Root Access

bob@bob-VirtualBox:~$ ps
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
 1849 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
 1908 pts/1    00:00:00 ps
bob@bob-VirtualBox:~$ ps | grep bash
 1849 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
bob@bob-VirtualBox:~$

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Not always depends on the version of grep

Bob

But it runs ps and pipes the output to grep

The grep command should not appear in the ps output...

Oh wait, it does?

Bleargh. I need to brush up on Linux. And command line piping in general.

Journeyman Geek

it does;p

you could pipe it through another command that removes grep from it i guess ;p

Bob

@OliverSalzburg I guess it then depends if ps shows the arguments passed to the commands

Which is ps -f or something

Oliver Salzburg

gencha@d-m:~$ ps aux | grep bash
gencha    8981  0.2  1.5  25312  8124 pts/0    Ss   13:11   0:00 -bash
gencha    9013  0.0  0.1   7548   840 pts/0    S+   13:14   0:00 grep bash

As bash appears in "grep bash"

Bob

11:16 AM

I clearly need to practise more :P

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck I wanted to see if the user figures it out on his own, that's why I didn't serve him the solution yet ;)

Bob

This question should win a prize for random tagging... (nice edit @slhck :P)

slhck

@Bob Absolutely… I also love those where the title is just "Windows on Dell" and the question's about Photoshop etc. :P

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck :D

Daniel Beck

Some asked about a fourth moderator position. Once they see @slhck cleaning up the site, everyone'll wonder why there was more than 1 elected...

slhck

11:28 AM

@DanielBeck lol, you cleared twice as many flags than me :P

Ivo Flipse

@Gnoupi Don't forget Troggy

jokerdino

hmm so you guys know who cleared how many flags?

Daniel Beck

@slhck I'm taking Wed-Fri off this week, so I don't have anything else to do.

Ivo Flipse

@Gnoupi Not so sure how distached I am, given I'm still here every day :P

slhck

@DanielBeck Fair enough, haha

@jokerdino Yup

jokerdino

11:31 AM

@slhck thanks

slhck

12:01 PM

0

A: How to bypass web URL filtering service to access blocked websites (proxy)

Some services and proxies: http://myspace-at-school.net/cgi-bin/nph-p.cgi http://proxymine.net/ http://roxxo.net/ http://webfreed.com/ http://www.hidemefromall.info/ http://www.getproxylinks.com/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nafpl http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NewFastWorkingProxies/ ht...

O_o

Daniel Beck

12:12 PM

@slhck Is this an attempt to create a community wiki / community FAQ topic?

slhck

@DanielBeck Seems like it, yup

Bob

@slhck what the fu-

The summary looks fine, but the actual answer? How many links is that?

I can also attest that they are unlikely to work if the filtering is ~~set up properly~~ strict (e.g. whitelist) :P

slhck

@Bob 99 :P

Bob

o.O

Actually, isn't this a questionable question (excuse the pun)?

slhck

@Bob Depends… we have a similar question

15

Q: How can I make my IP address appear to be from another country?

How do I make it appear that my IP address is coming from one country while I'm located in another? I live in Germany and some websites (like Hulu or Youtube) don't work because my IP isn't in the US. How do I get around this? Do I have to use a proxy or something? Moderator note Super ...

So I guess it's fine

Bob

12:18 PM

This kind of thing is likely to break a ToS/AUP... though I guess it could be given the benefit of the doubt :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

tunnels some of his traffic through a canadian ~~pharmacy~~ proxy because there's some sites that don't bloody work on my home isp for no apparent reason ;p

georestrictions are vile tho

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Tor? :P

Journeyman Geek

no. I actually have my own proxy, primarily used to access a webcomic, but also when sites like ars technica have wierd glitches

Bob

ah

that reminds me, I really need to get a VPS at some point

@slhck I vaguely recall a MSO question about multiple answers, where it was recommended that different solutions are split up rather than put into one answer. Then again, summary/collection answers seem to be encouraged at the same time, so...

slhck

@Bob That was my point… there's not even a single sentence here.

