Root Access

allquixotic

00:39

Woo! crashmag.net/…

Updated the SuperMicro BIOS using that

hopeful that'll help me boot into UEFI

Journeyman Geek

00:53

0_0

that sounds slightly scary

allquixotic

son of a bitch... with the new firmware I'm able to boot straight into Jessie

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

so the old firmware (dated 2013) of the Supermicro X9SRE motherboard doesn't boot UEFI correctly and completely fucks up trying to boot Linux in UEFI mode

but the firmware dated January 2015 works fine

@Bob you should really, really be aware of this

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: well, I guess there's a reason that SF folks hate supermicro hardware

aside from slight snobbery XD

allquixotic

aaaand my box is up running Jessie... now I just need to compile ZFS, set a few configuration stuffs, and I'll be up and running with all the old VMs, etc. intact

Journeyman Geek

01:01

nice

@allquixotic: I'll be moving the ttrss instance off puppy eventually

I've finally got hosting that isn't random VPSes (and I'm dropping one of them, maybe both anyway) and it probably makes sense for me to consolidate.

(since I FINALLY found the cheap little atom dedi I've been talking about for ages ;p)

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek cool

Journeyman Geek

02:31

Also, I'm amused I have rep in parenting.se

Michael Frank

02:54

heh... one of the guys here just ran a powershell script that tried to grab the effective access to this one file for everyone on the domain...

Journeyman Geek

03:07

hm. The internet is a scary place

I do a fresh install on the dedi before I go to bed. 57 failed logins in that time.

(switched it over to key based auth)

fixer1234

03:35

In case anyone hasn't caught the Hound internal demo: youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg

Michael Frank

@fixer1234 That would be cool, if you could see anything on the actual screen...

Oh... it has sound.

Wow, that's fuckin' amazing.

Journeyman Geek

04:51

ooh, that bit me in the ass

We don't back up text files. Guess what all my notes were in?

Bob

@allquixotic O_O

@JourneymanGeek What, the Atom? :P

Not entirely sure that's actually better than a decent VPS! :P

@JourneymanGeek eh... I'm working with Dell hardware, and... PSU firmware bug anyone?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: yeah

@Bob: we'll see. ;p

they have a cheaper one but that's a via nano

@Bob: actually, 30 dollars gets me 1tb of hard disk space, 8gb of ram, and 8 cores. Not too sure I can match that with a vps

Bob

hm

true :P

Journeyman Geek

(also I've not set it up properly yet so I could run some benchmarks ;p)

Its on fedora at the moment since I'm planning on using that as the base distro, and running stuff on a VM

Bob

05:17

Fedora host? -_-

why does no-one use stable hosts?

Journeyman Geek

lol

I'm running the same version of fedora at home

and since I want to run KVM for VMs I know my version of virt-manager will work with it

which makes my life simpler.

then run actual stuff on VMs on top of that

Journeyman Geek

06:45

._.

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Q: Can't open some websites

down vote favorite I tried to access some websites the popular ones but I am unable to open them.I tried various methods but still was unsuccessful. I tried to open the following websites login.yahoo.com,Microsoft.com,speedtest.net etc Though I was able to open yahoo.com whenever I want to open m...

website

no idea where that was pasted from but holy wall o text batman

Oliver Salzburg

08:14

Oh, I got a new badge \o/

Populist. Neat

Vincent

09:50

@OliverSalzburg Hey there. I have a question over at GD that you guys might want to have, with the emphasis on 'might'.

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Q: Mac Book Air 10.10.3 strange artifacts on screen

I have Mac Book Air 10.10.3 and on the screen there is strange behaviour when I moving/changing windows - see . Pink is solid (in Photoshop) but screen show me colors sometimes like on the photo. Sometimes colors are pale, otherwise they are vivid. How can I set colors solid? It appears on scree...

color color-profile mac screenshot

Oliver Salzburg

@Vincent Sure, seems valid. Probably simply a defective device though

Vincent

could be, but thanks. I'll migrate it!

...if I remember how (mod n00b)

Oliver Salzburg

@Vincent Close -> Off-Topic -> Belongs on other site

Vincent

thx!

you goddit

Journeyman Geek

lol

Oliver Salzburg

10:16

I can't believe that I still have to click Helpful/Not Helpful for auto-flags

Journeyman Geek

lol

Journeyman Geek

13:02

hmm. If anyone's familiar with nmcli syntax and bridging, could you take a look at this and make sure I understand the commands correctly pastebin.com/cnGd9FPr I based it off this server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_21&p=kvm

bit on top's the original config for eth0

Bob

nmcli O_O

Journeyman Geek

yeah.

