Root Access

1:07 AM

Jul 28 at 20:41, by bwDraco

@Bob: MASSIVE performance improvement with multiple tabs on the latest Firefox beta. Tabs open and close virtually instantly. Refreshing dozens of tabs no longer causes the browser to lag. The browser is actually able to fully utilize all processor cores without the UI process getting in the way. http://www.techradar.com/news/firefoxs-blazing-speed-with-huge-numbers-of-tabs-l‌eaves-chrome-in-the-dust

It's not much different than AMD versus Intel.

var firstName

1:27 AM

@Avery are you the same avery on IWC, Hypesquad, etc?

I'm @bug24#8189

1:40 AM

Hm. I need to recover bookmarks from a Firefox install on a offline hard drive...

2:58 AM

@JourneymanGeek bookmarks are in places.sqlite but it's easier to just copy the whole profile folder

Weird World Snacks Episode 9 [MINI REVIEW]

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@Bob Aussie tries "Stinky Tofu" and the result is hilarious

it's in AppData/Roaming/Mozilla by default

normal for usb write speed to drop off after 400 mb? i.imgur.com/WV3m7jz.png

@user2476549 it probably has a ~512MB internal write cache that's faster NAND or DRAM.

interesting. is this standard for usb drives? i bought this one yesterday

3:01 AM

nearly all NAND devices have multiple layers of storage baked in, with extremely fast, high IOPS storage right up front but relatively small capacities compared to the larger capacity stuff

@user2476549 it's standard for basically everything, even HDDs to a limited extent (they just have a much smaller cache, usually no more than 256 MB)

most USB flash drives that are inexpensive (i.e., not USB SSDs) are quite extremely slow once you saturate the cache

very cool! but not mentioned anywhere in the packaging, almost feels like false advertising

@user2476549 it's on the package; I'm sure it says "up to" however many MB/s

which is true for the first X amount of data until the cache is saturated, and then true again once the cache empties after some time

yeah that makes sense. if i re-run the benchmark immediately after i still get slowed write speeds, but after a minute or so its back up to speed

if you want a very fast USB storage device then you need to get a USB SSD, which will cost approximately 10 to 100 times more depending on the capacity (higher capacity SSDs cost more per byte than lower capacity ones)

@allquixotic better than surstromming :P

3:05 AM

@Bob I can't say I've ever heard the word "surstromming" or "surstrom" before

an SSD would be nice, bit outa budget for what I need it for though :P thanks for the knowledge guy, much appreciate

Surströmming

Surströmming (pronounced [²sʉːˌʂʈrœmːɪŋ], Swedish for "sour herring") is a type of fermented Baltic Sea herring. The Baltic herring, known as strömming in Swedish, is smaller than the Atlantic herring, found in the North Sea. Traditionally, the definition of strömming is "herring fished in the brackish waters of the Baltic north of the Kalmar Strait". The herring used for surströmming are caught just prior to spawning. During production of surströmming, just enough salt is used to prevent the raw herring from rotting. A fermentation process of at least six months gives the fish a characteristic...

@Bob eww!

as a vegetarian, double eww!

@allquixotic most cheaper drives don't really have a cache

@Bob his apparently has a small one

Sandisk is a decent USB flash drive brand though

3:07 AM

@allquixotic you should see some of the videos :P

the smell alone is enough to make everyone in a 5m radius gag/vomit

@user2476549 could also be a cache on the pc side if you have it configured for performance

oh yeah, I forgot about that -- FS level or OS level write cache

@Bob I think (hope) that the GNOME disk utility takes that into account :P

Q: Replacing UPS of a CPU with whole home suppression (undervoltage) system

(the other option is for removability - if you use the pc write cache you'll lose data if you unplug too early even after it "finishes" copying)

I think the generic term I forgot was host write cache :P

@allquixotic SanDisk Ultra is one of the good ones, yea. It having a cache isn't surprising.

SanDisk also makes really cheap ones though

@user2476549 probably. hopefully :P

Nick Alexeev

3:42 AM

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I need a new UPS however the knowledge acquired in the last years is preventing me from getting one I live in a large city (127v), and voltages rarely go above 130v, however it has happened at least 3 times in the last couple years, that we do get undervoltages (87v) and most UPS do not protect...

