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6:00 PM
Umm... boner.
I CANNOT FUNNY TODAY I HAS TEH SERIOUS.
=(
But really I'm just stupid.
And have a headache.
 
@WesleyDavid You're a cat(head) again - nobody cares what you do :-)
 
Ow.
 
@Cole Like I said before, you gotta Move West Young Man!
 
Hi everybody
 
@WesleyDavid your a cat(head). isn't a *head*ache the only kind of ache you can have?
Fuck you too markdown.
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6:01 PM
@voretaq7 beats John Gruber with cPanel
@markhenderson Rub my shoulders!
Okay, it's Advil time.
 
@WesleyDavid You're a cat(head) -- you don't HAVE shoulders!
 
6:15 PM
Other guy got the job
 
@voretaq7 Fine, then rub my face Michael! Rub it!!
 
They're converting a contractor to perm though now, so the manager wants me for that position
Reason why I didn't get this one is because I couldn't start on Monday
They said it could take 1 week or 5 weeks
 
@Cole OHAI WE HAZ POSITION YOU START MONDY YES?
 
I'm going to assume this dude was out of work
Unless he was just like PEACE to his current job.
As much as I hate my job, I would never do that
 
Any job that has an opening that urgently needs to be filled within two weeks is immediately round-filed.
 
6:17 PM
So we'll see what happens
 
@WesleyDavid you're a cat(head). Rub your own face as cats are wont to do.
@Cole I would never hire someone who did that
 
@voretaq7 the recruiter was like "You know, we really want you to work for us because even though you don't like your job - you still want to give 2 weeks notice because it's the right thing to do."
When in reality I just want to shit on everyone's desk and light it on fire.
 
@voretaq7 I HAVE NO LEVERS WITH WHICH TO PROMOTE FRICTION ON MY HURTY BITS!!
 
@Cole Don't do anything likely to leave DNA evidence.
 
@freiheit good point.
 
6:26 PM
Dammit I got up, made tea, and forgot the Advil.
 
@WesleyDavid doh.
 
@WesleyDavid do you have a jaw? . . . USE IT.
 
Think I'm going to have some tea this afternoon, trying to kick the coffee habit. My stomach will thank me
 
@WesleyDavid Been touring Egypt have we? See Nile?
 
@voretaq7 No I'm just an idiot.
 
6:27 PM
@WesleyDavid I was giving you an out there, but if you want to just come out and own it...
 
How is it only 2:30?
 
@Cole 2:30 friday == beer:30
 
@Cole Good Friday. Zombie Jesus is slowing down the clock for you.
 
Sweet!
 
I fucking need a beer
 
6:30 PM
 
Recruiter: So what are you doing this weekend? Me: Now? Drinking heavily.
@mossy what's dat
 
@mossy you passed the review audit!
 
I know!
i so smart
 
WHAT IS THIS REVIEW AUDIT
 
@Cole Don't do that. Find out who the other guy is and lock him in your basement for a week.
 
6:31 PM
lulz
 
@Cole It's to make sure that you're not flagging stuff with out reading.
or accepting answers.
 
ahhh
 
It sucks though, and has a lot of highly borderline shit in it. So... well, you've got that to look forward to.
 
Arg
I think the worst part is the negativity here.
 
Oh great. TomTom is back.
 
6:33 PM
63
Q: What are review tests (audits) and how do they work?

AshRjI recently received this rather amusing message while reviewing a user's first post: Congratulations! This was only a test, designed to make sure you were paying attention. This post has already been removed, but thanks for taking time to leave feedback for the author. What is t...

 
@DennisKaarsemaker HOORAY BEER CELL PHONE WEB SERVERS!
 
0
A: Is it possible to sync an outlook.com account with an IMAP server?

TomTomYes, it is possible. Write a connector that connects to outlook.com on one side, and the IMAP server on the other side.

As useless as it gets.
 
@DennisKaarsemaker perfectly valid answer
 
@Cole Yeah, I heard that there are some people there who want to shit on their coworkers' desks.
The ol' Reddit roo-a-switch!! Tip your waiters.
 
Survived my presentation!!
 
6:36 PM
@voretaq7 I disagree. For "Can I do X" the answer "Sure, write something that does X" amounts to nothing.
 
<-- such a hack!
 
No info, nothing answered, nothing learned. Just time wasted.
 
