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Journeyman Geek

00:03

tested.com/art/movies/…

this makes me all sorts of happy

Journeyman Geek

00:42

@Bob: ordered the xiomi stuff

(My mom's phone's a xiomi so their chargers are known good (tm), and my moto charger is a little borked so I'll probably dump it at work)

Michael Frank

01:01

0

Q: How do I remove the default program associated with an .exe in Windows 7?

Something really strange happened about 10 minutes ago. I tried to open a file named pdfsam.exe and instead of running it, Windows 7 asked me to choose a program to open the file with. Without realizing what I was getting into, I accidentally selected Windows Media Center (if I remember correctl...

An interesting problem...

Bob

@JourneymanGeek nice

Overpriced cable though :P

@JourneymanGeek hmm, any chance you could forward a couple chargers this way? :P

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, but its a bit oddball, its magnetic

Bob

...magnetic? The charger or the cable?

Journeyman Geek

The cable ends

Bob

...huh

Journeyman Geek

01:12

So it'll stick to itself

dx.com/p/…

(No, I got it direct from xiaomi but DX was more googlable)

Hm. My bus is late

Michael Frank

01:27

thedailywtf.com/articles/negative-creativity

lolololol

Journeyman Geek

01:56

@Bob: aww, apparently the volume control dosen't work with the moto G

Bob

@JourneymanGeek whaaa

Works with Samsung and Nokia phones :/

Journeyman Geek

Well, the post is from last year, and I've had 2 major updates since then

@Bob: meh, between build quality, price and reviews, I think I'll be alright with 2 non functional buttons.

Pity the basic models are out of stock

What's the little silvery thing in the earbud tray?

Bob

Clip

Wait, did it arrive already?

The paperbacks don't sound nearly as good

Journeyman Geek

naw

yeah, but they're nearly impulse price ;p

(actually looking at a unboxing video... the packaging seems super cool)

Its really quiet today. Like everyone is late ;p

booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.sg/2015/03/…

snipe

02:50

@ bob the hdd OR ssd is the bottle neck and XP only takes 500 mb, or 1 GB to install unlike modern windows OS's so XP is faster

Michael Frank

@snipe lol

Journeyman Geek

03:11

I'm pretty sure whoever's on the radio is singing about a scottish spaceman.

Michael Frank

@Bob ^ ^ ^

Journeyman Geek

ugh. This is infuriating

I have a machine which has windows 7, randomly hangs, and never seems to hang when we try to replicate the issue

Event viewer logs are boring too

XKCD

04:13

[Halfway to the Sun ...] Heyyyy ... what if this BALLOON is full of acorns?!

3

Journeyman Geek

04:28

SQUIRRELS!

(also, clearly those squirrels are dicks, and don't like the one with the balloon much)

Bob

07:33

@snipe That is a huge fallacy.

The installation size has practically nothing to do with performance.

A HDD is not an absolute bottleneck, either - once you've loaded data from disk (and newer versions are better at caching too)...

Not to mention that XP can't fully take advantage of an SSD - it doesn't know what an SSD is.

Proper TRIM and NCQ support is lacking.

It's also not properly tuned to take advantage of an SSD (Win7 isn't great there either. Win8 is better. Win10 might improve on that further - as SSDs become more common, it becomes more important for an OS to take advantage of one)

Oliver Salzburg

08:32

@Bob I now feel the pain you warned me about with those cheap DX USB cables

Journeyman Geek

;p

Oliver Salzburg

They're fine for deployment and debugging, but megashit for charging

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Hm? Not charging fast enough? :P

lol

Oliver Salzburg

It's like they're not charging at all

Bob

Sometimes!

Journeyman Geek

08:32

@OliverSalzburg heh. I've got one on my work system. Its barely keeping my phone topped up

Oliver Salzburg

I had two BlackBerrys connected the whole night, they still refuse to turn on

Bob

I can expect 1.9A with my screen off, 1.2A with the screen on. Using one of the cheap cables? 0.46A max, which is sometimes below actual usage.

Oliver Salzburg

Well, one turns on and has a big warning sign on the battery

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

If it's low enough, some devices simply won't charge at all (e.g. Windows tablets).

Normally still trickle charges if the device is off, though.

Oliver Salzburg

08:34

Okay, so I need new cables now :P

Why are they charging so badly to begin with?

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Monoprice are supposed to be good, if a bit fragile.

