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00:08
Peers at the question. Installing a VM on a system with 1GB (8Gb) memory? Insane.
00:19
@Hennes I suspect the Gb really means GB
Aye. And I have corrected this quite often in posts.
I think I recall seeing this problem being caused by incorrect virtualisation or virtual CPU settings, though can't remember exactly what
I have no knowledge how to read data from a port. I was trying to fix an issue with some hardware. Can you guys please help here if possible.
But especially when you are working with computers (memory usually in bytes) and network (speed usually in bits/sec) a b or a B matters
00:21
@qasdfdsaq I have had a similar problem when I had the wrong firmware settings (VT-x was disabled in the BIOS).
@Hennes I've nitpicked and been nitpicked for b vs B many times. Context usually makes it fairly obvious what is meant, even if it's not correct
As well with VMware workstation (10? 11?) when running as non-admin after an update
It's not like anybody really sells a 100 millibit per second broadband connection :-P
Wait that's mb vs Mb not MB vs Mb
Goddang it
Actually, marketing over here has a nasty habit of mentiopning speed in bytes and then posters in bits.
gb is giggle bit.
GB Giga Byte
@AbhishekBhatia Looks as if you are trying to use an USB to serial convertor
Hmm. Over here it's pretty much universally bits, not bytes, in any connection-related advertising
00:24
`ser=serial.Serial(port='COM30',baudrate=9600)`
ehm. Using com2 ? Not com30 ?
Best guess. No experience with anything but real serial ports.
I changed the port later to COM30.
from the device manager. Should have mentioned that.
As I said, limited experience here. But I would try to see what happens if I used putty to try to connect. Simply because it is a tool which I know.
@qasdfdsaq heh, my mom and dad are probably getting the screen I have. Dad's computer is a core 2 duo laptop running XP so its overdue for a refresh
@JourneymanGeek Christ.
and at his age, a proper keyboard (which I can pull off the old shared box) would be nice.
00:30
I mean Core 2 duo still holds its own, but XP?
XP.
And he's actively resisting upgrading so...
once I get a new job, I'm forcing the issue ;p
(its my last XP box. And that system will run windows 10 fine with a SSD, but only cause the stock drives are old and shite)
@qasdfdsaq and a single gig of ram.
00:47
@JourneymanGeek Do you want more?
I've literally got piles of old RAM
TBH it's probably going to cost more to send it than just buying some tehre
@qasdfdsaq: I'm good.
I'm just gonna replace it once I get the cash
and a skylake core i3 or pentium or a cherry trail should do, so I suspect it should be reasonable to just replace the old war dog.
I <3 Skylake
Probably the most futureproof Intel platform in many years
It dosen't make sense to replace my ivy bridge with skylake yet
Ironically, it's also the one Intel platform I waited longest to upgrade to but will also be keeping the shortest
TBH people who got their last machine after me have far less reason to upgrade
my X58 had neither PCIe3, SATA-III or USB 3.
Skylake has all that PLUS Thunderbolt-3
In addition this machine is having rolling upgrades
(and all those things)
00:51
The only -3 my X58 had was probably DDR-3
Which is on the slow train to obsolence now ;p
Eh. Prices still haven't dropped below what I paid for my DDR3 in 2009
I really hate transition periods though. We had it good for the last nine years, basically everything used DDR3 and DDR3 was all you needed.
Also the last few years everything used and charged via Micro USB
yup
Bow there's type C, DDR4, and m.2
which is ONE reason why I'm waiting a gen or two to upgrade
that and my current box serves my purposes well
There's a rumour the next generation after Skylake will move to 8-cores on the standard desktop platform
Aside from that though, I don't see any upcoming "must-have" feature that Skylake doesn't have
The only new thing potentially coming out would be PCIe 4, but I don't see anything benefitting from that right now
That would be interesting
Though I'm pretty sure I'm not making full use of my quad core/hyperthreaded core i7
01:01
Oh I most certainly am... :-/
In fact any time your CPU usage exceeds 50%, you're doing it
01:51
Yeah. I kinda accidentally ended up with a little more money than I had planned for so got a locked core i7 over an unlocked core i5
So anyone with Windows 10 who is waiting for the fall update to hit their machine, find a better method, then using the media creation to do it?
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@qasdfdsaq I've still had to find DDR2 recently :P
02:19
Man the MS servers are slow today lol
02:36
Is that the cumulative update?
02:51
Hey guys!
I have device that works by usb. I want to connect it wirelessly using another port. How do I know what poll request to be sent to it to get the data wirelessly.
When I straight away read the data it shows nothing in wireless.
does this make sense?
@JourneymanGeek No; its Threahold 2/Fall Update it changes the kernel build
What sort of device is it? You don't just connect USB devices wirelessly, lots more, to wireless data transfer
It is CP210x USB
it is on com port
@Ramhound Does this info help.
03:06
@Ramhound I need to check that.
03:21
@AbhishekBhatia if there is only support for XP maybe pass it through to a vm and.... Er... I donno... I think I have a question on blackwidow keyboards that may be enlightening.
There's tools for snooping on USB.
I'm at the vet so can't easily find the link.
Bob
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03:42
@JourneymanGeek Heh, I did that for a TV tuner that only worked on Win7 and not Win8
Shortly before I gave up on it entirely.
@JourneymanGeek " kinda accidentally ended up with a little more money than I had planned for"
Lol
@Bob I've got a box of the stuff
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@qasdfdsaq I never had much DDR2.
I skipped DDR1 entirely, but had plenty of DDR2
Had a perpetually-upgraded desktop and two laptops all running DDR2
So as it turns out, Taylor Swift was 22 when she released the song 22.
Or 23
Not sure. My math is bad
Holy crap, them terrorists really have it out for France lately...
@JourneymanGeek Thanks for the reply! By vm you mean virtual machine? I tried to run in compatibility setting but it still didn't work.
Yes, he means VM
VM's are like the sledgehammer solution when compatibility settings don't work.
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03:52
@qasdfdsaq I still have a pile of old DDR and pre-DDR SDRAM somewhere.
Can't find it right now though o.O
The guy with the support said that would be also doubtful to work.
I want to write my driver instead in python just to make it work cross-platform.
I'm pretty sure I got rid of all my SD-RAM when I flogged my first PC which it was used in
I somehow want to poll the device to send the data. I am unable to do this.
DDR just wasn't my thing
Driver... Python... Ermm...
Two words I've never seen used in the same sentence
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@qasdfdsaq Cross-platform "driver" too
Unless you mean something different by "driver"
03:59
Maybe he means passenger?
04:14
I want to get the data from port using pyserial and then just move the cursor accordingly.
Please do tell me if I am misunderstanding I am fairly new to port communication and drivers.
@qasdfdsaq What do you mean by a passenger?
@AbhishekBhatia @qasdfdsaq one moment
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Q: Getting macro keys from a Razer BlackWidow to work on Linux

