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05:43.50new2unixmoin all
05:44.51Leedshello
05:58.48new2unixHi Leeds. How are you this fine morning/noon?
06:51.13LeedsI'm fine, although well-bitten
06:52.48mozratyou must be tasty Leeds
06:52.52mozratGood morning all
06:53.27Leedsapparently I am
07:05.54mozratHow is Sri Lanka Leeds?
07:06.04mozratDo you stay in a hotel when you stay there?
07:13.58Leedswe have a company/family house
07:14.35Leedsand it's... hot, humid, grey, dry at the moment...
07:14.47LeedsI would say, partially-developed...
07:15.21Leedsstill recovering from being smacked down by Mother Nature last year...
07:15.30mozratanything much to do at night?
07:15.31mozratoh
07:15.47Leedsstill hovering somewhere between all-out civil war and peace...
07:15.55Leedscheap, mainly
07:16.42Leedsthere's not much to do at night round where the house is... we're a few minutes drive from the beach, where there are a few restaurants/bars, and there's plenty to do in Colombo, but that's an hour+ drive away
07:17.45mozratare you currently doing one week in four there?
07:18.02Leedsthe longer-term plan is for me to do approximately 50% of my time here
07:18.19Leedsbut I'm not in any sort of routine with it yet
07:19.03Leedsit's not a bad place to be - I'd go mad living here all the time, but it's relaxing, good for work focus, good for saving money...
07:20.24Leedsthings are better now they've got cable TV in the house - it was put in over the summer, having been rolled out into the town earlier this year
07:21.42mozratyes - that would hepl
07:21.45mozrathelp
07:22.31Leedsalso, widespread availability of cheap, good-quality dodgy DVDs in the neighbourhood helps :-)
07:23.00mozrat:)
07:24.56LeedsI don't know where they get them from, but there are custom 'collection' DVDs - for example, I bought one at the weekend with both Charlie's Angels, both Kill BIlls and both Tomb Raiders (yes, but they're *entertaining* junk) on one disk for Rs 300
07:25.12Leedsibot change 300 lkr to gbp
07:29.41mozratHaven't seen the Tomb Raider ones
07:29.49mozratbut I like Kill Bill(s)
07:30.04LeedsI saw the first one at the cinema - not seen the second one yet
07:30.12mozratahh, it's very good
07:30.23mozratnot spoilers but it completes the first one perfectly
07:30.52Leedswell, they were originally one film, edited into two, right?
07:30.56mozratyes
07:31.08mozratbut not to make more money,.. oh no
07:31.22mozratbecause he couldn't decide which bits to cut into one film
07:31.23mozrat:)
07:32.49Leeds:-)
07:36.42Leedshmm... boss is coming here tomorrow
07:43.48Leedshow rugged is the ipod nano? http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/3
07:50.15Leedshttp://clevescene.com/issues/2005-03-30/news/feature_print.html
07:52.02mozratI read about that kid
07:58.41Leedswow... just seen a blog post from someone in HK who bought 47 ipod nanos with cash :-)
08:00.35Leedsah well, lunchtime
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08:43.13mozratHello morsing
08:43.25morsingHello
08:51.14mozratwhere have you been?
08:51.42morsingHoliday
08:51.52mozratwhere did you go then? :)
08:52.04morsingCopenhagen#
08:52.11mozratnice!
08:52.25morsingMmm... Nice
08:52.28mozratWas that home for you?
08:52.37mozratbefore you came over to London
08:52.45morsingYes
08:56.58morsingibot wake wethrin
08:57.02ibotwethrin: GOOD MORNING!!!
08:57.29mozratmorsing: whats the name of the area of Copenhagen where people have setup their own community?
08:57.52mozratI eat at a resturant there - it was nice
08:59.02morsingmozrat: Christiania.
08:59.08mozratthats it
08:59.13morsing"Restaurent" might be a stretch?!
08:59.40mozratwell - we walked near there/through there to get to the resturant
08:59.46mozratmaybe it was just outside
09:00.27wethrinmozrat: WHAT?
09:00.39mozratwethrin: Good Morning
09:00.52wethrinMorning
09:00.57wethrinErr. I meant morsing :)
09:01.31mozratHmm - that would be very possible
09:01.41wethrin:-) Not quite - I just got out of the shower
09:01.54morsingwethrin: It works now
09:02.00wethrinwhat works?
