The Comms Room

Mark Henderson

00:00

We actually, believe it or not, had to put a filter in to block words like "cunt" and "fuck" because the people doing to the repairs would write that in their assessment reports

WesleyDavid

Hide yo' terlets! They sewerin' er'ybody up in herr!

@MarkHenderson Well, to be fair, maintenance workers don't spend much time on the Queen's English.

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid Haha yeah, but the customer sees that shit :p

So you get fired when you write "customer is a bit of a cunt"

(fwiw I argued that this is a management problem, not a technical one, and should be treated as such - but then they argued they'd have to fire almost all their assessors)

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson Do they know that the customers see that stuff?

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid Yes, but I think they forget

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson Every day I wake up and think about my TimTams. Out there. Alone.

freiheit

00:03

Ok, time to go ride my bike in the 20-45mph winds...

WesleyDavid

@freiheit Don't veer into oncoming traffic and die.

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid Good advice

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson For Australians, my advice is "Don't die" since it's kinda hard to include all the potential vectors for death to be delivered to your person.

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid It would be a long list

@MDMarra - If you were dead, you would be turning in your grave

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Q: Connect .com domain to successfully work with a Domain Controller.

I have a domain registered with godaddy, and I have changed the DNS settings to point towards my Domain Controller: @ - 178.33.180.115 ns1 - 178.33.180.115 ns2 - 178.32.54.168 I have a Domain Controller configured with slayer-productions.com as the active directory name, and the do...

WesleyDavid

Kills @MDMarra

There! That's... that was the plan, right @Mark?

Matt Bear

00:13

@WesleyDavid short list, go!

Mark Henderson

@MattBear Snakes, spiders, dingos, driving on the left side of the road (the correct side), cyclones

Cole

@MarkHenderson holy wtf

Matt Bear

Death by:
Rogue Boomerang
Rabid Kangaroo
Drunk Abidiginals
Spiders
Snakes
Snakes
Snakes
Ants
Dingos
Desert
Falling off Bottom of Earth

Mark Henderson

@MattBear Catching an STD from a New Zealander and having your cock spontaneously combust,

@MattBear Drunk Aboriginals is a bit racist :P

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson Jellies, tiger fish, sun exposure, heat

@MarkHenderson Dingos are a real threat?

Mark Henderson

00:17

@WesleyDavid Actually yes

Fraser Island

Fraser Island is an island located along the southern coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately north of Brisbane. Its length is about and its width is approximately . It was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1992. The island is considered to be the largest sand island in the world at 1840 km². It is also Queensland's largest island, Australia's sixth largest island and the largest island on the East Coast of Australia. The island has rainforests, eucalyptus woodland, mangrove forests, wallum and peat swamps, sand dunes and coastal heaths. It is made up of sand that has...

Dingo attack

Dingo attacks on humans are rare but are known to happen. Dingoes are a danger to livestock, especially sheep and young cattle, which is why the Dingo Fence was constructed. Wild dogs are fairly large predators, but are much smaller than able-bodied adults and therefore not generally much of a threat to them. However, they can be a serious threat to incapacitated, isolated, outnumbered, or very small humans, especially infants and young children. Humans and dingoes generally tend to avoid each other. In some situations, however, such as on Fraser Island, close interaction between dingo...

Scott Pack

Mark Henderson

Feral pigs are also trouble if you live in the outback

Scott Pack

But on the upside...feral pigs are delicious.

Mark Henderson

@ScottPack If you have a rifle to kill it with before it attacks you

Scott Pack

Dingos, on the other hand, are tough and stringy.

@MarkHenderson Details

WesleyDavid

00:22

About maybe... 12 years ago, I was in the parking lot at night at a bowling alley in Oregon. It wasn't a rural area, but there are small pockets of forrest all over in the Willamette Valley. I got my bag out of the truck and turned around. I saw a big dog run-walking through the parking lot. It was coming right at me.

