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allquixotic

15:02

@Bob please don't

Journeyman Geek

@Bob run OS/2 instead

hide

Bob

@allquixotic I actually need an instance of Windows -_-

except scaleway/online.net has too high latency

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Bob local windows instance?

allquixotic

@Bob for long-term or do you just need one? I can give you access to mine

oh. latency

mine's in Canada

Bob

@allquixotic nah, long-ish term... game hosting :P

allquixotic

15:07

game servers and an E5-1620v2 are !!no

well, maybe some games

but most game servers hog CPU like there's no tomorrow

Bob

@allquixotic Terraria with 2 players is fairly light... I was considering running it on that Atom :P

allquixotic

o_O does Terraria require Windows?

Starbound has a Linux native server

bertieb

@allquixotic IIRC Terraria has a Linux server now; would need to check

Pretty sure I had it running on a Linux box previously; but then it might've been Wine'd

Bob

@allquixotic ... good point. No, it doesn't.

But I was going to run tshock and the last tshock build died on mono

It used to work

maybe they've fixed it in the year since

the official server used to be officially for windows but worked on mono

bertieb

I was going to chime in there, but realised my experience of Tshock is also >1 year old...

Bob

15:14

tshock for custom mods :P

bertieb

Post (Linux guide) on TShock forums from Aug 16 seems to imply it's worked more recently than I've tried

Bob

Speaking of terraria, farming pirate invasions right now :P

damn discount cards and coin guns never drop

bertieb

I guess it's a 'suck it and see' situation

> pirate invasions

I guess it's been a while since I played...

Ah, hardmode too

Bob

@bertieb expert mode too :P

moon lord's next

bertieb

> expert mode

Also a new one to me :P

Wait, can't be

> June 2015

I need to play the game again to figure out what's going on :P

Bob

15:22

lol

@bertieb join us sometime!

@bertieb basically everything's deadlier and harder to kiill, but you get special drops and higher drop chances

allquixotic

@Bob don't tempt me; I've already got my hands full with games. and Terraria is one that'd probably run fine on my Macbook, so I could play at work >_>

bertieb

@Bob Will keep that in mind, thanks :)

Just started HoI4 though, which is one heck of a time swamp...

Fascist Bulgaria is kind of fun to play

allquixotic

@bertieb HoI 4 is awesome!

bertieb

Until the Soviet Union goes "hey, nice countries you've annexed there, shame if something were to happen to them..."

@allquixotic Agreed! First playthrough is a bit daunting

But even still, Greece and Yugoslavia didn't stand a chance :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

I'm kinda doing another run of watchdogs 2

allquixotic

15:26

first game as Germany, AI playing historically accurate, yet I managed to form the Berlin-Moscow Axis with the Soviet Union a key part of the Axis, plus Italy and Japan fell into line, so I could focus on the western front while the Soviet Union helped me a lot in central Europe

Journeyman Geek

oddly cause there's a secret in there that has me somewhat confused

bertieb

(It's weird loading up other countries for comparison- bit of a "they actually have have tech and factories??" moment)

@allquixotic Ooh; Soviet-included Axis sounds pretty deadly

allquixotic

plowed through western Europe, conquered France and the UK, Nationalist Spain won and joined the Axis, then conquered northern Europe (Sweden, Denmark and Finland), then went for Greenland, then Canada to establish a north american foothold, then invaded the US East Coast, nuked DC and New York, and the US surrendered and WW2 ended

Bob

@allquixotic which reminds me I said I was going to play it -_-

bertieb

@allquixotic Nice! How did you get the Soviets into the Axis though?!

allquixotic

15:28

@bertieb I went for the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact early game, and improved relations with them, traded with them and got them to agree to join faction before they could establish the Comintern faction

bertieb

@allquixotic Ahh. In the Bulgarian game I have they just laughed at M-R Pact and have stomped across Germany

allquixotic

Italy and Japan just kinda naturally love Germany, so you don't have to put in any work to get them to join the Axis

bertieb

Aye

allquixotic

hey I got fascist Legionary Bulgaria to join the Axis too, though they weren't terribly helpful in my central European war against Allied powers in the area

bertieb

(Oh jings, I am jonesing to play now...)

