Root Access

Michael Frank

00:13

Afternoon all!

Well, answered my own question... so I won't even ask it. :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

you can always self answer.

Michael Frank

00:36

Oh, I was going to ask you here directly, as it wasn't really worth creating a question for it.

John Cavil

@MatthewH Hey there! You're pretty special, aren't you? :)

Journeyman Geek

00:56

lol

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Q: need alternativ grub2 linux boot loder

is any one know alternativ grub2 linux boot loder which can loop mount all livecd.iso so there are no need to extract kernel and initrd in to partition i need to find somethng which require only write script for every iso separately because the only grub2 can do so many automatic script like it i...

ow

nhinkle

01:16

Oy.

Michael Frank

wut?

Journeyman Geek

02:38

ok...

0

A: Disabling Windows Boot Manager And Using Grub2

it seems to be easy but i do not like grub2 if you can use separate partition to install syslinux or grub4dos or even lilo or grub or ... my way is to download ubcd install it on separated partition and you can boot syslinux grub4dos or super grub disk or super grub2 disk but the problem in...

now its the exact opposite

Bob

03:04

@JourneymanGeek hm?

Journeyman Geek

03:15

@Bob: see the other post I linked for context

Bob

@JourneymanGeek wut

same guy?

Journeyman Geek

yup

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I almost read that as a poem...

Hm. BuyVM updated.

Yay, they do full IPv6 /64 subnets now! maybe I can migrade my IPv6 VPN back on there

Journeyman Geek

lol

the only big changes are positive ;p

Bob

04:53

Blah.

It's quiet in here.

!!xkcd new

John Cavil

You may point out that strictly speaking, you can use that statement to prove that all risks are tiny--to which I reply HOLY SHIT WATCH OUT FOR THAT DOG!

Bob

Damn, no new one yet.

Moshe

Hola

John Cavil

@Moshe Hey there! You're pretty special, aren't you? :)

Moshe

Oh, look, a bot. I must have walk-ed in-to a bot-room.

Does anyone here know about imaging software?

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Q: Can I build an OS X Image with preinstalled software? (Or, please help me move back one OS X version.)

My MacBook Pro with Retina Display is a year old, and I'm in the mood of a fresh install. (I've got random stuff lying around, etc.) For compatibility with some software I'd like to run, I'm moving back one version. This means that I need to do a fresh install. In doing so, I don't want to foreg...

osx backup data-transfer osx-reinstallation

Bob

04:58

Well, not about OS X.

Moshe

I'm kind of struggling with this. I suppose I could make a Genius Bar appointment.

Clippy

05:10

Super User Blog: Best of both worlds round 3: mSATA SSDs

nhinkle on August 19, 2013

As SSDs become increasingly affordable, making the switch is increasingly tempting. However, there are very few drives with over 512GB of capacity, and those that exist are still far from affordable. One solution that works well for desktops and workstation replacement laptops is putting an SSD in one drive bay and a mechanical HDD in another. This is a bit trickier with smaller laptops though. A couple years ago, I experimented with moving the primary HDD to the optical bay, and installing an SSD to get the best of both worlds: fast performance and extra storage for bulky but less-used files. …

Journeyman Geek

05:42

@Moshe: imaging for OS X?

ooh

I think you think something like ninte

Psycogeek

05:53

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Q: Are there any good free undelete tools for Windows?

Possible Duplicate: Best undelete tool for NTFS/FAT? Are there any good free undelete tools for Windows? The kind that recover files by looking at the low level file system.

windows filesystems

Duplicate itself has been deleted. Would I attempt to Edit? or flag for mod?

Journeyman Geek

06:09

@Psycogeek: just VTC?

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek what is VTC?

Journeyman Geek

ahh its already closed

@Psycogeek: in that case, leave it as is, its older and predates that rule, its ok to leave those alone for historical reasons

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek Closed . . .and still (also) being pointed to.

Psycogeek

06:22

acronymattic.com/VTC.html Gee only 68 different things that VTC could be this week.

