The Comms Room

Magellan

00:01

@mossy Gah. Didn't even see that.

mossy

@ewwhite Wow. Imagine finding yourself in that directory with a GUI

Joel E Salas

Who needs that many small files? wtf

mossy

Porn.

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas We have that

We collect files from an application sort of like Matheletics if you know of that

Joel E Salas

I don't

Mark Henderson

00:06

Basically, kids do their homework and the app uploads the homework

Say 10,000 kids upload their homework each night, that adds up to millions of files easily

Those files then go into a queue to be processed and analysed, and then those who are having trouble are flagged and a real tutor then reviews their results and calls the kids back to go through their homework with them

Each file is about 2-4KB in size

And when my boss designed the system, all the files got dumped in the same folder, and by the time I came in 2 years later there was already a million files in a single folder

So I made the noob mistake of saying "hey fuck that, let's store them all in an ISAM table! It's just text; right!"

And then 2 years later I undid that and put them back into the filesystem with a hierarchical structure of naming the files with a GUID and using the first chars from the guid to organise them

Joel E Salas

@MarkHenderson So using the FS as a database?

sounds like homework is DOCUMENTS

Magellan

First you take the original Longhorn code, and then you turn it inside out....

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas 99.999% of the data was accessed exactly once when it was analysed and then just filed forever and a day. The analysis was stored in an SQL Database that was gigantic.

Because the system was used for rewards and competitions, the law stated that we had to be able to keep an audit trail and originals of all the entries,. and the entries were technically their scorecards

Joel E Salas

That whole project sounds really frustrating

but interesting

also InnoDB scales to millions of rows

your way is much simpler and more comprehensible though

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas This wasn't MySQL

It was Pervasive ISAM ;)

Motherfucking btrieve

Joel E Salas

00:21

@MarkHenderson I have no idea what that is

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas Pre-SQL. Pre relational databases. Pre constraints. Pre primary keys. It did have indexes though, and relied on them incredibly heavily

Joel E Salas

@MarkHenderson It predates RDBMSes?

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas Oh yeah

Basically, a large, unsorted stack of binary data

Joel E Salas

whoaoaoaoa

Mark Henderson

It was incredibly fast if you had the right indexes

But if you didn't have exactly the right index, forget about it

Btrieve

Btrieve is a transactional database (navigational database) software product. It is based on Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM), which is a way of storing data for fast retrieval. There have been several versions of the product for DOS, Linux, older versions of Microsoft Windows, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, 32-bit IBM OS/2 and for Novell NetWare. It was originally a record manager that was published by SoftCraft, written by Doug Woodward and owned by his brother Loyd Woodward at around the same time as the release of the first IBM PCs. Doug ...

1982

(to be fair, this version was from like 1998)

Magellan

00:23

@MarkHenderson Oy. I remember Paradox 5. Same bad crazy crap.

Joel E Salas

@MarkHenderson So that software predates this:

Multics Relational Data Store

The Multics Relational Data Store, or MRDS for short, was the first commercial relational database management system. It was written PL/1 by Honeywell for the Multics operating system and first sold in June 1976. Unlike the SQL systems that emerged in the late 1970s and early 80's, MRDS used a command language only for basic data manipulation, equivalent to the SELECT or UPDATE statements in SQL. Other operations, like creating a new database, or general file management, required the use of a separate command program. References *Paul McJones, [http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/mrds.html "M...

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas Not quite

Joel E Salas

@MarkHenderson Not chronologically, but certainly technologically

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas I'm fairly sure it pre-dates most SQL engines we know today, like MSSQL and MySQL, Postgres

This application had interfaces for DB2 and AS/400

So that tells you what kind of industry it was designed for

Joel E Salas

00:53

Where do I find people that work on AWS stuff

ugh

Magellan

@JoelESalas what're you looking for?

I used to.

And depending on stuff I can't talk about I may again.

cole

I wish someone would deliver me food to my couch

Magellan

@cole Ha. Lady does that for me when I'm working from home.

cole

God dammit, I need me one of them!

Magellan

@muttstuffle Something we can help you with? Note: please see the room subject in the upper right corner.

