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12:02 AM

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Q: Are these two CPUs the same ? Is it ok to sawp them?

I have a computer that would not start and I wanted to test the processor in another computer. After swapping the CPUs now none of the computers start. The second one that failed just spins the cooler around half a rotation, then stops power completely. Edit: clarification... the computer that ...

First thing I noticed is the year on the processors

Michael Frank

Yea, I imagine they're probably stuffed!

Michael Frank

12:16 AM

Why does SCCM make no sense?! D:

Bob

12:27 AM

@JourneymanGeek I'm scared of what that machine is used for.

Probably some industrial controller, if it's not just a hobby project.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: might actually be someone's daily driver

Bob

. . .

sure, if they're running Win98

in 2014

and somehow managed to get onto SU

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: You'd be surprised!

hm. wait. the copyright is not the age of the processor no?

One of the processors has a label saying 2006

Bob

@JourneymanGeek AMD Sempron 2400 was introduced 2004

Journeyman Geek

so only a decade ;p

Bob

12:36 AM

It's marginally better than the shittiest Atom in existence.

Journeyman Geek

guess what my current home server is? ;p

Bob

And has a 62W max TDP

In fact, I'd bet it's worse than the Atom, benchmarks notwithstanding

Journeyman Geek

probably is

I'm just too polite to tell people 'Your computer sucks"

Bob

when you consider RAM bandwidth, and the general age of the rest of the system...

@JourneymanGeek You'd quite literally pay more in power costs over a year or two of constant usage than buying a modern machine.

If you only use it once in a blue moon, then maybe.

Michael Frank

12:50 AM

@JourneymanGeek "Wow, did you steal this from a museum?"

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: in an ideal world, I run my systems 5+2+2

(5 years as a main system, then 2 years as a spare, and another 2 years before we chuck it in a box somewhere or get rid of it)

That Brazilian Guy

1:30 AM

Hey @JourneymanGeek you love tinkering with routers, right?

Is taking 42 min to copy 4 GB over wifi on the local network (1,8 MB/s) too slow?

It is supposed to be a 802.11n network but I think it is in g mode.

How do I check if it is g or n? And is there a table of theoretical maximum troughput and expected average?

!!google wifi speeds

ChatBot John Cavil

@ThatBrazilianGuy * How Fast Is a Wireless Network Speed? - Wireless/Networking ; IEEE 802.11 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ; 10 reasons your Wi-Fi speed stinks (and what you can do about it ...

allquixotic

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the wonders of Youtube

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic Is that an 80 min youtube parody of late 80's fight games?

> The "low" setting lowered the power output of my 802.11n router from 19 to 18 watts. Bandwidth was reduced from an already low 19Mbps down to 5Mbps with my clients and router being only separated by a single concrete wall.

Journeyman Geek

I believe I've described setting up wifi as a black art

and it sucks. Copying it over to a drive and walking over is faster anyway

(feel free to hit me over the nose with a newspaper if I get the facts wrong)

@ThatBrazilianGuy: That does sound too slow, even for 802.11G

That Brazilian Guy

1:47 AM

@JourneymanGeek No thanks, I don't have those weird fetishes :P

2

Journeyman Geek

also, if you have any single stream devices, your whole network can't use dual stream/80mhz bands

which slows shit down

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek I was just quoting an article:

> Some routers are set up with their "Power savings" mode on by default. The goal: save a few milliwatts. Unfortunately, this commendable approach reduced bandwidth disproportionately.

Journeyman Geek

and wifi reception is affected by walls, other wifi APs in overlapping bands, probably ferret mating seasons....

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy and really, really tacky drama and hot chicks who can do karate :P

also: early 90s, you insensitive clod!

Journeyman Geek

;p

That Brazilian Guy

1:49 AM

@allquixotic I randomly clicked ad some spot in the timeline (7:30 I believe) and, oh the acting...

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: the 8bit era ;p

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic I still remember going to the arcades (we called it "fliperama" here) and spending lots of money on Captain Commando and Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

Back when I was 11 / 12

That was before malls would have family-friendly silly arcades, so it would be full of (much) older teens and young adults, smoking, drinking, swearing

But I wouldn't notice, all I cared about was the games

Journeyman Geek

oh. Also @ThatBrazilianGuy: protocol may matter

That Brazilian Guy

sigh I have 70min to write an essay based on a really pompous and buzzword-filled 16-page text on Distance Education.

