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Journeyman Geek

12:29 AM

hmm

Sanity check

superuser.com/questions/1060959/… am I overstating the risk of PCB damage?

DavidPostill

!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

Journeyman Geek

relatedly

I wonder what ramhound means by ethics party coolers ;)

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Autocorrect changed "third" to "ethics"? :-p

Michael Frank

third party, I imagine.

Journeyman Geek

12:44 AM

Yeah, I understood contextually ;p

ooh

I blew my nose so hard I threw out my sense of balance

DavidPostill

Good job you didn't throw out your brain cell as well ;)

Journeyman Geek

I cannae afford that ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Those look a lot like holes for cooler screws.

Journeyman Geek

THey do

but I'd be cautious about mounting a card through those?

DavidPostill

2am here. I'm off to bed. Till tomorrow ...

Michael Frank

1:07 AM

Since someone deleted the question while I was answering.... Have a jpg!

Then I went and poked through the Resources tab.... Found the image in there. ^_^;

Bob

...and this is why I don't like Ask Ubuntu

53

A: Does Ubuntu damage USB drives?

This is mostly an issue with Windows. It thinks it is the only OS in the world and acts out if it detects something it does not understand. Just because Windows says you must repair the drive does not make it true. Any of my drivers used with Ubuntu get this message from Windows, I just say no ...

Just wrong.

"[Windows] thinks it is the only OS in the world and acts out if it detects something it does not understand." and "[Ubuntu] uses diffrent size allocations and adds different meta data that Windows just does not understand, thus it says it is broken."

...so what makes this Windows' fault rather than Ubuntu's fault?

Does Ubuntu not "think it is the only OS in the world" when it writes a format that's supposedly incompatible with a different OS?

Journeyman Geek

1:31 AM

ubuntu has mild RDF ;p

Bob

I seem to find myself defending Windows a lot these days.

Journeyman Geek

1. Yes it does, when you repair the drive it will be formatted. 2. I never said anything about issues with FAT, it is more to do with the way Ubuntu copies files to the drive etc... It uses diffrent size allocations and adds different meta data that Windows just does not understand, thus it says it is broken. — mark kirby 2 days ago

what the whaaaaat?

Bob

Mostly from completely absurd claims.

@JourneymanGeek ...yea. Makes no sense whatsoever.

@JourneymanGeek See the chat conversation there.

Mehrdad is completely right, but... yea. It's painful to read.

in Discussion on answer by mark kirby: Does Ubuntu damage USB drives?, yesterday, by Mehrdad

@markkirby: You realize NTFS is a Windows file system, right? Microsoft invented their own file system and also wrote its own implementation. Linux merely attempted to reverse-engineer it and didn't manage to make it work the way it thinks the file system should behave. Microsoft never claimed it should behave any particular way. Now, a sane person would say the "issue" (call it a compatibility issue or whatever you want) is with Linux; they failed to reverse-engineer it properly. You are saying this is an "issue" with Windows. I... beg your pardon, what kind of logic is that?!

Michael Frank

Yea... But the guy has a Tux avatar. What do you expect?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek 2 there reads like "if you write random junk to the FS, Windows has no right to complain"

Journeyman Geek

1:36 AM

lol

might also be nautilus at fault

Bob

Windows says it's broken because it is broken...

Journeyman Geek

Nauilus is an utter piece of garbage ;p

Bob

Not because it feels like it

@JourneymanGeek Eh... the duty of ensuring a consistent FS lies with the filesystem drivers. Whether in the kernel or through FUSE.

If your userspace program can cause corruption on this level then arguably your FS impl is broken.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob meh, if he can hate on a whole OS without proof, I can hate on a file manager without proof.

Bob

Ugh. What I simply do not understand is why that answer is getting so many upvotes. It doesn't even attempt to get into the possible cause (of which there can be many, and many of those will also result in data loss).

Journeyman Geek

1:39 AM

cause M$

Bob

Nope. "It's Windows' fault, definitely. Just ignore it and it'll all be rainbows and unicorns."

Journeyman Geek

essentially it confirms a bias ;)

Bob

Mehrdad's comments of the FS driver not flushing correctly - that is useful technical info.

Even if that's not the cause in this case, it's still a potential reason.

