Root Access

1:42 AM

@surfasb Should I edit my answer to state that we are including keyboard shortcuts not listed in the referenced section on windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Keyboard-shortcuts ?

surfasb

@iglvzx Meh. That's going to eventually turn into a wiki anyways.

@Mokubai I'll do it right now.

@Mokubai NM, you already did it.

iglvzx

@surfasb Fixed it.

HackToHell

2:53 AM

wow .. there are a lot of telnet games still active see this one nethack.alt.org

studiohack

3:08 AM

snow! (taken in the spring)

HackToHell

3:25 AM

@studiohack do not post photos from fb, can get the profile of the person who has posted it.

studiohack

@HackToHell how? I was wondering about that

HackToHell

@studiohack hacktohell.org/2011/04/get-facebook-profile-using-facebook.html

studiohack

neato @HackToHell, I like... thanks for the heads up

HackToHell

@studiohack :)

surfasb

@HackToHell All that does is get their public profile. Not exactly an exploit . . .

HackToHell

3:35 AM

@surfasb i did not say exploit , yet they can get the public profile :(

surfasb

Anyone can get your public profile.

That's why it's public.

HackToHell

but if you use an pseudonym ... and your real name in fb

surfasb

That's not exactly security. . .

It's like finding out where someone lives by looking at their IP address.

iglvzx

Almost to 2K points!

surfasb

It's not a big secret.

HackToHell

3:38 AM

@surfasb possible if ur fbi :D

surfasb

@HackToHell Now you are just getting ridiculous.

iglvzx

@HackToHell I did not understand your statement

HackToHell

I meant if you had privileges like FBI then you can find a person using is IP

iglvzx

You can publically find out where a person's ISP is located if you know their IP address.

HackToHell

@iglvzx you cannot get the address

soandos

3:46 AM

It may take a warrant even if you are the FBI

studiohack

@iglvzx what do you mean? you have like 2K+?

iglvzx

@studiohack I have 2K+ throughout all of StackExchange. But just under 2K for SU

Journeyman Geek

@iglvzx: my total rep on the whole of SE other than SU is less than 2k i think

studiohack

@iglvzx whaaaa? no, when I when to look at your page, it had like 2009 rep?

iglvzx

@studiohack Oh.. Well, I was only 40 pts away 15 minutes ago.

studiohack

3:49 AM

@iglvzx idk... happy new year and happy editing :)

iglvzx

@studiohack Thanks, buddy. Glad to be part of the 2K+ team. :)

studiohack

haha :P

surfasb

@soandos You mean, it will take a warrant, even if you are the FBI.

soandos

@surfasb, I think they can get it without a warrent if the ISP is feeling cooperative, but not positive

@surfasb, though there is a court cases saying that IP numbers are not people

surfasb

@soandos The ISP can't give away your information when it is against your rights.

Even if the ISP does, it is against the law and would be thrown out in court.

It's the same concept where the police can't walk into your house, even if your door is wide open.

HackToHell

3:57 AM

What about illegal taps from CIA ??

soandos

For some reason I didn't think it needed a warrent in all cases

sidran32

The ISP can. I don't think they need a warrant, unless they can get warrants at short notice at any hour of the day, because I had to call in something to 911 once and they were able to match an IP address to a physical location within an hour, and it was late at night.

soandos

@HackToHell, ILLIGAL is the key word there

sidran32

The police had to request it from the ISP but I don't think it's a warrant-needed thing, but that's just a guess.

surfasb

@sidran32 They can try to explain to the judge that it was an emergency. It will still get thrown out.

HackToHell

3:58 AM

yep mashable.com/2009/10/19/cia-social-media-monitoring

surfasb

@HackToHell That's gossip.

sidran32

@surfasb I don't even know if they had to get a warrant because I only reported it and they had to follow up with me later. I got very little info and didn't inquire into what they did (not my business). But they got the info, so I dunno.

HackToHell

And if you try to download top secret files , you might get bombed :D blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/01/…

surfasb

Christ. I can't believe this is considered journalism.

I might as well start writing that friggin midgets are taking over the world because their average income is higher than regular people's income.

@HackToHell You can only declare war on nations, not citizens.

So if you, a citizen download top secret files, it won't be a bomb, but a trip to pound me in the butt federal prison.

I hope you guys aren't a product of the university system. . .

This FUD is giving me a headache.

sidran32

4:15 AM

@surfasb I ignore that kind of stuff. It's easier on my brain. ;)

surfasb

@sidran32 Unfortunately for me, coworkers bombard our work email with this crap.

sidran32

@surfasb Sorry to hear that. :(

surfasb

@sidran32 I have considered attaching electric nodes to the keyboard and wiring the spam filter to it.

sidran32

@surfasb That's an amusing solution. :P

surfasb

@sidran32 I'm fully convinced that physical pain will teach people more than memos and policies.

