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12:01 AM
@MichaelHampton sure, one should take a look at it, but red hat has really proven to be quite the slow ass company when it comes to fixing long time bugs/issues
It's like they don't care, unless it's their own code
 
@pauska It's enterprise, you can't just go and fix bugs! People depend on those bugs!
And besides, if it's not their code, report it upstream and then yell at your Red Hat rep to have the fix backported.
 
@MarkHenderson do you know if they have fixed the issues/lack of features that you struggled with back then? System Center and hyperv is pretty much revamped
@MichaelHampton this smells devops..
 
@pauska Eh, that's about 95% ops
 
"Just run this script and we'll auto-install it all for you"
 
@pauska That is the "quick start" page... If you want to do things the hard way, you still can.
 
12:08 AM
@pauska It wasn't so much the lack of features, it was that SCVMM itself that gave me the shits. It would reject my logons consistantly unless I logged on from the actual SCVMM machine, its views were always out of date and took too long to update, it was a massive memory hog, scripting it was more trouble than it was worth
Its features were fine, and I had compatible storage the private cloud features seemed pretty damn cool
The big push though, was we wanted to do off-site DR to our hyper-v site from ESXi, so we converted the local site to ESXi so we could re-use our existing infrastructure
Which took forever, because VMWare Converter couldn't connect to ESXi 5.1, you had to go back to an old version, but the older versions couldn't connect to the new versions of Hyper-V so we were half stuck for 6 months until they released a new version of Converter
 
@MarkHenderson If you had stuck with hyper-v you could have used replicas for DR :)
 
@MDMarra From ESXi to Hyper-V?
 
I just went all-in (shortstacked, AGAIN) with 10,10
 
@pauska I'm going to a 2 day private cloud training hosted at an MS office near me
 
12:13 AM
got beaten by four of a kind, AAAA
 
@MarkHenderson haha no, from hyper-v to hyper-v
 
seems like I should give up poker for tonight
 
@MDMarra Yeah, no way were we converting our production sites to Hyper-V
 
@pauska your fault for not drawing into a royal
 
Hyper-V is boss
 
12:21 AM
about to get clobbered by /r/sysadmin I think for telling a guy that he probably deserves to be fired
 
@RyanRies Hyper-V is like a boss
 
@MDMarra Microsoft - Turning vulnerabilities into features since 1978
 
That's an awesome feature, don't hate!
No one wants to run ADFS just for a single set of passwords to work locally and O365
 
@MDMarra No no, I'm only kidding... it is actually quite cool... I was just having a knee-jerk reaction when I thought of password hashes, and it made me think of pass-the-hash type attacks.
 
12:27 AM
Cloud. CLOUD. hate meter explodes
 
@Cole Halo?
 
@pauska Install App Controller. Pretend it's local.
 
12:42 AM
rhel-6-server-rpms/fileli 30% [====-          ] 7.5 kB/s | 3.6 MB     19:20 ETA
WHY.....?
 
@MDMarra Do you have a pretty steady home lab? I've been wanting to try AD FS with someone across the internet.... no homo
 
@MichaelHampton Fuck, for once that's a slower connection than we have
 
@pauska My butt! My butt!
 
@RyanRies I have no home lab :(
 
argh
 
12:44 AM
@MDMarra I read that as "I have no homo lab" and choked.
THANKS @RYANRIES!
 
My apartment barely supports my laptop, nevermind a 1/4 height rack of old ProLiants!
 
@WesleyDavid He has a huge homo lab; it's full of buttplugs and anal beads that he get his wife to insert into him
 
When I finally say fuck it and buy a house, I'll have a lab.
 
licks @MarkHenderson
 
rhel-6-server-rpms/fileli 53% [=======-       ] 472 kB/s | 6.4 MB     00:12 ETA
 
12:46 AM
@MDMarra Yeah I would have a nice one if I didn't have to pay for electricity
@WesleyDavid presents
 
@MarkHenderson Aha, because it was going through the VPN. Now I have to fix the VPN...
 
@MichaelHampton Man since we switched to Cisco AnyConnect, no more trouble with split tunnels/default gateways
"Here's your VPN networks, everything else goes through your normal gateway"
 
The only thing I really need any space for in my lab is shit I cannot emulate like network gear and appliances that I need to test the specifics of
 
@MarkHenderson Yeah, but the VPN should not have been that slow...
 
