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Journeyman Geek

01:19

morning

(well, remorning. I fell asleep, then woke up again)

Michael Frank

Morning!

Also, it's afternoon here... and I just ate a $25 burrito.

Psycogeek

does DLC=Dumb Leftover Crap

Michael Frank

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Q: Windows or Linux Ogg Rip Program with Album Art?

I have a number of ogg and mp3 files with some tags, but basically it's a mess. What I'd like to do is the following: Get their tags right Get their album art embedded in them so it shows up on my Android phone I am willing to re-rip them if necessary. If re-ripping is what I have to do, I wan...

software rec!

Michael Frank

01:48

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Q: Asus intel core i3 Running windows 7

ASMediaXHCI controller, need to burn updatable driver to upgrade my usb software windows 7 OS Have tried, but system asks for disk to complete the upgrade.

burning

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Michael Frank

Yea, that was pretty much my reaction.

Journeyman Geek

02:08

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Q: need to install Windows Server over the current linux server

My company has rented a dedicated server. Usually the company I have rented from in the past installs a non registered version of Windows. I update it and install our own license. This time, it looks like x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu was installed, at least that is what is shows when I log in. I am a...

linux installation windows-server-2012-r2

0_0

this is one of those days.

Michael Frank

hahaha, it is!

Journeyman Geek

ugh

Bob

Uh

Journeyman Geek

There's a perfect answer to a question in the review queue on AU

Bob

Exam in 40 minutes

No one else here

...I hope I have the right time and room...

Journeyman Geek

02:24

-1

Q: dual boot ubuntu with windows 8

I want to install Ubuntu beside my windows 8 but I made a mistake that i installed only Ubuntu ,but when I logged in Ubuntu and went to open my partitions , an error appeared said that ""Error mounting /dev/sda5 at /media/abdo/mohamed: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosui...

ubuntu boot partitioning mount

this definately is one of those days

Bob

30 minutes

I'm scared

Michael Frank

Do you have a contact number?

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/questions/129858/… Was there even a 64 bit MS works?

Bob

Contact number. Nope.

Michael Frank

@Bob :S

Bob

02:39

Oh yay people arriving

Cya

Michael Frank

Break a leg!

Bob

02:55

ok

T-5min and no examiner in sight

...I see the blinking lights of a switch on a rack in a little closet down the front O_O

Michael Frank

Poke it.

Bob

this is a really weird place for that to be

2 minutes. still nothing :S

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Bob

one minute

for some reason, I get the feeling we aren't going to be starting on time

also looks like half the class is missing :S

thereheis bye

Michael Frank

03:12

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Q: Recovery a file filled with zeroes

Can I recovery the contents of a file which was filled by zeroes? my notebook somehow lost the power and when I turned on my machine back some of the files open in a text editor was filled by zeroes. The file size of both files keep intact but there's nothing but zeroes in the file.

windows-8 data-recovery file-recovery

Can you even restore files that were saved over with zeroes?

Journeyman Geek

no, not really

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Q: Will applying an ice pack to a laptop cause any issues?

Sometimes my laptop overheats crazily when I play a video game. That's why sometimes I use an ice pack to help cool it down. Is this dangerous? Like if the water from the pack melted or something? Will it cause any issues if I just apply an ice pack directly to the laptop?

laptop temperature

Clearly its september

hm

If the file was saved to a different location maybe

but the zero filling smells wierd

Michael Frank

03:31

@JourneymanGeek You're right.

Bob

04:32

@JourneymanGeek, @MichaelFrank amusingly (or not) I've had that happen to me recently to Firefox's season backups...

Michael Frank

@Bob They're full of zeroes?

Also, that was a short exam o.O

Bob

Hour long

And, yea, it was a good 30kb of null bytes :/

jackopen

04:44

If i create a shortcut of a folder(which is located on shared network PC/computer/drive) in my computer. When network connectection is not available, & if i try to open that folder shortcut from my PC, windows will prompt me for two options , one default option is "DElete shortcut", i think this is not the correct, what do you think? what are the possible reason?

