Root Access

1:12 AM

2

Q: New Created Custom List Shape Doesn't Work in Microsoft Visio 2013 x64

Objective: First, I should say what I want to do, and then I'll describe what I've done to achieve to my Goal in the next (Descriptions) part. I want to create a Custom List Master Shape from the Plain Container of the Diagram Parts section in the Insert tab of the ribbon. Then, I want to creat...

Journeyman Geek

2:02 AM

@MRS1367: That question is too complicated.

In general, if its not focused on one thing, people are less inclined to answer

oldmud0

2:25 AM

Hey I noticed a small Windows 10 icon on my friend's computer's taskbar.

Windows 10 isn't out yet so how'd he get it?

Journeyman Geek

preview?

oldmud0

Right-click menus: Get Windows 10 | Reserve your free upgrade | Learn more about Windows 10. I checked the .exe and it's called GWX.exe which is at the System32 folder and it has the MS copyright info.

So this looks authentic.

Hmm it's part of KB3035583

Journeyman Geek

OOH

I have it too

oldmud0

Apparently it's been afloat for a while being promoted from optional to recommended to important on some comps.

So if your comp is set to automatically install recommended updates then you should get this adware on your computer soon.

Journeyman Geek

Looks like windows 8 only tho

I need to check my windows 8 bing/shrunk down install to see if it has it too

(netbook, not much space)

oldmud0

2:42 AM

Nope, it's windows 7 as well

Journeyman Geek

4:28 AM

ahh odd

my laptop hasn't had that yet

Bob

@DragonLord Hm... CON-50 has 0.6mL capacity, while the aerometric ones (incl. CON-20) have 0.9mL.

Considerable difference.

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Got this on my PC as well.

Huh... clicked on Reserve your free upgrade and a box popped up, then disappeared.

CLASSIC!

There's a "What this report covers" link on the little app that runs when you click on the Windows 10 systray icon that points to a page that doesn't exsist on the MS website.

MRS1367

4:45 AM

@JourneymanGeek -> it's not very complicated

Journeyman Geek

@MRS1367: Its 6 different things squished into the same question.

MRS1367

@JourneymanGeek -> nope

they're related to each other

Journeyman Geek

As you wish then

MRS1367

they relates to creating Custom List in Visio

Journeyman Geek

I figured since you were linking it here, you clearly weren't having much luck with getting an answer

MRS1367

4:48 AM

@JourneymanGeek thank you for giving me advice

I know you want to help me

till I can get the answer for my question

but if anyone just can answer to the 6th question

(s)he has answered to all other things

but as you said

I'll improve it

to 1/2 question(s)

thank you for your advice

and I listen to your words mate :)

XKCD

5:06 AM

Last-minute course change: Let's see if we can hit Steve's house.

Bob

Is it just me or is that particular comic really aliased?

Journeyman Geek

Yes

Bob

@JourneymanGeek "Is it A or B?" "Yes"

-_-

Oh, it's better now O_O

Journeyman Geek

;p

It looks really aliased

Hennes

6:35 AM

I got a job interview tomorrow, but I also have a cold. If I try to speak more than a word or two I end up with a coughing fit.

#not the ideal world/

Bob

7:05 AM

> Slashdot Burying Stories About Slashdot Media Owned SourceForge

FYI any Slashdot readers here (@allquixotic?)

@Hennes Good luck.

Throat lozenges?

HackToHell

Whoa my auth.log contains a million fucking attempts by some stupid botnet to bruteforce my ssh password

And this is with fail2ban

I run it on a non standard ssh port for fucks sake

Bob

I've made my opinion on fail2ban quite clear in the past: it's basically useless.

Just disable password auth and you're good to go.

IP banning basically never works.

HackToHell

Turned off password based auth

Bob

The same goes for changing ports, really.

They do filter out some attackers who go for the low-hanging fruit, but the effort to scan all ports is negligible.

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: The ones fail 2 ban warns you about arn't the ones you need to worry abou

and weeeelll...

recently had to rebuild his web server cause of a brute force attack so... ;p

I was toying with turning off ssh on VPSes (and using the console) when I'm not needing them but that seems like too much work

theccie

7:21 AM

Hi guys, I want to know if there is a way to see all your instances from all regions in one page in AWS console, I am so tired of going to every region to find a EC2 instance.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Just use pubkey auth.

The console is probably several times more vulnerable.

Journeyman Geek

That's what I'm doing now ;p

Hennes

8:05 AM

In front of my home

Bob

o.O

Hennes

(Pictures taken from my kitchen)

Oliver Salzburg

@Hennes Drug bust?

Hennes

That is my guess

One of the vehicles is from a company which delivers electricity.

