Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:56

@Mokubai proper label tape on both ends and ports vs packing tape and... for some reason a white board marker on the first day

I'm lazy. I believe in doing things right to start with

allquicatic

13:15

o/

Journeyman Geek

woof

allquicatic

how's your job, Geek?

Journeyman Geek

@allquicatic kinda boring tbh

allquicatic

@JourneymanGeek does it have potential to be fun, or is it something like desktop support?

Journeyman Geek

@allquicatic its actually 'desktop support'

allquicatic

13:17

ahh

Bob

Lol

allquicatic

that's a waste of talent IMO

with what you know you could do sysadmin or automated testing or learn coding

like, server-side sysadmin would be the minimum I'd peg you for

Journeyman Geek

let me put it this way. Of my 4 co-workers, we have no desk (we share one) and only 2 of us have working personal systems.

allquicatic

OUCH

Journeyman Geek

Also see

2 hours ago, by Journeyman Geek

A good chunk of my workday the past week has been "disconnect PC at <location>" then wait for a (another?) contractor to move the rather heavy/ornate desk for it out and replace it with an identical one

We once had one of the two PCs we needed to... I donno, disconnect and label get put off cause we had a customer who was using the room

allquicatic

13:19

it's good that it's at least A Job, but that's terrible-sounding

Paul Vargas

Bob

It sounds fairly typical for a short contract :/

Journeyman Geek

@allquicatic It actually pays better than my semi-junior-sysadmin desktop support job

@Bob some of the longer contract guys are doing desktop refresh

allquicatic

well if they want to pay you to disconnect PCs, let 'em

Journeyman Geek

yup

well and some imaging... which everyone hates, and some decommisioning, which is almost fun

Bob

13:20

It's also the kind of thing commonly given to interns

Journeyman Geek

@Bob apparently one of the long termers was doing it solo

allquicatic

people at my work get paid twice as much as I do to administer Sharepoint -- fricking Sharepoint -- because it's apparently a rare enough "skill" (?!) that only a few people ever put it on their resume

Journeyman Geek

However, they... kinda don't know the tricks for snaking cables in tight places while staying clean

Bob

@allquicatic that actually sounds reasonable based on the few times I've tried :/

allquicatic

@Bob I mean, it's a piece of shit, but how hard can it be to create a site with a few places for people to upload documents and shit? we basically use it as a file repository

Journeyman Geek

13:22

One of the other teams actually basically said "if they extend your contract, we want you"

allquicatic

@JourneymanGeek XD good

Journeyman Geek

(I have great work ethic, and a gift for cheerfully doing the most annoying shit)

@allquicatic its requests/it inventory tho

Not quite as technical as I'd like

Bob

@allquicatic The answer is "very very hard"

Especially if SSO is involved.

Permissions in SharePoint are a mess

Interop (for documents) is worse

Journeyman Geek

@allquicatic I think its a balance between having a job (yay!) having a secure job (not yet) and doing what you love (which I'll do anyway)

allquicatic

@Bob O.o okay then

and yeah, SSO is involved, AD

Bob

13:26

@allquicatic I'm sure we just messed up somehow, but... ok, so we have one AD-login account who has admin privs over a site, but we have a separate non-AD account (which we need to disable SSO to access?!) that's required for whatever the instance-wide admin stuff is.

Oh, don't forget trying to give AD users privs over a collection. PowerShell + magic strings = yay?

Yea...

Also, apparently a SP 'expert' consultant was hired for a couple days to sort out some of it... the result was a bunch of horribly-written PS scripts :S

And some really weird AD FS relay rules that were a pain to untangle.

allquicatic

wow

Bob

btw, @allquicatic, can you see the Allo messages?

I'm sure our SP instance is just horribly set up, but that does show how confusing it can be... and why SP experience can be pretty valuable.

'course, the guy who set it up here had never touched it before and wasn't even familiar with the FS SSO stuff. Which is apparently how I got semi- dragged into it.

allquicatic

13:42

@Bob I haven't launched it lol

Bob

@allquicatic o.O no notifications?

allquicatic

nup

did you use a phone number or email?

bwDraco

14:07

roar

So starting today, I'll be taking a different approach to chat. I'll be focusing on staying in control of myself and thinking before I post so that when things happen, I'll be making the right decisions.

DavidPostill

@bwDraco Great! :)

bwDraco

I know I've said similar things before, but I am going to dedicate more effort to behaving like the ♦moderator I've always aspired to become. Real effort, not talk.

