The Comms Room

Matt Bear

00:29

todays been super un productive =/

sharepoint sucks, microsoft sucks for making it, company sucks for wanting to use it, I suck for not being an expert in it yet

Joel E Salas

00:55

@voretaq7 I'm setting up postgres, is this awesome [y/y]

MDMarra

I kinda want to run for mod election for the swag

but I don't actually want to win

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra Baha what swag

If you wanted swag you should have interviewed & got that job at FC and then run away with all their merch and equipment

MDMarra

I got a tshirt last time I ran

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra Seriously? I've got two t-shirts and a pen - but I got them all before I became mod I think

0

Q: Best way to profile Unicorn workers?

I'm trying to get a better picture of what my Unicorn workers are doing. Are they blocked on calls to other services for a significant portion of their cycles? Are they free most of the time? The sampling-based profiling referred to in this answer is exactly what I would like to do, but what i...

^ I read that as "best way to profile union workers" and immediately thought "You don't - they will smash you face with a steel pole"

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Adrian

01:14

@MarkHenderson Heh, that's exactly how I read that.

Matt Bear

anyone else use MDM?

Adrian

Hey Windows guys, XP can do up to 2TB partitions, right?

Ward

@MDMarra No fair! I think all I got was a few stickers.

Actually, you probably didn't get the shirt for the election, all the "new" sites (all the Area 51's) got t-shirts for the highest rep people, maybe the classic trilogy sites also got them?

Joel E Salas

@MichaelHampton I set up puppetdb backed by postgres, it still doesn't seem to be caching anything

Adrian

02:02

lkjgoygi

freiheit

@Ward Back in the SF early days (about a year in, maybe?), the first page or two of high rep users got t-shirts and stickers.

Ward

@freiheit Yeah, that's what I thought. I got a shirt, an apron, and some pens for being towards the top of cooking.SE, and I was pretty sure there was something similar for SF.

Adrian

Stupid cat typing again.

Mark Henderson

@Ward They should have sent us all a Nexus chassis

Ward

@Adrian Your cat types better than @WesleyDavid. Maybe you can get it to respond to some craigslist ads for bikes...

freiheit

02:09

@MarkHenderson You don't need work stuff. They should mail all the SF mods a selection of really nice booze

Chris S

upworthy.com/… <-- Worth a watch, though mostly for Americans

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Ward

I thought there were monthly mod parties where SE pays for hookers and blow?

Mark Henderson

@freiheit Sell the Nexus and buy a case of Dom Perignon or something

I go for value over content every time

freiheit

@MarkHenderson I wonder how much a barrel of Bruichladdich costs...

MDMarra

@Ward Did you make it to the "finals" of the last election?

Ward

02:21

@MDMarra Apparently - when you go to the previous election page, it says there were 14 candidates, the top 10 move on... it only shows 10 people and I'm one of them, which matches what I recall, I think I was a vote or two ahead of @freiheit

freiheit

@Ward I believe we tied, but the tiebreaker was who nominated first.

Ward

@freiheit sounds right

Michael Hampton

I don't need any blow, but I wouldn't mind a T-shirt and hookers.

MikeyB

That's not so much an XP restriction as a partition table restriction

Michael Hampton

Yeah, I don't think XP will do GPT... ever.

MikeyB

02:30

@ewwhite FUSE! FUSE! FUSE doesn't count :(

freiheit

@MichaelHampton What are you going to do with crocheters?

MikeyB

BZZZZT!

Adrian

@MikeyB Thanks, I was thinking so, but wasn't sure. Building a virtualization host, and I've got more video on my XP box than I thought.

MikeyB

@MichaelHampton not on 32-bit at least

Andrew

why does the SF election have to have a "primary" phase? will there be an "electoral college", too?

Adrian

02:38

@Andrew But no Supreme Court. =)

Mark Henderson

@Andrew 'MURICAH

MDMarra

@Ward huh. Well I dunno then. Pretty sure that's where one of my SE/SF shirts came from

Mark Henderson

It annoyed me too, but it's a good way of getting > 10 candidates down to 10

MDMarra

I wasn't on the front page when they did the giveaway before

Michael Hampton

Are we even going to have more than 10 candidates?

