Root Access

DavidPostill

15:00

lol

@Burgi Upwork Sucks! World’s #1 Freelance Website Doesn’t Have Any ‘Upside’ Besides Mediocre Lead Generation

Journeyman Geek

@Dog cause you were good/bad in your last life

Bob

@allquicatic Just from the thumbnail... eurion? :P

@Dog gah - all this looking at phones and I should probably just grab a grey import S7

or save money and not bother for now :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

Burgi

we hung up

Rahul2001

15:34

Lol

My minion fried my flash drive...

My minion is a dumbass...

Shitshitshit

Data recovery software recommendations, anyone?

Burgi

you have a minion?

Rahul2001

@Burgi Yes, you are not the only one... ;)

Burgi

you are a damn child! how did you get a minion so early?

Rahul2001

@Burgi Well, there are younger children ;P

Burgi

so basically you are a bully

Rahul2001

15:44

NONONO!

You should know me better than that by now :/

Although technically, my minion is the same age as me...

I might just take offence, you know... I hate bullies...

Burgi

the only way i know of getting other children to do your bidding while also being a child is to bully them into doing it....

Rahul2001

@Burgi I don't exactly get them to do my bidding...

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi bribery works

as does trickery

Rahul2001

They're more like friends, who have the same interests as me, and want to learn from me...

Journeyman Geek

"man, painting this fence is sooooo fun"

DavidPostill

15:49

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Q: How do I recover lost/inacessible data from my storage device?

What steps can I take to try to recover lost or inaccessible data from any storage device? Answers: This applies to any main storage devices; eg. internal/external hard drive, USB stick, Flash memory. The most important thing is to STOP using it, any type of I/O can ruin your chances of a reco...

@Rahul2001

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill hm... I usually use GetDataBack...

Will try that next

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 It depends on how the minion "fried it"

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill Tried to directly render movies on to it... :/

DavidPostill

Hmm. That shouldn't fry it ...

Dog

@Bob or that

Rahul2001

15:52

@DavidPostill Don't know what else he did, but nothing is left...

At least it gets detected though...

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 If it's lost files try piriform.com/recuva. Of course restore to a different drive.

Dog

Effin chrome disabling the backspace key

DavidPostill

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Q: Enable backspace shortcut for back in chrome

It was with disbelief that I noticed Chromium has decided to remove backspace to navigate back in browser history, a shortcut which has been established almost universally across all browsers for decades. This really, really irritates me as I navigate 'back' probably hundreds of times a day and...

google-chrome chromium google-chrome-canary

@Dog

Dog

@DavidPostill chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/go-back-with-backspace/…

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A: How can I re-enable backspace navigation in Chrome?

Google has now published an official extension to reenable the backspace button as the hotkey for 'back'. Web Store: https://goo.gl/L30YZ7 Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608016

@DavidPostill

Still an effing pain, I have to relaunch my browser :-|

The extension doesn't work on any existing tabs

Rahul2001

@Dog For once, I feel your pain

DavidPostill

16:00

@Dog Is it so hard to press <alt>+<backspace> instead? ;p

Dog

@DavidPostill Yes, because A) It's impossible with one hand, and B) It requires editing all the macros on my mouse.

Canadian Luke

The horrible part is that you get the prompt when you use Backspace... So Google KNOWS what you're trying to do!

DavidPostill

@Dog You must have small hands. I can just manage it with one hand ;P

Dog

@DavidPostill No shit sherlock, I'm a cat.

It also doesn't work with the right alt key.

DavidPostill

@Dog That's because it's <alt gr> not <alt>. They are different keys you know ...

Dog

16:03

@DavidPostill And that helps how?

dino

@DavidPostill Left Alt and Backspace?

DavidPostill

@dino Yep. Apparently. I can't be bothered testing it. I use Firefox which, of course, works as expected when I press <backspace>

Dog

And crashes after 2 minutes of using the Sitefinder site.

Then again, Chrome on mobile doesn't work properly on the Sitefinder site to begin wite

DavidPostill

@Dog Hmm. Crap website. ofcom.org.uk/sitefinder/audit_info is 404, ofcom.org.uk/sitefinder/table is 404 ...

Dog

@DavidPostill Yes, because it was archived four years ago.

But I don't suppose you can implement something better.

DavidPostill

16:14

@Dog Why would I want to? It's not my problem if you want to use an archived website.

Dog

@DavidPostill If you don't have anything useful to say, don't say it at all

DavidPostill

It appears it was you that had something useless to say:

10 mins ago, by Dog

And crashes after 2 minutes of using the Sitefinder site.

bwDraco

16:34

theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/8/16/12508720/…

OMEN X desktop is designed and sold by HP but manufactured by Maingear, a boutique gaming PC builder.

