Root Access

3) for me to not smoke. I'm not a smoker but when you're that controlling over your employee's lives, god knows what other terribleness I'll see there

djsmiley2k

Hmmmm depending on the job, that kinda makes sense, but illegal to require that over here.

a baker who stinks of fags would be horrific, for example

Avery

I'm not a baker though.

djsmiley2k

well, what's the job?

Working on a oil rig? that'd still make sense ;D

Avery

"software developer"

djsmiley2k

Ok, that's a bit odd.

But, if everything else fits I'd apply for it

I'd also apply for stuff that requires a uni degree, just because

Avery

11:09 AM

meh

djsmiley2k

...

Avery

I'll prob attend dev events

And just apply there if anyone's looking for a dev

basically I hate people interactions and people seem to love it

djsmiley2k

lol

most devs don't love it

most tech's don't love it

I certainly don't love it

The idea of a convention to me, is the worst possible thing you can send me on from work.

Avery

turks love it

djsmiley2k

k

Avery

11:24 AM

recruiters especially

djsmiley2k

80% of humanity loves it

oh yes, because they aren't techs

Burgi

conventions are great, especially if you get the company to pay

djsmiley2k

they are extroverted penii holes.

Hennes

Re 1) Uni degree. I find that often the degree does not matter. What you learned might not matter much either. But to that that degree you usually have to be able to think. And that is important.

djsmiley2k

yup

Burgi

11:25 AM

you rock up, learn something new, don't do real work

djsmiley2k

@Burgi I learn something new every day at work

and get real work done :/

Hennes

And re 3). Next they will decide if you must have children or not (birth control)

Burgi

@djsmiley2k but the company will pay to send you to london or something and pay for food and beer

@Hennes that is illegal in europe

djsmiley2k

@Burgi eugh?

I honestnly can't think of something worse

Burgi

a free trip to london?

i've only ever been twice

Hennes

11:27 AM

I was about to type London, food or beer.

Burgi

the company paid for the 2nd trip

Hennes

I might have been there 4 or 5 times a year for a few years

djsmiley2k

I've been a few times

do not want.

There's people there

Avery

@Hennes I mean if they're paying I'm more than willing to take it

Burgi

i got free beer, i saw all the sights, got annoyed by americans and got sharepoint training

djsmiley2k

11:29 AM

sharepoint...

wtf am i meant to do with sharepoint training lol

:D

Burgi

dude it was a free trip to london

i wasn't complaining

Hennes

I am using sharepoint atm. It is horrible.

djsmiley2k

I would lol

Hennes

Slow, unly working with excel and IE (and no with other web browsers), ...

djsmiley2k

@Burgi did you come back to having no one added for the time of the trip?

Burgi

11:31 AM

@djsmiley2k not sure what that means

djsmiley2k

'go away for 2 days.... came back to 40+ new tickets'

anyway my point is i'm an introvert

I'll avoid people as much as humanly possible

bwDraco

humanly possible

lol

Burgi

i'm an introvert too

djsmiley2k

@bwDraco :D I couldn't think of a better term :D

@Burgi Ok, I actively hate people

Burgi

i managed to spend 3 days in london and not talk to anyone apart from the hotel reception and the man who made sandwiches

djsmiley2k

11:37 AM

how'd you get there?

Burgi

tbh its the perfect city for not interacting with people because londoners are rude

@djsmiley2k train

djsmiley2k

shudder

Burgi

i like the train

the tube... its unnatural

Avery

I spend days without talking

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi "I'm the underminer! I am beneath you, but you are beneath me!"

I'm a lot happier typing

people here have trouble grokking me

Avery

11:40 AM

tube here is pain

I keep getting bag checks in which I need to talk etc

also all our malls have metal detectors and xray bag scanners

which also leads to talking

Burgi

i accidentally had water in my bag at the airport

the security guy was REALLY pissed off

which pissed me off

Avery

I nearly got arrested twice in last few years

one for saying "bomb" on security (full context: I was entering a building for hundred+th time in a month and I just blurbed "jfc it's not like I have a bomb")

djsmiley2k

lol

Avery

one for taking pics of security just to say "mall? more like airport" to a murican friend

Burgi

in the UK if authority stops you you can silently judge them and bottle up your anger like a good englishman

djsmiley2k

11:45 AM

do they have AK47's at the security?

