The Comms Room

Mark Henderson

12:01 AM

@ScottPack Con Air also. Event Horizon.

Scott Pack

@MarkHenderson That's a Cage movie I haven't seen.

@MarkHenderson Event Horizon is great.

Wesley

@MarkHenderson Broken Arrow

@ScottPack So's your face.

Wait... that... that was how you do it, right?

Mark Henderson

@Wesley See now Travolta made good movies both before and after that period. He just... nosedived for a few years

Scott Pack

@Wesley Yes. That's exactly how you do it.

Mark Henderson

@ScottPack The movie just didn't make sense

Why were there so many spikes in that black hole room?

Scott Pack

12:03 AM

@MarkHenderson Precisely. Grease and Michael are examples of the good ones.

Mark Henderson

They served no purpose except to impale people

@ScottPack Pulp Fiction

But as a 15 year old kid, seeing someone's insides strung up on meathooks? Best thing EVAR

strugee

augh, I made a stupid

@MarkHenderson I would not be interested in that

Scott Pack

@MarkHenderson It opened a gateway to another dimension that pretty much corresponds to the Christian Hell. It doesn't have to make sense because the premise causes the ship to no longer follow the laws of physics of our universe.

strugee

although I am not the typical male that you seem to be aiming that comment towards

Scott Pack

I'm not a fan of gore either.

Mark Henderson

12:05 AM

@ScottPack But... spikes. In a dome shaped room. Doesn't make sense.

Scott Pack

Oo. What's the Hennifer Ropez movie that had her in a red body suit and had a NIN soundtrack?

Mark Henderson

Also why was the ship fallic shaped? That wasn't nessesary either. No need for that huge fucking corridor

@ScottPack Horrible?

Only movie I saw of hers was 10+ years ago where she was a maid

And she didn't have sex with anyone on-camera

Scott Pack

Penis ships are the best ships.

The Cell

The Cell is a 2000 science fiction psychological thriller film directed by Tarsem Singh, and starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D'Onofrio. Plot Child psychologist Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) is an expert in an experimental treatment for coma patients: a virtual reality device that allows her to enter into the minds of her patients and attempt to coax them into consciousness. When serial killer Carl Rudolph Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio) falls into a coma before the FBI can locate his final victim, Agent Novak (Vince Vaughn) persuades Deane to enter Stargher's mind and ...

Mark Henderson

@ScottPack But... is it on NetFlix?

JLo and Vince Vaughn, oh my

Scott Pack

dvd.netflix.com/Movie/The-Cell/…

Wesley

12:08 AM

@MarkHenderson I don't remember him being in a movie with strung up guts

Mark Henderson

@Wesley He wasn't in Event Horizon

Scott Pack

And Vincent D'Onofrio because it needs some creeper to balance out Hennifer Ropez's booty.

Mark Henderson

Sam Neil and Lawrence Fishburn were the two big-names in that movie

Wesley

ah

strugee

wipes brow whew, no more downtime

Wesley

12:09 AM

I was going to try to make it through Human Centipide or the Saw movies sometime, but I'm just not really into gore for the sake of Gore.

Mark Henderson

@strugee Bah downtime. Just tell your users to put up or shut up

@Wesley Saw 1 was pretty good. I havent seen the rest.

Wesley

I did watch "You're Next" which was a fun little bloody romp.

Mark Henderson

Human Centipede is apparently just bad. Not even in a good way.

strugee

@MarkHenderson I have no users

Wesley

You're Next is on Amazon Prime as of a few weeks ago, BTW.

strugee

12:09 AM

but my mistake was unbelievably stupid

Wesley

Bonus: Someone dies from a blender to the head.

strugee

and I feel bad about downtime anyway

Mark Henderson

@Wesley So I could google it, but its easier to ask: What's amazon prime?

@strugee You installed Gentoo by mistake?

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@Wesley Always fun!

Wesley

@MarkHenderson Pay $100 a year or so and get free two day shipping on all orders, and also have access to their streaming stuff.

strugee

@MarkHenderson hahahaha

Scott Pack

12:10 AM

@strugee You typed drop database; in the wrong console tab?

