The Comms Room

freiheit

00:00

@MarkHenderson I believe the number in "36D" is inches around the chest below the breasts (basically the bra strap diameter). Totally separate from the "size 10" type stuff.

Mark Henderson

@freiheit Ahhh. We measure them as [shirt size][boob size] so 12C means size 12 shirt with a C breast

kalina

@freiheit yes it is

Wesley

@MarkHenderson Yeah but you Australians do everything upside down.

In fact, I'm not 100% certain how you've even managed to procreate.

84104

@Wesley Standing on their heads?

freiheit

@Wesley Both partners are upside down, so it all works out fine.

Nathan C

00:13

aw

tylerl

@NathanC thank god

not sure I wanted to see whatever you wanted to show

Nathan C

scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/v/…

guinea pig! :p

tylerl

@NathanC aw cute.

freiheit

@NathanC tasty!

Nathan C

she doesn't seem to like me very much yet heh

Wesley

00:16

@NathanC Hang in there. Girlfriends are confusing at times, but Stockholm syndrome sets in and things smooth out.

Nathan C

hahaha

Magellan

@Wesley Ha! Nice.

Mark Henderson

@Wesley A womans throat is connected to her fallopian tubes, with a special little flap in the esophagus that opens and shuts when semen is detected

Wesley

@MarkHenderson Tell me more, uncle Mark.

Mark Henderson

@Wesley Well, when a daddy and a daddy and a daddy and a mummy love eachother very much, or exchange payment for services, or drink too much, the three daddies all take turns in trying to make a baby with the mummy. After the baby is born, you go on a TV show with the three daddies and find out which one actually made you!

The two daddies that didn't make you high five each other and continue the process until they are all paying child support!

Falcon Momot

00:27

that is awesome.

Mark Henderson

I should write kids books

Wesley

@MarkHenderson Why is daddy ballgagged?

"...and other questions your toddler will ask."

Ergh. Sometimes remote support is a drag.

Mark Henderson

@Wesley More from the author of "Why mummy cries when she's alone" and "How to get what you want by nagging!"

Buy them together in the hard-back collection "I used to be happy"

Includes a special toddler edition of "All men are douchebags"

Wesley

@MarkHenderson and "Sex as a weapon, volumes 1 through U FAIL."

Mark Henderson

@Wesley With its companion, "Using sex as a bargaining chip. 1 easy step to getting your man to do what you want!"

tylerl

00:35

stupid libmysqlclient.so.15 Y YOU RUIN ERYTHING!!?!!

Mark Henderson

@tylerl Thats not a very good name for a toddler book

Joel E Salas

Fuck

so turns out I hate VMware

and every ops person before me

tylerl

@JoelESalas Welcome to the human race.

Please leave your reasonable expectations at the door.

Nathan C

8 screws later, hard drive out of laptop...

Wesley

@MarkHenderson Yeah, how about "It's going to be you or someone else. You choose."

Nathan C

00:47

So, apparently if a power supply is left unused it has the tendency to fail with scary effects

as in, popping noises and the sweet smell of burning plastic

This was one of those external supplies to power externals and such...

Matt Bear

01:00

god damn stupid people

tylerl

@NathanC This is not a feature of power supplies. Was yours left unused around a cat?

Nathan C

no, in a box

tylerl

return to seller

Matt Bear

"Did you check permissions" "Yes, it has to be done though code... blah blah blah" 2 hours of trying to find it in the code, I took a step back, checked user permissions, and it was a matter of unchecking a box

im pissed

both at her and myself... her for not doing what I told her to begin with, and myself for assuming that she couldn't be THAT stupid/lazy/incompetent, and not double checking

Joel E Salas

01:23

@MDMarra "CERN has been testing various virtualization and cloud options over the last few years and, according to infrastructure manager Tim Bell, it’s currently got two environments: around 3,000 virtual machines running in a high-availability configuration on Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM); and three OpenStack deployments, the main one running around 500 or 600 hypervisors."

That's a lot of fucking VMs

Magellan

@MattBear Yeah, I've had a few bad hires. Especially at the non-profit, as they generally didn't bother removing people that were lazy.

Nathan C

01:46

Oh man this drive's toast...

first it was uninitalized, then it's showing unallocated partitions

Falcon Momot

yawn

Wesley

02:01

@FalconMomot Coffee!

Falcon Momot

@Wesley I have.

Wesley

@FalconMomot Espresso!

Falcon Momot

@Wesley Don't have any handy.

