<Pryoidain> NTP Protocol helped me to isolate a plumbing problem in the apartment before the people on site could figure it out.
<asaph> ...what?
<Pryoidain> Well I get this call saying there's a leak in the apartment below me, they need permission to enter to navigate it and solve the problem, so i grant them it. Now I'm swamped, so when things calm down I do the logical thing
<Pryoidain> I checked ishi's NTP Pool Server monitoring page, and pulled up the CSV file to look at epoch times.
<Pryoidain> Last time the server pinged it was like 5 minutes before.
<Pryoidain> From this I knew that the leak could not be from the furnace/ac as that is in the server room (I know I know, but its the coldest room) and if water hit any of the routers or anything or the mains, UPS would have turned off the server.
<Pryoidain> Next I worked back. Can't be in any of the exterior walls, thats where the wires run and the socket for the Main router in the small bedroom is. Server goes through that router.
<Pryoidain> The modem is in the master bedroom, which shares a wall with the bathroom, so I was worried, but if it's still up then no shorts there or anything freaky going on, because, well, NTP responses are still sub millisecond.
<Pryoidain> And finally, It can't be in the kitchen, because for whatever dumbfuck reason the outlets in the kitchen and the server room are the same circuit, and the Garbage disposal outlet is UNDER the pipes and isn't a GFCI (yet) so it would have tripped the breaker killing the server, etc etc.
<Pryoidain> So its the bathroom, internal wall, on the sink or tub.
<Pryoidain> Get home, it was the bathroom sink, leak in the internal wall.
<asaph> ....
<Pryoidain> Yeah, i'm just kinda basking in this right now.
<Bitgod> how to make an iframe stay put when you minimize the page, its fine in full screen, but when i minimize the page the frame moves?
<forbex> you know, every time i come in here someone is having problems with an iframe
<forbex> i don't think that's a coincidence
<P1RATEZ> they are probably holding it wrong
<@NWH> Stupid Things About the Internet, #87246087: Message boards that automatically change "8)" to an emoticon of a smiley wearing sunglasses.
<@NWH> "My son is so smart (he was skipped ahead to fourth grade at the age of *smiley wearing sunglasses* and now he's reading at a high school level."
Katie: futurama proves something
Katie: you can make a girl the hero of the show, but in the end everyone still thinks a lazy guy is the main character
BossMan: That is intellisense
BossMan: It's an extra feature
BossMan: They give it to you for free then it goes away after 15 days or something like that
BossMan: You will get used to it, love it, have it taken away, be unable to understand how you ever wrote SQL without it, then slowly forget it existed.
<peacetwin> i'm going to start an official political organization for masculine gay men
<Wooshey_> The Republican Party?
<+abum> where is siloam springs
<d4> its a mystery
<d4> one of those un-google-able locations
<zap> even if you were to open google right now and type "where is siloam springs"
<zap> it wouldn't say "arkansas"
<d4> it just says "go ask on irc" and there's no link
Cypher: So I just let a cat in
Cypher: fed it a bit
Cypher: had it sit on my lap for the better part of an hour
Cypher: and I've only just realised it isn't actually my cat
<@Twinge> Saw the word 'spaghetti' and assumed people were talking about code. Was not disappointed.
< CoJaBo> Update: The object seen landing near Gale Crater on MSD 49,269 at around 05:50:16 AMT local time has been conclusively identified by the Martian Space Agency to be a weather balloon. Due to possible radioactive contamination, Mars citizens are forbidden to approach Gale Crater until further notice.
< xiphias> sycobuny: maybe you can answer this
< xiphias> sycobuny: if perl doesn't have a JIT, how come it's so fast
<@sycobuny> because it spends less time on buzzwords and more time on just fucking doing the work?
