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12:13 AM

Argh, the "focused inbox" thing has been brought to OWA, so now I have to check two sub-tabs when I'm looking for an e-mail, because it appears to be a complete dice roll which tab a message goes in -_-

12:33 AM

@BenN ...you could turn it off

user image

Oh, awesome. Thanks!

It just turned on today for some reason

8

A: File.exists() returns false when file exists

The above answers didn't help out in my case. As stated above, I had: file.exists() => false file.getAbsoluteFile().exists => true The root cause for this was that the Windows 7 machine owner had modified the registry for CMD so that it would autorun a command to launch in a specific directory...

> Java 1.6 code which apparently uses CMD on Windows for certain file operations, such as exists()

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????

That's like PHP levels of WTF-ness

Journeyman Geek

12:59 AM

yeah, looks like I'll be rebuilding the seedbox.

Journeyman Geek

1:15 AM

ugh.

rebooted to windows. Ran backups (Macrium).... got stuck in shutdown.

this is messing with my flow.

1:31 AM

O_O

23

Q: Windows serial console

How do I enable a serial console on Windows (2008 and/or 2012) such that I can log into it like the Good Old Days of Real Servers and issue provisioning commands, ideally via PowerShell? $ cu -l /dev/ttyS0 Connected. Welcome to ad1.adlab.brazzers.com Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyri...

windows serial video-streaming

cc @allquixotic ^ on your KVM/Windows install

Hey, isn't that nice to see:

user image

Journeyman Geek

lol

> Welcome to ad1.adlab.brazzers.com

O_O @JourneymanGeek community.online.net/t/…

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0_0

Windows Server running @ ~ 3 EUR/month (excl. licensing) on a decently-powerful machine

Native boot too (so, one layer of kvm)

Journeyman Geek

1:43 AM

facedesk

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Run5k I'll see if I can't fix that for you. ;P

Journeyman Geek

lol

says 82 for me ;) 52 close, 1 1 1 1 ....

I decided to tar up /home. forgot I had a big drive mounted in that hierachy.

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek Patience is a virtue

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver 32gb boot disk. 320 gig storage disk.

Stuff on the storage disk, I can live without actually. All backed up

Gypsy Spellweaver

\o/ I show only 81 more image fixes left. Not counting what to do with all the no-image found posts.

Journeyman Geek

1:49 AM

and its not even TCW yet ;)

@Dog Very nice! What type of network hardware are you running on your network?

@JourneymanGeek ?

Journeyman Geek

5 mins ago, by Journeyman Geek

I decided to tar up /home. forgot I had a big drive mounted in that hierachy.

hm. online.net uses discourse

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek There were a few tag wiki in the mix, not sure why. but they're addressed as found. The 66 that don't have images and not simple corrections to remove, are the interesting ones. Plus a few locked posts.

Journeyman Geek

1:52 AM

ah

lol. I'll give them a look once the current set up stuff I need to do on my own boxen is done ;)

Gypsy Spellweaver

Can't speak for other workers, but where I could "fix" the post without the image, I have. Some of the time it was in subjects I'm not qualified to deal with, so not sure what to do with them, just marked them in the list, without changing the links in case they end up meaning anything to someone else.

Does Super User do home networking questions?

Yes

The on-topic page includes "personal and home computer networking" in the list of good topics

Awesome! Thanks.

2:29 AM

hmmmmmm

@bertieb I should've just looked at OVH for backups -_-

$0.002/GB/month storage, $0.001/GB up/down

And it's got native rsync support!

theverge.com/2017/4/6/15209220/…

(not affected, 12k views on my account; my account is a Partner account but monetization is currently disabled)

@Bob is that cheaper than S3?

@allquixotic much cheaper

It's cheaper than Glacier too

I was considering Backblaze B2, but it's annoying to access and doesn't really jive with Linux permissions etc

Oh wait it was $0.01/GB up/down

still cheaper :P

Well, we have switched to T-Mobile. All lines have been ported. My parents finally got their first smartphones \o/

I am still waiting for my OnePlus 3T to arrive. In the interim, I've been issued a SIM and service has already been activated.

2:45 AM

@bwDraco That's always an exciting time..

It will take a while to set up.

Journeyman Geek

@Seth absafragginglutely.

We're transferring contacts. One of the two old phones can only send contacts one at a time :\

The other one, I was able to beam the entire list of contacts, nearly 400 of them, in one shot.

Importing the vCard files didn't take much longer (the Android Contacts app can import them all at once).

> Deployment of the nuclear shelter site is underway, and it will be production-ready starting Q2 2017.

Because in the event of Global Thermonuclear War I really need my data, eh?

