Root Access

12:01 AM

if you talk to Ash and he's trying to understand you but he's like "I don't know those words" does he put his ears back temporarily? like "hmm... processing... processing... command not found"

I remember seeing a westie doing that in some movie and thought it was adorable

Journeyman Geek

12:14 AM

lol

He headtilt

and looks annoyed ;p

and ash tends to get most of what we say

(including when we spell out 'c h e e s e')

allquixotic

lol

in Tamil?

Journeyman Geek

naw, in english. The word for cheese in tamil is basically "Milk curd block"

HackToHell

1:52 AM

@MichaelFrank that's sad :|

Michael Frank

@HackToHell Not really, it's required to confirm you have a legitimate copy, but also to make sure you are up-to-date.

It's no different from running a Steam game really.

HackToHell

There's a way to patch Steam dependent games from running ;p

But I have steam running always so it's not an issue.

This orgin(client) gets too many updates that I can't skip

Michael Frank

2:10 AM

@HackToHell then just install them! Are you running on dial-up or something?

HackToHell

@MichaelFrank 50 kbps :|

Michael Frank

4:39 AM

Psycogeek

this is a good thing, gives time for everything else to finish off to the HD and all, stabelise after the cache flush and give one extra second to cancel. (at least that is what i keep telling myself)

I had joined a Yahoo group, then asked the group to send me e-mails from said group. Then yahoo extinguished my user in a cleanup, where they Had sent an e-mail to a yahoo e-mail (i do not use) to tell me to log in or die. Now I cant turn off the group.

All i have to do is log-in using the Killed user (impossible) , and turn off the group.

Psycogeek

5:10 AM

ahh "Send a blank message from your subscribed email address to groupname-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com"

Sorry cannot send message without subject :-)

Psycogeek

5:51 AM

uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/28/… "Doctors without brains" run over to help eboli victoms for a few days and get bored and bring eboli home with them. GlaxoSmithKline Takes advantage of the oppertunity to cash in on experimentals , knowing those who did not die were fixed by thier magic drugs.

uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/29/… <--- hackers still are unsucessfull at learning cobal and pascal, and hacking systems that were created in the 80's , that were simpler and less connected to the web.

On the other hand they have been very sucessfull with hacking into Kiosk type items , including the finantial kind, that are highly exposed to the web. Like those small machines with computers , put in places like a vending machine would be.

Psycogeek

6:25 AM

mekanikalblog.com/2014/06/hackers-take-control-of-androids.html <--- ransomware exists for androids too? (I didnt know that) they only charge $20 for your android data , when they have been sticking people for ~$300 for PC data.

allquixotic

@Psycogeek well everything is cheaper in Android world :)

a good PC is $2000+; a good smartphone is $700. an expensive PC app is $100 or more; an expensive Android app is $10. so, scammers price at a point they think people will be able to go for

Psycogeek

I guess, much easier to backup the lesser quantity of data too.

Charge your phone steal your data. the warning that charging your phone at some looks like its free location, might not be free, has created a new invention ibtimes.co.uk/… The USB Condom.

nhinkle

Got to go on a tour at Intel today, so that was cool.

Psycogeek

If they just turned off the "auto play" kind of crap again, and had it always be one manual button , this stuff would never be an issue.

@nhinkle do tell? did you take pictures?

nhinkle

6:47 AM

@Psycogeek pictures! Hah, they would've shot me.

We didn't get to visit any of the top-secret production areas, but got a tour of some of their test labs, saw some cool distributed computing clusters, some of their EE stuff, and saw where they design and build server boards. It was interesting, but not the real exciting stuff.

Psycogeek

So the location was not chip production ?

nhinkle

No, it was across the street from production.

We also toured a company (Lam Research) that makes equipment for semiconductor companies like Intel, Samsung, TSMC, etc.

They let us see the production areas which was pretty cool.

