The Comms Room

@MarkHenderson: mind if I edit in a link to the wikipedia link for CPE into your answer? It wasn't immediately apparent to me till I looked it up, and it might be useful ;p

Mark Henderson

@JourneymanGeek Go for it

Journeyman Geek

cool, done.

Michael Hampton

1:31 AM

Just because it's worth repeating...

kce

1:45 AM

What's up my nerds?

ewwhite

nada

kce

You're not breaking an ESXi or ZFS install? What the heck?

ewwhite

I'm done with computers today

kce

Good for you. Computers are stupid. Bikes are cool.

Michael Hampton

I hear the .bike domain is now open for registrations.

ewwhite

1:50 AM

should I squat?

Joel E Salas

@ewwhite OATS AND SQUATS

jscott

Sure is fit in here.

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite Don't bother. Wesley probably won't buy a .bike either.

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Shane Madden

@MichaelHampton Did anyone buy all of the @Wesley related bike domains yet?

Scott Pack

@KatherineVillyard But you are flush with kudzu. You could probably ski on that. Until it ate you.

ewwhite

2:00 AM

Should I just ask Windows questions from now on?

Shane Madden

@ewwhite Apparently! Expect a dozen answers if you do.

jscott

@ewwhite Isn't that, itself, a Windows question?

ewwhite

perhaps... but that means nobody is willing to resolve my ZFS on Fusion-io with DRBD replication issues...

punks

Shane Madden

@ewwhite DRBD + ZFS?? Eww...

ewwhite

@ShaneMadden why do you say? I'm testing this: dnuk.com/zetavault/features

Shane Madden

2:06 AM

@ewwhite So DRBD is what they're using for their "replication"?

ewwhite

@ShaneMadden ZFS replication is there... but yes, DRBD is their "cluster" and "failover solution"

Shane Madden

@ewwhite Gotcha. What's busted with it?

ewwhite

Nothing at all... it actually works quite well...

heartbeat, failover, VIP

Shane Madden

@ewwhite Nice.

ewwhite

it's surprisingly nice...

as I always wanted an HA ZFS solution

Shane Madden

2:09 AM

@ewwhite Yeah, that's one thing that's always been an annoying gap.

ewwhite

but obviously, this only scales so far.

two relatively-small boxes

because, well... you'd end up having to double resources

Shane Madden

Well, those might not get you 7 answers, but I'll try to help if you ask any questions on it :)

ewwhite

i always hear that drbd sucks

why?

Joel E Salas

durbid

ewwhite

Crickets...

"DRBD+Windows!!!"

Mark Henderson

2:24 AM

The last 24 hours have not been kind to me

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Q: Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration Connection Broker connects to localhost

I am running the following command from a PowerShell console on a Windows 8 machine, trying to configure a Server 2012 R2 RDS Connection Broker: Import-Module RemoteDesktop Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration -CollectionName "Example" -CustomRdpProperty "gatewayhostname:s:rdp.example.com" -Conn...

windows-server-2012-r2

jscott

@MarkHenderson "It's the same story if I do Enter-PSSession ep-ts01.ad.example.com and run it from there." -- do you mean that command fails with "winrm not enabled" as well?

Mark Henderson

@jscott Not quite; I get this:

Get-RDSessionCollection : A Remote Desktop Services deployment does not exist on ep-ts01.ad.lifeway.net.au. This
operation can be performed after creating a deployment. For information about creating a deployment, run "Get-Help
New-RDVirtualDesktopDeployment" or "Get-Help New-RDSessionDeployment".

It looks like Microsoft haven't quite got this remote management downpat just yet

Interestingly, the RDS in the Server Manager can configure everything just fine - but it doesn't expose the property I want to edit

(which is not the gateway one; I just used that as an example)

MDMarra

3:00 AM

My home made (cilantro-free) falafel @iain @magellan

jscott

@MDMarra Did you make the tahini as well?

MDMarra

Wife did

jscott

Good teamwork

Next step: Pita-from-scratch.

MDMarra

and in fairness she made the falafel as well, I just made them patties and cooked them

jscott

Looks good, would eat.

MDMarra

3:04 AM

I want to try a lighter oil next time. We just cooked them in vegetable oil

It was still good though.

jscott

btw, I think my parents had those exact Corelle plates when I was a kid.

MDMarra

Haha. I inherited these from my parents

jscott

Is there cilantro in falfel normally? I honestly don't know. Love the stuff. When I make steak tacos, we skip lettuce totally and just mince a whole bundle of cilantro instead.

I know some people think cilantro tastes "soapy".

MDMarra

Cilantro, parsley, chickpea, and onion basically

wife dislikes cilantro so we don't have it, but it normally gives it a greener tint

It's pretty quick to make if you have a food processor

Oh and a shit ton of garlic

jscott

Just keep slipping cilantro into your tabbouleh in slightly greater amounts each time.