MDMarra

00:59

Customer says certs distributed by auto-enrollment are going to the wrong certificate store. Any idea what would cause that @RyanRies @MathiasR.Jessen? I get to troubleshoot it without knowing anything about the environment tomorrow AM since I have the ~~blessing~~ curse of an open day on my calendar

Magellan

You have entered the Den of the Grumpy MoFos.

cole

@MDMarra that's one thing I wish I knew more about - certs.

MDMarra

The more you know, the scarier it is

I got a crash course in PKI a couple of months ago

cole

@MDMarra :(

I'm just a bit tired of being naive about that stuff.

MDMarra

So read up and spin up some VMs! technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831348.aspx

Joel E Salas

01:08

@Magellan s3cmd doesn't work right

cole

@MDMarra oh awesome thanks.

My brain is exploding with things I've been learning in the past week or so.

I want food, but I don't want to put on pants. MY LIFE IS SO HARD.

Magellan

@JoelESalas Odd. S3 is one of the few things I worked with never-ever broke while I worked with it. So I'm probably not much help there.

Joel E Salas

@Magellan S3 breaks silently all the time

Magellan

@JoelESalas Could be.

Magellan

01:23

I see that Box.com decided to release that in-house dashboard aggregator.

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Q: StatusWolf 0.8.8 GUI issues: '/undefined/' in URL path as found in Apache access log

I've just installed StatusWolf 0.8.8 on Ubuntu 12.04, running Apache 2.2.22 with PHP 5.4.23. I had retrieved the latest Git source using: git clone https://github.com/box/StatusWolf.git and followed the installation instructions here: https://github.com/box/StatusWolf/wiki/Installation I ca...

ewwhite

01:37

Why did I get down-voted? What is it you want? I'm new to vCenter --- it's confusing as hell. Setting it up is the best advertising Microsoft or Redhat [ anyone ] needs to get people to switch. Convoluted and bloaty for anything but complex organizations. — Bubnoff 41 mins ago

Ryan Ries

@MDMarra Wrong permissions on the certs? What store are they going to vs. what store should they be going to?

MDMarra

They didn't say, but I'd imagine it's not going into the Personal store where it should be

jscott

@ewwhite In fairness, they've 2 x -1 and 1 x +1. None mine.

Ryan Ries

If I put autoenroll permissions on users when I should have put autoenroll permissions on the computers, they will go to the wrong store, etc.

MDMarra

I don't get a look at the environment until tomorrow

ah good thing to check

Magellan

01:40

@jscott But not the 5 downvotes that he claims he's already recieved. Hyperbole about voting makes me want to VtC it on principle.

MDMarra

Make sure device certs have Domain Computers and not Authenticated Users

Ryan Ries

Or if I used group policy to put a cert in Trusted CAs when what I actually meant to do was enroll the subject in a certificate

Yeah

That reminds me of a good interview question: Are Domain Controller's computer accounts members of the Domain Computers group? :)

MDMarra

I don't know the answer for sure, but I'd imagine it's "no"

based on the fact that the obvious answer is "yes"

Ryan Ries

Haha no your instinct was correct

I only remember because my mind was a little blown when I learned it myself - the hard way

cole

I alerted my manager that 4 of our 5 DCs at our site look like they may have been deployed with the KMS key. He was like "oh...uh......crap"

Mark Henderson

01:47

@cole The DC's don't run on VL?

cole

@MarkHenderson They're VL - but it looks like they used the KMS key from the VL portal. Thus making 4 DCs a KMS Server.

Mark Henderson

@cole They only become KMS servers if you install the KMS role..?

They don't magically become KMS servers based on their installed key

cole

"KMS keys are only installed on KMS hosts, never on individual KMS clients.": technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff793434.aspx

Mark Henderson

Huh

jscott

I think you only get six activations of the KMS host key before you need to contact MS.

cole

01:51

@jscott ya

Mark Henderson

@jscott I thought that was the MAK?

cole

@MarkHenderson MAK goes out to MS to see how many licenses you have.

jscott

@MarkHenderson Naw, MAK can be anything. We had 500ish per MAK.

Mark Henderson

I... I'm confused

Just ignore me

I haven't done a KMS for a long time

cole

Microsoft Licensing: It'll make your brain melt.

jscott

01:52

Host KMS key is for your local KMS servers. It is the server which will perform activations for your KMS clients.