4:17 AM

@Bob oh. Yeah. For some reason all the tools I used to use to dump that don't work :(

And I need to talk my brother through it

5:24 AM

ah, tested, exported and emailed

6:07 AM

5

seen at reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/6tb2gi/not_that_im_aware_of

Nick

6:36 AM

Greetings, Happy Sunday!

How are you all :)

aight

8:03 AM

> Failed to allocate a 60 byte allocation with 3304 free bytes and 3KB until OOM

welp

8:41 AM

Wtffff reddit.com/r/Physical_Removal/comments/6tcv77/…

.....

dude,. stay away from the cray cray

8:59 AM

uhhhhh

I think I'm on a list now

9:16 AM

@JourneymanGeek I can't tell if it's supposed to be a parody, troll or ... real

naw, it can't be real

right? right?

9:29 AM

sadly

people. are. that. dumb

10:33 AM

@varfirstName indeed! I'm an admin on iwc.

11:11 AM

@Avery iwc?

internet world congress

was /r/place world congress when I got admin

ah

we pretty much were the heart of /r/place diplomacy

that reddit banner/pixel art thing, right?

yeh

11:15 AM

there was a congress? diplomacy? around it? O_O

all I remember from it was the bunnings logo :P

it wa svery very complex

we even had peace treaties etc

I remember the first one I organized, TFLS and TTP/ICTR [the far left side (communism) and the trans place/intercontinental trans railroad]

I also threw in an arqade logo.

and I had to fight for it.

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A: We were on /r/place!

I was summoned. Oh snap, I missed this post! Hello everyone! Firstly, big shout-out to the members of our great community who helped build the logo, one pixel at a time. Honestly, I'm not sure what to talk about so I'll just talk about the story. The thing that started it all was this chat ...

12:25 PM

1:30 PM

This is stupid

I can't find any scholarships for high school students who are into CS

All I could find were restricted to the US

1:48 PM

some people need to unlearn US centrism

2:48 PM

@Avery When discussing a general topic, I agree -- but a scholarship isn't a general topic. It's a huge commitment of money from one organization to another. That money has to come from somewhere -- from rich corporations who got their profits from middle class consumers; from US taxpayers...

Why would the US economy be expected to shoulder the burden of putting the entire world's children through college? We can't even do it for our own kids.

Nonprofits aren't funded by taxes

@Avery Right, but they're funded by something that is almost definitely sourced from US origins. Somebody paid that nonprofit some money they didn't have otherwise. If the source was India, then by all means, pay out a proportionate amount of scholarships to India. Otherwise, it's just throwing money out the door, weakening an already beleaguered nation.

Human capital flight

Human capital flight refers to the emigration of highly skilled or well-educated individuals. The net benefits of human capital flight for the sending country are sometimes referred to as a "brain gain" whereas the net costs are sometimes referred to as a "brain drain". Research shows that there are significant economic benefits of human capital flight both for the migrants themselves and those who remain in the country of origin. It has been found that emigration of skilled individuals to the developing world contributes to greater education and innovation in the developing world. Research also...

except funding someone's education is a great way to get a loyal employee for cheap

@Avery "Loyalty" doesn't mean much; without a contract forcing them to either work for X years or pay back the money, they could just take the free education and then work somewhere else. In fact many companies in the US do offer "educational assistance" in this format.

For every semester of higher ed you go through, you have to work for the company for a year, I believe. It varies on a per-company basis.

user226528

Hallo, superdudes! Howdy!

2:52 PM

Had a buddy who wanted to change jobs despite not having served his time, so he actually paid the company back a few grand :P

of course, they can contract it like "if you stop working with us without working 5 years then you have to pay the tuition all back"

but I feel like most people would feel guilt

and they'd feel like they owe something

@Avery Most people don't give a shit -- they do what's best for them regardless of anything unless you force their hand. "There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men." nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_160.html (There are exceptions of course, but you can't build a company policy around exceptions.)

and it's much easier to work immigrants and remote workers, especially those who you funded their education and everything for lower wages than what the nationals get paid for same job

@Avery See, that's basically the discrepancy between third-world cost of living and first-world cost of living. We (US dwellers) would be happy to work for less, if the cost of things were less. The cost of housing, health care, and education are the three big ones; all three of them are basically unaffordable if your household income is under 100k.

