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DavidPostill

00:00

@Bob Finished on 145 so I gained 10 in the last 29 minutes :/

Bob

Heh. That was probably mine.

DavidPostill

Thanks ;)

Bob

Saw your FF answer :P

DavidPostill

I got a hat for that answer as well "Copernicus" ;)

Bob

@DavidPostill Dammit, I didn't get that cause your answer wasn't accepted yet :P

Ok. Archer C7 looks nice, C9 looks ... plain.

DavidPostill

00:13

@Bob Yeah, I answered the FF question after the other answer was already accepted - I was in the middle of writing a longer answer when the other one was written and immediately accepted :P

So I lost the draw but won the hat ...

Leathe

00:38

"ERROR: The process "PathOfExileSteam.exe" with PID 2972 could not be terminated.
Reason: There is no running instance of the task."

Hmpf. Now I have to find out what service is holding on to it

Journeyman Geek

0

Q: Will ethernet splitter work?

I have a room with only one ethernet cable going there, but I would like to connect 2 devices on it. Is an ethernet splitter suitable for that? I am talking about something like that: In theory it should work like an ethernet hub, which only amplifies signal, but send it to all clients (like a ...

Every time you use an ethernet splitter cthulu eats a quokka.

qasdfdsaq

How does one use an ethernet splitter anyway

Doesn't that involve finding one first?

Or using y'lnow, BNC ethernet

Journeyman Geek

Apparently they are sold on the internet

By people who hate quokkas I'm sure.

qasdfdsaq

o_0

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Uhm.

That looks like a phone line splitter.

qasdfdsaq

00:46

@allquixotic o_0

Bob

That someone put an 8P8C socket on.

qasdfdsaq

@allquixotic o_0

Journeyman Geek

THat pretty much is what it is

qasdfdsaq

@Bob o_0

!!shocked

ChatBot John Cavil

Bob

00:46

I think we broke @qasdfdsaq

qasdfdsaq

How/why do people even sell these things

Bob

Because people will buy them?

qasdfdsaq

It's like the passive HDMI=> VGA adapters. How are they ever supposed to work?

Bob

I'm more interested in the who's buying them part.

@qasdfdsaq Now I want to know how those are even connected, internally.

If they're even connected at all.

Journeyman Geek

because its luiciously cheap

Bob

00:47

Maybe it's a cheap way to get an HDMI plug and DE15 socket? :P

Journeyman Geek

and saves on running another cable or buying a switch.... if you hate quokkas.

@qasdfdsaq Oh, they should work

qasdfdsaq

@Bob Mostly non tech-literate people I assume

Journeyman Geek

They rely on ~~madness~~ fast ethernet cables only needing 4 connectors

Bob

Ok, just read JMG's answer

wut.

> It turns one 8 stranded gigabit capable cable into a what would be, essentially, a pair of sub-standard 4 stranded gigabit cables that in theory should do fast ethernet.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob yuuuuup

qasdfdsaq

00:49

...

Bob

So... another "splitter" on the other end?

Journeyman Geek

That's exactly what it does

yup

qasdfdsaq

In this country (and most western countries) there are laws against selling things that don't work or don't function as expected.

So most people are accustomed to thinking anything they buy will work

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq it does exactly what it says on the tin

Just that most people don't read the tin.

qasdfdsaq

Also if there's one benefit to having the silver laptop because the black one is out of stock it doesn't absorb as much heat from direct sunlight

Journeyman Geek

00:50

and they guzzle cans of motor oil thinking its beer.

qasdfdsaq

The tin claims it's something that should never work, is not standards complaint, and wtf.

Mostly WTF

Bob

@JourneymanGeek The tin doesn't say anything close to what you were saying: ebay.com.au/itm/…

In fact, the tin doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

I get the feeling that one is actually just straight wired.

Journeyman Geek

"This Ethernet splitter allows two computers to share one Ethernet line ONE AT A TIME, It doesn't support both computer to connect onto the internet simultaneously"

Whaaaaat?

qasdfdsaq

Argh I'm wet

Holy crap my phone is like 50'c

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Its one of those...

