The Official Status Thread
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Why don't you just activate network time?
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I'm a dumbass, apparently. NTP was off!
BRB, reboot, let's see if I can force it to fix itself.
Why don't you just activate network time?
Yeah, that, thanks Discourse for not displaying that post until I refreshed!
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And on my linux VM, ntp keeps setting up wrong time every time I restart.
I always set my VMs to use system time.
Time sucks.
Yep. Bad enough that there's no point in encouraging your system to fight over it.
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Update:
ntp
package wasn't installed.Debian? What kind of bullshit is that? Fuck!
@cartman82, do check your Debian VMs if you have some (I think you mentioned you did?), maybe that's the issue as well for you.
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Status: Wondering why the lojban word for date has the numbers in the wrong order.
The answer is that the lojban word was defined a year before the ISO date format standard.
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/home/ben/bin/go
#!/bin/bash case "`~/.golang/bin/go env GOOS`" in "windows") case "`~/.golang/bin/go env GOARCH`" in "386") export CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc export CXX=i686-w64-mingw32-g++ export CGO_ENABLED=1 ;; "amd64") export CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc export CXX=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ export CGO_ENABLED=1 ;; esac ;; esac ~/.golang/bin/go "$@" < /dev/stdin
Now I can cross compile absolutely any program in Go to Windows! No more needing a Go compiler on Windows or being restricted to compiling non-C-interfacing programs! I can compile stuff that uses OpenGL!
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Status: eagerly awaiting @blakeyrat's port of my script to PowerShell so I can avoid using Linux, Darwin, Plan9, NaCl, and *BSD as well.
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Status: eagerly awaiting @blakeyrat's port of my script to PowerShell so I can avoid using Linux, Darwin, Plan9, NaCl, and *BSD as well.
You're just worried about spaces and carriage returns in file names, aren't you?
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Status: Should have left an hour ago to take a look at some stupid cheaply-made laser engraving machine that refuses to work.
I really don't want to go...
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You probably shouldn't look at it. It might break and burn your eyes out.
Source: I played the beginning of Half-Life 2: Episode 1.
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@cartman82, do check your Debian VMs if you have some (I think you mentioned you did?), maybe that's the issue as well for you.
Yup. I was sure I installed it at some point, but I guess not.
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Status: The power has gone off twice. Just think of how much money we would have saved n productivity if we had UPSes :(
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Status: WHAT... THE... FUCK?
Why is my system clock one hour ahead? I touched nothing!
WAT?
No, you idiot, that's 15:40.
What is WRONG with you?
Why is there no information about the actual timezone you're in in that screenshot. If anything is TR , then it's probably that...
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That's because you're supposed to use
ntpdate
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...And Saint Attila raised the Transformer up on high, saying, "O LORD, bless this Thy Transformer that with it Thou mayest supply Thine followers with electricity, in Thy mercy." And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu... [At this point, the friar is urged by Brother Maynard to "skip a bit, brother"]... And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou disconnect it three times, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt disconnect, and the number of the disconnecting shall be three. Four times shalt thou not disconnect, neither disconnect thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third disconnect, be reached, then cutoff thou thy Holy Transformer of Antioch from thy powergrid, which being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
Eh, pretty shitty try at changing the words here, but my point still stands.
Maybe the generator isn't kicking in for some reason, but apparently not even our
landlordsproperty managers know why the power is cutting out.
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Four times now, but apparently that last one was planned to switch back from the generator to utilities.
That's lunch everybody!
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Status: I cleaned out some old file cabinets today and found my old "little black book". There's a blast from the past...
I also found a binder full of information from when I explored the idea of starting my own excavation contracting business. The price of machinery and trucks has certainly went up a bit since 2002...
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Status:
Goddamn broker is on a goddamn break. Probably not going to be able to trade with the humans.
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Somebody threw up in your console.
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Status: doing some last minute housework before my wife gets home (in 10 hours or so...)
