Root Access

Journeyman Geek

08:01

and anyway, many of their concepts don't make it to market, and often not without massive changes

Rahul2001

08:12

Oh, FFS, not again... youtube.com/watch?v=DLzxrzFCyOs

djsmiley2k

can't click

care to explain?

omg I must be tired today, I've got multiple pains around my body yey

Am I the only person who develops random pains when tired?

Rahul2001

@djsmiley2k Check it out later

@djsmiley2k Nah, me too sometimes, but only when I've been up for like 20 hours or something

djsmiley2k

@Rahul2001 I will if I remember, tho that's like 10+ hrs away

hah

I've been up for 2

I noticed it's the tiredness after I got the CPAP machine, and found if I got a good nights sleep I wasn't randomly in pain!

but now, when they start hurting, I go 'oh, last night I didn't sleep well'

so I'm unsure if the connection is real or not.

Google says Fibromylgia as always :/

Rahul2001

> What if Hershey's only named them kisses so a middle schooler could ask his girlfriend if she wanted a kiss and then have the chocolate in his pocket as a back up plan in case she declined?

Genius!

djsmiley2k

!

What if they did this as a sales ploy to make sure millions of schoolboys brought them?

Rahul2001

08:20

Well, I love the taste anyway

djsmiley2k

it's one of those weird things

if someone diagnosed me with fibro... then i'd feel a lot better

because it'd at least explain wtf has been going on most of my life

Burgi

08:35

morning

Rahul2001

Hi!

Burgi

you've changed...

is this a much more dour, serious and grown up @Rahul2001?

Rahul2001

27 mins ago, by Rahul2001

Oh, FFS, not again... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLzxrzFCyOs

You think? xD

Burgi

@Rahul2001 oh hey rick astley! i love this song!

NEVER GOING TO GIIIIVE YOOOU UP!!!!!

Journeyman Geek

quite frankly

that is not the worst horror the internet can throw up

in fact

Foo Fighters Rick Roll Westboro Baptist Church

►

it can be cool to rickroll people ;p

Rahul2001

08:45

@JourneymanGeek Yes!

Journeyman Geek

however

Burgi

does it count if rick astley does it himself?

Rahul2001

@Burgi I've seen that vid

Journeyman Geek

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition

►

Burgi

@Rahul2001 did you get a girl pregnant or something?

Rahul2001

08:51

@Burgi lol, no

Burgi

is it just a thing indian parents do?

Journeyman Geek

Dating is a pretty foreign concept outside the movies in many communities ;p

Rahul2001

@Burgi It's not actually what you think it's like at all

@Burgi artofliving.org/youth-empowerment-seminar-yes

Journeyman Geek

though I think its more likely due to an obsession with grades than locking up your horses, so to speak.

@Rahul2001 why's it all white folks ._.

WHY CANNOT THEY GET INDIANS IN STOCK PHOTOS?

My sense of second hand national pride is offended.

Rahul2001

I swear... Stock photos need to be more global

djsmiley2k

08:57

23

Q: How to tell my parents I want to marry my girlfriend

Background info I'm a 20 y/o guy living with my parents in the Netherlands. When I was 16, I unintentionally met an American girl online whom I fell in love with and we have had a great relationship for 3 years now. We've seen each other a lot of times (usually 3 times per year for around 3 week...

here go you...

allquixotic

@Bob holy crap, it works :D

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek do you get tertiary national pride when england is mentioned?

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi naw.

Bristol, on the other hand....

Burgi

> a wretched hive of scum and villianary

;)

Journeyman Geek

lol

djsmiley2k

09:12

@JourneymanGeek dat bridge

Journeyman Geek

In clifton?

and that ship

and there's a HMV dog statue if you know the city well enough

Rahul2001

reddit.com/user/rogersimon10 JUMPER CABLES EVERYWHERE!!!!!!

Journeyman Geek

....

totally not the sort of stuff I want to read about ._.

