| --- Log opened Fri Nov 15 00:00:09 2013 |
| 00:31 | <&McMartin> | Man, it's a challenge to make APIs that are expressible in Java and also don't suck |
| 00:31 | <&McMartin> | This probably improves the architecture overall, though. |
| 00:33 | < Reiv_> | Minor point of brainfail: What does API /stand for/ |
| 00:33 | < Reiv_> | I know it, but I do not know it today. |
| 00:34 | < Reiv_> | aha, application programming interface |
| 00:34 | < Reiv_> | Yes, because that's intuitive |
| 00:34 | < Syka_> | application programming inter- yeah |
| 00:36 | <&McMartin> | Compare "ABI", "Application Binary Interface", which is the protocol for how arguments work in function calls etc at the machine code level. |
| 00:38 | < RichyB> | Also "FFI", "Foreign Function Interface", which is a system for adapting to a dissimilar ABI in order to be able to call into it (and possibly back). |
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| 01:12 | < thalass> | Is it actually possible to compress .pdf files? Or are they as compressed as possible? Though these are scanned images, so maybe it's not possible. |
| 01:15 | < Syka_> | thalass: the scanned images are actually .jpgs |
| 01:16 | < thalass> | Hrm. I really can't be arsed re-scanning the images at a lower resolution, but trying to attach them to an email is proving to be a painful timeout-rich experience |
| 01:17 | < RichyB> | thalass, uh <insert brief lecture about Kolmogorov complexity here> |
| 01:18 | < thalass> | heh |
| 01:18 | < RichyB> | PDFs tend not to compress well under algorithms that work like Lempel-Ziv. |
| 01:19 | | * thalass goes looking for a way to unpack the images from the pdf file, scale the images a bit smaller, then repack them as a pdf, in the command line. |
| 01:19 | < RichyB> | Their contents are binary encodings of sequences of curves. |
| 01:19 | < RichyB> | When images are embedded in PDF files, they are usually encoded with either PNG or JPEG. |
| 01:21 | | * thalass nods |
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| 01:25 | < Reiv_> | ... binary encodings of sequences of curves? |
| 01:26 | < RichyB> | by "algorithms that work like Lempel-Ziv" I mean "algorithms for compressing files that take advantage of repetitions". gzip, bz2, lzma, xz, rar all fall into this category. |
| 01:26 | < Reiv_> | ... right, yes |
| 01:27 | < thalass> | These are regular zip files, due to the high likeliness that the recipient is running windows. |
| 01:27 | < RichyB> | Reiv_, poorly-phrased. What I mean is, they're largely vector graphics, encoded in some way that isn't plain text. |
| 01:27 | < thalass> | I get a 2mb reduction in file size. woop woop. :P |
| 01:27 | < Reiv_> | Everything from LZ to huffman counts as that pattern, correct? |
| 01:27 | <@Alek> | how about tar? |
| 01:28 | < thalass> | I'm attempting a ghostscript rejiggering on a copy of the file (because srsly it took ages to scan these pages one by one. >.< |
| 01:28 | < RichyB> | Reiv_, not Huffman. Huffman trees let you take advantage of some symbols in an alphabet occurring more often than others, and nothing else. |
| 01:29 | < Reiv_> | ... symbols? I had thought huffman let you do whole strings. |
| 01:29 | < RichyB> | Alek, tar isn't a compression system, it's a system for representing a set of files in a single file. |
| 01:29 | < Reiv_> | Man, I Know All This(tm) |
| 01:29 | < Reiv_> | But it has been so long since I dealt with the nit and grit that the knowledge has turned to mush. |
| 01:30 | < RichyB> | Reiv_, Huffman is what is called an "entropy encoding algorithm". It's often used as the final step in a more complicated algorithm (e.g. encoding with Huffman trees is the last compression step in gzip) |
| 01:31 | < thalass> | Oh wow. From an 80mb pdf to a 3mb pdf. That script worked well. Though the text in the images is a bit pixely, it's largely readable. I might try again with different settings. |
| 01:32 | < Reiv_> | Yeah, JPEG can save a *lot* of size compression very quickly. |
| 01:32 | < RichyB> | Reiv_, the part of the problem it solves is this: You have an alphabet of symbols, and you have a prior probability distribution for them. Taking into account the prior probabilities, find a way of representing sequences of symbols ("words") from that alphabet compactly, on average. |