"Do I need this?"

!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

00:52

qasdfdsaq

Hah I wasn't even kidding

Battery reports 51'c/125'F

I'm wet, covered in sweat, but I can't go up to the sky pool cause I'm still waiting for my breakfast to arrive

Bob

...tethering?

qasdfdsaq

First world problems

Bob

@JourneymanGeek yea those are the ones I normally see

qasdfdsaq

@Bob Nah being blasted by the sun on my private balcony

Cause 4G = 50Mbp outside, 20Mbps inside

Journeyman Geek

00:54

@Bob I'm pretty sure there's a dupe...

qasdfdsaq

Also I bought new Bluetooth speakers yesterday. They're amazing

Journeyman Geek

SO...

challenger's a real place? ;p

qasdfdsaq

Yes

Well maybe

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Ah.

qasdfdsaq

I never actually saw the Challenger sign, it looked like I was just in an electronics mall

Bob

00:55

You get more for $5 in 5 days than most people get for a month of wired internet :P

Journeyman Geek

Oh, the top floor one? Yeah, you just sort of go into it.

qasdfdsaq

@Bob Lol

@JourneymanGeek I'm not sure what floor I was on, there was many

The only thing "Challenger" branded was a sign on an escalator saying "Challenger voted #1 for something-or-other" that I saw while lost trying to find the exit

Journeyman Geek

lol

(there's a 'big' challenger that's a whole floor, and minis, which typically are focused on one class of product)

qasdfdsaq

Ah

The Challenger Music one was a small one that I got my speakers from

One of the staff spent about 20 minutes outside though trying to find the right colour, I guess he went to the big one to nick some of their stock

Journeyman Geek

I'm almost certain that's what happened

There's also a camera focused one

Bob

01:07

@qasdfdsaq lol

qasdfdsaq

I guess I was never actually at the big one then

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

....

qasdfdsaq

Is that on the top floor?

I wasn't on the top floor

Journeyman Geek

Yup

qasdfdsaq

lol

Journeyman Geek

01:11

1. I'm not christian.

2. BLINKING HEARTS? IN MY EMAIL TITLES? ITS A BIT MUCH NO?

qasdfdsaq

Journeyman Geek

zat view

qasdfdsaq

I think moaning about mylaptop screen being not bright enough, and slow wifi, is the very definition of first world problems here

Journeyman Geek

I love the place across the expressway from you ;p

I have an annual pass there

qasdfdsaq

The gardens?

Journeyman Geek

01:13

Yeah

qasdfdsaq

Indoor or outdoor bit?

I've not seen inside the big glass domes yet

Journeyman Geek

indoor. Not gotten around to exploring the outdoor bits yet

I ought to

qasdfdsaq

They're very pretty at night

This being a very shitty image from my phone camera, I've not had a chance to lug my DSLR up to the roof gardens yet

Journeyman Geek

They are

qasdfdsaq

In fact Ive barely been anywhere in Singapore yet

I've been to the top of my hotel, to some street food promenade, and got some illegal soup from the red light district. That's about it

Oh and CHallenger, but that doesn't really count

Journeyman Geek

01:16

lol

Its not illegal here

hell, crocodiles used to be farmed here

qasdfdsaq

Yeah but it''s illegal where I live

Which is why I've not had it for 20 years

Journeyman Geek

Jurong Reptile Park

The Jurong Reptile Park (also known as Jurong Reptile and Crocodile Paradise) was a 2-hectare (4.9-acre) reptile zoo located within the Boon Lay Planning Area of the Jurong district in Singapore. It was the largest reptile park in Asia. The reptile park sponsored the S.League Jurong Football Club until 2003. == Animals and exhibits == The park had a collection of more than 50 species of reptiles including crocodiles, Komodo dragons, anacondas, pythons, king cobras, and tortoises, almost half of which were poisonous. It included a walk-through iguana enclosure, a footbridge over a collection of...

qasdfdsaq

Was?

Dammit my laptop battery is 60'c

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Eh... they still sell crocodile meat here.

