The Comms Room

cole

2:03 PM

Network group just took down DNS

Dan

That answer is just becoming the worst, hacky thing

@cole Did you get your script working?

Is there a name for the little "badges" you're allowed to display when you're certified in something?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Dan "crap"

Dan

Well, yes, that

Tom O'Connor

@cole Niiiice.

@Dan The IET call them Designatory Letters.

like MIET = Member of the institute etc.

Dan

@TomO'Connor Sorry, I didn't mean that - I meant things like the MCSE logo or whatever

Tom O'Connor

2:14 PM

@Dan Same thing, surely..

You could say Dan xxx MCSE

Dan

Nono

That kinda crap

Mathias R. Jessen

@cole Took down? As in - "no more Infoblox, AD integrated all the way?"

cole

@Dan no, haven't even done anything since Friday

@MathiasR.Jessen as in, they broke it

It seems to be up right now

Mathias R. Jessen

-_-

cole

@MathiasR.Jessen may be the push to go AD integrated though :P

Mathias R. Jessen

2:16 PM

Hahaha, true

cole

"Hey look at all the shit that broke!"

:P

Mathias R. Jessen

@RyanRies I just ran /showobjmeta against a user account and the Orig. DSA for some of the attributes came out as "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" - have you ever seen this?

cole

So myself, the unix admin, domino admin and the telecom manager were standing outside our area on the way back from the cafeteria. The CIO, who when I was here last time, I had never even spoke to/was introduced to. He's walking towards the cafeteria and says "Good morning" then says "Hey Cole! How are you?" All three of the guys I was with looked at me like "......what just happened?"

My director did that the other day as well, said a generic "hello" then "Hey Cole!"

Mathias R. Jessen

Maybe somebody actually missed you? :D

cole

@MathiasR.Jessen I think they saw a quick decline in work being done/done correctly from out group.

Mathias R. Jessen

2:20 PM

That probably left an impression :P

cole

Just found it interesting, as well as everyone else that experienced it.

@MathiasR.Jessen LOL

hahaha

That was a good one.

I read /r/sysadmin to feel better about myself.

TheCleaner

2:25 PM

Anybody seen The Wolf of Wall Street? I watched it this weekend on viooz....man that movie is jacked up, but held my attention the entire way through its crazy ride. Pushed the limits of R.

cole

@TheCleaner you are not the first person I heard refer to it as "jacked up"

I want to see it, but I don't have the patience to sit through that long of a movie in a theater.

TheCleaner

I watched it on viooz...no point in going to the theater these days.

Ryan Ries

@MathiasR.Jessen No, I'm not sure why it'd be showing all zeroes there. :\

cole

@TheCleaner what's viooz?

TheCleaner

www.viooz.co

cole

2:29 PM

@TheCleaner I'll have to check it out when I get home tonight.

TheCleaner

All the movies you'd ever care to see. I just HDMI out to the TV. We watched that and Captain Phillips this weekend.

cole

@TheCleaner awesome, thanks!

I watched The Heat yesterday

Scott Pack

@cole Heat is probably way better.

Iain

with fire please serverfault.com/questions/566915/…

Mathias R. Jessen

@cole Me neither, but I actually sat through the 4-hour theatrical release of Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac last night, without getting bored or distracted

cole

2:32 PM

HOW IS SERVAR FORMED?

5

tombull89

@Iain brb answering with LMGTFY link

@cole inb4 "sockets" and "hot plug"

cole

@MathiasR.Jessen 4 hours? dear god.

Mathias R. Jessen

Well, it was split into to parts, 122 minutes each, with a 20 min. break

tombull89

@MathiasR.Jessen isn't that basically..well, porn?

cole

Most of our open tickets are Connections related - NOT SURPRISED.

Mathias R. Jessen

2:34 PM

@tombull89 That's the impression I had gotten from the media, but it was a lot more than just sex, and although it was really explicit, it didn't really take too much attention away from the story... It was just a natural/integral part of the movies narrative

Definitely worth a watch, I'm looking forward to the Directors cut as well

And apparently (to my great surprise) Shia LaBeouf Bearnaise can actually act

@cole Worth it I should say. Check out this somewhat NSFW trailer

Dan

4....hours

I don't do anything for 4 hours!

