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Journeyman Geek

2:01 PM

@Sathya: your actions are partial? Complete them ya slacker ;p

Bob

damn it

I'm trying to track down the source of my current Gravatar :P

@JourneymanGeek perhaps as opposed to impartial

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob imgur.com/gallery/vJ1oe

Bob

@OliverSalzburg O.O thanks

I was going though my bookmarks :P

Oliver Salzburg

In case you saw it on Reddit: reddit.com/r/aww/comments/16166o/…

Bob

2:17 PM

@OliverSalzburg yea, forgot to bookmark it

I feel stupid now

Oliver Salzburg

Now everyone knows you read /r/aww

Bob

front page :P

I kept all the defaults

Sathya

dude doesn't give up

Bob

@Sathya subscribe him to Windows-related mailing lists

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya What the... :D

Sathya

2:19 PM

tempted to reply:

Windows works very well for me, more so than Linux thanks.

Now please stop spamming me.

@OliverSalzburg look at above pics :D

Oliver Salzburg

@Sathya Yeah, I've been following :D

Bob

there we go, Gravatar updated :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Sathya: I'm checking if he's spammed me but no ;p

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob lol. Nice

I should follow suit before this becomes mainstream ;D

Journeyman Geek

I don't see the new gravatar yet

Bob

2:30 PM

looks a little off-centre.. ah well.

Journeyman Geek

lol

HackToHell

mustachify.me's face detection algorithm is quite good :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

@HackToHell wait what

I did that manually..

HackToHell

And suddenly Flash size bloats to 15 mb :/

@Bob my bad

Bob

2:42 PM

now i'm curious :P

HackToHell

but it's algo is good, it recognized a tilit of my head in a photo

Bob

fail... where's the moustache?

@HackToHell doesn't work too well on foxes, unfortunately :P

HackToHell

or cats :(

or dogs :P

this is fun !

Bob

2:59 PM

o.O

user88311

I take a shower, I come back, and the place has been stached

7

Tanner

3:15 PM

G'day chaps! Ah, I see we are playing with mustaches.

Mine is superior and comes with a hat.

Oliver Salzburg

Oh my... github.com/afeld/mustachio/tree/master/lib/mustachio/public/…

HackToHell

:D :D

Oliver Salzburg

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Variety is awesome!

Bob

3:38 PM

I feel sad... as a fox, I can't be auto-mustached D:

uhh.. I mean... yip yip yip!

Journeyman Geek

lol

Oliver Salzburg

I was mustaching manually as well. Auto-stache didn't work well enough

Hennes

3:55 PM

Wow.

2

A: What to do if Windows Update constantly fails without error code?

Can you try these things: 0) Reboot. Then try again. (The reason behind this is that previously applied windows updates might block other windows updates until the host has restarted. 1) Check for error message in WindowsUpdate.log (This file is usually found in c:\windows). Then check the e...

Asked on Sep 12 '12 at 16:05

Accepted: earlier today

Tanner

haha

Oliver Salzburg

@Hennes Are you not formatting the list properly intentionally?

Hennes

Which list?

The one in windows updates? If so I have no reason why I did that a long time ago

Oliver Salzburg

That list

Hennes

I would guess I added two points after writing first do this. Second tesest such etc etc. But it is long enough ago that I do not remember writing that post, let along why I formatted it that way

Oliver Salzburg

4:11 PM

You can see quite a few edits of mine where I only replace 1), 2), 3) with 1., 2., 3. to fix list formatting :D It's one of my pet peeves ;P

allquixotic

I changed my gravatar back to the oh don piano cat :D

I double {dog,cat} dare anyone to moustachify my cat

looks like it will take a while because of aggressive caching

wow

I burninated my entire browser cache to the beginning of time and it's still showing up mine turtle

Tanner

4:26 PM

I see it too

Sometimes chat takes a while to change

Am I still wearing a top hat?

allquixotic

@Tanner yeah, and a moustache

Tanner

Oh I see the cat now

Wonder why mine hasn't changed...

user88311

YAY THE PSU JUST ARRIVED @Hennes Too bad I have to go to work in 2 hours, ah well have tomorrow off

Hennes

Cheers

HackToHell

@allquixotic takes a while to propagate to all the cdns

Request a different size and t'll show up

allquixotic

4:37 PM

@HackToHell I just wanted to join you in kittyland so you're not all alone as the only kitty :(

HackToHell

why a :( ? o0

allquixotic

because... I ... REALLY... like... cats cries (youtube meme)

Boris_yo

Hello.

@Tanner Who painted you mustache?

Tanner

The CIA. I'm undercover this week.

Luke

user88311

4:53 PM

holy fffff..... @ layers of package paper, layer of fabric and fiber and 3 layers of bubble wrap to go to the psu

2 layers*

get to*

fffffffffff what is this, covered in dust/dirt and has a dent in it

Boris_yo

@Tanner Then tell me who did this to me:

@Luke Who's this? Gandalf?

