Root Access

Bob

00:00

> theladbible

oh that guy

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

Calling 911 because someone hasn't ordered a pizza, I wonder how that call went...

... and what the operator thought

Burgi

my friend used to work in dominos, once she got an order with the extra instructions "i don't care what pizza it is just one that will make me smile" so they arranged the pepperoni into a smiley face

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@Burgi Awww! :D Sounds like someone was lonely that day

Burgi

probably

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

Well 6 minutes is too late to undo a star

Burgi

00:04

i thought you could undo a star at any time?

Bob

well, I can :P

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@Burgi Only if you have superpowers

Bob

(technically, it's undoing all stars on the message... no finer control than that)

actually, I can't, cause I'm on the mobile UI

which has no mod/owner controls

Burgi

profile -> favourites -> click the ones you want to unfavourite....

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

And 4 minutes isn't too late

So yeah, Bob's right again, it's 5 minutes

Burgi

00:08

maybe we aren't talking about the same thing

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

said the actress to the bishop

Burgi

all this pizza talk has made me hungry

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

I'm horny

Bye

Burgi

wow

Burgi

00:22

seeing that i live in the suburbs there are no takeaways willing to deliver to me :(

Rikai

I bought pizza tonight, funny enough

Burgi

did manage to find some chicken burgers in the freezer

Rikai

turkey burgers are pretty good

Burgi

i should buy one tomorrow for dinner

Rikai

a pizza or burger

Burgi

00:24

a pizza

the burgers are cooking now

i only came back to the PC to grab my beer

Rikai

we usually get a parmesian whitesauce with mushrooms and chicken

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Accidentally won a SoaSE game :P

Journeyman Geek

'accidentally'

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I swear I didn't know that was their last planet!

Journeyman Geek

I've still not gotten around to trying it ;p

I am distracted by tested ;p

Bob

00:28

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Q: Windows Server Backup without a WINDOWS SERVER BACKUP?

Is possible Windows Server Backup without a WINDOWS SERVER BACKUP? Because my external hard disk is not enough memory to store it.

wut.

@JourneymanGeek tested?

oldmud0

"can I backup without a backup"

"I have nowhere to put my backups can I still backup"

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Adam Savage geeking out over a fake space suit

Bob

Oh that thing

Ben N

00:57

@Bob Fairly certain he's talking about making a backup of a Windows Server without the program/feature called Windows Server Backup

But the part about having no space to backup onto is still bizarre

Journeyman Geek

01:13

in theory compression might help

but its impossible to answer as is

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@Bob famous last words

Rikai

why not just buy an external drive, or even an internal and get a

whatever that thing is called. I forget.

Journeyman Geek

toying with a new install usb creator

Rikai

enclosure

Journeyman Geek

etcher.io

Rikai

01:23

that looks neat

Ben N

Wait, there's JavaScript in a program that does disk imaging?

:0

That is a beautiful UI

Journeyman Geek

and. Fail.

I tried to use it to create a fedora iso and it didn't work. Might be cause its a beta

Rikai

Fedora 23?

Journeyman Geek

24

23 is the current release

Rikai

oh, you meant Fedora is beta

Journeyman Geek

01:32

yeah

Rikai

23 gave me issues. Wouldn't flash to a USB right

Journeyman Geek

I have a fedora 23 iso somewhere here

Rikai

used Unetbootin, Rufus, and dd

Journeyman Geek

rufus seems to work

but my boot partition keeps blowing up

Rikai

quit feeding it Taco Bell then.

Journeyman Geek

03:08

@BenN yeah, pretty but didn't work for me. Went back to rufus

Would be handy if I needed to walk someone less technical through a linux install once I've tested it with something else I guess

XKCD

04:43

It also brings all the boys, and everything else, to the yard.

Journeyman Geek

That's totally a (mad scientist) dad joke

Bob

BHG

Rikai

nice

npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/12/477691018/…

Journeyman Geek

no midichlorians?

Rikai

04:58

I'm assuming there's a no-profanity rule somewhere in regards to these rooms, right

Journeyman Geek

@Rikai someone might flag it, it might get accepted, you could get suspended

Rikai

meh.

sometimes I hate how intolerant some people in government are

Journeyman Geek

We tend to prefer to warn first, and I personally think sometimes in context, meh, it should be fine

Its not government ;p

Rikai

no no

it was in relation to what a school board did

Journeyman Geek

As a mod, I'd be all "Hey, you shouldn't be using that sorta language"

Rikai

05:01

not really "government" but

Rikai

05:34

imgur.com/r/funny/seuQFo3

Bob

09:42

> two things in software are hard: Naming things, Cache invalidation, Off by one errorsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand_buffer_overflows

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Nick

09:54

@Bob mind if I tweet that

Bob

@Nick it's not mine :P

one sec

@Nick reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4j2vrk/…

Nick

https://twitter.com/NickKartha/status/731060607173033984
Hope she doesn't mind

:) Reddit is nice. You on there @Bob?

