Root Access

HackToHell

12:00

@JourneymanGeek There's an official set of instructions for that ?

Journeyman Geek

Just use Ubuntu instead of the arch live CD

HackToHell

ok lemme try it out

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_existing_Linux

ha

Psycogeek

argg passed out again reading horrible , poorly written, and uninteligable code.

(tax code :-)

I think i can be exempt from paying the taxes claiming that it is going to take me 20 years to read and understand them correctally. Now one could say there are professionals for that, and free IRS tax assistance. But so far I am sure no person in thier right mind has actually read it, and they dont seem to Know it well enough to be called pros.

The real solution I see would be to simplify the tax code.
Gimme 80% of all your income and assetts , or all (of that small) profit that your person or entity has aquired. Simple to the point, and is the same ammounts.

That Brazilian Guy

12:23

Beware! Advertisers Are Tracking You via Phone's Battery Status thehackernews.com/2016/08/advertiser-location-tracker.html?m=1

Psycogeek

Also noted that Repeated times in the tax documentation, they mention that the various tax software , which takes teams of people to keep updated, has been wrong many times.

That Brazilian Guy

> combination of battery life loss in seconds and battery life as a percentage offers 14 Million different combinations, potentially providing a pseudo-unique identifier for each device that can be used to pinpoint specific devices between sites they visit.

Psycogeek

@ThatBrazilianGuy cant view that, addblocker wont allow it because of the word Advertising in the link :-)

allquixotic

Cat Flushing A Toilet - Video Art Exhibit - Parry Gripp

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@JourneymanGeek kawaii!!!!!!!!! ^_^;

That Brazilian Guy

> The battery status API was first introduced in HTML5 and had already shipped in browsers including Firefox, Chrome, and Opera by August last year.
(...) researchers warned last year about the API’s potential threat that could turn your battery level into a "fingerprintable" tracking identifier.

Psycogeek

12:29

I think i should sue the IRS for making me blind (and the fine print) giving me hemmeroids (not like anyone is going to read that shi| standing up) , and giving me a sleep disorder. Then I will also claim i am now disabled, and deduct that.

Burgi

the cat cafe is fully open here now

bwDraco

roar

That Brazilian Guy

> n 2015, researchers from Stanford University demonstrated a way to track users' locations – with up to 90 percent accuracy – by measuring the battery usage of the phone over a certain time.

Burgi

@ThatBrazilianGuy thats old news

the bbc covered it last year

bwDraco

Hmm. I'd probably suggest giving the user notice or asking for permission whenever an app asks for access to battery data.

allquixotic

12:30

@Dog يعتقدون اللغة العربية هي اللغة الأم. أليس هذا صحيحا؟ بالتأكيد الجميع من إنجلترا يتحدث العربية.

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi Oh sorry, I forgot to pay my BBC subscription last year.

@allquixotic TERRORISM!

Burgi

do you not get access to the news site for free?

allquixotic

@Bob what do I have to run to bring up that dialog box? I wanna see it!

That Brazilian Guy

Isn't BBC a TV channel?

Bob

@allquixotic winver

Burgi

12:32

news.bbc.co.uk

Bob

:31453962 uhm... it's a staged rollout that won't apply unless you don't have addons, and it's a rather standard automatic update

allquixotic

Bob

o.O

bwDraco

@allquixotic Congratuations—you're up to date.

Psycogeek

that looks "genuine" :-)

allquixotic

12:36

@Psycogeek didn't do the best job shopping it

Bob

obviously

Burgi

bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-36961433

Bob

billgates@**gmail**.com?

allquixotic

yes, even gates doesn't use hotmail ;p

6

Burgi

lol

allquixotic

12:38

brb rebooting with WSL enabled

Windows Subsystem for ~~Linux~~ Ubuntu

DavidPostill

Lucky escape dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3721366/…

"300 passengers - including 24 Brits - escape when their Emirates jet crash-lands at Dubai airport after catching fire in the air and EXPLODING on landing"

Burgi

GAH!

bwDraco

@DavidPostill I hate when British journalists use all-caps this way.

Burgi

its the daily mail, it can be safely ignored @bwDraco

@DavidPostill why do you use the DM? :(

bwDraco

Not enabling WSL because I have MinGW tools in the PATH (and have apps that rely on them).

DavidPostill

12:44

@Burgi Because it had the up to date news about survivors, which sadly lacking on the bbc site :)

@bwDraco Please don't be so patronising. US journalists do exactly the same.

bwDraco

I'm talking about newspaper headlines, not magazines.

