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00:20.22serrishi morsing
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05:08.14serrishi z00dax_mob
05:08.30z00dax_mobHey serris, up early ?
05:08.37serrishaven't slept yet
05:08.49z00dax_mobHow had married life been treating you so far
05:09.01z00dax_mobS/had/has/
05:09.08serrisgood : )
05:09.25serrisI'm currently trying to backup over 80GBs of data from my wife's PC
05:09.35serrisher 300GB SATA drive is starting to make funky noises
05:09.56serrisThe other 300GB SATA drive she has just died on her
05:11.22z00dax_mobDrive noise is not a good sign
05:12.27serrisnope
05:12.32z00dax_mobI m on a train , in the middle of nowhere, over edge 110k/sec link - oh amd this is in the middle of nowhere in India
05:12.32serrisesp. when nothing on the drive is backed up
05:12.33serris:D
05:12.43serrissounds like fun
05:12.54serrisI'm just sitting here wiating for the shops to open since I ran out of cigs
05:14.06z00dax_mobCigs are bad
05:14.48serrisThat's ok
05:16.14z00dax_mobAre you trying to give up?
05:17.52serrisnope
05:18.35z00dax_mobDamn! Why not ?
05:18.55z00dax_mobDid you just start recently
05:18.57serrisI don't know.. I tried a few times but other than that I'm not really wanting to
05:19.06serrisNo, been smoking for a while now
05:19.13serrisabout 7 years
05:21.52z00dax_mobYou should never give up wanting to give up. When you do is when you know you in the deep end.
05:22.20z00dax_mobI dont smoke :) never really have. But ive got lots of people to give up
05:22.23serrisBut I don't want to give up =/
05:29.48z00dax_mobDeep end..... Dude
05:29.58serrisI know :D It's great
05:33.21z00dax_mobFor the tar and other shit you accumulate in your lungs, yes i am sure its great
05:34.53serrisThat's ok. Everyone's gotta die from something ; )
05:36.36z00dax_mobIts not the dying, but the living that counts
05:36.49z00dax_mobFor me anyway
05:37.14serrisSame. And I'm happy living and smoking so ja
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06:49.51morsing'morning
06:53.11Gundemorning
07:07.27serrisgood morning morsing
07:07.36morsingserris!
07:07.45serrisLovely weather, isn't it?
07:10.45morsingNo
07:11.02serrisheh
07:11.07morsingIt does help show peoples poor driving skills though
07:11.07serrisIt wasn't that bad at 6ish
07:11.34morsingI just don't feel sorry for people smashing up their cars on the way to work somehow...
07:11.42serrisheh
07:12.03serrisIndeed
07:13.50serrisI'm just sitting here waiting for my wife's backups to finish. Her 300GB SATA drive started making funny noises so grabbing all the important info off it. One of her folders is all her graphics stuff, being 94000 files and 30GBs in size.
07:14.21serrisThis wouldn't be too bad if my file server wasn't a p200 with a 10Mbit card in it
07:19.25morsingBeer
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07:37.46morsingSlayerXP!
07:38.15SlayerXPmorning
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07:47.50morsingz00dax!
08:03.50BlaptoMorning
08:07.23sabinef72morning all
08:08.34Blaptosabinef72!
08:08.55sabinef72hi Blapto
08:08.57sabinef72morsing !!!!!!!!
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08:18.10morsingsabinef72!
08:18.11morsinghuw-l!
08:23.18sabinef72nooooooo
08:23.46morsing:)
08:27.25Leedsit's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere...
08:28.17sabinef72cold in Hong Kong ?
08:28.30LeedsI'm all alone, more or less...
08:29.01Leedssabinef72: it's a TV show theme tune :-)
08:32.16morsingCheck it!
08:48.17Blaptogoldfish shoals nibbling at your toes?
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09:32.33morsingmikejw!
09:34.50mikejwlo
09:45.06morsingMuyii
09:46.43mikejwpardon?
09:47.00Blaptoargh, bloody vserver
09:47.40murbwhat is the problem?
09:48.05Blaptovserver centos4template build -m apt-rpm --hostname centos4template --interface domain=eth0:192.168.0.91/24 --initstyle sysv --context 500 --force -- -d centos42
09:48.15BlaptoE: Couldn't find package glibc
09:49.35Blaptomaybe I should just stick to debian on debian...
