The Comms Room

Lucas Kauffman

00:30

@voretaq7 ping

@WesleyDavid I try to imagine you drunk, but I feel I will get nightmares about that :/

kittens, kittens everywhere

WesleyDavid

01:29

@LucasKauffman ♪ Ninety-nine drunken kittens climbing up the drapes! Ninety-nine drunken kittens climbing up the drapes! Take one down, pass it around, ninety-eight drunken kittens climbing up the drapes! ♪

Michael Hampton

01:39

@Iain @Iain Done. :)

Are we no longer migrating questions?

WesleyDavid

Everytime you migrate a question, @voretaq7 punches a kitten in the head.

And it's starting to leave a welt, so stop migrating questions!! D=

Michael Hampton

01:55

I was just asking since I saw a question where someone was pointed to SU and their question closed; they then went and posted it on SU and over there got upvoted and the correct answer very fast. I thought that's the sort of thing migration was for...?

WesleyDavid

02:09

It's a close call most of the time. If someone posts an obviously SU question on SF, then it will more than likely be closed. Even borderline questions get closed often. I almost always vote to close, rather than migrate.

Reason 1: I don't know SU well enough to know what kinds of questions are and are not duplicates. Migrating a question to a site that then has to immediately be closed as a dupe is not polite, usually.

Reason 2: The onus is on the OP to know where to ask their question. Certainly it's not expected to know each and every niche site that is in the SE network, however the m…

Hence we so badly want the ability to critique question migrations so that sites learn not to push garbage off on eachother cough STACKOVERFLOW cough

Michael Hampton

Ha. Well, Stack Overflow is really overflowing compared to the rest of the sites on the network.

WesleyDavid

No, wait, StackOverflow doesn't migrate crap. My bad.

Michael Hampton

I'm starting to think SO should itself be split.

WesleyDavid

@MichaelHampton It happened. Programmers.SE. Ire ensues.

Michael Hampton

I mean, I want to follow the Android stuff, the Java stuff, the Facebook stuff, and the PHP stuff. And the tag system isn't good enough (unless I don't know how to use it well enough) to keep the stuff I don't want to see away.

WesleyDavid

02:18

@HackToHell NEWKITTEH!!! >^_^<

HackToHell

lol ;)

@WesleyDavid So you are another cat fanatic ?

WesleyDavid

@HackToHell Actually, no. I don't like cats. I don't know why I use this avatar everywhere. I think I'm a sadist.

HackToHell

@WesleyDavid It seems like the is doing a :P

Michael Hampton

@WesleyDavid SU is basically "everything you might do with a computer or network at home".

WesleyDavid

@MichaelHampton SuperUser is basically what happens when people who should not use computers start using computers.

HackToHell

02:28

@WesleyDavid it's not like that always :/

WesleyDavid

@HackToHell Right, sometimes people post awesome answers:

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A: Permanently delete files from a flash drive

The best delete tool that (little) money can buy: EDIT: To counter the detractors No one mentioned the need for government level security, so arguments with that objective are pointless goalpost shifts. This is good enough for anyone who isn't James Bond or Bruce Wayne. P.S. Governments sanc...

=D

Michael Hampton

@WesleyDavid Right.

@HackToHell Look at SU at any time of day or night and you can find at least one question on the front page from someone who really should never have been allowed near a computer. Ever.

And mixed in with that, you get stuff like this, which could just about almost pass at SF:

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Q: Failover WAN with multipath

I'm configuring a dd-wrt router to allow access via VPN to a remote desktop server. The router will sit behind another router providing NAT. I'm configuring it with a backup 3G mobile broadband link. My primary concern is maintaining connection to a Citrix server. The land-line connection bounce...

voretaq7

@LucasKauffman pong

@WesleyDavid don't worry - I'll keep punching you in the head regardless...

WesleyDavid

@voretaq7 I knew you liked me!

voretaq7

@WesleyDavid abused kitty craves the attention!

-2

Q: windows server 2008 CPU load balancing

I have a windows server 2008 CPU and Active Directory installed. Some how with lot of users and compiling process and many things, the CPU load rise too much and makes the server goes slow... What is in my mind is I want to share my server CPU/Memory load into other PC. Where the server could s...

windows-server-2008 active-directory usage load-balancing

^ Bad question from people who should not have been allowed near a computer?

Michael Hampton

02:42

I couldn't find the one on the SU front page. Obviously that's where it went.

Oh, but look, there's another one to replace it.