| 01:33 | < Reiv_> | The difference between, eg, 100 and 80 on a slider can be a quarter the size with imperceptible change. |
| 01:33 | < Reiv_> | RichyB: Yes indeed |
| 01:33 | < RichyB> | Reiv_, does that explanation make sense, please? â |
| 01:35 | < RichyB> | e.g. in a compression algorithm that smell a tiny bit like gzip, your alphabet might be ("literal byte 0", "literal byte 1", ... "literal byte 255", "repeat the last 2 bytes", "repeat the last 4 bytes", "repeat the last 8 bytes", "repeat the last 16 bytes") |
| 01:36 | < RichyB> | â you probably expect to emit the symbol "repeat the last 2 bytes" more often than you emit the symbol "repeat the last 16 bytes" |
| 01:36 | < RichyB> | a Huffman tree will give a longer codeword to the symbol "repeat the last 16 bytes" in order to be able to give a shorter codeword to the symbol "repeat the last 2 bytes" |
| 01:38 | | * thalass goes crosseyed, but beleives RichyB |
| 01:38 | < RichyB> | in an attempt to optimise sum([ probability_that_a_symbol_is(a) * len(codeword_for(a)) for a in alphabet ]) |
| 01:39 | < Reiv_> | That's pretty clever. I hadn't realised they did thath to gzip. |
| 01:40 | < RichyB> | â btw that would make a terrible real-world compression algorithm because rules for repetitions are way too stupidly simple, but DEFLATE (which gzip is a wrapper around) does actually use Huffman like that, but with a MUCH cleverer set of rules for repetitions) |
| 01:40 | | * Reiv_ is aware of just how crazy-clever some of those encodings get. |
| 01:41 | < Reiv_> | The one I really like is where you store the entire file as a ridiculously precise floating point number. |
| 01:41 | < Reiv_> | I understand it's not terribly /useful/, but damn is it cool |
| 01:41 | < RichyB> | Uh, are you thinking of arithmetic encoding? |
| 01:42 | < Reiv_> | Might be. |
| 01:42 | < Reiv_> | My knowledge is ancient and seized. |
| 01:42 | < Reiv_> | A pity because I still need to encode that spaceship. |
| 01:42 | < RichyB> | Arithmetic *coding*, sorry, is an entropy encoding system (same problem domain as Huffman) where you encode input sequences as very precise fractions. |
| 01:43 | < thalass> | encode that spaceship? You're heading into the matrix, Reiver? |
| 01:43 | < RichyB> | Arithmetic coding is actually more compact than Huffman though. |
| 01:43 | < RichyB> | It's really useful in practice! |
| 01:44 | < Reiv_> | thalass: Not quite, but close. |
| 01:44 | < Reiv_> | I have an idea for a computer game; it has *nothing at all* to do with the worldbuilding I play with in FLEET. |
| 01:44 | < thalass> | neat |
| 01:45 | < Reiv_> | Instead you're on a slowboat. In fact, given my predilections to the genre, you might *be* the slowboat... as its AI. :p |
| 01:45 | < RichyB> | It shows up in fewer places because mostly because there was a patent on it for ages (since expired). I think it's also more CPU-costly to work with than Huffman trees, but not by so much that you'd feel the difference these days. |
| 01:46 | < thalass> | That sounds good, Reiver. |
| 01:47 | < Reiv_> | RichyB: I'd understood it was very clever, better than Huffman, but the CPU load meant that it was a bad trade of size:speed because the improvements in size were... what was it my lecturer said |
| 01:49 | < RichyB> | Eh. That depends on historical context. These days, you're compressing sequences because you want to put them down a network connection, and the ratio of CPU cycles available to bytes per second of bandwidth has shot WAY up over the years. |
| 01:51 | < RichyB> | I've seen it claimed that JPEGs get (without changing the values that are encoded in them) ~20% smaller when you switch from using Huffman to Arithmetic coding in them, though nobody does because nobody's sure that everyone else's software bothers to implement that bit of the JPEG spec. |
| 01:54 | < Reiv_> | Yeah that's true; the old compression was for storage space. |
| 01:54 | < RichyB> | *or a disk. |
| 01:55 | < RichyB> | The ratio between CPU cycles to the throughput of spinning rust has *also* gone through the roof. ;) |
| 01:56 | < RichyB> | I guess solid-state disks have brought it down again a bit, but they have much more pressing capacity concerns. |