@DennisKaarsemaker Oh I didn't say it's a GOOD answer (it's crap, go ahead and downvote/comment), It is however an answer
 
I am not going to comment on TomTom answers.
 
@DennisKaarsemaker For that matter "Upgrade to a supported OS" is always an answer to "My RedHat 5 (not RHEL) server is having problems" -- sometimes it's not viable for the asker though.
 
6:38 PM
Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to not post such an utterly useless collection of words as an answer. — HopelessN00b 50 secs ago
 
@ewwhite What did you present?
 
@JoelESalas vCenter Chargeback.
 
@ewwhite So it works! awesome
I wonder if there's a FOSS alternative...
 
Psssh, no.
anyone want a job?
 
@ewwhite how much will you pay me to do nothing?
 
6:46 PM
@ewwhite I do.
 
@ewwhite I dunno... I really don't like the one I have, so I'm starting to think the whole "job" thing might be overrated.
 
I need Windows skills + database skills.
 
I only have Windows, whomp whomp
I know high level MSSQL/Oracle/MySQL stuff
 
we need some good Windows DBAish skillz
 
Poop
 
6:49 PM
@ewwhite How DBAish/ do tell more ...
 
@HopelessN00b someone who knows SQL server well.
we have a good oracle guy
 
@Cole All you need to know to be a DBA is select * and use SSDs if things aren't fast enough.
 
@WesleyDavid oh that's easy
 
Trust me. I'm a cat.
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we have a good mysql guy, even though @chriss doesn't think so!
 
6:50 PM
@ewwhite Right, I guess I mean to ask... how well/any area of MSSQL Server you're in particular?
 
I didn't say he wasn't good; he just has an "interesting" personality.... that nobody likes
 
@HopelessN00b I know nothing.
 
Man, I wish I could just hired based on my personality
I used to just be able to get hired because I was pretty.
 
@ChrisS What does he do?
 
This being a man thing is hard.
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6:51 PM
@Cole Only in the mornings.
 
@WesleyDavid true.dat
 
@Cole Toughen up powder puff!
 
@WesleyDavid bwahaha
 
I have to deal with that now, it's weird
 
and you said tou couldn't do the funnies :)
 
6:53 PM
@HopelessN00b could you be a DBA?
 
@ewwhite Potentially. I know MSSQL really well, but I get really really bored really fast in a specialized admin focus... so I really prefer a generalist role.
 
Something smells like wet cardboard in here.
 
@HopelessN00b which this is... but we want a generalist who can bring some deep skills in a couple of areas.
 
@Cole check your pants.
 
@DennisKaarsemaker I checked my armpits too, not me
 
6:56 PM
@ewwhite Hrm, well I need to start by saying that I had him partially confused with someone else. So I take back half of what I said. But he still 1. can't figure out markdown apparently... 2. Deletes his own posts on a fairly consistent basis, even though they might have helpful information, quite a few even marked correct.
 
@ChrisS that's a little strange.
I do like the mix of people I work with.
 
I'm guessing between 10 and 15% of his posts are self deleted.
 
@ewwhite Hmmm. Might be worth considering, then. Especially the way $currentjob is going lately...
 
I need to start doing that... I'll start with that Halp me with cabling question.
 
Some he posted diagnostic stuffs (example) then deleted all the troubleshooting and posted just the final fix.
@ewwhite Isn't "generalist" the opposite of "deep skills"?
 
6:59 PM
@ChrisS not really
I'm a generalist, but I have deep skills in unix administration and (postgres) database management
 
gonna hit 3k rep on 3 sites in the same day today
 
@DennisKaarsemaker dayum
 
@ChrisS I'm pretty general, but I know several things really well... of course they're all useless (HP, ZFS, low-latency tuning, how to flush roaches out of a server chassis without downtime...)
 
need 40 more on AU and 13 on SF
just hit 3003 on unix.se
 
@ChrisS slightly strange
@HopelessN00b Job ad for you.
@mdmarra didn't take the bait.
 
7:01 PM
@DennisKaarsemaker What's AU?
 
Ask Ubuntu
 
OH. Got it
 
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Q: Moving WP blog to Tumblr but still use old WP server's images?

GarrettI've successfully moved my old WP blog that I hosted on my server to a Tumblr blog by using the CNAME to point to it. However, all of the Tumblr blog's photos are still hosted on my old WP blog, so they are not showing up anymore. How can I maintain the redirect to Tumblr except for photos (png...