12:47 AM
@MDMarra I've already started consolidating my lab stuff into my main PC... Windows 8 client Hyper-V... commodity PC hardware is so cheap these days I can have multiple RAID arrays and 32GB of RAM on my PC to run VMs while I play GTA V at the same time and it's no thang
 
I just have a MacBook Pro
I'm low tech
Well, and this Lenovo from work
 
Note to self - Do not work on Powershell workflows after you've started to drink
 
@RyanRies You mean IV right>?
 
@Jacob Initialization vector?
 
@Jacob: maybe his computer is so fast it can run games from the future
 
12:50 AM
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Q: Should VMware HA Admission Control be enabled for small (2/3-host) clusters?

ewwhiteTake the following common scenario... A basic vSphere cluster running two or three hosts, shared storage and a token set of virtual machines under Essentials Plus or greater licensing. Should HA Admission Control be enabled on such a small setup? Does it make sense? If yes, what are the approp...

 
@RyanRies GTA V isn't out, and if you have it I want to know
 
@JourneymanGeek @Jacob Yeah the funny thing is, Rockstar probably won't even release GTAV for PC, because Rockstar, even though they'd be nowhere without the PC, now forsakes the PC for consoles... which makes them bitches.
 
@RyanRies: which would almost make me sad, if I wasn't a saint's row fan ;p
 
iOS games are my only concern, nowadays
 
@JourneymanGeek I enjoyed Saint's Row, but it's no GTA.
 
12:52 AM
@RyanRies: amusingly as a franchise it started off as a console exclusive and went the other way
 
@RyanRies This saddens me and makes me angry
@RyanRies What? No huge purple dildo for you then
 
@MarkHenderson Hey hey, I did say that I like Saint's Row... it was fun. I'm just saying that if I had to pick one over the other in terms of quality, I'd pick GTA.
 
@RyanRies Haha for sure. Saints Row is just satire
GTA 4 was pretty serious
And I prefer GTA over Saints Row too, but I did get a good 20 hours or so out of Sains Row - I just hated those damn mini-games
 
Yeah they had a weird but successful way of infusing everything with ridiculous juvenile humor in GTA IV, while at the same time making it mature enough to almost be taken seriously.
I spent so many hours playing GTA IV, I still remember when I finally decided I needed to call it quits, I went that big space needle tower, jumped off, and when I hit the ground and died, I shut the game off and never played it again.
 
@RyanRies SRSLY?
WHY?
 
12:58 AM
@Jacob Because I'm weird
I like to find fitting conclusions for things like that; they aren't really serious when viewed objectively, but in the moment, they fit
 
1:14 AM
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Q: Failure to boot Windows 7 from new drive without the drive that installed Windows 7 connected

user67486I am using a ThinkPad W520, with a Western Digital HDD as the boot disk running Windows 7 Professional. I have on this HDD a Windows 7 Ultimate .iso, which I mounted and installed in a brand-new SanDisk SSD. The installation worked fine, and I am using that installation to ask this question righ...

kill pls
does the faq shortcut still work?
 
@MDMarra yep
 
God I hate matchmaking on xbox
 
I got a /64, noobs
Quick, someone tell me how to use it!
 
@MDMarra Step 1, give it back and ask for a /56
 
but it's already like a bajillion addresses
 
1:27 AM
@MDMarra But only one subnet
 
Shit I do /48's, because I'm just that privileged :P
 
Uh huh
 
Wait... we're talking about ipv6, right?
 
And what am I gonna do with multiple subnets in my apartment?
@RyanRies ya
 
/56 is pretty standard for a business.
/64 is home size
 
1:29 AM
I've never seen anyone cut it up into less than a /64
 
You're not supposed to....
I've seen a few Colos now handing out /112s with every IPv4 address, and they'll usually hand you as many as you want upon request.
 
Well I guess with enough IP addresses to assign one to every biological cell of every human on earth you can do that kinda thing.
 
@MDMarra I think we all have multiple subnets in our apartment...
At this very moment I have 8 active subnets at home; all of them are passing traffic.
And yipee, no double NAT either!
No, wait, crap, 9 subnets
 
why on earth
what function can that possibly server?
 
