Root Access

Hennes

00:01

Regarding semicolomns. I love to surprise people with C code like this:
{
a = A +1
;b=B+1
}

Anonymous

which one:
if (something && other_thing) {
... #stuff
} else {
... #more stuff
}

Anonymous

or

Hennes

For readabilu I tend to write if ( (something) && (other_thing) )

Anonymous

if (something && other_thing) {
... } else {
... }

Hennes

But many people always write a ; at the end of the line, even if there is no next line

Anonymous

00:08

@Hennes that many redundant parentheses, it looks like LISP

Hennes

I learned it the hard way

if art.FMS000_MNSA001.selected then returnvalue:=false; endif;
That works in EPAL.

if art.FMS000_NMSA001.quantity>5 then returnvalue:=false; endif; does not work.

The latter evaluates as
if art.FMS000_NMSA001.quantity
>5 then returnvalue:=false; endif; does not work

Anonymous

well I probably know nothing about syntactic suger because I love perl

Hennes

Neither perl or PHP need to be bad. Both can be.

All you need is a silly or stupid programmer

Franky, almost no language helps vs stupidity.

Anonymous

@Hennes yea, what I mean is that I like it better over than ruby or ~~whitespace: the language~~ python

Hennes

I tend to like languages with enforced rules.
It means code from other languages and code from me will have the same style.

Or at least, will not be widly different.

Anonymous

00:22

@Hennes well perl def isn't one of those

Anonymous

there's perl critic tho which is kind of a linter

bwDraco

Some mprime oddities on this old HP laptop. The machine halts (on, but screen turns black and everything stops) when on the AC adapter, but doesn't do the same on battery (even at full clock speed). This looks a heck of a lot like an electrical overload...

Also, decided to jam the fan with mprime running to see what would happen. The processor runs up to about 95-95 C and gets heavily throttled. With a graphically-intensive workload, the machine thermally shuts down at about 110 C.

...and I get the "Thermal shutdown occurred" message when I turn the system back on.

Hennes

Wow, 110C. I am not use to seeing CPUs run that hot.
The last one which came close (near 100C all the time) was a 486 with ESIX and on average 40 users logged in.

bwDraco

> Thermal shutdown occurred

The System BIOS has detected that your notebook PC was put into hibernation or shutdown to avoid overheating. The system is now operating normally.

Overheating may occur if the cooling vents are blocked or the operating temperate exceeds the specifications. The notebook PC should return to normal operation once the situation is resolved.

System Temperature (90D)

Anonymous

@Hennes Isn't a bit too high?

Hennes

00:35

It was.

Anonymous

I swear most CPUs' TJmax is way below that

Hennes

Single tower. Several EIDE and SCSI drives. Air tunnel from the front of the case to the CPU fan so it got cold (25C-ish) air to cool the CPU.

Was around 1993

bwDraco

Processor starts at 2 GHz, throttles down to 800 MHz, but that isn't enough to trigger a shutdown. If I run an OpenGL game like Chromium B.S.U. in the background to stress the GPU as well, the system temperature continues to climb gradually, eventually shutting down the machine at about 110 C.

Hennes

I remember donating a 68MiB Rodine SCSI drive. Half to be used for all the users. Half to expand my homedir

Heh. GHz, this was measured in MHZ.

Probaly 33Mhz, though it might have been 25Mhz

Less than 1MHz per person logged in.

bwDraco

For whatever reason, Linux sees the critical temperature at 115 C.

The system does not get a chance to gracefully shut down.

Anonymous

00:40

bwDraco

On my really old eMachines desktop, I managed to trigger a thermal shutdown in a similar manner, but Linux had gracefully shut down in that case (Critical temperature reached (### C), shutting down).

Anonymous

of course AMD: no driver

Hennes

Intel: no driver either (not in this era)

bwDraco

@PatoSáinz It's AMD K10 on this laptop.

Phenom II N930, 4C @ 2.0 GHz.

Hennes

That probably measures it megaherts in 3 or more digits. :)

Anonymous

00:41

try changing the thermal paste? I dunno

Hennes

First make sure it has thermal paste

Many laptop ship with a thermal pad.

