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5:00 PM
@Chopper3 "I am a programmer by day... and a programmer by night... all programming all the time!"
 
@Chopper3 deleted already after being at -4
 
he deleted it
sudden burst of google?
also has my damn gravatar updated yet?
 
poor guy, I'm crying about his problem now, real tears
 
@RebeccaChernoff!!!
 
@voretaq7 Nope
 
5:01 PM
 
stupid freakin....
 
@Chopper3 Y U NO USE MY CHOFHERTAR?!
And you too @JourneymanGeek
 
not got around to it - sorry, mad day
 
@WesleyDavid: cause i haven't earned it yet
 
@Chopper3 I got a good laugh out of how your face framed so nicely in it. =)
 
5:03 PM
oh did someone make one for me?
 
@Chopper3 Yarp... standy by
user image
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been very busy for the last week and I'm hoping to head back to NJ tomorrow/Weds - so trying to cram about a week into today
 
Phone interview.
 
@ITHedgeHog Suit up, hedgie:
 
5:04 PM
 
Oh. that. is. just. marvellous - isn't it.
 
I survived it.
@Chopper3 Another visit?
 
depends on tonight's result * gulp *
 
@WesleyDavid The winner for most BOFH-ish framing job!
 
We don't have any private messaging here, do we?
Suppose I needed to talk to @PeterGrace?
 
5:07 PM
Nope, no private messaging that I'm aware of...
 
@WesleyDavid Need one for Miles Erickson's strong handsome arms^H^H^H^Hface
 
you can start a room but it's not private.
 
@ewwhite got the STD results back?
 
Annnnnnd invalid!
 
@PeterGrace Hmm... remember the GEEKY job in Chicago?
 
5:08 PM
Why reinvent the wheel when e-mail does PM better anyway?
 
@jcolebrand Suit up:
@Ladadadada You too:
 
there we go.
 
whyever would I want to do that?
 
@ewwhite Yep, sup
 
@jcolebrand Because BOFH?
 
5:09 PM
but I'm not.
 
I'm not a BOFH so I abstain ;)
 
I prefer to NOT be a sysadmin
 
So many BOFHtars, so many beards
 
I only do it when need arises
 
no offence Rebecca....
 
5:10 PM
@PeterGrace Interview was okay. Wondering who you knew there. What you thought of the architecture.
 
@Chopper3 we can get her a stick-on beard
 
Yep.. glad my photo isn't on here :)
 
@ewwhite need a good word put in?
 
not sure that's necessary
 
@PeterGrace Naw, just curious. I didn't realize the systems were here.
 
5:11 PM
@WesleyDavid Well, now that someone's broken out the Gimp for me, I'd better suit up.
 
@PeterGrace You will wear your BOFH suit and you will like it, young man!
 
"The GIMP: Truth In Advertising from the Open Source Movement"
 
Oh sure, one errant pixel
 
@WesleyDavid HISS
 
Oh, you'll never see it in gravatar size.
 
5:12 PM
@ewwhite I'm friends with a few of their past senior-SA's. Checking linkedin, looks like most of them have moved on
 
BUT OCD!!
 
@PeterGrace Hmm... wonder why
 
Lemme ask!
 
I'm not changing my avatar, especially not to a BOFH, but if I did, there would be many errant pixels.
 
@vCole Suit up:
 
5:14 PM
 
@Basil Y U NO LIKE BOFHs?!
 
heh, every time I see the small version of the bofh, I think it's our CFO
he's got an avatar of the muppet beeker
 
To the data center! (to replace loose infiniband cable)
see y'all
 
@ScottPack Remember that one picture?
dammit gimp, you lied to me.
WUT
There. You may replace your star
 
new MacBook Air got 1.6GHz RAM finally...
 
5:22 PM
GT 650M (1GB) on the MBPs :)
 
@WesleyDavid heh, I can't afford to be a bofh here. My users are sysadmins.
They get to have all the fun.
 
@WesleyDavid I'm still waiting for SE to update my gravatar. It's only been an hour.
 
Sorry about my earlier outbursts. My wife is making me buy her an imac this month for her photography business, and I'm still sore about it.
 
wonder if the MBPs get a price cut too
@Basil buy her a laptop instead - more useful
 
@Tyler
 
5:24 PM
was gonna be really pissed if the pro dropped optical - still have it.
 
