The Comms Room

Adrian

12:20 AM

@WesleyDavid Wait, I thought it was Rebecca that left, not Aarthi. Did both leave SE?

WesleyDavid

@Adrian Zypher say that Aarthi left. I don't know about Reb.

Adrian

@WesleyDavid Looks like Reb left in January. I was under a rock then working that crazy-ass job, so I wouldn't have noticed anyway.

WesleyDavid

@Adrian Oh wow, I had no idae

Adrian

Hell, I think I went two months without popping in to visit here.

WesleyDavid

@Adrian Yeah I remember that. I thought you got mad and left us for good.

Adrian

12:27 AM

@WesleyDavid Nah. Though I'll likely be disappearing to a far greater degree if I get this job. LOTS of things to learn about.

I'll probably still pop in on the evenings, but my day shift duties are going to slide big time.

Shane Madden

@Adrian You'll know how I feel.

Adrian

@ShaneMadden That was this past winter. I disappeared for 3-4 months before I was laid off.

Andrew

12:42 AM

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Q: software for managing file distribution

I'm looking for some software which will manage file distribution - the company I work for generates and consumes large quantities of (relatively small) files - nearly all are less than 100k in size, volume is around 20k files per day. We receive and send these files to customers and suppliers -...

WesleyDavid

@Adrian What'd I miss? Which position is this?

I'm waiting to get hit by the rep-recalc. I had someone go upvote crazy on old answers and I think I'm going to lose the bump.

Adrian

@WesleyDavid it's a devops slot, sort of. Lot of ops but somewhat non-traditional too.

WesleyDavid

@Adrian So will you still be into Ruby?

Adrian

@WesleyDavid Yeah. And they're a Ruby shop, so it's a great thing to learn.

It may slow the pace of my website redesign down, but it still needs to be done.

WesleyDavid

Ruby Ruby DOOO!!

Sorry, I had to

@Adrian When do you think you'll know if you got the gig?

Adrian

12:55 AM

@WesleyDavid meet & greet with everybody at the office tomorrow night. so probably early next week.

though perhaps even on Friday, even though I'll be traveling that day.

WesleyDavid

@Adrian Is it near downtown?

Or let me guess, Bellevue.

Wow, I can spell.

Adrian

@WesleyDavid Happily, Downtown. I vastly prefer working downtown to the Eastside. I'd go over there, but the attitude on the Eastside is far less pleasant.

James Gandolfini passed away. =(

WesleyDavid

@Adrian I stayed in Bellevue for a few days once. Really snobby crowd. Then again, I live in Scottsdale now, but people are pretty chilled out over here in spite of being fabulously wealthy. The fabulously wealthy in Bellevue seemed like they were crushing diamonds with their sphincter all day.

"Got a new diamond Rolex. Better stick it up the cloud."

Adrian

@WesleyDavid Yes, and my lady has no use for them. Considering the people she grew up around in rocky mountain ski resort towns could buy most of the Eastsiders with pocket change yet were still really chill & cool people.

WesleyDavid

I'm trying to find the motel I was in. It was right downtown, but it was ghetto as frick.

The carpet was sticky and it smelled like cheap hookers.

Not that I am terribly familiar with the odor of cheap hookers... <_<

Adrian

1:19 AM

@WesleyDavid Eww. =(

Journeyman Geek

@WesleyDavid: only dead ones ? ;p

Adrian

@WesleyDavid Downtown bellevue? Probably the old Red Lion Inn.

@JourneymanGeek No, that's down on the other end of town down by the livestock molesters and pedophiles.

Journeyman Geek

ahh right ;p

as you can tell, I have bever been to Bellevue ;p

Adrian

@JourneymanGeek You're not missing much. If you've ever been to KL, it's a lot like Putrajaya or Damansara when compared to downtown KL.

Journeyman Geek

ahh

or holland road compared to the rest of singapore ;p

Adrian

1:34 AM

snork Snagged a low-hanging fruit this afternoon. OP posted the answer to his own question in a comment.

jscott

@Adrian The hard trick is getting them to mark accepted. :)

Adrian

@jscott Amen to that.

