Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:18

@surfasb: eh, lovesh asked that earlier. I'm half tempted to give him a lmgtfy link

surfasb

lmgtfy?

no speak LOLCAT.

Journeyman Geek

lmgtfy.com/?q=lmgfy

(since its more amusing. and meta)

surfasb

00:33

Ah, ok.

I just had no idea what to google for.

I was thinking. Humm, what to call it. An enum outside? An hanging enum?

Journeyman Geek

>_>

surfasb

Maybe it is an orphaned enum. . .

Journeyman Geek

or an enum without a cause?

has no idea what exactly is being enumerated'

surfasb

Oh I thought you were referring to my SO question.

Journeyman Geek

naw, was referring to lowesh's question. he's asked twice, and in that time he could have memorised, and recited (backwards!) the relevant wikipedia articles...

or.. bought a book

surfasb

00:48

Ah ya.

Clippy

05:01

Super User Blog: Running Windows Applications in Linux

Posted by George Edison on September 19th, 2011

Ask some Windows users why they aren’t using Linux and chances are you will hear “because [program] doesn’t have a Linux version.” Although cross-platform software is popping up all over the place, there are still a number of applications that are restricted to a single platform – and for a lot of software, that platform is Microsoft Windows.

However, all is not lost. Although Linux has its own executable format and set of system libraries, a tool exists that will allows us to run a good portion of our Windows applications directly in Linux. This tool is of course, …

Sathya

05:28

howdy

Journeyman Geek

06:13

lo

Journeyman Geek

06:29

ooh arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/09/…

Gareth

I can imagine the Super User question now

"I accidentally clicked Reset instead of Refresh. How can I undo? :("

DMA57361

07:17

morning all

Journeyman Geek

07:56

lol

@Gareth: its nice for people who do periodic reinstalls tho

speaking of stupid things, i just uploaded an unfinished, un-spellchecked assignment to turnitin...

DMA57361

@JourneymanGeek :/

there opportunity to replace it?

Sathya

08:13

morning

slhck

08:36

morning all!

@Sathya @DMA57361 Can't we blacklist these computersight.com people?

Sathya

@slhck bring it up on meta..

Jeff doesn't prefer to blacklist because they're generally hit & run URLs

slhck

Oh I see.

tombull89

This (on M.SF) will probably be declined then?

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Q: Can we add "rapidssl" to the list of banned words please?

I'm sick of deleting the spam we get from their millions of 'resellers'.

Sathya

well, we're raised request for blacklists for several things, several of them have been shot down, rest accepted. If there's a trend, Jeff will accept it and add to the blacklist. However, he is significantly against adding to blacklist.

DMA57361

08:54

mmmmm, French Fancy, tasty :9

Journeyman Geek

@DMA57361: will have to ask the lecturer today - we're supposed to submit the turnitin report with a physical copy ;p

DMA57361

fair enough

Journeyman Geek

Its about 1% similar, since i'm a paraphrasing NINJA

DMA57361

that's OK then, presumably?

Journeyman Geek

lol. up to 20% is usually fine

the thing is tho, this is a management module, and i don't write with a managery style. I write VERY plain english

DMA57361

09:08

f/e, we don't get no magically trickery here

the lecturers presumably just web search for a few choice sentences and see if anything obvious pops up ;P

Journeyman Geek

eh, i am not a fan of plagerism detection. Especially when they spent hours telling us doing is is bad, and almost none on the use of library resources

DMA57361

yeah it's a very stick-oriented approach here too

Journeyman Geek

eh the other two schools i went to were the other way around

hours on how to use the library properly

and maybe a quick session on citing

DMA57361

nice

we, uhh, got told where the library is...

Journeyman Geek

oh, we don't have our own library

but yanno, the online resources... no idea where they arre

i use google books + scholar and cheat a little when it comes to needing to cite

slhck

09:25

ah, can someone revoke the close votes here? the question talks about videos, not a screenshot – http://superuser.com/questions/337304/capture-part-of-the-screen-in-osx-lion

DMA57361

@slhck simple answer is "no one". Close votes just have to be left to expire.

or do you mean it's a dupe of something different?

slhck

@DMA57361 I meant by closing it and reopening it

It's probably not a duplicate

DMA57361

that's a rather ugly hack thou, tbh

slhck

I know :/

It's just that the question was a bit unclear whether it was about image screenshots or real video screen captures (and the user answering wasn't too sure either)

DMA57361

remove the "possible dupe" comment and/or add something saying you've changed your mind

slhck

09:29

fair enough, will do!

