Root Access

DragonLord

18:02

@ThatBrazilianGuy That prompted a check of Hennes's SE accounts

Registered on Mi Yodeya but very little activity there

This is not meant to be discriminatory, to be clear

I, however, simply cannot understand why Jews are a constant target for attack or why they are hated so much

It is undeserved and everyone deserves the same respect regardless of their religion or ancestry

Antisemitism is one of those things that make absolutely no sense to me—I see no reason for Jews (or any other peaceful religious group) to be singled out.

That Brazilian Guy

I have a person in my wife's family who converted to judaism and moved to Israel

Other than that, I don't have much contact or knowledge about the religion

And I agree that no group should be harassed just because it exists

ethnicity, religion, skin color, ancestry, sexual orientation, are just personal characteristics

DragonLord

18:18

Sadly, discrimination of all sorts still exists around the world

Even today, African Americans are at a serious disadvantage in a lot of places and I think that's just not fair

I happen to live in a Jewish community and I try to respect their religious observances

That Brazilian Guy

> Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Until there are no longer first class and second class citizens af any nation
Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes
Until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all, without regard to race
Until that day the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain in but a fleeting illusion

ekaj

18:57

meep

Watching 22 Jump Street, good so far

Sippy

19:23

Hi guys

I have a desktop thats doing something really odd, basically downloaded files are all corrupted

Ive wiped the computer and its still doing it so it isnt a software thing i dont think

Ran chkdsk to check for bad sectors but i left it and when i came back it had restarted

Then i tried accessing the nvidia website to get the drivers and ironically some of the images looked corrupted on the website

Like theyd half downloaded and the rest was just filled in

Can anyone think what could be the issue?

Im thinking the hard drive is knackered which will be great right before xmas!

Hennes

19:36

@ThatBrazilianGuy No. I just picked the habit up from Jewish friends.

Psycogeek

20:12

@Sippy it does sound like that is the problem. or the ram, ALL this stuff has to go through ram, be it downloads or un-zips or even hard drive transfers of any sorts. If it is a ram issue, writing more of anything, or doing tests , or trying repairs, with the hard drive is just going to make bigger meses on the hard drive. Generally then the ram would be tested first.

Ok cant spell today, better turn on a speel chucker.

It is totally possible to have a fully operational system, and other programs running mostly correct, with the ram doing little glitches.

Sippy

Yeah i wanted to ask here for that reason exactly

Im guessing i should leave memtest on overnight to ascertain that

Chkdsk says its not the hard drive

Psycogeek

@Sippy winders memory test can show nothing even when the stuff is bad, weird. so the memtest86 thing from a boot disk, which means less stuff in the way more ram to test.

Sippy

Yeah will get that done overnight, have you ever witnessed a wireless adapter causing corrupt downloads?

Psycogeek

Last time i had a memory issue i was also able to see it, with Prime95 doing a "custom" and selecting the majority of my memory. it would consistataly fail some of the threads. The ram problem was not outright fails, but combinations of hard work and cooling and all. (super cooling it for testing did not help)

@Sippy Sure there have been all kinds of odd reports of system failes cause by "stuff plugged in". really strange stuff.

Sippy

Right, ill try the least expensive stuff first

Psycogeek

20:28

@Sippy yea like testing if it does it wired , wireless should be insuring all the packets are as they were an all, but it is still flailing about :-) signals flying around , re-negotiate a different speed kinda thing.

Sippy

The weirdest damn thing is happening now

First download is corrupted every time

Second one is fine

Ah maybe not

Psycogeek

Do a compare and you could see how many bits is being screwed up between 2 of em.

Sippy

Is there a tool i should use to compare?

Im watching steam try to update at the moment and it looks like bits keep being deleted as it progresses

Psycogeek

because lots of changes would mean if it was ram, then the system should be failing too, and it makes it more likely to be the download methods.

