Root Access

7:02 AM

Hmm. Some analysis by WCCFtech explains why the AMD Vega launch is delayed and will start with a workstation card: wccftech.com/…

satibel

7:36 AM

should I worry about segfaults being logged often in /var/log/syslog?

May 18 09:18:46 ip6060 kernel: [1185467.457140] Chrome_ChildThr[10298]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fe0ee3d8a83 sp 00007fe0deafe410 error 6 in plugin-container[7fe0ee3d0000+3a000]
May 18 09:29:02 ip6060 kernel: [1186084.105144] Chrome_ChildThr[10796]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f768ad58a83 sp 00007f767b3fe410 error 6 in plugin-container[7f768ad50000+3a000]

(firefox crashes but it says chrome.)

Bob

@satibel The browser chrome refers to the non-content parts of the browser. It's got nothing to do with Google Chrome.

Menus, toolbars, etc.

plugin-container is ... iffy. It was only used for NPAPI plugins (Flash, etc.) but I think e10s might use it for content processes now.

satibel

oh, ok.

seems like renewing the profile might do it.

satibel

8:14 AM

nope

doesn't do it.

Burgi

morning

working from home is weird

satibel

Borning Murgi.

djsmiley2k

@Burgi I find myself more productive, sometimes

Burgi

this is my first attempt

djsmiley2k

9:09 AM

Can I format a link, in a comment?

if so, how?

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k [description](www.example.com)

djsmiley2k

ty

djsmiley2k

9:26 AM

@djsmiley2k Not always an option, mostly financially. Plus, back up too often and the RWare will be in the backup too. — Weckar E. 19 mins ago

He answered without a bounty! XD

Dell Inspiron 20s owners be aware!

Rahul2001

10:14 AM

New blog post: Using diskpart to reformat corrupt drives

2

Nick

@Rahul2001 Thank you. That was a good read. Very informative.

Also, me[at]rahul2001[dot][com] can still be webscraped. You obviously underestimate programmers.

Rahul2001

@Nick No, I just have really good spam filters

djsmiley2k

scrape this, djsmiley2k@gmail.com

\o/

satibel

10:33 AM

@Rahul2001 reformat this!

DEFCON 19: And That's How I Lost My Eye: Exploring Emergency Data Destruction (w speaker)

►

DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)

►

Seth

I don't know how to generalize this answer further. Except maybe by doing a weather forecast. superuser.com/questions/1210418/…

Burgi

flag as too board

DavidPostill

@Burgi Better still, close as too broad :)

Burgi

if you have that ability

i'm getting flooded with emails about stuff breaking in the office

Seth

Because it's lunch break? :D

Burgi

10:48 AM

because i'm the only one with the whole plan in my head

also people can't read

@DavidPostill this guy is doing terrible edits: superuser.com/users/598527/user598527

satibel

@Burgi the bane of IT. "the Foo has encountered a 'don't use bar' error" -> "why do I get this error?"

djsmiley2k

@Burgi Bus factor 1! \o/

Burgi

i know

i've dumped loads of information in the wiki but no-one bothers to read it

Oliver Salzburg

@Burgi That's how you use a wiki

Burgi

:)

Oliver Salzburg

11:01 AM

It's mostly for you. So that you can look up the information faster when people keep asking you

djsmiley2k

^^

We have a huge wiki here

for the 50+ clients

contains lots of info, and lots of crap :/

I'm slowly sorting out one or two clients pages, whom i deal with almost explicitly.

but screw the rest :D

satibel

@djsmiley2k still better than 0.

djsmiley2k

superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/655984

wtf

@Burgi indeed

worst, edit, ever.

Nick

@djsmiley2k done.

Burgi

@djsmiley2k told you

djsmiley2k

11:08 AM

is this a legit source? :/

guru3d.com/files-details/nvidia-inspector-download.html

Bob

@djsmiley2k guru3d is alright, but original source is better

djsmiley2k

The... errm, german page?

orbmu2k.de/tools/nvidia-inspector-tool#more-244

Bob

@djsmiley2k Any reason you need this one in particular, anyway?

djsmiley2k

@Nick did you really email me?

