Root Access

djsmiley2k

2:00 PM

still no worky, but rebooting.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek yea it is

Journeyman Geek

@Bob 0_0

Bob

@JourneymanGeek c2d didn't have integrated memory controller

northbridge (southbridge?)

Journeyman Geek

true but

its a odd system then ;p

Bob

> [(G)MCH Features]
Secondary PCI Express Port x16: Not Supported
Dual Independent Display: Supported
Primary PCI Express Port x16: Supported
2 DIMMS per Channel: Not Supported
Manageability Engine (ME): Not Supported
iAMT: Not Supported
Intel Virtualization Technology for I/O Devices (VT-d): Not Supported
Internal Graphics: Supported
Primary PCI Express Port: Supported
DDR2 Frequency Support: 400 MHz (DDR2-800)
DDR3 Frequency Support: 533 MHz (DDR3-1066)
FSB Frequency Support: 333 MHz (1333 QDR)

djsmiley2k

2:00 PM

If this doesn't autoupdate, tehn I might be able to install the 'correct' driver as supplied by hp

Bob

> Memory Device

Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Device Size: 2048 MBytes
Device Form Factor: DIMM
Device Locator: DIMM1
Bank Locator: BANK1
Device Type: DDR3 SDRAM
Device Type Detail: Synchronous
Memory Speed: 1067 MHz
Manufacturer: Apacer
Serial Number: 02011242
Part Number: 78.A1GC6.9H10C
Asset Tag: None

Journeyman Geek

I assume your friend dosen't want to spend money on it, but it gives it some legs, especially if he can get cheap ram

Burgi

@Bob fair shout added header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');

Bob

> [General Module Information]
Module Number: 2
Module Size: 2 GBytes
Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM
Module Type: Unbuffered DIMM (UDIMM)
Memory Speed: 666.7 MHz (DDR3-1333 / PC3-10600)
Module Manufacturer: Apacer Technology
Module Part Number: 78.A1GC6.9H10C
Module Revision: 0
Module Serial Number: 1108476162
Module Manufacturing Date: Year: 2011, Week: 23

Journeyman Geek

@Bob so its on 4gb?

Bob

2:01 PM

@Burgi ...this gets weirder, cause JSON is utf-8 by default :P

user285oo6

This is a windows laptop with edge,mozilla isntalled with latest flash player.Im trying to login to the site but i don't get the sign in option iteslf.support.mozilla.org/t5/Fix-problems-with-websites/… support.mozilla.org/t5/Procedures-to-diagnose-and-fix/…

tried the solution on these two sites and after disabling hardware acceleration it loaded with login option but once i refresh the page again the login option disappears

Bob

maybe just saving as the wrong encoding

@JourneymanGeek single 2 GB stick, one empty slot

Journeyman Geek

ah

so could go up to 4 is he can scrounge another stick

Bob

@JourneymanGeek pretty sure that's cause 2011 :P

Journeyman Geek

that's actuallly pretty good

Bob

2:02 PM

@JourneymanGeek yea, I linked him a $9 stick on ebay

ebay.com.au/itm/…

user285oo6

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35922431#35922431 is this a good question or the answer will be given by someone here itself

Burgi

@Bob its a crazy webapp that is bolted on to wordpress

Bob

I'm a tad worried about weird single/double-sided issues

djsmiley2k

that's not a question, that's a image.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob SSD would be nice

Bob

2:03 PM

@Burgi keep in mind there's a diff between the encoding it's saved as and the encoding it identifies as. if either is wrong, you'll get wonky results

Journeyman Geek

especially if you can find something suitably cheap and only slightly dodgy

djsmiley2k

'Please wait while drivers install'

ok so that bit seems to work XD

Bob

@JourneymanGeek yea, suggested that to him before

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I actually consider it the single best upgrade one can make to a system of that era

(of course with a more modern OS than XP or vista)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek he's asking about a GPU now -_-

Journeyman Geek

2:07 PM

@Bob not really worth it IMO

Bob

I know :P

told him if he has trouble watching videos then grab a GT 710/720

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

will probably go to his mum anyway

Journeyman Geek

My dad runs something worse and does... most things

Granted he kept threatening to defenestrate toe system for years

Bob

@JourneymanGeek this is what passes for a cheap SSD warehouse1.com.au/epages/shop.sf/en_AU/?ObjectPath=/Shops/…

Journeyman Geek

2:12 PM

@Bob loading loading loading loading....

