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12:01 AM
I currently have a dlink (ISP supplied), asus and a unmanaged cisco switch.
 
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root@OpenWrt:~#
@JourneymanGeek I've got a couple of cheap TP-Link routers with external antennas, a cheap Trendnet with external antenna, and a Netgear something or other. Not to mention the old Buffalo 54G something. And a huge pile of (sometimes very large) antennas...
 
I could just replace it everything with something with 12+ ports and proper, planned ethernet cabling.
and store.alagasnetwork.com/wireless/… is cheaper than what I would have paid retail for my current asus
 
And I assigned most of that /60 and I'm getting ready to go yell at Comcast to give me more.
 
12:38 AM
This is someone trying to rip off Australians, right?
$55 for a Raspberry Pi?
 
@MarkHenderson: MIGHT end up being slightly cheaper taking shipping into account
 
@JourneymanGeek Ahh planned ethernet cabling. I spent 2 hours this morning labelling ethernet cables
 
@MarkHenderson: ours is in all the wrong places.
 
I now have 96 network cables with serial numbers at either end
 
I had a fantasy of using grounding pairs at either end, plus an LED embedded in the jack, so you could push a switch at one port and the other port it was plugged into would flash a bright LED
 
12:42 AM
@RyJones Sticky labels are probably cheaper/easier
 
actually, the fantasy was to do it in the cable itself, so it would grow as you added more cables
 
More importantly, there's no ethernet in my room, my backbone is homeplug.
 
@MarkHenderson I can never get them to stick. I'd like something like serialized heat shrink that you could cut in 1" lengths
 
@RyJones: look up something called plastic wire markers
NOT seen em in ethernet cable sizes tho
 
12:46 AM
@RyJones I bought ones that you print on a laser printer and wrap it around the cable
It has an opaque section at the top and transparent rest of it
 
@MarkHenderson oh nice.
 
Its a bit of manual work, but never had a problem
 
@RyJones: I liberated a bunch of these back when I was in the army strancoinc.com/wire-marker-clip-on.htm
 
@JourneymanGeek so how do you mark wifi channels? do you just attach these to the wall?
 
@RyJones: oh for cables ;p
 
12:48 AM
@JourneymanGeek bah, I was trolling, but not very well
 
You clearly use wireless markers for those
 
I'm looking for books on Exchange 2013...
Any recommendations?
 
@ewwhite I know that guy!
 
@RyJones uh oh...
 
@ewwhite I summoned him
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A: Git: move branch pointer to different commit

Chris Johnsengit branch -f branch-name new-tip-commit

so handy
 
1:06 AM
@ewwhite you drive an Audi?
 
@mossy naw... BMW
 
 
They can be...
car is a bad investment :)
 
I'm downvoting that crappy answer. It doesn't work at all.

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At line:1 char:4
+ git <<<< branch -f branch-name new-tip-commit
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (git:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
 
@mossy I leased mine... then bought it.
Damn d00d... an S4?!?
 
1:08 AM
@ewwhite Everyone around here drives Audi, mercedes, BMW
every time i pass an audi i'm like
 
@ewwhite Most things are, though. Cars, houses, computers, whatever. Because they're not meant to be investments in the general case.
 
My two cycling teammates live in San Antonio... Audi TT and S4 Avant
 
that took too long to find.
 
@HopelessN00b the Microsoft Windows team is hard at work integrating the product I work on. They figured out how to use git.
 
@ewwhite So nice.
My buddy has an R8
he's always posting pics on Facebook :|
 
1:10 AM
I know a TT owner, he's full of regret
 
too rich for me.
TT lol
 
car has been nothing but a money pit
 
I've had my car 6.5 years... 39,000 miles
 
Chicago life
I have a 2010.. 69,000
 
@ewwhite Heh. I'm at 12 years or so and 170,000 miles. Pretty depressing, really.
 
1:13 AM
My gf leases new cars and trades them in before hitting the mileage cap. It seems to work so far...
 