Bob

12:24 PM

@slhck Oh, you mean add another answer to sum up? I read that comment as deleting every answer and leave one massive summary one...

slhck

@Bob That's what I'd love him to do, but… although the question looks meh, dunno what to do about it.

Bob

lol

I'll clean up the URL list anyway :\

actually

I can't tell if this is cleaner or messier...

Well, it's cleaner but looks longer :P

slhck

Leave it like that.. better to click through. If one really wants that.

Bob

@slhck Wait, leave it in the pre-edit state?

slhck

@Bob No no.. post-edit

Bob

12:28 PM

oh, k

slhck

And obviously, the user got banned from posting more answers.

Bob

lol

well

four answers with over a hundred links within a few minutes

I'm not surprised

slhck

Indeed

HackToHell

AArgh some sucker keeps downvoting my questions !!

slhck

@HackToHell Hm. I count one downvote today, two yesterday. That's unfortunate, but not yet alarming.

HackToHell

12:41 PM

But i will look like a sucker, if all my questions stand at -1 ;p

slhck

lol

Well let us know if it continues

jokerdino

/me downvotes @HackToHell's question.

HackToHell

lol

all 3 ??

jokerdino

not yet ;p

but given that question downvote is free, I am thinking why not.

HackToHell

yay

at 2012

jokerdino

12:48 PM

yay grats

HackToHell

thanks @jokerdino ;p

It technically supposed be 50 rep more but that rep got lost in the sands of time

jokerdino

oh?

@HackToHell how about now? :p

HackToHell

@jokerdino :) :)

jokerdino

:D

wait, did i get four upvotes on my answers or what?

thanks, I am guessing it was @HackToHell. But my reputation page looks weird.

HackToHell

:)

Gnoupi

1:01 PM

@IvoFlipse Yeah, I tend to forget Troggy, since our active times rarely overlapped.

@IvoFlipse I meant detached mostly regarding other people's reactions. Amazing amount of "zen" in this context.

Bob

@Gnoupi Troggy? All I know of him (her?) is one meta post :P

I'm too new to know any more

Actually, I'm not too sure who you are, sorry :(

jokerdino

gnoupi is one of the appointed mods who burnt himself out ;p

his hobby / obsession is spam hunting.

Bob

Yea, gathered that from this conversation :)

jokerdino

the rest you can hear from his mouth ;p

Bob

Ah... I'll be back in an hour.

jokerdino

1:06 PM

cya

@HackToHell i could vote your answers as a kind gesture; but that would get us suspended on voting fraud. so maybe next time ;p

Gnoupi

1:22 PM

Hm, a smart one: superuser.com/users/90000/ruslan-ivanoff

He provided correct answers to other questions, gained some rep

jokerdino

itunes spammer

Gnoupi

And he doesn't link directly to the product

But if you look closely

most of his lniks go to CopyTrans

2

A: How do I transfer my iPhone and iTunes application to another computer?

There are two options that you can try: 1> Backup the full contents of your iTunes library to say an external Hard Drive. You can then restore your iTunes to a new computer. Backing up and restoring can be done automatically using third-party programs specifically designed for that - for example...

jokerdino

sophisticated spammers?

Gnoupi

Well this one is more subtle

So I guess the first step would be a mail from the team

warning about links repeated like this, linking to the same product in the end

Since he did make the effort to at least provide some answers

jokerdino

yep

slhck

1:26 PM

@Gnoupi Gah. I hate those kinds of spam.

Gnoupi

well, some of his answers are obvious

linking to "itunes-transfer-blablabla.blogspot.com"

these can be removed, they are obvious spam

but since he is actually showing a "human" side, and some answers, it should be handled with a mail

warning him to not advertise his product, as per the site's policy

but look at this one (to delete too), it's beautiful:

"this is what I found after a quick search

0

A: itunes: is there a way to add cover art to an album and not to each individual track?