0

Q: deactivate deceased loved ones account PLEASE

I helped my father set up his FB account and he passed away April 24th 2011. We haven't been able to delete his account but it's now time. Too painful. I know his email address that he had when we set up his account but I don't remember his password. Please send me to the proper group that ...

what-is

I wonder where they'll migrate THAT one to.

voretaq7

@MichaelHampton seriously, I understand the summer of love thing and all, but people who think SE is supposed to be the tech support for the internet need to be kicked in the head a little bit

WesleyDavid

@voretaq7 Just a little bit. Actual skull fractures would be unloving. However, what's a little haematoma between friends?

@MichaelHampton Wow, even I can't bring myself to downvote that one.

I had a similar thing happen with someone at a place I contract for. Sadly, most online services don't have much in the way of procedures to deactivate an account in case of death.

@voretaq7 Wow, I'm impressed. It takes a lot of skill to be that incompetent.

voretaq7

@WesleyDavid it's not love unless you have unequal pupils.

@WesleyDavid or ZERO experience.

WesleyDavid

@voretaq7 I dunno. He knew the difference between NLB and "CPU load balancing." I'm suspecting an unfortunate amount of familiarity betwixt him and Windows servers...

Just get your boss to buy an F5 load balancer, Ghost your Windows server 2008 CPU and Active Directory server a few times... pure gold.

voretaq7

@WesleyDavid but he thinks you can do cross-network CPU offloading, apparently without the requisite MASSIVE coding

WesleyDavid

02:53

I mean, that's what's meant by "Gold Master" right?

@voretaq7 Dude, you can Beowulf cluster PS3s. Stop quibbling, jerkface.

voretaq7

@WesleyDavid well that doesn't help a Windows user :)

WesleyDavid

You people and your standing in the way of progress.

Michael Hampton

0

Q: Web Development hosting with git access?

I've been wondering if their are any known hosting services that allow for the use of git to manage development.

hosting git

WesleyDavid

@MichaelHampton It's stabby time!!

"Are there any hosting services?"
"Shopping isn't allowed."
"I'm not shopping."
"Oh, in that case the answer is: maybe."

Michael Hampton

@WesleyDavid See my last comment. :)

WesleyDavid

03:00

♪ The updates on the servers go FAIL, FAIL, FAIL!!! ♪

Seriously, I know how to party hard on Saturdays.

I just haven't since I was 15.

Michael Hampton

You should have written those on one line so we could star it.

WesleyDavid

@MichaelHampton Conniving kitteh is conniving.

WesleyDavid

03:12

Yeah, that's right System user, I just took that file from you. Watcha gonna do 'bout it now, sucker?!

voretaq7

doobiedoobiedoooo - I'm doing more mod shit today than I do all week normally

wtf is up with that?

@WesleyDavid . . . :::BLUESCREEN:::

Michael Hampton

The freaks come out at night.

WesleyDavid

@MichaelHampton Hello.

Michael Hampton

@WesleyDavid Good morning!

WesleyDavid

Good eeeeevening, infidel.

Michael Hampton

03:25

Do I look like a tourrrrrrrist to you?

voretaq7

@MichaelHampton A MEERKAT? FUCK YEAH!

Michael Hampton

0

Q: Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - Fan control

yesterday ive got a new (new for me :D) U1 server Dell PowerEdge SC1425 the machine is secant hand and NO addition disk/s or warranty comes with it. i put on him win2003 x64 - registered & updated! i search in google about the fan control, software for it- no success! fans are doubled san a...

dell dell-poweredge

WesleyDavid

"Account Lockout Policy: 0 invalid login attempts" T_T

Michael Hampton

So...was I completely wrong to suggest ear protection?

I don't usually get that intimate with the hardware. I pay people to do that for me. :)

Michael Hampton

03:52

theregister.co.uk/2012/07/27/bofh_2012_episode_7

voretaq7

@MichaelHampton Ear protection should ALWAYS be worn when working with servers for an extended (>30 minute) period of time, as well as whenever you are in a datacenter or generator room while the equipment is running.

Even an medium-sized empty datacenter with no equipment and just two downflow AC units pressurizing the floor is normally too loud to be in for more than about 30 minutes without risking hearing damage.

ewwhite

Exactly... I got customs...

Michael Hampton

@voretaq7 Last time I was actually in a datacenter, it was nowhere near that long. :) But I do have ear protection handy.

ewwhite

So @voretaq7 - Another night here. Craziness ensuing... Do you typically stay in most of the time?

voretaq7

that kid is gonna wind up deaf because he's an idiot.

