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12:20 AM

hello guys is there any solution to DoS attack ?

@YousafEhsan Unplug

@CanadianLuke @allquixotic @Bob could probably answer that.

we cant unplug facebook's datacenter

or huge datacenter

Then no, not really. If you're still running, good job. I'd recommend asking on The Comms Room though, as they would know more. I thought you meant for a home user

i think there is only one possible solution

but not sure

redirecting the packets back to requesting host. will help destroy the requesting or attacking body am i right ? they will be flooded by there own traffic

but dynamically...

is that possible ?

12:25 AM

If it is, it's over my head. Are they attacking by knowing the IP address, or the hostname?

I'd be concerned about directing legit traffic back as well

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How descriptive...

actually no one is attacking no one.. it was just a question i thought i should discus because i couldnt found any right place so i came here

Well, best way to mitigate it is take the site down. The machines will probably stop, even if it's just for a little while

but deniel of service attack comes when you block some ip or server or ip's to access your service and your firewall is still receiving the requests and those requests are held some where in our network because we are not doing anything with them.. so why not just let them free and redirect those packets back.. as that huge traffic will probabbly flood the requesting body and in a few minutes the attacker will be down

forexample my datacenter is facebook its so huge it can redirect traffic back.. I am 100% sure the attacker will never have bigger capacity servers or network than facebook... they can counter attack and put that shit down..

but i really want to consult some specialist on this

its part of my research project

Oh. I won't be much help then, sorry

12:33 AM

well no problem it was just a question..

well sup ? what you do ?

I work for a school district, running the Linux servers, and Windows workstations

@YousafEhsan "counter-attacking" is just as illegal as the DDoS itself; also, packets don't work that way

Journeyman Geek

@YousafEhsan: You use something like cloudflare to mitigate it, really

there are no virtual mirrors you can put up to redirect their laser rays back at themselves

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in order to DDoS someone else, you'd need to, you know, actually DDoS them

there is no such thing as "reflecting packets"

Journeyman Geek

and you don't need that much bandwidth to do an attack, there's things like DNS amplification

12:35 AM

here are some professionals

also, the huge botnets that execute most DDoSes have computers that originate from around the world, many dozens of them, so even if you managed to take 50% of them offline (which would be quite an accomplishment) by reverse DDoSing them, the remaining ones are still hitting you

also, by filling your pipe with inbound traffic, your capacity for outbound traffic is greatly diminished, since pegging an ethernet controller pegs it in both directions

for instance, a 1 Gbps ethernet controller whose incoming queue is absolutely saturated isn't going to be generating a lot of outbound traffic no matter how hard you try

the only way to defeat DDoS is to have more bandwidth as "armor" than the opponent can push their way through

Journeyman Geek

@YousafEhsan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing and us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-088A explains why 1) You don't need big servers to DDOS, 2) Why counterattacking is a bad idea

You're probably never going to get the right target

significant amounts of DDoS traffic come from innocent peoples' compromised computers and smartphones that they don't even know are compromised

Journeyman Geek

Ironically, the best solution to handling DDOSes isn't technical, you figure out who's doing it, and you ~~smack him on the nose with a newspaper~~ arrest him. Assuming you know who it is, and the place he's in is willing to co-operate.

getting their ISPs to null route them is "fair" in the sense that their computer is compromised and needs to be disinfected, but attacking them back would violate many laws

12:40 AM

I understand your fully @allquixotic but my question is if i have dynamic security system. i havre recived certain amount of flood before i get so slow that i will not be able to redirect back the packet.. i will start redirectiing the packets back to that attackers server so if he puts so much packets on my server he will have same amount on his server eventually he will be down at some point..

Journeyman Geek

@YousafEhsan: You'll likely hit the wrong system

even if you did, there's dozens of systems involved in a DDOS.

@YousafEhsan the attacker doesn't have "a server" -- he has remote control over 1000 innocent peoples' insecure computers running a rootkit or virus

yes i know

Journeyman Geek

And if you read the links I linked, your attacking systems are using less bandwidth than you're getting hit by

thats why i used the term of dynamic

Journeyman Geek

12:41 AM

so you're basically trying to turn back a river by pissing into it.

read the packet smash back to the router from where it came

Journeyman Geek

@YousafEhsan: they lie

@YousafEhsan OK, so, let's assume for the sake of argument that if you start receiving a lot of traffic from a given host, you try to generate just as much traffic in the return direction in an attempt to take them offline

Journeyman Geek

They lie like a cat in front of a nice warm fire.