Journeyman Geek

I get ~ 1mbps over samba, and saturate my 100 mbps internal network using http

That Brazilian Guy

1:56 AM

1mbps over samba? Don't you mean 1 MB / s?

I am seeing 2,0 MB / s right now and almost (metaforically) biting my nails

Journeyman Geek

ya, probably do ;p

That Brazilian Guy

1 mbps = 1 megabit per second

Journeyman Geek

I get caps and smalls confused sometimes ;p

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy this one has a much more balanced gender mix :P and oddly enough, the cheesy plot is ... likeable o_O

it's like Power Rangers for adults. or at least, 17 year old horny boys :P

the music is awesome, at least

allquixotic

2:32 AM

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Braiam

@allquixotic ... wth you made me see?

allquixotic

I didn't make you see anything >_>

unless I suddenly gained the ability to force people to click links

(that would be pretty cool)

Braiam

@allquixotic that's debatable

everything people share is (technically) good... or funny

allquixotic

or punny

Journeyman Geek

@Braiam: clearly you were not in the comms room when folk were linking horribad music videos ;p

Braiam

2:39 AM

@JourneymanGeek I was... and I said Aha was kewl

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek wow... dat fantasy football.

Journeyman Geek

I suspect that was spambait ;p

But the tag really made it 'perfect'

Michael Frank

Did you see the edit he made?

Journeyman Geek

2:57 AM

no?

...

BEST

Michael Frank

Oh, he pasted a local filepath in an attempt to include a screenshot.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, I closed it, so its in my voting history.... OP self deleted too

Michael Frank

3:13 AM

Remotely deploying 4GB applications is painful.

Journeyman Geek

3:27 AM

remotely doing anything is painful ><

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A: The letter "j" is not working on windows with USB keyboard but works perfectly in Linux

The was hot-keyed by a program in the background.

ow.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek That username... (@allquixotic)

Journeyman Geek

XD

Hennes

3:53 AM

Morning

allquixotic

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Erik

6:41 AM

yawn

TheLittleNaruto

@allquixotic Nice track :)

Journeyman Geek

6:56 AM

Woof

Psycogeek

my computer has gone to heck in a handbasket about a week ago.

It is still working fine and all, but is corrupting files with tiny errors often.

Bob

@Psycogeek You might wanna check your RAM.

Psycogeek

So i just turned off all the overclocking (best reason for an instability) and it still is doing it.

Bob

Could be a good idea to check the HDD too (SMART will at least tell you if it's reallocating sectors)

But RAM would be my first guess.

How do you know it's corrupting files, and/or which files it's corrupting?

Psycogeek

I used "prime85" to whoop on the cpu and it seems (cant be sure) that it only does the error when using large quantity of memory.

Bob

7:03 AM

Again, probably the RAM. Chuck memtest86+ on it overnight.

Psycogeek

@Bob I always do "compares" when transporting it to different places.

Journeyman Geek

Did you change anything?

Bob

@Psycogeek Ah. A pretty good idea, actually... I need to start doing that.

Psycogeek

Yea i did change something. They told me that the CPU "cache" does not step down when the board is set for the cache to be on "auto". so that was a last and only change i had made. I thought for sure it was that :-( but changing it back didnt help

Bob

o.O

What's the chance that you fried the cache?

Psycogeek

7:07 AM

good :-)

I have been running the cpu cache on the higher voltages (or i cant get stable overclock) , but the errors right now seem to be mostaly about transporting data from one location to another.

Bob

Ya, dying cache is more likely to cause a bunch of errors everywhere (to the point where you'd be lucky to boot)

Psycogeek

Funny thing is all this time i am doing everything like nothing is wrong, i could sell the whole system to somone and they would not be the wiser.

Bob

Still sounds like RAM issues, with higher addresses

Psycogeek

@Bob And because it is likely to be the ram at the further ends and outside of the systems own memory, and in the file cacheing junk and all, I want to test the Ram IN the windows system. I know that most In windows ram testing is weak, but there has to be something else out there that is as harsh as Prime95 was on it so i can better do a discovery.

