Root Access

Bob

12:10

I'd be pretty nervous to fly on a plane with schematics labeled in Comic Sans. — Undo 10 hours ago

djsmiley2k

lol wat - youtube.com/watch?v=ai6Xo0uYcWw

Oliver Salzburg

Should I have posted this on Server Fault? superuser.com/questions/1237263/…

Hmm, probably

djsmiley2k

yah

maybe

Oliver Salzburg

Oh, right. I can't close by myself anymore :P

Burgi

12:33

flagged it for you

SF is where questions go to die

Oliver Salzburg

@Burgi I often self-answer on SF

13

A: Can I invoke Windows Update from the command line?

In Windows 10, you can use the PSWindowsUpdate PowerShell module. > Install-Module PSWindowsUpdate > Get-WindowsUpdate > Install-WindowsUpdate

This is good stuff btw

Making that the accepted answer now

Burgi

SPACE MARINES!

tereško

Burgi

12:49

arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/07/…

> We're re-running this story today because our American colleagues are busy celebrating the Original Brexit

Journeyman Geek

lol

Singapore's equivilent

... the day we got kicked out of malaysia... ;p

Avery

Winamp winamp It really whips the llama's ass baa

I miss winamp

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek you are still in the ~~empire~~ commonwealth though, right?

Journeyman Geek

yup

We don't have the queen as a head of state tho

Burgi

do you have a president then?

Journeyman Geek

13:00

The malaysians have a rotation for their king

Elected. and mostly ceremonial

since the government rigs it so very few people are eligible to stand

Burgi

in SG?

Oliver Salzburg

Wow, they actually fixed that Windows Hello issue in one of the Windows Updates I just installed

Well, the "fix" is that I now can't attempt to enable it because it tells me it won't work on my device

Then sends me to Bing to find a solution

Journeyman Geek

yup

Avery

what's the solution?

buying a new PC?

Journeyman Geek

or a new webcam

djsmiley2k

13:06

or a new face.

Oliver Salzburg

@Avery Apparently

Avery

or a yubikey

Oliver Salzburg

The first hit is a page that tells me where to enable Windows Hello

@Avery Not a fan

Avery

why not?

Oliver Salzburg

Contrary to my face, I don't always have my YubiKey on me

Avery

13:07

ah

Oliver Salzburg

They are just incredibly inconvenient. I have two of them and they are never there when I need one

Avery

but if your face gets stolen or lost, you can't replace it

I have mine in my keychain

Oliver Salzburg

I was mostly playing around with the feature to see how it works. Didn't get far ;P

Burgi

@Avery that happened to nicholas cage

Avery

which I always carry around outside house.

Oliver Salzburg

13:09

I have my keychain on my desk, next to my YubiKeys :P

And I leave it there, just like my YubiKeys, when I walk around the office

Avery

I mean losing face isn't hard

america did that

Oliver Salzburg

Also, that feeling when you brought the wrong YubiKey somewhere

Avery

well, I only have one

Journeyman Geek

I wonder if windows hello would work on dogs...

and can tell the difference between different dogs...

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek I'd also like to know :D

Avery

13:14

that gives me a start up idea

face-detecting animal door

djsmiley2k

13:24

@Avery already exists on hack-a-day

also, a catflap that detects if the cat's got a mouse/bird in it's mouth

Burgi

what if the cat walks in backwards?

the system needs to identify cat arses

Oliver Salzburg

Sounds like that would conflict with the face detection

djsmiley2k

@Burgi cats can't be fussed to do this.

Burgi

if you've ever owned a cat you'll know they like to show you their arse a lot

@djsmiley2k your cats have never brought in a still flapping pigeon?

Journeyman Geek

13:41

all cats are arses... so it should just work if it can detect cats at all. Or Lawyers ;p

Burgi

what if a cat owns a lawyer?

djsmiley2k

@Burgi lol yes

they once brought in a LIVE BAT.

Avery

a lawyer on a donkey holding a cat.

arseception.

Seth

Batcat?

djsmiley2k

better than batcow!

Seth

13:55

A cowbat would be something interesting.

djsmiley2k

@DavidPostill where do you find radar for weather btw?

