The Comms Room

BigHomie

14:01

@HopelessN00b that's not the two-employee company's fault though, is it?

HopelessN00b

@BigHomie No, but it should give you some indication of the type of app... and how much support we can expect.

AdamC

@HopelessN00b recipe?

BigHomie

@HopelessN00b yeah I had a feeling you were going there w/ the support

HopelessN00b

@AdamC We make food. So, basically the company's whole ... everything.

cole

@HopelessN00b oh shit

BigHomie

14:02

heh, I'd switch to git.

HopelessN00b

@BigHomie Yeah, and it's not like it's gonna be Google-able either.

AdamC

@HopelessN00b no files to try and recover?

BigHomie

@HopelessN00b heh, not a chance, and if those guys support that app in their 'part time' then have fun

AdamC

I saw Beck this weekend.

BigHomie

and this desktop is a separate Windows 98 machine that also crashed?

HopelessN00b

14:05

@AdamC Nope. They done got overwritten, so they're gone, gone.

Journeyman Geek

@BigHomie: OS/2 4.5 man

HopelessN00b

@BigHomie Heh. This is/was a separate XP machine.

Journeyman Geek

@HopelessN00b: no backups?

BigHomie

¯(°_o)/¯

HopelessN00b

@JourneymanGeek Newp.

AdamC

14:06

@HopelessN00b good news

Journeyman Geek

also, wiped out how?

AdamC

@HopelessN00b you get to remake your company's recipe system with disaster recovery and modern software

Journeyman Geek

like system level or hardware level?

@AdamC: oh, this is when IR kicks in, and/or panic

HopelessN00b

@JourneymanGeek Upgrading the software to the new version that supports Win 7 overwrote the install directory.

Journeyman Geek

@HopelessN00b: oh, not TOO bad

you may be able to hit it with recurva or something

HopelessN00b

14:07

@AdamC Hell, no. I'm not sticking around that long, and for shit like that, I'd have to charge them a lot more than they're willing to pay.

There is a reason, afterall, that we're running our most business critical stuff on a cheap, desktop PoS.

AdamC

@JourneymanGeek IR?

Journeyman Geek

incident response

AdamC

I see.

Journeyman Geek

AKA SHIT JUST HAPPENED, LETS PANIC IN AN ENTIRELY ORGANISED AND PLANNED MANNER!

3

AdamC

@cole know any good PowerShell peeps

BigHomie

14:09

@AdamC <<

AdamC

XD

@JourneymanGeek I'm making that a sticky

HopelessN00b

I've Powered a Shell or two in my day as well.

Journeyman Geek

(Oh course, in this situation, I would do a unplanned hard shutdown, a full disk image, then try to hit it with a few different recovery softwares, and forensics tools....)

but most places would probably get mad if you just pulled the plug :/

HopelessN00b

Plus, I'm not nearly that motivated. Sounds like something that would make me late to my 5 PM interview. =D

cole

@AdamC por que?

Nathan C

14:13

I swear uninstalling AutoCAD takes 5x longer than installing...

Journeyman Geek

@HopelessN00b: heh, don't forget. I have the (misfortune)fortune of actually getting an education in PHBism, and dealing with em.

AdamC

@BigHomie ?

@cole we need a speaker

cole

@AdamC ah no I don't know anyone local

HopelessN00b

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, well, I have a business degree myself. Management Information Systems.

Journeyman Geek

@HopelessN00b: eh. My other major is in management

AdamC

14:15

CSFO

Chief Shit Fixing Officer.

HopelessN00b

@JourneymanGeek So you're really getting an education on how not to be a PHB, if you think about it.

cole

Am I the only one without a degree? shit.

Journeyman Geek

@HopelessN00b: with management? No. It sucks.

Dennis Nolte

@cole nope

Journeyman Geek

@cole: third attempt. I'd be buried up to the neck in debt if not for my parents.

and honestly? I'd skip my own convocation if I hadn't promised my mom she'd see it.

