@Arantor
Don't buy a “Welcome” mat. It counts as an invitation to vampires, allowing them to bypass the usual restriction against entering a home.
Best posts made by SirTwist
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RE: WTF Bites
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RE: Windows 10 is crap once again
I happen to have a USB microscope.
Here's an LCD (HP LA2405WG). The "grainyness" is due to the anti-glare surface.
This one is a Galaxy Note 8 ("Super AMOLED")
It's 4:30 in the morning, so both are on night mode, so increased red.
Same magnification, allegedly 250x.
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RE: Lime scooters
We don't have scooters here but we have bikes. Though, despite the news article announcing it, there isn't actually anywhere in town you're supposed to park one (Unserviced Area: This area is unserviced by Lime. Please do not leave your vehicle here.)
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RE: The curious case of the time-travelling SQLite CLI
@Zecc Is the file located somewhere subject to the VirtualStore? That means in the program directory if installed in either Program Files, or or somewhere under system32.
The service will be reading the real db, since it's probably running under one of the common service accounts, but the shell is 32-bit and therefore subject to virtualization. Try elevating sqlite3.exe.
Check for stuff in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra At least it doesn't silently truncate it and then use the full entry when you try to log in.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@Arantor Except then the EU will mandate a filesystem driver ballot and require them to bundle the GPL driver and Paragon's driver and let the user choose which one they want to use.
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RE: Useful error messages.
5 indeed.
Windows error numbers. 5 is Access Denied and 8 is Not Enough Memory. If you're saving to a USB flash drive, maybe it's dieing.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zerosquare Shit, I'm old enough to remember when MSDN came in the mail in a box of CDs.
I still have the last CD & DVD set in a pair of binders in my desk at work.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@dangeruss said in I hate printers, with a passion:
you're likely to upgrade to a version of windows that doesn't have a compatible driver anymore before you need another toner.
That’s why you spend just a bit more and buy one that supports PS (or something compatible like Brother’s BR script). Then you can just switch to generic PS printing if you can’t get drivers anymore.
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RE: The importance of thinking with acronyms
Besides, CCCP is already the Combined Community Codec Pack. And yes, they play up the similarity to СССР.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Bulb They saved a buck or two using cheap WiFi chips that can't simultaneously run client and AP mode.
Or that's just Tizen for you.
Both equally likely.
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RE: WTF Bites
Was debugging some DNS issues with our Panama office. We have a site-to-site VPN set up between the offices on our SonicWall firewalls. We're slowly impementing a new domain in the US office, let's call it usa.local. I put a forwarder in the Panama DC for usa.local, and the guy in Panama just can't seem to log in. Find out their ISP DNS has a wildcard so that *.local resolves to... 127.0.0.1. WTeverlovinF?
So can I use Google DNS without causing Panama problems, and if not, does anyone know anything I can use in Panama?
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RE: The curious case of the time-travelling SQLite CLI
@Mason_Wheeler Thanks, I recognized it right away because I had run into the same thing myself. Whenever a supposedly identical file has different contents depending on the user, think virtualization.
The file permissions can be changed on the "real" file, if the app can't be corrected to write to the proper location, or ProgramData is correct for shared data/state. This can be done either during installation or by the program. I think your issue is that the file was created by a different account, which meant it was writable only by that user and members of Administrators. Even if your regular login is a member of this group, many of the permissions are removed for you login shell unless you turn UAC off (don't do that). Instead, use elevation.
I just tested it. I created a new folder and text document under ProgramData with my user account, and can read/write with my regular account. The Admin user still can't write to it unles explicitly run as elevated.
You can add "Run as a different user" to start menu items by enabling the policy 'User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar\Show "Run as different user" command on Start' in the local group policy (run gpedit.msc elevated to find this). You can also shift-right-click on an executable to access this. "Run as Administrator" and "Run as different user" are not the same thing, even if the same login is used.
Edit to add: The registry is also subject to virtualization under. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/registry-virtualization . Note that permissions can be applied to the registry to override this as well.
