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12:23 AM

Augh, my "burninate" button isn't working!

Please to gimmie the codez for working burninate button? P.S.. My buttons are running on Droid Gingerbread OS.

EXACT DUPLICATE!

1:58 AM

Peers at serverfault.com/questions/442878/why-isnt-raid-2-used#442878

snowball? I wonder if that is the IT guy living about 100 meters from me.

It matches his IRC nick, and I know he talks with people who do Hemmingway codes and math for fun.

@Hennes Ask him.

I will. I assume he will be at the T-dose event tomorrow

(A dutch open source thingy)

@Hennes I just assumed it had something to do with marijuana. =P

Which it still might...

...actually, probably does.

=P

Hmm, google does not help me 123

What has a ball of snow to do with marijuana ?

Your PC is now Stoned!

2:12 AM

Peer at that annoying blue bar on superuser.

Should I head over there and ask questions like "why the fuck would I want to upgrade to Nintendo OS 8'. Or maybe I just should get some sleep

Hmm. Write a blog post about Windows 8

That might be a good place to vent about an OS suitable for ages 6 and below.

That was Windows XP, wasn't it?

Actually. My boss at TNO called XP 'Nintendo OS' when XP just came out and the login screen showed flowers, plains etc instead of a log-in prompt

That was the first time I heard an OS referred to that way

I just called it Fisher-Price OS.

One of the first things I do after a win XP or a win7 install is to get a normal login prompt and to set the windows to nice clear crispy edges.

You know the 'adjust for best performance' setting which should have been called 'adjust for best performance AND best appearance'

waves I really should get some sleep. I know I get cranky when I am tired.

2:59 AM

@Hennes AKA, the adjust for some semblance of a professional appearance setting.

Welp, I've cracked a beer and am beginning the ill advised migrate our production environment without pre-planning, backups or a DR plan idea.

So, Friday night, got a beer, an internet connection, and am preparing to watch the world burn. Should be a blast.

What's the markdown for the yellow background highlight?

@MichaelHampton Dunno

So the first step of this migration is take a backup, right?

@MichaelHampton Nope. You may have missed that earlier. New backup system held up in red tape. Migration plan made it through with no delay. Therefore, migrate with no backups.

They're going to regret that. And I hope you have that in writing, filed away at your lawyer's office.

3:12 AM

Dumb as fuck, but I repeatedly got overruled and shot down... so, since the check cleared and they've been repeatedly told they're gambling their business on nothing going wrong... damn the torpedoes, and full speed ahead!

@MichaelHampton Not at the lawyer's office yet, but definitely an iron-clad paper trail. That can make it to the lawyer's office in a second flat, from a couple taps on my smartphone.

And on more important news, my serial downvote rep didn't get reset... ish. May as well update that thread, lest it interfere with my enjoying the fireworks.

Well, to quote @voretaq7...

Too late... the fireworks begin. Did you know that subnets/VLANs need to be aware of each other to pass traffic? Well, they didn't. Hahaha.

LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY JENKINS!

What? You mean packets have to be routed between subnets?

@MichaelHampton I know, who knew?

Phucking phunny as hell. All that BS red tape so no one overlooks any details... and they overlook a whole big chunk of the project. Lol.

►

Well, that's why you get paid the big bucks. Right?

3:24 AM

I guess. Problem with that theory is it constantly makes getting those big bucks a pain in the ass. For example, I bet they'll expect me to fix their damn network (or at least add a VLAN and a couple rules to each switch) in order to get my monies.

It's times like this I really lament not being born with a 20 inch cock, lemme tell ya. :(

3:35 AM

@MichaelHampton Say, do you VMWare much? Or know much about the difference between v4 and v5?

Not my area of expertise. Ask @ewwhite. Or just muddle your way through it like the rest of us ;)

@MichaelHampton I am muddling my way through it. Which is not comforting when the environment is crashing and burning as you watch on your secondary monitor.

You cashed the check...

