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12:03 AM
@JoelESalas In the beginning, chickens were dinosaurs.
@DennisKaarsemaker Heh. I found myself a lady that likes motorcycles, vintage cars, and the smell of urburnt gasoline in the exhaust.
 
@Adrian Why should someone like the smell of unburnt gasoline? Doesn't that mean you are wasting money?
 
@Adrian Fine. fish were laying egg before they crawled out onto the land and mutated into chickens.
 
@Zoredache Yes, but when did logic enter into what women like?
@DennisKaarsemaker Yep.
 
So should I get a RaspberyPi to dick around with and do some Python development on?
I can get this book plus a 512MB Pi for $68USD
 
@Zoredache In all seriousness, nearly all of the motors that my lovely bride-to-be has spent time around has been old cars and small motors that run best a tad bit rich.
 
12:08 AM
@WesleyDavid hmm, nice price for a toy.
 
And while you are in theory wasting money, running them too lean tends to do unpleasant things to the oil coat on the cylinder walls and leads to premature engine rebuilds.
And I really hate having to re-hone cylinder walls.
 
@DennisKaarsemaker Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
 
@WesleyDavid What is it you're thinking, pinky?
 
Load balanced RaspberryPi's! TomTom's mobile phones can suck it.
 
@WesleyDavid You bakin' Pi?
 
@OliverSalzburg I'm thinking about getting a latest gen Pi, yeah. Looks cool and might be something fun to mess with.
 
@WesleyDavid Did they put put some whip cream on top or something?
Like, I got a model A and B around. Did they produce something new?
 
@OliverSalzburg Nope, this is the B model.
I never had an A.
I just thought it would be fun
 
interesting with free colo
 
Waiting on my new model B in fact
I got an old one with 256 MB RAM
 
12:14 AM
could be a nifty place to put a ping probe or similar
 
@pauska You could hide it in your sock...
I would love to see how much tuning one could do to get a site running on a pi or a pair of Pis
 
touchè
 
-2
Q: Broke my company's network, how do I get it set back up?

gandersMy dad moved his office. The new location will only have WiFi access, but he still needs his server setup and the other machines connected to it. The server (don't laugh) is an old Windows NT 4.0. Then I'm trying to connect just a standard Dell desktop to it (running Windows XP). The old locati...

lul
 
Or a three tier web app running on some pis
 
k bye
 
12:16 AM
@WesleyDavid I read something else for sock... and thought, that's an interesting 'ping' probe...
 
Seriously @JourneymanGeek, is that your dad's office? The way you described things, I first thought of what you had to do to keep your dad's business running.
 
@WesleyDavid I love to use the Pi as a drop-in whatever. Like, play some MP3 at an area at a fair, supply some DHCP service, serve a simple website
 
@OliverSalzburg It's got USB 3, yeah?
 
It's just nice to have an inexpensive single-purpose device at hand
@WesleyDavid USB2, I think
 
@WesleyDavid: pretty close at one poiny, buy we were running XP
 
12:18 AM
@WesleyDavid At least the connectors aren't blue :P
 
@WesleyDavid: USB 2.0. I haven't gotten any USB storage device working on it yet tho
@WesleyDavid: we had a trio of PIVs, a core duo laptop, and a c2d laptop
strictly home-grade gear
we're down to the laptop now, since dad semi-retired
I want to swap it for a cheap modern desktop
but dad would be like nooooooo
 
@OliverSalzburg I want it as a pxeboot server that I can bring to wherever I need to install linux for people. Getting tired of cd/usb installs and want something fully kickstarted/d-i'ed
 
@JourneymanGeek Dude, desktops are on their way out. The only places that are going to be using them in a few years are old brick & mortar businesses.
 
@JourneymanGeek Really, intersting. @OliverSalzburg Did you get storage to work on it?
 
@DennisKaarsemaker Sounds interesting, but out of my realm
@WesleyDavid Just using the SD cards
 
12:20 AM
@OliverSalzburg Hrm. So what is USB good for on the thing then
 
@Adrian: he's getting old, bigger screen, proper keyboard
 
you can power it via usb
 
We really only use them for small, single-purpose (and often single-use) solutions
 
@Adrian: I'm considering the user, not the fad
 
@WesleyDavid Mouse, keyboard, I guess?
 