@cole Check DNS, you probably have SRV records for the hosts activated with that KMS key.

cole

@jscott yeah that's how I found them

DC1, DC3-DC5 are all KMS

Why 2 is not, who knows.

jscott

@cole Ah. Get VAMT too. That can help you find other oddness.

cole

I didn't build dis shit.

We have an actual KMS server

jscott

@cole LOL, probably ran out of activations before 2 could activate.

MDMarra

@MarkHenderson There's no KMS role

cole

01:55

@jscott well I built DC5 - Everyone has access to the Microsoft VL Portal in my group besides myself and the unix admin - so I was given a key to enter.

You would think me, of all people in my group, should have access to that.

But whatever.

Hopefully these will be 2012 R2 DCs soon!

jscott

@cole We had a guy here use the host key in a round of Win7 ENT deployments. Needless to say, that didn't work for long.

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra Well, that's why you're the MVP and I'm not. Oh... wait...

MDMarra

D:

cole

@jscott LOL that's what happened yesterday.

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra Sorry; that was harsh

MDMarra

01:57

:'(

cole

Desktop Manager called me - then @MDMarra and @MathiasR.Jessen schooled me real quick on KMS vs MAK.

jscott

Get VAMT and use it to scan your domain.

cole

Trying to do 1500 laptops with a KMS key.

Also now, the laptops come with "self encrypting drives" from Dell. They contacted Dell - apparently they don't know how it works.

Who knows, I wasn't involved in that discussion. Desktop Manager is a doofus.

Michael Hampton

I don't know how "self encrypting drives" work either, and I've tried to find out.

cole

@MichaelHampton now they're dicking with Symantecs drive encryption server stuff.

jscott

01:59

Magnets. Magnets is how it works.

cole

Apparently every laptop roll out, this manager fucks up more and more.

jscott

@cole Chromebooks for everyone!

cole

But he knows how to kiss ass the right way, so he'll never get fired.

MDMarra

@cole Bitlocker, bro

jscott

I should learn that skill

cole

02:00

@MDMarra That was my thought - but again, not involved.

Ryan Ries

Grr, I've been engrossed in coding a personal project and it keeps me from blogging :\

jscott

@RyanRies At least you're working on something. I've found doing nothing keeps me from blogging.

cole

However, especially this time around (and back less than two weeks), seems like everyone is like "COLE PLEASE HALP!!!"

jscott

@cole When things like that happen, do you file tickets/work orders/whatever for the help you provide [non-end-user] coworkers?

cole

@jscott if it's outside my department? You bet your sweet ass I do!

Magellan

02:04

Hmm. Inside stuff should also get logged in some fashion.

cole

"Submit a ticket with all the info and I'll get to it when I can"

I think there's a discussion about a "lead" or "senior" person in our group. Coworker made a comment about it, sort of.

He said something like "Well if <manager> wants me to be the senior member of the group, well then he needs to send me to more training!"

Magellan

@cole So, are you figuring it'll be you?

cole

@Magellan I'm not sure.

I feel like it's a bit arrogant of me to think so.

Magellan

I know who the de facto person is for my group, but there's issues there. I don't like that person's "good enough" philosophy. If a particular workaround fixes the symptom they see, it's good enough to ship. No matter how short the horizon is on the workaround's effective.

Ryan Ries

Whoa - I just made mstsc.exe crash ... don't think I've ever seen that app crash.

Mark Henderson

02:08

@RyanRies The old OSX version used to crash more often than it worked

Magellan

Really makes me crazy when it's a simple pause in a script to deal with a race condition that could end up being much longer than the length of pause they arbitrarily decided to use.

Mark Henderson

(new OSX version; much better)

cole

@Magellan urgh

I think it would create a shit storm if I was promoted to "lead' or "senior".

Magellan

@cole Person ewventually got angry with me and said that I should do it if I was so wound about it.

@cole From the sound of it, that's exactly what that group needs.

cole

@Magellan did you?

Magellan

02:09

@cole Not yet. But everybody in the group agreed with my approach.

In fact, all the other groups did too. And the manager. Which amused me.

