Root Access

That Brazilian Guy

00:00

@JourneymanGeek I might either do that, or route SSH traffic thru port 80

(if that's even possible)

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, sure. Would be wierd tho

That Brazilian Guy

For places where every port is blocked besides port 80 :P

How do I disable password login and enable only key-based auth for root?

!!tell 21501189 USE GOOGLE, STUPID!!! DUH

ChatBot John Cavil

@ThatBrazilianGuy Command use does not exist. Did you mean: user (note that /tell works on commands, it's not an echo.)

Bob

@Hennes Not really; if pairing requires physical interaction (e.g. pressing a button to enter pairing mode) then the passcode doesn't really matter.

Journeyman Geek

I wouldn't use root at all

docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Deployment_Guide/…

That Brazilian Guy

00:16

50

Q: How to harden an SSH server?

What measures can/should I take to make sure that security around my SSH server is absolutely impermeable? This will be community wiki from the start, so lets see what people do to secure their servers.

;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I still use root logins on all my servers, with password auth via SSH completely disabled

because, honestly, if you manage to get through the pubkey auth the box is stuffed anyway

Journeyman Geek

true.

@Bob: I'm still considering turning off ssh completely ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek again, pubkey auth is as safe as any other remote access method

password auth... not so much

That Brazilian Guy

00:35

Yes, that's a photo of a tunnel. Yes, I am quite silly.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Michael Frank

frankfamilia.co.nz

That's my website. :3

That Brazilian Guy

00:51

Now that I think about it, maybe a tunnel for circumventing connection restrictions shouldn't resolve to a domain that is my own name. Just maybe. .___.

@MichaelFrank this site looks kinda... sketchy

(I'll see myself out...)

Bob

...

amazon.com/SF-Cable-Australian-H05VV-F-0-75mm%C3%82%C2%B2/dp/…

> SF Cable, 6ft AS3112 (Australian 3 pin)
This item does not ship to Sydney, Australia.

???

Michael Frank

01:08

lolololololololololol

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy this is why spare domains are nice :p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek groovypost.com/howto/request-amazon-price-change-refund

It's barely shipped; worth a try? :P

I want to order a laptop charger... trying to think about what else I can bundle on the postage

Doesn't help that my last order wasn't even a week ago :(

Hasn't even arrived yet.

Journeyman Geek

01:25

I'll give it a shot.

Bob

Speaking of - does Amazon ship Kindles to Sg directly?

Journeyman Geek

Nope

Bob

o.O

Journeyman Geek

I'm getting it through cgw, along with my agents of shield wallet from thinkgeek.

Bob

They actually do ship those to Aus

I think it was about 15 shipping

Michael Frank

01:28

@Bob the cable?

Journeyman Geek

Yeah. We're not amused.

Kindles.

Bob

Used to have a local warehouse too, no idea what happened to that.

@MichaelFrank the cable is ridiculous

Journeyman Geek

And eh. Train is packed today. The kindle would be useful.

Bob

Who exactly do they think is going to buy it?

@JourneymanGeek I tend to just read on my phone. Or listen to music.

Michael Frank

Americans travelling to Australia?

Bob

01:31

Kindle's another device to pack

Journeyman Geek

@Bob not too fond of reading on the phone.

Bob

@Michael they're better off using an adapter

Journeyman Geek

01:50

@Bob: doing it now

@Bob: heh, price for the cover dropped too. On the horn (so to speak) with amazon support

38usd in store credit. I guess I'll blow it all on books ;)

Bob

That must've been an expensive cover o.O

Journeyman Geek

40 usd. But oh so pretty.

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

02:06

er... 28 I mean. 20 off the kindle, 8 off the cover.

So.. Books!

Journeyman Geek

02:37

@Bob: Thanks. I probably would not have noticed that, or known about the refunds had you not pointed it out ;p

superuser.com/help/badges/179/sheriff?userid=10165

Damn, its been a year?

Michael Frank

04:02

nzherald.co.nz/life-style/news/…

Ex Olympian uses Javelin to remove daughters tooth.

