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Bob
6:09 AM
@JourneymanGeek huh?
 
@Bob so essentially until I actually turn up at the job site I have no legal protection?
basically contracts don't take effect until I start work
 
Bob
o.o
@JourneymanGeek well, if you signed a contract to start on X day... aren't they in breach unless you agreed to a change?
 
That's I was wondering
but it wouldn't be something I'd push unless I had something else.
 
6:45 AM
Kali Linux Installation Stuffing Up.
Stuffing up?
 
Bob
Nah, that's normal for Kali
 
Temped to comment: so if it is stuffing up, did you wan tit to wobble down ?
Meanwhile: win7 check for updates has already been running for another 2 hours.
 
6:58 AM
actually its working perfectly.
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek For certain definitions of perfectly
 
@Bob the biggest issue with Kali is the people who use it ;p
 
Bob
Ow
Ok.
I want to download an Azure VHD
It's an OS disk
So, the template creates it at 127 GB.
 
that said, this was a JMG answer, not a aibobot answer.
 
Bob
They don't offer compressed downloads.
 
7:05 AM
@Bob that would be too easy? ;p
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek There was a feature request in 2014...
There's only like 11 GB actually used on the damn thing.
There's this handy disk resizing option. Except...
> Error: Disk size reduction is not supported.
So, apparently OS disks are expand-only...
I'm not downloading 127 GB!
 
Bob
> Workaround for Reducing Size of Azure Data Disks (Windows)
> Azure supports only disk incremental resizing.

The aim of this article is to describe a workaround that will achive this goal.
... %$%#@%^#$%&!@$#!@#
> Note: this workaround will work only for DataDisks. OS Disks are not supported.
Ok. What's a good disk cloning utility that can run live (in Windows) and can ignore unused space?
 
Macrium might work
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Any chance it does VHDs?
I suppose I could always convert after...
Oh, damn, it needs installation right?
 
7:12 AM
hm
disk2vhd... might work
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Can it run on a live disk?
 
yup. Not sure where you'd need to backup to tho
I usually back up to another disk
 
Bob
Hm. Looks like it might.
@JourneymanGeek There's a nifty little 50 GB temporary disk in the VM :P
It should be enough if I enable NTFS compression.
I hope.
:(
@JourneymanGeek Ooh, yup.
> The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online.
 
@Bob I can completely attest to that
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek though in this case it should be vhd2vhd :P
 
7:19 AM
@Bob "You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted)."
 
Bob
No 127 GB download for me! :D
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek ?
oh
:P
 
you're welcome ;p
 
Bob
There's a good chance this whole plan will go up in flames anyway, but it's worth a shot.
 
7:23 AM
at the least you can mount it ;p
 
Bob
(Direct upgrade to preview on Azure blows up cause it deletes the remote access permissions, so download VHD, upgrade, fix remote, upload and replace VHD, pray, boot up)
 
Bob
lol
 
ow
alternate remote access wouldn't work?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek No console access on Azure
 
7:24 AM
ugh
 
Bob
Comes with RDP for Windows templates and SSH for Linux
It has an agent thing that's supposed to be able to repair/reset remote access settings, but it turns out that doesn't work too well when your upgrade wipes out the agent.
 
what about something like (eww) CRD or TV before the upgrade?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek The main problem is it's going from Enterprise N to Enterprise (preview), which counts as a different edition and wipes all apps
 
Bob
The only Win10 template on Azure is Enterprise N
 
7:26 AM
and it'll work fine after that?
 
Bob
I could install and upload my own but it wouldn't be all that different from this.
@JourneymanGeek Haven't the foggiest!
Oh hey my page file is on that temp disk.
NTFS compression ain't bad
that's half done
Then I'll hopefully 7-zip the 10 GB VHD down to half that.
 
for a tool I hardly use, whenever I've used this, its been massively abusive ;p
 
Bob
5 GB download is acceptable.
@JourneymanGeek Hm?
 
@Bob I use it for mountable backups
 
I use NTFS compression for File History, but it causes horrendous fragmentation.
 
