@MDMarra And the reason that I'll never run for mod. That whole situation with our FAQ getting rejected with no meaningful input was quite instructive.
Shog9 says in his post that SE leaves horrible candidates in place because the community should be free to choose. If that's the case, why is the community not wanting someone that was suspended a problem? If we're free to choose, why aren't we free to choose what's important to us? Either way, we won't see eye to eye on this, so I'll drop it, but it seems like there are two messages being told here. 1) People can choose whoever they want. 2) We don't want to share some info because then people might not choose who they want correctly. — MDMarra12 secs ago
@MDMarra Part of the problem is that there's no way to distinguish a ban for trolling versus a mandatory 24 hour swat on the snout for calling a user a douchewaffle on the main site
@Adrian eh, personally if it were my network I would have the sharks in suits send him a C&D letter - but throwing year-long bans at the problem seems to be the official consensus
@DennisKaarsemaker a year is pretty much the standard for "consistently disruptive, GTFO"
of course the standard is also quasi-exponential (1 day, 3 day, week, month, year)
You know what's great? Shog9 posted that he'd like to have removed two more candidates from this election...and I'm pretty sure the two he'd want to remove are the two that won. suck it, establishment
He just said:
Sure. Heck, there are at least two other candidates that I'd like to remove because I think they're too prone to starting trouble and not particularly apt to stop it once it starts.
@Adrian @MDMarra We have more of a voice than you guys seem to think (though certainly not as much as any of us would like -- it would be great if each site were truly independent)
@voretaq7 I understand. I'm sure .SE is perfectly cool with any idea that makes operations easier or theoretically drives more n00b eyeballs to the sites. But they're certainly not going to actual fix problems within a given community due to SE's own actions that are not congruent with their broader business goals.
@Adrian but here you would expect their broader business goals would be to attract more real sysadmins et al so they could sell more advertising space based on their previous successes
@voretaq7 of course. I'm still pretty torqued off about the rampant dilution of the community though. Significant harm and we're the ones under the bus.
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@DennisKaarsemaker Wait, those things get like 4.5kpl.
@DennisKaarsemaker I've been seriously thinking about buying one of those once I'm working again. heard lots of good things about them. And they're reportedly selling more of those than the Toyata Trii here in the States.
Interesting. I'd always assumed that the behavior of flags not being recognized after arguments was a ksh thing. Works fine in ksh under Linux though. -f removed that directory just fine under ksh on Linux though.
<old man "Get off my lawn"> How is this: serverfault.com/questions/511496/… any different from: serverfault.com/questions/511478/… in terms of being acceptable? I'm not saying it isn't, I think they should both be closed, but the open one seems to be sticking around a lot longer...
@TheCleaner The first one is sliiiightly less shit-tastic in that it's asking an architecture question ("How can I best accomplish <reasonable business goal>?")
Anyway with STV it doesn't matter. His votes were elimitated and transferred to someone else, and for those people that only voted for him, their votes became null so it doesn't in the end matter
Just called to cancel my old hosting service. They were shocked to hear that I'm unhappy with their little experiment in offshoring their tech support to India. Heh. Riiight
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I am currently using a SuperMicro machine that has an on-board LSI 2208 controller. This LSI controller supports the basic suite of LSI commands. I have yet to find a command to create a partition on a drive. I can do this with the Adaptec controllers that I've been using (5405). What I want ...
On a more serious note, I need to talk to @TomO'Connor and @MichaelHampton about your flag volume, I see you are currently at < 25% of the median of handled flags
@voretaq7 Yeah, pretty much. The reason I went with them in the first place a few years back is that they had a team of 3 sysadmins in their office in LA that were pretty darn good.
Thanks, this is a new thing on Debian 7.0, and they had claimed other distros are doing that as well, including Fedora, and some future release of Centos.
I am just seeing of Debian is doing something non-standard, and if I should be mad about it.
I just ran df -h a minute ago and noticed a filesystem has been added that I'm not familliar with. Does anyone know why /run exists? is this something that's
been added by the kernel? by Arch Linux?
run 10M 236K 9.8M 3% /run
@Adrian Yes, well that is true to a certain extent with almost every Linux based system, since there are no real standards. I just like to double check unusual things.
I kind of like this one. It will make my boxes with a read-only root actually work without so much hacking and symlinks.
@Zoredache I could see how that would be a major boon to thin-client machines as well. As it is, my machines at $job[-2] were running a two-stage boot process to be able to deal with the initial read-only root.
I kinda wish puppet, didn't have a different attribute if you are using a file source => versus a template content => template(). It sure seems like those should have been combined.
The first year, I even was responsible for one of the demos. I setup a couple computers demonstrating, this new magically product called Vmware that allowed you to run Linux under Windows, and Windows under Linux. I got my first Vmware 1.0 license for free.
@Cole I've never been to a really sad wake. I've been to two, but they were both for my grandparents who died of natural causes. But a wake is meant to be a celebration of a persons life, don't forget that.
Friend of mine passed away 2 summers ago. In his will he explicitly stated that he wanted to be cremated in his riding gear, that we'd do nothing more than throw a big-ass party, and have all his friend all over the world rev up their motorcycles at the same time.
I don't really know what to say to her. We talked a lot when her dad first got sick. None of her friends could relate, except me unfortunately. (My mom had cancer)
@Cole This is why we have formulaic things to say. "I'm so sorry for your loss". Or just being there and offering a hug. Grieving people generally aren't too picky about what you say, just that you're there and trying at all.
Most comforting thing I had was just a firm grip on the shoulder from my step-uncle who I hardly even know. No words exchanged. Just that signal of "You'll be OK"
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I am currently using a SuperMicro machine that has an on-board LSI 2208 controller. This LSI controller supports the basic suite of LSI commands. I have yet to find a command to create a partition on a drive. I can do this with the Adaptec controllers that I've been using (5405). What I want ...
I just ran df -h a minute ago and noticed a filesystem has been added that I'm not familliar with. Does anyone know why /run exists? is this something that's
been added by the kernel? by Arch Linux?
run 10M 236K 9.8M 3% /run