The thought occurred to me earlier to ask you why you chose the name HopelessN00b.

Honestly? It fits my sense of humor (caustic, somewhat insulting and self-deprecating), my approach to life (walk softly and carry a big stick/make your opponents underestimate you/set the bar low so it's easy to soar over it) and serves as a remind of that old adage about wisdom - something along the lines of "the truly wise man knows he knows nothing at all."

So yeah, I put way too much thought into it. As with most things.

(I hope you took a backup anyway...)

3:43 AM

@MichaelHampton Well, a pissed off customer whose environment they had you destroy... bad for business. And any profits usually go to a lawyer, rather than me, so, really, to get my monies, "I told you asshats so" is often not enough.

@MichaelHampton Well, something resembling one, yeah. Shit hits the fan, I could put it all back in the shitty state it was in 43 minutes ago.

Good enough.

Not quite that hopeless.

Look on the bright side. You could be spending your Friday night learning Rails.

@MichaelHampton No I couldn't. On a directly related note, I could be spending my Friday night committing suicide, though.

4:03 AM

Oh, nifty. I think one of their VMs is hosting the vCenter server. That's... not good.

Less good since I just powered it off, too.

@HopelessN00b Now, update the BIOS and kick the power cord out before it finishes!

@WesleyDavid I would, but this dumbassery is happening remotely.

Ah, I see. The problem is developers. Always, the problem is developers.

Call "ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent" for object "ServiceInstance" on Server "[server.redacted]" failed.

Is that because it's powered off?

@MichaelHampton Probably. Still prefer to blame developers, though.

Oh good. I was right. It's a complete, explosive, projectile clusterfuck of a disaster.

I hate being right.

4:23 AM

@HopelessN00b The vCenter VM is powered off? Can you connect to the host that owns the VM directly with the vSphere client?

@ShaneMadden Seems that's not it. The VMs are all powered up (connected to all the individual hosts), but the vCenter server, physical, is non-responsive, even over ILO. May have to physically drive down there and give it a stern talking to with the ol' shotgun.

@HopelessN00b Ooh, that's always fun.

K.K Patel

What is MAAS in Ubuntu server ?

@K.KPatel Canonical makes servers now?

@K.KPatel wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/MAAS

4:28 AM

Anyhow, Metal as a Service

Sounds like a crime against humanity, if you ask me.

4:40 AM

@HopelessN00b What say you?

@ewwhite "Dammit, VMWare comes to mind." Followed by "Dammit, me." Looks like I have a drive out to a client site in my near future to push a power button. When a box isn't working over ILO, something's gone very wrong.

what type of server?

That's why vCenter in a VM is a good thing :)

Oh, separate vcenter?

bad idea, it seems...

Yeah, maybe. Still kind of have a split mind about that. It's nice to have in a VM.... until you have to reboot it. Kinda like a domain controller. Never have just one. >:/

Smarter yet, never take a job from someone who has just one, unless the job starts with making a second one.

4:48 AM

what type of server?

5:10 AM

fac

@ewwhite Oh, sorry, dunno, actually. Already on my way over to take a look with my eyes.

5:28 AM

Have fun. It's bedtime for me.

I figured it out, and... OMFG.

Moved an "IT apps" VM.

IT apps VM had spare space, so it was being used for SQL db backups, through MSSQLMS.

SQL db that was being backed up came from the same machine that held a db named "VC_temp"

Shutting down the "IT apps" VM crashed/hung/whatever the database server to which the vCenter server was connected.

Made vCenter unable to connect users (or tired admins) to the db, and wasted 2 hours of my life. And a bunch of gas. ILO's probably just outdated.

Let this be a lesson on why multiple single-points-of failure are worse than single single points of failure. Or something.

@HopelessN00b Ouch.

Just remember - find one good single-point-of-failure and scale around it.

@ShaneMadden Yeah, that would seem to be the underlying design philosophy in place here.

At I don't even wanna get into why that useless backup was even happening. Suffice to say, all the shit that does no good... done in triplicate.

