The Comms Room

Because the ass you kick today might be the arse you have to kiss tomorrow.

Of course it would be nice if some of the other cunts out there remembered that.

ewwhite

12:50 PM

Every year, I get calls from places that said no in the past. In most cases, it was my bad reputation or my side-work that was the turn-off.

Basil

morning

jscott

Bad reputation? I thought you were TCB.

RobM

@ewwhite bad rep? All I want to know from a contractor or an employee is can they deliver and if they can, then when can you start. I wish more people thought that way

ewwhite

I found out that the place where this guy was didn't allow Internet posting during the work day. I'd have to stop using Facebook, Adult Friend Finder and Server Fault.

3

I had a bad rep in the trading industry because I was fired once for moonlighting.

RobM

oh. Fuck them then.

ewwhite

12:53 PM

So from that point, I got a good lawyer and modified every employment contract to make provisions for my consulting business and protection of my intellectual property.

RobM

I don't care if someone plays the piano in a brothel outside of working hours, as long as they do what they're hired to do during the time I'm paying them.

ewwhite

It's about control. This same company hired the dev of bcfg2. Like puppet. And made him STOP contributing to the project.

RobM

sounds like the people in control of that place are twats then. Sounds like not getting a job there would be a lucky escape.

Cole

@ewwhite btw used that shaving cream, face scrub and hair product from the box today. ++++

Travis

@ewwhite So you really work in the porn industry?

ewwhite

12:57 PM

Excellent! You'll like the Birchbox stuff.

tombull89

@ewwhite that seems...odd...

ewwhite

@travis I work many jobs. And just happen to manage the core infra of some seedy and not-so-seedy organizations.

3

Travis

It's a job

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@ewwhite produce seedy

ewwhite

And yes, instead of a non-compete, I had to sign a no-fap-fap clause.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

12:59 PM

@ewwhite "You are not allowed to masturbate while watching your coworkers have sex".

Cole

I am the lone sys admin today.

Travis

lol

RobM

"both hands on the keyboard while coding plz"

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@RobM "No, not that mouse!"

Travis

I would figure after filming that stuff you would be desensitized and probably never have sex again

Jenny D

1:00 PM

@RobM At the bank where I worked we had to request permission for any second jobs. But that made sense because if you're working at a bank there's a high chance that you may be able to e.g. affect what loans are given to a company, and you shouldn't be able to do that for a company that you had an interest in. I had no problems at all getting clearance to keep running my sewing business, though.

ewwhite

I'd say that the moonlightning and all of the firings were worth it.

Travis

What is their definition of moonlighting?

Tom O'Connor

@Travis A guy I knew in London was a sysadmin for one of london's bigger gay pr0n studio.

tombull89

@Travis Working an second, evening job while employed at a first

Travis

It that generally discouraged?

Tom O'Connor

1:03 PM

He's the guy I wrote about tomoconnor.eu/blogish/so-you-wanna-be-sysadmin/#.Ud6tIPnvuO0 here

tombull89

Oh, their...

RobM

@JennyD I can see the need to worry about conflict of interest of course, but I just don't get general control-freakery

Tom O'Connor

because he was about to get fired, so left them a logic bomb

Travis

@TomO'Connor I own several seedy and non-seedy websites :)

ewwhite

@Travis without approval...

and I kept consulting for produce companies... and never wound-down the business.

Travis

1:04 PM

@ewwhite I didn't realize it was customary in general to let an employer know you are going to work a 2nd job

ewwhite

I was making 2x my trading industry salary by consulting...

Travis

Nice

Jenny D

@RobM Yep. At $JOB[-2] they tried to sneak into the IT policy (of all places) that having a second job was not allowed. I was union rep then and managed to get them to remove that.

RobM

Good.

Of course, paying you so much money that you don't need or want to get another job never seems to occur to anyone does it...

ewwhite

@RobM it does... one place was $350k

Travis

1:05 PM

@RobM That was my sentiment

ewwhite

and I got fired after 2 days...

