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schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/more_on_hacking_1.html It's one thing to have dissatisfied customers. It's another to have dissatisfied customers with death squads this needs to be on a demotivational poster

Michael Frank

2:51 AM

Weird super lag there... o.O

Journeyman Geek

3:30 AM

hackaday.com/2015/07/07/headphone-amp-features-a-tiny-crt

Michael Frank

....uhhh. The service desk just sent through a job where a users Internet Explorer is freezing. Attached was a screenshot of IE frozen.

Journeyman Geek

rofl.

allquixotic

@Bob Why? Curious

Bob

3:58 AM

@allquixotic jsduck

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Turns out the issue was due to the user still having IE6... -_-

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Journeyman Geek

lol

Journeyman Geek

4:24 AM

hackaday.com/2015/07/07/headphone-amp-features-a-tiny-crt

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek this is the same link you used before is that intentional?

Journeyman Geek

errrr

intentional as in I completely pasted that in the wrong place at the right time?

Maaaybe

Psycogeek

2 spams just arrived, looks like regulars will destroy them in seconds

Journeyman Geek

4:40 AM

or one mod. Spammers really should pick days at work which are not quiet.

Well, its not quiet today, but its mostly stuff I can't do anything about

Psycogeek

4:53 AM

superuser.com/questions/937694/… <-- this one is dying to have its crows feet faded

3 left still

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Psycogeek

5:20 AM

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Q: What can I use to archive files, that anyone would be able to open?

I have files that I need to send to several different international locations. They're confidential files, so I need them to be password protected. Therefore, I was putting the files on a CD and mailing them to the different locations. I had used iZarc, so I could password protect them. Some ...

archiving

Uhh yea they are doctors and nurses and office assistants , were you expecting rocket science :-)

Not sure i even want my doctor to know how to spend the whole day un-raring password protected files.

If possible the item you would hand to regular peoples , would self extract , have all the parts and pieces built-in, not require net connects and port forewards, and have only the one hurdle of entering the password.

Piece of cake un-raring a tar file, that was Larked in 141 pieces, with folders in zips :) sure easy for you, it really did take me a whole day to reassemble the first 3 gig file from some of the crasy geeks out there.

I was like Duude , mail it to me :-)

If i was securing thier computers, they wouldn't even be able to open a zip file passed off via a e-mail attachment, without permission from the head surgeon.

Journeyman Geek

5:55 AM

There's self extracting EXEs I guess

Psycogeek

that would do it.this user did not describe the content. self extracting self running videos, slideshows, "readers" , or Excell files , and DOCx or whatever.

He didnt indicate any other huge problems so i suspect what is protected is simple and not a CAD building file for portable hospital wings :-)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Could be xrays and other data.

I have a DVD of xrays from my dog. Same equipment/software ;p

Psycogeek

6:19 AM

cool digital , what kind of pic format did they use, and resolution?

Did you ever see anything in them for the dog that shows stuff? at times i have wanted to get x-ray of the dog to see how many bones are poking through things :-) and how many undigested parts might be in there .

Hey there is where those screws went :-)

Journeyman Geek

6:34 AM

dicom in theory, but they converted it to jpeg

Its been standard for years

Journeyman Geek

6:45 AM

Actually used to work with those for a tiny bit er.... 8? 9? years ago?

Bob

7:32 AM

> Xyzzy (computing)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Xyzzy.
Not to be confused with Zzyzx.

Psycogeek

superuser.com/questions/937702/… Pdf medical records, is what the user was trying to password package .

Journeyman Geek

PDFs can be password protected ;p

Psycogeek

Mostly text they probably would compress a lot too even if that really shouldn't be nessisary given a whole CD of space.

@JourneymanGeek and if it is 214 of them?

Journeyman Geek

hm. That was wierd. I was looking at HDMI-> DVI cables. Then I realised I could just use a VGA cable for what I wanted it for.

