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12:00 AM
@MichaelHampton First time I've seen this box go over 4-5GB used lol
 
I think I want to put together some actual rackmount server hardware...if I can find a place to put it!
 
Makes it easier to answer questions of SF with a mini-lab. Since I can test and take screenshots.
Yeah I wish I could put a server in my tiny apartment.
 
I do have a tower case that will accept SSI-EEB motherboards...so probably a Supermicro will go in there at some point.
 
I was thinking a SuperMicro tower server would be ok.
 
Unless a nice HP falls off a truck and onto my front porch.
 
12:02 AM
:P
Oh nice, 142 updates for Win7 -_-
 
Oh, did I miss Patch Tuesday?
 
Just an old ISO lol
 
12:20 AM
Just on a callw ith the sales rep at a DC. I asked him "So, if you do 95th percentile bursting to 100mb regardless of our minimum commitment... why on earth would I commit to more than 1mbps?" His answer "So I get a bigger commission"
 
Google can't verify that its own spam is coming from Google.
 
look at the via
 
lol I'm a tard
 
LOL
Thanks for the laugh.
 
12:34 AM
@MarkHenderson At least he's honest...
 
@MichaelHampton Yep. Gave him points for that
 
@MichaelHampton why do they spell it as GiB?
 
@pauska: SI vs Standard binary units? ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek still.. why..
Everyone who works in it uses the 1024 conversion
 
@pauska: mainly so hard drive makers can sell you smaller hard drives.
 
12:39 AM
everyone who doesn't work in IT couldn't give a rats ass about it
 
@pauska For the avoidance of confusion. I don't really like it, but that's the state of affairs today.
 
no one else uses it.
 
yes, but I'm asking why the makers of that GUI thought it would be an excellent idea to write "GiB" instead of "GB"
it's something that developers think it's right, and something that at least 80% of the users are going to "huh - what's that i in the middle there??"
 
12:51 AM
Because they're Germans?
 
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Q: identifying vlan packets using tcpdump

madCodeI'm trying to figure out the vlan tagged packets that my host receives or sends to other hosts. I tried tcpdump -i eth1 vlan 0x0070 But it didnt work. Has anyone tried to view the vlan packets through tcpdump before? Couldn't find much help searching the web!

 
Amazon IAM seems hard.
can anyone help me? :(
 
1:07 AM
@ewwhite ignore almost all the features. there's your help.
they pack it full of obsolete crap.
and give so much granularity that like
 
I'm just trying to delegate access to a specific Route53 resource for a client.
but it's almost too granular.
 
you can separately control permission to view the password policy and change your own password
it's way too fucking granular, and badly grouped
 
It's enterprisey.
 
lol
by which it is meant that it is designed to create work for a dedicated admin? :P
 
I manage public DNS for a lot of my clients... via Route53. I want to give some of them the illusion that they have control.
for the warm-fuzzy effect.
@MichaelHampton You could teach me a lot about being a consultant.
And managing multiple clients...
 
1:10 AM
@MichaelHampton re the vlans I'm wondering what the host is and does he know if it's sending vlan tagged traffic by whether it's on a trunk port or access port...
 
because they all want to feel like they're not trapped... even though they're trapped.
 
@ewwhite I could teach YOU?! hahahahaha.
@Andrew Yeah, after doing a brief test at home here, I think he's seeing untagged traffic.
 
@MichaelHampton yep
 
Um, I don't do vendor lock-in...
 
@MichaelHampton neither do I...
but it's implicit
 
1:18 AM
Sure, I have control of everything, but the clients can take their web sites and leave whenever they want. I even tell them how soon after bringing them on board.
 
@MichaelHampton Right, so I think it make sense to give them access to their DNS, even though they won't use it.
 
Well, some things I do NOT take control of, like domain registrations.
 
so I think, "configure IAM to allow them to see their DNS zone"
 
Interesting. When "SF has a bad reputation on reddit" guy's account got nuked, his upvote and accept on serverfault.com/questions/490615 disappeared, which caused community to nuke the post since it had a downvote.
 
yeah, I let them all do their own registrar work
@ShaneMadden Can you pass me the reddddddit link?
 