Oliver Salzburg

draw.io is awesome btw. In case that was not known

NotAdmin Dave

@OliverSalzburg : Kinda related... easyeda.com you can design your own PCB's and have them instantly delivered to you from the website if youre into circuits ;)

Oliver Salzburg

Neat

NotAdmin Dave

Introducing EasyEDA, Web-Based EDA Tool

►

check out the end of that video of an example of a PCB that they send.

after design

its sweet

DavidPostill

14:18

@djsmiley2k darksky.net

4

Oliver Salzburg

That looks pretty sexy

DavidPostill

@Burgi @OliverSalzburg stackoverflow.blog/2009/01/06/accept-your-own-answers

NotAdmin Dave

The emoji map is pretty cute @DavidPostill

DavidPostill

> No reputation is earned. Normally, accepted answers confer +15 rep to the answerer and +2 to the owner. Owner accepted answers do not earn rep (or badges) for anyone.

@NotAdminDave lol. I never tried that option :)

NotAdmin Dave

I cant get the emoji map to work in 3d mode though :/

But that doesnt matter. Still nice maps

Oliver Salzburg

14:26

@DavidPostill I assumed we were only talking about the +2. Good catch

djsmiley2k

wtf @ the emoji view xD

weather == car

or bike

?!

Bob

> you just need to set up a FOR loop that doesn't actually loop

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg Migrated :)

Bob

I've done that before. It felt dirty...

Oliver Salzburg

@DavidPostill Thanks

djsmiley2k

14:36

@DavidPostill ty

Oliver Salzburg

W T F

This calls for rage!

If that was the source of the problem, somebody needs to pay :P

Bob

@OliverSalzburg What's this for?

Oliver Salzburg

community.spiceworks.com/how_to/…

Sending an email from the address of a distribution group

DavidPostill

I want to reject this migration (do not migrate crap) :)

0

Q: Dirt next to mouse pointer icon

I am using Arch Linux. Sometimes the icon of the mouse pointer changes and pixels appear like dirt on the right of the arrow. pic1 and pic2 show the problem. The issue disappears after reboot. I suspect this to happen after an intensive use of resources but I am not sure at all. This is the ve...

Oliver Salzburg

How this is not a use-case that is covered by any UI by now, is beyond me

Bob

14:41

@OliverSalzburg Oh that's fun. I set that up to be able to send emails with a from address of my aliases :)

On O365, not local Exchange.

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah, I really don't get why this is a problem. I have a group [email protected]. Why is it a complicated task to have members of that group be able to send emails with that address?

Bob

@OliverSalzburg It wasn't that complicated... though what pisses me off is they introduced new O365 groups that don't seem to be able to do this. And they're pushing for old DLs to be upgraded. If they get rid of the old DLs I'm screwed. And probably moving to Google Apps.

NotAdmin Dave

@DavidPostill gpu starting to go out?

Its common, mine started doing that before my GPU had to be replaced.

DavidPostill

@NotAdminDave Fixed by a reboot suggests not.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Yeah, we got those O365 groups as well on our own tenancy. This problem is just regular old on-prem annoyance

Burgi

14:44

@NotAdminDave mine does it sometimes when the PC has been on for 5 days straight

Oliver Salzburg

And it's still not working :P

NotAdmin Dave

@DavidPostill: Interesting, well I observed freezing behavior too after sometime while the pixels were goofed like that, which would require me to reboot (obviously lol). Eventually though, shit died.

:/

Bob

> You have taken responsibility.

Well ain't that an ominous subject.

NotAdmin Dave

Cool, im going to bounty it.. Ive been wanting to bounty something.

