Root Access

Canadian Luke

00:11

@Kristian @JourneymanGeek youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4

Kristian

+1

best insult EVER: "You're tertiary storage, I'm L1 cache"

killermist

Meh.

l1cache can't store a movie. l1cache can't even store a complete mp3 file. l1cache is only useful as a mechanism to tertiary storage. Without tertiary storage, l1cache is useless.

Kristian

00:30

But, I get to actually touch the bits going into the holy land of the CPU. While you, being tertiary storage, only get to watch from a distance

killermist

Does tertiary storage care that it is tertiary storage? It is the controller of its domain. It doesn't care in particular what happens to the data after it passes it.

Kristian

I dont care where those assembly instructions where before they were parsed!

they might even have been wrapped in a protocol, that I'm not even aware of.

DragonLord

01:09

superuser.com/review/close/334406

Should this be migrated?

I'm the last close voter, and it's a 2-2 split, so it comes to me to decide

Migrated. Not quite a recommendation question, but may require a software recommendation

killermist

As a person that can't vote, I must say, "Meh.".

The question is missing "I'm using [x] media player" or other useful information.

Could it be salvaged? Maybe. Is the user likely to salvage it? Who knows...

I think "does not exhibit research" is one of the criteria that strikes my nerves.

If the user had done research, I think that the question would not exist.

/me shuts up now.

Journeyman Geek

02:12

I'd close that.

IMO migrations need to be exceptionally good questions on the wrong site

DragonLord

02:47

@JourneymanGeek That was very hard to decide

I tend to prefer migration when in doubt because it gives the question another chance on the correct site

I know not to migrate crap but it seemed the question is valid on the correct site

It's well defined and it wasn't exactly a software recommendation question (even though answering it may require recommending software).

The question had a score of +1 so it wasn't exactly bad, just off-topic

I know more details should be added (e.g. what Samsung device?) but it was intelligible and definitely salvageable if it were to be closed.

The question specified the Dropbox app.

DragonLord

03:09

@JourneymanGeek The "exceptionally good questions" standard is really hard to meet. My standard is "on-topic for destination site with good enough quality to be answerable without downvotes or closure"

Journeyman Geek

03:42

Precisely why I rarely migrate

DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek I don't have much time, but is my standard too low?

Granted, a lot of questions still don't meet my standard for migration as they are often non-trivially flawed, but I'm not sure if it should be higher.

Journeyman Geek

My standards tend to be high, probably cause I have fairly low tolerance for crap

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DragonLord

03:57

Gotta go, see ya

Thanks for the advice

Psycogeek

04:09

superuser.com/questions/869123/… <--- a disgruntled user

Gone!

Psycogeek

09:21

superuser.com/questions/869168/… <--confused user.

Journeyman Geek

09:47

hm. That's wierd

I found an impeller fan in a box

NO idea where its from

Bob

@JourneymanGeek A... what

o.O

Journeyman Geek

A fan like this

Psycogeek

Squirrel cage fan

Bob

Hmmm petersofkensington.com.au/Public/…

Psycogeek

Why they call it that i dont know, cause mices, rats and hamsters are put on them cage treadmills more often

Bob

09:56

Tempting.

Then again, I have enough pens :P

And that Daiso one... gotta figure out what to do with it (the really scratchy one)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

This place is ridiculous o.O petersofkensington.com.au/Public/Fountain-Pens.aspx?s=plh

Huh, $30 Safari

Tom Wijsman

10:32

@JourneymanGeek It happened, but I'm still alive; weird!

Oliver Salzburg

13:04

I wonder if I could get used to that

This looks interesting:

amazon.com/gp/product/…

Ell

13:54

Hi all

Bob

'lo

Ell

I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times

and I've even read multiple questions on super user proper attempting to answer it

but I can't seem to find the answer to where I should put environment variables to persist

Bob

@Ell OS?

Ell

some places say ~/.profile, but this won't be used if ~/.bash_profile is read, but I'm using fish - not - bash

@Bob linux/linux mint

Bob

@Ell I assume you've read this?

47

Q: How do I set a user environment variable? (permanently, not session)

This is irritating me. I seen several suggestions (all using different files and syntax) and none of them worked. How do I set an environment variable for a specific user? I am on debian squeeze. What is the exact syntax I should put in the file to make ABC = "123"?

environment-variables

Ell

13:59

@Bob yeah, it just seems like there should be a shell neutral way of doing it

or is there not?

Bob

@Ell Not as far as I know.

Ell

Ah well

Bob

What I usually end up doing is defining them in a separate file (e.g. /etc/environment or ~/environment) and sourcing it from every possible profile script (. ~/environment).

@Ell You'd think ~/profile is it, but... :S

Ell

Yeah :S

are environment variables just a property of a shell?

ie, let's say I use getenv from a c++ programme, does it have to be started by a shell to find environment variables?