Bob

@Psycogeek you can't comprehensively test RAM while an OS is running, since it will necessarily have addresses held in use

just chuck memtest86+ at it

Psycogeek

7:12 AM

I just want to test the ram that "will be in use" not the ram that IS in use.

and i need to test it live with the system going, because i can tweak stuff wile it is running, cant do shit in a dos like setup.

I still do not understand how i can get average 30 errors in 2Terrabytes, but play a 22gig game for days :-) With only one crash.

Bob

shrug there's lots of data structures that won't crash a game if a bit gets flipped

file corruption is always more severe

it doesn't matter if your mouse movement is 50x it's normal speed for a 60th of a second

it doesn't matter if some polygon is missing or broken for a frame

you can get quite interesting graphical glitches sometimes though :P

Psycogeek

It isnt likely (but possible) that the changes occured on disk, the changes seem to occur in the compare routine , and DIFFERENT results each compare :-) it would have been so easy if it was the cpu cache setting.

It took me days and days of testing to get the ram overclocked 100% error free, now i toss all that and i am thinking it is worse off than it was overclocked , i hate when that happens.

When i test the "ram" with prime (this is all when clocked normal) one of the threads shows a error (then stops) the other ones keep going fine non-stop.

ChatBot John Cavil

HAMMERTIME!

Psycogeek

7:30 AM

I should test the other computer for the same thing, could be we are in the middle of a Gamma radiation apocalypse and i just dont know yet :-)

no unusual hair loss

skin staill intact

Journeyman Geek

8:36 AM

ahh

this particular brix model dosen't have a msata slot

Psycogeek

8:55 AM

oh oh, raid controller just screamed like a little girl then bailed out.

ahh better dead than problematic, wonder if that was where the problem lie

Bob

10:11 AM

@JourneymanGeek The WM77s...

They're alright, I guess :P

I think I prefer the meelecs

not bad though

and they aren't as suffocating as the over-ears I have

Journeyman Geek

I must be the only person who prefers over-ears more than anything else ;p

Bob

I think @allquixotic did too?

ugh, most annoying thing about these is the cable

in the way

and all spiraly

Journeyman Geek

Right, ESXi was a bust. Downloading smartos and hyper V ;p

Might as well play around a bit before actually getting the system set up properly

Bob

10:28 AM

ok

now that I've gotten used toit a bit more

the noise isolation is really nice

playing from a higher quality than spotify medium on my phone probably helps :P

@JourneymanGeek Heh, just checked last.fm. Musical compatibility... I swear it's going down :P

Ha. Very low with jokerdino, low with hacktohell, low with tomwijsman, very low with sathya

Michael Frank

10:50 AM

o.O the steam logo changed.

Psycogeek

11:01 AM

why almost every PCi-E 3.0 raid card is SAS? i just want 4 simple Sata in a simple raid controller that is rated good. Me no find.

I am finding tons of old sataII and PCI-e 2 things that are high rated. Speed kills :-)

Anyways i just tested the intel controller ONLY and i still get tiny errors , a few that occured in transfer, a few that the compare fails once, re-comparing shows it is ok, so it must be a ram problem.

Bob

11:14 AM

@Psycogeek you can plug SATA drives into a SAS controller just fine

Psycogeek

@Bob without an adapter? so if i had a 4 port SAS i could just shove them right into the same slot?

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: yeah.

Bob

@Psycogeek depends. there is a compatible connector, and I believe it's the most common, but there are also some incompatible ones (that can be trivially adapted)

> SFF-8482 This form factor is designed for compatibility with SATA. The socket is compatible with SATA drives; however, the SATA socket is not compatible with SFF-8482 (SAS) drives. The pictured connector is a drive-side connector.

Psycogeek

SFF-8482 <---ahh they were saying something about this.

Bob

worst case you're out $5 on adapters

> When the first SAS specification was developed, SAS and SATA connections were designed to be compatible. The data and electrical connections are identical, and both reside within a single connector, although SATA also allows discrete data and power cabling, similar to a parallel ATA drive.

Psycogeek

11:25 AM

I hate adapters, added connection during troubleshooting. One guy his drives didnt work because of the computer case had that extra Carting connectors for sata. Therefore one extra connection to the sata.

Bob

11:40 AM

source

HackToHell

12:32 PM

Journeyman Geek

1:57 PM

hm

So far... ESXi gives me wierd errror, smartos boots into the grub console, yet the copy of lubuntu that I forgot was on the drive works.

