Root Access

Old Uncle Ho

21:00

Who am I? I stay up late at night wondering if there is a dog....

var firstName

Be right back.

Mokubai

@DavidPostill Did I miss something?

bwDraco

@varfirstName Proxying through my server through a compressed SSH link to reduce data use.

DavidPostill

@Mokubai Probably not. Something that happened a week ago. I'm sure you saw it on meta.se

Psycogeek

Hmm, I need a new pet tag for a dog coller , they are usually engraved with the information needed to call the owner, and the engraving is not that easy to read.
I am wondering if instead i should use Dog Tags ?

Dog

21:02

!!taytaytay

ChatBot John Cavil

Psycogeek

bwDraco

Start here: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/118?m=31818500#31818500

@varfirstName ^^^

var firstName

Ah, thank you

Dog

!!taytaywtf

ChatBot John Cavil

21:06

Dog

That tay is missing a tay

Also that was not the command I was looking for

!!taylor_swift

ChatBot John Cavil

@Dog youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Dog

!!info taylor_swift

ChatBot John Cavil

@Dog Command taylor_swift, created by You on Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:59:41 GMT

Dog

:-o

!!tayderp

ChatBot John Cavil

21:07

Dog

That's the one

var firstName

I didn't get the Talkative badge yet.. :(

allquicatic

@varfirstName are you just here to get a badge or are you going to become a regular customer?

!! s/customer/victim/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquicatic @varfirstName are you just here to get a badge or are you going to become a regular victim? (source)

var firstName

the latter lol

DavidPostill

21:10

@varfirstName And I'm tempted to remove your starred message ..... ;P

allquicatic

@DavidPostill mean! it was a funny pun

DavidPostill

Then you will have to wait longer for the badge

allquicatic

David After Dentist becomes David After Sick... "Is this real life?"

David After Dentist

►

Mokubai

Or is this just fantasy

Ben N

It usually takes a while for chat stars to be synchronized to the main site for badges

DavidPostill

21:12

@allquicatic That would be funnier if my surname was Postdrill :)

Mokubai

var firstName

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.

Mokubai

Open your eyes

allquicatic

Look up to the sky and see

var firstName

I'm just a poor boy

I need no sympathy

cause I'm easy come, easy go;

little high, little low.

Anyway the wind blows

ChatBot John Cavil

21:14

Doesn't really matter to me --

var firstName

lol

allquicatic

To me.

var firstName

I love SU

allquicatic

awww I love SU too

DavidPostill

No, no, no, no, no, no, no

var firstName

21:15

Mama mia, mama mia

Mokubai

Biriyani and a Naan!

DavidPostill

@Mokubai Anyway the wind blows

var firstName

Nothing really matters

Nothing really matters... to meeee----

allquicatic

@Mokubai when my coworker transferred the other day, we all took him out to a great biryani place. I got spicy chana masala, naan and a fried piece of bread (!) whose name I forget now

chole bature

it was yummy

var firstName

Ramhound is lurking :3

allquicatic

21:19

lots of people lurk

var firstName

do you lurk?

allquicatic

the least lurky non-lurkers in here are JourneymanGeek, Bob, and me (in no particular order)

Mokubai

@allquicatic Much indian food is nice. When we move to my current locale we found a place that makes a nice Chicken Methi

allquicatic

if we're in here we're probably typing

@Mokubai ever have dal bukhara? amazing. (but I only do vegetarian)

I also like paneer but it gives me horrible heartburn so I avoid it usually

var firstName

I remember when I first joined SE

I joined SU earlier this year

allquicatic

21:20

n00b

Mokubai

@allquicatic Don't think so, we don't get a great selection on this side of the pond

var firstName

1m n07 4 n00b!

Do any of you guys do any gaming?

allquicatic

@varfirstName no, never. I just have a GTX 1080 so Chrome loads faster

var firstName

lol

I bought No Man's Sky recently

allquicatic

actually, every Sunday at about 06:00 UTC (give or take), JourneymanGeek, Bob and I get together and play random games

!!tell 31841703 no

ChatBot John Cavil

21:23

var firstName

Out of no pressure from the Hypetrain's steam engine

Mokubai

@varfirstName Many of us play much gaming

var firstName

Steam?

Mokubai

@varfirstName Steer clear of the hypetrain if you want to play good games

allquicatic

8 hours ago, by allquicatic

No Man's Sky Angry Review

►

@varfirstName Yes

var firstName

21:24

@Mokubai I wasn't pressured by any hype train. I bought it on my own volition.

allquicatic

games we have played so far: Sword Coast Legends; Sins of a Solar Empire (LOTS, including with the Star Wars: Interregnum mod); Stellaris; PayDay 2; Ashes of the Singularity

@varfirstName hope you get your money's worth; I played it for 2 hours and got a refund... will be buying it in a few years for $5 from the humble bundle or so... it's a PoS imnsho

Dog

I don't play any of them :-(

var firstName

imnsho?

