all of those answers, and I still don't understand!

@ewwhite Puppet provides you with the magic flexibility of doing things several different ways...

(also I'm tempted to add yet another answer ...)

@freiheit Yes, I know... I don't think it's a positive attribute.

Is it just me, or is poutine the most unattractive food in the history of ever?

@RyanRies Be careful asking that kind of question, somebody will find pictures of less attractive food to show you. ;)

@RyanRies I was considering getting a bag of pork chitterlings at the grocery today.

"hand-cleaned"

Alright, I should have rephrased that the unattractive visual of poutine is ironic considering how popular it is. I'm sure it tastes good, it's just ugly. Which is distinctly different from, say, that bowl of beetle soup that @freiheit just posted, which looks horrific and also most likely tastes horrific as well.

chilled monkey brains

@RyanRies The tripe, on the other hand, is quite tasty. Cook that up, add some tomato sauce, etc...

@RyanRies tastes like shrimp. ;)

there is a local dish here called an AB

@RyanRies It's good in its Burger King form.

This one seems too gross to post the picture directly: uglyfood.com/2008/03/25/…

@ewwhite Oh I would certainly try it, but being from Texas I would have no other choice than to make my own at home

good ole' thousand year old egg

Lutefisk is way up there as well

"Lutefisk"

Whole family had it this christmas, I fucking hate it.. can't wear the same clothes again either until you wash it

"I'll have the lutefisk with a side of durian" - said no one ever

@RyanRies You're thinking something totally different, but still gross and egg-related. thousand year old egg is an alkaline preservation/change technique on a regular egg. Balut is an egg with a well-developed embryo that's then cooked.

that actually looks good

@freiheit Ah, I stand corrected.

@Andrew That looks like nachos, but with french fries instead of tortilla chips...

Well like I said, I would still totally eat poutine and I'm sure it would be yummy, but it still looks bad relative to how popular it is

@freiheit yiros (gyro/doner) meat on chips with sauces

@Andrew One of my clients is a leading gyros producer in the Chicago-area...

they send me home with bags of gyros meat.

@Andrew Is any of the sauce based on a yogurt, soft cheese, or something like that?

(because I'd definitely try that...)

@freiheit tzatziki, which is garlic yoghurt or some such so yes

I want a big ass Reuben sandwich right now

After the holidays, I think I'm gonna be living on kale and other leafy green things for a week or two...

(ok, fine, and beer... mmm.... beer...)

allright, time for some work

first I'll have a crack at submitting a HP support ticket online, then a dodgy RAID

yes I am working new years eve

sup guys

@Cole discussing unattractive foods. and drinking booze

about to pour some tequila myself

@ewwhite - kronos?

ok, since when is SE TF2?

@freiheit sounds like a good night

Wait, hold up SE TF2?

@SpacemanSpiff Yes.

thats some good stuff, moogies near me makes a good one

seems like everyone uses that meat

Mmm... Stone Double Bastard... The perfect BOFH beer. ;)

@SpacemanSpiff There's also Grecian Delight.

but yeah, I mainly have produce, gyros meat and pork rinds (Evans Foods)

@RyanRies Durian isn't that bad. ;p

@ewwhite No tasty malt recovery beverages? You haven't managed to get Goose Island as a client that sends you home with beer regularly? Maybe get in with Lagunitas' upcoming Chicago brewery? ;)

@JourneymanGeek It's not so bad if you enjoy mushy, rotting onions.

@RyanRies: smells more like sewage than rotting onions

tastes pretty good, wierdly enough

@freiheit Goose Island sponsored my cycling team.

Then Half Acre Beer...

@Andrew I submit all of my HP tickets online. Using the "Support Case Manager"?

@ewwhite yeah but something seems to be offline at the moment, grr

@Andrew the site is up

@Andrew Use this link

@ewwhite Hadn't heard of them, but looks like the've got decent beers... Does sponsoring your cycling team involve giving you cases of beer? ;)

@freiheit Yes. At the races.

@ewwhite thanks, the ordinary one just complained at me

@freiheit Chicago ain't a beer city... All about bad liquor with the hipster, it seems... Ever hear of Jeppson's Malört?

I'm glad Boston is a beer city.

