The Comms Room

cole

20:05

This guy has some neat stuff in his powershell profile: github.com/6ongit/MiscPSStuff/blob/master/…

Zoredache

@cole He really should take the time to convert all his read-hosts over to Params, so auto-complete works.

His inconsistent formatting also drives me a bit nuts. Why can't people pick a single style for using braces and stick with it? At least in the same file?

cole

@Zoredache auto-complete?

Oh I think I know what you're saying now.

Zoredache

@cole So you know how once you type a built-in function/commandlet name you can use auto-complete for the parameters? So I type gwmi -C{TAB} which expand to -Class.

cole

@Zoredache huh, that's pretty neat

Zoredache

So for example in the fix-pcname function in that profile, I would change the bit that gets the computer name into a parmater so I could type fix-pcname {computername} or fix-pcname -ComputerName {computername}

cole

20:14

yeah I'd like to do the uptime one just uptime {computername}

Zoredache

He even uses a it in his Import-History, which makes me wonder why he didn't fix that for all the functions.

But I am guessing he just copy and pasted a lot of crap into his profile from various sources, and didn't take the time to make everything consistent, and elegant.

MDMarra

@tombull89 that's why they give you free SQL Server when you buy System Center

Iain

@Hennes I know people who still use 3.11 and will do so for a few more years yet - they new this and planned well for it. They still have a good supply of 'new' systems and cards to play with

MichelZ

@MDMarra well.. a free sql server for system center, not for anything else

MDMarra

correct

But it means you don't need to try and make SCCM run on SQL Express

MichelZ

20:17

yep

bad idea anyways

MDMarra

Which is what Tom was complaining about :)

thanks for the link to that azure networking doc, btw

MichelZ

regardless of what you want to make work on sql express

:)

np

i have to learn that cloud shit as well

so was interesting to dig out :)

Ryan Ries

Work asks for documentation out the ass, and then complains when the documentation is "too technical." DOUBLE MIDDLE FINGER

MichelZ

@RyanRies yeah... just do screenshots, nothing else :D

Basil

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Q: Netapp raid scrubbing on a V-Series

My V-Series NAS is running ontap 7.3, and gets all its disk from a SAN. LUNs are provisioned to the Netapp, which puts them into a raid-0. The SAN itself, of course, uses RAID with scrubbing and prefailure analysis. Basically, we use the SAN to handle all the disk, and the NAS as a file front-end...

Michael Hampton

20:42

Windows 7? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Iain

> which tend to erode in a marine environment

Did they mean corrode ?

Michael Hampton

The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video

Falcon Momot

"a solid state hard drive instead of one with cooling fans"......

Michael Hampton

Next headline: BSOD causes bridge to fall in river

Falcon Momot

presumably after someone installs the crapware along with the JRE.

84104

21:13

I thought I understood sssd well enough. It appears that I don't.

Falcon Momot

mm?

84104

I'm trying to get sssd's pam portion to authenticate a user without a uidnumber. sssd is not having it.

Authenticate for smtp, not login.

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Q: Can sssd-ldap authenticate non-posix users?

I am migrating a sealed MSA from using pam_ldap to pam_sss (sssd-ldap). However, pam_sss seems to have having trouble authenticating users without uidNumbers. I had thought changing ldap_user_object_class from posixAccount to top would fix this, but it has not. Users with uidNumbers seem to be f...

pam sssd

I suppose I could just keep using pam_ldap.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

users without uidNumbers make very little sense to me

do you map them to a static uid?

84104

@DennisKaarsemaker They just don't login to unix systems. Email/vpn only accounts generally.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

21:28

try setting ldap_user_uid_number to some valid attribute name

probably the same for _gid_number

ldap_id_mapping (boolean)
Specifies that SSSD should attempt to map user and group IDs from the ldap_user_objectsid and ldap_group_objectsid attributes instead of relying on ldap_user_uid_number and ldap_group_gid_number.

from the manpage

so it looks like there are options.

84104

Yeah, but I think that's all for the nss portion, where it would make sense.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

could be, I'm just randomly poking at source files and manpages, trying to find useful bits.

84104

Appreciated.

Mark Henderson

21:48

@Jacob - uniFi AP bumps my speed on 2.4Ghz from 6Mbps to 24Mbps, but 5Ghz 802.11n is still only 45Mbps

tombull89

@MDMarra yeah...I hadn't bought it, I was using the eval :P

@MarkHenderson saw you were irked with Sourceforge. I use ninite for most stuff now.

