IRC log for #gllug on 20090121

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07:02.39morsingan0key!
07:07.18morsingAnyone here know DPD, the parcel company?
07:52.00j0nrmorning all
07:52.26j0nrantiphase: oo thats looks over my head by about a parsec!
07:53.59morsingj0nr!
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08:08.01morsingChoHag!
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08:15.11morsingmindbendr!
08:16.31morsing*yawn*
08:24.04morsingmindbendr: Have you heard the good news?
09:04.09bilarhmorning
09:04.25kjsI see rhel 5.3 was released yesterday
09:05.12mindbendrmorning
09:05.18mindbendrmorsing: what is it
09:05.36morsingmindbendr: George is moving to Canada :)
09:05.40morsingbilarh!
09:05.42mindbendrwho's george
09:05.42morsingkjs!
09:05.48morsingOMG *sigh*
09:05.53morsingibot goerge
09:06.06morsingibot george
09:06.07ibotsomebody said george was gwright@kde.org and a KDE devel
09:06.07morsingibot gw280
09:06.08ibotwell, gw280 is george
09:06.21mindbendrsee even it doesn't know
09:06.31morsingGeorge is a twat
09:06.43MohanMorning All!
09:06.46morsingMohan!
09:06.51mindbendrso why is moving
09:06.54mindbendrwhy is he moving
09:07.04morsingmindbendr: We bullied him to leave
09:07.09morsingHe took the hint, finally
09:07.22mindbendrwhy did you do that
09:07.42morsingHe's an idiot
09:09.33mindbendris he moving from UK to CA
09:09.37morsingYes
09:09.44mindbendrCA is colder I suppose
09:09.48mindbendrnot a wise choice
09:09.49morsingBye, bye, George!
09:10.50mindbendrstrangely, XFS doesn't have a reserved space for root and it can get full even when there's 150 GB left on it
09:11.17mindbendrbesides I don't like KDE
09:11.23mindbendrso he can safely move
09:16.25mindbendrkjs: not good news then, now we have to upgrade our servers to 5.3?
09:30.13kjstrue
09:30.30kjsmore work = more money
09:32.45Mohanmorsing!
09:33.10morsingMohan!
09:34.06bilarhoh man, pound getting closer to euro parity every day :(
09:34.18bilarhjust transferred some money and got a 1.05 exchange rate :(
09:35.18morsingOh man, beer getting closer to my mouth every day
09:58.38mindbendrbilarh: would you expect it to raise back?
09:58.44bilarhi don't know
09:58.49bilarhi think we're essentially fucked :)
09:58.51mindbendrwhat does the news say
09:58.53bilarhenjoy :D
09:59.06bilarhnever mind about the news, they're all government lackeys anyway
09:59.31mindbendrI've read that the politics mumbling about considering to use euro afterall
09:59.54bilarhthe euro zone will never let us in
10:00.09bilarhnot with a 7-8% budget deficit and massive government debt
10:00.13morsingwethrin!
10:00.23bilarhwe're in worse shape than many of the eastern european countries
10:00.29mindbendri thought it's the UK doesn't wanna get in
10:00.52bilarhi think more like there's no chance in hell that we will :)
10:01.03mindbendrwell either you have no idea about the eastern european countries or you are joking :D
10:01.31bilarhand with gordon brown, alistair darling and mervyn king firing up the printing presses, the pound will sink and sink and sink zimbabwe style (well maybe not zim style, but you get my point)
10:01.41mindbendrlol
10:01.52bilarhi'm talking about size of budget deficits and government debt
10:01.54mindbendrobama will save all us
10:02.04mindbendrus all
10:02.05bilarhnot "wealth" or living standards as such
10:02.14bilarhno, he's too late to the party
10:02.25bilarhgordon brown already announced that he saved the world a couple of weeks back
10:02.29mindbendrlol
10:02.34mindbendrwhat did he say
10:02.34wethrinThe Euro went up to 1.10 a few days ago, from a low of 1.02
10:02.49bilarhwethrin: and now it's down to 1.06 again
10:02.52wethrinBah
10:02.54bilarhthe dollar's finally under 1.40
10:03.03wethrinFosdem's going to be expensive :(
10:03.06bilarhor the other way around :)
10:03.17mindbendrnow we can see who has got money & investments
10:03.17wethrinOther way round?
