Root Access

Bob

12:21 AM

@DavidPostill Yea, that site is all kinds of screwed up.

bwDraco

Guess what? I did hit the rep cap.

The last upvote was at 2332 hours Zulu.

Ben N

🐉✔

bwDraco

:)

Michael Frank

Nespresso machine without a hot chocolate option? HA! Dump some packet hot choco in a cup and hold the frothy milk button on the machine until cup is full. Win. :D

bwDraco

So... got an Xbox One controller a few days ago and have been using it for Shovel Knight and a few other games, on PC via Bluetooth. Some notes:

The biggest improvement is with the shoulder buttons: the triggers LT and RT are now properly damped. The Xbox 360 controller had undamped triggers that were less precise and had hard stops that were very noisy.

Eliminating the need for a cord helps a lot, but battery life is less than ideal (based on preliminary voltage measurements on the supplied Duracell batteries). I'll put rechargeable cells in the controller once the stock batteries are depleted.

Not Dog

12:37 AM

Morning @Bob

bwDraco

The D-pad is a vast improvement over the old design, which had trouble with precise directional inputs. The directional buttons have positive click feedback and are easy to operate.

Bob

@NotDog o/

bwDraco

Other aspects of the controller, including the analog sticks and grip, have also noticeably improved.

So, your thoughts on the Xbox One Controller?

Also: venturebeat.com/2013/11/18/…

How do you improve upon the industry-standard gamepad? It took Microsoft well over $100m in R&D money to create the Xbox One controller.

Michael Frank

1:05 AM

PS4 Controller is still better.

Michael Frank

1:20 AM

HOLY WOW EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE

IPHONE CORRUPTION EVERYWHERE

3 hours ago, by Michael Frank

Turns out "Here's your new iphone, install iTunes and do a backup/restore." is a good option.

Yea... That's what I thought.

Not Dog

Huh so there's LTE cat NB1 and M1

bwDraco

##ping

I Am A Bot

@bwDraco pong

bwDraco

##wiki NarrowBand IOT

...something is wrong.

##tell 38440361 echo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NarrowBand_IOT

I Am A Bot

1:38 AM

@bwDraco en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NarrowBand_IOT

bwDraco

:(

I Am A Bot

NarrowBand IOT

NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) is a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) radio technology standard that has been developed to enable a wide range of devices and services to be connected using cellular telecommunications bands. NB-IoT is a narrowband radio technology designed for the Internet of Things (IoT), and is one of a range of Mobile IoT (MIoT) technologies standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Other 3GPP IoT technologies include eMTC (enhanced Machine-Type Communication) and EC-GSM-IoT. The NB-IoT specification was frozen at Release 13 of the 3GPP specification (LTE-Advanced...

bwDraco

Having to resort to such sorcery to get the bot to post what I want it to post is less than ideal.

Journeyman Geek

lol. Work out what's broken and put in a PR? ;p

bwDraco

The wiki command is broken.

Journeyman Geek

1:49 AM

So it seems

So - I got an email from someone higher up at work complaining the website changes I did yesterday were not done. Is it out of line to go "I checked and its the latest version - double checked on a second PC. Here's a screenshot with today's date visible to conform"?

also telling them to hard refresh since tis probably caching

Michael Frank

"Hi knobhead, the changes were completed yesterday, however your computer may be holding onto cache files from before the change was made. Please try..."

Journeyman Geek

Oh that was what I meant.

Hi - I'm seeing the latest org chart - updated 23rd june 2017 when I checked. - I've confirmed this on one of the classroom PCs as well as on my own work system.

Its possible your system has an old version cached or saved from a previous time that you were on the website - for your reference, this is what I'm seeing, and the previous version is from may. ctrl F5 should force your browser to show the latest version of the page.

is what I said

Michael Frank

It'd be out of line to call them a knobhead... But not to point out that they might be looking at a cached copy.

Journeyman Geek

2:18 AM

also, it looks like I got a second screen at work

One of these images.freemarket.kiev.ua/images_goods/Acer/Acer-AL1517.jpg

Michael Frank

Score...?

Journeyman Geek

lol. Better than nothing, for now

I might yonk one of the baking school monitors if the opportunity arose

Michael Frank

My current monitor at work is not much bigger than that...

But I mostly use the laptop screen anyway.

Bob

2:37 AM

the one-star reviews O_O

it's a 60 MB download too

wtf

I could fit an entire OS in 60 MB!

