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For all you Super Users out there. You have backups, right?
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nc4pk
Feb 5, 2017 18:22
today's my 5th anniversary here \o/
nc4pk
Feb 8, 2016 04:35
poof
nc4pk
Feb 8, 2016 04:31
superuser.com/questions/1036948/premium-products-for-skincare and another one
nc4pk
Feb 8, 2016 04:19
superuser.com/questions/1036946/… lalalalala don't feed the trolls onebox the spam
nc4pk
Feb 5, 2016 20:26
been here four years \o/
nc4pk
Jan 28, 2016 02:32
slashgear.com/…
nc4pk
Jan 28, 2016 02:32
oh boy Circuit City is coming back
nc4pk
Jan 28, 2016 01:05
it'd be back up as soon as you pinned it anyway @JourneymanGeek
nc4pk
Jan 28, 2016 00:35
I keep getting the unicorn on github, hm
nc4pk
Jan 27, 2016 23:24
"call the helpdesk to report a system outage"
nc4pk
Jan 15, 2016 14:31
and this is why i will never do electrical work on my own house
nc4pk
Jan 15, 2016 14:31
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A: Red wire to green? Old electric wiring circa 1949 to new dimmer

Billy C.Sounds like you've really screwed the pooch now. You cannot make random decisions when doing electrical work. By shorting Line to ground, and doing that repeatedly, you probably caused fire damage to the cabling in your walls between the switches. Now you get to rip down all of the drywall be...

nc4pk
Jan 15, 2016 00:28
you're probably okay, since the superblock is intact
nc4pk
Jan 15, 2016 00:24
it depends on where that 75M's worth of errors are...
nc4pk
Jan 15, 2016 00:22
@CanadianLuke yep (unless you tell it explicitly to run forever)
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 23:37
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896003.aspx
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 23:35
Communications as a Service eyeroll
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 23:00
cable almost as expensive as the NIC lolol
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:36
that would explain it -_-
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:36
at some point i configured it N-only
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:36
!!facepalm
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:34
yet it works with literally everything else I own
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:34
it's possible I've misconfigured something in RouterOS (MikroTik's awesome builtin firmware)
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:32
it was a surplus machine from work so it's possible they upgraded the card
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:31
(Xubuntu 14.04)
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:31
that's not what lshw is reporting back
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:30
it's got a 2915ABG and isn't playing nice with my MikroTik
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:29
trying to get an old HP nc6220 (2004) on my WLAN
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:27
:/ thanks
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 21:24
how old would a wireless card need to be to not support WPA2?
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 17:04
haven't even made a purchase on Google Play?
nc4pk
Jan 14, 2016 00:45
@CanadianLuke yep, ddrescue keeps track of its progress in the logfile so you can stop and restart it at will
nc4pk
Jan 13, 2016 21:58
Sometimes the answer is just no.
nc4pk
Jan 12, 2016 00:00
must be review queue time
nc4pk
Jan 11, 2016 21:53
user image
nc4pk
Jan 11, 2016 18:21
@qasdfdsaq if you're using Chrome, that behavior's been going on for years
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 18:01
@Hennes weird, I recently did an EFI install of Win7 that went smoothly. do you have a multiboot or some other complicating factor?
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:52
going afk, g'night all
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:49
@ChristopherHawker i'm "ncdownpat" (which, fun fact, used to be my username here)
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:48
@ChristopherHawker amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00004Z7Y7/… (you'll never guess which one's me)
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:46
lol the only things up for sale right now are an old KVM switch and a certain kind of Dell SFF power supply
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:45
sold a bunch of old-ish (GameCube/Wii) games and some CDs as well as surplus computer equipment
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:44
@ChristopherHawker pretty much anything I don't use anymore
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:43
@FaheemMitha pretty much. at one point my intent was to sell them (I run an Amazon and an eBay store) but the market for them is really small
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:40
thing takes 30 seconds to spin up and about that long to spin back down
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:39
i think they were pulled from old Sun equipment actually
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:39
shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/Sun4/…
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:39
yup
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:38
they're full height (would take up 2 CD drive bays in a regular PC)
nc4pk
Jan 10, 2016 05:36
yep, no bad sectors or anything