Posts made by manxam

@scottalanmiller : Someone had fun at Ikea!

@stacksofplates : Now you're just showing off

"screen" is available within the bootable USB.
screen dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=1M
Ctrl-A then D to detach
Up arrow then enter 3 more times...

This will continue to run even if the console is lost (ssh) or if the user logs out
screen -R to re-attach a session if you want to check the status

Having said that:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 conv=notrunc
Should take only seconds and delete the partition table and is less work than using fdisk in the event that wipefs isn't available on the bootable USB.

@darrel said in Looking for a Web Developer job as Immigrant in Winnipeg Canada:

@manxam said in Looking for a Web Developer job as Immigrant in Winnipeg Canada:

@darrel : And we're glad to have you! Enjoy your first winter and don't eat the yellow snow!

HAHA! Can't promise you that, lol.

Wait.. What?? You're going to eat the yellow snow?!

@darrel : And we're glad to have you! Enjoy your first winter and don't eat the yellow snow!

Calgary is weird due to the mountains but I can guarantee that we'll have several weeks of "shorts weather" (if you're a Canadian, this means anything higher than +10C :P) in the middle of winter while the rest of Canada will be buried beneath snow.

2 years ago I was skiing in beautiful fresh deep powder in 15C weather...

Unfortunately for @darrel, Winnipeg just looks overcast, cold, and blustery all winter long

@darrel : count your blessings. We "were blessed" with ~12" of snow today in Calgary and it will continue on until about 4am according to Environment Canada.

A record-breaking 15 to 25 centimetres fell in Calgary overnight, CBC meteorologist Christy Climenhaga told the Calgary Eyeopener Tuesday morning. The previous record for Oct. 2 was set in 1954 with only about five centimetres.

"But the all-time extreme record for one day in October is about 30 centimetres in 1914, so you guys are on your way to breaking that," she said.

By 4:30 p.m., parts of the city had reported getting 40 centimetres, the city said in a release.

@scottalanmiller said in New Tablet Search:

Yeah, I get all that. But this is definitely just "normal USB", as it is a normal computer. Concepts unique to mobility don't apply here. So either OTG is a reference to all USB, or it's not applicable here. You would never call the USB port on your laptop or desktop OTG, and unless you do, you don't here.

But it's not a normal computer, it's a hybrid tablet running a Mobile/Tablet only OS utilizing a similar architecture to Android but with Chrome as it's UI instead of android.view/android.webkit.

@scottalanmiller : You missed the most important thing!
Voice controlled microwave

I have no idea why this is a thing.. Is talking to Alexa faster than just hitting 3-0-Start or the "Popcorn" button?
I mean, you still have to put the popcorn IN the thing....

@scottalanmiller : OTG essentially refers to the ability to connect a device via USB as opposed to the USB port providing only power and the ability to have the phone transfer data with it.

Phones and tablets had USB connectors for years before you could actually connect a mouse, keyboard, or USB flash drive to them.

Only relatively new Android phones (~3 years?) support OTG -- the ability to have the phone act as a flash storage device when connected to a PC OR allow one to read the contents of a USB flash drive plugged into that port (or keyboard, mouse, or usb-to-ethernet adapter).

So yeah, OTG is basically just "every day USB" from the standpoint of a computer, but on a mobile device or tablet is referenced as OTG.

From Wikipedia:

Standard USB uses a master/slave architecture; a host acts as the master device for the entire bus, and a USB device acts as a slave. If implementing standard USB, devices must assume one role or the other, with computers generally set up as hosts, while (for example) printers normally function as slaves. In the absence of USB OTG, cell phones often implemented slave functionality to allow easy transfer of data to and from computers. Such phones, as slaves, could not readily be connected to printers as they also implemented the slave role. USB OTG directly addresses this issue.

@scottalanmiller and @gjacobse : Yes, it does support OTG --
Acer has included a USB-C port for charging and data transfer as well as display extending

As per the above but to migrate the desktops, use Transwiz. Takes 1 minute to migrate the user profile from the old domain to the new.