Sathya

10:14

my VoIP phone has so many buttons and such a complex menu structure I need a manual to understand it :\

DMA57361

sounds... fun :/

tombull89

@Sathya haha, same as mine. We've got Cisco 7911's for handsets which is probably how many settings the thing has.

Sathya

we have those Nortel/Avaya thingies

sheesh

my previous Nortel was a little bit better

slhck

10:37

Gah. Who actually invented JavaScript? I want them to burn in hell!

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Journeyman Geek

did clippy offer to help?

slhck

Nope. I'm not even sure I want Clippy to help :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

but clippy wants to help everyone

slhck

Just like the stupid dog in Windows search!

I've never found anything with Windows search.

Journeyman Geek

oh god. I love dogs, and i want to feed him to the ducks ;p

slhck

10:40

lol

Journeyman Geek

i HAVE managed to use windows search effectively tho

tombull89

the XP search was OK, the Windows Vista/7 one is next to useless though.

I use Everything now.

Journeyman Geek

ahh, this was on XP

i don't search. all my files are neatly organised into two folders... "stuff i need now" and "other stuff"

slhck

haha.. let me guess which one has a very high flow-in rate :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

generally the former is 2-3 folders

the latter... i think i'm a little scared to sort through it

slhck

10:43

I like to keep everything I need to do on my desktop. Which is nice. Until the point where I create folders named "Todo" and "Todo 2" and shove everything in there.

Journeyman Geek

i don't ever see my desktop ;p

slhck

Me neither, THAT'S THE POINT :D

Journeyman Geek

;p

i have everything in dropbox tho

slhck

Yeah, really useful for that stuff.

Journeyman Geek

my media folder tho... yectch...

the music is nice and orderly. the videos are an utter and complete mess

tombull89

10:47

All my documents are very ocd-based, especially music.

On my laptop I have a main partition and a secondary "data" partition for VirtualBox VM's and a "dumping ground" for files before I sort them.

Journeyman Geek

yeah, they SHOULD be like that

i also blame my tendancy to download TV shows and watch em weeks later

RedGrittyBrick

It never hurts to be simplistically literal-minded? superuser.com/questions/337307/… - I was sure I was going to be downvoted for being flippant, not-Excel, not-Windows or because pipelines are programming. Odd.

tombull89

Also the move to Windows 7 made me go a bit mental. Instead of C:\...\Tom\My Documents with My Pictures and My Music inside that it's all C:\User\Tom\MY EVERYTHIIIING.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@RedGrittyBrick: extremely elegant

the equvilent of cat is copy in windows i think

slhck

@RedGrittyBrick He asked for a non-Excel solution, so why not?

RedGrittyBrick

10:51

I was preparing a follow-up about UnxUtils just in case :-)

Journeyman Geek

eh, for basic stuff. there's a REALLY nice busybox build on windows

github.com/pclouds/busybox-w32

tombull89

Subtle. One of our students had copied ~300MB of (probably illegal) music to her work area and hoped we wouldn't notice.

BYE-BYE MUSIC.

slhck

Heh.

I still wonder when my university's going to notice that I host a service to download TV series from a local streaming portal.

Journeyman Geek

lol

tombull89

Granted, it's just a script that looks for *.mp3 files on the student drive, but it's effective.

DMA57361

10:54

@tombull89 why not silently replace the contents of each file with something horrible ;P

Journeyman Geek

maybe they already have and love it

slhck

@JourneymanGeek That could very well be! :D

tombull89

@DMA57361 haha, high-pitched screaming, or white noise.

RedGrittyBrick

@Journeyman: Good god! So there is. Nifty!

DMA57361

@tombull89 or maybe even someone saying "We know what you're doing on the school network, be afraid."

Journeyman Geek

10:56

@RedGrittyBrick: I don't think its as complete as unxutils, and you need to preface the commands with busybox, but oh... SOOOOO useful...

slhck

@DMA57361 Haha. But please make it with a text-to-speech synthesizer.

tombull89

@slhck Microsoft Sam? haha.

