Root Access

Psycogeek

00:01

Most of these war games even with a Cover system, they have an Ego to die for. Were over here stupid, were comming to get you, like dont see us.

The bad guys are sooo helpful, i dont know what I would do if the developers decided to change that.

Oh hey it is really dark, sooo whatever you do do not notice the fat flashlight we have , as we flank you.

Having a really thick skull also helps when a sniper (who is like 4 pixels) gets a bead on you , and puts a bullet right through your left eye. nothing a medi-kit cant fix.

Psycogeek

00:25

-3

Q: How to bypass school IT security

My university has blocked sites based on keywords and some ports too....hence VPN and outlook both are not working. Also, they have our Mac ids. If I want to access sites/play online games and not let them know that it was me, what should I do? Would Tor work? Also, each of us have a specific/ind...

When i read these things i wonder if some universities would compete with concentration camps :-)

Bob

4

Q: Has the US Government tagged people to be killed with stickers on the mailboxes?

The YouTube video Anonymous: Code Red contains conspiracy theories about how the Obama Government is planning a holocaust of its own citizens. It purports to be from the Anonymous group. One of the many claims is that Americans have been divided into three groups (Compliance, Re-Education, and D...

united-states government

Of all the crazy things... this ranks quite high on the tinfoil scale.

Psycogeek

Soo sure they do not want thier own network to be used for online porn and playing video games. But i wonder if some young people forget that any ISP making money will sell you any thing. Just fork over some money to get your own connections.

DragonLord

0

A: Win 10 64 bit update requirements 64Bit cpu (CMPXCHG16b, PrefetchW and LAHF/SAHF)

Your processor supports these features. In fact, the same features are required to run 64-bit Windows 8.1. This requirement is met by all modern processors and is generally only an issue with certain Core 2 and earlier processors. What are these instructions? The CMPXCHG16B instruction perform...

Your thoughts on this answer?

Also, why was the question downvoted?

Psycogeek

@Bob you have to love all the mass grave and body bag stuff, when FEMA gets the job of cleaup after a disaster , and well body bags (like it or not) are really damn usefull when 300 or even 3000 people die in a flood, or earthquake. and the same people complaining that they are prepared, were the same ones who complain that they are not prepared :-) when something happens.

Bob

@DragonLord if you think it shouldn't be downvoted, then upvote it

Psycogeek

00:39

On a documentary for one of those tragedies, they were saying they had about 48hours before they could not even any longer identify a body. Where the usual human sees a funeral with thier loved one all preserved a week or 2 later. gives a really false perspective of what they would have to be dealing with , hundreds or thousands of rotting corpses beloting and , , , just ewww.

The mega coffins they claim can "fit multiple bodies" yea sure they possibly could. but any cemetary which takes in a few new people every day uses these plastic covers now on everything. it is a full plastic sheild cover that goes into the hole (with top) that covers a single coffin.

Originally these plastic outter shells were used for high water areas , and on hills and all so they could over water cemetary grass, but now they seem to toss these shells on everything. with hundreds of thousands of regular deaths occuraing every year, why WOULDN'T there be mass warehouses full of this stuff, and at each of the locations where they are used.

Psycogeek

00:59

If the government is at fault for any of this, it is how isolated the peoples of today have become from the reality of Yes people freaking die. it isnt pretty, and somebody has to do something other than stand around paying the money and crying about it.

Ramhound

01:13

Got my ticket to Ant-Man, lol

Transfer rights. I heard some observers speculate that the new terms would limit Windows 10 transfer rights. Nope. The new license agreement preserves the longstanding transfer rights: OEM copies are locked to the device on which they're sold, retail copies can be transferred to a different device as long as the old copy is removed first. (The Windows 10 EULA includes a specific exception for PC buyers in Germany, who are allowed to transfer OEM software thanks to a court ruling.)