12:21 AM
@JourneymanGeek Ah. I'm so used to the 17" screen on my lady's laptop that I don't really use my main PC anymore. In fact, I haven't installed it yet.
 
@WesleyDavid: get a powered USB hub, power the PI, and plug any devices into that
 
@Adrian and guess how many of those there are...
Desktops ain't gone yet
 
@Adrian: I mainly use my main PC. Laptop's 12 inches, and I use it for things on the side
 
@DennisKaarsemaker Yes, but they're usually also on a 7 year replacement cycle.
 
12:22 AM
@WesleyDavid That's....odd.
 
@WesleyDavid Why would you show that to me!!! Noooo
 
On the other hand, for text heavy stuff (like schollwork!) nothing beats a normal screen (hell, my 20 incher was cheap) and a good keyboard
 
My pi got stolen at work :(
 
@KennyRasschaert: :/
 
@KennyRasschaert What?
Who would do such a thing?
 
12:23 AM
@OliverSalzburg =WANT
 
Who even knows what that device is?
 
@WesleyDavid: Pis are good for things that you need to keep running but don't need much power. Say you want a box to monitor other boxes. Or a torrent box
 
Every Thursday stuff gets stolen, every Thursday the cleaning crew cleans the offices.
 
@KennyRasschaert: ugh.
 
No one is willing to accuse them outright...
 
12:24 AM
@WesleyDavid I'm currently pondering if I could get away purchasing it off the company account :P
 
Installing camera's is against corporate policy/ the law..
 
I have the 'official' pi case
 
the adafruit one?
 
(it sucks, don't bother unless you absolutely must have a case)
no, the one sold at the pi store
 
12:25 AM
@JourneymanGeek Heheh, pi store
The CAKE PALACE
 
the other problem with is you can't access the GPIO pins
which is the other place where the pi can be useful. Its inbetween a no training pants PC and a microprocessor
 
We usually use crazy glue and just glue them onto a wooden board or something.... :\
Then they're behind a wall where nobody sees them
A nice case for at home would be really something though
 
I was gifted a Pi. I bought a 4GB class 10 SD and got it running. I still have no idea what to actually use it for.
 
The oak case is not available in DE :\
Oh, what?!
That sucks!
@WesleyDavid If you get one, get one extra and ship it to me, please ;P
 
@OliverSalzburg Sure if you want!
@JourneymanGeek Or the next Facebook clone?
@KennyRasschaert Been there. =/
 
12:31 AM
Holy fuck I forgot what a fractal of dialog boxes SQL Server is
 
Honestly, the Pi would be quite useful in actual production use cases at my last job. They have an old Compaq as a server there that does nothing but accepts serial input from a bar code reader, parses through a text file it gets from an NFS mount, and activates one of 3 serial pins if it meets a given test.
 
@OliverSalzburg Doooo eeeeet!
 
If only you could buy something in the price range of a raspberry pi that wasn't ARM but real x86
or x86_64 even
 
@WesleyDavid Well, it doesn't work either way, they're not shipping here :(
 
All I would have needed were for it to be able to run Python
 
12:33 AM
Damn, I should have seen this earlier. My wife is in the US right now
Easter is a thing in the US as well, right?
 
@OliverSalzburg East Coast, West Coast, or Flyover Country?
 
@Adrian CA
That's west, right?
 
@OliverSalzburg Yes. West Coast. =)
 
@Adrian Ok, cool :)
 
lol!!
 
12:35 AM
She keeps sending me pictures and I keep thinking they're from Fallout New Vegas
So she must be travelling
 
@jscott I had a co-worker in Rochester who alternately referred California as the Left Coast or FruitBasket Country.
That said, I can lane-split in California, and it's wondrous.
 
pulls up a map of the US
Oh yeah, that makes sense
 
@Adrian "Left coast" -- I've heard that a lot, I don't know where it originated. But knowing Rochester, it wasn't here. When I hear "fruit basket", well, there's a couple things that come to mind.
@Adrian Godspeed man. I cannot fathom letting go enough to trust the cagers not to open their door in gridlock.
That said... Yes, I split, long, long ago, but it was at a time I was acting squidly and the reality is I'm lucky I am still alive.
 
