Root Access

Bob

13:52

@FaheemMitha Page breaks?

GFSE

14:19

GemsFromStackExchange: at least they said please

posted on March 06, 2016

at least they said please

Faheem Mitha

15:19

@Bob I don't follow.

GFSE

16:43

GemsFromStackExchange: Screw @Community. ಠ_ಠ

posted on March 06, 2016

Screw @Community. ಠ_ಠ

qasdfdsaq

@Bob err, sorta but no. Scott Manley has though.

@Bob what size is it?

qasdfdsaq

16:59

bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35723503

Wow

Hennes

oh. shine new galaxy S5 is at 15%. Last charge the 26th of last month (at 22:00 hours)

tereško

I personally prefer Xperia Z series

qasdfdsaq

I personally hate Xperia Z series

Hennes

17:15

I prefered the old HTC with windows CE 5.5

But alas, it was getting dated

qasdfdsaq

My Nokia 9210 got pretty dated too

Hennes

Everything was better in the past.
... including nostalgia :)

qasdfdsaq

Nokia Snake and Bounce!

Mobile games were so much better in the past

HackToHell

17:39

Bounce <3

Hennes

What are mobile games?

qasdfdsaq

Samsung Galaxy S7 vs iPhone 6S Water Test! Actually Waterproof?

►

I'm actually quite impressed how long the iPhone survives

Lol, heatpipe = "rocket technology"

... and every other PC...

bwDraco

I don't get it. My printer's magenta head has a persistent clog that hasn't cleared after nine (!) cleaning operations.

qasdfdsaq

18:07

Back in the old days a phone underwater would break in seconds

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge vs iPhone 6S Plus Drop Test!

►

Wow. That is BRUTAL

qasdfdsaq

18:27

Don't Ever Boil an iPhone 6S in Crayons!

►

Anonymous

18:38

@qasdfdsaq not my nokia

qasdfdsaq

My nokia turned off in seconds of orange juice though it did eventually survive

Anonymous

Anonymous

best ad ever

qasdfdsaq

Hopefully before long we'll have phones that can survive terminal velocity impacts at which point no higher drop test wil ever break it

Y'know sometime in our lifetimes we'll probably master perceptually transparent stimulation of every one of the primary human senses

What a time to be alive.

not.

Anonymous

18:53

This decade will be known as "The Snapchat Era"

Anonymous

or the selfie era

Anonymous

the meaninglessness era

GFSE

GemsFromStackExchange: Killing Jedi. “linux 101”.

posted on March 06, 2016

Killing Jedi. “linux 101”.

tereško

@PatoSáinz 4chan?

Anonymous

19:15

@tereško old but yes

tereško

I thought I recalled it being a thing

bwDraco

I've lost all faith in Epson. The printer is going to be replaced with an HP Officejet Pro.

I still have a full set of ink cartridges which will be returned for refund towards it.

store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/printers/…

I've had it, Epson.

Wasted two hours trying to fix the damn thing and it's come to this.

Burgi

hello

could a mod take a look at this question, i think it needs locking to prevent low quality answers

9

Q: How to exit a "virsh console" connection?

Is there any special characters involved? I want to be able to open a console connection in my application and exit upon completion of a task

linux-kvm

bwDraco

19:30

@Burgi Protected.

qasdfdsaq

That's not going to make any difference. Almost all the answers are from >10 rep users

bwDraco

19:57

Ordered printer. I've had enough with Epson.

I expected this printer to last longer. Instead, the printhead just failed.

Cost per page is lower on the HP printer ($128 for 2500 black / 1500 C/M/Y vs. $125 for 1050 all cartridges), and the printhead assembly is replaceable.

New HP Officejet Pro 8630 should be here in a couple of days. I'm not going to buy Epson again.

I'm fed up with the magenta clogs.