@ewwhite eh, I had no plans this weekend

so I'm watching videos, answering questions, and watching my lizard run around on my desk.

Michael Hampton

04:08

@voretaq7 English is obviously not that guy's first language.

ewwhite

@voretaq7 well, I just have a hard time understanding the nightlife here.

I'm in an area where things won't die down until 4am

Michael Hampton

@voretaq7 Hey, that guy's question is a possible duplicate!

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Q: Disable fan management on Dell Poweredge SC1425

I have Dell Poweredge SC1425 server that has a failed fan. This causes the server to increase the speed of the other fans to their maximum. The server is being used in a very cool place so I was wondering if I could disabling the monitoring for the failed fan so that the other fans run at their n...

dell dell-poweredge management fan

voretaq7

@ewwhite you're in manhattan - there's plenty going on

wander down to the village

@MichaelHampton heh link him to it or vote to close it

Michael Hampton

@voretaq7 Doing both :)

ewwhite

@voretaq7 I've been through the village during the daytime. It's all a little intimidating.

New York makes Chicagoans feel like yokels.

Michael Hampton

04:21

Crap, I still need 200 more rep before I can vote to close

voretaq7

@ewwhite you are yokels

and your idiot mayor bulldozed your airport.

:-)

also the village is more fun at night

ewwhite

@voretaq7 But we have alleys...

voretaq7

@ewwhite so do we

dark ones

where my enemies hope not to run into me :)

ewwhite

perhaps...

Frustrated by this question...

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Q: interrupt coalescing for high bandwidth packet capture?

I have an application which does packet capture from an ethernet card. Once in a while we see packets dropped (we suspect due to the buffer in the network card or kernel being overrun). I am trying to figure out if turning on interrupt coalescing will help or worsen the situation. On the one h...

packet-capture

I could help... but am having to beg for the most basic details.

WesleyDavid

Uhmmm... wut?

ewwhite

04:35

@WesleyDavid ???

WesleyDavid

Kitteh kickin' - not so fun akshuly.

@ewwhite I got kicked for some reason.

voretaq7

@WesleyDavid not me!

I was in another window

WesleyDavid

Yarrrr. There be some kitteh kickin' scallywags in this galley.

voretaq7

/me idly wonders if the Stack bot kicks you randomly... to remind you you're a cat...

WesleyDavid

Weee! Forgotten DSRM password. Go go gadget ntdsutil!!

Shane Madden

04:47

@WesleyDavid ntpasswd disk can nuke the DSRM too, if you don't have it when the domain's toast.

WesleyDavid

Nah, just checking through documentation and didn't find it anywhere for this office.

Of course, I changed the account lockout policy from 0 to ten tries.

Domain Admin is locked out within the hour!

Fun.

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid Administrator locked (or whatever RID 500 is named)?

WesleyDavid

Hmm? Just says the account is locked out and apparently something on the DC itself is trying to log in as the admin. sigh

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid Ah, in logs. That account can never actually lock - it unlocks instantly, so that you can use it to get around a denial of service from intentional locking of every account in the domain.

WesleyDavid

So the reason the account is showing as locked in ADUC and I can't log in anywhere with it... ?

I've never seen a domain admin auto unlock before.

Saturday night frights.

gurgle

Shane Madden

04:56

Oh, it's not the default Administrator user then. That's the only one that can't lock - the one that's created with the domain. The RID that it gets assigned is always 500, that's how you can tell which one gets magic-unlock.

WesleyDavid

BTW, when you say RID, do you mean SID? I'm not familiar with RID being used with domain users.

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid RID is the chunk after the last dash in the SID

WesleyDavid

Gotcha

I think it was Spiceworks. It's a small office that runs on SBS and SpiceWorks to track everything.

Lucas Kauffman

07:07

From the Guardian:

DNS (Domain Name System) converts user-friendly domain names, like guardiannews.com into numerical internet protocol (IP) addresses that computers use to communicate with each other. So every time you enter guardiannews.com (which you should do often!), your computer takes the numeral code IP, sends it to the DNS, which in turn sends your computer to the proper website.

since when does the IP get sent back to the DNS?

mgorven

@LucasKauffman I think you're on the wrong site if you're learning about DNS... :P

Lucas Kauffman

:p, was reading up on that DNSChanger trojan

Shane Madden

07:25

"Your computer takes the thing it doesn't have, sends it somewhere, and gets the thing that it already has."

