Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:24 AM

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Psycogeek

1:02 AM

superuser.com/questions/874768/… 10% spam 90% off-topic

Journeyman Geek

2

Found this gem in my downloads folder

Journeyman Geek

2:10 AM

picked up a broken USB headset from work. SO MANY CONNECTORS

HackToHell

2:38 AM

@OliverSalzburg You have them autobahs

You could go all out crazy on the gas :P

DragonLord

3:03 AM

Folks, please examine links in the answer before voting—this is spam as indicated by the username and profile website. — DragonLord 15 secs ago

Journeyman Geek

3:13 AM

baleeted.

Psycogeek

4:18 AM

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Q: How to find who downloaded over 20gB of data on the network?

Our ISP reported that our data allocation of 30gb had been 70% used on one day, 90% used by the next and then 100% used on the 3rd day. How do I find which computer or user on the network downloaded the data? I have checked 'User' folders, in particular downloads, for activity on the relevant d...

Whomever has a steam account :-)

Journeyman Geek

4:44 AM

lol

apartmenttherapy.com/…

Psycogeek

5:02 AM

Nicely done speakers, a design that will actually work well.

Psycogeek

6:26 AM

news: Radioshack, which was the only localised chain "components" store ,plus it became a lot of a cell store, plus other minor electronics. that had (chain) stores in many many cities, even 2 in some cities like my small city (which only needed 1) Liquidating 1700 stores, closing up to 2100.

While they eventually carried a lot of bad cheaply built (china) components that would easily break , it was a sure location for Minor DIY parts, where you could get something to fix or projects some minor stuff in the day, not waiting a week for it to come off the web.

Psycogeek

6:41 AM

RS being a sort of WalMart of electronics , somewhat cheap and widely available, and tons of stores, had basically pushed out smaller ma and pa versions of such things Decades ago. Non-chain ma and pa electronics stores are not likely to make a comeback.

superuser.com/questions/874828/… <--- pure spam

Psycogeek

6:57 AM

superuser.com/questions/874832/… <-- spam same jerk on a roll

Journeyman Geek

poofed

HackToHell

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A: How to find who downloaded over 20gB of data on the network?

I understad your query you can also do that install keylogger on all system , you can use different websites to configure that setting example my3gb.com from that you can see the screenshot of every system at every your preferred time setting ....all d best

Best idea !

pls upvote

Journeyman Geek

If by upvote, you mean obliterate.

I just repaired a pair of these sg.creative.com/p/headphones-headsets/chatmax-hs-720 that someone at work broke,

Braiam

where's badp when you need him!

Journeyman Geek

the USB-end got battered pretty badly, but otherwise, its functional once I soldered the 10 fiddly little cables someone managed to rip out despite the strain relief.

Psycogeek

7:34 AM

sweet so now you getto keep em right? one mans trash , another mans repair job

Journeyman Geek

7:53 AM

yup

might use em at work, I have decent enough headphones

I just wanted an excuse to pick up a soldering iron ;p

HackToHell

8:19 AM

Holy crap /var/lib/docker is 111 gb ;|

HackToHell

8:35 AM

lol filippo.io/Heartbleed/#tmz.com

Psycogeek

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Q: What happen when we add two binary numbers that exceed the bit limit...?

Perform the following arithmetic operations assuming the microprocessor has only 8-bit registers. a. 11100012 + 100101112 b. 110010012 – 110111112

computer-architecture binary

I am thinking this dude is a walking computer , one of them new ones with Base 2 Binary :-)

Undobtedly using the new MLC tripple stack transister processors

I mean who really is going to be talking in binary to the thing, to have such a question, then to completly miss the whole thing from the start, I was watching it to see if spam wasnt going to be edited in.

Psycogeek

9:19 AM

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Q: How to pretend ip request

I have a 2Mbps broadband connection. My isp provides 2Mbps for all the websites, but provides 10Mbps for every Google owned service. I want to download a file, but make it seems like it's being downloaded via a Google service. This way I can get a 10Mbps download. How can I do it?

ip speed isp spoofing

On the 2 questions of this type, i wonder about Caches, ISPs at one time or another had attempted caching locally the tons of similar and repeated requests for the same data. I wonder if they provide the "speed" on things they can cache locally with no problems, or via an agreement with google. Agreement meaning a system worked out where the cache is actually up-to-date and thereby transparent to the users.

vrses causing the users problems , which supposedly had happened the first time they tried caching local, where people were (again) trying to defeat the caching , to get to the "live" data.

