« first day (2715 days earlier)      last day (2601 days later) » 
00:00 - 12:0012:00 - 00:00

00:26
!!caaaaat2
!!doge cat,meaow,pussy,kitty,purr
          wow
                        so cat
very meaow
                such pussy
                         much kitty
many purr
meow
screen on my phone is gone :(
00:37
Wat.
How did that happen?
OnePlus 3?
I dropped it. There's like a massive purple spready death of pixels
I think this is a pretty common way for the OLED panel on newer OnePlus phones to fail.
Hmm...
rofl
the glass is fine
That... is odd.
I have heard that the OLED panel is relatively fragile.
00:42
funky
@FMLCat (cause they're our resident mobile repair cat) @Bob (cause nice tech support gore)
I have a spare phone or two.
@JourneymanGeek Ouch
Must be LCD... OLEDs wouldn't smear like that :-P
I've asked my dad to order a new screen assembly which should reach me shortly after I reach home
It's OLED.
00:44
@FMLCat seems to be a known failure mode
My OnePlus 3T has taken a few hard drops in the past, denting the chassis, but causing no functional damage whatsoever.
@bwDraco ditto
I want biscuits
and lol, if I had a job, I'd be ordering a OP5T ;p
00:45
@MichaelFrank don't want the mess of having a dongle / receiver nearby and all those wires... so much easier just to wear a headset. I already have Class 1 BT headphones; they're just flimsy-plasticy cheapness that is Beats. I want better build quality :P
(which, oddly enough, is cheaper in SG)
@____@ A possibly very old or transonic (not supersonic necessarily, just near enough to cause excessive noise) jet just went by overhead. I'm right beneath an airport landing flight path so I usually hear loud jets but that one left a loooong, roiling trail of sound like thunder for about 60 seconds
old jets' turbofans (or, worse, turbojets) make that kind of sound; newer ones have sound dampening / muffling equipment
the new 737s, you can't hear at all unless you're outside. I'm inside and I heard this huge rumbling
like a 747-100 maybe, or if military, a B-52
no sonic BOOM, so it wasn't a fighter
Also, that started as a black splotch on a corner and spread
How hard was it dropped?
not very
dropped from maybe waist height for a normal human, and landed face down
00:53
:\
That reminds me to be careful with my phone. The OnePlus 3T is almost the same.
I don't use a case
Use a case.
It's in a case when I'm outside, but I take it out at home.
super common OLED issue?
hmm...
i'm going to have to actually go actual shopping tomorrow
01:04
?
@allquixotic Don't those flight tracker websites show/list just about every non-stealth aircraft in the skies in real time?
@FMLCat I suppose, yeah
so that was 7:48 PM EST
wtf, there's a TFR around DC that extends covering me @_@
but there are airplanes in the TFR
flightaware doesn't tell me what the aircraft map looked like at a particular location/period in time
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek @_@
@JourneymanGeek how hard is it to replace?
@Bob looks like it needs a heat gun
I'm ordering a glass + screen on ebay, and finding a local repair place to do the actual repair
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek might be easier and not that much more expensive to get someone to do it for you
especially in india
(though, idk if they'll have different parts, and questions of reliability etc.)
01:15
@Bob I'm travelling a lot
Bob
Bob
ah
@allquixotic Swap the guts into a nicer pair? :P
eh, I've asked my dad to order the part
going to pop off again. Still teathering off mom's phone and she needs the data
@MichaelFrank if only I had that kind of skill. Be my luck the geometry wouldn't line up and they'd rattle around or something
That's what hot glue is for though. Have you never watched a DIY video on YouTube?!
Bob
Bob
01:31
@MichaelFrank ...hot glue underwear
@Bob I have not seen that one yet..
Bob
Bob
@MichaelFrank consider yourself lucky... it looks distinctly uncomfortable
02:04
Proposed build for Father - leaning towards Mini-ITX this time around.