10:03.23bilarhi just transferred money, as i said, and i get a much better rate than at the public forex places
10:03.26bilarhand i only got a 1.05 rate
10:03.30wethrinYeah, but Fosdem's in Belgium
10:03.37wethrinSo it makes no difference to the Euro-folk
10:04.45bilarhthe UK shoudl have joined the euro when they still could
10:04.51bilarhnow there's no chance
10:04.59bilarhthen again, the euro countries aren't doing great either
10:05.34wethrinEuro's at 1.07 at the moment
10:05.52wethrinI suppose it serves us right for laughing as the USD over the summer
10:07.15mindbendrI think sterling will go up at some point
10:07.32wethrinOh yes
10:08.23mindbendrmy main concern is how low are the sysadmin salaries nowadays
10:08.29mindbendrit's madness
10:08.37bilarhtoo many unemployed sysadmins :)
10:08.49wethrinYes. Also too many employed rubbish ones
10:08.49bilarhSupply and Demand 101 :)
10:08.50mindbendrI hope it goes back up to 50K range
10:09.21bilarhi wish i had some other skills as well, to be honest
10:09.27bilarhi could probably do car mechanics
10:09.27mindbendrbilarh: like what
10:09.38wethrinDo plumbing!
10:09.41wethrinWe need more plumbers
10:09.47wethrinAnd other skilled tradesmen
10:09.49mindbendrbilarh: I've got other skills but I just left those skills just because sysadmin pays better
10:10.11bilarhwell i mean, i could do programming or sysadmining etc
10:10.16bilarhbut it's all it
10:10.27mindbendrI do 3d animation but it's too stresfull
10:10.43mindbendrand sysadmin jobs pay better by any chance, if you are not a star
10:11.21bilarhbut for how long?
10:11.33bilarhit has had it's stupid salary time imo
10:11.38mindbendrbut If I were to earn 35-40K along your life, what's the point really?
10:11.39bilarhit will still be a profession
10:11.55mindbendr*along my life
10:11.57bilarh35-40k is still more than 90% of the population, you know :)
10:12.02bilarhnot to be sniffed at, really
10:12.02mindbendrI don't care
10:12.10mindbendrthere is the other %10
10:12.25mindbendrI don't wanna spend 20 years to own a house
10:12.41bilarhhonestly, as i get older (at the ripe old age of 29 now), i'm realising more and more that it's not about the size of your paypacket
10:13.00bilarhwhen i was earning lots more money than i am now, i was *really* miserable because the job sucked donkey balls
10:13.04mindbendrshoulda watch more fightclub
10:13.13bilarhhad to work all the time + overtime + late night work + weekend work
10:13.40mindbendryou should have moved to hawai when you had the chance then
10:13.46mindbendror miami
10:14.08bilarhyeah america is exactly the place to be if you don't want to buy into all materialism :D
10:15.07mindbendrwell america is a big place and afterall you don't need to involve in to the culture
10:15.45bilarhhrm... doesn't sound like something for me to be honest
10:15.51mindbendrthe only place that you could earn good money and have some sunshine, that would be it i think
10:15.52bilarhnot for the long term anyway
10:15.57AndyMillar35-40k still isn't a lot though :(
10:16.19bilarhi'd move to houston to work for a couple of years if my company offered a transfer, but i doubt i'd go there "forever"
10:16.20mindbendrif you spend 5 years on sysadmin, it ain't gonna up to 60K for sure
10:16.45bilarhmindbendr: what would you classify as a good salary then?
10:16.46mindbendrafter the tax, they look all the same to me anyway
10:16.50bilarhwhat would you be happy to work for?
10:17.23mindbendrbilarh: If I would 1/3 of my monthly salary for the rent, in my junior life I'd say I'm doing good
10:17.38mindbendrbilarh: but that's what I was doing approx 6-7 years ago
10:17.53AndyMillarmindbendr: 1/3 of salary before or after tax?
