IRC log for #gllug on 20080805

02:17.04*** join/#gllug Leeds (n=richardc@awork064158.netvigator.com)
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05:46.11morsingLeeds!
05:47.21Armandmorning morsing..
05:47.30morsing'morning
05:48.17ArmandHow are you, on this seemingly fine day?
05:48.28morsingGreat :D
05:48.36Armandcool
05:48.41morsingYou?
05:48.52Armandmeh.. bit tired.
05:48.58Armandstayed up all night, again.
05:49.04morsing:((
05:49.17Leedswhy?
05:49.24morsinghugs Leeds
05:49.48Armandwatching Stargate.. playing games, etc..
05:55.23Leedsseems like we may have a *proper* typhoon warning tonight, rather than the current wimpy one
05:56.35Armanderm, what warning ?
05:56.53LeedsT1 right now
06:01.01LeedsArmand: in case you don't know - I'm a long long way away from London
06:01.21ArmandAhh..
06:01.26ArmandI forget. :P
06:01.41ArmandHK, right?
06:01.50Leedsoh, and it's impossible to have a typhoon in London... Atlantic storms are called hurricanes instead
06:01.53Leedsyes
06:02.08ArmandThe old brain does work.. from time to time. :P
06:03.39ArmandWell, have fun with that..
06:04.01Leedsdoubt it
06:04.48Leedsthere are three significant levels of typhoon warning: T1 means "there's one somewhere around our part of the world", T3 means "it's going to rain and get windy", T8 means "it's going to hit us somewhat, get under cover now"
06:05.31morsingBeer
06:05.36Leedsthere are levels above T8, but I think it's around 10 years since one was raised... T8 is the interesting one because it means work is cancelled
06:05.47Armandmorsing: yes please. :)
06:06.07ArmandLeeds: Deffo sounds like fun.
06:07.43Leedsdoesn't look like this will be a T8 - so we get the wind and rain without the time off work
06:08.04ArmandWell, whenever it rains a bit.. I get time off.
06:08.18ArmandAlthough, I only work when we have a job to do. :P
06:08.21Leedsbecause you're a cricket umpire?
06:08.27ArmandNah, gardener. :)
06:09.05Leedsclose enough
06:09.16Armandeasier, I think..
06:09.28Armandbrb
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06:13.18morsingArmand!
06:13.50Armand:)
06:14.03Armandjust had to check my Ops on new channel. :)
06:17.59morsingLeeds: What's your favourite tea?
06:18.15Leedsgreen
06:20.51Armandbleuch
06:22.17morsingArmand: Yours?
06:22.21Leedsor lemon
06:22.50Armandnone.. coffee for me.
06:22.56morsingArmand: YES!!
06:22.57Armandtea gives me heartburn. >_<
06:23.03morsingTea is vile
06:23.17ArmandI can drink 1 cup, if there is nothing else.
06:23.30Armandwith 3 sugars. :P
06:31.47morsingWhiskey
06:32.31Armand>_<
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06:35.24morsingArmand!
07:08.26Leedsthe typhoon, by the way, is called Julian
07:09.09Armandpoor thing..
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07:17.47morsingChoHag!
07:18.11morsingChoHag: ?!!??!!  Are you Matthew????
07:22.50ChoHagYes, I am.
07:23.07ChoHagHence 'Matthew King' in whois.
07:23.08morsingGod... I never realised! Hey, how are you?
07:23.21morsingI just noticed mking in your address
07:23.31ChoHagWell I'm awake.
07:23.40morsingHow was your wedding?
07:24.05Leedsnot m khan?
07:24.18morsingbites Leeds
07:27.05ChoHagGood.
07:27.08ChoHagBewildering.
07:27.35morsingIn what way?
07:29.47ChoHagWell I've never got married before.
07:29.47ChoHagIt was ... odd.
07:33.30morsingDo you plan on doing it often?
07:34.45ChoHagNever again.
07:34.55morsing:)
07:35.12ArmandNot enough room under the patio? :P
07:35.19morsing??
07:35.21ChoHagNo patio.
07:35.24ChoHagGot a river though.
07:35.28ArmandSweet..
07:35.32morsing???
07:35.32Armandfloater, ftw
07:35.46morsingHave I missed something here?
07:35.52Armandhands morsing a sense of humour..
07:35.55Armand^_^
07:36.10morsingI don't get it...
07:36.20Armandlol
07:36.41ArmandWell, if a bloke kills his missus, he's supposed to bury her under the patio.
07:36.52ArmandAhhh.. nuts.
07:37.01ArmandFTP client crashed. >_<
07:43.56morsingBeer
07:44.18Armanddamnit.. gimme the beer or gtfo!
