Root Access

Rahul2001

17:01

@AnimeshAshish Any more questions?

@AnimeshAshish Ah, okay

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : A million to ask but all of them could simply be replied with "That remains private" :/

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish Lol, try anyway? I'm just kinda secretive on the interwebs xD

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : Could you add me on facebook so that I can text you when I need to ask some questions that are out of bounds?

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish Email me?

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 Whats your email id?

Rahul2001

17:05

@AnimeshAshish one sec

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : Don't tell me you don't remember your email ID?

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish 42 [at] rahul 2001 [dotcom]

@AnimeshAshish Just ran a quick check, server been giving me issues recently

Animesh Ashish

Do you pay for the website that you've created on your name?

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish I pay for the hosting. Created it myself

Animesh Ashish

HOW much in INR?

Rahul2001

17:07

Letest version under dev, check rahul2001.com/weblog for old stuff

Animesh Ashish

Why dint you go for GoDaddy/Weebly?

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish Around 5 USD per month

DavidPostill

@AnimeshAshish @Rahul2001 Time for you guys to get a room :)

Rahul2001

xD

@DavidPostill Yes

bwDraco

17:52

@AnimeshAshish, it really looks like you're trying to probe @Rahul2001 for personal information. Stack Exchange Chat isn't the best venue for private discussions as messages are publicly viewable, so please respect the privacy of others. Thanks.

Also, we try not to discuss pirating copyrighted materials here.

...never mind

Missed the timing.

bwDraco

18:28

!!/tumbleweed

ChatBot John Cavil

allquixotic

20:07

wow I slept in a lot sorry @AnimeshAshish

@Bob ever hear of "lame client channel" error? it's an error description returned by grpc. that's what I'm stuck on on Windows atm. the audio I/O stuff is 100% now

bwDraco

Some changes to Intel's low-end processors for the 7th (Kaby Lake) generation:
- Hyper-Threading Technology is now enabled on Pentium processors. The least expensive Pentium chip from this generation, G4560, costs about $70.
- ECC memory support has been removed from Celeron, Pentium, and Core i3 processors. You will need a Xeon processor this time around. However, Xeon processors and matching motherboards have been more widespread for the 6th (Skylake) generation. This will make building a home server with ECC memory somewhat more expensive (the cheapest Skylake Xeon E3 v5 processor runs $…

Michael Frank

@allquixotic Probably means the channel was kinda boring, or the current topic wasn't hip enough.

allquixotic

@MichaelFrank backhand

!!tell 34637705 no

ChatBot John Cavil

bwDraco

lol

The addition of HTT to Pentium processors is a big deal because a lot of newer games expect four hardware threads and will perform poorly on a 2C/2T processor. Your thoughts?

Ben N

20:13

CreateChannel returns a "lame channel" if creds is invalid or missing (cf. documentation)

allquixotic

@bwDraco if it's a genuine perf improvement and doesn't raise the price, that's very significant, for budget folks

probably the best thing to come to ultra low-end x86_64 arch in a long time (though, we do not currently know what Ryzen will offer in the low-end)

to me, it sounds like Intel is gearing up for a hard-fought war for the low end crown, predicting that Ryzen might put up a VERY strong fight

bwDraco

@allquixotic Yup.

Oct 26 '16 at 18:33, by bwDraco

Most modern games expect at least a 2C/4T processor

Oct 26 '16 at 18:36, by bwDraco

(2C/2T will usually result in degraded performance and may cause stuttering.)

AVX remains disabled on Pentium and Celeron parts.

@allquixotic Ryzen is going to be hitting Intel hard across the board, in all honesty.

All the way up to HEDT.

I doubt AMD will take the absolute performance crown for multithreaded applications, but it will, at a minimum, force Intel to drop processor prices.

allquixotic

@bwDraco see, that's the thing -- even if they can't claim "we have the fastest processor", as long as their performance per dollar is better than Intel's by a margin that consumers will notice (as well as system builders, and techies who help laypeople build systems, etc.), Intel has no choice but to cut into their profit margin to keep market share

and CPU prices have been up, lately, from what I've seen, and holding steady at a high price, so hopefully this will reverse that trend

bwDraco

That's why competition is good.

allquixotic

20:29

I'd love for Vega to do the same thing for Nvidia and we can call 2017 the Year of AMD's Resurgence

and/or the Year of Significantly Less Profit for Intel and Nvidia Because They Had to Drop Their Prices

bwDraco

Yup. Phoenix rising.

allquixotic

How to Succeed with Brunettes 1967 US Navy Dating Etiquette Training Film MN-10283C

►

bwDraco

I'm pretty much wedded to NVIDIA for graphics because of my library of games (like you), but I'm open to a faster, cheaper processor from AMD.