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ebay.com.au/itm/… :P

Journeyman Geek

blinks

That is beyond dodgy

Bob

lol

I almost want one just to see what happens

but knowing my luck it'd probably fry the SATA controller

@JourneymanGeek link to the one you got?

Journeyman Geek

dx.com/p/…

No longer in stock tho

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ebay.com.au/itm/…

Journeyman Geek

2:20 PM

@Bob my dad's been running the 120gb model with no real issues

Bob

@JourneymanGeek how would you rate their performance? :P

seq transfer, random..?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I think I posted graphs here before

Bob

@JourneymanGeek 120 costs a lot more, and isn't really needed here

might get him to install chromeos

Journeyman Geek

Aliexpress has a kingdian S200/60gb for about 30USD with free shipping

and they have benchmarks there

Bob

@JourneymanGeek eh, 41 AUD on the ebay link, close enough

wait. S200? S180? bleh.

idk

Journeyman Geek

2:26 PM

@Bob newer models than mine

still the main consideration here is relative cheapness ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek cheapness... if it wasn't a pricing error, I might've just gotten a couple of 1 TB SSDs for $210 ea

Journeyman Geek

lol

yeah

Bob

let's see if that's real or not. eh, worst case a refund.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob price sounds logical

Bob

@JourneymanGeek 210 AUD? ozbargain.com.au/node/296253

Journeyman Geek

2:37 PM

and meh, I think those SSDs have done what I needed them to do.

Bob

I got one of each. Cause when I went back for a second, the Extreme Pro was sold out :(

Journeyman Geek

@Bob 41 dollars for the chineseium ones

Bob

But yea that'll let me expand my VM storage a fair bit.

@JourneymanGeek Oh, I mean the 1 TB ones. It sounds too low.

But we'll see :P

Journeyman Geek

eheheh

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I almost want to grab one to set up windows2go on it :P

Journeyman Geek

2:38 PM

I might do a few peoperly dodgy aliexpress orders once I have a job again ;p

@Bob yeah, they do sound rediculously cheap

Bob

@JourneymanGeek worst that can happen is I get refunded :P

Journeyman Geek

looks like draco repcapped yesterday cause of the ryzen question \o/

@Bob true

djsmiley2k

2:57 PM

Ryzen question?

Journeyman Geek

48

Q: How can a processor be made faster with a "software" update?

The new AMD processors Ryzen are out on the market and unfortunately they seem to lack in gaming. Intel processors are obviously still faster for gaming. People of course weren't in favour of this and AMD made a statement saying that they're updating the firmware or software for speeding up Ryzen...

djsmiley2k

Ah that one

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek yea well my forehead eyebrows would re-cap at least that many times :-)

Burgi

@Psycogeek i'd vote to close as eyebrows aren't a valid answer to any technical question... ;)

Psycogeek

I was following what he was saying about it, and Me i would rather wait till the dust settles, then get an analisis (the 6mo rule) but shorter preliminary analisis of what to watch-out for is helpful.

just needs balance

Burgi

3:07 PM

i just got a recruitment email for a "Lamp Developer"

Psycogeek

I got the dimentions on the hole (storage) available in my RV for my computer under the dinette (seats) - Length 21.8" , width 41.8" , height 11.5" , to get a case that is smaller

Burgi

my first thought was "hasn't edison already developed the lamp..."

Psycogeek

the haf amazon.com/gp/product/B00FFJ0H3Q/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza is to tall to fit under there i think ?

@Burgi but edison didnt put bluetooth in it

Burgi

heh

DavidPostill

Troll answer? I'm, not sure I believe it superuser.com/a/1186232/337631

djsmiley2k

3:21 PM

@DavidPostill I imagine the cable is also gold plated ;)

Boris_yo

Since when Chrome can view PDF files?

Can't find extension to disable this...

DavidPostill

@Boris_yo It's built in.

Turn Off loading PDFs in Google Chrome

Boris_yo

@DavidPostill I used this extension before.