Bob

04:16

o.O

@JourneymanGeek I've been using Thunderbird as my FB chat client... just discovered it does IRC too

and XMPP

awesome

Journeyman Geek

And... its been refunded ;p

Win!

Michael Frank

@Bob Thunderbird does FB chat? o.O

Hmm... Postbox is built of Thunderbird. I wonder if it also does it?

I wouldn't mind a desktop client of Inbox tbh.

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank: yeah, featuritis :/

Bob

@MichaelFrank it's a little dodgy with online status, but actual text chat (and desktop notifications) work fine

@JourneymanGeek true, would've been better as an addon - the calendar is an addon

shrug

@JourneymanGeek Hm? You mean you have money instead of store credit? :P

HackToHell

@Bob Now I want to switch to GPT

Journeyman Geek

04:26

Naw, I got store credit. But meh, I'd buy books anyway.

http://blog.nytlabs.com/streamtools/
have no idea what this is but its cool

Bob

@JourneymanGeek That's my reaction to half the things mentioned in here :P

@JourneymanGeek Oh, those things.

They always seem cool at first.

They might even be useful for some non-programmers.

Journeyman Geek

Its like a run your own version of that yahoo thing

Bob

But if you try to use them as a halfway-competent programmer, they always end up feeling extremely restrictive.

As in, "I could do this so much faster/easier in language X!"

Incidentally, I'm actually thinking that right know while working in C (and C++).

Michael Frank

Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want.

Bob

I miss my .NET library functions. I miss the JS built-in functions! Heck, I miss the Java ones -_-

Journeyman Geek

04:38

I'm not tho ;p

Michael Frank

sif not onebox it :<

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank: https

Bob

@MichaelFrank It won't onebox https

Michael Frank

Ahh, there we go.

Psycogeek

04:56

@allquixotic there Are "latency" tester programs that work in winders, they do not solve anything, and often cannot even identify why some driver or buss speak is causing it, but it can Visualise it. Then booting in safe mode and re-testing with a latency tester again, knowing that the BT is not capable of running then. Why because then the devices are "connected" but the drivers are not running. I do not use them, because disabling the devices you suspect is even faster at times.

But it does provide a visual confirmation of what you already suspect. something is communicating , and in a way that other things are not freely able to do the same. Usually caused by a driver.

Bob

blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/05/01/10611358.aspx

Psycogeek

Latency: back 10 years ago, the motherboards had some latency adjustement right there on the board, where the pci stuff (everything that connected with pci communication lanes to the cpu) was adjustable. People would set this number very Low (32) thinking that there would be less latency. But it was something like how long it would allow a driver to lock the whole bus up. So quite the opposite raising the number (128) would allow all the other devices a chance

The hardware devices themselves could also set this latency ammount themselves, and supposedly could set to effect the whole bus they were communicating on. But changing whatever this hardware latency thing did , still freed up the bus. so much so that devices could communicate (simeltanious) 2X + faster with the same evil device still there trying to take everything and lock the bus.

Up to today, where you figure that most of that stuff in now controlled by the drivers themselves. and some programmer thinking that what they are doing is good for thier specific device, the only one they areally care about :-) After all nobody needs all these other things, and to all be run at the same time, when humans are only reading e-mail and browsing the web :-)

HackToHell

05:19

@Bob Is this you ? blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/05/06/10612563.aspx

Bob

@HackToHell No?

HackToHell

I know, I was joking >.<

HackToHell

06:18

Oh look, I can use my laptop like a repeater ;p

Journeyman Geek

06:35

0_0

WDS or acting as both a client and a AP at once?

Psycogeek

looks like there are 2 windows 8.1 "updates" patches for the mouse problems people have been having. and extreme polling mouses (1000) are still not acting as they should. Then I find this "verifier /reset" "to disable special pool and other driver verifier flags. Most latency gone and pc is usable again" the what?

HackToHell

Showoff level : infinity

photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros

Psycogeek

. . . sounds like another one of those added Watcher things they keep putting into the windows system to self diagnose , aka slow the whole things down so it can discover problems.

