@Bob OVH is acting like Delimiter now :( ordered MG-512 on November 26, put in support ticket asking about it on December 6, no reply yet
"where's my server?!" *radio silence*
typical Delimiter service, but not expected out of OVH. Maybe they're just running around with their hair on fire because they sold out of MG-512s during black friday
@Bob usually it's 30s for the base Enterprise server offering (SP-64) and "72h" (3 days) for MG instances, presumably to get hardware from a warehouse or get it shipped overnight from a supplier
but I noticed MG-512 was literally sold out at some point recently because of black friday 50% off
I don't think I've ever seen an Enterprise line OVH server sell out
@HornOKPlease if you ask you might be able to get compensation for taking so long to set it up. probably worthwhile poking the ticket more or giving them a call
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yup - 50% off a system with 512GB of RAM is going to put you out of stock for weeks, it seems. I wonder what the shortage is? RAM? those Xeons?
Intel is finally producing a new microarchitecture, after more than three years of being stuck on the Lake series. The new Cove series, starting with Sunny Cove, will come in 2019. It'll be built on the Intel 10nm process.
I'm thinking it's going to happen some point in the second half of 2019.
@Bob The thing that was holding them back was tying architecture to process. They've now decoupled the two so they don't wind up getting tied up by stuff like the 10nm problems.
Listen, Tories. You had a vote on Theresa May in 2016. How dare you ask for a second vote just because now you can see how shit everything is and her promises were lies? She won. That’s democracy, get over it!
#peoplesvote
@ToxicFrog It's an active memory dump. It's not quite dumping 8 GB of core (or worse yet, 32 GB on Astaroth), but it's still very substantial.
It ignores memory areas that are either not actually used by applications or are not relevant to troubleshooting.
...and LZX compressed, it is 913 MiB.
...huh. The battery on this laptop is 4-cell, in a 4S configuration.
Nominal voltage is 15.4V (3.85V per cell), with a full-charge voltage of 17.6V (4.40V per cell). These kinds of high-voltage Li-poly cells are designed with maximum runtime in mind.
Nominal capacity is 3,454 mAh, for an energy rating of 53.2 Wh.
(battery has about 96-98% of original capacity at this point)
Pulling this trick to keep charge levels at a more optimal level when plugged in:
...welp. On most HP laptops that use barrel charge connectors (whether 7.4mm as used on older systems or 4.5mm on current machines), there's an ID pin in addition to the power contact, used to determine, among other things, power adapter capacity. If you insert the connector too slowly or don't push it all the way in, it'll power the laptop but it won't charge the battery because it can't identify the charger.
Oddly, with the old 7.4mm barrel connector, HP and Dell laptops of the day had AC adapters that were mechanically and electrically compatible, but since a Dell laptop's charge controller can't communicate with the HP AC adapter and vice versa, they will only power the system without charging the battery.
I actually had an electric shock problem with an old Dell Latitude (on loan from school) that came with an ungrounded AC adapter. The HP adapter, which did have a ground pin on the cord, would power the machine without the annoying tingle but not charge the battery.
@ToxicFrog Because I'm used to seeing kernel memory dumps that topped out at a few MBs. I've had systems dump 24 GB of core in the past before this active memory dump option was added in Windows 10, but only when I explicitly selected "complete memory dump" for troubleshooting purposes. (My now-retired gaming laptop had 24 GB of RAM.)
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The decision to call 911 is based on two questions: "is there a serious danger to life or property or an immediately hazardous condition that may escalate to such a danger?" and "does this require the immediate attention of police, fire, or medical personnel?"
(a leaking car battery that was left unattended at night where someone might run into it does qualify as an emergency because it's a hazardous condition; FDNY was dispatched and they covered it up in kitty litter, with Sanitation removing it the next day)
I was waffling between calling 311 (municipal non-emergency help) and 911, and decided to call 911 because someone might step on it and get injured as a result (it was on asphalt behind a parked car, near the sidewalk) and you never know if the battery might decide to explode due to, say, hydrogen getting ignited.
Same way if i'm driving down trhre road and there's a car part in the road for some reaosn, if it's safe to do so I'll stop, get out, move it, and drive off.
but shrug, culture I guess
I remember years ago, seeing 2 guys jump over a gate into a back garden over the road from my wifes house (when she was my gf)
we called the police and they were out in 5 minutes or so
I'm honestly a bit surprised that it took so long for police to arrive with a crime in progress. If something like this was happening here, NYPD would be on our doorstep in 15 minutes.
