Root Access

DavidPostill

15:02

@JourneymanGeek He's stating to remind me of CUE :)

Journeyman Geek

CUE?

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Underflows

Journeyman Geek

ah!

Dog

@JourneymanGeek how do I connect my consciousness chlorinate

DavidPostill

lol. Spam to user nuke time on SU ~ 60s

Journeyman Geek

15:11

lol

manual or assisted?

I think my best was about 40s

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Manual. There was a short delay while I checked if smokey already had it :)

Journeyman Geek

ah ;p

DavidPostill

If you mod flag and smokey doesn't have it, it doesn't get reported. There is a timing issue ...

Journeyman Geek

160 rep a piece on MSE and SU. Reasonable chance I'll wake up to at least one rep cap <3

DavidPostill

Gotta keep smokey fed ;p

Journeyman Geek

15:14

ah

lol

Rahul2001

15:25

@JourneymanGeek Your profile says "Got any leads? Let me know." But gives no way to actually contact you.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, I used to have my email address there but got spammed with odd crap

Rahul2001

lol

Journeyman Geek

but I'm PLANNING on getting an email server up at some point

so it would be "hire@journeymangeek..." ;p

Rahul2001

:P

Doesn't your webhost offer email?

Journeyman Geek

rofl

I am my webhost

Rahul2001

15:30

lol, then why don't you already have email set up?

Journeyman Geek

doing it right is a pretty hard process

and I've never particularly needed it

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek Wayback machine links corememory.lupinenet.co.cc:8080 But doesn't have it archived :(

Journeyman Geek

lol

that was a long time ago ;p

DavidPostill

0

Q: Giant A appears occasionally since latest update

Since getting the new Creators Edition of Windows 10 in the middle of the week, occasionally when starting new applications (I think) a huge 96 point or so sans-serif A appears in the middle of the screen, then disappears after a second or so. It sort of feels like it might be connected to some k...

windows-10

Makes a change from a Giant S :)

Journeyman Geek

I don't even remember what's was on it ;p

and I think I hosted at home

bwDraco

15:44

So, ran Maxon Cinebench version R15.0 on this laptop (Core i7-4800MQ, 4C/8T Haswell @ 2.7-3.7 GHz): 506 on the multi-core test, 101 single-core.

(@Bob, @allquixotic, @JourneymanGeek, @DavidPostill)

Bob

...?

bwDraco

AMD likes to use Cinebench, and this should give you an idea of how this laptop performs relative to the new Ryzen processors.

Well, got to go soon. Got a photo assignment starting in less than 15 minutes.

Oh, and T-Mobile LTE-A is blazingly fast. Got close to 40 Mbps downloading the benchmark software (which is just over 80 MB in size).

Dog

Just set up a redirect to Gmail

@Bob I met someone from Sydney on Wednesday

God dammit O2 stop pointing the transmitter away from me

Burgi

16:10

just ordered a chromecast

djsmiley2k

16:23

well done

how come?

Burgi

it reduces the likelihood of scary emails from the ISP

djsmiley2k

errr

does it?

Burgi

yes

djsmiley2k

it only plahys stuff you've got

so you've still gotta get the stuff that causes the scary letters, if you want to watch those things

Burgi

it has netflix and the like built-in

djsmiley2k

16:33

if you've got a netflix sub... why are you getting scary letters?

Burgi

i haven't got a netflix sub...

yet

djsmiley2k

you don't get one with the chromecast you realise~?

ah i see

i got amazon prime

still end up downloading stuff :/

Burgi

i have that too

the people who make a certain zombie tv show complained to my ISP

if you are on steam or something i'll explain further but not here

DavidPostill

@Burgi They wave the Jolly Roger at you?

Burgi

yes

DavidPostill

16:41

I thought folks used tor for that kind of thing ...

djsmiley2k

the same isp youve had like a wqeek?

Ben N

Tor isn't designed for torrenting, ironically

It's quite slow and IIRC they have provisions to apply even more slowness to people using it just to torrent

DavidPostill

@BenN oh.

@Burgi Just a warning I hope?

@BenN I wonder what people do use ...

Ben N

VPNs, I guess

DavidPostill

@BenN Are they foolproof?

Ben N

16:44

I'm not sure; I don't torrent :p

DavidPostill

I do. It's the best way of getting OpenOffice updates :)

Ben N

Further reading: Bittorrent over Tor isn't a good idea and Research problem: adaptive throttling of Tor clients by entry guards

DavidPostill

@BenN Thanks :)

Dog

17:02

Does anyone know anyone in the UK who might want to buy a super compact upper mid range gaming PC?

