The Comms Room

coredump

14:08

@packs just saw your friend request

packs

@coredump I just realized that I hadn't setup scrobbling since moving systems last spring

Holocryptic

So AT&T called me last night. At about 10 min to midnight. Was there a problem? Was my T1 acting up? No. It was to give me a status update on the ticket. At 10 min to midnight. FML.

Tom O'Connor

3

That's the most heartwarming thing i've read all month. (or possibly ever).

Bart Silverstrim

Interesting. I seem to find a lot of jerks on reddit.

DanBig

I have a customer with a brand new Dell laptop running Office 2010. Apparently there is a known bug with email address auto-complete in this version. The customer is so consumed with this issue and the "time lost" with having to type in a complete address, that he is demanding that I call MS support, or have Dell replace the laptop.

Bart Silverstrim

14:13

See? these kind of people.

Chris S

@DanBig Auto-completion works fine for me... We've been running Office 2010 for months.

pauska

@DanBig: I suggest you point him to the contacts function in outlook

its a brand new feature, came in outlook 97 or something like that

Bart Silverstrim

@Pauska: Wait, what?

Chris S

@pauska, I'm thinking the "known bug" is that previous versions of Office used a nk2 file to keep track of people you sent e-mails to in the past. Office 2010 doesn't use, and can't import, that file; it creates a new Contact List with those names.

Works nice as that Contact List will follow you around if you use Exchange or IMAP.

Bart Silverstrim

It's a brand new feature from 97? :-)

Chris S

14:19

@BartSilverstrim WARNING! Sarcasm detected!

DanBig

@ChrisS, you are correct. And it works like a charm. Until he closes outlook. Next time its opened, auto-complete is empty

Bart Silverstrim

My Sarcasmeter must be broken...

pauska

Very, very broken..

Bart Silverstrim

It rattles sometimes when I sneeze.

Chris S

@DanBig What's backing his e-mails? Local PST?

pauska

14:20

@ChriS: I knows.. perhaps the user has duplicate "suggested contacts" address books

Bart Silverstrim

Wow. And Gilbert Gottfreid was just fired from Afflac over Japan comments.

DanBig

@ChrisS, no local pst, just a straight up exchange connection

Chris S

@DanBig Interesting; haven't seen that problem.

Tom O'Connor

no @jacob today? I wonder if we scared him off last night :o

DanBig

sevenforums.com/microsoft-office/…

Holocryptic

14:22

what happened last night @TomOConnor?

Tom O'Connor

he made some poorly timed jokes, and we kinda took the piss a bit :P

DanBig

Thats a link to someone else having the issue, the problem is that it introduces a 3rd party product into the mix, which will only cause confusion for him, and suicidal/homicidal thoughts for me.

Chris S

There are so few people who appreciate this: I was fixing my in-law's (old) computer, copying files across the network topped out around 6MBps. I'm used to saturating my Gb network with my computers. It was like waiting for dialup all over again.

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packs

@ChrisS I tend to use the arcfour cipher on scp for that very reason. It's as close to no-encryption as you'll get without patching ssh.

Bart Silverstrim

Anyone know how old @Jacob is? I thought he said he was 15 but has 2 years experience in sysadminning?

MarkM

14:26

@BartSilverstrim He's 15

Tom O'Connor

yeah, 15 apparently.

Chris S

I don't typically use scp, mostly just sftp for remote stuff... But in-network it's all unencrypted nfs or cifs. In this case an older Windows box and it's pathetic little hard drive maxed out at ~6MBps. I was groaning the other day at my 50MBps drives, looking at the new 100+MBps disk drives and 500+MBps SSD PCIe cards.

DanBig

@TomOConnor, can you point me to a transcript of that part of the evening?

Tom O'Connor

In other news, I think this is an incredibly badly timed / worded advert. awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/hero_jp_launch_en.png

Holocryptic

@DanBig chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/127/2011/3/14/22-24

Tom O'Connor

14:29

@DanBig chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/127/2011/3/14/22-24

DanBig

Nice, he felt a little silly it seemed.