Food and electronics and stuff are not even a big deal in terms of cost... it's just, having a roof over your head, getting an education, and being able to see a doctor are heinously out of control in their escalating costs.

Onshore workers can't compete in cost with foreign workers, so we have to compete on quality.

@allquixotic Honestly, I just hoped that there were organisations outside the US who would be offering scholarships to high school students

2:59 PM

@rahuldottech Oh, yeah, that's really strange that there aren't O_o

That said, one of my best friends got one from a very major US uni

But she got it for being brilliant at maths, and there aren't any offered by the uni for CS

Isn't there a country offering free higher ed to all citizens now? I forget which one it was

probably northern Europe <3

Turkey has it

but you need to pass a crazy university exam

edvisors.com/plan-for-college/money-saving-tips/…

also no calculators or anything, 4 years of topics

user226528

3:05 PM

Alright guys, I learned a lesson today: Never run a WSUS server cleanup from a client computer; always run it on the server, using Remote Desktop. That's because the cleanup takes long and you eventually want to go home. But servers, they can be left on forever.

user226528

Even stopping it takes time.

3:22 PM

lol... I didn't even know you COULD run it run remotely from the client

@Avery ....

look at the crap happening every day

user226528

O.o Servers are never accessed locally, via console. And rarely over remote desktop. The most common way of managing a Windows server is PowerShell.

ask your self.... do these people feel guilt?

@FleetCommand not for me :D

if i need to do something on a server, I'm rdp'd onto it, because windows! :/

user226528

@djsmiley2k How so?

because there's always some other sod on there already messing stuff up XD

Tho seriously, I've not properly admin's windows machines for many a year now

like, when powershell was a baby type thing

user226528

@djsmiley2k PowerShell was never a "baby type thing", Ross.

user226528

3:26 PM

Bye, guys.

3:59 PM

@rahuldottech Many countries heavily subsidise tertiary education. So scholarships aren't as important (and very very hard to get - you really have to be exceptional).

tertiary education?

so what's that, over 18?

@Bob well, education is privatised here so it's hell expensive

And because one of my parents has claimed that they will disown me as soon as I'm 18 so that they don't have to pay for uni even though they can easily afford it...

I really need to find ways to find my education

Ow :(

Fund*

education is pffft.

tbh

ToxicFrog

4:18 PM

@djsmiley2k aka "post-secondary". Typically university or college. Primary is grades 1-6, secondary is 7-12, tertiary is where you go after that.

@djsmiley2k primary, secondary, tertiary. fancy words for public (primary) school (kindergarten => yr6), high school (yr7 => yr12) and Uni or TAFE (vocational).

4:46 PM

@rahuldottech You could go to Macedonia

scholarship-positions.com/category/scholarships-by-majors/…

Merit Cum Means Scholarship for Professional and Technical Courses in India, 2017

These are for this year. I'm sure there will be similar scholarships available when you are going to be 18.

@DavidPostill thanks!

Also, OMG I GOT A REPLY TO MY SPONSORSHIP EMAIL

@DavidPostill @djsmiley2k @Burgi

:D

Good response?

Have been asked to visit office and give a demo and present

Yay!

@BenN Yess!

> Rahul,

Thanks for this note - can you come to my office sometime this week to demonstrate your idea and accordingly I will decide whether to support it or not.

Not sure about the tone but still. Getting a chance!

4:57 PM

@rahuldottech :)

Getting a chance is probably as good as you get initially. Nobody is just going to give you money based on just an email.

5:19 PM

manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/… @burgi?

@rahuldottech :)

keep working on it, no matter what

6:03 PM

you can do a lot of the 'work' without physical materials too

get that done, makes it more viable for someone to make it a reality.

Q: This [audit] is riduculous!

