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Ballot file contains 310 non-empty ballots.

Josh

in The Tavern (General) on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 1 min ago, by ChrisF

sysadmin1138 and Mark Henderson on Server Fault (at least by my use of OpenSTV)

Chopper3

ah cool, thanks

Iain

that's interesting - the page says 309 votes and the software says 310

Josh

in The Tavern (General) on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 57 secs ago, by Geoff Dalgas

OpenSTV download fixed for mac

Chopper3

9:17 PM

nice to know my scripting/hacking skills are still good

Sam

Congrats guys!

voretaq7

I'm disappointed we only had 310 users

Robert Moir

congrats to @sysadmin1138 and @mark then :-)

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sysadmin1138

Thank you, thank you.

Ben

Nice one, well done guys :-)

voretaq7

9:17 PM

then again SO only having 200some-odd makes me feel better

::applauds::

Iain

@voretaq7 I'm not surprised

SvenW

Hi, and unofficial congratulations to sysadmin1138 and Mark and a big thanks for the other candidates!

3

sysadmin1138

@voretaq7 Whaaaaaat??

Iain

Well done @sysadmin1138 and Mark

Chopper3

yeah, well done gents

voretaq7

9:18 PM

superuser rather

sysadmin1138

Interesting thing in the results, of the 64.something of my 'excess' votes in the 2nd round, about 20 of 'em ended up with Mark.

voretaq7

waiting to see how SO does -- expecting to see at least 1000-1500 or I'll be very sad

Josh

I second everyone else, congrats @sysadmin1138 and @Mark!

Robert Moir

ok cya all

Ben

Night

sysadmin1138

9:24 PM

G'night!

voretaq7

nyte

Installing Update 23 of 29. God this is interminible, and it's killing my workstation performance :P

sysadmin1138

Interestingly, only 35 ballots did NOT include one of the winners.

Warner

Congratulations, @sysadmin1138 and @Mark. I voted for both of you.

sysadmin1138

Thank you.

packs

Are the ballots anonymous?

sysadmin1138

9:26 PM

They are in the download I got.

packs

Well, there goes your chances for revenge!

Josh

We had so many great candidates!

sysadmin1138

yes, we did!

I think it was Packs who was joking earlier about 3d7.

Josh

I think we have two great new mods :-) But @Warner, I am disappointed you were not one of them!

Hey, this way you'll keep answering more of my questions, HAHA

Warner

Haha. Thanks, @Josh. I certainly hope to. My recent promotion at work has required my full attention.

Josh

9:29 PM

Well, good for you @Warner!

My #1 choice in the SU and SO elections was clear. I was very torn in the SF election :-)

Antonius Bloch

If two people give the same answer, one answered first but another gives a better quality answer who should I award the bounty?:

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Q: Get exact size in bytes of a disk & partitions in windows

Hi, I'm using dd (under cygwin) to copy a shadow image of a disk in windows. Shadow copy will only give me a partion, so what I am doing is: 1) using dd to grab the disk header (32k on Win2003) 2) using dd to copy the shadow partition 3) using dd to copy the end of of the disk (8 meg reserved ...

packs

@sysadmin1138 I don't know what you're talking about :)

@AntoniusBloch Personally, I would say the better answer.

Antonius Bloch

I'm not sure I should award it at all since it doesn't really solve my problem, but it might be the best "real world" answer

packs

@AntoniusBloch Yeah, that's a much harder problem to figure out.

Josh

@AntoniusBloch I agree with @packs, the better answer

but if you don't award, keep in mind the top answer still gets half

Antonius Bloch

9:33 PM

ahh

Josh

@AntoniusBloch You have 6 days, why not comment and ask each to clarify / expand their answers?

Antonius Bloch

well vote up the detailed answer please

alvosu

hi all

Josh

@alvosu hello

Antonius Bloch

I understand the answers, but basically I think the problem is that linux and windows disagree on the size of the disk

I tend to think that linux has the correct number

but really I can't verify that

Josh

9:35 PM

I'm thinking...

alvosu

i registry AIM, and a couple a day AIM don't work(Password/LoginId Required/Invalid)...password recovery don't work, too. is this normal?

Josh

@AntoniusBloch this is weird, I don't know windows well enough to be sure of what I tell you :-(

I think Linux would be correct too, but, I'm not sure

...is the partition table any help at all..?

IDK, not really sure what to do in that circumstance @Antonius! :-/

sysadmin1138

Results are official, now.

Sam

Official congrats then guys, you both deserve it

Antonius Bloch

@Josh yeah I think it's going to remain a mystery

did someone become mayor?

Josh

9:45 PM

LOL

sysadmin1138

@AntoniusBloch serverfault.com/election/1?tab=election

Sam

I'm happy enough that I was still in contention towards the end

Antonius Bloch

How much does moderator pay?

=)

sysadmin1138

I might pay in T-shirts.

If I'm lucky.