DMA57361

for maximum effect, make it so the first 15s of each file are untouched >)

Journeyman Geek

@tombull89: i'd check if there's anything good there. I regret nuking the load of palm apps someone hacked into one of our systems

DMA57361

not that I'm bored atm or anything :P

slhck

10:56

That would actually be a really good on-topic fun question for Super User.

Journeyman Geek

and.. poof class!

tombull89

@JourneymanGeek Oh, I do have a look before I nuke everything.

If it's blantly dodgey, it goes, but if it's just one or two tracks I let is slide as it's probably for education use.

There's one guy who backs up his USB into folders in his work area...minorly amusing is he's got links (i.e. shorcuts) to our Adobe CS5 software.

He probably gets home and wonders why he can't use Photoshop, etc.

slhck

11:46

aaand another one

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Q: IE locks problems whenever serfing internet

IE locks problems when serfing internet. this tyeps of proplems face many people during serf the internet. Click me -IElocks problems

internet

Gareth

12:16

that webupon.com spammer is such a knob, so persistent!

glad to see he's getting caught so quickly...

slhck

@Gareth These links all go to computersight.com – or do you mean something different?

Gareth

yeah, it's the Yahoo messenger guy (or messanger as he always says)

slhck

I'm sure there were already like 20 posts deleted

at minimum

Sathya

my mailbox is a mess. Hitting exchange storage limits

Journeyman Geek

12:40

eh easy flag weight ;)

slhck

@JourneymanGeek true that

tombull89

12:53

holy massive post batman

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A: Obtaining the Windows 7 CD key from its installation files

I found that: http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/how-to-recover-windows-7-vista-xp-product-keys/ 21 Best Tools to Recover Windows 7/Vista/XP Product Keys | More A CD key (aka product key, activation key, key code, installation key, and serial number) is used to identify that the copy of the progra...

slhck

hm?

oh

tombull89

Looks like he's just copy+pasted the article.

slhck

ah, yeah – seems so

blergh

must … fight … urge … to … edit

tombull89

@slhck just nuke it? :P

slhck

now that was quick

(on meta)

tombull89

12:59

@slhck Meta.SU or Meta.SO?

slhck

-1

Q: Close question after some days of acceptance (if user accept the answer)

I get disturbed by an answer for a question posted by me, if I did accept and confirm an answer a couple of months ago. I better suggest you to close/mark the question as "no more answers needed".

feature-request

tombull89

Ah, I see.

slhck

It's like, "I want this feature! … nah, forget it" :P

tombull89

Or: "I want this feature...but not bad enough to get downvoted for it."

slhck

Well, rep's free on MSU anyway, so I don't think it's such a big deal to be downvoted.

Gareth

13:23

can't open this question in China :) creepy eh

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Q: Help me get past China's Great Firewall and reach blocked sites

I wonder if there are any other users who are annoyed like me by the Great Firewall set by the Chinese Government. If so would you please present me an effective way to get on YouTube? Since it's going to be China's flag-day or something, I tried almost all approaches from the internet like ultra...

internet youtube blocking

it loads about half the question (not even answers) then times out

slhck

@Gareth Should I censor it for you? :P

btw the FG chat bot finally added me!

Gareth

I commented on that meta post about the China dupe being closed... basically just hoping it doesn't get any significant attention and end up with superuser.com being fully blocked :P

slhck

do they monitor individuals like that?

Gareth

oh great! either it's a sleepy bot, or it needs human intervention :)

they have entire teams (even on a city level) that monitor the web for anything against China or how to climb the firewall

they also flood anti-China posts with pro-China comments etc

slhck

creepy >_>

Gareth

13:29

so I wouldn't be surprised if a post like that climbed up Google rankings for "how to climb the <insert topic here>"

it's coming up to a major holiday as well where they always go mental about this sort of stuff

all the illegal download/streaming sites that are really popular here get shut down, because of the 'foreign influence'

all the VPNs get aggressively blocked etc

so a wee bit nervous :) hopefully it's me making a fuss over nothing and they don't even see it

slhck

Damn.. YouTube is nothing in comparison to that

Every time I'm on vacation in Germany, it feels really weird to use it, since they block more aggressively and you can't find half of the videos you want to see

So I get the little China experience whenever I'm there :P

Gareth

haha, yeah. They really do that sort of stuff there?

slhck

Particularly for music videos, yeah. They turn up in search but are blocked when you want to view them.

