Root Access

Bob

00:06

@DavidPostill also wat

(yes, I looked it up. the term makes no sense :P)

@JourneymanGeek I mentioned deluge as an alternative client :P

Ben N

The date provided is the clue

Journeyman Geek

I totally mispinged

DavidPostill

@Bob Well I'm not going to spell it out for you :)

Bob

@DavidPostill ha, I meant more in the "where did it come from?" sense

DavidPostill

@Bob ah

Burgi

00:12

it gets better she hates valentines day too

DavidPostill

@Bob I believe it is a "valentines" day for guys kind of thing ...

@Burgi lol

I almost repcapped on WorldBuilding ...

Journeyman Geek

nice ;p

Burgi

with the domain thing?

Journeyman Geek

yup

Bob

@DavidPostill ahh

Journeyman Geek

00:14

coulda sworn there were more answers 0_0

DavidPostill

Yes

Burgi

most publishers register the domains used in books and use them in marketing material

not that i can think of any examples right now

Journeyman Geek

Which is what @DavidPostill suggested ;p

DavidPostill

@Burgi That's exactly what I suggested ...

Burgi

yeah you stole my idea so i had to upvote you when i read the answer

Bob

00:16

Not just "a disorienting bang." I once amputated the screwdriver blade when doing that by accident! — alephzero 3 hours ago

@DavidPostill wasn't really worth mentioning there, but the obvious caveat is you'd need to maintain a website

and the domain registration for ... quite a while

Burgi

@Bob single html page

Bob

especially if you want to avoid ... accidents, say, 10 years down the track

@Burgi sure, single html page hosted on the aether?

Ben N

Amazon S3

Burgi

if the book is successful someone like random house can keep it going forever

Bob

@BenN ...which you'd need to pay for

DavidPostill

00:18

I was surprised how much a tld cost ...

Journeyman Geek

tbh, most things handle that by showing, not telling, and using non-standard protocols

Bob

and yea if you wanted an actual tld... that's also a no-go

Ben N

S3 is only $0.51 per month for the DNS zone and the storage

Bob

@BenN can you prepay on amazon now?

last I checked you'd still need to keep an active card linked for billing

Ben N

Uh, I don't know

Bob

00:19

which would also need to be changed every 4 years or so

Ben N

My current strategy is to just have a card linked to it

Bob

^ that's the problem with trying to set up a service meant to last indefinitely

even simply holding the domain for an extended period is surprisingly hard

Burgi

azure platform allows for business invoicing

Bob

by IANA rules, you need to have valid contact details attached - and they do check! (randomly, yearly)

and then you'd need to pay whenever the renewal comes up

Ben N

Ah, Amazon does not support prepay

Bob

00:20

@BenN and what happens in 10 years?

that's the hard part of the question

if you're writing a (popular) story, you can expect it to be read decades in the future

Burgi

@Bob the cost of hosting is next to nothing if you consider the book profits

Bob

with a typical registration period of maybe 3 years, 5 years, up to 10 with some registrars...

Ben N

I guess I'd just have to make sure to update my Amazon account whenever I switch cards

Bob

@Burgi it's not so much the absolute $ value/amount. it's the time period.

Burgi

it might fall under copyright protection

Bob

00:22

It's much easier to pay $500 in one go than $30 over 10 years

Burgi

which is 90 years iirc

Bob

@Burgi ...*what*, precisely, falls under copyright protection?

I can't just print a book with a domain name in it and therefore prevent others from using that name for 90 years!

Burgi

you can if you trademark it

Bob

@Burgi congratulations, now you have to maintain a trademark as well

a trademark is much, much harder to maintain

Burgi

this is what large publishers do all the time!

Bob

00:25

anyway, this is largely a moot point because the story apparently focuses on a somewhat-historically-accurate alternate history/adaptation of the roman empire, using ... historical terms. Which are even harder to trademark etc

Burgi

sadly i'm not creative enough to write a cyber-punk bestseller to prove you wrong

Bob

@Burgi Do they now?

Do you have any examples?

Remember, this isn't for the name of the story itself. It's for a domain used within the story.