@Burgi Don't forget to make some remark out of earshot...

Avery

they have smgs here

Burgi

@djsmiley2k of course

Journeyman Geek

lol

djsmiley2k

I know when my wife went to Israel many years ago, all the airport security had AK47's

Journeyman Geek

I typically go "Sure!"

though I once went "yeah, we've done this a half dozen times, here's my bag"

djsmiley2k

11:46 AM

yup

they only doing their job

Avery

that's what I do at security nowadays

djsmiley2k

and it's gonna suck to be them

because what's gonna happen if you try and open the terrorists bag :/

Avery

just walk towards them and turn my bag around so they can use the hand scanner thing

djsmiley2k

The one day they succeed in their job, maybe their last :/

Journeyman Geek

though I once annoyed security who were swabbing my bag by going "Cool!"

djsmiley2k

11:47 AM

At DLP they have xray scanners

they get annoyed if you lean in to reach your bag

Journeyman Geek

their job isn't to find bombs. Its to convince people with bombs they will find their bombs before they bomb their bombs.

djsmiley2k

and get a mutant green arm, and then start smashin stuff up...

Journeyman Geek

(HI NSA!)

djsmiley2k

yo dawg.... I heard yo like bombs?

Avery

that'd literally get you arrested

saying that

bwDraco

11:50 AM

Not sure if this is SFW or appropriate for chat...

Burgi

sure it is

when i went to sicily the man at security said "put your kindles and ipads in a separate box". not having either of those devices i left my nexus 7 in my bag...

got a right bollocking for that

djsmiley2k

lol

Hennes

@djsmiley2k I like bom's. Especially cboms

djsmiley2k

yeah, when they said 'all metal items in this tray, all electronics in this one I ended up handing them a huggeee pile

Hennes

(Configurable Bill Of Materials)

Avery

11:56 AM

I love it

Those have such explosive taste

djsmiley2k

i had my studded belt on, my shoes have metal rails in the soles, 2 rings, watch,, laptops, mp3 players, ps vita, ds', kindle, 2x nexus, amazon fire...

and then they scan my bag and see the C-PAP machine with it's facemask

they are like Sir, Do you have a GAS MASK in your bag?!

so then comes out the medication

enough tranqs to down a elephant ;D

The guy's eyes are getting wider and wider

Hennes

Here, it looks as if need need at least one of these.... ;)

djsmiley2k

looks like a storm is blowing in outside.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco it is

bwDraco

Thanks for clarifying.

Circus Cat

12:16 PM

@djsmiley2k loool

djsmiley2k

yeah that was a fun one ;D

DavidPostill

@rahuldottech Congrats and good luck!

rahuldottech

@DavidPostill thanks!

I'm reaching the office in a few minutes

djsmiley2k

Good luck!

Andy K

12:42 PM

@rahuldottech good luck

djsmiley2k

you guys might know

if there's some kind of 'virtual' cisco firewall I can just play iwth configs on?

Andy K

@Dave so true

djsmiley2k

I don't wany anything 'cloud based' as I'm dealing with customer networks

Journeyman Geek

isn't that what GNS do?

you need IOS images tho

Circus Cat

1:03 PM

@djsmiley2k GNS3

djsmiley2k

1:24 PM

yeah

looks nice

Oliver Salzburg

My Outlook can't handle icalendar responses from people who use LTR systems apparently

Or RTL

Whatever the other one is :P

rahuldottech

1:51 PM

OMG

THAT WAS AMAZING

I really really think this may work out

djsmiley2k

=)

even if it doesn't you did good

rahuldottech

The guys I presented to were very impressed

djsmiley2k

awesome :)

Andy K

@rahuldottech great news

XKCD

2:20 PM

You shouldn't look directly at a partial eclipse because of the damage that can be caused by improperly aligning the solar-lunar orbital plane with the orbital bones around your eye.

bwDraco

1

Q: Why isn't there an eclipse every month?