Journeyman Geek

06:36

vote to close

geeze, thats the only way we use it here ;p

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek they are going to have to add that one :-)

Journeyman Geek

07:01

superuser.com/questions/633577/… -> free flags

Psycogeek

""Note: this problem appeared only for Arial font."" solution, dont use the arial font

""how do i block myself from time-eating websites"" uninstall web browser

""excell '97 crashes in windows 7" Use apropriate 1997 Operating system

""My computer microphone is only one channel" Buy a stereo microphone.

Simple solutions to simple problems :-)

Bob

10:12

Weeeeelllll... fuck.

kogan.com/au/km

Psycogeek

@Bob yous guys have all the fun down there :-(

Bob

@Psycogeek "fun"

I'd rather not have this kind of "fun", thank you very much.

Psycogeek

@Bob I was reading about the aus tele scam, mabey you have heard of it? They call and say they are microsoft, and ask you to look at some aspects of the computer, then say its all full of viruses and try to charge you?

Bob

@Psycogeek That's not just Aus. It's done pretty much worldwide.

They don't say "Microsoft", they have some vaguely official sounding name that sounds similar.

slhck

Macrosoft

Psycogeek

10:32

After a few other failed attempts (at credid card) I could see the guys were starting to lose patience and then, out of the blue, something very bad happened. Without saying a word, the “remote Microsoft Technician” minimized the PayPal window and took on a mission to destroy all my personal files:

blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2013/04/…

I could not believe my eyes. He went on exploring directories in search of other things to remove as fast as he could. When he could not find anything else worthy he could delete, he typed his last message: "bye asshole"

Boris_yo

10:53

@Psycogeek if this happens, unplug LAN/modem ASAP!

slhck

►

Boris_yo

"I was instructed to press the “Windows” and “R” as in Robert keys together to get to the Windows Run dialog box." - Who's Robert?

@slhck Great, now I know that hacking is all about speed of typing.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo lol. for $300 i am guessing i could keep these people tied up on the phone for 3-4 hours , before I even got to the pay-pal portion.

slhck

@Boris_yo Well, that, and doing it on the same keyboard. Simultaneously.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek You're that kind of person who's desperate enough to cause damage to others for quick buck?

Bob

11:01

@Boris_yo No, you're meant to unplug the monitor.

Boris_yo

@slhck Did you see anime "Ghost in the shell"?

slhck

@Boris_yo Yes

Boris_yo

@Bob That's what they did in that clip?

Bob

@Boris_yo Looks like it :P

Boris_yo

@slhck You liked it? This anime was inspiration for Wachowskis to make Matrix by the way. Does movie has a little to do with it?

@Bob That's so easy then. But this will be our secret. I am going to apply for IT security position in Swiss bank.

Bob

11:06

...just checking, you are aware that it's a joke?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo Yes i would cause the scammers as much problems as i could, if i happen to have the time , at that time.

slhck

@Boris_yo Yeah, it's a good anime. I liked it.

Boris_yo

@Bob You are being condescending. I know it is a joke.

@Psycogeek No I asked if you would cause problems for unsuspecting people for quick buck. In other words would you sell your soul to the devil for quick buck?

Bob

@Boris_yo Sorry. Tone doesn't transfer to text well, unfortunately.

Boris_yo

@Bob Tone? My tone?

Psycogeek

11:13

@Boris_yo I worked for corporations before didnt I? what was that :-)

Boris_yo

@slhck And do you remember video clip in early 2000s called "King of my castle" from Wamdue Project? That clip featured fragments from movie. I am sure many as myself wondered what that anime was.

Psycogeek

One time I (aparentaly) got on a "brokers" type of list saying that i had 1+million dollers invested in stocks. Quite a few brokers were calling, for the commission on 1mill they would stay on the phone for 1/2 hour long muted holds :-)

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Was checking your moral values.

slhck

@Boris_yo Yeah, I remember this. But I knew the anime before I saw the music video, I happened to be interested in that kind of stuff back then.

Boris_yo

@slhck Since we were taking about speed aspect of hacking, there was part in anime where one robot deploys auxiliary fingers before he starts hitting keyboard, remember?

slhck

11:20

Yup

Something like that would be super nice to have.

Boris_yo

@slhck Yeah, when paying online versus other players in video game. You could make career in that. By the way, you know what cybersport is?