Exactly what I have said for months :$

Automatic updates. For consumers and small business, Windows 10 delivers automatic updates, with no option to selectively delay or reject individual updates. "The software periodically checks for system and app updates, and downloads and installs them for you. ... By accepting this agreement, you agree to receive these types of automatic updates without any additional notice." = Expected ( trying to avoid WinXP situation )

( I am posting an editorial on the new license terms for Win10, by the way, ;-)

bah can't find a link to it though....

Psycogeek

@Ramhound and apps? That might be changed, when that goes badly for them. Output a cheap app that is all nice and does something useful, then turn it into addware , and with forced updates , your screwed. Happens at google play quite a bit, where the "old" app was everything one would need, and the new one now has ads and or in app purchaches.

Ramhound

Hmm?

Apple discontinues versions of OS X yearly. Microsoft won't do that because they have 80%+ markshare, but at the sametime, they don't want to support a version of Win10 with broken SSL in 4 years.

This article isn't writen very well

They quote the "EULA" for Win10 but don't cite it..

So I just have to take the author's word?

Psycogeek

01:33

Some of the original speculation on updates, from parts of a MS discussion was that different classes would not be able to aquire "feature" updates if they did not also get security updates. I think (would hope) that is all just how the automated process would work, that they could not up and change the whole methods by which they have been updating and allowing deployers and manuel people to operate beyond the automation.

OOps reverse that, that they would not allow them security updates, if they did not also take the feature updates. That someone could not be all secure running IE 13, they would also have to be running IE20

Ramhound

Windows 10 is going to have the basic lifecycle of OS X. As features are added that cannot be supported by your hardware, you stay on that build, but receive security updates. How I see it, is that each build will have its own lifecycle of its own, again Microsoft can't just not end support like Apple and Google can :$ EU woudl go nuts

Psycogeek

Business class (allegedly) would be given a longer time to continue operating securely with old software. because that is what businesses had already been doing, Sticking with what works, and keeping the system secure.

Ramhound

A given build will be supported as long as those LTB are supported :$

This "free license" is a write off, and justified by, all the marketing and packaging costs over the next decade that won't have to be spent marketing a NEW version :-)

EU is nuts crazy at times, forcing MS to advertise its competitors browsers ( really? ) but they will keep MS from doing something ape poodle crazy

Psycogeek

I thought it would cover getting Itunes into every computer? that store sales as observed from google and apple would far outweigh the costs of the OS itself?

And it was a full blown lawsuit that forced MS to allow IE to be removed from the OS, so after they lost the suit, they embedded IE deeper into the system, and made it so the ICON can be turned on and off :-) OWnED.

Ramhound

This new upgrade model allows Microsoft to, well lets be honest, force people off insecure versions of its software after a decade.

Bob

01:43

@Ramhound no it doesn't

Ramhound

What other software is still being using 13 years later by millions of people that isn't software that surrounds life or death (i.e. medical equipment software )

No it doesn't what?

I have ranted a ton

Bob

@Ramhound doesn't force people off

they can still choose not to update

and this is in fact critical for businesses

Ramhound

speaking of the general consumers

Bob

I'm also pretty sure that you misinterpreted the EULA above

It's saying the default is to update automatically.

Accepting the EULA allows them to do that with no additional notice.

It does not say that you cannot disable automatic updates.

That would be absurd.

Ramhound

Home won't be able to defer updates unless I presume their hardware doesn't actually support it.

Psycogeek

01:47

@Ramhound oh you mean the beta testers :-) well thier real market is all them machines used for business, a few guiney pigs are needed to keep all thier stuff running smoothly.

Bob

@Ramhound Where do you get that from?

Ramhound

The defering on WIndows 10 home?

numerous articles

superuser answers..

microsoft blog

Professional can defer updates, how long you can defer, is yet to be known

I assume until the next update is release

since future updates I presume will be like Windows 8.1 Update 1, required, after a certain point to get security updates

Psycogeek

@Bob not so much absurd but way to many people would freak out :-) for that to be very possible to occur in this round

Ramhound

I wish I had the EULA today...I could generate a couple really good questions, ahead of July 29th :$

Which is a Wed, that is odd...