HopelessN00b

14:16

@cole Over-priced, over-rated pieces of paper you can't even wipe your ass with, unless you like paper cuts up your crack.

Dennis Nolte

@HopelessN00b depends on the job you want

at least here you most likely hit a limit in career without a degree

Journeyman Geek

eh. I might actually want to try to get a computer science degree part time.

heh, they don't even call you if you apply for a job without one.

They may not call you with one.

Dennis Nolte

@JourneymanGeek then is not the job i want anyway, fuck them and their piece of shit HR..

Journeyman Geek

@DennisNolte: However a job would be nice. I can't live in my parent's basement forever.

(hypothetically, we don't have a basement)

Dennis Nolte

@JourneymanGeek get a woman, move with her, no job needed for stuff like this, just tell you are a student :)

Journeyman Geek

14:19

lol

HopelessN00b

@DennisNolte I stand by my statement. 2 year colleges are supposed to be here you go to get trained in a trade (job/career stuff). 4 year universities are supposed to be about an education, but they're not... not anymore.

Journeyman Geek

never seems to worl ;p

@HopelessN00b: meh

the cyberforensics course I did was worth the time and effort

AdamC

Anybody wanna be a Salesforce admin

Journeyman Geek

I should have taken BIS rather than management but I figured it would be faster.

Dennis Nolte

please let this shit burn to hell..

AdamC

14:20

We should all just goto school for accounting.

Dennis Nolte

@HopelessN00b in what country are you in ? US? we have 10 years general education with slightly specialising, and 3 years after that for getting ready for university, so basically 12/13 years until university. 3 years Bachelor, 2 more for Master.

HopelessN00b

@DennisNolte US

cole

Well I'm going back to school in the fall so

AdamC

I've been reading Practical IT Service Management, it's a slow start so far but I'm interested in digging into it.

Dennis Nolte

@HopelessN00b how many years until you can specify what you want to do (trade, languages, IT etc)?

AdamC

14:23

@cole I've heard good things about WGU, quality program and they have a good competency based program to pass out of classes.

Nathan C

@DennisNolte College. So, 12 years of school before you can even decide on a career option and learn about it.

cole

@AdamC tried WGU

HopelessN00b

@DennisNolte In theory, you can do that at any time. Like, when you're 6, if you want. Most people wait until after their first year at a 4-year university to declare a major.

AdamC

@cole if you want to go PT it's harder eh

cole

But I'm not going back for IT so - WGU doesn't help me.

AdamC

14:23

Oh right you want to reboot.

Nathan C

Some high schools (years 9-12) have trade classes, but they're often a joke...

Dennis Nolte

@NathanC so only some courses in high school are different? everything else is same for everyone?

AdamC

@DennisNolte sorta depends on how fast you progress

Nathan C

@DennisNolte Basically, yes. There are exceptions but for the most part everyone learns the same thing.

AdamC

@NathanC trade classes in an academic high school are different from technical high schools.

Nathan C

14:25

@AdamC Well in my case, I took a bus to a technical high school for that class

Dennis Nolte

@AdamC ye but that happens first in like 10th or 11th grade right?

AdamC

@cole haha ifttt.com/recipes/…

Nathan C

Sad part was, I already knew everything they were teaching from volunteering with my school's IT department...

cole

@AdamC sweet thanks

HopelessN00b

@AdamC Meh. Academic high schools are a joke anyway. Just a way of buying yourself into the Tier 1 universities, so you can become a banker or lawyer in one of the big cities on the coat. <yawn>

Dennis Nolte

14:26

@NathanC be glad you at least had people who know their stuff, for me it was building the network with the teachers.. first time the specific class was tought in that school i went.

and for a tech course to have basic excel usage, like how you enter a formular for nearly a half year this was a fucking joke..

granted there was a lot of interesting stuff (we had to build nearly the whole school)
it was the time the school invested in computers, they were a mechanical/electrical teaching school before.

still, the teachers were not that well educated

Nathan C

@DennisNolte College was a similar thing...I didn't learn a whole lot that I couldn't have figured out otherwise, but it gives a shiny piece of paper saying that I know stuff.

