Root Access

Undo

00:25

So nineteen hours until you hand out a few new diamonds, eh?

Journeyman Geek

lol

I'm kinda nervious about that ;p

I have a fairly non trivial chance of winning, but still

Undo

yeah. elections are nerveracking :P

Journeyman Geek

@Undo: silly thing is, I'm fairly certain of winning

(high rep users generally have an advantage, and I'm roughly 200-300 votes ahead on primaries)

allquixotic

00:57

@JourneymanGeek if you don't win, then the acceleration due to gravity on Earth is not -9.8m/s^2.

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

it'd be a violation of physics for you to lose

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: unless everyone assumes the same thing and picks me as third choice ;p

allquixotic

yesterday, by allquixotic

Journeyman Geek

;p

Thats remarkably similar to how I voted

(though I admit, voting for myself feels wierd)

allquixotic

01:09

!! s/ie/ei/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic (though I admit, voting for myself feels weird) (source)

allquixotic

ugh, I hate it when record labels do this: I am a US citizen and Warner Brothers Benelux doesn't want my money: itunes.apple.com/be/album/inside-outside/id822218931

I want to legally buy that music, but every single store I look at, requires you to be in Belgium. WTF?

when will these music labels realize that the economy is a global thing now, and releasing albums with geographical restrictions is like only allowing skinny people to buy donuts at the store?

Journeyman Geek

lol

and people wonder why piracy happens

@allquixotic: I wonder if you could pay someone in the benelux to buy it for you and gift iy

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek I'm sure I could, but it'd also be in a very murky area of the law :P but I might just do that rather than pirate, in the hopes that the artist gets a small fraction of the price

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: or maybe buy a cd? ;p

then rip it?

allquixotic

01:14

I wonder if @Hennes could get it? Novastar seems to have a significant presence in both the Netherlands and Belgium.

@JourneymanGeek asking me to buy a CD is like asking Linus Torvalds to hand-deliver you a copy of the Linux kernel source code printed out on reams of 8.5x11 paper.

extremely unwieldy and outmoded

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: meh, you can rip it to whatever format, and they're more likely to ship it ;p

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek oh, I know. I found one store that will ship it in CD format, but (1) the entire site is in Dutch or Belgian only (no English!), and (2) the shipping costs more than the entire album

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

until Poets of the Fall started making their releases globally online, I had to import physical CDs for new Poets of the Fall albums too. it always ended up being like $50 once you tack on the shipping

Journeyman Geek

oh, thats fairly normal. One reason I used to use a transhipper buying stuff from the US ;p

allquixotic

01:18

well, you aren't alone in having hideous costs: here in the US, trying to import stuff from Europe (by air; if you have the patience to wait weeks for a boat, it's less) is extremely expensive

getting a padded envelope here in less than a week? that'll be $25.

Journeyman Geek

silly thing the chinese can send anything with trivial shipping

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek well, China would delve into a depression deeper than the U.S.'s Great Depression if their export economy were at all constrained

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: true, but this is regular post

(or occationally courier for SLIGHTLY bigger items)

allquixotic

I may end up waiting in hopes that Novastar releases their record "officially" in the US, because right now, I'm not feeling the need to spend a ton of money for it.

bol.com/nl/p/inside-outside/9200000025088661

17.99 euro, and that doesn't include shipping

that's a LOT for music, when I can get most globally-released or US/UK-released material for $9.99 or $7.99 on Amazon MP3

even iTunes is $11.99 per album, and they won't even sell it to me

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

01:23

@JourneymanGeek exactly :P

except their reaction to that gif is, "no thanks, we have plenty of money over here in the Benelux countries"

Journeyman Geek

;p

That makes even less sense than preferencial pricing

Its cheaper for me to get certain textbooks in india

(though in the old days this was cause indian books were printed on horrid paper)

allquixotic

preferential pricing is annoying; unavailability of items is downright hostile

Journeyman Geek

likewise singaporean textbooks are cheaper than american textbooks

and someone got sued for smuggling textbooks from singapore to america ;p

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek I hope that isn't an indication of the quality of bought goods in India >_> coworkers who come back from India are always pressuring me to try their "Indian sweets"

Journeyman Geek

nope

VERY SAME BOOKS these days

and indian sweets are usually fine

allquixotic

01:34

well, I love the papadoms imported from India :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

I bought 10 packs of 20 online :D

impossible to find in grocery stores anymore

Journeyman Geek

anything exported is usually of better quality than local goods ;p

lol

allquixotic

>_>

Journeyman Geek

You like those ;p

allquixotic

01:35

YES, yes I really do :D

that cumin-lime-sunflower taste

just so unique and good

this product is incredibly international

product of India; packed in the UK; and distributed out of Connecticut

how's THAT for globalization

Journeyman Geek

;p

sharwood is super common in the UK ;p

allquixotic

hehe

Journeyman Geek

and quite often its india -> UAE -> UK -> elsewhere.