Sippy

Like itll get to 25mb then just drop back down to 10mb

Weirdest thing ever

Psycogeek

20:32

Windiff is a lame simple GUI thing that will do bit-fo-bit compares.

Sippy

If i can download it xD

Psycogeek

yea i got the last copy from 1995

there are CMD tools that will do it, and many many programming tools that will.

Sippy

Well ill be damned

Wiped the box and it looks like it was the shit wireless adapter all along

Tethering with my phone is working

Psycogeek

@Sippy why would anyone buy a crappy wireless adapter :-) dont they make good ones badly enough

Sippy

I looked for ones with good reviews

Picked the top one and bought it

I guess d-link shouldve rung alarm bells

Psycogeek

20:40

I got a d-link adapter thing it works ok.

ekaj

I have a micro wireless adapter that works really well

and a netgear, despite being netgear, that does well also

Sippy

Maybe it just needs a newer driver

Psycogeek

Guess the web should put up less "speed Tests" and put up more "data is the same" tests.

Sippy

Thank you for your help @Psycogeek

Hahaha

Its a shame that android tethering is so unstable

Id have preferred to just use that :(

Psycogeek

It is a Doubble weekend warrier day on Superuser. not only are real people with real jobs asking questions, but now they are on TOUR at thier parents houses (christmas holidays) trying to get thier nightmares and malwares sorted out.

Sippy

20:48

Pahahaha

I am avoiding that responsibility this holiday

Bad enough i thought my computer was dying at the start of my time off!

Psycogeek

21:35

superuser.com/questions/855383/… <--- messy stuff close to being gone.

Is gone!

Psycogeek

22:14

Q:How can you tell a male goldfish from a female goldfish? A:Look at whether they eat male goldfish food or female goldfish food. Q:How do you know whether it is male or female goldfish food? A:That is a different issue. So your answer definitively answers the question if I know how to determine whether the PC supports UEFI boot and know for sure that it is not a UEFI 32 bit PC. And if it doesn't support UEFI, I don't know anything? Sounds like if I already know the answer, I can know the answer. — fixer1234 9 mins ago

Honestlly i think it is an OK anwser, it might not be a sure positive method, but any of the newer stuff supports 64bit and has a UEFI. Other rare occurances of that not being true can be delt with , when that doesnt work. And it sure beats the heck out of dissasembling the dang thing .

Top answer , is the most sure way for a monkey, second answer begins to use the tools like a neandrethal. a good 3rd answer would be to use GUI provided information tools in the OS like a freaking human :-)

Psycogeek

22:54

Why are you digging in the dirt with your hands?
Because i want to make a hole.
You do realise that programmers have created Shovels right?
Yes but thier shovels do not dig holes like i want to dig holes.
Could be you could change your method of digging holes?
I would rather re-invent the shovel.

Bob

O_O Task Manager can create a dump of a program's memory

Psycogeek

23:35

How to scare american empolyees. "we have decided that if china can manufacture all our products, they could also design them" WHAAT!

Bob

urk

Well. Thanks for the descriptive error message!

> The failing step is: Install the system

Journeyman Geek

23:51

lol

Thats wierd

I had a one year old answer unaccepted.

Bob

o.O

Someone provide a better one?

Journeyman Geek

nope

that's what makes it wierd

Bob

Well. The forums are useless :S

Anyone here ever installed Kali Linux?

It doesn't seem to like VBox :\

>

Fixed my system install fail on virtualbox by using the VHD and making sure I had more then 10Gb set for the size.

O_O

Journeyman Geek

Oh, I misread, Its a newer answer.

Bob

Oh wow

Journeyman Geek

23:55

Same issue tho.

@Bob: Lots of people. ;p

(lemme grab a copy and try)

32 or 64 bit?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I'm doing 32-bit.

But it seems the cause was a lack of disk space.

Journeyman Geek

How big a disk did you use? 8gb?

also, the 'using VHD' bit's probably a bit cargo cult

in vbox, your underlying storage dosen't really matter to the OS

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Yea, 8 GB.

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