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HackToHell

01:59

@TomWijsman For Win 7 scribd.com/doc/64680491/On-Off-Trans-Perf

Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell Already read that from start to end, that's not what the article is about. :)

HackToHell

;)

Journeyman Geek

02:53

@Hennes @studiohack: actually, there was someone claiming it was due to PWM being used to dim LEDs.

basically turning LEDs on and off really fast to change the apparent brightness

1

A: Is an LED monitor better for eyes than an LCD monitor?

This site should answer your question: http://vasyafromukraine.webs.com/ In short, you are not allergic to fluorescent light, but to its flicker. Some fluorescent light doesn't have subconsciously perceivable flicker, but it's rare. There are also two kinds of LEDs - the ones that flicker and the...

Journeyman Geek

03:45

150

Q: Question title that doesn't describe the problem

Pre Edit 4: Pointing out that thread's popularity is a direct result of programming community interest in said subject, and that someone likely stands to become rich and/or famous by solving the problem none of the answers, save my own, came even close to resolving. Long salutation desc...

HackToHell

05:02

So who wants to help me with a hunt ?

nhinkle

05:20

this looks so cool

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831833.aspx

@HackToHell what're you hunting for?

HackToHell

Web Quiz :P

nhinkle

shoot

HackToHell

@nhinkle Similar to Wikipedia, Can You Find it

Also I found some other clues
<div id="content"> 
<div id="can_u_think"

It's not wolfhram alpha

nhinkle

huh

wiki...something maybe?

HackToHell

I am trying to figure it out ;)

Journeyman Geek

05:29

hmm, I got newsnet set up

er

knol?

knol.google.com

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek Yay, it's knol !!! Thanks

Now what's this <_> ?

Journeyman Geek

its a post mark

Postmark

A postmark is a postal marking made on a letter, package, postcard or the like indicating the date and time that the item was delivered into the care of the postal service. Modern postmarks are often applied simultaneously with the cancellation or killer that marks the postage stamp(s) as having been used (though in some circumstances there may be a postmark without a killer, and sometimes the postmark and killer form a continuous design), and the two terms are often used interchangeably, if incorrectly. Postmarks may be applied by hand or by machines, using methods such as rollers or ink...

god. kids these days

HackToHell

no, it's not

I tried that !

Journeyman Geek

hmm

immegration stamp?

HackToHell

The answer is the name of a country ...

Journeyman Geek

05:36

could be a passport stamp

uruguay

Uruguay

Uruguay , officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,{{cite web |url= http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/620116/Uruguay |title=Uruguay |accessdate

HackToHell

Wth, that's the answer, i expected something more complex

Journeyman Geek

lol

occam's razor man

HackToHell

What game of ActiVision is this ?

jokerdino

lol are you playing a trivia game?

HackToHell

kinda

Now all I get is this no

I need to decrypt this :/

@JourneymanGeek You are the guy who studied forensics halp !

Journeyman Geek

06:11

....

I need context

I'm a forensics dude. Not a bloody psycic.

jokerdino

:D

HackToHell

It's a cypher

jokerdino

He is playing a trivia to kill his time and thought he can waste your time too :D

HackToHell

@jokerdino for a GPU

The prize is a GPU

;p

@JourneymanGeek I can't get any more clues :/

jokerdino

you b******

HackToHell

06:14

lol

Journeyman Geek

I don't need clues

I need context

HackToHell

The-e-er's none

It's a geeky competition conducted by CS guys

jokerdino

track fedex package

Journeyman Geek

tried that

and a hex conversion

HackToHell

@jokerdino googled huh ?

jokerdino

06:16

lol the only other result is this chat log

HackToHell

lol

Journeyman Geek

...

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek Can you remove messages from this room ?

Journeyman Geek

ya

er no

you'd need to get a mod to do it

HackToHell

called a mod ;)

Journeyman Geek

06:18

it might be a phone pad number to letter conversion tho

have fun

HackToHell

right

jokerdino

eh that's not a bad idea

try the dictionary mode

Journeyman Geek

amusingly...

I can't remember those any more

Its only been a month or so.. ><

HackToHell

:'( Phone thingy does not work

jokerdino

maybe unjumble those words?

err i mean letters

HackToHell

06:25

It looks too random .. and I can't frame any word with it

nhinkle

what're you guys trying to solve now?