Journeyman Geek

3:13 AM

hmm. Full disk image, tarballed /home/

specific copies of my torrent rss feeds and downloader rules

I don't think i forgot anything for the home server rebuild ;p

3:43 AM

@JourneymanGeek iptables-save?

04: None 03.0: 10103 CPU
  [Created at cpu.272]
  Unique ID: 4zLr.j8NaKXDZtZ6
  Hardware Class: cpu
  Arch: ARM
  Vendor: "Marvell Semiconductor Inc."
  Model: 2.2.0 ""
  Platform: "Marvell Armada 370/XP (Device Tree)"
  Features: half
  BogoMips: 50.00
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

Journeyman Geek

@Bob firewalld actually and that bit's ok

sysbench single core prime 10000 on EC3 m3.medium is 22.8s

Journeyman Geek

I'm planning on doing some pretty fundamental changes to this build

same test on Scaleway VC1S is 18s

Journeyman Geek

so my firewall rules are obsolete

3:46 AM

same test on C1 is ... still running

o.O

Ooh maybe the galaxy note 8 will be good

Those ARM cores are slow

Journeyman Geek

@Dog and not catch fire?

also the m3.medium reports E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50 GHz

obviously it's been throttled

considering it's a good 20% slower than the Avoton

@JourneymanGeek and that

Frankly I find the backside Fingerprint sensor on the S8 a bigger concern than 0.03% of devices catching fire.

The Fingerprint sensor is a deal breaker for me.

3:47 AM

> Search Results
These are defined in terms of ECUs (EC2 Compute Unit) where 1 ECU is the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor.

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

I suspect a single core of my phone is faster than that...

Ok, the ARMv7 on the C1 took 258.5s for that sysbench run @_@

between the 4-core ARM "baremetal VPS" and the 2-core Atom, I'll take the Atom.

@Bob you sure it's throttled and not just shared?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob baremetal and vps.... don't quite belong together

@Bob we will need a library of cat pictures in order to rebuild society.

Journeyman Geek

@Dog But but. The apocalypse is cat pictures.

@Bob s/vps/cloud/

3:57 AM

@Dog flub

64s on 4 cores multithread

compare 9s on the Atom multithread

yea uh

those ARM servers are a horrible joke

reminds me of that forum post where someone was trying to get Windows Server on it ... via qemu

software virt x86 on ARM? not even a decent ARM proc?

@Dog I think so... IRC Amazon assigns ECUs based on instance type

and I don't think m3 is one of their 'burstable' ones

4:15 AM

@JourneymanGeek the server you're rebuilding is local, yea?

probably should just dd an image just in case? :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob yup

tbh, it has nothing much of interest

just a torrent client and in theory KVM

ah

I'm kinda bored and I have disposable servers handy so I kinda feel like testing out destructive things :P

btw, @Dog, did you ever fix the chmod thing?

any suggestions? I already did the whole live-pivot_root-wipe

For context on the earlier phone discussion:

9 hours ago, by bwDraco

...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.

rm -rf / got old years ago

The phones have been set up on a basic level. Contacts transferred, Google accounts set.

Journeyman Geek

4:18 AM

are we? ;p

hides

maybe I should debootstrap into RAM again and just leave the server running?

lol

(just some background info)

ooh, ooh, I can boot into RAM and do the Windows install from there!

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

@DOG "S BACK @DOG "S BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

@JourneymanGeek KVM's the scary part

I can never remember how exactly things are set up

Journeyman Geek

4:19 AM

lol

I have some idea

the tricky thing is 'proper' bridged networking

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

no...... you can boot into VRAM and do the windows install from there

Journeyman Geek

which is what I want to (re) document

like, "I'm sure I've googled/fixed this before"

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

aka the hard drive

Journeyman Geek

also, test doing a full backup/restore with veeam

4:20 AM

@JourneymanGeek figuring out which kernel params were required forthat is fun

thing is, I feel networking in general and especialy bridged networking are rather poorly documented

like, I can follow random blogs

but I don't like that

Journeyman Geek

oh, its not kernel parameters

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

@bwDraco oo MOTO . are you getting the projector attachment?

I want to understand which options do what and why they're neccessary

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere There's no Moto Mods support on the Moto G series.