As it got closer, I realized, holy shit that's a wolf.

Mark Henderson

Kangaroos are also killers; but mainly in the same way deer are - if you hit them with your car, the car will probably come off 2nd best as the 'roo's head flies through your windscreen and shatters your brain

WesleyDavid

It had the craziest look in its eyes. Scared, but also just crazy.

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid Whoah. Ok so we don't have a wolf problem :P

WesleyDavid

It padded right by me, glancing at me out the side of its head. That thing was huge

Mark Henderson

And no wild dogs in urban areas :P

WesleyDavid

00:23

If it had turned, I would have been dead.

Scott Pack

@MarkHenderson Except for your ex-girlfriends.

Mark Henderson

@ScottPack Actually she's a cow

Mooo

Scott Pack

@MarkHenderson Moo

My friend did that, frequently, to his wife while she was pregnant.

Mark Henderson

@ScottPack My god, is he still alive?

Scott Pack

I think he's too ornery for mortal man, or woman, to kill him.

Death would give up after spending a few hours trying to get a word in edge-wise.

Mark Henderson

00:26

Funny story - my ex girlfriend sent me an email out of the blue a few months ago, wanting to tell me how she was sorry about being a bitch and lying to me all the time, and about how she's now married with three kids, and gave me all their names etc. I didn't reply to her, but I did just check out her facebook page - she was preganant with her first kid, but sure as fuck didn't have 3

Some people never change

Cole

WTF LOL

Scott Pack

I'm sorry I was such a bitch and lied to you all the time. See how I'm lying to you right now? Awesome.

Mark Henderson

@ScottPack Yah pretty much

To this day I have no idea if she tramped around before I dated her or if she was a virgin or if it was somewhere inbetween

Not that I particularly care, but I don't think I ever really knew her

Jacob

If only there weren't so many federal regulations in higher ed in the US... I'd just approve myself and get this over with.

Scott Pack

I had a girl get married to someone while we were dating. I figured, "Meh, I've been trying to break up with her. Maybe this will help."

Mark Henderson

00:29

She also "accidentally" sent me messages about how she got stabbed at a nightclub or something, which I'm also pretty sure was a load of shit

@ScottPack Whatwhat? You were dating someone and she married someone else?

Scott Pack

@MarkHenderson Stabbed with a penis.

4

Mark Henderson

@ScottPack Most likely lol

Scott Pack

@MarkHenderson Yeah, she was a bit...crazy. She was diagnosed with BPD while we were together. This guy had health insurance that would cover her meds so they got married.

Like I said, I was trying to break up with her, but was a bit nervous about the repercussions.

Mark Henderson

@ScottPack She must have been a freak in the sack if he married her just so his health insurance would cover her

Scott Pack

@MarkHenderson It's hard to say. From what I recall he was more of a pussy than I was.

WesleyDavid

00:31

@ScottPack *am

Cole

BPD is really hard to deal with.

Scott Pack

@WesleyDavid I find it easier to make more time restrictive puss level comparisons. Helps keep the samples pure.

WesleyDavid

Hey! Could be worse. Could be living with your parents and scraping the povery line with your face!

=(

Jacob

@WesleyDavid I can top that.

Scott Pack

Yeah, no kidding. I would hate to be that guy. What a loser.

WesleyDavid

00:34

@Jacob Shuttup you're not even 18 yet.

Jacob

@WesleyDavid You can start failing young...

Scott Pack

Now time to put the little one to bed. Hopefully then wine and GoT.

Ugh, the wife told me she has to leave the house at 6am to go to her first appointment. Sucks to be in sales.

WesleyDavid

@ScottPack She'd better be able to expense Starbucks.

Otherwise that's just cruel.

Cole

@ScottPack oh gross

Scott Pack

@WesleyDavid Independent contractor. It's probably tax deductible? I dunno. That's for the accountant.

