Root Access

bwDraco

10:07

@Hennes, if you're curious: roccat.org/en-US/Products/Gaming-Keyboards/Ryos-Series/…

Bob

welp. ebay vuln: blog.checkpoint.com/2016/02/02/…

execution of arbitrary JS

Burgi

does chrome use a different DNS lookup to IE?

Bob

@Burgi they should both use the system one by default

DavidPostill

@Burgi yes

Bob

@DavidPostill hm? it does what now?

DavidPostill

10:13

@Bob Well it has it's own dns cache.

Bob

that's dumb

typical Chrome though

why not add another dozen layers of caching for the fun of it

Burgi

interesting...

an internal website loads in IE, doesn't in chrome

DavidPostill

How to Clear DNS Cache in Google Chrome support.tunlr.com/customer/portal/articles/…

Bob

@Burgi do you have a proxy set?

DavidPostill

598

Q: How to clear/flush the DNS cache in Google Chrome?

As you probably know Google Chrome has its own internal DNS cache. Is there a way to clear it without having to wait for the time out or close the browser?

Burgi

10:16

yep, that page is group policied away

Bob

@Burgi hm?

DavidPostill

chromium.org/developers/design-documents/dns-prefetching

DNS prefetching is an attempt to resolve domain names before a user tries to follow a link. This is done using the computer's normal DNS resolution mechanism; no connection to Google is used. Once a domain name has been resolved, if the user does navigate to that domain, there will be no effective delay due to DNS resolution time. The most obvious example where DNS prefetching can help is when a user is looking at a page with many links to various domains, such as a search results page. When we encounter hyperlinks in pages, we extract the domain name from each one and resolving each doma…

bwDraco

Kinda wish Firefox had the same GPOs Chrome has...

Burgi

i wish they didn't force me to use this crappy VDI

bwDraco

Also, Firefox needs better performance to stay competitive with Chrome.

DavidPostill

10:19

How to disable DNS prefetching in Google Chrome hanxue-it.blogspot.com/2014/04/…

bwDraco

@Burgi VDI is cheaper than real desktops and a good deal more manageable.

Hennes

Looks like a good keyboard

Bob

@Burgi What do you mean group policied away?

bwDraco

@Bob Chrome has GPOs that allow admins to do this.

Bob

@bwDraco Define the phrase "group policied away".

In other words: what policy did you set, what does it have to do with this site, and what does it have to do with my question about proxies?

Burgi

10:21

the insane gpo applied to my user prevent me accessing the chrome internal pages

bwDraco

@Bob Pretty sure it's disabled at the domain controller.

Bob

@bwDraco Ah. He meant the DNS cache control page is disabled. Took long enough to get a clear clarification...

6 mins ago, by Bob

@Burgi do you have a proxy set?

I'll repeat my unanswered question then.

bwDraco

@Burgi I'd respect the policies. If you need to make any changes, please contact your sysadmin.

I can see lots of arguments for this.

Burgi

yeah but that is hidden under group policy too

bwDraco

Don't getting in trouble.

Burgi

10:23

nods

DavidPostill

chrome --dns-prefetch-disable

Bob

@Burgi Then it's Not Your Job and you ask the person responsible for it.

DavidPostill

and --disable-async-dns

Bob

And if there's bureaucracy in the way then complain up the chain shrug

Burgi

yeah i know, i was just diagnosing the issue before i send in a ticket to the great blackhole that is our helpdesk

bwDraco

10:24

@Burgi Look, I'm not a sysadmin but I can see why this is being done.

DavidPostill

and --no-proxy-server

bwDraco

Today, we have so many threats that aim to attack just about anything imaginable. They're trying to save yourself and your company from these kinds of attacks.

Bob

@bwDraco ... and that's FUD.

DavidPostill

@Burgi If any of those work you have ammunition for your ticket.

Bob

There's no attack that would care about your browser's settings page.

bwDraco

10:26

@Bob They're trying to make it more manageable.

Central manageability is a huge deal these days.

Bob

More likely, either they act on a whitelist policy (makes sense in principle but can be overly restrictive if not maintained properly) or they think the users are too dumb and are likely to go messing around in there.