Psycogeek

(arbitrary ammount, i wouldnt want to get into)

Journeyman Geek

7:47 AM

lots of passwords.

Psycogeek

I would want to do them as password protected zip, but i know nothing about "how secure" that would be. because it is already on the puters.

Journeyman Geek

not at all ;p

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Q: How to recover a lost zip file password

I have some files I was given by my teacher at University, I could chase him up, but I may as well try getting blood from a stone, his response rate isn't great and I completed my degree a year ago! They're pdf files stored inside password protected zip files. The passwords are networking relate...

file-encryption

Psycogeek

then some sort of self extracting "installer" single executable not "installer package" dependant. I know that exists, would not know how to do it though.

Journeyman Geek

Bad bad bad

Its a bit like giving your puppy shoes for toys.

Psycogeek

well brute force and dictionary , is not drop in a hack disk and open it :-)

Although many of the compress archive methods allow for 10,000 trys a second, unlike a server tossing you.

I sort of like that :-) when trying to open a G- - D - - -pass proteced rar , that I can try to get the password right for a while.

Journeyman Geek

7:55 AM

If you actually want this data, its trivial to do this. Which ius why security is important.

HIPAA's the US standard, and a lot of countries tend to follow that

Psycogeek

it is rediculous to have to get some stuff online though in a case like that , from some securty company , to get a key bs or anything, might as well send it armoured car.

Journeyman Geek

lol

In the case of medical information? Those rules are there for a good reason

Psycogeek

Ahh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… 1/2 way down has the summary of the security "##Data corroboration, including the use of check sum, double-keying, message authentication, and digital signature may be used to ensure data integrity"

Damn cold just got a lot more complicated

Makes me happy i have not seen a doc or a hospital in 20 years.

Find those records :-)

I cant find specific mail it as files stuff yet, so much of it is about the web.

But just reading through some of that, it would be no wonder to see them use a bonded currier

courier

Great comment, the question needs 2 laywers , a malpractice attourney, security technical advisor, legaslative authority , and a note from obama.

Penalty: Covered entities and specified individuals who "knowingly" obtain or disclose individually identifiable health information A fine of up to $50,000
Imprisonment up to 1 year.

Steal your car drive drunk into a crowd of people, 30 days in detox :-)

Bob

10:50 AM

hmmmm decisions

amazon.com/dp/B00J8E8Y5C

would be a nice RAM upgrade, but I want to go Skylake (w/ DDR4)

Aaron

12:29 PM

Good morning.

XKCD

12:57 PM

We remember Rugrats, and think of them every time our kids look at us through their baby gates.

That Brazilian Guy

1:19 PM

Good morning universe

...OK, confirmed: the universe is empty.

allquixotic

2:31 PM

hi

Good morning Cristo Redentor

...OK, confirmed: the Cristo Redentor is just a statue and does not actually talk.

Journeyman Geek

woof.

allquixotic

.foow

Journeyman Geek

flickr.com/photos/dvanzuijlekom/sets/72157655411823772/with/…

via hackaday.com/2015/07/08/insane-33-port-usb-charger

JAN ORTS

Hi guys

There is no way to recover a partition when I formatted it using Gparted?

It was a partition that had Windows 7

;-)

Journeyman Geek

sure. Just restore it from backups

allquixotic

2:47 PM

or try to use an undelete tool to recover files... could be you haven't lost very much, since a quick format only writes to a small portion of the partition

Journeyman Geek

;p

(testdisk is what I'd use)

Bob

hmm

still waffling over the RAM upgrade :P

allquixotic

don't waffle; don't do it Bob... not worth, if you're getting DDR4 with skylake

Bob

unfortunately it looks like Skylake will only support DDR4 or DDR3L, not 1.5V DDR3

@allquixotic Skylake is also uncertain

This is $100 for 8 => 24 lasting at least a year with probably decent resale

A Skylake upgrade would be likely > $400

ah well... be indecisive for long enough and the sale will end, solving the dilemma :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

