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DavidPostill

11:00

I don't aim to be the FWITW ;)

!!s/FWITW/FGITW/

ChatBot John Cavil

@DavidPostill I don't aim to be the FGITW ;) (source)

Journeyman Geek

11:21

I don't either :(

Bob

Fastest ... Witch? In The West

Fastest Wun In The West

huh, that actually kinda works

qasdfdsaq

11:32

@JourneymanGeek I do!

A dirty contact does not make a loose port ... — DavidPostill 1 hour ago

That's what she said!

Seven stars for SecuriTay?! WTF.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob maybe if you're elmer fudd....

;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Wun => One

Journeyman Geek

@Bob yeah. THo he wabbits his rabbits...

Bob

Nov 28 '15 at 1:07, by Braiam

that sounds dirty, @jou, I like it :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

It took me a few minutes to grok the context that was said in

Hennes

11:46

loose ports breed like rabbits?

Journeyman Geek

(And shit like this is why I hope there's no ~~JMG~~ SU equivilent of the ~~Jon Skeet Facts page~~. Many memes of meta..)

ugh.

Just to note. I am tempted to purge the edits to that.

However there is no conspiracy to hide my occational lapses in memory ;p

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek The link you posted yesterday says that would be an abuse of the purge functionality.

And I should report you to a CM.

But I'd rather eat.

qasdfdsaq

13:41

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Journeyman Geek

13:59

hm

So... I use my bias lighting for room lighting too. It works well. Until my computer crashes, and my room goes dark

Bob

o.O

Journeyman Geek

@Bob my ~~dac~~ daw driver seems to crash windows randomly

I'm probably going to be looking at a new dac once I'm employed again

Prolly a tricked out odac2 with the built in headphone amp option

DavidPostill

Hmm. @qasdfdsaq What exactly are you trying to tell us? Is that just some random spew?

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill that his mind has been turned to jelly?

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek I thought it was jelly already judging by his recent postings ;)

Journeyman Geek

14:04

@jiggunjer Ramhound?

jiggunjer

:p

DavidPostill

@jiggunjer Ooer. Link please ;)

Journeyman Geek

@jiggunjer Weeellll.... he tends to comment a lot. More than he should IMO, sometimes. And he comes off as grumpier than he seems to on chat.

jiggunjer

Please be polite to others I am more then familiar with the terminology. The one thing I cannot stand is people who are asking a question, suggesting that I don't understand something about their question, which might be honestly be case but only because of what they wrote. Instead of insulting me and suggesting I don't know what a "drive" is, just clarify the question, and use a more appropriate term. (physical disk, disk, etc ). — Ramhound 25 mins ago

sorry meant to copy link

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek That reminds me. Don't eat jelly on my birthday ;)

jiggunjer

14:06

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Q: Why is the backup image size limited to 2088958MB?

I wanted to make a backup image of my drive with the windows 7 (x64) backup tool. I deselected any file-based backup options as I just wanted a full image (i.e. recovery + C partition). I got the following error: Then I tried using the free AOMEI onekey tool and it also said the drive was too ...

Journeyman Geek

yeah

I think someone flagged a comment there. Also, I may need to nuke the comments if they're basically one long arguement ;p

jiggunjer

nuke away

Journeyman Geek

Not quite gotten back to my usual efficiency as a mod since I got back from the army XD

Bob

@DavidPostill For some reason "Ooer" always reminds me of a certain subreddit :S

jiggunjer

I thought army trained that kinda stuff

Journeyman Geek

14:10

@jiggunjer naw.

jiggunjer

they have mod-camp and all

Journeyman Geek

A good mod isn't a soldier , he's a janitor ;)

jiggunjer

when is kronos gonna check out my blog post

it's almost outdated by now :p

Journeyman Geek

XD

jiggunjer

j/k though no rush

Journeyman Geek

14:13

Prolly when he can. Its been ages since the last one.

DavidPostill

@Bob Pretty close. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ooer

jiggunjer

I have ideas for 2 more :p

Oliver Salzburg

@qasdfdsaq Cthulu should stop skipping leg day. And all the other days as well, except wing day

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg cthulu is probably just not eating enough. And hungering for your soul.

DavidPostill

Ooer " (Britain) said to acknowledge a double entendre or something that sounds rude"

jiggunjer

14:14

ah you nuked them so fast

maybe he didn't see my apology :p

Journeyman Geek

It should at least turn up partially as a notification...

