The Comms Room

Adrian

10:00 PM

@Iain The big mSO question about the failed migration rate. That one isn't even remotely on topic for SF.

Iain

you could argue that it is but the answer is NO

Michael Hampton

Joe, NULL, PaulG, ЯegDwight, Bo Persson

Adrian

@Iain That question is IMHO a prime example why cross-site migration needs to be killed.

Iain

@Adrian yep

Michael Hampton

And of course I"m out of close votes...

Adrian

10:03 PM

It's like when my children are only listening for key words when I talk to them. They hear one or two words because they're busy thinking about something else and not paying attention. The reviewers on SO see key words that they associate with SF and off it goes regardless of any other issues in the question.

@MichaelHampton It's closed now

Michael Hampton

Yeah, I see that.

Zoredache

I really wish some vendor would create a desktop-based type 1 hypervisor. A small number of people really want it.

Adrian

@Zoredache It probably wouldn't pay for the Development costs though.

Michael Hampton

What's wrong with VMware Workstation?

Zoredache

@Adrian No, probably not, but I would really like to have Windows, Linux and OSX booted on a system all side-by-side. With the active VM having the access to the video/audio systems so I get full access to my video equipment

freiheit

10:07 PM

I think there's a strong population of SO users whose understanding of SF's scope never got updated after the initial SF announcement.

Blog - Stack Exchange: Why Can’t You Have Just One Site?

Jeff Atwood on July 26, 2009

Now that we have four sites in the Stack Overflow trilogy:

Some users disagree with the idea that there should be four sites.

Why do we need the trilogy instead of just one site? Having four sites to jump between is ridiculous! Why not one Site? Trilogy Portal: Community Colloboration

Having four sites to jump between is ridiculous! Why not one Site? Trilogy Portal: Community Colloboration

Why not one Site? Trilogy Portal: Community Colloboration

Trilogy Portal: Community Colloboration

The whole point of these sites is to form a community around specific topics. There’s nothing more toxic to a …

Adrian

@Zoredache No argument there. The desktop hardware nowadays can easily handle it.

Zoredache

@MichaelHampton Lets say I don't want to dual boot, I want to natively run Linux, and I want to be able to run Windows games.

Michael Hampton

I canna change the laws of physics!

Adrian

@freiheit Personally, I have trouble taking seriously any analogy involves super-heroes.

freiheit

@Adrian Even if it relates to how bad an idea it is to wear a cape?

Adrian

10:09 PM

@freiheit I dunno. The dude walking around Pioneer Square today wearing a 'Duff-Man' super hero outfit looked pretty spiffy.

freiheit

@Adrian But Dollar Bill! And Thunderhead! Strato-Girl!

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Adrian

@freiheit And these are the days that I'm sad that everyone in my team faces away from the door so that we can be more effectively monitored by the managers.

Great. I get to spend the weekend fscking around with Postfix figuring out why my sender_access rules aren't working. sigh

I bet you MS guys don't have to deal with that much. Open up the appropriate options menu and tell it what to do or to block, eh?

Michael Hampton

10:30 PM

At least Postfix makes sense. Exchange? That's the stuff of nightmares.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton Problem with Postfix is that you have to use it frequently to remember the weird stuff. The normal stuff is easy.

HopelessN00b

@JustinDearing And pointy hair! Well, actually, he's a bald fuck with no nifty desk or comically shaped hair, but you know what I mean.

HopelessN00b

10:53 PM

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Q: vSphere Hypervisor Disconnect Occasionally

I installed a dedicated Vmware ESXi Hypervisor at 192.160.0.10 (static ip) EDIT: Before downvoting, if you tell me where to look at to get any diagnostic info, I will be glad ! Occasionally, VMware disconnects and I can't reach it neither by web (https://192.168.0.10/) nor on SSH. But I can suc...

freiheit

@Adrian I used to do lots of similar things with exim

HopelessN00b

Ugh. Wut iz teh VMWare codez, pleasing?

Michael Hampton

Eh, give the poor kid a break. VMware's names are confusing as fuck.

HopelessN00b

@MichaelHampton Really? With the exception of the discontinued VMWare Server, I'm not sure I agree.

Adrian

FacePalm Kinda tough to block sender addresses with smtpd_recipient_restrictions...

HopelessN00b

11:02 PM

@Adrian Depends. What's a smtpd? SmutPod? I think I'd like one of those...

Adrian

@HopelessN00b Stupid Mail Transfer Protocol Daemon.

HopelessN00b

@Adrian What the hell, man? We don't want you transferring your stupid around. Keep the stupid you have in the boss's office where it is now. Show some consideration.

Adrian

I think the thing that annoys me most about the questions we get migrated in from SO is that relatively few of them are well-researched. Especially the continual trickle of repetitive Apache/NGinx config questions.

Does anyone know precisely what the hell this guy is trying to do?

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Q: Windows authentication does not work after reboot

I have a strange issue on IIS7 running on Windows 2008 (Domain Controller). We have a website and we set to use "Windows authentication" only. So, all other authentication methods are disabled. When the Windows server rebooted, users cannot login, and got 401 error. But, if I restart the IIS s...

iis iis7

Using AD to authenticate visitors to his site hosted on IIS?

freiheit

11:18 PM

@Adrian intranet?

Michael Hampton

I just installed Node.js. I think I need a shower now...

Adrian

@freiheit I guess. Seems like a really bad idea to have IIS running on your DC though.

freiheit

@Adrian Intranet for a tiny company with one server that does almost everything and somebody managing it who either isn't primarily a sysadmin or is a fairly junior sysadmin?

Shane Madden

I wonder if IIS is starting before netlogon.

HopelessN00b

@Adrian It's not they aren't well researched, it's that they're incomprehensible. When they aren't incomprehensible, they're flagrantly not constructive or off-topic.

@Adrian Probably SBS. (Which, last time I bashed on the main, got downvoted by some fucktard who says it's great, go figure.)

Adrian

11:25 PM

@HopelessN00b Meh. I've met an astonishing lot of Windows admins who couldn't figure out how to pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the bottom.

Met a few rockstars too, but most of them are working for Microsoft in this town.

HopelessN00b

@ShaneMadden That would be my guess too. I'm you don't suggest it, I'll take pit on the guy and throw that his way in a comment.

@Adrian Yeah, yeah... you meet a lot more Windows admins like that once you become one, too. There are Linux admins like that too... but not nearly so many. It's like you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Windows admin who'd be out of his depth on SuperUser. Ugh.

Adrian

Time for me to mosey home in the rain. Have a pleasant weekend folks.

freiheit

Time for me to mosey over to the new craft beer store on my way home...

(gotta swing by regularly in order not to miss out on any new fresh hop beers)

ewwhite

11:42 PM

@freiheit hipster.

Michael Hampton

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Q: Cloning BitLocker encrypted disk to VMWare Fusion image?

I have a ThinkPad running Windows 7 Enterprise with a BitLocker encrypted drive. I would like to clone or somehow convert this physical machine into a virtual machine that I can with either VMWare Fusion 5 or Parallels Desktop 8 on OS X. Is this even possible given the BitLocker encryption?

macosx virtual-machines vmware-fusion parallels bitlocker

@ewwhite What do you make of that one?

Alexander Janssen

aloha

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