Hes been waiting for a long time for an answer anyway, feel kinda bad for the dude

Rahul2001

YWNBYEITMF

Oliver Salzburg

14:51

tech.slashdot.org/story/17/08/02/2053233/…

Rahul2001

(you would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies)

Oliver Salzburg

I am obviously claiming responsibility for this ;P

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Odd feeling of deja vu here :P

(saw it on RSS. saw it from your chat link. saw it on Reddit. ... saw it from your chat link again?)

so apparently it's big news? :P

Rahul2001

@OliverSalzburg omg wot dis better not break compatibility with my rickroll prank batch scriptz

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/930 is the important link anyway ;D

Ben N

14:53

The old colors look more readable to me :|

Oliver Salzburg

@Rahul2001 They'll probably revert to "Class Color Scheme" next update ;)

Bob

> Choose Your Pwn Adventure 2. A custom 3D MMOFPS based on the Unity game engine. The game included several quests that were only solvable by modifying the game client.

:O

Burgi

brilliant

woocommerce has shipped their latest version with the node_modules folder intact

40,000 files have been added to our repo

Oliver Salzburg

Send as still doesn't work

And the error analysis tools of Exchange refuse to work because they can't connect to the internet

HTTP proxy is too advanced of a technology for Exchange :P

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Question about your favourite OS here superuser.com/questions/1237328/i-cant-install-kali-linux

Andy K

15:30

question: what would be the best way to open huge excel file, up to 1Gb?

Ben N

What kind of data are you trying to get out of it?

If you need to use all the features of Excel, you should probably try to open it with Excel, if that works

Otherwise, maybe try Excel Online?

Though if you're storing that much data in a spreadsheet, you might want to move to an actual database

Andy K

thanks @BenN. I've managed to open it with Excel

Oliver Salzburg

@AndyK 64bit Office and lots of RAM

Avery

powerbi?

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Don't even need 64-bit; Excel handles huge files surprisingly well.

Andy K

15:33

@Bob did not know that

Bob

They probably needed it after everyone started using spreadsheets as databases...

djsmiley2k

upto 2 mil rows iirc

Oliver Salzburg

Heheh

Bob

@AndyK Do you intend to just pull one piece from it, or actually parse data out to use elsewhere? Is it xls, xlsx, csv, something else?

djsmiley2k

@OliverSalzburg o365 doesn't work, you can't connect to the internet

I'm seeing a pattern here...

:P

Bob

15:35

Usually if I'm given an xls(x) I chuck it through Excel, export as CSV, and process the CSV (w/ CsvHelper on .NET). Though processing xlsx direct isn't that much harder.

Andy K

@Bob just xls. I managed to open it

Oliver Salzburg

@djsmiley2k Those are different "projects" though

But if the pattern is "MS software is shit", then I would agree right now

And I just found another approach to the Send-As problem moments ago and the employee who is affected by this is already out of the office

Andy K

bye

djsmiley2k

@OliverSalzburg for our one, which went on for weeks

we had to do what I originally said - delete and recreate the local mail profile on her machine

once that was done, all the problems went away

it went on for weeks because the user was so uncontactable

Oliver Salzburg

Ugh

djsmiley2k

15:50

she'd make sure to reply to the emails, telling us that she couldn't do what we needed at the time

which unfortunately was enough to keep the ticket open

Rahul2001

16:39

@BenN I figured the argument thing out!

Ben N

:D

What did you discover?

Rahul2001

It doesn't appear to be documented anywhere on the internet though, I had to experiment around

@BenN Blog post coming up in a minute....

bwDraco

16:56

Looking back at some recent TMUS press releases... newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/categories/network/…

This is outright scathing.

> [...] Verizon has a bigger fundamental problem: spectrum, the life blood of the wireless industry. Verizon has by far the least amount of spectrum per customer!

WTF

Ben N

The source might be a little biased though

bwDraco

OTOH, Sprint actually has by far the most spectrum per customer but they haven't been able to use it (2.5 GHz needs very high cell site density).

@BenN Kinda, but this was only a couple of weeks before OpenSignal confirmed in their latest report that Verizon and AT&T data speeds had indeed regressed over the last several months.

(disclosure: I'm an OpenSignal user)

opensignal.com/blog/2017/08/02/…

> Our 4G speed results for Verizon dropped by 2 Mbps, allowing T-Mobile to leap ahead of Big Red in our rankings. What happened? Unlimited plans happened.