MDMarra

02:39

last year there were

actually, every year there have been

Ward

@MDMarra 14 last year

Kevin Soviero

I've got a strange question: You can't date people at your workplace. You can't date people near where you live, and you wouldn't want to date the people who go to bars... So, who do you date then? The 20 yo in me is showing ;)

Mark Henderson

@KevinSoviero Church

Internet

Two great pickup joints

Michael Hampton

Oh, I'm 3 upvotes away from a gold badge!

Kevin Soviero

@MarkHenderson I don't go to church, and even if I did, that's a no-no as well.

Mark Henderson

02:42

@KevinSoviero I once dated a girl I sat next to on a train. Super stalker style

Except she turned out to be a pyscho

Kevin Soviero

Ok, I've added public transport to the "do not" list, anything else? ;)

Mark Henderson

I met my wife on the internet, but not through a dating site - through these thigns called "blogs" that people used before facebook

Andrew

@KevinSoviero why not near where you live?

Mark Henderson

@Andrew Cos then you end up like Cole and your ex-girlfriend lives down the street and you see them all the time

freiheit

@KevinSoviero You know, if you put too many things on the "do not" list, you're excluding all the age appropriate women within a 50 mile radius...

Kevin Soviero

02:44

@Andrew For the same reason as everything else: you're likely to run into them after you break up.

@freiheit Thus, my problem.

Logic supersedes instinct, and the former is killing my social life!

freiheit

@KevinSoviero (a) you can't date people you work directly with, or who are above or below you in the hierarchy. If you work someplace with a lot of employees, somebody in a totally different department is fine. (b) Ok, don't date your roommate, and maybe not the same side of the same block, but don't be silly about this. (c) bars (especially the less meat-market type ones) and trains/buses are fine, but you have to use some sense.

Michael Hampton

Wow, i can't remember the last time I had to flag "not welcome in our community".

Kevin Soviero

@MichaelHampton Where'd you flag that?

Michael Hampton

-2

A: OpenBSD Apache version 1.3.29?

DAS NIGGUH BE RIGHT! LEEG BRO? LOL?

Kevin Soviero

@MichaelHampton WTF!? No, hire him to replace /dev/random

Michael Hampton

02:51

No, he's not random, but he could do a good job of being /dev/stupid ... if such a thing were ever necessary.

Mark Henderson

FUCKING MOTHERFUCKER

Linked to harcore porn in a tinyurl

Just as well i saw my browser title change to "pornhub" FUCK SHIT CTRL+W

Kevin Soviero

@MarkHenderson Where are you?

Mark Henderson

(I tried to preview the URL with a + on the end of the link but whatever shortner he used doesn't support that method)

serverfault.com/a/507494/7709

Michael Hampton

Yeah, I just went to check it, found myself on pornhub, and then flagged the post.

Mark Henderson

(10k only)

@KevinSoviero At work

Kevin Soviero

02:53

@MarkHenderson At 10pm? What timezone are you?

Michael Hampton

serverfault.com/posts/507500/revisions

@MarkHenderson I'm not quite sure about that question either...

or rather, the user who asked it.

MDMarra

@KevinSoviero He's upside down

Mark Henderson

@KevinSoviero GMT+10

@MichaelHampton Yeah seems a bit suss

Michael Hampton

That means it's... 12.54?

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton Yep

Michael Hampton

02:57

@MarkHenderson Someone needs more than a slap on the wrist...

@MarkHenderson Better break out the heavy artillery now...

The weird part is, I just went browsing through OpenBSD source, and sure enough, it really does contain httpd 1.3.29.

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton I've done all I can

I have emailed team@

Adrian

This one seems, well, odd.

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A: CentOS 5 in VirtualBox 4.1 shows 0 as disk free space

I faced simiral problem. I needed to remove swap from the LogVol01 (swapoff -v /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01), then removed this Volume, rebooted and extended the space of LogVol00 mounted as /.

