Root Access

Oliver Salzburg

01:56

Wow, 2 of my neighbors managed to use (the last) 4 parking spaces with only 2 cars

Exactly the thing I love to see when I get home at 3 in the morning

Bob

:S

Oliver Salzburg

Like 6 months ago, the owners of this building announced that every party will have their parking spaces assigned to them. So that the whole parking space dilemma could be ended. Everyone hated the idea, because they might end up with a "suboptimal parking space" and then they'd be stuck with it

And, suddenly everyone started parking like they've never done anything else in their life

Long story short, people suck :P

Journeyman Geek

02:32

lol

blah

untarring stuff on the pi sucks

Oliver Salzburg

02:46

lol

Try compiling some stuff :P

Journeyman Geek

doing it now ;p

boost is kinda annoying

its using a wierd set of non standard build commands

Oliver Salzburg

04:01

You're compiling boost on the Pi? O__O

I just noticed one of our customers used one of my photos without my consent on their facebook page

Should I sue them for millions?

...or billions?

Oliver Salzburg

04:19

Journeyman Geek

05:05

@OliverSalzburg: yes

well have been for QUITE a while

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-21749312

Ouch

Bibhas

05:20

talk about spirit. 219-1 and still wanna go

HackToHell

05:31

Seemingly HumbleBundle(thq one) added two more games after i bought it !

Journeyman Geek

oh?

extra COH ones?

HackToHell

no, Titan Quest, A red faction DLC and and Warhammer GOTY

Journeyman Geek

05:52

ahh right

blah

another product review up on G+

I really need to get around to that blag thing

Tom Wijsman

06:46

@OliverSalzburg Been there done that.

Though it is reasonable if you use distcc...

Journeyman Geek

@TomWijsman: its still ongoing ;p

Journeyman Geek

08:20

I couldn't get boost working, so I just went with the packaged library

oops ;p

Oliver Salzburg

Cheater!

Journeyman Geek

lol

its gonna end up messy

planning on getting a bigger SD card anyway...

Journeyman Geek

08:49

yay, WP site is up

Bob

09:12

heh, Windows 8 considers WEP be under the category of No Authentication (Open)

HackToHell

09:37

Cool a contest in Arqade answerswarm.com

Journeyman Geek

compiling libtorrent is going badly too

why am I doing this again? ;p

Journeyman Geek

09:47

journeymangeek.com

yeah, premade theme. At some point I will learn zee dark arts of zee css

HackToHell

No caching plugins ?

install something like w3 or supercache

otherwise anyone can take it down :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

I JUST got it set up

installed supercache

can't hurt to torture the VPS less ;p

Sujit Singh

Hi. I just run "pecl upgrade memcache" command from putty on remote linux-based server for resolving a memcache issue and now getting "The connection was reset" message while browsing that server. How can I rollback that command ????

HackToHell

gah Metro 2033's stealth sections are too hard :P

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: too used to running and gunning? ;p

HackToHell

09:59

@JourneymanGeek nginx or lighty ?

@JourneymanGeek yeah :P

Journeyman Geek

@SujitSingh: "connection was reset" is unrelated - means something is off with your ssh sessions

@HackToHell: apache

Its what I'm familiar with

HackToHell

First FPS game i am playing that involves stealth ;p

Journeyman Geek

one thing I love about the borderlands series

death is VERY temporary

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek Doesn't it use too much memory ?

Journeyman Geek

you take a money hit, and thats it

still under my 256 mb

barely

HackToHell

10:01

lol, tf2's respawn times can get as long as 4 mins

Journeyman Geek

mysql is the big memory hog, and there's no real replacement for that

HackToHell

you can kill InnoDB

mysql uses ~43mb and lighty uses 16mb

Sujit Singh

@JourneymanGeek : no.. it is because of that command only.. i tried on other machine also... can you tell me how to undo "pecl upgrade memcache" command?

HackToHell

The total mem usage is around 66 mb

Journeyman Geek

ya, apache does seem to be the biggie here

oh well, if i decide to rebuild the server, we'll see

Paul

10:08

Is this SO or AS: superuser.com/questions/564585/…

Journeyman Geek

I'm not sure, more likely SO tho

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek as for a CDN, you can use CloudFare !

it's awesome !

Sujit Singh

@JourneymanGeek : how can i know what is off in ssh? Sorry, but I am PHP developer.. so not much familier with linux as I work on Windows.