@Basil also my stock price thanks you.
 
third laptop line announced right about now
 
@voretaq7 I dunno, those overheat
also, she'd still need to buy a larger screen
may as well just get the imac
 
@Chopper3 yah - which is good
 
5:25 PM
she's not doing editing on location
 
what about this new macbook with the retina display?
 
@Basil true if she's doing lots of gfx work - I just hate glossy displays :(
 
@syneticondj
 
pisses me off to no end because she's not a tech, and my blazingly fast hand build SSD and umpteen GB RAM powered desktop that blows away the performance of any mac under 5k$ isn't "fast enough" and her old piece of crap macbook just felt "faster", even though it's demonstrably not.
Light of my life, that woman.
 
@Basil perception is 999/1000ths of user experience
 
5:27 PM
she'll want one of the new MBPs then :)
 
@Chopper3 she's getting an imac. If she's lucky and I can't find a mac mini.
 
dayum - 3/4" thick... that's pretty sweet
 
@SmallClanger
@KyleBrandt
Okay, I'm done for now. Anyone else want one just @ me. Off to do worky things.
 
damn thats a high res display
 
yes, yes it is
 
5:30 PM
what was / is cinema display - 2560 i think?
 
@Mario everything they're putting out is insanely high res these days- I'm holding out for the next iPad to replace my flight bag unit :)
 
2560 x 1440 on thunderbolt display
 
@voretaq7 Dude, the one I made for you is way better. =P Oh wait, I'm not here...
 
21" iMac is 16x10 so... yeah
@WesleyDavid ... squirt bottle kitty!
 
Just look at that hundred yard stare.
 
5:33 PM
@WesleyDavid WRONG
 
@WesleyDavid what is this for? lol
 
@vCole BOFH week... or month... or life.
 
@mgorven By the way, that guy who wrote LTFS... totally awesome.
 
@WesleyDavid well, ok
 
That was one of the most awesome tech conversations I've ever had.
 
5:36 PM
well i changed it
Y U NO SHOW UP
 
@vCole It takes a while for Gravatar's mules to make it over the Rockies.
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@WesleyDavid that's lame.
 
change your chat parent account, log out/log back in, then change it back -- usually works for me.
Sometimes have to kill the browser. Stupid gravatars.
 
w00t
Now, back to figuring out why the fuck SnapDrive won't connect to this filer /grumble
 
I'm a bit miffed that the MBP doesn't have ethernet on board
 
5:41 PM
what, seriously?
 
@vCole 2 thunderbolt ports, no mention of ethernet (they're selling Thunderbolt->GigE adapters though)
 
@WesleyDavid !!!
 
of course it might be there and the guys at the keynote just didn't mention it
 
they said there were dropping legacy things, imagine what percentage of MBP users need an ethernet port these days? (I'd guess less than 5%)
 
@Chopper3 I think it's a size thing actually - Ethernet and FireWire ports are thicker than anything left on the MBP
taking them out is probably how they got the thickness down
 
5:44 PM
this is true
 
Seems like more and more legacy hardware as Chopper called it is getting dropped in the consumer realm fo the sake of sapce, still seems like a shame to lose the good old wire connection
 
I'm interested in this asymmetrical fan design (like, will there be beat frequencies now that will annoy the piss out of me?)
@JohnK part of me agrees... part of me also realizes that the last time I plugged an ethernet cable into my laptop was about 3 years ago
 
@voretaq7 Will there be A DROP?
 
Like, a skrillex-level drop?
 
@JohnK I agree, anyone who works wirelessly for 6-8> hours a day knows it sucks donkey balls
 
5:47 PM
though honestly at that point for me there's no practical differences between MBP and MBA besides the CD drive
 
@voretaq7 man I use my ethernet port on my MBP
 
@voretaq7 yeah, I have to agree, at some point they just won't make sense anymore for consumers, but idk what I'm gonna do when I'm in the data center and I need a direct line to something. I'll probably have to use a company laptop with "old hardware on it" :O
 
@PeterGrace Darn tootin.
 
@JohnK you'll use a dongle like <s>God</s>TheSteve intended :)
 
we find ways, it's what we do right
 
5:48 PM
At home I rarely use my Ethernet port; maybe once or twice a month. Mostly just when I want to move 10GB in a reasonable amount of time.
 
porn basically right?
 
