[00:04] diddledan: wutchu gonna do? :D [00:04] donno yet [00:05] reinstall from windowns 3.0 install disks and upgrade till you get back to win10? :-P [00:11] everyone knows upgrades don't work! :D [00:12] question is do you go 98 -> me -> xp or 98 -> 2000 -> xp [00:12] or do you do some weird 98 -> me -> 2000 -> xp? [00:13] or is nt3.51 included? [00:13] i think you can go winme -> xp [00:14] i seem to remember doing that at least once [00:14] you _can_ but which is the most comprehensive? [00:22] quite looking forward to the anniversary release [00:25] a windows 2.0 theme with windows 3.0 uaes replacing blue screen of death. and clippy everywhere... [00:25] ooh special new stuff i haven't read about ;D [02:54] looks like my order got split-up - only the cpu is arriving today [02:55] Mobo appears to be scheduled for saturday (tomoz) [03:12] good to know, other wise you'd think you ordered the wrong sized motherboard... :-P [03:41] Yeesh, delivery drivers have to be out early - my parcel has already left the depot [03:41] I'm out. G'night all [03:41] nn [03:41] I’m off in a mo too [03:54] * zmoylan-pi strums the banjo to help people sleep [05:08] morning all [05:39] hi [06:57] good morning :) [08:04] Morning all [08:14] i appear to have forgotten how to archive mail in thundebird [08:15] ah, there's a button. [08:34] morning boys and girls. [09:05] Good morning all! Happy Friday, and happy Blueberry Day! 😃 [09:19] * awilkins advances a fringe theory on where blueberries come from http://bluebuddies.com/Smurf_Picture_and_Files/00000002/Clumsy_Smurf_Blueberries.jpg [09:26] JamesTait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQkDOs-EtdU :D [09:27] awilkins, I think I just went off blueberries. [13:09] guys, rmeber the imgur chat yesterday [13:09] or day before. firefox issues drag drop etc [13:09] i sent them a mail, they replied [13:11] it started 'wow we still have users...' :-P [13:13] http://imgur.com/beta/enable [13:15] fixes it and makes it super fast [13:16] Good work imgur :) === pavlushka_ is now known as pavlushka [17:55] davmor2: is there some kind of rule 34 over songs? [17:56] I mean a song about blueberries?! [17:56] you’re some kind of oracle [17:56] in other news my cpu arrived [17:56] wutcha pick in the end? [17:56] the heatsink they ship with these things is slimline in the extreme [17:56] zomg i fixed that graphics card! \o/ maybe [17:57] ooh [17:57] I got the i7 6700 [17:57] (Non-K) [17:57] yay CPU buddies [17:57] the mobo comes tomorrow [17:57] mine is mostly idling right now, showing 27 deg C across 3 of 4 cores [17:58] though i own arctic silver 5 i just left it stock with the paste it has on it :) [18:06] https://press.avast.com/en-gb/avast-announces-agreement-to-acquire-avg-for-13b [18:07] i still have an avg t-shirt and messenger bag i got from a days training i got a few moons back [18:09] quite the surprise to me that one [18:09] if i put my mind to it i could probably rustle up the original northon anti virus we used on 5.25" floppies though it might take a week or so to dig them out... :-) [18:10] *norton [18:10] when all you had to worry about was the stoned virus... [18:11] and now it's all web based malware that's everyones problem! [18:13] i'm sure the problem will be licked when it's all win10 embedded devices... [18:14] how about all those insecure SBCs out there? :D [18:14] (single board computer) [18:14] nah, the rasp pis crash and corrupt their memory cards before that happens... :-) [18:17] of course! [18:19] check out this mobo that had the incredibly huge Scythe Mugen heatsink on for several years: http://i.imgur.com/R76mL5O.jpg [18:20] did you have to saw a hole in the pc case for the heatsink to stick out of? :-) [18:20] i bought this £20 case and no joke the top of the heatpipes come to within millimetres of the side panel XD [18:20] threading the board inside to fit it is quite challenging, too [18:21] i have cut a fair few chunks out of my hands running cables inside pc cases that assumed you were never going to add so much as a second hard drive [18:22] ditto [18:22] I hate pressed metal [18:22] i used to consider it a failed build if there wasn't at least some blood loss XD [18:22] lol [18:22] stings when you slice your fingers tho [18:23] well this really is odd, in this PC the PSU only has one PCI-Express graphics (PEG) power connector - so i had to fish out a 2 x molex to PEG adapter to drive that old banana 560Ti of mine - yet in here it works just fine [18:23] I like to ensure the case has a good amount of dust to glob onto your bloodied fingers too [18:23] i'm gonna transplant it onto the board it was corrupting the BIOS of in a minute and see if it still performs that trick [18:35] daftykins: if it isn’t a bent gfx you have a bent mobo! what are you gonna bend next?! [18:35] :) [18:35] diddledan: your disks! [18:35] better not! [18:36] my new mobo will support m.2! I want a new SSD now! [18:36] oh are you not doing that at the same