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bwDraco

00:03

anandtech.com/show/12038/ryzen-mobile-now-on-sale-hps-envy-x360

bwDraco

00:18

Bayonetta[HP Envy X360][720p][Ryzen 5 2500u][17.7]

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Pretty impressive, but note that Bayonetta isn't a particularly demanding game (it's an enhanced port of a quite old console game). Also, it's running at 720p.

Problem is, though, the reviewer noted repeated game crashes. I suspect this is a driver issue; AMD should sort this out soon.

The power consumption numbers, on the other hand, are very, very good.

Journeyman Geek

I wonder if oneliner still works (I switched over to vivaldi a little back, once I got over my vertical space possessiveness)

bwDraco

Score of 577 (nT), 128 (1T) in Cinebench R15. That's pretty impressive.

Compare to my old gaming laptop (before the heatsink was damaged):

Apr 15 at 20:31, by bwDraco

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

Mind you, this is a 15W processor!

(not sure what the actual cTDP is, but even at 25W, this is a remarkable result)

(best results on Astaroth are 1617 and 149 respectively, CPU at stock clocks with DDR4-2933 memory)

bwDraco

00:48

So... this is the first commercially available Raven Ridge laptop. Your thoughts?

@JourneymanGeek, have you tried running Cinebench R15 on Nyx?

Bob

01:15

fluff

Journeyman Geek

01:36

@bwDraco ran whatever was out then :p

bwDraco

maxon.net/en/products/cinebench

Free download.

Cinebench, when used correctly, is a very consistent benchmark. Scores rarely differ by more than 1% over multiple runs.

Journeyman Geek

Ya but not much fun in benchmarking an old, reliable machine

rahuldottech

03:03

Haii

XKCD

05:11

There's a supposed Mark Twain quote, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." It isn't really by Mark Twain, but I don't know who said itâI just know they've never been to McMurdo Station.

user226528

06:42

> There's a supposed Mark Twain quote, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." It isn't really by Mark Twain, but I don't know who said it. I just know they've never been to McMurdo Station.

user226528

I am more concerned as to where this person spent the rest of his/her life. Inside an active volcano? Hell?

Journeyman Geek

Quite a lot of Mark Twain quotes aren't

Bob

> Who the hell is Mark Twain and why is everyone quoting him? -- Mark Twain

user226528

Huh. There are actually two cities in U.S. called "Hell", as well as a creek.

Journeyman Geek

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7d26ou/… 0_0

sauce en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Station

Bob

06:50

@JourneymanGeek o.O

not sure if troll or ...

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Probably troll

user226528

There was a video game that at the start of each level, announced: "Heaven or Hell. Choose." The funny thing is, I don't even remember the genre of the game, let alone its name.

user226528

...or maybe "Heaven or Hell. Get ready!"

Journeyman Geek

07:10

kiiinda tempted to change my ava but hat

djsmiley2k

08:32

I like the hat

hmmm

Dogs in hats are awesome

DavidPostill

08:49

I had a strange dream last night where I was outside some house and there was a car with a dog with its head poking out the window. I looked at the dog and thought that's Ash. If I wait here geek will come out of the house and I can meet him....
Part of a crazy dream will all sorts of other mixed up stuff going on ... :)

Journeyman Geek

lol

but but. WHAT IF THERE IS NO HUMAN

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DavidPostill

I would have been waiting a long time ...

Burgi

morning

William Mariager

Morning

yode

ls Prim*.tif | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.name -replace 'old','new'}

How to understand this Powershell command??

Why we can don't use foreach but use the $_ directly?

djsmiley2k

09:08

@DavidPostill lol

rahuldottech

09:54

@FleetCommand it's call irony

@yode @BenN @bwDraco

@DavidPostill ha

yode

10:13

I feel shy to to ping BenN every time now, that is maybe an little annoy thing. If I want to learn well the Powshell. Is there any good book or material I can read?

rahuldottech

@yode learnxinyminutes.com

yode

Sooo many kind of promgram..But little elementary and scattered..

djsmiley2k

11:31

Number of people ni work falls, unemployement falls = people are dead?