6:17 PM

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I just hit this audit in the First Posts review queue, which points to this question, which I’ll quote here in case it gets deleted: Why is “No scripts” not activated by default in Tor Browser? I just noticed that the browser extension "No script" is not activated directly after you star...

discussion review-audits

> Are we really expected to look at every thing in a review queue in the “real world” just to see whether a dozen members of the community liked it?

yes, audits are dumb

:@/

They'd have to click on every question and open it in a new tab, which would be unbelievably tedious: This is not a great idea. This disrupts the review workflow for legitimate reviewers. The interface is designed to provide most of the information necessary to review the post with a reasonable level of certainty. The link is only there if further assessment is necessary; expecting users to do this with every post is inconsistent with the design of the review system. — bwDraco Oct 2 '15 at 12:50

the reputation of the poster shouldn't really be a factor in the outcome of a review: I'm not sure if I'd agree with this. Reviewing posts accurately requires context beyond the content of the post. The user's reputation and the presence of other answers are relevant context. For example, a post containing a link to a spam site by a new or deleted user likely needs to be flagged. However, a similar post from an established user requires more care as the user is less likely to be acting in bad faith. In such cases, It may be better to leave a comment or edit the post rather than to flag it. — bwDraco Oct 2 '15 at 12:58

I'm not sure if this is a good idea. This strips the post of its context, which can make it difficult to accurately assess the post without having to click through to view the actual post (dramatically slowing down the review workflow). In some cases, this can actually make audits more readily apparent. It actually makes the job a bit harder for us legitimate reviewers. — bwDraco Oct 2 '15 at 12:45

6:40 PM

@Bob: problem with Firefox Sync, getting this error from Apache server-side:

ConnectionError: Failed to GET api.accounts.firefox.com/.well-known/browserid. Reason: ('bad handshake: SysCallError(0, None)',)

Here's the whole stack trace:

[Sun Aug 13 14:41:42.532409 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 4440] ERROR:tokenserver:Unexpected verification error
[Sun Aug 13 14:41:42.532445 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 4440] Traceback (most recent call last):
[Sun Aug 13 14:41:42.532448 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 4440]   File "/srv/www/vhosts/blog/sync/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tokenserver/views.py", line 85, in valid_assertion
[Sun Aug 13 14:41:42.532450 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 4440]     assertion = verifier.verify(assertion)
[Sun Aug 13 14:41:42.532452 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 4440]   File "/srv/www/vhosts/blog/sync/local/lib/python2.7/site-pac…

Hmm...

Now it works. I restarted Apache after installing pyOpenSSL and urllib packages into the Sync server's internal Python installation using pip.

So erratic...

Jul 13 at 5:58, by bwDraco

Firefox is the only browser I know of that lets me readily configure a custom sync server. When it works, it works really well, but when it fails, it's a administrative nightmare.

7:22 PM

i.imgur.com/…

@rahuldottech please

tell me how i get relevent adverts?

8:08 PM

I'm starting to wonder what options americans actually have

8:29 PM

I mean, it seems that your goverment doesn't care/doesn't have teh ability to do anything about it.... so, erm. leave? overthrow them?

you've got guns, you fought for that right... use em?

(I don't mean shoot people, I mean use them to overthrow the goverment?).

@djsmiley2k How would not shooting people lead to overthrow of the government?

@DavidPostill we didn't blow up paralment and it got things done eventually :P

8:45 PM

@djsmiley2k You are conveniently forgetting to mention the 3 Civil Wars ~ 200,000 dead.

> The English conflict left some 34,000 Parliamentarians and 50,000 Royalists dead, while at least 100,000 men and women died from war-related diseases, bringing the total death toll caused by the three civil wars in England to almost 200,000. More died in Scotland, and far more in Ireland.

> the 1649–53 campaign remains notorious in Irish popular memory as it was responsible for a huge death toll among the Irish population. The main reason for this was the counter-guerrilla tactics used by such commanders as Henry Ireton, John Hewson and Edmund Ludlow against the Catholic population from 1650, when large areas of the country still resisted the Parliamentary Army. These tactics included the wholesale burning of crops, forced population movement, and killing of civilians.

