Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:10 AM

right.

I am a wuss

I'm going to post an answer that might get flagged. As Aibobot ;p

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Hmm. Waiting ... ;)

Journeyman Geek

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A: What makes Kali Linux different from other Linux distros for it to be used exclusively for hacking and penetration testing?

I have been asked to first start using Kali Linux and get used to the bash before doing anything in hacking. No. Just no. "Getting used to the bash" means you're lacking somewhat fundamental skills and knowledge in linux. Kali linux is a fairly focused distro designed for penetration testi...

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Good answer to a bad question :/

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill signficantly more confrontational than the answers I post tho ;p

DavidPostill

;p

It might be confrontational but it is spot on.

Journeyman Geek

12:18 AM

It had to be posted. Just not as me ;p

DavidPostill

I don't even think it's very confrontational. Honest is a better word.

Everybody will know it is you though if they look at the user profile ;)

Journeyman Geek

yup

It is something that annoys me greatly

bwDraco

Guess I gotta get back to answering questions...

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco quite honestly that one is an answer that was waiting for a question ;p

bwDraco

I'm 100% willing to do something like this on my own account, even if I risk getting flagged.

Journeyman Geek

12:27 AM

;p

bwDraco

No need for a sock or test account.

(You're a mod, so there are probably more stringent requirements, though. Won't want to get the SE team knocking...)

DavidPostill

I can see no reason to flag it.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco the sock account actually exists primarily so I can see things as a low rep user

bwDraco

12:40 AM

My response:

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A: What makes Kali Linux different from other Linux distros for it to be used exclusively for hacking and penetration testing?

Kali Linux is a distribution designed for penetration testing in that it ships with a whole bunch of different tools for hacking and security testing. Most of the same tools are available on other distributions; it's just that Kali comes with these tools out of the box and ready to go, and does n...

> Kali is designed for the security professional who knows what he/she is doing, and is not really aimed at beginning Linux users or everyday use as a normal Linux distribution.

That pretty much sums it up.

I've worked with Kali myself in a computer hacking course.

It's not the sort of distro you want to use as a normal OS, but as a tool for pen-testing.

Journeyman Geek

yup

Its definately not a first distro

or a daily driver distro

Journeyman Geek

12:53 AM

._.

Spotted a HNQ before it HNQed. And didn't realise it ;p

bwDraco

I've had the same happen in the past.

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A: Why did adding memory significantly increase gaming performance on an AMD APU?

When you installed the second memory module, you enabled dual-channel mode and doubled memory bandwidth. GPU performance is highly dependent on memory bandwidth and your frame rates reflect the increase in bandwidth. The AMD A10-6790K is an "Accelerated Processing Unit" (APU). APUs combine a CP...

Also:

Dec 23 '14 at 7:46, by DragonLord

This question, and my answer, are going viral and I'm going to hit the rep cap

Journeyman Geek

2

Q: SSD vs HDD for "swap" on an old computer

Introduction Let's imagine some environment where the speed is not a factor. In my case I am using a really old computer for a "server" with a lot of stupid things ( personal lab ). It is more important the amount of resources, not their speed. On what hardware we can use it My "server" is wit...

IMO upgrading to a modern machine would save him so much pain... ;p

bwDraco

> Continuously pulling 150 W or more from a typical 77 Wh battery is not a great idea and your battery could overheat and fail or even catch fire.

qasdfdsaq

Only if it's poor quality, badly designed, and non-compliant with regulations.

@JourneymanGeek Flagged. For being too correct.

Bob

1:12 AM

@JourneymanGeek How's the toaster? :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob You need to get this on github ;p

Works great so far tho

qasdfdsaq

@Bob How's the Owncloud

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Haven't really used it yet, but it seems to be running fine :P

@JourneymanGeek Well, you have the only copy of the source right now :P

qasdfdsaq

Github has a bias against male coders.

Journeyman Geek

I can put it somewhere you can grab it ;p

Bob

1:14 AM

@JourneymanGeek Maybe later tonight.

Or I can make the repo and you can push to it? :P

I did waste enough of your time...

