Root Access

allquixotic

08:07

@Bob LMAO

ugh, I am so sick of FGITW... remind me why I try again :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

@allquixotic early bird gets the worm. Second mouse gets the cheese.

and I often go for questions with weaker earlier answers since my answers look better next to them ;p

Boris_yo

Anyone knows how is SK Humid SSD in comparison to Samsung EVO 850?

Dang auto-correct. It's SK Hynix.

Bob

a humid SSD would probably fail pretty quick

@TOWMN I just tested Optus at 2/3 and then 130/28 by walking 40m -_-

TOWMN

08:25

@Bob Heh

I did the same without walking. By switching bands :-P

@Boris_yo Humid SSD is bad

Burgi

morning

allquixotic

1

Q: Win 10 inaccessible, stuck in 1920x1080 144Hz

I have one installation of Windows 10 which I set at 144Hz because I have an AOC G2460 monitor and a GTX970. However, the DisplayPort cable I used has apparently given up the ghost, so whenever I try to get in all the monitor shows is a black screen. I have an older Win 7 installation on a hard d...

interesting question, W10 seems to have changed the registry location of the screen res stuff, or moved it out of the registry entirely

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic hmm.force it to safemode somehow?

Rahul2001

Hellllllooooooooooooo!!

allquixotic

08:41

@JourneymanGeek I was thinking add ChangeScreenResolution.exe to startup items :P

Journeyman Geek

Ooh

Sneaky

Rahul2001

@allquixotic There's a nircmd utility which you can put in startup

allquixotic

but then I was thinking that would fail because W10 wouldn't trust the exe

Rahul2001

Make a batch file to change the res

allquixotic

it'd prompt if you trust the exe because it's never been run on the system before

designed to kinda prevent that sort of hackery

Bob

08:43

@allquixotic ...no it won't

it'd only prompt you if it has the just-downloaded ADS attached (which you can remove trivially, and is only really attached for browser downloads)

or if you have that smartscreen bs enabled, maybe. that one's just ridiculous

TOWMN

And that's only one operator

jokerdino

Did someone withdraw already?

Journeyman Geek

Yup

jokerdino

Ah, it was that person from that site.

Burgi

@TOWMN are you back to photographing cell towers?

do you photograph all of them or just interesting/unusual ones?

Rahul2001

08:55

Hm... How many mods get elected?

TOWMN

@Burgi yea. And this one is especially for you

Burgi

talk me through it

TOWMN

My phone cam resolution is too low for me to figure out what that is anyway but there's a heck of a lot of LTE RRUs

Burgi

did you lose all the ones from italy/thailand or something?

Bob

@TOWMN it's too dark out to get the local one (think it was Telstra?) but I'll see if I can find it on streetview :P

TOWMN

08:59

@Bob the one above is Telstra too. In fact most of the ones I've seen today seem to be Telstra

Burgi

The pen test has begun

Bob

@TOWMN ^

allquixotic

^ @TOWMN on a park bench taking pictures of LTE RRUs

Burgi

lol

Bob

OzTowers thinks that's a Telstra one:

>
Telstra 2G 900MHz
Telstra 3G 850MHz
Telstra 3G 2100MHz Activated 05-May-2016
Telstra 4G 700MHz Activated 27-Jun-2016
Telstra 4G 1800MHz

Burgi

09:03

they are piledriving on the building site next to the office

everything is shaking

Rahul2001

Can you not put a batch file in the startup folder? Does it have to be a shortcut to it?

Bob

@TOWMN ^ and that's the nearest one with Optus (and Vodafone and Telstra)

o.O there's one in the other direction, on a light pole...

> (Optus 2G 900MHz) Proposed 03-Dec-2004

but yea, Telstra's everywhere

Rahul2001

@allquixotic I wrote an answer, but don't have a PC to test it on: superuser.com/a/1188502/432540

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 don't you need to log in?