1:19 AM
@ShaneMadden That can be fixed...
 
@MichaelHampton and then IAM is like, "ugh, I'm going to be too granular and bitchy to allow you to do this"
 
@ewwhite I have never touched IAM myself.
@ShaneMadden Though honesty, that question isn't very good. If it were posted today, I'd probably smack the user for being a moron.
 
@MichaelHampton :(
 
@ewwhite I don't think there actually was one.
 
Ah, okay
How do I tell where my iowait load is coming from?
 
1:31 AM
we should really stop erasing all traces of people from the site.
 
@MichaelHampton Yeah, agreed. Leave it deleted. Just thought it was interesting that the user delete cascaded into a nuke of the question.
 
causes a lot of weird problems like that.
 
It's a lot o' iowait
read-heavy...
 
evenin gents
 
@Magellan trying to figure out what's wrong with my NFS.
 
1:35 AM
@ewwhite It's no use. NFS is Naughty By Nature.
 
:(
 
My PHP version is 2.2 — user3108220 19 hours ago
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@MichaelHampton wait wut?
 
A typo? Surely 5.2 would be somewhat sane.
 
@Magellan I remember back at Uni discovering how insecure NFS was "hey look, let's create a local user with whatever UID and see their files!"
> I have a problem with my assignment
Homework offtopic on SO?
wow, SO is worse than us! answer voting should be locked until 15 minutes after the question has been posted.
Anyway, enough about them. Let's talk about us.
 
1:51 AM
Oh, also @MichaelHampton - of the three DC's I've talked to (all Tier 2 facilities) - none of them support IPv6. This latest one, the guy actually told me that I was the first person to ask for it
He said that if we go with them I can be a part of their pilot group
rolls eyes
 
Sure, if you're starting your pilot group tomorrow...
 
@MichaelHampton The guy didn't know off the top of his head, but he is following it up
 
I moved out of a DC and told them I'd come back when they got IPv6...
 
@MichaelHampton It would seem that we don't have that luxury
 
Yeah, Australia has shit for datacenters. Which is why half of .au sites are in Tokyo or Los Angeles.
 
1:58 AM
@MarkHenderson Are there any that you recommend?
 
@Magellan Right now, no
We currently piggyback on a private datacenter but we're out of space there
And they haven't passed some audits our clients want
 
@MarkHenderson Equinix.
 
@ewwhite They only wholesale space
You have to organise your own uplinks/meetme's etc
Also their minimum space is way over what we need
 
@MarkHenderson where do you need to be?
 
We have three quotes: one person inside Equinix, one person inside GlobalSwitch, and one who runs their own T2 datacenter
@ewwhite Sydney
90% of our customers are on the east cost and it's the best place for them to be
Also I don't want to be hopping on a plane to do a RAM upgrade
Also I've been inside both Equinix and GlobalSwitch with other projects. GlobalSwitch were horrible with their red tape and bureaucracy.
Equinix were fine
 
2:06 AM
Equinix is usually the safe bet. Have you talked to them? You should still be able to get cabinet space. I had cabs in Sydney before through them
 
@ewwhite Not with them directly; only via someone who is already established in there and is reselling colo space
I'm after more than just cabinet space - I want someone to handle the whole internet side of things. Peering, routing, etc.
 
And IPv bloody 6.
 
ah
 
@MarkHenderson do Internode / iiNet have colo in Sydney?
 
@Andrew iiNet do, but they never called me back so they can go fuck themselves
 
2:08 AM
> Internode has recently secured a dedicated section of the world-class Global Switch data centre at Ultimo in NSW, substantially increasing our rack capacity.
 
@MichaelHampton yep
@Andrew When was that dated?
 
@Andrew Ok, I'll give them a call
@ewwhite Not much traffic from 2013!
 
hah
 
2:12 AM
@MarkHenderson wonder if they take referals :P
 
Actually I might not call them; going on holidays after tomorrow
I'll call them after christmas
 
2:37 AM
@MarkHenderson mind some substitutions?
 