MDMarra

3:12 AM

Haha

jscott

I'd read the anti-cilantro thing was genetic, but it would be fun to have a blind test.

Michael Hampton

The Linux firewall is getting replaced again... though most of you won't see it for 4-5 years more.

jscott

@MichaelHampton I had an oh-lol-linux moment the other day when I reached for ffmpeg to convert a bunch of .flac to .m4a.

Chris S

I'm still waiting on Linux to "find" pf and import it. =]

Michael Hampton

3:30 AM

@ChrisS Actually it looks quite similar internally, though userland looks utterly different from anything I've seen before.

Chris S

I suppose RMS would have a heart attack if any more BSD code ended up in the Linux kernel.

Michael Hampton

nft insert rule filter input tcp dport 80 counter accept

Chris S

I keep telling myself one of these days I'm going to convert to pf, but I'm still on ipfw

Michael Hampton

Don't get me wrong, I like FreeBSD, and when bhyve matures a little more I may even switch.

Chris S

I'm rather annoyed with bhyve myself. Wish they would have stuck with importing KVM.

Michael Hampton

3:36 AM

They brought in all the virtio stuff.

Or rather, reimplemented it all.

Chris S

I know. All the Xen and Hyper-V client stuff is there too.

Michael Hampton

Right now I'm just enjoying my hot new ZFS zpools.

Chris S

If I could get 10.0 to boot off zfs I'd be happier...

Got my RPi boxes working almost perfectly today, so that's a win.

get these association bills taken care of and and all that's left is putting leins of 6 peoples' houses. =]

eh... need to file a police report again... why can't people just shovel their sidewalks?

Mark Henderson

@ChrisS Why do you need to file a police report?

Chris S

People not shoveling the snow off their sidewalks. File a report, police come and check, issue warning, return a few days later and issue a ticket if still not shoveled, return a few days later if still not shoveled put an order in to have it shoveled at the owners expense.

I don't especially care, but other people in the neighborhood do, so they complain to me, and I turn the complaints over to the police and the wheel goes round.

Mark Henderson

3:46 AM

@ChrisS Wow, remind me not to move somewhere that is snows

I can hardly be fucked mowing my lawn, let alone shovelling snow

(My lawn grows crazy fast and needs mowing every week during summer)

Chris S

In the summer I get to file complains for people who haven't mowed.

This is what you get when in live in the city.

Mark Henderson

@ChrisS Wait, not mowing the LAWN is against the law?!

Chris S

I think last year I called for unshoveled sidewalks once, maybe twice. This year I've filed 3 reports so far, each with multiple houses/offenders.

Mark Henderson

Sidewalk I can sort of understand; it obstructs pedestrian traffic and can be dangerous

... but lawn?

Michael Hampton

America, land of the free?

Chris S

3:50 AM

@MarkHenderson Yep - has to be ~.25m or less

Mark Henderson

@ChrisS Doesn't the sidewalk belong to the local council? Shouldn't it be their responsibility to clean it anyway?

jscott

Here, in the city, The City is responsible for plowing the roads and sidewalks.

Michael Hampton

It's a deed restricted area?

Mark Henderson

@jscott Thats sort of what i would have expected

Chris S

@MarkHenderson Sidewalk belongs to the property owner - their responsibility unless they farm it out to someone else.

Mark Henderson

3:51 AM

@ChrisS In that case I woudl just rip the sidewalk up and plant grass over it. BAM! No sidewalk to shovel.

Michael Hampton

There's an easement, you can't do that

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton Well you're basically fucked then aren't you

jscott

@MarkHenderson Still, we've people walking in the streets during snow storms when the city hasn't fully cleared the sidewalks.

Chris S

Like I mentioned, most years it's not an issue. This year we officially have 22" (0.5m+) of standing snow. And if you aren't clearing your sidewalk kids can't use it to get to the bus-stop, and their moms' hate having their kids walk in the road...

Michael Hampton

Here the city is supposed to clear the sidewalks, but sometimes they don't...

Mark Henderson

3:53 AM

Strange how things differ. Here the sidewalk (and the grass between the sidewalk and the road) belongs to the council. You are expected to maintain the lawn part that's actually public property, but you're not required to and they will come and mow it eventually if you never do it

Chris S

@MarkHenderson One side of the road is required to have a sidewalk. If you took it out the city would put it back and pass the cost along.

Mark Henderson

@ChrisS Sounds like they want to have their cake and eat it too

Michael Hampton

That's every government I've ever heard of.

Mark Henderson

In that case, I would make my sidewalk fucking fantasic. I'd get that fucker made out of non-slip hardened glass with heating elements so that I can melt the snow right off it, and people can feel like a bit posh as they walk past my house

Chris S

@MarkHenderson people voted for the ordinance... don't blame the city

Mark Henderson

3:55 AM

(I also have like 30 meters of frontage, so that would be expensive)

Chris S

@MarkHenderson That's completely legal and some fancy neighborhoods have fancy sidewalks.

