Root Access

somequixotic

00:04

@tapped-out I think the reason you can't is that it's currently impossible to have two different sets of session cookies / session state in the same chrome window... tabs always share session state

for security reasons they don't let you leak your session to the apps, i think

Journeyman Geek

00:16

@Tanner the super pro way? dd and netcat ;p

tapped-out

there must be some way around it... i wonder if there's a way to download the .crx for packaged apps and do some hackery

somequixotic

@tapped-out you could probably heavily modify the chrome source and technically do it, but it'd probably be insecure, because extension security is based on web security, and web security is based on same origin policy, and same origin is impossible to protect if you give extensions unfettered access to your session state.... something like that

tapped-out

i don't want to modify Chrome itself, but rather the app - since all it is is HTML + CSS + JavaScript, it should be possible to modify things in the manifest/app itself to basically make it run as a normal extension

unless i'm misunderstanding everything about Chrome :P

tapped-out

00:53

well, while it might be possible to do it... too over my head o.o

Journeyman Geek

01:05

I thought brand/model specific tags were frowned on?

DragonLord

This refers to a series of products, not a particular model.

Similar tags, such as hp-pavilion and dell-inspiron, are quite widely used.

I meant hp-elitebook, sorry

Journeyman Geek

its still a brand tag

DragonLord

I can't seem to find anything on Meta regarding this issue...

FYI: I'm mass-retagging some questions with hp-elitebook per above

Done mass-retagging; 54 questions affected.

Journeyman Geek

01:33

wait, at once?

>_>

DragonLord

It's already done.

Journeyman Geek

next time phase them out ;p

front page flooding isn't a good idea

DragonLord

I just wish there was a better way to handle mass editing...

What do you mean by "phase them out"?

Journeyman Geek

not do them all at once

when we do planned retags we tend to do something like 5-6 at once

then wait

DragonLord

Oh, okay. I'll try to be less disruptive with mass editing in the future.

Journeyman Geek

02:55

engadget.com/2013/07/26/12k-gaming-amd-7970-sharp-pnk321/…

o0

Journeyman Geek

03:32

theverge.com/2013/7/26/4559088/…

thats an interesting idea

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek for 17K, i will just move 6inches closer to the monitor i got

Journeyman Geek

"For instance, before AMD wrote custom drivers to make Eyefinity and multi-stream transport play nicely together, the framerate was a meager 8FPS"

For 17K, I expect better FPS ;)

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek to borrow from the mob the collateral is your life, to borrow from the church you trade up your soul, even after you pay it back :-)

Ex. 22:25 ¶ If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them.”

and The borrower becomes the lenders slave ( Proverbs 22:7).

Michael Frank

03:51

@JourneymanGeek All those pixels and they're playing Dirt in 3rd person mode? D:

Bob

04:06

@JourneymanGeek wat

> demos only lasted a few minutes before the computer's power supply would conk out

uhh.

a decent PSU or three would not nearly be the most expensive part of that

hell, you could probably run it on a few cheapo PSUs

@somequixotic I really dislike PowerShell's syntax.

Like the concept. But the syntax just sucks.

Heck, I'd rather take a C# REPL with the PS namespace.

Journeyman Geek

04:48

lol

@Bob: I suspect they probably didn't have a powerful enough PSU

or enough power on the right rails

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek thats a good one, wire up the PSU to the video cards wrong, and the "shared" doesnt have the power. like 2 30A rails, with 4 wires, and how to apply them

then some PSUs is only 1 fat 12V high amp rail, and it doesnt matter

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: if I was building something crazy like this, I'd throw each of the Video cards its own PSU with a dummy load where the motherboard should be.

I have no idea how and why snipping tool managed to screenshot itself

also oops

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek your to fast? is it always faded out, or was it trying to fade away?

Journeyman Geek

maybe?

naw, dosen't seem replicable

Bob

05:12

@JourneymanGeek translation: dumbasses

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: To err is human. And occationally hillarious

hmm

HAD got bought over

cue the usual OMGBIGCOMPANY complaints

they seem to know which end of a soldering iron to hold

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Except you'd maybe expect someone at MS to realise what the problem was, before a public demo.

