The Comms Room

Aaron

16:05

yay, 500 reputation

How do I suggest tags for deletion?

MarkM

you can make a post in Meta Server Fault with merge/parent/nuke into orbit suggestions

what tags?

Shane Madden

@Aaron 500 rep gives you tag edit - if you remove all questions that use a tag, it'll go away - but don't do it manually if there's more than a handful on the tag; it spams the front page with the edits.

Aaron

There are no questions with this tag that I can see - serverfault.com/questions/tagged/exchange-210

MarkM

Intersting

Aaron

This tag also seems kind of overly generic

serverfault.com/questions/tagged/request

Shane Madden

16:23

@Aaron It was just recently created and someone already edited the question out of it. It'll drop out within.. some number of hours

ninjasense

can someone direct me towards a room where i can talk about SQL?

MarkM

serverfault.com

You can casually talk about it here, but chat isn't a live support room. If you have a question, it should be asked on the main site.

Tens of thousands of users will see it there, only tens will see it in chat.

Zoredache

@ninjasense, sql may be asked on dba.stackexchange.serverfault, or stackoverflow, depending on the specifics of your question.

Shane Madden

@ninjasense There aren't necessarily active chat rooms for a given stackexchange site. If you need to ask about administering a database server, throw a question on serverfault.com. Table structure/design/optimization, dba.stackexchange.com. Raw, nasty queries with many inner joins, stackoverflow.com.

ninjasense

so if i had a question about storing an image in a db and mapping it with nhibernate where would the apprpriate place to put it be?

Shane Madden

16:32

@ninjasense I'd say stackoverflow. Dealing with the blobs directly could be a dba.se question, but since hibernate's involved, SO is a better place.

Aaron

serverfault.com/questions/tagged/ciper-suites

ciper-suites should be cipher-suites, or just shot.. not sure which is the better option

MarkM

Edit the questions. YOU HAVE THE POWER!

:)

Shane Madden

@Aaron yeah [cipher-suites] imo. Surprised there aren't more questions on that stuff - I'd expect people to break their cryptography more often or have a vuln scanner light up on SSLv2

Aaron

I don't want to step on too many toes... still feeling my way around here and don't want to run roughshod over established procedures

SmallClanger

@ShaneMadden It's all a lot of nonsense. rot13 was good enough in my day...

Shane Madden

16:39

@SmallClanger Haha, indeed.

Aaron

@ShaneMadden - I think there are questions about that, but 'cipher-suite' isn't the word I'd think of first

@SmallClanger, don't forget double ROT13 for super security

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SmallClanger

Heh

Shane Madden

@Aaron Good rule of thumb would be when it's above, say, 10 questions to retag, do a meta post instead of manual editing.

MarkM

@Aaron As long as you're correcting a clear error, like ciper-suites to cipher-suites then just go for it. If it's more of a grey area you can feel free to ask. by the same token, with 500 rep you can do it yourself. The worst thing that happens if you step on a toe is that it gets rolled back.

Shane Madden

The idea is just to avoid spamming out the front page with edits

WesleyDavid

16:42

@Aaron Yeah, you don't want to push off all the single IP DDoS and web server scaling questions.

Aaron

@WesleyDavid, that would be horrible indeed

MarkM

Actually, if you do bump ANYTHING that says DDoS, make sure you post a comment that says @voretaq7 in it somewhere.

WesleyDavid

@voretaq7 is ServerFault's Kibo. (Mixed with Jason Voorhees)

MarkM

@WesleyDavid I like your new cat.

WesleyDavid

@MarkM Cat head. The rest of him remains to be found.

Scott Pack

16:44

@MarkM I've always been rather fond of @Wesley's kitty

Iain

@ShaneMadden thats the main thing - questions get missed that way

WesleyDavid

@ScottPack ಠ_ಠ

And for anyone interested, no the cat is not mine and no he was not beheaded. The cat's name is "Ducky Chicken Finger" owned by someone who has an internet connection and it was sticking its head through a rolling pin hole.

