The Comms Room

12:22 AM

God have mercy, I learned something on SuperUser today. How to download a free, legal ISO of Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, direct from Microsoft.

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A: Where can I download Windows 8 legally, from Microsoft?

You can download Windows 8, and a Windows 8.1 upgrade for free, direct from from Microsoft, provided you have a valid product key. Both are on Microsoft's Windows 8 upgrade, product key only site. Complete Windows 8 ISO: Clicking the Install Windows 8 button will download an executable insta...

Jacob

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork Trying to be serious about being a mod :P

-5

A: Can you get sucked tight on a planes toilet?

No. Can't happen. As Stack Exchange does not allow such a short answer, here are the first few lines of Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge : In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

hahahaha

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@Jacob Badge-hunting, actually. Going for the excavator badge for editing 80 long-inactive questions, came across that question, thought it should be easy, and found it on link #3 on my first Google search. :)

Love it when shit comes together like that. Bounty, w00t.

MikeyB

@Jacob Ye gods - I totally misinterpreted the title of that question on the first and second read.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@MikeyB Yeah, unfortunately, I'm pretty sure they'd quickly close and delete questions about joining the mile-high blumpkin club. :(

strugee

I can star. I can star!

goes off to waste all his stars

MikeyB

12:33 AM

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork whoah wtf #NSFW

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@MikeyB NSFW? Why? There's no picture or video... or is this your subtle way of requesting an NSFW blumpkin media link?

MikeyB

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork I had a link in the middle of that that you missed. On that note, there's a lot of blumpkin images on the net.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

Holy fucking shit, is he gonna regret that tat when he's 60. Have a star.

Wesley

12:54 AM

@Skyhawk poke

HopelessN00b Genius of network

1:14 AM

Wow, in more not-so-late-breaking news, SuperUsers are retarded.

I’m telling you now that if you give me an answer that requires first downloading an EXE, you are not getting the bounty. — Steven Penny 19 mins ago

Bob

1:34 AM

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork :(

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@Bob No offense, present company accepted, or whatever. You sure don't act like a retard, and neither does, say JourneymanGeek... but the vast majority of SuperUsers, well... not so much.

Bob

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork Heh, I know, I know, but we've just about run out of cluesticks :P

HopelessN00b Genius of network

Yeah, I've noticed a painful shortage since I decided to do some badge hunting over there. It's a miracle that those of you who don't need hit by the cluestick can make it through the day over there.

ewwhite

1:55 AM

I'm not touching this... but @basil should!

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Q: VMware ESXi - Fiber Channel Configuration

I am trying to connect a promise vTrak e610f to a VM running on ESXi 5.5u1 through a Qlogic QLE8242 HBA. I want to use RDM to connect to connect it to a Ubuntu 12.04LTS VM. After installing the QLogic driver on the ESXi server and rebooting it reported seeing the HBA but no devices or paths. ...

strugee

man, @HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork is really controversial

I like how his election nomination comment thread is just full of Server Fault people backing him up

mostly

Anonymous

sup @strugee

strugee

nothing much

homework

you?

Chris S

@MichaelHampton Yeah,, yeah... it's about 15 miles from the University of Michigan..

strugee

oh, and my public IP address seems to be rotating more often that normal. I wonder if it has to do with the new allocation rules that kicked in two(?) days ago

Chris S

2:07 AM

I'm not getting an IPv6 IP thought....

Neither NA nor PD...

Michael Hampton

@ChrisS Strange, I got a /60 delegation and all is working.

Chris S

I bounced my modem and upgraded my DHClient

strugee

I should try turning IPv6 on

which reminds me, you all would probably like this talk: redecentralize.org/interviews/2013/07/30/…

if you have time, of course. it's a bit long

Michael Hampton

@ChrisS dhclient does IPv6? Just what are you using as a home router?

Anonymous

@strugee learning how to rice my Android

Anonymous

2:10 AM

I'm about to buy a Galaxy SIII

Anonymous

Since I got it cheaper than say, a fucking iPhone (discarded because limitations), Nexus 4/5, Moto X/G and LG G2

Anonymous

it's a nice phone if you ROM samsung's bullshit away

strugee

never heard of that, what is it?

ricing

@PatoSáinz what ROM are you running?

