The Comms Room

MDMarra

18:00

heh

I think the VNX2s can be configured with 64GB or more of battery-backed RAM cache

MikeyB

243

Q: Splitting a sandwich and not feeling deceived

This is a problem that has haunted me for more than a decade. Not all the time - but from time to time, and always on windy or rainy days, it suddenly reappears in my mind, stares at me for half an hour to an hour, and then just grins at me, and whispers whole day: "You will never solve me..." P...

MDMarra

I think the older VNXs topped out at 32GB but I'm not sure of that

@MikeyB Saw that the other day. So good

MikeyB

I beat my brother at the two-player game when we were young. I was the cutter and cut the cake into ⅓ and ⅔ pieces, then presented them to him with a grin. His cognitive dissonance was astounding. It took minutes to resolve.

MDMarra

Why wouldn't he immediately take the 2/3?

freiheit

@MDMarra Looks like the max on the netapps we're looking at is 2TB of flash cache. Or 1TB for what we're more likely to be able to afford. No idea how much flash cache we're actually planning to stick in there...

MikeyB

18:10

@MDMarra He couldn't resolve "I want the bigger piece" with "there must be something wrong with the bigger piece"

Know what I really love? When documentation is obviously written by someone who fucked around with it until it worked and he had no idea why.

MDMarra

haha

MikeyB

@MDMarra i.e. approximately half of all HOWTOs.

Michael Hampton

For a quickstart that wouldn't be too bad.

MikeyB

@MichaelHampton It's misleadingly wrong.

Michael Hampton

@MikeyB It's a wiki, fix it :)

MikeyB

18:16

@MichaelHampton Just emailed the account creation team :D

Invalid permissions on TLS private key file '/var/lib/samba/private/tls/star.netdirect.ca-key.pem:
  owner uid 0 should be 0, mode 0400 should be 0600

… well done, guys.

Chris S

@MikeyB WTF?

84104

@MikeyB I find a lot of the Samba documentation to be non-sense.

Chris S

Maybe we should be glad they don't require 0700?

MDMarra

I know this doesn't have anything to do with anything anyone is talking about, but I just want to be on record as saying that the series finale of Roseanne was really bad.

Chris S

Did you ever finish BSG?

MDMarra

18:21

Yeah

A long time ago. I liked it

But I get why other people don't

Chris S

Series Ending: Poetic or Sh*tting on the Series?

MikeyB

@84104 It's actually not bad. The actual documentation has the correct information for the tls parameters, although it is slightly vague regarding what to do with intermediate certs.

Michael Hampton

5

Q: Naming a new Active Directory forest - why is split-horizon DNS not recommended?

Hopefully, we all know what the recommendations for naming an Active Directory forest are, and they're pretty simple. Namely, it can be summed up in a single sentence. Use a subdomain of an existing, registered domain name, and pick one that's not going to be used externally. For example, if I...

dns active-directory best-practices split-dns

Look who's back!

MDMarra

@ChrisS Besides them missing a glorious opportunity to have Starbuck be the daughter of the missing Daniel model and decided to have her vanish instead, I thought it was good

84104

@MikeyB I had a bad experience with winbind, it flavors all of my samba perceptions.

Basil

18:23

Actually answered a question! That hasn't happened in a while... serverfault.com/a/567807/96078

Chris S

@MDMarra That did piss me off... As the rest was pretty darn good, at least I thought.

TheCleaner

@Basil shameless plug in comm room? sounds good to me... +1

MDMarra

@ChrisS Same here

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO TWITTER

WHAT IS THAT

AND WHY IS IT SO UGLY

jscott

@MDMarra You don't follow them?

Anonymous

@MDMarra excuse me?!

Anonymous

18:27

it's called "flat design"

Anonymous

it's the latest hype

jscott

At refreshed http://twitter.com, personalize your profile w/ accent color: http://twitter.com/settings>web design. http://t.co/y7r1a6jqxl

Tweeted by twitter on January 13, 2014 at 9:23 PM

MDMarra

@PatoSáinz I dont have a problem with flat. I have a problem with ugly

jscott

We're now rolling out a refreshed http://twitter.com reflecting the look & feel of our iOS & Android apps. http://t.co/Mb6qjjP8Dm

Tweeted by twitter on January 13, 2014 at 9:19 PM

Anonymous

@MDMarra it isn't that ugly bro

MDMarra

18:28

Orange white and teal that's not a good palette to work with

Anonymous

i love that salmon orange

Mathias R. Jessen

@PatoSáinz Sorry dude, we're gonna have to revoke your internet license

jscott

I'm wearing orange right now.