OS:Windows

Michael Frank

Are you asking if it is supposed to prompt you to delete it? If it's an orphaned shortcut, then it's going to tell you and suggest removal.

jackopen

when i am opening that shortcut, & windows ask gives me option of deleting it.

so it is something not intended

@MichaelFrank

i dont want to delete it

"orphaned shortcut" what does it mean?

not network connection?

available

deostroll

Hi. On windows 8, how to get a launch icon on the "desktop" (not the start screen)

Ah never mind I got it...

Journeyman Geek

05:02

you mean pinning?

Bob

05:40

Wow. Some jokers are trying to sell off a bunch of old P4 systems. Anyone want to guess how much they're asking for?

Stack Exchange

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Q: StackExchange drop-down menu is too long, needs categories sub-menus

With 130 entries, the drop-down menu at the top of the page is quite large and less usable. For instance, if I want to go to a mathematics-related topic, I need to be aware that several exist: Mathematica, Mathematics Educators, Mathematics, MathOverflow, plus Cryptography. (and maybe more, th...

feature-request

Sathya

06:03

I enabled sync but not getting backups — Sunny 1 min ago

Journeyman Geek

06:53

@Bob shouldn't they be paying people to take them off their hands?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Exactly.

They wanted $80 ea O_O

Sathya

07:39

wat.

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Q: An experiment: Stack Overflow TV

Stack Overflow is beginning an experiment called Stack Overflow TV, or SOTV for short. It will be a series of fast, smart videos for experienced programmers who want to learn a new thing. The videos will serve as a complement to Stack’s Q&A, and intended for that community. Of course, they will ...

discussion featured education

Journeyman Geek

Actually..

@Bob I know of someone who would pay that.

Oliver Salzburg

08:07

Oh, new iTunes Connect

Bob

@JourneymanGeek o.O

Looks a lot like a Web Applications question: superuser.com/questions/807588/… (@Sathya?)

Sathya

08:23

@Bob yep, migrated

Journeyman Geek

@Bob yeah. I told him its pretty silly :p

Oliver Salzburg

Yay meta.superuser.com/help/badges/44/electorate?userid=36744

Michael Frank

09:12

@JourneymanGeek I think he means shortcut :P

Journeyman Geek

10:32

io9.com/…

gee, I could have told them that

Oliver Salzburg

"petted"? Is that right?

Journeyman Geek

I do believe so

Oliver Salzburg

Huh, I figured it would be irregular

Journeyman Geek

english is all irregular.

Oliver Salzburg

10:49

:D

Journeyman Geek

time.com/3265308/ikea-catalog-2015

this is rather hillarious

Hennes

11:23

@Bob Well, since they are classic systems , much like a Ford-T, probably not enough :)

HackToHell

11:35

Is there any simple way to update from VS 2012 to VS 2013 ?

Oliver Salzburg

@HackToHell I would assume you just double-click the installer and you're done

HackToHell

Bleh bad question, I was hoping there's a smaller installer for upgrading

Instead of having to download the entire thing

Oliver Salzburg

...almost

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: this is why I think we just need to go full dinobot on them ;p

HackToHell

Oh frack, every single time Dota 2 updates Steam unpacks the vpk file and uses up 8 gigs ._.

That's all the space that drive has

Oliver Salzburg

11:53

@JourneymanGeek Hey, we already cleared 1500 questions :D

It's just nice to bring it down to triple digits

Journeyman Geek

;p

Oliver Salzburg

Humm, how should I best create a screen recording of this PowerPoint presentation?

The video export in 2013 is great, but it skips over the animation steps too quickly

And I feel like the timings you can set up only relate to the duration of slides

Screen capture at 2560x1440 will be a pain as well

Journeyman Geek

ooh lifehacker.com/…

@OliverSalzburg: 0_0

Oliver Salzburg

It always runs fullscreen, I don't think this computer could handle it

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: steal a smaller screen for screen-capping? ;p

@Bob: Apparently my current local-store brand powerbank uses samsung batteries

Hennes

12:16

Change resolution to 1280x770 ?

