Root Access

Luke

00:12

Journeyman Geek

00:39

hm

anyone mind critiquing one of my edits?

Luke

Sure

Journeyman Geek

-2

Q: Seeking free Windows video player program which leaves no tracks

I need a way to play the common video formats without remembering the file names of files I have viewed in a recent files list, so that no one can know what has been watched. This is for privacy reasons. I'm running windows. Ideally I'd want something that never writes an MRU, rather than clearin...

changed it from a "ahem ahem I need a program question to 'I have this problem, I have these requirements'

Paul

00:52

@JourneymanGeek Yes, a crazillion times better

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Edited it some more

Journeyman Geek

thanks

Oliver Salzburg

He should simply use VLC Portable and put it on the same device where he stores the juicy videos

Journeyman Geek

lol

I was just posting that as an answer

Oliver Salzburg

Then, simply open the files from within the program, and not through Explorer, then nothing is written to the recent files

Breakthrough

01:00

Breakthrough just found an interesting command line option lol

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: can I add that to my answer? ;p

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Of course

Everything is up for grabs on chat :D

Journeyman Geek

lol, still polite to ask ;p

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek BTW, I also confirmed that by searching the registry after I opened the video

Journeyman Geek

yay

I sorta forgot that happens

but I have no spicy stuff on my PCs ;p

Breakthrough

01:06

"on my PCs"

What about off of them? ;)

Journeyman Geek

lol

If I had any spicy stuff, thats exactly where I'd store them

Breakthrough

I know this is random, but I was just browsing the VLC site, and went to the Ubuntu download page (even though I'm on my W7 machine now).

And there's a damn button you click that says "install me" or something.

Now that, sir, is convenience.

Oliver Salzburg

But... you're on Windows 7 and it didn't do anything, right?

Breakthrough

Lol of course, I miss having apt

Oliver Salzburg

Try chocolatey.org :D

2

Breakthrough

01:10

:O

Will have a look

This seems quite interesting I must say

Journeyman Geek

cocolatey is awesome

I need to learn to use it tho

Oliver Salzburg

01:25

I especially like the Windows equivalent of curl http://xyz | sh

HackToHell

Journeyman Geek

03:12

ahh time to break out cuetools

allquixotic

05:20

Looks like 64-bit Java 7u9 running in "server" mode outperforms Python on this workload: frequent, low-bandwidth network I/O, frequent CPU "trickle", heavy memory usage, and very I/O heavy (pushing huge buffers of data into and out of OpenCL)

I'm comparing the Mhash/sec for Phoenix 2.0 (based on 32-bit Python) and DiabloMiner (based on 64-bit Java/LWJGL), and the latter gives about 10% better performance

it rejects about one in every 400 blocks it runs

Paul

@allquixotic Hashing on a cpu or gpu?

allquixotic

@Paul hashing on a Radeon HD7970 GPU

I actually tried extremely hard to get the Intel OpenCL GPU drivers to recognize so I could hash on my Intel Ivy Bridge CPU at the same time, but for some reason the driver refuses to report the GPU as an OpenCL device, even though I'm using it as the primary display head

I even went poking around in the Khronos OpenCL ICD source code, and was able to definitely determine that the reason why the Intel OpenCL driver doesn't work is that it doesn't report the GPU as a supported device

it's not a kernel problem, though: the Intel graphics drivers are loaded into the kernel and they work for WDDM, Direct3D and OpenGL

it sucks that my on-processor GPU (execution units) are being wasted because of a software problem, but based on benchmarks from people who've gotten it working before, the Intel HD4000 graphics processor can only push OpenCL at about 10% the throughput of the Radeon HD7970

Paul

@allquixotic Wow, that isn't much better than a CPU

What are you getting out of the 7970?

allquixotic

and I actually get much lower throughput if I run OpenCL on the CPU cores -- something about making the CPU busy creates a bottleneck that prevents data being sent back and forth at full speed to the PCI-e discrete card

@Paul 550 MHash/sec on stock speeds

I think the reason the performance tanks with the CPU doing computation is that it floods the system RAM with reads and writes and thereby increases latency for the memory accesses that the hardware-accelerated code is running