Anonymous

@MathiasR.Jessen what have I done?!

Anonymous

@MDMarra you can change your pallete in your profile tho

Anonymous

18:30

if it bothers you that much

MDMarra

@jscott Orange is fine. Orange + teal

not

ewwhite

runaway processes... fixing production problems from an aeroplane...

Mathias R. Jessen

@PatoSáinz Salmon orange ?! Isn't that the color of buttholes? I don't want sphincters all over my interwebz, goatse was enough xD

jscott

@MDMarra Hollywood disagrees :) wired.com/underwire/2013/01/orange-teal-infographics

MikeyB

@jscott "After you have read this, the color combination will be everywhere you look." SO TRUE

MDMarra

18:34

dude what

fixed it. crisis averted

Anonymous

that blue is too blue

Anonymous

@MathiasR.Jessen irlol

MDMarra

-1

Q: Creating a Virtual sub-server

Say I have a System. I would like to create sub systems for that main system. Eg:- I have one main system. and we have 7 continents. So I want 7 Virtual nodes. Depending on the request from a continent I will redirect the request to the virtual system. How to create the Virtual sub Systems. Is...

security load-balancing virtualhost

Scott Pack

@MDMarra First off, that color scheme is terrible. Secondly, what kind of savage using Safari?

MDMarra

@ScottPack It's how it used to be before the update, bro

Also, I use safari

Multitouch gestures in other browsers on OS X suck balls

Scott Pack

18:45

I don't use multitouch on my browsers.

MDMarra

lame

two finger swipe, pinch to zoom, etc are awesome

Scott Pack

What part of cmd+w, cmd+t, cmd+left, and cmd+right aren't good enough for you?

I'll bet you use emacs too.

MDMarra

notepad

I dont edit real things on my mac, it's a toy

Ladadadada

@MDMarra He just showed up on Sec.SE too. I don't understand anything he says.

0

Q: Latest DDos Attacks

What are the latest trends for doing DDos Attacks. For eg:- using Malware attacks. What are the different approaches used to make DDos attacks currently.

ddos

Scott Pack

Well, this is something I wasn't expecting. I suddenly have need of S/MIME with gmail, but I use the web interface. Anyone have any suggestions?

The top Gmail S/MIME plugin for firefox has been abandoned.

@Ladadadada Don't worry, neither does he.

ewwhite

18:55

Client: "The root password doesn't work anymore!!"

Me: I didn't change shit. I use an SSH key.

Me: sudo in and change the password.

Client: "Oops. Internal goof. Jerome added a new user and went to change his password but issued the passwd command without user's name..."

Nathan C

@ewwhite Said client should be taken and bashed over the head

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ewwhite

(do I really talk to customers that way? Mayyyybe)

Basil

hey, @pauska, have you ever had to reboot a data mover with VDMs alive in it?

or @ewwhite, for that matter?

MDMarra

@ewwhite Damnit, Jerome. Get your act together.

ewwhite

@MDMarra That's racist!

@MDMarra expects IT guys to have names like Chadwick and Mitt!!

pauska

19:00

@Basil I've always migrated them over to the secondary one

but it's been a while since I used the file part of the VNX..

We thought we could use it for general file services, but it doesn't support DFS-R

Basil

@pauska We have our data movers in active/passive for some reason

MDMarra

@ewwhite :(

pauska

@Basil afaik that's the only way to have them

Basil

I know it'll be an outage, and that's ok, I was just hoping that you'd be able to reassure me that the VDMs will come back up on their own once the data mover reboots

@pauska Wait, you migrate the VDMs to a secondary passive data mover?

pauska

gah fuck I can't remember

sorry

it's been like 2 years since I touched the file part

84104

19:06

@ewwhite The root password is for console use only.