NOT fun when you have spare paste and it turns out to be a pad

Anonymous

@Hennes I'm so happy Windows installation images have finally stopped asking me for the Intel SATA and EHCI chipset driver

Hennes

Oh, windows 10 still does ask

Anonymous

@Hennes it was with W10 that it's stopped happening to me

Hennes

I tried to install it in AHCI mode on an ICH9 chipset. FAIL.
It worked in IDE/legacy mode

Anonymous

00:43

in various machines of various ages

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco eMachines there's your problem

Hennes

I think I got the right driver now. the ICH9 F6 floppy image

Anonymous

ugh ide in 2017

bwDraco

This laptop is made by HP.

Hennes

Worse. IDE mode on an SSD

Anonymous

00:43

we use them only for boot drives in my company

Anonymous

because they're so damn resilient

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco HP kinda had a period of crappymess too

bwDraco

The old desktop was Socket AM2 and had an NVIDIA nForce chipset.

Hennes

I dislike the NVIDIA nForce chipset. It seemed fine under windows but was Hell on Earth (tm) on BSD

bwDraco

It was later retrofitted with a dual-core Socket AM3 processor (yes, AM3 processors fit in AM2 sockets!) for higher performance.

(Not AM3+, though.)

Hennes

00:45

Had to add PCI USB cards, PCI HW RAID (no working SATA), PCI NIC, ...

bwDraco

The machine had SATA (stock hard drive was 160 GB) but also one PATA channel; managed to read an ancient 4 GB WD hard drive this way.

Journeyman Geek

whippersnappers. Back in the day, drives did not have integrated electronics!

Hennes

9

A: Windows Update not working on Windows 2012 R2 Standard

Two of my three 2012R2 machines exhibited this behavior last April. They would hang at Checking for updates... forever. I never learned exactly what caused the problem, but I did get it resolved by doing the following: Stop the Windows Update service. net stop wuauserv Delete the Windows Upd...

Windiows update === FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL

2

bwDraco

Windows was never run on that machine. The machine shipped with Windows Vista Home Basic but was replaced with openSUSE out of the box.

Hennes

@JourneymanGeek Been there. Compaq 386SX=-16MHz, 8x256KB and and MFM disk (cables from the darn heads to the controller card!)

that was 40MB MFM

Sane are (1990). 10MB MFM drives connected to an Amiga 500 via its zorro slot.
One platters had failed, so we rewired head 3 to head 0 and used it as a 7.5 MB drive

bwDraco

00:49

The first desktop I remember using had a P5 Pentium running at 200 MHz.

Hennes

That was the advantage of no integrated stuff

Journeyman Geek

lol

bwDraco

I still remember setting DMA, IRQ, and I/O addresses for old DOS games.

Hennes

6810 @ 980KHz,
386SX-16MHz
486-25MHz
486-40MHz
68030@50MHz (with 25Mhz 68881 FPU)
68030@50MHz (with 50Mhz 68882 FPU)
486DX4 a@ 100MHz
AMD K6 @ 200MHz
AMD Kk2 @ 300MHz
dual celeron 366MHz
dual celeron 466MHz
dual amd 2200+
AMD 4600 (dual core!!!)
Intel i7 920
Skylake pentium and i5-6600K

Fun to find all the jumper combinations when you added a new card.

Journeyman Geek

I'm only on PC 6 at the moment

not counting the laptops

bwDraco

00:52

Spent a lot of time playing Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri on a slightly newer 700 MHz AMD Duron (K7) machine.

Hennes

oh, I did not mention laptops nor 1U servers

Journeyman Geek

I'm on laptop 4, not counting 2 handmedowns

Hennes

Just desktops

Journeyman Geek

XT clone, 486dx2 66, PII (233), PIV (x2), core 2 duo (can't remember the clockspeed, still have it), ivy bridge core i7

bwDraco

Had an old Windows 95 laptop with 8 MB (!) of RAM but mostly unknown specs that wound up getting destroyed.

Hennes

00:54

oh, I got an XT clone, but I never used it.