 
@DennisKaarsemaker I don't think i've ever used an Ubuntu system.
 
@ewwhite you're missing out :)
 
7:04 PM
@DennisKaarsemaker Well, we'll just have to make sure that happens, because hitting 3k at 3 sites on the same day is pretty damn cool.
 
@DennisKaarsemaker I have... I just blocked it out of my mind.
 
@Adrian go upvote some of my sf answers then :)
 
@ewwhite Thanks. Looks pretty tempting, actually. Something to mull over, over the weekend.
 
oh, and there goes SF. just AU now
 
I know some of us blog, but does any one here maintain just a Wiki or GitHub account for scripts / notes / etc? I use DokuWiki on a web host but want to drop it for something free.
 
7:05 PM
@DennisKaarsemaker you're welcome
 
@HopelessN00b But of course, there's lots of fixin' needed, too
but more than enough work to go around
 
@AaronCopley I have a 'hacks' repo on github.
 
Public? Link? Curious if I can make GitHub work for me.
 
@AaronCopley I set up my own Redmine server
 
god I hate this cowboy shit we do here...
"need a server in production tomorrow morning, you have 3 hours, go!"
 
7:08 PM
@DennisKaarsemaker And now on AU
 
wouldnt be too bad, if it was somthing we had used before...
 
@JoelESalas Know of a free VPS I could use for doing that? If so, I'll just move my DokuWiki instance instead of rewriting every thing. :)
 
@MattBear That's not TOO bad, what's worse is "we need code in production right now!"
 
@JoelESalas "Testing? Why?! We need it now!"
 
@JoelESalas well... now I'm going back through and fixing things, on a production server...
 
7:09 PM
ok, so that's no only in one day, but within 10 minutes
could've hit it on SF a lot sooner, but I wasted 500 rep on a bounty and still got no answer to my only question so far :(
 
So what would you call a company that took 8 months to realize that their financials were trending down, to compensate cut staff that were working on a time & materials basis, and then 2 weeks later signed a contract to rent 20,000ft^2 of high end real estate when the team that was supposed to go there had just been cut.
 
@Adrian Fuck those guys, that's what
 
I've decided that I'm going to spend all of the money I made today at the Zoo tomorrow.
 
@AaronCopley I'll host it for you
 
@JoelESalas Yeah, and apparently they do have a need to occasionally hire temps but instead promise people longer contracts and then suddenly cut them 4 weeks later once they realize that there was only 4 weeks of work and it's now done...
 
7:13 PM
@Adrian It's 100% within their right to do that, and there's plenty of talent that will roll the dice
 
MONKEYS AND LEMONADE
 
@mossy You're having dinner with my family?
 
and it's entirely within OUR right to say FUCK THESE PEOPLE, NEVER WORK WITH THEM
 
@Adrian W.. huh?
 
@JoelESalas That's an awesome offer, man. Thank you! I'm going to check out GitHub, first. It's a PITA to rewrite some stuff, but it has it's other benefits.
 
@JoelESalas Yeah, they specifically woo'd this guy out from a full-time position that he'd been working for years too.
 
Saturday, March 30 - Twilight Tour
nothing better than flash light fishin for lions.
 
@AaronCopley github.com/seveas/hacks
 
@JoelESalas I don't think they're douchebags intentionally, I just think that some really smart engineers haven't figured out that they're awful executives.
 
@Adrian Yeah but at least their website is awesome!
And they have a Wall of Cool, so there's that.
 
7:16 PM
@WesleyDavid Yeah. Their business model is apparently hire the most awesome people you can get even if you don't know what you're going to do with them, and if you can't figure something out within 6 months or so, just fire them.
 
at my fathers house. Only 5 toolbars to remove this time, plus 3 different downloaders.
 
Sorry, I'm just a tad bit bitter.
 
Have any of you guys ever heard of software that has a world map or globe, either 2D or 3D... and it lets me put pins in the map, and then draw lines between them in different colors?
 
Microsoft Security Essentials suddenly didn't live up to my expectations..
 
@pauska Check for sock accounts!
@pauska Yeah, it has let me down twice too. Back to Kaspersky I guess.
 
7:17 PM
@WesleyDavid but its free.. and doesn't nag. Damnit :(
 
@RyanRies g...google?
 