2:52 PM

Skylake-S is coming in August

Bob

@allquixotic I tend to avoid first-wave

Journeyman Geek

My next upgrade is prolly a video card ;p

@Bob: I tend to do that cause anything I'm an early adoptor of dies ;p

allquixotic

my next upgrade is prolly an everything

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: trying to get into a rolling upgrade cycle for my main desktop ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Heh. I just barely avoided the P67 SATA issues (which they released the B3 stepping to fix)

Journeyman Geek

2:53 PM

SuperDisk

Not to be confused with SuperDrive, a trademark used by Apple Computer for various disk drive products. The SuperDisk, sometimes marketed as LS-120 and a later variant LS-240, is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk. The Superdisk hardware was introduced by 3M's storage products group (later known as Imation) circa 1997. Imation mainly sold Matsushita-built drives under the SuperDisk name; other companies tended to use the LS-120 name, and sold the Matsushita drives. (Matsushita was the registered name of Panasonic until 2008.) However, the system...

I had one of these drives

Bob

Still got a P67, though... I suspect if I waited a bit longer the Z68 would've been the obvious better choice

Journeyman Geek

Never quite got it working right

yeah, I generally wait for a bit

My current target is a 980Ti, but that's barely into the 3 month rule

(and its pricy enough that it'll take me about that long to save up ;p)

allquixotic

I'll probably get the 980 Ti, too. I just can't stand how infrequently AMD releases driver updates. I think they must have about 2 people working on their drivers now

it's not cool

Journeyman Geek

not sure what I'll do with my 660. Either move it down to my c2d (the video card on it it dying slowly. Again) or use it for phyX ;p

allquixotic

for all 2 games that use PhysX?

Journeyman Geek

2:57 PM

;p

(also, need to reorganise my desk. Planning on keeping the asus as a secondary/primary for the brix, so not sure what I want to do with my 10 incher)

Bob

...I will refrain from making the obvious joke :P

Or maybe that counts as doing so?

Journeyman Geek

;p

djsmiley2k

guys

you know of a simple (not grabbing a script off the net) way to see whcih files are puppet managed on a system?

Journeyman Geek

With salt, we tend to look at the config files .

Same here? ;p

djsmiley2k

I have no experience of how puppet works, other than I know we use it...

I asked if I can add some checks into nagios, and they went 'well it might be puppet controlled'

Journeyman Geek

3:09 PM

lol

Canadian Luke

3:29 PM

@JourneymanGeek I remember those drives at school.... Many years ago

So I got an NFC chip hanging up at home now, and it's set to enter in the 58-character Wifi key for smart phone users. I feel super smart now :P

HackToHell

4:10 PM

halo

MiKeM

Hello. I've got unused LS120 disks if anyone needs? wants? them. No. Really.

Canadian Luke

@MiKeM I also have 4 5 1/4" floppies that I use as coasters on my desk... Lol

DragonLord

5:29 PM

superuser.com/users/73918/dragonlord?tab=topactivity

1915 helpful flags and counting, wow

Nov 23 '14 at 4:10, by DragonLord

djsmiley2k

:O

DragonLord

7-1/2 months ago.

Nov 23 '14 at 5:03, by Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord 1205 to catching up with me ;p

Averaging more than four flags a day since.

Not many posts from me lately, so hopefully I can get back to contributing soon

djsmiley2k

6:00 PM

Nice

Now I get to sit here for an hour, hoping this and the next script finish quickly

so i can go home ontime.

Tho tbh i can just start the process from home if needeed I guess. But that's not part of the official plan.

Psycogeek

7:52 PM

superuser.com/questions/419496/… mister @bob your question is being linked to as a dupe of another. did you ever "solution" why your memtest and possibly system was accessing memory that doesnt exist , or whatever?