Oh I guess once you're past retirement age, you're no longer 'out of employement'

djsmiley2k

11:59

that moment when I cannot identify where the dhcp server is in a network :/

Burgi

Zimbabwe... wtf is going on there?

djsmiley2k

12:11

a coup

Journeyman Geek

man, it took that long?

djsmiley2k

a week since he sacked the deputy

Burgi

12:28

20 years since he evicted the skilled farmers

djsmiley2k

Wait are we talking about Zimbabewe or James Dyson!?

Journeyman Geek

0_0

djsmiley2k

sup geek?

Journeyman Geek

not much

Though

WHY DID DYSON EVICT THE SKILLED FARMERS?

djsmiley2k

12:43

!!s/farmers/engineers/

ChatBot John Cavil

@djsmiley2k That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

djsmiley2k

:/

ChatBot John Cavil

@djsmiley2k 20 years since he evicted the skilled engineers (source)

Journeyman Geek

I think he'd needed all he could get 20 years ago

That Brazilian Guy

12:57

Apr 8 '14 at 15:54, by That Brazilian Guy

Tonight I had a nightmare and @bob was in it.

Apr 8 '14 at 15:58, by That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic no, he had no teeth, in fact on my dream nobody in RA had physical bodies, everyone was just chat messages disembodied

Apr 8 '14 at 15:58, by That Brazilian Guy

Except for @journeymangeek, he's ALWAYS a dog.

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k ??? Not in work falls > they are employed, Unemployment falls > they are employed. Where is the link to everybody dying?

djsmiley2k

not in work rose, sorry

but so did employment

wait no no no aurgh my brain hurts

Not in work fell, employment fell.

therefore, everyone died

;D

That Brazilian Guy

Damn you Rose, stop killing everyone and get a job!

djsmiley2k

Rose?

That Brazilian Guy

2 mins ago, by djsmiley2k

not in work rose, sorry

...forget it, terrible joke

DavidPostill

13:03

9 more bus strike days scheduled for December. That's another 135 squids (2 days pay) I will have to shell out for taxis. I'm getting very pissed off with Arriva.

djsmiley2k

oh joys

hackable airplanes

@DavidPostill 'but it's for the good of the drivers' or something

That Brazilian Guy

@DavidPostill ...you get paid in squids?

djsmiley2k

because making you want to drive instead of getting public transport helps them some how ?!

That Brazilian Guy

Dafuq?! 3 GB of logs on this server?

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k The goverment ~~in their infinite wisdom~~ have decided not in work is not the same as unemployed

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That Brazilian Guy

13:08

Oh, yours too? Here if you're looking for a job for more than 3 months you're not unemployed! Graphs look nice again! Great job!

Here if you're in public schools, passing all your classes by the end of the year is mandatory!

No more bad student performance!

...why is there a 2.1 GB /var/log/kern/logfile on this server?

And why it's filled with nothing but lines containing

`rsyslogd: imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor`
20272754 lines of it

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy Rhyming slang - £1 is a "nicker" or a "quid", and a "quid" is a "squid"

Interesting aside - A @bob is a shilling (12p in old UK money) - A bob was a money collection where participants put in a shilling each, usually for drinks. The expression then arose "to get your two bob's worth" which meant something was very good value, Aussies being fond of the occasional ale.

Bob

o.O

@ThatBrazilianGuy fix your logrotate :P

IIRC one of the Ubuntu versions broke logrotate

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Q: Ubuntu 14.04 - logrotate does not rotate /var/log/* (rsyslog config)

I have a bunch of Ubuntu 14.04 servers I manage where logrotate is not rotating anything under /var/log/*. I'm going to assume its an issue with the /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog as I see other entries in /etc/logrotate.d/ rotating logs properly. These servers are deployed using CHEF. However I don't...

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob It was worse that that:

> Right after a update of Ubuntu Server I faced that rsyslog used 100% CPU and that /var/log/syslog got filled up with following line, which was repeated almost every second:

[rsyslog] imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor

The problem is, that rsyslog tries to log kernel messages, which is as OpenVZ/Proxmox Container default not possible - to fix this, remove/comment out following line in the file /etc/rsyslog.conf (here already done):

Yeah, my CPU was 99% used by a broken rsyslog and I didn't notice

Bob

13:26

o.O

That Brazilian Guy

It's my VPN server, I don't use it much

Journeyman Geek

13:49

scnauzers are the funniest dogs

facebook.com/SOSDSingapore/posts/1661643447219591

this one looks remarkably happy for a lost dog ._.