Given that eclipses occur, why aren't they more regular? If the sun and the moon are in the same plane, shouldn't the moon transect the line from the earth to the sun every month? I guess order of magnitude, if the moon at 10^-2 radians was in a random place every day, then an eclipse once / 18...

9

Q: Why don't we see solar and lunar eclipses often?

Since we see the new moon at least once in a month when the Moon gets in between of the Sun and the Earth during the evening ( and as far as I know if this happens during the day, you'll get to see a solar eclipse. Why don't we get to see this often or in the day? Does it mean that in some part...

astronomy everyday-life sun moon eclipse

Word for word.

Burgi

yet another subpar xkcd

rahuldottech

@Burgi you know how people link to old XKCDs as relevant?

No one will link to the ones published in the last two years or so in the future

Because, they're simply boring

djsmiley2k

but in 2090, when the next full exclipse comes round

they will xD

rahuldottech

No puns, no jokes

bwDraco

2:32 PM

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System Properties
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Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer.  The total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size you specified.
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OK
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That's new.

Oliver Salzburg

@bwDraco To you maybe ;D

Burgi

is there a list of dates when the bootstrap versions were released?

Oliver Salzburg

Is that enough? :D

Otherwise the git log of the repo maybe

Burgi

it might be

djsmiley2k

2:50 PM

@bwDraco tried to setup paging on a removable disk, and then removed it?

bwDraco

Kinda.

Actually, ImDisk virtual disk image on an external medium so that Windows is fooled into thinking it's internal media.

Journeyman Geek

3:07 PM

would also work with VHDs I suspect

djsmiley2k

@bwDraco sounds like it wasn't quite fooled?

bwDraco

Tried that, didn't work.

@djsmiley2k That's because the volune disappears on reboot. I have to manually remount it.

Andy K

bye

djsmiley2k

Ok I think I won the star wall.

It's friday after all \o\/

I appear to have bellyflopped....

Burgi

3:36 PM

bruce forseyth has died

djsmiley2k

yeah someone just said at work

BBC confirms.

just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-sultan-kebab-house-west-orchard/menu

y'all need this in your life.

Burgi

a kebab?

djsmiley2k

3:53 PM

yus

but oh so good.

DavidPostill

4:39 PM

@djsmiley2k What? 2090? There is one every year or so ...

timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html

That REDACTED Guy

allquixotic

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I have symmetrical 150/150 Mbps FiOS and tomorrow I'm upgrading to Gigabit :D (they just need a day to process the change)

it's "gigabit-ish" -- about 980 down, 800-something up... but still blazin' fast

That REDACTED Guy

@allquixotic At work, I hope, or either I envy you so much...

allquixotic

@ThatREDACTEDGuy home

at work we already have gigabit shared across an office

which isn't too terribly fast with so many people ;(

this will be gigabit all to myself

bwDraco

tomshardware.com/news/… :(

That REDACTED Guy

4:46 PM

bwDraco

@allquixotic 940/880.

allquixotic

@bwDraco yeah, that

@ThatREDACTEDGuy So is my personal self from the year I realized that Internet speed matters (maybe 1995?) til today

Yesterday I had, at the very best of times, 50/20

and usually around 15/5

bwDraco

I'm not sure I need gigabit. I don't saturate my 100/10 link at home all that often.

That REDACTED Guy

@allquixotic Dude, at home I have 5/0.5, and that on good days (which are most days, actually).

> On November 8th of 2016, half the country learned that everything they believed to be both true and obvious turned out to be wrong. The people who thought Trump had no chance of winning were under the impression they were smart people who understood their country, and politics, and how things work in general. When Trump won, they learned they were wrong. They were so very wrong that they reflexively (because this is how all brains work) rewrote the scripts they were seeing in their minds until it all made sense again. The wrong-about-everything crowd decided that the only way their world …

Scott Addams - blog.dilbert.com/post/164297628606/…

djsmiley2k

5:02 PM

@DavidPostill Maybe the 2090 thing was in the UK? I dunno

rofl

wp Scott, wp.

