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1:01 AM
Hmm, why was the answer here downvoted? :)
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Q: Redhat RHEL 6 - Itanium 32 bit emulation library

blizzWe have RHEL 6.3 installed on an Itanium 64 bit system. We need to run a 32 bit app and therefore require the Itanium 32 bit emulation library. The problem is that RHEL 6 stopped support for Itanium and apparently the emulation lib is only available for RHEL 5 and below. Has anyone figured out ...

 
wat
 
@Andrew no, the OP thought it was an Itanium processor...
but the issue was really that they were on Intel, but didn't have 32-bit libraries needed for their application.
 
migrate to U&L?
or is it not worth it
 
@Andrew not even... I gave the answer. The user just didn't read it, it seems.
but it was pretty out there.
 
1:26 AM
trying a lenovo twist ultrabook /tablet with win8. the form factor of the computer is not bad, but win8 is a colossal fuckup.
 
1:36 AM
@ewwhite Why is that question going to be closed as too localized?
 
2:08 AM
@MichaelHampton Because the feature request fir a "too stupid" close reason got shot down.
 
2:36 AM
@ewwhite I'm confused. Was he running a x64 processor and calling it an Itanic?
 
That's how it looks to me too.
 
@ChrisS Yup.
 
Then he deserves the downvotes...
 
@ChrisS No, it's a shit answer because it's "yeah, nevermind, I installed a bunch of crap an it's working now, so fix it by installing a bunch of shit."
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it's the question that needs editing and downvotes
 
2:44 AM
Where's the close reason for "Author is too dumb"?
 
@ChrisS Or a "author doesn't know WTH he's talking about."
 
@ChrisS yeah, Itanium... which actually DOES have a support issue with RHEL 6.
But is fully supported under RHEL 5. So my original question was, "what Itanium server are you using?". If he said Integrity rx5670, that's one thing... if ProLiant DL360... well, yeah.
 
Yeah, and my Elitebook 8760w SPARC server is acting up too!
 
2:59 AM
Just means I shouldn't take answering questions so seriously.
although, I'm still pissed at TomTom.
 
@ewwhite Well who, isn't?
 
@HopelessN00b: and my netbook alpha server!
 
@JourneymanGeek No, no. That won't do. Nothing bigger than a phone.
 
3:15 AM
@ShaneMadden: fine. My raspberry pi cray!
 
@ShaneMadden exactly. And nothing newer that 1995, if you're any good.
All my DCs run on old-school Motorola flip phones.
 
3:47 AM
@HopelessN00b All my DCs need to be pushed started on cold mornings and emissions tested each year.
 
4:03 AM
SF should not be fixya.com
 
4:19 AM
@Andrew Q&A + other restrictions kind of limit its scope. What else could it be?
 
@HopelessN00b "whack it with a hammer" answers don't give that impression :P
 
5:09 AM
 
@ewwhite Thanks! Needless to say, I'm honored that you were the one.
 
^Why the US congress sucks.. Refreshingly insightful
 
5:27 AM
@MilesErickson Of course! It's what I do!
 
 
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8:17 AM
best wishes for 2013!
 
8:55 AM
Morning all. Merry new year!
 
and to you too
 
9:23 AM
G'day
@KennyRasschaert and to you too - where have you and Bart been hiding - you have interesting jobs I guess ?
@SmallClanger happy new year to you too
 
@Iain hah, guess again
 
speak of the devil @BartDeVos :)
 
Hi All :)
It's been a few months, yes :)
 
hi hi
 
@KennyRasschaert you got bored playing SF
and found a better game to play
 
9:26 AM
I'm losing the SF game
my best scoring answer by far is about ascii art
 
@KennyRasschaert so is everyone except Evan
 
I got a shitload of work, didn't have time for SF, forgot about it for a bit :)
Is it me, or has the font on SF changed, everything looks like it has gone on a diet...
Or maybe it got fatter... Who knows...
 
@BartDeVos they changed some of the styling a few weeks ago
 
10:08 AM
Herrow folks
 
 
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11:12 AM
Herro!
 