RobM

doh

ewwhite

because the firm that fired me for moonlighting also enforced their non-compete to the next firm I went to... and got me terminated.

Tom O'Connor

@ewwhite How is that even legal?

Travis

When I got hired on to this job I was told that within 2 years I would be making the same salary that I was at my old job. Well...after the first raise I was told that was the max they give. Simple math tells me they were going to be short on the year 2 mark. I was told, "you will never make enough"....and they're right...but I can make enough to live comfortably

Jenny D

1:07 PM

@RobM Their argument was "but what if you work late at your second job and come in here and do a bad job the next day because you're tired". My response was "if they do a bad job you deal with the fact that they do a bad job, whether it was because they were working behind the bar or drinking in front of it the previous night".

ewwhite

but the $350k place was like, "we pay you enough not to do anything else... " But they also forbid the use of iPhones, DVD drives, USB sticks, iPads... remote work...

Tom O'Connor

@ewwhite Sounds like my current job

except i don't get 350k

Travis

I think I could deal with $350k to give up life for 8 hours a day :)

ewwhite

@TomO'Connor burn

RobM

@JennyD agreed. As I said, I don't care if someone plays the piano in a brothel outside the hours they're working for me, as long as they do what they're paid to do during working hours

Travis

1:08 PM

But that is an extreme amount of money in this area

Tom O'Connor

In any area.

Travis

Then again...to make 1/8th of that salary and look at porn all day...may be a better job

RobM

@ewwhite I guess that's a tough call to make then. All of the money vs. a relaxed happy working atmosphere.

ewwhite

The irony is that my current firm is hosting the currency ticker-plant (market data) that the $350k place needs for one of its trading strategies... So I just had to configure some systems for that company...

Travis

Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest?

ewwhite

1:10 PM

@RobM you have to think... if someone is paying you that much, what will you have to DO for it... they OWN you.

@Travis they don't know that I work here... and yes.

RobM

Yeah, quite. There's some jobs I wouldn't take, no matter how much I was offered.

ewwhite

@TomO'Connor because I signed a non-compete. I had to sit out of finance for 6 months.

Another detail about $350k place... the owner had dogs... in a building that didn't allow dogs...

and they'd strut through the hallways dropping turds all over the carpet.

the office manager would promptly clean up the owner's dogs' shit piles.

Nathan C

Travis

I was just gonna say..if you made a mistake or something happened and the 350k found out you were involved could be a mess

Jenny D

@RobM My new job asked me about a conslutting gig at a company that does a certain lottery and rely a lot on paper spam to get marks. I said that I would prefer another place because I think that one is evil. No problem; it looks like I'm heading elsewhere - my closest boss agreed on my assessment of the company...

ewwhite

1:12 PM

@Travis naw, I was only there 2 days... no non-compete or anything

Travis

@JennyD Conslutting?

ewwhite

I cried when they fired me, though

Travis

@ewwhite Oh, ok

Jenny D

@Travis yeah, I'm starting to work as a conslutant in September.

Travis

@JennyD Re-read what you typed lol :)

ewwhite

1:13 PM

rawr

Jenny D

@Travis What, you mean there's another spelling that should be used?

Travis

@JennyD So you meant to type con-SLUT-ting?

RobM

hehe

those old asr names are confusing people I think

Jenny D

@Travis Yes. That is the standard spelling.

@RobM Kids of today, no sense of history :-)

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Travis

@JennyD Oh! Carry on! :) I thought I may have been on to a star worthy post. Just /ignore :)

Jenny D

1:15 PM

@Travis No problem. But you must see the sense in the spelling - you are hired out to perform certain services to clients you may or may not even like, and there's a pimp who takes a cut of the pay...

RobM

£250 for the car and that's at mate's rates... ouch

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@JennyD And if you do it well, you leave the customer satisfied with a happy end

Travis

@JennyD No, I do. But it was alot funnier if you misspelled it accidently :)

Jenny D

Time to go out to play with the horse for a while.