Rahul2001

That guy has like 100 comments, each at least two paragraphs long and in different contexts, and ALL OF THEM HAVE HIS DAD BEATING HIM WITH A SET OF JUMPER CABLES.

Journeyman Geek

gee. I wonder if he needs help or he's just trolling.

Burgi

09:27

they see me trollin', they go fetch the goats...

Psycogeek

could be both, dont trolls "need help"?

Journeyman Geek

Well, I actually think most trolls are sad people who clearly need to find a better hobby, and a sense of meaning in their life.

Psycogeek

(either that or one other thing to do)

djsmiley2k

@Rahul2001 woaaaaaaaaah nsfw.

Animesh Ashish

Anybody knows AOSP?

I am sorry, AOPS 😑

Art of problem solving?

djsmiley2k

09:32

you're asking that, on this site?

XD

Journeyman Geek

Step 1. Stop relying on other people to give you all the answers ;p

Animesh Ashish

Done :)

I was just wondering if my win7 could look supertechy. When I say supertechy I was planning on installing Rainmeter. Any ideas? Any other software I could proceed with. Also, Windows logon screen changer is an amazing customizayion tool. Any help?

Journeyman Geek

lol

open powershell

full screen it

there you go.

djsmiley2k

:D

Animesh Ashish

hears powershell for the first time in life

3

djsmiley2k

09:39

:O

Rahul2001

:/

djsmiley2k

Meet Ben...

he likes powershell :D

Animesh Ashish

Rainmeter is more of 'graphic' supertechy looking thing, you know.

Journeyman Geek

I actually go the opposite route.

Rahul2001

@BenN We need an intro to some of the awesome stuff that powershell can do that funnily enough you're the only person on earth who can figure out.

Mom asking me to get a haircut :(

Journeyman Geek

09:48

@AnimeshAshish my desktop looks like this

Alan Watch

you keep too much data on desktop

Journeyman Geek

I need to clear it up, I hardly actually ever see it

Rahul2001

Every month I move ctrl+x everything on my desktop to a folder called dsktp in My Documents which I never open ever again

@JourneymanGeek what's keycatcher.vbs?

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 vbscript file that's supposed to get your windows 10 key out

Rahul2001

oh, share?

Journeyman Geek

09:54

had it as a backup for a remote/walkthrough for someone rebuilding the syste,

Rahul2001

PUPPIES BATH IN 4K... xD

Journeyman Geek

pastebin.com/JixtGEw8

I cannot for the life of me remember the source

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek thewindowsclub.com/find-windows-10-product-key-using-vb-script

Journeyman Geek

presumably

@Rahul2001 4ksamples.com/category/4k

heh, the one I got the keycatcher script from was *interesting

Rahul2001

> Resource Limit Is Reached

The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.

Journeyman Geek

09:56

friend had a windows box she wanted to wipe, was all backed up but the usb ports didn't work

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek ?

Alan Watch

vbscript to extract windows 10 activation key?

Journeyman Geek

so I made a windows 10 vhd using imagex, and sent it to her, used that with rufus to create an installer and reinstalled.

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

Journeyman Geek

(since the VHD expiring wouldn't be an issue since we only needed it to make a legit installer)

@Rahul2001 ended up not needing it ;p

Rahul2001

09:57

lol

@BenN powershell "(Get-WmiObject -query ‘select * from SoftwareLicensingService’).OA3xOriginalProductKey"

Journeyman Geek

I like wmic

Rahul2001

meeeee toooooooo

Journeyman Geek

anyway, I didn't need it

also she backed up with disk2vhd so she could natively mount the old image

Alan Watch

you can't manually use windows 10 OEM key

Rahul2001

GTG to barber's :(

djsmiley2k

10:00

downgrade to win7 for free

then upgrade for free haha

(can't anymore ;( )

Alan Watch

10 is better

Animesh Ashish

@JourneymanGeek : Couldn't understand a thing about getting a win10 activator. Isn't this 'piracy' and we shouldnt talk about.

