IRC log for #gllug on 20130529

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10:20.13unixdaemonHello, does Frank scott ever come on here?
10:24.10morsingNo, never has
10:24.43unixdaemonmorsing: has he been active recently? He wasn't at fosdem this year and I've not spoken to him for a while
10:28.07morsingunixdaemon: It's been a couple of years (maybe 5?) since I last saw him
10:28.19morsingI think he's posted on the list this year, hasn't he?
10:28.37unixdaemonNot that I saw in the archives
10:28.57unixdaemonThanks for the sounding board
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10:29.03morsingDec 30th on the Social list
10:29.08morsingWTF - idiot
10:30.17morsingwow - lol! Social list is dead too :)  
11:03.45wethrinThat's Jason's fault
11:04.22wethrinHe never recovered the Gllug list server after the last system failure
11:04.31wethrinWhich is why Gllug is now hosted on mailman.lug.org.uk
11:05.06wethrinBut Martin could only add the addresses of people who posted to Gllug, not lurkers
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11:15.09dick_turpinmorsing: Are you Charon?
11:54.25morsingwethrin: Martin has issues, don't know why he was ever made responsible for anything
11:54.41morsingdick_turpin: No, are you braindead?
11:56.01wethrinmorsing: No one else volunteered to run a backup list?
12:00.00dick_turpinmorsing: So you cant ferry me across the river Styx then?
12:02.15morsingdick_turpin: No
12:04.28dick_turpinSome friend you are.
12:20.39gregjAndyMillar: testing the ssds here with the raid server, turns out - ssds are quite slow in raid 1 hardware, but very very fast in raid0. go figure
12:21.55wethrinWhat about raid5?
12:23.33AndyMillargregj: do you have other SSDs to experiment with?
12:23.45wethrinand is this reading or writing?
12:26.09gregjAndyMillar: they don't want to buy any more ssds for now
12:26.38gregjAndyMillar: even tho the testing have shown, that database speed wise - single server with two ssds in raid 0 beats two db servers with spinning drives in cluster, by mile and something
12:26.53gregjwethrin: I would need 3+ drives for raid5
12:26.55gregjI only got two
12:27.03gregjcos the idea was to use them for caching
12:27.14gregjat least initially
12:27.26gregjbut that was so so, and cache size was as bit as the spinning drives size
12:27.28gregjso what's the point
12:28.22wethrinMore RAM, and ramdisk
12:28.24wethrinSimple! :)
12:28.54gregjit's a database
12:28.57gregjthere's loads fo writes
12:29.02gregjand you want some resilance ;)
12:34.13wethrinRAIDed RAMdisks?
12:34.15wethrinAnd a UPS
12:34.28gregjmy accountant: 'I see some expenses in London, but no travel costs to and from london (I live in belfast)'
12:34.36gregjgood man, it's essential to employ pros
12:34.53gregjwethrin: right :-)
12:45.00dick_turpingregj: You should have got some flight tickets from the bins at heathrow for every day and claimed it all back from the tax man
12:45.28dick_turpinNot that I'm encouraging fraud by the way. :-)
12:47.43gregjhttp://invaleed.wordpress.com/2006/07/10/install-and-configure-djbdns/ nice CSS
12:48.02gregjdick_turpin: I need to have the expense on my bank account too, so that wouldn't work
12:48.11gregjdick_turpin: of course not ;)
12:53.48dick_turpinproduces statements from the "Whizzo bank of Irishland" with the relevant transactions
12:57.02gregj;]
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13:05.33gregjwhat other simple to hacking (source code wise), apart from bind - dns servers woudl you guys recommend ?
13:07.24gregjfirst of all, why on earth dns servers are always so complicated..
13:11.01morsinggregj: SIP
13:11.04morsingz00dax!
13:11.25z00daxmorsing: check it
13:12.15gregjmorsing: SIP is far simpler ;>
13:12.33gregjas an added bonus, dns protocol is actually used for more things then just domain name resolution
13:12.57z00daxgregj: https://speakerdeck.com/jpmens/multiple-choice-dns-servers-on-centos
13:13.12morsinggregj: NIS?
13:13.22z00daxgregj: apart from a few slides, that isnt CentOS specific - but its a great overview of the state of DNS servers
13:13.24morsinggregj: upnp?
13:13.41morsingappears to love UDP protocols...
13:14.12gregjmorsing: :-)
13:14.22gregjit is also used in voip to resolve routes
13:14.38gregj(can't remember name of the protocol, even tho I implemented it once for one of my startups)
13:15.39gregjlol, bind 10
13:16.07morsinggregj: What protocol can't you remember?
13:16.29gregjif I could I would tell you, doh
13:16.38morsingWhat does it do?
13:16.53z00daxI could tell you a UDP joke, but you may not get it
13:17.08z00daxhttps://twitter.com/superninjarobot/status/339543840719503360
13:17.14gregjyou give it a number, and ti give you termination + route
13:17.18gregjfor voip call
13:17.23morsinggregj: SIP?
13:17.25gregjI implemented it using bind 8 + postgresql 8.1
13:17.37gregjrequired some indepth hacking of bind
13:17.43gregjsip is for something else
13:17.48morsing...
13:18.42gregjthis is a protocl that is used internally
13:18.56gregjyou as a client don't have to implement it
13:19.03gregjfsck, can't remember
13:19.08gregjit's been a while, 2005 or so
13:19.55morsing... It's SIP, honestly
13:21.07gregjhmm
13:21.15gregjI used to know a lot about voip
13:21.23gregjand as far as I remember, it wasnt sip
13:21.25gregjbut maybe
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19:06.20morsingArmand!
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