07:44.20Armand:P
07:51.17j0nrgood moaning
07:59.45Leedspaycheque cleared - I'm liquid :-)
08:01.06bilarhif you're anything like me, it will last for about 2 hours until you pay your bills :S
08:02.10Leedsnope... it was a half-decent paycheque, and one of the benefits of cash-flow problems is that once you get through them, you're normally in good shape
08:03.50bilarhcool :)
08:04.02bilarhand, you usually watch your pennies for a while afterwards too
08:04.09Leedsas opposed to actual cash problems
08:04.37LeedsI know I've got at least two more similarly-sized cheques coming from this current work - could be more - unless something goes wrong
08:05.20bilarhanyone want to buy a 19" dell lcd screen?
08:06.13LeedsI've got two viewsonics - one at the office, one at home
08:06.31bilarhviewsonics are usually ok
08:06.44bilarhi want a 30" apple cinema display at home
08:06.49halimorning ladies
08:06.50bilarhthey're fantastic imo
08:06.59bilarhhali: in the market for a screen? :D
08:07.03bilarhgood price for you, my friend
08:07.14halidid you nick another screen at work?
08:07.21bilarhno this is the one i nicked ages ago
08:07.28haliah
08:07.29halino thanks
08:07.30bilarhi'm clearing out my room
08:07.40bilarhactually, i bought it fair and square
08:07.46bilarhpaid 120 quid i did
08:07.47morsingBeer
08:08.10bilarhcome on my friend!! good screen, no?
08:08.31halii trade, four camels
08:08.42bilarhFOUR CAMELS, YOU MUST be JOKING!
08:08.51halibig humps
08:08.53ArmandShame I already got a 17" LCD for nothing. :P
08:08.55haligood camels
08:08.58morsinghumps bilarh
08:09.00bilarhcome on, straight swap for your daughter
08:09.20haliyou are killing me, everyone knows daughter is worth at least 2 screens
08:09.21bilarhthumps morsing
08:09.23Armandfk that, I'll swap you a dishwasher for the daughter!
08:09.37Armanddishwasher = my mum. :D
08:09.39bilarharmand: if she was brought up correctly, she'd do the dishes anyway
08:10.37bilarhhali: how about *two* screens, a packet of chewing gum, an old amd 64 bit processor and a 4mb 72-pin dim?
08:10.40bilarhm
08:11.57bilarhi'm trying to get rid of my old htpc as well
08:12.13bilarhits' got a proper htpc case with a vfd display
08:12.19bilarhcomes with a dvd player
08:12.43bilarhgigabyte motherboard, 1gb ram, amd 64 3200+ processor, ati radeon x8000gt (or something like that)
08:13.11Armandnot bad, shame about the ATI card.
08:13.27bilarhyou could always change it
08:13.31bilarhit hasn't got a psu at the moment
08:13.53ArmandI've got to save up anyways. >_<
08:14.03bilarhgood price for you, my friend
08:14.08halihm, that setup sounds familiar :)
08:14.13bilarhhali: :D
08:14.14Armanddriving license, and a SAS controller.
08:14.31bilarhhali: do you remember what that psu cost?
08:14.37Armandneeds a job..
08:14.39bilarhhali: it was like 60 quid or something, wasn't it?
08:14.40halibilarh: 50 quid or so i think, pc world rape
08:14.45halipossibly over 50
08:14.53bilarhit's quite a nice psu actually
08:14.59bilarhi can't remember what the hell it was called now, though
08:15.05haliim tempted to sell my htpc as well, i want a smaller and quieter
08:15.17bilarhwintv nova-500 going as well, dual tuner
08:15.21bilarhdigital tv
08:15.28halithat small'ish shuttle with the low end intel proc would do nice
08:15.32haliis that a pci card?
08:15.38bilarhyeah
08:15.44halii may be tempted to buy that actually
08:16.00bilarhi need to find the remote for it first
08:16.09bilarhi had it just the other week, but i've misplaced it somewhere in the house
08:16.12bilarhgreat timing :)
08:16.23LeedsI bought a 640GB drive for just over 40 quid at the weekend... it's ridiculous
08:16.46bilarhdamn, that is 10000 times bigger than my first hard drive i bought and 1/3 of the cost :D
08:16.55bilarhmind, that was 15 years ago :)
08:16.57Leedsmy first was 10MB
08:17.12bilarhmine was 64mb :)
08:17.15bilarhit was huuuuge
08:17.20bilarhi never managed to fill it up in two years :D
08:17.22Leedswith doublespace
08:17.29bilarhmine was amiga
08:17.34bilarhah, doublespace was the shit, though
08:17.43Armandlol
08:17.59ArmandI remember that crap.. pissing about with 540MB HDs. :P
08:18.07Leedsactually, it's possible it was 5MB->10MB compressed
08:20.31halidoublespace was much later than small drives
08:20.37halistacker possibly :)
08:20.55haliwhen i tried doublespace hdd's where in 500meg range
08:20.57morsingBeer
08:21.13Leedshali: this was 1994 - it was a very old second-hand PC
08:21.34Leedsin 1995 I got a new PC with an 850MB drive
08:21.57morsingArmand: I remember using computers before it was common to have harddrives at all ;)
08:22.27Leedsmorsing: do they have hard drives in Denmark yet?