Bob

@Ell No, they every process has environment variables.

They are inherited from the parent process, though.

(...IIRC. I'm more familiar with Windows TBH)

Ell

14:03

see now this baffles me further

because the init system has to read the environment variables from somewhere, and that isn't started from a shell

Bob

@Ell linux.die.net/man/3/exec

> The execle() and execvpe() functions allow the caller to specify the environment of the executed program via the argument envp. The envp argument is an array of pointers to null-terminated strings and must be terminated by a NULL pointer. The other functions take the environment for the new process image from the external variable environ in the calling process.

Ell

hmm yes

Bob

@Ell Why does it have to read environment variables?

Ell

@Bob Not sure :P

good point

to hand them down to child processes

Bob

For the record, though:

root@kvm:~# cat /proc/1/environ | tr '\0' '\n'
HOME=/
init=/sbin/init
recovery=
TERM=linux
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.1-030801-generic
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
PWD=/
rootmnt=/root

Hm.

Presumably the bootloader passes those.

Ell

14:10

yeah

Bob

@Ell I won't pretend to understand how Linux internals work :P

@Ell wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables

> At the end of boot the mother of all processes init is started. init's environment, including PATH, is defined in its source code and cannot be changed at run time.

Welp, there you go.

Ell

well that seems silly

ah well

Bob

@Ell Why?

I mean, is there anything really wrong with that?

Ell

I mean, pragmatically, it works

Bob

Why does init need configurable environment variables?

It should be as minimal as possible (systemd notwithstanding)

Ell

14:15

@Bob because then you could have shell neutral configurable environment variables :P

Bob

@Ell Doing that via init is even crazier...

Ell

I guess

just anything hard coded seems weird to me though

uh oh. permission denied on mkdir ~/.sbt/boot

now why on earth does root own ~/.sbt >.<

anyway, thanks for the help

bye :)

Boris_yo

I want to register on forum and receive notifications to my gmail account but I don't want to use main email to register. Is there a way for alias like Outlook.com offers?

Journeyman Geek

15:09

someone was tired today

@Boris_yo: could use account delegation or a [email protected]

DragonLord

15:26

roar

Must have been a long day for ya

That Brazilian Guy

@Boris_yo dnt.abine.com

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Difference of delegation and email+tag?

@ThatBrazilianGuy Premium service. Are you aware of that?

That Brazilian Guy

@Boris_yo If am I aware that Abine offers a free and a paid version of Blur / Do Not Track Me? Yes, I am. I use their freee version, it includes email redirection (unlimited addresses)

Boris_yo

15:41

@ThatBrazilianGuy Not anymore.

That Brazilian Guy

> What features are included in the premium plan?
Backup: Never lose your passwords.
Sync: Login anywhere. Encrypt and sync your accounts across all your devices.
Masked Credit Cards: Keep your credit card safe. Never expose your credit card info. Create masked cards on the go.
Masked Phones: Receive one new, safe phone number that forwards to your real phone number. Block telemarketers in one click.

Everything else is free.

Anyway, back to playing Dead Space. Bye.

barlop

what program can read a hard drive image done with dd?

Bob

If you want to read data off it, you probably want to mount it.

The normaly process involves somehow extracting the partition from it, which leaves you with a raw filesystem you can then mount.

kpartx lets you mount partitions from a full disk image

barlop

16:42

if you have have an image of a hard drive that won't boot into windows is it possible to load the image it into a VM and fix it in the VM?

HackToHell

17:37

hmm an AdBlock alternative github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.6.0-beta.2

Boris_yo

19:46

@ThatBrazilianGuy Thanks. I was thinking they provide on domain level email but they provide masked one.

DragonLord

21:36

I keep hearing about userscripts, Greasemonkey, etc. Should I install the Greasemonkey extension?

How do I get started using Greasemonkey for Stack Exchange?

Anyone here using Greasemonkey?

...okay, Greasemonkey is installed.

sigh

I'll bring it up at the Tavern

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 2 mins ago, by bjb568

262

Q: AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE

No more re-typing the same comments over and over! This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments (canned responses), which you can easily click to insert. This script was inspired by answers to thi...

script comments

I'm not sure why it took me this long for me to discover Greasemonkey

All the cool kids on Stack Exchange are using Greasemonkey, so why not?

Journeyman Geek

23:19

@Boris_yo delegation means you use a seperate email account where you have given login rights to your main account.

tags basically uses the same email account but you can use different tags so you know who was silly enough to let your email leak

DragonLord

Everyone in the US Northeast area: Brace for a record-breaking blizzard tomorrow. We are getting upwards of two feet of snow.

(It may be worth pinning this.)

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