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That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
12:01 AM
@allquixotic IIRC you speak Spanish, right?
I am in love with this song
 
Paul
Paul
12:15 AM
@JordanRichards Did you raise a ticket with the hosting people? They at least need to confirm the underlying host is without issues.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@JordanRichards: if it reboots, there should be something about starting up. How do you know its rebooting?
and dmesg should/would never be empty
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@ThatBrazilianGuy more like read/write... my spoken is very out of practice and very bad
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
@allquixotic Oh.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
in order of ability: reading > listening > writing > speaking ;p
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
Well, I've never studied Spanish and barely spoken / listened to it.
But I can understand about 85% off the song
(Well, maybe the fact I speak Portuguese contributes to it ;)
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
12:26 AM
@JourneymanGeek I have just as bad
got new box booted @bob :D
 
Michael Frank
Michael Frank
Heh.... End user was having issues with monitors so she called the service desk. They nuked her roaming profile and then escalated the job as they couldn't figure it out.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@allquixotic: as do I
I hope to tame it with table +1
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
I need a decent mechanical keyboard :\
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
12:42 AM
@DragonLord: So, get one ;p
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
Money's very tight right now
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
so, put aside money you'd spend on starbucks one time a week ;p. You'll get there!
(I've cut back on junk food until my fun money budget isn't in deficit. Granted being able to spend that ahead is a luxury but I've quite literally put aside a tenner a week in the past to afford something I wanted)
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
@MichaelFrank Does it make any sense?
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
I might be able to do some freelance photography for the college beginning late this month or next month.
Pay's not great, but it's much better than nothing.
Hey, it's money from doing something I enjoy doing.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
yup
lol
understanding music has never gotten in the way of appreciating it ;)
One of the bands I listen to do their better stuff in finnish.
 
Michael Frank
Michael Frank
1:16 AM
@ThatBrazilianGuy Not at all. It's literally two checkboxes under display settings to fix the issue...
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
1:33 AM
@DragonLord Sometimes the pay is way too low :(
Wife's studying photography
Courses are expensive. Equipment is ultra very super expensive.
Potential clients want to pay next to nothing.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@ThatBrazilianGuy: he's doing that a s a student job tho. and heh. I know a guy with a doctorate and a job as a researcher who is thinking of quitting to do that.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
also, doing something that pays (at least enough to cover costs) is better than sitting around waiting for things to happen
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
Well, as my wife's still studying / starting, and she still doesn't have an impressive portfolio, she mostly picks small gigs for friends and acquaintances.
The "friends and acquaintances" part makes them often think they are entitled to paying next to nothing.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@ThatBrazilianGuy: so exactly the same as helping people with computers?
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
1:36 AM
@JourneymanGeek No, see, accepting a sub-sub-sub-par payment, in the long run, lowers the expected value for the market.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
so... exactly the same as...
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
!!yes
 