WesleyDavid

00:37

@ScottPack Yeah, meals are sketchy to write off, but if you're on a trip and keep the receipt as well as write on it what you were doing that day, it should be good.

I keep the receipt for food, write what I was doing that day that was business related, scan to PDF with my phone and keep it all in my OCD filing system as well as QuickBooks.

Jacob

@WesleyDavid QuickEvil?

WesleyDavid

So tomorrow I'm going down to my datacenter, I'll pick up something on the way, including coffee. My CPA has not shown disapproval yet.

Scott Pack

@WesleyDavid The tasking is no big deal. She does a good job of keeping her schedule up to date and will retroactively add in entries for things that crop up or when prospecting.

@WesleyDavid Enjoy yourself. I was up there last week building a few more Nessus scanners. Woowoo.

WesleyDavid

@ScottPack Oh the pain. The pain.

Mark Henderson

Raarrrrr I don't know why anyone uses TNT: 16 Apr 2013 08:31:55 Sydney Delay Due To Routing Error. Recovery Actions Underway.

I know what that message means; it means they put it on the wrong truck

Jacob

00:47

@MarkHenderson what is that

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson Nobody wants us to get our TimTams! Oh the Hugh Grantity!!!

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid Hah if I want tim tams I can go to virtually any store in the country - you can get them a the grocery store, corner stores, department stores, they sell them at Target and K-Mart, they probably even sell them at the hardware store

Mine is a box full of Ubiquiti gear I want to get my hands on

In fact I'm fairly sure we have tim tams in the work fridge

MDMarra

-2

Q: Connect .com domain to successfully work with a Domain Controller

I have a domain registered with godaddy, and I have changed the DNS settings to point towards my Domain Controller: @ - 178.33.xxx.yyy ns1 - 178.33.xxx.yyy ns2 - 178.32.xxx.yyy I have a Domain Controller configured with slayer-productions.com as the active directory name, and the domain I hav...

windows dns windows-server-2008-r2 domain

Can someone kill this please

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra My god what he's doing is even worse than I originally thought

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson D=

jscott

00:56

I really hope he's not fucking up the real Slayer's site.

Mark Henderson

@jscott Why doesn't he just buy a $10 HostGator account...

WesleyDavid

Going to Slayer-Productions.com: "Welcome To A First In The Slayer-Production Servers. We are looking for developers. Please contact The administration our facebook page for more information!"

Oh boy! Can't wait!!

BRB guys - being a developer.

Jacob

@MarkHenderson People think they can DIY it

jscott

Anyone can DIY. But DYI doesn't mean Doing It Right.

MDMarra

@MarkHenderson I don't know what's better. The DC being on the Internet. Him wanting the DC to be the public resolver for his zone. Or the fact that he made A records for NS1 and NS2 in his AD zone and thinks that's going to take the place of glue and registrar delegation.

WesleyDavid

00:59

@MarkHenderson For that matter, just use his GD account and get some of their hosting. If you're going to suck, suck under the same vendor.

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra DC on the internet is the worst of all of that :P

Not getting glue records I can sort of understand, they can be confusing if you're just starting out by throwing yourself in the deep end

But the rest of that is pure insanity

MDMarra

Wanna bet whether or not the firewall is off? :)

Jacob

Standby testing now

WesleyDavid

@MDMarra I VTC'd as off topic since I don't think it's a professional setting.

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra No. I didn't even bother bringing it up cos we know what the answer is

Joel E Salas

01:01

@MarkHenderson More like the best! Party hard

jscott

Oh, he pulled out.

6

serverfault.com/questions/499654/…

MDMarra

I can't stand it when people say "yous"

jscott

Why does that bother yous so much?

Jacob

@jscott Only if I refresh teh pages

jscott

@Jacob snerk

WesleyDavid

01:05

@jscott Come on yous guys, be nice.