Luke

I would guess @Boris_yo

Boris_yo

@Luke You pay a lot for sub-par internet in USA?

Luke

Canada, actually... At home, I got a 15 MB package, and pay about $40/mo

Internet here SUCKS

Tanner

I imagine Luke doesn't pay anything for US Internet :P

user88311

4:59 PM

Luke

Get out of the west

Tanner

Yeah baby

$10 more for 100/100

Oliver Salzburg

@Tanner I'd take it!

Tanner

Too bad the home owner's association where I live won't let them dig a line.
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

Oliver Salzburg

So a client just called, they couldn't receive any email all day. So I sent them an email, checked our logs, the logs said "Can't handle your email. Insufficient resources". So I log into their server... C: is full

Why is it full? IIS was writing a fresh log file every day that grew to 1.6 GB

Sathya

@OliverSalzburg yikes

user88311

5:12 PM

Where I'm at, all channel cable, 100 up/down fiber, phone unlimited, etc, 120 a month

Oliver Salzburg

Cause? The SBS console going crazy and invoking massive logging on the WSUS administration site

Solution: Disable logging altogther

Great

So I finished that and thought, let's look around a bit while this is cleaning up

The last working backup was performed 4 months ago!

user88311

ouch

Oliver Salzburg

And it's not backing up any more, because the target drive died

Sits there in Disk Management, offline

So all the backups died with it

And it hasn't backed up anything in 4 months O__O

user88311

Scary thought

Question is, how did it go 4 months without notice

Tanner

^

Oliver Salzburg

5:15 PM

So, naturally, one asks about the SBS reports that are sent out and that would tell you about this

"Oh, those stopped working ages ago!"

Tanner

...

Oliver Salzburg

They only have this single SBS for everything and no IT staff

allquixotic

standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2013/02/god-made-a-sysadmin/…

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user88311

Sounds like a company I know of

KronoS

@Tanner What company is that?

Tanner

5:17 PM

It's a benefit of the local infrastructure really...

KronoS

With Google fiber releasing, it's really changing the market up a bit

Tanner

Our Public Utilities District is running fiber eeeeverywhere, but due to some funky laws involving how the PUD is run they can't make a profit off it or something? So they just hand it off to the local ISP who sells it for cheap.

Tanner

5:29 PM

Oh yay... I get to call the devil machine so I can activate Windows again. :|

Luke

2

@allquixotic Promise, last one

Tanner

@Luke Boss.

Luke

clientsfromhell.net/post/13358686603/…

Hennes

Hmm, another rewiew test from Marc

Tanner

ahahahaha

Oliver Salzburg

5:42 PM

@Luke 4 people with scooters at the same time? Oo

Are scooters mandatory in some shops or...?

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg No; Walmart provides a lot of scooters because they know that many of their customers (a majority?!) in the US are so overweight that they'd be unable to make it through the store without having a heart attack if they went on foot.

or they'd fall down and break their ankle and sue them

I'm overweight but there are two or even three of me (by mass) contained within some of the people I have seen at Walmarts

user88311

It's true, they do the same in canada, with the exception here they have a sign above saying for disabled only

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic I have assumed people "going shopping" on scooters was a rare occurrence. That photo makes it seem like the norm

allquixotic

most of the food products Walmart sells are extremely unhealthy

user88311

In canada, walmart is more of a appliance and clothing store, very limited food, but yeah it's all fake crap

allquixotic

5:47 PM

there are a few OK things if you know where to look, but most of it by volume is definitely things like potato chips, french fries, candy

Oliver Salzburg

I don't think "commodity" means what I thought it means :P

allquixotic

our walmarts are almost equally split down the middle between appliances/clothing/non-edible stuff and basically a grocery store

the nearest one to where i live, has a larger food section than the supermarket that i ordinarily shop at (I shop at the dedicated supermarket for food because their selection is healthier)

user88311

At first a read that as condiments and thought the rest was going to be say means 4 course meal

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg actually they did something really creepy once

my dad is morbidly obese (way worse than me) and when me and my family entered into a Walmart, the greeter at the door was like "Hello Sir, would you like a scooter?" directed toward my dad... he didn't offer me or my mom one

user88311

Yeah, in canada, there is a massive amount of fresh/all natural organic food stores all over the place because most of the people here refuse to eat anything else, nobody likse fake crap here, which is why nobody likes the prime minister either

allquixotic

5:51 PM

I think they want huge people to use them so that the store is less likely to be held liable for anything that might happen to somebody walking through a huge store on peg legs (let's face it, huge peoples' legs just aren't cut out to carry the weight that they have to carry)

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Wow, that didn't even cross my mind

user88311

Guys no offense but can we get back to talking tech, I'm starting to get disgusted

allquixotic

also, from a purely profit motive, Walmart is more likely to "honor" and treat large people specially and make them feel welcome, because they figure that they'll buy more stuff because they eat more... OK, that's all I'm saying about it

Luke

Wow, I feel like a jerk now starting a debate :P

But ya, @user88311, tell us something techy we can discuss

And good to know I found a third Canadian on here

Tanner

Who's the second?