She made me focus on the status of each Service and asked me once again to count how many “stopped” ones there were. When I gave her a ball park number, she retorted: “You are just guessing, I want you to count”. - How did she know the victim was guessing?

slhck

@Boris_yo Because he gave her the numbers too fast?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo or why did she even bother to require the counting? mabey it is a test to see how much BS the person is willing to put up with?

slhck

I know what cybersport is but, sports and me… meh.

Psycogeek

What to do with a call center that is all set up $$ , and just lost its original contract with MS :-) turn on them with a vengance?

Boris_yo

11:31

@slhck Seems like it.

@Psycogeek True also. Test of seriousness and loyalty.

Psycogeek

please hold on for a minute, I am about to have lunch, and now my computer is all full of viruses. "hey honey , did you butcher that damn cow yet , I could eat a horse" :-)

Boris_yo

@slhck But cybersport is unlike common sport.

@Psycogeek Is that intimidation for scammer?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo attempt at.

If somone knows what is going on, wouldnt they have the phone number (caller ID) and the IP address of the computer they are team viewing with?

slhck

@Boris_yo It takes some kind of dedication and time which I don't have.

After all I've got to look after you folks :P

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek But you can not see caller ID in such situations.

Psycogeek

11:42

@Boris_yo then that solves about every phone scam out there. "I am busy right now, if you give me your number i can call you bacK"

like say when hell freezes over or sometime after.

Boris_yo

@slhck Not only that. It takes to many nerves, headaches and degradation of eyesight. And for what? To have your luck at something where only first 3 winners win? You are not guaranteed a pay here, you just hope you will win. What if you don't? Then all this anger, nervousness and strain gone down the toilet.

"At the end of the day, I haven’t really lost any documents since this was a Virtual Machine and not an actual computer." - Good thinking.

"The technician called me an asshole." "Technician is always right."

John Cavil

11:58

@KKumaranRasigan Hey there! You're pretty special, aren't you? :)

Boris_yo

@JohnCavil You must be very bored to greet every new person here.

Psycogeek

12:22

Best Things In Life : Soft ice cream cone, Hot running water, Food that grown on trees

Crazy Buddy

@JourneymanGeek @Psycogeek: I wrote a blog post on my SE experience (last week), which was my first blog post :)

crazybuddy1995.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/…

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Are you okay man?

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo Best thing in life boris? lets hear some.

@CrazyBuddy Who cares? We get reputation points :-)

Crazy Buddy

@Psycogeek Of course :D

that's kinda true really :)

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek How about air conditioner in our global warming times? That's not best thing, that's vital thing.

Bob

12:32

@CrazyBuddy Don't forget to attribute those webcomics!

Crazy Buddy

@Bob I'm a beginner... How can I do that? o_O

Bob

@CrazyBuddy ...Just add a caption under them saying where you got them from.

And a link.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo ok thats one. I am working on making it best, the Solar air conditioner , problem is it only works when the sun is out :-)

Bob

And/or make sure the webcomic author gives permission for others to use them

Crazy Buddy

Is that a kind of *copyright thing*. It's just a blog o_O
Well, I mentioned them in my fav. comics page

crazybuddy1995.wordpress.com/comic-links

(It's avail. in the menu)

Bob

12:37

@CrazyBuddy "just a blog" doesn't matter

you cannot use the content without permission

xkcd gives permission:

> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.

But that means you MUST attribute it when you use it.

Crazy Buddy

Alrighty then... I'll put them tonight, before they call the cops :P

@Bob: You scare me... But, does that mean I should insert links for each & every comic I take? o_O

Bob

@CrazyBuddy For xkcd, you should attribute it to the author.

Crazy Buddy

That would make the page quite dull

Bob

The other comics, depends on how they are licenced, if at all.

You can just have a little caption under each image.

Crazy Buddy

I'd better do it this way...

> That is, you don't need my permission to post these pictures on your website (and hotlinking with <img> is fine); just include a link back to this page

Take their image link and link that to their page ;)

Bob

12:50

@CrazyBuddy Nope. CC attribution rules.

> Attribution — You must give the original author credit.