Wesley

@FalconMomot Meth!

Falcon Momot

@Wesley I actually don't know anyone who can get me that.

Wesley

02:02

And why are you yawning anyway, did you just wake up? =P

Journeyman Geek

cook it yourself!

Wesley

@JourneymanGeek FalconHeisenberg

Falconberg!

MDMarra

@JoelESalas ya, hyper v configuration maximums are nothing to sneeze at

Andrew

@MarkHenderson lookout for drones carrying textbooks! arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/…

Mark Henderson

@Andrew Yeah read that in the paper :p

Nathan C

02:19

hddstatus.com/…

ouch...

This drive is...4 months old maybe?

Andrew

typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249

protips for devops right tehre

ewwhite

02:36

For those looking for something to help them sleep tonight...

THE JAPANESE LOVE INDUSTRY

MDMarra

Lonely already, I see.

ewwhite

crunk, and needing to build a Magento setup for some produce company

MDMarra

$_$

ewwhite

But I stopped by Insomnia Cookies to get my fix.

MDMarra

Mmm. They used to have a truck on my walk to the train from my last job

It's hard to say no to cookies after a hard day of work

ewwhite

02:40

And now I know why they call this the "City of Brotherly Love"

(getting hit on during the walk back to my ho-tel)

MDMarra

ಠ_ಠ

jscott

So did you two go to Mark's special steak sandwich cart?

MDMarra

We went somewhere that @ewwhite could have some pig!

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra Yo mummas house!

MDMarra

02:59

D:

Journeyman Geek

@NathanC backup, run the official tool, see if you can RMA. STAT

Nathan C

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, the laptop's being sent back. It's a friend's laptop heh.

Just trying to recover some data, but it's not looking good.

Journeyman Geek

@NathanC: gddrescue tends to work

I did it when my drive had bad sectors. It won't save all of it, but it will save as much of it as possible

Nathan C

yeah...that'll be my last ditch if this other software doesn't work

Andrew

03:31

thedailywtf.com/Articles/833-Uptime.aspx

Andrew

03:44

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Q: How to forward a localhost port without SSH

I have a mysql server listening on localhost. The server has a openvpn interface, tun0 I can use a ssh tunnel to run some remote scripts, but I would like to make it permanent, and I dont like ssh, as an external process and extra encryption that I dont need. This works, but only for packets fr...

Chris S

04:09

walgreens.com/search/results.jsp?Ntt=wire <--- NSFW =]

@Andrew The whole story is one giant WTF... Comments seem to agree.

Mark Henderson

@ChrisS Where do you work that a dildo is NSFW?

Chris S

@MarkHenderson United States of You Can Be Fired For Anything

and Puritan Bullsh*t

Mark Henderson

@ChrisS You poor people :P

I might have shit internet but at least I have job security :P

Mark Henderson

04:38

Man today is my day. Not for profit pricing approval came through, and just got a call that the same not-profit just got a $3,500 IT grant

Magellan

Nice.

Magellan

05:08

@MarkHenderson I think this guy might be high though.

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Q: How to forward a localhost port without SSH

I have a mysql server listening on localhost. The server has a openvpn interface, tun0 I can use a ssh tunnel to run some remote scripts, but I would like to make it permanent, and I dont like ssh, as an external process and extra encryption that I dont need. This works, but only for packets fr...

iptables localhost iproute2

Miles Erickson

"extra encryption that I don't need"

huh.

Magellan

I have no idea what he's trying to do. I'm not sure he really knows either.

Miles Erickson

Well, you know what they say. He who encrypts least encrypts best.

Forget SSH, forget ADHDSSL. This guy wants his tunnel unprotected.

Or, for fans of George H.W. Bush: "Read my commits: no new hashes!"

I'd better quit while I'm behind.

Magellan

Sheesh. Another one.

serverfault.com/review/close/96089

He's doing KVM Virtualization on a Pen-Test Security distro.

Miles Erickson

Which, you know, is sort of like directing traffic with an AK-47. It can be done, but it's likely to raise eyebrows outside of Afghanistan.

5

Magellan

05:24

Yeah. Of course, we get some really strange stuff during the APAC business hours.

Andrew

0

Q: How to Design ADS so as only Selected Computer Names can join the domain

I am wondering weather someone can help me out for two most critical scenario from security point of view. 1) First can we design a ADS in Domain such that only selected and predefined computer name can join the domains. all other computer name should not be allowed to join Domain irrespective ...

windows-server-2008

> all other computer name should not be allowed to join Domain irrespective of users rights.

ummmm

Miles Erickson

Oh my.