Bob

I always heard of network-manager as being targeted towards desktop/GUI users

Journeyman Geek

Oh, most of the tutorials for what I want to do are for desktop users. For some reason

fedora suggests editing the config file but meh.

I'm 90% certain this is correct

Bob

...

how about just using /etc/network/interfaces & ifup?

Journeyman Geek

13:12

docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/22/html/Networking_Guide/… this is fedora's documentation on the same matter

It misses a lot of information

Bob

shrug I'm mostly a debian guy for headless installs

and (k|l)ubuntu when I want a GUI

I don't think I've ever seen network-manager recommended for headless installs though o.o

Journeyman Geek

;p

I'm not sure "check if my syntax is correct" is a questionable thing either.

Bob

> nmcli do not provide the same functionalities of nm-applet, e.g. you cannot configure new connections.

O.o maybe things have changed since 2012?

Journeyman Geek

heh

A lot has

You couldn't do what I'm trying to do until fedora 20

allquixotic

@Bob (I just woke up) So I saved a copy of the ISO boot disk I used to flash my BIOS. If you buy an OVH server, pester me to give you the URL so you can just grab the boot disk (it's tiny, 8 MB), load it into IPMI, and flash up to the latest firmware that boots UEFI operating systems correctly.

Journeyman Geek

13:25

hiiii

allquixotic

The SP-64 and SP-128 both use the X9SRE family chipset (there's a bunch of letters after X9SRE, but they all use the same BIOS code).

Only way that wouldn't apply is if you bought a 2015 model and they use Haswell or something :P

allquixotic

13:39

@HackToHell congrats

LinkedIn told me you got a new job

Journeyman Geek

hm. oops.

thinks he probably shouldn't have done that on a ssh connection ;p

Yes!

Got that working with a few small changes

Journeyman Geek

14:23

pastebin.com/PcKFquZK

this worked

And yeah, there's one silly mistake there

Bob

@allquixotic ah, right, thanks

allquixotic

14:52

UEFI is interesting... if you tell the firmware to load the LSI Spitfire RAID controller's Option ROM in UEFI mode, the RAID controller no longer displays its own UI with something like Press Ctrl+S to enter setup mode, but the motherboard UEFI config provides options to configure the RAID controller O_O

it's like the RAID controller "injected" options into the motherboard's UEFI setup applet

....which is probably by design

@JourneymanGeek yay G+ :P

Journeyman Geek

I'm surpised I didn't add you before ;p

allquixotic

I never use it, honestly

it's just there so Android stops bitching that I don't have G+

Journeyman Geek

ahh ;p

allquixotic

15:08

@JourneymanGeek INSERT INTO positronic_brain VALUES (3449193245851350194534, 'Emotion');

Journeyman Geek

0_0

allquixotic

Journeyman Geek

:)

allquixotic

what? not ;p?

are you human today?

kinda glad I'm moving off of SmartOS for numerous reasons, but one of the big ones is that its implementation of KVM is kinda shoddy and Windows Server 2012 keeps crashing every few days

Bob

o.o

allquixotic

15:21

I assume the KVM in Debian is not as bad

considering that SmartOS does not appear to be regularly porting over enhancements and fixes from Linux KVM over to SmartOS KVM

it's just a compatible reimplementation

it's interesting, my Linux guest under KVM runs fine on SmartOS

but something Windows does makes SmartOS' KVM kill the guest

Bob

they probably haven't tested as much with Windows

allquixotic

it seems to be a graceful kill, too -- the VM goes from running state to shutting_down to stopped

no errors in the logs or anything

like "I don't like you anymore" type, rather than "AHHH THE WORLD IS ENDING"

resource exhaustion?