09:50.28BlaptoBut my boss's friend insists that you can't have a non debian vserver on debian, so I'm mainly doing this to prove him wrong.
10:02.02murbi've certainly built centos filesystems on debian.
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10:30.41Blaptodo you remember how you did it?
10:35.58murbyes with rpmstrap
10:36.00murbsee http://hackers.progeny.com/~sam/rpmstrap/
10:37.00BlaptoI've installed that
10:37.03Blaptohow do I actually use it
10:37.32Blaptoalthough I might be getting somewhere with a yum install method :D
10:48.46mozratGood Morning from Amsterdam
10:49.51Blaptogood morning!
10:50.09BlaptoI might be going to Amsterdam soon, we're thinking about putting some servers in a datacentre there.
10:50.13serrisIsn't it 12:49PM in Amsterdam?
10:50.16BlaptoIs that what you're there for by any chance?
10:50.39murbno it is 12:50 there.
10:51.36mozratOh, so then Good Afternoon from Amsterdam
10:56.26morsingmozrat!
10:56.47mozrathi morsing
10:57.36mozratWARNING: Do not stare at this image for too long (Safe for work)
10:57.38mozrathttp://beerandspeech.org/tmp/headache.gif
11:02.09morsingFatal: Default image doesn't exist.
11:06.31BlaptoI appear to have a very basic installation of centos
11:06.46Blaptoso basic, it doesn't have rpm, yum, curl, wget, lynx
11:16.05Blaptono vi either!
11:17.30mozratthose tools are way overrated
11:17.37mozratyou should be editing files using cat and dd
11:18.27BlaptoI was going to use a tiny magnet
11:42.33keithlard_ho ho!
11:43.22mozratyum!
11:43.42mozratApparently there are coffee shops in Amsterdam. Must have a look later
11:44.08keithlard_it's fresh ground sumatran espresso
11:44.14morsingMmm... Scotch eggs
11:45.35keithlard_reely!
11:45.55morsingYup :)
11:46.05morsingI only bought two copies though
11:46.08keithlard_got any pics?
11:46.10morsingMight go get some more
11:46.23morsingkeithlard_: Not online from the magazine
11:46.33morsingOr what was the question?
11:47.03keithlard_ooh, xchat-gnome just popped an onscreen notify for that :>
11:47.21morsingWhat?
11:47.28keithlard_what you said
11:47.51keithlard_have you got any pictures of the car then
11:47.54morsingYEs
11:48.21morsinghttp://www.morsing.cc/billed.php?STED=Chevelle
11:49.02keithlard_now that i've installed this illegal grey-market gaim2 package on ubuntu, gimmie integration is working nicely
11:49.46keithlard_gimmie rocks!
11:49.59morsingWhat's gimmie?
11:50.28keithlard_oh that's an awesome car! :D
11:51.55keithlard_it's a gnome panel replacement, that looks more like the OS X dock, but it's smarter
11:52.34keithlard_it remembers the apps and documents that you recently used, and integrates with Tomboy and Gaim and Nautilus and what not
11:52.54keithlard_http://beatnik.infogami.com/Gimmie
11:54.30keithlard_it's from the same bloke who wrote Tomboy, which is also fantastic
11:57.35Leedswhat's tomboy then?
11:58.06Leedsalso, evening all
11:58.47keithlard_it's a sticky notes app that thinks it's a wiki
11:58.56keithlard_howdy!
11:59.39Leedsoh, that - ISTR thinking it was a very good idea
11:59.50keithlard_http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/
12:00.01keithlard_yeah, it's brilliant. i'm using it all the time now
12:00.22keithlard_you can type 'remind today at 19:00' and have it pop up the note at the right time
12:00.43keithlard_and drag emails and graphics into notes and things
12:01.03keithlard_there's even some talk of a mediawiki backend so it actually *is* a wiki
12:01.19Leedsthat's the one
12:04.50keithlard_simple and genius
12:15.39rhowekeithlard_: Have you seen the amount of RAM it uses?
