The Comms Room

Cole

00:00

This wrecked my shoulder:

Jacob

Whelp, have to throw that reddit account out

shoot I liked that name

WesleyDavid

00:43

@Cole LET'S GO BRUINS!!

Cole

@WesleyDavid YEP. This series is going to give me a heart attack.

WesleyDavid

@Cole TWO IN A ROW, WIN AT HOME!

I've got to switch to decaf.

Cole

LOL

Well I'm on Adderall now so caffeine is just for when it wears off :P

WesleyDavid

@Cole My dad had a SKS back just before the assault weapon ban. That was a hoot to fire. Had lots of things that are not kosher these days. Retractable stock, bayonette, 30 round banana clips. Would scare the frick out of the anti-gun population in congress nowadays. =P

It's so scaaaaary looking!!

Cole

Freakin sweet

WesleyDavid

00:51

@Cole Also, a friend had an SKS that looked exactly like that. Wood stock, attached / hinged 5 round clip. Very nice weapon.

Got a good kick to it, that's for sure.

Cole

The kick wasn't terrible the 308 nearly too my shoulder off

WesleyDavid

@Cole Well now I want to go to a range. I've been back and forth between getting a handgun or a bike.

Looking at a Springfield 1911

Cole

Bike

Then hand gun

WesleyDavid

@Cole But, but...

Okay.

Cole

I need a bike as well sir

WesleyDavid

01:19

I need a girlfriend.

I need better projects to work on.

Jacob

@WesleyDavid I need friends.

ebay.com/itm/…

I'm thinking about buying this? suggestions?

Note that this is for my dorm and not a professional env

Cole

FUCk

Chicago scored again

WesleyDavid

Dammit Boston get your shit together!

Cole

Bah

Cant even watch this shit

WesleyDavid

Reading about NIS and Winbind with Kerberos authentication in RedHat.

What a freaking rabbit hole.

Pass the magic mushrooms, Alice, I'm gonna need them.

Jacob

01:30

►

Cole

NIS is insecure as shit

Jacob

@WesleyDavid ^^^

WesleyDavid

@Cole Do you use smartcards at work?

Cole

No

Probably just going to stay where I'm at for work for a bit. It's stable, and I'm going to do as much as I can to improve stuff to have some good shit to put on my resume

I hardly ever work over 40 hours too

WesleyDavid

@Cole Figured that of all people here, you working in healthcare would have the best chance of having smartcards

Cole

01:33

Not healthcare persay

WesleyDavid

@Cole Yeah, sounds good.

Cole

We make medical devices

WesleyDavid

@Cole Sweet.

Cole

Waters Corporation

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WesleyDavid

@Cole Right, right. In your work, have you heard of a company called Gore?

gore.com/en_xx

Nice URL, guys. Pat on the back.

Cole

01:34

@WesleyDavid I haven't - we're so large that I honestly don't know much about anything outside of the IT stuff

we're upwards of 6000 people now

Wish I worked in the R&D IT group

They get to play with some cool shit

WesleyDavid

Gore is a company that makes stuff too. I know a guy who worked there and he was always asking me questions about IT stuff because Gore works in small self contained units for faster iteration of ideas.

As a result each team did their own R&D stuff including tech, but it was kind of a circus at times, so he asked me for some clarity.

Cole

Wow that's nuts

That happens a bit here too

I really need some longevity to hence trying to stay put

I mean if something amazing comes along, sure

WesleyDavid

@Cole Yeah, that's kind of why I'm going down with this consulting ship. I don't want to just flit around like a butterfly or hummingbird.

Then again, three years might be enough to walk away and not feel like a total loser.

I love Facebook ads:

AT LEAST MY FACEBOOK ADS DON'T THINK I'M GAY.

Cole

I'm gay

Just kidding, I had sexual relations with a woman last night and this morning

WesleyDavid

@Cole Well heck.

Cole

01:51

haha

WesleyDavid

Directory services is such a sleeper of a topic for me.

AAA, LDAP, Kerberos, realms, keys, sdlkfjhslkfgjhskfjgh

Oh boy! System Security Services Daemon!! Sounds like a hootenanny to me!!

Cole

I've learned a shit ton about LDAP recently

Whoa when did 10PM get here

Probably because I slept from 4-7:30 lol

Kevin Soviero

@Cole I love weekends, I slept in 'till 10am today!

