The Comms Room

dawud

07:12

morning

Jenny D

t.co/MKEbxu2Qci

4

Andrew

07:27

@JennyD blatant lies

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Q: What is good (neat) architecture in programming?

When I build a simple website, e.g. a contact book where I can add, delete and update contacts, I create an index.php file where a user, if he's not logged in, is requested to enter a password and if he enters the right password, he's assigned a session and can do certain things with the contacts...

eh, suffice to say that I got google results.

My facial hair is longer than the hair on my head. Last step to #neckbeard status: migrate everything to FreeBSD. #sysadmin

Tweeted by Nonapeptide on April 20, 2014 at 12:01 AM

Jenny D

@Andrew Well that totally makes the joke not at all funny.

Andrew

@JennyD jeena.net/php-the-good-parts

Jenny D

@Andrew :-)

Andrew

fabien.potencier.org/article/64/…

Jenny D

07:52

The main advantage of PHP is that suddenly Perl has become a mature language used by skilled people. Most of the previous anti-perl sentiment has just gone s/perl/PHP/g

MichelZ

:D

Jenny D

Of course, when it's said about PHP it's totally fair whereas when said about perl it was vicious slander :-)

faker

"Last, but not the least, PHP even comes with a built-in web server that eases local testing... and it starts in a matter of micro-seconds." ಠ_ಠ

Dan

Morning

MichelZ

Hey @Dan How are u?

Dan

08:03

@MichelZ Not thanks, bud - bit of a cold, but finding that things feel a bit different when you won't get paid if you don't turn up

MichelZ

:(

Dan

@MichelZ Yeah, today would have definitely been a duvet day normally I reckon! Oh well. How are you all?

Jenny D

morning @dan

@Dan Feels like I'm getting over the cold, finally

Dan

@JennyD Must be that time of year!

Jenny D

@Dan At least I don't have allergies... my girlfriend is miserable right now; asthma and pollen allergy do not go well together with spring.

Dan

08:08

@JennyD No, not at all. My hayfever has kicked off a little this year, but I'm hoping it'll calm down - it's definitely getting better as I get older

MichelZ

my hayfever hasn't kicked-in yet. but can't be long now. but has gotten lots better over the years

Dan

@MichelZ I find being allergic to plants a ridiculous state of affairs

Iain

I only get hayfever on about 3 days a year

Mathias R. Jessen

@MichelZ Birch exploded here in DK over easter, it's been a living hell

MichelZ

:(

good thing i'm more of an inside-person :)

Mathias R. Jessen

08:22

same here

+ inside has AC <3

Had a single day with meds last year, but otherwise almost nothing ... Now it's back with a vengeance, determined to ruin my sinuses and my summer :(

Iain

Honey from local hives is supposed to help desensitise hay fever - one of these years I'll get round to having a hive myself

Dan

@Iain yeah, I've heard that

Jenny D

@Iain That makes a lot of sense.

Chopper3

08:41

Is Gripping-the-fuck-up not an option? :)

Iain

@Chopper3 Ayup, is that like rule 5 ?

Chopper3

@Iain yep :)

Can a mod execute this spammer please; serverfault.com/users/217361/zhuzhu

faker

someone here implemented a CFEngine class to deploy a proxy client configuration to a set of servers. Failed with it, left the class behind and gave the servers direct access to the internet on the firewall.

I hate everyone who used to work here

Mathias R. Jessen

@faker You should love them. They challenge you ;)

Dan

10:23

People who rate items badly because they were DOA should be shot

faker

@Dan only worse are those who rate them bad because delivery took too long

Tom O'Connor

10:36

MDT Deployment of windows from zero to fully working in under 5 minutes. That's impressive.

Dan

@TomO'Connor MDT is nice

Tom O'Connor

@Dan Especially as another team did all the hard work, all I had to do was follow their documentation

Dan

Wait until they want to start pushing apps like Adobe Creative Suite out, though.

Tom O'Connor

@Dan Fuck that.

