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user1472266

14:02

Hi, is there anyone who could answer a few questions about port forwarding?

Burgi

just ask the question and wait for the reply

kerbalspacecat

14:18

> An AirAsia flight from Sydney to Malaysia ended up in Melbourne instead when the pilot entered the wrong coordinates into the internal navigation system, an air safety investigation has found.

Didn't know they had AirAsia in Australia... but remind me to be dubious about flying with them again -_-

DavidPostill

@kerbalspacecat At least it didn't disappear completely ... or crash

Burgi

survival safety tip: don't fly on any airline registered in malayasia

Rahul2001

lol

kerbalspacecat

My god edge is buggy

Also like most clickbait articles on Edge's homepage, it isn't quite as bad as it sounds

It's not like they accidentally flew to the wrong airport, what happened was they took off, realised there was a problem with their navigation system, and decided to land at the nearest safe location.

Burgi

14:36

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

our customer got a web management system built alongside the website

kerbalspacecat

System? As in a bespoke CMS?

Burgi

yeah

the website is umbraco (c#/MSSQL), the management system is totally custom PHP/MySQL

separate DBs

turns out that the DBs do not communicate with each other

the customer has been been filling out their custom web thing for YEARS and wondering why it never populated on to the live website

the company that built the custom thing (not us) never finished it

there is a class method called populateWebsite()

3

but in it the is a single line // TODO

3

kerbalspacecat

Wow, the level of fail is astounding

user1472266

I have a raspberry pi, with an apache server running - port forwarding working and it runs fine, I can access from my desktop on http://192.168.0.11/ and externally on external_ip:80

Now, the problem occurs here... I have USB sim dongle (huawei e303) I use to send SMS from, and this works. It even works when I fire up the ip internally on http://192.168.0.11/ from my deskptop. However, the portforwarding does not work as soon as the USB dongle is plugged in.

It isn't using mobile broadband, but the dongle does have it's own ip address of http://192.168.1.1.

anyone got any ideas to point me in right direction

DavidPostill

15:18

@user1472266 What is the dongle plugged into?

user1472266

raspi

soon as i take the dongle out, port forwarding works straight away - the dongle isnt connected to mobile broadband, but it has its own ip to connect to the dongle software... which i think is causing the conflict (but its needed for the sms gateway)

its making me crazy ha

Journeyman Geek

15:38

hm

Looks like I got my 7th yearling badge

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek :)

Burgi

@user1472266 you might get a better response by posting your question on the main site

user1472266

tried :(

Burgi

link?

user1472266

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Q: 2 Connected Devices - Port Forwarding Issue

This is a bit confusing for me to explain but I shall try. I have a raspberry pi, with an apache server running - port forwarding working and it runs fine, I can access from my desktop on http://192.168.0.11/ and externally on external_ip:80 Now, the problem occurs here... I have USB sim dongle...

Burgi

15:40

ah...

Journeyman Geek

ehhh. I'm surprised its not closed

Burgi

i was going to say

user1472266

how come?

Burgi

its pretty off-topic for SF

Journeyman Geek

a lot of SF folk feel rpi type machines should not be in production

Burgi

15:41

it would fit SU though

user1472266

ahh its not for server fault

Journeyman Geek

also, 5 hours is hardly enough time for an answer

user1472266

its not a live server, but more of a project

Journeyman Geek

dosen't really matter

serverfault.com/help/on-topic

you might want to add what your network topology is like

and where various things are

user1472266

ah cheers

Burgi

15:44

> consumer workstations or networking (which belong on our sister site, Super User)

Journeyman Geek

I've VTCed.

which should count for a bit ;p

Burgi

super user is us

user1472266

thanks mate

Burgi

give it time

user1472266

will do

Journeyman Geek

15:46

@user1472266 on your part, flag for migration, and said I suggested its a better fit here

user1472266

will do now

DavidPostill

now migrated

Journeyman Geek

I ordered parts to fix my old headphones.

user1472266

thanks

Journeyman Geek

Not sure if the process is worth documenting or not ;p

Bob

15:51

@JourneymanGeek glue, test, more glue, more test?

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Why not? It will help you when you have to do it again :)

Burgi

@Bob trip to hospital because you've glued the headphones to your ears....

Journeyman Geek

@Bob no glue.

@DavidPostill Its a pretty simple process if your headphones arn't disintegrating...