Bob

@Ramhound I still see no good source for this.

Take this for example.

Let's start with why the screenshots are wrong: they're screenshots of the preview version.

There is no official way to disable automatic updates on the preview. It's always been like this.

All I can see from the rest of it is speculation.

Ramhound

01:51

zdnet.com/article/… is the article I read. I presume the article got it from within the current build released today which is the possible RTM build

Bob

> Microsoft says feature updates will be tested on consumer devices before they’re rolled out to business PCs.

no they don't say it

Ramhound

I seem to recall seeing a EULA link in my VM

Psycogeek

@Ramhound how fast people will hack the system and do whatever the freak they want to do when MS makes odd and unacceptable demands , is yet to be known. Given a good reason, they will have this thing disected down to the bone again.

Bob

Microsoft says businesses can choose to defer updates.

That could easily (and more likely) mean "automatic update only if update is at least X days old"

It does not necessarily mean home can't turn auto updates off entirely.

Just means they probably won't be able to have a fixed delay (i.e. install on condition of update age) with automatic updates

I still see no official source for not being able to disable auto updates.

Just lots of speculation based on worst-case interpretations of somewhat-vague MS statements.

Ramhound

from microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifications - "Windows 10 Home users will have updates from Windows Update automatically available." vs Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise users will have the ability to defer updates.

Bob

01:54

@Ramhound See what I just said.

Ramhound

Yeah, I see your point, guess we will find out in 6 months when Redstone is in beta ;-)

Psycogeek

@Bob yup, grab a few words twist them around into the worst case scenario, present as long blog of total speculative noise.

Bob

I just see this massive chain of articles regurgitating the same interpretation of a very brief statement in the licence.

Ramhound

I think its great, Microsoft needs to force these idiots with SSL3 browsers off the web, kill every last broken browser please.

Bob

A statement that does not even say anything about forced updates.

Ramhound

01:56

( I think it would be great ) I should say

Bob

There would be no way to actually enforce updates, anyway. Oh, you want to update? Too bad, can't connect to the update server.

It's that simple.

Ramhound

lol

Psycogeek

If they keep the same packaging system they have worked on now for ages, the update server could even be told that was indeed installed, and 10 minutes later it could be removed again.

Bob

No OS update software can defeat an upstream firewall. Or even a physically disconnected cable.

Ramhound

Very true, but builds in theory, could expire

:$

not that they would do that.....thats a logisical nightmare by itself

Bob

01:59

@Ramhound Now that would have to be very clearly set out in the licence agreement.

And doesn't make sense anyway.

There is no requirement to be internet-connected.

I'll just say that I'm reasonably certain that updates won't be forced. They're not quite that blind.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Ramhound

I think you are right. I do think certain milestone updates will be required for security updates though. It was done with W8.1 Update 1 ( kernel even changed with that one ).

Bob

That said, I'm probably not going to be running the home editions anyway...

Ramhound

WDDM was updated also.

Bob

@Ramhound Oh, sure. Update dependencies make sense and have always been there.

But no way to disable automatic updates at all just doesn't sound right.

They might prove me wrong.

Ramhound

( you currently cannot disable updates in the preview, pro and home users, could easily be on two different servers in theory ).

Bob

02:04

@Ramhound Preview is always like that.

Ramhound

It says something to the effect "managed by MS" exact wordage is in a turned off VM ;_)

Psycogeek

@Bob eventually they will own the whole machine anyway, if people dont have fits about some of the trends. But then there is the lawsuits too, each country getting fed up with some business practice . Would they rather be selling stuff or show up in more courtrooms defending thier practices.

DragonLord

Moderators: Another fresh batch of flags to look at.

Psycogeek

02:24

superuser.com/questions/941208/… <-- causes me to lean towards my spam button :-)

I so think it does not belong and acts enough like spam, i would rather see it gone quick than on-hold.