Joel E Salas

@MDMarra Loluntarily removed

rofl

Jacob

Scanning (178.33.180.115) [4 ports]
Completed Ping Scan at 21:07, 0.12s elapsed (1 total hosts)
Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 21:07
Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 21:07, 0.02s elapsed
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan at 21:07
Scanning slayer-productions.com (178.33.180.115) [1000 ports]
Discovered open port 53/tcp on 178.33.180.115
Discovered open port 135/tcp on 178.33.180.115
Discovered open port 3389/tcp on 178.33.180.115
Discovered open port 139/tcp on 178.33.180.115

@MDMarra What was that about the Firewall being off? ^^^

jscott

Well at least he's got LDAP+SSL running.

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid - ignore my email; ^^ that is for you

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson I hate you.

What the hell is our problem:

Mark Henderson

01:14

@WesleyDavid The next 2 are just as appropriate

WesleyDavid

oops

2

And yes, what's even sadder, is that I starred everything in the top five that I could. =P

I'd star myself if I could.

I'm brilliant!

Joel E Salas

Can I pay like ten bucks a month to star myself

2

WesleyDavid

Starturbation.

Joel E Salas

because I'll do that

WesleyDavid

@JoelESalas Auto-Starlatio?

Jacob

01:17

poor cat is poor

jscott

Not sure how this one job keeps getting posted in my local CL's "Tech Support" category: Mechanic "Dairy experience or related" -- starts at $23/hr, not shabby for tech support [on a dairy farm].

Cole

That's...interesting lol

WesleyDavid

@jscott "Must be familiar with teats."

jscott

@WesleyDavid ...and pass a drug test.

Kevin

01:56

I have a meeting with a potential client tomorrow morning. Life's fun...

Joel E Salas

@jscott Drug tests are bad, mmkay?

jscott

@JoelESalas Well if you're expected to be familiar, and work, with teats...

@Kevin Mimosa breakfast then?

Kevin

@jscott Donuts...

and coffee...

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson Wasn't that question too crappy to migrate?

Mark Henderson

02:11

@MichaelHampton It was too crappy for us. It's not too crappy for Ask Ubuntu

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson Haha, good point.

Mark Henderson

Not making fun of Ask Ubuntu, they just have a totally different target audience

Their target audience is: "Do you run Ubuntu? Yes? Then come on in"

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson I've noticed. In order to get an answer upvoted there, you basically have to explain everything as if the person had never touched a computer in their lives.

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton Yep. Although to get an upvote on SF you need to answer a question from someone who has never touched a computer

jscott

ZING

Mark Henderson

02:14

"What's a DNS? LOLWTFBBQ" - answer with a link, get +10000

Until someone stops your perpetual rep dribbling in by locking your +400 answer :(

Not looking any anyone in particular. Certainly not a certain mod from the motherland...

Michael Hampton

Heh, my one-line answer is up to 160.

jscott

Holy cow.

Michael Hampton

OK, well, it was one line when I posted it (FGITW). Now it's closer to a real answer...

jscott

Great answer, but is it being Google fodder that keeps it earning? Or did it burn that brightly straight off?

I mean the question has +81, so it must have a ton of views.

Michael Hampton

It got to about 100 in a few days, though I see an occasional +1 every week or so.

jscott

02:21

Your comment to sergiol is almost better than the answer. :)

Goatmale

howdy folks

jscott

Hello

WesleyDavid

@Kevin How'd you score it and also what's it all about?

@Goatmale Whattup Goat - haven't seen you in a while.

Goatmale

luck you :)

WesleyDavid

@Goatmale What's up in goatland?

Goatmale

02:28

on da phone with HP to get my MSA fixed

Michael Hampton

0

Q: SolusVM + OpenVZ + Second level quotas -- how to enable?

I have a lot of CPanel clients and I've seen some host automatically enable secondary level quotas on signup. I was wondering how do I do that? Do I need to run a script on signup? Do I need to edit a default container config file? Thanks.

linux vps cpanel openvz quota

NARQ or TL or shoot the user?