I have Payday 2

Too hard

allquicatic

in my not so humble opinion ;)

var firstName

ah

allquicatic

21:26

@varfirstName not if you have voice chat and the right equipment :)

also making sure not to take on heists that are above your pay grade so to speak (you can do more stuff the higher level you get)

var firstName

@allquicatic and a good team

Mokubai

Payday 2 is awesome, just a pity about their "2GB update every other day" policy

var firstName

I've got 80Mbps D/U

I used to have 30Mbps wifi, at best

allquicatic

@Mokubai it hasn't been that bad

var firstName

Got upgraded to ethernet

took full advantage of what we pay for

allquicatic

21:29

@varfirstName I'm clinging for dear life onto a rare truly-unlimited (uncapped) Verizon Wireless 4G LTE data plan and my primary Internet connection is a AC791L jetpack

they're trying to take away unlimited data plans from customers who are "excessive" users now... fuckers

it's around 12 Mbps during tower saturation, or more like 35 Mbps at 3 AM

var firstName

Wow

allquicatic

have no viable landline option

var firstName

That's pretty good for cell

@allquicatic approx. location?

allquicatic

@varfirstName the eastern seaboard of the US ;p

var firstName

;p

allquicatic

21:31

"mid-Atlantic"

var firstName

NC?

allquicatic

...close; but outside of nuke range from where I am

var firstName

nuke range?

allquicatic

yeah. if you nuked NC I wouldn't die

well maybe with a Tsar Bomba I would

var firstName

Actually, with modern nukes, you most likely wood

*would

allquicatic

21:32

"modern" nukes are not all that high yield.

devastation in a city center and moderate radiation poisoning out into the suburbs

Dog

@varfirstName Pfft

var firstName

How many Megatons of tnt was Tsar bomba?

allquicatic

@varfirstName designed for 100, but only ever tested at 50

modern thermonuclear arsenals of the superpowers that isn't rotting or been decommissioned is usually in the kiloton range

var firstName

how do we even measure that?

allquicatic

with an extremely small number of megaton "deterrent" nukes

Mokubai

21:34

@allquicatic measured around 58 iirc... Not sure if iirc tho

allquicatic

I'd be surprised if any nation has a nuke with >10 MT ready to launch right now

because honestly, even 1 MT is enough to be a nuclear deterrent

Dog

"Not bad for cell"

allquicatic

and many many 1 MT or kiloton warheads is more threatening and potentially more destructive than a small number of high MT warheads

Dog

That reminds me, I still need to find some place where I can hit >150Mbps

var firstName

210 Petajoules

Dog

21:36

MIRVs

They all MIRVs

allquicatic

anyway, I'm somewhere in the Baltimore-Washington metro area

var firstName

Burbs of Baltimore?

allquicatic

I'm not getting any more specific than that

var firstName

Do you mean viable as in cost-wise?

Hennes

No.

allquicatic

21:38

nvm

you're asking about my landline options

I mean viable in terms of throughput and reliability

ADSL = 3 to 7 Mbps down, 500Kbps - 1 Mbps up, $100+/month, drops out when it rains

var firstName

no fiber solutions nearby?

Hennes

100MT is nice though. Shiny fireball from ground level to the top of the atmosphere.

var firstName

@Hennes It's also 420PJ

allquicatic

Cable = advertised 100 Mbps down / 7 - 15 Mbps up, but you get about 30% of that during congested times (most times when people want to watch TV online through Netflix, for example). For like $300/month. And capped at 250 GB per month or thereabouts. And drops out when it rains, when trucks drive down the street, and when the neighbor turns on their vacuum cleaner

var firstName

The russians thought they could 420 blaze it

allquicatic

21:40

oh, there's fiber nearby; in about 3 minutes I can walk from my house to fiber hanging from a telephone pole.

but Verizon cares not who wants fiber or how much they're willing to pay; they roll out fiber on their own schedule and according to their own idea of where customers are and who's buying, etc.