Rahul2001

@djsmiley2k microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade

Journeyman Geek

@AnimeshAshish this is a tool for getting out the key in your system for a reinstall

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish Nah, this is having a valid key, but reinstalling windows, so needing the key again

Alan Watch

10:02

for OEM installation?

Journeyman Geek

In this case the 'client' needed to do a reinstall, but it was remote, and I wanted a failsafe in case her entirely legitimate upgraded copy of windows 10 didn't activate automatically

@AlanWatch naw, she built her own PC

djsmiley2k

@Rahul2001 tut tut.

Alan Watch

I've a tool ShowKey plus..it reads Windows 10 key

Journeyman Geek

(though in this case, she's typically an excellent client when I do housecalls, and this was fun/remote so ...)

Animesh Ashish

@JourneymanGeek : So did you actually 'buy' win10?

Alan Watch

10:10

you buy a laptop you buy win 10

Animesh Ashish

I have a PC.. With windows 7 aspiring to be win10.

Alan Watch

there are not much users who buy free DOS PC

djsmiley2k

I had my system running extremely slow this morning because of the disk usage constantly at 100%.
Thanks to Dan we figured out it was the Windows calculator. I would advise not to leave this app open on your PC’s/laptops.

^ This is the kinda thing I deal with :/

Animesh Ashish

@JourneymanGeek : Too much to learn from the screenshot of your 'desktop'. May I know the screensize you have?

Journeyman Geek

10:31

@AnimeshAshish dual 2160p

@AnimeshAshish I upgraded 4-5 systems with windows 7 and 8

and got two system with it preinstalled, one of which dosen't actually run windows.

I did not buy any retail copies of windows 10, no

@AlanWatch heh. actually, I probably would do that if I was building a pure linux laptop.

I'd rather do it myself, and it lets me at least check if it boots

@AnimeshAshish so to answer your question, I'm not running anything pirated on my system right now ;p

Rahul2001

Oct 1 '16 at 20:45, by Rahul2001

Let us say I bought a software licence for X... Now X doesn't have a portable version, so I download an unofficial one which is technically pirated, but I have a valid licence. I then go to my permanent software installation, and copy the DLL which has the software key, and replace the pirated one which came with the portable version... Am I breaking the law?

Not sure if I'm running pirated software

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 I have very few requirements for software that's like that.

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek Photoshop. I need to use it in school sometimes

Journeyman Geek

I do actually pull out my old laptop just for using msword 2010 starter...

but the rest of my workflow is free software (as in beer or puppies)

Though technically I ought to get a sublime text licence

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek Why do you need msword 2010 starter?

Journeyman Geek

10:40

@Rahul2001 cause LO sucks ~~sometimes~~

and I want to make sure my resume renders properly on MS word

Rahul2001

Ah, I make my resumes in html, and then convert to doc and pdf

Markdown, actually

markdownpad.com

Journeyman Geek

I use a layout I originally got from google docs

but working on that's a pain sometimes

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : What do you make resumes for? Job?

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish Internships

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : Ever been in an internship?

Rahul2001

10:51

@AnimeshAshish yes

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : Can you name some?

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish I had one with Pavan Duggal (Cyber security lawyer)

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : What do they look for in you so as to allow you to act as an intern in their firm/company?

asking it as general

Not in particular

djsmiley2k

@Rahul2001 pretty sure you don't need to.

If you do, the school should provide a licenced version for you to use

Bob

@Rahul2001 Ah, eyesore-website-dude.

Rahul2001

11:13

@Bob Yes

@djsmiley2k School told me to make my own

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k - should, not always do ;p

@MichaelFrank superuser.com/questions/1164902/… go post this as an answer.

Rahul2001

Onebox doesn't show the "see full text" option

@Bob Click ----> chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/118?m=30287161#30287161

Oh, you were there during that chat

Jun 11 '16 at 10:34, by Bob

I hope that facial recognition advances to the point where I start getting tagged in the background of travel photos posted by complete strangers.

djsmiley2k

11:29

@JourneymanGeek That doesn't make it right.