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@topspin Well, even Trent Reznor (the guy in the video who also wrote the song) said the Cash cover was better.
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RE: Useful error messages.
The problem is that this is an error. It just never tells you what that error was.Fortunately it gets logged.
Inappropriate checking of GetLastError(). Either the failing function does not call SetLastError(), or the moron writing the software didn't check the value immediately.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Tsaukpaetra Later runtimes in a major version will support anything compiled against an earlier rev. So 4.8 (which is installed unless you've been fucking up Windows Update) is what you're running on, but targeting 4.7.1 or earlier.
What really fucks you up is when you target a later version and then run on an earlier version. Like compiling for 4.6.2 and then running on 4.6, whereupon you get a crash every time you create an array because Array.Clear() doesn't exist.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Arantor No, it means they only sprayed "traditional" pesticides all over it. At least for left-pondian "organic."
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@pie_flavor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Nobody fucking uses surround sound for video games.
Don't call me nobody, it's rude.
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RE: War of the Jarls
@remi It depends on if they all aupport actual BT protocols or they're just "2.4 GHz wireless." If they have the BT symbol on them, then yes they should theoretically be able to use the built-in BT.
Note that if one of the adapters is the Logitech unifying receiver, check the device. Some of the recent devices support both protocols.
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RE: War of the Jarls
What we're all saying is that you haven't given us enough information to provide an answer better than "maybe."
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RE: In other news today...
@DogsB So the same thing I've been doing with my Samsung device for six years already? I suppose Apple will "invent" it in 2025 now.
Yes, the original version "required" the DeX dock, but it was swiftly followed by third-party devices that supported DeX mode just as well. Now of course you just need a usb-hdmi adapter or wireless display for the phones, and the higher-end tablets don't even require an external display.
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RE: Taylor Swift bitching that Apple doesn't pay her for free samples
Nor, for that matter, is streaming music for the musicians. Earlier today I was watching BBC World on which someone talked to a music industry type, and it was claimed in this conversation that a typical artist needs to have a song played four million times via a streaming service to make “American minimum wage” — though they didn’t indicate what time scale they were talking about.
Let’s assume that it means “for the recording session.” To that I say, ”So what?” The next 4 million plays require no additional work. Neither do any album sales or licensing deals for commercials, movies, or TV. None of these additional revenue streams require additional work of the artist, his children, his grandchildren or his great-grandchildren, yet they will continue to receive this revenue.That said, the question of whether streaming service should be paying royalties that radio does not is immaterial in this case. It has been determined that the answer is yes, and for Apple to decide that they’re immune to this requirement is total and complete bullshit. Whether TS was really standing up for the “little people” or not is also immaterial, because it had the effect of making Apple back down, which Billy Joe Jim Bob withholding his album ''Singing with My Dogs” could not have done.
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RE: WTF Bites
@polygeekery I bought this other one for the office. You can do 2.5 inch drives without the power adapter, but it includes the external power for 3.5 inch drives.
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RE: FedEx Tracking XML Schema
Our API in version 3 is XML because version 2 of the application had an XML interface because a customer asked that there be an XML interface I believe. There has been talk of adding a JSON API but who has the time? We really need to write version 4 because a lot of version 3 (in C# ,net) is really version 2 (in Borland C++) copypastad into a .cs file and bent into a technically C# shape. It's really not my fault, I swear.
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RE: https://www.thedailywtf.com is not working
Fucking google. Chrome chops off the www, even when you type it. That's why it worked.
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RE: The curious case of the time-travelling SQLite CLI
@LaoC said in The curious case of the time-travelling SQLite CLI:
Also, the shell is 32-bit?!
SQLite3 shell, not Windows. 64-bit processes like CMD or notepad get ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
@CarrieVS I used to use spray cheese. Sometimes it took two tries to keep her from licking it all off and spitting out the pill.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@xaade "Evergreen" is the company, the ship name is the "Ever Given"
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RE: War of the Jarls
@PotatoEngineer said in War of the Jarls:
I had a wireless mouse lying around, so I tried that, but the signal wasn't good enough (the pointer kept twitching and overshooting).