Wesley

@MarkHenderson emerge nixos

Scott Pack

@Wesley You say that, but what are your USE flags for nixos?

strugee

no, I have a hobbyist server at home, on a home internet connection. which means that I get new IPs from my ISP

Wesley

@ScottPack I pulled the wrong power cord out last time I was in my rack.

Mark Henderson

@Wesley But it was OK because everything had dual PSUs... right?

Scott Pack

12:11 AM

@Wesley Oh yeah, those two power supplies on are on different circuits. No problem.

strugee

my IP changed last night so I went into my DNS provider to change it but instead of changing what I meant to, I changed the record to my main site (which is on GitHub Pages)

so it started timing out because I haven't finished configuring Apache yet

Mark Henderson

About two a year I get IPMI alerts about a single PSU going offline, and it's inherantly someone pulling out the wrong fucking power cord

(someone else manages our hardware for the moment)

Wesley

Back, sorry.

Was balls deep in pfSense.

@MarkHenderson Uhmmm... no?

@ScottPack Uhmmm... no?

Jacob

Don't host a site from your house bad idea... Need a VPS?

Wesley

@strugee So you're hosting a production site behind dynamic DNS at your home. Nice.

@strugee I don't do SMTP redirection for you, do I? What's your domain?

Strugee.net? Okay, nope.

strugee

12:15 AM

@Wesley yeah, I know. I keep it classy

@Wesley yep

why would you be doing SMTP redirection for me?

Wesley

@strugee Hey, I know a guy in town that started a MSP out of high school. He had a full rack running in his apartment's master bedrrom with big circular fans running on it. During a power outage he had to go to Home Depot and get a gas generator. =P

strugee

no but actually I don't have any users yet

Wesley

@strugee Dynamic IP address implies you're hosting business stuff on a dynamic / home address and I run an SMTP inbound redirection service that people use to run mail servers at home.

strugee

@Wesley hah!

also, what's an MSP? when I Googled the only thing that came up was Microsoft Project Server

Wesley

@strugee Managed Service Provider.

Managed services

Managed services are the practice of outsourcing day-to-day management responsibilities and functions as a strategic method for improving operations and cutting expenses. This can include outsourcing HR-activities, production support and lifecycle build/maintenance activities. The person or organization that owns or has direct oversight of the organization or system being managed is referred to as the offeror, client, or customer. The person or organization that accepts and provides the managed service is regarded as the service provider or MSP. Typically, the offeror remains accountable ...

strugee

12:17 AM

I've considered getting a UPS for mine but they're really expensive and there would be no point because even if the server stayed up, the router would have no power

@Wesley gotcha

Mark Henderson

@Wesley I have a client like that. They are on the 43'rd floor of a residential building. He has fiber trunks into his penthouse apartment, a 5kw PSU with extended runtime batteries and a diesel generator on his balcony for extended outages

Wesley

@strugee Put the router on it? Often times even if power goes out in the neighborhood DSL still works because it has phantom power from the regional node

Mark Henderson

@strugee Um. You plug the router into the UPS?

Wesley

@MarkHenderson Frick-a-doodle-doo

@strugee Okay so no paying customers yet? How do you propose to get paying clients?

Mark Henderson

@Wesley Kidnap their firstborn children until they sign a 36-month contract

strugee

12:19 AM

@Wesley @MarkHenderson oh that's interesting, I didn't know that. I just figured there would be no point, because there's no way you could put everything on the UPS

Mark Henderson

Of course you can put everything on it

Thats why we have them

You get a PDU or two, plug them into the UPS and plug everything into the PDU

strugee

@Wesley I don't. I'm not interested in making money, I'm interested in making mass surveillance unprofitable

@MarkHenderson I meant things outside

Mark Henderson

You put your switches on there, and if have a PoE infrastructure then basically eveyrthing stays online

Wesley

@strugee Oh, right, you're 15. Wait until your spirit gets broken. You'll be working in a cubicle before you know it.

Mark Henderson

When we have a power outage here in the office, the computres go down (as they're not on the UPS) but the phones, wifi, servers, etc, all stay online

Wesley

12:21 AM

@MarkHenderson POE FTW

Jacob

@Wesley fail

strugee

@Wesley yep, so not exactly a huge income for a UPS. I'd rather get a large backup drive.