Journeyman GeekI picked up a Razer BlackWidow Ultimate that has additional keys meant for macros that are set using a tool that's installed on Windows. I'm assuming that these aren't some fancypants joojoo keys and should emit scancodes like any other keys. Firstly, is there a standard way to check these scanc...

@AbhishekBhatia the tools mentioned in the question may or may not be of use.
@qasdfdsaq those are 'drivers' (well tools that pass on magic packets) written in python and haskell
Thanks for link but this is a bit confusing to me.
What do you think is the workflow here to the solution: superuser.com/questions/1000040/…
04:45
Any pointer would be helpful.
05:03
@AbhishekBhatia I have no idea, those are tools that may work for reverse engineering the protocol, but well, I personally didn't have the skills to put them to use.
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Q: Netflix on Kali in a crouton chroot

hellyaleHi I have been playing with Kali as a secondary chroot to my Ubuntu one. I swapped out ice weasel for Firefox, and got pipelight installed. I turned on the plugin for silverlight and the Firefox browser recognized it after making the mozilla plugins. However when I start content I get a blac...

this seems painful.
If there's an error in a post that's just 1 character, do I have to add 5 more characters and then just edit those out or let someone else modify that?
hm, if you don't have enough rep? the latter.
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05:20
@ekaj If it's a spelling or grammar fix? Leave it. If it's a technical/correctness fix? Look to see if there's spelling or grammar you can fix elsewhere. Otherwise there's always the HTML comment trick.
lol
@Bob: I fix those ._.
It bothers me ;p
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@JourneymanGeek Fix what?
Small errors
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@JourneymanGeek Oh, I meant if you can't make the min character quota.
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06:30
@JourneymanGeek :D
07:03
Going to try that
Site makes it feel like malware tho
@JourneymanGeek Thanks for the link. Your question seems to relate to my problem, but I am looking for general workflow for help.
 
