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Boris_yo

00:01

It is sad that 3dfx brand ceased to exist. Their latest Voodoo 5 6000 outperformed Nvidia GeForce 2 Ultra and could compete with GeForce 3. Some lucky benchmarkers were able to get their hands in pre-release units.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_5_6000#Voodoo_5_6000

GPU space must be seriously competitive...

I remember Glide API and OpenGL but wonder why DirectX is better.

1997 was exciting time for formation of first 3D games and appearance of first 3D video cards...

Journeyman Geek

00:57

lol

most of the PC industry is

I mean, we're down to 2 1/2 x86 chip makers, 2 video card companies.

oh, and 2-3 hard drive makers, 2-3 LCD panel makers too

tapped-out

@JourneymanGeek who's the other 0.5 chip maker?

Journeyman Geek

via

they still make x86 processors, though they seem more enthusiastic about arm.

tapped-out

ooooh, right

they mostly make low-end chip though (netbook chips, back when those were a thing)

John Cavil

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Journeyman Geek

yeah, but they arn't much cheaper in many cases

and they hardly have any distributor

and most of the cool low end chips seem dead

like the geode

Oliver Salzburg

01:13

@SamWhited It's a bot

Journeyman Geek

(oh, and I think someone still makes a 486 compatable chip for embedded use)

John Cavil

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Nick Meharry

Hi bot.

Anyone know how to repair a TrueCrypt locked Windows install?

I have the password, but I can't boot my Windows install disk and unlock the disk at the same time.

The root issue is that I can't use a keyboard and mouse after Windows boots.

Oliver Salzburg

@NickMeharry How come?

Nick Meharry

I can unlock the disk and navigate the BIOS just fine, but after Windows starts (even in safe mode) I get no response from either keyboard or mouse.

Lights are on, but nobody's home.

Journeyman Geek

01:19

@NickMeharry: USB or PS/2? has it ever worked?

Nick Meharry

USB. No PS/2 ports on this box.

And yes, it was working the other day.

What I think happened was that I took Windows out of "test mode".

Can't remember exactly why I turned that on, but I had a reason at some point.

Anyways, turned that off the other night, and now I can't use my computer.

My current attempt is to boot a Windows recovery USB and repair my install, but it doesn't see the drive.

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek 2 Aren't AMDs x86?

@JourneymanGeek So... Only strongest survive?

Gowtham

well shit, I need to bypass this cyberoam.com/downloads/Techsheet/…

hopfully it allows ssh ^_^

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo: they're one of the two

@NickMeharry: oh, so you can't use unsigned drivers?

tried booting into safe mode?

Nick Meharry

01:35

Yeah, like I said, it doesn't work even in safe mode.

I didn't think I was using unsigned drivers anymore.

Journeyman Geek

hmm

maybe this? raymond.cc/blog/…

Nick Meharry

From more reading, I guess I need my TrueCrypt install image.

err, rescue disk to decrypt the drive.

Journeyman Geek

hmm

if you don't have it, there's a copy inside your system....

and you might be able to access the encrypted image from truecrypt on linux

I was actually working on a similar question but truecrypt won't do FDE if I don't create a recovery disk, and I can't cause its in a VM :)

Nick Meharry

I was actually about to download Ubuntu to pull my rescue disk from my secondary HD.

But I'm going to try the other thing first.

That might save me a bunch of trouble.

Journeyman Geek

assuming the issue is signed vs unsigned drivers

I'm guessing here

unrelatedly

-1

Q: Lan Users Connect Torrent Automatic

Sir My Site Hosting In VPS Nd My All User Are In My Lan User Our Public Ip Is fake Ip Not Real Ip So We Cant not Download Each Other Files We Add Add Our Lan ip Nd Utorrent Port In Add Peers Then We Download Each Others File In Highspeed So Its Manualy Sir Still We Have 350+ Member ND Its Impro...

bittorrent

Nick Meharry

01:40

Yes, it's the unsigned drivers thing.

I have a keyboard and mouse again!

Thank you so much!

Journeyman Geek

^^

that was fun

Nick Meharry

I've never seen that extra options screen before.

Boot into safe mode, sure, but not all the extras.

Now to turn safe mode back on.

