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Ash

14:03

Is there an alternate installer for Ubuntu 14.04 ?

Journeyman Geek

apparently no o0

Journeyman Geek

14:27

There's a reasonable chance I might have killed off the drive of impending doom

while experimenting with a e-sata bracket

Bob

@JourneymanGeek o.O

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Its not detected by the system, I'll try it on my desktop tommorrow

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I'm more wondering how experimenting with eSATA could damage it :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: well, maybe it didn't like being hotplugged into power?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Most SATA drives should be fine with that?

Journeyman Geek

14:42

or something else is wrong

hence reasonable chance

damned zombie drive will likely spin up happily when I plug it into my desktop

Bob

urk

A laptop charger question would be in topic here, so I think this is a valid question. — BrianAdkins 1 min ago

I really want to answer the question.

And I'm generally in favour of keeping as many questions as possible.

But it's a rather big stretch to say "laptop chargers are okay, therefore all power supplies are okay"...

@JourneymanGeek what were you doing with an iphone again?

Journeyman Geek

sister in law's phone. Was synced with itunes on an older incarnation of the shared PC, after the reinstall, its orphaned. If I synced it with the new incarnation of said PC... it'll apparently wipe out all the music on it

I have the apps and photos backed up

Bob

@JourneymanGeek yayzorz!

is it DRM'd music?

you could always run a cable from the headphone to a line in :P

Journeyman Geek

nope

... though, she MIGHT still have the copy on the thumbdrive i copied it off

Bob

@JourneymanGeek can you mount it as an MTP device?

Or you could always try something like this: mgtek.com/dopisp

(run in a VM if you don't trust it :P)

> up to iOS 4

Heh.

@JourneymanGeek I'm actually considering a moto g, grey import for $185 :P

though apparently there's a new one coming out with 4g and microsd

heh. soon as it goes to lenovo, micro sd? :P

That reminds me. Have you heard of MEElectronics, @JourneymanGeek?

Journeyman Geek

15:07

@Bob: headphone company?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Apparently :P

Journeyman Geek

they make fairly decent reasonably priced gear

Bob

Ya, I thought about taking them up on this: ozbargain.com.au/node/144450

Hm.

I do need something for my laptop :P

Journeyman Geek

Bob

Getting tired of fucking with Beats.

Journeyman Geek

15:09

I might be upgrading my portable gear soon

I kinda like my creative headphones though

Bob

Was just wondering if you had any recommendations/favourites :P

Journeyman Geek

oddly enough? Creative

Bob

Oh good fucking lord.

> • Official One Direction Signature Series

!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

15:11

@JourneymanGeek Do they have anything smaller/earbud-ish?

Journeyman Geek

ep 630

there's different varients, I have/like the android varient of it ;p

Bob

Huh, looks decent.

Journeyman Geek

suprisingly good basic pair of headphones (and I... kinda got them at something like 35 sgd)

Bob

urk

Journeyman Geek

damn. they're a bit cheaper than when i bought em :/

Bob

15:13

I've been clicking on too many of @HackToHell's links.

Google's giving me results from India -__-

Journeyman Geek

ahh, the version with the remote is 35

ugh

sg.creative.com/p/headphones-headsets/ma330

my bad. MIGHT be one of these

Bob

o.O

Journeyman Geek

(yeah, creative is horrible like that ;p)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek $50 here

and the other one was $35 ("was $45")

...

1 AUD > 1 SGD. y u do dis

Journeyman Geek

I'm eyeing a creative e3

@Bob: also thats the creative online/direct store ;p

Bob

15:19

...I think I'll get one of the meelecs

Journeyman Geek

(little sound card/headphone amp combo thing)

also does BT

the e1 seems to have decent reviews, but BTless.

@Bob: oh, I also think wirecutter mentioned them

Bob

@JourneymanGeek wirecutter?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: great review site for just about everything

thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-100-in-ear-headphones

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Even hankies?

Journeyman Geek

>_>

Just about. Not everything

Boris_yo

15:34

@JourneymanGeek Try this one: hugdug.com

HackToHell

@Bob oopsie :D

Boris_yo

@Bob Try cleaning your cookies.

Journeyman Geek

►

hm. I might have linked that earlier ;p

thats an awesome looking dog

Braiam

15:51

@JourneymanGeek you discovered the mirror, huh? :P

Journeyman Geek

The dog in the mirror is a dashing rapscallion, who would put Tramp himself to shame ;p

I mean the nutty looking aussie though ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek huh nice

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

they also update articles and cross reference heavily

Boris_yo

16:15

I am still with IE9. Do I make mistake?

jokerdino

Only about 67%

Boris_yo

16:53

@JourneymanGeek Why?

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allquixotic

19:10

@MichaelFrank nice :P

I am entering... the Dawngate. :D

Oliver Salzburg

19:43

Cool github.com/eteeselink/cdhere

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg nice :P

oh dear god, it uses COM

CComPtr<IShellWindows> psw;
VERIFY(CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellWindows, NULL, CLSCTX_ALL, IID_IShellWindows, (void**)&psw));

barlop

20:29

@allquixotic I got that netgear n900, am using its NAS. But an issue is there have been times where i've clicked 'safely remove USB device' in the web interface, and it has said "The device cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later." And i've had to 'end task' explorer.exe to one a comp to be able to get a successful response when clicking "safely remove USB device' on the web interface of the N900 NAS router. I notice that if I do \\readyshare and double click

usb_storage so as to get a directory listing, then it locks it. I can click back or close the window, then it unlocks it i.e. I can then safely remove device at the web interface.

But I wonder if sometimes the computer malfunctions and keeps the lock on it even when i've closed the explorer window

Is there a way that I could view from the comp i'm on, what process if any, has a read on the NAS device?

1 hour later…

Michael Frank

21:42

user asking about how to set up SSD + HDD correctly:

Q: What is the proper use setup for an SSD?

We had our new computers at work pre-built, as none of us were computer experts. We didn't notice this today, but Win7 came installed on the SSD - i.e. the SSD was C:\ drive. So, when we installed programs or ran programming scripts, everything was happing on the SSD! I started to run out of m...

User then asking how to ditch SSD + HDD as it's too hard to manage:

Q: I want to ditch my SSD/HDD setup. What's the easiest way to get everything from my SSD, onto my HDD?

I currently have an SSD, and an HDD set up on my computer, but I cannot care enough for the management issues. Is there a simple way to transfer all the files from the SSD, onto the HDD, including boot information, etc., so that my computer only uses the HDD, even to start up? In other words, a...

windows-7 hard-drive ssd

1 hour later…

Rifaz Nahiyan

22:44

I've run into a problem while experimenting.

1) I deleted my EFI partition while installing Ubuntu. I had Windows 8.1 pre-installed.
2) I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
3) Ubuntu runs fine. But there are no files of Windows on the EFI partition.
4) I need now to have Windows boot files in the EFI partition again.
What do I do?

Journeyman Geek

23:16

@Boris_yo because it was an entirely useless suggestion and things needed to be set on fire.

@RifazNahiyan: You should have backed up before you did anything

Rifaz Nahiyan

@JourneymanGeek, didn't have the pendrive while performing that. :(

Journeyman Geek

Have you looked at this? superuser.com/questions/460762/…