Let's see, virtual switches in VM, a network lab I've got sitting on my desk, the guest wireless...
 
1:42 AM
I've got 3 subnets (wired, wireless, guest)... that's enough
 
4 here. Wired, wireless, guest, DMZ.
 
The lab has 6 subnets, plus a VPN connection...and it's supposed to go live Monday.
 
@ShaneMadden I have one subnet - i.e. like a normal person
 
..and definitely not using my native comcast IPv6 until they let me get bigger than a /64
 
You have a DMZ at your house??
 
1:43 AM
@MarkHenderson I'm moving VMs to my FusionIO card at the moment.. Pretty sure that's not normal.
@ChrisS Sure. Rarely use it but I've run some game servers in there.
 
Interesting
 
you guys are weird
you all dont have labs at work you can just VPN into and fuck with?
I just have a laptop and a tablet
done
 
@MDMarra I work at home.
 
Yeah, I've got a dozen subnets and whatever I need to play with at work.
 
@MichaelHampton well thats different
 
2:03 AM
Anybody seeing especially hard DNS traffic tonight? DDOS maybe? I have a particular interest in K-root and it seems to be getting hit hard. :(
 
@RyanRies diagnostics?
 
@RyanRies Yeah We are
 
"the FBI has received information from an international law enforcement partner detailing that Anonymous is planning to launch a world-wide attack operation against the 13 core DNS-servers"
VisualK is down
 
Fack
@RyanRies I wish we were that big to get those type of details
 
Well we're Verizon so we probably have all of your details too, but we turn them all over to the NSA :P
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2:08 AM
The roots? That's a pretty tough target.
 
@ShaneMadden dns reflection
 
@ShaneMadden Agreed. 17 nodes in k-root alone, which is the site that I have stuff in and care about
 
@RyanRies :(
 
@RyanRies Hell, that's one of the smaller ones, I think.
 
@MichaelHampton b-root is smaller ;)
 
2:11 AM
Oh, and I have a message you can pass along to the NSA for me.
 
@Jacob Still though, so many endpoints.. you'd need to attack each give root sourced from reflection points that hit each anycast member, each with enough traffic to down them.
 
@ShaneMadden Anon is usually less about results and more about publicity
 
WTF is the point of trying to take down the root nameservers? That's ridiculous.
 
47 secs ago, by Jacob
@ShaneMadden Anon is usually less about results and more about publicity
:)
 
They'd need to generate carrier saturating levels of traffic to put a dent in the root servers
 
2:15 AM
TTL for most TLD's is >24h, and most of the roots are anycasted - they won't have any real impact, they don't have the agility. Last time they tried to pull it off nobody even noticed, but they sure got a lot of publicity
 
Meh, it's still up, it's just slow.
 
All of the root zones should be served out of RAM, so it's really simply a network throughput target, since resource exhaustion isn't a viable strategy
 
> server 193.0.14.129
Default Server: k.root-servers.net
Address: 193.0.14.129

> google.com
Server: k.root-servers.net
Address: 193.0.14.129

Name: google.com
Served by:
- a.gtld-servers.net
192.5.6.30
2001:503:a83e::2:30
com
- b.gtld-servers.net
192.33.14.30
com
- c.gtld-servers.net
192.26.92.30
com
- d.gtld-servers.net
192.31.80.30
com
- e.gtld-servers.net
192.12.94.30
com
- f.gtld-servers.net
192.35.51.30
com
- g.gtld-servers.net
192.42.93.30
com
- h.gtld-servers.net
192.54.112.30
com
 
what's the difference between an IPv6 address and a temporary IPv6 address?
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hsd1.pa.comcast.net.
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2601:b:8700:7c:d895:86ef:112c:a4a7
Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2601:b:8700:7c:53b:7d80:ab16:6527
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::d895:86ef:112c:a4a7%13
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.108
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::8a1f:a1ff:fe29:189c%13
192.168.1.1
 
I don't have IPv6 at home :(
 
2:20 AM
@MDMarra They're privacy addresses. See technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736439(v=ws.10).aspx
 
Temporary addresses [edit]

The globally unique and static MAC addresses, used by stateless address autoconfiguration to create interface identifiers, offer an opportunity to track user equipment—across time and IPv6 network prefix changes—and so users.[34] To reduce the prospect of a user identity being permanently tied to an IPv6 address portion, a node may create temporary addresses with interface identifiers based on time-varying random bit strings[35] and relatively short lifetimes (hours to days), after which they are replaced with new addresses.
 
so
why have a regular global address then?
why not just do IPv6 like that for everything?
 
