Root Access

HackToHell

07:11

Intel Math Kernel Library

Rahul2001

07:21

Hm...

What kind of script is it?

HackToHell

07:32

It essentially generated a lot of fake data using fake-factory, then pushed it to pandas and a bunch of transformations are done on it

And it gets pushed to db

Burgi

hey

Journeyman Geek

hai

"pushed it to pandas"

>_>

HackToHell

*pushes

Journeyman Geek

You can push a panda, but you cannae make him move if he don't wanna.

HackToHell

hehe

Apparentl Amazon US sold paper white for 20$

missed it :'*

Kindles are bloody expensive for the specs

Journeyman Geek

07:37

ow

heh

HackToHell

Apparently it was supposed to be 20$ off and not 20$ :D

Journeyman Geek

Government agency has a job opening for a forensics investigator

HackToHell

oooh

JMG007

Journeyman Geek

Locals only, so applied ;p

lol

@HackToHell Its not the ISA ... as far as I know ;p

That's probably under the home team

this is with the stat board that kinda sets IT policy

HackToHell

Still the title itself is bloody cool

Journeyman Geek

07:46

lol

Its what I actually did (1/4?) my degree in ;p

Burgi

does singapore have a military/intelligence agency?

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi yeah

MSD

sgforums.com/forums/1164/topics/33713

hm, never heard of the SID

Burgi

is it more civil defense like japan or something a little larger?

Journeyman Geek

hmm

Our military is pretty big, isreli influenced

Burgi

ah

Journeyman Geek

07:49

Our intellegence/secret police style agencies are super low profile

Burgi

so you had to do military service?

i'm just reading the wiki article

Journeyman Geek

Yup, amusingly I was right next to the canine unit

Burgi

heh

Journeyman Geek

Well, kinda

I kept geting sent back for basic

I failed 3 times.

Burgi

i imagine it was hellish

Journeyman Geek

07:54

After a while... meh

water tasted bad on the island they do basic on

but they were like "If you guys have done _____ you can skip"

and I was like hell yeah, no BIC

since the first time I did it I had blisters on my knees and blisters on my blisters.

,,,, rgua njwa nw as

This makes me sad

In my day it was ALL BARBED WIRE and crawling.

Where's the hot rocks

and the barbed wire

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek I know :D

Burgi

i expect due to the unique geography that you have a larger navy than anything else

Journeyman Geek

and wait. TUNNELS?

youtube.com/watch?v=zXE0k7AfwS4 propaganda video of vaguely sissified BIC

Ok, so its more realistic

but maaaan

@Burgi no

Burgi

> Bournemouth International Centre

Journeyman Geek

battle inoculation course

In my day, crawling under barbed wire, in the hot sun, while someone was firing live ammo over your head

Burgi

08:00

ah

Journeyman Geek

then some guy tells at you, claims you stood up, and makes you do it again.

and by some guy, I mean a word starting with 2 and rhyming with anker.

Burgi

i think if i had to do national service it would have killed me

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi I spent a good chunk of my 2 years limping

ankle injury

Burgi

my friend was in the britsh army for a while, he managed to get mild frostbite on a training course in wales

Journeyman Geek

They made the ramp lower now

tho I injured my leg on a jump trainer, which was embarassing

Burgi

08:05

he is in the process of applying for compensation because the kit (sleeping bag) provided was faulty

Journeyman Geek

0_0

heh, no chance of getting frostbite here

our tents are/were terrible

My feet or head would stick out ;p

and they were just two tarps, one for the top, one for the bottom

Burgi

grim

Journeyman Geek

amusingly

Best sleep I had in 2 years?

Open field.

using vietnam war style webbing for a pillow

sadly the new ones are not as good as pillows, tho, much more comfortable to wear

Oh and the old cotton uniforms rocked once you'd gotten them broken in

the new ones are synthetic and scratchy

Burgi

do both men and women have to do national service?

Journeyman Geek

Nope

Only men

Apparently the government felt it would be bad for morale, or some shit

Burgi

08:10

:S

Journeyman Geek

And locals only, tho foreigners can now volunteer

Rahul2001

I'm back!

Burgi

when my mate was in Afghanistan he was telling me all about some of the craziness some of the women in his unit got up to

2 of them got sent to prison for sunbathing nude while in a guard tower

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Rahul2001

O.o

qwertyuiop

08:31

!! Caat

ChatBot John Cavil

Rahul2001

The most embarrassing thing in life:
Someone walks up to you and starts talking to you like you've known each-other for years and you don't even remember their name...