The policy caused famine throughout the country that was "responsible for the majority of an estimated 600…

@Mokubai Just because I leave a comment on an off-topic post that was tagged as off topic does not mean I'm encouraging off topic posts.

Nearly half the population of Ireland died as a result of the Civil War.

@McDonald's Yes, it does

@Mokubai That does not mean that that is my intention then.

@McDonald's Not intentional maybe, but commenting on a product rec with product recs is the exact definition of "encouraging".

8:52 PM

@McDonald's What comment?

@DavidPostill deleted on superuser.com/questions/1240536/windows-xp-pentium-3-antivirus

I made a comment and I get the point and will take the advice but that was not my intention for certain but I will take the advice moving forward—was not my intention but again I will take this advice moving forward.

Ah

@McDonald's No worries, wasn't meaning to be harsh, but to paraphrase Archer: "Do you want product recommendations? 'Cause that's how you get product recommendations."

;)

All good @Mokubai I'm still learning... thanks!!

Also, I saw this post a few days ago per review and I saw Jeff Atwood opened it back in the day after it was closed so it's things like this that are confusing where a top guy says one thing, but the new standards say something else. I only see my one vote to close still so I get confused along these regards: superuser.com/questions/100392/…

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because now there is a Software Recommendations SO community which this is more appropriate for at the current moment -- I know the comment from Jeff from 2010 may have been relevant then, but I would say not so much anymore and I've seen other questions closed for this (or similar) reasons for being off-topic so this one is no different even with that comment in case this is why it's still here; I'll do it — McDonald's Aug 9 at 13:35

8:59 PM

@McDonald's TBH, if you believe the question is good and worth asking, then the best kind of comment is to push them to Software Recommendations

Gotcha sir!! Sometimes I get confused by these old posts that are really software recommendations but no one seems to want to close those.

I think it's mostly that people never run across them

@McDonald's I close them when I see them. Nobody is going to spend the time deliberately looking for them.

When one gets bumped (usually by a new answer) I VTC

I ran across that in review though so I'm not sure why I see them get upvotes on the comment too

but no one else sees them

I understand though but wanted to point that out but I am not looking for old posts, I only see what pops up in review but sometimes I will click on the main post so perhaps that's what's going on.

9:03 PM

His comment might have been relevant back in the day, but we've pretty much declared that sort of thing completely off-topic. Especially with an actual place for them now...

So in cases like that, what is most appropriate for me to do or what should I read to go over all these details of the review.

Should I have flagged it for example rather than voting to close, etc.?

@McDonald's If it's only a few then flag them. If it's lots you will start to annoy the mods :)

I'm pretty sure a close vote will push it into the queue regardless of question age, so a plain VTC should be fine

Okay, thanks guys!! Full time IT guy, father, husband, and do what I can around here when I have time.

Q&A is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping!

9:23 PM

@McDonald's It can be a bit confusing and you do get a lot of "but I searched and found..." to which the only answer is "We used to allow some of that, but not any more."

It helps if you just get a mental "before this date here be dragons and mermaids and all sorts of wacky rules" because for a while the rules were being made up as they were going along. Also:

Jeff Atwood on November 23, 2010

Over the last 2.5 years, we’ve identified a few problematic classes of questions that tend to get asked on our sites. Many of these are documented in our standard set of close reasons: exact duplicate, off-topic, subjective and argumentative, not a real question, and too localized.

However, as we launched the great Super User experiment, a new, previously unknown class of problematic questions emerged — the shopping recommendation.

That is, on Super User we began encountering questions like: …

11:21 PM

MS documentation on the .reg format is somewhat lacking :(

Q: How to merge Windows registry hives directly without converting them to an intermediate text based file?

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Help! I'm going to get fired if I can't figure out how to do this by tomorrow. Microsoft Windows stores its registry databases (known as "registry hives" there's actually a backstory to the origin of this name, but I digress) in a proprietary binary format. Answer this correctly or you ...

windows windows-registry

Rather infamous question here.

Soo... did you get fired? — Hashim Feb 28 at 19:13

And that MS page is also wrong, in one spot - the keyword used by regedit is hex, not hexadecimal

Nice answer :)

Hmm, does reg copy preserve ACL information?