Mostly got it after the AMD4600+ as an old oddity

Journeyman Geek

I'm still pissed my dad threw that out

bwDraco

Back to the eMachines desktop, it came with an Athlon 64 LE-1640 (single-core Orleans K8 @ 2.6 GHz). It was later replaced with an Athlon X2 270 (2C Regor K10 @ 3.4 GHz).

Looking at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…, it's hard to believe that AMD released one last revision of that K10 chip (Athlon X2 280) as recently as 2013, operating at 3.6 GHz.

Father's desktop, now more than nine years old, has an Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (2C Windsor K8 @ 2.6 GHz) and 4 GB of DDR2 memory. The processor was never replaced; the HSF has never even been removed, although the graphics card was upgraded several times.

Heck, the PSU is still the stock OEM unit, 250W IIRC.

The only system in this house that's even remotely recent is my laptop, with a Core i7-4800MQ processor (4C/8T Haswell @ 2.7-3.7 GHz).

The upcoming desktop build will have either a Kaby Lake (7th generation Intel Core) or Zen (AMD Ryzen) processor.

user367890

02:02

How to make ref. cells show as empty in LibreOffice? E.g. =IF(A1=1;$DATA.A1;$DATA.A2)

This show as 0

Not empty

Have tried to search for it, but guess my search is faulty as I do not find any Q/A.

Though I believe this has to have been asked; zum zum.

The document is in XLSX though. Guess that limits the fun.

Journeyman Geek

> Have tried to search for it, but guess my search is faulty as I do not find any Q/A.

Which means there's no duplicate and you can ask a question on the main site.

Which is excellent

user367890

Hmm. OK. I will give it a go.

user367890

02:37

Found it here:

14

Q: Display Blank when Referencing Blank Cell in Excel 2010

I have an Excel 2010 workbook that contains a number of individual worksheets. The cells on one of the sheets are linked to individual cells on two other worksheets in the same workbook. I'm using a direct cell reference that essentially says that whatever value is entered into a particular cell...

As in =A2 & ""

Part of the problem is undefined though as it only show formula. Had to delete entire row to make it work.

Tried re-format (all formats), delete (of cell), etc. but it only showed formula and not “result”

Well. Solved at least, though I guess the (real) issue is going to enter the realm of left socks.

As in why it did not work without deleting everything.

Not only cell.

I actually tried &"" (rel.) long time ago. 45 mins +. But it did not correct the issue, so I thought it was no soloution.

Ach. Wasted time.

Else?

OK. Thanks. OK. :))

Hennes

Got It Graded Before It Got Degraded:

Teacher: “Okay, I’ve got your last test graded. Raise your hand when I call your name.”

(I get mine back when I notice something odd on my paper.)

Me: “Umm, Mr. [Teacher]? I think there’s cat hair on my test.”

Teacher: “Yeah, the snow meant I couldn’t head to the coffee shop to grade, and my cat tried to help. Speaking of, Ms. [Student #1], here’s your test.”

(He hands her a written exam, which looks normal, and a multiple choice scantron, which looks shredded.)

I can see see that in my minds eye

bwDraco

03:01

Community ad with that funky optical illusion made me install it :P

user367890

03:13

It is actually the (native) logo for GNU parallel ;)

Bob

03:45

@allquixotic @JourneymanGeek we still on for tomorrow?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob barring unforseen circumstances, yes

bwDraco

04:14

This old laptop is horrifically inefficient. The lightest workload will make the exhaust vent very warm at best.

MathCubes

Anyone know Batch?

bwDraco

I can do a tiny bit of Windows batch scripting, but I'm not great at it.

MathCubes

Can you tell me why %val% isn't subtracting by one?

@echo off
set vtime=3
set /a stime=%vtime%
set val=3
:B
for /l %%x in (1, 1, %val%) do (
timeout /t %vtime%
echo %val%
set /a val-=1
echo %%x
)
Pause

bwDraco

I wouldn't be able to help with that :(

MathCubes

It works for other varibles

Okay

user367890

05:18

@MathCubes: It is subtracting by one, but yo have to expand it.

Try echo !val!