Journeyman Geek

I'm totally unfamiliar with git on windows ._.

Bob

lol. maybe later tonight then.

Journeyman Geek

(since the right Bob can see deleted messages ;p)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I'll probably lose it by the time I get home :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

1:24 AM

(I can only see deleted in recent chat, not in transcript.)

Journeyman Geek

just remind me then ;p

really?

Bob

Ya.

qasdfdsaq

Dammit

I'm old

bob

1:46 AM

Hi, I'm trying to auto-start a service (on linux) on startup. I'm currently on this website : geekflare.com/how-to-auto-start-services-on-boot-in-linux and it asks to Create or copy your script under /etc/init.d what script would the be talking about?

and I cannot find the chkconfig utility O.o

Would this be the right line to write? : update-rc.d postgresql start ?

Journeyman Geek

@bob those instructions are shit

1. No one really uses classic init scripts any more

2. chkconfig might be distro specific. There's no mention to what distro he's using

bob

I read the new command is update-rc.d stackoverflow.com/questions/20680050/…

Journeyman Geek

....

1. Linux is a kernel

2. What commands you use depend on your distro

3. Your init system depends on your distro and version

bob

Well, I am using mint and debian

Journeyman Geek

mint would use upstart

maybe systemd

debian should probably be on classic init scripts

bob

1:54 AM

I will make my research, I will be back in a minute thank you very much =)

Journeyman Geek

chkconfig is something you find on a red hat based system

bob

It says here adminsehow.com/2009/05/… that the command for debian is : update-rc.d postgresql defaults

Would that be right?

Journeyman Geek

next question

why do you need to do that?

your postgres install includes init scripts

bob

Oh because I need postgresql whenever I start my computer and it bothers me to start it up each time

Journeyman Geek

It should already be there if you installed it correctly

bob

1:57 AM

I would require to view the init script?

and maybe add the line?

Journeyman Geek

No, quite literally

the postgres package includes that by default

bob

wierd...

Shall I remove and reinstall?

Journeyman Geek

Do you have anything in postgres right now?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Debian Jessie is on systemd

Journeyman Geek

I'd suggest dumping it to be safe, so you can restore, purge, reinstall and restore.

@Bob haven't touched debian in a while I guess

Bob

1:59 AM

@JourneymanGeek They went from sysvinit to systemd in 7.x => 8.x

bob

I'm new to this haha

Journeyman Geek

@bob fundamentals

bob

well the whole linux os

Bob

There's now a Devuan fork that stuck with sysvinit.

Journeyman Geek

You sound like you need to do LFS101 ;)

bob

2:00 AM

What is that?

Journeyman Geek

(which is awesome if you are new)

bob

I really want to improve my skills with linux haha because I am not that great

Journeyman Geek

edx.org/course/introduction-linux-linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-2

bwDraco

training.linuxfoundation.org/linux-courses/…

bob

Ok, I will start the course thanks for the suggestion

oh, which one is better?

Bob

2:01 AM

@JourneymanGeek ...I thought that was directed at me :P

You had me confused for a bit there.

@bob They're the same thing.

edX is hosting the course.

bwDraco

Yeah. It's hosted by edX, but with material from the Linux Foundation.

Bob

Is it bad that I'm spending more time reporting/fixing Firefox bugs than answering questions on SU? :P

bob

Are you volunteering to report the bugs?

bwDraco

Gosh. I'd better continue learning JavaScript.

bob

did any of you followed the linux foundation course?

Journeyman Geek

2:12 AM

I've been working through the one I linked

It'll do you good ;p

bob

I already started it haha

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I need to use replies more ;p

Bob

2:54 AM

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Q: How does faster than light travel violate causality?

Let's say I have two planets that are one hundred thousand lightyears away from each other. I and my immortal friend on the other planet want to communicate, with a strong laser and a tachyon communication device. I record a message on the tachyon communication device and release the message at ...

general-relativity faster-than-light causality time-travel tachyon

My head hurts.

Michael Frank

3:13 AM

Hmm... VirtualBox VM (debian 8.3) doesn't keep time correctly. What do?