Basil

@pauska no worried, thanks anyways :)

Man, we seriously need to hire someone who actually knows EMC

Anonymous

19:19

github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js

Anonymous

what's wrong with people nowadays ffs

Anonymous

"webkit.js, a pure javascript port of webkit"

pauska

19:32

patch hell... windows, java, flash, reader blah bleh

Nathan C

@PatoSáinz Yo dawg, I heard you wanted webkit, so I put a webkit in your javascript so you can javascript while you webkit

pauska

DevOps, the hipsters of the IT world

2

Wesley

Ungh. Microsoft is sending me pitch emails for their new certs: "you currently need to pass only 2 Microsoft exams to acquire a MCSE Private Cloud Certification"

I could not be less interested in Microsoft's shit these days.

I haven't sat a Microsoft exam in like... three years.

Anonymous

Who here is a new zealander?

Anonymous

Or lives in a timezone where it's already friday?

Michael Hampton

19:40

Give it a couple of hours; they're just waking up down under

Chris S

I'm pretty sure they're all asleep down under - but as Michael said, a few hours and they'll be around

Wesley

@ChrisS I think @MarkHenderson is awake right now.

Anonymous

Mark's always awake

Wesley

6:40AM there. Yep he's probably showering right now and about ready to get in the car to go to work.

Chris S

@Wesley Yeah, I think he gets up early... doubt he'll be in here for a couple hours yet though.

Wesley

19:42

I know so much about @MarkHenderson's personal life, I should just renounce my stalker status and move in as his hetero-lifemate.

Chris S

I know I'm up late when I see the UK crew show up.

Wesley

@ChrisS He usually shows up in here between 1 and 2 PM my time.

Chris S

Chopper usually check in here about 6AM GMT

Wesley

@ChrisS Speak of the devil, and @Chopper3 shows up!

=P

Chris S

@Wesley Your time sucks

Wesley

19:43

@ChrisS I know. It can't make up its mind. For a few months I'm mountain, for a few months I'm pacific, then back again and again...

Ry Jones

@Wesley and you're better for it

Chris S

I think @Chopper3 is actually a small team of individuals who collaborate to create the Legend that is Chopper3

Wesley

@RyJones I'm strongly considering that possibility. =P

Chris S

@Wesley We do DST too - I HATE IT

Wesley

@ChrisS I think @Chopper3 is Charles Bronson's online personna.

Chris S

19:45

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Wesley @Chopper3 is Chuck Norris in his new career as sysadmin

5

voretaq7

@DennisKaarsemaker . . . can we start a @Chopper3 facts twitter account? :)

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@voretaq7 of course we can!

Anonymous

in The Hangar, 2 mins ago, by voretaq7

Imma make Aviation and SF fight to see who gets to be "wife #1"

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@PatoSáinz are you stalking @voretaq7?

voretaq7

19:53

@DennisKaarsemaker Everyone needs a creepy stalker. Mine happens to be from South America :)

Dennis Kaarsemaker

When @Chopper3 appears, firmware bugs hide in shame.

Tweeted by Chopper3Facts on January 16, 2014 at 7:56 PM

6

tombull89

@DennisKaarsemaker wtf

Anonymous

@DennisKaarsemaker maybe

mossy

Site wont load but the headline is - "A huge pile of shit has been dumped outside the French National Assembly to protest against Hollande & the politcal elite."

tombull89

@mossy horse poop, too.

Lucas Kauffman

20:00

I NEED SUPPORT

4

Rory

Proposed Q&A site for this site is for all Rories, Rory experts and Rory lovers. (please no simon)

Currently in definition.

2

Anonymous

@LucasKauffman done

mossy

@tombull89 WOW that's a lot of poop

2

tombull89

@LucasKauffman wtf

mossy

Well done.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@tombull89 @voretaq7 had a riduculous idea, I'm drinking scotch. Those two don't go well together. Now I need more facts :)

tombull89

20:01

@DennisKaarsemaker When Chopper3 turns up, people are sick into their shoes.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

At the sight of @chopper3, lusers lart themselves to avoid worse.

