Root Access

Ramhound

00:02

I found the answer that was submitted sort of funny. "How did this hacker prevent his website from being blocked by his isp" answer: "your isp has blocked port 80.... running a web server might be against the term ..." WAIT What?

bwDraco

@Bob dropbox.com/s/s66t9viqg3hf1vx/memory-report.json.gz?dl=0

Bob

@Ramhound yea, the answer seems to have ... massively ... misinterprefed the question :P

bwDraco

Oh, and Lineage is just about ready to build ROMs.

Dec 25 '16 at 2:26, by bwDraco

My biggest concern is whether Lineage will be able to produce ROMs that don't require a wipe to migrate to from CM13.

Although experimental, they have a way to manage this, through an intermediate migration ROM. Fantastic.

Journeyman Geek

@Ramhound Eh. By love, you mean closevotes

bwDraco

lol

Oct 4 '16 at 4:20, by bwDraco

(I hate that mobile chat sometimes duplicates rather than properly edits messages)

Journeyman Geek

00:08

Yup

@Ramhound also I had some issues with deerspotter in the past. Don't engage.

bwDraco

@Ramhound Probably trolling. Don't post any comments; instead, flag for mod attention.

Ramhound

Understand I will refrain in the future

Journeyman Geek

Eh. In this case, VTC, don't even bother flagging. This guy called me and BenN out on one of the metas

bwDraco

If in doubt, though, a free-text mod attention flag is generally okay; be sure to explain precisely what's going on so that it can be properly handled.

Ramhound

I do have a question:

-1

A: ISP cant block my website

Your ISP blocks port 80 Nothing you can do about this one. You could try calling them to remove the block, but you'll have to get past the level 1 "Can you try rebooting to resolve this problem?" drones and the level 2 "We're not allowed to do that" drones first. More ISP's than not will block...

How should I handle something that answer in the future. Do I explain that verbatim answers shouldn't be submitted but instead flag as a duplicate?

bwDraco

00:22

@Ramhound For most users acting in good faith, it's okay to leave a comment. If it appears to be trolling, just flag.

Journeyman Geek

@Ramhound don't comment. There's nothing to be done. Downvotes are nice.

Ramhound

Irregardless of who submitted it

bwDraco

Don't comment if it's evident that the user is trolling.

I try to assume good faith and tend to err on the side of commenting.

It's a judgment call.

Ramhound

i can't tell if the answer is trolling or actually serious. I hate just voting if there is a chance to teach a user how to submit a better answer I look at some answer I was tough on and they significantly increase the quality of their answers

-1

A: ISP cant block my website

Your ISP blocks port 80 Nothing you can do about this one. You could try calling them to remove the block, but you'll have to get past the level 1 "Can you try rebooting to resolve this problem?" drones and the level 2 "We're not allowed to do that" drones first. More ISP's than not will block...

bwDraco

Flagged as plagiarism.

quora.com/Can-I-host-my-own-website-with-my-own-Computer

Ramhound

00:27

2k user in 60 days...

hold on pasted the wrong link

superuser.com/users/650163/…

Journeyman Geek

Sigh. Which part of don't engage isn't clear?

bwDraco

If the user does this repeatedly, then I won't comment any further. I am out of the loop here so I've posted this comment, but only once.

Ramhound

He copied and pasted it from the question I flag that question as a duplicate so your telling me the original author plagiarized?

That's hilarious

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek As before, I'd rather assume good faith and give them a shot at proving themselves before actually treating the user as a troll.

It is not obvious that the user is trolling.

Innocent until proven guilty.

Ramhound

I just treat each individual interaction as unique.

Journeyman Geek

00:39

Meh. I've mentioned why not to engage.Don't forget if this blows up, chances are I'll need to deal with it.

bwDraco

Differing approaches to moderation...

Journeyman Geek

Well, I'm an actual mod who specifically remembers this person.

@Ramhound that guy's ok

Don't forget people Arn't going to wear a flashing neon sign about what their actions will be

A good chunk of moderation is about how to deescalate a situation.

bwDraco

I'll see if I can put in a request to my parents to spend some time outside so I can socialize and gain some critical experience...

Burgi

wait... what?

aren't you 21?

bwDraco

@Burgi You realize I am under very restrictive parentage?

Burgi

00:47

there is nothing they can do to prevent you from going out

bwDraco

Furthermore, I anticipate that things will get worse with disputes between Mother and Father, especially as restrictions start to get lifted over the coming months.

I don't want to go into more detail on a public forum; let's just say that Father is a pessimist and doesn't think Mother's more permissive approach is a good idea.