Scott Pack

Are cats capable of surviving your climate?

WesleyDavid

It's true, I don't see many alley cats. Or dogs. Or... people.

The weather here speeds up the process of recycling mammals back to dust.

Chris S

"I hope this email finds you well. The reason I am reaching out is we are actively looking for a partner in your area and have spent some time evaluating our best potential candidates. With that said- I feel as though there is a great opportunity with your company and I wanted to take a few minutes to speak with you before moving on to our next candidate." - Does that wreak of 419 or what?

Shane Madden

16:51

@ChrisS Definitely.

MarkM

Most dearest sir, I am wrieting two you in order to give you a chance to partner with us.in exchance for gloreeous partnership,we only require root password.thank you for your time.

WesleyDavid

@ChrisS Give it a try. That's how I found my long lost African native uncle who is currently a political prisoner. I'm trying to bail him out. I have high hopes.

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Chris S

The e-mail is actually from a legit company, actually looking for partners. It's a "cloud backup" company who wants to provide backup solutions for our customers.. But that first paragraph, wow.

MarkM

haha

WesleyDavid

@ChrisS Yeah, I've actually gotten legit emails that sound a lot like that. I find the approach indiciative of greater flakiness, unless it's just one bad recruiter or HR person giving the company a bad name. I usually give them a try. Kinda like dates. At least give them a first date before you key their car.

voretaq7

17:00

@WesleyDavid I am not kibo. Kibo was a pussy.

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Zoredache

crap it is Thursday, not Wednesday.... I have thurday off, but came into work...

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Shane Madden

@ChrisS I'm actually very curious which company that is, now.

Scott Pack

@Zoredache I ended up taking Monday off. That has really screwed up my week.

Aaron

"office-2003" should be a synonym for 'ms-office-2003' and office-2007 should be a synonym for 'ms-office-2007' - I don't think I can suggest them yet

Shane Madden

@Aaron Synonyms are.. yeah. Not easy. Meta post for those. Though I don't like having an abbreviation for the company as the start of the tag..

voretaq7

17:03

New rule on DDoS questions: If you post one and you're not REALLY being DDoS'd we unleash the power of the fully armed and operational ServerFault botnet -- Yes?

MarkM

That doesn't happen already?

Shane Madden

@voretaq7 Oh, yes. @KyleBrandt @Zypher can you get on that?

voretaq7

@ShaneMadden I'd say Office-* should be the main tag since that's what everyone calls it. MS Office is more correct, but uncommon in real world use.

MarkM

I have about 1,100 lab computers and a 500Mb pipe to the internet at my disposal to get us started.

Aaron

It looks like the ms-office-xxxx tags have a lot more questions than just the office-xxx x tags though ... ?

voretaq7

17:04

really? That's kinda surprising

but ok then the community hath spoken :)

Graham Perrin

choppertars indeed … LOL

voretaq7

(and we said "Get Thee to a Microsoft Ghetto, foul demon spawn!")

Shane Madden

@GrahamPerrin yeah.. we'll need a change to the subject line soon. Down to 1 non-@Chopper3 choppertar.

Chris S

@ShaneMadden Well if you Googled for a Cloud Backup & Recovery Partner you'd probably find them very quickly... But I wont say the exact name.

Iain

@Aaron office2003/7 should disappear soon - both now have no questions

Aaron

17:08

Did you "synonymize" them or just edit the questions?

Iain

@Aaron edited the tags - there were only 5

Aaron

ok - I would have done the same, but I thought it was "common" enough that some people might keep recreating it... but we'll see

voretaq7

howcomewhyfor chat logged me out again?

stupid chat

MarkM

@voretaq7 You're a mac user, right?

voretaq7

@MarkM sometimes

Chris S

17:17

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voretaq7

@ChrisS "Are you referring to the control group?"

