Root Access

On a social site (mainly for Canadians), there was a "private" computer forum, where the elite could just talk and post. Then we had our own site, our own IRC channel, our own FTP repository, etc. But that's all gone now. But through that site, I learned about Stack Overflow, posted one question, left for a couple years, then learned about Super User

Journeyman Geek

I'm mostly on small private servers ;p

but I'm on freenode

Not a fan of IRC for tech support but its a great social tool

Canadian Luke

I'm not on anywhere anymore, but I was on efnet

allquixotic

i used to use freenode a lot

Canadian Luke

I gotta run, I'll be right back (just going to another building)

Bob

12:51 AM

@JourneymanGeek The whole lack of offline messages/notifications makes that kinda annoying.

Certainly colourful.

DragonLord

2

Q: Windows 7 BSOD 0x7A after every 1-2 hour

My computer is BSOD'ing after every 1-2 hour. It is doing BSOD randomly. When I check for solutions no solution came up. Even the xml file is not readable. I'll try to take an screenshot of the BSOD screen and post here. Is there a way to read that Dump file? I am using a laptop so I can't chec...

Canadian Luke

1:08 AM

I'm back

Michael Frank

2:10 AM

Afternoon all!

Canadian Luke

Sup @MichaelFrank

Michael Frank

Oh ya know... just laying around the house resting my broken knee.

Canadian Luke

Shitty. I can make you feel better!

My OnePlus One phone just cleared customs, and is arriving tomorrow ^.^

Michael Frank

My Tramadol is doing a good job of that!

But that's awesome.

Canadian Luke

Gotta run again though, gotta teach First Aid now

Bob

5:08 AM

@JourneymanGeek You're running Win10 in VBox, right?

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

Bob

Have you noticed any cursor lag?

It seems quite severe here.

Journeyman Geek

Not really

I did give it very happy ram tho

oh, 'trailing'?

Bob

Even limited RAM shouldn't result in cursor lag.

@JourneymanGeek Ya.

Also, when moving quickly off-screen it stops tracking at that point - so the cursor is still on the screen a bit away from the edge.

Maybe I've been spoiled by VMware not being stupid.

Journeyman Geek

Bob

5:13 AM

That... doesn't really show anything :\

Journeyman Geek

That's how it looks for me ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek A low-framerate GIF isn't gonna say much about cursor lag :P

It's something you feel.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

I suppose you could see it if you had a camera pointed at the mouse...

Journeyman Geek

._.

ahh

then no

Bob

5:19 AM

Basically, you'd expect move mouse => move cursor.

But I get move mouse => minor delays of varying length => move cursor

It's not enough to be measurable, or think something's frozen.

But it's enough for the cursor to feel laggy

Hm. I just upped it to two CPUs, and that seems to have fixed it (sevenforums.com/virtualization/…)

VBox is doing something very very weird.

Especially considering a single i7-3770 core can easily beat all the low-end Windows tablets out there that work just fine.

And also considering actual measured CPU usage is pretty much zero.

Boris_yo

6:02 AM

@Bob This guy only has natural lighting and photos are awesome: youtu.be/LOP8GZp3aME?t=19s

Bob

@Boris_yo Can't watch videos right now - at work

Journeyman Geek

6:24 AM

ugh

My parents have a gift for messing up my productivity ;p

XKCD

6:52 AM

Hey guys! What's eating you? Ha ha ha it's me! Oh, what fun we have.

Bob

7:21 AM

Heh.

@allquixotic ozbargain.com.au/node/171646#comment-2394807

HackToHell

10:30 AM

@Hennes Oh :/

HackToHell

11:19 AM

Bleh to get Edison to support my Web Cam, I have to build the kernel

Journeyman Geek

That builds character

HackToHell

I know :D

Downloading a 600 Mb source package :/

HackToHell

11:55 AM

Blah the sd card reader doesn't work in linux

SOB

Journeyman Geek

That is odd

HackToHell

Oh wait, there is a /dev/sdb

Stupid cinnamon didn't mount

Journeyman Geek

Lol

HackToHell

ooh Yocto uses something called bitbake for make/build of the source

Bitbake is nice

Now it's not nice

It doesn't show me an ETA for the download of the kernel souces

fuck my internet

Journeyman Geek

Lol

HackToHell

12:06 PM

I should find another ISP

512 kbps sucks :(

Awal Garg

12:29 PM

HALP!