Scott Pack

@Adrian I've done that once before. It felt awfully nice.

WesleyDavid

2:04 AM

@Adrian You know what's funny? I think it was.

@Adrian No... the parking lot was on the east side. I remember that. It was single-level, room doors opened into the parking lot, which was looking east.

Red Lion has north and west parking lots.

Welll... it has some eastern parking lots too actually. Doesn't look familiar though. It was a small thing, not that big I thought...

Oh well, not important.

@ShaneMadden They got you working harder than a cat burying poop on a marble floor?

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid One of these days, I'll get caught up. Just.. too much stuff.

MDMarra

2:23 AM

vine.co/v/hu7vz9bxZFJ

^ my life's work

WesleyDavid

@MDMarra Your cat looks totally sketch at the end. "A lollipop stick? I'mma mug that punk!"

MDMarra

He also makes an appearance in the mirror shot

arched back and all

Scott Pack

@MDMarra I love how Katie gave you the "are you fucking serious" look in all those pictures.

MDMarra

yup

Scott Pack

@MDMarra I also notice you spelled her name wrong. You should fix that.

MDMarra

2:26 AM

Did I?

Oh, no it's right

Scott Pack

Lier.

MDMarra

Catherine with a "C", Katie with a "K"

weird like that

Scott Pack

Wait, seriously. She does that?

MDMarra

ya

Scott Pack

Librarians are weird.

MDMarra

2:27 AM

her dad wanted her to be katheryn or some shit

but her mom filled out the birth certificate and went with a C

so she's in stuck between worlds her whole life

Scott Pack

Kathryn is a good British spelling.

Could be worse, it could be Katherine. That's just an abomination.

At least Catherine has a nice Russian vibe to it.

MDMarra

yup

ok, im going to go die now from that buffalo wrap i had for dinner

bye, pals

Scott Pack

Sweetest dreams.

Shane Madden

@MDMarra Good way to go. Nice knowing you!

Miles Erickson

3:06 AM

@Adrian I'm not sure whether congratulations or wishes of good fortune are in order, but... nice!

@Adrian Also, seattle.craigslist.org/see/sad/3882101186.html

@Adrian Was it a 4-person team when you were there, or are they hiring multiple people to take your place?

ewwhite

3:26 AM

IOPS!!!

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4

Q: How can I determine IOPS on a disk array using bonnie++?

I would like to measure the read and write performance of a RAID6 array verses a RAID10 array. I understand that bonnie++ can be used to calculate disk performance, but the numbers produced by bonnie++ don't include terms like 'IOPS'. These days, many of the disk performance articles and howtos m...

storage iops bonnie++

Andrew

what determines if chat will insert a <hr> for "read up to here"?

Adrian

@MilesErickson Woah. Yeah, I mentored all those Ops positions there. I'll have to ask my better half to check the staff database and see if it's a growth position or the guy left. He may've left because of who they hired for Director instead of me.

@MilesErickson And Thanks. I'm hoping this one works out. It's looking really good so far. I think both the company and I are a good fit for one another.

@MilesErickson Ah. Here we go. Looks like rumor has it that the holder of that position got promoted to my old one. Which makes sense. There's nobody there who can do it as well as he can since I taught him most of what he knows about it.

ewwhite

3:43 AM

New Bike Day... but nobody but @iain and @freiheit care :(

Mark Henderson

4:27 AM

@ewwhite Got a new bike, same as the old bike

Does that mean you've now got a bike going on ebay?

Miles Erickson

@Adrian Seems like decent compensation for the qualifications they're asking. They ought to get someone good.

Falcon Momot

4:48 AM

@MilesErickson wages are really that low? I got paid that to manage a retail computer service department.

Miles Erickson

@FalconMomot For someone with one year of experience? Sure.

Falcon Momot

oh, I missed that part

hmm, do I have 2 years of experience yet I wonder?

Miles Erickson

@FalconMomot That job description seems to be more interested in recruiting someone with aptitude than specific experience, which is the right way to go about hiring a support person.

Falcon Momot

@MilesErickson it is. you don't often see it though.