Chances are good the graphics card will be dropped altogether when Raven Ridge desktop processors hit the market in February.
Cost-optimized, ultra-compact system.
How often does your father game?!
Will probably be using the stock (Wraith Stealth) processor cooler.
if you can wait til Feb, probably Raven Ridge is a good bet anyway, no GPU
@MichaelFrank Minimally. It only needs a basic graphics solution.
too bad the Intel/Vega CPU isn't on a desktop platform / LGA
or purchasable in an ITX or ATX form factor as a combo CPU+mobo even if BGA
02:07
Even 8 Vega CUs will outperform the GT 640 in the current desktop.
Bob
Bob
@bwDraco I feel like ITX just overcomplicates things unless you actually need small
Was looking at different boards - some boards, like the ASUS Strix ITX boards, cannot use the processor graphics due to a lack of graphics outputs.
The ability to use the processor graphics is paramount.
But... I have some VRM-related concerns.
Power on this board is 6+1-phase. The AM4 platform has separate power phases for the CPU cores and the rest of the SoC (including any processor graphics). One phase for Vega graphics... is chancy.
(for comparison, power on my C6E is 8+4 phases)
Bob
Bob
eh
if gaming isn't a concern an Intel iGPU could also work
less power concerns there
Obviously, you're not putting 12 power phases on a Mini-ITX board, but I'd like to see two or three phases for the SoC.
Bob
Bob
even with Vega you're probably fine
I think you're worrying too much about what will end up as a lightweight build
02:22
...wait a sec. I think I misread the specs. ASRock says it's 8 phases, so it's probably 6+2 phases.
However, the SoC phases have no heatsink.
Maybe we'll just build it and put the system on the thermal imager to see if it needs extra cooling? 🤔
if no gaming just get a NUC with 16 gigs of RAM, doesn't even really matter the generation
I kinda want some level of upgradeability.
Bob
Bob
face it, it'll be used for 10-20 years and never upgraded
and it'll probably end up being cheaper to replace the whole thing in 10 years time than to try to find parts compatible with old hardware
> 10-20 years
lol
Bob
Bob
anyway, usually the most interesting upgrades these days (gaming aside) are connectivity
which means you'd either want more expansion slots, or you'd just swap out the whole motherboard
swapping out the motherboard means ... new CPU and RAM
at which point you're keeping ... the PSU and case
(you could argue for AM4 compat, but that's usually new CPU in old boards, not the other way around)
even then you're, at best, saving maybe $50 or buying second-hand parts ... 10 years down the track
*shrug* I'd not worry overly much about upgrades
02:47
Well... that old Dell has been in use for 10 years and counting.
I'm just evaluating a possible upgrade at this point.
Storage? He only needs 250 GB. NVMe will deliver faster boot times and extra responsiveness for everyday use.
There's not much of an excuse to go with SATA when a 960 EVO is not much more expensive.
Bob
Bob
@bwDraco SATA is simpler
NVMe requires UEFI boot, IIRC
there's less things that can go wrong with SATA
it's also easier to pull the drive into another machine if you have issues and need to image it
@Bob Why would this be a problem? I can't think of a reason why I would need the CSM.
@Bob Hmm... that makes sense.
Bob
Bob
at the end of the day, like everything else, it's just another choice
but for simplicity's sake I don't much like NVMe (or even mSATA, for drive imaging reasons)
@bwDraco I suppose it keeps more options open? It's not necessarily a problem, just one more thing to keep in mind.
NVMe is a fairly well supported config these days
the biggest issue is probably the whole chucking it into another machine thing, which isn't necessarily a problem
esp. if you have a free slot elsewhere
oh, no hotplug support either, if that's an issue for you
Well... I could just put the drive into Astaroth if anything, but that is harder to do than just putting a SATA SSD into a dock.