Bob

@Burgi lol

DavidPostill

@burgi is on form today. getting lots of stars :)

Journeyman Geek

15:53

I THINK its just 2 screws a side

Not sure what I'm going to do with a 'spare' pair tho

Bob

Coldplay - A Sky Full Of Stars (Official video)

►

Burgi

@DavidPostill still not as good as when i had 90% domination of the starwall a couple of months ago

jokerdino

@Bob no emotional content. -1

Bob

lol

I was actually going for the Space Odyssey image, but that one came up first.

DavidPostill

@jokerdino lol

Bob

15:59

DavidPostill

Enya - Paint the Sky with Stars

►

Bob

Ah, Enya.

DavidPostill

lol

Oh bugger, a javascript bug in my javscript debugger. Where's my javascript debugger debugger... — user568458 48 mins ago

Burgi

16:21

oh ffs

my minion just admitted to me that he hasn't been putting stuff into the repo

facepalmdesk

djsmiley2k

16:37

:/

2nd day at work good

tho inner ear infection and being deaf on one side not so much

Burgi

pardon?

djsmiley2k

16:54

wut

2

bwDraco

17:20

!!/headdesk

ChatBot John Cavil

allquicatic

Dear lord, what have I become?!

I'm sitting here geeking out over Apple's event

and I'm watching from my MBP

bleh... Pokemon STOP plz, go away

Interesting

A waterproof speaker

Hannah Catmur.... purrrr

bwDraco

17:44

Waterproofing and dual cameras. Nothing new for Android folks.

(though Apple putting both together in an iPhone is a big deal, as they've been playing catch-up for a while)

allquicatic

waterproofing to 50m, though?

(for the Apple Watch 2)

bwDraco

The Apple platforms still have a few very important advantages over Android (primarily in power and processor efficiency) due to vertical integration.

These advantages are not something Google or any of its partners can readily overcome.

kerbalspacecat

Lol, Edge just crashed moving a blank tab -_-

bwDraco

Don't get me wrong. I'm not an Apple fan, but closed, fully-integrated platforms have certain advantages that cannot be reproduced in an open platform.

You know how horrifically inefficient Android's design is, even with the improvements in newer versions like ART replacing Dalvik.

allquicatic

the first hour of the Apple keynote was basically a sleeper

iPhone now!!!

Boris_yo

17:56

@DavidPostill Everything but that? You must be hatin' me...

bwDraco

Android's ability to run on a wide range of hardware isn't free.

Feb 11 at 2:01, by bwDraco

Apple has its own approach to CPU design, and their nearly complete vertical integration lets them design hardware and software to work together as one.

Aug 29 '15 at 2:06, by DragonLord

It's not like Samsung or other smartphone makers where the emphasis is on features, not performance. Relying on brute force (by using the fastest, hottest SoCs around) is not going to provide the best UX when your software is so non-optimal.

brb.

allquicatic

18:15

they decided to push the software zoom up to 10x

why not 11x? ;-)

Ben N

Relevant Old New Thing: The Windows 95 volume control almost went to eleven

Burgi

18:25

@allquicatic i believe its called a "fwog"

kerbalspacecat

allfwogxatic?

Burgi

sure

should i go get a beer?

allquicatic

18:55

@Burgi Wawawawawawao.

Nick Alexeev

Would this be on-topic for SuperUser?

0

Q: My Seagate 1TB External Hard Drive's micro USB port is broken

I have a Seagate 1TB External Hard Drive, Model ST1000LM024. It's worked fine for the past couple of years, but recently the micro usb port has been unstable and I've had to hold it steady to even use it. As my terrible luck would have it, the day I got a new drive and intended to transfer all my...

hard-drive

allquicatic

wtf is this Sia thing

Ben N

I think that would be OK for Super User

allquicatic

@NickAlexeev oh, broken USB port? Sounds like a great application for microsoldering >:)

might also be able to "rip" the drive out of its case and use regular SATA, depending on how it's engineered

Apple did big.LITTLE!

Jason C

19:13

@Ramhound superuser.com/questions/1121933/… -- youtube.com/watch?v=ysXMUj7XJ5Q (nsfw), lol

DOES MICROPROCESSOR LOOK... LIKE... A CPU?

allquicatic

@JasonC HOW IS MICROPROCESSOR FORMED? HOW CPU GET ELECTRAFIED?

knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-is-babby-formed

bwDraco

19:37

!!/tell 32169637 wiki Photolithography

ChatBot John Cavil

Photolithography

Photolithography, also termed optical lithography or UV lithography, is a process used in microfabrication to pattern parts of a thin film or the bulk of a substrate. It uses light to transfer a geometric pattern from a photomask to a light-sensitive chemical "photoresist", or simply "resist," on the substrate. A series of chemical treatments then either engraves the exposure pattern into, or enables deposition of a new material in the desired pattern upon, the material underneath the photo resist. For example, in complex integrated circuits, a modern CMOS wafer will go through the photolithographic...

bwDraco

19:49

Qualcomm needs to step up their game.