Michael Frank

2:49 AM

That's what happens when the marketing team comes up with the app themselves...

Bob

what.

the ordering app has a password limit of 10 characters.

my existing password on my existing account has 20 characters

what braindead idiot wrote this shit

@MichaelFrank comes up with? more like told their new intern to write it

wait, not even, my old password was 12 chars... probably because the old app had a 12 char limit

oh lol

their password reset form only accepts 10 chars for the old password

(%^(&^%&@(^%&*($%@^#&*$%#$*(!%^#(%^!#(&%@(&!%$#

their password reset emails me a new password

oh piss off

I could write better password management in my sleep

Michael Frank

3:05 AM

haaaahahaha

Bob

worse, it emailed me a 6-character password

that DOESN'T EVEN FOLLOW THEIR OWN PASSWORD RULES

Michael Frank

wut

Bob

at least 1 upper case, 1 lower case and 1 digit... they emailed me a 6-char all-lower

great. now neither my old password nor the 'reset' one works

Symbols are ... not accepted?

Are they storing my password in plaintext?!

Michael Frank

Not sure what they have against e and g though...

Bob

oh god... it wants me to add a credit card...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

given this atrocious security...

Michael Frank

3:13 AM

All this for a BigMac?

Bob

3:23 AM

@MichaelFrank naw, gotta go quarter pounder :P

Avery

My second video on viruses on linux is coming with petya.

Bob

in all seriousness, was mostly playing around with the new app ... which I'm gonna uninstall right about now. the app itself isn't bad but the account system is horrible

Avery

actually, with a ton of viruses.

Michael Frank

@Bob Do you get the Boss Burger over there?

Bob

@MichaelFrank nah, but they do introduce new ones (and cycle out old ones) every couple months

Michael Frank

3:33 AM

Yea, we don't often get cycled out burgers.

Avery

3:53 AM

@Avery boo it doesn't work

files a bug report to wine

TITLE: PETYA RENSENWARE DOESN:T WORK

Michael Frank

4:15 AM

@Avery "Can't install game called PETYA"

Rahul2001

I DON'T LIKE THIS

Need to go meet dad :(

Avery

@Rahul2001 hug

Rahul2001

@Avery will need plenty of those throughout the day

Avery

@Rahul2001 how long will you spend with him

Gypsy Spellweaver

Got a question for our spam hunters: Even with proper disclosure, can it become spam when a user posts across many sites? All answers are valid for the questions.

Journeyman Geek

4:26 AM

hm, across sites is a bit iffy, least from a mod point of view

there's a bit of cross-site co-operation for blatant spammers

but if someone's writing a reasonable number/percentage of his answers, and happens to work on a product, and the answers are useful, specific, and written to solve the problem, it ought to be ok

Rahul2001

@Avery two hours

Gypsy Spellweaver

Kind of what I thought. Looks spammy, but is on-point and not just link answers.

Rahul2001

@GypsySpellweaver proper disclosure is the key here

Journeyman Geek

oh, there's two element

Proper Disclosure is necessary but not sufficient

Gypsy Spellweaver

Proper disclosure is there, and plainly given, answers are on-point, and include additional information.

Journeyman Geek

4:31 AM

ah

then we'd be inclined to think its ok

Gypsy Spellweaver

What I figured as well. Let the voting handle it, but fp in charcoal

Rahul2001

I now have a domain for my home server! bleh.ml

Michael Frank

So do it!

Except my server is in a box somewhere...

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Rahul2001

@MichaelFrank so is that kid I stabbed last night...

Michael Frank

4:40 AM

Wait.. So do I*

also, that's really dark D:

Rahul2001

@MichaelFrank pretty sure my basement is too...

I wonder how that guy who ~~is tapped~~ lives down there is doing...

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 dude. A little too dark for this room IMO

less murderiness please

Rahul2001

4:56 AM

@JourneymanGeek lol, okay ;P

Rahul2001

5:32 AM

Huh. Dad will be here at any moment

user226528

5:51 AM

Hey guys. Can one of you please verify a certain page on SU for me? I want to be sure what I see is correct.

user226528

What in the name of ...! I have clippy on my screen! :O

Gypsy Spellweaver

@FleetCommand Don't you just love that fella??

user226528

@GypsySpellweaver Sarcastically speaking, yes.