@allquixotic I can totally believe AI Bulgaria being kinda crap

allquixotic

15:30

France put up a surprisingly hard fight when trying to take them

bertieb

As that's how they start :P

allquixotic

UK was pretty atrociously hard early game too, they invaded Germany's north coast from the English channel and started taking core territories before I drove them back

bertieb

Heh; having come from other PDX games, when I saw France's modifier I went "20% defence??"

Hard to recalibrate from BBB expectations

allquixotic

but once I had taken France, it was easy to then conquer the UK after getting advanced battleships to take the English Channel

bertieb

@allquixotic RN is a serious pain

Well, if all you have is 4 subs

They kind of just laugh and say "Here's a ~~nickel~~ farthing kid, go buy yourself a real navy"

allquixotic

15:33

the only navy that actually rivaled mine in late-WWII in my game was the US Navy, which built historically realistic aircraft carriers; I went with Hitler-preference-accurate big scary battleships, but upgraded them with extra engines to chase down the fast carriers

imagine having WW2 end with much faster Tirpitz and Bismarck-class super ships chasing down aircraft carriers and successfully evading air attacks, then shelling the USS Enterprise

bertieb

@allquixotic Scary :P

allquixotic

the British navy turned out to be a poor match (in this game's navy mechanics) for advanced battleships, because it was mostly cruisers and destroyers

one battleship can take out a hilarious number of smaller surface ships

bertieb

That's useful to know; BG could probably scrape together one battleship in a year or two...

Journeyman Geek

does bulgaria have a coast?

allquixotic

destroyers' shells practically bounce off a battleship; cruisers' shells do like 0.2-0.5% damage each; heavy cruisers' shells give them pause (especially if it's a crit) and do 1-5% damage; and battlecruisers are formidable enemies that can team up and take down a BB; but the Royal Navy was mostly cruisers and smaller, with few heavies and BBs

bertieb

15:37

@JourneymanGeek Aye; Black Sea (+ Med and Adriatic once Greece and Yugoslavia are out the way ;P)

allquixotic

my second game (after reducing the USA into the fascist "Free American Empire" which controls Alaska and some islands in the Pacific) started with the tiny country of El Salvador

so far I think I've conquered 75% of South America, nearly all of Central America, and formed a faction with Venezuela to round out my presence in South America

bertieb

I like where this is going... (heh, yup)

allquixotic

the factions are weird in that game o_O

it's the "Comintern" faction (USSR and countries near it formed a small faction), versus the Axis (Germany, Italy and Japan) versus the Allies (UK, USA, Greece, France)

versus The Cartel, my faction :D

I'm at peace with the Axis but have no formal alliance or ties with them; at war with the Allies; and the Comintern is at war with the Axis and Allies

bertieb

Strange indeed

allquixotic

it's funny because the USA guaranteed the independence of most countries in South America, but when I declared war on those countries, the USA didn't declare war on me, for the longest time

kept provoking them, taking Mexico, and so many little piddly countries, and the USA remained a peaceful trading partner

El Sal became the expansionist Germany-like civilization from the south, while Germany itself, played by the AI, went the expansionist route themselves

bertieb

15:41

@allquixotic Did you have ongoing wars when declaring?

allquixotic

@bertieb usually, but I started all the wars in the early game, long before Germany was ready to annex Poland

Germany was probably like "whoa, that tiny country is mad"

so now they provide most of my steel

bertieb

@allquixotic Just wondered as AIUI that can mess with independence guarantees

allquixotic

I also had several years of peace with USA while conquering Mexico when the UK and other Allies were my enemy, but USA didn't want to join in the war

I think USA didn't formally join the Allies faction til like 1943

and it was because of Germany, not me

bertieb

Heh

a coder

how do I merge multiple pages into 1 excel for printing?

allquixotic

15:47

@bertieb also, the Sabaton sound track is amazing

@acoder Need you to explain in more detail what you have, and what you're trying to do. Also, your terminology is a little weird. By "pages" do you mean worksheets (also sometimes called "tabs") within one Excel workbook? Or do you have multiple workbooks (multiple .xls / xlsx files)?

bertieb

@allquixotic DLC? Might check it out as the soundtrack seems underwhelming as compared to EUIV

allquixotic

Also, do you want to have everything print on one sheet of paper (it'll be suuuuper tiny font), or just be able to print multiple worksheets at once?