DavidPostill

@Bob Hmm. Enabling js could be considered as opening an attack vector

cpx

I don't like how Firefox doesn't tell you about any DNS related errors like Chrome does.

bwDraco

Better safe than sorry.

Burgi

i think we have a whitelist policy

Bob

10:27

@bwDraco Manageability, perhaps. But not as a security measure.

@cpx Fx does, last I checked.

bwDraco

Manageability reduces cost and support workload.

Burgi

its just the huge number of hoops i now have to jump through to get it resolved

cpx

@Bob It only says like "Server not found" as I checked today.

Bob

Hm. Must've misremembered.

bwDraco

@Burgi ...and without this level of control over your VDI system, helpdesk is likely to be even worse than this.

It's the whole reason they use VDI these days.

Bob

10:29

@cpx You still can sus it out via the network timings tab, but that's definitely not obvious.

cpx

I intentionally misconfigured my DNS servers and then checked on both browsers.

Bob

@DavidPostill JS is always enabled.

Disabling JS cripples modern web browsing.

I'm not entirely sure you even can disable it nowadays.

bwDraco

Nov 25 '15 at 5:37, by bwDraco

The more I play with my Linode cloud desktop, the more it grows on me.

Bob

Hm. Chrome still lets you.

But, yea, we've gotten to the point where even the recommendation of using <noscript> tags is gone.

cpx

@Bob Options > Advanced > Network tab?

Bob

10:32

A fundamental assumption now is that JS is available from all standard browsers.

DavidPostill

@Bob As does Firefox with noscript ;)

Bob

@cpx Devtools, network tab, select a request and click timings.

@DavidPostill That's selective. There's a difference.

Disabling JS altogether breaks most websites.

bwDraco

@Bob Firefox still does but requires changing an obscure setting in about:config (javascript.enabled).

Bob

Noscript and similar, you enable the necessary scripts to get sites working.

DavidPostill

Exactly

cpx

10:33

Ah, I see.

DNS Resolution 0 ms.

Bob

@cpx Sorry, even that's not as reliable as I first thought :P

Burgi

@Bob @DavidPostill @bwDraco thanks for your help. i just get frustrated when my job runs slap bang into badly thought out corporate policy

bwDraco

I'm a huge fan of virtualization these days.

That includes cloud desktops and VDI.

One of the reasons IT demand manageability is to ensure employee productivity, not just to prevent security breaches.

If you ever get a chance to work as a sysadmin, you'll learn why manageability matters sooner rather than later.

Lots of things can go wrong when employee systems are left unchecked.

qasdfdsaq

Woof woof sniff sniff

Burgi

agreed, my old job was an on the road support engineer

Hennes

10:41

Also agreed.

Most users are no problems. But some will make you wonder how they ever manage to breath and sit in a chair at the same time

Burgi

i once had to do 300 miles because a customer insisted that they had 110% checked their printer was plugged in

qasdfdsaq

@Hennes breathing doesn't require higher brain functions

I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more, just to be the man who... Makes sure your printer is plugged in?

bwDraco

Then again, IT needs to be smart and responsive enough to handle reasonable requests from employees that don't break security.

Problem is that IT budgets are tighter than ever and cloud/virtualization technology is not enough to bridge the gap.

Hence you wind up with things like helpdesk running out of resources and becoming useless to employees.

Hennes

@Burgi That is when you learn to ask 'plugged into what', followed by 'and is the externsion cord also plugged in' and 'is the extensiton cord plugged into itself' 'does anything else in the same room get power'

Burgi

@Hennes i asked all those questions

Bob

10:47

@Hennes No, this is when you ask them to unplug the cable, blow on it, and plug it back in.

bwDraco

One of the first things I'd try is to power-cycle the hardware.

Hennes

@Bob Been there. done that.

Burgi

the reply i got was (excuse the language) "i pay you to check this fucking check this shit!"

Hennes

YOu really do not want to reboot. OK, Blow the dust out of the cable

qasdfdsaq

10:59

@Burgi Do they pay you to take verbal abuse as well?

Burgi

its one of the reasons i left that job

bwDraco

Alright, going to be AFK for a bit as I start the day for real.