@Bob Looking at this edit : superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/655986

Bob

hmm

idk *shrug*

Burgi

11:12 AM

i might have fumbled that edit

Seth

But it was one of those "we decided we want all images to be https instead of http" edits! /s

Bob

reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/5cbfvb/…

CI link there

there's also a github repo by the same name but no releases uploaded under it

the guru3d and the german link you found are probably more stable

@djsmiley2k it's not a completely pointless edit...

jpg screenshot replaced withh png

no ugly artefacts, and smaller filesize

MyDaftQuestions

Hi. If I alrady have a .crt file, can I simply click on Complete Certificiate Request in IIS to add the cert?

djsmiley2k

@MyDaftQuestions The chat isn't really ideal for questions

MyDaftQuestions

but it is allowed...

djsmiley2k

11:15 AM

.... yes

Seth

I haven't read through all of it but it looks like it would contain that information: digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-microsoft-iis-7.htm

MyDaftQuestions

11:32 AM

Yes I did that. Certs worked. Now a new server. I need to know how I can import these certs. Is this type of question on topic here?

Or server fault

Seth

Well if you have the actual files you would just need to follow the part about binding the cert to your site.

DavidPostill

12:15 PM

@Burgi I don't see anything obviously bad.

djsmiley2k

1:46 PM

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

that feeling when one department tries to poach you

only for you to be like errr ok?

and then 2 more departments go 'oooo we want you tooooo!!!!'

Burgi

you are in demand @djsmiley2k

like me on my ~~day off~~ working from home

satibel

2:00 PM

150€, worth it? :p

32 itaniums x64

Burgi

~~what the hell is it?~~

sure

do you have the space at home?

djsmiley2k

do you have like a 2KW fuse?

XD

satibel

need to see if I can put it in the attic? :p

@djsmiley2k *7.2Kw times 2

Burgi

have you asked the SO?

djsmiley2k

tbh it's prob worth more than that in scrap value tbh

tbh tbh

satibel

2:05 PM

@Burgi nah, mother's house/farm, while I buy a plot and mount a shed.

Burgi

ah ok

satibel

@djsmiley2k the racks are worth 100€ each x)

Burgi

i now have visions of you loading it into the back of a 2CV and driving to the middle of a vineyard

while smoking

obviously

djsmiley2k

@satibel There's your answer then.

satibel

djsmiley2k

2:08 PM

:)

satibel

actually

djsmiley2k

WAMBLANCE!

satibel

(mine doesn't have the ambulance signs.)

Burgi

i got the manufacturer right

satibel

@Burgi also mine is a peugeot J5

Burgi

2:09 PM

its the same company!

satibel

same truck, same manufacturer, different company/brand :p

Burgi

french cars don't work in the uk

satibel

@Burgi just switch the steering wheel side.

Burgi

i think its more the general hatred of the english that makes them fail...

(its actually a hangover from the late 90s when they had no money and built bad cars)

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi you just need to keep insulting them

then they run out of spite

Burgi

2:15 PM

lol

satibel

everybody knows englishmen use peels.

Burgi

only on the isle of man

satibel

2:31 PM

Just noticed, it's the isle of man. No woman allowed?

Burgi

all the men there have three legs

Journeyman Geek

don't you?

@satibel that ~~side~~ rearcar 0_0

Burgi

neither do you...

Journeyman Geek

dogs have somewhat more

Burgi

ALL OF THE LEGS

satibel

2:36 PM

that's technically a car with 4 wheels.

2 on the front, 1 in the middle and 1 in the back.

Burgi

Mutant Giant Spider Dog (SA Wardega)

►

Journeyman Geek

oh god

I think I found the worst website ever

sg.malverninternational.com

i've seen worse

@Bob ^

which browser?

2:43 PM

firefox

satibel

are there any excel gurus here?

Burgi

the logo and the favicon is breaking SSL

but it looks normal on my FF

Journeyman Geek

ah, strange

So... these guys are the landlords of my employer

Oh, I'm apparently the webmaster for my school.

