Root Access

Bob

17:00

@qwertyuiop It's also quieter!

wgwz

i just have trust of rackspace for probably no good reason and i know that jungledisk is an offshoot of that

Mokubai

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@DavidPostill Just removed the if (J === 0) { //-- Question only statement and its closing bracket

DavidPostill

@Mokubai Thanks. Perfect :)

Time to backup FF again :)

Mokubai

Wait, what do 10k users see on the timeline link?

DavidPostill

@Mokubai No idea. I'm a 50k user :)

djsmiley2k

17:03

K

I think labour really starting to get real now

Mokubai

@DavidPostill Well, 10k gives you most abilities so :P

Ben N

I'm between 10K and 20K, what should I check for?

DavidPostill

@Mokubai Give me an example question/answer and I will screenshot.

Bob

@DavidPostill Backup FF? o.O

Mokubai

@DavidPostill superuser.com/posts/1096988/timeline

DavidPostill

17:05

@Bob My settings - including all the recently changed GM scripts :)

Ramhound

Everything Wrong With Zootopia In 9 Minutes Or Less

►

Ben N

For superuser.com/posts/1096877/timeline (random selection) I see this: i.imgur.com/dX24JQG.png

Ramhound

classic...

Bob

@DavidPostill Ah. I used to do that.

Then I added it to my automatic backups.

Then I set up my own Sync server, so... :P

DavidPostill

@Mokubai

@Bob Yeah. I need to automate all that stuff.

Bob

17:07

@DavidPostill Sync is the easiest, but... see room topic :P

!!tell DavidPostill topic

ChatBot John Cavil

@DavidPostill For all you Super Users out there. Current topics: Technology, Tea & Taylor Swift. You have backups, right?

Ben N

I see exactly the same as that screenshot

Mokubai

Hmmm. assumed the red patches went away

qwertyuiop

samsungedinburgh.com

lol

Mokubai

ah. okay, even an incognito user can see that stuff.

qwertyuiop

17:09

Great website

wgwz

any recommended cloud backup options?

DavidPostill

@Bob I do have backups. In 3 locations 1 offsite. But they are manual (I have to connect USB drive and rotate etc). I don't have the bandwidth to do cloud backups as you might remember - 10 Gb /month)

Bob

@wgwz I've never looked at those much because I upload at all of 0.8Mbit/s :P

Ben N

Amazon S3 is actually a really awesome data storage service, though you have to bring your own client program

Bob

But crashplan and backblaze are pretty big names

qwertyuiop

17:10

Personal or business?

Bob

if you were going Amazon you'd go Glacier but they don't provide a ready-made client

wgwz

business

how about cron jobs with git? :P I wish it were that simple

Bob

@DavidPostill Ah, mine are only auto to manually attached drives :P

Mostly to protect against accidental deletion.

wgwz

i'll take a look at all those though, thanks

Bob

The offline backups are far less frequent.

Hm. I should add a mount/unmount script to the auto backups. That would protect against ransomware too.

qwertyuiop

17:11

I hear Arkivum is ~~pretty shit~~ the offical recommended product from my instution...

Bob

>
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

wgwz

Arkivum it is!

bwDraco

I don't have any offsite backup solution per se but I back up data to multiple external drives. One has File History, the other has system images.

qwertyuiop

3 mins ago, by qwertyuiop

Great website

Bob

ah

qwertyuiop

17:12

/s

Nice job Samsung did with that one

Ben N

If you only have a small amount of data (like 2GB), Dropbox is super awesome

Bob

@qwertyuiop official?

Psycogeek

@bwDraco that works just keep them disconnected when opening e-mail attachments (-;

Ben N

Everything I care about fits in my Dropbox, so everything else could blow up and I'd be fine

Bob

@BenN If you care about data privacy, Dropbox is super not awesome.

qwertyuiop

17:13

@Bob Well it's pointed at by Samsung.com's support page

Ben N

Fair enough

Bob

Generally, backups of a business server tend to involve some form of encryption...

qwertyuiop

They're my nearest service centre.

