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Psycogeek

00:00

So your EFI partition thing, is probably the "system" partition or where it goes to from the UEFI , before it gets to the OS.

Then you got a "recovery" partition which is probably the manufactures reset back the way it came partition.

OOps Wrong, that is just a recovery partition of the windows type, that does the same thing the DVD could/would.

Where is the simple instructions :-) Clone the whole disk, edit the BCD on the NEW one, change the boot menu, boot to the new disk , check the partition structure. (and if your really into testing remove the old one and see if it still boots)

Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord: Samsung's migration tool should be aware but not all are

and eh. If all goes well I'll be doing the same thing soon ;)

DragonLord

Of course, I'll be taking a full system image backup in Windows before proceeding

I'll shrink the OS partition down further to accelerate migration

Psycogeek

@DragonLord the right disk cloning tool would not require adjusting the partitions, as long as the data fits. (when not doing sector=sector)

Because a good cloning tool will allow you to change the new disks parition layout, prior to copying the "files" (again not actual sector-sector)

Psycogeek

00:35

BCD editing is a lot more simple than it sounds, or people end up making it, to do special things. All your doing is setting 4 pointers , to point to the locations for stuff (like where the OS is). . if there is no second boot item (from there), or extra boot loaders (like linux), it is easy to do.

Simon Sheehan

00:54

Oddly enough, GRUB seems to see Windows as 2 boot loaders... one works, one doesnt.

Journeyman Geek

01:28

Wierd.

Psycogeek

02:05

Worse than auto correction, is the speech to text. the landlord just replied to "hurt the dog , and go suck yourself" when I text him that his dog wouldn't shuddap. Later i get the correction that "I will have to Herd the dog myself"

Simon Sheehan

02:41

@JourneymanGeek yeah it shows it on 2 different disks.... /sdc1 and /sda1 or something like that. Found it a bit odd but whatever.

Hennes

@CanadianLuke No. Plain old laptop. Apparently installing AVG corrupts windows 8.1

Or at least, it corrupted this install.

crash -> reboot -> repairing -> crash -> reboot -> repairing -> ...

Simon Sheehan

@Hennes Does Windows not come with MSE at this point?

Journeyman Geek

It comes with defender.

Hennes

I have no idea if defender is any good.

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek is that the windows 8 version of security essentials? I found MSE to be fairly good on Windows 7

Journeyman Geek

02:45

Yup

Simon Sheehan

Although then again I don't remember seeing it pop up for a long time now... maybe it broke finally lol

Journeyman Geek

And its what I use

And I'm running AVG on my last XP system

Simon Sheehan

Yeah. I had a few issues installing it at first, but otherwise no issues.

I used Avast for a long time before it was very bloated

Journeyman Geek

(MSE dosen't support XP any more)

Simon Sheehan

Ahhh, right, XP is a "dead" OS now

Hennes

02:47

EOL 2009. ;-)

Simon Sheehan

Ooops

ekaj

Is this opinion based? I guess the "is AV on a DC advisable" part is, but I thought it would be more of a "best practice" kind of thing: serverfault.com/questions/653099/…

Simon Sheehan

I suppose 7 is getting towards end of mainstream support soon... I think I'll wait for 10 to upgrade

@ekaj I would call it a best practice thing. It could get opinionated answers, I suppose there isn't one be-all-end-all answer to it

Hennes

Right, back to attempting to sleep. (03:48 AM local)

Journeyman Geek

I might switch my current laptop to linux when I upgrade in 2 years or so.

Simon Sheehan

02:49

@JourneymanGeek Oh yeah? I'm dual booting as is right now on my desktop

On the bright side, installing windows on my SSD won't butcher my boot menu, since it's on another drive

Journeyman Geek

@SimonSheehan: My laptop's due for a rebuild soon

Simon Sheehan

I'm long overdue for a rebuild/restructure haha

Journeyman Geek

But since I actually have money as of january, I want to time it with a few minor upgrades

Simon Sheehan

I mean all my music/videos are on one drive, but I've got games spread across all 3... OS's on two....