WesleyDavid

@MichaelHampton Hmm... interesting question. I'd say it's on topic. Perhaps TL if anything. Really, it's so little to go on and I don't think there's any hosters on SF anymore that have cPanel farms to lend insight from.

I think Womble had to deal with a cPanel farm - but he's not around anymore. =(

Journeyman Geek

TL?

WesleyDavid

@JourneymanGeek Too Localized.

Journeyman Geek

ahh

right

JohnD

02:53

Is anybody running Nortel BayStack switches in their environment? I just bought some off ebay and I'm having difficulty locating a manual for my switch (BayStack 5510-48T)

Mark Henderson

@JohnD Nortel are still around?

No wait, that's Novell, never mind

JohnD

@MarkHenderson Nope, they went bankrupt.

Ah

Jacob

@MichaelHampton I can answer that Q

Michael Hampton

@Jacob Anybody can, I imagine. It's right there in the freaking docs!

Jacob

@MichaelHampton I need the reps

Michael Hampton

03:05

Go for it. I couldn't be bothered....

WesleyDavid

Wooo! Mazzy Star! 1990 all over again

@JohnD Nopers.

Kevin

03:21

@WesleyDavid I called him and said "Hey, wana meet up for coffee?" and he said "Ya." We're meeting about him selling my open source solutions to his clients...

I've never run a business before... It's pretty easy.

WesleyDavid

@Kevin Ass.

=P

Kevin

@WesleyDavid Huh?

WesleyDavid

Actually, with how hard things have been for me these three years, it's probably me that's been the ass.

Kevin

@WesleyDavid Having spoken with friends from NY, apparently Austin is just an easy city to work in.

Joel E Salas

@Kevin That sounds pretty awesome

Jacob

03:23

0

A: SolusVM + OpenVZ + Second level quotas -- how to enable?

As Micheal Hampton alluded to in the comments with the docs link you need to enable this at the container configuration. You're going to want to change the QUOTAUGIDLIMIT from the default of 0 to an amount that will cover all the users on a VM. The docs suggest 100, but I usually deploy 1000 as t...

Kevin

The people are naturally friendly and it's easy to build connections.

Jacob

Comments? I think I covered it all?

Kevin

@WesleyDavid I keep telling everyone to just move to Austin ;)

Joel E Salas

@Kevin I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're caucasian?

Kevin

@JoelESalas Who the whatsit!? What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

Andrew

03:28

whoo my first final close vote

Joel E Salas

@Kevin Approximately 100% of non-caucasians I know from Texas claim that it's quite a rough culture for non-caucasians

Jacob

@JoelESalas Same here

Joel E Salas

@Jacob Regarding Texas or Virginia?

Jacob

@JoelESalas VA

Kevin

@JoelESalas Texas? Or Austin? As far as I can tell, there's a distinction when it comes to that sort of stuff.

Joel E Salas

03:30

@Kevin My boss (who is Korean) went to UT Austin. He says it was not fun growing up there

ANYWAY that's what makes me reluctant to take Texas seriously as a tech hub

Kevin

@JoelESalas I don't know what it's like to be a minority in Austin personally, but I have friends who are, and they seem to be doing well.

Joel E Salas

@Kevin We don't even call them minorities here, that's how diverse it is

Non-Hispanic Whites: 29.4%

Kevin

@JoelESalas We don't here either, I just couldn't think of a better word.

Joel E Salas

not sure how that got lost

Andrew

thoughts on this? I'm curious for myself

1

Q: VMWare ESXi: to extend a partition or create a new drive?

Is it better to extend an existing partition or to create a new drive in VMWare ESXi? I'll be using LVM to put the drive in an existing volume group and to extend a SAN mount point. Which would be better to do and why?

redhat vmware-esxi virtual-machines lvm io

Joel E Salas

03:35

@Andrew If I wanted to extend an LV and I was using LVM, I'd just add virtual disks

Kevin

@JoelESalas 48.7% white here in Austin...