Journeyman Geek

its not a hex conversion

HackToHell

Clue from the mod is May be anythg related to world!

nhinkle

@HackToHell what're you playing? is it some game or something?

jokerdino

He is playing for the GPU.

HackToHell

06:26

@nhinkle It's a game

nhinkle

ok, what game?

Question: is anybody using Windows 8 as their primary OS right now?

HackToHell

Trivia geeky game

jokerdino

No~

HackToHell

I need to decrypt that number jumbo

Bob

@HackToHell What is the number?

ok

let's try this then :P

HackToHell

06:28

yay ;)

Bob

reminds me, I need to install python sometime

jokerdino

time for a nap. Bye ._.

Bob

bye

nhinkle

@Bob i've been playing around with Django recently. It's fun.

@HackToHell linky link?

Bob

@nhinkle I've never tried anything web related (in py), that's on my todo list :P

HackToHell

06:30

@nhinkle closed one, available only by invite.

nhinkle

awww

invite us! everyone loves a challenge

HackToHell

It's kinda like a local competition

nhinkle

@Bob it's amazing how much of it just makes itself.

HackToHell

You guys will finish it before anybody else

nhinkle

@HackToHell oh alright :P

Journeyman Geek

06:32

lol

WA isn't leading me anything useful

Luke Allen

Hello everyone

what's a super user?

Journeyman Geek

hm?

thats an odd question to ask ;p

Bob

@HackToHell Can't be a phone number, can it?

HackToHell

nope

nhinkle

@LukeAllen in the literal sense or the "what is the sort of person who frequents this website"?

HackToHell

06:39

Phone numbers are 10 digits long

Luke Allen

@nhinkle I guess both? I was thinking it was someone who is an all-around computer user for most of their life

nhinkle

that's one way to put it

Luke Allen

ok great then I'll fit right in

nhinkle

in the literal sense, a super user is a particular user account on a system that has full, unfettered access to do anything

i.e. the root account in unix and linux OSes, the SYSTEM account in Windows, etc.

in our sense... it's people who like computers :D

Luke Allen

ah :)

what kind of stuff can you ask here

nhinkle

06:42

faq is a good starting place. basically anything about computer software and hardware, as long as it's a reasonable question

(some things like programming and web applications are off topic though, since there's other sites for that)

Luke Allen

hmm

Bob

@HackToHell IMEI? (grasping at straws here :P)

nhinkle

@HackToHell what's the number again?

HackToHell

@Bob but it says decrypt

besides IMEI is supposed to be 14 digits

I am tearing my brains out !!! aarrrggghhh !!

Bob

@HackToHell 14 + 1 for checksum

nhinkle

06:46

hmm. does anything happen when you sort it or reverse it?

Luke Allen

Does anyone know of any software, or keywords to find such software, related to turning a flowchart (like this: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/LampFlowchart.svg) into a user interface that prompts one question at a time or with drop down menus/checkboxes to intelligently navigate through long, detailed flow charts (which simply represent processes of navigating knowledge)

Bob

@nhinkle two of every digit (1-9), missing both 4s and one 6

HackToHell

Already tried that too :/

nhinkle

@Bob i was thinking it might be sortable into some significant value, like the Fibonacci sequence or Pi or something... but that doesn't seem to be the case

Journeyman Geek

@nhinkle: first things I looked at

nhinkle

06:51

@LukeAllen not really sure. never seen one myself. maybe some sort of interface builder? flowchart maker thingy?

Luke Allen

@nhinkle all the flowchart softwares do is let you build flowcharts (like SmartDraw).

@nhinkle when you have a lot of knowledge to organize, you need a way to display it through filters like checkboxes or drop down menus and only display relevant knowledge

flowcharts that loop back on itself are really hard to read

nhinkle

understood. i get what you're going for, afraid i'm not sure what to look for though

Luke Allen

my ideas so far are: Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Wolfram Mathematica

they all have their problems though and for such a simple problem (all you are really doing is filtering information) I would think there's a more intuitive way

you could do this in any programming language too but again, complicated if you don't know the language

Mohamed Ahmed Nabil

sup guys

is there a program that i can enter in my tasks that i need to do. Then i can mark which i finished and i shows my progress in a progress bar

nhinkle

>.<

Luke Allen

06:59

@nhinkle klausbruckner.com/NFPA13_Flowcharts.html#RackStorage<25';

nhinkle

k guys, this isn't the "please recommend software for me room". casual recommendations are fine, but we aren't personal google

