Root Access

Oliver Salzburg

20:01

There are some nasty reports about the 42 BIOS version

Maybe I should try a downgrade to 39

@qasdfdsaq That's what I found. Seems useless

qasdfdsaq

ah

Oliver Salzburg

> I shut it down then pressed the back to bios then installed memory and switched it on then it come back/booted then i reverted back to 0035 through recovery mode, then updated to 0039 after using F7 method

Why would he downgrade to 35 and then go back up to 39?

When I read stuff like that, I'm not sure if people are stupid or if they know things I don't

Oh, I guess that's what recovery reverts back to because that's as low as it can fall back

Flash is progress!

Okay, back in BIOS

Back to 4 RAM modules, only 2 are detected. Let's try that other memory profile again...

Only detects 2 modules, but now at 1600 Mhz

Gah

I'm slowly starting to think that something is actually not right with this RAM

Oliver Salzburg

20:40

Alright, back at 32 GB with 1600. Time to install the new SSD

bwDraco

24

Q: Would these magnets be enough to damage a portable HDD?

As per the title, would these magnets be enough to damage a portable hard drive such as this Seagate GoFlex if left next to each other for longer than, say, 20 minutes? Thankfully, this is all hypothetical at this point as I have kept them apart to date and my question comes to mind if th...

If you're moving or rotating the magnets at high speed over the hard drive, then possibly. However, mere exposure to these magnets most likely will not destroy the drive. Hard drives have insanely powerful magnets inside for the read/write actuators, at upwards of 1.0 tesla. Given two of these hard drive magnets, you can conceivably destroy your hand if you put one on each side. I've worked with these magnets before and you do not want to play around with them. — bwDraco 2 mins ago

Oliver Salzburg

21:05

@bwDraco Such dupe

tereško

facepalm youtube.com/watch?v=E3yn_z77jVw .. exploring "Intersectional Veganism"

bwDraco

Speaking of magnets:

geekologie.com/2009/02/guy_loses_finger_to_neodymium.php [NSFW: graphic content; feel free to flag if you believe it necessary]

tereško

Ha?! Bones on inside a dark grey?

JohnB

reading the URL is enough imagery for me :)

Oliver Salzburg

Ouch

Can Windows resize the system partition on its own or do I need to boot into Linux to do that?

Windows 10 specifically

My search terms lead to very horrible sites on Google :P

tereško

21:14

you probably could use this one: paragon-software.com/home/pm-express

but I think it only works on fat/ntfs ... in case you have something strange

Oliver Salzburg

@tereško I'll give it a shot after Clonezilla is done

It's an NTFS volume

qasdfdsaq

It's built-in to Windows

There's no need to use any third-party

Oliver Salzburg

@qasdfdsaq Sounds good

So just Disk Managerment -> Resize?

qasdfdsaq

Yup

Oliver Salzburg

I'm just trying to prepare while I wait for Clonezilla to finish

qasdfdsaq

21:17

That said, if you can't get the shrink size you need from Disk Management you might have to use Paragon

Oliver Salzburg

That flow chart from the Intel site wasn't so useless after all btw

qasdfdsaq

Oh?

Oliver Salzburg

For my case it said to upgrade the BIOS through the recovery method, which was slightly different from what I've been doing

After that, my RAM was recognized and automatically ran at 1600 without me messing with anything

And no more reboot loops after that

And my SSD was instantly recognized as well

qasdfdsaq

Heh

Oliver Salzburg

Although, maybe it was just a coincidence. We'll never know... until the upgrade to the 3770K ;P

Psycogeek

21:27

I had a dream: where an escalater (moving stairs) is designed that only the steps people are on move, where depending on the step your on depends on the direction you will travel (shufflesteps) where the mechanics of it are simplified to 1/2 the size. It has the minor problem of defying the laws of physics when I am Awake :-)

Oliver Salzburg

"Extend volume" is not available for my system partition

Psycogeek

Windows own disk management will only do the simplest of extend and shrink, when all data (more or less) stays the same and the partition wall moves. All the "pro" partition managers will do the more complex (and less safe) fitting and shifting data around. good time to backup prior to that style.

qasdfdsaq

Windows disk management will do any kind of fitting and shifting data around it needs to. The only thing it can't do is move the beginning of the partition and move unmoveable files

bwDraco

@Psycogeek Windows will compact the drive contents if required to shrink past a certain point.