<@Treeki> "Final Fantasy 13-2" reminds me of European TV channel names
<@Treeki> Spain has a channel named laSexta (theSixth)
<@Treeki> and laSexta2, and laSexta3
<@Treeki> Britain has the Channel 4 network, which has Channel 4, More4, E4 and Film4
<@Treeki> and timeshifted versions: Channel 4+1, More4+1, E4+1 and Film4+1
<@Treeki> they recently launched a new channel, 4seven
<@Treeki> I'm just waiting for 4seven+1 for maximum confusion
<Pryoidain> I saw the new (old) arp-ing joke post on qdb, and just for a split second of amusement, set every device on my network to have the same IP as my laptop.
<Pryoidain> Now in my head, the intended result was for my lil ultrabook to ask the router "Hey who am I? Here's my IP." and think it had suddenly become a sun box
<Pryoidain> "THE COMPUTER IS THE NETWORK, I AM ALL OF YOU"
<Pryoidain> In reality, I turned the next 57 minutes of my monday morning into a frantic scrabbling to get the network back functional before I had to leave for work, and ended up giving myself a migraine.
<JCDenton> Am I the only one who seems to spend more time fixing stupid trivial errors when programming than real issues?
<nathan28> JCDenton: lolwut
<nathan28> that is programming
<@Pants> Hey Grue, so I figured out what was wrong with my chainsaw
<@Grue> Ja?
<@Pants> It turns out it has an on/off switch.
<@Grue> `lart Pants
BrainBleach brings in Charles Darwin and the Chainsaw of Natural Selection to have a go at Pants
<@Grue> More apropos, BrainBleach cannot become.
<PyroPyro> a guy just fax'd me a paper with text "i dont know how this works i will just email the doc to you"
<acenasir> asl angel?
<Tech_Angel> Dude, did you really just use asl?
<IT_Sean> He did.
<IT_Sean> HE MUST BE PUNISHED!
* IT_Sean gets the bullwhip, the mustard, and the geckos
<Tech_Angel> the geckos? you really are serious
<IT_Sean> Yup.
* Tech_Angel leaves Sean to play with acenasir while she gets lunch
* IT_Sean gives acenasir a 10 second head start
<adamaze> run boy
<grawity> hm, ranger is a cool file manager.
<chrise> What if I have uncool files that I want to manage?
<grawity> you cool them
<+blackroseMD1> Guess that's what I get for leaving the house hahahahahaha
<+Moon_Dog3VO> a life?
******a few minutes pass*****
<+Moon_Dog3VO> i must have got it right, blackroseMD1 is speechless
<+blackroseMD1> Yep. It kind of scared me too
<+blackroseMD1> I'm never leaving the house again.
<hagbard> i3Guest88: the pin9 that on the webpage is marked "NC" what are you doing with that pin?
<i3Guest88> just to ground
<myself> aha
<myself> when a bit gets shifted off the edge of the '595, it falls out pin 9
<myself> if you're pushing zeroes out there, the chip is trying to drive pin 9 to ground, which is already its state, and everything is copascetic
<myself> but as soon as you shift a 1 off the edge of the register, it tries to drive pin 9 high, but it's grounded, so it shorts your power supply
<myself> when a pin is labeled NC, that means you only connect it if you're in North Carolina
<myself> and since we're in Michigan, we use that as a no-connect pin, meaning leave it floating
<nathan> I think % is secretly the symbol for a titfuck
< Botje> daemon: the sooner we can kill off ftp the better
< daemon> Botje, what do you think for its replacement? scp
< spider-mario> webdav?
< Botje> sftp
< Botje> or the clown.
< apeiron> clown?
< Botje> cloud
< Botje> i mentally replace one by the other, makes marketingspeak a lot more interesting :]
<Migs> what does it mean when critics say a movie is "smart?"
<gildean> they didn't understand it
<derpcat> I only program when I want to automate some task
<advi> why the fuck else would you
<+beefCake> hmm has someone got stuck down a drain :d
<+beefCake> there's been a confined space safety and rescue unit van outside for a bit
<+beefCake> some sort of tripod on the pavement further up
< Cheez> go out and say "what's that? timmy's fallen down the well?!"
< Cheez> then run back inside barking
< Phatteh> run over and say "i came as soon as lassie told me what happened!"