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Journeyman Geek

12:05 AM

This was linked on the tcr slack... stackoverflow.com/jobs/142155/…

Bob

hm

fixer1234

12:37 AM

@JourneymanGeek, I wonder if that's to pick up the slack left by a certain recently-arrested IT consultant (wnd.com/2017/07/…)

Bob

1:13 AM

~~linux~~ zfs ate my ram :(

Journeyman Geek

1:41 AM

Lol

Bob

3:52 AM

I'd go for the 'how can we tell if she's made of wood? Build a bridge out of her' (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) approach. Clip a TO220 package or a power resistor to the side panel, and see how hot it gets for various powers. — Neil_UK yesterday

That's the best way to say "try it and find out" I've heard

Bob

4:18 AM

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/forum/odwork-odshare/…

microsoft pls

Asker: "I do X and Y doesn't happen."
MS guy: "When you do X then Y should happen."

Rahul2001

6:02 AM

'lo

@BenN okey :)

Bob

floof

djsmiley2k

6:56 AM

@Bob you seem supprised...

this is most of the questions asked there.

'See page where it explains that X causes Y!'

'I heard if you Do Z, Y sometimes randomly happens, althought it shouldn't!'

Bob

@djsmiley2k I'm not surprised. I complain about it like once a month :P

djsmiley2k

=)

djsmiley2k

7:19 AM

5 laptops, accross the estate

all got stuck 'starting up' -- i.e. they show 'Please wait...' and nothing else, on the windows screen, prior to login.

Eventually the login box appears, they press ctrl alt del, and it's just a blank screen - no actual box for details...

these 5 laptops are all the same manufacturer, maybe even the same model. I'm sensing a driver update...

Bob

@andrewbstiles if it was physically possible to have sex with this TV I.. uh.. I'd take it on long, romantic walks

Tweeted by codinghorror on August 13, 2016 at 3:36 AM in reply to andrewbstiles

Burgi

7:51 AM

morning

@bob there was a squashed fox on the road this morning :(

i hope you didn't know them

Bob

@Burgi D:

Burgi

the good news is it was flat enough to pop in an envelope and post back to australia if it was a relative

djsmiley2k

8:23 AM

:O

Burgi

spam: superuser.com/a/1237571/393570

Bob

8:37 AM

@allquixotic open.spotify.com/track/1DH9pHPoBQ1YJRbzuFfnhV

Andy K

morning

Journeyman Geek

speaking of spam...

mails a squashed spammer to @Burgi

Burgi

yummy

Journeyman Geek

also worth a read. (Yes, I have an answer, but this is a network side change)

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A: Fixing comments in 5 minutes. Intrigued? Let's discuss

For main sites - yeah, this mostly feels like a good idea. I'd suggest a few small tweaks. For a question that one asks themselves - "Ask for clarification" makes no sense. It might as such make a little more sense to rename "provide clarification" there instead. In a sense, if we're going to t...

djsmiley2k

> We have found that emails are being blocked by some of our clients, if they include links which do not point to genuine websites.

I... what?

Oliver Salzburg

8:48 AM

@djsmiley2k I'm familiar with that

djsmiley2k

what's the point of that?

Oliver Salzburg

Our emails were blocked by a client because our HTML signature included a shortened link to Google Maps. Their servers did not like that

djsmiley2k

I understand maybe stripping out the 1 pixel files which show if something was read...

@OliverSalzburg EXACTLY what happened here

Oliver Salzburg

They don't want links in their emails

djsmiley2k

So strip em out.... don't just block the email -_-

Oliver Salzburg

8:49 AM

If a page excessively redirects, they treat that as a malware disguise

And they rather block the whole thing

It's excessive, but apparently effective

djsmiley2k

Sounds like it's a specific product doing it...

yeah

hmmm

Oliver Salzburg

Finding the cause was a real WTF though :P

djsmiley2k

but in the above case, the email we got says make sure they go somewhere

yeah

Oliver Salzburg

I mean, who would assume that :P

djsmiley2k

in this case the links do go somewhere, heh

yeah, well you know the 5 acer laptops that stopped booting into windows?

it's a symantec issue...