Perhaps should be a comment since the answer is very local to the user, but may be a common pre-set for RH boxen.

Michael Hampton

@Adrian Not at all. He gave 4 GB to / and 4 GB to swap.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton que es?

Michael Hampton

@Adrian On EL5 systems, if you just accept the defaults in installation, LogVol00 is the root filesystem / and LogVol01 is swap.

Adrian

03:08

@MichaelHampton It's been so long since I've dealt with a default EL5 that I don't recall the defaults anymore.

Michael Hampton

@Adrian That's OK, apparently neither did anyone else.

I gave the new user an upvote because he correctly identified the problem :)

Andrew

03:19

gack, death to apple ecosystem lockin

iPhone 5: requires iTunes 10.7: requires MacOS 10.6.8

screw that, I'll use my Windows VM

(Can't upgrade 10.5.8 to 10.6, either - need to do a clean install, probably because it's dual-boot)

Mark Henderson

@Andrew I really don't know why everyone hates on Microsoft these days. Apple's stock is more valuable, their lockin is worse than Microsofts and they're busy turning OSX into IOS

Andrew

@MarkHenderson not hating on microsoft per se, just I didn't allocate a lot of space for my windows VM... having an old macbook for iPhone Stuff was handy

Michael Hampton

@Andrew You bought an iPhone, didn't you know what you were getting into?

Andrew

@MarkHenderson the macos / ios stuff started with the first release of ios, they started splitting out core functions from higher layers

@MichaelHampton company phone that "just works" with email & calender. not mine, someone elses.

android doesn't have a free caldav connector :(

Mark Henderson

@Andrew No not picking on you particularly, just commenting in general

Michael Hampton

03:26

@Andrew Ohh, company phone. In that case...make the company fix it!

@Andrew wiki.davical.org/w/CalDAV_Clients/Android

Andrew

@MarkHenderson oh I hate things that microsoft have done... non-standard features that they pretend are standard, when they're not because they violate common sense / RFCs / the laws of physics

Adrian

@MarkHenderson I dunno. Their stuff worked like the cat's pajamas when I had it for 4 months at the last job. The Windows stuff was a royal pain.

Fuck the review audits. Some of the questions that are in there as good are obvious shit.

Andrew

review is a trap

@MichaelHampton seriously how are you not a mod already?

Michael Hampton

@Andrew There has not been a moderator election since I joined Server Fault?

Mark Henderson

@Andrew He's been here less than a fucking year

Which is hard to believe

Michael Hampton

03:33

Yeah, it's true, I don't exist.

Adrian

@MarkHenderson I've only been kicking around the room for 18 months. Whichfeels like it's been 3-4 years.

Makes sense though, the last 4-5 months feels like a couple lifetimes.

Andrew

@MichaelHampton how long is your beard?

Michael Hampton

@Andrew Um, 5mm or so?

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton YOU USED METRIC

YAY FOR YOU

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson What's wrong with metric?

Mark Henderson

03:44

You have restored my faith in the "free world"

@MichaelHampton Nothing. Everything is right with metric

I was expecting you to say your beard was 1/48th of an inch or something

Andrew

"I enjoy long moonlit walks on the beach, nginx, and IPv6."
Not "perl, and pipes"?

Michael Hampton

@Andrew Meh, the big money in the next few years is going to be in emergency IPv6 rollouts.

Andrew

@MarkHenderson have you seen the video @ChrisS linked? scary stuff, that's what the occupy movement needed a year ago

Mark Henderson

I hate going shopping for tools because at Bunnings (huge hardware chain here) they have everything in metric and imperial, and the stuff I own has a mix of both, so I need a 3/16th spanner AND a 5mm spanner

@Andrew Nope

Andrew

I think the top 1% here is Clive Palmer / Gina whatsherkids

Michael Hampton

03:46

@MarkHenderson I'll remind you that the Imperial measurements came from the bloody British empire!

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton yeah well they're dicks

Michael Hampton

@MarkHenderson Yeah, I know. We had to run them off with muskets a while back.

