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CodeX

6:05 AM

Latest technology youtube.com/watch?v=SDpagiwYDg4

"Tesla says autopilot was not on during Pennsylvania crash"

edwinksl

@Serg you da mvp

anyway this question is off-topic

Serg

6:28 AM

Yay, chat finally back up

was down for me for like 5 mins

Zanna

sympathy for this person askubuntu.com/questions/798733/ubuntu-update-has-screwed-grub I was indignant when an update proposed to overwrite my /etc/default/grub yesterday. I was so annoyed I forgot to read the changelog... but I made it keep my version, and nothing bad happened to me haha

Hello everyone :D :D

tuxie :D

:P

so how does apt actually segfault

Serg

6:31 AM

welcome back

edwinksl

i believe i have never seen that happen to apt

Edity

#prayfornicefr

2

Severus Tux

@edwinksl take a look here : blackmoreops.com/2015/08/13/…

Edity

@Serg There was maintenance ?!?

Serg

there was apparently

But it was more like an error message

too bad i didn't screenshot it

Edity

6:33 AM

site offline message?

meta was down for me too

Serg

yeah, some form of server error

Edity

84 death toll in Nice FR, will rise

about 30 are injured

Serg

oh, wait , I still have it ! will screen shot in a sec

Edity

somewhat between 3-6 critically injured

Zanna

hi @SeverusTux not seen much of you lately

Edity

6:34 AM

today we will remember nice

Serg

Edity

Linux > ux + t = tux

Severus Tux

Ubuntu forums are down....

Edity

i told you!?!

Severus Tux

@Zanna holidays :D :D , I am at home

Hello

Edity

6:36 AM

EdityChatWeb [ubuntufourms.org]

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Serg

Everybody is doing some form of maintenance .

Edity

meta is down for me ! ! !

edwinksl

we getting DDOSed? ;)

Edity

tango_down?

Serg

i hope not @edwinksl

Edity

6:37 AM

EdityChatWeb [google.com]

(not loadable)

@SeverusTux Arch Linux?

edwinksl

@SeverusTux nice arch

Severus Tux

Yup ;)

Serg

nothing on stack status twitter

Edity

:P

ddos!

edwinksl

chat was fine for me though

Edity

6:40 AM

i wasn't here during that time

Serg

probably local servers were being fixed

Severus Tux

@Edity @edwinksl kernel: 4.6.3-1-ARCH :D

edwinksl

$ uname -r
4.4.0-31-generic

:(

Edity

Arch Windows?

Serg

I'm still on -24

Severus Tux

6:42 AM

@Edity linux :P ( of course )

Edity

Hey if you dont like Windows try ReactOS

some bit of wine with it being binary compatable with WIndows

reactos.org

21 DAYS TILL RIO OLYMPICS

Severus Tux

I have been using Arch for a while now, I just love it. Everything is latest. :D

Edity

i like debian

Serg

gonna smoke and probably gonna sleep early today

Edity

@Serg: Smoking is bad for you! >:P

Severus Tux

6:48 AM

I tell cl-netbox the same.. he smokes a lot :0

Edity

smoking is BAD for you! @Serg @cl-netbox It could cause lung cancer and rotting body parts and death.

ReactOS

ReactOS is an open-source operating system for x86/x64 PCs intended to be binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows Server 2003. Development started in 1996, as a Windows 95 clone project, which was in 1998 continued as ReactOS with the incremental addition of features of later Windows versions. ReactOS has been noted as a potential open-source drop-in replacement for Windows and for its information on undocumented Windows APIs. As stated on the official website, "The main goal of the ReactOS project is to provide an operating system which is binary compatible...

try it its fun ^

Zanna

I really do not care if windows can make me sandwiches, do my ironing and give me a backrub, I am not going to give my space & time to it or any of its relatives

Edity

@Zanna ok. your loss

edwinksl

sandwiches and backrub though... that's a lot to give up ;)

Edity

its...'Lightweight
500MB HDD and 96MB RAM

Severus Tux

6:54 AM

@Edity seriously ?? thats... um... ah...

Edity

@SeverusTux ?

Severus Tux

I will stay with GNOME. :P

EMONG

Which DE is that ??

a backwards GNOME

6:56 AM

not that

ReactOS

whats a de

Desktop Environment

lets see

Unity,GNOME,KDE...

If you want lightweight , take puppy linux

Edity

6:57 AM

puppy linux?!?

Nathan Osman

Hey.

PuppyLinux was my first distro.