Bob
7:30 AM
@JourneymanGeek Ah. Acronis used to have a tib to vhd tool :P
They stopped that in... 2015? but you can still mount the tib directly
Eh, I never bother with NTFS compression
This is a special case
 
most tools let you mount the backup file directly
 
Bob
though tbh it probably doesn't really matter since disk2vhd seems smart enough to not clone the free space
 
@JourneymanGeek Hmm. Compromised account? superuser.com/users/604577/aren-tarrow Spam from active user superuser.com/a/1119029/337631
Ahh he has msofficehelpline.com in his profile ...
 
Just a moment..,
 
Bob
msofficehelpline sounds like the random overseas scammers calling on the phone
"Hello, we are calling from Windows Office because we detected a virus on your computer."
"Please do the needful and let us fix it."
 
7:32 AM
@DavidPostill what makes you think the account was legit in the first place?
 
@JourneymanGeek His other answers?
 
@DavidPostill *spins up VM, opens skype* this will be fun
 
Last legitimate activity was July 14. The account was abandoned for 45 days before the spam activity began.
 
@DavidPostill poor copy pastes
 
Before this, the account had three posts in two weeks.
 
7:35 AM
(trying to find anything salvagable that I missed)
 
Well I was right. It did look dodgy :)
 
Wasn't particularly active, but I've seen similar patterns from accounts whose last activity was several years ago.
 
Bob
 
@DavidPostill without a doubt ;p
 
7:45 AM
morning
 
morning
 
@DavidPostill fuck you, Now I will be listening to Queen all day. It's your fault :(
 
lol
 
We just found a missing HTTP→HTTPS redirect on one of our sites, only because a colleague reinstalled his OS and no longer had the HSTS entry in his browsers :P
That could have been really annoying if a client ran into that
 
Bob
8:02 AM
@OliverSalzburg Always test with a fresh profile!
Or private mode.
Actually, does private cache HSTS?
Oh. Chrome does copy HSTS non-private to private. Firefox does not.
Intentional decision for Chrome too bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=104935
 
8:22 AM
@tereško By which you mean "don't stop me now" ? ;p
 
@Bob Interesting stuff. Thanks
 
(also, language. Might be annoying if someone flagged it a few months down the road)
 
@tereško "Don't Lose Your Head" and "Hang On in There". "Keep Yourself Alive"
 
(ahh classy trolling ;p)
 
@JourneymanGeek in my experience, people dont flag old comments
 
8:29 AM
@tereško happened to bob
 
@JourneymanGeek well ... not for me: chat.stackoverflow.com/…
 
@tereško anyway, if it happens, you know what to do.
;p
 
duck and cover
 
yup
erf. I need to do the full dismantle and wash up on my keyboard at some point
 
yan
yawn
 
8:35 AM
@JourneymanGeek forgot to buy food and are now "exploring alternative sources"?
 
@tereško naw, lots of dust
Its a mechanical so I'll likely take it apart cluster by cluster and wash the keys and blow out the internals
that's just creepy. FB linked a post of photos of a previous time I took apart the keyboard
 
maybe you should stop using facebook
what model of KB?
 
razer blackwidow ultimate
@tereško I've not used it in years
I think razer sells it as the classic now
 
@JourneymanGeek i'm a little worried about my MSU question regarding the chinese tag
 
what about it
 
8:49 AM
i think some people think it is racist
@Hydranix : All I was able to recognize appeared to be a racial slur (indicating Chinese people aren't wanted). However I felt unsure of any such thing (to bluntly answer your question), so I took the civil route of simply asking an innocent question. It seems there is more to this than I recognized. Some Google searching indicates some people may use "take away" to refer to Chinese food which I would say is "to go", or "carry out", or maybe "take out". I'm still not sure I got that right, but as an intentional non-partaker of Chinese restaurants, I can be content to just not worry about it — TOOGAM yesterday
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek suburb daiso had three racks full of the pens... no ink
 
Bob
Wait, four racks
 
:/
 
@Burgi .... Really?
 
