Root Access

@BenN The next article after that is amusing: The Suicide Door

1:39 AM

Homework:
Hexadecimal to Binary
Binary to hex
Octal to Bin
Bin to Octal
Oct to Hex
Hex to Oct
Bin to Hex
Hex to Bin
Octal to Dec
Dec to Octal
...and so on...

This is painful

5 conversions of each combination

How do you even do Octal to Decimal?

> Start the decimal result at 0.
Remove the most significant octal digit (leftmost) and add it to the result.
If all octal digits have been removed, you're done. Stop.
Otherwise, multiply the result by 8.
Go to step 2.

According to Prof. Google, at least.

That's just step one :(

Why do I even have to learn this?

No, that's all the steps. Each line is a step.

oohh

@Rahul2001 cause sometimes you use a calculator. Sometimes you are the calculator. Other times, you write the calculator

1:54 AM

:D

@Rahul2001 decimal 123 is 3 * 10^0 + 2 * 10^1 + 1 * 10^2 yea?

for octal 123 it's 3 * 8^0 + 2 * 8^1 + 1 * 8^2

@Bob yep

Ohhhh

Yes!

you go right to left, adding each digit multiplied by the base to the power of the distance from the right

Thanks!!

wait. lemme just double-check

yea, that works out :P

(I've never actually done it for octal. or maybe once a long time ago. but same principal applies to hex)

2:18 AM

Hm. This place seems to have an odd number of small humans.

2:36 AM

https://stackexchange.com/
Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. (not supposed to reach this) { [Error: URL after login incorrect]
  message: 'URL after login incorrect',
  type: 'WaitUntilTimeoutError' }

:P

@JourneymanGeek ... oh. I thought you meant ... something else.

@Rahul2001 You know about groping when converting between Bin, Hex and Oct?

@RogUE I would recommend not groping anything or anyone.

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@Rahul2001 It's a lot easier( I really don't know the correct name of that methode, if it has one)

@Bob Why is that?

@RogUE en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grope :P

@Bob Well, my mistake.

2:40 AM

@RogUE Sorry, I was just trying to make a joke out of the typo

Thats allright.

2:57 AM

@allquixotic poke

sup

@allquixotic so, bot. apparently the login flow kinda changed and now SE treats SE login as actual oauth

But I've kinda got that working, and geckodriver too. which implemented a slightly different webdriver spec? but selenium standalone (java) can bridge it

@allquixotic I'm at the point of trying to get ff to persist a profile, but it... hm. tbh I don't know how. did you have that working before?

Ben N

Blargh, that probably means my bot is broken too. Will investigate tomorrow

@Bob yeah, se-chatbot-driver

@allquixotic ah, damn... don't have FirefoxProfile with geckodriver

3:22 AM

@Bob DesiredCapabilities? :P

@allquixotic Yea, but no way to pass a profile. I'm falling back to args which lets me pass in --profile=/blah but then Marionette opens on the wrong port

ugh

github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/issues/535

@allquixotic do you happen to know how I can pass args to a driver when running selenium standalone?

actual CLI args

java -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver=/root/dev/geckodriver -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.4.0.jar

I'll need to pass a port in to geckodriver

@Bob prolly cause there's no more se login, and it probably means one less thing to maintain for legacy accounts

@JourneymanGeek SE login still exists. my new sock was created with it.

it's just a backend change with no user-visible effects. unless you're running a bot login with tight timings.

3:37 AM

Oo. Preeeeeeeeety sure they killed that off o0

I feel so dirty

# cat geckodriver-launcher
#!/bin/sh
./geckodriver --marionette-port 12345

o0

when you can't pass args in... make a wrapper! :P

ah

for a moment I thought you used cat to launch it

I'm in the odd place between working and not yet working. Since they're still processing my paperwork 0_0

1494214943696   geckodriver     ERROR   Address in use (os error 98)

wat

lies

lies and slander

oh wait, this is just lies

3:49 AM

and statistics?

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:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

@allquixotic I got the script working! Next up: make it work headlessly

"beatingbloodoutofarockwithahalberd"

0_0

so, no formal ticketing system, the other IT guy is also facilities. And for some reason I had to fill up the teaching staff degree confirmation....

@JourneymanGeek interesting :P

*** You are running in headless mode.

so far so good

@Bob in the old chinese proverb sense?

Unable to init server: Broadway display type not supported

fak

... adriftwith.me/coding/2017/04/21/headless-slimerjs-with-firefox

in other words, not quite ready yet

welp

XKCD

4:05 AM

3

4:30 AM

@Bob awesome!

@Bob LAME

try headless Chrome? :P

@allquixotic ...Maybe later :P

user226528

5:07 AM

@XKCD How about the time when they actually sent a lunch order and ended up starting a nuclear war?

5:28 AM

hm. Good news is this place is terribly ad hoc.