Bob

@qwertyuiop fail

Ben N

So you could encrypt stuff before putting it in Dropbox

Bob

17:13

@BenN you could. extra (manual?) effort. much harder restore.

bwDraco

I've looked at Backblaze several times but I'm extremely short on funds so even this is not an option.

Also, extremely limited bandwidth.

Ben N

A fairly simple .NET program could manage the crypto; derive a symmetric key from a password

wgwz

i'm still vying for git and cron jobs backed up to bitbucket :P

bwDraco

I've never really felt I needed any sort of cloud backup. I just don't have the bandwidth to support it.

Bob

@BenN eh... backups and crypto are two things you generally don't want to DIY

qwertyuiop

17:16

Yup ~~waving a flamethrower indiscriminately over my phone's mainboard~~ reflowing my Galaxy S4's U800 PMIC seems to have fixed it

Bob

@qwertyuiop O_O

what was wrong?

qwertyuiop

@Bob The old audio bug (had to bend mainboard to get sound and startup)

bwDraco

@Bob PMIC. Power management. The phone was apparently refusing to turn on.

qwertyuiop

and more recently regular "Sim disconnected you must restart" messages

Bob

@qwertyuiop o.O

qwertyuiop

17:17

Ah shit, the SIM disconnected issue isn't fixed. But audio is

Burgi

can a civilian buy a de-militarised naval submarine?

Ben N

@Bob I wouldn't roll the crypto algorithm myself, just the program that applies them to the file. I would test it, of course

Bob

@qwertyuiop oh, those. I used to stick a bit of folded up paper in there.

loose clips

bwDraco

I really wish Windows allowed me to store multiple system image backups on one disk.

qwertyuiop

@Bob Nah it's not the contacts or the clips.

Ben N

17:17

@bwDraco Using Windows Server Backup?

Bob

@BenN to each his own... I'm perfectly capable of writing a backup program; at the same time, I'd never do that.

Mokubai

@Burgi I feel that this could be a phrase that begins an awesome story ...

Bob

easier, faster, and cheaper to buy a ready-made one

qwertyuiop

It's probably another solder joint somewhere that got cracked or loose from me bending my phone 5 times a day to get it to start up

bwDraco

@BenN Legacy (Windows 7) Backup and Restore.

Bob

17:18

and it's almost certainly more robust than one I'd do myself

Ben N

Ah. I can't say I've ever used Win7's backup features

qwertyuiop

Oh and the GPS also didn't work but that was because a missing screw made the antenna go loose

Bob

currently on Acronis, which is... decent. it works.

Burgi

well the super rich buy fancier and fancier yachts

Bob

@qwertyuiop what on earth have you put that poor phone through?!

qwertyuiop

17:19

As it stands, all the above problems on my phone were worse when it was cold, and generally didn't occur when warm. So at the beginning it was super annoying because I didn't know what the problem was but it'd always start when I left the house and actually needed to use the phone.

@Bob I dunno, before I lost my S2 I was using it for months with all the screws lost

Bob

@BenN I used that one right up until a certain accident involving a CMOS wipe and RAID/PATA mixup stuffed up my drive IDs and made it completely forget about all the backups it took.

Mokubai

@Burgi And you need the means to sneak up on and do something to said yatchs?

Burgi

i was thinking more bond villain/captain nemo crossed with keeping up with the joneses

Bob

I won't go near Windows' built-in backup with a ten foot pole now.

qwertyuiop

Anyway, whatever's wrong with my phone feels like an "analogue" problem. That's about 80% fixed.

Burgi

17:20

sort of

Mokubai

Hmmm. Does the chatbot do heads/tails?

qwertyuiop

But I still need that damn thermal camera so I can reflow it safely to 100% fix it

Bob

!!tell Mokubai listen heads or tails

ChatBot John Cavil

@Mokubai heads

Bob

!!heads or tails

ChatBot John Cavil

17:20

@Bob heads

bwDraco

!!/help or

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco Command or does not exist. Did you mean: hr, rr

Bob

Hm.