Ben N

Ah

bwDraco

> The most likely explanation for this sudden drop in average speeds compared to peak speeds is that Verizon’s network is experiencing more congestion due to its new unlimited plans. By opening up the data spigot, customers start consuming more data more often, forcing them to vie against one another for more capacity on each cell site. The more data demand there is on a network, the more average speeds will drop, regardless of the network’s technological capabilities.

(not sure why I pulled that)

Ben N

I'm a Verizon customer, though not particularly enthusiastic about it

I have noticed cell signal strength dropping in the past couple months

bwDraco

17:04

Have speeds noticeably dropped?

Ben N

Not sure about speed since I do very little web stuff on my phone, but call quality has gotten noticeably worse

bwDraco

Congestion.

I'm honestly a bit surprised that multiple data sources have been able to confirm that Verizon and AT&T's network performance have regressed since they reintroduced unlimited data.

First it's Ookla Speedtest, now it's OpenSignal.

Rahul2001

OMG

MY GIRLFRIEND IS GOOD AT CODING

\o/

I just saw some of her C++ code, and it is impressive

WOT EVEN

@BenN lost the post!

Took me so long to write it damnit

Internet failed when I tried to publish it

Ben N

17:22

Ow :(

Rahul2001

@BenN Wait, I think I have time to re-write

bwDraco

17:34

@allq: Vega preliminary hashrate benchmarks are considerably worse than expected, doing 30-35 MH/s: steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@plainbroadcast/…, 1stminingrig.com/…

It will probably hold up better long-term, but at least gamers have a shot at getting the cards.

Rahul2001

@BenN Done! rahul.tech/…

Is the explanation clear enough?

fixer1234

@Rahul2001, good writeup.

tereško

@bwDraco based on how terrible the code in most of miners is, I am not even slightly surprised

I had this thought like a month ago - I should mine some Etherium (before it crashed)

the second thought was - let's take a look at the code

... which was promptly followed up by - MY EYES, MY EYES!!!

That REDACTED Guy

Who needs soap opera when there's my workplace?

A coworker threw a huge tantrum on the toilets and then on their desk.

Rahul2001

17:49

@fixer1234 thanks :)

@ThatREDACTEDGuy uh what why

That REDACTED Guy

Jul 26 at 13:34, by That REDACTED Guy

No, we're actually crazy

yesterday, by That REDACTED Guy

Of course I want the money. And the chance to work anywhere less crazy.

Jul 11 at 14:57, by That REDACTED Guy

@Burgi This sounds normal. FOR A MADHOUSE!

Jul 6 at 14:31, by That REDACTED Guy

OH FUCK WAIT WHAT IF THIS IS AN INSANE ASYLUM IN DISGUISE!

Burgi

18:14

@ThatREDACTEDGuy on their desk?

did they run out of toilet paper or something?

That REDACTED Guy

@Burgi I'm not really good above prepositions.

Rahul2001

18:34

Have I ever told you guys how messed up my life is?

2

Avery

@Rahul2001 haha

Rahul2001

@Avery So apt

That REDACTED Guy

Avery

yup

google it.

Rahul2001

Someone. Has. Been. Leaving. Hateful. Comments. On. My. Website.

Avery

18:40

That REDACTED Guy

@Rahul2001 That. Means. You. Are. Now. Famous. I. Guess.

Rahul2001

@Avery huh. Sees google. Sneers.

@ThatREDACTEDGuy It kills me inside

That REDACTED Guy

Rahooby pls. I once got death threats. Over the phone. At the school's administration.

At, in, on, into, over, about, under. Whenever.

Avery

well

I got serious death threats and nearly got murdered once. Don't downplay the risks of death threats.

Rahul2001

@Avery I have dad who has threatened to kill me. Mum thinks he caused my cycling accident so....

That REDACTED Guy

18:46

Ok. Your life is messed up.

tereško

@Avery when I was a kid, CN was not so fugly

That REDACTED Guy

hugs both @Rahul2001 and @Avery

Avery

say one more negative thing about cn and I'll make you watch all episodes of SU and all eps of AT that were directed by RS

@ThatREDACTEDGuy hugs back

Rahul2001

@ThatREDACTEDGuy hugs

hugs are nice.

