Root Access

HackToHell

3:01 AM

@Tanner Awesome !

Bob

3:15 AM

@allquixotic it was FluxBox

ekaj

3:32 AM

This is kinda a misc. question, but does anyone know of a program to change my desktop / screensaver every 5 seconds or so to a random line in a text file? lol

Or a program to nicely center the text on a background.. wish I was good with Photoshop

Journeyman Geek

5:22 AM

blah

HackToHell

5:34 AM

hello

hmm rooting the phone is basically installing su and superuser right ?

So to unroot all I have to do is remove su and superuser ??

Journeyman Geek

blah

I need to select a distro for an older PC

and I can't be arsed to use ethernet, so it needs to be a livecd of some sort

and ugh, xubuntu is bigger than single cd now... whyyyyy ><

HackToHell

6:07 AM

►

top comment

> Meanwhile at activision, they have the BRAND NEW AI SYSTEM WHERE FISHES MOVE OUT OF THE WAY FOR YOU IN 2013

Bob

6:33 AM

@HackToHell depends which root method you use

some replace the kernel

HackToHell

I didn't replace the kernel, just installed su and superuser

btw, i installed both by flashing CWM instead of stock recovery

@Bob so removing both should unroot my phone right ?

Bob

@HackToHell depends which root method you use

the ones that replace the kernel would require a full reflash

there are many others

HackToHell

1 min ago, by HackToHell

btw, i installed both by flashing CWM instead of stock recovery

i didn't replace anything else

Bob

@HackToHell do some research into just what your root method does

IF it was a CWM-based update zip, you can extract it and look at the metadata file

HackToHell

@Bob Apparently doing that will work

ui_print("su binary 3.1 for Android 2.0-4.1 arm");
ui_print("Mounting system...");
run_program("/sbin/busybox", "mount", "/system");
ui_print("Deleting old files...");
delete("/system/bin/su","/system/xbin/su");
ui_print("Copying files...");
package_extract_dir("system", "/system");
ui_print("Fixing permissions...");
set_perm(0, 0, 06755, "/system/bin/su");
ui_print("Symlinking...");
symlink("/system/bin/su", "/system/xbin/su");
ui_print("Unmounting system...");
run_program("/sbin/busybox", "umount", "/system");

Bob

6:44 AM

then undo it

simple enough, no?

look at what's in that package

HackToHell

su binary

and that and an update script

overly simple o0

wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_About_Edify

And I really need to fix my driver issue in Win 7, have to reboot into Fedora everytime I want to connect my phone :/

HackToHell

7:12 AM

Interesting icrontic.com/discussion/95140/…

Oliver Salzburg

7:51 AM

Greetings

Journeyman Geek

booting up my brother's old thinkpad R60 ;p

the last of the true IBM thinkpads

Oliver Salzburg

Stupid Google Hangouts plugin! O.O

R6016

- not enough space for thread data

Constantly producing this error

Oliver Salzburg

8:21 AM

Wow, the ignorance in that comment thread is off the charts

Journeyman Geek

its /. ;p

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Right, what was I thinking... :D

"Windows 8 is a complete failure because I couldn't find the shutdown button!"

Journeyman Geek

if you can't find the charms bar, you probably can't sudo shutdown now ;p

Oliver Salzburg

"I want an OS where you can configure EVERYTHING! Why didn't they make that?"

"My Windows 7 is configured to look pretty much like Windows 98." Oh well, congrats man :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

or er...

damn, can't remember his name

the crusty old chap who was always complained windows was getting too complex ;p

Bob

8:30 AM

diving into AE :P

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob After Effects?

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Everything? Throw a book on x86 assembly to them and tell them to get cracking!

@OliverSalzburg Yea.