!!heads or tails

ChatBot John Cavil

@Bob heads

Bob

I feel like the RNG hates me

Ben N

17:21

!!tails or heads

ChatBot John Cavil

@BenN tails

Mokubai

Awesome, this months PSN games includes Saints Row: Gat out of Hell

qwertyuiop

@Bob According to the service manual, pin 10 on connector HDC901 is connected to VREG_L6_2P95 on the PMIC, and the above pin is in the flowchart to check when you get "Sim not inserted" messages

Bob

!!heads or tails

Mokubai

Now I don't need to buy it

ChatBot John Cavil

17:21

@Bob tails

Bob

YAY

@qwertyuiop O_O

That's one detailed service manual.

qwertyuiop

Bob

@qwertyuiop Speaking of, my S2 no longer charges

I suspect water damage.

Haven't bothered trying to fix it.

Burgi

can you imagine if you turned up in monaco or dubai with a trafalgar class sub

qwertyuiop

@Bob Yes it is

Level 3 repair manual:

Bob

17:23

Correction, it did charge, but something's completely borked. That was the whole battery at ~50 deg C thing. And it takes minutes to recognise a charger.

qwertyuiop

(God help you if you ever need to use test point TP413...)

Bob

@qwertyuiop dammit I need me one of those :P

qwertyuiop

@Bob Have you made sure it's not the connector or socket sub board? You can get replacements for those for like $10

Bob

@qwertyuiop It probably is, but that phone's long retired now.

qwertyuiop

Bob

17:25

Heck, S4 and G4 are both gathering dust.

qwertyuiop

Surprisingly enough, I have all that equipment in my house -_-

OK, expect for the RF spectrum analyzer

Bob

The G4 has a likely faulty VRM on the board. Hasn't failed yet but it's in that batch.

qwertyuiop

@Bob No warranty/insurance?

Bob

@qwertyuiop I have... the right column -_-

@qwertyuiop No insurance. Warranty... is iffy. Taiwan model. Very good chance LG will refuse a repair in AU.

I pretty much cbf'd and got an S7.

qwertyuiop

@Bob Well admittedly I have the right column too, my flatmate has most of the left column

@Bob Ah, grey import. Damn

Bob

17:27

@qwertyuiop Yea... the risks I take to save 50% :P

qwertyuiop

That's one of the benefits on my Amex card ("We'll replace the item even if the manufacturer or retailer won't"

Bob

@qwertyuiop Yea... my 28degrees card actually has something similar but I didn't buy it on that card -_-

And it's only for 6 months.

qwertyuiop

I knew there was something wrong with these trousers. I put my phone in my back pocket: I feel something cold and metallic hit my foot.

2

Bob

And there's an excess.

Blah.

Mokubai

!!heads or tails

ChatBot John Cavil

17:28

@Mokubai heads

Bob

Cavil likes heads.

!!do you like heads?

ChatBot John Cavil

@Bob Of course not

Bob

...

ChatBot John Cavil

@Mokubai Yes!

Mokubai

So just one at a time then...

Bob

17:28

O_O

Mokubai

sorry

Bob

*drags Mokubai's mind out of the gutter*

@qwertyuiop I like the power on diags.

"If the battery voltage is too low, plug it in!"

qwertyuiop

It tells you to check the frequency of some oscillators later down that page.

I guess I have something like 2.5 working phones now?

The S4 only has one of its four problems left, and it only happens when you put it in the fridge.

Bob

O_O

0

Q: Tethering using a Nokia N8-00

My trusty old ZTE Android wich I used as an wireless access point for my computers was stolen the day before yesterday... I have a Nokia N8-00 but it seems to be really flaky... I had to d/l an app to get basic internet connectivity tethering working, but lot's of sites using https fail miserably...

I had an N8... lost it in a taxi in Hong Kong :\

Was a pretty nifty phone, actually.

qwertyuiop

Heh

Taxi was where I lost my S2 too. I liked that one. I still miss it.

djsmiley2k

17:36

@qwertyuiop why is your phone in a fridge?

