The Comms Room

Andrew

00:01

though it would have been online, so no change of datastore

mossy

I love the twitter bot.

i can read the stupid shit you guys say with out being in the same room!

cole

Ice cream acquired

Jacob

Hi all

cole

Not sure if my neighbors are banging because they're ignorant or because they're actually trying to piss me off

Jacob

@MarkHenderson Botox is useful for other things tho!

Mark Henderson

00:14

@Jacob It's the most poisonous thing known to man, isn't it?

But it's a muscle related thing, so it's probably good for people with cerebral palsy I'm guessing?

Jacob

@MarkHenderson ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8370782

TL;DR Yes yes it is

Wesley

@Zypher I made you a hat: meta.serverfault.com/a/5984/9770

@pauska Putcher danged hat on!!

@cole As the former neighbor of both kinds of people, I can say with authority that bangin' neighbors are better than battlin' neighbors.

Because at least jizz can't shoot through walls.

cole

O_O

Wesley

The ones across the street from me fought a lot. And had guns.

Mark Henderson

@Wesley Yours can't anyway

cole

00:20

ok my girlfriend asks for help with her finances and then is completely unhelpful when I'm trying to help

Wesley

Fortunately they only pulled a gun out when a peeping tom came through.

That was a fun night.

Mark Henderson

@cole WELCOME TO RELATIONSHIPS

Wesley

Dude got laid out.

@cole I lol'd

cole

Like pulling fucking teeth.

Wesley

@MarkHenderson Tell me more about this.

Mark Henderson

00:21

@Wesley Where the fuck do you live? You have an intimate knowledge of how junkies poop and your neighbours are shooting at peeping toms!

cole

I asked her for a specific list of thing. I said to be completely specific on the numbers. "I make about $XXX and change a week."

THAT'S NOT SPECIFIC

Wesley

@MarkHenderson I lived within hearing distance of one of the biggest drug arteries in north america: I-5

Mark Henderson

@cole And if it's only 3 digits she's flat-ass broke anyway

Wesley

We had two meth labs busted just doors away from eachother, a murderer that abused the corpse and left it to rot for days before being found, a hostage situation involving an axe, random night time shootings, stolen cars set on fire in front of my house, my neighbor blazing away at a car thief with her revolver... it was awesome.

cole

@MarkHenderson she is - but she has no car or anything.

Mark Henderson

00:23

@Wesley uhhhh yeah I would move

cole

It's because she can't manage her money for shit.

Mark Henderson

@cole fwiw I have this problem with customers. They just don't get the meaning of "specific details" - "ITS SLOW" is not good enough

cole

@MarkHenderson I want to throw myself out my window right now

Wesley

@MarkHenderson hlp plz my internet needs new batteries

Joel E Salas

@MarkHenderson I lol'd at natural order

@cole Never never never never

cole

00:26

@JoelESalas what?

I'm not loaning her money or anything. Hellz no

Joel E Salas

@cole I never talk money with my GF

I regret telling her how much I make

Wesley

@JoelESalas Good man.

@JoelESalas Ohhhh snap.

cole

@JoelESalas I regret telling my ex

Joel E Salas

If I get a raise I ain't sayin shit

Wesley

@JoelESalas Only solution: break up with her and boink her sister.

cole

00:27

@JoelESalas why does she hold it over your head or something?

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas THat's the problem in relationships these days. Communication. Too much communication...

cole

you guys make me want to never get married

Kinda nervous to see how late she is on rent

Wesley

@cole No shit.

The Comms Room has done two things for me: Made me flinch for a star button in IM conversations and made me flinch for a pistol whenever I think about marriage.

cole

She just sent the spreadsheet over

i'm nervous to see what I'm going to find'

Mark Henderson

@Wesley Then we have lied to you. Marriage really isn't that bad

cole

00:35

omg wtf - she still didn't do what I ask

/headdesk

Had her signup for Mint to link her NetSpend account

Scott Pack

@voretaq7 Then you can just while(<>) and the magic diamond will figure it all out for you.

cole

-_-

The balance in your NetSpend Prepaid Debit - NetSpend Prepaid Debit is at $0.47.

Scott Pack

@MDMarra I think during the late 90s and early aughts every single fucking webpage had a banner ad for x10.

cole

$0.47

2

Wesley

@cole FORTY. SEVEN. CENTS.

cole

00:37

She owes 2 x months of rent at $940

She makes $1434/month.