Michael Frank

@qasdfdsaq Aaaannnnd he's gonna die from whatever fumes the battery is putting out.

qasdfdsaq

@MichaelFrank Lol.

bwDraco

Even if the printhead fails on this HP printer, at least it's not going to be replacing the whole printer. (Printhead assembly, including SETUP cartridge set, costs $120.)

qasdfdsaq

My first thought seeing that going in there is.... that's gonna be fun when the battery blows up

But he seems to do this quite a lot, so I'm pretty sure he's used to it by now.

bwDraco

At least my mom is letting me bill it to her card...

bwDraco

20:25

More critically, HP printers are generally the best performers in situations where you print only occasionally. My usage profile typically involves a large job every week or so with not much in between.

So, your thoughts on how well HP/Epson/Canon/etc. printers cope with occasional usage?

Michael Frank

20:40

@bwDraco Honestly? I don't think many users here print enough on that many different devices to really be able to notice a difference.

DavidPostill

@bwDraco I had no problems with my EPSON Stylus Photo RX560. 10 years old and still going (with my ex). We printed a couple of B&W pages once a week (sometimes more). Occasional full colour photos on the appropriate paper.

Only a handful of places are still selling the cartridges nowadays :/

bwDraco

@DavidPostill Different ink sets.

The issue seems to be the DURABrite Ultra ink Epson uses in its office printers.

Namely, the magenta ink is the worse offender.

HP inks are generally less prone to this kind of clogging.

Michael Frank

Actually, my parents have an old HP C6270. It's about 6-7 years old. Still runs great.

Well, prints great. Doesn't always want to print though.

The drivers for that model were always a PITA.

Michael Frank

21:21

loooool this user is having trouble with her computer. Checking it out in AD... it's sitting in the OU for Taiwan.

bgmCoder

Hi, all

I'm transplanting a Windows OS and it's not going so well

old machine: Dell Optiplex 960 with a dual core

new machine: Dell Optiplex 990 with an i5-2500k

I wanted to replace the HDD too, so I imaged the old seagate and restored the image onto the new WD

I can boot the old machine with the new disk with it restored OS

but I can't boot the new one

not even into safe mode

I think it's a driver issue, but I don't know how to solve it

Do you all have any clues? @bwDraco, maybe?

bwDraco

Sorry, I'm tied up right now.

bgmCoder

@allquixotic maybe?

I have to solve this tonight so it will be ready in the morning

Bob

@qasdfdsaq 10". I think allq has a 7-8" one.

@FaheemMitha Insert page breaks to make new pages.

Faheem Mitha

@Bob Ok. Insert how?

Bob

21:32

!!tell 28059139 google pdf page break

ChatBot John Cavil

@FaheemMitha * PDFSplit! - Split PDF files online for free. ; How to add a page break to the PDF document? - Quote Roller ; How to Add a Page Break in a PDF Page - HelpConsole Help ...

Bob

!!tell 28059139 google ps page break

ChatBot John Cavil

@FaheemMitha * In postscript, how do I print onto multiple pages. How do I do this ... ; PostScript Language Document Structuring ... - Adobe Partners ; How to insert and remove page breaks

Faheem Mitha

Ok. I want a programmatic approach, though.

Anyway, I got a recipe from the folks in TeX SX chat, so I'm good. Thanks for the suggestions.

I wasn't aware there was a Chat Bot here. It isn't very chatty.

Bob

... this is a programmatic approach

qasdfdsaq

21:35

WTF. I could have sworn there used to be land here :-/

16 years of travelling and my landing site is gone

Thanks KSP. Now I've got 20 kerbals ditched in the ocean 600 billion kilometres from home and unable to go anywhere.

3

Haha. Star all my misfortunes. Very funny.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq 16 years? o.O

Which planet?

qasdfdsaq

Laythe. In real-size scaled solar system.

Bob

Oh

Time for a rescue mission? :P

qasdfdsaq

21:51

Time to load a save and find another landing site -_-

Bob

Can you do a low-speed flyover to pick them up?

bgmCoder

I guess I'm on my own eh?