08:22.35morsingNo
08:23.14haliand these days kids run around with 64Gb USB sticks
08:23.47Leedsyou can get an 8GB memory card the size of a little-finger-nail for not very much
08:26.59Armandmorsing: You're OLD!
08:27.10Armandruns!
08:27.12halii'd guess most people here started with hdd-less computers
08:27.14morsingArmand: I know :(((
08:27.22halic64, vic20, spectrum's, bbc whatitsname
08:27.35halia vaxen or two
08:27.46morsinghali: I'm talking proper computers, not gaming computers
08:27.53morsingRegneCentralen
08:28.01morsingPiccoline, etc
08:28.03*** join/#gllug Discordian (n=ch@chills.demon.co.uk)
08:28.17haliwe had abc80
08:29.09halibut i doubt any of them are known in the uk
08:29.25morsingI know
08:35.59mikejwlo
08:36.07mikejwmorsing: that video rules by the way :)
08:36.14morsingmikejw: So you knew it!?
08:36.47morsingpokes mikejw in the eye
08:37.24mikejwno no
08:37.24mikejwI mean yes I knew it
08:37.25morsingright... How odd
08:37.25morsingOh, you did
08:37.55mikejwI mean I knew the song very well and the video very distantly :)
08:37.59morsingLeeds: Have you ever seen this before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG96ahzzup8&feature=related
08:38.03morsingOk
08:38.32morsingmikejw: It's just difficult to explain to people
08:38.42morsingExactly what it is you're trying to find
08:38.57mikejwfor sure
08:39.12mikejwespecially when it's something so surreal and awesome :]
08:39.15morsing:))
08:39.27Discordianponders applying for a job with Ph0rm
08:46.14mindbendrmorning
08:46.26morsingmindbendr!
08:46.31DiscordianMorning
08:49.42phearlessgood morning !
08:50.15Discordianis it?
08:50.31DiscordianI think the jury is out on that still
08:58.01*** join/#gllug cup (n=cup@netvoya-adsl.demon.co.uk)
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09:10.26morsingcup!
09:11.00cupmorning
09:11.43*** join/#gllug Blapto (n=martin@62.189.100.228)
09:11.55morsingBlapto!
09:12.02Blaptobeer!
09:18.27morsingBlapto: Why did cup leave?
09:18.34BlaptoHe was angry
09:18.43BlaptoProbably with his mother and his penis
09:19.03morsingNice
09:19.04antiphaseHis mother's got a penis?
09:20.22morsingantiphase: Well, mine does, don't they all?#
09:23.16BlaptoCould someone help me out with:
09:23.17Blaptohttp://pastebin.com/d71d4f792
09:23.40LeedsBlapto: at first glance, I'd say...
09:23.47Leedsit's a link to an item in a pastebin
09:23.49LeedsHTH
09:24.27morsingLeeds: You're holding hands?!
09:24.46DiscordianLooks like bad ASCII art
09:25.18morsingLeeds: Why don't you answer me when I speak to you?
09:25.29morsing09:37 < morsing> Leeds: Have you ever seen this before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG96ahzzup8&feature=related
09:26.53morsingLeeds: Twat
09:37.41Leedsis falling asleep
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09:39.01morsingcup!
09:48.06mindbendr./kill morsing
09:50.56Blaptomindbendr: # pwd
09:51.38mindbendrwhat's that mean
09:52.03BlaptoType it into a shell.  Perfectly safe, prints working directory.
09:52.09mindbendri know
09:52.29BlaptoWell, it's just you said ./kill, which implies you're in /bin
09:52.41BlaptoBut I wanted to make sure you hadn't compiled some ninja kill
09:53.07mindbendrhow do i do that without a dot in irssi
09:53.17Blapto///
09:53.22mindbendr///test
09:53.25mindbendrhehehe
09:53.26BlaptoOr perhaps //
09:53.30mindbendrnope
09:53.36BlaptoI think / escapes the next /
09:53.41mindbendrit doesn't
09:53.46wethrin/ /
09:53.46BlaptoTry with just 2?
09:53.51mindbendrdid
09:53.53mindbendrit didn't :)
09:53.54BlaptoAh, there we go
09:54.01morsingmikejw: Just add a space first
09:54.03morsing<PROTECTED>
09:54.09morsingmindbendr: Sorry
09:54.17mindbendrmorsing: why don't you just disable it
09:54.18wethrin/kill
09:54.24wethrinSee! No space!