Oliver Salzburg

The "This is a reply to an earlier message" tooltip is really starting to annoy me

@Bob That was me "summarizing" other comments ;D

Except the last one, that one was sadly real

I wish mods had some free downvotes per day

Like 100

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

"Have you found an answer to your problem? I have the same problem." glances at the multitude of other upvoted answers (not to mention it's also NAA)

Oliver Salzburg

8:41 AM

I mean, as a mod you get to see a lot of crap all the time and a lot of it needs to be downvoted. It's costing me my precious rep :(

W00t! 1337 reviewed suggested edits \o/

Now I'm never going to review any ever again

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: I've been pondering doing the same for flags ;p

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek :D

Bob

aww

Audio-Video Production is still quite young :P

Oliver Salzburg

8:57 AM

@Bob 905 days in beta

Bob

@OliverSalzburg ok, not that young :P

s/young/small/

Oliver Salzburg

to those who downvoted my post, here's my middle finger, and I hope you and all your family gets cancer and die a very slow and painful death and suffer in hell for all of eternity. — user2334809 5 mins ago

Nice

Leathe

wut

Oliver Salzburg

Well, he has a point, I mean, they downvoted his question!

Leathe

no but did he delete that? can't see it anymore

Oliver Salzburg

9:05 AM

I deleted it

Leathe

:(

You destroyed evidence!

Although, I'm tempted to downvote his question now.

Hnnggg..

must.. resist

Journeyman Geek

lol

downvoted. its free.

Oliver Salzburg

Wow, that's not his first account here ;P

Journeyman Geek

;p

Oliver Salzburg

I wish I could share :D

Journeyman Geek

9:12 AM

same e mail addie?

Leathe

I downvoted aswell. :I

or perhaps same IP :b

if you can see stuff like that.

Oliver Salzburg

We can see many things ;)

Leathe

can you see my house from there?

Oliver Salzburg

Same level of quality content, that's for sure

Also, I didn't find this question to be very suspicious at all ;P

2

Q: In a specified folder, how can I recursively delete everything except ".mkv" and ".nfo" files?

I'm trying to figure out the code for a batch-file (Windows) that In a specified folder recursively deletes everything except files with a certain extension (i.e. .mkv and .nfo)? Something like this, but for the above. def deleteRootFolder = tryQuietly{ root.toBoolean() } /* * Delete orphaned...

Leathe

Hmmmm.

I wonder if they perhaps might possibly be .rar files that he's mostly going to delete

Oliver Salzburg

9:18 AM

:D

Leathe

Just a.. you know.. wild guess.

Man. I've thought about writing that Multiboot Linux/Win guide for a while now, but I just can't find the time for it.

I have time, but I'd rather do something else with it ;p

Oliver Salzburg

To have time you got to take time ;P

@Leathe Oh, I know that :D

Leathe

and I know it shouldn't really be a too difficult thing to pull off

hmm, maybe I should talk to the guy who made the suggestion/question and maybe get him to write it with me in a google doc

aka multiplayer notepad

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Benefit of the doubt and all.

I'm sure there's a fully legitimate use for such a script, somewhere :P

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob The question is fine with me, I just thought it was funny ;D

Leathe

9:24 AM

wut. why does it smell like bug spray here all of a sudden

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: he's obviously downloading linux distros

Bob

hm

Oliver Salzburg

...in .mkv containers ;D

Bob

I want to add a countdown timer in a corner of a video. Can anyone suggest a good font?

I'm horrible at picking fonts :P

Leathe

9:25 AM

obviously he's downloading multiboot tutorials..

Journeyman Geek

comic sans!

Bob

No, Clippy, I don't trust you. You'd probably suggest Comic Sans or something.

@JourneymanGeek ...hey, are you Clippy's alter ego?

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob fontspace.com/style-7/digital-7

But it's not fixed width :\

Journeyman Geek

oh

Bob

:S

Journeyman Geek

9:26 AM

pretty fixed width fonts?

Bob

I've been using Courier so far.

It looks alright, I guess.

Journeyman Geek

how about source code pro or droid sans mono?

Oliver Salzburg

Oh, there's a monospaced version!

Bob

Really, anything that might be good with a little timer :P

Oliver Salzburg

Alright, time to write an animation system for the particle engine!