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton I have played Assassins Creed III, thus I am an official scholar on the revolution

Michael Hampton

They're up to III now?

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton Yeah. It was shit

Michael Hampton

03:47

I never played I and II.

Mark Henderson

I won't be buying IV until it's $5 on steam

Andrew

@MichaelHampton so you didn't miss 2 1/2, 2 3/4 then

Michael Hampton

I just kept getting free copies bundled with video cards.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Michael Hampton

I gave them all away.

Andrew

03:49

I haven't finished AC1 yet, got bored...

Mark Henderson

@Andrew AC1 was a poor start to the franchise because it was so repetitive

#2 was much much much much much much much better

Andrew

does it have loot?

not sure where this fits....

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Q: Why does Windows have such a high context switching frequency

A while back, I did some playing around with new Win2008 virtual machine and found some serious concerns. The server is Dell T610. 16gig, 4 core, 8 logical, 2.4ghz Xeon, 5600 series. ESXi 4.1.0 The guest is 2008 64bit, with 2vCPU's I've been testing CPU performance using 7Zip on a 400meg file. ...

windows vmware-esxi cpu

migrate webapps?

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Q: Bash files with Github

I've never saved any of my bash scripts with an extension and I've just recently pushed a bash script to Github and realized that it's not properly highlighting the correct syntax such as: comments, variables, loops, etc. Github has even tagged the script as a Javascript file and isn't reading th...

linux bash version-control github

errr

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Q: Please help! Forbidden Permission Access. Apache/2 Port 80 - 403 error?

I keep trying to access www.myclubbingholiday.com and cannot due to the following Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/2 Server at myclubbingholiday.com Port 80 It is a wordpress website and I have another website with the same host which is working fine. I c...

403

Chris S

@Andrew The "occupy" movement needed a "better". They were useless complainers, they identified all the problems and zero solutions.

Michael Hampton

@Andrew He needs to come back and edit the question, otherwise it's NARQ

@Andrew This question seems fine.

@Andrew And I think it's perfectly reasonable for a sysadmin to share his scripts on github, however...

Chris S

04:04

I'm not exactly the biggest fan of that video either, as it discusses wealth (the amount of "money" you have) rather than disposable income (income less staying alive expenses). I'm really not concerned with who owns the factory, etc - I'm concerned with the distribution of the money stream.

Andrew

@MichaelHampton on-topic for us?

@MichaelHampton problem with github (a webapp) though?

Michael Hampton

@Andrew More or less. It boils down to performance tuning your server, or at least the VM.

@Andrew Yeah, it's kind of borderline, but I think webapps would reject it.

Andrew

@MichaelHampton can you set an OS scheduler in Windows?

Michael Hampton

@Andrew I was reading one of the related posts, which had an answer about how to tune it. It would possibly be useful for him, but wasn't close enough to his question so I didn't mark it as a dupe.

> You've earned the "Electorate" badge. See your profile.

Andrew

@ChrisS I'm concerned with 1. bonuses for failure, 2. share price vs. social equity / outcomes for customers, 3. pay vs. value to society

does that sound like a meritocracy?

what's the whole US fear of "socialism" thing about anyway?

Michael Hampton

04:10

Not starving.

Adrian

@Andrew Because a great many of the socialists here are of the bolshevist variety.

Quite a few that I've spoken with think the world population should be crashed down to about 100 million by whatever means necessary.

Andrew

@Adrian so the "raving nutter" sort

Michael Hampton

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Q: Are SSD drives as reliable as mechanical drives (2013)

SSD drives have been around for several years now. But the issue of reliability still comes up. I guess this is a follow up from this question posted a 4 years ago, and last updated in 2011. It's now 2013, has much changed? Reliability of ssd drives

ssd reliability

Shouldn't a question with out of date answers be bountied instead of reposted?

Adrian

@Andrew Plenty of room for raving nutters on both ends of the spectrum.

Andrew

@MichaelHampton Shouldn't it be nuked as "too localised"?

Chris S

04:13

@Andrew Lots-o-people can't tell the difference between socialism and communism. Heck, I've met educated people who argue they're the same thing...