Psycogeek

and? what amazing things did you learn at intel?

nhinkle

Their continuous integration testing is amazing. Just for one "small" department, they had a cluster of a couple hundred high-end blade servers, each running several VMs. Whenever anyone commits any piece of code, it automatically gets compiled and run through a bunch of tests on those VMs... they even have prototype boards that can be remote-flashed to validate changes to BIOS code.

Erik

Deleting a Windows user profile through System preferences > Advanced > User profiles and delete, the same as just deleting the folder?

Psycogeek

7:00 AM

@Erik it is not likely there is stuff stored in the registry, i cannot believe it would be removed when deleting just the folder.

@nhinkle with humans testing the bios code too? (or does that explain some of the problems :-)

Erik

@Psycogeek hopefully the "GUI delete" removes all the registry stuff as well, then

Psycogeek

@Erik also registry does not get saved out until a computer boots, so depending on what your doing that might also be a concideration.

Erik

@Psycogeek only reason I'm asking is because a command-line way would be preferred

Psycogeek

potentially a person can remove registry with the command line. how to find out the user ID though is beyond me.

Erik

@Psycogeek well, there is HKEY_USERS where there's a folder for each user, named after ID

@Psycogeek if that's all I need to delete then it should be a small matter

Psycogeek

7:09 AM

I see other stuff stored using the same user ID. I do not really do users, but i check and the registry has some stuff stored in other places too.

(although that stuff properly being all removed is not like MS, being pigs and slopplily leaving things)

a search here shows stuff like: iehistory, search roots, media player preferances (dont know if they will clean properly). Group policy and hivelist i would expect they would cleanup via the GUI. Really not as big a mess as i would have thought.

Oh duh, most of that stuff would be only in the current users registry, which I am in now.

Sane people should not look in the registry :-) still got an endless array of crap in there that has not been in the computer for 5+ years.

Erik

7:52 AM

hm, ok,looks like I'll be making a PS-script to do this, just use the SID to find everything in the registry

I'm done doing this the RDP way

no fun when the receiver is on satcom

Oliver Salzburg

8:18 AM

Good morning fellow earthlings

Erik

anyone using mac, yosemite?

Michael Frank

@Erik Mavericks made my MBP slow enough :P

Psycogeek

8:35 AM

0

Q: orginal broken part from samsung, can't replace with unbroken

I have samsung NP550P5C laptop and I wanted to replace dvd driver with ssd. I took off dvd driver, and try to put ssd with case. but It doesn't fit. after that It made me wonder why It doesn't fit like half cm. It was the socket. I did examine the difference about two cases and there is funny dif...

Didnt @JourneymanGeek mention one time that some of these drive items are .5cm different size?

Oliver Salzburg

> dvd driver

Psycogeek

I have heard people say that before, wonder if it is a regional/language thing?

Oliver Salzburg

Psycogeek

lol. See superuser.com/questions/536331/cd-rom-driver-wont-start superuser.com/questions/139130/… (and more) same odd use of "driver" for an optical drive.

from the wiki, note that the "head" is mirrored in the platter, making the pic somewhat confusing.

HackToHell

8:59 AM

wow, I thought that was just the head supported by two thingies

barlop

has anybody here ever used SSH reverse tunnel (e.g. VNC through it) to get around the problem of joe bloggs not being able to set up port forwarding?

Psycogeek

9:29 AM

@HackToHell :-) or that they finnaly made double sided platters?

Psycogeek

9:43 AM

I guess they already are both sides. pic from goughlui.com/?p=8830

that 8 platter 16head scsi full height drive part was from a The Fujitsu M2266SA is a 5.25″ full height 1.08Gb SCSI hard drives.

Journeyman Geek

10:05 AM

@Psycogeek yeah

also, I seem to have accidentally deleted an answer 0_0

@barlop: no. At this point I'd use chrome remote desktop or some simple vpn software like hamachi ;p

barlop

@JourneymanGeek what about before then?

