So it wasn't the fire alarm. It was our security system. It's linked to the HVAC units and a temperature alarm tripped when my boss turned the units on
Just had Splenda for the first time, and I put the same amount as the amount of sugar I usually put in my coffee. That was a bad idea... Splenda does not measure like sugar.
@Magellan Well, yes, you need to actually monitor the services, not trust SNMP. And, yes, I suppose NTP is especially tricky if you want to include monitoring that the time is right.
@freiheit yeah, I'm stuck with OpenNMS. Getting sick of having to write up some damn snmp extend every time I want to monitor a service that isn't designed to be monitored by SNMP.
@MikeyB Did you notice today that things have changed? Namely, that it calls itself "X-www-browser" in the window buttons, and the tabs now are flush with the top when fullscreen. Also, the look and feel of the menus has changed.
@BigHomie [blocked] The page at 'https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/127/the-comms-room' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://cdn-chat.sstatic.net/chat/css/chat.serverfault.com.css?v=dea0d71abe40': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.
@RyJones I'm going to have to work on that. I have learned that Friday afternoon and the afternoon before a vacation are not the best windows for changes~
@KevinSoviero haha yeah that's the normal shift of a sysadmin, however the official shift most of the Uni staff is 8:30-5:00
@KevinSoviero Hate to break it to you, but the "one shift" bit is where you cut your teeth and learn the job. You get the cushier bits with a little experience, a little humility, and an eagerness to work with a team and bust your ass.
@Iain It's not bad. Lots of work to do to overcome a bunch of technical debt while dealing with meteoric growth. I'm not as sharp as I'd like to be now, but that's mostly sleep deprivation.
Solutions that worked fine for 15 servers in 1 rack at a MSP down the street don't always work so well with a half dozen DCs worldwide.
@Iain yeah, both little ones up over 8 pounds now. Fairly healthy if not terribly happy. Our diet is high in veggies and low in carbs, so the girls are a bit gassy.
Hey, if I have a SQL query that generates a large table with a performance metric over time for many different machines, is there a way to have SQL do some averaging for me? Can I have it, for example, calculate the average for each machine, and maybe even the standard deviation?
our windows build machines get hung on the OSX projects having stupid long paths. so, check out source, build (ignoring OSX folders), go to clean up for next build - failure
if you want to see NTFS/Windows fall over, check out an old repo using a DVCS (git, hg) a couple times. I have one in mind, but I don't want to blame the project
Heh. Reminds me of remember one particular problem I was called in for. "It takes 5 times as long to check out our code repo on an NFS directory as it does on a local directory." *checks* "Oh. Hmm. 330,000 files and directories." *thinks* "Don't do that then."
@voretaq7 We rescued it, and it was always leery of car rides, thinking it was going back to the shelter probably. She finally warmed up to them, and we had to send her back.
@BigHomie my last dog got a soup bone stuck over the teeth on her lower jaw (don't ask). She was perfectly fine until we got out of the car at the vet's office - then she started frantically pawing at the bone trying to get it off.
...of course then the vet gave her doggie drugs to make her stupid so they could saw the bone off and she stopped caring about being a laughing stock.
"Wooooo they're using a cast cutter on my face. Meh, dafuq do I care? I'M HIGH!"
and then the waking up the next day when we picked her up. "Mmmhhhh? wha? Where the hell am I? How'd I get in the vet's kennel? Oh god - I didn't sleep with that pug did I?!"
Do you look at something like ^^ that and think to yourself... ooooh baby I'd like whoever did that to make me a bicycle?
@mossy The ideal is something looking like "a stack of dimes" and that's like some crazy dual dime-stack shit going on... Only really good people can get one row of that stuff to look that good.
> 2BASE-TL -- defined in clauses 61 and 63. Full-duplex long reach Point-to-Point link over voice-grade copper wiring. 2BASE-TL PHY can deliver a minimum of 2 Mbit/s and a maximum of 5.69 Mbit/s over distances of up to 2700 m (9,000 ft), using ITU-T G.991.2 (G.SHDSL.bis) technology over a single copper pair.
@freiheit yeah. it had a slight low-pressure center to it, so it spun up like a teeny little hurricane. It's cute. =)
And a lot less scary than waiting around for the Cascadia Subduction Zone to cut loose and level every structure between the Coast and the Idaho state line.
@KevinSoviero I think I'm done giving you answers to questions that with 2 seconds of thought you could figure out where to find that out for yourself.
@Magellan Hey, ass hole, I didn't know your ServerFault profile had your age, I didn't even know that was an option. Why don't you un-bunch your panties.
otoh, makes me appreciate the new junior we hired a few weeks back. Good kid that knows where to look to make sure his questions are reasonable before he bothers us.
@DennisKaarsemaker office got a new DC spun up in your neighborhood. They're running it through an MSP, so I couldn't fly out there to help set it up. =/
Is there a voice chat version of the Server Fault 'Comms Room'?
Perhaps using the TeamSpeak 3 protocol?