Oliver Salzburg

8:51 AM

@djsmiley2k Seems like I missed that

djsmiley2k

we had 5 acer laptops, all crashed, and upon rebooting couldn't get to the windows login, or once the 'press ctrl alt del' window appears, it wouldn't do anything more.

Oliver Salzburg

Nasty

Burgi

we are getting a sophos firewall installed today

djsmiley2k

emjpoy

Journeyman Geek

'acer' there's your problem....

djsmiley2k

9:16 AM

;)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Blackbriar - Deadly Nightshade 🎶

Avery

11:13 AM

@Rahul2001 a bunch of my orders arrived

100x led, serial cable, sata caddy (wrong size-- proper size should arrive in a couple days), usb to sata cable and some of the soldering tin I ordered. Didn't expect them to arrive so soon!

djsmiley2k

@Avery sweet what you plannin on building?

I've some simular things, but no idea what to build

Avery

same

djsmiley2k

haha

I keep wanting to do some kind of counter on my computer, or alert screen that shows some kind of text alerts...

But I get distracted, or just don't have enough time.

Avery

well

djsmiley2k

right, walk time, back in 20 or so

Avery

11:26 AM

I'm looking to upgrading my PC with a second hard drive (hence caddy and sata cable), and I sometimes need to serial in to pi and have no way to, and I need solder to... solder stuff. I have some iron that's shipping too, also some cream and some thinner tin.

stuff being "IoT stuff"

Muhammad Nouman

Hi

Bye :(

Bob

11:42 AM

@Avery soldering tin?

I have a huge bag of assorted components I've barely touched... might've gone a bit overboard in ordering those assorted resistors/capacitors/LEDs/transistors

@Avery Which iron?

A nice cheapo station => hobbyking.com/en_us/…

djsmiley2k

my nasty cheapo iron works, tho I don't have a working stand for it

tho tbh it's only ever been on less than 10 times...

do this ;D

I can't find my pics of my actual project at the end :/

Oliver Salzburg

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Q: How can I allow a user to send from an address belonging to a distribution group?

I have a distribution group that has the address sales@contoso.com associated with it. I now want a member of that group to be able to send emails using that email address. I added the address in Outlook, but when I send an email, Exchange complains that the user is not authorized to use the add...

exchange-2010

One less problem :P

Avery

@Bob a cheapo iron, one that makes me hope that I don't get shocked

Bob

@Avery Ah... I migrated off a cheapo iron to the above linked station. Was so much nicer having a temperature control on it.

And it cost less than the (locally-purchased) cheapo iron -_-

Journeyman Geek

I'm a fan of nasty cheapo irons ;p

tho I've been debating getting this chinese cheapo fancy soldering iron

Oliver Salzburg

11:59 AM

Okay, now I went through all that crap with the email address to find out that you can't use it for bulk-emails send through Word WTF

There is a serious chance of a Falling Down like scenario happening today

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg Why are you using Word to send bulk emails? Hammer meet screwdriver :)

Oliver Salzburg

@DavidPostill I am not

And it's a feature of Word in case you're not aware of it

djsmiley2k

mail merge?

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg I suppose you are referring to Mail Merge?

Oliver Salzburg

Maybe

I'm not the one using it

And it's "Seriendruck in Email" in German

DavidPostill

12:08 PM

@OliverSalzburg lol. Google translate thinks that is Swedish. Bork bork bork!

Bob

hm

anyone have any idea how to tell which edition a Win10 install is, from a copied partition?

Oliver Salzburg

We just using a different mailbox/address now. You apparently still have to make the new mailbox your default mail account and tell Outlook to always use the default account (otherwise it keeps using the old one)

It's really annoying that people bring these problems to me even though I know jack about the whole thing :P

DavidPostill

lol. So you were blaming Word when it was an Outlook problem :)

Oliver Salzburg

@DavidPostill Well, I blame both :D

djsmiley2k

windows... why you no open visio documents properly :/

Oliver Salzburg

12:21 PM

@djsmiley2k Without Visio installed?

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A: How can I allow a user to send from an address belonging to a distribution group?

