Root Access

12:00 PM

And programming is the only idea you gave about improve it.

...

I'll say it one more time: the fundamental issue is BT is not a very broad topic. Restricting programming questions made that worse, but allowing them does not fix that fundamental issue.

If you actually want to try broadening it, consider what category BT falls under. Hm? Wireless communications? Ok, try that. Then consider if that's too broad or too narrow.

@JourneymanGeek Hm, looks like parcel forwarding won't be much cheaper, if any :\

Oh wait how did that 90cm slip into the calcs O_O

(typo'd a 9 to 90 in the shipping calculator)

djsmiley2k

Hold on, suggested a site for blutooth?

Go for IoT.se and maybe you've got a chance

tho that's close to embedded and I bet that already exists?

Bob

@djsmiley2k That's always sounded rather buzzwordy to me :P

But, yea, the questions he's proposing are closer to IoT than embedded.

djsmiley2k

hehe

So I just got offered a temp position with another team at work

Looking at nagios/ec2/other fun things

Ahhhhh progression is scary.

People are normally in this team for upto a year before moving on, by hte sound of things before me

user2284570

@djsmiley2k Yes

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Proposal: bluetooth Current situation about : create an account on WebOS.SE. j2ME keyboard.Se Music.SE EE.SE. Oven.SE fridge.SE. Mouse.SE. networkengineering.SE Android.SE SU.SE Apple.SE WindowsEmbedded.SE… (it includes sites that needs to be created) But the current scope is very narrow. Please...

djsmiley2k

12:08 PM

yet..... i've just passsed the 3 month probation period, and also had a depression induced breakdown o_O

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek How would I know? :D

Bob

12:31 PM

@JourneymanGeek Soooo,... apparently AusPost offers a parcel forwarding service (from the US) that's actually run by SingPost.

user2284570

Ok, I agree it now needs rephrasing.

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: does it have a barrel connector, a figure 8/clover power cord, or a hard wired power cord?

If its A, its variable voltage, or at worst, I can swap out the adaptor. If its B its a crapshoot. If its C, its fixed voltage

also, the place where the power goes in or the back should be labelled with voltage specs ;p

@Bob: vpost?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ...vpost?

shopmate.auspost.com.au

Journeyman Geek

12:46 PM

(that's what singpost's comgateway equivilent is called here)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ...if you select australia in the vpost sitey ou get linked to shopmate

-_-

they also apparently do the nzpost one nzpost.co.nz/tools/youshop

djsmiley2k

1:00 PM

hmmm

it was saying someone highlighted me o_O

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek I would have to check later at home

Pretty sure it's figure 8 though

Possibly hard-wired

silentw

1:35 PM

Hi guys, as pointed out by the guys who commented on my question (ID: 938143), I'm here trying to get a replacement for an ASUS P5KPL-VM/V-P5G31/DP_MB

Thanks for the help guys!!

djsmiley2k

erm, what?

Anyway, I'm trying to see wha services are attached to a hostgroup in icinga :/

Journeyman Geek

ahh, its 100-240V

there's a newer model

djsmiley2k

oh haha, i can't find it as we don't have any services attached.

phew.

Oliver Salzburg

I wonder if icinga is less shitty than Nagios

djsmiley2k

hjmmm no

:D

Oliver Salzburg

1:39 PM

Okay, that's good to know :D

djsmiley2k

/me is currently looking at getting the checks migrated from a production box onto the staging box

So no where in the nagios docs does it say you need a line return on a status line else nagios will ignore it, yey.

That was a fun bug yesterday.

Oliver Salzburg

2:01 PM

I'm knee-deep in some shitty SNMP Perl scripts myself

What was I thinking when I suggested we use a solution that is written in Perl :\

I just thought we shouldn't use Cacti, because it's written in PHP

I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering just rolling my own software

Journeyman Geek

That's a path to madness ;p

djsmiley2k

2:25 PM

:D

don't reinvent the wheel

nagios has some alright stuff for snmp

As do I'm sure a lot of other tools.

Bob

Hm.

5 TB Seagate external HDD, $150

not bad

except Seagate

the problem with big HDDs is... if you lose data, that's a whole lot of data at once

Journeyman Geek

and seagate.

Bob

lol

shrug ordered one

I'm running out of space anyway

I can move some older backups over

ok, I've spent far too much in the last 24hrs

and I haven't even finalised the notebooks yet!

that can wait for later :\

HackToHell

2:41 PM

Stupid question, will the SHA-1 hash of a file change if even a single bit of a 19 gig file changes?

