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Daniel Beck

00:22

... except they predate both DisplayPort and HDMI. Is this even possible?!

Einsteins Grandson

Hi guys

Is there some software that will let me see all the people connected to our wi fi router?

and how much of data flows through each device in the network

Anonymous

01:01

Anonymous

ew ubuntu

Malachi

@PatoSáinz you can fix that if you really want to

Anonymous

@Malachi of course, but still an awful choice :)

Anonymous

01:26

2

Anonymous

also, more cores isn't the best strategy

Malachi

01:54

@PatoSáinz did you just draw that?

allquixotic

@PatoSáinz that makes total sense for GPUs :P

Anonymous

@Malachi maybe

Anonymous

@allquixotic omg your avatar

Anonymous

fix it fix it

ekaj

04:26

RAWR

Journeyman Geek

woof

@PatoSáinz: AMD's 'core' count is a bit odd though, they have some components shared, so its kinda close to hyperthreading

Bob

Braiam

04:41

anyone wants to help with flags? english.stackexchange.com/questions/166502/…

ekaj

05:41

2

This is why we keep backups

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek it's funny how we have a whole spectrum of different architectures for multiprocessing these days, ranging from totally independent CPUs that aren't even cache coherent, to cores within a CPU that are cache coherent for L2 and L3 but not L1, to hyperthreading where it's wholly cache coherent but with separate pipelines

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: and yet they're the 'same architecture'

allquixotic

I guess you could even add on clusters (which are basically what huge supercomputers are, too) onto that list as another entry that's even more independent than the multi-CPU case

Journeyman Geek

I donno. clusters have very different interconnects

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek only difference between a non-supercomputer cluster, and a supercomputer cluster, is that the latter has interconnects which rival QPI in speed, while a non-supercomputer cluster typically uses high-end ethernet

Journeyman Geek

05:44

@allquixotic: oh was meaning cluster versus MP/MC systems

Sathya

06:01

Got a Question anyone know this Number looks like a domain Profil but the number is not on the List. Never created a domain... s-1-5-21-3020592196-720022805-14354634049-1000 I did a research with google but the number dosent exist in google? I just have one account but serval USERS an INTERACTIV which wasn t there from beginning an Batch must be created by Nvidia Freaky is that the rights change and some are not changeable, i tryed to make a new User with full rights but this is fixed now too, not changeable.............looks some of the user take all rights....(and the button is deactivate…

superuser.com/a/746544/4377 the Intarwebz, ladies and gents

allquixotic

@Sathya o_O

Bob

My first thought on seeing this in the hot question list: we have a philosophy.se? O_O

@allquixotic Go to sleep :P

Sathya

> I'm still waiting for your response to my query. If your response is to add "delete your account" to your bio, implying you want your account to be removed, then that's expected of a Moderator.

superuser.com/election#comment-962805

Bob

(nah - don't actually go to sleep, I was joking. well, not in response to that message anyway)

allquixotic

@Bob but i'm busy

in the middle of a server migration from sucky-host to awesome-host

(for buddy; I'm sticking with Hetzner for the time being)

Journeyman Geek

06:04

bleh, we don't have the good stuff.

Sajeetharan

Am a software engineer and i want to design my resume as Photoshop file in 1 page. Will the recruiters consider my resume if i do it in Photoshop?

Bob

@allquixotic from and to? :P

Braiam

................................................................................‌...................................................... say again?

Bob

@Sajeetharan wat

Photoshop is for graphical design - it is a raster image editing program.

Unless you're looking for employment in graphic design, you probably want some kind of page layout format.

Sajeetharan

@Bob Ya i want to make my cv as a image file, will the recruiters consider?

Bob

06:08

LaTeX is common in the academic world.

Sathya

why do you want it as an image?

Bob

InDesign is used professionally to design PDFs.

Sathya

jpeg artefacts will kill it

Braiam

@Sajeetharan do they expect your cv in a photoshop file?

Bob

Publisher is the poor man's version.

Sathya

06:08

png will bloat like crazy

Bob

Word is decent enough.