@bertieb yep, DLC

bertieb

@allquixotic Cool, will have a look next sale

allquixotic

it's fantastic

if you subscribe to streaming music services you can listen free there

search for Sabaton Hearts of Iron

and Wolfpack

bertieb

'fraid not; poor student etc :)

allquixotic

15:51

meh

youtube? :S

Sabaton - Hearts of Iron (Lyrics English & Deutsch)

►

such a perfect song for HoI IV, especially playing as Germany

then, if Germany wins, watch The Man In the High Castle to see what happens next :P

The man in the high castle - Edelweiss (version 2)

►

music2myear

Lol

allquixotic

16:07

"THE FORCE AWAKENS: A Bad Lip Reading" (Featuring Mark Hamill as Han Solo)

►

bertieb

16:18

Heh :P

djsmiley2k

hmmmmmmmmm

if I know a csv should have X number of columns

I can detect where new lines have been inserted, right?

music2myear

Count the commas

Bob

@allquixotic 5 of the 9 Sabaton mentions in this room happened today :P chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=sabaton&room=118

Ben N

I think a compliant CSV parser should handle newlines for you (if they're quoted)

If you do go the comma-counting route, make sure to not consider commas inside quotes as delimiters

Bob

@BenN He's using PHP, I think.

PHP and ~~competent~~ compliant do not go on the same page, let alone line.

Ben N

16:28

Ah, then "compliant" goes out the window

PowerShell's Import-Csv gets it right

Bob

@BenN Yea, any halfway-decent parser would...

allquixotic

17:11

torrential downpour here

Bob

too much torrenting? :P

no risk of flood I hope

allquixotic

minor risk; both home and work are in elevated areas, water runs downhill

Rahul2001

How the hell does this guy manage being a mod on 7 different sites? stackexchange.com/users/251740/rory-alsop?tab=accounts

Dog

Hi

Rahul2001

@Dog 'lo

allquixotic

17:21

went out to my car and got soaked (WITH an umbrella) and tripped over several new streams that have been created today

I decided to name one of the new streams "Holy Shit My Foot Just Got Soaked"

2

Dog

17:33

@Bob :-o

Nice find, thanks

> Earlier this year AnandTech’s Brian Klug also left the site for a role at Apple with a focus on building mobile processors for the company’s iOS lineup.

The guy's smart, I'll tell you that

allquixotic

> Mensa

he's a deputy chairman, Executive Board member, so many other things

probably types 1000wpm and gets 2 nanoseconds of sleep per year

Dog

@Rahul2001 :-0

I'm too smart for Mensa

@Run5k My network contains zero domains and zero enterprises but still supports a dozen different DMZs

Anyone used LineageOS?

allquixotic

18:13

@Dog nope, I tried to flash an image of it in recovery on my iPhone 7 Plus but it said something about a memory fault

the image was for a Galaxy 7 Plus so maybe that's not compatible with the iPhone 7 Plus, I figured they were the same thing

a coder

18:34

@allquixotic one table is broken into 6 pages, but I want to print all of them as one.

NULL

18:57

I am trying to download a PDF from a site that shows ebooks. Its a flash viewer and I was able to find the ebook in .json form among the GET requests when I reloaded the page. Is there a way to convert this to PDF? I know it is the book because all the words from the book are in this file along with code for where it should be what color, etc.

I didn't see any other XML like file in the GETS that might be used to translate it to another format

Rahul2001

19:18

@NULL Chances are that the file was never PDF to begin with

bwDraco

@allquixotic Actually, I happen to be a Mensa member.

(scored high enough on the WISC-III when I was a young child to join)

@Dog I have.

My Nexus 5X (before it broke) ran LineageOS 14.1.

...and I'm finally making the switch to T-Mobile. My parents will be getting new smartphones as well. I've selected the Moto G5 Plus for both as it seems to be the best phone for under $300.

allquixotic

20:08

@acoder hold Shift, select all the tabs, file->print, shrink to fit on page

allquixotic

20:21

@Bob @JourneymanGeek WOOHOO!!! Sins of a Solar Empire version 1.9 just hit! It's basically the 1.87 preview we saw before, but even better than that O_O

also, to everyone in here, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is 10 USD or your regional equivalent on Steam

> Fixed weapon and bombing data on the Advent Loyalist Titan, both Advent corvettes, the Vasari Rebel Titan, and the Vasari Nanites. Thanks ZombiesRus5.

@Bob Coronata got "weapon" data updated - wonder if it was erroneously OP?

