The Comms Room

ewwhite

23:15

@MDMarra yes.

allquixotic

Can guys take guesses at the five extremely faded digits in this product key for SU mod @studiohack so he can get his Windows activated? we need "fresh sets of eyes" because our eyes over at Root Access can only see what we originally saw.

ohh, I'm gonna enter that service tag over at dell support ;)

Mark Henderson

@allquixotic BVOBS

B = 99%
V = 99%
C/O = 50%
B/8 = 10%
S = 75%

(confidence levels)

B and V are pretty obvious, not too faded

allquixotic

@MarkHenderson estimated or some software?

Mark Henderson

The last S, that's the only character that has those sorts of curves, except maybe an 8

@allquixotic My guestimates :p

But the 3rd and 4th characters? God help you

allquixotic

B = 100%
O = 100%
O = 100%
B = 100%
S = 100%

sorry, your guess made me think of that

OMG

THE BARCODE!!!!!!!!!!

Mark Henderson

23:23

fwiw I hate those labels. Their probability of survival is inversley proportial to the amount of damage they receive. My laptop - moves all the time, taken in and out of bags every day, used everywhere - sticker perfect. Collegues laptop that sits on his desk all day and never even goes home; faded to shit

@allquixotic The barcode has the key embedded? Wouldn't have thought it was long enough

allquixotic

going to apply image processing to sharpen and increase contrast and try with my phone

if that doesn't work I'll write a program in Visual Basic to track the fader's IP address

2

which should be much higher than 255 in each octet

Matt Bear

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

fml

Mark Henderson

@MattBear Got the right password?

Matt Bear

@MarkHenderson no idea

I have the systems root password... but for mysql, no one knows

Mark Henderson

find / -name my.conf -exec rm {}

Matt Bear

23:29

the guy who set it up, is long gone

Mark Henderson

Bam, now your problem is everyones problem

Matt Bear

I can just use mysqladmin to reset the password right?

Mark Henderson

No idea

Tanner

> No passwords were changed. If you see an invalid username/password error message then either the username or password is wrong. If you've been logging in with janew, the username is now janem...

Having to send out that email made me die inside a little...

Mark Henderson

dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html

Matt Bear

23:37

damn... access denied for changing the password

errrgggggggaaarrrrrghhhblaarrrghhhhboooob

Tanner

Matt Bear

@Tanner lol

Mark Henderson

I'm literally listening to my colleague telling one of our users how to type >

I feel so sorry for her right now

Tanner

Thanks. I feel better about my email now.

And... most things actually.

Matt Bear

@Tanner that email is the story of my life

Mark Henderson

23:40

"You know your Shift key? Ok hold down that, and see next to the question mark key, there's a full stop key? Ok whilst you're still holding shift, press that. No, don't let go of shift until after you've pushed that key"

I had PTSD flashbacks to my time on the helldesk

Matt Bear

>?

Mark Henderson

@MattBear Don't even go there. Thankfully we have caller ID so if this guy calls back I am going to conveniently be busy

Matt Bear

@MarkHenderson I have to deal with that sort of stuff at home.... haha

you should of seen the day I switched her PS3 AV cable from RCA to HDMI

Tanner

@MattBear What bugs me about it is that we have like 12 people using the same employee's username -_- And she got married so... now they're all confused.

And accusing me of changing the password.

Mark Henderson

@MattBear My wife is pretty good, only she uses caps lock for typing single capital letters and it drives me nuts. My son, at nearly 3 years of age, can outperform almost anyone when it comes to finding shit to watch on youtube

Matt Bear

23:43

@Tanner why dont they have thier own?

that would be the first thing to address....

Mark Henderson

I know it's not great parenting, but give that kid an iPad and he will unlock, load youtube, and find his favourite videos in about 5 seconds flat

Matt Bear

has he rickrolled you yet?

Tanner

@MarkHenderson My kiddo is like that too. His grandma left him alone with hers while she napped one day and he started ordering stuff off Amazon... yay for 1-click buying.

Mark Henderson

@Tanner Yeah he bought a $5,000 oak table off ebay

Tanner

o_o

Damn. Mine just went for little dinosaur toys.

Mark Henderson

23:47

We sent them an email advising them of the mistake, and they were bastards about it, reported us to ebay and to paypal

But it all went OK, they dismissed the claim against us as I've been an eBay user for 10+ years and never had a complaint against me

fwiw it was a beautiful antique dining table and I would have loved to have bought it. He found it because it was on our watch list, but we didn't have the money

Matt Bear

@MarkHenderson dcgstores.com/…

thats along the lines of what I want

someday....

Mark Henderson

Holy crap

You get shit so cheap!

And that is one fancy table

My god sometimes I want to move to America

And sometimes I don't

But right now I do

Matt Bear

@MarkHenderson actually theres a place within a few hours of my house, they make nicer ones, but only the marble slabs

I want to get a slab, and make the table myself

Mark Henderson

I don't think I've ever seen a marble dining table before

Matt Bear

(after I buy a house lol)

Mark Henderson

23:54

Yeah, houses

Which reminds me, @ewwhite - did you end up going back to the other place?

Or are you back looking at the market?

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Q: How to/where to go, Whois my IP:% This is the RIPE Database query service

Please forgive me if i'm asking the WRONG people the WRONG question about something I know nothing about but my whole computer system seems to be going WRONG crashing, deleting & denying me access to my drives & files & I have no idea where to source help. I have even asked my servic...

windows

whaaaaa

allquixotic

you guys will love this one: our restrictive proxy (which @MarkHenderson knows a lot about) is now deciding to shut half our team out of establishing any HTTPS connections.

this tells me that they're probably MITM'ing any existing HTTPS connections, otherwise they'd have no reason to block HTTPS and not HTTP

the lost productivity from this is quickly mounting to a whole lot of hours

nobody can figure out why it's happening

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