09:02.12wethrinMmm....fuel protests
09:02.17morsingThe thing I was going to ask about but I can't be bothered now
09:02.32wethrinI confused
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09:07.49morsingwethrin: http://www.exonetric.net/console came up with a weird error
09:08.10Leedsvery quiet and calm here... because the power has all gone
09:08.17wethrinAhh
09:08.38Leedsnetwork is UPSed, and I'm on a laptop :-)
09:08.42morsingwethrin: On the power page I can turn off the whole rack?!?
09:09.25wethrinYou should only be allowed to fiddle your own port
09:10.01morsingShould I test if I can actually do it?
09:10.07wethrinNO! :)
09:10.39ebbeyes<PROTECTED>
09:11.13morsingwethrin: I scp'ed a 2GB file to Camelot at avg. 6.2MB/s
09:11.16morsing:-D
09:11.19wethrinnice!
09:11.31wethrinDo you know a guy called Richard Medhurst who works at Camelot?
09:12.16morsingNever heard of him
09:12.46wethrinOkay
09:25.12morsingDoes anyone know where I can get proper food here?
09:25.27wethrinWhere's here?
09:25.31morsings/food/cheese/
09:25.34morsingUK
09:25.39morsingMmm... cheese
09:25.42wethrinMarket?
09:25.47morsingWhich one?
09:25.50wethrinSupermarket? What's proper cheese?
09:25.53wethrinDunno. Try your local market
09:26.15morsingProper cheese is cheese that tastes better than rubber
09:26.36wethrinStilton
09:26.43wethrin(so, not emmental, then)
09:26.46Leedsso... ebay actually bought skype, apparently
09:26.47morsingNo - not that kind of cheese
09:26.54morsingsolid cheese
09:27.04wethrinLeeds: So we're going to have to bid on phone calls and wait a week?
09:27.13wethrinmorsing: I'm sure there are placed in London
09:27.31Leedsmanchego
09:27.36Leedsyou can taste it from 10m away
09:27.52wethrinmiles or metres? :)
09:28.03Leedsthinking the latter, but maybe the former
09:28.37morsingLeeds: Where?
09:31.03Leedsmorsing: dunno, somewhere Spanish
09:31.28Leedsit was more a suggestion of good cheese that a suggestion of what to buy in London
09:32.03morsingLeeds: It would be easier for me to get cheese from Denmark then
09:56.54morsingI've setup Postfix 2.2 on a server but keep getting this message (among other weird errors):
09:56.57morsing<info@glyngore.dk>: [smtp1.mail.ascio.net]: Name or service not known
09:59.08morsingEy-up?
10:01.20morsingLeeds?
10:03.40wethrinmorsing: DNS lookup issues
10:05.28Leedswhat?
10:07.06Copehello
10:07.18mozratCope!
10:12.30Copehiya
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10:39.17morsingwethrin: Ok but I can't spot the issue
10:39.24morsingCope!
10:39.53ebbeyeswhats up?
10:45.00morsingwethrin: Can you spot the problem?
10:47.37mozratmorsing: can you resolve [smtp1.mail.ascio.net] from that server?
10:48.11wethrinmorsing: Check your DNS resolver
10:48.40ErwinThe reverse DNS does not match, maybe it's confused about that.
10:49.39wethrinShouldn't matter - if it does that check, it should check reverse, and then do another forward lookup on the name that's returned
10:51.04ErwinGoogle suggests it might have something with ipv6 records, I recall having a similar problem connecting to freenode when there was both a v4 and v6 record.
10:51.20ErwinStill, dig shows only an A record
10:52.40wethrinOh, so his IPv6 support may be broken?
10:52.53ErwinHmm. Are you sure it's not complaining about glyngore.dk ?
10:53.24morsingwethrin: I've texted you your password to emil.morsing.cc
10:53.57wethrinmorsing: Hum?
10:54.07morsingwethrin: Eh?!
10:54.08wethrinPassword for what?
10:54.12morsingLogging in
10:54.15wethrinOh right. What username?
10:54.18morsingglyngore.dk.            17707   IN      NS      ns.dir.dk.
10:54.26morsingwethrin
10:54.28wethrinTa
10:54.52Erwinnslookup -type=ns glyngore.dk fails here
10:55.16wethrinmorsing: Can you put me in sudoers?
10:55.17morsingTry dig -t ns glyngore.dk
10:55.27morsingMmm... why?
10:55.36ErwinOdd, it works from another server.