@ewwhite ?
 
these days, it doesn't make sense to buy 1TB 7200 nearline SAS disks.
 
@ewwhite Oh substitutions
Yeah go for it
 
900GB 10k SAS drives are the same price.
 
As long as overall raw capacity is around 10TB
 
2:38 AM
you can RAID5 10K SAS disks safely...
 
Actually, let me rephrase; usable capacity of > 8TB
@ewwhite Yeah I was planning on RAID5ing those 1TB disks anyway
 
oh lordy
 
Shhhhhhhh
A calculated risk
On a budget
For DR only
 
mmhm
is that only one CPU?
Dell quotes are harrrd to read.
 
@ewwhite Haha no two processors
Two lines, 2nd one is halfway down
 
2:45 AM
that's weird
 
Yeah I flipped out the first time I got a Dell quote, thinking that they lost my 2nd processor
But you get used to it
 
8TB usable?
 
Yep
They also invoice for "no monitor" - uhh gee, thanks
Fuck off the "extras" - they're just free junk, except for the 24x7x4hr warranty
Oh, they quoted NBD on that...
Eh, NBD is fine. Jus tmake it apples for apples
 
I can't do: 1 Symantec Protection Suite SBE (For Windows only- 12 months)
 
Haha no fuck that off
That's just free shit that they think I want
 
2:50 AM
this will run ESXi?
 
@ewwhite Correct
It doesn't show on that quote, but the Dells have mirrored internal SD cards for the hypervisor
 
HP servers don't.
 
@ewwhite Does it have an internal USB port?
Either way, that's not a big deal. I can live without that.
 
@MarkHenderson I like that feature.
 
For standalone boxes, it's better to carve a logical drive on the array of ~16GB.
 
2:52 AM
Actually...
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Q: Alternatives to Dell's mirrored SD card module for booting a small OS from flash?

Shane MaddenDell offers an add-on hardware card for some of their servers that provides a poor man's RAID1 between two SD cards (one card gets all the reads until it dies, writes are mirrored) for booting a simple OS that has very little write load to the OS storage (ie ESXi) - see here (warning: PDF link). ...

One of my 6 questions :)
 
HPs have the internal USB and SDHC ports, but they're not a good idea on a SAN-less ESXi setup.
 
@ewwhite Eh, an internal logicla drive is fine just as long as it doesn't carve into the 8TB space :P
(it needs to be 8TB because it will be accepting mirrors from LUNs that add up to 8TB)
 
@MarkHenderson it would. You'd have more than 8TB RAW space in my setup. Using 12 x 900GB disks
25-bay box.
 
@ewwhite Perfect
@ewwhite So ~9.9TB raw in RAID5 - plenty of extra space
 
HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 - 2 x E5-2620... Is that 128GB RAM?
 
2:55 AM
@ewwhite Yes
I cbf checking if I should have ordered dual channel or triple channel ram
The default configuration was dual channel, but if lowering it to 120 or upping it to 144 for triple channel is the way to go...
I'm not much of a processor nerd
 
@MichaelHampton Where?
It must have a label I don't recognise
 
Do I have to draw a red freehand circle?
@MarkHenderson # of Memory Channels
 
@MarkHenderson With SAS 1TB, i could do less
 
2:59 AM
I'm so blind
 
price is same with 12 x 900GB 10K SAS
 
Quad channel RAM
@ewwhite Whatever you think is best given the use case
 
If you're open to 3.5"...
there's an 8-bay model that can use the 1TB, 2TB, 3TB or 4TB disks...
and a 12-bay option that does the same
so with 8 x 2TB 7200 RPM nearline SAS... 12TB or 14TB usable... less money
so $6000, $6500 or $8000US, depending on the setup.
 