DavidPostill

14:03

@JourneymanGeek I suppose they are happy as long as somebody is taking care of them in the meantime ... food, water, some exercise, medical attention ... which could be more than the owner provided ...

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill or he/she snuck out. ._.

dosen't look in bad shape

Burgi

14:23

welp

the ISP sent engineers out today and they have confirmed that we have about 12 days of LoS left

their plan is to move the antenna to the front of the building for temporary coverage then in 6 months time when the 2nd new hotel is built they hope to have organised a different relay station for us.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

they building something ugly in front of your building?

Burgi

yup

two 9 storey hotels across the road

and a 5 storey one next door

Journeyman Geek

14:40

you should stick your antenna on a large advertising balloon ;p

That Brazilian Guy

14:56

@Burgi LoS?

Burgi

@ThatBrazilianGuy line of sight

Paul Vargas

15:25

^^^ Meow!

djsmiley2k

Mewow!

Burgi

16:06

@PaulVargas that hurts my eyes....

Paul Vargas

@Burgi 😈

Ben N

@yode The script block is evaluated by PowerShell before being passed to Rename-Item; the $_ automatic variable represents the current object in the pipeline

rahuldottech

16:23

CHA CHA CHA CHA CHA

Ben N

Good morning

rahuldottech

@BenN :D

bwDraco

This is the first time I've heard of issues with fixed wireless.

DavidPostill

Cha-Cha-Cha (classic)

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rahuldottech

@DavidPostill :P

djsmiley2k

16:34

@bwDraco it has the same issues any radio service does - also get screwed up by fog, interference what other things...... bad wind XD

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Wind? Really?

Rain can effect it as can solar proton events - where you referring to Solar Wind? ;)

tereško

@PaulVargas human brain will have serious issues dealing with alien life

djsmiley2k

16:51

@DavidPostill haha

i just remember our radios on the res's in wales would be affected by the wind

i guess they physically blew around a bit

bwDraco

Out of curiosity... why are you stuck with fixed wireless for backhaul?

Burgi

who me?

victorian building on an arterial route into the city centre

bwDraco

I vaguely remember this error message from the old days of Windows...

> Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this process, memory requests for some applications may be denied.

Nowadays it's more like "Close programs to prevent information loss".

Burgi

17:16

trying to get permission to dig up the road is next to impossible

plus openreach has a 90day lead time

DavidPostill

@Burgi So? You can run fibre optic cables overground ...

Canadian Luke

17:32

Unroll it on the sidewalk :-P

jokerdino

good morning

Burgi

@DavidPostill that would need telegraph poles

Canadian Luke

Nah, hang it from the street lights

Burgi

lol

we are going to run an ethernet to our neighbours

DavidPostill

@Burgi What distance is your microwave link?

Burgi

17:38

about a mile

DavidPostill

@Burgi Can't you just put a microwave relay on top of the new building?

Or aim it through their windows? ;)

Burgi

Total distance: 395.77 m (1,298.44 ft)

lol

we are moving it to the front of our building

DavidPostill

@Burgi Non line of sight feasibility shows a number of alternatives ...

Burgi

the problem is base stations, there aren't enough and none in a direction that soon won't have a tower blockin its way

the ISP are looking up options for us

and we are doing an on load test of our DSL backup line tomorrow afternoon

home time

DavidPostill

@Burgi That's what satellites are for :)

Canadian Luke

17:52

Aren't satellites slow?

DavidPostill

@CanadianLuke 28,000 kilometers per hour is not slow ;)

Canadian Luke

Aren't satellite signals slow?

djsmiley2k

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nb

light iw #

Canadian Luke

???

DavidPostill

@CanadianLuke 50 Mbps is possible. That is a lot faster than my internet ...

Canadian Luke

18:00

I get 150MBps over cable... But in Canada, from what I've seen advertised by ISPs for remote areas, they're lucky to get 3 MBps!

DavidPostill

Cascade, built by a Canadian company, MDA, promises upload and download speeds of up to 2,100 Mbps.