@DavidPostill Is it capable of viewing PDFs online without requiring downloading them?

DavidPostill

@Boris_yo Of course not. It needs to download the file to render it.

There has been a built in PDF viewer since 2011

> The recent releases of Google Chrome (6 and up) have PDF support built-in

Chrome is now v56 or something.

Boris_yo

@DavidPostill Well, not extension I have been using. It does not download file for viewing. It may keep it in temporary cache file but after closing PDF it deletes cache file. I like it because of it's organization.

DavidPostill

3:38 PM

@Boris_yo Where do you think the temp cache file comes from? Hint: it's downloaded from the internet.

Boris_yo

@DavidPostill I know. The file gets deleted after viewing, helping my organization. This is not the case with Chrome's PDF viewer. That's what I am trying to say.

Can't disable.

DavidPostill

@Boris_yo So file a bug report with the extension author. Or uninstall it. Or use a decent browser like Firefox :)

Boris_yo

@DavidPostill This is Chrome's plugin you were talking about.

Psycogeek

@DavidPostill is posible, HE 8T drive on a USB , lowered down into his well, with 4 repeaters ?? people have done crasier

but then he would be mentioning, having to build the cable, or buy actual good ones (they dont exist), and how he has to get power down there to hub or repeat it.

djsmiley2k

@Psycogeek why is the cable twice the length too?

Psycogeek

3:52 PM

@djsmiley2k uhh would you believe balanced terminations?

djsmiley2k

@Boris_yo In Chrome, enter, "chrome:plugins" in the address bar, then click the Disable link under the "Chrome PDF Viewer" plugin entry.

DavidPostill

@Boris_yo There is a bug. Read the full thread.

djsmiley2k

for a moment then i had 1337 rep

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k We can arrange for you to have it again :)

djsmiley2k

;)

UNLEASH THE ARCHERS - Tonight We Ride (Official Video) | Napalm Records

►

DavidPostill

4:01 PM

@djsmiley2k It isn't there any more

djsmiley2k

:O

DavidPostill

9 mins ago, by DavidPostill

@Boris_yo There is a bug. Read the full thread.

djsmiley2k

I can't reorder youtube vids by dragging them around the playlist anymore :(

maybe I never could, and I imagined it, i dunno :D

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k That's an imaginary bug then :)

Boris_yo

4:14 PM

@DavidPostill Thanks. I placed check mark to have Chrome open PDF with default viewer and it worked.

@djsmiley2k Reminds me of that recent movie ... Mad Max

Andy K

If anyone has an answer to that question superuser.com/questions/1186972/…

this is one of the reason I dread msoft

djsmiley2k

you need to assoicate mdb files with access

no different in all distros tbf

Andy K

how @djsmiley2k?

djsmiley2k

in commandline?

Andy K

in the same pc, with a different user

allquixotic

4:21 PM

TRWTF is Access

Andy K

it is doing great

AllQuixotic

TRWTF

Access is not a db

it is this

djsmiley2k

Watching a user moving towards nuking all their data... :/

not you btw @AndyK

@AndyK click 'open file with this program'.... select access.... done

Thanks for the upvote.

Twisty

Anyone else having trouble with the SE Android app?

Andy K

I'm telling my man-a to stop using access, from now

on

getting there, slowly

djsmiley2k

ah it could be flat files

even worse

or excel or osmething, eating them number formats, nom nom nom

7 hr wait time on reviews sigh

wish that timer worked :(

Burgi

4:30 PM

THE SUN IT BLINDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andy K

that's what's happening right now in the company I worked for

djsmiley2k

yeah wtf is with the weather

I had to go move my car, and it was like actually nice outside :O

Andy K

see ya guys

djsmiley2k

4:43 PM

bai @AndyK

Joshua

5:08 PM

beware of pasting zalgotext into the # prompt

djsmiley2k

o_O??

What is the # prompt?

we talking root? Be aware of pasting any text to the root prompt...

Joshua

well most text you can read first

djsmiley2k

yus

however, zalgo is... well zalgo

if your prompt is converting it into something else, you've also got issues.

