Root Access

Journeyman Geek

00:01

lol. the butterfly keyboard, right?

eheh. Ya, back before systems got that cheap

studiohack

@JourneymanGeek yes! it was so cool when i found it, just like todays "netbooks"

it still booted, into Windows 95, FAST!

had Office installed, etc

Journeyman Geek

XD

Its about the only system with the 'butterfly' keyboard

studiohack

I thought it was better designed than many stuff today

tough, really cool with the butterfly keyboard, etc

Journeyman Geek

yup

Tom Wijsman

00:18

Gnome 3.6.0 defaults to saving screenshots in Pictures without the user knowing, I'm sad: bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669629#c37

xiamx

00:37

feature removals make me sad

jokerdino

@TomWijsman Unity has it patched :P

Tom Wijsman

@jokerdino: I don't think "patched" is the right word.

jokerdino

Right. but unity has a dialog box.

Tom Wijsman

@jokerdino: Well, I'll probably end up undoing the commit.

jokerdino

But the change was made around gnome 3.4 or something

Tom Wijsman

00:44

Or add the places extension, which makes Pictures folder easier to access.

Could be, went 3.2 --> 3.6 mostly and didn't use screenshots in the short moment I was in 3.4.

avirk

01:27

@TomWijsman morning :)

jokerdino

06:57

i have a problem here. there used to be bluetooth in windows 7 last time but it is missing at the moment.

and everything looks so scary online

Bob

@jokerdino Missing?

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino: device manager, and look for !

Bob

As in icon missing from notification area?

Journeyman Geek

If its not there at all, something is fished

jokerdino

i think i have removed the driver when i purged nokia ovi suite

Bob

07:04

Bluetooth program missing?

jokerdino

the bluetooth tray was missing

but starting bttray.exe got it back

Bob

...

jokerdino

so it is now working

thanks for the help

i actually wanted to fix it in ubuntu

Journeyman Geek

meta.superuser.com/questions/5681/… he might have a point there

why was that closed?

Sathya

not sure why it was closed.. reopened it

.. and might have to close it again

Bob

07:11

Hm.. can anyone recommend a domain name registrar?

Journeyman Geek

actually

not quite a dupe

namescheap

jokerdino

ok, bluetooth works in windows 7 but not in Ubuntu. grr

Sathya

my best guess would be that close voters considered IRC to be a web service

@Bob namecheap

@jokerdino reason #54564232 why I quit Linux long ago

jokerdino

someone was ranting their domain expired yesterrday

@Sathya pfft

Bob

wow

thanks @Sathya, @JourneymanGeek

jokerdino

07:12

this is the first time i had to use BT on ubuntu

Sathya

@jokerdino sathyasays.com/2010/01/16/…

jokerdino

don't worry. nothing has changed since then.

Sathya

@jokerdino glad(!?) to know

Journeyman Geek

lol

jokerdino

glad you don't have to eat your words ;p

Journeyman Geek

07:15

first time I quit linux was the sound suddenly not working

I think this is the first time I've switched off linux for non-things-breaking reasons

Sathya

well that's why I mention reason #54564232

others include

broken suspend/resume/hibernation

webcam doesn't work

doesn't get me started with the mess that's pulse/alsa/oss

jokerdino

;P

Sathya

and there's the hybrid discrete/IGP mess

jokerdino

what about the graphic cards sir?

Journeyman Geek

lol

Sathya

07:19

nothing like ascii art of various colours to greet you booting

followed by segfault

Journeyman Geek

I love ascii art ;p

since they're more reliable than plymouth ;p

jokerdino

and then some random warning no one ever understands

Sathya

amen

Bob

Wait, why exactly did you guys recommend namecheap? :S

Sathya

been using them for a while

love their DNS management page

Journeyman Geek

07:24

they're reliable, not very expensive, and have had good customer servive

they also contacted me when someone hacked my paypal account and bought hosting ;p

which was a bonus

Sathya

> TIL: debsums can be used to find which files you changed/deleted after apt-get install ing the package. Gives a list of damaged installs - cdkamat

jokerdino

nice

Bob

Good customer service? Sure, why not.

My other option was a little cheaper, but apparently crap service :\

Sathya

@Bob which one?

