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Bob
12:01 AM
> You can’t add code to ducks.

You can’t refactor ducks.

Ducks don’t implement protocols.
 
You mean ducktyping dosen't involve ducks typing?
 
Only if it's a million ducks, and you want them to write Disney cartoons.
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In this context, "almost surely" is a mathematical term with a precise meaning, and the "monkey" is not an actual monkey, but a metaphor for an abstract device that produces an endless random sequence of letters and symbols. One of the earliest instances of the use of the "monkey metaphor" is that of French mathematician Émile Borel in 1913, but the earliest instance may be even earlier...
!! s/monkeys/ducks/
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy No matching message (are you sure we're in the right room?)
 
12:55 AM
 
Oooooooooowwwwwwww
 
1:28 AM
Nothing to see here, please move along
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek tease
 
2:10 AM
Moto alert is neat
though, I accidentally texted my brother asking him to meet me at <address>.
 
3:03 AM
wut
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Q: What's faster: Running a Windows virtual machine on Linux or running a Linux VM on Windows?

Aaron_HI've searched the internet for this and I don't think I've been able to phrase the question concisely for any search engines, so I'm turning to people! I've got a laptop and I would like to know what is faster: running Windows through a virtual machine on Ubuntu (/ Mint) or running Ubuntu as a V...

 
@MichaelFrank: opinion based?
 
@JourneymanGeek Yea, I think so.
 
throw it a closevote/flag? ;p
 
done.
 
Bob
3:32 AM
@Jou ^ you made it into the sidebar ad
 
ahh
hm. I am having trouble changing fonts in sublime text
which is wierd
oh, never mind
fixed
Apparently I didn't actually change that the last time, and I SHOULD have changed it in user rather than Default
oh my
 
Bob
4:00 AM
@JourneymanGeek if it fits, I guess :P
 
Bob
4:18 AM
>

I have found a critical security vulnerability that allows arbitrary elevation to administrator from unprivileged accounts.

1. Grant Full Control of the Windows directory (and all its contents and subdirectories) to Everyone.
2. Log on as an unprivileged user and perform these actions...
hehe
 
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Q: How to hide cmd window of a Calibre Content Server batch script?

churchillSo I manage to be able to share more than one Server Content at the same time with the same PC. If someone want to know how can I do this, is easy. Make a batch script and put this: @echo off calibre-server.exe -p 8081(OR THE PORT NUMBER YOU WANT TO USE) --with-library "PATH-TO-YOUR-LIBRARY" ...

this starts out as a tutorial.... then turns into a question. o.O
 
4:34 AM
That's not really a good question to mark it as a dupe of... The solution is a third party app.
:P
 
Bob
@MichaelFrank So?
 
I'm sure there are native solutions.
 
Bob
@MichaelFrank Then find one and add it as an answer.
The question is still a dupe.
 
 
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6:57 AM
Hello all, I am new here nice to meet you all.
 
Bob
@MORBiD Hello!
 
7:23 AM
ello
 
 
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8:26 AM
5 ways to avoid saying "people are idiots" when i would rightly be including myself in that :-)
1) because computers are complex instruments
2) People can have a life beyond using a computer, so they can not know everything.
3) Not all software and hardware is perfect , add the human factor and there is much room for error.
4) in 30 years we are all going to be laughing at how much bull crap we had to go through.
5) if it is not rocket science, then how do you think they got to mars? an abucus
 
9:01 AM
Actually, people are idiots. They usually aren't only too stupid to use a computer, they're too stupid to use a car, a powertool and even a fridge and they spend their life watching TV instead of learning something
It says so right on the first page in the Idiot Hand Guide for Smart People®
 
Bob
9:28 AM
@Psycogeek people somehow manage to forget how to read
 
9:47 AM
That feeling what you write a review for an Amazon purchase and you realize that you haven't even received some of the other products in the list.. :(
One is shipping from the China, the other from Singapore
And the estimated delivery period spans 1 month O__O
 
How do you call file that can be interacted independently with without having it loaded in software it was exported from?
 