Sathya

8:23 AM

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A: How to remove "Download Windows 10" icon on Windows 7 System Tray ("official adware")?

I managed to solve it (getting rid of the system tray icon) by renaming the folder from: C:\Windows\system32\GWX to: C:\Windows\system32\MicrosoftYouShadyBastards and rebooting. Which seems to work fine, Process Hacker doesn't show anything wierd running.

talk about an overreaction eyeroll

-1

Q: can you help me

I have a pc that freezes every 10 mns it have multiple colors

gpu

Journeyman Geek

heh. I'm wondering why my windows 7 box dosen't have it yet

Sathya

my pc have multiple colors

Journeyman Geek

millions

Hell, when I was a pup, we had to make do with 16

Sathya

ah the jump from 16-color to 256 color :)

Journeyman Geek

lol

(or 2, but I never had a monochrome, CGA -> VGA on an XT, then a 486... PII ... and so on, generally I skipped a generation or two)

Of course, these days, even a properly maintained core2 is actually still reasonably usable

HackToHell

9:39 AM

@JourneymanGeek tiring thing

Windows 10 drops on July 29th!

Also when's the grand superuser windows 10 gala

Hennes

I 'wonder' what is going to be loaded in those crates :)

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: I hope there's one, even if I can't win anything ;p

Sathya

hm, I think it'll be too late for a gala

HackToHell

I hope there is on so that I can win all things this time :D

noooo

djsmiley2k

Anyone remind me where @OliverSalzburg has that nice plugin for replying?

Oliver Salzburg

9:54 AM

15

Q: Chat Reply Helper for Stack Exchange sites

Press : to start replying to a previous message. Press ↑ as many times as you need to mark the desired message. What does it do? First of all, the Chat Reply Helper for Stack Exchange sites provides a simple key combination to select a message to reply to. This removes the need to grab the...

script chrome-extensions chat greasemonkey

djsmiley2k

ty

Oliver Salzburg

@Hennes So.. the black thing is a garbage disposal?

Hennes

Yes

Oliver Salzburg

It looks like a 3D printer or something

Hennes

It opens with a 'city pass' and is tall enough for about a 2/3rd filled garbage bag.

Which means that I always have problems with my normal (max filled) garbage bags

That lift the disposal unit (dark grey thing, the surrounding metal plate and the container below it) and empty it in one go.

Well, except if there is a car parked like this:

Keith

10:00 AM

Hi guys, just wanna ask for the feasibility of this idea.. whether it's gonna work or not..
I have a TFS server in LAN environment sitting behind a public-facing TMG server.
Somehow I want to access this TFS server from the Internet.
My idea is to set a new rule in TMG to redirect requests to TFS server..
Is it ok ?

Hennes

@Keith No normal public IPs aan all servers ?

DragonLord

roar

Good morning, everyone

Today's my first day of work, so I won't be around much of the day.

Keith

@Hennes I have a public IP on TMG server

DragonLord

I'll keep contributing to the extent I can.

Hennes

I am to ancient. I am used to everything having a normal public IP.
nNo dirty tricks such as NAT needed.

Back when you simply got two class C ranges to play with as computer club.

Oliver Salzburg

10:05 AM

Toyota Motorsport Group makes servers?

Journeyman Geek

@Hennes: heh, I tend to miss not having ipv6 for the same reason

djsmiley2k

What is TMG? :/

Hennes

telnet ::1
Welcome to Outerspace mud.

IPv6 rocks :)

Keith

@OliverSalzburg Oh my.. please tell me that you are trolling me... :(

djsmiley2k

:D

Hennes

10:08 AM

I am assuming Threat Management Gateway. But I had to google for that.

Keith

@Hennes You are correct, Sir :D

Hennes

And the other server is the Git repository ?

Keith

Hmm..
TFS stands for Team Foundation Server, a code repository.. so in a sense it is similar to Git repo.

djsmiley2k

forward the ports... :/

Keith

Usually we access the TFS using URL like this :
http://<IP TFS>:8080/tfs

djsmiley2k

10:12 AM

Right

you got something else on 8080 already?

Keith

The IP is local since it's in LAN

hmm no

djsmiley2k

forward TMG:8080 to TFS:8080

Warning: This will be open to everyone

Keith

how about any reply from TFS ?

djsmiley2k

Forwarding should take care of it automagically

YMMV

Keith

oo i see..
If I only want to open it selectively, what should I do ?

djsmiley2k

10:15 AM

I'm unsure how you are authenicating people..