Sathya

pdf would be better

Sajeetharan

@Braiam one of the recruiter have asked me to reduce my cv into one page

Bob

Unless you're looking for a job in graphics design, don't submit your resume with a ridiculous amount of graphics.

@Sajeetharan Then don't use that recruiter.

Sajeetharan

so i when i searched on google for 1 page cv, all of them were in psd

Bob

06:09

A cover page, sure. But your entire CV? nawp.

Journeyman Geek

recruiters are non technical folk

ANYTHING but pdf or doc is a bad idea

Bob

Oh wait.

Braiam

there, ladies and gentlemen, is a prime example of the XY problem

Bob

@Sajeetharan Depends on your country.

In the US, CV == resume. And is long.

In other countries, CV is short, like a one-page cover letter.

Sajeetharan

the recruiter is from UK

Bob

06:10

The actual resume should be long.

And you should not use Photoshop unless you intend to do graphic design

Just... don't.

There, I've said it three times.

Braiam

@Sajeetharan last 2-3 jobs of relevance, only relevant titles, secondary has to go or reduced to single lines

Bob

Curriculum vitae

A curriculum vitae (CV) provides an overview of a person's experience and other qualifications. In some countries, a CV is typically the first item that a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview, when seeking employment. Use In the United Kingdom, most Commonwealth countries, and Ireland, a CV is short (usually a maximum of two sides of A4 paper), and therefore contains only a summary of the job seeker's employment history, qualifications, education, and some personal information. It is often upd...

Braiam

@Bob why you pinging me?

Bob

@Braiam Why not? @Braiam

allquixotic

@Bob from dedidirect to delimitervps (it's not an actual vps tho, it's a dedi)

Braiam

06:12

@Bob I know what a CV is...?

Sajeetharan

@Braiam so i can make it in word and reduce the content, thanks guys for your time

Bob

@allquixotic dedidirect not working out?

I thought you were happy with them?

allquixotic

@Bob delimiter have a 50% off recurring coupon (for the life of your server) for purchases made in April, and hefty discounts for yearly plans. dedidirect wasn't working out, no. apparently the DC they operate out of mistakenly pinned my buddy's server as a spammer or something (but my buddy found no evidence of malware being installed etc) and the dedidirect guy hasn't un-null-routed the IP after 5 requests over 3 days

Bob

@allquixotic :(

allquixotic

also, the delimiter offer includes a /29 and constant KVM-over-IP (HP iLO)

Bob

06:14

Heh.

allquixotic

also, upgrading from Core2 era procs to Nehalem Xeons

hyperthreading and EPT for the fucking win

Bob

Sounds similar to my WI one.

Price? Specs?

allquixotic

$49/mo in either Atlanta, GA or New York state... dual L5520, 24GB RAM, 1 TB disk, 20 TB bandwidth, gigabit port, hardware RAID controller, HP DL160 or BL460C chassis

that $49/mo is if you pay up for a year in advance and use their recurring 50% off coupon

so far I've learned that their support techs are on site 24/7, but at least on a weekend, getting a response to a ticket takes about 90 minutes... I don't find that unacceptable at all considering the price and the time of day. their site says 24/7 support

provisioning surprisingly only took 2 hours; for budget dedis like this you can usually expect multi-day setup times

according to IPMI, the server's been powered on for like 890 days... it's not a brand new server, but it's comparatively a spring chicken; I'm sure the CPU and RAM and mobo have years left in them

and hardware failures are almost always covered for free by the hosting provider in these situations

will have to check the HDD's age later though, may not be too comfortable if the disk is as old as the whole system

2.4 years of powered on time for a SATA Western Digital disk would not inspire confidence

Journeyman Geek

I just removed and packed up the DOID today

Need to talk to my mom about getting it over to my cousin in india.

Bob

07:22

@allquixotic So pretty much a standard $50 dual-L5520.

Except with hardware RAID.

Journeyman Geek

07:40

Michael Frank

09:20

@Bob Is this in reference to something? Also that monitor would have been incredibly expensive.