Bob

ya

username shall remain forever secret :P

Nick

@Bob It's not Bob? Wait, are you the same Bob from h-bar chatroom too?

o_o geez, is that a secret too?

NetworkKingPin

@Bob is even a secret here.

Nick

10:08

@NetworkKingPin Wow. Praises to @Bob

Michael Frank

10:19

@Bob Got this earlier today...

Bob

@MichaelFrank ...congrats?

Michael Frank

Dick Smith Online deals! For Australia...

Bob

You got spam for an AU mobile service.

Nice.

Michael Frank

That deal is so much better than anything we can get here in NZ. :(

NetworkKingPin

I almost want to move there wonder if they have sweet ISP deals. Maybe some networking jobs hmmm.

Bob

10:34

@MichaelFrank It's kinda meh... IIRC they're an Optus MVNO.

Optus network is pretty shit nowadays.

Journeyman Geek

10:57

heh

I overran my free minutes last month.

and wee

one more test and my linux box is up till it blows up again ;)

NetworkKingPin

Why did it blow up last time @JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

@NetworkKingPin I THINK it was a buggy update that hosed the bootloaded

so... clearly, the solution is to run a beta version ;)

not too bad though. 32gb ssd for boot and system, 320gb hdd for storage, externally mounted USB 3.0 (?) HDD for even more storage.

NetworkKingPin

@JourneymanGeek Awesome so im guessing you got you packages yesterday! What distro your running on it?

Journeyman Geek

@NetworkKingPin fedora KDE

Its a little celeron atom box with a lot of ram (8gb)

has a onboard EMMC with windows as well

I'm planning on running a ubuntu minimal VM on it for testing too with KVM

NetworkKingPin

Fedora is fun. That is sweet. How much the base unit run you?

Journeyman Geek

11:04

er. ~500 sgd I think

with upgrades

NetworkKingPin

Not bad.

Journeyman Geek

Some varient of this as a base newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856158045

upgraded to 2x4gb of ram (2gb from here went into my unreliable old home server, and the 4gb there went into my laptop)

In theory I can stuff a msata drive (I went with a small one for now), a ngff drive (If I give up my wifi?) and a 2.5 inch HDD

Oh, and USB 3.0 with one type C port

NetworkKingPin

Why is your server unreliable? I have a Workstation im running as my server dual xeon X5570 running 16gb of ram. using it for Virtual machines and plex at the moment. Going to upgrade the Ram and HDD here soon if i get the chance.

Journeyman Geek

@NetworkKingPin its a passively cooled celeron system

NetworkKingPin

@JourneymanGeek well if the msata works well upgrade it if you feel the need to.

Journeyman Geek

11:08

I've gone through 3 of them so far

NetworkKingPin

They just burn up?

Journeyman Geek

Yup

the distributor has no clue why

they're like

"Its broken. It happens a lot. We've fixed it. Cheers!"

NetworkKingPin

Haha thats interesting have you tried dumping one in mineral oil and seeing if it burns up?

Journeyman Geek

lol

too messy

for now my main goal is to get the beebox reliable and happy, and fully functional

NetworkKingPin

Indeed it is. Only have a Raspberry pi 2 in a jar been there since i got it.

Well I wish you luck on that.

Journeyman Geek

11:11

then maybe set up the old system with ubuntu to act as a iscsi/lxd testbed

or throw openelec or windows on it and smarten my old plasma TV with it ;)

NetworkKingPin

Do whatever you want more. Both are great ideas.

Bob

I still need to look into picking up one of them chinese tablets :P

Journeyman Geek

yup

Also need to fix up gntpsend again

I have notes for that somewhere

Bob

lol

oh yea

I was supposed to work on that growl persistence thing

/procrastinates

Journeyman Geek

lol

I've been running my downloads locally

but there's times when I've missed being able to throw a long running download on the little box

That Brazilian Guy

11:25

'Morning!

Journeyman Geek

11:47

HAAAAAAT

That Brazilian Guy

!caat

!!caat

ChatBot John Cavil

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

!!caat

ChatBot John Cavil

allquixotic

12:55

KSP is so much better now

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@allquixotic You on 1.1 final?

Burgi

13:12

i really dislike the pay to be our beta testers thing that is sweeping PC gaming

allquixotic

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface 1.1.2

That Brazilian Guy

Good morning (pt. 2)! Just arrrived ~~at work~~ at my desk

Never let pople ~~know~~ ~~believe~~ ~~be deluded~~ think that you're good at something. ~~Unless they offer you money.~~

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy What do you do at your desk if it is not work? ;)

That Brazilian Guy

@DavidPostill Why, I spend my days at the wonderful world of the RA chatroom, of course!

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allquixotic

btw @Bob @JourneymanGeek multiple responses from the CEO of Stardock regarding criticisms of AotS from both me and other people @ forums.stardock.com/476661/page/1

dunno if i linked that before

That Brazilian Guy

13:26

Every once in a while I ~~close~~ update a ticket, that's an important step.

