The Comms Room

Journeyman Geek

12:05

@tombull89 tom tom's phone.

RobM

lol

Journeyman Geek

also. eh. The user's from where I thought he was :/

RobM

Has tomtom taken some of the ram out then?

Journeyman Geek

;p

RobM

also, vb6 in 2014. WAT!

Nathan C

12:20

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

jscott

Funny, but probably not a useful bump on a four year old question:

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A: Very challenging network access problem: can't browse but can ping. Other PCs can browse and ping

The problem relies beteween your monitor and the back of your chair, have a look

mossy

13:13

'mornin

cole

sup @mossy

mossy

@cole not much. Finishing up my last week at twerk

Mathias R. Jessen

@mossy Where are you going?

mossy

@MathiasR.Jessen Going to do some Point of sale stuff for a month, then start at Rackspace.

cole

@mossy does the POS place know about Rackspace?

mossy

13:20

Yeah.

cole

oh well then sweet

mossy

I didn't want to hide it from the guy.

I'm a little nervous about rackspace though.

Scott Pack

@MarkHenderson Yeah, I hate job searches enough that one of my acceptance considerations is whether or not I could see myself at that company for 10 years. Even if I don't make it that long I want to be able to.

cole

@mossy why?

Mathias R. Jessen

@mossy Cool, any particular position? :-)

mossy

13:24

@cole They made it sound like they're going to push RHCE training when i get there.

I don't know if i'm that smart.

Scott Pack

@MarkHenderson For me it's more of an overhead concern. For a proper FTE (as opposed to contractor) I typically assume 6-9 months before we can start getting full value out of the hire. Makes it hard to justify the time involved in hiring if I'll only get 1-1.5 years out of somebody. Especially when I was with the Uni where a hiring cycle might be minimum 2-3 months.

mossy

@MathiasR.Jessen "Managed Cloud Team" from the sounds of it. Linux admin position.

cole

@mossy I believe in you

mossy

@cole Thanks. I'll be sure to let you guys know if i fuck something up and get fired within the first month.

Mathias R. Jessen

@mossy Nice. Don't overthink whether you're "smart enough" for a RHCE, look at it the other way around: Rackspace needs a certified engineer and are willing to put time and resources into educating you to be that guy

mossy

13:26

@MathiasR.Jessen Yeah I know. I'm a negative little bitch though.

Michael Hampton

If you found Server Fault and we haven't run you out of town with pitchforks, you're smart enough to get an RHCE.

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mossy

Found my new apartment.

@MathiasR.Jessen The nice thing about rackspace is that they provide all of that training on site. Redhat, cisco, etc.

You attend training on normal work hours.

RobM

that's good.

cole

Jesus, apparently i need a job at Rackspace

RobM

Far too many places seem to think you can do it on top of everything else and I don't think that's reasonable.

Going to try and get CCNA and CCNP in my own time though myself, but that's my own choice, not my employer's

Mathias R. Jessen

13:33

@mossy While that is nice, in terms of "ease of access", I rather like having to go off-site for training. That sends a clear signal that I'm "off-limits" and preoccupied with something else than my coworkers petty problems

tombull89

@RobM After four years of asking the school has agreed to pay for my CCNA.

Thing is, I'm not sure if there's any real point and I'd probably be better off doing something like a SCCM course instead.

faker

after figuring out the I/O solution I also found a SF question about it: serverfault.com/questions/361032/…

still don't understand why our CentOS 5 servers didn't behave like this, but eh ¯\(°_o)/¯

RobM

@tombull89 They should pay for both, eh?

mossy

13:59

@MathiasR.Jessen yeah, true. I won't complain though. I love free stuff.

Mathias R. Jessen

14:21

There is an old joke. Mathematicians are cheap: they only need paper, a pencil and an eraser. Philosophers are even cheaper: they don't need the eraser... runs away before the philosophers come... — Stephan Kolassa 4 hours ago

Nathan C

14:37

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Going to hell for laughing, but I can't help it

Mathias R. Jessen

@NathanC You're in the Comms Room - if Hell is real, we'll all have a beer in it

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faker

this ice bucket challenge reminds me of the beer challenge a lot of my facebook friends were doing 6 months ago

same concept, you had to chug a beer down and then nominate 3 people to do the same. If you don't do it, you had to buy them a create of beer

I find both challenges equally weird....