Psycogeek

More modern hard drive heads pic dtidata.com/resourcecenter/images/wd5000-3.jpg WD 500g

Journeyman Geek

@barlop: You do realise I consider VNC the remote access of absolute last resort, somewhere above phonecalls, and printing out and emailing screenshots (or worse, printing out and snailmailing) right? ;p

barlop

yeah ok so what about before hamachi and chrome remote desktop?

i'm interested in what else one might resort to before resorting to vnc!

to put another way.. what did you use before chrome remote desktop and hamachi?

I hate Windows XP/7 remote desktop 'cos it logs the other computer out.. it's too invasive like that.

Psycogeek

10:23 AM

@JourneymanGeek how would i socalise my dog? he is a faciest now :-) He only runs up to beautifull single women, avoids kids and mean people like a plauge. For the most part it works out, cept beautifull single ladies are few and far between .

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: so, he's totally ignoring you? ;p

Oliver Salzburg

Ugh what a major waste of time!

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Q: Notification.Builder.setSound has no effect

I'm trying to play a sound when receiving a push notification. The gist of the code looks like this: Resources r = getResources(); int resourceId = r.getIdentifier(soundName, "raw", context.getPackageName()); Uri soundUri = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + context.getPackageName() + "/" + resou...

android push-notification

Psycogeek

we "survive" at the dog park, but it is more trouble than it is worth most of the time. a good dog frolic (at the dog park) around here starts with some intimidation first to wake up the other dogs, then they lose energy in about 4 minutes.

Oliver Salzburg

That took me way to long to figure out :P

Psycogeek

Half the dogs are obese, the other half are so screwed up interbreed freaks, they have some disability, that makes moving for more than 3 minutes difficult.

I think the most active and capable dogs , are the ones being walked by a paid dog walker, who is always handling more dogs at a time then one person should.

the other most active possibilities for a full out run, are damned to be leashed by lawfull owners who have been so condemned by the lack of dog freedom the leash is only 6 feet long.

Sure they go to the dog park, but know no freedom before getting there, so it is pretty dull most of the time, the only hope is that a Puppy exists, puppy being too dumb to know how screwed they are :-)

barlop

10:37 AM

i've always wondered if sometimes children to mindless stupid things because they have nothing else to do. rather like puppies perhaps

Journeyman Geek

@barlop: bored puppies, and children tend to be destructive

@Psycogeek: socialisation is a process and well, it depends on the dog, and its orientation

some dogs stick to one person only, some socialise great with other dogs, but not people, some are people dogs, and some are just friendly with everyone and everything.

In our case we do lots of walks, in a VERY dog friendly neighbourhood

Bob

lol

the argument over whether Canada is in America is hilarious: lowendtalk.com/discussion/12291/… (starts ~7 comments down)

this one guy thinks OVH is being misleading by calling their Canadian site within NA (cc @allquixotic)

Psycogeek

The dog has better luck in the "city" (with more freindly people) where there are not dogs around, and he is therfore "special" being the only dog seen that day. But the city is no place for a dog Ketch22.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Ash is a city dog

he hates forests

Psycogeek

10:52 AM

There are specific cultures that a dog is deemed a demonic stank evil thing, people raised in that culture, even though they are now 100% american abhor the dog being friendly with them. These people will fall off the trail to avoid the dog. Just my luck that a religious building has gone up close to my house that caters to people of this affinity. So we have another socalise with people ketch22. This one wants to pet you furry little beast, this one wants you to stay the f away from them.

Journeyman Geek

rofl

Generally, I make it clear that people need to approach us, or they need to be people we know.

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek how then do you keep ash from peeing on all the ornamental trash people place outside of a shop to pretty up the place?

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: Honestly?

We tell him its uncivilised.

Psycogeek

Of course it is, it is instinct though.

how is he supposed to dominate the whole city without peeing on it :-)

Oliver Salzburg

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Q: Urgent! Folder lock bug. going into a loop i believe :'(

I locked my D drive using folder lock. But, my D drive contained the installed files of folder lock too. Now I am not able to run folder lock nor open D drive. I tried uninstalling from control panel but it said access denied. Please help! it contains lot of important data!! :/

folder lock

> Urgent!

