Root Access

qwertyuiop

00:01

I feel shit again where is mt l

My lsd

!!s/i/penis/g

ChatBot John Cavil

@qwertyuiop I feel shpenist agapenisn where peniss mt l (source)

qwertyuiop

Win

OK time to ark

Bob

00:38

@qwertyuiop Because it's 10 AM

Journeyman Geek

theverge.com/2016/6/2/11841880/…

qwertyuiop

How can you be awake at 10am and 5am at the same time?

@allquixotic Oops

@allquixotic: i.imgur.com/vlktAF7.png

allquixotic

00:58

@qwertyuiop shit

thanks for trying

qwertyuiop

Sorry I didn't get round to it earlier, I blacked out on drugs

That said, clicking your link: arkservers.net/server/198.27.96.225:27015

Says

> Server Information
IP: 198.27.96.225:7777 CA

AKA I'm not sure what the deal is with the port numbers

But the "Click here to join" button does direct me to

> steam://connect/198.27.96.225:27015

Huh

If I manually add server at 198.27.96.225:27015 in Steam it'll show me the server details and allow me to add to favourites, but then won't let me join or remove the server.

If I try to add 198.27.96.225:7777 I get no response - maybe it's just a firewall issue?

The other Ark server I had in my favourites (despite me having never installed or joined any game before) was port 7777

Hmm maybe I should actually try play some of these games of mine in stead of blacking out drunk/stoned/drugged every day because I'm so bored.

allquixotic

looking into why it's not listening on 7777

qwertyuiop

I get connection refused on 27015 too but maybe that's cause I'm using telnet instead of UDP

> You need to sign in or register if you want to Downvote this server!

I'm sorry I felt the need to downvote your server but well, I feel it was legitimate

> Your purchase has not been completed. Your credit card information has been declined by your credit card company.

I'm getting kinda tired of this on every site I go to :-(

Side affect of reporting fraud on your card... your card number gets changed and every bloody saved card number on every website you've ever used stops working -_-

Also Steam's address verification is sooooooo broken

The saved card details I've been using for the last two years:
.

> Card numer: XXXXX (correct)
Address line 1: My old address from two years ago
Address line 2: My current city
City: My old city from five years ago
Postcode: My current postcode.

And every transaction still got approved, despite the fact every single line in the address disagreed with every other line

Psycogeek

01:22

I always try to avoid having my data and credit card in everyones database as they all get hacked eventually. check out as guest only. It probably has no value though , as they store everything anyways.

qwertyuiop

They're legally not supposed to store the CVV on any site, ever

But if you're a big enough company coughAmazoncough you can just skip the CVV entirelty

bwDraco

@qwertyuiop Depends on country. It's not allowed in Europe.

allquixotic

@qwertyuiop 27015 and 7777 are both UDP. the higher port # is the query port and the lower one is the game port

qwertyuiop

Yeah I figured

Trying to join some other server now just to make sure everything works at my end... and it's going through like downloading 50 mods 1 of 1

Maybe just try turn off the password?

Just tried joining four 4 random passworded servers without knowing the password and got the same error on two of them, and "Timeout" on the other two

allquixotic

01:39

I think it's a versioning issue somehow

@qwertyuiop It works!

There's a bug in arkmanager that makes me think the server is up to date (green color on version #) when in fact it's outdated

the major version number of ARK has to match between client and server. 242.1 server vs. 242.2 client is fine, but 241.x server vs. 242.x client will never work, no matter what the major version number is, because the two don't equal

they updated to 242.x between the time I set this up this morning and now, so I had to update the server

So ARK works on SmartOS LX brand. That's REALLY encouraging

Psycogeek

02:06

so you could just fire it up via a USB stick and have a steam server running? what game was it?

allquixotic

02:18

@Psycogeek ARK, as mentioned a few times

it's not quite as simple as firing it up on a USB stick

you need at least one empty drive that it create a ZFS partition on; it's just that it boots from the USB stick, not from your hard drive or SSD

the ZFS partition is what contains all your containers and virtual machines... so you boot up SmartOS, then create a container (LX brand if you want to host ARK), then you have a dedicated server running

it's really designed to be used in datacenters though, everything about it lends it to that use case

