Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:17 AM

@Burgi it happens. More often than not

Burgi

bedtime

rahuldottech

2:34 AM

So... That was an interesting night.

Bob

2:46 AM

lol

how's the hangover?

El8dN8

5:13 AM

Hey, just wondering does anyone happen to know what the negative integer behind a dll represents (like sometimes seen in registry). E.g. @%SystemRoot%\system32\appwiz.cpl,-1070

Bob

@El8dN8 IIRC it's the index of a resource.

DLLs can contain resources other than code, e.g. images, audio, other binary data.

Most often it refers to the location of an icon stored as an image in a DLL.

The other common case is the location of a localised language string.

There's other possibilities.

El8dN8

Okay, is there a term for it or is it called the "index of a resource"

@Bob anyways thank you for the point in the direction.

Bob

@El8dN8 It's just a resource in a DLL.

Usually in a special "resource-only DLL" => msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/…

But you can equally have these resources in DLLs that also contain code.

El8dN8

thank you

Bob

As for the comma-number format, idk if there's a name for that

@El8dN8 "Resource ID" apparently. See superuser.com/questions/887975/…

El8dN8

5:23 AM

Yeah, I was wondering if it was some sort of calling format windows uses

Bob

Or docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/menurc/icon-resource

Or stackoverflow.com/questions/30412505/…

Maybe docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/menurc/using-resources

El8dN8

Thank you, got to love documentation

Michael Frank

7:22 AM

Wooo my Razer Atheris arrived.

djsmiley2k

8:57 AM

Sigh

.csv previews in outlook have broke again

rahuldottech

9:24 AM

@Bob well

I had a bottle of beer

And around 150ml of vodka

The vodka was in three drinks each with 50ml

I don't think this is enough to cause a hangover

Because I'm just really tired, nothing else?

Also, the friend I was drinking with? We almost ended up hooking up.

'twas a strange night

Burgi

drunk sex 4tw

you are 18, your metabolism will be really fast so that amount of alcohol will barely touch you

just drink water or fruit juice today

the tiredness is part of the hangover

rahuldottech

9:42 AM

Huh. Cool.

bertieb

11:03 AM

TMI

Journeyman Geek

I was gonna say

yer a terrible role model @Burgi

Burgi

heh

Bob

11:21 AM

> We almost ended up hooking up.

Story of @rahuldottech's life.

Except usually there's no almost.

djsmiley2k

11:33 AM

@Burgi also sugary cola

>3

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek why am i a terrible role model? i wish someone had talked to me about beer before i vommed my guts up and fell asleep on a train

rahuldottech

11:50 AM

@Bob actually, I've never had sex.

Came really close last night though

@Burgi hey, I really appreciate all the stuff you guys have told me

Burgi

get some condoms!

bertieb

"Today, on a very special episode of Root Access..."

rahuldottech

@Burgi I had condoms, that wasn't the, uh, limiting factor.

I don't @JourneymanGeek would appreciate any more details here, so I'm not saying anything else

Burgi

this isn't a conversation for here

rahuldottech

Yep.

bertieb

12:10 PM

SO, COMPUTERS

HOW ABOUT THEM

rahuldottech

THEY'RE SO COOL, MAN

Oh, btw, @bertieb how's your hand?

bertieb

@rahuldottech Ah, pretty much back to normal thanks! :)

djsmiley2k

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

meraki switch on site, not coming online according to the meraki dashboard

rahuldottech

@bertieb that's great to hear :D

djsmiley2k

except, the AP's connected via the swithc, are online >_<

bertieb

12:22 PM

@rahuldottech Yup, I am very lucky!

Nails are a bit oddly shaped, but at least I have nails again (TMI?)

djsmiley2k

bertieb

@djsmiley2k Is this a computer display in DexEU?

djsmiley2k

it's in my office behind me

bertieb

Aw, spoilsport :P

Burgi

1:40 PM

> So basically: armoured, mechanically clawed, permanently on edge spiders floating through space.

