Root Access

rofl

10:04 AM

hm. Got a call about a possible job, temp till january, pay isn't great, but its nearby and it gives me time to look at other things

Guess the local job bank is decent for leads.

10:48 AM

@JourneymanGeek Nice!

Something is better than nothing :P

Precisely

(and all I did was add myself to the jobs bank!)

Where can I get a 8mm film to DVD alterations done? [duplicate]

o0

I seem to remember that from a time I nuked a spammer

@JourneymanGeek Can a mod please nuke this? The dupe is already closed. And the OP needs nuking as well. OP just posted this spam superuser.com/questions/982381/…

@DavidPostill: Done

11:00 AM

@JourneymanGeek Thanks ;)

marcusdoesstuff

11:33 AM

*poof*

Poof?

Another Microsoft support scan, this time from Egypt ... I kept him on the line for 20 minutes playing dumb ;)

tereško

lol i.imgur.com/c2TfS3x.jpg

Setting up a mail server is a pain in the ass...

tereško

only time I installed a mailserver was by instaling postfix on ubuntu

11:41 AM

@tereško Postfix ;)

tereško

sorry facepalm

and I think I once tried to set up qmail on freebsd box .. but I gave up

lol

that's essentially what I'm doing

I'm about this far through the guide I'm using flurdy.com/docs/postfix/#config-secure-auth

I need to check some stuff again tho

Hello @JourneymanGeek

left a comment on that question for you

@JourneymanGeek We run our mail services on Postfix/Dovecot. Let me know if I can help

We even have backup MX, MySQL backed config, web UI, alias domains, ... all that crap ;P

@OliverSalzburg, are you into PC troubleshooting, boot issues, any of that?

11:56 AM

@xCare No, I'm not into that at all. But I still have to deal with it regularly ;P

@OliverSalzburg: Oh, I know what to do, its just time consuming ;p

mhmm, we all do I reckon at some point. :/

@xCare most of the tools I recommended have awesome documentation

@JourneymanGeek, I'm in the other chat if you want to join me when you have some time

@JourneymanGeek Heh, indeed :D

11:58 AM

I'm fine with giving you a hand if you're stuck but I'm behind enough on my own personal projects that I'm not really inclined to walk you through the whole process.

@OliverSalzburg: The guide I'm using is basically nearly idiotproof

for the first time it would make me feel safer :(

@xCare: I'm in the middle of setting up a mail server ;p

cool!

perhaps later then.

but yeah, If I'm awake and you're like "THIS THING LOOKS SCARY!" I'm cool with walking you through it. However, if you use gddrescue correctly, at worst you'd just need to re-image or copy over stuff

and gddrescue has one of the most elegant, foolproof syntaxes of the dd varients

and well

to be honest

In my experience, command line stuff is tricky. Like I said, I already ruined my multi-boot usb attempting a command-line fix yesterday. It did work... but not in the way it was expected to haha

12:02 PM

every time I crack out gddrescue or test disk, I read the manual first

I don't rescue drives every single day ;p

that is true and I know how rare this stuff is. I've never done it myself in 20 years of computing, goes to show one is never out of danger though.

lol

I don't bother with recovery any more

too time consumeing. I just back up everything

Yeah it's far easier to just stick in the disk and wipe from scratch. This is something I was thinking of the other day.

In fact, I'm going to start a question on this idea...

Well I have an application that does backups on things that are important to me on the file level

(bvckup is brilliant)

I have a bunch of those too, Recuva seems to work best for me on Windows

rarely ever had need to use it though since my normal habit is store everything on an external drive, this is a rare case that never should have happened where it not for some screwballs (if I can say that) who were intent on being nasty.

12:18 PM

Oh that's recovery

I mean actual, near constant backups ;p

ah, yes that -is- important.

1:01 PM

@JourneymanGeek That's... really long.