@MichaelHampton Thinking about it.
The mileage cap scares me though
 
@mossy My wife's car is 10 years old and she hasn't even broken 40,000km's yet
 
A lot of travel for my last job.
 
She took it for its annual service a few months ago and the mechanic told us he didn't bother to service it because she hadn't driven it enough, and to see him in another 6 months
 
haha nice
@MarkHenderson I only drive about 20km a day now
was A LOT before
 
1:20 AM
Personally I just buy cheap clunkers and drive them until important parts fall out.
 
@mossy I drive even less, my trip to work is literally 10 minutes. But I do a lot of driving on the weekends usually
And once a year I'll ususally do the 2500km round trip to my parents place
 
1:36 AM
am I totally misinterpreting this?
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Q: What type of email address should I recreate to prevent this NDR?

makerofthings7I deleted a user and need to recreate them. What is the correct proxy address I need to setup to prevent these NDRs: (sample) Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: Camp, Erica The e-mail address you entered couldn't be found. Please check the recipient's e-mail addr...

 
@ewwhite it is a confusing question.
 
@ewwhite That guy does so many weird things
 
I left my current employer. I came back after 90 days. Nobody could send me email (or IM me) for the same reason, I had to send instructions around to tell people how to clear the cache.
ah, Exchange
 
@mossy 30,000 miles in 2 years. #mainelife
 
Woohoo I got a new badge for being a question whore. But a good question whore.
@ewwhite That guy has the same badge
Shit @kylebrandt has it twice
 
1:42 AM
I'm trying to dig up the last NDR I had because of the cache
 
Heh, I don't ask a lot of questions on here because I use The Comms Room as live supp- ...wait
 
@RyJones that's definitely the issue here
@MarkHenderson Oh nifty... I have a badge
 
@MarkHenderson This was an amusing one...back when 100+ upvotes was common
 
@RyJones Did you reset your tenured benefits back to day 1? =(
 
@NathanC The irony of that question was that when I opened the box, it was actually a 48-port switch in a 24-port box
So the question was pointless
 
1:46 AM
@Wesley I'm a contractor, no benefits
 
@RyJones Ohhh, right. Just mad cash.
:P
 
@MarkHenderson ...how does packaging get that wrong?
Also, fl.ux made my screen all yellowish so some of the colors on chat look weird (green looks especially neon-colored)
 
@NathanC No idea but it worked in my favour. Someone else probably ordered a 48-port POE and got a 24-port
 
@MarkHenderson It's okay, we ordered a Dell and it was dead out of the box ...what I really wanted was a paperweight!
I'm pretty sure it's a fact that computer manufacturers have no sense of QA testing except to test 1 of every 1000 units or something
 
@NathanC I've never had a dead dell
In fact I still have two 7-year-old Dell desktops that I wish would die
One of them is running our TVs for the network monitoring displays
 
1:51 AM
@MarkHenderson Had two in the same batch (ordered 6) bad out of the box. One didn't even turn on. The other just flashed its power button angrily.
 
I remember the very first time I ever dealt with a rack mounted server. I convinced my boss that it was worth paying extra for a proper rack mounted one - regardless that we didn't have a rack, and that we would eventually get one.
Imagine my pants-shitting when I plugged it in and hit the power button and nothing happened for a good 30 seconds
I thought I'd wasted our money, but of course it eventually came alive after doing whatever it is that servers do during that period
 
@MarkHenderson Yeah, that happened with us too. The PSUs "charge" before kicking on
But, it seems to only do that if it's the first time they're plugged in or if left unplugged for a while
 
Probably have a supercap that needs charging to make sure that power stays stable in the event of a PSU failover
A supercap would take a fair while to drain on a powered off system
 
Yeah, kinda like the caps in a CRT monitor
ZAP
 
2:43 AM
Uh....
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Q: Diagnose DB server usage of 100 %

Manohar NegiI have a web application using MySQL RDBMS and the CPU usage of the DB server goes to 100%. How can I diagnose the root cause for this?

