Root Access

Journeyman Geek

13:00

I like that urban myth :/

HackToHell

> To put all this in perspective, sunlight (which is a higher frequency, and therefore more energetic) is about 1000 W per square metre when it hits the ground, half of which is visible light or higher.

That's a lot o0

Bob

@HackToHell ...didn't I write that? O_O

Psycogeek

At least I can now put to rest that it was not soup ?? And it could still be somewhat accurate to say "chocolate" bar if the " peanut cluster bar" was still chockolate coated.

HackToHell

@Bob You did ? :D

> It has been estimated that you get a bigger dose of microwaves from one 20-minute phone call than from a year's Wi-Fi.

From theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2012/sep/27/…

Bob

And, yea, that giant fusion reactor many times bigger than this planet puts out a lot of energy. Someone calculated that if sound travelled through space/vacuums (presumably ~the rate it does through 1atm air), it would be 100 dB at the surface of the earth.

HackToHell

13:04

Perhaps I should add that

1000W is a huuuge amount of power

If only we could capture it :C

Bob

> If the extraterrestrial solar radiation is 1367 watts per square meter (the value when the Earth–Sun distance is 1 astronomical unit), then the direct sunlight at Earth's surface when the Sun is at the zenith is about 1050 W/m2, but the total amount (direct and indirect from the atmosphere) hitting the ground is around 1120 W/m2.[3] In terms of energy, sunlight at Earth's surface is around 52 to 55 percent infrared (above 700 nm), 42 to 43 percent visible (400 to 700 nm), and 3 to 5 percent ultraviolet (below 400 nm).[4] At the top of the atmosphere, sunlight is about 30% more intense, h…

=> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight

@HackToHell I did not write that

Where'd you get the earlier quote from?

HackToHell

@Bob Just read that piece

2 mins ago, by HackToHell

From http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2012/sep/27/wi-fi-health-risks

Bob

Pretty sure I wrote it in an SU answer that may or may not have found its way to HowToGeek.

@HackToHell That one doesn't mention that specific quote.

Psycogeek

@HackToHell that figure sounds about right. here i figured loosly that the sun that roars into a big window , even with dual pane and some IR deflection, heats the house similar to a 500W space heater or incan light.

Journeyman Geek

hm. Any of you guys got a kindle?

Psycogeek

13:07

With multiple windows , and on days when the sun is blazing into them, it takes 2X that ammount of power from the Air Conditioner to get it the freak back out of the house :-)

Bob

@Psycogeek Sounds about right. About 500 W infrared. Though not all would be absorbed, so it'd be a bit below that.

@JourneymanGeek Surprisingly? Yes!

Picked one up about a month ago :P

Haven't used it much though :(

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: regular or paperwhite?

Bob

Paperwhite

Journeyman Geek

How is it to read on?

Bob

Hmm... that's preeeeetty subjective...

Journeyman Geek

13:08

lol

Bob

Personally, I don't mind reading on my phone at all.

HackToHell

@Bob It does !

Bob

wait, do they even sell non-paperwhite anymore?

@HackToHell whatwhere

HackToHell

@Bob My eyes hurt after long reading periods

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

HackToHell

13:09

@Bob Use the search ;p

Journeyman Geek

there's a 79 dollar non paperwhite model

Bob

@HackToHell What do you think I tried first?

HackToHell

We are talking about this right

Journeyman Geek

oh, and adfree or with the ads?

HackToHell

6 mins ago, by HackToHell

> It has been estimated that you get a bigger dose of microwaves from one 20-minute phone call than from a year's Wi-Fi.

Bob

13:10

No.

4 mins ago, by Bob

Where'd you get the earlier quote from?

HackToHell

Great

Bob

9 mins ago, by HackToHell

> To put all this in perspective, sunlight (which is a higher frequency, and therefore more energetic) is about 1000 W per square metre when it hits the ground, half of which is visible light or higher.

@JourneymanGeek Adfree

Hm..

Honestly, I mostly read webpages.

