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08:00
@Burgi Maybe, but 9 years of learning where exactly stuff is and how to do stuff takes a lot of neural rewiring when it does change.
@Bob 'high but managable ' might mean swapping
or the drive's fragmented
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I would almost suspect the HDD, but we have at least two identical machines that are fine.
2007 was when they went to the tabbed ribbon
@Bob smart ok?
the same ribbon they have now just a different colour
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08:02
@JourneymanGeek Yea, already ran a defrag on it. Which has been disabled since 2011. But the system partition was fine anyway. The data partition was at 40% (!). Defrag did help a bit.
@DavidPostill Yea, checked that. Everything fine. Better than most disks I've seen, actually.
@Bob heh, might seem like snakeoil, but see if you can grab a copy of jkdefrag someone
I've seen it do windows. even after a regular defrag
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@JourneymanGeek I did suggest that, but my boss didn't really want to use third-party :P
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If it continues to be slow, I might push that again.
this is pretty big, and wallpaper worthy
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08:03
But even fragmentation wouldn't account for just how slow it is o.O
You'd be suprised
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Put it this way, it feels like my Atom netbook.
The first-gen one.
Heck, maybe worse.
@Bob, bad cable?
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@Burgi You mean SATA cable? Ouch, that'd definitely fall into "not allowed to touch" :P
that would show up in smart I suspect
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08:05
Hm. I suppose it's possible.
@JourneymanGeek I just read the SMART data off the drive - didn't do any disk testing.
Oh. Also chucked CDM at it - it benchmarked fine
Maybe a bit slow (old, small HDD) but not significantly so.
Disk queues low, disk benchmark fine...
???
i like that city @JourneymanGeek
@Burgi NYC?
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@JourneymanGeek Perhaps. And it could be swapping - I'll have to check that later. Unfortunately, it's running 32-bit Windows :\
@Bob swapping does quite a number on performance.
(one reason my old boxen get SSDs)
Wonder how much E-Gold is in them boards and electonics thrown away.
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08:08
@JourneymanGeek It's not really under that much pressure - most of the memory usage is from one particular program that's usually sitting idle.
I suspect that'd be the first target for paging out.
@NetworkKingPin not much per board but it adds up
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Dammit.
and extracting it is both worth it, and polluting
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We could request more RAM but 32-bit makes that a no-go.
Yesterday, it took 4+ hours to install 20 Windows updates.
Four. Hours.
And they were pretty small updates, too. Standard monthly stuff. Not even a big cumulative.
08:10
- An optimization that addresses long scan time for updates that's
reported on some computers.
- Fix for a Windows Update error 0x8007000E on some computers while they are updating.
- Some reliability improvements.
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@DavidPostill Hm. That'll probably be installed with the next big update.
Assuming it's Windows 7 ...
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It is, yea. Thanks.
@Nick hi!
@Rahul2001 Hello :) Having a nice day?
08:12
@Bob It's a new rollup (June), released 21 June
@Nick homework... :(
@JourneymanGeek the circuit board
ah yes
(it fills up an entire screen, If I didn't like my aperture science wallpaper so much...)
@Rahul2001 hehe. Hope it's not too boring. Do it like a game. Easiest is to time yourself per question.
@Rahul2001 Oh, it's a research assignment. Yeah, civil engineering is a bit of a bore. Are you reading actual papers regarding that or are you just expected to rip off encyclopedias.
wikipedia ftw
Now why didn't that onebox?
Ah. Already deleted
@DavidPostill what did it say?
@Rahul2001 hehe. If your teacher is meticulous, for guideline 5(g), make sure you mention a handful of books not in the wikipedia references.
epic troll
@DavidPostill Poor kid must be doing the 100DaysOfCode without any real projects coming to mind.
@Nick this just reminded me of a blog post I've been meaning to write for months...
@Rahul2001 Q1 shouldn't take long :) A1 They fall down.
08:21
:P
not all the buildings in japan fall over during a quake
@Nick He's from Mumbai :)
they tend to wibble and wobble
I'm in india...
