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Whaaaaaat

21:00

lol

uhm

iaktos m is hardware-dependant

it can only be installed on the hardware it's made for.

blade19899

:|

Whaaaaaat

(i've tried)

blade19899

iATKOS Y then?

Whaaaaaat

not released, and same thing

last free iaktos was ML2.

do Niresh or vanilla (vanilla is best imo and is not hard)

blade19899

Ugh! All that hard core 'hacking' for nothing!

Whaaaaaat

21:02

lol

also, mac 10.10 had something weird

OOTB touch screen support.

blade19899

Ugh! it's getting late, and i still haven't had time to eat something!

Good night! folks!

Whaaaaaat

is apple working on a surface-like macbook?

osx on ipads?

touch screen macs?

it'll just show their originality.

TheX

I wish someone would create a device that starts as a 4-5 inch mobile device and morphed between the various stages phone--->tablet--->laptop--->desktop, depending on the need of the user at that particular time...

Whaaaaaat

@TheX physics is really evil, isn't it?

ByteCommander

@TheX Would be something like KnightRider, but for the pocket instead of the garage? ;D

Of course, the film is called Knight Rider, the car's name is KITT! Sorry about that....

Mateo

21:09

Rollable display

A rollable display is a flexible display that can be rolled up into a scroll. Technologies involved in building a rollable display include electronic ink, Gyricon, and OLED. Electronic paper displays which can be rolled up have been developed by E Ink. At the CES 2006, Philips showed a rollable display prototype, with a screen capable of retaining an image for several months without electricity.[1] As of 2007 Philips Polymer Vision expected to launch a 5-inch, 320 x 240-pixel rollable display based on E Ink’s electrophoretic technology. Some flexible organic light-emitting diode displays have been...

TheX

I hate physics...

ByteCommander

@Mateo It's possible to build flexible Li-Ion accumulators too.

Mateo

couple that with a telescoping frame, and you could have a phone that one side would extend to make it a tablet

Whaaaaaat

@Mateo put a keyboard on that, laptop.

Seth

@Whaaaaaat Someone just downvoted several 10 scored questions on the proposal >.>

Whaaaaaat

21:14

@Seth i saw that

how many votes you got left?

also, got it back up to 2

well, now I can learn vim

Guize, just 2 more!

jrg

@Whaaaaaat so for vim

github.com/jmoon018/PacVim

this is good

just use the vim tag on SO

i mean, i followed it, cool idea.

Whaaaaaat

upgoat some of the questions!

Seth

@Whaaaaaat none :/

Whaaaaaat

@Seth 2 left...

@Seth can you move votes to questions that need them?

Seth

@Whaaaaaat already done that.

@jrg that looks neat.

Whaaaaaat

21:24

@seth do you have any votes on 11+ questions?

Virusboy

@Whaaaaaat silly question to ask @Seth

Seth

@Whaaaaaat didn't I just answer that?

Whaaaaaat

well, if you did, you could have swapped to a 10-vote to bring it to 11

where i'd swap mine to one of the lower ones.

oh well.

Seth

now it's up to someone else.

Whaaaaaat

we've done our job

@Virusboy, did you do yours?

Virusboy

21:29

where

Whaaaaaat

vote for those questions :P

Virusboy

one is at 8 another at 7

Whaaaaaat

put them to 9 and 8 :P

also, you can upvote muru's question and i can push one to 10

Virusboy

done

Whaaaaaat

you missed muru's question

@Seth let's bring the site to life by gaming the votes :D

okay @Virusboy, there should be one open 9-q you can vote on

Seth

21:34

@Whaaaaaat ?

Virusboy

got it

Whaaaaaat

@Seth ONE MORE (that needs 2 votes)!

okay. there's another 9

can you get that @Virusboy?

Virusboy

we are all set

Whaaaaaat

one more vote

gg everyone. someone get the champagne.

Seth

well I need to go get some serious work done now. later guys.

ByteCommander

21:36

As you're voting things just for the fun of it, would you mind to donate me these last 10p missing to reach 500? I'm stuck on 490 since yesterday... :( :P

Whaaaaaat

@ByteCommander VTR'd

ByteCommander

means what?

Whaaaaaat

Vote2Resolve

usually it means voting on a good answer that wasn't accepted

ByteCommander

Wait, I'll find some of mine...

there are tons of this!

Whaaaaaat

there. broke 500

ByteCommander

21:39

Hey, even 510!

Whaaaaaat

first posts/late answer queues

ByteCommander

Thanks guys! Will help you reviewing by now...

Whaaaaaat

after that, you don't get anything fun till 2000. then 3000. then 10000, then 15000, then 20k

ByteCommander

Yep, work never ends...

Whaaaaaat

askubuntu.com/help/privileges/reduced-ads <--WHEN WAS THIS ADDED?