10:06 AM
@Boris_yo plaintext?
 
Hello
 
@OliverSalzburg No... When you use Winzip to extract archive you need Winzip. But when there's self-extracting archive the file does not require Winzip to be extracted.
 
10:37 AM
Thats what you call it.
 
@JourneymanGeek Yes but when it comes mindmap software? Know this concept?
 
hm
portable software
 
Boner... Boner? Are you there?

@OliverSalzburg :D
"Why yes. My name is Boner. Spies Boner."
 
@Boris_yo standalone?
 
10:47 AM
@JourneymanGeek Mindmapping is a concept of organizing your ideas.
 
...
Yeah, you clearly need it.
 
@OliverSalzburg Yes!
@JourneymanGeek What makes you think so? Are you condescending?
 
cause clearly the ideas need organising
Quite often. Sometimes I'm sarcastic. And at other times, I just feel dispair.
 
@JourneymanGeek Well you are right! My work from home tasks would need this.
 
in this case though
you're looking for portable mindmap software
 
10:51 AM
@JourneymanGeek Anyway I need to make .SWF file out of project I have built in MindJet web mindmapping software.
I guess since the project is web-based, it must be in Shockwave Flash because I know I can somehow save it in .SWF
 
11:27 AM
mindNapping?
 
@Psycogeek mindNapping is free. Every night and vital for body to function. You can't export anything but you can remember if it was lucidNapping.
 
 
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1:28 PM
@OliverSalzburg It once took me six months to get stuff from China (DealExtreme)
But nothing beats the guy who waited seven years for the mail to send him his products
Brazilian mail, obviously. The only thing slower than Brazilian politicians.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy :(
 
lol
@ThatBrazilianGuy: that reminds me. I have some stuff that hasn't reached me after 2 months. I need to pester them again
though, I've gotten more expensive stuff faster since they ship those courier now
 
Or the guy who exported from the US to Brazil for years without incidents, then started selling Xbox Ones and Iphone 5s and those are almost always reported (by the brazilian mail) as "stolen". Only those.
 
lol
DX is slow anywhere
 
@user44517:
 
1:43 PM
lol
my fav characters
 
My TV ;)
My wife got me those for birthday!
 
lol meme
 
2:11 PM
user image
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2:34 PM
hii
 
Bob
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ hiii
 
 
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4:02 PM
sorry I'm quiet. I'm buried in a land of regex and hashes in Ruby
honestly, I'm really getting used to this duck typing thing where you can just stuff a bunch of stuff in a Hash with arbitrary symbols as keys, rather than formally declaring the structure of your data in Classes or Structs like you would in Java or C#
it makes the code slightly less readable sometimes, but in general, unless I'm returning a data structure to a method from another file, I don't see a reason not to use ad-hoc structures built out of hashes in my code
cross-file (or worse, when you're making an API that you want other people to use!), you definitely need a class with getters and setters for all the properties, so that the code kind of documents itself of "HEY, this is what you can do with me", without making them call .inspect on it
 
4:16 PM
@Hennes Reminds me of the 3 iPod touches stolen from my mailbox and the stolen MacBook Pro with the same order....
 
4:42 PM
> bash-4.2$ ln -s /var/www/drupal /home/user/Projetos/testecms/drupal
bash-4.2$ ln -s /var/www/drupal /home/user/Projetos/testecms/drupal
ln: failed to create symbolic link “/home/user/Projetos/testecms/drupal/drupal”: file exists
What am I doing wrong?
duh. It had to be ln -s /home/user/Projetos/testecms/drupal /var/www/drupal
 
ln -s /var/www/drupal /home/user/Projetos/testecms/
Or that
Good thing I was just guessing
 
Anyone ever used MarkdownPad in Windows?
 
5:11 PM
@Seth Long ago... Why?
 
Just curious how people liked it.
First result for "markdown editor windows".
 