At work I'm plugged in unless I'm in a meeting.
 
@voretaq7 hehe
 
@ChrisS I use it only at work, but I still use it!
 
@vCole I typically don't - I join the wireless at home, work, or wherever
 
5:49 PM
@Chopper3 Some things are more latency sensitive than others
 
oh oh oh here comes the disappointment stock sell-off!
I love watching keynotes! :-)
 
@vCole My work laptop isn't very small though; 15" screen and 1.25" thick.
 
@voretaq7 please don't tar and feather me for this, I don't follow Apple that closely, usually just watch the highlight reel ;) are they expected to talk about apple TV at all?
 
@ChrisS I have the 15"MBP from Early 2011
 
@JohnK I don't think so - I've heard rumors but nobody saying "watch the keynote for it"
I think they're still toying with it trying to build a fully integrated box
 
5:52 PM
My home laptop is only 1.11" thick, though it's tapered at the edges so it seems thiner.
 
@ChrisS Not sure how thick my old MBP is
 
Mine tapers towards the back
 
@Chopper3 that's magical
MAN! You got yourself DUAL PROGRAM disk drives??
 
@Chopper3 Duuuuuude - you got the dual disk drives!
 
Had one on loan once, long time ago, long time - shoulderpads were still in
 
5:54 PM
@Chopper3 Shoulder pads are back in the US.
oh the horrors.
Dictation -- I assume using the Siri engine so you need to be connected to the intertubes.
(I HATE that about siri)
 
@voretaq7 I blame video games, specifically mmorpgs.
 
@voretaq7 some local caching ;)
 
@Chopper3 as shit as what the iPhone has? :P
I'm also a bit sad that MBAs didn't get retina displays
 
oh yes
 
I would have sprung for one
 
5:56 PM
£$£$
 
@Chopper3 Fine, so keep the $100 you took off them and give me my pixels damnit!
I know apple freaking owns the display manufacturers' testicles - It can't be more than $100 for the better panel (and if it is they just say they'll take their business across the street and the fuckers will cave!)
 
@voretaq7 Part of the reason I stick with HP gear, "$model quickspecs" brings up everything I every wanted to know about the hardware.
 
@Chopper3 Keep your Osbourne. I prefer my SX-64.
 
eh, you can get spec sheets from apple pretty easily. no in-depth stuff like the ethernet chipset though
 
@ChrisS "HP Product Bulletin" - that's the secret...
 
6:00 PM
Funny story about HP - I bought a Folio 13 shortly after they came out - declined the insurance coverage for the first time in my life
Cracked the screen two days later
 
@JohnK this rock keeps away tigers :)
 
Spent 2 weeks on the phone wiht 3 different HP departments until I found a repiar guy who had the ability to actually order the part
@voretaq7 Haha, exactly
 
@voretaq7 it's the internet and not them recording everything you say without telling you how long they are going to hold on to it, or what they are going to do with recordings?
 
@84104 My season 11 pvp shoulders are bigger than some gnomes.
 
@Zypher Nothing I give to siri is sensitive, I really wouldn't care if they posted my friends and I trying to get her to find us hookers on the intertubes for all to hear.
And it's one of those "If you don't like the terms, don't use the service" things to me.
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Q: External component has thrown an exception. Thermo.Framework.Server.Mvc error

GeorgeI am not sure what to do here. We use a software called Sample Manager and when one of the users tries to export multiple reports this is the error he gets: Here are the details of the error: Error Report generated on 6/11/2012 10:28:09 AM ====================================================...

sigh really people? REALLY???
I'm honestly more annoyed that one of our users thought that was migration worthy than the fact that the question is simply godawful
 
6:07 PM
@voretaq7 Hey, at least they included the actual error message instead of a vague description of it!
 
@freiheit you're right - maybe the question isn't godawful, it's just regularawful.
w00h00 - Mountain Lion for $20!
 
and £20/€20 too
 
I'm still pissed one of our users thinks that's worthy of being dumped on someone. We are NOT StackOverflow - we're BETTER than them!
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@voretaq7 Does excessive use of exclamation marks cancel out the fact that he spelled out please?
 