MathCubes

Really

user367890

Or echo %val% after closing loop )

Oh ... and for it to work you need to add:

setlocal enableDelayedExpansion

MathCubes

Thanks

I had that but thought it was unneeded

What does that do?

and the ! instead of %

user367890

(For it “to work” inside the loop)

MathCubes

Oh

It was really confusing me because it was working outside of the loop, so I just thought about adding another variable and making a like a loop withthose two

user367890

05:23

I'll try to find some res.

It has been ages since i did .bat

MathCubes

Same like 5 years

user367890

The variables that are set within the block, has to be expanded using delayed expansion (whilst in the block) when you echo them.

bwDraco

My old laptop's battery has awfully high internal resistance. At seemingly normal voltages (~11V), if I put a tiny (<5W) load on it, it will drop below 10V.

user367890

Believe this might be of interest:

8

A: Arithmetic inside a for loop batch file

Environment variables need not be expanded to use in a SET /A statement. But FOR variables must be expanded. Also, even if your computation worked, the ECHO would fail because percent expansion takes place when a statement is parsed, and the entire FOR construct is parsed at once. So the value o...

bwDraco

It's pretty much dying.

It also runs really hot, another sign of high internal resistance (and hence wear).

Battery shuts down at 8.6V, or about 2.9V a cell.

user367890

05:31

@MathCubes: Also, perhaps, if you read help set section:

Delayed environment variable expansion is useful for getting around
the limitations of the current expansion which happens when a line
of text is read, not when it is executed.  The following example …

MathCubes

Thanks

Journeyman Geek

05:46

woof

Psycogeek

06:19

Rahul2001

Mornin'

CaffeineAddiction

06:50

@JourneymanGeek hey, I have an odd post on security.stackexchange ... I am about to make a massive edit to it but want a second opinion before I do it

you got a sec?

Journeyman Geek

@CaffeineAddiction >_>

why me?

(I don't remember who you are, and why I should be asked"

CaffeineAddiction

because you have a diamond next to your name

Journeyman Geek

I'm not a security.se regular

CaffeineAddiction

I checked my normal haunts first ... but its pretty dead on a friday

djsmiley2k

yawwwwwwwwwwwn

saturday, working :<

CaffeineAddiction

06:52

it wont matter, need a mod opinion not a se opinion

0

Q: I live in a homeless hostel and the manager has installed a VERY invasive spyware on my computer

I'm sure there are very similar questions being asked. My situation is unique in that this sort of thing has happened to me before, but with significantly more malice. It seems one argument with a boyfriend and suddenly I lose access to my emails and my professional emails are getting ilicit emai...

spyware

Journeyman Geek

ok, that's a bit odd, and I'm curious

CaffeineAddiction

changing it to """I believe that there is a very sophisticated piece of spyware on my laptop. I have attempted to block it from the internet, however, it seems to be gaining access anyway. I can barely use my computer without fear of someone else reading it.

Any advice you can give would be appreciated? """

Journeyman Geek

@CaffeineAddiction I wouldn't touch it.

CaffeineAddiction

leave all the crazy intact?

Journeyman Geek

tbh, this does feel like one of the situations where I'd want a mod or CM taking a look

CaffeineAddiction

06:54

kk

ty

Journeyman Geek

right, popped it in somewhere where someone will likely take a look

might take a bit though, they don't have any mods in my timezone

I'd recommend a flag as well

djsmiley2k

07:07

@CaffeineAddiction ok i gave it a 5 second review

keep stuff on security.se 'strictly business'

no one cares about your 25th birthday, etc

Oh, it's not your post

CaffeineAddiction

naw, i was going to edit it ... w/ a match

see quote above

that is what I was going to replace it with

but I might just save it for a mod to review

Journeyman Geek

I'm still confused about this ;p

@CaffeineAddiction The thing here is there's something odd and its better to leave it as is since this might be a cry for help

CaffeineAddiction

yah

djsmiley2k

welp then I hope they go get some help

but i son't see how sec.se is gonna help

Journeyman Geek

Though most of the time when people get paranoid, it gets closed/nuked here

but the ones we get are far more paranoid

CaffeineAddiction

07:11

well, se is all about security

sometimes healthy paranoia is good

Journeyman Geek

in a broader sense though

CaffeineAddiction

but im not sure this guy is well

Journeyman Geek

healthy

No offense, but he's trying a little to hard to convince himself that its true

Your advice is pretty good

Psycogeek

advice=opinion while there is a question, the user needs to cover specific questions that can be answered , IF he had gotten help on moving foreward with addressing specific issues one at a time, he might not be or stay so freaked out