Mark Henderson

@tombull89 Never heard of it

Interesting

tombull89

@MarkHenderson You've not heard of ninite? Dude, you're missing out. ninite.com

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Mark Henderson

That is pretty awesome

> “Ninite.com frees up your day”
The Christian Science Monitor

Now there's a glowing review from a publication that everyone has heard of

tombull89

Tick what you want, download, and run. No crapware, no spyware, no bullshit.

Michael Hampton

21:58

It's about time somebody did that for Windows.

ewwhite

If I needed to create a Windows 2012 domain controller urgently, but didn't have anything available to me but an idle Linux server, how much sense does it make to install Windows on KVM?

Mark Henderson

@tombull89 Wow it's almost like a package manager :P

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite It'll run fine.

ewwhite

Or am I in for a world of HURT?

Mark Henderson

@ewwhite Well it sounds like you're urgent an in a hurry

tombull89

21:59

you need a DC quick? install it in Virtualbox #yolo

ewwhite

I don't even know how to KVM these days.

This is for @mdmarra so I can get my ghetto-fabulous customer off of a pair of Windows 2003 DCs.

On 2003-era hardware.

With no disk redundancy...

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite Run virt-manager on your Linux worksta...oh wait, you have a Mac

gist: Install virt-manager osx, 2014-01-08 21:26:00Z

virt-manager-osx

git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/virt-manager.git
cd virt-manager
sudo port -v install intltool py27-pygtk
sudo python setup.py install

tombull89

holy shit what's that

git has onebox now?

Michael Hampton

Some developer went nuts.

ewwhite

But is it worth it to blow up my Linux box to run KVM? Or do I sound biased?

One box!

Michael Hampton

22:02

@ewwhite You don't need the virt GUI on the server, if you do something like that.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@ewwhite ilo4 firmware 2.0 is out

it now has a RESTful interface says the README. Can't find any docs about it though.

Mark Henderson

@Jacob turns out the poor 5Ghz speed could have been just iPad related because it doesn't do MIMO

ewwhite

@dennis tell me moar!

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@ewwhite don't have moar to tell yet, not yet using it

ewwhite

@michael KVM scares me.

Partially because I got fired over it.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

22:09

will probably prod at it tomorrow as I do another round of adding API calls to python-hpilo.

ewwhite

Such a diligent developer.

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite If you got fired over it, it must be good.

ewwhite

I wish I could make a contribution to the systems community.

@michael this was pre-you. It played itself out on ServerFault... With Ethabelle, destroyed blade servers, a terrible boss, a server named "booty", Supermicro hoarding, a gutted BackBlaze and an illegal Canadian sex-slave/Wife trapped in the apartment next door.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker

You do. You take care of these insane systems so we don't have to :)

Tanner

@MichaelHampton Since when do Gists one-box? That's neat.

Michael Hampton

22:13

@Tanner Since a SE developer got bored one day.

@ewwhite This sounds like a thrilling story.

ewwhite

I think @pauska was here then.

But I had an epic battle with my boss. He wanted KVM, I wanted VMware.

Magellan

@ewwhite KVM scares you? Try Virtuozzo.

ewwhite

I was hired to implement infra for a trading software firm.

I got all the hardware built. The colo. Comms. Networking. Storage. Even did a little with TomTom, since he trades on the infrastructure I built.

Michael Hampton

Well, I squeezed a 2012 DC into a KVM VM with only 512 MB of RAM. You might need a bit more than that, though.

ewwhite

But at the last minute, bossman was like, "I don't trust VMware. I can't see inside of it like I can with KVM"

Magellan

22:17

@ewwhite Dude. You can't argue rationally with crazy people. You know that.

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite It's a fair complaint, but it should have been brought up at the beginning, not at the end!

Magellan

All you can do is build a case based on solid logical requirements.

ewwhite

*"let me show you something... Log onto
Booty and type `gaggled virsh blah-blah` - Now show me how you can do that in VMware"*

Michael Hampton

# virsh list
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 2     PuppetMaster                   running
 3     IPA_DC2                        running

ewwhite

"Gaggled" was the process monitor he built because he couldn't google "Monit"

github.com/ZenFire/gaggled

Michael Hampton

22:22

Oh dear gawd

ewwhite

(Testing one box)

Jacob

@FalconMomot Monday!