Burgi

fair enough but i recommend "popping out for a pint of milk"

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bwDraco

Mom will generally say OK to things like this as long as I provide adequate advance notice (typically the night before), but Dad doesn't always agree.

Burgi

just shout it as your leaving. any dissent and/or arguments are terminated when the door slams behind you

bwDraco

00:51

Besides, Chinese New Year is on the 28th (see the star wall) so I have additional things to do these few days. Per tradition, we do a full clean-up of the house the night before.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Ramhound

@JourneymanGeek Yes; I know he is ok; but their first couple answers were pretty bad. One of a very small group users who started out really rough (submitting link-only answers) and are submitting much better answers now.

bwDraco

(We're not superstitious but we do it as a matter of tradition.)

Journeyman Geek

@Ramhound My early answers are terrible too!

Ramhound

i still got answers with zero votes :-(

Journeyman Geek

00:53

lol so do I!

Burgi

@Ramhound its your comments saying "this has been discussed before" without providing the context

Ramhound

wait what?

Burgi

i'd have to dig out an example and i'm falling alseep at the keybaord

Ramhound

i might not remember users but I can recognize writting style.

(Not sure which statements your @'ing me about)

Burgi

on questions, sometimes you say "this has been answered before" then don't rpovide an example

that said i haven't noticed you do it for a while

i'll find an eaxmple in the mrning i've vey tired right now

nn

Ramhound

01:00

If I do it, it's something like, I see the samething twice in a short amount of time by the same user (about as far as my memory goes for stuff like this)

So I just say what's natural, if I tell somebody something on Monday, then make the same comment on Tuesday, I might reference Monday but somebody listening on Tuesday doesn't have the context but doesn't necessarly mean the person I made the comment doesn't have the context. If they don't I am happy to explain

if that makes any sense.... starting to go crazu myself

Bob

floof

Ben N

01:32

@Ramhound I once saw a user rocket to 15K in less than three months, but he seems to have burned out :(

Journeyman Geek

yeah

one reason I tend to take it slow

bwDraco

@BenN lol

Psycogeek

@bwDraco that is surprisingly well balanced, by the team of 2, and more natural for the different genders to , , , for your mom to be more unconditionally sheltering and permissive, and for the male role to be more expecting an adult to grow up in the real harsh world. At some age where your deemed old enough, both-em will push the kids out of the nest. They either fly or die, most of them fly :-) Ahh philosophical observations of society , that alter but do not change much.

Journeyman Geek

01:47

That's kinda sexist.

Psycogeek

testosterone and estrogen are scientific facts.

but yea in todays society , where they are all the same (lol). . . . it has altered but not changed much, in thousands of years.

Journeyman Geek

Tiger mother

Tiger mother (traditional Chinese: 虎媽; simplified Chinese: 虎妈; pinyin: hǔmā; Wade–Giles: hu³ma¹) is a term which refers to a strict or demanding mother who pushes her children to be successful academically by attaining high levels of scholastic and academic achievement, using methods regarded as typical of childrearing in East and Southeast Asia to the detriment of the child's social, physical, psychological and emotional well-being. The term is coined by Yale law professor Amy Chua in her memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. == Characteristics == === Harsh regimen === Mothers who set up rules...

is a thing

and its not just chinese

bwDraco

It's more like my father is this way.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco just for the record, I was essentially a shutin when I joined this site

both in terms of the real world, and online.

so, meh, you learn social skills without a tremendious amount of effort

bwDraco

Mother understands that what I need to do is do my best, not achieve perfection. Perfect isn't possible.

Journeyman Geek

01:54

what's necessary is balancing self awareness, with not freaking the shit out about whether you're doing the right thing.

bwDraco

Over the last six years in college, I have seen myself grow tremendously. The first year was riddled with ejections from the classroom and campus security calls, but by the time I got to my senior undergraduate year, these problems were pretty much gone.

Journeyman Geek

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bwDraco

Father used to complain about B+ and A- grades on my report card when I was in grade school.

Mom knows that I put in the effort and that I'm very passionate about doing my very best. That's what matters.

Straight A's might look great, but let's be honest. Nobody's perfect.

A 3.97 GPA in grad school is nothing to scoff at.

Psycogeek

@bwDraco i am :-) and because my parents did the same crap, but it paid off for the most part, even if nothing learned in "school" translated to rel life.

bwDraco

lol

Psycogeek

02:02

looking back getting 4.0s was more about who hands them out , than about how many i could get.

some teachers or professors would never let somone off that easy, and Up the challenge for the more gifted (gifted my butt, i just wanted out of there)

bwDraco

I've always been known as an overachiever. It's that I've had to cope with self-control problems along the way.

