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9:16 AM

This semester in school is going to suck

lifehacker.com broken for anyone else?

@MichaelFrank looks fine here

Yea, working now.. weird. Was getting a Kinja: Origin not found error.

DDo you use lifehacker much?

Not anymore. The new layout drives me insane.

It used to be my go-to for web browsing.

9:21 AM

LOL flipkart.com/sennheiser-hd-800-headphone/product-reviews/…

hhaha

Ugh. I need a new SSD for my Mac. Any recommended brands/models these days?

a fast one!

-_-

Mine's already so slow, anything's fine :P

I only get 150MB/s read speeds.

haha =p I'd help you out if I had any idea

9:30 AM

@JourneymanGeek, @Bob? ---^

howsmyssl.com

firefox ranks as bad =p

but the rating scheme isn't that great

Ah steam finally rolls out family sharing

@slhck "only" -_-

@Bob Well, it's one of the first-gen SSDs shipped by Apple in 2011. I'm sure it could be much better by now.

Also I'm running out of space on 120 GB. With hardly anything installed.

if it's a first gen SSD I'm surprised it's still kicking.. except with arthritis or something

9:33 AM

Yeah, I'm glad the thing is still running. I need the MacBook at least for three weeks, then it can crash, I don't care

@slhck I generally recommend a SSD for caching only, not for permanent storage.

But in a laptop you don't have that many options.

Hm.

Intel is known for its stability.

How much have you read/written on it?

OCZ is cheap, but has a reputation for dying.

Sandisk is supposedly pretty good. But I don't know much else in the realm of SSDs :P

@ekaj How would I find out?

crystal disk info

9:36 AM

@ekaj Windows :P

you're running Winders?

No, the program's for Windows.

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     JMicron based SSDs
Device Model:     APPLE SSD TS128C
Serial Number:    11QS1071TLMZ
Firmware Version: CJAA0201
User Capacity:    121,332,826,112 bytes [121 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Thu Jan  9 10:37:08 2014 CET

oh =p

oh.. you did say mac earlier.. boo =p

wow so many kids

@Bob I have a Sandisk SSD in my PC at the moment. I like it.

9:41 AM

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Q: Disable Windows 8 auto ending programs

I often lose my unsaved work because of Windows 8's stupid feature that ends unresponsive programs once the dialog box, "This program is not responding" appears. Are there any options I can disable it?

windows windows-8 process tasks

Doesn't he have bigger problems to worry about if his apps keep crashing?

stupid feature > stupid user

I'd assume so, yeah

@Gowtham ... ... ...

Yea, ok, couple of 10 year olds on there. Which is probably why so many servers apparently ban swearing.

9:54 AM

my hard drive may or may not be making funny sounds

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10:37 AM

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Q: IS website necessty for sale online products?

Hi i am Raj Kishore from India and my question is that is website necessity for sale online products? Thanks to all, Raj

srsly

lol

I mean, he can sell them through SOAP web services if he wants

Or IRC. Or via e-mail even.

usenet

or a list of wifi networks that describe his product

but buying that many APs would be a lot more expensive than a website

Oliver Salzburg

11:30 AM

Bulletin board system

A bulletin board system, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log into the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users, either through email, public message boards, and sometimes via direct chatting. Many BBSes also offer on-line games, in which users can compete with each other, and BBSes with multiple phone lines often provide chat rooms, allowing users to interact with each other. Originally...

That's what I would suggest

@JourneymanGeek reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/1r5gm5/… welp...

did you get yours? I forgot

Journeyman Geek

yeah

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Ouch

Journeyman Geek

11:47 AM

I've not had any issues with mine so far

Also, I do wonder if the guy who linked the similar pen actually has one - the design is pretty simple

and apparently IPG is a pretty common name, and richardspens.com/?page=ref/ttp/ipg_nibs.htm look nothing like the one on mine

@slhck I'm a big fan of samsungs - though the mac part might make it slightly more complex

ahh, they support OS X

Anonymous

12:21 PM

sup @JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

12:32 PM

oh for fuck's sake

My school just told me I was one module off graduation - its an elective and I took the other elective

Anonymous

crap

Journeyman Geek

everything I have says they are wrong

Anonymous

so what are you gonna do

@ekaj Even 1st gen SSD with even SATA-150 will be still many times faster than 10,000 RPM HDD.

