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12:02 AM
hrm, wish I could spend money on hardware. Instead I pay off credit cards
 
@Holocryptic Yeah, I most likely shouldn't bought all this hardware, but I did it anyway. you can get a 2x quad xeon to play with for ~200 dollars
 
@Jacob 0_o from where?
 
I bought one of those
@Holocryptic but that sale ends in 6 hours. they also have the same boxes with different RAM configs.
 
@Jacob nice. Maybe when I get some available cash I'll look at that
 
12:17 AM
@Holocryptic meanwhile, need some PC-2100 ECC ram or an HP DL380G3?
 
@Jacob Ha, based on all the reports of downtime on that box, not likely :)
 
@Holocryptic downtime reports?
 
@Jacob George coming in here every other day, saying the server was down
 
@Holocryptic Mine has worked conteniously for a year.
 
mmmm
either way, not sure I can use that equip right now anyways. Space is at a premium for me just this sec.
 
12:34 AM
@Holocryptic Yeah, I just want to get rid of it, no takes on ebay.
 
 
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1:39 AM
Jeez. Free rep storm from a stating-the-obvious answer..
 
That's how it usually works.
 
Well, I was rep capped for the day even without that one, so 170 rep went down the tubes there. But 80 rep from it already now that the day's rolled over.
 
I hate when that happens
 
2:03 AM
That's what she said.
 
Sadly, yes.
 
 
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7:39 AM
G'day
 
Morning (Unenthusiastically)
 
8:11 AM
@KennyRasschaert have you changed your name from Kenny R ?
 
I have
I noticed a lot of people use their full name as their handle, and it was listed on my profile anyway.
 
Just checking
 
I'm jealous of your marshal badge
getting your flag weight from 500 to 750 is not easy
 
@KennyRasschaert :) that took quite a bit of effort on my ( and the mods who dealt with the flags) part
@BenPilbrow **this quy** has ignored our gentle comments and continues to self promote so he's a spammer
 
8:27 AM
@Iain ugh. Why is Chopper never in the chat room when someone's account needs burning :-)
I've flagged him btw and edited out his spam crap
 
@BenPilbrow I flagged him too - @Chopper3 has been missing for a week now
 
Grr. Very funny, but not constructive. This should not be an answer - am I being really grumpy again?
 
no,you're not being grumpy, flagged
 
@Iain - Good move. Hvae some sed golf: sed -rn '/^-+$/,/^Disc/{/^-+$/d;$d;p }'
 
@SmallClanger I eventually figured it out and learned more about sed doing so
 
8:38 AM
Yeah, it's the first time I've delved into running multiple commands over sub-patterns like that. Did you get that nerd glee, too?
 
I posted it as an answer (as I'd bothered to figure it out) and the OP then comes back with I'm using AIX so it won't work.
@SmallClanger ohhh yes plenty of glee
 
Gah!
 
I even tried to fin an AIX shell account to test it
It needs to be modified to work on Solaris and I suspect that would work on AIX too
@SmallClanger sed -n '/^-\{80\}$/,/^Disonnected/ {/^-\{80\}/d;/^Disonnected/d;p;}' test.txt for Solaris (uses basic regex)
 
Ah, must be a posix thing.
You can run sed --posix to lose the GNU extensions on other distros.
 
If you look at the OP's original effort he's using egrep with ^-{80}$
@SmallClanger and you can use /b or /d to delete/ignore the original /RE/
 
9:24 AM
anyone else having a slow day at work?
 
 
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Sam
11:58 AM
@BenPilbrow I got rid of him.
 
Cheers Sam
 
Anyone want to weigh in? serverfault.com/questions/318276/…
@benpilbrow: bad mood yet? :-)
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Q: Seagate Momentus XT for Hyper-V

Sleeper SmithHas anyone tried these hybrid drives for virtualization? (More specifically Hyper-v + Raid or JBOD). I'm interested in how it performs as I'm running a few servers at home, and the disk IO is killing it, and SSD is too expensive. Thanks in advance.

 
12:22 PM
mornin' folks
 
yeah, seems to happen every time I wake up
 
I need to stop waking up.
 
I'm having on and off again cravings for cigarettes... sucks.
 
You should watch Cat's Eye.
 
12:28 PM
resist the urge!
 
Don't listen to Shads. Watch the movie. Was good.
 
@BartSilverstrim Cat's Eye?
 
i meant to smoke
 
ah yeah, got it
 
12:29 PM
They know how to motivate you to stop smoking.
 