We're not paying license costs for that kinda shit.

Dan

Haha

It was more the deployment time I was aluding to

Tom O'Connor

10:39

@Dan We've got other tools for the software deployment.

Dunno what they are..

The neat bit of this is that I intercepted the WDS pxeclient, and put the stock ubuntu one in

so it netboots to ubuntu, then pxechains the wds client

so you get a menu asking which OS you want to install.

RobM

If we transmit the bus, we can get to the XML program through the multi-byte EXE microchip!

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Dan

@TomO'Connor You know MDT / WDS can do that natively? ;)

Tom O'Connor

@Dan Not without a considerable amount of jiggery pokery.

Dan

@TomO'Connor It's native funcionality?

Tom O'Connor

This was following the microsoft instructions on how to do it...

I dunno if the two are the same thing.

Dan

10:41

Perhaps - I don't remember any Ubuntu stuff, but it's not really the stuff I do

RobM

SCCM is nice for deployments

Dan

I need to learn this stuff, but I may have lost my chance a little with giong contracting

Tom O'Connor

@RobM isn't SCCM just MDT on steroids, and MDT is WDS on acid?

RobM

we've found its quicker to deploy an image with VS 2013 installed everywhere and run a task sequence to uninstall it on the machines we don't want it on than it is to install it where we want by task sequence, but its still good.

Dan

@TomO'Connor No, SCCM is huge

RobM

10:42

Yes. Yes it is.

Dan

Fight

RobM

I mean there's lots more to SCCM besides but I assume we're just talking about the OS deployment module here, because Dan's right about SCCM overall.

we've got a huge image with VS 2013, full install of Office 2013 with all the salad and Adobe Creative Suite with all its options too and SCCM bashes it out to target PCs quite quickly. I will say that.

Dan

Anyone used BIG IP F5 stuff?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Dan a lot

we have about two dozen of them I think. Maybe more

Dan

Without sounding stupid, is there a simple rundown. I don't need to do anything with them, but they're using them here and I udnerstand nothing

Is F5 the name of an actual product, or are there loads within it?

MichelZ

10:51

@Dan www.google.com :D

I think F5 is the Company, and BIG IP is the product

Dan

Sorry yeah, I'm mixing myself up

I guess what I'm trying to establish - you buy a BIG IP firewall. Do you select based on size and then license based on features?

Okay, I think I'm getting it now

Tom O'Connor

@Dan I wouldn't have said they're firewalls.

More application-aware load balancers that might have FW capability.

MichelZ

They're more like reverse proxies / LB's

aren't they?

yah

Dan

Fair one, yeah

Problem is everyone just says "Oh, the F5 will do that"

I hate high level discussions, I need to understand

MichelZ

@Dan good for you! More People should try to understand stuff they're dealing with

we wouldn't have so many n00b questions then

Iain

11:02

@MichelZ they are mostly attributable to laziness

MichelZ

yes

Dan

@Iain The problem I'm facing is the more I read up about this F5 shite the more I realise I don't know

MichelZ

and not trying to understand is lazyness

Dan

They have, at least, published a lot of decent Citrix documentation

Iain

@Dan that's not a problem

Dan

11:04

@Iain Feels like it, I've got a meeting tomorrow where I need to sound like someone with half a clue

Tom O'Connor

@Dan Probably, but probably not very well.

Dan

@TomO'Connor That, thankfully, ain't my problem

RobM

I think I should be allowed to lock gratuitously dumb people in a room with some rabid, angry badgers.

Dan

You can send them over to do my Visio diagram if you want, I'm bored already

RobM

11:19

you wouldn't want these people doing your visio diagrams. You wouldn't want to watch them tie their own shoelaces.

Actually now that I think about it, the particular people I'm thinking of mostly wear slip-on shoes...

faker

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Q: How to ensure that the «if» statement gets parsed _before_ a given resource/class?

