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12:00 AM

wait a sec, that master.js might not necessarily have built the latest changes

actually check out the source using git; build it using node; and try that

Zirak doesn't always keep master.js in sync with the actual source files

the official record of what the code is is in the source directory; master.js is merely an amalgamation of everything in there

Danny Beckett

ok great!

thanks man ;)

allquixotic

you can very easily produce master.js (and master.min.js, the minified version) yourself

Danny Beckett

cheers again

allquixotic

you install node on your system, you install git, you check out the git repo, you cd into the git repo; run npm install uglify-js2 then node build.js

Danny Beckett

I'll let you know how I get on

allquixotic

12:02 AM

then you have master.min.js reflecting the master code and you can run that in your browser if you want (though for production I very strongly recommend running it headless)

Danny Beckett

need to get Node installed on CentOS first

I guess it shouldn't use much resources?

allquixotic

i think they provide binaries at the node homepage, though i could be wrong

@DannyBeckett it'll use as much RAM/CPU as the browser itself running in chat, plus a little more than that

Danny Beckett

ok

allquixotic

you can run it in firefox or chrome for testing purposes and then once you are confident it works, to set it up for headless, you can use my so-chatbot-driver; let me know if you get that far and want to use it

Danny Beckett

Server refused our key

that's a great start :p

can't even get in the damn box

Journeyman Geek

12:06 AM

yeah they do, or it may be in your repos

allquixotic

phantomjs is basically a WebKit browser (the core layout engine of Chrome and Safari, and Opera recently too) that has no GUI component, and can be automated through a custom JavaScript API or through Selenium WebDriver protocol

Journeyman Geek

(I really wish they called it something else)

allquixotic

so-chatbot-driver is a desktop Java application (Oracle or OpenJDK) that uses Selenium WebDriver to talk to PhantomJS or Firefox to perform the authentication with StackExchange automatically and then loads the bot from a .js file

(it's also headless)

Danny Beckett

Last login: Sat Aug  3 05:58:37 2013 from cpc8-xxxxxx.net

that's better, lol

Journeyman Geek

ffff. My ISP has one of those "lets redirect incorrect dns to our own search thing"

and I can't seem to turn it off

I mean, there's an option for it, it does nothing

Braiam

12:15 AM

@JourneymanGeek use another DNS ;)

ekaj

flushdns? =p

Braiam

+ ^

ekaj

if it's caching something you're viewing more than once

Jimmy Hoffa

@allquixotic I have destroyed contextify while keeping jsdom functioning (no more sandbox boohoo) unfortunately contextify's native bits were the blocking goods keeping node running. It now walks through all the steps and says "Ok I visited those places, Zombie over and out!" and pops me back to command line heh

So just need to figure out how to tie zombie in knots so it just stays alive

and see if the websocket no longer segfaults now that it's not inside of contextify

Danny Beckett

test!help

hmmm... just installed Node and Git, checked out, built, and still getting parseMessage invalid @allquixotic

dannybeckett.co.uk/master.js

Using the bookmarklet from Win 7/Chrome:

javascript:(function(){var a=document.createElement("script");a.src="http://www.dannybeckett.co.uk/master.j‌s",document.head.appendChild(a)})()

Jimmy Hoffa

12:27 AM

contextify is the source of the headache. I got it to the point of executing happy, everything is working and totally good. It's just got no next step

JGab

@ekaj Hehe, thanks. I was making sure because it is considered rude behavior (on MSE at least) to errupt into the chat room for the first time, and ask a question without further warning.

@ekaj I think that people on the actual site answered to my satisfaction though :) The computer is up and running and nothing exploded so far haha.

ekaj

That's what they're here for =p

JGab

I guess I was too impatient, this rig was in shipping for the longest time because of holidays ^^

ekaj

We kind of guessed with my brother's computer, turns out it worked.. we'd never dealt with a graphics card before

the papers didn't say what, and it shipped with a weird adapter and we still haven't found out what that was for, which didn't help out

JGab

Haha! + its new technology. All my previous one had a single 6 pin plug.

It has not broken down yet?

ekaj

12:39 AM

No, fortunately =p

JGab

Well, then, the proof is in the pudding

ekaj

We thought that was the correct way but didn't want to risk an expensive card

JGab

I'll let you know if anything happen. My computer is going to run 24/7 under a heavy load. Should know pretty fast.

Jimmy Hoffa

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ekaj

12:51 AM

A friend in my fraternity bought his big an Xbox 4 for Christmas..

Journeyman Geek

hm

thats it. running namebench. DNS hijacking is NOT cool

damnit starhub, I really like you, but this gets my little doggy hackles up.

ekaj

haha =p

Journeyman Geek

another alternative might be to run an in house recursive dns server

overkill but...

Loko

1:35 AM

Hey anyone still around?

ekaj

no!

I'm not listening to the voices anymore!

Loko

Im trying to repair a laptop for someone

ekaj

What's your problem?

Loko

and the problem is, when it boots up, it automatically goes to Windows recovery and stays there forever

Braiam

@ekaj I think that you ever listened voices in first place is still a problem

ekaj

1:41 AM

What does it do at Windows recovery?