Nathan C

@faker Well, to the ice bucket challenge's credit, it's gone viral enough to raise millions for ALS research

which is the whole point of it, so I can see it doing some good :)

faker

@NathanC yes, true. At least something good comes out of it

speaking of beer:

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Q: GMail detecting mail as spam, solver gets a beer

I've been trying for a long time to get our company's mail server send mail that will get accepted by the GMail spam filter. I have managed making it work for Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, sadly GMail is still marking our mails as spam. I have configured DKIM, SPF, DMARC and verified our mail server I...

Nathan C

14:53

So, I keep thinking it's my wireless adapter on my desktop at home causing my latency woes

Which is strange since pings to the router are fine...but, when I did a ping test from my phone (yay terminal emulator), times were normal at the same time I was running the desktop test.

jscott

15:30

Can I get an assist for an approved edit?

serverfault.com/review/suggested-edits/143980

That is, can anyone push that through as approved. :)

cole

bam

jscott

ty

cole

done

@jscott looping gif: i.sstatic.net/lIsMn.gif

jscott

Ha

cole

lol

Bob

15:34

@cole that cut :(

jscott

The OP had taken another answer's contents and re-posted with their minor changes and marked it accepted. I encouraged them to instead make the edit to the original answer, so the answeer would get credit for the work. Surprisingly, they did it.

cole

@Bob wat

Bob

@cole it's not a perfect loop

cole

@Bob ah

jscott

Tough crowd! :)

cole

15:36

Right

Michael Hampton

Not all workloads do well with hyperthreading. — Michael Hampton ♦ Aug 7 at 21:51

Nathan C

Just ordered a new wireless adapter...gonna see if that makes a difference.

If not, returns it goes

It's basically a newer netgear (WDNA4100 versus WDNA3100) so...

tombull89

@NathanC there's another one along those lines "You think some of the IBC's were bad, leonardo dicaprio died doing his"

Bob

Heh. I think I still have a WDNA3100 around somewhere from before I managed to get dual band on the internal chip (laptop).

Nathan C

tombull89

15:43

@NathanC heeeeh

I was looking at deploying printers with group policy preferences today. I died a little bit more inside.

Nathan C

@tombull89 I did that once. It was awful.

tombull89

It would have been nice if it was working by the time I left...but noooooooooo.

jscott

I love GPP for printers.

Michael Hampton

Well, use of Ubuntu is not generally recommended either. :) — Michael Hampton ♦ 16 secs ago

jscott

Granted we've 450+ printers and 100+ GPOs for deploying them.

tombull89

15:57

We're got around 60 printers

I was thinking of having one policy per printer and then using the targeting to say which machines should have them...not sure if that's the right way to do it.

I can't look at the GPO for our sister site because they have ONE print queue.

Nathan C

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Q: High CPU usage in my digitalocean droplet

I am experiencing high CPU usage here is the stats i got from server, the consumption after every restart in 15 minutes go upto 100%, what could go wrong? I have a wordpress copy installed on the server which does not have much traffic, here is the stats that i got from using top command in serv...

ubuntu-12.04 cpu-hogging

It may be because I have experience with Linux, but doesn't that top output sort of speak for itself?

kce

16:27

What's up?

@ScottPack - Yeah. I guess I'm am a job-hopper then. Crap.

mfinni

Any powershell maestros up in here?

MDMarra

sup sup sup sup sup sup sup sup ?

Nathan C

404 reviews not found

mfinni

Is there a reliable way to re-format a "get-" command into a "new-' command? I have piles of Exchange settings that I need to apply to a new Exchange environment

Example - New-ManagedContentSettings

MDMarra

pipeline it? I'm not sure what you're asking

mfinni

16:37

There are lots of fiddly details when running get-managedcontentsettings. I can certainly use a text editor to manually copy-and-paste, but in some cases I have to insert quotes, etc

These are on different servers, different domains

MDMarra

I dunno, write a script with all of your parameters as variables?

I'm sure you've thought of that, just not sure what you're trying to get at

mfinni

@MDMarra Sounds like I

jscott

Get-Help about_Splatting might help if I'm understanding what you want to do.

mfinni

I'd have to define every parameter?

jscott

Basically, gather all the names/values from the Get- in to hashes, then splat them into the New-.

The parameter list could be defined on the fly from the return of the Get-.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

16:46

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mfinni

@jscott Perhaps I spent too much time in Perl; PoSH bends my brain

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>$HashArguments = @{Get-ManagedContentSettings}
Missing '=' operator after key in hash literal.