Cole

I went to bed at 3AM got up at 8:45AM

WesleyDavid

02:07

Seems like you could really do some amazing stuff with sssd and a central authority.

autofs providers, centrally mounted home directories, it can all be managed centrally, but... it also seems like trying to skateboard on ice.

Cole

At NetApp we did NIS & autofs

WesleyDavid

02:22

Jay Cutler is such a freak

NUH BRU I DON'T USE GEAR. ALL NATURAL.

Uhh huh.

Right.

The guy is 5'9" and has smaller bodybuilders locked in orbit around him he's so big.

Ryan Ries

I don't think that one steak is gonna' be enough

Cole

Bleh he's way too big

WesleyDavid

@RyanRies I don't see how they do it.

Eat as much as they have to, especially in offseason bulking.

WesleyDavid

02:51

Nice empty netter, guys.

@ewwhite Happy about your Blackhawks? =)

KILL

-1

Q: Trying to set my linux desktop up as a server

I want to set my linux desktop up as an nginx server, and connect it with a domain name so I can use it from anywhere. It is running ubuntu 12.04 NOT ubuntu server. I still want it to be a regular desktop, I just want to be able to access it from this domain name. I created a file etc/nginx/sites...

Falcon Momot

@WesleyDavid burn it with fire.

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Q: nat router sends rst to a server where a nat'ed client is connected to

As i tried to remove some ethernet wires in my home network, i took an older notebook with linux and tried to use it as some kind of ethernet-2-wifi-nat-router (wifi card cant act as bridge, so i had to do nat). Basically this works but all the clients behind this nat router get network errors on...

linux router nat tcp rst

Jacob

@Cole 6AM to 10AM, and it's no like I tried to stay up, I just did

WesleyDavid

03:06

@FalconMomot Downvote it with zest.

Falcon Momot

if I actually downvoted each of these I saw I'd soon have 1 rep myself.

I typically just content myself with a close vote.

Jacob

@FalconMomot downvotes on question don't lower your rep

Falcon Momot

huh.

so they don't.

Jacob

@FalconMomot and they help get stuff removed/deleted

Falcon Momot

right- I'll be back when I hit the vote cap.

Journeyman Geek

03:09

lol

Yeah, it dosen't

WesleyDavid

@FalconMomot No rep lost on question downvotes.

Journeyman Geek

I'm old enough to remember when it did

Jacob

@JourneymanGeek Me too, and I'm 17 :P

WesleyDavid

Ah, you figured that out already.

Journeyman Geek

also, if its a worthy downvote, it'll likely get closed/deleted and you get your rep back anyway

@Jacob: get off my lawn ;p

Jacob

03:10

@JourneymanGeek You live in asia you don't have room for lawns

Falcon Momot

this is just ugly:

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Q: APF dropping packets even though IP is in allowed_hosts.rules

APF appears to be dropping my legitament SSH traffic coming to the box. Jun 22 15:57:11 xxxxxx kernel: ** SSH ** IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx SRC=50.xx.xx.xx DST=xx.xx.xx.xx LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=22634 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=xxxxx DPT=xxxxx WINDOW=8192 RES=0x0...

linux centos firewall

Journeyman Geek

@Jacob: I have a small fake turf one in my room

I've half seriously considered growing a small one on a paint tray

Jacob

@JourneymanGeek Nice reference though :)

Falcon Momot

and this:

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Q: Slow PHP on dedicated CentOS / cPanel server

(dedicated server with only 3-4 sites with low traffic, see hardware specs further down) I noticed from day one with this server that there's a performance issue even in a freshly installed WordPress admin area (where it gathers news and updates), then also in other CMS:s that does similar stuff...

php performance io

-2

Q: Route curl requests through tor socks5 -- can't get it to work

I start tor with the following command: tor --RunAsDaemon 1 --CookieAuthentication 0 --HashedControlPassword "xxx" --ControlPort 8118 --PidFile tor1.pid --SocksPort 9050 --DataDirectory data/tor1 I get this output: > Jun 22 22:41:21.317 [notice] Tor v0.2.3.25 (git-3fed5eb096d2d187) > running o...

curl tor

how the hell did this get migrated here

0

Q: 802.11 Wi-Fi SSID broadcast

Assume I'm a router manufacturer. I'm wondering if I can gather data about users that are seeking for available Wi-Fi networks. Maybe RTC/CTS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11_RTS/CTS ? I wonder how my laptop for instance sees the wireless networks and if it sends data to them or it's a...

wifi mac-address

ewwhite

@WesleyDavid Naw, don't care.