Bob

problem is... I don't really need that many, but it's simply not worth it to pay to ship just a couple -_-

@HackToHell >99% of the time, yes

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

by the pigeonhole principle, multiple inputs can hash to the same output

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: this is precisely why I have the 3 month rule, and a fixed budget ;p

Bob

therefore, there is the chance that a single bit flip might produce a collision

it's a minuscule chance, though, especially if it's a random flip

Journeyman Geek

2:43 PM

(also, helps me lose weight since junk food and hardware come out of the same pile of bones ;p)

Bob

(Actually, I don't know if a single bit flip is guaranteed to not change the output... safer to assume no if you must be sure, but yes in the general case :P)

HackToHell

@Bob Oh

Well the flip bit was the extreme end case :P

Bob

@JourneymanGeek "3 month rule? what's that?" <== me

HackToHell

It's more along the lines of a string or two being changed

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Bob: right now, I have a new graphics card and speakers queued up

@Bob: comes from having very little disposable income for the first decade of my adult life, and parents who love to complain ;p

Bob

2:47 PM

@JourneymanGeek I'm just not disciplined enough to wait

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I got used to it ;p

difference is, really its really my money

not an allowance ;p

(current monitor purchase was planned since jan ;p)

djsmiley2k

3:19 PM

I read that as motor purchase, jeeez

allquixotic

hi

djsmiley2k

hey

How's it going @allquixotic

Canadian Luke

Morning all

smc

good afternoon

allquixotic

3:46 PM

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As someone who's never especially enjoyed the close and snuggly relations between Super User and Microsoft - at least among some (vocal) subsets of the community - I'm against "theming" our birthday in the context of the Windows 10 release. Look, we're not microsoft.stackexchange.com or windows....

Oliver Salzburg

4:53 PM

Another BSOD while I was away >:(

djsmiley2k

:/

Oliver Salzburg

DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE

djsmiley2k

well that points to what I was about to suggest

Oliver Salzburg

The only thing I recently changed was installing a webcam

djsmiley2k

maybe it only happens when your away because it's related to some standby bug

Oliver Salzburg

4:54 PM

But I even unplugged it yesterday

I don't understand why this always breaks mIRCs config

Hennes

5:12 PM

yes!!!!

2560x1440 on my laptop (but only via DP)

Oliver Salzburg

5:52 PM

DP? O_o

Oh! DisplayPort

Nevermind

Hennes

Display port. You known, the successor of DVI

Oliver Salzburg

Right. I was thinking of a different DP

allquixotic

ugh

Ell

6:14 PM

Hi folks

I'm trying to do this

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Q: How do I partition a USB drive so that it's bootable and has a Windows-compatible data storage partition?

split from here I have a 16gb flash drive, which I want a live ISO to boot from (via unetbootin or something similar). It'll be some 32bit distro that I can plug-in and boot on whatever computer I need to. Since it will be a live ISO, I'll need somewhere to save data. I want the USB drive to ...

linux partition live-usb

(but without the windows restriction, ie 1 partition with linux distro, another partition linux readable storage)

and I am trying to do it with dd

I tried doing dd if=my_image.iso of=/dev/sdc1 and I set the bootable flag for sdc1 but I can't boot into it still :/

I tihnk it's because some bootloader needs to be written to the MBR

Any idea how? :S

allquixotic

@Ell why not just install Linux onto it properly?

Ell

@allquixotic by running an installer from an already installed linux you mean?

actually I can just create a ramdisk/tmpfs

djsmiley2k

6:33 PM

It's just a disk

install on it.

and then setup the kernel toa ccept booting on almost any machine.

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Hennes

8:03 PM

@Ell windows and USB flash drive means one partition.

Or at least, one recognised by windows

It is a 'feature'

To work around that, either boot a different OS, of rewrite the USB controller formware (on the pen drive) to indetify itself as an USB HDD and not as USB based flashdrive

I got some bookmarks lyiung around to several Super User post and intended to one day write a proper answer to that. Esp. since it is quite possible. It is just std windows behavious not to allow it

allquixotic

8:30 PM

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Ell

9:41 PM

@Hennes in this case, I don't actually need any of the windows bits

I'm installing a new linux over my current linux but I want to back up a few files first

but I only have 1 usb

and I don't trust the cloud with my private keys

Michael Frank

10:09 PM

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Q: how i can join chat room 1000 users

Karen, I did, and that did work for creating the chat group, but I can't figure out how to invite anyone else to it. I can send the group name/server name around, but that's not the easiest for everyone that I'm sending it to to understand. Link

chat

spam

DavidPostill

Same spammer superuser.com/questions/938612/… is copying existing questions and adding spammylinks.

Michael Frank

Sounds very much like that Heisenberg poisoning that @DragonLord talks about.

DragonLord

!!/tell 22678210 wiki Bayesian poisoning

Chatbot is MIA.

Bayesian poisoning

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Michael Frank

Yep, that's it. :P

DragonLord

Fortunately, only from this one user.

superuser.com/search?q=url%3Aonlineplay92.com