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I do the headlines on HN - no time to get sucked down the rabbit hole with the comments

I spit my drink a little when I read gentrification

@MDMarra I also see by the starred post that our stupid little shit cheater stopped by and you had to read him the riot act.

@JoelESalas THIS IS HOW I TRAVELING THE WORLD WRITING CODE EXCLUSIVELY ON CRUISE SHIPS HAS INCREASED MY PRODUCTIVITY DRASTICALLY

@JoelESalas that was actually a story recently

@Magellan This was a different fellow

I think, anyway

@MDMarra Yep

then

a few weeks later on techcrunch: "BONER.LY RAISES $100M TO CHANGE HOW WE THINK ABOUT BONERS"

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416

12:03 AM

@MDMarra Hmm. I thought that was the rugrat that was wanting us to help him upload a textbook to his TI calculator to cheat on a test.

Oh it might have been

I missed that

stupid children.

oh no. My world is gonna end if I get a B. So I'm gonna spend 3 days figuring out a way to cheat instead of studying! Waaa!

Stupid. Children.

I haven't been in chat much lately

Sick the last week, and busy the last lifetime before that

:(

@MDMarra This was awhile back. Might've even be finals for the previous school year. I don't think I was working then.

How is not working?

I'd imagine it's got to be sort of a constant transition between terrifying and awesome

12:08 AM

@MDMarra pretty much. I got to experience it twice last year, so I'd really rather not repeat that cycle again anytime soon. Especially since there's a pair of little girls due in 10 weeks.

You must be looking forward to that

Identical?

@MDMarra fraternal. And also cycling between excited and terrified on that front.

I can't imagine

cole

12:26 AM

sup

yo

how goes it

it goes

OPENSTACK MOFOCKAS

O_o

12:42 AM

@JoelESalas They fix Neutron yet?

@Magellan They never told me it was broken

@JoelESalas It's all sorts of dodgy at scale unless you have Devs who can put a bunch of time in to fix the brokenness.

Ohhh that's still very green yes

@JoelESalas Probably workable for a pure DevOps shop if you really want to spend the Dev time to fix it. And then you're locked in for awhile on that particular release/version.

1:16 AM

lol

@JoelESalas What happened with your storage testing?

How's progress?

So while I was out driving in a fancy neighborhood with the wife... we got cut-off by a Cadillac Escalade with a unique license plate... Care to interpret its meaning?

@ewwhite That's a local politician.

Oh?

Why do you say?

1:34 AM

@ewwhite DOCK HAUNTER

Duck Hunter

This man is clearly a sailor

Perhaps

Made for a good Facebook post.

@ewwhite Dude. The Upper Midwest is some of the most prime duck-hunting territory in North America. Probably carries around shotguns that are worth more than that SUV.

It's a bad license plate... in a town like Chicago. He could be a target from both sides.

This is a city where 70 year-old men get shot outside of the Catholic Cardinal's mansion.

This is a city where people pissing in the alley get shot in the stomach!

@Magellan Is duck hunting big?

But Chicago has a new crime wave where the criminals now go door-to-door with guns and ask for money.

1:57 AM

Did online chat w/ Comcast to see why HBO wasn't working. They somehow disconnected my Internet. That's one way to get around answering.

Tweeted by mdmarra on December 29, 2013 at 1:54 AM

"Call quota's running long. Better turn his Internet off!"

@ewwhite Yes. But generally outside of the cities. You know...In The Country.

cole

@MDMarra wtf!

@MDMarra The new HBO that you're supposed to be getting for free?

The new HBO that I'm supposed to be getting for $50 less than I was paying before

Think of all the things I can spend that $50 on now

- Lighting a cigar with a $50 and looking super baller once a month

- 4 artisan chocolate bars at whole foods

- buddy subscriptions to Brazzers for @ewwhite and I

- A quarter tank of gas

I just want help with my domain controller.

2:06 AM

I told you I'd look at it!

@MDMarra K. What do you need? I just need to get rid of it.