 
@HopelessN00b How do I sysadmin?
How do I dba?
How do I devops?
 
@MarkHenderson dd if=/dev/zero of=/your/face
3
 
Not even that complicated. It's ... I mean, your webapp uses your database server, and then the CPU on the database server spikes to 100%. Very puzzling. I wonder if the root cause of that CPU usage might be the webapp.
 
@HopelessN00b Or really poorly designed queries
Or a serious lack of indexes
Or statistics
Or pathetic execution plans
There's a reason why being a DBA is its own career path
 
Fair enough. I suppose the problem could be in the shitty database design just as easily as it could be in the shitty webapp.
 
2:50 AM
@HopelessN00b I suspect it is.
@MarkHenderson DBAs do not get enough respect in the industry.
 
@RyJones DBAing is hard. Everyone hates you. Literally everyone.
 
@RyJones Probably because many of them are so useless. Similar problem the rest of us face. "Oh, you know how to server? That's awesome! You can be our new systems engineer!"
Like our DBA who can't write a query. Or even backup and truncate his translogs.
 
The devs hate you because you keep rubbishing their data structures. The sysadmins hate you because SQL servers take a lot of resources. The SAN admin hates you because you keep complaining to him about disk latency. The users hate you because they blame you for the shitty performance. Your boss hates you because you're expensive and a nessesary evil. Your wife/husband hates your idea of foreplay is discussing ACID complaince
The security team hates you because you have full access rights to the servers and the data on them
@HopelessN00b One of our largest customers, a huge national corporation with thousands of employees and dozens of brands, I asked if I could have a conference with their DBA to discuss some performance issues our app was having. Their response was "Oh, we don't have a DBA. We just figure thigns out as we need to. We do have this one guy that we use but he's $450/hour so we only use him in disasters"
 
Yeah, sounds about right. And you just know there's a manager or executive making a quarter mil who can't figure out why they have so many database problems. <sigh> The world's a depressing place.
 
@HopelessN00b You have to be careful. Boeing calls people DBAs, but what they do is follow a manual and run a pre-written script. They no nothing about actual DBA work.
 
2:58 AM
@RyJones Yup, describes all the DBAs I've ever worked with. Well, some were even worse than that. I'd love to get to work with a real DBA, honestly.
 
If Brent Ozar ever does a tour of Australia I will totally snap him up for some consluting time
Or any of his team
> $2,395: 3-day Performance Troubleshooting class
Sounds like money well spent to me
Just have to got San Diago, aka "A Whale's Vagina"
 
Yeah, California... blech.
 
@Magellan Happy work anniversary. Has it really been a year? Wow.
 
 
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4:24 AM
good morning
@MarkHenderson just watch all their videos... already helps a lot
 
Bob
4:40 AM
@MichaelHampton How does that compare to, say, those people chucking WAMP on client Windows?
Or just running IIS on there, actually...
 
@Bob I think licensing actually forbids horrible things like that
 
Bob
@MichelZ If someone's going that route, do you think they care about licensing? :P
 
@Bob Probably not. But I don't care about their questions on SF then as well
 
5:05 AM
@MarkHenderson $450/hr... I need a raise
 
G'day
First get years of experience... There is no shortcut. — Iain 50 secs ago
 
stop()
{
        # Disable lockfile check
        # if [ ! -f "$LOCKFILE" ] ; then return 0 ; fi

        # check if ZFS is installed.  If not, comply to FC standards and bail
        zfs_installed || {
                action $"Checking if ZFS is installed: not installed" /bin/false
                return 5
        }

        # the poweroff of the system takes care of this
        # but it never unmounts the root filesystem itself
        # shit
 
5:29 AM
good meuning
 
d'oh!
 