Luke

5:57 PM

I am, and I think you are too, if I recall correctly

I was talking to someone Saturday or Friday from Ontario

But I don't remember exactly who, cause it's been crazy busy at work

rlemon

That's who

user88311

Most people on here aren't even on this side of the world, and to be honest half the time, I'd rather not be to

Tanner

ah

Luke

Tanner, where are you from?

user88311

take @Hennes in the UK for example

Luke

And Oliver in Germany

And Sathya in India

I know, North Americans seem rare in this room

Oliver Salzburg

6:01 PM

Time to go out eating! laters!

user88311

Do me a favor, don't refer to canada as part of america at least, most interpret that as part of the US

Luke

I call it part of North America, cause it's still true

Tanner

@Luke Washington state.

@user88311 Hennes is actually Netherlands.

Luke

Wait... Are you the old rftanner user?

Tanner

Ya haha

r.tanner.f

user88311

6:04 PM

The what?

Boris_yo

@OliverSalzburg Yeah these logs can be weird find sometimes.

Luke

Ahhh, OK

I remember now

Boris_yo

Did anyone sign petition against CISPA 2.0 here?

Luke

Info?

Boris_yo

act.demandprogress.org/letter/cispa_is_back

Luke

6:07 PM

/signed

Hennes

@Tanner @luke: check, Cloggy here

Luke

?

Hennes

Cloggy, aka dutch person

Though that might be a UK nickname

Luke

Might be...

I know Canadians are "Canucks", and Americans are "Yankees"

Little Child

Why cant I create a folder in Ubuntu ? I get an error that says I do not have permission to do that

destination is /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps

Boris_yo

6:22 PM

@Luke Check this out:

►

Little Child

Oh boy.. -_-" OWO,NWO thing again ?

Tanner

6:33 PM

Anyone know of a decent OCR program?

Little Child

@Tanner what do you want it for ?

Adobe Acrobat has it inbuilt

Tanner

Accounting handed me a bunch of serial and item numbers and I don't want to retype it...

Little Child

@Tanner : download.cnet.com/FreeOCR/3000-10743_4-10717191.html

@Tanner that would work with PDF files only

@Tanner here is another one that has conversion functions download.cnet.com/123-PDF-Converter/3000-10743_4-10544297.html

Tanner

ty

Little Child

Let me know if that worked :)

@Tanner they handed you a pdf ?

Tanner

6:39 PM

No, paper

Little Child

In that case you will first have to scan it , convert the image to PDF

than try your luck with softwares

Boris_yo

@LittleChild So how is your hard drive? Got replacement?

Little Child

erm ?

yeah I did :)

been 500+ hours of use... no problems

Thank you for askin' :)

brb in 10

Boris_yo

@LittleChild Do you just sit there and count?

Little Child

No, I let some softwares show the SMART values

inludes the power on hours and power on count values :)

Luke

6:49 PM

@Boris_yo Can't, at work

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Oliver Salzburg

8:11 PM

gemsfromstackexchange.tumblr.com/post/43995603996/…

We need to coin the term gnulix!

Einsteins Grandson

hey guys

how can i read email on Unix ?

Oliver Salzburg

@EinsteinsGrandson Type mail

Einsteins Grandson

i am connected to a SUN

Hennes

With a mail client. ..;

Einsteins Grandson

via Putty

Hennes

8:12 PM

mail, elm, mutt, pine, thunderbird, ...

Einsteins Grandson

in terminal

i will try mail

ok

it works

and how about copying file into my pc?

Hennes

scp is probably easiest.

If you run a deamon on the PC, scp file your_pc_name:

Einsteins Grandson

and my pc name is gonna be what?

Hennes

Or, from the PC side and if you installed puTTY: cmd.exe pscp your_linux_host:~/myfile.demo .

Then hostname of your PC

Einsteins Grandson

ok

most probably something like WinSCP

Hennes

8:16 PM

notice the :, that one often gets overlooked

winscp is horrible, Performance is low

Einsteins Grandson

should let me connect to that directory on SUN right?

ok

WinSCP works

Oliver Salzburg

@EinsteinsGrandson You can't "connect to a directory" and it doesn't make a difference who made the hardware

Terminology matters! :D

Einsteins Grandson

sorry

;o)

i meant my home direcotry on Sun Server

Oliver Salzburg

Sounds great :)

Hennes

example:
C:\Users\hennes>pscp hennes@toad.stack.nl:breeder_reactor .
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
breeder_reactor           | 0 kB |   0.2 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%

C:\Users\hennes>

for a text file in my home dir (aka in ~)

Einsteins Grandson

8:21 PM

they are Sun Ray Servers... on Solaris

and in the lab we only get on Sun Ray client terminal

which is horrible thing

is there a command to find out the operating system?

and the version of the OS?

i have not worked in linux for 8 years

;o)

forgot everything

Oliver Salzburg