Tom O'Connor

It was the comment about Robert's niece that made me giggle the most. It was just the most epic bad timing

That, and the moray.

MarkM

Haaaaaaa, hilarious transcript from last night

poor @Jacob, lol

Bart Silverstrim

Just started reading it...

Apparently Jacob slipped some slang and inadvertently nearly offended someone on the chat, that's the summary? I'm going to guess you guys ragged him to pieces afterwards...let's get back to the transcript...

MarkM

@BartSilverstrim Basically

Bart Silverstrim

14:40

Y'know...I never really thought about the sexual orientation of anyone here.

MarkM

Turns out, everyone's gay

Bart Silverstrim

I forget which of you are on the wrong side of the ocean most of the time.

@MarkM:I'd have to be bi since my gravatar has my son on it...

MarkM

My gravitar has me sitting in a giant chair. Would that make me asexual?

Bart Silverstrim

I feel bad for Jacob if he's 15 because he's probably not used to stepping in verbal poo like that. We've all been there unless you can't speak.

packs

My gravatar is an extreme eye closeup, so would that make me a Sauron fetishist?

Chopper3

14:42

Mine is of me sat in a children's paddington bear ride looking fed-up because it was a shit day

MarkM

@Chopper3 That makes you a pedobearexual

coredump

Oh poor jacob

Bart Silverstrim

Holy shit...@MarkM is a leprechaun?

Chopper3

@MarkM I was with my kids

MarkM

@BartSilverstrim Yeah dude, 100% Leppy

@Chopper3 Jokes :)

Chopper3

14:44

i knows

MarkM

But yeah, at least @Jacob learned to watch that kind of thing in a room like this and not in a meeting or group

coredump

Reading that transcript is like seeing a deer in the headlights

Bart Silverstrim

Poor kid! :-)

Did he also say he has CP?

Tom O'Connor

CP?

Child Pornography?

coredump

Child Porn

Tom O'Connor

14:46

Corporal Punishment?

Zypher

sigh of course right to the child porn

coredump

I worked with police here on CP cases

My mind is scarred

Bart Silverstrim

Oh geez you people are terrible.

Tom O'Connor

Yeah, totally.

Bart Silverstrim

MarkM

14:47

@BartSilverstrim niece?? Best typo ever, considering the context.

coredump

My son's 3rd godfather is homossexual, and a great friend of the family, we have the liberty to play and use some slang to call him, but it's a totally different matter with friends :P

MarkM

But yeah, I don't think you guys scared Jacob away, he is 15 and in school, after all. He's usually not on until 2-3ish EST (Someone GMT me, I'm very self centric)

coredump

(yes, he has 3 godfathers)

Bart Silverstrim

@MarkM making fun of...who's niece? Jacob "calling her dumb"?

MarkM

@BartSilverstrim The CP convo that got struck up

Bart Silverstrim

14:50

You should all be ashamed of doing that to Jacob.

Iszi

@MarkM That'd be 1800-1900 GMT/UTC I think, considering we're now in EDT.

Bart Silverstrim

He's a greenhorn sysadmin in training and already you broke him.

MarkM

@Iszi gracias, sir.

packs

@BartSilverstrim At least he got broken early and in a loving environment?

Tom O'Connor

Hey, it's no different to being sent to the stores for a Left-handed screwdriver

or a wireless lan cable.

coredump

14:52

@BartSilverstrim it's all part of the BOFH training I think

Bart Silverstrim

Nothing prepares you for the simon test.

packs

As an ME I had all kinds of fun having the new kids go wash the gels

coredump

@TomOConnor I once sent a guy searching for pings, because we were running out

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Bart Silverstrim

Here my biggest "cultural sensitivity" handicaps are asperger's and being fat.

Not that I really care.

Tom O'Connor

@packs Oh that is particularly evil. I love it.

packs

14:54

@TomOConnor Doesn't so much work anymore sighs

MarkM

I feel lucky. I was "new guy" in a total clusterfuck. Everyone was too busy to haze me.

packs

@TomOConnor Or pick some random color and tell them nothing else will do. "The LD said MAUVE! What part of mauve don't you understand?!?"

