@Karla It also lets you type. You can of course use a touch or pen screen as well. Or your phone; the Android version has a sign button as well.
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RE: The absolute state of faxing in 2020
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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: War of the Jarls
@Parody said in War of the Jarls:
I find it annoying that the peripheral manufacturers didn't unify on Bluetooth, instead continuing to come out with their own dongles.
The advantage of those dongles is that they show up as a keyboard and mouse and therefore always work, even before the OS is loaded.
Logitech, on some of the higher-end stuff, has started supporting both BT and Unifying.
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RE: War of the Jarls
@sloosecannon That only works if the proximity of the antennas to each other does not cause transmission issues in the first place. Maybe there's an actual rf engineer here that can confirm and/or explain better. All I know is that with the dongle in the front of the NUC, in direct LOS of the keyboard and mouse, you got 3 feet or so, and the connection was spotty enough to drop keypresses and mouseclicks, and for the mouse movement to be erratic. On the end of an extension and tucked behind the TV, the connection is perfect all the way to the orher side of the room.
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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: 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: 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: Epic Store (and other "Occupy Steam" movements)
@loopback0 said in Epic Store (and other "Occupy Steam" movements):
Apple only have 25% of the mobile market.
No, they have 45% in the USA, which is the only thing that counts for US anti-teust regulations. Non-USA percentages don't matter.
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RE: Finding Podcasts
@DogsB Pocket Casts has no ads on the free tier. The 99¢/$9.99 subscription option gets you cloud storage, sync, and web and PC versions. It uses the usual RSS feeds, so System Mastery does show up. At least, I assume it's the same podcast because the image has a D-20 on the background.
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RE: Nope
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Nope:
lockers. Or self-service delivery lockers.
There are, but they exist in the range that for average Merkin is further than a fridge (t.i., too far to go on foot), but not far enough to unpark ol' 5.8L V8 F-150, therefore they might as well not existNope, the nearest Amazon locker is an 8 hour walk or ¾-hour drive. I work at a small business so just get my Amazon deliveries there.
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RE: The ending of an era
@Rhywden So that's 3 put of how many popular web comics? K&K also has the distinction of being one of the oldest web comics ever. I started reading it on Compuserve.
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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: 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: WTF Bites
@Tsaukpaetra Eh fuck Apple, the only mac on the network belongs to one of the other sw devs and he's been working from home since April so coming in via VPN, and phones shouldn't be on the internal network. I really don't want to fuck with renaming the domain AGAIN (it was set up by a friend of the boss originally with an .inc top level domain we didn't own, before .inc was even a possibility) and I've got a few people moved on to it already. The Big Move has been pushed off because of no-time-to-switch-shit-over-this-has-to-be-done-next-week for more than 5 years now.
Wikipedia says 8.8.8.8 is a global anycast, so I will probably set Panama to use that Real Soon Now™ since I've already put in a CNAME for the Subversion server, which will be moving as soon as I get the last two users off that old DC and shut down that VM.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Tsaukpaetra The old domain uses our old .com. Which causes fuckups when the world and the local DNS disagree on what the IP address is for e.g. www. Or are we expected to have a seperate domain for internal shit? This isn't really my job except nobody else wants to do it, I'm only google-certified network admin, not a real one.
Besides, why does mDNS even come into it when anything on the network gets the DC as DNS server in the DHCP response?
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RE: WTF Bites
@Tsaukpaetra Great, last doc I lloked at said that was a good one because .internal wasn't. WTF should I have used then? Not that I really feel like changing it again, that's a pain in the ass.
This *.local wildcard would fuck up mDNS too presumably, so is still a WTF.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Zerosquare Except, as mentioned, those without the key (Logitech MX Keys has no pause/break key, and Options app can't map one of the remappable keys to it.)
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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: WTF Bites
"Van Rijn" is actually the last name of famous Dutch painter Rembrandt.
So at least one of his parents was a huge art nerd, or maybe an SF nerd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_van_Rijn
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RE: Salvaging an unresponsive Windows server
@Unperverted-Vixen "enable administrator account from recovery console" e.g. https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/enable-built-in-administrator-windows-10-recovery-options-advanced/ for enabling, then you need to edit the registry, "enable automatic login windows" e.g. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/324737/how-to-turn-on-automatic-logon-in-windows. You might need to make a .reg file on another computer and import from the command line.