Magellan

@MilesErickson About peed myself when I read your comment

tylerl

@Magellan I LOLed

Magellan

@tylerl I lol'd so hard I'm pretty sure the neighbors heard me.

Miles Erickson

05:35

I actually answered the question, too.

tylerl

I also enjoy how such questions frequently end with "kindly provide the answer plz"

because nobody would answer otherwise

Miles Erickson

Coming from a Western cultural perspective, one experiences India as a very strange place. Everyone is extraordinarily rude in public, yet there is a certain degree of obsession with politeness.

For example, a service representative might ask @Wesley, "What is your good name?"

Journeyman Geek

@MilesErickson: its easier to understand if you think of them as bizzaro victorian culture

tylerl

The further East you go, the greater the importance of social ranking in speech. It's a very interesting phenomenon.

Difficult for westerners to understand

It tends to reflect the historical importance of social power in the preceeding civilization. In western societies, rank becomes much less significant much earlier on.

so the honorifics largely disappeared from German, English, etc.

Miles Erickson

This is truly fascinating, Your Excellency.

2

It really gets interesting if you try to learn a language that requires everyone to be referred to with specific words that must be selected with great care depending on whether he/she is older, younger, parental, avuncular, of a grand age, etc.

tylerl

05:48

@MilesErickson All the more reason for everyone else to learn English.

Miles Erickson

Pimsleur really falls down on that stuff. Follow their advice and every woman is your grandma.

tylerl

:)

dawud

06:17

morning gentlemen

Miles Erickson

Good morning! You can park over there, and yes, it's real.

Iain

G'day

pauska

06:33

morning

Miles Erickson

Welcome, folks. Over there, next to the cat, and no, it's not loaded.

Jenny D

Morning

Falcon Momot

morning

@JennyD you're sure in early today

Jenny D

@FalconMomot nah, it's 8.30 here, that's not early

Falcon Momot

@JennyD aah. usually when I see you say morning, 2 hours from now, it's a sign I need to think about getting home :)

Jenny D

06:38

@FalconMomot I think usually I faff around a bit with other things before writing anything here. But today I got a good seat on the train so I could do stuff from there on the ride in.

Falcon Momot

aah

Journeyman Geek

lol

@MilesErickson have you checked if the cat was unloaded?

Miles Erickson

Have you ever met a cat that wasn't loaded?

translate.google.com/…

^ announcement of new wine for cats, whose name Google translates as... well, a synonym for cat, anyway.

Iain

06:55

> Product Features
1. Never in the non-alcoholic wine style drinks non-alcoholic wine style drink alcohol zero full-scale, you get drunk even if I give him the love cat.

wat?

Miles Erickson

Normally, "giving him the love cat" is a sobering experience. This can help.

Michael Hampton

I'm really starting to hate Amazon EC2...

pauska

17.44% average iowait

on a cloud system

I AM SURPRISE

Miles Erickson

@Wesley Wait... you're the love cat.

Iain

you're in a strange mood today @MilesErickson

tylerl

07:09

Wait, WHAT???! Poor IO performance on EC2? Clearly this is a recent development.

Miles Erickson

@Iain That's for sure.

Iain

@MilesErickson I wish I'd been properly caffeinated earlier I could have said you're in a strange mood yesterday @MilesErickson

pauska

It does make you wonder.. is there going to be a strong market uprise for dedicated services again?

Miles Erickson

@pauska Not here in Seattle. Double grande hazelnut latte with whip for breakfast, quad extra-large high-IO on-demand instances with S3 on the side for lunch. With stuff like that on tap, who needs food... or servers?

Michael Hampton

@pauska If it were 17% all day long, I wouldn't care.

pauska

07:21

17% averaged iowait is quite the big deal to me, but I guess we have different requirements.. it basically translates that your app(s) is spending 4 hours a day waiting for the disk subsystem to clear it's queues

maybe our users are spoiled.. they scream bloody murder when an app takes 10 seconds longer to launch

Michael Hampton

@pauska The OS is, anyway. The app does all its disk I/O on separate threads, so it survives this I/O crap pretty well.

And it's only logging anyway. Doesn't matter much if it's delayed.

tylerl

@MichaelHampton what sort of instance are you running on?

Michael Hampton

@tylerl This one's a micro

Which is probably the root cause

tylerl

ah.

