Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:10

rightclick somewhere empty and make sure menu bar is selected?

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek This is the correct answer.

quickly? ALT, V, T, M.

DragonLord

I really wish Windows File History had a better UI where you could navigate by date and see an overview of previous versions—a calendar feature would be really useful

Michael Frank

00:37

@DragonLord Like some kind of Time Machine? ;)

DragonLord

Not necessarily that fancy, but an overview would make navigation much easier.

Having several thousand revisions in File History with only linear navigation is hardly user-friendly.

There's not even a mechanism to jump to a particular time.

This is especially an issue because File History is set up to take a revision every 20 minutes on my machine.

I have 3,177 history revisions so far and this is not great.

I wish I could send a feature request to Microsoft reasonably easily...

Michael Frank

@DragonLord How much space does this use up?

DragonLord

It's mostly small files (e.g. game saves) and they're compressed on the history drive. Less than 15 GB so far.

Pictures are excluded to reduce the size of the history—I back up photos on my own to another drive

Okay, it's actually 16.5 GB compressed, 21.5 GB uncompressed.

Bob

@DragonLord You can.

windows.uservoice.com/forums/265757-windows-feature-suggestions

snipe

00:56

thanks

Michael Frank

01:11

twitch watching a video on PowerShell and the instructor keeps referring to @ as Ampersand.

snipe

lol

Michael Frank

Oooh boy, now he's saying * is a colon.

Journeyman Geek

SNAIL!

snipe

whats the feasiblity of installing win 2k3 on new hardware

driver support basically

Journeyman Geek

01:47

Probably pretty bad ;p

Would be roughly on par with install XP of the same architecture on the system.

Michael Frank

Ha! Watching two ex-engineers having trouble trying to dismantle a broken printer... I can see the exact way to do it from here, but they are adamant they know how to get it.

Journeyman Geek

ex-engineers? 0_0

Michael Frank

They're both management now, whereas in their prime they would have been very hands on with the equipment.

Journeyman Geek

ahh. PERSONALLY, as someone who was brought up by wild engineers, I'd grab a service manual ;p

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek PSSH

We don't have service manuals.

But when we do have service manuals, they look like that ^

(pro-tip: turn your head upside down so you can see the diagram as it should be viewed.)

Journeyman Geek

02:08

looks fine if its printed out. ;p

Journeyman Geek

02:26

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2vf3xu/solaris_8

0_0

https://github.com/fsquillace/juju/blob/master/README.md

This seems potentially handy

DragonLord

03:14

Why can't they design the ADF (and printers and office equipment in general) to be modular so that servicing would be easier?

Journeyman Geek

cause its a profit center, and modular machines last longer so they can't keep selling loss leading machines with new cart designs every few years ;p

Who knows, maybe in a few years someone will build an FOSS or semi FOSS, refillable, hackable printer. Print heads are the only 'hard' part here.

Journeyman Geek

04:16

cool. I can now ssh into my linux box from werk

Bob

@JourneymanGeek You mean FOSH, right? :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob FOSS/FOSH. ;p

heck, might even be 3d printable ;p

XKCD

05:06

The only other Wikipedia vandalism that I would feel zero remorse about is editing the article on active US militia groups to replace "militia" with "fanclub".

Bob

05:25

> Now you have two problems, and both the original problem and the new problem are on fire.

Boris_yo

05:40

Can I convert personal photo shot with digital camera to vector and resize it without losing quality?

soandos

Can anyone thing of something that would prevent a laptop from restarting

then after a minute it emits one one high pitched beep, and then allows the power to flow for about 2 seconds

rince repeat

@Bob ideas?

@JourneymanGeek?

Journeyman Geek

06:00

The high pitched beep is a symptom

Bob

@soandos Sounds like overheating.

Boris_yo

They acquired license to publish comics? Does that mean for monthly subscription I can enjoy comics dating back far?

soandos

@Bob, even in ~2 seconds?