It certianly is not any more "net nutreal" to change bandwidth to google (you tube) and netflix , any more than it is to restrict bandwidth to the same.

Psycogeek

9:56 AM

Cache? (this is edited to the relevent info) I'm a network engineer with 25 years experience, . . . ., but from all reports they are more than fair in their dealings (including offers to put content caching boxes inside of consumer ISP networks, considerably reducing their bandwidth costs).

Psycogeek

10:18 AM

When accusing netflix of having "fast lanes" there was responces like this "The Netflix fast lanes Pai referred to seem to be the "Open Connect" video storage and caching boxes that Netflix provides to ISPs. Although Netflix doesn't charge ISPs for this equipment, Netflix gets to reduce its costs if the ISPs host it within their own facilities" arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/…

So the users went from complaining about being bandwith restricted, which could just be thier own crappy internal nets trying to do massive HD data. To users complaining that netflix gets more bandwidth. To netflix being able to provide locally more access. Via local caching systems.

Leaving the users to yet complain that the caching itself , breaks stuff :-)

It isnt that much different that a Cell phone service provider , allowing free calls (minutes) that start and end within it's own network. The free/extra bandwidth they are providing , these video data caches , has started in thier own network.

Psycogeek

10:59 AM

Oh well they are saying that a CDN is not a cache. CDN=Content delivery network , which is a redirection to . . . stored content . (that is a cache of other stored content:-)

That also clears up a few other questions i was not understanding, about "Why are certian streams comming from the wrong places" & "why is my computer connecting or getting data from ___ when I was on ____" & "why does the DNS seem messed up and connecting me to here"

Because that data is being fed from a level 3 cache, or a ISP cache, depending also on what DNS you were using.

1:07 PM

;p

1:39 PM

2:08 PM

@JourneymanGeek o.O

Coincidentally, these are from the same thread off Reddit:

...onebox fail

waitwhat

http://i.imgur.com/ns30XZ7.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG4O9lVst7Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHpyOgCkfAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUe7Wh7G31o
http://i.imgur.com/V6jSjyQ.jpg
.

Journeyman Geek

2:43 PM

I may need to consider picking that up next time its on sale ;p

Bob

O_O

@JourneymanGeek ozbargain.com.au/node/182109

That's... actually better than my S4

And far better than a Moto G.

For about the same price.

Journeyman Geek

3:05 PM

if you need a new phone, I guess ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Eh... might be one way to try Lollipop :P

Assuming Cyanogen support.

Journeyman Geek

yup

don't forget, one major reason I got a moto G is lollipop support.

well no

vanilla, up to date android releases

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I'm not going to update my phone from 4.3 now.

Too much effort (i.e. Samsung doesn't like rooted phones)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: been rocking android 5, officially, a while ;p

Bob

Pretty much all I do on it is use FF anyway.

Journeyman Geek

3:11 PM

I do miss the ability to go silent from the power button but its gettingadded again

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Surprised that it's apparently a 2013 phone.

I wonder if they have anything more recent.

Also, it has an FM radio :P

Wish Samsung left that in...

Also, apparently the front camera is an 8 MP sensor O_O

►

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

Oh god that thumbnail

:D

allquixotic

5:30 PM

@Bob so I sold my Galaxy S5 to a coworker who had an older Android smartphone (I don't remember which off the top of my head) and he got the official Verizon OTA of Lollipop this week, but my Note 4 is still out in the cold >:(

I'm so jealous...

BGM

5:46 PM

@DragonLord Are you here?

DragonLord

roar

I'm here

BGM

Hi! Okay, I have installed the SSD disk, and I'm trying to figure out how to get IRST configured.

If you would be so kind to assist me...

DragonLord

Where are you stuck?

BGM

I have the IRST control panel open, but I can't find any option to change anything.

DragonLord

Can you upload some screenshots?

BGM

5:47 PM

I have the help for it open, too, but it doesn't correspond.

DragonLord

Odd

BGM

There is supposed to be an option here to do something.

DragonLord

I thought RAID is active

For some reason, IRST RAID is no longer working.