So I guess you get what you pay for

Michael Hampton

I am paying for it!

tylerl

07:24

Or perhaps arugably quite a lot more than you pay for

Michael Hampton

It fits perfectly well into a micro... I could probably run it on my phone if it had the bandwidth.

tylerl

@MichaelHampton You could downgrade to the free tier. Probably not much worse than what you're seeing now. And infinitely better value.

Michael Hampton

@tylerl The free tier IS a micro instance. Only you start paying for it after a year.

tylerl

Phones today are actually absurdly powerful. quad-core 1.2GHZ with 2GB of ram? You can run a whole infrastructure on that.

Michael Hampton

@tylerl They have to be powerful to keep running the new versions of Plants vs. Zombies.

tylerl

07:28

My wife's old laptop was less powerful than her cell phone. Lower resolution screen, too.

pauska

@MichaelHampton You should talk to TomTom

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Dan

07:43

MS Office says "YOU CAN DO IT, HOLD IN THERE"

Iain

08:00

Only 49 pages of answers left to make CW now

ITHedgeHog

Good morrow fair ServerFaulters

Chopper3

hi

ITHedgeHog

@Chopper3 Hey how are you doing?

Chopper3

@ITHedgeHog Great thanks

ITHedgeHog

Awesome

Dan

08:18

Personally I don't think we're sufficiently trigger happy.This has lead to an archive of google material that now attracts far too many hapless, clueless people who can't bet bothered to read for themselves and hence ask even crappier questions drowning out the (very) occasional good one. If we'd been ruthless at the start perhaps we wouldn't have had this problem. — Iain 2 hours ago

Truth right here

RobM

aye

tombull89

@Chopper3 what did you think of BF4 in the end?

Chopper3

@tombull89 too early to say yet - I had a few lock-ups

Dan

@tombull89 I wasn't overwhelmed to be honest

The beta is okay, but I doubt I'll get it on release

tombull89

@Chopper3 same - a couple when loading the map after a game had ended and one, critically, when flying a chopper that just got locked onto :/

Chopper3

08:25

@tombull89 that said I played through 'Beyond: Two Souls' at the weekend and that locked up twice!

tombull89

I got stuck on a lot of invisible rubble once the building collapsed which I found the most annoying, as well as the input lag.

Dan

I'm still mostly addicted to GTA

If I'd have known the hotel here has HDMI TV's I'd have brought my XBox along

tombull89

I've really got into Rush on BF3 servers - PTFO like mad when attacking. I've recently unlocked the MK4A1, full-auto shotgun and it's a bit of a beast.

Got my first MVP/1st place ribbon with it a few games ago.

RobM

The game I've been waiting for just got delayed - watch dogs

I want GTA 5 but on the PC so haven't played that yet

tombull89

@RobM delayed? again? D:

RobM

08:31

Yeah they said yesterday that and something else were being delayed until next year

I'd rather buy games that were done right than done fast, of course, so you can't really complain in that sense, but I think both watch dogs and the other title (the crew?) were supposed to be launch titles for the new playstation and xbox

so its a bit of a black eye for ubisoft

Falcon Momot

grr I am so angry right now

I was out longboarding, and I was crossing a street in a crosswalk at a traffic light, and this jackass security guard decides he wants to hit me.

Journeyman Geek

o0

for longboarding?

Falcon Momot

I leapt out of the way in time, but he ran over my board, and sped off too quickly for me to get a plate >.<

seriously... when you hit a pedestrian, you stop.

Journeyman Geek

he needs to be slapped with longfish

Falcon Momot

nice

RobM

08:34

what. a. cock. :-(

Journeyman Geek

longfish is long.

Falcon Momot

I really want to exact some revenge on him but I have no fucking clue who he is. damnit.

tombull89

Need a lot of chips for that

Journeyman Geek

@FalconMomot: rest assured, he will likely be eaten by a grue

Falcon Momot

luckily, though my board went flying, it looks like he just managed to kickflip it with his tire, and scrape a bit with his rear bumper

I don't know if I am going to be able to concentrate on much for the rest of the night.

Dan

08:38

THat's very shitty

D'oh - spent last night at the hotel worrying about a strange issue I'm seeing here. JUST remembered that I saw it a few years back and have a solution!

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Dan: talked to the duck?

hmm

tombull89

Just had a student come up to the office to ask for an ip address for a printer so he can print some work off...his phone.

um.

Journeyman Geek

o0

tylerl

anyone have experience with ovh.com? Their server pricing is absurdly low, but their company is very well established.