I guess they're allowed to install, as he probably clicked "yes" in some installer
can't remove admin rights from him either, he's a flight sim geek and buys these expansions all the time
 
@pauska Exactly - a friend clicked to install some crazy browser extension and boom, botnet fodder.
 
@RyanRies google earth. And it has a flightsim too :)
 
@AaronCopley Just email me joelesalas@gmail.com
 
7:19 PM
I have some extremely complicated infrastructure to diagram
And I want a globe to do it on
 
@RyanRies Visio!
 
@DennisKaarsemaker Just followed you. I'll check it out!
 
@RyanRies I know that splunk and solarwinds both have network maps that you can feed google maps to
 
@JoelESalas Thanks! Saved. You can edit that addy out if you want.
 
@AaronCopley Just be careful with what address you give @JoelESalas - He has a tendency to drunk-email people with pictures of his "chupacabra"
 
7:21 PM
Hah
 
@WesleyDavid El Chupanibre?
 
@WesleyDavid he calls it furry lover these days
@WesleyDavid I'm disappointed you didn't recognize the cat quote
 
Why the fack is our filesever using 5.3GB out of 6 for memory?
 
@Cole Windows?
 
@WesleyDavid yeah
 
7:24 PM
@Cole Somebody loopback mount a DVD ISO?
 
@Cole No, I mean "Windows is why your fileserver is taking 5.3GB out of 6 for memory"
=P
 
I just changed a NTFS permission through Share and Storage Manager and it took literally 5 minutes to commit the change
 
@Cole Cause it takes a lot of RAM to exfiltrate all your stuffs to Romania.
 
Ah, WIndows might not be as braindead about that as NFS and Linux2.6
 
@Adrian Yes and no. Not until Server 2012 could you natively mount an ISO as a local filesystem anyway.
 
7:25 PM
jeebus
 
@Cole why shouldn't it be using all the memory? Do you want to have your memory sitting around idle doing nothing useful?
 
just got into the office, theres like 4 people here, including me
 
@WesleyDavid Actually, I was still thinking Linux Samba client at that point. Me and artificial constraints.....
 
@Zoredache no, but just curious as to why
 
Windows: It won't let you do stupid things because it won't let you do anything!!!
 
7:26 PM
Also people are complaining it's slow, but I think that's the shitty NetApp filer
 
Okay, I'm unusually surly and bitter today. Anyone have any requests for what or who I should insult next?
 
@WesleyDavid Which is not the same thing as PVC wire ties. Those are synthetic restraints.
 
@WesleyDavid your mom.
 
@Cole My existence is enough of an insult to my mother.
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@WesleyDavid and I just dribbled tea on myself, thanks.
 
7:27 PM
@WesleyDavid Me, me, pick me!
 
I really need to learn more about performance troubleshooting
I think I need to get a Windows Internals book
 
@Cole Yes. Though I'm not sure a Windows Internals book is the first book to buy on that.
 
@Cole start with taskman, then open Process Explorer. Then keep going from there.
 
@DennisKaarsemaker You're from Der Netherlands and your name is Dennis. YOU FAIL AT BEING DUTCH!! Now shut up, give me that bong and go play with Mr. Shatner.
 
@Zoredache that's where I'm looking now
Trying to figure out why the fuck this thing is running slow as fuck
 
7:29 PM
@WesleyDavid I was named after a Canadian. And I'd rather play with the negotiotor's daughter.
And I have no bong
 
@DennisKaarsemaker I'm French Canadian
I'm insulted by my own last name.
 
@Cole so you fail at being french and at being canadian. Go Cole!
 
@Cole Shuttup your last name is so Irish, after a night of drinking carbombs you puke leprechauns.
 
@WesleyDavid Lavallee is very French Canadian lol
 
Okay, insult spree is in full effect... next candidate!
 
7:30 PM
But I am 75% Irish
 
@WesleyDavid I think @pauska deserves some
 
@Cole I know but truth gets in the way of making fun of people sometimes. =)
 
Everyone butchers my last name -_-
 
@pauska You are Norwegian.
There, next!
 
Sassy cat today.
 
7:30 PM
@WesleyDavid I am not!
I am dutch with a hint of flemish.
 
@DennisKaarsemaker I fail at Comms Room. =(
 
At least the markdown monster hasn't eaten you yet
 
Oh yeah?
***OM NOM NOM!!***
 
I think at some point, everyone in here has said "fucking markdown!"
 