Damn GameWorks vendor lock-in.

bwDraco

20:58

45 mins ago, by bwDraco

The addition of HTT to Pentium processors is a big deal because a lot of newer games expect four hardware threads and will perform poorly on a 2C/2T processor. Your thoughts?

Heck, even the PC release of Final Fantasy XIII (which is quite old by now) expects three hardware threads. It will lock up for several seconds at a time if it's allowed to run on only two threads (by setting CPU affinity on my machine).

(store.steampowered.com/app/292120)

Benjamin Gruenbaum

@Burgi just a faulty driver

bwDraco

21:23

I was thinking about the "pirated Windows" incident a few days back. Can users get suspended for continued discussion of such forbidden topics?

Michael Frank

@bwDraco That's one game that's on my "must finish one day" list.

bwDraco

People have a love-hate relationship with it. The game's completely linear all the way up to Chapter 11 (of 13).

Michael Frank

@bwDraco If it's direct rule breaking, sure.

I think I gave up on it the first time, because I couldn't beat the Gilgamesh (dude on the horse?)

bwDraco

@MichaelFrank ...Odin?

Michael Frank

Oh, yea.

bwDraco

21:25

That's really early in the game.

Michael Frank

From memory, I was having real trouble with satisfying the stagger bar and I didn't want to look it up.

bwDraco

@MichaelFrank ...Gestalt gauge.

Michael Frank

That's probably it. I got the game at launch, so it's been a few years since I actually played. Can't remember all the terminology!

bwDraco

Start with Libra (assuming you're not out of TP) and open up the enemy intel (LB on the Xbox 360 controller IIRC).

(a glitch may cause the text to not appear in the Enemy Intel page at resolutions other than 720p for whatever reason, so I run the game windowed)

The text will show what you need to do to fill up the Gestalt gauge. The Gestalt conditions are listed with "Yields to those who..."

> - Yields to those who amass chain bonuses.
- Yields to those who heal the wounded.

The above is for Odin.

> heal the wounded

You should have a Medic on your team. Set up your Paradigms accordingly.

I'd want to do COM/RAV/MED (Diversity) here.

Bob

@allquixotic I've never seen it, but @BenN's quote implies an auth issue

bwDraco

21:34

Granted, it's been a very long time since I've played FFXIII, but I still understand the game mechanics well enough to be able to help.

allquixotic

@Bob did you use gcloud auth default-credentials or did you create a json file to successfully auth grpc? on kynnaugh-cs

bwDraco

Hmm. So only two characters (Lightning and Hope) are present for the Odin fight...

COM/RAV to push the chain bonus, RAV/MED or MED/MED for recovery.

Okay, enough FFXIII talk.

Burgi

so that freelance contract is odd

the owner of the shop has an american passport and relished in telling me how he voted for trump

and that he is a great man and will fix the entire world

Bob

@allquixotic I used your json

just pointed the envvar at it

oh, I had to remove the :443

Burgi

his wife is odd and had a weird accent

Ramhound

21:48

Why is anyone of that odd?

Burgi

hmmm?

bwDraco

lol

allquixotic

@Bob ahh

Bob

@allquixotic chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/118?m=34287679#34287679 and chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/118?m=34287202#34287202

might be the C# version of your error

DavidPostill

22:33

Any mods around?

superuser.com/a/1164914 and it's abusive self-answer need deleting.

Good. It's gone.

Anonymous

23:35

Hello everbody!

Anonymous

It's been a long time. I see the star wall is still being used as intended after all these months.

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek @allquixotic ping

allquixotic

pongish

Journeyman Geek

@PatoSáinz woing.

bwDraco

Why on bloody Earth are you trying to do this? Pro editions of desktop Windows are limited to two sockets, you'll need Windows Server. Single-threaded workloads will perform poorly as clock frequencies will be low; many enterprise workloads, like OLTP, are massively parallel which is why these sorts of servers exist. Besides, these sorts of systems are meant to be left unattended in a datacenter and hence are typically designed without regard for noise output. Expect to get hearing damage after a few days with the system. — bwDraco 11 secs ago

Anonymous

23:43

by any change do any of you dominate bash well?