I am dual booting windows and ubuntu.

I installed ubuntu first (don't ask me why)

Then Windows.

Then windows rebooted.

for some reason windows couldn't start... just kept rebooting from the black screen

probably because I did something stupid on windows...

Then I live booted ubuntu, started boot-repair to get back grub

HackToHell

I'm gonna put it here for bookmarking #ignore alextgalileo.altervista.org/blog/…

Awal Garg

now both windows and ubuntu work well.

but...

HackToHell

but ?

Awal Garg

Grub shows there are two windows

one on sda3 and another on sda4

the sda3 version just keeps rebooting

but booting into sda4 works fine

...not sure what to do :(

HackToHell

That's weird

Me think you installed Windows twice

Awal Garg

12:33 PM

Noep

It is a new laptop.

Freshly installed linux

then windows

HackToHell

Well did it contain FreeDOS ?

Awal Garg

It came with ubuntu 12.04

I wiped the hard drive.

Installed 14.04 lts

HackToHell

Oh check what's in sda3 ?

And what's in sda4

Awal Garg

sda3 is a logical partition, I guess. I would have to boot in ubuntu to check that, hold on.

!!afk ubuntu

HackToHell

tempted to burn all the node processes

Journeyman Geek

12:42 PM

@HackToHell: chat abuse!

(I do the same on G+ ;p)

Awal Garg

@HackToHell sda3 is created by windows, that 105mb partition :/

HackToHell

@AwalGarg Aha !

@JourneymanGeek hehe :D

Awal Garg

@HackToHell my dear linux mint!

Journeyman Geek

this is kinda shitty

Awal Garg

@HackToHell so... now?

Journeyman Geek

12:43 PM

I have a node.js app with an installer script

that dosen't pull in any of the node.js deps it needs

HackToHell

@AwalGarg Naw, ubuntu 14.04 with cinnamon

@AwalGarg Live with it like me or google and find a solution

Awal Garg

@HackToHell o_O change that start logo brah!

@HackToHell you also have the same situation?

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek deps ?

Journeyman Geek

dependencies

Awal Garg

dependencies

:( @JourneymanGeek ninja

Journeyman Geek

12:44 PM

so I'm running the script and pulling them in one by one as it bitches.

Awal Garg

lol

HackToHell

@AwalGarg I have a 1 gig FreeDOS partition that I have no idea how to remove

Awal Garg

Shouldn't npm manage them for you @JourneymanGeek?

Journeyman Geek

@AwalGarg: should

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek That fucking sucks

Journeyman Geek

12:45 PM

If it did, would I be having this problem?

Awal Garg

lol

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: meh, I'm documenting it.

HackToHell

I remember the time I had to make a offline npm package

so damn annoying

Awal Garg

@HackToHell so... how about you google and find the solution? Would help both of us :P

HackToHell

why the bloody hell can't they put it in a zip file

Awal Garg

12:46 PM

goes to google

Journeyman Geek

web.scrollback.io

pondering running a local instance of this

HackToHell

@AwalGarg I'm playing with my Edison board ... :P

Awal Garg

How does windows manage to suck so fuckin much?

HackToHell

I am going to make my galileo board run 24/7 as a downloading server :P

Awal Garg

nice

HackToHell

12:47 PM

Edison is giong to be my Command and Control server :P

@JourneymanGeek that's nice

works with irc I suppose

Journeyman Geek

In theory

Its a bit odd but I'm bored, and want do something interesting ;p

Awal Garg

@JourneymanGeek awsome

Psycogeek

"meaningful conversations" they are trying to ruin the web :-)

Awal Garg

@HackToHell :

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Q: Why does Grub report two items for Windows 7?

I did a clean install of Windows 7 on the same hard drive. I followed the instructions at: http://www.howtogeek.com/114884/how-to-repair-grub2-when-ubuntu-wont-boot/ I followed the terminal instructions to restore grub bootloader. Whenever I reboot. I see two entries of Windows 7 on Grub. I do...

dual-boot grub2 windows-7

Looks like it is ok...