Not so easy to find though.

qasdfdsaq

I think they sell croc meat in Europe too

Bob

01:18

One of the big supermarket chains has a section for kangaroo meat.

qasdfdsaq

Yeah I saw some at an Aberdeen market

Bob

Kangaroo steaks, sausages, meatballs and mince.

$6 a pack, $10 for 2.

...I've never actually tried any, maybe I should sometime :P

qasdfdsaq

Tastes like chicken.

Wait that was croc meat not kangaroo

So much for monsoon season I've not seen a drop of rain since I set foot here

Bob

@qasdfdsaq wait, what exactly is illegal?

@qasdfdsaq Is it? I always thought it was the live harvesting that was illegal.

qasdfdsaq

Well importing the ingredients is now illegal

And yes, shark finning is also banned eu-wide

Bob

01:27

IIRC, the use of shark fin (in soups, etc.) is legal here (if discouraged, idk) but it's illegal to perform the finning on the ocean, i.e. you must take the whole shark to land.

There's also import restrictions.

The issue was that they were finning on the ocean to have less weight to carry back, so they were catching lots more - and discarding the majority of the shark to die.

qasdfdsaq

Yeah

Bob

Might've changed more recently though. I don't know.

qasdfdsaq

And dying through suffocation and drowning while paraplegic is especially cruel

Bob

Ya

qasdfdsaq

I tend to illustrate it to people like "Imagine someone chopped off your arms and legs and threw you into the ocean..."

English tea, chinese eggs, japanese dumplings, korean congee, man that was quite some breakfast

Wayyy too hot outside though. Should have gone for the cold soy milk instead of the hot stuff

Ah well, live and learn

Bob

01:37

o.O

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek zat view... of my wet shorts!

bwDraco

Alright, exchanged the camera and got a new hard drive dock (the dual-drive model no less). Everything is working as expected.

Psycogeek

so you now dont have a compact? exchanged it for the same? got something else? decided that your dslr is great?

bwDraco

01:53

Same model camera. The issue was the lens.

qasdfdsaq

Me?

Psycogeek

and did you get the new one in yet? no problem?

qasdfdsaq

I haven't had a compact since 2005

bwDraco

I've tested this one and it is not substantially decentered.

qasdfdsaq

Oh wait not me.

nvm.

I should unblock draco already

Psycogeek

01:54

great

bwDraco

@Psycogeek nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product/compact-digital-cameras/…

The issue that was really bugging me was that if the VR (image stabilization) system was engaged and the lens was at the widest end of the zoom range, the top right corner of the live view feed may briefly be completely black when the camera is moved.

That means the lens is way off-center.

Psycogeek

or the sencor chip itself?

bwDraco

This is not a sensor issue.

This is a lens issue.

Vignetting

In photography and optics, vignetting (/vɪnˈjɛtɪŋ/; French: "vignette") is a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation at the periphery compared to the image center. The word vignette, from the same root as vine, originally referred to a decorative border in a book. Later, the word came to be used for a photographic portrait which is clear in the center, and fades off at the edges. A similar effect occurs when filming projected images or movies off a projection screen. The resulting so-called "hotspot" effect defines a cheap home-movie look where no proper telecine is used. Vignetting is...

It's called mechanical vignetting. If it's only visible in one corner, then the lens is decentered.

@Bob The problem is that the shark fin industry is extremely lucrative.

The industry needs to have oversight. A certification that declares that the shark fin was humanely harvested and not finned and released at sea (much like responsibly-sourced, conflict-free diamonds) would go a long way.

Bob

02:14

That's quite literally what they do.

bwDraco

But the fact that this is done in international maritime territories means that enforcement is very difficult, unless you inspect every single vessel at port to ensure that sharks are intact.

Smugglers are not easy to catch.

Yes, this will dramatically increase the price of shark fins. But that's better than having to completely ban shark fins because of ongoing abuse.

Every vessel must be inspected, as expensive as it may be.

There also needs to be quotas to ensure that overfishing does not occur.

It's a totally unregulated industry. Nobody respects the law. All they care about is money.