@HackToHell Wow how did they tie 200 Iphones together like that :-)

HackToHell

Talk about wasting money from investors

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell a stack of mac minis make more sense ;p

Psycogeek

06:49

Driver verifier (called verifier) has been around forever, if a "reset" fixed anything, the question should be who/what turned it on?

here is another one "I've just reset the verifier settings and it seems to now allow me to get on to the desktop in normal mode" Then i am like Whaaa, totaly borked up machine starts working again, because he stopped a driver diagnostics? Then the idea that it might have been used by some pos rootkit. Ohhhh, yea that.

Oliver Salzburg

@WilliamHilsum New job?

Psycogeek

07:09

superuser.com/questions/911779/… <--- they that should die

Journeyman Geek

Gone

Psycogeek

there is another, again i ask do they come in groups?

Journeyman Geek

possibly. Donno

Psycogeek

07:58

Hmm, youda think that should be on :-)

Journeyman Geek

._. . There is a server in london no one else here seems to be able to log into.

William Hilsum

@OliverSalzburg Yeah :)

Oliver Salzburg

08:17

@WilliamHilsum Congrats are in order?

William Hilsum

@OliverSalzburg I guess! ... Working on some really nice projects that I can't share at the moment, but, hope to do really soon!

exciting! :)

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek Client and AP

I have no idea it could work like this

without 2 cards

Journeyman Geek

Ralink cards do that with the default drivers IIRC

HackToHell

I have a broadcom card

broadcom.com/products/Bluetooth/…

Journeyman Geek

ahh. I go with intel on systems that come with wifi built in, and ralink for usb.

HackToHell

08:23

Bleh I can't find a data sheet

William Hilsum

@JourneymanGeek @HackToHell Depends how optimised their code is I guess... some beast GPU servers I have seen are actually quite expensive, I can imagine code that only needs minimum HD\Memory and offloads completely to GPU... in that case, mac pro may be cost effective... Not saying it is, but it is interesting!

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum: heh, I work in a place that has a pocket renderfarm ;p Even if not, I suspect a regular-ish workstation or server would be cheaper and more maintainable ;p

William Hilsum

@JourneymanGeek fair enough! just looked it up, I didn't realise Mac Pro was so pricey...

I take back my comment! Waste of money! :P

HackToHell

Why would they even do that

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum: Most proper workstations are pricy ;p

William Hilsum

08:28

I'm trying to think of a good reason...

says all 4 must be taken offline at once

so, not even that great for maintenance... I really don't know in comparison to say high density gpu servers :/

Journeyman Geek

No one really uses GPU servers (yet) ;p

Oliver Salzburg

For the Chrome users here, what do your scrollbars look like in Chrome?

I have the standard Windows scrollbars

But a coworker has much neater scrollbars that autohide

But he doesn't have any special extensions installed or flags he's aware of

Mystery already solved: chrome://flags/#overlay-scrollbars

This is so much better!

Journeyman Geek

08:44

@WilliamHilsum: most renderfarms tend to be large amounts of regular blade servers.

Hennes

09:12

Hi my computer screen is dead I mean it's lost... in cyberspace somewhere or something.

:)

Journeyman Geek

o0

Did it get walled up by accident?

Oliver Salzburg

wtf, every time I restart Chrome, I have to sign into my Google account again

I tell it to save the login, doesn't matter

Psycogeek

I got extra dell one here , I can e-mail it to you

Oliver Salzburg

I tell it to not ask for TFA again on this machine, still asks every time

Same thing at home

Psycogeek

do you delete cookies on browser exit?

Oliver Salzburg

09:19

If only Google would offer non-shitty support anywhere :\

Journeyman Geek

Heh

Oliver Salzburg

@Psycogeek Nope. And this is the Chrome sign-in to sync extensions and stuff

Psycogeek

oh that

Oliver Salzburg

The Google services still work fine

But there is some correlation

Sometimes I go to my (pinned) Google Calendar tab and it tells me I was logged out for some reason

Then I log in, and my Chrome is logged out again

I just logged in a minute ago, then went to calendar, now Chrome is logged out again

And this happened to the Chrome Web Store tab I still had open

Something is seriously f-ed up

Now I logged back in in Chrome, and this happens to my Google Contacts tab

wtf

Shit, and I trust these people with my OAuth :(

Psycogeek

looking around "I think most people (as have myself) established the profile is corrupt, the problem is after deleting the profile it re-corrupts and returns to it's old corrupt self."