Also, CPU is cool to the touch and it does not seem to matter if the heatsink is on tight

@JourneymanGeek its one beep, and it seems to be a "reset beep". I.e. It does not turn on again if connectted to power until that beep happens (if you disconnect the power, and replug in, it starts immediately)

Also, no change if RAM is in or not, or HD, or keyboard

same behavior

soandos

06:35

Any ideas?

Journeyman Geek

Yeah. First port of call for me would be to look up the bios error beeps

soandos

@JourneymanGeek no beep on startup

Journeyman Geek

wait. Can it cold boot?

soandos

?

What do you mean? Power is not sustained for more than 2 seconds or so

Journeyman Geek

ahh. so it can't switch on

soandos

06:40

Yea

Journeyman Geek

tried the magic start button trick?

soandos

??

Journeyman Geek

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Q: What does the ThinkPad "power button trick" do?

While searching for a fix for my broken ThinkVantage Power Manager, I came across a forum post suggesting that I press the power button ten times after disconnecting power to the machine. At first I thought it was a joke or a troll, but there are other reports suggesting the same thing — or very ...

thinkpad

soandos

Hold on I'll try both varients (Its a lenovo)

No dice

Journeyman Geek

ahh damn

soandos

06:46

Yea

Journeyman Geek

07:04

my thinkpads are reliable enough (other than the damned yellow usb ports) that they tend to go obsolete before they die ;p

slhck

08:44

Anyone know of a NAS which can act like a regular USB drive to download files from? Like.. you take your laptop, plug into the NAS, and it will appear like a hard drive to the laptop, so you can "download" files from it.

Journeyman Geek

08:57

quite a lot of NAses do that

er... actually no, I'm clearly chasing my own tail

slhck

Well of course you are. You're a dog.

I mean, it seems like a terribly useful feature, but I don't know if any of the USB ports on a NAS do that. Mine certainly can't do it—it'd rather try to use the laptop as a disk.

Journeyman Geek

yeah

slhck

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Q: Is there a NAS that can act as a "simple", "dumb" USB Drive?

I have a satellite video reciever that can store (save) movies on an attched USB hard disk (FAT32 or NTFS). I there an NAS-System out there that can act as a dumb hard disk attached via USB towards the video reciever?? Whhat I am looking for is a NAS that my satellite reciever will accpept as a ...

networking usb nas local

:P

Journeyman Geek

CLOSE! HARDWARE REC!

slhck

It's like.. I WANT THIS. But I also have to close it, so meh

Journeyman Geek

09:04

;p

Yeah ;p

and blah, I want a bigass storage array ;p

(I may build one at some point ;p)

slhck

We need one at work

So I'm thinking about which NAS to buy. Spending the money and configuring it isn't such a big problem, but having someone take care of it for 5+ years is.

You'd have to check if the RAID is intact, if all the drives are working, have a good and working replication of it somewhere, etc.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah. Work has 30 disk enclosures... and we're in the middle of replacing like half our drives ;p

Bob

09:54

@slhck The first two are what automated emails are for.

O_O massdrop.com/buy/juiced-external-battery-charger

What makes me sad is these things are often $2 shipping within the US...

(Heck, intra-Aus shipping costs more than that, never mind international)

slhck

10:50

@Bob And in 5 years, when I will not work at this institute anymore, the e-mail will go to my dead inbox :P

And people will be wondering why the damn machine beeps all the time and no backup HDDs are available.

Bob

@slhck Not personal emails.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

slhck

@Bob Ah. Well, in that case, nobody will feel responsible.

Bob

You should have an email alias going to either the whole team (very critical stuff) or at least an alias that gets redirected when someone leaves :P

Journeyman Geek

^ that ;p

slhck

10:51

If you delegate a task to multiple people, chances of any of them feeling responsible will decrease to 0 :P

Bob

@slhck ...this isn't just sending random emails to everyone in the company

Journeyman Geek

delegate to, not really, make aware? Yes

Bob

it's sending emails to whichever team is responsible for IT

in the form of "SOMETHING CRITICAL JUST DIED DROP EVERYTHING AND FIX IT NOW"

slhck

Yeah, it's a bit of a problem because we have an official IT team, but this NAS would bypass them. We'd basically just keep it in our room.