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12:42 AM

the problem there is that you're going to DDoS yourself twice as fast by magnifying the amount of traffic on your pipes by 2

so you're essentially making it easier for them to DDoS you. great job.

and reduce the overall performance of the internetz

I am not saying the solution is for a small company i am talking about the datacenters like facebook... they can easily do this

the thing you have to comprehend is, Internet connections do not distinguish between "incoming" and "outgoing" traffic

traffic is traffic is traffic

@YousafEhsan why would they brother about a DDoS?

generating more traffic on your connection gateways is not going to stop the DDoS; it's going to make your problem worse

Journeyman Geek

12:43 AM

@YousafEhsan: If you're datacenter sized, you call up your upstream provider, and tell them to nullroute anything from those IP address ranges temporarily

they have the bandwidth and failover servers around the globe

@JourneymanGeek if you're that big, your system will probably do it automatically.

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank: Yeah

nah, @JourneymanGeek will just "grrr" back

and scare them all

Journeyman Geek

You also have strength in depth. If one datacenter is non responsive, you just route stuff elsewhere

12:44 AM

ok guys so finally revealing why i am scared of DDoS

Journeyman Geek

@Braiam: Never underestimate the threat of a good ankle mangling.

i had bluehost VPS... there was not intention of DoS attack. thats why today i am alive lol

if you are "scared" of DDoS, pay to have your service/website put behind a provider that defends against DDoS... let the provider take care of mitigating the DDoS for you; it's their job and you're paying them to do it

we had api calls of stubhub.com they have f**king huge datacenters. we had wrong code and stubhub blocked our ip... but

they'll certainly do a better job than you're likely to if you think "reflecting" attacks (whatever the hell that means) is going to do you any good (hint: it's not)

12:47 AM

they amazing story... my cron jobs never stopped

every15 minute new cron job was adding up couple thousand calls to stubhub

in one hour 15 million requests

I've found stubhub to be pretty terrible -- they get DDoS'ed by their own legitimate customers several times per year when there are popular / good deals on American sports

from one ip

they don't need bad actors to shut them down; their own customers will shut them down all by themselves

they were pissed off

bluehost is terrible they never noticed

and i wasnt aware of this after a month of dos attack they contacted me

investigation help

held

Journeyman Geek

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This is a new one.

12:49 AM

If it's green, let it... reach the server before editing?

i showed them code and than they said oh please be care full next time.

Journeyman Geek

;p

i read about there infrastructure they gote quite huge

but if they would have redirected my own traffic to my server.. my server should have died

or blasted

Like @allquixotic said, that's just as illegal as DoSing someone.

what you do if some one attacks your country ?

you counter attack them

12:52 AM

Completely different situation.

haha no its my home my datacenter

its my country my territory

its same

Okay, if we're going to get into it. You defend your country at your border. You don't go ahead and invade their country in retaliation.

by just blocking foriegn attacks you cant stop them.. you have to shutdown there source there tanks

you have to shutdown the servers of attackers lol

and if there's no centralized server? If the attack is coming from a million different computers around the world? What then?

than the situation is like you are in new york and aliens attack.. you have to put down each allien ship

haha lol its getting funny

leave any good movie ?

well you are right this type of thing is possible but eventually it wil effect whole internet

and we dont want that

Anonymous

1:10 AM

@JourneymanGeek chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/14011688#14011688 agree

Journeyman Geek

@PatoSáinz: well, he is getting suspended every other day so... maybe chat isn't for him at all

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek he managed to make a meme of himself

Journeyman Geek

not that hard ;p

1:34 AM

@YousafEhsan frankly, you scare me. I hope you're never put in charge of a large datacenter, or a country.

"oh, I'm much bigger, I'll just crush them and they'll stop!"

Journeyman Geek

@YousafEhsan: "Proper" 'offensive' measures against technical threats tend to be legal in nature.

That's what the US thought when they went and invaded Iraq.

Ten years later... yea...

In the case of a DDoS, your attacker is effectively controlling your own citizens (to use the country-at-war analogy) to attack you.

well

@MichaelFrank hmm?

if it was just about attacking the attacker i am 100% conveinced to do that.