Psycogeek

sorry no time to think about you, only the number of gold stars you can aquire.

bwDraco

I'm starting to get more decision-making authority (e.g. Father often wants me to shop and make purchases for him, then reimburse me after the fact) but I'm still not as free as I'd like to be.

Psycogeek

at times when i did succeed away from them, and got accolade awards and achievments that could hang on the wall and all. I avoided showing/telling them, because that wasnt the whole me, that was just the ones on paper.

they cling to harshly to what other people think about me, what was important was what i thought about myself at any point.

bwDraco

You see, I've always tended to think long-term. Being a visionary isn't easy when others think your ideas are crazy.

Psycogeek

02:17

crasy ideas pay off huge, the day after you die and everyone cashes in on them :-)

all those greatest inventers , like 1/2 of them were broke solid for thier whole life , the overvalued artists that couldnt get enough money to eat from thier art , now thier painting selling for 25million

much of our historical heroes, had one thing going for them, hard work , not plaques on the wall

bwDraco

Precisely.

Journeyman Geek

02:37

laughingsquid.com/… what I suspect dog was really doing when he was missing...

bwDraco

03:13

Aug 3 '16 at 13:38, by bwDraco

> You have a knack for trading the British Pound against the Japanese Yen. You have a killer hot sauce recipe, and it’s in distribution worldwide. You just made partner at your father-in-law’s firm. Whatever the case, you’re in that elite group that doesn’t really worry about money. You have the beach house, the Bentley, and the Bulgari. And now Nvidia has a graphics card for your gaming PC: the Titan X.

Updating the build plans to use the TITAN X.

Psycogeek

to put in your Rolls Royce?

bwDraco

Aug 3 '16 at 18:22, by bwDraco

(3584 CUDA cores in 28 of 30 SMs on Pascal GP102 @ 1417-1531 MHz; 12 GB GDDR5X @ 10 Gbps on 384-bit bus.)

Psycogeek

how much power does it use when it is working 100% to play a game

bwDraco

I'm probably going to add a CLLC to the card.

Journeyman Geek

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@bwDraco juast my opinion, and everyone elses here I suspect, but the titans are a bit of a waste of money.

bwDraco

03:17

Hmm. I can't seem to find a CLLC for the card. I'll have to go open loop.

Journeyman Geek

You'd probably do quite well with a 1080/1080TI that costs about 2/3 as much or less

Psycogeek

yea put water in there, electronics love that

bwDraco

Aug 3 '16 at 13:38, by bwDraco

> You have a knack for trading the British Pound against the Japanese Yen. You have a killer hot sauce recipe, and it’s in distribution worldwide. You just made partner at your father-in-law’s firm. Whatever the case, you’re in that elite group that doesn’t really worry about money. You have the beach house, the Bentley, and the Bulgari. And now Nvidia has a graphics card for your gaming PC: the Titan X.

Journeyman Geek

Do you? ;p

bwDraco

That's the whole point. We have the funds to support this. I just need to get Mother to approve it.

Journeyman Geek

03:19

Cause most of us are totally trying to build the most kickass rigs we can, sensibly ;p

Psycogeek

when building a desktop (not laptop) you dont require the whole budget. Plus getting stuff working one at a time, means you know what is a likely suspect when something goes wrong or changes.

bwDraco

Let's be frank about this. I can attempt to get approval for building Lucifer but I doubt my mother will like the idea of a $9,000 PC.

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MHXyLD
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MHXyLD/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-6950X 3.0GHz 10-Core Processor ($1649.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H115i 104.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI X99A GODLIKE GAMING EATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($529.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($711.47 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 960 Pro 1.0TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($685.93 @ Amazon)

TITAN X seems to be very hard to find, hence the inflated prices.

wat

use titan xp

is better

oh nm

> 833W

bwDraco

@wat This is the Pascal GP102 card.

wat

> 1500 PSU

Psycogeek

03:22

Post build additions of , Drives, SSDs even, raid cards, tv cards, video cards, and (of course) usb adapting stuff, NASes. even upgrading the CPU or ram. All you need is a primo PSU and great motherboard to support future upgrades, you dont have to get too deep at the start

wat

Just get a 1000W PSU and be done with it

bwDraco

@wat We need headroom for OC.

wat

...OC?

bwDraco

1200W is the minimum here.

wat

You're buying all that computer hardware and you still need to overclock it?

bwDraco

03:23

@wat Overclocking sucks huge amounts of power.

wat

I know, I did it myself at one time

I just don't feel the need to do it anymore

bwDraco

Look, I routinely run my laptop's GPU overclocked.

wat

...laptop.

so that improves from 15 frames in tf2 to 17 frames

in my case

bwDraco

@wat It's a gaming laptop with a GTX 780M. The GPU's showing its age so I'm trying to extract as much performance out of it as possible.

wat

OK, makes sense if it is a gaming laptop.

