The Comms Room

Tom O'Connor

14:00

@tombull89 no

Nathan C

@cole Dat RAM freed!

pauska

ideally you should have 2-3x your monthly salary as a debit buffer

cole

@NathanC but..but I had things I was looking at :(

Nathan C

In speaking of which, one of the chrome tabs is up to 2 GB used...

pauska

I've never been there though - lousy with money

Dan

14:01

:13035976

cole

@pauska I'm trying to get to that point.

Nathan C

CHROME, Y U SO RAM HUNGRY?

Iain

@DennisKaarsemaker I'm curious, do you get any decent sysadmin candidates for the roles you have advertised on the sidebar ?

Nathan C

Apparently the UniFi controller has a memory leak...

Dan

Nor me really, but as it happens I have nearly 10x the amount of my salary and nearly double that in money that I absolutely must have or else. It was meant to be a house deposit, but now it's a warchest while I go consulting.

Either way, would you really just keep it in your current account

Nathan C

14:02

I left the tab open and after a few days it was eating ~2 GB of RAM

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Iain we get both decent and crap candidates for the role, whether they come via the ad I don't know, I don't actually think we track that.

cole

@NathanC nom nom nom

Iain

hmm interesting

Scott Pack

@DennisKaarsemaker Do you normally get a mix of both?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@ScottPack yes

especially for the singapore positions

Nathan C

14:03

@cole After budgeting bills and so forth, I have less than $100/week to live on >.> yay bills

cole

:(

Nathan C

this quarterly payment for one of my student loans throws things out of whack

Dan

@NathanC It depends on your definition, $100/week of play money if you're including things like food and so on (I.e., ALL of your expenses) isn't so bad

Iain

@DennisKaarsemaker if you don't track where they come from how can you tell if your spending your $ correctly - I'm guessing you don't care

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Iain I'm afraid that "we don't care" may be correct there

ads on SF are too cheap to care about

Nathan C

14:04

@Dan Excludes food/fuel/misc living expenses

Dennis Kaarsemaker

(don't tell SE staff that!)

Dan

@NathanC Oh, less than ideal then :(

Iain

@DennisKaarsemaker which (I guess) is just as well really

Dennis Kaarsemaker

recruitment agencies are expensive, ads are cheap

Nathan C

My federal loans will start coming in soon too...I have to refile the income-based repayment and I estimated another $120/month coming out

Dennis Kaarsemaker

14:06

we have a €2500 bonus internally for internal referals that get hired

which is still cheap

which is also why I keep prodding people here, it may be cheap for booking, but €2500 buys me a lot of scotch :)

Iain

:)

Journeyman Geek

lol

faker

urgh, we just had a bad all-hands meeting. That's it, I need to find a new job

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@faker come to amsterdam to work for me :)

Journeyman Geek

@faker: :/

blah, if my results would come out, I can start job searching in earnest.

faker

14:08

@DennisKaarsemaker heh that isn't too far away, but I'll take my chances here first

Iain

@faker meet @DennisKaarsemaker (@DennisKaarsemaker that'll be €100 tyvm ) ;)

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Iain :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Iain tell you what: if @faker joins us through an internal referal so I get the bonus, the bonus will be converted to scotch for as many regulars as I can afford :)

Journeyman Geek

;p

faker

14:11

@DennisKaarsemaker I doubt it, job market here (==Munich) is pretty good and I have an exceptional short notice period

Journeyman Geek

@faker: if they let you go, wouldn't/shouldn't it be waived?

Iain

@DennisKaarsemaker :)

faker

@JourneymanGeek no way. I learned today that my boss (the only one who also does work on production systems) is going on a 6 month parental leave. They can't afford letting me go any day sooner than legally allowed

Journeyman Geek

@faker: ouch

Nathan C

@JourneymanGeek The amount of "how is network formed" on SU is too damn high :P

cole

14:14

@faker oh man

faker

and also on my last job (3 month notice period) I didn't get out earlier. Lots and lots of documentation to be written

Journeyman Geek

@NathanC: well, different audience. Also, we just tend to kill em off quietly where we can ;p

@faker: heh

I'm STILL not sure what I need to document here before I leave ;p

Nathan C

@JourneymanGeek I almost rep-capped yesterday from answering like 3 questions...I'd be lucky to get a +10 on SF.