Journeyman Geek

ahh. Trying to decide if I should save the 20 quid or not ;p

Bob

Kindle's not great for that.

e-ink is not great for that

Journeyman Geek

Oh. I have a decent collection of ebooks.

Bob

13:11

scrolling is a pain

HackToHell

@Bob yep, you wrote it

74

A: Paranoid Parent: "WiFi safe for baby?"

Perfectly safe. The term "radiation" is often used to scare people. Let's get it straight. There's two factors - frequency and intensity. Frequency has a far larger effect on how damaging radiation is. WiFi and other radio communications use a very low frequency - far below visible light. R...

Journeyman Geek

I'm basically looking for a surrogate for a proper book

Bob

I suspect the Kobo would be a better choice - wider format support too

@JourneymanGeek Yea, I converted a couple of the tings I read to proper ebooks.

Journeyman Geek

Most of them are cross format. I buy em off baen ;p

HackToHell

Kindle is just too expensive

Bob

13:11

Hm. The screen looks pretty nice.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, that's the main thing for me

Bob

Probably better than a phone screen, but again I don't mind a phone screen anyway...

You're better off looking at one in-store :P

I find the page-turning to be a bit annoying though

Journeyman Geek

Can you make it white on black?

Bob

more used to something scrollable

Psycogeek

safe for a baby , sure just dont put the router in the crib

Hennes

13:13

Nah, only the babyfoon

Bob

@JourneymanGeek even adfree does a lot of kindle store promotional stuff :\

Journeyman Geek

ahh

then worth saving the 20 quid? ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek has font size, font face, line spacing and margins

...I don't see a night mode

> e-ink devices (including Paperwhite) however, do not

welp.

Journeyman Geek

hmm

no, and the reasoning seems sound.

font face is essential/expected

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ya, apparently it's not really all that useful on e-ink

@JourneymanGeek Baskerville, Caeciia, Caecilia Condensed, Futura, Helvetica, Palatino

Carcilia is default

Journeyman Geek

13:18

I need a good sans one basically

Bob

I still think I should've gotten a Kobo

@JourneymanGeek They all have serifs o.O

Well, Helvetica isn't really

still has a bit though

Journeyman Geek

caeciia looks ok

hm. no

Bob

HackToHell

7 inch display ?

Bob

photo of a screen doesn't look that great :P

Journeyman Geek

13:24

6

futura seems good

looks sharp even from that ;p

Psycogeek

tanks for the picture

HackToHell

Original footage 7.9 Magnitude earthquake in Nepal 2015

►

The water in the pool is actually sloshed out :O

Journeyman Geek

hm. And the 20 quid a month, all you can read thing seems handy.

GFSE

GemsFromStackExchange: Did it work? no. And How.

posted on April 27, 2015

Did it work? no. And How.

Bob

That's Futura.

Shoddy photo though :(

Journeyman Geek

13:28

It'll do ;p

Bob

I can't really get much better lighting at this time, and the phone camera seems to hate low light

Journeyman Geek

I'd actually consider getting my mom a regular version but she finds most technology scary

Bob

lol

take a look at the Kobo stuff, though

last time I checked, they were better than the Kindle

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: no official local retailer tho

Bob

ah

not stocked in local chain pc stores?

Journeyman Geek

13:32

nope

Psycogeek

@HackToHell ahh videos finnaly. I gaped at youtube yesterday to see what happened, and the reporting was slim at that time, and people stealing other peoples videos and reposting them (repeats) was par. Around here (california) in earthquake, they actually do not recommend going out of buildings. As the glass shatters from the skyscrappers and stuff flies off them (ornimental building decor). There it is like get the hell out .

Bob

wow

@JourneymanGeek you can always get the ad version and turn off ads

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: yeah

Bob

I think the end price is the same

Journeyman Geek

yup

Bob

13:35

Tapping to flip pages feels weird to me though

Journeyman Geek

lol, that sounds fairly awesome to me

Bob

Continuous scrolling feels a bit smoother

I'd tap and have a bit of confusion when it changes

Also, I don't think there's any auto-flip/scroll like mobireader has, and at default font and screen size you end up having to tap a lot

Journeyman Geek

(anyway, its just on the start of the 3 month rule ;p)

I'll likely increase font size

Bob

Makes that particular issue worse :P

Journeyman Geek

~~dogs have bad vision~~ I'm dylexic so bigger fonts are easier on me.