Anonymous

@strugee custom keyboard, ROM, apps, homescreen, tweaking, kernels, etc

Anonymous

@strugee gonna run just plain old cyanogenmod

Shane Madden

2:16 AM

@PatoSáinz Sounds like a serious pain in the ass

Anonymous

@ShaneMadden not after you have your phone do exactly what you want and the battery last exactly what you want too

Anonymous

also, what I liked about the SIII was its SD card slot

Anonymous

I can finally be sure that I can store all my music and have heavy apps in the same device :)

Wesley

@PatoSáinz Sounds like a serious pain in the ass

=P

Anonymous

:p

Anonymous

2:23 AM

well, gotta sleep

Anonymous

see you all

Wesley

I want my phone to ring when someone calls me, wake me up at the right time in the morning, and maybe play Angry Birds once in a while.

That's about it.

Anonymous

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork for king of SE

Wesley

@PatoSáinz Later

Anonymous

@Wesley I want Facebook to not send my location to the NSA without my knowledge

strugee

2:25 AM

bye

@PatoSáinz true dat

VIVA LA FEDERATION REVOLUTION! takes out a flag emblazoned with the Facebook, Twitter, and Google logos and sets it on fire

Falcon Momot

yawn

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@strugee Not true at all. That thread also has a lot of SuperUser folks gritting their teeth about me being too mean and aggressive.

strugee

you ruined it

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork right. that was what I was saying

although I can see how the wording could have been implying otherwise

I dunno

HopelessN00b Genius of network

Yeah, other than being the ruthless modhammer wielder that SuperUser needs, I think the main difference between me and the other candidates is that they all seem to care if they get elected or not. :)

strugee

haha

yeah

aaand my interesting link's been pushed off the screen because I talk too much. figures

Wesley

3:03 AM

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork Of the 11, four or five don't even seem to have the support of anyone on SuperUser. They're just out-of-the-blue lamers.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

Hey, just like me!

MikeyB

@PatoSáinz Fucking iPhone? #NSFW

@MichaelHampton I'd love me some early day IPv6 PI space :)

Michael Hampton

@MikeyB Well, get hold of ARIN then :)

MikeyB

@MichaelHampton I also don't want to pay any money for it :D

Michael Hampton

@MikeyB Good luck with that!

Chris S

3:32 AM

@MichaelHampton branifart - firewall strikes again

Michael Hampton

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Q: OpenVPN Heartbleed Fix?

As you may know, OpenVPN is vulnerable to the heartbleed attack. However, I can't find any guide online on how to fix it. The only source I've found is this: http://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/heartbleed Is just doing (in Ubuntu 12.04LTS) apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-u...

openvpn ubuntu-12.04 heartbleed

Opinions?

Jacob

@Wesley I just did plyometrics. My knees no longer exist.

@MichaelHampton The dupe is a link only answer, I think it deserves to be expanded on.

MikeyB

3:53 AM

ha ha ha superuser.com/questions/745532/…

@MichaelHampton serverfault.com/questions/591246/… I would have made a full answer. General handy way to ask "what libraries are you using?"

Michael Hampton

@MikeyB I don't see any reopen votes on it...

MikeyB

@MichaelHampton retitle → "How do I verify an application is no longer vulnerable to heartbleed"?

Michael Hampton

@MikeyB I didn't see any edits either... :)

MikeyB

"Verifying an application is no longer Harkonnen-enabled"

Jacob

@MikeyB +1

Michael Hampton

3:58 AM

Enjoy.

MikeyB

4:09 AM

@voretaq7 no likey my new title :(

So tempted to add harkonnen to that question.

Michael Hampton

Now you're making me want to merge those questions...

but I'm busy watching YouTube.

voretaq7

@MikeyB no likey the commentary - you can change the title if you want

MikeyB

@voretaq7 I did :p

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Q: Is Shelob a Maia?