Psycogeek

so we assume ARK survival evolved? store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=ark not any of these other lesser things :-)

course if you said ARK SE , i would have to see if that Q&A site was still in beta :-)

allquixotic

02:33

@Psycogeek yes

Journeyman Geek

04:01

@qwertyuiop heh, my bank refuses any place without CVVs

so I cannot buy stuff off amazon

HackToHell

Nice, my bank just introduced nfc pay

Edity

04:31

hello

My bank introduced paywave

Bob

04:48

Oh, that thing we've been using for four+ years? -_-

Apparently Americans are still using signatures.

Psycogeek

@Bob sure but anybodies (sig) will work :-)

qwertyuiop

05:10

@allquixotic Lol

Now that's an awkwardly timed coincindence

Glad it's working though

Americans use their moms

Psycogeek

RFID credit cards are so cool, you just swipe by the criminal and . . .

Journeyman Geek

my wallet blocks that ;p

which is less useful than it seems

Psycogeek

plus they save loads of time from that difficult process of putting the card in the slot. Why you can just lean your wallet towards it . . . the one with the RF blocking , and it will see the 4 other cards that you have , so you dont even have to get it out. Lol

Journeyman Geek

we have RFID train cards. Which don't work

Psycogeek

that sux, perfect application for it, no?

I always assumed that it was the style of ID used in the Sci-Fi movies, where the machines and the evil omnicorp knew where you were always, so you couldnt stop the machines and computers from taking over the world.

Journeyman Geek

05:26

I mean in a RFID blocking wallet ;p

and yeah, they could track where a card's been, but you switch em every few years anyway

Psycogeek

so that means it does work? the blocking wallet?

Journeyman Geek

yup

you need to open it up to scan or take out the card

Edity

lol

Bob

@Psycogeek won't work if it's proper challenge-response

A passive ID is trivial to clone, yea

Journeyman Geek

hmm

superuser's on a new CDN

Hopefully nothing should go wrong

Psycogeek

05:32

the other cool tracing technology they have here is toll booth and now toll roads. where I live most of the toll roads are just one "express lane" where you pay $0.50-7.00 to drive through the traffic 5-10% faster.

Journeyman Geek

they have that here

they're planning satillite tracking soon

Psycogeek

I couldnt believe pretty much everyone gave up thier freedom for a bit of convienience. In a country where people gave up thier "lives" for freedom or so the quotes go.

Bob

@Psycogeek you know they could just read your plates?

Psycogeek

they do that too, if you mess up, and depart without paying, then (lazily) you just get a bill in the mail , like photo red light and photo speed traps, which surprisingly many of those were (instead) Pulled out.

Rahul Basu

Good Morning! did i miss anything??

Michael Frank

05:39

@Psycogeek There was an article in the national news here today that said most of the fixed speed cameras throughout the entire country haven't been operational since 2015.

Psycogeek

But people still driving past them all careful like :-)

I think sometimes they just needed to be more firm.
Speed Limit
. 45 .
This means you A$$hole

Bob

@Psycogeek They are firm about speed limits here.

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank heh. The main point of those is psycological anyway

Bob

I'm always surprised when I see someone talking about "going 10 above" as "normal" (re: the US).

Journeyman Geek

ours have gotten bigger and orange than they used to be

Psycogeek

05:44

@Bob yes Except in very few select places you get a free 9 over.

a 20 or 25mph school zone is often a really bad place to be even a few MPH over

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Well, now it is. But they showed the income figures for them slowly declining over the last 5 years due to more and more of them being taken offline.

crl

06:19

someone is an expert of doskey here? still have this odity

Burgi

07:19

hey

Sathya

afternoon folks

Journeyman Geek

hi

Burgi

abusive answer: superuser.com/questions/957332/…

ty

Edity

07:46

scribble

hello

I need a little sharpening from being used by mods all day

Burgi

so many jokes...

Bob

08:17

wtf

I step out of the room for a couple hours and this happens...

Edity

@Bob lets just steer away from the profanity...

jokerdino

along with inanity.