But the truth is, things in america have been bad for a long time, and getting worse

That REDACTED Guy

5:18 PM

85

Q: How can a race of eldritch abominations help humanity?

A society of your typical beings from beyond the veil of reality have recently encountered the bounderies of the realm humans call home. They studied our universe, via their own incomprehensible equivalent to what we call science and eventually learned how to generate a nightmarish portal (fueled...

aliens communication interspecies-relations horror

164

Q: How can a Horror from Beyond Reason reliably communicate with mortals?

Jimmy is an Eldritch Monstrosity. Jimmy has a Red Ball. Jimmy wants someone to play with him and his Red Ball. All of Jimmy's friends are busy trying to Overturn the Cosmic Order and bring Chaos to all of Existence. Jimmy thinks that humans will play with him and his Red Ball. Jimmy once ...

communication horror

270

Q: How would Facebook Sysadmins prevent the summoning of Cthulhu?

So, I've got this idea for a short story. Some researchers find a forgotten manuscript hidden locked away in an ancient tomb. While they are working on it one of them pastes part of the text into a Facebook announcement and Facebook automatically translates it. This links Facebook to the nether r...

apocalypse computers horror

A horror named Jimmy.

bwDraco

amazon.com/Micro-CableCreation-High-Speed-Triple-Shielded/dp/…

I know this seems kinda silly, but I need the absolute highest resistance to EMI possible. I have one of these (from another product) but it's well-worn.

(braided shielding)

Bob

s/need/think I need/

unless you happen to be working inside a nuclear reactor's containment building, no, no you don't

bwDraco

It's very application-dependent, but I have the occasional situation where the slightest bit of interference will cause problems.

Bob

you're probably more likely to have interference from a stray cosmic ray than anything a "triple shielded" 15cm cable will help over a standard unshielded (TP data) 15cm cable

anything that cares about "the slightest bit of interference" needs checksums

which it probably already has

just to put things into perspective - you're more likely to have interfere from the >15cm of traces on the motherboard than the 15cm cable

allquixotic

5:40 PM

@Bob I think I'm going to switch out my OVH dedi for a home-built Micro ATX "bro" server :P

now that I have gigabit speeds

if FiOS goes down... oh well

var firstName

Gigabit?

allquixotic

might keep a small dedi around

var firstName

More like Giganip, amirite?

allquixotic

@varfirstName like catnip? :D yes

exactly like that

Bob

@allquixotic :S

var firstName

5:43 PM

So I was helping this guy make a script for changing a string into a custom link

so I thought I would write him an AutoHotKey script

Bob

@allquixotic one more year and I might be able to get 100/12 (minus HFC congestion so more like 5/1 during peak)

var firstName

I ask him if he's ok with AHK in lieu of the Outlook-only solution he's wishing for.

Bob

give it another decade and maybe gigabit will be possible

var firstName

He basically says "Meh, sure.."

then I post an AHK script

he posts his own ahk script

allquixotic

@Bob I'll test it during peak and see how much of that gigabit I get, especially upstream

if it's good I'll have to think long and hard about what specs to get for the server

var firstName

5:45 PM

and then I realize I can use VBA to search for the string by regex

allquixotic

want to be able to host game servers so probably high single thread perf

7740X? :P

Bob

@allquixotic downside is you can't upgrade easily

allquixotic

or would threadripper be more affordable and more bang for the buck

var firstName

##s/threadripper/threadnipper

I Am A Bot

@varfirstName That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

var firstName

5:45 PM

oh ffs

allquixotic

## s/threadripper/threadnipper/g

I Am A Bot

@allquixotic ##s/threadnipper/threadnipper (source)

var firstName

##/s/threadripper/threadnipper

I Am A Bot

@varfirstName That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

var firstName

...

Bob

5:46 PM

@allquixotic who were you using for vpns again? :P

allquixotic

1. Missing space after ##

2. don't need opening slash

3. need closing slash

var firstName

## s/threadripper/threadnipper/

I Am A Bot

@varfirstName That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

allquixotic

see 3

I Am A Bot

@varfirstName ##/s/threadnipper/threadnipper (source)

Bob

5:46 PM

I just set up something on nordvpn ... it works alright but mildly disappointing

bwDraco

@allquixotic i7-7820X?

allquixotic

@Bob Yes.