Which is wierd when you're in singapore

allquixotic

I love being so multicultural and enjoying the best stuff from other places

Journeyman Geek

lol. I have a wierd soft spot for olives.

allquixotic

01:37

to think, some Americans only just eat McDonalds and Panera and stuff like that -_- totally "normal" food, and never go outside that

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: indians tend to be like that, just indian food ;p

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek oh, I eat olives either in stuff or just alone like 5 times a week

green ones, black ones, or green ones with pimiento

Journeyman Geek

my sister in law dosen't like soya or cheese >_>

allquixotic

wow...

Journeyman Geek

which is annoying since we can't buy from that awesomesauce vegan burger place since quite a lot of their dishes are all soya based

allquixotic

01:39

I've eaten very good vegan burgers out :) in fact, Oriole Park at Camden Yards has a great vegan burger place

last place you'd expect to find good vegan food: at an all-American traditional sport where they sell hot dogs and fries and pizza mainly

the most galling thing about OPACY is that bottled water is like $4.50 - $5.. they make it more expensive than soda because it doesn't contain salt, so it really quenches your thirst instead of making you hungrier/thirstier

last time there I bought 2 bottles of water and felt satisfied instead of buying their salty soda and wanting to keep going

open.spotify.com/track/3EiIG7ufUKYSZJqXqpSJmO

Journeyman Geek

veganburg.com

these guys don't sell soda. AWESOME fruit juice though

and fries dusted with seaweed

Journeyman Geek

02:05

ugh

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek ?

what's ugh, puppy?

Journeyman Geek

I need to log into my dad's email, print something, then mail it to him

I can't seem to find it though

ahh

3

there it is

Journeyman Geek

02:55

(and I need to print this out and courier it to india)

HackToHell

03:16

@JourneymanGeek o0

Can't you just send a email

Journeyman Geek

;p

YOU ASSUME THEY MAKE IT EASY FOR ME

but nooooo

HackToHell

lol

Sathya

05:46

morning

HackToHell

@Sathya morning

Hennes

06:24

Morning.

Re novastar. uhm, no idea.

Itunes is some musci thingy? Right?

Journeyman Geek

kindasorta

Hennes

Re buying a CD. Muhahahahaha. Not a penny of that goes to the artists

Journeyman Geek

06:37

Einsteins Grandson

07:37

hi guys, do you know what everything is deleted when i do SYSTEM RESOTORE in Windows 7?

how about my home folder?

for example the history of visited sites

in firefox

or bookmarks

or it only affects the installed programs?

but my files are preserved?

Sathya

08:04

everything

Einsteins Grandson

what everything?

;-)

Sathya

@EinsteinsGrandson google.co.uk/search?q=define:everything

Einsteins Grandson

but what do you mean by that?

;-)

Journeyman Geek

That which is not nothing

Einsteins Grandson

;-)

so nothing will be deleted

none of my files?

documents

Chris Z answered 6 years ago
System Restore works a lot like the Undo command in Microsoft Word. You can use System Restore to remove any system changes that were made since the last time you remember your computer working correctly. System Restore does not affect your personal data files (such as Microsoft Word documents, browsing history, drawings, favorites, or e-mail) so you won't lose changes made to these files.

:-)))))))))))

Hopefully, even after 6 years, it holds true

Journeyman Geek

08:16

you could... I donno... back up first.

Einsteins Grandson

i wont

i dont have time for that

time is precious

;o)

but thank you for help

;-)

Journeyman Geek

data is precious.

jokerdino

hey, anyone wanna play some tagpro? we are short of players. :D

Journeyman Geek

backups are a parallel process, and the time spent in a backup is a investment

Sathya

@jokerdino whats a tagpro

jokerdino

08:19

@Sathya it's a ruddy silly CTF game

tagpro-sector.koalabeast.com

Sathya

ah

at work, will pass

jokerdino

laters!

Journeyman Geek

ugh

looks like the USB 3.0 front panel connector on my case is having issues

Its jerryrigged somewhat so probably just a loose connection

....