ChatBot John Cavil
ChatBot John Cavil
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
When I realized the market expects PC technicians to make wonders for the price og a Big Mac, I decided to quit.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
(funny thing tho, I tell people to pay what I think my work is worth. If they don't pay me, or pay me too little, I don't bother to do it next time. Works REALLY well)
I don't work for kibble.
;p
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
1:40 AM
I don't even tell people I used to fix PCs.
Lately everyone and their brother has decided to become a photographer, so I see the same thing happening soon for photographers over here.
But, to be honest, I hear this complaint a lot from various acquaintances that work in creative / non-traditional professions.
So maybe it's a national tendency
"You're not a physician / lawyer / engineer / person with a real job so I won't value your work"
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
2:03 AM
@Bob for performance and saving time on recompiling ZFS, I went ahead and installed Lubuntu into the spare space behind the ESP on the flash drive :P
and because I have 2 HDDs and 2 SSDs, I'm using the SSDs for ZIL and L2ARC :D
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
2:18 AM
wow, ZIL makes it ridiculously fast
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
2:49 AM
@ThatBrazilianGuy: heh. IT's the OTHER respectable profession for indians.
however I'm still the blacksheep of the family for dropping out twice, and not being an engineer ;)
@allquixotic: meh. "The advice from many experts now" CITATION NEEDED
that said, I'm pondering adding something similar to pi hole, on a VM or phoebe, and I'd probably end up adding stuff like that
blah, left my headphones at work
and its quiet
er
at home
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
3:41 AM
The QoS on the new router seems to be much smarter.
Bulk downloads don't seem to hold up web browsing as much.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@DragonLord wonder if it implements CoDel AQM
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
@allquixotic Likely not. It's a Linksys E2500, which isn't a particularly advanced router.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
3:59 AM
heh. I think I have the switch version of that.
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
The point is that this is better than the cheapie Chinese wireless AP we've used for several years.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
._.
(most APs are made in china ;p)
and there's a few brands that arn't half bad (tplink for example)
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
True, but it was a very basic model.
Just a simple N150 AP with only one Ethernet jack.
Control panel's in Chinese with no alternative language options, and the router functionality is pretty limited.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
ahh. So its better than a slightly bottom of the barrel, basic AP ;p
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
The E2500 isn't the fastest router (no Gigabit Ethernet, for starters), but it has the essential features expected of a modern router.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
4:06 AM
(at the moment I have an asus, a dlink (which wierdly has excellent range) and a SE2500 switch)
everything is gigabit capable, but my 'trunk' between rooms is homeplug AV 1800, which despite the name, tops out at 300 mbps ;p
also, everytime I buy a router, I end up getting one free
 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic what was wrong?
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
I see no real benefit to getting an 802.11ac router at this point. It's just too expensive, and our slow Internet service does not justify a high-end router.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@DragonLord: My ISP gave me one. I have no ac gear at the moment tho ;p
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
The E2500 is 802.11n dual-band, N300+N300.
Range isn't much better than the old AP, but it's serviceable when used with the existing range extender (Netgear WN2000RPTv3) in my office.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@Bob efibootmgr -d /dev/sde1 was my first attempt. needed -d /dev/sde
 
Bob
Bob
4:16 AM
@allquixotic LOL
Exactly the same thing I did!
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
so, I have 2 x 2 TB HDDs and 2 x 300 GB SSDs in this server....
I broke both SSDs into two partitions (same partition layout and size on each SSD): a 32 GB ZIL part, and "the rest" (more than 250 GB) as L2ARC.
 
Bob
Bob
Jun 9 at 23:18, by Bob
@allquixotic turns out efibootmgr defaults to /dev/sda and I need to specify a disk -_-
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
lol
almost but not quite?
 
Bob
Bob
ya
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
ZFS is so freakin' complicated ._.
 
Bob
Bob
4:18 AM
I didn't even know about the -d option
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
I then told ZFS to mirror the ZIL (for redundancy, since it's basically dirty writes)
 
Bob
Bob
@DragonLord ZFS is actually pretty easy. Root on ZoL, on the other hand...
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@DragonLord: Well, its not a native FS
 
Bob
Bob
If you just want a ZFS volume, that's easy.
Once you try to boot from one, you're in trouble. On Linux, anyway.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
so I have 2 x 32 GB partitions in a sort of awkward "RAID-1" as the write cache, and 2 x ~270 GB partitions with no redundancy as the read cache.
basically, the SSDs absorb any sort of IOPS limitations or throughput limitations of the HDDs, as long as you aren't writing hundreds of gigs at once.
 
Bob
Bob
4:19 AM
@allquixotic Hm... maybe I should've gone with that o.O
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
;p
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
@Bob I'd probably just boot from an ext4 system volume which holds the OS and essential command-line apps.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
and for reads, because L2ARC is smart, you rarely hit the HDDs
 
Bob
Bob
@DragonLord Then you lose the integrity verification of ZFS.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
I probably get the same performance as you (you're using SSDs? right?) in almost all use cases
 
Bob
Bob
4:20 AM
IMO that's even more important than a drive failure you can restore from.
When some random file gets corrupted and you don't notice.
Better off having root on XFS, at the very least.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
yup... checksumming is "here" for xfs, but none of the enterprise kernels (Ubuntu LTS, Debian Stable, RHEL7) have it yet
 
Bob
Bob
(or btrfs when it's finally stable)
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
checksumming for btrfs is in production kernels, but btrfs itself is still too wonky
 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic You might even get better perf.
I'm using 3x SSDs on raidz1
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
eww
 
Bob
Bob
4:21 AM
So I might actually be limited by the parity calcs.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
I had to start over with my volume entirely because I followed your instructions blindly the first time and made it raidz1... with two disks
 
Bob
Bob
ouch
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
@allquixotic Well, btrfs is considered stable for day-to-day use but some features may be incomplete.
 