@Wesley there's no way I'm ever gonna let that be me

I'd gouge my eyes out

Wesley

@strugee Uh huh. Okay.

=P

strugee

haha

that's the plan, anyway

if I'm lucky I'll get a job at some company like Red Hat or Mozilla. prays

Wesley

@strugee Figure something out. Make some skrill. Boxbilling and Stripe - get some services out there.

@strugee They're just better at hiding how evil they are than Microsoft and Apple.

strugee

12:25 AM

@Wesley shrugs

whatever you may say about Red Hat's problems, they do a lot of good stuff. better than Canonical.

@Wesley I have no idea what you just said

Wesley

Make your own way. Contribute your own code to FOSS projects and hire yourself out as a consultant to make ends meet.

LIVE THE DREAM!

strugee

@Wesley yeah, that's the plan

I have this pet plan that by the time I'm out of college I'll be a core GNOME contributor or something and Red Hat will just hire me on the spot because I'm already known in the community

Jacob

Whoo! I get to post on Odesk! Much joy!

strugee

it will never work out that way, obviously.

Wesley

@strugee Boxbilling is a FOSS payment system that you can use to bill people on a plan. Stripe is an awesome payment gateway / acquiring bank / etc. Skrill is money on yo' pocket playah.

@strugee You can do it if you do it to it.

Mark Henderson

12:28 AM

Why the hell do I always need to tell scp clients to actually use scp? Why do scp clients always try to use sftp and never scp? Why are they called scp if they don't use scp unless you explicitly flag it?

Wesley

So in other words, stop hanging out with burnt-out losers like us, open a code window and start twiddling your gits.

Jacob

@strugee You won't have time to be a core GNOME contribute. Just ask @MarkHenderson

strugee

@MarkHenderson #gnu?

Wesley

@MarkHenderson Which slimeball clients are you using?

Mark Henderson

@Wesley pscp

Also scp on Linux is the same

strugee

12:28 AM

@Wesley gotcha

Jacob

@Wesley Speak for your self on the burnout part

Wesley

@MarkHenderson I dungeddit. When I use scp it uses scp by default.

strugee

@Wesley also, I'm just going to assume that "gits" was a pun, yes?

Wesley

@strugee -.-

Mark Henderson

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Q: Why does scp -scp work but not scp without that flag

when I try and scp to my solaris box, I get this unable to initialise SFTP: could not connect unless I do scp -scp then it works. In my sshd_config file, I have this: Subsystem sftp /usr/local/libexec/sftp-server

strugee

12:30 AM

@Wesley O.O

Wesley

@MarkHenderson That's so weird. I've never experienced that.

EEAA

1

Q: is there a better PROCESS for picking office printers?

i run a small mac/linux/android network and finding options for our new printer has been difficult. we have a few criteria, and as you all know, the market is pretty convoluted, with long feature lists and rapid model turnover. looking for intersections between the lists of models that "work per...

drivers network-printer imaging hardware-selection

I fricking hate printers.

strugee

Jacob

@EEAA Printers are the bane of existence. Fact #1 of the universe.

Wesley

@strugee Most awkward stomp in movie history.

jscott

12:33 AM

@Wesley I take it you've never watched WWF/WWE or whatever it's called?

strugee

@Wesley indeed

Wesley

@jscott I used to like it when it was called WWF and I was a barely-sentient excuse for a hominid, also known as "a 13 year old"

@jscott I was a big fan of Undertaker and Lex Luther.

Lex Luther's story is so sad. =(

Lex Luger

Lawrence Wendell "Larry" Pfohl (born June 2, 1958), better known by his ring name, Lex Luger, is an American former professional wrestler, television producer and American football player currently working with WWE on their wellness policy. He is best known for his work with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Luger is a three-time world champion, having held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice and the WWA World Heavyweight Championship once; and a record-tying five-time NWA/WCW United States Heavyw...

Spinal stroke.

strugee

@Wesley I approve this message

jscott

@Wesley I don't know that I was ever a Real Fan, at least not like The Others. I know I was gifted The Wrestling Album and listened to it a number of times. After that, I think video games pretty much took over.

Sorry about that was reading your link whilst composing and accidentally a whole word or two.