Bob

13:39

@JourneymanGeek I mostly wanted to know how reading webpages on e-ink would feel

(Cause considering yotaphone)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: If I wanted to chat, there's always the stream

it sucks to read books on tho

Bob

Oh, not chat, to read a lot of html-formatted books

Journeyman Geek

ahh

(ironically, I converted a load of mobi formatted books from the baen free library to epub)

Bob

They also offer epub but that's a bit annoying on a phone

Journeyman Geek

epub + google books works ok

Bob

13:42

I used to read mobi when I had an older phone with a shit browser

Webpages on e-ink isn't so bad, but the scrolling and browser itself on the kindle are annoying

So yota isn't ruled out yet

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek the keyboard is actually surprisingly good :P

Journeyman Geek

touch keyboard?

I generally tend to hate those

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=damn+my+paws&room=118

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ya, touch

Psycogeek

What is the screen size of the Stream your using? and why does it suck to read books?

Bob

13:50

but it works decently, considering it's e-ink

the touchscreen is surprisingly active, if not 100% responsive (e-ink doesn't update enough to get confirmation for all actions)

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: 10 inches

Its not size, its viewing angle.

10 inches

its a decent machine for chat (on the train) and if I need a real computer I can throw into a backpack

Bob

sigh

another oversensitive chat flagger is around

Journeyman Geek

I keep missing those

Bob

@JourneymanGeek this was flagged

Journeyman Geek

heh

that's just silly

Bob

13:52

it's mildly off-colour (ha ha, pun not really intended), but flagging? blah. oversensitive.

Journeyman Geek

and there were two oher flags

Bob

shows what's wrong with our society.

@JourneymanGeek I voted invalid on both. I don't think either passed.

Psycogeek

lol, haiest zombie comments not allowed

Journeyman Geek

heh I used to live in the UK, I heard a lot of ginger jokes. Not worth snapping it.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek the 10" tablet+keyboard was for that, but now I'm using a full fairly light 13" laptop I just tend to bring that now

in RPG General Chat, 1 min ago, by Rainbolt

Please don't mindlessly flag chat messages. Unless "zombies have red hair" is a new sex position that I don't know about, it isn't offensive.

Journeyman Geek

13:53

@Bob: I also wanted to be able to install my work VPN system on it

(which is delayed cause we're re-architecting it)

Psycogeek

A new bar drink mixer The red haired zombie. Everclear and V8 ?

"Long term exposure to Wi-Fi linked to neurodegenerative disease" citizensforsafetechnology.org/… oh wait , what was I saying? Uhh never mind

Wi_Fi Linked to depression, Damn wi-fi connection sucks, depression resolved by CAT

"Why children absorb more microwave radiation than adults" because they fit inside there :-)

" Burger King Cell Tower " Make calls and keep your meat warm , and die twice, what is wrong with that combo.

MyDaftQuestions

14:30

I have a quick question about partitions - If some one can give me a yes or no answer? I have 1 SSD, 128GB but it's been partitioned into 2 x 64GB. The OS is installed, as is software. Am I able (with software which I can Google for) 'migrate' 30GB from 1 hard drive to the other?

Hennes

Quick answer: yes you can

That it is a SSD or not does not matter.

But there are plenty tools which can do that. The ancient one I used was partition magic, (back in w98, w2000 era)

I am sure there are better tools out right now, as well as some native support in some OS's

Which OS are you using? Solaris? FreeBSD? Windows? Linux ?

MyDaftQuestions

Well, I'm sure there are lots about, do you know though, for a simple migrate as I describe, if paid apps are worth the extra? I'm usually a supporter of software, paying the 'underdog' company where I can

but, if the moving of space (the migration) is trivial, then a free one is fine

Hennes

if you are on windows, the try start, run, diskmgmt.msc

And look at shrink volume and extend volume

MyDaftQuestions

wow, that easy?