Journeyman Geek

11:02 AM

@OliverSalzburg: my magic ~~8ball~~ squeeky ball says that's from india

@Psycogeek: he prefers trees, and very occationally fire hydrants. One day though, he hopes to pee on one of these

If he can find it

(the base is a concrete ring/bench so... It vanishes from small dog perspective when its in peeing distance)

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek is that some kind of distorted man made tree thing? I wonder how it looks in 5 years, as all the man designed landscaping and plant stuff off the road around here goes to hell in time, due to the need for (and lack of) constant maintance.

Journeyman Geek

Kinda

its part of the giant concervatory they built here

EVERY TIME we go to that park, we go around in circles looking for those, then sit in the shade of one of em ;p

its hillarious

Psycogeek

so your saying your view doesnt go above the kneecaps much :-)

something i forget about, wonder if the problem is the shoes , only dogs and wimin be looking at them.

Psycogeek

11:51 AM

superuser.com/questions/804645/… <--- oops, honest question this time

Journeyman Geek

Not in english ;p

Psycogeek

no hope for a translate either

Hello ... I hope my beloved capitalizing on this subject, huh ... (choose Control Details folders) means .. Sort by folder name. Size. Type. Amendment two countries four choices the default to the existing list in Alcliq right and I always Alljo to (choose details .. (choose details to chose Date Created and Huo (creation date) first question: How did Mark choose Date ETC google cant make it readable.

Oliver Salzburg

yay 1234

Version 1.6 is a clear success

Journeyman Geek

12:41 PM

hm

Psycogeek

1:11 PM

Oh this is going to be good. new tv series "Hysteria", produced by Alcon Entertainment, centers on a doctor who travels to her hometown of Houston to investigate an epidemic among high school girls that may be spreading through technology. " tvrage.com/shows/id-40814

Do we get to name it ? Ifever, Androiphalis, Influtechia?

Small PCpox ?

the software bug ?

Psycogeek

1:34 PM

SMDs socal media disease

guess they will be bringing back the 70's as none of the actors playing "high schoolers" will be less than 30 years of age. botox working miracles again.

Bob

2:12 PM

ok

@JourneymanGeek I might have a DOID of my own now :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: excellent!

Bob

It's part of my main OS RAID 1 array

0_0

yea

Not excellent!

2:12 PM

that was my reaction

Journeyman Geek

DOIDs belong as scrap disks!

Bob

@JourneymanGeek :(

Journeyman Geek

(ironically, I THINK mine died cause of the dodgy e-sata bracket, not the problem that caused said impending doom)

Bob

Journeyman Geek

0_0

and its a HGST

(which sadly, my usual retailer dosen't stock any more)

Bob

2:15 PM

@JourneymanGeek Toshiba-rebranded

my first internal HDD to fail is an HGST... not very promising

Journeyman Geek

ahh

Bob

@JourneymanGeek problem is, I'm not sure if it's actually failing

and it's a pain in the arse to RMA until it does fail

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: reallocated sectors generally mean its starting to but if fails other tests, its time to RMA

you have backups, right? ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek what other tests?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: with DOID lenovo has a tool that does short and long drive tests and a few others

Bob

2:18 PM

ah

unfortunately, I can't run those

it's part of a RAID array, remember?

I could pull the drive, but I want a replacement first

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, thats a problem

Bob

@JourneymanGeek it might have had this for years (in which case it's probably fine)

I've only been able to check recently cause I've only recently found a SMART tool that works with IRST -_-

Journeyman Geek

with DOID, It was a single drive on a laptop, and I'm paranoid enough that at the moment I can survive two systems going down completely without data loss

@Bob: true

Bob

@JourneymanGeek uhh, about that :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: No time like the present!

