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PearsonArtPhoto

I think of it more like buying a brand new 2013 car in 2014.

Besides, I only paid $90 for it...

allquixotic

5:17 PM

@PearsonArtPhoto except that each year in GPU/CPU advancements is as significant as 10-20 years in car advancements, and the VLIW5 architecture is from somewhere around 2009

so it's like buying a brand new 1974 car in 2014 :)

PearsonArtPhoto

Okay, I'll go with that.

allquixotic

enjoy your carburetor flooding is all I can say ;p and lack of airbags, no CD player or bluetooth, horrible MPG, violating the law by not using a catalytic converter, paint that wears off in a year due to acid rain, etc. ;p

Braiam

Understand, @PearsonArtPhoto has a plan to save money

PearsonArtPhoto

Actually, yes, that's exactly my plan...

allquixotic

lol

Bob

5:19 PM

@allquixotic I'd say more 5-10 :P

older GPUs aren't that bad

allquixotic

@Bob depends on how old -- I don't think it's linear; there are a few discontinuities.

PearsonArtPhoto

Besides, the last one I had I used it till it was broken, so...

allquixotic

the jump from fixed function to fully programmable is like a 50 year jump in the gradual evolution of cars.

the jump from Kepler to Maxwell? less substantial.

although GCN is the biggest evolution in AMD graphics core design since ~2003

(and the biggest commercial success, to boot)

that actually sounds like a good xkcd comic

a graph plotting the evolution of cars and the relative evolution of GPUs

1910 = Voodoo 3D Accelerator

Braiam

mm... weird, there isn't a list of GCN graphics cards in Wikipedia

allquixotic

@Braiam Many (not all) HD 7000, HD 8000 and R7/R9 branded cards are GCN 1.0; some of the latter would be GCN 1.1 while others are rebranded GCN 1.0

if it's too cheap to be true, it's probably VLIW5 (or GCN 1.0 in the case of R7/R9)

List of AMD graphics processing units

This page contains general information about the GPUs and video cards by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), including those by ATI Technologies before 2006, based on official specifications in table form. == DirectX version note == DirectX version indicates which graphics acceleration operations the card implements. DirectX 6.0 - Multitexturing DirectX 7.0 - Hardware Transformation, Clipping and Lighting (TCL/T&L) DirectX 8.0 - Pixel Shader 1.1 & Vertex Shader 1.1 DirectX 8.1 - Pixel Shader 1.4 & Vertex Shader 1.1 DirectX 9.0 - Shader Model 2.0 DirectX 9.0b - Pixel Shader 2.0b & Vertex Shader ...

> All models up to including HD 76xx based on TeraScale 2 (VLIW5), HD 77xx - 79xx are based on GCN 1.0 (Graphics Core Next) architecture except the HD 7790 which is based on GCN 1.1.

for HD8000:

> All models up to including HD 84xx based on TeraScale 2 (VLIW5), HD 85xx and later are based on Graphics Core Next architecture.

> All models up to including R5 235X based on TeraScale 2 "Evergreen" (VLIW5)
R5 240 and up are based on Graphics Core Next 1.0
The R9 290, R9 290X, R7 260 and R7 260X are based on Graphics Core Next 1.1 and also support TrueAudio.

so even in the very latest branding scheme they're still selling off old VLIW5

PearsonArtPhoto

5:32 PM

My graphics card now gives me the highest rating on my Windows Experience rating. In fact, it caps off at 7.9:-)

allquixotic

@PearsonArtPhoto WEI is pretty meaningless... it hasn't been updated in years... yes, you'll get great performance with desktop effects, but games are much more demanding than desktop effects

3dmark score is more important

Bob

@allquixotic looks at 7670m

allquixotic

@Bob VLIW5. :/

Boris_yo

Duplicate items in my Android Gallery:

Solution?

Bob

@Boris_yo Ctrl+A, Delete

Boris_yo

5:42 PM

@Bob Thanks

I recently bought Android bluetooth keyboard from DX. Will try it out today.

Bob

o.O

Juuuuuuuuuuust in case you took me seriously, I was joking.

Damn, we really need a universal text sarcasm indicator.