Journeyman Geek

the problem here is fedora does network manager for everything

the good thing is I can probably script the whole thing

4:21 AM

It's an entry-level model, selected for best value-for-money.

but there's really not enough official docs to figure it out :S

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

poor phone. it wont be able to project its voice

Journeyman Geek

the bad thing is it does it differently from everyone

motorola.com/us/products/moto-g-plus

also the debian jessie kernel (and everything else) were so weird

wheezy was fine

stretch is alright

jessie just... doesn't work half the time

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

4:22 AM

@Bob is that legit? do you have a reference? if so I need to tell my friend who uses amazon extensively for everything

Journeyman Geek

did I mention this runs off a ~~goaway~~ gloway 32gb msata drive? ;p

probably cause it's the first systemd release

@JourneymanGeek glowat

Journeyman Geek

@Bob vaguely dodgy chinese SSD

I have benchmarks somewhere

but its good enough since I hardly write to it.

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere ...it's on the amazon faqs. and a t2.micro bursts up to like 2 ECUs o it's a really low baseline. I seem to rememebr a table at some point but it's been removed...

but a m3.medium is probably at least 4 ECUs on its single core

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere As for me... I have a OnePlus 3T due to arrive tomorrow.

4:24 AM

huh. m3.medium is 3 ECUs

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

oh cool. Im more into phones with physical keyboards though

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Your only choice at this point is probably BlackBerry.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

it is indeed. did you see the new phone they came out with? :D

O_O wtf is lightsail

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere I'm aware but haven't really looked into the BlackBerry KEYone

It's getting late here, so I can't stay much longer.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

4:28 AM

leap? whats that one of their older phones?

yeah it's 12am

yes that is correct

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Corrected.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

so apparantly blackberry said they plan on releasing another phone running on their blackberry OS their custom unix thing instead of android

I wonder if it's going to use android apps though, since blackberry apps are out of market

or would they re-push their own sdk o.o

From the time I've spent on my parent's phones, I've been pleasantly surprised by the level of performance they deliver. You're getting fantastic specs for $230, what more can you ask for?

(this is the 32 GB version, which has 2 GB of RAM; the $300 64 GB version has 4 GB of RAM)

Battery life looks like it's excellent, too.

Construction is fantastic, with a combination of plastic and aluminum that gives the phone a premium feel without driving up the cost.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

oh nice

1920x1080 display means very crisp text and graphics—it used to be that you'd get 1280x720 or even 480x272 (which is absolute crap by today's standards) at this price point.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

4:43 AM

my phone's fallen a couple times and nothing ever happened, but I did accidently have a rock in my shorts once O.o and that caused a scratch on the screen

unfortuantely the KEYone isnt using the latest gorilla glass

it's using an old version released 2 years ago

lol

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

well the previous from most recent

hope their next phone has something better

Many phones still ship with Gorilla Glass 3. Most less expensive phones these days use it.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

the camera specs are much improved though

(that includes the Moto G5 Plus)

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

4:45 AM

I dont remember which version the keyone has, just that it's one version behind the most recent. is that 3?

Yup.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

I hope the keyone has instant photo capture, my current phone takes 2.5 seconds to snap a photo. sucks when you're trying to get a quick one of something

Well, not quite 480x272, but more like 640x360.

(the former is the PSP's resolution)

Correction: 1920x1080 display means very crisp text and graphics—it used to be that you'd get 1280x720 or even 640x360 (which is absolute crap by today's standards) at this price point.

(too bad the bot isn't running)

Curious about my phone?

OnePlus 3T – A day’s power in half an hour

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

5:01 AM

too sleepy to be curious hehe

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

5:31 AM

@SamIbraheem Hey Sam, I'd just like to ask if you're safe following the trouble in Syria

5:49 AM

Surprise from NVIDIA: New TITAN Xp card announced, this time with a fully enabled GP102 (3840 CUDA cores in 30 of 30 SMs for 12.15 TFLOPS)

(the previous TITAN X and GTX 1080 Ti have 28 of 30 SMs enabled)

Apparently, Tom's Hardware and AnandTech know nothing about this, which left me very skeptical as to whether this is a real product.

But, incremental performance bump for $500 over GTX 1080 Ti? I honestly don't get the point of this card.

I'm still rather skeptical at this point.

@bwDraco Well, it's real insofar as there's an official manufacturer announcement. How much of a practical improvement there is, etc., remains to be seen.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Bob Soooo cynical ;p

@bwDraco for people who want a bigger epeen

6:11 AM

@bwDraco for the ones who want the best and don't care about money.