Wesley

@cole ?!?!?!?!

cole

No way she can pay it. What the fuck

Scott Pack

@voretaq7 Your feed sucks.

Wesley

@MarkHenderson Marriage sounds horrible. =(

cole

I'm so pissed right now.

Scott Pack

00:38

@Wesley I rather enjoy being married. ~~is she gone yet?~~

Wesley

@ScottPack Oh and you're the poster child for normalcy and mental health?

@ScottPack Okay, I just about shot tea out my nose.

Scott Pack

@Wesley Your face is the poster child for normalcy.

Wesley

@cole Throw her out by her hair!

cole

I'm just like

ugh

Scott Pack

@cole You were but then you had them chopped off.

cole

00:40

I just can't understand how someone lets it get this bad.

Anonymous

@Zoredache that's what i said, i reversed the power chord, luckily, smoke only came from the hdd and it was only it that was damaged

Scott Pack

@PatoSáinz I plugged a machine with a non-switching power supply into a 220 line. Luckily all the circuitry was spared because the power supply melted first.

Anonymous

@ScottPack woah, sometimes i forget murica has a different voltage

Scott Pack

@PatoSáinz Voltage s. Most home stuff is 110, but then most racks are 220.

Anonymous

@ScottPack crazy shit

Wesley

00:43

@ScottPack [tag:u-suk-@-markdown]

Scott Pack

Goddamnit

Anonymous

0

Q: Quarkcoin's bitcoin-qt fork won't recognise unspent transaction

I've got a problem with my bitcoin wallet client, I got around 10 QRK by mining via a pool, transferred them to my local wallet and then sent them to btc-e, I got a dialogue box saying something about the TX being too large and if I wished to add a fee, I said yes, and after that, the TX was regi...

Anonymous

can someone upvote it a little

Anonymous

pretty pretty plz

Scott Pack

@Wesley You should put backticks around that

Wesley

00:44

@PatoSáinz Slipped and downvoted.

Anonymous

@Wesley imma gonna downvote you

Wesley

@ScottPack You should put backticks around your mom.

Scott Pack

@PatoSáinz Many computer devices are smart enough to detect the voltage and autoswitch. I had gotten so accustomed to the autoswitch that I didn't notice the big red slider that switches it manually.

@Wesley Then she'll get Lime disease. You monster!

Anonymous

@ScottPack never seen, or at least noticed an autoswitch

Scott Pack

@PatoSáinz That's cuz you ain't no Merkin.

Anonymous

00:45

lol

Wesley

I wonder if anyone has ever wandered in here thinking "Oh well bully! I reckon these gents will give me stimulating conversation concerning the challenging profession that I find myself becoming steadily more proficient in!"

your mom. boobies. your face. yelling bird. torture. profanity.

Michael Hampton

Damn, I've posted on mSO twice today. Both times about the fracking new top bar.

ewwhite

I'm back

who was asking for me?

Scott Pack

@PatoSáinz Check this out, see the red big below the switch? That's a slider so you can change it from 110 to 220. Lamesauce. pctechwise.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/atx_powersupply.jpg

@ewwhite Oh honey. Everyone was wanting you.

Anonymous

@ScottPack yes, i know about it

Michael Hampton

00:49

2 hours ago, by Michael Hampton

2

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton :(

That's not even nice

Journeyman Geek

@ScottPack power supplies are awesome like that.

Michael Hampton

Oh, that's one of the nicer things I've seen in regard to healthcare.gov lately.

Journeyman Geek

and it was probably the fuse.

Scott Pack

Lots of smoke. Enough that I was worried that someone might have seen.

Michael Hampton

00:56

About to make my third mSO post of the day...

cole

I could fucking strangle her

She has no idea when anything is due, she's like "I'm not trying to be ridiculous theres just somethings that get done when I can?"

Scott Pack

So I'm about to unfollow @ServerStarred. It seems to be filling up my timeline.

Mark Henderson

@cole I didn't think that people like that actually existed

cole

@MarkHenderson I can't wrap my brain around that

Mark Henderson

How are they not evicted for not paying their rent?

cole

00:59

@MarkHenderson roommate

They're getting some money

Mark Henderson

@cole SHe's proabably exceptionally good looking, right?

cole

@MarkHenderson I didn't know it was this bad

Scott Pack

Oh! @MarkHenderson! You're down there! I don't understand how this part works.

cheezburger.com/7935937024

cole

I'm not saying I'm Mr. Perfect with my money - but shit, I'm not going out buying shit when I know I have bills to pay.