Boris_yo

:D !!! I knew your intent.

Braiam

@Bob I will be millionaire then

Boris_yo

@Braiam amazon.com/The-Eventual-Millionaire-Entrepreneur-Successfully/…

allquixotic

@Boris_yo Step 1: Don't eat, own an animal, have kids, or live in anything larger than a cardboard box.

Bob

5:53 PM

@allquixotic Step 2: ???, Step 3: profit!

Boris_yo

@Bob :D By writing how you can be millionaire too?

allquixotic

I have 2 pets. A cat and a server.

Boris_yo

@allquixotic How can I not eat and have everything else?

allquixotic

The latter is the more expensive veterinarian bills.

Boris_yo

Anyone watched Elysium?

Step 1: Become a porn star!
Step 2: You are millionaire!

I rather sign death warrant.

Canadian Luke

6:00 PM

Anyone know how I can sort a text file, based on the 3rd column? The text file contains MAC addresses (separated by a dash, and starting with a tilde (~)), then the hash tag, then the DNS name I want to sort it by . This all should be done, hopefully, in the bash shell

Mokubai

@CanadianLuke Import into excel but change the delimiter to "-" then use that to sort?

or probably openoffice... sounds like a spreadsheet problem to me either way

Canadian Luke

Might work, but if I could script it on the server, I can just add new MAC addresses once a week or so

The Linux box is CLI only

Mokubai

otherwise I would probably bash together a quick script in python

allquixotic

something to do with cut and grep I'm thinking

would have to see the actual data (or sanitized) to have any clue of what to do

Canadian Luke

Example Line (anonymized):

~AB-CD-EF-01-23-45 # "DNS-NAME" - Dell Inc

There

Always a space around each variable

allquixotic

6:04 PM

you only want to sort it by the thing in quotes?

Canadian Luke

That's what I'd like it sorted by... The MAC address sorting would be easy enough, just using the sort command

Hennes

@allquixotic Depends on the brand, but a new car should last at least 25 years. So from 1995 to 2020. (aka at least 6 more years).

allquixotic

@Hennes LOL

Canadian Luke

But each DNS name should be unique, and that would help us determine if the systems in question were setup by the techs, or by people purchasing machines and putting them on the network themselves

allquixotic

sorry but that's just not true.. maybe certain make/model of car can last that long, but that's a ridiculously long lifespan for 99% of cars

Canadian Luke

6:05 PM

Many iPhones, Androids, and even a Blackberry

allquixotic

if you make a car last that long, you'll be paying about 3x as much on repairs as buying a new car

Hennes

BTW: I drive a car from 27 april 1990 (A golf II)

Bob

@CanadianLuke well that's easy enough

allquixotic

o_O

Bob

sort -t'"' -k 2

Hennes

6:08 PM

My mums car is in a worse condition after only 5-ish years.
But in this case the German quality (VolksWagen) was not a lie

allquixotic

@Bob ha, didn't realize it was that simple

Bob

might require GNU sort, though

I'm not sure if the -t and -k options are in POSIX/UNIX sort (BSDs, Solaris, etc.)

Hennes

FreeBSD has both -k and -t

Bob

better demo:

bob@phoebe:~$ cat stest
 ~fw2AB-CD-EF-01-23-45 # "DNS-NAME" - Dell Inc
000 ~AB-CD-EF-01-23-45 # "DNS-NAME" - Dell Inc
999 ~AB-CD-EF-01-23-45 # "ADNS-NAME" - Dell Inc
bob@phoebe:~$ sort -t'"' -k 2 stest
999 ~AB-CD-EF-01-23-45 # "ADNS-NAME" - Dell Inc
 ~fw2AB-CD-EF-01-23-45 # "DNS-NAME" - Dell Inc
000 ~AB-CD-EF-01-23-45 # "DNS-NAME" - Dell Inc

completely ignores the first few chars

Canadian Luke

@Bob That works perfect for what I need!

