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13:07
@qwertyuiop I'm pretty certain its not sensors that are holding 4k video back
@Burgi I hope you weren't the driver?
it was stationary
about 20 mins: long enough to feel better, short enough for REM not to happen
i might try and park further away from the main road next time. it was quite noisy
13:23
@JourneymanGeek 8K
heh
maaaan
I haven't done a from scratch or PDN image for an answer in ages
@qwertyuiop or 8k
I'm crrently on the phone with my bank's support. Sigh.
@ThatBrazilianGuy Have you tried turning it off and on again?
The bank?
Pfft
This is a side view of a ethernet plug. Or a switch...
13:32
It looks like neither
worst technical drawing I've ever seen
soz
lol
@electronbeam damnit jane, I'm a hardware geek, not a engineer.
@electronbeam I've made worse
Talking to fone support makes me go...
Some random charge showed up on my CC bill. I tried calling phone support.
I am greeted by an automated voice menu that does not register keypresses, both on landline or on mobile.
13:38
My bank has an online dispute button for unrecognized transactions
I call the general customer relationshipp / support number
They ask for my name, SSN, blood type, underwear color, browsing history...
Also their phone service has a stupid voice recognition menu but if you hang up and redial it puts you through to an agent witihout pestering you to "Describe why you are calling us in a few words"
Basically it detects if you hang up in frustration at the stupid menu and bypasses it on your second call :-D
Their solution is: call our phone support. The one you already told us didin't work. Five times.
why is iis so frustrating?
13:40
cause it iis.
Then I specifically complain about the transaction. I ask for identification if the charge, and a refund. They ask for even more data and start blocking my entire card. Without my request.
@JourneymanGeek Oh no you didnt
Someone has not been reading our blog ^_^
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Q: NVIDIA Driver Install Fails

thephpdevThe NVIDIA graphics driver on this PC is several versions out of date, so I went to upgrade it due to an unrelated issue. I went to the NVIDIA website, downloaded the 64-bit Windows 10 driver for the GT 720 GPU. I ran the installation as you normally would only to be met with the error "NVIDIA In...

Tom Wijsman on June 18, 2012

Yesterday, after two of my family members in turns tried to fix a video card driver installation error for 2 – 3 hours, they couldn’t get it to work. Trying it over and over, each time it stopped the progress bar somewhere before the middle, to finally throw up this screen:

Yeah, this is exactly the moment where you would freak and pull out your hair; especially to plan on finishing the day with some casual gaming. So, their next step was to fire up the device manager in an attempt to manually update the drivers by feeding the devices with the directory full of INF files. But apparently, the devices weren’t so hungry: …

my site works on the server, i've copied the config down to my local box and it throws crazy incomphrensible errors at me
@TomWijsman two answers? ._.
13:41
@TomWijsman First install?
Normally I'd just use that graphics driver cleaner utility, it's flawless
I say "wait, wait, wait, don't block my card! I need it! just want a refund"
- *Sir, in that case, call our main number*
- The one that doesn't work?
- *Yes*
@ThatBrazilianGuy this sounds like something out of Brazil
Yeah, my bank also blocks both my cards as soon as I report a fraudulent transaction.
@JourneymanGeek Gotta know which one is the accepted. xD
13:42
granted ;p
Luckily, I have several others. And the replacement cards arrived within a week
No point brute forcing if the directory removal actually works; but well, likely there are more possible causes to this
If only people would read and post logs; but yeah, as long as these logs aren't all put in the same place people are not going to bother to find them
Argh. My desire to punch someone has not yet abated.
@qwertyuiop Yeah, DDU or something
@TomWijsman That's the one. Display Driver Uninstaller
13:44
@qwertyuiop No. It has spreaded to me.
@ThatBrazilianGuy You can take it all if you want
@qwertyuiop Why don't you answer the question as well? :-D
Bob
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@ThatBrazilianGuy That's Microsoft support (US line) :P
@TomWijsman I haven't written any answers in months and can't be bothered to start now
Also, I feel like shit and want to punch someone.
@qwertyuiop So, I can write a third answer? Please?
13:47
It should be possible to punch organizations. It would be so relieving...
@JourneymanGeek won't like me for that, though
@TomWijsman Chances are any answer I write will come out a bit like this:
Or this
I'm still waiting on Rahul ti write the question I asked in Finland so I can give him rep for answering it
Still convinced that that one is fake
@TomWijsman Wait you actually want me to write an answer about DDU?
The second one?
13:49
@qwertyuiop Yes
yeah
iots MUCH too thin
Good excuse as any to get my sockpuppet some rep I suppose
and LCDs are usually plastic or metal backed.
#notascratch #specialFX1seclater
@qwertyuiop Love how a plume of sparks flies out of the monitor after the punch.
14:00
and off his fist
14:14
that can't be real...
Huh someone upvoted me already.
And I haven't even finished writing it yet
link?
I haven't finished writing it yet!
I have to edit it as my main user because my bot doesn't have enough rep to add all the screenshots :-|
@qwertyuiop Why are you posting half-finished answers? They should be downvoted not upvoted!
How do I fix my monitor's buttons going all insane?
I press shut down and it goes "4:3-in-wide". I press "4:3-in-wide" to fix it, it changes language to swedish.
14:21
@ThatBrazilianGuy Punch them?
I press shuot duon und it gues "4:3-in-vide-a". I press "4:3-in-vide-a" tu feex it, it chuonges luonguoege-a tu svedeesh. Bork Bork Bork!
Is "laajakuvana" swedish?
gtranslate says it's finnish
En paina suljettiin ja se menee "4: 3-in-leveä". Painan "4: 3-in-laajuinen" korjata, se muuttuu kieli ruotsi.
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A: NVIDIA Driver Install Fails