Journeyman Geek

and I'm not decided on the next laptop, it'll depend on how things work at my new job

Simon Sheehan

02:52

I would like to invest in a new GPU but... alas, money

Journeyman Geek

lol

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek New X230 looks nifty haha

Journeyman Geek

Next system is unlikely to be a lenovo

Simon Sheehan

why not?

Journeyman Geek

Currently considering a 1. HP steam or chromebook (for low costs) 2. Macbook refurb (so I can learn OS X properly) 3. on a longer term, a razer blade.

Simon Sheehan

02:54

@JourneymanGeek As much as some people may not enjoy macs... I absolutely love my macbook

No regrets in it at all, not disappointed

Let me find the specs/model...

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Journeyman Geek

@SimonSheehan: Right now I'm looking at a 2013 mbp 13 inch at ~1500

Simon Sheehan

This is the last model before they started soldering RAM on :p

Journeyman Geek

Prices vary a lot tho

Simon Sheehan

Indeed they do

Journeyman Geek

and I realised outside gaming, my needs are pretty minor

Especially since the standard corp issue desktop is a dell xeon workstation.

Simon Sheehan

02:58

I leave the gaming to my desktop. For everything else, this does wonderfully. I've played a few games on it bored at school, including Borderlands 2 which looked fairly nice on it, although ran fairly hot.

Journeyman Geek

and I didn't see a single laptop at work ;p

Simon Sheehan

lol :p

I do a LOT of photo editing though... so the high-res display is REALLY nice on this for it. Especially the colours

Journeyman Geek

I'm pretty sure their desktops are faster than my core i7 ;p

Simon Sheehan

Hahaha

Journeyman Geek

Can't wait. I start January.

Simon Sheehan

03:01

Yeah? what is the new job?

Journeyman Geek

Tech support

Simon Sheehan

Neat. Right up your alley then

Journeyman Geek

(amusingly, I applied for nearly 25 jobs. End up getting recruited off a mailing list)

(Still not sure about the etiquette of that yet)

Guy's like "I can't find any linux guys here!" "I know linux"

So... I went from application to interview in a week, got a call in for a second interview 2 weeks later for an interview the next week....

and poof. I'm hired

Simon Sheehan

sounds pretty easy haha

Journeyman Geek

And eh

That's a useful tip actually.

Networking >>>> applying for work through normal channels

Simon Sheehan

03:08

Exactly. Amazing what the internet can do haha

ekaj

The reason I've switched between internships is primarily networking, and just experience in general

Journeyman Geek

03:26

Oh, I got this gig through a fairly quiet local linux mailing list

ekaj

nothing like that around here

For a while I wanted to start a local hackerspace, but don't know if I could find enough interested, or the resources

Journeyman Geek

I need to pop by mine.

ekaj

what all ya got at it?

Journeyman Geek

No idea ;p

ekaj

=p I was thinking about getting a lab at my school.. but that probably wouldn't happen

Journeyman Geek

03:29

hackerspace.sg/about

ekaj

For some reason I always think you're from the US

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek When do you start ?

It must be awesome to earn more $$ to buy stuff :D

Psycogeek

Ahh finnaly Stupid question (actually statement) of the week "Does demagnetization occur with external hard drives like with CD's and DVD's? I heard CD's and DVD's need to be stored vertically to prevent demagnetization?"

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Simon Sheehan

@Psycogeek lol, good one

Psycogeek

Get with it , the magnetic optical drive :-) which in reality they do have , "Ram Cds" because i got some, both carted and not carted.

Psycogeek

03:49

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I guess it is dvd

this pic tries to show the disk behind the case there

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Nope, it is all still optical, it is just Layout that different

"The on-disc structure of DVD-RAM is closely related to hard disk and floppy disk technology, as it stores data in concentric tracks. DVD-RAMs can be accessed just like a hard or floppy disk and usually without any special software"

" . . . Like magneto-optical (MO) technologies, DVD-RAM has numerous rectangles on the disc surface that define the boundaries of data sectors. However, DVD-RAM is not MO but a phase transition medium, similar to CD-RW, DVD-RW, or DVD+RW" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-RAM

For all those with scratched dented and unusable DVDs , remember they actually choose in a descision to not use a cart system for DVDs even though it would have been the best possible method . . . for letting your kids anywhere near them :-)

Journeyman Geek

04:05

@HackToHell: Jan 5th

@HackToHell: More importantly, less parental guilt ;p

ekaj

If you moved to the US I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have a problem getting a job..