Paul

@allquixotic Yeah. I have a 7950 (I think) and get around 500mhs

allquixotic

05:31

if the CPU could run at about 40% of capacity, using only 2 or 3 cores, it'd probably be okay

and at very low scheduling priority

Paul

The halving is any day now

allquixotic

@Paul what do you mean?

oh, right

the halving of value of bitcoins

Paul

The current rewards for an entire block is 50BTC, and in the next few days 25BTC

allquixotic

I only have like 0.18 BTC anyway

Paul

No one seems to know what effect it will have on actual BTC value, we'll have to see

allquixotic

05:33

I'm really excited about the prospect of using the Intel Xeon Phi as a hasher, although I don't know what its power demands would be, nor its price

Paul

I have a hashing ASIC on order

allquixotic

Intel is releasing an SDK that targets the Xeon Phi with an OpenCL implementation

Journeyman Geek

lol

is this for actual bitcoins, or heating?

allquixotic

I imagine that the Xeon Phi is going to be less efficient than an AMD GPU in bitcoins per watt

just because it's x86 based

Paul

@JourneymanGeek Heh. With one you get the other

allquixotic

05:34

@JourneymanGeek both for me, at least during the winter

I won't say no to the bitcoins but I'd say the primary purpose is still heating

if the bitcoins can offset a fraction of the cost of the electricity, then it's good

I doubt an electric radiator heater would be more efficient in BTUs per watt

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

the most cost-effective BTU per US Dollar heating mechanism I have available to me is natural gas central heating, but I have to deal with family members whose bodies tell them that they're hot, when the room is 65 Fahrenheit...

anyway, night

Sathya

09:01

looks like there's a way to crack & sideload win 8 store apps

Bob

@Sathya not surprised at all

Journeyman Geek

ahh MDL, how would I learn about the steamy underbelly of the interwebs without you?

Bob

in fact, superuser.com/questions/478041/…

plus the other thing that guy was doing (stackoverflow.com/questions/12570659/…)

Sathya

@Bob wow

@Bob yeah, it was bound to happen

Journeyman Geek

09:47

hmm, SSD is in hong kong

so close yet so far ;p

HaydnWVN

@JourneymanGeek Correct continent \o/

Journeyman Geek

XD

I can't work out what timezones they are using in the tracking page

yes ;p

jokerdino

same timezone as SG

Journeyman Geek

ya

and probably 1-2 hops away

Bob

@JourneymanGeek UTC+9000

Journeyman Geek

09:51

lol

I mean local or zulu

HaydnWVN

10:07

@Bob 9000 or 90:00... Please tell me they're a year in the future :D

Journeyman Geek

;p

HaydnWVN

Hmmmm

Interesting point or am i getting confused: image programs there's a big difference between bipmap and vector

yet something like PDF can contain BOTH types within the same file

(using layers?)

Journeyman Geek

or just different files in a container

Palindromic rep!

slhck

Journeyman Geek

...

WHUT?

HaydnWVN

10:14

@slhck First SU breakdown?

Graham Wager

@slhck lol

slhck

grahat3

1

That guy really should see a doctor

Maybe a plastic surgeon even

Journeyman Geek

lol

or must be like.. 10

HaydnWVN

@JourneymanGeek Bwhahaha DENIED

Journeyman Geek

@HaydnWVN: I got proof, good enough ;p

HaydnWVN

10:19

@JourneymanGeek Yeah but you can have a page with both 'image' types (ie a vector logo, text in the body and seemingly bitmap images within the body)?

Journeyman Geek

same way you could on a web page?

;p

HaydnWVN

Good point lol

'problem' I have is a PDF i'm trying to add a logo to... Anything i convert it with seems to be very lossy :/

It's A3 and i'm gonna blow it upto A2, but everything i've converted it with so far would barely be good enough for A4 lol :/

Journeyman Geek

imgur.com/gallery/OStGc

hmm

HaydnWVN

@JourneymanGeek They failed to complete the .gif... They need to pour water in, seal the lid and give it a shake

Journeyman Geek

o0

HaydnWVN

10:27

>:)

Bob

@slhck hm?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: for his big nose

Bob

never mind, I scrolled up

Journeyman Geek

duh

HaydnWVN

10:46

@JourneymanGeek The mystery continues... Anything i open the PDF with (mainly GIMP/Word) seems to convert it lossy, if i open the PDF it's not... If i convert the PDF to word (at www.pdftoword.com) it retains the quality (only slightly lossy) but has OCR'd the text and changed the font... (and i've no idea what the original was)

Summary... I HATE PDF's!

jokerdino

PDF should have been meant only for printers.