Ungoliant is thought to be a Maia, long ago corrupted by Melkor, but is not counted among the Ainur, as Tolkien Gateway states. There are other theories as to what she may be, but the most popular and likely is that she is of the Maiar; so, for the purposes of this question, let's assume that she...

lord-of-the-rings maiar

Jacob

4:26 AM

@MikeyB That Q is open again

MikeyB

@Jacob yeah see who posted the answer :p

Falcon Momot

grr

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A: Using SSD as disk cache

@CasualCoder: If you are still looking for an application transparent, SSD vendor neutral, SSD caching software for Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS), you may want to try CacheAdvance from CacheBox. Please apply for a free evaluation copy at cachebox.com website. Disclosure: I work for CacheB...

strugee

5:06 AM

I need an excuse to not do my homework. let's talk about dog balls

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Falcon Momot

strugee

@FalconMomot nailed it

Falcon Momot

:P

strugee

I saw it was a picture and I got really worried

Falcon Momot

lol

you're not supposed to post porn or gore in here :P

strugee

5:10 AM

really. I never knew.

Falcon Momot

well I know it's not obvious, given what we do allow :P

strugee

@FalconMomot haha yeah

Falcon Momot

gratuitous allusion:

strugee

oh dear lord please stop

Falcon Momot

:D

I can post things that are even more offensive

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Q: (Free?) Hosting Control Panels

I've installed and used both cPanel and Plesk on my dedicated servers in the past and I truly enjoyed the features and simplicity of cPanel (specially the auto-update feature in WHM), recently (a couple of months ago) I also tried a beta version of the open-source OpenPanel and although it looks ...

plesk cpanel whm control-panel

Wesley

5:18 AM

@Jacob Awesome. Day at a time. Keep it up. Don't worry about numbers or even looks. If you checked today off as a day that you completed something fitness-wise, then you rocked it.

Falcon Momot

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Q: Why is my cPanel server breaking

My cPanel server keeps breaking and I can't seem to figure out why. Here is an example: It's keeps kernel panicing and I can't to to find a way to fix it. Any help is appreciated.

cpanel whm

Jacob

@Wesley Yep and now I need to go to bed

Wesley

@Jacob Rest up.

Falcon Momot

@Jacob weak :P

Jacob

@FalconMomot I have a long drive and I need to be up around 6:30

Falcon Momot

5:19 AM

ugh why is it already 2320h

Wesley

@FalconMomot Kill his face off!

@FalconMomot Hey, haven't seen you around much! Life good?

Falcon Momot

@Wesley busy!

Wesley

@Jacob That's my wakeup time too.

@FalconMomot Good... right? =)

Falcon Momot

these mean people are forcing me to write some auto-scaling service stuff for our application

Jacob

@Wesley It's 1:20 here

@FalconMomot Hire meeeee for ops

Wesley

5:20 AM

@Jacob Yeah, 11:20 here. I win. =P

Jacob

Though, I'd be lazy and just tell cloudwatch to do it

Falcon Momot

@Jacob I would, assuming a resume was sent to me, you wanted to live in seattle, and you promised not to constantly recommend third-party solutions and spending large sums :)

we had someone apply and be like

if hired I would convert everything to windows! and apply strong GPOs for security!

(don't attempt desktop management on a network used only by hackers it won't end well)

Jacob

@FalconMomot I'm not moving, decided to stay at college. I'd do remote.

strugee

so how many people here live in Seattle?

Falcon Momot

@Jacob oh, don't drop out of school to work with me. how many years to go?

Jacob

5:22 AM

@FalconMomot I'd use the right tool for the job, that's what I would do.

Wesley

@FalconMomot Check my blog on Monday morning. You'll be... vaguely interested.

Jacob

@FalconMomot Somewhere between 3-4. Pretty much all depending on if credits transfer

Falcon Momot

@strugee all the ones who are real people, or dragons.

Wesley

Security problem in a CenturyLink modem much like the recent LinkSys backdoor.

strugee

@FalconMomot ah, gotcha

Falcon Momot

5:23 AM

@Wesley ugh

@Jacob ouch how

Wesley

@FalconMomot So you prefer FOSS solutions to your internal problems?