Judging from SE contributions you're more qualified than quite a few sysadmins / IT guys around here that I personally know

Simon Sheehan

I'm sure someone from SE would help him find a job in the US haha

ekaj

probably =p

Journeyman Geek

if someone offered me a job, I'd move ;p

ekaj

What's your salary at the new one?

Journeyman Geek

04:08

~2400 pre tax

ekaj

per year?

Journeyman Geek

per month, for 13 months.

(Singapore has 13 month work years ;p)

I make ~3600 Per year at the moment XD

ekaj

interesting =p some company I read about.. I think Kodak, kept using the 13mo calendar into the 80s or 90s

Simon Sheehan

@JourneymanGeek what currency?

Journeyman Geek

The logic behind a 13 month calender is interesting

@SimonSheehan: SGD

ekaj

04:10

~25k USD / yr

Curious, did you try out careers.SE?

Journeyman Geek

Mostly developer jobs.

ekaj

ah :/

Journeyman Geek

Google reached out to me due to SU I think but it didn't quite work out cause of school, and the fact that I've got no dev chops ;p

ekaj

How's the cost of living in Singapore a month?

And that's pretty awesome =p

Simon Sheehan

@ekaj Always has been more geared to developers.

ekaj

04:12

Wasn't sure, I've never used it or really looked at it

A sysadmins / other portion would be nice

Simon Sheehan

I thought the same thing as well haha

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek :D

Simon Sheehan

Sysadmin stuff does pop up

HackToHell

mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-common/…

Journeyman Geek

@ekaj: I'm living with my parents so...

Simon Sheehan

04:13

careers.stackoverflow.com

Journeyman Geek

no food and housing costs.

HackToHell

Helluva lot of dependencies o0

ekaj

Ah =p freeeee

Simon Sheehan

You'll just see mostly developers lol

Journeyman Geek

I'm aiming for 50-100 in transport costs (capped at 120, since if I exceed that, I'll buy a pass), and ~300 bucks in mad money + essentials.

Psycogeek

04:28

I need a job that "It doesn't pay to wake up" , I never liked waking up anyway :-)

ekaj

What is an apartment / month in Singapore for a single person? I'm not sure how other countries compare to the US

mis.fortunecook.ie

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Psycogeek

@ekaj to take over that widdle computer (router) that sits betwixt you and the web, seem like it could be a whole lot of power. I assume the modems are next? I was buying a new modem , trying to figure out what kind, and this Docsis stuff aparentally is special in that it allows the ISP to update it remotely ? One more widdle computer to control.

Hackers will be like having 100million raspberry PIs out there , and take over the world.

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400 exploits later (patched) in all probability there seems to be little difficulty in finding more

Journeyman Geek

04:48

@ekaj Lets just say I can't afford rent where I live, or in quite a few places.

Bob

Poker game at work o.O

DragonLord

Turns out Windows system image backup covers the UEFI partition and recovery partition as well as the main volume on which Windows is installed

I'm taking a system image backup right now

My final exams are finally over

I won't be able to chat very long as I have to leave for the store very early tomorrow—it's a Jewish establishment which has to close early on Fridays for Shabbat

Journeyman Geek

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ekaj

Did you set up your filesystem to span over those volumes? i.e. Windows on C: and programs on D:?

DragonLord

bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1063644-REG/…

@JourneymanGeek, any suggestions or tips for system performance once I make the jump to the SSD 850 PRO?

...and get it up and running?

ekaj

05:02

Just watched The Colbert Report end, kinda sad

Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord: The Magician software does most of the optimisation for you

Bob

Lol. HR manager just walked in.