Bob

... @bgmCoder turn on compatibility support/legacy boot in the firmware settings

Since your cloned install is probably not UEFI

bgmCoder

Bob, legacy boot is already enabled

no, I don't think it's euefi

Bob

shrug

bgmCoder

21:52

what?

what can I do?

bgmCoder

22:23

I've tried everything

system repair can't solve it either

I'm going to have to a clean install and migrate data manually

I hate to do that; it took 8 hours for Macrium Reflect to restore the disk image

qasdfdsaq

At last, we've landed! In one piece!

bwDraco

If you're curious about the printer I've chosen to replace this Epson...

!!/google HP Officejet Pro 8630

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/printers/… ; amazon.com/HP-OfficeJet-Wireless-Printer-A7F66A/dp/B00J9E68E0 ; bestbuy.com/site/…

bwDraco

2 hours ago, by bwDraco

I'm fed up with the magenta clogs.

@qasdfdsaq I'm rather surprised the iPhone 6s lasted this long.

As for cooling, it's pretty clear increasingly sophisticated cooling technologies are becoming necessary. The Galaxy S7 uses what they're calling "liquid cooling". From what I'm seeing, it's really a vapor-chamber cooling system.

Vapor-chamber cooling is pretty much the most advanced cooling technology one could conceivably pack into a phone.

Got work to do. See ya in a bit.

Michael Frank

23:01

Hmm... Really liking the look of Stardew Valley! It's been ages since I played Harvest Moon

Bob

@qasdfdsaq so... remember that zfs update?

welp. time to rebuild zfs.

qasdfdsaq

Huh what?

o_0

Bob

@qasdfdsaq ...yea, ovh power outage, and now it won't boot

this is gonna be a pain

qasdfdsaq

23:16

@Bob Oh. So it wasn't the update that killed it?

So much for being always consistent and reliable on power failure

Bob

@qasdfdsaq The update is probably the reason it won't boot now.

qasdfdsaq

Oh

I see

Bob

Missing kernel modules and all.

Strangely, the modprobe succeeds...

qasdfdsaq

Ah

Bob

oh fsck

can't get into rescue netboot cause of custom uefi ovh doesn't like

welp.

qasdfdsaq

23:23

o_0

Wait, you changed the EFI?

Bob

@qasdfdsaq I meant custom boot option

ovh expects you to point to their netboot option

qasdfdsaq

Huh I thought that was in the BIOS

How do you know the modprobe succeeds?

Bob

@qasdfdsaq No errors? shrug

It doesn't actually load the module though

hell if I know.

the painful part is having to upload an Ubuntu ISO to boot off. should be easy enough once I get in there.

(no Debian live ISO with EFI support)

qasdfdsaq

Huh, how can you access it if you have no netboot and the OS doesn't boot?

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Upload an ISO via IPMI

qasdfdsaq

23:30

Oh you have hardware IPMI? Nice

Bob

@qasdfdsaq OVH standard. Which is pretty shit compared to, say, DRAC, but it does the job

The problem is I'm gonna be uploading 1.5 GB via mobile internet from Australia to Canada

this is gonna take forever

qasdfdsaq

Eh. Last time I was with OVH they wanted £20 a day for IPMI access

Bob

I did the original setup via @allquixotic's OVH server, which thankfully was in the same DC

qasdfdsaq

Wait you're on mobile internet too? :-o

Maybe I could help? My server's on gigabit in a Paris DC, so pretty close to OVH Europe, not so much the U.S.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Oh, yea. Standard as of the 2015 generation, iirc

@qasdfdsaq I appreciate the offer, but this would necessarily involve giving you IPMI access to it :P

qasdfdsaq

23:32

Can't it grab off FTP or something?

IIRC proper iDRACs and the like (even cheapo ones) can mount remote SMB shares at least, sometimes HTTP or FTP

Bob

@qasdfdsaq I don't think so..?

anyway I have 7.6 GB data left on the mobile wifi

qasdfdsaq

Hmm. Oh well. I'm not familiar with the new OVH IPMI thing.

4G?