Hipsters here drink PBR and Narragansett

I live in a beer and wine area (north of SF), and just got back from visiting Portland, which is definitely a beer city. The hipsters both places seem to like PBR, and defend that it's so much tastier than bud, miller or coors (and don't believe that it's made in the same factory)

I would rather take PBR over bud/miller/coors.

But I'll take 'gansett over PBR

@Cole FYI: PBR is made in miller plants. I think it does have less rice in the recipe than those three, though.

One night I drank 9 PBRs and 1/2 bottle of Patron Silver. That's the last time I've had PBR.

oh and this was in about 2 hours, so I was pretty smashed. I'm not a big guy lol

@freiheit foundersbrewing.com/our-beer/dirty-bastard

I'm still working on my double bastard. It's 22 floz of 11.2%, so it takes a while...

...must...not..open..a beer..

@ewwhite there's a lot of "read this document" but they've hidden "submit a support case" rather well :(

I've got a Lukcy Basartd waiting in the fridge that I'll probably open next

@Andrew Are you sure? I just submitted a case.

@ewwhite perhaps I can't see it because I'm not drunk...

@Cole you're a sysadmin. You have to drink (unless you're a recovering alcoholic or on SSRIs). It's in the sysadmin faq. It's ok if you have some tequila, scotch, bourbon, brandy, wine, or whatever instead of beer. :)

Was drinking a bit too much the past few weeks - trying to slow it down.

and it's 9:45PM here

@Cole So you're trying to invoke the recovering alcoholic clause on a one-day basis? ;)

@freiheit my dad, his brother, his sister and their mother are all alcoholics Need to be careful

Going through a lot of shitty stuff right now, so I was kinda just masking it with alcohol :/

@Cole Well, that is basically why sysadmins drink...

haha

@ewwhite never mind, found it; I'll have lunch and fill out the gory details

@Cole - nonsense

nonsense?

"drinking too much"

heh

If you drink after you've passed out, that's drinking too much.

@freiheit If you kick over a bunch of bottles getting out of bed the next morning, that's drinking too much

@JoelESalas That's not drinking too much, that's poor housekeeping.

Evenin' Gents.

Yarr

aye matey

Is it Talk Like a Pirate Day or summat?

I'm pissed, or rather not. Too damn sick to get pissed for New Year's. =(

swab the poop deck mothafucka!

nah, just a little heavy on the tequila over here

@SpacemanSpiff If you're gonna talk like a pirate, you need to be drinking rum, not tequila

the rum is gone.

BUT WHY IS THE RUM GONE??

Drank all the rum with my eggnog

neighbors cleaned me out

payment for watching my cat while i was gone

@SpacemanSpiff You too eh? GF's cat watcher drank all my good rye whiskey.

seems a fair payment, no argument here

I resorted to rye whisky in my eggnog last night

now if they had touched my bottle of johnnie blue, i'd be whooping some serious ass

(because we're low on bourbon and out of any kind of decent rum)

@SpacemanSpiff Thankfully they have no taste. They wouldn't touch anything but the rye and the vodka. All my good gins were untouched.

As was the good tequila.

I've been on a tequila kick for a long while now

@SpacemanSpiff Got an almost full bottle of Herradura Anejo.

ahh... very nice

im killing a bottle of 1800 right now

I wonder if tequila is any good in egg nog...

my bare minimum these days

@freiheit Ick. Criminal to drink the good stuff as a mixer.

my drink of choice: nick.zadrozny.com/post/318559399/the-norcal-margarita

I don't even put ice cubes in the Herradura.

hits you like a fucking hammer... cost is low, no hangover

looks like the only tequila I've got is some 100 proof silver 1800... gotta drink that straight (or maybe dilute it a touch)

@SpacemanSpiff Reminds me of a mojito

yep, a little simpler

triple-sec if you need your sugar fix

@SpacemanSpiff Interesting.

I used a be a big-ole fat guy, this drink seems to keep me happy and keeps the health in check

This discussion just engendered a lively discussion about the paleo diet in my living room.

Oh really?

Skeptics or believers?

@SpacemanSpiff Curious, mostly. We're already halfway there with our diet, especially in the summer. Mostly salads and small fish/pork/beef steaks on the grill that time of year. harder to keep that up in the winter with all the rain and cold.

Also hard with the kids visiting too, as they are fed a nearly-100% processed food diet by their mother.

That can be hard.