Andrew

@ChrisS definitions of "educated" vary widely.

Ward

@Adrian I downloaded and watched the old version of "The Lathe of Heaven" last night (which has 7 billion out of 8 billion people dying off)... it's still good, but quite dated.

The Lathe of Heaven (film)

The Lathe of Heaven is a 1979 film (released in 1980) based on the 1971 science fiction novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. It was produced in 1979 as part of New York City public television station WNET's Experimental TV Lab project, and directed by David Loxton and Fred Barzyk. Le Guin, by her own account, was involved in the casting, script planning, re-writing, and filming of the production. The film stars Bruce Davison as protagonist George Orr, Kevin Conway as Dr. William Haber, and Margaret Avery as lawyer Heather LeLache. Plot In Portland, Oregon in the near future,...

Chris S

@Andrew I suppose, but the US is mostly a socialism right now, and if you had most people describe (in loose terms) their ideal economy it would certainly most closely fit socialism.

Andrew

ooh, ursula le guin.

Ward

It's frightening how long it's been since it came out/I first saw it...

Andrew

04:15

@ChrisS the whole "healthcare is socialism" thing was quite scary, coming from a country where we have functioning public healthcare

Chris S

@Andrew Socialized healthcare if like the rest of the economy. The bad isn't so much, and the good isn't the best - but the vast for the vast majority it's what they want. Capitalistic healthcare has wider extremes. The US has some of the best doctors (but only the top 1% can afford them) and about 1/2 of people get no healthcare.

Ward

We bitch about our system, but overall it's not bad. It's nice not to have to worry about cancer drugs that cost ~$50,000 (for a course of treatment) or immune system boosting drugs that cost ~$10,000, for example.

Adrian

04:32

@Ward Interesting. have not seen that movie nor read the book.

@Andrew The problem here is that we effectively have two countries occupying the same area. The city culture is so radically different from the rural culture that they cannot understand one another anymore.

@Ward My mother gets Medicare coverage that covers her US$100k/year meds. It's not like we don't have it here at all, but it's a pain in the ass and many people don't qualify.

Andrew

@Adrian secede & take the resources & military

Ward

@Adrian And "America" that many (most?) people think of as the ideal is the rural/farming/growing one that's long gone.

Andrew

it would work.

Ward

CASCADIA!

Cascadia (independence movement)

Cascadia is the name of a bioregion and proposed country located within the western region of North America. Potential boundaries differ, with some drawn along existing political state and provincial lines, and others drawn along larger ecological, cultural, and economic boundaries. The nation would consist of British Columbia, Canada, along with Oregon, Washington, and portions of other states from the United States. At its maximum extent Cascadia would extend from coastal Southeast Alaska to the north, extending into Northern California in the south, and inland to include parts of the...

Adrian

@Ward Yes, but the people are frequently still there. And they're not so happy about what's getting rammed down their throats. Fact of the matter is, there's so little real difference in the two parties we have when it comes down to the daily issues that it requires a complicit media with a 24/7 news cycle to keep the two groups polarized.

Not to mention one of the most horrid "education" systems in the Western world.

Ward

04:42

@Adrian Ugh, yeah. I think ours is better, but it has some of the same issues... which is part of why our kid's in a Catholic school.

54-40 or Fight!

Adrian

@Ward I would if I could afford it. They spend 40% of their school year doing practice tests for their annual standardized testing instead of working on actually learning stuff. It's purely ridiculous.

Bought a bunch of system parts today. Bought some 'green' drives in a moment of weakness though and need to take them back and order some proper WD Black drives.

Andrew

04:59

@Ward same political / media issues here

Ward

05:40

@Iain Is it you?

Iain

06:07

@Ward, yes I'm standing down. The SF that we have today is not the one I was passionate about. There are far too many low quality posts from people who would not readily consider themselves sysadmins let alone pro sysadmins.

I find myself getting both angry and sad because of this. I'm naturally not either so the best thing for me is to step back.

Ward

06:26

I was afraid of that... Damn.

Not that I'm likely to replace you, but I'm not sure I'd want to.