Yeah...

23

Q: Spiders In Space: How to design a space suit for an arachnid?

In my stellar empire, the sapient life of the home world are arachnids. Due to an oxygen-heavy world with certain evolutionary characteristics, spider-like beings developed intelligence and formed society, leading them (eventually) to start looking toward the stars. This led to the development of...

Journeyman Geek

MEMs oscillator sensitivity to helium (helium kills iPhones)

►

This is one of those situations where I love being proved completely ignorant and dumb

(Sources hackaday.com/2018/10/31/… )

Bob

@JourneymanGeek lol I got into an argument on reddit with some guy who insisted it wasn't the MEMS components

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I thought it was an urban myth

That Brazilian Guy

2:20 PM

@bertieb Uh... I know something happened to your hand and you had to have surgery, but what exactly happened?

bertieb

@ThatBrazilianGuy Short version: I got my hand caught in a running motorbike chain

Shorter version: OUCH

2

That Brazilian Guy

OUCH. OUCH OUCH OUCH.

bertieb

Yea, it brings a tear to a glass eye

That Brazilian Guy

You're lucky to have had a great recovery - and access to good medical services.

@bertieb Ha! This saying is new to me.

bertieb

@ThatBrazilianGuy Definitely, I'm really grateful

It was done quickly, competently and completely free to me

That Brazilian Guy

2:23 PM

Fuck, my network is so much worse now that I had to give up pfSense and stick to the ISP-provided modem-router. =/

bertieb

It's one of the things we do well (usually)

That Brazilian Guy

@bertieb Wow! Not disregarding the rest, but the free part is amazing :D

bertieb

Yup

Looking at alternatives here and there, and for all its flaws, we're really really fortunate to have the NHS here

That Brazilian Guy

We have free medical care here too, but it can either take months to years of waiting and / or have no basic items on the hospital.

bertieb

Our waiting times are... not well adhered to, by our own standards

That Brazilian Guy

2:25 PM

@bertieb I can say the very same for our health care.

bertieb

Pressures on the service are high, and getting worse

But it's a complex problem

And a bottomless pit in which to throw money

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy why did you have to give it up? :/

@ThatBrazilianGuy after a few weeks with a DIY router, I can't imagine going back

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek I don't remember if I commented on it here or on Riot, but basically:

Bad FreeBSD drivers for Realtek NICs.

Journeyman Geek

Ah

That Brazilian Guy

My custom router was a mini ITX mobo with embedded Realtek.

Journeyman Geek

2:35 PM

Not sure if there's good realtek drivers

That Brazilian Guy

Yah. And looks like nearly everything in the market is realtek.

Like 96597 realteks and two or three triple digits Intel NICs.

Besides, with chipsets not always matching brand names, I'd have to play driver lottery.

Journeyman Geek

And buying overseas is not an option I guess

That Brazilian Guy

I even ran FreeBSD, downloaded the sources and compiled the latest driver from Realtek. No dice.

Journeyman Geek

Try Linux?

There's a few good router distros

That Brazilian Guy

So I my choices are either setting everything how I'd like on pfSense but having intermittent speed limit issues (from originally 10 Mbps to 5 or even 2), or having full DSL speed but losing everything else.

@JourneymanGeek Hm. The issue shows up when using PPPoE. I'd have to test if it shows up on Linux as well.

And, if not, I'd have to learn of a decent Linux alternative to pfSense.

Journeyman Geek

2:39 PM

Oh

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek Do you know any?

pfSense is sort of a de-facto standard for open-libre solutions.

Journeyman Geek

Vyatta comes to mind,as does untangle

That Brazilian Guy

(I can't even open Facebook now and I don't know if it's my shitty old ass distro acting up, or if Dropbox is wasting all our upload bandwidth again)

Journeyman Geek

Not used either

That Brazilian Guy

You run DD-WRT embedded, right?

