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WesleyDavid

12:00 AM

Night ben

Ben

Oh, and I'll probably be dreaming of throwing darts at you tonight @WesleyDavid :-)

WesleyDavid

Glad to cause you some consternation. ;)

Iain

@WesleyDavid do you have any stackexchange userscripts installed ?

WesleyDavid

No I do not. Haven't looked into that like I should have.

Any recommendations?

Iain

the most useful one that I have is StackOverflow Switch Comments and preview - it puts the preview of what you are typing above the edit box

Sam

12:07 AM

@Ben I'm in the same boat, I've just submitted my answer but I fear the tiredness and glass of wine may mean I have to edit it in the morning!

WesleyDavid

Does this link 502 for anyone? userscripts.org/scripts/show/71948

Sam

yep, does for me

Iain

yep

actually the whole site is 502ing atm

WesleyDavid

Aha! So I'm not going crazy. Or if I am, that's not one of the evidences.

Iain

yes

it's back now

userscripts.org/scripts/show/79263

Sam

12:20 AM

Night all

Iain

sleep well

WesleyDavid

night

And we're back to 502s galore. =|

Not to mention, not all of these scripts work in Chrome. >:-|

sysadmin1138

12:41 AM

Time to call it a good day of work and go home.

Zoredache

I don't suppose that anyone knows if it is possible to do a base64 encode in a spreadsheet in Google docs?

packs

We had been using GeoTrust for all of our certs for a long time, and will be switching over to InCommon very soon. Wow cheaper.

And I will back up kenny's comment about startssl. I started using them for personal stuff and have been pretty happy.

Russ

1:32 AM

Win Server Security: Why do members of a group not get access when the Group has permission?

Zoredache

2:15 AM

@Russ, sorry?

WesleyDavid

@Russ Members of a group do get permissions when the group has access. Check the members effective permissions. Perhaps another group they belong to has deny permissions on it.

Zoredache

Also see your question. Did you logout/login after modifying group membership?

WesleyDavid

2:34 AM

There is nothing that will make my eyes glaze over and my mind start questioning my profession of choice like file system permissions issues.

packs

3:16 AM

@WesleyDavid Just wait to until you realize you need to change the uids of 45 users across a hundred systems.

That's the bee's.

pauska

1:02 PM

rm -rf /

ls

haha

Iain

1:30 PM

rm -rf /

ls

pauska

del /S /Q .

exit

Iain

del /S /Q

dir

tee hee :)

pauska

luls

Iain

2:12 PM

@pauska allot = assign

fahadsadah

4:21 PM

rm -rf /

can you read this??

Oh.

Stupid rm -rf / thingy

Ben

Yeah, what you write comes in chat :)

fahadsadah

exit

@Ben That's a completely useless "feature"

Ben

Several of the sites have these easter eggs

Nyuszika7H

Hi! :)

fahadsadah

Wonder if anyone rm -rf /ed a server because of this.

Ben

4:22 PM

Hi @Nyuszika7H

Flavius

6:00 PM

Could someone have a look at serverfault.com/questions/225570/automounting-with-udev ?

Ben

@Flavius - people will come to your question in time (you only posted it 10 minutes ago after all). Bear in mind it is the weekend, so not everybody is going to be around

pauska

@Iain Bad grammar or does amazon actually call it that?

Heh, ok, it's actually a verb.. didnt know that :o

packs

@pauska I have rarely heard it used in that tense, but yeah. Allocate might have been more obvious.

Kyle Brandt

I think it is okay to point out a question in here -- shows you are around to answer any more questions people might have in here.

But it is true we tend to be a little slow on the weekends :-)

Iain

it's not common usage

Kyle Brandt

6:14 PM

It is pretty common when talking about time or resources. "I am going to allot two team members for 3 days for that"

Usually hear it in speech more though I think

Blog.SF

Server Fault Blog: Why Participate on Server Fault?

Posted by Kyle Brandt on January 22nd, 2011

As a system administrator participating on Server Fault has made me better at what I do and it has also been fun. Here’s why.

In many tech companies the IT department is pretty small. Even in the bigger ones you get more specialized admins, say a team of two network admins, a Unix guy with a beard and a Windows lady. That means when you have ideas that you want to bounce off of people or questions that you have, there is only a small group of people you can go to, and even then an even smaller chance that they will know what you are talking about. …

Kyle Brandt

Need a comma in that first sentence :-)

packs

6:30 PM

@KyleBrandt I wonder if that is a regional thing. I will often hear allot used in the past tense (allotted), but in my experience allocate is preferred for present tense.