Burgi

cryptinomicon

Bob

@Burgi not a registered trademark in the US

Burgi

i'm fairly sure i could find other examples that i have read if i thought about it

> Domain names used in works of fiction have often been registered in the DNS, either by their creators or by cybersquatters attempting to profit from it. This phenomenon prompted NBC to purchase the domain name Hornymanatee.com after talk-show host Conan O'Brien spoke the name while ad-libbing on his show. O'Brien subsequently created a website based on the concept and used it as a running gag on the show

Domain name

A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS). Any name registered in the DNS is a domain name. Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. In general, a domain name represents an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, such as a personal computer used to access the Internet, a server computer hosting a web site, or the web site itself or any other service communicated...

Bob

00:35

@Burgi was looking for examples of using legal protections (trademark, etc.), not the simple act of registering a name

Registering a name obviously works in the short term; it's the trouble of keeping it running for a long time that makes it possibly not the best solution.

Journeyman Geek

I totally looked up that article when answering the question

but how often do you go "I went to "double yew, double yew double yew superuser DOT com""?

"I saw it on wikipedia (or "The Wiki")" or "I saw it on slashdot"

Burgi

tim berners-lee said he wished he had gone with a hiearchical naming convention

anyway

bedtime

Journeyman Geek

00:59

I ~~nearly bit~~ yelled at someone yesterday

we keep having these dumbass food delivery drivers who keep driving motorbikes on footpaths

there was this complete dumbass who was driving a motorbike on a darkened footpath with NO HEADLIGHTS.

I should have taken down his number and asked him where he worked but he zoomed away cause I yelled at him.

Journeyman Geek

03:12

0_0

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A: How resilient are VeraCrypt and LUKS encrypted volumes against data corruption?

In practice, it's almost as resilient with encryption as without it, as long you backup the master key and metadata properly. Apart of metadata, the corruption would affect just the block of the corrupted bit, in most cases just 16 bytes of it. For most of the situations of data corruption, wit...

this is one of the better answers I've seen

and from someone who's basically got a single answer with a rediculous amount of detail

Nick

05:11

What am I supposed to do with an iso file. Say the iso file is of a pc game, how am I supposed to get the game from it?

Journeyman Geek

@Nick dude, piracy >_>

The price of entry is knowing how to pick locks

Nick

10 hours ago, by Mokubai

@bwDraco piracy is bad, mmmkay?

Journeyman Geek

DID BLACKBEARD ASK WHICH WAY TO LOAD A CANNON?

now, if this was a legitmate download, like a vintage copy of mechcommander goal from the sadly short period it was free....

Nick

so, Is the answer "extract the canon with MagicIso"

Journeyman Geek

one does not extract cannons...

One muzzleloads a period accurate piece.

Windows 10 does mount ISOs natively

Nick

05:23

@JourneymanGeek I wish they taught that at cannon-school

@JourneymanGeek how does one do that?

Journeyman Geek

I think you can quite literally just open an ISO and mounting it is an option

yup

open with windows explorer

Nick

@JourneymanGeek oh yeah, that works. What does one do on linux?

Journeyman Geek

@Nick LMGFY

Bob

@Nick Use the ~~Force~~ mouse, ~~Luke~~ Nick

Journeyman Geek

cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-mount-iso-image-under-linux.html

Bob

05:28

@JourneymanGeek without looking at the link: mount :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Yes ;p

on windows howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/…

I didn't know about WinCDEmu before ;p

Nick

:) learning everyday

Journeyman Geek

@Nick most of these things are trivially googleable ;)

(fun fact. I kept forgetting the name of the gif tool I use and kept googling it.)

Nick

@JourneymanGeek googleability be; I trust experienced human reccomendations more than the top goog result.

@JourneymanGeek So, what is the gif tool you use?

Journeyman Geek

licecap

@Bob has a different preference I keep forgetting about with better features

Bob

05:35

@JourneymanGeek ScreenToGif

though I'm more likely to use Snagit at home these days (they added gif in 13)

Bob

06:35

@JourneymanGeek can mods see if a user is question-banned on other sites?

Journeyman Geek

Not really. We can unilaterally close and see if it fails or ping one of their mods

Bob

ah

the question in question => superuser.com/questions/1170465/… => looks like it should have been on SO, but this guy is primarily an SO user, soooo... smelt like Q-ban :P

@JourneymanGeek does a migration fail if they're question banned on the target site?