@Bob: yup

and really detailed

@Bob There's no such thing as a quick Postfix configuration

Postfix is the most complicated piece of software ever

it's so flexible that, like, it's not actually software anymore; in order to make it run, you have to write a significant amount of code to tell it exactly what you want to do - it's basically a really high level macro language

you could probably write a game in Postfix configuration file language

"I want mail, on this one server, right here, for any user who logs in with their PAM credentials, no clustering, no databases, no bonnet-wearing alligators, just a mail server that works" --- Postfix says, "that'll be 28 hours of fumbling around blindly in configuration files trying to figure out why you can't receive mail"

@allquixotic: that's the nice thing here. He includes how to check it

so far the only major issue outside time I had was forgetting to set my mx records correctly

of course I've only set up accounts on one of the two domains

1:19 PM

at least Postfix is so flexible that you can install it to deliver mail to a Raspberry Pi connected to a garage door opener from a VMS on SPARC server running OS/360 in a virtual machine with token ring networking

so if you ever find yourself in that situation, no prob, you can just write a configuration program for Postfix and off you go

;p

I could just use hosted mail

but that would be less fun

apple.slashdot.org/story/15/10/03/0459230/… CLOSED WORKSFORME

Q: Why aren't Operating Systems made on chips of their own?

..and there is my idea:

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Imagine we lived in a world where we'd never have to worry about modifying or deleting an important system file, where we'd be virtually immune to RAT's or viruses interfering with the operation of our computer, where operational concerns stemming from malicious remote tampering, modified registr...

._.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

-1 already.. visionary ideas are scarce appreciated :(

lol

1:29 PM

@xCare: Oldschool systems used to do that

they are called "roms"

in fact, you could run your entire OS off something called a cd rom in some cases....

right, if you look at it, we can run a pc just fine from a DVD, even browse the net!

so why not expand further on the concept

you have a hard drive that places operating files in the open, leaving them vulnerable every time you connect to the internet. If they were out of reach, behind say a unwritable media, then no one would be able to tamper with it remotely and even you couldn't mess up your system as easy as we do today

Because you can't update it.

There's also a few old hacks that installed windows, added a filter that prevented writing to system files....

point being, its quite impractical

Hennes

2:22 PM

Uh, damn, too long not looking at main chat

time to cut and paste

Two more items not yet discussed:
1) Why would a user be able to modify OS files on a disk?
That should not be possible unless you run as root/admin/without_UAC
And that is just stupid
Or when there is a bug
And if there is a bug with enough privelege escalation that they could just as well write to a chip (EEPROM or whatever)

and

you have a hard drive that places operating files in the open, leaving them vulnerable every time you connect to the internet.

. No it does not (or rather, it should not)

But if it does then the same errors would also open up access to the EEPROM

I'm on the discussion chat

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/29902/os-on-a-chip-discussion

anyways like I said there...

ok let's take a step back, because even though it seems people don't like this type of question, I want it to make people think. Let's go back to the basic concept. 2 separate media, one is the HD, one is the chip which holds the OS. Will the chip work to operate a PC?
like mentioned before, we've seen USB's and CD's/DVD's used to boot and run PC's, why not a firmware style chip that is upgradeable but not modifiable during normal operation?

the majority of problems that I've noticed stems from operational software getting messed up while in use, alot of times through malicious interference from the internet.

Eugene

Sad. So sad. Why Chrome removed Recent tabs option from main context menu. :(

In addition it doesn't feel, that it is working properly

@allquixotic Heh, it wasn't that bad when I did my gitlab one.

Then again, I only needed outgoing mail.

The JIRA one was worse.

Took a while to figure out how to get it to rewrite the sender address.

3:25 PM

@xCare If there's no update mechanism, you're dead in the water (or have to recall thousands of user devices and update the chip physically) as soon as there is a severe functionality bug or security bug identified. If there is an update mechanism, you can be damn sure that there will be viruses to exploit it.

Also, even if your "OS" is read-only, any useful third-party applications you install are going to have to have some permissions... and no matter how locked-down you try to make the platform, if it's going to be useful to the user at all, you need to allow data sharing, etc - which opens up the possibility for vulnerabilities, which is what you were trying to prevent in the first place.