BGM

I haven't changed anything in the BIOS.

DragonLord

Reboot to BIOS and tell me what mode it's in. AHCI or RAID?

I thought you told me you could create a volume earlier...

BGM

5:51 PM

"create a volume"? I thought so, too.

Is there a way to find out if it is AHCI or RAID without entering BIOS? I'd have to log off of here..

If I boot to BIOS, can I change something?

DragonLord

Jan 17 at 1:06, by DragonLord

To enable the RAID driver, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorA, set Start to 0x3 to disable the Intel RST AHCI driver; in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorAV, delete the StartOverride key to enable the Intel RST Matrix RAID driver.

BGM

So I don't have to boot again?

DragonLord

Then reboot into BIOS immediately and set the system to RAID mode.

BGM

Will that disturb anything on my system?

DragonLord

No, I've done it before

BGM

5:54 PM

It would not be a good thing to have to rebuild anything.

DragonLord

Make sure you get the registry keys correct

BGM

0x3 is hex, right?

Right now it is $00000000

DragonLord

Yes.

Just replace that value with 0x00000003.

BGM

Do I need the dollar sign?

DragonLord

Can I see a screenshot? I haven't seen this before.

BGM

5:57 PM

Ah, it won't let me add an x.

Let me try a different registry editor...

DragonLord

Oh, okay. You're using third-party software.

Just enter 3 for a hex value.

BGM

ah. It took that. Wouldn't let my type x

but it took just 3

You also said: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorAV

But that doesn't exist.

DragonLord

0x is just notation for a hexadecimal value.

BGM

did you mean: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorV

DragonLord

@BGM Yeah, use that if there is no A at the end.

The A variants are for newer versions of Windows.

BGM

6:01 PM

I have iaStorA, iaStoreF and iaStorV

oh - and iaStor

DragonLord

What are the Start values for iaStorA and iaStor?

0 means on, 3 means off.

BGM

In iaStorA, Start = 0 (except now I've changed it to 3)

DragonLord

There should be only one version of the driver running, and therefore only one should have a Start value of 0.

BGM

iaStorV Start = 3

iaStorF = 0

There is no StartOverride value in any key

DragonLord

Okay, then change iaStorV Start to 0. Leave iaStorF alone.

BGM

6:04 PM

So I'm changing iaStorA Start from 0 to 3, and iaStorV Start from 3 to 0.

DragonLord

That is correct.

BGM

And doing nothing to iaStorF

DragonLord

iaStorF is independent of this; it is a SCSI filter driver.

Yes.

BGM

And I can't delete StartOverride because it doesn't exist.

DragonLord

Just leave that alone.

Reboot to BIOS/UEFI and set the Intel RST mode to RAID.

Got a mobile device you can access chat on?

BGM

6:07 PM

@DragonLord Yes, I have a laptop I can use; but I have to leave to go to prayers in a moment (I am a Catholic Religous Brother....) and won't be able to come back here for about an hour and 45 minutes. Will you be around then?

DragonLord

Yes, I'll be around

BGM

Great. I'll reboot it when I get back and join the chat.

Thanks for your help.

DragonLord

7:20 PM

o_O

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is treating my Roccat Tyon as a joystick

This behavior is absolutely counter-intuitive

Hat Switch?

My mouse is not a joystick!

Must be the weird interface Roccat is using—the mouse is presenting itself to the computer as a joystick

BGM

7:41 PM

Hi, DragonLord

@DragonLord Okay, I am logged in here using my laptop.

DragonLord

Hello

BGM

I have UEFI open on my workstation.

It turns out that IRST was disabled.

DragonLord

Set it to RAID.

BGM

So I need to enable IRST then - so when I set it to enabled, it says, "No valid iFFS partition found" and says "Entry on S3 RTC Wake" is enabled.

DragonLord

Can you take a picture of this and upload it?

BGM

7:44 PM

with options for "Active Page Threshold support"

uh, hold on..

DragonLord

Is there a setting set to AHCI?

BGM

I can take a photo, but it won't be very nice

DragonLord

That's okay

BGM

I don't see any AHCI setting

DragonLord

Back out to the previous menu.

Rapid Start Technology is not Rapid Storage Technology.

BGM

7:47 PM

oh

DragonLord

Disable Rapid Start Technology.