Nathan C

This error is so irritating

and it's only one server that's popping that error as far as I'm aware.

Mathias R. Jessen

@NathanC Then make sure that the server presents a trusted certificate ;)

BigHomie

@MathiasR.Jessen that's my guess, busted or missing cert perhaps

either the remote computer's cert or the remote computer doesn't trust the domain's root ca

Nathan C

@MathiasR.Jessen Well, none of the servers do as far as I'm aware...I do have a CA set up though.

And it's trusted

Mathias R. Jessen

17:02

Might be a missing SPN ... Kerberos wouldn't have a problem sending saved credentials as only the trusted target computer would be able to decode it

kce

I wonder if I can retire when I'm 35. How low would my living standards need to be to make that happen.

MDMarra

@kce reddit.com/r/financialindependence

From what I gather on there, you need to plan for it from like 18 years old to retire self-sufficiently around 40

kce

Hmm. Interesting. My dad was able to retire when he was about 52 but that was largely because he started saving in his early 20s and had a pension.

MDMarra

I havent looked too closely, because I know I'm not in that club

kce

@MDMarra Enjoy work to much to be focused on an early exit?

MDMarra

17:15

I do

but also, wife wants to be a stay at home mother once I break down and we have kids

Nathan C

@MDMarra Little MDMarra's running around?!

:p

MDMarra

Not quite yet

kce

@MDMarra It's tough for the ladies because if they want kids they can't wait forever.

But I don't have a solid career and she hasn't really started on hers. I don't know how we could be economically stable enough for anything that serious.

Nathan C

17:32

quiet here today

kce

Yeah. People must be working.

Nathan C

I'm on my lunch break fighting with this crappy plastic knife scooping peanut butter

lol

cole

WHOS CALLING ME FROM MAINE?

Nathan C

o.o

a moose

Dennis Kaarsemaker

18:08

@cole int maine(int argc, char **argv){ return COLE; }

cole

i don't even know what that means.

jscott

a.c: In function maine:
a.c:1: error: COLE undeclared (first use in this function)
a.c:1: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
a.c:1: error: for each function it appears in.)

Nathan C

@DennisKaarsemaker I C what you did there

cole

I wish I could wrap my head around programming :(

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@jscott gcc -DCOLE=0

Ry Jones

18:12

@cole so do it

cole

@RyJones I've tried

Michael Hampton

Jump in the deep end. Learn Common Lisp.

Ry Jones

there is no try, there is only do or do not. --Hitler

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cole

lol

Michael Hampton

What have you tried?

cole

18:13

Python and Perl

Basic

Nathan C

@cole If you really want to be confused, try C

:p

cole

@NathanC I'm already confused

Ry Jones

I ask you to follow "learn python the hard way", and follow his rules.

Nathan C

Something like C# would be a good start though. .Net libraries do practically half the work for you

cole

@RyJones tried that

Ry Jones

18:14

learnpythonthehardway.org

cole

even bought the book

Nathan C

Like...I needed to FTP stuff to a remote server. There's a library for that.

lol

Ry Jones

@cole did you take advantage of his office hours?

he literally tells you exactly what to type.

cole

It's also hard I have no projects to apply Python to

Nathan C

@RyJones I can't even that website

cole

18:15

The only reason I can do anything in PowerShell is because I actually have had projects to do.

jscott

No, you've just applied no Python to your projects.

Ry Jones

you choose helplessness in the face of knowledge.

cole

@jscott no sense of doing Python on Windows that PowerShell will do native?

jscott

You can mangle your Active Directory just as quickly using Python as Powershell. :)

mossy

anyone of you play path of exile?

cole

18:17

ah well

@mossy i've heard things

mossy

@cole This game stresses me out man

@cole pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree

cole

Jesus

mossy

spend 12 hours trying to figure out a build

play for 20 minutes and rage quit

cole

O_O

Nathan C

@mossy Even more complicated than Watch_Dog's leveling system? Oh my.

Ry Jones

18:23

get back to me when you play this

jscott

@RyJones Is the whole site like this? I might just read it for the laughs. " If the programmer likes fonts and typography, they'll tell you to get a Mac OS X computer. If he likes control and has a huge beard, he'll tell you to install Linux."

mossy

@NathanC two hours of work:

Ry Jones

@jscott yes. Zed is a unique individual

Michael Hampton

@jscott Install Linux.