Michael Frank

03:52

Huh... was wondering why the system drive on my home server was almost at capacity. Turns out Plex had created something like 36GB worth of metadata files. o.O

Journeyman Geek

oops? ;p

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Haha, yup!

It's copying over to my data drive now.

Ha... there's a reply-all tornado going through the company at the moment.

The HR girls sitting behind us are in fits.

Journeyman Geek

gigglefits or ragefits?

Michael Frank

gigglefits.

Cause people keep replying with memes... and since they somehow got in on the chain they're just laughing at them all.

Journeyman Geek

hmm

DragonLord

04:11

Kill it with fire: superuser.com/questions/941242/…

Bob

@MichaelFrank o.O

Ramhound

I like the spam post where the urls were actually just text that said something like "insert text here" so I left a comment comaplaing that their script was broken so we coudln't adapt our detction to block their lameness :$

Alright, I am getting Office 365 at work!

within the next 3 years....lol

Journeyman Geek

lol

DragonLord

Another spam post got through, dammit! superuser.com/questions/941246/…

Journeyman Geek

I have office 365 on my stream 11. Not used it once. Amusingly, I consider it the perfect school notebook and well, I'm out of school

Ramhound

04:19

"The U.S. Air Force has entered into a partnership with the DLA to award more than 100,000 seats of the Department of Defense dedicated version of Microsoft Office 365 to Microsoft, Dell and General Dynamics."

Journeyman Geek

DLA?

DragonLord

Four posts apart!

Ramhound

I believe it stands for Defense Logistics Agency

yeah, says that right in the article, me = tired

DragonLord

Can someone get a Community Manager to globally blacklist preply.com?

superuser.com/questions/379739/…

Ramhound

Best part....DoD Cloud storage....that will be really helpful :$

Journeyman Geek

04:22

er. got my eyes on that one. Will deal with it over lunch

Ramhound

although apparently my university needs to get a better IT department because their Office365 service is down again

Journeyman Geek

lol

DragonLord

superuser.com/questions/941243/… (already gone)

Three spam posts within 5 total posts.

Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord: user spam flags usually handle these things faster than mods do ;p

Bob

@DragonLord I like the question mark at the end.

DragonLord

04:31

I know but the rate these spam posts are appearing is alarming.

Even though the spam filter blocks the majority of spam posts, the overall quantity of spam attempted is very high. There must be some recent push by cybercriminals to get as much spam on SE as possible.

Journeyman Geek

Its the same few idiots prolly

DragonLord

Probably some sort of botnet.

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Q: Spambots promoting personal enhancement products, can we better defend against them?

I'm seeing a disturbing increase in spam posts promoting personal enhancement products such as male enhancement, hair care, dieting, brain enhancement, and other similar products. The following list (all links 10k only) were some of the more recent I have identified: http://superuser.com/q/9412...

discussion spam

We likely need a CM here.

Journeyman Geek

If its on meta, they're probably aware of it.

Bob

@DragonLord Costs $10 for a domain name. $1 sometimes.

Blacklisting a full-out-spam domain... would only be effective for a short while if they were really determined.

Ramhound

Lets be honest

Its $0 because they use stolen credit cards....

Journeyman Geek

04:44

Actually, I'm wondering if blocking the name of the product makes sense. however at a user, and even mod level, playing whack a mole's probably the main thing we can do

Ramhound

or use some alternative domain register that accepts BTC, criminals be criminalling?

DragonLord

@Ramhound Namecheap accepts BTC, and I'm a Namecheap customer

Ramhound

Nthing wrong with BTC

Journeyman Geek

Namecheap's a good host tho. Also, fairly proactive about stuff like that. They have systems for catching stuff like that.