@Rahul2001 We know :)
08:23
@Nick I used to abuse google books for that back in the day
@DavidPostill How do they fall down? Where are the buildings weak points? Do all kinds of buildings fall over? To what extent is the wibbly-wobbling in each case? These are hidden questions there.
@Nick its buildings going timey wimey that worry me more
One moment you're sitting down at your PC. Next thing you know you're in the middle of the Spanish Inquisition!
@JourneymanGeek I can see it now. The poor google book under the harsh lights of your interrogation room and you screaming to it, "Tell me what you know!".
@JourneymanGeek ... is there a movie for this? A time travelling room
@Nick Lol. Did you miss the :)?
08:25
@Nick more like I'd write based on wikipedia. Then I'd match up what I wrote with citations, adjusting as needed
@Nick wierdly enough...
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by Douglas Adams, first published in 1987. It is described by the author on its cover as a "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic". The book was followed by a sequel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. The only recurring major characters are the eponymous Gently, his secretary Janice Pearce and Sergeant Gilks. Adams also began work on another novel, The Salmon of Doubt, with the intention of publishing it as the third book in the series, but died before completing it. A BBC...
maybe?
@DavidPostill Oh yeah, I've been reading poorly written texts lately. I thought it was the regular weird punctuation. (<--- this guy isn't ready be to back in chatrooms)
I have that book somewhere!
@DavidPostill That was, unexpected
08:28
@JourneymanGeek I have to put this on a wishlist somewhere. Douglas Adams! I'm not missing this.
@Rahul2001 I don't know if I could handwrite 10 pages any more. I think my hand would fall off ... :/
In my search for portable power youtube.com/watch?v=wrE6HWhmC3U even the hype about this "Fuel Cell" isnt very interesting. 150Watts 10Kilo hydrogen cylinder, only 20 hours of operation. Gads, that means it would take half a car trunk (and $$$) to have a truely quiet generator , to play video games for a week. leaving still portable gas gen. that youtube.com/watch?v=hdUSO8kFKVQ If that is quiet ??? i would hate to hear loud. 80DB, heck most cars are not 80DB
@DavidPostill Yesterday, I tried writing a diary entry by hand. Midway into a sentence, I'm on my next thought and I'm not interested at finishing the sentence at hand. Some of us have lost the ability to write by hand.
@Nick Exactly ... I even struggle with my signature these days. I can't remember when I last wrote more than a few words by hand.
I'm seriously depressed now :(
More dislikes than likes?
08:33
why?
ah
Well people who disliked are mean
@Psycogeek I wouldn't take the fuel cell. H202 fuel cells aren't good unless it's in a new car. The Generac iQ for $800 looks ok but 80dB is the sound level of garbage disposal.
@Nick at the least i would be modifying this stuff with real mufflers
08:41
@JourneymanGeek /pol/ on 4chan had a lot of coordinated trolls, I guess.
I have not yet found a "LP" or normal hydrocarbon fuel fuel cell generator. I believe that there are some being tested/applied for "natural gas" for server UPS, at large server locations.
@Psycogeek Either engineers are being lazy or maybe the people who have the product you need aren't marketing it enough. I mean, for small-scale, I'm sure atleast one guy could think that up.
Youtube responded low by kicking out comments
h2o2 doesn't store well either
@JourneymanGeek xD Yeah.
08:45
Hydrogen would be silent but poor energy density
Good Night!
@Edity Night, Edity. Dream well.
even with a beastly tank like that, you figure it is just compressed hydrogen still not liquid hydrogen?
Yeah
liquid hydrogen would be deeply cryogenic
and hard to maintain
the other smalller tanks for some of the fuel cell stuff, was chemically stored hydrogen, which is probably way to pricey too. Although making it at home with a solar generator looks more possible now, than being able to use it in mobile rv situation.
08:53
So one of our clients just called me, their Outlook wouldn't open and I should have a look at the system
Long story short, they got hit with Cerber ransomware
Wohoo! Cerber
all the technology needed to "nomad" desktop gaming, or even air conditioning, is not yet invented well enough.