09:54.25mindbendrwethrin ruled
09:54.28morsingmindbendr: I don't own freenode
09:54.30*** join/#gllug DiscordianUK (n=ch@chills.demon.co.uk)
09:54.38mindbendrmorsing: huh?
09:54.59mindbendrmorsing: what's the deal with freenode and by your greeting trigger
09:55.23morsingmindbendr: Nothing, you asked me to disable the / in your client
09:55.34wethrinthat has nothing to do with Freenode, though
09:55.37mindbendrmorsing: lol
09:55.50mindbendractually
09:55.53mindbendrit was something like this
09:55.53Blaptois thoroughly confused
09:55.55mindbendr10:38 -!- cup [n=cup@netvoya-adsl.demon.co.uk] has joined #gllug
09:55.55mindbendr10:39 < morsing> cup!
09:55.56mindbendr10:48 < mindbendr> ./kill morsing
09:55.56mindbendr10:50 < Blapto> mindbendr: # pwd
09:58.29mindbendrmorsing: it was about your channel greeting trigger :)
09:58.39morsingRight
09:59.00cupI find it very welcoming
09:59.15mindbendrirc gods blessed cup
09:59.25morsingmindbendr: Most people do actually
09:59.34morsingOnly twats and weenies find it annoying
09:59.45mindbendrmorsing: it's not 1998
10:00.08mindbendrwould you like some bitchx greeting and away messages etc
10:00.11DiscordianUKi hate irc bots
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10:00.27morsingDiscordianUK: 10:59 < morsing> Only twats and weenies find it annoying
10:00.31morsingcup!
10:00.39LeedsDiscordianUK: scarily, morsing isn't a bot
10:00.43wethrinbots have their uses
10:00.50DiscordianUKYes that is scary
10:00.53Leedsibot do you have any uses?
10:00.54ibotyes, I have any uses.
10:00.57morsingwethrin: Indeed, like greetings
10:01.31DiscordianUKi'm neither a twat or a newbie
10:02.06mindbendr./load bitchx && /flood morsing
10:02.11bilarhmorsing: hrm.. i wouldn't say a "bot greeting" is exactly useful
10:02.31bilarhhardly personal, is it?
10:02.34morsingbilarh: It makes people return to the channel
10:02.45DiscordianUKIt doesn't
10:02.47morsing*most* people
10:02.48mindbendrno way.
10:02.49bilarhno it doesn't
10:02.55morsingDiscordianUK: Not twats and weenies fortunately
10:03.02wethrinNo, it doesn't make people return
10:03.14mindbendrit's not sainsburys, is it
10:03.22mindbendrhow come that would help for someone to get back to the channel
10:03.32bilarhand even if it was sainsbury's, they don't have a computer automatically greeting you
10:03.42wethrinPeople return if they find the conversations interesting, or relevant, or something
10:03.46bilarhbecause that's really impersonal and frankly, a bit insulting
10:04.02bilarha bit like me :D
10:04.14mindbendra morning conversation couldn't be more proactive than today
10:04.17wethrinAnd I go to Sainsbury's because it's the closest one to my house. Not because of the quality of any greeting (they have none)
10:04.24wethrininsults bilarh
10:04.30wethrinibot insult bilarh
10:04.46bilarhsee, that was an impersonal insult, it doesn't work on me
10:05.03bilarhnow, if you had typed "bilarh is a cock faced twat" yourself, that would have been insulting
10:05.09bilarhnote: copy and paste does not count :P
10:05.14wethrineven if it's true? :)
10:05.20bilarhhehe
10:06.07morsing\o/
10:06.19mikejwmorsing: put a space where?
10:06.27morsingmikejw: In front of the \
10:06.36bilarhwhat (still) gets my goat, is that southeastern trains have an automated system that tells you if the train is going to be late, and then the (automatic) woman says "*I* am sorry for any inconvenience caused"... htf can a bloody computer be "sorry" for christs sake
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10:07.17morsingrhowe_!
10:07.19mindbendrthey say `we are sorry` for southwest trains
10:07.22mindbendrit makes sense
10:07.26mikejwwhich \?
10:07.30wethrinMost people are sorry for Southwest trains
10:07.36morsingmikejw: ?!
10:07.38bilarhmindbendr: yeah that makes sense, but not "I am sorry"
10:07.48mindbendrwethrin, you should see great western trains
10:07.52mikejw?!?
10:08.09mikejwnevermind
10:08.11mindbendrsw trains feels like a king of the train companies comparing to that one
10:08.35mindbendri wonder how virgin does
10:08.42bilarhvirgins? where?