Mark Henderson

@Wesley Maybe your devices have SFTP. This is a Cisco router so raw SCP is the only way to go

Wesley

12:40 AM

@MarkHenderson Nah, never set up SFTP on anything I have.

So I'm talking mostly server-to-server or workstation-to-server scp sessions.

Rarely workstation-to-appliance

Also, I wonder if pfSense's packet capture is in memory or to disk.

Because I'm going to totally smash memory if this DNS capture overnight is put into RAM.

Mark Henderson

@Wesley My guess is that it flushes to disk

Wesley

@MarkHenderson I certainly hope so.

Mark Henderson

Why are you running a DNS cap for so long?

strugee

@Wesley have fun

Wesley

Apparently it does write to disk. doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Sniffers,_Packet_Capture

@MarkHenderson Okay so, there is one specific hostname that the vendor is saying is saying isn't resolving right. It's a long story, but since the appliance is locked down, I can't manually trigger the operation that causes this specific hostname to be locked up. I have to wait for the auto-update feature to be triggered based on time.

Auto-update looks for the hostname, bingo I get the packets.

EEAA

12:44 AM

@Wesley Is this embedded pfsense?

Wesley

Sooo... I'm not really interested in touching my computer after dinner because I'm getting cranky in my old age and want to do things like... oh... go outside, run, and read. =P

So I'm just going to start the pcap and then walk away until tomorrow morning.

Jacob

0

Q: Permission umask 000

I have a folder with lots of directories and I want all directories to have 777 permission. So I typed: cd /ebs1/vol/ umask 000 The problem is that when I connect using SFTP to the folder /ebs1/vol/test/folder1 and I create a folder it has always permission 644 and 644 to files too. How do I ...

linux ubuntu centos webserver

I just died

strugee

@Wesley <radical free software zealot>that's why you don't get locked-down stuff that you can't fix yourself</radical free software zealot>

Wesley

Only problem is that I do about 4,000 to 10,000 DNS lookups an hour on this appliance.

@EEAA No, pfsense on a Dell server. Top of rack firewall for my rack.

EEAA

@Wesley OK, good. If it were embedded, the cap would go to the ramdisk.

Jacob

12:46 AM

@Wesley I strongly suggest you not do the cap. It's going to murder performance

Wesley

@strugee I could have hand built a stack to my liking, but then I also like to go outside, have relationships with people, and change into clean clothes.

jscott

@Jacob They're on a roll with questions today.

EEAA

@Jacob Five crap questions in under a day. Is that a new record?

Jacob

@Wesley Luckily @strugee and I do none of those things. Well I shower and wear clean clothes so I guess I'm a conformist too :(

Michael Hampton

@EEAA No. The record is 61 minutes.

Mark Henderson

12:47 AM

@Jacob A cap just on :53? Shouldn't be so bad

I accidentally left a pcap running for 5 days once and nobody complained

Jacob

@MarkHenderson I've noticed some issues.

Granted that was on some high throughput stuff

EEAA

@MarkHenderson I once started a ping logging shell script in a problematic network and promptly forgot about it for a year or so. Filled up the disk. :)

Jacob

Whelp, time to go start P90X; someone call an ambulance for me?

Wesley

Yeah it's good.

=P

Mark Henderson

@Jacob Just googled it. If it makes you look like this, then I will sign up now

Of course she was hot before she started so that helps

Jacob

12:50 AM

@MarkHenderson I'll let you know. I have a lot more fat than that.

jscott

@Jacob Good on you! Keep at it.

strugee

@Jacob yeah, I wish I had no time to hand-build a FLOSS stack because I was in a relationship

I do take showers and change clothes, though

although sometimes when my dad makes me brush my hair in the morning, and I'm feeling really anticonformist, I'll muss it up right after I get out of the car at school

Jacob

@MarkHenderson Yeah that's what I don't get. Person is already hot, they can only get so much better. It's like the half incrementation challenge.

Mark Henderson

@strugee Fucking rebel man

Watch out for this kid

Jacob

@strugee I drive myself places. Wait until you can do that :)

strugee

12:52 AM

@Jacob fuck off

jscott

Can't you get a driver's permit at 15 still?