Journeyman Geek

2:42 PM

Nope

That Brazilian Guy

Hm. I know you have some ~~router~~ network shenanigans going on for quite a while.

Journeyman Geek

Nope

I built my own with an odd Ubuntu server based setup

That Brazilian Guy

As in you keep customizing stuff and then commenting on here and Riot.

@JourneymanGeek Oh. Manual iptables / fw rules?

Journeyman Geek

Ubuntu and firewalld

That Brazilian Guy

You are a brave, brave ~~man~~ dog.

Journeyman Geek

2:44 PM

UFW sucks

That Brazilian Guy

I don't touch manual rules with a 5 meter street lamp.

Journeyman Geek

Quite honestly? Not very scary.

Hence firewalld

journeymangeek.com/?p=196

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek Any reason for not using friendly URLs?

Journeyman Geek

Ugh. Broke during an update, never got around to fixing it?

That Brazilian Guy

Hm. Fair enough. It's a reason, technically. ;P

We passed 100 sign ups for the upcoming event and have now an official sponsor for our meetup group \o/ :D

Bob

2:52 PM

@JourneymanGeek deja vu

I'm still doing iptables manually :P

That Brazilian Guy

What's the difference between iptables and firewalld? Are they equivalents? And what's UFW?

And I had the impression there was a firewall tool called just "fw" but Google isn't helping me much on it.

Bob

iptables/nftables is how the kernel handles things

the lowest level, as it were

firewalld/ufw are pretty interfaces on top that try to hide the complexity

but I find when dealing with networking, hiding the complexity often just means you have no idea what's going on when everything stops working

(yea that can be said about a lot of things)

djsmiley2k

3:47 PM

yup

Tools that'll take a working config, and make a nice diagram, are awesome tho

so if people find that, let me know :D

That Brazilian Guy

4:00 PM

@Bob I still don't have the badge for 100 consecutive days...

djsmiley2k

5:50 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy nICE, the random sponsor was fo real?

That Brazilian Guy

6:19 PM

@djsmiley2k Yeah. Well, the email domain matches the business name, they already sponsor groups in other countries, and I got a genuine PayPal email with a transfer notification, so...

It might be legit LOL

There's enough money to buy 14 pizzas. Or a lot of snacks. Wonder which is best.

bertieb

@ThatBrazilianGuy Get extra shrimprawns for topping!

Canadian Luke

Morning all

bertieb

o/

Canadian Luke

Who's ready for another fun-filled day of solving problems :)

That Brazilian Guy

@bertieb Hm! Sure!

Shrimprawn pizza

bertieb

6:29 PM

Delicioso!

That Brazilian Guy

Pineapple piza!

bertieb

But actually that is making me hungry so I'm going to switch tab

Image not found, you say

Also sounds delicious

Oh, wait, pineapple

So-so :P

Wait a refresh brought it into existence

That Brazilian Guy

Hot Dog pizza

Steak and Fries pizza

Eminem pizza

No, wait.

M & M's pizza:

bertieb

I haven't had my dinner yet you fustilarian!

And my digestive system is beginning to petition me about it

That Brazilian Guy

Wait, you're seeing these... These aberrations and your first thought is "hm, I want that"?!

🤢

bertieb

6:42 PM

The first few

So sue me, I'm hungry :P

@ThatBrazilianGuy Square box, you say

That Brazilian Guy

Shrimp is nice, the others, ew.

bertieb

Nausea face emoji, Google replies

That Brazilian Guy

Surprisingly, ice cream pizza is nice too. Can be, at least.

bertieb

I would eat all of them except the last one

That Brazilian Guy

@bertieb Then you'd be poor and hungry.

bertieb

6:43 PM

And Eminem, he's from Detroit and would probably have words to say about it

That Brazilian Guy

@bertieb What the hell is wrong with you.

bertieb

@ThatBrazilianGuy Hungry!