I would advise you to look around on the Internet. There are lots of discussion threads on mac-fans' forums about adding iTunes artwork. This is what I found after a quick search for example: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=fad78bc37298a537a3d60f8ffc4ec18d&p=13351435#post13351...

and yes, it's a link to another forum saying that the solution is CopyTrans

nice, smart

jokerdino

o.O

O.o

Journeyman Geek

;p

Cute, Its a mechanical turk!

(no offence to our turkish users, especially those unaware of the historical and modern day relevance of that choice of words)

slhck

@Gnoupi I'll go through their posts later and see what we can do :)

Gnoupi

@slhck Yeah, it's the kind of case which requires a bit more attention than merging with deposit or deleting :] But I think indeed that most answers linking to copytrans can be removed

HackToHell

1:39 PM

@jokerdino there is no need for doing that stuff, i will get rep the hard way, I upvoted your answers cause I was bored ;p

@JourneymanGeek amazons ?

Journeyman Geek

Well, a human doing the job of a bot

;p

jokerdino

@HackToHell alright then. ;p just felt like saying things

Journeyman Geek

I'm thinking older school, before policemen wore short pants even!

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek mturk.com/mturk/welcome I was asking if someone actually did that from amazon's mturk

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: naw

HackToHell

1:42 PM

Some black mturk then

And that reminds me of some editing Geek wanted me to do, will finish it tonight @JourneymanGeek

Crying seeing this

mountainlionchallenge.com

Paul

Broke 4K

jokerdino

nice.

i am hoping the new review queue comes to AU before I get 2k in SU.

slhck

@Gnoupi And done. Thanks for finding the user. There's even other accounts related to this.

@OliverSalzburg Feel free to post the answer: superuser.com/questions/453762

Oliver Salzburg

2:02 PM

@slhck Thanks. Done

Sathya

just got a badge for this. 2,500 views. 1 upvote :/

1

Q: How do I get Seamless mode working under Oracle VM VirtualBox?

I'm use Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.8 (PUEL) on my Windows 7 as host. I use seamless mode almost exclusively, and post upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 the seamless mode is broken. Is there a way I can fix this or do I need to wait for the next release of VirtualBox? (PS: I have looked at Lifehacker's arti...

10.10 virtualbox virtualization

jokerdino

Here, have some rep. :P

btw, can someone format the specs part of this q? askubuntu.com/questions/168415/nvidia-gts-250-1gb-graphics i don't / can't understand specs all too well.

Michael Mrozek

Do you guys want this question?

2

Q: Encrypted USB flash drive and wear-leveling

I would like to encrypt an entire USB flash ("thumb") drive (as sdb, not sdb1) with cryptsetup. Will this encryption adversely affect the life of the drive or its reliability by interfering with the wear-leveling? From a discussion about encryption on solid states drives: The makers of the o...

encryption flash-memory cryptsetup

Sathya

@jokerdino on it.

Zomg. @MichaelMrozek is in here.

jokerdino

@Sathya tyvm once again.

Oliver Salzburg

2:10 PM

@jokerdino Done

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino: smells funny, C2Qs did not use DDR3

Paul

@MichaelMrozek Looks good

jokerdino

@OliverSalzburg wait woah. thanks.

Sathya

@MichaelMrozek @Paul there's a related/dupe..

7

Q: Using TrueCrypt (software encryption) with an SSD

I use full drive encryption (FDE) w/ TrueCrypt on my laptop. I have a 2nd gen I7 with AES instruction support, so honestly I can't even notice a speed change on the system with it on. My question, is for those who know about SSD's a lot. I previously (early 2011) read articles about how softwa...

ssd encryption truecrypt

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek ta, your turn to answer the question then ;-)

Paul

2:12 PM

@Sathya oops, I didn't see it

Sathya

@Paul no worries

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino: commented

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek :-)))

Michael Mrozek

Do you want it to merge, or just leave it?