5:46 AM

Oooh, a self-balancing unicycle....

focusdesigns.com

@ewwhite Yeah, that took an embarrassingly long time for me to figure out. Gonna blame that on... I dunno, I'll come up with something before the night's out.

Lucas Kauffman

8:13 AM

Gentlemen, a good morning to all of you

Ward

8:31 AM

@HopelessN00b Now the serial downvoting of your posts has been reversed.

@Ward Yeah, I see that. It even shows up as such in the rep. For today. +80 - serial downvoting reversed. Gonna make tracking progress towards the epic and legendary badges even more confusing than it already is. :)

Iain

G'day

bright breezy and cold here - fist spin in winter gear for me

9:15 AM

Ahoy.

Not a g'day today either, though. Damn... IT... people... and such.

Lucas Kauffman

9:30 AM

I never blame IT people

I blame the users

Ward

@Iain Bike to Work week is next week here, and we've got rain forecast the whole time:

9:46 AM

@LucasKauffman Not IT people. IT, as in the technology. And also, separately, people in general.

Almost got all those VMs moved over. One freaking VM has to stay on the old junk because it was P2Ved before uninstalling some HP networking drivers and software, so networking won't work for it on the new stuff. :(

So close... yet, I must admit defeat and shuffle off to sleep. Bummer.

Hope the rest of you have a good one, though.

growse

11:49 AM

sigh serverfault.com/a/442925/68794

1:45 PM

NAT is the devil. YOuy can onw use the devil in a new coat!

Q: Clearer explanation on why questions are deemed off topic?

2:42 PM

so ashamed... I had to call Apple to ask them to flush their mail server's DNS cache because it wasn't picking up on my NS record change.

Iain

2:52 PM

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Given my situation I am sorry that I ask so many off topic questions on SE sites. Please advise me as to where I can find clear documentation of what questions are deemed on-topic for each of the appropriate sites? I was under the impression that the following question was on-topic having seen s...

discussion support

Chopper3

3:45 PM

SO....should I upgrade my games machine to W8?

Q: difference between server and desktop

mornin' gents.

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I want to set up a webserver. I would like to buy a hardware for that and i am trying to understand if i should buy a desktop and host the webserver on that or do i have to buy some used server from ebay and host on it. Example is http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1809861728...

ubuntu web-hosting desktop

Anyone with vote to close as duplicate options?

@Chopper3 You'll be stuck with Metro.

Q: What are the Benefits of Server Hardware?

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What are the benefits of using Server Hardware versus just placing server software on top of Desktop Hardware? I've been running a small time webserver for a couple of websites, a blog and a multi-user dungeon for years and am considering upgrading. I've always simply used whatever old deskto...

webserver hardware lamp desktop

That is the duplicate

(no VTC here).

Chopper3

@MichaelHampton I know., just cheap at the moment

3:49 PM

@Hennes Right. I keep forgetting about duplicate search

So do I

I read, think, compose an answer, post. and then search for duplicates as I realise that this is a std answer

Though I am not sure a VTC as duplicate to an already closed vote is the best

@Hennes Can't change the vote. I flagged it.

I just added a See also the post What are the Benefits of Server Hardware? [closed].

Meanwhile: Grah. Why spell Benefits with a capital B ?

It must be the krauts writing.

Closing as a duplicate of a closed question is usually fine. If it's completely off topic and got migrated here, go ahead and hit off topic, though. :)

I lack the reputation to voteToClose.

I keep VTC-ing on superuser, then I want to do the same here.

But I still need 1400ish rep

About 20 more weeks at my current rate

Q: What cloud backup solution supports a "backup server to cloud" configuration?

3:54 PM

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What online backup tool allows you to: A) Back up Windows, Linux and optionally Mac desktops and servers to the cloud B) Do so by first backing up to a central server or appliance C) Allow restoring from that appliance when possible and if not go to the cloud For now the best option I have seen...

cloud saas backups

Q&A is hard, let's go shopping!