:D

@Rahul2001 I do.

Or the point at which it shows I do have a droppleganger

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k beats me - I've used paint.net for years

I did find MSDNAA/dreamspark awesome when I was a student tho

Rahul2001

I love paint.net

Journeyman Geek

its the only graphics software that's intuitive to me ;p

Rahul2001

11:48

I just made this!

Journeyman Geek

lol

I did this back in the day sites.google.com/site/faileasgreywolf/geek.gif

annoyingly I can't seem to log in there

that's the first site I was ever mod on ;p

Bob

@Rahul2001 I haven't seen those in 15 years

Rahul2001

12:28

How can I tell if this all-in-one PC has a 4K display?

Journeyman Geek

..... A link may be a start....

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek No, the PC is in front of me

Journeyman Geek

Oh. Check the maximum resolution you can set?

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek 1920 * 1080

That's 4K, right?

Journeyman Geek

No.

That's full HD

Aka 1080p

DavidPostill

12:34

4K resolution

4K resolution, also called 4K, refers to a horizontal resolution on the order of 4,000 pixels and vertical resolution on the order of 2,000 pixels. Several 4K resolutions exist in the fields of digital television and digital cinematography. In the movie projection industry, Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) is the dominant 4K standard. In television and consumer media, 4K UHD or UHD-1 is the dominant 4K standard. By 2015, 4K television market share had increased greatly as prices fell dramatically during 2014 and 2015. By 2025, more than half of US households are expected to have a 4K-capable TV...

4K is 2160p

Journeyman Geek

Yup

DavidPostill

3840 × 2160

Rahul2001

Um, 1080p is good enough for me :P

Journeyman Geek

Or UHD

Lol

4k is overkill. Till you've seen it

DavidPostill

Or 4096 × 2160 if you go for the DCI 4K resolution standard

Journeyman Geek

12:36

Yup. Which is fairly uncommon.

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek I suppose it depends on whether you are buying a 4K monitor or a 4K TV?

Bob

@Rahul2001 count the pixels

if you count about 4000 across, then it's 4k

or an ultrawide

Journeyman Geek

Both are UHD mostly.

@Bob lol

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek So 1080i is not full HD? ;P

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg I was thinking 720p and 1600x800

Hennes

12:45

interlaced? I would consider 1080i the same and 540p

Journeyman Geek

I think my dad's TV is 1080i

(and or big tv is 640x480, but plasma)

Oliver Salzburg

I just find it confusing that the "p" is suddenly used to denote resolution

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg and that dosen't really matter cause I doubt LCDs work line by line ;p

Oliver Salzburg

But then again, everything is abused to affect sales. When you're talking about resolution, 3840 suddenly equals 4K and your 931GB SSD equals 1TB

Journeyman Geek

yup

Oliver Salzburg

12:54

The other day I saw a video where someone mentioned that no part of a 2.5" SSD is actually 2.5"

Bob

@OliverSalzburg They fit in a 2.5" bay. Good enough.

Also I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be diagonal size.

Journeyman Geek

94

A: What are the differences between 2.5" and 3.5" hard disks?

The 2.5 and 3.5 are inches and they usually designate the diameter of the disk itself and not the housing. The enclosure will (of course) always be larger than that. 1.8 inch: Outer measure 2.12 in × 0.314 in × 2.795 in (54 mm × 8 mm × 71 mm). These can be used for Solid State Drives but the di...

Apparently its 'traditional' platter size

Oliver Salzburg

Journeyman Geek

and don't forget Z heights

which naturally... are in mm.