Or you could just disallow third-party applications entirely, in which case you have something called USELESS. At least if this is intended to be used in a general purpose way for consumers, who will always have use cases that you cannot determine or anticipate at design time.

@allquixotic that's what we were discussing here

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/29902/os-on-a-chip-discussion

@xCare It's a pointless, and very very very old discussion. Like, this isn't a "new" idea. This may be new to you, but the concept of having read-only operating systems, or even entire systems that are completely read-only, is a very old idea, and is often used in "purpose-built" configurations (secure mail servers, banks, certificate signing servers, etc.) which require little configuration flexibility.

You cannot successfully sell a product in 2015 for a "general-purpose operating system" to consumers or even enterprise server customers that is that inflexible, though. Like I said, it is completely impossible to anticipate every possible use case and scenario at design time before you deliver the product. Customers MUST be able to modify the system to their needs. If they can't, they'll buy another system that lets them.

And if you're not selling a general-purpose OS, there are already extremely good, locked down systems out there that prevent you from doing anything, that customers who need that level of security are already buying and happily using (spying agencies, militaries, banks, etc.)

There's no market for an "in-between", really.

so I suppose just separating the OS from the Hard drive doesn't count for much, though it can be done.

Any halfway measure is going to be as insecure as existing general-purpose OSes, while being as difficult to configure/use as the locked-down OSes. In other words, you can either get the best of one world, the best of the other, or the worst of both worlds.

Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux (default configuration of a typical distro), Android, and even iOS are, to an extent, in the "flexible" world (where the user can install third-party apps, and there's little to stop those apps from exfiltrating user data, which is basically a very severe problem even if you aren't modifying code on the system).

well, that's what the idea was.. put the OS into a user-modifiable chip that you'd have to physically access to modify, removing it from falling prey to internet problems

3:31 PM

Systems like XTS-400 (BAE STOP) are in the "rigid but secure" world (where you have a guy standing behind you with a gun, watching everything you type into the terminal).

@xCare That's useless. Even if you had a hardware switch that toggles read-only/read-write mode for the OS, if you're allowing the user to install applications, there's your vulnerability. One mistaken install of a malicious app and the user is owned.

Security is much more than just read-only/read-write toggle switches. If the user willingly toggles it read-write because they think they trust something they're willfully doing (downloading a malicious app, or an app that's benign that has a bad security vulnerability in it), that's something that read-only switches of any kind cannot deal with.

Misplaced user trust ("I think I trust this publisher") is a problem that cannot be solved by what you're trying to do, no matter how you try to finagle it.

And sometimes the vendor is genuinely trustworthy, in the sense that they are trying to be a legitimate business and not harm the user - but they accidentally allow some hacker to either compromise their code, or hack the user's data on the device, etc.

These are the types of vulnerabilities that are most severe in this day and age, not "oh noes, someone overwrote kernel32.dll with a malicious version!"

And let's not forget users trusting "The Cloud" (remote servers) with their precious data, and then those servers get hacked.

that is true, which is why I'm saying if there's a solution, it has to be at the hardware and software level. One solution is like I'm saying, placing different parts in different boxes, like removing the OS fromthe HD and placing it on a box of it's own, and so forth

it's called compartmentalizing

e.g. it's what they do on ships to make them more durable... doesn't mean the ship won't sink, but it drastically improves chances of survival and operation.

@xCare What you just described does absolutely nothing to protect users against the most severe and common vulnerabilities that are being used to steal data and harm users in the present day. You're targeting a class of security problems that, while still relevant, are very uncommon compared to much more exploitable and more severe problems that will go completely around your apparatus.

"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards - and even then I have my doubts." - Computer Recreations: Of Worms, Viruses and Core War" by A. K. Dewdney in Scientific American, March 1989, pp 110.

:-/

I think there is likely a way, but we're just not seeing it yet.