10:55.37wethrinReading mail logs may be a useful indicator
10:56.35morsingwehtrin: I've added you to 'adm'
10:56.43wethrinthanks
10:56.46morsingYou should be able to read the logs now
10:57.00wethrinYes
10:57.10morsingSorry but I have to go to Ricky now - See you
10:57.15wethrinbye
11:38.53morsingback
11:38.58wethrinHello
11:39.10wethrinYour problem appears to be that Postfix isn't doing its DNS lookups correctly
11:41.06wethrinwhich is strange, as it seems to be working okay
11:43.19morsingSo it's a bug?
11:43.37wethrinEither that, or a problem with Postfix configuration somewhere
11:44.03wethrinYou can remove the hostname_check from your configuration
11:44.06morsingwethrin: It's the same configuration I was running on my old server
11:45.02wethrinAnd it worked on your old server?
11:45.56morsingwethrin: For years!
11:46.22morsingwethrin: It also seems to be intermittent
11:46.25wethrinHm. Then I'd argue it's a problem with the way it plays with bind
11:46.45wethrinI'm running a tail -f on your mail.log, and most of the emails seem to be bouncing
11:49.22morsingwethrin: It bounces because it's spam
11:49.28morsingThat's deliberate
11:49.34wethrinRight....
11:49.43wethrinI don't believe that entirely
11:50.01wethrinAs I've checked some of the IP addresses it claims not to find the hostname for, and they *do* resolve
11:50.23morsingHmm... You're right...
11:50.35wethrinSep 12 14:48:01 localhost postfix/smtpd[29749]: connect from unknown[66.135.215.231]
11:50.38wethrinSep 12 14:48:02 localhost postfix/smtpd[29749]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[66.135.215.231]: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [66.135.215.231]; from=<eBay.121617487.58935.0@reply3.ebay.com> to=<henrik@morsing.cc> proto=ESMTP helo=<smf-camp2.smf.ebay.com>
11:50.43wethrin~nslookup 66.135.215.231
11:53.00wethrinmorsing: You've got a few warnings when starting postfix
11:53.18morsingMmm...
11:53.45wethrin(various files not owned by group mail)
11:53.49wethrinHm. That seems to be working now
11:53.59wethrinDid you do anything other than restart Postfix?
11:54.32morsingYes. Commented out #smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, rejec
11:54.36morsingt_unknown_client
11:54.37wethrinAhh
11:54.53morsingBut it hasn't wolved to problem.
11:55.03morsingIt might now accept all sorts of crap emails
11:55.06wethrinWhat happens if you just put
11:55.16wethrinsmtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated
11:55.50morsingBut then unknown clients, which is the biggest group of spammers, will be allowed to send
11:56.16wethrinWell, lots of IP addresses seem to be classed as 'unknown'
11:56.27wethrinAre you using a different version of Postfix to your old server?
11:56.33morsingwethrin: I know. Spammers
11:56.43morsingwethrin: Yes. 2.1.? -> 2.2
11:56.47wethrinNot necessarily
11:56.55wethrin~nslookup 66.135.215.231
11:57.13wethrinWhich may be debatable as to whether or not they're spammers :)
11:57.21morsingwethrin: But most. I'm not removing that statement. It rejects hundreds of spam mail every day
11:57.31wethrinOw
11:57.43wethrinEr
11:57.48wethrinSep 12 14:54:50 localhost postfix/postfix-script: warning: not set-gid or not owner+group+world executable: /usr/sbin/postqueue
11:57.52wethrinSep 12 14:54:50 localhost postfix/postfix-script: warning: not set-gid or not owner+group+world executable: /usr/sbin/postdrop
11:58.04morsingSo why did it complain earlier?
11:58.15wethrinIt complained about other things earlier :)
11:58.16morsingWhat should they be?
11:58.24wethrinPresumably chmod g+s
11:58.38morsingSep 12 14:50:22 localhost postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by group mail: /usr/sbin/postqueue
11:58.41wethrin~nslookup 193.162.153.10
11:59.01wethrinthat says: connect from unknown [193.162.153.10]
11:59.08wethrinEr.
11:59.12wethrinSep 12 14:57:00 localhost postfix/postdrop[30004]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/95858.30004: Permission denied
11:59.15wethrinSep 12 14:57:02 localhost postfix/postdrop[30000]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/896981.30000: Permission denied
11:59.27morsingcrap
11:59.49wethrinLots of that coming now
12:00.03morsingSo what do I do?