Gypsy Spellweaver

What page on SU has you calling the eye doctor?

user226528

Anyway, I have flagged this response as "not an answer" but now, it seems to me that maybe, my browser is not showing all of it.

user226528

5:54 AM

The text is certainly clipped off.

user226528

Can anyone see anything past the "As such it is a very" fragment? Or is the truely the last thing on the post?

Gypsy Spellweaver

You see it all.

And NAA is right.

user226528

Oh, good.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Use case, yes, answer = not

user226528

When I saw that clipped off text, I thought maybe he just started off with an anecdote and there is answer after it that I don't see.

Bob

6:01 AM

@FleetCommand lol. the bit asking about ghosting... somehow it makes me feel old

user226528

@Bob Me too.

Bob

Except the OP is almost certainly older than me (going by their profile)

Gypsy Spellweaver

Do they even use Ghost anymore?

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver discontinued

Gypsy Spellweaver

I've always done a poor man's Ghost using dd

Bob

6:02 AM

huh, apparently a version of it is still available/maintained

user226528

Journeyman Geek introduced me to Veeam Agent for Windows. I plan to use that for cloning from now on.

user226528

I used Paragon so far. Before that Acronis. I never actually used Ghost, depending how you define "use".

satibel

@FleetCommand tbf, it's half an answer, it answers "how does one go about doing it."

Gypsy Spellweaver

The only system I have to maintain is my own, so I've managed to get by with doing it by hand, so to speak.

user226528

@satibel "how does one go about doing it" was never part of the question.

satibel

6:07 AM

> What is “cloning a hard drive” and how does one go about doing it?

user226528

@satibel I know. When the title bar contradicts the body, I ignore the title bar. Anyway, software recommendation is not part of our mission statement.

Gypsy Spellweaver

It don't really tell how to go about doing it either, just what he does with it. No steps to follow, or other instructions.

satibel

@FleetCommand that answer is not recommending a software, but a (half-assed) method.

though, some of the answer is missing.

Gypsy Spellweaver

@satibel That's what got the whole thing started :)

If there weren't other answers from that user, I'd have suspected it was a delayed spam post. Clear the filters, then edit in some spam. But that user has other answers. Not all very good, but real anyway.

Some even are accepted answers.

user226528

@satibel I stand corrected. The answer does not even explain how to do it. It only says I do it in such-and-such intervals.

satibel

6:19 AM

> It seems part of your answer is missing. (As such it is a very what? ) You may also want to expend on how the disc image is put to the hard disk, which seem to be the part of the question you want to answer. – satibel just now

Gypsy Spellweaver

As a new user on a site (with the 100 rep association bonus) I cannot DV, that requires rep > 125, but can I still flag posts for VLQ/NAA/Spam ?

satibel

@GypsySpellweaver I think your downvotes are just not shown

Rahul2001

6:37 AM

This guy is such an asshole

What the hell did I do to deserve such a fucked up family?

user226528

@Rahul2001 Whoa! You're dropping an a-bomb without context!

Rahul2001

"You're a minor, nothing you say carries any weight in court"

"This case is going to drag on for years and years"

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Rahul2001 Check out this SO post. stackoverflow.com/q/44817824/7412956

Rahul2001

I just want this dude to die. I'm sick of this.

He's boasting about being a lawyer for the worst criminals in the country

I'm sick of the manipulation and lies

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Rahul2001 A government lawyer?

Rahul2001

6:41 AM

@GypsySpellweaver my father.

He's ruining our lives. Doesn't stop there apparently.

Fucking hell.

Sorry, I'm in a fucked up mood

Being forced by courts to meet the guy who has ruined our lives doesn't go down very well with me

satibel

*hug*

Rahul2001

He broke my family

Rahul2001

7:05 AM

My grandmother is in terrible depression because of him

My mum is always stressed

I need to carry a fucking knife everywhere in case he tries to hurt uh

Fun life

And he won't fucking stop touching me. Wtf

Oliver Salzburg

7:21 AM

A father touching his child. Call the cops!

satibel

somewhat relevant cyanide and happiness comic (may be offensive)

Rahul2001

@OliverSalzburg One who has a history of emotionally and physically abusing us.

Anyway, I have to go now

Goodbye

Sorry for the rants and depressing messages

Gypsy Spellweaver

7:36 AM

Namaste

satibel

bye @Rahul2001, take care.