Falcon Momot

03:15

maybe I should start a new channel river-of-shit just to create a feed of these

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Boo.

@FalconMomot There is one...

Oh heck, the VTC room died.

Jacob

blog.spiderlabs.com/2012/04/pwning-a-spammers-keylogger.html

Journeyman Geek

VTC rooms are kinda obsolete with the review queues apparently

WesleyDavid

Kill them softly, men (and... women?)

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Jacob

@ewwhite Instead of paying @MDMarra can you pick me up one of these? ebay.com/itm/…

WesleyDavid

03:17

But it's fun to mock them in conversation. =(

Jacob

@WesleyDavid Can I haz Italics in that room? PLZ PLZ PLZ?

Journeyman Geek

@Jacob: eh, I have a system with very similar specs, tho mini ITX sitting in my room right now ;p

Jacob

@JourneymanGeek I need that , a switch, and a tuner which I'm about to pick up, and my network will be complete

Falcon Momot

0

Q: How to set up https only on one directory of VirualHost

I have VPS with several sites and applications, and I want to run MySQL administration tool over https to avoid possibility of man-in-the-middle attack, since I often have to use mysql root password. Now, it would not be problem at all if I had domain name specially for that purpose, since it's ...

apache2 ssl http https openssl

@WesleyDavid how did you change the room topic?

am I just not elite enough? :P

WesleyDavid

@FalconMomot Since I'm the room owner of that room, I HAVE TEH POWAH!

Falcon Momot

03:23

Ha. neat.

cool.

Jacob

@WesleyDavid chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/10019177#10019177

:(

WesleyDavid

Off to treadmill... Toodles.

Falcon Momot

@Jacob enjoy

Jacob

@FalconMomot :)

Falcon Momot

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Q: SSL connection errors from Apache

I'm running a (self-signed) SSL cert site on Apache/2.2.14 on Ubuntu 10.04, but various browsers are giving errors on half the connection attempts. Just now saw this transient error from Chrome: "Error 126 (net::ERR_SSL_BAD_RECORD_MAC_ALERT): Unknown error." Hit refresh and the problem goes a...

apache2 ssl ssl-certificate httpd tls

so many wrong answers

like

the MAC is wrong in the SSL message

someone says to check the MAC addresses of the involved computers for "weirdness"

someone says it's due to bad OIDs in the certificate

really?

Jacob

03:41

wat

Falcon Momot

it astounds me daily how many people don't understand how SSL works.

like, everything from the meaning of a cipher spec, to why you need to present a certificate chain, to what is actually used to encrypt the message...

ewwhite

@Jacob I have several HP thin clients sitting here at home.

Jacob

@ewwhite is that an offer?

Falcon Momot

let alone why compression opens you up to the CRIME attack, or why session resumption is actually more secure than rekeying each time a host connects

ewwhite

but I don't see how it can be a firewall... I think it only has one Ethernet port

Jacob

03:44

@ewwhite Expansion slot

Journeyman Geek

@FalconMomot: so post a better answer ;p

ewwhite

@Jacob I'll look later.

Falcon Momot

@JourneymanGeek I did.

ewwhite

but yeah, i have two here.

Jacob

@ewwhite :)

ewwhite

03:45

One is Windows 7 embedded... the other may be Linux

MDMarra

Just watched Flight

I had a beer as I sat down and quickly decided against any others

Falcon Momot

2

Q: Temp Profile Loading on computer

I am getting these errors on several different users and computers. Any ideas? {Event Type: Error Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1515 Date: 2/28/2011 Time: 8:30:21 AM User: XXX Computer: XXX Description: Windows has backed up this user's profile....

windows services terminal profile

bane of my existence at deskside

because nobody fucking understands why this happens

and, naturally, several wrong answers there too.

so there was once a senior tech (level 3 of 3 or whatever) who lambasted me because when I solved it I just copied the user's stuff over (I had a script to do that at one point) and had them check over that they had what they needed...

guy demanded that I have them log off and zap all their profile folders, log back on, have them log off, move stuff around, have them log back on, and manually remap all their stuff with them...

so that the profile folder would be named with the default name and because moving files around in their profile while they were logged on was unsafe.

and everyone at the helpdesk called it "corruption" except that it was the exact same ntuser.dat locked for writing error.

