Root Access

bwDraco

00:15

roar

This is a premium router from three years back.

(debug.htm page on the router)

The space is more for configuration than anything else. Most (non-cheap) routers have USB ports, which let you use them as a basic NAS simply by plugging in an external drive.

(ours even has an eSATA port, but I no longer have any eSATA devices)

Though in most cases, better performance can be had if you plug a proper NAS appliance into one of the Ethernet ports on the switch.

Heck, even the upcoming NETGEAR Nighthawk AX12 (model RAX120) has only 512 MB of storage and 1 GB of memory.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco more or less

I was thinking 16mb/128mb and silly things like that

bwDraco

And that router does 8x8 (eight spatial streams) 802.11ax on 5 GHz!

Journeyman Geek

well, that's probably different hardware though

One reason you don't need that much raw power is a lot of these things have their own chips/chipsets/chip-sections optimised for specific things

bwDraco

So yeah, routers are not really about the storage, they're about the chipsets and radios needed to drive high-performance wireless networking.

Journeyman Geek

I was talking about them in general ;p

Low powered processors, very little ram and storage....

bwDraco

00:30

Again, if you actually need storage, plug in a USB flash drive, hard drive, or other storage device.

@JourneymanGeek Entry-level example: NETGEAR R6120 (2x2 802.11ac)

16 MB flash, 64 MB memory.

That's a good example of a modern cheapie router.

Journeyman Geek

A high end router is basically a raspi grade chip :p

@bwDraco that hasn't changed much in the last decade or two

bwDraco

01:14

On write amplification (see Matrix)... TIL software-based full-disk encryption on an SSD can kill it very quickly:

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Q: SSD write amplification and endurance

Summary: How is endurance of SSDs measured and what is the impact of write amplifications? Details I have an Intel SSD Pro 2500 Series 480 GB drive. Recently I got a notification that my drive is failing. I was surprised because it is less than 2 years old. I used the Intel SSD utility to ch...

ssd

I freaked out seeing that 22.7x write amplification factor.

That particular drive (and the SandForce SF-2281 controller in general) seems to have a faulty TRIM implementation: anandtech.com/show/8294/intel-ssd-pro-2500/2

...welp. Known issue with the SF-2281 and firmware versions 5.0.1 and 5.0.2. TIL.

bwDraco

01:38

Drafting an answer now.

Luke Sawczak

02:05

I don't know if this is a question for the site, but I was just curious. Has anyone run into this Windows Media Player 12 bug on Windows 10 x64? I have 8 tracks totalling about 52 minutes in the 'play' view. WMP tallies it as 8 items, 1,760,104,020 hours. It would be nice if those 8 items were 1.7 billion hours of music, but it just ain't the case

Journeyman Geek

02:26

lol

that sounds fun

and like an overflow

allquixotic

02:39

@bwDraco my R9000 has the same (512 MB storage, 1 GB RAM) and seems to do fine; the chipset isn't quite powerful enough to handle fq_codel at near-gigabit speeds though

I guess they invest most of their money into good reliable wifi with many external antennae and such; after all, the SoC is only one component of the system and many other chips on the board are handling your data

Journeyman Geek

03:00

0_0

less storage than ram?

@allquixotic more or less. and your nighthawks are pretty close to the highest end consumer routers you can get, alongside those asus spiders...

But in theory I could get a great low end, commercial grade AP (say a unifi) and the cheapest, basic ghetto router build I could do for about the same price?

bwDraco

@allquixotic Just a quick reminder, you have a pending pull request for the chatbot: github.com/allquixotic/SO-ChatBot/pull/8

allquixotic

03:21

Merged, thanks

bot will be updated... at some point? I'll have to see if I have local uncommitted changes in the bot, and if so, commit those :P

bwDraco

03:33

Thanks.

allquixotic

03:44

sean@cavil:~/dev/SO-ChatBot$ node build.js
         /home/sean/dev/SO-ChatBot/source/plugins/STOP.js
         /home/sean/dev/SO-ChatBot/source/plugins/afk.js
         /home/sean/dev/SO-ChatBot/source/plugins/awsm.js
         /home/sean/dev/SO-ChatBot/source/plugins/ban.js
         /home/sean/dev/SO-ChatBot/source/plugins/colors.js
         /home/sean/dev/SO-ChatBot/source/plugins/converter.js
         /home/sean/dev/SO-ChatBot/source/plugins/cowsay.js
         /home/sean/dev/SO-ChatBot/source/plugins/define.js

nodeJS 10.x broke something and someone hasn't bothered to update their broken code in one of the dependencies

CBA to fix it right now

bwDraco

:(

Hennes

04:52

Morning.