VPN, domain admin creds, name of a working DC, name of the failed DC, 1 hour of billable time

you just want all traces of the old DC ripped out right?

@MDMarra I'm not sure I can afford that...

You rich

because 2 weeks downtime thanks to VMware and Nexenta.

And the DCKHNTR!!!

2:11 AM

DICK HUNTER?

DONK HUNTER?

Maybe it was MJ!

DUNK HUNTER

So openssl.org is currently defaced. Where's your chain of trust now?!

Like I said earlier... I don't believe in infosec.

Once a place is bureaucratic or enterprise enough to need it, it's not cool enough to warrant your attention.

Unless it's a university

You'd kill yourself if you worked in edu

"Hi Edmund. Welcome aboard!"

"Uhh, I quit"

possibly.

2:18 AM

Imagine getting a grant and being told "You can only purchase IBM with this money" but you're entirely a Dell and Sun shop.

That actually happened to me

too many rules.

I miss my old university

but we had expert grant writers

The grant we got was from IBM

in the departments I worked in... but edu seems to be super complex these days

Depends on the size. There are very few universities that are large enough to have interesting problems but small enough to have central IT

Q: Free alternatives to M/Monit interface for the Monit systems management system

I mean, with people who can't even buy a $590 piece of software...

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I really like Monit systems management system but I have no IT budget to purchase M/Monit interface which is used to manage multiple hosts for our small university lab. I have checked out Ruby based monittr and I see that Django people are cooking something. Can anybody give me some advice to ...

2:20 AM

Sounds like a professor working without hte blessing of IT, tbh

I read that the other day

I had an assistant engineer in the produce industry... and he left to go back to his university and work at central IT.

he was a Perl guru... very good, but I didn't appreciate him at the time.

I had just installed 100k worth of Cisco 802.11 gear in a building and I found a bio professor unplugging the podium computer in the lecturer's station to plug in an airport extreme

Professors are the worst

@MDMarra I do that!

I used to carry one everywhere to cause ruckus.

There's this cool feature on Cisco wireless gear where you can "kill" a rogue AP

Surrounding Cisco APs spoof "disassociate" packets and make rogues useless

Can you show me how? Valley Produce has some issues

2:25 AM

You need a controller

It's right in the "Rogues" section of the controller's webapp

I don't believe that individual APs can do it

I only have controllers at one Cisco site. The rest of the produce places buy Motorola.

weaaaaaak

poop

Motorola handhelds... that's why

I recently helped out on a Cisco ISE deployment

Such awesome BYOD tech

I designed the AD certificate services backend

BYOD... a name for what people were doing anyway?

2:28 AM

Not at ~~Vlassic~~ large frozen food/pickle vendor!

This lets users self-provision up to three non-AD joined devices for certificate-based access to the internal wifi network

Better than using a PSK and posting it in the break room :)

sounds fancy

Each device gets a cert bundle as an installable profile that's valid for 2 years' access

after that, they have to re-up. They can also revoke all of a user's devices or a single device's access with a click

pretty nifty

you need a certain size organization to be able tot ale advantage of that.

yup

You need Cisco controllers, Cisco APs, a certificate backend that's configured for SCEP properly, etc

Not something you see in one man IT shops

what's gained by allowing the devices on the network?

2:33 AM

Access to intranet services via mobile

documents, sharepoint, ticketing system, various company portals, etc

So people that don't want to bring their laptops to a meeting can pull of the sharepoint doc everyone is talking about on their Kindle Fire HDX v2 that the just got for Christmas

Speaking of the Kindle, the browser that they have - "Silk" - can go suck a fatty. It sucks.

That's all? You know how we did it at LW?!?

Heh, we had people VPNing into the network from their personal devices.

@ewwhite PSK taped to the break room door?

in the conference room

@ewwhite it also brokered non-BYOD access as well

so AD-joined laptops had device and user certs pushed out via GPO. ISE would let them on wifi with the device cert pre-auth and then switch to the user cert post-auth

passwordless, secure, wifi for internal devices as well

It's also the successor to Clean Access, so it has NAC built in as well - this customer wasn't using it though

2:37 AM

What scale of an organization can use this?