So I need to first find someone who wants to take care of it in case I'm not there.

Bob

@slhck ah, that's a bit of a different matter

Journeyman Geek

10:55

clearly bribery is called for ;p

slhck

heh

Bob

@JourneymanGeek s/bribery/blackmail/

Oliver Salzburg

12:04

Time to class up the office!

Y U NO USE MEME CORRECTLY? O__O

Boris_yo

Let me guess... This beast is the next best thing to challenge iPhone and Samsung Galaxy?

@OliverSalzburg Reminds me when tried to figure memes for the first time...

Journeyman Geek

12:48

ooh

SU mug?

Bob

13:21

O_O

@allquixotic The MH370 ACI episode will air in three days.

And Wikipedia mentions which channel it'll be on in Australia too O_O

This Sunday. I might watch it on TV. First time watching TV in years, not counting New Years stuff :P

Oliver Salzburg

13:35

@JourneymanGeek Yes

I moved it to the office

Journeyman Geek

13:54

ahh

I got the hoodie ^^

._.

After looking up something for a SU answer, amazon is convinced I want shitty prebuilt desktops.

Bob

XD

Journeyman Geek

I'm sorry, I'm not getting a prebuilt desktop unless its free ;p

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek Depending on the brand, not even if they pay me.

Journeyman Geek

14:15

@ThatBrazilianGuy: actually if its wierd and shitty but new I wouldn't mind

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek I'm wearing that as well ;D

Journeyman Geek

XD

I have less swag :/

I have a t-shirt (from the first year), a SU windows 8 T and the hoodie

Oliver Salzburg

14:34

I have a separate section in my wardrobe for SU swag ;P

And an extra drawer for my SU underwear

That Brazilian Guy

So my workplace decided on a new CMS I know nothing about and I have to learn it from scratch. Oh, and they want a decade-old site migrated in a week. .___.

Bob

15:02

Soooooo, Grass Simulator, anyone? store.steampowered.com/app/331200

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob I, for one, prefer the amazing Stone Simulator!!!111ONE play.google.com/store/apps/…

And let's no forget THE BESTEST APP EVER CREATED IN THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Oliver Salzburg

@ThatBrazilianGuy What CMD is it?

That Brazilian Guy

@OliverSalzburg ~~cmd.com~~ Drupal

Currently watching a series of youtube tutorials about it

snipe

15:31

.

That Brazilian Guy

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Oliver Salzburg

16:18

...

snipe

starting to hate windows 10 now

I type E: in and it opnes ADSI edit I type control in and it gives me nividia graphics settings

I type shutdown in and it opnes the internet

I hit alt+F to open file and it doesnt even show delete, copy, paste and cut

what was wrong with using file, edit, view, etc rather than this clutter of tiny icons and irrelivant options

I think there changing it just for the sake of it with no real reason so thats gonna end badly

it worked fine before why change it

Oliver Salzburg

Weird, given that it's so close to a final product

snipe

you can no longer remove the start menu tiles or resize the whole menu too

can windows 7 + mound ISO files to a drive with no extra tools?

magic ISO does not work

That Brazilian Guy

16:55

@snipe Not that I know. And I'd be impressed if it does.

Braiam

@snipe nope

you need DT or something similar, but in linux is trivial

allquixotic

Daemontools has spyware; don't use that

Canadian Luke

17:15

@snipe How are those "bugs" just coming to light now? It works as expected for me on a Surface Pro 2...

snipe

17:47

there not bugs there there by intentional design

windows should have its own uninstaller, im sick of crappy installers not properly uninstalling things now I gotta waste hours trying to manually remove junk

how do I just take ownership of all subfolders and folders on C:/

I cant even get into the start menu folder

trying deamon tools

cant even take ownership of a junk desktop shortcut...

if this is supposed to be close to the final build of windows 10 forget it

Canadian Luke

Don't take ownership of the entire C:, trust me...

allquixotic

►

or that ^

Canadian Luke

And Windows has their own installer, but they need it to be customizable for the developers to ensure their product works properly. And the Start Menu folder is at %APPDATA%\Local\Microsoft\Start Menu, since Windows Vista

And as stated above, don't use Daemon Tools if you can help it

snipe

18:02

windows cant find it

DT installer hangs

so that failed

snipe

18:21

DT cant mount it either

That Brazilian Guy

18:53

@allquixotic I am on Mobile so i cant see what are you replying me to. And WTF at the video... Huh?