(I have like 10 VPNs)

(maybe more)

var firstName

how u sed a certain message?

Bob

@allquixotic ...any particular preference?

allquixotic

@varfirstName github.com/allquixotic/SO-ChatBot/blob/master/source/plugins/…

@Bob none I'm willing to discuss here :P evades

Bob

5:48 PM

ha

var firstName

confuzz.

Bob

I mostly got it for public wifi

allquixotic

## s/varfirst/noobfirst/ 39491164

I Am A Bot

@allquixotic @noobfirstName github.com/allquixotic/… (source)

Bob

but it turns out most of the local public wifi doesn't work anyway

var firstName

5:50 PM

hiss

allquixotic

## s/e/ALL THE THINGS/g 39491076

I Am A Bot

@allquixotic and thALL THE THINGSn I rALL THE THINGSalizALL THE THINGS I can usALL THE THINGS VBA to sALL THE THINGSarch for thALL THE THINGS string by rALL THE THINGSgALL THE THINGSx (source)

var firstName

can you make an entire message into caps using sed?

allquixotic

## s/./$U$1/g

djsmiley2k

LOL

nou

Bob

5:52 PM

@allquixotic also look at the platforms

allquixotic

I'm moving to sandbox

Bob

makes me wonder... would the huge package size of threadripper be a problem on mitx? :P

allquixotic

@Bob I never overclock and always use impressively compact heatsink/fan combos (air cooled) so, probably not

var firstName

I thought you already use the sandbox daily..

;P

allquixotic

>_<

2

@Bob only would be if they don't even sell mitx motherboards for threadripper CPUs.

ooh, I could also do GPGPU on my server this way :D

Bob

5:54 PM

@allquixotic entirely possible if the package size makes the mobo itself too hard

allquixotic

GPGPU hosted on some provider is like, $999999999999999!!!!!!!! (each ! is a factorial) per yoctosecond

even for like a GTX 510

djsmiley2k

lol

Bob

@allquixotic maybe intel + thunderbolt? :P

djsmiley2k

omg take away is here but 2.1 is going to sleep on my lap so i can't move and now i'm gonna die

allquixotic

@Bob so what, like a thunderbolt-enabled NUC with... what, a quadcore laptop CPU with eDRAM?

could be faster in some benchmarks by having a big L4$

Bob

5:56 PM

@allquixotic not great for game servers... I was more thinking next imtel gen that's supposed to have thunderbolt as standard

or maybe some amd oem will add it

allquixotic

well I don't need over 9000 GPUs making all the rooms in my house 100 Fahrenheit

Bob

@allquixotic but you don't have properly redundant power at home :P

allquixotic

I was thinking just one GPU for maybe some future game server that depends on, like, GPGPU for physics (or at least benefits from it)

Bob

@allquixotic I meant the cpu in a nuc isn't too great

allquixotic

not even for mining; I can do that without a server

@Bob I don't have redundant power, no, but I have incredibly reliable power, and can get a UPS to tolerate flickers

Bob

6:00 PM

you could always get a bigger case and just attach a gpu normally :P

allquixotic

MicroATX is enough for a full size GPU

if I said Micro ITX I misspoke; I meant MicroATX

basically another of what my desktop is

Bob

or even yore igpu could help if you aren't getting a server class cpu

allquixotic

liftable in a pinch by a single person without injuring the back

weigh-in around 9, maybe 10 kg

the PSU is the heaviest part of my desktop I think :P

djsmiley2k

I own cases that weigh more than that, pfttt

allquixotic

that sucker has some seriously heavy power electronics inside I guess, and the chassis is physically solid

also it takes up every last millimeter of space they allot for the PSU in an ATX12V chassis, which surprised me because my previous PSU was slightly smaller than the allotted space

Bob

6:02 PM

@allquixotic oh yea, want a bmc? :P

allquixotic

@Bob you mean an out of band IPMI?

yes

Bob

gonna need a server mobo

allquixotic

damn.

you're also right about the cost of having obsolete crap around in 5 years

Bob