Burgi

Journeyman Geek

.....

Burgi

2:46 PM

@JourneymanGeek rofl

Journeyman Geek

Ok. That template looks like the very same one we use

Bob

yea works for me too

Journeyman Geek

ah

Bob

@JourneymanGeek so... you pulled a @Burgi? :P

Burgi

there are a crap load of plugins its loading

Journeyman Geek

2:48 PM

hmm

No

@Burgi yeaaaah

I wonder if its the same shitty webdev

satibel

boss need to print a sheet with 10k lines, and instead of printing a page with columns A-H, then one with I-M , he needs to make line breaks, so I1-M1 goes under A1-H1.

is there a built in way?

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek Author: StylemixThemes

Bob

I like how all the flags are incorrect in different ways.

Like the completely fucked aspect ratio on half of them.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

And how France isn't even a flag.

Journeyman Geek

2:50 PM

Tempted to post where I work actually

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Are you sure you want to be associated with them? :P

satibel

@Bob IKR? French flag is white.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@satibel and a bit less french shaped. easier to see that they're surren.... OH YOU ARE FRENCH AREN'T YOU?

satibel

@JourneymanGeek I am.

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek do it briefly then nuke the url

satibel

2:52 PM

^actual flag.

Journeyman Geek

Just to note. For god's sake, make up a clever nick and stick to it

@Burgi got it?

Burgi

yes

its loading VERY slow

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, shitty shared host, and very badly designed

Burgi

all the styles are in <style> tags :(

Journeyman Geek

lol

satibel

2:56 PM

53.78 seconds to load.

Journeyman Geek

so... the first three course links? Were swapped around. The link to courses on the slider thing? 404...

Yeah, no one's noticed yet its slow

Bob

@satibel location. 11.7 secs here

probably Sg server

fine for AU, not so good for EU/UK

Journeyman Geek

yup

local server

Bob

@JourneymanGeek you need to web optimise some of those photos

a 500 kB photo has no business being in a slideshow

Journeyman Geek

lol

Burgi

2:58 PM

38.17s here

Journeyman Geek

I ONLY GOT ACCESS TO THE WP SITE TODAY OK?

Bob

it's 1700x1100

resize it down :P

Burgi

just use better compression

Bob

@Burgi it's rendered in a box 2/3 that size

Journeyman Geek

lol

Burgi

3:00 PM

why are all the children looking unhappy and doing the peace sign?

Bob

that edutrust logo needs to be PNG'd

224x140 JPEG, somehow half a MB

Journeyman Geek

probably copied from the press kit

@Burgi You'd be unhappy if you were there too....

bwDraco

This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on May 18, 2017 at 11:52 AM

Bob

the two guys in hardhats directing an explosion look so stock-photo-ish :P probably because it is

satibel

@Bob that's still horribly slow.

Journeyman Geek

3:01 PM

I will eat my hat if it was not

Bob

@satibel 11.7 for final load (page ready) isn't too bad. styles, even photos, were loaded by 5s

Burgi

the chinese business management photo has white western looking people in it...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

@Burgi I think that one kinda makes sense, if it's targeted at westerners looking to get into chinese businesses? idk :P

Journeyman Geek

stooooockarrrrrrrt

@Bob no its aimed at people from mainland china

Burgi

3:03 PM

i can only assume that they think chinese people can't run businesses

Bob

@JourneymanGeek oh

Journeyman Geek

never seen anyone from that class tho

Bob

> revolution.extension.slideanims.min.js

Journeyman Geek

We seem to be running hospitality diplomas

Bob

why is this 30 kB

Journeyman Geek

3:04 PM

Young landy asks me for directions. Says sir... every other word

I was almost like " I WORK FOR A LIVING"

Burgi

thge guy doing the thumbs up in the "learn english" pic could have trimmed his nails

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I have a list of plugins this uses at work

(thank god I am not the webdev. I'd probably have shot myself at this point) ;p

Burgi

welcome to my world

Bob

WHY

Burgi

its loading the slides through AJAX

Bob

3:06 PM

@Burgi the admin control panel?!

this is under the /wp-admin/ path!

of all the places to put it...

