The Comms Room

Ry Jones

21:00

@pauska yesterday

Verizon de-aggregated a bunch of routes and put everyone over the limit, but they re-aggregated them so you should be OK

pauska

@RyJones but I read that it only affected certain providers who recently added networks, and that it will propagate throughout the week

Ry Jones

sure, there will be BGP flapping for a while, but I don't think a week

Magellan

glad i'm on vacation.

Ry Jones

zdnet.com/…

Magellan

I've also got nothing but an EDGE connection here too, so it's tin cans & string anyway.

pauska

21:03

it will be interesting to see this one tomorrow - cidr-report.org/as2.0

Ry Jones

bgpmon.net/what-caused-todays-internet-hiccup

Looking at the our data we quickly see that the new prefixes being announced at that time were almost all originated by the Verizon Autonomous systems 701 and 705. All of the new routing entries appear to be more specific announcements for their larger aggregate blocks. For example BGPmon detected 170 more specific /24 routes for the larger 72.69.0.0/16 block.

So whatever happened internally at Verizon caused aggregation for these prefixes to fail which resulted in the introduction of thousands of new /24 routes into the global routing table. This caused the routing table to temporarily…

Pants

Rackspace just offered me a job.

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Magellan

@Pants nice.

Pants

Thanks for all the training guys. See ya later.

Ry Jones

@Pants congratulations!

Dennis Kaarsemaker

21:05

@Pants woo \o/

Iain

@Pants Nice \o/

Pants

\o/

Jacob

@Pants What type of position?

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Jacob doggy style of course :)

Jacob

-_-

Pants

21:07

Applied for linux level 1, still working placement and salary atm.

The interview process is all kinds of fuckery.

@DennisKaarsemaker I didn't tell you about the interview.

@DennisKaarsemaker 4 hours long, 8 different people interviewed me throughout the day.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@Pants sounds reasonable.

Here it's about the same.

Pants

@DennisKaarsemaker Was exhausting.

Ry Jones

@Pants my last loop with Microsoft was 10 or 12 people over two days.

Two groups, though.

Magellan

@Pants yeah, that's about right. I'd rather do that than have 4 different interviews spread out over 3 weeks.

Jacob

@RyJones Did you turn down the offer if I may ask?

Ry Jones

21:21

@Jacob I got two offers, I accepted one of them. This was in 2005.

MSN Mobile and whatever the analytics group was called

the grant funding my position at WSU.edu was ending, so I had to move on

Tom W

@Pants congrats

Jacob

@FalconMomot Looks at a stack exchange post and sighs :)

Tom W

although I am appalled at congratulating someone calling themselves 'Pants'

Michael Hampton

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Q: Migrating Categories To Exchange Online

We recently migrated from Exchange 2007 on-premises to Exchange Online. I've been fairly impressed by the lack of migration tools MS provides, and was wondering if anyone had any experience with this and specifically with bringing peoples custom Categories (with their coloring) up to EO. I find ...

mfinni

21:37

Good heavens. As the kids say, I can't even. serverfault.com/a/620264/29373

Ry Jones

@mfinni I wonder if he's trolling

mfinni

Too soon to say

Michael Hampton

I wonder if he meant to use "Leeds" as his name.

Jacob

@MichaelHampton I think it's a place

mfinni

It is indeed, apparently in West Yorkshire

Michael Hampton

21:40

@Jacob Yes, it is a place.

Mark Henderson

@Pants Gee they just hire anyone these days don't they

kce

@Pants Congratulations. You have lowered the bar enough that even I might now be able to work at Rackspace!

Ry Jones

22:19

damn. gerrit 2.9 looks great, too bad we're only moving from 2.6 to 2.8

Michael Hampton

Of course. It's all about making you suffer.

Wanting to have a well-tested, stable service is just a BIG LIE those evil sysadmins tell you.

Pants

@kce Thanks

fuck you guys

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i am smart

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton Cos we love being woken up at 2am

Ry Jones

@MichaelHampton uh, I'm the one migrating us.

Michael Hampton

@RyJones Oh, well, in that case you have no one to blame but yourself :)

Wesley

22:38

@Pants Congrats!

ewwhite

@Pants very good. Where will you be?

And do you mind leaving Michiana?

Ry Jones

@ewwhite Hopefully Texas

they bought an old mall, which is a wonderful idea

google street view I like the slide from level 2 to 1

Mark Henderson

@RyJones Thats a really clever idea

Scott Brown

hey there, is anyone available for a short term (3 to 6 weeks) consulting gig starting this week? we are moving a fairly complex web app from a data center to AWS. the focus will be on network security, cloud deployment and general devops/sysadmin. stack is Node/Mongo/Postgres running on Ubuntu and Ceph. happy to answer any questions or just email me: [email protected]

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Wesley

@ScottBrown There's a number of folks here who consult like that, sure. Have a star!

Also, moving to AWS, may Apollyon have mercy on your soul.

Scott Brown

22:52

awesome. I figured this would be a good watering hole for finding help.

Michael Hampton

So you want to get rid of Ubuntu? I'm sure we can help.

Scott Brown

:)

Wesley

@ScottBrown Also, I work for compose.io so if you want to farm out that MongoDB and pick up some ElasticSearch lemme know. =) Other than that, my consulting days are over.

Mark Henderson

@Wesley I thought you worked for mongoh.... oh wait nvm

Wesley

Oh and about AWS, I don't wish mercy on you. I hope you die on fire. ◕♥◕ Smooches! ◕♥◕

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Scott Brown

22:55

smooches right back. compose.io looks cool.

Wesley

(✿ ♥‿♥) @MarkHenderson

Michael Hampton

Crap. Do I have to buy a .io domain for people to take me seriously?

Wesley

@MichaelHampton Instance +5 venture capital street cred with a .io domain.