10:18.03mindbendrbilarh: now i don't earn that much and it doesn't look to go better for the next 3 years
10:18.07mindbendrAndyMillar: after
10:19.25AndyMillarbilarh: surely by the ripe old age of 29, you've made all your money so don't have to care what you get paid? ;)
10:19.25mindbendrAndyMillar: If I were to pay 1000£/montly to the rent, when I'd expect to earn 45K annum to have that ratio
10:19.40AndyMillarmindbendr: then you're talking before tax
10:19.42AndyMillarno
10:19.45mindbendrAndyMillar: after tax
10:19.46AndyMillaryes
10:20.13mindbendrwhen I was earning around 48K, I had got around 3K per month
10:20.23mindbendrafter the tax
10:20.25AndyMillartax has gone up now ;)
10:20.36bilarhandymillaR: yeah just about retired now :D
10:20.51mindbendrthat's true but if you earn more than 35K, that went up, otherwise it's the same i suppose
10:21.01mindbendrand the difference must be %2
10:21.55mindbendrthe best thing to do is, doing what morsing does, do some contract and put even the toilet paper in your expenses
10:22.37bilarhmindbendr: that's the best thing until you lose your contract and can't find another one for six months and then you miss mortgage payments and get repo'd
10:23.02mindbendrbilarh: in the first place, you shouldn't engage into the mortgage
10:23.28mindbendrbilarh: secondly, if you are good enough to get contract jobs with decent salaries, i think it would be easier to find new contracts
10:23.35bilarhsubmit rent for "mortgage payment" and  "repo'd" for "evicted" :P
10:23.52bilarhtell that to all the contractors in the city who are out of work :)
10:24.17mindbendri don't understand really, it must be the best time for the contractors
10:24.22bilarhif there's only a small number of contracts available, but lots of contractors then a) some will be out of work, and b) it will drive down the day rate
10:24.54mindbendrthe companies fire people and if they'd need someone, they would go for short contracts
10:24.55bilarhand also, the market isn't so effective that "the best man for the contract" gets the contract
10:25.20mindbendrbilarh: I agree about that, the agencies are evil
10:25.41bilarhnot just that
10:26.00bilarhnot every company will interview every contractor
10:26.09bilarhthey only interview until they find someone who is "good enough"
10:26.21mindbendryou should see the guys working here then
10:26.34mindbendr`yum install` is what all they know
10:26.35bilarhs/is/appear/
10:27.07bilarhi think the problem is often management as well
10:27.10mindbendrin the mid size companies, the managers are rubbish so they don't know how to interview or what to ask to measure eligilibity
10:27.24bilarhi mean take your typical manager, how are they going to actually know if someone knows something or not?
10:27.36mindbendrhe doesn't
10:27.45bilarhso they go for the person that supports the same football team
10:27.51bilarhi've seen this happen, for real, btw :D
10:27.57mindbendrthat's why he hired the other sysadmin and hired me as a contractor later on to clean up his mess
10:28.51mindbendrstrangely enough, UK companies don't fire the people who do rubbish job
10:29.14ChoHags/UK//
10:29.31mindbendrI've seen it twice, the team leader explained me the situation that they have to go through loads of procuders so they don't bother
10:29.52mindbendr*procedures
10:31.38bilarhchohag: :D
10:38.28ChoHagAssuming you can do so without invoking the Wrath of Steve, how much horsepower does a regular PC need to comfortably run osx?
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11:00.43wethrinwonders if z00dax is around
11:14.43morsingxteddy!
11:14.47morsingLeeds!
11:29.24z00daxwethrin: hi
11:29.41wethrinz00dax: Aha. Are you able to change my password on the Gllug web site?
11:29.48wethrinI appear to have forgotten it
11:30.01z00daxnot sure, I can look though
11:30.06wethrinThanks
11:33.33wethrindisappears for a bit - could you /msg me a replacement password, if you manage to reset it?
11:35.29morsingBeer
11:35.32antiphaseletme1n
11:41.42ChoHagWe had an audit recently (regulated by the FSA) and the auditors noticed that our passwords don't expire every month but not that dev and test have access to live data.
11:42.24ChoHagIn dev's case, write access.