Bob

@Sathya crazydomains.com.au

Sathya

07:33

ok

never heard of 'em :P

jokerdino

07:49

is there a wget alternative in powershell?

bah

@JourneymanGeek can you cut packages like the last time? :D

Bob

What the hell kind of security question is "Have you ever really been as far as decided to use even go?"

jokerdino

reminds me of that other question

Bob

21

Q: Native alternative to wget in Windows PowerShell?

I know I can download and install the aformentioned library (wget for Windows), but my question is this: In Windows PowerShell, is there a native alternative to wget? I need wget simply to retrieve a file from a given URL with HTTP GET. For instance: wget http://www.google.com/

jokerdino

@Bob that takes too much time to process. ignoring

i mean, what the heck is that alternative even

Bob

$client = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$client.DownloadFile( $url, $path )

...

jokerdino

07:54

how do i copy paste?

Bob

Copy paste? :S

You mean copy it to the PowerShell window?

jokerdino

yeah?

which one i copy and what i substitute?

it is so nonintuitive

Bob

Uhm.. just select, copy, right click in the PS window (right click means paste)?

Well, use the one-liner (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile( $url, $path)

Just replace $url with the URL as a string (i.e. in quotes) and $path with the destination path as a string?

jokerdino

do i replace the whoe $url or what?

Bob

$identifier is a variable.

jokerdino

07:57

i get some missing ) error

Bob

...wha?

jokerdino

Missing ')' in method call.
At line:1 char:49
+ (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile( <<<< http://www.de
uct/inspiron-15-intel-n5010?driverId=K1MFY&fileId=2731097154#, C:)
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (CloseParenToken:TokenId)
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingEndParenthesisInMethodCall

Bob

You forgot the quotes.

jokerdino

sigh

Bob

As a string means surround it in quotes...

(new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("http://google.com", "C:/google.html")

jokerdino

07:58

fine

help me find a suitable driver :P

Bob

For?

jokerdino

bluetooth 64 bit windows 7 dell inspiron 14r n4010

Bob

@jokerdino ftp.dell.com/Browse_For_Drivers/Laptops/Inspiron/…

jokerdino

woah nice

Bob

There's quite a few Bluetooth drivers there

I'd say try the most recent Win7 one first :P

jokerdino

08:01

yeah

Bob

Which is probably this one: ftp.dell.com/network/R273580.exe

jokerdino

yeah downloading that one

Bob

There's something weird about a link that goes http://ftp.dell.com :S

jokerdino

(new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile( "http://ftp.dell.com/network/R273580.exe", "C:/R273580.exe")

is that correct?

Bob

Uhh.. looks like it? :P

jokerdino

08:04

bo

it is taking forever o.O

Bob

Eh. Doesn't even work for me :P

jokerdino

;/

Bob

Ah, it was a permissions problem :\

My user doesn't have write access to C:\

jokerdino

oh

how long does it take for you?

Bob

@jokerdino It's 60 MB...

jokerdino

08:08

so?

fine. i'll give it 20 minutes

Bob

And, from Firefox, download speed peaks at about 200 kB.

jokerdino

ehe

i guess powershell is slower

Bob

... remote server capped, not my side :P

jokerdino

oh heh

Bob

Peaks... It averages more 150 kB

Also, I think WebClient might be using IE libraries. Can't really remember.

Wait, no, that was XmlHttp

jokerdino

08:12

alright.

Bob

Oh yea, doesbuyvmhavestock.com

jokerdino

hahaha

that one is actually funny

and yay. bluetooth finally working in ubuntu

Journeyman Geek

08:29

yay

@jokerdino: I guess its too late ;p

jokerdino

had to upgrade drivers in windows

it's never too late.

@JourneymanGeek naw

helps me fetch some rep on AU at the very least

Journeyman Geek

/me is busy today, assignmenting with unsufficient idea of how to do something in a question ;p

jokerdino

aw.

good luck!

Journeyman Geek

lol

I got textbooks, just need to find a similar enough example

I'm just worn out, its the assignment week of doom (part 1)

jokerdino

doom!

Bob

08:38

@jokerdino Funny?

@jokerdino How the hell do the Windows drivers affect Ubuntu?!

jokerdino

@Bob i mean, they have so much demand that people setup sites to track their stock

@Bob no idea

Bob

@jokerdino What I meant is that they have some 128MB/OpenVZ/NY stock now :P

jokerdino

@Bob buy!