@Chopper3 will you hurry up and get better - we need you back at the helm of your weather control machine
Anyone got a spare Ark ?
 
It's ok here, in fact we're planning a trip to the zoo tomorrow to see some of the nanimals we sponsor
 
@Chopper3 tomorrow is meant to be dry here but today it's pissing down
 
11:44 AM
posted on January 02, 2013 by markmarra

PowerShell is a powerful tool. It’s also very different than the cmd and VBScript way of doing things that we’ve suffered through since the beginning of time. About a year ago, I set out to rewrite our custom imaging scripts and AD automation tasks that were mostly VBScript using PowerShell. I took on this effort in part (ok, in whole) as an excuse to learn PowerShell. If you haven&

 
12:01 PM
There's nothing like finding something on eBay and you go to read the description and HOLY HELL 96-SIZE FONT AND MULTICOLORED TEXT ARGHHH MY EEEYEEEYEYEESSSS
 
afternoon all
(belated) happy new year!
 
 
1 hour later…
1:15 PM
Morning
 
Hi @Cole
 
@ITHedgeHog how goes it?
 
It be going
You?
 
1:36 PM
Meh at work so
Trying not to shoot myself in the face
 
1:49 PM
Yo @WesleyDavid - How do I fill in the "About the Author" thing at the bottom of that blog post?
 
@MDMarra when you're logged into wpadmin, go to > Profile on the left-hand side and scroll down
 
Quicky: HP Procurve switches, is 'trunking' (aggregation) easy, quick and simple to setup?
Oh and Happy New Year everyone! :)
 
2:05 PM
@HaydnWVN reasonably... through CLI or through Web interface? Which model(s) are you working work?
 
Web interface and new-ish HP 1810's
simple being 'create trunk, add 2 ports to it, configure same on other switch, plug in cables, go'?
 
yes
 
Excellent! *cackles and twists fingers *
I don't have to worry about active/passive LACP? Reading about it it's mentioned, but no options on the switch?
 
@HaydnWVN not for switch-to-switch connections...
I don't think
 
Ok thanks ewwhite, guess it's try it and see ;)
shouldn't break anything... Providing i set the ports first lol
 
2:16 PM
Morning
 
Morning
 
We have a meeting today about a new high-profile client's deployment.
 
@ewwhite oh fun.
 
I'm going to propose skipping LVM on the Linux virtual machines we'll be deploying.
 
Por que?
 
2:26 PM
(a few hundred virtual machines)
I just spent 5 hours recovering data from a broken virtual machine last week. LVM signatures, root filesystem corruption, non-booting system...
 
Ouch
 
eh, shit happens... but I must be the only anti-LVM Linux admin out there.
 
We don't use LVM on any of our Linux VMs. But then again, they're usually very limited-scope appliances with fairly static disk requirements.
Is there a minimum rep requirement for accepting answers?
 
@jscott but even without static requirements, you know your app well enough to understand disk utilization.
 
Only place I've used LVM is on developer VMs.
 
2:31 PM
Yes, there's a minimum rep.
 
Looks like you only need 1 rep to post answers/questions... But you need more to accept?
 
2:53 PM
anyone got some expiernece with multi db ldap especially with ppolicy overalys? How it does affect diffrent bdb's?
 
POLL - While discussing hand written notes this came up: "If you speak to people about their handwriting, it isn't long before you heard someone use the word 'ashamed". Would you say that you are ashamed of your handwriting?
 
I swear some people only go into work because they've run out of windows to lick at home
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@chriss my handwriting is awful. But I'm not ashamed of it. It is what it is.
 
My handwriting isn't that bad, so I'm not ashamed.
 
@RobM Same here.. I just wondered how many other people were in that same boat.
 
maybe if you were in a job that needed good handwriting?
 
2:55 PM
@RobM Like what??
 
Anyone need some 'professional' audio computer?
Made by elves, with silver forged in moonlight...
 
@ChrisS Dunno. Teacher perhaps?
 