Bob

6:10 PM

you'd be in trouble if you wanted to sort by two fields, though :\

Canadian Luke

Nope, that's perfect! It'll make it easier when I go to add or check the files for certain names :) Thanks

Bob

hm. you might want to use -k 2,2 to force it to sort by only that col

just -k 2 sorts from that col to the end of the line

Canadian Luke

OK, random question: when I run cat /etc/watch-ddhcp/white_list.txt | sort -t'"' -k 2 > ~/newList.txt, it works perfectly. Running that from a script, it outputs a blank file. Am I using it wrong?

meda

6:47 PM

How do you implement SFTP in windows server

do you know?

allquixotic

@meda run an SFTP server. :)

meda

ok but how

please lets be serious

allquixotic

@meda I am being serious. You didn't provide any criteria whatsoever for your task. There are hundreds of different SFTP servers. Did you try Google?

meda

yes I search I read that its not supported by default

Im not sure the best way to do this

I just need secure ftp thats all no other criteria

allquixotic

@meda So? Are you only allowed to run software that's part of the core OS? If you're allowed to install software beyond what comes with the OS, you can have your pick of dozens of viable FTP servers -- some free, some not.

@meda "Secure FTP" and "SFTP" are not the same thing.

SFTP is FTP over SSH. Since Windows and SSH don't get along that well without some kind of emulation layer (the Windows builtin terminal does not make POSIX-compliant commands available), you probably don't want SFTP, unless you know that you have clients that are unable to use FTP over SSL, which is called FTPS (or FTPES).

FTPS is very similar in design to, say, HTTPS... the client and server set up an SSLv3 or TLSv1.x tunnel, then the regular old FTP protocol is used within that (encrypted) tunnel. Since there's no SSH involved, it's fairly well-suited to Windows.

That isn't to say you can't run an SFTP (FTP over SSH) server on Windows. But you'd probably end up using something like Cygwin, or paying out the nose for a commercial package.

I would suggest you start here. You need to figure out what your criteria are. You can't have NO criteria. The range of software available is so vast that you need to narrow down your choices.

meda

6:57 PM

very very helpful @allquixotic im going through your suggestions

Kate

@allquixotic whatever you choose, I'd recommend staying far away from OpenSSH, it has serious security vulnerabilities

allquixotic

Also, you didn't mention which version of Windows Server you are running, but if you have IIS 7 or later (which I believe comes with Windows Server 2008 R2), it supports FTP + SSL (FTPES) out of the box, so in that case, you just need to activate the role, you don't have to do anything special.

meda

2008 R2

allquixotic

That's assuming you really don't need FTP over SSH (because I can tell you that if you have no particular preference of FTP over SSH or FTP over SSL, I think the latter is the better choice.)

> IIS 7.5 was included in Windows 7 (but it must be turned on in the side panel of Programs and Features) and Windows Server 2008 R2. IIS 7.5 improved WebDAV and FTP modules as well as command-line administration in PowerShell. It also introduced TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 support and the Best Practices Analyzer tool and process isolation for application pools.

TLS is just a newer and more secure version of SSL, so TLS 1.1/1.2 on top of FTP is FTPS.

@Kate Er, what?

Are you sure you aren't confusing OpenSSH with OpenSSL?

Also, many of the OpenSSL security vulnerabilities are being fixed now that it has gotten huge public exposure by way of Heartbleed, so that won't have many holes for long anyway.

I haven't heard of any major vulnerabilities in OpenSSH lately; it's still the standard SSH daemon on RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, *BSD, etc.

Kate

@allquixotic thanks... I did mean OpenSSL :(

I am using OpenSSH as an SFTP server on a Windows Server

allquixotic

7:06 PM

@meda You should be able to activate FTPS support and make it required so that all FTP connections must be done over TLS. Check here for multiple ways how to do it (if you prefer GUI-driven, scroll down a few pages until you start seeing the screenshots.)

That'll use IIS as your FTPS server. If you already have IIS running for web hosting, it's probably a good idea.

meda

I run IIS

so SFTP was not what I need really right

allquixotic

@meda You only need SFTP if you know that your clients (only) support SFTP. Many standard FTP clients support both SFTP and FTPS.

FileZilla for instance supports both, so it doesn't really matter which one you install on the server side, in the case of using FileZilla as your FTP client.

meda

my clients said they dont want regualr FTP

they just want the data to be encrypterd

Kate

@meda what version of IIS?

allquixotic

@meda That should do the trick, then. Both approaches encrypt the data, just using different protocols.