Are your Seattle offices downtown?

Falcon Momot

@Wesley yes, and no.

Wesley

@FalconMomot Nevermind, found them

Jacob

@FalconMomot I've only been in 2 semesters...

Falcon Momot

@Jacob oh that makes more sense

Wesley

5:24 AM

@FalconMomot Man you guys are in the guuuuuter

=P

Falcon Momot

dude

Magellan

wat?

Falcon Momot

it's right across from a distillery

Wesley

@FalconMomot Oh well okay then.

Jacob

@FalconMomot I'd do your ops remotely tho.

Wesley

5:24 AM

@FalconMomot Do they do stout?

Falcon Momot

@Jacob yeah I think we need someone who can trek off to the DC in the event

@Wesley it's a distillery...

Wesley

@FalconMomot Nice red building. Lots of windows

Jacob

@FalconMomot :( Yeah, I have a position now that is flexible I just hope that lots of people want a VPN.

Falcon Momot

@Wesley it's the blue one actually, but close :)

strugee

@Wesley I read this as stdout for the first 5 times or so

Wesley

5:26 AM

@FalconMomot Oh set back with the jaggy roof?

Go away @strugee, you are an android.

And you know what they did to Bishop in Alien?

Magellan

@FalconMomot thank you for posting that. I'd downvoted it once long ago, but now I can go back in and give it a close vote too.

Wesley

They killed that sucker.

Falcon Momot

@Wesley Not that one no... it's the second from the right on the non-water side.

Wesley

@FalconMomot Where they frick are you people...

=P

Falcon Momot

@Magellan death to it!

strugee

5:27 AM

@Wesley you've gotten much worse at telling people to go away

Falcon Momot

@Wesley I think part of the reason we like it so much is that it's hard to find :)

Wesley

@FalconMomot Okay, solid bricks, big stone arch doorway with topiary trees?

@FalconMomot Corner lot?

Falcon Momot

oh you know what

we are in the red one

Wesley

@FalconMomot You ass. =D

Falcon Momot

:)

Wesley

5:29 AM

@FalconMomot You mean the one that says 3220 in big numbers just like your company says it is? =P

Cigar shop across the street. Nice.

Falcon Momot

yea

the street view data is old though

Wesley

Medical center across, deli two doors down. Dude just roll out a sleeping bag in the cellar and I'll never have to leave.

Falcon Momot

you can't see either the distillery (westland distillery) or any of the marijuana dispensaries.

Wesley

@FalconMomot 420 BLAZE IT BROOOOO!! Oh sorry I thought this was Reddit for a second.

strugee

still my favorite Reddit ad

Falcon Momot

5:34 AM

@strugee it captures the spirit of bitcoin quite well :)

Wesley

OKAY, BED TIME

strugee

@FalconMomot pretty much

Wesley

Whoa caps lock

Dammit Apple

Anyway, I'm off.

strugee

I'm a fan of Bitcoin but the ad is hilarious

Falcon Momot

no! denied!

injects @Wesley with caffeine

Iain

5:35 AM

G'day

Wesley

@FalconMomot Sorry, @Iain's here. That means it's bed time. =P

Also, I'm the one with caffeine pills here.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

5:51 AM

Good moaning

strugee

@DennisKaarsemaker morning

Jenny D

7:20 AM

Morning

kaiser

7:34 AM

morning

Ansible docs: "Yay! I can actually read that!" Puppet docs: "Wat are you trying to sell me?!"

Tweeted by unserkaiser on April 25, 2014 at 7:36 AM

And of course Ansible doesn't run on my win7 powered laptop...

faker

7:55 AM

@kaiser they want to sell you Puppet enterprise of course

kaiser

@faker facter ... you should consider renaming your account ;)

faker

heh

kaiser

could not retrieve fact fqdn

that's annoying when provisioning...