Journeyman Geek

I didn't know that was there either ;p

Nick Meharry

Err, test mode.

Journeyman Geek

I just knew just enough to google an answer up ;)

-1

Q: Lan Users Connect Torrent Automatic

Sir My Site Hosting In VPS Nd My All User Are In My Lan User Our Public Ip Is fake Ip Not Real Ip So We Cant not Download Each Other Files We Add Add Our Lan ip Nd Utorrent Port In Add Peers Then We Download Each Others File In Highspeed So Its Manualy Sir Still We Have 350+ Member ND Its Impro...

bittorrent

someone needs to write software that translates saladspeak to english

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Journeyman Geek

02:04

@tapped-out hm, via's x86 licence might have run out

John Cavil

02:57

@Hector 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.

Hector

Sometimes badly thought out questions can be frustrating. I am almost tempted to exclaim "help vampire" on some of them.

Short rant is short.

Journeyman Geek

lol

that happens

Hector

Spreadsheet-related questions especially. No, you cannot implement a full-featured Turing complete tax return calculator that exports to a remote LDAP server in Excel without using the F8 key. Learn to program, seriously.

2

Journeyman Geek

lol

(before I say this, I'd note I'm of indian decent, and there's a load of great indian IT guys)... but a lot of those are indian folk who spend too much time copy-pasting code, and memorising crap

Hector

Yes, talk about cargo cults. But anyway, I'm just tired. Night Journeyman.

John Cavil

03:12

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Bob

03:43

@Hector nah, you don't need F8 :P

Boris_yo

@Hector Your avatar reminds me of Che Guevara...

John Cavil

@Dennis 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.

Dennis

I've been trying to document my problems with my internet connection by hooking directly into my modem via ethernet and pinging google.com at 30 sec intervals for a few hours to show that connection drops. I've done this over a few hours and looking at the log I've noticed a weird pattern. Once the timeouts started occurring they've been occurring in a pattern of sorts. Timeouts occur almost exactly every 3.5 mins and last for 3 mins.

The pattern is even more bizarre and specific, though. The response time on the first ping in the sequence of timed-out attempts is always within 1 sec of 180

Does this say something about what the source of the problem is?

There were 9 timeouts recorded that followed this pattern

tdk2fe

ping timeouts happen all the time

it doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong

Dennis

but it coincides with lack of internet

connection

I got the idea to log it this way from this question: superuser.com/questions/38666/…

there definitely is a problem with my internet connection, i'm just trying to get more information on the issue since my ISP's technicians are useless in fixing it

have the 4th tech in 4 weeks coming out friday

tdk2fe

03:56

So what brought this on? What behavior did you notice when you said "I'm losing my connection"?

Dennis

I noticed that every internet connected device could no longer load web pages, download e-mails, use web requiring apps, or any other internet related task i could think of

not sure what brought it on, it happened while i was out of town

tdk2fe

And it just starts up again on its own?

that sounds like its probably your ISP

or a bad modem

Dennis

it does after exactly 3.5 mins (according to the ping log)

yea, this is the second modem (both from my ISP)

i'm pretty positive it's the ISP

tdk2fe

what ISP? what type of service is it?

and what OS are you running?

Dennis

Comcast High-Speed Cable Internet

Mac OS X 10.7.5

but the same issue occurs on a windows machine running some iteration of Windows 7

and two iPads (one of them a mini) on iOS 10.6

the Mac is the one i've tested hard-wired into the modem, though

tdk2fe

04:00

so unless you somehow had all your tech go bad on you its probably the isp ;)

Dennis

otherwise i was noticing my router get disconnected in the same manner

haha i know

any speculations on what it could be on the ISP's end, though?

because they seem unable to figure it out...so at this point i'm trying to do their work for them

especially since Comcast has a monopoly in my area so i don't really have another option

tdk2fe

a better view would be to run tcpdump while your running your ping, and see what the traffic looks like

Dennis

hmmm, ok, not all that familiar with that...just downloaded it

tdk2fe

or you could use wireshark - the GUI equivalent

might be easier

Dennis

yea, that is probably more my speed...i'll check it out, thanks for the tip

any other suggestions while i have you here?

tdk2fe

04:12

it's one of those issues that could really be anything .... i would look at the traffic and get more specific information about what happens when the internet stops

and also - write a script that when the ping times out, launch a traceroute, and then you'll see where in the network the timeout happens

Dennis

ok, thanks for the tips

Journeyman Geek

04:41

@tdk2fe: I'd also give pathping a shot on windows, since it might tell you where you're pinging out on the route

its like traceroute and ping together.

