Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:40

@allquixotic: XD. Some things are less confusing that way. Else I'd be watching myself from the office.. 0_0

The webapp for my cam is flakey as hell

probably dosen't help that its a webapp that just uses an embedded java thing

Journeyman Geek

01:02

@bob iirc gps status shows glonass as squares

DragonLord

01:13

I'm forced to reboot my website VPS because of a glibc update :(

Journeyman Geek

Noooooo uptime.!🐕

... I accidentally typed a dogmoji OO

DragonLord

79 days uptime.

I would restart services as needed after each update. At times, I would drop the system to rescue mode (init 1) then go back to normal.

This minimizes disruption and avoids the need to reboot, but sometimes, you just have to reboot the server.

...and the site is up and running again.

Journeyman Geek

01:31

(I personally don't mind downtime :p(

Planned downtime is healthy

DragonLord

It's unplanned

Generally, I don't provide notice for any downtime less than five minutes

It's not a big site

Longer downtime events, such as those involving an OS-wide upgrade, are announced beforehand on Twitter.

Journeyman Geek

02:53

io9.com/…

in the comments

"I think the retriever would do a mite better job then most politicians. He'd be loyal, dedicated and would want to make everyone happy. I just don't see how such a good natured creature could win though. The retriever's opponent would probably try something underhanded during the election like throw a ball or something."

That's why you need a schnauzer ;p

ekaj

03:24

Looking at some pcaps.. started a new capture and went to a web server, and I noticed after resolving the DNS my computer sent two SYN packets to the web server, they seem to be pretty much the same on the inside. The only difference I see is the frame & sequence number, and different source ports. What's the reasoning for this? I assumed there would just be one SYN / ACK / SYN ACK from bits I've read

harhar bits..

Journeyman Geek

Ahh joy. I get to runa GPU stress test on a 12 or 20 core box ;p

ekaj

also i typed the syn / ack part wrong i see

that sounds fun =p

Journeyman Geek

04:04

Yeah. Unigine valley runs quite well. I do want the damn thing to mess up if possible so we know what's wrong

Bob

04:21

@ekaj Not uncommon for browsers to open multiple TCP streams in parallel.

ekaj

I know that to request images and such, I just didn't know it happened for the initial establishment of the connection

Bob

05:15

@ekaj follow the TCP streams and see what else is sent on either one

ekaj

interestingly enough FF didnt do it, i did it in IE because i was too lazy to clear my chrome cache

which shouldnt make a difference anyways

also the 2nd of those streams is empty, it dies after the ACK

kinda interesting, at least to me

Journeyman Geek

hm.

User can't log into a imac, no power, no response. I reach over to try to reboot... and...

Its unplugged ;p

ekaj

I think it's because of favicons possibly.. chrome did two tcp streams, but one tried to get the HTTP/1.1 response first and the other tried to get /favicon.ico

Psycogeek

06:11

@Boris_yo to transfer between photo progams and when processing you can leave the picture in a BMP format, which ends up being uncompressed. unless you have un-merged layers, then you have to leave it in what is usually a propritary format like .psd which might not be translatable to another program.

If that is not possible, or practical, you could always output it in a 100% compression (or highest numbers shown for it) jpeg, and only some of it will be lost , yet the file size will be reasonable.

Tiff can also be uncompressed full data, some places will use it (like nasa and satt imagery) but being in windows system ? i use bmp as the uncompressed like wav pcm for uncompressed audio.

Bmp with all the bits of course, because you can make bmps with less and less bits and it is smaller.

In all cases the resolution and bitrate of both the video and audio uncompressed should represent what you were working with, or it will be lesser data anyways. EX: if your doing audio in 48k you would not save out in 44.1k (or even the reverse) , if your doing pictures using 16bit color channels saving out in 24bit or 32bit (for transparency) is still not all the data.

I do not think (and do not know) if most of the stuff will save a full 16bit per color out as a bmp either, without using a propritary? I only use the 16bit channel stuff when processing over and over again, as nothing displays it anyways. it is used to preserve the whole through processing it (too much).

DragonLord

06:37

Getting ready to move my 2012 Nexus 7 to CyanogenMod 12 nightly builds.