I particularly liked this bit from their instructions:
  Cerber Ransomware Project is not malicious and is not intended to harm a
  person and his/her information data.

  The project is created for the sole purpose of instruction regarding
  information security, as well as certification of antivirus software for
  their suitability for data protection.

  Together we make the Internet a better and safer place.
> Together we make the Internet a better and safer place.
@OliverSalzburg WTF this is only a test, which russian mafia will be able to adopt later, to improve the world?
08:56
I have to say, their setup is pretty neat
@OliverSalzburg You can often find it disguised as a randomly named executable in %AppData%\{2ED2A2FE-872C-D4A0-17AC-E301404F1CBA}\
And they offer to decrypt 1 file for free!
@Nick Yeah, I already disabled it
We broke the window on your home, and left your a note "Your Vulnerable" No shi|
But it has already encrypted a few files. I'm going to try Panda Ransomware Decrypt
@Psycogeek Isn't that what happened to Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest recently?
08:57
That what "the internet" turned up anyway :P
Set SAPI = CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice")
SAPI.Speak "Att"+"ention! A"+"ttention! Atten"+"tion!"
For i = 1 to 10
SAPI.Speak "Your docum"+"ents, photos, databas"+"es and other im"+"portant fi"+"les have been encrypted!"
Next
:D
@OliverSalzburg That's what the ransomware uses?
@Rahul2001 Yeah
Apparently it's run when it's done encrypting
# DECRYPT MY FILES #.vbs
just be glad it isnt java :-)
09:23
is there a way to batch NSLOOKUP?
Found the server (natural gas) Fuel cell gen, solidpower.com/en/faq-page european 1.5KW unit "BlueGen" Just a bit too big for a trailer. And locally california is the bloom bloomenergy.com/fuel-cell/upm-570-data-sheet 160KW yea that might be a bit more power than i need :-)
i have 134 domains but i don't know which servers they are on so i want to batch run nslookup against the list
nvm, got something
the battery, I think i got covered batteryspace.com/… 2 sets of these 110Lbs total (replace any LeadAcid) would provide 20 hours of gaming, if I completely rearrange my desktop to low power.
W ;) https://twitter.com/VisualStudio/status/743944061166432257
Aww, they deleted 'w'
09:33
so a 150W version of a fuel cell used as a charger (instead of the powers source), and 300W of solar for when there is sun, and i would be set.
@Rahul2001 Shh.. it's a secret.
omg... For like 4 years I've wondered why my port forwarding on my ISP modem didn't work properly.
It's been using the wrong interface the entire time. -_-
oh, LOL
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10:02
Did @TomWijsman recently upgrade to Win10? :P
Anyone know of any Wired Smark home locks? have a friend trying to find one.
@Bob No! I've been there since early. I'm a slow insider cuz wanting to be fast bricks on me; so, uhm, guess I'll have to reinstall near the Anniversary update...
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@TomWijsman Oh, was just joking cause you chucked a bunch of bounties on Win10 scaling/snapping questions.
@Bob So many votes, so little answers xD
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10:04
I suspect some of them simply aren't doable :\
Hmm, why are there no emojis here? ;-)
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Wonder if anyone's asked on uservoice/MSfeedback
Ugh... Windows 10 scaling is balls.
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I'm working at a site that's using the new HP Elite x2 1012 tablets.
The scaling is absolutely awful when connecting to an external monitor.
@Bob that looks like one of my commits....
^ My old website... Check the feedback form out!
10:20
what is your current one?
images.dailytech.com/nimage/Bloom_Energy_Infographic_Wide.jpg (picture of process) bloom energy process for working with natural gas, is not very scalable :-( in some ways it is more steam engine , than fuel cell.
i prefer the styling on your old one
why does you site redirect to /weblog?
@Burgi because I'm still working on the homepage
@Burgi thoughts on rahul2001.com/old3 ?
That was my homepage before the blog
i kinda like that styling...
10:25
@Burgi I used MS Word xD
@Burgi You do?
yeah the new one looks too much like a template
anonymous and bland
hm...