0

Q: I have two empty slides in my beamer presentation where i list my objectives of the thesis i dont know how to remove them from my slides

\begin{frame} \frametitle{Objectives} \begin{enumerate} \item<1-| alert@1> To obtain the numerical solution for the following cases \setbeamertemplate{enumerate items}[square] \begin{itemize} \item Characteristic ...... \item For special... \item For the ......... \end{item...

windows-7

whut?

nhinkle

05:35

OK folks I need some advice.

I have some very short 720p video clips I need to put together and stick some basic text on top of. What should I use? I'm running Windows 8. Ideas?

Bob

I've been using After Effects (student creative cloud package), but that is probably very very overkill

Oliver Salzburg

Do I dare say "Movie Maker"? :P

Bob

@nhinkle Virtualdub should be able to

@OliverSalzburg does Win8 even have one anymore?

nhinkle

@Bob if by overkill you mean costs hundreds of dollars then yes.

@Bob I'll check that out.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob No idea actually

nhinkle

05:38

@Bob I'm not sure which is why I asked. Windows Movie Maker always kind of sucked, sooo....

Bob

@nhinkle looks like text may be a problem with VDub. you have to create some subtitles manually and use VDub to render them :\

nhinkle

@Bob that sounds like effort. I might look at movie maker afterall.

Journeyman Geek

movie maker kinda...

nhinkle

@JourneymanGeek sucks?

Journeyman Geek

its the easiest thing to use, but its kinda unloved

nhinkle

05:40

Well I literally just need to mash 4 videos together.

Journeyman Geek

@nhinkle: I rather like it

nhinkle

Say, I could probably just use @slhck's favorite - ffmpeg

Journeyman Geek

I think its under the windows live suite now

nhinkle

Although I do need to add text, so movie maker it is I guess.

Oliver Salzburg

I'm having high hopes for the upcoming OpenShot 2

Which should have a Windows version

Sathya

05:51

awarded the sheriff badge on Web Applications today. Serving as webapps' Mod for a year now. webapps.stackexchange.com/election/2

@nhinkle try camtasia studio? got a 30 day trial.

John Cavil

06:18

@user1684401 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.

nhinkle

@JohnCavil you silly bot, you.

John Cavil

06:45

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

Bob

07:24

...damn it sourceforge

launch half a dozen ads and fail to start the download

>
Thank you for downloading TortoiseSVN. Checkout screenshots, reviews, and more.

How about giving me the download before thanking me for downloading??

...decidedly NSFW ads on sourceforge. good fucking job.

slhck

07:49

@nhinkle You can script that with ffmpeg as well but I guess a GUI editor (or a proper NLE) is better suited for that.

Journeyman Geek

this is odd

I can't connect to internal webservers in my lan, but external ones

Bob

o.O

@JourneymanGeek using the local address/IP?

because a lot of routers don't allow access to their own public IP from inside

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I have a web server running ttrss on one box, torrent webui on the other

one's slow, one dosen't work.

Bob

o.o

Journeyman Geek

ya

Psycogeek

08:15

IE10 is so secure it would not let me post on a forum "I am sorry dave, we cant be letting information go out of your computer you know" :-)

Open the Web Bay doors Hal.

Journeyman Geek

and now its working fine

Psycogeek

Dave, the existing ports are sufficient for your needs, any data will have to be directed through them at this time, another half open connection wouldnt be prudent.

Journeyman Geek

and its slow again....

hm, I am missing something

Psycogeek

Hal, open the web bay doors now, or I am installing Firefox.

I am sorry dave, I am afraid I cannot let you do that, my browser is highly integrated into my systems, it would impair my funtional ability to protect you. How about we install another plug-in dave, Bing! search mabey?

--Intel added another really cool feature to motherboards via the Nic chip, it can download data while your computer is in standby or hibernation. . . It what? it can download while the computer is basically OFF ?? Not a problem though because when i installed the driver it defaulted to having 2of3 wake-ons left on anyways.

