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@tombull89 What scares me most is that appears to be professionally made. It would be different if it was someone's handwritten note, everyone's allowed one misspelling or two, but you'd think a business would take the time to vet their spelling beforehand

@cole Not bad, age?

cole

@BigHomie he will be 5 next month.

1:15 PM

@cole lol

cole

@BigHomie he's super smart - he knows every single dinosaur too.

Cold T

can anyone explain why rDNS does not work correctly via Microsoft DNS GUI?!!! frustrating you have to edit the text to get it to work!

you got to be kidding me, this OP is claiming to be the healthcare director!! - reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/23cdh2/…

Nathan C

1:29 PM

@tombull89 It wanted to install something else too

ewwhite

@DennisKaarsemaker Yes, sad. How can I say, "we should probably move DNS" without hurting his feelings?

@ewwhite Just tell him he doesn't have to worry about it anymore, he can focus on other things

Either that or just be blunt, depending on your personality

@ColdT wat

Funny Friday:

1:47 PM

@TheCleaner 2:15 - ahh you crazyy

:)

Ooooo... Fog Creek is hiring an IT engineer.

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As a member of the IT team, you'll be responsible for enabling all the great things that happen at Fog Creek. You'll…

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@HopelessN00b Those are pretty basic requirements. Unless you count the Joel Test at the bottom (but that's probably just cut/paste for all their stuff). But at a place like that you are the IT "janitor". "Yo IT Engineer guy...fix this crap so I can write code again, then go back into your hole."

@TheCleaner So.. like every other IT engineer job in existence, then? At least this one comes with a hole that has a closing door.

@TheCleaner DARRNNNNN YOUUUU

1:55 PM

@HopelessN00b Not the places I've worked. I've been fortunate that the Network Admin type role was more prominent than the Coding roles. I was typically Big Dog on IT Campus and liked it that way. I wouldn't want to work in a place that is software/coding centric.

@BigHomie yeah, his videos are great. Some serious balls to do that and either not laugh or not worry about getting told off or punched.

@TheCleaner I definitely believe that, especially since this is a place where

> We treat programmers like rock stars

IT 'Engineers' must be roadies then.

@TheCleaner I dunno, I've worked at a couple software development shops. Much better than non-IT companies.

@HopelessN00b And likely they'll have to have admin rights

@HopelessN00b The only one I ever worked for ending up outsourcing everyone but me and 5 key programmers (out of about 30 IT specific staff). It always felt like a place that didn't care whether you stayed or went.

@BigHomie Not at the dev shops I've worked at, actually.

1:59 PM

@HopelessN00b - so are you applying or not? :)

Q: Configuring Logstash when installed as a service

@TheCleaner Sounds like a place that had other problems. A shitty software development company is still a shitty company.

@TheCleaner If it's still around when I get me passport back from the damn Canadians, yeah.

faker

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I have installed logstash as a service using the logstash APT repository on Ubuntu 13.10. So now I can run: sudo service logstash And it outputs: * Usage: /etc/init.d/logstash {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status} So I see that the logstash service was successfully installed. I know ...

logstash

Seriously...

@faker Seems so. Tell him he can specify the configuration of his services by opening services.msc, right clicking on the service he's interested in, and selecting properties from the context menu.

Kwaio

Bah

I've been revoked access to production. Too drunk.

@HopelessN00b Really ? How does that work?

Kwaio

2:04 PM

What am I supposed to do of the remaining hours of my afternoun ?

@Kwaio Post on workplace.SE that your past 2 comments as a question there. Sure to get you tons of upvotes!

Kwaio

(Does he says that to anyone who uses question marks ?)

@BigHomie They were shops that "did it right" and set up up entirely different environments. Test, Dev and ... um, the "corporate"/general use/whatever one. (And a production environment for the ones that did customer-facing services).

@HopelessN00b What is this voodoo you speak of? I thought programmers always had the same answer when you pulled the string on their backs...."It works on my machine".

@TheCleaner Only the bad ones do that, in my experience. The good ones know that if it works on their machine, but not the test environment, then there's something wrong with their code.