Journeyman Geek

That guy looks vaguely like John Carmack

Ash

10:29

I was recently having problems with package installations and I found out that my / was 100% used up and unfortunately I had allocated only 300mb for /.

so I created a new 2.9 Gib partition and copied all files to new this partion.

later I deleted my old root partition.

I changed UUID in fstab in new partition but forgot to change this value in /boot/grub/menu.lst

cat /proc/cmdline shows the boot parameters passed to initramfs as old root partitions UUID

now iam stuck at ash (basic shell utility from debian ) since it can not see root partition.

(initramfs)

I can not locate "/boot/grub/menu.lst" from live cd.

what do I do ?

Journeyman Geek

10:47

reinstall?

Michael Frank

10:58

@JourneymanGeek It is Carmack.

IIRC, that monitor is something like a 30" flat CRT and cost a small fortune at the time.

Ahh yep, here we go: geek.com/games/…

Journeyman Geek

11:09

old SGI was awesome ;p

terdon

7

A: How can I fix/install/reinstall grub?

So, it sounds like you have not installed a boot loader (e.g. grub) on the disk. This means that although you have a valid OS on it, there is no way to boot it and so you can't use it. You need to attach the HDD to a working computer (you can use a live CD), set up a chroot environment and insta...

Bob

Ash

@JourneymanGeek I have some unfinished torrent downloads.(azuerus)

@terdon I did that but grub-install is not found.

terdon

11:27

@Ash Which distro is this?

Are you using legacy grub or grub2?

Ash

crunch-bang

@terdon how to find ?

I also did grub2-install

update grub also doesnt work.

terdon

11:55

@Ash Well, what do you have in /boot/grub? If yopu have a menu.list it's legacy grub, if grub.cfg thyen it's grub2.

You said you couldn't find menu.list in /boot so you should have grub2...

Awal Garg

12:13

does a dot(.) get italicized or capitalized?

0

Q: Does a dot or period (.) get italicized or capitalized?

When we italicize text with the dot (.) or period symbol, does it actually change the (.). So, is . different from . Can anyone tell which of them is italicized? And same way for capitalization. . different from . Does it matters? P.S. I am not sure if I should ask this here, ...

font

Journeyman Geek

erm. Its a dot. A tilted dot is a .

and one does not capitalise punctuation, its barbaric like drinking tea with olives in it.

and as for not being able to ask questions - did you get question banned?

Journeyman Geek

13:35

superuser.com/q/746647/10165 might be worth keeping an eye on this one

terdon

@JourneymanGeek Why?

Journeyman Geek

@terdon: I'm pretty certain its a setup for a spammy answer

terdon

@JourneymanGeek Ah, OK, that I will believe. I thought you found it interesting.

Journeyman Geek

in fact... groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/… (the spam, oh the spammity spam)

I wouldn't be surprised if we found one of the answers there

now, the fun way to solve this would be to have a canonical PST repair question with non spammy answers, and just immediately close all these as dupes

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Kinna telling that we don't have a legitimate question yet.

Why do these spammers even bother?

Journeyman Geek

13:51

cause they're idiots who drink the SEO kool aid?

HackToHell

Fiction rocks :P

Journeyman Geek

needs a potato for scale.

Bob

...

O_O

Since when did Amazon have an Australian version?

Nov 2013, apparently...

Eh, Kindle, books and apps only :(

allquixotic

14:10

@Bob except that usually when I see a "dual-L5520" it's way more than $50... remember, these are Nehalems; the typical $50 value server is Core2 era

Bob

@allquixotic I've seen a few at $50.

Mentioned them in this chat, actually.

o.O referencesource.microsoft.com

allquixotic

@Bob with how much RAM though?

Bob

@allquixotic 24 GB

And another one: lowendbox.com/blog/…

allquixotic

@Bob I'm really surprised this configuration is so common -- I thought $50 for Core2 Xeons was good value

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: someone got rid of a shitton of them I am told

allquixotic

14:15

I just hope the service at DelimiterVPS is good. so far it's fine; I'm not expecting 15 minute SLA response times to tickets like Softlayer

Journeyman Geek

so they ended up going really cheap

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Facebook.