| 01:57 | < RichyB> | heehee |
| 01:58 | < RichyB> | annnnd just for once in a blue moon, #code is full of talk about actual codes, rather than about computer software. ;) |
| 02:06 | < Reiv_> | Oh hush |
| 02:06 | < Reiv_> | Code was *spawned* apon such principles |
| 02:06 | < Reiv_> | That such principles were being written in Python was a mere side detail. |
| 02:06 | < Reiv_> | (Indeed, when the young lady in question took her code to the supervisor, said supervisor suggested she could write her thesis on *that* instead of merely doing the analysis with it) |
| 02:08 | < RichyB> | The young lady in question� |
| 02:13 | <&ToxicFrog> | Chalcy's stoatburger project, no? |
| 02:16 | < Reiv_> | ToxicFrog: Correct! |
| 02:16 | < RichyB> | Please tell me about it? |
| 02:17 | < Reiv_> | RichyB: #Code was founded to help a flatmate of mine, Chalcedon, get some PC help with an Interesting Problem. At the time, I had no obvious channel for her to join and discuss matters with the Local Expert (Vornicus), so I founded #Code as athrowaway. |
| 02:18 | < RichyB> | Ah! Cool! |
| 02:18 | < Reiv_> | ToxicFrog saw it with his Eldritch Powers and within five minutes had joined and piled in on the discussion. |
| 02:18 | < RichyB> | What was her interesting problem? : |
| 02:18 | < RichyB> | :) |
| 02:19 | < Reiv_> | This was joined by a few others; after a time it pretty rapidly became something of a Switzerland of the network: We had many channels with competent coders in each, who weren't in each others channels. |
| 02:19 | < Reiv_> | Thus #Code mutated into being the channel where they could all argue with each other. It's worked out, ahem, rather well. |
| 02:19 | <&ToxicFrog> | Data mining of records of small animals trapped in a certain region for her dissertation, IIRC |
| 02:19 | <&ToxicFrog> | Project codename "stoatburgers" |
| 02:19 | <&ToxicFrog> | (no stoats were harmed in the making of this paper) |
| 02:19 | < Reiv_> | (Why yes, we were trapping stoats. They're a national pest here.) |
| 02:20 | < Reiv_> | (But they weren't getting, uh, burger'd. That was just a Vornism~) |
| 02:20 | <&ToxicFrog> | I provided some postscript assistance for visualization of the resulting data. |
| 02:20 | < Reiv_> | IIRC we ended up with an algorithm that ran in linear time |
| 02:20 | < Reiv_> | So you did |
| 02:21 | < Reiv_> | (This was absolutely overkill; the records were Not That Large. But hell, we were a tad chuffed with ourselves all the same.) |
| 02:21 | | * RichyB scratches head |
| 02:22 | < RichyB> | come to think of it, I think I have vague memories of hearing about stoatburgers. |
| 02:22 | <&ToxicFrog> | Sadly Chalcy has not been seen in these parts since 2008. |
| 02:23 | < Reiv_> | I've not heard from her in several years, barring one phonecall. |
| 02:23 | < RichyB> | I definitely remember seeing conversations on nightstar about it in other channels. |
| 02:23 | < Reiv_> | I really must fix that. |
| 02:23 | < RichyB> | Aw. Hope she's alright. |
| 02:28 | < Reiv_> | She is, in fact - and significantly better in the past year. |
| 02:29 | < Reiv_> | We lost touch during a rough patch, and they now live in the south island, so reconnecting has grown harder. (It doesn't help that I moved from our City of Origin either, so to meet up we'd /both/ have to synchronise) |
| 02:29 | < RichyB> | Wasn't she suffering from some pretty nasty chronic health conditions around the time that she dropped off nightstar? :| |
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| 02:29 | < Reiv_> | Along those lines, yes. She's doing better. |
| 02:30 | < Reiv_> | And moved to do her PhD, which is pretty neat. |
| 02:30 | < RichyB> | I am glad to hear that! |
| 02:30 | < RichyB> | Oh cool! |
| 02:30 | <&ToxicFrog> | Sweet! |
| 02:30 | < Reiv_> | (AKA: She's well enough to do her PhD, and the Professor To Do It With was there, so they went) |
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| 02:31 | < Reiv_> | That's about all I know, but that *is* what I know, so I am :) and will try to reconnect some time when I'm not drowning in :( myself~ |
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| 12:14 | <@Azash> | https://github.com/search?q=sudo+$_POST&type=Code&ref=searchresults |