Nathan C

@mossy Jeez...that makes my brain hurt

I'd probably spend days on that lol

mossy

18:26

@NathanC yeah it's a problem.

Nathan C

I spent hours planning skills on Eve Online when I played

All the skills are real-time earned, so careful planning meant saving hours or days :p

jscott

@MichaelHampton I did, but it's gasp Debian! :)

Michael Hampton

@jscott Oh fuck. Format and reinstall, quick!

jscott

Back to Slackware it is then!

mossy

Leave Debian alone.

cole

18:27

Ugh Debian.

Nathan C

Heh, I just installed Debian 7 yesterday...

cole

HEATHEN!

jscott

Hey, Debian updates major versions so slowly, I get ages to plan my migrations.

Nathan C

@cole And a public-facing ProFTPd server!

mossy

Isn't umm.. spotify running on Debian.

cole

18:28

@mossy hush

mossy

"Spotify migrate 5000 servers from Debian to Ubuntu"

the fuck

Michael Hampton

Frying pan, fire.

kce

Ain' nothing wrong with Debian.

Also:

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A: Application\CAPI2 Event 513 - Cryptogrpahic Services failed while processing the OnIdentity() call in the System Writer Object

Mathias R. Jessen got me pointed in the right direction, the ever famous WinSxS folder. However I did not see any of the VSS errors in the Event Log which made me a little hesitant to just nuke all the NTFS permissions lest I break something else. I went back and read Event ID 513 TechNet refere...

tylerl

@mossy a pretty painless transition, I imagine. Presumably they just updated /etc/apt/sources.list to reflect their new political position.

kce

Upvote my content to validate my existence. Please Thanks Bye.

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mossy

18:35

@kce ok bye

kce

:(

Mathias R. Jessen

@kce Nice! Procmon is magic <3

mossy

:)

Ry Jones

oh man check out this laptop turned in for repair

kce

@MathiasR.Jessen Yeah it was funny. It was the right resolution even though I wasn't getting any of the VSS errors.

Mathias R. Jessen

18:38

As a non-Linux user, I'm on the Debian team - it's behind in terms of up-to-dateness but it's extremely easy to learn, use and administer

cole

@RyJones whoa

Mathias R. Jessen

@kce Sorry about the short comment, but I've actually seen the exact same behavior on a dozen 2008 machines for which we have backup responsibility. Anowho, your answer is a much better summary of the troubleshooting process than I would ever have had the patience to write. +1

Ry Jones

@cole yeah, impressive damage for a unibody mac

cole

@RyJones jesus

kce

@MathiasR.Jessen Thanks. I try to actually ad something to SF every once and a while.

Tom W

18:47

@MathiasR.Jessen ...you're not a Linux user, but you're on the Debian team? Did I understand you correctly?

I am interested as to what your role is :)

Mathias R. Jessen

@TomW I'm not a regular user or administrator of *nix systems, but if I have to choose a general purpose linux distro, be it for server or client, I'd pick Debian

I'm a Windozer

Did that make sense ? :P

@kce did the error actually say "Cryptogrpahic Services"?

Tom W

yeah, just wondering what use they have for you, if that's not rude

sticking up for the non-expert user?

Mathias R. Jessen

Well, in that regard, I am a non-expert user :) I run a number of websites off apache httpd and nginx on Debian, for various purposes, but mainly for "staying sharp" by exposing myself to challenges outside IIS, which is my Web Server of Choice in any professional setting :)

Tom W

bookmarks @MathiasR.Jessen for all future 'plz send the codes' questions concerning IIS

Mathias R. Jessen

Hehehe

help.iisreset.me <-- runs on apache

My attempt at twisted humor

kce

19:02

@MathiasR.Jessen Nope! Fixed it up.

Alright I'm off to go replace a users hard drive in their workstation.

Michael Hampton

Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)

kce

That and pray for a timely death.