@Hennes Frankly, the new one is more OT and the duplicate it would be merged to

Q: Uptime concerns in case of AWS outage

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I am running an Elastic Load Balancer backup by 2 instances in different Availability Zones in US East. I am using Multi-AZ RDS as well. Ideally this should ensure that if one AZ goes down, it should not effect the app because everything is spread across multiple AZs. But the recent AWS outage ...

amazon-ec2 amazon-web-services disaster-recovery

@Iain What do you think of the post immediately above?

Oh wait, I was confused. @Iain's gravatar is way too similar to @Chopper3...

Q: Cherrypy web application won't communicate outside localhost via VPN

@MichaelHampton Iain was here an hour or so ago though.

@MichaelHampton Check this migration out:

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I'm trying to run a Python2.7/Cherrypy web server on Win 7 which is connected to a VPN to establish a dedicate IP address. (If I run the exact same application on Win XP connected to the VPN it works fine.) On Win 7 I tried configuring it to use port 8080, 8005, or 80 with no improvements. I turn...

windows-7 webserver

Q: Do I need to enable firewall before Natting?

4:16 PM

That should never have left SU, as far as I can tell.

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I want to make my local server visible over the internet. I've learnt that I'll be able to achieve this through NAT. I'm using a D-Link router, DIR-600. In the application rules it asks me for Firewall port number. However, firewall is not configured on my router. Do I have to configure firewall ...

firewall router nat public-ip

@MichaelHampton yeah, saw that too.

Home user. GTFO

Q: Maintaining ubuntu Server session after logout from remote server

This DevOps just needs to hire a sysadmin. Or maybe read a book.

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I am using Ubuntu Server 12.04 for my rails production. I am using Thin server as web server for my rails application. These are the steps I used start my rails server from remote location : connect with ssh to remote host. start GNU Screen. Starting Rails server in background via rails server...

ubuntu-12.04 thin gnu-screen ssh

It always amazes me how few Devs have any understanding of the software that underpins their particular set of code. So very strange.

Of course, I may have been working with crappy Devs too.

Q: CSS, JS and images are not loading while sharing WAMP over local network

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I have share my wamp over my personal LAN . (Server IP : 192.168.0.100) When I am trying to access wamp server it's working perfectly. But when I open website hosted on server using client machine (192.168.0.103) , it doesn't load CSS - Images and JS files. So I saw console and found that my br...

apache2 network-share lan wampserver sharing

Home user. GTFO

networking debian xen debian-squeeze

Ick.

This on the other hand might be useful with the home reference removed

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Q: Xen PV packet loss

I'm having some serious issues with packetloss with our home server. This server is a somewhat old (P4-era) machine running Debian Squeeze and Xen 4.0. There are two domUs running on it (both also Debian Squeeze), one gateway and a fileserver. Unfortunatly the processor has no virtualization exte...

4:30 PM

@MichaelHampton Sadly I no longers assume home users with these questions.

I thank my previos boss for that. (head of IT. NAT == more secure.)

@Hennes When they explicitly mention home usage, and/or home networking equipment...

Our ADSL test line was 'home usage' (from the office).

Ordered as a private 'person' (e.g. no corp prices or guarantees).

Oh yeah, it happens sometimes that a small business will be using consumer-grade equipment. This really should be mentioned explicitly, lest someone come along and think it is a home user question.

Needless to say the test line was not the productionline

Aye. I agree. should

But "my personal LAN" is 99% a home user.

4:32 PM

/me agrees a second time

@MichaelHampton yeah, most of my remote building links are consumer DSL.

Darn. I got rep increase (first time this week?)... one a question which will (or should) be closed.

And all of them have consumer DSL links for backups for the T1 if they have one.

@Hennes that was probably me upvoting that =)

:)

Yeah, I need to post a few answers. With the tsunami of crap, it's tough to get motivated though.

4:39 PM

I love beating people over the head with the RFCs.

Why do people keep saying 'server hardware is usually faster' ? (just found another post here which claimed that).