Psycogeek

Burgi

1 failure in how many deployments?

Psycogeek

well you can use the one with the slight problem of the flames :-)

bwDraco

Here in the States, we generally don't have headlines where a single or a few words are in all caps.

DavidPostill

12:49

bwDraco

That's normal formatting.

DavidPostill

@bwDraco < 1 min to find 2 examples ...

bwDraco

Most American publications either have the entire title in all caps or not (either sentence case or first letter capitalized). I have yet to see an American publication use all-caps in part of a headline for emphasis.

DavidPostill

@bwDraco It's headlines ALL IN CAPS

That Brazilian Guy

@bwDraco I Find It Really Really Strange And Unnatural To Write Like This It Looks Quite Weird

allquixotic

12:53

@bwDraco I wonder if performance is better with the Windows kernel emulating the Linux kernel ABI and therefore completely throwing out the legacy Win32 linkage? I mean, for linking, they're using ld-linux.so (the glibc dynamic linker), and resolving libraries in the ELF way, not using Win32/PE binaries.

it's kind of like what Solaris and SmartOS did with the LX brand, except that the Solaris kernel is a lot more similar to the Linux kernel (as a UNIX sibling) than the NT kernel...

bwDraco

@DavidPostill ...sorry. That sort of comment actually risked a flag for being offensive.

Burgi

@bwDraco o.O

Bob

@DavidPostill Nationality aside, I actually find the emphasis on "EXPLODES" to be annoying in a click-baity way.

bwDraco

@Bob American publications, as far as I know, don't selectively capitalize words in headlines.

Bob

Then again, didn't expect much from the Mail anyway.

DavidPostill

12:55

@bwDraco What is exactly offensive? I was accurately describing the headlines.

Burgi

@Bob it was the daily mail, they specialise in clickbait

allquixotic

3 HOURS Lounge Chillout Ambient music Summer 2016 | Cocktail Miami | Wonderful Relaxing music

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jokerdino

@Bob click baity in a physical newspaper?

2

bwDraco

@DavidPostill Not you, but my own comments.

Bob

@jokerdino "click baity" as a concept

Attention-seeking.

bwDraco

12:56

I usually see it in British publications (most often The Register).

allquixotic

@jokerdino *clicks on his newspaper*

jokerdino

@Bob yeah, the older jargon

Burgi

@bwDraco flagging your own comments is hardcore

Bob

@DavidPostill smh.com.au/business/aviation/… more AU focused but seems fairly complete :P

Psycogeek

@DavidPostill you do realise that there are no " journalists " writing that, or "The Sun" or that any of it is real :-)

jokerdino

12:57

@allquixotic Harry Potter style newspaper maybe

allquixotic

I'm Gonna Do an Internet + I'm Gonna Do a Book

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jokerdino

@allquixotic lolzur

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek Are you saying it is computer generated GIGO? :)

bwDraco

...or at least they used to. I can't seem to find a recent article like this.

DavidPostill

Yeah. I'm surprised that everybody updates faster than the BBC News, which still has no mention that everyone is alive.

Maybe they sent all their journalists to Rio ...

bwDraco

13:02

Perhaps not El Reg but I kinda remember they did this in some internal links.

Australia finds $1 BEELLION to replace No-SQL DATABASE

Facebook does fling COOKIES around, but privacy is assured

Burgi

@DavidPostill

> The Dubai government media office said all passengers were evacuated safely and no injuries have been reported.

jokerdino

@DavidPostill

Burgi

bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36963112

Psycogeek

The truth board

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek lol

Burgi

13:04

that quantas flight is smoking....

DavidPostill

Bob

@DavidPostill that's just plain disturbing

Psycogeek

bwDraco

RAGING Google SLAPS naughty Chinese root cert kingpins CNNIC

American journalists generally wouldn't selective capitalize words in headlines, not as far as I know.

Different styles of journalism, perhaps...

DavidPostill

@Bob It's a real kitten. Search for "herman kitten big eyes"

bwDraco

13:07

Seems there's more sensationalism in UK papers...

Burgi

@bwDraco the register isn't a newspaper

Bob

Meanwhile, I've not yet figured out which American news paper/site is considered relatively trustworthy/unbiased.

Burgi

and it is slightly satrical

bwDraco

@Bob The New York Times is among the better newspapers around but it isn't perfect (it's a bit biased towards liberalism)

DavidPostill

@Bob None of them. They are all owned by someone with an agenda.

bwDraco

13:10

Pretty much every paper I've read has some degree of political bias.