Ramhound

Its just costs nothing if your using alternative methods to get themm.

but like I said, stolen ccs are likely also, anyways mega late for me

and got a 7PM Ant-Man ( wth am I thinking )

oh right...fraking out about a 3 week course with 12 weeks worth of work :$

Journeyman Geek

04:47

lol. Have fun! My company worked on that show ;p

Ramhound

and having to leaving 30 more minutes from work, because the bookstore, is getting a book the day of the class ( WTF )

Journeyman Geek

But its marvel. Looks like they got every big vfx company working on their shows.

DragonLord

Yet another one: superuser.com/questions/941254/…

Ramhound

<sigh> so wired..

dead

DragonLord

It just keeps on coming

Journeyman Geek

04:48

@DragonLord they get killed off even before I click on the link ;p

DragonLord

Yeah, but the fact that this much spam is getting through is alarming.

Ramhound

I spam flag about 5 of those a day :$

DragonLord

Four spam posts within an hour.

@JourneymanGeek, I still have a bunch of not-an-answer flags waiting for you to clear

Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord I'm at work. I'll check em over lunch.

Bob

@DragonLord I wouldn't call this "getting through".

DragonLord

04:54

14 flags today so far, including 5 spam flags.

Bob

05:24

@JourneymanGeek How much did your monitor cost?

Journeyman Geek

05:41

~940sgd.

@Bob Loving it tho, other than the whole "My other monitor looks like crap in comparison"

@Bob: tho, that's including sales tax, and I believe the rebate from sale price is lower.

Bob

o.O

Most of that was probably the 4k, yea?

(eying a 29" monitor. 2560x1440, Dell, $500)

(...on second thoughts, NO, BAD BRAIN)

I don't think I even have enough desk space o.O

and that money is better used on the planned CPU + mobo upgrade

Journeyman Geek

actually, yeah. and the IPS, and that its 60hz sst and..

Bob

sst?

@JourneymanGeek IPS is bog-standard past the basic and the >60Hz stuff now

Journeyman Geek

single stream transport. The first gen pretended that the display was two displays.

Bob

...o.O

Journeyman Geek

05:53

@Bob: the previous gen was 30hz

developer.nvidia.com/4k-ultra-high-resolution-development MST

and HDMI dosen't do 60hz either.

also, IPS isn't bog standard still, unless you're somewhat picky and willing to shop around a bit.

Psycogeek

wait so there is no Dual link DVI support capability for 4K@60frame refresh rate?

Journeyman Geek

Nope. Not as far as I know.

DVI's on its way out anyway

Lots of laptops and tablets use dp internally rather than LVDS, and its a smaller connector. displayport's for PCs, HDMI is for TVs

dp also lets you daisychain displays, but 4k60hz will run at 30 hz

Psycogeek

" In single-link mode, the maximum pixel clock frequency is 165 MHz that supports a maximum resolution of 2.75 megapixels (including blanking interval) at 60 Hz refresh. For practical purposes, this allows a maximum 16:10 screen resolution of 1920 × 1200 at 60 Hz " And 4k is 4X that if it was at the same refresh rate.

so we would need a Quad Link DVI :-)

Journeyman Geek

Nope. you'd switch to displayport.

Psycogeek

then i would need to (again) toss my video cards, as i have worked very hard to insure they had DVI :-) and that the monitors all were DVI, and that (so far) has worked out perfect.

Journeyman Geek

06:04

Most nvidia cards still have DVI I think.

and I SEEM to think HDMI or dp has a DVI mode

Psycogeek

Of COURSE i would need to toss all my cables, and start all over again with a completly different connection type

(how else would they get me to toss everything and re-buy again)

Journeyman Geek

Need?no. Your monitor probably comes with the cables it needs.

Psycogeek

you got a cable with yours?

Journeyman Geek

yup. Mini DP

It came with power, USB3.0 A/B cable and a mini dp to dp cable.

Psycogeek

according to the wiki , looks like a person could stretch thier DVI stuff to the 2.5K style still at the 60. that little bump up in res without changing everything.

Journeyman Geek

06:16

er

Psycogeek

This will all probably piss me off more than going from Mini Usb to Micro usb :-)

I still have wires everywhere , that i finnaly got perfect with mini usb about 5 days before they completly obsoleted it and put it in nothing after.