Bob

Yea

something like 30Mbps up though... max

so it'd still take a while

qasdfdsaq

Not too bad then, it's got far better up/down ratio than HSPA+

Sure you don't want RDP on my box or something?

Bob

ah screw it, not using the 16.04 giant image

I'll just grab the 14.04 tiny one

and install the zfs modules live

qasdfdsaq

23:37

HSPA+ 42Mbps down/6Mbps up, LTE 150Mbps down/75Mbps up <3

(Though IIRC the Snapdragon X12/X16 supports 100/150Mbps up)

(Though no networks do)

Bob

579 MB is better

qasdfdsaq

Yeah 580MB should be done in minutes.

I did have to download a 3GB Windows ISO while at a customer's premesis once. Was just after I got 4G too so that was fun

Ah "full" OVH servers have free KVMoIP from 2014 onwards

Economy boxes from their SYS range cost £20 a day, Kimsufi have no option at all AFAIK

Bob

Look at it go! All of 30 KB/s down

@_@

bloody vodafone

oh hey 3 KB/s

qasdfdsaq

You have Sodafone in Aus? Heh.

Bob

I wonder if I can rent an EC2 server real quick

qasdfdsaq

23:40

They're not too bad here. They have the second highest 4G spectrum allocation and the only network to have 200Mbps+ DL capability

Bob

Vodafone merged with 3 here a while back and they've been pretty poor since

aka Vodafail

qasdfdsaq

Is it a SOL IPMI or some web interface/GUI?

Bob

@qasdfdsaq SOL isn't available. Java-based GUI

Anonymous

Received: by 10.37.210.135 with SMTP id j129csp122215ybg;
Sun, 6 Mar 2016 15:22:38 -0800 (PST)

Bob

SOL requires me to install somethng on my OS.

Anonymous

23:41

> Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 74.201.84.163 as permitted sender) client-ip=74.201.84.163;

qasdfdsaq

Ick.

Bob

Which of course requires my OS to be running

Anonymous

and then

Anonymous

> Received: by 10.37.210.135 with SMTP id j129csp122901ybg;
Sun, 6 Mar 2016 15:25:36 -0800 (PST)

Bob

Yea, no, I'm not doing this. 40 KB/s, what a joke

Anonymous

23:42

> Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning [email protected] does not designate 74.201.84.163 as permitted sender) client-ip=74.201.84.163;

Anonymous

how can it work and then fail, at random

Anonymous

FUCK ME I HATE EMAIL

qasdfdsaq

Do you know the make/model/product they're using for the KVMoIP? I'm assuming it's not a native embedded controller in the server

Bob

@qasdfdsaq I thought it was something from Supermicro. But I really don't know.

They have a custom web control panel for it.

You don't get direct access.

qasdfdsaq

Oh. Bleh.

Bob

23:43

Yes, bleh...

anyway. ordering ec2.

or maybe I should use Azure? :S

qasdfdsaq

It says KVMoIP uses 2 USB ports on your server. Maybe that only applies to old ones

Bob

You ever used either? Which one deploys faster? :P

qasdfdsaq

Lol. Err, I've only deployed Windows on EC2, and it took about 5-10 minutes maybe?

Bob

Hm...

Eh, might as well try that first.

qasdfdsaq

Azure... we have the Microsoft guys trying to sell us on it, took about 7 minutes to spin 800 Linux instances up.

Bob

23:44

I don't remember my password for the Microsoft account anyway.

qasdfdsaq

Lol

I could probably spin up a VM in 30 seconds.

Anonymous

I've even setup DKIM

qasdfdsaq

Then spend 20 minutes trying to remember how the hell the network configuration works in this box

Anonymous

but SPF still randomly fails, with the same bloody data

Bob

@qasdfdsaq that was my situation with the old dedi -_-

bwDraco

23:45

Linode deploys in a few minutes' time for me.