Journeyman Geek

And with the 850 pro I believe you have FDE and ram caching options.

My 840 is set up for maximum reliability rather than raw speed

ekaj

05:30

Speaking of settings things up I really need to format my laptop and reorganize everything

DragonLord

@ekaj: no, all software is installed on one volume

Journeyman Geek

@ekaj: I install my games (via steam, and to a lesser extent, origin) to a different physical drive

DragonLord

For me, large static files (photos, videos, music) will be put on the hard drive; OS, apps, and documents go on the SSD

With 24GB of RAM on my laptop, I have no reason not to turn on RAPID Mode

ekaj

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"Looks like he shopped (•_•) / ( •_•)>⌐■-■ / (⌐■_■) until he dropped"

Journeyman Geek

05:47

boo ;p

DragonLord

06:06

How will adding an SSD without removing the hard drive impact battery life?

Perhaps I should configure it to spin down when unneeded to extend battery life?

Journeyman Geek

Well, you're powering two devices....

so it would definately lower it.

DragonLord

...but the HDD consumes more power under load than the SSD, so how does that factor in?

I'll set Windows to spin down the hard drive after a few minutes of inactivity

Journeyman Geek

06:28

Ahh, if you power it down, sure.

Steam Winter sale's started <3

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Someone star that please, so I can pin that, for great justice ;p

Journeyman Geek

06:41

Thanks.

ekaj

silly question: when you're looking at hosting VMs just for a testing network, what type of hardware setup would you go for to get the most VMs possible (while still on a budget)? Old servers?

Journeyman Geek

07:00

Go for the most core count and ram you can

Or save the money and get a ton of cheap systems ;p

ekaj

Also - this is interesting, I like how you can see the queries: data.stackexchange.com/superuser/query/949/…

Journeyman Geek

29.6%

ekaj

24.6%.. boo

you can even write your own queries, neat =p

Journeyman Geek

Actually, better than I expected

ekaj

(apparently it doesn't like select * from users)

Journeyman Geek

07:06

Prolly would be far too heavy

DragonLord

07:44

@JourneymanGeek, I'm wondering if the moderator workload has increased lately

Journeyman Geek

lastfew weeks, seemingly.

DragonLord

I'm curious as to how "intensive" the job is on a whole

Is it Winter Bash, or is something going on?

Journeyman Geek

Just normal variations I guess

You go from 10+ flags to 20+ flags ;p

DragonLord

I've noticed similar things from my time in the 10k tools

Journeyman Geek

Don't forget tho

Most of the mods have proper dayjobs ;p

DragonLord

07:48

You just got a job, too

I've found the moderator response times to be a bit lacking lately

A few years ago, my mod attention flags often got handled within two hours and often less

Journeyman Geek

Don't forget tho

DragonLord

I now find myself waiting several hours for a flag to clear

Journeyman Geek

A 'slow' mod response may not be cause there's no one

We do occationally have to consider the best course of action for a flag

DragonLord

The old DMA is gone

Journeyman Geek

DMA?

And there's something worth considering - that once you've flagged the flag has to be handled in some way by a mod before its cleared.

DragonLord

07:54

DMA57361, United Kingdom

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windows-7 microsoft-excel windows windows-xp microsoft-excel-2007 microsoft-word worksheet-function

Journeyman Geek

ahh right

We've had quite a few mods leave/burn out :/

DragonLord

Is there some way I can better learn how to handle borderline posts or should I just bring them up in Ask a Super User Moderator for discussion?

Journeyman Geek

You can always flag stuff or bring them up on the main channel

Don't forget, I'd rather have 5 people get it wrong, than 1 (and that one being me ;p)

Heck, I still bring up stuff on the main channel

DragonLord

Handling these exceptions is the essence of becoming a moderator and I have to learn to do this better

Journeyman Geek

And I wield the mighty mod-hammer.

DragonLord

07:57

Too many bad flags lately...