Burgi

yeah thats normal for WP

Bob

@Burgi WP needs to go die in a fire.

4

also. why is it loading gmaps apis

I don't even see a map

Burgi

its loading it across all the pages but only used on the contact page

Bob

@Burgi which is insane

even we only load it on-demand, and our thing's a freakin' single-page app

Burgi

omg... my minion....

Bob

3:10 PM

@JourneymanGeek plus side. slightly less dodgy than the other one.

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi is he goggling at the horror too?

Burgi

he has approved a pull request from a freelancer that contains serious errors

Journeyman Geek

aah

Steven Vascellaro

4:14 PM

I made a tag for wannacrypt the other day since I saw a few questions about it. Should a synonym tag be added for wannacry?

I figured a wannacrypt specific tag would be better than the ransomware tag that was being exclusively used for wannacrypt questions

Burgi

hmmm.... i'm not so sure that is a good idea

Steven Vascellaro

@Burgi do you think the ransomware tag should be used instead?

Burgi

yeah

Steven Vascellaro

We could synonym wannacrypt to ransomware then

Burgi

thats probably the better option

Steven Vascellaro

4:19 PM

Make that the de-facto tag

djsmiley2k

nod nod

aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

work is weird

i don't get office politics

so arugh

Steven Vascellaro

I don't have enough rep to suggest synonyms, so someone else would have to suggest it

Burgi

post it on meta

djsmiley2k

Guy who originally wanted to hire me to ops team, asks me if i'd be interested in joining ops team, but asks that I don't tell anyone he's asked me.

Burgi

why are you being headhunted?

djsmiley2k

4:22 PM

One of my teamleaders clearly sees this, asks me after if i'm looking to move to ops (I'm not). Says I'd likely be bored (I agree and told the guy at the time that I didn't think the role would occupy me, and I don't want to be the guy who just flips between departments)

teamleader then goes, well what about sysadmin or network teams, that's more like the stuff you'd enjoy

i'm like.... well yeah,

so then he goes to talk to those teams to see if they got any positions coming up, partly because he doesn't like the ops guy xD

Oliver Salzburg

4:33 PM

@djsmiley2k Why are they looking for a new team for you anyway?

djsmiley2k

they aren't

they just know i won't stay on the service desk forever

Oliver Salzburg

So your team lead doesn't want you to join ops based on that he doesn't like the ops lead?

If that was actually the case, then I don't think he is well suited to be a leader :P

djsmiley2k

no

based on the fact h knows I'd be bored and wasted theret5gf

6which happens to be what i basically told the guy too

but he just confirmed it xD

djsmiley2k

4:57 PM

ANYWAY

feels good :D

Rahul2001

5:30 PM

@GypsySpellweaver Changed to your design, but now it looks weird on mobile :/

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek 51 html errors and warnings, 498 css errors :)

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill rahul.tech IS VALID!!!

Check first line of source code :P

Burgi

but it isn't semantically valid

Rahul2001

@Burgi It is

djsmiley2k

im half expecting the devs at work to come and talk to me tomorrow

Burgi

5:44 PM

<pre> is for preformatted text like code or the like

djsmiley2k

pretty sure that's not valid in html5 :/

Rahul2001

@djsmiley2k Why not?

@Burgi That is preformatted text, just not code

Burgi

there is a secondary part to HTML5 about semantic validity

djsmiley2k

oh actually ur fine

Burgi

you should use the correct tags for the job

Rahul2001

5:48 PM

@Burgi Mehh

Burgi

it helps screen readers and is easier to debug styling issues

Nick

@Burgi gaah

Burgi

gah?

Nick

Yes. I think I can do better than that given enough time.

bwDraco

6:03 PM

extremetech.com/computing/…

> The days of paying $1,800 for a ten-core CPU are numbered.