Not really sure I trust that person's judgment anymore. But they're the lead, so we follow the leader when the manager's away.

cole

@Magellan well everyone in my group has been there for awhile. Unix admin has been there for 7 years, VMware admin 10-11 years, Domino admin (the one who made the senior comment) has been there for 17 years and the very jr sys admin has been there about the same. (Those two came from manufacturing)

Magellan

@cole Yeah. And most of them sound Retired In Place too.

cole

@Magellan well the domino admin tried to pass his VCP5 - I mean shit, I failed too but he did too, worse than me :P

But the thing is, even if he passes his VCP5 - he won't touch VMware. He has no confidence in his technical abilities and that's his downfall. (aside from his temper)

Magellan

@cole personally, I don't think anyone who's been in the same position for the same company for >5 years is promotable.

And drive counts a lot for me. I don't trust people who potter along doing exactly the same things they were doing 5, 10, or 15 years before.

cole

@Magellan I think you're right. Last year, one of the network guys (there were two) was promoted to Telecom Manager - he'd been there for ~3 years. The other network guy has been there for 19 years

Magellan

02:14

@cole Exactly. That's why I left job[-3]. I'd been there for 3 years and it was up or out. Boss didn't look like he was leaving then, so I left. He ended up leaving 6 months later and they hired the Dev manager.

cole

@Magellan doh.

Magellan

I was bitter about that for awhile (since I also applied for the position), but it's a crap job and I'm making more now than I would've there as the IT Director.

Michael Hampton

Peter Principle

The Peter Principle is a management theory which suggests that organizations risk filling management roles with people who are incompetent if they promote those who are performing well at their current role, rather than those who have proven abilities at the intended role. It is named after Laurence J. Peter who co-authored the 1969 humorous book The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong with Raymond Hull. They suggest that people will tend to be promoted until they reach their "position of maximum incompetence". History The same experience was described as early as 1767 by Gotthold ...

Magellan

@cole And, typical for the org, they'd decided who they wanted before the position was posted.

cole

well my manager isn't going anywhere, none of the other managers are going anywhere either...but who knows. But I don't think I'd ever be promoted from a technical role - because I am (sadly) the most technical person.

I doubt I'd be a good manager, anyways :P

Magellan

02:18

@MichaelHampton I like that section about incompetent managers feeling threatened by competent staff. That describes job[-3] to a T.

The entire org is filled with bad managers who ended up there based on having worked there for ages and being friends with the other senior managers.

And are afraid they won't be able to hack it on the outside. Some having even come back after failing miserably elsewhere.

cole

@Magellan I have to say - my manager is not threatened by me at all.

Magellan

I so totally cannot wait until Lady finally leaves that job.

cole

It'll be interesting as the company changes.

Magellan

@cole yeah. You have the interpersonal skills to make that work though. Your unique situation probably helps make your boss feel a little more comfortable than a typical driven young male recent college graduate though.

That or you may have that rarest of breeds, a damn awesome boss.

cole

@Magellan my manager is the only one who knows I'm trans - and I trust him enough that he would never let that slip.

Magellan

02:24

@cole Cool. Sounds like you got a good one. I'm rather blessed with the same situation at the moment.

cole

@Magellan just wish he was more of an actual manager - rather than asking me how to fix things :)

I like him personally, just not a good people manager....not very good at project manager either....he's great at talking vendors down in price though

Magellan

@cole Yeah. Mine is better about that than the boss at job[-3]. That guy still felt like he "owned" DNS since he'd built out that design for that years before. Kept fiddling with it years later and not bothering to tell anyone else.

cole

Urgh

Magellan

no test environments either. all changes straight to prod with no checkpointing or config mgmt or version control. made me crazy

cole

@Magellan our R&D group has test environments since they develop our software for our instruments

Magellan

02:36

@cole 0ne would hope. =)

cole

@Magellan but the R&D group only have 2 sys admins.....one of which was a chemist.

Matt Bear

hey ya'll

Magellan

@cole was very common back in the day. One of the guys i know who did unix admin was quite literally a rocket scientist and also an atmospheric chemistry expert.

cole

sup @MattBear

@Magellan yeah, he's been with the company a LONG time. I mean at least the company really promotes hiring within

Magellan

@cole Good chemists are really hard to find nowadays. I'm not surprised. My friend just retired and they'll have to hire 3 people to do what he did.

Matt Bear

02:39

this was me last night... head to toe

ewwhite

Um...

from what? Monkey Pox?

Matt Bear

drug allergy

ewwhite

@MattBear Oh no...