DISCLAIMER: The above state is purely fictional, for comedic purposes.

allquixotic

Hearthstone players: what's your favorite Top 2 pick for the brawl?

@ThatBrazilianGuy *Boss checks RA* *notices you admitted to not doing anything* *fires you*

That Brazilian Guy

@DavidPostill But what I meant is: I arrived at work half an hour ago, but I was made hostage of support-greedy ~~users~~ ~~coworkers~~ trainees.

Hence this:

4 mins ago, by That Brazilian Guy

Never let pople ~~know~~ ~~believe~~ ~~be deluded~~ think that you're good at something. ~~Unless they offer you money.~~

Burgi

i could close tickets all day

That Brazilian Guy

Although it was not that bad cos' she's cute

@allquixotic Gooby pls. The only way my boss could be more chill is if he smoked pot.

Burgi

especially ones that had been open for 2 years and had looooong response trails

That Brazilian Guy

13:30

I just asked my boss yesterday "hey can I skip work 3 days for a hackathon"? "Oh ok".

Burgi

"Closing ticket as this refers to an obsolete system"

That Brazilian Guy

(It'll be my first hackathon, btw. I'm felling a bit anxious.)

@Burgi Write a script to automate this, close everything!

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic "

Anyone who puts an actionable list of things we can actually improve on is a friend of mine!
"

<3

I tend to have stardock on my "good people' list tho

ugh. Poor documentation makes writing documentation hard. I'm trying to install something and beating it into working makes working out prerequisites hard

Burgi

closing everything is suspicious

you have to be selective in random closes

Journeyman Geek

hm. Actually. I think I'll nuke this VM

anyway, my linux box is back up for certain, yay

That Brazilian Guy

13:40

A couple years ago I was tasked with closing tickets. It involved, basically, sending a prewritten email to many individals, then marking the ticket as solved. In 3 different systems.

It took me a long time (I don't code!) but I automated it.

Then I went from 5~10 tickets a day to 1~2 tickets per minute =)

Worked as a charm until I told my then-current boss

"No, no, you have to do it manually"

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Burgi

what was the reason he gave?

Bob

@allquixotic nice

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi I don't remember, it was a few years ago

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy You should have replied "but it is manual" - I have to type this command and press enter to run the script!

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@allquixotic nice. I'd played the 1.1 beta but most of my mods weren't working so I gave it up

@Bob: Did I mention the galaxy S7 drops it's transmit power on 4G to 1/2 if you're touching/holding it? Well I'm mentioning it again either way.

Bob

13:49

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface O_O

That sucks...

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

You can overridde it, which I do whenever I go to the bathroom at work

The new mast they put up is borderline enough that the 50% drop means the difference between losing connection when I put it down and not losing connection.

Burgi

why does it drop the power?

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@Burgi To lower the radiation dose received by your flesh I assume

allquixotic

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface a lot of mods are compatible now on CKAN

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface that makes no sense - are you sure your hand isn't attenuating the signal? or is there some stats readout you're looking at that explicitly shows lower TX power?

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

13:53

The EU model has 1/2 the radiation rating of the US model. Possibly because the US version doesn't have the feature

allquixotic

it's non-ionizing radiation; what's the big deal? there's no proof that it does anything to human flesh

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@allquixotic The diagnostic menu shows TX power capped at 20dBm when the grip sensor is triggered. Disable the grip sensor and it'll go up to 23dBm when needed

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic paranoia?

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@allquixotic Meh, maybe people just get paranoid about SAR ratings.

That Brazilian Guy

Next they'll get wireless APs that stop working when there's humans around!

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

13:55

Me personally? I'm far more likely to die as a result of one of these than as a result of my phone

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy they don't work anyway

That Brazilian Guy

...oh wait, they already make those.

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

allquixotic

I'm glad Apple doesn't act like they know what's best for me, and try to attenuate my signal just because I pick up the phone... </smorc>

That Brazilian Guy

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface kanedaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Journeyman Geek

13:55

@allquixotic or so you think

Yeah, totally needs to be red

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

Kawasaki's tend to only come in green, more green, or slightly less green.

That Brazilian Guy

AKIRA (1988) OST - Theme (Kaneda)

►

allquixotic

SMOrc SONG - FACE NEVER TRADE

►

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@allquixotic No they just fix their grip of death problem with making the phone show more bars!

(Then again Samsung just did that too... 1-2 bars on the S5 shows up as 4 bars on the S7)

"This new Galaxy has so much better reception!"
"No, it just shows an additional 3 bars of signal with exactly the same reception"

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Burgi

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface what if you are using your phone while riding? ;)

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

13:58

@Burgi I usually slow down when I do that

Burgi

lol

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

Alternatively I strap a girl onto my back and have her hold the phone for me

That Brazilian Guy

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Journeyman Geek

I now have a mental image of a fat bike riding cat with a small toddler on her back.

That Brazilian Guy

I have... a different mental image.

DavidPostill

13:59

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Is it waterproof? ;)

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