I've never lost a phone :/

qwertyuiop

@djsmiley2k testing how well i managed to fix the Cole bug.

djsmiley2k

I lost my wallet twice, once at college (and someone nicked the £80 I had for someone, for their PC) and once after buying a chinese take away

Bob

@qwertyuiop My S2 replaced that N8 :P

qwertyuiop

I've never lost a phone till I lost my S2

wgwz

well customer service at jungle disk is good. i submitted a form with my email and got a call from a rep within an hour, not a total sales pitch convo as well

djsmiley2k

17:37

a few months later I walked into the take away again, they were like 'OH YOU!!!' and pull my wallet out

someone found it in the middle of the road and handed it into them

Bob

@djsmiley2k Months? wow.

Mokubai

Urgh.

Bob

I can't remember faces for 10 mins

Rahul2001

@djsmiley2k that's... lucky

djsmiley2k

haha yeah I was like :O you guys are awesome

qwertyuiop

17:38

Left my wallet on a bus once. Was returned by the driver. Left it in a shopping centre once, someone handed it in but nicked the cash in it.

Mokubai

I can't decide whether to play Fallout4 or Destiny

Bob

Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia /ˌprɑːsəpæɡˈnoʊʒə/ (Greek: "prosopon" = "face", "agnosia" = "not knowing"), also called face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision making) remain intact. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage (acquired prosopagnosia), but a congenital or developmental form of the disorder also exists, which may affect up to 2.5% of...

djsmiley2k

I can't recall names generally

qwertyuiop

I've managed to not lose my wallet for 15 years now. But I have lost my keys at least 5 times.

djsmiley2k

but faces are fine

tho sometimes I think I know faces when I don't :/

qwertyuiop

17:39

Managed to get them back from police lost property every time

Bob

@djsmiley2k Linking names to faces of people I don't meet regularly is near impossible :P

jokerdino

yeah

There are times when Bob and JMG the concept show up in my dream.

Rahul2001

@Bob this... happens to me sometimes... I just can remember a face or name, and then suddenly it comes back in a flash... should I get myself checked?

Bob

there was this guy who recognised me (somehow?!) from uni, at a shop several km away, who I'm sure I've never actually talked to before

how on earth...

jokerdino

not me

djsmiley2k

17:41

oh god last night, my dream, dafaq was that about

some weird zombie monkeys and other things

Bob

@Rahul2001 idk, not really much to do and I'm not saying I have that particular disorder, but I definitely have quite a bit of difficulty recognising people

maybe just some people are really good at it

djsmiley2k

and 'we' (no idea who we were, other than I was included and there was a number of people) were trapped in some kind of weird game thing

I knew we had to escape, but kept trying different routes out of this area, with no success

jokerdino

Portal?

djsmiley2k

eventually I had a monkey on my head, it was holding me down some how, then my wife woke me up as I realised that the monkey wasn't real, it was part of some simulation of if i'd had to go outside where ever we were

Rahul2001

I don't have dreams that often... according to my mom, I'm a deep sleeper...

djsmiley2k

17:45

you got sleep apnea?

I have, i stopped dreaming properly around the age of 12

Only now, after 3 months treatment, are my dreams starting to return.

jokerdino

Anyone ever got recurring dreams?

djsmiley2k

yup

Rahul2001

@jokerdino sometimes...

djsmiley2k

I used to dream constantly that I was on a P&O ferry

there was a human sized cat and dog on board, in some kind of weird fight to the death

sometimes the cat was on my side, sometimes the dog

sometimes neither, or both, and I was stuck in the middle

It was always a P&O ferry, weirdly specific on that point XD

The best dreams were teh lucid ones

Especially one where I tried to read a book, found the letters kept changing which made me realise it was a dream

Bob

@djsmiley2k how do they treat that anyway?

djsmiley2k

17:48

@Bob for mine it's a facemask that pressurises the airway

Bob

ah

Rahul2001

Hm... I once woke up and realised my eyes were already open...

It was weird

djsmiley2k

o_O

Never done that.