Bob

2:20 PM

way ahead of you :P

Journeyman Geek

Once I get a bigger drive on my brix, it'll be up to three systems

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I've had partial backups of the most critical data for a while

but not enough space for a full backup (2TB ain't cheap)

just recently got another 2TB external drive for other purposes... repurposing for this for now :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Oh, small stuff's on the cloud or email. My music collection is the main thing that worries me.

(and I have a lossy backup so...)

Bob

I know all the "RAID is not backup" stuff, but my main concern was always hardware failure

Journeyman Geek

you backup to mitigate hardware failure ;p

Bob

2:22 PM

@JourneymanGeek RAID has a similar purpose

backups cover more than hardware failure

but they're time-consuming (2 TB? -_-)

if this were some business system, sure. home? I'm not that attached to most of this data :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Biggest single chunk of non trivially replacable data I have is 110gb

maybe 120

Bob

^ that's my backup of critical data

Journeyman Geek

and I doubt that my raspi and my old atom will die at once

tho eventually I'd like to get a proper nas ;p

ugh. I need to heck if the desktop still mirrors my music collection properly

Darth Android

@Bob Yes, they're time consuming, but who cares when you can set-and-forget? Pretty sure my fileserver backup has been running for more than a year now

(the initial backup, that is)

Bob

@DarthAndroid Not my time, but processing time. Specifically, the drive access.

Journeyman Geek

2:26 PM

ok, it does.

@DarthAndroid: rebuilding raids take time ;p

Bob

5-6 hours is quite a long time for constant disk access

Again, I'm well-protected against loss of anything really important.

Darth Android

@JourneymanGeek rebuilding 2-3TB onto a brandnew disk is faster than restoring 11TB of data

Bob

I'd have a full grandfather-father-son offsite backup with a drive stored in Antarctica if I cared that much (and could afford it)

Journeyman Geek

@DarthAndroid: Ideally, I'd rather not do either.

Darth Android

And yes it takes a while, but flagged as low priority, it doesn't interrupt use of the drives o.o

Bob

2:28 PM

@DarthAndroid Yes it does.

See: my current backup, at the lowest priority, causes significant disk-access delays.

Darth Android

What do you use?

Bob

You may be right with SSDs, but HDDs will have a lot of seek delay.

@DarthAndroid Acronis True Image. But I've had similar experiences with Windows' Backup.

Darth Android

I only use SSDs for caching, my HDDs are what I back up.

Journeyman Geek

eh big philosophical difference here

I go with SSDs for system, and HDDs for storage

(and storage tends to be stuff I can generally redownload/rebuild trivially)

Bob

O_O wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2tb+at+100mb%2Fs

> meter cubed bits per second

Darth Android

2:33 PM

@Bob Ah, I use Crashplan, haven't had noticable slowdowns on my disks while it's doing the initial backup or incremental backups

Granted, it's also capped at $network_upload_speed, so the initial won't max out the disks, and it seems to be smart enough about not locking up the disks when it's hashing to detect incremental changes

Bob

@DarthAndroid That would be rather different...

Not sure how it handles hashing, but initial is pretty irrelevant, considering even GbE is ~8 times slower than HDD max sequential.

Journeyman Geek

@DarthAndroid: I'd probably use that for offsite backups but locally, I just throw files over smb

I'm using bvckup 2 beta (I really ought to upgrade) for music files, and just backup to a network share for system files

I don't particularly bother backing up other media, I can rerip or redownload them anyway

Darth Android

@JourneymanGeek With the exception of large new files (i.e., a ripped movie on my fileserver), the incremental backups from my desktop aren't any slower than if I was trying to do something over SMB

Journeyman Geek

@DarthAndroid: though, yoi can't do a bare metal restore from crashplan ;p

Darth Android

Nope, but I can pick and choose the files that matter most while it restores in the background on a freshly-installed sytem.

By bare metal restore, I assume you're talking about dropping a disk image back onto the system?

Journeyman Geek

2:48 PM

ya

Darth Android

Yeah, I got away from imaging backups because that does take down the disk for long periods of time both on restore and for each backup.