time? it's all about the 256GB samsung 950 Pro [18:37] a full-speed pcie one, not a sata one, obv [18:37] yus [18:37] 2.1GB/sec read here :D [18:37] the board has two m.2 ports so I could do a nice raid0 [18:37] 4.2GB/s :-p [18:38] I donno what overheard raiding it would have actually [18:38] might get better reads off raid1 than. 0 [18:39] i'd say both would be stupid [18:39] stupid is as stupid does [18:39] are you a qualifed microsoft engineer? :-P [18:40] is there a cert on bending? :> [18:40] No.I guess that would be a proof of stupidity? [18:41] fully qualified in bending [18:41] Lecturer: Bender Bending Rodriguez [18:41] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Bender_Rodriguez.png [18:42] you beat me [18:42] :D [18:42] if you killed an HDD or two i'd swear we were separated at birth! [18:43] I’ve got some older ones that are knackered [18:43] I even wrote on them to stop me trying to use them again :-p [18:43] because obviously I _have_ tried using them multiple times since they died [18:44] i write on them with a sharpie i always keep on me [18:44] a date and serial no of pc they came from... ususally enough for my notes [18:45] :) [18:45] i just write 'DEAD' then make a Jenga set [18:45] does anyone know of an offline personal wiki thing that will also upload to a git repo? [18:46] daftykins: HDDs stack well don’t they! [18:46] i have tried so many wikis that i can't remember. now i just use a text file on dropbox and add hashtags per entry for finding stuff [18:47] what's the use-case? [18:49] I was thinking I’d like to write down some stuff like backup-restore procedures for different machines, procedures for gentoo maintenance :-p [18:50] basically stuff that is only really important to me but that I’d like written down [18:52] one suggestion on wikipedia is “emacs" [18:52] * diddledan gagas [18:52] Gags* [18:52] just another os to learn :-) [18:52] wow, pulled PSU power again and it's confirmed - that 560Ti just isn't a happy camper [18:52] another suggestion is “vim" [18:53] methinks people don’t get ease-of-use [18:53] i like vim, i use it a fair bit... but can be an acquired taste [18:53] I love the power of vim but I don’t use it enough to remember everything [18:53] so I end-up having to relearn all the time [18:54] vim does have a very good outliner so that you can fold a document into sections based on topics [18:54] i've been using dropbox for notes like that, neat to have credentials or client configs like say, a devices IP to hand [18:55] i used to keep it all in my head but unfortunately the knock to the head seems to have shaken some loose ;) [18:55] just mark the document favourite on dropbox and it'll sync anytime it changes [19:00] wat? that's the default [19:00] just saying the ol' grey matter can't hold it anymore === brmbrmca1 is now known as brmbrmcar [19:02] hah yeah, RIP old card, she still screws up [19:05] :-( [19:11] pulled the mains out of the PSU in that machine, nipped out the room for a mo... plug it back in, fails to POST once more [19:11] flick the rocker off, unplug ATX power from the mobo, back in and she boots with a reset CMOS [19:11] somehow it trips up mobo BIOS' from being a wonky card o0 [19:12] ooops. http://www.csoonline.com/article/3093016/security/apple-devices-held-for-ransom-rumors-claim-40m-icloud-accounts-hacked.html#tk.twt_cso [19:14] no way! [19:14] way [19:14] woohoo this'll wipe that smug look off their faces :> [19:14] no, apple users are used to paying so it's merely apple malware requiring cash... :-P [19:24] >:) [19:26] my dumbphone feels left out with all this hacking... :-) [19:27] and my nexus devices [19:27] looked like that one amounts to bad and reused passwords again though, so no biggy [19:27] there is also some android malware going around a few million devices too [19:27] yes but it's from a third party app store [20:24] [20:26] Attention Apple users. Your account may have been compromised (rumor at this time) .. https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/07/08/2011205/apple-devices-held-for-ransom-rumors-claim-40m-icloud-accounts-hacked-apple-related-forums-compromised [20:38] bet the apple ids have just been where forum users had the same user/password combo [20:38] SebthreeBQM10HD: did you know that when you join, you post a blank line, every time? [20:39] not a biggie, apple has agreed to issue every iphone user a new apple id and fingerprints... just drop into your apple centre and they'll laser etch new fingerprints on. for a large fee they'll supply local anaesthetic [20:40] :) [20:41] it's only a matter of time before a largecompany gets seriously compromised [20:41] or more accurately we get to hear about it :-) [20:42] popey, h eh h eh not always :d [21:00] * daftykins nods [21:00] yep, always :P [21:03] * SebthreeBQM10HD smacks daftykins around with a Windows ME CD ! [21:03] Me! [21:03] * SebthreeBQM10HD and throws some DOS discs at daftykins as well :d [21:04] come now, diskettes! [21:04] i