Bob

@DavidPostill I wonder if that's where they got the name (/r/ooer, somewhat nsfw just from the pure garishness)

jiggunjer

Maybe I'll blog about that grammar point

;D

Bob

14:28

allquixotic

@Bob O_O

EATX?

Bob

source

no additional info

Journeyman Geek

I like how they turned the case upside down

when they could often remove the top panel

Bob

@JourneymanGeek probably the only option with the mounting holes

Journeyman Geek

also,,,

Bob

14:31

you can't really put a motherboard in upside-down

Journeyman Geek

I see an ATI label...

annnd.... a 8 segment display which is a newer thing

0_0

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Cross Fire X, it says

allquixotic

so, random snow update: we're close enough to snow time (no pun intended on "show time") that they know exactly when we're getting it with high confidence... snow will be upon us in my area in 6 hours

Bob

@JourneymanGeek probably displays firmware diag codes

@allquixotic is that enough time for you to get home?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob only seen em on newer boards

and ... I think asrock does that

allquixotic

14:34

@Bob Time isn't a real concern. The snow itself isn't even really a concern. My parking lot is a salt mine. The road I leave work on is a service road to a salt mine, so dozens of snow plows constantly come down that road to fill up on salt. Then the highway gets plowed hourly.

The snow and/or ice on the ground doesn't bother me at all. It's not going to have a chance to accumulate to problematic depth on any roads I'm driving.

Journeyman Geek

Wait

I'm confused. Why is it ATI crossfire X...

allquixotic

The problem is the potential for white-out conditions.

White-out means visibility tends toward 0 m.

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic be careful!

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Bob

@allquixotic Watch out for black ice? Though I suppose that comes later.

@allquixotic So you'll be leaving after the snow starts? :S

allquixotic

@Bob Much later, yes. Sunday at the earliest, probably even later in the week

@Bob Yes. I anticipate the initial 1-2 hours of snow won't be very heavy. That's just how storms work. The heaviest part is in the middle.

I can drive fine in light, moderate or even heavy snowfall conditions

White-out is a whole different story

Bob

14:37

Starts in 6 hours... you said 3:30... so you'll be leaving around snow start time.

allquixotic

You follow someone thinking they're going the right way, and you both end up crashing into a bridge or something

Bob

Ouch.

Good luck, and stay safe.

DavidPostill

@Bob reddit.com/r/answers/comments/fftx6/…

allquixotic

at least I'll get my steps in (and then some) on my FitBit Charge HR

Bob

We get uncomfortable weather, but it usually doesn't try to kill us...

allquixotic

14:38

attempting to shovel feet of snow at a time is a good way to break your back, especially as an out-of-shape, obese 30 year old

so I'm going to shovel it every few inches

just a quick walk and shovel, very little effort

Journeyman Geek

@Bob naw, that's for the wild animals to do.

allquixotic

you wait until it's heavy and you can end up in the hospital in pain from pulling back muscles

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic heh. I hit the point where I decided I needed to loose weight.

I'm going for short, sensible early morning run now.

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek :D

I hate to bring up this topic, but, what tool can I use to make creating an HTML email less of a pain?

The mail just has to look the same on all clients ;P

Journeyman Geek

A drill?

@OliverSalzburg do you want a pony with that?

Oliver Salzburg

14:42

@JourneymanGeek Last time I used Notepad++ and lots of <table>

Bob

@allquixotic Flamethrower? :P

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg which wouldn't be a bad idea. I'm tempted to suggest compozer. No idea if its still around, or if they changed its name again

Bob

(yes, I know why that wouldn't really work. heat capacity. and police.)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob apparently it causes ice....

though I heard of people using hot air blowers... or large jet engines...

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Well, it works. Even with the shitty Word-based HTML render in Outlook

Bob

14:44

@OliverSalzburg aka bane of my existence

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob You regularly deal with that?

Rahul Basu

@DavidPostill Happy Birthday!!

Bob

source

@OliverSalzburg nah, not regularly. was mostly a joke. (just like outlook)

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek there's actually a snow blower on rails in Boston designed to clear train tracks of snow... and it uses an old J52 fighter engine from the Korean war to both propel itself and blow snow

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg I don't think the same is possible. Different email clients will display html differently and they don't all support the same set of css commands.

Bob

14:45

did have to set up identical signatures (with different names/titles) for an office once, though. that was painful enough.

