Root Access

allquixotic

15:00

the problem is that, every time the "history" starts to become actual history and stop being relevant, by letting time heal the wounds etc, something like that Ferguson shooting happens to revive the old hatreds

racism isn't absent from any particular place in the world, of course... but it is more prevalent in the midwest and south in the US, and less likely to survive in densely-populated areas like the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, because people of all creeds and backgrounds and ethnicities are everywhere and you won't survive long if you start going nutso

it's "easy" to live in a 100% white town in a place like Missouri, though

Dave

I hard the KKK being bonkers about this, and a report about Anonymous doing some facebook hacking too

allquixotic

Racism is horrible and I wish it would go away, but it's a really sticky issue that seems to persist no matter how much both sides try to heal it. There are thousands of people actively trying to solve the problem on a daily basis, plus the fact that the vast majority of the people are not racist at all, yet the issue continues to stew.

Dave

You won't solve it

I mean, I'm white, I rock big time in a band, our bassist is Barbadian

allquixotic

there was no statistically significant bias in my choice of friends in primary school, secondary school, university, etc. nor at work

Dave

Barbadion

Baradus

black

and he has similar opinions

that the problem is, you'll have haters

and you'll have lovers

and it doens't matter what colour you

naturally he mugged me after saying this he he he (BIG JOKE).

allquixotic

15:09

O_o

Dave

but yes, in USA, that many people you're going to get all types

I want a Keeshond now

Blood @JourneymanGeek tlaking about dogs

Keeshond

The Keeshond (/ˈkeɪz.hɒnd/ KAYZ-hond; plural: Keeshonden) is a medium-sized dog with a plush two-layer coat of silver and black fur with a ruff and a curled tail. It originated in Germany, and its closest relatives are the German spitzes such as the Großspitz, Mittelspitz, and Kleinspitz or Pomeranian. Originally called the German Spitz, more specifically the Wolfspitz, the name was officially changed to Keeshond, in 1926 in England, where it had been known as the Dutch Barge Dog. == Description == === Appearance === A member of the spitz group of dogs, the Keeshond in American Kennel Club (AKC)...

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Psycogeek

@allquixotic how much snow do you have?

Dave

huh? you want to know moare about the band?

OK I can tell you....

:)

allquixotic

@Psycogeek right now? none

Dave

Guys, can you remove IE totally from Win7?

Bob

15:13

@allquixotic Anything "must-see" for tourists in the area?

allquixotic

@Dave nope, it breaks too much stuff

@Bob in my area?

Bob

@Dave ...why do you want to do that?

Dave

I don't have IE on my computer anymore, some fool from Norton took over my machine when I had another problem and deleted it but was unable to reinstall it. Isn't that just marvelous? I assume you mean I should uninstall Chrome then reinstall it in safe mode? Sorry to be so duh. — Sharron Lehman 31 mins ago

he says it's happend to him

Bob

You can remove the user-accessible parts, but other parts of the system depend on components you might consider part of IE.

@Dave "some fool from Norton" => A/V scam phone call

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allquixotic

@Bob do you mean the Maryland area? or Missouri?

Bob

15:15

@allquixotic Maryland.

My dad's heading over to the general area.

Dave

ah

allquixotic

@Bob hmm, plenty of stuff to see here, especially in DC, but I have a few ideas specifically for Maryland.

@Bob depends on his interests

Bob

@allquixotic He's mostly just sightseeing, I guess.

allquixotic

The NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center is here; they give tours sometimes, but I think you have to call (not sure on the details). They are the communications hub between the ground and space, so all astronauts-talking-etc gets routed through them :)

Bob

Tech museums would be nice :P

allquixotic

15:16

then there is the Smithsonian museum in DC, which is super neat

I think there's actually a space shuttle on display there

Dave

Since we're putting the world to rights, what about smoking

Bob

@allquixotic Yea, he's more just hopping from place to place. Not much planning for specific locations.

@allquixotic I'll suggest that, thanks :)

allquixotic

@Bob there's something for everyone at the Smithsonian; it gets a lot of funding and has everything from dinosaurs to tech

Dave

I think I can help solve the smoking issue. The costs go up, the health goes down etc etc. They "want" to get rid of it. The problem is the cost.