Falcon Momot

@tylerl I know a few people who really, really hate them, but those people are kind of accident-prone and hate almost everyone.

tombull89

08:50

@tylerl I know someone with a number of servers on their Kimsufi packages - very cheap ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi_2g.xml but reccomended if you know what you're doing with Linux.

tylerl

@FalconMomot hm.

tombull89

If you want a Windows server, it gets expensive, quick.

Falcon Momot

nonetheless, I do recall them once doing something like powering off a rack for no reason and trying to pass it off as a network problem.

tylerl

@FalconMomot LOL. A small hosting company that a previous employer used had an employee once trip over a power cord and take down a row of racks.

We were not impressed

Falcon Momot

@tylerl whatever happened to redundant power supplies?

tylerl

08:52

Yeah.

Dan

@JourneymanGeek Yeah - I was typing an e-mail to everyone and then had a flashback!

@tombull89 Tell him he can have 127.0.0.1

RobM

back when irc chat was big enough that the major isps all had to be in it, I was doing work with MS on exchange and, oddly enough, irc servers. A major part of chat.msn.com was a server under a developer's desk and one day someone else went into their office and decided to steal the power cable from this machine that was clearly tucked under a desk and not being used for anything serious as there was no monitor, etc. plugged in...

tylerl

But seriously: Xeon ES-1620, 2GB drives, 64GB RAM, 500 Mbit/s guaranteed uplink, for US$149/mo? I pay an order of magnitude more than that just for bandwidth anywhere.

how can that not be a scam?

Falcon Momot

I may know someone who offers that

tylerl

@FalconMomot psst, wanna buy some bandwidth?

Falcon Momot

08:56

it's probably the case that you're getting a supermicro server or something like that, and also that you're getting it near cost

I believe OVH was having some financial troubles too last I heard?

tylerl

@FalconMomot Nothing about that in google news.

Falcon Momot

@tylerl there was a very small amount of noise that they were about to be in recievership, but I don't know if it was true.

tylerl

There's a bit about them stopping offering new servers for a few days while they change their pricing model to stop encouraging customers to constantly switch servers

but that's it. ...

So why can't I get 100Mbit/s at a colo for less than $500/mo?

faker

good morning!

tylerl

If these monkeys can do 5 times that it for $150, including a decent server?

Ah, here's a little gem:

OVH

OVH is a worldwide, privately owned web hosting service company that provides dedicated servers, mutual hosting, domain names and VOIP telephony services. The company is a société par actions simplifiée under French law and its headquarters are in Roubaix in northern France. The company has eight datacentres housing at least 145,000 machines. The company offers localized services in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Ireland, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Lithuania, and Finland. It has also expanded its services to the United States of America and Canada. The company has deployed ...

> The account passwords were reset, and the servers were re-started into recovery mode, giving the attackers full access. ... OVH confirmed that 3 customers were victim of a vulnerability in their password recovery unique URL system

whoops!

Falcon Momot

09:06

I understand they are prone to accidents like that, yes, but...

you really can't beat them on price.

tylerl

@FalconMomot That's too bad. I was hoping that you could beat them on price, but I just didn't know where to look. :(

faker

@tylerl at least on the German site all of their dedicated servers are "sold out", not sure if I want to go to a hosting company that can't scale out like that ;)

Falcon Momot

ha

tylerl

@faker CA and US have a few. France, Germany, and UK are all sold out.

noted for later

night

faker

of all the server in our hadoop cluster of course the jobtracker has a broken disk :/

Mathias R. Jessen

10:11

Our parent company is requesting grant proposals from employees. The grant money is to be used for employee field trips and other educational purposes, any suggestions guys?

Jenny D

10:23

@MathiasR.Jessen LISA?

Mathias R. Jessen

@JennyD Could be really nice, thought about it actually, but given that I have limited exposure to *nix in a professional capacity I'm afraid I wouldn't get the same value for the buck as a seasoned linux admin or system dev

Also, the grants are limited to around DKK 25000 (~ $5000), not sure that's enough to cover all expenses

Maybe I can find some interesting security conferences here in Europe

Jenny D

@MathiasR.Jessen No, that would probably not be enough... You could come visit my company? init.se/Nyhetsarkiv/Teknikevent-27e-nov-2013 - full day about open source stuff, no cost

Mathias R. Jessen

10:39

@JennyD Is it gonna be in Swedish? That would give my proposal even more merit (learning tech stuff AND swedish) :D

faker

@MathiasR.Jessen there is events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Main_Page in Hamburg this year

Jenny D

@MathiasR.Jessen English, because there will be some speakers and some guests that don't know Swedish

Dan

11:29

Any French speakers among us?