Journeyman Geek

The cables are crap? ;p

Oliver Salzburg

Obviously, one of the connectors broke, so I could peek inside. It's just 4 cables soldered to a piece of metal

Bob

I've found Anker cables to be excellent (they claim 21 AWG power wires), if you can get you hands on them.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob shipping for monoprice outside the us seems pricy :/

Bob

08:35

@OliverSalzburg Really shoddy conductors. I believe some are 28 AWG, maybe worse. And often aluminium.

@JourneymanGeek Yea, if you aren't buying in bulk it's not worth it.

The Anker ones are available via Amazon, and shipping isn't too bad.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Xiaomi has 120cm cables, but currently out of stock ;p

Bob

For 2A charging, you want at least 26 AWG, ideally 24.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob 28 AWG? Is that like the diameter of the individual cables?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Too expensive! :P

Journeyman Geek

yup

Bob

08:36

@OliverSalzburg Yea.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob the 120mm cables are a bit cheaper

Bob

@OliverSalzburg powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm

Oliver Salzburg

Maybe I should get one of those monster cables. I hear they are high quality

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: just make sure its directional

Bob

Notice 28 AWG has 1.5x the resistance of 26 AWG.

Journeyman Geek

08:38

@Bob: I figure if its reliable, meh.

(Tho, I'll likely end up moving my slightly grumpy moto charger to work)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I need to find a way to get one of those Xiaomi chargers - they seem like a decent price :P

The cables? Anker is cheaper.

But Anker now refuses to ship chargers out of the US, so that's a no.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Shipping tho! ;p

I'm getting free shipping for that lot of stuff

Bob

@JourneymanGeek It looks suspiciously like the Anker ones :P

Might be manufactured in the same factory, actually...

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: My mom's phone has one ;p

Oh, and your plugs arn't the UK style ones right?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I've got a pile of travel adaptors :P

My old laptop was from HK. They used UK plugs.

Journeyman Geek

08:45

(I hate adaptors)

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

Also, I probably have 2 powerstrips to power everything, and that's probably unsafe ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Problem is, I can't seem to find any parcel forwarders from Sg to Au.

I was going to ask if you could help with that, but singpost => aus is surprisingly expensive (considering how many companies offer free airmail through them)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Wouldn't be surprised if they opened up a aussie store

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Give it five years. It's always "oh, they'll be here soon, we just have to wait!"

Journeyman Geek

08:52

Singpost is completely shit for sending people stuff ;p

Bob

Well, I suppose Huawei is kinda expanding here.

Journeyman Geek

heh, apparently there was a unofficial store, but they were asked to close down by xiaomi.

Oliver Salzburg

Lato is a neat-o font: fontsquirrel.com/fonts/LATO

I'll use it for everything now \o/

Journeyman Geek

Could check out DX or some other slightly dodgy online store? ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek DX = fakes

Journeyman Geek

08:56

Their pistons are a few dollars more expensive, and so's the powerbanks, which makes sense, but cheaper than transhipping

Bob

iBuyGou might work (that's where I got the Pistons; they're somewhat trusted)... hm.

ibuygou.com/…

@JourneymanGeek Probably because they were using the name.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

There's still a couple small ones (e.g. Mustato), but they don't have the chargers.

Journeyman Geek

(anyway, in this case, its definately real)

hm. If the charger comes with a cable.. ;p

Bob

As long as they don't use the "Xiaomi" name, there's nothing they can really do to stop them.

@JourneymanGeek What's definitely real?

Journeyman Geek

08:59

I seem to recall they do

@Bob: the stuff in my order? ;p

Bob

Ah.

@JourneymanGeek The one with the cable is the Chinese version.

If you look at the Chinese website, they have the 1A one without the cable (49 RMB) and the 2A one with a cable (59 RMB)

Journeyman Geek

ahh

(not a biggie, I probably have a known good cable somewhere)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek There's one with a cable on the Sg store too

Journeyman Geek

Oh?

There's only one listed

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Not under chargers.

store.mi.com/sg/item/3151000002

Journeyman Geek

09:03

That's a bit naff

Bob

Hm?

Journeyman Geek

I didn't see that ;p

Oliver Salzburg

After our cable talk I connected my Z10 to a Samsung cable that came with my S2 originally. It's now 30% charged already

Journeyman Geek

(and blah ,One plus needs to sell phones here. Even if I'll wait for the next one)

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek I noticed a major annoyance with my One lately

Won't wake up while being charged

Double-tapping it does nothing. Pressing power does nothing

As soon as you disconnect the cable, it wakes up though

Journeyman Geek

09:07

@OliverSalzburg the moto G uos pretty awesome, other than... cough the lack of storage.