| 12:17 | <@TheWatcher> | I'm not going to look at that, because my head hurts enough as it is without me bashing it on the desk repeatedly |
| 12:18 | < RichyB> | change it to $_GET and it gets even funnier. |
| 12:22 | <~Vornicus> | Azash: Oh my god people do that? |
| 12:22 | <@TheWatcher> | RichyB: If by "funnier" you mean "even more raeg inducing" |
| 12:24 | <@Azash> | Vornicus: More injections than the bird flu |
| 13:08 | <~Vornicus> | ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-************* ***** |
| 13:11 | < AnnoDomini> | Nice cat you have there. |
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| 13:15 | <@froztbyte> | that's not a cat |
| 13:15 | <@froztbyte> | that's future-hayes |
| 13:16 | < AnnoDomini> | Or he could be programming in brainfuck. |
| 13:17 | <@froztbyte> | mmm, was * an operator there? |
| 13:17 | <@froztbyte> | it wasn't |
| 13:17 | <@froztbyte> | so it'd have to be input or something |
| 13:18 | <@froztbyte> | (but it can't be because no ,) |
| 13:20 | | * AnnoDomini proceeds with installing Win7 on the newly purchased company laptop for the new employee. |
| 13:20 | < AnnoDomini> | It was a real bitch the first time. |
| 13:20 | < AnnoDomini> | Was the first time I encountered UEFI and couldn't get to the stage where I can actually boot something but Win8 until like 3 in the morning. |
| 13:22 | < AnnoDomini> | This time I encountered only minor troubles with getting Win7 to install. Had to wipe all the damn partitions, because they were the wrong sort or something. |
| 13:23 | <@Tarinaky> | No UEFI bootloader has ever made a mistake, or distorted information. |
| 13:24 | <@Tarinaky> | We are, by all practical definitions of the word, fool-proof, and incapable of error. |
| 13:24 | < AnnoDomini> | You are quoting somethng, aren't you? |
| 13:26 | <@Tarinaky> | 2001: A Space Oddessy. |
| 13:31 | <@TheWatcher> | Not exactly a fair quote, given that HAL only malfunctioned because he was put in an impossible position. He wasn't /created/ to be shit. |
| 13:32 | <@Tarinaky> | UEFI secureboot /is/ an impossible situation. |
| 13:33 | <@Tarinaky> | Secureboot is like the main thing everyone complains about being unusably shit. |
| 13:34 | <@Tarinaky> | Everything else is because it's not entirely clear what hardware has to be initialise to bootload in the general case - unless you can make firm assumptions about the hardware. |
| 13:41 | <@froztbyte> | you really need to meet some IPMI. |
| 13:41 | <@Tarinaky> | IPMI? |
| 13:42 | <@TheWatcher> | Intelligent Platform Management Interface |
| 13:42 | <@Tarinaky> | BIOS did kindof need replacing with something else though. |
| 13:42 | <@froztbyte> | sure |
| 13:42 | <@froztbyte> | but coreboot has proven that it's possible to do that without it being shit |
| 13:43 | <@froztbyte> | like most things that aren't written up by a spec doc of people who don't understand the problem |
| 13:43 | <@Tarinaky> | Oh, yeah, design by committee. I'd forgotten about that. |
| 13:43 | <@Tarinaky> | I was thinking more about it being slower than BIOS because it supports more /stuff/. |
| 13:44 | <@Tarinaky> | And all the other problems one associates with project mass. |
| 13:57 | < AnnoDomini> | I hate touchpad. |
| 13:57 | < AnnoDomini> | I hate touchpads to death. |
| 13:57 | | * TheWatcher stabs javascript and form submission in the head |
| 14:19 | < AnnoDomini> | WTF. After installing some drivers, the laptop will not boot. |
| 14:24 | <@froztbyte> | you just hate shitty touchpads |
| 14:24 | <@froztbyte> | (yes, there is a difference) |
| 14:24 | < AnnoDomini> | Every touchpad I've ever used has been shit. |
| 14:24 | <@froztbyte> | the apple ones do an exceptional job of not being hateful |
| 14:25 | <@froztbyte> | some others come close, but aren't big enough |
| 14:29 | < AnnoDomini> | "All boot options are tried." GAH. |
| 14:29 | < AnnoDomini> | You were booting just fine a minute ago you stupid shit! |
| 14:29 | < AnnoDomini> | I can't even seem to boot from the bootable USB Win7 installation disk I made. |
| 14:31 | < AnnoDomini> | Got the fucker. |
| 14:32 | < AnnoDomini> | Again, a problem with the fucking, newfangled, godawful, incompatible-by-default, new boot system. |