Then capture 'full screen'

Oliver Salzburg

@Hennes Oh, right. You can change resolutions

Heh

HackToHell

xkcd.com/1416

Visual Studio 2013 is 6352 MB #k

jackopen

12:33

is there anything like "micro SD to HDMI adaptor"?

i want to connect htc 1 v to LCD TV(HDMI) to view movies.

justanswer.com/android-devices/…

for this issue

Hennes

blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/01/12/10114521.aspx

Joys of the past.

Journeyman Geek

12:56

@jackopen I think you have micro SD and micro USB confused.

also methinks you want an mhl cable

jackopen

unfortunately HTC 1 V doesnt support MHL; i think so as per this wiki article

@JourneymanGeek

HTC One series

HTC One is a series of Android and Windows Phone smartphones designed and manufactured by HTC. All products in the One series were designed to be touchscreen-based and slate-sized, and to initially run the Android mobile operating system (Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or subsequent Android releases) with the HTC Sense graphical user interface. From 2010 to 2013, all HTC products starting from the HTC Sensation XE to the HTC One Mini were equipped with a Beats Audio equalizer. Later HTC devices beginning with the HTC One Max no longer ship with Beats Audio following the buyback of HTC's stake in...

that is why looking for some alternate option.

Journeyman Geek

Oh. The one v.

jackopen

yeah

Journeyman Geek

Then no

But if it did, you'd be able to do that

jackopen

justanswer.com/android-devices/…

it says there is something like MIcro SD to HDMI i am not sure what it is

i googled cant find any further info

except that & 2~4 other(vague) links

Journeyman Geek

13:38

eh. justanswer seems kinda dodgy, and converting a storage Interface to a video/data interface makes no sense

allquixotic

hii

Bob

hiii

allquixotic

I'm so close to 20k that I could answer one ~~good~~ popular question, or 5 meh ones, and get it today

would have gotten it much earlier, except I put up a 500 bounty

the annoying part is when I write up an answer that provides suppositions or opinions or things that may or may not be 100% correct, those tend to get more upvotes than ones where I completely nail down the problem beyond a shadow of a doubt >.<

I guess nobody clicks on the latter

"Why ...?" *click* vs. "PROBLEM WITH ...!" *skip*

Bob

@allquixotic adds some upvotes

...

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A: How windows detects internet connection?

It shows "Internet Access" whenever a ping request returns a success for pinging "www.windows.com". This means that if your system is set up to redirect you to a payment page or something of that sort, it is going to return a ping from there too, tricking the computer that it is connected to the ...

I... what?

That's not even right. And he posted that two hours after my comment!

Also, ping, redirect? !!no

Journeyman Geek

chuckles

@allquixotic: In a different universe I'd be an EE ;p

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allquixotic

13:55

@Bob @_@ that's called rigged voting :P

I'm sure you've upvoted me 50x more than the average person... I wonder if SU has a limit on how many times one person can upvote another, irrespective of time?

I wasn't fishing for votes anyway -- honest! :P

Journeyman Geek

Not really

Bob

@allquixotic Eh, I just don't vote much/don't read random questions much. The answers are actually deserving of upvotes :P

I'm not blindly upvoting

allquixotic

oh, ok. thanks then :P

Journeyman Geek

The images for this google search for AC adaptor modified sine waves are... odd...and possibly moderately NSFW i.imgur.com/LjWFRHg.png

allquixotic

I actually want meta upvotes more than main site upvotes, really. @nhinkle once called me a prolific meta contributor and ever since then I've been like, "Yeah! I really am!" and have tried to do as much as possible to help on meta

I like metas :)

Journeyman Geek

14:00

;p

allquixotic

except meta.SO and meta.SE

those are horrible

Journeyman Geek

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Q: Would a question about the effect of modified sine waves on the AC adapter for a laptop be on-topic?