It's about time.

I'm going to be busy the next several hours as I'll be on the job. I'll check in when I can.

bwDraco

14:24

@JourneymanGeek Like pretty much anything else, work ethic is a learnable skill.

Burgi

@DavidPostill i meant by population

i'm back now btw

bwDraco

One of the big ideas that I've floated for a while is playing games like roguelikes where you need to be patient and check moves closely to avoid death.

Games can be a powerful tool for learning and practicing vital skills like patience and thinking before acting.

I've been playing the desktop version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for a while, and though I have not made much progress lately (constantly dying well before even the first rune), I'm using it as a test platform for these skills.

By the time I manage to fetch the Orb of Zot and win for the first time, I might just be ready to take up the mantle of a mod.

Bob

14:42

@allquicatic Phone, I suppose. It found you by phone..?

bwDraco

Firefox is eating your SSD – here is how to fix it

This is not news to me...

Apr 22 at 1:35, by bwDraco

17

Q: Firefox writes megabytes of data per minute to disk, why?

iotop -a (accumulated I/O) on Linux shows after about 10 min. of browsing Internet: Total DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE: 0.00 B/s TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE> SWAPIN IO COMMAND 17330 be/4 wojdyr 1540.00 K 38.48 M 0.0...

browser.sessionstore.interval is set to 120000 (two minutes) on all my devices.

@Bob ^ this may be important to you considering how many tabs you maintain

The "eating your SSD" part was indeed a concern for me because I did in fact notice excessive amounts of disk writes with lots of tabs open.

Bob

15:21

*meh*

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco I have great work ethic cause not working sucks

bwDraco

Well, improving work ethic has been a major goal for me these last several months at home...

Bob

I calculate... 12 GB/day

*meh*

@allquicatic It has your name and everything :P

Can you see me on there?

bwDraco

Alright, got a sports photography job to do in a bit. See ya in a few hours or so.

Bob

@bwDraco Put it this way. In half a year (~150 days powered on) I've written 8 TB. Warranty says 5 years or 150 TBW. At 16 TB/year, this would last me 9 years.

Not really worried about the write rate.

Also, that only averages to some 50 GB/day.

I'm sure I have many, many other things writing to it. If I'm required to actually care about them, I'd just ditch the SSD and go back to a HDD.

@JourneymanGeek You remember the Yotaphone 2 I might've mentioned in here a few times? :P

Journeyman Geek

15:34

possibly

Bob

It's a bit old now, but apparently available for some 150 USD. Hmmmmmmm. I really don't need it...

But it has an e-ink screen on the back, which is interesting.

Journeyman Geek

quuuuite a while back no?

Bob

And potentially very useful, since some 25-50% of my battery usage is from the screen while reading...

Journeyman Geek

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=Yotaphone+&room=118

Bob

Could double battery life...

@JourneymanGeek Oh, so I did :P

Hm. Anyway, I'll get to see just how good/bad MIUI is first-hand in a week or so.

@JourneymanGeek Oh, did you say comGateway does consolidations? Do they charge for it?

'cause Amazon apparently decided it'd be funny to send one lot of (Anker) USB cables separately from all the other (Anker) cables and chargers... scheduled to arrive on the same day?!

Which is great and all 'cept that's another $25 to forward a separate package...

Journeyman Geek

15:38

@Bob IIRC no

Bob

@JourneymanGeek No they don't charge?

*phew*

Journeyman Geek

just wait for all the stuff to come in, assuming its within their hold time and ship em together

Bob

Ah, nice.

Journeyman Geek

IIRC its 30 days

Bob

> Ordered Sep 23
Expected to ship
Sep 28

Amazon: "use free shipping and we'll just take forever!" :P

Journeyman Geek

15:40

lol

Bob

It's estimated to arrive the day after shipping (29th) :\

I hate barrel connectors :\

@JourneymanGeek Looks like they do list a repacking fee :(

bwDraco

Orders on free shipping are given lower processing priority to reduce cost.

Bob

oh really? fuel surcharge?!

> Please note that with a remote area surcharge,

There is a fee of US$5 (applicable only to remote areas within Australia)

o.O

btw, @JourneymanGeek - cg also does volumetric weight...

Journeyman Geek

o0

ah

I didn't realise ._.