Sometimes there are complicated interactions between packages. To avoid class interface with countless, seemingly unrelated parameters, I though about using tags, defined(<resource>) function to let the resources slightly change their behaviour based on the rest of the configuration (not facts)....

puppet

am I wrong or does he need to put that in different stages?

Tom O'Connor

@Dan I dunno if i'd let them make a choice that was going to suck in future.

Dan

@TomO'Connor You could, as a 2 week contractor, tell the PM of a half done multi million pound project that they've picked the wrong vendor if you like ;)

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@faker no, s/require/before/ is what he needs. Stages are just a lame excuse for not getting your dependencies correct.

Tom O'Connor

@Dan Sure.

I'm not afraid of them.

If you want a firewall, buy a firewall. If you want an Application LB, buy one.

Don't buy an ALB and expect it to be a good firewall.

Screw the UTM. Evil idea.

Core2Duo chips suck.

faker

11:31

@DennisKaarsemaker hmm confusing, I think he needs to have userdoc before. But not before the File, before the if

Mathias R. Jessen

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork I thought my sarcasm was automatically conveyed, given his question, but you might be on to something

Still hopelessly in love with the new nick btw xD

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@MathiasR.Jessen Yeah, you wouldn't know it based on the question he posted, but that fellow sure made a valuable contribution to the community anyhow. :)

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@faker I missed the circular references. I don't know what he's trying to achieve, but it looks stupidly complicated.

not going to open that can of worms, answer deleted :)

RobM

sometimes it is better to just walk away...

Journeyman Geek

@tom: Meh, they're old and the entire system they are on is probably slowly failing

faker

11:44

@DennisKaarsemaker I'm not sure either, also couldn't he declare it like class {'vbox': require => Class['userdoc'], }? That should work. Sucks also though.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@faker I don't know if those tags will work properly in that case, I don't use tags in puppet

MichelZ

@MathiasR.Jessen I got the sarcasm! :D

Stack Exchange

Standalone Sysadmin: No updates lately - super busy!

posted on April 23, 2014 by <a id='post_author' class='fn' itemprop='name' …

I've been writing less lately than normal, and given my habits of not posting, that's saying something! Lately, I've been feeling less like a sysadmin and more like a community manager, honestly. On top of the normal LOPSA Board Member duties I've had, I'm serving as co-chair of the LISA'14 Tutorials committee AND the Invited […]

Mathias R. Jessen

@MichelZ With his question on-hold, he probably will too ;)

Travis

12:03

Sweet! I get a free trial of cPanel with my hosting account!

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Tom O'Connor

@Travis Get out.

Travis

@TomO'Connor For realz!

MichelZ

@Travis He probably meant it literally. Get out! :D

Travis

lol

Never used it before. Why the hostility toward it? I always assumed the GoDaddy interface was pretty cPanelly

cole

Good morning.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

12:08

@Travis because it fucks up your system

Travis

@DennisKaarsemaker Too funny

MichelZ

in addition to fucking up your system, it will fuck your wife, and eat all the food in the fridge, and it will hide your TV remote

Travis

Hey now! Them's fighting words! Fat kid ain't gonna have nothing stealing his food!

MichelZ

damn spelling today...

Tom O'Connor

@Travis Because cPanel makes you into a shit admin, and if you ask questions about it, we'll close them.

Travis

12:10

I realize I totally missed the fuck my wife part.

@TomO'Connor I don't like the idea of having to pay to be a shitty admin

Tom O'Connor

@Travis That's reiserfs, isn't it?

Oh wait.. That just kills your wife.

MichelZ

lol

Travis

:)

MichelZ

damn Hans

or what's his name

Travis

Maybe I shouldn't have redirected my primary account's .com to a porn site...now I can't test new websites...

Dan

12:19

@TomO'Connor I'm not afraid of them, I'm just not going to get in a debate over something I can't change

ewwhite

I'm tired of the cloud.

MichelZ

yah, let the sun shine!

Tom O'Connor

@MichelZ Reiser.

MichelZ

@Tom

firstname Hans

is it not?