Virusboy

21:41

too recent

Whaaaaaat

there's like a secret at the 1m rep count

you get automod on the site

Virusboy

thats why its at 1M

Whaaaaaat

waiting for Skeet to break the count

Virusboy

we have question at 5

I laready earned that priv

Whaaaaaat

question?

@ByteCommander want to help out SE?

if so, give an upgoat to this

just one

ByteCommander

21:47

@Whaaaaaat depends. By doing what?

RPi_Awesomeness

Waaait..ads?

Whaaaaaat

for under 200 users

RPi_Awesomeness

Anyone under 200 here?

I want to see these ads...

Virusboy

im 150 + 800

Whaaaaaat

@RPi_Awesomeness Plox upvoet

Virusboy

21:49

@Whaaaaaat hurp

RPi_Awesomeness

@Whaaaaaat Why?

Whaaaaaat

commit Vim

0

Vi and vim

Proposed Q&A site for people using vi and vim

Currently in commitment.

2

RPi_Awesomeness

Done

Whaaaaaat

IT'S COMMITTED! Vi & Vim might come to SE soon!

RPi_Awesomeness

Actually, someone else did :)

Virusboy

21:51

now what

ByteCommander

Goated. But what exactly did I do there? What is Vi & Vim??

RPi_Awesomeness

Text editor in the console on linux

It's included pretty much everywhere, but it's got a steep learning curve (at least in my experience)

Whaaaaaat

and lol first commit :D

RPi_Awesomeness

Similar to nano, but much more complicated out of the box.

Whaaaaaat

^

@Seth obligatory ping

ByteCommander

21:57

Are there always that few review tasks for 500s?

Virusboy

not always

Whaaaaaat

no

the new users queue can shoot up to 100+ at times

ByteCommander

Yesterday I heard of a queue lenght far above 1k, and now even the Close queue is below that. Boring!

Any experience at which date/time people get active here?

Nathan Osman

So now we've got #DeflateGate on Twitter :P

Whaaaaaat

lol @NathanOsman

look at the vim proposal

Nathan Osman

22:01

I saw it.

Whaaaaaat

seth referred everyone!

Nathan Osman

I even cast a couple votes to help move it into commitment phase.

Whaaaaaat

seth has so many referrals

Seth

@NathanOsman So I heard.

Kinda lost any love I had for the Patriots.

Yet another "scandal" if you will.

Whaaaaaat

the entire superbowl sucks this year

Nathan Osman

22:08

Of all the teams in the NFL, I am closest geographically to the Seahawks, so... :)

Seth

:D

Whaaaaaat

that was a disappointing game

Seth

That's how I feel about Hockey btw.. I'm closest to the Canucks :P

Nathan Osman

I'm not a Canucks fan!

(Though I live in their home city :P)

Whaaaaaat

i don't even follow football

really, it's the superbowl and that's it.

Nathan Osman

22:09

What about the World Series?

I thought you Americans loved your baseball :)

Whaaaaaat

oh, i do.

i'm a statistics analyst for a team :D

Nathan Osman

(Canada has one MLB team... we used to have two.)

Whaaaaaat

MLB**

Nathan Osman

I know, I typed too fast :P

Seth

Not a big Baseball fan personally, but I know some.

Whaaaaaat

22:10

Seth. Stop referring people to Vim.SE

Nathan Osman

@Whaaaaaat Lol.

Whaaaaaat

hmm. Moderators.SE doesn't look good...

wait, it's community building now?

Seth

@Whaaaaaat One guy referred almost everyone in the teachers lounge to the moderators proposal. In the end it showed the collective rep at over a million.

Whaaaaaat

all these failing area51 sites :(

Nathan Osman

22:32

The Visual Studio Express 2013 DVD is 6.5 GB. Oy.

hbdgaf

@Seth - yeah XFCE is my daily driver.

the question in question is weird. i don't have a thumbdrive small enough to use exfat, everything i have uses ext3/4 or ntfs. i'll see if i can scrounge up some hardware though.

This and this for context.

Seth

@hbdgaf small enough? How big are your flash drives? o_O

hbdgaf

4G and 16G both run NTFS.

RPi_Awesomeness

Portal 2 is awesome :D

hbdgaf

my external drive supported getting reformatted to ext4 so... i haven't ever had the need.

Seth

22:45

@hbdgaf interesting. Why NTFS over exFAT? Both of those would support it afaik.

Nathan Osman

My Windows server is responding to HTTP requests, but remote desktop isn't working :S

hbdgaf

It's just how it shipped, and I've seen drives seem to fail because of reformatting and the controller or some piece of firmware not understanding another filesystem. So, when I can I just leave it alone.

@NathanOsman nmap or netcat or scapy to see if the port is open for starters...

Nathan Osman

Huh... it works from my Windows 10 VM...

hbdgaf

So the problem is the linux client? Is it set not to accept weaker hashes? That could do it. The client you're using might expect "compatibility mode" to be enabled.

@RPi_Awesomeness that was less than constructive.