Joel E Salas

If it crossed datastores then I'd reconsider

@Kevin So what are you selling?

Kevin

@JoelESalas oakalleyit.com

Andrew

@JoelESalas yeah, we're looking a template for our VMs and wondering about LVM vs. just growing disks, our SAN datastores are huge so it doesn't really matter

Joel E Salas

@Andrew The majority of our VMs don't store a lot of data, we size them at 20GB for production with LVM

If we have to extend a given VM for whatever reason, we tack on a 100GB virtual disk and do pvcreate, lvextend

@Kevin That's awesome! So how many have you deployed so far?

also I'd brand them a bit

Mark Henderson

03:43

Anyone here use Fixed Wireless?

Jacob

@MarkHenderson yes

Kevin

@JoelESalas I only started this last month, but I have three leads, and one paying client...

@MarkHenderson Yes.

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson I'm somewhat familiar with it, why?

@Jacob Hm, I wouldn't call tethering to your mobile phone "fixed wireless"...

Kevin

@MarkHenderson My dad does it, anyway.

Jacob

@MichaelHampton I know what he's talking about :)

Kevin

03:46

@MarkHenderson My dad does free space optics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communication

Andrew

@JoelESalas we're just going to thin provision them and let the SAN take care of it

Jacob

@Kevin As much as I don't want to... When I get to uni, I'm going to run PFsense for my FW/Router in an ESXi VM. Ever done it before?

Mark Henderson

@Kevin Is it shit?

We're getting really sick of our rubbish RIM-service ADSL connection

Joel E Salas

@Jacob That's shitty, why would you do that

Mark Henderson

My main concern is latency

Jacob

03:49

@JoelESalas Better than a 5$ netcrap?

Kevin

@MarkHenderson He's told me that it can withstand Seattle weather with 99.99% (four nines) of uptime.

Andrew

@Jacob yeah, we do that in production....

Joel E Salas

@Jacob Not really? There's no way your ESX "server" is as reliable as a dedicated device

Jacob

I'd never run a FW on a VM in prod

Andrew

oops :)

elaborate why not...

Jacob

03:51

@JoelESalas I can't afford the space/power for a dedicated PFsense box, otherwise that'd be what I do

Mark Henderson

@Kevin Interesting.

There's a fixed wireless provider that I can literally see from my window (now that I know who they are)

So speed should be good, but I'm concerned about latency and ultimately licensing costs

I bet it will be expensive

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson You're going to have either a point to point microwave or a radio link to the ISP, the microwave should have virtually no detectable latency, the radio might have a bit more than zero though. Depends on what your provider is doing.

Andrew

@MarkHenderson wimax via ISP or private?

Kevin

@MarkHenderson Fixed wireless is expensive as hell. The cheapest I know of is $3,000.

Mark Henderson

@Andrew Private

Michael Hampton

03:53

Everything on the star wall seems to be about sex. Just what is it professional sysadmins do all day?!

Jacob

@Andrew the biggest thing is CPU timing.

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton No it's what men do all day

Jacob

@JoelESalas That and I doubt a linksys could run an OpenVPN point to point sustained

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton I've been researching the Ubiquiti AirFiber - claims up to 1.4Gbps over unlicensed 24Ghz up to (by our local laws maximum transmission) 1.5km - which is fine, because even at 10km it's still roughly 250Mbps

The units are about $3k/pair

And it's an unlicensed frequency, but it will be a hard sell to get a fixed wireless provider to try it just for one small client

Especially when they'll be getting kickbacks from their wholesalers, and this is strictly 1:1 PTP rather than a 1:many

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson Offer to be a beta tester?

Mark Henderson

03:56

$3k what? A month? A week? A gig? Just setup?

Kevin

@MarkHenderson It's also one of the few that's full duplex gigabit at that distance and price point.