That REDACTED Guy

@Avery No, no, no: All episodes of Adventure Time, period. Specially the ones with BMO.

And add ~~all~~ most episodes of Gumball to that.

Avery

18:49

rebecca sugar is god

That REDACTED Guy

Sugar is good.

tereško

@Avery well ... when I was a kid, they called themselves "Cartoon Network"

Avery

@Rahul2001 I could have all the hugs on earth and still wouldn't have enough hugs.

Rahul2001

@Avery yessss

Avery

@tereško well, they still do

That REDACTED Guy

18:50

@tereško Wait, they don't anymore?

Rahul2001

@tereško They did when I was a kid too... Till about 2009

Logo used to be the full "C A R T O O N N E T W O R K" before

It's just "CN" now, with "cartoon network" written in subscript under it

@ThatREDACTEDGuy

Avery

the full old logo is at end of all originals

with a 2-3 sec shortie in it

That REDACTED Guy

Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Turner Broadcasting System which is a division and subsidiary of Time Warner. It was founded by Betty Cohen and launched on October 1, 1992. The channel primarily broadcasts children's shows, mostly animated programming, ranging from action to animated comedy. It is primarily aimed at children and young teenagers between the ages of 7 to 15, and targets older teens and adults with mature content during its late night daypart Adult Swim, which is treated as a separate entity for promotional purposes and...

Rahul2001

@Avery Ah, it is?

Haven't watched TV in years

tereško

^ same .. I dont even have a TV

Avery

18:53

I don't watch tv anymore

I just stream SU from time to time

and AT

AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

tereško

SU, AT?

Avery

steven universe, adventure time.

also, back to aaaaaaa: BUBBLEGUM X MARCELINE IS CANON

tereško

those are cancer

Avery

those are the best are you kidding me

That REDACTED Guy

SOMEONE STOP ME I'M GONNA FLAG @tereško

Avery

18:55

but yeah

That REDACTED Guy

Oh, I just remembered, he's ignoring me.

Avery

CN made bubbline canon

Rahul2001

Man. Just remembered Codename: Kids Next Door

@ThatREDACTEDGuy why?

That REDACTED Guy

Jul 11 at 15:47, by tereško

because he's annoying

Rahul2001

ow

That REDACTED Guy

18:56

@Avery Prove it.

@Rahul2001 Bah. Screw him. Whoever doesn't like SU and AT can't be a good person.

Rahul2001

@ThatREDACTEDGuy lol

@tereško Saw that somewhere today...

allquixotic

@bwDraco 35 MH/s for 295W is hardly worth the money and electricity cost

better off getting an RX580 or even a GTX 1060(M)

DavidPostill

:39211208 Humph. That's not nice.

That REDACTED Guy

@Rahul2001 To be honest I never liked those.

tereško

huh?

bwDraco

18:58

That'll leave more Vega cards for gamers \o/

tereško

what?

@DavidPostill how was it not nice?

Rahul2001

@ThatREDACTEDGuy don't remember them very well

I think I liked them

vague memories

That REDACTED Guy

Now, Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory and early Spongebob... Those were amazing

Avery

@ThatREDACTEDGuy youtube.com/watch?v=_EleCNWfwTY and autostraddle.com/…

Rahul2001

YES

That REDACTED Guy

18:59

There's an entire PPG episode with nothing but Beatles lyrics.

Rahul2001

@tereško Definitely had the potential to offend someone

DavidPostill

@tereško Contains obscenities and may offend people with certain religious beliefs.

Avery

honestly those were good but nothing can beat su/at.

tereško

George Carlin - 7 Words You Can't Say On TV

►

That REDACTED Guy

Meet the Beat-Alls (all Beatles references) - Part 1

►

tereško

19:00

so we are back to this

wonderful

DavidPostill

@tereško I deleted it because it's the kind of thing that will attract flags.

tereško

wouldn't it be my risk to take?