Bob

9:27 AM

Actually, Segoe UI looks pretty good :P

Leathe

@Bob dafont.com/neou.font not fixed witdth either :I

Bob

(just too used to Windows :P)

Leathe

witdth? really?

arrrgh. fingers, you have failed me for the last time

prepare to die

Bob

thanks for all the suggestions :D

@Leathe Ralph?

►

Leathe

yes. except I'm not using scissors

Journeyman Geek

9:29 AM

and, I have a torrent download box ;p

Leathe

D:

Journeyman Geek

(actually I set it up so dad can do SQL tutorials without driving me nuts hacking together stuff we take for granted on linux into windows)

Leathe

(sure)

Journeyman Geek

I also manage to lock myself out from the torrent client webui

whoops

Bob

ok, going with Source Sans Pro

@JourneymanGeek how do you do that?

Journeyman Geek

9:39 AM

get the password wrong 3 times ;p

Bob

the problem with trying to learn video production is all the tutorials and instructions are in video form

I don't learn well from videos

Leathe

I learn quite well from videos :b

Bob

o.O

you can alt tab to fullscreen flash vids now

Leathe

it's how I mostly learned to use Photoshop

@Bob I think you've been able to do that for a while now

Bob

@Leathe never noticed :P

what i mean is alt tabbing out doesn't stop the video

doesn't leave fullscreen

Leathe

9:47 AM

yeah

Leathe

10:09 AM

Wtf is going on here in the office

occasionally hearing X-files music, then goes to the old modem sound

wtf, did I go back in time to the 90s?

Bob

10:37 AM

O.O

Leathe

wut

someone doesn't know how to laptop

Bob

lol

theverge.com/2013/5/3/4297446/acer-touch-event-hands-on

actually pretty interesting design

Oliver Salzburg

Keyboard on the bottom? O.o

Hennes

11:01 AM

I really hope that the reflection in the screen are a fluke.

Otherwise: Grah. Shiny mirror screens and black reflective screen borders.
Death penalty required.

Oliver Salzburg

I still don't understand what's up with the reverse trackpad/keyboard layout

Is that supposed to be retro or something?

Hennes

I think there is an advantage in not having a touchpad in front of the keyboard. I know you can turn it off. At least on your own laptop). If I do not do that I keep hitting it and unintentionally moving the cursor when I type.

But I would prefer completely removing it.

And a nice deep laptop where you can rest your hands in front of the keyboard

Security done wrong: blog.iusmentis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/…

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Journeyman Geek

11:18 AM

;p

Bob

o.O

best 404 ever

intmail.183.com.cn/itemtrace_en.jsp

quote the RFC

lol

@OliverSalzburg look at the video

it's hinged such that the screen can be folded to sit JUST on top of the keyboard

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob I did

So? When I want/need to mouse around, I'm still putting my hands on the keyboard

Journeyman Geek

lol

Oliver Salzburg

Or am I supposed to disable the keyboard while using the mouse? Even if it does that by itself, it's still uncomfortable

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: china post!

I'd just dump the touchpad for a trackpoint, and use the touchscreen.

Oliver Salzburg

11:22 AM

To my understanding, "we" moved the keyboards to the top of the laptop because the laptop itself would then serve as a handrest. We did that because we realized, having the keyboard at the bottom is uncomfortable as eff

Hennes

Aye

Mechanical snail

@Bob Also intmail.183.com.cn/util/images/cn

Journeyman Geek

their regular pages are not much better ;p

Bob

damn it

video editing is just not for me

too much obsessing over frame-perfect timing :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Journeyman Geek

11:42 AM

ahh verge...

theverge.com/2013/5/30/4359490/…

I've seen better polished glass spheres at a 2 dollar shop

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Erm, well, it's not a glass sphere! It's an energy sphere thank you very much.

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: zee imperfections! THEY RUIN THE HOLOGRAPHIC ENERGY TRANSFORMATION!