Journeyman Geek

08:37

ah hah!

high load average

Psycogeek

--Asus also after adding in the rather cool UEFI bios which has net connectability, has a USB slot in the back of the computer for updating the UEFI. You just stuff a flash disk in the computer when it is off, and press a button for 3 seconds. about 15 seconds later, you have new firmware. And the chasiss intrusion alarm wont even go off :-)

Journeyman Geek

yeah, thats pretty neat

Psycogeek

I have no reason to worry about such security issues myself, it just is humerous that in the day and age of security issues, they add in another layer of complicated stuff to have fail, and it starts making "Mission Impossible" look like "Mission piece of cake". The day of the T-500 takeover of human civilisation is further and further away then we think. Just jump on the back of the T-2000 and insert a microSD , and another one is out of the war.

Journeyman Geek

09:07

hm

compiling libtorrent-rastobar on my pi...

its.. going to take a while

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek what kind of storage are you using with the pi?

Journeyman Geek

regular USB hard drive

and the recommended 4gb SD card

regular USB hard drive

Psycogeek

2 of them huh :-) no 3 ?

Journeyman Geek

sorry, having some connectivity issues

Psycogeek

Pushes reset button on Journeyman Geek :-)

Journeyman Geek

09:15

the router's hitting load spikes

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek Well it will be interesting to hear what you get. We know the Pi is not a cpu power house, or a graphics card, so it will be interesting to hear if there are any bad bottle-necking going on with simple net transfer kind of stuff with minimal cpu needs.

Journeyman Geek

09:36

maw

it shouldn't be too hard on it

Bob

10:24

@JourneymanGeek How about cross-compiling on a desktop?

3

Q: Compile my RPi programs on my PC

Since I got my RPi, I have been playing with it and I am really happy that I bought it! I use various programs on it but it takes a long time to build them. So I had an idea. What if I could build my programs on my quad-core PC, it will be a lot faster!? ^^ Is there a way to build my programs o...

cross-compilation

Journeyman Geek

10:46

Yeah, thats probably a better idea

I do not compile things that often though

Bob

11:31

...

alternet.org/media/…

(@allquixotic)

Psycogeek

11:47

""they see even higher margins in being able to tell us where to go once we're online. "" Well isnt that special. The "internet" that would "give voice to the people" , and "allow even the smallest of businesses to openly advertise, and therefore compete with the large corporations". Is willing to squelch people, and use thier money to control the rest of what they dont control already.

Its time to form 180,000hops. The wi-fi based consumer owned and operated network :-)

Go to 180000hops.com and sign in, and get your WI-Fi properly unprotected, so we can start re-making the backbone of the internet :-)

Saladin

12:30

0

Q: How to parse USER-AGENT field in http header using regex?

I want to parese, user-agent information from http header. The problem is that I'm getting two not one user-agent in the same packet, its not by design its just how I'm receiving layer 7 network flows traffic, the same header is given as:- CONNECT www.facebook.com:443 HTTP/1.1 Host: www.facebook...

regex

i need help on this

anyone?

Journeyman Geek

@Saladin: don't use regex ;p

John Cavil

12:47

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

Michael Kjörling

@JohnCavil I thought we all were ;)

Oliver Salzburg

13:04

Especially @JohnCavil is special

Michael Kjörling

13:27

@OliverSalzburg I figured as much.

Saladin

@journeyman pls see my response

allquixotic

13:53

@Bob I already knew that Verizon is one of the most evil entities in the whole world, and essentially trying to become the Nazi regime of the Internet... that isn't news

@Saladin are you "asadz" ?

John Cavil

14:18

@GraceNote Oh no, master is here! Hide the cookies!

allquixotic

;p (bot's standard greeting for mods / room owners)

Grace Note

I won't touch your cookies if you guys just give a quick appraisal of this here thingadongdong. ♪

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Bob

Nice touch with that note.

allquixotic

@GraceNote that needs to be enhanced to say which specific games, and a few more details, but it'd be on-topic for SU, imho

Bob

dlras's answer is likely right, and I think SU has a dupe.