12:16.11keithlard_hey, what's ram for :D
12:16.30rhoweISTR it often getting stuck in a loop too, spinning on the CPU
12:16.35rhoweIt uses mono
12:32.30mikejwif I had an office I'd make everyone use tomboy
12:35.20keithlard_:D
12:36.48wethrinHi
12:39.08mikejwwethrin: yo
13:40.43morsingBeer
13:41.56morsingpiing wethrin
14:00.57rhowehmm
14:01.11rhoweI think I just found a decent supplier for physical cabling, etc
14:01.12rhowehttp://www.millsltd.com/
14:11.20Blaptomorsing, was it in a cisco 1700?
14:11.54Blaptoand talking of cabling, does anybody have a rough idea of the cost of a fibre run between the docklands and reading?
14:18.20cpufreakdo you need the fibre lit?
14:18.24cpufreakor do you want dark fibre?
14:23.35Blaptoto be honest, I have no idea
14:23.51BlaptoIt would be for replicating a SAN array, so I'm guessing dark fibre
14:26.06cpufreakcan the SANs not do replication over IP?
14:27.35Blaptoit's not as fast
14:28.33BlaptoHP reckon we'll get synchronous replication from the docklands to reading as long as we can get fibre with a latency below 10ms
14:28.46cpufreaksure, but its gonna be 120k+/yr I'd reckon
14:29.19BlaptoNot much more than the Oracle licenses then
14:29.29cpufreakplus there's the whole shiznit with councils wanting tax for you traversing their ducting
14:30.07murbhah council rates for cable?
14:30.13murbor?
14:31.01cpufreakBlapto: why do you want to replicate to reading.
14:31.46cpufreakbecause if there's not fibre running from $fibreprovider -> the road outside your building
14:31.54cpufreakgetting it run will be $$$$
14:32.14BlaptoThere may well be, we'd be going into a datacentre in reading
14:32.15cpufreakwhy reading though
14:32.24cpufreakthats like going on holiday to birmingham
14:32.28trousersHallo thar
14:32.30BlaptoBecause it's as close as possible whilst being acceptable to our insurers
14:32.43BlaptoI know, I want to go to Amsterdam!
14:32.53morsingBlapto: No
14:32.58Blaptomorsing?
14:33.24cpufreakreally? FSA regs say DR sites just have to be >1KM or sommat
14:33.38BlaptoWe've got a number like 36 miles
14:33.55cpufreakso why not C+W's DC in park royal
14:34.09cpufreakalso, I've a mate with a DC in southampton
14:34.30cpufreakwhich is def > 36 miles and is on net with most providers, so can probably sort out decent prices
14:34.53Blaptobut reading is closer, quite popular and well connected
14:35.00BlaptoAnd quite cheap as well
14:35.01cpufreakbut still reading.
14:35.08BlaptoI think we're paying about £1300/month just for power in redbus
14:35.12Blapto£450/8A
14:35.35cpufreakgoing back to my original point
14:35.39cpufreakwhy aren't you getting good speeds over IP
14:36.03cpufreakI've been testing datareplication over IP a lot in my current role
14:36.21cpufreakcomparing different technologies, and different ways of making it happen faster
14:37.11cpufreakwith the likes of VVR, or NetAPP snapmirror, or HDS trucopy, I've been able to saturate any link I give it
14:37.41cpufreakover links which simulate distance from UK to AU for example
14:38.10cpufreakthis DC in reading though, is it ASUK/Dedipower?
14:38.45morsing15:11 < Blapto> morsing, was it in a cisco 1700?
14:39.35BlaptoAh, right
14:39.38BlaptoSorry, was on the phone
14:40.06wethrinpong?
14:40.11wethriner, morsing, pong
14:40.18BlaptoWe really want this data to be synchronous, if it's not we'll just go out to Amsterdam and have some fun with it
14:40.53cpufreakyes
14:40.58cpufreakVVR is syncronous
14:40.59BlaptoAnd HP, amongst many others have assured us that if the latency is any higher than 10ms then just to forget about it
14:41.22cpufreakI've done it with 350ms
14:41.26cpufreaknot with HP kit.