Bart Silverstrim

When I worked at the ISP you weren't really an employee until you made a major fuckup.

Tom O'Connor

in my first sysadmin job, i waas having enormoust trouble getting the right partition table layout on a raid array

and my manager told me that each disk could only have it's mbr erased a dozen times.

evil bugger.

packs

@BartSilverstrim That's my feeling in general. My turning point was when I did a nessus scan against a stormworm submaster. Nothing like triggering a DDoS against a 35k campus to wake you up in the morning.

Tom O'Connor

14:57

the guy i was replacing had made the mistake of dropping the entire database tables for the application

so i was told that as long as i didn't do that

i'd be ok

Sam

In my early days I deleted a clients entire accounts data, and they're backup hadn't worked for weeks

Tom O'Connor

did they notice?

coredump

I never did anything wrong.

Sam

I learned to always check client backups after that!

Tom O'Connor

@coredump I don't believe you.

Sam

14:58

Unfortunately they did notice

coredump

except removing disks from a Raid 0 array and almost losing the fileserver

Tom O'Connor

Eee

coredump

@TomOConnor I am kidding, its impossible to go ahead without at least one major screwup

Tom O'Connor

I'd be pretty annoyed with whoever set up a raid0 fileserver

Zypher

I poped the wrong disk out of a failed Raid 5 array once

no idea how that didn't die

Tom O'Connor

14:59

@Zypher me too.

coredump

@TomOConnor you must understand why people here normally hire me.

Zypher

then there was my first install of vmware tools

packs

@Zypher spares?

Zypher

under linux

Tom O'Connor

I think they should put LCD screens on the front of disks to say what their serial number is

MarkM

14:59

I formatted a DHCP server without realizing it was a DHCP server. That was fun.

Holocryptic

I don't have any cool stories yet...

Zypher

@packs no after some poking and prodding the array came back online

Tom O'Connor

@MarkM with a long enough lease time, you might get away with it for a while!

coredump

@TomOConnor they hire me because their infrastructure ir normally FUBAR and want me to fix it. So I always arrive with some pretty weird stuff (raid 0 fileservers, for example)

Zypher

needless to say i labeled disk 0 and disk 8 after that

Tom O'Connor

15:00

one of my colleagues once forgot to remove "staging." from something before publishing it

MarkM

@TomOConnor No one noticed except the people within earshot. They don't know the whole story, just that I can yell "fuck" really really loudly.

Tom O'Connor

so we got a LOT of traffic through the office.

Bart Silverstrim

I remember the first time I crashed "nearly crash proof" Windows NT Server 3.1.

Know those little legs on the IC's on the motherboard?

NT blue screens if you touch two of them with a screwdriver.

Tom O'Connor

Did you drop a screw on them?

Zypher

damnit .. update box , then run vmware tools sigh ...

Tom O'Connor

15:01

Near enough.

Bart Silverstrim

Screwdriver slipped.

While the case was open.

Bzzt...blue screen.

Chopper3

On my very first job I had two client staff working for me resetting the passwords of thousands of customer netware accounts - they got bored so starting setting 'comedy' passwords such as giving a partner called McDonald a password of 'EIEIO" and leaving others passwords such as 'fornication', 'leather' and 'fetish'

coredump

@BartSilverstrim You can say you... screwed the server.

Zypher

almost rebooted our entire production vmware host stack because it was 3am and i was bounced through like 10 servers to get to the stuff in the half finished colo i was working on that week

Tom O'Connor

@BartSilverstrim A friend of mine did something similar with a screw, except it welded itself to the mobo

coredump

15:02

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Bart Silverstrim

@Coredump - you forgot the sunglasses move...

SmallClanger

@BartSilverstrim: Yeah, NT is rubbish like that...

Tom O'Connor

@coredump <horatio> You could say he.. sunglasses screwed the server

coredump

damn

Tom O'Connor

Ahhh

you beat me!