Bad news is this place is terribly ad hoc

lol

@JourneymanGeek I could've told you that when you said it was a school :P

lol

apparently the other IT guy is also facilities...

and the student management system is an access 2003 thing... and everyone's on 2016

user226528

@JourneymanGeek Just pray you don't have to set up Office 2016 for the foreign affairs company that works with Saudi Arabia.

I also still have no contract nor know my hours...

or my job title

or....

user226528

Been through worse

5:38 AM

beats unemployment ;p

apparently the current IT guy handles... everything tho

apparently including facilities

5:58 AM

@bertieb Well, looks like B2's becoming a more attractive option :P backblaze.com/blog/b2-drops-download-pricing

@JourneymanGeek sounds like a school

@JourneymanGeek ...yea, uh, the contract is kinda meant to be the thing you sign before you start

errrrm yeah

also I have no work PC, account setup....

and the senior all the things guy isn't here

Its a bit messy 0_0

also my seat is terrible

@JourneymanGeek school :P

lol

yeaaah

spoiled by my time in VFX

I'm supposed to be issued a laptop. But I'm half of IT soooooo

Oh, there's also no real inventory of hardware it seemms

yeah. schoooool

user226528

@JourneymanGeek I think I just found something more annoying than your plight: A piece of song is stuck into my head and I don't know where I have heard it or what is the rest of it.

user226528

Bad employers, I can negotiate with. Ear worms ... er...

6:14 AM

lol

not sure there's much plight here

just a period of adjustment

6:34 AM

sounds like if you want anything done, you'll be doing it yourself

yup

user226528

@Psycogeek The story of my life.

user226528

The story of everyone's life?

user226528

The story of every successful person's life?

user226528

(Surely, there are some pampered kids who get excluded here.)

user226528

6:39 AM

...
la la la. I'll survive...

user226528

...
What IS this song!

user226528

...
"Cause I have cursed myself"? No, that doesn't sound right.

@FleetCommand can you hum a recording? or remember any lyrics?

you have me curious now :P

user226528

@Bob That's all I remember: "la la la. I'll survive... Cause I have ~~cursed~~ [?] myself."

user226528

And I don't have a mic here. I'm in my workplace, you know.

6:45 AM

phone mic? :P

I wouldn't be able to listen to it right now anyway, I'm at work too

user226528

I have an iPhone, yes. Maybe Shazam can identify it.

user226528

Progress! I had an epiphany: People don't curse themselves. If anything, they "bless" themselves. That's nonsense, sure, but I am having a positive Google hit on "I'll survive 'cause I have blessed myself".

Diana Ross - I Will Survive

►

7:06 AM

@FleetCommand I think SoundHound is a bit better for humming, but it's still quite poor

Shazam is good for actual music recordings

@allquixotic I started looking, but then:

> Note: you may encounter bugs using ChromeDriver. At the time of writing, the latest release (2.29) only supports Chrome 58. Headless Chrome requires Chrome 59 or later.

bleh.

@allquixotic Also, PJS is basically dead: groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phantomjs/9aI5d-LDuNE

7:53 AM

morning

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Facilities as in cleaning the toilets?

Almost

@JourneymanGeek @DavidPostill @FleetCommand I have no real advice except to just keep ploughing on. The problem comes in when you get a load of flags declined on a single day, you go from being able to to flag to not being able to flag without seeing a warning

Kez

Anyone good with removing really nasty viruses that have got deep into a Windows installation? It's called Cortana...

Lol

user226528

8:03 AM

Compulsory lol

@Rahul2001 looks interesting

@allquixotic I think Chrome is a bust. bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=604324#c30

user226528

@Kez Why does it bother you?

@Kez I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a touch tablet not just because of Cortina but because Windows 10 basically requires an internet connection and a fairly good one because of all the stuff connecting to the web. that doesn't work out too well with me being mobile and the new unlimited cough cough data from my phone company being only 128 bytes per second Windows 10 continuous connections basically kills itself programs locked up waiting for response from the web

Kbytes

Sadly, I have got more done on the phone, which has a simple setting of Restricting background net data,

@Psycogeek ...win10 has a similar option, iirc

user226528

8:18 AM

@Psycogeek Well, similar options. Plural. But I've turned them off.

I don't know how well that works in Windows in Android though programs don't lock up waiting for the web to respond

@Bob Windows 10 has an Airplane mode.

@MichaelFrank it also has a metered network toggle

user226528

I have lots of reasons to dislike Windows 10 but Cortana and background app activity isn't one of them.

I don't have Cortana

user226528

8:26 AM

@MichaelFrank Enterprise LTSB?

@FleetCommand Pro

user226528

@MichaelFrank O.o?

Windows 10 Pro. No Cortana

Or it's disabled or something...

@Rahul2001 its not got active development

user226528

@MichaelFrank Do you have search?

