@Tanner You and me both brother.

@Tanner "one of"?

@voretaq7 actually, it's best that your starred comment didn't transpose the 4th and 5th word...otherwise my wife would be pissed!

@TheCleaner "Only two?!"

@voretaq7 Hey back in the days I'd be...well pretty much on a site like this.

and back from lunch

and me too.

Hi all.

OHAI

how goes it

24 hours left as an employee at this job

HOORAY!!!

where are you going next?

@cole hashtag-#DanceParty <--?

@voretaq7 hashtag-#fuckthisplace

@cole That's what you're doing by leaving, yes? :)

YUP

Girlfriend has secured an interview at BU for dental assisting on Monday - Fuck yeah

@cole "dental assisting" sounds like a job title for someone who chews up food so old people don't have to wear their dentures...

lol wow

@cole I'm a terrible person, I know

but now you're thinking it too aren't you?

I am.

I could do that job.

The Comms Room – Let's all be terrible people together!

YES

Make it so @voretaq7

sup ya'll

SharePoint consultant has been shipped back to India

I should change the room topic to "The US government has been funded through January 15. Clearly all our problems are over"

@MattBear did you use enough bubblewrap?

No one likes a dented Indian.

@cole You don't use bubblewrap. You crate them with straw.

Ohhh good FYI

I'm too nice... Was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt

till I remembered how much we were paying him

@MattBear what happened?

sucked ass?

completely worthless... diddnt know anything about what his resume said he was an "expert" in

showed up without any development tools

required constant hand holding

couldnt understand what he was being asked

w...t..f..

development tool for SharePoint is MS Visual Studio?

@MattBear found through a recruiter?

or through a contracting firm?

@DanilaLadner yup, and sharepoint designer

@voretaq7 contracting firm

@MattBear You guys put that firm on notice I hope?

@voretaq7 I doubt he was even the same guy we telephone interviewed

Finally saw Iron Man 3 last night....found an awesome foreign site with no ads/spyware that has a ton of first run and recent movies in HD...definitely bookmarked. But the movie itself was meh...I liked 1 and 2 better. This one had a little too much slapstick humor for me.

@TheCleaner ...like the fire extinguisher robot?

@TheCleaner that almost sounds like spam... gonna give us a link and some surveys we have to complete to get to the content?

I love that robot. I want to adopt it and have it clean my floors (because the fucking roomba won't do it anymore!)

@TheCleaner I still use primewire.ag - it's a link farm, but that's fine. Everything is there.

@MattBear heh....no here you go mate: viooz.co

@MattBear that's common practice

interviewing is one

coming another

@DanilaLadner seriously?

THAT makes a lot of sense

Why even bother get sharepoint consultant from India, i mean I always thought there are tons of these pseudo IT specialists

@voretaq7 just the overall feel of it. His dialogue with the kid, the fake Mandarin, the way Jon Favreau acted...all of it.

Absolutely

@DanilaLadner dunno, just the firm we went through

I don't suppose anyone has a sha1/md5 of a known good SW_DVD5_SA_Win_Ent_8.1_64BIT_English_MLF_X18-96759.ISO file? I have downloaded it three times now, and have gotten something with a different checksum each time.

@DanilaLadner do you have any sources on that?

SONOFA! Here's a tip. When you run an installer while you have the software's install guide PDF open...don't keep the PDF open to a page that has a pic of the "Overall Progress: 11%" screenshot. I've been sitting here for almost an hour wondering why the stupid thing was still at 11% only to realize I was looking at the install guide PDF.

@TheCleaner You didn't notice the browser/pdf reader chrome around the edges?

@MattBear Come on man, which world do you live in?

I hope you don't mind, but I am laughing at you a bit here.

@TheCleaner back to India with you!

@Zoredache lol, I did...(it's open in Chrome)...but my mind thought the install window was on top of it.

I remember indian body shops interviewing for contract positions by one and coming to work another.