Journeyman Geek

now if I was paranoid I would totally buy a random burner laptop from a random store, USB boot it off tails....

looks around

actually, other than my razer, (and my x220 was a corporate purchase unaffliated to me), that's true of most of my machines ;p

@CaffeineAddiction also note he hasn't said WHAT this program is

and all his screenshots are standard mac tools

CaffeineAddiction

07:18

yah

macs are usualy pretty hard to infect too

not impossible ... but deff not as easy as say windows xp

Journeyman Geek

looking at the overall context, not sure any modly actions would actually help

lol

looks around

10, 10, 10, haiku...

(for comic value, I also have a fedora box, and the haiku box has a lubuntu dualboot)

CaffeineAddiction

nifty

djsmiley2k

jesus smokey is so fast

i guess it was smokey anyway

Journeyman Geek

lol

djsmiley2k

i litterally clicked 'flag' and it came up with the 'this question has been deleted'

Journeyman Geek

07:22

@djsmiley2k I might have jokingly bitched to artofcode about that

I caught a spammer 30 seconds after posting. Smokey was three seconds faster

CaffeineAddiction

yah, charcoal-hq is normally where I hang out ... its usually a race to see who can click it first

Journeyman Geek

lol

I insist on doing things the old fashioned way ;)

CaffeineAddiction

always a good thing, considering that smokey runs on a raspberry pi some days

Psycogeek

Sometimes it is funny to see somone spill thier whole guts out to millions of people on the web , about loosing thier privacy :-) seen that more than once. Including a person who was trying to figure out what to do about people who were sending stuff to the e-mail, then posting the e-mail on the web to get help with that.

depending on the skill of the person, they could look quite crasy, but they just have no concept. In that case telling them they need professional mental help, when they need professional computer help , , doesnt help

djsmiley2k

@Psycogeek xD

they need some help, that much is clear

and I doubt they are going to get it on here unfortunately :/

-1

Q: What tool can block my *computer* 22 hours a day? (for rehab)

I'm an internet/distraction/computer addict. I'm trying to put myself into rehab. I'm also a computer science student. So something that is relatively harder to get rid of would be ideal. I can cheat but I wouldn't spend more than 1 hour to find a way to cheat because this addiction made me lazy....

windows windows-10 parental-controls

for example

CaffeineAddiction

07:41

answer: and off switch and some self control

Psycogeek

If next week mr homeless is in the chat, and i ask him how he is getting along with his mother. How Did You Know OMG? Uhh i am psychic right

djsmiley2k

hehe

Journeyman Geek

lol

I was looking at that

and superuser.com/questions/1167174/…

I'm tempted to answer, then close as OT ._.

OP's looking for a technical solution to a social problem

Psycogeek

speaking of no concept. one hopes he is referring to the tranciever ,or the chips or something much like some countries call a computer a CPU.

first time i was doing mass data through a phone tethering, I had failed to realise the thing was very hot. hotter than the li-ion battery would enjoy.

but 6-8g in a month is like 3 updates now.

Rahul2001

08:02

	$sm = array(
        '[!!hi]' => 'HI!',
        '[!!bye]' => 'BYE!',
    );
    foreach($sm as $rman => $img){
        $text = str_replace($rman,$img,$text);
    }

In the string $text, this should replace !!hi with HI!

But IDK why it isn't working

Bob

@MathCubes @user367890 normal batch variable expansion is performed at parse time, i.e. when it reads the line (it does read => parse => execute => read etc)

a for loop, or any other "block" enclosed in parens, is a single line for the purposes of parsing

"delayed" expansion means it expands the variable "later" (let's call it execution time)

without it, your vars are expanded once when the entire loop is parsed, but not again for the rest of the loop body

djsmiley2k

09:21

@Rahul2001 php?

Rahul2001

@djsmiley2k yeah

djsmiley2k

thought it looked familuar

you're trying to replace the key?

php.net/manual/en/function.array-keys.php

@Rahul2001 you don't echo out $text btw

you can't replace it in the array if you're not editing the array (which you're not)

Rahul2001

I do later in the code

djsmiley2k

later, as in after the foreach?

