I've been unable to find an accurate explanation of French law regarding smoking.
I last visited Paris over 10 years ago, and remember it being fairly normal to be able to smoke both in bars, and on the outside-areas of cafés.
I've been googling around lately, and I'm not surprised that smoking...
In other news, I'm glad Nadella went in for Microsoft CEO... best possible outcome IMO. When I heard him speak at TechEd last year I felt then that he could really be leadership material.
Yeah and I'm really glad to see that it's someone who actually understands the industry and the technology... not somebody who ran some car factories, etc.
Okay, this is extremely pedantic, but Jabberwock is the name of the creature. "Jabberwocky" is the title of the poem. So unless the poem is killing users... — David Conrad5 hours ago
@JoelESalas I've got a better chance of making closer to that in my current role. We've had a very, very good 6 months and it looks like it's going to continue. So with any luck the company will grow beneath me and I'll be able to take on that sort of a position
Anyway I think I'm owed. I haven't had a payrise in 2 years
Oh yeah... I wrote this script that made a fresh pot of coffee every hour and then flicked binder clips at other people in the office. Rendered him completely redundant.
Actually I am in the automation business and I know that each time I do a new installation for a customer someone will either quit because they don't like the new methods, or they will be replaced.
@MarkHenderson Me too, the jobs we automate away are completely shit jobs anyway
@MarkHenderson I've been mostly horizontal salary-wise for a couple of years now too... I should be getting a raise soonish. If I don't I'll probably move on
@Andrew I have an original Sound Blaster 16 in a box somewhere
Big fucking ISA card, covered in hundreds of caps, and 3 different 80-pin headers labelled for Mitshuti, etc for all the different non-ide CD-ROM protocols
@Andrew My memory has more caps, but I'll confirm tonight
But that certainly looks accurate
Back in the olden days when you had to run the config program for games and input your DMA/IRQ settings, choose your soundcard type (Sound Blaster or AdLib)
I don't have time to mess around, it's a choice between maybe $30 at the very least, more like $40, or I can get the Fluke for around $75 and (I hope) not have to worry about it.
@Ward: though, how your building is designed would affect things too... I've got a specific area of my apartment that completely blocks off wifi signals ;p
Signed up for a free LinkedIn review service last week (Only cos it's free, I have no intention of using their service - just curiosity). Anyway I used my normal theircompany@mydomain.co.uk e-mail address.
I just had an e-mail to it from the MD, with no content and just the title "Testing."
@£$%£$^%$%^&$%&%$&!!!!! new helpdesk system: "You cannot create a problem from this incident"
WELL WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO CREATE A PROBLEM FROM, IF NOT FROM A FUCKING CALL THAT DESERVES TO BE ESCALATED TO A PROBLEM AS IT AFFECTS THE WHOLE SITE AND REQUIRES A PLANNED CHANGE?
@DennisKaarsemaker Amsterdam... what's not to love about a city with legal weed and hookers? Of course, I suspect that "taking in the local culture" might be a full-time occupation, at least at first.
@RobM <grumble> This stupid freaking country. I have no idea how we went from a bunch of horny, gambling rum-smugglers to the morally-opposed-to-anything-fun group we are now. :(
@RobM Yeah. I don't know how you have a bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms without ending up with the best parties ever, but the government figured it out.
Ouch. I'm afraid you probably have to call support and get them to locate and direct you to the right drivers. Which, of course, is also a convoluted, painful and unnecessarily complicated experience.
Whenever I need procurve firmware updates I go to the product page to find out what firmware it says I ought to be able to download and then just google for that filename.
It's honestly quicker than trying to find a link on the product page itself
@RobM Every year for the 8 years that I worked with HP-UX, on our annual meeting with the service rep, he asked if there was anything we weren't satisfied with. Every year we said "your web site sucks". This includes one complete changeover, which made everything suck differently but still suck, plus it broke all the old links.
@JennyD Their voice activated phone menu when you call support is also especially awful. Even when I say my shortcut, it doesn't work, so I've taken to saying various phrases that might get my call recorded for an NSA analyst, until it connects me to a real person in India to route my call properly (sometimes).
@RobM Really? What's wrong with Dell's websites? They seem to be the easiest to use by a large margin.
Honestly, that doesn't bother me so much, because my experience calling up someone at Dell has always been so much better than calling up someone at HP or IBM. As in, calling Dell is alright... calling HP or IBM is excruciating.
This is true, we have pretty good relationships with our technical and business account managers at Dell. I know I can ring either of them up and have a sensible conversation about buying or supporting one of their servers or storage arrays that will end with a result that leaves both sides happy.
...and that it doesn't take 15 minutes of bouncing around the planet to people with a less than optimal command of the English language to reach who you want. That's my main gripe with IBM and HP. I already know I'll be transferred at least twice, and some combination of poor phone lines and ESL will make it painful to even get to the guy I need to speak to.
well the dell rep here talks in fluent glaswegian, which most English people would consider to be a language that is different to English, but as I have a scottish half to my family tree I can understand the guy no problem...
Heh, that always amused me about the British Isles... birthplace of English, where half the people speak one of half a dozen dialects that only vaguely resembles English.
Yeah, someone showed it off here a couple days ago. MarkHenderson tried to explain it, but I still think it would have been better (and made more sense) if they'd been eaten by dingos.