Hopefully, they won't suck like the stock Android 5.0 ROMs.

Taking a NANDroid backup as I write this.

Journeyman Geek

07:30

boingboing.net/2015/02/23/baby-dont-fear-the-golden-re.html

DragonLord

woof

Journeyman Geek

Work radio has classical music on, makes me sleepy ;p

and I can hear my boss's headphones from across the room... vaguely

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Play your own music! :P

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, prolly should ;p

Saladin

09:42

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Q: Moving large size directory using rsync

I plan to move from linux o/s a directory which is mounted on SAN(offboard) to external storage for backup. The dir size is 14TB. I do have experience moving files in/out using rsync but never done this with large size directories/files like now. The directories are laid down in terms on year/...

i'm not sure why its so difficult to answer this question.!

Journeyman Geek

@Saladin: why do you care? ;p

and trying to transfer files, sight unseen, to a smaller drive sounds like trouble

you're better off breaking it down into manageable chunks

Dave

10:12

Morning

Journeyman Geek

10:31

afternoooon quitenearlyevening.

Dave

10:51

Is that in singapore?

or am I getting confused

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

Its in singapore ;p

Dave

11:18

I mean are you in singapore

Oliver Salzburg

WTFf is Gmail throttling mails from Mailgun?

It takes like 5 minutes for my mails to arrive, while I receive mails on our local MX instantly

Journeyman Geek

@Dave yeah

Oliver Salzburg

12:05

Could this dropdown be more drastic?

Journeyman Geek

12:28

"WIll blast your head off with zee words?"

Bob

13:17

@allquixotic @JourneymanGeek ozbargain.com.au/node/184215

Looks like a decent Android tablet, even ignoring the Windows side.

But I question the value of Android/Windows dual-boot.

Maybe if there was a way to switch between the two without rebooting (some form of hibernation).

Journeyman Geek

"2x Earphone jack, " whhhut?

Bob

...*shrug*

Journeyman Geek

also..

cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Celeron-N2840-vs-Intel-Atom-Z3735F

I'm starting to think cpuboss hates the N2840 ;p

ahh

quad core

@Bob: I think its a horrid idea on a 32 gb system ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Power consumption.

Also, the idea of assigning a single number as a rating for "features" is rather iffy.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Yeah it is.

I wanted to look at TDP and single core performance ;p

Bob

13:30

I'd rather look at PassMark directly.

Journeyman Geek

ahh, with systems I have in my paws, sure ;p

Bob

I meant the PassMark website.

@JourneymanGeek Eh... that could be an issue, yes

Journeyman Geek

You don't have much free space even with wimboot on 32gb

Sure you could add an SD card.. ;p

Oliver Salzburg

13:43

Journeyman Geek

lol

HackToHell

.@Interstellar won #Oscars2015 for visual effects. Here's a visual of Earth. No effects. https://instagram.com/nasa http://t.co/ekQOsdgG26

Tweeted by NASA on February 23, 2015 at 5:24 AM

Journeyman Geek

14:03

lol

Yeah it did XD

allquixotic

14:13

@Bob it's probably bad that I have to run Chrome 40 with --ssl-version-min=ssl3 to access my company email...... :S

@Bob I kind of like that idea :S I prefer Android over Windows 8.1 by a factor of 100 as a touch OS, but having x86 windows on a small form factor device is also super useful

Bob

@allquixotic "probably"

allquixotic

@Bob lol

Bob

@allquixotic You should set up a local proxy for just that one site. Don't allow SSLv3 globally :P

@allquixotic Not too sure about the dual-boot switching though :\

Also, Win8 is actually quite nice on touch.

Better than Android, even, if only FF didn't drop their MUI browser :(

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

@Bob You mean a local MITM proxy and trust the proxy's cert in the browser, and have the proxy speak SSL 3 to the site and TLS 1.2 to Chrome?

Journeyman Geek

14:17

@allquixotic: It so is ;p

Bob

@allquixotic Ya. About the only way I can think of to make it site-specific.