10:08.44wethrinmindbendr: I don't see them, because they don't turn up reliably
10:08.47bilarhscouts
10:08.56wethrinWell, also that I'm the wrong end of the country for them
10:09.28mindbendrwhenever it rains something always goes wrong with the trains and it doesn't make sense
10:09.46mindbendrand considering that it rains a lot
10:10.00mindbendrit goes always wrong
10:10.10Leedswe're going to get hit (minorly) by a typhoon tonight... it won't affect public transport at all
10:10.17wethrinIf it's sunny, the trains go wrong too
10:10.28wethrinIn fact, if a day ends in a 'y', the trains go wrong
10:10.34DiscordianUKheh
10:10.36mindbendrheheh
10:10.51DiscordianUKI used to work in the rail industry, so true
10:11.11mindbendranybody has got about `write barries, LVM and xfs`
10:11.14mindbendr*an idea
10:11.24Leedsbarriers?
10:11.33mindbendr`Barriers and journaling filesystems`
10:11.42Leedsno, no idea
10:11.50Leedsagk might :-)
10:11.59DiscordianUKI've heard the term mentioned
10:12.05DiscordianUKbut i've no idea
10:12.23mindbendrit's something important, http://lwn.net/Articles/283161/
10:12.27mindbendryou might wanna have a look
10:12.45mindbendrif you are using write caching disabled and may be LVM on top of it
10:12.47mindbendrwith journaling fs
10:13.19LeedsI've got an almost 2GB LVM ext3 fs at home...
10:13.25Leedsmake that 2TB :-D
10:13.42mindbendryeah so you are kinda lack of journaling support
10:13.52mindbendrif it crashes, say bye bye to your data
10:14.00wethrinThat's why you have backups
10:14.11wethrinIf you don't, your data obviously isn't worth all that much
10:14.23mindbendryeah but i really don't wanna restore 2 TB data
10:14.32mindbendri've got 9 TB here and it's going to be doubled in a few months
10:14.46mindbendrso i'm really concerned about this issue
10:14.59Leedsbackwhats?
10:15.00mindbendrin case of a fs check of 9 TB doesn't do any good
10:15.38Leedsone of the drives in the 'array' is currently sitting on the sofa next to my server, on a USB->SATA adapter... should really take the machine down and put it in
10:16.01mindbendrlol
10:16.17wethrinNo-one wants to restore data. There are various ways of reducing the risk
10:16.22DiscordianUKi remember when fscking 2gb took an hour
10:16.47mindbendryeah TBs would take weeks
10:17.21DiscordianUKperhaps that's a bit exaggerated
10:18.06Leedstook a couple of hours to do 2TB at the weekend
10:18.23DiscordianUKsounds about right
10:18.30mindbendrLeeds: but if it needs to be recovered from a crash, would take more
10:18.45Leedssure
10:18.45DiscordianUKi've not lost data to ext3 in this century
10:18.55LeedsDiscordianUK: to ext3 or to failed drives?
10:19.25mindbendrLeeds: why did you fsck anyway?
10:19.45mindbendrit's not needed for ext3 afaik?
10:19.57DiscordianUKto ext3 problems
10:20.13DiscordianUKI've lost data to failed drives
10:20.23DiscordianUKBut that's a given
10:21.21Leedsmindbendr: I was doing fs shrinking and growing, and it demands a full fsck before it'll run
10:21.36DiscordianUKBloody IBM deathstars
10:22.09Leedsthis LVM filesystem has been going for at least 5 years now, obviously has none of the original drives in it... it's amazing what you can pull off with it, but it takes forever to add and remove drives
10:22.24DiscordianUKheh
10:23.08Leedson Sunday, I bought a new hard drive
10:23.47LeedsI added that drive to the 'array', removed the smallest existing drive, then moved all the contents of another drive which, for historical reasons wasn't part of the array, into the array and then added the drive
10:26.50Leedsthis is all without taking down the machine... I had to unmount the various hard drives, but the machine stayed up
10:27.02wethrinSo, LVM is FTW?
10:27.04DiscordianUKheh
10:27.10Leedsvery much so...
10:27.14Leedswethrin: also, agk FTW
10:27.54DiscordianUKis planning to play with zfs later for similar reasons
10:28.11Leedsyeah, I guess zfs does similar things
10:28.43DiscordianUKShame it's userspace on linux
10:28.55wethrinPlay with it on FreeBSD, then. Or Opensolaris :)
10:29.20DiscordianUKOpenSolaris yep
10:30.01Leedsshame Sun chose to keep it from the Linux kernel
10:30.23DiscordianUKIndeed
10:30.55antiphaseIt's just a file system, not a cure for world hunger
10:31.25DiscordianUKWell yes
10:31.26morsingBeer
10:31.41DiscordianUKI like openSolaris anyway
10:31.59mindbendrxfs is nice
10:32.02Leedsbah, Solaris sucks
10:32.15mindbendrit doesn't have lvm kinda thing on linux though
10:32.21mindbendryou can grow the fs
10:32.23mindbendronline
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10:32.38LeedsDiscordianUK: you know the kind of fuckwits they have working on it
10:32.39bilarhmindbendr: we had to do an fsck on one of our ext3 filesystems the other weekend
10:32.51bilarhmindbendr: took about 12 hours
10:32.55mindbendrbilarh: how big
10:33.02antiphaseHow did you make an ext3 file system that large?