MarkM

@voretaq7 Have you used Lion yet? I'm really digging mission control.

voretaq7

@MarkM i have it on my laptop - MC is nice

"natural" scrolling is shit. Autocorrect wangs chung.

it's been a very mixed feeling.

MarkM

It was way harder than it should have been to change the dashboard key to launchpad

voretaq7

@MarkM i use the swipes :)

MarkM

17:20

I use an ipad a lot at home, so the natural scrolling thing only took an hour or so for me to get used to

I do too on my new air, but on my mini, i have the first gen magic mouse

voretaq7

my problem with natural scrolling is I view it like a scroll wheel, not a "grab and flick" which bothers me

MarkM

(only sees two finger swipe gestures)

ya

voretaq7

BRB, lunching

tombull89

17:37

BRB, staring at a slinky going down an escalator...I may be some time...

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voretaq7

whaaaaaaat… rolls down stairs
alone or in pairs
rolls over the neighbor's dog....

►

Peter Grace

Is there a way I can surf the tag wiki?

adding an entry for a tag that does not yet have any content, wanted to see some examples of the long section so I can make it flow similarly.

voretaq7

@PeterGrace you can go to the tags page

Peter Grace

Ahh, ok, thanks, I see.

voretaq7

they're all different and of varying quality -- just make it look not-like-a-drunk-simian wrote it and you'll be fine.

Peter Grace

17:48

hahaha

wasn't sure if there were standards/formatting like wikipedia

wasn't sure how verbose I had to get on the topic

serverfault.com/tags/keepalived/info

there.

And, upboats welcome on this answer that I answered a few months ago for someone else :)

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A: Move exchange mailboxes cross forest

You may find value in reading my answer to a similar question a few months ago: Migrating Mailstore from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 in a new domain

Iain

oooh how gauche is that :(

MarkM

What the holy hell is this guy trying to do?

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Q: Network Load Balancing Windows server 2008

I have a questions about load balancing configurations . Maybe someone already asked this question but i didn't find something similar on the web. The Actual Configuration is . I Have two servers that i want to load balance. Server 1 has two NIC NIC 1 IP :xx.xx.xx.35 Gateway : xx.xx.xx.33 NI...

Jacob

@MarkM WAN LB across two NICs?

MarkM

@Jacob Are you sure?

Jacob

@MarkM Yeah

MarkM

17:59

It sounds like server1 and server2 are directly connected via NIC2

Jacob

@MarkM I marked it unsalvageable

Peter Grace

Iain: What, talking about my trolling for karma? :)

Jacob

Massively F-UP'ed

Peter Grace

@MarkM huh, that is weird.

@MarkM I think a lot of people just starting out with load balancing have this natural assumption that anything they try to load balance will just magically work.

MarkM

I think he either doesn't grasp the fundamentals of NLB, or just asked the question very poorly.

My natual instinct is #1.

Jacob

18:07

@PeterGrace BUT BUT MY MAGICAL SKILLZ WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN

Peter Grace

I put on my robe and wizard's hat.

Hey Mark, out of curiosity, what university do you work for?

ah, I see on your google profile, la salle. I have a buddy who works at Villanova, which sparked my curiosity.

voretaq7

@PeterGrace EVICTED FROM THE BALL-PIT!

Shane Madden

@Jacob Oh, I've got a warranty info CD that came with an ASA. That might be it?

Jacob

@ShaneMadden When did you get it?

Shane Madden

"Cisco End User License and Warranty // Cisco Information Packet"

Jacob

18:13

That

Shane Madden

@Jacob Not sure where we buy our ASAs. Bulk from CDW I think.

WesleyDavid

@PeterGrace Did you ever get a good answer to the question about IPSec you had? I bountied it for you.

Jacob

@ShaneMadden When, not where

All of them were affected through ~August 1

Peter Grace

@WesleyDavid I tried the suggestion the one guy answered, but it had no effect. Admittedly, his response was to fix a different problem but it was worth a try.