</rant>

Falcon Momot

04:15

hmm, anyone have any thoughts on when to migrate to U/L and when to keep?

like, there are a lot of questions that have nothing to do with sysadmin on the face of it and are basically "how to sed" or whatever

migrate, or keep unless they are obviously not in a professional environment?

WesleyDavid

in ServerFault Vote to Close, 6 mins ago, by WesleyDavid

@FalconMomot My rule is that most of U&L should be on ServerFault anyway, so unless the Q is blatantly home-centric, or just plain bad, I keep it on SF.

Falcon Momot

oh, you can link stuff like that

maybe I should ask a meta question.

just to solicit discussion... I know I'm not the only one.

WesleyDavid

@FalconMomot Search first, I think it's been discussed.

Falcon Momot

most likely.

I'm doing that right now.

Ward

@WesleyDavid @FalconMomot We already had

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Links to questions that may be improved or closed . Please not...

Falcon Momot

04:22

Huh, many, many, many migrations.

WesleyDavid

@Ward WHERE WAS THAT WHEN I SEARCHED FOR IT?

@Ward I thought it died and was disbanded.

Ah, frozen. Close enough.

Falcon Momot

yeah

Ward

It looks like inactive chat rooms get suspended or something

Falcon Momot

well, let us keep vote to close around forever.

WesleyDavid

@FalconMomot I do like chattering about VTCs. /review took the fun away, but it's not particularly kosher to pist tons of question links in here. It's messy.

Falcon Momot

04:25

Yeah, and I've been doing it a lot lately.

WesleyDavid

@FalconMomot Bad Falcon! Go scare some geese!

Falcon Momot

which was what I was thinking of when I wrote

1 hour ago, by Falcon Momot

maybe I should start a new channel river-of-shit just to create a feed of these

@WesleyDavid Ha! This is a new one.

a few weeks ago I was hanging out somewhere which is currently underwater, really stoned, and attempted to capture a goose. It was distinctly unhappy with this.

WesleyDavid

@FalconMomot I had a ton of Geese in Ohio when I lived there for a time. They were pretty chill about interaction. I hear they're pretty agro most places though.

Falcon Momot

@WesleyDavid they will rip you apart.

actually we have an odd family tradition of fighting with birds

my dad was put in the hospital by a turkey when he was a kid, I'm told

WesleyDavid

@FalconMomot I had to spike a duck once.

Falcon Momot

04:28

spike as in throw a dart into?

or as in throw?

Journeyman Geek

or wrestling style grab the neck and WHAM

Falcon Momot

people also make these kinds of jokes about me at flying school, and in the army (Capt. Falcon), and when I go to court (phoenix wright)...

WesleyDavid

@FalconMomot Throw.

So, duck mama with ducklings walks across a sewer grate.

Ducklings are now five feet under the street in a sewer drain.

Mama duck is flipping her stuff.

I pull a hundred pound grate off and jump down.

While I'm up to my shoulders in street, arms below the street, with an unprotected head, mama duck decides to attack me.

Falcon Momot

that must have been quite the scene...

WesleyDavid

Hint: Ducks have claws.

I was able to get my hand up just in time, palm her chest, and fling her as hard as I could away from me.

Falcon Momot

04:36

how did that end?

WesleyDavid

Of course, ducklings run through a corrugated metal pipe to the other side of the street where a corresponding sewer grate is.

So someone else had to take a walking stick and shoo them across to me.

Falcon Momot

heheh.

WesleyDavid

One by one I plucked all five out, but when I set them on the street they run like refugess ALL IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.

Mama duck was flipping her stuff down the road.

Now we had to chase baby ducks all around to get them back to the mom.

It was an afternoon, that's for sure.

Falcon Momot

heh.

WesleyDavid

Ducks. Not even once.

Falcon Momot

05:04

Muahaha I have hit the vote cap.

there's a badge for that, isn't there.