@sidran32 When you were a kid, what kept you from touching the stove? Your mom? or was it after touching the stove?

sidran32

4:19 AM

@surfasb You could always configure Outlook to match emails that are of that sort and filter them into a dedicated folder that you can then ignore except maybe once a week when you delete everything. :P

surfasb

@sidran32 Nah, too much work. Plus that only treats the symptoms.

sidran32

@surfasb May be the best option. And certainly not too much work if you were thinking about hooking up electrodes to the keyboards of these people. ;)

surfasb

@sidran32 The physical pain seems like the long term solution.

sidran32

@surfasb Heck, I got my parents to check internet rumors against snopes.com first before forwarding emails to me. :P

surfasb

I can also hook it up to every time someone tries to email a 2gb attachment.

Sadly, company policy is unlimited sized attachments.

sidran32

4:22 AM

That's dumb

surfasb

And unlimited sized email accounts.

sidran32

Send the IT manager a 64 gb file of junk a few times and let them figure out why.

surfasb

I work for the IT manager.

It's not his call.

sidran32

Well whoever's call it is. :P

surfasb

Grumble grumble. . .

For now, we just archive stuff that is a month old.

sidran32

4:24 AM

That helps some.

surfasb

But the federated seach server can still search them.

sidran32

6

Q: Drive won't release lock on CD after burning a disc

I have two bluray drives of the same exact model and brand installed in my computer. I occasionally like to use either of them to burn CDs or DVDs using various software (Windows Media Player 12, Zune, ImgBurn, Windows DVD Maker, etc). It will get through the burning process and complete successf...

optical-drive

This annoys me.

surfasb

5:02 AM

0

Q: How do I elevate permissions from within a batch script in Windows 7 or 2008?

I'm writing a batch script that requires administrator permissions to execute, so to start it I need to right-click and select "Run as Administrator". Is there a way to elevate permissions form within the script instead, like "su" in *nix?

windows-7 permissions administrator

The dup that is linked isn't the correct answer.

The dup that is linked has runas as the answer. Runas does not elevate commands in a batchfile if UAC is enabled.

But it has four votes to close. . .

Amith KK

Hello from AU.

surfasb

Hi from the US

Amith KK

*Ask Ubuntu :D

Im from India :D

Tom Wijsman

5:22 AM

Whaaaaaaat...

Funny how the Visual Basic 6 installer is installed to look through your entire disk contents for setup components... Those were the bad days. :D

But really amazing that it still runs. o_O

Amith KK

@TomWijsman ? :D

Tom Wijsman

@AmithKK I need VB6 for a school project, don't question me!

Amith KK

@TomWijsman :D Nice

Tom Wijsman

Quite a nostalgic feeling given that I first opened this program 12 years ago...

Amith KK

When You were 10?

I think I did so to :| Not sure

Tom Wijsman

5:34 AM

@AmithKK Well, I have a program where I can use a GUI to create executable live sequence charts.

Amith KK

LOL

I dont understand that :D:DDD

Tom Wijsman

So, I can click on a button and then right click on other stuff to say that "this should turn green", "calculate something and put it in this text box".

But I actually need to make a GUI to use in that program... o_O

And when I saw VB6 in the documentation, yeah... O_o

Amith KK

Great!

Waaaiiit

VB doesent work on linux?

Tom Wijsman

So amazing that it runs natively on Windows 8!

ROFL, if I add a Excel 97-2003 worksheet COM component it puts a Office 2010 COM component in there, but yet no errors at all... :D

Compilation also works, great.

@AmithKK Yeah, there were some books and a CD somewhere. I took it, installed it and started having fun with it back then... :)

I wrote a back-up application in it a long time ago where you give a source path and destination path and it copies everything in a new folder with the current date and time. I think it got saved to make it easier than manually going to copy / paste.

Useful back then if you didn't know about anything else.

Now I would use a one-liner at a CLI to do the same... o_O

On the other hand, calling the beep() and trying to replicate songs that were popular to kids back these days was another thing I did, as well as try to make some patterns with it.

But these days the PC speaker is not supported anymore, so at one or another day I removed that. I don't think that any VB6 stuff survived my computer history.

Journeyman Geek

6:13 AM

@TomWijsman: ever messed with dr sbaito?

Journeyman Geek

6:26 AM

o0 superuser.com/a/372533/10165

over 500 floppies?!!

soandos

8:26 AM

@JourneymanGeek Its closer to 975 floppies (not counting overhead and all). He meant the High density ones. (I suppose if you want to use an old storage medium, there is no reason to think he meant the latest iteration). Where did he get the floppy idea from anyway?

surfasb

8:38 AM

@TomWijsman Man, don't show that to the geriatrics. They'll start going on and on about the old school days.