Bob

anything on Windows' side?

allquixotic

man, it'd be cool if IPMI firmware started supporting the RDP protocol (the latest one)... it's surprisingly efficient and snappy

@Bob Server 2012 demands to know why it was shut down unexpectedly ;p

Bob

@allquixotic that just means it wasn't user-initiated (i.e. no reason provided)

you might get a bit more info from event logs at time of shutdown

allquixotic

15:26

CBA, since that server is being decommissioned soon :P

Bob

:\

I have 7 days to get this working, or pay another month for WI

allquixotic

...unless I could transfer it to you somehow o_O (but then you'd be paying more than if you bought one yourself, because hardware RAID)

Bob

@allquixotic what's the point of doing that?

considering I want a full linux stack, and there's no setup fees until the end of June

allquixotic

@Bob didn't the period of setup fees waived expire?

oh, end of June

@Bob oh, I'd wipe the disks before handing it over if I did that :P

Bob

of course, that too :P

Oliver Salzburg

15:31

wtf. I just uninstalled Office x64 and installed Office x86. Now the text on a lot of websites are bold

Turns out I now have a single Helvetica Bold in my fonts

And that is selected because a lot of websites use font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

And I can't delete that stupid font... O____o

I'm quite possibly going to lose my shit pretty soon

Chrome still has a handle to the file open!

allquixotic

lol

Oliver Salzburg

So much annoying shit has happened today. It's really not funny any more

The best part was the Sophos "support engineer" who responded to my ticket, marked as "critical - high impact on business", after 12 hours basically telling me to relax and take it easy

Then I told him that there is a clear indication that their product was at least partially to blame for the outage we took care of. And he told me that, if there isn't a problem now, then he doesn't understand why I'm making such a fuzz

The other day I had another one of their support people on the phone, because their shitty software wouldn't even install

The whole remote session boiled down to "just install SQL Server Express manually"

But he had to walk me through most of it. He got stuck on the dialog where you have to select the SQL Server instance

He wanted to enter the name into the textbox, but couldn't figure out the format of the URI

And there is a button Select Server right next to the textbox

At some point I suggested that we might try clicking on that button and, what do you know, a dialog pops open with the URI for exactly the right server

How can people be so fucking stupid?

And why are they getting hired for tech jobs?

allquixotic

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Q: SuperMicro X9SRE only boots UEFI Debian 8.1 when "forced"

I have the following configuration: SuperMicro X9SRE (Intel C602 chipset) updated to latest firmware v3.2 (01/2015) LSI Spitfire 9211-4i HBA with 1 GiB NAND cache 3 x 2 TiB SATA 6Gbps HDDs in hardware RAID-5 Debian Jessie 8.1 installed in UEFI mode on the RAID-5 array (using netinst image force...

boot supermicro uefi

Oliver Salzburg

And then I was just talking to some other guy and I told him that my question goes beyond what they have in their documentation. And he tells me to watch some videos on their websites. Right! Because those are going to blow my mind with internal details which are not in the docs!

Bah!

allquixotic

15:46

@OliverSalzburg You should really relax, and not worry about the details. Let the "support engineer" take care of all your support needs. You just need to be an ignorant office worker sitting at a desk demanding that other people do everything for you, and not learn anything yourself. Unfortunately, this ticket may take approximately 2 years to process. ;)

Small details like shit not working are not your concern. ;p

Oliver Salzburg

And now I just re-installed Office, opened Outlook and the first thing it tells me is, "This product is not installed. Please go to your account to install it". wat?

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Let's install it again! :D

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg Install something -> launch it -> it tells you that it's not installed

if it's not installed, how the fuck did you launch the program to begin with?!

ugh. Microsoft.

Oliver Salzburg

The thing is, I know they let you start the applications while the installer is still running. Which can result in a similar error. The one I received was probably because they thought I had 365 Home installed, not Business. But that only happened after I tried to repair the installation

I wish our company was so big that we could hire someone for this kind of shit

allquixotic

> Indian broadband and cellular operator Airtel was discovered to be injecting third-party JavaScript files into web pages delivered over their wireless networks. A developer was viewing the source of his own blog and noticed the additional script when viewed on a Airtel connection. He traced the file back to Flash Networks, an Israel-based company, which specializes in "network monetization" and posted the source on GitHub. Since then, he has received a cease-and-desist from Flash Networks and the code on GitHub has been removed following a DMCA takedown notice.

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Oliver Salzburg

Then I could just play dumb and drink tequilla all day

allquixotic

15:54

@JourneymanGeek ^^ you use AirTel?