Michael Hampton

Meh. I'm not interested in venture capital.

Ry Jones

@MichaelHampton fuck your couch

Michael Hampton

22:57

That's like giving away your company before you've even built it.

Wesley

@MichaelHampton VC is like getting paid obscene amounts of money before you prove you can't find your ass with both hands.

#WINNING

Michael Hampton

Oh, so if I want to be incompetent and fail dramatically, then I should seek venture capital?

Wesley

I can't believe how many hosted docker startups there are right now.

@MichaelHampton Yes.

If you want money in your hands before the ink has dried, just make a hosted docker startup.

Michael Hampton

Well fuck, even I can host Docker. I can even do it right!

Ry Jones

I've never worked anywhere that being VC funded helped

Wesley

23:01

@MarkHenderson is teh...

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Magellan

@RyJones if your customers are Fortune 100 and you need to keep up with annual growth of 200%, angel investors isn't enough.

BigHomie

@Wesley where you been?

Wesley

@BigHomie Hiding in your underwear drawer. Where you been?

BigHomie

still riskin yo life commuting to the datacenter in the middle of the ghetto?

@Wesley I only have two pairs of underwear, no need for a drawer

Wesley

@BigHomie Hopefully there are only two more visits left before I can skedaddle into a shared rack for only two u

BigHomie

23:04

I keep the spare in my car in case of emergency.

Wesley

@BigHomie In case you evacuate your bowels when you get carjacked?

Mark Henderson

@Wesley -5 for the political incorrectness of a .io domain

Wesley

"Yo, hold up, you can have my car but let me grab my underwear so I can walk home without kacked up pants!"

BigHomie

@Wesley heh, or my hood flies open on the freeway

Wesley

@BigHomie Do you wear the lace ones, or are those your backup pair?

@BigHomie How's the job search?

Ry Jones

23:06

@Magellan So I said I'd never worked anywhere that VC helped, not that there didn't exist places they could help.

Wesley

@RyJones You totally said VC is the devil and anyone who accepts it should kill themselves.

Ry Jones

@Wesley that was implied, yes

BigHomie

@Wesley nobody called me back, so I'm going back to school full time this fall. If I keep it up, I'll be done by next fall, so it's a win. I only applied for a handful of IT jobs, the rest of EE internships and co-ops and such

oh well, their loss

Wesley

@BigHomie WHATCHA MAJORING IN?

Whoa caps lock

Your collegiate career just really excited me for a minute.

BigHomie

Electrical/Computer Engineering

yeah, I'm gonna be a dev.

Wesley

23:10

Cool, good.

BigHomie

The hardware interests me, but you know me XD

Wesley

CE is a great major. I knew a guy with a CE degree from Evanston, seemed like a fun major. Lots of robotics

Ry Jones

@WESLEY ARE YOU GOING DEAF?

Wesley

@RyJones I have bad tinnitus and the death metal I'm listening to right now isn't helping things.

BigHomie

@RyJones heh, he must think I'm going deaf. I CAN HEAR YOU FINE STOP YELLING

Wesley

23:12

@BigHomie Make a thing. Sell the thing. Talk to @FalconMomot - he has a thing.

It might be a busted thing though.

BigHomie

@Wesley yeah, it crosses a lot of disciplines

Wesley

Fix @FalconMomot's busted thing before @Jacob has to look at it again.

BigHomie

One cool thing is I get to work with a friggin computer science celebrity, one of my professors.

He's like the co-inventor of the USB, but cooler.

Wesley

@BigHomie Make webthing.io

BigHomie

LIRS caching algorithm

LIRS (Low Inter-reference Recency Set) is a page replacement algorithm with an improved performance over LRU (Least Recently Used) and many other newer replacement algorithms. This is achieved by using reuse distance as a metric for dynamically ranking accessed pages to make a replacement decision. The algorithm was developed by Song Jiang and Xiaodong Zhang. == Summary == === Quantifying the locality === While all page replacement algorithms rely on existence of reference locality to function, a major difference among different replacement algorithms is on how this locality is qualifie...

^ He co-invented this

> LIRS has been deployed in MySQL since version 5.1.[3] It is also adopted in Infinispan data grid platform.[4] An approximation of LIRS, CLOCK-Pro,[5] is adopted in NetBSD.[6]

Magellan

23:14

@BigHomie if I read that while trying to burp babies, I'm pretty sure my head will explode.

BigHomie

@Magellan To summarize, it caches stuff better than the thing that came before it ;)

Magellan

@BigHomie one would hope so. tough to get a PhD if your algorithm sucks.

=)

Ry Jones

@Wesley hey man first rule of fight club, don't talk about @FalconMomot's thing

Wesley

@RyJones Fact: @FalconMomot's thing can kill two stones with one bird.

Ry Jones

@Wesley I heard he broke a solid steel ball clean in twain

BigHomie

23:18

To elaborate, there is a caching algorithm that purges the least recently used item out of the cache. That can be good, but it's only based on a single metric, the last time the item was accessed. This algorithm looks at the gaps between the time it's been accessed and the present time

@Magellan XD

Stack Exchange

23:34

myotherpcisacloud.com: Powershell Code That Literally Writes Itself - Automaception

posted on August 13, 2014 by ryan

I amused myself with Powershell today and thought I'd share. I might have also named today's post, "Write-Host does have a use after all!" Today, I had the task of synchronizing the country attributes of thousands of users from a non-Microsoft LDAP server into multiple Active Directories. This non-Microsoft LDAP server stored the country attribute ("c" in LDAP parlance) of each user&…

Falcon Momot

23:46

cole

daw

BigHomie

►

flash back

cole

hey @BigHomie - long time no see

BigHomie

@cole 'sup

Been keepin myself busy w/ some yardwork

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