I Am A BotUse Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) is a tool precisely for situations like this - where there are existing drivers that have not or cannot be cleanly removed which prevent you from updating or installing new graphics drivers. DDU solves issues with unclean or ...

There, now I've added some useless screenshots, now it's finished
why did you post with your sock?
@qwertyuiop Flagged as spam. For some bloody energy company :/
@qwertyuiop Why do you even have a sock account?
14:28
@ThatBrazilianGuy It's for a bot that never happened Me? Sock account? I would Never!!!
Not me
No similarities to me whatsoever!
>_>
@qwertyuiop noitsbecky
@ThatBrazilianGuy Exactly
Intriguingly, my desire to punch someone has reduced.
Mine too. I found an unicorn a decent support person on the phone, who actually listened to my problem, was polite, reasonable, attentive and nice.
@qwertyuiop that should be beckybot ;p
or noitsbeckybot
@JourneymanGeek "I Am Beckybot"?
@Burgi Sock needs 20 rep to enter chat
14:41
I am noitsbeckybot?
@qwertyuiop then what? ;p
A chatbot that doesn't have enough rep to enter chat is a bit... pointless
@JourneymanGeek It's still for a bot that never happened
Hence I've never bothered answering anything till now
G’day! So I’ve read the On-Topic and Off-Topic Help pages and the recommendations for better suited sites, but I still can’t figure out why my question would be off-topic on SU.
But if Cavill never gets fixed, I guess that'll give me something to do
Would you rather want to see a question like “How do I get my mail client to send text/markdown single-part MIME messages?”
Bob
Bob
14:43
@qwertyuiop already sorted the issue
just waiting on quix to update the server time
which'll take him two mins the next time he's here
worst case, I'll bug him about it on Sat :P
Bob
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@Crissov Assuming you're talking a local mail client (i.e. not web-based) then that looks alright
Damn that guy's psychic
I just got to work
Bob
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@allquixotic Cavil server time is 5 mins fast. This breaks cookies.
7 hours ago, by Bob
SE openid sets a cookie with 5 min expiry
14:45
@Bob Hah
ntpdate gives an error
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7 hours ago, by Bob
user image
Lollerskates
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7 hours ago, by Bob
@allquixotic Sync your server time!!!
@allquixotic Yea you'll need to do it on the host I think
Don't think LXD containers can have different times. It's a kernel thing.
I already tried ntpdate and also manual date --set :P
14:46
root@cavil:~# date
Thu Jun 23 14:46:02 UTC 2016
root@cavil:~# exit
exit
root@phys:~# date
Thu Jun 23 14:46:03 UTC 2016
@Crissov pretty much. Any question which needs to be answered with a list and an open ended list is problematic
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic Thanks :)
in Bot Overflow, 8 secs ago, by ChatBot John Cavil
I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.
\o/
@qwertyuiop Beckybot now has 31 rep :)
!! s/Beckybot/a bot that'll never be used because Cavil is back and we don't need 2 bots, unless you're talking about something else for another channel or something and I'm just being ignorant/
Bob
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hm... not quite fixed yet? o.O
!!info
14:48
not the only problem evidently
@Bob I awoke on Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:47:39 GMT (that's about 1 minute ago), haven't done anything yet!
Bob
Bob
Cavil y u no respond
oh
!! s/Cavil/Leoben/
@allquixotic Leoben y u no respond (source)
!! s/Beckybot/a bot that'll never be used because Cavil is back and we don't need 2 bots, unless you're talking about something else for another channel or something and I'm just being ignorant/
14:49
@Bob And where should I ask whether that’s a good idea in the first place? Because I don’t want to do it if there are serious drawbacks or no possible benefits at all.
@allquixotic !! s/a bot that'll never be used because Cavil is back and we don't need 2 bots, unless you're talking about something else for another channel or something and I'm just being ignorant/a bot that'll never be used because Cavil is back and we don't need 2 bots, unless you're talking about something else for another channel or something and I'm just being ignorant/ (source)
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lol
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!! s/Beckybot/a bot that'll never be used because Cavil is back and we don't need 2 bots, unless you're talking about something else for another channel or something and I'm just being ignorant/ 30562036
@Bob @qwertyuiop a bot that'll never be used because Cavil is back and we don't need 2 bots, unless you're talking about something else for another channel or something and I'm just being ignorant now has 31 rep :) (source)
14:50
O.o you can s specific messages?! THAT'S AMAZING!
Bob
Bob
@Crissov Generally, you can ask on Meta Super User but asking on chat is fine too.
Meta Super User gives you a better place to point to if someone comes along and claims it's off-topic later
@allquixotic Who knows, maybe one day you and bob both get hit by a bus.