HackToHell

10:26

Seriously though HOIC is annoyingly effective, it can easily take down my blog :(

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: who's going to try? ;p

@SujitSingh: well, you arn't connecting, which is bad

Sujit Singh

@JourneymanGeek How can I connect?

Journeyman Geek

well, you're going to need to ask someone with physical access to the system to check

Sujit Singh

@JourneymanGeek : but is this because of that "pecl upgrade memcached" command? because before running that it was working fine.

Journeyman Geek

it shouldn't be

it might be something completely unrelated

Sujit Singh

10:34

@JourneymanGeek : OK. Thanks.

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: the main reason I'm doing this is it feels really wierd to do long product reviewy rants on things I like on G+ ;p

ok, I'm VERY definately going to need to get an optical drive on my desktop

dad's just discovered he can rip movies to his phone ;p

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek :P

@JourneymanGeek Doesn't that kill NAND mem fast ?

Journeyman Geek

lol

write once, and just playback?

why would it?

also, its in an SD card

HackToHell

10:51

A lot of r/w are performed while torrenting, will that not affect lifespan ?

SD cards are cheap but if the internal memory dies ...

Journeyman Geek

er

no, not torrenting

ripping with handbrake to hard drive

then to SD card

legit ;p

HackToHell

:P

Journeyman Geek

besides using a phone to torrent is supid

you'll either have wifi (slow) or data (slow and expensive) connections

William Hilsum

11:07

Just seen this... An offline spam bot caught in action - youtube.com/watch?v=WKKXo5woHCE

Sathya

howdy folks

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum: thats singapore

they actually have little latches so you can choose whether or not to get junkmail that way. Its quite literally adblock ;p

William Hilsum

@Sathya howdy

@JourneymanGeek haha

Bob

11:34

@HackToHell I think the majority of FPS campaigns involve stealth in some way

heck, CoD:MW had some

@JourneymanGeek Jump to SQLite if it's a small site? :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: its wordpress ;p

can I run that on SQLite?

Bob

looks like if you wanna hack at it :P

not recommended, though (obv)

are you on BuyVM?

wiki.buyvm.net/doku.php/sharedsql

$1/month

Journeyman Geek

yeah, I am

looks good, I'll give it a poke once I get some cash into paypal

Bob

1

A: Is SQLite strong enough to use as wordpress database?

SQLite is an in-process or desktop class database. MySQL is a server class database. I'm a little notorious here for promoting server-class engines over desktop or in-process -class engines for web sites, because no matter how well you do at your in-process database engine you are going to have...

Journeyman Geek

I think the external SQL server makes more sense

Bob

11:41

looks like the general opinion is SQLite would be fine if you can keep it mostly read-only

Journeyman Geek

this isn't going to get very heavy use

Bob

@JourneymanGeek that's what they all say :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

suddenly, someone posts a link to <slashdot effect site> and your VPS is down ;)

Journeyman Geek

XD

I'm not that good a writer ;p

Bob

11:43

if you still want to try SQLite for whatever reason: alien.slackbook.org/blog/pdopowered

but, yea, not really good if you're planning to upgrade in future (or you can get at that offloaded DB server)

Journeyman Geek

naw

the offloaded DB server sounds like a much better idea

superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/92683

I swear the spammers are actually evolving tactics

HackToHell

12:10

@Bob that sniper mission was super annoying yet easy ;p

Metro 2033 is hard :P

Have to love BuyVM for giving 5gb offloaded backup space for free !

@Bob Caching plugins help, not that much queries are made to the SQL server

I lost my patience playing the stealth mission of Crysis tho

Journeyman Geek

gah, SO superuser.com/questions/564636/…

Bob

@HackToHell how do you even use that space?

RamNode takes automatic weekly backups (not guaranteed, though) :P

@HackToHell nothing to do with the database server

the VPS/webserver itself would likely go down with the sheer volume of requests :P

@JourneymanGeek O.O

@JourneymanGeek ...Grup?

XD

Bibhas

:P

Bob

...single board configuration?

jumpers‽‽‽

what is this I don't even

HackToHell

12:26

@Bob weekly wordpress backups !

Bob

@HackToHell ? seriously, how do you use that space?

I would like to back up my VPS :P

HackToHell

@Bob With offloaded SQL, the site will be able to survive a tad bit longer

Bob

Oh, you have to order it separately

@HackToHell not much

HackToHell

@Bob wordpress and /var/conf directory gets backed up

Bob

we're talking hundreds/thousands of requests per second if it gets any real exposure

HackToHell

12:28

@Bob try using HOIC with and without a caching plugin, you will see what I mean :P

@Bob it can manage hundreds !

