Root Access

> Your registered gadget is
covered for:
• Theft
• Damage
• Breakdown
(including faults)
• Loss (where
you have
chosen to pay
an additional
premium for this
cover)
occurring anywhere in
the world

Bob

I might have to start looking into something like that :P

What's the excess?

qasdfdsaq

£50-75 I think

£50 for damage/theft, £75 for accidental loss

Bob

Ah. Probably not worth it for most simple damage then.

qasdfdsaq

£25 less for non-phone/laptop devices

Bob

3:25 PM

Hm. *does calculations*

qasdfdsaq

You should go to sleep -_-

Bob

Nah. Assuming I lose/severely damage one item every year or two, which is a far higher rate than what I currently do, I'd still be better off just saving and buying a new one than paying the premium for a year.

Minor damage like a smashed screen isn't even worth claiming for -_-

qasdfdsaq

Yeah that's what I used to think too

Then I broke 3 screens in a year

Bob

o.O ouch

qasdfdsaq

And lost one (I've never lost a phone before in 15 years)

£100 for a DIY replacement or double that to go to the manufacturer on a broken screen...

Bob

3:27 PM

A phone screen replacement would cost me some $120 in parts and a few hours of swearing.

Laptop probably more, but I don't carry them around much these days either.

qasdfdsaq

Camera and camera lenses too, I carry a couple of £400+ lenses about

Just broke a £50 but that's not too bad to replace

Bob

Ah. Yea. Camera would definitely make the difference.

qasdfdsaq

TBH after 15 years of having never broken or lost a phone I've had an unlucky couple years..

Bob

Plus travelling - theft much more likely.

qasdfdsaq

Course now I have insurance, I've not broken a single thing ._.

Bob

3:29 PM

@qasdfdsaq My phones tend to not last much longer than two years. But that's usually around replacement time anyway.

Charging port failed on my S2 and I cbf'd fixing it.

qasdfdsaq

I replaced mine on my S2, was only a few quid off Ebay for a spare

Bob

Well, charging circuit. Or something.

Didn't feel comfortable trying to, considering I woke up to a battery over 50 degrees on my bed :O

qasdfdsaq

Meh, batteries don't really get dangerous until over 100'c

And that's sustained

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Yes, I should... *shrug*

@qasdfdsaq Eh, still not a comfortable feeling. And I mean that quite literally, since I was woken by the burning feeling -_-

It was approaching 60 by the time I could check and turn it off.

qasdfdsaq

Meh.

Not saying it feels comfortable against your face... just that it aint dangerous

Bob

3:33 PM

Not dangerous in the explosions and fire way. Dangerous in the burnt skin way :P

Though not very severe that time. Thankfully glass isn't the greatest thermal conductor.

qasdfdsaq

Though the main reason I got dedicated gadget insurance is cause travel insurance is notoriously bad for covering expensive electronics

Like, £500 valuables limit

Bob

Ouch. Yea, there goes the camera and laptop.

qasdfdsaq

Best you can get on expensive policies is like £2000 valuables limit, which doesn't go far with a £1600 laptop and a £1000 camera and a £500 phone

And that's not counting lenses, headphones, mp3 players, etc. Just nick my bag, and I'll be out of a few grand

Bob

Could you put those under your normal homeowner/renter insurance?

Or does that cost significantly more?

qasdfdsaq

Don't have any

Bob

3:36 PM

Ah.

qasdfdsaq

Dammit should really put my oculus rift on ebay already

Boris_yo

Flying drones, Star Wars R2D2s... Amazing times we live in:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/sphero-bb-8-app-enabled-droid-by-sphero-white/4316601.p?id=1219726336859&skuId=4316601&cmp=RMX&ref=P10T12R103&loc=BODY&CampaignID=767620&SubscriberID=317341576&eut=2905260307&track=recClick&eapi=true&ep=rc-mv,dr-all,av-4.3,mv-0.1,ds-mv,rk-1

qasdfdsaq

4:25 PM

WTF

That explains a lot

qasdfdsaq

5:21 PM

Well, I found my scissors, but seem to have lost an SSD in the process

oldmud0

Woo 2001 rep

this g2mk guy keeps adding the comment "improved formating and redability" to his edits, and it's annoying me when I'm doing the review queue

qasdfdsaq

Now you only need to lose 664 to become 1337 again

DavidPostill

@oldmud0 That's been annoying me too. I'm tempted to improve edit and fix the comment but then he won't get his two points. The rest of the edits are actually OK as far as I remember.