Crazy Buddy

@Bob I know... But, that phrase is taken from XKCD policy...

They state it...

Whatever... I'll write it out... I didn't think this would be a mess... -_-

Bob

Why are you makign this such a big deal?

Crazy Buddy

@Bob I mean, I've used a lot of comics (if you've seen the next post)

Now, I've to search for whatever I used..!!!

Gowtham

Bob

A little caption under the image saying "Increased Risk taken from xkcd with permission under CC-BY-NC" would be enough.

In fact, a little more than necessary.

@CrazyBuddy Note that those particular licensing rulesa re ONLY for xkcd

other comics may be different

some may not allow external use at all

Crazy Buddy

12:57

o_O

I'll see...

Crazy Buddy

13:09

BTW, @Bob: SMBC doesn't provide a license... o_O

slhck

@CrazyBuddy Not that anyone's gonna come chasing after you but… you like that webcomic? Why not point users to Abstruse Goose? It'll make the author happy.

Instead of just putting in an anonymous image you pulled from the web.

And while there is copyright on the original, embedding it somewhere, citing the source could be considered fair use in an otherwise non-commercial blog post.

Crazy Buddy

@slhck Well, I've pointed that out in another page of mine...

Note the last line...

crazybuddy1995.wordpress.com/comic-links

What do you say? :)

slhck

Ah, that's nice

Crazy Buddy

@slhck: Thanks for the suggestion :)

slhck

I mean, I personally would add a link of each image you put into an article.

Crazy Buddy

13:19

@slhck Okay.. I'll do that :)

slhck

You know, just a suggestion :) But that's how it's usually done. Citing all the material that is not owned or created by you.

Crazy Buddy

I know that... But, I didn't expect that it should be done for a blog :D

Psycogeek

@CrazyBuddy i agree with what they are saying, wordpress will lock you out on a complaint, untill it complies.

slhck

I think it's a nice gesture to apply anywhere in your life.

Whether it's writing a blog article, using someone's idea, et cetera.

Crazy Buddy

ahh...

Journeyman Geek

13:22

@CrazyBuddy: Its nice to people. Also if something is good enough to share, why not share it so people can find the comic?

(tho, I use something off a comic as a ava elsewhere. The MOMENT anyone asks, they get a link, and me saying how awesome the comic is)

Crazy Buddy

Thank you superusers @Bob @slhck @JourneymanGeek @Psycogeek :)

John Cavil

13:41

@PavanK Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! Please don't ask if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if anyone's free and interested they'll help.

Pavan K

Hi @slhck

hello everyone :)

slhck

Hi @PavanK

So… I'm not sure I understood what exactly you meant by dumping

Pavan K

I just want the files to be stitched. I do not want them to be re-encoded as they lose their source props once you re-encode

slhck

Yeah, you don't have to re-encode them. This is what -c copy does after concatenating them.

Pavan K

I don't know if I am making sense :)

slhck

13:44

It copies the bitstream as-is.

But the problem is that this sometimes results in the video being unplayable.

Pavan K

yup but the video doesn't play

exactly

any idea why

?

slhck

I can only imagine it is because the original videos weren't encoded exactly the same.

Where are they from?

Pavan K

From the camera

slhck

Hmm. I'm not sure. Does the file play when you re-encode? (i.e. leave out the -c copy and replace it with what I suggested in the comments)

Pavan K

let me try

Boris_yo

13:54

@Psycogeek What you need to do is deploy solar nodes interconnected around the globe so when one part of the globe experiences night, you have another part with sun out and transferring energy to your conditioner. Our how about creating a dome made of air conditioners that works on solar power that would cover earth's sky?

Pavan K

@slhck it works but it changes the bitrate of the video and I don't want to do that

Any workarond?

around*

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo because that would end the earth as we know it :-) Have you seen the movie "The Colony" yet?

slhck

@PavanK Hm. It depends. I'm not sure if this can be considered a bug already. Could be worth submitting a report. Could you maybe give me two or three sample files?

Just something really short.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek I did not see.

Pavan K

Hmm I have to upload them somewhere, give me a bit and I will send the links :)

slhck

13:58

@PavanK That'd be great. I'll try and reproduce it when I'm at home again and create a bug report if needed.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo the premise is , Future earth , global warming was attempted to be fixed by man made machine, it started snowing, and did not stop.