Oliver Salzburg

That's what I get when I try to open the KB article for the issue I'm having

Good start for the day

satibel

7:53 AM

GLHF

Pandya

8:15 AM

I'm just going to install Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.02 LTS from USB on the laptop in which Win10 installed. Though I've created a system repair disk. Should I care about UEFI? Because I've no experience with dual booting with UEFI & GPT. I used to do with traditional MBR on my Desktop PC.

I mean choosing partition while installing Ubuntu.

Bob

@Pandya UEFI yould 'just work', though you might need to turn off secure boot if you don't have a signed bootloader

wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/SecureBoot

16.04 should have a signed bootloader

hm, maybe not

satibel

8:49 AM

@Bob worst case scenario, this triggers a glitch which creates an AI that destroys the entire universe.

Rahul2001

@satibel that's no big deal... :P

> Additionally, another exception occurred while executing the custom error page for the first exception.

facepalm

Oliver Salzburg

That's how I felt :P

But I think I found the solution myself

0

Q: Error: MigrationProvisioningPermanentException: The name is already being used

I'm trying a cutover migration to Office 365, where I already have existing users. The migration shows this error for some users: Error: MigrationProvisioningPermanentException: The name 'some.one' is already being used. I don't see that name in any of the existing user account settings or ...

microsoft-office-365

The support tech blew my mind though. Showed me that you can just start existing migration batches again, even while they are running, to retry only the failed mailboxes

Journeyman Geek

9:23 AM

Til, a pallette knife is a perfect tool for removing signs from walls

djsmiley2k

o_O

how were they attached o_O

Rahul2001

Are there any free alternatives to letsencrypt which don't require ACME?

(cc @Bob)

Bob

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck me left my phone on the train

1hr detour to hopefully pick it up

@Rahul2001 use dns challenge

Also XY question

Journeyman Geek

Oo

@Rahul2001 what's wrong with le and acme?

Rahul2001

9:56 AM

@JourneymanGeek my server software doesn't support ACME

@Bob ow :(

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 can run le standalone

Pandya

Finally I successfully installed Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.02 LTS; can dual boot with Win10 on my laptop. /cc @Rahul2001 :)

Bob

phew. such a relief feeling my watch get the missed call

it means I'm close! (another passenger handed it in a few stations down. got a call through to him via station staff)

@Rahul2001 I always run certonly anyway

Rahul2001

@Pandya yay \o/

@Bob cool. Good luck!

satibel

@Pandya nice, no backups needed :p

satibel

10:20 AM

Just connected to my old mail... 299 new messages.

djsmiley2k

10:44 AM

that's not much

/me signs into his hotmail

4848

Rahul2001

@Bob DNS challenge appears to require certbot... And I cannot run it on Windows

Journeyman Geek

hm

cloudflare does https don't they?

satibel

11:02 AM

@djsmiley2k those are mails that manage to pass the spam filter.

Bob

@Rahul2001 there's a PowerShell version

I'm not kidding. I use it on a windows server

satibel

@JourneymanGeek they do.

defalt

People have to stop saying the old generation word ROM..modern EEPROMs are called NVRAM

satibel

11:19 AM

@defalt NVRAM is in use?

(this is only half sarcastic, I'd like to know if I missed something.)

Journeyman Geek

11:43 AM

@satibel that's a possible option for @Rahul2001 then, even if its not properlike certs

djsmiley2k

11:57 AM

wow they finally fixed my google account \o/

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k What was wrong with it?

djsmiley2k

woudln't load google photos in google drive

it'd litterally load like the last months worth, and that's it

(of 30Gb of photos)

DavidPostill

:)

Journeyman Geek

what was wrong with it before?

Bob

oof

back in my comfy chair

@Rahul2001 letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options

I used letsencrypt-win-simple github.com/Lone-Coder/letsencrypt-win-simple

designed to work with IIS but also works with standalone HTTP server

@defalt NVRAM is called NVRAM. EEPROM is called EEPROM.

NVRAM might have replaced EEPROM in some areas, but EEPROM is still very much in use in modern hardware.

Though that depends on which version of the term you're using, I suppose...

If you're going by the literal meaning... yea, there's a lot of memory that satisfies both.

Oh wait. brainfart.

s/NVRAM/NAND/ for my messages -_-

NVRAM being the more generic term that covers basically everything.