"This solution actually works, just follow the instructions, its very simple! Thank you for this"
"I have now found a fix for this - search for "Chrome won't save my settings" in the forum - the fix there for that also fixes the 'not staying signed in' thing"
I have not found the first one yet.

You would think people would know if thier settings were also lost ?

Oliver Salzburg

09:31

support.google.com is such a fucking joke

It scares me to think that it probably covers most of issues people are having with Google

"I CANT LOGIN!!!" → "Please make sure to type your password into the text box labeled 'Password'" → "OMG IT WORKS!!!!"

Psycogeek

I am going to downvote the idiot that didnt put the content into his answer :-) because i cant find it. Did you try threatning the browser with deletion?

this is repeated "Settings >> Show advanced settings >> Content settings >> Cookies: I had at some recent point changed the cookie setting from "Allow local data to be set (recommended)" to "Keep local data only until I quit my browser." Once I changed it back to the former setting... voila!! " And Permissions for the folder it is using.

but that looks like it is more about g.mail.

On guy Honest , writes how he logged in and out 3 times, and it worked after that. I was thinking he probably lights a candle, says Ohmbigombi hoskenkleppr, then stands on one foot and rubs his stomach, then blows out the candle and it works.

Michael Frank

09:56

@OliverSalzburg To be fair, I doubt they have as such stringent policies on good/bad questions/answers as we do.

Oliver Salzburg

@Psycogeek Yeah, I guess, maybe I just have to clear my cookies

djsmiley2k

mornin.

Oliver Salzburg

@MichaelFrank Whenever I actually posted about an issue there, the responses where just straight garbage

And I've been in contact with their support for paying customers, it's just as bad

Michael Frank

@OliverSalzburg Oh wow... Well that's not cool.

Oliver Salzburg

I don't even know if they actually employ any technical staff there

It's a joke. They respond within 5 work days ("within" meaning "at least")

And then you get the usual Indian call center style

And they tell you to reboot your computer and reinstall the software

Disable anti-virus, UAC, ...

I literally have never had a problem solved by contact Google support in any shape or form

Michael Frank

10:00

I work 2nd level support at a bank. Our 1st level is in Manilla/Bangalore.

Pretty much every end user that is escalated to us has the same story.

djsmiley2k

If users didn't lie, we wouldn't need 1st line support :(

Oliver Salzburg

Apple developer support is pretty awesome

And Adaptec is pretty awesome as well

djsmiley2k

how much you payin for apple support tho

Hennes

(free) 3ware support was also quite nice.

Michael Frank

@djsmiley2k When the 1st level is making someone take out their battery and drain the 'flea power' to fix an issue with an app launching... there's something wrong.

djsmiley2k

10:05

:D yup

Psycogeek

i Could never do support, I land on these peoples computers and 2 hours of hair pulling later i walk away with it fully operational. Beg them to change thier ways as i walk out. 2 days later they are right back where they started.

djsmiley2k

yup

I'm glad it's no longer offically what I do

Psycogeek

Ya just dont use the same computer for your entire business records , to go on facebook and twitter, i dont give a f about how bored your front office staff is.

Oliver Salzburg

@djsmiley2k I think it's like 100€ a year

$99 actually

djsmiley2k

Oh ok, that's not so bad

Oliver Salzburg

10:12

They are usually extremely helpful, speak your language well, very knowledgeable and if they don't know the solution to something, they admit it and follow up in a reasonable time frame

Very good experiences

Psycogeek

a year, heck you can call MS for $30 a wack.

Oliver Salzburg

MS support isn't bad either, as long as your problem is clearly within the bounds of a specific component

And it's 300 for a ticket

djsmiley2k

hmmm

i need to pratice more sql, need to put together some subqueries D:

hell i can't even write down what I'm trying to select right now

/me goes to figure it out

Psycogeek

10:36

@OliverSalzburg back up there ^ indicates a setting did not stick or was not saved (profile issue probably again) so he switched it one way, and probably oks out of there , then switches it back again. Then the location that the settings are saved to is resaved.