Edity

And yes, I am a chatting crazy maniac dropping nukes.

bai

Rahul Basu

@Sathya :/

Sathya

→ 1 message moved to Recycle Bin

Edity

08:22

@Sathya Sometimes I feel like I want to delete all the chat stuff once in a while

Sathya

keep up the inane stuff & 'll do it for you

Edity

:D

But won't that spam the entire recycle bin?

Sathya

have ways to handle that.

Journeyman Geek

Better there than here

Edity

what is jmac's exobrain !?!

Journeyman Geek

08:35

hmm

Rahul Basu

@JourneymanGeek that was scammy?

Journeyman Geek

battleborn's 40% off

@Bob @allquixotic worth it?

Bob

doh :P

hm... it's alright

very much a team game though

Journeyman Geek

yeah, but has a SP mode no?

Bob

I suppose solo is doable

@JourneymanGeek the story seems more geared towards co-op, but it can be played single

Burgi

08:38

who do you speak to at M$ if you have an idea for them?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob which is fine ;p

Psycogeek

@Burgi the project heads wife. If he wont listen to her, he will be hearing about it :-)

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi I THINK they used to use something called uservoice

Its going to take about an hour to download

hm

which is not bad

Edity

Cod go faster with fibre

Journeyman Geek

I got fibre

bottleneck's not my connection :(

Edity

08:45

oh

Speed upgrade?

Journeyman Geek

naw, I think its stream

or I need to switch ISPs

Edity

:p

Sathya

my ISP was generous enough to grant a 20GB increase to my data cap

now it's a pitiful 95GB from a painful 75GB

though not quite sure till when it'll last

Edity

that's nice

i got a shocking unlimited data cap

you definitely need to use my WiFi for big heavy stuff

Rahul Basu

I have 120 GB with a 8mbps speed :/

not sure what I should feel about that

Journeyman Geek

08:50

No point in me upgrading unless I got ethernet tho, my current connection is 200/200 (20/20 practically), gigabit's the good shit

Edity

I got a INFINITY INFINITY gb with a shoking 90mbps speed

Rahul Basu

@Edity Wow. Where do you reside?

Edity

@RahulBasu or, aka. unlimited fibre broadband with a permanent speed upgrade

Journeyman Geek

@RahulBasu most civilised places ;p

Edity

like aussy for example

Journeyman Geek

08:53

aussie is hardly civlised.

Edity

oh yeah

Journeyman Geek

ALL them dropbears and hoop snakes and ADSL...

Edity

Or the peaceful Wellington?

Journeyman Geek

that's new zealand

Edity

+1 hour of talking recieved

Journeyman Geek

08:54

they've got my republic. Despite having a queen.

Edity

aka British crown

eww

too posh

and "sing" a pore?

I like it.

One failure tho, too much rules

Journeyman Geek

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Psycogeek

@Sathya is that per day? that seriously sucks, when they capped here they thought 250GB was a good place. (eventually dropped it).

Sathya

@Psycogeek per day... eheheh how I wish it was. It's per month

Psycogeek

games are in existance now that have 25G to crasy DL of up to 40-50 , add a few days of HD youtube , and thier cap is impractical.

Sathya

09:06

yeah

I typically end up hitting the limit in ~15-20 days

need to pay additional monies to reset the data limit :|

Psycogeek

well that beats being kicked off, that is what this ISP claimed it would do, but being a very long time on-time payee they did not.

the other trick (other people had) is to finish off your month at 1/10th speeds. That wouldnt bother me so much.

if it is a network overload/bandwidth problem they are trying to address, from what i have seen the greatest load on any network is relative to the humans. are they at work, are they asleep, is it the weekend in that location. If they really wanted to "fix" that, they would allow Free nights and weekends :-) ( just like a telecom offer)

Sathya

@Psycogeek for me the problem is that the speed drop off is atrocious - go from 50Mbps to 512k

Psycogeek

just enough to log-in and pay huh :-)

Sathya

that is bleepin' ridiculous. And when you have multiple devices that is not good for anything

@Psycogeek heh, yeah just about ;p

Sathya

09:35

can't use "problem", so use "probleme" heh superuser.com/posts/1080272/revisions

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya original title was in french

probleme is the correct spelling ;p

DavidPostill

lol

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek heh

DavidPostill

"So I did a scan (sfc & dism and I delete cmd.exe) but not solved"

deleting cmd.exe will at least change the error message :P

Burgi

are git question more suitable to SO or SU?