Mark Henderson

@ScottPack The backwards states (NT and QLD) don't honour DST

WA does on trial, but they are sitting all on their own timezone anyway so it's not a big deal

Scott Pack

01:02

Why the half hour?

Mark Henderson

@ScottPack Because it's half an hour west of the rest of the states

But not far enough to make it 1 hour

And the big state on the west? THat's 99.9% empty with small population pockets right on the west coast

Actually almost all the states are 99% empty, but that one especially

Michael Hampton

That's because about 90% of Australia is uninhabitable desert.

Journeyman Geek

and the rest is filled with things that can kill you

like dropbears and killer wombats, and hoop snakes.

Scott Pack

I hear wombats are the most poisonous creature on earth. It's bite can kill at 30 feet.

Wesley

@ScottPack I hear huntsman spiders are the most deadly mammal ever recorded and it can make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs!

Scott Pack

01:09

@Wesley That's ridiculous. A parsec is a unit of distance not of time.

Wesley

@ScottPack So's my face. =(

cole

@voretaq7 what's the name of that guy you were watching talks of earlier today? Trying to search chat now...

Scott Pack

I was about to say something rather crude and inappropriate but then I remembered starred things get twatted.

Andrew

01:25

@ewwhite re: serverfault.com/a/559346/42461 - surely that shouldn't change the provisioning type though?

Wesley

@ScottPack Yeah, the Star-to-Twitter idea was not particularly thoughtful.

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite Um... You want a Puppet keygen?

Andrew

@MichaelHampton isn't it open source?

Michael Hampton

@Andrew Puppet Enterprise

Andrew

@MichaelHampton ah.

Michael Hampton

01:37

It's ridiculous... the license key is YAML

It doesn't affect much since it doesn't actually enforce the number of licensed nodes in any way.

MikeyB

@ScottPack (can't tell if serious) the point was that he cut corners to take a more dangerous, shorter route rather than play it safe

cole

Wow

providence.craigslist.org/cpg/4229046553.html

MDMarra

0

Q: Exchange Error, AD Error, DNS Error, Netlogon Error

We installed some applications on our windows 2008 Standard R2 server ( as DC Controller and Exchange Server ) and rebooted, login start is very slow. When chek start Exchange Management Console get error "exception calling "GetComputerSite" with "0" argument(s):"the computer is not in a site. ...

windows-server-2008

what a complete clusterfuck

cole

Dear Lord

Help me please about sums it up.

Andrew

isn't cpanel off topic?

0

Q: Cpanel requiring MySQL upgrade, yet cpanel package is up to date?

I'm running CentOS; WHM/CPanel is telling me: fatal: Newer releases of cPanel & WHM are not compatible with your MySQL version: 5.0. Upgrade your MySQL server to a version greater or equal to 5.1 I checked my version: mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.96, for pc-linux-gnu (i686) using readline ...

centos mysql cpanel

Michael Hampton

01:50

@Andrew Sometimes.

You can blame @voretaq7 for that.

MDMarra

How to use CPanel to admin a server is offtopic

How to install CPanel and/or manage it for your dumbass customers is on-topic

At least that's how I understand it

Andrew

@MDMarra sounds reasonable

Michael Hampton

Upgrading cPanel and its components being a special case of installation and managing for dumbass customers, I've opted to leave it. But feel free to close it yourself if you feel so inclined.

I find they mostly go away after asking them "What did cPanel support tell you?"

Danila Ladner

@MDMarra Great documentary. Thanks.

MDMarra

Glad you enjoyed

ewwhite

02:05

careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/44908/…

I want Careers postings to show up properly again!!!

it's not fun when it doesn't.

MDMarra

What's wrong with that post?

ewwhite

@MDMarra do you get the full abstract of the position in chat?

or just a hyper-hyperlink?

Danila Ladner

I get full abstract.

Andrew

I just get a link

ewwhite

maybe it's my browser-browser

Michael Hampton

02:10

careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/44908/…

No, it's not working

MDMarra

@ewwhite I meant the job posting

Onebox is broken

Scott Pack

@MikeyB You're talking about the whole black hole cluster thing? That was retconned long after the fact. It's a pretty well established fact that, at the time, Lucas was using parsec as a unit of time and just had no idea.

ewwhite

@MDMarra job is good... I'm uniquely qualified... and I think they probably do cool and evil things there.