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RE: Salvaging an unresponsive Windows server
@Tsaukpaetra Yes, which is why you set it to auto, and maybe then it works because it doesn't need to show loginui. I'm not saying it will work or is even possible, it's a "try variations on this in google" suggestion.
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RE: Salvaging an unresponsive Windows server
Here's an idea. Is it possible to use recovery console to enable the hidden administrator account and set it to auto-login?
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RE: Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
@Watson No, it's not. But somehow there has been a bug that could cause a COMMIT to fail yet return success.
My point isn't that SQLite is bad (I'm currently using it in several projects) but that no matter how hard you test, you'll never get all the bugs.
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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
@BernieTheBernie If he insists, the more c#y way would have been
public TimeSpan (long ticks)
as
private TimeSpan m_Timeout = new TimeSpan(8 * TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond);
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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: 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: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Tsaukpaetra Well, if you're genuinely interested, keep reading, otherwise skip.
I'm not sure it really counts as a mount point, because that would require root access. It's using something called Storage Access Framework, and any software needs to be written to use it if it wants to access anything mounted by the Paragon software. FX file explorer is. Whatever part of the android os that shits all over usb drives isn't. Additionally, it has to allow adding locations. As I understand it, SAF is what allows the Samsung file browser to access my Samsung files, Google Drive, and Onedrive. Since there is no button to add an arbitrary location, it can't use the Paragon-mounted drives. FX does have such a button, so can.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Tsaukpaetra I thought we were having a joke here, because your suggestion was to make it completely useless.
Besides, I don't think the mounter even causes the system to see it to the point android will be able to do start with the Android directory nonsense.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Tsaukpaetra No, I paid for the Paragon mounter, so they're actually usable on my phone. Before you suggest HFS+, it supports that too. I guess ZFS or BTRFS, but I don't have anything at all that supports those. I can't see creating a dual-boot or vm just to format a drive as something that I can't use to be useful.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Tsaukpaetra Now tell me how to get android to stop puking the Android directory on every drive I plug into it
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RE: The minor rants thread.
@Applied-Mediocrity Way fucking late, and you probably already bought a keyboard, and it's a bit pricy, but how about https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/mx-keys-wireless-keyboard
I bought myself one of these and a master 3 mouse for work a while ago and ir was will worth it.
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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: WTF Bites
@TwelveBaud said in WTF Bites:
You mentioned .NET, which means your program is already run as 32-bit by default.
This is 2020, not 2012. The check box works perfectly fine if you target 4.5+. Possibly lower; I just don't have any version between 4.0 and 4.5 installed.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Tsaukpaetra Why not use a keyboard with a compose key‽
Oh wait, not interrobang, some proprietary and trademarked char. NEVER MIND.
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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: 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.
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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: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@pie_flavor I think I must be on Earth-73 too, because I don't have these problems with Windows either. The worst I had was my profile getting fucked, but that was back in 1703 I think. Also, Edge fucks itself over occasionally, requiring reinstall, which affects some store apps that apparently use the html control (Netflix and Hulu). Maybe I'm on Earth-72?
ETA: two different computers. The profile fuckups were my laptop, the Edge fuckups were my desktop, which is an upgrade from Win7.
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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 curious case of the time-travelling SQLite CLI
@error said in The curious case of the time-travelling SQLite CLI:
Wouldn't it be better to fix the permissions issue, either by editing ACLs or using a different location?
It depends. If he's only using the shell for dev/debugging purposes and the db is normally only accessed by a service, then elevation is preferred, as it will keep the db safe from accidental or casual tampering. He could just add himself to the ACL manually for that, or use an elevated prompt. If it's to be accessed by multiple users, then the installer should probably set the ACL.
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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: 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: Windows Server Storage Spaces
@Polygeekery The Synology can also handle the cameras, but you need rather pricy licences past the first two cameras ($370 for an 8 camera license). This however means you don't need the server to be messing with the cameras. The only experience I have with Synology is the cheapest 2-drive unit we are using as the backup server, but it's been rock solid for years now.