Oliver Salzburg

Well, the option is disabled

And now I connected my HDDs again and am back to 16 GB RAM O__o

qasdfdsaq

21:39

Is there actually space after the partition?

(And it's not in a logical/extended container?)

bwDraco

@OliverSalzburg Faulty PCH is the only explanation at this point.

Oliver Salzburg

Well, there is this tiny recovery partition and then 250 GB of empty space

qasdfdsaq

You can't extend a partition when there's something in the way.

Oliver Salzburg

Well, I'd be happy to let Windows move that recovery partition. I don't even know why it's there

qasdfdsaq

That's the one thing it can't do :-/

You'll have to either move the recovery partition with something else, or delete it altogether

I wouldn't recommend the latter if you don't know why it's there

Canadian Luke

21:42

Hmmm... So with Digital Ocean, they have a Canadian data center now. And are following Canadian Tax Laws with Canadian billing addresses (apparently). I'm getting charged in USD somehow... so I just paid almost $7.50 for $5.00 USD worth of service!0

$7.65 CAD apparently equals $5.36 USD, according to their billing system

Oliver Salzburg

@qasdfdsaq I assume that it was created during Windows upgrade. Will investigate

Moved it to the end of the drive, resized system. Now that's solved as well. Wouldn't mind my RAM back now!

Maybe if I shake the case real hard...

Oliver Salzburg

22:12

@bwDraco Sadly, support ended for this mainboard :(

But something is definitely not right with this machine. Too many weird issues right now

Faheem Mitha

22:29

Well, ordered a new sound card. It's supposed to work with Linux/Debian. Crossing my fingers.

Bob

23:00

Hm. Could someone check if netbeans.org/bugzilla works?

It's very slow/unresponsive for me.

DavidPostill

@Bob It loads (somewhat slow) for me but I get an empty page :/

isitdownrightnow.com/netbeans.org.html > Netbeans.org is DOWN for everyone. Down For: ~4 hours 55 mins

Michael Frank

OOOOOOOMG. Jeb Bush forgot to renew the registration on his domain: jebbush.com

Or maybe he never owned it. Whatever the case, I'm sure he'd prefer if it didn't redirect to Trump's campaign website.

Bob

23:27

@DavidPostill Yea, it eventually started working.

Thanks though.

Journeyman Geek

Morning.

Bob

'lo

@JourneymanGeek How's the roommate?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob alright. Surprisingly bright eyed and bushy tailed for someone who just had a round of shots.

ugh

DavidPostill

23:47

@JourneymanGeek @Bob You missed all the drama.

5 hours ago, by DavidPostill

Things are getting flagged here. Please calm down and think before you post ;)

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill On the contrary

I'm trying to work out what happened

DavidPostill

Someone made an offensive remark and got flagged. A mod jumped in and deleted 60 messages :/

5 hours ago, by DavidPostill

@200_success One message was flagged and you delete 60? The vast majority of those were on topic for this room. There were a couple of dodgy ones and we (me as a room owner and @jokerdino as a regular mod here) were dealing with those.

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq ugh. Dude. Totally out of line remark

If you must make comments about ladies, stick to becky.

Right

talked to the mod in question

Oh do behave. Bad chatters. Bad. No cookie for thee.

Right

Sorted

Why does this happen when I'm asleep ;p

DavidPostill

LOL. Unfortunately it all happened so fast I didn't have a chance to give my first kicking ;)

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

23:58

...sigh.

Well, that had everything, it seems.

Journeyman Geek

I read through all 60 messages, 120 clicks ;p

Bob

The offensive (? I can't see it) remark. The flag(s). The external mod. The overzealous mass-delete.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob pretty much

allquixotic

@Bob because when a dog poops on the floor, the correct response is to drop a 10,000 pound bomb on the city in which it lives (lived?)

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