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It's pretty shoddy though - why call atob 5 times? It's just a base64 decode - you can concatanate the strings, and decode it once. That's way more efficient.

Tea. Black, and strong. So strong that the steam contains the LD50 of caffeine, and kills everyone within a ten mile radius. So black that when the tea looks into the abyss, and the abyss looks into the tea, the abyss goes "Wow, you're dark".

Turns out, he's right.

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The ad for mashable that redirects to makemoneyrobot.

adOpen(this,0,1267669,'8335352',0); is probably the important bit - add this snippet to your ticket...but bearing in mind mashable is essentially a banner farm, it's probably working properly, and just geo-filtering.


(Edit - that is, to be clear, the important bit to identify exactly which ad it is, not what the problem may or may not be),

Unpaid overtime is a thing outside a handful of European countries. Just because you have decent labour laws doesn't mean the rest of us are civilised.

More than I thought - 30-35 times a year. I would have guessed once a fortnight on average, but more than that, apparently.

Yeah, a dodgy master boot record.

Grab a copy of knoppix and burn the image to a CD. This will give you a live installation of Linux - kinda like booting from a floppy disk used to work. It's not the sort of Linux anyone will ever use - LiveCDs are for either trying it out or, more importantly, system recovery. It's slow, and horrible, and no subsitute for a real install - but it's a good idea to have one of these around, even if you never intend to really use Linux. When you forget your windows password, or you need to recover data, or if you just need to fix something, it gives you a way in.

There are alternatives - if you've got a really old computer that can't handle a LiveCD, you have options like Freedos - but generally, a LiveCD is the easier bet. Also, a Linux live CD is better than a BSD live CD, because Linux has better generic drivers - weird hardware is less likely to trip it up.

Those scenes on the TV where someone is desperately trying to guess somebody's password? Forget about it - just boot from Knoppix instead.

The easiest way to get a command line is to press the penguin icon and click "Root Shell".

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mount

will give you details of all the drives detected on your system - you probably think you have one, and actually have three. That's the way my last two laptops were shipped, anyway.

This will output something like

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mount
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd)

Though yours will probably have fewer entries. You won't understand it, but anyone who uses Linux will. I don't have a Windows partiton, so there isn't one here, but you're generally looking for the smallest one with "type ntfs" or "type fat32" (which is, oddly, still a thing occasionally). From this, you can see my boot partition is sda1 (again, I don't have a Windows partition, so mine is ext2 - yours will be ntfs)

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dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda1

will perform a low level repair of the master boot record. It will often work when Windows repair won't, because you've bypass a lot of cruft Windows needs and Linux doesn't to get this far. It does the same thing, in a very different way.

(And for anyone reading this who uses Linux, don't try this. This is for fixing Windows from Linux. If you're using Linux, just use your package manager to reconfigure grub/lilo).

BouldRake wrote: Will dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda or install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 /dev/sda still work?

If you understand what that means, go ahead and try it, and if it doesn't work, you can roll it back yourself.

If you don't understand what that means, wait for somebody to confirm - I have no idea if this will work post-UEFI, and trying it might just make things harder.

For future reference, this does still work.

Next time your MBR is screwed, you can boot a Linux Live CD. You will, sadly, need something on a 3.x kernel, which means Knippix insead of DamnSmallLinux.

Then you can just open a command line as root and

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dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda

to fix everything.

If that doesn't work, you can

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install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 /dev/sda

where /dev/sda is actual drive. If you don't know what it is, just type "mount" and show the output to somebody who does know.

Then just reboot.

And most importantly of all, India grows my favourite tea, and for that, I salute you.

A beautiful song, of utter, hopeless despair. If anyone knows Phil Stewart, ask him from me if he's got another one.

Christy Moore - Barrowlands 2014 - Away Ye Broken Heart - YouTube

Will dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda or install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 /dev/sda still work?

If you understand what that means, go ahead and try it, and if it doesn't work, you can roll it back yourself.

If you don't understand what that means, wait for somebody to confirm - I have no idea if this will work post-UEFI, and trying it might just make things harder.

48 hours wasn't plucked out of my arse, but it's not official either. Should probably have been more specific in that post.

48 hours from "add to pending" being removed, and getting paid has just been the upper limit reported thus far.

Well, Clixsense only earn if you do, so look at your own earnings. Are they going up or down? Mine have gone up every year.

What's happening, is generally, most sites are ponzi schemes. They hit trouble, they adjust the payment terms, and because people are stupid, they insist it wasn't the ponzi scheme (or underpriced ads - that used to be a thing, selling ads for a tenth of the price it cost to send them) that killed them, it was changing the payment terms. Clixsense has changed the payment terms, which people have come to associate with death, but doesn't have the ponzi scheme this is generally associated with.

In reality, yes, they pay slower than PTCs with ponzi schemes attached - but they still pay faster than most other reward sites. The changes are for the worse, but even after they've got worse, they're still paying quicker than their competitors - they've got further to fall than anyone else.

Do I like the new payment changes? No.

Do they worry me? Not really.

For what it's worth, I just got paid in the last few minutes. Estimated it to arrive yesterday - with the holiday, that makes it on time.

Quote:MON was a holiday in the states

I wish someone had told me that earlier - that was the answer to most "Why haven't I been paid yet?" questions this week; including my own.

I'm going to have to pull you there, you can't get away with that.

If something sucks, it's bad, if something blows it's bad?

How does that work then? You can't have two opposite things meaning the same thing. If we did that, "hot" would mean "tepid", and cold would mean "tepid", and we'd have no words for hot or cold.

You need to decide now, as a continent, which direction air travels in for it to be good, and which direction it travels in to be bad.

BASIC on the PC sucked. On the Amstrad CPC, we had Locomotive BASIC, which was easy to mix with assembler, so you could do all the things BASIC is good at (ie, string handling) in BASIC, and all the stuff Assembler is good at (everything else) in Z80 Assembler.

If all BASICs were like Locomotive BASIC, BASIC wouldn't have the poor reputation it has today.

I think you're wrong because the markets are imaginary. Money isn't backed by anything anymore, and thus can be manipulated.

When the Earth is a glowing ball of molten rock a few billion years from now, the markets will still have a fixed price for the price of oil.

I think we'd probably agree if we measured real terms rather than the markets, though.

I was lucky, I was here at the first "for beginners" distro. That was Corel Linux back in 1999. That was also Debian based. It wasn't quite as easy as Ubuntu though, you still had to compile your own Winmodem, which wasn't easy in the days when you only had one computer, and you had no internet connection to get the driver in the first place, and then it never worked first time....took about a month using the mailing list at work, downloading and patching new drivers every day. Worth it though.

For a really small distro that'll run on a 286 just fine, try DamnSmallLinux. Fits in just 50MB. I use it on all my old gear, and for my recovery shell.

What makes Ubuntu good is proprietary drivers and firmware. It's all well and good us sulking about Ubuntu being a poor open source citizen, it's poor choices of desktop, etc, and being all religious about free as in freedom, but it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things - if your WIFI and your video card don't work, you're not staying. Until Mint, Ubuntu was the only choice.

I'm not a fan, not by a long way - but I am a realist. Most people who start on Ubuntu end up on Debian proper eventually anyway.

Quote:I've been to Bhutan, and I wondered why they pray to such a fat guy all the time?

-- Marianne Vos