On a different topic, your gravatar never loads for me on your profile page:

Iain

@Ward flush your cache ?

ewwhite

07:02

@Ward Stop using IE6!

Jenny D

07:26

Morning

Dan

07:42

Did they remove Evans nomination?

@Iain Oh...sorry to hear that :(

Jenny D

@Iain I'm sorry to hear that, though I certainly recognize the feeling...

Dan

@Ward I had the same issue yesterday, it's a cache thing

pauska

@MDMarra I am now

Olipro

I just figured it was sparing me from a face that only a mother could love

tombull89

So, Mod election, eh? You can buy my vote for only 1000 of your rep.

(although seriously, good luck guys).

Lucas Kauffman

07:57

morning ^^

RobM

@iain sorry to hear you're standing down. You've been a damn good mod for this place - and I agree with your worries about what direction we're going in, though I dunno what to do about it. Sad thing is, we've still got a long place to fall before anywhere else is better.

5

morning Lucas

tombull89

@RobM @Iain D:

RobM

on an unrelated note, I hate exchange DRs. But finally finished recovering ours at 10pm last night.

SmallClanger

08:44

Morning all

@RobM What happened to your exchange?

Cold T

@Dan how do you guys manage automation for user account creation from your MIS systems?

Dan

@ColdT Not our bag, mate, but most places I've seen do it manually

Cold T

hmm that's got to be painful doing it manually

SmallClanger

@ColdT csv import to Powershell?

Not that we're doing that ourselves, yet, but it's on the cards.

Cold T

@SmallClanger that's the way I plan to do it, along with a scheduled task

Dan

08:54

@ColdT Most places just export to CSV and sort it that way. In my experience, schools don't have that many staff/students changing through the year to make it a hardship

SmallClanger

We've got a script for use creation, but mostly because it takes care of a few ancilliary jobs at the same time. Never had to to bulk creation, but that's the nice thing about Powershell, you can just throw a CSV at it.

pauska

@Iain You're supposed to have fun, this being pro bono and all.. I totally understand your decision. Maybe you'll get more time to answer questions again :)

RobM

@SmallClanger very odd - a bug with our backup system's agent. It claimed to be backing stuff up properly but it wasn't, causing the log file drive to fill up for one of our datastores

The odd part is that it was, for some of the failed backups at least, reporting success to both us and exchange, so *some* of the transaction logs got purged.

To say I'm unhappy with the backup system right now would be an understatement.

SmallClanger

@RobM Ouch. and the tlogs fill up so fast as well.

Cold T

@RobM that doesn't sound like fun at all

pauska

09:07

@RobM You should look into using operations manager.. it would have alerted you before it's too late

SmallClanger

@pauska Does SCOM cover that kind of stuff?

Dan

09:22

@MarkHenderson Can't believe you took a bollocking for that comment!

tombull89

@Dan o.O

RobM

@pauska yep

tombull89

People need to get a refund on where they bought our info from...I have no buying power whatsoever. So when I get a call saying "I understand you're the right person to speak to regarding IT Purchasing?" I lol mentally and give them the bad news.

RobM

We've got monitoring tools - the fill-up happened over the course of the weekend

Dan

@RobM And where the hell were you when this was happening, mmm?

Sounds like somebody isn't doing enough hours in the office

RobM

09:29

I've adjusted the thresholds on them to try and give us more warning, but the main issue is that the damn backup agent is telling lies to exchange about the backups.

@dan feet up, giving no fucks ;-) though I did work to 10pm last night on it

Dan

@RobM Oof :(

RobM

oh well, it happens

Dan

It sure does

SmallClanger

I had my A/C fail over the weekend. Which was fun, especially since the automatic failover didn't.

Iain

ooh palindromic rep 51415 :)

Cold T

09:41

wow china counterfeit goods are really good!

tombull89

o.O

D:

Tom O'Connor

Ooh. Nominations.

RobM

eeep

t1nt1n

10:01

Just got asked where I got my "Cool" Braclet.. Relised I was walking around with my anti-static wrist strap still on

2

grr

Dan

I'm too hardcore to use stuff like that

t1nt1n

dont normally but for 4K's worth of RAM.