Mark Henderson

@ChrisS That's more like it then :P

I power-washed my driveway the other day and the sidewalk looked a bit out of place, so I power-washed the sidewalk too. Now my sidewalk is super bright and clean concrete and the rest of the street is a dirty black colour

Chris S

lol

Michael Hampton

That's one way to remove snow...and leave behind a nice sheet of ice?

Mark Henderson

Same deal with the lawn edging - I put a lot of attention into making sure my house had nice clean straight edges, and everyone elses grass just spews onto the concrete

Pity my house looks like the BFG took a dump on it

Chris S

4:03 AM

That's the law of inverse neighbors. However much effort you put into your landscaping, your neighbors will put an invest amount into theirs.

voretaq7

@MichaelHampton @MarkHenderson lives in a strange place where it's not colder than a witch's coochie right now, and every plant or animal you encounter is venomous, poisonous, or otherwise deadly.

Chris S

@voretaq7 google.com/search?q=huntsman+spider

I don't know how poor people can possibly afford to have kids... These hospital bills just keep coming.

I'm starting to wonder if they send the first and see if you pay before trying to get you on the hook for more... like a 419 scam.

Mark Henderson

@ChrisS Move to a country where childbirth is free

voretaq7

4:20 AM

@ChrisS Been there, done that, hung out in Terrifying Nightmare Monsters :-)

@MarkHenderson "Childbirth is free" - that's like the "Sign and Drive" of the parenting world

Chris S

@MarkHenderson I'm trying to work on that here, but having a difference of opinion with a lot of the country.... including our former hedgehog

voretaq7

"Here's the kid. And here's you invoice for everything after the birth. You can make convenient monthly payments for the rest of your life..."

Mark Henderson

@ChrisS Well I hope you make it

Chris S

Ain't happening anytime soon either...

freiheit

@ChrisS Hospitals charge less when you don't have insurance.

Chris S

4:31 AM

Yeah, I know some of the games they play... Annoying

voretaq7

@freiheit yes, just enough to bankrupt you - not so much that you'll have no hope of ever paying it off

Andrew

Speaking of nftables and virtio, virtio is what the author of ipchains / iptables is working on these days

Chris S

Meh, so far it's been ~$250. Got a new bill, not sure how much I owe yet but will be <$200.

freiheit

@ChrisS So you may not have even hit your deductible?

Chris S

What's a deductible?

freiheit

4:42 AM

@ChrisS Amount you pay for directly out of covered things... Often preventative stuff you still just have the co-pay, but anything else you have to pay the deductible before the insurance actually covers anything.

Deductible

In an insurance policy, the deductible is the amount of expenses that must be paid out of pocket before an insurer will pay any expenses. In general usage, the term deductible may be used to describe one of several types of clauses (see below) that are used by insurance companies as a threshold for policy payments. Deductibles are typically used to deter the large number of trivial claims that a consumer can be reasonably expected to bear the cost of. By restricting its coverage to events that are significant enough to incur large costs, the insurance firm expects to pay out slightly sm...

Chris S

@freiheit I know... I'm kidding

voretaq7

@ChrisS Approximately one dollar less than your net worth.

Chris S

I don't have a deductible though. I've got 80% coverage, but the first $3k per patient, family max $6k, of that 20% that I would owe is covered for me like an anti-deductible.

freiheit

@ChrisS An anti-deductible? Wow!

Michael Hampton

This is getting entirely too complicated.

Chris S

4:48 AM

Not sure how else I'd describe it...

@MichaelHampton Agreed, but nobody asked us. =[

Michael Hampton

5:03 AM

Fucking developers.

Chris S

The proxy question?

Michael Hampton

Yeah.

Shane Madden

Wait.. what? What the hell does UDP have to do with it?

He's trying to use a web server to proxy UDP traffic? ....

Matt Bear

6:02 AM

heyas

anyone alive?

freiheit

@MattBear braaaaaaaiiiinnnsss....

Dennis Kaarsemaker

7:20 AM

@freiheit are you ever in the wrong place for that...

Magellan

7:42 AM

heh. Derp.

Iain

G'day

@MDMarra got a recipe or does Katie just make it up as she goes ?