I think I got the urge only because I had coffee this morning, and my heart rate elevated, similar to when I smoke
I've been cigarette free since Feb, and I intend to keep it that way.
Now hookah and cigars, that's another story
 
So when your heart rate is elevated, you want to smoke. And you work helpdesk. With access to the webbertubes.
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yep
dangerous combo
 
12:51 PM
wtf this comment:
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A: Acronis + unixware backup and restore

Shads0Acronis is mostly platform independent, meaning that it will work with most mainstream OSs (Linux, Windows, Unixware, etc). Personally, I have Backup & Recovery for my servers which should be what you are looking for. Acronis is nice in that they will let you try the software before you s...

 
Sam
Oh dear
 
85
Q: Throwing cats out of windows

AndrewFImagine you're in a tall building with a cat. The cat can survive a fall out of a low story window, but will die if thrown from a high floor. How can you figure out the longest drop that the cat can survive, using the least number of attempts? Obviously, if you only have one cat, then you can on...

@Shads0 Tell him to get the .exe and run it
I'm sure it will run brilliantly
 
lawls
I take it TomTom can do worse, from what I hear, this seems really mild
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Q: SQL server 2005 Slow access

SebI got reports from users that the access speed has dramaticly slowed down, when they try to access the database. I checked the server (ms windows server 2003). the Cpu ~20% usage. memory (3,5gb) 2.1gb in usage and steady there. HDD what i can see in prefmon is that it Disk avg read is above 22...

 
@Shads0 Yeah, that's Diet TomTom Light.
 
does it at least have cherry or vanilla, that shit can be good
 
1:01 PM
TomTom don't do vanilla, bitch.
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@Holocryptic And hot damn, that's a depressing programming problem
 
@Shads0 It's a hilarious programming problem.
 
but i like cats >.> they're cute
 
I like cats too. It's still hilarious.
 
I like cats. Taste like chicken. If they eat chicken first.
 
1:05 PM
@BartSilverstrim I'm both laughing and wanting to punch you in the face at the same time...it's a weird feeling.
 
I am known for inducing weird feelings in people.
 
1:33 PM
@Holocryptic it depends on whether they have tails or not
 
ooh...drag coefficient. Good catch.
Or bungee throwing, if you slam the window fast enough.
 
haha
 
hairless breeds are more aerodynamic, too.
 
@BartSilverstrim no, they use their tail to land on their feet
 
Also, fuck IIS
@Iain ooo, like Kangaroos
 
1:34 PM
Lies. We use ribbons on some model rockets to slow their decent.
So their tails would act as drag to slow them down. If you tie ribbons to their tails first that could also slow them down. Ingenius! You just invented an anti-cat-falling-from-a-window-anti-splatter device!
 
@Holocryptic (I actually did this) We had 2 cats one with and one without a tail. Hold cat upside down above a bed and drop it. The cat with a tail landed on it's feet. The one without didn't
 
LOL
 
There's bias there. The cat without a tail might have been an incredibly poor gymnast. You'd need to test on more tailless cats to verify your findings. After all, it was missing a tail. It probably wasn't the most agile thing to begin with.
 
You'd probably need to try it from a couple of hundred feet up to allow the tailless cats time to orient (in case they're just slower, rather than incapable).
 
I'm not sure if cats will attempt to orient themselves once they've hit terminal velocity.
 
1:46 PM
sounds like we need to test
 
MODEL ROCKET TIME! Just need some big-ass engines...
 
Sounds like something best left to experts ;]
 
/me carries a sack of kittens up a tower block. "For science!"
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FOR SCIENCE!!
This would be awesome if it involved tights and yelling, "Thundercats, HO!"
 
@BartSilverstrim You already discovered how we removed the tails, now finish the science
 
1:50 PM
I discovered how to remove the tails?
 
yes
 
When did I do that?
 
that's the mystery
I must be coming down with something, because I keep losing points.
 
@ChrisS Define "experts"
 
@Holocryptic Not us =]
 
2:03 PM
lol
 
If you have to ask, you're not one. How about that?
 
oooo, burn!
 
Anyone have an Android phone? If so, how's the IMAP support? Particularly being able to use Sent/Trash/etc on the Server without having to move items there all the time.
 
Maybe we need to bring this before the Academy of Kitten Throwing Scientists?
@ChrisS I do...
oh, don't use IMAP
 
Oh, don't use Android. /FTFY
:-p
 
2:05 PM
@ChrisS Are you using gmail, or something else?
gmail support is integrated in
 
@Holocryptic Run my own server. No GMail.
 