Severus Tux

Hi @NathanOsman

Edity

@NathanOsman O/

oh

pls dont swing banhammer

Nathan Osman

I still remember running it on an old Pentium MMX machine.

Back when Mozilla was a browser.

Edity

1995?

when i was a small pencil :p

Severus Tux

6:59 AM

@NathanOsman @Edity why do you guys have same profile image ?

its confusing ...

Edity

?

is he a pencil?

Severus Tux

Oh..

not you

@edwinksl

and @NathanOsman

Serg

Mine could also be confusing :D

Edity

@SeverusTux he is unbootu

Serg

Well, we have this craze for Ubuntu misspellings going on

edwinksl

7:00 AM

@SeverusTux not exactly the same ;)

Edity

@SeverusTux and @NathanOsman is ubutun

edwinksl

blame it on zacharee

Serg

Zacharee made us all different avatars with misspellings

ByteCommander is UbuTuna

Severus Tux

hahaha...

nice

Edity

The Jacksons - Blame It On the Boogie

►

replace blame it on the boogie with blame it on zacharee

@SeverusTux Reactos is Windows NT desktop enviroment

i think modified KDE. IDK

Severus Tux

7:03 AM

hm..

I need to go

Bye All :D D

edwinksl

cya!

Edity

@SeverusTux cya!

Serg

Fun fact : KDE used to actually run on Windows

let me find it

Edity

unity on windows

ooo

edity > unity

Zanna

ciao Sev xxx

Serg

7:04 AM

techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Historic/…

Zanna

answer about kali... what should be done with this? askubuntu.com/a/798776/527764

Edity

what is kde

Serg

@ThomasW. OK , serious question. Kali or Backtrack ?

Edity

thomas is sleeping

Serg

I know.He'll see it when he is on site

Edity

7:11 AM

O_o paper mario color splash

Byte Commander

7:26 AM

@terdon @Zanna Remember that question where we wondered why the original file was reported as ASCII text by file and the same file passed through sort showed as UTF-8?

Did you find an explanation already?

Zanna

@ByteCommander yes I remember it well, but haven't found the explanation

Byte Commander

But I did:

Zanna

but it was the opposite - it was UTF-8 and came out ASCII

Byte Commander

$ python3 -c 'f=open("file.txt","w");print(("A"*100+"\n")*1000+"Ö",file=f)'
$ ll file.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bytecommander bytecommander 101003 Jul 15 09:24 file.txt
$ file file.txt
file.txt: ASCII text

$ python3 -c 'f=open("file.txt","w");print(("A"*100+"\n")*500+"Ö",file=f)'
$ ll file.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bytecommander bytecommander 50503 Jul 15 09:25 file.txt
$ file file.txt
file.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text

Zanna

which made no sense

Byte Commander

7:28 AM

Oh, may be. Does not matter.

Zanna

but I'm still curious about it!

Byte Commander

file only inspects the first few kB (somewhere in the range of 50kB-100kB) of the file.

Zanna

yeah I see what you did, the non-ASCII char is farrrrr away

good discovery!

Byte Commander

If it finds non-ASCII characters in this part, it will report UTF-8 (if that matches instead). If the first non-ASCII character appears after this limit, file does not care.

Zanna

that does explain it

and the non ASCII was sorted to the end

Byte Commander

7:30 AM

And the sorting simply pushed the first non-ASCII character more to the end, correct.

Zanna

NICE WORK!!

Edity

o_O

Serg

Funny. hidemyass proxy gives me UK google even if do Italian proxy

Edity

hidemyass?

Serg

hmmm, apparently only UK is available for free version ?

Videonauth

7:44 AM

@Serg there are enough real free proxies around the world, even with tunneling and the like ;) do you google fu again :)

Serg

@Videonauth Will do. I'm just exploring , slightly.

Videonauth

:)

sighs well talk to you guys this evening hopefully have to get ready for a doctors appointment :)

Serg

Good luck ! Hopefully doc tells you something good

Zanna

awww take care <3

Videonauth

ah is just a check up for my diabetes

Edity

7:52 AM

i ate something hot

HOT AHHHHH

Byte Commander

8:05 AM

@Serg Hidemyass is nice, but I prefer cyberghost.

They also don't show you that many ads for themselves... At least the last time I used them.

Edity

@ByteCommander whats hidemyass?

Byte Commander

a webproxy site.

Edity

ooooooOOOOO

Serg

@ByteCommander cyberghost.com ?

Byte Commander

@Edity You visit their site, enter a URL you want to visit and they show you the site, redirected over their own servers to obscure your own IP and location.