Journeyman Geek

09:41

Depends

DavidPostill

@Burgi The number of git questions might be a clue: su 1559, so 71302

Burgi

thats what i thought but i was just checking because i've seen loads of git questions here recently

maybe its worth a meta question to mass migrate the git questions here to SO?

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill SO prolly has a load more questions tho

@Burgi urg. No

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek true

Burgi

really?

Journeyman Geek

09:46

Really

git's on topic, being software

Burgi

i guess it falls into the scope of both sites

DavidPostill

@Burgi Yes, and the ones on Super User seem to be mostly on topic after a quick random check

@Burgi We are getting one or two / day (or less) ... that's not loads

Burgi

i've been around more often recently so i've seen them more i guess

Psycogeek

oh great, now the Mad Downvoter has been replaced by the Mad Upvoter , OR , someone is finnaly upvoting valid questions . what wrong with them :-)

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek Are these questions from the same user? Serial or random upvoting?

Psycogeek

09:57

They are just new questions that are on-topic, I am just not used to anyone upvoting them :-)

(or being countered by downvotes)

Sathya

@Psycogeek probab me cleaning the first posts review

DavidPostill

Not me. I haven't looked at new question yet. Working on reviews.

Sathya

...

> And network administrator will change your ip adresa, you will get new adresa.

Burgi

from a work email:

> Dear all,

> Who was your 90s crush? Don’t be shy…

Sathya

who wants a new adresa

superuser.com/a/1078587/4377

Psycogeek

10:07

@Burgi aren't people at your work retired before 90 :-)

Burgi

LOL

my inbox is full of popstars

DavidPostill

@Burgi lol - you were only 4 in 1990 ;)

Burgi

7!

DavidPostill

Then + Now: ’90s Female Pop Singers You May Have Forgotten About

Burgi

i don't want to be flagged for "sexism" again

but yasmine bleeth and pamela anderson...

Journeyman Geek

10:36

@Bob those cutscenes are awesome

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ?

Battleborn?

Journeyman Geek

yup

Rahul Basu

@echo off
set input=1
echo %input%
set input=%input%+1
echo %input%
pause

can someone please tell me how I can get this code to work?

Journeyman Geek

donno.

where is it breaking?

Rahul Basu

it echos '1+1' instead of '2'

(the second time)

DavidPostill

10:44

@RahulBasu Use set /a

Arithmetic expressions (SET /a)

Placing expressions in "quotes" is optional for simple arithmetic but required for any expression using logical operators.

Any SET /A calculation that returns a fractional result will be rounded down to the nearest whole integer.

set /a "input=%input%+1"

set

Bob

11:21

Protip: use PowerShell when you can :P

cmd sucks in so many ways

Burgi

wow, that darkweb.SE site is shutting down...

Bob

The irony :P

DavidPostill

@Bob You are starting to resemble a stuck record ;)

Bob

@DavidPostill Hey, I only say that every other week.

And I don't see you disagreeing :P

Guitar Shoe Dave

12:12

cmd sucks agreed.

DavidPostill

@GuitarShoeDave It might suck but it gives me rep ;)

Guitar Shoe Dave

I still use cmd at times.. but its garbage.

Not hating... it does suck.. powershell is all object oriented which is why i lerb it.

Although i'm not an advanced powershell user

DavidPostill

@GuitarShoeDave Yeah, I'm a beginner learning it when I have a bit of time ...

Guitar Shoe Dave

Powershell took everything that can be done in the command line that would normally have to be parsed manually and made everything into objects with attributes so no parsing is required instead.

=)

DavidPostill

@GuitarShoeDave Yes, parsing is the hardest bit of cmd for beginners. But very easy when you know how ;)

And there are many thing that cannot be done on Windows 7 with PowerShell because the cmdlets were added in Windows 8.1

Guitar Shoe Dave

12:22

CMD shell leap year calculations.. Not fun.

