Root Access

allquixotic

00:48

The MAIN Reason Why Germany Lost WW2 - OIL

0xFFF1

Okay, so I wanted ethernet for my Nintendo Wii, but the router I have doesn't work for some reason. So I bought two of these things: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MYT47EA
i plugged one into the USB slot in the Wii, another into a USB slot in the back of my computer tower, and connected the two with an ethernet cable. I even downloaded the driver off their official site and restarted my computer.
Tell me why this should or shouldn't be able to work and why.

I get Wii Error Code 52022 btw

Michael Frank

@0xFFF1 What makes you think your computer will understand how to forward the traffic from the Wii to the internet?

0xFFF1

using just one and plugging it into the modem directly works fine

is there a script i can write in one of the packet sniffer programs to let me forward traffic?

hmm

Journeyman Geek

01:06

@0xFFF1 those things need drivers - your wii needs to know how to speak to it

if the wii works on its own, I think what you need to look at is bridging.

0xFFF1

yeah, ostensibly, i'd only need my computer to appear like a modem or router and just move the packets to my modem

Journeyman Geek

but bridging is pointless if your dongle dosen't work with your Nintendo...

(cause saying dongle dosen't work with your wii sounds wrong)

0xFFF1

oof

it is normally compatible

im just using it in a way nobody probably expected

using win10's network adapter manager to bridge the connections didn't work

wii still gives 52022

Journeyman Geek

01:25

'normally' = does it work connected to, I donno, a router?

0xFFF1

for some weird reason, if I try hooking up my old wrt54gl, it gets all the way to not being able to connect to the DNS server. so i cant use it

Bob

@0xFFF1 a wii isn't a general-purpose computer

a wii does not run a general-purpose OS

the USB ports on a wii are not controlled by a general-purpose OS

the USB ports on a wii only support what the wii OS supports

...which is probably just storage

though apparently it might support one specific brand of adapter

Michael Frank

01:52

@Bob There is an official USB network adapter for the Wii.

allquixotic

02:42

updated to 17133.1 (Windows 10 v1803) final release via MCT; looking good!

Michael Frank

Hmm... I should turn my computer on... It's been off for a week.

allquixotic

aaaand the combination of a BIOS update and v1803 gives me, finally, Meltdown and Spectre fixed!

(the BIOS update is fairly recent, too)

hopefully, a future hardware platform will change that one option in white

> Hardware requires kernel VA shadowing:

once that's False, that means you're running hardware that has fixed the vulnerability at such a low level that the OS no longer needs to work around the vuln

2018? 2019? who knows

it's certainly not fixed in Coffee Lake

Michael Frank

03:38

@allquixotic Where's the script from?

rahuldottech

06:53

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Q: how to export nodecore text to markdown *not* as header (#, ##)

I exported the tutorial to markdown, I noticed that large chunks of text such as this one were exported to standard markdown text: However when I create my own nodecore text it is always exported to markdown titles, how can I have the text exported to standard text in markdown?

Super low quality question

with incorrect tags

and a bounty

argh

Michael Frank

@rahuldottech shrug It's his rep to bounty away.

Andy K

morning

Michael Frank

evening

Bob

07:11

afternoon

djsmiley2k

bonjour!

Journeyman Geek

07:22

woof

Vylix

excuse me, but anyone knows what happened with (old) microsoft crm?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek fiddling with openscad :P

Journeyman Geek

07:39

ah lol

though you didn't like it

Andy K

morning

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ehhh it's useful for customisable things

not so much for modelling real world objects

Journeyman Geek

ah

Burgi

08:04

morning

Michael Frank

08:37

Evening

djsmiley2k

09:01

> cat SyslogCatchAll.0[10-19] | grep

that... should work

user226528

09:43

@djsmiley2k Is this from a film?

Burgi

@FleetCommand mona, last years pixar film

allquixotic

@MichaelFrank support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4074629/…

@Burgi you mean moana?

Burgi

@allquixotic yeah

allquixotic

well it's taken them several days to finish deploying my order, but looks like I'm about to have a system with dual L5630s (Westmere-EP quad core - has VT-x/EPT), 2 x 500 GB HDD, and 24 GB DDR3, for $200/year in Atlanta

seems a pretty decent value

Burgi

i've just come up with a plan to nuke our remaining windows web servers in one fell swoop

allquixotic

09:53

$16.67/mo for 8 cores / 16 threads, reasonable RAM and a gigabit uplink

djsmiley2k

@FleetCommand lol yeah

Moana,

@Burgi can't spell.