12:01.04wethrinCheck and fix permissions
12:01.21wethrinOr just live life dangerously and chmod a+rw your maildrop directory
12:01.36morsingCan dpkg tell me what they should be?
12:01.42morsingMoo
12:01.49wethrinNo idea. I'm a qmail person, and running on OpenBSD :)
12:02.00morsingBoo... Qmail!
12:02.11wethrinqmail r0x0rz
12:02.21Leedsargh, qmail
12:02.26Leedsexim is so much saner
12:02.41wethrinLeeds: You need to become One with DJB
12:02.45morsingI don't understand this
12:02.58morsingibot kick DJB
12:03.02ibotbugger off sod!
12:03.25wethrinDid you change permissions on /usr/sbin/postdrop?
12:03.30morsingYes!
12:03.34morsingNo!
12:03.43wethrinYes or no?
12:03.49morsingNo!
12:03.56wethrinWell, maybe you should!
12:03.57morsingI chgrp mail /usr/sbin/postdrop
12:04.10LeedsI am one with Phil Hazel
12:04.17morsingLike chmod g+s?
12:04.23wethrinYes
12:04.26wethrinYou need to do that
12:04.50wethrinBut Phil is a Cantabrian, so is therefore Wrong
12:05.26wethrinYou may need to restart Postfix again
12:07.07wethrinMaybe Postfix has changed some of its configuration between versions
12:07.08morsing<morsing@post8.tele.dk>: [fpo.mail.dk]: Name or service not known
12:07.15wethrin~nslookup fpo.mail.dk
12:07.25wethrin~nslookup 80.160.76.237
12:07.29morsing*sigh*
12:07.39wethrin~nslookup vlan178-vip.opa.tdk.net
12:08.03wethrinOh, and it's still moaning about permission denied when creating the maildrop file
12:08.56Leedswethrin: for some reason, I thought you might hold something like that against Phil
12:09.40wethrinHehe. I don't *really* hold that against him. I don't use Exim because, well, I've not done so before and qmail works for me
12:09.48wethrinAnd the configuration is far saner than sendmail's
12:09.55wethrin(which I did use before)
12:11.14morsingpostfix set-permissions
12:11.29morsingMmm...
12:11.35wethrinStill denied permission
12:11.40morsingCrap
12:11.50wethrinJust chmod a+w the directory
12:11.57wethrin(/var/spool/postfix/maildrop)
12:12.42morsingHmm...
12:12.51morsinga?
12:13.02wethrinall
12:13.11morsingHmm...
12:13.34morsingDoesn't help
12:13.49morsingcrap
12:14.26wethringah
12:14.32wethrinAsk gllug?
12:19.14morsing~ask gllug
12:27.03wethrinmorsing: What's your current client_restrictions line?
12:27.14rhoweibot change 900 sek to gbp
12:28.08wethrinrhowe!
12:28.08wethrinIs Saturday in Manchesterster still on?
12:29.50wethrinMmm. I have lots of money now :)
12:31.55rhowewethrin: Hm.. I'll be there, and with Jia
12:31.59wethrinrightho
12:32.39rhoweanyway, I need to head to HSBC
12:32.41rhowebanking to do
12:32.55morsingwethrin: Haven't got one
12:33.14morsingWhen are you coming to Aylesbury?
12:33.55wethrinNo idea
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12:37.17wethrinLeeds: ping?
12:37.31Leedswethrin: pong
12:37.49wethrinI need an address to send a cheque to j-colo. Any chance you could give me one?
12:40.01Leedswethrin: c/o Dan Jacobs, 11 brampton ct., brampton grove, nw4 4aj
12:40.42wethrinExcellent. And they can then email me if they finally work out how much I owe them exactly
12:41.59Leedstold you - make it a round 600
12:42.16Leedsor if I didn't told you, I certainly meant to
12:42.32wethrinYou did tell me
12:46.12Leedshometime...
12:52.03morsingSep 12 15:11:30 localhost postfix/postdrop[30004]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/95858.30004: Permission denied
12:52.09wethrinyeah
12:52.51morsing*sigh*
12:53.02morsingBut it's just a warning
12:53.25wethrinYeah, but it means it can't process those mails
12:54.03morsingI give up
12:55.04wethrinSomeone else had the same problem as you
12:55.15morsingYou?