| 14:34 | < AnnoDomini> | froztbyte: Well, what little I've used of the Mac stuff hasn't beet poorer than other experiences... well, except for the lack of a right button. |
| 14:34 | <@froztbyte> | two-finger click |
| 14:34 | <@froztbyte> | (fwiw) |
| 14:35 | < AnnoDomini> | And apparently Microsoft is behind all this boot fuckery, pressurinng hardware vendors to do defaults the way they are now. |
| 14:36 | <@froztbyte> | yes |
| 14:36 | <@froztbyte> | they were one of the lead motivators and implementers in uefi |
| 14:36 | <@froztbyte> | implementors? |
| 14:36 | <@froztbyte> | fucking english |
| 14:36 | < AnnoDomini> | I hope they choke on it. |
| 14:36 | <@froztbyte> | this is basically the same shit as TPM |
| 14:37 | < AnnoDomini> | TPM? |
| 14:37 | <@froztbyte> | generalized computing make some people's lives hard, so they try to control it again |
| 14:37 | <@froztbyte> | AnnoDomini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module |
| 14:37 | <@froztbyte> | this kind of shit will keep coming until people realize that it's okay if someone doesn't like you |
| 14:37 | <@froztbyte> | and that it's okay if someone actually wants to own a thing |
| 14:39 | < AnnoDomini> | WTF. WTF! |
| 14:39 | < AnnoDomini> | Now it will only boot if I have a bootable USB stick... |
| 14:39 | < AnnoDomini> | That is, the stick is found and temporarily given the option of starting from that, I do nothing, Windows starts. |
| 14:39 | < AnnoDomini> | If the USB stick is not present, the boot fails. |
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| 14:46 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | YOU MAY BE WATCHED |
| 14:46 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | WARNING WARNING WARNING, WARNING |
| 14:46 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | WARNING WARNING WARNING, WARNING WARNING |
| 14:47 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | YOU MAYWATCHED |
| 14:47 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | YOU MAY BE WATCHED |
| 14:47 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | YOU MAY BE WATCHED |
| 14:47 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | ) |
| 14:47 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | Do usa&Israel use chat &facebook 2 spy?!?!?!? |
| 14:47 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | Do they record &analyse everything we type?!?!?!? |
| 14:47 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | Do usa&israel use chat&social communication prog(facebook&twitter) to collect informations,,,,can we call that spying!!!! |
| 14:47 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | Ù٠تستخد٠اÙرÙÙاÙاسرئÙ٠اÙشات ÙاÙÙÙس بÙÙ ÙÙتجسس!Ø!Ø!Ø!Ø!Ø!Ø! |
| 14:47 | < esucg0aq47trgb8> | Egyptian moslem |
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| 14:48 | < Syka_> | oh no the usa and israel |
| 14:49 | < Syka_> | it's all part of the *jewish plot*, responsible for things like 9/11 and hanukkah being so hard to spell |
| 14:49 | < Syka_> | </sarc> |
| 14:50 | <@Azash> | What on earth? |
| 14:50 | <@froztbyte> | just bot spam |
| 14:50 | <@Tarinaky> | I may be being watched? I didn't know my fake cleavage was that spectacular. |
| 14:50 | < Syka_> | Azash: spambot~ |
| 14:50 | <@froztbyte> | although, entertainingly |
| 14:50 | <@Azash> | Also, I just sat through the easiest infosec exam ever |
| 14:50 | <@froztbyte> | I first saw it happening just sliiiiightly before the snowden stuff |
| 14:51 | <@Azash> | 1. How are digital signatures used in network protocols? How is RSA used for signing and validating? Explain how signatures releate to certificates and what operations are required. |
| 14:51 | <@Azash> | 2 a) Explain how canaries prevent buffer overflow attacks. b) Give an example of issues with symbolic linkage. |
| 14:51 | <@Azash> | 3) Explain how ARP poisoning works and how one can attempt to prevent it. |
| 14:51 | <@Azash> | 4) Present the SQL injection attact and defensive techniques. |
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| 14:55 | < AnnoDomini> | Hmmm. The boot sector might be fucked. Might be because I deleted everything to install Win7. |
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| 15:02 | <@Tarinaky> | AnnoDomini: Installing Win7 should have unfucked it. Might be UEFI being a dick again. |
