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Journeyman Geek

12:07 AM

Clearly you drink too much coffee

Journeyman Geek

1:48 AM

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Q: Recovering corrupted java script file

I had a flashdrive that went corrupted on me and i had to resort to data recovery software to get all of my work back. All went well except this file that i NEED. recreating this file would be a MAJOR pain in the arse, its the heart of hundreds of operations. The file contents: 658f c919 ebfc ...

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As a trained forensics dog, if someone asked me to do this, I'd hide under the bed.

Journeyman Geek

2:06 AM

ooh, this is arkward. Found an answer to a question on SU. On a site that tells you how to grow weed

Michael Frank

3:06 AM

Yep... so been off the computer for a couple days. Basically my ACL detatched from my Tibia and took a piece of bone with it. Fun times! I go in for surgery on Monday morning (Saturday afternoon here).

@JourneymanGeek It's hardly coffee when you call it 'Iced gingerbread frappe' though :P

Journeyman Geek

eww

OW

I'm kinda nervious about monday

On one hand, I'm super confident about the technical side of things. On the other, this is the first in person interview I've gotten so far

Michael Frank

I was kinda the opposite with my current job, I'm cool with talking to people, but I was going into a field that I've never really worked in before.

Journeyman Geek

Pretty much the same here.

(And in general, I shine talking to technical people. I'm a geek after all)

nakinlaulu

hello

Journeyman Geek

ello

nakinlaulu

3:22 AM

it's my first time in the chat, so i don't know what to do :p

Journeyman Geek

Think of it as IRC with googlable logging ;p

nakinlaulu

sadly i never used irc before

Journeyman Geek

...

Get off my lawn! (jk)

nakinlaulu

lol :p

so what do you discuss in this room

Michael Frank

Mostly things.

Journeyman Geek

3:24 AM

Its a general room, but certain topics, like the shittiness of beats audio, computer hardware and such come up a lot.

Michael Frank

Also fountain pens.

Journeyman Geek

The whole room is logged (and there's transcripts for everything)

yeah ;p

nakinlaulu

i see « first day (1569 days earlier)

Journeyman Geek

Oh and keyboards mice and such. I am SU's resident keyboard snob

Yup ;p

nakinlaulu

and everything started with 'crickets' :p

Michael Frank

3:26 AM

Ugh... this Poweredge 2850 is blocking my computer chair... but it's too heavy to move with my broken knee! D:

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank: DO NOT KICK IT WITH THE OTHER LEG.

Michael Frank

lol my wife would kill me if she saw what I just did...

Journeyman Geek

What did you do?

Michael Frank

I sorted... dragged it while hopping around on my good leg.

Journeyman Geek

Dude, walking stick ;p

(heck I have one, though, its mostly used for pushing around the little bricks the washing machine is on)

Michael Frank

3:29 AM

I have crutches, but... then I couldn't use my hands to pick up the server, right?!

Journeyman Geek

;p

nakinlaulu

did the tags to superuser posts got capitalized recently?

Journeyman Geek

Not as far as I can tell

Michael Frank

Doesn't look like it from here

Are you still using the dark theme? Perhaps that has something to do with it.

Journeyman Geek

And eh @nakinlaulu style aside, your lack of capitalisation is going to get fixed.

nakinlaulu

3:33 AM

oops, it's the the theme effect

Journeyman Geek

Dark theme?

nakinlaulu

yes

Michael Frank

Check his SU profile.

Journeyman Geek

ahh, that

nakinlaulu

have to change it in the .css

hurts my eyes :p

Journeyman Geek

3:36 AM

Yeah

I run a dark theme on my secondary desktop

I should put it on everything but lazy XD

nakinlaulu

you can sync addons on the browser

i think it should get synced along with stylish

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, I should.

nakinlaulu

are name and email always private on the user profile?

Journeyman Geek

I don't remember

I see everything, being a mod ;p

(well not everything but those things I see)

Michael Frank

I don't see email addresses.

nakinlaulu

3:43 AM

so it's not private then, at least for mods :p

Journeyman Geek

In general though, we wouldn't even bother to check ;p

nakinlaulu

i'd like to make it public, and don't see a meaning for those fields to exist if they are only private

Journeyman Geek

@nakinlaulu: In theory we can contact users through that email

Also, its used for things like account recovery I suppose

However You don't want a mod message

nakinlaulu

but you can have separate email when you register

it's for gravatar sync only i suppose

it's cool to be a mod :p i think you can even see people typing.. in the text area like in skype

Journeyman Geek

Naw

You just get a few extra buttons

In fact, my chat window probably looks the same as yours

iKlsR

3:52 AM

Looking for an opensource library that can do traffic shaping on linux.