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek Oh. Yeah. But I guess you could just use this sequence: <spacebar> - [username] - <tab> - [password] - <enter>

My solution works if there's no password though :P

This is very crappy hack, but it should work, hopefully

Bob

09:19

@JourneymanGeek system startup reg key does not require user login

Rahul2001

@Bob But... my solution uses nircmd, and I don't think the batch file will be run till the user logs in

Bob

@Rahul2001 msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/…

> RunServices and RunServicesOnce are run in the background when the logon dialog box first appears or at this stage of the boot process if there is no logon. These keys are for background services such as remote registry service and are run only once per boot.

If you do it properly, you don't need to depend on login.

If you depend on login, you've done it wrong.

Rahul2001

@Bob Eh, not sure, I need to test it once

allquixotic

@Bob It looks like the upcoming Sins 1.87, when it's out, shouldn't require mod overhauls like many past patches have, it will just make the game faster and smoother like we experienced (modulo some connectivity issues)

that means we could play Interregnum and not have it go OOM :D

Bob

@allquixotic lol

I kinda want to sort out the normal game so I die less before worrying about Interregnum :(

allquixotic

09:26

I don't really have a secret; my whole strategy is, early game, spam the crap out of the early game attack frigates and the most durable capital ship (ideally get 2 of them right away), as a mobile defense fleet and to push back enemy attempts to take planets near my homeworld

then get starbases ASAP and keep upgrading their defenses and trade ports

but that's very much a TEC strategy

dunno about Advent dude

Bob

@allquixotic Yea, I think I can hold out as TEC, but Advent is ... weird

I basically relied on spamming strike craft, which works really well against Vasari and decently against TEC

It fails miserably against opposing Advent...

allquixotic

honestly I'd rather fight Darth Vader than the Coronata Titan; we should play TEC vs. Empire

Bob

lol

there's something very weird about that one

I remember when we had those 3v3s with @JourneymanGeek... it was usually just a single Coronata left

every other titan would go down

But that one had some crazy regen and shielding (?)

allquixotic

I think it might be very powerfully buffed by its support ships or capital ships somehow

Bob

> Suppression Aura is a passive ability that decreases the damage output and maximum speed of enemy vessels in range. This ability is very powerful, especially when fully ugpraded, as it can allow the Coronata to slow retreating fleets, allowing friendly ships to overtake them, which is particularly effective if used in combination with the Iconus Guardian's Repulsion ability, which can allow a skilled player to keep a fleet in a gravity well indefinitely.

that's what kept screwing us

oh FFS

that Repulsion threw my strike craft so far away on every attack run

Oh my.

@allquixotic It apparently gets a large damage buff from nearby friendlies:

> Unity Mass is an active ability whereby the Coronata focuses the Unity's wrath into a beam of hatred, targeting structures, starbases, capital ships and titans. This ability gains a stacking bonus to damage depending on how many friendly ships are nearby, up to a certain target cap

allquixotic

09:31

@Bob apparently, the way to instantly pop any Advent ship (including the Coronata Titan) is to spam Vasari Phase Missiles, because they bypass shields

and Coronata can't do much if you're killing its hull directly

Bob

@allquixotic Funny that. Because the way to quickly wipe out a Vasari fleet is to spam bombers, because they have shit for all anti-strike.

> Damage: 2500 -> 3500 -> 4500 -> 5500
Damage per friendly nearby target: 50 -> 55 -> 60 -> 65

That's ridiculous.

And explains why my titan and cap ships kept dying.

> Level 4 50 x 65 = 3250 + 5500 = 8750 : 25 = 350 DPS

allquixotic

TEC fleets are a little tankier, which is why I was able to keep my fleet alive long enough to kill their Coronata in direct confrontation (despite losing 3 capships and a ton of kodiaks)

the Dunovs gave me the longevity needed, and the Kodiaks and Marzas, the DPS

Bob

> meaning that Unity Mass is better able to retain a consistent level of damage in a pitched battle than the Ragnarov's snipe ability, due to the extra damage partially making up for shield mitigation and armor

single highest DPS in the game maybe?

ow.