Grace Note

14:20

@Bob Shall I send it over now and let you guys handle the dupe end of things?

allquixotic

it's kind of a crap question as it is because it's not specific enough, so to get all the info we'd need, would be like pulling teeth, going back and forth in the comments, assuming that dlras2's answer isn't already right on the money (which is very possible)

Bob

Bingo!

6

Q: F-Keys are Alternate by default on a Gateway Toshiba Laptop

I just bought this laptop. It's a Gateway branded Toshiba laptop. The F-keys (F1 ... F12) all have default and alternate actions. Default actions are when you press the key, alternate actions are achieved by holding the Fn key and pressing them. The problem I have is that the "unusual" actions...

laptop keyboard

Huh. Who wants to do dupe cleanup?

3

Q: Standard F* keys need holding Fn key on Compaq CQ62

I got a Compaq CQ62 laptop recently. I find that I have to hold down the Fn keys to use the standard F* keys while accessing the special functionalities like media keys does not. This is frustrating as the standard keys are used more often the special functions. Is there anyway to fix it so that...

laptop keyboard compaq

allquixotic

> Whenever I try, it just changes my brightness or opens help

yep, that's sounding a lot like a dupe of those questions

almost positive of it...

Bob

And another:

4

Q: How can I make my laptop F-key's work as F-keys?

I purchased a new laptop with Windows 8. It's F buttons don't work as F buttons, they seem to work by default as the weird icons on them, such as media controls. To "refresh" a browser window with the F5 key, I actually have to hit fn+F5. Probably the most annoying example is, as a web developer,...

windows-8 laptop keyboard keyboard-shortcuts

Grace Note

Yeah, definitely looks like a dupe.

allquixotic

14:22

you can mig it if it's off-topic for arqade, but it's almost definitely going to be closed as a dupe on SU, so it's up to you

Bob

OS X version:

0

Q: Turn on Normal F Keys on Matias Tactile Pro (FK302) on OSX/iMac

The F keys on the Tactile Pro are set to trigger the Apple special functions (Dashboard, Brightness Control, Spaces, etc.). Under Keyboard System Preferences, there is no option to switch these back to normal F key usage as there is on Apple laptops. Is this possible at all?

osx keyboard

allquixotic

we won't resent you either way ;p we're friendly participants in the cross-site community =)

Grace Note

I think it'll sit easier on Super User because then you can actually point the dupe targets out. Duplicate closure isn't quite as dumb post-migration as, say, off-topic or in the NARQ days.

allquixotic

yeah I agree... and it at least shows that tons of people keep asking the same thing, so maybe we need a CW or a canonical question on this

Bob

@GraceNote Well, the question is generally on-topic (if lacking in detail as @allquixotic said)

@allquixotic Pretty sure we have at least a dozen :P

I just can't be bothered going through all 70 pages of search results.

allquixotic

14:23

yeah, on second thought I think the Q actually has (barely!!!) enough information to be definitively answerable without putting teeth, so not only is it on-topic, but it's actually, surprisingly, answerable O_o

so its only gripe is the dupe angle.

Bob

So... new canonical, or just pick the oldest/most popular and close the rest?

allquixotic

@Bob unsure, would like to talk to a SU diamond mod about that though

need one more approver on the edit suggestion on that Q now that it's migrated

Oliver Salzburg

What certificate store do I have to put a self-signed certificate in for Chrome to trust it?

Bob

@OliverSalzburg The Chrome one? :P

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob I don't see a Chrome one

Bob

14:30

@OliverSalzburg Advanced settings => HTTPS/SSL => Manage certificates

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg Chrome uses the Windows certificate store... for a website, you need to put the self-signed cert and the CA into the Windows cert store

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Yeah, which store? There is no CA btw

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg you have to have a CA to have an SSL cert, unless it's a snakeoil

Bob

It looks like it shares it with Windows' one, actually. certmgr.msc

Oliver Salzburg

The Trusted Publishers one for my user account doesn't work

Bob

14:31

But you can get there through the Chrome settings too.

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic It is

allquixotic

Trusted Root Certificate Authorities would be where the self-created root CA would go, and then I think you would put the site's issued cert under Personal and Trusted Publishers; I don't think you can ever get a browser to trust a snakeoil cert though

if you can, if at all possible, don't use a snakeoil cert

Bob

@allquixotic I'm pretty sure you can just import it, in Firefox.

allquixotic

a self-signed cert that is signed by a self-created root CA should work

Bob

Which would then end up in Servers

I think.