11:52.00bilarhwohoo, my exhaust bits delivered to the office to much merryment of all my colleagues when the internal post came around with them :D
12:18.51mindbendrIf I have a routing issue like this, is there any work around
12:18.51mindbendrip1 (starting point) > ip3 > ip4
12:18.52mindbendrip4 (replies)> ip3 > ip2 (firewall) > ip1
12:19.14mindbendrthe firewall drops the packets because it's not initiated through the firewall
12:19.26mindbendricmp works, tcp doesn't obviously
12:23.48ChoHagYes.
12:23.52ChoHagDon't go back through ip2.
12:24.00mindbendrI have to
12:24.14mindbendrit does the routing for 2 different lines
12:28.05ChoHagSorry.
12:31.29morsingBeer
12:33.11antiphasemindbendr: Have you considered configuring your firewall to permit the relevant packets?
12:43.47Mohanif dmesg shows ata1.00: cmd b0/da:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0 (device error)
12:44.07Mohanis it hard disk fault ? or is it normal to have it ?
12:44.18antiphaseDepends what else it says
12:44.42antiphaseand if it's still working
12:46.59Mohanhttp://pastebin.centos.org/23459
12:47.39morsingCheese
12:47.47Mohanit doesnt want to come up when rebooted,
12:48.05Mohanlooks like it has a problem with harddisk. just wanted to confirm
12:48.58Mohanmorsing: Is it normal to have such messages ?
12:49.43morsingMohan: It is
12:49.51morsingIf your disk is broken, I mean
12:50.02morsingMohan: Which kernel? ATA was broken in some
12:50.13mindbendrantiphase: it didn't matter, it blocks anything that's not initiated through the firewall, I've added a route back to the firewall from outside now it looks like working
12:50.48mindbendrantiphase: so anything that wants to access ip1 has to go through the firewall
12:50.57Mohancentos 5 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
12:51.14antiphaseUDMA/133? must be ancient
12:51.48morsingAncient?! How so???
12:51.51Mohanthe machine is remotely hosted, dont know what hardware it is exactly.
12:52.49wethrinIsn't UDMA/133 the current ATA standard? (Which, admittedly, is being phased out in favour of SATA)
12:53.27morsingwethrin!!! WOOO!! You're back :D   *kisskisskiss*
12:53.55antiphaseI don't believe there was ever a higher speed one. I haven't seen anything with PATA in it apart from old PCs for years though
12:54.11antiphaseMaybe I only work with decent equipment :P
12:54.12morsingAnd how is "years" ancient?!
12:54.21wethrinYou can still get hard disks of large capacities in PATA forms
12:54.28antiphaseIt's a fairly common expression
12:54.33morsingI don't have any machines with SATA
12:54.36wethrinmorsing: It is, in terms of PCs
12:54.42wethrinNot in terms of mainframes, maybe
12:54.44morsingwethrin: It's not
12:54.47wethrinIt is
12:54.58wethrinA 5-year-old PC is generally considered scrappable
12:55.04morsing10+ years is getting old but still not ancient
12:55.22antiphaseAIX only runs on dinosaurs
12:55.27morsingWell, my main PC is 12 years old and does the job just fine
12:55.27wethrinIt is, for desktop PCs
12:55.39morsingantiphase: Idiot
12:55.57wethrinSure, an a Ford Model T will still get you from A to B (if it's been looked after)
12:56.12wethrinDoesn't mean the car's not vintage
12:56.18z00daxwethrin: ->
12:56.25z00daxtry that
12:57.47wethrincheers
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13:55.35mindbendrMohan: running SMART might help
14:04.37bilarhdicky
14:05.29dick_turpinbilarh: Ello fart face
14:07.23bilarhhow's things?
14:13.25dick_turpinVery very quiet (Scary) Just had a City Link driver in crying they are making 25 drivers per depot redundent
14:13.44bilarhwow, that sucks :(
14:13.49bilarhper depot!!
14:14.23dick_turpinThing is I don't get it, he has 90 drops and 25 pickups today sometimes they have more
14:14.38bilarhmaybe they think the number will fall soon
14:14.55dick_turpinThey cant manage that lot so how are they gonna cope with 25 less drivers?
14:15.06ChoHag#Debian is amazing.
14:15.18ChoHagConversation is constant but it never seems to start.
14:15.34bilarhdick_turpin: how many drivers per depot roughly?
14:16.18dick_turpinbilarh: Dunno but I'd say a fair few, hundred odd maybe?
