Root Access

Rahul2001

14:00

@Nick I use Andchat on android

@GuitarShoeDave why does his username say r.i.p?

Is he... dead?

Nick

@Rahul2001 Will try that. Efnet is saying "chat.efnet.org refused to connect"

Rahul2001

@Nick play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.andchat

Guitar Shoe Dave

I don't know rah I'm driving

If anonymous really existed it would consist of phc members though

😉

Simon Sheehan

14:15

@Nick It is a PAIN on iOS/Android. I did it for a while, but the only reason it was kind of OK was because I used a ZNC bouncer, otherwise people would hve hated me for constantly connecting and disconnecting haha

@Rahul2001 It's all fun and games until you keep disconnecting and reconnecting ;)

Rahul2001

14:26

@SimonSheehan um... seems to work fine on 4g/3g for me...

Simon Sheehan

@Rahul2001 I had the issue with the apps freezing/crashing in the background after a while - not connection issues

Rahul2001

@SimonSheehan that app works really well...

Simon Sheehan

@Rahul2001 Just sharing my experience over the years, perhaps they have improved it or your android device is a higher end one. Can't say I've used IRC much the past two years

Sathya

15:15

been missing out on so much drama..

@jokerdino I do

Simon Sheehan

15:36

@Sathya I mean, missing drama is better than being involved in it? ;)

Sathya

15:49

@SimonSheehan heh true!

Simon Sheehan

@Sathya Long time no see as well, how have you been?

Sathya

@SimonSheehan I have been good :) work keeping me busy

in between jobs now so have bit of time to spare

Simon Sheehan

@Sathya Always good!

Sathya

@SimonSheehan :) how about you

Simon Sheehan

@Sathya Good! Just been working crazy weeks lately - just at a summer job in between school years right now :)

Sathya

15:51

ah nice

dinner. take care @SimonSheehan :) have a good day

Simon Sheehan

@Sathya Cya around!

George Gibson

What bs should I use when running dd?

Simon Sheehan

@GeorgeGibson What are you attempting to do? :P

George Gibson

@SimonSheehan Write a disk image to a USB key.

Simon Sheehan

sudo dd if=/pathto/mini.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m

Replace paths with relevant ones.

Good timing, this thread was just bumped to the top of SU haha

DavidPostill

15:57

hmm

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Q: How to find the correct font used in this document and change this gibberish font?

Few days back I stole this files from my friends Laptop.But when i opened it gibberish font.So how to find the correct font and install it on my lap. Any help will appreciated gibberish language font

lol. Summary "I stole these files. How do I fix them"

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Simon Sheehan

I am amused

DavidPostill

I wonder why the numbers aren't also screwed up?

George Gibson

@DavidPostill Yeah, looks like it's been encrypted with a classical cipher or something...

Ben N

Heh. Downvoted and VtC'd as too broad, since there's literally no way for us to do anything about that without a lot more information

My guess is that it's an encoding problem, hence the numbers being visible and the formatting being normal

Rahul2001

16:13

@DavidPostill maybe it was just written in Russian or something...

Ben N

...and he self-deleted the question

Maybe my comment about document theft being illegal scared him ;)

Rahul2001

:p

bwDraco

16:35

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Q: How can you delete C:\Users\Public?

As depicted in the screenshot below, I need and use only the folder 'Y' and need not 'Public'. But Windows 10 refuses to allow me to delete it, though I am evidently the Administrator (because my computer has only one account and it has Administrator status).

windows-10

Classic XY problem question.

George Gibson

What does dd stand for?

bwDraco

Can you explain why you want to do this? See meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem — bwDraco 2 mins ago

Ben N

@GeorgeGibson "Data destroyer." Or "data description"

Dd (Unix)

dd is a command-line utility for Unix and Unix-like operating systems whose primary purpose is to convert and copy files. On Unix, device drivers for hardware (such as hard disk drives) and special device files (such as /dev/zero and /dev/random) appear in the file system just like normal files; dd can also read and/or write from/to these files, provided that function is implemented in their respective driver. As a result, dd can be used for tasks such as backing up the boot sector of a hard drive, and obtaining a fixed amount of random data. The dd program can also perform conversions on the data...

DavidPostill

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Q: What does dd stand for?

I know very well what the command does, but man dd, info dd tell me: 'Convert and copy a file', as does GNU Coreutils. Google says its an abbreviation of everything between medicine and bad webchat slang; except someone saying it means 'data destroyer', something used in PC forensics - I'd be ho...

dd command-names

Bob

lol

GTX 1070 Founder's Edition found its way onto Massdrop

Guitar Shoe Dave

16:45

thought dd meant disk druid if i recall

maybe not

allquixotic

17:09

I've had Star Citizen crash so many times that I created a shortcut and bound it to a hotkey for taskkill /f /im StarCitizen.exe

bwDraco

17:25

!!/xkcd keyboards are disgusting

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco Something went on fire; status 403

bwDraco

...nope. Still can't access Google. Can you actually fix this?

