Root Access

Tom Wijsman

00:47

Hmm, the app tabs do not reload, I was just to quick to switch after I loaded up the first tab group.

Moshe

03:19

Anyone here?

Trying to "fix" a seagate FreeAgent FlexGo

Journeyman Geek

03:31

what's wrong with it?

also, it it a drive or a dock?

Moshe

@JourneymanGeek Drive powers on and starts beeping, not recognized by the OS.

Journeyman Geek

what os?

also.. the drive beeps? o0

erf. odd bit of kit

in general though, swapping OS might not be a bad idea, just to be sure

Moshe

@JourneymanGeek yea beeps

@JourneymanGeek Tried on win7 and Lion

Journeyman Geek

hm. apparently this is common

forums.seagate.com/t5/FreeAgent-Products/… this seems to be the closest to an answer i can find

its either D00m, or the interfacy bit of it acting up

MBraedley

On a completely different note, Win8 Dev Preview: Install in a VM, or on bare metal?

Journeyman Geek

03:41

hmm. If you have spare hardware, the latter

VMwise.. apparently it won't work on MSVPC or VMware workstation (except version 8 or better).

MBraedley

I suppose I'm not really using my server machine, and have a spare HDD lying around

Moshe

Ouch. Ok, thanks.

MBraedley

And I've already given it a go in VirtualBox, but the VM integration drivers wouldn't install, so no network or teh sexy

Journeyman Geek

in which case... definately real hardware

MBraedley

yeah, maybe I'll give it a go tomorrow

Moshe

04:06

Win8 seems to reject a USB Belkin Wireless G card, using Vista/7 drivers. I'm not sure that there are Win8 drivers though...

sidran32

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Q: Windows 7 periodically won't load past "Loading Windows"

I built this computer back in June and this has been an issue ever since I first built it. What happens is that my computer will POST just fine and then go to the black screen where it states "Loading Windows". Usually it sits there for a second and then it the pulsing Windows logo will appear, a...

Hm, on the subject of Windows 8, while I like their new bootloader menu, I had to switch back to the regular text based one because it shows up before it decides to load an OS into memory. :P Plus, I prefer having Win 7 as the default for now.

But still, it's quite shiny.

Journeyman Geek

04:38

@sidran32: ... shiny box ;p

sidran32

Thanks. :)

Journeyman Geek

eh, I like windows 8 cause it boots so damned fast mainly, at the moment

dev preview is nowhere near useful

hmm, checked boot time logs?

sidran32

Boot time logs?

I don't think I've seen anything in the event logs but I haven't checked lately, and I don't remember the time this last happened. :P

I'll check in the future though.

Journeyman Geek

windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/… -> enable boot logging

i can't help interpret those, but there's folk pretty good at that on SU

sidran32

Aha, that's a good idea. I'll have to get in the habit. I can't seem to predict when it would occur and when it won't. Seems somewhat random.

Except on that restart after it happens. :P

Journeyman Geek

04:44

There should be someway to turn it all all the time >_>

sidran32

I don't know. I'll check that...

Journeyman Geek

gah, i have as such found something i don't know ;p

sidran32

Haha! msconfig :P

Journeyman Geek

.... of course!

sidran32

Man I haven't used this utility in ages :P

There, enabled boot logging. :P

But not going to reboot just now for that. :P

I'm pretty sure it only occurs on cold boots anyway.

There, posted in the question that I'll post a log if anything shows up in the future

Heh, to post my computer specs, I was about to parse through a full report (which is really, really long) generated by hwinfo64 until I realized that it had a "short summary" format. How convenient. ;)

Journeyman Geek

04:52

lol

I just tend to use pcwizard

used to use siw, but it sucks now

or lshw (on linux)

sidran32

Aha. I used hwinfo on Linux. hwinfo64 (or hwinfo32) on Windows is pretty awesome, though.

Completely off topic, but Basshunter uses FL Studio, which makes me squee. :p

It's cool getting validation from pros on that stuff. :P

Journeyman Geek

actually i think most pros use stuff like that

sidran32

Yup

It's just cool to see how they use it :P

Journeyman Geek

05:22

hm... superuser.com/questions/336938/… this stinks

sidran32

What is it?