TheCleaner

@Cole - you around (or someone else with Win8), I have an observation I want to verify.

Cole

1:23 PM

@TheCleaner sup

TheCleaner

I noticed something that wasn't like this in Win7 and curious if it is a Win8 issue or a feature of my particular laptop. In Win7 if you used wired and wireless together, both showed connected but the wired took routing precedence. On my Win8 laptop, when wired, the wireless nic simply shows as disconnected and doesn't bother to connect until I unplug the wired nic. Much better design IMO and less confusion. Just curious if you see the same.

Cole

@TheCleaner usually, in the past for me, that settings is in the BIOS.

But I can test it for you if you'd like :)

TheCleaner

Really, a bios setting? I'll take a look. I'd always seen my Dells and Lenovos from a previous life have dual connections with different routing metrics. This behavior of keeping the wireless NIC "unplugged" until needed is much cleaner and I like "cleaner" . :)

Cole

@TheCleaner I've seen it in HPs in the past.

Like, 3 years ago that is. But I found this:

Open Network Connections and right click on the Wireless Network Connection and select Properties.

Beside the Connect Using box is a Configure button. Click the button.

Click on the Advanced tab and in the Property box, select Disable Upon Wired Connection. In the Value box, select Enabled and click OK.

I believe this only works on Broadcom (Dell) nics.  Now when you are wired, the wireless is disabled.

Travis

1:39 PM

Does splunk use ldap queries?

TheCleaner

@Cole no such choice. But as you can see the wi-fi is not connected because I'm on wired.

Cole

@TheCleaner I'd check the BIOS, if you're curious.

Travis

Great...love our CRM...when one particular user tries to open an e-mail in the "history" of a contact it freezes and locks up... I can open them all day

TheCleaner

@Cole - good thing the X1carbon allows for BIOS checking within WMI.

gwmi -class Lenovo_BiosSetting -namespace root\wmi | ForEach-Object {if ($_.CurrentSetting -ne "") {Write-Host $_.CurrentSetting.replace(","," = ")}}

Cole

@TheCleaner well damn, that's pretty slick.

TheCleaner

1:50 PM

now the question is...which parameter is it, if any.

Nathan C

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Q: cpu utilization mail alert for any running services in ubuntu web server

i need to get email alert if %CPU is above 95% for any current running services can any body help me for this script… Thanks

Kill it with fire

Cole

@TheCleaner hmmm let me see if I can try it on mine.

Travis

So the CRM is crashing because of some sort of MsiInstaller error for MS Access...that makes a lot of sense

Tanner

@TheCleaner Can't say I'm 100% positive, but I believe I've seen wifi and wired both connected on Windows 8.

Mathias R. Jessen

Does anyone know why?:
http://serverfault.com/questions/522546/need-explanation-of-user-agent/522552#522552

Nathan C

2:04 PM

@MathiasR.Jessen All webkit-based browsers send that

aka chrome/safari, but safari doesn't send the chrome tag

:P

Mathias R. Jessen

@NathanC that's... pretty stupid :P

but alright

Nathan C

Yeah, it is.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@MathiasR.Jessen because Microsoft.

webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history

Mathias R. Jessen

@DennisKaarsemaker the answer is probably more like: "Because Legacy! History! Compatibility! Stop asking questions!"

Chris S

@MathiasR.Jessen It is partially "because Microsoft" and mostly because "Developers! Developers! Developers!"

Dennis Kaarsemaker

2:13 PM

@ChrisS s/Developers/Webmonkeys/

Chris S

same thing

Tanner

Webmonkeys are their own weird mutant breed.

WesleyDavid

2:35 PM

@Iain Told ya' it would be just a few moments! =)

Iain

@WesleyDavid for someone, yes ...

Jacob

►

Tom O'Connor

@ChrisS I once opened a talk with "Devops! Devops! Devops!" and so on, everyone was too young to get the reference.