Oliver Salzburg

11:29

Woah

Silent night

Bob

11:44

has anyone here ever used shipito?

@HaydnWVN try imagemagick?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: nope. My brother has used comgateway for ages

(as do I, now ;p)

Bob

is there a pricing list for comgateway?

never mind, found it

Journeyman Geek

comgateway.com/RED/common/RedShippingCalculator.do

Its by weight

Bob

$30 for a 250g item :\

Journeyman Geek

o0

My SSD weights 500g, cost me 12.00ish before discounts

I got a 10 dollar discount from my bank, so I'm spending 2 dollars in shipping ;p

Oliver Salzburg

12:06

It is explorer.exe!

Oh, I got you now! :D

Svish

Don't know if this is the place to ask, but does anyone here know about a good looking full screen RSS ticker that would look good on a big screen on a wall? And go through items in the feed on its own in a nice way?

Oliver Salzburg

Oh I'm so going to find the cause of this sound now...

@Svish I wrote several, but I can't give them out :D

Journeyman Geek

actually not a bad place to ask

XD

@OliverSalzburg: is it a scratchy sound?

Oliver Salzburg

16

Q: How do I turn off the click sound when closing a tab in chrome?

Every time I close a tab in Chrome, it makes a click sound. How do I turn off that sound? I reported that issue back in Oct 2010. The problem doesn't appear on all clients and the reason is still unclear. Common attempts at solving the issue include simply turning off the sound in Windows. But ...

windows google-chrome

It's been following me for years...

Journeyman Geek

ahh

THAT one

Oliver Salzburg

12:17

I can already taste the victory :D

Journeyman Geek

its your moby dick ;p

Oliver Salzburg

It seems to be related to jumplists

allquixotic

mhash: 588.7/553.5 | accept: 3087 | reject: 7 | hw error: 0

Oliver Salzburg

The jumplist of Chrome has a "Recently closed" section

Which is updated when you close the tab

And somehow that causes Explorer to emit the sound

But it's a temporary issue that can be resolved by closing all Explorer windows

Which is somewhat confusing

Journeyman Geek

ugh

@OliverSalzburg: do mods have a 'better' search thing?

Oliver Salzburg

12:19

So there's an underlying detail that's still missing

@JourneymanGeek I usually use Google

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/questions/245390/how-does-bittorrent-work the URL on Sarath's answer seems fishy cause of the link but I can't seem to place where I have seen it before

Oliver Salzburg

jMyles, New Paltz, NY

111 1

bios boot dell hard-drive

Journeyman Geek

naw

Oliver Salzburg

The only hit on "slashroot" :D

Journeyman Geek

specifically the slashroot.in domain

Oliver Salzburg

12:21

-1

Q: How to install Ganglia on CentOS 5.4 64 bit?

In my case it's running on EC2 Compute Cluster HVM instance, so it should use TCP instead of UDP.

centos amazon-ec2 centos5 ganglia

Try this: stackexchange.com/search?q=slashroot

Journeyman Geek

BINGO

yipeekayaee ...

basically every post the guy posts links back to slashroot.in

Svish

@OliverSalzburg Aww, howcome?

Oliver Salzburg

@Svish They were for customers who paid us to write them :D

Lev Levitsky

12:39

Guys, how long should writing a partition table take?

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek Sarath is spamming in ask ubuntu now

Journeyman Geek

flag em and tag em? ;p

I've flagged him on SF and SU

jokerdino

-1

A: What is a torrent and how do I use it?

torrent is a kind of peer to peer network sharing. Although there are legal complications involved in torrent, it the highly used protocol in the internet. Bram cohen initially designed it and later on adopted by many. it works in the same way as peer to peer network. But job of keeping track o...

