"A slang for Natural Light beer, a favorite of poor college students the world over."
Thanks for clearing that up.
Unless it's sendmail.cf. I'm pretty sure that most of that file was written by monkeys banging each other over the keyboard.
telnet example.com 443
The user interface is a little bit complex, and involves a bit of simple math on your part each time you make a request, but at least there are no pop-ups.
@blakeyrat said in Talk to me about password managers:
I don't even understand why you'd ever want more than one vault (considering they have sections and subsections and subsubsections, as shown), much-less why you'd want more than one vault in a single window. They could just open each vault in its own window and simplify the UI (and their own code!) tremendously for the 0.05% of the population who needs more than one.
My "work" tab contains only accounts which I need when I am at the office, and that file uses a different pass phrase from the "personal" one. Each of the two files is independent, is stored separately, and it is up to me which ones I want to keep open at any given time.
If it were necessary, I wouldn't feel that badly about sharing the "work" list with my coworker or replacement, although that is absolutely not true about the contents of the "personal" one which is mostly goat porn email accounts, forums, games and other stuff which nobody gets without having a lawyer reading a copy of my will first.
I can also distribute other specialized lists like "All remote console passwords in London" or "Just the admin account to the stuff that the overnight support team needs to manage" without having any concern about mixing them in with anything more sensitive.
Because Keepass can keep any number of tabs open at once, and treats them all as a single database, I (Or rather the Keyfox extension, most of the time) am shown the correct password the moment I request it, without having to worry about which list it's in. It's really a nice feature, and I would miss it if it were gone.
If my sole use case for Keepass were just sorting all of my logins for the various My Little Pony Slash archives vibrant social media hubs I belonged to, then yes having multiple password files would be pointless but handling multiple lists with differing expectations for privacy and concurrency makes it quite useful.
That may make me part of the 0.05%, but I'm okay with that.
Linksys still uses http://192.168.1.1 as the default, but now, when you browse to it, it immediately redirects you to http://linksyssmartwifi.com. Which is, of course, the cloud management portal we are going to completely avoid.
So, first things first, you need to edit your local hosts file to map linksyssmartwifi.com to 192.168.1.1. That way, when you browse to the IP address, you are actually connecting directly to the box.
Wouldn't http://192.168.1.1/ still redirect you to http://linksyssmartwifi.com/, which would re-redirect you to http://linksyssmartwifi.com/, turning into a rabbit-hole of redirects that could only be stopped with gasoline and fire?
I mean, it would still be better than using a linksys router, but not by much.
That must be another definition of "cooperative" that I was not previously aware of.
Chicken tikka masala was invented in Glasgow BTW
That's okay. Most "Chinese" food in the USA was invented in New York City.
(Get a rope.)
@loopback0 said:@mott555 said:it kind of looks like Canada around hereDesolate except for some moose?
I wish. I could use more moose in my life.
A Møøse once bit my sister...
That's a familiar approach to disaster planning.
"So if the Russians are to invade, we'd prefer them to do it between Mondays and Fridays?"
@xaade said:What do you do about software that was started by another user, but only one instance is allowed to execute on the machine?
That must be really shitty Windows-98 era software. Do you have an example?
Steam?
The Tinfoil Hat is strong with you, young padawan!
Just wait until you hear about the revolutionary desktop search application I wrote in Visual Basic. It stores everything in video format so that black ops agents won't be able to get at it.
Wait, 95 posts and nobody's 'shopped in a football? Jesus, this forum sucks.
Hey! Writing erotic fan-fiction about the penguin and a football takes a lot of t--
Wait. Hang on.
You said "'Shopped".
Crap. Never mind.
Please say Mr Belvedere please say Mr Belvedere...
I'm still hoping for "Leeeeeeeeroy".
@error said in Clever tenant ipsum dolor sit amet..:
@fbmac said in Clever tenant ipsum dolor sit amet..:
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.
Is that the correct translation? I always thought it was "Where Do You Want To Go Today?"
Oh damn it's the "Won't someone think of the children" argument!
You know who else wouldn't think of the children? Hitler.
What is that even supposed to be? A sailboat? What doe a sailboat have to do with sliding?
It's not a sailboat. It's a schooner.
Perhaps I'm suffering a mind block on this, but what would the equivalent of the "open-source community" be in another discipline, such as mechanical engineering or carpentry?
That would be this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ9Xk0Lln5Y
I wouldn't trust the future of toast to him.
@DCRoss said:I think the preferred term is "Hamburger eating invasion monkeys".H.E.I.M.?
We're working on a maneuver to go with that name, but at the moment it's more of a gesture.