Journeyman Geek

Yup

Bob

I kinda wanted to VtC/VtM but didn't want to give this guy a free pass into SO if he is banned

@JourneymanGeek ah. recent-ish change?

I seem to recall that not happening, oh... five years ago? :P

Journeyman Geek

No free passes

Just VTM

Bob

06:39

heh

Journeyman Geek

Or VTC if terrible

Bob

hm. kiiiiinda feels like not a great question to migrate

it's a bit on the vague (broad, homework-ish) side but tbh I'm not familiar enough with the topic to tell

bleh.

too late, and retract means no revote. ah well, it's only 1/5

Journeyman Geek

Ah I'm out. So... I'll leave it to the community or till I get back

Bob

@JourneymanGeek did you end up finding a chair? :P

get a cushion for your temp one?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob using a dining table chair with a cushion.

Going to try seeing if I can pick one out today localish and if I can lug it home on a bus myself.

Bob

06:51

@JourneymanGeek ow

that sounds... heavy

Journeyman Geek

Lol. The human is pretty big(then again he broke a chair). Also sensible. I may get it another day

I'm more worried about the weather

HackToHell

hola !

0

Q: How to refill ammo in Insurgency?

I like to play co-op(checkpoint) and how do I restock Ammo at a checkpoint? Is there any visual cues to where I can restock ?

insurgency

Journeyman Geek

I also need/have 4kg of bread flour in my bag

Bob

07:12

@HackToHell I'd answer but I'm on mobile :P

HackToHell

@Bob np, answer when back

Also C4 is amazing

I blew up my entire team with it :)

and got auto kicked :D

Bob

@HackToHell answered via mobile :P

@HackToHell careful with explosives, they have a massive radius

well it's more that they do a fair bit of damage and you don't have much health

HackToHell

I know, didn't expect the radius of damage

It was so awesome !

Bob

but Source physics say even a tiny physical obstruction (e.g. ledge) can block explosions from you :P

HackToHell

oh, and I didn't know there was a resupply button

never noticed that in Team Fortress 2

Bob

07:22

remind me to add screenshots tonight

HackToHell

okay

Screenshots are broken in Arch, otherwise will take em

Journeyman Geek

08:13

Ended up taking a cab home

Got the same model/colour as my old one.

Bob

08:31

@JourneymanGeek You bought a cab? :P

Journeyman Geek

Lol

No a chair.

Psycogeek

what , so you rode a chair home ?

so whats up? Do they have a UBER or a LYFT there? uber here has become really popular.

people who would generally only order a taxi , if they wanted to empty thier wallet :-) will order a uber up.

Burgi

09:04

morning

Journeyman Geek

Naw

Taxis here Arn't that pricy. Cost me about 9 dollars.

Naw. Took the chair I bought home in a cab I didn't buy

Boris_yo

I found reasons to upgrade smartphone:

1. System got slow and buggy. Nexus 4 has known bug of becoming too laggy up to restarting itself after several days.

2. Does not support OTG. Can't connect flash storage, RJ45 etc.

3. No option to add beyond built-in NAND since it does not support SD cards.

So are these good reasons to upgrade to another device with almost same technical specifications?

Journeyman Geek

09:21

If you think so.

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek If it was me he would have ~~accidentally~~ fallen off his bike :)

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill if I had my cheap walking stick, that would have happened

ahh

so nice to have a proper chair again

Boris_yo

Just realized why I had upload throttling when transferring files locally between mobile and PC. Both were connected wirelessly. Changed PC's connection to LAN while leaving mobile wireless significantly improved results.

Now if I had OTG capability for mobile I would set it on LAN connection by plugging into router.

I exepct the bandwidth would improve even more.

Just eliminating PC's wireless which probably caused a lot of overhead elminated bandwidth throttle between ~300KB/s up to 1.8MB/s

djsmiley2k

09:47

back to the grind,

Rahul2001

Heyyy

djsmiley2k

sup @Rahul2001

10am start D:

Rahul2001

School is boringggg

djsmiley2k

This is true

use your mind to explore while you're bored

I wonder how many people did what I did, which was to try and solve problems in my head when bored.

Also @Rahul2001 I think we ALL need help with PHP.