@Kate he's got to be running at least version 7.5, since he's on Server 2008 R2.

I don't think it's possible to downgrade.

Kate

7:10 PM

@allquixotic missed that part

meda

Iternet Information Services (version 7.5.7600.1685)

thats the version

@allquixotic

Kate

@meda I agree with @allquixotic that you should be going for FTPS if the client's requirement was "need encryption". If for whatever reason they specifically want SFTP (as was the case with me) this is a good article on setting up an SFTP server on a Windows Server allthingsmarked.com/2006/08/17/…

allquixotic

@meda I already know that. I provided you a link to the Microsoft website where the instructions are for installing the FTP support into IIS and then configuring it. I don't know how else to help you. If you try it and you run into problems, let us know. There's really nothing more I can say except that I think it should work for you.

meda

Othanks a lot guys

you made it so clear

I have to do my homework now and let you know the outcome

thanks agin

@Kate

Thanks I will check it now

Canadian Luke

Gotta love having >1000 views, only one upvote... Or >25,000 views, 3 upvotes, on questions.

Kate

7:20 PM

@CanadianLuke ≈ 1 vote/1K views

meda

@allquixotic one more question , my client is using a linux process for uploads

allquixotic

@Kate except in very, very rare circumstances :P

meda

would that woek

it needs to work with linux

Kate

@allquixotic that's fairly steep

meda

and what will be the port

allquixotic

7:21 PM

@meda Not enough information. Linux is just a kernel. It is impossible to know without details of what FTP library or command line software your client is using, whether it will be compatible with FTPS.

meda

ok

allquixotic

That's like saying "I operate a gas station. My client wants to bring a vehicle in to fill it up with fuel. Will you be able to provide fuel that will run in the vehicle?"

meda

what bout the port

allquixotic

For instance, if the vehicle happens to be an airplane, and you don't have Jet Fuel in your gas station, it may not work.

meda

Yes I see what you mean

allquixotic

7:23 PM

@meda The port you select to listen on should not matter. Any FTP client should be able to connect on any port; you'll just have to specify the specific port you choose, if it's not the default, to the client.

Kate

@meda you don't care what the client OS is, they run a client to connect to your FTPS or SFTP Server

allquixotic

The default port for FTPS should be 990. The default port for SFTP -- if you choose to use that instead -- should be 22. The default port for unencrypted FTP would be 21 (but you shouldn't run an FTPS or SFTP server on 21, because that would be confusing.)

meda

okay I see that for FTPS it needs some SSL

I need to buy a certificate right?

allquixotic

@meda It's not required to buy a certificate. The user's client will get a warning that the default or self-signed certificate is not trusted, but they can skip that warning and continue anyway. It will result in slightly reduced security, but it'll still be encrypted.

Kate

@meda you can go that route or use the or enable SSL support in the IIS where you will be able to generate your own

allquixotic

7:30 PM

If you want it to be 100% as secure, but you don't want to pay any money to a public Certificate Authority (CA), you can generate your own Certificate Authority on your server; then generate a key-pair, and share the public key of both the CA and the server with your client.

Your client could then add the keypairs to their FTPS client, and it wouldn't give them any warnings at all, and would provide very strong assurance that they are connecting to YOUR FTPS server, and not a Man in the Middle.

If you were to purchase a certificate from a public CA, the advantage is that you wouldn't have to provide your public certificates to your client using another method (e.g. email), and they wouldn't receive the warning at all.

This is because the public CAs are already trusted by every SSL implementation in the world. (or, they're supposed to be)

Kate

@meda msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff720335.aspx

allquixotic

This is because the public CAs are already trusted by every SSL implementation in the world. (or, they're supposed to be)

meda

@allquixotic your link is very informative, but it is for setting up the ftp for site

in my case its for the hard drive no site invloolved

allquixotic

@meda Do you really need to give them access to the entire hard drive? Can't you limit their access to some directory?

You can always set up a dummy "site" that isn't hosted on the WWW, but is basically just a directory where they can upload stuff over FTPS.