8:27 AM

yea, I've got a search, just not the "How can I help you today?" box

user226528

Oh, well, I disabled that too. Windows 10 Enterprise (workplace)

Oh, huh... Cortana is there.

It doesn't do anything though :S

Q: My Nvidia GeForce 940MX doesn't have OpenGL?

urk

@allquixotic @JourneymanGeek I've got an amnesiac Cavil here :(

He doesn't even remember his own name!

oh I just love this

groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topicsearchin/…

@allquixotic So. Firefox doesn't work with geckodriver in headless mode. Chrome doesn't work with profile directories (and mixed-content) in headless mode. We can't use either yet.

On the plus side, the webdriver works perfectly with an X server :P

Dan Hulme

10:26 AM

Hi there. Would you guys be interested in this question about setting up OpenGL?

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I'm having a problem with my graphics card's driver. It doesn't seem to have OpenGL support... If I download OpenGL Extensions Viewer, my card doesn't show up, it's just my Onboard Intel that has the OpenGL acceleration and there is one that shows "GDI Generic". Nvidia page says that my card su...

opengl

10:52 AM

@DavidPostill not quite but close

11:50 AM

@JourneymanGeek @DavidPostill this user has posted a load of really bad answers very close together, they might need a quiet word about how the site works

12:17 PM

So I watched Deadpool. I don't like it because movie is kind of vulgar with weird people.

I never heard of comic book before so this anti-superhero was new to me.

i didn't like it either

i didn't mind the vulgarity, i just thought it was over-hyped and felt a little rushed

It tries to be sarcastic and funny but it kind of lacked the point ...

Deadpool and his girlfriend are 2 wacky weirdos...

she is hot though

The X-Men Colossus disappointed. I don't know much about this guy but is he typically supposed to be intelligent, manly and gentle?

It seemed like his presence was unnecessary...

I played X-Men video game on arcade and he seemed like a charismatic team leader there.

Here he's the opposite.

i disagree with you there

12:26 PM

Where I said he was unnecessary?

Or what was my assumption on him?

your assumption of him

Good thing I didn't bet money on it...

why would you bet on a film thats been out for 2 years?

No. I meant betting on my assumption. Like $10 that my assumption is correct. If it's correct, you PayPal me $10. If it's not, I PayPal you $10.

When I get emotional, I can do dumb things.

lol! its only a film, dude

12:38 PM

I can find any reason for betting...

But at least I am not addicted...

DavidPostill

@DanHulme Send it over, but please ask the user to include his OS.

@Boris_yo i bet you are!

Don't you hate these life insurance agents sometimes? You want basic, they offer premium just because your teeth are covered. What if you refuse? Get punched in your face by that agent in a dark street corner and lose teeth just because you refused!

"How much you teeth are worth to you pal? Remember my offer? You should have taken it!" *Punch

That's for me getting laid off because I fail to sell you premium insurance!

"Oh yea... How much your kidney is worth to you ;)"

NoooO!

o.O

"Have a cell? You should cover it too with our premium plan! Or else you will lose it tomorrow!"

@Burgi Revenge of sales agent. I am making stuff up.

Sometimes the sell you as if their life depends on it and it annoys me.

user226528

12:45 PM

The writer of this article must be hanged: Stop HTML5 autoplay videos in Chrome, Firefox, Opera

@FleetCommand I find it useful because I hate auto-plays not because they are NSFW but because they are loud!

user226528

I took its advice ... and lost the notification sounds of this chatroom!

@FleetCommand why?

user226528

@JourneymanGeek Why what? Why I took its advice or why I lost the notification sound?

Ah

12:48 PM

@FleetCommand is it working again now?

user226528

Yes. It was a simple matter of undoing it.

@FleetCommand Chrome?

user226528

Firefox

user226528

Told me to set the media.autoplay setting to false.

DavidPostill

@Burgi @JourneymanGeek Dealt with.

user226528

12:49 PM

I did and guess what? All media, not just videos, stopped auto-playing.

@DavidPostill thanks!

user226528

Including this chatroom's "thud" notification sound!

you hear "thud" sounds?

user226528

Right now, yes.

are you sure that isn't a murderer breaking in?

user226528

12:51 PM

LOL. What do you hear? The sound of a canary's love song?

@Burgi it's more "thuda-imp" .. it happens when you get pinged.

i hear a unicorn farting

trolls with the best

@FleetCommand I would love to hear that. How do I customize the thud sound into a canary singing?

You're supposed to be Super Users ... figure it out!

@Burgi You can hear rainbows? Can you also see sound?

user226528

@Nick I know how to. I'm not just in the mood to give you the speech about it.

@Nick i can also taste rainbows

12:53 PM

@FleetCommand Aww, well, please remember to ping me when you are in the mood.

o.O

@Burgi What about double rainbows?

they are triple tasty

Mithrandir

translate: Славный коммунизм

-_-

i see...

Mithrandir

12:57 PM

@Burgi what do you see?