Journeyman Geek

On the contrary

Its when you do that to someone

and when he walks away his wife says,"Dear, I THINK he has no idea who you are"

Rahul2001

I'm quite famous in school as a tech genius because I keep winning awards and I'm the only one who the principal listens to, and I face this regularly...

@JourneymanGeek that hasn't really ever happened to me...

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 of course not, you're not married!

Rahul2001

08:38

:P

Journeyman Geek

Happened to someone who I apparently knew when I was still in diapers.

Rahul2001

Lol

Burgi

there are more embrassing things but you are too young...

grrrrrr!!!!

this is why you don't use a mac specialist as your tech support >:(

Rahul2001

@Burgi you'd be surprised at what all I know 😉😉😋

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi unless yer an all mac shop

Burgi

08:43

@JourneymanGeek all the desktops are (apart from mine) OSX. the server is a windows box

Journeyman Geek

._.

Burgi

and there is something not right with it

Journeyman Geek

then it makes some sense

@Burgi I thought most devs preferred macs these days

Burgi

a lot of the sites we i work on are .NET

.net isn't yet mature for OSX

Michael Frank

The frickin' torrent is driving me nuts.

Burgi

08:46

anyone heard of digital ocean?

Rahul2001

@Burgi I thought it closed down

Michael Frank

Looks fairly alive to me

Burgi

we use them as a cloud provider, i hadn't heard of them

qwertyuiop

09:03

Woke up to the news this morning... "Giant crab horde gathers in Australia"

Only in Oz...

Bob

09:14

I see no cr-

Rahul2001

09:25

?

@JourneymanGeek I prefer windows

HackToHell

Macs everywhere

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi they're the big ones who arn't AWS or google

Burgi

what is the google cloud computing platform called?

Journeyman Geek

lol

One word off

cloud.google.com Its the Google Cloud Platform

Burgi

see they don't advertise it much

the big ones i think of are azure and AWS

Journeyman Geek

09:39

No one here seems to use azure

HackToHell

My company has a ton of azure credits, but we don't use it cause it sucks :D

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell I think AWS gets a lot of use cause 1. It was there first 2. Local data centre

NetworkKingPin

It seems a lot of sites have at least something linked to an AWS server.

Burgi

when i was using Azure for testing sharepoint last year i liked it

Journeyman Geek

10:16

@Rahul2001 most ;p

DavidPostill

@BenN "Any time you post answers which are exact duplicates of each other, the Community user will automatically raise a flag for moderator attention, in order to evaluate your answers based on the criteria we've outlined above."

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill @BenN: When this happens, I ask myself "are these dupes?"

DavidPostill

10:27

@JourneymanGeek user64XXXXXX? Can I have a hint? I've no idea which conversation thread you are referring to ...

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/118?m=30417744#30417744

See that guy butting in? And starting to get frustrated?

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek That was recycle? I was just skimming the chat I missed while asleep so I wasn't paying so much attention to what he was up to.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill I had a hunch, and it checked out ;p

@DavidPostill ^ abuse of room owner/mod powers but... ;p

Burgi

flag flag flaggity!

;)

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi heh. I don't want it THAT obvious how I caught on. Even before the magic mod tools.

Tho it really came down to "he smelt funny"

DavidPostill

10:43

I notice we wont see him again for a while ...

HackToHell

CUDA driver for linux is 1.1 gb

wtf

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill Nope

I could just nuke his account, but I think Its handy to keep track of how many new accounts he creates and how ;p

Burgi

ok downside to digital ocean, their support tickets do not allow for you attach files/screenshots.

NetworkKingPin

@Burgi what are you having trouble with on Digital ocean?

Burgi

one of our boxes has stopped responding to SSH so i can't grab the website to put it in source control

NetworkKingPin

10:55

Thats not good. So its completely down then.

Burgi

no, still up on 80 just no SSH

djsmiley2k

11:18

DO give you a local console access tho

or used to :/

Burgi

yeah they just pointed me to it

this is an issue that my boss has just left hanging around for months because he doesn't "get" linux. i don't have time to poke it with a stick so i'm leaving it to DO's support team

but they still need an "attach file" field on their support tickets

NetworkKingPin

Maybe they dont trust attachments. I remember using Digital when it first started and loved it. Havent went back in a while though havent needed to.