I mean I have the source to tc open right now but I really don't want to go that deep.

nakinlaulu

in case if you're using dark theme

i think i've obsession with dark themes and lowercase (eye problems perhaps)

DragonLord

4:44 AM

@nakinlaulu Light on dark is often less straining on the eyes

It certainly is for me

Journeyman Geek

I just saw this o_o superuser.com/questions/843311/…

DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek, I mitigated an SSH brute-force attack a few days ago on the server

Had to disable the SSH service for a while

Journeyman Geek

chuckle If you DON'T get those I'd be surprised.

DragonLord

Logged in through the out-of-band console to recover

Haven't seen the attack resume so far.

I really see no way someone's going to successfully brute-force a 4096-bit RSA key

Waste of server resources.

nakinlaulu

5:00 AM

@DragonLord yeah, i wish every gui had a dark theme

DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek SSH logging verbosity has been increased in an attempt to catch more attackers.

I've seen a lot of log messages without IP addresses

nakinlaulu

what's being done after the attacker is 'caught', i guess the ip gets blocked. or not only?

DragonLord

Fail2ban already monitors the system log, but sshd wasn't providing enough information.

Journeyman Geek

5:39 AM

@nakinlaulu: Pretty much, for a user-set period of time

@DragonLord: Could always go key based

DragonLord

5:57 AM

1 hour ago, by DragonLord

I really see no way someone's going to successfully brute-force a 4096-bit RSA key

Journeyman Geek

11:20 AM

2

Journeyman Geek

11:35 AM

ooh

there's android 4.4 for my old phone

Psycogeek

11:57 AM

Over the air, via the manufacture , or a tested by users on the web?

Journeyman Geek

12:09 PM

Entirely experimental, made by some random fella, currently guaranteed not to work well ;p

HackToHell

12:20 PM

Has anyone here worked with Intel's Galelio board ?

Psycogeek

what's dat? one of dem processing units on a PCI-E card?

HackToHell

Nope, an arduino clone

Or so they say

terdon

@JourneymanGeek my networking-fu is not very strong but I'm pretty sure the issue here is about configuring the VM's network settings on the Windows host and, as such, I think the Q belongs here. Am I right?

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Q: Cannot connect to the server through host machine that I created in guest machine in Linux Mint

Using virtualbox I am running a server on Linux-Mint(guest) and client machine is windows-8 (host). When I try to connect to the server (which looks like http://169.254.158.126:8080) from windows-8, nothing happens. Chrome shows this: So to solve this I have been looking through the Internet ...

networking linux-mint windows virtualbox

terdon

12:52 PM

Done now.

Hennes

1:54 PM

This keeps being funny:

Journeyman Geek

Ooh

I know that one

@terdon: his terminology is horrible p

terdon

@JourneymanGeek poor fella's confused :)

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

nakinlaulu

2:20 PM

@JourneymanGeek lol

Hennes

2:39 PM

nakinlaulu

haha, where do you find those images?

Journeyman Geek

sorcery101.net

nakinlaulu

2:58 PM

the site is overwhelmed with ads

Journeyman Geek

I tend to read it via rss and with adblock

Almo

4:49 PM

So I have a webservice, and most calls require a valid account id and password. However, it's an F2P game. I've got a captcha for creating a new account, and for when you enter numbers in the contest. I don't want to hit them with 2 captchas their first time in, so the plan is to create the account when they send their first entries.

this means I need one call to the service, "Get Available Contests" that has no authentication.

would you consider that a security issue?

it seems to me the only thing that could be done is a malicious guy hitting it over and over to stress the database, but I guess that hitting ones with authentication and no id still would stress the db

so it seems like a non-issue. I want to know if my reasoning is wrong here :)

HackToHell

Gonna pull a all nighter

Let's see how sleep deprived I can get before I give in ;p

Hennes

5:25 PM

@nakinlaulu Ehm. It is? I did not notice that.

Addblockers for the win

Almo

if you have some rep, the ads are reduced

Bob

8:18 PM

@Sathya I was asking for clarification between the outlook.com webmail interface and a local mail client with an outlook.com email account.

Probably could've phrased it a bit better, but meh.

Bob

8:52 PM

cube-drone.com/2014_11_16-99_Ingenuity.html

echoes xkcd.com/1172

DragonLord

9:09 PM

!!/xkcd 1172

ChatBot John Cavil

There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.

Journeyman Geek

9:49 PM

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Q: How do I increase the total size of my storage devices?

So, I've noticed several things about devices I've seen in person. I have a Western Digital My Book 3TB External Drive Plugged into my PC that I bought from one store because it was on sale and I needed extra storage capacity. Then, at another store, I saw they sold the same external hard drive w...

usb hard-drive usb-drive

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