Michael Hampton

I dunno, that seems like a step or two down

ewwhite

way down

MDMarra

02:12

0

Q: Careers listings don't onebox in chat

Careers.SE posts used to onebox in chat. They don't anymore. This makes us sad when we want to make fun of some of the sillier job postings.

bug chat

ewwhite

but it was just a funny combination

MDMarra

@ewwhite ha

ewwhite

Produce Pro used Starteam as source control

MikeyB

@ScottPack Ah, was he? Darn. Oh well.

Scott Pack

@MikeyB Yeah. Watching some of the extra footage and actor stories it's pretty clear that Lucas, while able to come up with a nice story, is a bit of a twit.

Michael Hampton

02:14

@ewwhite So do you want a Puppet license key?

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton why?

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite Mainly to be amazed at how obnoxiously stupid the license key format is... it's YAML

ewwhite

heh

naw... I'm done with computers for the night...

Scott Pack

@MDMarra Not bad. Two minutes and no one has called you stupid or ugly nor brought into question your parentage.

ewwhite

waiting on this...

[root@Procacci /backup]# rsync -avP -e "ssh -c arcfour" /backup/ new:/ppro/ --exclude=/ppro* --exclude=/sav*  --delete --stats  && cd ~ && hcp -r /dev/hcp1
sending incremental file list
data/
data/PEL.TXT

MDMarra

02:16

@ScottPack I do well on mSO, actually

I just got Reversal the other day, for example

20

A: NSFW proposal on Area51

There is a proposal on Area 51 that definitely does NOT fit with the family-friendly nature of StackExchange. From the site description: Proposed Q&A site for a site for medical professionals, sex educators, counselors, and others to discuss both the physical and emotional aspects of sexual ...

Michael Hampton

cat > /etc/puppetlabs/license.key <<EOF
to: White Porn and Produce
nodes: 250
end: 2018-12-04
EOF
service pe-memcached restart

ewwhite

:-X

oooh.....

MikeyB

@ewwhite Oh my god, is StarTeam still around? I remember doing a report for Acres back in '98 suggesting they move to source control (yes, you heard that right. Previously, code was all stored on the P: drive and would be manually merged every day by a gatekeeper with no history) and suggested StarTeam over MKS due to the better GUI.

Michael Hampton

Told you it was stupid.…

ewwhite

@MikeyB :)

@MichaelHampton make a nice one for me

I'm out, fools...

MDMarra

02:18

byebye

MikeyB

@ewwhite And then the next co-op term, I interviewed with MKS, told the interviewer I was familiar with the product, why, and the reasons for my recommendations. I got the job. :)

Michael Hampton

Let this be a lesson to you: Don't write your license validation code in Ruby.

Scott Pack

People still use ruby?

Michael Hampton

@ScottPack Oh yes.

Andrew

@ScottPack people still use COBOL - languages never die.

MikeyB

02:23

0

A: Alternatives to the Cisco "Windows Server on WAAS appliance" for satellite office usage

It is now possible to use Samba 4 now as an RODC. This actually makes it practical to deploy as an appliance in branch offices. I've been testing this setup for a customer who wants to deploy exactly this environment and it's looking viable. @MDMarra, I'm so sorry.

Scott Pack

I'm pretty sure we still employ COBOL programmers.

Andrew

should vmware-vsphere and vmware-esxi be merged, pruned, cleaned up...

@ShaneMadden no vlans for serverfault.com/a/406159/42461 ?

MDMarra

@Andrew Nope

vSphere is a family of products/features. ESXi is the OS

Andrew

@MDMarra hmm, I've seen talk of "you should just call it vSphere (from 5.0 onwards) because that's what VMWare call it"... those tags don't mention that "ESX" doesn't exist any more either.

MDMarra

ESX is dead ESXi is very much alive. ESXi is part of vSphere

Michael Hampton

02:37

Fucking marketing people.

MDMarra

vSphere is basically ESXi + vCenter and all of the related technologies that go with it (vMotion, HA, etc)

But ESXi is still very much its own thing, as you don't need vCenter or any of that other stuff to use it on standalone systems

Andrew

@MDMarra yeah, we went from standalone ESXi (3.5) to vSphere (5.0)

anyway... if I want to a question about vSwitches (not distributed)... which tag?

Mark Henderson

@Andrew That's an esxi thing

mossy

Any WordPress guys in here?