WHOA

Einsteins Grandson

but

now i realized

i cant do the system restore from 3 months ago

only like 2 weeks ago

so

i will have to fix it different way

Journeyman Geek

turns out my external HDD will work with my moto G ;p

Einsteins Grandson

08:26

my problem is that i deleted some c++ libraries

from Windows 7

I'm an idiot

;o)

Journeyman Geek

"like"?

Einsteins Grandson

;-)

what can i do about it?

reinstall the whole system from scratch?

i dont even remember what their name was

maybe

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) ?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek sure why not

that's what OTG is for

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: power draw I'd guess

Bob

@JourneymanGeek you said external

external has its own power supply

Journeyman Geek

08:30

@Bob: external dosen't necessarily

fiiineeee

@EinsteinsGrandson: you back up before you do anything else stupid

ok portable hdd ;p

Einsteins Grandson

;o)

yes, thats true

i never back up

Bob

@JourneymanGeek hehe

Journeyman Geek

that said, assuming I didn't need a load of battery life, that sort of solves my media player problem ;p

Einsteins Grandson

Those are basically installers for libraries that other apps need and were installed because some of the apps you have were built with Visual C++.

If you remove them, some of your apps may stop working and will need to be reinstalled or repaired. I wouldn't advise removing them, unless you are willing to go through the reinstall / repair route. Windows 7 will only install updates to the original packages, not the packages themselves.

Journeyman Geek

@EinsteinsGrandson: backup

NOW

otherwise there's no helping you

Sathya

08:32

ftfy

Journeyman Geek

and don't lie about it. It'll take at least an hour.

Sathya

let him not back up

I enjoy a good crash & burn like most

just when it's not mine

;p

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: At least it should keep him quiet a while

lol

Einsteins Grandson

haha

Journeyman Geek

I'd have one of those. Looks like one of my external drives is dead

lucky I backed it up. Twice. In seperate locations.

Einsteins Grandson

08:34

i have really never backed up

so far, nothing happened

;o)

it has been like 11 years

Journeyman Geek

Yanno what

just do whatever.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek your phone can charge with a current of at least 1A

it should be able to supply 500mA over the same line juuuuust fine

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I didn't know this!

don't forget this is the first phone I've gotten that does OTG right

Bob

@JourneymanGeek 'course, some phones won't do it

but there should be no hardware issue with supplying that current

Journeyman Geek

most don't

;p

Bob

08:37

my phone charges with 2.1A o.O

@JourneymanGeek I need to get an OTG cable and try it sometime :P

Journeyman Geek

its partially a driver thing. I'm using fat32 as well

Bob

I still have the cable from my N8 but that thing is rectangular for some reason

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: OTG cables are useful

Sathya

charging with 500mA cables is pointless, esp with something like GPS on

it'll drain faster than phone can be charged

Journeyman Geek

my potentially pyrotechnic powerbank does 1A

Bob

08:38

@Sathya the current has nothing to do with the cable, you shouldn't exceed 500mA when charging from a PC port, many phones charge just fine with that current, and we're talking about output current to a USB HDD at 500mA, not charging at that current :P

Journeyman Geek

(and in india that was useful as heck. I charge it when there's power, then use it on my phone during power outages)

Bob

/pedant

@JourneymanGeek I just use my laptop.

It has a good 5+ phone charges in it :P

(and it can charge while powered off)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I didn't bring my laptop this time

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I did it just to have something to do on the plane

cause the stupid airline allows laptops but not phones

Sathya

@Bob I'm not disputing it doesn't charge fine.

Journeyman Geek

08:40

ahh ;p

Mine would have allowed tablets...

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I don't have a tablet...

Journeyman Geek

(and I left mine in my bag ;p)

Michael Frank

09:12

What the heck is the announcer badge?

Journeyman Geek

lots of people clicking on a share link

superuser.com/q/379917/10165 <- the last part of the url is my userid on superuser

Michael Frank

oooooooooh

Journeyman Geek

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Q: How to bridge/enable (ICS) to a 3G modem?

I have two 3G modems, I want the first modem to bridge it with an Ethernet or wifi connection on my friend's computer which has a high speed and unlimited DSL internet. I do it in order to share the computer’s internet with my second modem which I would use it on my own computer for browsing a...

This question has me completely confused

Sathya

09:33

@MichaelFrank psa: that's disregarded for Stack Exchange sites

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: >_>

would you mean MSE or everywhere ?

