Root Access

Oliver Salzburg

18:00

Yeah, all answers look like garbage

Egor

@djsmiley2k heh I'm not sure. I'll try that

Oliver Salzburg

Account is gone now

DragonLord

Thanks :)

Oliver Salzburg

Thank you :)

djsmiley2k

@Egor tho i'm sure theres some symbols that can't be in a path, use one of them instead? @@@@

Egor

18:01

Basepath = (*&^#$(^#

actually, a file name can probably contain those

That Brazilian Guy

I've got a 23" 1920x1080 monitor at my secondary work location. Makes me sad. :'(

DragonLord

The sneakiest attempt to spam I've ever seen.

No links at all, and only one answer actually mentioned a product.

The user had already acted suspiciously before, though.

> 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.

superuser.com/questions/835891/… (10k only)

That Brazilian Guy

@DragonLord Maybe it's legit and you're so focused on finding spammers, you started seeing spammers everywhere?

DragonLord

> a third-party partition software

The user is showing fear in recommending a product.

> Moving a partition may cause data loss

Scare tactics common in spam answers.

> you can extend your partitions whenever you like

Marketing speak.

Not that this is something done particularly often by most users.

That Brazilian Guy

Oh. The "whenever you like" part chages everything. (/notsarcasm)

DragonLord

18:11

This was the custom mod flag:

> Suspicious activity, user may be preparing to post spam by posting innocent-looking answers. Scare tactics ("moving a partition may cause data loss") and an unspecified third-party program are the clues.

That Brazilian Guy

If it wasn't for the "third-party software are MAGIC!!! and let you move partitions without risk", I'd say scare tactics for moving partitions aren't so misplaced.

djsmiley2k

hmmm

until they actually post a link?

That Brazilian Guy

I just installed bandwidthd on PFsense and in the last hours there's 1 station responsible for 1/3rd of the bandwidth

djsmiley2k

hmmm odd

jira didn't email me about updating someone elses ticket

@ThatBrazilianGuy heh, here someone was responsible for over 99% of teh traffic

they did over 400Gb over wifi in a week over ssh

raised some eyebrows

That Brazilian Guy

@djsmiley2k O_o

djsmiley2k

18:18

yeah

That Brazilian Guy

WTF, someone was VPN/tunneling netflix 9am-5pm, 5 days a week?

DragonLord

Well, you might fool most of the user base by posting seemingly normal answers, but DragonLord isn't that easily fooled :)

djsmiley2k

I don't know, i just saw it and went 'wtf?'

It's as bad as tmobile claiming I do 6Gb a month, yet my phone only clocks 2Gb

'our figures are more accurate'

That Brazilian Guy

Well, as shitty as our telcos are, I've never experienced discrepancies in data measurement. I have prepaid data, might be it.

And I ever so rarely use it. It's SO DAMN EXPENSIVE!!!

djsmiley2k

I'm on 'unlimited' yet it cuts out A LOT once I hit 2Gb

That Brazilian Guy

18:23

I hate ~~@allquixotic~~ people with truly unlimited data

djsmiley2k

hense why I know how much I've used generally...

well I'm changing my plan once I get my act together

That Brazilian Guy

Oh, "unlimited with limits". We have it here too.

djsmiley2k

hehe yup

but this one is slightly less limits, and cheaper ;D

DragonLord

That's the way T-Mobile works.

djsmiley2k

the best one is my ISP at home

they claim to never have restricted my internet...

DragonLord

18:24

1, 3, or 5 GB of data at 4G LTE speeds, 2G speeds thereafter.

That Brazilian Guy

@djsmiley2k Yeah, and only charges you thrice as much!

djsmiley2k

yet if I use enough, it gets slow...... as the equipment at the exchange overheats.

DragonLord

The fully unlimited plan is expensive.

djsmiley2k

@DragonLord UK?