Joe Stavitsky

8:18 PM

can anyone get this to load support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/…

er sorry

blasted thing keeps buffering in 3 browserd and 2 pcs

Psycogeek

8:34 PM

"HP is compiling your results. This could take up to 3 minutes, depending on your computer and connection speed " what results ?

ahh, sure it works, once i turned on all the scripting stuff.

I think it tries to run stuff to automatically check the computer your using, bad idea.

Joe Stavitsky

@Psycogeek yea well unfortunately I need the drivers so how did you get it to work pls

Psycogeek

8:50 PM

I did not yet try to get the drivers, it does not, or was not allowed to do what it wanted to do.

(active-X is also off here)

Joe Stavitsky

grrrr

Psycogeek

There must be a way around to an old school method, where the user does all the work to find the proper model and the DL links.

Joe Stavitsky

yea I tried good luck with that

Psycogeek

well gimme the model and what drivers I will try.

Joe Stavitsky

envy sleekbook m6-k010dx, at least touchpad but the more the merrier

Psycogeek

9:01 PM

oh you bast--- there is a go direct button 404

Joe Stavitsky

yea I called them and they wanted to charge me for out of warranty support

Psycogeek

it keeps trying to push right back into the automated routine,

Joe Stavitsky

In other news their ftp works fine but is in no way organized whatsoever

Psycogeek

"This product detection tool installs software on your Microsoft Windows device that allows HP to detect and gather data about your HP and Compaq product . . . bla bla bla

Joe Stavitsky

I would let it install but I cant even get that far

Psycogeek

9:09 PM

users are assisting in thier forum with more direct links.

Joe Stavitsky

yea I posted there already I will probably post again now

Psycogeek

sketchy sites trying to provide that backupdriverrestore.com/…

Joe Stavitsky

yea I went to a few of those :/

Psycogeek

1/2 of them you will just get a malware downloader :-) That is why HP needs to provide access.

Joe Stavitsky

no hp doesnt need to provide access if it doesnt provide access perhaps a few $ucker$ will pay for drivers

Psycogeek

9:17 PM

One path that can often be different, is to instead of going support, to go back to sales first. Product home page. then from there.

From there I am getting (what might be) a better troubleshooting thing.

Click 'HPSupportSolutions…msi' in the lower-left corner of the browser window
•If a File Download Security Warning appears, click 'Run' to install the framework.
•If User Account Control appears, click 'Yes' to install the framework.

soo is it .NET program too , or do they mean thier software framework.

Joe Stavitsky

finalllly jeezus

Psycogeek

at any rate that was Anything But "full instructions"

Joe Stavitsky

whatever they want $hiny $ucker dollar$

Psycogeek

I used to like HP, i am loosing interest :-)

Joe Stavitsky

aaaand the suggested results did not include touchpad

Psycogeek

9:25 PM

Well i wasnt going to tell you that some people are having good results getting synaptic touchpad drivers direct from synaptics. Not sure you have enough hair to pull out :-)

Joe Stavitsky

tried that too also broken

well dont I feel stupid

just searched for synaptics touchpad

ok on to other chores ty a great deal for the help

Psycogeek

have fun

Bob

10:07 PM

@Psycogeek nope, just got both sticks replaced under warranty

the answer on that Q was good enough

Psycogeek

@Bob Because a search of the web shows like nobody with that problem (not common), and it is assumed that the controller part on the ram module is causing some trouble, and because you tossed it :-) if you put an answer in that said "I tossed it" then it is done. it wasnt heat?

Right now the answer suggest something that probably isnt going to help when marked as a dupe.

Or even comment below the answer, I eventually tossed the ram , and now have no problem.

Michael Frank

@Bob I did that once... Turns out MemTest was throwing errors because I had both sticks of RAM in different channels and my motherboard didn't like it.

Psycogeek

10:22 PM

hardware confusion :-) i would take that over shared video memory , or other speculations.

superuser.com/questions/937613/… here is the (about to be) dupe.