Rahul2001

yep

djsmiley2k

09:26

$sm[$rman] = str_replace....

well after hte foreach, $text doesn't exist anymore

# $text doesn't exist here
foreach($sm as $rman => $img){
    $text = str_replace($rman,$img,$text);
    << edit the array here...
}
# $text has the last value of the str_replace now

well, it exists, but only with the last value of the foreach

$arr[$newkey] = $arr[$oldkey];
unset($arr[$oldkey]);

So you want something like....

# $text doesn't exist here
foreach($sm as $rman => $img){
    $text = str_replace($rman,$img,$text);
    # << edit the array here...
    $sm[$text] = $sm[$rman];
    unset($sm[$rman]);
}
# $text has the last value of the str_replace now

there's lots of cleaner ways to do it i'm sure.

Rahul2001

okay, wow, thanks

Man, cortana from halo:ce sounds just like the win10 one

Journeyman Geek

10:06

Wouldn't be surprised if its the same voice actress

Bob

10:26

@Rahul2001 that's... kinda the point

but the other way around

hm

@JourneymanGeek here I am trying to follow some semblance of your three month rule

but at the same time I get the feeling I should just buy the parts now

(partially cause ebay has their 20% off thing going on... we'll see)

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Bob I'm planning job + 6 months to start planning on my next generation rig

Journeyman Geek

11:10

-2

Q: External 56Kbps dial-up USB modem

I'm buying an external USB 56kbps dial-up modem. Does it have to be exactly the same brand, as the computer brand I have, which is a Dell? Or can I just buy any random external USB 56kbps dial-up modem and attach it to my Dell computer?

modem

0_0

Bob

@JourneymanGeek seems a tad undeserving of the downvotes :P

oh wait the original revision O_O

superuser.com/posts/1167203/revisions

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

I mean

who even types like that?

Journeyman Geek

Old people?

Bob

...well I suppose the same people who'd ask that question

Journeyman Geek

11:20

What I'm wondering is what one would use a modem of that sort for?

faxes?

looking at his other question...

0

Q: PC only has an Ethernet port. Can I use a RJ11 to RJ45 joiner adapter and dial out?

I obtained a PC from a sale. It is a Dell Dimension 4500S PC with a internal modem, but at the back of the computer, there’s only a ethernet port and no (RJ11) phone jack port. I have dial-up internet service, can i use a RJ11 (phone line) to RJ45 (Ethernet) joiner adapter and hook it up to my...

modem

annnd allcaps

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I wanna use that bash.org thing

"try pressing the caps lock key"

Journeyman Geek

11:42

3 answers 0_0

Is that going to turn into a HNQ?

djsmiley2k

because they don't have anything else to use there?

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k I assumed most ISPs would at least to ADSL

Bob

@JourneymanGeek some remote places are satellite or dialup

djsmiley2k

hmmm

yeah

i know people on satalite

my friend in the UK only just got usable broadband (15Mb)

like, 2 months ago, prior to that he'd get less than 1Mb

Journeyman Geek

0_0

There might still be a dialup service in singapore

whaaaaat?

djsmiley2k

11:54

yus

POTS is amazing

Journeyman Geek

data.gov.sg/dataset/total-internet-dial-up

djsmiley2k

it powers itself, over it's own lines

Also, if you've got a monitoring station that just dials up once a day, sends some data and drops the connection, why do you want the added cost of adsl?

of course you could use gprs or something, but what if that goes down?

Journeyman Geek

I actually think they're trying to push everyone to VOIP. Though our phoneline is still POTS for various reasons

Bob

@djsmiley2k adsl might actually be cheaper

phone connection costs (both line rental and per-call) are sky high

djsmiley2k

also, you can do 'calls' on a modem

industial software uses it

Journeyman Geek

12:03

@djsmiley2k industrial software is also sometimes stuck on windows 9x ;p

djsmiley2k

well, yes

Bob

@JourneymanGeek s/9x/3.1/

Journeyman Geek

lol

djsmiley2k

or weird bespoke systems

Journeyman Geek

I was about to say 3.1 but wanted to play it safe ;p

Bob

14:12

Google Home is useful

►

Journeyman Geek

14:32

¬_¬

djsmiley2k

._.