Spammer?

Look at sabio47's questions

sabio47

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internet yahoo windows-explorer

Journeyman Geek

hm

just flagged one of his too

sidran32

There's other accounts too...

Journeyman Geek

flag/vtc. hm actually i should have VTC rather than flagged i think

sidran32

1

1

nod

I'll flag...

Journeyman Geek

05:27

ya, bunch of em

i did so already too. Its th ONLY way i can get flag weight ;p

sidran32

Hah

I have flag weight, but they weren't because of spammers. They were real flags. ;)

Journeyman Geek

i can't flag at my rep. I vote to close

sidran32

No? I don't see any VTC links, though I think I should be able to...

I can flag though.

Hm, ya, I think the VTC links that I saw were on Christianity.SE.

I don't have it here though. What rep do you need?

Do you have to be active on meta? Because I'm not much active on meta.SU. ;)

Journeyman Geek

no

click on your username, then previledges

or, presumably superuser.com/privileges

you need 3k rep to close ... your SU rep is something like 1.7K. Christianity.SE is newer so may have a bootstrap period with lower rep to do things

youtube.com/watch?v=_UJnWgQMVho&feature=channel_video_title this is cool

(ssh client in chrome NACL)

sidran32

05:59

Aha

That is cool

Journeyman Geek

06:16

and potentially useful.

sidran32

Meh, I don't have use for it (though I probably would have in college)

It's late and I must sleep. Goodnight

Journeyman Geek

night

daxelrod

07:07

Thanks to stack proliferation, I have no idea whether a sudo configuration question should go under superuser, serverfault, or unix :)

Journeyman Geek

here's safe

daxelrod

Oh, yeah, superuser and unix are both safe. I still need to flip a coin, though

Actually, it's a question that I'm planning to post an answer to, so I guess I have to figure out where people would most expect it...

@JourneymanGeek, your dog avatar is a pretty convincing reason to post it here.

Journeyman Geek

lol

he has that effect on people

daxelrod

Of course, you've probably elected to share that avatar across all stackexchange sites

Journeyman Geek

eh, yeah. yanno, gravitars do work like that

daxelrod

07:17

But only if you have the same email address in all your stackexchange profiles

Wow, reading over my past messages (excepting the dog avatar one), I'm pretty annoying when I'm tired. :) I should probably call it a night

Journeyman Geek

all synced from my SU account.. so likely

Tom Wijsman

07:48

@Moshe Try compatibility mode on the setup, as far as I know the driver architecture hasn't changed...

Mokubai

09:38

@Journeyman if you want to make your image inline on this then Wikimedia do provide png versions of svg images. This one looks a good size: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/…

Journeyman Geek

ahh

Mokubai

On the info page for svg images just look below the actual image, they do various sizes of svgs

Journeyman Geek

@Mokubai: my bad. Honestly, i was trying to get in an answer for easy rep ;)

Mokubai

No worries, just didn't want image link rot to set in ;)

FWIW, judging by the alignments I reckon you're spot on with the DDR types

Journeyman Geek

thanks

lol. I know for a fact one is DDR1. I'm assumed they were similar era, so naturally the other is DDR2.

This looks borderline like a "buying" question. My answer is a "what/where to look for information" answer... but... i'm not too sure superuser.com/questions/336921/…

Mokubai

09:43

Similarly I should probably have voted-to-nuke on this one but it's an easy answer

Journeyman Geek

Well, its an edge case.

hmm

nuke why?

erf... 32 bits.. AGAIN

Mokubai

Cause it's basically the same as every other "why can I not haz 4GiB on 32-bits with my 3GiB graphics card?!?!?"