Journeyman Geek

14:34

0

Q: Laptops with a good, "dedicated USB controller?"

When buying a new laptop, how can I tell/check if it has a "dedicated USB controller?" It may sound dumb, and no salesperson can answer it, but the reason here is I use computers for recording music, and I use USB audio interfaces to do so. When I use any of my laptops (i5/8GB ram, i3/4GB ram), ...

laptop usb audio-recording latency asio

Oliver Salzburg

I guess it tells me which store

Journeyman Geek

dude totally missed the gorilla in the room

Oliver Salzburg

But certutil isn't adding it :P

allquixotic

NoMachine NX 4 is finally released as of today, woot

lots of new features, plus it actually runs as a server on Windows and Mac now

Journeyman Geek

OOH

free?

ugh, page is down for me

Bob

14:40

@allquixotic Hate that thing.

Forced to use it for Uni remote access for Maple.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I used to use it years ago, twas great

Bob

Two screens, different resolutions, on my end. Half the time it picks one, half the time the other. And uses that resolution.

And it's not resizable.

And it's always windowed.

Not to mention it doesn't capture alt+tab properly.

As far as remote access goes, it's pretty shoddy. At least, its Windows client is.

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek probably being flooded with downloaders

@Bob well... they've spent years and years completely re-doing it for version 4, so maybe it'll be better (or maybe it'll be worse, who knows)

we won't know until people stop DDoSing them with download requests, though

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

aww shit

the compilation I was doing ran out of space

I'll see if I can get it to do it on the USB HDD tommorrow

John Cavil

14:47

@Trey 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.

KronoS

Is anyone around?

Hennes

not really, just doing the laundry

KronoS

@JohnCavil what are your capabilities

allquixotic

@KronoS NO

Hennes

And taking a quick peek at the monitor

Journeyman Geek

14:48

depends on your definition of anyone

allquixotic

!!tell KronoS listcommands

KronoS

@allquixotic I'm testing your bot

John Cavil

@KronoS help, listen, eval, coffee, live, die, refresh, forget, ban, unban, info, jquery, choose, user, listcommands, norris, urban, parse, tell, mdn, awsm, color, convert, define, findcommand, fuckable, get, github, google, hang, inhistory, learn, dead, o_o, stopgowtham, @_@, no, taytaytay, stackoverflow, sayto, hello, foo, godmode, iddqd, poke, lash, job, pins, mjp, thelook, meta, say, howtolearn, /nudge, /, !, !!, drink, ,!!, _!!, owner, sleep, alarm, cowsay, gre.*ep, $@# (page 0/1)

KronoS

it failed

Journeyman Geek

@KronoS: we're safe from the cylons

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allquixotic

14:48

@KronoS the bot doesn't respond to casual chat; you have to use !! commands

KronoS

@allquixotic You should have it respond to general chat

Bob

4

KronoS

I.e. if someone says Is anybody around? then it responds

Oliver Salzburg

Jesus... of course, the name of the certificate store you provide to certutil does not match the name they tell you in the UI

allquixotic

@KronoS sure, but that can be abused

Oliver Salzburg

14:50

Installing it in the ROOT store works

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg now you have ROOT Access! :D

Oliver Salzburg

:D

allquixotic

silly snakeoil user. use a real cert!

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Or you could just use the graphical manager.

Oliver Salzburg

I'm testing HTTPS communication between the browser and the web server which are both running on this machine. I think I'll be fine

allquixotic

14:51

sometimes a comment doesn't do justice to just how bad a question is

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A: How to parse USER-AGENT field in http header using regex?

There are several problems with this question: You haven't told us what programming language you are using, or at least which flavor of regular expressions. POSIX? PCRE? Something unusual? In what context are you using this? Are you running an HTTP server, and clients are submitting requests li...

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob I wanted to find out the easy way (which is the command line) for documentation purposes

KronoS

!!cowsay something stupid

John Cavil

@KronoS xx

allquixotic

umm wtf

Oliver Salzburg

And certutil -addstore -f + typo is a bitch :P

Journeyman Geek

14:52

@allquixotic: I know, right?

allquixotic

"xx"?

that's certainly not normal...