@Braiam I only listen to the good ones now

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Loko

just saying it's checking the computer for problems.

ekaj

honestly not sure. Is a reinstall an option?

Loko

what do you mean?

ekaj

Formatting the computer

Loko

1:45 AM

the only thing left would be a system recovery, but that will delete all files right?

ekaj

Depends on if they actually used backups

(probably not)

Loko

Nope :P

ekaj

Someone may stumble along who can help, or you're welcome to post a question - I didn't see a duplicate of that but I might have missed one

Loko

Yeah probably will. Anyway thanks for the help mate.

ekaj

no problem, sorry I couldn't be of more

Bob

2:09 AM

@DannyBeckett I remember a bunch of those, but we just ignored them.

I've run it on Win7/FF before for testing.

Danny Beckett

is it working for you now @Bob?

It's not responding to any commands for me

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Bob

@DannyBeckett it won't respond to commands from the same user you're running it as

unless you comment out one of the lines in validateMessage

Danny Beckett

ahhh

>.<

Bob

designed to stop the bot from getting caught in a loop

Danny Beckett

Nice, thanks Bob, that explains it! Will try it again

Bob

2:21 AM

@DannyBeckett I prefer to run it from FF's JS scratchpad

shift+f4, paste, ctrl+r

@DannyBeckett @allquixotic parseMessage invalid is a standard return when a message was received that does not meet the conditions for bot activation - i.e. almost every message

		if ( !this.validateMessage(msgObj) ) {
			bot.log( msgObj, 'parseMessage invalid' );
			return;
		}

	validateMessage : function ( msgObj ) {
		var msg = msgObj.content.trim();

		//a bit js bot specific...make sure it isn't just !!! all round. #139
		if ( this.invocationPattern === '!!' && (/^!!!+$/).test(msg) ) {
			console.log('special skip');
			return false;
		}

		return (
			//make sure we don't process our own messages,
			msgObj.user_id !== bot.adapter.user_id &&
			//and the message begins with the invocationPattern
			msg.startsWith( this.invocationPattern ) );
	},

@DannyBeckett You'll want to comment out the msgObj.user_id !== bot.adapter.user_id && line

just stick a // in front of it, you can leave the rest as-is

Danny Beckett

It's ok, just registered another account

Will get the 20 rep needed

Then I'm sure it'll work fine

I just thought I'd be able to test it on my own account... this explains why not

Thanks!

Bob

@DannyBeckett I do test it on my own account :P

but it does make the chat timeout kick in more

Jimmy Hoffa

Bob I'll get back on fixing it in node shortly. It's very close. All errors are gone, just need to force a halt at the right spot to keep it interactive

Should be able to work out the last bit tonight provided I don't just watch Sherlock instead

Bob

@JimmyHoffa Go and watch it; we're in no hurry :P

though on the other hand a little procrastination and we'll forget again

that's what happened last time

Journeyman Geek

lol

Jimmy Hoffa

2:31 AM

It's less a matter of not hacking on it and more a matter of competing desires-- I really enjoy hacking on things like this and genuinely like javascript, it's hard to peel myself away since you gave me a tty but it's also hard to turn down watching Sherlock with my wife and our new dog which is a total couch sausage

Journeyman Geek

hm, which season?

Jimmy Hoffa

2:46 AM

Just starting, finally convinced my wife to give a try the other day and she likes it. She hates trying new British stuff because she can't understand what the people are saying because their accents often, but we struck a winner with this (and her obsession - doctor who)

Only watched the first episode so far

"which season?" what great times we live in - decade ago the question wouldn't even make sense

Journeyman Geek

3:11 AM

ahh

lol

yeah. Its an odd series

no one but the brits would make a mini series like that

Danny Beckett

@Bob Thanks for that, it's working now!

Something so simple.... should be in the docs!

@allquixotic It was as simple as the bot is written not to respond to itself (i.e. 1 user)

Danny Beckett

4:31 AM

@allquixotic I'm struggling to find a download link for Phantom JS 2.0 - any pointers?

trying to get it setup headless now

allquixotic

@DannyBeckett that's because it isn't released yet.

Danny Beckett

don't suppose you feel like throwing a copy my way?

save hacking master.js with shims

allquixotic

@DannyBeckett do you have a recent 64-bit Linux?

Danny Beckett

yes

allquixotic

what specific distro and version are you using?

Danny Beckett

4:36 AM

Centos 6 I believe

will check

allquixotic

that's not going to be nearly recent enough.

all you had to say is "CentOS"

doesn't matter what version

Danny Beckett

mhm, 1 sec

Kernel and CPU Linux 2.6.32-042stab081.5 on x86_64

Operating system CentOS Linux 6.4

oh shit, that's not recent enough?

fair enough

ok... I'll take method #2

allquixotic

hang on

Danny Beckett

ok

allquixotic

oops

copy paste fail

docs.google.com/file/d/0B627fGWpuqypZXpOZVFHckNZejA/edit

you can try that binary, but your libraries are almost guaranteed to be about 5 years too old

run ldd on it once you grab it

Danny Beckett

4:41 AM

ok great

trying it now

"statically linked"

is that right? @allquixotic

allquixotic

@DannyBeckett no, it's not statically linked... you probably didn't unpack the archive it came in