12:56.02wethrinNo. I don't use postfix :)
12:56.17wethrinHe "fixed" it by installing Exim
12:58.40morsing*gnnfffrrr*
12:59.21wethrinyeh
13:03.19morsinghttp://www.danish-deli-food.com/Danish/Shop/productdetail.asp?recid=46
13:11.07morsingYay! http://www.danish-deli-food.com/
13:16.31JAVafternoon
13:18.16morsingafternoon
13:37.53mozratapparently ATI cards suck
13:38.07mozrataccording to the helpful folk in #linux-gamers.net
13:38.16mozratI believe them
13:38.24JAVmine works
13:38.25JAV:D
13:38.32wethrinI prefer ATI to nVidia
13:38.41mozratMine works but I can't get call of duty working
13:38.50wethrinHa
13:39.50mozratwhich means I have to reboot to participate in the great office "SSssh, the boss is away" LAN gaming-fest
13:40.06JAV766 fps iirc my radeon 7500
13:41.09JAVwith xfree86 .... 450
13:44.16mozratJAV, I get a decent speed with glxgears on the open source driver
13:44.23mozratbut I can't play games with it
13:44.32mozratanyway - not a biggie
13:46.24JAVand what game do you play at office? :D
13:46.41mozratCall of Duty
13:47.01mozratYou're not my boss stalking me on IRC are you?
13:47.32JAVheh
13:53.00rhoweBAH
13:53.12rhowe$cow-worker has the cricket on, *with*sound* right next to me
13:53.15ErwinKind of ironic, no? To waste company time on a game called "Call of Duty"
13:54.19wethrinrhowe: Listen to the cricket
13:54.37rhowe(he's streaming it)
13:54.45wethrin:)
13:54.48wethrinbad rhowe
13:55.00rhoweipt_random should do well :)
13:56.47wethrinWhat's wrong with listening to cricket?
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14:09.56rhoweTrying to concentrate on C :)
14:10.53wethrinC sucks :)
14:11.29rhoweNot as much as what's written in it in front of me :)
14:11.44rhoweTwo words... "Linux kernel"
14:13.55wethrin'nuff sed
14:18.26rhoweheh, Hello Kitty fire extinguisher on boingboing.net
14:27.26wethrinWE'RE ALL DOOMED
14:40.30wethrinGah. Barclays are fucking useless
14:47.18morsingLast login: Mon Sep 12 12:32:37 2005 from 195.190.132.207
14:48.21wethrinhm?
14:54.57ErwinCAMELOT-NET
14:55.02morsingEh?
14:55.21ErwinWell, it sounded like you were pasting some suspicious IP :)
14:55.34morsingSuspicious? Not really
14:55.44wethrintelnet to it and it'll give you next week's lottery numbers
14:55.59morsingGive me £100 and I'll give you the numbers
14:56.13wethrinIs there a money-back guarantee?
14:56.31morsingNo
14:56.37wethrinPah
14:57.16morsing<info@glyngore.dk>:
14:57.16morsing207.126.147.11 does not like recipient.
14:57.16morsingRemote host said: 554 <info@glyngore.dk>: Relay access denied
14:57.16morsingGiving up on 207.126.147.11.
14:57.22wethrinHeh
14:57.40morsingDodgy mailserver
14:57.57morsing<PROTECTED>
14:58.22wethrinHeh
14:59.47ErwinAre you trying to get some herring?
14:59.53morsingYes!
15:00.11wethrinGo to your local deli - they should have some
15:00.15ErwinDanish herring is terrible. Too sugary.
15:00.27morsingwethrin: They don't!
15:00.36morsingErwin: No - it's perfect
15:00.37ErwinGet some decent Russian or Polish herring, with oil and lots of onions.
15:00.39wethrinGet a new local deli!
15:00.41morsingMmm... herring
15:00.45wethrinRollmops!
15:00.54morsingwethrin: eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwW!
15:00.59wethrinew?
15:01.08morsingThey are disgusting
15:02.01wethrinNo more than any other fish
15:02.09wethrinAnd less so than cod
15:02.12morsingDanish herring is superb
15:02.16wethrinhah
15:02.22morsingCod is quite tasteless
15:02.59wethrinWhat's the standard fish-n-chip-shop fish?
15:03.31ErwinI have no recommendation, but timeout had a guide -- http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/features/28.html
15:07.25rhoweI thought herring was a non-entity?
15:07.31wethrinOnly if it's red
15:07.34rhoweJust a general term for white fish
15:07.34wethrinLike red diesel
15:07.37rhoweor something like that
15:07.40wethrin:)
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15:10.27morsingwethrin: Should I post this problem to postfix-users or postfix-devel?
