The Comms Room

84104

23:00

@MarkHenderson Likewise except 's/whiteboxed //' .

Mark Henderson

@Adrian I don't have too much of an issue with supermicro, really, but hand-made ones I do

Adrian

@MarkHenderson Aren't they all handmade at some point?

84104

@Adrian Robots!

Mark Henderson

@Adrian OK, hand-made by me then :P

Adrian

@84104 Well, I'm pretty sure mine are the hand-built variety judging by the number of servers I received over the years with stripped-out chassis screws.

Michael Hampton

23:02

WTF, I go to all that work to figure out someone's problem and I get a downvote.

84104

@Adrian My mistake! en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robota

Adrian

@84104 Eh, What? You been hanging out with the Developers and taking bong hits?

Michael Hampton

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A: Google bots are severely affecting site performance

I don't think it's Google's bots killing your server. That's the least of what's going on here. Absolutely the first thing you should do is set up caching. W3 Total Cache is a good start. Using PHP-APC is another very good idea as that will reduce your CPU usage. Beyond that, the obvious bottl...

84104

@Adrian I blame the weather. It's just too hot right now.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton So, that dude wants our help is sorting out performance issues with his blog scraper?

@84104 Winter started here this weekend. People are finally chilling out.

Michael Hampton

23:07

Pretty much. I'm just annoyed that I got downvoted.

84104

@Adrian It's apparently 94 degrees now.

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid prrrrr

84104

@MarkHenderson You can your cat calls.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton And the incorrect answer got upvoted

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson nudge

Adrian

23:12

Of course, I doubt MY answer will not resolve the actual problem, but it's a solution for the problem the OP thinks they have.

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid Do you want a gimp? I got the keys to our new house on the weekend but the previous owners left behind a black cat. It's scraggly and hasn't eaten properly in weeks. And we all know to succesfully train a gimp you need to break their spirit. This one is broken. You just need to re-train it.

Adrian

@MarkHenderson They left it IN the house?

Mark Henderson

@Adrian Nah in the back yard, so its had freedom and has clearly eaten the bare minimum to survive over the past 3 months the house has been vacant

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson I shall retrain it in the image of Bobcat Goldthwait

Adrian

@MarkHenderson Ah. Happens, I suppose. Also why I've never let my cats outside unsupervised.

Michael Hampton

23:18

OK, I'm a lot less pissed off now. Thanks guys. :)

Mark Henderson

@Adrian The prev. owners got a divorce so they obviously couldn't decide what to do with the cat so they just left it behind. Makes me angry that they did that, cos now I have to take the goddamn cat to the pound where it'll be put down in fairly short timeframe I think, making me feel guilty about it

Adrian

@MarkHenderson Ah. Not too many no-kill animal shelters there, eh?

Mark Henderson

@Adrian None as far as I know of. Shit I got no problem with killing the animal, I'd do it myself if there wasn't anywhere to take it, it just makes me feel guilty

freiheit

@MarkHenderson No "no kill" shelters, or at least "try really hard and take a long time before killing" shelters around?

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson Hey, it's not like YOU starved the cat.

Mark Henderson

23:19

@MichaelHampton No, but it's already treating me like Im its new owner, even though I've never fed it. It comes up and bloody rubs against my legs and meows at me and gives me sad-eyes

Anyway my boss's wife is going to try and re-home it, but if she can't find a home by Friday then it's going to the pound

My wife and my dad are severely allergic to cats, so it can't stay

Michael Hampton

So feed it. Nurse it back to health. And then go dump it in the previous owners' lap.

Adrian

Well, that's a good sign. Around here at least, it's the unfriendly ones that get euthanized. The friendly ones get adopted pretty quick.

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton No idea who they are or where they live. The cat probably isn't even registered (and thus not microchipped).

@Adrian Yeah it's a real friendly cat, but it's not particularly cute or cuddly :p

Michael Hampton

Well then. I think you've found a new owner.

freiheit

@MarkHenderson It'd probably be a lot cuter once it's fattened up a bit...

Michael Hampton

23:21

Eh, it might be when it recovers.

Mark Henderson

@freiheit This is true

Adrian

Yeah, the last cat I adopted looked like hell because she's been dumped while she was pregnant with kittens. She turned out to be a beautiful long-haired tortoise-shell once she'd recovered and fattened up.