@jscott California, where they grow fruits and nuts.
 
@MichaelHampton When I was in school, a "fruit basket" was when a guy took his..... Aw, never mind, it seems silly that I still even associate the term with something fit for Urban Dictionary.
 
12:50 AM
@jscott That applies as well to certain parts of California.
 
:)
 
@OliverSalzburg Yes - also, is she a US citizen?
 
@WesleyDavid No, she's a German citizen
I was just wondering about shops being open
 
In case I could instrument her to get one for me :P
 
12:50 AM
^ How cool is that
 
@WesleyDavid F-ing cool
 
@OliverSalzburg Yeah, everything is open 24/7 in the US. I think that would either drive me nuts in Germany, or make me really really calm.
Every US citizen I know of who has moved to germany for any reason said that the times of business and things not commonly being open past 6PM or on the weekend drove them batty.
 
@WesleyDavid Woah, awesome! Even on these "special days"?
I always wondered about specifics
 
@OliverSalzburg Yeah, mostly. I mean, smaller places will close up, but most major chain stores are open 24/7 or close for maybe just a few hours.
 
I knew the opening hours in the US were much "better"
@WesleyDavid Oh boy, that's just awesome
 
12:52 AM
In the US, I can go to Walmart and buy a tire iron at 3AM Sunday morning and then go to TacoBell drive through and get a chalupa.
Now, why I'm buying a tire iron at 3AM is none of anyone's business.
=P
 
@WesleyDavid Indeed! :D
Nice, I like that
Would prefer it to be that way over here
 
I live in the middle of nowhere. Here, Walmart closes at 11pm.
 
@OliverSalzburg At the same time, we work people to death and have less work-live borders. I hear that in germany the average work year is about 1400 hours and in the US it's close to 1800.
And yet by many if not all industrial methods of determining productivity and happiness with work, germany beats the US
So better quality output, better quantity output per worker, you work less, have more vacation, and are happier and more rested.
 
@WesleyDavid Dude, I work 365*24, I don't care how much other people work
And I would prefer it if everyone was on top of their game the same way I am
 
@OliverSalzburg What do you do?
 
12:55 AM
Even if they work a fucking register
 
@OliverSalzburg If you saw the vacation and leave policies in the US you would cry. It's brutal. No mandatory vacation minimums and places of work use vacation time as a bargaining chip as if people are chattel.
 
@Kevin IT consulting, as they say
 
@OliverSalzburg If you ever have a client that needs colocation space in the US, gimme a call. =)
 
@WesleyDavid We're already in touch ;)
 
I know. =)
 
12:56 AM
I didn't forget ;)
 
Phoenix is far away from all natural disaster zones and we get tons and tons of energy from the Palo Verde Nuclear plant (safe, new, and the largest nuke plant in the US) as well as the hoover dam on the NEvada / Arizona border.
 
Anyone know of a simple tool I can use to run a long list of commands 4 at a time concurrently?
 
Abundant power, no disasters, huge internet runs through the desert. It's all good.
@ChrisS OS it's running on?
 
Probably FreeBSD.
 
@WesleyDavid Yep, except of course for the giant roaches flying around...
 
12:57 AM
FreeBSD, but I can make most Linux software work.
 
@Kevin They're an essential supply of protein.
 
@WesleyDavid Geez, that's gross!
 
@Kevin I'm a cat, what do you want.
And speaking of roaches... dinner time! Runs
laters
 
@ChrisS Actually... make. Though it's not exactly a simple tool...
 
@WesleyDavid What's your specialty?
 
1:00 AM
Yeah, I know of complex tools; or inefficient simple ways (eg run in background and wait)
 
@ChrisS How concurrent? What about: for i in {cmd1..cmd4}; do $i & done
 
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Q: Four tasks in parallel... how do I do that?

Digital RobotI have a bunch of PNG images on a directory. I have an application called pngout that I run to compress these images. This application is called by a script I did. The problem is that this script does one at a time, something like this: FILES=(./*.png) for f in "${FILES[@]}" do echo "Pr...

 
@Kevin I'm doing something like that now. Since most of the jobs run around the same length it's mostly efficient.
 
@ewwhite Server OSs and hardware. (But really, I'm leaving for dinner in a few minutes =P )
 
@MichaelHampton Damn, should have checked there first...
 