Sathya

@MichaelMrozek will merge.

Michael Mrozek

2:16 PM

2

Q: Encrypted USB flash drive and wear-leveling

I would like to encrypt an entire USB flash ("thumb") drive (as sdb, not sdb1) with cryptsetup. Will this encryption adversely affect the life of the drive or its reliability by interfering with the wear-leveling? From a discussion about encryption on solid states drives: The makers of the o...

encryption

Thanks

Sathya

hmm, wondering if it's a dupe. One's SSD & other USB flash. THoughts, @Paul?

Paul

2:31 PM

@Sathya The answer to the SU original is about performance, but there is a wearing attribute to performance - however an SSD controller is a far different thing to a cheap flash drive controller. I wouldn't be surprised if a usb drive had no wear levelling capability - who really expects them to last. But really, I have no idea :)

Sathya

I'll reopen then.

Oliver Salzburg

2:47 PM

Cool

annotate-output rocks :D

Daniel Beck

@OliverSalzburg Only Debian though IIRC.

Oliver Salzburg

@DanielBeck jeroen.a-eskwadraat.nl/sw/annotate/annotate

The script is easily available, but I get your point.

jokerdino

too many blue guys. ease out a bit?

Daniel Beck

@OliverSalzburg Didn't work when I tried it on RHEL...

Oliver Salzburg

@DanielBeck :(

Daniel Beck

2:55 PM

I have a RHEL compatible solution using awk on a server I'm working on, just can't access it right now.

Oliver Salzburg

<command> | awk '{ print strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), $0; }'

That's supposed to be just dandy

Daniel Beck

Can't try on OS X right now because strftime is specific to gawk...

But the answers in that topic are so disappointing...

Oliver Salzburg

@DanielBeck I'd really like to replicate the SO information on our site better than with just that comment :P

Daniel Beck

@OliverSalzburg Your answer was a good start, wasn't it?

Oliver Salzburg

@DanielBeck Yeah, but I wasn't sure if that is frowned upon. First noting that a similar question exists on another site, then replicate the information

Looks like a cheap rep-grab :P

Daniel Beck

3:04 PM

@OliverSalzburg Make it CW and you're good IMO.

Oliver Salzburg

@DanielBeck Good idea!

KronoS

that's a whole lotta blue....

3

Rob

3:47 PM

annotate-output?

KronoS

All I wanted to do was look for answers that had high votes, but were link only (thus needing a little editing right?)

All I got was software rec answers:

data.stackexchange.com/superuser/query/76041/…

Oliver Salzburg

17

A: Is there a Unix utility to prepend timestamps to lines of text?

annotate, available via that link or as annotate-output in the Debian devscripts package. $ echo -e "a\nb\nc" > lines $ annotate-output cat lines 17:00:47 I: Started cat lines 17:00:47 O: a 17:00:47 O: b 17:00:47 O: c 17:00:47 I: Finished with exitcode 0

Rob

I like that

I will end up using that I'm sure.

slhck

@KronoS About the IT support question.. don't you think a historical lock will do for the time being? The other two were crap, really.

@DanielBeck brew install gawk?

KronoS

@slhck ya that works for me.

I wasn't completely sure what to do on that one

slhck

4:02 PM

Me neither. Rather leave deletion to the community if it's not that clear I'd say.

KronoS

@slhck ok. Posts like that should I flag and comment for locking?

Rob

?? There she was, just-a gawking down the street ??
?? singing doo-a-diddy diddy-dum diddy-do ??