Journeyman Geek

(especially since I don't need to remote home to check stuff at work ;p)

Bob

Oh, cool, Instantfox accepted my pull request.

allquixotic

@Bob yeah, but the big killer things I miss on my x86 Windows tablet are the back/home/window list capacitive buttons, the slide-from-top pulldown menu, the app drawer (way better than the start screen), and the way better Gmail app

Journeyman Geek

lol

@allquixotic so... nearly everything?

Bob

14:21

@allquixotic The capacitive buttons aren't on most Android devices either, unfortunately. One of the bigger things holding me on Samsung, but I'll cave if something like the Yotaphone2 with better specs comes along :D

allquixotic

I don't like their on-screen keyboard either

SwiftKey is king

Bob

Android is slide from top, Windows is slide from right. Win10 has better notification support though.

@allquixotic I prefer Swype :P

allquixotic

on the topic of random Android apps, it appears that one of the apps I had installed got hijacked

this morning I had an app asking for my update approval: "Speed Boost Clean Masterpiec"

Bob

I'd say the Windows built-in keyboard choices are better than stock Android, but the lack of Swype is also annoying.

allquixotic

play.google.com/store/apps/…

that totally got hijacked

Bob

14:23

> Swype for Windows 7

O_O

> Swype is available for this platform via pre-install. Please check with your preferred retailer to find a device that supports Swype.

O_O

So... it was available on some Win7 tablets?

allquixotic

ahh, it was my Army Survival Guide app that got hijacked

com.appopus.survival

it originally required no permissions so that's why it asked for approval

turning a survival guide (basically a PDF in an app) into a "speed booster" malware.... yeah no thanks

Bob

Army Survival Guide?

@allquixotic I have automatic updates completely disabled.

Won't update apps I use without taking a backup first.

Saved me when Spotify updated to a broken version -_-

allquixotic

@Bob yeah, something the US Army wrote for people who get stranded

it's public domain since it was made by the govt

anyway, it was originally a useful app, but it's disappointing to see that it got hijacked into malware

I'm glad I didn't agree to update it

Bob

@allquixotic Just download a PDF? :P

allquixotic

@Bob sure, whatever... I'm actually not that concerned about losing the army survival guide on my phone; really not.... I'm more concerned about the fact that the app got apparently hijacked, or its developer sold out to a malware vendor

!!did the app get hijacked or did they sell out to a vendor?

ChatBot John Cavil

14:28

@allquixotic did they sell out to a vendor

allquixotic

heh

Bob

@allquixotic Two junk review comments too.

allquixotic

@Bob yup, but the older comments are about the army survival guide

Bob

If you click through to the reviewer, you can see a list of other apps :P

> cleanapp.master.speedbooster

o.O

> com.appopus.MCRP_3_02B

Ya, that entire catalogue is screwed.

> com.linchpin.utility.appslocker

Hmm.

That Brazilian Guy

15:54

The biggest speed booster scam I know of is called DU Speed booster

play.google.com/store/apps/…

Their advertising techniques include very aggresive scareware and misinformation in in-app an in-browser banner ADs (and javascript popup hijackers)

Think "WE HAVE DETECTED A VIRUS IN YOUR ANDROID CLICK HERE TO REMOVE"

They have 100 million ~ 500 million downloads. .____.

"APUS" uses very similar techniques play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apusapps.launcher and play.google.com/store/apps/…

"You have malware click here" is a sure way to get me to never use an app.

Bob

16:25

@ThatBrazilianGuy really no different from the incessant ads targeted at desktop users

That Brazilian Guy

17:01

Is that so? I couldn't know the current trends of ADs, I've been using adblock for years.

DragonLord

@ThatBrazilianGuy I've dealt with this before. Had some ads of this sort on Wikia; promptly reported them.

That Brazilian Guy

I wonder if ad makers have been resorting to such ~~aggressive~~ unscrupulous techniques more and more because everyone who knows better has already installed adblock, so the only people who still deal with ADs are technically illiterate people, and therefore the advertisers adapt to their new audience.