WesleyDavid

I think? Yeah, bronze?

Falcon Momot

yeah.

Jacob

05:19

@WesleyDavid W U remove me from owners of the VTC channel :(

Falcon Momot

probably because longcat.

I doubt the population will ever be very high in there anyway

Jacob

05:46

So my school has apparel back in stock, and I'm having trouble resisting...

Falcon Momot

05:59

My school never seemed to have any trouble keeping that stuff in stock.

Jacob

@FalconMomot I go to a small hated step-child division of a well known university

Falcon Momot

@Jacob I went to the University of Lethbridge, which will have flooded twice this summer despite being in the desert.

Jacob

@FalconMomot I go to West Virginia University: Institute of Technology

and if you think that makes no sense

you're right

Falcon Momot

It makes sense on the face of it...

Jacob

It was a separate school and the WV govt shoved under WVU. WVU hates the place

@FalconMomot Oh and all the alum dropped support because they hate WVU

dawud

06:43

morning

Jacob

@dawud very much so

@dawud Nice gravatar

dawud

@Jacob thanks

<--- not me, BTW

Jacob

@dawud I know, assuming your G+ desc is right it's Simone Weil?

dawud

yeah

from her police record during the Spanish Civil War, 1936

She was here with the International Brigades

Chopper3

11:54

May I recommend the new fuck buttons album, it's ace as usual

Cole

13:21

@WesleyDavid reddit.com/r/sysadminjobs/comments/1gwa6n/…

ewwhite

Snowden landing in Russia in 3...2...1...

Ryan Ries

@ewwhite He left China? Is he getting extradited? I haven't been keeping up.

Cole

Shooting all the things yesterday has seemed to ruin my back this morning

Iain

@ewwhite @WesleyDavid @freheit @Ward app.strava.com/activities/62285889 bit windy today (37 gusting 44mph)

Ryan Ries

13:53

rt.com/news/snowden-fly-moscow-aeroflot-125

faker

14:16

I'm wondering if I should switch from runkeeper to strava since I'm mostly cycling now and not running so much anymore

Iain

@faker strava does running too

faker

@Iain wondering even more now :D let's see if I can import my runkepper data

Iain

@faker strava takes gpx files

or you can upload direct from the app

faker

ah cool, runkeeper allows exports to gpx

Nathan C

14:37

Morning all

Ryan Ries

@NathanC morning

Nathan C

I finally accomplished our mail server migration...at around midnight

only took over a month :P

Cole

I'm being taken on a date today

Nathan C

o.o

Congrats? :P

Cole

Iron Man 3 at this cinema that you can have dinner at too

Nathan C

14:46

Ooh, I love those. We have one called Smitty's

The food's actually decent for a movie theatre too lol

Cole

Yeah that's what she said.

Nathan C

It gets the dinner and movie accomplished all in one place!

Cole

Right?

The ex, not the crazy one I just broke up with - but the one I've been moping about for 7 months now, is taking me.

Nathan C

Awesome!

Cole

Yep, we went to Marilyn Manson on Friday

She slept over Friday night, and I was going to the range early yesterday. I told her she could just shower/leave when we wanted to. So I came home and she had made the bed, picked up a bit and cleaned the litter box. ++++

Nathan C

14:52

I take it you're a lot happier right now.

:)

Cole

Very

She came over last week at 1AM and spilled her guts about how much she missed me. We're sure no one is going to understand, we had a pretty rough breakup. So we're keeping all of this on the DL since we just want to focus on rebuilding things and what not. We don't need everyone's opinions and what not interfering

Journeyman Geek

yay

Cole

So stoked.

I thought nothing of recommending her for that job (that she ended up getting).

Nathan C

Yeah, slow is a good start.

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myotherpcisacloud.com: Psst, You Want A Script To Backup Your Lab VMs?

posted on June 23, 2013 by ryan

I can hook you up... So I'm always doing a lot of lab work with Hyper-V virtual machines. Every once in a while I want to just save the state of the entire lab all at once and back it up to a safe storage volume. I suppose I could set up Windows Server Backup on each of the VMs, and find some disk to use as a pass-through disk for one of the virtual machines and then …

Cole

14:58

Holy hell my face has changed a lot in a year

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