Bob

@jokerdino "Fraud"

D:

jokerdino

oh :O

Bob

08:39

I haven't even been given a payment option yet.

Weee support tickets...

Journeyman Geek

lol

buyvm's trick isn't just that, they basically know all their stock will be sold as soon as they release it

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Funny thing is, the NY stock is just sitting there.

not sure if it's a crap location, or people don't bother to click on the second tab...

Journeyman Geek

lol, is it the 15 buck a year?

Bob

Yea.

Journeyman Geek

o0

thats unusual

Bob

08:43

lol

I would rather have a CA one, 80ms lower latency

But it's the difference between 200ms and 280ms, so meh.

Journeyman Geek

09:47

eh, anyone here decent with SQL?

jokerdino

11:18

@JourneymanGeek Sathya?

Journeyman Geek

11:55

eheh. managed to reverse enginner answers from the text book

for some strange reason the assignment is a LOT harder than the workshops

jokerdino

isn't that always the case?

Journeyman Geek

lol

let me rephrase that

the workshops totally did not cover most of the things in the assignment

jokerdino

that sounds like fun.

Journeyman Geek

ok, NOW they are just fucking with us.

They expect me to join 3 tables

Sathya

12:24

1

Q: Who coined the phrase "everything is a file"

Everybody knows that in Unix, everything is a file. But whom does this phrase go back to?

unix

@JourneymanGeek seems easy enough?

jokerdino

Holy Sheet!

Journeyman Geek

12:34

NARQ ;p

oh managed that

None of this is in the bloody workshops

jokerdino

:3

Journeyman Geek

now, I have a table of dates and a table of prices, I need to sum prices by year

this is DEFINATELY not in the bloody workshops

Sathya

lol

slhck

yay

jokerdino

yay

We got more posts in AU/review yay

slhck

12:37

Though… from now on, every question that gets one close vote will probably be almost instantly closed by the same group of people.

@jokerdino Not gonna help you out there, I hate the new review system :P

jokerdino

@slhck Oh me too.

I mean, I hate the new system.

Sathya

same

Bob

@slhck So much for reviewing :P

Wasn't there a meta question complaining about this very issue before this review system was implemented?

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: that seems like a bug ;p

jokerdino

@Bob I think slhck wrote that.

Bob

12:41

@jokerdino No, that question got downvoted to death. It was a rant by some other guy.

jokerdino

@Bob Oh. Rants shall die.

slhck

@Bob Not really.. well

20

Q: Has the new /review system changed closing behavior?

With the new /review route, the community is presented with a queue of posts they have to work through. One of these is Close Votes: It enforces a very strict pattern – you basically choose to either close a question or not, with the ultimate goal that the number next to the queue eventually r...

discussion vote-to-close review review-beta

anyway g2g

jokerdino

cya

Bob

Here it is.

-8

Q: Should the Vote to Close option be altered?

This question and my comment there made me think, and it seems to me that to completely avoid any sense of a "pack mentality" that could be applied to when votes are cast to close a question, the current format would have to be changed. For one, there shouldn't be an indicator that others have a...

discussion feature-request vote-to-close

@slhck No, not that one. See above..

Journeyman Geek

oh, that was pre close cueue

Bob

12:49

8 mins ago, by Bob

Wasn't there a meta question complaining about this very issue before this review system was implemented?

I mean, the question was about the listing of close votes on the question, but the core concern is the same... and it's happening now, it seems :\

jokerdino

@Bob I hope he didn't stop contributing to the site because of that.

Journeyman Geek

13:20

@jokerdino: He also had this wierd idea that high rep users were collaborating secretly to some end...

jokerdino

wait what?

Journeyman Geek

lol

I can't seem to find that for some reason

HackToHell

13:37

Is looking for someone to renew his domain name, will pay ya later, halp

avirk

13:53

who is using MS office 2011?

Boris_yo

14:27

Who knows what MHL to HDMI adapter allows me to do?

focalprice.com/CA0332B/…

avirk

No homework for me today :)

@Boris_yo put a question on the site :D

Boris_yo

@avirk What do you mean? Nothing to moderate?

avirk

@Boris_yo yup :P

Boris_yo

@avirk That's cool. You can chill out today then.

avirk

@Boris_yo intrl.startech.com/AV/Converters/Video/…

@Boris_yo I earned 2 badges for moderate today :)

now I'm planning to score 2k on SO to moderate :P

Boris_yo

14:35

@avirk Applause. What reward will you get?