@TomO'Connor I considered it, but... was not looking to escalate the level of drama, so went with something else instead. It was actually the first thing that crossed my mind. "I could answer this with three words..."
All joking aside, though, major fucking pain in the ass. I'm still getting calls everyday about auto-payments that I need to fix because I was issued a new card from my bank. :/
I’ve been tooling around with some simple filesystem tasks on a few servers and have a terrible memory with silly things like this. So I’m writing it down to answer my own question! You’ll need the e2fsprogs package. Within that package is a command called tune2fs. You can list out the statistics for various volumes on your system with the -l switch. I’d recommend perus…
Looks like "Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they tend to become obsolete quickly. Instead, describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve"
Someone sent me an email offline talking about Server Fault...
Interestingly, I think that if almost anyone but you tried to use serverfault to post a non-question such as in this, they would have been shouted down and run out of town. "Question closed as ...". I guess serverfault is not a perfect democracy.
Probably some truth in that. Though, I don't see anything wrong with that. Being a well-respected, long-standing member of a community confers certain privileges, and should, IMO.
@JourneymanGeek Well, the other difference is that a respected, long-standing member is going to get the benefit of the doubt, and probably more latitude than a first-time poster. I think that's the way it should be, so I don't have a problem with that.
@ewwhite here's a query - got a BL460c Gen8 with a D2220sb, it's got 10x900GB 10k's in R10 and an 800GB SSD in smartcache, running RHEL 6.4 with LVM and ext4 - seeing very low uncached random reads using a 16GB FIO run, like 250-280 iops - once it's cached it's great - thousands - so I removed the smartcache and saw exactly the same stats - 1MB stripes, auto queue - any thoughts?
@ewwhite Yup. Have been as long as I've been here, and it's hard not to be, when you get hit with a new crap question every 5 minutes or so. Natural, and somewhat unavoidable to over-react a bit and get too liberal with the VTC.
Soo... the folks I work for are officially bat-shit insane. After keeping the office open during the lowest temperatures and most snowfall in recorded history... they're closing the office today. And despite being told we can't work from home, because we don't have a work-from-home policy, I was told to work from home today. The contradictions, they burn me.
/opt/iozone/bin/iozone -t1 -i0 -i1 -i2 -r1m -s32g Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O Version $Revision: 3.420 $ Compiled for 32 bit mode. Build: linux
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@Dan Seems like everything else. Sign up here to have recruiters contact you about 200 helpdesk positions a day. Spend countless hours to optimize and tune your profile to reduce that to 100 helpdesk positions a day. Sacrifice a virgin at dawn to be notified of a relevant job oppurtunity you might asctually consider taking.
@Dan Has been a while (literally several years), and I loathe social networking, so it could very well just be me. I'm just gonna hope I can find something awesome without resorting to giving LinkedIn another chance. :)
@HopelessN00b I just thinking it's all about increasing your visibility - it's a somewhat necessary evil. My attitude to job hunting really changed last time - I got some professional help with my CV and within 2 weeks of putting it up online I had a call from a recruiter and landed a job that hadn't even been advertised
Since then, I've put a lot more stock into making myself easy to find
Yeah, sounds like that's probably the smarter way to go. Of course, the police always seem to find me quickly enough, so how hard to find can I really be? :)
Yeah, Joel's got a good article (or two) about that. They're strongly inventivized to take a shotgun/quantity-over-quality approach... so they do. Until companies or job-seekers are willing to pay more for better matching, no one's going to do it, because there's no market for it.
(And for how much it costs to interview, train and on-board new employees, it's bewildering that businesses don't care about cutting back on those costs by getting better matches to begin with... not that it's the only bewildering corporate behavior out there, either.)
Man, you two guys talking about low-level file I/O performance tuning... sure has a way of making a Windows admin feel like a talentless hack. Even if I am the bomb at clicking "Next" on install wizards. :(
but @Chopper3, I'm assuming this is the module for something that will be duplicated many times over, so my esoteric tuning tips and such won't make sense at scale.
Considering a Cisco ASA (5500-X) firewall for our internet edge in front of our web cluster.
At the moment, we use a Linux box with iptables. A log analysis system detects brute-force attacks on WordPress blogs, forum spam, hacking attempts, and much more. Illicit activity will result in a short...
@ewwhite he's an old NJ mate from like 20 years ago - writes scripts and things these days, did that easter bunny one a while back
@ewwhite sorry, I meant vmwae nsx - got a bunch of VMware guys coming to see me today to get me giddy about it, seen the slides but I'm not sure we would be allowed to use it outside our labs
It sucked since it wasn't fully integrated into vCloud Director... so there was a lot of, "oh, that's not ready yet..." and "ignore that error message"
but... the technology is slick... and we had an immediate application for it
spanning two primary data centers and a DR location
the setup was horribly complex
sucked up network engineering and my time for a few weeks.
I've been unable to find an accurate explanation of French law regarding smoking.
I last visited Paris over 10 years ago, and remember it being fairly normal to be able to smoke both in bars, and on the outside-areas of cafés.
I've been googling around lately, and I'm not surprised that smoking...
I wonder how they would stand a nice beating outside the office.
Fuck you all, bastard IT people, especially the automators.