It's not just a country anymore

djsmiley2k

I.....?!

bertieb

He said, context-fully

Happy meal toy? Found at a car boot sale? Looked out window and saw it staring in at you, with what felt like an otherworldly presence?

That Brazilian Guy

All praise Bearthulu!

Nick Alexeev

6:48 PM

Folks, would this be on-topic at SuperUser? Anywhere else on StackExchange? I can migrate it, or I can let it rot where it fell.

-6

Q: How to Disable of Windows 10 IIS Server, Free up Port 80?

Being an EE I'm not very familiar with the workings of websites and in particular with the Windows IIS server. Up until Windows 10 arrived I've never had any trouble installing development tools using the LAMPP, WAMPP, or XAMPP website installers. Tools such as Redmine, TestLink, CMS, and others....

website

bwDraco

The question as written is a bit vague, so I'm leaning towards not migrating, even though it's otherwise on-topic.

bertieb

Disabling IIS (question title) is on-topic; the rest of i could use a tidy up

That Brazilian Guy

@NickAlexeev I feel it's more suited to SuperUser than, say, Stack Overflow.

bwDraco

It can be migrated if it's fixed.

That Brazilian Guy

Yeah. It would fit but needs a bit improving.

@bwDraco It can be migrated and then fixed. In fact, it has much more chances of being fixed if it's migrated.

bwDraco

6:52 PM

It's an edge case.

bertieb

Yeah

I have a feeling there's probably two distinct questions in there

That Brazilian Guy

Yeah.

bwDraco

I think we should migrate it. It's certainly on-topic for Super User.

That Brazilian Guy

@bertieb It's an XY question.

Nick Alexeev

@bwDraco Folks, give me a simple "go" or "no-go" , please.

bertieb

6:53 PM

Yea

That Brazilian Guy

The Y question is "How do I disable IIS".

@NickAlexeev I vote for "go".

bwDraco

@NickAlexeev Go ahead and migrate it. As written, it might be closed as "unclear what you're asking" but it does look like it's fixable.

bertieb

@NickAlexeev Community'll handle it, it's on topic

Yea

Hopefully a few useful comments will help focus it

Appreciate y'all checking with us!

That Brazilian Guy

It's migrated.

Nick Alexeev

Alright. I've sent it over. Cheers!

That Brazilian Guy

6:55 PM

Oh great, upon migration the score resets!

I was unsure if it was the case. Makes sense.

bertieb

@NickAlexeev Ta!

Can the original user take over the Q by connecting a SU account, I take it?

Nick Alexeev

@bertieb Yes, he takes over old migrated questions once he joins SU, provided that it's the same SE account. (I've done that myself. To myself.)

bertieb

Cheers, I figured that but you never know...

Hehe, I've never had a question migrated so am unfamiliar

That Brazilian Guy

Neither have I, IIRC.

bertieb

Off to feed some cats, have left a comment

\o

That Brazilian Guy

7:04 PM

@bertieb You have cats? Or do you feed random cats?

I tried to improve the question a bit.

bertieb

@ThatBrazilianGuy A friend's for a few days

That Brazilian Guy

Anyway, nice cat feeding.

bertieb

I was going to but wasn't sure what intent was, so left it mostly as was

That Brazilian Guy

I have a bit of a mild headache so we're going out for a walk

bertieb

There's a bunch fo fluff but it kind of shows where he's coming from and hints towards the X in XY

So wasn't sure

That Brazilian Guy

7:05 PM

I just placed the most relevant bit (install Tinkie Winkie) at top and removed the ranting.

bertieb

Yeah

Looks grand to me

Ciao for niao

That Brazilian Guy

@bertieb Feed the cats and feed the biertieb, I heard he's Hungarian.

djsmiley2k

7:26 PM

Grrr mouth aches , I blame the weather x

bwDraco

7:40 PM

amzn.com/B00XLB0EOW

Should be coming in today. I really wish Amazon links oneboxed like they used to.