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank that's a pretty common issue with VMs. Just get some NTP client to periodically sync the time?

Psycogeek

@Bob If the guy has to go 100,000 light years away to get a date, he should be a bit less worried about the girls saying "not if you were the last man on earth" when some people have married a woman that said that to them once before :-)

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Ahh, makes sense.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I'm not answering very many questions ;p

Well technically you answered my last one, even if its by hacking together a solution ;p

Bob

3:37 AM

@JourneymanGeek lol. the other guy already answered it, I just happened to be in the middle of an independent one and didn't feel like giving up -_-

bob

4:07 AM

@JourneymanGeek do you have a second?

Journeyman Geek

@bob maybe

bob

alright I have a server running with apache2 on a debian machine. Other devices on the network can access it using the debian's ip (192.168.1.16). I changed the content of index.php using (cp -a new_content index.php). Now we (other devices) do not have access to the server (you don't have permission to view this content)

I thought when we use -a, it keeps the permission and etc etc

Journeyman Geek

Assuming the original contents had the right permissions

And well... this exactly is the sort of stuff that's fairly trivial to look up

and check

and time for lunch

Journeyman Geek

5:22 AM

0

Q: cats broke my macbook triple boot (maybe) can't boot anything except OSX

I use Bootcamp for Windows and rEFInd boot loader for Ubuntu 14.04. It used to work fine. Macbook Pro late 2014, came with Yosemite, upgraded to El Capitan. I was booted into Ubuntu and out of the room. When I came back the screen looked strange, black & smeary, I think my cats walked on the key...

osx ubuntu boot

0_0

Bob

5:37 AM

@JourneymanGeek I always knew they were evil.

(I wonder if they pissed on it? :P)

Journeyman Geek

heh

I knew a guy who used to buy completely shit hardware cause he went through a lot due to feline related reasons

(Was his mom's cats)

Also not very bright I suppose

Bob

Hmm...

I'm seeing a whole lot more downvotes on SU than last year :\

Many of which look like decent questions at a glance.

And the downvotes with no accompanying comment.

Journeyman Geek

erf

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ?

Journeyman Geek

5:56 AM

the downvotes with no comment bit

But I suspect its just more questions + more users

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Eh... I have the sneaking suspicion it's just one or two people going around downvoting :S

Journeyman Geek

(Even mods can't typically see votes)

Bob

Some of those questions are decent, IMO. Maybe needs a bit of polish, but commentless downvotes don't help polish.

@JourneymanGeek Ya, I know.

Just my recent observations.

Could be completely coincidence for all I know.

Journeyman Geek

yeah

Bob

6:18 AM

Ah, my first answer-with-screenshots in a while. Feels good :P

Freehand circles and all.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

My last one was in May 2015 O_O

Journeyman Geek

ooh

Bob

My last FHC was in Jul 2014 O_O

Journeyman Geek

@Bob qbitorrent just sent a notification that my download was complete ;p

So... the whole setup works perfectly

Bob

6:21 AM

@JourneymanGeek :D

Journeyman Geek

Well this part of it anyway ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I forget - the difference between this one and Jonno's one was this has titles and silent, right? :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob yes

Jonno's one has a fixed title

yours picks it up from GNTP

so I can script anything to send a message and know where its from

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Ok, just finding a reason to actually post it as an answer :P

Didn't really want to steal the thunder from him if it did exactly the same thing.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob tho, you did completely spend 3 or so hours writing something you'll never use ;p

Bob

6:29 AM

@JourneymanGeek I ... do that a lot.

@JourneymanGeek Honestly, 3 hours is less time than I spend on some of those wordier answers :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

6:48 AM

Bob

You're up late @allquixotic :P

allquixotic

holiday tomorrow and having trouble sleeping

not a good day mentally

Journeyman Geek

:(

allquixotic

usually I just watch youtube until I'm too tired to keep my eyes open and things kind of work themselves out that way

Journeyman Geek

lol

I build stuff

Bob

6:59 AM

@allquixotic :/

Bob

7:59 AM

@JourneymanGeek I just closed at least 30 toast-related tabs :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

StackExchange

8:10 AM

0

Q: Can we get tabs like in Stackoverflow?