And 4 years experience of working at a helldesk...

Dennis Nolte

@NathanC yep, the second i had my LPIC1/2 certs the invitations for job went flying by it was hard to decide..

@NathanC ye, that helps too, cause you know the peoples bullshit and all the lies they tell you just to get what they want

i wonder if i should celebrate working that long in the field or actually beeing sad for still having to work.

HopelessN00b

@DennisNolte The second one, definitely.

Dennis Nolte

@HopelessN00b thanks, if i need a larger depression i will always come here.

AdamC

@cole what are you interested in switching too btw

HopelessN00b

14:32

@DennisNolte No prob. It's my specialty.

BigHomie

@AdamC yeah I know somewhat of a Powershell Aficionado, but I live in MI

you could UStream me to your thing

AdamC

Hehe thought about that too :)

Getting talks is hard </duh>

BigHomie

@AdamC you'd have to let me know the time and subject ahead of time though, and I doubt I'd be much interest to powershell experts, but I have done some pretty cool stuff w/ it

AdamC

@BigHomie PowerShell is always a great talk topic, still not a lot of people exposed to it, it'd be an hour long intro talk.

Not sure how good a teletalk would be though.

BigHomie

@AdamC that's true, I've been on it at least 4 years now and I was late to the party, yet that are still admins who don't Powershell

AdamC

14:40

I just giveaway PowerShell books now and hope a winner comes back after reading the book.

Maybe I'll fly @MDMarra in to do a talk.

cole

@AdamC engineering or another science related degree

Nathan C

@cole Nuclear engineering!

...j/k

AdamC

@NathanC it's spelt nuculear

cole

@NathanC I'm thinking chem.

Nathan C

@AdamC Ha, I see what you did there

AdamC

14:44

@cole just do accting and become some IT dork's boss.

BigHomie

:(

Nathan C

@cole Chemistry is interesting...just math isn't my strong suit.

cole

@AdamC I would slit my wrists.

AdamC

This FlashPanel is sick.

@cole but you'd be able to fix your wrists with ALL THE MONEY FALLING OUT OF YOUR POCKETS.

Tanner

@AdamC FlashPanel?

MDMarra

14:52

@BigHomie This is high-level budget stuff

ewwhite

1

Q: Pictures of text, acceptable or not?

Every now and then I see questions (and the occasional answer) that include pictures of text, often commands and their output and similar. Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but for clarity these are the main problems I see with this practice: The text is not searchable makes the question and any...

discussion

cole

@AdamC I don't care about the money - I make good money now.

MDMarra

I let each guy choose what training they actually want to take

BigHomie

@MDMarra oh, meh, thnx anyway

Tanner

@AdamC Google Apps, ya? I've been looking at that...

ewwhite

14:52

@MDMarra how are you doing over there?

MDMarra

@ewwhite Living the dream. Someone else handles the money, I just say "Give us 3k per engineer for exams"

ewwhite

@MDMarra not bad.

I probablyhave more stuff for you

cole

@MDMarra well that's super cool!

I wish I got training.

MDMarra

@ewwhite You keep talking about all of the stuff that you have for me, and then move on to more stuff that you have for me rather than giving me actual work!

@cole They have goals to hit. I don't care how they get there as long as they do

ewwhite

@MDMarra I have crap to deal with like the Davalan guy leaving for vacation today... (wut? I just converted them to Exchange last week)

so now, no PCs are being domain-joined or anything...

the guy just said, "use Outlook Web Access... I'm out... BYE!"