allquixotic

maybe if we just don't play against any Coronata Advent we'd be ok :P

Bob

*shrug* dunno

that feels like cheating :P

allquixotic

09:34

if we play against TEC we'd have a harder time advancing against the enemy but they would have a harder time attacking us

Bob

I actually wouldn't mind playing against TEC

We'd just have to upgrade emergency facilities a bit

allquixotic

except... their superweapons would kill our planets so we'd need that starbase module that prevents bombardment taking over a planet

Bob

not like we depend much on planet income anyway

allquixotic

and planetary shields

Bob

hm. maybe just try fully random next time and see what they get :P

allquixotic

09:35

@Bob 2 Coronata Advents

Bob

:(

allquixotic

Murphy's Law

jokerdino

hi

allquixotic

@Bob oh, we should try Age of Empires II HD sometime also, it's been enormously revamped for modern systems, supports ultrawide res, Steam matchmaking, awesome netcode, etc

and a much faster paced game, we can finish it in one sitting

instead of like 3 nights

Bob

@allquixotic o.O

I've actually never properly played AoE

got in a bit before dropping it

played through AoM quite a few times though :)

Does AoE do multiplayer campaign anyway?

allquixotic

09:38

a game that came out after AoE II based on the same engine, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, hasn't been forward ported to modern systems, and the difference is striking

@Bob campaign? dunno, not sure, probably not though

Bob

ah

I remember playing AoM skirmishes against the AI

the AI was ... poor :P

allquixotic

I still love Rise of Nations, going from stone age to information age as a single contiguous civilization

Bob

Either it does nothing, or it builds a huge army and wipes it out when you've barely started (if you set difficulty high enough)

@allquixotic That sounds like Age of War :P

allquixotic

if you're good, you can out-tech the enemy and have, like, stealth bombers against their hot air balloons

aircraft carriers vs. triremes

Bob

armorgames.com/play/616/age-of-war

allquixotic

09:39

battle tanks vs. cavalry

> Oh no! We could not detect that Flash was enabled for your browser. This game requires Adobe Flash to play, so please install or enable it if you wish to play.

die, Flash, die

Bob

2003 game

I wonder if it can even run :P

@allquixotic It's ... a flash game

Quite a good one actually

allquixotic

@Bob huh; Rise of Nations is a 2003 game too

Bob

@allquixotic I meant Rise of Nations was 2003 (from looking it up) :P

Age or War was 2008

allquixotic

@Bob I played it in January of this year, so yes

Bob

The peak of in-browser flash games :(

Those were some good, time-wasting years :P

allquixotic

09:41

I think the limit of Rise of Nations' screen res is either... 1600x1200 (DX8?) or 1920x1080

it definitely can't do 3440x1440

Bob

@allquixotic Lots of older games have issues with higher resolutions

Or just weird resolutions

can't remember if it was AoM or RA2 but one would barf on 1366x768, and I remember issues with DirectDraw on Intel iGPUs

3840x2160 would probably kill it :P

TOWMN

allquixotic

the oldest games would only support 4:3, then the next gen of late-era WinXP (SP2/SP3, Vista RTM days) would support 16:9 but not any res, and often had a limit around 1080p

TOWMN

Lol.

allquixotic

even some 2012-ish games still don't properly support 3440x1440

Burgi

09:43

@TOWMN your paws look odd

TOWMN

3 hours on the bus, 21 hours on the plane and 10 hours on the train to get from Edinburgh to Adelaide. And the first thing I do? Buy a ticket to the best of the Edinburgh fest show :-/

Sathya

hey folks

allquixotic

@TOWMN I thought you were out of money?

TOWMN

To see something I probably saw back at home six months ago anyway. Derp.

@allquixotic but I'm not out of credit cards!

allquixotic

o_O

TOWMN

09:45

Actually Amex just increased my limit by £4k

No idea why

Bob

@TOWMN oh, you did end up going to Adelaide? lol

Journeyman Geek

@FleetCommand FWIW, that patent nonsense question was probably... I donno, in some language I don't read

@Burgi clearly they're a polydactyl cat.