6:01 AM
morning
 
6:18 AM
Morning
 
morning
 
6:55 AM
@Bob or XAMPP on windows XP.
But that's a whole different level of hell
 
7:27 AM
use freaking IIS on windows
or Apache on linux
everything else is crap
:)
 
nah, Nginx is good too
 
I meant "if you use windows -> use IIS", "if you use apache, use linux"
basically, don't use WAMP :D
 
that makes sense
 
g'day
@Dan is netscaler the only way to load-balance citrix stuff? Or can you use whatever loadbalancer you already have?
 
7:43 AM
@Wesley Thanks. I had to go back through my email to check my start date. I had the date written down as next Tuesday instead of this past Tuesday.
 
8:03 AM
morning, afternoon, evening all
 
@ColdT morning, afternoon, evening to you as well
 
8:22 AM
wow dead today
 
Dan
8:33 AM
@pauska Any will do, but you may struggle to replicate some of the application-aware monitoring that's built into NetScaler
To be quite honest, though, that's mainly for load balancing the XML service which can be nice to do but I'm not convinced it's half as useful on the modern flex architecture in XenDesktop and XenApp 7 onwards. The reason being that you'll generally only have two XML services anyway, they're very capable of serving lots of requests and the infrastructure has built in failover anyway.
@cole Awesome, let me know if you do :)
 
9:09 AM
why cloud-to-butt is bad:
[poster's boss] asked me to take a look at a bug in a weather forecast script in the sidebar of a news website that my company manages. I open up the script (which is annoyingly only accessible in-browser through the CMS), fix the bug, and get back to my other projects.

The next day, the newspaper editor stops by and asks me to take a look at the weather forecast cause it's "acting strange." Long story short, approximately 6,000 area residents were informed that the weather in their county today would be "Butty with light rain in the evening."
7
 
9:26 AM
@Dan built-in failover you say.. how does that work? shared IP?
 
Sometime something in the sidebar catches my attention, one such lead me to this comment
> This is why schoolchildren should learn math operations with set theory, because it is much easier to understand the abstract concepts. Fractions are only hard because people don't understand what a multiplicative inverse is.
 
Dan
@pauska Nah, just the service that connects to the XML server (StoreFront or WebInterface) can take a list of XML services. If one fails, it'll bypass it. Not as configurable as a load balancer, but perfectly functional
@Iain 0.o
 
yeah
 
morning
 
Dan
@pauska The main thing you want for redundancy is HTTP based failover for StoreFront itself - this can be achieved with any commercial balancer
 
9:38 AM
what a crazy world we live in. I'm here on a wifi hotspot from my phone. This would have been magic when I was in school
 
where is here ?
 
A cafe outside our DR centre
 
@Dan alright, I clearly have no clue about Citrix since this is the first time I hear about Storefront, Flex, WebInterface and XML..
 
I get here a few hours early to make fucking sure that someone from the storage team is there for hour zero of the simulation
My boss and the other guy take another car but get here more like n-0.5 hours
tim hortons, baby.
 
yeah, I use hotspot on my phone with LTE.. it works great
 
9:40 AM
@Basil school I worked at previous had issues with this - it was a boarding school and the internet got switched off at midnight to"encourage" the students to go to bed. They couldn't stop the students using MiFI devices though which was causing major issues due it being unfiltered.
 
Dan
@pauska :) What do you wanna know?
 
@Dan I think I'll just need to get a copy of the software and start lab'ing.. it's usually the best way for me to learn
 
Dan
10:00 AM
@pauska 100% and most of it can be co-located on one server
 
@Dan I'm thinking two XenApp servers.. it's just for some financial stuff
Can't use regular RemoteApp as the programs export stuff directly to excel etc
 
Dan
10:46 AM
@pauska Not so sure it's going to sort your needs
 
@Dan doesn't citrix have some sort of app redirection to local client? I think we've discussed it before
 
Dan
@pauska We have, and I'm not sure it works how you think it does
It's going to depend heavily how the app interacts with Excel. If it's just a file association then Local App Access *may* do the trick, but I'm not sure. It's also a Platinum only feature, making it hugely expensive.