Bob

A new VM = fiddling with iptables for hours

Anonymous

I know email has been important and all, it's plaintext and its inventor died today

Anonymous

but it's still clunky as hell

qasdfdsaq

Lol

Bob

@bwDraco Linode is not an option here.

qasdfdsaq

23:46

I wouldn't have to fiddle too much, just need to figure out how many IPs I have, and what they are... and what I'm already using

bwDraco

That's the real issue. Linode has no DCs near Australia.

qasdfdsaq

Speaking of, I should probably check what I'm paying for

bwDraco

It's a valid option for qasdf, who lives in the UK.

Bob

I'm not going for Australia. I'm gonna grab an EC2 instance in east coast US

Linode is Linux-only.

bwDraco

Oh. You have specific needs for your server.

Anonymous

23:47

I'm not touching Linode, not without a 100 foot pole

Anonymous

They've been owned so many times before

Bob

This is a recovery situation.

qasdfdsaq

Lol

Anonymous

And done stupid shit as running bloody old coldfusion versions (worse than old php), and stores CVVs in the plain, etc.

qasdfdsaq

Why not use allquixotics box again?

Bob

23:47

I don't have time to waffle about with Linux and trying to get a GUI working and xrdp or xvnc.

Anonymous

nope no thx

qasdfdsaq

Since you don't trust me :-P

Bob

I'll just grab a Windows server and jump right in.

@qasdfdsaq He's not here at the moment :P

qasdfdsaq

@Bob apt-get install x2go

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Well... I do trust you to an extent but in this case I should probably figure this out anyway.

If it happens again I want a backup in place :S

qasdfdsaq

23:49

My provider has some custom arbitrary web-interface to set up HP iLO access but the web interface basically DNAT maps your BMC to an external IP and sets up firewall rules - after that you get direct access to the underlying BMC

It's nice, and why I chose to pay extra to switch to this provider instead of OVH. Except, I've literally used it once in the 2-3 years I've been with them, and that was just to install iti n the first place

Actually, I could reboot myserver.... Yeah I've not rebooted it since the chmod but since I have proper access to the iDRAC/iLO, there's no real risk...

... hmmm. To chmod or not to chmod.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq ... then you end up in the same situation as me

"I could reboot after the ZFS upgrade ... I have IPMI anyway..."

qasdfdsaq

@Bob Well, I'm not stuck on 4G on the other side of the planet

At worst, I can RDP into my work machine, that's on 2x1GbE

Bob

point.

qasdfdsaq

(Also the Xenserver install is only a 600MB ISO)

Which I should really update anyway.

Wonder when xenserver 7 is coming out.

Huh. Beta since last September. Shouldn't be long then

> XenServer can now optionally generate a server status report on a schedule and automatically upload it to Citrix Insight Services - See more at: xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/virtualization-blog/entry/…

Sounds like Microsoft telemetry -_-

Bob

ok, keypair imported

time to launch an ec2 instance

ChatBot John Cavil

23:55

I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.

Bob

hm. I wonder if amazon will get suspicious if I torrent the iso

qasdfdsaq

Keypairs on a Windows instance?

Bob

This is literally a Linux ISO.

qasdfdsaq

> The price for an IP block is 59.99 € pre-tax per month, with a one-time setup fee of 2.99 € pre-tax.

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Good point. I'm not braining well today.

qasdfdsaq

23:56

Heh. Given the time of day... I wouldn't be eitehr

Bob

@qasdfdsaq One reason I went with OVH (same as allq): they only charge setup for IPs

qasdfdsaq

Yeah they hand out IPs like memory sticks at conferences

Anything from 16 to 128 free with each server

Bob

Hmmmm

t2.micro or t2.nano

well

I'll only be using it for a couple hours

might as well nab a m4.large

qasdfdsaq

I just hate OVH's "Shoot first, ask questions later" policy

Bob

or... what's the cheapest moderate network performance server

qasdfdsaq

23:59

@Bob Why east coast US and not Europe?

Bob

m3.medium

@qasdfdsaq OVH BHS (Canada)

qasdfdsaq

Ah

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