Matt Bear

I ended up going to the ER at like 5 am

when my throat was closing up

cole

oof

Matt Bear

02:43

my scalp was the worst :(

jscott

Geez, what drug was it?

Matt Bear

I started wellbutrin to quit smoking

Magellan

doh!

jscott

Maybe not the best way to start quitting. ;) My wife did Chantix, no hives.

Matt Bear

I might try that...

but not wellbutrin

path + pills

jscott

02:51

@MattBear It did make her slightly crazy she said, wild dreams and stuff.

Matt Bear

@jscott that could also be nicotine withdrawals

jscott

But nothing as bad as the Accutane she says.

Mark Henderson

@jscott I was on that for 9 months

My parents said it was horrible

jscott

@MarkHenderson You don't remember it? She was on for 6 months and some parts were a bit rough, but she really wanted to give it go and see if the results would be worth it.

Mark Henderson

@jscott I was 17 at the time so was very self important. I remember having to have constant blood tests and watch my cholesterol

Did it work for her?

For me it worked like a goddamn miracle

My dermatologist said I had the worst case he'd ever seen that didn't leave any scarring

jscott

03:04

Yeah, monthly blood work, she hated that. She also had to agree to using two methods of birth control. So far so good though. She's been off it for a few months with zero breakouts. She's quite happy. Bit of scarring, but we'll discuss options with dermatologist later this year.

Mark Henderson

@jscott Haha my wife would see that birth control disclaimer and use it as an excuse to abstain for the treatment course :P

jscott

@MarkHenderson Uh, well, the third (and most effective) method was the basically the law for those months.

Mark Henderson

@jscott haha

You have my sympathy

Magellan

03:27

Crisis averted. Systems would work better if people would pay attention to what they're uploading into them.

OUTER JOIN TO THE UNIVERSE!

MDMarra

/r/sysadmin, you never disappoint reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1upl7a/…

Magellan

@Wesley You around Kitty Head?

MikeyB

@MDMarra Wow, look at all those arguments we've never seen before.

MDMarra

I have a 4TB HDD from Costco that I can give to my family to hold on to. Why do I need to pay for real backups?!?!?!?!

Magellan

@MDMarra Reddit just needs to be nuked from Orbit.

Mark Henderson

03:39

@MDMarra Real answer right here:

> The same reason you hire consultants. So you can shift the blame.

MDMarra

The real reason people hire consultants is because the FTEs that they've hired at below market value are shit.

Or because they spend all their resources managing eDirectory and Groupwise, so they're not sure how to work anything that came out after 2002

Magellan

Somebody just nuke the comments off that vsphere 5.5 question?

Mark Henderson

@Magellan The one about creating a datacenter?

Magellan

really F'd up my browser tab. =(

yeah

Mark Henderson

I nuked them about 30 mins ago because all they were doing was fighting like girls over inconsequential things

He was complaining about downboats without realising that he hadn't been downboated that badly

And then others were complaining about something he had edited out of his question

Magellan

03:43

@MarkHenderson So you mean I was fighting with him like a little girl over inconsequential things?

Mark Henderson

@Magellan No, you weren't fighting with him

In fact it was your comment that made him realise he was wrong and thus all the comments were pointless

Magellan

Ah. I hadn't realized anyone else but Ed had commented.

Mark Henderson

tbh I do delete a bit of stuff; I don't always remember who said what or why I deleted it

Magellan

Was wondering why it'd been nuked. Didn't think I'd been all that inflammatory.

Mark Henderson

Nah but it was all redundant

He said, she said, oops sorry I was wrong

MDMarra

03:57

-1

Q: 100% free landline calling possible with Asterisk PBX and Google Voice?

This forum post gives supposed instructions for free land line via Google Voice with inbound and outbound calling. How is this possible? From what little I know I am under the impression that Google Voice assigns you a Google Voice number and calls made to that are redirected to some landline nu...

asterisk google

kill

Magellan

@MDMarra Some people's children.

I honestly cannot recall the last time a question on SF generated this much activity:

161

Q: If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing?

32 bit computers can only store numbers up to 2^32. This is why we have run out of ipv4 addresses and have entered the 64 bit era. However, the number 2^32 is not as large as the number 1 trillion (1000000000000) which I seem to be able to display fine without my machine crashing. Can someone...