I'd really love to have Puppet docs and nicely and easy to read through as Ansible docs

faker

8:10 AM

I don't know, I liked the guides section of the puppet docs (docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/#puppet-guides) when I first started using it

but then again, I'm coming from CFEngine. After reading their docs it's all good.

Jenny D

@faker One of the coworkers here says the main problem with puppet docs is there aren't enough video guides... We have widely different learning styles, to say the least.

kaiser

Compare Ansible docs with PuppetLabs docs... that's a huge gap. And I don't need videos :)

Mathias R. Jessen

8:30 AM

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Q: PHP help - IF - ELSE statement if user is not activated

I am using a CMS called process wire which heavily relies on PHP syntax. I am only really now learning PHP, so it's probably a easy thing, but I am having a problem with a else statement. The part I am struggling with is below. At present I get a server error, stating an unexpected { at line 104...

php

Migrate plz

So I can get some of that SO rep :D

Dennis Kaarsemaker

8:49 AM

@MathiasR.Jessen done

kaiser

puppet.options = "--debug" results in:

HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.5.4/plugins/provisioners/puppet/‌provisioner/puppet.rb:21:in 'join': no implicit conversion of nil into String (TypeError)

... aha.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

eww, vagrant

kaiser

more like eww, puppet

Dennis Kaarsemaker

neh, puppet's reasonably ok. vagrant is horrible dev junk

kaiser

ah, yeah. it's the Vagrant plugin.

RobM

8:59 AM

morning, goat simulators

MichelZ

whasssuuuuuuuup comms room

RobM

hey

kaiser

Vagrant completely fucked up because of ^ problem. What to do now? Downgrade (right after update)?

faker

I hate and love Vagrant. I lost so much time trying to setup a multi-VM Vagrantfile which pins SSH ports on the specific VMs. But it also saved me so much time overall...

kaiser

wasn't there some xkcd about "automate all the things!"?

Ah! Got it! You are not allowed to use a single value array for puppet.manifests_path ... because one value, how could that be an array, right.

Jenny D

9:17 AM

'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto-' meaning 'self-', and 'mating', meaning 'screwing'.

This?

MichelZ

lol :D

Jenny D

Sysadminning in a nutshell...

kaiser

15 years ago I was a tourists guide, walking through the same rooms every day, repeating the same story and jokes 9 times a day. It took me 2 years to realize that I will throw myself happily into every automation trap that comes along.

Jenny D

@kaiser The company that's currently renting my services has a policy that conslutants shouldn't do the everyday tasks; they should be brought in for specific projects and let go once the project is over. My coworkers here spent an hour today explaining that the reason they want me to do everyday tasks is that every time they make me do that, I get bored and automate it for them...

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@JennyD this is the reasons we don't have junior sysadmins or a noc. Let the smart people do the boring stuff and it will go away

kaiser

9:24 AM

An ex-boss of mine once told me

Jenny D

@DennisKaarsemaker On the other hand, junior sysadmins become senior ones by doing the boring stuff until they figure out how to improve it. If you automate away all the basics, you'll lose at least some of the knowledge of the basics.

MichelZ

lol @JennyD They could just hire you for automation then? :D

kaiser

> I'm the most lazy person there is. That's why I think before I do - I hate repetition.

Jenny D

@kaiser Laziness, impatience and hubris - cardinal virtues of a programmer... To be a sysadmin, add "paranoia"

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kaiser

Maybe that's the reason I am no sysadmin: I already hated X Files with their "trust no one".

Jenny D

9:26 AM

@MichelZ They originally brought me in to help with everyday stuff due to being shortstaffed... which is not as bad anymore since somehow quite a few repetitive stuff takes a lot less time now than it did a few months ago

kaiser

init.se ... nice domain :)

what's your private domain? jennyup.com?

Jenny D

@kaiser "Trust, but verify". I don't suspect everyone of being malicious; I do suspect everyone of being stupid some percentage of the time. Including myself.