Tom O'Connor

Hans Reiser

Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer. He is the creator and primary developer of the ReiserFS computer file system, which is contained within the Linux kernel, as well as its attempted successor, Reiser4. In 2004, he founded Namesys, a corporation meant to coordinate the development of both file systems. In April 2008, Reiser was convicted of the first degree murder of his wife, Nina Reiser, who disappeared in September 2006. He subsequently pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder, as part of...

MichelZ

12:22

yap

Tom O'Connor

Oh, i thought you meant you didn't remember his surname.

Which would be vaguely amusing.

MichelZ

it would :)

damn sql profiler. overwhelmed by some lines of string

RobM

12:36

Iain

@RobM It really should be shunned (the way that the SUN is in Liverpool) by the whole country

Dan

@Iain Except people believe this stuff, which is why it winds me up so much

Iain

My sister-in-law (an otherwise intelligent woman) believes it all

Dan

There are still a lot of people who think newspapers wouldn't be able to print it if it wasn't half true

And of course, the "no smoke without fire" argument

RobM

12:53

@iain as a football fan, even if not a liverpool fan, I've not purchased the sun since Hillborough, either.

so totally agree.

Iain

abstrusegoose.com/474

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BigHomie

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2610693/…

Mathias R. Jessen

@RobM No. 2 is a bit unfair, a lot of conservative newspapers described the NSDAP as a vocal defender of sound conservative values during the 30's, it's too easy to point fingers at it in retrospect

RobM

@MathiasR.Jessen perhaps, but the daily fail has had a habit of this. And pointing fingers in retrospect is fair game when you play by the fail's own rules.

Dan

@Iain I love that

cole

13:00

Everything is so sore...oh god getting old sucks so bad

Iain

@Dan it made me snigger

HopelessN00b Genius of network

Made me do that laugh/cry thing.

TheCleaner

Hey @HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork - I found your Superuser Moderator campaign billboard...lol

4

I'm still curious when you'll let them know you don't give a five if you get elected...

Mathias R. Jessen

@RobM Oh, don't get me wrong, the mail and their conduct is pure filth - the fact that you point to at least one annual shameful scandal for the last 6 years is pretty saying

RobM

yep.

Iain

13:13

@EEAA beat me to it by a few seconds

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@TheCleaner Not sure I will. I think I'll gain more amusement out of watching them never figure it out, TBH.

EEAA

@Iain My general assumption with questions like these is that if the OP doesn't mention anything about backups, they likely have none.

Iain

@EEAA snap

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@EEAA What kind of cups? I have lots of plastic and glass cups, even different colors in my cabinets.

Iain

Is it just me or does 40T in RAID5 scare anyone else ?

3

Q: Filesystem performance degraded during RAID rebuilding

So quick question - our RAID5 is currently rebuilding and there is a VERY noticeable filesystem performance hit (home directories are NFS mounted on the array). I'd sort of expect that, given you're rebuilding the array so there's massive read/write burden on the controller, but it occurred to m...

performance raid filesystems

EEAA

13:16

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork I prefer lowball glasses.

@Iain That's terrifying.

Dan

@Iain Anything in R5 scares me

MichelZ

@Iain definitely!

Iain

@EEAA aye

MichelZ

RAID5 should just get banned from the planet

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Iain

Don't you just know they're 2T consumer grade disks too and their next question will be how do I recover from a URE during a RAID5 rebuild

MichelZ

13:18

so highly likely for a double failure

Dan

@Iain But they're so cheap!

MichelZ

:)

Iain

and I bet they have no backups either

MichelZ

@Iain why backup.. they have raid!

;)

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@Iain They're 2.8 TB disks, according to a just-now comment.

EEAA

13:20

I have a ~15TB R6 array of WD 3TB drives, and even that is slightly concerning to me. Fortunately it's more or less a backup of one of our S3 buckets, so the data is elsewhere.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

How does that question have 3 upvotes and only my downvote, by the way?