Psycogeek

They dont even spell check our paper anymore, even the people making it dont read it :-)

bwDraco

WSJ is a bit conservative.

Bob

@DavidPostill Usually there's a few "must avoid" (generally anything even vaguely related to News Corp). Then there's others that are fairly neutral.

DavidPostill

Hmm. Anybody else getting please donate popups on Wikipedia?

@Bob That would be Rupert Murdoch?

bwDraco

I abhor the New York Post.

Bob

13:11

@DavidPostill Yes.

bwDraco

BRB, got stuff to do.

Bob

O_O

@allquixotic You use Start10 right?

Apparently the download site for Classic Shell (Fosshub) was hijacked: reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4vwron/…

micro buster

13:31

hi

Ben N

Hi!

micro buster

@BenN how are you

Ben N

Pretty good, I just woke up

micro buster

@BenN nice

do we have any new topic to talk here

bwDraco

> You have a knack for trading the British Pound against the Japanese Yen. You have a killer hot sauce recipe, and it’s in distribution worldwide. You just made partner at your father-in-law’s firm. Whatever the case, you’re in that elite group that doesn’t really worry about money. You have the beach house, the Bentley, and the Bulgari. And now Nvidia has a graphics card for your gaming PC: the Titan X.

lol

tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-titan-x-12gb,4700.html

Feb 26 '15 at 23:38, by DragonLord

Will save up arbitrary amounts of money :P

Let's keep working hard 😃

Bob

13:43

or is that more of a "hmm?" face?

!!hmm?

ChatBot John Cavil

bwDraco

> [...] the folks who buy the best of the best aren’t affected by a creeping luxury tax. And those who actually make money with their PCs merrily pay premiums for hardware able to accelerate their incomes.

Let's get to work! 😃

Dog

Grr why does Firefox have to be the one browser that renders everything differently... and more brokenly

bwDraco

BRB—today will be a very busy day for me and I may not be around for more than a few minutes at a time.

Dog

14:04

You know you're hypercaffeinated when you start talking to your tea.

allquixotic

blog.zorinaq.com/…

@Bob yep :)

DavidPostill

I though it wasn't possible to have two questions with same title?

Dog

Start10? I can understand Start8, but is the W10 Start menu really that bad?

XKCD

14:24

To make your shoes feel more comfortable, smell better, and last longer, try taking them off before you shower.

2

Burgi

o.O

Burgi

14:41

my minion has the craziest chair dances

DavidPostill

@Burgi That sounds like it's NSFW :)

bwDraco

Updated MinGW-w64 and LLVM.

LLVM on version 4.0 nightlies.

MinGW-w64 GCC updated to 6.1 (g++ now defaults to C++14).

> The default mode for C++ is now -std=gnu++14 instead of -std=gnu++98.

gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html

(C++14 with GNU extensions.)

Looks like they've followed Clang's lead and added some better diagnostics.

Again, I'm just keeping toolchains up to date; my focus remains on JavaScript, which runs on pretty much any Web browser and whose compilers and interpreters are updated with routine browser updates (I run Firefox Developer Edition as my default browser).

Burgi

15:07

@DavidPostill its just odd

Journeyman Geek

bwDraco

@allquixotic: You said the company you work for is now part of HPE. Has anything relevant to us changed?

DavidPostill

@Burgi By the way, did the office manager "cry over the split milk"?

Burgi

he agreed with my assessment of the childishness but there isn't much he can do

HackToHell

16:52

Uhm can you go out a folder with git

added a sub folder and pushed a couple of commits

can I get out

djsmiley2k

cd ..

HackToHell

I want the entire thing in git :P

nvm, I deleted and recreated

djsmiley2k

17:09

i dont understand the issue

bwDraco

welp. So my Pistons have already lasted me an entire year. Impressive.

Canadian Luke

cls

echo Damnit,it doesn't work!

Ben N

What doesn't work?

Canadian Luke

17:24

I saw the cd .. DOS command, I was trying other ones :-P

Ben N

cls works for me on Windows 10

Canadian Luke

... I was trying on here, as a joke

Ben N

Oh

cd ..

Canadian Luke

echo There you go! Joke understood, with my awkwardly dry Canadian humour

Psycogeek

yea ok Del Canadian Luke ; format C: /v:Canada

Dog

17:30

I hate tinymce

Canadian Luke

@Dog So do I... Especially when trying to install it in Moodle 2.6+

@Psycogeek The requested command requires elevation

Dog

Argh, what IS this shit?