Bart Silverstrim

15:03

yeah, uncrashable my ass.

coredump

see, this is my cultural sensivity, I am the strange foreigner trying to fit in and getting the jokes wrong.

@BartSilverstrim that remembers me of the "More Magic Switch" history

Tom O'Connor

@coredump Pretty close, though

Bart Silverstrim

Gotta go. Autobots, transform and roll out...

Chris S

@BartSilverstrim Pft, I lit one in fire doing that once... Those 12v rails in the old power supplies could put out some amperage, and didn't have fault detection back then.

coredump

foldoc.org/Magic+Switch+Story

djk

15:05

I broke our domain the other week while preparing our DC for the introduction of a secondary DC. Fixed it before anyone realised, thankfully, but I almost filled my pants when I tried to login and it told me that the domain didn't exist.

Tom O'Connor

@ChrisS Those ones were great, and made fantastic bench power supplies for CMOS tinkering.

coredump

@djk I know the feeling

Is that feeling that happens just 2 seconds before hitting enter and seeing that you wrote rm -rf / tmp/*

Chris S

@TomOConnor Yep, still have a few around just for that reason. An actual DC testing supply costs hundreds still; they practically give those things away at computer surplus stores.

coredump

ahahahaha

easter egg!

Tom O'Connor

hah, it still works then?

djk

15:06

@coredump thankfully never done that one but my boss has. Told me it was one of the worst days of his life and the biggest fuck-up he's ever made.

coredump

yep

MarkM

Raising a domain to a 2008R2 DFL and then the whole forest to 2008R2. Cross your fingers

Tom O'Connor

@ChrisS Same. I have an oscilloscope (with valves inside it) that I picked up from a flea market for 20 euro

it's all about ancient tech :)

coredump

The two most ancient things I have are a Z80 MSX computer and a valve short wave radio

MarkM

YAY! AD RECYCLE BIN

It's the little things....really it is.

fire

15:29

hey can anyone help out? serverfault.com/questions/247656/…

Iszi

@fire I don't know the syntax of linux systems well enough to give you the proper command, but it looks like you're telling the system to move an articlesdb directory into a folder where one already exists. Make sure you're actually moving the files and not the folder.

fire

@Iszi so i would need to use /home/sphinx/tmp/articlesdb/* you think?

Iszi

In DOS, I'd do `move C:\home\sphinx\tmp\articlesdb\x.x C:\home\sphinx`

Okay, that's not working out right.

There. Replace x with * except where x is part of a word.

And translate to *nix speak.

fire

im thinking of just removing the original file and then moving

Chris S

Looks like crosslinked or symlinked folders...

Iszi

15:38

@ChrisS Yeah, that's another thing that's pretty much *nix-specific which could affect it.

djk

go into /home/sphinx/tmp/articlesdb/ and run mv * ../../articlesdb/ I guess?

or delete the empty "articlesdb" directory from /home/sphinx/ and mv /home/sphinx/tmp/articlesdb /home/sphinx/

fire

yeh thats what im gonna do

Microsoft Technet

Today's News: Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration Guide now Available

posted on March 15, 2011 by Adam Carter, MSFT

Walk through the decisions you'll make when migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7. This guide provides assistance on migration—from gathering information about your environment to deploying the operating system. You’ll learn about the tools and resources available from Microsoft and make the best decisions for your environment.

Today's News: Video: How Microsoft Produces Quality Security Updates for over a Billion Systems

posted on March 15, 2011 by Tim Rains, MSFT

Tim Rains is joined by Damian Hasse from the MSRC Engineering team and James Rodrigues from the Windows Serviceability Team to discuss how Microsoft produces high quality security updates for more than a billion systems worldwide.

Today's News: TechNet Radio: Integrating Day-to-Day Operations with the Cloud

posted on March 15, 2011 by Chris Caldwell

In this episode, we’re joined by Celia Morant-Kraus and Gayle Mateer from Microsoft’s HR IT Department. Listen in as they discuss the Windows Azure platform and how it helps capacity management and service-level agreements, and how it provides a flawless computing experience for employees.