My expience with server class hardware is that is is NOT faster. It is just easier to manage and a lot more reliable

Faster than what?

Depends on what you're buying.

We buy 5yo 2nd hand Dells and brand-new IBM x3550M3s. The IBMs are obviously much faster.

@MichaelHampton Fasten than 'unspecified'. But I assume most people mean 'faster than same generation desktop hardware'

Second hand. That remind me. I need to ebay for a quead of second hand opteron 8214's or similar.

I need them as a birthday gift for a friend.

Her play around server only has two 8214 in it atm (she does NUMA coding for openBSD)

sweet. Some of my motorcycle buddies used to do Linux kernel hacking for Sequent back in the day.

4:48 PM

It has been a while since I saw the Linux kernel.

Part of graduating from school was to intern somewhere. My job there was to write a firewire driver for the Linux kernel

cool.

the school my Ex went to had a setup like that where you had a paid internship with one of the local businesses.

arrrgh.

my DNS still isn't working

That stinks.

12:01pm, and my mail is starting to flow in.

starting to get mail from Friday.

5:04 PM

The MX records get crossed up?

@Adrian GOdaddy dropped my zone

@ewwhite cute. Well, one of the hazards of dealing with those ijits, I suppose.

I moved off to AMazon ROute 53

I never touched godaddy. And the more I hear about them the less likely it gets that I will ever use them.

send me an email... chunkylover53@aol.com

I mean, um...

5:07 PM

@ewwhite Heh. So you're really a 59 year old single guy living a basement apartment in the suburbs, eh? =D

Google that address :)

Ah. I quit watching Simpsons about the mid-90s.

You pretty much miss 99% of pop culture these days if you don't watch TV.

oh poo

Moving my employer to Dreamhost this coming week. Thought about setting up Amazon, but nobody here is going to know how to manage it when I leave.

A small instance would be just fine and set up Route 53. But not worth having to spend 3 weeks creating all the documentation for the padawans.

Amazon is easy

5:18 PM

And it's also well documented...maybe too well.

@MichaelHampton And they'll build better idiots. Mine have conditioned themselves OUT of checking documentation.

Why write documentation if it won't get read?

They'd probably be a hell of a lot more skilled if I was allowed to work from hoe more often.

@MichaelHampton the boss says so. Mind you, it's a good idea. But it's easier just to make them pay a little more for the service and let someone else do the management.

My boss likes that anyway since he wants to out-source all the services his IT dept. provides anyway.

For your situation, yeah, paying an outside sysadmin is much more advisable. :)

Oh look, Amazon's having I/O wait issues again...

heh. Still not sure that I'd want to be a sysadmin for a company whose entire infratructure is on AWS.

5:26 PM

max 99.2%

Of course, Amazon says: Service is operating normally.

Yep. Still pondering whether I want to apply for a slot at Amazon.

You want the service back to the abnormal (working) position ?

If you try it, I'd recommend staying out of US-East.

I am in Europe, so I would try for a EU cloud provider with no US ownership

@Hennes If 99% I/O wait is normal, then yes I want abnormal.

5:33 PM

Patroit act might sound sane, but it scares me enough not to want to move to any US provider

Here's my general expectation:

Why would I want to avoid US East? As a customer, sure. But I'm thinking that dealing with broken stuff is the quickest way to learn.

@Adrian Oh, you want your successors to deal with broken stuff?

The stuff I build is a little too stable. Mostly just works and so I don't learn as much about it anymore.

@MichaelHampton Anybody my place hires will likely be breaking it all on their own often enough.

How did you get hired? You're obviously too competent.

5:42 PM

@MichaelHampton Known quantity. I'd worked there with my current boss as a co-worker for a few years in the early 2000s.

Aha.

@Hennes So long as it's not in Germany. They're even worse than the US in some respects.

@MichaelHampton But in Germany they have Wine Breaks.

Our new HR assistant worked in Stuttgart for a few years.