@Burgi a nuke maybe overkill...

Burgi

it'll be a saving of roughly £200/mth

no wait

djsmiley2k

Not bad

user226528

10:08

@Burgi @djsmiley2k Moana is not from Pixar. Also, the image does not resemble anything from Moana, unless we are talking deleted scenes, concept arts and DVD easter eggs.

djsmiley2k

Yes it does

Burgi

was it not a pixar studios production for disney?

djsmiley2k

It's a disney film

but it's definately Moana

it's where the island is chasing after Moana

And then she gives it the .... heart of te fiti

Burgi

actually it'll be £109/mth saving

djsmiley2k

Lol, you remmeber how google used to host the images they used in image search?

saving the providers bandwidth and meaning you couldn't right click the image and get the url that way?

well.... they ain't no more ;D

HOTLINK ALL THE THINGS!

Suddenly, someones image b/w has gone throug hthe roof, due to them complaining.

hahahah wp google, wp.

Burgi

10:11

its not google's fault

djsmiley2k

Oh I know

Burgi

they are complying with a court order

djsmiley2k

yah

who was it again?

getty images?

allquixotic

I don't think that was a court order; that was a settlement

djsmiley2k

@Burgi but you misunderstand my point

Google used to host all the images themselves, when used in search results

it appears now, they are just hotlinking the images directly

Burgi

10:13

ah i see

user226528

@djsmiley2k No such thing happened. Te Kā picks up Maui, not Moana.

djsmiley2k

maybe they aren't, but if so, they have changed the javascript, so it presents the true url when you right click the image

@FleetCommand orly

:O

I not watched closely recently

allquixotic

@djsmiley2k I don't think so; they're still serving you the data from their cache

djsmiley2k

So it is so, @FleetCommand

user226528

Moana tells the ocean to clear a dry path, so that she and Te Kā can reach each other.

djsmiley2k

10:15

@allquixotic Ah, but they present the URL

MOANA - Moana Returns the Heart of Te Fiti

►

which is infact awesome.

allquixotic

> .
<img name="NT3PoStK4gcy0M:" class="rg_ic rg_i" style="width: 145px; height: 174px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" onload="typeof google==='object'&&google.aft&&google.aft(this)" alt="Image result for asdfmovie" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAM0AAAD2CAMAAABC3/M1AAAAgVBMVEX///8AAABaWlr19fXw8PDV1dVSUlLb29uCgoLIyMju7u76+vpycnJGRkbp6enk5OSYmJg7OzvOzs4kJCS5ubkZGRmOjo7AwMDf398fHx+srKx1dXVmZmalpaVjY2OysrKKioqdnZ00NDRUVFR9fX0/Pz8qKioQEBBKSkoaGhouLi57yVVYAAATLUlEQVR4nN1dCXezKhB1bVwSTVOrNolRszRp//8PfC4Mi0sUBdP33fPe+awB5AoMM8OAivJvIXnTAOs…

so they're setting the src of their image to the Base64'ed data

and that data is being served to you over https from Google's server

@djsmiley2k addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-view-image

some of the other links I'm seeing are served from gstatic.com, which is Google's CDN

so in either case they aren't hotlinking

they display the actual url of the image when you hover over it, but that doesn't perform any HTTP requests to the actual site it's from

and single left clicking on an image takes you to a URL of the form https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com....etc.png

which is still on Google's website

the only linking they're doing isn't "hot" at all -- the "Visit" button takes you to the webpage the image is contained in, which is the opposite of hotlinking

djsmiley2k

i right click, 'copy image address' - get correct source

Burgi

o.O

djsmiley2k

@allquixotic I know about these, I've got one at home to fix it

k, it only works when you click 'into' the image

allquixotic

@djsmiley2k can't repro that, might be an extension you're running

I get those google.com URLs when I copy the image source

djsmiley2k

10:24

allquixotic

oh you're saying after you left click the image

djsmiley2k

yeah, sry

I didn't realsie it wasn't doing it before you click it.

allquixotic

okay, I see, so they are hotlinking but it's only if you first click on one of the images

djsmiley2k

yup

but, still

pretty sure that wasn't the case previously?

maybe it was and I'm just dumb

allquixotic

presumably that HTML markup isn't even loaded into the DOM until you click, so just doing a google image search doesn't start downloading zillions of images from all different websites unless you start clicking

djsmiley2k

10:25

@allquixotic no, but.... hit left, load up a image, carry on, etc etc

and scrapers etc

allquixotic

I think they might have indeed kept the "large" image (the one you get when you left click) on Google's servers before the Getty change

djsmiley2k

which yus will get banned etc but I imagine this'll have some effect on costs, if it's a real change and not just something I've imagined.