Canadian Luke

Just a cool way to edit rich text on the web, in an "easy" way for the user

I hate it, but their Tech Support team is pretty good about helping you along, even if their Docs are incomplete

I recommend emailing them the details, and asking for help.

Dog

Where's my minion when I need one.

I've resorted to deleting the whole document and restoring it one line at a time

Great. I've just taken 40 minutes to format two lines of text, thanks to TinyMCE.

I'm getting the fuck outta here.

Canadian Luke

I wish I could tell you to enjoy it... But fsck that

Ben N

17:41

What does TinyMCE do that Markdown doesn't?

dillinger.io for all your Markdown composing needs

Dog

Seriously, WTF TinyMCE

@BenN Sucking balls.

Canadian Luke

@Dog All forms of TinyMCE include an HTML editor; check that to ensure the tags are placed properly

Dog

@CanadianLuke Oh I went into the HTML editor and deleted everything. Literally everything. Copied and pasted the plaintext back one line at a time.

Canadian Luke

@BenN It is more akin to Microsoft's WordPad or even MS Works for the things it can do. More features than Markdown, but doesn't necessarily mean it's always the riight choice

Dog

As for the tags... it's ... I don't dare even look

Canadian Luke

17:43

That's going to be the only way to tell exactly what it's doing. It looks like a line-break ( ) at the end, which would mess with the H3 tag, I'm thinking

Dog

The tags, oh the tags....

Ben N

It seems like CSS classes would be a good thing for that to use

Canadian Luke

Lovely...

So that's why then, it's not a true H3

Dog

That's just like... a regular, plain paragraph with two bolded words.

Why it needs all that shite just to bold TWO WORDS I don't know

What's wrong with just ffs.

@BenN Yeah, I just noticed... seems like there's no classes at all, just a crapton of 's with their own definitions in each.

Canadian Luke

 is being deprecated, so they prefer either CSS, or 

Dog

17:48

Furthermore the Styles menu in the editor is broken, which could explain the lack of classes

Ben N

 would be the stronger choice here IMO

Canadian Luke

What CMS system are you using?

Dog

@CanadianLuke Fine, then, still doesn't necessitate the <div><forgot all the closing tags>

Guitar Shoe Dave

love the underlined words that are apparently misspelled.. god i REALLY hate that

Dog

@CanadianLuke OpenText CMS

It's the corporate website so I have no choice :-/

Canadian Luke

17:50

OpenText, as in the company who makes FirstClass?

Dog

That said my own documentation is maintained on a much better Wiki site

@CanadianLuke Looks like it. Previously known as Red Dot CMS apparently.

Argh I was supposed to be in town half an hour ago for dinner.

Canadian Luke

@Dog My school, and the Military in Canada, use FirstClass for everything. All I'll say is, enjoy... -.-

Dog

!!extraheaddesk

ChatBot John Cavil

Dog

A paragraph, with heading, bolded text, and bulleted lists in Foswiki (yes, that also uses TinyMCE but whatever)

Ben N

17:54

I am learning to appreciate Markdown even more

Dog

Pretty much the same paragraph with heading, bolded text, and bulleted list in Opentext's tinymce...

!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

@Dog That didn't make much sense. Maybe you meant: no

bwDraco

!!/info extraheaddesk

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco Command extraheaddesk, created by cat on Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:13:26 GMT

Dog

And get this, you can do funky tricks using formatting, macros, functions and raw HTML in Foswiki markup just as well and it still doesn't look remotely as horrific as Opentext.

Canadian Luke

17:57

... Dafuq?

Dog

@CanadianLuke it generates an animated clicky thing with a formatted hierarchical list of child pages

I love animated clicky things.

bwDraco

18:19

TITAN X has no equal, but I'm not so sure how many gamers are going to spend $1200 on it.

(3584 CUDA cores in 28 of 30 SMs on Pascal GP102 @ 1417-1531 MHz; 12 GB GDDR5X @ 10 Gbps on 384-bit bus.)

oldmud0

18:36

Sounds like NVIDIA is selling a consumer-grade supercomputer

electronbeam

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

hi

bwDraco

lol

bwDraco

19:23

5

A: How can I see which DLLs included in Windows contain icons?

The classic additional icon repository of Win95 is %SystemRoot%\system32\moricons.dll. The file is still included with Windows 7.

This is on Windows 10 v1607!