Keith

I have read something called DirectAccess by Microsoft as an alternative to VPN

@djsmiley2k Well, I have an AD server for authentication purpose

djsmiley2k

I've not used it, but if you can get that working from inside the TMG, and setup the TMG to allow people to connect to that, then happy days

@Keith I'm not massively familuar with any MS technologies other than having used windows and windows servers a bit.

Hennes

@Keith Sounds like you have the right tools. However I never used those tools, so I have no experience with them (all three, direct access and both servers)

djsmiley2k

Yeah, what @Hennes said!

See if you can get directAccess working, and allow that through the TMG

then you miught need to setup some routing to tell clients how to find the machines inside the secure network

(directAccess may do that automatically for you

Keith

Ok then.. I'll try.. thanks for the suggestions :)
Have a nice day :D

djsmiley2k

10:28 AM

Any experts on google inbox around? :D

Nate Kerkhofs

11:09 AM

Well, I just got a message on my windows 8.1 machine that I can soon update to Windows 10.

Based on what we know about Windows 10 right now, how advised is it to upgrade? Is it like Vista to 7, where a mediocre OS gets partially reconstructed and A LOT of polish? or is it more like XP to Vista, where a great OS gets completely redesigned, leading to a generally worsened user experience?

DragonLord

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti was announced last night

It has 2816 CUDA cores in 22 of 24 SMMs on the GM200, operating at the same clock speed as the GTX TITAN X (1000 MHz base, 1075 MHz boost)

6 GB GDDR5

djsmiley2k

-1

Q: Google Inbox - How to set filters/automaticly put email into correct bundle

I am using google's new inbox, as a long time (pre-beta) gmail user I'm used to setting up filters to make sure some emails go to the correct places, as google never categories them correctly. This option seems to no longer exist in inbox, how do I make sure emails about jobs (from specific job ...

email gmail google inbox

So, as i have a notification it was upvoted...

Two people downvoted it? :/

DragonLord

@djsmiley2k Yes, I'm seeing +1/-2.

This is off-topic for Super User; Web Applications would be the right site to ask this question.

djsmiley2k

11:24 AM

It is? doh.

Can it be 'moved' or do I need to edit/copy/paste?

And why didn't someone comment that :<. I didn't know there was a web apps site

DragonLord

Let it be, me and two others have voted to migrate.

superuser.com/help/on-topic

djsmiley2k

arugh already done it :D

Sathya

@djsmiley2k we can migrate, there's no need to delete/repost.

djsmiley2k

@Sathya yeah wasn't aware :D

Nate Kerkhofs

How does W10 relate to W8.1?

Is it as positive an upgrade as from Vista to 7?

Sathya

11:34 AM

0

Q: I DON'T want Windows 10 -- what should I do to dismiss reminder?

Starting from today morning (at least in Poland) all my computers with Windws 7 started to showing a reminder, that I can reserver free future upgrade to Windows 10. Here is a Polish example: On my home computer I registered, but on my office computer I was instructed to not reserve slot for f...

windows-7

I want to know how Community closed the question..

djsmiley2k

11:49 AM

175

A: Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year?

Just to formally document the exact policies we have in place to remove old abandoned / dead questions, the Community user will delete questions in the following circumstances: If the question is more than 30 days old, and ... has −1 or lower score has no answers is not locked ...or... it ...

Sathya

@djsmiley2k what about that?

That Brazilian Guy

Hey, good morning

Sathya

morning

Oliver Salzburg

12:55 PM

Very interesting: stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html

jokerdino

1:10 PM

@Sathya looks like OP approved the close vote on that question.. at least that's what the tooltip says

Sathya

@jokerdino yeah, random told me that in TL

GFSE

1:27 PM

GemsFromStackExchange: my pc have multiple colors

posted on June 01, 2015

my pc have multiple colors

That Brazilian Guy

2:10 PM

So, what's going on here on the lower graph?

It's happening for at least half an hour, maybe longer

Oliver Salzburg

2:23 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy It's traffic

:D

That Brazilian Guy

ahh

I guess I could install ntopng and get a very detailed report of the network traffic

(And lose all the 65GB of HDD space in a matter of hours)

I'm just curious of who / what is sending 6 Mbps of data from the LAN into... nowhere?

djsmiley2k

Wait. what

Oh dang I hadn't realised that

Journeyman Geek

I was using something else...

Bob

@Sathya re: this comment, wouldn't it be better to have a question-specific chatroom?

Journeyman Geek

ipread?

Bob

2:31 PM

pointing people discussing that Q to this chatroom might not be the best idea - any messages would be lost quickly in the sea of normal messages

(and then the next person who goes to that Q, sees your comment and clicks the link will not see any previous messages re that Q)

also, I find it amusing that they call it GWX for "Get Windows 10". WX? OS X? Hmmmmmm

now I'm not sure if that comparison is intentional on MS's part

allquixotic

o/

djsmiley2k

broadcast ? :>

like syslog or something

Bob

@allquixotic 'lo

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic Yes, Mr. Cat Burrito, you can speak. Go On.