D:< Don't strip my music notes, chat!

slhck

@KronoS I don't know how exactly we should deal with that… Like, for crap questions, just flag away. For those that one were on topic and somewhat useful, not sure if single-handed moderator deletion is the way to go. Or if locking just solves the problem. Maybe start a discussion on meta :)

HackToHell

4:40 PM

Saab 37 Viggen

{| |} The Saab 37 Viggen () was a Swedish single-seat, single-engine, short-medium range fighter and attack aircraft, manufactured between 1970 and 1990. Several variants were produced to perform the roles of all-weather fighter-interceptor, ground-attack and photo-reconnaissance, as well as a two-seat trainer. Development The Viggen was initially developed as a replacement for the Saab 32 Lansen in the attack role and later the Saab 35 Draken as a fighter. The first studies were carried out between 1952 and 1957 involving the Finnish aircraft designer Aarne Lakomaa. Several different co...

ooh

> Swedish JA 37 Viggen fighter pilots, using the predictable patterns of Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird routine flights over the Baltic Sea, managed to lock their radar on the SR-71 on numerous occasions

The only plane on the planet that can do that

nhinkle

4:57 PM

Wow twitter is really broken

Back home →

Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.

We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>. For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks for your patience!

© 2012 Twitter
About
Help
Status

KronoS

@nhinkle chron.com/news/article/…

actually this is a better article

news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57480653-93/…

nhinkle

TL;DR they goofed

KronoS

> Twitter isn't the only online service suffering from an outage today. Google announced earlier this morning that its chat service, Google Talk, was also down, but the problem has been resolved.

Mokubai

Heya everyone

nhinkle

Oy

Mokubai

5:06 PM

How're we on this fine day?

KronoS

@Mokubai you're in a happy mood

Mokubai

Well, I escaped from work, so yeah :)

It's kinda like during the day my mind gets tightened up like a watch piece as I have to deal with fine details and complicated stuff, then I get home and it lets loose and I and up a bit kooky for a while

slhck

@nhinkle Huh.. I thought they switched from Rails to Java.

But obviously they haven't :)

Oliver Salzburg

Humm. I'm trying my first Exchange server recovery right now. It's interesting... :D

KronoS

5:39 PM

@OliverSalzburg those are so scary...

Oliver Salzburg

@KronoS Still running. Well so far :D

KronoS

Twitter, I find your lack of up-time disturbing.

Tweeted by darthvader on July 26, 2012 at 5:36 PM

Oliver Salzburg

soundcloud.com/stylustbeats/stylust-beats-the-bay-tape#

Daniel Beck

@KronoS Wait, what? He's using a Mac? Something's wrong with that...

KronoS

@DanielBeck I don't know how to break this to you lightly, so I'll just go out and say it... Mac's are the darkside.

Daniel Beck

5:48 PM

@KronoS Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.................................

KronoS

Lol

Daniel Beck

It must be an impostor.

Oliver Salzburg

@KronoS It worked \o/ :D

Sathya

KronoS

@OliverSalzburg nice

Oliver Salzburg

6:32 PM

"Now you can use Handwrite, a new fun way to search Google from your smartphone or tablet." Finally! </sarcasm>

Rob

All trying to search for something but my handwriting is awful so I end searching for something different

all ending up on government lists and banned from countries for my search history

22

A: Why does my Intel i7-920 display 8 cores instead of 4 cores?

Hyperthreading.

kronos beat me to it

Daniel Beck

6:54 PM

6

Q: Why upgrade to solid state hard drive on desktop computer

Why upgrade to a solid state hard drive on desktop computer if non-solid state hard drive speed = 6GB/s and solid state hard drive speed = 6GB/s Will I just be paying more to get less space? they both claim to have the same speed. I know SSD will use less power, make no sound and will be harder...

performance ssd desktop

Wow. Just... wow.

digitxp

lol

Rob

7:06 PM

If I use 2, do I get 6*6GB/s?

Sathya

Luke

7:35 PM

@sathya nice. Anyone want to weigh in on what flavor of Linux I should install on my Mac book pro?

KronoS

@Luke I'm a personal fan of the Ubuntu...

Daniel Beck

@Luke What use case?