Shane Madden

@Jacob Reading comprehension fail. The software CD is ASA 8.3.. might be right timeframe. Let me check if there's a date on the box..

WesleyDavid

18:15

@PeterGrace Yeah, looked like he just tossed one in to hopefully nab the points. NO BOUNTY-SOUP FOR YOU!!

Peter Grace

@WesleyDavid Thanks for bountying it for me, I've also asked on juniperforum to see if there's any ScreenOS gurus who might have more input-- if so, I'll comment on the fix here so that it's recorded for posterity.

Jacob

@ShaneMadden theregister.co.uk/2011/08/05/cisco_malwary_cd_warning

WesleyDavid

@PeterGrace You are a scholar and a gentleman.

Jacob

@ShaneMadden If is before F0 revision you have the disc

Peter Grace

@WesleyDavid we were talking about it at the office today, and the venn diagram union for knowledge on this question is tight. Tough to find ScreenOS gurus, who also are very skilled in ipsec, who are also very skilled in ipv6.

Aaron

18:16

For single-product tags, is it proper to put a URL in the tag wiki for the product in question - i.e. cpanel ?

Shane Madden

@Jacob Date on the box is Jan 2011. Rev "AB0". Might just be the right one...

voretaq7

@Aaron I would say yes unless their site is blatant commercialism

Jacob

@ShaneMadden You've got the disc

MarkM

@PeterGrace Ah got ya. I would love to work at villanova. It's a lot closer to my apartment :)

(Plus, they have a shitload more money)

Jacob

@ShaneMadden mind imaging it for me?(disable autorun and your safe)

Peter Grace

18:18

@MarkM feel free to toss me your resume to [email protected], I'll get it to the department.

Shane Madden

@Jacob No problem

Peter Grace

@MarkM I live up in Pottstown, so it'd be a heck of a commute for me, though I've certainly pondered it for the free college.

MarkM

@PeterGrace Wow, thanks. Will do.

My fiancee works at the pottstown public library

small world

Peter Grace

hah, nice, I've probably run into her a time or two when we've taken the kids to story time

Holocryptic

@PeterGrace I like story time... I put on my robe and wizard hat...

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MarkM

18:20

More likely than not. She works in the youth dept.

Jacob

@ShaneMadden That would be great, thanks.

Peter Grace

@Holocryptic "YOU AGAIN?!"

Shane Madden

@Jacob Hmm. Not sure if this is it. This disk says "80-8939-01", vuln page says "80-8939-01D0 80-8939-01E0"

WesleyDavid

@PeterGrace It's sadly too hard to find any ScreenOS guru. And any IPv6 guru. And any IPSec guru.

Aaron

I can deal with the IPv6 part, as long as only routers are involved, not hosts

Jacob

18:24

@ShaneMadden No, it is, "Although there are no distinguishable markings on the CDs, all warranty CDs shipped in the period of December 2010 through August 2011 do contain a reference to the third party site"

Shane Madden

@Jacob "The following table provides direct URLs to compressed ISO images of all affected CDs. These ISO images will be available for download until December 2011. After that time these images will be withdrawn and customers can obtain the information from the Cisco website as per the preceding table."

Peter Grace

I've been training up our guys on IPv6 but I run into a lot of hemming and hawing about it just like is happening on the internet

"oh ipv4 will never go away, why are we bothering"

WesleyDavid

I've never really touched IPv6. I'm a bad person.

Peter Grace

It's really not that bad.

Jacob

@PeterGrace Because, I need to know why ma toast is done.

Peter Grace

18:25

No matter how many people whine about 8 blocks of 4 hex digits.

s/digits/characters

Jacob

@ShaneMadden It states above, that Cds without revision numbers are affected

Peter Grace

you really start to memorize ipv6 addresses when you work with it day-in day-out.