RPi_Awesomeness

True.

Nathan Osman

22:50

It's so weird. It was working fine, then I restarted, and now I can't connect.

Although IIS is still happily serving files.

hbdgaf

That is sort of weird. Have you tried more than one client from the linux side?

Nathan Osman

I can connect to port 3389 via telnet.

And it doesn't quite work right in Windows even. It accepts the username/password, but doesn't connect. It just dumps me back to the login screen.

I'm going to try the Android Remote Desktop app now.

hbdgaf

You just said it worked on Windows 10 VM

Nathan Osman

I spoke too soon after it accepted my credentials :(

Didn't wait for the desktop to come up.

Weird.

And now it works on Linux again.

Sigh...

hbdgaf

dance widdershins and pray it's not random uncontrolled packet loss over some UDP protocol that some patch broke compensation inside.

Nathan Osman

22:59

Sounds reasonable.

hbdgaf

;) Sounds reasonable doesn't make it right. It just makes it closer to right than "I have no idea what the hell is happening right now... headdesk." because it removes something from the playing field if you can prove it wrong.

Another option would be if your hardware is taxed further than it can stand during the auth process or just after - and somehow it forgets something. Then you could be stuck in a similar state. So, it could just be accidentally stress testing RDP.

I'm really liking this playlist btw

Nathan Osman

Oh I did forget to mention one important thing.

It was restarting after installing some updates.

So it could just have delayed the RDP service during startup for some strange reason.

hbdgaf

Yeah, so some update broke something :). We covered that part. And now it's like "What happened!?!?!?!" I get people with that problem all the time. Think "Going for fast boot times, all my TSRs aren't fully loaded. My AV kills my browser functionality on my meager hardware unless I press the power button and go brew coffee." So go brew coffee.

Nathan Osman

hbdgaf

I'ld reboot it again and see if you can reproduce for a window then it magically works. Then you know it's boot issues.

Nathan Osman

23:10

I don't think disabling the firewall is a good idea...

hbdgaf

There was a project by some NSA type guys. They ran a distro where they basically said "we don't need firewalls. we need better services." I tipped my hat to that.

Virusboy

firewall isnt a hot item anymore

Nathan Osman

I don't run a firewall on my servers anyway.

But they aren't Windows servers.

RPi_Awesomeness

Oo. Portal 2 just got back to the story part :D

Seth

@hbdgaf amen

Nathan Osman

23:15

There was an article I read a while back about removing the installation files for Windows components that weren't needed to free up disk space.

But now, for the life of me, I can't find the article.

Seth

ooh, now that is something I've never thought about.

Nathan Osman

:(

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman I've always thought that you should have all the installers available all the time. Just get a bigger disk for the convenience of disk-less adding something later. Who wants to insert the Windows disk to add a component that should have been installed in the first place?

Nathan Osman

That's what I wish I could do.

But I can't get a bigger disk without paying. And I can't pay on AWS since they don't accept prepaid credit cards.

It's a bit of a complicated scenario.

hbdgaf

Good luck with that.

Nathan Osman

23:21

There's an outstanding request from 2010 on the AWS forums for prepaying :|

hbdgaf

If they don't adapt to my needs, I don't use them. It's the same thing in dating, which is probably why I'm single. Zero tolerance for bullshit policy.

I missed it bro.

ByteCommander

area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/61574/…

Forum for Music Fans in Commitment state (80%, 161/200 committers)

hbdgaf

I don't think we need a QA site for that. Sorry.

Seth

Interesting idea.. not something I'm proficient in though ;)

@hbdgaf Did you see the vim site is in commitment?

hbdgaf

I'm not a vim guy. So, not really interesting.

If I commit to a site, it's because I have at least one good unanswered question and at least one unannounced answer for a question someone I wish would have asked already.

ByteCommander

23:29

Who was that guy always listening to Queen? Toroidal?

hbdgaf

There was a discussion a couple of days ago about Queen in that Knight movie. It's just a thing. Not a question or an answer.

ByteCommander

What do you think about the website that guy is linking to? (First post review) askubuntu.com/q/576724/367990

RPi_Awesomeness

Neuro-toxins at a dangerous un-lethal level

Seth

hmm

RPi_Awesomeness

lol

Seth

23:34

good question.

ByteCommander

Can't understand anything in arab (or whatever), but it looks kind of shifty... But the rest is a valid question. Any opinions? Else I'll pass it through.

Seth

Someone good with languages told me it looks like an English learning site.

Probably ok.

RPi_Awesomeness

Okay. Portal 2 just took a turn I was not expecting. ... at all.

ByteCommander

23:49

@Seth Okay, thanks!

Seth

@RPi_Awesomeness Why am I not surprised?

ByteCommander

I'm off to bed now, time to saw some trees... Bye!

Nathan Osman

Finally!

I found that command.

Uninstall-WindowsFeature

(I think it's a PowerShell command.)

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