John Cavil

HAMMERTIME!

Gowtham

what ?

Journeyman Geek

I have no idea what triggered that

!!stop

John Cavil

HAMMERTIME!

@JourneymanGeek That didn't make much sense. Use the help command to learn more.

Journeyman Geek

14:06

maybe?

...

what?

not that either. @JohnCavil has gone sentient, we is doomed/

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek it coincides with the zero hour, aka 7:00 exact here

!!info

John Cavil

@Psycogeek I awoke on Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:29:33 GMT (that's about 6 days ago), got invoked 162 times, learned 28 commands, but forgotten 8 commands

Psycogeek

officially time to get off work in Swaziland :-)

Journeyman Geek

heh

superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/138292

Thats a PRETTY bad edit

Boris_yo

14:23

@Psycogeek Dang, IMDB rating is 5.2! Is it worth it really?

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek First time i saw it I thought he was going to "rent" aka Hire, now it has been changed to purchace, and then back to rent :-)

slhck

@JourneymanGeek What the… adding a signature?

That's new

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: I know, right?

slhck

@JourneymanGeek Apart from that it's not bad though.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo The rating for "The colony" is about par for a 4.5-5.0 kind of movie. it is fully watchable. it becomes a bit corney when they run into the "bad guys".

@slhck Its not really added, ramhound removed it, and changed the meaning in the first paralaugh. the anon edit is better IMO.

slhck

14:28

@Psycogeek Oh, I see.

Thanks, that clears it up

Journeyman Geek

I also VTC it, since I think its OT ;p

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek I watched "Limitless" yesterday and liked. You watched?

Gowtham

I accidentally searched for msft in google from my desktop and now it shows up in my phone @_@ (Google Now cards)

Journeyman Geek

lol

That Brazilian Guy

Anyone care to suggest ways on improving this answer? superuser.com/a/633509/165442

Journeyman Geek

14:32

@ThatBrazilianGuy: me being me, pictures!

slhck

I'd improve the question too.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo Not yet, guy gets nuron enhanced?

somequixotic

@JourneymanGeek rofl, he added in a signature from the OP...

sorry I didn't see slhck commenting on it earlier XD

Journeyman Geek

lol yeah!

Gowtham

wow wired.com/rawfile/2011/06/ekranoplan/?viewall=true

That Brazilian Guy

14:36

@slhck @JourneymanGeek my concern is maybe I said something wrong.

Journeyman Geek

looks right to me

I seem to think that co-ax ethernet used a ring topoligy for some reason

slhck

Because it has no collision detection maybe?

Ah nvm

read that wrong

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek I read on a couple google results it used bus topology, so I (incorrectly?) assumed that as correct.

Journeyman Geek

I might be wrong

this is before my time ;p

That Brazilian Guy

@Gowtham "The dilapidated plane is the offspring of an even larger prototype ship"... Planezilla?

Gowtham

14:39

whee new router arrives :)

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo If i used 100% of my brain, I would probably have to spend half the day eating to feed the monster :-)

That Brazilian Guy

15:00

I need to upgrade my Java version from `1.6.0_27` to `1.7.x`. I'm on ubuntu and performed `sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jdk` but if I perform `java -version` it displays:
`java version "1.6.0_27"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.12.6) (6b27-1.12.6-1ubuntu0.12.04.2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)`

Bob

O.O

extremetech.com/computing/…

Who had the drifting clock?

Gowtham

@ThatBrazilianGuy yess

Bob

Heh.

@JourneymanGeek Remember this?

Jul 17 at 11:58, by Bob

@JourneymanGeek Actually, last I heard, Windows doesn't rely on the battery-operated RTC while the computer is powered on.

Seems that was actually correct.

Psycogeek

@Bob that is odd, even back in XP and WIn7 times there was the Rare overclock that the "clock" on the computer would get way off over and again.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

15:06

@Psycogeek Ya, well, it's been commented elsewhere that Windows would only read the RTC at startup.