Nope. 4 months shy of 2 years' experience.

Miles Erickson

@FalconMomot So many HR departments here post lists of specific tools that they require experience with, and then they make the mistake of not publishing their salary range, and then they wonder why the hell they don't get any good applicants. Idiots.

Falcon Momot

4:56 AM

@MilesErickson or they publish nonsense as requirements, like people asking for applicants with experience storing calendars in AD

I've gotten calls from recruiters who will talk about neither the identity of the employer nor the salary range

Miles Erickson

I don't get why companies don't publish salary ranges. It's a lose-lose proposition for them, and it discourages 90% of the really qualified applicants from bothering to apply. To me, "DOE" or "Competitive" means "we're embarrassed to admit how little we're willing to pay for this position, so don't bother applying unless you're desperate."

Andrew

-1

Q: ERROR: Windows 7 is not genius but already purchase license and activate with VAMT server

I'm already purchase for windows 7 professional edition license for 3 years and activate for my windows 7 clients on VAMT server. It's all ok and smoothly work over 8 months. but now, some client windows 7 is not genius. on the other side on VAMT , show this clients is activated . please help ...

windows windows-7 microsoft-licensing microsoft volume-activation

Falcon Momot

@MilesErickson it's to protect their ability to low-ball you, which is also dumb.

as once I find out I'm the least paid person in the department by 20% and am due to get the same 3% raise as everyone else next review, I write notice.

Andrew

OT or just lazy?

1

Q: How to find files by the time in their filename?

We have a directory contains files which contains time in their filename ./test.2013-06-11_06-01.gz ./test.2013-06-12_01-01.gz ./test.2013-06-13_03-01.gz ./test.2013-06-14_03-01.gz ./test.2013-06-15_04-01.gz How to list files if their filename are more than N days before?

linux bash scripting shell shell-scripting

Miles Erickson

@FalconMomot I still don't get it. Say they publish a range of 50-80K and they offer an applicant 50. Someone in that position can't hold out for 75K unless it's justified.

Falcon Momot

5:00 AM

@Andrew at best migrate to U&L. It has nothing to do with system admin.

@MilesErickson yeah, it's totally unjustified, but still.

Miles Erickson

I've heard so many stories of people wasting their time applying for a position, going through a couple of interviews, and then getting offered $15 an hour or whatever.

Falcon Momot

For this reason I pretty much never apply to those postings

I like to shop around all the time to see what salary range I should be getting for my skills, which might be one reason people are so skittish about disclosing (lest wages go up, as kind of a responsibility thing except that it would be irresponsible)

WesleyDavid

@voretaq7 Lookie! Lookie! Lookie!

Shane Madden

Anyone seeing problems with domains registered with network solutions? The gtld servers seem to be kicking back hijacked records.

WesleyDavid

@voretaq7 Found him in the middle of the kitchen floor. He scampered away, but I tracked him down and put him outside. I hope geckos aren't cannibals because there was a big fat one stuck on the porch wall. I put this little guy a little ways away from the big one.

Falcon Momot

5:14 AM

-1

Q: ERROR: Windows 7 is not genius but already purchase license and activate with VAMT server

I'm already purchase for windows 7 professional edition license for 3 years and activate for my windows 7 clients on VAMT server. It's all ok and smoothly work over 8 months. but now, some client windows 7 is not genius. on the other side on VAMT , show this clients is activated . please help ...

windows windows-7 microsoft-licensing microsoft volume-activation

WesleyDavid

@ShaneMadden I had a client domain blip off the radar a few days ago for about an hour. No network devices were down, and their main domain that's hosted on my Media Temple VPS was unreachable by domain name, and so was a subdomain that is hosted on a dedi in my rack.

The only common denominator was NetSol as their DNS provider because no ICMP level outages were reported for any node.

Root causes analyses was inconclusive because I didn't have all the reports I needed, but I concluded NetSol had some weird hiccup.