(and IIRC this is the shortest possible link format for Amazon product pages)

djsmiley2k

7:52 PM

23

Q: How do I convince my employer to match the salary of my new job offer?

I have a new job offer that offers 60% more salary than my current job and the same benefits. But I do not wish to leave my current job and in a month I will be getting my(annual) raise that will close the gap to 40%. How can I convince my employer to give me a bigger raise that will either matc...

professionalism software-industry career-development new-job ethics

60% raise? hahaha good luck

bwDraco

8:03 PM

I'd say that in most companies, a 60% raise would require reassignment to a different title. That's not going to happen that easily.

djsmiley2k

indeed

and especially not after 1-2 years

bertieb

8:15 PM

Unless they're massively underpaying them for their current role

Not that companies would do that

rahuldottech

8:56 PM

HUGS! FREE HUGS FOR EVERYONE! GET 'EM HERE!

Nordlys Jeger

hug

bertieb

...has Rahul been drinking again?

@bertieb nah

A joke :P

> σκύλλα και χάρυβδη

9:06 PM

Although reading it back, it does make you look like an alcoholic

bwDraco

(Skylla and Charybdis)

bertieb

a la "Has Rahul been drinking again..?"

rahuldottech

@bertieb nah

bwDraco

Greek is a fascinating language, and Assassin's Creed Odyssey has made me oddly interested in it.

bertieb

@rahuldottech I'm getting deja vu here :P

rahuldottech

9:07 PM

;P

bertieb

Oh, have you tried Anki yet btw?

I ask as I'm going over some cards just now and it reminded me :D

rahuldottech

@bertieb I will, in a few days, as I start studying for my next exam

bertieb

@rahuldottech Cool cool

bwDraco

Good luck.

bertieb

I find that pairing it up with practice questions - if you have 'em available - lets you quickly make a learning point if you get something incorrect

No more "oh, I know I've come across this but can't quite remember..." sort of thing

Though that might just be me :P

Case in point: I had a follow-up to that but I, uh, forgot it

And unfortunately don't have a card to remind me

bwDraco

9:11 PM

@Bob, @HornOKPlease, @JourneymanGeek: gizmodo.com/…

Can't say I'm ready to spend $300 on wireless earbuds right now...

rahuldottech

@bwDraco :)

@bertieb cool, thanks :D

rahuldottech

9:53 PM

> SMART Short Self Test -- Warning

rahul.party/files/Report-6572.html

@bwDraco Hey, can you please take a look and tell me why I might be getting this warning?

bwDraco

10:04 PM

@rahuldottech Can you install CrystalDiskInfo and provide more detailed information?

There's not enough information in that report for me to determine the nature of the issue.

rahuldottech

@bwDraco yep, give me a mo'

bwDraco

Hmm... Kingston UV400. I think this was the drive I recommended to you a while ago...

rahuldottech

@bwDraco Yep, it is

Tests are running right now

Jul 16 at 18:09, by bwDraco

The UV400 remains available in limited quantities. It's only a matter of time before it's discontinued.

bwDraco

Yup.

rahuldottech

@bwDraco I love this drive, think it's worth it for me to get a couple for future use? They're pretty inexpensive

(as compared to SSDs in general)

bwDraco

10:11 PM

So you have a spare?

rahuldottech

@bwDraco Not right now, I don't

bwDraco

SSDs are getting cheap these days. I have an unused Samsung SSD 850 EVO right now.

I said CrystalDiskInfo, not CrystalDiskMark.

I'm looking for drive diagnostic data.

rahuldottech

ugh, my bad

rahul.party/files/testr-7362.txt

@bwDraco

Also, I have another question. The second drive (USB), doesn't show up in Explorer, but CDI says it's healthy?

bwDraco

Your drive appears okay.

rahuldottech

@bwDraco Hm, okay then. What about the USB (WDC) one?

bwDraco

10:21 PM

That drive is good as well.

rahuldottech

@bwDraco There's definitely more data on here than 35GB

Like, wayy more

bwDraco

Hmm. I might have misread that value.