I can tell you that I'm 100lbs lighter than a few years ago

I have found THIS: youtube.com/watch?v=DSJPSy1edgA

to be the best perspective on it I've ever seen

Between me and my direct co-workers, we're down 500lbs

whoo, now to make a RAID tell me it's failed

really, once-a-month checking seems a bit lax

@Andrew That's easy, just unplug a disk.

@MichaelHampton sadly this machine has no backplane :(

need to put it in a new chassis anyway, it's run out of drive bays

later gents

@Andrew OK, then yell at the disks.

@MichaelHampton sudo /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray --cron --all --quiet

and watch cat /proc/mdstat

If you yell loudly enough, maybe a disk will fail entirely.

something ate my sound, sorry :P

anwway the disk check will only take finish=11886.3min on the dodgy array

which is why the nightly backups have been finishing around midday

note to self, "/proc/mdstat looks OK" != "everything is fine"

Ethics time! Is implying that I've performed a completely useless and irrelevant task that has no effect on the problem at hand when I haven't actually done it, the same as lying?

Actually, asking "can you try it again" doesn't imply anything, but people can infer what they want from it.

Why am I asking about ethics in here, you are all drunk. Happy new year!

WIsh I were drunk. I would feel better than this if I were.

@MichaelHampton "This proves hard drives are operated by little men. If you shout at them, they get scared a little and stop working for a moment."

also suggests that car PCs with phat bass should use only SSDs

vroom!

service.burst.net/index.php

Too janky?

It's really cheap

@JoelESalas there is no link to the burst.net homepage

F-ing middle-of-the-night calls.. I haven't gone a day this week without one!

the system is slow... Can you HALP?

@ewwhite Can I run the website from my laptop? I need to be able to fix it when it goes down

Also will closing the laptop bring down the website?

@Dan Nope, Monday 7th for me (we broke up Dec 21st so the holiday after Christmas rather than before it. Suits me, anyhow.

@tombull89 Ah, lucky you!

Morning

Hey

hey @Dan

@Cole Did you have a good Christmas, dude?

@Dan not particularly, you?

Good morning and Happy New Years Eve Day, friends.

@Goatmale morning

I hate not packing a lunch.

I never pack a lunch

What do you eat?

I go home.

or I go out.

why

"I want to deny the read permissions for specific user so that he will still be able to access it." That's an interesting approach.

Yeah I was like ow my brain hurts

uhm, sounds like he wants to block a certain person from using the dns server.. not open up dns management and see the zone

that's not something NTFS/ACL can do

The question was a good reminder to review DNS, though.

DNS is always good to review.

Sometimes I feel like, I forget so much stuff because I have to make room for more things in my brain. I wish I could add more space. :(

I've decided I need to stop drinking.

Hey, me too.

I'm glad Microsoft updated their certification to be much easier to comprehend.

JKLOL

What do you mean?

@Goatmale dehydration can be a bitch

I keep trying to find a clear upgrade path from MCITP.

@JourneymanGeek that's the worst part.

MCITP EA or SA?

I think I am having kidney problems from my drinking.

EA.

You want to do MCSE: Server Infrastructure?

I don't even have my EA. God I really need to get some certs.

I need to burn through ICND2 but VLSM is kicking my ass

"Customers who have achieved an MCITP on Windows Server 2008 certification will be able to earn an MCSE: Server Infrastructure certification or MCSE: Desktop Infrastructure certification by passing three exams. To upgrade from an MCITP: Enterprise Administrator 2008 certification or an MCITP: Server Administrator 2008 certification to the MCSE: Server Infrastructure certification, candidates must pass Exams 70-417, 70-413, and 70-414."

Okay, it looks like 70-417 is required across the board.

Good place to start.

Upgrade exams suck ass.

Yay I found an ebook link.

@Cole: of not drinking at all? hell yes.

now. water, is a very good drink

I've been drinking more water.

beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/18006/48582

So goddamn good.

@Goatmale you know how to get to me, love Pale Ale's.

I don't even want to drink tonight.

No better time then tomorrow.

Yeah I'm not doing much tonight so, no pressure.

My friend has a party every year and it's always a great time.

Everyone i know and love will be there, which is great, but also terrible.

What could go wrong when you drink with a bunch of people you have slept with and your current girlfriend?