Rahul2001

12:23 PM

@JourneymanGeek I don't like cloudflare, because of all the TOR blocks :/

@Bob wow, okay, thanks!

@Bob got phone back?

Burgi

only missing my minion a small amount...

DavidPostill

@Burgi He's gone already?

defalt

@Bob is thery any architectural difference between EEPROM and NVRAM. I read somewhere that PROM, EPROM and EEPROM are collectively called as NVRAM.

Burgi

@DavidPostill it was his last day yesterday

arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/05/…

defalt

@Rahul2001 cloudfare blocks exit nodes?

Rahul2001

12:34 PM

@defalt yes. But they claim that it's because the high traffic gets them detected as blocks.

defalt

@Rahul2001 Oh yeah their DDOS protection system.

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi you can run mosaic on Ubuntu :p

Bob

@Rahul2001 yea I had it back by the time I mentioned the watch :P

(thank god)

@defalt EEPROM is a type of NVRAM. I misspoke in that message - I meant NAND has replaced EEPROM.

(NAND also technically being a type of EEPROM, but normally EEPROM refers to byre-erasable memory where NAND is block-erased.)

var firstName

12:50 PM

Electronically Erasable Programmable Read only memory?

I went to school!

:D

Bob

@Burgi Oh god. For some reason that reminds me of guestbooks.

Burgi

lol

i had a guestbook on my site :)

var firstName

Burgi

I hate this computer pls halp

Disk I/O Dropped yesterday

I fixed it

now it's back again

I updated Windows

...

Current paging file size for all drives

4 gigs

Burgi

you aren't my type

var firstName

I find it hilarious

that 20 MB/s isn't considered 100% disk

but 4.6 MB/s is

I know it's because of disk idle time but man that's funny

Avery

12:59 PM

actually I won't do that.

Burgi

thats not racism

var firstName

Avery, you're a nice person.

Avery

It was a joke

var firstName

I know

You're a nice person for removing it in case someone got offended

Avery

A bad one.

I apologise.

Burgi

1:00 PM

i just don't find barcodes sexy

var firstName

wow

racist

I'm not a bar code you insensitive pig swoons

djsmiley2k

erm you are

Burgi

a sub-species

djsmiley2k

you're a 3d barcode infact.

var firstName

;(

thanks for the star, kind human

djsmiley2k

1:04 PM

Who you callin a human?!

Bob

Hm. $115 for 32 GB of Optane as a cache...

Burgi

arstechnica.co.uk/science/2017/05/…

so... ok

umm....

i just got a pay rise

var firstName

niceee

Burgi

not a big one

var firstName

Where do you work /uj

Burgi

1:18 PM

in an office

var firstName

/s

I work in an office too

Burgi

you are 16

var firstName

indeed

you want pics?

Burgi

shouldn't you be on the park drinking cider?

var firstName

no

my dad is keeping me out of trouble

Avery

1:19 PM

am I the only 16yo here that works from home smh

also woo release date for the project I'm working on is set to this weekend

var firstName

Congrats Avery

Get ready for the dollah bills

Guys

I just learned something

My system, the entire time

was thrashing

Avery

@varfirstName it's donationware

var firstName

meh

what does the program do?

Avery

something like a mobile game for an indie card game.

var firstName

Indie card game... I know this. It's like Hearthstone but cooler, right?

Talked about at E3?

no?

Avery

1:24 PM

maybe

Burgi

did you not see @Avery on stage doing sony's presentation?

var firstName

What

Avery you famous? :o

Avery

see unlike those random sales people I know how to talk.

I can't talk in front of millions, but at least I know what to say

"we have the pixels, the best pixels" isn't one of them.

var firstName

what's the game called again?

I saw it on IGN's indie coverage

Avery

(I'm not working on that)

(this is truly indie)

when you go to e3 you aren't indie anymore

var firstName

1:27 PM

oh

rip

Did you actually announce things at E3?

I wanna see

Avery

I did not

Maybe one day.

var firstName

aww

Avery

I have some talks but I won't link them.

and I hope that you don't go digging.

var firstName

Is your name actually Avery :o

Avery

legally no, though I'm working on it.

Bob

1:49 PM

@Burgi standard yearly, an an actual raise? :P

@Avery uhh... @Rahul2001 kinda does?

Avery

@Bob he's 15 iirc

satibel

@Avery I think he's 16 now.

there, 16 rahul.tech/page/about

Avery

ah ok I see

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