Canadian Luke

O.O

DavidPostill

Disadvantage "A 90-minute delivery delay" ;)

@CanadianLuke High speeds need a satellite using Ka band

Canadian Luke

Well, that may be why then... Out here, if you're not a major city (or some smaller towns), you get by with either dialup or satellite, and both are painfully slow

xplornet.com/our-internet-packages-2 <-- Example, max out at 25 Mbps (it increased!)

bwDraco

18:43

> Hello,

We have determined that the host machine on which your Linode resides requires important updates. These updates will ensure that each host has the latest performance updates, improvements, and is compatible with future product launches. While this is not an emergency, your Linode should be migrated to a new piece of hardware so that you may take advantage of all future product offerings and upgrades.

Your Linode has been entered into a migration queue. You have the option of starting your migration manually before the scheduled time by clicking the 'Migrate' button that's located…

(main server)

IIRC that server is on an Ivy Bridge-EP host.

djsmiley2k

19:07

herrrpdery

bwDraco

20:13

Is there any sort of tuning that is recommended on systems with lots of memory (read: Astaroth)? I already adjusted the size of the hibernation file to the minimum allowed (40% of RAM), anything else?

(32 GB of memory, to be exact.)

bwDraco

20:28

I still have not gotten around to migrating all my documents or music.

(traditionally, I would use SMB shares and an Ethernet cable to do this)

djsmiley2k

why would you reduce the hibernation file?

i mean, isn't it used to litterally 'dump' the ram to the disk

bwDraco

Windows only dumps active RAM to hiberfil.sys and compresses it as it is written.

So no, you don't need a 32 GB hibernation file.

12.8 GB is plenty.

CoderCat

20:56

my printer works via USB but over wifi it only prints blank pages

any ideas?

Michael Frank

Maybe it ran out of WiFink?

CoderCat

no.

CoderCat

21:16

hmm color works but black does not

but it isnt quite empty yet

Tom Wijsman

Oh, looks like I don't have (remote) audio since Firefox 57 (on W10).

And I don't seem to be alone in this: bugs.archlinux.org/task/56327

Michael Frank

any audio. Or just audio in FF?

Tom Wijsman

FF, opening a random mp3 on the internet within the browser, or a YT video.

Opening the same YT video in Chrome goes just fine.

Michael Frank

Closed by Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Wednesday, 15 November 2017, 15:13 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug

Tom Wijsman

I'm not around my computer, so I'm going to assume audio from FF on the computer itself should work.

And that it's just remote audio over mstsc that regressed due to audio changes.

Yeah, looked into that further. Firefox 52 dropped ALSA support. So that turns out irrelevant.

AHA! support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/…

Yeah, that was it. FIXED! :-o

Going from level 2 to 3 they go from INTERACTIVE to RESTRICTED as well as add MITIGATION_EXTENSION_POINT_DISABLE; in detail that first change restricts clipboard, handles and global atoms, and I suppose the remote mstsc audio playback is done through a handle.

That Brazilian Guy

22:19

@CoderCat I have an idea in my mind and it is printers are EVIL.

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Bob

morn

bwDraco

22:39

Any decent 2.1 speaker systems for $60 or less? CNET says the Logitech Z323 is crap for whatever reason.

Michael Frank

I was going to suggest these: us.creative.com/p/speakers/gigaworks-t3

because I remember buying them for about $50...

But then I remembered that I was the store manager at the time, and they were actually closer to $300 at retail... >.>

Marine1

23:17

Hi there ! sorry if I'm disturbing : I have a quite simplistic issue, how can I increase a window size on my windows 10 screen ?

Journeyman Geek

Oo. Dragging a corner dosen't work?

Marine1

No ... THere is nothing interactive to do it

I will try to add a screenshot

Michael Frank

I'm intrigued...

Marine1

I can't drag it to full screen ...

Journeyman Geek

Hm. Tbh sounds like something for a bug report :p

Marine1

23:23

Haha, It worked perfectly a few hours ago !

I must have done something bad, I uninstalled and reinstall the client and ... bim !

Michael Frank

Press Alt+Space, there's a size option. Can you select it?

Bob

23:35

Alt+Enter is the normal shortcut to fullscreen-ify a DX game.

Michael Frank

Yea, I had to adjust that...

Bob

23:55

@Aaron, there isn't much that will break cellulose down. The most effective way humans have found is to feed the grass to a cow and then eat the cow. — Mark 2 days ago

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