HackToHell

Uhm I don't want to break anything

Go ahead try it out

kalina

1:13 PM

@allquixotic I didn't leave you, I left EVERYONE.

speaking of leaving...

o/

Journeyman Geek

Bye!

@HackToHell: 0_0

what do you have for storage on that?

Bob

@kalina ...I'm amazed you even saw that message.

Months after the fact, too.

Do you make a habit of going around searching your name on chatrooms? :P

kalina

1:31 PM

@Bob yes!

it's like an RSS feed of all the things I need to get back to eventually

HackToHell

1:53 PM

@JourneymanGeek Uhm 16 gig class 10 SD card :D

Journeyman Geek

ahh

HackToHell

I don't have a external HDD so SD cards it is \m/

Journeyman Geek

~~does~~ can it take an external HDD?

HackToHell

It has USB port, I don't think it can power a HDD though

The entire thing is run on a 1.5 A adapter

or you can run it from a standard USB port of a PC

Journeyman Geek

You can actually do what with a raspi too

HackToHell

1:55 PM

Yeah, edison is basically raspi on steroids

Galileo is arduino on steroids

whoa star wall

2

Journeyman Geek

and has x86

HackToHell

Yeah

Journeyman Geek

which is a BIG thing when you want to compile stuff elsewhere

HackToHell

I suppose so

I was thinking of changing my ISP last month and then I promptly forgot all about it

Called another ISP today and they offer 2 Mbps unlimited !

That Brazilian Guy

I keep telling my wife to sue the ISP but she doesn't want to

Not only they charge for a lot of unneeded services (antivirus, backup, etc etc etc), despite unavoidable coupled sales being forbidded by law; and they charge for access to wifi hotspots that haven't ever worked for the entire year we've been using this ISP

HackToHell

2:01 PM

Hey @Sathya is reliance(ISP) any good ?

They offer 2Mbps for 700 \m/

HackToHell

2:18 PM

Okay watching stuff on a Blu-ray disk is too awesome

I want aBLu ray drive now

Sathya

@HackToHell I had a good experience with them when I was in Chennai ( >3 yrs ago)

dunno how they are now tho

HackToHell

Oh, I am going to risk it.

I simply spend too much time waiting for stuff to download

Journeyman Geek

lol

their CDMA sucks ._.

HackToHell

2:34 PM

I'm using their CDMA modem as my keyboard stand, fits perfectly.

Journeyman Geek

3:07 PM

;p

Tom Hart

4:47 PM

I think I've just found my favourite command ever, 'yes no'

Canadian Luke

@TomHart In Linux?

Tom Hart

Yeah, I was looking for a way to spam out no, and saw I could pass a string to yes

allquixotic

5:06 PM

!!tell 18791548 no

ChatBot John Cavil

Canadian Luke

Is reddit down?

allquixotic

@CanadianLuke downforeveryoneorjustme.com/reddit.com

Canadian Luke

Weird... I"m getting their OW page

allquixotic

3

Canadian Luke

5:14 PM

That Brazilian Guy

5:25 PM

@allquixotic Someone's been on reddit today

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy I went to reddit.com when Luke asked, and saw that, and posted it.

That Brazilian Guy

I only made an account there yesterday

Had been hearing about it for years but never bothered

YIL it can be a huuuuuuuge time vortex

allquixotic

why do you think everyoen goes there (and slashdot, and wikipedia) during lunch

!! s/during lunch/all day at work/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic why do you think everyoen goes there (and slashdot, and wikipedia) all day at work (source)

Hennes

5:45 PM

3 Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky
7 for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone
9 for Mortal Men doomed to die
Then to voicemail

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic Wikipedia? That's noting. Once I went to tvtropes ~~and three days passed~~

allquixotic

6:01 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy Been There Done That about tvtropes

Canadian Luke

7:26 PM

0

Q: Forcing clients to get new IP Address from DHCP Server

I am running a DHCP server on Debian Wheezy, with isc-dhcp-server. Because people were connecting unauthorized machines, my DHCP leases were running thin, and eventually, authorized machines could not connect to our network. So, I asked about blocking certain MAC addresses from even picking up an...