14:41.47BlaptoThen there's either a huge performance hit, or the data doesn't exist on both spindles at the same time
14:42.30cpufreakit exists within 350ms
14:43.00cpufreakwhich is close enough for me to consider it synchronous
14:43.03Blaptoat that point, we may as well just backup the oracle redo logs every 30 seconds
14:43.12morsingwethrin?
14:43.47wethrinyes?
14:43.50wethrinYou pung me
14:43.54wethrinAt 1441
14:43.59cpufreakBlapto: thats with me simulating 350ms latency. the less latency, the quicker it exists ont he other end.
14:44.07BlaptoOK
14:44.17Blaptobut in the event of a distaster
14:44.26Blaptoreplicating databases like that could get a little hairy
14:45.38cpufreakhang on a second. surely it'd be far easier just to have offsite hotstandbys
14:45.42cpufreakin your DR site
14:46.38cpufreakrather than doing it at the disk layer.
14:47.06morsingwethrin: Yes but I can't remember why
14:47.23Blaptono, because we need the same dataset
14:47.44wethrinmorsing: oh
14:48.28cpufreakso use shareplex or similar then
14:49.05BlaptoI'll have a look
14:49.41cpufreakits what we use.
14:49.50cpufreakfor our oracle replication
14:50.51Blaptowhat does it actually do
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14:53.29cpufreakI just checked with one of our DBAs who is ex Quest..
14:54.49cpufreakit sits and watches redo logs on your db server, when entries come in, before they're read by oracle, it looks for queries its interested in (Eg update, insert, delete ..) and packages them up, sends them over TCP/UDP to your remote db server, and applies it as a SQL statement on the remote db server.
14:55.06cpufreakand its synchronous
14:55.41cpufreakand it scales well - oracle reckon our DB is the 4th busiest oracle db in the world...and its fine.
14:59.21BlaptoThat looks very interesting
15:00.01cpufreakcheaper than darkfibre too :)
15:00.35cpufreakand can send data to multiple places etc.
15:00.38BlaptoI've been put in touch with someone who can give us darkfibre between the datacentre we're in now and one in reading for about £35kPA
15:00.45BlaptoBut Quest does look good
15:00.50Blaptoany idea what the price entry point is
15:01.51cpufreakI've no idea, I'm insulated from pricing mostly here.
15:02.12Blaptook
15:02.28cpufreakthey're a good company to deal with though, so just give them a call
15:03.57BlaptoDoing that now
15:05.35Leedsblood!
15:08.37Leedsnah, just a little pric
15:08.41Leedsk
15:09.56murbfeeding your baby pet vamire?
15:09.59murbp
15:21.15Blaptocpufreak, do you have a contact in quest, so I don't have to talk to a mindless sales drone?
15:21.36cpufreakI'll ask the DBAs when they return
15:21.41cpufreakthey seem to have gone to a team meeting
15:21.42morsingBeer
15:29.02wethrin~change 147 EUR to USD
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19:43.05wethrinw00t
19:52.57z00daxhey wethrin
19:53.28z00daxbtw, just so that everyone knows - indians make the best indian curry :)
19:53.37z00daxand my mom does an especially good job of it
19:57.11z00daxwethrin:  i have 4 glass's of Blue Label down me today :)
20:00.45serrisHey z00dax
20:01.06serrisI don't like curry : (
20:01.06z00daxserris: !
20:01.51serrisI need to go shower then get to work. I'll talk to ya'll later
20:01.55z00daxcya
20:07.23wethrinz00dax: SMWS! Try some *real* whisky :)
20:10.35z00daxyes, one of these days... but the blue label was nice
20:12.47wethrin:)
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22:04.36PinguKaosevening all
22:13.24wethrinhello
22:15.50PinguKaoshello wethrin, hows you?
22:19.52wethrinI'm okay
22:20.16PinguKaosglad to hear it
22:20.23wethrinWatching stuff on tV
22:20.46PinguKaosaah, i've just spent the evening getting a wireless network up
22:21.23PinguKaosubuntu didn't like the card I popped in it, finally got it working, hence I'm here
22:22.22wethrinfun
22:22.31PinguKaosjust been watching the Ridley Scott interview on Newsnight, looks ok
22:22.40PinguKaoshis new film that is
22:23.07PinguKaosyeah, 'twas, gonna have to find something else to break now :|
22:23.20wethrinLeave it a bit - it'll break itself
22:23.30PinguKaosyup...true heh
22:24.33PinguKaosI think the last time I was in here I was just starting Uni...good news, A few Nix labs, I'm a happy Student
22:25.28wethrincool. Which Uni? Anmd how's it going?
