Root Access

cat

09:00

Restore the backup to an external drive and just pull drivers directly off it as needed?

Bob

@cat I have the driver pack, the painful part is the lack of installers

cat

Or Windows update, yeah. I assumed it did that automatically anyway

Bob

and there's about a hundred in there too

cat

@Bob I prefer a lack of bloated confusing buggy installers

Bob

all those chipset drivers that usually have an installer wrapping them up? yea... about that...

cat

09:01

Meh.

mr enigma

fking drivers

cat

Telling windows which driver to use by hand/have disk etc. is fun!

mr enigma

= suicide

cat

Especially with nvidia crap, since their driver installers refuse to work

mr enigma

basically whenever I need to install a driver I just want to dissapear

and never touch a computer ever again!

cat

09:13

Yay my tronsmart is here

Hmm Tronsmart seems decent.

Bob

@cat they seem to have fixed that in the last year or so :P

@cat \o/

cat

@Bob Latest driver installer is the most broken one I've come across so far...

So two discoveries: Turns out a five port charger has fewer ports than a six port charger

And Tronsmart's voltage regulation circuitry is much better/smarter than Aukey's

Bob

lol

@cat how so?

cat

@Bob It maintains 5.11v/9.0v at the device end of the cable. The Aukey... doesn't

Bob

I have touch!

I have pen!

:D

cat

09:27

Congrats

I have cat

Bob

I have... half a dozen unknown devices :(

wtf is dev_3472

mr enigma

toaster

Bob

oh some updates failed to install

nice

device is up to date my arse

ChatBot John Cavil

@DavidPostill device is up my arse (source)

DavidPostill

:)

Bob

09:38

> There was a problem resetting your PC

godammit

mr enigma

if it gets too much I usually just take a break

Rahul2001

Hello!

I just saved my school!

2

Remember when sometime around june 26 I was asking how to create an administrator account for the network?

So, I created one without permission :P

Journeyman Geek

52 mins ago, by Journeyman Geek

and most of the time, when I actually NEED a refresh all the things fail

@Rahul2001 HAX

Rahul2001

Now, it turns out that someone changed the password of the default (and only) administrator account...

But I was able to rescue it using the account I made without permission :D

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 rechanging a password is semi trivial.

chntpw for example?

Rahul2001

09:49

@JourneymanGeek Well, we needed to set a renderfarm immediately

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 'immediately' 0_0

cat

@Bob "Intel Control Logic"

Journeyman Geek

ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY SET UP MORDOR! I MEAN ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY WALK INTO A RENDERFARM!

2

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek And the admin said it would take at least a day to recover the password

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 your admin lacks skillz.

Rahul2001

09:50

I did it in 30 seconds

@JourneymanGeek Is that really a surprise?

cat

Also, your school catching fire if you didn't have a renderfarm immediately? Doubtful

Bob

@cat thanks, but I'm trying out the restore route now :P

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 would take a reboot into a livedisk if you wanted to change it

Rahul2001

@cat The school's reputation was hanging on by that one video...

cat

@Rahul2001 ...

Rahul2001

09:51

@JourneymanGeek net user administrator *

cat

!!facepalm

ChatBot John Cavil

Journeyman Geek

cracking it would take longer but you rarely if ever need to crack a password

cat

Rainbow tables ftw

Rahul2001

whatever, they think I'm a hero :D

Journeyman Geek

09:51

meh. Overkill ;p

cat

I'm surprised there aren't instant-lookup online rainbow tables for all NT hashes by now

Bob

@Rahul2001 now this sounds like a high school anime

not even kidding

I swear that's the plot to half of them

Rahul2001

I... don't watch anime

mr enigma

bad kitty

cat

Back when I was a h4xx0r they were only about 2TB in size, IIRC. When we had 40GB hard drives that was a big problem, nowadays? I can easily host that for $30 a month

Bob

09:52

@cat I think there are now

not free to use though

@cat hashkiller.co.uk/ntlm-decrypter.aspx

not quite "all" I guess

cat

Heh

hashkiller.co.uk/db-info.aspx

Not sure how to decipher that but it seems all char combinations up to 5 and a bunch of awkward ones after that

7.8 billion, doesn't seem a lot... I recall being able to brute force hashes at 30,000 per second, not sure whether that was NTLMv1 or v2 or something else

But that was on a 1.2Ghz Athlon Thunderbird. With today's GPUs I'd expect far far higher

> A password-cracking expert has unveiled a computer cluster that can cycle through as many as 350 billion guesses per second. It's an almost unprecedented speed that can try every possible Windows passcode in the typical enterprise in less than six hours.

Yeah that was four years ago, so...

Vincent

hey ladies & gents. I have a Q at Graphic Design that might have a better home at your place--if you'll have it. It will need some editing, I'm afraid.

-3

Q: convert to pdf tangle with greek and english characters

i have a problem with acrobat dc when convert to adobe pdf an email from outlook which email contains greek fonts. tangle with greek and english characters see image file

...and I won't blame you if you say 'no' :)

cat

Could be worse, at least it's not this guy

Vincent

lol

Rahul2001

Can anyone see a bug in this code?