(yes, I have an open M.2 slot and it is easy to access)
Bob
Bob
I wonder if anyone makes NVMe docks
@bwDraco Yea, if you have the spare slot, it's less of an issue
It's something you might have to do once in five years, anyway
02:58
The problem is that putting an SSD in that slot is tantamount to placing a graphics card in the second PCIe slot. This means my GTX 1080 Ti will be limited to PCIe 3.0 x8.
Having to do this temporarily is not an issue, but I would not want to put an SSD there on a permanent basis.
@Bob You mean like a USB dock?
You can buy little USB cases I believe.
@MichaelFrank NVMe support is harder to find.
The unit would need to support PCIe.
Bob
Bob
@bwDraco that's... pretty dodgy
why would it share graphics lanes? o.O
@Bob Because of limitations in the AM4 platform.
Bob
Bob
:S
03:04
The platform allows for 24 lanes, of which 4 are reserved for the chipset. 16 are used for graphics, while the remaining 4 are for a single NVMe SSD.
Bob
Bob
:\
2
Since the system already has an NVMe SSD, any further slots would either have to use the graphics lanes or go through the chipset.
In fact, this would not be possible on a B350 board because it does not support bifurcation of the PCIe graphics PHY.
(AIUI there's two PCIe PHYs on the Zeppelin die, each technically capable of 16 lanes, but on AM4, only 8 lanes are available on one of the two PHYs and that is already set up for the chipset and NVMe; the other PHY is fully enabled and is intended for use with a graphics card(s))
Bob
Bob
:\
2
meanwhile I'm just sending everything through DMI
which is the equivalent of PCIe 3.0 x4, as far as bandwidth, IIRC
though I think my board shares the second M.2 slot's PCIe bandwidth with two of the SATA ports
Technically, there is one other M.2 slot on this board which hangs off the chipset, but accessing it would require removal of the main M.2 heatsink (and therefore the graphics card). While technically capable of PCIe 3.0 x4, its bandwidth is shared with SATA and some USB ports.
Bob
Bob
@bwDraco eh, mine are all shared (over the same DMI link). when I said "shared" earlier I mean using it actually disables two SATA ports because it also uses the same HSIO lane(s?)
03:14
(The M.2 heatsink sits on top of the chipset heatsink.)
Correction: There is no chipset-based M.2 slot on the Crosshair VI Extreme.
Bob
Bob
@bwDraco superuser.com/questions/1284351/… dunno if you want to answer that
Hmm... it looks like PCIe is way more complicated than this.
> 6 x4 PHYs plus 5 x2 PHYs
Bob
Bob
@bwDraco A number of which are used for memory access too
03:34
> There are 2 ways :
1 ) request new functional account
Last message received 10 minutes ago.
04:11
Jun 20 '16 at 4:04, by bwDraco
It's starting to get very annoying to have to take a knife to my feet and slice off dead skin every few days. It's bothering me so much that I have to do it this often.
...wound up getting this:
750 mAh battery (LiPo AFAICT), USB charging (proprietary cable, probably for water resistance). Not the most powerful, but reasonably strong.
It may seem like a silly thing to bring up here... but it works.
 
1 hour later…
05:33
!!/learn error <>https://i.sstatic.net/bE2v2.gif
@bwDraco Command error learned
(found the original source)
Bob
Bob
@bwDraco ...that gif needs some serious optimisation
it's 1 MB for ... 8 frames?
Just a moment...
Bob
Bob
I can do it when I get home
don't have a copy of PS here
05:36
GIMP can do this. Hang on...
@Bob 55 frames.
Bob
Bob
gimp is pretty terrible for gif
It already appears to be optimized.
Bob
Bob
s/for gif//
Hmm... looks like GIMP is able to do a better job.
headdesk
The resulting file is actually slightly larger.
I'm going to see if I can build a copy of this myself.
Bob
Bob
quick'n'dirty with screentogif puts it at 712kB
that's with a 32-colour palette... oculd go down to 16 but then the dithering becomes a tad obvious
05:49
Okay, compiled a Gifsicle binary.