That Brazilian Guy

I know a person who wants to own a gaming PC, does that count?

Rahul2001

17:29

@DavidPostill Mostly

Dog

@ThatBrazilianGuy owning with the exchange of money or owning for free?

Rahul2001

My sister has suddenly stopped causing any trouble for me and has become super nice and it's awesome :-)

DavidPostill

17:46

@Rahul2001 :)

fixer1234

@DavidPostill, saw your earlier comment on spam. The automated system is damn impressive. I rarely see spam any more and there used to be pretty heavy periods.

jokerdino

15 seconds of spam.

fixer1234

Smokey is going to put @bwDraco out of business. :-)

Rahul2001

facepalm My sister's best friend pronounces 'meme' as 'meh-meh'.

fixer1234

@Rahul2001, LOL, not mee mee?

Rahul2001

18:00

@Dog That reads as "I am astonished that the sugar god has conversed in this voice"

bwDraco

@fixer1234 lol

Dog

@Rahul2001 :-o

You read hinduian?

Rahul2001

@Dog Yes, Hindi is one of the languages I am fluent in. About 50% of my total daily communication is in Hindi.

Dog

@Rahul2001 :-o

Rahul2001

@Dog cheenee==sugar. Cheen is technically China, but that term is rarely used (I last heard it in 4th Grade). I've never heard anyone use Cheenee to mean Chinese.

Dog

18:12

@Rahul2001 :-o

That's what it was originally supposed to be

Having dictated "good" but being understood as "god"

Rahul2001

lol

Dog

"I am astonished that the sugar god has conversed in this voice " would be good for my new Tinder profile bio

Rahul2001

@bwDraco Backup, we don't get every MSP's coverage in every area.

djsmiley2k

18:31

oooooooooooooooo doctor whooooooooo

its on right now

Dog

18:49

How do I cat?

djsmiley2k

meiow

Rahul2001

@Dog rahul2001.com/archive/executables/netcat/x86/nc.exe

Dog

> rahul2001.com/archive/executables/netcat/x86/<not-a-virus-dot-exe>

jokerdino

hi

Ben N

19:07

Hi!

jokerdino

Don't mind me, just trying to reach 20k messages on RU.

DavidPostill

19:24

@jokerdino lol. Where can you see the message count?

jokerdino

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/118/root-access

Mouseover the bottom right number.

DavidPostill

@jokerdino TIL. Thanks. I didn't realise my count was so high :)

jokerdino

yeah, me too.

I didn't know I talked a lot of crap here..

Some of it goes all the way back to 2012.

allquixotic

19:54

@jokerdino Root User?

jokerdino

oops

I merged RA and SU.

bwDraco

Was thinking about the Cinebench scores earlier. I'm thinking high memory latency might be causing the unexpectedly low 1T results.

4 hours ago, by bwDraco

So, ran Maxon Cinebench version R15.0 on this laptop (Core i7-4800MQ, 4C/8T Haswell @ 2.7-3.7 GHz): 506 on the multi-core test, 101 single-core.

It's a mobile processor, and the fact that it uses DDR3L-1600 memory instead of at least DDR4-2400 puts it at a disadvantage.

Perhaps I'll rerun the benchmark later today, but this result is a bit of a surprise. Apparently, IPC is lower on a mobile processor than on a desktop processor with the same μarch. Clock speeds aren't everything.

Also, the cache is partially disabled on the i7-4800MQ. It's 6MB rather than 8MB, which itself puts it at an approximately 10% IPC disadvantage than if the cache was fully enabled.

Then again, desktop i5 caches aren't fully enabled, either. I'm thinking it's memory latency and bandwidth.

Clock speeds aren't everything. Cache matters a lot, too.

Burgi

@DavidPostill @djsmiley2k yes

@Rahul2001 that means she has golddust on you and is waiting for the right time to deploy it

omg! @fixer1234 in chat!

ah ha! easyjet owe me a €4.50 meal voucher

wtf...

> If your delay or cancellation is classified as an “Extraordinary circumstance” (like an air traffic control strike or bad weather) you will not be entitled to EC261 Flight Compensation.

bwDraco

20:22

Hmm. Looks like misconfiguration. The core was running at 2.7 GHz. Turbo was disabled.

I'll run the tests again.

Maxon Cinebench version R15.0 on Core i7-4800MQ (4C/8T Haswell @ 2.7-3.7 GHz): 635 multi-core, 130 single-core.