@OliverSalzburg 0_0

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I still have my eyes on the Yota :P

Oliver Salzburg

Happens very frequently lately. I wasn't in the mood yet to research or contact support

I'll probably be told to factory reset anyway

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: yota's on sale here ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ... ... adds Sg to possible places to move to

Apparently I don't exist :(

Journeyman Geek

Whose website?

Bob

09:11

@JourneymanGeek Yotaphone

Journeyman Geek

ahh

Bob

Expensive, though. And somewhat poor specs for the price.

Probably see what the next release is first :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob that's roughly exactly what I'm hoping for

Bob

@JourneymanGeek What?

The next Yota? :P

Journeyman Geek

That the next release of one plus is good, and available here? ;p

(or ship it to a cousin)

Bob

09:15

Ah.

Also...

> The low refresh rate and monochrome colour palette means that watching YouTube videos or gaming is a task best left to the AMOLED display on the front.

...someone actually tried that?

Journeyman Geek

Of course.

rofl

Actually I remember someone doing it in a review

Bob

O_O pcworld.idg.com.au/article/570687/…

...wow

> Xiaomi's MIUI software, is a customized version of the operating system that the company updates weekly from user feedback.

weekly? I'm lucky to get an update every other year from Samsung -_-

Journeyman Geek

weekly

and heh, i found a bug in xiaomi's website ;)

Oliver Salzburg

Someone please name a PDF reader that doesn't suck. Adobe and Foxit are on my "suck list"

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: define suck

Oliver Salzburg

09:30

@JourneymanGeek If it comes with any capability to enhance my PDFing experience by involving the cloud, it sucks

Journeyman Geek

I mainly use sumatra these days, but the free version of pdf exchange (viewer?) wasn't bad back when I used it

Oliver Salzburg

If it installs browser plugins or even has the option to do it, it probably sucks

Journeyman Geek

Oh, try sumatra.

Oliver Salzburg

I will. Thanks :)

Journeyman Geek

It views PDFs (and cbrs and ebooks)

Oliver Salzburg

09:31

I was just trying to save a PDF to a new location with Adobe Acrobat. While the Save As dialog was open, I browsed with Windows Explorer to where I wanted to save the file. But there was already a PDF with my desired name, so I opened it. That froze Acrobat

Journeyman Geek

Oh, this has an optional* browser plugin. Which I didn't know about.

since its really optional

Oliver Salzburg

Looks light-weight. I already like it. I'll give it a try

Bob

geek.com/news/…

2

sand now, huh

those metal bolts are too expensive? :P

@OliverSalzburg PDF.js? Whatever Chrome comes with? :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: clearly

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Interesting idea. But I'll try sumatra for now. Makes a good first impression

Bob

09:35

Someone was asking if this is real. uhhhh.

50Ah? Suuuure.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I like it more, and its more reliable than the windows 8 one

Bob

(psst: that's physically impossible with Li-ion in that size)

oh god why did I read the comments

> Absolute rubbish! You probably have some agenda and sell high priced "brand" ones. I have one EXACTLY like the one in you pictures. Opened it up just now and - surprise - it has 6 very fat batteries in it, like an AA cell on steroids.

Stop spreading nonsense!

I suddenly have a really strong urge to punch someone

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Well, they explain why:

> the capacity calculation method is using the power divide the power, not current divide current.

Makes sense, doesn't it?

Bob

@OliverSalzburg wat

Oliver Salzburg

That's what it says on the auction

Journeyman Geek

09:39

Someone give the man a doctorate in electrology.

Oliver Salzburg

I'm such an idiot. I just wanted to move my Google Drive folder. Which includes my KeePass database. So, obviously, I closed KeePass. Logged out of Google Drive Sync, deleted the Google Drive folder and then quickly realized how fucked I am now

Bob

Password recovery email?

Other device you're logged in on?

Oliver Salzburg

Oh, I have other devices

For example, my laptop. Which is slow as fuck

And I just used it to generate an application password, but Drive needs the full one

Which is like 100 characters long

Now I have to copy it to a text file and get it to my desktop via USB like a caveman

So many annoyances... O___o

You click a Skype chat window, the focus is not automatically on the input box. Why?