1:38 AM

Oh, go back a few lines. Yousaf was asking about DoS prevention.

Journeyman Geek

@YousafEhsan: Problem is, really, the attacker is often the victim

yes

you are right

Journeyman Geek

but we've been through that. twice ;p

thats why

i am not conveinced to do that

i was just clearing my own concept by talking to you guys

if its the attacker it self than i am 100% agree to kick his ass off

i guess.. there is no real type of solution

everything we discussed is not really a prevention. its just that after attack you can do this do that etc but you cant prevent

@YousafEhsan the real prevention is two-pronged: (1) raise the standard of application security on the internet by making vulnerable innocents patch their software so they don't have gaping security holes that the bad actors can exploit; and (2) find people who have performed DDoSes in the past and put them in jail and take away their computers and houses

1:52 AM

hahahhaha yeah thats the real prevention

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: Its one of those things where the pillory almost seems like a nice idea. Its like a cone of shame, for people.

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@allquixotic presents a bit of a problem when you have masses of willing people making coordinated attacks

see: LOIC

in an ideal world, they could all be arrested and/or disconnected

...we don't live in an ideal world

2:13 AM

@Bob yes we do, just not with the ideal people ;)

2:53 AM

Oh gosh...

I suddenly need to add more RAM onto the Dragon

A couple of class assignments for the hacking course I'm taking involve software with high memory requirements

A Python script which performs a dictionary attack on encrypted ZIP files gobbles up a lot of my system's memory

...and now I need to run several Hyper-V virtual machines (at least two at the same time) as part of a "virtual hacking lab"

This is what I'm getting: newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231582

But there's the Clevo advantage: it's so easy to upgrade key system components.

@DragonLord you're upgrading to 16 GB, or adding 16 to an existing 16?

@allquixotic Adding 16 GB to an existing 8 GB of memory for a total of 24 GB.

Two of the four memory slots are open.

strange that they'd ship you a 2 x 4GB configuration -- usually it's cheaper for them to ship you 4 x 2GB because of the lower cost of less-dense sticks

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if you ever forget

3:06 AM

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Q: Fast boot doesn't let me access bios

I need to get to bios. Unfortunately, I enabled fast boot, which allows me to really quickly boot up Ubuntu. But it is too fast. I can't access bios, it's that fast. I am in csm boot mode, as I originally had windows 8 on my computer, and I have to be in that mode to boot anything but windo...

You guys want that?

@Seth little light on the details

here's one of our most upvoted posts on troubleshooting posts:

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A: Are diagnostics/troubleshooting issues on-topic and not too localized?

Troubleshooting questions are bad! We are a Question & Answer site, not a forum. You mentioned becoming a clone of Wikipedia, which is basically exactly what we should be. (Obviously, we don't want to be an exact clone, but we want to be an encyclopedia of problems and solutions to these problem...

He does into a bit more in the comments. Did you read those?

@allquixotic hm, I'll read that.

@Seth he still didn't state exactly what make and model his computer/laptop is, which is easily the most important thing to state when you are talking about extremely hardware-specific stuff like the BIOS

basically he asked "tell me what kind of engine is in my car" without saying whether it's a Ford or a Honda or a GM or a Geely or a Fiat or a Chevy or..., let alone the actual model

also, whatever solution we come up with is likely going to be localized to this specific hardware

That's true.

on the third hand:

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3:11 AM

I really don't like the question, as it's more noise than signal, but it would be useful if the question were something like, "Is there a general-purpose way to force a computer to reboot straight into the BIOS from Ubuntu?" (or replace "Ubuntu" with something like "GNU/Linux" to be less localized)

We could edit it into that, then it would be on-topic where it is. I guess you're right, it needs a lot more clarification.