15:11.07wethrinYes!
15:11.09wethrinpostfix-users
15:15.58morsingIt says I have an invalid address
15:21.31morsingWhat does iU mean in dpkg -l?
15:30.48morsingeh-ub?
15:37.44morsing**** The address you supplied, [ henrik.morsing@camelotinteractive.com ]
15:37.45morsing**** does not seem to be a legal Internet address.
15:37.46morsing?!?
15:37.50morsingI don't get it
15:49.49rhowemorsing: s/.*/<&>/
15:55.31morsingEh?
15:55.34morsingNot []
15:55.35morsing?
16:00.32rhowemorsing: Surround the email address in <>'s, perhaps?
16:09.05rhowehm?
16:09.37wethrinIt's just fun
16:09.57rhowemm, houmus, chorizo and mustard bagel
16:10.08wethrineeeenteresting
16:10.19wethrinI'm thinking of having a pizza tonight
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18:29.56resuDaedwethrin, you have a personal colo right?
18:30.19resuDaed(as in your machine, their rackspace)
18:34.12resuDaedibot seen wethrin
18:34.14ibotwethrin is currently on #gllug #classiccmp.  Has said a total of 184 messages.  Is idling for 2h 23m 55s
18:36.49wethrinresuDaed: Yes
18:37.21resuDaedwethrin, how much do you pay (if you don't mind such a personal question) and for what exactly?
18:37.35wethrinwww.exonetric.com - details prices
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18:37.55wethrinI can't remember exactly :)
18:38.09wethrinIt's a touch over £400/year which gives me 1U rackspace with 40GB/month transfer
18:38.13wethrinIn Telehouse
18:38.22resuDaedgrr, but my box is 3u :-(
18:38.33wethrinI also have serial console and APC Masterswitch (but they cost to set up)
18:38.44wethrinWell, it's £29+VAT/U/month/40GB
18:38.57wethrinGet a 1U box :)
18:39.03resuDaedapparantly +15GBP/m per extra U for each host
18:39.21resuDaedso that would be 59GBP/mo, out of student budget
18:39.33wethrinNot really good
18:39.36wethrinJust get a 1U :)
18:40.27resuDaedbut I already have my machine :-(
18:40.34wethrinGet a 1U case? :)
18:40.36resuDaed(Sun ultra2)
18:40.51wethrinAh. There's one (I can't remember the name) which colos in Maidenhead quite cheaply
18:41.00wethrinBut doesn't allow you to run an IRC server
18:41.13wethrinPoundhost is the name
18:41.23resuDaeddual 300Mz, 1536MB RAM and 2x SCSI HDD would seriously overheat in 1u
18:41.46wethrinMaybe. You get super-fast fans, though
18:44.05resuDaedat the moment, I have an effective heating system in my room (ss10,ultra5 and ultra2 atcked next to a dell poweredge 1300)
18:44.17wethrinhehe
18:44.37resuDaeda guaranteed 30 deg C in winter
18:45.22resuDaedI am looking at setting up a UML style hosting (similar to that of bytemark, although on a much smaller scale) to pay for the colo
18:45.54resuDaed(and if it picks up, my tuition fees and rent aswell, but I doubt it)
18:46.54wethrinYou're not going to do that on a U2
18:49.26resuDaedI know, but it would be a start, I could probably host maybe 4-6 hosts @ ~10/mo
18:49.58wethrinDoes xen run on a U2?
18:50.40resuDaednot surew
18:51.13resuDaedI still havn't decided on a suitable distro to run it from
18:51.17wethrinHeh
18:51.41resuDaed(I was going to use debian 'sarge', but I the installer doesn't support software raid very nicley)
18:52.10resuDaedand my typing is disgraceful
18:52.11wethrindoesn't it?
18:52.14wethrinWFM
18:53.14resuDaedthe partitioner in the installer doesn't allow me to set partition types to 0xfd and if I do it manually, it doesn't detect them
18:54.37resuDaedrc3 (tried others), netboot - sparc64?
18:59.53rhowewethrin: Oh, the whisky I bought was Clynelish, btw :)
18:59.57rhowewethrin: Didn't begin with S at all
19:00.31wethrinHeh. Was it nice, though?
19:00.54rhowehm, it's OK
19:01.32wethrinhm
19:01.42resuDaedwethrin, can you do me a favour... log in to the installer and see if I have missed anything?
19:02.10wethrinWhich installer?