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek everywhere within Stack Exchange

Journeyman Geek

ahh

Sathya

only works when referrer is outside Stack Exchange

Journeyman Geek

OH. misparsed.

Bob

09:44

4

@jokerdino ^

jokerdino

+1 lol

Sathya

lmao

jokerdino

time to change gravvy

Journeyman Geek

10:07

;p

Sathya

@jokerdino g00000000000000d dino

Journeyman Geek

0

Q: cant login in my kali linux authentication failure

I installed Kali OS for the first time.Now at the time of log in it ask for Localhost username and password.I tried the username and password I entered during installation but I get authentication failure.

boot

If you can't work out two ways to break into your own system, you really arn't cut out for hacking.

Bob

10:41

@JourneymanGeek LOL

the irony

XD

Journeyman Geek

I'd also google the default username and password first

Hennes

@EinsteinsGrandson You can solve that be deinstalling the appliucation which also installed the library. Then reinstall it and the redist should be reinstalled alongside with it.

Sathya

11:10

0

Q: What is this "FBI SURVEILLANCE", SSID located all over Southern California, USA?

I have noticed this same SSID, FBI SURVEILLANCE in three locations in the greater Southern California area (Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and San Juan Capistrano, California, U.S.A.). Is this one heck of a strong Wi-Fi signal, or is their some kind distributed "private" network overlaid on our great ...

wireless-networking security

Journeyman Geek

lol

(I know its going to get closed, but I couldn't resist)

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek you should quit doing that now that you're a mod you know

Journeyman Geek

11:37

@Sathya: I have at least 8 hours before that happens ;p

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek tomato tomaato :p

Journeyman Geek

@Sathya: I can't ka-smite spammers yet ;p

I'm flagging them like a plebian!

(not to be confused with a replicant or a thesbian.)

Sathya

lol

Bob

@Sathya crackpot

We have passwords on every access point to our network. Passwords on our routers, and maybe, to be considered: passwords on our firmware, forensic recovery review, shadow-memory wipe algorithms, acid dissolve tanks, etc. Security is tightening quickly around here, but should we live in a cave, or just tighten the screws a little? ;-) — Bill McCloskey 29 mins ago

Journeyman Geek

11:57

o0

Sathya

check the latest edit, @Jou @bob

Journeyman Geek

That totally changes the question

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Not really.

You shouldn't be joining an unknown network regardless of name.

Heck, you shouldn't be joining public networks, period.

The name doesn't make the network any different from another.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: yeah ;p

Bob

It's a human problem.

2

Braiam

12:12

you guys want this? askubuntu.com/q/461371/169736

Bob

Don't join the network, set a WPA2 pass on your own, turn off WPS, there.

Journeyman Geek

pretty much

Bob

@JourneymanGeek If you wanna amend your answer to include disabling WPS? :P

WPS PIN can be brute forced within a day.

Sathya

@Braiam still not sure what the question is

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: done

Bob

12:21

@JourneymanGeek Thanks.

Though, (pedant alert) it's probably not good to group WPS with WEP and WPA

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: meh, It would make my answer more complex unless I went into depth

Sathya

Also, because of my security concerns for our personal Wi-Fi security, I've returned both an Apple AirPort Extreme gigabit wireless router, and an ASUS 802.11ac compatible Wi-Fi router, and have disabled my ancient Airport Extreme's WiFi signal from all devices, except so as to allow our iPhones to connect via WiFi. So, yes, I do take our security very seriously. — Bill McCloskey 1 min ago

ook

Journeyman Geek

(and heh, I've considered setting up a guest network before)

headesks

I'd actually prefer 5ghz for security

shorter range ;p

paranoid much?

Bob

@Sathya uhhhhhhhhhhhh

Journeyman Geek

(granted, if I thought someone was listening in to me, I would totally fuck with him)

Bob

12:23

I'd say "a little knowledge...", but I'm not sure if that qualifies as even a little knowledge

> disabled my ancient Airport Extreme's WiFi signal from all devices, except so as to allow our iPhones to connect

The hell does that even mean?

He doesn't mean MAC filtering, does he? MAC filtering is about the most useless crap ever.

Journeyman Geek

I'd assume MAC address filtering

;p

Bob

Even WEP is more useful.

It's... painful.

WiFi security is simple to do right, assuming your vendor hasn't completely botched the firmware.