I really like the customizable tabs in stackoverflow where I really can filter for questions I'm interested in. (When) Can we have it here?

feature-request

Psycogeek

In Da News cnn.com/2016/02/14/asia/australia-billion-dollar-ice-seizure Busted! Waterbag breast lifters full of drugs. There has to be a joke here or at least a few puns

Resa Gel implants , makes your breast look like your teeth are not falling out :-)

Look hot as hell and cold as "ice" at the same time.

They are working on a new series now, called Breaking Breasts ?

Burgi

9:37 AM

you know what would be good: when you downvote it automatically pops up a comment box. if you don't enter a comment it takes 3 rep off you but if you do enter a comment it only removes the normal 1 rep

Journeyman Geek

but I might not want to post a comment

Or someone's posted the same comment I've posted

Burgi

fair point

Journeyman Geek

heh

I'm firing up another vm to test something

Burgi

i was trying to think of a way round the issue of downvotes but no explaination to the author as to what is wrong

Journeyman Geek

(trying to get an ISCSI target up cause, well I've never done it before)

Not much you can do

and I admittedly downvote without commenting. Or comment without downvoting.

Burgi

9:47 AM

if a comment box popped up when you downvoted would you be more inclined to comment?

Journeyman Geek

No?

I'd find it annoying and obnoxious ;p

Burgi

would it make more sense for newer, less respected members of the community?

DavidPostill

@Burgi Voting is anonymous. There is no obligation to comment - and there shouldn't be. This whole issue gets raised on meta.se almost every day and when it does gets massively downvoted.

733

Q: Encouraging people to explain downvotes

I used to get "upset" (though that is too strong a term) when I got downvoted without comment. If my answer isn't good enough then I'd like to know why. Not only does it improve the answer for the OP but it improves my knowledge too. Where the down-vote has been explained I've found it useful & ...

feature-request status-completed voting down-votes comments

This is the question most of them get closed as duplicates of.

Burgi

ty

StackExchange

10:03 AM

0

Q: Why spam questions are not removed from the recently changed lists once deleted?

Clicking on x questions with new activity banner to see latest activity I often also see "old" (> 5 min:) ) spam questions still in the list, however the question itself is already removed. Why their title isn't removed from the list?

discussion feature-request

Burgi

maybe its me that is doing it wrong.

i don't downvote unless i can think of something constructive to say

Journeyman Geek

I try to do that

But I occationally downvote when someone should know better and acts like he dosen't

Burgi

probably on my questions/answers... ;)

Psycogeek

@Burgi in most cases i feel the same way, I do not ever find it constructive to kick people when they are down, but without that it wouldnt be stack exchange :-)

Journeyman Geek

10:18 AM

naw

Psycogeek

Thousands of people have made constructive changes to thier stupid answers when told what the percieved flaw in the answer is. Thousands of people have also explained thier "thinking" (right or wrong) or explained better what they were trying to relay, when they knew what the problem was.

Journeyman Geek

Oh, and stupid questions

And downvoting those is free

Psycogeek

not as much can be done for stupid questions, because (after all) they are the ones asking for "help" not providing (cough) expert advices.

At those sites where they PAY people to help others, you dont see people spitting flames at the hands that feed them :-)

I downvoted your question, because it is stupid, so be sure to click on the Pay Me Button when my wonderous answer (i snagged off the web) fixes things for you.

Burgi

i think that was going to be google's model for the long dead knol project

Journeyman Geek

lol

Burgi

11:06 AM

do you think it is possible to measure the ambient temp with the CPU thermometer?

because it is fricking freezing here and the facilities guy says there is nothing wrong

Psycogeek

11:20 AM

sneak in after work and block the heating vents where the facilities guy resides most often, the temps where you are will magically increase.