There must be a sustainable way to do this. The hard part is enforcing it.

qasdfdsaq

Death penalty

It worked for drugs

bwDraco

02:51

I kinda wish Nikon didn't remove the Best Shot Selector feature on the S9900 (it was present on the S9700). What BSS does is fire a sequence of shots and pick the sharpest one, discarding the rest.

BSS has been around for a long time, to be honest.

I routinely shoot continuous bursts on my DSLR at slower shutter speeds, picking the sharpest and throwing out the rest. Nikon had a way to automate this, and it's disappointing that they removed this feature.

qasdfdsaq

03:08

No need to inspect every person coming in through the port if you have random inspections and mandatory death penalties.

Also I think this Singaporean MRT is automatic

I think this because there's a 5 year old kid peering out the front where a drivers cab would normally be.

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

03:27

Some of the lines are.

In your case that is probably the driver.

Bob

... o.o

qasdfdsaq

04:30

So is this where you keep bob?

HackToHell

04:53

Switched from chrome to ff64

Mostly cause my chrome profile is corrupted ;p

Journeyman Geek

Yay!

I mean for ff64

HackToHell

Apart from the minor UI differences, can't feel anything different performance wise from chrome

Psycogeek

cool, did you use various extention plug-in things?

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell its a lot more stable for the use of people like us

Naw, I go minimalist.

Just oneliner and adblock

HackToHell

I go ublock and lastpass

Journeyman Geek

05:00

I don't even have java installed

bwDraco

06:22

Out of curiosity: Why are airplanes far safer per mile traveled than cars?

HackToHell

bad comparison index

bwDraco

Is it due to the much more stringent regulations and training of commercial aircraft pilots?

If only automobile drivers were held to the same standards...

But then driver's ed would takes years, not months, to complete; learning to drive would cost thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands, rather than hundreds of dollars; and far fewer people (likely 5% or less of the current number of drivers) would be licensed to drive a motor vehicle

allquixotic

@bwDraco many reasons: there are no "non-professional" pilots in the air; the planes are much better maintained than most peoples' cars; planes go very fast, and travel many miles with lots of people, so a plane landing safely accounts for a very long time of driving for the same number of people; etc.

bwDraco

If only more driving schools used simulators...

theverge.com/2014/12/9/7327953/drivers-education-20-simulators

Simulators would dramatically enhance the learning experience. Expensive, yes, but well worth it.

Journeyman Geek

Cheaper than crashing a car

Or in places with insane car taxes

bwDraco

06:30

You can put learners through otherwise dangerous scenarios in a sim and teach people to drive defensively in far less time than would otherwise be necessary.

Journeyman Geek

hm. Just picked up GTA V

its gonna take an hour or so to download, but meh, first world problems ;p

HackToHell

Bloody awesome game

Regret deleting it for BF3

BF3 sucks compared with it

bwDraco

> Driving simulators can take several forms. For commercial use, one of the more popular versions is a portable desktop model, which is usually set up at home, school, or work at a desk, costing around $7,000. It’s fitted with a steering wheel and a wide monitor, along with gas and break pedals. A more expensive type is the full cab model, costing between $10,000 to $20,000, which looks like the driver’s side of a car and includes real car parts down to the ignition key.

Journeyman Geek

ALso, its under 50 sgd

bwDraco

I guess it's not really all that expensive to get a simulator.

Then why aren't more driving schools using simulators? The advantage is huge.

Aircraft pilots are routinely trained to fly in adverse conditions using simulators. Why can't drivers be trained in the same fashion?

The technology is there and it's not that expensive.

Bob

06:51

@allquixotic More simply put: there's nothing to hit :P

bwDraco

I don't have a driver's license yet, but I'd pick a driving school with a simulator any day of the week over one that doesn't.

...however scarce such driving schools are.

Journeyman Geek

07:11

That was sneaky. Looks like I hit a possible HNK and am getting upvotes on a related answer I referred to.

Bob

o.O

@JourneymanGeek I'd say your answer isn't 100% correct, especially in light of the ebay link earlier :P

I think the majority of cheapo (i.e. non-specialised) 'splitters' are actually wired straight/in parallel.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob yeaaaah. But ithe other answer covers that

Still, it comes down to "Don't use it"

@Bob What is the point of those?

qasdfdsaq

07:31

Wow this bus is an embarrassment to buses

I figured the free shuttle would be faster than the public bus but wtf. This is the slowest piece of creaky shit I have ever been on.