22:26.32PinguKaosCity over in Islington, it's going pretty well, got some business type modules next term tho, not looking forwards to them at all...heh
22:27.02wethrinBusiness stuff is overrated
22:27.11PinguKaosbut they are pretty pro Open Source, so I spend a lot of times messing around with SUSE in there
22:28.01wethrinnice
22:28.23PinguKaosmost certainly, I'm much happier with a bag of maths and a box of code to play with, guess it's just one of those things that I'll have to grit my teeth through
22:29.19wethrinTrue
22:29.30wethrinDon't you have any options?
22:29.57PinguKaosnope, all electives start next year :(
22:30.03wethrinbah
22:31.01PinguKaostheres 12 streams in the Informatics department so everyone in the first year sits tasters in most of them, suppose it's a bit of a leveller, after this year it's mostly all good
22:31.17wethrinFair enough
22:31.59PinguKaosbut if I wanted business I'd have enrolled in CASS...ho hum
22:33.40PinguKaosanyways, as per usual, flying visit....got an early start tomorrow and a ....gulp....presentation....been good speaking to you, take care
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22:56.22keithlard_z00dax!
23:02.00wethrinHello!
23:02.05wethrinkeithlard_: CURRY!
23:02.17wethrinWe should get a #gllug group to go for curry some time
23:02.23keithlard_i'm into that
23:02.39keithlard_i just came from a sysops meeting held at the bengal lancer in kentish town ;D
23:06.15wethrinOh, nice
23:06.36wethrinWas this the sysadmin SIG, or whatever it's called?
23:07.16keithlard_no just wordtracker sysops (minus z00dax)
23:08.28keithlard_hmm, has anyone built evolution from cvs?
23:09.31wethrinBuilding many things is an ordeal
23:09.43wethrinYou work in the same place as z00dax?
23:09.59keithlard_yup
23:10.59wethrinYou incestuous bunch of #glluggers :-P
23:11.14wethrinDid you work at the same place as Cope some time back, then?
23:11.31keithlard_yup :D
23:11.57z00daxwork ? what work ? we just get together have a good time, party hard
23:12.04z00daxthen go home to recoup, and start again
23:12.06z00daxkeithlard_: !
23:12.13keithlard_hahaha that's pretty much it
23:12.17keithlard_you forgot the curry
23:12.28wethrinAha
23:12.28z00dax:(
23:12.44wethrinYou've made me want curry now
23:12.46wethrinFiends!
23:12.51keithlard_i tried to get cope hired at wordtracker as well
23:12.59keithlard_he didn't want to commute from hampshire :(
23:13.21z00daxi had some awesome curry tonight
23:13.22wethrinSilly fellow. Can I get a job next year while writing up my PhD? :)
23:13.33z00daxand i really need to go back ta sleep  its almost 5am
23:13.40keithlard_well we are looking for a sysadmin!
23:13.46wethrinBut I suppose it's fair enough to not want to commute in from Hampshire. It's a bit far
23:14.00wethrinnight z00dax
23:14.01keithlard_z00dax> laterz
23:14.01z00daxcya all laterz!
23:14.03wethrinCool
23:14.54wethrinIf I can't find an academic job..... :-)
23:17.23keithlard_what's your phd in?
23:24.14wethrinOrganic electronics
23:24.25wethrinI'm building thin film transistors
23:25.24keithlard_cool!
23:30.13wethrinWhen they work :)
23:30.47keithlard_quite intresting anyway
23:31.57wethrinTrue. I just got a new process working
23:32.05wethrinSo I can make a decent gate contact
23:34.06keithlard_nice!
23:38.34wethrinyup. I'm getting what appear to be bias stress effects, so my source-drain current reduces. I'll have to do a test over time, really
23:39.53keithlard_i did not understand that, but it sounds convincing
23:40.23wethrinSorry :)

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