Journeyman Geek

mine are automatic, weekly ;p

Darth Android

automatic, every 15 minutes

Psycogeek

3:17 PM

@Bob if you need some cheap drives, i make you a deal on some green 2 and 1 t ones :-) they just sitting here collecting dust.

Bob

@Psycogeek heh, the shipping will probably end up costing more than the drives! :P

Psycogeek

@Bob well that would be some of the idea, to get them to you without being gouged.

oh holy shit $80 for a us postal priority package.

HackToHell

Wahhha indiatoday.intoday.in/story/…

Psycogeek

I will just pack it in foam , and put it in the nearest ocean current, and you just meet up with it. with todays weather and oceanonics technology i could determine its location within a week or so

Bob

@Psycogeek As I was saying... :P

Psycogeek

3:32 PM

"the petition claimed that pornography triggered crimes against women " sure and high testosterone levels only cause men to sleep longer :-p

HackToHell

3:51 PM

Oh frack, phone is randomly rebooting ;|

Time to flash new shit

Psycogeek

@Bob yea dhl and fed-ex similar about $75-80 to send 2 fully properly double boxed drives.

Bob

@Psycogeek That's actually more than I expected; shipito can do maybe $40-$50

then again, commercial is always cheaper than individual shipping

O_O

@JourneymanGeek massdrop.com/buy/pitft-assembled-2-8-tft-touchscreen

you might want that :P

Journeyman Geek

4:17 PM

hehe

tempting

but kinda small, and I need a a little more flexibility

I'm probably ordering the 10 incher next week

meda

4:39 PM

Guys I have a question can you please help me

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Q: Locking down SFTP user in cygwin

I set up a user to ssh to Windows Server 2008 R2. I was able to change de default directory. The only piece I could not figure out is how to restrict user to just that directory. In other word I don't want the user to be able to change directory. Please advise.

ssh permissions cygwin sftp

Bob

5:56 PM

...wtf kottke.org/12/06/the-worlds-worst-password-requirements-list

Canadian Luke

6:17 PM

@Bob The bad guys need to know that they aren't allowed more then 8 characters for their SQL injection ;)

barlop

8:11 PM

are all these only about from windows viewing linux? stackoverflow.com/questions/40453/… Suppose I want to from windows view windows with ssh. Can any of those solutions do that?

Michael Frank

8:59 PM

You can tell an Indian comment at my work quite easily...

"hey mate, kindly assist and do the needful."

Darth Android

Is "do the needful" a common phrase? I've heard that before

Bob

!!tell 17418611 wiki Indian English

ChatBot John Cavil

Indian English

Indian English is the group of English dialects, or regional language varieties, spoken primarily on the Indian subcontinent. According to the 2001 Census of India, almost all Indians who speak English are second language speakers. According to the 2005 India Human Development Survey, the surveyed households reported that 72 per cent of men did not speak any English, 28 per cent spoke some English, and five per cent spoke fluent English. Among women, the corresponding percentages were 83, 17, and 3. English language public instruction began in India in the 1830s during the rule of the East India...

Bob

You can ask @Sathya for more info :P

Nov 5 '12 at 7:06, by Sathya

highlight of my resume:

Nov 5 '12 at 7:06, by Sathya

Indian who speaks without mentioning 'do the needful' or 'I have a doubt'

Darth Android

9:40 PM

@Bob I figured it was bad (possibly literal) translation, I wasn't sure if that particular phrase ("do the needful") was a bad translation that a single person made, or if it was a widespread dialect (similar to if "Fish and Chips" were to be used in an American setting)

Michael Frank

11:21 PM

Is this the computer equivalent of locking your keys in the car? — Michael Frank 10 secs ago

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Q: CRM system Business process diagram

I am trying to design a business process diagram for a CRM system for sports team. I have not been able to come up with what exactly would be the process for it and hence no diagram either. Can someone help me on this??

microsoft-powerpoint microsoft-visio crm

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