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton If I can convince them to even give it a go ;)

Kevin

@MarkHenderson Hardware/

Mark Henderson

@Kevin Yeah full duplex was pretty cool

@Kevin $3k on hardware is bearable if I can get a really fast link out of it

Jacob

@MarkHenderson Why are you considering PTP Wireless?

Kevin

03:58

@MarkHenderson AirFiber, we're talking about the same thing ;)

Mark Henderson

@Kevin Ahh yes

I can get the AirFiber nodes for about $1600/each

ubiquitiwarehouse.com.au/…

Kevin

@MarkHenderson ubnt.com/store/airfiber/airfiber_24

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson They have 2-packs...

Mark Henderson

@Kevin US Only

@MichaelHampton They do; they're exactly 2x the price too

Kevin

@MarkHenderson oh...

Michael Hampton

04:00

@MarkHenderson Oh no, you save $12!

Mark Henderson

Wow

Totally worth it ;)

Andrew

@Jacob I don't see your point

Jacob

I found (one of ) Mark's secrets

7

Q: Is air conditioner installation a DIY project?

We got a bargain on a brand new 6.2kw Split System Inverter Air Conditioner. The quotes we've received for installation are almost as much as the unit cost itself. Is this something I should be brave enough to attempt myself? It's a back-to-back installation.

air-conditioning installation

Goatmale

Aussie ay

Mark Henderson

@Goatmale Oi oi oi

Goatmale

04:12

I tried to watch "fat pizza" and it was really the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton - is today "find all of Marks old questions" day or something

@Goatmale Terrible, terrible

It's worse than British comedy

But Rebel Wilson has done pretty well out of it

Goatmale

Although I watched "The Castle" and I thought it was pretty great.

Mark Henderson

@Goatmale See now that's a good aussie comedy

But to be honest, our film industry is fairly poor

It's badly funded and poorly promoted

Goatmale

my aussie media knowledge is very limited, haha.

maybe that's why

Mark Henderson

Wolf Creek was pretty good if you're into a horror movie about the outback

So we just claim films like The Matrix as Australian

Goatmale

04:14

It would be hard to top Summer Heights High.

Mark Henderson

@Goatmale You've seen Summer Heights High?

Goatmale

Yeah, for some reason I've seen a lot of Aussie stuff, haha.

Mark Henderson

Summer Heights High is a bit obscure, even here

He had one before that called We Can Be Heroes

Andrew

@Goatmale did you see We Can Be Heroes first?

Goatmale

Nope

Mark Henderson

04:15

and another one afterwards, I forget it's name

Andrew

@MarkHenderson snap

Mark Henderson

@Andrew It was something about boys

Goatmale

angry boys

just found it on the pirate bay

Mark Henderson

@Goatmale Thats the one

I recorded it but never made it past the 3rd episode

Goatmale

oh crap

it's already almost time to go home

Mark Henderson

04:19

Main part of Summer Heights High I remember is "Puck You miss"

Andrew

@MarkHenderson seen any of The Checkout?

Goatmale

I heard that there is one American dude on the voice that is killing it over there, so strange because he wasn't really that popular here

Mark Henderson

I have not; don't get to watch much TV today. I catch a re-run of Spics and Specks after The Night Garden on ABC2 and that's about it

@Goatmale Seal?

There's also the Madden brothers who have been selling KFC lately

Goatmale

yeah haha

Mark Henderson

I don't watch much commercial TV so I don't really know what's going on

Goatmale

04:24

the madden bros

Mark Henderson

@Goatmale Yeah over-hyped that is. They signed two big sponsorship deals - Vodafone and KFC and they pretty much just jump around and yell at people

Isn't one of them married to Paris Hilton or something?

Goatmale

Nicole Riche

Mark Henderson

Right

Goatmale

Jason Ellis (ex-proskateboarder from Australia turned XM Radio host) is friends with them.