@MDMarra Just to confuse the wait for it
Sales Engineers
:)
 
If a sales engineer is talking about this kind of thing, he's doing it wrong :)
 
eui-64 is kinda annoying.
 
2:24 AM
@MDMarra Because maybe you want a static?
 
Why not have the ability to autoconfig in the same way on a /96 or smaller?
 
No Liberitage this week. I'm disappointed.
 
@ChrisS ?
 
The Election of 1860: Crash Course US History #18
 
@RyanRies true so why have both though?
 
2:25 AM
@ChrisS I like John Green
 
When both are configured, does the temporary always get used for unsolicited outbound traffic?
 
@MDMarra Honestly I don't know... I know that even after 20 years of IPv6 being around, it's still uncommon enough that the standards are subject to change at the drop of a hat.
 
@Jacob Yep - He's proving to be quite successful at the whole "educational video" thing. Hopefully he can keep it up.
 
@ShaneMadden The idea is to avoid as many situations in which you might have to renumber your network as possible.
 
@ChrisS He does an amazing job, as he can explain it simply while entertaining people with more knowledge with satire.
 
2:29 AM
@MDMarra Common sense would dictate that any static configured would take precedence, but I am in no shape to go digging about in RFCs right now.
 
wait
 
@MDMarra On Windows the temporary address takes precedence for outgoing traffic. On Linux, it takes precedence if explicitly configured to do so.
 
is static different than an autoconfigured global?
 
@MichaelHampton Right, but /64 is a little much, right? A v4 internet, squared? I'd settle for a v4 internet.
 
because that's "static" as well right as long as the machine continues to use the same gateway?
 
2:30 AM
Ugghhh I have no idea :[
 
Addresses configured from SLAAC are considered dynamic.
@ShaneMadden Maybe 32-bits wouldn't be enough for a subnet in the future. This protocol was designed to last for centuries.
 
right but assuming that a machine stays on the same subnet (like a server) it will remain the same, right?
 
@ShaneMadden You'll take your 4.2 billion IP addresses, and you'll like it!!!
 
@MDMarra If the MAC address doesn't change, then it will remain the same.
 
When people with a real IPv6 deployment provision servers, do they do static addressing?
or SLAAC
 
2:32 AM
@MDMarra Yes. Static are just that, static. SLAAC addresses are dynamic. Yeah, it'll stay the same on the subnet, it's tied to your MAC address if you're using Ethernet. The temporary addresses cycle when they're configured.
 
@MDMarra I just do SLAAC for labs, but static addresses for production.
 
@MDMarra Static addressing. How else are you going to get nifty addresses?
 
@MDMarra Pretty much static.
 
So, I mean, how do you...
I don't even know what to ask. I just need a book
haha
 
@MDMarra www.supermathie.net has IPv6 address 2001:470:1d:165:feed:face:dead:beef
 
2:33 AM
2001:db8::defe:c8ed
 
@MDMarra Been through he.net's IPv6 tutorial yet? It's a good start.
 
@MikeyB Nope. I have a mountain of work literature that I need to read before I can get to peripheral (to me) things like this.
 
I find the channel locks especially useful.
 
After I hire a clone of myself, I'll have more time to learn all of this shit
 
2:35 AM
We were supposed to have a canonical question for this...
 
@Jacob GO GET IT! :p
 
@MikeyB I can't but I'm going to setup a tunnel at uni
 
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Q: How does IPv6 subnetting work and how does it differ from IPv4 subnetting?

Michael Hampton This is a Canonical Question about IPv6 Subnetting. Related: How does IPv4 Subnetting Work? I know a lot about IPv4 Subnetting, and as I prepare to (deploy|work on) an IPv6 network I need to know how much of this knowledge is transferable and what I still need to learn. IPv6 ...

 
@MDMarra are you deploying IPv6?
I'm so proud of you!
 