It's doing 25mph at full throttle on the freeway.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

qasdfdsaq

And the engine is stuttering and splurting like mad.

I am not kidding when I say I can literally cycle faster. We've been overtaken by 3 public buses already

Should have just taken an uber cab

12mph across a junction and getting overtaken by tuk tuks on both sides

Journeyman Geek

._.

tuktuks?

Did you end up in thailand by accident?

qasdfdsaq

Man it got up to 32mph on a downhill!

Journeyman Geek

Is this a minibus?

qasdfdsaq

07:36

On a 60mph Road :-/

Journeyman Geek

Does the bus have the word's "King Long" anywhere?

qasdfdsaq

Naw more like a macrobus

I dunno. I'll check the label when I get off.

No it says woodlands transport

24 minutes to do an 8 minute journey :-/

Also there's an advert for Aberdeen asset management here

Journeyman Geek

07:56

(King Long's a chinese bus brand. IIRC their LPG buses used to catch fire)

Bob

o.O

qasdfdsaq

At least on fire is faster than this piece of crap

Also I just figured out why they removed the humidity sensor from the galaxy s5.

It's pretty pointless having an air humidity sensor in a sealed waterproof phone...

Journeyman Geek

hm

I am having trouble with GTA V :(

High framerates but the game is choppy as heck

qasdfdsaq

Oh yeah, I get that too

Journeyman Geek

Internet seems to suggest its due to disk read times 0_0

qasdfdsaq

08:08

Possibly. There's dozens of different "fixes".

Though I have a high end SSD, so I doubt it's that. Otherwise you'd need a 2GB/sec NVMe drive to run it smoothly. Which is unlikely

Journeyman Geek

Oh, this is on my 3tb drive...

and blah

Dosen't anyone do QA on AAA titles any more?

Funny thing is it reports 60fps

and yet its stuttering quite badly

gonna try moving it to a spare drive (since I have a ton of space there and its quicker to defrag) and see what happens.

qasdfdsaq

Yeah. Same, even when mine's doing 80-100fps it doesn't feel smooth at all

It seems they're offering free rides on the blue line :-/

Run it from a RAM drive!

Journeyman Geek

blue line's new

You're a beta tester ;p

qasdfdsaq

Nah, all kidding aside. Frame pacing is fucked up in that game. YouTube 1080p60 videos feel tons smoother than GTA V even at 80fps

Beta tester? It's only half on Google maps

Also it's right under my hotel and the only one there.

It's only when I set everything down so far that I get a flat 120fps that it runs properly smooth

Journeyman Geek

Oh, part of the DTL is older

they opened an extension

qasdfdsaq

08:17

I think one part opened today

Cause in the station yesterday there was some sign about one platform being commissioned Dec 27th

Ah dammit I forgot to buy waterproof headphones.

Journeyman Geek

o0

so you can live in the pool?

qasdfdsaq

Yes

Well, listen to music. Not live.

Journeyman Geek

Lets try the alt-tab trick

0_0

Apparently it dosen't play well with razer's surround sound thing

Which I don't use anyway

Ok. Now we're cooking with gas

qasdfdsaq

10:33

OK I'm confused

You go from GTA V to alt tabbing to cooking razer surround sound with gas?

Journeyman Geek

I turned off the service that razer surround uses (I'll see about uninstalling it later)

That made the game stop stuttering

qasdfdsaq

Ah ok

interesting

Yet another of a hundred different ways to improve GTA V :-P

Not sure of the connection to the gas cooking though

Journeyman Geek

10:54

14

Q: Origin of the phrase "Now we're cooking with _"

I have heard this phrase as: Now we're cooking with gas. Now we're cooking with grease. Now we're cooking with heat. Now we're cooking with fire. Which of these is the original version, and where/how did it originate?

etymology saying

qasdfdsaq

11:13

Oh I see. A weird saying.