If the app does anything clever with API calls or what have you, then you'll need Excel installed on the Citrix server, just like RDS
 
gah... I really really really don't want excel installed there
it'll confuse the users
Oct 23 12:42:14 thor ntpd[49138]: adjusting local clock by 95.992767s
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Oct 23 12:56:14 thor ntpd[49138]: adjusting local clock by 95.592824s
Oct 23 12:57:20 thor ntpd[49138]: adjusting local clock by 95.561540s
something tells me that Hyper-V is trying to sync the clock..
 
11:13 AM
so get your hyper-v to have the correct time and kill ntpd :)
 
11:32 AM
kill the hyper-v
@pauska you are the one switching to hyper-v from vmware, right? how is it?
 
11:44 AM
@MichelZ just running plain hyper-v without scvmm in a lab right now
but it works just fine from what I can see
 
Heh...apparently one of my old VPSs hosting an IRC server got hax0red
spambot ate all my bandwidth :(
 
12:01 PM
Heh...it left some scripts behind
Why hello there...I found the source code to an IRC bot flooder >_>
 
12:24 PM
great. We released a new version of our webapp to fix performance issues.
=> new version is even slower
 
@faker testing ?
 
@Iain our test infrastructure sucks. It's ok to check functionality but not performance
 
yeah that sucks especially when you're solving performance issues
or not as the case may be
 
1:05 PM
@NathanC You got pwned? Thats a serious crime here
 
OK Comms Room question of the day: Does "professional capacity" dictate that you keep vendor/OEM support contracts in place for equipment you either don't know well enough to troubleshoot completely by yourself or deem critical/important to your business?
I ask based on these types of questions: serverfault.com/questions/638949/… -- where the OP has a Juniper SSL VPN appliance but doesn't maintain support options for it.
 
Yes. We run systems here without a support contract because they're hella expensive and as a school we cannot afford to run them.
 
Do you run RHEL or CentOS? It's a business decision.
That guy really should have professional support though. He (or more likely his management) made the wrong decision.
 
In a perfect world, we've have support contracts on everything, but it's a business decision not to.
 
Yeah, I get it's a business decision. I just find it interesting that a company would put a piece of equipment in place they paid for that is pretty dang important but with no support (or lapsed support).
As a school I'm shocked though Tom...I figured with the educational discounts OEM's give out that support would be $3/year
 
1:16 PM
A lot of the stuff we had put in with the build (digital signage, tv streaming) don't do discounts for education. It's an enterprise product with enterprise pricing.
 
@Nick I should've known better...I had webmin on it, so cgi galore
It's already been nuked and rebuilt, but yeah
 
@NathanC GET OUT!
 
:18286641 We use Concerto...works well enough. We also use Wirecast and some HD webcams to record a "news broadcast" that then gets incorporated into Concerto.
And when I say we...I mean me...lol
 
@MichelZ ;.;
 
@MichelZ you seem to scream GET OUT a lot :p
 
1:21 PM
@Nick only to "fails of the day" :D
Today's FOTD: @NathanC using Webmin and get hacked :)
 
@TheCleaner We had a system called VBrick. It's horrifically complex and the engineer reccomened the person running it spend 5 hours a day in managing, updating, and tagging media.
I wish they did "Plex for Edu" with AD login. That would be sweeeeeeeeeeet.
 
@MichelZ By the bash exploit, no less. I couldn't patch it on Squeeze without using the LTS release, so I nuked it (should have anyway) and installed Wheezy
 
@tombull89 :) indeed.
 
@TheCleaner I like Concerto ...the V2 server leaves much to be desired (like ease of use when it comes to clients)
The Pi has trouble with it
 
I ended up with some SFF vesa mounted clients. I figured if they decided "screw digital signage" then I still had 3 computers I could redeploy. :)
 
1:28 PM
yeah...i'm trying to find software that'll work well on the Pi. I tried out Screenly, but it's a single image/video/webpage, so no zones
unless I put it to a webpage that had them to begin with
 
@TheCleaner yeah we have a maintenance plan that does the SQL backups.
 