Journeyman Geek

thing is tho, your devices come with the cables they need. I just keep a few in a box.

Psycogeek

Heck i still have a box full of PATA and floppy cables :-)

Journeyman Geek

Any recent video card will have support for HDMI and displayport.

Psycogeek

Which means it would directally interface with the monitors that all have DVI now.

they have DVI because so much BS was going on with HDMI (usually tvs) and overscan-underscan and things not always being perfect native 1-1 always displays. because hdmi was (sort of) for TVs not for monitors.

The DVi was always perfect plug-n-play one and done.

And maybey I should have thunderport or lightningport :-) why did they have 17 revisions of HDMI, and 5 revisions of DPI , but then not 4 revisions of DVI .

Journeyman Geek

06:27

17?

Psycogeek

It is like my CPU socket, obsolete after 1 cpu (basically) I want tomorrows compatable technology today.

@JourneymanGeek sure 17 , after the first few 1.0 - 1.4 they went to 2.0 , it cant just stop there :-)

Journeyman Geek

Interestingly in the 1990s someone did a near 4K display with 2x DVI dual link ;p

Psycogeek

Someday HDMI 4.81 super micro wireless

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: considering DVI was introduced in 1999 and is probably old enough to drink, and I still have and use modernish VGA gear...

Psycogeek

DVI is just a lazy standards group, get them off thier ass , i want to see DVI Quad link 3.1 tomorrow.

(i have a dream)

Journeyman Geek

06:33

Digital Display Working Group

The Digital Display Working Group (DDWG) was organized by Intel Corporation, Silicon Image, Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett-Packard Company, International Business Machines Corp., and NEC Corporation. It developed the Digital Visual Interface (DVI) standard in 1999. It currently appears to be defunct as its domain is now being used by a cybersquatter. == References == == External links == Digital Display Working Group website...

Psycogeek

Akkk they have all been bought out and dissolved. i knew it was a conspiracy of epic perportions.

(how else would i have been a pawn to it all)

Journeyman Geek

The interesting that it wasn't vesa.

Psycogeek

I suppose someday Microsoft OS will just be bought up by TacoPizzaPepsi and replaced with , , , with ??/

Apple, (who else has the cash) I will have to get started with OS-X , and finnaly get that apple monitor too

And lightningPort :-)

Journeyman Geek

Now you're just being silly.

Psycogeek

that is what they said about $3 heads of lettuce , never happen. heck japan has $50 bundles of grapes.

Journeyman Geek

06:46

Also, there was a 3-5 year gap between the announcement that legacy display tech would be unsupported. Happens the cut off is this year ;p

Psycogeek

legasy, that is VGA , not the one i got half the stuff connected with.

Journeyman Geek

DVI-I is considered legacy now.

Psycogeek

oh poo

Journeyman Geek

Still, if its not been an issue so far, its likely you'll only face it on your next update cycle. Now that you know... ;p

and chances are your displays do hdmi anyway, or you can use a passive converter for hdmi or dp to dvi-d

Psycogeek

just toss it all in the trash, wouldnt be the first time, wont be the last. I told ya before i have gone through over 1 Million dollers of tech gear total, thanks to all the video changes and how much video (and computer) crap i bought through the ages to invest in my own business.

Journeyman Geek

06:51

dude. DVI's been around for 20 years.

Psycogeek

I could instead be owning one of them big arse houses free and clear, even if i instead was cleaning toilets, doing dishes, and installing landscapes.

tech dun clears out your pocketbook and leaves nothing to liquidate later.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Have you shopped on Amazon Prime Day?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo nope, i never did prime, seemed like bait for things i never actually needed.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek @Psycogeek DVI-D and HDMI use the same video signalling protocol.

Psycogeek

I think even those $3000 chairs would be worth more than old tech. $3K chairs is what was left of some of those Dot.Coms that folded after spedning everything too quickly.