64-bit 32-bit

Some of the answers are getting up near 400 upvotes. Since yesterday.

MDMarra

The question is +180/-20

haha

voretaq7

Oh dear sweet jesus kitten culling christ

MDMarra

04:13

@Magellan The leap second bug

Michael Hampton

It's got three close votes, too...

Magellan

@MichaelHampton I wouldn't know. not enough rep for that.

voretaq7

@Magellan @MichaelHampton is a filthy slum-dweller. He has LOTS of rep on SuperUser :P

Michael Hampton

You should see how much rep I have on SO and mSO...

MDMarra

ha, one is OT, one is too broad, one is opinion-based

Magellan

04:15

opinion-based?

MDMarra

right?

Magellan

Again, Some People's Children.

MDMarra

I'm 10k on SU

Do you guys like me less?

voretaq7

some people's BRAIN DAMAGED MENTALLY UNSTABLE chldren

Magellan

@voretaq7 I've missed you. =)

voretaq7

04:16

@MDMarra no... we will however no longer respect you in the morning you cheap slut :)

Magellan

@MDMarra Nah. We still like Wesley too. And he doesn't even have a bike.

MDMarra

WESLEY HAS NO BIKE

4

voretaq7

►

Magellan

04:38

Why is it so difficult for competent people that I know to get jobs, but morons like this guy are obviously employed:

0

Q: Setting up server for Google Apps?

So I am currently running CentOS 6 and trying to figure out how to get Google Apps (gmail) to work. I am completely new to mail server software but have a general idea of how it works. What software do you guys recommend running on the server? What would I need to configure to get it to work? Al...

dns centos email emailserver gmail

And yes, it's already closed.

Wesley

04:57

@Magellan About to drug myself to sleep, what's up?

I bought another bike book today.

Wanna see it?

Magellan

@Wesley You're bringing me around on the careers.SE thing.

@Wesley And with that, it's ok for you to go to bed now. =D

Wesley

@Magellan That it could be a leeetle more friendly to ops?

And make MOAR money for themselves?

And make MOAR happy sysadmins?

Magellan

yeah

Wesley

@Magellan Okay, time for drugs!

Magellan

gnite!

Matt Bear

05:18

man... I think the prednisone is messing me up now too

Journeyman Geek

06:10

@Magellan bribery and under the table blowjobs?

possibly even nepotism, but I can state that being the bosses kid is overrated.

Joel E Salas

06:24

I fixed my sync server!

Journeyman Geek

06:35

hmm

0

Q: How to get the Full DN of the security principal used to authenticate the LDAP login in Active Directory

What are the methods to get the full DN (i.e. LDAP Directory Distinguished Name) of the security principal used to Authenticate a LDAP session. Assume we used DOMAIN\samAccountName format to bind to a Active Directory server using LDAP v3 protocol. What i want to do is a method to get the LDAP D...

active-directory ldap

Would this be a SF question?

syneticon-dj

@JourneymanGeek I would say yes.

Joel E Salas

06:50

venturebeat.com/2013/10/11/…

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Dennis Kaarsemaker

oh dear

here we say that only bad engineers blame their tools for their failures...

Iain

08:11

G'day

Joel E Salas

08:48

oh boy, a content encoding issue with Chrome

Turns out the order of the HTTP headers matters, content-encoding needs to be not-last

ewwhite

@JoelESalas Hush, before I give you an Atomic Wedgie

Oh wait... Man Killed by Atomic Wedgie

Dennis Kaarsemaker

wedgie proof underwear

pauska

09:26

@ewwhite I've never used VNXe, but I think @basil has..

does it support tiering now?

Iain

do [magic [] ] only work in comments ?

Tom O'Connor

11:38

A mummy covered in chocolate and nuts has been discovered in Egypt. Archaeologists believe it may be Pharaoh Rocher.

Tweeted by ianduhig on January 8, 2014 at 8:23 PM

Iain

oh dear

Tom O'Connor

Why would you buy a server with iDRAC Enterprise, then disable the NIC?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@TomO'Connor groan

Mathias R. Jessen

@TomO'Connor OOB Haters gonna hate?

Tom O'Connor

@MathiasR.Jessen It's just insane.