Iain

Then I hope they have good backups

HopelessN00b Genius of network

This is hardware RAID5 (LSI 9266-i8) on a 40TB array I'm tempted to close this as unprofessional. A 40TB RAID5 array is not professional, and indicates that either someone is very bad at his job, or is doing a passable job at sabotage. — HopelessN00b Genius of network 1 min ago

Iain

THe question isn't bad

cole

I'm happy to announce our new Hitachi arrays are RAID6 (our current Sun storage is RAID5)

HopelessN00b Genius of network

13:21

@Iain Not bad, but not worthy of +3, or even +2 (at least by stingy ServerFault upvote standards).

Danila Ladner

Read the last line. libressl.org

on that page

cole

Is anyone using SCCM with multi-site/multi-national deployments?

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@DanilaLadner Yeah, it's been mentioned in here at least 83 times in the past few days.

cole

CA sucks so hard and we're looking to move off of using it.

Danila Ladner

oh sorry.

haven't seen.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

13:23

@cole We has multi-site SCCM deployment that I did. Not multi-national, but one of our sites is in BFE, Kentucky, which might as well be a 3rd world country.

Iain

I agve up on wondering how stuff gets voted on

cole

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork Sounds about right. This would be for 87+ sites.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@DanilaLadner Heh, no biggie. It is kind of amusing/curious/WTFish.

Danila Ladner

How does one survive in this country, prices seem go up like every other week.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@cole We're at... like 2 dozen, but with a much flatter hierarchy, and much less NT 4.0/Windows 2000/Windows 2003 than you guys. If you could get SCCM set up into that environment, I'm sure you could write a best selling horror novel about it.

cole

13:26

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork NT4 is almost decommed completely

Is SCCM just one agent? CA has two agents - software delivery and management.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@DanilaLadner <shrug> Prices stay the same as long you steal everything.

@cole Yeah, one agent. SCCM client. Management is handled with the agent, and AD and the SCCM server software.

Danila Ladner

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork haha. oh that is why relatives from Russia say no inflation there.

cole

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork hard to get this info from Microsoft's site. They're just like TRY O BUY THIS

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork does it have or is the remote agent deployment capability pretty good?

Kevin Soviero

@DanilaLadner Which country is that?

Danila Ladner

@KevinSoviero Russia

well i mean if you steal everything, so there is no price hikes for you.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

13:32

@cole You mean "push client installs?" (Telling the server to deploy the SCCM client to a bunch of client computers?) Yes, it's pretty good. Can be hair-pulling infuriating when it doesn't work for no obvious reason, but it usually works, and usually works pretty well.

Kevin Soviero

@DanilaLadner You could always move to the Ukraine... Oh, sorry, I mean "New Russia."

HopelessN00b Genius of network

Not sure how that'll go on your older OSes, though, it was mostly smooth sailing for us, even on XP and Server 2003 client machines.

Iain

Apparently it's a 40T R6

cole

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork Yes - we're not terribly concerned about the 2000 boxes as we're starting to actually phase those out too and NT4 will be gone shortly as well.

ewwhite

Just say no to RAID5.

(and sometimes RAID6, unless you know what you're doing)

cole

13:34

RAID5: Not even twice.

Iain

@ewwhite explain

MichelZ

@Iain Better, but still... it should be multiple RAID6, and not one

HopelessN00b Genius of network

R6 is still parity RAID, and still runs a not-insignificant risk of disk failures during rebuild tanking the whole thing, especially with larger arrays.

ewwhite

@Iain Well, it helps to understand the performance profiles... I'm amazed that so many people on SF post about 40TB arrays and such. In y day-to-day, I rarely deal with anything over 8TB (and never more than 2TB on produce systems)

RAID5 is okay on enterprise disks... but not nearline. I think RAID 1+0 is just the simplest approach.

Iain

@ewwhite I didn't realise you were referring to the 40T I though you were being more general.