Burgi

11:34

it makes it hard to share screenshots and log files without exposing risky information to the internet...

qwertyuiop

!!caat

ChatBot John Cavil

djsmiley2k

@Burgi From their point of view, they are hosting the infomation, they can see the infomation, etc...

Burgi

@djsmiley2k well they asked me for a screenshot of the error i was getting in putty. I had to upload it to imgur, potentially exposing our customer's server details to the wider internet

every other hosting provider i have used allows you to attach screenshots and text files for diagnostics.

djsmiley2k

ah, urgh

That Brazilian Guy

12:16

@Burgi at least they don't take 16 days to enable SSH, like hostgator br. Or more than a month to NOT reply to a ticket, like UOL. Or flatly say that a site is NOT hosted with them, like I had once.

But the jewel if the crown goes to the support who told me to reset my router in order to get rid of a 403 error.

qwertyuiop

@Burgi You know how to blank out text in mspaint, right?

Burgi

@qwertyuiop i did but still...

arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/05/…

quick question, would flying a st george's flag in america be considered racist?

bwDraco

12:34

While NVIDIA has stong-armed board partners to limit overclocking, AMD goes the other direction and is releasing new overclocking tools to allow enthusiasts to get the very most of every Radeon RX 400-series chip. (cc @allquixotic)

XKCD

It's like you tried to define a formal grammar based on fragments of a raw database dump from the QuickBooks file of a company that's about to collapse in an accounting scandal.

Rahul2001

Lol

Guitar Shoe Dave

Tetris the movie? wtf

Burgi

i know :(

Guitar Shoe Dave

Sounds like its going to be one of those funny horror doomsday movies

Burgi

12:48

"funny"

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi Prolly not.

Burgi

oh the flag thing

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi a tetris movie should be set in russia.

Burgi

agreed

Bob

@XKCD LOL

Journeyman Geek

12:49

And start with a scrollover

"IN OLD COUNTRY...."

Burgi

they better use the theme music too

Journeyman Geek

Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris

►

Burgi

i linked that the other week...

Journeyman Geek

yup

Seemed appropriate tho ;)

Burgi

:)

qwertyuiop

12:53

Yeesh

> 11am-12pm Technical Interview 1 (Hard Problem) w/Senior Engineer
12pm-1pm Technical Interview 2 (Linux/infrastructure knowledge) w/Senior Engineer 2
1pm-2pm Lunch w/Business Tools Squad Lead
2pm-3pm Culture Interview w/Director, Service Management
3pm-4pm Technical Interview 3 w/Business Tools Squad Lead
4pm-5pm Culture Interview 2 w/Chief Technology Officer and a Senior Manager

Journeyman Geek

@qwertyuiop longer than mine. You'l do fine

TWO culture interviews tho

qwertyuiop

Yeah. And lunch with one of the interviewers... might as well be a 3rd culture interview

Journeyman Geek

vaguely'

qwertyuiop

Longest I've had in my career so far has been:

> 11am-11:45am: Generic interview (Manager, HR, and technical advisor)
> 4pm: Phone call with job offer

Journeyman Geek

lol

I usually have 2x 1 hour

nice

qwertyuiop

13:00

If I get an offer it's usually the same day, if not, it usually takes like a month before the rejection letter comes through

Journeyman Geek

took be a bit longer the last time

Rivercorp sent me a rejection same day

which was odd

qwertyuiop

Well at least they don't keep you hanging for weeks...

Journeyman Geek

true

like they did when I reapplied ;p

qwertyuiop

> Q: Why do you think you would fit in in this company
A: <insert panic attack> I don't know. Why am I even here? I feel like an imposter. I hate my life I hate you I hate everything WAAAAH *runs out screaming*

Journeyman Geek

"Nihilist Inc" "I see you will hate it here. And we will all die. Welcome to the family. You poor deluded fool"

Burgi

13:04

heh

Journeyman Geek

Panic attacks suck.

qwertyuiop

faints on the way down the stairs, falls, dies

Journeyman Geek

You do realise there's a point where I can't make a joke about it...

qwertyuiop

trips on the stairs, gets hit by a falling monitor, dies?

Journeyman Geek

What kinda fool exactly would suspend a monitor over ~~a bed~~ the stairs?

qwertyuiop

13:07

With non-vibration-damped G-clamps no less!