TheCleaner

I don't wanna explain it cause they are annoying - hence the reason nobody is answering this. :) — TheCleaner 2 mins ago

cole

@MathiasR.Jessen I'll have to take a look when I get home.

tombull89

We should do a SF equivalent of Code Trolling. A technically correct, but next to useless answer.

MikeyB

@Dan flair?

Dan

2:49 PM

@MikeyB Could be, I was being a little vain and wondered if it was possible to put them onto LinkedIn somewhere nice, but apparently not

MikeyB

@Dan MCSE tramp stamp

Dan

@MikeyB :D I'm proud to announce I have no MCSE :D

TheCleaner

Dan, there's a section for Certs, but you just manually type them in and link them to an OEM.

Dan

@TheCleaner Yeah, I've done that. I was wondering if I should display my partner logo and stuff, but it doesn't look like LinkedIn is geared for that

Mathias R. Jessen

@tombull89 I think we already have those on a daily basis

TheCleaner

3:02 PM

@Dan LinkedIn doesn't do much beyond the ability to have recruiters find you via mass email or allow recruiters/HR/managers find out more about you online.

Dan

@TheCleaner Surely the second is exactly what I want

I don't mind it, to be honest

TheCleaner

neither do I...simply stating that all it really serves is to put a face to a name and to see if others endorse you and that you present yourself well.

Dan

@TheCleaner What else should it do? I just see it as an online CV, I guess?

But with a lot more room than my CV

MikeyB

@TheCleaner @Dan Are you looking?

Dan

@MikeyB Getting ready - leave here end of Feb

MikeyB

3:08 PM

@Dan gist.github.com/Supermathie/789fd19f8672fdeca4d6

TheCleaner

@MikeyB I'm not looking. And yes Dan that's all it should do. Other than possibly give you the ability to send a mass email of your own to your links saying "I'm looking"

Dan

@MikeyB Thanks, but I'm looking for contract work and I don't do Linux

Nathan C

sup brotatos :p

cole

God dammit Notes

Nathan C

@cole So the usual

;)

Tanner

3:14 PM

@NathanC Notes is never 'usual'. It's always some kind of fresh hell.

cole

@NathanC ya lol

MikeyB

Damn damn damn damn. The company in Texas that bought Zimbra is going to end up killing it.

Anonymous

►

Anonymous

thank you TSA!

cole

@MikeyB oh snap

Dan

3:19 PM

@PatoSáinz Tries a little hard for me

Anonymous

@Dan still true

Nathan C

@PatoSáinz I bought a lock yesterday for our basement door...it's a really small hole to put a lock so I bought one of those luggage ones (it's thin enough to fit). Well, it's TSA-approved...meaning, they have a key to said lock

>.>

Anonymous

@NathanC oh my! you wouldn't trust them your basement would you?

Dan

@NathanC I've got some of those, but I heard they don't ever even use those kyes

Not that I ever lock my luggage anyway - seems totally pointless to me

Anonymous

3:21 PM

golden globes "fun facts" lol

Anonymous

@Dan why wouldn't you?

MikeyB

@Dan handy for keeping it closed if the zippers snag on something

Anonymous

(oh the benefits of a first world country)

Dan

@PatoSáinz If security want to get in the bag, they'll break the lock. If anybody steals the bag, the lock isn't going to stop them. THe rest of the time the bag is with me - which is essentially the trip from the car to checkout, and then the trip from the carousel back to the car

Nathan C

@PatoSáinz I also managed to lock myself out of it ...it's a settable combination, but you have to hold a button with something while moving the numbers. I ended up letting go at some point and can't figure out the combination ahaha

so, returns it goes

Anonymous

3:24 PM

@NathanC lol

Nathan C

@Dan Yeah, luggage locks are flimsy

But they can have a use...usually to deter a would-be thief who wants to just grab whatever's in it quickly

Dan

@NathanC Maybe, but when?