@Seth well, feel free to clean it up if you want; if you want to make it into something that would fit on the good side of the bright line that Oliver laid out in his answer I posted above, feel free to migrate it

alright cool.

it's got to fit into one of two categories: either a very general question where we can create high-quality answers with a lot of "is X? then do Y" steps to help people narrow it down -- that's one type of good question -- or, a very specific question with lots of evidence, including the user's exact make and model and what they're trying to do

right now it's a "I have this problem, help!" which is neither prompting a general guide, nor directly answerable, so it's a bad question as currently written

(note that "I have this problem, help!" questions can be good if the problem description is so full of detail and narrows it down so much that we can literally put our finger on the answer -- but the way this question currently sits, it would require extensive back and forth in the comments to get it to that point, which is where the "Troubleshooting questions are bad!" in Oli's post originates from)

basically, some significant proportion of SU questions devolve into user-on-user tech support forum (ugh) type questions, where a guy posts his immediate problem with a tiny bit of detail about his specs (or none whatsoever) and then we spend 3 days going back and forth in the comments extracting information with pliers, like pulling teeth, and that's a really bad format for Q&A

and we're trying not to have that because it degrades the quality of the site

3:29 AM

Embarrassingly parallel

In parallel computing, an embarrassingly parallel workload, or embarrassingly parallel problem, is one for which little or no effort is required to separate the problem into a number of parallel tasks. This is often the case where there exists no dependency (or communication) between those parallel tasks. Embarrassingly parallel problems (also called "pleasingly parallel problems") tend to require little or no communication of results between tasks, and are thus different from distributed computing problems that require communication between tasks, especially communication of intermedia...

@DragonLord as opposed to regular laptop upgrades? I've never seen a consumer laptop that was difficult to add more RAM to. Except a certain ASUS modelnumberhere**X**. The X stood for "SMD Mounted RAM only."

@MichaelFrank Yea, I just take out a screw, pull the battery tab, slide off the panel and there's the RAM.

heck even thinkpads are easy to add RAM to

dunno what's hard about that

and that was on an HP machine

the worst-maintainable consumer laptops are the non-laptop category: Surface Pro, and other similar "ultrabook" form factor devices, are built with internal density similar to smartphones, where every millimeter is accounted for, things are glued together, you need special tools, etc

3:34 AM

He's probably getting paid to advertise the benefits and features. ;)

I vaguely recall reading that the Surface Pro is not user-serviceable

which would make sense... the hardware is completely jam packed in there

chips would probably fall in your lap if you took off the cover :P

ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Pro+Teardown/12842

> Tools
Heat gun or hair dryer

@MichaelFrank Of course not--it's my personal laptop.

Journeyman Geek

3:56 AM

@allquixotic: thinkpads are SERIOUSLY user servicable

@JourneymanGeek yup

@allquixotic There's a clear tradeoff between serviceability and compactness

you know what would be silly? if iFixit did a teardown of a Dell full ATX tower

because even I can do that with a screwdriver :P

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My wife works in childcare and thought this would work. I love her. :)

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evantair by google

4:02 AM

Hmm... I may acquire some paint now.

4:28 AM

Is probably spam superuser.com/a/722635/98855

@Psycogeek is sure spam

Flagged.

flagged^3

I feel bad for the comment though. :(

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7:06 AM

@Psycogeek Spammy Spammerson

7:39 AM

awesome: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320783

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8:41 AM

@Bob Give n' take, nice that someone did that, right after i disabled everything that wanted to much of my info :-)

I was reading how they removed programs from the store that "mess with other apps" like destroying the ads by stopping the data flow, etc. For $2-$5 for apps, seems that people , Heck even my cheapskate self will buy an app that 1) works 2) isnt full of bugs 3) works a week later.

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1:06 PM

@Bob a mildly active dev, too O___O

i think his goal is to make more commits as a single dev than all of mozilla and google make in their browser repos

:P

1:37 PM

@JourneymanGeek FP + glossy paper = disaster :(

2:01 PM

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2:19 PM

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!!info dunno

ChatBot John Cavil

@Bob Command dunno, created by Bob on Sun, 16 Feb 2014 07:35:06 GMT but hasn't been used yet

@Bob lol

laziness vs. effort required to put on coat, zip coat, grab keys, go out to the stairs, go up the stairs, exit the building, open car, grab phone, walk back inside, go down stairs, swipe badge, enter work area, unzip coat, take off coat, plug in phone

currently laziness wins

o.O

@allquixotic You don't have your phone on you at all times? blasphemy!

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@Bob I took it out of my pocket to play music in my car

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic been there, (not) done that.

In my case, it was: walk long corridors, face a lot of heat, find a snack booth vs. just stay on my seat, hungry

2:30 PM

I don't drive. My version would be travelling 40+ minutes home :\

Or frantically calling Sydney Trains to see if someone found it.