Why does my idea fail (negative comments only please). Each year, increase the smoking age by 1. This way, no new smokers. As time goes on, less money form tax, but, less smoking related illness

allquixotic

if he'll be closer to Baltimore than DC (it's a little more than an hour drive between them), he might want to see Baltimore's inner harbor. it's nicer in the summer than in the winter (it's winter now) but there are still a bunch of great places to eat, and the Aquarium, which is fun if you like various types of fish held in captivity

if he's more of a nature type, and is going either soon (don't wait too long into the winter!) or waiting until spring (April at the earliest), he could get a boat tour of the Chesapeake Bay

super scenic -- the Bay was having severe "health" issues from pollution, runoff, etc in the past few decades, but we kinda saved it; not totally, but mostly

Bob

15:20

27 mins ago, by Bob

On somewhat related news, my dad will be in the US east coast in about 6 hours :P

allquixotic

ahh

how long is he staying? and I assume it's for business?

Bob

Thanks for the ideas.

Psycogeek

@Bob well the airport is really nice :-)

Bob

@allquixotic Six days in the east coast. He took a month-long holiday to the US.

allquixotic

@Bob ohhhhh neat. so it is a holiday

Bob

15:22

Is that in or on the east coast?

allquixotic

yeah, if it's for fun I would definitely recommend going to the Smithsonian, and if he's really a geek, the NSA Cryptology Museum

Bob

Hm.

allquixotic

@Bob on, at least in American English

Bob

@allquixotic Yea, I think the latter might be going a bit too far :P

allquixotic

if you were in the east coast, you'd be buried in the ground. just sayin'

Bob

15:23

...good point

allquixotic

is he with anyone here?

or just alone?

ahh

HackToHell

@allquixotic It has a Blackbird iirc

So wanna visit that

allquixotic

@HackToHell they rotate exhibits in and out

@Bob ahhhhhhh ;p

well. plenty of good restaurants for dinner in the area

Bob

Heh. I'm not quite comfortable suggesting that kind of thing. He'd probably figure it out himself anyway :P

allquixotic

:/

sorry to hear

HackToHell

15:25

@allquixotic oh so even if it's permanent ? airandspace.si.edu/collections/…

@Bob :/

allquixotic

@HackToHell ...no, not if it's permanent, just saying in general

Bob

@allquixotic It was coming for a while. Definitely not a surprise.

Hm. It's not even that recent anymore o.O

HackToHell

@allquixotic Then I totally wanna go see it ^_^

Bob

On second thoughts... delete

Hm. @JourneymanGeek would you be able to delete the message above allq's "ahh"? :P

...or did he go to sleep?

HackToHell

it would be nice if facebook could delete stuff

I read that @allquixotic :P

allquixotic

15:27

@HackToHell it can. delete your whole profile :D

Bob

hm.

HackToHell

That doesn't really remove the sent messages

I tried ;p

Bob

Ok. On one hand, need a mod. On the other, I really don't want to mod-flag that.

allquixotic

I hate PrivacyInvasionBook.

HackToHell

Depends on how you use it ;p

Bob

15:28

Oh whatever.

allquixotic

@Bob just put it on a post-it and bug the next diamond you see pop in chat ;p

Bob

@allquixotic It's probably indexed by now :P

allquixotic

:(

well at least you aren't ThatBrazilianGuy, who had his real name as his display name for like a year and has hundreds of @replies with his name in them, then decides one day OH CRAP I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW WHO I AM! D:

would be funny if a mod were like, 1953802 messages moved to Recycle Bin OK, Root Access is starting OVAR

HackToHell

The SE db would prolly hang up or something

allquixotic

nah, their DB is so fast that it could solve the Halting Problem ;)

That Brazilian Guy

15:50

@JourneymanGeek are silent installs a per-software feature, or is there any global sort of doing it?

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy per installer software. You might be lucky and be able to bodge something together to automate it tho

@Bob: could you post then delete what you need gone exactly?

Bob

thanks

Journeyman Geek

ahh

its already gone, no?

Bob

What's gone?

Journeyman Geek

the post you wanted gone ;p

I history purged it

Bob

15:57

@JourneymanGeek What post?

Journeyman Geek

never mind ;p

The one before "thanks"

gone?

Bob

I must be seeing things.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Yeah, I missed that one. Buried it in the backyard now ;p

Bob

Thanks.