Journeyman Geek

@NathanC: SF is a MUCH tougher crowd ;p

I once recapped high as a kite on cold meds.

Scott Pack

@DennisKaarsemaker This is pretty much just mine fully filled out, I can't be bothered to form it into a template.

@DennisKaarsemaker dropbox.com/sh/2fiwr53ttmau4bb/DjUop5bzDM

Nathan C

14:16

@JourneymanGeek My "Unsung Hero" badge here shows this lol

Scott Pack

@DennisKaarsemaker Woudl you let him remote in?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@NathanC heh, I rep-capped on codegolf and security in the same day. One answer on each....

Journeyman Geek

@NathanC: I have one here

Iain

@NathanC I guess that that's because the number of people on SF who pay on 'our' side is tiny compared to the number who ask questions and largely the people ho ask questions don't care past getting their question answerd

Journeyman Geek

and close to 60K on SU

Dennis Kaarsemaker

14:17

@ScottPack no.

Scott Pack

@DennisKaarsemaker Lame

faker

@DennisKaarsemaker I'm not a big friend of doing remote operations anyway (meaning a split up ops team)

cole

What even

0

Q: how to add a dsquery script to excel

I have to update ad with home users number etc I've written the script and imported the usernames and phone numbers into excel Script : dsquery user -samid "username" "OU=Sys,OU=Prod Services,DC=win,DC=ite,DC=com" | dsmod user -mobile "999" -hometel -u XXXXXX -p XXXXXXXXX I've set excel form...

A batch file? da faq

pauska

dsquery.. how long has powershell been around?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@ScottPack that's a lot more like 'normal' TeX than mine. I cheat and used moderncv

Nathan C

14:20

I used dsquery once. It was awful.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

your thesis title is too wide though, overfull hbox :)

Nathan C

AD cried out in agony and I'm pretty sure a baby or two died

cole

Early morning PowerShell boner.

Scott Pack

@DennisKaarsemaker I had used different stys in the past. I got tired of keeping them working as I migrated systems.

Particularly on OSX.

Dan

@NathanC I was using dsquery up until the last year or so cos I had a great big fuck off spreadsheet for importing accounts

Nathan C

14:22

@Dan I think I used it a couple times for diagnosing screwy AD issues, but not to manipulate data

Dan

I'm actually thinking of dsadd, I think

cole

Sounds like an Intern task

Dan

@cole Who? :D

cole

@Dan the question I linked

Dan

Sorry, I thought you meant me adding users. Which, you kind of did indirectly :D

cole

14:25

@Dan depends on the environment - I've had to add users in previous environments - our help desk takes care of that now

OMG NOTES WTF

Dan

@cole It's normally when I'm building new environments, don't really touch it otherwise

Dennis Kaarsemaker

one of the first things I did here was fix all our user creation crap

it was a disaster

Nathan C

@cole I have a feeling "Lotus Notes: Terror in the IT Department" will become frequent

Iain

@ScottPack @DennisKaarsemaker with cpan2rmp is it possible (and if so how) to change the path prefix - the equivalent of perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local/ ...

cole

@NathanC Just sucks our ticketing system is a Notes application.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

14:30

@Iain I use cpanspec instead of cpan2rpm

Iain

@DennisKaarsemaker was a punt based on the conversation yesterday

Scott Pack

I use vim

Dennis Kaarsemaker

but neither cares iirc, it takes the PREFIX from the perl you use to build the package (which in my case lives in /usr/local)

Scott Pack

Typically when I need a module from cpan it's either in EPEL, which I can mirror with cobbler, or there's a SuSE rpm that I can tweak the spec from.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

we compile our own perl into /usr/local, so distro packages won't work

and cpanspec with our customizations does a decent job

and to answer your question: no, cpanspec can't. But it's a relatively simple perl script, it's easy to hardcode a PREFIX into all generated specfiles and not too hard to make it an option. If you actually care about this, I'll even do that for you :)

cole

14:34

Wtf Windows!? All of a sudden it was like "LOLRESTART"

Nathan C

@cole Yay updates!