" it's what they do on ships to make them more durable" - didn't they try that on the Titanic?

the key to this improvement in safety was the way the hull was sub-divided, or split-up, into watertight compartments. Fifteen transverse bulkheads created sixteen compartments or cells, each of which could be isolated from the adjoining compartment using special doors which could be closed in the event of an emergency. However, these compartments were actually far from being truly 'watertight' in the way that the name suggests, and this was cruelly proven on the night of April 14th, 1912.

3:41 PM

watertight bulkheads? yes, but without it would be alot worse... just because one safety precaution fails in one type of scenario does not mean it's unsound.

The other thing to keep in mind is, if you're going to use a ship analogy, no matter how much you try to compartmentalize a ship, even if you make it completely invulnerable to torpedoes somehow, a modern ship can be disabled completely with a small nuclear warhead's EMP yield. It'd take out the radar, main and auxiliary power, automated weapons systems like CIWS, etc.

Social engineering (security)

Social engineering, in the context of information security, refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional "con" in that it is often one of many steps in a more complex fraud scheme. The term "social engineering" as an act of psychological manipulation is also associated with the social sciences, but its usage has caught on among computer and information security professionals. == Techniques and terms == All social...

So go ahead and make a ship immune to torpedoes. If your enemy is using EMP (and we know for a fact that modern enemies are), you're wasting your time.

yes, I've got my taste of Social Engineering firsthand already..

@DavidPostill You don't even need social engineering these days. If you can inject your code into an otherwise-benign app on the App Store or Play Store, you'll have a huge audience of willing users downloading your update, and then they'll be owned.

Social engineering helps, but it's easy to hack things without it.

3:46 PM

has anyone addressed yet what role online bullying is playing in Social Engineering? It's quite common in forums and especially multiplayer games nowadays, where individuals are using technology to harass or attack others

@allquixotic Agreed but it a well known way of getting into supposedly secure systems (and I'm not referring to Android store apps).

It's like that article in Ideas and Discoveries magazine that I was talking about, where malicious individuals or groups remotely collect data and secretly spy on targets.

ideasanddiscoveries.com

Reminds me of the Windows support scam call I got this morning - a fine example of attempted social engineering. Unfortunately for him I've heard the script before. I knew what it was as soon as I heard the works "I'm calling from Microsoft", so I wasted 20 minutes of his time and money stringing him along. He was very annoyed when I lied in the end and said I was running Linux. ;)

LOL

gq.com/story/luis-mijangos-hacker-webcam-virus-internet

ideasanddiscoveries? That looks like a spam post ;)

3:54 PM

No, it's quite a revolutionary magazine, with alot of insider info that usually does not get mentioned..

like that guy in the link above, one of the known cases of this type of behavior... there's much more out there that we don't know yet

@xCare Fortunately not at work. You should have labelled your last link NSFW ;)

not familiar with that, sorry...

and the LOL was for your story not about the article, in case of confusion..

NSFW -> Not safe for work -> Your link contained naughty pictures ;)

oh ok, I'll remember to post that for articles.

Got my own horror stories to tell one day, it is nasty stuff and most people don't realize this crap is going on and we are ill prepared to defend ourselves with so many games and gadgets we've surrounded ourselves with. All of it makes us vulnerable to the bad guys.

Have a SMART TV? bad idea because it's hooked to the net and doesn't even have antivirus, making it very vulnerable to someone who wants to say, collect data on what you watch and sell it off somewhere

same with just about every internet gadget we've come up with that I'll bet many of us can't even keep track of anymore... I mean who really needs a telly in their Washer hooked up to Wi-Fi or a fridge downloading the latest recipies? it's ridiculous how vulnerable we're making ourselves and the sad thing is we don't see the dangers until we have have some kind of bad experience that makes see what's really going on.