(see bigger epeen)

Journeyman Geek

;)

6:38 AM

Comedians have figured out the trick to covering Trump

7:06 AM

0

Q: bug amused me please tell Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky to go for it

You know. I just found a bug on superuser.com https://i.stack.imgur.com/kecPx.png It says I have 24 reps on stackoverflow but I have 39!!!!! WTF! https://i.stack.imgur.com/0RRjK.png Please tell Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky to make those commented out parts of code back to life :P

discussion feature-request bug

o_O

7:24 AM

uhhhh

Journeyman Geek

Caching? ;p

@JourneymanGeek shouldiblamecaching.com

8:08 AM

@Bob Highlighting the font on that page shows some curious tracing. IDK, never noticed that before

@Bob lol. No. Replaced the server instead.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I got kimchi set up on fedora

fairly painless, though the instructions are a bit crap

the graphical consoles seem borked

Journeyman Geek

8:36 AM

actually, stopped working after rebooting the system

ugh

ghu

Journeyman Geek

can't really be bothered at the moment with it ;p

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Dog or @Bob Do you have any experience with Fiddler from Telerik?

Not sure if work is blocking some images from SU website but would some one be kind enough to confirm if the images I've added to my post are working? superuser.com/questions/1196332/…

Journeyman Geek

all good from here

8:48 AM

Thank you @JourneymanGeek

@Dave Yep, works fine here

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Dave What they said.

Ha, thank you all :)

Actually, the images in here are also now working..

but not on the main site :S bloody work and the IT team

Journeyman Geek

hm

different hosts?

Most of the images on chat are gravatars

No, in chat it's OK. It's on the main site

Journeyman Geek

8:54 AM

the main site images are the stack imgur server

Gypsy Spellweaver

user image

See that?

yes, only some of those work for me...

yup @GypsySpellweaver

it's a vase... no a face... argh

user image

@Dave It's a curly brace

ha ha ha

a pointy side of the violin?

A beach

8:55 AM

Well, they say a picture tells a thousand stories

@Dave Hmm, it persists after cache refresh?

Gypsy Spellweaver

Maybe it is the icon for Fiddler from Telerix?

Yes. It's been like this since I've been at this company. The CSS always fails at times, meaning I can't do anything. The login section is always failing hence I can't log out from this browser

but once every few weeks, I think they do something with the firewall, at which point I can log other browsers onto it

The firewall also blocks loads of certs as well, so I can't download NodeJS or similar.. it's a pain

I must admit, I don't really understand the IT world, it's very complicated

2

Journeyman Geek

0_0

9:20 AM

@GypsySpellweaver Yep. Why?

Gypsy Spellweaver

user image

Is this there logo?

o.o

I don't think so?

It looks vaguely familiar but I don't associate it with Fiddler

Gypsy Spellweaver

Ok, best I could think I found on their website. The other one looks to be the Telerix logo

it's a mouth puffing smoke.

telerik.

Gypsy Spellweaver

@satibel oops, yes

9:24 AM

asterix, telerix

@GypsySpellweaver apparently it is

Gypsy Spellweaver

Well, that's the last thing to fix on the image fix list.

the new logo is just an F.

Gypsy Spellweaver

the White "F" inside a 45 degree green square?

yea I think that might've been post-Progress

9:27 AM

user image

this^

Gypsy Spellweaver

Which ever it is now, the tag wiki for Fiddler has a dead HTTP link to the icon. Fix that, and the HTTPS image fix list will have been 100% processed. Plenty of in-depth work left, but all the images are done.

@GypsySpellweaver Hehe. And we haven't even started the cleanup weekend. Thanks for all your hard work.

Gypsy Spellweaver

@DavidPostill Oh, there's about 70 that will need evaluation. Some will be nuked, others rewritten to accommodate no images available. But, you're welcome

@GypsySpellweaver How are they marked in the spreadsheet?

Gypsy Spellweaver

@DavidPostill @JourneymanGeek Here's a question about the current community standards. Are hardware trouble shooting questions, especially one-offs, worth keeping,

9:36 AM

@GypsySpellweaver Example link?

Gypsy Spellweaver

@DavidPostill Variations of "Image no longer available" and "User screenshoot no longer available".

@DavidPostill You would ask ;P

0

Q: Windows 8 Laptop cannot connect to certain wireless networks

My girlfriend has a Samsung 300E (NP300E5C-S06DE) Notebook running Windows 8. It has a Sandy Bridge i5 and probably some mainstream wireless card. It can connect to my Android Hotspot (WPA2 PSK). It was able to connect to the Wireless networks at both out parents (some WPA as well). However, it ...

windows-8 wireless-networking

@GypsySpellweaver Maybe worth keeping. Remove the image link and reword the previous para from "When connecting, it freezes at this stage:" to "When connecting, it freezes."

Gypsy Spellweaver

@DavidPostill But, what is "this stage"?