10:33.21bilarhsorry, it's 5.3T
10:33.23DiscordianUK12 hours jeez
10:33.36mindbendrantiphase: 64bit supports
10:33.46bilarhantiphase: new fstools package supports larger than 4tb
10:33.49antiphaseYou must have some really shite hardware, or not many disks
10:34.01bilarhit's raid-5
10:34.11antiphaseext3 only supports 2^31-1 inodes though, so you end up using lots of blocks per inode
10:34.19antiphasePast 2TB or so
10:34.47antiphaseSince Linux is shit and has a fixed 4kB block size
10:34.54antiphaseOr limit at least
10:35.24bilarhin hindsight, we should have gone with something like vxfs
10:35.24wethrinLeeds: 'chose' to keep it from the Linux kernel? Only in that they didn't GPL it....
10:35.27antiphaseRAID-5 and ext3 must be the worst combination for write speed in living history
10:35.37Leedswethrin: and that was a conscious choice
10:35.49mindbendrwhat's vxfs
10:35.59Leedsveritas
10:36.01bilarhthe veritas file system
10:36.04wethrinindeed
10:36.12Leedsalso got fuckwits working there
10:36.27mindbendrhmm i've read the docs of it, what are the main advantages? it looked similar to lvm for me
10:36.30bilarhwe use it on solaris for similarily sized filesystems and it works ok
10:36.31wethrinAll software development places have fuckwits
10:36.46bilarhmindbendr: mainly it doesn't break and require fsck as often :P
10:36.47BlaptoEverywhere has fuckwits
10:36.55mindbendris there anything using write caching disabled?
10:36.55Leedswethrin: I'm refering specifically to places which which did (or tried to) employ me :-)
10:37.00DiscordianUKI seem to recall vxfs is free for small numbers of filesystems
10:37.00mindbendranything=anyone
10:37.05wethrinYes. Look at the sort of people they employ as sysadmins in, say, Ticketmaster
10:37.35antiphaseNo-one should use write-caching (except write-through) unless they have battery-backed cache
10:37.50mindbendrantiphase: barries are for that use
10:38.04antiphaseWhat, like chavs?
10:38.06mindbendrit doesn't sound practical to me
10:38.17mindbendrof disabling it
10:38.50cpufreakyou want write ahead caching.
10:39.15mindbendrantiphase: http://lwn.net/Articles/283161/
10:39.31mindbendrbut if you got LVM, there's no point
10:39.52antiphaseI think you've got your wires crossed
10:40.23mindbendrwhy's that
10:40.42antiphaseJournalling is useful but it's not a magic fix for file system corruption, and has little to do with write caching
10:41.14mindbendrantiphase: if you could explain further
10:41.21mindbendrthat'd be helpful
10:41.45antiphaseWhat about?
10:42.02mindbendrfrom what i've read, it looks like it's got important things to do with journaling
10:42.17antiphaseAnd besides, if you're considering write caching to improve write performace, you shouldn't be using ext3, because its write performance is poor compared to XFS
10:42.18mindbendrbut i still looking for more info
10:42.33mindbendrantiphase: i'm using XFS but with LVM
10:42.45mindbendrhowever
10:42.47antiphaseLVM is irrelevant
10:42.50mindbendrit disabled barriers
10:42.59mindbendr*it disables
10:43.03mindbendrbecause of LVM
10:43.04antiphaseI'd only heard of barriers about 5 minutes ago
10:43.08mindbendrhmm
10:43.40mindbendrand it's  writing cachine enabled on the servers, so I'm thinking about to speak to the IT director here
10:43.41DiscordianUKI read the LWN article when it was first published
10:43.59DiscordianUKBut I'm not sure about barriers at all
10:44.00mindbendrtrying to gather more inforfmation
10:44.16mindbendrif i could write today.
10:51.41mindbendrhas anybody seen this kinda error?
10:51.42mindbendrkernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort!
10:51.43mindbendr(sc=ffff81000f94f700)
10:51.50mindbendrrelated to scsi
10:53.22phearless<wethrin> Yes. Look at the sort of people they employ as sysadmins in, say, Ticketmaster > what do you mean ?