First of all, you're going to want to assign Send-As permissions to the user. This can either be done through PowerShell or MMC. 1a) Assign Send-As Permissions through PowerShell Enter the following command into PowerShell on the Exchange server. Add-ADPermission -Identity "CONTOSO Sales" -Use...

Now it has the full details :P

I knew I was missing a step. Luckily PS was still open on the Exchange server ;D

XKCD

12:40 PM

If it falls below 20% full, my bag turns red and I start to panic.

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allquixotic

1:00 PM

@XKCD I'm this person

Journeyman Geek

1:16 PM

lol

new footer seems to be out

Burgi

what footer?

Journeyman Geek

for the main site

its somewhat less cluttered

allquixotic

1:33 PM

What is the minimum size of a mechanical crank (and how hard would you have to crank it) to generate enough energy, say, into a capacitor (to smooth out the incoming load) that could keep an iPhone 7 Plus from discharging its battery while continuously using it for Web and Youtube?

Journeyman Geek

0_0

@allquixotic I think its a bit more complex than that

allquixotic

Well it'd also depend on the RPMs and the torque and etc I suppose

But I'm referring to something a human could crank by hand

Hand crank start

►

djsmiley2k

1:48 PM

@allquixotic I carry this nuclear powerstation, and then I start to glow green...

@allquixotic how about cycling?

allquixotic

@djsmiley2k Legs are just more powerful hands :P

djsmiley2k

yes

Burgi

@allquixotic you get wind up torches and radios

amazon.co.uk/Wind-Up-Mobile-Phone-Charger/dp/B00062UXIG

djsmiley2k

@Burgi .. but they use hardly any power compared to a phone which heats up your hand and pocket!

Bob

2:03 PM

Extreme bagpipes Durness

►

Burgi

if you are camping just use the car charger

djsmiley2k

Next Hour: Drizzle starting in 50 min. No precipitation anywhere in the area.

It'd be nice if it'll tell me when it's past too...

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic allegedly there's these cheap tiny chinese handcrank chargers...

or you could find a handcrankable radio with a USB outlet...

Burgi

or solar panels

Bob

2:22 PM

You cannot delete the system partition, boot partition, or any partition
that contains the active paging file or crash dump (memory dump) filed.

typo in diskpart :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Ben N

If you feel strongly about it, you can correct the problem with a hex editor in \Windows\System32\en-us\diskpart.exe.mui :p

Offset 0x23484 on Windows 10 1703 x64

Bob

@BenN blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170804-00/?p=96765 \o/

Ben N

> With the retirement of Windows Vista, we are finally in a situation where all supported versions of Windows come with PowerShell.

> So maybe, if you're lucky, you may be able to declare the end of the era of suffering with batch files.

:D

Rahul2001

> Nobody actually enjoys batch programming

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ben N

2:30 PM

Also technically, you don't have to change an administrative setting to run PS scripts - Set-ExecutionPolicy with -Scope CurrentUser does the job for one user without requiring elevation

Oliver Salzburg

@BenN Yeah, because PS scripts are so effing awesome to write :P

Bob

@BenN I just have a batch file that runs powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File blah.ps1 :P

Ben N

That works too :)

Bob

The default execution policy is ... stupid

Ben N

Yeah

Also, everything about this is horrifying

Bob

2:36 PM

ew

djsmiley2k

dostips.com/DtTipsStringManipulation.php#Snippets.MidString

that bit isn't

Ben N

That syntax is fairly memorable

djsmiley2k

if you're writing it every day maybe

Ben N

2:51 PM

I suppose I should have said "memorable compared to the other incantations on that page" :p

Andy K

bye folks

Ben N

Bye

djsmiley2k

3:16 PM

hmmmmmmmmm stp is weird

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

beep

oh powershell my favourite topic

allquixotic

3:42 PM

ftr

]

that was ~~my cat~~ me

Burgi

catlike typing detected

@allquixotic deploy a flower

djsmiley2k

whos' good with cisco?

if you've manually set a cost value for a vlan, so that spanning tree doesn't jump elsewhere with the route....

would it ever automatically change?

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

oh I know this!

the FBI is good with cisco as they have hacked into their switches. do I win something?