Burgi

10:02

@JourneymanGeek singlish?

user226528

10:14

@JourneymanGeek Are you talking the question for which I retracted my tag? I did use Google Translate on it. But after reflecting on it, I realized that it might have been a poorly written programming question.

user226528

I realized that after clicking the edit button by accident.

Burgi

non-english questions should be flagged as mod intervention and closed

user226528

@Burgi That is exactly what I did. Except, in the explanation, I wrote "patent nonsense".

Journeyman Geek

Yup and mentioned it in chat

Burgi

ah! i misunderstood and thought you were talking about patents! lol :)

user226528

10:20

Wikipedia:Patent nonsense

Wikipedia writers and editors contribute a lot of brilliant prose, but occasionally some patent nonsense. This falls into two categories: Total nonsense, i.e., text or random characters that have no meaning at all, such as a passage of lorem ipsum text. This would include strings of characters produced by random banging on the keyboard. Content that, while apparently intended to mean something, is so confusing that no reasonable person can be expected to make any sense of it. See word salad. If the meaning cannot be identified, it is impossible to accurately copy-edit the text. == Not to be... ==

user226528

This part of the text: "Content that, while apparently intended to mean something, is so confusing that no reasonable person can be expected to make any sense of it."

Burgi

yes i realise that now

user226528

10:51

Just disinfected a computer. There is a mystery that I can never solve: When I went to university, I never saw a boy whose laptop was infected. I saw infected computers caused by boys, but never a personal laptop owned by a boy. Not only I thought that was impossible, I thought boys were conspiring never to let me see such an infection.

Burgi

what about the girls? did they not have infections or just freely shared them in the spirit of transparency?

user226528

Oh, virus party!

user226528

There was once this girl who was persuaded by social engineering to uninstall her antivirus and install a virus. She never stopped giggling, which annoyed me to no end...

user226528

I overcharged her for repairs though.

user226528

And she knows it.

user226528

10:55

Serves her right.

Burgi

was she drunk or high or both?

user226528

Regrettably, neither.

Burgi

just stupid?

user226528

Very stupid... and I think... turned on by me.

Burgi

forgive my scepticism

user226528

11:14

I understand why comments are hidden but why are they sometimes hidden from the middle?

user226528

Shouldn't the bottom ones always get hidden?

Burgi

it shows the latest and most relevant

a question about log rotation, would it be better suited for SU or SF?

user226528

No idea

user226528

"Log" is considered software, so I guess SU takes it.

user226528

Unless there is something explicitly server about it...

user226528

11:27

Is it?

Burgi

yes

but SF is super grumpy

djsmiley2k

log rotation.... is fun

i'm wondering what the question is

user226528

Try asking it here first. We'll give you an opinion of where.

Andy K

morning

Boris_yo

Where's DragonLord?

Funny how someone who should be a dragon slayer specializes in SSD... Reality is stranger than fiction.

Sathya

11:35

asleep

Boris_yo

In his layer probably...

At Garrotte Gorge.

Burgi

How do I set up log rotation for PHP in IIS8? @FleetCommand @djsmiley2k

our current error log is 500MB

this is the closest question but has no solution and appears to be platform agnostic serverfault.com/questions/11892/…

user226528

Well, since there isn't really anything strictly "managing information technology systems in a business environment" in it, post it on SU, especially if you think SF is grumpy.

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi would probably actually belong on SF

Burgi

thanks boss!

Journeyman Geek

11:45

tho. PHP... IIS....

was this something that your predesessor crapped out?

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek inherited environment, yes :(

Journeyman Geek

elections.stackexchange.com/#superuser is up. All your election related statistics in one shiny place.

2

Burgi

@DavidPostill have you only ever asked 1 question?

Journeyman Geek

Well, its slightly broken, but it actually kinda works

TOWMN

@Bob why lol? It was in my plan all along

Well as soon as I heard of the Adelaide Fringe anyway, after I'd been in Melbs for a few days

DavidPostill

11:58

@Burgi Yes, on main. Several on meta.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill trying to be the Jon Skeet of SU, eh ;p

DavidPostill

lol ;)

user226528

@JourneymanGeek Who's John Skeet?