I liked it. I don't have any sites that use Markdown other than SE though
 
5:30 PM
I use it for blogging on Wordpress.
I mean Markdown. not that pad
 
5:41 PM
Wait, I can use Markdown on WP instead of HTML?
 
@CanadianLuke yeah, it's a newish feature
 
... Sweet. I'm using Windows Live Writer, but still
Must need a newer version of WP. I'm running 3.6.1
 
should be available as a jetpack
 
Not as a Debian package though. Found instructions for updating it, so I'm going to try that... BRB
Wow, that was painless!
 
6:18 PM
@CanadianLuke ow
 
It's up to date now though, I'm happy
 
that was one of those upgrades that doesn't hurt the person upgrading it, but someone else gets hurt
how irresponsible of you :'( now my leg is broken
 
Uh, what?
 
6:45 PM
lol
 
7:11 PM
I've got a quick question if anybody's around
Whoops nvm, joined the wrong room >.>
4
 
7:23 PM
OK?
 
7:43 PM
Buuman U hier?
(A reference probably only understood by Dennis)
 
Hello
Is there a way I can find my old chat message? I asked it yesterday but then had to go.
 
In the transscript?
 
Aha, found it
I attempted this yesterday, but failed. Spent all day today in putty. I just wanted to ask what would be the best way to approach running a .NET app (twitchmodbot.sourceforge.net) on mono? (I have no idea how I would interact with the interface, as it is designed for windows) I use CentOS 5
 
Eaiest way, go back back back back.. until you get a message stating that it can not go back further and maybe you want ot see the transscript
 
8:23 PM
@JordanRichards I already offered you some advice along these lines
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ I didn't really understand
 
@JordanRichards X11 is a client-server protocol for displaying/rendering GUIs. That code you linked to requires a GUI, and Mono uses X11 for displaying its GUIs. A program that requests a UI to be displayed is called an X11 client. That program is an X11 client. There are multiple X11 server-side implementations that do different things. One is Xorg, which is optimized for rendering on your local system with a monitor and graphics card, incl. hardware acceleration.
You can't (efficiently) use Xorg in your case because the latency and bandwidth available over the public internet are too low, so you need it compressed somehow. Xrdp is an X11 server that uses the compressed Remote Desktop protocol that Windows uses.
When you install and start Xrdp, it'll open up a standard RDP port on your server that you can connect to using the Windows built-in Remote Desktop Connection program (trust me, your install of Windows has it, unless you've heavily modified your installation). You'll get a GUI with a login prompt, and once you login with your user account (the same one as your putty login, though please don't use the root account), you'll get a desktop environment (if you have one installed).
Once you're at that desktop environment (which will be something like KDE, Gnome, LXDE, XFCE, etc. depending on what you've installed), you can just pop open a terminal, and run mono on the main .exe of that program, and it should display its GUI within that RDP session.
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Neat! Would it be possible to keep it running 24/7?
 
This all assumes that you're able to install suitably modern versions of mono and Xrdp, which as I've stated something like a dozen times already, is orders of magnitude easier and less painful on a modern OS version, not CentOS 5 from March 2007.
@JordanRichards Of course. When you close the RDP client on your Windows PC, the session housing the actual programs running in it keeps running on your server.
You can connect and disconnect at will and the session should keep running.
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Nice!
I've managed to install mono correctly
 
8:34 PM
what version of mono?
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Mono JIT compiler version 2.10.8
 
2.10.8 is pretty old... it could have performance problems or bugs, depending on exactly what the TwitchModBot is trying to do, or it may not work at all if TwitchModBot depends on very new (.NET 4.0 or newer) APIs or functionality. you'd have to try it. your chances would be better on the latest version of mono, but if it works fine on that old version, so be it.
one thing you can do as a sort of smoke test (just to see whether that version of mono will work) is download Mono 2.10.8 on Windows, and run TwitchModBot on your local desktop PC using mono, from the command line... you know, something like mono TwitchModBot.exe
just because it works on Windows isn't a 100% guarantee that it'll work equivalently on Linux, but it'll at least indicate that Mono implements the APIs needed for it to function.
 