@echo off

:initiate

setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set varcount=0
for /F "skip=6 tokens=1 eol=; delims=~" %%A in (urllist.txt) do (
set /A varcount=!varcount! + 1
set url!varcount!=%%A
)

:loop1
if not %varcount%==0 (
echo %url%varcount%%
set /a varcount=!varcount! - 1
goto :loop1
)

Vincent

10:02

any opinion? @JourneymanGeek?

Burgi

welp thats one box dead

Journeyman Geek

@Vincent lemme take a look

cat

@JourneymanGeek I'm not sure you want to

Journeyman Geek

@Vincent ehhh. If it was on our site I'd close it

so no

Vincent

ok, thanks!

what would your close reason be?

Journeyman Geek

10:07

unclear what you're asking

cat

It seems pretty clear to me what he's asking

Vincent

thanks! I'll sort it out :)

cat

And I'm usually the guy who doesn't understand jack -_-

Journeyman Geek

@cat can you answer that?

cat

No, but just because I don't know the answer doesn't make it a bad question...

Journeyman Geek

10:09

tbh, the comments cover a lot of the issues I have with it

but this might just be a font that dosen't cover the whole greek glyphspace

cat

See, answered ^^

Journeyman Geek

Nope. I'd probably consider that a shitty comment at best

Vincent

Heh, I'll post it as a comment anyway, it might help the Asker

Burgi

might start looking for a new job next week

cat

o_0

Burgi

10:18

the management here aren't taking the security breaches seriously

cat

And that affects you how?

Burgi

its damaging my reputation

cat

Ah

Burgi

all i am doing is pissing about with compromised servers

cat

Within the company or externally?

mr enigma

10:21

tell your boss

Burgi

externally

mr enigma

explain properly though

Burgi

@mrenigma my bosses are the ones that do not understand the seriousness of the compromises

Rahul2001

@Burgi Want me to hack it so that they do? :P

mr enigma

I dont like 'work', managers expect more than people can give

Journeyman Geek

10:24

@Burgi ouch

mr enigma

so you cant win

Journeyman Geek

I like work. It means money. Money is good.

Rahul2001

Wise words, indeed...

Journeyman Geek

however firefighting is tiresome too

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek As is catfighting

mr enigma

10:25

I like work as long as it isnt with people with poor managment

Journeyman Geek

in that scenario your tiresomeness may vary.

mr enigma

My friend was a firefighter

Burgi

@mrenigma lolololololol! there are places like that?

mr enigma

yeahits callled self employment

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 Try echo %url!varcount!%

Rahul2001

10:28

@DavidPostill Thanks, but never mind, I'm doing it in a different manner now...

I'll use it later tho

Bob

awesome

@cat @JourneymanGeek win10 reset preserves drivers

cat

@Bob Nice

Journeyman Geek

ah

when it works ;p

Bob

lol

also they included a laptop case \o/

hm

sounds like there's a fan inside

but the heat is generated from the side opposite the air vents/speaker grills?

Journeyman Geek

maybe it sucks one end blows the other?

mr enigma

10:38

maybe it was just built by an idiot

cat

10:50

Hmm Spectre x360 available with OLED now

Tempting

So tempting

Blargh no USB-C or Thunderbolt

That Brazilian Guy

Good morning Root Access!

cat

Good mid-day

Bob

@JourneymanGeek only one end has the holes

@cat lol! even this thing has C

and probably tbolt too but I have nothing to test with...

cat

@Bob :-(

Journeyman Geek

;p

@Bob shouldn't that turn up in device manager anyway

Bob

10:53

0

Q: Do Thunderbolt to Display Port cables exist?

Is there any such cable? I'm trying to connect a monitor with display port connector to a MBA with Thunderbolt port. I know I can use a Display port to Mini-display port cable but I'm wondering if there is any Thunderbolt to Display Port cable so that I can get a better resolution.

thunderbolt thunderbolt-display

Journeyman Geek

@Bob they totally do

Bob

> There can be no such thing.

That Brazilian Guy

@cat No, this is ~~Patrick~~ morning and I'm in the gym ~~running~~ slowly walking on a treadmill

Journeyman Geek

and arn't that pricy

Bob

wat

> Thunderbolt is an active technology, Display Port is passive.

double wat

that sentence does not parse

Journeyman Geek

10:54

weren't tbolt2 cables 'special' dp cables?

or was that tb1?

Bob

dunno

all I know is that searching thunderbolt to displayport gives me utterly useless mac forum posts

and Google sells them for $40

cat

lolz

Journeyman Geek

"Yes, Thunderbolt 3 ports are fully compatible with DisplayPort devices and cables. - See more at: thunderbolttechnology.net/tech/faq#sthash.08Ze06oR.dpuf";

cat

What you want is a USB-C to Displayport adapter/cable/thingumajig

Bob

@cat $20 :(

or $30

cat

10:56

@Bob Yeah that's what happens with new tech that isn't widespread yet

Bob

I don't even need one

I just wanted to test the port :P

cat

amazon.co.uk/VicTop-DisplayPort-Adapter-Converter-ChromeBook/dp/…

Only £9.99!