Oliver Salzburg

@Psycogeek Clearing cookies is my best guess anyway :P

Psycogeek

0

Q: How to block counter strike ports on router?

I have Cisco E2500 router and I need to block Counter Strike ports so that user would not be able to connect to it. Also, is it possible to block Skype ports so user would not be able to call to someone?

skype port blocking

Ya just know, that this is all about a roomate or brother (or sister of course) rivalry :-)

To answer properly we would need to know what your trying to actually do. . . . so we can ignore your petty problems :-)

djsmiley2k

10:55

ARUGH

why do the developers keep making undocumented changes to the dang api~ D:

Journeyman Geek

Cause they live off coffee sweetened by your suffering ;p

Psycogeek

for the same reason game developers close the door behind you, then beat the hell out of you with a boss charachter.

Oliver Salzburg

I ran into an old issue again today, which I encounter once every couple of months. In AngularJS, when you make an HTTP request, you provide a callback for when the request completes. That callback receives 5 parameters: data, status, headers, ...

So, I'm thinking, well, I only care about data, so I provide a function that only accepts 1 parameter

But they check that and provide you with different arguments if your callback only expects 1 paramter

Like, wtf

djsmiley2k

lol

and you can't specify what you want?

Oliver Salzburg

11:42

@djsmiley2k Well, you can just declare additional parameters in the function declaration

...and then just not use them

djsmiley2k

:D

Psycogeek

You cant always get what you want, but you can patch to rec what you need. youtube.com/watch?v=SjHoigqFepU

Eww bad link, dont bother watching that

djsmiley2k

12:11

hehe

dang by being good at my job i'm making it more complicated ~_~

My brain is starting to ache, and theres so much missing infomation :(

Oliver Salzburg

So I added API rate-limiting to our application, now I don't know what sane limits are :P

I guess I could try to implement a parser for our logs to determine usage of existing deployments :\

SE uses 10,000 requests/day

FB seems to be 600 requests/10 minutes

> If you exceed 5M MAU, 100M API calls per day, or 50M impressions per day, you may be subject to additional terms.

100M requests/day O_o

600/600 sounds reasonable

djsmiley2k

12:32

:D

Journeyman Geek

12:49

@Bob: lifehacker.com/…

I love it when a plan comes together

HackToHell

I want one for firefox too :/

That Brazilian Guy

Turns out the answer to my two latest questions was just "update the damn thing"

1

Q: MySQL connection works on CLI, but not on Workbench

Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.19.3-100.fc20.x86_64 Packages: mysql-workbench-community.x86_64 6.1.7-1.fc20 mariadb.x86_64 1:5.5.41-1.fc20 mariadb-libs.x86_64 1:5.5.41-1.fc20 mariadb-server.x86_64 1:5.5.41-1.fc20...

mysql mysql-workbench mariadb

5

Q: Force Pidgin to acept an invalid certificate

I am getting the following error on Pidgin 2.10.10-3.fc20 (libpurple 2.10.10). How can I force it to accept an invalid certificate? (According to this bug report it should be capable). Here's what I have done: visited the domain on Firefox, and exported the certificate imported the certif...

pidgin ssl certificates

Journeyman Geek

That works.

William Hilsum

13:15

:( Stack Overflow has grown too large... a few of my most recent questions have not had good (or any) answers :(

GFSE

GemsFromStackExchange: Den why it alwayz create it again????As tweeted by Wil

posted on May 07, 2015

Den why it alwayz create it again???? As tweeted by Wil

djsmiley2k

13:39

@OliverSalzburg mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox << that 1 refers to account '1'; you can have lots; try /u/2/ or /u/3/

you may of had calendar logged into u/2/; then managed to log into gmail as /u/1, when it should of switched to /u/2/; so then when you return to a page which is logged in as u/2/ it logs you out *(as you're now u/1/) but doesn't reload the page as u/1/!