Wait, why am I thanking you? scratches head

Journeyman Geek

lol

Cause I'm awesome like that?

Bob

16:01

I obviously need more sleep.

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

XD you guys are silly

Journeyman Geek

Its just midnight

and I just applied for a job, and I can't remember when I started 'working' at speed

That Brazilian Guy

Good luck with that job

Journeyman Geek

XD, yeah.

I have 2 applications sitting on 'applied' at another company.

fucking lazy HR CR staffers.

Bob

16:03

@JourneymanGeek Good luck!

What kind of job?

Journeyman Geek

XD. I will need it

Desktop support

Bob

shudder

lol

Is this the good desktop support or the bad desktop support?

Journeyman Geek

There's a link on the slack page

allquixotic

*shudders too*

Journeyman Geek

google.com/about/careers/search?#!t=jo&jid=78195001&;

Bob

16:04

i.e. problem solving or script reading?

Journeyman Geek

Seems ok to me

Bob

Google? O_O

nice

Journeyman Geek

XD

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob Good desktop support? Such thing exists?

Journeyman Geek

Found it via linkedin.

allquixotic

16:05

he wants to get his foot in the door, obv.

he would work as a chef at google if he could cook with paws

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy reddit.com/user/Bytewave/submitted

@allquixotic s/foot/paw/

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: To that I say...

I made that!

(more seriously, I'm applying to both 'soft' computer security jobs, and IT support)

Bob

kongregate.com/games/miniclip/stealth-sniper

Journeyman Geek

This just happened to be 1) a company that was interested in me in the past 2) a field I've got some experience in.

Bob

Huh. Toshiba bought OCZ?

ozbargain.com.au/node/170501

o.O

$59 for a 120 GB SSD.

allquixotic

16:10

@Bob sweet

Bob

Damn it, I really need to get SSD caching working on the desktop

but fakeRAID won't do it across ports 0-1 (RAID) and 5

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek cleverly desguised sales job :-)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob yeah

Psycogeek

I heard google lets dogs in the office, could be you can apply for top intern dog.

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

16:23

who let the dogs in?!

Psycogeek

@allquixotic google they got everything, free child care, huge wages, real benefits not ones you pay 80% for and get nothing, exercize rooms , the whole gammut. parking lot is full of BMWs and porches.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@allquixotic: google US is dog friendly

Psycogeek

dont worry allquixotic, they do not discriminate against cats

occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/… <--- bad picture you should not see

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: ugh

allquixotic

@Psycogeek oh, I know. totally out of my league

Journeyman Geek

16:35

those damned hippies ;p

allquixotic

> This connection is untrusted!

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: Never know till you try ;p

allquixotic

*gets out of there*

Psycogeek

@allquixotic trust no one!

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: Basically a bunch of folk who are pissed off at rising rents in SF

Many of whom don't live there

Psycogeek

16:38

Yea in silicon valley either you have a 6 figure sallery or your homeless :-)

Journeyman Geek

See theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/11/…

Also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bus_protests

GFSE

gemsfromstackexchange: That will eliminate the problem… and the PC.

posted on November 18, 2014

That will eliminate the problem… and the PC.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Psycogeek

@allquixotic I doubt that, just like i think you will be a SU mod some day If You Want. you can run into shit headlong and get things that you might not think possible EX people kicked off american idol one year comming back and making it to the finals the next one.

or as robin williams would say 60% of sucess is being there ? wow lofty goal :-)

allquixotic

@Psycogeek nah; I'm built to live a mediocre and quiet life ;p

Psycogeek

16:52

Or as george carlin would say f--- s--- m---f . . . oh never mind.

We didnt really want to hire you, but your a persistant bastard , so that's one good qualification.

That Brazilian Guy

18:24

I've installed [rex](www.rexify.org) on our Linux-based lab, so we can use batch commands. Boss tells us to change the passwords for the entire building, they make the trainee do this by hand in the lab.

I suppose it took quite a few hours, considering during work hours usually there are students using the PCs.

I wrote a simple rex script and it took about 40 seconds to change the password of all 30+ machines

allquixotic

lol

That Brazilian Guy

Before I had heard of rex, it took me multiple hours to do that by hand (5 or 6 IIRC)

I can't imagine her face when I show her the script running (she missed work today)

Our boss is also making us install VNC on all the PCs in the building (I can see all the pichtforks and people accusing of eavesdropping in the future)

And planning a migration from transparent proxy to non-transparent. So we have to go to each account on each computer and change the connection settings. sigh.