I have an inverter that generates modified sine wave output. My newly purchased AC adapter for my laptop is not working (first thing I tried it on was the inverter), and I'm wondering: could the modified sine wave output could have damaged my AC adapter? I've been looking for an appropriate Stac...

support

In his shoes, I'd probably suspect the adaptor is DOA, keep quiet about it being plugged into the inverter, and get it exchanged ;p

allquixotic

lol

Bob

Incidentally, most of the modified sine wave UPSes don't like PFC PSUs. But that usually trips the UPS, not the PSU.

allquixotic

@Bob the only thing I got out of that question was "OMG, that person is still using a version of CCC from before AMD bought ATI!"

Bob

14:11

o.O

how did a WT album get onto my Google Play wishlist?

allquixotic

ATI system tray icon

Bob

I... don't remember adding that at all.

Must've mistapped somewhere.

But... I don't remember browsing to any of them either...

@allquixotic How old does that imply?

allquixotic

@Bob the announcement of AMD acquiring ATI landed in late July 2006... by 2008 or so I'm pretty sure the Catalyst driver had a new icon that did not contain "ATI"

worst case, let's say 2009

so their graphics driver must be at least 4-5 years old

they might have installed it from a CD that came with their (ancient) graphics card -_-

"oh? you mean that drivers get updated after the card is released?"

Bob

so... vista drivers?

huh, more meelec sales

allquixotic

@Bob I can't really tell if that screenshot is Windows 7 or Vista

it seems more like Windows 7 because the taskbar is not opaque black

Bob

14:17

@allquixotic vista didn't have the pop-up/out notification area

Journeyman Geek

blag

Bob

it expanded to the left like XP

Journeyman Geek

this is not a mod answer.

allquixotic

@Bob and Vista's taskbar was split down the middle by different color ("glass" effect) -- top was almost gray, bottom was black

Bob

@allquixotic well, that's themeable, I guess. just ask psycogeek.

meelec.com/Sport_Fi_X6_Bluetooth_Wireless_Sports_Earphones_p/…

allquixotic

14:18

I liked Vista's look and feel a lot -- would like to get that back on Win 8.1

Bob

$48...

allquixotic

and not a bad approximation either!

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Thats no theme. Its a theme park populated by scary clowns

@allquixotic: I miss aero ;p

Bob

o.O

allquixotic

@Bob considering you're wanting to buy them and not me, it's youelectronics in this case

Bob

14:19

wtf is this shit? BT 2.0? arc.com.au/pub.php?pid=35807&p=product

allquixotic

it's !!notooth 2.0

Bob

$17 for a BT 4.0 local: arc.com.au/pub.php?pid=55845&p=product

amazon is cheaper with delivery -_-

allquixotic

I really want a BT 4.0 on-ear headset (with mic). with lots and lots of battery life :P

right now I have BT 4.0 over-ear which is not the ideal comfort (and sound leaks out around the edges), and BT 3.0 "on-ear" but it's really over-ear because it doesn't fit quite right ;p and same leakage problem

the one thing I liked about my Beats, aside from them being absolutely terrible at delivering actual sound, was the hardware construction -- they fit perfectly on my ears and snugly, and didn't let any sound escape

Bob

@allquixotic meelec.com/Runaway_s/409.htm?

oh wait that's BT 2.1

allquixotic

@Bob those are BT 2.1 with 12 hours of music time -_-

Bob

14:31

@allquixotic You can always make a suggestion? :P

They seem quite receptive.

allquixotic

@Bob they're not going to custom-tailor a product to me -_-

basically, I want this headset (the same physical construction) but with double the battery life and Bluetooth 4.0 (optimally, LE profile)

Bob

@allquixotic eh, won't hurt to make a suggestion for their next product :P

@allquixotic and maybe less than $270? o.O

> The Matrix2 will be it for a while, at least for over-ear headphones. There should be a new in-ear flagship some time next year, though.