9:02 AM
@Burgi Puns are dangerous - especially in an international setting where context is not universally known and also words may have different meanings to different cultures.
 
in this case though
Take-out or takeout (in North American and Philippine English); also carry-out (in some dialects in the U.S. and Scotland); take-away (in the United Kingdom other than Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, and Ireland), parcel (in Indian English and Pakistani English), refers to prepared meals or other food items, purchased at a restaurant, that the purchaser intends to eat elsewhere. A concept found in many ancient cultures, take-out food is now common worldwide, with a number of different cuisines and dishes on offer. == History == The concept of prepared meals to be eaten...
I guess its an americanism
@DavidPostill Its a fundamental misunderstanding of the very meaning of the word tho
 
its gone very weird
 
it has
 
9:19 AM
in other news i've broken a linux server
 
the linux release upgrade failed
then my putty session timed out and i missed the error message
 
release upgrades are chancy ._.
 
@JourneymanGeek not sure why Razor still sticks to matrix color scheme
@Burgi VPS?
 
9:34 AM
its a DO droplet
 
then you should be able to access with the web console
 
i should have done a snapshot before i ran the update
 
@tereško green's their signature colour but most of their older products are blue LED and the latest are programmable RGB Leds
 
10:00 AM
WOOOOOOO I'm FREE
 
.. my brain read it as "I'm on FIRE"
 
đŸ”¥
 
Bob
huh, that was 2012
I swear I'm still hearing it on radio
@JourneymanGeek sr tonight?
 
10:15 AM
@Bob might start late. Got some errands to run in town.
 
Bob
k
@JourneymanGeek I'll be available in 60-90 mins so ping me when :P
 
My brother and I have to do some paperwork in town at 7.30. he's not here yet ._.
will do
 
Bob
hm
I need to pick a quick http server to toss up on Windows :P
would use the python one but that's not installed in the VM...
iis probably needs a restart
 
ugh.... DO tech support is very hands off
 
10:32 AM
@Bob I'm trying to remember what puppy's first webserver was called... ;p
 
Bob
trying mongoose but it doesn't seem to work for public
oh god bloody windows firewall in the background
also, smartscreen needs to go die in a fire
3
 
who is chat user 601? o.O
ah, Kronos.
 
11:34 AM
@Bob some people have taste .. but you are not one of them
 
Ruthless.
In his defense, he didn't say he liked that song. Just that it was on the radio all the time.
 
Bob
@jokerdino especially store radio loves it
:(
 
@tereško "I Go Crazy" and "I'm Going Slightly Mad". Your comments "Misfire" but "You Don't Fool Me" and "The Show Must Go On". "You & I", "I Guess We're Falling Out"
 
@Burgi Digital Ocean?
 
yes
 
11:45 AM
I'm thinking about migrating my sites there
Bad idea?
 
imho, yes
 
no phone support, limited email support
its cheap for a reason
 
I see
I don't know many alternatives
 
Bob
ok, long shot, but... anyone know of a way to quickly verify and redownload part of a corrupted file? I have full access to both the server and client.
 
11:49 AM
Literally, and I Really mean literally, all national hosts I ever interacted with are shit.
No, to be shit they need to improve a lot
 
Bob
It's 3.5 GB so being able to break it into, say, 10 MB chunks to run a checksum on and redownload would be great
I suppose I could manually write such a tool...
 
@tereško "I Go Crazy" and "I'm Going Slightly Mad". Your comments "Misfire" but "You Don't Fool Me" and "The Show Must Go On". "You & I", "I Guess We're Falling Out". I'm a "Dog With a Bone" and I "Feel Like", "Yeah", "Was It All Worth It"?. "Who Needs You"?
 
I used site5 since 2010 (shared servers) and it was amazing, but they have been bought by EIG and I want to migrate, might as well start using VPS
I was considering DO or Linode
 
i wouldn't call them shit, just limited support
 
Anything is better than Brazilian hosting
A dead rat on a fridge is better
Hitler is better
Comcast support is better
I once had one told me to reset my router to get rid of error 403
Other told me the site was not hosted with them, despite traceroute and DNS saying otherwise
Other took 16 days to enable SSH
 
Bob
11:54 AM
@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse That's not unique to Brazil
 
Other suddenly became read only, I opened a support ticket, one month later still no reply...
@Bob well, in my sampling universe, all Brazilian hosting suck and all the single USA hosting is (was) amazing :P
Well, 9am and I'm more than an hour late thanks to my lovely bank tech support
Time to leave
Bye
 
@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse hosting on a dead badger?
 