Bob

@nhinkle We might have brought that on ourselves by recommending chat as a place to ask for software :P

Mohamed Ahmed Nabil

@nhinkle my first time here, and i searched google before coming here. Nothing with a progrss bar

Journeyman Geek

@MohamedAhmedNabil: produsoul.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/… via google.com.sg/…

Luke Allen

@Mohamed Ahmed divide the number of tasks you have completed by the total number of tasks

Mohamed Ahmed Nabil

07:02

@LukeAllen I was looking for software.. i know maths :)

nhinkle

sorry for jumping - you're right that chat is the best place for it right now

Mohamed Ahmed Nabil

@JourneymanGeek Great links....Thank you. The word is gamified. New stuff

Journeyman Geek

@LukeAllen: not sure about yours. I COULD have sworn there's something suitable i vaguely remember...

maybe some hypercard clone?

OH yesh..

@LukeAllen: prezi.com

Luke Allen

07:21

@JourneymanGeek Thank you for the links, prezi is too simplified but using hypercard keyword in google I think I found a solution, if not there were many more possibilities down the line on google (realsoftware.com)

Journeyman Geek

@nhinkle: this is why I was slightly annoyed at first that software rec was off topic ;p

nhinkle

@JourneymanGeek they're allowed in the context of "i'm trying to achieve x", if the best way to achieve x is by a specific program

Journeyman Geek

@nhinkle: hmm, both those might have worked in that context? ;p

nhinkle

if written well and previously researched, sure, why not

Journeyman Geek

(in this case tho, both of them just needed a shove in the right direction.)

nhinkle

07:32

just answered a question for the first time in a while. fun!

Journeyman Geek

lol

I've been averaging 10 rep all week ;p

nhinkle

i get a lot of "interest" rep

upvotes on random old answers i'd forgotten about

that's about it these days

i'm too busy with school and blogs and doing secret moderator things

Journeyman Geek

(sadly, I think I got more SF rep than SU rep this week. ;p)

I've spent most of my weekend messing with growl ;p

(and I've decided for now at least, its a hugely unreliable way to send a message)

HackToHell

SF ? What's that ?

nhinkle

@HackToHell Server Fault

HackToHell

07:39

ok

nhinkle

O_o

2

A: Multiple external monitors attached to a laptop require Thunderbolt?

No, multiple monitors don't require ThunderBolt or any kind of Apple solution. Attach one of the monitors to the HDMI out. And get a Diamond DisplayLink USB graphics Adapter, or some kind of USB solution similar to this will do the job for you. This should help you hook up 3 including the screen...

Journeyman Geek

headesks

its the number of ramdac buffers on the video cards I think ;p

nhinkle

i think it's more a case of GPU specifications, motherboard circuitry, and how much the manufacturer hates you/cares about drivers

but you could be right

Journeyman Geek

well, its one of those things anyway

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek found the context, it's based on Divide and conquer algorithm

And I still do not get it

That's just a technique I do not get it <_<

Luke Allen

07:58

hey journeyman can I ask for your help again

Journeyman Geek

08:19

@LukeAllen: If I know the answer, sure ;p

Luke Allen

I actually just made an official question about it because it's hard to describe, stackoverflow.com/questions/12337575/…

@JourneymanGeek above

Journeyman Geek

oh, thats out of my scope

/me just has a decent memory for random shit he's come across

hmm

ever played with yahoo pipes?

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Yes

Journeyman Geek

not you, @LukeAllen ;p

Boris_yo

I prefer the route involving the least risk when it comes to handling BIOSes. When I boot from USB flashdrive with only MS-DOS, no extended memory manager or any RAMDISKs, CD-Drives and start the E6420A05.exe update, it gathers information and when progress bar gets full, the update interrupts and kicks me back to MS-DOS with no warnings whatsoever. I first thought this is how it should be, but when rebooted my laptop, the BIOS version was same - A04.

I don't want to risk here or spoil something. Should I do it in W7 safe mode?

Journeyman Geek

08:30

@Boris_yo: quite honestly, as long as your don't have a power outage while you're doing it, you should be safe doing it in normal windows

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Maybe Safe-Mode? No worries about power outage - UPS + laptop battery = over 9000!

Or through another Windows account where no programs are loaded? Or even Guest account?

