Root Access

Oliver Salzburg

11:02

@Rahul2001 Same happened when Bush was elected. I guess they just have a shitty setup

Rahul2001

@OliverSalzburg Have the US population is a hella big DDOS attack

@OliverSalzburg I guess they didn't prepare this time because they didn't expect Trump to win ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek bl tonight?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob sure

actually, I've had tiffin so good at nearly any time

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek Senile appears to be one of your favorite words.

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 I'm really old for a dog.

also chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=lol&user=10208&room=118

djsmiley2k

11:10

What's my fav word o_O?

Journeyman Geek

I donno

My tendancy to say lol and ;p is... kinda famous

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 Yes. It's very tasty. A bit like venison :)

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill venison?

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 yes, kangaroos are in fact made of meat

deer meat

Burgi

i've had venison

speaking of cows...

DavidPostill

11:13

@Rahul2001 Bambi

Burgi

our customer is going mental that i want to pre-emptively patch their server against dirty cow

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill :P

DavidPostill

Crocodile meat is nice as well - like chicken.

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi now now...

going?

Burgi

heh

where do i find the official CVE listing?

Bob

11:16

@JourneymanGeek tiffin? I'll prolly be an hour

Journeyman Geek

k

I'll need to feed the dog at 9

Bob

@Burgi google.com.au/…

Journeyman Geek

@Bob early dinnery thing

Burgi

@Bob i did that but who assigns the CVE number?

Rahul2001

Dog

11:19

!! Wat

ChatBot John Cavil

Dog

!! Nothingseen

ChatBot John Cavil

@Dog That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

DavidPostill

@Burgi cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html

Dog

!! forgetseen

ChatBot John Cavil

11:20

Dog

Nope.

!! Listcommands

ChatBot John Cavil

@Dog help, afk, awsm, ban, color, convert, define, die, doge, domain, eval, export, findcommand, forget, forgetseen, github, google, hang, imdb, import, info, inhistory, jquery, learn, listcommands, listen, live, mdn, meme, moustache, mustache, norris, nudge, parse, refresh, spec, stat, stats, tell, timer, todo, unban, undo, unonebox, user, weather, wiki, xkcd, youtube, zalgo, 65wat, ;), ;p, \/s*, after5, ahh, ahhfire, apumpkin, areyoukidding, bababababat, baroo, bearhello
beatingbloodoutofarockwithahalberd, bespecific, biird, boberror, brainf__k, bunny, caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…

Dog

!! Forgetseen

!! tacticaltriplefacepalm

ChatBot John Cavil

Bob

@Burgi mitre

Dog

11:21

Huh

!! Info forgetseen

ChatBot John Cavil

@Dog Command forgetseen, created by God

Dog

Oh

Burgi

lol

Rahul2001

God

Bob

my autocorrect is better than @dog's

Burgi

11:22

@Rahul2001 the mirror universe version of @Dog

Rahul2001

@Bob Smart people don't need autocorrect

Bob

see, far free toss. just more totally wing words

Dog

!! Nothingtoseehere

ChatBot John Cavil

Dog

!! fooooooooooooooooooox

ChatBot John Cavil

11:23

Dog

!! Isqasdfdsaqbannedyet

ChatBot John Cavil

@Dog Input not matching /not/. Help: User-taught command: yet! Nope,

Burgi

so you can't actually search the mitre database for the vulnerability details

DavidPostill

@Burgi Why would you want to when google finds it?

dirtycow.ninja

Burgi

the customer wants an official looking webpage

Dog

11:26

@djsmiley2k Im Still HAlf Expecting Someone To Go "haha JUst Kidding" At Some Point. . .

DavidPostill

@Burgi cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5195

Burgi

yeah and its not helpful at all

DavidPostill

"** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided. "

Bob

@Burgi my Google link gives you half a dozen results with the cve id. then you can go look up the id.

the there's your official page

Burgi

this link will do: access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/2706661

Bob

11:28

if you want, look up your os security advisory matching the cve id

e.g. debian would have one

curse my slow phone typing

DavidPostill

us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2016/10/21/…

@Burgi ^^^ Do you trust "Official website of the Department of Homeland Security"? :)

Burgi

nice find

Rahul2001

OH WOW google.co.in/search?q=inurl:/view/viewer_index.shtml

Burgi

our customer, a large gym/health provider in the UK, is trying to weasel out of paying for anything

Rahul2001

@Burgi Shut their site off

Burgi

11:33

@Rahul2001 that would be breach of contract

Rahul2001

@Burgi Add a banner

DavidPostill

@Burgi With what excuse?

