@MikeyB I have no choice but to conclude that my ability to read, understand, and then follow simple instructions qualifies me as a superlative human being, better than at least 99.999% of the population.
@MikeyB I would think the same places that block almost all outbound connections because their data is some kind of incredibly valuable... like core financial/medical networks.
@ChrisS I dunno. I wonder if hosting companies are like sysadmins. Not innately filled with caustic hatred for all things, but rather, made that way by exposure to lusers.
@TheCleaner I work at a university on the left coast in a behind the scenes job. I'm currently wearing plaid shorts, a t-shirt from a bike ride and sneakers. My boss usually wears jeans and a casual button up shirt, but jean and a tie-dye shirt aren't unheard of. If I had a meeting I'd be sure to wear a nice t-shirt with nothing on it, or some kind of collared shirt.
OK, I ask because it is casual here as well. I'm in jeans and t-shirt with a ballcap today since it is raining and a Monday. But I've worked elsewhere that required slacks and a polo and was glad that wasn't the case today.
I'm a bit of a newbie, my Asus laptop had windows 8 and Ubuntu, I made a backup image of windows to an external hard-drive through windows, and them windows got deleted , what's the best way to restore it? Is there an easy way with Ubuntu?
thanks a lot
The rule he cited is pretty clear- if you're not the admin and aren't making decisions about things like what version of the OS you use to accomplish your goals, then you aren't going to be able to use the answers you get here. — Basil10 secs ago
@freiheit and, where I'm from it takes a severe amount of work to make a short sleeve button up work, because no matter how nice you make it look, on the computer guy, all people see is this
@BigHomie That is not the way to go for short-sleeve button-up. A hawaiian shirt or some other casual collared design is the way to go. A tie with a short-sleeve shirt is all kinds of lame.
I'm downvoting the piss out of that meta question, only because Alex is a high-rep user over on SO and I have a beef with meta.SO. If I could downvote more than once I would...not because of Alex...just because I hate meta.SO and one of their prominent users deserves to be treated here like we are there. :)
@Basil When someone asks a question about out-of-support software on a site about professional sysadmins they're just asking for it...aside from /r/sysadmin, but we don't talk about /r/sysadmin
@NathanC They're not reading or understanding the rules, but that just means vote to close and move along. Arguing with them isn't going to make them less likely to complain on meta
@Basil but more likely that their existing main site question will get even more negative attention and downvotes. Unless it is hardcore abuse I would say best to let it go...
Oh wow. Did you catch this gem? "I just don't administer the host this VM runs on, and the sys admin is too busy and too professional to help me fix this in a timely manner." serverfault.com/questions/590349/…
I didn't get my answer in before it got locked... Usually I'm the quickest to downvote or VtC, but in this case I think the OP had a little bit of a point.
@ChrisS But, of more importance, can you delete users on locked questions? Because I just saw this whiny, butt-hurt SO user in a locked question on MSF...
@JennyD Fedora from-a-century-ago, and the evil sysadmin won't let the valiant devop do anything. Look, maybe the sysadmin sucks, but that's not what we're here for. =/
@ScottPack I used to work with a former bioinformaticist-turned-sysadmin. That was the one and only time I have ever told my boss that "either he gets moved to something other than working with me or I quit".
Guy also was the one to pester everyone else about patching security holes. Did not do so himself. When he was finally let go, it took his successor half a day to find that all servers this guy had administered were rooted and had been so for months. THere was a step-by-step instruction on a web site on how to get root on those servers, we had no idea how many people had followed it...
@Ward The question was borderline. He's got enough sudo access to install packages. I think it was old system + not officially the admin -> on hold ; on hold + attitude -> mess.
@cole hobbyist iPhone developer, eh? Should we tell him that he doesn't have to use an OS that came out at the same time as the original iPhone to develop iOS apps?
@ScottPack s/some/ful/ ... Took us quite a while to reinstall every damn system. (We were an ISP; those servers were web servers and had user's home directories NFS-mounted, so we had to reinstall everything that mounted home dirs since we didn't know what they'd managed to do)
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Aha, I see the problem. I missed one of his comments...He seems to think this is SO.
There's nothing wrong with my question but I guess I'm more used to moderation on Stack Overflow. Is bullying how moderation works here? — Alex Reynolds1 hour ago
@MichaelHampton "I'm more used to participation on ServerFault than StackOverflow. Is cluelessness and overstepping professional bounds how things work over there?"
@MichaelHampton Good thing you got to him before the Tomtastic Duo had a chance to see his post. He'd be in therapy for a year if Tom or Tom had found him.
I need my Apache server to always return a 200. No Matter if we should return, 404, 304, 206, ect, I need the server to always return a 200. I have 400's working, how would I make it so a other 200 codes (like 206) return a 200.
@RyJones Don't go unconscious because I'm not sure how much alcohol I'd have to consume before performing the kiss of life on you would seem like a reasonable option. =P
So what you're saying is you want to shred the HTTP specification, make a nest out of it, soil the nest, and then serve the results to clients? As Scott Pack so appropriately queried -- WHY do you want to do this? What real-world problem are you trying to solve? — voretaq7 ♦24 secs ago
@ChrisS That is nice. If you want I'll remove the part about soiling the nest, but he is getting pointed to the RFC he's anally violating with a power drill.
@Jacob No fight, I'll pander to niceness and spare the guy'd feelings (to a limited extent), but I'll not condone RFC violations. That would be unprofessional :)
Maybe we are (not sure I agree with you), but what's the alternative? VTC/VTD without comment, and... end up with butt-hurt and whining on meta because someone doesn't know why his perfectly valid question about what suddenly broke his Windows XP VM that's a WAMP webserver, which he manages with Plesk and has been running inside Virtualbox on a Pentium III with Ubunto 7.10 which has been working perfectly fine for years and is URGENT HE GETS FREE HALP WITH IT NOW OR THE INTERWEBS WILL EXPLODE!!!!!!!111 — HopelessN00b19 secs ago
Just to clarify- the version of OS he probably actually wants to be running wouldn't need to have this workaround. It would work out of the box. The reason he can't run that is because the person who runs the hypervisor is "too professional" to help. — Basil10 secs ago
@Skyhawk Muahaha, no. Downvote and migrate all the "plz to be halping me computer" questions to /r/sysadmin. See how long it takes, or even if, /r/sysadmin catches on.
@HopelessN00b If you auto-migrated all SuperUser content to /r/sysadmin, the denizens of Reddit would think "Man, where are all these hardcore geeks coming from. This stuff is tough."
I'm a bit of a newbie, my Asus laptop had windows 8 and Ubuntu, I made a backup image of windows to an external hard-drive through windows, and them windows got deleted , what's the best way to restore it? Is there an easy way with Ubuntu?
thanks a lot
I need my Apache server to always return a 200. No Matter if we should return, 404, 304, 206, ect, I need the server to always return a 200. I have 400's working, how would I make it so a other 200 codes (like 206) return a 200.