Edity

8:07 AM

oh

Byte Commander

@Serg NO!

cyberghostvpn.com/en_us/free-proxy

Serg

;) had to make sure

Byte Commander

They offer you a free US, Romanian or German server.

They also offer free real VPNs, but only Win, Mac, iOS and Android support their client application which is needed.

For Linux, you would have to use your own client and the L2TP, IPSec or PPTP protocol, but those are available for paid premium accounts only... :-/

Serg

so far i am only interested in web proxy , similar to that of hidemyass , that's all

Rinzwind

@AndroidDev general concensus: friends do NOT let friends code in PHP @Serg

Serg

8:17 AM

Mkay, will remember that

perfect score

Byte Commander

Nice

Zanna

haha. I have a round number right now, 2500

Byte Commander

Time to add a 5 to the end, don't you think @Serg?

;-)

I have a round 2600 on SO currently.

No other interesting numbers...

Serg

Considering that I am a rare visitor on U&L , I won't add 5 any time soon . My main goal is to get my 33k on this site back by the end of the summer

Byte Commander

Same here, although it were only 22k...

Serg

8:24 AM

lol , not sure if the system is broken or we're that good to have such nice numbers :p

Zanna

the universe is in a peculiar state of harmony today, perhaps

Serg

OK. I'm out. Gonna need to wake up early so leaving early. Hopefully I'll pass out easily

bye

Zanna

haha hope the harmony sends you to sleep

Edity

8:59 AM

goodnight

(for me)

Rinzwind

9:32 AM

done @smokey

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terdon

@Edity No. Please do not pray for Nice. The same answer that was given by one of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists last year applies here:

Thomas W.

@Serg Kali is Backtrack. BT was rebranded and Kali was born. (BT is defunct and past life)

That said there's issues with Kali Rolling - last one that worked for me was I think 2

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12:40 PM

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CodeX

lh3.googleusercontent.com/…

wondering why my links don't convert to image

Oli

12:58 PM

@CodeX Because they don't have an extension? That or because it's webp.

Or both.

CodeX

who doesn't have extension ?

lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fqBU7LB5Xss/V4bD7zA4ZmI/AAAAAAAAaFg/…

@oli

Oli

That URL. It doesn't end .jpg (for example)

CodeX

yeah the one I am pasting now doesnt have

how did you add that ?

Oli

That's what happens if you wang a ?asdasd=.jpg on the end.

CodeX

lh3.googleusercontent.com/…

Oli

1:06 PM

(I know it's not a jpeg, now, but that doesn't seem to matter. The browser is still treating it with its mime-type)

CodeX

Oli

@CodeX Read what I wrote more carefully. You need more than .jpg

I added a querystring. You're changing the core URL.

CodeX

not sure which part of query I need to change

Oli

2 mins ago, by Oli

That's what happens if you wang a ?asdasd=.jpg on the end.

CodeX

but end part doesnt have any asdasd

it has "uWY_2jwnk3lNOfVgfXyiNb_2i2VDxaaA6L1d1I195HEZr1KJ2MOyjlKqyOav-exb9dTDIPKU85M=w84‌49-h4753-rw-no"

Android Dev

1:16 PM

@Rinzwind I wasn't the one doing the PHP coding. Wordpress was.

Oli

@CodeX Indeed it doesn't. It's as if I'm adding that whole thing.

CodeX

@Oli

hmm I still didn't get it ..but thanks for trying to explain

terdon

1:48 PM

@Oli Huh, that's cool. So adding ?randomstring=jpg at the end will make it onebox?

Oli

Might need a dot in there, but essentially, yes

cl-netbox

Hello :)

terdon

.jpg, right. Neat, good to know!

Hi!

CodeX

cl-netbox

Hi @terdon ! I have set up an ubuntu server 16.04 KVM VM and cannot ssh into it from my ubuntu 16.04 desktop - can you help me with this ? :) I tried a lot already ...

CodeX

1:52 PM

oh now I got it ..thanks @Oli

Zanna

cool 'scape :)

Makes me feel calm

CodeX

Lets go for a walk now ?

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Byte Commander

CodeX

2:35 PM

terdon

3:12 PM

@cl-netbox I can try, but I doubt it. I know very little about networking.

Ah, and I don't have a working VM here. So even less likely to be able to help.

blade19899

eurobytes.nl just got an A+ on ssllabs: ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=eurobytes.nl

Just saying.... Bye...

cl-netbox

3:36 PM

@terdon okay ... thanks anyway ... that is a tricky thing : port forwarding doesn't work as it should and setting up a bridged network also wasn't successful ... so maybe I find a solution accidentally. :)

terdon

@cl-netbox Port forwarding? Why? Aren't these on the same network?