@ewwhite 3.5" is fine. Dell didn't have any feasable options for 3.5" in 2U that were cost effective. I am keeping expansion in mind, which was the real reason for 2.5" - the much higher density of disks
 
but you have to buy more of them...
12-bay is the maximum for 2U
(in 3.5")
 
3:06 AM
@ewwhite Yeah, but at least it's not full. 10x1TB drives still leaves 6x 2.5" bays free in the Dell. Compared to 6x 3TB disks (the Dells only came in 6-bay, not 8-bay) and it's at capacity
 
the $6K solution is with 8 x 2TB disks. 4 free bays.
 
@ewwhite That's cool
As long as there's room for at least 2 more disks, I'm OK with that
 
@ewwhite You prolly know this one. If a puppet agent reports that its certs are revoked and the master doesn't show its cert in the 'puppet cert list --all', it just needs to be cleaned out and a new one generated, right?
 
@Magellan Yeah just nuke /var/lib/puppet/ssl.
 
@Magellan yes... the agent or server will give you the specific command to copy/paste to do that
@MarkHenderson no official quote until tomorrow... was just working through numbers
 
3:09 AM
@ewwhite That's fine
After tomorrow I'm on holidays for 2 weeks, so I was kind of thinking I wouldn't hear back from you until next year anyway
So no rush
 
kk.
 
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Q: setting %userprofile% environment value for ApplicationPool User accounts

seanlinmtI'm currently running IIS 8 on Windows 8.1 Pro. This problem relates to an issue with Application Pool identities using the wrong windows temp directory ie. C:\Users\%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp where %userprofile% is the name of the application pool. How can I change or check the %userprofi...

I don't think that edit was an improvement...
 
@ewwhite Yeah, no command. Just the error that the 'sslv3 alert certificate revoked.'
 
So, aside from this insanity..
Why would you store the binary version?? It's an ACL in a Tomcat app.. Tomcat probably gives it the IP in a string. http://t.co/8Kk1C9Qkrh
The other fun jira issue today, is that you configure the user directory in a file, but it also stores in a database. Swap the file (documented!) but not the database (undocumented!) config with something new, and it works to log in but doesn't let you in to the administrative areas of the app.
Java developers.
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@ShaneMadden yes. story of my life now.
I think Java Devs may be the absolute worst I've ever encountered about obscure need to re-write industry standard tools in their own java applets.
 
3:16 AM
@Magellan Yeah. The java keystore is the greatest example of this, I think.
 
@ShaneMadden yes. And yet they still frequently manage the screw up concurrent access to files in the host OS with disturbing frequency.
 
 
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4:29 AM
posted on December 19, 2013 by <a id='post_author' class='fn' itemprop='name'

Google has an amazing amount of data, and pretty much every project I'm involved in outside of my day job uses Google Drive (nee Docs) and Google Spreadsheets to store immense amounts of information. Looking at a spreadsheet isn't necessarily the best way to take in information, so it's useful to get that data out […]

 
HELLO FELLOW MISFITS
@ShaneMadden ... I'm actually siding with the app on this one. An IP is a 32-bit integer. The dotted notation is purely a human convenience.
 
@MikeyB Then store it in just the integer form, and not the damn string form!
But I'm pretty sure when the java code asks tomcat what IP the request it's coming from, it's gonna be getting a string. Not the integer.
 
4:44 AM
@MikeyB Once you're base-64 encoding the integer, something has gone wrong. And if your base-64 encoding of a 32-bit integer has padding (=) at the end, it's gone horribly horribly wrong.
 
@ShaneMadden having it in the integer form makes it easy to do operations on, whereas you see that it's storing 'localhost' sometimes. So if the app is given a hostname, it'll need to resolve that on demand but if it's given the IP it can do a quick comparison
 
@MikeyB There's never a subnet comparison or anything like that.
 
@freiheit ... I would hope that's just the fact that it's choosing to display the integer... poorly.
 
It's just.. checking if the IP is in the list.
 
@ShaneMadden Sure,but there's multiple representations of an IP address, so the safest thing is to encode it to a common format.
 