@kaiser I have a few private ones... My favourite is "bisexualmenace.org"

kaiser

urgh

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@JennyD NXDOMAIN

ah, only NS and MX

Jenny D

@DennisKaarsemaker I don't hold with this newfangled having an A-record for the domain stuff.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

9:31 AM

@JennyD A is old school, the hipsters all use AAAA now :)

it's ipv6, you probably haven't heard of it :)

Jenny D

Also, husband has got cyberpomo.com and we still get spam to "wallace@cyberpomo.com"...

@DennisKaarsemaker dig ryo-ohki.bisexualmenace.org AAAA

All my home computers are named after starships or other sentient forms of transport

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@JennyD funny that you had to edit it twice. DNS, it's more complicated than it looks :)

Jenny D

@DennisKaarsemaker I need more caffeine :-)

Dennis Kaarsemaker

my computers are all named after military aircraft, currently typing on 'spirit'

Jenny D

ANd I realised I need to fix moya's DNS records so she's a bad example :-)

Dennis Kaarsemaker

9:35 AM

also:
dennis@seahawk:~$ type dig
dig is aliased to `dig +noall +answer'

I like dig without the noise

Jenny D

I've also got the domain dybedahl.se because that's our family name and our family is the only one in Sweden with that name. And bodice.se, which I used for my sewing business back when I had time to work with it.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

I have kaarsemaker.{nl,net,eu} - not the only one with the last name so I grabbed a few :)

kaiser

@DennisKaarsemaker may I suggest Messerschmidt for your next one?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

oh, and I have børking.com where I run booking.com through Acme::Chef

RobM

9:52 AM

Dell really need to sort their shit out and start sparking

I got a call yesterday from one of the people we speak to there, asking if we can be a reference site for the Dell Sonicwall HA deployment we've just finished as a bunch of other UK colleges are looking to buy the same arrangement.

I got a call from someone else at Dell this morning asking if I was aware that Dell now sold some security products, such as firewalls... **facepalm**

kaiser

10 head 20 desk GOTO 10

Tweeted by unserkaiser on April 23, 2014 at 10:50 PM

RobM

^ yes.

kaiser

But honestly: Problem is that all those callcenter monkeys only have a limited set of placeholders. There's no distinction between %CLIENT% and %REFERENCE_CLIENT%.

Hello %CLIENT%,
did you know that we yesterday sold %PRODUCT% to %CLIENT%?

RobM

Oh yeah. I don't mind that they don't know we're a reference site. But you'd think they'd know that we purchased from them a few months ago!

I think they've not properly borged all their recent acquisitions and merged all their CRM records

kaiser

The problem is their CRM system. It supports placeholders, but no if statements.

Could not retrieve fact fqdn

could someone explain what exactly that annoying Vagrant/puppet error means?

RobM

10:09 AM

my boss is off today and asked me to do our monthly review of all helpdesk queues.

Guess whose queue is in the worst state for overdue, uncompleted tickets
a) his
b) his
c) his
d) his

Jenny D

@RobM e) all of the above

RobM

ding ding ding ding ding!

you win today's star prize.

If shakespeare were still alive and working as an ITIL practitioner (I know, work with me here) he could get two plays and at least half a sonnet out of the state of his call queue.

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kaiser

> Experienced Puppet users spend most of their time in the type reference.

now I know where to go not.

Dan

@RobM DELETE * FROM 'TICKETS' WHERE 'OWNER' = 'BOSS'

kaiser

@Dan where 'OWNER' like %BOSS% ... to make sure you catch his wife as well.

Dan

10:18 AM

@kaiser His wife might hate him, though

Dennis Kaarsemaker

Now is the ticket of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sysadmin work
And all the clouds that house our services
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

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kaiser

@Dan just because you slept with her?

Dan

@kaiser You have no evidence

Dennis Kaarsemaker

10:52 AM

and here the workweek ends. All that's left is a few hours of interviews and a party

Tom O'Connor

11:22 AM

Deploying Ffx and Google chrome by GPO <3

RobM

deploying chrome has to have been one of the most popular things we've done with most of our students. We've not deployed FFox because we can't manage it, though its my personal preference to be honest.