Cool, thank you

Hennes

Always make a backup though. If power fails during resizing it might end up in a 'funny' state

MyDaftQuestions

14:36

ah, I see. Yes, good thinking. Thank you again for your help :)

Bob

O_O

0

Q: How to turn Windows domain account to a local account

I asked the IT department in our company to remove me from our domain so that some restrictions aimed at all the users within the domain no longer apply to me. The problem is that when I restart my computer and try to log in, I cannot do so due to the fact that my user account is still somehow t...

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob What the...

Journeyman Geek

blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/04/27/10609956.aspx

Bob

@OliverSalzburg it just seems really weird

they'll happily let him use a local account?

but won't set it up for him?

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah

Bob

14:49

what kind of ghetto IT dept is he dealing with?!

Journeyman Geek

I'm tempted to answer

Oliver Salzburg

And why would they have to "remove him from the domain"

Journeyman Geek

"Ask your IT department"

Oliver Salzburg

Just create a new local account for testing

Bob

@OliverSalzburg well, I suspect (hope) that's just lost in user-translation

Psycogeek

15:09

youtube.com/watch?v=14V2T1EONR8 nepal video. when it comes to the question "do animals know before a quake happens" in the case of the birds there , I would say no?

yilduz

"when I try to log in, the system complains about being unable to verify the account against some server." Doesn't the computer hold that AD login information on the computer? I only ever see this message when a computer is powered off for a very long time.

Oliver Salzburg

> Hi Oliver,

Thank you for the quick response. I'm sorry this happened. There must have been something that went wrong with the rooting process. Don't worry though you may try the links below for recovering your lost data.

http://www.jihosoft.com/recover-data/recover-data-after-factory-reset.html

http://www.yodot.com/android-data-recovery/after-factory-reset.html

What a load of crap

Hennes

@yilduz @yilduz Do you mean "The local OS keeps a cached copy of the AD information, which is only valid for a limited time?"

@OliverSalzburg Not sure that a new local account will suffice. I think (not 100% sure) that you can set a policy on a machine. That would be independant of the account logged in (local or otherwise).

In which case the answer is: Reformat and reinstall without ever touching the domain, or use a VM (and up the OS count by one)

yilduz

Yes, but as long as he connects to the network that shouldn't be an issue, right? Could his problem just be that maybe he's on a laptop remotely away from their network and he's no longer able to use the cached information?

(not an AD expert) :P

Hennes

15:25

When he connects to the network (via VPN ?) information may get updated.

MAy since I experienced plenty problem when a laptop had cached credentials, and the password was changes on another machien connected to the domain

Which was solved by:
1) Log into laptop with old user/pass
2) Connect to work VPN (now the AD is reachable).
3) Lock screen
4) unlock screen -> username and password are verified against the AD. Cached credentials are updated

yilduz

Maybe he doesn't have vpn access.

I dunno, his issue just doesn't seem to be the issue that he thinks it is, as far as I can see.

Hennes

Maybe. "against some server" is pretty vague

yilduz

Yeah, it is.

and his comment on the answer is completely different from his question.

Oliver Salzburg

So, about the mic computer freeze thing from earlier

It happened as predicted. Turned it on, no problems at all

slhck

I usually don't do this, but.. hooray!

7

SPArchaeologist

15:35

Hi everyone. Sorry to bother you but someone on meta-tavern suggested me to try to ask here before attempting an actual question on some network site.

slhck

@SPArchaeologist Sure, just ask!

SPArchaeologist

Just wanted to know if anyone ever managed to have VLC save language metadata info and if the date info is supposed to be year only.

HackToHell

@slhck congy

o penguin overlord

SPArchaeologist

seems to me that the program just forgets the language and normalize date to numbers

slhck

@SPArchaeologist That is, for MP4 files, or..?

MKV?