Burgi

lol

qwertyuiop

Looks like they could get through a maximum of 3-4 interviewees on a day with that sorta schedule?

And two days worth of interviews for the role. I'm guessing.

Burgi

i had a group interview at the data centre that was half a day

qwertyuiop

Bleh. Competition. It was so much easier with my current job. One hour interview with my existing manager knowing I was the only applicant for the position -_-.

Burgi

why did you resign?

qwertyuiop

13:13

Don't like the city I live in.

Fancied somewhere... livelier

Burgi

is this interview still in the same city though?

qwertyuiop

Nah, interview is neither in the city where I live nor the city in which the job is to be based :-/

Burgi

still in the UK?

qwertyuiop

Yup. Interview in Glasgow, job in Edinburgh

Apparently they'll arrange train tickets and a hotel

Burgi

edinburgh is nice

full of americans though

qwertyuiop

13:15

Lol. I found there to be more Polish and Australians when I lived there.

I wouldn't mind Manchester, but that's full of Mancunians.

Burgi

shrug

qwertyuiop

Though if I ever get rich, I'd build a maglev from Edinburgh to Glasgow, and next after that would be Manchester

Burgi

apply for that data centre company i went for, they are very good

qwertyuiop

They still have openings?

Burgi

www.ukfast.co.uk

loads

qwertyuiop

13:17

> Events and Hospitality Apprentice

That sounds like totally my style....

Burgi

sainsbury's are opening a massive tech centre here

qwertyuiop

> £4000 bonus to anyone who designs a new software deemed to be useful to the business
Reward trips to amazing places such as Vegas or skiing to Switzerland!
Top performers achieve VIP parking
We’re also big believers in rewarding commitment, so you get £1k after 5 years with us and an amazing £10k bonus after 10 years in the family

Do bash scripts qualify as "software"?

Burgi

idk

qwertyuiop

** Terms and conditions apply*

> DATA CENTRE ENGINEER

What’s the earning potential?

We offer a basic salary of £18-24k dependant on experience. We have an additional shift allowance to be paid during 12 hour shifts.

Eh.

djsmiley2k

sounds familuar.

qwertyuiop

13:21

> ENTERPRISE LINUX ENGINEER

What’s the earning potential?

We offer a salary of £25-40k depending on experience

That's... better.

Burgi

@bwDraco any luck with getting a bar/shop job?

bwDraco

@Burgi That's not presently in the works. I can work on the skills pretty much anywhere.

djsmiley2k

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

someone called me about al inux engineer job in brum city center

but i've done the figures and I'm on 5k more than I thought here :/

qwertyuiop

lol

Not everyone wakes up one day and discovers they're getting paid £5k more than they thought

Journeyman Geek

\o/

qwertyuiop

13:26

I only have £4k less than I did when I started the year -_-

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek, can you remove this, this and this?

qwertyuiop

~~Getting your heart and mind torn to shreds~~ Holidays in Thailand are expensive business.

Burgi

@bwDraco you are overthinking

bwDraco

Thanks. This was something I should not have said.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco hardly likely they would but meh

qwertyuiop

13:28

What did I miss

bwDraco

Nothing, just a mistake on my end.

qwertyuiop

Oh

I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. I mean I told the "junior recruiter" on my telephone "interview/pre-screening" I wasn't fussed about money and they were still "very impressed" and wanted me to go to a 2nd stage interview...

Burgi

dude no employer is EVER going to trawl the logs of an internet chatroom to get dirt on you

qwertyuiop

Naw, but many employers do google applicants these days

bwDraco

@Burgi Employers do check social media. It's best to play it safe.

Burgi

13:31

SE != social media

bwDraco

It'd be foolish of them to not check things like chat logs.

qwertyuiop

And if you use the same name/alias as you do for your email account or application username or facebook, then StackExchange sites tend to come up quite high in Google results.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco too much actual work

DavidPostill

@Burgi The NSA has already* trawled the log :)

Journeyman Geek

Hell, I doubt anyone looks at my SU profile

@DavidPostill in which case if @bwDraco gets a job offer from a certain TLA, he should insist on market rates ;)

Burgi

13:32

they tend to look for stuff like party pictures and stupid right wing comments you made while hammered

qwertyuiop

@Burgi I've never quite understood the problem with party pictures

Burgi

lol

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi "wait, you really are a dog?" "woof"

qwertyuiop

Who doesn't go to parties?