It's just that my laptop is a Dell Latitude E6410. Overclocking that GPU would be a. impossible, and b. futile.

bwDraco

03:25

lol

wat

My mind jumped straight to that

bwDraco

Had to overclock my old HP laptop's GPU many years back. The Mobility Radeon HD 5650 had loads of trouble running then-current games at 1366x768.

wat

BTW should I upgrade from the 1280x800 screen to the 1440x900 screen?

bwDraco

Aug 18 '16 at 3:27, by bwDraco

My old laptop was replaced after it had trouble running games at medium settings at 1366x768 due to the extremely old and underpowered GPU (overclocking helped but did not make a huge difference).

wat

I don't run games on my laptop because I physically can't

most it can handle is either civ 5 in strategic view, half-life 2, or VVVVVV

bwDraco

03:32

My laptop runs the new DOOM just fine but that's pushing it.

(1080p medium settings, around 40-50 fps most places)

wat

it's nice to hear that you can afford a semi-recent laptop :,(

I have a 970 in my main PC

bwDraco

Well, the system ran us about $2200 when we got it three years ago. Aftermarket storage and memory upgrades have bumped the total cost to about $2800.

wat

pcpartpicker.com/user/dkudriavtsev/saved/rh77YJ

bwDraco

> 1 additional PCI-Express 6-pin power connector is needed.

You're short on PCIe aux power connectors. Are you using an adapter of some sort?

The PSU has no PCIe aux power, and 346W maximum load is awfully close to the PSU's 430W limit. I'm not too confident in the longevity of this build...

I know most PSUs will tolerate some degree of peak overload, but this looks like a cheapie model that might not be well behaved in such a situation.

It's by no means a bad supply, though, performing surprisingly well in JonnyGURU testing: jonnyguru.com/…

Journeyman Geek

@wat Typically, upgrading just a laptop's screen can be tricky

Also, its not just about resolution

wat

03:45

@JourneymanGeek I've removed the screen on this unit before. It's easy to replace, and some users on forums have successfully done it.

Journeyman Geek

@wat some models have firmware hax

wat

@bwDraco yes, 2 molex to one PCIe 6-pin.

@JourneymanGeek ?

Journeyman Geek

"some users on forums have successfully done it"

Ah, that's different

my R61 will take a better screen with a firmware hack, better inverter...

wat

This screen is LED backlit, no need for inverter

@bwDraco 80W of overhead is "close" now? I don't overclock.

@bwDraco That's part of the reason that I chose it.

bwDraco

My bad, the supply has one PCIe aux power connector, but your card needs two.

wat

03:47

@bwDraco Exactly

Journeyman Geek

@wat eh. While some folk here would disagree, I don't consider my ideal laptop and my ideal gaming rig overlap

I want decent battery life and lightness in my laptops

I want power and big screens on my gaming boxen

wat

That's exactly what I want in a laptop, I was considering an XPS 15.

Journeyman Geek

._.

wat

I also looked at this Gigabyte laptop with a GTX 970M and pretty light

Journeyman Geek

0

Q: More Than 1 Display

How to use more than 1 display.

display

wat

03:51

amazon.com/GIGABYTE-P34Wv5-SL3K2-GTX970M-i7-6700HQ-Computer/dp/…

Journeyman Geek

@wat my current laptops are a razer blade stealth (which I love to bits but isn't really pushed hard) and a steam 11 (which is the best thing for throwing into a bag and not worrying)

wat

@JourneymanGeek what is a steam 11

also, the E6410 is a tank

I've heard stories about them being dropped off stairs and shrugging it off

Journeyman Geek

store.hp.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/…

Its a windows netbook

mind you, that's a newer model

wat

@JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

oops

*stream

noitsbecky

03:59

Woof

wat

lol

noitsbecky

!!caaaaat2

wat

i had to photoshop that

gimp, whatever, i cant afford photo shop and it does not run on linux anyway

Journeyman Geek

05:14

gizmodo.com/…

Bob

→ 1 message moved to Trash

That's... not really a great thing to onebox.

Bob

05:38

@JourneymanGeek ok, got Amazon to reship the HDD. And now we play the waiting game... again.

I'll end up with either 4x 8 TB or 6x 8 TB at the end of this (and then have to ship 2 back)

Psycogeek

you did the seagates?

Bob

ya

allquixotic

05:55

@Bob desktop Seagates? :D

(the ones I have)

Bob