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6:00 AM
we used to have a railway yard too
they closed down ;p
 
Haha, oookay, that explains
 
my laptops get an external cleaning too
none of us smoke, thankfully
and no much worry about shedding
 
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Q: Where can I buy a mac address?from the United States or IEEE?

Lyricall, Where can I buy a mac address?from the United States or IEEE? I want to use it to store my machine id and wifi mac address.

This is so wrong on so many levels.
 
lol
Obviously...
the Mac Store
 
lol
standards.ieee.org/regauth-bin/application?rt=OUI – so if you have a couple of thousands of dollars left, have fun. — slhck 31 secs ago
 
6:08 AM
XD
 
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A: iTerm2 Vim alt+right/left arrow

harrymcThis answer to a similar question says : zsh by default does not use the readline library and therefore won't read ~/.inputrc. To get the same functionality, you could add the following to your ~/.zshrc – this again would use the alt key: bindkey -e bindkey '^[[1;9C' forward-word bindk...

Okay, so, I bounty another guy's question who tried my solution and it didn't work for them.
 
heh
@slhck: I think its a bit of FGIW
I wouldn't even try that answer if I didn't have a mac handy
 
6:28 AM
Right?
 
lol
yeah
But I've always thought he was a powergamer ;p
 
I mean, I could try it myself but I'm not a vim expert and I thought I could waste some rep there
 
yeah
maybe I'll fire up my OS X VM ;p
 
6:43 AM
> budget is not a problem for me
and yet asks for 5 year old phones.
wut.
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Q: Which Mobile should i buy?

Rishabh SinglaWhich Mobile should i buy this http://www.destock-telecom.co.uk/apple-iphone-3g-8gb-p-2.html or this one http://www.destock-telecom.co.uk/sony-ericsson-w995-p-136.html .. Budget is not a problem for me .. but i want some more clarification and suggestions.

@slhck olololol
 
@Sathya: because india ;p
 
I love how the question is tagged Nokia
Also, how on earth can you compare an iPhone with a SE brick
 
XD
@slhck: bad eyesight
;p
"both are roughly rectangular, and don't taste very good"
 
lol
@JourneymanGeek point
 
superuser.com/questions/641745/two-mice-two-motion-speeds <- is it bad, I sort of suspected he had a intellimouse?
(was hoping not, since it would make an answer easier)
(with respect to isopryl alcohol bombs...) youtube.com/watch?v=eFN-qZ5rsno
I wish I had chemistry teachers like that
probably not allowed here tho
 
6:51 AM
harry now has more rep earned via bounties than my total rep. #okaythen
 
@Sathya: heh. ;p
I'm not sure if adding a link to the youtube in my answer is going to scare people off, or encourage them ;p
 
add. all the things!
 
Its actually pretty improbable, unless you smoke around your system ;p
 
7:07 AM
@user24769 Hey there! You're pretty special, aren't you? :)
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek "water"
oh boy
Johnny was a chemist's son...
 
@Hardy Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help.
 
b0000m
I kinda want to try that ;p
some day
 
Thank you John.
Hello @Sathya How are you buddy ?
 
Bob
7:12 AM
@JourneymanGeek also, difference is the fumes were concentrated
the liquid itself isn't really flammable. it won't explode.
 
@Bob: heh, I'd personally be more worried about the fire risk
 
Bob
it could catch fire, but not explode.
 
its flammable, its not explosive ;p
 
Bob
unless you concentrate the fumes in an enclosed space :P
 
yup
and if you did it, you're either stupid or an awesome chemistry teacher
 
7:16 AM
@Hardy i'm good
 
7:30 AM
http://superuser.com/questions/630729/how-to-get-win8-installed-onto-a-laptop-without-dvd-or-usb/641761#641761
It smells like spam advertising for his blog post, or am I mistaking ?
 
@Kwaio You guessed right
Maybe edit the post to fix the formatting and remove the link as you go
But then again, he can't boot from USB so meh
 
I don't know if i can edit without poster's approval yet
 
Yes, I saw that, thanks.
 
wut?
How would the government be able to tell you what encryption to use?!
 
7:37 AM
I think that was right before
Considered as military-grade technology beyond 256
 
@slhck: got lifted years ago
 
Yeah, but no government can tell me how to encrypt my data when I'm sending it over the Internet.
Especially, "the Internet".
 