@JourneymanGeek I'm sure I've semi-ranted about some OS or other in a couple of my answers, granted.

Then again, I'm a self-admitted hypocrite.

Journeyman Geek

I typically don't ;p

ok, gnome 2

But seriously people. THAT WAS WARRANTED ;p

Bob

lol

CMDEmu

1:42 AM

how come if I swap a drive between two computers I can override the ACE's but if its on a remote computer I can't

something to do with cryptographic keys?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I'm actually not sure if I have.

Journeyman Geek

What's an ACE? What do you mean by remote computer?

Bob

@CMDEmu More context please.

CMDEmu

access control entry

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Access Control Entry I guess

ACL would be the more typical term

CMDEmu

1:43 AM

remote as in smb'ing

Bob

@CMDEmu Because you need admin privs on the machine you're "overriding" them on.

Journeyman Geek

Would this be better as a question on the main site? ;)

CMDEmu

its notreally a problem just curious

it isnta technical problem

the administrator account has the same SID on any windows pc

so im not sure how admin rights comes into it

Bob

@CMDEmu If it were as simple as the account SID, then there'd be no such thing as network security (see: spoofing)

You must actually have admin privs on the target machine. In a simple workgroup setup that's usually tied to a username+password pair. Not a SID, well-known or otherwise.

Then again, I'm not sure SMB can do that kind of thing anyway.

CMDEmu

thats right, if the password and username is the same on both pcs it will not ask for authentication

Bob

1:49 AM

It'd certainly work over RDP.

@CMDEmu It also won't elevate so you're probably running with a restricted security token.

@JourneymanGeek I think this might be the most I've said. Though that's more defending one rather than attacking another.

I try to keep my biases off main :P

Probably a couple more comments though.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Oh. How's the cold? Feeling better?

Journeyman Geek

I've gone from feeling like I got run over by a truck, to being run over by a small car.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Hey, that's improvement! :P

Next step: bicycle

Journeyman Geek

nah, large auto, tata nano, auto, motorbike, moped, cycle...

heh, overwatch is one of those games. The game isn't quite my thing, unless you can play against bots (co-op?) The universe is interesting.

Bob

1:59 AM

@JourneymanGeek o.O

Wasn't it quite heavy on the team-play?

Journeyman Geek

yup

Michael Frank

Uhh... really wanna get in on Overwatch!

Bob

I rarely do PvP unless someone drags me into it :P

Journeyman Geek

I rarely do MP unless someone drags me into it ;p

Bob

*drags JMG into a game*

I'll drag people into co-op.

Or pick up single-player by myself.

But PvP... rare.

Journeyman Geek

2:02 AM

lol

I do sometimes get help when I'm stuck tho ;p

(also, I need ashes of the singularity walkthroughs, stuck on a mission ><)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I haven't even had a chance to start on missions yet :(

Also, lag.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob there's one where they keep throwing units at you

the opponent is smart enough to go at your engineers and resources

Which means you're basically facing a indefinately large number of units, and can barely keep up

Its doable, but its a massive difficulty ramp up over the previous missions

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Cheat Engine? :P

Journeyman Geek

I don't want to cheat cheat tho

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

2:31 AM

got part of it

MOAR unit construction and keep turning them out

forgot to capture the turinium generator so didn't unlock the armoury which was a mistake

2-3 more iterations and I will kick its arse

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Should've seen our first attempt yesterday.

Got absolutely destroyed by 3x easy AI

we had 1x Challenging AI at first

I still haven't really got the hang of it :P

allq and the AI did most of the work

Journeyman Geek

2:53 AM

lol

I get the economy system

just this damned mission ><

I'm very pointedly not helping my dad paint ;p

(By which I mean I'm helping him while pretending not to)

Bob

3:23 AM

o.O

Journeyman Geek

@Bob basically I fetch things as needed

Bob

ah

I'll be playing painter's assistant (again) in a few months :P

@JourneymanGeek not sure if the fumes are bad for the cold or if the cold helps with the fumes :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob We're using 'odorfree' paint

Bob

o.O

allquixotic

@Bob @JourneymanGeek moddb.com/mods/star-trek-armada-3

possible SoASE total conversion mod to try next week

Journeyman Geek

3:31 AM

amusingly?