Nathan C

@Dan Hotel and prying housekeeping folk maybe?

Dan

@NathanC What, don't you unpack?

Nathan C

@Dan Sure, but some stuff you'd want to keep in it, like travel documents and things. Sometimes I don't bother unpacking though...:P

Anonymous

3:27 PM

@NathanC same

Anonymous

if it's less than two weeks i don't unpack

Dan

@NathanC That's what a safe is for!

MikeyB

Nifty:

MMR-2G-5U

Dan

@PatoSáinz For real? I may not bother for one or two nights, but after that it takes all of 10 - 15 minutes to unpack

Nathan C

@Dan True, but safes are heavy...

MikeyB

3:28 PM

Scott Pack

@MikeyB I use twist ties to keep the zippers closed. I've also never had no luggage not searched so it saves on locks.

Dan

@NathanC Every hotel I stay in has a safe or at least a secure deposit box

Anonymous

@Dan i'd rather spend my time sleeping or getting to know the place i travelled to

Nathan C

fair enough

Anonymous

@Dan i wouldn't trust them

Scott Pack

3:29 PM

@Dan With a master code that the entire housekeeping staff has trivial access to.

2

Anonymous

^

Nathan C

idk, guess there's some niche use for them. Either way, they're very flimsy anyway

Anonymous

also if it uses key, management always has a spare copy

Dan

@ScottPack So? If they're going to break into a safe to steal your stuff, you really think they give a shit about your crappy locks

pauska

@MikeyB Yeah, for the mac mini "server"

stupid shit

Dan

3:30 PM

If you're staying in shit holes there's NO substitute for not taking important items with you

If you're staying anywhere half decent, house keeping won't steal your things from the safe

Scott Pack

@Dan Oh, no, I'm saying that if you're going to use the hotel safe don't kid yourself into thinking that you're keeping your things safe from hotel staff.

Anonymous

@Dan i'd still wouldn't trust anyone

Dan

I've never had a penny stolen from a hotel, ever

MikeyB

@pauska just got asked to quote 24 x Mac Minis as servers. They get used :/. Not like Apple has any server-class machines anymore.

Anonymous

neither had i

Dan

3:31 PM

I don't doubt it happens - but I reckon you're more likely to get mugged for your wallet than come back to an empty safe

Anonymous

but i don't want it stolen anyway

Dan

@PatoSáinz So your solution is a cheap luggage lock

MikeyB

@ScottPack Last time I stayed at a hotel the room had a safe with a USB port on it. I figured out how to reset the code and open it :)

pauska

@MikeyB bahhhhhhhh it physically hurts in my spine just thinking of that

Anonymous

@MikeyB you haxxor

Anonymous

3:32 PM

that's breaking the CFAA!

Scott Pack

@Dan Oh definitely. I still put things in those safes, but it's more to keep it out of sight in a slightly better place than a drawer. On the off chance someone meanders in, not to keep out people that already have keys.

MikeyB

@PatoSáinz so l33t. so sysadmin.

@PatoSáinz Canadian Fire Alarm Association?

pauska

How the biggest IT company in the world can just ignore every enterprise out there and kill of the xserve line is beyond me

Anonymous

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Nathan C

@MikeyB Such leet. So sysadmin. wow

Dan

3:33 PM

@ScottPack Yeah, exactly. If you're staying in a hotel you kind of have to trust them to some degree

Anonymous

one of many american bullshit

Michael Hampton

-1

Q: Can I use a socket proxy as a VPN server and how?

I have a socket proxy server, I knew the proxy client setting. But I do not have privilege of the proxy server system. Is there any Mac app that can provide a VPN service through the socket proxy?

MikeyB

@PatoSáinz Oh, so I broke an American law… in Canada? Dear me.

Michael Hampton

Does anybody even understand this?

Anonymous

@MikeyB nevermind then

Anonymous

3:34 PM

@MichaelHampton he wants to do the impossible

Scott Pack

@Dan I wouldn't say that either. There's a different between implicitly trusting people and accepting the realities of your controls.

Anonymous

CLOSE

Nathan C

@MichaelHampton Probably wants to use it as a tunnel...