Danny Beckett

no I didn't, didn't think it was an archive... no file extension

allquixotic

run file on it

Danny Beckett

what is it? tar.gz?

phantomjs: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

allquixotic

it might be showing up as statically linked because it links against a newer version of glibc than you have; I know for a fact that it isn't statically linked

^ file doesn't lie

Danny Beckett

4:46 AM

ok so that's a no go then?

allquixotic

there are a great many things that are statically compiled into the binary -- Qt, WebKit, and such -- but it also depends on a set of core system libraries, including ICU, glibc, libstdc++, and so on, to be dynamically linked

Danny Beckett

sure

ok then, 1.9 it is!

allquixotic

I believe the guy who compiled it, compiled it for Ubuntu 13.04, which is a significantly newer distro

@DannyBeckett you can still do a source build, but you don't want to be looking at this repository for now, since that's the maintenance repository of phantomjs 1.9; you want to be looking at this one

Danny Beckett

right ok

I tried to use the compiled bin actually, earlier

allquixotic

chances are that the core library versions that the compiled binary links against are not strictly required for correct operation, so if you compiled it against CentOS's set of libraries, it'd probably work

Danny Beckett

4:48 AM

but it was complaining about missing libfreetype

even though it's installed

does nix have a PATH env var?

allquixotic

@DannyBeckett the version may differ

Danny Beckett

ah ok of course

allquixotic

@DannyBeckett yes, it does, but libraries aren't picked up from $PATH; libraries are picked up from the dynamic loader, which has a number of places it looks, and there's even a file where you can configure a list of directories where it looks

Danny Beckett

I'll compile it

allquixotic

@DannyBeckett that may not be necessary; if the 1.9.x binary you're trying to use requires an older version of libfreetype than you have installed, you should be able to symlink your existing library to the one it's looking for

Danny Beckett

4:50 AM

(I don't do a huge deal on nix boxes - just know how to do the odd thing in sh)

allquixotic

ldd is your friend; it'll tell you exactly the file name it's trying to resolve for libfreetype

then just compare that to the libfreetype you have actually installed (probably you want to be looking at /usr/lib64/libfreetype* on CentOS)

there will be multiple symlinks to the real libfreetype, supporting the major, minor, and micro versions

Danny Beckett

[root@srv01 bin]# chmod +x phantomjs
[root@srv01 bin]# ./phantomjs
./phantomjs: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[root@srv01 bin]#

allquixotic

so do ls -la /usr/lib64/libfreetype*

Danny Beckett

[root@srv01 bin]# ls -la /usr/lib64/libfreetype*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     21 Jan  3 23:19 /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so -> libfreetype.so.6.3.22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     21 Nov  2 02:12 /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6 -> libfreetype.so.6.3.22
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 642600 Jan 31  2013 /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6.3.22
[root@srv01 bin]#

allquixotic

now that's odd -- it's looking for libfreetype.so.6 but it's right there in your /usr/lib64

you don't happen to have downloaded the 32-bit build of phantomjs, did you?

Danny Beckett

4:53 AM

I don't think so

let me check

allquixotic

obviously you can't establish any manner of linkage between 32-bit binaries and 64-bit binaries in the same address space

Danny Beckett

fuck..... me....

it's way too late... 5am

allquixotic

there's your problem

Danny Beckett

>.<

ok that runs now

I hit the phantomjs prompt

allquixotic

then at least it was able to link the binary up and run it

Danny Beckett

4:55 AM

better :)

allquixotic

some of the commands like !!eval and !!> may fail on PhantomJS 1.9.x because of how old its WebKit is, but if you avoid using those commands, it should be able to survive an uptime of about 2 weeks per restart, depending on how heavily it gets hammered with commands

Danny Beckett

so I've installed the Java SDK... do I also need the devel package?

allquixotic

PhantomJS 2.0 tech preview or non-headless Firefox are both much more stable than PhantomJS 1.9.x

@DannyBeckett well I don't ship the binaries for my software in the git repo, so you will need the javac compiler and the jar tool, which would come with an OpenJDK devel package, yes

Danny Beckett

ok good to know!

allquixotic

OpenJDK 6.x should be fine, I am pretty sure I don't require Java 7 features

Danny Beckett

4:56 AM

thought so

ah well, the server's never been plagued with Java before

might as well plague it with a newer version ;)

allquixotic

actually, just install ant and, given a proper OpenJDK stuff on the PATH (that being, javac, jar and java), you can just check out the sources of so-chatbot-driver, cd into the directory, and run ant

Danny Beckett

ok, that's JDK-devel also installed

allquixotic

I don't think I have any exotic dependencies besides ant and the JDK -- I actually ship binaries of all the third-party dependencies that it depends on, so I saved you that pain

Danny Beckett

ant is installing now

thanks for all your help btw

allquixotic

ant is basically make for Java

Danny Beckett

4:59 AM

ah ok

allquixotic

it's just going to run the default build command in build.xml, which should produce a jar file

hmm, looks like I specified Java 1.7 in the build.xml

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