That's not too bad actually

Bob

actually a DVI or HDMI one would be more useful

amazon.com/CableCreation-USB-C-Adapter-Macbook-Chromebook/dp/…

cat

That would require an active converter (at least for DVI) which will make it cost more

Bob

maybe

oh, they fixed amazon oneboxing

cat

10:58

Huh DP Alt mode does DVI too? TIL

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob They should have truncated it at some point...

Bob

@cat yea almost everything does dvi or hdmi and the adapter is cheap, so it'd be far more useful for a tablet accessory

Burgi

woooohhooooooooooo new server ordered!!!!

Bob

@Burgi it'll be compromised tomorrow

mr enigma

cool

Bob

11:04

hm, hdmi is cheaper

Amazon pls

That Brazilian Guy

If @Burgi goes to Hamburg, orders a burger and reads some Burgess, does it make him an HamburgBurgerBurgessBurgi?

3

cat

@Bob lol

That Brazilian Guy

I am a silly person.

Burgi

the MD is querying the price of the server

its not ordered :(

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob I've seen worse. When Firefox OS was new, there was a huge discount on a model. BRL 150 IIRC. I went to the carrier website and you needed and account with them in order to open the store section, and in order to register an account you needed... a carrier phone.

Psycogeek

11:16

ugg what did they do to youtube, it has ads now, i mean I got ads on youtube. something must have changed.

Burgi

check your adblocker

Psycogeek

@Burgi i was using a hosts block and some google nazi tracking stuff , I mean wonderfull syndication features just magically blocked it, but no more.

Burgi

i hate this firefighting crap

mr enigma

crap?

Journeyman Geek

11:32

Hm. Having a little trouble with my internet :(

Psycogeek

with fiber you just turn the lights on then off again :-)

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek >_>

that was very similar to what I ended up doing

Psycogeek

11:50

youtube.com/watch?v=iI0Sw4eS1TE this is why TSA doesnt have to feel up all the pretty girls for terrorism, unlikely threat :-)

Burgi

just wait for the bra bomber or something

Psycogeek

OOps, uhh no i wanted to fly to Utah (now) not dallas. let me Off.

cat

12:12

@Burgi ...

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi smacks DO NOT GIVE THEM IDEAS

That Brazilian Guy

@Psycogeek unlock origin + adaway + pi-hole + good hosts files = MAGIC!

Psycogeek

that sounds more like work than magic. just what do i put in hosts file this time?

Bob

12:41

...

there's no handwriting recognition for AU english

jokerdino

english_AU?

That Brazilian Guy

@Psycogeek Both adaway and pi-hole, and also ublock IIRC auto update their host files. I can give you some sources

cat

@Bob Perhaps they've recognized that AU english is not sufficiently bastardized from regular english because Aussies don't mess with it as much and don;t need a separate language pack

Bob

@cat UK English doesn't either :P

cat

UK English is the original English, of course we need the language pack!

It's the US English that's the add-on

Bob

12:44

ok I seem to have accidentally fixed it somehow

also it's a foresee SSD

actually pretty fast

Journeyman Geek

foresee?

Bob

yea

@JourneymanGeek Pretty sure it's the 64 GB one here foresee.cc/en/Business/index.asp?itemid=92

also handwriting recognition is pretty good

Journeyman Geek

ah

Bob

aww, it can't charge via microusb :(

not sure if I should try usb-c

that would just be tempting fate

Journeyman Geek

does it have a seperate charging thing?

Bob

12:52

@JourneymanGeek yea

12V 2A

barrel connector

cat

Huh. MicroUSB, USB-C, and a separate charging port.

Bob

but it supposedly also supports usb-c charging

Journeyman Geek

yeah, in that case USB C charging would be tempting fate

cat

Odd

Bob

I don't have anything usb-c at all

so if I were to try it'd be plugged into a standard usb charger

cat

12:53

@JourneymanGeek But USB-C by design is supposed to accept being connected the wrong way round without damage

Bob

@cat *unless you're Google

Why? Because Google.

cat

In their defence, they're name resresents both googley eyes and googols

djsmiley2k

4

cat

When he grows up, and eventually joins this site, he'll see that on here and hate you for it

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k new human puppy?

djsmiley2k

13:09

yup yup

@cat he'll find that's his profile image, and he can't change it

mUAHAHHAAHA

cat

@djsmiley2k :D

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Congrats to you and partner!

djsmiley2k

ty ty

Burgi

13:27

congrats @djsmiley2k

@djsmiley2k what is it and does it have a name?

Rahul2001

@djsmiley2k Congrats!

Journeyman Geek

13:52

@djsmiley2k my mom says your kid is adorable and considering the long labour to keep a close eye on the missus.

djsmiley2k

Hugo Douglas Hamilton <surname>

family names so yeah

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