Bob

look, it's enough to take down some pretty major websites

a single 256 MB VPS is going to die

horribly

HackToHell

I am not saying it will not happen, it will be delayed :P

brb

Bob

you're talking a minor difference. single digit factors, most likely. I'm talking about volumes of traffic orders of magnitude past what the server can handle...

HackToHell

okay, okay I get it !

To survive the front page of reddit you will prolly want several dedicated servers with load balancers !

Bob

couldn't hurt :P

HackToHell

12:54

nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/…

Bob

@HackToHell Keep in mind that 'small file' and 'local machine' are quite important - and make this benchmark inapplicable to most real-world scenarios

larger amounts of data and increased latency means each connection needs to be open for longer..

HackToHell

ik, was looking for a benchmark with php and wordpress

Can't seem to find a proper one

Grr !! Stop doing that

Journeyman Geek

Darn. I wander off a bit and....

Bob

lol

jokerdino

lol

Bob

13:07

@JourneymanGeek You're not allowed to do that!

allquixotic

<rant>went to bed an hour earlier, got up an hour earlier, raced out the door, left 90 minutes early in the pouring down rain, idled through six accidents on the commute to work, and the FUCKING MEETING WAS CANCELLED!!!!!!!!!

Rudá Almeida

I sit on a new machine today, I get the feeling it's not very safe...

allquixotic

worse, they gave 23 minutes advance notice that the meeting was cancelled

so even if I checked my email before leaving I wouldn't have seen the cancellation

Rudá Almeida

jokerdino

what? unity?!

Journeyman Geek

13:10

Lol
Lots of updates

Bob

@allquixotic ...6 accidents? :S

allquixotic

@Bob yep, in 23 miles of road

Bob

wtf.

allquixotic

when it rains outside, people in Maryland drive like meteors are falling from the sky... or nuclear missions, idk

Bob

does anyone know how to drive where you live?

allquixotic

13:11

No

Bob

do you have, I dunno, licence tests or something?

HackToHell

lol

allquixotic

there was a van that drove off the road into a ditch

Bob

...

HackToHell

Amurica xD

allquixotic

13:11

loads and loads of broken down cars

Bob

eh

Rudá Almeida

@allquixotic Last week I was on the bus' doorsteps, PAYING THE DRIVER, when my cellphone vibrates with a new email, "don't come to the office that's 75min from your home, come to the other one, 15min from your home". (And I had enabled 3G on that cellphone 1 day earlier!)

Bob

I an't say much about our transport

allquixotic

honestly, I think 98% of the rain related accidents in the US are due to very poorly maintained tires

Bob

a major section of the train line was down for 8 hours this morning

cause 300m of overhead wiring was 'loose'

allquixotic

13:12

tires with no treads, tires that are underinflated

Rudá Almeida

@jokerdino Unity works, and I'm too lazy to learn how to install a new UI (and fix everything if it messes up).

HackToHell

@Bob 10k volt lines were loose ?

allquixotic

people waste billions of gallons of gasoline and diesel and cause accidents due to hydroplaning all because people don't maintain their tires

Bob

@HackToHell :P

not sure about the voltage, though

jokerdino

@RudáAlmeida everyone hates unity.

2

allquixotic

13:13

@Bob locomotive catenary cables are typically very high voltage, at least 10,000V

Bob

smh.com.au/nsw/…

oh, not just loose

apparently it literally fell on a train...

and it's 1.5kV

allquixotic

I don't know why you guys don't like Unity. In Ubuntu 12.10 I actually like it

HackToHell

The higher the voltage, less the power wasted

allquixotic

I was one of the people who hated Unity in the early days, but as of 12.10 I can use it

I'm not going to pile on that star because I disagree :P

Bob

I'll stick with KDE, thanks :P

jokerdino

13:14

@allquixotic i forgot the /s tag :P

Bob

Still haven't figured out how to make it prefer 5GHz, though

jokerdino

i am using unity ;)

Bob

there's a couple of guides for the GNOME network manager

but not KDE D:

allquixotic

@jokerdino I find that Unity went from "a joke" (when it was first introduced) to "meh" in 12.04 to "cool" in 12.10

hopefully it continues to evolve but I really don't mind the way it's implemented in 12.10 with a few minor customizations

jokerdino

@allquixotic i am surprised you have flipped your opinion so soon. i didn't expect :P

btw, did you not hear the latest drama?