It might have something to do with interference due to the proximity of the antennas.
We have an Intel NUC screwed to the wall under the TV in the conference room, which in the Before Times was used for meetings and video conferencing. It has a Microsoft wireless kb/mouse combo on which the range used to suck with the dongle plugged directly into the port. I plugged in my Logitech set and found it wasn't any better, which was weird, because I knew it had better range when used with other computers. Then I found a short USB extension and used that to tuck the dongle behind the TV, and now there's more than enough range. The only thing I could come up with is that when it was plugged into the computer directly, the antenna was too close to the other 2.4 GHz antenna (WiFi and/or internal bluetooth).
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RE: Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
@Carnage Witness, for example, SQLite. It has 100% test coverage. Yet, still gets 3.x.1 or 3.x.2 releases to fix bugs that squeak by despite the alleged 100% test coverage.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Medinoc "Just?" As in your first time? I get that a few times a year.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@dreikin So far, so good on the Note 8. No flames from the battery anyway.
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RE: XCode is the best!
And how tf does xcode beat anything at platform support? It only works on iOS (and OSx(?))
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RE: Help me decide between XBOX and PS
If online play is important, Sony restricts you to other PS4 players only, and even contaminates your non-Sony account so that it can never be used on any other console or PC. See the Fortnite contoversy.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra If it's not a brand-new drive, the "empty space" may actually contain sensitive data as well.
If it's a brand-new computer and you haven't used it yet and don't care about plausible deniability, feel free to encrypt data only. Future data will be written encypted and deleted data will remain encrypted.
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RE: The absolute state of faxing in 2020
@Polygeekery said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
On an entirely unrelated note, I bet you could scan your signature, convert it to PNG, use an image manipulation program to crop it and clip out all the whitespace and leave a transparent background and then you could pass that off as a physical signature and bypass all those shenanigans.
Current Reader version has a sign button that lets you scribble a signature on a pdf, no shenanigans required.
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RE: Conversations overheard
Except all the people that turn off UAC (like me) and do it bareback.
Then you deserve what you get. You turned off all the safety features, so it's your fault when you die in a fire. The problem is that assholes* like you perpetuate the myth that Windows is still insecure.
*I can't call my cow-orkers assholes, so you're elected
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@PleegWat Nope, you're right, it's 72, maybe 71. Discourse is garbage software made by garbage people.
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RE: Firefox Nightly: "you know that new and buggy feature you disabled?...
Sorry, I still can't get over that audio mixer with a different scale per process, because of the length of the process name. Who thought that was a good idea?
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RE: The ending of an era
@Rhywden Schlock Mercenary updated every day for over 20 years. Not almost every day, not every day except for non-canon guest strips during holidays and vacations. Howard made sure ther was a buffer so that there would be no interruption, even for hospital stays.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Benjamin-Hall That's a reason to use real mayo instead of salad dressing. "Soybean oil, water, whole eggs and egg yolks, distilled vinegar, salt, sugar, lemon juice concentrate, calcium disodium EDTA, natural flavors." No dairy.
Oh. Fake cheese, not fake mayo. NEVER MIND. Punctuation blurs out if I hold the phone too close, lost the comma. Too much longer and my arms will be too short to see my phone when I have my contacts in.
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RE: Remote desktop sharing for support
@boomzilla RealVNC?
If you had Windows and a Microsoft account, you could just use Quick Assist, which is just part of Win10.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@hungrier Correct. Also exFAT, if your android version does not support that, and HFS+.
My phone (Note 8) supports exFAT natively, but my el-cheapo Wal-Mart brand tablet does not.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@kazitor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
The priority for a black ink is something that can be used to make colours darker, which certainly does not mean it should appear as a deep, rich black on its own.
Sorry, that argument doesn't hold water when they sell B&W printers that use the same black cartridge used in the color ones.