Dan

Girl.

I'd have installed it with my teeth

t1nt1n

Only at the weekend.

Cold T

@tombull89 look like china loves you

Dan

10:03

@t1nt1n Inbox me

t1nt1n

@Dan oo'er.

Tom O'Connor

You know how much you all love me?

serverfault.com/election/3#post-507603

aw, no onebox.

RobM

I'll be interested to see who else stands.

tombull89

I think, as Iains going, we need a European mod at least.

RobM

Yeah I'd go with that.

Dan

10:17

Yeah, the Americans don't get our humour anyway

RobM

Still thinking about whether or not to throw my hat in the ring

Dan

We could do worse :)

RobM

Well yeah tomtom could stand

Actually, at least that would be interesting!

Dan

Better than Evan

Can't believe the audacity of that bloke

Cold T

hmm i don't think Ward or Freiheit should be voted, rarely seen them around

Iain

10:21

@Dan if nothing else he's not afraid of controversy

Dan

@Iain I just think he's a deluded idiot

Iain

@ColdT ward spends a lot of time voting rather than answering questions and chatting

@Dan at least

Dan

@Iain In a way, I wish he were just a normal troll but it's gone on for so long that I think he actually has something wrong

Cold T

@Iain that is interesting to know. Any way of getting these stats up on the election page?

Tom O'Connor

"Tom, can you help me install ESXi? // Yep, sure.. walks over to the server. Hm. No IP address from DHCP. Refresh. Oh, zeroconf. Hmm. Checks back of server. No link lights."

2

That's a paddlin'

Also. Pickled onion snack foods. <3

RobM

10:25

I always wonder why someone wants to be a mod. And if they're not already participating in the site then I wonder how committed they will be. From modding in other places I know that being a mod is different from being any other kind of participant, but at least someone who's already deeply involved and interested in the mechanics of the site and its mission is in the right reason already.

Iain

@ColdT clicky linky on the page elections.stackexchange.com/#serverfault

tombull89

@Iain was it about Evan that Mark got a bollocking for?

RobM

@TomO'Connor the college canteen has pickled onion monster munch <3

tombull89

Because I would be...dissapointed.

Iain

@Dan genen the elbow room he gets I sometimes wonder if he's the alter ego of someone hight up in SE

Tom O'Connor

10:27

@RobM Awesome.

Dan

@Iain If it were true, I'd worry for them as much as the alter ego!

@tombull89 It was the comment he made in chat ages ago about how he'd have banned Evan "quicker than he ejaculates into a whore" or something. Apparently the higher ups reprimanded him

RobM

Well... its not like we don't have our own...er... sockpuppets... here in SF chat

tombull89

@Dan I lol'd.

Tom O'Connor

@Dan Bwahaha.

Dan

@RobM I don't have one - perhaps I should invest

RobM

10:32

Neither do I, I was thinking of @pauskasock

tombull89

oh. my. god. I've heard about this but never seen it.

User using the file save dialogue instead of Windows Explorer for managing files and creating folders.

Tom O'Connor

Jan 26 '11 at 17:41, by pauska

Today, I came home to find a sock I previously used to whack off on my bed with googly eyes and a mouth drawn on it with a note that read "Because you can't find a real girl, I made your current one prettier, Love Mom." FML

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tombull89

hence "not all my documents are appearing" (when viewing folder in Word when the contents are spreadsheets). I don't...even...hnng...what.

Dan

@TomO'Connor How the hell did I miss that

Tom O'Connor

@Dan It was a long time ago.

It still makes me giggle

Dan

10:34

You're right, before my time. I thought the sock thing was new

Aw, it didn't happen to him. Oh well, we should star that anyway

Tom O'Connor

@Dan Wesley took it out of context, Thus, a meme was born.

RobM

two memes... Pauska's sock and taking things out of context in general.

Dan

Confusingly, there was a "Dan" in that chat. I was reading thinking "Why would I have asked that?"

Tom O'Connor

Whatever happened to Ben Pilbrow?