BGM

In the previous menu, there is "Intel Rapid Start Technology", "Intel Smart Connect Technology" and "High Precision Timer"

Ah - I did find AHCI

DragonLord

Set that to RAID, then save and reboot.

BGM

It's in Advanced\SATA Configuration

choices were: IDE AHCI RAID

it was set to AHCI, so I'll change it to RAID

Is there anything else to do in UEFI?

DragonLord

Nothing else to do. You can just save the settings and reboot.

Let me know if the system boots up correctly.

BGM

7:51 PM

okay, saved. rebooting

it flashed the raid text first, now its booting to windows

DragonLord

@BGM That's normal, it's the Intel RST Option ROM

BGM

right; I was just giving report

I'm logging into Windows now.

DragonLord

Great, it worked.

BGM

This is pretty nerdy, I must say.

Then again, I do have B-Wings on my desktop...

Now it's loading all my stuff..

@DragonLord Do I need to partition the SSD drive in half before we configure it?

DragonLord

Open the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Control Panel and you should be able to set Smart Response Technology up.

It'll do the partitioning, if I'm not mistaken.

If you're stuck, post some screenshots and I'll help you.

BGM

7:55 PM

Windows says, "you must restart your computer to apply these changes..."

I don't remember seeing Windows Update, though.

DragonLord

Okay, reboot before continuing. It's probably the system setting itself up for RAID,

BGM

I hope this doesn't nuke everything.

DragonLord

No, probably just driver installation.

BGM

It's still finishing to login. I can see the IRST icon with a spinner.

Sorry. It's slow; I have to wait for Explorer to come to its senses before I can restart.

ugh. should I kill explorer?

DragonLord

I'd just hit Restart.

BGM

8:02 PM

It just woke up. I'm restarting now.

logging in again...

okay, so I click on the IRST icon and it says, "an unknown error occured while running this application" I think there is an IRST service not running.

It was set to "delayed start" and was not started. So I started it.

so it says, "Multiple users cannot run the application at the same time"

DragonLord

It'll start up by itself. Just give it a moment...

BGM

I don't think it's going to start. Everything is finished loading.

maybe those regkeys were not quite right?

DragonLord

No, the service has nothing to do with these keys

Try starting the IRST control panel again.

BGM

8:17 PM

It says, "Multiple users cannot run the application at the same time."

and

"An unknown error occurred while running this application..."

These messsages are from IRST.

Let me kill the system tray icon process.

same thing.

DragonLord

I'd reboot the machine again. I've never seen this issue before.

BGM

strange.

does it depend on something?

some other service?

okay, I'm going to reboot again.

BGM

8:34 PM

same problem.

hmmm.... guess I have go googling.

Luke

anyone knows what Advanced Async Doorbell is?

BGM

@DragonLord maybe I'm missing a raid driver?

DragonLord

Very, very odd.

I've never seen this happen before.

BGM

@DragonLord we disabled the ahci driver in reg iaStorA

by changing the value from 0 to 3

and we change iaStorV from 3 to 0

maybe that is something?

DragonLord

That should only change the driver.

BGM

8:46 PM

maybe I don't have the driver?

no - I see it. iaStorV is the driver in the drivers list.

so a value of 3 is supposed to disable the driver?

and 0 is supposed to enable the driver?

DragonLord

Yes, as far as I can tell.

The control panel is somehow borked. I'm not really sure what's going on here.

The service seems to be broken but I can't make sense out of this issue.

BGM

borked

the control panel won't start because the irst service is not running.

it's set to delayed start, but does not start.

DragonLord

Can you start the service manually?

BGM

yes

DragonLord

Okay, will the control panel open?

BGM

8:52 PM

control panel gives a message: "irst is trying to connect to the service"

and the service stops

every time a connection to the service is attempted, the service stops

so it probably did start with startup

control panel kills the service

I'll try reinstalling the drivers. downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=24293

and the storage manager: downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=17882

DragonLord

Be careful—Windows has no fallback driver for RAID mode.

Do you have a recent restore point?

BGM

oh.

good idea.

so if this goes wrong, I'll have to boot to safe mode and do a system restore?

DragonLord

Do you have a recovery partition or recovery media?

BGM

no

DragonLord

Not sure if this will work...