MarkM

Is that first article serious?

djk

Hey Windows 7 has only been out for for well over a year.

MarkM

15:48

@djk It RTMd almost TWO years ago

nice of them

djk

Ya, but it's only been out since October 2009. Cut them some slack!

;)

MarkM

bastards

Chris S

The technet feed better be paid advertising because 99% of the time it's useless marketing BS.

Chopper3

it's easy to ignore though

SmallClanger

Actually the flow charts in that are good for a giggle.

Chopper3

15:52

actually you can do an ignore user on it :)

Tom O'Connor

That's better :D

Chris S

@Chopper3 All I'm saying, if we're allowing blatant ad-bot in here, SE had better be getting paid for it. I don't mind ads, how lots of businesses make money...

Chopper3

I for one can't wait for Jacob's blog to pop up here :)

Tom O'Connor

why?

Chopper3

because it'll be funny :)

Tom O'Connor

16:01

heh

DanBig

It is a hoppin blog, last post was Feb 14th.

Tom O'Connor

I blog, but it's mostly too off-topic for here, i suspect.

Chopper3

if I had one it would mostly be about cheese, late-70's TV and muscular pain...

Sam

Can I get peoples opinion, A SQL Server which houses a bug tracking database, which contains a lot of reasonably large attachments 10-500Mb. Would you pay the quite large fee for a SQL Server standard licence in the office it is used in, or house that database on an already paid for SQL instance, that is in the other office, connected to this office by a (not great) 8Mb link?

SmallClanger

@Sam: I'd want the former, but probably settle for the latter.

Chopper3

16:10

plan a

SmallClanger

Bug trackers can get big, but they're not high-throughput systems.

Tom O'Connor

@SmallClanger Depends how big your customer base is, and how crap your code is.

SmallClanger

True. I'm assuming it's an internal DB, going by the way the question was phrased, though. @Sam: What's the tracker?

Sam

Yeah it's all internal, using Fogbugz

SmallClanger

I think the thing that might necessitate it's own, local hosting is how much downtime you can afford if you lose the link. Our tracker is more critical than our email.

Sam

16:16

Indeed, fortunately I don't have to make the final decision, I will just present the options to the person providing the budget, but i know if the link went down they would be some pretty upset people :)

Fortunately the codebase is pretty good, so the throughput of bugs isn't that high.

Zoredache

@ChrisS, I am 98% sure that technet feed isn't being paid for. I think Kyle added it a while back. It could be easily removed. I agree that it seems to have a very high noise to signal ratio...

djk

Having a really weird issue with a Windows 7 32bit VM. Random complete lockups, but CPU usage is at 0 until I try to connect via RDP (as shown by XenCenter). Seems to be post-SP1. Anyone else experiencing anything similar?

(Usage shoots to 100% and stays there until forced to reboot by the way, once I try to connect)

Zoredache

16:31

I am kinda annoyed that how do I secure my box question got closed. I was thinking a good generic security question might be useful, I was planning on adding a lot more links and so on... serverfault.com/questions/247402/locking-down-a-box-on-the-web

Chopper3

love your answer but the question was crap

voretaq7

ROAR!

Holocryptic

rawr!

voretaq7

hide

Holocryptic

is busy scratching himself

Tom O'Connor

16:43

@Holocryptic Fleas?

packs

@Holocryptic You can get creams for that.

Holocryptic

I want to make sure it's good and raw so I get the good stuff. Otherwise the doc blows me off.

3

voretaq7

And that goes on the wall!

packs

Annd...I'm done eating now.

voretaq7

@packs wuss.

packs

16:46

@voretaq7 You're one to talk mister 1pm lunch

Tom O'Connor

@Holocryptic I hope the doctor is cute.

voretaq7

@packs yeah, gotta go microwave my food soon :)

packs

I'm pretty sure that makes it worse, @TomOConnor.