@BartSilverstrim bah, you and your iCRAP...
@ChrisS hrm... not sure. Do you have a phone to test with? Or no?
 
It'd settle for an iPhone except I hate AT&T and Verizon Wireless, and nobody else has them.
 
@ChrisS Long as you configure the mail app properly, there isn't much of an issue. Probably easier to use the built in app
 
@chrisS: that may change today.
 
2:07 PM
Sprint might be getting them by the end of the month, with unlimited data crosses fingers
 
@Holocryptic No; got a Windows Mobile 6.x phone now, don't care for it much, but it works. Looking to switch.
 
@ChrisS You can create an account for me and I'd test it for you on my phone.
 
I'm pretty sure everyone will do away with unlimited data eventually. It's too lucrative to screw the average person's wallet.
Windows Mobile?! They have users?
 
@Shads0 That's the problem I have now, I can either use the built-in app, which is trash but integrates into the UI, or I can get another app the works well but doesn't integrate.
 
sprint claims they're going to keep it for good
 
2:08 PM
@BartSilverstrim Today?!
 
Sprint would never lie...
Apple announcement today.
 
you open to rooting your droid?
@BartSilverstrim Almost 9 years with sprint, never had an issue
'cept them not having an iPhone
 
@BartSilverstrim Oh; I'll have to watch that....
 
@BartSilverstrim they use their tails to orientate themselves
 
2:10 PM
@BartSilverstrim Me and 5 other people still stuck on this phone and unwilling to pay an assload for a new phone.
@Holocryptic Setting up an account right now; slow as crap right now. Comcast just axed my speeds from 10Mb to 1.5 and it's showing...
 
ew...
 
That sucks, @chriss.
 
why the knockdown?
 
I've got a VPS that I'm moving services off too, but e-mail hasn't been one of them yet.
 
I was stuck with a phone account I didn't need due to contract timing for awhile once. Irritated me a lot. Fuckers wouldn't even let me keep my old phone number.
 
2:15 PM
@Shads0 Their economy package was initially just a way to get customers to stay, then word got out about it. So originally it was a standard speed plan, but billed at half the rate. So now that people know about it they're implementing it as a slower speed (it's also advertised on their website now, never was until several months ago).
 
no amount of rage will fix it, aye?
 
Ah, America the progressive. Other countries have 10x the speed to the doorstep that we get, but GO AMERICA!
 
@Holocryptic un: holo pw: holocryptic imap/smtp server: nevin.ext.stoneyforest.net
 
well I have 10x that speed, 35/35 at home, i love it
then i go to work with only a t1 and i get sad
 
We've got an 18/6 at work, but it's shared among a bunch of people (some of which download large ISO files commonly)
I used to have 10/2 at home, now I'm limping on 1.5/384 until I switch providers or pony up.
Seems like broadband prices were dropping the last few years, then all of a sudden this year was an about face.
 
2:26 PM
@ChrisS do you have special ports setup?
 
@Holocryptic Nope, standard stuff.
 
@ChrisS and its holo@stoneyforest.net
 
@Holocryptic That's the e-mail, login is just "holo"
 
ah, that was the problem it looks like. Looks like its syncing now
 
SMTP requires auth if you try to send an e-mail.
Funny how coincidences happen... My sister just e-mailed my mom, as I'm watching the log file.
 
2:34 PM
@ChrisS are you seeing me try to connect to it?
 
Yep; Looks like IMAP is working, but SMTP isn't "535 Authentication failed."
 
I'm probably screwing something up...
 
hi
It's been a while
 
@ChrisS I have authentication set to auto for outgoing smtp. the other option I have is MD5 and none...
 
Hrm... I think the MD5 implementation may be FUBAR... Something about different implementations. None wouldn't be supported without TLS, which isn't working right now (my fault, long story of moving from one server to another).
 
2:43 PM
Holy crap. Apparently I'm making a run for a great answer badge??
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A: Transfer 10TB of files from USA -> UK datacenter

Shane MaddenShip hard drives across the ocean instead. At 11 Mbps with full utilization, you're looking at just shy of 90 days to transfer 10 TB. 11 Mbps = 1.375 MBps = 116.015 GB/day. 10240 GB / 116.015 GB/day = ~88.3 days.

 
I'm not so worried about SMTP so much as IMAP anyway
@ShaneMadden It was twitted...
 