1:03 AM
@WesleyDavid We be hiring.
 
Yeah, Unix and Linux should be your first stop for "Ask a Neckbeard" questions like that.
 
@ewwhite Public posting?
@MichaelHampton U&L has two neckbeards on it, surrounded by fifty ingrown hairs all throbbing and making noise at once. It's not as bad as AskUbuntu, but it's close. =P
WHARGARBLE!!! Seriously, I'm leaving now. Noms ahoy!
 
Enjoy your cockroach dinner!
 
1:17 AM
Can you "follow" GitHub company accounts?
 
My wife witnessed one of her users open a web browser, browse to msn.com and select the Bing search bar at the top of the screen... The user then proceeded to input "google" in the Bing search bar, which resulted in a search results page. They selected the first link which took them to google.com - From there, they entered their real search query!!
 
I only see private and public repo counts on ours
 
@ewwhite Old news... I've seen that many times. yes-www.org
 
@ewwhite Don't you have @mdmarra to GP their homepage, search providers, etc., into submission? How does one even get to Bing?!
 
@jscott My wife's users want msn.com to be their home page when they open a browser.
 
1:23 AM
@ewwhite And they still want to go to Google?!
 
@ewwhite For which work-related reasons could you want MSN as your homepage? :)
I'm certain there's all sort of "news" on the page and all...
 
@jscott They want something to read when they open the internet.
 
@ewwhite Google News.
 
I've had to go out of my way to make msn.com available.
 
Or if they just want something to read, make break.com their homepage.
 
1:37 AM
Do you guys know the feeling when you're just sitting there and you suddenly feel tired and want to go to sleep?
Because I have no idea what that feels like and it's really pissing me off right now :P
These Facebooks ads aren't helping
 
@OliverSalzburg stereopsis.com/flux might fix that.
 
@MichaelHampton I'm aware of that, doesn't help
I have a really hard time falling asleep
 
@OliverSalzburg See a doctor?
 
@ewwhite They know that Google has the same homepage customizations available... google.com/ig
 
@MichaelHampton I did
But it's nothing serious
"So you can't fall asleep. so?"
 
1:44 AM
F- me.... "iGoogle will not be available after November 1, 2013."
 
"What do you want me to do? Describe you sleeping pills? You're hardly 30!"
 
Well... throws a wrench in that idea
 
@OliverSalzburg Haha, in the US you would get your sleeping pills :)
Hmm. IPv6 works, IPv4 doesn't. VMware virtual machine. WTF?
 
How many hops to your DNS server would you consider to be too many?
 
@RyanRies 60?
 
1:51 AM
@MichaelHampton Ok... just looking for opinions, because I have a customer who is experiencing approximately 1 DNS timeout per every 30,000 queries or so, and well, since they're a customer, I'm trying to find a nice, technical, gentle way of saying STFU
 
@RyanRies Give them a quote for the wasted time.
 
2:08 AM
@RyanRies 1 out of 30,000.... And they're "concerned"? If I had time to waste on non-problems like that I'd rather try put that effort into curing cancer or something.
 
Playing with OpenBSD here... I really feel like I've gone back in time 20 years.
 
Part of the problem is they use Linux which has no local DNS client caching... a Windows machine is not typically bothered by the 1 packet in 30,000 that got away. But no, they need to hammer my DNS servers relentlessly and they never learn that, yes in fact, playboy.com does equal 66.254.102.216 no matter how many fucking times you query for it
 
@RyanRies yum install caching-nameserver
 
@MichaelHampton Yep... but they'd rather ream me for providing 99.999999% availability instead of 100%
 
@RyanRies As far as I'm concerned this waste of time is completely billable.
 
2:20 AM
You have a very good point
 
If your client is particularly dense, you can even bill the time as "Wasting my time".
It's Friday night. Time for replica rolex watches!
 
3:13 AM
@ewwhite I'm gonna open an Internet!!
@OliverSalzburg German doctors don't take insomnia seriously?
@ChrisS Aww man. iGoogle was teh pwn for me back in the mid 2ks. The memories. =(
@RyanRies How on earth did they even measure 1:30,000?
 
3:29 AM
@DennisKaarsemaker I saw my first Booking.com commercial a few minutes ago.
 