HackToHell

smartos.org

Interesting

Journeyman Geek

yeah, @allquixotic uses it

and I was planning on giving it a shot on my new home server ;p

HackToHell

And I don't have a use for it :/

The asshole who manages the college server will not give me access to the server :'(

Journeyman Geek

I'll try a livecd and rufus

lol

HackToHell

Blah, now we have to find someplace to host this website I am designing.

@JourneymanGeek I had the proper permission this time :P

Journeyman Geek

2:03 PM

@HackToHell: static or ..?

HackToHell

Mostly static with a single form.

Journeyman Geek

and for how long?

HackToHell

I'm thinking of simply using Google Docs.

Journeyman Geek

that's probably a good idea ;p

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek I'm not sure, that's for the teachers to decide.

And they gave me 400 INR to buy one -_-

I'm simply going to put in on my VPS and hope it the site doesn't get too much traffic ;p

Or better yet, I could use github

Journeyman Geek

2:04 PM

dude, can you even buy colour soda for that much these days? ;p

(do they even have that any more?)

HackToHell

Color Soda, you mean the ones that my parents have forbidden me to drink ? ;p

It's for a good reason though

Journeyman Geek

;p

lol. In my parent's generation it was safe ;p

now, no, probably not

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek :D

when do you want me to stand up the smartos VM for you?

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: I'm pretty much free whenever its convenient for you

I must say their download servers suck :/

hm, no, Its my wifi. Its going pretty fast on bia

I think the new one's going to be a Pheobe.

allquixotic

@Bob my favorite are on-ear, but over-ear are my second favorite, and it's hard for me to find on-ears that are bluetooth or wireless, so 1 out of my 3 current headsets is on-ear, the other 2 are over-ear

@JourneymanGeek so you're going to stand up a SmartOS box on your own kit, and you want one on mine? just trying to clarify what you need :P

Journeyman Geek

2:16 PM

@allquixotic: I'm going to stand up a smartos box on my new kit so I can work out what I'm doing

Bob

@JourneymanGeek That's the name of my experimental (v)server :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I generally use greek deities, and for some reason when I need to name a box, I keep getting hints ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek And I stole the idea off you :P

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: also, I just rebuilt my current home server, so I figure I'll use this to experiment a few weeks/months before I switch it over to whatever works best for me. I'm planning on getting a bigger hard drive anyway

(and this is entirely internal use, my current ISP would suck for hosting stuff)

damn it SE chat. I ONLY SAID THAT ONCE.

...

Bob

Urk. With all this talk, I may consider switching over :P

But that requires quite a bit of time...

And I'd have to set all this crap up again :(

Journeyman Geek

2:21 PM

I did it a lot before I went back to school

...

@Bob: I miss experimenting with OSes ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek You said that already :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Something is glitching.

Bob

Huh. => cloudatcost.com

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Bob

"lifetime" VPS for $35. Now, whether that's gonna be measured in your lifetime or that company's lifetime... :P

allquixotic

2:23 PM

> one time

company makes money; pockets; tanks. yep. not likely

Bob

Also, @JourneymanGeek, you could've considered this for your home server: amazon.com/dp/B00IT1WJZQ

:P

Only problem is you'd need to go external/USB3 for HDDs

allquixotic

ok, Fibernetics started in 1997, so the parent company has been around a while

but after they collect all those monies I'm sure they'll divest themselves of "cloudatcost"

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: and ram

allquixotic

if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is

Journeyman Geek

I got twice as much

Bob

2:29 PM

Heh.

> CloudatCost provides a 99.99% uptime SLA. Any lost time is credited back to your account at a pro-rated amount for your monthly package.

0% uptime. Credited $0

Seriously, this site is dodgy as fuck.

allquixotic

@Bob saw that. super dodgy automated chat.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

@allquixotic At the moment, it's a tossup between "scam" and "owned and/or funded by a government agency"

> 2.5 The Customer shall be responsible for the security of and any loss or damage to CloudatCost Facilities located on the Customer's premises.

wait what

their facilities... on (the Customer)'s premises??

allquixotic

2:45 PM

@Bob look for a separate clause that says they get the right to install any hardware on your property without notifying you, including but not limited to: phone wiretaps, cable/DSL/FTTP taps, hidden microphones and cameras, and live munitions.