Aaron

v6 isn't really conceptually that different... just more cowbell

Shane Madden

@PeterGrace Nah, digits ;)

Peter Grace

is "A" considered a digit if you say hexadecimal?

syntactically or pedantically or whatnot.

Shane Madden

18:27

@Jacob Oh - I misread their block-o-text. Thought they were providing the infected ISOs, but the filenames are -F0

Jacob

@ShaneMadden I did the same thing.

Aaron

A is a digit

just remember that 9+1 = A

Shane Madden

@Jacob Ok - one hot infected ISO coming right up.

Peter Grace

Yes, I'm quite familiar with how hexadecimal works, my question was english-language specific.

Jacob

@ShaneMadden Awesome

WTF My datacard has a voicemailbox?

Holocryptic

18:29

@PeterGrace I never really left, baby

Jacob

Thats where I'll hide secret messages

Shane Madden

@Jacob Any idea which file's got the redirect?

Jacob

@ShaneMadden I'd guess autorun.ini

It's what I intend to find out though

Aaron

So this is kind of interesting

Shane Madden

@Jacob This disc might be too old. File timestamps are all september '09. I should have a newer one around though.. let me look.

Aaron

18:39

I was at serverfault.com/tags?page=5 and I typed in 'php' to search for those. I then decided to backspace out and remove the php. I got sent back to the first page of results, but the URL still says page 5

Jacob

@ShaneMadden Ok

Holocryptic

Man, I love those old DVD ROMs that sound like helicopters when they spin up.

Cuz that's not annoying at all

Shane Madden

@Jacob Well, I found an older disc with 2008 timestamps, and found another ASA that shipped from cisco in Feb 2011.. same disk with the sept 2009 timestamps. I'll get you this image and you can check it out, but I'm not sure if it's the right disk

Jacob

Anyone in the states looking for a 3G mifi?

@ShaneMadden Thanks.

Shane Madden

@Jacob you ok with an encrypted zip? Don't want dropbox's malware filters to light up on me ;)

Jacob

18:52

@ShaneMadden It's not malware, just a link to one, but thats fine

Holocryptic

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn seek seek seek nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

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no, not annoying at all

Jacob

@Holocryptic ahh the good old freight train....

Holocryptic

You know it

Jacob

Anyone here in the states have Sprint or want a Sprint Mifi 3G?

Holocryptic

3G? That's sooooooo last year

Jacob

18:59

@Holocryptic 4G is sooooooooo not in my area, plus the 4g prices are soooooo BullShit tm

Shane Madden

@Jacob Yeah - meh, shouldnt be an issue. Just the ISO: db.tt/436XdOh

Holocryptic

haha

Jacob

@ShaneMadden Thanks

Shane Madden

@Jacob No problem. Let me know if you find anything ;)

SpacemanSpiff

Holocryptic

19:08

@SpacemanSpiff Balls?

SpacemanSpiff

and theres a lot more where that came from!

Holocryptic

Also, I just added the rooms star feed to my reader. I just realized what kind of degenerate delinquents we are.

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Iain

@Holocryptic only just

Holocryptic

I'm a slow learner when it comes to blatantly obvious social cues

Iain

A friend of mine has a NAS with 7 disks in a 7 disk raid 5. Disk 4 died, someone in the office replaced disk 5 (with a dead disk) ... at that point was his data dead ?

Zypher

19:17

@Iain yep

KABLOOOOOWEEEY

voretaq7

RAID data does not go KABLOOOOOWEEEY.
It's more of a liquid "SPLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT" kinda sound

Holocryptic

Yeah, that's not coming back @Iain

Iain

I thought so too but just wanted to check before I reinitialise it

voretaq7

@Iain how valuable is the data?

Holocryptic

Of note, guesstimate is a totally legit word.

voretaq7

19:19

He could beg a data recovery company (with the original disk 4 and the remainder of the array they might be able to get some back)

Holocryptic

^

Iain

It was a load of research data for his lab. fortunately they have been able to gather all the data they need to publish papers from elsewhere

voretaq7

@Iain calamity averted?