Rahul2001

Jul 29 at 7:04, by Rahul2001

Phineas and Ferb - Ain't Got Rhythm

►

Jul 29 at 7:06, by Rahul2001

Gitchee Gitchee Goo with lyrics

►

@tereško Just for you:

Jul 29 at 7:03, by Rahul2001

Squirrels In My Pants - Phineas and Ferb - Official Video

►

That REDACTED Guy

Adventure Time | These Lumps | Cartoon Network

►

djsmiley2k

19:21

Yawwwwn

allquixotic

## s/w/~/g

I Am A Bot

@allquixotic Ya~~~~n (source)

allquixotic

##zalgo ~^-=2{ll

I Am A Bot

@allquixotic ~̧͍̳͓̗̥̹̓̀̃͆͘͝͡^̷̢̧̛̫̲̲͕̰̑͑ͦ-̼̘̘͕ͥ͆̐̀̾ͣ̊=̴̡͕͇̓͢͟͟2̴̡̟̫͛̏͂͠{̨͍̟̪̯͉̮̰̓ͤ̔ͫ̔̇̀̕͞l̍̅͌‌̡̣̩͊̐͌͟ļ̴̸̺̺̽͊͞

That REDACTED Guy

19:35

Huh. Either chat is down or just got blocked at work.

Which would mean... They're watching me and the stuff I say here.

I LOVE MY WORK AND EVERYONE HERE IS SUPER SANE

Ok, chat is definitely not down and works in a VPN.

djsmiley2k

so it's now blocked at work?

fun fact

I'm the guy who's watching now, at work

:D

evne more fun fact -- actually watching someone, without some reason, is incredibly boring.

MetaEd

19:56

@djsmiley2k You've obviously never tried stalking.

djsmiley2k

:D

TT4M.C

@MetaEd you obviously have

MetaEd

@TT4M.C I hope it's not obvious, or I'm doing it wrong.

TT4M.C

@MetaEd indeed

That REDACTED Guy

@djsmiley2k Your are the keeper of the proxies and its logs?

djsmiley2k

20:05

yup

and the lord of the firewalls, judisicar of the vpn...

etc

I see all things

and it's gloryius

anyway, off to sort out lunch and bed!

That REDACTED Guy

...aaaaaaaand we're back (sans VPN).

Probably just some router hicupping somewhere along the way.

@djsmiley2k, Protector of the Proxies, Lord of the Logs, Father of Firewalls, Vindicator of VPNs...

Born during an electric storm who killed the data center

tereško

anyone installed libliri-git ?

I seem to be having few issues

and I am 99.99% sure that it is something related to missing dependencies

That REDACTED Guy

I have it. Let me help you... Oh wait. I can't. You blocked me.

Nah, don't have it. Just kidding.

DavidPostill

@ThatREDACTEDGuy lol

tereško

not actually funny

since I got it working on my work PC by installing some (undocumented) dependencies

fuck .. I will have to grep pacman's logs, don't I :(

Ben N

20:28

@Rahul2001 Alright, I'm back. I think it's worth clarifying that Windows doesn't affect the parsing of the command line into arguments; that's a function of the program (or, more commonly, the runtime library it was compiled with).

I'm currently writing a command-line tool that does its own parsing, and it interprets \\ as \ only inside double-quotes, otherwise it's just \\

I suspect most applications adhere to the rules you ascertained - and all programs compiled with the same runtime library definitely will - but Windows has no control over that

djsmiley2k

@tereško run ldd on the exaecutable

see what libs it's missing, install said packages, hope for the best

tereško

thing is

I got it working on my worplace PC

and the reason was some obscure dependence

buuuut

since I am about 1.5 wine-bottles in, I probably shouldn't run any commands that require sudo or my root password

djsmiley2k

lol

thats ise

is there any output from teh program?

wise

tereško

21:23

offtopic youtube.com/watch?v=rnWQZn45-DI

Talk About IT!

21:58

Talk About IT!: Deploying Windows Monthly Updates (without WSUS)

posted on August 03, 2017 by Luke B

In connection with another article about Deploying Windows Updates via the Command Line, I have come to notice that it is not the end-all we thought it once was. With the Roll-Up Updates for Windows 7, 8.1, and 10, I have found a better way to deploy updates. As per before, this is all done… Read more » The post Deploying Windows Monthly Updates (without WSUS) appeared first on Talk About…

tereško

fuck, I'm drunk

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