Bob
Bob
gifski takes it down to 632kB
Parameters?
652kB at 32 colors from Gifsicle.
./gifsicle -j16 /c/Users/brian/Desktop/bE2v2.gif -o error-anim.gif -O3 -k32
(MSYS2 command line)
414 KB at 16 colors, but the artifacts look rather nasty.
@Bob: Do we drop the existing command and use the optimized version, or what?
Bob
Bob
*shrug*
06:03
835 KB at 64 colors, which is visually lossless.
...wat. Stripping the gifsicle binary reduced it from 799 KB to 255 KB.
Debug symbols are this large?
I thought I compiled this with -O3!
Bob
Bob
06:59
Wat.
Bob
Bob
> This website is best viewed in 1366x768 screen resolution.
why are we looking at UIDAI?
Bob
Bob
@jokerdino cause they (or their claims) are currently the laughing stock of the infosec community troyhunt.com/…
> Cisco informed us that the ACE product line was discontinued several years ago and that they won't provide an update. Still, we found plenty of vulnerable hosts that use these devices.

These devices don't support any other cipher suites, therefore disabling RSA is not an option. To our knowledge it is not possible to use these devices for TLS connections in a secure way.

However, if you use these products you're in good company: As far as we can tell Cisco is using them to serve the cisco.com domain.
@Bob :D
please continue to laugh at them
you don't really need to hack UIDAI database. If you pay some people, they will generate a password for you to access the database.
08:03
@Bob lolwat... that's 13" laptop resolution. o.O
Bob
Bob
08:18
@MichaelFrank no, that's cheapass laptop resolution
most commonly seen on 15.6" actually
13" tends to be higher end ultrabook-style laptops ... which get proper 1920x1080 screens
08:54
morning
Morning
wow... wtf?
31
Q: How to gently turn down a female coworker who asked for a sperm donation?

SteveI have a female coworker (superior technically but in another department.) We've worked together for about 4.5 years and have been become pretty good friends, we'll always chat in the kitchen at work and occasionally see each other outside of work for drinks or whatnot. Recently she confided ...

errr wow.
09:11
the new receptionist here is a little bit... odd...
what happened to the nice one?
she was also mad, she left ages ago
this one is pretty but even more odd
she just came up to me laughing saying "did you ever do that thing in school where you pull the chair from under someone as they try to sit? i did it to my old boss..."
lol
and that's why you work here love </condcending>
i thought about that, but i didn't
heh
Hmmm, your place stinks of scrimping at every corner :<
I mean here is bad, we need new carpets, walls, celings, chairs, desks, etc
but the actual function o the core business is supported
09:22
quite the opposite
the just spend the money on wrong things
lol
not receptionists? :/
the old directors spent literally 10's of thousands on utter crap
this one is better at the job than the last one
why are 'business people' so bad at business?
09:25
the other week at beer o'clock the receptionist was asking me if i had inappropriate thoughts
yeah
she only asks the weird stuff when no-one else is around
Ah joys, now starting to go hot and cold too
@djsmiley2k are you starting a lurgy?
i didn't start it
wife had it first, but yes
but work so busy with stuff I physically need to be here to do :/
 
1 hour later…
Deo
Deo
10:39
Hi all
Can someone help me?
Is there a way to know if I'll have windows on Lenovo ideapad 100 after factory recovery?
Did it come with Windows installed?
Deo
Deo
I'm not sure. it's not my laptop
It has Window(r) lable on the back, but no activation key
It'll have the key in the BIOS
Deo
Deo
Really? Is it possible to check somehow? Or are you sure it's the case?
So as long as you use the Windows recovery/reset feature it will still have Windows after the recovery.
Deo
Deo
10:45
Not windows recovery
I tried that and it failed
There's a couple different levels of recovery, which one(s) did you do?