Universities, Hospitals, Insurance Groups, Food companies

So not the nice DevOps startups, eh?

most are between 1000-5000 seats. A few of our customers are 20,000-50,000 seats globally as well

No, they'd choke on the price tag and tell us they're going to write a clone of it in Go

I think this is why I hear all the anti-MS sentiment. It's synonymous with big installs, structure and policy.

DOWN WITH THE MAN!

2:39 AM

Linux hackers don't like that

I want to make something highly successful and then leave before I have to actually sell it and support people on it and grow it into something truly successful!

Thats what I get of Linux Hacker culture from reading HN

Oh, yeah... totally

Trading industry was like that. High tech on the server side... immature on everything else

no AD, no DNS, no GPO, no security

and the firms that did well eventually had to grow up and ADD that structure

There's a company I just did some work for. They're global. They distribute most of the dental supplies for dentists basically around the whole world

We came in to help deploy the System Center stack. They're almost entirely Microsoft and VMware

(moving to Hyper-V)

Hundreds of physical hosts

redundant datacenters

thousands of VMs

almost all Windows

probably a poorly designed vSphere infrastructure

.that almost sounds like too many systems

It's all HP blades

50% of it is in a warm DR site

It's probably around 150ish prod physical hosts running ESXi

2:44 AM

they sound like they were sold on VMware years ago

They were. By us.

rare to see installs that large now

Their Dynamics AX farm alone is 10 servers

better consolidation

so they're going to HV?

If the guys I was working with get their way - yeah

They're so large, Microsoft is giving them money towards consulting services if they want to move

2:46 AM

@MDMarra 10 physical hosts for VMs running AX? o_O

ya

sick

From what I'm told, peak concurrent users are measured in the thousands

I though we ran big AX deployments

Nope

Two of my produce firms are going to it.

2:47 AM

@MathiasR.Jessen I don't know what customizations they run or what tuning they have or haven't done. Just some of the data I collected when sizing them for SCOM

the only nice migration option

@MDMarra Might indicate negligence, we have an AX farm with 8 AOS servers serving 1500 users

But the customer develops on it a lot

Could be

Q: Active Directory 2012 LDAP Integration Service Principal Name Entry is Disappearing?

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Creating Python Service to Query AD Attributes I'm integrating our AD with web services running Python on linux using Python-LDAP over SASL(DIGEST-MD5) to query AD 2012 user attributes (division, department, phone extension, email, etc). After working out the kinks specific to my service against...

active-directory ldap python spn

This question is really hurting my OCD

3:10 AM

@MathiasR.Jessen I'm almost sure his interop crap is just overwriting it.

You want to run AD? Oh everything works great. OK now I want to make Python and Java and Unix interop with AD in really weird ways that are totally unsupported and weird... oh jeez such a surprise that now it no longer works great.

@MDMarra hmm, I suddenly want one of these for... evil purposes.

Btw, not that I'm not knocking any of those other technologies... just that you shouldn't be flabbergasted when two totally unrelated things don't play well together

hmm, apparently hackaday mentions this being done a few years ago

what's "this"?

@MDMarra: oh, you got me looking up ways to fuck up people's access points ;p

3:17 AM

hahaha

what can I say, I'm bored, and have a spare access point I can test knocking offline for shits and giggles.

it's pretty easy in theory. Spoof the station's MAC, capture the mac of clients, craft disassociate packets with the proper source and dest.

airdrop-ng would do it

4:29 AM

I just drunk-tweeted Michio Kaku.