Michael Hampton

I clearly haven't had enough coffee because I have absolutely no idea what he's talking about.

Dan

@ScottPack Well, okay, semantics.

Anonymous

3:35 PM

@MichaelHampton IMO he's trying to be able to use a proxy as a vpn

Anonymous

without having access to the proxy server

Anonymous

comprehensible?

Mathias R. Jessen

@RyanRies Funky... They're all forward link attributes ... homeMDB, manager etc.

Scott Pack

@Dan Not really. By stating that you should begin with a point of trust in employees is saying that the safe is totally awesome because it'll keep out the miscreants and the staff members wouldn't get in because they're trustworthy.

MikeyB

@PatoSáinz give 'em the sock

Anonymous

3:37 PM

@MikeyB the sock?

Scott Pack

@Dan I'm saying that you shouldn't use the safe to keep things safe from staff because they can get in anyway. If you don't want someone stealing something then put it someplace safe, not there.

Anonymous

oohh now i get it

Anonymous

lol

Dan

@ScottPack Well, like i say, in any half decent hotel the average house keeper won't have access to the safe anyway

@ScottPack There's only one option, then, and that's to take it out with you.

Scott Pack

@Dan Given the models of safes used in hotels, that's not exactly true.

Dan

3:38 PM

And I think you're safer (and probably more insured) leaving valuables in the safe

Scott Pack

@Dan Right, or go to a bank and rent a short term box. Some banks, particularly in bigger cities, can do that.

@Dan Me too.

MikeyB

@ScottPack … that's actually a really good idea.

Dan

@ScottPack I doubt they will to a foreign national, and seriously, that's hugely impractical for most things

Scott Pack

@MikeyB You sound surprised!

Dan

Banks are 9-5 Mon -Fri for a start over here

MikeyB

3:39 PM

@ScottPack Never thought of it!

Scott Pack

@Dan For most things of course it would be but if it's that important it wouldn't be too much effort at all.

Dan

@ScottPack What are we defining as that important - this discussion, to me, are things like travel documents, passport, cash etc

Scott Pack

@Dan Ah, I was speaking in as broad a terms as possible since we never defined what our threat profile, risk appetite, and asset value was. :)

cole

hooray we're actually going to start migrating the 2000 servers to 2008 R2

MikeyB

@cole Not right to 2012?

jscott

3:41 PM

@cole Why not 2012R2?

Anonymous

@cole good fucking riddance

Dan

@ScottPack It started by me saying I don't bother with luggage locks when I travel

cole

I don't know

jscott

:)

cole

mainly because these are old, old servers

Scott Pack

3:41 PM

@Dan For all I know you smuggle diamonds in your sinuses.

cole

and we have zero 2012 in place right now.

Scott Pack

Incidentally, that would be the most uncomfortable mechanism by which to smuggle diamonds.

I wouldn't recommend it.

Dan

@ScottPack I did bring a nice tiffanies necklace back from NYC. I kept that in the safe, too :D

Scott Pack

You know what, let's just ignore that I ever said anything about sinus smuggled diamonds. I don't want that kind of liability.

cole

2012 is most likely too new for the software that runs on these 2000 boxes.

Anonymous

3:43 PM

@ewwhite psst since you liked it so much youtube.com/user/TelevisorMusic/videos

Scott Pack

I'm documenting a rack and, included with the diagram I'm tablizing the information. Is there a standard way to say what slot position a piece of equipment is in a rack?

Like, if it's the 9th U from the top would that be "Position 9", "RU 9", does counting statr from the bottom, etc?

jscott

@ScottPack I do a column for elevation (1-42U) and a column for device height (1u,4u) U counts start from bottom.

Scott Pack

@jscott I'm doing that as well, and damn. I did all my counting from the top so I need to recalculate these numbers. Oh well.

Does it start with 0 or 1?

jscott

@ScottPack The racks we have all start at 1.

Scott Pack

cool

This is a shitty round hole EMC rack where none of the positions are labeled.

Dan

3:48 PM

@ScottPack :( That's irritating

Scott Pack

@Dan It pretty much is, yeah.