6:32 PM

Slow day. I still have 8 close votes left.

@Adrian Amazon's US-East was their first public datacenter. As a result, they could have used lessons learned when building their other ones. And, EVERY SINGLE major outage that's made the news has been in US-East.

That, and the Oregon one will give you lower latency to the people most likely to visit the web site.

@MichaelHampton They said the reason for the outage was a software bug -- I think the failures are simply there because it's most populated.

That very well could be. @WesleyDavid has said that they simply dont' have the capacity in US-East to do failover properly.

@ShaneMadden And considering I'm still seeing the same performance issues that were the cause of the most recent outage...

@MichaelHampton aws.amazon.com/message/680342

@MichaelHampton Stands to reason. I should talk to my buddy who used to work for Amazon to see if I want to work there or not. It's entirely possible that the support level engineers don't get their asses kicked as hard by the inter-departmental politics.

Incidentally, I got one of those 27" 2560x1440 IPS monitors hooked up just now... best 400 bucks I spent all year. It looks incredible. The pr0ning will be much improved from here on out.

6:47 PM

@HopelessN00b Oh nice.

So how did the cowboy migration end up?

@MichaelHampton As expected, a cluster. Made me earn my money. And then to make sure I didn't get any satisfaction out of a job well done... one of the VMs had to stay on the old gear because its network stack won't work on the new ones. And its the VM that does all the communication with the midframe, naturally.

All in a day's work.

For sure. That monitor, by the way, is this guy, at Microcenter. Might even be worth heading in to Mass. to get, IMO.

Ha. Google has NO IDEA where I am. Your Location: Owings Mills, MD... I knew IPv6 was good for something.

@MichaelHampton Their devs still need to work out some bugs. I went to NYC and took a bunch of pictures on the ol' Droid and, looking back at them now, a bunch of them got tagged as being taken in somewhere, New Jersey. I think I actually have a picture of me in front of the Met, "location Newark, New Jersey" (According to Google.)

6:54 PM

@HopelessN00b Oh yeah, that would be worth heading into Taxachusetts for.

@HopelessN00b To be fair, that's within the margin of error if you have GPS off.

@MichaelHampton It was on (I'm pretty sure), but I didn't consider it could be picking up data from a cell tower in New Jersey. Good catch.

With all the buildings bouncing signals around, you could be talking to a tower just about anywhere within a 10 mile radius.

Oh, that too. My GPS did flip the frick out going through midtown until I got into LoS of Central Park

@HopelessN00b One of my co-workers used to work in the cell industry writing code for phones and did some of the geolocation/tower-triangulation stuff. To hear him talk it's about 80% science and 40% black magic.

Yeah. There's a technical term for when a radio signal bounces off a building, I forget what it is. Apparently it's highly annoying.

7:03 PM

@MichaelHampton Not multi-path but I think it's related.

And yeah, you can't even see ANY GPS satellites in much of lower Manhattan.

@ScottPack Sounds about right, and probably true of most things. Even science. Explains cold fusion and stem cells, right?

@HopelessN00b Cold fusion is easy. You pull up whatever science project Wesley was working on that morning, reverse the polarity, and reroute it through the deflector array. Bam. Cold fusion.

And to top it all off, Google...the ARIN record for my IPv6 address clearly states "Boston, MA"....

Ah, indeed. If only real scientists were as smart as TV writers. Reverse the polarity on your kid's science project, duh.

Now where's my Noble prize?

7:07 PM

It's on the far right with all the other gas bags.

Eh...ehh...?!?

Q: HP Server ml370 G5 raid determing problem

Hiss! I hate questions like this. Orphaned....

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I use a HP ProLiant ml370G5 server, and It's OS is XenServer from Citrix.(based on Xen) Last week one it's Hard disk has been damaged and I want to change it. I want to know what is it's Raid Configure (for example raid 1 or 2 or ... )? How I can determind what is it's raid configure and How I ca...

raid hp xenserver proliant

Add a comment. Stack Exchange will email him :)

Only if they've set it to do that.