4:15 PM

@DavidPostill nice job :)

lol, if any of you guys work for tech companies, you probably don't want to hear about such problems, but developers of stuff really need to stop pushing these gadgets into the public for profits without considering the dangers and doing something about making their products safer..

but then again that raises the obvious question:

What if the products themselves are giving rise to new dangers... how far do we push technology at our expense. Now there's a question someone should answer... but I better not ask or else I'll lose all the little rep I have left haha

just thinking out loud^

@allquixotic you familiar with the term planned obsolescence?

4:35 PM

Yay, got Sendmail working on my server.

NSFW- It's in that issue of IQ, they've got an article explaining the ways stuff is made less durable so people buy more often.

Server isn't configured to receive emails, but at least I can now get notifications from my server in my Yahoo inbox.

(I have a separate account for website-related messages, including emails sent through the website.)

...and yes, these Fail2Ban messages are coming up in Thunderbird.

@xCare You don't have to do it for every link. I was referring to the gq.com link anyways (the webcam one).

yeah, it has a few pics, but it's the story that counts. This stuff should be pasted all over headline news making people aware of what goes on, but first I hear of it was reading the article in this magazine

Great, my blog is sending me emails, too!

A new comment has been posted on your blog "The Dragon's Journal", to the entry entitled "Windows 10 feature spotlight: Previous Versions is back and better than ever".
Link to entry: blog.fierydragonlord.com/index.php?/archives/…

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IP-address: <removed>
Name: DragonLord
Email:
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I do have concerns about the volume of emails Fail2ban may generate, though.

Time will tell if my inbox gets flooded (I've set up an email filter in Thunderbird to sort out Fail2Ban messages, though).

4:47 PM

...apart from my own experiences that partly led me here and now piques my interest in the field of safety in technology, if there even is such a thing anymore.

4:59 PM

Hi @Mokubai i've got a couple of questions.. first, how do you create a new day's page in a chat, like in that discussion you made?

I noticed the chat from the 1st day was archived, how do I do that for second day

@xCare You don't. The actual chat is just a continuous flow. You do get a "daily" view if you look at the chat transcript...chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/29827

oh, k so that means even if I don't see it in the present chat window, none of the chat messages are lost?

no, you can just scroll to the top and click "load older"

It just shows a limited number of lines

cool.

2nd question: how do I freeze a discussion, like this one: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/29902/os-on-a-chip-discussion

or you perhaps

The room creator or a mod would go to the "info" button above the list of avatars, then to the "access" tab, and select "freeze". Not being a room owner I doubt you have the buttons.

Unless it's getting a lot of bad comments there's no real reason for moderator intervention.

5:18 PM

right, just wondering how we freeze it if we want to

chinese food - never again

@xCare If you need to then Hennes can, or a mod, but generally I'd say to just let the system do what it will with it. Ignore the room and it'll get frozen on it's own.

@3v0 Chinese food is awesome!

that's fine, thanks.

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

hmm this one tastes like some sort of house cleaning product

5:48 PM

@3v0 Is it a "take away"? Why don't you make your own? Stir fry is easy to make ...

@DavidPostill Stir Fry is not as good as a nice chinese....

Weird. I received some sort of electronic switch in the mail today

But I didn't order it or know why it was sent to me

There's a sender's address on the package, but I've never heard the name

Oh!

And now that I've said that, I know what it is :D

That's what you get for playing the dropbox for online friends

@Mokubai It depends how you cook it. I've cooked my own for some time and enjoy it more than the overcooked and greasy food in most of the local chinese takeways.

The ingredients are readily available in my local supermarket ... including any sauces / spices I wish to add.

6:10 PM

its from the supermarket as seperate ingredients

@3v0 Then it's your cooking ;)

I never cooked it

Ah. So you bought ready made bits and blasted them with some kind of radiation?

Or are you eating it cold? ...

somebody else cooked it

I cant cook unless its for burning stuff

I'm off to eat my Chicken Legs, marinaded in my own home made marinade :)

Then blame the chef ...

7:23 PM

AMD's upcoming Zen architecture looks like it's going to be a BEAST

Somewhat speculative (and 4-wide decode seems to be a bit narrow), but if this is correct, Zen is going to be 10-wide issue. That's insanely wide.