@Chopper3 My stock price thanks you.
@Chopper3 (alternate answer: "Well shipping all those bits across the Atlantic costs a lot of money!")
@84104 not calling vendor tech support cancels out his right to exist
 
6:10 PM
@voretaq7 Harsh.
 
@84104 I calls 'em like I sees 'em
But hey maybe I can get my clinical users to post their bug reports on SuperUser rather than calling our support department...
 
@JeffFerland Yup, he's great
 
@voretaq7 great. now you need a £500 bit of aluminum to put it on.
 
it's just a completely cosed platform with no access to debugging tools - but they should be able to suss out what's going on right? :-)
 
@JeffFerland His team won an Engineering Emmy for that
 
6:13 PM
@voretaq7 Mine too
 
@tombull89 I have that already
some nice Siri improvements
nothing earth-shatteringly great, but now I might actually use it instead of just going to google :P
 
I don't know anyone who uses Siri past the first week or two to be honest
 
@Chopper3 occasionally I try it but the constant "If you unlock your phone I'll take you to Google" shit makes it worthless
 
@Chopper3 I've totally used a few times since the first week. For entertainment value...
 
@ewwhite still around?
 
6:20 PM
@PeterGrace We sent him to feed the grues.
 
@ewwhite rumor has it they're a sinking ship, so, take that with a grain of salt.
he'll know what I mean
ok, meeting time!
 
ooh - new DnD setting -- me likey
 
@voretaq7 like Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance?
 
@ChrisS nerd :-P
 
I see Rebecca stopped in to visit us. Did we do something to merit additional adult supervision again?
 
6:30 PM
hmm... "Siri, you're DMing tonight. If you fuck up I won't recharge you." ?
@Adrian @WesleyDavid was emptying his litter box on the floor. Perhaps if we cleaned it occasionally he'd be better behaved?
 
@voretaq7 I assume he got the squirt gun for that?
 
@Adrian and other things. We generally shake the can of nickels and squirt him in the face randomly to keep him on his toes. Good for his predatory instincts and such
 
My [edit: wife's] cats like the squirt gun. I'm not sure what to do now...
 
wishing my GF's cat had lower prey drive. It occasionally confuses my feet under the bedsheet with a cat toy and sinks its teeth into my big toe.
 
@Basil cold-steep catnip and load it with that?
@Adrian You can fix that problem
 
6:35 PM
@voretaq7 Sure, but I rather like the lady that goes with that relationship too....
 
my exes cat and I developed an understanding quite quickly:
She bit me. I backhanded her across the room into the TV set. She came back and I gave her a cat treat.
Best cat in the world to me after that aside from the climbing up on the couch to headbutt me whenever I came over
hmm, passbook app - sounded lame but if it actually loads my starbucks card when I walk into a starbucks so I don't have to wait 10 minutes for the app to load or dig through my wallet to get the plastic card out I'm all for it!
mixed feelings about the security implications though
 
thats just wrong
really shitty if theres no siri api
 
@Mario You can use siri while the phone is locked, so I understand why there isn't one.
 
@Mario G+ is dead to me because there's no usable API either.
 
sorry, i mean an api of sorts for siri to access 3rd party info - not to access siri functionality
ie: tell siri to find homes close by in zillow
or whatever
 
6:41 PM
@Mario you're asking for a lot -- you'd have to make word lists, map that to commands, etc -- and all the Siri processing happens on Apple's servers so there's limited incentive for them to do that work for you
 
tell siri to reboot server x on rackspace cloud
those guys did it with a proxy and some hacking
its doable.
 
awesome - turn-by-turn directions in new maps finally
 
the flyover stuff is mental
 
@Mario I'm not saying it isn't doable, I'm saying there's no compelling reason for Apple to do it for you and offer up their competitive advantage
@Chopper3 that does look pretty sweet
more excited about traffic and directions though -- if they don't suck? totally worth it.
 
Think I'm going to kill my G+ account right now actually
 
6:44 PM
finally turn by turn.
never understood the use of resources to build 3d maps. their cool i guess - do people use them?
maybe in cities where you walk more i guess
any word on downloading turn by turn for later viewing? my ipad is only wifi
 
@Mario they're purty.
 
also,
 
I'm curious how this croud-sourced traffic thing will work out
 
no apple tv? :(
 
@Mario nopers
i assume apple's new maps don't have street view -- that's gonna be kinda sucky
 

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