Journeyman Geek

ugh. I try to comment with those but I don't always remember

DragonLord

I've been driven nearly to insanity after that mod election :p

Thaddeus actually responded in the room I created last night

Journeyman Geek

lol

Have you ever seen me fret about anything on SU? ;p

DragonLord

With my time mostly free for the next month or so, I'll be starting to rewrite some of my older, lengthier posts for clarity

Put them in my new "DragonLord Modern" format :p

Better organization, more headers, more images, easier reading

It'll be a big project, and I don't plan to rewrite all posts

We are capped to editing five of our own posts per day, after all

I'll select my higher-voted, more popular answers for editing first

in Feedback for DragonLord's new post style, 15 hours ago, by Thaddeus

Read through some of your posts and found the information held within to be viable but not easily analysed. Go for smaller chunks of text, isolate the main points, use section headers to break out big ideas, or specific vendors. Use infographics to support your work. Good graphics (flowcharts are great for processes) can make a big difference.

I'll continue answering questions and running the review rounds as usual, but with more time on my hands, I should be able to make major improvements to my existing content as well

Ping me with any suggestions in my feedback room and I'll look at it when I have a chance. I'll need quite a bit of time to complete the SSD upgrade tomorrow.

I'm working on my tablet right now so I might not be able to do some things efficiently

Time to get back to bed.

XKCD

08:16

Plus, you have to control for the fact that some people are into being blindfolded.

Journeyman Geek

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DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek, links to rewritten posts will be posted in the feedback room. Ping me with any suggestions there.

Good night.

DragonLord

08:36

I promise: No more walls of text!

Oliver Salzburg

09:30

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Oh no!

ADSL Modem by Unknown is vulnerable O___O

Kristian

Oh sh*t!

Hurry, call all owners of "Unknown ADSL modem" and have them unplug their internets immediately!

Journeyman Geek

Which bug is it now?

Bob

Ok, I'm somewhat annoyed.

@allquixotic The Lenovo tablet had crackling noises from the right speaker if volume > 40%

So... Lenovo won't do warranty repairs because they're bloody hopeless.

But Amazon is sending a replacement for free.

But I need to ship it back.

But they'll cover shipping costs.

But it costs almost $300 to ship back (!!!)

Because it contains a Li-ion battery

fuck off

Journeyman Geek

0_0

so you're out 300 quid until amazon pays you back?

Kristian

09:46

not quid, bucks!

Journeyman Geek

Clams?

Kristian

Chips?

Journeyman Geek

Who calls money chips?

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Bob

@JourneymanGeek Poker players?

@JourneymanGeek Pretty much. Oh, that part is not a problem.

It's just painful spending more than the cost of the thing itself on shipping.

Journeyman Geek

ahh ;p

Bob

09:53

Even if I'm reimbursed.

Journeyman Geek

So its a case of "THE STUPID, IT BURNS!" ?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek More like THE BUREAUCRACY, IT BURNS

They're just bleeding money on this, but they don't care.

'tis but a flesh wound

Bob

10:05

@JourneymanGeek The pen still has blue wtf

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Bob

10:21

O_O Thunderbird does IRC?

Kristian

10:36

@JourneymanGeek nobody does, I was just referring to another word that does not mean the same in US english and UK english

Journeyman Geek

ahh

@Bob: 0_0

Kristian

IRC != IIRC

Journeyman Geek

So it dies.

Kristian

@JourneymanGeek I liked it better before the edit :D

Journeyman Geek

finnne

2 hours later…

Journeyman Geek

12:56

@Bob superuser.com/a/854551/10165 see edit reason ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek o.O

I don't even remember that off-hand comment!

Journeyman Geek

I was going to convert that into a comment ;p

Then I was like "waaaait"

Bob

XD

Journeyman Geek

If I were him, I'd steal and cite. So I did ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek meta.superuser.com/a/8970/117590 => s/Here, downvotes/Here on Meta, downvotes/

Otherwise it reads as if "here" could mean SU in general

Journeyman Geek

13:31

meh, but I mentioned the main site explicitly

Journeyman Geek

13:43

twitter.com/julian0liver/status/545930564566777856

Bob

o.O

Journeyman Geek

And no, I don't have any context, outside it happening in our main shopping district ;p

Gemtastic

13:57

Hello

Journeyman Geek

lo

Gemtastic

What's up?