TheCleaner

13:37

I swear Sears just gives money away now...I get the "Shop your way" rewards weekly emails saying "you have $15 in surprise rewards"...I end up getting stuff for free weekly from that store.

ewwhite

some of this spills over onto ZFS, because a lot of people try to use RAIDZ and RAIDZ2 (R5 and R6-like)... and there are too many downsides to doing so.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

When you get right down to it, parity RAID in general is a way of reducing costs on disk by increasing risks to data, and thus, is generally a bad idea, which should only be used by those who know what they're doing.

Kevin Soviero

How can you use ps to print just the process cmdline?

MikeyB

@KevinSoviero cat /proc/pid/cmdline (or really) ps -o command

Iain

@KevinSoviero ww | ef

HopelessN00b Genius of network

13:41

@KevinSoviero Effing hell, man. I was trying to parse that and thinking "what the hell are you trying to print with PowerShell??"

MikeyB

@Iain ermagerd how many axles? (bro do you even RAID60?)

Iain

@MikeyB 2.8T each

Kevin Soviero

@MikeyB ps -eww -o command

That does what I need, thanks

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@Iain So, that would be... probably 16 3TB nearline SAS disks in R6? Not sure if that's really much better than R5, now that I do the math.

Iain

quite possibly not

JohnD

13:46

gj @Community meta.serverfault.com/posts/6218/revisions

Iain

@JohnD yeah someone ran a job that updated a load of links

MikeyB

@KevinSoviero you may also find something like -o comm:32=CMD -o command handy

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork mmmmm reducing costs on disk by reducing performance.

Kevin Soviero

@MikeyB Explain?

I don't know if someone already posted this, but as far as RAID 5 is concerned: baarf.com

Danila Ladner

@KevinSoviero Haha, you think things are any different in Ukraine, even more so of stealing and bribing.

MikeyB

only the executable name vs full (possibly modified) command line:
COMM COMMAND
/usr/bin/terminator /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/terminator -b

Kevin Soviero

13:53

@DanilaLadner I was more interested in making fun of the current events in that region, rather than any specific economic conditions.

ewwhite

So I had a Linux server crash this morning... and it dumped a huge file in /var/crash - filling up /var, and taking more services down

should I be planning to have more room in /var/crash ?

Kevin Soviero

@ewwhite /var/crash? Distro and version?

Iain

@ewwhite are you going to do anything with the dump files ?

ewwhite

no, a 5GB dump file may not be too useful for me

BigHomie

@ewwhite It's just going to fill up whatever more room you give it

Iain

13:57

Disable the dumps then

ewwhite

this is the only time I've ever seen this on a Linux box

Dan

projectnaptha.com

ewwhite

plenty on VMware and Soalris

Dan

Cool

faker

I've never enabled crash dumps anywhere

Nathan C

13:57

for some odd reason I can't get my custom web server template to appear on the web enrollment...but the default cert does

MikeyB

@ewwhite is RHEL default (as of 6 I think)

Kevin Soviero

@MikeyB If you have more than 8G of RAM AFAIK.

ewwhite

@MikeyB normally my systems don't crash in this manner... never even saw it at Logicworks.

so it could be a fluke

Danila Ladner

@faker most of the time they are useless, but also dangerous due to filling up partition with crap.

Kevin Soviero

@DanilaLadner Mount /var/crash as ramdisk?

faker

13:59

@DanilaLadner exactly, I would only enable them if a box crashes all the time and I want to investigate it

Jenny D

@faker and in that case if it were me I'd send them to another box if possible.

Danila Ladner

@KevinSoviero yeah, it is as an option, but I wouldn't even bother enabling it, unless some specific hardware needs to be debugged how it kills the kernel.

Jenny D

One with lots of disk space.

cole

i dont feel like doing shit today

Danila Ladner

I have a headache to be honest, weather is shit.

cole

14:05

I'm sore from my first softball game last night.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@Dan That's pretty nifty, man. Noice find.

ewwhite

Okay, this was my fault.