Rachel

By any chance is someone here who can help me with a router issue?

Michael Frank

@Rachel !!meta

Psycogeek

Combination of the ram module and compatability with the motherboard and channel mapping, has mapping that is incorrect at the hardware level ?

Michael Frank

That didn't work :P

Rachel

@MichaelFrank Is that a no? :p

Michael Frank

10:28 PM

@Rachel No, it's just a don't ask to ask :P

Rachel

haha ok

I'm trying to figure out how to disable a linksys router on my home network, but I'm an idiot when it comes to networking...

I can login to my normal router (Verizon one), but no idea how to disable the linksys one from there (we use it as a switch for our gaming consoles in the living room)

Michael Frank

I guess unplugging it is too obvious... Disable how?

Rachel

turning it into a switch

I once had it setup like that, but someone noticed it's back to behaviing liek a router again

and broadcasting an unsecured wifi signal

Michael Frank

I guess start by disabling DHCP on it, if you want your Verizon router to continue handing out the public IP addresses.

That is how my current network setup is handled.

I have to use my ISP modem/router as it is also my SIP phone line.

DHCP is turned off on the modem/router and my DD-WRT router is assigned a static WAN IP of 192.168.1.2.

Rachel

let me give that a try

as I said, I'm a bit of an idiot when it comes to networking, but I can google enough stuff to figure out most things

Michael Frank

10:35 PM

I'm not sure if this is the best way to set it up. But it works for me with no performance issues over plugging directly into the modem.

As for an unsecured wifi signal from your Linksys? That's a bit strange if it suddenly started up... Could it have lost power and factory reset itself?

Rachel

Yes, the unsecurred wifi signal is from my linksys

we do lose power on occasion here, and did recently

nope, still there

Ugh, Ill mess with it some more later, and just unplug it for now

thanks @MichaelFrank :) I'll be googling some more stuff related to your comments later

Michael Frank

Are you sure it's your device that's broadcasting the signal? Could be a neighbour with the same model.

Rachel

its mine, I can connect via it and am part of my network

Michael Frank

Okay, I guess just set a password and disable remote admin to be sure.

Rachel

I can't login to it... no idea what the ip is and it's not the default

and I can't find it in Verizon's admin tool

once upon a time I had it setup as our router before we switched to fios

oh well I got to go, may ask a question later on the site when I figure stuff out more

Michael Frank

10:41 PM

Plug in directly, and set your network adapter to automatically obtain an IP. Then you can use ipconfig to see what gateway you are landing on.

Good luck though!

William Hilsum

@Rachel Just read up a little... if you have no settings what so ever that you want to retain, by far the easiest thing to do is a factory reset, then unplug everything followed by plugging in just one of your computers to the lan side... login using default credentials and then disable wireless (or configure it - it will act like an access point after you have finished this), then set a static IP to something on your lan subnet (let me know if you need a bit more info), and then disable DHCP

as long as you then ONLY use the lan parts (don't use WAN/internet port), it will act just like a dumb switch with an added access point if you kept wireless on

after you change the LAN ip, you will have to reconnect... let me know if you need to know any more on that bit...

And, this is weird... went to meta.stackoverflow.com and it is showing 0 questions/0 answers, but 3k rep for me... trying to track down an old user here that I used to chat to... I feel like I am out of the club! got to get more active again...

ahh... meta.stackoverflow is now meta.stackexchange, and that is a different site/showing my SO exp... bloody hell, go away for a little while and everything changes :/

DragonLord

11:28 PM

Looks like Intel will be on 14nm for a long time.

legitreviews.com/…

Clock rates and performance should slowly improve and prices should gradually go down as time progresses, though.

Bob

@Psycogeek I think the answer is great. It explains why there's addresses higher than RAM size appearing.

DragonLord

Unlocked K-type Kaby Lake parts will be 91W.

Psycogeek

11:56 PM

@Bob ok.

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