Best handwriting ever was from Dijkstra (computer prof)
Beautiful letters on the blackboard
 
@RobM I suppose if you were teaching penmanship it would matter.... But I've had plenty of teachers who's chicken scratch is worse than mine.
 
Less points if your exams were badly readable
A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation. Computer scientists typically work on the software side of computer systems, as opposed to the hardware side that computer engineers mainly focus on (although there is overlap). Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on specific areas (such as algorithm and data structure development and design, software engineering, information theory, database theory, computational complexity theory, human-computer int...
 
2:57 PM
I really don't know. It's good to be able to communicate, obviously, but I think beautiful pensmanship is less of a requirement today than it was.
 
Whoops. This one
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (; May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist. He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000. Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the ACM PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work on self-stabilization of program computation. This annual award was renamed the Dijkstra Prize the following year, in his honor. Life and work Born in Rotterdam,...
 
@hennes re: that media PC. And all this time I've just been using a mac mini tucked under the TV when I could have been using that instead...
 
25MB cache so you have no latency. Yeah right
 
@Hennes Dijkstra was a genius
 
@hennes I just hope they're using those gold-coated monster HDMI cables that I keep hearing so much about. All their snake oil might leak out otherwise.
 
3:01 PM
The snake oil might corrode plastic! (Oh, wait. too close to real logic)
 
No.
 
@ewwhite Platinum plated, 10 ton HDMI switch stacking cables?
 
I just can't take HDMI as a switch interconnect seriously.
 
@RobM Why not?
 
3:05 PM
Me neither. Common connectors: fine. But cables designed for a totally different goal in a professional switch: No.
 
HDMI uses extremely similar signaling and specifications as XAUI (also PCIe, SATA, SAS, and dozens of other modern serial busses)
 
And I would add clamps or screws to the HDMI Plugs
Which is the main thing lacking with HDMI and displayport
 
@Hennes Er, not totally different goal...
@Hennes HDMI can have locking connectors
 
You mean both are High speed signalling?
 
3:06 PM
@Hennes Because nothing says hefty, robust and production-quality like a 50-pin Centronics cable with locking clamps...
 
Happy new year!
 
@Hennes Yes, both are low voltage, differential pair signaling... The differences are well within negligible.
 
@ewwhite didn't get a chance to do that yet. Should be able to do it between tonight and tomorrow most likely
 
hey @ChrisS, mind if I edit in some information about raw device mappings into your answer serverfault.com/a/462320/96078?
 
3:11 PM
Also, mind emailing me a list of hostnames for the boxes involved?
 
@MDMarra No worries... you didn't want to vomit on your keyboard, etc.
 
You know it
I did get a call from one of our DBAs at 11:55pm on 12/31 though. I didn't see it until 8am the next morning
 
@MDMarra dc1, mango, coochie, lemon, watermelon.
 
@Basil No problemo =]
 
Apparently they were actually doing a release and fucked up the server
@ewwhite ...that's not real is it?
 
3:13 PM
@MDMarra Well, I can't get into coochie right now, but mango and pear are online.
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oh my
 
Pear is the fileserver to migrate TO.
 
@MDMarra how many boxes?
 
valley-file is the old fileserver.
 
3:14 PM
@PiotrKieszczyński How many boxes for what
 
CX4 has 4 data pairs, 2 DC voltages (for running media converters), an MII bus, and ground/shield. HDMI has 4 data triples (D+, D-, G), 1 DC Voltage, I2C Bus (which MII is based on), and the usual grounding/shield pins. Just from that you can see how similar they are...
 
@ewwhite Ok, so the plan is basically, I'll set up the GPOs for the new RD session Host and a new Users OU. You move people into a new OU as needed and it'll make their files go to the new file server automatically. You can do it in a controlled and orderly fashion deleting their iTunes libraries at will. Once they're moved, you can have them start logging into the new RD Host
 
@MDMarra i missunderstood something ;) thought you were looking for names for boxes.
 