Journeyman Geek

yeah ;p

Bob

@allquixotic I've actually had good response times from WI.

But I'm wary of recommending them after that power outage debacle.

allquixotic

also, the hardware RAID serves no purpose unless I pay for at least one additional HDD :P

right now it's a single disk

Bob

14:17

@allquixotic Then there's jokes like this: webhostingtalk.com/…

> high performance

> DED Level-1
•1 GB RAM
•2 x 160 GB Disk
•AMD 3700+ CPU
•5000 GB Monthly Traffic
•1 IP Address
•Price - $ 35.99

That's an AMD desktop CPU from 2004.

Journeyman Geek

I'm pretty sure I saw one of those on a curb

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Bob

My phone probably approaches it. Maybe even beats it.

Journeyman Geek

didn't bother to pick it up ;p

Bob

> DED Level-2
•2 GB RAM
•2 x 160 GB Disks
•AMD 3800+ CPU
•5000 GB Monthly Traffic
•1 IP Address
•Price - $ 64.99

???

I wouldn't even pay $5/month!

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: its only a matter of time before someone builds a raspi-card blade server system ;p

Bob

14:19

A VPS with CPU limits would be better!

@JourneymanGeek They already exist...

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I don't mean an array of raspis, I mean the new form factor they released

Bob

And then there's this one, the top of their "premium dedicated servers" (managed):

> DED Level-8
•24 GB RAM
•1.5TB SATA + 2x300GB SAS + 120GB SSD Storage
•Core i7 990 CPU
•5000 GB Monthly Traffic
•1 IP Address
•Price - $ 209.99

allquixotic

@Bob wow.

Bob

Can they not afford a proper server CPU?

Journeyman Geek

;p

990...

thats what

5 generations?

allquixotic

14:20

@Bob apparently with $209.99/month they can't afford it

@JourneymanGeek i7-990 is Nehalem

Bob

@allquixotic They're managed, yes. But I'm struggling to think of what these could be used for.

allquixotic

Nehalems are fine for dedis, but most people want Xeon for cache

Journeyman Geek

ahh

and EE

Bob

@allquixotic And ECC.

Considering the 85W TDP on those cheaper AMD procs...

allquixotic

@Bob unixy has similar overpriced servers, but their low-end is at least like 2 GB of RAM

Bob

14:21

They'd be better off getting some Haswell Xeons and virtualising the damn things.

allquixotic

unixy is basically hiring an IT guy... oh, and a bad server too :P

Bob

The power savings would probably pay for it in a year.

Journeyman Geek

maybe they're not paying seperately for power?

and just want to fill up as many paying racks as possible as cheaply as possible?

allquixotic

wat is it

Journeyman Geek

ooh

the LPC controller

Bob

14:24

@allquixotic What machine is this? The dedi?

You're running Windows on it? o.O

Journeyman Geek

Low Pin Count

Low Pin Count interface IT8705F [[Super I/O chip. Data sheet available from [http://www.ite.com.tw/EN/products_more.aspx?CategoryID=3&ID=5,65 ITE Tech. Inc.] ]] The Low Pin Count bus, or LPC bus, is used on IBM-compatible personal computers to connect low-bandwidth devices to the CPU, such as the boot ROM and the "legacy" I/O devices (behind a super I/O chip). The "legacy" I/O devices usually include serial and parallel ports, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, floppy disk controller andmore recentlythe Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The physical wires of the LPC bus usually connect to the so...

unless it isn't

allquixotic

@Bob yeah, HP DL160. Windows at the request of the guy who'll be using it -_-

Bob

@allquixotic ...any particular reason? Isn't that like $30/month? o.O

Journeyman Geek

looks like a known error @allquixotic ;p

h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/…

Bob

Heh, your home machine, @allquixotic: webhostingtalk.com/…

Journeyman Geek

14:27

of course it being HP, there's a chance the download's behind a support paywall

lol

@Bob: and mine, though with twice the ram

allquixotic

@Bob nope, free. got a dreamspark license for it

@JourneymanGeek looks like it is >_<

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: I can't help there ;p

Bob

@allquixotic Ah. Some of the places I asked didn't allow Windows from an external source.