Burgi

if you didn't get abuse from the customers you got it from the MD who was an impatient, angry tiny little ginger

Burgi

11:49

0

Q: how to activate Team Viewer corporate 11 license

how to activate TeamViewer corporate 11 + 4 concurrent users license? i don't know how to do it, pls help me on this. i got below from Teamviewer but did not got anything. log into your Computers & Contacts account, either in your TeamViewer program or online at login.teamviewer.com. Simply click...

windows

maybe he needs remote support...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

<A> SRE?
<A> serial reverse engineer?
<B> Site Reliability Engineering
<B> but yours works as well

Journeyman Geek

lol

Burgi

the question is so poorly written i couldn't be bothered to unpick it to fix the grammar

Journeyman Geek

I was gonna nuke the account, then I saw the suspension <3

qasdfdsaq

12:06

@Bob What's a serial reverse engineer?

That looks nothing like him

Journeyman Geek

Schnauzer!

Cropped ears and docked tail tho. Silly humans :(

qasdfdsaq

Do humans tamper with dogs like that? Or is that just a weird breed?

Journeyman Geek

they do

Natural schanuzer ears are floppy

qasdfdsaq

Journeyman Geek

qasdfdsaq

12:11

Ah like these?

Ah

Journeyman Geek

yup

Westie ears will flop, so they get wrapped in cardboard in puppies

qasdfdsaq

o_0

Journeyman Geek

qasdfdsaq

Ʌ Ʌ
o_0

Journeyman Geek

There are bob tailed breeds (corgis!) but with schnauzers its not natural

(OOC - Ash has a docked tail, which is kinda pointless since he's a mutt, and tail docking is ~~humans being stupid~~ a breed thing)

Its also amusing when some kid asked his mom why the doggie has a funny tail, and I explain humans are dumb and do such things to dogs.

Burgi

12:46

there was a radio programme the other week about how dogs are our greatest engineering project

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I'm a tail?

3

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Some bobs have tails, some tails are bobbed. nearly no tails are bobs.

Bob

Finally got the patch in.

Mercurial: never again.

Journeyman Geek

13:10

heh at the feed item.

I try my best to be polite, but telling someone he can't ask questions here feels very "No soup for you"

Burgi

i never realised deleting your own posts had a negative effect

something to bear in mind

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi most of his aren't but I think he might have tipped himself over

Burgi

13:30

0

Q: Fade to Transparent in Gimp

I've been using the gradient tool to horizontally fade some images to transparent in Gimp v2.8.14. I just select the layer that I want to fade (usually it's the only layer in the image), select the gradient tool with mode:normal, opacity:100, gradient:FG to Transparent, shape:linear, repeat:no...

gimp

should this be in Graphics.SE?

can we have a little party when i final hit 1k rep?

this answer annoys me...

0

A: Do I need to replace my laptop's HDD? (GSmartControl analysis)

I've never liked the idea of using compressed air to clean devices, as all it really does is push the dust around to other places, where it potentially could be more harmful. I think it's preferable to use a vacuum cleaner, as this removes the dust properly. If your laptop is that old, upgrading...

allquixotic

13:53

@Bob A huge project I'm working on / involved in with SLOC far exceeding the Linux kernel apparently uses one ginormous SVN repo as their source control repo :/

Git > Hg > Bzr > Svn > Perforce > TFS > CVS > MKS (PTC Integrity) > VSS, imo

and yes, I've used all of those

so, relatively speaking, if I were on a project using Hg, I wouldn't be all that upset... there are 7 other version control systems I've used in the past that are worse than it

qasdfdsaq

Lol

bwDraco

I wound up sleeping for the last two hours and I still feel dizzy.

Burgi

HNQ -

89

Q: Can't find clit

I have some lit files I want to convert from mircrosoft reader files to something my other devices can read. My friend says I should have clit, in $ which clit /usr/bin/clit but I cannot find it. I tried locate clit but the results are unrelated. So then I tried sudo apt-get install clit but ...

apt software-installation

bwDraco

I'll see if I can force myself to continue through this so that this isn't wasted, and intend to try again tomorrow.

qasdfdsaq

> locked by James♦ 15 hours ago

This post has been locked due to the high amount of off-topic comments generated. For extended discussions, please use chat.

bwDraco

14:03

Same 5:00 AM wake-up time.