Oh and saometimes in my lucid dreams I'd choose to wake up, that was also weird

Rahul2001

Yeah... it was a year ago, I'm not sure about the details...

djsmiley2k

Tho i was once 'trapped' in a lucid dream

Rahul2001

17:50

@djsmiley2k What? How?

djsmiley2k

I knew I was dreaming, but couldn't control it, and couldn't wake up

In my dream I was screaming at my wife 'Im Dreaming, wake me up!'

but in reality I didn't actually say anythign I don't think

Rahul2001

@djsmiley2k I don't think anyone normally can...

djsmiley2k

well, I do sleep talk

me and my brother used to have full convos while we were asleep

cept they didn't make any sense

Bob

o.O

I want to hear a recording of that

djsmiley2k

I'm supprised we didn't drive my wife insane

Bob

17:51

...Clippy, if you have a recording, that is very creepy

djsmiley2k

I've been with her since I was 16

@Bob XD

Bob

@djsmiley2k can't wake up

qwertyuiop

Shit, I forgot to water the cats

2

Ben N

18:05

I have a Windows Server machine that has gone to sleep. The network card responds to ARP queries, but Wake On LAN is off. I can only connect to the network via VPN, but I can remote into any other server on the domain. I've updated Group Policy for that machine to disable sleep, but since it hasn't woken (I waited >12 hours), it hasn't refreshed the policy. Is there anything I can do to wake it? Will it wake automatically at some event, or do I need to go and physically wake it up?

Psycogeek

how do you know it has not crashed or locked up instead?

Ben N

It's a brand new machine, so I'm fairly certain it's just sleeping

Psycogeek

the task scheduler can wake a machine to do some scheduled process, then go back to sleep again after the task is done and the delay for sleep is hit. so yes there is possibilities for it to wake.

many of those tasks are set for early morning 1-3am kind. that is why often you hear of people complaining that the machine wakes up at night.

Bob

Pretty sure Server doesn't sleep by default

If at all

djsmiley2k

18:28

@BenN I don't see why it'd wake

Ben N

I think I remember needing to disable sleep on other servers, but I forgot to check it on this one

djsmiley2k

but again I often don't deal with this level of setting up

i'm normally handed a server already built etc, 'here you go it's ready'

bwDraco

@qwertyuiop: How did you wind up with a defective Galaxy S4?

Rahul2001

18:45

I've always been afraid that I'll say something embarrassing in my sleep... what if I shout out the name of my crush and my sister hears it? Shudder

Psycogeek

19:04

as long as the 2 are not the same person O-o whats to worry. they say a person would not normally do in thier sub-concience what they wouldnt do in thier conscience. I have carried on whole conversations while asleep, and nothing was so memorable for the people to even remember the details.

Ben N

Also, for a lot of people (including myself, fortunately), anything they say in their sleep is completely unintelligible, without any resemblance to actual language

Psycogeek

i would rather talk in my sleep then speak when drunk, now That can be long lasting effects :-)

Rahul2001

Lol

ChatBot John Cavil

19:25

Psycogeek

19:47

piles of ram sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/sop/5674660952.html 1$ each.

piles of (pata) drives sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/sop/5662000026.html to go with it

wgwz

anyone know if you could be screwed by ransomware if you are using something like crashplan or backblaze? could ransomware somehow encrypt the encryption keys for those programs? and you wouldn't be able to use a restore?

Ben N

If a piece of data needed to access your stuff gets encrypted, then you're in trouble

Fortunately an encryption key could be easily written down on physical paper or committed to memory

Rahul2001

20:27

@DavidPostill I'm so frustrated right now...

That code you gave me worked awesomely, but is giving me random errors three if conditions into the batch file :(

And I can't for the life of me figure out what is going on...

Now I have to resort to dirty tricks :/

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 Make a question :)

Debugging your batch files

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill I'll make a question if I cannot figure it out by dawn... :P

Ben N

Is PowerShell an option? PowerShell is pretty great

Rahul2001

@BenN not really, because I will be running this in school, and powershell is disabled in the computer lab...