Ry Jones

I like traffic lights

Even when they're yellow

HopelessN00b

19:31

Nothing wrong with traffic lights. The problem is with the cops who keep ticketing me for driving through red ones. Fucking fascists.

cole

19:44

I really, really like PowerShell Studio 2014

Iain

20:16

Is there a holiday in the US, it could almost be the weekend in here today

Chris S

@mossy What is that?

cole

/yawn

Yeah where is everyone?

mossy

@ChrisS Passive skill tree for a game called Path of Exile. (Similar to diablo)

Chris S

Interesting

mossy

20:38

alright i need someones input.

apartments.com/Texas/San-Antonio/The-Montecristo/…

or apartments.com/Texas/San-Antonio/Alamo-Ranch/…

@cole help

Iain

@mossy would you use the pool ?

mossy

no

Iain

doesn't seem worth paying for it then

oh so they both have pools - oh well

mossy

20:54

jesus

that second place i linked has about 18 different admin charges

@Iain Yeah i think even very cheap places have a pool. Really hot there.

Iain

is this for the move to rackspace ?

mossy

@Iain yeah.

Tanner

@mossy Wow. I should move to Texas...

I pay more than that for 700 sq ft in the middle of fuck nowhere >_>

cole

21:09

@mossy what city are you looking in?

San Antonio?

mossy

yep

cole

btw I'll be in San Antonio in Jan for PAX South

mossy

You can stay at the crib

i think im being a cheap ass about this.

cole

how much are you looking to spend?

mossy

idk

income increased 3x .. not sure what to expect.

cole

21:11

what's the address of the Rackspace office?

mossy

not sure let me find it.

cole

GOD RENT IS SO CHEAP IN TX

zillow.com/homedetails/…

mossy

wait until you see the 5k/month place

pants were almost shat

cole

allows cats, too.

that shower, though

mossy

@cole 1 Fanatical Pl, Windcrest, TX 78218

cole

21:15

Ok that place I linked is 7 minutes from the office.

3.1 miles.

Shane Madden

@mossy They get the street named what they wanted, apple-style?

cole

brb moving to Texas

mossy

@ShaneMadden ¯_(ツ)_ /¯

cole

fucking $475/mo

mossy

@cole do it. split rent. I shower daily, don't talk, and clean up. LFRoommate

cole

21:17

for $475/mo i could rent two places

How much is your rent now?

zillow.com/homedetails/…

bbiab - therapy time

pauska

hola signors

mossy

21:35

@pauska 'ello

pauska

21:48

quiet here.. holiday in US?

Michael Hampton

@pauska Nope

tombull89

@mossy here you dropped this \

mossy

@tombull89 ty

Hennes

22:16

Right. I need more sleep and less beer because I am fixing things after guessing the production admin account.

Very good for production. Politically possibly not smart to continue

Tanner

Oh I see what you did there...

Michael Hampton

22:34

Oh, so that's what happened to Clippy!

cole

and back

I still need to pack for Pittsburgh

Mathias R. Jessen

23:01

@cole What's in Pittsburgh?

cole

@MathiasR.Jessen work

Finance manager is leaving, he was our point of contact for IT for that office/company.

Smaller company we bought 5 years ago that has two offices.

Mark Henderson

23:23

Why is it so hard to find a webcam where the software supports a vertical flip?

I need (/want) to mount a webcam upside down on a roof in a conference room

mossy

@MarkHenderson GoPro maybe

Mathias R. Jessen

@MarkHenderson write your own software for it

Mark Henderson

I can find plenty of people who do it by accident because of a driver bug

But that's not exactly... reliable

Michael Hampton

2

Q: How do I vertically flip my webcam's image?

My USB webcam is precariously mounted on the desk I'm using. The clamp damages my monitor; Better lighting etc. etc. Works like a charm but all that is needed is to vertically flip the picture for use in Skype, G+ Hangouts etc. I am at a loss as to how this is accomplished in Ubuntu 11.10. Clo...

webcam effects

BTW, if you mount the camera upside down, you need to flip both vertically and horizontally

Or just rotate 180 degrees

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton Ubuntu. Hmm. Is there a Lync client for Ubunutu?

Michael Hampton

23:29

@MarkHenderson Not yet?

Mark Henderson

Then I'm probably stuck with Windows

Michael Hampton

Um, actually, apparently the answer is yes

Mark Henderson

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Q: Setting PIdgin up for Lync2013

I having difficulty setting up pidgin to work with my company's microsoft 365's communicator lync 2013 (not 2010) account. I either receive a message stating authentication failed, or Incompatible authentication scheme chosen: NTLM depending upon the user agent values used from this wiki It ap...

pidgin microsoft-lync pidgin-sipe

Interesting

Michael Hampton

I don't know if it does video, though.

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