I suggest bailing out of this.

BGM

9:05 PM

okay.

DragonLord

Reverse the registry changes, then go back to the UEFI and change the mode back to AHCI.

BGM

I'll do it.

At least I can move the pagefile.

DragonLord

From there, remove the old Intel RST driver, reboot, then install the new driver.

BGM

after I reverse everything?

DragonLord

Yes.

In AHCI mode, the system has a fallback driver to work with.

BGM

9:07 PM

So, in AHCI mode, remove the IRST driver and install the new one.

DragonLord

Yes.

BGM

you know what? in the raid flash screen on boot, it said that no volumes were configured.

DragonLord

@BGM That's normal

There are no RAID volumes.

BGM

okay.

so I reversed the registry changes

and the uefi setting is now back to ahci

This IRST stuff seem shaky and complicated.

DragonLord

Okay, reboot into Windows, uninstall the old driver, reboot, then install the new driver, and reboot again.

BGM

9:12 PM

Maybe I should just skip the IRST thing.

I'm becoming afraid.

DragonLord

I've got work to do—tell me if there's a critical issue.

BGM

Afraid of spending two days getting everything back into order.

DragonLord

I'm surprised IRST even did this to begin with.

BGM

Will uninstalling the ISRT driver cause any issue?

DragonLord

No, the system will drop to the MSAHCI driver.

BGM

9:14 PM

The links were to the up-to-date IRST driver for Windows 7.

DragonLord

Uninstall the old driver first. This will prevent upgrade glitches.

BGM

What I mean is, do you think my system will be okay with the new driver?

(Thanks for your patience, DragonLord)

DragonLord

I might just suggest reinstalling the same version of the driver.

13.2 caused problems on my machine.

Oy vey...

I'm very sorry this happened

BGM

When I go to uninstall, I see IRST twice.

DragonLord

This might be the cause of the problem.

BGM

9:18 PM

one for version 11 and the other for version 13

13.1

DragonLord

I think I understand what's going on here.

BGM

so I'll remove 11

DragonLord

Windows automatically installed the wrong driver version.

That's why the system asked you to reboot.

BGM

11 was installed on 6/18/2012

DragonLord

oh?

BGM

9:19 PM

13.1 was installed 7/26/2014

DragonLord

Okay, remove both versions of the driver.

Then reinstall 13.1.

This must have been a driver conflict.

BGM

Now, that's the IRST in control panel's remove programs list.

I guess that will work on the driver and not just the interface?

A conflict would make sense, since it complained of multiple users trying to use it.

and the interface would only crash the service.

If they mismatched, it would make sense.

DragonLord

That includes both if I understand it correctly.

A fresh copy of Intel RST should fix things.

BGM

Okay, I'll try it.

DragonLord

Once you're done reinstalling Intel RST, apply the registry changes again and switch to RAID mode.

Don't do this until you're finished reinstalling the driver.

BGM

9:23 PM

okay

you say to use version 13.1, right?

DragonLord

Yes.

Also, take a system restore point after reinstalling the driver and before changing the registry settings.

BGM

Funny, it won't remove version 11

The uninstaller runs, but disappears when I push "next"

I removed version 13 and am rebooting

After reboot, I can't remove version 11.

The uninstaller disappears after I run it.

@DragonLord I have geek uninstaller. I can force-remove version 11. It presents me with the registry keys. Should I remove them?

Just the ones for IRST relating to uninstall, that is

and the files left behind in program files folder

@DragonLord I just can't uninstall it.

unless I force-remove it.

DragonLord

9:54 PM

It's probably a stray entry.

I'm busy right now so I might need some time to respond

BGM

No, it's not stray; all the files exist and there is still the registry key.

No problem - I'll resume later, maybe.

DragonLord

Very odd

I really can't help much at this point

Maybe @allquixotic can help

allquixotic

nope, gotta go to store now :/

Braiam

11:02 PM

a moderator might want to know who VTC'ed spam

DragonLord

That was actually me

Didn't know I shouldn't do that

I did flag as spam

Braiam

well, you are just simply wasting your votes that you could use in the queue winks

DragonLord

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Optimized for search engines. Too optimized, in fact.

in Ask a Super User Moderator, 9 mins ago, by DragonLord

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DragonLord

11:26 PM

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