Journeyman Geek

^_^

djsmiley2k

>_<

djsmiley2k

15:05

bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/38622002

gotta say, that guys got skill

jokerdino

~_~

djsmiley2k

any more snow coming I wonder?

it still looks very grey outside

oh bbc

you need to stop copy pasting other sites

'We had been in the process of shutting down prior to the lawsuit being filed and the timing is nothing more than coincidence," a spokesperson for Lily said in a phone interview with The Register, in a tone that sounded very sincere.'

I'm 99.9% sure the tone of voice thing is directly from the register

DavidPostill

15:21

hahahahaha

3

djsmiley2k

looks accurate

Rahul2001

@Burgi Did you get a chance to look at the code?

allquixotic

15:38

@DavidPostill aw man, they missed out on a huge opportunity to say "Ubuntu" for Isle of Man

DavidPostill

15:50

@allquixotic lol

Rahul2001

@allquixotic I don't get it :(

Rahul2001

16:04

When I see lovers' names carved in a tree, I don't think it's sweet.
I just think it's surprising how many people bring a knife on a date.

Dog

16:50

Rahul has a new face

Why

@Rahul2001 Keys

Rahul2001

@Dog Cuz cool lookz

Haven't spoken to you in a while...

Rahul2001

17:14

bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38561897

Rahul2001

17:28

Is this answer clear enough? superuser.com/a/1167302/432540

Rahul2001

17:50

Yay! Android Update!

HackToHell

Iridium-1 Hosted Webcast

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Dog

@Rahul2001 I haven't spoken in a while

Seems like Sandy Bridge's h264 hardware decoder has problems handling above 80Mbps, which isn't too bad considering 20Mbps was high when it came out... On the other hand Haswell's h264 hardware encoder goes up to at least 120Mbps

Oddly the iGP does about 20Mbps more than NVidia's hardware encoder on the GTX 970, though I'm not sure if that's just because it's more efficient or less capable

HackToHell

18:06

wow, the entire footage was present this spacex landing

Dog

SpaceX landed?

:-o

Heck, they launched?

HackToHell

18:23

yes and the entire footage is there

It's fucking awesome

Dog

18:35

I missed it :-(

Bleh. My S4 battery drains in less than a day if I do nothing and turn everything off except the mobile radio

If I put it in flight mode it lasts ... well... the battery has gone up by 4% in 3 days

HackToHell

gone up ... ?

Dog

18:52

> But we weren't going to spend money just to make angular shiny things on our satellites, so that phenomenon will go away - but it's been fun."

@HackToHell yup. It's actually gone up. I'm still trying to figure out what is wrong with the thing

allquixotic

@Bob Did you know that scan.coverty.com is free for open source projects with an OSI-certified license? I chucked kynnaugh-cc up there, and now I'm fixing my memory leaks based on the feedback :D super useful

djsmiley2k

19:07

was there 'two' landings?

bwDraco

20:12

@allquixotic Sorry I've been unable to work on kynnaugh-cc. If there's anything you'd like me to do, be sure to let me know. I likely won't be able to write much new code as I'm not exactly a C++ or Qt expert, but I can certainly help you review code.

A new room is ideal for this.

HackToHell

Anyone used OAuth 1.0 ?

Isn't the call back supposed to provide both the access_token and the access_token_secret ?

Goodreads API only gives access_token

nvm dump me

bwDraco

23:48

Jan 3 at 19:45, by bwDraco

I think I should tune the zram to not be so large. The system never manages to fully utilize it and the device pretty much locks up before it can be fully utilized. Maybe I'll drop it to something like 300 MB, and give it priority over the external swap...

...so, from my experience, performance starts to degrade substantially when the zram swap utilization exceeds 350 MB or so. Hence, it is now set to 300 MB, and the external swap covers any greater needs.

(cc @WHATEVERDave)

For whatever reason, USB throughput is absolute crap on my Nexus 9, doing only about 18 MB/s sequential I/O.

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