Pretty sure I used to have to click into the image previously

allquixotic

so, funnily enough, this change might've made it easier for image stealers to steal

djsmiley2k

which would then take me to the origin site.

@allquixotic and raised Gettys image hosting costs :D

allquixotic

@djsmiley2k not necessarily, the old-style "View Image" button makes a direct HTTP request to the site of origin for the image and displays it raw in your browser in sort of a standalone webpage

as if you created an .html file and went <img src="https://site-im-hotlinking-to.com/...png">

so that was still "hotlinking" in that sense, but you had to click a button

djsmiley2k

10:28

@allquixotic but most people just right click - copy image

'most people' being people in offices stealing dem images.

allquixotic

okay, so in summary, the user has to make one less click to generate traffic / take up bandwidth on the remote site hosting the original image, with the new implementation vs. prior... they don't have to click "View Image" any longer

besides that it's the same

it would be a total disaster if they had coded it so that it would load the original site's actual image for all the results you get when you do a google image search

Bob

@allquixotic wait what

allquixotic

@Bob yeah, a Delimiter server... old junker :P

I'm keeping OVH, just adding on another one for a Codenvy instance

Bob

oh

allquixotic

since you can't really run Codenvy on LXD

Bob

10:34

o.O

djsmiley2k

10:47

@allquixotic yah

Burgi

ffs

i just got told off for using the word "homogenised" in an email

2

i was told it was sexist

i don't think they fully understand what the word means...

djsmiley2k

1.
subject (milk) to a process in which the fat droplets are emulsified and the cream does not separate.
"homogenized milk"

So reply, asking what they think it means

> make uniform or similar.
"a homogenized society"
synonyms: make uniform, make similar, unite, integrate, fuse, merge, blend, meld, coalesce, amalgamate, synthesize, combine, join together; literarycommingle; archaiccommix
"they wanted to wipe out the differences between towns and villages—to homogenize society"

Don't put up with idiots.

Burgi

they just apologised, they thought i was being sexist/homophobic

@djsmiley2k this is the usage i was refering to

#IdiotsIWorkWith

djsmiley2k

@Burgi yeah, I'm wondering what they even thought you meant o_O

Burgi

very weird

Burgi

11:11

here is the context, just for lulz:

> Testing and deployments will be much easier to perform as the technology platform will be homogenised.

djsmiley2k

lol

djsmiley2k

11:33

sigh

sometimes my job feels like babysitting

Journeyman Geek

12:09

@allquixotic that sounds really cheap for what it is 0_0

@Burgi That's just knee jerk

Burgi

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek i.e. they don't actually care? :D

yey a P1 which isn't.

annnnnnnnnd again we're given the wrong power cables for the switches

/me sighs

this is bonkers, how hard can it be

Burgi

aren't they standard kettle leads?

djsmiley2k

12:26

Cisco kit, so nope lol

First it came with european leads

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek Homogenized? Milk? Women make milk! THAT'S SEXIST!

djsmiley2k

then they sent some weird extensions, which, while they fit, then leave a easily hanging pullable cable....

Burgi

@allquixotic lol

djsmiley2k

just stupid costcutting, which isn't infact cutting any costs.

Burgi

its cutting costs for them, not for you as you have to hunt down special adapters at twice the price

its the Apple business methodology

allquixotic

12:28

@djsmiley2k Obviously he should have written, "Testing and deployments will be much easier to perform as the technology platform will be archaiccommixed."