Apparently it's part of their licensing agreement with MS.

Journeyman Geek

meh, I found a link that might work but its too long

Bob

o.O

webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1369519

i3 with IPMI and ECC

that's a new one

Journeyman Geek

14:32

try the one here h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-ML-DL-SL/…

allquixotic

@Bob DelimiterVPS is the exact opposite :D you go into their control panel and you can actually ask it from the web control panel to install basically any version of Windows Server (as well as a bunch of modern Linuxes)... it even configures the IP for you :D

it's quite nice :D one of the things they did really well

presumably they have some way to automatically load the Windows install media over their internal network to the KVM-over-IP, and tell it to do some kind of automated install

I'd expect that kind of function... for a VPS, but not for a dedi

Y ORACLE.

ORACLE PLS.

i can't even imagine what GUI framework they must be using to get a GUI that looks like that... why is the background a color that was popular last in Windows 95? why is the progress bar so weird? oh god.. don't tell me... Swing

> your Java version is out of date

> Java SE 8

!!meme okay

ChatBot John Cavil

14:48

Bob

15:08

...

It's 1am

a baby has been crying next door for at least 10 mins now

Gear54rus

Hey guise

@Bob Hey Bob, how's it goin?

Bob

hello

HackToHell

@Bob Question is what are you doing at 1 am instaed of sleeping !!!

Sathya

I need global hotkeys for spotify's rate up/rate down

annoying to alt-tab from Diablo & rate it down/up

Bob

@HackToHell listening to a baby crying

HackToHell

15:19

@Sathya If you figure out a way to do it, ping me

Hennes

I need that sound as a ringtone.

HackToHell

Currently I use Win+S to bring Spotify to the foreground

and then I use Ctrl+Arrows

@Bob Well go to sleep now

Bob

@HackToHell no.

Just no.

HackToHell

Yo @Leathe

Bob

@Hennes ?

HackToHell

15:27

!! bobsleep

ChatBot John Cavil

@HackToHell That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

HackToHell

!!sleep

Bob

close to 30 mins, baby still crying

@HackToHell Seriously, stop it. It's not funny.

It's just plain annoying now.

Journeyman Geek

;p

HackToHell

@Bob Call you neighbour ?

Journeyman Geek

15:27

you need thicker walls

Malachi

@Bob turn on some soothing classical music on your stereo really loud

it should help you both sleep. unless the baby is sitting in a dirty diaper

Bob

@JourneymanGeek window*

Malachi

Bass helps you could try hip hop music too. which will also wake the neighbor and alert them to their crying baby or they will come over for the party

Hennes

You could play the triple siren evacuation alert.

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allquixotic

@Hennes oh god... last night, I had a dream there was a nuclear attack :(

heard the sirens and me and my family bolted down to the basement as fast as we could... we didn't hear anything but we stayed down there... I had my phone and somehow the data was working so I went to the news, and they were showing the position of the nukes coming down on a weather map, like this is an ordinary thing

Hennes

15:34

That reminds me of old (1950?) era US movies

Nuke attack exercise in school by hiding under tables.

Must have been lead lined ~~fridges~~ tables.

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Malachi

@allquixotic that is creepy, where was the nuke coming down?

Bob

15:48

50 mins, still crying O_O

do babies usually cry this long?

I wonder if anyone's home

Sathya

@Bob that doesn't seem right

Bob

well, it seems to have stoppe- nope

allquixotic

@Malachi western Virginia (that is, not "West Virginia", but the western part of the state of Virginia)

Malachi

@allquixotic I take it that you live in that area?

allquixotic

@Malachi about a 2 hour drive eastward from there, but sort of

certainly if it were a Tsar Bomba I'd be affected

heck even if it was a smallish nuke I'd suffer from the fallout

Hennes

15:56

The Tsar bomba was actually one of the cleanest bomb ever (based on fallout per yield)

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