SPArchaeologist

15:37

@slhck mp4 . I know there was a bug with mkv

slhck

@HackToHell If I was aggressive I'd be all like

SPArchaeologist

It would seem that the Language field isn't persisted. Or must follow a precise format. Not that I really need it since most of the files I would categorize would be English recordings, but still made me wonder. Also made me wonder that the date only seem to persist numbers instead of actual full dates

HackToHell

:D

slhck

@SPArchaeologist Hm. No idea, sorry. Not sure what kind of metadata storage is even used there. Feel free to ask on the main site, though, including a screenshot or something.

SPArchaeologist

@slhck will probably do. Thanks for now

Bob

15:51

@OliverSalzburg Hey, you have a personal google service!

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck Congrats

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Look on the bright side, you'll never need to filter through search results again.

Just ask these guys.

Oliver Salzburg

Heheh

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Oh, the Paperwhite doesn't do audio

Oliver Salzburg

If I imagine that I gave one of our clients some advice that caused them to lose all of their data, I'm pretty sure that I could come up with a better response than "Oh, well, shit happens. Here are a couple of links I found online that might help you to get your data back. Thanks for buying our product btw!"

William D. Edwards

16:08

Over 140 messages missed...

Bob

@OliverSalzburg I suppose with the way support from phone manufacturers go nowadays, you might consider yourself lucky they gave you links at all. Heck, lucky they responded at all.

Or maybe unlucky that they responded, since that kinda led to this situation...

Oliver Salzburg

Indeed

Bob

I don't even want to try to contact Samsung. They'd probably come back a month later with some standard response.

Psycogeek

@OliverSalzburg and ? what was the mic item (usb or a recorder or a simple analog mic) he was trying to shove into where? and did he bring it along so you could test it?

Oliver Salzburg

@Psycogeek No, we only got the computer

Psycogeek

16:12

So he takes it home, shoves an AC plug into the USb again, and swears at the techs for not even knowing what was wrong :-)

Psycogeek

16:26

youtu.be/0LR-LlMZlrU?t=259 (starts 4 minutes in to get to the meat) Never saw this before. wouldnt that make a cool case for a TVPC or a NUC ?

Oliver Salzburg

@Psycogeek Could be. But we sold him the computer, we'll take a look at it if it's supposedly broken. I don't really have time to investigate something like this properly. I just want to get the problem off my desk, so that I can take care of the shit we actually do

Psycogeek

Or for more fun, watch youtu.be/J9dmpIm87bs?t=248 how to Not RTFM first.

Oliver Salzburg

I'm only now starting to realize the fallout of this data loss

Like losing my OTP database... O__o

allquixotic

16:44

tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=829201099229

tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=531080637359

William D. Edwards

I got WifeIt :P

allquixotic

LOL

William D. Edwards

That'd be a pretty awesome startup, haha.

allquixotic

tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=267051881161 lol

"We use additions to perform things that matter."

Psycogeek

ooookkkaaay

William D. Edwards

16:56

tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=352496463339

Would be cool as well!

But as they do in IRC, /nick WilliamD.Edwards|away.

Oliver Salzburg

17:15

And now I was also outbid on that document scanner

What a shitty day!

That scanner could have turned it all around, but no!

Alright, time to set up my "new phone" \o/

Psycogeek

well dont flash it today :-)

DragonLord

@slhck I'd better start posting more answers :\

Jan 15 at 12:50, by Bob

Hurry up and get there :P

Oliver Salzburg

17:40

Wow, it seems like, for the first time ever, my apps will be restored from Google's backup

And you can no longer use app passwords to log into your Google account :(

And apparently there are multiple kinds of Cyanogen accounts

William D. Edwards

Things are really going well aren't they @OliverSalzburg?

Oliver Salzburg

@WilliamD.Edwards I'm having a beer now, so things are improving slowly

William D. Edwards

Holy shit

I have my sound on 100% and I didn't know the sound when someone tags you... :/

Oliver Salzburg

lol

Sorry about that ;D

William D. Edwards

Hahaha...