14:17.47mindbendrChoHag: what do they prentend to talk about?
14:17.58dick_turpinI wonder how many companies are shedding staff using the credit crunch as an excuse who will after a couple of weeks regret what they thought was a clever idea
14:18.34bilarhhmm, dunno
14:18.40bilarheverything seems to be free-falling at the moment
14:19.04bilarhuk mortgage figures the worst for december worst since 2001
14:19.16dick_turpinbilarh: I'm bothered got my famous 10 laptop deal, hope to close it this week
14:19.31dick_turpinIm not bothered
14:19.34bilarhdo you get performance related pay?
14:19.45bilarhas in bonus for sales
14:19.53dick_turpinbilarh: Yeah, I get paid at the end of the month
14:20.11bilarhi could never be a salesman i think
14:20.16bilarhtoo much uncertainty
14:21.37dick_turpinbilarh: Ah I'm on a wage, no commission ect, just the odd perk. However that means I cant be targeted
14:21.51bilarhah :D
14:22.42dick_turpinSome employers might try to target you but thats when you say "OK in that case I expect commision" watch em back peddle like mad
14:23.25ChoHagmindbendr: Usually noob problems.
14:25.05bilarhgreat
14:25.13bilarhi've been tasked with "cleaning up the filesystem"
14:25.16bilarhfrom all our old legacy crap
14:25.24bilarhthere's tons of the stuff, everything we have is legacy
14:25.43ChoHagrm /dev/management
14:25.47bilarhsince we moved to new storage, we have links from the old mount points into the new storage and it's a complete mess
14:25.52bilarhwell, no, i agree it has to be done
14:25.55bilarhit's just painful
14:26.20ChoHagI mean the management are legacy.
14:26.23dick_turpinbilarh: Hm you wait, some knob in e few weeks time will say "I cant find the quote dated 1882"
14:26.38bilarhhehe :D   x 2
14:27.44ChoHagIs there a normal way to tell sh/bash to execute the script at stdin other than sh <(...) or sh /dev/stdin
14:28.19ChoHagstuff | sh is insufficient as I need to pass an [optional] argument to the script.
14:29.03dick_turpinbilarh: You laugh, every year I archive the previous years quotes, they are in a folder (Wait for it) Quotes 2007 (etc) I get "Pete where's the quotes from two years ago?" What? are you f'cking blind? or just stupid?
14:29.07antiphaseUse an environment variable then
14:30.09ChoHaghmm
14:31.50ChoHagIn other only vaguely related news, is there any sort of best practice to automatically managing files in /etc/apt?
14:32.13antiphaseUse a config management system like puppet or cfengine
14:32.30ChoHagThat seems like overkill surely?
14:33.31antiphaseDepends how many machines you have
14:33.42ChoHagFew at the moment.
14:33.46morsingBeer
14:33.53morsingdick_turpin!
14:37.57mindbendr*tip of the day, use inodes64 option to mount for the XFS filesystems that allocates ~20TB
14:38.33dick_turpinmorsing: :-)
14:40.24mindbendrwhat does /etc/apt do?
14:45.42ChoHagNothing.
14:45.48ChoHagThe configuration options for apt are stored there.
14:48.23mindbendrChoHag: are you married
14:50.31ChoHagYes.
14:51.47mindbendrhope you don't try to automise everything in your life, such as little apt documents, your wife etc :D
14:59.40ChoHagWhat happens of you enable VLANs on a NIC attached to an unmanaged switch?
15:10.02mindbendrit would get screwed up i think
15:10.06mindbendrif it uses the same subnets
15:12.51ChoHagWhy would you have two VLANs with the same subnet?
15:14.17mindbendrI thought they are separated
15:14.29mindbendrthat you would connecting with an unmanaged switch for fun
15:14.33mindbendr*connect
15:14.37mindbendruh i need to sleep
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15:44.57mindbendrmorsing!
15:51.40ChoHagOh bollocks.
15:51.47ChoHagI forgot my gpg passphrase.
15:52.27AndyMillarthat's pretty bollocks :(
15:57.39ChoHagIt's not so bad. Only 1.43081e+84 or so possibilities.
15:59.10ChoHagsighs and goes home.
16:14.27mindbendrgpg for email?
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