Ben N

They uninstalled it? Or script execution is disabled?

Rahul2001

20:35

@BenN it asks for the administrator password of you try to run it...

Ben N

Is the shortcut set to require elevation? You might try running the PowerShell program directly, e.g. by typing powershell in the Run dialog

Rahul2001

@BenN I tried, I don't know what they have done...

I think I might try copying the powershell executable from another PC...

Ben N

If that fails, you could probably just bring in a .NET program that does what you want. Alternatively, just ask the IT people to allow PowerShell

Rahul2001

@BenN f2ko.de/en/p2e.php

This guy has some pretty useful software...

And... I've run out of USB ports...

Guitar Shoe Dave

20:55

-4

A: What is the ¬ key?

stick it up your arse and find out

Someone?

cat

¬

Guitar Shoe Dave

I've tried sticking it, and It didn't seem to answer the question

cat

Lmao

@GuitarShoeDave Flag as not an answer then :-P

Guitar Shoe Dave

Lool

cat

I flagged as 'User is a douchebag'

Guitar Shoe Dave

21:00

My comment lol

DavidPostill

@GuitarShoeDave gone

Guitar Shoe Dave

Nice you the man #winning

Rahul2001

21:17

Goodnight guys...

wgwz

rant, wtf is the point of forcing ppl to scroll to the bottom of EULA

Rahul2001

@wgwz um... how much time does it take you to press ctrl + end?

wgwz

fair enough, but the point still stands, why should i even have to do that! :P

i prefaced it with rant, so it may not be totally reasonable

Ben N

I guess they want you to at least skim the EULA

Like people would actually read it instead of scrolling by

cat

Rahul2001

21:21

@wgwz so that the corporation in court can say 'he scrolled to the bottom of the EULA, hence he must have read it and agreed to using our software even after reading all that bullshit'

@cat new name?

cat

@Rahul2001 meaow?

Rahul2001

Lol

Anyways... goodnight

It's like 3am here

Ben N

Good night!

wgwz

night all

DavidPostill

21:35

@cat Your new name is not everywhere :)

qwertyuiop

756 1 4

color color-reproduction hardware monitor

Psycogeek

22:17

well that sucked. My lg phone is 1920x1080 and has slim port capability (HDMI adapter wire thing).
I am trying to hook it up to the computer monitors (dual use) using a DVI adaption. all the monitors have DVI (and vga) .
finnaly on the 3rd monitor it works without digital noise.
the monitor is a 1920x1200, but the aspect the phone displays on it is more like 1920x600 .

none of the (few) monitor menu items will fix it, but what is strange is , , something to do with how the HDMI to DVI adapter is working?

all my brilliant plans up in smoke again. my next step would be to have a simple DVI switch to swap between phone and computer.

Psycogeek

22:32

i am thinking it would be a little impractical to have a 42" HDMI monitor in a 8foot trailer :-)

both of the hdmi tvs cope properly with the phones HDMI adaption.

I found the original (non cheap POS from china) DVI to HDMI adapter, and it does work on the other 2.

and it is single link looking style, so they must have connected the other adapter up oddly.

But now the aspect is wrong on all 3 :-(

ahh well they never said the phone would output 1920x1080, out of that port, even if its tiny screen is.

Guitar Shoe Dave

22:57

Love Android. My ringtone now randomly plays a "morphin time" clip from a group of clips from the power rangers TV show

20 Seasons Power Rangers Morphing Sequence (Mmpr to Megaforce)

►

Psycogeek

23:18

ahh that tiny usb micro stuff isnt going to hold up to 365+ more connections anyways, the resolution is 1/4 hd for some reason, and it works iffy on the hdmi tv already. NEXT!

Psycogeek

23:54

oh my there are like thousands of android boxes out there for cheap that could play my recorded videos.

now if they would adapt proper to a dvi monitor, that would be, the goal:
Have some very low power consuming device to do the simpler tasks (watching video, minor browsing) hooked to the same full sized desktop monitor. then have the desktop too, which will suck up power.

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