Svish

@OliverSalzburg Ah... could you maybe write another one for non-paying customers? (A) What did you use to write them anyways? Maybe I could do it myself... just not sure how to attack it. Know web stuff, but not good at animation and 3d stuff and making things look pretty :p

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek you flagged all 5?

Journeyman Geek

12:42

naw one each in SU and SF

jokerdino

and then?

he didn't associate his accounts. smart guy

Oliver Salzburg

@Svish I used ActionScript3 back then

Journeyman Geek

done

worked through everything I could find and flagged

would be nice is SF had a mod room so I could tell them why ;p

HackToHell

lol askubuntu.com/a/56474/20245

Journeyman Geek

lol

fail

whoa

CONTRADISTINCTION

4

cheem word

jokerdino

12:54

he copied quite a bit. but most of it exists in the revisions anyway

@JourneymanGeek where did that come from?

wait, it's a real word O_O

Journeyman Geek

from that document

yes!

HackToHell

I missed that document, linky again ?

jokerdino

your link

HackToHell

ah, so it's not related to that deleted message of jou

jokerdino

no

Journeyman Geek

12:59

naw

I copy pasted part of it for context

jokerdino

but you don't have the rights.

HackToHell

I have the right to torrent !

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Now you've started something O__O

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: eheh. Technically you did ;p

Oliver Salzburg

Damn :D

jokerdino

13:01

@OliverSalzburg :P

i only flagged 3 or so

Journeyman Geek

All I had was a vague as hell suspecion ;p

jokerdino

damn, the flagged got declined on AU

Journeyman Geek

o0

why?

jokerdino

because it is not spam to mod

first flag declined in a long time :'(

HackToHell

pleasedontstalkme.com

Oliver Salzburg

13:09

@jokerdino The mod should really double-check that

jokerdino

> declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention

well, nothing much to do

Journeyman Geek

0

Q: Spam Flag declined.. exactly what *is* the line?

I flagged this question, and questions by this user on SU, SF, UL and here - he has had a clear pattern of similar posts with minimal content, linking back to the site. This sort of breaks the self promotion rule and seems flaggable to me. I only worked this out cause I remember seeing the domai...

discussion

bit too harsh?

Oliver Salzburg

I'm still in the process of finding all his accounts :D

jokerdino

if it looks like spam, smells like spam, appears like spam, then it is spam.

Journeyman Geek

obviously its not spammy enough

jokerdino

13:11

@OliverSalzburg you just need to search for url:"*slashroot.in*" in all the networks

Journeyman Geek

maybe it looks like green eggs

jokerdino

lol if he had more posts, then it would look like obvious spam

hm you forgot to link the post

Oliver Salzburg

@jokerdino I assumed he has several accounts. Which he did. But it might have been unintentional.

jokerdino

oh

Oliver Salzburg

And there were other accounts with similar names. I falsely assumed they're all connected

Journeyman Geek

13:26

I didn't remember the name ;p

I remembered the website

jokerdino

.in is kinda sell of

Journeyman Geek

lol

alas OLD COUNTRY. Y U DO THIS!

jokerdino

i would go ahead and say a large chunk of spam comes from india

HaydnWVN

Also that question on AU was created for rep gain with a poor excuse about AU users not wanting to leave the site to other SE sites?

jokerdino

yes

HaydnWVN

13:30

EVEN MOAR SPAM!

@JourneymanGeek initiate the BAN HAMMER

Journeyman Geek

lol

@HaydnWVN: wiped out the guy on two sites. trying to convince a mod on another to do the sane.

jokerdino

hm, i see a close vote on that q

HaydnWVN

Might be me ;)

Journeyman Geek

lol

jokerdino

you have 3k rep on AU O_o

HaydnWVN

13:32

ooooh not me, i just flagged :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

