@allquixotic I can't tell if you're awake really early or really late :P

@allquixotic That's scary.

allquixotic

@Bob just drying off before work.... so, about normal time

Bob

@allquixotic Oh yea. Daylight savings ended here, so I'm an hour behind compared to last month :S

allquixotic

@Bob so it's not quite as late for you now as it was before?

Bob

@allquixotic Yup.

allquixotic

12:21

cool, then I won't have to have Cavil to tell you to sleep for another hour later then ;)

Bob

-_-

But... I pretty much have all day tomorrow...

Though, I just recently fixed my nocturnal cycle. Hrm. Meh.

allquixotic

RL foxes are nocturnal hunters anyway :P

back in a bit

Bob

Gah. Symantec's installer is pegging a core. E5-2630 v2.

Paul

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Q: Google Photos Auto-Backup Exclude folder

I have Auto Backup enabled in Google Now for Photos. I also have Local Folders enabled so that photos produced by apps other than the camera get backed up too. However, this then includes photos and videos from folders that I don't want to backup. The "Include Local Folders" seems to be an al...

Lots of android people here - anyone have an idea how I can do this?

Bob

> Google Now

Eh. I never enabled that.

Paul

12:30

I have an SD card with some tv shows on it, and Google Now auto backup has taken to uploading these to itself

Psycogeek

@Paul I don't understnd how they can even do the first "blind backups without asking the user" & "where the hell is the opt-in or the off button" . WHEN simple 5 gig data packages for mobile can cost an extra $50-70 a month. I dont know how many people are willing to fork over $50 for a "free" service :-)

(so i just had to turn all that stuff off, Even if some aspects of it might be useful)

Raystafarian

I just stick with dropbox instead of using google's backup service

Psycogeek

How many people would say Ok, if the phone company said, "oh it's just $1000 a year to do some backups for your phone, your ok with that right?" :-)

Bob

@Psycogeek It's Google. I'm not sure they even considered limited mobile data.

Psycogeek

@Bob Yup! I doubt that thier employees have such limitations.

Oliver Salzburg

12:47

@Paul I've moved from AutoBackup to a FolderSync based system. Maybe it's something you want to look into

Psycogeek

When i see people hedging over getting a 2G external drive for a normal backup for thier data , costing around $100. Ending up waiting until they need a backup, just like waiting till you get robbed to buy a house alarm. I think they need to concider 2 pages in the manuel explaining how to Do a simple backup of the 1 or 2 flash chips on the phone to another computer. Instead lets make it easy on them.

Easy on WHO? is what i would like to know. the same people who prefer to use a coupon at the store to save 50Cents. The ones who buy on black friday because they think they are going to save $20? The ones buying crappy cheap SD card clones from e-bay , and wondering why they do not work.

Why is there like zero american products and everything is cheaply made crap from china, in most of the stores in the US? Because they are all friggen cheapskates, so why was there no conciderations for those same people in the mobile store Bitching up a storm about $300 data charges (one month).

Either someone does not "know thier market" or they are in colusion with the phone company to rape people.

Psycogeek

13:06

I got like 80gigs of stuff on my phone, and a data package that is good for 300megs a month :-) $15 bucks a gig for each gig used after that. so a backup of it would be $1200. Then about 35Gigs of that changes about every 2 months, that is ~$3000 a year. And I was worried about paying $400 for the phone :-)

OOps ---> a '2Terrabyte' external drive for a normal backup for thier data

Raystafarian

80 gigs of what? I have like nothing on my phone because if I try to do anything excessive I end up with no battery left..

Psycogeek

I have google earth (type maps) squeezied onto 40gigs so i can have all offline sattalite data for the state i live in. California bigger than some countries. The rest is "media" sitcoms series and movies , recorded off of tv, shrunk down for mobile. I fill it up then delete them after being watched. Then there is a backup of the internal stuff , and apps. and layers of apps aquired over time.

Raystafarian

Ah, makes sense

Psycogeek

Also offline vector maps for car use. If all the Stuff is there on the phone, then i dont need the very expencive mobile data. in the wilderness and big parks, there is zero signal

Raystafarian

That's true, it makes sense if you don't need the GPS to know where you are on the map.

Psycogeek

13:33

GPS is everywhere. It is the cell tower coverage that seems like it is everywhere att.com/maps/wireless-coverage.html#fbid=mGBXgMM-pmA, but as soon as a person gets off the roads , outside of the city, the coverage is lost. Me thinks the people who made this map never got out of a car :-)

allquixotic

13:49

@Raystafarian what phone? :p I have one with an extended battery built right into the phone

Paul

@Psycogeek The options are there for switching it to just photos/vids that you take with the camera, and then extending it further, or turning it off altogether. And the photos app asks you first time if you want it. I like it, data caps are different all over the planet, and the amount it consumes doesn't impact mine very much.

@OliverSalzburg Yeah, I use foldersync inside my own network, but I want my photos to be backed up as soon as they are taken.

I got an answer to my question at android.se so I am happy now.

Raystafarian

@allquixotic I just carry a charger around ;)

Oliver Salzburg

@Paul You can do that with the paid version

Paul

14:14

@OliverSalzburg To where?

