i might see if she will let me get drunk AND if i can play KSP while its on

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@allquixotic As someone pointed out in a reddit thread somewhere, introducing more regulation into what's allowed in games could be a very very bad idea.

(when was the last time a government has had a rational, well-thought-out response to games?)

One possibility is that in-game purchases are banned outright

And ... that's not great for games that are expected to be maintained for many years

Just had an email from a user I do onsite support for 3 days a week. Apparently a colleague is having trouble with Outlook not loading her OST file... The IT Help Desk decided they couldn't resolve it and forwarded it to me.

What kind of HelpDesk can't resolve a corrupted OST?!

@allquixotic China (I think?) combats that by requiring games with loot boxes to publish the exact chance table don't they?

So... some thoughts on M.2 SSD thermal throttling. The motherboard I have (ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Extreme) is one of the few that have a built-in M.2 heatsink. The SSD drops in beneath a heatsink that is an extension of the chipset heatsink, with a long thermal pad that makes contact with the installed SSD. One of the three screws that hold down this heatsink is positioned such that it passes through the screw hole for M.2 2280 SSDs, obviating the need for additional screws.

According to the records kept by CrystalDiskInfo, the highest temperature reached is 49 °C, nowhere near the 70 °C throttling point.

(CDI logs SMART data over time and can generate graphs of this data)

Anyone feel like helping with a weird Excel formula?

What kind of weird?

So I struggled to get a company I loan money to to have an Excel-style sheet download, showing the payment due date, and the payments expected (among other things). What I want to do is make a table beside it, numbers 1 to 31 in the column, and have the total for the cost based on the day number so I can know how much to expect on a given day in the month

So, if I were to get $5 paid tomorrow (17), I would want that added to the total for the 17th of each month

Does that make sense?

=SUMIF(myTable1[Due Date], DAY(myTable1[Due Date]) = X2, myTable1[Total Scheduled])

That's what I have, but it keeps reporting 0 (X2 is the first date, just a 1)

Any thoughts?

@CanadianLuke create a representative sample with fake data on Google Sheets

the formula language is the same

share it and I'll take a look

I got it, kinda, but the drag-to-fill was horrible (as it's formatted as a table, using names instead of cell references)

But even after verifying the numbers, I realize there is still a crap-ton of data that is garbage... So I'm going to try my hand at VBA tomorrow to make it as painless as possible... Import from a CSV file, run macro, ???, PROFITS

I did something like this:

=IF(myTable1[@[Due Date]]>TODAY(), IF($U2=W$1,myTable1[@[Total Scheduled]],))

But I'm heading to bed now, I'll try tomorrow. Thanks

lol

hi

Hi!

lo

Hi, I got hosting with namecheap and a domain with godaddy, and namecheap gave me DNS servers to feed to GoDaddy, but they didn't give me info to update an A record. When I got to whatsmydns and I enter my domain I don't see much detection, though godaddy think the domain servers have done most of their propagation.. godaddy think they're not very good domain servers.

errrr

why not go with namecheap for domains as well?

well I thought it was more interesting to separate it.

godaddy might've had some super offer too, I don't recall.

should namecheap have given me data to fill out the A record with?

I think so? Oddly I don't use em for hosting ;p

I use em for domain names and run my own dedi

@JourneymanGeek yea, seems a bit backwards :P

@JourneymanGeek i.redd.it/c29mazk3ggyz.jpg looks familiar :P

well, this is new geekbuying.com/item/…

> Yeston GeForce GTX 1080

ooh, off brand high end video card? ;p

ugh. Also realised sixxs closed down

damn it. so many answers to update ._.

morning

anyone ever run into FileMaker databases?

Eww

yeah

their tech support team are useless

Used to use em for purchase orders at the vfx place

my freelance client has it and its stopped working over the network

Have you tried turning it off an on again?

GoDaddy are the worst

trust nothing they say.

all you'd get from namecheap is the IP address

godaddy should be sorting it out for you

lol

so already what you've said doesn't make sense

and with that I'm gone

@barlop Either you fill in the DNS records or the A records, but not both.

DNS records that defer from the default are like "I don't do DNS, use this address for DNS"

Whereas A records say "Use this address to find the (WEB/MAIL/FTP/...) server for this (sub)domain"

So you either copy the A records from namecheap to godaddy OR you change godaddy's DNS records to point to namecheap.

It makes more sense to forward the DNS requests using the DNS records, because the A records might be subject to change in the future.

^^

@Bob maybe its just me but spam on my blog went waaaay down after the server migration

I wonder if spambots don't do modern https settings

lol

Hello World!

Spam blocked not found.

sup

@Bob erm

could you technically xss it?

I remember xss attacks that would hit private addresses, aiming for router login pages etc

hmmmmmm

@djsmiley2k no. Usually internal pages can't be loaded by page script

ah ok

@Bob is it my imagination, or did OVH prices really spike this year? :/

SP-128 is much pricier than I remember it

welp. Just renewed antivirus. Amazon even has a special "15 months for the price of 12" offer this time around.

As before, Norton is our antivirus vendor.

License activated on all devices.

!! s/antivirus/performance degradation/

@allquixotic As before, Norton is our performance degradation vendor. (source)

why.

lol

why not use ms's provided, working tools

I have never had a problem.

because so far, what pro antivirus companies have shown me, is they are good at leaking stuff

Oh god, I remember when trying to remove norton when it came bundled, was like pulling teeth

tomsguide.com/us/windows-defender,review-2209.html

Because Windows Defender still isn't all that good. Sure, it has the advantage of deep integration with the OS, but it still has a poor detection rate.

yeah I even soured on BitDefender - as of Fall Creator's Update, Windows Defender looks to be about as good as third-party AV

it includes the previous EMET bundled as freeware, which is nice

and integrated into the UI

Yes, it's better than it used to be, but I'd still prefer to a solution that we know works.