Kyle Brandt

@packs: Oh I missed your previous comment -- yes, I agree.

packs

6:58 PM

So. You're going to propagate the bearded Unix guy, but also push the lady Windows admin. Hmmm.

WesleyDavid

7:27 PM

I'd like to have a lady Windows admin. Actually, no I wouldn't. I don't need anymore unstable things that I can barely manage.

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packs

@WesleyDavid Either, you're married, or you never will be. It's hard to tell from that statement :)

Kyle Brandt

Just trying to be at least a little gender conscious :-)

packs

One of our Windows admins is a lady. She's the one we always trust to Get The Job Done (tm)

WesleyDavid

@packs Ummm... can there be a third option? Please??

packs

@WesleyDavid After 7 blissful years, my official answer is 'No Comment'

Ben

7:32 PM

How very diplomatic @packs!

packs

@Ben Yes dear.

Kyle Brandt

Also don't forget one of our Mods is a Windows lady :-)

WesleyDavid

I heart Kara.<3 <3 <3

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Ben

Ooops, I accidentally hit Star :-)

WesleyDavid

She was an influencing factor in me sticking around this site in the early days.

packs

7:34 PM

Hey @WesleyDavid. You have a little something on your nose

WesleyDavid

@packs It's remnants of a rainbow.

Jon Angliss

8:22 PM

@WesleyDavid so what's the deadline on that 10k challenge again? I suspect I'm going to fall waaaay short :)

WesleyDavid

@JonAngliss NYE, 2011

Jon Angliss

excellent

enough time to go hide somewhere :)

WesleyDavid

I'm a little behind myself.

Philip Hollenback is kicking some major booty though.

three weeks and he's already got 2K new points

I hate him.

=)

Jon Angliss

No kidding ;)

WesleyDavid

I need to see if some giving developer type would be willing to possible code something for me to keep watch on all the participants stats.

Jon Angliss

8:28 PM

shouldn't be too hard

WesleyDavid

You're speaking to someone for whom coding involves using the special ring that he fished out of a box of Captain Crunch.

Jon Angliss

lol

WesleyDavid

Maybe I can get Jeff Atwood to retweet about it and get some people interested.

Jon Angliss

they got rid of their nice text method of generating flair, so it requires just a little more work, but shouldn't be too bad

fortunately they made the site with nice tags everywhere

gah, my sed-foo is broken today

WesleyDavid

@JonAngliss You're doing great as far as points is concerned. Ahead of the curve, I think

Jon Angliss

8:37 PM

curl -s serverfault.com/users/9770/wesleydavid | grep 'class="summarycount"' | sed -e 's|[^0-9]||g'

oh thanks chatty program for shrinking the URL

WesleyDavid

heh

Jon Angliss

that extracts your points from your status pag

+e

replace the URL for other users

rather dirty... probably an easier way if serverfault has some kind of API

WesleyDavid

Then stuff the points in a DB of some kind, even if just XML, and chart the graph

Ben

@WesleyDavid it sounds like a perfect thing for the Stack Exchange API

Jon Angliss

@WesleyDavid already thinking of that ;) and bashing something together

Jon Angliss

8:58 PM

pastebin.com/dX3bzXdu

replace the echo name|score with whatever you want, ie, db insert lines

put in the time stamp too, and you can do nice graphs

Jon Angliss

9:37 PM

/me bangs his head against the desk

er... oops

Jon Angliss

9:48 PM

@WesleyDavid pastebin.com/pHXvMw6S

I dare say somebody smarter will come up with a nicer way of doing it

Ben

Heh, I am fiddling with a PHP script as we speak :-) The API is being weird though (though it's more likely my code!)

Jon Angliss

there's an API? damnit

Ben

I did say that earlier :P

Jon Angliss

ahh, missed that bit

Ben

1 hour ago, by Ben

@WesleyDavid it sounds like a perfect thing for the Stack Exchange API

OK, I didn't @ you, but still :P

Jon Angliss

9:52 PM

yea, just missed it

API would be a better way, you can back-date the score stuff, and fill in the missing parts

Ben

It returns JSON, so I made a call with my browser, saved the JSON in notepad and made a local page that outputs that JSON (so I can call that rather than the real API). It works fine on my locally served JSON, but not the real API JSON. How very annoying!

Jon Angliss

mine's just dirty curl|grep|sed combo, throwing in a mysqlimport at the end :)

Ben

meh, whatever works for you :)

Jon Angliss

php works nicely for me most of the time :)

Ben

Same here - been doing it for longer than I care to remember

Jon Angliss

9:56 PM

same :) now the API has me curious

Ben