Holocryptic

@TomOConnor if he is, I'll get his number for you

Tom O'Connor

@Holocryptic giggle

DanBig

17:22

I don't understand how anyone could enjoy working with Sharepoint. It makes me murdery dealing with the navigation alone, nevermind dealing with all the web code.

Zoredache

@DanBig, do you have any evidence that suggests that anyone does enjoy working with sharepoint?

Vert

puts hand up N-no? slowly puts hand down

MarkM

Anyone that ever got picked on in grade school will LOVE this video deadspin.com/#!5782089/…

DanBig

Rule34, there is something for everyone.

Zoredache

17:37

@MarkM, Perhaps I am missing some of the context here, but how can a 12 year old kid be bullying a 16 year old kid that appears to have at least a 1' and 70 pounds on him... From just a video this short video it is really to get the big picture. There has got to be more to this...

MarkM

@Zoredache In the article it says that the larger kid is constantly picked on by everyone at school because he never is violent back

there's a link to an aussie newspaper article on it too, apparently everyone at the school gives the kid shit, regardless of what grade they're in

DanBig

I say good on the big kid.

voretaq7

@DanBig seriously. Kick the crap out of one twerp and everyone else will probably back off.

MarkM

Then this popped up: zangiefkid.com

And made it so much more awesome than it already was

Zoredache

Yes, i read the article, but I am not sure I am willing to accept that as the complete truth. The person they cite as the source of him not ever being aggressive is the big kids father... Parents rarely seem to know the full truth about this type of thing... I am not saying he deserved it or not, just that I refuse to accept stories like this at face value.

Sam

17:42

Does anyone else read this, get to the question and realize they have forgotten what was said at the top?

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Q: SQL Server authemtication in one way trust

I have following: DOMAIN_PROD DOMAIN_DEV DOMAIN_DEV trusts DOMAIN_PROD - one way trust Server: SERVER_DEV1 belongs to DOMAIN_DEV, running SQL Server 2008 R2 DOMAIN_PROD\ACCOUNT1 - sysadmin and local admin on DOMAIN_DEV I'm logged in as DOMAIN_PROD\ACCOUNT1 on a PC that belongs to DOMAIN_PROD...

MarkM

@Zoredache I dunno man, he certainly didn't look like the agressor from the video. I mean, he got slugged in the side of the face and didn't even react until way later.

DanBig

I love watching videos where the underdog, or the bullied are able to dish out some justice, it just warms my heart.

Seeing a bully get their comeuppance is incredibly satisfying.

MarkM

@Zoredache Just the fact that the big kid clearly kicked the crap out of the other one, and the other kid got the longer suspension says it all

hobodave

lol that is the best video I have ever seen

he fucking piledrived him

Zoredache

I agree, in this specific instance he response appears justified. But the audio wasn't good. Was he being sarcastic before they started recording. Did he do more after the video was done? Did he start it first, then walk away, then the recording started, and this is the kid deciding to get even?

hobodave

17:46

that is all irrelevant

Zoredache

Oh? You are saying that only the recorded portion of the event should be use by a school when deciding the amount of punishment?

Chris S

@Zoredache In this case, yeah, they were both way out of line. I'd suspend them for a day or two, then detention for a month or two.

hobodave

I said that the words you just said, were irrelevant

MarkM

@Zoredache I dunno man, I don't know a kid with a violent bone in his body that would react the way that kid did after getting punched in the side of the head. He just stood there and defended himself until the little guy went all Ali on him.

Big guy seemed pretty docile until he hit beast mode

hobodave

lol

yea he was clearly on an island there

everyone surrounding him was egging on the little guy

MarkM

17:50

If someone punched me in the side of the head, especially someone half my size, I'd immediately go into attack mode. You need to be docile to react the way the big guy did until he beasted

hobodave

agreed

MarkM

encyclopedia dramatica has a hilarious article on this for anyone with a browser that has a good popup blocker

hobodave

he also could have stomped him senseless when he was on the ground

Zoredache

I guess my point is that while I do believe I fit your 'got picked on at school' criteria, I do not love this video, or most videos like this. I also tend to think the Internet and media does a very poor job actually communicating the facts, and full situation in a way that may make me willing to feel sympathy.

hobodave

lol ED is hilarious

"before slamming the Rat down with enough force to destroy the other half of Japan"

MarkM

17:58

@Zoredache Ah, I don't feel sympathy for him. I fear him.