Well, they could accuse you of terrorism suspicion if not
 
@slhck: oh, the limitations was on export
 
again, "before"
 
7:41 AM
If it was developed outside the US it was alright
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek's distant cousin is a decent driver.
 
yeah, reaching the pedals is SUCH a pain when you're a foot high
on the other hand, this guy has it down pat
 
Bob
o.o
20 metres... should be more than enough to stop -_-
well, assuming they were going at a reasonable speed for the conditions
which they probably weren't
bleh
@JourneymanGeek that's pretty awesome, actually
> Don't use isopropol alcohol either. It encourages dry rot.
the fuck?
 
7:59 AM
where is this?
 
@Bob the speed limit signs do not change when there is fog. People around here , and in the snow areas, just basically do not slowdown, when i slow down in those conditions, I become "the problem" , its ketch 22.
 
Bob
@Psycogeek the limit signs may not change, but the laws (at least here) pretty much say you should drive to conditions and give enough time to stop
 
HAMMERTIME!
 
Bob
the speed limit is just that, a maximum limit
if you drive at the limit at all times (including in such horrible visibility), you are an idiot and a dangerous driver.
of course, at the same time, it's considered better to match the speed of those around you. or so I've heard about the US
 
@Bob yes, that is what they teach, in both the classes and in the booklet. The only way i can not be part of the problem, is to pull off the road.
 
Bob
8:02 AM
still, if you can't see what's in front of you and don't give yourself time to stop, you're just asking for a crash
 
@Bob I've been told during driving lessons, that it's a maximum that we should try to be as close as possible...
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Britain?
 
But that does not mean driving a 130kmh in snow and fog...
 
@Bob right match the speed of crasy people :-) with more insurance than me :-)
 
@Bob I mean, that ;p
 
Bob
8:04 AM
if you can't be sure you can stop suddenly for anything you suddenly see when visibility is poor, then you are driving dangerously
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A: My RAM sticks got wet, can I still use them?

Colyn1337If it were water, you might have gotten lucky. The soda leaves behind residuals which normal cleaning processes don't remove. To clean the RAM correctly, you'd end up destroying it. Also, the acid would have reacted with the metal connections and logic circuitry causing corrosion and oxidation...

 
I think he means on rubber
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek he's talking about RAM
which shouldn't have rubber
 
@Bob in the US on average only 100 people a day die due to the automobiles, soo its not really a big issue, especially when a terrorist might kill 2-3 on and average month.
 
Bob
and isopropanol would not "cause dry rot" anyway
it's a fungicide
 
no, other kind of dry rot
 
Bob
8:06 AM
@Psycogeek not sure if sarcastic
 
@Bob hmm forgot the smiley
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek hm?
 
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Q: C++ Standard Libraries do no exist Qt open-source

user2554193I am cross compiling code using the Qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.3 kit to be used on an ARM device. In Qt I have changed the PATH to include /home/user/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/cross/bin/ and I have also changed qmake to -spec /opt/qt-qws/mkspecs/qws/linux-arm-g++. However, now when I run the c...

Yeeeah, right, send everything without code here…
 
Bob
@slhck they really need to read their own help section
And SE needs a "oi, you fail at migrating" slap
o.o
The following packages will be upgraded:
  alsa-base base-files curl dbus dbus-x11 gnupg gpgv isc-dhcp-client
  isc-dhcp-common krb5-locales libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libdbus-1-3
  libgcrypt11 libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgnutls26 libgssapi-krb5-2
  libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 liblapack3 libpcsclite1
  libraspberrypi-bin libraspberrypi-dev libraspberrypi-doc libraspberrypi0
  libreadline5 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libx11-6 libx11-data libx11-xcb1
  linux-libc-dev nfs-common perl perl-base perl-modules python-rpi.gpio
bunch of library updates => freed space
well, I guess that's a good thing...
 
in Ask a Super User Moderator, 15 secs ago, by slhck
@shellter @pnezis @lucacarlon @tadeuszkopec @nijansen Don't migrate questions that are very specific to programming and compilation away from your site. http://superuser.com/questions/641780/c-standard-libraries-do-no-exist-qt-open-source?noredirect=1 – and maybe read your FAQ again about what's on topic for you. Thanks.
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@Bob ^--- that'd do as well
 
Bob
8:16 AM
@slhck I suppose :P
problem with SO is the large number of >3k users who don't really check. 5 votes becomes ridiculously easy to get.
SU is kinda approaching that level, though we don't really have a place to dump to
 
Reputation on SO unfortunately doesn't correlate well with a general understanding of how SE works.
 