@JourneymanGeek HAD?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Hackaday

To quote an old chinese proverb... shit happens

Psycogeek

05:54

the only problem was . . . i couldnt really hear the game, because the stupid little fans in the video card were screaming like a banchee

Bob

lol

Psycogeek

One more reason to enjoy spiders imagescdn.tweaktown.com/news/2/4/…

micro spy drones

Psycogeek

06:46

Stupid question of the week: Why do the servers reject my 10,000 clone e-mails as spam, that are sent out with a different domain in the reply

Bob

@Psycogeek If it quacks like a duck...

Psycogeek

lol

Funny answer of the week: Rotate your laptop 90*

0

Q: My touchpad isn't working right

I have no idea what happened but when I move my fingers on the touchpad up and down the mouse pointer scrolls left to right instead and when I scroll left to right it scrolls up and down. How do I fix this?

touchpad

Psycogeek

08:20

6

Q: How to get an Acer Aspire Revo to connect to the wireless keyboard and mouse?

I just got a new Asus Aspire Revo, put the batteries in the wireless keyboard and mouse, but I can't get the system to recognize either. What am I doing wrong? Note: There are next to no instructions with this product.

keyboard wireless-networking mouse acer-aspire acer-revo

11,000 views of a person who couldnt figure out that the wireless dongle goes in the mouse :-) for 6 seconds

76987

Hi, I keep investigating on my own and adding new information, but nobody will respond to my question: superuser.com/questions/623001/…

Psycogeek

Tom Wijsman , total genious, if he cant do it nobody can

76987

He said was busy for a few days.

Psycogeek

its win8 , i could read it, but it will only hurt my head

and its gonna take some time

76987

I've been adding more and more, but the basic idea is very simple. Chrome won't launch when you click on its icons. Instead, delegate_execute.exe does something for about one second. The only workaround is to launch Chrome from a right-click menu.

Psycogeek

08:37

want guesses? could it have anything to do with prefetching?

76987

Unfortunately, I'm not informed enough to evaluate guesses. All I can do is google around and try fixes.

Psycogeek

the delegate excute thing, looks like a "if its already running, then bring it foreward" mabey?? need programming person to understand

Win7 can sometimes leave a program running, after it has quit, If you look in the task manager is Chrome Fully stopped? or does it show up in there?

76987

There's no Chrome at all in Task Manager.

Bob

08:53

@Psycogeek You should see all the deleted "answers" :P

Psycogeek

@Bob ohh :-) i should

Bob

There's a good reason that question is protected.

@Psycogeek Never heard of such a program. Might be Chrome-specific.

Windows does have something similar (DDE), but's old and convoluted. And shouldn't spawn an extra executable.

Win8 specifically, will try to reopen already opened windows more than previous versions.

Again, I don't think it spawns an extra executable to handle that.

Hm: code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=160658

something to do with the MUI (Modern UI/Metro) interface?

@76987 Perhaps it's openeing in MUI mode. Try win+tab to see if you can switch to it.

try setting another browser as default (only the default browser can open in MUI) temporarily

hm. see if Chrome's options have a 'always open in desktop mode' or similar

Psycogeek

09:09

@Bob yea, uhh, there are 2 bugs listed for delegate_execute too at chrome, one that it doesnt toss up errors right. i am so confused, i am trying to figure out the feature and function of delegate_execute

@Bob Can you read this ? src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/win8/delegate_execute/…

its like fully commented :-) so i assume anyone who could understand it, might know WTF they are doing?

Bob

@Psycogeek That's just the header file.

Wait a sec.