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob Last month I forgot my kindle inside a pirate transport van.

(No, it's not a van that transport pirates.)

(Just a "non-official" public transportation)

LOL pirate transport van totally sounds like "a van that transports pirates" in English

do you have to say "arr" to the van driver?

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic Aye aye, sir

what do you say to the captain of a javascript pirate ship?

var matey

That Brazilian Guy

!!kill @allquixotic

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2:36 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

That Brazilian Guy

I was already considering it as lost and gone for good, but the guys from the "central" (actually just a dozen of suspicious looking guys with walkie talkies in front of a bus stop) were so kind in contacting the original driver and giving it back to me; in the end I gave them some money for the beer and couldn't stop thinking about how underground transportation is more honest than official politicians

lol

i think there is probably one reason why they did that for you; they were hoping for your continued business

when you are "underground" you have to keep the people you have

That Brazilian Guy

Nah, there were at least three or four "underground" companies operating where I work

Although only two operate on the route I use.

And they could just as well say "no sir, haven't seen it, sorry" and I'd still have to take the van every day, because it's 20min trip vs 60~90min trip

I had originally said I had lost "a book", and since it's in a leather casing, I thought "well maybe they just didn't open it and assumed it was a cheap book", but in the next day the same driver said "be careful to not forget your tablet", so he was actually honest

Best backup for non-rooted Android smartphone?

MyBackup Pro? Helium?

That Brazilian Guy

@Boris_yo VTC as primarily opinion-based

2:44 PM

@Bob It works pretty darn well

@ThatBrazilianGuy nice :D

That Brazilian Guy

I am still looking for a decent anti-theft app (well, actually a post-theft device finder app). So far I have only tested Prey, it didn't work when I had just forgot my phone at work.

@ThatBrazilianGuy Use the one from Google that comes with newer Android.

That Brazilian Guy

It's almost noon and I'm struggling to get off bed. I should probably get up and wash the ton of dishes piling up on the sink, gotta be a semi-decent husband at least sometimes.

Bye

@ThatBrazilianGuy What VTC?

3:37 PM

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A: Changeable laptop components

The General Answer (Independent of what make/model computer you have) Here's how you can answer this question for yourself, without having to ask it on SuperUser: Write down your laptop make and model. Google Search for "Make Model teardown" or "Make Model maintenance manual" or "Make Model r...

4:02 PM

This is a troubleshooting question, which is likely to involve a lot of back and forth in the comments. Instead, come on over to chat and we'll extract the information we need from you, like pulling teeth with pliers. Don't worry, we won't use any novocaine on you first, to ensure maximum pain sensation >:) — allquixotic 1 min ago

@allquixotic: Connected, so, is dd capable to break a USB storage?

@DrakaSAN it's unlikely; what specific kind of USB storage device is it?

Verbatim N'Go 16Go USB storage

thumb drive? SSD? microSD card? a mass storage device programmed using redstone in Minecraft?

*googles*

USB flash drive ; )

4:05 PM

ok, so pretty standard... no, it's rather unlikely that a simple dd would brick it.

(I d like to see someone programming a USB driver in redstone, must be worth the look)

unless the simple operation of hitting the NAND as hard as you did with a full write and then reformat happened to wear out all the NAND cells

OH

lol i know what went wrong :D

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc (where sdc is whatever block device it was) will wipe out the partition table as well

if you zeroed not only the partition, but the entire block device, you no longer have a partition table on the device

That s what I ve done (also it was sda2 but hey)

you need to create one using something like gparted, or parted (less friendly, non-gui), or similar

as a matter of fact, just to be sure the malware isn't hiding in the MBR, I'd go ahead and wipe the partition table anyway

Okay, so just put GParted on a VM and recreate it?

4:08 PM

why do you need a VM? you can repartition it either in Windows, or in whatever Linux you used to run dd

Well, I ve nuked the computer from orbit after the infection

gparted is just a program; you don't have to spin up a live environment for it

(because I m dumb and never saw gparted as program)

I mean do whatever, but it seems a bit overkill to download gparted's live cd specifically when there are better ones out there

I like systemrescuecd

been using it for years

I m downloading gparted right now ; )

Arrr, windows don t want to let virtualbox take the key again...