Burgi

@qasdfdsaq I saw that

still clickbait

it certainly made me check no-one was behind me when i clicked it

bwDraco

I know I risk destroying my body at this point, but I'm going to keep trying until I can consistently get out of bed at that time, and to actually jump out of bed, not merely pull myself out of bed.

Burgi

@bwDraco put your alarm clock on the other side of the room

bwDraco

9 hours ago, by bwDraco

http://www.inc.com/business-insider/12-top-tech-executives-who-are-morning-peopl‌e.html

Already tried that.

9 hours ago, by bwDraco

I am going so far as to place my phone away from my bed.

Burgi

get one of those beds that wallace has

bwDraco

14:05

The day started at 4:50 today.

DavidPostill

@Burgi lol

Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions: Snoozatron

►

bwDraco

It's just a transition.

DavidPostill

Siesta

A siesta (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsjesta]) is a short nap taken in the early afternoon, often after the midday meal. Such a period of sleep is a common tradition in some countries, particularly those where the weather is warm. The siesta is historically common throughout the Mediterranean and Southern Europe. It is the traditional daytime sleep of Spain and, through Spanish influence, the Philippines, and many Hispanic American countries. The word siesta of the Spanish language derives originally from the Latin word hora sexta "sixth hour" (counting from dawn, hence "midday rest"). Siesta is also...

@bwDraco

qasdfdsaq

> Such a period of sleep is a common tradition in some countries, particularly those ---where the weather is warm. --- whose economies and workforces have gone to ****

allquixotic

do siestas often become fiestas?

Burgi

14:11

i drive a fiesta

allquixotic

ptc.com/application-lifecycle-management/integrity

> The PTC Integrity Software Suite provides a comprehensive set of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) - See more at: ptc.com/application-lifecycle-management/…

bwDraco

> First off – and there's no getting around this one, I'm afraid – you have to get up early. Really early: 6am is good, but 5am is better. And CEOs don't hit snooze: most of them claim to leap out of bed in the morning (even though it's basically still night) and more than one said that "life is too exciting" for sleep.

theguardian.com/money/2013/apr/01/what-time-ceos-start-day

allquixotic

So the PTC Integrity Software Suite (PISS) provides ... ?

bwDraco

This is just a start.

qasdfdsaq

@allquixotic That looks suspiciously like the piss-poor farce that was the Edinburgh trams

bwDraco

14:13

Once again, the day started at 4:50 today.

9 mins ago, by bwDraco

I know I risk destroying my body at this point, but I'm going to keep trying until I can consistently get out of bed at that time, and to actually jump out of bed, not merely pull myself out of bed.

> to actually jump out of bed, not merely pull myself out of bed

I'm 100% serious about this.

Burgi

why bother you will just end up going to bed at 7pm or sleeping all weekend

allquixotic

@qasdfdsaq nice... I bet their software was managed by PTC Integrity

"Sorry, that file is locked by another user, try again later"

DavidPostill

@bwDraco Wait until you're my age. I sleep less than 6 hours a night these days :/

bwDraco

I want to get ahead of the curve.

Same reason as this:

Feb 26 at 18:40, by bwDraco

I'm not one to let myself suffer from the falling baseline that is modern society. I try to do things the old-fashioned way: meticulous and austere.

> CEOs don't hit snooze: most of them claim to leap out of bed in the morning (even though it's basically still night) and more than one said that "life is too exciting" for sleep.

12 mins ago, by bwDraco

I know I risk destroying my body at this point, but I'm going to keep trying until I can consistently get out of bed at that time, and to actually jump out of bed, not merely pull myself out of bed.

I'm always looking for ways to get ahead. Way ahead. And at whatever cost there may be.

DavidPostill

sleep deprivation — defined as getting very little sleep in one night or consistently getting less than seven to eight hours over time — comes with consequences. Fatigue can hurt performance just as much as or even more than alcohol impairment when taken to extremes. So while waking up earlier can be beneficial, be cautious about following these examples and burning the candle at both ends.

The public health consequences of sleep loss and sleep-related disorders are far from benign. The most visible consequences are errors in judgment contributing to disastrous events such as the space shuttle Challenger (Walsh et al., 2005).

