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Michael Hampton

01:13

I just finished writing a puppet module to manage chrony since I didn't like the other one. Let me know what you think.

Wow. Putting that on the puppet forge was a lot less painful than I was expecting.

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Iain

04:19

G'day

@MichaelHampton Your json fie is wrong

You used your ringingliberty account not your error10 account

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Falcon Momot

06:34

death to comcast.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker

10:27

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Michael Hampton

11:34

@Iain Oh great, what's wrong with it?

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Michael Hampton

16:40

Q: Database backup regardless of backup made through a control panel?

I know that all CMS or CMC platforms have some sort of walkthrough for their users to fully backup and restore the database or the whole website. While we all can perform such backups (and there are even plugins which automate the whole procedure) and restore them in necessity (such as when we mi...

Miss the point much?

Tom W

I understand what he's asking. The backup process for the CMS we use is a PITA. I'm not sure what started you on the line of questioning about whether he can restore or not, tbh

Obviously it's only of value if it works. That's a tautology, so what's your point?

Michael Hampton

@TomW You might know this, but he doesn't seem to. Whichever method he picks, he's probably going to lose data and then blame us.

Tom W

I don't think that follows. The responses seem to indicate that he has the same attitude as I do

Michael Hampton

If he did have that attitude, he would not have asked this question to begin with.

Nor would have have admitted that he has no idea if his backups work.

Tom W

The implication is that he hasn't done any yet. It looks like a "If I were to..." question

Michael Hampton

16:51

The qustion boils down to: Are these backup procedures fit for purpose? And that's something we can't answer. At least not without trying it ourselves.

And I have enough work to do without taking on someone else's work as well.

MichelZ

@MichaelHampton And I thought I can outsource all my sysadmin duties to you... :(

Michael Hampton

You can use my puppet modules, when I get around to publishing them :)

MichelZ

do they work on Windows?

Michael Hampton

@MichelZ Probably not

MichelZ

@MichaelHampton then I have no use for them unfortunately

Michael Hampton

17:04

@MichelZ And I can't really do your job anyway if it's all Windows :)

MichelZ

@MichaelHampton And I thought linux people can do everything

Michael Hampton

@MichelZ Yes, I can go wading in a swamp, but why would I want to?

MichelZ

'cause it's fun

Michael Hampton

You have a strange idea of "fun".

MichelZ

I am a strange man

Michael Hampton

17:43

Q: Scary islamic messages on mouse in LibreOffice - a virus?

This is weird. Today I opened an excel file with LibreOffice. Suddenly I saw the mouse changed color, and stuck to it was a message in Arabic, which changed every second in a loop. I can actually read Arabic so I immediately recognized it as Islamic messages praising Allah (including the Takbir)...

libreoffice malware

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Hennes

18:47

Warning: insanity levels rising!

I wonder if I can install windows 7 on a poweredge and have it auto activate.

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Falcon Momot

19:54

@Hennes it probably doesn't have the OEM activation certificate for windows 7 in its bios.

Hennes

Aye. I would be very surprised if it worked.

Nor do I want to run win7 on such a server

But i am curious

Right now I am just playing around. Writing down serial numbers, compile times with 2GiB and with 4GiB. With a siple 15K RPM SAS drive and with a SSD. etc etc

I already got surprised when doubling the memory from 2GiB to 4GiB did not influence compile times. Not even with make -j 16.

Not that getting the fastest kernel compile on an ancient OS (freeBSD 8.4 which was on a DVD which I had handy) is important. But trying to figure out what the limiting factor is is fun and potentially useful

Michael Hampton

Hennes

He can if he uses cement as the medium is the massage CPC tweet Voice of San Diego Free Darko. After all content is king. Scoop tools Frontline election-night hologram nonprofit.

Iain

@MichaelHampton the links point to your error10 account and 404 rather than your ringingliberty aacount

Hennes

Right. DRAC 5 (W126) ordered via ebay. I managed to restrain myself and did not buy the fancy version with 4 ~~additional~~ Gbit ports.

Iain

20:02

or they did at 5:30 am this moring

Michael Hampton

@Iain They shouldn't do now.

Hennes

Clearly I did not drink enough 'Kanon' yet.

Michael Hampton

And woohoo, 13 downloads already!

Hennes

Michael Hampton

@Hennes That's a bit small, no?

Hennes

20:13

The beer? The glass ?

Michael Hampton

@Hennes The image.

Hennes

Aye.

I can link to a huge one if you want

Iain

@MichaelHampton I've been out cyclingg all day and just catching up with my incox

Michael Hampton

And I threw in Arch Linux support just because the only other chrony module only supported Arch, and was kind of crappy to boot.

Iain

@MichaelHampton I'll have a look at it properly when I get some time, not that I use chrony atm

Michael Hampton

20:23

@Iain It's the default in RHEL 7, and it's a lot more flexible than ntpd for some situations, like running in VMs

Iain