Root Access

12:01 AM

@bwDraco interesting how some web sites/services had a "canary" statement, when the canary no longer shows up, it is likely to be gagged and held in the basement for questioning.

aparentally the "Canary" statement says something like we have not (yet) had request from the government (and other variations), it is a pre-emptive and therfore legal workaround , to the gag order.

Canary for the "canary in the mine" caged canaries taken into mines , if unseen noxious gassholes would kill the miners the canary gets it first :-)

Bob

@Psycogeek The legality is untested and therefore questionable.

Psycogeek

well it is dead anyways, as most of the canaries put up , are no longer to be found, so much for privacy, illegal search and seizure and probable cause and any other fancy words that were derived from that useless piece of paper once called the constitution.

Somehow putting a taylor swift song on your wedding video, and posting it to the 5 people who would watch it, now constitutes a gag order from the NSA :-)

They shoot themselves in the foot too, when they do not eventually tell the "american public" who is paying them , what it was all about. So far we know that NO terrorist has ever been caught before they blew themselves up, except for that 14 year old making fireworks in his basement , who probably should be tried as a war criminal.

If they are activly stopping hundreds of sleeper cells from operating in the states, and protecting us all from being bombed daily (vrses the avg 100 of us dying in cars each day) , they should then Inform the people of this republic of all the great works they have done.

And protecting Hillery clintons e-mail, that isnt one of them :-)

Psycogeek

1:04 AM

Side note, did you know that hitler was (more) able to play his insane war games after ridding hisself of a few top officials that would have used some logic , by telling thier dirty secrets . (undoubtedly aquired by reading thier e-mails :-) And made laws (patriot act) that allowed his cabinet members to ignore the constitution.

Journeyman Geek

1:25 AM

godwinned

CMDEmu

speak

CMDEmu

1:59 AM

cant you configure ntlm/lm/ntlm v2 per network interface instead of globablly

Hennes

2:15 AM

Morning.

Nothing more fun than waking up at 3AM, dreaming about excell, followed by coughing up half your lungs.

Journeyman Geek

@CMDEmu can you? Beats me.

"Dreaming about excel" - sure you arn't in hell?

3

Hennes

Close enough.

CMDEmu

no idea

Hennes

Using excel 4+ hours per day for a few months will do that to you.

CMDEmu

that should give you eye strain

CMDEmu

3:08 AM

>protip, if you wanna mess with somebodys computer, rename their hostname to \ in regedit

Journeyman Geek

3:31 AM

meh.

83

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

For various reasons out of scope for Super User, I've been tasked with temporarily disabling one of my own systems. I have full admin control and own this system. It’s running Windows 7 SP1. I want to do this right—something believable, deniable and artistic. I took a look at these, but most of t...

Many many ways to mess with someone's computers ;)

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

3:43 AM

> According to the Independent, hosting provider Marco Marsala went into a bit of a panic on a forum for server experts afterwards.

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/04/14/man-types-wrong-bit-of-code-accidentally-deletes-entire-company-5817523/#ixzz45ra9XhAf

Forum... Urgh

CMDEmu

haha I was just talking about this with my friends a few hours ago

Michael Frank

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Not only that... a CentOS forum!

According to some reports, anyway.

Journeyman Geek

I love how they focus on the comments and not the actual answers ;)

Michael Frank

They obviously didn't read the site rules! Comments are not answers! >:(

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@MichaelFrank it's a forum. All comments are answers!

Journeyman Geek

3:59 AM

unrelatedly

or maybe relatedly

imgur.com/a/QcuMp

Michael Frank

lol top comment

rm -rf /bin/laden

CMDEmu

nice one

Journeyman Geek

also needs dd ;p

(in the wrong order)

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

4:18 AM

OR IT'S CRASHED. Which isnt that rare around here.

Journeyman Geek

and they will hand you 2 bottles of 100 plus and make you cycle to your destination

Bob

4:36 AM

Thanks, I learned a new technical term today. "Quite a lot of data" — Rell3oT Dec 30 '12 at 0:12

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@Bob I thought the technical term was "metric crapton"

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

4:52 AM

Urgh. On the S5 in ultra power saving mode, you can't tell if you have service or not. Great design Samsung. Just effing great.

Bob

5:14 AM

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Why S5?

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface imgur.com/a/mNPdr

Journeyman Geek

@Bob 0_0

Journeyman Geek

6:10 AM

So. I'm poking around the more famous local headphone store's website...

One of these things is not like the others...

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@Bob Because that's my backup phone

@Bob Wait, was that yours?!

Nah, can't be. There's US coins on the table above it

Bob

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface no, not mine. was from /r/GalaxyS7

that's some epic screen destruction, though

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

Also 9 hours ago would have been like 6am in Bob's time or middle of the afternoon US time

Yeah, I was thinking what the **** happened to it

Journeyman Geek

@Bob what's the story behind it?