@cole funny enough...at my last company the SQL dba required it...and yet when we did our DR tests it was always with the SQL agent backups from Commvault. Silly, and completely redundant...which is what happens when 2 opposing IT forces square off.
 
@TheCleaner we would have to buy a module from EMC to do SQL specific ones and they won't spend the money on it.
Same with the AD stuff.
 
@cole networker? avamar?
 
@MichelZ NetWorker
 
1:33 PM
yeah, good times. fuck java :)
 
@MichelZ yeah I'm not a fan lol.
We run NetWorker on Solaris.
 
ugh
 
EMC wanted to sell us Avamar so bad...it sounded awesome during their sales pitches...but man it was expensive for 6 global sites to deploy. We ended up with Commvault instead and really liked it.
 
argh, when are bigger 2.5" drives coming...
 
They're called 3.5" drives...existed for years. :D
 
1:38 PM
yeah
I just wanted to amend this
 
@MichelZ: Physics, man physics ;p
 
in terms of capacity, not physical size :D
9 TB drives are announced (3.5")
so I guess they can squeeze like 4 TB into 2.5" then :D
 
@MichelZ: probably cause the dirty tricks they use work better on bigger drives
 
@TheCleaner they want to sell as a data domain so bad.
 
@JourneymanGeek they should just compress everything to 2 bits... can't be that hard :)
 
1:41 PM
@MichelZ: oh, I was thinking stuff like helium and hamr
shingles might work ok on 2.5" tho
 
Looks like they're getting rid of VADP - and the VBA requires a DD.
 
@cole DD's are quite nice. at least they used to be. but also quite expensive
 
@MichelZ yeah it was like $60K for 8TB DD
Or $75K, something like that.
 
yep. depending on your compression rate you have ~100 TB
 
So since it's a slow morning I was thinking of IT stuff I've never deployed but wanted to:

- blade servers (yup, never have...always went with 1U servers instead as vmware hosts with a SAN backend)
- Compaq Himalaya -- just because the name was awesome enough
- IBM z Series -- which I'm told requires a z Series specialist to setup, maintain, etc.
- BGP Routers - just never had a need/reason to
- Hyper V -- how sad is that for a Win centric admin? I know it enough...just never deployed it.
- Big Data stuff - never a need
 
1:43 PM
Unfortunately, they won't spend money on IT infrastructure. Applications group gets all the $$$.
 
@TheCleaner blades, bgp, someone who can define "BigData"
 
@TheCleaner hmmm...I'd love to deploy some sort of config. management. I've done a bit with Hadoop, Hyper-V, and a lot with blade servers (especially Cisco UCS).
 
@cole ooh...good call. I've never messed with chef/puppet either. I figure SCCM is probably the closest bet I'll come to...
 
Is it worth to mess with chef/puppet as a windows guy?
 
I've done a lot of cool stuff prior to this job - this job is literally just firefighting and i haven't done a single cool project here.
 
1:46 PM
@MichelZ big data (n) = data that won't fit on 2.5" drives
:)
 
@MichelZ if you have a mixed environment - I would think so.
 
@TheCleaner thanks :D
 
@MichelZ I think @ewwhite seems to think so -- I think...I thought he did some puppet stuff with Windows VMs
 
@MichelZ I think Docker would be better as MS will be integreating that into Server 10, etc.
 
I'd say I'm a Windows guy -but I (well, used to) work with Linux a lot.
 
1:47 PM
I don't even know... from an MS perspective
 
@tombull89 yes, I will definitely look at docker when it has windows support. seems to be very hip :D
 
@TheCleaner Crazy stock trading stuff is meh.
you see how I'm happier helping sell bananas and melons.
 
2AM Email Alert: Node Down. Ill give 1000 internet point to those who can see the issue... http://t.co/BUdFWb5uqS
user image
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shameful
 
Bob
Ouch.
 