Was trying to figure out why our ESXi servers died overnight (short powercut, and they're not on a UPS [don't get me started] and the only debug I have is a one-liner from the LCD display?!)

Mathias R. Jessen

11:51

I agree, but this line of work is stuffed with halfwits and bigshots who suffer the Donning-Krueger effect and don't know how insane they act

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The Nubby Admin: 2014 Stack Exchange Challenge Kickoff

posted on January 09, 2014 by Wesley David

This post is a little late, but better late than never! The 2014 Stack Exchange Challenge has kicked off with a small but dedicated crew of participants. We have the following who have signed up to attempt to add 10,000 points to their StackExchange profile of choice within the year 2014: Scott Pack: Security expert with no equal. Predicted to achieve 10,000 points before I finish this post.…

Iain

12:16

@RobM thanks for fixing that up

RobM

no problem

Anonymous

omg what

Anonymous

the fuck

Anonymous

this is the best crafted spam letter ever... or can it be legit?

Anonymous

> Hi pato

You may remember you were approached by my colleague Jamie Wood back in October regarding an opportunity we had for Podio in Denmark, well this is to notify you of a new position we have for one of our clients based in Minneapolis in the USA.

The company name is not a big secret :-) In this case there is a reason we cannot declare the name on this first message( I fully appreciate its frustrating not to receive the full details straight away) however if this is interesting for you please let me know and I will reveal the name straight back to you with further details.

Anonymous

12:18

> From a technical perspective, of course this has also made things significantly more challenging as the company is now serving around 3,000 concurrent users and are expecting this to go close to 10,000 concurrent users over the holiday periods in December based on a 2.5 million+ user base. However the discussions that have been going on recently are suggesting very much that this really is just the start of the growth phase for the future.

For this reason their intention is to find a highly skilled Javascript developer who really understands demanding complex web applications, j-query ex…

Anonymous

it's the most well crafted fraud letter i've ever seen... god who wouldn't fall under the promise of a home in america, a visa and employment programming.

Mathias R. Jessen

@PatoSáinz Have you actually been approached by a Jamie Wood regarding an opportunity for Podio?

Anonymous

@MathiasR.Jessen of course i haven't but maybe the letter is relying in my inability to recall everyone i've met (it's shockingly like most normal recruitment letters)

Anonymous

    Received: from mail pickup service by MassMailing with Microsoft SMTPSVC;

Anonymous

much obliged

Mathias R. Jessen

12:25

@PatoSáinz Yeah, I think I would have judged it a recruiter blunder if not for that header

Anonymous

@MathiasR.Jessen I was very surprised to see that i was being "hired" to program in the very language i've strongly said makes me sick

Mathias R. Jessen

@PatoSáinz 2/3 of all offers I get, the recruiter clearly misreads or ignores whatever preference I have

Anonymous

@MathiasR.Jessen lol

Mathias R. Jessen

@PatoSáinz I got approached with a vague offer, wrote back that my primary competency and interests was AD, Web Servers and internet security and that I specifically hated Citrix and RDS systems

"Well, that sounds great, I think you'll be very interested in the Citrix Administrator role"

Anonymous

@MathiasR.Jessen and did they reply?

Anonymous

12:30

looooooool

Anonymous

@MathiasR.Jessen that's awful

Anonymous

how many mails do you get per week?

Mathias R. Jessen

I usually let recruiters know that they are more than welcome to check back in the future... this is the first time i blocked somebody on LinkedIn

@MDMarra Are they new enrollments or auto-renewals?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

12:51

@PatoSáinz I had a recruiter mail me today saying that based on my github profile I'd be a good java developer for his client. There's no java on my github and I loath the language...

Anonymous

@DennisKaarsemaker Hello Dennis, are you interested in a beancounter job at a large company? Your Github profile suggests so

Dennis Kaarsemaker

I'm tempted to send something back to deter him from any further contact. Also because most openings I see on their website are for SAP positions (HELL NO!)

@PatoSáinz I can be a beancounter

Anonymous

lol

MDMarra

@MathiasR.Jessen should be new. A few might be renewals. I have a call in 1h about it.

Tom O'Connor

@PatoSáinz It's just spam. Google for PHP "reverse auctioneering" javascript Minneapolis and you'll find it.

Anonymous

12:59

@TomO'Connor 'course it is but it was a good piece of spam

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