Oliver Salzburg

17:58

Ah, so there's an account for CyanogenMod and one for Cyanogen OS

Canadian Luke

@OliverSalzburg The new update?

Oliver Salzburg

@CanadianLuke Yeah

Canadian Luke

I only have the one account... Interesting

What do the different ones do?

Oliver Salzburg

Support told me to root my phone to get the update to install. I did and my phone was reset in the process :(

Canadian Luke

Wait, WHAT?? I know you have to reset the phone to root, but that's kinda ridiculous!

Oliver Salzburg

18:01

@CanadianLuke I don't know, but I couldn't log in with my CyanogenMod credentials when setting up the phone

@CanadianLuke The reset happened from unlocking the bootloader

Canadian Luke

Weird... Wonder if VPN'ing to Canada would help.... I had NONE of these issues updating

Oliver Salzburg

I'm just pissed that they told me, I wouldn't lose any data and didn't make me aware of the risks

Canadian Luke

Sucks to hear that.

Oliver Salzburg

Alright, seems like all apps were restored. I'll check the configuration now

Canadian Luke

Since you got it up and running, and rooted, maybe you should get something like Titanium Backup, for next time?

Oliver Salzburg

18:04

@CanadianLuke It's not even rooted now

Canadian Luke

-.-

Oliver Salzburg

After I unlocked the bootloader and the device was reset, it would instantly install the update

Canadian Luke

My question is, why was that needed in the first place, when every other phone got the update without any problem?

Oliver Salzburg

And I had different backup solutions in the past, but never needed them so I abandoned them :P

I only use stuff like FolderSync to sync pictures and stuff

@CanadianLuke Yeah, I'd love to know that as well

It sounded more like a random suggestion than an educated guess

Well, time to reconfigure everything :P

Canadian Luke

Well, let me know if you ever see Lollipop on it... Or their new OxygenOs

Oliver Salzburg

18:07

@CanadianLuke Oh, I'm on that right now

Canadian Luke

What?!?

OK, now I'm jealous

Oliver Salzburg

18:21

@CanadianLuke I'd love to tell you how awesome it is, but the experience is overshadowed by earlier events ;D

allquixotic

lollipop isn't all it's cracked up to be (on my Note 4, at least)

Canadian Luke

I just like having the latest greatest, all thet ime

allquixotic

"Mr. Page! How many hacks does it take to get to the root kernel of a Lollipop?"
"IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAND!!!!"

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic: reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/33ys4s/…

Oliver Salzburg

I lost my game progress O___O

That Brazilian Guy

18:38

Yesterday I had to move about 77km (48 miles) just to be able to buy game controllers for slightly less shitty prices

They were used (I knew beforehand) and one is broken (this I didnt) ;___;

Psycogeek

19:12

Hennes

Can I edit that?

Psycogeek

Claims to be .01% of the wiki in print brandnew.uk.com/wikipedia-as-a-printed-book

I think he probably needed to use smaller print 4X per page, and a duplexer :-)

allquixotic

what-if.xkcd.com/59

DragonLord

@Psycogeek Wikipedia is trying to produce a CD or DVD with selected articles for distribution in developing countries

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team

== General background == In late 2003, Jimmy Wales proposed making an offline release version of Wikipedia. This group was formed in late 2004 to meet this challenge. Our work involves identifying and organizing articles, and improving and maintaining a core set. Our work does not hinder the existing wiki process for creating and editing articles, but rather it supports that work by providing additional organization. See these more detailed related articles: Wikipedia 1.0 FAQs Wikipedia 1.0 Release Version Criteria Broad overview of Wikimedia's Offline Project == How you can help == You...

Psycogeek

19:28

hmm, where is the "compress the heck out of it" stage? Doesnt standard english text compress really easily? I never actually tried it is so small

the mess of html taking up much of the actual size , is ripe for compression, with repetition galore.

allquixotic

@Psycogeek they don't ship the dumps in HTML; they give you XML and SQL, compressed using the highly efficient 7zip LZMA2 codec.

the current version of the English language Wikipedia is 11.8 GB and decompresses to terabytes of text

and that doesn't include pictures!

