The Comms Room

Tanner

17:08

Fuck you Windows 8. Fuck you hard. Restarting in the middle of a support call...

Cole

Why do so many people have problems with Windows 8!?

Lucas Kauffman

@Cole because it doesn't have a start button and every single time you accidently press the windows button WHOOOOOSH your screen disapears

Tanner

@Cole It's awesome except for some exceptionally stupid shit it does.

Cole

@Jacob LOL

I like it.

Tanner

I do too. Only two things piss me off: the easter egg hunt for shutdown, and the forced reboot.

Cole

17:11

@Tanner the shutdown will be fixed with 8.1

Tanner

I stopped working just long enough to shake hands with the new Dell rep and bam, reboot

Cole

Cause that shit is annoying.

WesleyDavid

@Tanner I started out liking Windows 8. Then I started having to support and design with Windows 8. Then I started hating Windows 8.

Lucas Kauffman

it's ugly

WesleyDavid

I want to like it in all its Metro glory!

But it won't let me.

Lucas Kauffman

17:12

well no it's nice

for a tablet

Hennes

Easy. It has no glory

Iain

20

WesleyDavid

@Iain 21! Blackjack!

Lucas Kauffman

20?

ITHedgeHog

@WesleyDavid Embrace the flat desing

Cole

17:13

Wtf Notes, I hate you.

WesleyDavid

@ITHedgeHog I'm trying. =( I like the design itself, per se, it's just the technical bits underneath that are really pissing me off. Most notably, the Windows backup control panel now.

Tanner

@WesleyDavid So far I have two users with Windows 8. It's been hell. 'er, well, more than usual.

ITHedgeHog

@WesleyDavid Windows 8 is awesome, I eat 1 copy for breakfast, 2 for lunch and then a proper dinner - it helps control my weight.

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Tanner

@ITHedgeHog Starring that because it's weird.

WesleyDavid

@Tanner Weird that because it's starred.

Lucas Kauffman

17:15

How is the remote assistance feature with metro?

ITHedgeHog

The ITHedgeHog is weird.

Lucas Kauffman

do you get to swipe all the problems away?

WesleyDavid

@ITHedgeHog ~~Horny~~ Spikey little thing.

MDMarra

Yo @WesleyDavid were those dox helpful at all?

Cole

Anyone have a pre-made script that will disable remote desktop from a text/csv file?

voretaq7

17:16

@Cole mrr?

MDMarra

Group Policy

WesleyDavid

@MDMarra Still waiting to look at them. Was on the phone so much yesterday with someone that chats too much about their business dreams (he does pay me occasionally), then this morning a server went down out of the blue. Trying to scramble to pick up the pieces before a meeting at 11. sigh

MDMarra

haha

crazy cat

WesleyDavid

@MDMarra Client on a VPS overused their space, server hosed.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@WesleyDavid rm -fr /

WesleyDavid

17:17

@DennisKaarsemaker Pretty much.

Cole

@MDMarra have to do it on the fly.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

or just rm -fr /home/cat

and get rid of your furry kitty porn

WesleyDavid

@DennisKaarsemaker more like rm -f movie[0-999].mp4

Cole

By default RDP is disabled- we only open it when needed.

MDMarra

So

How do you work on servers?

Jacob

17:18

@DennisKaarsemaker Or pipe the database to /dev/null because /dev/null is web scale

Cole

@MDMarra Dameware/VMware console

MDMarra

yuck

Cole

Very yuck

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Jacob cat /dev/zero > /dev/null

Cole

But the group out in Colorado has like.......15 servers that have to get enabled then disabled when they're done.

WesleyDavid

17:19

@Cole Here I was holding my breath to hear "WinRM / PowerShell" You tease!

Chopper3

@ewwhite we do it for 24hrs

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MDMarra

You can install PowerShell in NT?

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WesleyDavid

@DennisKaarsemaker And yes it was mp4 files that did it, but not porn. Promo videos.

Cole

@MDMarra lulz, this is 2008 boxes

Lucas Kauffman

@WesleyDavid isn't the idea that you restrict their usage somehow to prevent this from happening :p?

ewwhite

17:19

@Chopper3 For realz?

WesleyDavid

@Chopper3 Did you take lessons from Sting?

Cole

@MDMarra NT is on it's way out!

MDMarra

:)

ewwhite

@Chopper3 Then answer this!!!

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Q: Is it necessary to burn-in RAM for server-class systems?

Considering server-class systems are equipped with ECC RAM, is it necessary or useful to burn-in the memory DIMMs prior to their deployment? I've encountered an environment where all server RAM is placed through a lengthy multi-day burn-in/stress-tesing process. This has delayed system deploymen...

Cole

Just seeing if someone already had a script premade - since I need to create one so the help desk can just run it.