Journeyman Geek

To generate #1 albums, 'jay --help' recommends the -z flag.

I would have linked this earlier if I wasn't in class when this was mentioned

Bob

@allquixotic You should include a Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- in that user agent example :P

and maybe a sudo rm -rf /

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

I cannot use string function its not programmable im using closed source solution. — asadz 1 hour ago

wat

Translation please? o.O

Journeyman Geek

14:56

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A: Bad contact on USB port in daily use

I am Tammy Kluga your Hennes/Schmitt and you guys have a big trial in England with my family of the Bible for raping us of our ancestory all our lives. Your names is not to say good but rich and money is needed and I need a house and family tree. Your family is aware that the media in the World...

whut?

allquixotic

@Bob sounds like he's using some kind of programming environment or scripting environment that supports regex, but not string functions. lollll

Bob

@allquixotic Erm...

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek ROFL

Journeyman Geek

@Hennes: I think you attracted a loony.

allquixotic

Hennes/Schmitt sounds like a law firm -- you two should go into business together

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> I need a house and family tree

Journeyman Geek

14:59

apparently this person just hates the name boards.ancestrylibrary.com/surnames.hennes/1.22/mb.ashx

allquixotic

that sounds like a bayesian attempt to trigger a hate speech filter

considering the things that are in that

Bob

@JourneymanGeek what is this i dont even

Not sure if bot or real person.

Journeyman Geek

I think its someone who is mentally ill

allquixotic

I think it's a bot, it uses the words too many times

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

15:01

it's almost like a really terribly worded 411 scam, but not quite

Journeyman Geek

they all seem to be the same wierd theme.

Bob

411 scam?

Journeyman Geek

want another one? ;p

allquixotic

> I am a murdered family

> I am not your kid

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

15:01

I mean, wtf

Bob

@JourneymanGeek No thanks.

My brain is mushy enough already.

Journeyman Geek

honestly, I wasn't sure if I should flag that as spam, so I flagged it as OP is on drugs.

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Bob

> I am in Orland Park, IL and waiting on my move to my welcomed direction of money and home and car.

Wait what.

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek I flagged it as offensive / hate speech

Journeyman Geek

15:03

I'm not sure what the hell it is ;p

allquixotic

@Bob Nigerian scam?

country code 411 ;p

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

@allquixotic Ah.

allquixotic

Hello my name is Prince Ahmesh Akbar and I am from the great City of Lagos...

Journeyman Geek

I'd love to see a 411 style email from iniago montoya

Trey

15:05

Someone should try baiting the bot and post it to 419eater ;)

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek I'd love to see a 411 style email from Tammy Kluga

Journeyman Geek

"I'm a master swordsman whose father was killed by a six fingered man, I am looking for a trustworthy person to keep some funds with while I hunt down, and kill said man, after saying to him... "My name is iniago montoya, You killed my father..."

Oliver Salzburg

15:17

@allquixotic BTW, why is a self-signed certificate more snakeoil than signing it with a self-signed CA? Or were you talking about a trusted CA?

And, if so, why is a trusted CA better than a self-signed one which I manually trusted :D

"Trusted" is really a problematic term in this context :P

Bob

Boris_yo

@Bob Yeah I also do that because I feel I am being watched and suddenly turning around to walk in another direction would make me look weird.

@allquixotic I think nigerians coded their own bot.

TIP: Right-clicking YouTube video brings up menu where option "Stats for nerds" is.

Oliver Salzburg

15:39

Nice flag :D OP is on drugs

Hennes

15:59

@JourneymanGeek Compile on a disk connected via USB: Sir, you have a lot of patience :)

Braiam

@allquixotic I would flag that one as Unclear, OP is high...

@OliverSalzburg a total valid flag IMO... OP might actually be on drugs...

Oliver Salzburg

@Braiam Yeah, it was valid ;D

Braiam

Just me or anybody else see that tooltip in the image?

xkcd might be trolling me...

Oliver Salzburg

16:14

@Braiam We all see it

Journeyman Geek

16:52

@Braiam: I'm not o0

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