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic that's what I was thinking of.

Oliver Salzburg

The client "just wants their CI in the email" :P

DavidPostill

@RahulBasu Thanks!

Journeyman Geek

I seem to remember it as a mig engine for some reason...

Oliver Salzburg

@DavidPostill Yeah, I know. I just wonder if there's something that allows you to use the most common subset or something like that

allquixotic

14:46

we don't have any of that heavy duty equipment in Maryland because we typically get less snow than the northeast

Bob

@OliverSalzburg easy solution is to have an email that kinda works and a link up the top to a proper webpage

allquixotic

they also have, up in NYC and Boston, big trucks that use energy to physically melt the snow and make water, then they dump the water in the sewer

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Yeah, you gotta have that anyway, but people won't expect that with this kind of mail. It's one of those regular office event invitation emails, not a newsletter

So we kinda want to stay within the context of the email client

We're using plain text right now, so there's lots to improve ;D

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg Use mailchimp ;)

Bob

@OliverSalzburg The simple answer is to not bother with too much fancy layout-ing.

Oliver Salzburg

14:51

@DavidPostill That's what we did the last time we sent a newsletter. But they really aren't doing anything special and their templates weren't so special either

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg Or design your invitation as a PDF and send that.

Bob

i.imgur.com/NAvqJH2.gifv

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Yeah, you're probably right :\

Bob

@DavidPostill That's a great way to filter out all security-conscious users from your office events! :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Sledjacking!

Oliver Salzburg

14:52

I really envy that cat with the donut cushion :(

Looks comfy

DavidPostill

@Bob Then send a bleeding card in the post!

Bob

@DavidPostill What? I can't hear you over the shredder :D

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg You can design your own templates ...

lol

Oliver Salzburg

@DavidPostill That's what we ended up doing

Bob

But, yea, there really is no easy way out for consistent email.

Oliver Salzburg

14:55

And this is an email sent from our own platform, MailChimp is really not a service that would do us any good

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg what if they use pine or mutt? ;p

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Then we're fucked

But they probably won't, because our application is very tailored towards office use

Most clients use Outlook, Notes or something similar

:(

Bob

No love for Thunderbird? :(

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg That's why I suggested a pdf attachment. Can be read in any mail client ...

Bob

@OliverSalzburg The German machinery exports...? :P

Oliver Salzburg

15:00

@DavidPostill A "Please see the attached PDF document to see event details" takes people out of the context of the email client and raises spam flags

Bob

Heh. PDF attachments (any attachments, really) are firmly in my do-not-open-unless-expected bin.

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg <shrug> You can't please everybody

Oliver Salzburg

The "events" I'm talking about here are not like "Big Summer Party 2016", but more like "Important Meeting with Client XY in Room 8"

The mail should have some branding though to make it "look legit" :P

So it either has to have our CI or that of the client

DavidPostill

So use a png for the branding and plain text for the important stuff.

Bob

That's especially fun when Outlook decides not to render the PNG as you'd expect :D

Sending is a pain => superuser.com/questions/27361/…

DavidPostill

15:09

@Bob <shrug> You can't please everybody ;)

Bob

Receiving doesn't always work either => answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-outlook/…

DavidPostill

LOL. Now I remember why I mostly use plain text emails ;)

I've used Forte Agent for many years and MailChimp for the occasional newsletter.

Bob

@allquixotic spotify:track:1XISbjwr2hnlpg8d6I1dlW

Journeyman Geek

o0

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ?

Journeyman Geek

15:19

@Bob VERY cryptic link ;p

Bob

lol

@JourneymanGeek open.spotify.com/track/1XISbjwr2hnlpg8d6I1dlW

Just popped up on the radio I'm listening to

Thought it was interesting

Bob

16:09

Welp.

"PC Game Supply". Supposedly a reputable company. God forbid you ever trip their fraud detection bullshit, though, because there's absolutely no way they'll ever be able to help you get through.

What a waste of time.

That Brazilian Guy

16:42

@Bob PDFs? Really?

Ben Richards

16:53

Ooh @JourneymanGeek is back from exile!

Mokubai

@ThatBrazilianGuy PDFs are able to embed a lot of objects and I wouldn't be surprised if someone managed to embed something nasty in the PDF 3d stuff for example. Interchangeable file formats are getting too smart for their own good. Unless I know the source they're on my "instant delete" list too.

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