Anonymous

I'm trying to solve a simpl-ish problem, but I suck at bash's arcane syntax

Anonymous

(f* you clippy)

Bob

@PatoSáinz don't make me !!meta you! :P

Anonymous

I almost can't remember Cavil's commands

Anonymous

!!meta

ChatBot John Cavil

23:46

@PatoSáinz Please don't ask to ask; if you simply ask your actual question, we will help you if we know the answer or can help you find it. This is much faster and simpler than asking if it's OK to ask. As a rule, it is always OK to ask in this channel. Please go ahead.

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 yes. This is something I occasionally wake up in the morning and realise

Anonymous

I meta'd myself

bwDraco

I also doubt you have the electrical power to run one of these machines. Here in the US, these kinds of servers are typically designed for 20A sockets and assume a UPS and other fancy power equipment. In some cases, you may need a specialty outlet such as NEMA L5-30R, which is almost never found in residential environments. — bwDraco 8 secs ago

Bob

@PatoSáinz anyway, yea, you might as well ask the bash Q

<== def no expert, but hacking at it is fun

Anonymous

So, I have this script and I need to write its stdout and stderr both to stdout and stderr and to a variable that their content combined (most probably doing exec 2>&hgkghok juju magic)

Anonymous

23:48

There's a catch, though

Anonymous

I have no filesystem, so no temp files and no fifos

Anonymous

Everything must be done within the script itself

Anonymous

It's been a problem I've spent the whole day fighting with

Bob

@bwDraco Uhm. You realise that question was asked four years ago, right?

Anonymous

@Bob it's a posthumous comment. There's no such thing as necromancing in SE, right? :)

Bob

23:50

(also, 120V20A is only 2400W, which is pretty standard with 240V10A)

Anonymous

^(assuming a perfect power factor)

Bob

(also, you definitely don't need 2400W, or even 1000W, just to run quad-CPU)

bwDraco

I know, I know.

Bob

@PatoSáinz wait. how do you have no filesystem? o.O

do you have /tmp at least? that's in-memory

Anonymous

@PatoSáinz that stores their content*

bwDraco

23:51

But these sorts of servers typically require NEMA 5-20 power outlets.

Anonymous

@Bob nope, not even /tmp

Journeyman Geek

morning

Anonymous

It's running very early in boot

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek mornin'

Journeyman Geek

@PatoSáinz I consider myself a petty dabbler ;p

Bob

23:52

@PatoSáinz even then... pretty sure bash needs some semblence of a FS to work o.O

Anonymous

@Bob well I lied, I have read-only filesystems

bwDraco

That's uncommon at best in residential environments, typically found only in kitchens that use electric ranges.

Anonymous

so rules still apply, no tempfiles, no fifos

Anonymous

and it's been a living hell

Bob

@PatoSáinz do you have /dev? specifically, /dev/fd/?

Anonymous

23:53

I can't seem to conjure up the right lines in the script to get it to work, and most answers assume using files

Anonymous

@Bob hmm, will test

Anonymous

wait, nevermind

Anonymous

it's before udev

Anonymous

so no

Bob

wtf

Journeyman Geek

23:53

@PatoSáinz definately a SU or U&L question

Bob

but

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

how do you access file descriptors other than 1, 2, 3?

Anonymous

but surely exec can redirect stdout and stderr to a variable (it can redirect to named pipes)

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco I think I have a 20A/240V socket in my bedroom

Bob

23:54

@PatoSáinz do you have /dev/tty?

Anonymous

@Bob hmm, no idea how to reply to that. Let's try anyway

Bob

do you care that stdout and stderr remain separate?

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek That's probably for a room air conditioner or heater.

Journeyman Geek

yup

Bob

or do you just want both combined in a var, and both combined on screen?

Journeyman Geek

23:55

though quite often, they don't bother and just go with a standard 13A socket of the gods (tm)

Anonymous

@Bob combined in var, separate on console

Bob

gah

whyyyyyyyyyyy

Anonymous

because it has to do with logging and stuff

Anonymous

a clusterf* but there's no better way

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek will ask if chat fails

Anonymous

23:56

@Bob let's try using /dev/ fds anyway

Anonymous

and see if it works

Anonymous

I know this works: exec 7>&1 1> >(tee -a /logfile.log) 2>&1, but of course nothing gets written to the file because the fs is read-only

Anonymous

so that's why I need it to store it in a var for when the fs is remounted

Journeyman Geek

@AnimeshAshish I think the general rule here is its ok to discuss piracy related current affairs, but if you must pirate, you should be smart enough to find your own sources, and not talk about it here.

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