4:46 AM
@MikeyB And with IPv6 you get to solve fun problems like this
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Q: Formatting IPv6 as an int in C# and storing it in SQL Server

GuyUnder IPv4 I have been parsing the string representation of IP addresses to Int32's and storing them as int's in SQL Server. Now with IPv6 I'm trying to find out if there's a standard or accepted way to parse the string representation of IPv6 to two Int64's using C#? Also how are people storing ...

 
@freiheit Tomcat's never gonna give it to the app in different ways, though..
 
(been there; done that)
 
@MarkHenderson NO NO NO NO YOU STORE A BLOODY IP
$ base64 -d | od -t x1
fwAAAQ==
0000000 7f 00 00 01
0000004
$ dc
127 256 3 ^ * 1 + 16 o p
7F000001
Looks good to me.
@MarkHenderson postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/… the INET type bloody exists for a reason, people. Sigh. Shirley MSSQL has something similar?
 
@MikeyB That would be too useful.
 
@MikeyB not that I'm aware of.
But you can embed an XML document into an SQL Server field and then parse the XML document without leaving MSSQL. You know, because that's something a lot of people should be doing in their RDBMS.
 
4:51 AM
Hi all
 
@ShaneMadden So Tomcat's Never Gonna Give You Up?
 
@Jacob Yo. Thought you'd masturbated too much, your dick fallen off and you bled to death in your dorm room. Haven't seen you in a while.
 
@MarkHenderson Hey. I've seen full SOAP packets in varchar columns, for no good reason.
 
@MarkHenderson That's an interesting story... but no just busy
 
@Jacob Obviously
 
4:53 AM
@Magellan Tomcat's never gonna give you 2130706433
 
Too good for us now?
 
@MarkHenderson Evidently he saw my advice
 
@MikeyB I had to google what a brillo pad was
It did not disappoint
 
All I want for christmas is a bounty hunter hat
 
5:04 AM
Debugging someone else's Python script is not my idea of a good time.
 
So... for my Reddit secret santa, one of the things I'm doing is printing out 4 different QR codes, (two have URLs to gifts), cutting them up and leaving them for the recipient to re-assemble. Am I a bad man?
 
@MikeyB That is very very clever
Just... don't cram too much information into the QR code so that it can be read easily if it's been a bit molested
 
5:25 AM
@MarkHenderson they shall be printed large.
 
QR codes have built in error correction; a percentage of them can be missing or unreadable and the code can still be scanned successfully.
 
http://osrc.dfm.io/Supermathie "Michael Brown is an exceptional JavaScripter who loves pushing code. Michael is a nine-to-fiver who works best around midnight."

"a nine-to-fiver who works best around midnight"

Yeah... actually that's surprisingly accurate.
 
@MarkHenderson our timesheets do that!
 
@MichaelHampton debating whether to cut along or to sever the QR subgrids... :D
 
It says I'm an awesome corporate slave...wtf?
Oh, yeah, most of my stuff on github is in private repos.
 
5:39 AM
Oy. "I fucked around on my server and now shit doesn't work." serverfault.com/questions/562362/program-missing-dlls
Poor bastard.
The amount of actual garbage just shat onto the Internet just for the sake of a few page hits really is depressing sometimes: exedlldb.com/process-p/pwsvr-exe.html
 
@MarkHenderson It seems to be some sort of backoffice app for dentists.
 
@MichaelHampton Ah
I assumed pwsvr was something pervasive-related
 
I googled it before I commented... :)
 
But then I mis-read it as p`v` not p`w`
 
and that's the only thing that came up
 
6:00 AM
Not sure if better techniques exist nowadays, but: serverfault.com/a/562367/2101
 
 
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7:08 AM
Can you really trust the recommendations of a website named unshit.com?
 
G'day
@MichaelHampton I was just going to comment on and v-t-v that
 
@Iain I have to let the community VTC stuff sometimes. Otherwise it looks bad :)
 
@MichaelHampton that's not entirely true you do it unilaterally frequestly
 
@Iain Oh, yes, I do. Probably too much, though; I think some of the regulars are coming to expect it, and they really shouldn't. I can't be here 24x7!
 
@MichaelHampton your moderation colleagues obviously do as other hands are even less visible on the tiller of SF than when when I was doing it.
 