installed windows me recently in a vm for lulz [21:04] amazing how little works now [21:04] popey, what like the Internet :D ? [21:05] to be fair popey little worked in me then either... :-P [21:05] every other release rule! :D [21:08] popey, oh nice just seen and read a Nexdock update in my emails :) [21:09] popey, so should have one shipped at the end of August it seems, maybe sooner [21:38] neat, apache's mod_evasive seems quite useful for those naughty wordpress xmlrpc.php hammering scamps [21:39] essentially it's like a built in fail2ban for apache [21:39] libapache2-mod-evasive :) [21:45] hmm now if only i can work out how to configure it so it runs properly actually [21:46] FIXED THE FLIPPER! [21:47] (my windows) [21:47] I had to hack-in and remove duetdisplay [21:49] duet wat [21:49] duetdisplay.com [21:50] when you first mentioned it i was gonna suggest graphics drivers since they did that to me with the preview builds, but that was long ago [21:52] I had to force it into safemode by resetting the system twice before it got to the black screen with the dots but after the logo displayed. then I needed to enable msi service (used this: http://windowsitpro.com/windows/jsi-tip-9233-safemsiexe-freeware-starts-windows-installer-safe-mode) to be able to uninstall anything [21:54] that duet thing, must only be good for static text or things that don't update often? [21:55] I haven't tried video. only just installed it :-p [21:55] ah [21:55] and you borked it! :D [21:56] yeah. question is: was the borkage because it was installed, or was it because I hadn't rebooted between installing and doing the new build installation [21:56] ooh my [22:02] http://liliputing.com/2016/07/star-cloud-pcg03u-compact-ubuntu-pc-90.html i likes me a small pc... :-) [22:03] I’m not going to read that. the page started playing noise at me [22:03] bay trail is a bit old now [22:03] i'm about to give away core 2 duos with 4GB RAM, that kinda thing is veeeeery basic [22:04] * diddledan pets the i7 on his desk waiting for mobo [22:04] skylake ftw [22:05] * zmoylan-pi is currently slumming it on ancient 1gb netbook till i check over my 4gb lenovo laptop when i get a chance [22:06] i do cheat... i offload the cpu intensive tasks to my rasp pi b :-D [22:07] not even b+? [22:07] I need many ram [22:07] pfft, that's not an intensive task if a Pi can do it ;) [22:08] much cpu [22:08] wow [22:08] ugh i can't get mod_evasive to work properly [22:08] Mod_evasive: for when you want your webserver to pretend it doesn’t know what you’re asking about [22:08] i do have a pi ii but haven't set i up yet as the original pi b just keeps going... [22:08] diddledan: yeah, you ever touched it? [22:09] nope [22:09] I want my server to be honest [22:09] the test script works for me on localhost but it does nothing with me testing :/ [22:09] I guess if the FBI come calling it’ll grass me out [22:09] well you say that but this is the one that gets wordpress' xmlrpc.php hammered many times per second from random IPs [22:09] aah [22:10] maybe mod_evasive depends on mod_security? [22:10] that's why you run everything on pi's. 1) cheap to replace 2) the press conference looks terrible with the seized pi's as evidence :-P [22:10] if you’re not using any form of remoting you _could_ just block all access to xmlrpc.php but some stuff does depend on it, e.g. jetpack plugin [22:11] not sure that they'd care about that really, i was hoping this would work since they could move onto general accesses [22:11] there's a 195. IP hammering it again right now [22:11] multiple per second! [22:11] yeouch [22:12] why do they like you so much? [22:13] well not me, i think they're infected machines that like to hang onto a given host once they've found it runs wordpress - and keep trying to exploit it [22:13] couple of off-the-wall docker presentations here, including updating a drone while it’s in flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75vm6rRb6K0 === shock is now known as Guest528 [22:30] diddledan: having said that, i can't get this swine to work - so i've created a couple o' .htaccess and we'll see what it does! [22:31] very irritating when something doesn't work with no obvious reason why [22:32] 6/5 [22:32] 120%? :) [22:46] starts working after i remove it, wat [23:05] diddledan: how can you confirm a .htaccess is working o0 [23:20] "AllowOverride All" in the Directory or Location directive? [23:26] it was, yeah - but still seemed to be getting ignored [23:27] i put the directive directly in the vhosts in the end [23:54] God damn it [23:55] The ONE YEAR I didn't plan on going to Montreal Comiccon is when they have actors from the TV series Firefly [23:55] I have a book full of the scripts, etc. that needs to be signed! [23:56] Even Alfonso Ribeiro will be there! DAMN IT [23:58] Kate Mulgrew (Cpt. Janeway), Brent Spiner (Cmd. Data), Nichelle Nichols... !!! [23:59] That being said, I did sit only a couple of feet away from the TNG cast last year.