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09:43
hey guys! I am still stuck at it.
I have device that works through usb and moves the pointer of my mouse. How can I make it work through wireless usb?
@AbhishekBhatia its the same people here.
If someone knew, we'd have answered by now ;)
 
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I'm waiting for my machine to prepare the installer that will prepare the updater for preparation for installing.
;p
Ramhound was kinda eager about it
and yay, black window decorations, hopefully
Hmm. Suspiciously quick to update.
There were problems...
My bootloader is odd, so not sure if this is going to work.
lol
this is why I just buy seperate systems for other OSes ._.
(or pull a laptop out the boneyard)
11:53
Oh fer fecks sake, it has to redownload?!?!?
sigh
Sounds like windows.
So I'm going to get Windows 10 failing to install (and thus killing the internet for some time while it redownloads) until I fix my hard drive setup.
Which means either buying an SSD (no money) or ripping a dog slow drive out of one of the old computers.
Might have enough for a 120GB SSD, but that feels small...
depends on what you will be using the build for
12:04
Gaming, but most stuff is on the 4TB drive, so probably not really a problem.
if it's for browsing internet and playing DOTA, then 120GB is just fine
@Mokubai you should be installing games on the SSD
Crufty old BIOS based computer.
@tereško If I had enough money to get a decent sized one then I would, but 4TB of spinning rust isn't "slow" to me.
if it's purely for OS and standard utilities, then 120GB will be good enough
@Mokubai 120 is probably enough for a boot drive
I would say that even 60-80 would be enough
12:09
I have 256GB but I only use about 80 on a messy box
Aye, my current OS partition is apparently at 60GB used, and could pare off some crud that's wasting space, move some of the user directories elsewhere...
(actually pondering backing stuff up and refreshing this system)
Or just go and dig out an ancient 500GB spinning rust disk...
I have a 2x240GB of RAID0 with 204GB used (136GB is just games)
12:11
Also depends on how picky you are I guess.
and heh, aside from the system I'm planning for my dad when I get my next job, most of my planned "IT" expenses are not computer stuff ._.
(new desk, and I just added a fancy chair to the pre 3 month rule list)
I'm intending to replace this machine mid next year. It's a good old workhorse but it's 5+ years old and I've been patching it up for a while by keeping the graphics card current.
what is the budget that you are looking at?
As near zero as possible. Probably going to cannibalise the old compy to be honest.
 
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13:34
Okay. Tried again and now it doesn't say the update failed but I can't see a way to tell if it actually succeeded.
I have a 120GB as my only drive in my work laptop
And that even has enough space to dual-boot Linux
Running winver gives me build 10240 but windows update isn't showing me an update any more.
Oh is this the Windows 10 fall update
13:53
Haven't had much luck myself, can't get Win 10 to install in the first place. Might try again with that new build
okay, my devices page (account.microsoft.com/devices) shows my machine as version "10.0.10240.16549" while an un-updated machine shows "10.0.10240.16433"
Whatever that means
heh
mine seems to be stuck at the older version too
faiiil
@Mokubai - I had the same issue
Just use the Media Creation Tool
It works perfectly
The only thing I noticed which I can't say one way or another woudln't have happend if I went through Windows Update is I lost my StartIsBack installation
@Ramhound Without getting a new drive that option is out. My system is borked in an almost obscene fashion. Win10 installer will not even look at my disk in its current state.
Well that solves it not appearing
I don't believe you will have any more luck going through Windows Update honestly
But I don't know how the upgrade process differs though
Eventually it will appear apparently there is a small bug, based on a twitter response, basically windows will check once and if it fails it takes awhile to do it again
That isn't a direct quote but the general idea of the response.
14:09
@Ramhound No, I don't either. I've got Win10 Pro, so I can click the "Defer Upgrades" button and wait until I can get a new drive that I can give a legal partitioning scheme.
Yes
At least for a few months
I know enterprise has 1 month intermits up to 8 months
Basically BIOS + GPT is unsupported with Windows.
How is it even working if you have it setup like that?
I have the bootloader on a USB stick... I did say it was borked...
I see
I have a 3TB drive I have been wanting to convert to GPT for oh 2 years nw
I keep buying external drives for image backups
never did buy an internal to actually do the restoration :$
and the conversion
@Ramhound From experience, it's a PITA and will break these stupid "Image" style updates.
what GPT?
o0
@Mokubai heh. I typically keep small cheap, spare drives 'in case;
@JourneymanGeek I know, I know
14:14
Got the update going
seems to be a process similar to upgrading from windows 7/8 to 10 and you need to restart it from the update page
what a pain
It is a pain but no different then a linux or os x update ( in my opinion )
not really
In theory I can use a linux system through a version update
Isn't a linux upgrade just an apt-get dist-update ?
er no
Not always
on fedora its fed-up
but ya, same idea
Some hacking around in the distro sources, but otherwise that's what I did on the RasPi2
14:17
I'm not going to knock out a system for an extended unknown period of time updating
what i mean is you have to restart, it takes "awhile", and the kernel changes in the process.
posted on November 14, 2015