"With the might and wrath worthy of Zeus did Casey hurl his malefactor back to the earth like a thunderbolt, burying him in a pile of his own arrogance and shame."

Can you imagine if the people that edited ED actually put their talent to work somewhere useful?

hobodave

lol

SmallClanger

Interesting Remote Desktop weirdness: If I give focus to an open session on a server 2003 box when the task bar button is flashing, My session on a different server 2008 box gets closed with the "Another user has logged in to this server" error...

Trying to confirm it now. How do you make a remote desktop taskbar button flash on demand? :)

MarkM

i find that if you leave focus while fullscreened during login it flashes

the only way that I know how to do that is with two monitors though

SmallClanger

I have 2 monitors, so I'll give that a go.

Damn, it's not happening now. It did it 3 times on the trot...

coredump

18:16

@Chopper3 thanks for the tip (ignoring the Microsoft Technet user)

Tom O'Connor

that casey video is epic.

hobodave

it made my day

Jacob

Hello guys

MarkM

yoo

Tom O'Connor

Hey @Jacob

Jacob

18:34

@Chopper3 thanks :(

MarkM

Both forests that I'm responsible for are now 2008R2 functional levels

all is well in the world

and it's only tuesday

Jacob

I'm glade to see we had a great conversation at my expense :)...

Holocryptic

@Jacob Buck up, 'lil pilgrim. No need to be all down. It's Tuesday, your house isn't flooded, and you're not being exposed to potentially lethal radiation. You should be merry and gay!!

Chris S

@Holocryptic Nobody's getting exposed to radiation (except those poor workers who's bosses were dumb and had them within dangerous proximity to those reactors needlessly).

Holocryptic

@ChrisS sigh. my joke is ruined. I'll just go back to installing SQL.

Jacob

18:41

@Holocryptic ^^ this the media blew the story way out of proportion

@Holocryptic YEAH GO HOME!!

Tom O'Connor

Everyone should be gay. That'll solve the overpopulation problem.

Holocryptic

lol

Jacob

@TomOConnor Yeah... I don't need to nuke a hole so no comment?

Tom O'Connor

@Jacob I'm not entirely clear on your meaning. At least, I hope I'm not.

Jacob

@TomOConnor I don't want to dig a Big hole with a ICBM like I did yesterday, so in order to prevent said action, I refuse to comment

Tom O'Connor

18:45

Ah.

I thought for a moment, you'd come up with some too-soon quality sexual position. Which is entirely plausible.

I call rule 34 on that. Apocalyptic porn.

Jacob

Hey, it's no different to being sent to the stores for a Left-handed screwdriver
or a wireless lan cable. I'm not that dumb :(

MarkM

@TomOConnor I'm not even gay and I know the nuke-a-hole position. Where have you been?

Tom O'Connor

@MarkM London. We're a lot more vanilla over here.

MarkM

hahahaha

Chopper3

oh for fucks sake, I go on a conference call and jscott's only mod-alerted 23 new things, that'll be like >100 today - I'm bloody fed-up of this mod'ing lark

:(

Jacob

18:47

@Chopper3 LOL

Zypher

HOLY <kids in the room>

MarkM

@Chopper3 Get them to hide flag weight

Chopper3

it's been ridiculous recently, it's nice that the system helps people to tidy up questions but someone has to sit there and go through them all

packs

@Chopper3 I just want to point out that I've not flagged anything since you brought up your workload. I'm here for you.

Jacob

@Zypher I think everyones said almost everything you might have just implied

Zypher

18:49

it's like he searched for "I have the same problem"

MarkM

@Chopper3 I know that I flag more stuff that I used to (it's still only like 1 or 2 a day), since the flag weight thing was introduced.