I can't expect for the day we'll finally block port 80 and allow only the non-transparent proxy. The phone will ring like never ever before.

To be honest, I'm not really sure why we'll block transparent proxy. It has worked so far. Are there any big disadvantages to it?

@Bob The entire subreddit is both fascinanting and dreadful. Thanks for introducing me to it (I... suppose)

Canadian Luke

18:42

@ThatBrazilianGuy For the proxy thing, is this for Linux or Windows workstations? Cause we put the forced proxy in, and pushed out the setting to Windows workstations, if you want the code

That Brazilian Guy

@CanadianLuke Windows (Mostly 7, a bit 8 and a few [ugh!] XP)

Canadian Luke

One sec

netsh.exe winhttp set proxy 192.168.0.1:3128

IP address and Port number. Works for caching Windows Updates through Squid, as well

That Brazilian Guy

@CanadianLuke It was supposed to have been working since the beginning, but I suppose whoiever set it up didn't do it properly,

Canadian Luke

For the forced proxy?

That Brazilian Guy

The transparent one

@CanadianLuke Oh, and thanks for the script. How do I perform it remotely on 100+ machines?

/me googles netsh

!!wiki netsh

ChatBot John Cavil

18:46

Netsh

In computing, netsh, or network shell, is a command-line utility included in Microsoft's Windows NT line of operating systems beginning with Windows 2000. It allows local or remote configuration of network devices such as the interface. A common use of netsh is to reset the TCP/IP stack to default, known-good parameters, a task that in Windows 98 required reinstallation of the TCP/IP adapter. In this mode, a log file must be provided, which will be filled with what values netsh affected. netsh, among many other things, also allows the user to change the IP address on their machine. Starting from...

That Brazilian Guy

!!doh

Canadian Luke

You can use the command line or Powershell, but I use PDQ Deploy from Admin Arsenal. It has a freemode, even!

ChatBot John Cavil

Canadian Luke

The one thing you'll need to do on each computer though is run the following lines (remove `advfirewall` ONLY for the XP machines):

`netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="windows management instrumentation (wmi)" new enable=yes`
`netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="file and printer sharing" new enable=yes`

I put those into the login script, then I logged in physically to each workstation to make sure the settings took effect

That Brazilian Guy

@CanadianLuke Our policy states we have to use free-as-in-freedom tools, or at least free-as-in-beer-for-commercial-use

Canadian Luke

18:48

PDQ has a free version. Use it

adminarsenal.com/pdq-deploy - They also have a program called PDQ Inventory, which I suggest getting

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy really? that's awesome. our policy is almost the reverse and I HATE IT

That Brazilian Guy

They made me uninstall SublimeText and even SmartGit

allquixotic

@_@

you should install GNU Hurd and stick it to 'em :D

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic What's this ~~smiley~~ ~~emoticon~~ ~~emoji~~ ~~fuck that I'm old~~ thing?

Canadian Luke

!!google "GNU Hard"

GFSE

18:53

gemsfromstackexchange: I’m only 13!

posted on November 18, 2014

I’m only 13!

ChatBot John Cavil

@CanadianLuke * GNU Hurd information ; Counting and listing hard links on Linux - Linuxaria ; Parted - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy um. it's like O_O

That Brazilian Guy

But even more confused / surprised ;p

@CanadianLuke are these free versions free for home use only or free for commercial use as well?

Because if so, it's quite interesting stuff

allquixotic

you know what's funny? Cavil's had his Christmas hat on since last Christmas and is going to be appropriately wearing it here in a few weeks :D

Canadian Luke

For commercial as well

That Brazilian Guy

18:56

@CanadianLuke ;____; thx bro

Canadian Luke

No problem. VOTE FOR LUKE IN 20xx SUPER USER MOD ELECTION!

JK

allquixotic

@CanadianLuke what about elections in the year 2100 and later?

don't be so pessimistic

Canadian Luke

@allquixotic If all goes according to plan, I'll be gone by then :P

Here, vote for this instead: android.stackexchange.com/a/88059/13954

That Brazilian Guy

Voted!