Wellcome to chat

First i think its a horrible idea they are not sending the update to everyone
lol. I'm toying with getting my PI model B set up as a media center box for the old tele.
Because normally you would just schedule the update when you were not around
and didn't care and boom updated
But I am not going to allow my system to sit, update, without my knowlege ;$
14:19
@Ramhound: oh, the main pc is set up so I can't see the screens from my bed.
you can or cannot?
And for some reason that always displays on my secondary screen
can't
so I need to keep checking if its done
(laptop's set up for bedside use)
same desk
Ahhh;
Taking the lazy work days to a whole new level :-)
kidding
lol
I'm planning on shifting my home 'workspace' to another room once my brother moves out
Ahhh
the old brother in your sleeping in office setup, gotcha!
14:21
lol
alas
I don't get paid at the moment
even if I do have pay from my last job through this month
I refuse to turn the tv on today
putting my head in the sand; don't want to hear about Paris :$
Well then, this is annoying. I'm trying to install the Windows 10 1511,10586 update, and it tells me my computer is missing a required windows part, but it doesn't tell me what part I need
@Ramhound Tragic. And it's not over:/ "Police are reportedly chasing a car containing four 'heavily armed men' who stormed through a motorway toll road as they headed towards Paris." reported one hour ago.
"Gatwick Airport in London was evacuated this morning following reports of a man with a 'grenade'. "
14:39
Currently trying SFC to see if it can fix it
Just turn around
And forget what you saw
Cause good girls are bad girls
who haven't been caught.
This type of attack is going to be the cause for everyone who follows the rules to spend hours in line to get into a country like Paris. While the people responsible will get into the country another way
ooh
I got my mountain duck beta
@Ramhound paris is a city
14:42
> With this update comes a slightly new way of describing Windows versions, and it's one that we expect to feature in other Microsoft software, too. winver in the original release describes windows as being "Version 10.0 (Build 10240)." In the new release, it's "Version 1511 (OS Build 10586.3)" as in, 11th month of 2015.
Yeah, France
@JourneymanGeek mountainduck.io?
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@qasdfdsaq Y3K
@Bob Huh?
@qasdfdsaq yes
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14:43
@qasdfdsaq Is 0001 Jan 2000 or 3000? :P
Ah
I strongly doubt we'll still be using Windows 10 in the year 3000.
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That's what they always say.
Especially since it's end-of-support is dated 2025
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looks at XP usage counts
Even XP didn't last 2% that long
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14:45
@qasdfdsaq Technically, that's EOL for a specific version (build).
A version released later would have a later EOL, but could still be called Win10.
@qasdfdsaq: Paris airport has critical windows 3.1 systems.
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@qasdfdsaq yet
Why are we talking about Y3k?
@JourneymanGeek Which they're planning to get rid of, in the next year or two
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14:46
@qasdfdsaq Win7 RTM is already EOL BTW.
(I just felt like using a lot of TLAs)
There are probably some critical systems out there that runs on an OS that predates Microsoft
I wonder what the longest you could keep a system up with Linux live patching
EOL not EOS
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@qasdfdsaq Eh, I used those interchangeably.
> Support for Windows 7 RTM without service packs ended on April 9, 2013.
EOES is 14 Jan 2020.
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@qasdfdsaq That's with SP1 installed.
14:47
Well if you want to go into service packs
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That's why I specified RTM :P
Windows 8.0 is going outo f support soon, if it hasn't already
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And that's why I also talked about Win10's EOL for a specific build.
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Since Win10 is supposed to be continuously updated.
14:47
Until 2025
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Presumably the newer updates have correspondingly later EOLs.
@Bob: not for all eternity tho
Windows 10 doesn't have EOL for a specfici build because you have to run the current build for Home Pro
Okay, so sfc /scannow did not find any integrity violations
MS will support Enterprise branches for specific amounts of time though
14:48
I hope my second attempt at updating goes better
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@qasdfdsaq Is it actually confirmed anywhere that it'll end 2025? Or is that a moving target?
Microsoft specifically refer to only the current release of W10 ever being supported, and there not being any service packs
There won't be later releases.
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@qasdfdsaq Enterprise LTSB?
That doesn't count >_>
Even Enterprise only allows you 8 months before you have to use the current branch ( unless you do the LTSB )
14:49
They just pay Microsoft to be their bitch as long as their wallet isn't empty
..... ^^^ must we?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/lifecycle
End of extended support: 14 October 2025
Guess we'll have to wait another few years to see if it moves
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@qasdfdsaq Yea, I was looking at that page.
But it doesn't indicate if it's a moving target.
It doesn't indicate any of the others aren't.
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I would've thought that, since Win10 was claimed to be the "last version" of Windows, that it's effectively become a product name in itself.
Rather than name + version.
14:50
Did anyone really confirm it would be the "last version" of Windows?
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(In other words: it isn't supposed to be superseded by a "later version")
@qasdfdsaq That's what they said back when they announced it
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@qasdfdsaq Looking now. Lots of news sites, looking for official statement.
> "Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10." That was the message from Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist speaking at the company's Ignite conference this week.
Well, they sourced the quote.
I've also seen quotes where they've said they're working on the next version after windows 10
^^ They put it as succinctly as ever
> Windows 10 to be the last version of Windows, until the next version
What's in a brand name? Not much.
> At its Ignite conference last week, a Microsoft developer evangelist, Jerry Nixon, was quoted as saying, "Right now we're releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we're all still working on Windows 10."