Journeyman Geek

emailed them with additional information

including a copy of their website

(printed and scanned. I feel dirty)

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Anonymous

12:51 PM

holy shit

Anonymous

bitcoin's coming down

Anonymous

if ghash.io gets >%51 share

@PatoSáinz ??

Anonymous

@Gowtham

Anonymous

reddit.com/r/Bitcoin

Anonymous

1:01 PM

everyone is panicking and FUDing everywhere

Anonymous

just look at bitcointalk too

whoa

wtf is happening

ooh

Anonymous

some pool is growing massively

and ghash.io is down

reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1tpo2p/…

Anonymous

yep

Anonymous

1:05 PM

apparently ddos

Anonymous

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woohoo this is interesting

@JourneymanGeek see the comments on that reddit thread

and here: reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/1qqn3q/…

Journeyman Geek

yeah

1:58 PM

@PatoSáinz Nice taser...

Anonymous

lol

I wish they used such in USA

@JourneymanGeek I need to find an excuse to write more :P

2:27 PM

@Bob can one safely merge upstream zirak bot?

Journeyman Geek

I need a way to make a windows 7 system randomly unstable

/me would flip a bit in kernel.dll :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

fortunately the people who will see this arn't computer savvy

lol. My parents want me to "break" our main system

I want it to be believable tho

so I want random, maybe BSODs every 20-30 minutes or so...

there's an option to make BSOD at key command (ala sysrq), maybe you can hack something

Journeyman Geek

yeah

I've got until sunday

2:46 PM

@jokerdino 94 commits?! wow.. (Just saw your pull request to Zirak's)

@ekaj Please don't help out spammers…

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@allquixotic No no no. That was a mess

I got the whole thing in reverse.

I always mess up pull requests or my own repo. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Instead of pulling from upstream, I sent them a pull request. -.-

Oh

Journeyman Geek

2:50 PM

how bad would pulling a cooling fan be?

@jokerdino lol

are any of kitfox's commits applicable to upstream?

I don't know. Maybe

3:08 PM

a hoy hoy

ChatBot John Cavil

@rlemon Turns out I already have milk. Oops.

good, I forgot

Journeyman Geek

bleh, there's nothing artistic enough

!! doge hello check test

ChatBot John Cavil

@Gowtham That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

3:17 PM

aww haven't installed doge yet?

!!doge hello,check,test

ChatBot John Cavil

@rlemon That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

or just formatting issues ???

nope, no doge.

duh why doesn't tp link give me root access to my modem -_-

Journeyman Geek

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Q: Convincingly "breaking" a system for a non technical user

For various reasons out of scope for SU I've been tasked with temporarily disabling one of my own systems. I have full admin control and own this system. Its running windows 7 SP1. I want to do this right - something believable, deniable and artistic. Ideally I'd like something I can trigger of...

I now officially ~~hate myself~~ am on the road to being a bad dog ;p

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@JourneymanGeek Wasn't there a mega thread about this

Journeyman Geek

3:21 PM

yeah, read through it

I need something deniable

217

Q: How to mess up a PC running Windows 7?

Ok, so for my PC class I have to find 3 hacks that would mess up the lab's PC. Me and my partner are going to mess up the PC and then another team will try to fix it. The system on it is Windows 7. Anything that would stop the normal use or render the PC useless works. The conditions: Can't op...

windows-7 windows security

one of my favorite threads :P

@JourneymanGeek :P

Journeyman Geek

@Gowtham: the tricky thing here is, I can't have it attributed to me

else I'd just unplug something and feign ignorance

hm, we need the blog room unfrozen again

yanno what's the worst part? I've actually considered doing this on purpose before.

@rlemon haven't git pulled with master lately

@rlemon @jokerdino made this pull request by accident, but maybe some of these commits could be useful in master, I have no idea github.com/Zirak/SO-ChatBot/pull/162

@KitFox does a lot of work on the chatbot apparently, but I have no idea what percentage of that is ELU-specific

merging upstream anything that we might want to have as a wider community (here and in JS chat) would be nice

It's mostly random stuff we added. A lego feature, Pinky and the Brain, parent user look up.

parent user lookup sounds extremely useful

3:29 PM

We thought so.

the "silly" ones I'll let rlemon and his JS guys decide whether they want that, but I want parent user lookup :D

I took out a lot of stuff, but then didn't commit properly, so I think most of it stayed it.