Tweeted by Chopper3Facts on January 16, 2014 at 8:02 PM

voretaq7

@DennisKaarsemaker Chopper3's GPU processing tasks finish before they started. It's not an NTP glitch.

Lucas Kauffman

Phil changed jobs?

Wesley

@voretaq7 @Chopper3's servers don't run on watts. They run on fear.

voretaq7

@Wesley oh that's true of all of us

if you don't beat your servers regularly they get uppity and start acting out on their own.

Lucas Kauffman

20:07

People wear Superman pijamas, Superman wears Chuck Norris pijamas, Chuck Norris wears @Chopper3 pijamas.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Chopper3's servers are powered by the concentrated tears of sales reps

Tweeted by Chopper3Facts on January 16, 2014 at 8:07 PM

Lucas Kauffman

@Chopper3 doesn't get audited, auditors get @Chopper3d

pauska

@Wesley that title is not a bad one, to be honest

learning the ropes of Hyper-V/SCVMM is a good thing these days

Wesley

@pauska Will it help me get clients or a job? Paid at my full rate? Managed contracts? Retainers? Most likely not. =P

@pauska And yeah, I've got a dinky Hyper-V instance to make for my long-time little office. They need a test bed for some CMSs, so I Was going to get one of their internal servers running with Hyper-V so I can spin up VMs for them to destroy.

pauska

I'm seeing more and more sysadmin ads where they want you to know vmware and hyperv

the System Center suite is a no-brainer if you want a senior job with microsoft stuffs

but no, certs won't land you a job alone, like we all know.. but it would probably put you further up the CV stack..

Wesley

20:21

@pauska VMware and Hyper-V in the cage match of the Century! VMware trips over its EULA, breaks its neck and chokes on its own lawyer-bile. Hyper-V refuses to raise its glove with the ref until nineteen domain controllers are created, and then BSODs.

Joel E Salas

@pauska I automatically dislike candidates with too many certs

Wesley

Damn apostrophes. HOW DO THEY WORK

pauska

disables audio alert in the SE chat

Wesley

@pauska Ding!

pauska

@JoelESalas that's one of the most stupid things I've ever heard to be honest

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Wesley

20:22

brb, gotta eat

Joel E Salas

@pauska Why's that?

pauska

@JoelESalas It's bad to have updated certs now??

how the hell can you justify something like that.. If I were to choose between two candidates, where one has VCP+MCSE and the other has nothing at all it's really a no brainer

mossy

1

Q: I cannot log in to my ftp server

I am trying to connect to my ftp server on a Centos 6 machine from my local Windows machine, but everytime I try, I get a '530 Login incorrect' error. This issue happens whether I use FileZilla or whether I connect using ftp from the command line. # This is the ProFTPD configuration file # $Id:...

ftp login

Jan 16 08:08:17 vps-1150113-19757 proftpd[22064]: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]) - USER xxxxxxx (Login failed): Incorrect password.

¯\ _(ツ)_/¯

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@pauska the key is 'too many certs'. I prefer candidates who tell me what they've done over candidate who tell me what they listened to.

I see 'proud display of cert. logos' as a negative too

Chris S

Eh, I can get on board with having the wrong certs... But just "too many".... Maybe in the sense that they're concentrating so heavily on test taking that it's apparent they have no real-world experience?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

20:30

@ChrisS yup

also, if you're applying for a linux job, leave your decade-old solaris and hp-ux certs off your cv

pauska

Well I weren't talking about that at all

Joel E Salas

@pauska We don't use those technologies? so I guess our scene is a bit different

pauska

I said that the new MCSE suites are a good choice for someone who wants to work with Microsoft products

Mark Henderson

'sup cunts

6

I see y'all are talking about me

pauska

hello down there

you don't have summer vacation now?

Mark Henderson

20:35

@pauska Finished it on 6th Jan

pauska

I would kill to be where you are right now

fucking winter.. hate it

Mark Henderson

@pauska Yeah it's going to hit 44 again today :P

@PatoSáinz It's Friday here

pauska

@MarkHenderson celsius man, celsius

Tanner

@MarkHenderson I thought that was fahrenheit and it still sounded nice

pauska

33C or something?