Iain

non

Jenny D

@Dan je le comprends, mais je ne le parle bien

Dan

Never mind - believe it or not, Google translate came through!

tombull89

@Dan bonjour mon petit ami.

Jenny D

I can translate from French, but not to it. At least not grammatically correct.

tombull89

11:31

wait, isn't chien dog?

Jenny D

@tombull89 Yep

Journeyman Geek

yup

tombull89

\o/

two years of GCSE french did me good.

Iain

Questions/day dropped by another 1 in the last 24 hours - at this rate SF will reach 0 my the end of January 2014

Jenny D

and "petit ami" means "boyfriend/lover" rather than just "friend"

Journeyman Geek

11:32

yeah ;p

I was going to point that out

tombull89

oh

Sorry Mrs Herman.

Dan

@JennyD Maybe he got it right the first time!

Jenny D

My current reading material is a French adventure/detective novel from early 20th century

@Dan Well, I didn't look that closely at your wedding pictures...

Dan

Computers are stupid

tombull89

@Dan we need a "do what I mean, not what I said" flag.

Iain

11:35

@Dan Computer do exactly what they are told

Dan

@Iain They don't.

Iain

really ?

Dan

Well, at a basic level yes, but the second that Operating System is in the way...

Iain

they are still doing what they are told

Nathan C

@Dan Correction: Developers.

Falcon Momot

11:41

Indeed. Verily they do what they are told (unless they are broken) - but they needn't do as you tell them.

Nathan C

I came in this morning and I had no taskbar or desktop icons. Couldn't open task manager either and it didn't respond to any keys ...existing apps worked though. Had to hard restart O.o

Dan

They are, just not what they're told by me :(

Journeyman Geek

@Iain what they are told. Not what you want them to do ;p

Iain

@JourneymanGeek exactly or in the case of an ex cow-orker what he thought he told it to do

Journeyman Geek

or occationally... just nothing at all

cole

12:14

sup

faker

12:26

lol I heard someone complain about me because I shot down the idea that someone from my team 'programs' a excel macro for them

tombull89

@faker good lad

Nathan C

12:40

Hm, there's a file called Irony.dll in this program's folder.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@NathanC well, isn't that ironic. Don't you think?

RobM

A little too ironic, maybe?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

Yeah, I really do think.

Scott Pack

It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

Dan

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Q: Business network infrastructure - common patterns?

I was given the task to build up a new network infrastructure for our company, but I seem to fail at the most trivial things due to lack of knowledge (I am a programmer and never had to do server stuff in that scale, especially not with Windows components.) So, we have a unicorn-powered physical...

linux windows-server-2008 dns active-directory firewall

Yikes

Dennis Kaarsemaker

12:47

It's like 10,000 servers, when all you need is a cloud.

RobM

Or a free ride, when you've already paid?

Scott Pack

@RobM Not too long ago I heard Nirvana on the oldies station. :(

RobM

It's like buying the server of your dreams, and discovering it's running OS2...

3

Scott Pack

It figures.

RobM

@dan very yikes. I just love these coders who think they can just knock out a major network infrastructure because of that one time they totally installed ubuntu or windows server on their test box without any help.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

12:48

Life has a funny, funny way...

@ScottPack you're an old man

RobM

They'd rightly lambast one of us if we went to S.O. and said "Hai, I totally wrote a shellscript once as a sysadmin, now tell me how I can code a enterprise CRM by myself for a 10,000 employee business".

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cole

Getting yelled at by one of the DBAs for company policy makes me glad Friday is my last day.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

just 3 more days

RobM

just tell them to fuck off

Falcon Momot

@cole ha! vile.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

12:52

try not to kill anyone

Dan

@RobM Yeah, but we all know those Server guys don't really do anything

Dennis Kaarsemaker

or at least try not to get caught

Dan

@RobM Agreed!

Scott Pack

@cole Did you violate company policy or were they complaining at you?

cole

@ScottPack complaining at me

Whatever, 2 more days

RobM

12:58

you should tell them that you don't care because you're gone in two days... I'm sure it will calm them down. And if it doesn't who cares? You're gone in two days.

Jenny D

@RobM Depends if the person complaining has any input at all into what kind of reference Cole will get

RobM

ah. good point.

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