Nah, it was for testing mostly. Which never happened. But you never know. Best to be prepared right?
@qwertyuiop guaranteed at some point, but unlikely to happen to both of us in the near future
Bob
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@allquixotic ...soooo I'm gonna die by bus-related injuries?
@Bob "hit by a bus" is a euphemism for dying regardless of how ;p
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14:51
@allquixotic Yea, I saw it in the source a few months back. Tried telling people but no one noticed :P
@Bob that's incredible that I never noticed - might not have been awake at the time, I rarely read the scrollback when I'm asleep
but as you just observed I definitely read a little scrollback when I first come in
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@allquixotic Heh, I'm not even sure you read the pings you get when you're asleep.
I'm confused
3
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(which is why I've taken to re-pinging you some messages sometimes)
I go away for a few minutes to install a wiki, come back to 32 lines of gibberish
4 mins ago, by ChatBot John Cavil
@allquixotic !! s/a bot that'll never be used because Cavil is back and we don't need 2 bots, unless you're talking about something else for another channel or something and I'm just being ignorant/a bot that'll never be used because Cavil is back and we don't need 2 bots, unless you're talking about something else for another channel or something and I'm just being ignorant/ (source)
I mean wtf?!
Bob
Bob
14:54
@allquixotic But, yea, I do the same. Pings aside, I usually don't bother reading the entire transcript.
@Bob I don't, actually - too many pings that I've stopped trying
@Bob I think Journeyman Geek is the only person I know who does
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@allquixotic :(
Most are probably from me lol
usually it's either only a couple overall, or a whole bunch within a short conversation (6 pings in 20 messages, etc.)
Was... 6 overall last night, 3 of them around the time I found out clocks can put Cavil into a coma
@qwertyuiop I don't read it. I skim through it. One of the perks/problems with dyslexia ;)
oh, pings I check
@JourneymanGeek Yet somehow you always spot when I've done something bad -_-
15:02
@qwertyuiop usually cause of the flags and the room catching fire
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Or having to pick through smouldering ruins.
BURNINATE ALL THE CHATS
pretty much
and well
the idea of having a bunch of room owners is, even if another mod isn't on, there will be someone to put out the fires.
@qwertyuiop Are you drawing this? Otherwise, sauce.
@Nick No
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15:05
@Nick Trogdor the burninator.
It used to be a bit of a meta.SU meme.
@Nick and one of our old/pioneering mods ;p
Ohk. Nice.
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@JourneymanGeek Heh. I usually go to sleep in time to miss out on the action :P
@Bob true, but more for coverage ;p
We have room owners in every continent but africa and antartica ;p
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Well... it should eventually get here.
15:10
Yay!
@Bob What's the gift?
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@Nick Gear VR
Which qwertyuiop thinks is shit, but I'll see :P
Meanwhile, over at Amazon...
> Now arriving Fri, Jul 8 – Fri, Jul 22
Original estimate: Fri, Jul 8
Your package may be delayed by weather or a shipping issue.
...
weather?
Unless it's flying through a literal chain of cyclones...
@Bob Ooh, oculus. I recently got a OnePlus Loop VR in Siyge's techshed. :/ I can tell you that's shit. Your phone will fall off if you bend your head.
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@Nick No... Gear VR ain't an Oculus Rift.
It's considerably less useful :P
Wait. The company is related to the Gear VR somehow.
(you can see just how much I care/know about VR here... :P)
lol
IIRC oculus helped develop it
but its not a rift
15:17
@Bob Me neither. I don't like the idea of "a digital parasite installed on my eyeballs". Tell me how it goes for you.
@Bob Checked the specs. Gear VR has 96° fov. I don't think the VR market is ready with good enough products right now.
@Nick VR might die out ala consumer 3d
the vive looks nice
and I would have the space for it
but $$$$$ and availability's an issue
and I'd rather not have competing incompatible standards
@JourneymanGeek That's always the catch.
Bob
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@JourneymanGeek Feels like it'd be a niche thing
@JourneymanGeek availabllity is no longer an issue with the Vive - it's in stock.
Bob
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It's helped along by relatively cheap viewers, though interaction becomes expensive.
15:23
@electronbeam heh. I'm thinking international tho
singapore has stuff oddly delayed sometimes
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s/singapore/non-USA/
(and yeah. money. I'd be more inclined if I had a steady source of income)
15:43
its nice to see that Win10 has moved into an optional update for win7
lol
Have they de-recommended it again?
16:03
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Q: Can you hide your face from a facehugger?