I was using it to learn git and practice javascript.

But I've been too busy lately to do much with her.

@allquixotic Let's not talk about that.

Did all my changes get overwritten?

@KitFox your changes where? in your repo?

3:34 PM

@KitFox Ask Matt

Oh. Well, no, some of them are there. But she used to respond when I refreshed her and she doesn't anymore.

Never mind. I should be crunching data anyway.

maybe some of those changes were gone

I'll look at it tonight.

@KitFox cya

@KitFox I'm going to bake the un one box into our bot with a command to toggle the functionality on and off

so keep an eye out for that

3:38 PM

And the bot needs a nsfw filter

!!unbox on and !!unbox off kinda stuff

@allquixotic removed the urban plugin cause of all the dirty language :'(

lol

you can write a filter. just filter the output before you send it to the adapter

@rlemon any idea what the status is on the two bugfix pull requests we submitted a while ago to master?

Added to my todo

3:40 PM

@allquixotic what is the issue # ??

github.com/Zirak/SO-ChatBot/pull/157 and github.com/Zirak/SO-ChatBot/pull/154 (the latter is not so much of a bug fix but a feature)

@rlemon Oh great. We've got some users that will love that.

merged the unbans

I will let Zirak put in his 2 cents for the other one

he will be here this weekend

4:00 PM

cool :3

whoa... chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/118/root-access

https

it's only "partially encrypted", but that's better than nothing! :D

WHOA...

https://superuser.com

Journeyman Geek

ooh

found a way to script a BSOD

anyone wants some free rep?

yesss

:P

@JourneymanGeek wut?

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic No CSS for me. Is it the site, or my sh***y DNS again?

Journeyman Geek

diskcryptor.net/wiki/Console for superuser.com/questions/699278/… (add more stuff for extra love from the crowd)

4:13 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy change it to google's dns servers ?

@ThatBrazilianGuy it's only partially encrypted so the CSS doesn't work because the CSS loads over regular http

Journeyman Geek

actually I might end up writing an answer for it anyway

@ThatBrazilianGuy change it to google's dns servers ?

Journeyman Geek

and yeah, I do believe its a scriptable way to crash a system

@JourneymanGeek why on earth do you need that?

I know you don't want to explain in the Q, but tell us here

Journeyman Geek

4:14 PM

@allquixotic: I did!

That Brazilian Guy

@Gowtham Problem is we have a couple bonky servers and some internal sites will only open if I use one, and others will open only if I use the other. Also, internal policy if using only free, open and/or auditable services, etc.

Journeyman Geek

Basically my parents want me to 'break' the shared system over some strife we have with the in laws ;p

haha

Journeyman Geek

they wanted me to disable the monitor. I was thinking the fan

@JourneymanGeek lol

Journeyman Geek

4:15 PM

but, that lacks artistry

If one is going to be a Bad Dog , one needs to do it in style

now, I need to work out a way to get this happening at random

@JourneymanGeek taskshedule + some js magic...

@JourneymanGeek welp, time to get a Driver Signing Certificate for $1000/year and let them install an electrode into your brain

you need a kernel module (tm)

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: in theory, I could activate this from my system over psexec.

I may also only need to do this once. And then break the system more totally.

@JourneymanGeek you could also use Vista-or-later's MSG command to send messages like "ERROR" (very cryptic and scary) and "VERY SERIOUS ERROR - PLEASE LEAVE NOW"

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: I don't want to be too clever

well, maybe a little. I am pondering ways to downgrade youtube ;p

4:19 PM

disable the hwa, and remove the video driver...

Journeyman Geek

@Braiam: while not actually being at a computer at all.

Oliver Salzburg

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Q: Add a spikey hair badge

You should add a badge for when a user goes over 9000 rep that references spiky hair. Perhaps allow them to wear a spiky hair on their avatar for a day or so to celebrate. That would be good fun.

feature-request status-declined badge-request

@JourneymanGeek err.... just inject the thing full of virus...

Journeyman Geek

@Braiam: I have two hours, and plausible deniability ;p

well that was unexpected

I really wish the VM would make up its mind which window has focus

That Brazilian Guy

4:31 PM

@JourneymanGeek one more idea for your mischievous actions.