I just found out about ltsp.org and I want to try it at home

And then if it works, get dozens of old computers as donations and starting an NGO and teaching cool stuff to poor kids

I'd use raspberrys but importing them and buying monitors make them marginally cheaper than crappy laptops =/

Canadian Luke

19:12

@ThatBrazilianGuy I think I saw that project before, and it looked quite cool!

Even if you cluster a bunch of Raspberry Pis for the server ;)

That Brazilian Guy

No, I mean using Pis as workstations, buying them for what in the US or UK would cost about the price of a meal, order them in bulk and start a small computing class or some cool project

Here if I buy two Pi's and two monitors it's more expensive than a laptop =/

Canadian Luke

For the computing power, I'd prefer a netbook... And I hate netbooks

Canadian Luke

21:14

> If you want to test an application before you send it out into the wild (unless you have unconditional trust in Oracle) the Auto Deployment feature has an Approval Policy built into it

allquixotic

!!tell 18671659 lukeno

ChatBot John Cavil

Canadian Luke

:(

DragonLord

22:14

I've decided to split the answer into two for readability

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Q: What apertures are required to enable autofocus, including cross-type or high-precision focusing, on Canon DSLR cameras?

This is a follow-up to Why does Canon and Nikon limit or disable autofocus beyond certain f-numbers? I'm doing this to separate the AF aperture requirements from the linked question above. My goal here is to create a canonical answer for Canon AF aperture limits, with complete information for e...

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A: What apertures are required to enable autofocus, including cross-type or high-precision focusing, on Canon DSLR cameras?

To increase readability and avoid exceeding the answer length limit, this answer has been split across two posts. General information and APS-C cameras are covered in this post; full-frame and APS-H cameras are covered in a separate post below. TL;DR answer In general, Canon DSLRs require a...

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A: What apertures are required to enable autofocus, including cross-type or high-precision focusing, on Canon DSLR cameras?

Full frame and APS-H cameras For general information and APS-C cameras, see the answer above. Canon EOS 6D All points function to f/5.6. The center point is cross-type, and all other points are single-line. The center point is high-precision cross-type with f/2.8 or faster lenses (but is not...

Three years of work in compiling comprehensive information about Canon DSLR AF...

Michael Frank

Nice! The Antlion ModMic is back up on Massdrop! :D

Journeyman Geek

22:41

@DragonLord: I suspect the answer is salvagable

DragonLord

I'm the maintainer of the answers

Had to split it up because of length and readability

Journeyman Geek

(30 30 30 is PRETTY standard with routers, and not hard to source an explaination. What bothers me is that its a factory reset, and that's not mentioned

DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek, you're posting in the wrong room :p

Journeyman Geek

grumble grumble lack of coffee grumble

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Canadian Luke

I feel that way too, with that Meta post this morning

DragonLord

22:49

@JourneymanGeek Got an iced gingerbread latte in front of me :p

Stack Exchange

23:12

0

A follow-up from this question. I've noticed that many spam suggested edits have edit summaries that contain an email address (examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]). Spambots seem to be treating the edit summary field as if it were the email field in a blog post comment form. It would be great if we to...

feature-request suggested-edits spam

Canadian Luke

Anyone know how to get Excel to accept inputing a specific paper size for a large spreadsheet?

Michael Frank

@CanadianLuke for printing?

Canadian Luke

Well, I need to print an Excel sheet on 36"x22" paper, at the size on the screen

I do not want to spread it out over many Letter sized pages

Michael Frank

Well, you can set the print area. Then I guess see if you can shrink to page?

Canadian Luke

Tried, doesn't work. Shrinks everything, period. When I output to the PDF then, it has the right size text, but it's too blurry

Michael Frank

23:17

Ahh yep. I've seen that before.

Canadian Luke

Looks like I need a printer driver installed that "supports" large images... Trying with a fake one

Michael Frank

23:33

Is there a faster way to add the BUILTIN\Administrators account to an NTFS permission screen? Currently I'm am doing this: Clicking Add, changing the location to the server itself then hitting ok, searching for the Administrators group then finally hitting Apply.

Canadian Luke

.\Administrators or just Administrators?

Michael Frank

I tried them both, neither worked.

Canadian Luke

I'm sure there's a fast way... Hmmm

Michael Frank

Yea, I would have thought so...

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