Or stickers.

Antonius Bloch

I'll pay you massive kickbacks for ignoring my blatant spam ads posed as questions!

packs

9:49 PM

@sysadmin1138 Stickers, woo

I need to get my SASE in the mail and replace that one that I lost last winter.

Antonius Bloch

I think stackexchange is too fragmented

but then I'm new

sysadmin1138

@AntoniusBloch SE is designed to evolve to a certain extent.

Antonius Bloch

I thought "Server Fault : Vote to close" was a popular post about closing the site

sysadmin1138

SO: just shy of 5000 votes.

Iain

out of how many eligibles ?

sysadmin1138

10:01 PM

43,778. So a better turnout.

Iain

3% more

sysadmin1138

B;ah, math is hard.

11.3% for SO and 8.1% for us.

Iain

you had me worried there

sysadmin1138

15.3% of SO ballots didn't include a winner, 11.3% of SF ballots didn't include a winner. SU? 1.5%.

Iain

I wasn't surprised at our turnout as according to quantcast we have a very small group of active users

eligibles here represent 4.25% of our daily people

Zoredache

10:47 PM

I am surprised that it was as high as it was. I believe I predicted somewhere in the 150-200 range.

Ben

11:06 PM

Right, night all. Congrats again to sysadmin1138 and Mark

Sam

I'm off too, night all.

sysadmin1138

G'night!

WesleyDavid

dag nabbit. Where's the elections page? I want to see the numbers

found it

Zypher

severfault.com/elections

WesleyDavid

rogue link

sysadmin1138

11:13 PM

serverfault.com/election

No sever fault for you.

5 people voted the same way I did.

WesleyDavid

Congratulations @sysadmin1138 and @MarkHenderson

Let the bans flow like wine.

Or is that vice versa...

Thank you.

Hey guys

Howdy.

does anyone see anything wrong with the tutorial here ?tomatousb.org/tut:setup-multiple-static-public-ips If you don't mind

@sysadmin1138 Congratulations

lynxman

11:25 PM

congratulations @sysadmin1138

sysadmin1138

Thanks!

Zoredache

@Jacob, wrong how?

Jacob

It doesn't work

and I am learning IPtables and can't figure out the issue

Any ideas would be nice

Zoredache

The rules look pretty reasonable. Do you have a Tomato-based router you are trying to use these on?

lynxman

@Jacob look for your default iptables policy, if it's ACCEPT or REJECT, that would make a change

Jacob

11:29 PM

@Zoredache Yeah as part of my Job for @AntoniusBloch's company; I get to figure issues to save him time. In this case a client wants to keep the router

@lynxman I based off that tutorial and it only forwards for 1 IP

Antonius Bloch

Jacob, start a question

Jacob

@AntoniusBloch ok

Antonius Bloch

but don't post any public IPs

please

Jacob

@AntoniusBloch I won't :)

Antonius Bloch

I think the problem is that tomato-usb adds openvpn

and it's changed the iptables setup

added the WANPREROUTING
and wanin tables

Jacob

11:34 PM

@AntoniusBloch I mean it looks right, but I can't find any other examples.

Zoredache

Please do post valid looking IPs. So replace the IP with something from something in the RFC1918 address space, and mention specifically what subnet you used to represent your external addresses.

Antonius Bloch

right

if you x out the middle ones it's good enough for me

208.x.x.132

Jacob

@AntoniusBloch ok

Zoredache

A network diagram usually helps a lot as well.

Jacob

@Zoredache must you need every thing ? just kidding...

Zoredache

11:36 PM

I have been using the Google Docs diagram tool to generate quick and dirty diagrams lately.

Antonius Bloch

docs has diagram

cool!

Jacob

@Zoredache I am pretty fast in visio

Zoredache

@Jacob, personally, I think everyone needs a good diagram. There are many problems that I solved just by creating a diagram, and putting everything in a picture. It forced me to think out what was going on.

Jacob

@Zoredache I was joking I'll make one

Zoredache

@Jacob, thats fine. Please consider my point to be rant against the large number of questions that would be far easier to understand and solve, if the person just took the time to draw a good picture.

Evan Anderson

11:45 PM

@sysadmin1138: Have a look: serverfault.com/q/230426

sysadmin1138

@EvanAnderson I was typing an answer as you were commenting 0:)

Evan Anderson

One of those "I don't know the answer, but I know who does..." kind of moments. I actually think it's "Service Location Protocol" related, but I don't know enough to answer (or even really be sure that I know what I'm talking about).

sysadmin1138

You're probably right, and I know far too much about SLP, having had to explain it (multiple times) to our network people.

Jacob

Time to test the maturity of SF

in the diagram I put pubic instead of public....

sysadmin1138

I make that mistake all the time.

Zoredache

11:59 PM

@EvanAnderson, why did you remove the diagram from @Jacob's question? Was that intentional, or was a edit conflict?

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