allquixotic

13:16

the main things that drove me insane about earlier Unity were (1) crashes (2) performance (3) the way the bar would constantly hide and show itself

jokerdino

Unity in qt and mir

Rudá Almeida

Well, I very, very rarely used Linux before 2012. I use it now on a daily basis, and Unity works (well, except when it doesn't). Actually it's software that has no Unity support and is supposed to show up on gnome's taskbar that pisses me off a bit, but it happened twice only, I think.

allquixotic

crashes are resolved for my hardware (Ivy Bridge IGP), performance is usable, and the bar isn't flaky about hiding/showing

Bob

5

allquixotic

Oh, yes I read about Mir and Qt and Unity. Meh. I don't see that as drama. Mir is trying to implement a software stack that straddles the graphics driver divide

Bob

13:17

@allquixotic Performance problems are easy enough to fix..

I just didn't like the UI

it's like the Plasma search & launch

allquixotic

it's perfectly reasonable to want to support both Android graphics drivers (of which there are many good ones) and desktop graphics drivers (of which there are several good ones)

HackToHell

Doesn't anyone like XFCE ?

jokerdino

@HackToHell it hasnt changed in a long time.

HackToHell

It has the old school gnome look and that's awesome :P

jokerdino

e is the future.

Rudá Almeida

13:19

I've been using Ubuntu for 5 months and found out about the HUD.... well, right now.

Bob

wut.

wtf.

HackToHell

lol, HUD sucks,it does not index all the applications installed :P

jokerdino

hud is a replacement for menu

Bob

the compsci course I'm doing right now has these instructions for installing a C compiler on Windows: Install Ubuntu

-________________________________________________-

and those are apparently the simple instructions

HackToHell

ha ha

Bob

13:21

because, of course there's no way setting up dual boot could go wrong

jokerdino

yep. installing c in windows is not worth the pain

HackToHell

Doesn't MinGW work well ...

Bob

@HackToHell Yea, MinGW is pretty easy to install and use

@jokerdino dual boot is worse

far far worse

Rudá Almeida

@Bob Installing on a VM does count as installing, right?

HackToHell

@Bob why ??

jokerdino

13:22

dual boot is not that bad. ubiquity is the way forward

Bob

@RudáAlmeida step by step: download the 500MB setup, run it, reboot into Ubuntu, open Firefox (instead of IE), go back to the instruction page

I don't see any way that could go wrong </s>

@jokerdino tell that to the guy complaining he had to spent hours sorting out 'hard disk errors'

apparently while trying to install Ubuntu on a Mac of some kind

jokerdino

@Bob yeah sure. i'll let him know

Bob

Thanks! :P

Rudá Almeida

@Bob Who the F#@$ uses IE?

jokerdino

:P

Bob

13:24

@RudáAlmeida well, the lecturer's an OS X user. I'm not sure he's used Windows since 98 -_-

HackToHell

@RudáAlmeida IE 10 is ok :P

Bob

hrmmm

the alternative/'advanced' options:

Rudá Almeida

@HackToHell I don't care if it's OK, market share for it is 20% and falling...

HackToHell

And your source is ?

Rudá Almeida

gs.statcounter.com (29% worldwide, but still, fallling)

Bob

13:26

1. LiveCD/DVD (because this is *so much more advanced* than dual booting!)
2. VMware Player (ditto)
3. Pelles C (ne'er heard of it)
4. a blog guide for installing some MinGW variant (because, apparently, the official MinGW Windows binaries have a *no* chance of working)

5. why the f*** did they link to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MS-DOS_commands

I'm getting very tired of saying THE WINDOWS COMMAND LINE IS NOT DOS

jokerdino

Hey, someone time out Bob!

Bob

:P

I've pretty much given up on ms-dos

really?

-1

Q: Where is the MS DOS command line in windows 8?

i'm having trouble trying to find the MS-DOS command line to type "dir" and then "bcc32 firsprog.c" so I can compile a program that I made called "firstprog.c" using BCC32 C compiler. I'm using windows 8 and can't find a solution anywhere. Thanks for your help

It hasn't existed since ME

Rudá Almeida

If it's just an introdutory C course why they don't recommend the Borland Turbo C compiler? It's freeware and works on Windows. (Or used to circa 2004) cc.embarcadero.com/item/25636

Bob

Well, they're using Linux/OS X on the other side, so I guess they'd prefer to keep using GCC

but there's plenty of good GCC builds for Windows

Rudá Almeida

I see

Bob

13:33

oh boy

they're saying the OS X terminal is the same as Linux

someone's going to be disappointed when they run into a tool missing GNU extensions...