The bottom ~3rd is also taken up with the storage which looks like a drunk monkey with palsy cabled it.

cole

Looks like you can only have Forest level two way trusts with 2003 FFL and 2012 R2 FFL.

ewwhite

37

Q: What are the legitimate uses of the `touch` command?

What's the point of the touch command? I know I can create empty files with it, but so is also the case with echo -n. Otherwise, why would someone need to change the timestamps of a file? Unless to create the false impression about the age of a file, I don't see any other use, and this one is no...

command timestamps

@ScottPack thee rack units should be numbered

ROUND HOLE... EWWW

Michael Hampton

You can clearly see the numbers along the sides.

Scott Pack

@ewwhite Your face is clearly not helpful.

@MichaelHampton Yes, and that looks glorious. Too bad this EMC shit isn't.

ewwhite

3:58 PM

@MichaelHampton I'm going there this weekend

jscott

@ScottPack Label maker. Go.

ewwhite

@ScottPack that's one of my fruit racks

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite Ha, when I went searching for images of the numbers on racks, yours was the first that came up

Scott Pack

@ewwhite Needs more SuperMicro

jscott

I was going to ask if that rack was built with Ed's discards.

ewwhite

3:59 PM

@jscott I have to go and throw ALL of that equipment away

useless shit

being replaced with some fusion-io-powered HPs

Michael Hampton

@ScottPack I'm having a really hard time imagining something that looks worse than one of @ewwhite's produce company racks.

jscott

@ewwhite We still have some DL380G5 in service here.

Scott Pack

@MichaelHampton It's not terrible. I have pictures, I'm just not posting them.

ewwhite

Tanner

Sounds like somebody had no backups on their 40TB of data in RAID 5:

0

Q: Why URE fails raid rebuild and "renders RAID 5 unusable"

I'm sorry but I just can't comprehend from a theoretical point of view. Why is it that running into a single URE, the raid controller decides everything else are ruined and just dies? Stupid. A 40 TB array is useless because 1mb is lost? Rebuild the whole damn thing, then just do a checksum che...

raid

jscott

4:00 PM

There's a couple DL360G4(s) too, but they don't do anything important, nor are they under CarePack.

@ewwhite At least you have somewhere to wash your hands after messing about in that tangle.

ewwhite

@jscott the water that comes out of that faucet is brown.

jscott

ewwwww.

Scott Pack

@ewwhite So it'll still make your hands cleaner.

Michael Hampton

Ouch.

jscott

I guess that depends on how filthy that rack is. Could be a break even kind of thing.

Dan

4:04 PM

@ewwhite Racist.

4

Scott Pack

@MichaelHampton I think it's also worth pointing out that we have several hundred buildings, some of which are >150 years old, and our network closets are often in the only place we could beg/borrow/steal square feet from. I have equipment in some pretty skeezy places.

pauska

several hundred buildings? How large is that uni you work at?

Scott Pack

@pauska On the main campus about 30,000 students.

@pauska Fun Fact! This is the best lit hallway to get to the primary telecom closet for one of our sites.

@pauska That site is the old insane asylum and that hallway is where they would transport patients to the operating rooms for lobotomies. Incidentally, one of those rooms is the telecom closet. Those windows are at ground level.

voretaq7

@ScottPack Fun Fact: I once had an office at the end of a similar hallway (ours was all battleship gray though, and underground so no windows).

Scott Pack

@voretaq7 That's all dissolving clay brick. I imagine it was actually more depressing when it was new.

voretaq7

4:13 PM

@ScottPack This seems appropriate as a location for the telecom closet. Tell me, do you have the orbital lobotomy picks as LARTs?

Scott Pack

@voretaq7 I'd have to talk to the network guys.

voretaq7

@ScottPack When you do tell them "I like the cables lashed to the pipe. Because cable ladders are just too expensive."

Scott Pack

It's just creepy to be installing a piece of equipment and standing on top of a drain that you know carried gobs of grey matter.