Mark Henderson

Haven't heard anything about her; she must have stayed behind

Goatmale

04:31

Our custom reccomendations suck sometimes... Issue: Switch is reporting a loss of connectivity.

Recommendation: We recommend verifying the device has power.

Mark Henderson

@Goatmale First place to check

have you turned it off and on again?

@Goatmale You on helldesk duty?

Goatmale

nah

NOC - 2nd shift

Joel E Salas

@Goatmale Hang in there dude

Goatmale

I like this shift :)

Andrew

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Q: External hard drive connected to lan

Is there a way to connect an external driver to my lan network (direct connection, without having any PC opened) and then access it from any device from lan? Like a network drive? If its not possible, can you please recommend a sollution? I am asking this so all my development files will be easi...

lan external-hdd

Mark Henderson

04:38

@Andrew HOW IS THAT QUESTIONS TILL ALIVE?

I saw it last night but figured someone else would kill it

Andrew

@MarkHenderson I know, it has 3 answers.

Mark Henderson

04:54

@MichaelHampton - were... were you just nice to some cleverly disguised spam?

serverfault.com/questions/81723/…

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson If you say it's spam... The destination link did actually contain an article that seemed to address the question. So I chose VLQ instead.

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton True. But yeah I called "spam" ;)

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson OK, fine, have some spam flags.

Adrian

evenin gents

Mark Henderson

05:13

What the fuck?

I just lost my accept tick to TomTom on this question:

4

Q: How to make SQL Server 2008 redundant?

At the moment I'd like to combine my departmental SQL Server into one big SQL Server 2008 instances spread across two servers (for redundancy reason). How/what is the best way to approach this ? is it through clustering or Log shipping or VMware (hypervisor) High Availability features ? Note: t...

sql-server-2008 virtualization

And on another what the fuck:

-4

Q: How did the search engine optimization advertising company get rated faster than my website?

I've discovered that my website has dropped positions, and this site how centered the search engine optimization Market, and pressed my site right back to page three. I did some research, this website is just a couple of days old, and has 1.1k FB wants, and more than 100 tweets, how is this feasi...

seo

Joel E Salas

@MarkHenderson Loling so hard, I love Markov chains

Mark Henderson

They registered two seperate accounts for that too

Joel E Salas

SF seems like such a poor target to spam

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson Is that the first time you've seen that?

Joel E Salas

It's specifically targeted to the people who are least likely to fall for spam

Michael Hampton

05:18

It's a spam attack designed specifically for Q&A sites.

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton Honestly, most of the spam falls during @Iain's shift. I don't deal with much spam.

WesleyDavid

Spam!

Mark Henderson

But they actually registered; they didn't just post anonymously which is what most of them do

WesleyDavid

Spam Spam!

Michael Hampton

The fake question is the setup for the spam answer.

WesleyDavid

05:20

Spam Spam Spam Eggs and Spam!

Lovely Spam!

Spam!

I'm spamming with Spam!

Michael Hampton

Some (non-SE) Q&A sites require registration, so I guess they just go ahead and do it anyway.

WesleyDavid

05:43

Okay dear hearts, time for bed. See you at the datacenter tomorrow.

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid Cya

Dennis Kaarsemaker

and good morning to you :-)

pauska

Dennis Kaarsemaker

How's Boston doing?

Mark Henderson

@pauska "What?" "Sorry" "Hey, 'sup?", "Whats up?" "Hey"

pauska

05:47

@MarkHenderson yeah, that's roughly it

:)

Ward

►

Iain

G'day

pauska

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Q: Cisco ASA 5520 as a home router

I have a Cisco ASA 5520 that I recently acquired from work that I am planning to use as my home router. I also have a Linksys E4200 router and a Linksys WRT610N router, both dual-band, that I would be turning into access points. I also have a 3rd 5Ghz-only N access point lying around. I am pla...

wireless-networking vlan dmz upnp

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