Hennes

5:43 PM

Ju just n33d someone l!ke me who never makes editing m!istak#s.

qasdfdsaq

Goddarn it why can't I find my damn SSD

Ah now I remember where it is.

I just don't know where the thing it's in is in

Psycogeek

does he improve the greenability in any of them? at first i did not even notice it was wrong, just read right past to the intended meaning, a requirement for reading my own posts too

Hennes

Might it be in tthe drawer that the scissors were in ?

qasdfdsaq

@Hennes Naw, on the floor, under a pillow

oldmud0

I sink I will by an SSd

120 gb, sumthin ch33p

qasdfdsaq

5:50 PM

May as well get a 256

Costs about 20% more, and 120 is just too little these days

oldmud0

No my budget is $0.01

They sell 16 gb usb ssd in officemax

qasdfdsaq

Meh. One of the laptops I wanted come with a 16GB SSD

oldmud0

but it doesn't matter because a 16gb ssd is called a flash drive

hhahhahahhahh

wow my laughter is perfectly symmetric

it's like the L in the cobblestone and netherrack

qasdfdsaq

So is my username

Hennes

The laptop probably come spreconfigure to use that as a cache (which may not be a bad idea)

.nethackrc

The dungeon collapses.

qasdfdsaq

5:54 PM

@Hennes Pretty much. It's an SSD cache for the 500GB HDD

Now to figure out which of these 3 copies of the same data I need to keep

tereško

hey , guys

dows any of you know how to make liveUSB writeable?

qasdfdsaq

Yes

But you don't

Blargh I can't wait till Thunderbolt makes 10GbE affordable and mass-market

DavidPostill

User superuser.com/users/536744/tyron-f is spamming his own video in answers (twice so far, both flagged).

qasdfdsaq

@DavidPostill Why is it a bad thing?

The video (appears to) directly answer the question

oldmud0

DavidPostill

6:05 PM

Because he's not disclosing they are his videos. If you promote your own product/blog/video you have to disclose the fact that you are the author. They are also link only answers.

oldmud0

At least explain the video

qasdfdsaq

Granted, it's not a particularly good answer, but insofar as it addresses the question, I don't see it as spam

Also I see no requirement to disclose it is his own video. That much is obvious when you click on it.

And he's not promoting his own product or website, which is the only condition where the rules say you must disclose your affiliation. A youtube video is neither a product or a personal website.

DavidPostill

A lot of people are earning money for having their videos viewed on youtube.

The community tends to vote down overt self-promotion and flag it as spam. Post good, relevant answers, and if some (but not all) happen to be about your product or website, that’s okay.

However, you must disclose your affiliation in your answers.

From stackoverflow.com/help/behavior

qasdfdsaq

> A youtube video is neither a product or a personal website.

From two lines up

DavidPostill

<shrug> Let's see if my spam flags get rejected then ...

qasdfdsaq

6:17 PM

Wouldn't it be better or more helpful just to edit the post to rectify what you think is wrong with it? i.e. add three words. "that I made"

DavidPostill

As I said, they are also link only answers. I'm not going to watch his whole video and "include the essential parts of the answer". That's his job if he wants to write a good answer.

qasdfdsaq

Meh. Link-only answer that actually is an answer isn't spam.

DavidPostill

If he writes a proper answer and refers to "a video I made for more information" I would not have said it was spam.

qasdfdsaq

If he wrote a proper answer we wouldn't be here to begin with

But that said the flags and review queues both tend to lean towards not deleting something if it is at all relevant or can be salved through editing

Mmmm, first time I'll be booting my desktop from a RAID-0 SSD array

Also first time I'm giving these SSDs a good clean since I bought them...

tereško

6:40 PM

steam's servers are falling over

qasdfdsaq

6:51 PM

Must be all the people getting games as christmas presents

Or everyone going home to their families and getting bored so logging on to Steam to get some games

qasdfdsaq

7:05 PM

Mmm yum yum. Noms.

oldmud0

7:34 PM

raid0 ain't raid

qasdfdsaq

It's just AID

oldmud0

AID arrays? AIDs? NONONONONNONO

qasdfdsaq

No 's'

No arrays either. That's RAS Syndrome.

just AID.

oldmud0

Welcome to ATM machine, please enter your credit card PIN number and wait for LCD display to light up.