WesleyDavid

@TomO'Connor -.-

Tanner

@TomO'Connor :(

WesleyDavid

2:50 PM

@dawud Listening to that album now.

voretaq7

@Jacob are you burning things?

@TomO'Connor Kill them. All of them.

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite So wait, some finance company hired a guy who was a big contributor to bcfg2, and then wouldn't allow him to continue development of the project as long as he worked for them? People are screwed.

ewwhite

@WesleyDavid Yes.

TheCleaner

@ChrisS - glue-eater? love it

WesleyDavid

Man, we've still got to work on @TheCleaner @ewwhite and @Hennes to get a headshot for an avatar.

Chris S

2:55 PM

@TheCleaner It was the nicest insult I could come up with.

Tom O'Connor

@WesleyDavid I'm having a similar struggle with my employer atm. I figured out how to get Samba/AD integration working, and I'm not allowed to blog about it.

WesleyDavid

@TomO'Connor Show that adorable face! I mean... human face. Not cat face.

Chris S

ewwhite

@WesleyDavid NEVER!!!

WesleyDavid

@TomO'Connor Douchegoblins!

@ChrisS Canvas Cleaving Coxswain!

TheCleaner

2:56 PM

@WesleyDavid hah...I have one on linkedin only. All other forums I like my semi-anonymity. Mainly to prevent vendors from tracking me down to cold call me or cold-invite me on linkedin.

Not that a pic alone would be enough.

WesleyDavid

@TheCleaner Once you learn the art of trolling sales guys, you look forward to the cold calls. =P

Of course, troll sales guys too hard and you get a bad reputation. Like @ewwhite. =P

Hennes

mutters

http://www.beachvolley-eindhoven.nl/administrator/index.php

ewwhite

:(

MikeyB

@Hennes DOUBLE FAILBOW

Chris S

@Hennes "Not Found"

Hennes

2:58 PM

Not any longer. Was hacked yesterday

With that kind of 'kind access' I understand how that was done

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@WesleyDavid white trash bitchpirate

TheCleaner

"We already have VOIP"
"But sir, our VOIP is different...it's better!"
"I like crappy VOIP service"
"Sir, our VOIP is the crappiest out there!"
"...<hangs up>"

WesleyDavid

@DennisKaarsemaker Thou fawning toad-spotted mammet!

Dennis Kaarsemaker

elitist crotchbiscuit!

WesleyDavid

@DennisKaarsemaker Artless rough-hewn codpiece!

Dennis Kaarsemaker

3:01 PM

@WesleyDavid not sure if compliment or insult

Cole

Erm a bit annoyed/frustrated today.

Deep breaths.

Only guy on out of at team of five

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Cole yoga or machineguns

voretaq7

@Cole why?

Did you do something wrong? Is this punishment?

Cole

Two called out, one's on vaca and the other left to "do" something

voretaq7

@Cole forward all calls to the one who left to "do" something. Have the PBX say "This is no time for a nooner, JACKASS" when it introduces the calls.

Tom O'Connor

3:03 PM

There are these two melons sitting together. The first melon turns to the second melon and says "I love you, lets run away together and get married" and the second melon turns to the first and says

"I'm sorry, but I cantaloupe".

Cole

haha @voretaq7

voretaq7

@TomO'Connor Womp-Womp....

Iain

@TomO'Connor your hat and coat sir, the taxi is this way ----------------->

Tom O'Connor

"What's got two legs and bleeds?"
"Half a dog."

voretaq7

@TomO'Connor or half a cat...

Tom O'Connor

3:06 PM

@voretaq7 I dislike dogs more than cats.

Chopper3

I'm not going to be able to answer this one with any degree of civility; serverfault.com/q/522573/1435

Hennes

@TheCleaner Not sure if I agree. It might be cleaner, but I always found it very confusing when network cards just disappeared on their own. (e.g. the wired NIC which disappeared on Dell lattidude D's when you unplugged main power. Thebuild in NIC which disappears in a Dell lattitude E series when you put it in a docking station (I was trying to use the laptop as a router, using both wired NICs).