An earnest, if someone inexperienced hell-desk drone from the other side of the world once thought that he would take some personal initiative in cleaning up a filesystem which was nearing 100% full.
The next morning, while cleaning up the mess, I found a rather clever new method of removing files in root's .history:
He apparently realized his mistake shortly after that because he tried to fix it:
Strangely, that didn't do much to fix the problem, and the next process to write to /dev/null recreated it as a regular file. Fortunately someone whose experience with UNIX systems consisted of more that just watching Jurassic Park was able to mknod the problem away before the system crashed completely, and I spent the rest of the morning quietly addressing the flaws in our security policy which had allowed this to happen in the first place.
Something something code review mumble mumble beaten with mumble mumble stupid stick something something ever see you mumble mumble network again something something with a power stapler?
Oh realli?
She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
I vote for cake!
Well, we're out of cake. We only had three bits and we didn't expect such a rush.
@xaade said:Have you used RavenDB?Never heard of it.
[url=https://www.google.com/search?q=RavenDB]The Oracle has[/url]. But much of the first page is just articles by developers explaining why they had to stop using it.
The fact that two of those are listed above RavenDB's own mailing list tells me more than I wanted to know about the product.
@swayde said in Dude ruins company who had never heard of proper backups:
@fbmac said in Dude ruins company who had never heard of proper backups:
some people are suspicious this is a fake on slashdot
@swayde said in Dude ruins company who had never heard of proper backups:
Missed the text.
It does seem unlikely, but damn...I'm suspicious too. 1300 customers and not one has confirmed? Not one screenshot? Has data back after only hours? Story goes viral of it's own volition? In hours?
It's not impossible, just unlikely.
Not only that, but he said he was running CentOS 7, which, according to the man pages here, has --no-preserve-root set by default in rm. That means his "rm -rf {foo}/{bar}" command should have failed with an error unless he had somehow explicitly sabotaged it with this end in mind.
He claims to have run this on every machine at once, during the backup window, while his backup drives were mounted on every machine, and then while recovering the data did his best impression of the "Well what if you don't have that..." interviewer by accidentally running "dd if=blankdisk of=sourcedisk" instead of "dd if=sourcedisk of=blankdisk", destroying whatever was left of his drives, and then... recovered all of the data anyway.
All this without a single customer speaking up, or any coverage of this disaster that wasn't a single anonymous post on serverfault.
It's not impossible, but there are a few bits missing from the story which would make it more believable.
I think that George Carlin explained this best.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
@DrPepper said:
Forgot the important part of the red-green-refactor
"The code refactoror's secret weapon: Duct tape!"
"If your code review can't find you handsome, it should at least find you handy."
"If it ain't broke, you're not trying hard enough."
With the new computerized system, there are now 0% invalid votes meaning that we can be absolutely certain that the incumbent won by a margin of eighteen billion to six.
@clippy said in Test your English vocabulary:
@Grunnen said in Test your English vocabulary:
Also quite interesting that a '12-year-old teenager in the US' has significantly above-average English knowledge, apparently.
A 12 year old in the US is a native speaker
But not, technically speaking a "teenager".
Unless you pronounce 12 as "seconteen" so that thirteen won't feel left out.
How old is The Mythical Man-Month now? (40 years!)
Yes, but it's in its third edition and 45th printing, so that's really only ten and a half book-months.
@blakeyrat said:But if it's "Merkins" expect to be treated like you're a giant piece of shit. Because using that nickname makes you a giant piece of shit.as a merkin, i actually don't get why that's such a big deal.
or would you prefer 'murica?
I think the preferred term is "Hamburger eating invasion monkeys".
How about you try what he did and bring it to another kind of government building or a dense public place like an airport?
If I tried doing what he did while carrying a blue whale inside of a nuclear power plant run by an embedded system with no file system, then yes, I would expect a strong reaction. Good thing that that never happened.
I could go on about this, but getting into arguments on the Internet is a lot like getting into arguments on the Internet. Even if you win, you've still gotten into an argument on the Internet.
You'll just have to manage without me.
@thegoryone said in Microsoft tells the NSA (and similar) to stop being total shits:
@DCRoss That is absolutely amazing. Is it better or worse than this, though? (In fairness it's more of a quality check but it's been used in the past to annoy the shit out of farmers for no reason)
The Marketing of Potatoes Act (1964) states that: “A constable may seize and may detain in custody any potatoes which are being or which are suspected by such an officer or constable of being, sent out of Northern Ireland”
I live in a culture which thinks it's okay to arrest someone for trying to bring 101mL of water onto an airplane, so very little surprises me any more.