Done that edit, if you want to check it @ChrisS
 
@PiotrKieszczyński haha no. I hate cute names
 
3:17 PM
@MDMarra Even their archive of Hardcore Pawn episodes??
 
@PiotrKieszczyński I always use <site>-<role>-<number>
So something like PA-DC-01
@ewwhite oh god
 
@MDMarra Funny thing I discovered this week during a Hardcore Pawn marathon...
I guess I manage the TruTV/CourtTV servers at work...
 
@MDMarra - I personally got a 9 boxes and use the names of fellowship of ring. It's nice to log on frodo.
 
@ewwhite Haha no kidding
that's pretty funny
@PiotrKieszczyński My environments have always been too big for that
 
@MDMarra well DC seems linke domain controller ;)
 
3:20 PM
yep
 
@MDMarra I have to move them to a new data center... They're a super-old client, it seems. $26k/mo.
 
that's (more of less) the naming convention for my DCs
 
I name my home computers still.. I've been running out of names for a long while, I end up re-using a name if the new computer serves a substantially similar purpose.
 
LA-DC-01, CHI-DC-01, etc
Member servers are like LA-MS-01, LA-MS-02, etc
 
My fruity produce companies like easy names. lime, lemon, mango, apple, garlic...
 
3:21 PM
pkieszcz@dlugi-kabel

dlugi-kable is long-wire
 
haha I can see that
 
typically for file server and mail server names.
 
@ewwhite One of these things is not like the others...
 
i like those fruit names
 
Well, one client only deals in garlic.
 
3:24 PM
well tonight i will have fun with cobbler and fruits ;)
 
@ewwhite there's a slight chance that everyone might have to get cut over to the new file server at the same time. I need to test something before I can say for sure. If that's the case, is it a big deal?
 
@MDMarra We'd have to see. Depends on the impact. I can shut those fools down if I need to.
 
are we back to not liking TomTom again?
 
I've always liked him
Especially because sometimes he's wrong and it's hilarious
 
@wfaulk I'm pissed that he was wrong on this question... he had a bunch of rude comments removed.
But I think he's giving some nonsensical advice.
But yeah, TomTom is rough...
@MDMarra If I can tell the fruit client that, starting January X, 2013, all people will log onto terminal server Y and their profiles will be on pear, I'd love it.
 
3:29 PM
10
A: Does Active Directory support DNS names with spaces?

TomTomAh - sorry to be snippy, but you have a wag the dog here. It is not that AD does not support DNS names with spaces, but that DNS names per definition and RFC are not allowed to have spaces to start with. RFC 952 and 1123 both do not allow spaces as part of a DNS name. So, AD does not lack suppor...

 
@MDMarra Oh, so he does that elsewhere.
 
@ewwhite Sure. I've done a whole lot of work with all of the pieces involved, just never tried moving them all at once, so I need to poke around a little and make sure it behaves as I expect it does
brb
 
It's less about like or not like and more to do with whether or not he's entertaining. And he is quite entertaining, just that you're laughing at him more than with him.
 
Seems like a nice guy.
 
meh, compared to the average sysadmin he's about normal. Sadly.
 
3:33 PM
@mossy psssh
 
I've got a guy on my team, absolutely great stuff with a screwdriver or keyboard in his hand but if I locked him in a room by himself he'd manage to start a fight with his own shadow.
 
@ewwhite Yeah, you have to be careful when deal with TomTom. 1. English isn't his first language, I think it's his 3rd actually. 2. He's got lots-o preconceived notions, most are correct, but he'll unleash a nuclear holocaust if he thinks you're wrong regardless of "proof".
 
he's got problems. But in all seriousness, he is sadly of a type I've seen in our line of work a few times.
 
@ChrisS I'm very interested in his financial/algorithmic trading aspirations. I was going to put him in touch with my old boss in Germany.
They have the same personality.
 
@ewwhite There's more than one of him in the world?!
 
3:35 PM
and he did leave us with one of our official serverfault memes - smartphone webservers!
 