(oh, it was .cc)

(this one might be more relevant)

I don't really know much about ATL, though

@Psycogeek that's just the header, which is commented to say what it does, if you were to use it from another file

Psycogeek

@Bob I just look, and say if this is what it takes to do the most simple tasks, i need to find a hole in the sand :-)

Bob

  if (operation.Init(CommandLine::ForCurrentProcess())) {
    switch (operation.operation_type()) {
      case DelegateExecuteOperation::DELEGATE_EXECUTE:
        ret_code = _AtlModule.WinMain(nShowCmd);
        break;
      case DelegateExecuteOperation::RELAUNCH_CHROME:
        ret_code = RelaunchChrome(operation);
        break;
      default:
        NOTREACHED();
    }
  }

so, if launched from, say, a Windows shortcut, I guess it should be _AtlModule.WinMain(nShowCmd);

@76987 what's the command line in the shortcut?

Psycogeek

@Bob I would wonder if mabey some aspect of it all could be bypassed, and run the shell or exe more direct without thought.

@Bob yup that one

@Bob there is an actual delegate_execute.exe in the chromes applications folder. in appdata or less often was in programs folder

Hennes

09:45

default: NOTREACHED();
NOTREACHED(); -> Spam the dev. SOMETHING WENT WRONG MORON!

Psycogeek

geez no wonder why there are 54 versions of it. code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=163977 here is "fail when explorer had been elevated" hmmm, i dont know how that goes along with him having to elevate chrome

Bob

@Hennes // this should never happen

Hennes

The is part of the six pieces of debugging.

Hennes

10:02

Hmm, hypervisotr and phyc. RAM

Can someone check this post since I have the impression that I am forgetting things.

Gowtham

lol open.spotify.com/fffffffff

Boris_yo

@Gowtham "Sorry, couldn't find that"

Gowtham

yes, that 404 page is funny :O

Boris_yo

10:18

@Gowtham "Will sing for money"

Psycogeek

<----Folds up into jet shaped origami and flies out of room

Bob

@Psycogeek sounds painful

Hennes

Zombies are taking over my computer!

I can see several zombie processes in my computer.

Boris_yo

11:03

@Hennes Your computer became part of bot nets?

Hennes

Nets are dead, so kind a

But I usually associate zombies with proceses in the 'D' state

Boris_yo

@Hennes What's D state?

Hennes

A state which most processes show on `ps` in Linux when I can;t kill them.
Not even with a -15 signal

Or a -9

Bob

11:28

@Hennes Those are especially fun in Windows.

Had Explorer get stuck like that quite a few times.

It also interferes with shutdown.

basically, drivers hanging in kernel-mode

blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/23/192531.aspx

@Hennes uhh

The processes in the 'Z' (zombie) state are not really unkillable; in fact, they have already been killed. They are waiting for the parent process to collect its return value, and have already freed almost all of its resources (the only remaining resource it has is the structure which tracks its state in the kernel -- much like the "process object" Raymond mentioned.) They waste almost no memory, and when the parent dies, they are "reparented" (if the grandparent already died, the init process becomes the parent, and it will make the zombie go away).

Hennes

That is a lot a detailed info ;-)

Got any win7 exploits? Stong ones!

-7

Q: Need a strong exploit that works on windows 7?

Is there any exploit that work on new windows versions ? I have tried many exploits such as handler, adobe, browser, i need any strong exploit.

exploit

hmm 1445 HP is way to few for the devil level

This quest is going to take months to gather hp

Bob

@Hennes what.

which level was that?

Hennes

Candy box

Bob

I've finished the game and I don't have that much HP -_-

Hennes

Hell level

Bob

11:40

Well ,finished the quest portion.

That last bit is pretty much impossible to do legitimately

@Hennes still on there? :\

Hennes

Nod.

Just letting it idle for a few weeks to get more hp

Bob

@Hennes want some tips?

I finished it with <600 HP. Just did it again with ~800

Hennes

Evade the monster? It moves to fast for that.

I wish it was nicely turn based

Bob

@Hennes the monster? at the end?

Hennes

The moving wall of monsters

Bob

11:43

ah.

how detailed do you want the tips? :P

can you get past the first wave?

well, the first wave you can pretty much dodge

keep chugging health potions

don't bother fighting them, just jump into empty lanes as much as possible

when you get to the doors, delay by moving up and down until the field is clear

Hennes

That is what I do now.