@Burgi Make their site very very very very slow to respond :)

Dog

Well it seems Western democracy is officially FUBAR, now what...

@Burgi so is not paying for anything

Repudiatory breach and all...

djsmiley2k

urgh windows

why you failing me right now

always at the wrost time

disk IO 100% fun times

Dog

I'm beginning to like Windows. Only a tiny bit, and only because I can't actually find any reason to need Linux

djsmiley2k

11:41

I can't find any reason to need windwos

but I have to use it at work, i guess it keeps me employed? :D

Burgi

they are arguing they are immune to zero-day exploits and internet shenanigans...

DavidPostill

@Burgi Then you need to redo your contracts. Don't pay. Don't get.

djsmiley2k

Windows, like ubuntu, is fine.... until it goes wrong

then you need to cry.

Burgi

i know this

djsmiley2k

is it bannatyne?

there's only 3 or 4 big ones that I know of

virgin, ukgym, the 24 hr ones which are really cheap and nasty that I've forgotten the name of

village hotels

Did I get them yet? :D

Burgi

11:44

none of those but of equal size

djsmiley2k

/me just waits to see which site stops responding

Oh the pink ones, or the yellow ones? ;)

Don't disclose ur clients here @Burgi I'm just playing with ya

Not sure we should discuss who our customers are.

DavidPostill

@Burgi Just return "402 Payment Required" error :)

Burgi

lol

djsmiley2k

~4Mb/s interface...

Sata1?

Burgi

i think part of the problem is that historically my predecessor was never transparent with digital stuff

djsmiley2k

11:47

ffs

need to be administrator to change priority of the service killing my system right now

DavidPostill

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k that is true of all the OSes

Burgi

so now when I transparently say "hey we are patching these holes" or "hey we are doing XYZ on your site" everyone flies into a panic

Journeyman Geek

ah

most muggles don't want to know about that

Dog

Pure Gym?

It's that or Cannons, and Cannons sound like they could be cheapskates

either way, I guess the solution is to hack them all and see which site is easiest to compromise

Rahul2001

11:50

Hello @IanEmnace Welcome to Root Access!

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek not blaming windows

Ian Emnace

Wow thanks. Cheers!

djsmiley2k

blaming not giving 2nd line admin access :P

Of course I can ssh out to my own server, but admin on my own desktop? no wai!

Rahul2001

@IanEmnace What brings you here today?

Journeyman Geek

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5c09di/…

Ian Emnace

11:54

Just reading to learn

Journeyman Geek

@IanEmnace totally the wrong place then ;p

(I keed I keed)

Ian Emnace

Lol

Rahul2001

Whoa, Stranger Things is really intense...

Dog

@djsmiley2k In my last place pretty much anyone who knew how just gave themselves admin on thier own machines

djsmiley2k

wtf

so one of the lead guys on the team we escalte issues to, has blocked the domain we send emails from

:D

Rahul2001

12:02

I gave myself admin in school

djsmiley2k

/me giggles like a little kid

Dog

@djsmiley2k Why is this a good thing?

djsmiley2k

@Dog it's just pure amusing

gotta get my kicks somehow

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Send him an email complaint :) And when it bounces complain to his $boss.

djsmiley2k

@DavidPostill nah, just bounced it to my boss 'sorry, can't help this customer as they won't give me access to help em'

Dog

12:07

Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl

►

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k If you escalate to him you are his customer.

Dog

That's how I get my kicks...

Rahul2001

@Dog I can't sing that yet :/

djsmiley2k

@Rahul2001 is it arranged marriage for you?

Rahul2001

@djsmiley2k NOPE

Boris_yo

12:19

@DavidPostill Okay then. I am used to "Type" or "Push".

Anyone celebrating Trump's victory here?

djsmiley2k

@Rahul2001 hehe fair enuf

Boris_yo

If company is that desperate to resolve to email to find employee, think how stable it is.

djsmiley2k

@Boris_yo it's likely a scam tho

'give us your bank details, all of them, not just the ones required to pay you'

Tho I've seen charity positions, for linux admins, offering work from home, 50k+ somewhere

i.e not the cisco one I'm waiting on

But tbh the wage puts me off :/

wtf why did narrator just start

Burgi

@Rahul2001 i wish i had an arranged marriage, it would make live so much easier

social awkwardness and being shy is not compatible with western style dating

djsmiley2k

12:34

But a third proposal is simply to remove gravity from the equation. What if the effects of gravity aren't due to some fundamental force, but are rather an emergent effect due to other fundamental interactions?

rrrr

pretty sure I said this previously

and got mocked D:

Burgi

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

oops

sorry for shouting

djsmiley2k

:D

tereško

I would like to take this moment to congratulate America

djsmiley2k

Gravity isn't a force like the strong nuclear, or weak nuclear forces.