MDMarra

I'd put both on

mossy

02:40

I'm about to push a button and im not sure what will happen

Andrew

@mossy snapshot it first

mossy

aint nobody got time for that

Scott Pack

More specifically ESXi is the hypervisor. vSphere is a bunch of other garbage.

Shane Madden

@Andrew Different port group would be a different vlan :)

Scott Pack

@MDMarra I get really cranky about the fat client because it's labeled simply as 'VMware vSphere'. Makes it annoy to talk about.

Andrew

02:42

@ScottPack ergh yes

I log into my vCenter VM to log in to the vSphere Client!

Michael Hampton

@mossy I know WordPress, more or less

Scott Pack

I use the vSphere client through my VMware View desktop.

Andrew

hmm, I'll give the web client a shot (again)

Wesley

I think we found @ewwhite's sock account!

49

Q: I worked for a company affiliated with a very publicly failed project. Should I take it off my resume?

I worked briefly for a company that had a recent highly publicized failed government project (I'm sure you can probably guess). While I did not work on that particular project, I think all the bad press about this company negatively affects my resume. I was only at the company for about 6 months ...

resume

Scott Pack

There was a time I was Master Electrician on a show and asked to have my name removed from the program. That was an awkward strike party.

Andrew

02:46

@Wesley too young

mossy

I'm moving a WordPress site from a VPS that was unmanaged for awhile to a BlueHost shared account (Shut up i know). The file permissions are all messed up, so i want to do a fresh wordpress install on BlueHost, and then use the plugin to import on a fresh install.

Will the import use the fresh install perms, or preserve backup perms

Wesley

@OliverSalzburg Hat up, homey: meta.serverfault.com/a/5985/9770

@mossy Fresh perms, if you use the XML export.

mossy

@MichaelHampton This is a budget job so I'm trying to do the least amount of clicking as possible.

Wesley

That's how I burn down old Wordpress installs and start from scratch

I don't even migrate the database.

mossy

wat

hm. i have to migrate everything.

they have Woocommerce lol.

Michael Hampton

02:48

Wait, what exactly is the job?

mossy

Move them from a vps to a shared hosting solution.

Wesley

@mossy Oh shite.

mossy

They don't have anyone to manage it.

Michael Hampton

Downgrade, eh?

Journeyman Geek

@mossy: that seems bass arkwards

Wesley

02:48

@mossy Whoa, from VPS to shared?

Andrew

@mossy is that a plugin to sell Woo?

mossy

GUYS focus.

Wesley

@mossy In your control panel go to MyHosedWordpress.com/wp-admin/export.php

Journeyman Geek

@mossy: I think file permissions should be default

mossy

I hate wordpress.

Mark Henderson

02:49

@Wesley please be a real domain please be a real domain please be a real domain

mossy

Ok one second.

Mark Henderson

Damnit

Wesley

That's how I export Wordpress content from a completely screwed up install. I don't want to migrate the filesystem, I don't want to keep permissions, I don't want the MySQL database.

I install Wordpress fresh with no ties to the old install and then do the XML export / import thing.

Michael Hampton

Is it completely screwed up?

Wesley

@MarkHenderson We could have a nice business there. www.unfuckwordpress.com

Mark Henderson

02:50

@Wesley I still plan on doing something with stopfuckingupit.com

mossy

@MichaelHampton I'm not too sure. The VPS isn't set up correctly - wordpress is asking for FTP creds to upload plugins, etc.

I can't be bothered to reconfigure it.

Michael Hampton

If they aren't complaining about broken stuff then I'd just tar up the FS, mysqldump the DB, and be off.

Wesley

@mossy Oh, that...

Michael Hampton

Just an "export" will leave behind all the plugin configurations

mossy

Side note: Have you guys ever used BlueHost? What in the bloody hell is going on here.

Michael Hampton

02:53

Bluehost? Never used them, but never met anybody who was happy with them either.

mossy

@MichaelHampton I'm going to try this wordpress plugin import first. If that fails I'll fall back to this.

@Wesley Yeah.. Not too sure what's going on.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Wesley

@mossy I don't understand why markdown hoses that emoticon's right arm.

@mossy If that's the case I've had to add define('FS_METHOD','direct'); into wp-config for installs that do that to force the filesystem method for updating plugins, themes, etc.

I should blog that so I can remember to do that at a later date.

I always forget that trick.

mossy

I feel like if I g+s this thing all the problems would go away

Journeyman Geek

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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