I think I have the cd for the original game somewhere

Bob

We're never going to finish SCL are we? :P

@allquixotic I'm gonna have to see i I actually have SoASE

Though... I want to get further into AotS too :P

allquixotic

3:50 AM

yeah, AotS seems like a game you can get a lot better at with practice

Bob

@allquixotic I think I need to seriously look at moving up the Win10 upgrade, too. Part of it is me not knowing what I'm doing, part of it is teleporting cursors and missed clicks/drags :\

(Granted, mostly me not knowing what I'm doing, but getting rid of the frustration would help.)

I can't remember the last time I played a game consistently below 30 FPS.

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic resource management, and working out exactly how many units you can spam ;)

Its frustrating the right way

allquixotic

we could just run vanilla Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

less buggy than Armada 3

Bob

I'm still not sure I have it

lemme check

> Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion
9.99 USD

ok apparently yes o.O

allquixotic

honestly, I like SoaSE more than AotS.

older Stardock game, but better imo

Bob

3:56 AM

@allquixotic so... is it an RTS?

Co-op or just standard multiplayer?

allquixotic

@Bob SoaSE is a "4x" RTS

Bob

@allquixotic Older = I might actually be able to run it :P

@allquixotic 4x?

Michael Frank

eXplore, eXpand, eXterminate, eXsomethingelse

allquixotic

it has light elements of diplomacy, longer term strategy, smarter unit AI (so less micromanagement), longer games overall (less focus on actions per minute)

and it has this awesome feeling of tension as you're playing it

long periods of relative peace, then you get hit in the face with a huge fleet

also there's the concept of commitment

if you're going on the offense, you have to commit your forces, which always leaves you strategically vulnerable somehow

and it's almost impossible to "undo" once you commit

so scouting is important too

Bob

o.O

allquixotic

3:58 AM

and there are units that level up with experience, important ones that will hurt a lot if you lose them

you get invested in individual units and sometimes even structures (starbases)

very expensive upgrades and such

Michael Frank

I played the original Sins game, was fun... Except I'm way too impatient for the 4X genre.

allquixotic

also there's a very deep tech tree

allquixotic

4:32 AM

@Bob around?

or @JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

4:46 AM

wandered off for lunch ;p

Bob

@allquixotic ya?

allquixotic

@Bob I'm trying to write an app to do some speech recognition over teamspeak for a deaf guild member O_O

teamspeak client -> plugin -> copy voice data -> recognize -> transcribe into a webpage with usernames

Bob

5:02 AM

o.O

@allquixotic Sounds like it's not going to work so well with typical colloquial language

Journeyman Geek

or accents

I do wonder if you could somehow 'just' pass it as a stream into some TTS thing

I'd be willing to see ~~if it handles dog~~ if it breaks with my accent XD

Also the fact that it needs to work for/with multiple users at once.

Bob

5:24 AM

@JourneymanGeek I thought that's what he was trying to do?

Pass it into Dragon or something.

Also, it'd be speech recognition.

TTS is the wrong way :P

Journeyman Geek

er

STT?

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

spinx might be an option I suppose

Bob

Unfortunately most speech recognition relies on the person speaking fairly slowly and clearly

tereško

mornin

Bob

5:28 AM

'lo

Journeyman Geek

s/fairly slowly and clearly/speaking human

hackaday.com/2016/04/03/a-2200-pound-personal-computer

I am a complete underachiver

Bob

o.O

allquixotic

6:12 AM

@Bob Google's Web Speech API is pretty good.

Bob

@allquixotic I've never used it...

Telstra in the CBD during business hours is only some 10Mbps down average. Massive dip in the middle.

Vodafone is 18

But Telstra is consistently lower ping.

O_O

@kerbalspacebecky I actually get much lower speeds, both up and down, from the S7 directly.

Even though it should theoretically support LTE-A where the wifi device doesn't.

Maybe it just landed on a congested band...

@allquixotic Have you tested it with, say, a recording of normal chat?

Would be easier than implementing a plugin only to find out it doesn't work well.

allquixotic

7:06 AM

@Bob good idea, should do

Bob

7:50 AM

@allquixotic indiegogo.com/projects/your-starship-to-travel-between-stars

bwDraco

LTE signal isn't great here. 6.0 Mbps down, 4.4 up. 44ms ping.

(AT&T LTE service, tested with OpenSignal.)