Journeyman Geek

eh

I need to upgrade my OS to 64 bit when i can ;p

Mokubai

@JourneymanGeek I think the way you went with that one is good, the hardware requirements are what matters so any current touchscreen device that runs Win7 should work for Win8

@JourneymanGeek You don't have 64-bit?? o.O

Journeyman Geek

@Mokubai: not to mention that post has a list of nearly everything they have in their labs

@Mokubai: win7 32 bit. and 4 gigs of ram ;p

i'm just totally WTF over it, but that's just how it was delivered

annoyingly, this means a wipe and install when i get MSDNAA,

Mokubai

09:52

I remember you mentioning it at the time now, and how confused I was that anyone would send out a machine with 32-bit these days...

Though my work machine has 32-bit Vista with 4GB RAM... 768MB of RAM just sitting there wasted

Journeyman Geek

i'll upgrade once i get MSDNAA.

it would be nice if i didn't have to reinstall all my apps, but i can probably copy most of the really tricky bits from one box to another

expecially the horribly hacked together irc client

Mokubai

People still use irc?

dude is back: superuser.com/questions/336990/…

spaminate?

Flagging his other answers too

slhck

10:12

spam ham eggs bacon sausage and spam!

Mokubai

To answer your question @slhck, yes. :)

slhck

@Mokubai :)

Mokubai

Was just posting comments

slhck

Oh, there's chat-like username autocompletion in comments now?

Mokubai

Yay, he's branching out into win32 viruses!

Nice, I like niffles edit

slhck

10:17

heh

Mokubai

Now that is one can of premium grade spam!

slhck

… aaaand it's gone!

Journeyman Geek

@Mokubai: yes. I do p

superuser.com/questions/336993/… i'm having trouble telling WHICH cord it is >_>

Mokubai

10:38

His "answers" are stidd around though...

lovesh

what is the difference between a tcp server and an http server?

Journeyman Geek

11:06

@lovesh: if you didn't know you shouldn't be running either

William Hilsum

11:34

@TomWijsman Where/what? I don't see a first :/

Tom Wijsman

14:40

@WilliamHilsum: In $('#hlogo > a:first').

If anyone is interested, you can participate or proof-read already written text for our introductory to Windows 8.

digitxp

15:15

Morning

surfasb

16:02

@TomWijsman Interesting. Will look at it

These are the users I deal with everyday. superuser.com/q/336829/24500

It makes coming to work all the more entertaining.

Mokubai

I thought eSATA was only meant to be vaguely unpluggable, unlike USB...

surfasb

It can be unplugged. You just lose out on write behind cache.

That's the difference between the optimize for removal and the optimize for performance options in device manager.

Or you can unplug it without disabling it.

I've done that as well.

But some applications freeze up if you do that and you gotta kill them in task manager.

Tom Wijsman

16:21

Oh...

I could see if my Windows 8 supports eSATA, because my Windows 7 didn't.

surfasb

Sometimes the eSata ports are on a separate controller.

I have an expansion card with two eSatas and I had to install a marvell driver.

@TomWijsman I'm still trying to figure out a way to get Libraries to play nice with the MetroUI

Tom Wijsman

16:36

My eSATA works on Windows 8 while it does not on Windows 7.

And I installed no eSATA-related drivers on Windows 8, that's just awesome...

surfasb

That is.

Well, there aren't "eSata" drivers. . .

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, I mean the Intel Storage Controllers.

A-Cube

Hi

@surfasb how r u.

Which usb drives are better. Sony's or Kingston's.

tombull89

16:56

@ACube Personally, I prefer Kingston, abut it's a matter of personal taste (and cost)

A-Cube

The guy at the store said Sony is better but I was not sure.

My old 4GB kingston crahsed. And my pics got lost.

The new Kingston 101 usb drive is preloaded with this new urdrive software that looked cool

lovesh

hey can someone tell me whats the difference between a tcp server and an http server?

Moshe

17:25

Anyone have an idea what is a good backup solution for a home network?

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Q: What are my options to back up a home network?

I have about five or six computers on a home network, all connected to a Belkin Wireless N+ router. Almost all of the computers run Windows, but one of them runs Mac OS, and others may also in the future. What are my options for local backups of data? Should I just use a RAID array, or is there...