Falcon Momot

oi

serverfault.com/review/close/78278

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Q: software for managing file distribution

I'm looking for some software which will manage file distribution - the company I work for generates and consumes large quantities of (relatively small) files - nearly all are less than 100k in size, volume is around 20k files per day. We receive and send these files to customers and suppliers -...

ftp sftp

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid Yeah, the nodes are up and the authoritative DNS servers are fine. But the delegation chain from .com is hijacked to ztomy.com.

WesleyDavid

@ShaneMadden Wow, that seems big?

Are we going to be seeing this plastered all over Hacker News in an hour?

Shane Madden

Probably.

WesleyDavid

5:21 AM

@ShaneMadden Looks like this is old hat for ztomy.

Falcon Momot

@WesleyDavid I'm passing it on right now. Anyone want to provide a couple more details to make it credible? :)

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid Yeah, I'm just confused as to how the heck the bogus data got into (all) the gtld nodes.

Miles Erickson

thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/20/…

Falcon Momot

nfc what people hope to gain by this

Shane Madden

@MilesErickson Also netsol.

Brilliant!

Falcon Momot

5:26 AM

who in their right mind would register domain names with people who do that kind of shit?

WesleyDavid

5:37 AM

yawn

Mark Henderson

6:01 AM

Goddamnit I hate it when archivers extract to a temp folder and then copy them to their destination. I just spent 10 minutes waiting for a 40Gb file to be extracted, and now I'm waiting while the damn thing is copied from the temp folder

WHY DIDNT YOU JUST EXTRACT IT TO WHERE I WANTED IT TO; AND IF YOU MUST EXTRACT TO TEMP WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU COPYING INSTEAD OF MOVING?

Now I have to wait another 10 minutes while it's copied

Falcon Momot

I suggest we start a charity that introduces the programmers to the wonderful hobby of bear-baiting.

Hennes

The programmer is the bait?

Falcon Momot

@Hennes hopefully the bears will see it that way.

morning

6:16 AM

why.

6:33 AM

If that's supposed to be a rapid-deployment helmet, I'm sticking to the traditional kind.

Jenny D

morning

Falcon Momot

I'm so glad my browser comes with this nice console that lets me remove things from the DOM with a few button presses...

WesleyDavid

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, I've got some work to do with my new bike.

Journeyman Geek

did I hear... new bike?

finally? ;p

WesleyDavid

@JourneymanGeek Also, I'm a liar.

Journeyman Geek

6:38 AM

ahh right

nearly went out and bought a lottery ticket ;p

WesleyDavid

Rapid deploy helmets! Yo dawg! I heard you like whiplash so we put an exploding sack of air on your head so you can get hyperextension injuries before you get hyperextension injuries!

Jenny D

7:19 AM

@WesleyDavid people are marketing them for horse riders too. Brilliant idea, not. Having a vest/helmet go off with a bang at a time when the horse is already spooked, or in a group... Not something I'd recommend.

RobM

7:35 AM

Doesn't sound like a good idea for anyone. Whether on a bike or a horse it seems to me that you're better off wearing a normal helmet for all kinds of reasons.

ewwhite

7:48 AM

Fucking Supermicro!

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RobM

morning and fuck supermicro to you too

there's a motto we can all get behind...

ewwhite

It's terrible...

A client calls in... says that there are thousands of open connections on their server... localhost... Windows box.

It's making SNMP go nuts.

So I check the weirdo port out... 34572...

and it belongs to Adaptec Storage Manager.

okay... so Supermicro at various points has used Adaptec and LSI controllers... rebranded as Supermicro.

I check the asset-management system and see: "Supermicro AOC-USAS-S8iR"

RobM

bloody hell that looks a mess

ewwhite

as the RAID controller.

so a quick google shows... maybe that's an LSI controller.

supermicro.com/products/nfo/storage_cards.cfm

The server has Adaptec and LSI management software installed.

RobM

no wonder it's unhappy then

ewwhite

7:53 AM

so I'm like... well, let's open the Adaptec shit.

"No controllers were found in this system"

well, okay... so I just stopped the service and uninstalled the Adaptec software.