@WesleyDavid The ratio is actually more extreme than that. I measured it with gigabytes of packet logs
 
@RyanRies That's absurd.
@OliverSalzburg How bad do you want that pi case? Because international shipping to Germany, no matter that the thing is tiny and lightweight, will be... expensive.
I'm fine with it, but it's looking like international mailing it would be about $50.
 
@WesleyDavid Should be about $14. Stuff it in a priority mail flat rate envelope.
 
@MichaelHampton The flat rate international was more expensive
Aha, here, smallest envelope:
Express Mail® International Flat Rate Envelope
USPS-Produced Envelope: 12-1/2" x 9-1/2"
Maximum weight 4 pounds.
$44
 
priority, not express mail.
 
3:38 AM
Are there any security implications of placing your WAN subnet on a VLAN? For use with a single-arm router...
 
Gahhhh, I didn't see that. Okay, priority would be $23.95
 
Hm, or maybe $24. Shit, they really went up since last time I looked.
 
@WesleyDavid I agree. I'm crafting an email response right now to kindly, gently, tell them to STFU
 
Hell, I shoved a double size NVIDIA video card into one of those envelopes and sent it to Pakistan for less than that.
 
@RyanRies CC'ing your manager? =)
@OliverSalzburg Nevermind, it's $24.
 
3:40 AM
@WesleyDavid Of course!
 
Oh, it's not my imagination. They've dramatically raised their international shipping rates since a year or two ago.
Ah, what a lovely evening. I got to publicly call out Google for doing it wrong.
 
4:38 AM
@WesleyDavid oh, so you don't want a job?
k.
 
@ewwhite Sure I do, but moving to NYC when you've already got a business you'd need to sideline (albeit a sadly lacking one) and also family you've got more or less responsibilities for... not so easy. There's got to be something closer to me, or at least with more remote possibilities.
 
4:57 AM
@Kevin I do that at home and work. Make sure the untrusted network is always in a VLAN to prevent hopping.
 
5:14 AM
So, I went to dinner, get enchiladas, came home and fell right asleep until now
What is wrong with me
 
@MDMarra You're getting old. You'll probably die.
 
Yeah I was thinking that
well, it's 1:23am. Guess I'd better get up for the day
 
5:34 AM
I've had a decent little run of accepted answers in the last month. Sad to say, they're all on some of the dumbest most off-topic questions on the site.
I guess I'm a dumb, off-topic person.
Why all the close votes?
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Q: apache user can't stat a path from CGI, but can from shell

Peter WooHere is a script to demonstrate: #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <unistd.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf("Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"); printf("UID, EUID = %d,...

That's a good question.
 
I didn't vote to close that one.
Some idiot apparently thought it should be migrated to SO. WTF?
 
Gotta love TomTom's style!
@HopelessN00b OWNED.
@HopelessN00b Always amazing to see how people post without a brain. See, I have been going this way (outlook connector, handwritten) twice in my life. So, it is doable - it is how many programs do it (CRM loading email into their databases. Obviously someone who never will be professional (A hopeless noob) will not know how to do that. There are tons of connectors out there. The sync part between two is not that hard. — TomTom 45 mins ago
 
@WesleyDavid Or lack thereof. What a dumbass.
 
I suppose the handwritten outlook connector runs on his phone, too.
 
@MichaelHampton Doubt it. The phone's what runs his Exchange cluster. Outlook's on his watch.
 
5:44 AM
@HopelessN00b That being said, I still don't get why his answer was downvoted to oblivion. The guy wants to pull email from the Outlook cloud and populate his server with it, magically. How does he expect to not need to write his own interfacing program to bridge that gap?
I like the part where he asks "what protocol"
"Put your computer back in the box you got from Best Buy. Hand it back to them. Go think about what you've done."
 
@WesleyDavid Because it's not useful as an answer?
 
First, you stop using Fedora 8. That's FIVE YEARS OLD. Second, you do what it told you to do and put the correct path in the config file. — Michael Hampton 9 secs ago
 
@HopelessN00b Hmmm... he said, in broken english, "you'll need to write an interface." How is that not useful? Should he give code samples?
"When data type loves a variable very much..."
 
> Which one of those Outlook connectors runs on your iPhone?
 