Chopper3

17:20

@ewwhite yep, but bear in mind that we generally get our blades installed and iLO working before the switch ports are up and running - so we use that time to memtest and load basic OS over iLO

Cole

What I hate about PowerShell/VBScript you can't really impersonate another user.

I know you can in PowerShell, since it's .NET but it's not easy.

WesleyDavid

@MDMarra I can see it now: PowerShell NT. Alias remove-item to FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('DIR /B /AD /S *.svn*') DO RMDIR /S /Q %%G

MDMarra

You can do aliases on NT?

Adrian

Why are my eyes bleeding?

Cole

@Adrian NT. That's why.

ewwhite

17:23

@Chopper3 The specific situation I'm referencing is a 22-host vSphere cluster. Each host presently has 96GB of RAM. The client requested that each system be upgraded to 192GB RAM. We're doing it piecemeal... over the course of several weeks because the client only wants 1 or 2 hosts upgraded at a time...

WesleyDavid

@MDMarra Hmm... Okay, how about remove-item.bat

Chopper3

@WesleyDavid huh?

Cole

One day there won't be NT here!

Chopper3

@ewwhite 96GB? is this for Burkina Faso?

@ewwhite answered btw

voretaq7

@ewwhite ...RAM doesn't work very well after it's been burned (in, on, or around)

Chopper3

17:25

got a new 3D headset for gaming - been playing BF3 all afternoon - my nerves are RAGGED

@WesleyDavid sorry, only just got that

ewwhite

@Chopper3 it's for the future of the American healthcare system!

Chopper3

@ewwhite you have one?

ewwhite

So, yes... Burkina Faso.

Chopper3

ah I see

ewwhite

It's a healthcare insurance exchange...

voretaq7

17:26

@ewwhite "Don't get sick!"

Cole

Well: imgur.com/gallery/k0nFu

voretaq7

@ewwhite "I'll trade you no coverage for even less coverage"

Chopper3

@ewwhite i.e. be rich or die not tryin'

ewwhite

For the next round, it's @shanemadden versus @Chopper3

Chopper3

been tidying up my cabling

Dan

17:28

HOLY FUCKSTICKS WEBSITES THAT E-MAIL YOU YOUR PASSWORD IN PLAINTEXT

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(And that caps is deliberate, so suck on it)

Chopper3

@Dan wat!?

Dan

@Chopper3 Sign up for a website and then 30 seconds later you get an e-mail with your password in it :(

ewwhite

@Chopper3 that's almost porny.

Chopper3

@Dan which site?

Dan

@Chopper3 In this case, this admittedly shit one: dolphinfitness.co.uk

Tom W

17:31

@Chopper3 I really need to tidy my case

Cole

@Chopper3 /tear it's beautiful

Chopper3

@Dan my browsers block any good health related sites

Jacob

Several sites do that sadly

MDMarra

@Dan Drexel University does when you register to apply for their grad program

Chopper3

@Cole wanna see the back?

MDMarra

17:32

Guess who didn't complete the registration when they saw that :)

Dan

@Chopper3 :D

@MDMarra It's not good, is it?

MDMarra

it is not

ewwhite

@MDMarra The produce client is complaining that their PCs are all virused now, following your changes.

MDMarra

lol

Dan

My question now is, did their script simply e-mail the password from the submitted form or is their database plain text :(

MDMarra

17:33

@ewwhite your clients are idiots

Cole

@Chopper3 I am an ass-man, so yes.

ewwhite

:(

MDMarra

:(

Chopper3

Cole

Damn!

Dem cables.

Well shit there's this: vexasoft.com/pages/set-remotedesktopconfig

Chopper3

17:35

@Cole I was thinking about adding some CCFLs (seen to the right), but they were a bit shit, maybe LEDs?

Lucas Kauffman

@Chopper3 NEON BARS!

Chopper3

@LucasKauffman these ones I got would need totally rewiring/braiding, bit of a pain in the arse

Cole

FFS my chest just decided to hurt for no reason today.

Chopper3

@Cole Got that on a dedicated broadband link with QoSed traffic :)

Lucas Kauffman

@Chopper3 then LEDs it is. You could also opt for water cooling and add an illuminating colorant to your cooling liquid

Chopper3

17:37

@LucasKauffman that has a water cooled CPU but all that reservoir/Mayhams-Aurora stuff is mad, needs a bigger case too

Lucas Kauffman

@Chopper3 that's an alien ware?