7:37 PM

(For reference, Haswell is 8-wide.)

@DragonLord enough of a beast to challenge Intel's dominance of the socketed CPU market?

@allquixotic This is AMD's last shot at surviving in the x86 market, so they'd better make it right. Looks like Zen will have outstanding floating-point performance by giving each core its own Flex FP unit, addressing the poor FP performance the Bulldozer family suffers from.

Bulldozer had excellent integer performance on highly threaded workloads but performed poorly on anything that remotely demanded floating-point compute.

@DragonLord is FP performance a reason why AMD CPUs are so far behind Intel? I thought it was in things like branch prediction, serial performance on general computing tasks, I/O latency, IPC overhead, v12n overhead, cache misses, pipeline stalls, fab size, and similar things

@allquixotic Zen aims to address all of these issues.

> v12n overhead

Not sure about AMD's virtualization performance, haven't run VMs on AMD hardware in a very long time.

> I/O latency, [...] cache misses, pipeline stalls

If I recall correctly, these have been addressed for the most part in Steamroller and Excavator.

Shared resources are still an issue, but less so in the newer revisions of the Bulldozer family.

> fab size

That's definitely still an issue, but Zen will be manufactured in 14nm.

A year ago:

#AMD needs to stop using the outdated 32nm process and move to 20nm. There is absolutely no reason for a CPU to require 220 watts.

Tweeted by fierydragonlord on October 9, 2014 at 6:53 AM

They're still on 32nm and 28nm.

A: How to run Windows 10 from an external hard drive?

7:57 PM

has anyone tried installing Windows 10 on an external drive yet? I'm asking about that here and whether it affects Windows updates:

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Yes, it is possible to install and run an operating system from an external drive or flash drive (as long as the drive is large enough). Yes, it is legal since you are installing it to a physical drive. To do this...format the desired medium and install the Operating System to that drive. If it...

AMD's strategy is to survive 2015, put as much money into R&D as possible, and come out with new products in 2016.

@DragonLord doesn't look like you're fans of AMD.. is AMD the lesser of the two chipsets between Intel and AMD? There's been a debate going there for a while

@xCare Why are you bumping all your questions in here? Anybody in this chat room is probably monitoring SuperUser new questions anyway. If we could answer we would answer over there not in here.

Processor companies.

AMD has been losing market share rapidly over the last few years.

@DavidPostill, Ok, thanks for letting me know it's not advisable.. haven't posted all my stuff, just was a comment; but I'll refrain posting questions from now on.

@DragonLord I used to recall a time when AMD was considered the more "Elite" or harder to get of the two chipsets

8:08 PM

@xCare In the Athlon XP/Pentium 4 days, yes.

Intel seems to have a lead on higher end devices nowadays, I see AMD mostly in lower and mid-end consumer stuff

Athlon XP vastly outperformed the P4 clock-for-clock.

Sadly, Intel used coercive and anticompetitive tactics to force AMD out of the market.

true, how's it fare nowadays?

Significantly slower than Intel clock-for-clock today, but the more powerful AMD A-Series APUs (especially A10s) are surprisingly powerful for the money—plus the A-Series APUs have high-performance GPUs built-in, making them ideal for low-cost casual gaming builds.

That is an advantage if Intel doesn't put GPU's in their chips, do they?

8:12 PM

Intel has GPUs on their processors, but they're generally not as powerful.

Intel Iris Pro Graphics is supposed to be very advanced, but chips with this GPU are few and far apart.

hmm.. so that's why gamers use AMD alot

Actually, most gamers use Intel CPUs because they tend to perform better than AMD parts.

They'd just use a discrete graphics card instead.

More expensive, but considerably more powerful.