Rahul2001

That... is pretty impressive

bwDraco

businesswire.com/news/home/20160816006119/en/…

To clarify: Designed in collaboration with and manufactured by Maingear, sold by HP with HP branding

The chassis is available for enthusiast system builders as a $599 part.

The system starts at $2,999.

Maingear is very well respected and I think partnering with a boutique PC builder was a good call for HP to make.

Oddly, Tom's Hardware says $1799.

Hmm. Different configurations are sold with both HP and Maingear branding.

In any case, the system is manufactured by Maingear.

HP will be shipping OMEN X systems on August 16. Maingear-branded variants will be available 1Q 2017.

Dog

17:47

@allquicatic Ouch! Though I wonder what spectators were doing on the playing field ...

Boris_yo

18:23

@DavidPostill No adjustments are possible due to ever increasing temperature thanks to global warming. There is tolerance threshold of adjustment until body's adaptive function fails.

@Psycogeek Are images showing for you here? us.en.kb.sony.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44025/p/…

They instruct to use soft bristle toothbrush with water on terminals. Common toothbrush will not qualify then... I have isoprophyl alcohol 99% so is it better than water?

Canadian Luke

Any experts on DISM in chat today?

Canadian Luke

18:38

Just in case... serverfault.com/questions/797463/…

Canadian Luke

18:55

theregister.co.uk/2016/08/17/tech_support_scam_takedown

Dog

Old news -_-

Mokubai

And yet, still satisfying.

allquicatic

@Dog That's not how baseball works. It's extremely common for foul balls to be hit into the stands (and home runs, but those are less frequent than foul balls). You see maybe 20 to 50 foul balls per game hit into the stands, and 0 to 5 home runs on average. And even the occasional "bat toss" (accidentally throwing the bat by losing control of it during a swing). People have gotten hit by both baseballs and bats and severely injured.

Catching a baseball with your hands isn't all that painful for most grown adults. It's riskier than catching a (UK or US) football, or basketball, but as long as you don't let it slam into your fingertips or something, it's usually OK. But you definitely don't want to get hit in the head with a baseball.

Kids (and some grown men acting like kids) take a baseball glove to the game. Others will take off their baseball cap and quickly use it as a makeshift glove.

Most people can go to 10-20 baseball games per year their whole life and never have the opportunity to catch (or be hurt by) an incoming foul ball. So it's not terribly likely (unless you sit in specific locations where it's relatively more likely).

Canadian Luke

@Dog I know, but it looks like it's either the same guy, or a second <strike>Batman</strike> hero

allquicatic

!! s/<\/?strike>/---/g

ChatBot John Cavil

19:06

@allquicatic @Dog I know, but it looks like it's either the same guy, or a second ~~Batman~~ hero (source)

Dog

@allquicatic Yes I know that, but the comment says she was being carried off the field not out of the stands...

Canadian Luke

Ahhh, that's how... OK

allquicatic

@Dog funny, and I quoted that exactly from another site that missed that too

bwDraco

Is it just me, or is the GPS radio on my 2012 Nexus 7 a power hog? It seems to be draining some 15% of the battery per hour.

My Nexus 9 is much better than this, even after accounting for the larger battery (about 5-7% an hour).

Also, do GPS radios consume more power with weaker signals (e.g. indoors)?

I'm using it as a GPS tracker and logger and this power consumption is a bit excessive to me.

Perhaps the old, less efficient Tegra 3 SoC is partly to blame for this...

Dog

19:34

!!caaaaaaaat2

ChatBot John Cavil

Ben N

19:55

Hey @DavidPostill, I've made serious progress in the "Group Policy on Home edition" department: Policy Plus works perfectly on all editions! The only difference on Home is that it takes a relog/reboot after changing policy settings, since userenv.dll!RefreshPolicyEx does nothing there

Canadian Luke

Cool

DavidPostill

Nice

Dog

20:27

Should I ~~stay or should I go~~ dog or should I cat

djsmiley2k

20:44

Sooooooooo 2.1 did have pyloric stenosis
i've just got home for the first time in 36 hours
i've had about 3 hours sleep in the last 36 too
he';s had his op, is ok, and has started on fluids \o/
and I've got an interview at 9am o_O

Dog

20:57

Pyloric stenosis

Pyloric stenosis or pylorostenosis is narrowing (stenosis) of the opening from the stomach to the first part of the small intestine known as the duodenum, due to enlargement (hypertrophy) of the muscle surrounding this opening (the pylorus, meaning "gate"), which spasms when the stomach empties. This condition causes severe projectile non-bilious vomiting. It most often occurs in the first few months of life, when it may thus be more specifically labeled as infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. The thickened pylorus is felt classically as an olive-shaped mass in the middle upper part or right...

bwDraco

21:19

Yikes.

bwDraco

22:50

!!/tumbleweed

ChatBot John Cavil

Journeyman Geek

23:26

@djsmiley2k ow.

Dog

23:53

ish bin salat

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