Luke

Just to play around with, get used to Linux in general. Last time I had it full time was mandrake, not even mandriva

soandos

9:06 PM

Found this kinda interesting:

scientificamerican.com/…

Daniel Beck

11:10 PM

@KronoS You there?

KronoS

@DanielBeck that I am... what's up?

Daniel Beck

@KronoS I just saw your flag about the duplicate answer, but I don't find the answer you're referring to.

KronoS

superuser.com/questions/90847/…

this question?

Daniel Beck

1

Q: Windows 7 domain logon takes too long

I have recently installed Windows 7 on my work laptop and am having an annoying problem when logging in to my domain user account. If I initially try to log on to my domain user account, it takes an annoying 45 to 60 seconds until the "welcome" screen disappears and I can see my desktop. If I l...

windows-7 login user-accounts domain

KronoS

If so someone else has moved the answer to the comment

Daniel Beck

11:13 PM

@KronoS That was me. I understood that flag ;)

KronoS

@DanielBeck well then that's the one that I mean to flag

did I flag it twice?

oh wait hang on

Daniel Beck

So glad I'm not the only one confused about your flags :-)

KronoS

2

A: Windows 7 domain logon takes too long

For computers attached to a domain controller, make sure that the FIRST DNS server listed in the IP Address settings is the DC. If it is not, this will often times cause the delayed login.

this is the answer that:

0

A: Windows 7 domain logon takes too long

Add DNS IP to host file.

is a dupe of

make sense @DanielBeck?

Daniel Beck

@KronoS Makes sense, thanks.

KronoS

Np

Shiki

11:18 PM

@JourneymanGeek What was that backup software you mentioned?

( I didn't buy Acronis yet, because the support is beyond terrible. Words can't express them. )

KronoS

I'm tempted to stop flagging

@Shiki i'm a personal fan of Crashplan

Shiki

Ah no, I need an offline backup to an external drive. Preferably something that can take a backup while the PC is runing (Windows 7 OS)

Windows Backup seemed like just the right choice. But I tried it on three different installs with all kind of settings, and they all failed.

So I thought I should just go for Acronis, as I used their product before. It gets the job done, it works, and it's not overpriced. But Journeyman was telling me about a software that "one of us" codes... now if I could recall it's name...

Ivo Flipse

@OliverSalzburg if you get one of those Korean monitors, I'd recommend ignoring the stand and either order a VESA stand with it or get one here locally. Might save you another 20-30$ which might keep the taxes lower too

@Shiki I think I know which he means

Super User Blog: A Guide to Disk Imaging, Backup and Restore

ninefingers on March 19, 2012

So I finally get to write my own entry for the Super User Blog! Very excited to be here. I’ve been asked to write specifically because I’ve just started working as a developer for Macrium Reflect, a disk imaging solution for Windows-based PCs and super user features a lot of backup questions. So here goes, an as-close-to-canonical tour of disk imaging as I can write. I’ve tried not to be overly technical here, whilst giving you the knowledge to understand the essentials; however, it gets technical from time to time. …

Ninefingers, the security mod works for Macrium

Oliver Salzburg

@IvoFlipse I actually haven't looked into any offers at all yet.

I was happy to finally finish up on my mail today after being afk for 48 hours :P

Ivo Flipse

Well your choices are basically: do you like the housing? do you need built in audio (NO!)? do you trust the seller (go with the crowd)? is the price low enough? do you want more connections than a single DVI?

That's about it

I couldn't tell whether the tempered glass was good or not

Here's a review in German though only a 23 inch it seems

You can also pay to get it pixel perfect, before they ship it, but I'm not sure if its worth the extra cost and if it'll actually be perfect

On Jeff's blog post there's a nice overview too (from the comments): swiftworld.net/2012/04/14/…

KronoS

11:40 PM

@IvoFlipse I didn't know that

Ivo Flipse

> Very excited to be here. I’ve been asked to write specifically because I’ve just started working as a developer for Macrium Reflect,

Its at the top :P

KronoS