Presumably different "stages" mean different problems?
And update to Win 8.1 was the "resolution"

Journeyman Geek

The answer dosen't feel generally useful to me. I'd be inclined to close :p

And no mention of what the wireless card is too

@GypsySpellweaver @JourneymanGeek Yeah. Lets close (too broad?). It's over 60 days old so the answerer won't lose any rep, correct?

Gypsy Spellweaver

9:45 AM

@JourneymanGeek "probably some mainstream wireless card"

Journeyman Geek

He will but he's free to return and fix it up

@DavidPostill I think it's a +3 to keep the reputation

@JourneymanGeek So it is. Hmm.

cough

Journeyman Geek

With an upvote tho, any deletion would be manual I think

It won't get roombad (sp) though.

Closed as too broad.

@djsmiley2k I saw what you did there :)

Journeyman Geek

9:52 AM

Yup. So, were I at my desk, I'd be inclined to hit it with an unclear what you are asking closevote

@JourneymanGeek To me "How can I diagnose it?" is too broad :)

Gypsy Spellweaver

@DavidPostill Or too localized

Is that even a close reason on SU?

@GypsySpellweaver No

Journeyman Geek

Used to be, very long time ago

Gypsy Spellweaver

@DavidPostill Then I guess too broad will have to cover it then.

9:59 AM

DavidPostill has added an event to this room's schedule‌.

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Feeds Ok, what's that mean, and what do I do about it? I'm still new here you know.

5

Q: Logistics for Cleanup Weekend 2

We are having another cleanup weekend. This time we will focus on: fixing the rest of the broken images (most of this work has been completed) cleaning up some more tags The cleanup will last for 48 hours and will be running from 2017-04-08 00:00:00 to 2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC. To see that co...

discussion featured cleanup-weekend

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver you'll get a reminder and there will be a banner on the site

@JourneymanGeek How can I put a link in the reminder/banner?

Journeyman Geek

Errrr. I don't remember...

Lol. It's been a while

Gypsy Spellweaver

10:03 AM

@DavidPostill That's what I was looking for in the event link. All I found was adding to ical, which I don't use/have.

anandtech.com/show/11253/…

sigh

ammonium chloride is so cheap on amazon

but basically unavailable here

roar

cause terrorists apparently

@GypsySpellweaver Apparently it's still a feature request

Logistics for Cleanup Weekend 2

4

Gypsy Spellweaver

10:09 AM

Probably won't make it. Too many folks think "local" meaning "home town" rather than "unique" and not helpful to future visitors.

1st!

@djsmiley2k :)

Gypsy Spellweaver

When I added the user screenshot comment, it was because the missing image was a screenshot, and somehow defined the problem/question. And usually I couldn't figure out what the real problem was.

Image no longer available was for something the OP found elsewhere, that was now gone, that is probably less critical to the post.

How other editors used either term, I couldn't say.

@GypsySpellweaver Can you please add that as a comment to meta.superuser.com/questions/12295/…?

Gypsy Spellweaver

10:26 AM

@DavidPostill I believe it's going to have to be an answer. Too long for a comment.

@GypsySpellweaver Add as several comments?

Gypsy Spellweaver

@DavidPostill Can.

@DavidPostill Well, maybe that will help. Chopped it down for one comment. What to do with the posts under each list is another matter. :)

Ylvis - Stonehenge [Official music video HD] [Explicit lyrics]

Gypsy Spellweaver

Now; what's does "Registering for the event" mean?

@GypsySpellweaver No idea. It's my first time creating an event. I guess it will send you a reminder?

10:36 AM

well I'm not working this weekend, I'll try and help when i have free timez

Gypsy Spellweaver

@DavidPostill Like I need one. Been doing this for 23 days already. What's another 12.5 hours.

Shucks, that's longer than you've had your bling. ;P

1859

Q: Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?

I've inherited an old PC from my girlfriend's dad and when setting up the printer I got a bit of a surprise: Two questions spring to mind here: Why does Windows think my wireless keyboard is a toaster? Why does Windows even have an icon for a toaster in the devices menu?

windows-7 device-manager

My parting chot! ;P

11:06 AM

just reading the question and I'm laughing

jokes abound about installing gentoo on a toaster..

user226528

LOL.

user image

3

user226528

Now that's something worth adding a star to

my eyes

K, need to break 2k already

/me is slowly slowing down

1 hour later…

That Brazilian Guy

12:37 PM

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Journeyman Geek

→ 2 messages moved to Trash

;p

lol

Journeyman Geek

lol

totally should have done that earlier in the week

in C# on Stack Overflow Chat, 3 mins ago, by satibel

→ 2 messages moved to Trash

@allquixotic so 12h from now is probably a no, 14-15 is a very big maybe, 24 is a yes :P

12:49 PM

works well :p

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