Mark Henderson

20:38

@pauska That is celcius

pauska

44C? you're joking

Mark Henderson

@pauska It's going to hit 44 celcius

pauska

I checked sydney two days ago and it said 33

I guess I were wrong

Mark Henderson

@pauska Ah, yeah Sydney is going to be a bit cooler as we have a cool front heading west at the moment

But anyone not in the way of that front, like everywhere else, is getting damn hot

Michael Hampton

It's 3C here today. As I mentioned last night I often do, I went out for a 30 minute walk in a light jacket this morning when it was -1.

pauska

20:40

better stand in the shades then.. like skippy does

Mark Henderson

Where my parents live, it's already 31c at 7.30am

pauska

yeah that's a little too hot

Matt Bear

wow...

just had someone from a class I was in, like 2 years ago, call me up asking for a copy of a project

a PHP site we built

Basil

I got to see what the temperature on mars feels like.

Matt Bear

by we I mean I

apparently he put it on his resume...

and the links dead, so it's not working

mossy

20:42

seems good.

Matt Bear

www.mattbeardev.com

Tanner

@MattBear ahahaha

Mathias R. Jessen

@MattBear lol

Look, the firmware bugs disappeared

Matt Bear

yeah, I diddnt bother renewing it lol

would any of you try to put a project you worked on in school on a resume?

Michael Hampton

@MattBear Maybe if it was very recent.

Matt Bear

20:47

or on the flip side, when reading a resume, take a school project as meaning anything

@MichaelHampton 2 years ago...

we stuck this guy as project manager, where he couldnt do any harm

he was dead weight

mossy

We hired this new girl that seems to think announcing every time she is going to use the bathroom in chat is normal.

Matt Bear

@mossy heh tell her "The camera is motion activated, you don't have to tell me when I need to turn it on"

mossy

hahahah

Nathan C

@MattBear Suddenly, sexual harassment charge

Matt Bear

@NathanC cause pee cam?

Wesley

20:55

@MattBear I know a dude you could sell that stuff to... pokes @ewwhite

Rebecca Chernoff

@mossy that's uh, weird. (:

mossy

@RebeccaChernoff mhm. Nobody is saying anything, but we're all thinkin

Wesley

@mossy How old is she?

mossy

I don't know lol.

Old enough to go poo with out telling us

Wesley

@mossy Are we talking fresh out of college or fifties?

mossy

20:57

@Wesley certainly not fresh, but not quite 50.

Wesley

@mossy You are a master of observation.

=P

Basil

hey guys, I'll be back in a few minutes. Gotta pee.

2

Matt Bear

@mossy hot?

Wesley

"Which way did he go?!" "He was moving. At a rate of speed. And I think it was daylight, but it could have also been nighttime."

2

Anonymous

@MarkHenderson do you have an itunes account?

Wesley

20:59

@MattBear Dude just turn the camera on.

mossy

@MattBear 4/10 would not pursue sober.

Matt Bear

like.... "Watch her poop" hot, or "Poop on her" hot?

Mark Henderson

@PatoSáinz I do

Anonymous

@MarkHenderson could you please check a song that has been released in aussieland but not yet in the rest of the civilised world for me and tell me its artist?

Anonymous

mossy

21:03

@Wesley lol'd

Wesley

@PatoSáinz MONSTER CAT

Mark Henderson

@PatoSáinz Not sowing

what's a direct link?

Anonymous

@MarkHenderson i don't have a direct link, because it hasn't been released in 3/4 of the world yet

Anonymous

you could search in the "dance" genre for savage

Anonymous

@Wesley YES MONSTERCAT

Basil

21:07

I haz a perl problem. Not 99 of them, but one annoying one... I'm trying to open VSPA_OUTPUTSTREAM, "systemcommand 2>/dev/null |" or die $!; my $VSPA_line = <VSPA_OUTPUTSTREAM> or die $!; and I'm getting Died at ./script.pl line xy

Anonymous

@Basil that a good type of perl

Mark Henderson

@PatoSáinz Where dd that screenshot come from then?