@DanilaLadner a redneck one... haha

@TheCleaner What, you want them to research chinese swearing like they did for Firefly?

who just had 2 weeks intro into technology for which the contract

@DanilaLadner That seriously makes a whole lot of sense

@Zoredache where are you downloading it from? :)

@voretaq7 nah...(although just stared Firefly too...and I like!). I just thought 1 and 2 were more "blockbuster" where 3 seemed more like an episode of Agents of Shield

@MattBear - get the link? you like?

@TheCleaner not an episode. "Unaired pilot".

:)

@TheCleaner its all porn!

thanks :D

@voretaq7 www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter

@MattBear welcome...gonna watch White House Down tonight on it. HDMI out to the TV...kick back...oh yeah

@Zoredache it wouldn't surprise me if MS generates those on the fly - My Win7 disk from store.microsoft.com has a different checksum every time I grab it (and includes more service packs & hotfixes each time)

@TheCleaner nice

@TheCleaner YOU'RE STEALING FOOD FROM THE MOUTHS OF STARVING STUDIO EXECUTIVES YOU CRUEL INSENSITIVE PIRATICAL BASTARD!

@DanilaLadner im kinda pissed now...

(Sorry, the MPAA pays me a dollar every time I say that)

@voretaq7 Well, the first copy also came up and told me that the disk was corrupt when I tried to use it to build a new VM. So I am pretty sure the first copy is bad...

really pissed, were terminating our contract with the firm completely

@Zoredache hmmm

@MattBear that's justifiable

It's diddnt even occur to me that someone would have the balls to try to do that, because it gets real obvious real fast if the person doesnt know anything

@MattBear Just find a normal dude, check references, ask to send some examples of his work

before hiring

@voretaq7 I prefer to think of it as a better, free version of Netflix. How do I know they didn't pay the studio for the content? There's nothing on the site when I hit the Play button on the movie. :)

@TheCleaner Speaking of that shit...

@TheCleaner Claim ignorance!

remember the shows from 50+ years ago, when it was just sponsored by a company, and then the actors plugged the product during a short break, and right back to the show?

people actually diddnt mind watching those commercials...

@MattBear Remember cable 20ish years ago when you paid the cable company an obscene amount of money and you got to watch shows with no commercials?

but now its 8-10 minutes of commercials for every half hour of programming, so you just DVR then fast forward it...

@voretaq7 HBO still works that way

they need to fucking learn... If you have a break for 1 or 2 commercials, odd's are I will watch them

@ChrisS I wouldn't know, I don't subscribe to HBO. That would require paying my cable company an even more obscene amount of money.

but for 3-5 minutes every 10 minutes? fuck that!

It's OK though, the only thing I watch on HBO is Game of Thrones, and they said it's OK for me to pirate it.

@voretaq7 dont forget Di Vinci's Demons!

well...I remember the scene last night in Iron Man 3 when he gets in the back of the TV News van and there's a Sun/Oracle Exadata x2-8 rack in the van and Tony asks to crank up the power on the ISDN lines. Product placement strangeness.

thats starz I think...

@MattBear don't watch it

The radio is bad like that too...especially in the mornings.

@voretaq7 check it out, its really good and I think you would like it

And it's the same 4-5 commercials.

@TheCleaner you mean all TV news vans don't carry around a datacenter?

@voretaq7 I've got the $17/mo package plus $46/mo for Internet and $10/mo for HBO.

@TheCleaner yeah.. I lolled

@MattBear HBO TV Shows make up half of my top 10 list...

Deadwood was awesome, cocksucker.

@ChrisS my top 10 list is... How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory, Walking Dead, Di Vinci's Demons, Game Of Thrones, Duck Dynasty, Dr. Who, Hell On Wheels, Breaking Bad, and Family Guy

in no particular order

and im between 1 and 15 seasons behind on most of them

What about "The Wire"?

I just started Duck Dynasty, now that Season 1 is on Amazon VOD

@DanilaLadner havent seen it

and I'm probably one of the few that still has hopes in Revolution.

@TheCleaner I like it, because I live in an area that similar lol

@TheCleaner I think we all do...

just need an instigator!

@DanilaLadner Deadwood, The Wire, and wasnt there one about a serial killer?