Dog

@allquicatic Indeed, our primary "deterrent" consists of ~0.5MT warheads, just crap tons of them

allquicatic

in 2007 a rep came TO OUR HOUSE and told us we'd be able to get FiOS in "weeks"

it's been a few hundred weeks since then and we're still waiting. Fuck them

meanwhile neighbors have had it for years

Dog

A single MIRV can carry up to fourteen 0.5MT warheads, which still gives you 7MT in total

allquicatic

they just randomly decided to skip our street or something

bwDraco

Then call Verizon and escalate!

var firstName

21:41

Holy crap, @Dog can math

allquicatic

there is apparently no way short of being a friend of a Senator or the CEO of Verizon to get them to roll out FiOS once they've decided to skip you

var firstName

@bwDraco god yes.

allquicatic

@bwDraco done it several dozens of times

same old platitudes

Dog

@allquicatic I'm sure I've suggested this before but why not buddy up with some neighbour and build your own wireless/ethernet bridge?

allquicatic

"we can put in a request for you"

@Dog because I don't trust my neighbors and they're all hick luddites with 1970 Ford trucks anyway. they wouldn't know what fiber is

probably why my street got skipped

bwDraco

21:42

Get as high up as you can go. If needed, contact the CEO, tell them you have cash in hand and are willing to pay for a bespoke Fios deployment.

allquicatic

@bwDraco unless it's 7 figs they wouldn't be interested; and I don't know the email of the CEO

also there's been a fuckton of utilities activity on our street and neighboring streets since about March, so maybe they're in the process of thinking about maybe possibly someday in the next 20 years rolling out FiOS

no indication from Verizon that it's in progress; it's a binary switch with them, either it's ready or they have "no plans" to roll out FiOS to you

they won't admit to you that they're in any kind of process to start it or whatever

it's the most opaque, most standoffish, most stonewalled process I've ever seen for delivering service to consumers

they're the worst company on Earth as far as I'm concerned and I'd be perfectly content to see the government break them up (again... see: Bell) or put them all out of work

Dog

> The Tsar Bomba was a three-stage bomb with Trutnev-Babaev[10] second and third stage design,[11] with a yield of 50 megatons.[12] This is equivalent to about 1,570 times the combined energy of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki,[13]
10 times the combined energy of all the conventional explosives used in World War II,[14] one quarter of the estimated yield of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, and 10% of the combined yield of all nuclear tests to date. A three-stage H-bomb uses a fission bomb primary to compress a thermonuclear secondary, as in most H-bombs, and then uses energy f…

Damn russians.

allquicatic

most anti-consumer telecommunications company in the US at least, if not the world

var firstName

@allquicatic I heard Google Fibre might be rolling out to the burbs of Baltimore

allquicatic

hahahahahahaha

wake me up when that happens

Mokubai

21:49

@allquicatic you don't know anti-consumer until you meet BT in the UK.

Dog

Hah

I figured it was a common theme among all telcos

allquicatic

I guess Bob has a pretty bad one in AU too

Dog

Man Gives Hilarious Running Commentary On Wife’s Four-Hour Call Trying To Cancel Virgin Media Contract

var firstName

I've heard of BT.

allquicatic

I like BT (Bluetooth)

var firstName

21:51

It's like call centre pokemon!

allquicatic

using Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 On-Ear Wireless right now over BT

Mokubai

@varfirstName I'm told that they exist to provide telephone and broadband services, but I suspect their real business is keeping call centres running.

@allquicatic I should get a decent headset at some point, there are some cheapish noise cancelling jobbies on Amazon these days

Ben N

Speaking of horrible customer service, it seems literally impossible to contact a human from Dropbox without being the admin of an Enterprise team

Dog

What makes you think there are humans at Dropbox?

var firstName

They're there

Dog

21:55

It's just a young budding Skynet vying for all your data

dog doge

var firstName

They're just all watching the illicit porn that people upload

Speaking of which, there's a lady in my company that complained about a slow computer

we found 10 trojans on the computer

Ben N

I hope your company has a convenient reimaging solution

var firstName

yep

Symantec Ghost

I think, at least.

allquicatic

BBL

Ben N

MDT is such a lifesaver for me. People broke their computer? No problem: shut down → netboot → type computer name → wait 90 minutes → fixed!

var firstName

21:59

Not sure; I'm in developement.

MDT?

Ben N

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

var firstName

Ah

I'll recommend that to the guy we have on Helpdesk

Dog

@BenN 90 minutes?! o_0

I can install Windoof in less than 9 minutes

Ben N

For the install image to be downloaded and applied

var firstName

@Dog it has to rebuild the entire image on the machine

Ben N

22:07

Our network isn't super fast

Dog

Ah

var firstName

@BenN What's bandwidth like?

Dog

Not super fast, evidently

Go 10GbE or go home! #10GbE

Ben N

Theoretically 1Gbit, but a lot of the workstations are behind ancient unmanaged switches

var firstName

So ~100Mbit?