1:51 PM
Right?
I seriously cringed when I saw it.
 
@ewwhite You know them?
 
Bob
Looks like you'll need a second caution sticker.
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@MichaelHampton I've had things like that happen
 
@MichaelHampton that delayed_job.service question - like pulling teeth :(
 
Dan
2:02 PM
@cole Aaaah, no
 
haha
 
so our IT manager's last day is thursday of next week...
now our sister site has no onsite IT >_>
 
no onsite IT staff, or no onsite IT?
 
@MichelZ IT staff
 
Your IT manager was the only one at that location but he had reports at other locations?
 
2:14 PM
@TheCleaner Yes, basically.
 
Gotcha
 
@NathanC sounds like a good deal to step up?
 
Who needs a network engineer?
 
@ewwhite networks?
 
When you have Wizards!
 
2:17 PM
hehe
Magic!
 
@MichelZ Well, yes and no. It all depends on how it plays out. Obviously, they're going to need onsite staff there, and as it's in Georgia I don't think flying down there when shit hits the fan is efficient, haha.
 
Dan
@cole What they sending you to sunny Manchester for? Punishment?
 
2:40 PM
Amazon just opened an EU Frankfurt datacenter
 
@MichaelHampton hot
 
@TheCleaner And now for some reason I have potter pals in my head
 
@NathanC snape, snape, serverus snape
DUMBLEDORE!
alas! two sickles and a dungbomb. 'tis my lucky day!
 
@tombull89 "I've found the source of the ticking noise. It's a pipe bomb! Yayyyyy! BOOM
 
2:55 PM
@tombull89 hahahaha
 
why is this one down voted?
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Q: How to Generate custom CentOS DVD

linuxcdeveloperI need to create my custom CentOS DVD(not a live DVD or CD), that contains specific packages, network configuration,... and preinstall and postinstall programs and scripts after installation something like AsteriskNow. I don't found any tools to dot that, can you recommend one? Note: I followed...

 
@ewwhite because tool recommendation, I guess
 
customers are weird... developers are weird..
 
that's how the world works :)
 
I’d like to remove the old "DC" domain controller and just move forward with the DC1 and DC2 controllers. Do you have any objections to this or do you know if the various things you setup are directly referencing it at all (firewall and vmware specifically come to mind). From the research I’ve done, all I should need to do is transfer the FSMO roles and demote the server. Do you have any objections/concerns?
 
3:02 PM
@ewwhite what's wrong with that?
 
Part of me wants to say, "or you could have me do it"
 
:)
 
because it's a dev...
and he is sloppy
 
you're a money machine
 
they already pay me to do this stuff...
they should take advantage of it
or maybe he wants to learn
 
3:13 PM
'ello
 
aah, PDC
good times
 
@ewwhite Tell him it's $ for you to do it...or $$$ for you to fix the domain after he tries.
 
3:29 PM
I feel slimy doing so much Microsoft stuff.
What happened to VMware? Does nobody use it anymore?!?
 
just being nostalgic...
 
@Dan yup - decomm their NT4 domain.
 
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Q: How should an IT manager discuss retrieving equipment and IP with a terminated employee?

TheCleanerHandling it when someone resigns is one thing... But when we let someone go in the company it's difficult for me as the IT manager to engage this individual over the phone or via email. The need is there to converse with them and make sure we retrieve any company physical property (laptops, cel...

You don't necessarily have to answer it, but at least upvote it so it doesn't get closed...lol
 
@DennisKaarsemaker NO! KILL IT!
 
3:46 PM
@TheCleaner simple answer
 
@ewwhite commented
 
there isn't much of a gray area.
 
@TheCleaner You should have a pro-forma email/letter that is agreed with HR that you send out
and HR should probably do the communication
 
@Iain I've been fired so many times... but in general HR handles this. Tech people may be on the call/email if needed.
 
@ewwhite It's their job
 
Dan
3:57 PM
@cole :D
I've actually driven past that place - it wasn't far from my old work.
 

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