Byte Commander

@Zanna No need to delete your answer, it was correct and valid. I'd just have left it there...

Zanna

oh really?

adds nothing

your answer is perfect, no need for mine

Byte Commander

But you were faster, so there's no real reason why you would not have the right to leave it there.

Thanks for the compliment though :)

Zanna

I always delete if I think my answer contributes nothing to the whole question page

ps since you are here, I get strange results using your keyboard shortcuts here askubuntu.com/a/797163/527764

without \n when I paste all spaces & newlines disappear from the text. with \n I get no spaces, but a newline every other word!

Byte Commander

3:55 PM

@Zanna Huh? Which command are you exactly referring to?

Zanna

bash -c 'printf "%b%b" $(xsel -b) $(xsel) | xsel -ib ; xsel -c'

Byte Commander

Oh.

Indeed...

o.O

printf strangeness?

Ah, missing quotes!

Thanks for debugging @Zanna :)

Zanna

any time ^_^ thanks for your much greater efforts in writing it

cl-netbox

@terdon yes, but in KVM (other than in vbox) both use the same ip and mac address, so you have to forward another port (e.g. 8022) from the host to the guest port 22 or alternatively create a bridge, because NAT uses the same network address for host and guest. :)

Byte Commander

@Zanna Check again please, the answer should be fixed now.

cl-netbox

4:05 PM

@terdon This comes close -> unix.stackexchange.com/questions/124681/… ... but unfortunately doesn't work for me. :)

Hi @ByteCommander ! :) Hi @Zanna ! :)

Byte Commander

Hi Boxy :)

Zanna

Hi :)

@ByteCommander aahhh I see

yeah fixed

Maybe Panda fixed it without even thinking...

cl-netbox

@Edity Thanks for your well meant advice ! :) @ByteCommander and @SeverusTux already warned me many times ... but unfortunately I enjoy it ... :D :D :D

Zanna

I already upvoted anyway... sooo useful

aaannnd shortcut done :)

Byte Commander

@Zanna Or he did not notice yet...

Zanna

4:18 PM

haha or used Serg's script instead, who knows

jokerdino

4:29 PM

ouch

Zanna

what hurts o joking one?

jokerdino

I read what you deleted.

Byte Commander

dupe askubuntu.com/q/799021/367990

Zanna

poor inodes

Android Dev

4:58 PM

@Serg @NathanOsman - I found what looks like a ShellShock attempt in my Apache log.... paste.ubuntu.com/19514141

Zanna

is there a convention that it is better for a question to have as few tags as possible?

jokerdino

no

Add as many relevant tags as possible.

Zanna

5:16 PM

OK :) That's what I thought... I ask because here askubuntu.com/questions/798864/cant-find-path-to-vimrc-file I think Andrew added relevant tags but they got removed by a later edit

jokerdino

oh him. :/

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: Unable to access network err_network_changed by Rajat K Jain on askubuntu.com …

Serg

@AndroidDev I didn't see anything suggesting shellshock in your paste link. You sure you provided correct one ?

terdon

The attempt to run a cgi script in the GET, I guess?

Serg

"GET /tmUnblock.cgi HTTP/1.1" 400 0 "-" "-"

@terdon GET message downloads tmUnblock.cgi to the server ?

terdon

5:20 PM

I don't really know. As I recall, shellshock would allow the execution of arbitrary code so I guessed that perhaps that's what we were looking at.

I am about as far from an expert on this as it is possible to be though, so take what I say with a mountain of salt.

Serg

Well, there's cgi script , that's all we know. There's no indication of what that cgi scrpt is

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@terdon I Googled the line and found this: security.stackexchange.com/questions/68405/…

@Serg

I'm going to wipe this thing (there's hardly anything on it), and REALLY harden it. I'm going to block all IPs not from UK/US/CA/AU. I'm going to set up fail2ban, and bunch of other stuff.

Serg

5:47 PM

fail2ban probably will do good job, but if the botnet mafia uses proxies and tor ( which they do ) they can masquerade their IP as anything, even UK , Canada, Netherlands , etc.

@AndroidDev

So blocking specific countries is pointless

Android Dev

@Serg It will prevent a good chunk of malicious people.

Serg

lol, trust me - it won't

My server on Digital Ocean gets bombarded by IPs from New York

among others

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