Journeyman Geek

@FleetCommand low budget, flawed clone of Jon Skeet

there's a reason we have shog9, and not shogs 1-8 as a CM

Bob

John Skeet™: now with extra h!

DavidPostill

12:03

@FleetCommand Are you serious?

user226528

@DavidPostill Serious about what?

Bob

@DavidPostill he is not ready to join the true believers!

Burgi

he is lord high supreme commander

DavidPostill

Burgi

think of chuck norris but with a keyboard

Journeyman Geek

12:06

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts <--- @FleetCommand

DavidPostill

Jon Skeet is the highest rep user ever on the SE network. He's so far in front that it is impossible to overtake him.

> Jon Skeet can recite π. Backwards

Burgi

is that pi?

DavidPostill

Yep

user226528

933k? Is that... is that real?

Journeyman Geek

@FleetCommand NYET!

@FleetCommand Yup

user226528

12:11

Holy Molly...

user226528

How did this guy make it there? With a time machine?

Burgi

he invented SO

Journeyman Geek

He basically grinds out great answers with ridiculous consistancy, and has been around pretty much from the early days I think

user226528

Huh? I thought JS invented SO.

Journeyman Geek

lol

JS = Jon Skeet?

Sathya

12:13

lol

user226528

I meant Joel Spolsky.

user226528

But yeah. Fun coincident.

Journeyman Geek

Tis a joke!

DavidPostill

15

Q: It's over... Jon Skeet has 1008K rep and 7 bronze badges

Jon Skeet hit 1M total rep network wide. And apparently has 7 bronze badges. Something has to be done.

feature-request

Burgi

they have the same initials... coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Journeyman Geek

12:14

Skeet's like the chuck norris of SE ;p

Bob

...

*cough*

> AMD confirms that Windows 10 does not have a Ryzen scheduling bug

@bwDraco ^

Sathya

404

user226528

808

Bob

@Sathya Fixed, dropped a char

DavidPostill

Fun Fact: I have more helpful flags on SU that Jon Skeet does on SO :)

Journeyman Geek

12:16

I might have put off being a mod cause I wanted that marshal badge XD

Sathya

thanks @bob!

Bob

not really much info there, but that same quote is repeated in a few places

Oh, here's the original source

Comments disagree *shrug*

DavidPostill

lol. I just went to flag a spam post on su, only to find I had autoflagged it and it was already deleted in < 20s :)

Journeyman Geek

lol

@DavidPostill blaaaame smoookeeyyy ;p

DavidPostill

;p

Journeyman Geek

12:24

I think 99% of spam gets handled before I get anywhere near it

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Makes it harder for you to have fun nuking users, right? Or do you still get mod notified about the deleted spam?

Journeyman Geek

Nope ;p

I miss quite a few

but shrug

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Here they are if you get bored :)

Journeyman Geek

I just take a bite out of the review queues

Not as big a bite as you it seems tho

Mokubai

Smokey takes all the fun out of nuking spam...

Journeyman Geek

12:33

;p

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek this i don't understand

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi >_>

I could tell you, but then I'd need to kill you

(Actually no one knows why its a 9 as far as I know ;p)

Burgi

is the 9 a second g like in snoop dogg?

Journeyman Geek

naybe.

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Mod close votes are binding, right? What would you do if you weren't 100% sure if something should be closed?

Comment and leave to the community?

Journeyman Geek

12:44

@DavidPostill throw it in here ;)

Typically though, if you arn't sure, its fine to leave it for a bit. The community or other mods can deak with it

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Or use a ~~sockpuppet~~ robot dog? :P

Burgi

i prefer the pistols at dawn solution @Mokubai has suggested

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi aibo shouldn't have enough reputation to VTC

Burgi

ping ping ping all for the other B's!

Mokubai

@DavidPostill your votes are binding so you should generally be certain, nothing wrong with waiting for another 4 community members and being the 5th which is roughly a "normal" vote

Bob

12:50

Mokubai

Can never have too many chat apps. Apparently.