Bob
Bob
yea, need to swap that out with mirror
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
# zpool status tank
  pool: tank
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

        NAME                                                  STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        tank                                                  ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0                                            ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-HGST_HUS724020ALA640_PN2134P5G7X74X           ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-HGST_HUS724020ALA640_PN2134P5G7X7UX           ONLINE       0     0     0
 
Bob
Bob
4:22 AM
that was originally intended to document my own attempt :P
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
It's fine for a desktop, but I wouldn't run a server on btrfs. Yet.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
logs is ZIL, cache is L2ARC
 
Bob
Bob
@DragonLord "stable"
(see above with crashes @allquixotic experienced)
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
btrfs is still eager to eat your data
 
Bob
Bob
...though, it's up in the air if that was due to btrfs or the hw raid card
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
4:23 AM
well I never got any kernel stack traces when the system would crash after switching to xfs
but maybe the stack traces on btrfs were due to poor error handling in btrfs
underlying storage dies in xfs -> it handles it with error messages and the kernel doesn't crash
underlying storage dies in btrfs -> kernel panic
 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic Going through your updates - how'd you figure the 400MB limit? :P
That's the same I ended up on
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
because you told me
 
Bob
Bob
oh
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
lol
 
Bob
Bob
so it's still anywhere between 400MB and 4GB
(it failed on 4GB. I never tried ~1GB because I don't htink I'll ever need that much anyway)
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
4:25 AM
I just used the rest of the space on the flash drive for a rescue system... Lubuntu 15.04
 
Bob
Bob
Good idea.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
that's got working ZFS, etc. on it
 
Bob
Bob
I might do that sometime.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
don't have to recompile if I hose the main box
 
Bob
Bob
Should be enough to debootstrap one up without even having to reboot
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
4:26 AM
yup
but yeah, with no LZ4 compression (I opted out of that!) and ZIL and L2ARC, this thing screams... RAID1 instead of RAIDZ, no LZ4, so low CPU overhead... just 2 mirrors
the only CPU overhead is figuring out if the requested blocks are in cache
and then transferring from ZIL to the primary storage in the background periodically
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
What exactly is this dedicated server for?
Is the workload I/O bound?
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
everything
2
game servers, web servers, Cards Against Humanity, remote desktop to a general purpose Windows VM (KVM instance) hosted via Guacamole, file storage, Cavil...
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
Wow...
 
Bob
Bob
heh
mine is currently hosting znc, ffsync, gitlab, terraria
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
current box wasn't meeting my needs due to the frequent HW RAID crashes (monthly)
 
Bob
Bob
4:29 AM
still in the process of adding more
it's been rock solid so far
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
record uptime was maybe 32 days ish
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
._.
 
Bob
Bob
root@debian:~# uptime
 04:33:39 up 54 days, 16:25,  2 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.09
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
new box has no RAID controller. just two HDDs and two SSDs.
you never answered me @Bob, do you have the HDDs or the SSDs? since they're the same price
 
Bob
Bob
8 mins ago, by Bob
I'm using 3x SSDs on raidz1
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
4:30 AM
ahhhhhhhhhh
missed that
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
My little thing does a webserver (on a VM) ZNC
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
I think they cut down on the number of storage devices from 3 to 2 in the base configurations with Haswell
 
Bob
Bob
Bad decision. I didn't think about ZIL & L2ARC, and wasn't completely sure of what I was doing.
If I were to do another now? I'd copy what you did.
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
My Linode server is primarily for my website (House of DragonLord and The Dragon's Journal). It also holds a couple of private Git repositories acting as a backup for my most critical documents (namely college files and a subset of game saves).
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
I'm not even sure if they offered 2 x HDD and 2 x SSD on the Ivy Bridge servers
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
4:31 AM
I'm toying with throwing in a maiou instance
 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic They did. I think I considered it.
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
It's just a single Linode 2048 instance. $20 a month.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
(also, 1tb HDD, so I may consider throwing crashplan or something for backups)
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
it is more expensive, but keep in mind that I was paying for a hardware RAID card, which carries like a $25/month bill just there, so, removing the card and adding some disks is only $3/month more
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
(which is closer to a VPS than the monsters everyone else runs ;p)
 