Rudá Almeida

Oh, the boredom of sitting alone in an office room with nothing to do, all day long, and a connection slower than my 2G mobile. At least I got air conditioning...

Bob

@RudáAlmeida I hear Minesweeper is fun.

jokerdino

@Bob totally

Rudá Almeida

@Bob Had my share of it from the Win95 days. On the other hand, I have and android phone with lots of games, including Another World, EDGE, Osmos, World of Goo, Inertia, Zen Bound 2, Dead Trigger and Shadowgun.

Bob

Osmos! :D

HIB? :P

Rudá Almeida

13:37

/me HIB fan/addicted! \o/

Bob

I think EDGE, Osmos and WoG were in a HIB at some point

can't remember the rest

which reminds me, I need to buy the latest one

wait

waitwaitwait

there's Solar 2 for Android?

Rudá Almeida

I'd happilly play Shadowgun if the devs didnt suddenly raise the difficulty bar A GAZIILLION TIMES mid-play. Seriusly, it's "a bit too easy" for like 10 stages then BOOOOM, some screen you just can't pass, unless you're korean. I've tried 10h+.

Bob

:D

Rudá Almeida

@Bob Now there is, on the HIB Android 5. Closes in 1 week. humblebundle.com

Bob

@RudáAlmeida yea, that's where I saw it

wasted so much time on that game

:D

Rudá Almeida

13:40

Never played it.

allquixotic

anyone try Dungeon Defenders? :D

jokerdino

*D:

allquixotic

I'm absolutely addicted to Dungeon Defenders

Bob

@RudáAlmeida try it :P

Rudá Almeida

My PC is a laptop from 2008, so it basically sucks. I buy lots of games and never play it.

Bob

13:40

I recommend with a keyboard

Rudá Almeida

Last week I bought an xbox360, so it might change.

Bob

a phone touchscreen might be too small

@RudáAlmeida it's pretty lightweight

the Windows version is C#/XNA

allquixotic

@Bob Solar 2 is fun with a mouse :P

Bob

@allquixotic oh yea :P

I can't remember if I used a keyboard or mouse now

never really got in to touch gaming though

Rudá Almeida

My laptop has Directx9 onboard graphics =/

allquixotic

13:41

I don't have the patience to make one of those huge multi-star solar systems with 16 planets with life... I just grow and grow until I'm a black hole and end the game

Rudá Almeida

I really love the unusual games, like Windosill, And Yet It Moves, Limbo, Osmos

Osmos soundtrack is really, really great

Bob

@allquixotic funnily enough, i went through that stage on my way to a BH

allquixotic

@RudáAlmeida what about Machinarium and that other one from Amanita

Bob

I like Osmos as a game

allquixotic

Botanicula

Bob

13:45

but I'm kinda unhappy cause it was the first to expose my failing AMOLED screen :\

Rudá Almeida

@allquixotic I loved Samorost since someone showed me it as an email attachment from a mailing list in 2003. Forgot the name, been looking for it for years, then suddenly it's on the HIB.

Bob

@RudáAlmeida suddenly, virus!

Rudá Almeida

I haven't played Machiunarium or Botanicula yet, but I finished Samorost 2 twice

allquixotic

@Bob I didn't... I was like... asteroid, run away from scary planets, small planet, life planet, run away from big scary solar systems, small star, run away from aliens, medium star, eat planets, large star, eat planets, neutron star, eat planets, black hole, eat everything

Rudá Almeida

@Bob Virus? Where?

Bob

13:46

@RudáAlmeida email attachments c. 2003

Rudá Almeida

@Bob Well, it was a SWF file.

allquixotic

what actually happens when you collide your large star with a smaller star in Solar 2? do you die or just lose a ton of mass or do you grow?

i avoided confronting other stars when i was a star (or even a planet) :P

Bob

@RudáAlmeida Don't get me started on Flash.

@allquixotic I think it was loss of mass

I think you lose mass if you collide with anything at any stage, except asteroids with asteroids

at every other stage, you have to absorb things properly

allquixotic

unless you're a black hole. then nomnomnomnomnomnom unless it's a larger black hole

Bob

No, i run Hackintosh, and my vmware supports it but i had to patch it in order to use OSX — Harlandraka 15 mins ago

so... are we still closing all these questions?

@allquixotic yea, asteroids and black holes are the only exceptions

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