Switch to Austrian VPN, works like a charm.

(That's the benefit of living in such a small country nobody cares about – even the music industry can't be bothered to file complaints or make negotiations)

Gareth

it's quite phenomenal how you can get almost anything here (except more... adult stuff :P since it's illegal) because China doesn't really care about copyright. However if it's a serious holiday it all disappears like it never existed...

e.g. I had satellite installed a few years ago and got to watch foreign movie channels a lot. When it came up to the National Holiday they actually had it censored as a permanent black screen with Chinese writing explaining they didn't want to offend the government by broadcasting. Quite crazy really

slhck

@Gareth Censoring satellite?

tombull89

13:44

@Gareth what is it you're actually doing over there?

Gareth

yeah - it was a local provider (probably stealing a Filipino or Thai signal knowing what they're like) -- switched the box on one morning to catch the news and every channel had a black channel

Journeyman Geek

lol

@slhck: I run my own proxy to circumvent my ISP transparent proxy... cause it mucks up ip address detection ;p

I haven't actually been to any sites that are censored... ever

erf

superuser.com/questions/337325/… WHY DOES THIS GUY HATE THE SPINNING SHINY PLATTERS! PLATTERS GOOD!

slhck

lol

Gareth

hmm weird. My net got completely shut off

Journeyman Geek

...

THEY ARE ON TO YOU!

also, how did you post that with no net?

Gareth

13:50

@tombull89 I've been working out here a few years, is all. I complain about the shitty internet here but there's lots of good stuff too! I'd be mad otherwise

you mean the bit about the satellite? as soon as I posted that the video I was streaming stopped and everything stopped resolving

DNS completely messed up (using Google DNS because the local ISPs poison the DNS)

slhck

fwiw, I thought that could be a fun question

-5

Q: What is the most efficient way to cause a hardware malfunction?

Let's say I wanted to cause hardware malfunction within my laptop. What would be the most efficient and "natural" way to do this? Like burning my GPU or something. My specs: Alienware M14X i7, 2630m 6GB RAM 750GB HDD, 7200 RPM 555M Windows 7 Home I was thinking about running stress tests u...

laptop failure

the hardware equivalent for

144

Q: How to mess up a PC running Windows 7?

Ok, so for my PC class I have to find 3 hacks that would mess up the lab's PC. Me and my partner are going to mess up the PC and then another team will try to fix it. The system on it is Windows 7. Anything that would stop the normal use or render the PC useless works. The conditions: Can't op...

windows-7 windows security

Gareth

I would have filled the laptop with ants

he did want a natural solution - ants are natural

slhck

lol

water is, too

tombull89

14:06

Or mud.

slhck

14:17

is that even an answer?

0

A: What is hpsetup?

The hpsetup has been on my iphone for a long time. We do have an HP Photo Printer on the premises which is not even plugged in & never gets used. Not sure how/why hpsetup shows up on my iphone, but if it is useless or it belongs to someone else nearby(?), I will try to delete it.

Gareth

yeah, I caught that earlier - it's difficult, a bit of a half-answer

it does seem to shed light on it being related to a HP printer, but I don't think it's substantial enough to be a "good" answer

slhck

could be a comment on the question maybe

slhck

14:36

ah great, my university has obviously lost my data

tombull89

@slhck don't they have, y'know, backups?

slhck

@tombull89 It's complicated. I want to buy a student ticket for the public transport, and they (the public transport organization) say they can't find my records with the university.

goddamnit clippy!

Journeyman Geek

14:50

hmm engadget.com/2011/09/19/…

thats one situation where VNC would be fun to have

surfasb

16:09

Clippy RULEZ

Blog bot

16:34

Stack Overflow Blog: Android > iOS (And Other Statistics)

Posted by Alex Miller on September 19th, 2011

As you can imagine, we’re sitting on quite a bit of data here about programmers and the technologies they use. We’ve used this for various things in the past (for instance, you can use your history on the site to promote yourself on Careers 2.0) but we’ve never done a deep dive into the data and presented what it says about the popularity of various technologies among developers.

Well, as you can tell from the title of the post, that ends today. Thanks to the help of our summer math intern Qiaochu, we pulled millions of data points around some of the most popular technologie …

Journeyman Geek

23:56

pal.codeplex.com seems worth checking out...

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