What does the CrystalDiskInfo window give for Total Host Writes?

> Disk Size : 120.0 GB (8.4/120.0/120.0/----)

That's interesting...

8.4 GB in use? What?

rahuldottech

@bwDraco I don't see it

bwDraco

And I'm not sure how to interpret this. I assume the second value is the amount of partitioned space and the third value is the size available to the OS. Not sure what the fourth value would be (I suspect it's used if the drive supports and has HPA enabled).

rahuldottech

@bwDraco CDI is making my machine painfully unresponsive

Rebooting now

bwDraco

10:30 PM

That should not happen. CDI is normally very, very lightweight in my experience.

rahuldottech

It got slightly better when I unplugged the USB drive, but yeah. This is the first time windows is being unresponsive since I got this SSD

bwDraco

Hmm... I don't think I'm reading this correctly.

Those numbers are just where the partitions are.

...wait a sec. This seems to have to do with LBA.

rahuldottech

Okay, back on PC

bwDraco

...wait a sec. This seems to have to do with logical block addressing, and what the drive would appear as with 22/28/32/48-bit LBAs, respectively.

rahuldottech

Okay, assigned a drive letter from disk management, and now it shows up

331/931GB used on the WDC USB drive, according to file explorer, btw

bwDraco

10:43 PM

Hmm.. I might still be wrong because the third number can be more than 2199.

rahuldottech

@bwDraco quick question

When copying files to the external HDD

How loud should the noise from the HDD be?

Also, if there was something to worry about, CDI would tell me, right?

bwDraco

You may hear head seeking but the spinning platters should be constant and not too noisy.

rahuldottech

@bwDraco sounds ok then :)

bwDraco

@rahuldottech Yeah. As far as I can tell, there's nothing noteworthy on your CDI report.

rahuldottech

@bwDraco Great, thanks so much

Ugh, sequential read and write speeds of 40MB/s on the WDC

this isn't ideal

bwDraco

10:58 PM

That sounds like USB 2.0. Are you plugged into a USB 3.0 port?

rahuldottech

@bwDraco I am, with a 3.0 cable

bwDraco

Unplug the drive and plug it back in. Make sure you insert the drive into the port quickly.

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A: How to detect if a USB port is 3.0 or 2.0?

Sometimes, if you plug the USB3.0 device too slowly, it is recognized as 2.0. Why ? Because the 3.0 line of pins is in a second row so if the protocol handshake is finished before your device is fully plugged in, it will never get USB3.0 speed. This is particulary annoying when using USB keys l...

rahuldottech

@bwDraco In the middle of copying several gigs of data, but I'll try that again

bwDraco

11:39 PM

Got the new enclosure... can confirm TRIM is working.

TRIM check v0.7 - Written by Vladimir Panteleev
github.com/CyberShadow/trimcheck

Loading continuation data from F:\trimcheck-cont.json...
  Drive path   :  \\.\F:
  Offset       :  3145920512
  Random data  :  1C E0 8C 9F 93 94 08 0B 3C 21 35 4E B9 06 A2 0B...

Reading raw volume data...
  Opening \\.\F:...
  Seeking to position 3145920512...
  Reading 16384 bytes...
  First 16 bytes: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00...
Data is empty (filled with 0x00 bytes).

CONCLUSION: TRIM appears to be WORKING!

(@Bob)

rahuldottech

@bwDraco Since I only have a 120GB SSD, I just got transferred everything from Downloads and Documents to the external drive, but there's still too much space used up on this disk. Do you know of any tools which map out usage and will tell me what is using up most space and is safe to delete?

(uhhhh.... CCleaner does this, I think? I've heard bad things about it though)

Canadian Luke

So just did a server install with another tech, without downloading the ISO to a USB drive first. Blew his mind!

rahuldottech

11:55 PM

@CanadianLuke lol, what did you do instead?

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