RUn into an enemy, look carefully at the screen for 10 seconds.

Bob

then break through a single door. recommended to avoid the centre ones, since that's where the stronger ones come through in later waves

Hennes

Then evade

Bob

@Hennes just keep hitting up and down

and keep clicking on the heal potion

you're going to love the last level...

(I take too long to think, too - repeatedly hitting a key is easiest for me)

second wave, GHOs. a single imp will carry you through.

Hennes

Heh, i Love to think things out in advance. Carefully consider all the options

Bob

11:50

it'll take a while to get through the door and teleporter, but it'll get there

Hennes

Whioch is why a pause button or turn based gaming is needed for an enjoyable game

Bob

the GHOs mean pretty much all health is useless - they halve your health or something

last wave, same as second wave

invulnerability just before hitting DEV

Journeyman Geek

12:40

imps work well with those

still stuck at the dragon tho. Last attempt was BOTH of us killing each other at the same time

Bob

@JourneymanGeek heal, teleport, heal, teleport, ad infinitum

Journeyman Geek

yeah ;p

came close ;p

Bob

o.o

teleport, turtle, heal, heal, wait, teleport,

Journeyman Geek

got him!

Bob

12:56

lol

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/questions/621116/… this sounds like a textbook database assignment

Bob

@JourneymanGeek that's like relational databases 101

which I'll actually be doing next semester...

slhck

> this solution seems cumbersome after you reach thousands of orders and will be pretty hard to query

… hard to query if you haven't learned about JOINs yet.

Bob

I'd rather LINQ TBH

@slhck it would be hard to query either way

Journeyman Geek

XD

Bob

12:59

first thing to do is not make a table for each

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: You have a orders table, and a orders/items table. ;p

then you "select orders/items where order = somevalue"

Bob

@JourneymanGeek well, the way I read it he suggested a table for each order

Journeyman Geek

bad psudosql ;p

thats stupid

Bob

ya

I wonder what @Sathya thinks of this question :P

Journeyman Geek

I still think its OT ;p

but I believe databases is pretty close to coding, but easier and harder

Bob

13:02

@JourneymanGeek On or off?

Journeyman Geek

off

Bob

:P

@JourneymanGeek eh, it's just different

Journeyman Geek

also quite almost homework grade

Bob

you can't really compare it

slhck

Reminds me of the guy who recently asked on MSO why he couldn't just have a database with one table, where he could see everything right away

Because that'd be soooo much easier.

That's not a database, that's an Excel sheet :P

Bob

13:03

xD

though, technically, it is a database

just... not the best way to do one

slhck

Yeah, once you have 120 columns and thousands of rows…

Bob

I think the distinction, again, is that you're thinking of relational databases

a flat text file can be a database

slhck

Yeah, just a stupid one

But taking it literally, it is one

Hmmmm.

Gowtham

Is this router any good ? flipkart.com/…

slhck

13:22

Does anyone want my Super User mug?

I have too many mugs…

Gowtham

@slhck yesss

Shipping it here will prolly cost 10x the cost of the mug tho :P

slhck

I was gonna say :D

Gowtham

The only person who is close to you would be @Oliver AFAIK :P

slhck

And Daniel and Ivo

But Daniel also has the same mug.

Shipping would be 20€ by the way. Totally not worth it :P

Wow.. that's more than the router would cost.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob well yeah. On one hand its pretty simple to visualise queries. On the other, its a very different way of thinking from coding stuff

@slhck: I kinda miss the SU store

even if the only thing I got off it was a freebie ;p

slhck

13:37

Yeah, me too.

They could make a lot of money with it if they outsourced the handling and production.

Journeyman Geek

I have the SU hoodie ^^

slhck

Nice

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek not missing the store with these kinda shipping rates

26

Q: What's up with the shipping rates on the Stack Exchange store?