As far as I know it's the default, unless you turn it off.

Double hiss. And where is @WesleyDavid? He needs to buy one of my servers.

7:48 PM

Hello batterystaplehorse, welcome to ebay! :)

8:17 PM

@Hennes Is this a cPanel server I can host my VPS with on teh websites? :p

cPanel stands for CompromisedPanel?

The c stands for crap.

8:33 PM

@Adrian Because US East is about to get wiped out by a Hurricane.

True. I'd rather have the occasional volcano and earthquake like the us west coast

Q: Hyper-V Server 2012 - No Active Network Adapter Found

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I just installed Hyper-V Server 2012 and first thing I get when logging in to the host is No Active Network Adapter Found I know I have to use the following command pnputil –i –a I found the Realtek Network Driver for my MB for Windows 7 here: http://za.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3Plus/M5A...

hyper-v-server-2012

Home server. GTFO

8:52 PM

@Adrian I recommend the mid-west. No hurricanes and nearly no earthquakes. Hell, we're on track for a 1 tornado/30yrs.

The biggest downside I've found so far is admitting to people that you're from the mid-west.

One close vote left...even on the weekend there's too much crap coming in.

9:07 PM

So.. I found a VM at $newjob running telnetd behind stunnel .

The question is why

why not just use ssh

why'd anone use telnet over SSL?

Isn't the lunatic who set it up at the company anymore?

he is, but he doesn't know either.

i'm gonna turn it off at some point and see what breaks

So, see who's actually connecting to it, and ask them.

a strange part of me likes the idea of telnet/ssl

the rest of me hates it

but it's certainly the output of a sick mind

And believe it or not, telnet over SSL is well known and is assigned the default port 992.

@TomO'Connor OK, so move the stunnel endpoint to port 992. When you get complaints, tell them that it was done to comply with standards...

9:18 PM

@MichaelHampton I'd have thought something like that would be assigned to a lower number. Followed by the letters: th circle of hell.

@HopelessN00b It's the 992th circle of hell, then?

Could be. I thought there were only 9, though.

You, know... it's shit like this that really make me wonder why I bother trying to help.

Your post gave me a "new" idea. Use "back to my mac" to get to the server screen, check ip via a website from there. Brilliant. I'll try that next time i'm onsite. — basilmir 4 mins ago

Really, dude? sigh

My vote to close is already locked in on that question. :)

back to who gives a fuck i mean his mac

@MichaelHampton Me too, but I thought I'd take pity on the guy and help anyway. I can be a real dumbfuck. I know that always ends badly, but I do it anyway. sigh

9:22 PM

I gave him all the help he should have needed.

@MichaelHampton I assumed, correctly it seems, that finding/buying a DDNS service was a little over his head.

Yes, you were correct.

@MichaelHampton I hate it when that happens. So, fortunately, at least it doesn't happen often, I guess.

As for me, I was basically just giving him enough rope to hang himself. So far he's put his head in the noose...

For extra bonus points, read his other highly rated (1!) questions...

That is depressing.

His questions have more views than mine. Go figure.

9:33 PM

And there went my last close vote for the day. Never got to touch /review/close.

@ewwhite Dude, I'd probably buy but I can't get a price or time out of you. =P

nyan nyan nyan nyan

@MichaelHampton Got three left after going through the review queue, and I'm taking requests, FYI.

Q: Automatic IP address changer (per second)

9:50 PM

Wow.

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I looking for fast and automatic IP address changer/generator for Firefox add or program on my computer. What do I need? - Fast (per second) - Always different IP address (generate/changer) - Automatic - Free app or free program Thanks for help! BB

proxy ip hide

We need a new feature. Not just down vote, but one vote called 'uber-nuke-to Hell'

Questions like that are an argument for implementing 'Violent, bloody death over TCP/IP'

Who is your ISP? I urgently need to phone them. :)

The only questions users like that should be allowed are 'stir fried, or extra krispy' just before someone turns on the Rich Chunky Volts

@Hennes I just left a comment and a downvote...