7:24 AM
Well, then it's a good time for me to go take a break from SF and get some of my backlog cleared!
 
 
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8:36 AM
**What Readers Found in Facebook’s ‘Other’ Folder**

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/what-readers-found-in-facebooks-other-folder/?_r=0
 
Dan
8:54 AM
@ewwhite Someone flagged one of your answers as Not an Answer
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A: VMWare NAT releasing SYN packets from guest but not admitting SYN/ACK packets to guest

ewwhiteWell... Considering VMware Server 2.02 has been end-of-life since 2011, I don't know that there's any recourse if this is a bug. It's time to move away from this software. Virtualbox is a common alternative, or you could potentially go back to the even older VMware Server 1.x since it does what y...

 
Good god. cPanel really is a monster. It's been downloading for the last hour!
 
@MichaelHampton That's not sommit I expected to hear from you - I did it once just to see what it was all about and gave up
 
@Iain Replicating a new client's environment... we'll soon be disentangling their web site from cPanel, but first I hvae to figure out what the fuck it's doing.
 
@MichaelHampton it may be easier to just grab the clients web stuff and spin up a test server to throw it on
 
@Iain Yeah, that's easy enough, I can have the dev cap deploy it to a test server easily enough, but it's all the OTHER stuff on the server that I need to inventory and make sure it isn't actually necessary
And by getting some hands-on with it I can strengthen my position that it's shit
Oh look, Facebook is removing a privacy setting
 
9:14 AM
@MichaelHampton ?
 
@Iain I just got a mass email from FB about it
> What's changing: We're removing an old search setting called "Who can look up your Timeline by name"—but this won't change who can see what you've shared on Facebook.
 
I guess I'll get it eventually
It probably takes a while to send 1.1 billion emails
 
9:27 AM
Oh nice, the cPanel installer seems to have hung
 
Dan
@ewwhite Haha, crap - I have loads of messages in there
A few that were important, but aren't now so ho hum
 
@Dan I noticed I had two ones recently - both people asking for help with Just Cause 2 Multiplayer. Ho Hum.
 
Dan
@tombull89 I found a wedding invite from 3 years ago
No wonder we fell out of touch!
 
lol!
 
Dan
Most of it is just spam from groups and that, though
 
9:37 AM
OK, it's not hung, they just have a very strange idea of what "5 seconds" means...
 
10:00 AM
I think I just broke the law of physics...I just downloaded something at 60 mb/s...though a 3G MiFi hotspot (according to IE's download manager)
 
Dan
@tombull89 Cache or, in older versions at least, it would start downloading before you clicked "Save" (If prompted) but wouldn't count that in the speed calcs
 
10:26 AM
@MichaelHampton as far as I can tell, the cpanel people have a very strange idea of what "computer" means, never mind "5 seconds".
 
Houston...we have a problem.
Either the bandwidth is being eaten up by the end of term activies, or we got something funky going on.
 
10:53 AM
RHEL7's desktop is kind of odd... It looks like they ripped the menus out of Cinnamon and grafted them onto GNOME 3.
 
morning fuckers
 
@MichaelHampton have you tried fedora 20?
the new block caching feature looks interesting..
 
@pauska Not yet, holding off until probably the weekend
 
11:00 AM
It's similar to what Nimble Storage does - it's a midlevel cache so that all data down to spinning disks are striped sequentially
It's a shame that it doesn't take sequential writes though
 
Dan
11:47 AM
You can't beat squashing an obscure bug in your own code :D
 
 
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12:57 PM
ooh palindromic rep
 
1:11 PM
@Iain nice, and well spotted
 
@Dan Well, it's not an answer, is it?
 
@Dan do you use software restriction policies?
 
1:31 PM
boom aww fuuuuu- i.imgur.com/ILYbaxN.gif
 
1:54 PM
@Dan Does anyone else read "SYN/ACK" as "Snack"? Or is that just me?
 
you're just hungry
 
@ChrisS now' you've mentioned it, it'll never be the same
 

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