RobM

Good question :-( Another good bloke that don't stop by no more.

Tom O'Connor

10:37

Can we summon him back?

Look into a mirror and say @benpilbrow @benpilbrow @benpilbrow and he shall appear?

Iain

@TomO'Connor I think he lost interest after the last election

Tom O'Connor

Bah.

tombull89

We've lost Ben, HopelessNoob and Johnny G. Any bets for who's next?

Tom O'Connor

@tombull89 Where'd HN go?

Dan

Yeah, I'm sad about HN

Hennes

10:39

Me?
Oh wait, if I win that I will not be around to claim victory.
Drat!

Iain

@TomO'Connor his profile says seen 14 hours ago and there is contact info in his profile

tombull89

@TomO'Connor Got banned for a while on the main site for excessive snark, didn't return (actively, anyway).

Dan

@TomO'Connor He picked up a site suspension for something (I don't know what) and hasn't been in since

He was very snarky though

Tom O'Connor

@tombull89 Must've been really excessive.

Dan

@TomO'Connor He could be quite abrasive, though. He didn't like my British left leaning views too much, either

Iain

10:41

@tombull89 warner, womble and others

Tom O'Connor

@Dan I always took what he said with a pinch of salt, as his surname was noob.

Dan

@TomO'Connor Haha, he was alright

Iain

@Dan he was better once I put him on ignore :)

Dan

@Iain You do have a trigger happy ignore button, though!

tombull89

This isn't the right way to do this, is it?

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Q: Windows 8 - Firewall Issues from Command Line

I created the following script basically to block absolutely everything and only allow through what I want, however it's not allowing through what I like in regards to the internet. Can anyone see an issue with my rules? Currently they are pretty generic. @ECHO OFF ECHO =======================...

windows firewall command-line windows-firewall

Iain

10:47

@Dan I just get fed up of trying to parse out all swearing which, lets face it, doesn't add any value to what's being said so it's easier to plonk people and get on with it

Dan

It's unusual.

@Iain That's fair enough, though it'd be hypocritical of me to completely agree :$

Iain

@Dan I swear myself - I think I'm quite good at it but every sentence (especially when typing) doesn't need to be laced with it.

Tom O'Connor

@Iain The important thing is knowing words which are either rude, but from a bygone age, or not rude, but should be.

like moist.

tombull89

@TomO'Connor flagging as "offensive", how dare you!

Tom O'Connor

holy belgium!

Dan

10:52

@TomO'Connor I may have a go at reinstating "Bristols" as a euphemism for breasts

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Tom O'Connor

Bristol Cities.

tombull89

\o/

Iain

@Ladadadada obviously not because he would have shirly

Jenny D

@Dan Breasts don't need euphemisms. You're just being a dick.

That was probably funnier in my head than in the chat.

Tom O'Connor

@JennyD Austin Powers coined the most amusing one, "Dirty Pillows"

Which I maintain, if I ever open a laundrette, that's what I'm calling it.

Dan

10:56

@JennyD Sorry if I've offended you, it's an old British phrase

Jenny D

@TomO'Connor Mine aren't dirty, I do shower occasionally!

@Dan I was trying (and failing) to be funny. I am not offended by breasts.

Tom O'Connor

@JennyD It would be most unfortunate to be offended by ones own boobs.

Dan

@JennyD Ah, yes, I see it now!

tombull89

(horay for living it a place called Bristol)

Jenny D

@TomO'Connor Indeed. Plus my girlfriend wouldn't be happy about it either

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Tom O'Connor

10:58

Hee.

RobM

also a fair point

Tom O'Connor

I should go and get on with some real work, instead of talking about boobs all day. I'm so unqualified for this field.

Jenny D

@TomO'Connor At least there is plenty of study material on the internet.

RobM

oooh electrical shortout in some of our external CCTV posts. What fun.

Dan

@RobM It's not fun until there is fire

RobM

10:59

Can't have too much study material for some subjects, if you ask me.

Dan

@RobM I'm inclined to agree, but Jane doesn't seem to see my point of view

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