^^^ @allquixotic, @Bob, @JourneymanGeek

These results make a lot more sense.

allquixotic

Beep Beep I'm a Sheep : YouTube Comment Edition | LilDeuceDeuce & Black Gryph0n

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Rahul2001

20:48

Whoa... wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/chrome-firefox-unicode-phishing

bwDraco

With Ryzen 5 1600X getting 161 to 163 in the single-thread test (using DDR4-2933 to DDR4-3000), I'd be getting a 20-25% single-threaded performance uplift on Ryzen.

Ben N

@Rahul2001 Unicode ruins everything again

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 Thanks. FF configured for safety :)

Ben N

Ouch, no Chrome fix yet; I'll make sure to be extra careful of e-mails

Burgi

shit i accidentally refrigerated my nexus

bwDraco

21:01

lol

Burgi

seems to be functioning ok

Ben N

Who wants the last spam flag on ~~this~~?

DavidPostill

@BenN To late. Gone and user nuked :)

> This is spam. You work as a Social Media Strategist at ShareCredentials and have not disclosed your affiliation. And it doesn't even attempt to answer the question.

And he's from a country well known for spamming ...

linkedin.com/in/tom-chinhara-15802912a

Oh look he also spammed codeproject with exactly the same spam :)

Rahul2001

21:29

Dawg, dawg, I'm a frog!

Run5k

Good afternoon! While things are relatively quiet, I was hoping to solicit the feedback from the assemble SU veterans regarding the following answer:

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A: What to backup on Windows 10

When I am about to do something with the drive containing the Windows installation, I care about: C:\Users\myUser\AppData. Holds all the config files for my programs, might come handy. Here are all the things like keys, bookmarks, POP3 email accounts, browser config and bookmarks, etc. It's a h...

...along with the associated edit history:

superuser.com/posts/1182031/revisions

What are our "rules of engagement" in a scenario like this one?

Essentially, there are two things in that answer that are technically wrong. In an effort to help the author, I pointed them out. After it evolved into the accepted answer, I attempted to help him by making the corrections... and got labeled as rude, so I simply rolled them back and moved on.

DavidPostill

@Run5k Well ""open this link from a non-Windows computer, otherwise it won't work." is complete garbage. It works from Window 7 at least.

Run5k

@DavidPostill, yes, absolutely... it works on every Windows computer I have utilized, both 7 and 10.

DavidPostill

@Run5k I'm going to roll it back with the corrections.

Run5k

@DavidPostill I defer to your better judgement, good sir: what should be typically do under those circumstances? My help was met with an aggressive reply. At one point I even posted a comment with the hyperlink to the Help Center that says if you actually don't like seeing your posts edited, you may be in the wrong place. ;-)

The bottom line is that I didn't want to see an officially accepted answer with technical advice that is simply wrong.

DavidPostill

21:38

I'm going to post a comment to superuser.com/help/privileges/edit where it says "to correct minor mistakes".

@Run5k Quite right.

I will also clean up the rest of the comments.

Run5k

@DavidPostill, that all sounds perfect. Thanks for your help, I truly appreciate it.

DavidPostill

@Alfabravo Please read edit questions and answers. It explicitly says "When should I edit posts? Any time you feel you can make the post better, and are inclined to do so. Editing is encouraged!" ... "to correct minor mistakes or add addendums / updates as the post ages". Editing under these circumstances is not rude. — DavidPostill ♦ 25 secs ago

@Run5k No problem. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Run5k

That sounds ideal. As you can see I actually waited several weeks to see if he would eventually make the corrections himself.

That Brazilian Guy

@Dog Money? What's this "money" you speak of? I think I've heard this word before...

Journeyman Geek

22:15

@ThatBrazilianGuy that thing you never have enough of

Burgi

hmmm... not sure on the new dr who

DavidPostill

@Burgi who is the new dr who?

Burgi

its still capaldi

its just the terrible steven moffat stories we are inflicted with

Twisty

22:34

Can someone with enough of the right rep suggest a tag synonym of something like windows-10-creators-update for the windows-10-v1703 tag?

Journeyman Geek

If no one else does, I'll take a look when I'm more awake

DavidPostill

@Twisty It's too long by 1 character. Maybe windows-10-creator-update?

Twisty

I like it

DavidPostill

Done. Now we need some upvotes superuser.com/tags/windows-10-v1703/synonyms

Twisty

Bah. I can't even do that yet.

DavidPostill

22:44

> Users with a total answer score (total upvotes minus total downvotes) of 5 or more on the tag, can vote for tag synonyms.