I'm on 3G not 4G for a start

DragonLord

United States.

djsmiley2k

18:25

the signal is dang spotty near my house anyway, and anytime i ask them about it they respond "our engineers are looking at an issue in teh area"

That Brazilian Guy

If I were to use 10MB/day (300MB/month), during a month, I'd be paying on average $30 ~ 60.
I have a promo plan where I pay $2 for 100mb/day (3GB/month, $60)

I only pay if / when I use it, and can use multiple "cycles"

and their measure is consistent with my phone stats

Dan

hello

djsmiley2k

That's cool @ThatBrazilianGuy

That Brazilian Guy

@Dan Hi

djsmiley2k

I pay £30/mo atm, for like 2000 min, 2000 txt, and unlimited data

but what is the point of calls and txt when you have the INTERNETSSSSSS

That Brazilian Guy

18:31

@djsmiley2k No, cool is truly unlimited 4G

Canadian Luke

Cell phones? I'm on the Government Employee's Plan for BC - $55 for unlimited nationwide calling/texting/MMS, 3 Voicemail messages at a time, Call Waiting/ID, and 3GB of Data. I still want more data though

That Brazilian Guy

I'd say goodbye to my ISP if I had unlimited 4G

Dan

@ThatBrazilianGuy granted, with mobile wireless devices, you are at the mercy of signal strength / attenutation and whatnot, but do you find you receive consistent speeds from wired connection from

ISPs in your area?

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy that's what I did :D

djsmiley2k

mah internets at home meant to be 100/15

currently getting 4/10

D:

That Brazilian Guy

18:34

@allquixotic I know. And also, I hate you.

djsmiley2k

Remember how I mentioned that overheating equipment? They were meant to fix it april :<

allquixotic

@djsmiley2k I don't even know how many minutes and text messages I get; all I know is if I use >100 GB on my mobile data plan by tethering constantly, Verizon Wireless doesn't care

Dan

@djsmiley2k I have Comcast and rarely get the speeds I'm promised

especially if I conceal my traffic since they selectively boost download speeds by analyzing traffic

djsmiley2k

@Dan I used to

and then things got wonky. :<

In feb.

allquixotic

@Dan they're trying every legal and lobbyist trick in the book to defeat net neutrality.

DragonLord

18:36

The trends I'm seeing in spam show that it's been getting sneakier overall. Spam answers are becoming increasingly evasive in nature. Many spam posts don't include a link or link to a "trusted" download site such as CNET Download.com rather than to a developer site. Some don't even mention the product name at all.

djsmiley2k

The sad thing is, their 'true' limiting I don't mind

it sounds really reasonable, but it's never effected me, so i can't actually judge it

Sickest

18:49

hi @allquixotic

I thought my suggestion was obvious

That Brazilian Guy

daaaaamn, ntopng is beautiful! * ___ *

Sickest

we need to upvote more. What else would i be suggesting? we shut the doors down?

allquixotic

@Sickest Who's "we"? For which questions? Just saying "we need to upvote more" in a meta question is woefully unlikely to reach its intended audience. The problem is that we can't identify who casted votes, and no one is required to justify their votes. Votes aren't auditable, and people can't be held accountable for the votes they cast. And a lot of people feel it should stay that way.

Also, the vast majority of the site's participants do not read meta at all.

Sickest

In the last 50 questions i've look at for example all of ramhounds comments to questions, and every SINGLE one has a downvote. what purpose is served by downvoting perfectly good question?

because the question is beneath him?

@allquixotic, where would you suggest I make the comment?

allquixotic

@Sickest Now you're calling out a specific user. I think it's at least good etiquette to @ him here in chat so that he knows he's being talked about here. @Ramhound

Sickest

18:52

He's just 1 pattern I noticed, and one example i'd bring up

i've already pointed it out on one of his comments

allquixotic

@Sickest Here's the thing, though. While there are correct and incorrect uses of features like flagging, voting to close, etc., there is no formally established "correct" or "incorrect" use of the voting feature of the site. We can suggest to people that they change their voting behavior and provide reasons why, but if they feel otherwise, there's literally nothing we can do about it. We can argue til the cows come home, but votes are the "prerogative" of those casting them.

Sickest

Yes i agree 100%, but I just wanted to point it out, maybe people will realize that are doing it, and adjust their behavior to promote the site in a much more positive way. instead of just blatantly down voting everything they see.

allquixotic

What should really be happening in everyone's heads is something like this. First, if you see something wrong with a question, try to edit it to fix it. If you can't do that at all, either because of lack of knowledge or it's just too many things to fix, you should either (1) downvote, if you can't justify VTCing, or (2) VTC, if the question is totally not salvageable at all.