Why install cable trays when you can ziptie to steam pipes? I mean honestly!

voretaq7

No reason I can think of :-)

cole

WTF

Nathan C

4:24 PM

0

Q: Change MS Office license / key without reinstalling?

My company is currently leasing Office 2010 through Office 365. We want to switch to SPLA licensing but the biggest concern we have is whether or not we will need to reinstall Office to change from the Office 365 subscription service to a Volume License model. Is it possible to accomplish this ...

ms-office-2010 ms-office-365

"I'm not sure but try this" ...uh...

@voretaq7 Dem frozen(?) pipes

voretaq7

What is this comms riser when it's not in use?
"The steam pipe trunk distribution venue"

Nathan C

Because water mixes with electric current so well

:P

ewwhite

Why do Linux people use the free -m command? What does it provide that other tools do not?

Michael Hampton

What other tools?

Nathan C

@ewwhite It's easily fed into parsers

@MichaelHampton Maybe top

Michael Hampton

4:38 PM

0

Q: Something eats all memory on my server, but it is NOT fs cache

I had several times received notifications from my monitoring system about 98% memory. I ran top and counted only around 60% memory used if I sum memory column. After several hours memory usage was back to normal (~70%). I suspected fs cache, but free -m does not prove this. Any ideas? Server: ...

linux ubuntu-12.04 memory-usage

Anonymous

please tell me the eternal weekend is over

pauska

@MichaelHampton 95% of his memory is buffered

voretaq7

@PatoSáinz not as long as the users are still alive, son.

pauska

Isn't such a large buffered pool signs of an app doing heavy page flushes?

no nevermind, buffer is the FS cache

Anonymous

@poige My money is on the Java web app misbehaving. Who writes anything important in Java anyway? — Michael Hampton 2 mins ago

ewwhite

4:43 PM

But I would never be like, "hmm, what is my server doing? Let me go use the free command!"

I only know it for interviews and trivia.

pauska

@MichaelHampton tried to answer..

Nathan C

wolframalpha.com/input/?i=infinity%20/%202

mind = blown

=o

MDMarra

@MarkHenderson is there anything here that I'm missing specific to Visual Studio?

0

Q: How do you publish a site to an IIS web farm with Visual Studio?

I am using Visual Studio 2012 to publish a web site to an IIS server farm. The problem I ran into is that the publishing process would only work if it happened to get routed to the primary server. My solution was to temporarily stop the secondary server so that the publishing request would have ...

visual-studio iis-server-farm web-site-publishing

pauska

@MichaelHampton and I'll bet that this is a VPS..

@MDMarra Yes, he should use msdeploy instead to gain much better control of IIS while updating

like stopping the app pool before changing files

he's a bit vague though, I can't understand if he's publishing files directly or if he's using web deploy against the RR DNS of his farm

MDMarra

Yeah, I didn't know if there was something specifically in VS that makes the question make sense

pauska

4:48 PM

web publishing is a bit hacky in VS

works great for a local IIS test, but against production you really really have to fine tune it

we publish from teamcity instead

Ryan Ries

Speaking of IIS, I'm thinking of making a more special-purpose replacement for IIS to host my blog.

Which means I also have to make a replacement CMS to go with it.

MDMarra

You're just going to go ahead and write your own web server?

Ryan Ries

Yes

voretaq7

@MDMarra in powershell.

with blackjack.

and hookers.

in fact forget the web server! And the blackjack!

MDMarra

@RyanRies ...dude

Ryan Ries

4:53 PM

@voretaq7 Actually that's not a bad idea -- Powershell might give it a novelty factor

Nathan C

@RyanRies What about a web server within a web server?

pauska

I'm honestly beginning to like IIS

voretaq7

hey if you write a toy web server in PowerShell I'd be impressed.

@MDMarra leave him alone. He'll learn :)

There comes a point in every sysadmin's life when he or she writes a web server. Just so they can go completely crazy

Ryan Ries

I like IIS, but it's large and bloated, and now I want something with laser focus and a small attack surface

pauska

@voretaq7 no, really..

@RyanRies it's not very bloated if you don't install the features you don't need..

use nginx then

Ryan Ries

4:56 PM

@pauska That's like asking me to vote for Romney

pauska

nginx is republican? :o

sorry, I meant, braindead republican?