But once you start overcomplicating it like this, you end up making it less secure -_-

Journeyman Geek

honestly, wifi security is simple. Setting it up is hard in a place like this

Bob

Journeyman Geek

ooh, that unsecured router vanished

Bob

12:27

@JourneymanGeek Heh, client isolation. I went a step further and put it on a separate AP that's completely walled off from the main router everyone uses :P

Different subnet and all.

No ARP poisoning, etc., going on here.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: i'd consider doing both

;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Nah, the people on the guest network actually need to communicate with each other sometimes.

Journeyman Geek

meh ;p

(Most people I allow on my network are trustworthy. ;p)

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Ya, but two reasons I do this.

they're throttled so they can't flood the connection.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: >_>

Bob

12:30

And I trust the people but not their computer knowledge or ability to avoid malware.

Journeyman Geek

If anyone does unspeakable things to my connection, its usually me.

and most devices that use wifi on my network are phones and printers. ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Our upstream is limited to about 80kB/s, and if someone saturates it, it makes everything unbearable.

Some people on the network like watching videos with p2p stuff (something called pps, actually).

Journeyman Geek

ow

not a problem for me. Other than basically having to download stuff for people ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I ended up throttling them to 100kbit/s upstream

considered making it 56k :P

they mostly watch videos, etc., that need down more than up anyway

and 100kb is sufficient for that

Journeyman Geek

12:46

hm. Looks like mod election results will be up at 3 am my time ><

Journeyman Geek

12:58

also, 3 more flags and I'm at exactly 2.2k helpful flags ;p

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek I'll call you to make sure you won't miss it!

Sathya

larry the moron

@OliverSalzburg dammit you beat me to deleting ravi's NAA

Oliver Salzburg

:D

The one time I'm checking the queue! :D

Sathya

hehe

allquixotic

13:16

@Sathya Ravi had a NAA? :O

our Ravi? the puppy?

Stack Exchange

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Q: A picture is a thousand words. Let's make use of that more. Promote Pictures in SuperUser

I've been to so many forums on computers over the years an one thing always stands out. The Lack of information. Take this recent question for example: How can I decrease the boot time in my laptop? The person is obviously not a computer enthusiast so did not include basic info about the compu...

discussion feature-request pictures improvement savetheworld

allquixotic

> Apprentice Programmer, Javascript Business Applications

bio of the guy above ^

Oliver Salzburg

Votes: -3 Status: [status-declined] Why: [STATUS-DECLINED]

barlop

13:48

@allquixotic better than qbasic!

Braiam

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 8 secs ago, by Braiam

status-declined

^ with style

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic I flagged that ;p

and thats probably my last flag ;p

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek ever? D:

o rite, you'll be a mod

...........................nvm

Journeyman Geek

yup

and I probably am in the top 10, all time in terms of helpful flags ;p

(all @jokerdino's fault ;p)

allquixotic

you're probably #1 in everything except rep (harrymc has you beat there)

Journeyman Geek

13:55

I think he had like 1K flags on AU, wanted to catch up ;p

also, I hate spam

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek In the future you can handle your own flags

Raise them, then handle them

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: On the contrary, in the future, you don't need to handle mine ;p

@OliverSalzburg: or just cut out the middleman ;p

allquixotic

my foot hurts :(

Oliver Salzburg

It's how I tried to get my Marshal badge after being elected :P

allquixotic

too much walking back and forth from customer (long parking lot) and walking with people in afternoon and walking at store and walking walking and walking walking walking and walking walking walking walking

Journeyman Geek

13:57

;p

and then? ;p

@OliverSalzburg: marshall flag is... 500 flags, right?

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Right

allquixotic

yo dawg, we herd u like to walk, so we are letting you walk while you walk so you can walk while you walk

or something

Journeyman Geek

I think I got that shortly after the last election

allquixotic

also the twisting dreamy melody of Keane - Russian Farmer Song has me in a weird trancey mood this morning o_O

worth a listen if you have spotify

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Please post a link, searching is too exhausting

allquixotic

13:58

@OliverSalzburg oh no!

I wouldn't want to exhaust you!

Oliver Salzburg

:D

barlop

If you want to configure a modem that gives an external ip, how would you do it safely?

allquixotic

open.spotify.com/track/3OrX7szGHfHZ8uFEIunh5B (if that 6th to last character isn't an I, it's a lowercase L; I can't tell the difference in gmail on android and I don't have spotify on my work machine)

Journeyman Geek

o0

HackToHell

@OliverSalzburg spotify:track:3OrX7szGHfHZ8uFEIunh5B

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