Journeyman Geek

11:40 AM

prolly not

erf

Thing dosen't work. I reboot. Thing works

I'm not sure what rebooting fixed ._.

qasdfdsaq

Have you not heard? Turning it off and on again fixes everything

Oliver Salzburg

> We use Internet Explorer instead of Chrome, because you can't automatically update Chrome through WSUS

qasdfdsaq

@OliverSalzburg :-/

While they have a valid point... No. Just no.

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah, I don't even know how to respond to that

Well, I do, I just say "Okay" and move on

qasdfdsaq

Make sure to sarcastically extend the -aaayyyyy... part of it.

Journeyman Geek

11:54 AM

Oh... Kay....

@qasdfdsaq naturally

Oliver Salzburg

It's a client, so you'd not want to do that ;D

Journeyman Geek

At least its not IE6 right?

qasdfdsaq

I do that to clients in the hope of educating them into being less irritating clients in future

@JourneymanGeek You can't update IE6 through WSUS

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq thank heavens

Burgi

nuke it from orbit

we had to code our corporate website for IE8 purely because the CEO didn't like "fancy modern browsers"

then he complained when it looked different on his ipad

Oliver Salzburg

11:59 AM

@Burgi Priceless

Burgi

and on that note... lunch

qasdfdsaq

So an article comes up about how scientists are studying the effects of covering babies with fluids from their moms... ermm... y'know... while I'm eating.

Birth of a microbiome: Researchers smear babies with vaginal fluid C-section newborns slathered with moms’ secretions may dodge lifelong health problems. Mildly NSFW

In the name of SCIENCE!

I was actually looking for an article about black holes, but I guess that's kinda close >_>

Also, seasonal changes apparently change the way your brain works. I wonder how that affects people who have no seasons, like Journeman Geek

I nearly typo'd that to Journeyman Gecko

Journeyman Geek

12:14 PM

vaguely reptilian I am not

qasdfdsaq

12:25 PM

You talk like Yoda

Yoda was vaguely reptilian

Bob

12:36 PM

Journeyman Geek

lol

Burgi

12:54 PM

its odd that our infrastructure team need an entire afternoon to add an additional 2 cores to a virtual server

HackToHell

Probably waiting on the provider

qasdfdsaq

Isn't the infrastructure team meant to be the provider?

Burgi

exactly my point

qasdfdsaq

1:20 PM

Hmm I just ate someone called Anna

Burgi

...

qasdfdsaq

And a few minutes ago I ate someone called Noemi

This seems suspicious

Burgi

is this in reference to the stiff and meaty thing you mentioned last week?

qasdfdsaq

No

Bob

@Burgi Probably Agar.io.

qasdfdsaq

1:23 PM

Yesterday hours ago JourneymanGeek accused me of having a crush on someone.

DavidPostill

@qasdfdsaq What have you been smoking/drinking/injecting? You are not making much sense - as usual ;)

Burgi

i'm beginning to think that @qasdfdsaq is actually a chatbot

that killed the convo....

qasdfdsaq

!!am I a chatbot

Clearly not.

!!test

@Bob Yes, how did you guess?

Bob

@qasdfdsaq You mentioned it the other day. And I've played it before so that's the only context where 'eating' someone made sense.

Unless you're a secret cannibal.

qasdfdsaq

Heh :)

!!test

Nope, I'm still not a chatbot.

Journeyman Geek

1:37 PM

That is what a chatbot would say

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Burgi

lol

DavidPostill

-1

Q: Chrome autoloads tabs + virus popups

Any better solution than clearing application data when Chrome basically is locked out due to autotab loading (especially as it's likely opening a virus tab)? Chrome autoloading tabs is complained about everywhere. What you never see is that nastier virus pages autoload and lock with a popup so ...

google-chrome virus tabs

Read the comments. I've given up trying to beat this question into shape.

qasdfdsaq

It's off-topic anyway as it seems to be about Chrome on Android

DavidPostill

@qasdfdsaq It is now. He only just added android :/

qasdfdsaq

!!Is "I am not a chatbot" something a chatbot would say?

Clearly not.

DavidPostill

1:45 PM

Although it is a tablet. There is some disagreement whether tablets are or are not on-topic.

And now he's removed android :/

qasdfdsaq

Can someone else test if I'm a chatbot?