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

Looks like a bullet impact or smashd by a rock or driven over by a car or something

Bob

6:21 AM

@JourneymanGeek someone dropped it behind a recliner. they bought a new one.

reddit.com/r/GalaxyS7/comments/4etbf2/…

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

Must have jammed on the hinge or something then

That's why the airlines nowadays say "If you drop any electronics into/behind your seat, do not move your seat - ask the crew for assistance"

Bob

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Pretty sure rock or car wouldn't take a chunk out like that

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@Bob It would if you did it right

Journeyman Geek

'right'

car might. I do wonder if the 'curve' contributed

Michael Frank

9:02 AM

Wooo! Overwatch beta!

Bob

9:36 AM

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Does Agar require much?

That's double my upstream :P

Rahul Basu

10:52 AM

Hello everyone!

DavidPostill

Hello @RahulBasu

Hmm. What do they actually teach in CS these days?

0

Q: I'd like to learn how to program SNES games. Where do I start?

I'm a CS major in University and have no practical experience programming. I'd like to imporve my sills by learning how large programs are written and organized. I'd like to start this by looking at small SNES games to see how they were coded. Can anyone tell me what I would need to start. What h...

gaming

NetworkKingPin

11:15 AM

^ I thought the same thing @DavidPostill

DavidPostill

@NetworkKingPin Yeah, don't they teach actual programming in a CS University course?

jokerdino

lol

DavidPostill

Maybe he's registered with a "fake diploma" university ;)

jokerdino

maybe game dev is a different course offered by the uni and he missed out on it.

Bob

@DavidPostill Depends which school.

Some are very theoretical. Some are very practical.

CompSci at UNSW is Software Eng. lite :P

Hennes

11:31 AM

@DavidPostill I suggest (s)he starts a few years ago. :)

Bob

If you want, you can drop into chat and I'd be happy to try to give a few pointers. This is off-topic for Super User and too broad to be a great fit for any main Stack Exchange site, but chat is fine. — Bob 17 secs ago

djsmiley2k

@DavidPostill I learnt programming in my first year

it was java

normal simple stuff 'move this turtle'

NetworkKingPin

Bob

@djsmiley2k It really really depends on the school. They each have different focuses.

djsmiley2k

10 years later, I still don't concider myself a programmer, but I never really wanted to be one

However I do have a github of random 'stuff' I've written, adopted, broken etc...

@Bob but from the question, he has no clue how programming even works

Bob

11:36 AM

Some take the "It's computer science, not a coding boot camp" view.

djsmiley2k

and i bet SNES games are terrible examples due to space and other constraints.

@Bob programming was one of 8 modules I think

Bob

@djsmiley2k I don't get that vibe at all.

DavidPostill

@Bob He doesn't have enough rep to chat :/

Bob

@DavidPostill He has 50+ on mathematics.se

djsmiley2k

other modules might of included some vb or excel macros... :D

Bob

11:37 AM

@djsmiley2k ...IMO, that's one of the "coding boot camp" schools. Some of those are alright/good. Others don't go into nearly enough theory and just churn out mediocre cargo cult programmers.

djsmiley2k

If you've got high enough rep elsewhere, can you join any chat?

Bob

@djsmiley2k Chat rep is across the whole SE network.

djsmiley2k

so any site being high enough = access? Cool :)

Also, oh dear, lifehack users.

Bob

@djsmiley2k Yea that's one reason I wanted to talk to him in chat. Got some suggestions and also wanted to go into a bit of detail why old platforms aren't ideal to start with.

djsmiley2k

Yah, makes sense

TYhey'd make sense as a look at how things 'used to/could be' done

Uni basically taught me what the MVC model was, and that others existed

Bob

11:40 AM

@djsmiley2k I know a lot of first-year (or even second-year!) CSE students who were decent at the theory and maths and algorithms but struggled with practical programming courses. But by third-year they were more well-rounded.

Again, that depends on the uni and the focuses.

djsmiley2k

Java because it was what the lecturers knew/wasn't hard to setup on student provided platforms.

See, the math we didn't really get into til 2nd year

they did a bit first year, and then it was optional from then on.

I did second year and stopped it after that

Bob

@djsmiley2k IMO, there's two types. You have the 'proper' programmers who are mostly language-agnostic and have a good foundation. A good enough grasp of the principles to pick up any language. Then you have the rote-learners who had one particular language drummed into their heads and can reproduce some basic stuff in that language but struggle to make anything new/transition to newer/different technologies.

Personally? I'm a bit of both. I can figure out things myself but I'm not great with theories or algorithm design :\

@djsmiley2k I remember someone linked a lecture video in here. Basically some guy reading off slides and getting the students to chant back what he read.

There's lots of universities like that handing out degrees worth about as much as the paper they're printed on.

Oh, wait. Wasn't reading off slides. Better than I remembered :P

@djsmiley2k Also, the other thing. The fact that he came and asked, and wants a starting point to do his own research - I like that.

DavidPostill

@Bob That's how I learned the Alphabet and my Times Table ;)

Bob

@DavidPostill Those are things that can be rote-learned :P

Programming... needs more critical thinking usually.

djsmiley2k

@Bob yup, asking is good.