Damn fine reporting.

Iain

08:33

G'day

@LucasKauffman Since when has (technical) accuracy ever got in the way of reporting

Journeyman Geek

09:06

@Iain: since when has the truth gotten in the way of reporting? ;p

Lucas Kauffman

09:20

lol @ this OP, I give him a powershell script and he asks me how he can do it in powershell

ewwhite

11:01

0

Q: How to setup an intranet?

i want to setup a small intranet for a small company. I know how to setup apache for the internet, but not for the intranet. I'm working in Ubuntu 12.04. Is there a good resource for the perfect intranet ? :)

intranet

ITHedgeHog

The temptation is there to reply with "Sorry you can only deploy an intranet using Microsoft SharePoint, best go by that"

ewwhite

Do it!

Lucas Kauffman

11:29

"The recipe for a perfect intranet"

mmm might be an idea for an article

ewwhite

Are Fujitsu servers common elsewhere? I never see them in the US.

1

Q: Setting up 2 x switches in a blade server (BX600) - First time

I have the following items: Primergy BX600 MMB3 10 x BX620 S4 2 x Switch Blade (PG-SW107) QNAP (TS-EC1279U-RP – QNAP) (4 x Gigabit Connections) HP Pro curve Switch (2510g-48 (JA9280-A)) Patch Panel connecting all ports from the (2 x Switch Blade (PG-SW107)) to the patch panel What I would li...

networking switch switching blade-servers

Lucas Kauffman

@ewwhite I know one of the bigger providers in germany uses them

but they are basterds, I wanted to rent a machine there because they were reasonable cheap, turns out they do not turn VT on, if you want to have VT you must buy a "profesional" server which is the same machine just priced 3 times as much

ewwhite

11:54

Shady practices.

Lucas Kauffman

12:18

rofl at this comment:

"I don't know much about bridges, but can you tell me how to build a suspension bridge over the Thames to carry trucks? Would I need to use steel?" — David Schwartz 7 mins ago

Chopper3

12:52

How can a japanese dance track and accompanying video be SO tongue-in-cheek yet also actually well done and very catchy?

►

oh and can a mod kill this, pointless, chat room please - chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/4289/setup-blade-server-switch

ewwhite

13:18

@Chopper3 Why do you say it's pointless? :)

Chopper3

@ewwhite No, they're rare, I had to look up details about them last time he asked this question

ewwhite

That guy has had an odd string of questions

from DL585 G1's to... yeah...

ewwhite

13:40

Enable spanning tree...

:)

MikeyB

15:43

This was featured on the Civ 5 page and I just had to share: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=85112239

Flexo

16:04

try serverfault.com — Jason Heine 7 mins ago

:(

Arthor

16:19

@ewwhite - From what i understand they are used by DOD contract in the UK. I know they have a new system. The BX900.

Arthor

16:36

BTW - STP has not solved the switch inter-connection issue.

ewwhite

17:05

Sooorrry...

Arthor

oookay... Well still moving forwards and thanks for the help.

Lucas Kauffman

19:12

@Arthor Just a question, but can't u ask the manufacturer?

Iain

19:30

(ignoring apple) what are your preferences for laptops ?

Arthor

19:44

@lucas kauffman, I have done that. Waiting for a reply.

@Iain I used to like vaios but now for me it's toshiba and dells

ewwhite

19:55

@Iain Apple for me... for YEARS... But in instances where an Apple was not wanted, I'd spec IBM, then Lenovo, then HP.

so these days, Lenovo

Shane Madden

My work Lenovo is pretty awful.

Arthor

@Iain I do have a Mac Air with OSX / Win 7 on one system. I do prefer it. Just a higher quality of build.

ewwhite

The Apple hardware is much nicer. I'm typing from a new Macbook and actually using it at 2880x1800 resolution.

Arthor

Nice :), What size screen?

ewwhite

15"

Arthor

20:04

Wow... must be all super small. but clear...

Lucas Kauffman

@Arthor my experience with Toshibas is that they suck in more dust than my vacuum cleaner :p

Arthor

We I am still good with my Mac Air... Great when travailing a lot.

Lucas Kauffman

I'm going to ask work if I can have an SSD instead of a normal HDD installed

Arthor

@LucasKauffman I have not had that issue as such, but it does stay in my office...

@LucasKauffman You should. Makes a big difference!!

Anyone here like patching... I have a lot to do... :(...