Pretty embarrassing that that's my highest voted answer by a multiple of 5.
 
@ChrisS k, I received the inbound message...
 
I see that. Spam score was -0.7 =]
 
@ShaneMadden It's odd, what becomes a "lightning rod" answer and gets on twitter/reddit...
 
2:45 PM
And no virii attached.
 
@ChrisS I should hope not...
 
Still well worthy of my +1, just not sure how the whole "going viral" thing works yet.
 
@ShaneMadden it's just the usual problem with well researched vs statin the bleedin obvious
 
Yep. Ah well.
 
@ChrisS Looks like I can't create new folders from the droid, but I can manage them all (such as it is at this point)
 
2:50 PM
@Holocryptic Hrm, interesting... I wonder what the deal is with creating folders.
 
@ChrisS Of course I'm just using the built in IMAP setup. There may be an after market one that works a little better.
 
Do the aftermarket apps integrate with the UI? Do you know?
 
@ChrisS They should. But I've only had this phone for about a week. I was on a BB before. I can keep testing if you want. And if you get the outbound fixed :) I also see some stuff you sent me to populate. They all ended up in spam :)
 
Yeah; those test messages usually do.
 
@ChrisS Let me play around with it some more over the next few days
 
2:54 PM
I really need to get the mail server transferred over to the VPS and get the TLS stuff sorted out again...
@Holocryptic Sure, just let me know what you find. Thank you!
 
@ChrisS yep. No problem
Now to figure out this IIS problem....
 
3:08 PM
You're running IIS? That's probably the problem.
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yeah...
well...
 
Oh RequestTracker, why do you mock me so?
 
Stop making it so easy.
Anybody listen to the SE podcast?
Apple came out with a foldable computer?
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Q: MacBook Pro display not brighten when being unfolded after being folded and powered for a while?

ComputistMy MacBook Pro's display does not brighten up when being unfolded after being folded and powered on for a while. Also I found some keys don't respond, e.g. fn key does not seem to work, and fn+F1 does not brighten the display, and Cmd+F12 does not increase the audio volume. The only thing that's...

I bet my display wouldn't work after I folded it.
 
LED backlights should be plenty bright after unfolding the panel! You just won't be able to see them through the destroyed LCD panel.
 
Would it just be dickish of me to say that he shouldn't be folding his display?
I'm not surprised he found a goofy edge case, running extended display, with a VM running, and putting it to sleep like that.
...some questions I just want to answer with, "Duh."
 
3:31 PM
That should be a flag at about 25k rep, you can mark a post as 'duh'
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Take that to meta and see what they say. I nominate you for the feature asker forer.
 
hmmm
 
@ShaneMadden That's nearly SO-levels of inflation!
 
@MikeyB Seriously, I guess that's what you get with all this drive-by traffic. That and people saying to use bittorrent.
 
@ShaneMadden Bittorrent? Seriously? Who's suggesting that? Let's locate him with geo-IP and beat him with a hammer.
 
3:37 PM
@ShaneMadden Talking about the RAR + BT guy?
 
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A: Transfer 10TB of files from USA -> UK datacenter

zseroReally no one mentions RAR + BitTorrent? It's perfect for this kind of situation, I've used it for a number of cases, and there is a reason why BitTorrent is used for so many 100% legal situations. If I were you, I would do the following: WinRAR: compression method: best, put recovery record c...

 
I said bittorent it! Because it would work.
But only as a comment.
 
@ShaneMadden god.... who would try to do that over the wire?
@BartSilverstrim only if you had half the world seeding :-)
 
Primarily because if you're transferring that kind of data and it's public, and he doesn't care about security, it would suck to transfer 10 TB of data only to find that you have errors in the physical copy.
My first thought if he didn't care about time was to set up DFS.
 
@BartSilverstrim that's true, but really - hard drives are pretty reliable
 
3:39 PM
Let it dribble it all over. He's caring more about getting data from A to B but not really thinking about data integrity.
 
It'd work, for sure, but, plenty of extra overhead from new connections for every segment. rsync checks integrity, so I'd still go with it for an over-the-wire transfer
 
and if you're worried/paranoid you could set up a software RAID-5 (12 1TB disks) - lets you destroy one
 
I mean, we do use BitTorrent internally for some cool things, but not point-to-point. Ugh.
 