Bob
Adding 'diversion of /boot/kernel_emergency.img to /usr/share/rpikernelhack/kernel_emergency.img by rpikernelhack'
that is a rather ominous name
 
8:37 AM
@slhck: tempted to ask what SF did, and just ask if we can be removed from their migration list ;p
@Bob when rubber gets dried out and falls apart?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek never heard that called dry rot
and there shouldn't be any rubber on RAM anyway
 
@Bob: I remember it referred to such, and yes, OP has not much, but more than no idea what he's talking about ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek Yeah, I think that's on @Sathya's todo list
 
I can ask on MSO if the mods want to keep their hands clean ;p
 
I think we'd have to pull some stats first
 
Bob
8:42 AM
my modem/router is really annoying
jumping through hoops to get the dhcp server to issue a gateway different from its own IP :\
> Microsoft Word - BiPAC_7700N_FW B038_K82_GH-00-1659_UM_1.06.doc - 7700n_userguide.pdf
really??
 
lol
looooool
 
@techshack Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help.
 
8:59 AM
 
That looks photo...graphied
 
Graphied?
 
Did you take this picture with some kind of camera ?
Nevermind, i must be ... tired
 
The gradient shadow is from the keyboard shortcuts highlight
 
9:19 AM
@JourneymanGeek @slhck I've been meaning to do that since long, but the numbers aren't in our favour
 
9:42 AM
Sweet, Amazon is offering me to trade in a couple of books to get a nice 0.10€ coupon in return
 
@Sathya Maybe we can look at the recent migrations and help push the numbers into a range where they are into our favor.
I just think that not every migration was ever seen or voted to close.
 
...books which they're selling for 40€
 
rebuy.de should give you more for books – in average
I once sold a used computer science text book there for over 20€.
 
interstingly, the reject% has increased from 11% to 14%
 
Well, these are books the company paid for, so I can't just sell them and I also don't really have an interest in selling them since they're still very relevant :D
 
9:46 AM
14% of 1185 == 166 rejects
 
@Kwaio screenshots are magic ;p
 
but I won't have an answer when they say ooh, 166 got rejected, but the remaining 1019 made it through
which is why I haven't brought it up
 
@Sathya I just got one as well
They should really stop this
 
seriously. getting annoying as fuck
 
I'm no longer reviewing edits :P
Unless I see an "edit (1)" in the wild
 
9:54 AM
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Q: Need help remve 7.rotator.wigetmedia.com

danieljI have 7.rotator.wigetmedia.com keeps redirecting me. It usually takes me to pages full of ads! Annoying enough! You know what, anti-virus programs will not help anything! I know little about computers, so I have no clue on how to stop 7.rotator.wigetmedia.com. Someone please help.

 
heh
 
Well isn't that fishy
 
asked from US, posted from China.
 
I undeleted the spam answer so I could spam-flag delete it again
 
lol
 
9:55 AM
What's fishy about it?
 
virusremoval.blogspot.com
 
The question itself… and the fast, excellent answer, linking to the blog
Quick accept
 
Oh okay
 
Oh, and both are from the same IP, but that's just icing on the cake
 
check the site
@slhck IPs don't match though
 
9:57 AM
@Sathya They do if you check Wolly's
 
@slhck: a blog that looks like your typical tech-support scam ;p
 
We should give em a call
@Sathya That site is such a big mess
 
10:13 AM
o0
 
Bob
fml
time for plan c
plan a was using the modem/router's DHCP server to set the default gateway to the rpi
that failed
plan b was to use another router I had lying around. another failure.
plan c: run a dhcp server on the pi
 
fml as well, who in their right mind puts mayonnaise on a tomato mozzarella sandwich?
 
Bob
plan d is "fuckit, I'll just buy a new router... again"
 
10:36 AM
I wonder when my desk will get little dents from hammering with my fists on it, screaming "Die, TYPO3! Die!"
 
@JourneymanGeek Only noobs use magic wand! ;P
 
hello "Martin Martin" from India
 
Martin has a female avatar.
Or Darth Vader. Depends.
 
@slhck I remember the series ;D I'll rewatch it either way though ;D
 
10:41 AM
 
@Sathya How can they be so stupid thinking that'll get through?
 