Alternate method: convince them to pretend it's an Etch-a-Sketch and try to erase it.

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco Something went on fire; status 403

bwDraco

If only I had the money to set up servers of this sort...

Guitar Shoe Dave

Servers of what sort?

Mokubai

17:29

@bwDraco I'd prefer the kind of server that brings you drinks on a regular basis

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bwDraco

@GuitarShoeDave Dedicated servers of the sort @allquixotic have.

Guitar Shoe Dave

I used to have many of those.. Got to be pretty darn expensive.

Those ones that friends ran in other countries which i had access to helped though. ;)

bwDraco

I'm paying $30 a month for two VPSs at Linode.

Guitar Shoe Dave

I run 0 a month now hosting my own stuff in my own house in my own lab

streaming.anomaly.ws/?channel=tsurk

Bob

@bwDraco Nup. Google's APIs suck. I've said this quite a few times. And I can't be bothered reimplementing everything that touches Google. I suspect quix can't be bothered either.

You're free to do it if you want; the source is on GitHub.

It's not exactly important anyway.

=> github.com/allquixotic/SO-ChatBot/blob/master/source/IO.js#L346, have fun, and try to maintain the same callback because references to that fn make implicit assumptions about it.

If you're lucky someone's done a compatible API somewhere and you can just swap out the URL.

If not, you'll need to translate the request and response.

If you're really unlucky, you'll have to change every usage of that function.

If you're really lucky, upstream has fixed that at some point.

I'm actually surprised it still worked, considering it was deprecated 6 years ago and shut down 2 ago, according to Google... developers.google.com/web-search/docs

bwDraco

17:56

It's using the old Web Search API, which is probably why it's failing.

allquixotic

I don't get paid enough to care about some trivial feature of a codebase I don't maintain, and don't use the feature, considering that the features I do use work, and the bot's codebase is extremely confusing to me in the way it's written, so it's a lot of trial and error to get anything working

Bob

@allquixotic It's somewhere pretty far down my list of things to do.

Sitting well below "procrastinate" so it's something I miiiiight get to if I happen to be fiddling with Cavil otherwise and happen to have nothing else to do.

Kinda forgot about it when adding that second room :\

DavidPostill

@bob Is your pinned Asus message still valid?

Bob

@DavidPostill As far as I know? Yes. But regulars would have seen it by now anyway.

You can unpin it if you want... or just let it expire naturally *shrug*

DavidPostill

No worries. Just curious.

Bob

18:07

(Even if they have fixed it in a new version, users must update to that version - older ones remain vulnerable.)

@DavidPostill Sounds like most attention on it died out pretty quick, so it's hard to say if Asus even took notice.

Guitar Shoe Dave

18:28

damn sql server 2014 doesnt come with management studio

Bob

18:44

It comes with just about everything else, including the kitchen sink.

Guitar Shoe Dave

i meant 'not with 2016'

i just installed an instance and its not part of the client tools

Bob

@GuitarShoeDave oh, that was just a joke at the time I wanted VAMT and had to install a giant SQL Server package -_-

Guitar Shoe Dave

18:59

:-p

Kind of glad it's separate now but surprised to see that it wasn't still part of the installation

As optional shared feature

Bob

O_O

Why does Word think my comments are Spanish?

Guitar Shoe Dave

19:17

lol beats me

DavidPostill

20:07

@Bob Changing the language in Word comment boxes

bwDraco

20:32

May 7 at 1:46, by bwDraco

Perhaps they've reintroduced the xx2 chips?

May 7 at 1:46, by bwDraco

(For a while, they've had xx4 for gaming and xx0 for flagship, but not xx2 since the Tesla generation.)

wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-gp102-gpu-titan-graphics-card

Simon Sheehan

This guy double spaced between each word -.- so difficult to edit

bwDraco

GP100 is absurdly expensive to manufacture. It's not going to see a consumer-oriented launch anytime soon.

Hence GP102.

16 GB of HBM2. Do consumers need this?

There's a reason it's reserved for HPC. I suppose it'll remain this way for at least a year. There's no way such a large 16nm chip can be manufactured at a consumer-accessible cost.

Not with current technology, no. The Tesla P100 isn't even fully-enabled (56 of 60 SMs).

Not to mention that HBM2 adds even more to the cost.

The mainstream market will turn to the Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 1070 instead.

RX 480 overclocked to 1400 MHz nearly matches GTX 1070. What the ...?

At stock clock rate, it delivers 3/4 the performance of the GTX 1070—at about half the price!

These numbers are probably real, but only time will tell.

Some earlier leaked benchmarks are giving similar results.

Mighty impressive, AMD. Well done.

Polaris is going to be a winner. $199 means explosive demand that AMD may not be able to meet.

forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2016/06/12/…

Guitar Shoe Dave

20:54

lol

bwDraco

These are real AMD marketing materials.