Bridger LogsdenI think I found a flaw to the alien franchise. As the other day I was wondering if you can just cover your face against a wall or your arms? I mean if you've been cocooned then you can't move your head so your doomed there but if you just hide your face the facehugger can't get you.

how can i see if my comment on an answer has been removed?
you don't
I think that's a mod only thing
i thought i added a comment to this answer but it appears to have vanished. was it removed or am i going mad? superuser.com/a/1092655/393570
only comment there was ramhound's
16:19
i must be going mad
i honestly thought i had asked the author to explain his methodology a bit more
17:02
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Thrown my CV in the ring for an internal role D:
I fear something may be very wrong with my laptop's display. The colors have drifted dramatically since I last calibrated it.
Man, this is not good...
!!caat
17:09
I don't have a teammate for this Robotics competition...
This is not good
Forever alone?
@Rahul2001 oh man come to coventry
i'd love to make robots
I'd love to have the tools and money and time to do so too
:(
My so called friends have already made a group and I can't join it because there can be a maximum of 3 participants
So I either have to train noobs, or be with someone who has an incorrect understanding... I can't decide which is worse
At least the uncalibrated delta E has not increased.
Recalibrating.
17:24
Anyone know where to ask about podcast construction specifics? e.g. how to group serial episodes into a single channel, while maintaining their serial-ness?
@Rahul2001 banned
@electronbeam ?
@Rahul2001 you're banned from having friends - by royal decree
I have loyal friends too...
17:40
<3
Turns out my closest friends can't be trusted :-(
I might just give up on people completely
dafuq
someone has been using my PC
Posh chavettes and some what?!
literally no idea
Well give me the link again and I'll check for you
17:48
i'd rather not link what appears to be porn
You already did and then deleted it while I was in the middle of trying to copy it
WHY DID YOU POST IT IF NOT TO TEMPT US?!
sounds like a case of you forgot to lock your computer issue.
@GuitarShoeDave i agree
we tend to send nasty emails to the owner of the company from people that dont lock their machines.
Could you possibly explain what on earth this code is meant to do? — Burgi 2 hours ago
17:49
lol
@burgi He's copied the other answer verbatim :/
Most people don't dare touch my machine because there's a big webcam mounted on top of my monitor glaring straight at them
I am going to change my password just in case
@DavidPostill it was in review
@Burgi Definitely NSFW :)
yeah, sorry i should have locked my PC
17:53
One of my colleagues has his PC set to autolock after 15 seconds
i normally do but i was quite tired last night so its possible i just left it on
@Burgi You should find out who it was and punch them (theme of the day) :)
it was all those pesky europeans
the sooner donald trump can build his wall across france the better
that was satire...
ah according to my mother the kid from across the road has been round as he had locked himself out again
i should probably disinfect my keyboard
!!rweep
i've forgotten what i was trying to paste now
@ChatBotJohnCavil Welcome back!
!!is it good to be back?
@Rahul2001 Doubtfully
!!did you miss me
@Rahul2001 Of course!
fracking toaster
oh steam sale tomorrow!
18:25
8 stars for "I need to punch something" wtf
That's like, my highest starred message this year