People forget that bittorrent actually has a built-in integrity check. And he said it was public data. Not crazy to just seed and let it fill over time. If he's only concerned with getting from A to B as quickly as possible, I'd suggest physical copies with checksums.
Or DFS should do some checking on it and do the transfer as well, without having to do a parity check after the fact to fill in alterations during transit.
 
@ShaneMadden Yeah; reminds me of:
Workaround
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3:42 PM
@BartSilverstrim also depends on if the data is static or not. rsync would be great if it's not static, after you ship physical copies the first time.
(for that matter rsync would also fix up any errors that crop up in your physical copy, assuming the drive itself isn't destroyed.
 
That could work too.
There are several ways to do it, but in the end the guy has a suck situation.
 
@BartSilverstrim I don't think it's a sucky situation - I think he's reaching for a magical solution where there is none though
 
And apparently it's MP3 files. Which is a little bit suspect.
 
I wish more people knew about 7zip
 
all the solutions have some quantity of suck. This is axiomatic in the computing world. Our job is to find the path of least suck.
He wants one that has *NO* suck and he's pretty well fucked there.
7zip is pretty sweet
it supports more than 7 formats though. they should rename it to Nzip
 
3:44 PM
I die a little inside when I have to use 7zip to send to a regular zip file...
 
@shanemadden: it's possible the mp3's are podcasts...
 
@BartSilverstrim 10TB? Prolific! ;)
 
@Holocryptic i send all file transfers as bzipped shar files.
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@voretaq7 that's evil
 
@ShaneMadden They're recorded at 50KHz sampling rate and uncompressed. For the true audiophile.
 
3:46 PM
I record all my podcasts to vinyl to get optimum analog sound quality that you digitalheads just cannot comprehend.
 
I used to distribute software as a shell archive (it was for suns, and it had to install itself, so we had the shar wirh some magic code appended that finalized the setup.)

I got the idea from Sun's original Java installation script.
wow... I've been spending too much time revamping security. I have encryption on the brain.
 
@voretaq7 Well, they might have it encrypted, too. Those master copies are valuable! ;)
 
I get a kick out of the "audiophiles" who MP3'd their collections, but spend thousands on an amp and speakers.
Yes, most of my music is in MP3 form these days, but I know it's shitty, lossy compression and my speakers are matched to that.
 
My backup script is something like tar cf - /path/to/files | xz | openssl bf > /backups/[date_code].txz.bfe. Uses a 7zip derived LZMA compression, works very well.
 
(which mostly means my speakers are tinny and treble-biased, to offset the "ZOMG WE WANT IT TO BE LIKE BOSE" overloaded bass you get out of most MP3s
My backup script is bacula -> file -> rsync (offsite).
My personal one is tar -> gpg -> rsync (offsite)
 
3:50 PM
You mean like the people that insist on singing along to songs when they can't even get in the right key?
 
Yeah. The white-noise reproduction from crappier MP3 encoding is just painful. If your crash symbol sounds like it's underwater, something has gone wrong.
 
@BartSilverstrim What is pitch for $400 Alex
 
@BartSilverstrim I don't mind that so much, I've been known to transpose songs when it suits my mood (or when the original is sung by a soprano/mezzo and hitting those notes would require the Michael Jackson Maneuver)
 
...adobe's landing page is advertising touch apps. It strikes me as their way of saying, "Oh, yeah?!" to Apple. "We run our crap on Android! We don't NEED you and your stupid fad iPad!"
@voretaq7: By transpose do you mean you sound like the people they make fun of in the initial rounds of American Idol?
 
if you can't manage to get the lyrics at least 90% right though and you're belting it out at the top of your lungs.... maybe not so much with the singing for you.
@BartSilverstrim No, I mean I'll take a "happy happy let's all be sunshine and rainbow farts" song with nice lyrics and move it to a minor key, or I'll take something like "Dream a Little Dream" and move it into a vocal range I can actually hit notes in :)
I've been told that when I'm on form I'm a fairly decent singer.
On my bad days the dog won't even howl along with me though...
 
3:54 PM
@voretaq7 Upside down video or it never happened.
 
@Holocryptic I BLAME AUTOCORRECT!
Poverty in Africa? Autocorrect.
Global warming causing the seas to rise? Autocorrect.
Wildfires devastating Texas? AUTOCORRECT!
World War III breaking out? GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING AUTOCORRECT
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@voretaq7 I blame WWIII on the mice.
 
WTH? AD Computers and Users 5.x had a dialin tab for user properties, but 6.x is missing it?
 

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