That Brazilian Guy

19:14

Nearly no traffic jams...

And a pleasant temperature of 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 F)

I just left work, stared at the sun, stared at the non-moving cars, and headed straight back to the safety or the A/C unit

allquixotic

20:08

@ThatBrazilianGuy lol

Michael Frank

20:21

@DragonLord The internals of the ADF don't break down very often. It's the feed module, which is modular that is the most common issue. It's also considered a consumable and user replaceable. So they end up having a high retail cost.

DragonLord

FF13 is installed and works on my machine.

The 30/60 fps issue is still a problem, though.

I did some digging around and found the cause of the issue: steamcommunity.com/app/292120/discussions/0/611698195145993837

The engine seemingly limits the frame rate to avoid overloading the GPU

Michael Frank

@DragonLord old-gen console to PC ports have never been good. :P

DragonLord

Adjusting the GPU settings to prefer performance over power consumption helps, and overclocking the GPU adds even more headroom.

The game is not CPU-bound on my machine.

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic Mind you, I haven't A/C at my office (for a year now (despite the replacements being sitting on the corner for the last 2 months (so most of the team just brings fans from home))).

So now I am just sitting at someone else's desk in some other office, waiting for the sun to set or the traffic to clear. Whatever comes first.

snipe

if you dont ahve AC whar do you use a lemon?

That Brazilian Guy

20:27

@snipe ~~Tears and frustration~~ Uh... I just said. Fans.

You might be confusing "air conditioner" with "alternate current". But I'd just say "electricity" or "power".

snipe

I am, I assumed AC current

That Brazilian Guy

Oh no, usually we don't get power outages more than once or twice a month.

It was a bit worse when I started here.

Michael Frank

@ThatBrazilianGuy I don't remember our last power outage. o.O

That Brazilian Guy

@MichaelFrank I don't remember my last power outage at home. At work, our last power outage was, let me see, that'd be last Monday sir. (30min, twice in a row)

snipe

how do you set up network booting (bios net boot) in windows

I dont seem to see any tutorials

allquixotic

20:36

@DragonLord I read this as Firefox 13 and then wondered why you were having FPS issues in an old web browser

That Brazilian Guy

@snipe Using network boot, loading Windows isn't necessarily a step of booting

> When using PXE the boot process is changed from the normal order to: Power on –> BIOS –> Network Card’s PXE stack –> Network Boot Program (NBP) downloaded using TFTP from server to Client’s RAM –> NBP’s responsibility to perform the next step (a.k.a. 2nd stage boot).

snipe

20:58

do you need windows server to host the NBP

Michael Frank

21:31

@snipe You need a server, I don't think it needs to be running Windows though.

snipe

windows 7 and that has some server capibilities

could be cool to do it between two windows 7 PC's

Pyraminx

Hey everyone

snipe

hi

Pyraminx

hi

(psst! make a chain of 'hi')

That Brazilian Guy

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Pyraminx

21:38

:(

hi

That Brazilian Guy

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Pyraminx

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Michael Frank

This will end badly...

Pyraminx

True. Such as hhiihihihiihihihihihihihihihi

x 3000

DragonLord

22:43

> Protip: Don't get the Venti tumbler unless you order a lot of Venti drinks. It's huge and you might not want to carry it all the time. Also, unlike the Grande tumbler, the Venti tumbler is too tall to fit in the Starbucks Mastrena espresso machine, reducing the environmental benefit as the shots will have to be pulled into another cup, likely a Short cup. (At least a Short cup takes fewer resources to make than a Venti Iced cup, but it's not ideal.)

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