Journeyman Geek

Not much, I suppose. Except Linux protesters.

Gemtastic

14:13

I have some microSD issues myself :(

Journeyman Geek

ahh

what sort?

Gemtastic

My android phone broke it

Journeyman Geek

hmm

Gemtastic

this is the question I post:

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Q: Fix damaged MicroSD card that cannot be formatted

I have, not one but two microSD cards that my phone (Samsung Galaxy Young, Gingerbread OS) seem to have broken. One is 1GB and the other is 2GB. The 1GB one won't be formatted. When I put the 1GB one into the computer the computer prompts for a formatting. I don't care for the content so I tried...

android formatting micro-sd-card

Journeyman Geek

ah hah!

sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4 may help

If it dosen't you're out of luck

(its the 'official' SD card accociation formatter. Its saved my biscuit a few times)

Gemtastic

14:23

I have one on 2GB that it broke earlier, that one you can open and see the files, and you can kinda try to copy some of it, but it's super slow and fails most of the time >_<

@JourneymanGeek Thanks a bunch! I'll try that!

Journeyman Geek

XD, If it works, document it and self post an answer. It'll get you a hat, and you can likely post a better answer than I can.

Gemtastic

@JourneymanGeek Well, for the hat to work I need someone to upvote the answer too

Journeyman Geek

gee, If I suggested that you self answer, and it'll be better than mine... ;p

someone will.

Gemtastic

Haha ok. I'll try. I'm pretty bad at answering questions on any site so I don't have many hats D;

But most of all, I just want a working memorycard for my phone D;

The fact that I have a phone that at most can run Gingerbread probably speaks for itself in that I can't really afford new stuff :P

Writeprotected FML

Journeyman Geek

ya

0_0

XD. I'm waiting on my phone to get android L ;p

Gemtastic

14:43

Hmm... Solving the write protected thing isn't easy

Hennes

14:57

@Bob Fun related. Philips once had trouble shipping an MRI scanner because the huge, multi-ton, multi big bucks device included a very small tin of paint (to repair scratches).

That paint used burnable solvents.

Gemtastic

I think I fixed the 2GB card now

Hennes

Same story on a truckload of mediacal devices which had two Philips lighters in it.
Do not pass though tunnel. Take the long way around

Journeyman Geek

@Hennes: Wouldn't shipping the paint seperately make sense?

Hennes

Aye, it would.

And I suspect this was done afterwards.

2 hours later…

Gemtastic

16:35

By the looks of it, it seems the card is dead :(

5 hours later…

Psycogeek

21:11

"There is certainly a problem with moderator assholism, and this isn't the only stackexchange that has that problem. Wherever you give people power, some people will see themselves as better than everyone else and abuse it. You shouldn't be able to give a downvote without commenting. – B T 14 mins ago "

Uhh NO! the moderators are more moderate than whatever person is finding it his JOB to downvote

Ben Richards

Hi

Psycogeek

soo, just to make things worse for this user, who asked a simple question, that is probably duplicated . superuser.com/questions/854727/… & superuser.com/questions/854349/… he doubble posted

so NOW! he can have a fit about moderation :-)

That Brazilian Guy

15 hours ago, by Journeyman Geek

Steam Winter sale's started <3

I can't hear you, la la la.. I can't hEY DEAD SPACE 1 + 2 IS 4 DOLLARS!

Psycogeek

Hey @ThatBrazilianGuy , would putting a bounty on this superuser.com/questions/649767/… Have any real value when it is probably only going to be solved by the program creator checking it better and adjusting the code? (there is another person asking the exact same thing in other question)

That Brazilian Guy

@Psycogeek I had completely forgotten about it

I don't even use the addon anymore

I gave up and embraced the fact organizing email is impossible. (~~Gmail doesn't count, Google have wizards~~).