DavidPostill

Swag has been shipped :)

a coder

@allquixotic that won't work, as it's not easily found.

DavidPostill

I thought the email was spam - wasn't expecting a mail from [email protected]

bwDraco

20:39

@allquixotic So, what made you get into strategy games?

I'd really like to spend more time in AotS but my hardware isn't up to snuff.

allquixotic

20:52

@bwDraco my dad buying me the original Command & Conquer for DOS when I was a little kid

"little" -- okay, I was 10

...9 when it came out

Command & Conquer (1995 video game)

Command & Conquer, sometimes known as Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, is a 1995 real-time strategy video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive. Set in an alternate history of modern day, the game tells the story of a world war between two globalized factions: the Global Defense Initiative of the United Nations and a cult-like militant organization called the Brotherhood of Nod, led by the mysterious Kane. The groups compete for control of Tiberium, a mysterious substance that slowly spreads across the world. Westwood first conceived Command & Conquer during the...

bertieb

Ahhh, good old CnC, takes me back

bwDraco

I know what you're referring to. I grew up on role-playing and action-adventure games.

bertieb

TA should have been bigger than it was

Andrew Li

21:32

I have an R9 270X with 3 displays and one isn't working. I have one from HDMI to DVI-I (working) and one from Active DP to HDMI to HDMI (working). The problem is that my third, DVI-D (Apple monitor) refuses to work. It seems only 2 work but 3 are supposed to work on the 270X with at least one active DP adapter. What's going wrong?

allquixotic

21:42

@AndrewLi haven't we already been over this?

> AMD Eyefinity supports a maximum of 2 non-DisplayPort displays (e.g. HDMI, DVI, VGA, DMS-59, VHDCI) (which AMD calls "legacy output") and up to 6 DisplayPort displays simultaneously using a single graphics card or APU. To feed more than two displays, the additional panels must have native DisplayPort support.[3] Alternatively active DisplayPort-to-DVI/HDMI/VGA adapters can be employed.

AMD Eyefinity

AMD Eyefinity is the brand name for AMD products which support multi-monitor setups by integrating multiple (up to six) display controllers on one GPU. AMD Eyefinity was introduced with the Radeon HD 5000 Series "Evergreen" in September 2009 and has been available on APUs and professional-grade graphics cards branded AMD FirePro as well. AMD Eyefinity supports a maximum of 2 non-DisplayPort displays (e.g. HDMI, DVI, VGA, DMS-59, VHDCI) (which AMD calls "legacy output") and up to 6 DisplayPort displays simultaneously using a single graphics card or APU. To feed more than two displays, the additional...

the graphics card doesn't care what plugs/converters you're using on the monitor side; all it cares about is the ports being used on the card itself

out of all the non-DisplayPort sockets on the card, only two monitors can be used with all of them at any given instant

to get more than 2 monitors you have to make all monitors in excess of 2 plug into DisplayPort ports on the graphics card

the DVI-I is "strike one" for the legacy ports; the DP to HDMI is "strike two" for the legacy ports; the third monitor would necessarily have to plug into a DisplayPort port, not DVI-D

unless I interpreted your statements backwards and you're plugging in a monitor that's HDMI on the monitor side and DisplayPort on the graphics card side

Andrew Li

It's backwards; that's why I'm confused

I followed exactly as you said; got a DP (goes into GPU) to HDMI (active) female which connects HDMI male to male into the monitor.

allquixotic

hmm

if you unplug the DP display, does the apple one start working?

Andrew Li

Let me test

Sure does

allquixotic

21:58

2

A: AMD Radeon R9 270X not supporting 3 monitors

You probably are using a passive DP to HDMI adaptor, that is a common issue. Most AMD cards can output to two monitors maximum using the HDMI/DVI (it's the same type of signal) signal. The way a passive adaptor works is it outputs the HDMI/DVI signal but through the DP port and the passive adapto...

there's your answer

Andrew Li

I already checked specifically. It's an active DP to HDMI adapter

allquixotic

amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Plated-DisplayPort-Adapter/dp/…

that's the adapter you need for the Apple display; that will definitely make your Apple display (also) run on the DisplayPort protocol

Andrew Li

That'll be the third adapter I've ordered...