Psycogeek

So if I write a book in notepad, and save out simple askII kind of thing, does simple text itself compress well?

allquixotic

@Psycogeek it has a compression ratio of about 3-5%, which means the original uncompressed text is about 20x larger than the compressed file

Psycogeek

ahh, so if we dumped the formatting, took out all the sales, removed the corporate and political edits , got rid of the speculation and uncredited tripe, the whole thing would fit on a microsd that is smaller than my thumbnail?

allquixotic

even without doing all those contrived and pointless things, it would still fit on a 32GB microSD card.

11.7 GB < 32 GB (and microSD cards go much higher than 32 GB)

it'd fit on the internal NAND of my phone, even.

Psycogeek

19:42

the first piece of paper folded up to that size would be that big.

Michael Frank

21:28

Boy do I have a good one for you guys!

-1

Q: can anyone tell me how do laptop work really briefly please

how do laptop work really briefly because it takes a long time to answer how do laptops work. I want to know 1)when the current from the power plant goes to your home and you plug your laptop in, where does the current go to first 2)and how is current used to make the software's work please ag...

laptop keyboard

DragonLord

Flagged as very low quality.

Not that I do that often, but this question is that bad.

Michael Frank

Yuuuup

He also has a pretty interesting question on Islam.SE

Hennes

21:53

The current go first in the wire to the laptop. Velly clear!

Journeyman Geek

23:13

@MichaelFrank very very small hamsters with abacuses.

Michael Frank

23:25

GAH

1st level keep doing these "Registry fixes" that aren't documented.

oldmud0

ServerFault chat seems to be inactive... so it's either irc #nginx or here

Journeyman Geek

SF chat kinda migrated to slack

oldmud0

slack?

slack the service or stack?

Journeyman Geek

slack the chatroom

That Brazilian Guy

slack A.K.A. "mIRC is so old no one remembers it, let's make it proprietary and build a startup around it"

Journeyman Geek

23:36

@ThatBrazilianGuy: ugh

That Brazilian Guy

that said, it is quite good and well-designed

Journeyman Geek

hexchat is the preferred IRC client these days IMO ;p

That Brazilian Guy

been using it (slack) for a couple weeks for a group project

oldmud0

how do you use slack for a public chatroom....?

Journeyman Geek

you don't

That Brazilian Guy

23:37

I haven't used IRC in a looooooooooooooong time, the very few exceptions I have used web interfaces

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: If I ran my own ~~web~~ ircserver that's what I'd do

oldmud0

I use ChatZilla but only because it's faithful to the mozilla suite. Also because I'm too lazy to buy mIRC

That Brazilian Guy

buy mIRC Oh dear. I feel old.

oldmud0

mIRC community edition anyone??

Journeyman Geek

Its not FOSS

xchat was other than the licencing code ;p

hexchat was a fork (silverex also had a nice distro)

oldmud0

23:40

Anyway I was wondering how to use nginx to point port 80 on ssh.mydomain.com to port 23.

That Brazilian Guy

@oldmud0 O_o why?!

oldmud0

because I am using SSH to encrypt my traffic on public networks and certain networks do not allow traffic except on 80 and 443

That Brazilian Guy

ahh

oldmud0

ughhh I have to use nginx_tcp_proxy_module? I don't want to recompile nginx, it is hell when you are compiling to windows :(

Journeyman Geek

Why use windows? ;p

Michael Frank

23:47

@JourneymanGeek mIRC 4 lyfe!

Journeyman Geek

also why not set ssh to use port 80 directly?

oldmud0

well currently, ssh is using 443 on the main domain.com

however I am going to set up GNU httptunnel on ssh.mydomain.com at 443

Journeyman Geek

serverfault.com/questions/355271/… suggests it can't be done

rutschle.net/tech/sslh.shtml looks promising.

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(adjusted a bit. I'd be very disappointed if you didn't read it as the old spice guy)

DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek I wouldn't be so blunt. It's very condescending.

Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord: two questions closed so far.

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