HaydnWVN

and i think only the answer not the q

Journeyman Geek

I have under a K there

jokerdino

it looks like a close vote

Journeyman Geek

trying to get myself to 3K on SF

jokerdino

13:33

and i am trying to get to 2k on SU

HaydnWVN

I only tend to use SU with a smattering of bits on SF

prefer SU as you get more answers and more coverage

SF for me seems very hit and miss about coverage and answers

Journeyman Geek

SF is better for the really specialised stuff

especially if you know who knows what amongst the regulars

HaydnWVN

My stuff tends to be too specialised :(

Have several questions open over there with under 100 views, no answers

Journeyman Geek

ahh

there's your problem

questions are horrible for rep ;p

gotta go for answers, man ;p

HaydnWVN

SBS2011 isn't exactly what i'd call specialised ;)

Lol i don't have time for answers much anymore

If it were +1 rep for each comment replied to in chat i'd be away

or even +5 for each person helped in chat lol

jokerdino

13:37

the sorry state

BTW, I am curious what sort of IT stuff a nursery do.

my guess would be the website and the online shopping database, et al

AndroidHustle

Hey ya'll. I'm wondering if it would be suitable to post a question here on SU that is regarding a problem I'm experiencing when wireframing in Visio. When I resize the width of a shape the height is automatically changed too. Does it sound like it could be on topic..?

HaydnWVN

@jokerdino We grow plants/trees/shrubs etc... Some in pots (from 1 litre to over 500 litres in size), some are field grown and sold 'bareroot' or 'rootball'. Others we buy in from Holland/Italy/Spain. We cater for 400+ Garden Centres over the UK and Ireland and thousands of landscapers, local councils etc. Of course there's a large computer system that does some of the work for us...

jokerdino

interesting stuff.

HaydnWVN

@jokerdino Website is outsourced and no online 'shopping' as we don't deal with the 'end user', mostly wholesale...

Journeyman Geek

lol

@HaydnWVN: If I can post one answer a day, I'll be there ;p

HaydnWVN

13:44

@jokerdino Yeah basically I have a site here (main office) with 25 users in an office with various other offices around the site with ~10 other users... Then there are 5 external sites with another ~20 users who all connect into our servers

jokerdino

and then you guys play doodle

HaydnWVN

@jokerdino Lol well i'm 'IT Support and Stock Control'

Journeyman Geek

pfft

jokerdino

lol you got a nice ring to that

Journeyman Geek

Its a "reusable erasable analgue notice creation system"

HaydnWVN

13:46

So if the IT systems are working and i'm all uptodate with stock control i'm 'free' (better termed as 'less busy' as there's always things to do!) :P

jokerdino

yee

HaydnWVN

@jokerdino The company I work for is mostly in charge of the stock, sales, payroll and accouting for the whole thing... There are 6 'sister' companies who really deal with the day to day 'outside' stuff (growing and looking after the plants). Overall there's ~300-400 people, even though there's only ~50 PC's (with 5 servers) :)

jokerdino

i see how it works now.

i thought it was just nursery :P with the way you guys roll, it is clear

HaydnWVN

The IT budget here isn't huge, which I actually prefer, as it means we fix and reuse equipment rather than throwing perfectly good stuff away...

@jokerdino I was surprised how much stuff they did here too - when i started ;)

selling tiny little plants in pots to a garden centre, then the next thing is transporting some huge 400L 6 metre tall tree on a lorry to a ceremonial tree planting for something

Most of the trees for the London 2012 Olympics and site came from us :)

(well about 75%)

jokerdino

awesome :)

that's quite a huge deal

HaydnWVN

13:57

We're about the 3rd biggest nursery in the UK, but we stock and supply a wider range of things than any of the others... They tend to specialise more

jokerdino

3rd in the whole of the country is much bigger than what I expected. You should probably get back to work on that note.

HaydnWVN

@jokerdino It's lunchtime ;)

... For 1 more minute :P

jokerdino

Nice try ;)

Sathya

14:13

I'll admit I LOL'd when I saw my inbox which said "@OliverSalzburg has sent a Moderator message to USB cables"

USB CABLES

1

Oliver Salzburg

:D

jokerdino

lol

Sathya

hey @OliverSalzburg - I'm migrating the avahi question

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya From the meta post a minute ago?