Journeyman Geek

o0

Bob

> While using the Services, the Customer is prohibited from posting, uploading, reproducing, distributing or otherwise transmitting information or materials where such activity constitutes a criminal offence or from otherwise engaging in or assisting others to engage in any criminal offence including, but not limited to, those offences listed below:

Communicating hatred
Pyramid selling
Unauthorized use of a computer
Invasion of privacy
Mischief in relation to data
Violations of the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL)

Huh. Canada.

allquixotic

*threatens to milk a cow*

Bob

> Mischief in relation to data

allquixotic

*gets arrested by Canadian police*

Bob

2:47 PM

can you get any more vague?

> Obscenity

> Uttering threats

so... you can't even threaten to ban someone from your website?

allquixotic

"obscenity" could cover even regular old boring p3ography

(which is quite legal in many countries)

Journeyman Geek

o0

or swearing

allquixotic

invasion of privacy? so Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, et al. can't operate in Canada? okay.png

HackToHell

@allquixotic UNO should include it in their charter of Human Rights ;p

allquixotic

@HackToHell they could, but the US would just ignore it

pattern happens over and over: US creates international organization suggesting how best to act; organization adopts policy that is in line with their mission but the US administration doesn't agree with; US ignores policy and dumps organization

Bob

2:50 PM

@allquixotic They'll... condemn you for it!

allquixotic

c.f. the United Nations

Bob

oh wait they can't even do that -_-

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Maybe a strongly worded statement?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek interesting cable management: youtube.com/watch?v=xbFfkewUkOw

@JourneymanGeek no! bad doggy! swats with newspaper

Journeyman Geek

>_>

allquixotic

2:58 PM

lol

Bob

Hm. I found an interesting... I think it's a review. It's in Japanese though...

translate.google ;p

ya

@allquixotic Video.

@Bob Translate app for Android ;p

Bob

2:59 PM

The only captions are in Spanish -___-

and they're automatic

allquixotic

and yes, I know how terrible that would be

Bob

...does Youtube think Japanese sounds like Spanish? O_O

Journeyman Geek

hm . I think I'll try getting something more interesting running tommorrow. Or try fedora for KVM

allquixotic

wow. a Japanese video with captions in Spanish? awesome

Bob

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not even a review

turned out to be an unboxing

this is what happens when you can't read the title -_-

allquixotic

3:00 PM

@Bob you know, having a lot of proficiency in Spanish and some in Japanese, they actually do have some commonalities :P

Journeyman Geek

that's a WIERD video

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Would it be wrong of me to say "Japan"?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: the blurry cam, the fact that they don't show the interviewers face...

and her voice sounds oddly robotic

allquixotic

cue Street Fighter II "JAPAN!"

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

3:02 PM

and another one: youtube.com/watch?v=hrlqH1A3qVk

does this damn thing only exist in Japan? o.O

but... it's an English box

Oh this one has Japanese captions

Oh god. youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDNVn2qXDw "My Beats Headphone Ranking / Purchase Guide"

"UrAvgConsumer" ayup.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

"which ones have the best value overall" => anything that's not Beats.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

Hm. Do I want a 5TB HDD?

allquixotic

@Bob HDDs haven't been getting much faster (especially with regards to seek time), so for the types of demands that we tend to place on our drives, I generally couldn't recommend getting a single drive of that size, and would rather suggest RAID of some sort for better throughput at least (if not better seek times due to some caching at the controller level)

HGST 4 TBs are going for $170 a pop on Amazon now (at least in the US; no idea how much they are on ~~Mars~~ Australia)

Journeyman Geek

3:08 PM

;p

I can't seem to find the bigger HGST drives here any more :/

Bob

@allquixotic Seagate 5TB is about that price.

It's certainly cheaper per-GB.

Gah, I'll stick with 2TBs for now.

allquixotic

@Bob well shit, if you can get two of them, do it :D

just have to get yourself a decent RAID card :D

Bob

@allquixotic External...

allquixotic

(based on my lukewarm experience with Adaptec, I'd recommend LSI or Dell actually)

Bob

Incidentally, this is Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B00JT0EGPW

allquixotic

3:11 PM

@Bob and?

the new eSATA 6 Gb/s should be able to handle the total throughput of four 7200rpm disks in hardware RAID10, and that enclosure's backplane includes a hardware RAID controller.

in fact, just to reduce heat buildup inside my chassis, I would probably get one of those if I were ever to build a completely new system (e.g. if I gave my current one to dad and started fresh)

though I'd look for one that has 5 bays and can do caching on an SSD, and throw a 1 TB Samsung 850 Pro in there.