Ben N

22:10

Yep

var firstName

sucks

Well, I've got ~80Mbit WLAN so..

***WAN

very big difference between the two

Dog

#10GbMasterRace

3

#IfYouHaven'tGot10GbYouHaven'tLived

2

bwDraco

lol

That's why we're planning to run Cat 6A through our new house.

Dog

22:29

Well America isn't obsessed with planes at all

var firstName

@Hennes Really? You modified a SU post from '13?

Hennes

One?

bwDraco

> At Computex 2016, Marvell told us to expect consumer networking products with 10-gigabit speeds in January (CES time frame). 10GbE will finally fall out of the enterprise sector and into the laps of us at home and provide roughly 1GB/s of data transfer speeds over commodity CAT 6 cabling. A single 10GbE connection will only require a single PCIe lane with the 4.0 specification.

tomshardware.com/news/pcie-4.0-power-speed-express,32525.html

Dog

More like one hundred

var firstName

@Hennes Jesus; how many did you modify?

Hennes

22:32

A few thousand?

var firstName

today?

Hennes

No, over the course of a year or more

Did you happen to read this post? meta.superuser.com/questions/8402/…

Lots of people slowly working on that.

var firstName

oh

That's the edit you made

I see

Hennes

Trying to also fix small details as we go.

Dog

@Hennes Hey I disagree with that

Hennes

22:35

Which os the thats do you disagree with?

Dog

A company or their products certainly can be an area of expertise, that's why companies have certification programs (e.g. MSCE, CCNP, RHCE) and why people list familiarity with SAP or Oracle or whatever on their CVs

@arda Thanks, when does the club close?

Hennes

Only Oracle does not make printers, tablets, phone, laptops, harddisks, SSDs, .....
Oracle on its own a a bit more limited.

arda

@Dog I don't want to answer that.

maybe in 2016 if giant meteor wins

Giant Meteor 2016

@votegiantmeteor, Outer Space

Giant flaming meteor, extinction level event, 2016 presidential candidate, probably your best option. https://t.co/FAjr1s8bCD

54 tweets, 2k followers, following 1 users

bwDraco

lol

Dog

@Hennes Cisco does make a lot of different things however, and someone with a CCIE might find it useful to go through cisco tags since, though they might not be an expert on every Cisco product they'll know a fair deal about most of them

Sure "Samsung" would be too vague, but IMO "company tags" aren't universally too broad.

Hennes

22:41

We got HP-laserjet, Asus-laptop, HP-proliant, HP-laptop, ....

Dog

In some cases, yes. "Microsoft" or "Samsung". But "Atheros" or "Cisco" or "Redhat" is quite useful

Or "Broadcomm" pukes

Hennes

Feel free to comment on that on the meta post.

The general concensus seems to be Braiam's answer (at +27).
So I am following that.

Not that I do not have my own comment and opinions, but I mostly postponed them till this one got done

Dog

I'm fat

bwDraco

Dammit, not enough RAM to keep Firefox in the background when I switch apps!

var firstName

Alright guys, bb;

*bbl

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

22:54

Chat rooted. SYSTEM account level granted.

I have over 10GB

Cat don't say that its not true.

var firstName

Cat isn't here.

Might be AFK / lurking

but hasn't spoken in an hour

Dog is here though. Dog is fun.

Right, @Dog?

#QueenNeverSoundedClearer

Hennes

http://rocknerd.co.uk/2016/08/21/audiophile-buys-his-own-utility-transformer-fo‌r-cleaner-electricity-queen-never-sounded-clearer/

var firstName

i 8 sum pi

Ben N

23:10

Oh snap, Artificial Intelligence just awarded Beta badges. I sense a public beta transition coming on!

var firstName

@Hennes You're far too complex to make a mistake like that

Hennes

@varfirstName and it was delicious!

var firstName

nailed it, hennes

Hennes

I had that saved on my harddrive in the _stuff folder

var firstName

actually @Hennes, i 8 sum pi

italic i

I H Σ π

Iota Eta Sigma (Sum) Pi

Hennes

23:18

Eta makes me think of cheese.

var firstName

Feta?

Welcome back, @JourneymanGeek

Hennes

nods. Feta

Journeyman Geek

23:42

Meta feta?

Hennes

Cooking.stackexchange.com has a meta side. We should totally call that feta.stackexchange.com :)

Ben N

Unrelatedly, am I blind, or is /tools/post-feedback not linked anywhere in the 10K tools?

bwDraco

Ben N

I stumbled across it while reading MSE and couldn't find any mention of it anywhere on any page accessible from the /tools dashboard

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