@Burgi rumors are Apple has a plan for transitioning off of Lightning to USB-C for their phones, and they've already adopted USB-C for Macs

sounds like they are finally adopting an industry standard

Burgi

@allquixotic i'd have been accused of being insensitive to the feelings of people who sexually identify as a spider

@allquixotic hurrah!

djsmiley2k

@allquixotic no wai

Burgi

only 10 years late to the party

djsmiley2k

i can't actually comprehend that Xd

leading the charge I see.

allquixotic

@Burgi the USB-C party isn't that new - maybe 2 years if you're being generous; there weren't any commercially available USB-C phones before then

and to be honest the physical dimensions and capabilities of Lightning were genuinely far better than old Micro USB 2.0 back in the day

Burgi

12:32

it was 2008 that the EU mandated that all phones sold in europe should have a standardised charger

allquixotic

they were just waiting for the industry to catch up to their needs :P

@Burgi technically they do have a standardized charger, even if your phone uses Lightning or the antique Apple 20-pin connector

you just need the right cable and you can plug any of those into a standard USB-A port

so the "charging standard" is 5V DC, 1-2W USB-A female port - bring your own phone+cable and you can charge

Burgi

maybe thats how apple have dodged the fine

allquixotic

maybe so

Burgi

In similar news: Apple is killing off the Beats brand

allquixotic

@Burgi I had heard that they were making their own cans, but not that they were killing the Beats brand - I'd assumed Beats would continue on in parallel

but maybe they prefer not having competition within the company, even though there's a certain type of person who loves Beats because the name is Beats (by Dr. Dre)

hopefully Apple first-party branded headphones are more durable than these Beats I have. I really love the Apple W1 Bluetooth chip due to its range, reliability and battery life, which are better than any other headphones on the market to this day

but they shove the W1 into a pair of flimsy, plasticy headphones with a useful life of about 6 months before they fall apart

Burgi

12:39

my mum gave me a treacle toffee lollipop that was made in October last year. think it is still safe to eat?

allquixotic

@Burgi general assumption about non-perishable food is 2 years it's still good

presence of milk might change that slightly

Burgi

nope#

it tastes disgusting

allquixotic

o_O

Journeyman Geek

12:59

@Burgi not surprised they were killing off the brand

@allquixotic ._.

@Burgi Its possible it tastes disgusting anyway

user226528

@Burgi So, it appears you are unfamiliar with one of the most dangerous things in this world: The scorn of a woman.

bwDraco

13:15

Please don't accuse other users of misleading people. This goes against our Be Nice policy. Instead, state that you disagree with the other answers. Focus on content, not people. — bwDraco 1 min ago

Journeyman Geek

._.

Pretty sure UEFI has been the standard for....

6? 7? years?

bwDraco

Yeah.

And it's easier, not harder, to make a bootable external medium with UEFI.

Journeyman Geek

yup

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek fair point

Journeyman Geek

I don't agree that being completely wrong is against be nice tho.

Just the laws of common sense.

bwDraco

13:21

@JourneymanGeek Notice the lead paragraph.

Journeyman Geek

I guess it should boil down to

"Does this even begin to answer the question?"

hint hint

bwDraco

Instead of dealing with the restrictions that the MBR impose, the UEFI firmware is smart, capable of loading a bootloader, drivers, and other code from a dedicated partition at boot time. UEFI, if anything, is far more flexible than legacy BIOS.

Burgi

so quick meta question, am i ok asking about how I should clean a retro keyboard?

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek Hence my second comment, it doesn't address the question.

Burgi

or is it better on RC.SE?

allquixotic

13:23

@bwDraco it also relies on basically Win64-style PE binaries ._.

of course they're "freestanding" and the binaries aren't hosted on a Windows kernel

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi define retro?

Burgi

1994 IBM model M keyboard

Journeyman Geek

oh

howtogeek.com/312324/… is worth a read

bwDraco

By comparison, the BIOS firmware dumbly executes the first sector. The data structures in the MBR are used by the OS and BIOS APIs but the boot code inside the BIOS doesn't really care.

Journeyman Geek

Other than the nut driver its mostly standard

Burgi

13:27

Journeyman Geek

ah

that's actually a semi recent one - model M production went from IBM to lexmark (which was an IBM spinoff) to Unicomp

I'd consider that on topic here but its worth considering retrocomputing if you want to say, de-yellow it.

Burgi

I don't think it is very yellow. its more how to get the under key scum out

Journeyman Geek

also back in the day, we used to put keys in a delicates bag and wash em cool in a washing machine

ah

remove the keys, turn it over, shake it out.

Burgi

tried

Journeyman Geek

hmm

Burgi

13:31

the fluff is... hardcore

Journeyman Geek

cyberclean is what I'd recommend too

but hard to find ._.