Jacob

@strugee Oh and trust me you'll stop eventually. At some point biology will kick in and you'll realize that you actually want girls to like you...

strugee

@MarkHenderson I know, right? the political tshirts help too

Jacob

@jscott Yeah.

strugee

@Jacob shrugs noncommittally

Jacob

12:54 AM

@jscott I got 110 days or better to get results. My dad and I did pretty well last summer/spring, but then I went to college and just stopped.

During orientation I'm going to look at bike friendliness to see if I can prevent that from happening.

@strugee dude, either girls or boys.... The rate of asexual humans is nearly nonexistent.

strugee

@Jacob not what I was talking about at all. I am most definitely straight

Jacob

@strugee That wasn't was I was suggesting, and frankly IDGAF eitherway.

jscott

@Jacob I enjoy hearing when people are motivated to do self improvement stuff. Seriously, keep at, even if do you get a bike... 'cause you know @Wesley won't. ;)

strugee

@Jacob alright, I don't get it, but whatever

Jacob

@jscott Yeah well how else am I going to be able to confirm @MarkHenderson s expectation of American college life?

Besides, being fit would appear to be awesome.

Anonymous

12:59 AM

5 hours ago, by Evan Carroll

And, I'm the only person on this network who has the explicit written approval to create sock puppets.

Anonymous

alright this shit made me cough to death

Anonymous

what in the actual fukken

Jacob

@PatoSáinz You know I want to see this. haha

Anyone have a news account I can borrow. It appears that Amazon sent me the wrong version of P90x.

Anonymous

@Jacob news account?

Jacob

@PatoSáinz Usenet

Anonymous

1:04 AM

@Jacob oh.

Anonymous

@Jacob did you see this piece of news?

Anonymous

wired.com/2014/04/google-crypto-gmail

Anonymous

GMail is looking for ways to make PGP mainstream

strugee

oooooo

I'd rather see them support something like LEAP

Jacob

@PatoSáinz Doubt it

It doesn't fit the business model

Anonymous

1:07 AM

@Jacob I know

Anonymous

but they'll find a way

Anonymous

maybe not with PGP per se but something akin

Jacob

@PatoSáinz You're a touch idealistic on that :)

Anonymous

maybe a freemium encryption service?

Anonymous

@Jacob their engineers can do anything

Andrew

1:09 AM

0

Q: Switch won't enable ports connected to network printers

I recenlty set up two different switches in two different locations and had similar problems with both of them when it comes to connecting a network printer. Switches: Switch 1: Netgear GS724T 24 Port Gigabit Smart Switch Configured with 5 different VLANs. One port is the trunk, all oth...

switch printer connectivity

the switches are trying to save him from himself

Jacob

Also @MarkHenderson What router do you use? I need to do a site to site VPN to route out of the Uni network.

Anonymous

Is "network printing" a fancy euphemism for "blackholing" in the context of networks?

Anonymous

holy shit 4chan was hacked

Andrew

@PatoSáinz and nothing of value was lost.

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Anonymous

@Andrew meh, it's still online and posting has been restored, well, yes, nothing of value was lost

strugee

1:20 AM

IT IS NOT WORKING. Why disable serverfault.com/questions/590942/using-ssh-to-sftp-and-umask/… ?????????? — amandanovaes 2 hours ago

idiot

Anonymous

@strugee oh god

Bob

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Q: How to start an official email to a professor

I want to send an email to a professor to inform him that I want to accept the offer of PhD admission and Research assistantship. But I do not know how to start email. Is the following good? if not, would you please recommend better phrase. Dear Professor, I hope you are keeping well ....

phd graduate-admissions etiquette

Wow. Do people really send emails like that?

Andrew

@Bob usually spammers from non-western countries

Bob

Heh.

Andrew

"Dear Professor, I hope you are keeping well .... my late husband was the president of the bank of Nigeria..."

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Wesley

1:34 AM

Frick. Afraid.org does 300 million DNS queries a day.

Jacob

@Wesley ... off of TomToms phone

Wesley

@Bob I strongly suspect they're not real.

Mark Henderson

@Jacob Asus RT-N66U on Tomato

Jacob

Nice

Mark Henderson

I would be happy to screenshot my configs for you

Wesley

1:37 AM

@MarkHenderson I love you for saying !DD-WRT

strugee

@Wesley are you stalking my DNS?