| 15:03 | <@Tarinaky> | Since the install cd will need a different signature to the actual install (I think) |
| 15:04 | < AnnoDomini> | I've turned secureboot and fastboot off, I've enabled CMOS. |
| 15:04 | <@Tarinaky> | Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor? |
| 15:05 | < AnnoDomini> | Historic name for nonvolatile BIOS memory. |
| 15:06 | < AnnoDomini> | Hrm. The recovery tools do not find anything wrong. |
| 15:11 | <@Azash> | Doesn't CMOS refer to the type of memory? |
| 15:12 | < AnnoDomini> | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS_(disambiguation) |
| 15:12 | <@Tarinaky> | Azash: Pretty sure CMOS refers to the chemical composition of the IC out of which the memory is built. |
| 15:12 | < RichyB> | CMOS specifically refers to a type of semiconductor design & manufacture |
| 15:13 | < RichyB> | but for hysterical raisins, it also got abused to mean "the tiny blob of battery-backed RAM in an IBM PC". |
| 15:18 | < AnnoDomini> | Strange that the recovery tools name the system partition "D" rather than "C" as it appears from within the system. |
| 15:36 | < RichyB> | It would be very unstrange if the recovery tools had a RAMdisk mounted a C: with the recovery programs in it. |
| 15:36 | < RichyB> | *mounted at C: |
| 15:48 | < AnnoDomini> | "Sorry, it looks like you're on a slow connection, so this might take a while." |
| 15:48 | < AnnoDomini> | No, Microsoft. You are installing the newest Office from the internet. |
| 15:48 | < AnnoDomini> | This does not mean that my connection is slow. |
| 15:49 | <@celticminstrel> | Huh? |
| 15:50 | <@celticminstrel> | I'm guessing the thing it says might take awhile isn't the office update. |
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| 15:51 | < AnnoDomini> | No, it's the office installation. I purchased an Office 2013. Comes with no DVD or other installation media, simply instructions how to install it from the internet. |
| 15:52 | <@TheWatcher> | It depends on their definition of 'slow' |
| 15:52 | <@celticminstrel> | Okay then... |
| 15:52 | <@TheWatcher> | Maybe they thing 'slow' is 'not directly connected to a gigabit internet connection |
| 15:53 | < AnnoDomini> | Apparently, it's "not fast enough to download multiple gigabytes under 5 minutes". |
| 15:53 | <@TheWatcher> | Psh. How horribly pedestrian! |
| 15:57 | < AnnoDomini> | !roll 2095+895 |
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| 16:37 | <@gnolam> | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf |
| 16:40 | <@gnolam> | "I can realistically give a kernel hacker a nickname like âDiamondbackâ or âZeus Hammer.â In contrast, no one has ever said, âThese semi-transparent icons are really semi-transparent! IS THIS THE WORK OF ZEUS HAMMER?â" |
| 16:40 | < RichyB> | oh my that's epic |
| 16:40 | < RichyB> | and yes, I have a strict budget for the number of times I may directly apply the adjective "epic" per year, ironically or otherwise |
| 16:41 | < RichyB> | That writing is worth spending this quarter's entire "epic" budget. |
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| 17:09 | <@Azash> | RichyB: I hope you didn't watch Blizzcon |
| 17:10 | < RichyB> | I'm pretty uninterested in what Blizzard are up to. |
| 17:10 | < RichyB> | They don't publish anything in genres that I want to play. |
| 17:12 | <@Azash> | Mm, it was pretty epicepicepic |
| 17:29 | <@froztbyte> | it probably wasn't |
| 17:30 | <@froztbyte> | you just fall into the right class of psychological triggers they design for ;) |
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| 18:18 | <&ToxicFrog> | "One time I tried to create a list<map<int>>, and my syntax |
| 18:18 | <&ToxicFrog> | errors caused the dead to walk among the living. Such things |
| 18:18 | <&ToxicFrog> | are clearly unfortunate." |
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| 18:47 | <@celticminstrel> | Fortunately that's no longer a syntax error. Yay! |
| 19:20 | < Sam> | That's strange. bootrec /scanos doesn't detect any existing Windows installation. |
| 19:27 | < Sam> | I'd like to try installing some kind of boot manager to help solve this issue. |
| 19:27 | < Sam> | What would you guys recommend? |