Sathya

@OliverSalzburg yeah, Comms Room said it's okay

Oliver Salzburg

14:19

If so, awesome. Otherwise, I have no clue what question you mean :D

Sathya

in The Comms Room, 1 min ago, by MDMarra

@Sathya But I'd say it's probably on topic

Oliver Salzburg

Awesome

Ivo Flipse

14:38

Someone should ask a question on how to safely use DeadDrops: deaddrops.com

Sathya

@IvoFlipse O_O

allquixotic

14:53

uh, what are those? (before i click)

Journeyman Geek

oh my god. its an online glory hole

@allquixotic: usb stick motared into a wall

jokerdino

hm, that would work fine.

you can quickly collect all of the known viruses

allquixotic

a usb stick built into a wall. what?

jokerdino

it's like a letter box i suppose

allquixotic

rofl

so you just connect a USB Host (or use an OTG cable with your phone) and download or upload files

seems very susceptible to, er, being broken off

Sathya

15:06

whee, Bank of America has raised a hold on my debit card for irregular debit card activity. Was expecting that tho

allquixotic

Americe?

Ah-mehr-REE-chay?

jokerdino

Ame-rice

Journeyman Geek

lol what sorta irregular activity?

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek @Sathya has become addicted to a game that incurs a microtransaction for every 15 minutes you play? :P

"why is this company charging 3 cents every 15 minutes..."

Sathya

woops :P

@allquixotic Nexus 4 order placed :D /cc @JourneymanGeek

allquixotic

15:16

ooer

do want, minus the lack of LTE, poor battery life and no microSD or microHDMI

Sathya

no LTE here

poor battery life, I'm used to it :P

microSD - never used them on my phones

so yeah

I'm all good

allquixotic

you'd think they could replace the GSM baseband with an LTE baseband and ship basically the same product

Journeyman Geek

ahh ;p

There's already a LTE chip in it actually

allquixotic

I have 96GB of storage (total) on my Razr Maxx HD... 64GB microSD and 32GB internal NAND flash. with the way that Android game apps are quickly becoming humongous, to the point of being a significant fraction of the size of desktop games, plus my music collection, I really need it

Sathya

I use my BoA for my game purchases those are all with ~ $40

and suddenly a $384 purchase :P

allquixotic

15:19

16GB would definitely not cut it for me. I think I could possibly get away with a phone that has 64GB of internal storage and no microSD, or 16GB+ internal with microSD

Sathya

tripped the fraud protection

Journeyman Geek

My phone has 1 built in, and 32 on an SD card ;p

allquixotic

it's just frustrating that manufacturers always skimp on something, so there's no end-all be-all phone... even if the price point were $1200 USD, I would do it, for something that's slightly more future-proof and well-rounded and less likely to hit limitations

Razr Maxx HD's limitation is that it shipped a processor that was obsolete on the phone's release day, and phones a year older have twice as much RAM

Nexus 4's limitations, well, I've said them

Galaxy S3's limitations are basically that it's a slightly older version of the Nexus 4 with all of the same limitations

just can't win

Journeyman Geek

and most high end phones don't have microsd

allquixotic

except the Razr / Razr HD and Note lines

it's even rarer to see a phone with microHDMI, which is a bit surprising; unless they come out with something like WiDi on phones, which would let you wirelessly connect your phone to a display (not sure how reliable it is though, haven't ever tested it)

allquixotic

15:37

random discovery on Spotify: wonder if @nhinkle would be interested in the song "Staring Through Leonard Nimoy's Eyes" by Komrad

avirk

0

Q: Is it right to VTC for a Windows-8 tag question to dupe with Windows-8-preview tag?

I have just seen Disable charm bar Touchpad shortcut with windows-8 which is somehow similar to How to disable Windows 8 charm? with windwos-8-preview. So now I'm confused little bit for VTC to it for a dupe? I need your opinion on this.

discussion support

allquixotic

15:59

Technically, any question tagged windows-8-preview is about a separate product than windows-8, since anything could have changed between the preview and the final release -- However, the correct thing to do is probably to edit the original windows-8-preview question, re-evaluate the correct answer for the final release of Windows 8, and remove the -preview tag and add the windows-8 tag.

Transcript for