Hennes

Quick! Add some sparking antimatter!

Journeyman Geek

(some of that stuff LOOKS cool tho. glowing teal record player? RETROTASTIC)

Oliver Salzburg

Audiophiles are idiots! lol! I'm gonna go play some CounterStrike on my 3-way SLI GeForce TITAN system now, kthxbye!!!

Journeyman Geek

11:47 AM

XD

@OliverSalzburg: I like fancy kit as much as the next guy. I just don't think gamers have magic rocks to reduce their latency ;p

and I have NO IDEA what this is

Hennes

Does that include 3x6 monitors with sound for full surround sound counter strike gaming?

Journeyman Geek

but it looks AWESOME.

Hennes

That looks like a cray design

Journeyman Geek

@Hennes: crossed with cyberpunk and LSD

Tom Wijsman

Thas looks like GLADoS 0.1.

Journeyman Geek

11:50 AM

its an amp apparently. connected to those... tiny speakers...

Oliver Salzburg

onlycreative.it

Only weighs 1.5 metric tons

Journeyman Geek

wait...

160 000 watts?

so I assume it comes with a generator ;p

Nathan C

....shocking.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Tom Wijsman

notices typo after edit time, great.

Journeyman Geek

11:55 AM

@TomWijsman: I don't think anyone would notice you mispelled GLaDOS

Tom Wijsman

That, too.

See, I haven't played Portal in quite a while...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Tom Wijsman

These plans to practice speed running Portal 2 went nowhere... :D

Journeyman Geek

I looked it up on the wiki. Capitalisation really is a concept I have trouble mastering

Tom Wijsman

Perhaps DoS tricked me.

Maybe we turned her from GLaDOS into GLADoS.

Journeyman Geek

11:58 AM

lol

Tom Wijsman

continues lurking the room...

Bob

damn it

Journeyman Geek

lol

what?

Bob

website my uni uses for their computing course has a WYSIWYG and HTML editor

they also have extremely buggy "Creole" support

but they have Markdown support on their 'support' site...

why must they taunt me like this D:

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

12:02 PM

hm.. looks like the support site has Gravatar support too

you know something is wrong when your support site is better than the main site

Journeyman Geek

cause lecturers are cold unfeeling monsters who feed off your dispair.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek apparently it was created and maintained by former students

currently not very reassuring

Bob

12:36 PM

ugh

After Effects' H.264 output is hopeless.

HackToHell

@bob why ?

Bob

@HackToHell options I want are missing :P

gonna render it as lossless and ffmpeg it

I hope I have enough space for a lossless copy...

Leathe

@Bob are you exporting it via After Effects?

Bob

@Leathe Hm?

I'm trying to render my project :P

What is this "via" AE? How else would I get my output?

Leathe

Adobe Encore, or was it Encoder

Bob

12:41 PM

o.O

Journeyman Geek

he does have a point there ;p

Leathe

Encoder, apparently.

that's what I use

you can select the project directly, and afaik you get more options aswell

Journeyman Geek

the joys of the ambigious TLA :)

he's using afteraffects tho

there's an adobe encore too

Adobe Encore

Adobe Encore (previously Adobe Encore DVD) is a DVD authoring software tool produced by Adobe Systems and targeted at professional video producers. Video and audio resources may be used in their current format for development, allowing the user to transcode them to MPEG-2 video and Dolby Digital audio upon project completion. DVD menus can be created and edited in Adobe Photoshop using special layering techniques. It is bundled with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Adobe Encore does not support writing to a Blu-ray Disc using AVCHD 2.0. Licensing All forms of Adobe Encore use a proprietary licen...

I'm confused by the onebox, that building is not in the article, anywhere

Leathe

:P

you can directly open up a After Effects composition into Adobe Encoder

tapped-out

@JourneymanGeek it's the... Adobe HQ? oO

Leathe

12:44 PM

you can even open up a project file as the source

to view all the compositions within it

Bob

@Leathe I thought After Effects used Encoder?