Trouble, QCOM doesn't have the same amount of money AAPL has...

AAPL may sell fewer units, but they have huge profit margins giving them more money to work with.

(they have 6x the market cap)

I fear nobody has as much money to spend on R&D as Apple...

Not even Alphabet (Google).

kerbalspacecat

20:18

@allquicatic That's what I suggested.

While some have mentioned some external drives have "native" USB boards, that particular drive is listed as a SATA model so must be connected via a discrete SATA => USB bridge

@allquicatic I'd totally ~~hit that~~ ask that on SU

Hennes

22:02

constructing a messaging system with Excel spreadsheets and VBA

DavidPostill

11 hours ago, by Bob

> excel-messenger: A Terrible Experiment In VBA

Hennes

Darn< i thought I saw that horror first.

DavidPostill

@Hennes ^^^ :)

Hennes

Ah well, time to shop online. I readdly need to learn anothe excel beast: pivot tables.

I've learned that knowing those (or mentioning "draaitabellen") marks you as an excel expert for HR people

I got open office, which seems not to have them.

And systemd does not seem to have a build-in office yet,

So buying a ms office version might be the thing

DavidPostill

@Hennes LibreOffice does

Creating Pivot Tables

Hennes

22:09

Oh!. Cool!

Time to update my Open office install. Thanks. Eur 70 saved

Oh nice. proper 64 bit version. And normal english... downloading

kerbalspacecat

@Hennes Oh pivot tables are awesome

Hennes

I have used them. Click and drag things at random until you get what you want

I would not mind understanding them though

kerbalspacecat

Probably the most useful feature of Excel outside of VBScript

I used to teach people pivot tables as part of an advanced excel course we did

Hennes

We had internal lessons. Pivot tables 101. Assumption: you know how they worked and we jump right into the hard parts.

kerbalspacecat

By the end of it I still never really understood them, just realised powerful and awesome they are.

But the premise is pretty simple once you get your head around it.

"Live histogramming" basically

allquicatic

22:19

hi

Ben N

Hi!

Hennes

hi

bwDraco

@allquicatic: Bear in mind you can always ping a mod to get your username changed if you'd like.

Ben N

26

Q: Name Change Limiting can be Broken

Steps to reproduce: Change your name on Stack Overflow. After some time it won't allow to change your name again for one month Create user account in Super User or change your name on Super User with the same OpenID Go to Stack Overflow and associate your account with Super User Now the n...

bug status-bydesign display-names rate-limiting

bwDraco

It's by design, yes, but someone decided to abuse this feature to impersonate established users a few days ago.

Burgi

22:50

pivot tables are great but they almost always take an entire day to get right

i'm my experience when i was in admin it was just easier and more successful to just make the figures up

nn

Hennes

I do want to understand how I can use them.
And sadly much if my recent work has involved excel. Imput excep, (me doing something). Output excel

Not converting them unless needed was simply easier and bug free

Though anoyingly enough excel does not like 4 million rows of data

So we often had to split things into multiple smaller files.

allquicatic

I'm not interested in changing my nickname at this moment

Hennes

Oh, and just in case someone is awake. I am aware of the proper solution. Just use a fricking database. :)

allquicatic

@Hennes 64-bit should work with that much data

Hennes

Only two excel 2013 64 bit users in that office (I was one of them)

The ofice 64 bit install was well hidden on the corporate software shopping list

As in, you had to subscribe to beta products

And a day later it showed up in your optional items

Journeyman Geek

23:14

@BenN @NickAlexeev eh. I think there's already a question.

@allquicatic we'll love you anyway even if you become an apple fanboy :p

bwDraco

23:32

PS4 Pro announced: tomshardware.com/news/ps4-pro-price-release-date,32657.html

It took them this long.

Where's Microsoft's response?

I don't really care, though. I'll continue to game on PC.

Consoles are all about convenience and integration, so there are still good reasons people play on them.

The Xbox One S is a rather small upgrade, the way I see it.

Hennes

PentiumS 4 announced? :)

Ugh. $400. Which is probably Eur 400 or more (darn markup).
For that money I could buy a very nice graphics card and not need an extra device

bwDraco

(Project Scorpion is not yet there)

Hennes

Yes! Finally got the fly.

Midair. *T W A P * Went like a bullet to the floor.

Journeyman Geek

23:54

Now do it with chopsticks...

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