Zypher

@Jacob i'm sure i have too

every now and again i have a filter that kicks in

Chopper3

well I'm just too busy, it's been silly recently

packs

@MarkM I've been trying to get in the habit of going through and cleaning stuff up if there's nothing that looks particularly fun on the main page.

Zypher

@Chopper3 flags ... what flags?

Chopper3

18:52

what did you do?

WesleyDavid

What kinds of things is he flagging over? I see so few things worthy of a true flag that I can't imagine 23 in one day.

wildchild

Hi chopper3 - i 'm so sorry to come over here to ask you a question..it kind of urgent that i fix this now as we are goin for maintenance outage coming week end-I posted a comment on "unable to login to CISCO management IP" very much appreciate if you help with some suggestions!!!

Zypher

oh most of them where "I have the same problem" by unrgistered users

Chopper3

oh ffs

Zypher

so <deleted>

Chopper3

18:52

hi wildchild

Jacob

@Zypher See what you should do is give jeff(or boss Whoever that might be) a request for an intern tagged feature-request and jeff or boss will(or should) send status-approved and/or status-completed

wildchild

apologies for bothering you here

WesleyDavid

@Zypher Oohhhh, okay. So not illegitimate flags, just... over zealous.

wildchild

@chopper3

Ben Pilbrow

@WesleyDavid there's no end of them. I can sit on the /review page and just look at the first posts page and flag a good portion of them

Zypher

18:53

@WesleyDavid yes

WesleyDavid

@Zypher So... do we still not have enough mods? =|

Chopper3

where's the question then wildchild

Chris S

@WesleyDavid Considering the new motivation to flag things, no, we don't have enough.

wildchild

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Q: unable to login to CISCO management IP

Hello All, I 'm inable to login to my fabric CISCO switch ( MDS 9506) through management IP It's giving an error- when logging it from Device manager "10.20.XX.XX" timed out Busy Network, No Route, or snmpd is unresponsive. Fabric manager has also become unmanagable SNMP engine ID dis...

cisco storage switch

Ben Pilbrow

The solution is easy - TRUNCATE TABLE mod_flags; :-)

WesleyDavid

18:54

Joel was right, put an arbitrary number next a a person's name and they'll do anything

@ben (548) buy me a car!

Zypher

hahaha

WesleyDavid

I never look at the review page... I think I forgot about it. How does one even get there by clicking?

packs

@WesleyDavid (652) pay off my mortage

WesleyDavid

/me pays of @Packs mortgage in Monopoly money and coconut shells.

packs

@WesleyDavid The only link I've seen is in the description of the Deputy badge

Jacob

18:56

@Zypher (∞) still needs an intern.....

Chopper3

wildchild you need to check this via an serial cable not via ethernet, as I described

wildchild

@chopper3 I suspect what has happened here is some configuration changed by networks and it bit me. They don’t even recognize the segment the SAN switches are on, and we all accessed them at some point in the last few months,

Chopper3

true but if you think the IP settings on your management port have been messed up then you need to fix this via the serial port, no if's no buts

Jacob

@Chopper3 BUT...BUT...BUT

Holocryptic

I like butts. I'd say it's right there behind boobs.

Zypher

18:59

@wildchild it shoudl be labeled "Console" and look just like a normal cat-5 port (unless the MDS is different from all other modern cisco gear)

Zoredache

Are these moderator flags things that only can be handled by an actual moderator, or are they the type that any 10k user should be able to handle? Perhaps us 10k users aren't doing a good enough job at reviewing the flags, and should be reminded?

Zypher

only handled by mods, 10k can see them IIRC but not do anything besides add a vote

WesleyDavid

Wow, perusing the reviews page makes me depressed. I never knew there was so much crap being churned. I guess I just selectively ignored posts and responses that were technically low quality.

Chopper3

it's not george, it's the same as every other cisco box

voretaq7

@Holocryptic "I enjoy large posteriors and I cannot prevaricate" -- Ah WoW Gnomes.

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