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: attaboy ;p

I'm wondering if BSODing it once, then causing a more major seeming failure is a good idea

but that means I won't be able to 'fix' it without major issues

@ThatBrazilianGuy: tho, consolidate them into one answer

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek First a few shutdows without dialog, then a few reboots with a cryptic warning, then a few BSDs.

If you really, really, really, really hate them, install Windows ME.

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: sigh trust me, I could disable that box pretty easily

tough part is making it seem plausible.

@allquixotic any progress ? :P

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek If it's an elder user, any message box displayed upon login will make them go OMG MY COMPUTER IS --GONNA EXPLODE-- SO SERIUOSLY BROKEN.

Been there, seen that. A few times. They will, usually, provide you a screenshot made with pen, paper and ilegible handwriting. Displaying some highly irrelevant info.

Journeyman Geek

4:42 PM

its a mix

I don't want to get TOO clever tho

I want it cryptic enough that I can act dumb or better yet, blame the hardware

That Brazilian Guy

Throw one of those long codes MS loves to provide. 0x8ac70013, 0x8100039d, etc

Journeyman Geek

lol

the BSOD off the dcrypt program is good enough

IRQ Less or equal ;p

That Brazilian Guy

Why exactly do you need to do that? Is it something you can tell us? Are you one of the good guys or the bad ones?

Journeyman Geek

I did! Twice!

That Brazilian Guy

~~I am too lazy to scroll up~~ Oh, I haven't noticed!

4:48 PM

Oh, that's nefarious @JourneymanGeek. I like it.

I would just write a program in shell:execute that waits <avg session length/2+randomOffset> and displays a message box with "An error has occurred with your logon session. Please save all work and then click log out. ERR 0x80004005" with a single "Logout" button to close the dialog, which causes the current user to be logged off.

Doesn't cause damage, but would get to be annoying as hell.

Bonus points for flagging the dialog as Always-on-top

Also, googling 80004005 is useless.

Journeyman Geek

I'm probably kicking this off with a BSOD.

That Brazilian Guy

@DarthAndroid Best way to break a system: leave it to a house pet =P

Journeyman Geek

oh, and I need to mess with youtube

That Brazilian Guy

@DarthAndroid I tried .____.

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: I'm pretty good at fixing these things!

4:55 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy So JourneymanGeek should have it covered, yes?

That Brazilian Guy

> I'm doing it addition to other bits of naughtiness like passing web traffic to a proxy so I can apply some aggressive traffic shaping.

You, sire, are despicable.

You could go full upside-down-ternet on them.

"Oh, no, congress passed secret a bill to flip the Internet upside down a few days ago."

Journeyman Geek

once again, plausibility

That Brazilian Guy

Make all the images from facebook img cdn return 404's

Journeyman Geek

why even bother? Set up tinyproxy, pass web traffic through that, then run it through trickle.

4:57 PM

well, upside down-ternet is just one affect you can apply.

instead of --flip, try --blur 10

That Brazilian Guy

Would be awesome as a joke, but here stealthness > awesomeness

Journeyman Geek

yup

and keeping it low key

I want it to be annoying yet natural

That Brazilian Guy

randomly or periodically disable the ethernet (or wifi) port

blame the driver or hardware

Journeyman Geek

oh I intend to go one better. I want to pass the traffic through squid or tinyproxy

well, then stick with a transparent http proxy, trickle the speed, and slightly blur the images

or highly-compressed jpgs would also work

Journeyman Geek

5:01 PM

I don't need to even bother with a transparent proxy

I have enough time to set up a regular one

That Brazilian Guy

stop the blurriness obsession, man

well you just suggested squid

Journeyman Geek

images shouldn't be an issue

I just need to degrade some things

but using QOS on the whole network is overkill

actually thats a great idea

That Brazilian Guy

Explain it to me plz? QOS isn't package priority or something?

Journeyman Geek

well, connection priority

so If I happen to have higher priority traffic...

That Brazilian Guy

5:04 PM

Oh you can set it per IP / host? I thought it was per protocol or service.

QoS generally involves connection priority and throttling. Depending on the router, you can set it per traffic type, per port, and/or per host

Journeyman Geek

yup

oh, no one else uses skype

I have HTTP flagged as Ultra-High for the first 500KB, and then it drops to Bulk, for example

So pages load fast, but downloads won't overload the network.