@avirk This one is 27$ compared to previous for 6.99$.

avirk

@Boris_yo Cutodian

@Boris_yo Yeah! but they explained what it can do for you, 21$ for explaination :P

my daily vote limit reached so can't do anything now :(

@Boris_yo I've heard your name in movie :D

avirk

14:55

7

Q: Unable to delete folder in windows 7?

I'm unable to delete some folder on my external hard disk. I tried them to delete in safe mode too but I'm not able to perform this. This a bid headache to me now even I'm the admin and it still needs the admin privileges to delete them. So how can I get rid of from this trouble? Please help me!...

windows-7 folder delete

I forgot myself which theme I was using :D

0

Q: How to set back the USB device to its factory state?

I've a 2GB Kingston USB drive. I'm using it on USB audio device and two days ago its started to hanging at some tracks. So I format the device and copy-paste the tracks again but the result was same. Now I deleted the partition and recreated it, but now the USB audio device doesn't read it and ot...

usb formatting

but sometime themes mess up with your apps :P

0

Q: Clicking anything in Firefox 5 triggers two panels to appear

When I installed Firefox it was working fine. Since yesterday it has been behaving very odd. When I right-click or left click on any link/option, like the menu bar, it shows two panels as captured in the picture below. What can I do to fix this?

windows-7 firefox

Boris_yo

@avirk What is this strange SU rank?

@avirk So you think 26$ and 6.99$ MHL adapters are of same quality?

Which? "The Hunting Party" with Richard Gere?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455782/fullcredits#cast

HackToHell

15:16

So mods do ya like jokes ?

superuser.com/posts/484274/revisions

leeand00

15:41

Where's a good IRC chat room for fixing a broken windows profile? Here?

Boris_yo

@leeand00 Why you need IRC exactly?

leeand00

oh it doesn't matter really

I just need somebody to help me fix my user profile

And my search windows search bar on my computer

It's been rough without it...

Boris_yo

@HackToHell Yes and I am not Mod, but joke was nice.

@leeand00 Yes you can privately chat here with someone or create your room.

leeand00

Oh maybe I'll create a room

And somebody will show up

That knows how to fix it

I've tried a bunch of stuff

Bob

@leeand00 If you're asking, you can ask here

jokerdino

15:48

Just stick around. Creating a new room reduces your chances.

leeand00

okay

Bob

If you want to privately help someone else, you can create a room.

leeand00

I'll stick around

Should I ask on Super User, or just ask in here?

jokerdino

@leeand00 Asking on the site helps.

leeand00

okay

Bob

15:49

People typically don't browse new rooms

jokerdino

@Bob OMG BOB. Long time no see!!

Bob

@jokerdino Wait, what.

jokerdino

I don't remember the last time I checked the new rooms.

leeand00

okay

I'll just ask on there then

jokerdino

It feels ages since I started attempting to fix the broken bluetooth driver in Linux.

How many days have passed since then.. OH GAWD

Bob

15:50

@jokerdino So, you got away from the sharks?

Nice to hear!

jokerdino

Yeah, it was so terrible.

Bob

...gah, gotta wait two days to get my VPS D:

jokerdino

D:

Bob

tech2u.com.au

That's actually a (small) ISP here.

jokerdino

tech2me

i might set up my own ISP.

Bob

15:56

That website design... it feels like someone messed around for five minutes in Frontpage :\

jokerdino

lolol

i can write one better with my limited html

anyway, i am off for the night

Bob

night.

Sathya

ah 42

Bob

@Sathya Here, have one more ;)

Sathya

@Bob it went away when I posted here :P

Bob

16:09

D:

Looks like SE chat got rid of whatever was using Flash?

Sathya

yeah

they were using it for sound+file upload iirc

Bob

I wonder what they switched to.

Good decision, anyway.

Yay mess of obfuscated JS

soandos

23:59

@KronoS I ordered a new NIC. If the new NIC solves the problem, I blame the old one. Else, I just return the new one

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