I've not yet seen Breaking Bad

Dexter?

oh yeah, Hannibal is kinda interesting

There have been 3 shows ever to make me long for each new episode. Heroes Season 1, 24 Season 1, and The Walking Dead. I've never seen Breaking Bad though...

@DanilaLadner thats the one

I can't stand most TV these days... My brain refuses to ignore gigantic plot hole.

@TheCleaner for me it was WWF Raw!

oh and firefly...

@TheCleaner Heroes Season 2 was pretty darn good too.

the only 2 shows I ever cared enough to try to be home to watch

:p

I stuck with 24 way longer than I should have. The first few seasons were pretty good - though Season 1 was miles ahead.

@ChrisS the daughter was hot

Elisha Cuthbert

@MattBear Yes. "was" unfortunately... She's since degraded into a normal human being.

@ChrisS /drool loved that movie

Yep - I do hate the "protagonist downfall" part... as he isn't that stupid throughout the rest of the movie.. But I suppose they needed some kind of reversal before the climax.

Mad Men is nice too.

I want to like Mad Men... But I'm uncomfortable with the bigotry most of the time. I know it's a TV show and all... even talking about it doesn't sit well with me for some reason.

@ChrisS Welcome to Madison Avenue.

(Not just then. Now too.)

-))))

No one said shit about me -))). And I am Russian. -)))

@DanilaLadner go... drink some vodka and play in the snow

damn ruskie

I've actually done that though... was fun

I am tonight.

uggh, I gotta to figure out how to optimize sharepoint on azure

its running slow, and im thinking it has to do with disk caching an the sql server

What a mess:

@Magellan Poor guy. He don't know it is like it be but it do.

Just bought an air filter, hope that helps with my house

@voretaq7 Haha.

@cole What, you've been farting too much?

@Wesley pretty sure air filters don't help with that.

@Magellan Recirculate the air, squeegee out the bad particles...

@Wesley I don't have a range hood for my stove - whenever I cook my whole apartment smells of food

or cat litter, etc

@Wesley Not even HEPA filters help with methane.

It's a HEPA though :)

Hoping it helps with the dander too

I'm not allergic but a lot of my friends are

Also need to buy a new couch, but need to get the old one out.

@cole That it should help with. Wish I still had my old filter to keep the crazy-ass cat hair out of the house's air column

@Magellan hoping it does - he sheds a lot

@cole just burn the hair off the cats, flamethrower or blow torch works well

I was looking at new apartments, etc but I want to pay off debt first. I can't argue with $725/month for a 1br

oh.. I blasted another skunk

my skunk problem is almost gone :)

I dont mind them if they stay out in the pasture and do their own thing... but when they are on the porch, and just look at you, and turn and point their ass at you when you come out the door...

Non sequitur : tri-tip is delicious

and come back an hour or so after you pump a couple 00 magnum shells into dirt near them... we got an issue

@mfinni it is

@Magellan yardhouse OK or you want to go elsewhere?

@mfinni yes it is :) especially when I slow smoke it with hickory for 3 hours :D

Think I'll just pay someone from CL to come remove the old couch and chair to dispose of it

@RyJones A little tough to find already cut at the grocery store, here in new england, but always worth it.

oooo Lunar eclipse at 7:50PM

@mfinni I'd never heard of it until I moved out west

@mfinni Been there. Done that. Turned the cold aisle into a hot aisle and still killed people after two minutes of positive airflow.

@MattBear 8 hours in some red wine, oil, garlic, onions, worcestershire. 13 minutes under the broiler, while you cook and reduce the marinade into a sauce

@RyJones there ya are. Just responded to your email. 5 or 6 will do fine for me. I don't have a job to worry about until next week. =)

@RyJones We can totally work this around your work schedule. I'm mostly keeping the cats company and doing laundry & motorcycle repair this week.

@Magellan motorcycle repair builds up when employed, no?

my whole life is deferred maintenance

before I google it...what's the extra USB cable "extension" on these small external usb powered dvd burners for? Example pic (lower right):

@RyJones Yeah, my dad lived near San Luis Obispo for a while and introduced me to it

@TheCleaner power

@RyJones pretty much. at least my carport canopy thing gets here next week.