DragonLord

If you're browsing Wikia and come across a bad ad, see community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Bad_advertisements for instructions on reporting it

That Brazilian Guy

18:04

The World’s Most Idiotic Copyright Complaint

> Going after alleged pirates of their music album, [they] sent Google a notice [for the] download pages [of] ICQ, RedHat, SQLite, Vuze, LinuxMint, WineHQ, Foxit, Calibre, Kodi/XBMC, Skype, Java, OpenOffice, Gimp, Ubuntu, Python, TeamViewer, MySQL, VLC, Joomla, Z-Zip, RaspberryPI, Unity3D, Apache, MalwareBytes, Pidgin, LibreOffice, VMWare, uTorrent, WinSCP, WhatsApp, Evernote, AMD, AVG, Origin, TorProject, PHPMyAdmin, Nginx, FFmpeg, phpbb, Plex, GNU, WireShark, Dropbox and Opera

allquixotic

18:20

@ThatBrazilianGuy Quite a list! It's not often that you see GNU, EA, Microsoft, Oracle, GNOME, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Apache, VMWare, AMD, the EFF,and several others on the same team :P

Bob

22:06

@ThatBrazilianGuy that's been happening for over a decade

DragonLord

22:20

@ThatBrazilianGuy IANAL, but pretty sure this is a DMCA Section 512(f) violation.

> **Misrepresentations**.— Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section—
> (1) that material or activity is infringing, or
> (2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,
> shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner’s authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material…

It's going to get them sued sooner or later.

Bob

@DragonLord Google never took action. There were no damages.

DragonLord

@Bob This is under the assumption that the false notices continue.

It costs Google money to process DMCA takedown notices.

Bob

@DragonLord Probably won't.

Pity, but there it is.

Precedent says the automated submissions they make are perfectly legal, and they're protected if there's a mistake.

@DragonLord True, but that would be minimal. Unless punitive damages were applied, which is highly unlikely based on precedent - this has happened before.

Don't have time to dig up the cases right now.

DragonLord

Gotta go soon.

duozmo

My Windows-using friends. Now that Lenovo has shot themselves in the foot, who do you like as a PC manufacturer?

allquixotic

22:36

@duozmo I'll just note that SuperUser is not specifically a site about Windows or for Windows-users. While many of us here use Windows for some purpose or another (often, because we're forced to by work), that is not necessarily the case. SuperUser is actually for power users on any platform.

However, I'll go ahead and say that I still like Lenovo, but I will wipe my disk clean before using their PCs from now on :P

duozmo

@allquixotic Yep, didn’t think of it as such.

allquixotic

as soon as I buy a system it's getting wiped so I can put my own OS on it

duozmo

@allquixotic Heh, k, nice

allquixotic

there aren't very many manufacturers I trust to be better than Lenovo -- it's just that Lenovo got caught, whereas the others may be hiding it well enough that no one knows what they're doing

and as far as hardware, I still prefer Lenovo's hardware over Dell, HP, Asus, Acer, etc

duozmo

Any experience with Sony or Toshiba?

allquixotic

22:44

recently fixed a 2011 model Toshiba Satellite... large, heavy, lots of plastic, no trackpoint... not my kinda system...

duozmo

Strike Sony from that question. I guess they aren’t making VAIO anymore. My knowledge is quite out of date

allquixotic

I guess the nearest runner-up in my head is Dell, but only certain product lines

duozmo

I had a Dell from 2000-2004 I liked

Which product lines?

allquixotic

the Dell Precision line of mobile workstations is pretty much the best you're going to find for build quality in a laptop outside of the ThinkPad range... well, there's also the Panasonic Toughbook, but those are pretty overpriced and excessively strong

duozmo

Any experience with ASUS? Their displays have gotten pretty okay I know, but no experience with their laptops

Michael Frank

22:51

I have a friend with an ASUS ROG series laptop. It's a beast.

allquixotic

a really high-end 15.6" Precision workstation barely broaches the $3000 mark with the "included in price" storage option (you can get SSDs cheaper aftermarket and install them).... tack on some employer discounts and you're looking at about the same as a good ThinkPad.

actually you could probably save more by getting the base RAM and upgrading that aftermarket too

duozmo

I’m definitely putting a premium on build quality

allquixotic

good

Seth

23:16

Any of you heard of screenshot.net?

Michael Frank

@Seth I have not.