Bob
Bob
4:33 AM
@DragonLord Using a dedi gives us more control and the ability to run VMs (or containers), at the cost of being far more expensive. And the more control means we need to spend more time fiddling with it.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
also I might have linked this earlier today but while waiting for server to do stuff I've been completely entranced with watching her videos all day: youtube.com/user/bionerd23/videos
@Bob and having an IPv4 /27 with more than half of it unused, plus tons of free RAM and storage, means that I can often fire up a random box for whatever people need, as long as it's not CPU-intensive
with this new box, my limiting factor is really CPU... DDR4 kicks ass, ZIL and L2ARC kicks ass, so the only way this box is going to be bogged down is if someone pegs the CPU
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
(also, if I do IRC again scaleway.com/pricing looks tempting)
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@JourneymanGeek pretty cool to have bare metal -- good for security
that's the cheapest bare metal I've ever seen
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
 00:36am  up 33 days  7:27,  1 user,  load average: 0.86, 0.27, 0.13
 
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek ARM o.O
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
4:37 AM
@Bob not good for those use cases where something you purchase (or even FOSS stuff that's just really, really hard to compile) is like "here, download this binary :D" 
# ./yay
yay: nope.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@allquixotic: hence IRC. You end up compiling everything anyway.
 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic I cant find details on the CPUs either
ARM can be anywhere from a piddly always-on embedded micro to a beast of a Cortex-A72
(and even then x86 wins :P)
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
it's an ARMv7, apparently, all I can get from it
it's a quad-core ARMv7, so probably a smartphone-ish SoC.... if it's cheap, MediaTek, if not, Qualcomm or Samsung
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
Linode provides one IPv4 address and a /116 IPv6 address block for each instance.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
4:40 AM
in practice it's going to be way faster than a smartphone though -- it has a gigantic heatsink, it doesn't need to worry about battery, and there's an SSD attached instead of a simple flash chip
 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic A smartphone with an identical SoC/CPU. But we don't know which one they're using, and the available ARMv7 cores go just about the whole range.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
1.2ghz processor, apparently typically used for NAS.
 
Bob
Bob
Could be looking at quad-Cortex-A7, or quad-Cortex-A15.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
> e developed with Marvell a Cortex A9 ARM SoC offering excellent performances for web applications.
 
Bob
Bob
> High-performance, dual-issue, and out-of-order ARMv7 CPU with Floating Point Unit (FPU) operating up to 1.2 GHz (3000 DMIPS)
Wonder if that's a custom core.
Still, out-of-order so not a Cortex-A7
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
4:43 AM
> A C1 server gives a constant CPUMark of 12K. This is equivalent to an AWS M3 medium instance.
it's a Cortex A9. it's given in their server FAQ
 
Bob
Bob
Sounds like it might be a Cortex-A9
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic I should read your messages first :P
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
and mine ;p
(also, they charge around that much for ipv4 ips so....)
 
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek well, you just said "1.2ghz", I was looking for the actual architecture
oh wait it was in the link
whoops
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
4:44 AM
._.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@Bob Looking at passmark CPU mark for Android devices, the Note5's Exynos 7420 is about 10x faster than the Note 3's Exynos 5420, in raw CPU performance (discounting memory and disk). Unfortunately, the Marvell Cortex-A9 they have at scaleway is closer to the Note 3's SoC.
again, the disk will be (much) faster, and the CPU might be better on certain workloads, and the RAM is probably DDR3 so that'll be faster than the Note3... but that still leaves a lot to be desired
it would be pretty awesome to see something like the Exynos 7420 run at full speed without the constraints of a battery, a GPU, pushing pixels to a screen, etc
 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic But a m3.medium is a single vCPU
So they're saying this is actually 1/4 the speed for anything single-threaded
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@Bob which is not at all surprising, considering the TDP, and also considering that Intel has always been the king of single-threaded perf, as long as I can remember
even a piece of an Intel CPU is going to deliver amazing single-thread perf
I'd rather take the single-thread, myself. If you have a multithreaded workload, the CPU can do thread interleaving. Or the scheduler can optimize out the context switches so well that it runs almost as if they were lightweight fibers.
But if you have a single-threaded workload that demands high throughput, you're stuck if you have 4 weak cores.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@allquixotic: tho, there's also what you want to use it for ;p
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
Cortex-A9, ouch.
That's a pretty slow core.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
4:58 AM
lol
yup
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
Cortex-A53 is (slightly) faster, supports AArch64, and most importantly, consumes much less power.
Something along the lines of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939 (Cortex-A53 4C@1.7GHz big + Cortex-A53 4C@1.0GHz LITTLE) would be ideal. If only there was a version for servers without the extraneous cellular functionality...
 