Oliver Salzburg

@Paul To everywhere. It can watch the folders you specify and then run the sync you've set up. I sync my camera folder with GDrive

Paul

@OliverSalzburg Cool. Yeah, I only really need it for photos so that is covered with the freebie.

Journeyman Geek

You can set it to do backups only when on wifi

Bob

@Raystafarian My laptop is my external charger :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

I carry a battery bank ;p

allquixotic

14:24

!! s/battery bank/fire bomb/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic I carry a fire bomb ;p (source)

allquixotic

(effectively, for poor quality Chinese batteries)

Journeyman Geek

naw, this is sorta semi-respectable

its the store brand of the local equivilent of your friendly evil large computer retailer.

valore.sg/Valore/…

(and I hardly use it. Its nice to know its there)

Journeyman Geek

15:02

5

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek can you translate "Grrrrr, bark, woof"?

and I'm guessing "Good dog" is a loanword/loanphrase from English?

Journeyman Geek

I could.

;p

Yeah. I believe it says "Please wait after pooing"

Bob

16:07

:O

> Integrating NGEN in your application’s installer might be a challenge; auto-NGEN addresses this challenge by performing NGEN automatically if runtime-generated profiling information deems fit. When your .NET 4.5 application runs, the runtime generates assembly usage logs which are examined by an automatic maintenance task that runs in the background when the system is idle, and generates native images for frequently used assemblies.
(This maintenance task might also choose to evict native images for assemblies that have not been used for a long time.)

:O :O

> Multi-core background JIT
Developers can now opt-in to an optimized JIT that uses otherwise unused processing time to perform multi-threaded JIT compilation of frequently used methods speculatively. The first time the application is launched, data is collected on frequently used methods, and on subsequent launches this data is used to guide the background JIT engine.

@allquixotic ^ (blogs.microsoft.co.il/sasha/2011/09/17/…)

yea, I'm discovering this a little late

Canadian Luke

@JourneymanGeek That's a real sign... I've seen it -.-

alvasrawuther

16:52

I have this really strange issue.

I am using Bluestacks. My ISP provides a 1 Mbps connection. So I guess the download speed should only go upto about 128 KBps.

But in bluestacks, when I download apps from the app store. The speed shoots upto 5-10 MBps. And I still don't get how.

In the browser in bluestacks however, when I download files, the speed is normal. So why and how is this happening?

Canadian Luke

I got an issue with the all-in-one Windows 7 install disk. I removed the ei.cfg file, but it still forces Professional to install

Does anyone have the English Windows 7 x86 DVD? I need 5 files off of it

Sanchit

17:21

Er... what five files?

Canadian Luke

All the .CLG files under \sources

For example, install_Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL.clg

There should be more

One for Starter, one for HP, one for HB, one for Pro, and one for Ultimate

Sanchit

17:41

I think my CD is upstairs and I'm lazy and its night time. :3

Canadian Luke

Alright. Anyone else?

Sanchit

Yeah sorry about that. I searched a couple of places but couldn't find it. Plus it looks like you possibly need five people?

Actually I don't think you tried google. lowimpactdevelopment.org/guest75/pub/Megan/temp_MB/Win7_32bit/…

Don't know how trustworthy that is but its got everything you need! You can roll the dice and try it out.

Canadian Luke

Apparently, it didn't work... At least in the VM

I'll see if the Ultimate ISO I downloaded will work. Thanks though @Sanchit

allquixotic

@alvasrawuther the download speed may be cited in uncompressed throughput per second... if the data being sent is compressed at the transport layer (e.g. HTTP gzip compression) or at the application layer (e.g. LZMA2), you can get "download" speeds several times faster than your ISP's connection if the throughput measured by the application is given in uncompressed KB/s.

Sanchit

@CanadianLuke Yeah good luck. Here are more links of course google.com/…

allquixotic

17:51

I get that with Sony's online games... their launcher seems to download at about 10 MBps sometimes, yet my connection is only capable of a fraction of that

Canadian Luke

@Sanchit The Ultimate ISO, minus the ei.cfg file, works. Thanks :)

allquixotic

19:20

ohh man

Supervisory Health Insurance Technician is a job title :-(

3

I feel sorry for them

(acronym)

Braiam

heh

Raystafarian

ha

allquixotic

I guess Supervisory Health Insurance Technicians belong in the Administrative Support Section, right? ;-)

Braiam

@allquixotic seems natural

allquixotic

20:18

translatorscafe.com/cafe/units-converter/numbers/calculator/…

Michael Frank

20:39

@allquixotic Well... that seems like a 'just because we can' situation.

Michael Frank

22:43

Misleading titles are fun!

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Q: Why does player software fail to play movie in Acrobat Reader (Windows 7)?

I have created a pdf using beamer including movies by using the instruction: \movie[width=10cm,height=7cm]{Title}{videoname.avi} For previous versions of Acrobat Reader, I have never had a problem with reading the videos. But now for some reason, I get an error message when I want to play the ...

video pdf adobe-acrobat beamer

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