allquixotic

the Matrix2 is what I have (and am wearing now) -- I love them to bits, everything about them is great except for the shape of the cups

I want perfectly circular on-ear cups like Sennheiser makes

(or, quite frankly, like Beats makes -_-)

HackToHell

ooh unreal 4 engine is free for students unrealengine.com/education

allquixotic

I might just buy those Sennheisers anyway. I don't really mind having to charge them every day. only problem is they might actually die on me during the day, which could be annoying

the Matrix2 lasts 22 hours, which means it's physically impossible for me to work late enough to have to recharge them during the workday (I have to leave the building by 11pm; management rules)

@Bob I may end up buying the Sennheiser headset anyway, mainly because I know how great Sennheiser's build quality and sound quality is, and I'm willing to overlook BT 2.1 + EDR support because it supports apt-X; I'll just have to remember to keep it charged... would be great if it had a swappable battery though.

Bob

14:45

@allquixotic what does it charge with?

allquixotic

wait! this is what I want! :D

en-us.sennheiser.com/…

the 450-X, not the 400-X. the 450-X has 20 hours of listening time; the 400-X, only 10.

hey Bob, you don't have Matrix2, do you? :D

I could sell you my pair for less than you can get them online. Gently used.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

I thought round cups were fairly common

Bob

@allquixotic nope

@allquixotic o.O

maybe, but postage is likely to make it pointless :P

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek nope, they are rare...

@Bob I'll just swim across the ocean, np

Bob

also, $350 headphones O_O

allquixotic

14:48

!! s/350/quality has no price/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic also, $quality has no price headphones O_O (source)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: eh. I think I'd spend that much on cabled phones ;p

allquixotic

!! s/cabled/20th century/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic @Bob: eh. I think I'd spend that much on 20th century phones ;p (source)

allquixotic

seriously :P

Journeyman Geek

14:52

@allquixotic: meh, different needs

Bob

shrug

sony.com.au/product/dr-btn200 => claims 40 hours playback

allquixotic

!!wat

ChatBot John Cavil

Bob

no aptX though

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: besides, how would I use that with my amp?

allquixotic

14:53

I am disappoint

Bob

BT 3.0

> Compatible Profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, HSP
Supported Codecs SBC, AAC

allquixotic

@Bob AAC support is good; I think my S5 has that

Journeyman Geek

(though, if my laptop had BT, which for some wierd reason, it dosen't, I'd favour it over the onboard sound.)

allquixotic

problem is, headsets are hard to judge their comfort just by a picture. I know the Sennheiser MM 450-X would work for me because the physical construction of the cups is identical to a cabled pair I have from 2008 and those fit me perfectly.

I can't tell from the pic if those Sony cans would be as comfy.

Journeyman Geek

On a scale of 1 to 11 (cause this one goes up to 11) Beats would be a 1, my laptop would be a 4-5, and my current setup's probably a 7-8

allquixotic

14:56

and Sennheiser's pro (cabled) monitoring cans are an 11? :P

I really, really like headphones with a "flat" response -- let the music itself create variance. I don't want an opaque unmodifiable equalizer on my bluetooth headset's DSP chip.

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: You never hit 11.

@allquixotic: the FA003's fairly flat

allquixotic

if you're listening to music that needs an equalizer, the artist is doing it wrong

Journeyman Geek

they arn't the flattest

Actually as far as all round headphones, I love them

allquixotic

monitoring cans are extremely flat (when they are built for the purpose of studio monitoring)

Journeyman Geek

The current issue with my setup is its too complicated

allquixotic

14:58

Sennheiser's whole product range, by and large, is like that

Journeyman Geek

And most of the stuff I'd swap at the moment is on the signal generation/amplification side of things

allquixotic

also, on a tangent, I hate how KitKat (incl. all minor releases) has broken the bluetooth volume so it no longer remembers the media volume is different between different bluetooth devices

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