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allquixotic

00:12

6/24/19 Internet outage (BGP leak) explanation

Pie

05:28

How can I write batch script to disable window update

What should i search

rahuldottech

06:06

@Pie disabling windows update is...

not easy, from a batch script. Just use the Settings app.

But you should really just search for "batch script to disable windows update" or "cmd disable windows update"

Journeyman Geek

06:51

You might need powershell

Bob

07:14

@allquixotic @FarazDurrani Deeeeepends. One major exception is .NET Framework (not Core!) applications that optimise startup time via AOT compilation (using ngen). The MSI installer may invoke ngen as a post-install step, while the ZIP'd version won't be AOT'd so will have a bit of a startup JIT penalty.

But that wouldn't affect native applications at all.

bertieb

07:39

Morning

rahuldottech

Afternoon

djsmiley2k

07:57

bonjour!

the rain is finally here and it's goooooooooood

rahuldottech

u r lucky

djsmiley2k

yus

yes i am :D

i have a good life.

Burgi

08:16

morning

rahuldottech

Evening

Boris_yo

Anyone thinks mechanical keyboard is better than common keyboard?

Burgi

i have a mechanical one here at work and a high-end normal one at home. i genuinely can't feel the difference

djsmiley2k

08:35

I like my mechanical at home, but it's a curio rather than anything honestly more useful.

Boris_yo

Mechanical keyboards have more keys than common keyboards?

Keys for more in-game functions, in-game shortcuts...

djsmiley2k

Not necessarily

that's just a function of keyboard models, logictec do lots of keyboards with extra keys, for example

Burgi

my home keyboard has macro buttons etc

bertieb

09:16

It's sunny here!

Also, does a keyboard with hammers and a ribbon count as mechanical?

Burgi

i briefly saw that valve aren't going to support steam on ubuntu any more

djsmiley2k

yeah, so ubuntu aren't doing what I thought they were, which is dumb

they're actually removing all 32bit libs, as you worried they would

(which is dumb).

Burgi

it seems like a terrible idea seeing that ubuntu is the most popular linux distro available

djsmiley2k

yah

it looks very much like a knee jerk reaction, and it's odd there's no announcement (that I've seen, tho i've not looked hard) about why

which makes me wonder, has someone discovered a zero day and only ubuntu knows? ;/

Burgi

@allquixotic you americans and your crazy number of months

Journeyman Geek

09:30

@Burgi Beats metric.

Burgi

heh

djsmiley2k

09:48

hmmmm one of our providers is having some major bgp weirdness atm

They're seemingly ignoring our announcement.

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k I think they just figured it wasn't needed

@Boris_yo Yes

BUT whether you like it varies

@djsmiley2k If memory serves though, there's actually no 32 bit support on 54 bit debian by default. You install a set of packages for that if needed.

I might be wrong though

nvm

wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO I'm wrong

Burgi

10:31

@JourneymanGeek i know linux is crazy but 54 bit machines? ;P

Journeyman Geek

I was hungry

Burgi

so you ate 10 bits?

a byte and a nybble if you will

that worked rather well, going to take the rest of the day off :)

djsmiley2k

lol

Bob

11:18

hm

what do people use for defragging drives these days?

got a couple 8 TB SMRs that are ... poorly

djsmiley2k

better fs's?

/me realises that answer isn't helpful.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I havn't defragged in ages

Bob

@djsmiley2k sure, find me a FS that doesn't die on SMR

I guess TAR would work :D

@JourneymanGeek Exactly why I need to ask!

Journeyman Geek

wait. mydefrag got updated?

Bob

It's writing at 24 MB/s and I can hear the drive seeking away :(

I think I used to use ... Auslogics?

Journeyman Geek

11:21

mydefrag.net I used to use an older version of this back in the day

Bob

huh, defraggler is still a thing

and they want $25 for it

lolno

Journeyman Geek

11:37

last update on mydefrag was 09 0_0

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek well windows has it's own utility, and like you said, people rarely ever defrag now, so...

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech oh bit of a story behind that

rahuldottech

tell me!

Journeyman Geek

on XP, jkdefrag (mydefrag's predecessor) was open source

it was INSANELY light and almost magic

had really good options like letting you compact files, and ran in situations where windows defrag would go nooooopeeeee

and you could pretty much see the difference ionce it ran

the dev went closed source so he could sell it

then...

promply lost interest.

rahuldottech

doesn't it happen the other way around, usually?

lost interest > open source?

Journeyman Geek

11:50

yup

If it was usual, it wouldn't be a story

(actually same thing happened with PDN, but they didn't lose interest)

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek Ah, yeah, I remember that

I generally don't believe that open source and profits are incompatible

But... //shrug

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech ah, in this case it wasn't about the money

folks were doing 'forks' with malware

rahuldottech

ohh

yeah, that's bad

So I meet this guy at the reddit meetup, super nice and chill, chat a lot during afterparty at my place, we make plans to hang out and then...

turns out he's a redpill-er

For the uninitiated

Journeyman Geek

ow

rahuldottech

On other news: disclose.tv/…

Hmmm idk what to think of this. Sounds... impossible?

bertieb

12:00

@Bob Do SMRs need special defragging?

out of interest

Bob

@bertieb ...it's more of a "defragging apparently doesn't work on SMR"

:S

bertieb

@Bob Oh, right

:S indeed!

Bob

@JourneymanGeek PDN?

rahuldottech

@Bob paint.net

Bob

ah

djsmiley2k

12:04

Doesn't work? :/

How can defragging not work o_O?

Bob

@djsmiley2k SMR shenanigans

bertieb

Gremlins in the shingles

Journeyman Geek

@Bob clearly the solution is to write your own with the defragging API....