RobM

so why install the software then facepalm

ewwhite

(because both software was installed in the Windows image we deployed)

RobM

right

ewwhite

Earlier that day, another financial client had the same issue on an HP server imaged with the same Windows image.

the HP server obviously didn't have adaptec gear in it.

so it turns out that the Supermicro AOC-USAS-S8iR is an Adaptec controller!!

supermicro.com.tr/AOC-USAS-S8i_R.cfm.htm

how the fsck would anyone know that...

RobM

I....

ewwhite

7:56 AM

so dumping the software fixed the problem... but it opens up a can of worms. Why didn't the software behave right? Shit, do we have RAID monitoring?

RobM

You know what, I got nothing...

ewwhite

I mean, over the years, Dell has switched controller manufacturers... but man, i really expect consistency.

but based on the screenshots, I think I made a good guess.

RobM

I've never had problems like that with Dell - they're a long way from perfect but they've not dropped the ball like that with any of the servers we have

ewwhite

so I told the client the software was unnecessary... so they started uninstalling the Adaptec stuff...

and then my NOC staff was like, "no, don't... we need that"

Jenny D

@RobM Yup. I could sort of see the point with the vests back when safety vests were very stiff and restricted movement, but the modern ones are both safe and comfortable and don't impede your ability to ride.

RobM

7:59 AM

oh god

@JennyD even when vests were uncomfortable, better to be a bit uncomfortable than a bit lots of broken bones, right

ewwhite

but maybe my Google-Fu (or Bing-Fu) is really bad.

Just as a sidenote, I'm realizing that my Google results these days are really not that useful.

Jenny D

@RobM well, when they actually impeded your movements they were arguably making riding somewhat less safe as it could make it harder for you to keep your seat when the horse suddenly moves in an unexpected way. So back when that was the only kind available I would only use them when jumping or riding off-road. At least once, when I was thrown out in the woods and landed on a largish stone, I think the vest saved me from a kidney injury...

Breaking a leg or arm isn't that bad; you recover from it. It's the back and brain that need protection.

(and yes, I've broken both arm and leg when riding. Not at the same time, though :-)

Falcon Momot

8:17 AM

@ewwhite Hmm, I don't get it... why rebrand if you're going to leave the real manufacturer's name on the drivers?

ewwhite

8:30 AM

@FalconMomot Just because... I don't fully understand Supermicro, but that's how they do things.

And where did Michael Hampton go?

RobM

ah i see @JennyD

Jenny D

@ewwhite In a comment on Meta he said he was going on vacation

ewwhite

@JennyD not possible!!!

Jenny D

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A: Creating a Canonical Question for Bulk Emailing

I do run a service which sends bulk email, in irregular volumes, which occasionally gets me classified by Sender Score as a "High Volume Sender". (Though not today...) And yes, I run it on a little 512MB VPS. So I know a few things about this. When I get back from my vacation I'll see about w...

of course that doesn't mean he actually is on vacation, just that he says so :-)

ewwhite

Oooh, time to catch up on rep points!

Falcon Momot

8:41 AM

Oi! I just reviewed everything in my review queue, and didn't vote anything open!

what is this insanity.

Journeyman Geek

lol

this is normal!

RobM

this is sparta

tombull89

Madness?

RobM

sounds like a cue for a song..

Falcon Momot

@JourneymanGeek usually over half the close votes I see are "you're dumb" votes, rather than actually OT/NC

Journeyman Geek

8:45 AM

@FalconMomot: You're dumb is a valid reason to close things here

RobM

►

Falcon Momot

@JourneymanGeek not if they are otherwise on topic. Isn't it better to explain a basic concept, or answer that the approach is wrong?

or sometimes the close vote is just because nobody has heard of the component they are having problems with

Journeyman Geek

@FalconMomot: well, there's the 'professional' part of things

Falcon Momot

@JourneymanGeek having worked in the field for a couple years I can attest that there are some pretty damn misguided professionals around getting paid more than I am to do this.

like... people who have been IT consultants for half a decade or more and still don't understand subnets.