2

@MDMarra The place in PA is just slow.

cole

15:01

@MDMarra nice

AdamC

15:13

@ewwhite sounds like an asshole ;)

@tanner I'm a Google App admin full-time before I used to do with EDUs.

Basil

Morning

AdamC

35 minutes left!

Nathan C

@cole It's also raining sideways here

AdamC

Blue Skys down here, surprised it cleared out so quickly.

Dennis Nolte

15:29

1min till work is done, but ~15 till my driver arrives, sux..

and still way too hot outside

cole

Holy shit

there was tornado in Revere.

reddit.com/r/boston/comments/2by26l/tornado_in_revere

AdamC

It's blowing sideways!

Basil

so my NAS is backed up fully each weekend. In theory. In reality, my NAS is backed fully each friday noon through monday afternoon

cole

So

My mom just told me my aunt believes scientists can create the polar ice caps.

Basil

I'm getting an average of 350 MB/s on the tapes, but the processor is pegged at about 95% all weekend (because NDMP and small files). Anyone have any advice? Netapp NAS (5 years old) and netbackup with a VTL over FC for data, and bonded 1Gb/s network links for NDMP metadata

Nathan C

15:38

@cole img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130626173600/anime-arts/images/0/… holy cow!

Basil

I was thinking synthetic fulls

Dennis Nolte

@cole most likely they can, but noone will pay for it.

anyway, hf, until tomorrow.

ewwhite

15:50

Can any of you make sense of this pricing? osnexus.com/pricing

Oh, i think I get it.

grrr

cole

Ok so I have a plan

3

tombull89

Has this been posted yet? It's short but hilarious

►

cole

That was way funnier than it should have been

AdamC

lol

@cole wanna be my intern

unpack Amazon boxes

Starting pay $60k

Jacob

@AdamC ok!

tombull89

16:04

I'll do it for $55k

BigHomie

hey have any of you Windows admins been able to boot into audit mode using the keyboard shortcut in W7??

Michael Hampton

@BigHomie Ctrl-Shit-F3 always works for me. All the way up to 8.1 and 2012R2

Hennes

Damn. I am in the wrong country for this. (The pembury is great though)

Beer festival on the way! Starts on Wednesday. http://t.co/5tNojOCUZM

Tweeted by PemburyTavern on July 28, 2014 at 1:57 PM

BigHomie

@MichaelHampton so weird. At the oobe screen right? I've tried it on VMs and also on this laptop, nothing

Michael Hampton

@BigHomie Yeah, works fine for me. Is your keyboard broken?

BigHomie

16:11

don't think so

cole

@AdamC I make way more than that lol

Michael Hampton

1

Q: Command to 're-apply' previous command?

Is there an easy way to re-apply a previous command to a new command line entry? Say I typed in chmod u+r,g+x file.txt but forgot the sudo. Could I simply type sudo <some easy symbol>'? Pardon for the possible noob question.

terminal

cole

but that's not bad for an intern

Michael Hampton

@jscott Don't let the bastards grind you down.

BigHomie

@MichaelHampton mig to UL so they can close as dupe?

Michael Hampton

16:24

@BigHomie Let the community handle that one.

AdamC

that lock the taskbar link is hilarious

@tombull89 you know how to sell yourself.

BigHomie

jscott

@MichaelHampton No sweat off my back. :) I'd let him have the +1s if I could. It seems to mean a lot to him.

Michael Hampton

@jscott I say screw him. If he's that bent out of shape about it, he should have made it an answer to begin with. 100% his problem, as far as I'm concerned. I'll even happily remove the CW and tell him to get stuffed if he asks. :)

jscott

@MichaelHampton Naw, no worries here. I'd actually prefer to delete my answer. I'm not bothered and I'd like them to know it.

Michael Hampton

16:30

@jscott OK, well, I am bothered. I don't appreciate people bringing their personal dramas and issues onto the site.