Chopper3

@LucasKauffman no, my old one was though, this is all hand-built

this seems fishy to me; serverfault.com/a/518452/1435

Matt Bear

@Chopper3 back when I was a gamer, I had blacklights in my case, with UV reactive paint lining the edges of all the cards, and UV reactive cables, I never did water cooling though, I hauled it around too much

Chopper3

@MattBear very nice

Lucas Kauffman

@Chopper3 there have been several reports over different SE of people spamming with similar comments today

Chopper3

17:39

@LucasKauffman ah

Ryan Ries

$100k if I go with Cisco ASAs, $250k if I go with Junipers

choices, choices

Lucas Kauffman

@RyanRies first world problems

Matt Bear

@Chopper3 of course now days, I would go minimal, instead of making it pretty, it would be all hardware

Ryan Ries

das schwerste gewicht

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Chopper3 yeah fishy indeed. I just killed the ranting part of it.

Chopper3

17:42

@DennisKaarsemaker cool

Miles Erickson

@Dan The database is plain text.

Chopper3

New splunk pricing schedule will be in minimum units of 250GB/day :(

Lucas Kauffman

@Chopper3 How much does that cost?

I know Splunk is insanely expensive

tombull89

@Chopper3 that is one bad-ass machine. I wish my cables were that tidy.

Miles Erickson

Dang. I brought Splunk into a place where I used to work at 1GB/day. I wonder whether they'll even get to renew.

Chopper3

17:45

@LucasKauffman not supposed to say but we pay about $380/GB/day

Lucas Kauffman

@Chopper3 holy fuck

Chopper3

@tombull89 I get into BF3 way too much, buzzin'

Dennis Kaarsemaker

splunk is ridiculously expensive

we've considered it until we saw the price tag

tombull89

@Dan got a password reminder from Waterstones earlier. My password was sent to me in plaintext.

ewwhite

@RyanRies Linksys

Chopper3

17:46

@MilesErickson that's for our corporate agreement, but even though we buy way more than that for production sometime I want smaller licences than that for test/reference/dev etc.

Ryan Ries

@ewwhite That would be hilarious, I should draft up that quote and send it to the boss just to see his reaction

Miles Erickson

@RyanRies Checked out Palo Alto?

Ryan Ries

@MilesErickson no

Cole

Microsoft, why the fuck couldn't you have made it easy to enable RDP via command line. Damn you.

Miles Erickson

@RyanRies I'd think that they would be quite competitive in that price range, and obviously their firewalls do amazing things that nothing from Cisco or Juniper can do.

Lucas Kauffman

17:48

@Chopper3 I testdrove it a few times and really like it, but that's just...wow

unless you have people constantly working with it it's just not worth it

Ryan Ries

@Cole sconfig?

Chopper3

@LucasKauffman it's pretty much the core of our MIS, we do several TB/day - nothing like Apple though, 150TB/day they got

Cole

@RyanRies sconfig work on 2003 & 2008 SP1?

Ryan Ries

It's just VB script

Lucas Kauffman

o.O

Cole

17:49

Hrm

Ryan Ries

I just pulled that out of my ass, I'm probably wrong

maybe

Dan

@tombull89 :S

tombull89

wat

amazon.com/dp/B003BEDUS6/?tag=059-20

Cole

@tombull89 I have something similar

Not pink though.

Dan

Is that like a she wee?

Cole

17:53

@Dan yes

Dan

Pretty common with festival goers and such now I believe

Cole

I'd rather just sit to pee.

Dan

Well, no, not common - but not unheard of!

Cole

Hate having to carry it with me.

Dan

@Cole Not in some places you wouln't!

Cole

17:54

@Dan well yeah, but day to day

Tom W

festivals - yes.

tombull89

Perhaps it's the context in which it's used - thisiswhyimbroke.com/female-urination-funnel

Tom W

...or so I'd think

gents' urinals are open-air and therefore are bearably smelly

Cole

I think that's why I prefer to just use a stall. I don't particularly like urinals.

WesleyDavid

@Chopper3 Don't tell me you're losing your dirty mind!

Tom W

17:55

wouldn't want to shut myself in a cubicle several times per afternoon

WesleyDavid

Wow, I @'d myself?

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That's some sick stuff right there.

Cole

@WesleyDavid I was wondering that.

But then I thought "He's a fucking cat!"

Dan

@WesleyDavid Skills

Chopper3

@WesleyDavid nah, just a bit slow

WesleyDavid

Hi @WesleyDavid! Hi!

tombull89

17:57

does that even work? @tombull89

Cole

@WesleyDavid is a special creature.

tombull89

nope

WesleyDavid

Windows 8 and @Cole. Still a better love story than Twilight.

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tombull89

@WesleyDavid 8.1

Joel E Salas

@WesleyDavid Have you even read Twilight??

Cole

17:58

DO YOU EVEN TWILIGHT!?

WesleyDavid

@JoelESalas 50 shades of Twilight Hunger.

Cole

50 shades of Twilight Games?

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