The Official Status Thread
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Status: Migrating some machines. Using disk images wasn't an option so we went for full OS install. Now running the custom install script. Currently compiling Asterisk
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Status: trolling tar with unrelated emoji answers to his posts
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Status: Answered this morning's crop of interesting questions on Stack Overflow. Time to get some work done. Or to listen to Scooter on loud. Choices, choices…
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Status: Finished reading A man called Ove yesternight. I want to be a curmudgeon too when I grow up. Gave it five stars because I laughed and cried the whole way through it.
Also: If you want to understand swedes, this is a good starting point.
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IIRC, you Swedish have a stealth battleship, and an army three times larger than the British army, despite having less than a sixth of our population. Your army's also got all the latest kit
So basically you're crazy and like shooting things with the very best that money can buy. Sounds fun ;)
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IIRC, you Swedish have a stealth battleship, and an army three times larger than the British army, despite having less than a sixth of our population. Your army's also got all the latest kit
So basically you're crazy and like shooting things with the very best that money can buy. Sounds fun ;)
Ninth place. Yeah!
I wouldn't put too much weight on the size of the army though. Our CiC has said that we're able to defend our country for less than a week. My workplace is well within range from the artillery in Kaliningrad. Our best defense right now is that our fuel prices are so steep that not even Patton could afford to refuel his tanks here.
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Our best defense right now is that our fuel prices are so steep that not even Patton could afford to refuel his tanks here.
Or not pissing people off. It's an option.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country
No surprise to see Murica top of that list, and by a big margin.Status: Rather glad the UK is at 84th on that list
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Or not pissing people off. It's an option.
Where's the fun in being a nation of curmudgeons if you are not allowed to piss people off? Besides, who cares about a few gulf nations? It's not like they have anything to do with the price on petrol or anything.
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A lot more fun
HAHAHA NO.
I just noticed something that could take a little effort to fix.
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Status: Uh-oh, Like spam… but I wasn't active in /t/1000, only in the Fox Ide- oh, of course.
Good morning @accalia! ;)
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Good morning @accalia!
It's morning. I regret i will have to reserve judgement on whether it is good or not till later. ;-)
Status: Just called out sick from work due to a rather nasty stomach bug i appear to have caught from one of the kids at the event.
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Status: Just called out sick from work due to a rather nasty stomach bug i appear to have caught from one of the kids at the event.
Already posted in PM, but why not here too ;)
@accalia said:I regret i will have to reserve judgement on whether it is good or not till later.
A day off work's not too bad. Plus, you can always think about the stellar weekend you just had ;)
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Status: trolling tar with unrelated emoji answers to his posts
Status: Trolling Jaloopa with unrelated emoji answers to his attempt to understand my answers to tar
I've boarded the
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Status: Web API is kicking my arse. And has been all fucking day.
Status: Now it's me doing the arse-kicking!
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Status: On annual leave today. Seem incapable of leaving my BlackBerry alone and not checking and replying to some emails anyway.
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Status:
23-Mar-2015 08:54:08 npm ERR! code ENOGIT 23-Mar-2015 08:54:08 23-Mar-2015 08:54:08 npm ERR! not found: git
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I'd be fine with not finding a git; saves having to put up with their gittishness ;)
Yes, yes, I know whatgit
she's actually talking about…
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I'd be fine with not finding that
git
too.
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Status: Danger 5 is weird.
Season 2, which I watched last night, makes you feel like you're having a stroke. It's so insane you can barely follow the plot.
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Urgh, I feel a headache approaching.
Today wasn't too bad at least, so far.
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Status: confused and pissed off at the spaghetti code I have to trawl through, then I find this representative line:
if ( string.Compare( (string)_Params[3], "True", true) == 0 )
Can I go home yet?
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Status: Uh-oh.
Web API is back for round 3, and this time it's fighting dirty…
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No surprise to see Murica top of that list, and by a big margin.
Status: Rather glad the UK is at 84th on that list
Woo Canada!! 12th!
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Status: Unimpressed by @tar changing the emoji I used
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Status: Unimpressed by @tar changing the emoji I used
Oh, so you noticed that, eh?
Status: trolling RaceProUK with unrelated emoji changes to her posts
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Airing tire this am - stem popped off in my hand...
Status: Yea fixed!.... Also, clutch still going strong.
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Status: Oh, joy of joys, the bathub water-exhaust-funnel-thing seems blocked, and no amount of plunging can dislodge whatever's causing it.
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Status: @NetBot is TL3! WOOHOO!
And my category ignore feature works! WOOHOO!
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So you made your bot capable of posting in the Lounge, and then made it incapable of posting in the Lounge again?
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No surprise to see Murica top of that list, and by a big margin.
Status: Rather glad the UK is at 84th on that list
Status: Rather glad to see the USA on top of that list.
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Status: Laid a couple hundred square feet of tile this weekend and today I am firmly reminded that I am not a young man anymore. Everything is sore.
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Did you pour any more concrete on expensive hardware?
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Status: found out that we have more than 160 production machines running windows server 2003. This is going to add some wrinkles to scheduling work as EOL on that is July 14 and some of those machines are running things that apparently don't work on newer versions.
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Did you pour any more concrete on expensive hardware?
Thankfully...no.
Also thankfully, the original hardware was not that expensive. If I wanted to replace the barebones, it would be about $130 on eBay. I can replace the whole server for ~$400-$500.
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160 production machines running windows server 2003
Holy...crap.
some of those machines are running things that apparently don't work on newer versions.
Jesus Christ on a crutch.
You have some work ahead of you, or your company will need to purchase extended support. I hope the coffers are full.
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Holy...crap.
Apparently many of them are low on RAM and processor cores (like 512MB and one core) so upgrading things should be able to cut the number of machines drastically.
You have some work ahead of you
Basically an old version of an internal framework thingy doesn't handle newer versions properly so we finally have a reason that can't be blown off to spend time updating the version. But there is no way we are hitting the EOL deadline.
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We have hundreds, luckily all but ~20 of those aren't my team's problem.
Some will never be migrated to newer stuff because they don't work on newer stuff.
Note: across the estate we still have stuff on NT4 and Windows 2000 server. I found a desktop the other day in one of our offices doing some niche task which runs Windows 95.
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But there is no way we are hitting the EOL deadline.
Meh, that is not massively important, as long as it the migration is not strung out for months or years. How long do you think it will take?
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I found a desktop the other day in one of our offices doing some niche task which runs Windows 95.
@boomzilla would feel right at home.
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@boomzilla would feel right at home.
There is also a sort of lawn he'd be able to tell kids to get off.
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(string)_Params[3]
Why is this even syntax in any language? What's wrong with
string(_Params[3])
?
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How long do you think it will take?
Depends on how the prioritization happens. It doesn't directly show to the client and we can't bill them for it (how my subsection makes money) so it isn't going to be top priority, but there are internal mandates to get off ASAP so it will be kinda high prioritization. Really it depends on how the higher ups react to us laughing at their current deadline.
EDIT: to actually answer the question of how long, drop everything and only do this for everyone on the team could probably hit the deadline. End of year is more likely.
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How many tries did it take?
One. But it involved a lot of manual labor. Because the schedule was shifted and I didn't have the time to test the scripts. Which, of course, failed: I forgot to add a repo to my
sources.list
, meaning that one component didn't install, meaning thatwget
ing the configuration backups failed because the directories weren't created... ugh.I'm installing a VM right now and testing this shit on my own machine. No more trusting the schedule.
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Lots of languages have that syntax for casting.
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there are internal mandates to get off ASAP so it will be kinda high prioritization
Keep us updated on how that works out for you. ;)