Guitar Shoe Dave

free our async

Burgi

i love those soviet style adverts

bwDraco

Not only that, AMD's managed to hit a 150W TDP for this card. It's not as power-efficient as NVIDIA, but not by a huge margin, so who cares if the card costs a mere $199?

150W is a huge ~~step~~ leap forward. This should silence (ha!) complaints that AMD's cards run noisy and hot.

videocardz.com/61007/amd-wants-gamers-to-start-the-uprising

DavidPostill

10 hours ago, by DavidPostill

There aren't many people who manage to get banned on 4 sites simultaneously without getting a network wide ban ...

This account is temporarily suspended network-wide. The suspension period ends on Jun 12 '17 at 18:47.

Ben N

21:07

Heh, I think this is that person's third time getting suspended network-wide

Simon Sheehan

Surprised he is even allowed back after a third time

DavidPostill

@BenN It wouldn't surprise me. But a year ban this time ...

Simon Sheehan

Also curious as to what he did, does anyone know?

bwDraco

Sockpuppeting.

Simon Sheehan

Ahhh. Perhaps he will learn his lesson with a year long ban then

bwDraco

21:09

10 hours ago, by jokerdino

He was talking to Oded on meta.SE from two different accounts. It was funny.

Michael Frank

@Bob Maybe they are Spanish, and you just can't tell. TARDIS Translation Matrix may be in effect.

bwDraco

Not a mod, but probably some help-vampiric activity: english.stackexchange.com/users/145550/…

Also, indications of trolling:

> p.s. does anyone know how to get blood-stains out of a keyboard?

Ben N

Those questions seem OK to me, considering EL&U's policies

bwDraco

-5

Q: Name for 'it' within grammar

I was about to ask a question like this: I just accidentally stabbed myself in the finger with a very sharp knife; when referring to the knife directly, is it more correct to say: "the knife stabbed it" or "the knife stabbed me". That is, should I refer to a collective me including the finger...

terminology

Ben N

Though I do remember a super bizarre question posted on Workplace

DavidPostill

21:13

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Q: I believe this will be seen as a *Flounce*

I have been been banned from the Super User chatrooms for a reason that doesn't even make sense (I've been told this is some historical decision relating to a past ban from the English Language and Usage main site (not the chat portion)) which has now, for reasons unspecified, been extended to th...

discussion

Ben N

@bwDraco That's kinda funny, I'm not sure I'd call it trolly

DavidPostill

@ArtOfCode This is pointless. You're just defending a corrupt institution. — Peter David Carter-Poulsen 10 hours ago

Mokubai

He believes he's on some kind of holy war against the corruption at the heart of SE

Simon Sheehan

@Mokubai LOL. This is funny

Michael Frank

@bwDraco lol "Statement of Non-Duplicate Status"

DavidPostill

21:15

@Oded You know what, the above rationale is total bollocks. I've figured out what it was. It's because people in Super User were teaching me about ethical hacking. The Super User chat is the same chat server. This has nothing to do with English Language and Usage whatsoever, at least not directly. — Peter David Carter-Poulsen 11 hours ago

9 hours ago, by DavidPostill

He has lost his tin foil hat :)

bwDraco

It's sad because this account has contributed some good content in the past.

Ben N

Well, the content will stay around, and maybe he'll be OK after a year

Though it seems the vast majority of his rep is from questions, not answers

Michael Frank

Huh... I didn't know that your rep was zeroed (to 1) when you get a ban.

DavidPostill

@MichaelFrank You get back again when the ban is over.

@Mokubai Did he have a "female" sock or was that just my imagination ...

Michael Frank

@DavidPostill Yea, I can see in the rep histogram that it's still there, just hidden.

Mokubai

21:23

@DavidPostill He did, he had a problem with her...

DavidPostill

@Mokubai Ah, I thought that was weird at the time. That's the one I was thinking of ... someone hasn't been taking their meds ...

Michael Frank

@Mokubai screeny? I think I remember that one...

bwDraco

> I'm sorry. I know you are hurt but what else do you expect. You want me to wait for you but you offer me nothing. I love you but it's not fair.

Trolling and nothing more.

Mokubai

@MichaelFrank Up now, was just playing "hunt the firefox screenshot addon"

Michael Frank

Ha.... oh wow. I do remember that one.

That Brazilian Guy

21:39

Ice cream and cake 😜

Michael Frank

@ThatBrazilianGuy Yum!

Also, new avatar looks great!

Mokubai

@ThatBrazilianGuy what kind of cake?

That Brazilian Guy

@Mokubai homemade chocolate cake

@MichaelFrank I took servings ;p

bwDraco

yummy :)

That Brazilian Guy

@MichaelFrank at least now it's something recognizable

Ben N

23:55

@JourneymanGeek Could you close this question with the generic off-topic reason? If I cast any close vote it'll go to SO, and it would come back here for sure

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