windows-7 windows-8.1 isc-dhcp

Oliver Salzburg

8:03 PM

@CanadianLuke Just FYI, blocking a MAC address on your DHCP does not prevent anyone from assigning themselves a static IP address

Which, when you think about, also says a bit about your problem at hand

Canadian Luke

@OliverSalzburg They're blocked via iptables, so they can get an address, but not access the Internet or other computers on the LAN. The second part to that question prevented them from getting addresses via DHCP, but they're still blocked from entering a statick IP

Oliver Salzburg

Ah, gotcha

Canadian Luke

We have a group looking into 802.1X, but it's a limited working group right now

DragonLord

8:40 PM

@CanadianLuke That's HTTP 504 Gateway Timeout

Reddit has this nasty tendency to generate 504s

No other site I visit gives me these sorts of timeouts on a regular basis

Canadian Luke

Thanks for the info, @DragonLord. I gave up and did my other "work"

Ben Richards

I was reviewing edits and stuff and I got this...

DragonLord

@BenRichards Nothing new.

Ben Richards

Great, I passed, but I had no idea these were done...

Since when? And is it because I accept a lot? :P

DragonLord

Review audits have been around for a while

Ben Richards

8:45 PM

Aha

Kinda neat, but I just had no idea :P

I was looking sideways at the proposed edit because it made NO sense. XD

DragonLord

I've dealt with my share of spam edits

Ben Richards

Yeah it was just a test though. Wasn't even spam. Was it randomized or do people write them? It was really obvious :P

Heh, internet just briefly cut out and phone apparently went wacko at the same time for a little while.

It's all over cable. Wonder if there was a brief outage.

DragonLord

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A follow-up from this question. I've noticed that many spam suggested edits have edit summaries that contain an email address (examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]). Spambots seem to be treating the edit summary field as if it were the email field in a blog post comment form. It would be great if we to...

feature-request suggested-edits spam

Ben Richards

Oh @DragonLord I didn't mean that I was reviewing an edit at all. It was just that the proposed edit was nonsense and once I rejected it, it showed that message, that it was a test and I passed.

I've reviewed edits and stuff before. That was the first time it said "It was a test" and it also was far and above nonsense.

Was wondering if the text was randomized by the site or if someone wrote it :P

DragonLord

179

Q: What are review tests (audits) and how do they work?

I recently received this rather amusing message while reviewing a user's first post: Congratulations! This was only a test, designed to make sure you were paying attention. This post has already been removed, but thanks for taking time to leave feedback for the author. What is t...

support faq review review-audits

Pretty sure it's randomized text

Ben Richards

9:02 PM

Aha

Though with some of the really poor english I've seen in comments and people obviously using websites very wrongly, I wouldn't put it past someone to actually make a post like that :P

Could be a bit more subtle though!

Working from home today because snow

Canadian Luke

@BenRichards How much do you got?

Ben Richards

@CanadianLuke We actually are expecting only up to 8 inches. But it is very wet and it's sticking, plus it's the first snow of the year, so we expect slippery conditions :P

Canadian Luke

How close to the border are you?

Ben Richards

I'm in Northern MA so no lake effect :P

allquixotic

9:23 PM

Journeyman Geek

0_0

@BenRichards: randomised text

Often this markovian chainsoup, like they make in glorious soviet union.

allquixotic

Michael Frank

@allquixotic Nope, right now the pain is in my left knee.

allquixotic

@MichaelFrank :(

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank: at least, its not the agony of da feet

Oliver Salzburg

9:39 PM

Hahah. New gravatar!

Bob

:/

allquixotic

what gravatar?

or who rather

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Me

allquixotic

OH. LOL. Oliver

I Ctrl+F5'ed. I love it haha

Oliver Salzburg

:D

It's from the new C&H episode. The scene was hilarious

Oliver Salzburg

10:01 PM

I really love it when patches are included upstream in a timely manner

And I hate it when my pull requests go unnoticed for weeks >:(

Journeyman Geek

hm

Ben Richards

10:43 PM

@JourneymanGeek Aha!