@RyJones Would 5 or 6 work better for you?

@TheCleaner power, uses 2 USB ports to power w/o power adapter.

oh @RyJones beat me.

@Magellan either is easy, I can just walk downstairs. My guess is 5:30 or 6 is fine

@RyJones what do you mean? It doesn't require a power adapter at all. Mine didn't come with the power adapter in the top right I mean...just that usb cable. The usb cable itself provides power just fine with only the "first" part of the cable plugged in.

@RyJones 5:30 sounds good to me.

@TheCleaner then your USB ports aren't negotiating from a low-power state.

@Magellan 5:30 it is.

@RyJones rockin!

Now if this cat would stop confusing me with a pin cushion....

@TheCleaner Some laptops don't put out enough power with one port, so they give a cable to get the needed power from USB

Desktops too if you're using a header rather than the built-in motherboard ports

@RyJones Negotiate? USB devices are like Congress - they demand what they want and if the ports don't provide it they threaten a shutdown!

ah...so you'd have to plug both in...instead of just one that supplied power and i/o?

Now if you'll excuse me I need to plug in by USB kegerator...

@TheCleaner Right. It's always better to have them both plugged in if you can especially if you're burning stuff (which draws more power).

@TheCleaner Some USB ports can power up to 2A, the standard mandates at least 0.05A, and a bus needs to provide at least 0.5A.... Those drives usually pull 1A, so some work on a single port, others with two ports, and others need a wallwart.

got it. I've never bothered with it before. Always left the long "extended part" unplugged and wondered why it was even there. Funny thing is I just bought this one too amazon.com/gp/product/B00DBV28TG and it comes with a single end on the cable...

@TheCleaner they're supposed to negotiate with a resistor that signals how much power to supply. some USB ports don't care and provide full power regardless

@ChrisS I thought the (USB 2.0) limit was 100mA?

(pre-negotiation)

@voretaq7 might be... I know 1.0 was 50mA

@ChrisS I don't remember the 1.0 limits - if you're using USB 1.x you deserve death.

@voretaq7 we all get death, so we all deserve it

@voretaq7 Yeah, USB 2.0 has power units of 100mA, with up to 5 units per device via negotiation. USB 3.0 extended that to 9 units (4.5W).

damn auto restart on server 2012

its annoying

forgot to change the automatic updates settings

@ChrisS nobody pays attention to that. <demands 10A from a USB port>

The USB Port should disable power to the port in that case. I imagine there's cheap no-name USB chargers that just connect Mains -> Transformer -> Rectifier -> Cap (optional) -> USB Port

It's starbucks time.

USB-PD 1.0 extends USB 3.0 allowing up to 15 units of power (7.5W).

USB-PD 2.0 is expected to allow different voltages and with beefier cables up to 100W. I have no inside knowledge, but I'll bet it's 56VDC at 2A (the USB 3.0 spec calls for cables allowing 1.5A already, so 2.0A isn't much different)

@cole I missed the news!? You got a new job!? Conga-rats!!

@AaronCopley I sure did - thanks!

Don't know how much I'll be in here when I start the $newjob

@cole did you land somewhere interesting?

@RyJones eh, interesting...not really.

@cole sad panda

Mutual Insurance company.

Windows Sys Admin work

6 months contract to hire, so if it sucks after 6 months I'll just peace out - and explain it was a contract :)

@cole I hear you... I'm only here once or twice a week these days, myself. We'll see you around occasionally though; I am sure.

@AaronCopley definitely.

Girlfriend's interview at BU has been confirmed for Monday at 2PM, really happy for her.

Hope she gets it. Her current job has a very toxic work environment

All kinds of change in here...

I haven't gotten an interview, yet but have a promising lead now that the gov't is back to work.

@AaronCopley you don't want to work for the government

they're just going to close again in January

@AaronCopley that's an oxymoron

government and work in the same sentence?

that's like "Enterprise grade apple hardware"

I regret my time working for .gov

did nothing for my career

But........ benefits? ;)