| 20:18 | < Sam> | Urgh. I'm trying to use something called the Plop Boot Manager 5.0, but so far I've only managed to break Windows booting at all. |
| 20:19 | < Sam> | (The Windows recovery stuff fixed that one.) |
| 20:19 | < Sam> | (But the system still won't boot on its own!) |
| 20:19 | <&ToxicFrog> | No idea, sorry. I don't speak windows bootloader. |
| 20:19 | < Sam> | I may have to make some tiny USB stick into a bootable thing, and call it a security measure. Ya can't boot it without it! (:P{ |
| 20:20 | <&McMartin> | Windows's native bootloader these days is BCDEDIT, which is kind of hard to use |
| 20:21 | < Sam> | See, I'm not getting to any bootloader. I'm getting dropped at the hardware error specific to Samsung. |
| 20:21 | < Sam> | I think the problem is somehow that I installed Windows on the wrong disk. |
| 20:21 | <&McMartin> | Oof. |
| 20:21 | < Sam> | There are two here. One which is 20 GB and change and one that is the advertised 500 GB. |
| 20:22 | < Sam> | The former is occupied in 100 MB by some "reserved by system" thing. |
| 20:22 | <&McMartin> | That's where BCDEDIT does its work, yeah. |
| 20:23 | < Sam> | Trying to boot the first partition of the first disk fails. Trying to boot the first partition of the second disk succeeds in Windows. |
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| 20:32 | <&McMartin> | The typical Linux bootloader is grub2, the typical Windows one is BCDedit, which need to be pointed at that System Reserved drive |
| 20:32 | <&McMartin> | I'm not good with either but I'd start with BCDedit if you don't intend to dual boot. google "bcdedit msdn" for instructions |
| 20:33 | < Sam> | OK. I'll try that, hank you. |
| 20:34 | <&McMartin> | I think you need to get the boot control database on that "system reserved" partition to realize that windows is on the first partition of the second drive, and then it should start working. |
| 20:47 | < Sam> | Hmm. The bcdedit thing lists two things, the manager on drive C and loader on drive D. |
| 20:47 | < Sam> | But Windows upon starting assigns drive D the letter C and nothing to drive C. |
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| 21:07 | | * AnnoDomini tries changing the boot manager to point no D, which fails with corrupted booting. |
| 21:09 | < AnnoDomini> | Let's see if manually reverting it works for repairs. |
| 21:09 | < AnnoDomini> | It does! |
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| 21:20 | | * AnnoDomini gnashes teeth at this problem. |
| 21:20 | < AnnoDomini> | I'm going to try to delete the reserved partition. |
| 21:24 | < AnnoDomini> | AHa! May have found the problem. |
| 21:24 | < AnnoDomini> | The smaller disk is SSD. |
| 21:24 | < AnnoDomini> | The bigger one is HDD. |
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| 21:28 | <@Alek> | that's probably not it. |
| 21:28 | <@Alek> | check the partitions. |
| 21:29 | < AnnoDomini> | There's nothing obviously wrong with the partitions. |
| 21:32 | < AnnoDomini> | Hmm. OK. That's interesting. I can't see the SSD under boot options, just the HDD. |
| 21:32 | < AnnoDomini> | It might be the issue here - Part of the Windows boot up crap is stored on the SSD, which the UEFI/BIOS can't see. |
| 21:33 | <&ToxicFrog> | Weird that UEFI can't see it. Legacy partition table or something? |
| 21:33 | < AnnoDomini> | I... don't know. I've just installed the system today, it's Windows 7. |
| 21:34 | <&McMartin> | That *is* pretty weird and a thing I would not have guessed |
| 21:41 | < AnnoDomini> | Stupid fucking Windows, couldn't just ignore the bloody SSD drive, mumble, mumble, had to hurr hurr and install an important part on somewhere it can't reach now. |
| 21:41 | < AnnoDomini> | OK. A potential remedy would be to move the thrice-damned boot manager from that disk to the one I can see. |
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| 22:14 | < AnnoDomini> | Hmm. I may have more permanently knocked this thing out by making another boot thing on the HDD. |
| 22:15 | < AnnoDomini> | It fails in a slightly new way, "can't boot because the device it needs is inaccessible", and repairing it with the automatic repair thingy from the installation USB doesn't cut it. |
| 22:22 | < AnnoDomini> | OK. Maybe not. It starts again. |
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