It's slightly annoying when you're working remotely due to weather that said weather also is causing hiccups in your Internet connection. :P

allquixotic

@BenRichards LTE :) even in horrific weather, cellular towers are so sturdy that I rarely lose connection

Ben Richards

@allquixotic I have three options: VNC, NX, or X forwarding over ssh. I fear the performance I would see over a cell network. Even LTE. :P

(besides, I'm close to my 2GB data cap and don't want to push it over this month. Also, I'm rural so cell connection isn't necessarily stable even in the best conditions, depending on what part of the house you're in)

Used to be worse. Can't complain. But it's not necessarily good either.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@BenRichards: I have crappy fibre

(and that's better than cable)

Ben Richards

@JourneymanGeek Oh I'd love fiber. Too bad it's not available here.

Canadian Luke

Fiber is available here... But it's around $150/mo to start

Journeyman Geek

10:54 PM

@BenRichards: we have the "we block ports cause we feel like it, and only supply the advertised for local sites" ISP

@CanadianLuke: about half that would get you gigabit fibre

Ben Richards

@JourneymanGeek That sucks. :( Hopefully that doesn't happen here. Hopefully Title II reclassification goes through.

Journeyman Geek

@BenRichards: Oh, I'll likely get another ISP when I move out

I don't need cable particularly, and the one I have in mind would let me use hulu and/or iplayer

allquixotic

@BenRichards I have unlimited data, and the cellular connection is awesome

Ben Richards

@JourneymanGeek Oh do you have plans to move yet?

Journeyman Geek

@BenRichards: Job first

Interviewed last week at a place that seems perfect for me

Ben Richards

10:56 PM

@JourneymanGeek Ah. I noticed you were doing interviews. How's that going?

Awesome

Journeyman Geek

@BenRichards: first intervew was a success

I must say getting that far here is a pain in the arse

Ben Richards

Yep, speed is a bit lower than I'm used ot

Journeyman Geek

I have a ton of applications no one seems to have read

Ben Richards

nods

Yeah that happens here too :P

Journeyman Geek

I've had 3 interviews so far

all of which had someone from that company reach out to me.

Oh 4. I went for a walk in interview for library assistant

allquixotic

10:58 PM

I have never been turned down after interviewing for a job, but I have applied without being offered an interview

Ben Richards

nods That's what it was like when I was job hunting last year. The job I got actually happened through a placement agency.

Journeyman Geek

I think the technical guys who interviewed me were impressed.

Ben Richards

I interviewed for this one a few years ago but didn't get it. Apparently not for lack of skills, but b/c the boss said I didn't seem too enthusiastic. I wonder if that's a general problem for me.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Canadian Luke

@JourneymanGeek I hate you... Only for your cheap fibre

Ben Richards

10:59 PM

I convinced him this time around that I am enthused. Got it. :P

Journeyman Geek

I'm generally enthusastic

Though, the interviewer was a little suprised when I mentioned I had 7 systems in my home network, not counting phones ;p

and I probably understated it a bit.

Prolly 10, including the raspi, excluding the two spare systems

Ben Richards

Oh, new beta speedtest looks worse!

Though that could just be variance in service quality. It has been spotty

Journeyman Geek

Oh

Ben Richards

beta.speedtest.net/result/3940749782

Haha :P

Journeyman Geek

@BenRichards: do you run synergy/want a key for the newer "commercial" versions?

Ben Richards

11:02 PM

@JourneymanGeek I haven't run synergy for a while. I did donate once though.

Journeyman Geek

ahh

I did, got a ton of keys ;p

(though if I was all windows, I still prefer MWB)

Ben Richards

aha :P

What's that?

Canadian Luke

Much slower download than what we're used to

Ben Richards

dang, that's backwards. We usually get crap upload compared to download

Dinnertime, see ya!

Journeyman Geek

ls

oops

Least it wasn't a password ;p

(though this is a VM and uses a specific username/password combo)

off topicness aside...

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Q: Computer Programming Using COBOL

Can anyone teach me the basics of Cobol Programming. I'm a 2nd college student and it's one of my majors. I'm having trouble understanding it. Can someone please help me? ^_^