HackToHell

I'm wondering if I should update to 10 on day one or wait for a while

That Brazilian Guy

2:37 PM

I'm wondering if the non-techies will notice a new icon among the other 998694678 on the systray

Bob

I'll prolly wait until I have time.

That Brazilian Guy

Will Win10 be free forever or do I will the offer expire?

Journeyman Geek

There's a 1 year period to upgrade I think

allquixotic

I'll probably take the Win10 upgrade on my work PC -- I doubt IT would care. /sarc

Bob

O_O

> This drop includes a Pilot G2 Gel Ink Pen 20-Pack, G-TEC-C Gel Ink Pen 10-Pack, Precise V5 Roller Ball 7-Pack, FriXion Gel Ink Pen 7-PACK, and Varsity Fountain Pen 7-Pack.

That Brazilian Guy

2:45 PM

@allquixotic My boss would care, but just because it's Windows.

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy I'll probably dig up the extra Win7/Win8 licences I have lying around, chuck em in a VM, and get them up to Win10.

That Brazilian Guy

Can't I just update a Win 7 or 8 VM, and then extract the license key from it? (And then obtain a Win10 ISO and keep both stored)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

oh look apparently the G-TEC-C claims a "smear-proof" ink

My current standard for testing "smear-proof" is apparently too high -_-

hm... wonder if I can pick one up locally to try

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: I have my boxen backed up anyway so doing a rollback is an option

Bob

2:47 PM

@JourneymanGeek still painful

Journeyman Geek

not gotten the update notification on my laptop

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek oh yeah, I have a "backup" too, of sorts

Bob

which reminds me, I haven't taken a full image since Feb

...I also need more backup space

might be time to grab one of those 5TB drives

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: bare metal restores are PRETTY quick on my setup

allquixotic

when I first got this work laptop, I dd'ed the entire encrypted HDD onto my Samsung 850 Pro SSD

Bob

2:48 PM

@JourneymanGeek oh, they're quick here

allquixotic

I have the HDD in a drawer, with Win7 on it and a stock image

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: I'm using veem endpoint backup on my home boxen

allquixotic

so if anything goes awry with the SSD I can reimage on my own

Bob

I did one when PrimoCache corrupted my system partition -_-

but it's still annoying

Journeyman Geek

I do need to generate new boot USB drives and image them tho

Bob

2:49 PM

still using Acronis (2014) here

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic Your employer ~~gave~~ handed you a laptop? As "(it still belongs to us but) you can take it home with you"? O.o

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: naw, corp issue.

But he did a few sneaky upgrades to it

That Brazilian Guy

...I arrived at mt secondary work location and both bluetooth and wifi are dropping a lot

Every 10 seconds or so

Maybe I'm in the middle of some electromagnetic storm? :P

djsmiley2k

my old old job boss gave me a laptop

'it was mine,. it's yours now, be good to it'

thinkpad

I actually need to gentooify it at some point.

That Brazilian Guy

An old boss gave me an iPod in 2009

One of those:

He went to the US and brought one of those back

I was like O_________________________________O

Bob

2:54 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy some places do quite literally give you a laptop to keep

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy Yes. And technically I'm not supposed to customize the installation, but I have admin rights, and the local IT department will only give me shit if I install certain software or do certain things on their network. If I take it home with me, it's off their network and they have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with it.

It's a bad laptop that I spent about $800 to make a less bad laptop, but it's still pretty weak, especially regarding the CPU and GPU

That Brazilian Guy

> it's off their network and they have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with it.

...assuming no bundled keyloggers and sniffers.

Although I'd just image the HDD and install Linux on it. :P

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy if I'm worried about that, I can run wireshark on my router (a NUC running Linux) and make sure

@ThatBrazilianGuy I'm not allowed to put it on the company network if I image the HDD, because it has to run their encryption software (full disk encryption, Windows-only, with key in the TPM) in order to pass their "security policy"

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic Why the quotes?

allquixotic

they scan a system every time it comes on the network to make sure it's running their encryption daemon and that the daemon verifies that it's happy (that your system disk is encrypted)

that's why I had to do a block-level copy of the original HDD onto the SSD

@ThatBrazilianGuy because I think it's stupid and doesn't actually prevent people from leaking info if they want to

access to any pastebin, chatroom, gmail, github, etc. is more than sufficient to do anything naughty I could conceive of; I don't need an unencrypted HDD