Journeyman Geek

@FalconMomot: amusingly, I've argued the other side of this arguement but, I think the whole idea is that SF can't keep the useful smart people, if we're wading in, and I quote this exactly "A river of shit"

and explaining concept questions often need to DIATF

Falcon Momot

8:49 AM

there is a line, to be sure

on the other hand, there is "I don't like this idea, so I'm going to vote it NC":

-2

Q: Read all incoming and outgoing mail in a network

Can an administrator - with the knowledge of the employees - read incoming and outgoing messages using a simple configuration on Outlook?

email outlook incoming-mail

and there is "you're not asking precisely the right question even though your problem is legit and non-obvious":

-1

Q: The file system /dev/loop0, has reached critical status because it is 100% full

The file system /dev/loop0, which is mounted at /tmp, has reached critical status because it is 100% full. The problem is when I checked the space of hard disk I found that: /dev/loop0 space:485M used:21M free:439M usage:5% /var/tmp So what is the problem, and how can I increase the tmp fo...

linux centos6 loopback

Journeyman Geek

@FalconMomot: the latter is often a symptom of the x-y problem

the first is kinda broad. Also, he's doing it at the wrong place

Falcon Momot

The latter question is perfectly fair.

the first one is someone doing something which would annoy anyone it is done to, but that is often an actual requirement (made by misguided fools).

Mathias R. Jessen

@FalconMomot Agreed - other than the moral questionability, that is a totally valid question, not the best, definitely, but valid. Regarding "pro's" that seem stupid because they don't understand something basic, like subnetting, I'd argue that it's better to try and educate them and hopefully make the world a better place

Falcon Momot

These questions are not shining examples of everything that we want a question to be

but there is a difference between them and... <looks>

Mathias R. Jessen

Exactly

Falcon Momot

8:55 AM

-1

Q: Dot.tk dynamic virtualhost (DNS) config

I am using the free domain and dns service of http://dot.tk. I have registered mydomain.tk and set up different apache virtualhosts like forum.mydomain.tk, ftp.mydomain.tk. I experienced that at localhost everything works fine using the /etc/hosts file. When I open mydomain.tk, it opens the main ...

apache2 virtualhost subdomain dynamic

Journeyman Geek

(actually amusingly, this is pretty easy to do - you'd write a vbscript that forwards all the things)

Falcon Momot

@JourneymanGeek go for it- it has 0 answers

Journeyman Geek

I actually do that with my dad's e mail account, partially

Falcon Momot

anyway

Mathias R. Jessen

@JourneymanGeek If you want an archive of everything they receive, sure. Otherwise grant an exchange administrator role Read rights on all mailboxes. Use OWA to go trough peoples mailboxes

Falcon Momot

9:00 AM

I think we can draw a line like this: "what I am doing is basically what a home user would do, and even if I were a professional the environment I am having problems with is insufficient and imposes absurd constraints; these problems would be trivial except that my environment is too far from an enterprise-ready one" | "I don't know how to do my job but I have all the tools available for me to do it and I am conversant in this field".

Journeyman Geek

amusingly we actually forward every sent mail, and download all the mails we recieve to gmail, cause my dad keeps bloody forgetting to renew the office domain ;p

@FalconMomot: don't forget GIMMEZECODE!

RobM

someone should invent a service that recorded important dates and reminded you of them. They could call it a calendar.

Falcon Momot

@JourneymanGeek those questions can be answered without the code, actually, and will still get upvotes more often than not.

@JourneymanGeek I think another category of thing that can definitely be NC is the "<log vomit> what I want to know is obvious; fix it for me"

Journeyman Geek

lol

RobM

the "professional" requirement on Server Fault is for a standard of question more than it is of a level of user.

Journeyman Geek

9:04 AM

@FalconMomot: funny thing is I think we have a canonical log vomit question on SU

Falcon Momot

@JourneymanGeek you should draw one up for here too, unless I'm just missing it

Journeyman Geek

@FalconMomot: pretty hard to

Falcon Momot

also, the 500 rep bounty on this is really annoying me...

4

A: Mouse cursor jumps around when using RDP

This is a very common issue when RDP is working with insufficient bandwidth or high latency. I'm not sure if it is a protocol bug or an implementation bug (eg. if packets are arriving out of order and not being reassembled correctly, or if they are being misinterpreted altogether), but the solut...