19:02.31resuDaedthe debian installer (I have ssh access to it, much faster than the serial line I also have)
19:03.04wethrinYou should be able to do further setting up remotely :)
19:03.38resuDaedI have tried, but it always fails to work
19:04.17wethrinGot network, keyboard, timezone set up?
19:05.52resuDaednetwork ok, no keyboard, timezone will come later
19:06.03wethrinPartitions and filesystems?
19:09.15resuDaedmy problem, machine currently has 2x 9.1GB SCSI HDDs ... I am trying to partition such that I have a 50MB type 0x83 partiton formatted with ex2 at the beginning of each disk, and a 9.(whatever is left) type 0xfd (linux raid autodetect) at the end of the disk set as Raid1 with xfs
19:09.50resuDaedwhen  I use the installer, I don't have an option to use a partition as raid
19:10.15wethrinNo? That seems quite broken. I'm sure it worked for me
19:11.03resuDaednot only that, if I manually set the partition types, and skip the step straigt in to the raid config part of the installer, it claims not to be able to see the any partitions
19:11.29resuDaedhave tried different releases of the installer, missing from all
19:12.04resuDaedI have joined debian-sparc mailing list, and sent an email listing the above (in more detail) and not yet heard anything
19:12.07wethrinHow strange. But you can always do that later
19:12.36resuDaedYou mean just install as per usual, then convert to raid1
19:12.37resuDaed?
19:12.49wethrinAhh. Hm.
19:12.55wethrinPoint. Maybe not
19:13.02wethrinfdisk outside of the installer
19:13.24resuDaedtried it, the installer still doesn't detect the partitons as 0xfd
19:13.51resuDaed(OT: 0xfd looks like a l33t way of saying oxford)
19:14.00wethrin:-)
19:14.11wethrinHm. It worked on x86
19:14.30resuDaedsame here, I've just never set it up on sparc*
19:14.56wethrinahh
19:21.45resuDaedwhat is also confusing is that when the machine starts up, it always says Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet, then starts booting off of the network
19:22.08resuDaedit must have an incredibly low timeout period
19:22.27wethrinYes
19:23.13resuDaedit is on the same physical hub as the arp/rarp server
19:23.35resuDaed(on a very low traffic hub)
19:23.52wethrinOdd
19:25.20resuDaedand the arp/rarp server is deffinatly awake, it renews dhcp licenses every 300 seconds for 8 hosts
19:26.17wethrinHm
19:28.21resuDaedback to the colo, I may just have to host @ home and set up a directional antenta to steal uni wifi bandwidth :-)
19:28.47wethrinheh. Which Uni?
19:30.27resuDaedSHU (sheffield hallam), I leave wednesday week
19:31.32wethrinHeh. Where are you going to be living, then?
19:32.33resuDaedI was thinking sheffield would be a good first choice :-)  the place I am looking at is just slightly up hill of the uni about 5 mins walk to train station, and 10 to uni
19:32.47wethrinNot bad
19:33.02resuDaedit comes with b/band, but probably hosted on Windoze 98 or XP or something
19:33.19wethrinaye
19:33.55resuDaedI was going to set up a h/ware firewall between me and them anyway, but maybe I could also host the internet connection
19:34.30wethrinYou could. So you're doing a houseshare, then?
19:35.08resuDaedyeah, I feel too grown up for halls (and I am probably to late even if I wanted to)
19:35.23wethrinHeh. Halls have their uses
19:35.39wethrinNamely it means you're not going to be sharing a house with people who may be complete tossers
19:35.45wethrinUnless you know the people you're sharing with?
19:36.57resuDaedtrue, but it is only one year, and the current ratio (me excluded) is 80% female and 20% male, so the place has half a chance of being reasonably looked after
19:37.19wethrinEeexcellent
19:37.21wethrinAre they single? :)
19:38.05resuDaedafter the one year, I will probably find somewhere else (I am there for a total of 6), they will be gone in 2 anyway (second year students), so I can find my own housemates
19:38.14wethrin6? So it's part-time?
19:38.27resuDaedfull time
19:38.36wethrinso why 6?