XKCD

8:40 AM

Journeyman Geek

9:16 AM

ugh

Manged to handle the air swarm by building a load of AA cruisers. Got taken down by the horde after

I didn't quite manage to build my basic factory close enough to protect the southern power generator tho

DavidPostill

Hmm. That comic links to an Amazon book.

Michael Frank

How do I find out what's binding to port 80?

Journeyman Geek

what os?

Michael Frank

C:\windows\system32>netstat -anb

 Active Connections

  Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
  TCP    0.0.0.0:80             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
 Can not obtain ownership information

Journeyman Geek

oh windows?

Michael Frank

9:26 AM

Server 2012 Essentials

Journeyman Geek

ahh

wierd

Michael Frank

I thought it was IIS, but I removed it... and still nothing.

Bob

That's probably HTTP.SYS

It mediates a.. bindings to port 80 IIRC

Things like AD FS use it.

IIS also uses it.

mikeplate.com/2011/11/06/…

5

Q: How to disable System service from listening on port 80 in Windows Server 2003

I'm trying to install a service on a Windows Server 2003 machine which is supposed to listen on port 80 but it fails to start because some other service is already listening on that port. So far I've disabled the IIS Admin service and the HTTP SSL service but no luck. When I run netstat -a -n -...

Michael Frank

That blog post seems promising. :)

deostroll

Could anyone help me make a windows bootable usb from linux...I've tried the below, and the pc isn't booting from usb

8

A: How to make bootable pendrive for Windows 10 from Ubuntu?

I tried dd. Didn't work. Tried unetbootin. Didn't work. Looked for winusb. Couldn't find it, and heard it doesn't work for win10, anyway. But! This did work for me! http://onetransistor.blogspot.com/2014/09/make-bootable-windows-usb-from-ubuntu.html Note that I had to add "--force" on th...

Journeyman Geek

9:41 AM

@deostroll alas, I tend to make both my windows and linux install disks from windows.

djsmiley2k

9:55 AM

yawn

@deostroll the problem i've found personally i some usb keys just WON'T boot.

If that's your issue, the only cure is a diff key

Also, I've had bios's that list 'usb' as a boot option, that never works

then you realise once you connected a bootable iso/image, it actually added another option to the list you missed!

Journeyman Geek

ahh there's that

I might have an old question on that...

djsmiley2k

That last one happened to me once, spent a few hours prior wondering why it wouldn't boot trying difference devices etc.

Bob

10:11 AM

There, that's my answer for the month sorted :P

kerbalspacebecky

Derp

djsmiley2k

mornin @kerbalspacebecky and @Bob

Bob

10:27 AM

'lo

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k <sulks> Where is my good morning? ;)

kerbalspacebecky

10:41 AM

@djsmiley2k Morning

deostroll

10:59 AM

@djsmiley2k @JourneymanGeek I followed the blog instructions. That worked. Formatted my usb as fat32 and then performed stuff...however, I still have to run installation and see for myself..

djsmiley2k

11:20 AM

@DavidPostill awwww srry, good mornin!

Bob

11:34 AM

brainwhale lol

Journeyman Geek

that's a fun mission

I think right before they toss you in the deep end

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ...ya... my engineers aregetting massacred :(

I don't like hold-your-ground missions lol

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

Bob

annnnd bombers

Journeyman Geek

11:52 AM

the AA corvettes work a treat against them

about 6 would do

kerbalspacebecky

I see y'all gaming...

Journeyman Geek

Problem is while I focus on that and more engies...

You get hit by a MASSIVE horde of enemies

and your defensive batteries are shit

Bob

12:05 PM

@JourneymanGeek ...yea

I got some 3/4 of the way to completion on the first try

but got completely overwhelmed

how the hell do I stop that many o.O

allquixotic

@Bob a Twitch streamer called Quill was paid by Stardock to stream AotS for a few hours

...he failed mission #2 three times on stream

never actually beat it

Bob

@allquixotic What, the brainwhale one?

...that was pretty easy

The one after it, on the other hand

Journeyman Geek

@Bob The worst part is I'm getting closer and closer to getting it every time

ITS TAUNTING ME

Bob

also, I can't read the loading screen tips cause it loads too fast -_-

first world problems anyone?

I think I need more armories. And more zeuses.