Yawns and prep for work

@LukeSawczak 1.7 billion hours of very repetive music at that compression. :)

But no, not used windows media player since XP era. After I discovered VLC (which just worked without installing dozens of mediapacks) I never went back.

Journeyman Geek

@Hennes maybe lots of very clever deduplication...

Hennes

If I scroll back a day then I think I should still see youtube links for 10h music.

One tone for 10h.... Compresses nicely

Ah, yes, this one

Halitosis (Bad Breath) - Rife Frequencies

►

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek okayy, thx. And BusyBox almost always has wget by default, right?

busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html

According to this site, it does

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech It should, yes

Hennes

uhn. I rarely use busybox. I think it has just about everything in one binary though

And I am told it was spaghetti code, but I have not checked that.

Hennes

05:25

Right, off (wage slave time)

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Burgi

09:19

morning

djsmiley2k

11:07

/me wibbles

rahuldottech

13:18

@Hennes it's super useful

@JourneymanGeek okay, thanks

rahuldottech

13:40

start.paloaltonetworks.com/…

Can someone explain to me what all this tech jargon about SSL decryption is?

Burgi

no

djsmiley2k

13:52

How do I do this, in nginx

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName gitserver
    DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
    <Directory /var/www/gitweb>
        Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        AllowOverride All
        order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        AddHandler cgi-script cgi
        DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

@rahuldottech such as?

Basically they saying 'You can't spy on users because ssl'

rahuldottech

@djsmiley2k you don't

djsmiley2k

@rahuldottech D:

why not?

the only important bits to me really are handling the cgi.

rahuldottech

14:40

I'm getting hits to a location where I used to publish netcat and wget binaries with the referrer as a pornsite. This is weird.

djsmiley2k

pornsite running dodgy adverts which are abusing the binaries your providing?

rahuldottech

@djsmiley2k Why would ads require nc.exe?

djsmiley2k

> 403 Forbidden

damnit

@rahuldottech adverts which run javascript to infect machines.

rahuldottech

@djsmiley2k hmm. Possible, although unlikely

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech you add your own cert, tell say everything is ok, then tell the other server you're the client, and rencrypt the data....

My job does that on VPN

rahuldottech

14:44

@JourneymanGeek ah. sounds bad.

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech eh. funny thing is we only have the certs on IE

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek What's IE?

Journeyman Geek

and the wierd browser I prefer goes "erm, this cert! It is a fake!"

rahuldottech

;p

djsmiley2k

15:02

SO i have some of gitweb working :D

> location /gitweb/gitweb.cgi {
root /usr/share/gitweb;
include fastcgi_params;
gzip off;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $uri;
fastcgi_param GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.sock-1;
}

location /gitweb {
root /usr/share;
index gitweb.cgi;
}

It gives me 443 Forbidden now, instead of bad gateway :D

> 10.0.2.2 - - [28/Jan/2019:15:03:57 +0000] "GET /gitweb/ HTTP/1.1" 403 212 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36" "-"
10.0.2.2 - - [28/Jan/2019:15:05:21 +0000] "GET /gitweb/gitweb.cgi HTTP/1.1" 403 212 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36" "-"

technically /gitweb/ doesn't exist

well it does, but it's pointing to /usr/share/gitweb - do I need to fi the permissiosn on that dir? D:

Hennes

Whee. home

allquixotic

@djsmiley2k most likely

on a scale of god damnit to fixed, where does this lie? i.imgur.com/wb2NnAV.png

looks fixedish to me

XKCD

15:21

I can't help myself; now I want to read a bunch of thinkpieces from newspapers in Biff's 1985 arguing over whether the growth of the region into a corporate dystopia was inevitable.

rahuldottech

I'm simultaneously writing a script for both GNU/Linux bash and Windows batch and boy is this fun.

allquixotic

@rahuldottech write a Bash (core syntax) interpreter in Windows batch, then write a busybox implementation in pure bash, and you'll be good to go ;)

or a C compiler in each

for Windows, you could write a very simple C compiler in VBScript, use it to compile a less simple C compiler written in C, then use that to do anything

djsmiley2k

@allquixotic nope, permissions were fine

however the nginx config was wrong D:

> 2019/01/28 15:33:06 [error] 16944#0: *1 open() "/usr/share/gitweb/.git" failed (2: No such file or directory)

now..... the 'front' page bit loads, however the links to files are broken

that should be /home/tim/scripts/.git I think.

rahuldottech

15:41

@allquixotic lmao

bertieb

@rahuldottech Referer spam, surely

rahuldottech

@bertieb Possibly, but why?

bertieb

There is no real referer page, no eyeballs

Couple reasons

Some places (auto) publish stats

Or have an accidentally globally-acessible stats page

Boom, backlinks

rahuldottech

Ah, yes. Makes sense.

allquixotic

16:27

1. What is C2H, 2. Why can't you capitalize the name of your company, 3. "side" looks like a phone autocorrect of "is", 4. A recruiter should be able to communicate in fluent English so I can make sure that my questions are understood clearly instead of being told "YES" to every question I ask even if they have no idea what I said

Canadian Luke

Just block em. Report you don't know him

allquixotic

I won't report, but I will block

looks like a good faith attempt, he's just bad at his job

bertieb

@allquixotic Customer to Heaven?

rahuldottech

@allquixotic lol is his profile pic a selfie

bertieb

What should a linkedin profile pic be, out of interest?

(I'm not on LinkedIn)

rahuldottech

16:50

@bertieb a professional photo? I'm not on it either.

Although iirc, I once made an account when I was twelve or so because a website required either LinkedIn or FB for login and I wasn't allowed FB then.

I should probably delete that account. Never used it

Burgi

17:42

join it, you'll have a job in about 3 days

bertieb

Good point†, I do need a new fuel injector for my car

†Well completely unrelated point, but still

It's kangarooing

(I should probably ask @Bob)

To the eBays!

rahuldottech

18:14

@bertieb I'mma put a † in you

;p

bertieb

@rahuldottech Agh, my insides!

Actually there is a unicode asterisk I coulda used

✱

rahuldottech

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bertieb

I didn't use * as I had italics in and reckoned it'd play merry havoc with GCM

And GCM doesn't support superxscript

Leaving that typo in there as the 'x' makes it look cooler

As in extortion

Canadian Luke

18:55

My LinkedIn picture is one of me in my uniform. One of the only "professional" photos I have

rahuldottech

19:06

@CanadianLuke Military?

Canadian Luke

No, but similar

rahuldottech

Okay so if I understand correctly, if I want my script to have maximum compatibility, I should write in accordance with [da]sh and not bash?

Canadian Luke

I'm an officer with the Navy League (which predates the Royal Canadian Navy by 15 years), and we are a non-profit that supports the Navy (including Coast Guard), and I help out with the cadets (9-12 year olds). We teach them drill, leadership, citizenship, first aid, marksmanship, survival, etc

rahuldottech

(It'll possibly be run on bare-bones embedded linux distros)

Canadian Luke

With #!/bin/sh for greatest compatibility. If you are only running under bash, use #!/bin/env bash

rahuldottech

19:09

@CanadianLuke Whoa, cool!

@CanadianLuke The former, then. See above.

Canadian Luke

Where above?

rahuldottech

> bare-bones embedded linux distros

Such as routers, which I (don't think?) have bash

Canadian Luke

I'm not seeing it above... But yes. Plan for plain old sh - that should exist and be compatible on all Linuxes, and Unixes, as far as I know

rahuldottech

@CanadianLuke okay, thanks

5 mins ago, by rahuldottech

(It'll possibly be run on bare-bones embedded linux distros)

Canadian Luke

19:29

Got it

Thought there was more to it

djsmiley2k

20:22

@rahuldottech you want to be posix compatible, i.e. sh

You could write stuff using bash shell to test on, with the --posix flag

bwDraco

21:31

TSMC 16nm and 12nm production halted at Fab 14B after getting faulty chemicals

techspot.com/news/…

Journeyman Geek

22:09

@allquixotic it's a body shop.

They literally are purely focused on getting warm bodies where they need warm bodies

Run...Awaaaaaaaaaay

djsmiley2k

So cold

Weather predicting lots of snow for my birthday ;D

FML Cat

22:29

Paying £3.99 for micro USB cables instead of the 3 for 99p... Hopefully these will be better quality and longer lasting

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