@ewwhite here's an 'at night/early-evening' picture to show off the lights

That a Titan?

@RyanRies 780

@RyanRies though it's overclocked beyond a stock titan

Nice... I've got a 670, nothing to sneeze at, but not as good as yours

@RyanRies I'm surprised by the temps, playing BF3/Crysis etc. at 1920 with everything turned up to max nothing in the whole box goes over 55C, and that's with the fans almost silent too

What is it about SATA that causes it's performance to degrade over time?

All of my SAS drives are perfectly consistent.

I'm not as OCD about temperatures as I used to be... 10 years ago I was always doing crazy water cooling setups and lapping my CPU to a mirror finish and all that... nowadays, as long as the machine is stable I don't really care what the temps are. After building I just let it sit in the BIOS for about 24h, look at the temps, as long as they're reasonable I forget about it

I could see SATA performance being slower that SAS, but I don't understand why it would go down over time...

also = always

@KevinSoviero shallow queue-depth and a less developed OoO implementation don't help

@Chopper3 "OoO"?

@RyanRies me too - I just want something that's good enough without taking my time up too much

@KevinSoviero Out of order

@Chopper3 Oh, ok.

@KevinSoviero Is that time or is that area on the physical disk?

@ShaneMadden I'm fairly sure that it's time, because the benchmark takes less than a minute to run. That's not enough time to move significantly across the disk.

@KevinSoviero Ahh, yeah.

@RyanRies ya know. I'm perfectly happy playing the 3-4 Lego games that I have and the daughter likes her zoo animal Kinect games. I'm sure I'm MS's worst nightmare for XBox buyer as they'll never recoup their loss, but I just don't need to use it for any of their fancy-ass features.

I'm completely apathetic as I have not owned a console since the SNES and never had any intention of getting an Xbox or Playstation regardless of how good the next one is... but it's an entertaining show at least, watching people react to it

@RyanRies Actually, I received it and the 24" screen as a gift, which was technically for the kids but lives at my house instead of their mother's place. I've only spent $25 on getting the disc tray fixed after the damn cat screwed up the gears.

@KevinSoviero TRIM

I am striking out in my lab today... in other news, I build lab servers on Saturdays -__-

@RyanRies that's marginally better than me: I write python code to do continuous integration on saturdays

Fucking 260 character filesystem limit is bugging the hell out of me

and find bugs in the test suite for git.

@DennisKaarsemaker So Ruby for Puppet, Perl for production, and Python for testing?

@Adrian perl for production isn't my choice. I'd go for python.

we do have quite a bit of python code for production support

@DennisKaarsemaker Awfully hard on one's liver, I'd imagine.

@Adrian the nickname boozing.com isn't quite undeserved :)

boozing.com

@JoelESalas It's for sale!

@JoelESalas Sup, QT?

Ouch. Reading a page about REST and they started talking about CORBA. Darn near had an aneurysm.

There's some shit that's not on my resume' and never will appear there.

@Chopper3 Possible future mod to your new PC?

@Adrian So, Ruby on OS X is 1.8.x. Nice.

/sarcasm

@WesleyDavid Yeah, I remember that from $job.last. Was a bit of a PITA.

@Adrian What are you using for Rubything? 1.9? 2? RoR?

@WesleyDavid RoR. Still figuring out which version I'm going to want.

Spinning up an Ubuntu VM now to see if I like what's there.

@Adrian I was looking at Learn Ruby the Hard Way last night.

There seems to be a dearth of Ruby based learning games.

@WesleyDavid Ruby for Zombies?

Python has a ton of fun game-based tutorial and programming offerings.

Yeah, Ruby for Zombies looks good.

For some reason I'm tickled by that peculiar form of learning.

For the record, I did not star that. =P

@WesleyDavid I need to try some of that. I've always been more in favor of learning with concrete examples, like my prime number computation.

Probably Dennis or Chopper. =)

I suspected @DennisKaarsemaker first. I always suspect @Dennis first. For everything.

And not far off, generally speaking.

@Adrian I like examples to learn by, but graduated-difficulty projects. Not the "Hey, go make a RSS reader now." kind of projects.

I hated it growing up when I'd read a book on C or whatever and the end of each chapter would say "Expanding on what you've learned about variable types, go create a first person shooter using arbitrary level geometry and cached lookup tables!"

@WesleyDavid Something to be said for that. Will probably try it on Monday once the family all leaves.

I did not tap that

too busy running 'make test'

Okay, testing mode=1 NIC bonding on RHEL, take 2... drum rollllll

Aaaaaand failure.

Dammit RedHat.

RedHat! We're smarter than Microsoft because we got you to pay a yearly subscription for this shit!

@Adrian I've got it easy then, we've got 40 people on-call :D

@WesleyDavid haha

@Chopper3 Make it look lived in. Cozy.

@WesleyDavid that's so cute

Whelp, here it be. Third ServerFault question: serverfault.com/q/516101/9770

@MathiasR.Jessen Oy. Yeah. The largest team I've ever worked with was 8. Not that it did me much good, I was the only guy that knew one of the apps which left me on 24/7/365 on-call if it blew up.

Nobody else was willing to learn it. =(

@Adrian It's not perfect, trust me. We are 40 people covering ~60 different kinda technical business situations. I've gotten 10 2-hour calls the last week because 39 guys don't answer their phones :D

@MathiasR.Jessen Ick. Those are never pleasant. I had one of those when my I was doing the 24/7/365 routine. Slept through a phone ringing because I'd been up for 26 hours.

@Adrian That's nothing, I had a 40 hour shift in a call center for IT ops with 2 other guys... the last few hours we were less than intelligent

@MathiasR.Jessen Yeah. My problem was the stress. I was straining to keep an app up that had a 12-minute SLA on its data forwarding. Was handling all of AT&Ts performance-management data across its entire wireless network.

The customer's SLA for the data was less than the Sev1 response SLA on my phone. Screwed no matter what I did on that one.

@Adrian That sounds like a shitty job :D

@MathiasR.Jessen That's one of the reasons I left. After all that, IBM bought us. The Veeps split $30M. One of the sales guys rather thoughtfully bought me a bottle of Port as thanks.

I worked 1600 hours between Dec1 and April 15 that year.

So... you worked 49% of the time?

That sounds lethal

@MathiasR.Jessen That one was rough. Worked 41 straight days at one point.