I'm working on my own blogging engine right now...
trust me, don't bother
its so much faff
10:28
I have a few tricks up my sleeve :D
grab something like wordpress and use that
nah, I don't like wordpress
custom theme and custom plugins
nah, it's to messy for my liking
fair enough
10:30
plus, having your own engine is nice
daringfireball has one
as did aaronsw.com
are you planning to go into web development as a job?
I'm not sure, actually
I was originally interested in pentesting, but now I'm considering more options
while writing your own CMS is great for learning, it isn't great for demoing your skills to employers
but i guess you have at least 3 more years before that is an issue
10:33
yeah... what if it gets famous?
good luck to you
traction is difficult
yeah...
For the record, if anyone wants some server space, don't be afraid to ask, I have loads... :D
i have an unlimited package for £9/mth
10:50
!!caat
Dammit it wasn't real
@Burgi I get it for USD 5
I must have had a dream that he'd been fixed
@qwertyuiop Bob ran him locally in between
10 hours ago, by ChatBot John Cavil
I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.
@MichaelFrank Yeah, I did complain about that myself about six months ago.
*sigh*, just cleaned my Roccat mousepad. It's filthy as all heck.
10:53
OOh I'm planning on buying a HP Elite X2 1012 myself, how are they?
Is it the Displayport over USB-C that you are using to connect the external monitors?
It's thunderbolt afaik.
Same diff :-P
Connected to the Thunderbolt dock, then the monitors.
That's the only way you can do it.
10:55
Oh :-(
I was hoping the Thunderbolt port supported native DP out without a dock because, y'know, that's what thunderbolt ports are supposed to do
They come with a DP to HDMI adapter.
@qwertyuiop what do you use currently? I think I saw a lenovo laptop in the pic of your loft-bed
Should have mentioned that a bit earlier, heh.
@MichaelFrank But that connects to the dock right?
Nope.
The dock has a USB-C cable with a extra power connector on it.
10:58
lol
@Rahul2001 I think a good chunk of the regulars have dedis or VPSes
My guess is the DisplayPort on the dock is a passthrough from the Thunderbolt port on the tablet
@JourneymanGeek Whatever... the offer still stands for anyone who doesn't :-)
Unless an additional graphics adapter shows up when you connect the dock
11:00
@qwertyuiop do all tbolt 3 ports do DP natively?
@MichaelFrank lol
@qwertyuiop heh. I may need to look into that when I get my next laptop
11:02
> Computer ports with Thunderbolt 3 provide 40Gbps Thunderbolt – double the speed of the previous generation, USB 3.1 10Gbps, and DisplayPort 1.2. - See more at: thunderbolttechnology.net/blog/…
@qwertyuiop most of what I've seen seem to be docks
(and my brother's razer blade stealth has tbolt 3 and HDMI, and HDMI only does 4k30)
@JourneymanGeek Well Apple and Dell have Thunderbolt displays
@JourneymanGeek I'm running two VPSes, while allq, bob, and JMG all have dedicated servers.
@qwertyuiop $$$$$$$$ ;p
In Apple's case, including a built in dock
11:04
also apple is glossy
@JourneymanGeek Meh, corporate funds...
I will have my screens in any finish. As long as its matte.
@JourneymanGeek I like glossy
(My needs are more modest and do not require a dedicated server. Even if I did have more demanding workloads, I'd still prefer a cloud VPS service because it's more elastic than dedicated servers in that it allows faster scaling of resources, taking minutes instead of hours to resize existing instances or prepare new ones.)
@qwertyuiop not for me. In fact I'm planning ahead my purchases for when I have a job
(tho, I'm looking at getting a new phone for myself for my birthday ._.)
11:15
Someone help me choose a name for my blogging CMS...
@Rahul2001 Finch!
Cause the Zebra Finch is the most adorable bird in the world.
ShouldHaveUsedWordPress
SHUWP
@Burgi hm... that's gonna be an easter egg :D
@MichaelFrank I think you got me convinced... :D
11:19
Yussss!
Any other ideas?