I've never seen an infection on Windows Defender

and I work in IT :/

I mean sure, our users aren't complete idiots

For us, Norton Security has always been problem-free.

yeah but I know Windows Defender works :D

Why switch AV vendors when your existing solution functions as intended?

because they make you pay upfront for a product that you already have....

eitherway, not my job to educate others

now, should I varnish these rocks tonight I wonder

Also, no discernible performance impact.

the Norton "trialware" that comes on Dell and other companies' PCs out of the box (whether you want it or not) is so sneaky, underhanded and naggy that it's borderline malware; even if buying their product removes all the underhanded functionality and just gives you the genuine AV product you want, I'm loathe to trust a company that ships software like that at all

^^

omfg this varnish stinks :/

@allquixotic I don't think they ship Norton these days...

McAfee isn't better.

no, McAfee is far, far worse, I agree, but comparing shit to less smelly shit isn't a great comparison when there are actually good alternatives

I'm no champion of Windows Defender or whatever, I'm sure it has flaws, but at least there are some trustworthy AV vendors out there who are no worse than Microsoft (who you 100% depend on if you're running Windows because they wrote the proprietary kernel and could rootkit you without you or AV vendors knowing)

Well, here's the deal. I did look into alternatives at one point but my parents don't want to switch, either. Norton works, and that's what matters.

We have one five-seat license for the whole family.

I guess if you are forced to run the same AV as your family, that's kind of limiting

I did consider Bitdefender at one point but the higher price did not justify the added features.

Norton, you can get very cheaply on Amazon as a digital download. After all, the only thing I need is a product key, since it's already installed.

theregister.co.uk/2017/11/16/dji_private_keys_left_github

WTF.

I use NOD32 for 2 years and have been happy. Bought license for cheap.

@djsmiley2k Soup!

The Samsung UEFI bug comes back to bite:

@bwDraco hahaha

and they were already in the crap for the fact their bug bounty program is NDA'ed into outta existance

So... finally got around to doing VMs on Astaroth. 8 cores, 32 GB of RAM, and 2 TB of all-flash storage can't hurt :)

TIL I can copy files from a remote system in an RDP session and paste them onto the client machine \o/

(was transferring a music file from the laptop to the desktop)

yah that's a cool thing about rdp

Well, I've been using RDP for a while to reach my PC at home while I'm on the college campus.

Moved my laptop out of my bedroom and hooked it up next to the router via Ethernet, since I don't even use it so much and only need to transfer files - figured I might as well just use RDP from the desktop and SMB to transfer files.

Perks of having Windows 10 Pro on these machines :-)

(well, SMB is available on Home, but not the RDP server)

@Burgi Yes. 20 years ago ... :/

you can't rdp to home?

Windows 10 Home doesn't support acting as an RDP server.

:o

Fiddling around with how openSUSE handles low-memory operation... It seems to need at least 768 MB of RAM to install. It'll start up on 512 MB, but is very sluggish (lots of swapping).

(all storage on the VMs is backed by solid-state media so it never gets too bad, at least)

I like nice tidy numbers ;)

...managed to crash the host machine. Not sure what the heck happened.

VM was configured to use only 256 MB of RAM. The VM was reading from disk constantly (oddly enough, not from the swap volume) before the host machine just crashed. Q-LED on the motherboard was flashing on the DRAM light, while the Q-Code was 4 (digit four, followed by a blank).

That almost sounds like the hypervisor malfunctioned and could not go back to the host OS.

Perhaps AMD needs to know about this? I haven't seen VirtualBox crash the host, seemingly at the CPU level, like this before.

did u hit that magic bug

you say the swap volume

is this on the host, on the guest, seperate disk on the host for swap on the guest, etc?

Had to hit the reset button on the case to restore normal operation.

This was on a SATA disk.

(as a quick refresher, Astaroth has two SSDs, each with 1 TB capacity; one is M.2 NVMe while the other is SATA)

What I'm curious about is just what in Oblivion happened. I wonder if it somehow triggered an exception in "ring -1" in the processor...

Before this happened, the VM was reading sequentially from the disk at full speed, pushing 500+ MB/s in Task Manager on the host.

Now, I have dealt with virtualization host crashes before, but for entirely unrelated reasons and on an Intel platform with a different hypervisor. I have not used an AMD platform for virtualization in many years.

Cool! I haven't crashed a hypervisor host yet :P

I did find out that I can't use bridged mode with our wireless system though

I have.

:D

This got me wondering: Is this a hypervisor bug, guest integration bug, or (Akatosh forbid) a processor bug?

@djsmiley2k What magic bug?

the amd cpu one that i forget about

welp that's PSN going down

Well, AMD-V is enabled in the system firmware and VirtualBox is using it.

(occurred after adding reboot=t to the kernel command line, which instructs the Linux kernel to use a triple fault to reboot the system)

virtualbox.org/ticket/6521

> VCPU0: Guru Meditation 1155 (VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT)

For reference, VMware returns this:

@allquixotic SP-64 looks similar, maybe you're just used to that discount you had? :P

> This is starting to cross over into worrisome territory. Your manuscript should not, as a rule, be hard to distinguish from the work of someone who is beginning to lose their grip on reality.

blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/11/17/an-odd-paper