10:53.37phearlessI had an offer from Ticketmaster but they are a bit too far from my flat..
10:53.52BlaptoI work at ticketmaster.
11:06.38Leedstime to go chase a typhoon
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12:19.31bilarhjesus wept: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041098/Families-break-bin-rules-overfill-110-fine--drunken-yob-receive.html
12:19.42bilarhso, overfill your bin, get a 110 pound fine
12:19.50bilarhget drunk and brawl in the street, get an 80 pound fine
12:20.12bilarhsteal from a shop, get an 80 pound fine
12:20.20bilarh*what the fuck is going on*?
12:20.31bilarhare labour seriously out to completely fucking ruin the country, or what?
12:23.16antiphaseThey did last time they were in power
12:23.34bilarhs/country/country again/
12:23.43antiphaseI don't think they'll survive another general election with Boring Gordon at the helm
12:23.46morsingBeer
12:23.58bilarhwe live in hope
12:28.14wethrinantiphase: s/with Borin.*$//
12:33.05antiphaseHeh
12:38.07wethrinUm. "fines...for those who overfill their bins, leave them out too early..." WTF?
12:38.28bilarhexactly, fucking arseholes
12:38.32bilarhi can't believe it
12:38.59wethrinThat's just bollocks. What do they define as 'too early'?
12:39.05antiphaseIt does remind me of the binmen strike, ooh, last time Labour were in Government
12:39.16wethrin3 days, sure.... (but what if you were on holiday?)
12:39.38wethrinbut, yaknow, if you put the bin out before it gets dark in the evening....is that too early?
12:40.14wethrinDurham seemed okay - I had an overfull wheelie bin once, and they took it without issue
12:40.41antiphaseIt's great here in the Netherlands. No wheelie bins, and 2 collections a week
12:40.56wethrinI get a bin collection a week, and recycling every fortnight
12:41.34AndyMillari live in an ex-council flat
12:41.43AndyMillari have a chute for rubbish outside my front door :)
12:42.03wethrinDo you know where the rubbish goes from there, or do you just put your rubbish down there?
12:43.35AndyMillarit goes to some HUGE bins at the bottom
12:48.06wethrinAre they emptied regularly?
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13:26.38morsingArmand!
13:28.09Armandmorsing. :)
13:36.50bilarhwtf, blackfriars station closed from march 2009 to late 2011
13:36.53bilarhfor refurbishment
13:36.55bilarhare they fucking mad
13:37.01morsingBeer
13:37.01bilarh2 years for a lick of paint
13:37.08bilarhmorsing: do you ever say anything else?
13:37.13ArmandGlad I don't use the trains..
13:37.44wethrinbilarh: Completely closed?
13:37.50bilarhthat's what it says
13:37.56wethrinEw
13:37.58bilarhoh sorry, the underground station only, i mean
13:38.00wethrinAh
13:38.17wethrinThis'll make it irritating to get to the Founders Arms, though
13:38.29Blaptois planning on getting out of London for the 3 years before 2012.
13:38.42bilarhi want to change countries
13:38.45wethrinEh. They're only rebuilding a corner of London that no-one cares about
13:38.50Blaptowethrin: St Pauls station or Mansion House station aren't too far away
13:39.05wethrinI suppose it's a shortish cab ride
13:39.06bilarhit's annoying if your train goes to blackfriars though
13:39.13BlaptoAnd you mean that you don't care about
13:39.23bilarhblapto: mansion house is about 15 minutes walk, at least
13:39.31wethrinTake a cab
13:39.35BlaptoNo, not even 15 minutes
13:39.43Blaptodon't get a cab from Mansion House, wrong side of the river
13:39.45wethrinGiven the prices of beer and food, the cab's only going to be a small %age
13:39.50BlaptoBetter off getting a cab from Waterloo
13:39.58BlaptoOr walking from waterloo...
13:46.38AndyMillarit's probably a 5 min walk :P
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13:55.12bilarhwww.last.fm for the win... like the old pandora site :)
13:55.43bilarhand it seems to chose next track sensibly, i.e. staying within a similar genre
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14:03.02z00daxcheck it!
14:03.20wethrinHey z00dax
14:03.25z00daxhey wethrin
14:03.30wethrinhow do?
14:03.35z00daxawrite
14:03.45z00daxhow about you ?
14:05.52wethrinNae bad. Doing graphs. Which isn't fun.
14:06.02z00daxhumm
14:06.13z00daxPFY off on summer break ?
14:06.22wethrinNo. I am the PFY for this thing
14:06.33z00daxah
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14:09.19ArmandDiscordianUK: STOP BREAKING THE INTERNETS!