In FreeOTP, you generate an OTP token, it pops open a toast saying "Token copied to clipboard". The toast is displayed right over the token, so you can't read it

Then this:

And, of course, I click Quit, but the application doesn't quit

And why does Notepad++ have an open handle to the Google Drive sync database?

And now I've reinstalled Drive and when I start it, it silently exits again. Great

Baron

10:23

So, what is this about ?

Oliver Salzburg

12

Q: Google Drive terminates without error on startup

I've used Google Drive for awhile now, but it won't start up after installing on my latest system re-build. I'm still using the same OS, hardware, and basic software load (antivirus, firewall, etc.) that I have for years during which I had not previously had problems with Drive. OS: Windows 7 Ul...

windows-7 google-drive

That worked

Psycogeek

11:15

USB 3.1 Weeeee. It can keep up with even the fastest SSD. . . good thing i dont have one that fast.

Hennes

11:44

Bah. I just got my first USB3 device.

Bob

13:56

@allquixotic What brand was that shoddy SSD you bought?

> "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." —Presidential candidate George W. Bush, LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

That Brazilian Guy

14:25

@Bob It makes me wonder what could be inside the flashdrives I see being sold on the streets: 256 GB for USD 4.

And I don't mean in stores: I mean literally on streets:

Looks legit!

Journeyman Geek

such memories

That Brazilian Guy

...?

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: probably those 4gb on loop drives.

That Brazilian Guy

!!s /4gb/128 MB/

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy when I was a pup, the main computer mall here was filled with dodgy cd stores ;p

ChatBot John Cavil

14:29

@ThatBrazilianGuy That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

Journeyman Geek

kinda reminds me of that ;p

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_Lim_Square now its full of dodgy phone stores

and some great hardware places

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek No. of stores and services 151

Oh, so cute!

Mercado popular da Uruguaiana

O Mercado popular da Uruguaiana é uma área comercial localizada no centro da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, em meio a algumas das principais vias públicas como Rua Uruguaiana, Avenida Presidente Vargas e Rua da Alfândega, o Mercado Popular da Uruguaiana faz história no cenário de centro comercial popular desde 1994 quando foi inaugurado pelo então prefeito Cesar Maia. O centro do Rio de Janeiro passou por um processo de preservação do patrimônio cultural na década de 90, o qual alavancou a implantação do Mercado popular como Zona especial do centro histórico da cidade do Rio de Janeiro de acordo com...

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: wwe're a little country ;p

(and man, can't really pick up stuff from there for a while ;p)

That Brazilian Guy

I'm very cautious when I buy something from that "market".

Journeyman Geek

lol

That Brazilian Guy

14:37

Basically it's looooots and lots of either/both shitty and counterfeit stuff from China

Journeyman Geek

lol

SLS is mostly cleaned up now

USED to be like that

That Brazilian Guy

There's a "mall" of sorts, a building with 3 floors of medium-sized stores and small stands

Where I can buy computer things "cheap" (in Brazilian prices)

Journeyman Geek

man.

yeah

singapore prices are ok

Sometimes really cheap ;p

is looking forward to his xiaomi order getting here ;p

but with our mall, and most things, you need to comparison shop

That Brazilian Guy

The stuff sold on this mall is (usually) genuine, with original packaging and warranty (well, HDDs and processors have only a plastic cover and no packaging. But original labels and barcodes. I'm sure they buy in bulk to lower prices).

Journeyman Geek

hdds in baggies?

Only way to get em ;p

That Brazilian Guy

14:42

plastic bags

Journeyman Geek

processors come boxed here mostly

but hdds just come in anti static bags

That Brazilian Guy

But on the sidewalks to this mall, people from the "popular market" will stop you trying to sell you pirated CDs and DVDs for 3USD each

"Games, movies, apps"

Journeyman Geek

lol

SLS used to be like that

then MASSIVE police raids

That Brazilian Guy

Police is usually a few meters away and will ~~collect money from them~~ just watch.

Journeyman Geek

oh, police here is mostly honest

That Brazilian Guy

14:44

O_____________o

I have never seem these two words on the same phrase

Journeyman Geek

;p

they are!

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek That big popular market has massive raids once or twice each year IIRC. Haven't changed anything in 15 years ;p

Journeyman Geek

We don't have much corruption at that level

just stupidity

That Brazilian Guy

Well, stupidity is a requirement for starting a political carreer, right?

Journeyman Geek

heh

Old school pols here were ok

COMPLETELY ruthless but efficient

current batch occationally...