Iain

What happened ?

jscott

Fair enough, that I cannot control. :)

Michael Hampton

@Iain Some guy made an answer as a comment, jscott posted an answer two minutes later with much the same content, and the first guy went off the deep end.

Though jscott's was much better because he spent that two minutes looking for a good image to include...

Iain

@MichaelHampton they need to read

29

A: How to handle unanswered questions that have the answer in a comment or edited into the question?

Steal comments that answer the question and post them as an answer. If it happens enough either the misguided commentators will be annoyed enough at the "lost" rep to give outright answers next time, or no one will notice / care and you'll help the community and... oh yeah, get some rep. BTW, I ...

and

29

A: What to do with questions that have been self-resolved as a comment instead of an answer?

We discussed this on meta.serverfault a short while ago and decided that you should Steal comments that answer the question and post them as an answer. You can always tick the Community Wiki box if you're not comfortable rep whoring.

or less politely they should fuck off

cole

I applying to a company that uses our products.

AdamC

16:36

What question are we talking about @MichaelHampton

@cole "not bad" for an intern

you're funny.

cole

Most interns get paid $13/hr

so that's pretty sweet

My first IT job at $13/hr, though.

AdamC

it was a fake number for a funny joke anyhow :)

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton Because images are clutch!!

Michael Hampton

3

Q: What type of Fiber-Connector is this?

I have four of the below connections on site and need to bring them alive, yet my googling and wikipedia does not clearly show my which type of connector I have. I assume this to be a duplex LC connector, yet the picture seems to show a different kind of plastic fastener?

fiber sfp connector

cole

@MichaelHampton so I've been thinking about RHCSA - do you think 4-6 months is realistic?

jscott

16:38

@ewwhite I learned "include a pic" from you. It really does work.

Michael Hampton

@cole Doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Provided you actually put the occasional evening and weekend into it!

cole

@MichaelHampton well I have free evenings and weekends right now

aside from the occasional on-call call

Michael Hampton

@cole Go for it, then.

Iain

@MichaelHampton it wasn't Mr Ryan was it ?

Michael Hampton

@Iain Why, whatever gave you that idea? :)

ewwhite

16:40

@jscott Unless it's a screenshot... then it'll just make people mad.

Iain

@MichaelHampton he's a drama queen

cole

@MichaelHampton would the RHCSA even get me to a place where I could admin RHEL (more) comfortably and be a 100% Linux admin?

ewwhite

@cole no

Michael Hampton

@cole RHCSA is basically just making sure you have a pulse and can follow simple directions. It's not that hard. RHCE is the fun one.

ewwhite

using it home will get you most of the way.

Michael Hampton

16:41

Get it knocked out.

cole

@MichaelHampton oh then that's kinda worthless.

ewwhite

working with Linux in a work environment will get you the rest of the way

Michael Hampton

@cole Yeah, but it's a prerequisite for RHCE

ewwhite

or fuck, just apply to Red Hat.

they'll hire anyone...

cole

I tried applying to RedHat

ewwhite

16:42

and they're in growth mode

they'll train you

cole

They didn't even call me......so that makes me feel fantastic.

Issue is - I'd have to take a junior position which would be like a $30K paycut that I can't afford.

Michael Hampton

@jscott Ah, fuck, you did it again

cole

That's why I feel so stuck at my current job.

jscott

@MichaelHampton Please sir, just let it go. :)

I did put the image in his answer, which may have been a dick move now that I think about it.

Michael Hampton

@jscott If you insist. But frankly I would rather have deleted his shit as an unnecessary duplicate answer...

Shane Madden

16:43

@jscott Nah, that's improving his answer, that's perfectly fine :)

jscott

@MichaelHampton I understand. But I'm all kill-them-with-kindness you know.

Iain

@jscott nope - he's a prick

Michael Hampton

@jscott Eh...I have zero tolerance for drama queens

cole

hasta luego dudes.

AdamC

lol SE drama

Michael Hampton

16:55

Which is ironic because nobody's actually reading the main site today.