Ditto.

9:59 PM

It's too bad, though, that question has some potential to be really bad.

I'm halfway tempted to post something about IPv6 privacy addresses so that perhaps he'll make a stupid mistake and get busted.

I need to take a break before I am going to ask how to set the metro interface to mono (just black and a grey shade. Much better for the eyes than this explosion of colours).

Ugh. I can't imagine Metro ever being usable

I think I just came up with a great Windows 8 question for Super User.

@Hennes I disagree. We need to let me "help" such users. Just a little, but "enough." It's entertainment and advantageous to all mankind.

If you have to ask a question this basic and misinformed... you have no business doing whatever you're thinking about doing. Honestly, I'm a little tempted to help you out just enough to make sure you get caught. — HopelessN00b 1 min ago

Well that's my 20 close votes

10:09 PM

None of the SE sites let me offer that kind of help, though. :(

Or it would have been, except it's a dupe. Crap.

So... I've got a 5Mbit/30Mbit up/down connection now. Not sure what to do with it. Well, how to best use it. Thoughts?

Run an empire server on it? (chainsaw).

Or a mud. :)

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Q: bulk vps server

I need to get about 200 low-end(think 64mb ram) vps servers cheap, preferably cost less or equal to $3 each, is it possible? edit: So I'm thinking about get a dedicated server and partition it myself, any recommendation on hosting company that will allocate me /22, /23, etc? what is the cost a...

vps

Q&A is hard, let's go shopping!

@Hennes And with the other 34.99 Mbit? :p

10:17 PM

start a dozen muds :)

@MichaelHampton And upvoted too. A lot of old shit out there.

Yep. Back to Whack-a-mole!

And downvoted :)

@Hennes I know, I'll set up that IPv6 block I got, and give the world's dumbest wanna be cyber-criminal his IP changer.

Just rotate though 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.254

Hmm. Wait a minute. 127.x.x.x or 127.0.0.x as loopback.

Darn, I ought to know that

10:20 PM

@Hennes the whole /8 is loopback.

127.anything

In that case: Plenty of IPs to use. :)

Crap that's brilliant, why didn't I post that as an answer?

Wouldacouldashould, right?

Because you do not know .net and whatever answer should use .net4 (which is nice and large. anbout 652MB)

Hmm

"you should leave the network cable unconnected. That way the signal on the wire will bounce up and down and use all possible IPs" :)

that's no good. The token will fall out of the ring that way

I'm thinking more like "here's teh codez, run this .bat file to change your ip to a different 127. address every second."

They'll never catch you that way, have phun.... phucker.

Well, it'd probably get deleted and me temp banned too quick. Phuck it, I'll just go catch up my Dexter-watching instead.

10:32 PM

@WesleyDavid I'm here EVERY day... duh :)

@WesleyDavid name your price.

10:47 PM

Grins at Warren Ellis (If you ever read any comics, try Transmetropolitian.) *My daughter has just accused me of being so old that I "remember when fire first came out." *

On more computer related stuff: I missed the cake at the dutch open source event.

Q: What does "incoming" and "outgoing" traffic mean?

This is the first time I've seriously thought about migrating a question to english.SE...

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I've seen many resources explaining how to set up a server's firewall to allow incoming and outgoing traffic on HTTP standard ports (80 and 443), but I can't figure out why I would need either of them. Do I need to unblock both for a "regular" web site to work? For file uploads to work? Are there...

networking firewall

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Nah. Migrating to english.SE beat whatever I said or could have said

11:23 PM

@MichaelHampton It can be tricky... incoming/outgoing... is that for inside interface? Outside interface?

Q: port numbers - where to start

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I would like to make my dev sites have port numbers. I thought I would just start at a certain number and increment by 1 every new site. The question is what number should I start with? I have know there are reserved ports at various numbers. Are there a range of numbers that can be assumed safe ...

apache2 port

WTF?