Journeyman Geek

@qwertyuiop me?

DavidPostill

13:33

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, but you don't use your real name here, unlike some of us :)

qwertyuiop

Sure, offensive or inappropriate comments made publicly might have an impact...

... but normal people doing normal stuff? Meh.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill my real name wouldn't be hard to find tho

qwertyuiop

Chances are the boss drinks more than I do.

bwDraco

To be honest, I don't care too much about pay as long as I'm not being grossly underpaid.

qwertyuiop

!!google Journeyman Geek's real name

Didn't work. Too difficult.

bwDraco

13:34

@qwertyuiop The chatbot can't do Google searches. It's using a legacy API that is no longer available and likely will not be updated for the new API.

Burgi

@bwDraco that was the joke...

qwertyuiop

@Burgi got one of my jokes! Huzzah!

Journeyman Geek

@qwertyuiop If you really want to find out, I suggest the old election posts

qwertyuiop

Incidentally, I did sorta get "fired" once because of "social media" "comments"

Burgi

i get a lot of your jokes, its just the majority are inapproriate

6

qwertyuiop

13:36

So I'm... more careful now

Journeyman Geek

Its not a secret, but I don't feel like making it a gimme

Burgi

@qwertyuiop if you are posting party pics every night and you are applying for a 9-5 job the employer may be concerned that you would arrive still drunk

qwertyuiop

@Burgi Meh. That's a bit of a stretch...

Burgi

possibly

just something to think about

qwertyuiop

I mean checking the dates and times of each picture? I post a lot of pictures loong after the event. And who's to say I'm not a student/unemployed/on holiday?

Facebook strips the EXIF data so you can't tell when the picture was taken anyway

Journeyman Geek

13:41

@Burgi my social networking footprint's tiny

Burgi

mine too, i'm only linkedin

Journeyman Geek

I haven't logged into FB in months ;p

qwertyuiop

@JourneymanGeek You're a small dog. Your footprint is tiny everywhere.

Journeyman Geek

@qwertyuiop point

bwDraco

I just don't like Facebook.

qwertyuiop

13:44

Bleh. Torn between buying a tablet, or a small-ish monitor for my in-bed movie watching needs.

Journeyman Geek

@qwertyuiop how small is 'smallish' ?

bwDraco

@qwertyuiop I'd probably get a tablet.

Burgi

i like watching tv on my nexus 7

qwertyuiop

@JourneymanGeek <22"

Journeyman Geek

._.

qwertyuiop

13:45

I guess for the money, I'll probably get a better display by buying a ... display...

Journeyman Geek

up to 10 inches the tablet makes a LOT more sense

qwertyuiop

I'd have to get my 802.11ac router working again though -_-

Journeyman Geek

(even if I kinda want a replacement for my old 10" screen ._.)

qwertyuiop

I'm not thinking <10", that's too small. At least 12".

23" is too big, I know that much... 12.1" is too small. Something between the two and cheap

Journeyman Geek

are you going to ceiling mount it?

qwertyuiop

13:47

~~and light, so it doesn't kill me if it falls on me in my sleep~~

Actually I don't care if it does or not

@JourneymanGeek Yeah but I'll probably buy one with a proper VESA mount

Tablet's a lot more useful for lugging around the house though

Journeyman Geek

aww

qwertyuiop

I wonder... do they make... wireless displays? With a battery and shit?

Journeyman Geek

ebay.com.sg/itm/…

@qwertyuiop tablet! ;p

qwertyuiop

12"+ tablet with a decent display is... not cheap

Actually I think mounting it on a swing arm on the other side of the bed might be a better option than the ceiling.

a) It can be pushed out of the way and
b) Less likely to fall
c) More manoeuvrability.

Journeyman Geek

More flexible too I suppose

and you can watch it propped up

qwertyuiop

13:52

Yup.

Journeyman Geek

And its less likely to kill you by falling on your head.

qwertyuiop

Plus I already have a set of swingarm swings and arms, just need a second pole

Bob

@qwertyuiop About 1k

qwertyuiop

@JourneymanGeek That was what b) was about

amazon.co.uk/Ergotron-Wall-Mount-LCD-Arm/dp/B00358RFJ8/…

Not cheap

Burgi

loving this song:

> Spitfire - Public Service Broadcasting

Journeyman Geek

13:57

no

lol

@Burgi had son of a preacher man and Knights of cydonia stuck in my head all day for some reason

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