ERROR: RAM memory failure. 0x00000001h

look up SPEBSQSA

that's one heck of an alphabet soup

qasdfdsaq

9:14 PM

Interesting, Ubuntu is feeding me a dkms downgrade as a security update

Seth

9:38 PM

So.. did the latest Windows 10 update bork anyone else's install?

I'm getting a SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED BSOD every time the machine boots.

qasdfdsaq

Installing Windows 10 borked my install.

Seth

ha ha. If only that were still funny.

qasdfdsaq

I didn't realise it was ever funny

Bob

@Seth that would be a driver. Grab the minidumps and chuck them into windbg to figure out which driver is causing them

Seth

@Bob mmm, could I analyse them from Linux? I really don't want to reboot and setup windbg..

Bob

9:50 PM

@Seth I don't think so..?

Seth

rats

well lemme pull the minidumps out anyway.

qasdfdsaq

Are there any hacks to selectively delay audio/video on HTML videos?

Seth

@Bob So.. I can't find any minidumps.

Bob

10:37 PM

@Seth Look harder? :P

Should be under \Windows\Minidump

Seth

@Bob There is no \Windows\Minidump :/

Bob

shrug

boot into safe mode, enable dumps, and try again?

btw you must have a pagefile for dumps to work

and you should have a pagefile regardless

anyone who recommends removing the pagefile for "performance" (without extenuating circumstances) has no idea what they're doing

Seth

@Bob there is not safemode in Windows 10.

At least, that's what it seems.

Bob

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778968%28v=WS.10%29.aspx

> RAM size Paging file should be no smaller than

256 MB-1,373 MB

1.5 times the RAM size

1,374 MB or greater

2,060 MB (maximum amount of data in a kernel memory dump)

Seth

From what I've read the only way to access it is to turn legacy BIOS on.

@Bob "when the system stops, do this" seems contradictory :P

anyway, looks like I found a command-line way to enable BSOD dumping.

That should work.

Bob

10:47 PM

@Seth more like legacy boot menu. different than firmware CSM

qasdfdsaq

@Bob I recommend removing the pagefile for "performance"

Bob

@Seth The trick is not turning it off in the first place!

This is all on by default.

Seth

well if it was on where are the dumps??

Bob

shrug you didn't disable the page file did you?

qasdfdsaq

Windows only dumps if it's able to, and it's safe to

And if you've not told it not to

Bob

10:49 PM

@qasdfdsaq The only case I can think of is when you absolutely cannot tolerate any swapping whatsoever. Which only applies for a very small subset of uses.

And even less so with SSDs now.

Seth

@Bob I don't believe so. This is actually my parents computer but they wouldn't touch that themselves so..

qasdfdsaq

Swapping on SAN based VMs. Yeah, real good

Bob

There's far more disadvantages of turning it off than leaving it on. Starting from large amounts of completely unused RAM when there's committed but not actually touched/used memory.

@qasdfdsaq Hey, I did say there were exceptions.

In a VM you can just overcommit real RAM and let the hypervisor handle any swapping. "unused" guest memory isn't as big an issue.

@Seth Other possibility is it's dying very very early but even that should leave a dump.

Seth

@Bob That better not be. It's less than a year old!

Ok, I turned on minidumps.

Lets see if this worked..

btw, is there a quick and easy grep alternative in CMD.exe?

qasdfdsaq

find?

Bob

10:55 PM

@qasdfdsaq findstr

find doesn't support regex iirc

(and findstr regex sucks)

qasdfdsaq

Good job I cba with regex

Bob

the more complete alternative is just powershell but I don't know if that works in recovery

Seth

if only Windows used coreutils..

@Bob shudders

Powershell is powerful, but dense.

rats, findstr doesn't seem to exist in the recovery console -.-

Bob

o.O

Seth

it has find though.

Seth

11:08 PM

So I enabled small memory dumps from CMD.exe but still no dump :/

Bob

@Seth You want kernel, not small.