@DavidPostill didn't work for me

Not knowing my alphabet at 14 shocked me

(I didn't realise I didn't know it, until the rest of the class weren't there saying it)

DavidPostill

11:53 AM

Is this considered an obscene user name? superuser.com/users/583147/fux

Bob

@DavidPostill IMO? No.

No need to be overly-politically-correct unless it's particularly blatant.

DavidPostill

OK. I'll leave it then. Thanks.

Bob

Which brings to mind fsck... I wonder how that would fare as a username :P

It's technically not. But it's also much closer.

jokerdino

fux is alright

there are worse names

Psycogeek

12:12 PM

Factotum Usuriousness Xerosere Aka Loan shark employee who lives in the vegas desert, a very commonly used abbreviation from the casinos :-)

Rahul Basu

This is it, microsoft.

you just crossed the f*cking limit.

Psycogeek

You would hear this used in a context of this sort. They beat my head in and left me burried up to my neck in sand, the sorry fux, all over $10 grand

Rahul Basu

Just lost a document I had been working on for hours because windows 10 suddenly decided that is wanted to update...

@Psycogeek you're kidding right? or is that a real term? :|

Psycogeek

@RahulBasu is kidding. Probably a bad idea to star without the context.

Rahul Basu

...

XKCD

1:01 PM

I figured that now that society has collapsed, I wouldn't need to wear clothes anymore, but apparently that violates some weird rule of quantum gravity.

Rahul Basu

1:12 PM

questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=123

lol those anthroPCs...

Hennes

1:55 PM

1200th (-ish) nidia tag removed. Man, that took some months

Journeyman Geek

QC is awesome

That Brazilian Guy

3:15 PM

2 hours later...

Journeyman Geek

o0

That Brazilian Guy

Oo

（・θ・）

( ˘⊖˘)

( ˙Θ˙(˙Θ˙)˙Θ˙ )

Journeyman Geek

o0

0o

That Brazilian Guy

(⁽ؔ˙⁾⊝⁽ؔ˙⁾)

Bob

.-.

Journeyman Geek

3:18 PM

Also

remember the rm -rf guy?

That Brazilian Guy

⋋(‘Θ’◍)⋌ :.。✯*

Journeyman Geek

He claimed it was a attempt at viral advertising ;p

jokerdino

o.O

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek I noticed the SF page is gone

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek delete him!

Journeyman Geek

3:19 PM

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Q: What to do with the "rm -rf" hoax question

It turns out the the recent question (link only visible with enough rep) regarding the misuse of rm -rf in Ansible was actually just a hoax in some kind of viral marketing effort. It become quite famous on various media and gathered a large number of views. Since I don't think we should allow ...

discussion

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek An advertisement on "PLESE DO NOT, NEVER, EVER, HOST WITH US?"

Journeyman Geek

lol

jokerdino

How much rep did you artificially lose JMG?

Journeyman Geek

right up there with the viral bear ad

@jokerdino ~800

jokerdino

haha

must be a powerful punch to the gut

Journeyman Geek

3:20 PM

Naw

Its imaginary internet points

mods there are pretty sympathetic and well, it was a decent answer, but kinda got a lot more love than I expected

jokerdino

@TheCleaner "Thou hast" or "thou dost have". Never "thou doth hast". ("doth" is for third person singular - I do, thou dost, he/she doth.) — Jenny D 42 mins ago

Journeyman Geek

;p

That Brazilian Guy

@jokerdino "Du hast"?

Rammstein - Du Hast (Official Video)

►

Psycogeek

if it was just marketing, then the (wild) claims that the reddit spammer section had in it as to the server being likely to be used by spammers, becomes more likely. Spammers often see themselves as "marketing experts" and many are known to try and sell thier expertise in some way.

If i had discovered that many of the users exisiting on these servers were already on the spam lists plenty, it would not be a problem for me to see the user Deleted entirely.

The only other justification for not removing the user themselves, would be if it was just a single fun april fools kind of thing. if it was factually known to be marketing, then the user should be treated the same as any other spammer, and Nuked.

Journeyman Geek

3:38 PM

he didn't actually spam his service tho

that's the funny part

Psycogeek

a Hoax of this type would be a total marketing spam, only the final results after all the free advertising would be the intended result.

Like a bad actor , whos career is going down the tubes, does some crasy stunt, or heads off to a rehab clinic. Looks like a stupid thing to do and be, but does cause the tabloids to do the free advertising thing. (some quote belongs here)

djsmiley2k

@Psycogeek Shia...

Psycogeek

4:15 PM

backfire, because the (few) original stories where cloned and copied endlessly, as is par for the web, the happy ending part , and the hoax part is not likely to be updated on them. the bleemboy legasy will be of the fail.

jokerdino

> "(some quote belongs here)"

that was a nice touch

Psycogeek

YouTube Comment:
I see you have Utorrent. I guess your a pirate
Reply•
Nah I'm actually a seamonster

Rahul Basu

lol

Rahul Basu

4:55 PM

Real pirates use transmission or deluge anyway...

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