=)

Bob

@DavidPostill No it's not.

It seems easy until you figure out that you simply can't handle the edge cases cleanly.

Guitar Shoe Dave

^^^

Bob

@DavidPostill Yea... too bad WMF updates are optional.

DavidPostill

@Bob I seem to be doing OK so far ...

Bob

@DavidPostill Funny things like dealing with line breaks and escape characters...

Guitar Shoe Dave

12:24

And fiscal calculations

Bob

@GuitarShoeDave !!no, just no.

Guitar Shoe Dave

especially those fiscal years when there's an additional 53 week

!!stabshimself

ChatBot John Cavil

@GuitarShoeDave That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

DavidPostill

set /a leapyear=((!(%year%%%400))^|!(!(%year%%%100)))^&!(%year%%%4) is close enough for most people

Bob

@DavidPostill You're just proving my point :P

Guitar Shoe Dave

12:27

[system.datetime]::isleapyear(2008)

Bob

cmd kinda-sorta works for some simple stuff, but you can't really cover edge cases well

also, good luck if you ever want to use regex

you get some weird weak dialect with dodgy syntax

s'pose I should be surprised it has regex support at all

(cmd+utils really)

DavidPostill

Even MS can't do leap years correctly.

hanselman.com/blog/…

"A bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year affected Zune users," said the company in a statement. "That being the case, the issue should be resolved over the next 24 hours as the time change moves to January 1, 2009."

Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year

Guitar Shoe Dave

That article was published in "January 3, 09 "

But yea

Goober

DavidPostill

lol "Although it is technically possible to correct this behavior so that current versions of Microsoft Excel do not assume that 1900 is a leap year, the disadvantages of doing so outweigh the advantages."

Guitar Shoe Dave

:)

DavidPostill

12:34

Summary of Windows Azure Service Disruption on Feb 29th, 2012

Guitar Shoe Dave

anything with a NULL value datestamp shouldnt even be evaluated as something unless a date is provided.

DavidPostill

"The leap day bug is that the GA calculated the valid-to date by simply taking the current date and adding one to its year. That meant that any GA that tried to create a transfer certificate on leap day set a valid-to date of February 29, 2013, an invalid date that caused the certificate creation to fail."

Guitar Shoe Dave

@SimonSheehan: I used to love that Saturday Night Live Skit when I was growing up.

When I watched TV :(

BloodyEl

12:49

"The leap day bug is that the GA calculated the valid-to date by simply taking the current date and adding one to its year." Hmm, as a professional, how would you explain that to "normal users"?

Oh nevermind, my 8 year-old just explained it to me.

DavidPostill

@GuitarShoeDave Will be incorrect (probably) in 3200 ;)

"Due to the changing length of the tropical year as expressed in days, the rules for determining leap years will need to be revised from time to time so as to keep the year in step with the seasons. The actual length of the mean tropical year is presently about 365.24219 days, so the Gregorian calendar is too long by about one day every 3200 years.

One possible rule would be to omit a leap year every 3200 years, so that 3200 CE is not a leap year."

Guitar Shoe Dave

Oh found a nice midi archive of 300,000 songs.. (downloaded a nice sound font with it) approx 625 days worth of constant music without break.. or... 2500 days worth of music based off of my usage. =)

That's like almost 7 years

Granted there are "some" duplicates, but not many.

BloodyEl

I just find that company a bit irresponsible sometimes. Before year 3200, they might get the idea to make certificates precise-to-the-second, and forget about the atomic clock leap-second adjustment. Or base the clock or some imperial value then use metric by accident. Bugs happen, but for Microsoft to make mistakes with primary school science, and have to write that mea-culpa is a laugh-cry king of thing.

Rahul Basu

13:09

@DavidPostill the only reason I'm not using powershell is that my stuff is often used on widows 7

DavidPostill

@RahulBasu Erm. There is PowerShell on Windows 7. It just missing some stuff that is in Windows 8.1 PowerShell.