Bob

Actually, they divide by 5000... auspost/vpost divides by 6000...

so cg actually charges more for the same volume :S

Journeyman Geek

15:53

0_0

Bob

@JourneymanGeek the annoying thing is I have no idea how much it weighs

Journeyman Geek

dang

@Bob you almost never do ._.

Bob

and if I add, say, one more cable... amazon might decide to pack in a bigger box

so instead of paying for maybe 200g more cable, I might have to pay for 1kg worth of greater volume

Journeyman Geek

ow

Hennes

Oh, my SSD, on which I have been waiting all all, has apparently been delivered 7 hours ago.

(low end upgrade of spinning rust to SSD - ADATA Premier Pro SP550 - 240GB)

Bob

15:58

urk

@JourneymanGeek Ok. Good thing: cg does consolidation. bad thing: when I was comparing prices the other day, I miiiiight have forgotten that cg is in usd

so it actually costs more than auspost :\

and then add the fuel surcharge... urk

oh well, too late now

bwDraco

@Hennes Good choice, that's among the better cheap SSDs.

Hennes

Mom boots the laptop every 2 months. So I guess this will do.
Still tempted to double the memory during the same upgrade (4GiB to 8GiB), but that is just me screaming at any modern system with less than 16GiB of memory.

Hennes

16:12

Aha. Another thing learned.

I should not fully plug in my HyperX 3.0 64GB USB pendrive. Then it fails. I should leave about 1mm for it to work properly.

All those nasty little details which cause frustration until you learn how to work around them.

Boris_yo

16:37

Anyone used this video upload service? sendvid.com

Everywhere there is a requirement for Facebook, Google or other social account to register.

Hennes

Nope. I just upload to my own server and send a direct link.

arda

@Hennes same

Boris_yo

@Hennes Does your server stream?

arda

AFAIK default apache setups technically should

Boris_yo

16:53

I have shared hosting..

Hennes

Nope. Just a basic webpage and usually unlinked temporarily files.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Thanks for those :)

Hennes

It is running xshttpd-devel-3.7.b35

With the advantage that is something does not work that I can just move a beer over and submit a feature request.

arda

I have 2 old vids on my server (both are safe for work - from my homemade gpu tester): ardao.me/render3.mp4 ardao.me/render6.mp4 - I think it needs browser support too.

Oliver Salzburg

@arda Neat

I like the part with the falling spheres

Hennes

16:59

0

Q: Is it safe to store money in phone cases?

First of all, sorry if this is the wrong site to post this on. This is the only one I could think of at the time which would be suitable. I am intrested in using the 'life hack' where you store some notes in the phone case, however, I am not sure if it is safe. What I would like to know is, wou...

temperature

Do we have a sharepoint site we can migrate it to? Money is more on topic with expensive sharepoint insultants.
:)

arda

@OliverSalzburg That's like all of it :P I had some other tests too at some point but can't login to gfycat

Oliver Salzburg

@arda I know. That was the joke ;P

arda

Oliver Salzburg

:D

Boris_yo

17:22

@arda It streams successfully in Chrome.

djsmiley2k

Incubus - Pardon Me

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Boris_yo

18:18

Is @Psycogeek alive?

I am not clear on how my Camelion charger works. I placed 4 almost energy depleted batteries in it and 2nd from left shows charging LED off. Does it mean dead battery? Can't be as after I turn it it's LED blinks and then after another attempt LED turns on. After a short while it goes off again and video does not show it.

Camelion Battery Charger

►

djsmiley2k

18:40

mysocietyltd.jazz.co/apply/MxzlsR/…

thikjs sounds too good to be true :/

also, there goes freenode D:

djsmiley2k

18:50

@Boris_yo yeah I'd expect that battery wont charge

Hennes

19:11

Writing to an SSD via UAS over USB 3.1 gen 2..... 34MB/sec

About the same as for both rotating drives I tested it with.

If you ever see a product "ICY BOX IB-234-U31" then do not buy.

bwDraco

20:07

lol

I'd much prefer getting one of those Thermaltake BlacX docks instead.

Drives slot in like cassettes and can be hot-swapped easily.

They're not the cheapest solutions by a long shot but they're really convenient.

Hennes

21:27

I made the mistake of getting something new.

What I really wanted was an external SATA dock with its own power, eSATA and USB-C connections

Right, lets try it on the USB-C port with an USB-C to micro USB 3.1 cable

Just to make sure I did not get a bad cable

Hmm, twice as fast

That Brazilian Headless Horse

@Hennes Still can't see why a mistake.