4:20 PM

@DrakaSAN I've used this before; it's basically gparted for windows, except proprietary freeware... I've used it before and I don't think it has any spyware, but it's proprietary so you never know ;p

Well, seems like windows don t even recognize the usb in fact, I ll try again on my own computer, I m borrowing one right now

Thanks for your help : )

5:15 PM

Any good SIM Card backup on Android market?

5:29 PM

The problem is that the SGIII (as with most Android 4 devices) does not connect as a USB Mass Storage device (Google dropped support for USBMS in Android 4). It connects as an MTP device instead and Windows does not see MTP devices as a mass storage devices, so as indicated by worwig, you don't get a device to connect to. That is why I've had to use resort to using webdav.

Barney

This sucks Google!!!

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Android Enthusiasts

Welcome to the main chat room for android.stackexchange.com! H...

Furthermore, this gentlement who answered your question here is using humor (superuser.com/questions/240794/…), making fun of the HP wireless assistant, yet you did not feel the need to correct his post? That is called a double standard my friend. You need to stay out of my posts or I will file a complaint. It isn't fair to pick on newbies. — gogogadgetinternet 32 mins ago

oooh, a complaint. I'm so scared.

@Boris_yo I believe Samsung has a utility that presents the phone as a mass storage device

@DarthAndroid It was quote from Samsung owner. In my case this happens with my Nexus 4.

So no copy or robocopy for me...

5:39 PM

Ah.

Maybe I could use ftp as file manager?

Maybe I could do copy or robocopy through ftp? Nah...

@Boris_yo what are you trying to do?

5:56 PM

@Sathya Backup my internal storage to computer.

6:12 PM

@Sathya I wish to file a complaint about the complaint department. Please send me the address of the complaint-complaints department. Thank you.

6:27 PM

@Boris_yo try folder sync. I use it to transfer backup generated from titanium back to my external drive on the desktop via wifi

@Sathya That is funny.

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There should really be a feature on SU to hide questions from people with less than X rep points. Sometimes I hop on here during lunch to answer a quick few questions and it would help to weed out those who most likely haven't learned how to ask good questions.

Anonymous

@kobaltz that should be an extension

So I'm going to a wedding today, where the bride would rather the photographer stay out of the amateur video they've asked me to shoot more than him getting the best shots they've paid him to get.

Anonymous

@MichaelFrank lol

Anonymous

Photography Chat

All-things photography related discussion.

6:37 PM

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Q: Can we filter questions by reputation

There seems to be a deluge of questions by folks with rep of 1-10. Many of these questions are "homework" or questions that are annoying to me "please read my 500 line script and tell me whats wrong with it" Is there any way to filter questions by reputation?

feature-request status-declined reputation search filtering

@allquixotic Unanswered > Sort by Votes. problem solved!

@MichaelFrank @kobaltz data.stackexchange.com/superuser/query/171703/…

huh.. interesting.

@Sathya And how's speed of transfer? You transfer through wireless router or between computer and smartphone?

@MichaelFrank Are you more qualified?

@Boris_yo keyword in that sentence is 'amateur'. No, I'm not more qualified. They're not even paying me.

6:49 PM

@Boris_yo smartphone to router to computer, since the desktop doesn have wireless and is on a LAN

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Q: Performance Issue in Google Earth

I tried asking this in the Arqade SE, but they suggested this SE was better. My current version of Google Earth runs poorly and I'm not sure why. Often when exploring around it stutters terribly. If I launch the flight sim, my framerate is out of control. I never had this problem before. My PC ha...

google-chrome performance ssd framerate

dat opening statement!

@Sathya You don't have laptop with wireless network? Anyhow, try creating portable Wi-Fi hotspot on smartphone and connecting with laptop to it. Then use any FTP file transfer program and be amazed at speed improvement.

7:08 PM

@MichaelFrank Edited to make it acceptable

!!undo

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@CanadianLuke TimeError: Could not reach 88mph

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@CanadianLuke nice blogpost on Login scripts.

7:24 PM

!!tell 14040479 no

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@allquixotic Why?

@MichaelFrank Thanks :)

I'm starting to get a small group of followers in my town for it, and hearing that people on SU also like it... Makes me feel good! Like I'm giving back or something

Anonymous

10 Years of Coding Horror

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How inconsistent!