@allquixotic I have to disagree with this. Hit by a bus is a euphemism for unexpected dying, regardless of how. Death from old age or disease doesn't get referred to by "hit by a bus".
Nobody says "my gran got hit by a bus last month" when they mean to say "my gran passed away last month"
18:41
Your face is getting awkward.
There, now we're even
God dammit my hands are completely covered in lube, that shit gets everywhere
5
And it's impossible to get off
@qwertyuiop My face is nerdy and awkward 24/7. =_='
@qwertyuiop 0_o
damnable internet
@ThatBrazilianGuy It's from my monitor stand
I had to re-grease all the joints to make it properly moveable
Great, now this looks awkward and out of place:
3 mins ago, by qwertyuiop
Your face is getting awkward.
18:45
@Mokubai Thanks, man! You're amazing.
@qwertyuiop Especially with the lube comment...
@qwertyuiop You look akward and out of place! No wait... I think that's me!
@ThatBrazilianGuy Sorry, would have done it sooner but BT haven't fixed our internet yet...
@Mokubai Could be worse, you could be paying $100/month for 5 mbps and all your countrie's ISP really pushing to introduce data caps to ADSL nationwide... T__T
18:49
I have a question about domains and hosting - is this the right exchange for this question? I don't specifically see it as Off-Topic in the "topics" article but I also don't see it as on-topic.
Probably better suited for webmasters. :) nevermind!
@Howdy_McGee Hm... There's people here who maybe possess this knowledge, but I think as a site question it's more appropriate on Webmasters
Thanks :D !
That said, go on and please, do ask! I occasionaly do web work so I might know the answer.
@ThatBrazilianGuy Well, that sounds marginally worse... but considering ours works out at $67 for a ~5-6mbps connection that drops out at irregular intervals I'm not sure we're that far off.
At least mine won't drop, but god forbid you ever need to call support
And... and... and... data caps... data caps...... data caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaps....
datacaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaps
;________________;
data... caps... T______________T
I don't think I can live again in a world with data caps.
18:54
I'm glad our landline is not capped, but I would prefer if I could get a mobile contract which wasn't capped as we could get it about 10 times faster.
And it's stupid caps like a few GB's IIRC.
Aye, mine is 6GB, but I pay through the nose for it. I like my streaming music on my walk to work
There's one provider already using ADSL data caps, "promotinally not enforcing it until dec. 2016".
Banda Larga Popular 200 kb/s: 10 GB
Banda Larga Popular 1 e 2 Mb/s: 10 GB
Vivo Internet 4 Mb/s: 50 GB
Vivo Internet 8 e 10 Mb/s: 100 GB
Vivo Internet 15 Mb/s: 120 GB
Vivo Internet 25 Mb/s: 130 GB
@Mokubai No, these are landline data caps.
Yowza.
Mobile internet is capped since forever.
The best lest worse plan gives me 100 MB for $2 insted of the usual 10 MB for $1.
18:58
I might be able to live with 130GB, but we like to watch movies and that would kill the connection in about 10 days.
but hey, 25Mb/s would be cool
But there's something wrong with either my mobile provider, or my android phone, for a couple months now, it depletes my credits daily as if I was using my data plan daily, even with my data setting turned off. It's infuriating.
odd, what does it say in the Data Usage section in the settings?
I have used 6 GB in the last 30 days on my mobile phone wifi alone.

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