Ryan Ries

But seriously I was quite intrigued to read about how apparently nginx doesn't use threading?

pauska

it's troo

async something vodoo stuff

event driven, kind of like message queuing.. only async

Ryan Ries

So I already have a devilishly simple web server that I wrote in C#

But it uses the thread pool

managed thread pool

I started off spawning a new thread for every request, but quickly learned that was retarded.

MikeyB

@RyanRies Yeah, having a baby every time you need something done around the house is… suboptimal.

voretaq7

5:08 PM

@pauska Sarah Palin?

MikeyB

What is the right word for when you have a submarine that isn't operating correctly?

MDMarra

@MikeyB suboptimalmarine?

pauska

@MDMarra hahah

Ryan Ries

5:25 PM

I kinda' want to canoe down the Mississippi river. Like, the whole thing.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

If male superheroes dressed like the women // Et bien pourquoi pas ;) http://t.co/kqlw6VrZYc

Tweeted by guyxx on January 12, 2014 at 4:50 PM

/cc @voretaq7

Ryan Ries

I love guys that come to a big meeting at work and curse excessively, it keeps things interesting

voretaq7

@DennisKaarsemaker Batman and Robin dress like that anyway...

Ryan Ries

"No more than 64 NFS mounts per fucking V server!"

ewwhite

@RyanRies so?

Ryan Ries

5:33 PM

@ewwhite Beats me ... I don't even know why I was invited to this meeting. But there's a guy talking that's cussing, and it's entertaining

ewwhite

someone complaining about vmware?

pauska

@RyanRies Is cussing uncommon in Texas?

Ryan Ries

In a meeting at work with a lot of people in it, yeah

@ewwhite It sounds to me like they're having problems with backing up virtual machines, or keeping track of them when they're storage vmotioned, and then those underlying datastores are subsequently moved, but I'm not sure about the specifics, I was just pushed into this meeting room without having any idea what it's about

pauska

I was meaning to ask.. we arrive in houston thursday morning before the conference

I'm trying to figure out what we should spend those days on (except for the obvious and noxious amount of BBQ and beer)

mexico is a bit too far..

is Dallas any fun?

Ryan Ries

@pauska Yes

But it's 4 hours drive from Houston

pauska

5:43 PM

3,5 hours according to google

but what should one do in Dallas if we're there for a night or two?

Ryan Ries

Texas is huge ... you have to drive for hours to get anywhere

Deep Ellum

Clubs, bars, restaurants

Concerts, etc. etc.

Although, as someone who lives in Dallas, if you're in Houston, you'd probably have more fun in Austin

It's so much closer

pauska

yeah two other norwegians we know are going to austin

I just didn't understand why..

what's there to do in austin then?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@MikeyB gotomarine?

pauska

deep ellum looks like bullseye actually.. my boss loves live music

Ryan Ries

Yeah Deep Ellum is probably the most interesting area in Dallas

ewwhite

5:48 PM

Fuck yeah!!!

Ryan Ries

I think I need to change my hotel reservation now that I think about it

From checking in Monday to Sunday

pauska

that would be a good idea

it's crowded like fuck on mondays.. you should check in on sunday and get your badge/backpack the same day

However, the current official slogan promotes Austin as "The Live Music Capital of the World"

sounds like Austin could work as well

Ryan Ries

I don't think you would be disappointed either way, but you'll spend much less time driving if you go to Austin... both places have pretty decent night life

ewwhite

So I'm evaluating this virtual SAN solution for VMware... maxta.com/products

Ryan Ries

Yeah it's weird that the TechEd website automatically registered me to check in to the hotel on Monday, when now that I think about it, that doesn't really work at all

Scott Pack

5:56 PM

@voretaq7 Pretty.

Mathias R. Jessen

lol, justed received an actual certificate on paper from VMWare for my free VCA :D

pauska

I forgot to take that

is it still free?

Mathias R. Jessen

until Jan 31 i think

pauska

@RyanRies what hotel? We're at the Icon

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