Mokubai

@qasdfdsaq Wait, you're from the UK and never heard that phrase? I hear it all the time...

I remember a show from years ago, Drop the Dead Donkey, had a "power manager" whose favourite phrase was "Are we cooking with napalm? You bet!"

Bob

11:39

Hm. Local shop. 8 GB DDR3: $80. 8 GB DDR4: $66.

Is DDR4 really that cheap? o.o

(I haven't been keeping up with the most recent/Skylake/DDR4 gen)

qasdfdsaq

Nope.

But bear in mind I'm not actually from the UK, I've just lived there since I was 4. And from the age of 12 I was surrounded by mostly non-native-English speakers.

@Bob It's gotten pretty cheap now, but $66 is still an exceptionally low price

Around £40 for 8GB is the lowest in the UK

Also BBL, need to go up and take pictures from that epic pool

With a real DSLR

Bob

11:59

@qasdfdsaq arc.com.au/product/58596

Now I'm debating buying some now ... who knows what prices will be like when I finally get Skylake/Cannonlake/whatever

DDR3 prices jumped up a bunch a few months after I got my current machine

tereško

12:14

@Bob you might want to wait a bit, if you are interested in VR stuff

Bob

12:43

@tereško ...not really interested

I'm probably the type to get motion sickness

tereško

... I am also kinda interested in what AMD has been promising

qasdfdsaq

I should probably stop using the rooftop swimming pool as a substitute for showering

Huh. It seems that Challenger signed me up for a 2 year membership...

Even though I said no, because I'm only here for like 5 days

Journeyman Geek

Oh, as long as you got the discount...

qasdfdsaq

I didn't

Journeyman Geek

oh, then its just wierd

qasdfdsaq

12:52

Or did I

I guess I did

But I didn't get the free carry case members are supposed to get

Meh.

"Musica by Challenger" is where I ended up, so not even a real Challenger store

"Goods sold not refundable / exchangeable". Hmm. What do people do with faulty products in Singapore?

Journeyman Geek

lol

You figure out who the distributor is and get it swapped under warranty

though we do more recently have a wassname

lemon law

qasdfdsaq

Lol lemon law

Yeah I guess I'm used to fairly strong consumer protection laws in the EU

And when Bob mentioned they're just as good in the AU I assumed much of the world was the same

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Dunno how good they are comparatively. But apparently they're better than most of the rest of the world.

i.e. most of America and Asia.

qasdfdsaq

13:10

America's great. You can sue anyone, at anytime, for anything.

Gah this Intel bluetooth is so shit

Now I see why everyone keeps complaining about it

Journeyman Geek

14:27

0

Q: Windows Recovery

Can I use a recovery disk created on a Lenovo to recover windows 8.1 Toshiba Satellite. The Lenovo is also windows 8.1. I recently accidentally installed Linux Mint on the hard drive and removed windows. I have extremely important data on I need for school.

data-recovery toshiba-laptop partition-recovery system-recovery

" I have extremely important data on I need for school. "

Not any more

2

tereško

> "I recently accidentally installed Linux Mint"

Journeyman Geek

IKR?

Bob

14:44

source

DavidPostill

@Bob Aaaw, cute ;)

Bob

15:49

@JourneymanGeek how's the Korean monitor?

HackToHell

Switched back to Chrome, ff is laggy :/

The very slight lag in the UI while I open and close tabs is too noticable

Gaurav Joseph

16:40

@tereško how is that even possible????

Hennes

17:20

Still getting used to my galaxy S5. It is quite different from the windows CE 5.5. on the old phone. I need to learn a lot of new things. E.g. swiping did not exist on the windows phone, ...

DavidPostill

17:38

Hmm. A question that is off-topic is on HNQ. What to do?

3

Q: Can I move installed programs to another location in Windows?

Some software installers don't let you choose where the program will be installed, which I find pretty annoying. Are there (preferably freeware) tools which let you move the installed program to another location, particularly making the necessary changes in the Registry automatically?

windows-7 windows-10 installer

"Are there (preferably freeware) tools" make it off-topic. Should I edit the question? ...

Hennes