Anonymous

crossposting

Anonymous

thepiratebay.se/torrent/3806920

That Brazilian Guy

5:06 PM

@DarthAndroid You guys are geniuses. I should hang around here more.

Anonymous

6.7 GB in only virus/trojan/worm binaries

Journeyman Geek

lol

Anonymous

66711 different kinds of malware

wonder if stuxnet is in there

Anonymous

i dare someone to run this

Anonymous

5:08 PM

at least in a vm

Anonymous

archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/29118168

Anonymous

it's fucking funny

it will break out of the vm

That Brazilian Guy

@PatoSáinz I think I have only 20 or so in a folder, and one in a 1.44 floppy.

Anonymous

@allquixotic no

Journeyman Geek

5:08 PM

AND EAT YOUR BABIES.

Anonymous

you tinfoil hat

Oliver Salzburg

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On the bitbucket bug tracker right now :P

Journeyman Geek

I wouldn't let this near a system I couldn't afford to cleanse with fire

Oliver Salzburg

There goes my bug report :(

Anonymous

also those viruses aren't that advanced... XP era

5:08 PM

it's easy to bust out of a vm

Anonymous

@allquixotic you don't actually need to bust out of a vm to break havoc anyway

@ThatBrazilianGuy Heh, at school we used to go over to a buddy's computer that had irritated us and Win+D,Ctrl+A,Enter and then watch as their computer became useless for ~10 minutes.

Anonymous

@allquixotic also, source?

You learned to keep your desktop empty after that a few times.

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@allquixotic I would hope it's not easy to bust out of a VM. What VM platform are you talking about?

Journeyman Geek

lol

5:10 PM

@DarthAndroid if I told you I'd have to kill you

looks at himself, then back to allquixotic You might want to rethink your threats a bit. My name's not Darth LivingHumanoid

I can neither affirm nor deny the existence of a VM busting technique zero-day for popular commercial virtualization platforms

Anonymous

OHH YEA

Anonymous

here's the original thread

Anonymous

rbt.asia/g/thread/S28927502

Anonymous

5:12 PM

please take your time to read this windows hell

That Brazilian Guy

@DarthAndroid I have only four icons at my desktop, one at each corner. Everyone else's desktop looks like this to me:

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@ThatBrazilianGuy image not found

Anonymous

@allquixotic i found it :>

lol

@ThatBrazilianGuy Huh? That guy only has 6 icons on his desktop. Pretty clean to me.

5:15 PM

@DarthAndroid I'm pretty sure both Waldo and Carmen Sandiego are in there

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

oh my

@PatoSáinz I'm pretty sure that... monstrosity is @Bob's worst nightmare

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic So what this one is?

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!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

5:18 PM

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That Brazilian Guy

Oh, it is a "NO"?

Anonymous

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Anonymous

>iolo antivirus

Anonymous

i'm totally buying yolo antivirus

Anonymous

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That Brazilian Guy

5:20 PM

@PatoSáinz When you're running bonzi buddy and your system font is comic sans, the antivirus name is the lesser of your problems.

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@ThatBrazilianGuy Wait, what's wrong with the cute birdy buddy? I like him, he helps me find things, and the way he flaps his wings is adorable!

Anonymous

>2014

Anonymous

>not running bonzi buddy

Anonymous

plz

That Brazilian Guy

Yet Pou is the equivalent of Clippy, Bonzy Buddy and Incredimail and it's the #3 app on Google Play after Facebook and WhatsApp. Seriously, 500 million installs.

!!thisplanet

ChatBot John Cavil

5:22 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

also, bacon strip cursor

Anonymous

so cool

That Brazilian Guy

Oh, found a nice way to clean my G+ circles, anyone who gave any star or +1'd stupid apps gets zapped.

Anonymous

@allquixotic most VM exploits involve shared folders

5:27 PM

@PatoSáinz I've seen some pretty crazy stuff that goes beyond shared folders

Are these a lot of requirements for position? zao.com/m5LhJU?goback=.gde_3022449_member_5826654008089014276#!

Oliver Salzburg

5:58 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy wtf...

That Brazilian Guy

@OliverSalzburg TBH it is more accurately a silly tamagochi remake.

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah, I just checked it out

That Brazilian Guy

500 million installs.

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