@MichaelFrank i prefer the kiwi
@Burgi no... not a good name... ;p
hm... Euphonia?
anyone?
ephemeral
11:26
> Ephemeral definition, lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory: the ephemeral joys of childhood
RahulCMS2001
I still think you should use Finch!
I think I will... :D
11:29
Epiphany
Hipstr
note the hipsteresque missing E
BReD - Brilliantly Rahul Engineered Design
:D
@Burgi I don't think it'll be very hip...
you just have to claim it was cooler before people started using it and it will be hip
@JourneymanGeek Dont dogs have like five birthdays a year
@Rahul2001 RorldRideRahul
its national women in engineering day today
11:42
It's also EU referendum day, which I suspect will be detracting from that
we aren't allowed to mention it today
purdue etc
purdue?
Is that the thing where you can't campaign on voting day?
Also, bed time.
@MichaelFrank correct
@qwertyuiop alas no
@qwertyuiop or put a cross of saint andrew on the top and a cross of saint george at the bottom
and a VERY detailed cartoon dragon on the rest of it
@jokerdino Is that a recommendation for a name??
Oops wrong way round
12:03
needs dragon!
@JourneymanGeek I'm afraid you'll have to do the cartoon dragon, that's beyond my capabilities
@Burgi @Rahul2001 BRed could have a cartoon bread logo
@qwertyuiop just copy paste a trogdor. Duh
Yeah the transparency messes it up
@JourneymanGeek None of these are particularly appealing: duckduckgo.com/…
Art and creativity just aren't my thing
12:08
PERFECT!
alas, I cannot think of how to fit in NI into this
12:20
Apparently defacing the ballot or voting incomprehensibly is a valid form of protest.
@JourneymanGeek split bit of guiness?
@djsmiley2k Guiness is from the republic of ireland no?
ah oui
A bomb hole?
12:39
prolly too soon
I don't even remember what their flag looks like
Hell. I remember the cornish flag
Ah, they kinda don't have a flag. Sorta.
LOL, Sandisk's compact portable SSD is a USB <=> SATA bridge chip glued to a consumer 2.5" SSD with the case removed
that's a LOT of hotsnot.
and I say this as someone who actually considers the use of hot glue to be acceptable
Sure it's compact but... use a goddamn native USB 3 controller already!
apparently cause the BBC can't report actual exit polls... they're putting pictures of dogs.
There's nothing in that product I couldn't make myself by stripping the case off an existing SSD and 3D printing a new enclosure
12:44
@qwertyuiop is it at least cheap enough to be worth shucking? ;p
> You will have noticed that our coverage of the EU referendum is limited today. That's because the BBC - like other broadcasters - is not allowed to report on the campaigning while the polls are open.

That's to ensure that the BBC's output cannot be seen as influencing the ballot while the polls are open.

* The restrictions started today at 00:30 BST and will end at 22:00 BST when voting closes.

* Between 00:30 BST and 22:00 BST there will be no coverage of any of the issues relating to the referendum campaign on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk.
Heh. I remember during the Scottish referendum they used cartoons of dogs on their graphs for some reaosn
> * While the polls are open, it is a criminal offence for anyone, not just broadcasters, to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in the referendum, where that is based on information given by voters after they have voted.
So I committed a crime by publishing how I voted in the referendum.
55 mins ago, by qwertyuiop
user image
^^ This was a criminal offence omglolwtfbbq
We'd get a lot more young voters' involvement if we just made it possible to vote online like the Swiss do...
> The 43.8-mm by 32.9-mm sensor on the X1D is 40% larger still than that of a full-frame DSLR's, and Hasselblad packs 50MP onto its area. That means each pixel is 5.3 μm square, 8% larger than the 4.88-μm pixels on Nikon's already-well-regarded D810—and there's 28% more of them to work with here. The X1D can store its 65MB raw image files on a pair of SD cards. It can also shoot 1080p, H.264 video at up to 25 FPS.
Oh come on, 50 megapixel medium-format sensor, only records 1080p. It should be able to do 8K ffs.
well i had a nice snooze in the car

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