Anonymous

@MarkHenderson reddit

Mark Henderson

Ah

Basil

I need to get a single line from that file at a time, and was hoping to put it into a scalar

Mark Henderson

21:09

@PatoSáinz I call shennanigans then

It's not showing on my iTunes anywhere at all

Why is the name blanked out if it's legit

Also the G on "savage" looks dodgey

Anonymous

damn, well, some aussies have told me that "Case & Point" is the artist but i wanted a trustful source, like you

Anonymous

@MarkHenderson because it's a "mystery" release

Anonymous

it's actually legit

Mark Henderson

As if someone went and copy/pasta'd letters from different albums to make the word

@PatoSáinz Well fuck you should have told me that

Basil

ok, it's apparently my system call... if I replace that with an actual file, it works as intended

Anonymous

21:11

@MarkHenderson fuck you too i trust you

Mark Henderson

Searching for Case & Point showed it up instantly

Anonymous

there, thank you Mark :)

Mark Henderson

itunes.apple.com/au/album/savage-single/id797740888

Anonymous

btw you can get a free download of it by entering "case & point" in releasethesavage.com

Mark Henderson

And I was wrong, the G's really are fucked up in iTunes

@PatoSáinz Haha ghostery blocked almost everything on that page

Anonymous

21:12

> Guess correctly and you'll win a free download of the artist's next scheduled release on Monstercat on its release date.

Anonymous

lol

Anonymous

nice privacy control

Tanner

edandersen.com/2012/11/02/…

well that sucks

Chris S

-2ºC here and Snowing!
Tonight it's supposed to get up to 0ºC, which is the warmest it'll be in the next 10 days, hitting a low of -15ºC

Chopper3

21:29

Evening Effers

Basil

@Chopper3 So PC!

Chopper3

:)

Basil

brb, have to pee again

8

Chopper3

only just got home from a trip away - tired

Scott Pack

@Chopper3 HI PHIL!

pauska

21:32

@Chopper3 have you seen your new fanclub?

Chopper3

I have, and coincidentally I did in fact very nearly make a salesman cry this week!

pauska

'atta boy

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Chopper3 that's shameful. Try harder next time :)

almost just isn't good enough

Chopper3

@DennisKaarsemaker his pre-sales tech texted me after with a smiley :)

freiheit

@Chopper3 So, what do you need to next week to get actual tears and/or sobbing out of a salesman?

Lucas Kauffman

21:38

Stackexchange Valued associate #5 hates Rories

Scott Pack

Which asshole is that?

freiheit

what are Rories?

Lucas Kauffman

like a Rory

but several of them

Anonymous

@LucasKauffman i knew a rory on IRC

Scott Pack

We'll never know the plural of Rory either because of the proposal being deleted.

Anonymous

21:42

he was an asshole and I klined him

Anonymous

repeated times

Lucas Kauffman

Robert Cartaino ♦, Palm Bay, FL

473 37 104

area51-meta technology culture discussion status-completed feature-request life

:'(

Anonymous

@ScottPack such knowledge lost! ;_;

MDMarra

@ScottPack :(

Tanner

in the Beer proposal:

I'm sure the correlation is happenstance...

Lucas Kauffman

21:53

I've already got my questions and answers ready for Beer

Tanner

yeah that should be a good one :)

Dennis Kaarsemaker

lager is the devops of beer.

5

Lucas Kauffman

Pils and trappist is what real men drink.

freiheit

What about IPA?

Lucas Kauffman

A St Bernardus a day, keeps the doctor away! (although that's not trappist, it does taste very nice)

Dennis Kaarsemaker

21:56

I like IPA

Lucas Kauffman

mmmm IPA

Troubadour Triple IPA

Dennis Kaarsemaker

there's some good ones in seattle

Lucas Kauffman

best IPA every

freiheit

ratebeer.com/beerstyles/india-pale-ale-ipa/17

Lucas Kauffman

ratebeer.com/beer/troubadour-magma/119255

freiheit

21:58

ratebeer.com/beerstyles/imperial-double-ipa/81

Lucas Kauffman

This my favorite dark beer: ratebeer.com/beer/st-bernardus-abt-12/2530

freiheit

@LucasKauffman ever had pliny the younger or pliny the elder?

Lucas Kauffman

And this is my favourite trappist: ratebeer.com/beer/orval/835

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