Hennes

I remember harddisk, 5 1/4 inch full hight, about 10MB

Journeyman Geek

12:57

yup

Hennes

(10MB designed, track 0 failed so we rewired the head for platter 3 to platter 0)

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek wut

no

2.5 fit in a 2.5 inch bay

3.5 fit in a 3.5 inch bay

/me face palms

Oliver Salzburg

The bay is called like that because of the size of the platter of the drives that used to go in there

It's not the dimensions of the bay

Animesh Ashish

Can anyone tell me if there is a modded app (in a legit/better/eased) of chat.stckexchange? Anyone uses it? Any open source?

djsmiley2k

it's not?!

but. but...

what size IS the bay?

That Brazilian Guy

13:05

Oliver Salzburg

@djsmiley2k Surprisingly, it's the same dimensions as the drive ;P

That Brazilian Guy

~~Sometimes~~ All the time I feel like, at some point, I've been switched with an alternative version of myself fom an universe where all the print and online media is really, really dumb.

djsmiley2k

@OliverSalzburg ...

which is?

not 2.5inch appently

XD

That Brazilian Guy

@Rahul2001 Wait, weren't you 16 recently? Now you're 15 again?

Kids those days! So confused they can't know even their age...

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k For 2.5″ bays, actual dimensions are 2.75″ wide by 0.197 to 0.750″ high and 3.955" deep (69.85 mm × 5 to 19.05 mm × 100.45 mm).

3.5″ bays, like their larger counterparts, are named after diskette dimensions; their actual dimensions are 4″ wide by 1″ high (102 mm × 25 mm).

djsmiley2k

13:10

whaaaaaaaaaa

mind blown

ok so I have the windows 7 ISO to try and repair this install now

DavidPostill

Who flagged @ThatBrazilianGuy's post!?

djsmiley2k

3 mins ago, by djsmiley2k

not 2.5inch appently

I'm supprised no one flagged this xD

That Brazilian Guy

@DavidPostill I flagged myself accidentally .___.

djsmiley2k

ROFL

the system captures self flags?

That Brazilian Guy

And there's no "cancel flag" =/

DavidPostill

13:11

@ThatBrazilianGuy LOL. Good job I didn't accept the flag then :)

Oliver Salzburg

@djsmiley2k I just posted a picture of a table

That Brazilian Guy

@djsmiley2k Captures and processes and all the other stuff, apparently

djsmiley2k

@OliverSalzburg mind BLOWWWWWWWWWWWWN

DavidPostill

Drive bay

A drive bay is a standard-sized area for adding hardware to a computer. Most drive bays are fixed to the inside of a case, but some can be removed. Over the years since the introduction of the IBM PC, it and its compatibles have had many form factors of drive bays. Four form factors are in common use today, the 5.25", 3.5", 2.5" or 1.8" drive bays. These names do not refer to the width of the bay itself, but rather to the width of the disks used by the drives mounted in these bays. == Form factors == === 8.0″ === 8.0″ drive bays were found in early IBM computers, CP/M computers, and the...

djsmiley2k

wow wow wow

How did I not actually know this o_O

Oliver Salzburg

13:13

@djsmiley2k At the next party, you can bring up the topic and then convince everybody that it is like that because people use metric inches

djsmiley2k

Haha

That Brazilian Guy

@OliverSalzburg Tell me where this very interesting party will be so I can stay away from it ;P

HEY WHO STOLE MY HAT!!!!

@JourneymanGeek hmm.... shio pan....

Journeyman Geek

Lol

Bob

13:30

huh, youtube does 1080p50

Journeyman Geek

yup

IIRC eevblog is recorded in that

Rahul2001

Is there an way to extract files from cabinet files from cmd?

Journeyman Geek

hm

researchbin.blogspot.sg/2012/05/…

Burgi

@Rahul2001 powershell?

Rahul2001

@Burgi Not an option, batch file might be run on xp

I'm using consolesoft.com/p/bhx (which is awesome!!!)

Burgi

13:44

powershell is on xp...

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 expand.exe or extrac32, as per that link

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek yes

Journeyman Geek

I was thinking cabextract, but that's linux only

Burgi

support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/968929

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