*cough*i7-6950X*cough*

Nick

on ubuntu, su - is asking for a different password than my admin password. sudo is working with my admin password

sudo su works though. It takes me to root/home/usr

but install isn't working :( some other process is using dpkg

but there is no other process according to ps -a

I used to be good at this :(

503

Q: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it?

I get this error when trying to use apt-get: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it? How can I fix this?

dafuq, these people say to delete the lock.

crazy

crazy ass dope mf

lsof says root is the one holding the lock

can't kill him.

@djsmiley2k yes, open thunder.wncry in a code editor.

and no, astley holdings pvt. ltd. is not a real company. I made that up.

djsmiley2k

6:21 PM

@Nick i don't have one :(

Nick

then, gedit or nano.

djsmiley2k

seems like too mcuh effort

bwDraco

Times Square crash, apparently drunk driver on wrong side of road.

Richard Rojas, 26 y/o of the #Bronx (driver) drove at a high rate of speed. 22 injured (4 critical) and one person is deceased. #TimesSquare

Tweeted by NYPDnews on May 18, 2017 at 5:51 PM

(offical NYPD Tweet)

Nick

@djsmiley2k lol,,, it;s just text.

@bwDraco dafuq is this. Which year am I in? Who the hell....

djsmiley2k

@bwDraco :/

bwDraco

6:23 PM

All information is preliminary: At 1155hrs a 2009 Honda Accord mounted the sidewalk at W.42St & 7th Avenue striking people. #TimesSquare

Tweeted by NYPDnews on May 18, 2017 at 5:48 PM

^^^ Went onto the sidewalk. Scary.

It was serious enough that the NYTimes app gave me a breaking news alert for this.

Nick

@bwDraco I used to scare my friends back in muscat with that.

Burgi

er...

@Nick drunk driving or driving on the pavement?

Rahul2001

How Trump made it harder for the US to fight terrorism

►

Nick

@Burgi We'd be walking on the sidewalk and I'll detail how they could die at that moment.

bwDraco

@Burgi @Nick From what I can tell from the news stories, the car was on the wrong side of the road, then plowed onto the sidewalk. The driver has a record of drunk driving.

djsmiley2k

6:49 PM

hmmm

iu remember once

me, my wife and her friend were walking to hte club

and it was in a pretty dodgy area

anyway we stepped out into the road, what should be like a 30 zone

guy comes round a corner doing about 60+

i pulled my wifes arm, spinning them both into my arms

if I hadn't, they'd of totally been ran down by that guy

Burgi

@bwDraco the good news is it being new york he won't have been moving very quickly

Mokubai

7:13 PM

@Burgi Being on the pavement he could probably go faster than the road...

djsmiley2k

who turned the rain on :/

Gypsy Spellweaver

15 hours ago, by Gypsy Spellweaver

@Rahul2001 Not in php, and not using the responsive designs, only for the desktop. Still, might help out some. https://github.com/gypsyspellweaver/gossip

The changes were only in the css enough for the desktop to look the same. don't know what CSS you have the mobile versions using, nor how else you have it set up. Once the HTML is good, then adjust the CSS.

@Rahul2001 I'm guessing you have different css for desktop and mobile. I couldn't see any responsive elements in the style.css file.

bwDraco

8:20 PM

Due to HVAC limitations in this house resulting in my bedroom getting extremely hot, I'm working from Bifrons in another room and using RDP to the Dragon instead. Despite the limitations of the display, it is still minimally usable for photo post-processing.

I'm typing this from a Remote Desktop session right now.

The connection is fast enough that there's no perceptible lag.

bwDraco

9:02 PM

wccftech.com/…

> [...] While power consumption and heat may be minor issues for the typical PC user, they're a huge deal in the datacenter when you have thousands of servers consuming many megawatts of total power. The HVAC needed to get rid of all this heat multiplies this cost. Shaving a mere 5% off of the power consumption means cutting hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars a month out of the energy bill.

Burgi

9:58 PM

@djsmiley2k what do you hear?

Bob

10:42 PM

morning

DavidPostill

morning

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