@ChrisS Absolutely... this was at old job, where I'd fly to Frankfurt and my boss wouldn't talk to me for entire workdays... silent treatment after a 9-hour flight. He's also the one who was the staunch Gentoo supporter... They'd get along great :)
 
Other than the fact that I think Tomtom attends the church of Microsoft...
 
I think requesting a 27 inch monitor was a terrible mistake.
 
why? I mean I'd prefer 2 smaller ones myself, sure, but are you struggling with it?
 
@mossy Watching too much p0rn at full screen? I'm sure that can make you feel inadequate at 27".
 
3:43 PM
Well firstly NO SIR IM NOT WATCHING PORN AT WORK
currently
 
I have a 24 at home, and 2 19's in work. Does me just fine.
 
Three monitors here... All Apple ridiculousness.
 
well i got my 15,6 on laptop and i think i need another one

at work i got 22 + 19 and it fits just perfectly
 
1080 res at 23" = ~90 DPI, which is more or less the standard resolution for PCs
 
and It's giving me a headache.
But i think I've figured it out. With two monitors I move my head, rather than eyes.
 
3:45 PM
27" is too large unless you get something with higher res than 1080
 
Yeah I think 27" would be too large for anything other than media work. And yeah with two monitors you move your head rather than strain your eyes
 
personally i prefer to open a few terminator terminalas and split them into 4 smaller ones
 
bleh. work.
and a recently rebooted workstation that's performing like a dead cat because it's still caching everything.
 
I'm so tired right now... 2 cups of tea hasn't inspired my brain to smart yet
 
serverfault sticker on my laptop is peeling apart :(
 
3:52 PM
Three weeks until I hop on a cold airplane and fly to warm sunny beaches.
 
SE should provide me higher quality free shit!
 
@ewwhite How do you feel about the apple store popping up more and more frequently when you want to download applications?
 
@wfaulk you should stop overclocking your damn laptop and maybe the glue wouldn't melt! :-P
@mossy HATE?
 
@mossy ??
 
CloudApp 1.5.4 (Mac App Store) <--- :(
 
3:56 PM
What's wrong with the App Store?
it's better than the days when I had to troll VersionTracker.com for downloads and versions.
 
@ewwhite I will grant you this.
 
@voretaq7 I used to always try to keep abreast of new versions and keep my mac shareware/freeware going... Nowadays, the OS is so integrated, I use very few external apps.
 
@MDMarra Log into the blog and click on the "users" section of Wordpress on the left navigation pane.
At least... I think...
=)
 
Anyone know how I can use sed to turn both ROOTVG_abc and ROOTVG_def into ROOTVG? The fields will always start with ROOTVG.
Ideally it would leave Prod_mirror as is.
 
@WesleyDavid Already done, sir
 
4:10 PM
@Basil you mean merging two volume groups (presumably on AIX)?
only way I know is to copylv everything into one, delete the other, and extend into the newly-empty space.
 
@voretaq7 No, I'm actually writing a script that creates a build file for a migration, and the input file has a field for the type of storage. As far as we're concerned, all boot volumes are prod, so even if they specify something other than "rootvg", we're going to treat them all the same way. Problem is when I do "for storageType in grep -v ^# inputfile| awk '{print $4}'| sort -u", it tells me that rootvg_whatever and rootvg_foo are two types of storage
I want to put a sed in there so it's all considered "rootvg"
basically remove any characters after rootvg if that string exists
fuck markdown- I put backticks in there and it used them to format that subshell as code.
 
@Basil hmmmm
 
hey @voretaq7
 
@Cole ohai
 
hey @Basil haven't seen you around in a bit either
 
4:15 PM
@Cole Yup, I was on vacation :)
Happy new year!
 
@Basil how was it? you too
 
@Basil blind ugly sed: | sed s/rootvg_.*/\rootvg/
 
@MDMarra And it didn't change anything? Hmmm...
 
@Cole Socially, fine. We had a record snowfall, though, and a snow truck tried getting down my street (where it won't fit and someone had illegally parked across from me) and ripped off my passenger side mirror, as well as possibly bent something in my front axle.
 