Journeyman Geek

9:00 AM

hmm.. on second glace... superuser.com/questions/372544/… too localised?

Amith KK

Daniel Beck

9:27 AM

@JourneymanGeek We'd need to close all our hardware troubleshooting questions if it were.

Simon Sheehan

12:27 PM

Laptop arrives January 6th :D (estimated)

Journeyman Geek

12:38 PM

@DanielBeck: more like its an issue concerning a very specific set of parts.

yay

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek Most hardware troubleshooting is.

6 more up votes and I get the first golden osx badge on SE :-)

Journeyman Geek

@DanielBeck: Well, i did answer it ;p

I just consider it an edge case

hm

my dog does not like me using the gaming computer :/

I was getting asked to play. THEN he ignores me

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek It could be rephrased/generalized if it's a more widespread problem of coolers not fitting into cases.

Journeyman Geek

@DanielBeck: There's no generic answer - it would depend on your cooler and your case

you'd have less of an issue with a larger case, or a smaller cooler

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek How can I find out whether my cooler fits into my case? Can this be answered?

Journeyman Geek

12:42 PM

and the answer seems to be "modify the darned thing" so the specific answer would depend on the particular case

@DanielBeck: I don't believe it can, generically

Even if you cut down the sub-type to 'self contained CPU water coolers', the answer would really be to measure or mod

Daniel Beck

7

Q: Are languages too localized?

Are questions related to specific natural languages too localized? One of the reasons questions are closed as too localized is geography as stated e.g. here, even if the question is possibly relevant to all of China (population 1.3B) or all of India (1.2B), both of which have a greater populatio...

discussion close-reasons too-localized

This could also apply here. I rather like both answers.

Journeyman Geek

ahh

I do believe it does

Daniel Beck

Users can decide they want to learn Sanskrit. That apparently makes related questions on-topic. Likewise, users can decide they want the exact same cooler and case.

Tom Wijsman

@JourneymanGeek No, but I remember some old program that reacted to input. I don't know however what exactly it was but it was something full screen reacting. I think this comes close to it:

►

But I can't remember that silly laughing, so I doubt if it was that. >_<

I think it was another version of that, or al least we didn't trigger it to laugh that much...

Daniel Beck

1:06 PM

What's even worse that reading ridiculous question titles in SE network sidebar ads and only later noticing it's Gaming: Reading question titles and thinking, "I wonder that game that question is about", only to arrive at a completely different SE site.

Journeyman Geek

1:22 PM

headesks

I flagged when i meant to vote to close ;p

Daniel Beck

1:33 PM

@JourneymanGeek not a real question and not an answer are too alike?

Journeyman Geek

hm

I'm not used to questions as spam ;p

spam as questions

Ielton

Hi everyone!

Psycogeek

hi Ielton

Ielton

:D

Psycoge How r u?

Psycogeek

I think i just burst my last brain cell. I just realised that 64bit programs are in system 32, which wouldnt be so bad, if i had not tried to read this msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384187(v=vs.85).aspx

So just to clear things up :-) the 32bit programs are in WOW64, WOW has always meant backwards compatability, the 64bit programs are in 32, and 86 means 32 but 64 means 64

Ielton

1:47 PM

This chat would be better if ran on IRC ;)

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Ielton: sooner or later someone will do a proxy for it. You can't edit things in IRC however ;p

Ielton

@JourneymanGeek Edit for what? IRC is simple, only chat :D

Journeyman Geek

@Ielton: this does a lot more than just that ;p

Daniel Beck

@Ielton You're able to evaluate this chat system after 10 minutes and 6 messages? Impressive...

Journeyman Geek

@DanielBeck: but but... its irc. Its... old school

People get impressed by it... ;p

Ielton

1:57 PM

@DanielBeck Hey, calm down. I speaking in general

I like the KISS philosophy

But this is my opinion, not all

Hey, where r u from?

Psycogeek

@Ielton I prefer simple operation over complex failure, Hang on, i have to go Reboot my airconditioner system , i think i need to re-write the eprom so the heater works again :-)

I was trying to cook a TV dinner in the microwave, but it had a DNS failure and couldnt connect to Swanson.com/microwavesettings/indx.hngryman. I wonder if i can figure out how to type in minutes again :-)

Ielton

@Psycogeek GL!

Psycogeek

But dont worry , because SKYNET doesnt actually exist. the "cloud" has nothing to do with sky :-)

Ielton

hahaha, lol

Tom Wijsman

@Ielton IRC can't do this:

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Ielton

2:13 PM

yes, It do, but in simple way

Tom Wijsman

Clicking an URL only makes it harder and is nowhere near the KISS principle.