@OliverSalzburg: actually, perfect excuse to use my new secret weapon
 
The resulting outline from magic wanding the image is horrible
 
10:46 AM
@OliverSalzburg: only cause the edge of the original is
 
Magic wanding is rarely useful for anything.
 
Bob
anyone know how to set up dhcpd?
or, wants to be my rubber duck? :P
 
and I just wanted an excuse to try out an answer with a gif ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek Well, yeah
@Bob I've set one up a while back
 
Bob
I'm getting a rather interesting error
/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf line 110: subnet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0: bad subnet number/mask combination.
 
10:47 AM
need to play with that more, its a nice tool
 
Bob
probably doing something stupid
 
@JourneymanGeek I like it
 
Bob
it doesn't seem to like that 0
subnet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
                                       ^
 
@Bob Try subnet 192.168.1.0
 
@slhck I don't think they are thinking.. just key mashing
 
Bob
10:49 AM
@OliverSalzburg ugh. I'm gonna go bang my head into the wall :P
thanks
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek unfortunately, I don't think that would have helped in this particular case :P
hey look it started
now to see if it works
yay! thanks again @OliverSalzburg
 
@Bob You can even make dhcpd update bind when it sends out an address. I always really liked that setup: debianadmin.com/…
You're welcome
 
Bob
now to see if the traffic shaping works
nope D:
oh wait, maybe
yep, it works! :D
 
11:28 AM
@Sid.Siddharth Hey there! You're pretty special, aren't you? :)
 
11:46 AM
> A more general NSA classification guide reveals (…) its ability to modify products. It cautions analysts that two facts must remain top secret: that NSA makes modifications to commercial encryption software and devices "to make them exploitable", and that NSA "obtains cryptographic details of commercial cryptographic information security systems through industry relationships". (The Guardian)
Well, that's nice.
> Intelligence officials asked the Guardian, New York Times and ProPublica not to publish this article, saying that it might prompt foreign targets to switch to new forms of encryption or communications that would be harder to collect or read.
Hah!
 
How cute
 
Bob
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A: Properly implemented strong crypto systems

Thomas PorninBy "properly implemented strong crypto systems" he means "cryptographic systems in which the design or the implementation was unwillingly weakened through designer/implementer incompetence, or willingly weakened through deliberate alterations". NSA/GCHQ did not break encryption mechanisms; they ...

 
Bob
12:02 PM
cool, namecheap has .com.au now
 
@slhck: heh, that kinda attitude is kinda meh
 
Someone says currently there's no solution against DDOS attacks. Why there isn't? How about detecting and automatically blocking IP for too many requests? Is that a bad solution?
 
You still have to check every packet's IP and drop the packet which takes some time
 
That's also one of the problems… who's gonna drop the packets if there are too many?
 
the "deeper" it takes place, the larger the network devices will have to route packets
 
Bob
12:10 PM
3. Domain names must:
a) be at least 2 characters long;
b) contain only letters (a-z), numbers (0-9) and hyphens (-), or a combination of these;
c) start and end with a number or a letter, not a hyphen; and
d) not contain hyphens in the third and fourth position (eg. ab--cd.com.au).
wtf is that fourth one
 
f--k.com.au? c--t.con.au ... ;p
 
err
 
@JourneymanGeek 3rd and forth, not 2nd/3rd
 
lol
use your imagination then ;p
 
12:12 PM
;)
 
I think the idea is to prevent lookalikes
 
@Kwaio wa--er.com.au
 
ha--man.com.au?
 
I would say because that's reserved for some specific names but which ?
 
The Australian Ministry of Swearing, obviously.
 
12:13 PM
@Bob Is that from a specific TLD's rules or general ?
 
Bob
@Kwaio .au
 
no no, the australian f--king ministry of kangaroo damned swearing.
;p
 
@JourneymanGeek you forgot the "mate."
 
@JourneymanGeek Do you have abstract thinking ability?
 
@Boris_yo: define abtract
 
12:17 PM
@JourneymanGeek Thinking above 3rd dimension.
 
then probably not
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek abtract: definition not found
 
@Bob ;p
*abstract
 
/me ponders
Thank you Hennes, I did try this several times, but kept getting the error 'windows was unable to format this drive', I will try again however and see if it's a similar result, and perhaps post the results. — Dafydd 13 hours ago
Why can I not access that link?
Though it works in chat.
Obfix: copy it to chat, read it there (and spam the rest)
 
12:23 PM
windows auto lower mounting 4tb drives want the microphone backing to boost
Another review edit
 
Bob
ah screw it
The rules for .au addresses are crazy and somewhat retarded
 
Reject because I once told a joke to some noble gasses but noone reacted. Also edit review.
 