RobM

8:20 AM

good morning

morning

hi

9:02 AM

Lawsuits against God have occurred in real life and in fiction. Issues debated in the actions include the problem of evil and harmful "acts of God". Actual suits Ernie Chambers In the U.S. state of Nebraska, State Senator Ernie Chambers filed a suit in 2008 against God, seeking a permanent injunction against God's harmful activities, as an effort to publicize the issue of public access to the court system. The suit was dismissed because God could not be properly notified, not having an address. The Judge stated, "Given that this court finds that there can never be service effectuated ...

shakes head

Dan

Morning kids

faker

uh wonderful, starting yesterday night our SMS gateway stopped sending alerts. Only getting "unkown error" back from the provider

RobM

9:19 AM

what fun

Dan

10:08 AM

Who are these people

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Q: Using the term 'act of god'

I hear the term 'act of god' frequently when the service desk at my company is discussing issues caused by weather etc. I was pretty surprised by this and left wondering if this is commonplace? (I work in IT for a credit union) Should I bother mentioning to someone that this may seem discrimana...

ethics politics terminology

Falcon Momot

10:25 AM

gwar

I walked out of the bar tonight!

happiness is.

Dan

Do what now?

Falcon Momot

oh

last week I was carried out of the bar my friends hang out at every thursday

Dan

Ah, good one!

Falcon Momot

while apparently singing loudly in french and latin

Dan

:D

Falcon Momot

10:27 AM

and someone tried to bribe a cab driver $50 plus fare to take me home and they refused

Dan

Last time I got that drunk, I walked into a restaurant and declared loudly that I wanted to sit on the table with the hot girls. Then I went for a pee and apparently spent the best part of 30 minutes standing at the sink

Falcon Momot

lol

no, I could not stand up

Dan

:D

Falcon Momot

like

I tried to sit up

and fell over

Stack Exchange

The Nubby Admin: When Will My ext Filesystem be Checked Next?

posted on February 07, 2014 by Wesley David

This question is also often asked in the form of: “How Many Consecutive Mounts and/or Days do I Have Between Mandatory Checks?” Typically ext filesystems and their supporting tools are set to force a fsck to take place on a volume after either a certain number of mounts have taken place and after a certain number of days have passed (whichever causes an fsck to happen first). This …

Dan

10:28 AM

That's definitely on the "very" side of "very drunk"

I don't think i've ever hit that point

Falcon Momot

yeah

it was brutal

Chopper3

I love the Google Doodle today

tombull89

@Chopper3 did you see Channel 4's promo?

Chopper3

not yet. beem silly busy

tombull89

Channel 4's "Good Luck at Sochi" video - youtube.com/watch?v=-6RID82Ru-k - starts off normal and then goes batshit mental.

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Stack Exchange

10:38 AM

Standalone Sysadmin: RabbitMQ on Ubuntu via Puppet?

posted on February 07, 2014 by <a id='post_author' class='fn' itemprop='name' …

Ubuntu has a certain really annoying property. Alright it has several, but the one that I'm talking about right now is the insistence that it start services upon installation. While I'm never a fan, there are certain times when it chafes more than normal. Here's the deal. I'm using the PuppetLabs RabbitMQ module, and I'm […]

Chopper3

@tombull89 :)

RobM

twitter.com/xboxuk/status/431737090078822400/photo/1

go home xbox, you're drunk ^

@tombull89 that's certainly a very flamboyant video. I like it.

Dan

That's wonder

ful

And fair play to C4

RobM

get-allthethings should be valid powershell. I'm not sure what it should do, possibly load all the modules you have, but that's not the point.

pauska

11:05 AM

We're running out of ExtensionAttributes.. I wonder if it's easy to extend the AD schema with some more :)

Falcon Momot

@pauska lol, yes

very

Dan

11:31 AM

I've been meaning to learn how to make a CmdLet in c#

http:\\www.dherman.co.uk\Get-AllTheThings.dll

pauska

@FalconMomot I'm lazy right now - give me teh code

Falcon Momot

@pauska hmm

there was some DLL registration you do

on schmmgmt.dll

then you get an MMC for it

be in the schema admins AD group

and then add an attribute... make sure you get an OID

give it a syntax and the matching syntax OID, and associate it with the user class or whatever

you can use an existing one you like as a template

then, done :D

@pauska technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732110.aspx

@pauska look, a dragon!

pauska

morgantechspace.com/2013/08/…

Falcon Momot

@pauska yup. do that.

oh

don't ever use the numericString type

it crashes things

pauska

unicode strings is enough for us.. we just process the fields in powershell/asp/whatever

Falcon Momot

11:43 AM

mm

if you are doing it for any serious purpose you should obtain a private enterprise OID

in the 1.3.6.1.4.1 space

(it's free)

otherwise use the random one microsoft tells you to generate

oid-info.com/get/1.3.6.1.4.1.39668

ewwhite

I think this person is confused...

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Q: HP Proliant Microserver, all RAM/DIMM slots bad?

first post here (but not on stack exchange). Wondering if you could give me some insigfht. This evening I was attempting to boot up a couple-year old HP Proliant microserver we took out of storage. For what it's worth, the machine has two dual-core intel xeon processors, 4 15k 156GB drives and ...