Oh and how did this survive with no close votes until me just now: serverfault.com/questions/494622/…
 
5:49 AM
@WesleyDavid Not useful as answer. As a comment, OTOH...
 
Really? We're reduced to helping out someone's Tumblr blog?
 
@WesleyDavid No idea. I never saw that question before.
 
@HopelessN00b I dungeddit. "How do I get mail from the cloud?" "You write a connector." Short of giving the guy a perl script to do it for him, it answers the question. Voretaq did little more than expand on a few other possibilities and give a "four answers in one" reply.
@MichaelHampton I am mortally offended by it.
 
@WesleyDavid "code something up yourself" would also be an answer to pretty much every question we get asked, by the same token. So, it's not really useful by itself.
 
@HopelessN00b MOAR DEVOPS!
 
5:53 AM
We downvote wrong answers. We delete not-an-answers.
This one falls somewhere in between, so I downvoted AND voted to delete.
 
@MichaelHampton I downvote for every possible reason. I'm like a horsedoctor of downvotes. Broken leg? downvote! Bad grammar? downvote! Cranky? downvote! Misused there/their/they're? downvote!!
 
How about no where near SF quality standards? That's why I downvoted.
 
6:06 AM
Look @voretaq7! Your favorite image library! serverfault.com/q/494646/9770
THE WHAT WITH THE WHO?! serverfault.com/questions/494694/…
He just wants a vanity name for his name servers to not look like they're Amazon
CNAME much?
Wait, can you CNAME NS records?
No reason you can't that I'm aware of
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Q: In DNS can an IN NS point to a CNAME?

Mark WagnerIs it allowed to have an NS record be a CNAME? E.g.: subdomain.example.com. IN NS ns1.example.com. ns1.example.com. CNAME foo.example.com. foo.example.com. IN A 10.1.1.1 This doesn't seem to work in bind though this (of course) does: subdomain.example.com. ...

^ I fail.
 
 
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8:05 AM
@MichaelHampton where ?
 
8:25 AM
@WesleyDavid did you like it?
 
 
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9:38 AM
@Iain lots of spam from this guy. Just flagged a bunch
 
@MDMarra Just cleaned it up
 
 
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Dan
11:27 AM
@Tanner Not really. I've used Powershell to do a little with XenServer and XenDesktop makes good use of it, but other than that it's not really come up
 
 
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2:48 PM
Good morning gentlemen
 
3:18 PM
I get to play with FreeSWITCH this weekend!
 
#ifihadglass It would be a downgrade. -Geordi La Forge
@JoelESalas --^
 
I lol'd, hahahah what a boss
 
4:13 PM
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A: Broke my company's network, how do I get it set back up?

cpattersonv1As this is a LOCAL NETWORK, there is nothing wrong with NT in this istance. To get the configuration back up and running similarly to what you had before, you can buy a cheap broadband router (wired). That will give you DHCP again. If that's the way it was configured before then it will be a lot ...

... "But I ran NT for 10 years!"
 
@MichaelHampton I've heard FreeSWITCH is supposed to be better than Asterisk, because it's both simpler and threaded...
 
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Q: Remove ESXi but keep a datastore?

I'll-Be-BackI have ESXi 5.1 installed on SATA disk and now I want to to install ESXi on a USB. How to delete ESXi and ESXi partitions from SATA disk but keep a datastore? I have ESXi and datastore on a same disk.

 
@MichaelHampton Please let me know how it works out, because I've been looking for a VoIP solution for my consulting firm.
 
@Kevin So far it looks like a very nicely designed system. I'm planning to stick FusionPBX on top of it.
@Kevin FreeSWITCH was written by one of the Asterisk core developers, who woke up one day and said "This code is shit!" and none of the other developers wanted to do anything about it.
 
@MichaelHampton 10/10 would enjoy again
@MichaelHampton I hope he does that every day until he or asterisk is dead.
 
4:23 PM
Since I've actually run into pretty much all of the problems he describes with Asterisk, it's past time to move on.
 
i use asterisk alot
just write your own code
using AMI
 
Any mods in here?
 
@I'll-Be-Back Even if you use really good bread, it's still a shit sandwich.
@Griffin Sometimes, did we miss a spam or something?
 