DavidPostill

ask.metafilter.com/113596/How-to-test-a-chat-bot

Burgi

"asking it simple math problems"

DavidPostill

lol. "This is easy. Just keep asking the same question over and over again. A human will ignore you eventually."

qasdfdsaq

No I mean test a !! chatbot command

Bob

1:49 PM

@DavidPostill Last major vote said allow iirc

DavidPostill

@Bob Thanks. But the OP is still refusing to update his question with any useful information.

XKCD

"Radians Fahrenheit or radians Celsius?" "Uh, sorry, gotta go!"

Burgi

the huge blue bar on MSDN asking if the article is helpful is really starting to cheese me off

Bob

@DavidPostill I think this was the most recent: meta.superuser.com/questions/5045/…

qasdfdsaq

Seriously, can someone just issue a chatbot command please?

DavidPostill

1:53 PM

10 Tricks That Chatbots Use to Make You Believe They're Human: io9.gizmodo.com/5901579/…

Bob

!!die

qasdfdsaq

> Object { name: "die", fun: [30]</module.exports/<.fun(), permissions: Object, description: "Kills me :(", pendingMessage: "I will shut up after {0} more invoc…", thisArg: Object, creator: "God", canUse: [1]</exports.CommunityCommand/cmd.canUse(), canDel: function (), exec: [1]</exports.CommunityCommand/cmd.exec(), 1 more… } execCommand calling

Burgi

it worked...

qasdfdsaq

Gah, why isn't this working

Burgi

if a chatbot can debug itself is it a von neumann machine?

qasdfdsaq

1:56 PM

I think allquixotic broke the code

Nope, wait, that was just me talking to myself

DavidPostill

@qasdfdsaq Please stop abusing the chatbot!

qasdfdsaq

@DavidPostill WTF are you on about now

MichaelMitchell

hello

qasdfdsaq

I'm trying to fix the bloody thing.

Fuck off clippy.

4

MichaelMitchell

i have a quick question on large campus sized networks...

how does it spread bandwidth to users?

qasdfdsaq

2:00 PM

facepalm

DavidPostill

@MichaelMitchell Opinion-based. We cannot answer that.

allquixotic

2:58 PM

@MichaelMitchell It depends entirely on the architecture of the network and the individual network appliances involved in the network.

There is no possible way to generalize how "the generic large campus-sized network distributes traffic across users".

DavidPostill

3:39 PM

Hmm. An ISP who can't diagnose his own non-working internet connection ;)

-1

Q: Can ping DNS server but no internet and no pings beyond

I have a machine that is connected directly to the internet connection (we are the ISP) and it won't connect to the web. I can ping my router and my DNS server, but can't ping beyond that. Trace route shows two hops then times out. My trace route shows 4 hops. I have tried: release and renew ...

internet-connection

qasdfdsaq

4:08 PM

@allquixotic Bandwidth! Not traffic.

Distributing bandwidth is ... well. The inverse of distributing traffic among users.

Burgi

4:23 PM

so the CPU upgrade to my virtual server STILL hasn't been done

Insane

5:03 PM

@DavidPostill you around?

DavidPostill

@Insane You rang? ;)

What can I do for you?

Insane

@DavidPostill Do you think, "The cat spilled water all over the external connectors of my computer and I blue screened. What steps should I take to make sure nothing is faulty?"

Is on-topic for SU?

(This happened last night)

DavidPostill

@Insane It seems a bit opinion based and maybe a bit broad but it might fly ;) You might want to add more info about the bsod. Have you tried turning it on yet? If not make sure everything is dry ;)

Insane

I dried off all I could externally, unplugged everything (and turned the PSU off), went to sleep, and now today everything seems to be fine. But I don't want to get caught off guard later down the road.

You think it's worth a shot asking for general guidance, someone could provide a canonical type answer?