Maybe more op, yea..

Leathe

actually i was just thinking the same

but I'm not sure

Bob

options*

anyway, I can reencode the lossless file

no big loss

and no pun was intended there

I'll keep Encoder in mind for next time, thanks

Stack Exchange

1:22 PM

gemsfromstackexchange: Do your friends use Ubuntu in China? April 1st may be the...

posted on May 31, 2013

Do your friends use Ubuntu in China? April 1st may be the perfect time to travel…

jokerdino

HEH

Bob

o.O

tapped-out

funnier still is @JourneymanGeek's comment :D

jokerdino

I actually think we are focusing on the wrong gems.

someone start realgemsfromstackexchange

Bob

@jokerdino @Sathya

(Also, perhaps we should have a different chat user on that feed? It's a little weird to have "Stack Exchange" do so, with it being unofficial and all...)

jokerdino

1:29 PM

renamed to GFSE

tapped-out

@jokerdino done, now what

realgemsfromstackexchange.tumblr.com

Bob

Yay, 40 GB AVI!

@OliverSalzburg Have I beaten your demo recording yet? :P

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob I think mine was 41 ;D

HackToHell

@jokerdino GF ... SE ?

@Bob whoa

jokerdino

@tapped-out now start identifying all the gems.

@HackToHell T'SNWIS. TINS

HackToHell

1:35 PM

@jokerdino o0

too many abbreviations come into my mind

jokerdino

Whooosh

allquixotic

whoosh

tapped-out

sounds like a unix shell :P

jokerdino

that's fish

tapped-out

or shush

jokerdino

1:43 PM

flush

tapped-out

automagically redirects stdout to /dev/sewer

mush: for those who prefer softer software

HackToHell

ln -s /dev/sewer /dev/sda

hopefully the order is right :P

jokerdino

that's going to end in a sewer

HackToHell

cracked.com/blog/…

jokerdino

I hate people who link me to cracked and tvtropes

HackToHell

1:48 PM

Thank You !

jokerdino

‮Hate you!

allquixotic

By the same token, we shouldn't automatically close any question that says "virus" anywhere in the subject or body, because it may be that the user is mistaken in believing that they have a virus, when in fact, it's just good old fashioned broken software that may be able to be fixed somehow. My dad, for one, being extremely tech-unsavvy, thinks it's a virus when almost anything goes wrong with his PC. Many users come to us having already "pre-diagnosed" the symptoms they're seeing with their PC, and, not being experts, can easily get the diagnosis wrong and mislead themselves and us. — allquixotic 2 mins ago

@OliverSalzburg @Tanner ^^

Tanner

@allquixotic The plot thickens!

I didn't take that in to account =D

hmmmmm

jokerdino

> In theory, cows can not speak either. Which is probably why they're so tasty. Nom Nom Nom.

Discuss

HackToHell

red faction armageddon is awesome !

Tanner

1:57 PM

@jokerdino mmm... beef....

HackToHell

> ˙ɯou ɯou ɯou ˙ʎʇsɐʇ os ǝɹ,ʎǝɥʇ ʎɥʍ ʎןqɐqoɹd sı ɥɔıɥʍ ˙ɹǝɥʇıǝ ʞɐǝds ʇou uɐɔ sʍoɔ 'ʎɹoǝɥʇ uı

allquixotic

@Tanner I think any questions that come to us where the user alleges or presumes that they have a virus, should be "taken a few steps back" -- we should start with focusing on the errant symptoms actually observed, then, based on those observations, determine the likelihood of it being a virus, vs. a misconfiguration or bad driver or something.

it's kind of what the primary care doctor does when you come to them and say "I have an ear infection!" or "I have cancer!" -- instead of taking your word for it that you have cancer, they proceed to diagnose your symptoms to determine what you have -- it could be tuberculosis; you're no expert, you have no clue.

Tanner

Almost makes it an XY problem, ya?

I don't really like playing doctor though, which is kind of why I'd like to see virus questions nuked.

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