Journeyman Geek

we have a BSOD log vomit sense-making post ;p

Falcon Momot

Aah

I guess NC is good enough then

it's cool to expect someone to read their logs and at least make an attempt at isolating the bits that actually indicate something is wrong

Journeyman Geek

9:07 AM

(windows BSOD logs ... use blue screen view if you're slightly technical, and whocrashed if you're lazy as hell)

Falcon Momot

I recall there being a nice MSDN reference for what all the codes mean

Journeyman Geek

well, laziness ;p

Falcon Momot

thankfully, I haven't seen many BSOD halp questions here.

Journeyman Geek

BSV pulls up and displays the last few BSODs, and the error codes are googleable from the program itself

whocrashed spoonfeeds you

Falcon Momot

oh

to pull up old ones usually I use windbg and look in the folder myself

but, I realize that using windbg on a daily basis makes me weird.

Journeyman Geek

9:09 AM

I'm lazy ;p

Falcon Momot

erg, this:

1

Q: Persistent static routes fail on MacOS 10.6.5 startup!

I'm unable to get static routes to persist a reboot on Mac OS 10.6.5. I've tried all of the methods prescribed in Google search results, and previous posts on this site. I've tried manually creating a launchd daemon, and used RouteSplit's launchd daemon to no avail. It's clear that the interface ...

macosx snow-leopard static-routes osx-snow-leopard

Tom O'Connor

9:55 AM

blimey, 6 modflags this morning.

SmallClanger

Sorry, couldn't resist that.

RobM

10:18 AM

@TomO'Connor the true pinball wizard of the flag queue

Tom O'Connor

10:31 AM

@RobM Except I'm not deaf, dumb or blind.

RobM

10:48 AM

true enough

but other than being completely different, you're the spitting image...

tombull89

Olipro

what have I walked into

tombull89

Madness, naturally.

Olipro

the top starred comment is about supermicro, I feel dirty

Nathan C

Madness?

THIS IS ...the comms room.

RobM

10:52 AM

... madness... they call it madness

tombull89

This. Is. ServerFault kicks down stairs

Olipro

you mean, THIS. IS. THE COMMS ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

RobM

fuck-supermicro

4

Olipro

300 style

Journeyman Geek

@tombull89: and this is when he gets bitten in the balls by a pug. As I like to say, insult. AND. injury

tombull89

10:53 AM

The top five comments are also now about SuperMicro.

3

RobM

That's not actually a good thing

Journeyman Geek

;p

Olipro

it's star everything with SuperMicro in it day!

5

on which note... SuperMicro Penis

3

Markdown, you have failed me

2

<b>BoldThen</b><i>Italic</i>

:(

Journeyman Geek

BoldThen Italic

Olipro

now try to do it without the space

Journeyman Geek

10:55 AM

ahh

tombull89

or both at the same time

RobM

fail then Fucking Markdown

Olipro

mind = blown

Cole

Ever wake up after a night of drinking and thought "If I died right now, that would be okay." That's my Thursday morning.

Nathan C

~~oh crap~~

RobM

10:56 AM

That's not a good thing really @Cole

tombull89

wait it's Thursday? balls.

Journeyman Geek

@Cole: I woke up this morning thinking I was in hell

Olipro

I woke up after a night of drinking, and came on here wondering who'd be the first person to start talking about themselves

Journeyman Geek

then I took a deep breath... and decided this was PROBABLY true

Olipro

you did not disappoint

Nathan C

10:57 AM

Nothing screws up your Friday more than realizing it's only Thursday...

On the bright side, payday.

Journeyman Geek

goes check how horrible the weather is, officially

back up to hazardous

Nathan C

@JourneymanGeek Fire and brimstone in the morning, sunny in the afternoon with a chance of apocalypse.

Then rain.

Journeyman Geek

@NathanC: Yanno that steven king novel with the mist?

Nathan C

Ah, yes.

Olipro

so, who else here absolutely loves doing hub and spoke IPsec setups to Sonicwall devices of varying ages, versions and shittiness?

Journeyman Geek

10:58 AM

Thats what it looks like outside ;p

Nathan C

@JourneymanGeek It's a trap!