Bob

14:47

huh, those photos remind me of Paddy's Market... haven't been there in a few years

> The markets cater for both locals and tourists and is home to over 1,000 stalls that sell almost everything from fashion and accessories, sporting goods, fresh fruit and vegetables, pets supplies, clothing, electrical goods to arts and crafts and souvenirs.

That Brazilian Guy

Every average-sized to big city I've ever been has at least one market like that

Bob

I need to go take another look sometime :P

Journeyman Geek

we don't. we're boring.

;p

That Brazilian Guy

Sometimes multiple markets: one with hand-made stuff for tourists, one with tech and (metal) hardware and tools etc, one with clothes and cheap "jewelry" and bags and toys and perfums

Journeyman Geek

hmm

we have an electronics componet place

there's no real 'tool' place, there's a few shops people in the know go to

That Brazilian Guy

14:53

We don't have one with tourist stuff, but I think every place I ever been as a tourist (I've only traveled on my own country) has a tourist market.

And usually things are much cheaper

In 2014 I was in the northeast and a restaurant in the sidewalk of the fanciest beach, with all-you-can-eat food and a guy playing live piano, was cheaper than buying a portion of food where I live.

And a kg of shrimp by the beachside was so cheap...

Journeyman Geek

lol

That Brazilian Guy

I was so mad I was there for a course for work, so basically I had very limited time for tourist stuff, basically at nght, and couldn't find any open kiosk with those shrimps ;___;

Yeah I love shrimp

!s/2014/2013/

Journeyman Geek

I don't think I've ever been on a vacation, ever, and certainly not as a tourist

its always temples and relatives ;p

That Brazilian Guy

Till my mid-twenties (that is, not too long ago) I never had any money to travel, so I always had to count on the kindness of relatives

Damn, I still don't have much money, the last long travel I made I stayed at my wife's relatives

Journeyman Geek

my dad never really liked travelling ;p

That Brazilian Guy

15:01

But they're distant relatives, so they were nice and basically would drive us, offer us local food, and let us feel comfortable

Close relatives are... more complicated.

Journeyman Geek

ya

That Brazilian Guy

Our connection today is extra slow....

Journeyman Geek

In a couple of years I might go to france

I was there on an exchange program, its a lovely country

but I need to plan/save for that too ;p

That Brazilian Guy

I've never been there, but I usually don't hear good things about french people, specially the way they treat foreigners

Journeyman Geek

lol

I've never had issues

other than people talking to me in french, seeing my confused look and switching to english

I tend to avoid the big cities, anywhere

That Brazilian Guy

15:07

Yeah, probably a big part of what I hear are exaggerated stereotypes.

Other day I watched a documentary about the way Rio was portraited in movies in the 20th century and maaaaaan...

I alternated between laughter and jaw on the floor

Y U SO SLOW

gimme back my 100mbps

Bob

This looks quite ni-

> Beats Audio

Nope, it's shit.

That Brazilian Guy

Today my connection is so slow, I have to work without music ;___;

Beats audio can't be worse than no music at all

2

A: How to find Chrome extensions that inject ads into any webpage I browse?

Disable all chrome extensions, see if the problem stops. Enable each extension one by one. When the issue reappear, you have found the culprit.

Anyone here knows a better way to solve this?

Oliver Salzburg

15:48

@ThatBrazilianGuy Posted something

Bob

16:02

O_O

I never knew how big laserdisc was

HackToHell

looks up laserdisc

Oliver Salzburg

16:30

@Bob It wasn't. That woman is tiny

Bob

@OliverSalzburg I don't know... trashcity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/laserdisc.jpg

Oliver Salzburg

I was kidding :P

My old boss had a laserdisc collection. Until I saw it, I had no idea something like that ever existed

That Brazilian Guy

So this is the current state of gaming journalism? ign.com/articles/2015/03/24/…

Oliver Salzburg

~~gaming~~ journalism

Canadian Luke

17:08

Posted on Puzzling.SE: puzzling.stackexchange.com/a/10931/372

Bob

17:28

o.o

@allquixotic blog.gitter.im/2015/03/25/more-for-free

I'm beginning to wonder where their money is coming from...

Blog bot

19:03

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Oliver Salzburg

19:20

@Anna I gave you a minute. Another minute costs 50 rep. — nicael 34 secs ago

Heheh

KronoS

holy crap... I leave for the day and come back to this:

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