FSCKING HELL!!!!

Been trying to talk mgmt into video conferences for 2.5 years.

Michael Hampton

"First Posts" went from 1.1k to 273. WTF?

Adrian

They said 2 MONTHS ago that they didn't need and it wasn't good ROI.

Now I just got a ticket in saying they want me to throw it together in 11 days so that they can do a 12-site video-conference using slides and whiteboards.

And, of course, it has to be zero cost.

freiheit

@Adrian Trying to plan too far in advance is the sort of good deed that's almost always guaranteed to be punished...

Journeyman Geek

23:29

@MarkHenderson I'm not a cat person, but people like that should be shot. Its a fricking pet (or evil overlord). There is no excuse to just leave it behind.

Michael Hampton

@Adrian Edit your ticket system's close reasons, adding an "Absurd" close reason.

Adrian

@freiheit Apparently so. Fixing the roof is "Not a Priority" until the damn thing caves in.

@MichaelHampton I have spare slots. I should do this, at least on the test system.

freiheit

@Adrian Wait, delay, crisis, panic...

Adrian

@freiheit And the padawan, God bless him, thinks a MagicJack VOIP is the answer to everything now.

Michael Hampton

Mark Henderson

23:31

@JourneymanGeek Believe it or not I'm not a cat person either (just cos I pretend to be a cat on the internet, you know...) but yea, it's just lazy and disgraceful

Journeyman Geek

@MarkHenderson: I prefer dogs. I prefer people arn't such useless wastes of oxygen that they think leaving a domesticated animal to fend for itself even more.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton That bad MoFo is getting printed out in color and taped to the side of my workstation

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson You know what's weirder? I don't like cats either.

Michael Hampton

I only like other people's cats.

Journeyman Geek

I'm mostly fine with the local strays, there was this one kitten that kept climbing up 25 floors, getting spooked by my dog (and hiding in some boxes) and had to be carried back to ground level

WesleyDavid

23:34

@JourneymanGeek That's one badass kitten.

Journeyman Geek

@WesleyDavid: ya, considering it was small enough to carry in one hand

(No idea what happened to him tho :/, my second favourite cat ever)

Michael Hampton

@Adrian When you leave, those padawans are going to be running the place. You should feel good about the mess they're going to make.

And unless I miss my guess, they probably won't even attempt to fill your position.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton I dunno. I genuinely like quite a few of the people here, and they're doing amazing work with really difficult people.

@MichaelHampton I think they will. It's a point of prestige for my boss that when he got promoted out that the position had to be split in two.

Michael Hampton

Doubtless. It's unfortunate that they have to work under such incompetent management.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton This is true. At least they have a union of sorts, even if they're nearly worthless putzes.

WesleyDavid

23:39

@Adrian "When I left my last job, it took two people to match my level of incompetency!!"

Adrian

@WesleyDavid Pretty much. Both eventually got cut loose. I was re-hired to fill one of them. Had no idea that my news boss was such an awful vacuum of leadership skill.

OTOH, the Python stuff is progressing nicely.

Journeyman Geek

@Adrian: what python stuff?

Adrian

@JourneymanGeek Teaching myself Python again. Hacked my way through a few scripts years ago and forgot most of it.

Journeyman Geek

@Adrian: doing a class on it now, its pretty good

its about 3-4 weeks in tho

Adrian

@JourneymanGeek Yeah. Once I finish learnpythonthehardway.org, I'm going to go through the MIT OpenCourseware lecture series.

Then I'm going to code up some scripts that monitor some of the services around here in Python and after a month or so of Python scripts, I'm going to go through a Perl refresher too.

Having a plan is rather nice to fending off despair.

Journeyman Geek

23:45

quite ;p

Michael Hampton

I'll be back in 15 minutes to claim my gold badge.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton ZAP! KABOOM!

ewwhite

who still says "HDD"?

Journeyman Geek

I do >_>

I don't say HDD Drive tho

Michael Hampton

I never said "HDD".

Joel E Salas

23:53

@ewwhite I prefer the term "magneto-spin featuring rotational velocidensity"

ewwhite

HDDDD Drive

Or SSDDD

84104

@ewwhite Herpa-Derpa-Derpa-Derpa-Derp Drive?

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