Journeyman Geek

apparently so

Bob

Apart from that, the CPU's timing components are considered reliable enough, and it saves power.

Not sure if that applied to XP and Win7, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Gowtham

Amusingly I got the router that @bob did not want me to get :P

Bob

Hm?

Gowtham

Cheapo routers ;p

Bob

15:11

Meh.

somequixotic

@Bob there have also been similar Linux kernel bugs in the past, although nowadays if you use an actual stable kernel you shouldn't experience anything like that

Bob

@somequixotic The clock thing? Supposedly intentional.

somequixotic

yeah but Linux has done it accidentally in the past :P

Bob

And, at least in that article, only confirmed when under/overclocking...

somequixotic

I guess it's worse to do it intentionally though haha

Psycogeek

15:14

@Bob stopwatch . When i really want to know "how fast is it" I have it do a real task, instead of some repetitive one, and use a stopwatch to time it for real.

Bob

xD

@Psycogeek Hm? The vast majority of the time, human reaction time will make far more of a difference than a little clock drift as described in that article.

I guess if you were measuring over a long period of time, but then you could synchronise with NTP.

Or you were heavily over/underclocking. Maybe.

somequixotic

I know! benchmarks could use server-side timing: at least for benchmarks that time the amount of time it takes to compute a hash (effectively bitcoin computing benchmarks), you could run the benchmark long enough (several minutes; hours would be better) so that internet latency would be mere noise (<0.001% even if there's a latency spike), and you'd be unable to cheat the system by artificially sending the "I'm done" packet because the "I'm done" packet requires you to compute something

then just make sure the server uses a secure and accurate timer and wait to see how many hashes can be computed by a contestant in, say, 3 hours

if they're really unlucky and there's a 2 second latency spike, who cares? I can't see the #1 and #2 contestant in a 3 hour test only being 2 seconds different... the #1 guy is going to have some kind of super cooling rig or ASICs or a custom driver or OS that lets him run 1 or 2% faster, which will eclipse the 2 second mark over 10,800 seconds

Psycogeek

They would run out of Liquid nitrogen :-)

Journeyman Geek

or periodically ping the server and account for that.

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Q: Ejabberd can't connect to users

I installed ejabberd on my remote server running centos 6.4 and open all ports required. For example I can access the web admin when i go to http://IP_ADDRES:5280/admin. With the following command I added a new user: ejabberdctl register admin localhost password user admin can login at http:/...

xmpp ejabberd jabber chat erlang

fail

somequixotic

@JourneymanGeek any meaningful ping is by definition bidirectional (round trip), and you can game the system by artificially stalling your responses on the client side, so you can't use pings

Bob

15:22

@JourneymanGeek That's more of a "why even bother answering, just delete the question" kind of thing :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

somequixotic

the contestant could artificially hold up pings just long enough to avoid the timeout.... if the timeout is 30 seconds, set the ping delay to 28 seconds, and the server will think "gee, this guy's internet sucks, we have to deduct 28 seconds from his score", and when they do that they're giving him an unfair advantage because he can send his last result with no delay

unless they do it like BTC mining and just have them report in when they finish each batch and the goal is to finish as many batches as possible in X amount of real time

that would be fairly hard to game, I think

Oliver Salzburg

15:41

Cool, Reuters notifies you about upcoming profanity at the start of their articles: reuters.com/article/2013/08/19/…

Bob

I need to set up a proper email server...

"shitty" is profanity now?

Talk about oversensitive.

How about we call it "poopy" instead.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob My eyes!!!!

@Bob Incoming, outgoing, both?

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Eh, no concrete plans yet.

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob After a certain number of deleted questions, you can't ask new questions. After a certain number of zero-voted questions too, but it seems the threshold is higher.

Bob

At the moment I'm using Namecheap's email forwarding into a Gmail account and sending out through there.

Oliver Salzburg

15:43

I recommend Postfix+Dovecot on Debian, because I don't know how to work with anything else ;D

And I guess Exchange isn't what you want ;P

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy Wait, zero-voted? Not downvoted, just... ignored?

That sounds quite unfair.

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob Yes, read on meta about that.

@Bob Yeah, tell me about it.