SpacemanSpiff

I refuse to buy any kind of RAID device that does not have LEDs or something that indicates exactly which drive to replace.

Aaron

RAID5 is like communism, it works in theory

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SpacemanSpiff

19:21

@Aaron - ya, I go for R6 anymore.

Iain

@voretaq7 narrowly - someone's career could have been ruined

Holocryptic

@Iain Just put it in the cloud. Calamity averted, and the research becomes better just for being in the cloud. People take it more seriously. True story.

SpacemanSpiff

I finished a SAN migration last year. 2 full racks of a 12 year old HP to one 1 rack of netapp, when we were done, just for fun, we powered down the entire HP SAN simultaneously

when we turned it back on, 11 disks failed

Aaron

Is it appropriate to link the xkcd 'sudo make me a sandwich' cartoon in the tag wiki description for sudo ?

Iain

@SpacemanSpiff stuck heads ?

Holocryptic

19:24

@Aaron yes

SpacemanSpiff

it was more fun unplugging it though, noise reduction alone was awesome, not to mention the draw on the UPS went down 22%

@Iain - not sure, i think some were false failures but it was just funny to see that many red lights

voretaq7

@SpacemanSpiff Whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr BANG

Iain

@Aaron I would approve it but have run out of accepts for you today

SpacemanSpiff

I once threw a 17" CRT monitor out a 5th story dormitory window, it bounced, and still worked. so we threw it again, that showed it!

voretaq7

@Aaron mmmm, maybe. Also watch your capitalization in some of your excerpts or I'll sic English.SE on you

SpacemanSpiff

19:26

@Aaron - I have that t-shirt on, right now

voretaq7

<- has been waiting to hit 20k to edit tag wikis, I still find it HILARIOUS that I can approve edits (except my own) but can't edit directly.

Holocryptic

I've been waiting to hit 10k. And waiting. I guess maybe I should go answer some questions....

Chris S

@voretaq7 Should be even more hilarious that I can edit anything without approval. =}

Iain

@Holocryptic it helps

Aaron

@voretaq7, ok, I will be more careful with the grammar and sentences

Holocryptic

19:29

I see some (a lot) of the questions, realize I have no idea what they're asking or how to solve it, get depressed and slink back in here.

Chris S

LOL; you have to quickly snap up the easy ones before anyone else does... rep whore for a while that way.

Holocryptic

@ChrisS Again; I think your definition of easy and mine differ by at least an order of magnitude :)

voretaq7

@ChrisS the easy questions are boring! Let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos!

Aaron

Did anyone really use Ruby before Ruby on Rails came out?

voretaq7

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Q: Diagnosing possible intermittent network failures/slowdowns; tool?

Is there a simple (linux cli) tool that I can run continuously for a period of time to see if the there are any connection problems between two specific network endpoints over the wan? One remote site is experiencing slowdowns/drops and I'm looking o figure out which side of the network is at fa...

linux networking diagnostic

give a better answer to that.

Chris S

19:31

@voretaq7 Is there an online multiplayer HHH?

Holocryptic

@voretaq7 linux. bah!

SpacemanSpiff

@Holocryptic - right there with you, I get excited whenever SF emails me that there are new juniper questions, but more often than not its about ScreenOS, and not JunOS

voretaq7

@ChrisS there damn well should be.

Chris S

@Aaron I don't think many use Ruby still..

voretaq7

@Holocryptic there, retagged with unix too.

Holocryptic

19:32

haha

Chris S

@voretaq7 myrealproducts.com/playgame.php?id=892 not mutiplayer though....

Holocryptic

/reminds self to install FreeBSD tonight....

SpacemanSpiff

there a good command to see current disk I/O from the linux CLI?

voretaq7

@ChrisS it's not the same

Chris S

@SpacemanSpiff iostat?

voretaq7

19:34

too slow, and no WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK noise when you slam on the hippo to make it eat the marbles.