Bob
Bob
5:44 AM
wait we're on Linux 4.x? o.O
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
0_0
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@Bob just a version bump for the hell of it
not an actual feature change
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
Finally retired my old Epson WorkForce WF-3540 after 32 months of use.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
32 months isn't that long ._.
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
I'm setting up a WF-3640 in its place.
Yeah, not a whole lot of use.
The printhead is just too unreliable.
I'll maintain the new printer better.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
5:57 AM
(my canons do about 5-6 years)
fair amount of use, tho we refill, rather than buy new carts
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
At least some parts, like the waste ink box and paper cassettes, are the same.
The print engine on the new printer is similar, but uses Epson's new PrecisionCore technology.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
(and eh. I need to top up the ink on mine ._.)
Is that the one with the top-uppable ink tanks?
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
PrecisionCore is an advanced print head technology with extremely high native resolution (600 dpi, vs. typical 300 or 360 dpi) enabling high-speed, high-quality printing.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
ahh, no
(likely to be my next printer. I refill anyway, and it would be less messy)
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
@JourneymanGeek If print permanence isn't a serious concern, have a look at the EcoTank printers. These have an integrated continuous ink system and come with two years' worth of ink.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
6:01 AM
@DragonLord: Yeah, its not
90% of my prints are one offs
(but that's for when my current printer eventually dies ;p)
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
They have a high up-front cost, but you will save money in the long haul if you print a lot.
How many pages a month do you print?
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
lol
between 1 and 200.
Depends
(but... buuut... we've been refilling and that makes a ton of sense)
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
They're really only worth a look if you print at least 2000 pages a year.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@DragonLord: don't forget, overall lifespan for my printers are pretty long
 
Bob
Bob
Unless you do a lot of photo printing, you're honestly better off with a laser printer.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
6:05 AM
@Bob: most of my printing is in colour ;p
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
My usage requires color printouts, both photos and presentations.
 
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Colour laser :P
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
@JourneymanGeek What about the HP Officejet Pro X series?
These printers are F-A-S-T. 70 ppm fast.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@DragonLord: 0-0
much too big
Most of the stuff there is printed out ;p
 
Bob
Bob
Actually, a modern colour laser is pretty good for photos too.
Won't compete with a photo inkjet (e.g. 6-colour), but it'll compete with a typical CYMK juuuuust fine.
@JourneymanGeek 404
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
6:08 AM
 
Bob
Bob
The main difference is how much you pay. A basic colour inkjet is $20. A basic colour laser is $80+. But the latter lasts far longer too.
(I actually prefer a colour laser for image printing... sharper lines and the gloss actually gets a photo-ish feel without photo paper.)
@JourneymanGeek Almost as messy as my desk :P
Currently using brother.com.au/products/printers/colour-laser-led-printers/… - was ~$120 retail at the time, and the starter toner is still going o.O
Been almost three years so far.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
We have some kinda canon pixma
I don't remember the model
 
Bob
Bob
> Total Page Count 1062
Color Page Count 484
Monochrome Page Count 578
Image Count Total 2490
Image Count Cyan (C) 475
Image Count Magenta (M) 483
Image Count Yellow (Y) 479
Image Count Black (BK) 1053
Network and does auto-duplex, which is pretty much all I need.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@JourneymanGeek proof of geekiness: random HDD just sitting out on the table
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
;p
 
Bob
Bob
6:21 AM
Oh, I did replace the black toner once apparently o.O
I don't remember that at all
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
6:31 AM
@allquixotic: I even remember what that is
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
The new printer is giving me nothing but trouble.
The carriage seems to be jamming.
This is before I even put in the initial cartridges.
It's giving me different error messages (0xF1, 0xEA, 0xE8) and is reporting paper jams otherwise with nothing in the paper path.
Seems to be an issue with the carriage docking mechanism at the far right of the printer.
 