This is one of those statements that seems tremendously meaningful right up until the point that it isn't.
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@qasdfdsaq Yea, that's the writer's opinion though.
And of course they can always change their minds, release a later version, etc..
14:54
If a one line quip at a conference is the only time it's even been mentioned by Microsoft themselves, it's hardly an official statement.
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But AFAIK they haven't actually announced a EOL/EOS for Win10 publicly.
(Apart from that support page, which may well be updated as Win10 itself is updated.)
What they said was; They wanted to end the day sof "What verson of Windows are you running?"
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Even on the lifecycle page:
If the official Microsoft web site isn't public I don't know what is...
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> Windows 10, released in July 2015
They specifically say the July 2015 'version' is EOS 2025.
14:55
It's not as if the page hasn't been updated before, XP's EOS was announced many times
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So presumably later versions get an updated EOS.
@qasdfdsaq I meant more of a press announcement thing. Or even a blog post.
We're arguing semantics again
@Bob Respectfully I have to disagree with your conclusions
The EULA is pretty clear on this matter
It literally says you must be running the current version of Windows 10 to get support
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@Ramhound Yea - I'm not saying specific versions will be supported in perpetuity.
This update won't extend the 2025 update. What might extend it is the Redstone update next year
14:57
Okay, I'm going to try this Windows 10 update a second time. It's currently at 32% in the pre-install phase
We will see
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Ya.
Verision schmersion
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Just have to wait and see.
That's what I said. like ten minutes ago -_-
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14:58
Traditionally, though, the release of a Service Pack has pushed the EOS date back.
And Win10 updates are not unlike Service Packs.
@qasdfdsaq Not disagreeing with you there!
I hope Windows 10 will have a single EOS date. Otherwise they are creating a headache for themselfs
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@Ramhound shrug I was actually expecting this to be more of a "subscribe for updates".

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