@MDMarra Remember that all your domain-joined computers will register their IPv6 addresses in the DNS, so that'll take away a lot of your headaches.
 
2:42 AM
Unless you've got a bunch of gear that doesn't route IPv6, and some that does
 
@voretaq7 No, Comcast is to my .11ac Time Capsule :)
 
@RyanRies You mean a bunch of gear that routes IPv6 and a bunch of paperweights?
 
@MichaelHampton Oh of course
 
@MDMarra . . . Comcast?
 
Yeah. Comcast sliced me off a /64 without me even having to ask
 
2:44 AM
@MikeyB If by "a bunch of paperweights" you mean several million American households, then yes, I agree. :)
 
@MDMarra .... Comcast?
I am hereby stripping you of all your princess points. Or something.
 
yep
They're actually one of the few major ISPs doing it relatively quickly
Dude, I live in an apartment building
 
@MDMarra I have FiOS!
 
My choices are Comcast or a Clear 4G access point
 
@MDMarra . . .
 
2:45 AM
I work for Verizon and I do not have FiOS :P
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@MDMarra I'll sell ya a tin can and some wet string :)
 
@RyanRies shouldn't you get that for free?
@voretaq7 I get 25/15 for $19.99/mo
 
It's because of the apartment thing. The wiring is just not there.
 
Gawd. I can have either Comcrap, or Fairpoint DSL (noooo), or my VZW 4G.
 
@MDMarra Bell FTTN at $175/mo, DSL at 4Mbps down, 512kbps up, or cable. :(
 
2:46 AM
@RyanRies ...but you do have a convenient source of 48VDC with 99% availability mandated by federal law :-)
(I have a shitty battery)
 
@voretaq7 20Hz telephone standby?
 
@RyanRies I have fios :)
 
@Jacob damn you ... I would but I live in AT&T territory :(
 
@RyanRies HAHAHAAHAHAHAA You work for VZ
and you have shit-verse
 
@Jacob It's not all that bad really, at least, the broadband is stable at 1.8Mbps... it's no Japan or South Korea but it's something.
 
2:57 AM
 
@RyanRies ?
 
??
 
@RyanRies the shitty battery? It's the one that's built into the ONT
12V/7AH
 
@voretaq7 Ahh... I get it now
@voretaq7 I work for Verizon but it's not the same same business unit that sells FiOS or wireless, so the engineering tech specs of the ONTs are not usually on my mind... that being said, I couldn't think of any other voltage that was federally mandated to be supplied to you except for 240v mains and a ~45v DC telephone standby, ~75v DC ringing
 
@RyanRies we call that the "Free disaster lighting" voltage around here :-)
 
3:06 AM
@RyanRies 240V? doesn't the US use 115?
 
(and LIPA is kinda infamous for ignoring the federal requirements for mains AC. Which is why Verizon make a delightful backup for emergency lighting!)
 
hohum. kinda silly that cordless phones need plugpacks...
 
@Andrew That's a pet peeve of mine. Many, if not most, do refer to the voltage as 230v AC and 115v AC, respectively. However, the actual voltages are 240V and 120V... it's just that most appliance manufacturers assume a practical voltage drop in most household situations of a few volts, and so they calibrate their appliances to to 115/230.
 
@RyanRies internationally it's... interesting. Supposed to be +-5% but historical trends lead to it being +10/-5 or so
 
@RyanRies If you get 110V from LIPA you're doing good.
 
3:09 AM
@Andrew But Federal law actually mandates that power companies must supply you with 240v at your utility meter. From there, your breaker box splits it off into 120v rails for various appliances to use
 
@RyanRies how many phases is it generated at?
 
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." Cato the Elder
 
@Andrew Three
 
A split-phase electricity distribution system is a 3-wire single-phase distribution system. It is the AC equivalent of the original Edison 3-wire direct current system. Its primary advantage is that it saves conductor material over a single ended single phase system while only requiring single phase on the supply side of the distribution transformer. Since there are two live conductors in the system, it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "two-phase". The "hot" conductors' waveforms are offset by a half-cycle, or 180 degrees offset, when measured against the neutral wire. To avoid con...
 
@Andrew US household power is usually split phase (A/B + N) or (A/C +N)
 
3:12 AM
that's just wacky...
 