We have had meta posts in the past where we try to impart, generally, a suggested "process" for taking care of questions that have problems, but what we find is that almost everyone has their own method.

It then gets to the point where we have 4-5 answers with 10+ upvotes and nobody concludes "this is the way".

That's when we get to situations like we have now, where different people employ different methods when dealing with questions that have problems, real or perceived.

Ramhound's method appears to favor a much more heavy-handed downvoting process.

If he were VTCing good questions, we could tell him not to do that, and a mod would be justified in saying so. If he were making rude comments, we could tell him not to make rude comments, and a mod would be justified in warning him so. If he downvotes too much, there's really nothing we can do except suggest (to the wind, almost) that "someone" out there heed the message to upvote more.

Sickest

If admins wanted to promote the site in a positive way, it could happened, they just need to enforce it. If they like things the way they are, so be it.

allquixotic

I hope your suggestion reaches the right ears, but I'm not optimistic. What do you want the mods to do -- send an email to each user pleading with them to upvote more?

Sickest

19:02

lol

anyway, ill talk to you guys later, got shit to do, peace

allquixotic

This was a hot meta question, and it has only 495 views:

32

A: Winterbash 2014 - Do we participate?

Even a moderately interesting mainsite question has more than 1000 views. Big difference.

People don't read meta. :/

DragonLord

One batch of retags for portable-batch-system; continuing a little later.

Canadian Luke

@ThatBrazilianGuy You're the Wordpress guy, right?

allquixotic

19:21

1

Q: Many 64-bit linux guests kernel panic on boot

I have been banging my head against this for a while. I have an ASUS R510D laptop (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4P01ZS5608). I think the ASUS laptop hardware sets may contain some kind of virtualization incompatibility. Some, but not all, 64-bit Linux guests kernel panic on...

Upvote. GOOBY PLS

DragonLord

User's probably on mobile.

allquixotic

(note: that solicitation for upvote was for the Q, not my answer)

DragonLord

19:41

Nuke this, please: superuser.com/questions/577643/…

Confirmed spam, user is indeed developer of linked application: api-news.layervault.com/u/23561/konstantin-shtondenko — DragonLord 1 min ago

To confirm this answer as spam, I investigated this in more detail.

The linked page says the developer is TopTechPhoto.

A Google query for "toptechphoto spam" returned the page linked in the comment (fifth result on the first page as of this writing).

Username "Konstantin" matches developer name Konstantin Shtondenko.

allquixotic

nice sleuthing

Canadian Luke

If anyone has EXTENSIVE experience in Wordpress.. Or just knows...

0

Q: Upgrading an old Wordpress install to a new one on a new host

I have a Wordpress blog on my server at home, running the latest Debian-maintained version in the 3.x series. I want to try my hand at virtualizing, and I'd like to do it on my blog, using the latest version downloaded from the site. I have read this post, but I want to clarify about different ve...

upgrade transfer

allquixotic

19:58

@CanadianLuke what host did you decide to go with?

ESXi, OpenVZ, KVM, SmartOS...?

or still working that out? :P

That Brazilian Guy

20:11

@CanadianLuke Althought I'm not going anywhere near calling me a "WordPress guy" in the sense of being an expert, I consider myself an enthusiast, try to learn anything new when I can, and might have one or two tricks on my sleeve. ;p

Oh, and I'm one of the organizers of the next WPMeetup Rio ;)

@CanadianLuke Whenever I click this link, FF on xubuntu dies ;___;

Wait, no, it's not this link. Something is very wrong with this machine (or session)

allquixotic

just putting a pin on a really well-formatted and well thought-out question for a day or two, until he either gets the problem solved or at least makes some headway

please chip in if you have any experience with AMD-V on modern AMD processors, thanks

@ThatBrazilianGuy yipes

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic Now it seems to be this link, again. WTF.