AdamC

I like SE, it seems weird for someone to build up rep and etc on a site and then be surprised at something like an answer being edited.

Iain

17:07

@MichaelHampton are they not ?

Michael Hampton

@Iain I can't tell. I've posted a whole stack of answers and none of them have gotten much notice. Which is ... normal?

Iain

@MichaelHampton yep - that's normal

@MichaelHampton it was me noticing that a few weeks ago that prompted my meta question about the paucity of voting

Michael Hampton

Guess I'd better write another popular question. I thought of one over the weekend, but then I forgot it. Oops!

Iain

I have pretty much given up answering questions (partially) because if no one is going to bother voting then we're no better than a $random blog on the internet

@MichaelHampton if you can get a question into the Hot Network Questions in the sidebar then you have a chance of some votes

otherwise it appears that there are too few people with particular expertise to be able to review an answer and determine it's validity

Falcon Momot

I read the site; didn't see you answering anything...

Iain

17:18

@FalconMomot me ?

Falcon Momot

no, him. points

BigHomie

@MichaelHampton I see what you did there

Joel E Salas

ewwhite

17:34

@JoelESalas yo

Whats the recommended DHCP lease time for a wireless infrastructure?

Nathan C

Dangit Outlook, when I hit reply all I really don't also need a copy -_-

BigHomie

@ewwhite I have to say it depends on the physical space

Nathan C

@ewwhite Depends on the number of devices. Mine's 24 hours.

If a machine's connected for longer than that it'll just renew itself with the same IP anyway...

ewwhite

This is for a warehouse with wireless handheld guns.

Nathan C

@ewwhite Ah, so permanent devices?

ewwhite

17:38

so at peak, I have about 180 of these devices roaming about the warehouse

BigHomie

we had to cut our lease time down to a couple of hours b/c students would walk through and all their iEverythings would pick up a lease and they'd walk out, never even really needing to connect

ewwhite

they're on and off...

BigHomie

@ewwhite if this isn't for guests 24hours should be fine provided you have enough leases

AdamC

@ewwhite I would say whatever cuts down on devices being used throughout a shift having to needlessly ask for lease extensions.

BigHomie

if running out of addresses is a concern then see above

Nathan C

17:38

@ewwhite I mean, they'll always be "around"..unlike a guest laptop which might be around for a day and never to connect again

AdamC

@ewwhite combined with totally number of users/number of IPs in that space.

BigHomie

Grits

Grits refers to a ground-corn food of Native American origin, that is common in the Southern United States and eaten mainly at breakfast. Modern grits are commonly made of alkali-treated corn known as hominy. Grits are similar to other thick maize-based porridges from around the world such as polenta. "Instant grits" have been processed to speed cooking. The word "grits" derives from the Old English word "grytt," meaning coarse meal. This word originally referred to wheat and other porridges now known as groats in parts of the UK. Maize, unknown in Europe in the Middle Ages, is a food derived from...

ewwhite

@NathanC right, it's just a lot of devices... and they are very chatty...

Nathan C

It's an amazing maze of maize!

ewwhite

DHCP was on a Linux server for years until 5 minutes ago... when I switched to Windows 2012

AdamC

17:40

@ewwhite Hell I'd set it for 72 hours.

Cause it could practically a static IP situation.

Nathan C

@ewwhite Do they get their own subnet? If so, 180 is far under the /24 range limit, so even the default would suffice

ewwhite

@AdamC I was thinking days.

@NathanC yes, their own subnet

AdamC

@ewwhite yeah don't sweat it

Nathan C

@ewwhite Easy. 8 days (Windows default) :p

ewwhite

In the Linux logs....