Journeyman Geek

kinda funny we can't fiat that

Twisty

@DavidPostill I know. I haven't bothered to install v1703 so I'm still to answer any questions in that tag. Oh well.

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Well I tried, but I can't vote as I created it. I don't think there will be many people with enough tag score to vote. Can mods vote anyway?

Journeyman Geek

yup

DavidPostill

Cool. So we need 3 more votes.

Journeyman Geek

22:48

\o/

repcapped ~~yesterday~~ today (very neatly)

Almost repcapped on MSE - amusingly mostly for a closed question

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek I'm still in front by 103 to 76 :)

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill yeah ;p

a legendary badge is kinda my white whale ;p

Should be 77 with this. I need... 150? :p

That crosses a line.

DavidPostill

23:07

Agree (although he won't see this).

Burgi

sigh i'll now never know what line he crossed

DavidPostill

@Burgi The "Be Nice" policy

Burgi

i figured but how....

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi not that important. Used language he ought not to.

Burgi

fair enouhg

bertieb

23:34

Ah, anything I should know about close votes (beyond the help centre intro) now that I can apparently cast them?

Journeyman Geek

@bertieb If you would have flagged, closevote ;p

That's about it

Burgi

"THE FORCE AWAKENS: A Bad Lip Reading" (Featuring Mark Hamill as Han Solo)

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Dog

@JourneymanGeek Seriously?

Burgi

admiral akbar is brilliant

Dog

@Burgi Haven't the foggiest.

bertieb

23:37

@JourneymanGeek Fair enough- seems to be the gist of bwDraco's old meta Q as well!

DavidPostill

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A: What are the guidelines for reviewing?

Guidelines for reviewing Close Votes Basic workflow You may select filters to focus on a particular category. Selecting a set of tags you are familiar with will allow you to focus on questions within your own areas of expertise. There may still be many situations where skipping is vastly pre...

Dog

Apparently calling a supermarket "effing retards" for having retarded wifi crosses the line but calling things bullshit or "fucking stupid" is OK. But hey, completely random interpretation of rules and lines in SU is par for the course...

Journeyman Geek

@Dog I don't joke around when actually exercising moderator powers

Dog

@JourneymanGeek Then care to explain how "effing retards" croesses the line but "bullshit" "fucking" and so forth doesn't?

Journeyman Geek

@Dog I read that "As da (the?) ..."

If you're going to type with voice recognition ....

Dog

23:39

Asda... the name of the giant supermarket chain owned by Walmart??

Journeyman Geek

and terms like retard ought not to be used.

bertieb

(hate to cut across, but still flag spam right?)

Dog

I didn't type with voice recognition, my phone just autocorrected "Asda" to "As da" but I still don't see the problem

Journeyman Geek

@bertieb absafraginglutely.

Spam is special

bertieb

@JourneymanGeek Rogerdodger

Dog

23:41

@JourneymanGeek Yet most of the room owners and mods have used that exact word, so what exactly did I do wrong again?

Journeyman Geek

@bertieb likewise with patent nonsense.

@Dog citation needed.

Dog

@JourneymanGeek chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=retard&user=&room=118

Journeyman Geek

quite a lot of that is you.

that's talking about an action or a decision

Dog

@JourneymanGeek Yes, and I've never been warned about it before

Journeyman Geek

It really looked like you were calling someone a retard.

Dog

23:43

@JourneymanGeek And I was talking about Asda's decision to require a mobile signal to use their wifi, which is provided by a mobile company that doesn't have signal in their store?

Journeyman Geek

(and in that context, it did look pretty bad)

Dog

Course you didn't even bother asking or warning, just banned me while I was uploading a screenshot -_-

Journeyman Geek

@Dog that context was completely missing.

Dog

@JourneymanGeek It wouldn't have been if it weren't for the kneejerk reaction that prevented me from ACTUALLY FINISHING THE STATEMENT

Journeyman Geek

@Dog well then, try not to say things that can be misinterpreted.

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DavidPostill

23:46

@JourneymanGeek Especially when we have 5 users called "asdasd" and 5 "asda" on SO ...

Dog

Lol at the bullshit excuses. We have no users called "as da" and certainly none in this room at the time I was at Asda and frankly the S makes it pretty bloody clear it wasn't referring to any individual because IT'S A PLURAL. And nobody got banned for calling google or iphones fucking retarded despite their being actual users named exactly "Google"

DavidPostill

Funny how people who have ignored me can read my posts ...

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