Yikes! Is she OK?

@rnxrx Yeah this was a few days ago, nothing got her

Probably just took a few years off her life :p

It does sound like a hell of a show. The best my wife ever did was set a menu on fire in Michael Jordan's restaurant. That was pretty funny but nothing that would scare off a band of marauders.

God I hate pollen.

@vCole You hate plants having sex? well I bet plants hate you having sex too :P

@MarkHenderson I drive a Ute. =) I hate those little buggers in their lowered Civics. Always thinking they can outrun my little 650. Morons.

@MarkHenderson well, I wish they'd stop so my eyes would stop burning.

@Adrian I should buy a HSV Malloo, fastest ute in the world.

Then I'll try and race you ;)

@MarkHenderson I prefer my slow one. Keeps things in perspective.

1996 Ford Explorer with a 4.0 v6.

@Adrian Thats not a ute, thats an SUV

A ute is what us aussies call a pickup :p

@MarkHenderson Ah. My old grand-boss always called it a Ute too. Must be a personal idiosyncrasy.

And aren't those Explorers the one where the tyres would explode and flip the car killing everyone inside?

Hey @Adrian you still looking for another job?

Fog Creek are looking for a Windows sysadmin after their previous guy went to go to Twitter

My old Land Cruiser is listed as a wagon on its title. The DMV lady tried to change it to SUV and I made her change it back.

@rnxrx If she can do that then I should have been able to change my old car's 5L v8 to a Hybrid on the title and saved a buttload on registration

I think it predates the term "SUV" which helped... I like the idea of the 5L Hybrid. Put a generator in the trunk to charge the battery if it dies. There. You have a hybrid. Ha.

@MarkHenderson I think only 2 our of the 30+ crashes resulted in anyone dying, but yeah. Firestone sold the tires to Ford and told them not to put anything less than ~2 ATM pressure in them. Ford told the tire manufacturer, who's been around longer than Ford, to take a hike, and put ~1.75 ATM in the tires because the suspension was overly stiff and people wanted a "softer" ride.

Plus people tend to drive what were basically truck frames as if they were minivans.. no appreciation for physics, I tell you.

@rnxrx I think Hummer did something like that. Massive thirsty V8 up the front and a 9v battery connected to a lego motor. Bam - hybrid

When the lawsuits hit the fan, Ford sued Firestone saying that Firestone obviously condoned the unpressure practice because they know about the safety risk and kept selling Ford more tires. Corporate belligerence at it's finest. Side note, at the same time GM was using those exact same tires on their GMC Jimmy, a very similar SUV; but at the recommended 2.2 ATM, and never had a single problem with blowouts.

@MarkHenderson The H2H was a Hydrogen powered H2 Hummer.. To start GM made Hummers. The H1 was built on the 2.5T Truck Frame; the H2 was built on the 0.5T Light Truck/Small SUV Frame. The H2 is really the same frame as the Trailblazer or the Holden Colorado, not military grade at all.

Those smaller SUVs only take a Small Block v8 at the largest, and the H2H didn't have a ICE at all. H2H was a concept vehicle, never produced.

the drivetrain of a real H1 would have tripled the price

the H2's were kind of running jokes with a lot of the offroad communities

@rnxrx As it should have been, it was built on a "Family SUV" Frame to begin with, not actually meant to have much utility other that hauling stuff around on dry pavement.

typing fail =[

the dashboard was hilarious with all the fake nuts on it

@ChrisS They're a running joke pretty much everywhere aren't they? :P

well, if they're running at all..

@MarkHenderson I think the para-military militia wanna-bes really like them.

I think that pretty much sums it up!

if they'd gone with at least a 1T frame and a diesel it would have been something

@ChrisS nah, they would go get surplus ones on the cheap

@MarkHenderson Yeah, still looking.

@Adrian Fog Creek have put me on the back burner because they need someone local to replace their snr sysadmin who is going to Twitter

You're more of a *nix guy though aren't you?

@MarkHenderson Ah. Yeah, totally a *nix guy. And probably not good enough to work at Fog Creek either.

I think that falls under knowing my limitations.

I got pieces of Sage IV responsibilities under my belt, but there's some gaps in there that need fixing, like better scripting and programming skills. In fact, I need to go back and take some programming classes next year too.

I've forgotten a lot of the algorithmic stuff, which I wasn't ever very good at anyway.

Fair 'nuff. But I wouldn't go selling yourself short, I didn't think I was good enough for FC either

I'm mostly Ops. Cool under fire and excellent intuition for where stuff is broken. But I've been behind the curve and the need for those skills is going away for the businesses that I want to work for.

Wasn't someone in here saying that they used R1Soft CDP backups for Linux boxxen?

FML.

My boss put our SSL Cert's private key in a publicly-accessible directory on our main file server.

@Adrian Security by obscurity ;)

@Adrian Did he, by chance, ever work at Yahoo?

@WesleyDavid One would think so. Sheesh.

Hmm. He set the parent to root.root 770, but none of the children. I suppose that would be good enough to keep the occasional social worker from dinking around in there. Certainly not anyone with a clue though.

too.much.food

/coma

@vCole At the office I worked at before Big Blue bought Vallent, there was a tiny little Italian place across the parking lot. The Calzones were epic. Unfortunately, they were also approx. 2200 calories apiece.

@Adrian I'm a few blocks from cupcakeroyale.com - talk about calories

@Adrian holy cow.

@eww Was it you who has used R1Soft CDP for Linux?