WesleyDavid

@dawud I like that album so far. In a similar vein, you might like: last.fm/music/Bells/Our+Forest,+Our+Empire

Tom O'Connor

@Chopper3 Nor me.

I'm too pissed off for this shit.

Cole

Anything to test the length of a directory to see if it's hit MAX_PATH in Windows?

WesleyDavid

3:10 PM

@Chopper3 VTC'd and DV'd.

Chopper3

@TomO'Connor I just don't want to get as stressed out as responding to it would get me, thanks too wes

Cole

Because I'm pretty sure that's the problem here

Chopper3

@Cole just change every directory and file name to 'a'

voretaq7

@Chopper3 "Set goddamn fucking quotas on your file server and configure your workstation properly you twit!" isn't polite?

Tom O'Connor

@voretaq7 s/twit/cunt/g

Cole

3:14 PM

@Chopper3 good plan!

Chopper3

@voretaq7 :)

voretaq7

@TomO'Connor insert vulgarity of your choice :P

tombull89

@Chopper3 "I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain it to you".

7

I like that phrase.

Chopper3

@tombull89 very good, not heard that one before somehow

@tombull89 somehow I'd not come across this before, quite grim

tombull89

(source: reddit - reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1i1i3h/…)

Cole

3:19 PM

I just need to prove it to the user that it is definitely the max_path issue.

tombull89

@Chopper3 o.O

Tom O'Connor

There once was an X from place B,
Who satisfied predicate P,
The X did thing A,
In a specified way,
Resulting in circumstance C.

2

voretaq7

@Chopper3 Oh myyyy

Chris S

Churchill, like a boss

voretaq7

3:39 PM

@ChrisS ayup

Falcon Momot

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Q: Clarification on a Windows 2003 BSOD with STOP: 1000007e, c0000005, 00000000, b7b8517c, b7b84e78

one of our client's servers is crashing with the following error code: Error code 1000007e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 b7b8517c, parameter4 b7b84e78. can anyone please help? this is the dump file. thanks

windows-server-2003

hahaha he posted a dump of his client's box publicly

voretaq7

@FalconMomot closed and lectured and OH MY GOD ARE YOU PEOPLE STUPID?!

Ryan Ries

Nice

voretaq7

@FalconMomot Gee, the question and dump file disappeared

I wonder why?

Ryan Ries

Too late, I done stole all his megahertz.

Falcon Momot

3:52 PM

:)

voretaq7

Dude! Not cool!
(share - my workstation is painfully slow, I could use more megahertz!)

Ryan Ries

Seriously, mimikatz that shit and he could be owned in a matter of seconds

Was it a full dump, kernel, user?

voretaq7

@RyanRies I refrained from grabbing it, but it was "dump.dmp" so I'm going to assume it was the full crashdump unless told otherwise.

MikeyB

@FalconMomot Heh "SNIFF MY DUMP"

@voretaq7 nope it's a minidump

voretaq7

@RyanRies Also probably doesn't help that the domain he uploaded it to is prrrrobably the client.

Cole

3:55 PM

Anyone know why this would happen: User on View goes to save a file to \\server\directory\directory via a mapped drived or navigating to it by

\\server\directory` and navigates to the directory. Upon doing so Excel crashes saying it has an issue. But, if he creates a shortcut on his desktop to the

\\server\directory` and navigates to the directory he can save it.

Falcon Momot

I too refrained from grabbing it, as I'm currently on my company's network and they dislike being associated with people who grab things like that and root through for passwords.

but by the looks of the question it was a kernel dump.

voretaq7

@MikeyB well that's something.

Chris S

@Cole OS? Office versions?

Cole

@ChrisS Win7 32bit and Office 2007 Standard

WesleyDavid

@FalconMomot Dump file downloaded. Haxoring commencing.

Cole

3:57 PM

Fucking markdown, I give up.