Hennes

Hmm, PWM LEDs is something I had not thought about

Boris_yo

@Hennes Are you good in electicity? @JourneymanGeek

Hennes

No. I just know the basics.

Boris_yo

@Hennes Do you have coffee maker?

Hennes

08:39

Not anymore

I had one, used it once per year

and I had (and still have) limited shelf space

Boris_yo

@Hennes You mean coffee is bad for health?

Hennes

No, I make coffee with a electric kettle and a coffee can

Just boil water for tea. Make tea. Eat breakfast, poor some water in a filter with coffee while eating

Boris_yo

@Hennes Okay I have question about grounding pin in coffee maker's plug. What happens if it is abcent?

Hennes

Nothing (as in, nothing wrong should happen)

I think an average coffee maker just has a heating coil.

And that does not need ground.

Boris_yo

Earthquake, lightining may transfer extreme charge and:

Coffee maker will malfunction/burn
You may get electrically shocked

Hennes

08:41

If you have a complex once with build in coffee grinder, embedded computer etc then it is different

Earthquackes/ Those still exist? :)

Not where I live :)

Boris_yo

@Hennes How is life there?

Hennes

Netherlands.

Not near any fault lines

Boring life over here. I should get a job again.

A sabatical year was nice

But should not keep extending that

Boris_yo

@Hennes You need job to not be bored?

Hennes

No, but I am getting bored and my bank account is getting lower.

A job would solve both.

Well, for a while at least.

Depending on the job

Boris_yo

@Hennes If it is job you love it would also make you happier and you won't feel you are working.

Journeyman Geek

08:54

@Boris_yo: grounding does nothing unless the thing in question has a metal case

also, most people just flash bioses. Its not hugely dangerous ;p

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Oh everywhere I read people say it is the most dangerous thing you can do to your PC.

Hennes

Flashing BIOS?

Well, yes and no.

If you flash and the power get interrupted you can brick the PC

Obfix: do not interrupt the power :)

These days a lot of desktops seem to come with two BIOS chips.

Or 1 BIOS sets

Intel started it with a minimal backup BIOS, just capable of booting from floppy and reflashing the main BIOS. That was years ago, when you still used jumpers on the motherboard

Journeyman Geek

yup

Hennes

If you have a laptop with a decent battery (which is not empty) and a know good windows install (e.g. I just images corp image and no internet connected) then I see no reason not to use a flash drive to copy the Dell BIOS update to the desktop and to run it from there.

From the desktop so nobody unplugs the USB pendrive during the update

I did that with dozens of Dell lattitude D620, D630, E6400, E6410 and a single E6500. (The 6500 is mine. Admin laptop)

nhinkle

09:16

Oops. Something I posted to reddit is now on the front page... with a typo... that is also an unintentional pun.

jokerdino

@nhinkle Nick?

nhinkle

@jokerdino guess :P

jokerdino

>____>

We might not have subscribed to the same subreddits though.

nhinkle

it's on the unfiltered home. i checked from incognito not logged in

jokerdino

Surely /u/nhinkle is not you?

nhinkle

09:21

nope, that was taken when i signed up for my account

although funny, i do subscribe to /r/bicycling (which most of his posts are to)

jokerdino

Found it

Whee.

will add you to /r/friends to stalk more.

pedal vs peddle?

nhinkle

hahaha

jokerdino

No one pointed out yet? lol

nhinkle

a couple people did in comments

Journeyman Geek

got link? ;p

jokerdino

09:27

@JourneymanGeek redd.it/zl5fq

Journeyman Geek

thanks

jokerdino

Now I think I wouldn't get myself a Kindle.

Ok, anyway, got to go.

Boris_yo

@Hennes @JourneymanGeek Good windows install? I don't know if my install is good, I mean what how should I interpret "good install"?

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo: it isn't a dodgy install that crashes if you look at it funny

Hennes

If it crashes a lot, or has unexplained hangs then I do not update the BIOS

And I unplug the network cable.

If I would do it as a private person I would check if all background updates have run (e.g. windows update, java update, ...) so that those to not interrupt.

nhinkle

09:31

geez it's late. 'night folks

Hennes

At work I would plug in a caddy with a known clean drive (and the BIOS update already at the dekstop). Update. THen move that drive to the next laptop.