@darrel : Well, you can't say we didn't warn you

Sorry @darrel, can't help you with a job out your way but, just to make you feel all warm inside:
Max Temperature 35 34 33
Avg Temperature 15 9 2
Min Temperature -13 -19 -25

That's January of 2017 in fahrenheit
That's -31 C!

Enjoy

@scottalanmiller : He IS moving to Winnipeg. He may actually BE a minority there... That's one white city.

edit: Looking at this though, the highest percentage of "non white" ethnicities is Filipino.

Please don't take this as a racial bias. It's not meant to be in the least!
WELCOME TO CANADA!

Take it from a Canadian : They call it "winterpeg" for a reason...
Of course, it's been 27C in Ontario for the past couple of weeks. Meanwhile it's been -2C in Alberta.
Still 12C in Winnipeg though!

I typically run with Dahua (or Hikvision in a pinch) mixed with their own branded NVRs or, if software based, BlueIris.
Both models of cameras are professional grade and look the part but can be a little costly.
The Dahua cameras have several models with the "Starlight" sensor which makes low light situations look fantastic and easy to identify.
Check out https://ipcamtalk.com for tons of reviews, footage, etc of many different cameras.
Dahua aren't usually sold to "end users" in North America but there's a guy on Alibaba that ships straight from China cheaply and with NA firmware. He's highly used on IPCamTalk and I've personally purchased a few dozen cameras from him. https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1859367

Does something like TextMaker (or Presentations) /? or --help not show any command line options?
No manpages as per @black3dynamite (assuming linux : "man textmaker")

EDIT: according to the docs, there are shell script wrappers offered. Perhaps checking the contents of one of them may be helpful?

Alternatively, the following shell scripts are available for launching the programs:
textmaker16 launches TextMaker
planmaker16 launches PlanMaker
presentations16 launches Presentations
To start an application, execute the corresponding script (e.g. in a shell).

Not to seem daft, but wouldn't removing the duplicates entirely in order to clean up the file tree/structure make more sense in the long run? I understand that specific users may look in a specific folder for a file expecting it to be there, whereas another user would look another place, but I'd use this time to make the appropriate folder structure and place the files where they belong...

@wrcombs & @DustinB3403, I have performed a gpresults while the GPO was active and verified that the settings matched what was shown on the devices.
After removing the power settings in GPO, performed a "gpupdate /force" JIC and after a reboot, I performed another gpresult and verified that there were no settings being applied.
I then manually configured power settings on 2 PCs via control panel on the devices themselves and the issue persists.

For a device where display sleep is configured for "NONE":

powercfg /query shows the following :

Subgroup GUID: 7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99  (Display)
    GUID Alias: SUB_VIDEO
    Power Setting GUID: 3c0bc021-c8a8-4e07-a973-6b14cbcb2b7e  (Turn off display after)
      GUID Alias: VIDEOIDLE
      Minimum Possible Setting: 0x00000000
      Maximum Possible Setting: 0xffffffff
      Possible Settings increment: 0x00000001
      Possible Settings units: Seconds
    Current AC Power Setting Index: 0x00000000
    Current DC Power Setting Index: 0x0000012c

And the appropriate registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Power\PowerSettings\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\3c0bc021-c8a8-4e07-a973-6b14cbcb2b7e
    Attributes    REG_DWORD    0x2
    Description    REG_EXPAND_SZ    @%SystemRoot%\system32\powrprof.dll,-402,Video power down timeout after idle detection.
    FriendlyName    REG_EXPAND_SZ    @%SystemRoot%\system32\powrprof.dll,-403,Video power down timeout
    ValueIncrement    REG_DWORD    0x1
    ValueMax    REG_DWORD    0xffffffff
    ValueMin    REG_DWORD    0x0
    ValueUnits    REG_EXPAND_SZ    @%SystemRoot%\system32\powrprof.dll,-80,Seconds

I'll create a new scope on a test laptop that's on-site and will advise.

Thanks!