Bob

06:56

Heck, I think DP does too.

Nope, DP doesn't.

Psycogeek

converter things have always sucked too

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I vaguely recall passive DP -DVI converters at work

Psycogeek

I need to find me one of them rain forest tribes that have no knowlege of all the things that have happened. sell them CRT monitors, and VCRs , which will be amazing new technology to them. Then for my Old tech i can get 2 goats and a chicken.

Journeyman Geek

You should go live there too. A simpler life would do your blood pressure good.

Psycogeek

Well they will need the "AV guy" (like in school you know) to get it all up and running, and to keep it working.

Bob

07:09

@JourneymanGeek Odd. DP doesn't use TMDS as far as I can find.

> The DisplayPort LVDS signal protocol is not compatible with DVI or HDMI. However, Dual-mode DisplayPorts are designed to transmit a single-link DVI or HDMI 1.2/1.4 TMDS protocol across the interface through the use of an external passive adapter that selects the desired signal and converts it from 3.3 volts to 5 volts.

ah.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah , we use them a lot at work since our nice monitors MUST be DVI connected, and we only have DP

Boris_yo

Argh wanted SanDisk 32GB Extreme for $14.99 but deal ended too fast. How am I supposed to take RAW+JPG shots without this puppy now?

Hmmm the pain of not buying is harder than pain of buying? Nice psychology and works on me.

That's why there's a saying "Buy now so you don't end up hitting yourself later"

Bob

07:35

For every saying there's a counter-saying.

Psycogeek

like fake SDcards are not worth the copper wasted to create them?

@Boris_yo so what camera do you have now? assuming you got a new wizz bang primo one?

Bob

07:51

@JourneymanGeek the online ordered one was also China :P

I'm curious what the Germany one is like, but this is good enough

Oliver Salzburg

Did I hear "Germany"?

Bob

Nope. You read it. Unless you're using TTS.

(Buying Fuji Xerox paper. Colotech Idol was made in Germany. Idol+ is made in China.)

Journeyman Geek

08:28

heh. I like git. Until things start going wrong.

Oliver Salzburg

09:03

@Bob I actually have MS Agent instances for all of you guys on my desktop

Hennes

09:36

@Psycogeek A lute "Yup, me too". My recent monitor came with a 2-ish m DP to mini DP cable (and a power cable, but no HDMI or regular DP to regular DP)

Journeyman Geek

@Hennes what brand? Might be a dell thing .

Hennes

09:58

Dell. :)

DELL U2515H to be more precise.
Oh, some some sort of USB-ish looking cable.

Journeyman Geek

usb 3.0 presumably

for the onboard usb ports

oh

yeah, mini dp looks like that too ;p

oops

Hennes

11:04

That means I now ave 3 USB3 devices (but just USB2 in the desktop)

Bob

12:49

LOL

I just updated Firefox Android from 34.0 to 39.0.

Have ~300 tabs open.

The third digit used to drop off the end.

Now it just displays an infinity symbol :D

Journeyman Geek

o0

allquixotic

13:15

hii

Bob

@allquixotic 'lo

Bob

13:28

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866302

Huh. Apparently Chrome literally displays ":D"

And someone suggested a LoD :P

allquixotic

> I vote for:

ಠ_ಠ

Which would require expanding the icon, but i think it'd be worth it :P

I agree with this

> It might not has a good legibility. But it's also a sign for the users that they have way too many tabs and they need close a few.

This is an edge case and it's not how we would like most of our users to use the product, so I don't think we have to come up with an absolute perfect solution to fix this.

Bang. I agree with this, too. Leaving all your tabs open like that is not a substitute for bookmarks.

That (the Bookmarks Bar) is how I avoid having 100+ tabs open at a time.

broadbandnow.com/error?id=920516270

that's possibly the most horrifying error page I've ever seen

Journeyman Geek

13:47

lol

Bob

14:30

@allquixotic :(

Journeyman Geek

heh

I use a wallabag instance for that

FF comes with pocket, which does something similar

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Have you seen my hundreds of Pocket pages?