Boris_yo

What happens if I allow?

Burgi

if you click on an email link, a new message will open in gmail

Boris_yo

@Bob Is this joker?

Mokubai

It opens email links? Probably mailto: links...

Boris_yo

12:53

@Mokubai YeS!

I am still on Windows Live Mail... in addition to Gmail.

Mokubai

Ewwww.

I though WLM had been burried

Journeyman Geek

Over strange eons even death may die. But not XP and WLM ;p

Bob

@Mokubai s/chat/mail/ and s/google/microsoft/ and that image still applies :P

Burgi

@Bob he looks like a sane and reasonable person. I Trust Him!

Seeing this got accepted...I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the concept of a Star Wars movie needing story-identification. — T.E.D. 21 hours ago

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek @Mokubai Thanks for the words of wisdom.

Journeyman Geek

13:04

"hey I know this" "Damn it, past me beat me to it"

Boris_yo

@Mokubai It was but I sneaked to graveyard in the middle of the night with shovel.

Bob

@Burgi Seeing SW through the eyes of an 8 year old is interesting

Mokubai

@DavidPostill basically you should never really feel that you absolutely must do something. If you need to and can then it's all good and cool, but must is not really your job IMO.

Burgi

Mokubai

@DavidPostill if you do get elected then you might want to revoke your smokey autoflag ability, they will be binding.

DavidPostill

13:14

@Mokubai I think that is taken care of automagically - but of course I will double check :)

Mokubai

If they only apply to foreign sites for mods then fine, i don't know smokey that well... I just check occasionally for spam on SU.

DavidPostill

Yep, confirmed by ArtOfCode. It's automagic.

Mokubai

No worries then

Rahul2001

4 hours ago, by Rahul2001

Hm... How many mods get elected?

Ben N

There can be only one

Rahul2001

13:19

:(

We can vote for multiple though?

Burgi

@BenN like highlander

Ben N

@Rahul2001 That's correct. Voters rank their top three choices

Rahul2001

Ah, yes, I remember now :P

jokerdino

No bad hair day as well. It's a plus.

Mokubai

@BenN sadly. Hard to choose.

jokerdino

13:25

I think two mod slots would have made choosing a little bit easier.

2

Mokubai

@BenN Though if you attack @DavidPostill with a broadsword.... ;)

thought a few others would run as well though.

jokerdino

6 more days.

But that 1 slot is kinda discouraging I guess.

Burgi

13:43

@fixer1234 should stand

jokerdino

Is that pgeek?

Burgi

i don't think so? meta.superuser.com/users/364367/fixer1234

jokerdino

What happened to psychogeek (sp)?

TOWMN

@Bob: I wonder if Optus performance is so flakey because they're erroneously trying to use 256QAM on B40

Either way they kinda suck in Adelaide CBD. >600Mbps of spectrum, >300Mbps allocated to handset, <30Mbps delivery.

Oh and found a way to do infinite speedtests without using data. Spotify is zero rated...

Burgi

@jokerdino he was talking about putting his PC in his RV and it had brickdust or something in it

Journeyman Geek

13:55

@Rahul2001 You vote 3 in order of preference

Since there's only one opening, if your favourite candidate has no hope of winning, the votes get transferred to candidate number 2.

and so on.

If there's more than 1 opening - the votes for winning candidates goes the same way

Burgi

take a look at CGP Grey's video on the single transferable vote

TOWMN

Or maybe our phones don't actually support the optimal CA combinations, since it seems you might not be able to just arbitrarily combine any bands:

Burgi

@TOWMN -78?

Journeyman Geek

So in the last election, if someone voted for me first, and @Mokubai second, their vote would go to @Mokubai once its certain I won

jokerdino

@Burgi ah, it's not the same person?

Burgi

13:57

no?

jokerdino

alrighto

Burgi

fixer's profile says virginia which is east coast, i think pgeek is california which is the west coast

Mokubai

@Burgi he would be one of the ones I'd like to see

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