At that point you just stand up, thank them for their time (and comic relief) and show them the door.
But what if the door isn't properly registered in AD?
Are you sure you want machines learning? All the documentaries I've seen say that's a bad thing.Filed under: Terminator and I Robot are documentaries right?
Stop complaining and go fix the AE-35 Unit, Dave.
@CarrieVS said in Thanksgiving is almost here. And Thanksgiving means a food coma...:
Pumpkin has exactly one acceptable use, and we're three weeks past the only time that use is appropriate.
Then you'll be happy to know that pumpkin pie is actually made from a variety of other squashes, and the closest most pies come to an actual, carve-a-face-on-it-and-set-it-on-fire pumpkin is the picture on the label of the can that was used to make it.
Plus, Thanksgiving was over a month ago. Why are you people late for everything?
Guess what, I was right, my explanation is flawless, and you guys are still arguing the thing.
No, I think you'll find that if you check again emacs is clearly superior to vi.
"But what if gravity reverses and now up is down!" Well, we'll just cope with that extremely hypothetical situation when it occurs.
The only thing I can't figure out is how to keep the change in my pockets.
I've got it! Nudity!
@groo said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
Usually a comment there only get to +5 being a very well written and interesting comment
Thanks. I needed a good laugh today.
@Zecc said:Basically, looping videos of up to 6 seconds...... why?
Because when you call it an "Animated GIF" it's ancient technology from 1989. When you call it "Vine" (And then spend several weeks holding meetings with your investors trying to find a letter that could be removed from that word to make it more uniqurTM) it's new, disruptive, two-point-oh-dot-com, has its own app and a market valuation of eighteen brazilian dollars.
They make these for women too. It's exactly the same product, but the box is hot pink and it costs three times as much.
To quote [url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/change-the-world]George Packer, in The New Yorker[/url],
"It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech start-ups are solving all the problems of being twenty years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up."
Sometimes they just write themselves:
For thirteen years, off and on, there has been war in Europe; but now, in 1806, there is an uneasy peace. And then the murders began.
In the nighttime heart of Beirut, in one of a row of general-address transfer booths, Louis Wu flicked into reality. And then the murders began.
This tale grew in the telling, until it became a history of the Great War of the Ring and included many glimpses of the yet more ancient history that preceded it. And then the murders began.
Or, if we're skipping the forward...
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. And then the murders began.
"NINETY-EIGHT, NINETY-NINE, ONE HUNDRED" Gloria withdrew her chubby little forearm from before her eyes and stood for a moment, wrinkling her nose and blinking in the sunlight. And then the murders began.
In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul. And then the murders began.
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. And then the murders began.
By human standards it could not possibly have been artificial: It was the size of a world. And then the murders began.
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. And then the murders began.
"What's it going to be then, eh?"
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim. And you don't need me to tell you how the rest of this one goes.
In the dying days of the Gzilt civilisation, before its long prepared-for elevation to something better and the celebrations to mark this momentous but joyful occasion, one of its last surviving ships encountered an alien vessel whose sole task was to deliver a very special party-goer to the festivities. And then the murders began.
And then the murders began. She made her way through the turbine hall, surrounded by an ever-changing ring of friends, admirers and animals -- talking to her guests, giving instructions to her staff, making suggestions and offering compliments to the many and various entertainers.
@DCRoss said:@boomzilla said:A's hire A's and B's hire C's.So who hired the B's?
They were thought to be A's at the time.
18 Brazilian Reals = $4.62 USD. That's not much.
Sure, you know that. But do the employees who were paid entirely in stock options?
Also you forgot an "a" between "it's" and "new."
"New", "disruptive" and "two-point-oh-dot-com" were all being used as adjectives. When I make up words I get to decide what type of speech they are.
The "a" would only be required between "It's" and "me, Mario".
Oh yeah. It goes down like an inappropriate simile.
@da Doctah said:
What I don't get is how product placement can possibly co-exist with the standard "Any resemblance to actual anything is purely coincidental" disclaimer.
I don't see the conflict there. In the movie we see a super powered, nigh-infallible force of computing capable of providing answers to the most complex problems facing the defenders of the free world.
In reality, we have... Oracle. No resemblance at all, other than computers being involved in some way.
Yes, it would. You’d weigh (say) about 80 kg when you’re sitting in the rocket waiting for it to lift off. Your weight would rise to 250 kg or soduring the launch, and by the time you’re in earth orbit, you’d weigh 0 kg.
And if your rocket were doing the Kessel Run then your weight could drop as low as twelve parsecs.
I was assuming undefined behavior as defined in ANSI C specification.
Is it time to stock up on nose demon spray again?