Hennes

But on a port which did not work when I used the same enclosure with a SAT disk (timeouts)

Either I got damn bad luck with devices, plugs and cables or USB 3 is not yet readdy to leave the testing labs.

That Brazilian Headless Horse

I'm so tired I can't even think straight.

And that's after I ~~slept~~ crashed into my bed like a rock for more than four hours...

bwDraco

21:51

lol

That Brazilian Headless Horse

I guess I'll laugh too later on. :P

What's the point of great things happening when there's nearly no one in RA for you to tell them?

You guys should stop having personal lives just so that I can have you as audience!

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse So what happened that was so great?

That Brazilian Headless Horse

Two great things and one really shitty one - not serious, but really annoying.

DavidPostill

And why are you tired at 7 PM?

That Brazilian Headless Horse

Because I have slept about 4hrs in the last 36 >_<

So, I'm a bit of a WordPress enthusiast and participate in events in the local community

And recently, this happened:

Sep 13 at 2:04, by That Brazilian Headless Horse

So, I submitted a talk proposal to the upcoming WordCamp. It was accepted. I didn't expect it and I'm aprehensive.

DavidPostill

22:01

Ah. So you were up all night preparing your talk and then up all night partying after you gave it?

That Brazilian Headless Horse

It's not the first time I present a talk at an event, but I always get nervous.

And focus and time management are two of my biggest flaws, by far

bwDraco

Went through a similar thing a while back when I participated in an HPC competition a while back. Good thing the local hotel had some really good mattresses (hybrid memory-foam a la Beautyrest NxG).

Hennes

That Brazilian Headless Horse

And as a volunteer (I usually volunteer myself, all WordCamps are non-profit, volunteer based, no problems here), but I was talked into helping by writing blog posts for the events sponsors.

There were 22 sponsors. I write slowly and it takes time because, once again, focus and time management, etc

djsmiley2k

ghmmmm

anyone going for youtube hero membership?

That Brazilian Headless Horse

22:08

And because I have those issues I usually struggle keeping up with the pace at work. I deliver what I think are OK or nice results, but usually in the nick of time.

DavidPostill

@Hennes lol

That Brazilian Headless Horse

So the extra workload, which would be trivial if I managed my time and focused as a normal person, resulted in multiple extra hours each day.

bwDraco

@djsmiley2k That's new, but nice to see they're taking a stronger approach to comment moderation, even if not perfect.

That Brazilian Headless Horse

Aaaaaaand this is turning into a rant. -_-"
(against myself?)

djsmiley2k

@bwDraco well it basically takes SE idea

DavidPostill

22:11

@djsmiley2k What that then? Googling "youtube hero membership" doesn't seem to what you're talking about, or is it?

djsmiley2k

yuup

you get points for accepted solutions

More points = more powers

That Brazilian Headless Horse

@djsmiley2k Solutions....? On youtube?

11 mins ago, by DavidPostill

Ah. So you were up all night preparing your talk and then up all night partying after you gave it?

djsmiley2k

s/solutions/closed caption edits

That Brazilian Headless Horse

@DavidPostill That's what I usually do, but this time I was so goddamn tired I left half-event and went home.

Also, my wife had her phone stolen in the univerity's bathroom =/

djsmiley2k

:/

That Brazilian Headless Horse

22:13

Those were the annoying parts

The great parts were:

1) In the beginning there were 3 people in the audience, in the end there were 50 and people said it was great, I didn't expect the small side-track room to fill up and got pretty nervous but it was great!

2) I am now free and can finally sleep.

Hennes

Blinks. I installed windows 10 on a windows 8.1 laptop.
I got no chance to enter my legally acquired CoA.
yet it is activated.

djsmiley2k

was win8 legal?

Hennes

22:37

Yes.

Win 8 or 8.1 legalally installed when I got it.
I spent ages looking for a downlaod link for windows 8 OEM (apparently called something like windows 8.1 with bing singlr language OEM or something).

And more recent sold versions of the laptop ship with windows 10.

This one shipped with 8, no reinstall media, none to be found.
SO I bought a fresh copy of win10 pro

Hennes

22:58

Hmm, this is the first time I actually needed powershell when installing windows.
I did not expect them to move away from the GUI that much

howtogeek.com/224798/…

Bob

23:41