Cole

@RobM Being hung over is still better than working with anything Supermicro.

3

I don't think I'm hung over, I think I'm still drunk.

If I didn't have to go to this Dell seminar in New Hampshire, I'd be calling out of work to sleep.

Nathan C

@Cole Dude, you got a ~~hangover~~ Dell!

I feel like a good portion of freelancer projects are crap/fraud/scams

Cole

@NathanC gotta go up to Nashua and they usually are.

I hope my manager drives today.

Nathan C

I bid on a couple yesterday and got two emails from freelancer saying jobs were deleted due to fraud

I was like ...wut?

Tom O'Connor

11:12 AM

Hurrah! 18k.

tombull89

omfgdogs.com

holy shi-.

Nathan C

Oh wow, SU has 181 pending close votes.

tombull89

brb using close votes

Journeyman Geek

ok

serverfault.com/posts/517212/revisions whut?

pauska

I just rolled it back

Tom O'Connor

11:20 AM

@pauska I just deleted it.

Journeyman Geek

He could/should have just flagged it

pauska

Indeed, which is what I said in the comments

jscott

Can users not delete their own questions? There are no answers.

Journeyman Geek

@jscott: I seem to recall they can

Tom O'Connor

@jscott I thought they could.. I could.

Nathan C

11:25 AM

@Nathan I'm not looking for shopping advice, but am trying to learn about the existing software options in a field that is completely new to me - since I am a computer enthusiast and power user. If I had a very specific technical question about any relevant product, it would be on topic, right? — MHaaZ 1 min ago

ugh

And on that note, no more SU for me.

Journeyman Geek

@NathanC: actually, you're entirely right there

one moment, let me throw the book at him

Nathan C

He was basically saying "I'm not looking for x software, but I'm looking for x software. Not the same thing!"

Olipro

Nathan C

And as a power user he should know what he's trying to accomplish won't hide his personal information...

Journeyman Geek

done ;p

Olipro

11:34 AM

man, some people really do not understand subnetting

Tom O'Connor

@Olipro s/subnetting//

Olipro

configuring a tunnel and they list 192.168.188.0/24 and 192.168.189.0/24

...so basically, 192.168.188.0/23

pauska

gandolfini :(

Tom O'Connor

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1goci8/…

wtf

@Olipro not actually that out of line...

Olipro

...

well it's the difference between two Child SAs or just one

Travis

11:39 AM

@Olipro Thanks. I learned something

Olipro

IPsec all up in this bitch

Nathan C

@TomO'Connor 4.bp.blogspot.com/-HNZVuHCbD7I/UFCs7PttCtI/AAAAAAAABSo/…

Ethan

Is this a place for live support

Nathan C

-9

Q: Where is a good place to buy a plus size prom dress that doesnt cost a fortune?

I am looking for a plus size prom dress that is new and doesnt cost over 200$. Where is a good place? Online or in store, either works.

prompt

i lol'd

@Ethan Read the top right of your window underneath "The Comms Room"...

jscott

@NathanC whoosh

:)

Travis

11:45 AM

@Ethan Yes sir. Please tell me your problem. And I fix right way sir

@NathanC She saw super user and thought it was for big women

@NathanC I'm suppperrr! I'm big boned too!

Ethan

what is this chat room for

3

pauska

@Ethan mostly donkey porn

Travis

what is this _chat_ room for

Donkey porn

Nathan C

My grue is getting hungry.

Travis

Oh and the occasional phallic inuendos

@NathanC Thought you said you were going to banish yourself from SU

Nathan C

11:48 AM

@Travis It...it kept pulling me in.

Travis

lol

@NathanC Here ya go

0

A: How can I MOVE, not copy all the files with the same extension?

In DOS do: FOR /R "C:\MoveFromDirectory" "%i" IN (*.mp3) DO MOVE "%i" "C:\Move2Directory" Change the "MoveFromDirectory" to the directory you are searching in. Change the *.mp3 to whatever file extension you need to. Change Move2Directory do the location of where you are wanting to move them ...

Nathan C

That's actually fairly useful.

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