Opening a lot of tabs on incognito mode

(just for testing, I'm no pervert)

this might be one of the 0.00000000000000001% of the cases where it's not pr0n

If I don't do that, FF tries to reopen the tab after the crash, and promptly crashes again

anyways, as soon as I click on WordPress Development, BOOOOOOOOM

xubuntu 14.10, FF [unknown-version-because-about-window-crashes-it-too]

wait, trying to open the file browser crashes

apt-get install some package crashes

I think the flashdrive I booted from is now kapuft

All I can do now is either reboot or chat

Or go home, but I'm too lazy to reboot, let alone going home

I'll stay here forever until I starve (or until rescued)

Canadian Luke

@allquixotic I'm gonna try esxi

Bob

21:04

13 hours ago, by Bob

I'm embarrassed to be on the same planet as this nutcase, let alone in the same country... and he's supposed to be the PM's adviser? We're oh so very screwed.

@allquixotic Sounds familiar! :P

We (as in, this tiny little sub-dept) actually moved to tracking dev time on JIRA just this year.

It's wonderful, by comparison if nothing else.

I still have to use the in-house webapp for non-dev time though :(

allquixotic

@Bob sowwy for the 1Million pings

Bob

21:23

@allquixotic pings are good! :P

Also would be rather hypocritical of me to complain :P

allquixotic

lol

in my SWTOR guild, we had an Australian (coincidence?) whose nickname was The Ping King because he'd always type in chat instead of talk on the microphone in teamspeak, and it'd make a "ping!" notification sound.

you're also The Ping King of a different sort :P

DragonLord

22:02

1

Q: Recycle bin Windows

I understand that when I empty the recycle bin, the files are still within the computer, and would be accessible by someone with specialist knowledge. My question is this, the next tine that the recycle bin is emptied, would the original deleted files be completely erased?

recycle-bin

Watch the question, this might be set up for spam.

Canadian Luke

22:14

New blog post - not entirely IT related, but a great life hack, IMO

Oliver Salzburg

@CanadianLuke Link it already ;D

Canadian Luke

talk-about-it.ca/easy-rewards-card-access

Talk About IT!

Talk about IT!: Easy Rewards Card access

posted on May 08, 2015 by LukeB

I have a few gift cards / store cards that I use at some stores, simply for the free rewards – A free drink every now and again, 10% off, etc. One store I used to frequent for my caffeine fix switched from a magnetic stripe card to an app-only system, for mobile phones. … Continue reading Easy Rewards Card access →

Canadian Luke

Of course, there it is

Fuck... Bill C-51 just passed in Canada... So now we get a Secret Police (like Hitler) and a ruler with absolute power (like Hitler), and privacy is out the window (like "other" leaders)

5

Brady Trainor

22:39

Where can I find documentation for the hash in solutions like wordribbon.tips.net/T011331_Formatting_Currency.html

Especially, Selection.TypeText Text:="=" & sAmount & " # ""0.00""" 'replace sAmount into the formula

DragonLord

@CanadianLuke This needs to be pinned.

Canadian Luke

@DragonLord Done -.-

Brady Trainor

Can I paste three lines here?

Dim sTotal As String
sTotal = "=65.78 \# $#,###.00"
MsgBox sTotal

DragonLord

@BradyTrainor Go ahead and paste it in. Be sure to hit the "fixed font" button before you send the message.

Too late ;)

!!/wiki Bill C-51 (41st Canadian Parliament, 2nd Session)

ChatBot John Cavil

Bill C-51 (41st Canadian Parliament, 2nd Session)

Bill C-51, with the short title of Anti-terrorism Act, 2015, is a piece of passed legislation to amend over a dozen Canadian laws, including the Criminal Code, to permit Canadian government agencies to share information about individuals with ease, and broadens the mandate of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). It is the first comprehensive reform of this kind since 2001. The bill was introduced and passed by the Conservative Party, who currently have a majority in parliament, with support from the Liberal Party. It was opposed by the official opposition, the New Democratic Party...

Brady Trainor

22:47

I want to enter a new total in Word, I converted to integer first. Should I just write enough VBA to manually format as currency?

clippy?!?!

So I would have to check if it's longer than 3 digits, and if it has a decimal.

Is this pursuit lunacy?

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