Ben N

You can safely paste into the PowerShell prompt, though; Zalgo just becomes boxes and line returns are pasted as line returns but do not run the command

djsmiley2k

I'd believe you can safely paste zalgo into any prompt

after all, it's not anything but zalgo

it doesn't 'convert' into normal ascii just because you've pasted it

Ben N

5:12 PM

Indeed

djsmiley2k

if your prompt does do crap like that, be very very afraid

that's the kind of thing that caused @burgi's dash/hypen error

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k lol

djsmiley2k

@DavidPostill I know it's not exactly the same, but still ;)

Ben N

PowerShell automatically handles fancy dashes and smart quotes as normal dashes and normal quotes, respectively ;)

djsmiley2k

not displaying/hiding/changing how unicode characters are seen can onlycause pain.

Burgi

5:20 PM

@djsmiley2k it wasn't an error, just a display bug

and the ONLY thing to go wrong in the entire deployment

Ben N

Ah, glad to hear it mostly went smoothly

Burgi

the marketing material hasn't gone out yet...

djsmiley2k

:D

my friend in london has finally decided to leave his role, which seems to run simularly to @Burgi (fire fighting everything, all hell)

maybe you can both do a job swap? :D

Also, when is an error not an error? When it's a display bug!

:)

Joshua

Are you absolutely sure your shell won't hose you?

echo 'e̮̠̣ͫ̿ͦ̄̿́c̟̼͕̗̞͍̤͓̀̃ͤ̾ͬ̋͊͟h̨̙̃ͯ̽̒̂ȍ̠͔̣̱͍̻̇ ̳̭̻̥̒̀͢r̴̡̛͎̝͔̮̼͖͉ͥ̋͒ͧ̎m̧̝̜̥̖̺̣̣ͣͮ͞ ̲̩̖̩̗͍̝̥ͩ͊ͫ̽-̘̩̬̹̜̝͚͍ͩ̑͌r̷̢̟̰͇͔̹̰̪̪͚̉ͫ͆̅͜f̹̬̗ͪ̎͢͢ ̼̠ͬ̐̂/̗̻͓̹̙̣̐̀̀̆ͧ̇͌̅͜'|tr -d '\200-\377'

djsmiley2k

if you care to write one that isn't rm -rf then i'll run it to test

Joshua

5:25 PM

it's echo rm -rf /

Ben N

Safe :)

djsmiley2k

smiley@server~$ echo 'e.........c................h.......o........ .......r...............m........... ............-...........r................f....... ...../...............'

:)

CaffeineAddiction

root@e4ade7343ed3:/# rm -rf /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

... safe

djsmiley2k

:)

@CaffeineAddiction don't do /*

Joshua

@CaffeineAddiction: Like I was going to post something actually dangerous.

CaffeineAddiction

5:28 PM

@Joshua why not ... i just ran it

its fine

its interesting if you run it w/ --no-preserve-root

it limits your commands available to:

root@e4ade7343ed3:/#
! cd egrep fi la readonly true
./ command elif for let return type
: compgen else function ll select typeset
[ complete enable getopts local set ulimit
[[ compopt esac grep logout shift umask
]] continue eval hash ls shopt unalias
alias coproc exec help mapfile source unset

which is odd ... because then ls doesnt work ... even though it says its an available command

... this feels a lot like trying to convince someone in wow that press [alt] + F4 enables godmode

Burgi

5:50 PM

CMD> DELETE "internet.exe"

Y U NO WORK!!!!!!11111111111111111

TOWMN

6:08 PM

@Bob: my UK 4G sim card died so I won't be able to do any 4G testing in Aus till I get a local prepaid one :-(

And even then I would have to get 3 to compare all the networks instead of just roaming onto each

djsmiley2k

:(

no fun

Is the weather nice?

When you coming home?

meow?

Burgi

@TOWMN when is @Bob taking you for a saucer of milk/beer?

TOWMN

@djsmiley2k yes

@djsmiley2k dunno, I don't want to come home

djsmiley2k

:O

Burgi

@djsmiley2k don't tell him about the wall we are building to stop him from getting back in!

djsmiley2k

6:23 PM

;)

the great channel wall?