Chris S

Meh; I prefer tower defense games anyway.

voretaq7

@ChrisS mmm Atari Warlords?

Chris S

@voretaq7 Never played. Link?

Well Tower Defense games and Angry Birds; who doesn't like killing pigs with mutant birds?

voretaq7

@ChrisS not really your typical "tower defense" more like multiplayer breakout

Warlords (video game)

Warlords is an arcade game released by Atari in 1980. The game resembles a combination of Breakout and Quadrapong (an early Atari arcade game) in the sense that not only could up to 4 players play the game at the same time, but also the "forts" in the four corners of the screen were brick walls that could be broken with a flaming ball. Warlords used spinner controllers for player control, and came in both an upright 2 player version and a 4 player cocktail version. The upright version uses a black and white monitor, and reflects the game image onto a mirror, with a backdrop of castle...

Aaron

19:57

hmm. I got a drop down box in this feed with a RSS icon and a link to a question on meta.serverfault... but I don't remember commenting on that question or involving myself in it

Jacob

@Aaron That happens to everyone in chat

Aaron

I guess I'm trying to understand why it did the thing, for lack of a better phrase

Holocryptic

@Aaron That happens for anyone in chat (this room, actually).

Aaron

I guess the question is, why did it happen? Did someone put something in the answer or the question to have it propagate to here?

Holocryptic

@Aaron There's a bot

Any new questions pop up in here

voretaq7

20:01

@Aaron meta threads are ballooned here to get them attention from us regulars with no lives

Aaron

ah-hah, now I understand

I'm doing work! I promise!

Iain

Hmm - i don't see a problem with editing an answer as long as you are improving it.

isn't that why sx sites are in effect wikis?

MarkM

Anyone ever install cisco wcs before?

The installer just made me laugh to myself

voretaq7

@Iain I guess, but I feel strange putting words into other people's mouths

WesleyDavid

Iain

20:09

@voretaq7 your not really - your edit is in the history and if the answer is improved then all the better sx wins !

voretaq7

A true wiki is anonymous when you read it - SE sites have the original guy's face there

MarkM

This installer wouldn't run on CentOS 5.6 saying that it was only supported on RHEL 5, so I edited /etc/redhat-release right quick, hit next, install finishes, change back, boom. working fine. FU cisco.

voretaq7

yeah yours shows up too but you have to look at the history to see who said what

Iain

this serverfault.com/questions/302745/iptables-redirect-ip-address doesn't make sense to me - the ack can't go to a different address

voretaq7

@Iain I think he means an HL7 ACK message

but I maintain that any server that sends on x.x.x.x needs to receive on x.x.x.x too or it's broken, so I refuse to touch that question

Iain

20:17

what is HL7 ?

Aaron

well, it depends what you mean by 'the ack' - clearly it's not the TCP ACK, but it's "the dumb app ACK"

voretaq7

@Iain A Bad idea. hl7.org

Aaron

My guess is HL7 is like MUMPS from the dailywtf hall of shame

Iain

@Aaron you're new here - clearly doesn't enter into it ;)

Chris S

"Out of votes - you may not vote on this user any more today." For realz?

Iain

20:20

@ChrisS I got that a couple of hours ago for @Aaron

Chris S

@Iain I did just now for him...

voretaq7

@ChrisS vote-gamer! :)

bah, I just hit the limit too. Sorry @Aaron, no more rep for you!

Come back after 7 PM :)

Aaron

:(

it's ok, real work is intruding

voretaq7

you have to earn your rep the old fashioned way now: by posting snarky answers to stupid questions!

Chris S

Another high rep user will come along in the next hour or so and approve them anyway...

Some of them in particular without so much as reading what the changes are it seems...

Aaron

20:22

I already cleaned out all the BGP questions I could and I'm working on the LAN and SNMP ones

Shane Madden

20:33

@Aaron What needs approving?