I'm just a guy who copypastes stuff and it sometimes works... please don't see me as any kind of coder, that said, I'll help if I can

Rahul2001

10:15

@Burgi deluge-torrent.org

Burgi

you are 24 hours too late

Rahul2001

Lol, but seriously, it's an awesome piece of work

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 @Bob already mentioned that ;p

I mentioned qbitorrent

I think everyone agrees utorrent is crap now ;)

Burgi

you guys are the only people i know who still use torrents

last time i had a discussion with anyone about it utorrent was the best client around

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi heh, I do actually use it to get linux livecds (sometimes ;p)

Burgi

10:30

me too!

DavidPostill

Today I have my first cold in more than 15 years :/

Burgi

yukky

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill How was your birthday?

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 Boring ...

Rahul2001

@Burgi ...And yours?

DavidPostill

10:33

@Rahul2001 He got a nice voucher :)

Burgi

mercifully quiet

i was hungover

steam vouchers <.< >.>

Journeyman Geek

steamy from what I heard ;p

DavidPostill

I didn't get anything. Even my Mum forgot my birthday. She thought it was today ...

@JourneymanGeek lol

William Hilsum

I don't suppose anyone can help me with a little BSOD diagnosis? I feel like I have helped hundreds of people on this site, but, blind to my own issue...

Journeyman Geek

lol

points @WilliamHilsum at... oh wait

@WilliamHilsum I tend to hit systems with whocrashed if I have no clue, and bluescreenview if I have some clue.

also LTNS

William Hilsum

10:36

not seen ltns

but, bluescreenview hasn't helped/blank

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek LTNS?

Long Time No See?

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum @DavidPostill "long time no see"

;p

William Hilsum

ahh! :)

DavidPostill

I was hoping for some new BSOD analysis program :)

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum are there crash dumps?

William Hilsum

10:38

Doesn't appear to be... but, its an awkward one...

I have a i7 4790k / 512gb ssd / 1tb mecahnical/16gb memory/good quality 500w (or 450w?) PSU... been working for years without issue... But, I have a load of random things like visual studio, direct x development edition, possibly a few random drivers etc...

no issues/never BSOD ever

about a month or two ago, I got a new graphics card... always been happy with internal graphics, but, I thought why not...

now it crashes seemingly at random...

looked at fanspeed, and, it is getting warm - cpu at 55 degrees, but no where near critical... and I can play a full game (not done too many) without issue... run benchmarks no problem... then I could be just browsing the web and it blue screens...

it has crashed a few times in games, but, probably more often just doing emails!

I think it has to be either - power, heat or just old fashioned driver issue...

I may order new fans and stuff (annoying as I have been happy with i7 stock cooler for years), but, this has just annoyed me so much...

if it was when gaming or benchmarking, I can understand... but it is the randomness that is annoying

anyway... that's it! going to see if there is an update to Blue screen view... it isn't working for me, but, I have the whole nirsoft tools downloaded and haven't updated it in about a year, so, may not be windows 10 compatible...

Bob

@JourneymanGeek $9 on a taxi would get me maybe a block down the street. If that.

@WilliamHilsum protip: windbg

or if you're alright sharing the dump I can take a look at it :P

lots of crashes that come up as ntoskrnl in bluescreenview will show the proper faulting module with a windbg analysis

found graphics driver, network driver and truecrypt crashes that way

William Hilsum

ive never used windbg... how much personal information is in there? I don't mind sharing... feel like an idiot here after helping so many people! I googled the issue and it came up with an answer I wrote!! just seem helpless when it is myself/second guessing things... I just don't seem to be able to see the obvious...

hmm, I guess my bluescreenview was out of date... updated and it can see them now...

the last 3 have ntoskrnl.exe, and, the other 2 have hal.dll as well

Bob

@WilliamHilsum depends on the dump

minidump is only kernel stuff I believe

full dump is obviously everything in memory

usually a minidump is enough

but I had to pull a full dump to diagnose that truecrypt crash (Windows Server)

now that was a pain, downloading 4 GB over RDP

William Hilsum

oh... im over 100k now! just seen under my name! ... woot! got to get back on this site more :( just so busy now... hate it...

@bob - I don't suppose you fancy connecting in to me? I can download and use windbg here... just in case there is any personal information and only if you have time...