I gave up on pocket back in the ReadItLater days.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

It's just used to track fox photos for Gravatar now :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

14:39

lol

wow bob you're in a lot of chatrooms

Journeyman Geek

3 day weekend coming up

allquixotic

I can't even see your profile because the pop-up is so long

Bob

@allquixotic ? o.O

allquixotic

one pixel above the "top" of that image is the bottom of my browser trim (the bookmarks bar).

Bob

O_O

allquixotic

14:42

resolution-constrained monitor

Bob

...this is the only room I really sit in these days.

Some of them I popped into to look at a flag.

Most are frozen/deleted.

Also, the list is under half the height of my laptop display :P

allquixotic

-_-

we don't do decent resolutions here at work

Journeyman Geek

14:58

lol

allquixotic

16:49

off-topic votes please:

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Q: Apple CNA (Captive Network Assistant) documentation?

I dont manage to get the doc' for Apple CNA, doc or specs, by the way. NB: I m looking for it by developping a wifi hotspot. Behaviour is a bit different between iOS & OSX and such a doc' begins to be very necessary Do you know where I can find it ? -- Thanks

osx apple ios captive-portal

this is a dupe:

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Q: Captive Portal & iOS/OSX, CNA popup fails to login

On Mac & iPhone, my wifi-captive-portal is detected. But once I'm logged in, the popup : - does not close - nor does display the 'done' button. 'done' button means what ? It means you're logged in and the hotspot is hooked. If you click 'cancel', on iOS, you have not hooked the wifi, you are not...

osx wireless-networking php xml captive-portal

this is either a dupe or OT:

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Q: Captive Portal without autentication need, how to connect on iOS?

On iOS, when you join a captive wifi, you get the famous CNA popup, asking for loggin in. On Mac-OSX, if you ignore it, you stay connected to the SSID. On iOS you dont, you are not hooked. If you try Safari, you can see immediatly you are not hooked to the SSID... I made my captive portal, it i...

osx networking wireless-networking osx-yosemite captive-portal

this might be a dupe too:

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Q: Trigger iOS CNA for going 'logged'/'done'

If my landing page is <html><head><title>Success</..., CNA doesnt even open. If my "logged_success.php" page is <html><head><title>Success</... nothing happen. Here I'd like the CNA to recheck/reping, brief wake up, and pass to *logged mode** (see below) Details In building a Wifi captive po...

wireless-networking ios captive-portal radius wireless-roaming

is this a product / learning material recommendation question?

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Q: Captive portal : external splash page specs?

Captive portals - like in restaurants, hostels, airports, ... - are detected by OSes. When detected, OS displays a browser-like windows (~popup). (Generally in order to ask for authentification, login, credits, or simply displaying conditions or warning). I simply wonder what are the specificati...

wireless-networking authentication ios captive-portal

Hennes

17:52

We need a 'close because of persistant buggering' option.

Canadian Luke

18:50

Then do it

Michael Frank

21:20

@Hennes That sounds painful tbh.

Psycogeek

23:19

Back in march , in da news: Auxillary officer installs 2 devices
"One of the electronic devices installed by the defendant contained a hidden camera that captured a live image of the Traffic Safety Office and was capable of live-streaming that image over the Internet. The second electronic device was connected to one of the computers in the Traffic Safety Office and allowed the computer to be accessed and controlled remotely." http://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/new-york-city-police-department-auxiliary-officer-charged-hacking-nypd-computer-and-fbi To gain access to computer data.

DragonLord

Nov 23 '14 at 5:03, by Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord 1205 to catching up with me ;p

Nov 23 '14 at 4:10, by DragonLord

Nearly 8 months ago.

Now I have close to 2000 flags.

Not as big a reviewer as DavidPostill, but focused on flags, not the review queues.

I've grown tired of the Close queue, in particular.

That's more than 4 flags a day

It's been a huge campaign

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