Q: UPS unable to power the 1U server

5:08 AM

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1U rack server: http://ark.intel.com/products/67786/Intel-Server-System-R1304GL4DS9 Power backup: http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BR1000G-IN When I try starting the server only on backup power then the whole device beeps and does not start. In case the s...

power

5:22 AM

this is one of the few cases where I'd say.... use a laptop

Falcon Momot

7:10 AM

yawn

9:18 AM

G'day

10:15 AM

@RyanRies Your're probably write. Better give him a writeup on auditing and diagnostic logging

g'morning BOFH's

A: Trolling: How is Babby Formed (golf)

10:53 AM

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sh unzip; strip; touch; grep; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount; sleep

codegolf.SE is fun :)

11:12 AM

@DennisKaarsemaker Very much, saw your quitter code last night and was immediately disconnected from my remote ssh session :D

haha

exec [

A: I need a program where the user inputs an array of doubles and the program outputs the array sorted

The code trolling posts are also pretty funny

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Sometimes the community here doesn't like to help with homework. That's why you are getting so many joke answers. But I like to help. Here is a complete solution in 'C' (since I assume you want to learn "programming", not "scripting" with Java or Ruby). I've included many tips that I wish I ha...

xD

the answer to that was pure genius. Create a DB, insert data and SELECT ...ORDER BY

The perl solution is horrible :D

Not enough jQuery

MIfe

11:44 AM

Love that 'downto' operator. Subtle and witty.

blah

Someone pointed me at an incorrect answer to a closed question on SF ;p

12:00 PM

@JourneymanGeek Revoke their internetz

2:14 PM

@MathiasR.Jessen did one better and commented

7:01 PM

@Iain Bike riding in Chicago...

Freezing rain.

7:29 PM

@ewwhite is that coated in ice ?

8:17 PM

@Iain Yes, it's covered in ice... and so was I... and my glasses, etc.

madness

If only you knew.

I've been known to ride in snow, but freezing rain...no way.

I've been out in in snow once on my hybrid (32mm grippy tyres) but I wouldn't go out in it on my road bike

A little cold... and wet... and windy. Oh, and freezing rain!?! Really not a good ride at all.… http://instagram.com/p/ig_eu3zCvv/

Tweeted by ewwhite910 on December 29, 2013 at 6:24 PM

Anonymous

8:25 PM

I saw your comment on Strava earlier

We wouldn't install phpMyAdmin at all! — Michael Hampton 45 secs ago

Q: VMWare VM as router for windows host

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Goal - use virtual machine as router/firewall for host VM is running on. I created VMWare VM and installed pfSense. Configured two network adapters for WAN (bridged, VMNet0) and LAN (host-only, VMNet19). Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet19: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : ...

windows router vmware-workstation pfsense

A: CPU/RAM upgrade for HP Proliant ML350 G5

9:19 PM

I'm going to steal a checkmark!!

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I disagree with the accepted answer. There were two system chipsets sold with this series of server. The initial G5 servers were introduced in late 2006 with the Intel 5000Z chipsets. Those supported the Intel 5100-series CPU you have now. You probably won't be able to accept the CPUs and RAM y...

I always knew you were a pirate...

kalina

yarr

@ewwhite pillaged your upvote, yarr

boo, vote down requires 125 reputation :(

@MichaelHampton I saw the question and remember running into issues with that before. Some times my arcane HP ProLiant knowledge is useful

11:41 PM

bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

^ Interesting read

Q: Different subnet range of ips are not working - windows server 2012 - virtual machine

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ip , subnet , default gateway The main server is windows server 2012 and main ip is : 198.245.73.82 , 255.255.255.248 , 198.245.73.81 Now i have originally allocated ip range from my server provider as 198.245.73.82-86 (82,83,84,85,86) On my hyper v virtual machine i am able to use all thes...

hyper-v virtual-machines windows-server-2012 virtual-network

@Iain I read one not too long ago where a guy hacked one of the wifi SD cards that will auto-sync pictures on it to a PC

He turned it into a web server, if I recall correctly

@MDMarra got a link ?

Let me see if I can dig it up

@Iain haxit.blogspot.ch/2013/08/hacking-transcend-wifi-sd-cards.html

The guy owns a 16GB Transcend wifi SD card and gets root access