Jul 27 17:29:38 LA_Specialty dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 172.16.2.53 from 00:23:68:d0:74:aa via 172.16.2.1
Jul 27 17:29:38 LA_Specialty dhcpd: DHCPACK on 172.16.2.53 to 00:23:68:d0:74:aa via 172.16.2.1
Jul 27 17:29:38 LA_Specialty dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 172.16.2.196 from 00:15:70:8a:a5:f8 via 172.16.2.1
Jul 27 17:29:38 LA_Specialty dhcpd: DHCPACK on 172.16.2.196 to 00:15:70:8a:a5:f8 via 172.16.2.1
Jul 27 17:29:43 LA_Specialty dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 172.16.2.200 from 00:15:70:89:72:ef via 172.16.2.1
Jul 27 17:29:43 LA_Specialty dhcpd: DHCPACK on 172.16.2.200 to 00:15:70:89:72:ef via 172.16.2.1

nonstop

# grep -c 172.16.2 messages
71416

that's since midnight

Nathan C

17:43

damn

Michael Hampton

@BigHomie Aww yeah, time for breakfast!

BigHomie

@MichaelHampton anytime's breakfast time, I like sugar on mine

Michael Hampton

@BigHomie Lots of butter and sugar

BigHomie

@ewwhite do you have a website or are you pure word of mouth?

freiheit

2

BigHomie

17:45

@MichaelHampton my wife does the butter, won't touch the sugar

ewwhite

@BigHomie no website.

BigHomie

@ewwhite wow, are you like a produce IT legend? Like the IT Keyser Soze?

Michael Hampton

@BigHomie Problem is, almost nobody around here has ever even heard of grits.

ewwhite

I love me some grits!

cheesy grits at the restaurant down the street... thanks for the inspiration!

Ry Jones

@MichaelHampton uh Hoosier here, I have consumed plenty of grits

Michael Hampton

17:47

@RyJones I mean in New England

BigHomie

@MichaelHampton yeah I know, so sad

Iain

I've heard of grits but they're not at all common here

BigHomie

@ewwhite yeah cheese and butter isn't bad, but when I was little moms put sugar on them so I'd eat 'em, and I been in love ever since

freiheit

@Iain Do you have polenta? It's pretty much breakfast polenta.

Except that nixtamalization really makes hominy grits better for you than polenta...

BigHomie

@ewwhite how do folks find out about you then? You just roll up?

ewwhite

17:50

@BigHomie I've been working with produce firms since 2002

Iain

@freiheit yeah I have a bag of polenta in the cupboard

ewwhite

and have some high-profile companies.

BigHomie

@ewwhite I see then, so when you started it wasn't worth having a website then

ewwhite

@BigHomie i worked for a software company for 6 of those years.

producepro.com

Falcon Momot

mmm, hominy grits

ewwhite

17:52

Word: producepro.com/solutions/systems.php

AdamC

@ewwhite that may not hurt the dhcp server, handling that many requests. but if you ever had to diagnose it would also be easier if they weren't asking that often.

On that website that PDT has the weirdest screenshot

ewwhite

okay. I need a fileserver name for a new Windows environment

BigHomie

@ewwhite I'm throwing around the idea of a website for my consulting, which might be beneficial since one of the services I'd off is websites

MDMarra

Who knows PowerShell here?

@RyanRies @MathiasRJenssen? You dudes here?

jscott

@MDMarra I've heard of it.

MDMarra

17:58

If you type 2GB into PowerShell, it spits out 2147483648

JSCOTT

Ry Jones

I hear there's a serverfault for programmers

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jscott

snerk

ewwhite

@MDMarra Before you get too deep into Powershell, the LA Specialty file server needs a name

Ry Jones

@ewwhite abulafia

Iain

@ewwhite grits

MDMarra

17:59

I have 2GB in a CSV. The cmdlet that I'm using expects 2147483648. Pretend that I cant just update the CSV. How do I get 2GB to be treated as 2147483648 rather than the string 2GB when piped from import-csv

import-csv seems to "helpfully" add what it thinks are implied quotes to each field

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