Bob

10:53

@WilliamHilsum yea, that's where you pull out windbg

you can run it yourself if you prefer and I'll *try* to guide you through it

or I can remote in I s'pose *shrug*

William Hilsum

but tbh, I don't really have anything personal here... worst I think is vpn credentials in a dump :/ but even that is ip restricted...

Bob

maybe you can start off with the basic analysis command :P

William Hilsum

ehh... don't worry... I'll try to find it...

Bob

@WilliamHilsum just grab windbg first, via Windows ~~SDK~~ ~~DDK~~ SDK

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/…

William Hilsum

thanks... could swear I already have that, but, I don't see windbg anywhere

thought it installed as part of visual studio

Bob

10:55

@WilliamHilsum VS doesn't include the full SDK

if you use the online SDK installer you can grab windbg only

@WilliamHilsum go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=536682

hm, actually

William Hilsum

its downloading...

Bob

I need to install it on this machine :P

@WilliamHilsum you only need to tick Debugging Tools for Windows from the SDK

it's not ticked by default...

should come to around 95 MB

William Hilsum

hmm... it looks like they have really improved the driver writing experience! haven't looked at this for years... I want the full thing! but... I'll install later!

djsmiley2k

aruggh

why is php so slow to convert a xls into csv D:

Must be a faster way that I don't have to leave upto the user to do 'save as'

Bob

> php

there's ya problem :P

chuck a profiler at it?

djsmiley2k

11:03

I don't know how to do that @bob D:

basically the answer is 'xls sucks!'

Bob

s/cls/php/

djsmiley2k

:D

Bob

xls is actually a really efficient filetype, if read correctly... it was designed to be, considering it was designed for 90s hardware

djsmiley2k

though firing up the vm on this desktop causes everything to start lagging too, which isn't cool

Bob

it's effectively a mini filesystem iirc. ole or summat.

djsmiley2k

11:04

I might just install ubuntu server instead, I don't think having the full desktop running is helping

Bob

but it's also an incredibly complex type

djsmiley2k

yup

Bob

xlsx is much simpler (and much more expensive to read)

djsmiley2k

just horrible, I can open the file in excel, and hit save as, in about 3 seconds

in php i litterally left it there for half hour trying to save this file out

Bob

well

djsmiley2k

11:05

No errors, but no visible progress (you can't load part of the sheet, only the whole thing).

Bob

I'm pretty sure your code is just stuffed, then :P

run it through a debugger

and make sure you aren't infinite looping anywhere

djsmiley2k

the code is litterally 'load the file; save the file'

Bob

and if you're trying to do something dumb like "loop through all rows"

djsmiley2k

No, I don't even touch the data

Bob

cause often that loops through millions of empty rows too...

djsmiley2k

11:06

Litterally load and save

Bob

hm

*shrug*

try another library?

djsmiley2k

yeah, I started looking for some - hense asking here if anyones done it before

got to copy off the files I've done so far first before wiping this :D

William Hilsum

ok, windbg downloaded -sorry, had a phone call

Bob

@WilliamHilsum I need to run for a bit, but try !analyze but you might need to .symfix + restart windbg first (save workspace)

load crash dump from file menu

I'll be back in an hour

William Hilsum

no worries, I'll take a look... never used it before!

just loaded the usb tool, could have done with that a few weeks ago!

Rahul2001

11:31

ELLIPSES...!

djsmiley2k

12:27

@Rahul2001 hell yeaaah!!!11.......

Burgi

@DavidPostill i can give you a hug if it helps

Journeyman Geek

imgur.com/gallery/rM88j

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djsmiley2k

12:44

wow that's... weird

Cool, but weird

Burgi

oh a friend of mine had that shell installed on his laptop too

he was a strange guy though

djsmiley2k

We've all known a few strange guys I think :D

Journeyman Geek

I thought we were the strange ones ;p

djsmiley2k

oh god no

we can communicate, at least via a text based interface

we generally don't get offended if we are told we're wrong. We like to learn, and sometimes even welcome change.

we're relatively normal, even @dog

Journeyman Geek

We communicate well on a text base interface cause many of us probably grew up with one ;p

We have a family whatsapp group

full of 'normal' people

If you handed me a room like that, and asked me to moderate it, I think I'd pick rolling in something smelly over that.

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