60Hz
I always heard that the difference in how the USA and Europe distributes electricity is because of how European countries were the first to adopt the technology, and by the time the USA got around to adopting and widely distributing electricity, the technology had evolved such that less voltage was required to do the same sort of tasks that had previously been thought to require twice the voltage.
 
@Andrew Just noticed an error in that article, where it implies that Black wires are neutral in the US.
 
@ChrisS that's.... "incorrect"
 
By the way, this is me youtube.com/watch?v=FiO1lRvMhWQ
 
@voretaq7 Depends on who wired it =]
 
3:16 AM
Half my life ago
 
@voretaq7 neutral or ground?
 
@Andrew Phase is black, neutral is white, earth is green (or bare)
 
anyway, Australia is weird. somewhere between the US and Europe.
 
@ChrisS around here... "phase is green with blue dots, neutral is bare copper with black bands painted on it, and earth is a handful of dirt next to the box with a bit of aluminum foil connecting it."
(and it's all held together with brown packing tape wrapped around the conductors -- we made this cable with some spare bits we had laying around at the jobsite!)
@RyanRies So... your utility power.... if you put a voltage graph on an outlet what's your swing during the day? :-)
 
@voretaq7 Yours changes more than "too little to care"?
 
3:24 AM
@voretaq7 Well I did that almost 15 years ago, so at the time it was my parent's utility meter, so luckily at the time they were not keen enough to notice. They just wanted to make sure that I brought everything back in to the garage by 10pm. :)
 
@ChrisS not here, but where I lived before Low: 98 High: 130
 
@voretaq7 100-125
 
@Jacob that's... marginally more acceptable
 
@voretaq7 Dominion virginia power
 
the reason I plugged a meter onto it was because the clock on my stove kept going out, but everything else was fine.
I have the keys to my building's power vault.
I really shouldn't have the keys to my building's power vault.
 
3:30 AM
Today work ranged from 121 to 122.
 
@ChrisS fuck you and your stable power!
swing at home is ±5V - mostly as a result of my air conditioner.
 
Over the last month it's 118-123
 
@voretaq7 you have individual units?
 
you're getting this from your UPS I assume?
@Jacob wall unit
 
Output current 14.9 to 15.2, that seems like more swing than I'd expect.
 
3:33 AM
building was built in 1960 - that was cutting edge back then!
 
@voretaq7 Yeah
@voretaq7 Not a window shaker?
 
@ChrisS ±1A? That's reasonable
(we're talking a datacenter UPS not an individual unit right?)
 
@ewwhite @freiheit @Iain Incoming...
 
@Jacob New York apartments only need one tiny AC unit for the whole building. =]
 
3:34 AM
@ChrisS pretty much :)
 
@voretaq7 Correct
 
@WesleyDavid WESLEY BUY A GODDAMN BIKE ALREADY!
 
The only individual UPS I have is on the cable modem and T1 CPE. It doesn't have network management.
 
@WesleyDavid Best of Craigslist material right there.
 
3:36 AM
Also, disgruntled boobies:
 
@ChrisS we'd see variance like that across all 3 phases a $job[-1]. Natural workload changes & CPUs throttling, plus people plugging in crash carts and shit.
 
@WesleyDavid wtf
You going to buy that whore?
You know its a slut right
 
@voretaq7 Two! Two disgruntled boobies! Ah - ah - ah!! ::lightning::
 
@MarkHenderson Dude - he's a cat. He has no standards.
 
@MarkHenderson I'm not picky. As long as they're nice, I can handle some sluttiness.
 
3:39 AM
@WesleyDavid Re: you and that bike:
 
@voretaq7 She said I was special. =(
 
@WesleyDavid yeahhhhh she lied.
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@WesleyDavid eat your mushroom, toadie
 
So I guess you're not cool until you regularly work with RabbitMQ and Redis.
<-- Not Cool. -->
 
3:52 AM
@WesleyDavid You're a cat.
 
Okay, treadmill time. Don't stay up too late, kiddos.
 
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The tango is a partner dance that originated in the 1890s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay, and soon spread to the rest of the world. Early tango was known as tango criollo (Creole tango). Today, there are many forms of tango extant. Popularly and among tango dancing circles, the authentic tango is considered to be the one closest to the form originally danced in Argentina and Uruguay. In 2009, UNESCO approved a joint proposal by Argentina and Uruguay to include the tango in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. History Tango is a ...
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I'm a little toasted, gentlemen.
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4:35 AM
Yes, Superman will indeed punch you in to space.
 