...

sleep loss (less than 7 hours per night) may have wide-ranging effects on the cardiovascular, endocrine, immune, and nervous systems, including the following:

Obesity in adults and children
Diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance
Cardiovascular disease and hypertension
Anxiety symptoms
Depressed mood
Alcohol use

@bwDraco IIRC you already suffer from "anxiety". Sleep loss will make that worse not better.

allquixotic

14:22

inc.com/minda-zetlin/… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ FWIW

DavidPostill

From another article:
Sleep deprivation was a factor in some of the biggest disasters in recent history: the 1979 nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill, the 1986 nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, and others.

Sleep Loss Dumbs You Down

Sleep plays a critical role in thinking and learning. Lack of sleep hurts these cognitive processes in many ways. First, it impairs attention, alertness, concentration, reasoning, and problem solving. This makes it more difficult to learn efficiently.

Second, during the night, various sleep cycles play a role in “consolidating” memories in the mind. If you don’t get enough sleep, you won’t be able to remember what you learned and experienced during the day.

Lack of Sleep Kills Sex Drive

Sleep specialists say that sleep-deprived men and women report lower libidos and less interest in sex. Depleted energy, sleepiness, and increased tension may be largely to blame.

Burgi

sounds about right

allquixotic

@DavidPostill Lack of Partner Kills Sex Drive, imo

bwDraco

FWIW, I did try this last summer. I managed to push through the day but found myself very dizzy at times.

Burgi

are you drinking enough water?

DavidPostill

14:26

@allquixotic You can also look at it the other way around "Lack of Sex drive" > No incentive to go look for a partner ;)

bwDraco

It also threw off schedules in ways I had not anticipated, including potentially forcing Mother to have to cook dinner to accommodate this.

allquixotic

@bwDraco ~~Sounds perfectly normal~~ sounds like you should just get up a little before whatever activities you participate in in the morning (work? school?) and not excessively early just because "CEOs do it"

@DavidPostill ah yes, a nasty, horrible, vicious circle.

Journeyman Geek

yup

allquixotic

a negative feedback loop that leads to

bwDraco

9 mins ago, by bwDraco

I'm always looking for ways to get ahead. Way ahead. And at whatever cost there may be.

allquixotic

14:27

bwDraco

I'm willing to pay the price.

allquixotic

the saddest part of the above is that, assuming a 50/50 gender split in population, for each forever alone guy there is

Journeyman Geek

The price may not be getting ahead.

DavidPostill

@bwDraco What exactly do you see as the reward from this enormous sacrifice of doing whatever is is at any price?

The price may be an early death ...

allquixotic

Journeyman Geek

14:29

I do wake up at 6.30 cause 1. I want to go for a run when its cool. 2. Its the earliest I can wake up without zombieing all day

bwDraco

I want to be ready for the future. I'm not going to be left behind.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco this attitude might lead to burn out

Burgi

if i lived closer to work i wouldn't get up until 8:55

bwDraco

The modern workplace is far more competitive than before. It's not just completing your boss's orders. It's about outperforming your colleagues.

Journeyman Geek

You should wake up when your body feels it should, assuming the time is sane.

allquixotic

14:31

SELECT * FROM Internet WHERE PersonalFortuneUSD > 10000000 AND TypicalWakingHour >= 6;

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco then your company suddenly downsizes.

DavidPostill

LOL. From the-chiefexecutive.com/features/feature265 "The average life expectancy of the average CEO is now somewhere between 30 and 40 months."

allquixotic

My guess: thousands of results found

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill solution? Get a cat as a CEO

Burgi

@bwDraco you might get left behind when you are passed out on the floor due to exhaustion

@JourneymanGeek cats make better HR directors

bwDraco

14:32

I'm feeling better now. I'm hoping to begin my homework assignments shortly, so might be away for some time.

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi catburt? ;p

Burgi

exactly

allquixotic

@bwDraco that's funny; I often wake up at 7, eat breakfast, go back to sleep, wake up at 10 AM for a teleconference, goof off until 11:15, get into the office by noon, stay until 7 or 8 or 9, come home, work from home a little more... and multiple of my superiors have considered me (in numerical as well as qualitative evaluations) to be the most valuable employee they have.

*shrug* Time is arbitrary. It's what you do with that time.