@Basil WHEEEEEEE - SUE THE TOWN!
 
4:16 PM
@WesleyDavid No, it did
 
@voretaq7 That'll do- I control the input file :) Thanks!
@voretaq7 lol, right. They don't pay.
 
@MDMarra Ohh, okay. Cool. I was about to block off some time to re0install WP to get rid of all the weird permissions quirks since a migration.
Happy New Year to me! APC unit at an office I support bit the big one and took down the networking equipment / phone system that was on it.
 
@WesleyDavid Luckily that came after the New Year? Shouldn't affect your 9s for 2012, right?
 
@jscott And if I can by some method remove 2013 from the timeline of history, we'll be good this year too.
 
ok, so sed 's/ROOTVG*/ROOTVG/g' doesn't work, but sed 's/ROOTVG.*/ROOTVG/g' does.
 
4:21 PM
Five-nines for everyone!! And you get some nines! And you! And you!!
 
What does that dot do?
 
@Basil Let's the command parser pause for breath.
 
@WesleyDavid No, no, 5 nines for everyone, they just need to share them.
 
@WesleyDavid can't tell if trolling or just unix
 
New VMWare cluster for client... The spec is 96GB RAM and 2 x Westmere X5660 CPUs. Would you do it in blades or 1U servers?
 
4:24 PM
How many nodes though
 
@MDMarra up to 20.
 
@Basil "." == Anything in regex; "*" == The last character repeated 0 to many times.
 
@ChrisS then what's the * for?
 
There's a chance to get HP in here instead of SuperMicro for this deal.
 
@ewwhite So two chassis?
 
4:25 PM
@ChrisS Ah, I see.
 
@MDMarra C3000 enclosures, since I won't have 208V power.
 
I need to learn this better
in any case, it works
 
@ewwhite ahh
I didn't know you could use 110 with a C3000
 
Isn't HP's whole thing that once you hit 5 blades, in most configs, additional blades become cheaper than 1Us? Of course, I've always heard that with a C7000
 
4:27 PM
@ChrisS bookmarked :)
thanks!
 
@Basil I've got it hanging on my cube wall for when the dumb settles in.
 
@MDMarra it's something like that.
 
@ChrisS It's one of those skills that I know will make my life easier, but so far, I've only come into situations that absolutely require regex a couple of times.
 
@Basil if you need to solve a problem with a regex you now have two problems
 
4:29 PM
heh
 
/yawn
 
@Basil I'm not great at it, but I've got the basics down. I'm vaguely aware of the rest, like negative lookbehinds and their limitations. =]
 
@Iain Not like that- the most common thing I use it for is modifying text in vi, and the next most common thing I do is input sanitization in shell scripting
One day I'll learn perl and totally forget all this shit
 
And I probably shouldn't use DL1xx systems... only one power supply
 
I'm constantly annoyed about how much more complicated string manipulation is outside of C
(which I learned in high school)
hell, even qbasic has awesome and simple string manipulation
(which I learned in elementary)
 
4:32 PM
C doesn't really have strings though ;)
 
c++ then
 
@Basil take a look at python if you have it on your AIX
 
@Iain we don't ;)
 
worth a try
 
in any case, I need to use a language that someone else can debug unless I'm willing to be on call during holidays ;)
 
4:33 PM
@Iain #include <string.h>
 
we have two guys that can perl
@ChrisS yeah, that was in every single program I wrote
 
@ChrisS that's just a way of manipulating char arrays
 
@Iain I know... But the word "string" is in there!
I can do procedural Perl, but the new object oriented stuff gives me a headache.
 
@ChrisS I think procedural is what most people here use. I am completely comfortable in an object oriented environment, if it's anything at all like c++, but I'd be happy to just have subroutines that worked natively with return statuses/values
 
@Basil qbasic is the only programming language I learned in college.
 
4:37 PM
Right now, I have to hack in a return value any time I want to use a subroutine in shell
 
Now you guys wonder why I dropped out, this was in 2007.
 