Burgi

ok thats weird

the formula e coverage on the BBC has accidentally manufactured that bi-aural sound

i kept looking around to see where the hell the helicopter was! >.<

Journeyman Geek

12:24

bamboozled.

djsmiley2k

lol

@Bob sounds interesting...

> and the Social Committee would like to invite you to partake in this month’s dress down competition!

The game!:
Best Hat! A shortlist of the most liked photos on the Workplace page below will be sent to our expert panel of judges to be reviewed!

Ooooooooooo boy.

(this is from work)

Journeyman Geek

time to make a large fake steel pyramidhead mask?

djsmiley2k

oh man i wish.

Burgi

13:00

get a hat that looks like the CEO

djsmiley2k

13:15

:D

bertieb

Cosplay as a TF2 Spy :D

rahuldottech

13:39

dog barks quietly w/ subtitles

►

bertieb

14:18

Is that the one where it gets quieter and quieter?

rahuldottech

I released new music: theme to the final struggle

@bertieb yeh

Journeyman Geek

15:16

@bertieb Yes

bertieb

18:53

3

djsmiley2k

19:11

lol

bwDraco

woof

djsmiley2k

19:43

Sigh

@DavidPostill @JourneymanGeek superuser.com/questions/1452813/…

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Perfect. I am in the mood for winding somebody up ;)

djsmiley2k

:D

DavidPostill

It got deleted :/

djsmiley2k

lol

So teh rain has stopped

at least the world has cooled down

bertieb

20:02

RasPi 4; now with more ethernet throughput!

djsmiley2k

lol

bertieb

20:29

Is there anything that can be done about old, falling-apart speaker cones?

They're probably older than me and this one sounds terribly rattle-y

djsmiley2k

@bertieb ....

tinyurl.com/y3j5ytt3

why didn't they take their clothes off first? *(link to ladbible video on youtube of people in scotland swimming in the random flooding around a town)

bertieb

@djsmiley2k they're my late uncle's old speakers

emphasis on old

djsmiley2k

wasn't reply to that :D

bertieb

but they were probably (?) great in their day

and can't argue with price

djsmiley2k

I thought you could replace speaker cones, but I maybe wrong.

bertieb

20:36

Oh

@djsmiley2k #juststirlingthings

Or maybe it's in case there wasn't as much lubrication as they thought (paging @FMLCat) and were concerned about road rash??

Maybe I should just disconnect that speaker in the meantime

Also, also!

I was checking on the amp / sound dealie, some Sony somethingorother

For something sitting doing nothing, it gets flipping warm!

If it's generating that much excess heat, I wonder what it's doing to my 'leccy bill

bwDraco

PCIe 4.0 now: anandtech.com/show/14584/…

(only useful if you're building an AMD X570 system, though, as there are no other platforms on the market that supports PCIe 4.0)

djsmiley2k

20:51

@bertieb err

r

yeah, so valves?

like old stereo amp?

the heat sinks in stereos is crazy

and I'm orf to bed o/

bwDraco

nn

bertieb

@djsmiley2k Naw, it's newish

2000s, I reckon

2 ticks

I mean, I think it has HDMI

Sony has manual downloads for it dating from 2006

I bought it for a reasonable price off Gumtree

djsmiley2k

oh right

still, massive heatsinks, tho I'd expect it to power down to some low power state when not actually in use o_O

bertieb

A STR-DA1200ES

Aye

Might stick my energy dealie on it and see

djsmiley2k

i just recall my old stereo I had as a teen, it must of had 15kg of heatsinks in there

bertieb

21:05

Only issue is it's hooked up to my server >_<

(no UPS)

djsmiley2k

and it could sure get hot, but only really from the front display, and from being on long time

bertieb

Aye, back in the gold ol days

before tiny, tinny, noisy fans

Think I'll be switching it to standby when not in use

Just a slight inconvenience

Like you, I figured it would be doing nothing and consuming v little when not receiving audio

Journeyman Geek

22:53

alues

@bertieb if you know the size and inductance values could swap em

bertieb

I thought for a minute you'd been replaced by a fluffy Markov chain script ;-P

Do I need to know size and inductance values?

I kinda just wired in whatever speakers I had into the sound system

an audiophile I am not

(clearly)

Journeyman Geek

Oh size so it fits

I think induction values are fairly standard and so stuff gets driven the way

bertieb

Oh right :D

It's a large thing on a stand, anything hat wouldn't fit would be ma-hoo-sive

Ah yes

Journeyman Geek

You also kinda want the same 'type' of speakers - tweeters subwoofers etc

bertieb

I think I can configure inductance on the device dealie

Hmm, I thought speakers these days have both woofers and tweeters

Journeyman Geek

23:02

Yup

bertieb

I have a separate subwoofer, not sure why as I hate bass

Journeyman Geek

But even on a 2.0 there's more than one speaker and a crossover circuit

bertieb

nods

Actually sorry, didn't get that :P

I thought 2.0 was a type of speaker configuration

L+R or somesuch

Journeyman Geek

Yup

But you can have a single channel with 2 or more drivers covering different ranges

bertieb

This sounds way more complicated than what I want to do

...and I think I just had an epiphany as to what normal people must hear when I attempt to explain tech stuff to them

Journeyman Geek

23:09

Just buy drivers of the same size and impedence and you should be fine

@bertieb yup. I know the feeling

bertieb

Heh; these two (2.0? left and right?) are ones I inherited from my late uncle (big, old, wooden)

The rest of the speakers (5.0) are from a DBD system from the early days of non-enthusiast consumer DVD surround sound

tiny plastic dealies

Somewhere, an audiophile is agog

and Van Gogh-ing their ears in dismay

See, it's almost definitely a crap system (broken cones notwithstanding)

but the price was right...

On that note, eBay postcode+a few miles "collection only" speakers / Gumtree might be a good bet

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