2

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic 7 is a sanish time to wake up

I wake up earlier cause no one bothers me

and there's some days when I have to help both my parents. At the same time

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek how's that? a dog only has one mouth

Journeyman Geek

14:35

@allquixotic running around like a caffinated halfling.

bwDraco

My parents does not really want me out of bed before 7-8 AM.

Journeyman Geek

(Mom, hold on, dad needs me to do things too)

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek follow the rogue? :P

DavidPostill

An anecdote from my past. We were asked to work overtime to catch up on a project. So we worked 50 hours a week (instead of the normal 37.5) for a couple of months. After just 1 month the productivity in 50 hours (measured as LOC or some other such measurement) was the same as it was for 37.5 hours. The extra hours made everyone less efficient.

Journeyman Geek

preeeety much

bwDraco

14:36

It's just a matter of adapting IMO.

Burgi

you could take crystal meth and never sleep again....

Journeyman Geek

and I imagine that the swiftness spell I misuse to keep up with @Bob is really the halfling pulling out a bottle of ye old rouge bulle out of a bag of holding and swilling it ;p

allquixotic

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill similar thing happened when I was in the army

DavidPostill

Add lack of sleep on top ...

Journeyman Geek

14:38

Only that we were an MT line, and one of our better drivers kinda drove into a covered walkway....

!!xkcd ballmer curve

ChatBot John Cavil

DavidPostill

And it takes twice as long to do the same thing

Journeyman Geek

^ that is true of sleep as well

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic My (old? current? not sure) boss said multiple times he cares about results, not clock-in/clock-out times.

Journeyman Geek

(amusingly, my old camp has dogs that wander freely in and out)

bwDraco

14:39

Feb 16 at 11:29, by bwDraco

When I ran the CEO wake-up time experiments last summer, I went to bed as early as 9:00 PM, early enough to cause issues with dinnertime.

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy good boss

That Brazilian Guy

Unfortunately, his new boss does. And made sure to express it multiple times =/

Hennes

Here we go again

allquixotic

O.o when does your family eat dinner? I've never had dinner later than 8pm

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

14:40

@Hennes yeah

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic I've eaten dinner later than 11pm

bwDraco

@allquixotic Usually around 7-8 PM, but it can so happen that dinner isn't until 9:00 due to scheduling constraints.

Journeyman Geek

had breakfast (morning), lunch (noonish), tiffin around 7 and dinner around 9 ;p

DavidPostill

@Hennes "Here we go again has multiple interpretations at the moment" ...

allquixotic

*is proud he knows what tiffin is*

Journeyman Geek

14:41

I've mentioned it before ;p

allquixotic

allquixotic the multicultural cat

Journeyman Geek

oh and a 3.30 snack sometimes

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic Is tiffin a quick meal between Second Breakfast and Elevensies?

bwDraco

!!/wiki Tiffin

ChatBot John Cavil

Tiffin

Tiffin is an Indian English word for a light midday meal (luncheon), When used for "lunch", it is not necessarily a light meal. == History == In the British Raj when the local Indian custom of taking a light meal superseded the British practice of an afternoon tea, tiffin became the word used to describe this practice. == Today == In South India and in Nepal, tiffin is generally a snack between meals: dosas, idlis, etc. In other parts of India, such as Mumbai, the word mostly refers to a packed lunch of some sort. In Mumbai, it is often forwarded to them by dabbawalas, sometimes known as tiffin...

DavidPostill

14:42

3.30 PM afternoon chai ;)

allquixotic

yep, coworkers do afternoon chai

try to get into the kitchen at 3:30 as a born-here American and !!no... there's a line of like 20 people waiting to use the microwave, standing around speaking Tamil and sipping chai

DavidPostill

When I had my first job around 1980 there was a tea trolley coming round the office. Now it's just vending machines ...

allquixotic

I try to eat lunch around 1 (after the noon rush) or after 4pm

DavidPostill

or microwaves

Burgi

we have 4 kettles for 300+ people

Journeyman Geek

14:45

o0

allquixotic

I deliberately design my lunch not to need the microwave because they are usually monopolized by people nuking their lunch and/or chai preparers (they don't use the Flavia machine because apparently it's yuck)

Journeyman Geek

;p

DavidPostill

Vacuum flask

A vacuum flask (also known as a Dewar flask, Dewar bottle or Thermos) is an insulating storage vessel that greatly lengthens the time over which its contents remain hotter or cooler than the flask's surroundings. Invented by Sir James Dewar in 1892, the vacuum flask consists of two flasks, placed one within the other and joined at the neck. The gap between the two flasks is partially evacuated of air, creating a near-vacuum which significantly reduces heat transfer by conduction or convection. Vacuum flasks are used domestically to keep beverages hot or cold for extended periods of time and for...