@Cole It is a beautifully simple and powerful language
I had all kinds of things written for it- I made a bunch of neat little games
I even wrote a bitmap editor (before I knew what bitmaps were) so I could draw art into my games
all on my old 286
 
Yeah I wasn't into computer back then, pretty sure we didn't even have a computer.
Or I was even alive.
either or.
 
@Cole I haven't played with QBasic since middle school; and I'm 5 years older than you.
 
I didn't have many friends... but I knew how to program relatively well when I was 8 ;)
 
4:39 PM
So I broke my glasses.
Somehow.
 
got to c++ when I was 17, got a job in IT when I was 19, never programmed again until this year
and now I'm using /bin/sh. Not even fucking /bin/bash
 
Ah the 286, with a CGA adapter, and a whopping 10MB Winchester harddrive.
 
I feel so late in the game lol.
 
It had a giant red toggle switch on the side to turn it on/off. Felt like you were launching a missile or something.
 
Here's a better question. Right now, if you were buying a bunch of servers, would you get Westmere or the newer E5 CPU's?
 
4:41 PM
Got my first computer (my own) at 17. Starting doing PC gaming around 18, that's when I started to become interested in computer hardware.
Worked in Computer Sales at Best Buy starting at 19, that's when I really starting to like computers. 20, went to college for Network Engineering, got my first job in IT (desktop support) 9 months later (21 years old).
I'm 26 now, so yeah not a long time.
 
@ewwhite Is it my money, or someone else's?
 
@ewwhite Isn't Haswell right around the corner too?
 
@HopelessN00b New client...
I'm stuck with HP
so, it's a matter of G7 or Gen8
 
My parents bought a Packard Bell from Montgomery Ward in '94; came with DOS 5.x (including qbasic) and Win 3.1. Also, had both 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives!
I miss the Turbo button; switched the processor from 8 MHz to 16 MHz.
 
The business model is such that we charge monthly for the servers... so the goal is to make the $ back after a few months.
 
4:51 PM
G7, man
 
@MDMarra WHy do you say?
 
The CPU and max RAM (which doesn't sound like it's an issue) are really the only differences right?
 
Well shit. Woke up with a headache and took some Advil two hours ago. Now wondering why I felt so loopy. I just looked and I took sleep aids instead.
5
 
hahahaha
 
Today is going to be awesome!
 
pfo
4:53 PM
hey
 
@MDMarra Here's my pricing... DL160 G7, 2 x X5680 CPU, 96GB RAM - $3600. DL360 G7, 2 x X5680 CPU, 96GB RAM - $4000, DL360 Gen8, 2 x X2640 CPU, 96GB RAM - $5000, DL360 Gen8, 2 x X2690 CPU, 96GB RAM - $6800
 
@WesleyDavid But did it get rid of the headache?
 
I dunno the difference between a 160 and a 360
 
Mornin' Gents.
 
I've only ever bought the 3xx models
@Adrian Yo
 
4:56 PM
@Adrian Not enough to make up for staring at the screen and daydreaming about how carwashes work.
I'm already dimwitted enough, I don't need the added momentum of Tylenol PM behind it.
 
@MDMarra One power supply and a lower-cost motherboard. Meant for HPC.
 
OK, I can't procrastinate anymore.... time to run The Annual Reports
(please kill me)
 
Our OEL admin is on vaca, so I get to solve all of the fun stuff.

"I'm trying to run dell dset and it's giving me an error about xterm. What do I do?"

"I dunno, try running screen first"

"Ok, that worked"

"phew"
 
@voretaq7 You really do damn near everything yourself there, don't ya.
 
@Adrian ayup.
I need monkeys.
trained monkeys.
preferably ones willing to work for bananas.
 
4:59 PM
@voretaq7 Yeah, that's the hard part. If they're smart enough to work dependably, they want decent pay.
 
@Adrian can't I have halfway decent interns?
they're working for college credit - that's like pay!
 

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