@JourneymanGeek That would explain a lot, actually
 
@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse phone + injured thumb :(
 
Awwww poor doggie
 
Bob
11:59 AM
@JourneymanGeek o.O
 
Dogs have thumbs?!
 
Wait, dogs have thumbs????!!
 
Bob
@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse how do you think he clacks?
 
Thumb paw small difference.
 
A dewclaw is a digit – vestigial in some animals – on the foot of many mammals, birds, and reptiles (including some extinct orders, like certain theropods). It commonly grows high on the leg such that in digitigrade species, when the animal is standing, it does not make contact with the ground. On dogs a dewclaw is on the inside of the leg, positioned analogously to a human thumb. == DogsEdit == Dogs almost always have dewclaws on the inside of the front legs and occasionally also on the hind legs. Unlike front dewclaws, rear dewclaws tend to have little bone or muscle structure in most breeds...
On dogs a dewclaw is on the inside of the leg, positioned analogously to a human thumb
 
Bob
LTE \o/
'cept now it's dropping back down :(
 
@Bob Your phone is almost twice as fast as my home connection.
 
Bob
@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse My phone mobile modem is about 4 times faster than my home connection
 
O.o
Unlimited data, or do you also envy @allquicatic?
 
Bob
@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse 50 GB @ $60...
new plan came out, and I wanted to test it out
it's also about 5 times as much data as any plan available before it :P
 
12:07 PM
We get 10x less data for (proportionally) more...
 
Bob
oh, 60 AUD not USD
more typical is something like 1-2 GB per $10
data-only, no calls
 
5GB for 10% of minimum wage IIRC
Who cares about voice calls. It's not like I have friends. .___.
Not ones that call me, at least.
 
Bob
@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse o.O
 
I'll check when I get to work.
Speaking of which... byyyyyyye
 
Bob
lol
bye
 
12:28 PM
woof
@Bob I'm back tho I may need to drop out 9ish for dog dinner
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek offline steam?
 
@Bob I need to kick things
 
Bob
lol
 
damnit
@Bob online now methinks
 
Bob
12:33 PM
@JourneymanGeek poke
 
1:15 PM
@JourneymanGeek Is a mod "Leave Open" vote binding?
 
Whee, After 7 1/2 hours windows raises a popup 'windows updates available. Click here to install them'
w7 updates S L O W
 
1:46 PM
@Bob eh. I think tis the same bug I had with SR3
@DavidPostill "binding" in the sense that a single leave open vote reopens I guess?
also, I think the wrist seems to be slight swollen... damn, I don't get paid enough for this ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek what happened to your paw wrist?
 
@Burgi injured it manually turning a threaded hook inside a pipe.
I didn't notice till I was gaming with @Bob and my accuracy was frustratingly bad
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek o.O
 
also SR4 is updating after I validated
 
Bob
o.O
 
1:55 PM
@Bob now it works, and I have an autosave for today, but not the manual save I was trying to do :(
 
Bob
o.O
@JourneymanGeek what's the timestamp on the auto?
 
Okay Archs AUR thingy is weird
I have to clone and then run it o0
I was wondering why pacman wasn't installing from AUR :P
 
Bob
!! s/'s AUR thingy //
 
@Bob Okay Archis weird (source)
 
Bob
whoops
 
1:57 PM
fixed
 
Bob
o.O
@HackToHell fixed what
you broke it :(
 
today/5h16 min played
 
I am not sure :(
 
Bob
"Arch's" was correct
I was trying to do a "Arch is weird" joke
 
oh -.-
I was gooogling grammar rules :D
Damn it's 3 mins now
It's going to be on my internet wall of shame
 
Bob
1:59 PM
@JourneymanGeek 5:16 here
looks about right
 
in baby poop yellow?
 
got it for ~6usd
@JourneymanGeek :(
Can't unsee now ..
 

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