Burgi

tried an airduster and a brush

Journeyman Geek

amazon.co.uk/Cyber-Clean-Home-Office-145g/dp/B001NWJS5C

this might be worth a try

Burgi

i'll photograph the topside tonight

the keys cleaned up with just water and a little washing up liquid

its also missing the ESC key cover

Journeyman Geek

erf

if it was a cherry, its easy to buy single keys

Burgi

13:36

ebay.com/itm/…

Journeyman Geek

or check if unicomp sells em

Burgi

the complete keyboards seem to range in price from $35 to $200 on ebay

djsmiley2k

13:49

yeah

people want the non-usb ones iirc

because n-key rollover

Bob

@allquixotic well, EFI was started in the 90s

ELF barely existed back then

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k which I consider somewhat overrated. ;p

Burgi

14:12

this GDPR stuff is properly stressing me out

basically we are going from an environment where we didn't have to deal with general public logins and the faff surrounding that to where it is now essential that every newsletter signup or generalised product quote has to have a user account

allquixotic

14:55

gist.github.com/allquixotic/92caea9070b451b4db833c7ab0161361

Burgi

+1

Andy K

15:19

bye

djsmiley2k

@Burgi err, fun.

Burgi

not really

we are moving to a situation where the end user has more passwords to remember

Michael

Anyone else notice that, when you are installing Windows Updates, you can't scroll through the list of updates that are being installed without it immediately jumping up to the top of the list?

Or am I just going crazy?

Burgi

currently we are only holding their email and postcode. in the new world we will have to provide mechanisms that allow them to login, view all their data and potentially delete it

Bob

@allquixotic Nit: BIOSes don't need support for GPT; bootloaders do.

You could probably grab a 2005 machine with no idea what UEFI is, and boot from a GPT drive (with protective MBR) with a bootloader (e.g. GRUB) that supports legacy BIOS first-stage loader and a GPT layout.

Also a lot of that muddles UEFI, the spec (which deals with boot standards) and motherboard firmware, which only (possibly) implements the UEFI spec and isn't really "a UEFI" :\

/nit :P

allquixotic

15:40

@Bob that's how Dunning-Kruger goes: if a conversation starts out with a complete idiot blathering nonsense, eventually a PhD who wrote the UEFI spec will come along and nit the nitpicks of the nitpicks of the nitpicks of the first responder

in before said PhD nits your nits :D

Burgi

isn't the notation you used Tebibyte (TiB)?

djsmiley2k

;D

allquixotic

@Burgi yes, I'm rather tebid around bytes

Bob

hm, I'm running out of space again

I just have this slowly growing stack of external HDDs :P

it's easier to buy a new 8 TB HDD (~160 USD) than clear one out

djsmiley2k

:D

Bob

15:44

oh wow they're 140-150 USD now

allquixotic

@Bob "This deal is good for both of us." the ~~Trader Emergency Coalition~~ Taiwan Electronics Corporation offers you a pact for +10% extra disk space

or Amazon S3 offers you a pact for unlimited supply at the cost of -100 credits/sec

Burgi

@allquixotic you refer to it as a terabyte which is noted as TB....

Bob

@allquixotic so that comment about latency improvements... the MS engineer (who helped with your BT question)'s response: "LOL"

comment chain: reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/89opoz/…

I guess it's just a random rumor then :P

@allquixotic what's the exchange rate of AUD to TCC? :P

allquixotic

@Bob or they're comparing the latency from v1511 to v1803, which includes legit latency reductions in 1607

Bob

@allquixotic they claimed it was "recent"

allquixotic

15:49

ah

@Bob it looks like his "LOL" response was specifically regarding the idea that it had been repeated lots of times so it must be true

Burgi

#DutyCalls

bwDraco

16:11

...and I'm chatting with Lenovo support right now.

jokerdino

16:32

Any excel guru here? I have this insane idea that needs to be idiot-proofed. I have two different excel sheets and I want to merge it together by using the value of one particular column. Is it possible somehow?

user226528

+1 for the question. Tried SU yet?

user226528

16:57

0xDEADDEAD

allquixotic

@jokerdino might need to write a macro - need to be more specific about your exact needs

jokerdino

@allquixotic Two different sets of data. They are linked by one particular column. I want to merge them into a single row based on the same column.

Thanks clippy.

djsmiley2k

Sort by that column in both. Is that column unique, and does every entry have a matching one in the other sheet?

If so, copy paste away

jokerdino

1000s of entries :S

allquixotic

17:18

@jokerdino just put both sheets in the same workbook and write a VLOOKUP formula

support.office.com/en-us/article/…

jokerdino

Thanks, I will look into that!

rahuldottech

17:50

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