TRWTF is the developer doesn't serve his blog over https

TRWTF is a non-US entity being able to issue DMCA takedown notices

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A: SuperMicro X9SRE only boots UEFI Debian 8.1 when "forced"

So it looks like, for some reason or another, having the PXE firmware be first in the boot order (which is how it was when I first got the server) breaks UEFI booting. When I set UEFI:debian as the first entry in the boot order, it boots all by itself, no intervention needed. The downside, of co...

answered my own question. that's another one you'll need to know if you go to OVH, @Bob

especially considering you cannot boot a disk of size 4 TiB or larger with MBR/BIOS, even in CSM

unless you get the SSDs, and then you won't need to even think about all this UEFI stuff and can use the old 3.0 firmware and boot your OS in MBR/BIOS mode

(but I wager UEFI boot is probably slightly nicer for booting into ZFS if that's what you're after)

Bob

@OliverSalzburg 365 Home includes Outlook

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Yeah, but that license would not have been compatible with my account

Bob

@allquixotic no hardware RAID, so the firmware would only see three independent 2 TB disks

@allquixotic eurgh

somehow, my half-decade-old Dell server is looking better now... :S

allquixotic

SuperMicro is shit, but if you wrangle it you can make it work

@Bob hmm, true

SuperMicro's hardware isn't especially easy to administer, but the chipset is fundamentally sound, and the performance is nice

you just have to trust that most of the serious guts are Intel parts (the C602 chipset and the CPU)

also, opinions about LSI HBAs are generally positive if you decide to go that route... certainly better than Adaptec according to most

barlop

16:15

does vmware have an option like virtualbox's dynamic disk? if so where?

Bob

@barlop what, dynamically sized?

you get that option when you create the disk

barlop

oh you're eright it looks like a default in vmware workstation

yeah looks like thin provisioning

allquixotic

16:32

that's been around in vmware since like version 5... as long as i can remember

before i even owned a full license of VMware Workstation, which I got 6+ years ago

Bob

@barlop that doesn't look right

barlop

@Bob well I chose the create new virtual machine option..

not sure about the add hardware wizard.

but aren't those screens saying the same thing?

both are saying not to allocate it all.. i.e. to do it dynamically / thin

start small and become larger.

Bob

barlop

And both are set to split it to multiple files

Bob

@barlop but yours doesn't even provide the option

which is weird

are you running VMware Player?

barlop

16:42

I have vmware player installed but I sm sure that was from vmware workstation

Bob

ahh you chose the "typical" option

I usually go custom

barlop

ah ok..

that is a lot of screens prior to getting to that option, when choosing custom. What settings do you make use of with custom?

Bob

@barlop "typical" doesn't even let me configure core count and RAM!

that's pretty ridiculous

HackToHell

16:55

Mokubai

Why do mobile browsers all have to suck so much?

HackToHell

Bob

@Mokubai Which have you tried, and how do they suck?

I'm using FF on Android and it's been great. Haven't updated in a while, though... think I'm still running 34 or something.

Also have 300 tabs open there o.O

jokerdino

@Bob Using any addons for tab management?

Bob

@jokerdino Nup.

Mokubai

17:05

@Bob They all suck because they make assumptions about a) when I want to activate controls b) when I want to zoom into said controls and c) they all lack any configurability for disabling said stupidity

jokerdino

Not even that Firefox in built thingie?

Mokubai

Firefox is one of the least worst...

Bob

...controls?

Mokubai

But it's still slow, chuggy and a bit sucky

At least on my 2013 N7

jokerdino

Ctrl + Shift + E -- whatever that's called.

Panorama. Reverse Google search works.

HackToHell

17:14

Oh look bob has kids

barlop

hacktohell why do you keep posting pictures of animals all the time

Bob

...why would anyone flag that? :(

Kit Z. Fox

scowls

Rainbolt

Pictures of foxes are neither spam nor offensive :-/

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Kit Z. Fox

I agree.

Hi @Bob.

Bob

17:17

ello there

jokerdino

Are you the one @Kit?

Kit Z. Fox

The one what?

Bob's my uncle.

jokerdino

the one in the middle.

Bob

I am so confused now.

Kit Z. Fox

Yeah, that's me.

My tail tip has gone white in my ~~dotage~~ old age.

jokerdino

17:19

Why are we talking about dota? I am trying to forget it.

How far are foxes from dogs in the taxonomy?

I asked Google. He'll deliver.

So apparently, dogs and foxes fall under the same family "canidae".

HackToHell

And I get flagged

Screw you flagger

More pictures it is

I am in a weird mood today

I should sleep

jokerdino

Are you on holidays?

Bob

@allquixotic apparently the S6 Active is supposed to have a 3500mAh battery

HackToHell

Yes @jokerdino!

How you doing ?

jokerdino

@HackToHell Is that good news?

Bob

17:32

still not removable though

jokerdino

@HackToHell Just normal stuff. Nothing fancy.

HackToHell

yes !! And I am doing an intership

jokerdino

And I have a subject on Visual BASIC..