Falcon Momot

@Jacob is that your start date?

Jacob

@FalconMomot yes

Magellan

@ewwhite Weren't we telling you all along that he was crazy though?

@Jacob I'll be back in town a week after.

Jacob

22:25

@Magellan I'm flying out tomorrow.

but ok

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton Technically that meets the minimum requirements

ewwhite

@magellan you were here. True. He was crazy.

The guy would go to nanog and hire strippers and arrange for pallets of used Supermicro gear to be shipped to his house.

Tanner

@ewwhite And where does the Canadian fit in to all this?

ewwhite

The boss had an illegal Canadian wife who he kept in a cabin in Wisconsin 100 miles away, or sometimes in his apartment next to the office. She was not allowed to leave.

Magellan

@ewwhite Wow. I don't remember hearing about that, and I didn't think NANOG was that kind of organization to run a conference where there'd be strippers at the "events".

Mark Henderson

22:33

@ewwhite Thats pretty fucked up

ewwhite

Oh, the strippers were for him. It was... Weird.

Angry man. He stopped liking me 3 months in, and would simply not speak to me or look at me.

Mark Henderson

I used to have a boss who would go to "the bank" for an 90 minutes several times a week. Bothered me for years, until I discovered a brothel about a 15 minute walk from the place we worked at 15 mins there, 15 mins back, 60 minute sexy sexy fun time

All the pieces fell together

ewwhite

But he was a good programmer... But had some strange tendencies. Like several dozen screen sessions running at any time. And he'd remember by session number which contained his irc session to blah-blah

Mark Henderson

In unrelated news, listening to politicians attempt to explain how the internet works is hilarious. Someone should compile a video of them and add a laugh track.

Michael Hampton

how do I know which one to install ? — fogsy 2 mins ago

ewwhite

22:36

His sex issues were mainly around harassing my junior engineer... Grabby-grabby.

Michael Hampton

I'm really trying to comprehend how this is not blatantly obvious...and it's not working.

Mark Henderson

@ewwhite Normally grabby-grabby equals sacky-sacky

ewwhite

Yeah, he was a knowledge hog and partner. So no sacky.

Ethabelle went on to do great things.

Tanner

@ewwhite Don't think you lost much there...

ewwhite

Actually, I learn from every job. Every effed experience teaches you.

There, I learned about puppet, deeper multicast, GRE, git, restraining orders, that I have a low alcohol tolerance,how to hold peer-biss and that I'm not the worst non-team-player.

Tanner

22:45

hah

Ry Jones

23:00

ugh. cloudflare shows some gigs of traffic. godaddy shows the same-ish traffic. the iis logfile shows 1/10 to 1/50 the traffic level

I guess I can beg him to move off godaddy some more.

Magellan

Ick. GoDaddy.

Ry Jones

completely agreed. I offered to help him set up AWS free tier, which would do fine, but he doesn't want to be an SA

Michael Hampton

6

Q: What is the recommended way to version VMware Templates?

Assume that you're in an organisation with numerous data centres, each with their own private clouds running on VMware vCenter 5.5. There are VMware templates for different Operating Systems, including Windows, Redhat Linux etc. Lets assume there are two private clouds, C1 and C2. C1 was built a...

vmware-esxi vmware-vsphere vmware-vcenter

OpenSSL update coming. Several high impact security issues.

Ry Jones

ugh

Falcon Momot

@MichaelHampton better that they come out I guess.

Michael Hampton

23:13

openssl.org/news/secadv_20140806.txt

> Welcome to Microsoft Azure
>
> Explore the modern and customizable experience that streamlines the DevOps workflow and surfaces the insights you need to move forward, faster.

WTF?

Surface THIS insight!

cole

Sup

Michael Hampton

Microsoft is trying to surface my insights, but I remain unstreamlined.

Or, rather, Azure won't start my fucking VM

Michael Hampton

23:35

Ah, there it goes, finally

cole

23:48

God dammit chrome on my iPad keeps crashing

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Q: Backup without the help of softwares

I am quite new to VPS, although I have become comfortable setting up Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySql, git and other tools in CentOs, plus do some basic security and A Lot! optimization drills, all through shell access. I am now stuck at the most important part; How to do a proper backup. Here is the what...

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