AMD makes graphics cards but has had trouble competing with NVIDIA in recent years.

ic. but it costs more right

@xCare actually, I'm pretty sure DragonLord wants AMD to be successful, as do most people who are fans of Intel processors, but it will make Intel want to hurry up and make better chips, faster, rather than sitting around slowly stringing us along and charging exorbitant prices

if Intel is worried that AMD might deliver better CPUs, or good-enough CPUs for much less cost, they will accelerate their research efforts, and those of us who continue to use Intel will get better and/or cheaper products

nVidia makes alot of cards, they seem to be the market standard right now

8:16 PM

Right now Intel is not at all concerned about AMD being a threat, so they can slow down and focus more on making $$$$ and less on delivering a good product

lol, now -there's- a business model

@xCare AMD is more worrisome to Nvidia on the graphics front than they are to Intel on the CPU front. AMD's cards are at least competitive with Nvidia.

The R9 295X2 was a beast that actually beat Nvidia's best cards at the time in terms of raw performance. It was the performance king for a long time.

yeah, but don't some of those external GC's combine Nvidia cards with AMD chipsets??

@xCare No................?

You can buy a computer that has an AMD CPU and motherboard with an Nvidia graphics card, but that's not combining AMD and Nvidia technology on the same board.

ok, that's what I was thinking probably, cause I've seen those 2 names mixed up so often..

8:21 PM

@Bob Aww, so close :( Wine on Android but only Android-x86... possibly a reason to go back to Android later if a flagship x86 smartphone lands with all the goodies and doesn't have terrible Bluetooth

8:38 PM

@xCare I answered your question (which by the way is pretty much a duplicate of superuser.com/questions/960558/…)

@allquixotic Most likely would be the ZenPhone series.

But I suspect it'd be a pain to run... well, anything.

Also, now we've come full circle (from Android emulators in Windows) :P

@allquixotic Oh god, the comments there.

8:57 PM

@Bob that depends on how robustly they're able to leverage existing Wine code that worked on the X11/OpenGL backend on Android with SurfaceFlinger/GLES

@allquixotic It's more that WIn32 programs aren't exactly designed for tiny touchscreens.

mm... well... S-Pen would solve that, if you detect long-taps as right clicks ;p

Might make a bit more sense on a tablet.

probably better to RDP into a Windows box anyway

Ya.

If you have one available.

And you do :P

8:59 PM

<3 KVM on a dedi

actually if I can get the config right I might have Mac OS X running on my dedi soon, too :D not 24/7, but whenever I need to do something in XCode (Dear Apple, if you're reading this, my dedicated server is an official Apple Mac Pro)

!!;p

ChatBot John Cavil

...*Requiring* OS X in the first place is just BS.

Q: Simultaneous voice and cellular data on the iPhone 6S Plus on Verizon

meh, should allow me to sideload Moonlight so I can stream Windows games to my iPhone

have to figure out how to build it from source using XCode

already dded and scped an OS X image over to my "totally Apple" OVH box

and will be also installing the same image on my "definitely Apple" desktop at home

(in a "totally official" VMware Workfusionstation)

need it there so I can sideload over virtual USB

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Problem: When the phone rings (regardless of whether I pick up or not, and regardless of whether it's a VoLTE or CDMA call), I lose Internet access over the cellular network (regardless of whether it's 2G, 3G or 4G LTE). I don't have a landline Internet at home, so "use WiFi" is not a solution to...

iphone cellular-data voice iphone-6s-plus

;p

> Is there some way to always forward incoming calls on the cell # to a VoIP number (Skype, Google Voice, etc.) so that my cellular # never rings?

That sounds really hacky. As in, worse-than-BT-bug hacky.

(Though, funnily enough I've actually investigated similar before... wanted to try to unify everything onto Skype or similar at one point. Had the same problem searching as you did: every result did the opposite.)