HackToHell

wtf wtf wtf

Poor you

You on holidays too ?

Bob

and still with no SD support and a ridiculous resolution

bleh

jokerdino

17:33

@HackToHell College just started last Friday.

Bob

@jokerdino as in VB6 or VB.NET?

@HackToHell congrats

jokerdino

@Bob VB6

Bob

@jokerdino ... ... ...

jokerdino

I believe its discontinued several eons ago.

Bob

(I had the same for a HS dev course. ... ow)

@jokerdino It won't even install on Win7 without some hackery

HackToHell

17:34

@Bob thanks :)

jokerdino

@Bob I have a trial version installed on Win8.

HackToHell

@jokerdino Mine starts on July so yay

jokerdino

I cant even find a registration key.

HackToHell

Ah yes, I had VB for my DBMS course

Bob

@jokerdino Don't even bother.

HackToHell

17:35

Had to use VB and Oracle SQL from 2001

Bob

Stick it in a VM, snapshot before reinstallation, and reinstall when the trial expires

jokerdino

@Bob What do you suggest I do?

Bob

You'll never need it after your course is over... hopefully

jokerdino

I probably won't.

Bob

or ask your professor for a licence

MS no longer sells it

jokerdino

17:36

You think they have one? Hahah

HackToHell

Yeah the professor is going to have an idea in india :D

jokerdino

My college still runs Win XP.

and FF 3.6.

HackToHell

So does mine cheers

I guessed the admin password so it's in a new version ;p

jokerdino

You lucky cat.

Bob

@HackToHell was it "admin"?

HackToHell

17:38

admin followed by name of my college

Dumbasses

jokerdino

According to the schedule, I have 5 months of theory VB and 5 months of practical VB classes.

HackToHell

theory vb ......

#k good luck

jokerdino

They bore me with Title bars and Menu bars.

HackToHell

Srsly do the idiots who frame the syllabus even get online ?

jokerdino

I have to memorize every shit that are available in each of the menus.

HackToHell

17:40

:/

Coming to pycon this year ?

jokerdino

I should.

HackToHell

You totally should.

jokerdino

I should relearn python. ;/

HackToHell

I am learning it, the hard way. The company's entire stack is built on python

And I am not very good at it

jokerdino

Is it python2 or 3?

HackToHell

17:43

2.7.x !

Bob

@jokerdino ...wat

jokerdino

@Bob lol

Don't be surprised if I end up brain dead.

Bob

we went through the VB6 crap in about two months, in high school... though no one really wanted to do that anyway

didn't go into too much depth, thank god

HackToHell

What's that language with a turtle in it

I remember making crazy patterns with in in school

jokerdino

I have no idea how they thought its a good idea to teach a programming language without providing access to a computer.

allquixotic

17:46

@HackToHell I like tuuhtulz.

HackToHell

It's logo ! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29

Now I wanna download ti :|

@allquixotic So do I :D

> First appeared 1967; 48 years ago

jokerdino

@HackToHell, do you have any tips on how to stay interested during mundane lessons?

HackToHell

@jokerdino I rarely stay in classes, I do other stuff ;p

I did stay in class during my first year

allquixotic

@jokerdino repeat every word Professor says

HackToHell

I slept through it

@jokerdino Can't you skip it

Or are they strict about attendance

jokerdino

17:50

@allquixotic these days, I am just doodling around.

allquixotic

Telugu teacher's funny teaching on "testing" in English

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jokerdino

@HackToHell they are retarded about attendance. Each day of absence is multiplied by 3.

HackToHell

How the fuck does that even work

@allquixotic That perfectly describes my software engineering class

jokerdino

@allquixotic Dear lord.

That's worse than primary school.

allquixotic

Software Testing Tools | Video Tutorials | Softwate Testing by Suresh Reddy

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HackToHell

17:54

He's a CEO

#k

jokerdino

@allquixotic Do you understand some or all of it?

allquixotic

he's training mindless zombies @_@

@jokerdino I understand every word he says

I can understand Indian English 100% :P

jokerdino

You should be working over here.

allquixotic

for $10k usd/year?

!!no if Cavil were here

jokerdino

You would command a very decent pay in any of the international institutions.

Mokubai

17:58

@allquixotic I can understand everything he says, but I'm a bit concerned he's summoning dread creatures from the underworld with that disconcerting chant/echo that is going on

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HackToHell

Yeah and it's so ~~hot~~ bright here that you could get a permanent tan

jokerdino

@allquixotic but I don't think you would even make 10k USD haha.

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