Seth

@Bob ah. Let me try that again then.

qasdfdsaq

Doesn't make much of a difference if it can't dump anything to begin with

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Ya, but figuring out the reason for that is a much harder problem :P

You're basically left with good ol' driver binary searching (disable half, test, enable/disable half the remainder, etc.).

Or reinstalling Windows.

Or attaching a kernel debugger..?

Seth

still no \Windows\Minidumps.

Are you sure that is the latest path for Windows 10?

Bob

11:18 PM

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/…

@Seth nup

@Seth Oh, there's no s

qasdfdsaq

Seth

@Bob typo on my end.

qasdfdsaq

Do you get the progress indicator or the driver name?

Seth

There's no \Windows\Mini*

@qasdfdsaq nope.

qasdfdsaq

Then there's no dump

Bob

11:20 PM

@qasdfdsaq Is that yours? o.O

qasdfdsaq

Nope, just googled the error

Bob

Ah.

qasdfdsaq

Believe it or not I don't know how to make my computer BSOD on demand

Bob

> Bad Physical RAM may prevent the data from being saved and written to a file on reboot. If you suspect bad RAM run Memtest

@qasdfdsaq lol... wasn't there a sysrq sequence for that?

though it'd be a different error

qasdfdsaq

Bad RAM generally doesn't cause the same error consistently

Bob

11:21 PM

Hm. Depends how early it hits in the boot process.

...VMM as in Virtual Memory Manager, not Virtual Machine.

@Seth How long does it take to hit the bsod, as a proportion of your typical startup time?

If it's near-instant, then bad RAM is a bit more likely. If it takes a while, then not as likely.

Seth

Running a memtest from recovery cli might prove tricky.

Bob

shrug if you have the time then try a memtest

If it's before the VMM gets up then that would explain the lack of dump too.

@Seth memtest86+?

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Q: What flag to use for questions related to 'Hackintosh(s)'

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Seth

@Bob yeah, I'll try that.

Been eons since I had to run a memtest. Bit fuzzy on how you do it.

Bob

@Seth boot, sit and wait.

@qasdfdsaq How's the USB 3.0 <=> SATA performance for you?

@Seth Other thing you can try, from recovery, is sfc. I've never had that find anything but who knows... especially if core kernel code is corrupted

Oh, and.

Steam sale has started!

Since they're not doing daily/flash deals on the homepage this time, there's a list here: reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/3xuz8p/…

Seth

11:36 PM

Thanks @Bob! I'll give that a shot.

bwDraco

networkworld.com/article/3017551/microsoft-subnet/…

qasdfdsaq

@Bob ?

bwDraco

I have this odd feeling that Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will be EOL no later than July 29, 2016.

qasdfdsaq

Oh, well I get just about native performance on USB 3, not tried 3.1 yet

bwDraco

If Microsoft really wants everyone to upgrade ASAP, they should end support for older versions early.

Bob

11:41 PM

@qasdfdsaq Was just wondering how it compared to native SATA

qasdfdsaq

@Bob The SSD I tried isn't fast enough to max out USB3 on writes

Reads, 460MB/sec. Random... not tried

Bob

@qasdfdsaq How about latency (/random perf)?

Oh.

Still, that sounds good.

Now I just have to hope that my third-party (Renesas) controller and Win7 work that well -_-

bwDraco

Did someone just raise a random series of flags?

nhinkle

Whoever's abusing flags, cut it out.

Seth

@nhinkle since you're an SU mod the popup will tell you who it is.

nhinkle

11:43 PM

I got it. @user530647, stop flagging random stuff.

qasdfdsaq

Think I might want a 128GB MicroSD card

Bob

@qasdfdsaq For the camera or the phone?

Seth

what do you know @Bob, sfc found some stuff.

Bob

O_O

that's a first for me :P

I've never seen anyone have success with that

qasdfdsaq

I've had numerous successes with it...

Seth

11:49 PM

@Bob me either :P

but I've only used it 4 or 5 times..

Bob

@qasdfdsaq I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky :P

qasdfdsaq

@Bob Neither? Normal?

Seth

strange, it couldn't fix it though. "Windows resource protection could not perform the requested operation".

bwDraco

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