Lucas Kauffman

sure, just give me a root account on all your servers!

Arthor

20:07

47 plugs to go....

Lucas Kauffman

@Arthor you know what just give me access to that fancy pancy blade system you have there, I'll update all of your plugins ;)

Arthor

haha.. ok, no problem :)

Hmmm. Not sure if it is fancy....

but its 80 cores so....

Lucas Kauffman

nice, my most cores ever in one machine is 16 cores

so 80 is fancy for me :p

Arthor

Well to be accurate 10 x 8 = 80, each system with dual CPU, each CPU 4 cores.

It is good to go to a blade....

All on VMware...

Well soon to be :)

Michael Hampton

21:46

Oh god, I'm browsing SU again. Save me...

0

Q: I dropped my computer on the floor and now it won't boot. Why is this happening?

A couple of days ago I started up my computer and for some reason, I would press the power button, the computer would power up and the fan would make the same noise as usual. Except, normally, it would slow down after about 5-10 seconds. However, the loud noise of the fan was persistent and would...

boot dell

Mark Henderson

Ah gotta love Super User

I think that because most of us are surrounded by technology every day we forget how precious it is to everyone else

Michael Hampton

Last night I said there was always one on the front page from someone who should never be allowed near a computer.

Mark Henderson

I'm yet to get a good answer from any of my SU questions. And then I get condescending comments like this:

As a highly valued Super User, I suggest you revisit this answer and add more detail. The link doesn't help to explain anything on what Hyperthreading is or what it does. — KronoS Jul 26 at 18:09

To be fair, it was a rubbish answer and I would have dropped the same auto-comment on SF. But "As a highly valued Super User..."

C'mon, all my rep there is from migrated answers

Michael Hampton

22:09

Worst of all is when I post an answer on SU and somebody comes in and starts arguing with me in the comments.

0

A: Recovering deleted photo's original name from SD Card

The last time I used Photorec to recover deleted photos from an SD card, it successfully restored the filenames of all my recovered photos. Of course, this is no guarantee of success for your individual case.

Shane Madden

@MichaelHampton That happens on SF sometimes, too. Just not as often.

Michael Hampton

Oh, that particular person has been stalking me on SU for some time.

Mark Henderson

I always get answers from this guy:

avirk, Lucknow, India

3.7k 6 30

windows-7 windows windows-xp google-chrome firefox hard-drive ubuntu

And they're usually rubbish

For my own safety I think I'm going to delete my 2-starred message above. Never know in how many years that will come back to bite me given I use my real name

Arthor

22:25

So avirk is ?????

Mark Henderson

22:41

Holy crap, 30kviews in 2 days

3

Q: How to breed Olympus dragons on dragonvale

I just got on dragonvale today and there were three new rare dragons, bronze Olympus, silver Olympus, and gold Olympus. They look strange but they are rather new so I just wanted to know if anybody was able to breed them.

dragonvale

WesleyDavid

23:31

@MarkHenderson And only a handful of votes. Ingrates.

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid Damn right. I can only assume it's a lot of googlers who don't have accounts. But maybe for every 1kview you should get a community-owned +1? :P

Journeyman Geek

23:51

@MarkHenderson: what kronos posted is a standard script, as part of our campaign to clean up low quality answers

Mark Henderson

@JourneymanGeek Oh, I know. But I'm not a "valued super user", I'm someone with a lot of answers migrated to SU

Journeyman Geek

Its automatic ;p

somehow

Mark Henderson

It was more tongue-in-cheek, and like I said, I agree it's a shit answer

Shane Madden

Could use reworded ;)

Journeyman Geek

XD

Mark Henderson

23:53

I would have mod-slammed it myself

Journeyman Geek

(This is why, i'd rather have people tell me on chat if my answers are crap ;p)

Mark Henderson

I remember writing that answer actually, and I was in a crappy mood, which is why I linked it to the Intel site rather than Wikipedia

mgorven

-1

A: Setting SPF record on Amazon Route 53 with cli53 tool

@ceejayoz's comment has the answer, which is to add double quotes around the TXT record data. cli53 rrcreate -x 3600 -r --wait mydomain.com '' 'SPF' '"v=spf1 include:amazonses.com ?all"'

WTF, I got downvoted for adding an answer to an ancient question with the answer in a comment.

Thanks guiz!

Shane Madden

@mgorven That's weak. Putting answers on those has always been encouraged.

mgorven

@ShaneMadden Exactly, which is why I did that.

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