The Comms Room

MikeyB

22:00

@MathiasR.Jessen Does it break to present the root? Been working fine for me.

Danila Ladner

hmm, but it would show then in the chain.

Mathias R. Jessen

@mossy He makes me feel like this

Danila Ladner

wouldn't it?

Mathias R. Jessen

@MikeyB It often doesn't but it actually should'

MikeyB

@MathiasR.Jessen Hmm...

Danila Ladner

22:01

probably root certificate

Mark Henderson

5

cole

Dammit. Lock button on my iPhone broke

Joel E Salas

@cole iphone 5?

MikeyB

@cole Meh. Now if the unlock button breaks, you're in trouble.

cole

@JoelESalas iPhone 4s

Joel E Salas

22:14

@MikeyB rofl

cole

Fuck this phone

Maybe I should go Android

Ry Jones

@cole go flip phone man

cole

@RyJones lol

MikeyB

@cole Go Z30

Ry Jones

@cole look at my glorious flip phone, it gets WEEK of battery life: instagram.com/p/i9osTvzDFB

cole

22:26

Need a smartphone :P

Ry Jones

also, these sound cool, but are not worth the hassle: atama.io/sesame.html

cole: ipad mini retina with Verizon

cole

@MikeyB no way, I already have a Blackberry for work

@RyJones bleh

I already have a WiFi iPad 3

Work rolled out iPhone 5Cs to the field

~10 broken screens in a week

MikeyB

@cole old and busted Java devices and new hotness BB10 are two completely different things.

cole

@MikeyB do not want

Ry Jones

@cole the mini retina is so much better than the 3. I have a 3 I don't even use.

MikeyB

22:28

@cole It tickles my nuts for me

cole

I hate phones.

Ry Jones

@cole so get rid of it

I'm not forcing my kids to go without, but I'm hoping to lead by example

cole

Hopefully I can just get work to buy me a new phone

they said in a few months they will.

and take over my cell phone for me so I don't have to pay for it

Ry Jones

just get rid of yours and say if they expect after-hours support it comes with a free smartphone for me

Matt Bear

im dying...

cole

22:32

@RyJones yeah, they gave me a Blackberry for that

Ry Jones

@cole oh cool! So retro, did they give you granny glasses and a top coat?

cole

I use my phone for GPS and what not - so I can't really go without.

My friend recently went flip phone though

Ry Jones

walk around with a silver-topped cane muttering about the price of using pony express to deliver telegrams

I have no idea where I was going with that one

cole

haha

Ry Jones

did you end up getting paid for your last hours at oldjob?

cole

22:37

@RyJones yeah

Ry Jones

interesting that you kind-of sudo in jira

Joel E Salas

@RyJones wat

Ry Jones

@JoelESalas if you're a JIRA admin, you have to re-enter your password to do adminly things, and it has a little bar at the top of the page about how you're operating under escalated privs click this button to drop privs when done

Joel E Salas

@RyJones Oh yes that's cool

Ry Jones

so you do your stuff and then click the button and you're no longer adminly

OK, here's a puzzler. Why does Chrome constantly ask me if I want my password remembered, but only on internal sites?

I click "never for this site" and it asks again next time

Joel E Salas

22:49

@RyJones Using short names?

also using chrome, -10pts

Ry Jones

@JoelESalas no, FQDN

I suspect they're doing some strange clustering that breaks chrome's detection of "this is the same site"

Joel E Salas

It's one of the many reasons I stopped using chrome

it doesn't fucking remember passwords right

ewwhite

1

Q: Linux MD RAID resilience in situations with unpredictable power

If you were given a situation where you MUST use RAID for reasons outside of your control and the server with the RAID may not be on a battery backup and the building is prone to power loss, what are some things you can do to make the RAID more resilient in situations where the power is killed im...

Joel E Salas

@ewwhite "If you were in a nightmare situation, which everything-proof shield would you pick?"

ewwhite

Mathias R. Jessen

22:53

Is gaming.SE just for video/digital games?

Ry Jones

Firefox 26 correctly handles "never ask about this site again"

cole

@MathiasR.Jessen looking for tabletop games?

Mathias R. Jessen

@cole Yeah I have a Risk-specific question

cole

@MathiasR.Jessen ah, only other game-related SE site I'm aware of is rpg.stackexchange.com

Mathias R. Jessen

Anyone here avid RISK players?

Ry Jones

22:59

ask 1986 me, who was insane about RISK and A&A

ewwhite

►

Ry Jones

@ewwhite that's a very long and slow video sir

all I learned was computers are shaped like very colorful boxes

ewwhite

has anyone ever heard of MAXTA?

Ry Jones

I watched a video about them once

they just closed a round: crunchbase.com/company/maxta

ewwhite

@RyJones I watched the video and I think I know less about what it is now.

Ry Jones

23:08

@ewwhite reads like "drobo for enterprises" maxta.com/products

so, basically, local disks are shared across machines with this layer of goo

ewwhite

@RyJones like VSAN, and Nutanix and a whole lotta other players

Ry Jones

@ewwhite are they backed by A402Z?

ewwhite

??

Ry Jones

a16z.com

ewwhite

k... no

Ry Jones

23:10

well then, those other people suck, so don't use them. maxta is funded by a16z, so they're better

ewwhite

It looks hot.

theregister.co.uk/2013/11/12/exclusive_maxta_mxsp_review/…

Ry Jones

I can't see anything that isn't a press release or very high level description.

ewwhite

"How do I add new disks to an existing MxSP host" and "how do I add new hosts" were questions that I couldn't get answered without hacking about in the depths of VMware,

I'm not talking about a hidden menu here, I'm talking about decompiling JAVA classes, resetting the admin password on the appliance and playing with files in VMware that say things like scsi1:0.fileName = "/vmfs/volumes/52816900-e30c3247-6d93-00248c0c3771/maxtadisks/MAXTA-DISK_1001_0.‌vmdk" scsi1:0.mode = "independent-persistent".

theregister.co.uk/2013/11/12/exclusive_maxta_mxsp_review/…

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Ry Jones

yeah, so, it is like drobo

I like that you're only charged on what you export to vmware

ewwhite

that's what I like.

Chris Wahl told me to try it.

Thank you for your interest in Maxta and our groundbreaking VM storage platform.

We have received your request and will be be contacting you soon.  We appreciate your interest and we look forward to speaking with you.

d'oh

peter.a16z.com/2013/11/12/software-eats-storage

Mathias R. Jessen

23:26

@ewwhite The video started out with a very clear formulation of a common problem, and then proceeded to answer the "How?" question with a series of buzzwords and a reiteration of the problem... It's like an introduction to MLM or some kind of ponzi scheme

Ry Jones

23:40

@MathiasR.Jessen it would be funny if they gave discounts based on your network sales

"this storage manager doubles as an MLM as you build your downline!"

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