And I mean $40 shipping for a $15 T-shirt? I have this image here from a previous quote(didn't place it then) where 2xbeer steins and a T-shirt resulted in $24 shipping.. which is reasonable considering the items, but, golly $40 for a T-shirt? Rebecca Chernoff mentions if your subtotal...

discussion shop

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: well, I didn't pay for shipping

;p

and Ow

slhck

Meh

I remember when I wanted to send a package to a friend in the U.S. it would have cost me 100€ from Austria.

Journeyman Geek

13:50

but international shipping (out of the US) tends to be rather insane

slhck

I could have taken a plane to Germany, sent it from there (20€) and it would have been cheaper in total.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@slhck: I bought some stuff weighing about 500g from the US. It was cheaper to get it shipped via courier using comgateway than pay regular postage ;p

well, not cheaper, same price, faster

slhck

Yay globalization!

Journeyman Geek

Postal companies are shooting themselves in the foot ;p

slhck

> Purpose of this Unix Command Interview Questions is probably to check how familiar candidate is from available tools in UNIX operation system.

Mmmkay.

I'm gonna take a guess where this user comes from.

Journeyman Geek

13:55

@slhck: No prizes.

slhck

@JourneymanGeek :(

Journeyman Geek

hm

slhck

I would have been right.

Journeyman Geek

0

Q: Is it possible to send images through app engine channel api

I have been trying to send and receive images utilizing google app engine channel api. However I have not been very successful. I posted this question on stackoverflow earlier today: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17879641/displaying-images-in-html5-canvas-from-binary-data however I have had...

javascript html5 google-app-engine

I'm surprised this is still open

slhck

It only got one review action.

Journeyman Geek

13:58

XD, thanks

Journeyman Geek

14:09

hackaday.com/2013/07/27/…

wow

tapped-out

First of all, Stack Exchange isn't a forum. ;) Your question isn't offensive so much as it violates SE's policy about recommendation-type questions. For future reference, "what foo should I buy for my bar"-type questions are off-topic (almost) everywhere, while questions like "how should I choose a foo for my bar" generally are. — tapped-out 50 secs ago

did i summarize SE's "no recommendation questions" correctly?

slhck

Sounds good in that context.

Gowtham

@tapped-out Edit his question perhaps and make it more general ?

Bob

14:35

@Gowtham Probably a steaming pile of shit. But it's cheap.

slhck

Wow. The Austrian military managed to release a photo in which they – by accident – publicized the login data to a secure webmail account for an international joint-military operation.

The security expert who wanted to inform them about the issue couldn't reach them because the IT staff was on lunch break.

Our military sucks :P

Bob

@JourneymanGeek the heat generated by that thing..

@slhck what, the entire IT staff on lunch break at the same time? o.o

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: yup

Bob

I can see they're well-prepared for emergencies.

slhck

@Bob Yeah. And hours later they sent a mail to the other states participating in the operation, literally containing "You should change your passwords". Nothing else.

Bob

14:46

@slhck wait a tick. how did they manage to release login details in a photo? o.o

unless they wrote it down somewhere?

so much for security

slhck

See the thing in the background?

Bob

Probably one of those "you must have at least two uppercase, four digits, and three symbols. it must be changed every 30 minutes. it must be under 8 characters long"

Journeyman Geek

lol

anyone walking by could see it too!

Bob

@slhck well now, that's just plain stupid. sure, let's write this highly sensitive info in large text on a whiteboard next to a door

slhck

@Bob Right? They obviously had different users and passwords for the other nations, but they were derivable from a scheme.

Bob

14:50

@slhck mail? o.o

even if it was email, I'd think this kind of thing at least warrants a phone call

slhck

Haha, yeah.

It's so incredibly stupid.

But then again, it's our military.

Boris_yo

@slhck You are from Australia?

slhck

I don't know if you're being serious, but no, we don't have kangaroos.

Bob

Which reminds me, our military uses Austrian weapons :P

slhck

The Steyr AUG?

Bob

14:57

Ya. A variant.

slhck

Did you serve in the military?

Bob

Which they've creatively called Austeyr...

@slhck no

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