DavidPostill

So you have turned it on?
It would make a good question for a future canonical answer ;)

Insane

5:12 PM

That's what I was thinking, and yes I'm typing to you on it :P

DavidPostill

Note there are some similar question already:

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Q: computer not restarting after water drop

Someone spilled water over my desktop. The water did not go inside the case but it flowed at the back side where I attach thewires like for the keyboard, USB etc. Now when I start the computer I can see POST start. the VGA BIOS is displayed followed by a press F2 for BIOS. Next I see a blank ...

windows-7 motherboard bios

Insane

Right but I'm not having any visible failures

Just the bluescreen last night when it happened and I turned the PC off right away

DavidPostill

You should still be able to get the BSOD using BlueScreenView. Include this in your question.

4

Q: What happens when water is spilled in a powered-on PC?

I spilled some water into a PC (it got through the fan vents) and it powered down immediately. I just got a few splashes on the motherboard and graphics card. Is it fried? Also: The RAM did not get wet; will this still be OK? Can I safely test it by turning it back on once it's totally dry?

hardware-failure water-damage

And for your amusement:

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Q: What will happen if I (accidentally) pour a bucket of water inside my pc?

Is it dangerous? What will happen to me and the PC? Edit: It's a serious question. The other day I almost spilled a bottle of cola inside my PC (the case was open).

power

Insane

LOL

And I don't think any water got inside through the top of my fan vents. My case lets you open and close the top and thankfully the vents were closed.

@DavidPostill Should it automatically load my dumps..? It's empty when I opened the program.

DavidPostill

Hmm. I can't test as I don't have any dumps. Do you have anythin in C:\Windows\Minidump?

Insane

5:24 PM

It's empty

Is it possibly because I didn't let the bluescreen "collect all the info" it needed to

Before turning the PC off?

You know how it does the huge unhappy face :( and says "sit tight while we collect info". I wasn't waiting for that to happen when open water sitting on my PC

DavidPostill

OK. That's probably why. There are also a few that won't save anything like a hard disk failure of the system drive ...

You did the right thing hitting the power off ;)

Insane

Good :)

Insane

5:51 PM

@DavidPostill superuser.com/questions/1041172/… let me know if I should change anything

DavidPostill

@Insane Looks good.

bwDraco

6:07 PM

Chatbot's been down for a while. Any idea what's going on? (@allquixotic)

DavidPostill

@bwDraco

4 hours ago, by qasdfdsaq

I'm trying to fix the bloody thing.

bwDraco

I suspect qasdf is going to contribute code to fix the issue...

DavidPostill

6:28 PM

The rose gardener is back

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Q: What are the best way of keeping the garden in cline and good?

which is the best way for keeping garden fresh?

rosegarden

Weird. It's not the same luser ...

DavidPostill

6:56 PM

New spam trick.

Faheem Mitha

That's a funny Page Not Found graphic.

DavidPostill

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Q: Exchange 2013 Archive mailbox corrupt - gets Quarantined

I have users Exchange archive mailbox which gets Quarantined all the time. After some research, I found out how to release the archive mailbox from Quarantine, but after a few minutes the mailbox turns back to Quarantined state. I tried to export the archive to a pst file, but the time is not ...

microsoft-outlook-2013

Exact copy of question on msdn dated August 02, 2015. social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/…. An answer later in that post spams recoverytoolbox.com - which I'm sure will appear as an answer here shortly

qasdfdsaq

Woof

DavidPostill

Moderator flagged ;)

qasdfdsaq

My sockpuppet account needs reputation

DavidPostill

7:00 PM

lol

recoverytoolbox is a well known spammer around here.

qasdfdsaq

Do you get reputation for flagging spam?

DavidPostill

No. I just hate spam.

qasdfdsaq

Don't we all.

Faheem Mitha

7:58 PM

Does everyone know about this?

Let's Encrypt

Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority that entered public beta on December 3, 2015 that provides free X.509 certificates for Transport Layer Security encryption (TLS) via an automated process designed to eliminate the current complex process of manual creation, validation, signing, installation and renewal of certificates for secure websites. == Overview == The project aims to make encrypted connections to World Wide Web servers ubiquitous. By getting rid of payment, web server configuration, validation emails and dealing with expired certificates it is meant to significantly lower the...

Finally, free certificates.

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