Wesley

You could say tin cans and a day laborer, and it would be better than DD-WRT

Jacob

@MarkHenderson Well, I want to forward all of my traffic across the VPN, so I think I can figure it out, but thanks

Mark Henderson

@Wesley I bought it solely and 100% based on this: blog.codinghorror.com/because-everyone-still-needs-a-router

Wesley

@strugee No, just seeing if I could do better than Afraid.org for services.

Mark Henderson

1:38 AM

That guy puts so much effort into his research I figured no point in doing my own

strugee

@Wesley ah

Anonymous

@strugee are you a native english speaker?

strugee

@PatoSáinz yep

Falcon Momot

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Anonymous

@FalconMomot NO

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Anonymous

1:41 AM

@FalconMomot is it real?

Falcon Momot

@PatoSáinz I don't think so

Jacob

@FalconMomot I should flag that.

Falcon Momot

but it probably will be since that is going around

@Jacob :D

star it instead

Anonymous

@strugee mind telling me what does this verse say? youtu.be/-Sg4VOZsYeU?t=20s

Jacob

@FalconMomot Only if you hire me

Andrew

1:42 AM

@PatoSáinz itis.ga/Flappy-2048

Jacob

@PatoSáinz What verse

Andrew

flappy2048.com

Bob

@PatoSáinz yes it is

and there's another

Wesley

@FalconMomot It's like flappy algebra.

Anonymous

@Andrew flagged

Bob

1:42 AM

Anonymous

@Jacob linky

Wesley

@Andrew Ohhh, right. I heard about that.

Falcon Momot

no...

strugee

@PatoSáinz which part?

Anonymous

@strugee second 20

Jacob

1:43 AM

@PatoSáinz Which part of the song, it started at 0:00

Anonymous

@Andrew performance is deadful omg

Jacob

@PatoSáinz Hard to tell

"The lie is..

strugee

@PatoSáinz oh, that was dumb

I can't tell

I heard "lion"

Bob

broxxar.itch.io/flappy48

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Anonymous

@Jacob lie is... out of my sleeve/sleep or something like that

strugee

1:46 AM

btw: the FCC has just spit in the face of every net neutrality activist out there and killed it once and for all. nytimes.com/2014/04/24/technology/…

in case you didn't hear

Anonymous

dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25768026/RidiculousLoading/… another nice flappy bird fork... this time with good art and music

Anonymous

@strugee yep ;_;

Jacob

@strugee It's more complicated than that.

Anonymous

at least we here in Chile, the first country to have assured net neutrality by law, have still an unadulterated law about it

Mark Henderson

@PatoSáinz I ahve to install a plugin? No thanks

Jacob

1:47 AM

You really don't understand unless you buy large amounts of transit

strugee

@Jacob possibly

Anonymous

@MarkHenderson it's the unity player

Anonymous

i don't see anything wrong

Mark Henderson

@PatoSáinz It's a plugin

Anonymous

@MarkHenderson that's a mundane thing to argue about

Wesley

1:49 AM

@PatoSáinz Enjoy spending time with your Nigerian uncle, King Keasterreamer.

Mark Henderson

Anything that needs a plugin to work is not worth using

(I'm looking at YOU VSPHERE WEB CONSOLE)

Jacob

@PatoSáinz Not really, I don't feel like going through that effort for 3 seconds

Wesley

@MarkHenderson vSphere - because ActionScript developers need jobs too!

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ewwhite

@MarkHenderson btrue

strugee

@PatoSáinz there's no argument. plugins suck. period

Mark Henderson

1:50 AM

@ewwhite I still use the client/server console for everything except the one VM I accidentally upgraded the hardware version on

And I'm seriously considering creating a new VM and migrating the VMDKs to it

ewwhite

you can downgrade easily

Mark Henderson

@ewwhite howhowhowhowhow

nvm I will google it

I dont know why Id idn't google it before

Jacob

There was a breach in security and the database was leaked, I suggest everyone change your passwords.

Tweeted by 143VPN on March 15, 2014 at 9:14 PM

lol

Wesley

@RyanRies Did you really just endorse me for Windows XP on LinkedIn? -.-

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=P

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