I really hope someone actually reads those rejects reasons
 
Bob
12:34 PM
lol
bob.eu is actually available (and pretty cheap)
too bad I'm not in an EU state
@Hennes that's @JohnCavil's job
 
@Bob Want me to buy it for you ?
only 99$ a year, that should be fair
 
Bob
no thanks :P
what the fucking fuck
@somequixotic remember that last-minute filter proposal?
well... "What [our policy] does is essentially install that software either in the smartphone or in the modem as a default which you can switch off by then that's at your call"
...I have no words. Except a lot of cursing and WTFing.
 
Time to switch my backups from the NAS to the NSA.
 
Bob
"the key to the policy was installing anti-pornography filters on every new mobile and modem sold through major telcos in Australia"
and these are the same people who accused the guy who proposed a filter a few years ago of not knowing what he was doing
how the FUCK do they think this is supposed to work?
 
internal proxy ?
 
Bob
12:46 PM
bloody clueless retarded monkeys in government
@Kwaio what, running in a modem?
 
You're that much addicted to porn ?
 
Bob
@Kwaio I don't give a shit what they're trying to block. The act of blocking itself has technical issues.
 
@Bob After seeing squidGuard running in a raspberyr, i DOUBT it
 
Bob
In a phone? Battery drain.
In a modem? Resource hog.
Actually, that applies to phones too.
 
online proxy then
they have the hand on all the networking after all
 
Bob
12:47 PM
@Kwaio And? Then be get back to the problem with the previous proposal.
Shit's slow.
You vastly underestimate the resources required to filter every HTTP request. And that's not to speak of all the other protocols.
To have any measure of success, you'll have to lock things down more than China.
I don't know why you, @Kwaio, are trying to defend a proposed governmental policy you probably know nothing about (and frankly, it's fucking ridiculous).
The damn thing was originally dreamt up by and written by a "former telecommunications executive" who didn't even shot it to anyone else.
On your earlier comment: if I wanted porn, I'd get it, filter or no filter (also, it's opt-out >18 anyway). I can think of at least half a dozen ways to circumvent such a filter. My issue is with the technical side, and also the slippery slope of internet filtering.
 
@Bob I'm not. You asked "how are they thinking to do it?", i tried to guess
 
Bob
@Kwaio Rhetorical question.
I already knew the answer.
 
It's a hobby of mine to respond to those. always end up funny.
 
Bob
They have no clue how they're going to do it, and are making up ridiculous crap for "child safety", which is completely infeasible to implement and rather crazy.
 
Considering the quantity of nude pictures only in social medias, they should also block facebook & twitter
 
12:54 PM
@Bob it's just a security theatre
 
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Q: Easy Live Distribution for Restoring and Recovering Data

non-numeric_argumentMany commercial backup and data recovery software (like Acronis) ship with a live DVD in order to restore backups from an external harddrive to the internal harddrive and recover lost/deleted data in a safe and easy-to-use environment. I know there are plenty of Ubuntu (or other linux) live distr...

is that a good fit for SU?
 
1:10 PM
its a product rec
 
so no?
 
i thought so myself. ta!
 
Bob
1:34 PM
@Kwaio wait, how well did it run?
currently doing some traffic shaping through a Pi
though, it's a lot less resource-intensive than inspecting every request
 
hum ?
 
Bob
you mentioned SquidGuard on a Pi?
 
Not enough computing power using a large db
 
Bob
ah
 
any http request took several seconds to get a proper answer
making the system highly unresponsive, since it's single-core
 
@JourneymanGeek Who is that ! :O
How are we supposed to ping him :D
 
I have no idea
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Q: Who is this mysterious user?

Journeyman GeekI noticed this on the front page which leads me to this answer and.. a mysterious empty profile It seems rather odd to be able to create a blank, difficult to find account - this guy or gal seems to be a user in good standing, but... It seems to be kind of wierd nonetheless, what's happ...

probably should have asked on MSO, but meh ;p
 
Bob
2:57 PM
@Gowtham easy: type three of these
(I have no idea if that will actually work)
@JourneymanGeek don't worry, it'll be fixed in six-to-eight weeks
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