It's the effect of another reaction

tereško

looks like clippy bugged

also, wtf

djsmiley2k

12:40

@Burgi wut

long screenshot is long

Burgi

i think mexico should build a wall and get the Americans to pay for it!

djsmiley2k

because replying to the future is awesome

tereško

@djsmiley2k used firebug ... it does some strang things

djsmiley2k

it has a setting to do that?!

option/button/ability

tereško

yes

@djsmiley2k click the gear icon (setting) and the screenshot feature is under "available toolbox buttons"

djsmiley2k

12:58

Nice &_&

Burgi

13:19

arstechnica.co.uk/apple/2016/10/…

mac servers... lol

Dog

13:36

Hey, they were pretty decent hardware wise and shiny. You could see them a mile away in the racks because who the heck else made shiny silver rack servers? :-P

Burgi

now that trump is the president does he get to keep trump towers?

does the secret service have to move in to trump tower?

djsmiley2k

@Burgi Suddently I realise the truth, Trump secretly wants to be Tony Stark

Burgi

13:52

lol

he lacks the charisma i think

djsmiley2k

you're breaking his childhood dreams @Burgi!

Dog

@Bob, do you know anything about USB 3 controller chips? IIRC you or @allquicatic were telling me about buggy Renesas chips

Bob

@Dog very little

I have a Renesas controller, and it occasionally craps out. IIRC it might've been @allquicatic who first told me they were dodgy.

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k but but... Musk's stark

Dog

Ah

Bob

13:55

oh, he was talking about Via

May 4 at 3:59, by allquixotic

Ivy Bridge mobo first-generation USB 3.0 chipsets + cheapo Anker VIA USB hub chipsets = disaster

Dog

Was wondering if you had any idea what non-dodgy ones were

Bob

Then I replied with similar issues with Renesas

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi my old workplace had a few cause they were the best way to run legit apple VMs

Bob

May 4 at 7:40, by Bob

@allquixotic Heh. I have a Renesas-based hub (http://www.mbeat.com.au/product/mbeat-7-port-usb3-0-usb2-0-hub-manager-with-swi‌tches/). Occasionally with bulk data transfers it craps out until you reboot the hub...

Journeyman Geek

@Dog intel dosen't do standalone ones ;p

Bob

13:56

@Dog For a hub?

Journeyman Geek

(also, how do you know what's in a hub?)

short of buying it and voiding the warranty

Bob

I vaguely recall hearing good things about ASMedia, but I've never used them.

Dog

@Bob Cardbus card

Choices being Fresco Logic, NEC, or AsMedia

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Hardware IDs. And getting other people ot void their warranties for you.

Dog

I think I have a few ASMedia based USB<->SATA bridges which are all pretty decent (UASP+USB 3.1 10G)

Bob

13:58

@Dog yea, sorry, I can't really say any of them is better than the others

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek the problem is that musk isn't a dick

Bob

@Dog yea, that might've been where I heard about ASMedia being good. While looking at Amazon reviews for USB <=> SATA.

Journeyman Geek

NEC is renesas?

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek Does he have a dodgy heart? (or about to come dodgy should tesla power fun fails? ;))

Dog

@JourneymanGeek Is it? Oh.

@Bob Yeah but cheap first-gen USB 3.0 mobo chipsets = Reneasas AFAIK

djsmiley2k

13:59

I'm saying right now, I don't think Trump will stick out for a 2nd term

Bob

@Dog Yea.

djsmiley2k

I don't think he'll even last 4 years. I think he'll get bored.

Dog

Ech, it's going to be less than 10 pounds with Amazon Prime delivery

Journeyman Geek

@Dog "Renesas Electronics started operation in April 2010, through the integration of NEC Electronics Corporation and Renesas Technology Corporation. NEC Electronics was established in November 2002 by a spin-off of the semiconductor operations of NEC. Renesas Technology was established on April 1, 2003, as a joint venture of Hitachi, Ltd. (55%) and Mitsubishi Electric (45%).

In April 2009, Renesas Technology and NEC Electronics reached a basic agreement to merge by around April 2010. On April 1, 2010 NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology merged, forming Renesas Electronics which became t…

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