I hope that's understandable!

Oliver Salzburg

@djsmiley2k Interesting, but I have a pinned tab that's always on 0

Sweet, I just got a new MS Natural Ergonomic 3000

djsmiley2k

yeah, i've had other pages switch out the 0 user tho

i have work and home account

and sometimes the work page will force it's way into 0 on another tab

then you refresh the pinned tab -- you've been logged out!

I'm pretty sure tehres just one service somewhere being naughty, not found out which yet tho

That Brazilian Guy

> should of

should've

Steve Hémond

@OliverSalzburg : Your thoughts about this keyboard so far ?

@OliverSalzburg : I kinda like the Sclupt Ergonomic Keyboard (the one who has a separate keypad) but I dislike the mouse (too big)

Oliver Salzburg

13:58

@SteveHémond I had one before, tried others, came back to it. I like it. But the new version is a bit different

@SteveHémond That's the one I tried at home. Didn't like the arrow, home, end, page up/down keys

In general, it's great. The separate numpad is a great idea. The keys feel great. The overall shape is great. The layout is horrible

Like one of the worst parts is, the ESC key is exactly the same size as F1-F12, and it's positioned right next to F1. There is no haptic guidance. Bah!

I get angry just thinking about it >:(

Steve Hémond

@OliverSalzburg Yeah ! I've got the same opinion about the small keys. In addition, I use Visual Studio on a daily basis and I need my F5 / F6 / F12 keys to be normal sized. Most of the wireless Microsoft keyboards have very small function keys and it's disappointing

Oliver Salzburg

@SteveHémond I feel your pain. It's exactly why I went back to the 3000

And, well, I'm used to it, so it feels natural to me

Steve Hémond

14:13

@OliverSalzburg : Never tried it, but I think I should. It looks like it's the most selled keyboard on the Microsoft Store

Bob

@JourneymanGeek meh

My memory usage is low enough (barring the apparent leak, possibly due to addons or graphics)

DragonLord

There is something distinctly wrong with this answer:

0

A: partition managing not allowing to expand

Moving a partition may cause data loss, so i wont recommend that. Best choice is to download a third-party partition software and you can extend your partitions whenever you like.

Bob

@HackToHell There have been dozens for FF going back years. This is not new at all.

DragonLord

Is the user preparing to spam?

Bob

Heck, FF has a form built-in now.

DragonLord

14:22

It's been flagged for moderator attention.

Journeyman Geek

14:34

@DragonLord: prolly is

deleted both answers

DragonLord

Just drawing upon my experience.

User's posting in a frequently-spammed topic, disk partitioning, and the answer has spam indicators despite evasion attempts.

Journeyman Geek

heh

Fun fact? I remember that gravatar

DragonLord

Suspicious activity.

Stopping spam before it happens.

Journeyman Geek

Problem there is striking a balance ;p

DragonLord

Spam is getting sneakier by the day :(

Journeyman Geek

14:42

Means we're doing things right ;p

HackToHell

@Bob I simply close ff and start it again and I don't visit the tabs

Works well enough :D

Journeyman Geek

Don't forget, trivial spam dosen't even get posted here

HackToHell

Though I should prolly use somehting

Bob

@HackToHell That would be the built-in form.

Not nearly as aggressive as the extensions, but generally more stable.

DragonLord

I want DragonLord to be synonymous with the bane of spam :-)

Journeyman Geek

14:48

lol

Most of my 2000 flags were spam

HackToHell

@Bob The only problem is I forget about the existence of the tab group :/

Journeyman Geek

However I did it cause spam, much like fleas, are annoying

DragonLord

1675 flags and counting, including more than 400 spam flags.

I suspect the spam was much worse about a year ago...

My philosophy is to go beyond the spam flag and attack the problem at the root.

Dec 25 '14 at 21:13, by fixer1234

I don't have an incognito window or sandboxed browser, but I'll have to check out virustotal (wasn't familiar with that). It sounds like flagging posts as spam isn't enough; they need to be flagged specifically to your attention (and what are the odds that you haven't already found it).

allquixotic

o/

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