 
1 hour later…
5:44 AM
morning
 
6:14 AM
good morning
 
Suckers, I'm only 15 minutes away from the motherfucking weekend
 
I have an actual bug crawling around the INSIDE of my LCD monitor. Ideas, anyone?
 
@Mr.Wizard Stop being suck a filthy fuck
Apart from that, open it up and shake it out?
I have a bug stuck inside the LCD on my oven at home and it bugs the shit out of me
 
@Mr.Wizard: would you believe there's multiple questions on that in SU? ;p
 
Just found one:
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Q: How could I safely fix my walking "dead pixel" bug?

CawasI need suggestions. I've got a live little bug inside my macbook pro screen for 2 days now. I've tried to film it using my iPhone, but it ain't that good. :( Should I try to open it? o_O C'mon, looking for ideas here! :) edit: Here's an alike video. It's not moving anymore for now... I hope...

 
6:27 AM
lol
 
@MarkHenderson Damn, how did you know? ;-p
 
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Q: Removing dead thunderflies stuck inside an LCD monitor

Mike WellerThis summer my flat was "attacked" by hundreds of tiny thunderflies, some of which managed to get behind the screen of my LCD. A few of the cursed creatures went and died right in the middle of the display:  And yes, this is real. Imagine my surprise when I saw one of these things crawling acr...

blah
 
I am amazed that these devices are designed in such a way that this can happen!
 
install of windows 7 on on the new drive is taking too long
either something is off, or DISM is just a piece of crap
 
7:08 AM
@JourneymanGeek I'll be doing that exactly thing myself later today (building new pc)
 
@Chopper3: if its a fresh install, try to do it off a USB key
its faster than a DVD
 
@JourneymanGeek hmmm
 
I had the hdd on my laptop swapped out today, its supposed to get itself installed and ready to use in 2 hours (!!!!)
(which is annoying I got to keep the old drive, which means I get to try all sorts of dodgy magical drive repair software on it!)
 
@JourneymanGeek I'm going to do a proper wipe on my SSD, so it resets all the trim data etc. It'd going to take forever isn't it
 
@Chopper3: probably won't
its probably going to use the more efficient modern ways to wipe a disk
 
7:13 AM
It's the millions of updates I'm not looking forward to, backed up all the steam games but I have a feeling the Origin ones will take a long time
was almost tempted to go for W8, still a bit undecided
 
I would, personally
hmm
I probably should have gotten wsus offline updates downloading updates while I wait
 
dunno why, just fancy it
 
Its significantly faster, and I got used to the UI (and its trivial to get a start button replacement installed)
 
@JourneymanGeek it's really for 8.1 I want it
still undecided :(
 
7:32 AM
Morning
 
G'day
 
morning chaps/chapesses
 
@Chopper3: eheh, waiting on that
should be interesting
 
@JourneymanGeek ReFS on the client - very interesting
 
(also, blah, having a single PC sucks, I'd gotten used to dual wielding)
 
7:44 AM
anybody using gitolite3?
I'd be nice if someone could repro an issue I've found when /var/lib/gitolite3 is the mount point for a dedicated LV
Nevermind, I got rid of it
 
8:39 AM
Morning all
 
morning
 
Perl is dead
 
9:03 AM
@DennisKaarsemaker Nifty chart. What made that?
 
10:01 AM
@DennisKaarsemaker graphviz underneath?
ah, yes (should have gone to check on github before asking)
 
10:51 AM
@mdmarra The first thing that comes to mind is operatingSystem. But you're right, I seem to recall an attribute which specified something like "workstation", "server"... Although I could be imagining that, my memory is pretty terrible. I cannot find anything right now, I had suspected machineRole but it's empty here.
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Q: What's the most effective fix for erection dysfunction if you fail to get viagra?

user177823What's the most effective fix for erection dysfunction if you fail to get viagra? Or another thing as you are able to try obtain a sustained impotence? Over-the-counter medication o-r web based?

inquiring minds and all that...
 
O.o
 

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