Chris S

@ShaneMadden serverfault.com/review

Aaron

@ShaneMadden, I don't know, I presume some of my tag edits... but I don't know which ones

Shane Madden

Only pending one is ext3 - approved, but could stand to be a little more verbose I suppose

Aaron

That one was kind of at the limit of what I know about linux

WesleyDavid

I don't understand why all of a sudden I get a flurry of upvotes. I just got like 50 points for some posts I made in the last week. Adoring fan going through my history? Hope I don't get rep-slapped if so.

Does anyone else get a seemingly random influx of positive rep?

Shane Madden

20:39

@WesleyDavid Yeah I got a storm of upvotes on my cisco-related answers yesterday.

Iain

yeah - happens occasionally

Shane Madden

My impression is that the focused-vote nullifier isn't terribly sensitive and shouldn't trigger too often.. but does anyone have any specifics on what angers it?

Ben Pilbrow

@ShaneMadden 5 or 6 upvotes from the same person in a few minutes sets it off. From personal experience :P

Iain

@ShaneMadden there are no published details. I know that @BenPilbrow and @RobertMoir have had stuff reversed when someone tried to help them reach certain milestones

Ben Pilbrow

Went to bed and the next morning was minus about 120 rep because not only does it nullify the fraudulent votes, it also does a rep reclac, so I lost a bit more

voretaq7

20:43

@BenPilbrow I've had that happen a few times

it really needs to feed a mod queue but that would be just more work for the blues

Ben Pilbrow

That's the reason I manually rep-recalc more frequently... just so when it does happen, it's not so painful

In fact... if I were to manually rep-recalc now, I'd gain a whopping 1 point!

Iain

until recently I checked the rep recalc once a day - now you get notified that answers have been migrated I don't bother so often

voretaq7

@Iain I almost never do it manually - why abuse the server?

Iain

like I said - check - the value for ** total rep is what the system sees and can be different from the headline figure

Sir Lojik

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Q: postfix im i being hacked?

today, i found my server cudnt work because it was filled. i checked the logs and they had grown enormously, i deleted them so as things cud work. now with current logs im seeing a lot of suspicious activity. mail log http://pastebin.com/TEMPSD6M i also keep getting emails like this http://pa...

linux centos postfix

voretaq7

20:51

no.
... sorry, reflex.

Stack Exchange

Standalone Sysadmin: Scalability Conference

posted on August 18, 2011 by Matt Simmons

I’ve said several times before that I like conferences, if only because we’re able to get together and talk to each other in person. That’s worth the flight; the classes and sessions are just a bonus. At this past year’s PICC 11 conference, Kyle Brandt (of ServerFault was telling me that he’d really like to get [...]

Sir Lojik

where can i post this question (chatroom) and get an answer serverfault.com/questions/302776/postfix-im-i-being-hacked

Peter Grace

@SirLojik Looks to me like your mail logs are set up to a really high debug level.

Sir Lojik

emails are no longer being sent/received. all those emails in logs are unrecognisable

voretaq7

@SirLojik you post on sites for answers, and the answers come to you - the key ingredient is some patience: SF isn't LiveSupport, and 6 minutes is not even enough time for your question to be noticed.

Sir Lojik

20:55

ok lemme wait

Peter Grace

That being said, looks like you have an open relay and people are using your server for spam

Sir Lojik

any solutions?

voretaq7

a 5 second glance at your question shows me this: ` Out: 452 4.3.1 Insufficient system storage ` -- you're out of disk space. Peter's right, it looks like you have an open relay based on your logs, so you probably have a crap-ton of mail in your queue

Peter Grace

I would advise doing some googling on postfix configuration

specifically related to setting up what hosts can relay through your server

voretaq7

Fix the open relay problem. Purge the queue. Don't run an open relay again :-)
If you were running sendmail I could tell you how to do those things - Not really a postfix guy unfortunately :-/

Sir Lojik

20:57

ok lemme do some googling

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