14:11.14mindbendrbilarh: the new gui is not user friendly though
14:16.01bilarhi don't know, but it's great :)
14:17.07mindbendrbilarh: have you just discovered it :)
14:17.12bilarhyeah :D
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16:10.09phearless<Blapto> I work at ticketmaster. >  cool. as a sysadmin ?
16:10.10wethrinHe does.
16:10.11wethrinthey'll hire just about anyone these days
16:10.11phearlesswhy ?
16:10.11BlaptoI think Dan's tying to extract the urine
16:10.11wethrinn/m
16:10.11wethrinArgh! A blapto!
16:10.11BlaptoAnd yes, a sysadmin
16:10.12mindbendrBlapto: is it fun out there
16:11.22phearlessBlapto: it's a bit strange, the recruitement agency for TM told me that they wanted me to do some kind of team-leading for some IT projects
16:11.22mindbendrthe manager here is killing me, i show him the kernel bug that causing scsi errors, he keeps saying that `whatif we hit the scsi cable when we were working there`
16:11.22phearlessBlapto: but I've got just 2-3 years of expe, and i'm 24yo. I was a bit surprised ..
16:12.03mindbendrphearless: are you going to be his boss? hehe
16:12.36hali_is the internet broken?
16:12.36mindbendrhali_: it's solid as a rock here
16:12.36hali_i've got bgp dips and packet loss to several isps
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16:12.58haliprobably our colt peering thats fucked up
16:14.17Blaptomindbendr: It is fun, and I don't think you'd do that phearless, depending on which team you went into.  Certainly not as a sysadmin, other than the normal "you're in charge of this, ask others for help if you want to."
16:14.52BlaptoYou're more likely to do that as Application Support, and I know they were hiring a while ago.
16:15.06BlaptoAnd I think we're hiring sysadmins now, similar to my job but in another team
16:16.55phearlessit was for a linux sysadmin job, from what i remember
16:16.55jpdshali: Appartently someone tripped over the power cable on a freenode server.
16:18.07mindbendrlast.fm was hiring
16:18.13mindbendrprobably they still are
16:18.36mindbendrbilarh: if you are interested :p
16:19.55halii'd expect the pay at last.fm to be fairly shit
16:20.21halias they probably think it's a "cool" job and people should be happy to work there anyway
16:20.47mindbendrlol i don't think so
16:20.57mindbendrconsidering that their server had big issues for the last week
16:21.09mindbendrat least they should have started to pay l33t
16:21.47wethrin13,370/yr ?
16:21.52mindbendrlol
16:21.52wethrinOr 31,337/yr?
16:22.18wethrinHow many sad Slashdot fanboys would jump at a job that pays that much?
16:22.29halii bet most of their sysadmins are actaully perl monkies liking a bit of admin work
16:22.37mindbendrwethrin: i would for a part-time job
16:22.40BlaptoI think a friend of mine interviewed at last.fm
16:22.47wethrinmindbendr: 3 days a week?
16:22.54mindbendrwethrin: yep, 20 hours actually
16:22.55BlaptoI could ask him what he was offered
16:23.06mindbendrBlapto: that'd be nice to have an idea
16:24.14mindbendrif this company won't extend my contract by october, I have to look for a part-time job
16:24.16BlaptoHe's AFK at the moment, so I'll ask him tomorrow
16:26.26jpdshttp://www.last.fm/about/jobs#job_Linux+Sysadmin+(varying+levels)
16:26.39jpdsI like the last skill.
16:26.42Leedsgoes to hide from the typhoon
16:27.06DiscordianUKlikes emacs
16:27.57hali* "Windows Desktop Support; email / printing / network connectivity"
16:28.06haliWarning warning!
16:28.14mindbendrjpds: which one
16:28.20mindbendrjpds: # Something that passes for music taste ?
16:28.48haliinteresting that they use hibernate in their DW ... that's probably why it's all so slow :)
16:28.53jpdsmindbendr: the vi thing ;-)
16:29.17mindbendrjpds: i use nano, they wouldn't hire me then
16:30.53dnamrADiscordianUK: PM ok ?
16:31.03Armandoops. :P
16:31.56DiscordianUKYeah sure
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17:39.30mindbendrcya tomorrow
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19:52.26AndyMillar2008-08-05 19:51:48 H=mailman.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.75] U=postfix F=<mailman-bounces@cust-web.rcalive.com> temporarily rejected RCPT <andy@andymillar.co.uk>: Temporary DNS error while checking SPF record.  Try again later.
19:52.31AndyMillarhmm
19:52.34AndyMillarsomeone's mailserver isn't behaving :o
19:52.39AndyMillaror dns server  ;/
19:52.52AndyMillarand i don't think it's mine
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21:21.42morsingfm2008!
21:22.05fm2008can you help?
21:22.17morsingI can never help
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21:22.49fm2008i see
21:22.57Armandthat's why we wrap him in kittens and pillows.
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