Going to take my lady out to see the Muppets tomorrow night. I sure as hell miss that show. Quality wholesome family entertainment.

Deam

commandfive.com/papers/C5_APT_C2InTheFifthDomain.pdf

Here, they describe how the RSA-hacks went down. Interesting stuff

Just had a really odd experience trying to login to chat

Absolutely refused to log me in. Had to log out of everything, then manually log into the main SE.

Also, hurray for Broadcom

Anyone know where the Broadcom CEO lives, so I can drive up to his house and punch him in the face?

It's not worth it, they keep him in a rolling convoy for such reasons

:(

I don't understand how such a company, with such dodgy drivers / hardware, can maintain a presence in the server industry

lol

Me neither, and all our recent kit contains broadcom

ffs, can't type today

I also don't understand why our (my employer's) glorious standards committee specified that the IBM blades we bought came with Broadcom NICs, when there's a perfectly decent Intel option.

Worst bit is that the NIC is embedded on the motherboard iirc, so I can't even rip/replace

Probably like our work, it shaved £36 off each purchase

We spent £40K and quibbled over a £36 nic in each machine.

Maybe

We screwed IBM on the cost of these blades though, they lost money on each one they sold us

rather funny actually

Our sourcing department earned their money that day

I think it speaks volumes that the boss at the time went for Broadcom nics, but the PS4000 SAN we got from dell was delivered with intel nics.

aye

@growse Although we don't buy extra NICs now due to the Flex-10 ones in our current blades when we did buy extra ones we bought whatever make/model was on the LOMs so we only had to have one driver to manage the lot

Flex-10 some sort of HP thingemebob?

The thing is, we give IBM, HP etc. so much cash every year, we can and do specify down to chip revision, firmware version, on every component in every server SKU. We've run into issues where HP accidentally shipped us a SKU with a slightly different component version, and our applications didn't work on it. So I'm just baffled that they specified a Broadcom NIC which are known to be problematic in so many situations. I guess they weren't problematic in any of our main use-cases. :(

it's two 10GigE LOMs but each one can be configured to present themselves as up to 3 NICs with speeds between 100Mbps and 10GBps plus one FC HBA - so for instance you configure both so you've got 2 x 4Gbps FC, 2 x 2Gbps vmkernel NICs and 2 x 4Gbps VM traffic NICs - all going through two fibre pairs for the entire enclosure

SO you can mix FC and ethernet traffic? Cunning stuff

I'd worry about latency personally, more of a "keep separate stuff physically separate' kind of a guy

but if it works, sounds awesome

yeah, either regular FC or FCoE - and it's just two tiny chips on the blade systemboard so they take up no space

cool stuff

Wish I had cool stuff to play with ;(

oh there's no extra latency - they present themselves as a proper FC or FCoE HBA - it's actual silicon, not emulated

what comes out the b ack of the chassis though? Just a pair of 10Gig fibre patches?

ugh

@growse sorry for the delay, yes, or multiple 1Gb links, copper or fibre - quite a lot of flexibility

Cripes.

This guy is a treat: serverfault.com/questions/358864/…

Load the punch through the internet powershell module.

been struggling for 5 hours straight now with folder redirection suddenly jerking up on our terminal servers

what a great sunday..

Ouch

True sysadmins have no sundays

try working on a startup. 3 am on a saturday and devs are full on asking for deploys

I'd like that for a while

I'm doing minor infrequent changes on a new app

@coredump ayup how's it going ?

Good afternoon all.

evening

@Iain Do you think I'm out of line here: meta.serverfault.com/questions/2916/…

finally figured it out, other sysadmin had cluttered the ntfs acl's

@pauska Got to experience the joys of icacls?

@ErikA sorry distracted by top gear. I don't see anything out of line but I don't see that you're going to agree either

@Iain No problem. Agreed. I'm more or less over it now.

I think I'll start putting a table of contents on my answers. Especially the one-sentence ones.

That's a different issue - for me he's close to the line of overt self promotion

This is hilarious: homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/…

He's "given up" on SMTP-based email, and is "backing" an alternate system (from what I can tell) of his own design.

Nevermind - this alternate email system was envisaged by DJB. Even better.

he's a character

Delusions of Grandeur come to mind. But what am I to say - I'm not a psychologist.

@ErikA the penultimate paragraph homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/… would suggest real grandeur

@Iain Wow

indeed

pcreview.co.uk/forums/…

@Iain oh. oh god. wow.

@ErikA ouch. burn.

Looks like we've come upon a classic old-school internet troll. A knowledgable troll, but a troll nonetheless.

I thought the heavy use of references in his answers were a little...odd. One to "keep an eye on", I think.

@tombull89 Yup.

Was he the guy that called out TomTom, or was that someone else? Wrote the RFCs?

@tombull89 Not sure. I wasn't aware that anyone called out TomTom. You have a link?

@tombull89 no that was Alnitak

but as Iain mentions above that was someone else.

Yes

TomTom's also recently passed 20,000 rep. I'm almost impressed he got that far with two...three...suspensions?

Three words: Cell phone servers.

Two suspensions. Next one gets him a year.

serverfault.com/posts/359285/revisions

giggle

That's a good example of this: sysadmin1138.net/mt/blog/2011/11/when-civility-fails.shtml

@sysadmin1138 for civility to fail you have to have some to start with

@ErikA nope, sorry

I just can't get this folder redirection to work properly.. libraries on win7/win2008 gets all messed up

@Iain In that case, LB saw the 'step away from civility' as the 'blithering stupidity of the poster'. Anger overcame him, poor devil.