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Status: A fifth attempt to cut back over to utilities in ~10 minutes. At this point, it has to be cheaper to just run the Belgium generator in terms of lost productivity.
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Somebody threw up in your console.
ZOMG WHAT A BROKEN PIECE OF SHIT HOW DOES IT HANDLE ALL THOSE SPECIAL CHARACTERS WHAT A DISASTER
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Status: We just got a new network admin. After not having one for about 15 months.
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But presumably everything with your network was all fine in that interim time, right?
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But presumably everything with your network was all fine in that interim time, right?
If by "fine" you mean "held together by strings and bailing wire", then sure. Here are some highlights:
- We had a critical server suffer a hard crash about 2 months ago: 2 drives in a 4 drive RAID (I'm not sure wait the RAID configuration was) failed simultaneously. It turns out that the backups on that box had stopped working about a week before the crash, so we lost a weeks worth of data from one of our physical warehouses.
- We have 13 servers that are currently running Windows Server 2003.
- Our network actually has a WUS so that we can control the flow of updates to the workstations. Scheduling and pushing updates is the responsibility of the Network Engineer. The last engineer was here three months, and never did any workstation updates. The last network engineer who pushed updates left about 2 years ago. At last check, we had around 1500 Windows updates to push to the workstations.
I could continue, but I think that paints a good picture of how "fine" we are.
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That's because you're supposed to use ntpdate...
Whatever, it wasn't installed. Meaning, broken.
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Whatever, it wasn't installed. Meaning, broken.
AFAIK, it should be installed on any Debian box you run into...
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Yes.
Apparently, it happened to @cartman82 as well. Someone done messed up a metapackage probably.
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Is that total or per computer?
Per computer. Remember, updates hadn't been pushed out in about 2 years.
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Looks like the cut-over worked. I can actually get things done.
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How many of them are security updates?
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On a certain machine I have access to, this message is displayed when I log in:
101 packages can be updated. 53 updates are security updates.
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How many of them are security updates?
How many reboots (per computer) were required?
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Status: Is it Friday yet?
Monday mornings should not be this stressful. I didn't end up going to lunch until an hour after I normally would (which is better than last week, where I didn't even do lunch last Monday).
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I could continue, but I think that paints a good picture of how "fine" we are.
You could substitute "fucked" for "fine" in that sentence and it would actually end up making more sense.
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How many reboots (per computer) were required?
But, updating something without requiring a reboot is just science fiction at this point. And besides, restarting a service is really the exact same thing as a full reboot.
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But, updating something without requiring a reboot is just science fiction at this point. And besides, restarting a service is really the exact same thing as a full reboot.
One reboot per update is perfectly acceptable to me. But I think we all know that's not how Windows Update rolls.
EDIT: and re-reading this, I meant "per update session," i.e., when I tell it to "APPLY ALL THE UPDATES" that's what I expect to happen, so that when I reboot there are no more updates.
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Status: Got a 500 error when successfully posting a PM
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My Ubuntu server has been asking for a reboot for a few months now, but I'm waiting for the next LTS in 2016.
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You're really living on the edge, only rebooting every 2 years.
Of course, at your internet speeds a hacker would get frustrated before they got access, even if you opened everything completely up.
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How many of them are security updates?
I haven't looked. How many Windows 7 and Office 2007 security updates have been released since July 2013?
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Given that there's a good chance at least a few of those computers have been compromised... have you considered the nuclear option?
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Given that there's a good chance at least a few of those computers have been compromised... have you considered the nuclear option?
I know from talking to our helpdesk guy that he's had to utilize said nuclear option on a few systems. But implementing on ~275 systems across three states with an IT staff consisting of the CIO, myself, one helpdesk tech, and a brand new network engineer?
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Well, I have password authentication disabled, so @blakeyrat can't get in.
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Office 2007 security updates
Why would an office suite need security updates? How do you even have security bugs in a text editor?
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I have password authentication disabled
Authentication without a password? What sort of *nix sorcery is this?
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It runs on Linux hardware.