PS F:\test> (gwmi win32_operatingsystem).caption
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
PS F:\test> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
4      0      -1     -1

Rahul Basu

@DavidPostill but then if 1 use those features, they won't work on many PCs

Burgi

code for win7

DavidPostill

+1 ^^^

Burgi

it'll be backwards compatible on all modern windows then

DavidPostill

13:16

!!s/back/for/

ChatBot John Cavil

@DavidPostill it'll be forwards compatible on all modern windows then (source)

Rahul Basu

Hm...

@DavidPostill where are you learning from?

Burgi

MVA is good resource for powershell

ChatBot John Cavil

@qwertyuiop That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

DavidPostill

@RahulBasu I erm acquired a number of PowerShell Books

qwertyuiop

13:22

So this Ark Survival Evolved game

It looks interesting... have you played it @allquixotic? Or just experimenting with the server(s)?

DavidPostill

Why didn't strikeout work?

Journeyman Geek

where?

theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/6/3/11850570/…

I'm unsure whether I consider this something akin to an electric horse buggy, or something actually cool

DavidPostill

Currently reading "Windows PowerShell 3.0
First Steps"

Microsoft Script Center, PowerShell Scripts, Tips, Expert Advices, Forums, and Resources and PowerShell Code Repository are useful

XKCD

13:39

I can't get any work done because my friend Catherine is sitting on my keyboard.

2

DavidPostill

lol

Guitar Shoe Dave

Oh beautiful we have an XKCD bot now.

Just need a karma bot

Burgi

we've always had an xkcd bot

qwertyuiop

Why does nobody ever star the super awesome interesting stuff

Instead they star stupid meaningless crap like "!!penis" or "hi"

Journeyman Geek

13:58

@GuitarShoeDave the xkcd bot's just a normal rss feed 'bot' here

Journeyman Geek

14:20

@qwertyuiop then you wouldn't get any stars at all ;p

3

Bob

@DavidPostill Just install the updated WMF

allquixotic

@qwertyuiop yeah, played it a lot, it's great

Bob

@DavidPostill Eh... I can't remember the last time I learned a language via a tutorial :P

Burgi

a friend of mine has a pet spitty-dinosaur-thingy on ARK#

Bob

Usually "I need to do X" => Google => "I know how to do X" => repeat => I know the language now!

allquixotic

14:30

heh, the SmartOS developers are really responsive

I got one of them to start packaging Guacamole for SmartOS just by filing an issue on github

I've decided to set my hostnames per the 12 colonies from Battlestar Galactica

DavidPostill

@Bob Does it include all the missing cmdlets?

Installing it now.

Bob

@DavidPostill Most, yea.

Some rely on parts of Win8. Like the dedup.

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic what if you need more than 12? ;p

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic they get resized when they use a smartphone?

2

allquixotic

Aerilon = general-purpose LX branded
Aquaria = general-purpose SmartOS native
Caprica = Cavil and root access stuff, LX branded
Gemenon = Pathfinder guild stuff, LX branded
Leonis = TS server for one of my friends, plus anything else reasonable he wants (LX)
Libran = another TS server for another one of my friends, plus anything else reasonable he wants (LX)
Picon, Sagittaron, Scorpia and Tauron currently unused
Virgon = Windows - because Windows is alphabetically last because it sucks
and
Kobol = global zone

Journeyman Geek

14:33

heh

DavidPostill

@Bob Thanks.

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek at this point I have some that are unused

also I just skipped Canceron out of sheer principle. Because fuck cancer

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic my last workplace's london location named all their windows boxen after diseases...

That Brazilian Guy

I need noise-cancelling earphones. At work.

To my left, someone is listening to loud religious preaching.

To my right, people are having a loud meeting.

Somewhere further down, people are chatting and laughing really loud.

So I'm forced to face traffic every day to arrive to this? Yay! \o/

DavidPostill

14:54

afk. need to restart

jokerdino

@DavidPostill OK

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy welcome to my workplace... it's always like this... except those rare cases where everyone is quiet / gone for the day and it's so deafeningly quiet because of all the sound dampening that it sounds like my keystrokes are at 100 dB

Journeyman Geek

lol

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