Also, is stack.imgur (or imgur in general) having speed issues for anyone else?

Anonymous

yes

7:32 PM

@MichaelFrank How is that inconsistent? One is a shortcut, one is the folder itself...

@CanadianLuke yea, I just noticed that. Perhaps it shouldn't be just a shortcut?

If you look at how it picks the links there, it has to be a shortcut, otherwise your Downloads folder will be a LONG path

@PatoSáinz Imagine that as a news headline; "The day imgur went away."

Ahhhhhhhhhhh I'm confusing Libraries and... not-libraries.

:) Thought so

Anonymous

libraries are confusing

7:38 PM

I mostly use Win8 at home, which just lumps them all under 'This PC' (which is another annoyance)

@MichaelFrank I understand why they did that, but I don't like it. I hate way too much about Windows 8

@MichaelFrank they're trying to be more universal, you know, just in case you might care about files on other peoples' PCs

Windows 9 will have the following structure in Windows Explorer: Universe Instance #5789900246 --> Milky Way Galaxy --> Local Cluster --> Solar System --> Earth --> New Zealand --> Your Town --> Your Neighborhood --> Your Street --> Your House --> This PC

UGH. WIN2K WAS SO MUCH EASIER.

I remember having a Windows ME theme for Red Alert.... the start menu would make tank shooting sounds when clicking through the menus

Anonymous

i had a bacon rainbow mouse with fire trails

Anonymous

7:44 PM

but i never downloaded the emoticon packs

@allquixotic I think I had a similar theme..

I remember when we first got speakers for our computer. That was amazing. Sinksub was so awesome with actual audio!

@allquixotic You forgot the province/territory/state in there, and the continent!

8:10 PM

Just updated with a QOTW on my blog: talk-about-it.ca

@CanadianLuke use the Source, Luke!

you really need to be a developer -_-

How the heck do I stop Google Play automatic downloading after factory data reset?

8:26 PM

Don't log in to your account immediately.

8:47 PM

@all I am, but for fun, not for work

Oliver Salzburg

9:24 PM

@CanadianLuke Those shouldn't be mutually exclusive though ;)

9:38 PM

@OliverSalzburg In some instances, yes, I agree. But from hearing what other programmers mention for their jobs, it could e.

Oliver Salzburg

10:18 PM

Ugh, I just deleted the parent folder of the folder I wanted to delete because the selection indicator in Explorer was messing with me :P

Ctrl+Z

Oliver Salzburg

And there was this brief moment when Explorer pops open the "This folder is too large for your recycle bin and will be permanently deleted. Are you sure?" and I pressed Hell yeah, I'm sure

In English, it's just Yes, bend me over. Your German version of Windows seems cooler

Oliver Salzburg

!!doge painful,stupid,hate

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      wow
                much painful
                       very stupid
many hate

Oliver Salzburg

10:20 PM

@CanadianLuke Well, it is the Ultimate version ;D

Anyone good with grep or awk? I want to take the third column of output, from a command

Oliver Salzburg

@CanadianLuke awk '{print $3}' maybe

Nice

@OliverSalzburg even a bird brain could figure that out! ;) awk is a bird's favorite tool

An auk is a bird of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. Extant auks range in size from the Least Auklet, at 85 g (3 oz) and 15 cm (6 in), to the Thick-billed Murre, at and 45 cm (18 in). They are good swimmers and divers, but their walking appears clumsy. Modern auks can fly (except for the recently extinct Great Auk). Due to their short wings, auks have to flap their wings very quickly in order to fly. Auks are superficially similar to penguins having black-and-white colours, upright posture and some of their habits. Nevertheless they are not clo...

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Whenever I try to use regex on the shell I get mad real fast :P

It never works as I expect it to :D

And the print $n is the only awk command I know :P

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Fun

11:01 PM

Just a random question: does anyone know of any hardware device (other than a full computer) that I can plug in a serial DB-9 connection, and have just the keyboard and monitor outputs, so I plug in a keyboard/monitor?

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Well, I know where most of my visits are coming from!

And 100% of the mobile users use ANDROID! There is hope afterall :P

Journeyman Geek

11:53 PM

@CanadianLuke: that sounds a lot like a classic terminal

what're you trying to use it for?

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