Kate

@meda it seems you need to get familiarized with IIS first... I would suggest that you first setup a basic FTP through IIS then work your way up to make it secure.

@meda create a test folder and make it accessible through FTP

meda

7:37 PM

I am familiar with IIS

I use it only to host my sites

Kate

@meda okay, then create an FTP site iis.net/learn/publish/using-the-ftp-service/…

meda

okay

Kate

@meda you mentioned you have a directory that needs to be accessible through the FTP... keep in mind that an IIS site can reside anywhere on the drive

meda

okay that make sense

Kate

@meda after you setup the basic FTP site follow the instructions in iis.net/configreference/system.applicationhost/sites/site/… "HOW TO CONFIGURE SSL OPTIONS FOR AN FTP SITE" section

allquixotic

7:50 PM

I've already exceeded my helping people while at work quota for the day, so I'll be popping out for a while

Kate

@allquixotic not challenging enough for you ;)

allquixotic

@Kate not interesting enough, really

Bob

@allquixotic ftps and ftp both use multiple ports

One control and one for each data stream

Kate

8:06 PM

does anybody know if there is a way to send a failure "status" to a running scheduled task?

on Windows Server 2012

meda

I know there is field for status on the right

when its not 0x0 then failure

Bob

That seems like a rather odd thing to do.

Kate

I can end it with the command schtasks /End /tn test1 but I can't figure out how to make it fail

allquixotic

@Bob aware, but it listens on the control port for new connections.

Bob

Maybe if you forced the process to terminate.

Kate

8:08 PM

@Bob it's another twisted setup :(

allquixotic

my mom made a typo in IM that made me laugh

"automomplete" instead of "autocomplete"

in her case it's appropriate!

Bob

@allquixotic the other ports could still have implications for firewall config

So worth mentioning imo

c is nowhere near m!

allquixotic

it is when you're wearing a brace on one hand, apparently.

Bob

O.o

Stack Exchange

8:37 PM

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Q: Add superuser related words to the "correctly spelled" word list.

Would it be possible to add computer related terminology to the list of correctly spelled words? There seems to be a lot of words that are correct that superuser doesn't recognize. Some of them I ran into today: login, subnet, comodo, IP, DNS, DSL, ISP, Powershell, analytics, and I know there's ...

allquixotic

...huh

just by reading the question title I thought that would be another "dam-ree fih-buh-fih net-see" (damryfbfnetsi) post

Michael Frank

@allquixotic a what?

@Bob my family all have HP laptops. Thanks for the link.

allquixotic

@MichaelFrank damryfbfnetsi. declined - a moderator reviewed your flag but found no evidence to support it. it's the name of a user. i can't recall his old name. 'g' something.

gparyani -- that was it

Michael Frank

oooh, yep yep!

I remember him.

Doesn't he have multiple accounts?

allquixotic

@MichaelFrank don't think so

GAAAH I now share this user's RANT about idiots deleting their questions when they get an answer!!!!!

Michael Frank

8:52 PM

I think it should say "User has deleted this question out of shame."

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allquixotic

@MichaelFrank LOL

Mokubai

That question left me a little baffled.

Michael Frank

@allquixotic You should need to read an explanation on why you shouldn't deleted questions then type "I understand" into a text box before you can delete a question with answers that have >-1 votes.

Wow... @Tyson got rolled:

@Tyson You should make this an answer. — krowe Aug 24 at 2:55

(Then check out Tyson's answer)

allquixotic

9:20 PM

krowe is very Dunning-Kruger anyway

Michael Frank

> This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude.

2

Harsh.

DragonLord

10:32 PM

Just got a Starbucks loyalty card today, which left me wondering: does anybody think it's a good idea to start a project on GitHub documenting the Starbucks ordering language?

Bob

@DragonLord That sounds good, except the whole me not drinking coffee part.

DragonLord

@Bob I'm just wondering whether GitHub is an appropriate venue for such a project.

Bob

shrug

You could just stick it on your blog, I suppose.

DragonLord

10:45 PM

You know what? Try this: starbuckscoffee.wikia.com/wiki/Starbucks_Wiki

Wikia never ceases to amaze me

Michael Frank