No. I wanted to suggest that they copy this serverfault.com/questions/334663/…
To also be included in the Unix/Linux
 
@Griffin We can no longer migrate questions over 60 days old.
 
4:25 PM
And I don't think copying is at all possible, only moving
 
Yea. I was hoping there was like a copy kind of thing
That question is very useful and people will search it in Unix/Linux not thinking at all about server vault.
 
@Griffin You'll find it if you use a search engine
 
Yes but not if your typing it in to ask a question. Prevent duplicates.
At least I don't think it search cross forums
 
U&L already has a related question. Do they need this? If so, you could ask it yourself.
 
Good thing stack sites aren't forums :-)
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4:30 PM
Is there any obvious way to see all snapshots in a vCenter environment
 
@Griffin The other issue is that, on different sites, the same question may get different answers, since the sites are focused differently. So sometimes it's fine to have the substantially similar questions on more than one site.
 
eg. SuperUser might say "Use a 4GB boot so you can use it for (some hackish thing they're willing to do but we're not)"
 
Ask Ubuntu might spend 10,000 words explaining what the /boot partition is and how it came to be.
 
And on Ask Ubuntu I'd advise a bigger /boot (500MB) as people suck at cleaning up old kernels
just the other day I had to help a guy with a 100mb /boot with some dodgy hacks to get packages installed again.
 
Well, Ubuntu sucks at cleaning up old kernels.
 
4:35 PM
that too
though I think they now have a reminder that pops up 'hay, you have some old kernels. Shall we remove them?'
 
Just use one big /
 
I only use a /boot if / is on lvm
which on my desktop is never :)
 
So what's ubantos going to do when they run out of letters
 
@JoelESalas Stop, I hope.
 
Hahahaha
 
4:56 PM
mornin' gents.
 
The one thing Ubuntu does right is release tempo. Two years is just about right. RHEL waits much too long between releases.
 
@MichaelHampton It's a good release cycle, I'll admit. You can set your watch to it, be 100% ready when it drops
 
@JoelESalas they'll never run out of letters. There are over 13000 codepoints that are letters in the unicode set.
of course quite a few tools will need fixing to deal with those :)
 
5:17 PM
@WesleyDavid Ouch, I don't want it that bad. ;D
@WesleyDavid At least the one I was visiting didn't. Maybe he thought I just want to get some drugs.
 
5:38 PM
@WesleyDavid Oh, it's only $24? Would there be space/weight left for more goodies? :D
 
Dan
Just out of curiosity, was the deleted answer removed voluntarily
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Q: Broke my company's network, how do I get it set back up?

gandersMy dad moved his office. The new location will only have WiFi access, but he still needs his server setup and the other machines connected to it. The server (don't laugh) is an old Windows NT 4.0. Then I'm trying to connect just a standard Dell desktop to it (running Windows XP). The old locati...

 
@Dan Deleted by owner
 
Dan
@Iain Good - he was an idiot
Never thought I'd see someone arguing that NT 4.0 was perfectly okay....in 2013.
 
@OliverSalzburg Maybe, the envelope is flat rated up to four pounds
 
@WesleyDavid I was just looking at Field Notes notebooks and they're not sold in Germany :(
And the Fisher Space Pen seems to go well with those ;D
 
5:51 PM
@OliverSalzburg Wow those look nice.
 
@WesleyDavid I just saw those on Tested and thought the same ;D
 
@Dan Windows 3.11 for life!
 
There would be a lucrative business to become an importer of things like that to foreign countries. Call them up and see if you can become a distribution partner, @OliverSalzburg
 
@WesleyDavid Yeah, I've had some pretty good experiences with selling stuff I "imported" from the US
We recently purchased 2 Surface Pro for a client who then didn't want them any more. They sold very well on Ebay
Shipping was crazy expensive because we had them mailed to us via express air mail.
Otherwise we would have made some nice profit
Sold for ~$1320 actually. And they cost $900+tax
Should have gotten like 20 :P
 
Dan
@DennisKaarsemaker Pfft, if it ain't DOS, it's dross.
 
5:58 PM
@Dan and if it aint HP-UX it HP-SUX!
 
@DennisKaarsemaker the company should have been called Packard Hewlitt
 
@Iain why that?
oh nvm...
 
PH-UX
 

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