9:15 PM

@Bob Actually, after writing that post, I've spent some time investigating, and it seems that I can get almost exactly what I want through Google Hangouts. Counterintuitively, you can't receive calls through the Google Voice app on iOS; you receive calls through Hangouts.

o.O

I told Verizon to unconditionally forward all my calls to my Google Voice number, and that creates a notification (not a ring, unfortunately! - hence the problem) on my phone whenever a call is coming in.

call comes in over the PSTN, gets immediately routed to Google Voice, and Google Voice sends it to my phone's hangouts as a notification, which vibrates the phone but doesn't continuously ring

shrug

continues using android

I can't help but wonder if you've run into some weird bug

I've never even heard of a phone doing this

Going back to Symbian days

doing what?

Michael Frank

> this

9:19 PM

@allquixotic Disconnecting data during voice calls.

Maybe it's due to the tethering implementation?

Michael Frank

It's not something strange like Samsung's Download Booster feature where it'll use your Wi-Fi and LTE to boost the speed of downloads, is it?

Does it happen everywhere? Maybe your area signal is strange.

9:56 PM

@DavidPostill ok thank you.

10:15 PM

Who's familiar with Postfix or the email network in general?

@DragonLord Don't make me !!meta you! :P

(I have... limited... experience with it. JMG is currently dealing iwth it. allq seems familiar.)

When my server relays email to Yahoo Mail, is the path encrypted?

(cc @allquixotic, per Bob's suggestion)

My server's not running an email service, just an MTA.

@DragonLord First thing to be aware of is that SMTP encryption is largely useless against active attackers.

@DragonLord Also, AFAICT, all server-server connections typically do not use transport encryption => stackoverflow.com/questions/664758/…

It's sending over port 25. Looks like it's unencrypted.

Not sure if it's using STARTTLS.

how come it is taking so long to logon as an AD user

I have two vbox machines one is the server

I mean like 5 minutes just to get past the login screen

10:34 PM

Okay, it's not acting as an MTA, but an MSA.

Got the terminology wrong.

10:46 PM

@3v0 Eh... check DNS resolution.

Q: VoIP Phones not working inside LAN

okay

Canadian Luke

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I have tried to read many documents on running a VoIP system behind a NAT'd router, going out to the Internet, then back through a dedicated connection for the VoIP server. I am not getting anywhere with my research. I inherited a setup where all the VoIP server equipment is on its own network, ...

iptables voip

I can ping but nslookup says default list of servers not available

Odd. DNS servers listed under ipconfig /all?

nope, theres no DNS suffix

the events log says

The DNS server was unable to complete directory service enumeration of zone DOMAIN. This DNS server is configured to use information obtained from Active Directory for this zone and is unable to load the zone without it. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly and repeat enumeration of the zone. The extended error debug information (which may be empty) is "". The event data contains the error.

I left the dns boxes in the tcp - ip settings blank

Q: How do you know when the asker has read your answer?

10:56 PM

@3v0 Not even looking for a suffix. Just making sure a server is set.

But, yea, this might not be related at all.

Stack Exchange

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Sometimes when I write a pretty long answer I never know whether he/she has read my answer or had just left and decided not to bother with it. I don't however want to know everyone who has read it however maybe like a small green icon that says read or something So is this already possible and i...

feature-request answers

ok I think I fixed it

o.O

Mind sharing how?

I just added two dns servers

8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4

I normally just leave them blank but im still not used to working with domains and such

@3v0 You should be using an AD server (usually the DC) for DNS.

Not Google Public DNS.

It needs to be able to resolve the (usually-internal) DC hostname.

11:06 PM

oh ok

do I just make a dns address up

...no

Since you only have one server, your DC should also be running the DNS role.

yes

Then you use your DNS server's IP as the DNS setting on clients.

When you join AD, you should be using the DC's hostname to join.

oh the ip I see now

Firefox banner ad displayed on the Yahoo home page.

I've been using Firefox for close to a decade and I'm not switching anytime soon.

11:12 PM

@DragonLord The irony is Mozilla is starting to lean the other way.

Aug 11 at 14:31, by allquixotic

@DragonLord they're struggling not to run out of money

hmm now another error when running nslookup

C:\Documents and Settings\UserA.DOMAIN>nslookup
*** Can't find server name for address 192.169.0.99: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.99