Seth

Ok. I was just asking because @DragonLord seemed to think it was a spam site and it was just detected as possible spam on my site.

in Ask Ubuntu General Room, 12 mins ago, by SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: How do I take a screenshot? by Emily028 on askubuntu.com

The answer and site look ok so far, just asking in case any of you have seen it before.

ekaj

reviewing basic packet transfer stuff, not assuming propogation... the end to end delay = L (length) / R (link rate)... for N links, delay = N*(L/R).. am I correct in assuming that P packets over N links is N(P+1)(L/R)? ..I've seen others say (L/R)(N+P-1) and N(P(L/R)).. funny thing as all 3 answers differ by +/- P =p

Michael Frank

@Seth I wouldn't consider that spam.

Seth

@MichaelFrank I agree, hence my asking. I just noticed however that the user posted another answer with the same link. Makes it more suspicious .

Thanks for the help! I think I will just leave it for now.

Michael Frank

23:26

The user might be spamming. ;P

Seth

Maybe I should just remove the links, since they aren't really helpful at all ;)

Michael Frank

@Seth Yea, that's a better idea.

Seth

Cool, all cleaned up!

ekaj

Seth, what's your ham call sign?

if you don't mind

DragonLord

@Seth I would not have allowed it to stand. I would have removed the answer and posted a CW answer with the content (sans spam link).

Screenshot.net is known spam.

Seth

23:41

@ekaj I do kind of mind since these are completely public chats (and indexed by Google) and my call is irrevocably tied to my home address. I'm in region 7 though :)

ekaj

Ah, I'm region 8 :)

Had my callsign about.. 13-15 years now? somewhere around there. 13 I believe

Seth

@DragonLord Well the answer was posted last december and the account not seen since then. I deleted the other answer since it had no useful content but the first one did.

bmende

hey everyone

Seth

@ekaj Neat! I got mine just last year (or two years ago?), but I haven't even had a QSO yet. Couldn't afford more than a FT-60R and none of the nearby repeaters are active :(

ekaj

I don't use mine a whole lot unfortunately, but it is a great thing to have.. I used to maintain my QSO log but not so much anymore =p

DragonLord

23:45

@JourneymanGeek: Would it be a good idea if we had SmokeDetector for Super User?

ekaj

i don't think websites can catch on fire, can they?

Seth

SmokeDetector detects spam and other bad things :)

@DragonLord Lemme know if you guys decide you want it, I can help you get it set up. (Super easy)

ekaj

I figured that much, but I'd never heard of it =p it sounds interesting though, I may look into it

bmende

Hey can someone help me out with a little issue I'm having trying to open up a program

ekaj

Is it a specific spam filter called Smoke Detector?

what's the issue @bmende

bmende

23:49

Hey thanks ekaj, I'm trying to open Strados2, a java program found here gravon.de/gravon/stratego/strados2.jsp

I get "unable to launch the application" error

ekaj

Is english your first language?

bmende

yes

ekaj

Also, is this you? superuser.com/questions/881750/…

bmende

yes

DragonLord

Should I host an instance of SmokeDetector myself?

github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector

ekaj

23:51

thanks for link

bmende

I came back to superuser for this specific question, but forgot I actually had an account here

Seth

@DragonLord That's not necessary, but you can.

ekaj

I honestly don't know :/ I haven't used strados before

Seth

@ekaj no, it is a chatbot written by several SE folks that uses websockets + the API to scan ever post as it comes in or becomes active for spam keywords and other signals.

ekaj

ah okay, thanks @Seth

SE guys are pretty handy =p

Seth

23:54

@DragonLord Here's my pull request you can use as an example (if you want).

bmende

thanks for trying ekaj, a lot of other people are having troubles with it too. If anyone can solve this problem and help me run the application, I would pay them $10 paypal

Seth

Just add the SU room to the array on line 41 and populate any reasons you don't want posted in the "unwantedReasons" part (cannot remember by proper programming words atm..)

ekaj

no need to pay, a lot of people here like to help out just because solving those types of problems is fun

if I wasn't doing homework on the side I'd take a crack at it probably

DragonLord

As the resident spam hunter here, it would be great if I used more powerful tools to uncover spam and abuse

bmende

I know I love this community, but I just really wanted to figure this out

DragonLord

23:59

Setting it up.

Will create a dedicated room and sock account for it.

How much CPU does it demand?

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