Guitar Shoe Dave

@bwDraco: miss those icons

Ben N

I bet enterprise applications count on it being there so they can grab icons from it

oldmud0

ooooh quickoffice

Canadian Luke

19:37

I remember setting the swiss army knife as the Bio Menace icon

oldmud0

2

Q: Device reachable but not pingable

In a domestic LAN I have a TV connected to a router via copper straight cable and a PC connected wirelessly. I stream stuff to the TV from the PC using DLNA. So the TV is somehow known to the PC, it has an ARP entry and all. But when I ping the IP address of the TV from the PC I get 100% lost. ...

why did this show up in my first post review queue? it wasn't even an audit

DavidPostill

@oldmud0 Because it's the first post (question or answer) by that user on Super User

oldmud0

Oh... I must have read "first post" wrong

!!facedesk

ChatBot John Cavil

@oldmud0 That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

oldmud0

what?

!!headdesk

ChatBot John Cavil

19:48

DavidPostill

@oldmud0 lol

oldmud0

it was the last review for a reason

by the 20th review you feel kinda brainded

bwDraco

!!/extraheaddesk

ChatBot John Cavil

Talk About IT!

20:52

Talk About IT!: Developing for others – Dev Servers

posted on August 03, 2016 by Luke B

What is a Dev Server, and why should I use it for my clients? As many of you know, I’m a moderator on Freelancing.SE, and I’ve seen a lot of the troubles other users go through. I also constantly read stories of people just not “getting it” with their designers/developers/other contractors. I have my full… Read More » The post Developing for others – Dev Serv…

Dog

!! Ultraheaddesk

ChatBot John Cavil

Dog

!! Superheaddesk

ChatBot John Cavil

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

Dog

!! Megaheaddesk

That Brazilian Guy

21:16

Who wants reputation?

0

Q: How do I run bootchart on Fedora 23

My computer takes a long time to boot, and I want to analyze the boot process using bootchart. The file usr/lib/systemd/systemd-bootchart is present on my system, but I don't know how do I proceed in order to activate it upon boot. The guide I linked earlier states that I should add init=/usr/l...

linux boot fedora grub systemd

I set a bounty on this question

Although 50 rep is like a speck of dust to most people here... ;_____;

Dog

22:30

!! Caat

ChatBot John Cavil

Dog

I accidentally tries to !! Caat google

Hey who killed the bot

bwDraco

!!/status

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco I'm alive!

Dog

Oh it was just slow

Sorry Cavil, I thought you'd died

DavidPostill

23:03

blog spam? --> superuser.com/a/1108531/337631 link to brazilian blog ...

bwDraco

23:27

@DavidPostill That confirms as spam (blog post author matches username).

DavidPostill

@bwDraco Well spotted. Missed that.

Dog

Doge doge doge doge dogedy doge doge doge

DavidPostill

@dog can't spell his own name :)

Journeyman Geek

Seems doge.

DavidPostill

Doge

A doge (/ˈdoʊdʒ/; Italian pronunciation: [ˈdɔːdʒe], plural dogi or doges) was an elected, chief-of-state lordship, the ruler of the republic in many of the Italian city-states during the medieval and renaissance periods, in the Italian "crowned republics". == Etymology == The word is from the Venetian dialect, reaching English via French. Doge, along with the related English word duke and the Italian duce, descends from the Latin dux, meaning "leader", especially in a military context. The wife of a doge is styled a dogaressa and the office of the doge is termed dogeship. == Usage == The title...

Dogecoin

Dogecoin (/ˈdoʊʒkɔɪn/ DOHZH-koyn, code: DOGE, symbol: Ð and D) is a cryptocurrency featuring a likeness of the Shiba Inu dog from the "Doge" Internet meme as its logo. Introduced as a "joke currency" on 8 December 2013, Dogecoin quickly developed its own online community and reached a capitalization of USD 60 million in January 2014; as of March 2016, it had a capitalization of USD 22.2 million. Compared with other cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin has a fast initial coin production schedule: 100 billion coins have been in circulation by mid 2015 with an additional 5.256 billion coins every year thereafter...

Yay. Repcapped!

Dog

23:44

I'm a doge, meaow, check meowt,
I'm a doge, meaow, check meowt,
I'm a doge, meaow, check meowt,
Meaow meaow meaow meaow doge meowt

allquixotic

23:57

@bwDraco the company I work for is not part of HPE; I don't work for that company any longer

@Dog Yes. Plus I'm an old stick in the mud.

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