Journeyman Geek

I'm guessing pair of factories close to the slope, pair of factories at the south generator

pump out units

Bob

12:08 PM

And more metal... dammit.

Journeyman Geek

They keep taking out your extractors

then your engineers ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek The brutes just got squashed -_-

@JourneymanGeek ...yea. I think I started dying when the bombers came

Started rebuilding then the next wave came

Journeyman Geek

@Bob the AA guns are shit

the AA corvettes did a better job

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Oh yea, I had those rallying to the south too

whoops

Other mistake: building towers I was already given

Journeyman Geek

the orbital one?

which is totally useless it seems...

Bob

12:10 PM

@JourneymanGeek Nah, quantum generators

Journeyman Geek

ahh

quantum generators are ok, if you could use buffs outside logistics

My forces die too fast for that to be useful

Bob

@JourneymanGeek They aren't even available!

Journeyman Geek

yup!

I could TOTALLY use instant engineers

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I can't even afford them...

Always the first to die

Journeyman Geek

yup

Bob

12:14 PM

Do bombers ever hit south?

I haven't seen any

Journeyman Geek

which is tactically brillianr

nope

jokerdino

what game is this and is it free?

Journeyman Geek

Ashes of the Singularity and no.

jokerdino

890 rupees. O_O

Journeyman Geek

Its a brand new marquee AAAA game ._.

jokerdino

12:16 PM

Gotta buy gaming gear first. No graphic card here.

Journeyman Geek

lol

>_>

jokerdino

Maybe I will be able to buy something out of my pocket.

That day is not long away.

Bob

@kerbalspacebecky T-Mobile S7:

That's APC8

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino heh, I kinda know how that feels

Bob

I assume they're the same changes we got.

Journeyman Geek

12:19 PM

Well that or having to save like over a year for a new box ;)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek If any one of us bought the 4-pack... :P

So much for planning ahead.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob considered it, wasn't listed ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I forgot to ask you -_-

When I bought it

Journeyman Geek

Yup

And I was totally

"Should I buy this?" "Aww f. I haven't spent anything since jan. the hell with it"

Actually

I ended jan with a 50 dollar note in my wallet

I then found 23 dollars in a supreme commander tin ;p

and this really feels a lot like it

;p

Now if the universe could point me at the perfect job.... ;p

Bob

lol

Bob

12:59 PM

...dammnit

kerbalspacebecky

@Bob Interesting

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I was maybe 15 seconds from winning :(

3 bars left on the turinium

kerbalspacebecky

Wonder if it fixes the "Camera failed" bug

Journeyman Geek

ow

Bob

From one mistake

...I neglected air defences down south

Did not expect that massive bomber swarm

More accurately, my token air defence was accidentally grouped with the west force :(

@JourneymanGeek I finally realised there's massive metal deposits west and north :P

Journeyman Geek

1:01 PM

ahh

oh?

Bob

North is easy. West kept getting traded back and forth but gave me some breathing room

@JourneymanGeek I was basically watching my base slowly fall apart and the bar slowly approach the end :P

The two repair centres next to the nexus kept it alive a really long time

@JourneymanGeek Did you end up finishing that one?

Journeyman Geek

nope

Bob

o.O

I'm hoping I can get it next try :P

kerbalspacebecky

Hmm.

Wonder if I can make the SGS7 do Cat 10 LTE

The SoC is advertised as capable of Cat 12+13 support, but the phone is only advertised as Cat 9. On the other hand the advanced menus have an option for Cat 10 and Rel 11 support, both of which are disabled out of the box

> 4K video capture and playback / Up to 1080p 320fps / H.265(HEVC) support

o_0

dbo.dave

1:17 PM

good morning..

kerbalspacebecky

!!shoedave dbo.dave

ChatBot John Cavil

guitars @dbo.dave around a bit with @Dave's shoe!

kerbalspacebecky

\o/

dbo.dave

~\o/~, halp im drowning in shoes

DavidPostill

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Q: Keys all switched on keyboard

My friend/enemy switched the keys on my keyboard as an April fool's joke. When I press Y, Z appears on the screen. Some keys work like b, x, g, i, d, and a few more. Also, when I press ctrl, it returns Enter. Even the function keys are switched!! I called a technician and even he wasn't able to...