Tom O'Connor

@RobM There's some firefox.adm and admxml files but I haven't played with them

Took me about 10 minutes to build a ffx msi

I've no idea how I'm gonna tackle installing Office.

New insult/compliment today directed at me: "You're like the House of computing" All I need now is a Vicodin habit.

RobM

11:38 AM

Does that mean you have the limp?

There are worse people to be compared to than Hugh Laurie

I have to be honest, we deliver office as part of the base windows image here.

It just seemed easier. All our workstations have a full office pro install, so why not.

Tom O'Connor

@RobM I do, incidentally.

@RobM If I had access to SCCM, that might be easier.

RobM

ah...

Basil

@ewwhite I answered. I'm missing information about how to configure multipath on esx, but that's not something I've done.

ewwhite

@Basil Oh, that's easy.

Basil

@ewwhite I know, but I'd be lying if I claimed I'd done it

ewwhite

11:52 AM

Just know that VMware ships with "Fixed Path Selection"

Basil

I was tempted to say "use alua if Promise supports it"

ewwhite

and that most/stupid/lazy admins never configure it for round-robin

Basil

Hey, did you want me to show you around the basics of FC? I wasn't kidding when I said how easy it is.

ewwhite

ALUA will show up in the number of Active I/O paths

@Basil naw, I have no FC gear

Basil

30 minutes at lunch and you'd be enough of an expert to get things done when needed

Right, but you'd have the flexibility to work on it when it cropped up

ewwhite

11:54 AM

most of the storage I have doesn't support block

Basil

well it's an open offer. I work through lunch because I have no friends (other than you guys)

ewwhite

but maybe it would be a neat experiment someday

oh, I have a 4Gb fibre card in my basement

next to the ball-gags and leather masks.

3

RobM

Lunch and Learn Comms Room sessions.
- configuring fibrechannel
- sarcasm 101
- 10 exchange powershell applets everyone should know
- 101 ways to trick people into typing rm -r

ewwhite

I need 10 exchange powershell applets everyone should know

Basil

@RobM You forgot "Evan fan club"

RobM

11:59 AM

so do I!

@basil sorry :-(

- Troll and trolling... how to be a celebrity troll.

Better?

channelregister.co.uk/2014/04/25/hp_proliant_firmware_issue

facepalm

Basil

@RobM Much.

RobM

12:14 PM

itunes.apple.com/app/super-flappy-goat/id862968792

Tom O'Connor

Neat.. Our new barcode scanner will read the serial numbers off WD hard disks.

RobM

that's handy

Tom O'Connor

12:38 PM

@RobM Tis.

BigHomie

@ewwhite Yeah that was terrible. I would have popped back in yesterday but there's no mobile chat client :( It doesn't make it right but remember @PatoSainz is only 14.

After DDOS'ing his site I feel much better though.

4

Danila Ladner

Morning folks.

BigHomie

'sup

ewwhite

@BigHomie phew. Just making sure I'm not crazy

BigHomie

@ewwhite The crazy part is that some people think black people really talk like that all day. Thanks a lot Snoop

Journeyman Geek

12:44 PM

@BigHomie: they don't?

BigHomie

@JourneymanGeek Not even close dude

ewwhite

@BigHomie Over the years, I wonder if Snoop's contribution has been a net-positive, net-negative or Meh.

BigHomie

Not even in the hood

Journeyman Geek

They don't call each other homie, and slightly racist words?

BigHomie

@JourneymanGeek yeah, but the wikizzle fa shizzle is not rizzle, you fizzle?

Journeyman Geek

12:45 PM

No, not really. but as someone of indian decent, I can do the needful

But I will beat you with a lathi if you keep saying everything is urgent ;p

@TomO'Connor: jokes aside, I wonder if you can do that with a phone

ewwhite

UGH... why was this deleted?

Tom O'Connor

@JourneymanGeek read the barcodes? Yeah, probs.

@ewwhite It wasn't. ;)

BigHomie

@ewwhite I was a huge Snoop fan back in the day. Looking back on it, he was probably a studio gangsta, and net contribution is definitely negative considering all the 'new' rappers he influenced

ewwhite