:)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

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38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50

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70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87

Ielton

Nice, but this can be done in IRC

Tom Wijsman

90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100

Ielton

using bots

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, if you paste 100 of lines...

Ielton

2:23 PM

But ok, It is my opinion

Tom Wijsman

Or create a page to link them.

Ielton

Nobody needs to agree :D

Tom Wijsman

You can also delete stuff here, migrate stuff between rooms, star messages, ... ;)

William Hilsum

Can anyone help me!? About 2/3 years ago, there was a joke/mock picture on a big-ish site... I think Fark/Reddit/Hacker News or similar that was a drunk system admin who was on the floor with a smashed up server and a drink in one hand... I am trying to find it to show someone and can't seem to find any trace of it!... has anyone seen it?

Tom Wijsman

rofl @ youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http://www.youtube.com/v/…

Not what you are looking for, but I came past that while searching for it.

2

This comes close, I think? :)

William Hilsum

2:41 PM

@TomWijsman THAT'S THE ONE!!! :)

Tom Wijsman

rofl² @ youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http://www.youtube.com/… (contains F-word)

Friends are sharing these mash-ups, dunno where they find them.

Daniel Beck

2:55 PM

@TomWijsman Contains F-word quite a few times

Luke

4:09 PM

@TomWijsman My CNET class did one like the first picture, but we never photographed it :(

Tom Wijsman

4:53 PM

@DanielBeck Apparently the image I linked @WilliamHilsum also contains it... O.O

Vipin Ms

hey

Tom Wijsman

@VipinMs: Welcome!

Vipin Ms

thanks man

I have some issues.

William Hilsum

I like that domain name!

Vipin Ms

it's related to ubuntu

can I ?

helllo

Daniel Beck

5:16 PM

@VipinMs Just ask away. If someone can answer, they will. Note that folks are usually busy doing something else and won't be able to respond immediately.

Luke

5:57 PM

I have a society question: Why are there multiple questions about people wanting to buy the MacBook Pro just to run Windows???

DMA57361

6:12 PM

evening all

Mokubai

Heya @DMA57361

DMA57361

how're you @Mokubai?

Mokubai

Going back through the logs, who on earth would want to go back to IRC? It was rubbish and painful

Not too bad @DMA57361, you? You having fun?

DMA57361

@Mokubai yeah, I'm good thanks.

Mokubai

If IRC is "the principle of KISS" then surely we should never have progressed past telegrams, as they're much simpler than IRC

DMA57361

6:17 PM

lol

indeed

Mokubai

Was Santa good to you @DMA57361?

DMA57361

@Mokubai erm... yeah, I guess. I got stuff and none of it is completely hideous/pointless

Mokubai

That's always a good start

DMA57361

sorry, got pulled outside for a moment

yeah, usual stuff really; most of the focus is on the daughter anyway

@Mokubai you?

Mokubai

Aye, Christmas is more about the kids anyway. Most of our effort was towards the little offspring in the family

Got a couple of cool toys and the usual bits people get

Luke

6:26 PM

@Mokubai +1, more about the kids now

DMA57361

now... do I cook myself dinner, or just eat some of the remaining chocolates and biscuits...

Luke

6:42 PM

@DMA57361 Why not both?

George Edison

7:40 PM

Halp... I have a Windows process that won't terminate.

Neither Task Manager nor Process Explorer can kill it.

Each reports "Access Denied"... even when run as an administrator.

(The program in question is BitPIM - nothing malicious.)

Ahmed Nuaman

morning, afternoons and evenings

does anyone recommend a offsite backup company?

S3 will work out to be way too expensive, files don't need to be accessed online, just via SSH

Mokubai

7:58 PM

@GeorgeEdison does the program have an option to protect itself from being killed? I know McAfee has an option like this that you can turn off...

Luke

@AhmedNuaman How much data?

Mokubai

@GeorgeEdison Have you tried Taskkill: taskkill /f /t /im programtokill.exe

George Edison

9:35 PM

@Mokubai Same error:

ERROR: The process with PID 2992 (child process of PID 2808) could not be terminated. Reason: Access is denied.

Tom Wijsman

9:56 PM

@GeorgeEdison: Did you start them (PE or TK) as administrator?

In Process Explorer you can try to identify the owner of the process.

Ahmed Nuaman

11:43 PM

@Luke as much as I can get, let's say 4TB for now.

Journeyman Geek

@AhmedNuaman: if you can skip the ssh option crashplan and backblaze are worth looking at

how much would you be willing to pay/how much is amazon charging?

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