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HackToHell

15:00

Cool

Journeyman Geek

Spending a lot of money today

Ordered this thinkgeek.com/product/1d95/?icpg=bise cause its FINAALLY back in stock

Zirak

Got me something pretty?

Hennes

I hope that whatever you bought get shipped safely

Or just as safe as this:

Journeyman Geek

lol

Local US shipping + courier through a transhipper

Hennes

I can understand doing things on auto pilot, but bubblewrapping bubblewrap seems excessive

Journeyman Geek

15:02

Since for some reason they don't ship that wallet or the kindle outside the UPS

Hennes

I tend to keep looking at new stuff for my desktop (build in jan 2009).
But heck, it is still fast enough

So I should not spent much money on it

Bob

@Hennes they didn't bubblewrap bubblewrap

they padded it

Hennes

Ok, technically wrong.

Bob

stops this from happening:

Amazing Amazon Box

►

that happens when the contents shift around inside

@Hennes there's a very real difference

the padding is supposed to keep it in place. bubblewrap is supposed to absorb shock.

Journeyman Geek

@Zirak: got myself a kindle and a cover for it, and a new wallet I've wanted for eons.

Hennes

15:06

3 minutes of movie.. I kept waiting for a second box to show up.

Journeyman Geek

Its only the second, and I've spent nearly all my monthly spending allowance ;p

(lucky I have a few months buffer)

HackToHell

@Bob fun fun :D

Bob

@allquixotic this guy seems happy with mydigitalssd :P

Psycogeek

15:22

Chromebook no possible to get virus? How then ~400 malware and evil POS programs end up on google play?

everything get virusey

Journeyman Geek

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/01/… 0_0 @Bob @allquixotic D:

Psycogeek

MS was kind enough to let .Net go linux right? soo now MS no feel alone, give linux viruses too

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Oh yea, that turned up on Aviation

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Q: In what circumstances could a 787 stay powered on continuously for 248 days?

The FAA has issued an airworthiness directive for the 787: SUMMARY: We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all The Boeing Company Model 787 airplanes. This AD requires a repetitive maintenance task for electrical power deactivation on Model 787 airplanes. This AD was pro...

Psycogeek

Captain over Intercom: Were not really experiencing turbulance, just need to re-boot this thing, and we will quit plummeting into the ocean, by the way your seat is a flotation device.

Bob

@Psycogeek the vast, vast majority of malware that ends up on consumer machines is through user action - it doesn't matter which OS you use

It's not malware breaking into a system through some flaw in the OS or other software.

It's malware breaking into the system through the user.

Of course, having official package repositories helps. But even then we see this happening.

Psycogeek

15:34

If those stores werent so interesting in Big Numbers, and instead usable programs, the stores wouldnt be the bottom side of the terlit.

They dont rightly care what kind of stuff is put up in them, no B&M store would put poop in the pickle isle :-)

(they use the web for that)

Journeyman Geek

0_0

(not the journeymangeek... Probably another one of the Mystery Mutts (tm)

Psycogeek

Same goes for the ads they put on the sites, they were getting people infected because they didnt care what diseased 2 bit whore would give them money. plus they didnt get 2 bits for the ads either.

google has Billions , , Billions, but they couldnt hire somebody to be a store manager , and see what was going up on the shelf? The fraud programs are not that hard to spot.

The idea with the machines is you set them up, and they do all your work for you, and you just roll in the money. Sounds like a "work at home" scam. but even cars come off the assembly line with about 30 things that needs fixin, tech goods often have patches that have to be manually applied. Humans still could perform a valuable role.

There are other things going ary too, like when e-bay (or others like it) have a problem with customer, the squeaky wheel gets the deal. That works good to solve a problem the machine does not handle, but there are people that learned that the squeaky wheel can flat out ripp people off.

Somewhere in there they need more humans, instead of a blathering machine, and a free pass for any complaints. Usually that means having a human in the machine :-) to have more general human interactions.

we just jack a few humans into the matrix.

Psycogeek

18:32

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Boris_yo

19:02

What scheme is right one?

Comodo Backup does: 1 Full, 1 Incremental and 1 Differential
EaseUs ToDo does: 1 Full and 1 Incremental

I use 2 software programs to mitigate risk of failed recovery.

Psycogeek

19:25

I donno, i would rather have a fully verified or compared one, and even in-so-much tested by having to do a recovery (which is dangerous in itself) . having 2 softwares would be to complicated for me, melt my brain. Program updates that make changes or cause failures, organisation of the backed-up elements, disk filling.

once again seperating the OS to a small partiton , and having it be small enough to easily store full recoveries , provides for more than one file item, in the case that one gets broken. Using sync and compare methods for "data" and the huge rest of it, visably seeing what is syncing (copying deleting and changed) prior to pushing the button.

Then compares, between the (data) backup and the other disk, tell you if things are chaging that should not be changing.

Is not so easy to do syncs and compares with running operating system, but easy to do with simple data.

Backup progams are going to handle all the files (take like incramental pieces, or database style backups) Then something goes wrong and the user suddenly needs to cope with all the parts and pieces created by the backup, and thatsa gonna suck.

So I like the backup file items to also be user managable, as depending on a program is not Yourself :-) and yourself is more dependable than a program is.

At any rate, If you ever have to Restore parts of it or all of it, and you then have to manage the file items the backup created, THAT is when you will wish that it was simple, and user managable.

Back one, database (big piles of files in huge chunks) can fail or fault. If your big ass data pile is in 2-3 places, but completly unchanged , not encrypted, not compressed, in the same folder structure. Then the user can access the files just like they did before. any single file , like say a bad picture, or a bad video, or a bad piece of music , is just one item lost. a f---up database is instead a complete horror show.

Ok delete all that, and say it like this instead. If your "Data" all your pictures and documents, and music, is on a different partition. And that partition is just raw file copied (synced compared) to an external disk (or 2) it is just as organised and managable there, as it was where it came from.

It is safer like that, because there is no program dependancy, it is easier to restore any or all of it because it is just a clone/copy of the other one.

DragonLord

20:12

Is there someone here who can diagnose a GCC internal compiler error, possibly a GCC 4.9 regression?

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Q: GCC internal compiler error (segmentation fault in cc1plus) under multiple distributions

Well i'm trying to compile a software and in every time i try there is this error: c++: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault (program cc1plus) Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.9/README.Bugs> for instructions. I ha...

linux gcc segmentation-fault

Mokubai

I don't want to have all that trouble to run something that should work. — Cristofer Martins 9 mins ago

Then don't run it then.

Psycogeek