(Mono implements the same APIs on all platforms, so if it works on Windows, chances are very good it'll work on Linux)
 
Oh, in the modbot readme it states "Requires .NET Framework 4. "
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Does this mean that it will not be able to work? Or does mono have framework 4?
Yeah, I don't think this is going to work out sadly
 
8:46 PM
@JordanRichards different versions of Mono support the APIs from different versions of the .NET Framework.
not even the very latest mono supports 100.00% of all .NET Framework APIs; there are some that are "too Windows-specific" to be supported, and some that just aren't done yet
it's really just a case by case basis, I can't tell you anything more specific than that without looking at the code of TwitchModBot
the only thing that is generally true is that, the newer your Mono version is, the more likely it'll support all the APIs needed
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ oh right
 
the latest Mono version supports huge swaths of .NET framework 4.5 (which is newer than 4)
(it also supports the equivalent in all the older frameworks, too)
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Any idea on how I can set up xrdp?
 
@JordanRichards on Debian Stable? apt-get install xrdp
on CentOS 5? google for a repository that has it, or try to compile it
 
Oh neat!
yum install xrdp worked
(must of been epel)#
 
8:49 PM
heh
 
I apologize for not trying that first........
 
EPEL 5 has xrdp version 0.5, which isn't super modern, but it should at least work
 
process 30816 started ok
 
we don't need the very latest version of xrdp
 
is what happens when I type xrdp
 
8:50 PM
NO
don't start it that way
kill that process with kill -9 30816
start it via: service xrdp start
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Okay, sorry
ohh
like httpd
Alright, it's running
 
check if it's listening on localhost or on the public interface
netstat -pan | grep rdp
 
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3350 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 30836/xrdp-sesman
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 13184682 30836/xrdp-sesman /tmp/xrdp_sesman_00007874_main_term
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 13184684 30836/xrdp-sesman /tmp/xrdp_sesman_00007874_main_sync
 
eh, looks like it's listening on localhost only
i don't recall the config file location off the top of my head but you can check /etc/xrdp/sesman.ini
see here for the manpage
 
aha! Thank you
you were spot on with the location
 
8:54 PM
from the manpage:
> ListenAddress=ip address
Specifies sesman listening address. Default is 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces)
 
So, I write my IP there?
 
seems like the default is 127.0.0.1 in EPEL ;p
don't put your static IP -- that's a little brittle -- if it ever changes, you'll wonder why rdp is broken
just put 0.0.0.0, which means "any address"
then of course save the file and service xrdp restart
 
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3389 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 30891/xrdp
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3350 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 30895/xrdp-sesman
 
there you go
 
8:56 PM
of course now you will need to install some kind of basic desktop environment
 
What one do you most recommend?
 
one that uses as few resources as possible ;p (keeping in mind you're on a VPS)
gnome and KDE are relatively heavier than LXDE and XFCE; the latter two are pretty similar
so the packages to install from EPEL:
xfdesktop xfce4-session xfce4-panel xfconf xfce4-appfinder xfce-utils
that should at least get you started
XFCE is the kind of bad that you'd only use on a very resource-constrained system (or on a system where you don't want to use up a lot of bandwidth sending images of your desktop back and forth over the public internet, as is this case), but you'll get used to it
 
9:20 PM
Thanks!
Sorry about no reply, I am bad at multitasking
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ XFCE ain't that bad, at least it's not KDE...
 
lol
twm!
/me hides
in another note support.seagate.com/kbimg/flash/laptop/Laptop.swf the cg here is hillariously terribad. Via serverfault.com/questions/615130/… which is horrifying.
 
10:04 PM
@JourneymanGeek oh wow.
 
 
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Bob
11:32 PM
@JourneymanGeek Huh. I had a hunch it was Acronis while searching, but the screenshots looked different enough... forgot they did custom tools for other companies.
 

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