@burgi

Burgi

yeah but flask tea tastes weird

DavidPostill

@Burgi Think! You keep hot water in the flask and make the tea fresh

allquixotic

14:48

@DavidPostill I feel like that needs to be an Advice Dog meme

Burgi

i hadn't thought of that...

thats why you get paid the big bucks

That Brazilian Guy

You guys care way too much about tea. I'm starting to suspect you're all secretly Englishmen.

allquixotic

we need an industrial boiling water maker so as to enable coworkers to rapidly fill cups with water to make chai... I wonder how much ~~time it would save~~ time it would give them to chit-chat instead of making tea

@ThatBrazilianGuy ancestrally I'm from the British Isles, so okay.

(though, Ireland)

Journeyman Geek

lol

DavidPostill

@allquixotic Yeah. You youngsters haven't learnt to think out of the box ...

Journeyman Geek

14:51

there's a reason british armoured vehicles have a tea boiler

@ThatBrazilianGuy naw, some arn't even secretly english.

I prefer coffee anyway

allquixotic

I think @Mokubai is secretly English, but don't tell him I said that

That Brazilian Guy

/me changes room topic to "Technology, Tea & Taylor Swift"

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy try "Cats, Headphones and Tea" (cue mod-edit by JMG to s/Cats/Dogs/)

bwDraco

23 mins ago, by DavidPostill

The price may be an early death ...

So be it.

Uh-oh. Do we need to get a CM?

DavidPostill

I detest traditional English tea. The only tea I like is yogitea.com/en/product/himalaya

bwDraco

14:53

I basically just said I didn't care about dying early.

Now what?

allquixotic

bwDraco

Whatever little sanity I have left is not lasting much longer...

I hope we don't need to call the cops or ambulance to get this under control.

That Brazilian Guy

@bwDraco That's not the dying early part, that's the part where your life sucks.

jokerdino

I think @allquixotic is secretly an Indian.

That Brazilian Guy

With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is a copy, of a copy, of a copy.

►

Burgi

14:55

Am I missing something here or is this daft?

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jokerdino

@Burgi yeah

DavidPostill

@Burgi The OP is missing it's off-topic

He looking for a Karaoke Book ;)

Anonymous

15:41

@jokerdino aren't we all secretely indian?

jokerdino

no

Anonymous

@bwDraco I hope you are joking and not speaking seriously.

bwDraco

I actually wasn't joking at the time I wrote this. It's under control now, thanks.

jokerdino

woo, I missed that earlier.

Anonymous

shiggydiggy

bwDraco

15:43

I was wondering if we really needed a CM to take action.

It was that bad.

I'm just doing my coursework now, so everything is OK now.

allquixotic

@jokerdino நான் நீங்கள் என்ன பேசுகிறீர்கள் எதுவும் தெரியாது. நான் தெளிவாக தான் இந்திய சக பணியாளர்களுடன் வேண்டும் நடக்கும் ஒரு அமெரிக்க இருக்கிறேன்.

jokerdino

lol wat

allquixotic

Google Translated "I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm clearly an American who just happens to have Indian coworkers."

DavidPostill

@bwDraco If really is "that bad" you need to consider asking for professional help. That is something we cannot provide here, much as we would like to. All we can do is offer advice.

jokerdino

I don't know what you speak. I am clearly with indian coworkers one America.

bwDraco

15:47

55 mins ago, by That Brazilian Guy

/me changes room topic to "Technology, Tea & Taylor Swift"

Anonymous

@DavidPostill nor can the CMs

bwDraco

Can a room owner actually apply this change?

"For all you Super Users out there." is actually starting to get old.

If people don't like it, it can always be reverted.

allquixotic

our room's tags are already pretty silly :P

bwDraco

:-)

What do you think, @allquixotic, @DavidPostill, et al.?

> Technology, tea, and Taylor Swift.

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