Aye. 11:32 AM :)

Small disclaimer: I do think I am overly carefull when updating.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Hennes

For most people 'it just works' if they download the file and just run it

Journeyman Geek

most of my systems are at the age where fi they die, I shrug and replace them ;p

Hennes

Also, for corp setting I wanted the same BIOS on all laptops. nicly consistent

Boris_yo

09:37

@Hennes Special purpose HDD for BIOS updates? That's something new. What lvl are you and how much experience points you need to lvl up? I suppose you earn experience in a corporate environment?

Hennes

At previous work we had 10 sets of computers. 5 years worth with one model of desktop and 1 model of laptop per year. Replace after 5 years.

Keep corp images for all 5 models.

Which means I had clean images around. And spare drives in case something breaks and needs quick fixing.

Using one of these was just easy.

Boris_yo

@Hennes I like this kind of job.

@Hennes What do you think about updating BIOS from Safe-Mode environment? Is it more/less risky?

Hennes

I think it is more risky

Weird as that may sound

Because people assume the average dumb joe user, and test that case

And the average user does not know what safe mode is

So I think it gets tested less.

Boris_yo

@Hennes Quite logical and opposite of what I think. However less drivers are involved in Safe-Mode but it is less explored than Normal-Mode when it comes to BIOS updating.

@Hennes My laptop does not come with dual BIOS I think, but additional read-only BIOS is advantage which can anytime reset to original BIOS with external activation.

Journeyman Geek

blah

Boris_yo

09:49

@JourneymanGeek Don't cuss in Russian.

Journeyman Geek

/me can't seem to find a decent, free tool to push notifications to an android phone

Don't make me break out the wikipedia article on Mat

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Which mat?

Journeyman Geek

Mat (Russian profanity)

Mat (; ) is the term for strong obscene profanity in Russian and some other Slavic language communities. Use of mat is censored in the media and use of mat in public constitutes a form of disorderly conduct, punishable under article 20.1.1 of the Offences Code of Russia, although it is only enforced episodically, in particular due to vagueness of the legal definition. Despite the public ban, mat is used by Russians of all ages and in all social groups, with particular fervor in male-dominated military and the structurally similar social strata. Etymology It is commonly believed that t...

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Yes. Do you know how to disable keyboard temporarily? I need to clean it now.

Journeyman Geek

lol. turn off the system?

lock the screen?

Hennes

09:53

ehm. unplug it?

Assuming it is USB

Boris_yo

@Hennes Disassembling the laptop?

Hennes

Ah, point.

In that case: what he say.

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Screen while locked, keyboard still responds.

Hennes

Lock screen

Boris_yo

@Hennes But then keyboard types in "Password" field.

Hennes

09:55

Screen responses are not bad (unless your password is qwerty :)

Boris_yo

@Hennes No I don't have touch screen.

Hennes

Anyone else here still using PS/2 keyboards?

Boris_yo

What are these? ^

F2 and F3?

Hennes

keys!

/me grins

Boris_yo

@Hennes What do they do? What is their function?

Hennes

09:58

No idea. Usually I would just go 'look at the manual'.

But right now I really do not know.

And as far as I know different manufacturers use different symbols.

Boris_yo

@Hennes I did not find this in manual.

How do you like my close-up shot of chameleon made with HTC Desire S?

Journeyman Geek

@Hennes: not any more

might have a spare with the systems we kept from the old office

Hennes

I still got this ancient model M (serial number from 1991) which won't die

I am using it atm

Journeyman Geek

lol

I want one of the unicomp ones when i get a job

just cause ;p

Hennes

I need to clean it monthly (I got a cat)

Journeyman Geek

10:04

/me uses a blackwidow ultimate at the moment

Boris_yo

Heh...

imgur.com/gallery/qfKEX

Tom Wijsman

@Boris_yo Lock and unlock, I would think.

Boris_yo

@TomWijsman Yes, but not for keyboard because it only does lock and unlock sound and that's it. Maybe specific keyboard driver need to be downloaded...

Tom Wijsman

10:24

@Boris_yo Of course it does not lock keyboard, it's a "media function" for a reason. :)

Boris_yo

10:39

@TomWijsman Not a media function.

Journeyman Geek

11:52

0

Q: I cant boot my windows 7

When I start my laptop.The error comes 'NO bootable Devices' press F1 to retry,F2 for setup ,and F3 for Scan. When I put win7 CD.Same problem happens.my lappy cant read the DISK also. All is happened bcoz of Ubuntu 12.04

windows

halpz

Tom Wijsman