Bob

Just cause a question doesn't stand out enough or catch people's eyes does not mean it's a bad question...

@OliverSalzburg Hm. I'll have to take a look when I have time :P

Urgh. Always time.

Fiddling with sshfs/FUSE on a VPS now

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob Unfortunately, Stack Exchange isn't about being fair. It's about adapting to the game in the name of a greater good. We are the borg. Adapt or perish.

John Cavil

@MohammedOubaid Hey there! You're pretty special, aren't you? :)

That Brazilian Guy

15:47

@Bob "Stack Exchange has automatic filters in place to ban questions from accounts that have contributed many low-quality questions in the past. These filters help keep the quality of our sites high. The exact formula for the bans is not disclosed, but users are only banned if they have a significant number of heavily down-voted, zero-voted, or deleted posts." stackoverflow.com/help/question-bans

Bob

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That Brazilian Guy

!!cowsay When everyone is pretty special, no one is.

John Cavil

@ThatBrazilianGuy Certainly

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That Brazilian Guy

@somequixotic your ~~bot~~ cow can't parse HTML.

Canadian Luke

@ThatBrazilianGuy Do you want a parsing cow?

Psycogeek

15:53

@OliverSalzburg Being in germany i was wondering if you knew anything about german GPS? They were launching sattalites , for thier own version of gps or something?

That Brazilian Guy

@CanadianLuke If that's a linguistic pun, it's lost on me, sorry

Oliver Salzburg

@Psycogeek Right, let me look up the name

Galileo (satellite navigation)

Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) currently being built by the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA). The €5 billion project is named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. One of the aims of Galileo is to provide a high-precision positioning system upon which European nations can rely, independently from the Russian GLONASS, US GPS, and Chinese Compass systems, which can be disabled in times of war or conflict. When in operation, it will use two ground operations centres near Munich in Germany and in Fucino in Italy. In December 2010, EU ...

Bob

@Psycogeek There's a Euro system called Galileo.

...he beat me to it.

There's also a Chinese one.

I forgot the name.

somequixotic

heh, the US GPS system is operated by the Air Force, although IIRC it can be used (nearly) worldwide

Bob

Only GPS and GLONASS are completed at the moment, though.

somequixotic

15:55

the Russian one is GLONASS

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob " the Russian GLONASS, US GPS, and Chinese Compass systems, "

Oliver Salzburg

You're right though, it's not a Germany only effort

somequixotic

I sure as heck wouldn't want my phone to give me a glowing ass

say "no thanks" to GLONASS

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy I probably originally heard it by its Chinese name. BeiDou.

@somequixotic My Lumia phone has GLONASS.

Psycogeek

@OliverSalzburg I was wondering if the present gps is not so good? If the new version would be "different" in such a way as to have 2 systems, or GPS recievers that would need to expand thier thinking?

Bob

15:57

The positioning (not sure if it uses GPS/GLONASS, and my N8 GPS-only was similar) is instant and works inside most small buildings

somequixotic

@Bob yeah so does my Razr Maxx HD because it's supposed to be a "True World Phone", meaning you can get cellular voice, some kind of data, and GPS, worldwide

Bob

Oh, the US GPS is supposed to be worldwide coverage IIRC

Oliver Salzburg

@Psycogeek Well, to my understanding, "they" don't want to rely on the US. And Galileo supposedly has better accuracy

somequixotic

at least in most industrialized countries

Bob

@OliverSalzburg GPS is very very accurate... for US military use.

somequixotic

15:58

@OliverSalzburg that's the main reason for having more than one GPS system, yeah, because the US owns the system normally called "GPS"

Bob

There's a couple phases not licensed for civilian use, which are required for the higher accuracy.

somequixotic

frankly I wouldn't be surprised if US budget cuts cause the GPS system to languish and eventually fail

Bob

@somequixotic It is failing.

Satellites are dying, and they aren't replacing all of them when they should.

somequixotic

@Bob my GPS tells me I have between 9 and 13 satellites able to see me, whether I'm in a building, car, or outside, in US and Canada, consistently, at any time of day

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob isn't Baidu the Chinese Twitter?

somequixotic

15:59

as far as I can tell it's still working okayish

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