Burgi

stop trolling or i'll deploy the goats

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

ha what makes you think Im not one of them

bye Burgie ♥ bye djsmiley bye allquixotic bye David bye Ben see you next time, have a great day

That REDACTED Guy

4:11 PM

allquixotic

4:24 PM

@DavidPostill darksky.net/details/40.7306,-73.9866/2001-9-11/us12/en

:(

darksky.net/details/21.3491,-157.9702/1941-12-7/us12/en

awesome, old historical records

@allquixotic lol

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I love the Oatmeal

Oatmeal is yummy.

But seriously now; although they using a bizarre, oftentimes gross and over-the-top humor, they have a lot of thoughtful and intelligent content.

This is great: theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

This one is good too: theoatmeal.com/comics/running

djsmiley2k

4:46 PM

he;s raised so much moneys for charity/good causes

@allquixotic imgur.com/HowKvX1

A+++ for coping with odd english ways of mixing up metric and imperial measurements

Wait, C is metric, right?

That REDACTED Guy

@djsmiley2k I remember once he was being sued for tens of thousands, for a ridiculous cause, he raised the money, then took a picture with piles of cash, sent the picture to the lawyer and the money to charity.

@djsmiley2k meters are metric.

Celsius is the ISU

International System of Units

The International System of Units (abbreviated as SI) is the modern form of the metric system, and is the most widely used system of measurement. It comprises a coherent system of units of measurement built on seven base units. The system also establishes a set of twenty prefixes to the unit names and unit symbols that may be used when specifying multiples and fractions of the units. The system was published in 1960 as a result of an initiative that began in 1948. It is based on the metre-kilogram-second system of units (MKS) rather than any variant of the centimetre–gram–second system (CGS). SI...

djsmiley2k

ok

That REDACTED Guy

Bleh. It's Kelvin, not celsius, actually. But Celsius is more popular. :P

allquixotic

5:30 PM

he's been indoctrinated by the Reapers! (cf. third slide)

allquixotic

6:17 PM

@ThatREDACTEDGuy nice, thanks

Rahul2001

6:37 PM

WTF HP

Like two dozen different types of screws in a single printer

@ThatREDACTEDGuy omg

That REDACTED Guy

6:55 PM

@Rahul2001 What happened?

Rahul2001

@ThatREDACTEDGuy I like that comic!

That REDACTED Guy

The oatmeal has some great content.

zenpencils.com has also some thoughtful comics.

@allquixotic Googling "reapers video game" got me too many vague results.

TinEye says it's Mass Effect 2.

I might have this game in my ~~way too big~~ steam backlog ~~of consumerist shame~~.

It's 4 PM! Saturday has arrived! :D

Rahul2001

Does anyone know what these connectors are called?

(CC @Bob)

That REDACTED Guy

~~Ribbon cables~~

Rahul2001

:39233083 these are thinner and flatter

Circus Cat

7:55 PM

##caat

I Am A Bot

Circus Cat

My bot still works? Shocking.

@allquixotic small.

2-3 watts would be enough

You can easily generate 100w with a crank the size of that car starter crank, and over 400w with foot pedals if you're going at it hard.

> A trained cyclist can produce about 400 watts of mechanical power for an hour or more, but adults of good average fitness average between 50 and 150 watts for an hour of vigorous exercise

Heh I can do 400w for about ten seconds

bwDraco

8:44 PM

@CircusCat, I'd really like you to unblock me. A lot has changed over the last several months.

allquixotic

@CircusCat I figured

with my out of shape legs I should still be able to pump enough for a 13" IGP laptop and a phone, no?

(13" MBP)

fixer1234

@JourneymanGeek, yeah, that Meta question was an interesting read, including all of the answers and discussion. I disagreed and posted an answer that I expect will not be popular (all of the even vaguely similar answers were downvoted).

Circus Cat

@allquixotic 50w continuously is fairly easy even if you're not fit, yeah

If you're not gaming the laptop would use 10w or so, factoring in conversion losses you'd only need to sustain 20-30w if web browsing and charging your phone.

That REDACTED Guy

9:06 PM