Iain

@DennisKaarsemaker Thanks - just having a quick play now

cole

@NathanC it was Symantec

MikeyB

MotherFUCKER it's cold outside

I could literally feel ice crystals forming in my throat if I breathed too fast

cole

It's like "YOU INSTALLED NMAP NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

Symantec must think I'm an 1337 h@x0r

brb rebooting because Symantec is a cuntship

Nathan C

14:37

Oh dear...

Sysaid agent crash-looping and causing high load on our WSUS box

That awkward moment when our monitoring software is the problem

cole

ok reboot complete.

Scott Pack

@MikeyB I always like it when I can feel frost on my moustache.

Nathan C

I don't think there's enough watson .exe's

Dan

0

A: how to add a dsquery script to excel

Okay, this is definitely in the quick and dirty school of IT Engineering but we've all done it and, actually, Excel is mega handy for this. I do agree with @Pauska that Powershell and CSV's are the way forwards, though. Anyway, the quickest and easiest way to do this (For a one off job, anyway) ...

Chris S

MOAR WATSONS!

Dan

14:40

Dirty solutions!

Nathan C

157, to be exact

I do love some taskkill

Might as well toss some more RAM its way too

Oh wait, I can't hotplug with ESXi essentials!

MikeyB

@Chopper3 The first ever CaH card I ever won was over the holidays: my mother's black card "During sex, I think about ___". I answered "Horse meat".

Chopper3

:)

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@MikeyB my wife played her first game of CAH the other day. "What is there a ton of in heaven?" "Necrophilia"

cole

Fucking hate this application.

This thing sucks: ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/index.htm

MikeyB

14:46

@DennisKaarsemaker I took one picture for posterity from the game: t.co/VJQWXyXyWT

Nathan C

@cole Sysaid hates me too

Iain

@DennisKaarsemaker I used @ScottPack's advice (vim) to just edit the .spec file

MikeyB

@cole "69 test methods", baby!

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@MikeyB nice :)

@Iain that works for a one off

cole

@MikeyB it's so bad

Dennis Kaarsemaker

14:48

@cole but it's advanced!

Nathan C

I think I should upgrade our WSUS box off of 2003...

Scott Pack

@Iain It's not exactly elegant, but for my purposes sufficient.

Iain

@DennisKaarsemaker I know - it's proof of concept now I need to 'fix' it

cole

Can't remember wtf port the RCC uses to connect to this bitch

Tom O'Connor

@cole 6969?

:)

Scott Pack

14:50

> Invalid option '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu'. Try ./configure --help to see available options.

The rage of a thousand suns.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@ScottPack s/_/-/ ?

Scott Pack

This is using the same goddamn mock chroot that's worked for me for years.

cole

@TomO'Connor sadly no

Iain

does anyone else who uses IPv6 (possibly via a he.net tunnel) have problems with assests from cdn.sstatic.net on stackexchange sites ?

MikeyB

@Iain not since I complained about it.

Scott Pack

14:53

I'm still waiting for networks that I use to support v6 before trying to use it on the Internets

Iain

@MikeyB who did you complain to ? I keep getting random hangs waiting for stuff

MikeyB

@Iain how does testipv6.com look for you? No MTU issues?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Iain nope.

MikeyB

14

Q: Problems with CDN DNS

I've been having trouble getting to cdn.sstatic.net all day. It's been crippling not to be able to play Stack Exchange! Chrome's resource panel was showing 'host not found' for cdn.sstatic.net. I think I've tracked it down to this: I have IPv6 connectivity and my machine is querying for AAAA r...