Dan

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork To be honest, I wasn't sure it wasn't a joke at first. It does work - a little faffy (it could do with a little icon to say its processing), but could come in handy

@ewwhite I thought the Comms Room had long since established that it was always your fault.

ewwhite

<3>Out of memory: Kill process 12057 (zfswatcher) score 1 or sacrifice child
<3>Killed process 10632, UID 0, (zpool) total-vm:27124kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:4kB
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: An NMI occurred, please see the Integrated Management Log for details.
<0>
<4>Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P         C ---------------    2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1

Kevin Soviero

I couldn't sleep last night and woke up a half hour late...

ewwhite

14:09

I'd been experimenting with zram devices

<7>zram: Read before write: sector=4193824, size=114688
<7>zram: Read before write: sector=4193824, size=114688
<7>zram: Read before write: sector=4193824, size=114688
<7>zram: Read before write: sector=4193824, size=114688
<7>zram: Read before write: sector=4193824, size=114688
<7>zram: Read before write: sector=4193824, size=114688

and forgot that I left them on...

Dan

Naught @ewwhite.

But you're talking to the man who once nearly destroyed a fully functional XenServer host when trying to fix a broken one because he typo'd an IP

ewwhite

I'm sure you all have made changes to something, then forgot about them....

e.g. when the filesystem fills up from the debug logs you enabled... or the server catches fire from the lit cigarette you left on the top cover...

Dan

You mean like leaving debug logging enabled. :D

Haha, see

Tom O'Connor

reddit.com/user/poem_for_your_sprog This makes delightful reading.

Dan

This is a Windows one - but I used Regedit to import the hive of a mandatory profile. This locks the file and, in turn, makes the profile completely unusable for the clients until you manually close the file. Yeah, that went well

HopelessN00b Genius of network

14:12

@ewwhite Yeah, I call the days I do that on "workdays." ... of course, that also happens because of drinking on the weekends though. So, really, it something I only every day of my life.

ewwhite

I've made the mistake of tipsy command-line work.

HopelessN00b Genius of network

@ewwhite It's significant;y easier and more dangerous if your CLI supports auto complete.

ewwhite

14:28

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A: Installing XenServer 6.2 on Proliant DL160G6 freezes during "Installing from base pack"

I have a question to. I am using 8x143 GB which is approximately around 1TB HDD. I had the same issue while installing XenServer 6.2. I am using RAID 50. What is the advantage of using RAID 50, I have heard about RAID 10 the max, but this is new for me, it has been almost around 7 years I touched...

TheCleaner

Wow, I had no idea that monitor size question would be so popular...I was simply curious...

Danila Ladner

27"

ewwhite

@ewwhite910 Ugh, I wish people would start calling it by its REAL name, GNU/Linux.

Tweeted by BigDickStallman on April 17, 2014 at 8:45 PM in reply to ewwhite910

What's that about?

Danila Ladner

14:44

how to emulate right mouse click on win2012 with keyboard?

Bob

@ewwhite A novelty twitter account referencing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy?

@DanilaLadner Mousekeys?

Does that even work in Server OSes? o.O

Kevin Soviero

You know, if I was rich, I could snort cocaine at work w/o going to jail... Oh, if only!

ewwhite

@Bob Weird.

Danila Ladner

they do not work

Bob

@ewwhite I would say most people don't really care. Only the purists.

*ducks for cover*

ewwhite

14:45

I may need to ask a stupid question on the main site...

Bob

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A: How can I enable MouseKeys on Windows 2008 Server?

Solved using a little AutoHotkey script

Though, the better solution might be "get a mouse".

Danila Ladner

I have a mouse, it just drac5 doesn't redirect mouse to win2012, it works with win2008

Bob

Huh.

I never knew DRAC's console was affected by the OS.

MichelZ

lol

@Bob me neither

@DanilaLadner update firmware

ewwhite

@DanilaLadner I use tab...

Danila Ladner

14:50

@MichelZ it is the latest

1.65

for idrac5

@ewwhite How did your day go after yesterday?

Where did you stay?

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