19:38.58resuDaedI have a foundation year, 4 years BEng equivilent and 1 year MSc as an undergrad
19:39.07resuDaeds/MSc/MEng
19:39.17wethrinBEng should be 3 years
19:39.27resuDaedwith one year work placement
19:39.31wethrinAhh
19:39.40wethrinCompSci, or a real subject? :)
19:39.42resuDaedwhich I am thinking about
19:39.52resuDaeda real subject :-)
19:40.43resuDaednot enterly sure what speciallyity yet, but I still have time to decide
19:41.03resuDaedand I need to learn to type while thinking
19:41.07wethrinWhat subject, then? :)
19:41.17resuDaedmaybe putting keyboard on desk and typing with two hands
19:41.22wethrin:)
19:42.14resuDaedorrigionally it was going to be electronic engineering, but I am having doubts as to a) the fun factor, and b) the career prospects as a 'real' engineer
19:42.50resuDaedcomputers (much as I love them) are taking the actual engineering bit out of that inductry faster than any other
19:44.04wethrinThere's still a use for electronic engineers :)
19:44.24wethrinSpecially in microsystems or organic electronics
19:45.52resuDaedbut I'd rather get my hands dirty and build a really big powerful [something that involves metal, grease and heavy things]
19:50.24wethrinOh. You want to be a mechanical engineer, then
19:50.38resuDaedpossibly, that is what I am thinking about
19:50.51wethrinHrm :-P
19:51.48resuDaedwethrin, take a look @ http://resudaed.no-ip.net:8080/pics/screenshots (and click on the only link in there) and tell me if that is where I should see the option to set a partition for use as raid?
19:52.49resuDaedah, might want to make that with a trailing /
19:53.05wethrin404
19:53.18resuDaedsee above
19:53.23wethrin404
19:53.55resuDaed404 host not found or page not found or host found but cannot connect to :8080
19:54.40wethrinThe requested URL /pics/screenshots/ was not found on this server
19:54.50wethrinApache/1.3.29 Server at bigbertha.engield.resudaed.com Port 80
19:55.01resuDaedtry from /pics/
19:55.22wethrin3 dirs in there
19:55.37resuDaedmy bad, try without /pics
19:55.43resuDaedscreenshots is in the /
19:57.13wethrinHm
19:57.23wethrinStrange. I'm sure there was when I did it
19:57.33resuDaedthats what I woudl have tought
19:57.48wethrinUse LVM :)
19:58.23resuDaedlvm doesn't support mirroring does it?
19:58.32resuDaed(or do you mean raid on lvm
19:58.36resuDaed)
20:00.01rhowedevice mapper has a mirror target, but I don't think it works like you'd expect RAID to :)
20:05.14wethrinI don't know. agk knows about lvm
20:05.51resuDaedbrb, switching to a nicer irc client
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20:29.29wethrinBack to using irssi?
20:30.52resuDaedbitchx :-)
20:37.17wethrinEww
20:41.28JAVevening
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20:56.51agky, don't use lvm mirroring for anything beyond 'pvmove' yet
20:57.42agkit works, but it's just not very robust if things go wrong like if you get disk errors
21:18.40rhoweagk!
21:19.01rhoweagk: I've been looking at some horrid kernel code with someone from .de :)
21:19.07agkyeah, I'm finally back after holidays and conferences...
21:19.22rhoweagk: The delightful cpqfc driver
21:25.06agkyou're offering a talk about it for the next GLLUG?
21:27.33wethrinhi agk
21:30.40agkhi
21:33.32rhoweagk: heh, wasn't planning to.. I don't know anything about it, I just mess around with patches
21:34.15agkwethrin, that's not true.
21:34.35agkmake it singular
21:35.08wethrinWell, yes :)
21:35.09agkand I'm looking for anyone who wants to do this sort of work, doesn't matter where they work
21:38.40wethrinAh, so there's no application deadline, then?
21:45.22agkwe've at least 3 vacancies at the moment
21:46.23agkno deadline - each application is assessed on its merits
21:47.46wethrinThat's good, then. So do most people tend to work from home, or from RedHat Central?
21:48.30agkthere's a requirement to work from a RH office - might be possible to waive it in certain cases
21:48.47agkso in the UK that's Guildford or Cambridge
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21:50.07agkon the website it says the jobs are based in Minneapolis, but working out of other offices are OK
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21:56.30wethrinHm. I really should find a project to hack on to keep some programming going
21:57.12psnlwethrin: I could offer bad suggestions
21:57.24wethrinpsnl: I know you could. But all your projects involve graphing things
21:58.01psnlall?
21:58.09wethrinmost :)
21:59.55psnlone
21:59.59wethrinpff
22:00.50wethrinagk: Are you likely to be at any Gllug meetings if any are arranged in the next couple of months?
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