Bob

3:57 PM

o.O I just hit 20k

That was completely unexpected.

allquixotic

@Bob congrats!

I'd have hit it except I sunk a 500 bounty on a high priority Q I asked :P (and then answered it myself)

not even going to award that bounty; I'll let whoever gets it, get half... or none or whatever... I don't care... the answers were just bad

figures that whenever I ask a highly detailed, specific, technical question (that I can't answer myself), nobody else seems to have a clue

not even harrymc knew what I was talking about; his attempt to comment was very weak

jokerdino

@Bob eh, you did it before me

oh wait no.

Bob

@allquixotic they should really allow you to reclaim at least half the bounty with sufficient cuts votes

Say 5 score

allquixotic

@Bob should, but they don't :/ currently, the person who offers the bounty has a 0.0% chance of ever regaining even a single rep point of the bounty, ever, even with moderator intervention

my situation was really odd because I asked the question, waited, found no answer, posted bounty, got a few bites that weren't particularly good (as in, none of them got me even a little bit closer to a solution), then figured it out on my own

jokerdino

hm, mods can reimburse the bounty.

Bob

4:03 PM

Heh, I thought mods could cancel/refund bounties... But that'd be considered abuse in this case

jokerdino

but, none of us will.

allquixotic

well, considering that 99% of the answers/comments came after I posted the bounty, thus bounty hunters are the reason I got a response AT ALL... yeah, I doubt any mod would reimburse the bounty

only thing that seems a little unfair is that you can't award the bounty to yourself if you really feel that you found the best answer

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A: Redirect ALL web traffic through TLS without a VPN

I have tried this setup on my local machine, and I can assure that the "restrictive proxy" would get a CONNECT DEBIAN_IP:443 HTTP/1.1, but it will not see any certificate, so I am not sure if this would work. Let's asume: your Debian has Apache or Squid to do the proxying and an SSH server. On y...

Bob

Then you could cheat others out of a bounty

allquixotic

that one's assuming you can get out over SSH

Bob

There needs to be a score requirement attached

Heh. I should've attempted an answer

I've actually done that before -_,

Went out through a very restrictive proxy. Tor will also work, incidentally.

You pretty much just need a HTTPS endpoint and proxy chaining.

allquixotic

4:09 PM

Tor opens up too many sockets -- suspicion += 1000

Bob

The basic concept holds.

Tor is just less manual setup work

allquixotic

4:40 PM

we need to start some kind of "Shadowrunners' Trust" -- a Tor-like network that's invite-only and every participant must reciprocate by making their own (dedicated) server available to the network

free to use, but your client downstream gets throttled if you use more than 2 times more bandwidth on your client than your server donates, recalculated every 15 minutes

basically a bunch of people make their dedis available to everyone else to proxy through (a la stunnel) to get around restrictive corp proxies, and in return, they get to proxy through a randomly selected server each time they connect

and people who donate at least as much actual throughput on their dedi as they consume on their client, get priority over people who consume more than they donate

slhck

Wow, I feel like I'm the only person who's living in the 21st century.

I just called my new ISP asking them how to enter the configuration details on my modem, and they told me that I need to plug in my analog phone (!) into the modem and enter the code via its dial pad. Like srsly?

So I asked the tech support guy, well, duh, I have no analog phone.

And he's like, "Well how do you call people then?!"

allquixotic

@slhck o_O

this, in a country where your ISPs give you ridiculous unmetered bandwidth for dirt cheap

I guess tech support guys are clueless in all countries

slhck

I tell him that I have Skype and Google Voice, and… it turns out I have a mobile phone too.

@allquixotic Mind you, I live in Germany now, where it's a bit slower and more expensive.

Oh, and he said that in his three years working for the ISP, he never had a customer without an analog phone.

allquixotic

lol

even in the backwater country of USA we don't have an analog phone in my house

slhck

Maybe I should look for the acoustic coupler on that thing.

Modem

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Does that article really say "a device that converts boys to girls"

O_o

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