Deo
Deo
User purge(?)
There's a complete reset option which should restore it to like new.
Deo
Deo
Yeah, I tried that and it gave me error
What did it say?
Deo
Deo
10:49
Same as this image i.sstatic.net/4cf8s.png
What is the specific model of this laptop? Should be labelled as MTM.
Deo
Deo
Basically situation is this: guy forgot his password and he wants that reset. He's ok with loosing the data. But I don't have Windows ISO around, so would like to avoid losing OS
Lenovo idaepad 100-15IBD
Model Name 80QQ
MTM: 80QQ003QRK
@Deo backup first
Deo
Deo
I just don't have any decent storage around
can you not use the NT offline password nuker?
10:53
@Burgi It'll be Windows 10, does that still work?
Deo
Deo
the pogostick?
@MichaelFrank good question
it worked on win7
Deo
Deo
I tried that, it failed to load kernel
Maybe bad USB drive though
Should I have formatted USB drive in something other than FAT32 for this?
0_0
@Deo is that 8 or 10?
Deo
Deo
I have win 10 on laptop, 2 GB USB drive currently formatted as FAT32 and I tried this to nuke password pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd
It said kernel is loading and then just stuck
10:56
no optical drive?
Deo
Deo
don't have it around
Just went to work as usual and then boss gave me this task out of the blue
if its 10, you have a digital entitlement, if its 8, the key should be embedded in the bios
Deo
Deo
It's not what I do at all
Is there a way to check if there still be OS after I factory reset laptop?
factory reset, if it works, will throw you into a fresh install
Deo
Deo
That will do, as long as it will have windows OS
I mean laptop factory reset
One Key Recovery
11:04
@Deo what is your job?
Deo
Deo
I'm CRM support programmer. Mostly deal with SQL here
lol
fun times
well, if the disk was nuked, factory restore may not work
@Deo ah but it involves computers therefore you are equipped to fix all IT issues
Deo
Deo
@Burgi Yeah, but we are the CRM vendor, so pretty much everyone deals with computers here. Must be because i'm new.
there has been an upswing in the number of recruiters this week, very annoying
11:13
new year, same old crap! \o/
do you not have an internal IT dept?
Deo
Deo
No. We provide CRM and its support for other companies
microsoft CRM?
@Deo so who maintains your infrastructure?
Deo
Deo
Our own brand CRM. Basically a wrapper around SQL server database with some Visual Basic Script on top of that
Damn, I miss being C# coder
....
That sounds slightly scary
2
Deo
Deo
11:15
I needed the job :(
I can relate
I can relate
@Burgi I swear that most companies don't even realise supporting desktops is a thing, or its kinda low end scut work :(
I can relate.
@JourneymanGeek case in point, @Burgi's company
Deo
Deo
It's not even our laptop. As far as I know, it belongs to guy owning office centre we renting, he came to my boss with this and my boss dumped it on me. FML
11:24
@Deo I can relate
@Deo drop it to the lowest priority
@djsmiley2k we outsource our IT
@Burgi I've worked in the field. Its kinda.... bad
actually i got an email this morning for a 2nd line position
24K based in manchester
i did think of you and @DavidPostill for it
@Burgi though, dosen't EU (and ex EU) do a local first hiring thing?
no
Deo
Deo
Oh heavens! That guy just took the cursed laptop away. He's leaving tomorrow and I told him I coudn't do anything today without risking to nuke OS
11:37
yay
@JourneymanGeek Nah, you just need permission to work over here.
Deo
Deo
Now I can get back to fixing database where constraints were accidentally disabled about half a year ago and it now has 2k rows of corrupted data. And of course I must save everything. Yay.
yey
!!taytaytay
or is it
11:41
!!taytayboom
11:52
apparently its in the low 20s back home, and ash is having trouble with the cold :(
00:00 - 12:0012:00 - 00:00

« first day (2715 days earlier)      last day (2601 days later) »