Michael Frank
Michael Frank
@DragonLord If it's new, take it back.
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
It's been sitting there for a while as a reserve printer.
It's still under warranty.
 
Michael Frank
Michael Frank
Consumer grade printers are not worth the time it takes to look into repairing them.
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
Seems to be a common issue with this model printer.
 
Oliver Salzburg
Oliver Salzburg
6:58 AM
@JourneymanGeek Wow, you hung pictures of yourself on the wall? Kinda weird!
 
DragonLord
DragonLord
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Q: Epson WorkForce WF-3640 mechanical issue during initial setup; error codes 0xF1, 0xEA, or 0xE8, or "paper jam" reported with no paper in paper path

DragonLordI'm trying to set up a brand-new Epson WorkForce WF-3640 printer and it seems there are some weird mechanical issues. It would seem the carriage is not moving freely. This is before I get to install the ink cartridges. The printer may make a odd grinding noise and return errors 0xF1, 0xEA, or 0x...

printer epson-workforce
sigh
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@OliverSalzburg: those were spare from printouts for granma ;p
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
7:14 AM
ooh @Bob I'm 99% up on lxd on Debian Jessie now... with the stock kernel!
just need to figure out where an mtu of -1 is being passed to the veth
 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic does that mean I'm going to be migrating everything again? :P
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
7:36 AM
0_0
@Bob: From what to lxc?
 
Bob
Bob
From kvm
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
ahh
(heh, which is what I'm using ;p)
 
Oliver Salzburg
Oliver Salzburg
@JourneymanGeek ;D
 
Boris_yo
Boris_yo
8:36 AM
LG Tone+ HBS730 Bluetooth Stereo Headset

^ My E6420 Dell came without bluetooth so I purchased 1 cheap Chinese. I wonder if bluetooth headphones successfully pair with Chinese bluetooth device. Actually my device does not have all features available because it works on generic Windows bluetooth driver. Yet it is said to work with licensed driver that certain company sells. Actually it's BlueSoleil software that costs like $20: http://www.bluesoleil.com/bssoftware/BSoftware.aspx
So what seemed to cost cheap in the end costs like normal bluetooth device...
 
 
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bertieb
bertieb
9:56 AM
Hmm
Suddenly I can't ping my android phone
Wait, only from desktop- I can ping from another machine on the network
 
Bob
Bob
o.O
1
Q: NTFS compression ate all disk space with no possibility to recover

VincentTo increase available space on a HDD (Windows Server 2012 Standard x64), I tried to enable NTFS compression on that drive. While doing the compression, it ran out of available space (despite having like 200GB on that HDD available at the beginning of the process). Compression process was interrup...

windows hard-drive ntfs compression
that sounds like a pretty serious bug
@bertieb wait, you expect to be able to do that? :P
 
bertieb
bertieb
@Bob Why not? :D
(I actually cannot connect in any way from this machine it seems, ping was just my first choice of troubleshooting)
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
cause I don't think android has a proper console, or a ping command ;p
 
bertieb
bertieb
Ah, I mean receive ICMP respsonses
Aaaand that was the sparks turning off power without letting me know first
Sure hope nothing was writing data
 
Bob
Bob
o.O
need a UPS?
 
bertieb
bertieb
10:07 AM
If you've got a spare kicking about! :P
I suspect the postage miiiight be a little steep
:D
I need to pull the finger out and buy a ups or two tho in all fairness
I figured out which type a while back but have forgotten
Ah well, what could possibly go wrong, etc
 
Bob
Bob
6 hours ago, by allquixotic
everything
sorry, that was just the perfect response
 
bertieb
bertieb
Well played :P
 
Oliver Salzburg
Oliver Salzburg
10:37 AM
:D
 
dead beef
dead beef
Room rules?
 
bertieb
bertieb
Have a strong opinion on headphones
:P
 
dead beef
dead beef
Sennheiser ftw
 
bertieb
bertieb
Welcome!
 
dead beef
dead beef
Trying to get lamp working with linux mint in a virtual machine and I'm about to curb stomp myself
I have ran sudo apt-get update. It still can't find the packages.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
10:54 AM
"lamp" is not a package
could be a metapackage or installed with that cursy thing which name I don't remember
hm
 
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