Psycogeek

21:27

LOL, this is the other user (i find) superuser.com/questions/854286/…

That Brazilian Guy

I tried to flag it as a duplicate, but SE won't let me. I can only mark questions as duplicates if one have an upvoted or accepted answer. WTF?

Psycogeek

I would mark it as a dupe, If your question had an answer. I could put a bounty on your question , but i would not know if it was solvable at all.

That Brazilian Guy

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> it is probably only going to be solved by the program creator checking it better and adjusting the code

You kinda answered you own question

Psycogeek

Well thats kinda cool. I did not even notice that. I was just going off of, marking it as a dupe of NOTHING USEFUL :-) wouldnt be useful

So we just tell em, that it sucks and to move on with life. And when you get a Christmas present you do not like, Thank the person who sent it to you , and put it on the shelf with the rest of em :-) . . . and move on with life.

Boris_yo was showing us his G-Mails fun threading mode , and one of his conversations had gone into an infinte loop :-) it was interleaved inside of itself. bloody mess.

That Brazilian Guy

I set facebook to send me notification emails, so I have one less place to keep checking

But whenever someone posts something with an image, the email subject is "new image" or something like that

If 3 different persons write 3 different posts in 3 different groups, I get 3 emails with the same subject

gmail promptly "helps" me by grouping them in a conversation

and IIRC, in-FB replies to the posts gets grouped in the same emails as well

Ramhound

21:54

Anyone know of SE is ready for the openID2 EOL for google accounts?

Psycogeek

@Ramhound i am not? what'cho talking about ? I only use google to sign on now, is it changing?

Ramhound

April 2015 google is going to EOL openID2 in favor of OpenId connect

I was given a warning message when I logged Into the chat .-)

Some info between me stuffing my face with Thai developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OpenID

I hate Google sometimes I don't want a google+ account with the email I ise with SE but I guess I have too now :-(

Or link it to SE own OpenID,

Psycogeek

22:09

@Ramhound yuck, google+ , i got one of those, although i am not really interested in the "social networking" side of things, because that is just regular people spamming and calling it friendship :-)

This comes from reading some of the marketing and fortune type of web locations, and seeing that thier (business) interest in getting into the webs social thing, was all about business.

that google + would be the next best place to hit up people for thier products, because it was doing so poorly, that it wouldnt matter what you were doing there :-) as long as you are there.

Marketing not being very high on brains though, they should know that even the lonliest places on the web. that tiny little forum with 8 users, that small web page with only 118 views in 2 years. they still want to take spammers out back and shoot 'em :-)

DragonLord

22:35

I'm moving data from spinning rust to silicon as I write this

Psycogeek

@DragonLord with which program?

DragonLord

I'm using the Clonix-based Samsung Data Migration

This is to a Samsung SSD 850 PRO

Psycogeek

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Q: How do you determine that your hardware is 64 bit capable when there is no operating system installed?

How do you determine that your hardware is 64 bit capable when there is no operating system installed?

Every board i have ever had that supported 64bit memory addressing, has had one of them extended memory switches in the bios or the uefi.

DragonLord

Cloning complete—gotta set the BCD to point to the SSD next

Psycogeek

I wonder if that is also true for the manufactured systems that do not allow much bios or uefi adjusting at all?

Finding a item in the "firmware" would be a lot easier than even opening up the case.

@DragonLord ... if it did not already do that? or have an option to do that?

DragonLord

22:53

I'm also concerned as to whether the UEFI can be set up to start loading from the SSD and not the hard drive

Psycogeek

The other tips for SSD is windows is supposed to recognise it and not "defrag" it via the Task schedulers defrag routine , that goes off weekly. Supposedly just doing a re-assess of the performance using the windows GUI would eventually set that correct. (it did not on mine)

DragonLord

Wait, the UEFI firmware sees the SSD

Psycogeek

@DragonLord cause it's a lappy and . . . didn't it have a boot settings in the uefi?

DragonLord

I just gotta change the boot order

Ramhound

Windows won't defrag a ssd by default

it knows the difference.

Wow....

I am upset with my college, making me do some sort of sexual assault training, which will take me 50 minutes

no thanks

I am far to busy

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