Ugh...

allquixotic

actually, since you have two monitors that have HDMI input, you could get 2x of these:

amazon.com/Cable-Matters-DisplayPort-Supporting-Technology/dp/…

then you would have 3 native displayport signals going into your graphics card; if that doesn't work, your GPU is broken

oh, this might be the obvious, but make sure you're not running an ancient OS that can't handle 3 monitors, and update your drivers

Andrew Li

Windows 10.

Weird how Ubuntu doesn't seem to support 3 natively

allquixotic

22:04

Ubuntu probably defaults to using the open source driver, which might support Eyefinity, but the open source driver is pretty damn buggy

Andrew Li

@allquixotic BTW I got this one: amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01GORJWUG/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Apparently it isn't "active" but the description says it's a converter...

allquixotic

@AndrewLi looks like random Chinese crap with deceptive marketing

Andrew Li

Darn.

allquixotic

if you've never heard of the brand before, or if they don't have a website in English that you can read, don't buy it

Andrew Li

Okay, thanks for the advice. At least they allow for returns.

allquixotic

22:07

I'm pretty sure that just one functional active converter from one of the other protocols into DisplayPort will solve your problem, but if you want to be absolutely safe, actively converting all three monitors' signals into DisplayPort is best

since that only interfaces with the DisplayPort chipset that supports 6 monitors

Cable Matters is a good brand

Andrew Li

I only have one displayport port

Dog

Hey @Bob looks like I'm going to have to come to Australia to test this S4 LTE-A

allquixotic

support.amd.com/en-us/search/faq/11

Andrew Li

I don't want anything like a hub, just want 3 monitors running for work.

Nevermind. All 3 have slightly different resolutions

allquixotic

well just get one of the active cables first, and see if that fixes it

if it doesn't, then you'll have to shell out about $100 for a displayport hub

Andrew Li

22:14

I hope not

allquixotic

my home monitor setup (for what it's worth) is 3 x Dell U2417H monitors, each of them outputting DisplayPort 1.2 MST (Multi-Stream Transport), daisy-chained

meaning I have a cable going from monitor 1 to monitor 2, a cable from monitor 2 to monitor 3, and a cable from monitor 3 to my computer

Andrew Li

Nice

Thanks for the help

allquixotic

all native displayport cables

Journeyman Geek

22:36

@DavidPostill oh, SE outsources that. Some company in MASS

That Brazilian Guy

I bought a wristwatch today for USD 0.65. And it works.

It's on DX.com for USD 1.83

Literally the same clock.

How can they sell a clock here, after shipping and taxes, 3 times cheaper than from China? 0_o

DavidPostill

Yeah, shame the tracking link doesn't work :)
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Journeyman Geek

lol

they probaby bought it in bulk off aliexpress or something

@DavidPostill usually takes a day or two to show up ;)

That Brazilian Guy

> ~~bought it in bulk off aliexpress or something~~ smuggled over the frontier ;)

Journeyman Geek

prolly all of the above

Bob

22:56

@allquixotic or not OP enough :P

Dog

allquixotic

@Bob O_O

@Dog that doesn't quite work

@Bob wanna game at some point in the next 8 hours?

(can sleep then wake up for games maybe)

Dog

@allquixotic I think the cat is defective

Bob

@allquixotic I'll be at work for the next 8 hours :/

That Brazilian Guy

@Dog Attention: cat not waterproof.

Dog

23:01

Ooh you work 11 til 7?

@ThatBrazilianGuy It said IP66 water resistant

allquixotic

Bob

@allquixotic I'll be available in about 13 but then you'll probably be at work :P

timing!

Dog

Timezones ftw/ftl

allquixotic

that's the right way to do it

Dog

This is how I do it

Or get a human to feed you

Accidentally left laptop on in bag for six hours today. Optimus disabled, so dGPU forced on 100% of the time. Still had 30% battery left.

Bob

23:07

@allquixotic when's your next block after the 8hrs?

allquixotic

23:19

@Bob I'm available starting half an hour from now for the next 8ish hours, then not again til around 26 hours from now (which basically starts the weekend) and literally any time after that til next week, sleep be damned

Bob

23:29

@allquixotic Ah. I'll have to see what happens tomorrow but around 28 from now might be doable. Day after is more definite.

@allquixotic Or, ~37 from now (my night, your morning) is another possibility

allquixotic

@Bob either of those work for me

might try out the battlestar galactica mod (again) in singleplayer :P

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