You are in a maze of twisty passages all alike. There is a user to your left and a fax machine behind you. Where do you want to go today?
 
7:32 PM
@Cole I'm thinking @ShaneMadden is chill enough to have contained his blood rage.
 
I blame all the testosterone I inject weekly
 
@Cole So you're saying @ShaneMadden doesn't have any testosterone?
You're saying he's not enough of a man?
 
@WesleyDavid not the sudden surge that I get
At this point of the week, I'm whiny because I feel like crap because my levels are low.
 
@Cole You see that rock in @ShaneMadden's profile picture? Shane has so much testosterone, that's not a picture of a rock -- THAT'S SHANE!
 
How often do you inject?
 
7:34 PM
@DennisKaarsemaker weekly
Erry Monday
 
@DennisKaarsemaker As often as Mr. White can turn out a new batch for him.
 
80mg
 
I spy an @RyanRies
 
@Cole I don't believe I have. I enjoy markdown.
 
@MDMarra Oh herrow, I'd add you to the pile of bodies that I'm making fun of, but your beard would eat me. =(
@Zoredache BURN THE INFIDEL!!!
 
7:35 PM
@WesleyDavid Ya, he gets hungry
Sorry cat
 
@MDMarra Your beard is so manly, when you shave, there's another Mark Marra underneath it.
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Aaaand that gets a star
Yeah when I shave I'm only shaving my beard's beard.
 
@MDMarra Your beard trimmings cure cancer, which is too bad since your beard can't be trimmed!
 
Sometimes, when I'm scratching my face, a beard hair falls out. I plant it and leave it in sunlight, and a few weeks later there's another me running around.
 
@WesleyDavid I though that only happened to Chuck Norris
 
7:39 PM
@ewwhite Psh
 
So @MDMarra is secretly Chuck Norris?
 
@DennisKaarsemaker Suddenly everything makes sense!
 
No, he's a religious wingnut
I'm just really strong and have a beard and am awesome.
 
@MDMarra So you're Chuck Norris, if Chuck Norris grew up in Norway?
 
I'm Chuck Norris if Chuck Norris wasn't from the South.
 
7:43 PM
@MDMarra can you do a beard transfer?
 
@Kevin Almost said Texas, but I looked at your profile first :D
@Cole Declined
 
:(
 
@MDMarra I'm from Austin. Doesn't count.
 
Yeah, fair enough
 
@Kevin Hmm... ever seen Noah Kagan walking around?
I know some people at SolarWinds too, if you want me to put a word in for you. =)
 
7:47 PM
My therapist is bringing me beer tonight.
How's that for support?
 
@WesleyDavid I actually bought a bunch of servers from a guy at SolarWinds... You're not Paul Hill are you?
 
@pauska Our storage guy took a look at the suggestions.
 
Ya know, I really don't think we should have a fileshare that is open to everyone with the guest account mixed with all the actual important locked down shit
 
Got a question about stack sites
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Q: Can OpenVPN invoke DHCP Client?

EncyI have got working VPN connection through openvpn, but I would like to use also my DHCP server and not openvpn's push feature. Currently everything works fine, but I have to manually start dhcp client, eg. dhclient tap0 and I get IP and other important stuff from my DHCP, is there any directive w...

that question is at the top of the 'active' tab
with 'modified 9 minutes ago'
but it's ancient and I don't see any actual recent change
what's up with that?
 
Huh, Nov 2011
It's also pretty bad that the two steps it took me to install Tomcat on Windows overwhelmed one of the other sysadmins
 
7:56 PM
@DennisKaarsemaker Community bumped it because it has 'no answers'
No Answers in SE means no answers or no upvoted answers
 
with 'no upvoted answers' also counting?
right
 
@DennisKaarsemaker yeah :)
 
and when does it upvote? I find it odd to upvote such ancient questions
though it had a comment on the only answer about a month ago
 
^ bumps old shit silently
 
@MDMarra s/silent/quiet/
 
7:57 PM
INBOX SUCCESSFULLY ZEROED
 
ok, so I'll just ignore it on the frontpage if I'm not in the mood for old crap. Gotcha :)
while true; do cat 419.txt | mail -s "New business opportunity for you" @David; done
 
@Kevin No I'm @WesleyDavid
 
@DennisKaarsemaker or write an answer and get upvoted - there are badges for it
 
@WesleyDavid You never know :)
 

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