Burgi

and the ultra amazing 6G phones the government gave us all for free

TOWMN

@Burgi he won't, cause they don't exist

Also screw walls, we have planes

djsmiley2k

2

Q: Choose WiFi channels with many weak or few strong competitors?

This question is somewhat related to Is it better to choose a more-crowded WiFi channel or one with a strong competitor? and 2.4GHz WiFi channel selection when all the non-overlapping channels are crowded but these do omit certain aspects which I believe to be relevant for my scenario. Although ...

networking wireless-networking wireless-router wireless-access-point

wow

that's a well written and interesting question

djsmiley2k

7:29 PM

Whoops - accidently reviewed this as no action needed

0

A: Make Language change specific to window/app not whole system (Windows 8.1)

Languages are such badly implemented on windows compared to macos, where (except for microsoft products), most programs come multilingual. The problem I have with windows is that I have installed US system, but a Swiss French keyboard configured. whenever I download/install software, it comes in ...

Flagged it now, but whoops XD

Blog bot

8:09 PM

Stack Overflow Blog: Does Anyone Actually Visit Stack Overflow’s Home Page?

posted on March 09, 2017 by David Robinson

Yesterday we were amused to see this post on Reddit’s sysadmin forum: The post Does Anyone Actually Visit Stack Overflow’s Home Page? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Michael Frank

@Blogbot StackOverflow has a Homepage?

DavidPostill

8:27 PM

> We apologize for any inconvenience, but an unexpected error occurred while you were browsing our site. It’s not you, it’s us. This is our fault. Detailed information about this error has automatically been recorded and we have been notified.

bwDraco

...and I'm getting ready to take the test.

DavidPostill

Sites are down

bwDraco

I will not be available for the next two hours.

djsmiley2k

@DavidPostill seeing the same here

DavidPostill

> This site is currently in read-only mode; we'll return with full functionality soon. Follow @StackStatus or visit our status blog for more info.

bwDraco

8:28 PM

No repro.

DavidPostill

> A new SQL cluster member took us hard down on an unexpected reboot - we're investigating.

Seems to be back

djsmiley2k

yup

that was fun.

(i wonder if nick queried the db too hard about visitors to the home page ;))

@bwDraco good luck with the test, whatever that is :o

Michael Frank

8:48 PM

Ugh... that moment when you have to find a non-https website to browse to before the public wifi at your work will kick in the password gateway. :|

djsmiley2k

do you work with @null? :D

Michael Frank

Perhaps?

djsmiley2k

:D

they have been asking about portal stuff and http vs https filtering lately

Michael Frank

Oh right... yea.

NULL

9:35 PM

@MichaelFrank btw There is a site that is really good for that its called neverssl.com. They promise to stay http.

Ok got everything how I want it on my captive portal except one thing...when you search google on my AP and then click a search result that happens to be http it will send them to my login page like I want...however it doesn't load fully. I mean all the text is there but there are no images or css styling...anybody know why that would be? Or how to fix it?

Burgi

@TOWMN they are super secret and you have to be here to get one! ;)

DavidPostill

@NULL Well all the js is served via https. Load a google page and look at the network traffic.

Bob

@TOWMN :(

Burgi

@bwDraco good luck! let us know how it went

@NULL i'm adding that one to my arsenal of useful sites.

NULL

9:50 PM

@DavidPostill But I am not using js I just have style.css and background.png and then my page. My nginx server is serving it when http is requested. It works fine when someone types an http site in the browser.

bwDraco

!!/help afk

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco afk: Set an afk message: /afk <message>. Invoke /afk again to return.

Burgi

The first thing you should do is probably pull out your phone and ask people online for help :) — Ben Sutton 32 mins ago

bwDraco

Of course not.

bwDraco

11:09 PM

I am not able to pass the technical test. At least some valuable experience was gained.

The test introduced me to Codility, though. I'll be using it to hone my skills.

Burgi

did it give a result right away?

also you can't know everything, so don't stress too much about it

you never know, they might have a junior position that you meet the requirements of so don't give up hope just yet

bwDraco

11:36 PM

Completed one of three tasks with a passing score on that task, but was unable to finish the rest on time.

Had a partial solution on the second task that did not compile (could not work out the errors in time)

Could not start the third one at all.

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