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4:23 AM

@avazula My SE swag should arrive soon too! It's stuck at customs atm.

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barlop

9:43 AM

@JourneymanGeek have you run into any exceptions? i.e. you plug an external monitor into a laptop and you need to restart for it to be detected / for it to get a signal? (also, how about when using HDMI<-->DisplayPort adaptors)

Journeyman Geek

Nope but I have never used hdmi to DP

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12:13 PM

@JourneymanGeek

My Audio Technicas arrived!

It doesn't have very good low-ends

Journeyman Geek

Oh :/

barlop

Journeyman Geek

12:33 PM

I've used errr DVI to HDMI I think

And HDMI to VGA

12:53 PM

@JourneymanGeek bass is... Poor

Mids and highs are cool

1:07 PM

> Rapid7 Director of Research Tod Beardsley was one of the spectators. "My first reaction," Beardsley joked, "was, man, I wish a vendor would punch me for disclosure. Boy, that beats any bug bounty."

lol

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3:04 PM

Am currently doing a fresh install of Windows 10 on a newly formatted hard drive and its been stuck at "Getting files ready for installation 82%" for two days, does anybody have suggestions for what to try next?

3:20 PM

@CharlieBrumbaugh switch off PC, create new install media

If it still doesn't work, check your disk

A windows 10 install should almost never take more than an hour

Two days is ridiculous

@rahuldottech We have been using that USB stick to boot and install on lots of other computers and some very recently so I don't think its USB drive

@CharlieBrumbaugh give it another shot, and if it doesn't work, try what I mentioned above

The install process shouldn't actually use the hard disk till you choose where to install to

I once won gold in a competition by putting flashing LEDs on an Arduino, a randomized seven segment display, a colored terminal on my PC and by throwing this word around a lot. Good days, man.

bwDraco

3:41 PM

lol

@CharlieBrumbaugh Think what you like, @rahuldottech's suggestion is sane.

@rahuldottech lol.

Hogwarts L̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r Email

I will give it a try

I once had project where where the idea was to randomly shuffle a deck of cards in Java, the problem was at the end of my program sometimes there would only be 50 cards left out of 52. So I just didn't print how many cards were left and turned the project in

Canadian Luke

4:06 PM

... Then you told the teacher they can't count, right?

Bob

4:25 PM

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5:30 PM

I passed my programming module at uni, yet nothing I wrote ever worked

bertieb

@CharlieBrumbaugh That's not a bug, it's an "I dropped a couple cards on the ground during the shuffle" feature

DavidPostill

@CharlieBrumbaugh That sounds like you missed an opportunity to learn about fence posts :)

It only came up short randomly, for all I know it worked perfectly when the teacher ran it

6:34 PM

I'm oddly intrigued where the other two went

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k He palmed them :)

Quantum entanglement. Someone somewhere gets 54 cards, and very confused.

bertieb

@djsmiley2k flips BOFH excuse calendar hysteresis interference from an NFC card

7:28 PM

yey A3 cutting mat is here

for some reason Amazon sent it in what looks like a A1 envelope

Canadian Luke

8:13 PM

I just called the automated system for getting my free credit report... Question 2 was my DOB... Question 6 was how old am I today...

Quest 7 was if you grokked math?

bertieb

Question 8 was your date of birth, but in 8601 format

question 9: Where you born on a Monday?

@CharlieBrumbaugh Two days sounds fair

'3+ months for windows 7 to get it uo update (install is fast. I gave up on windows update after letting it run for 2+ weeks).

win8: never installable (well, until you swap the memory, then it was peachy)

win 10: never works unless you had a newfangles USB3 pendrive

8:39 PM

It's alive \o/

It that a paper notepad+.exe ?

lol close enuf yah

I need to stick the floppy disk on, for save functionality.