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00:04
@freiheit Turtle Wax man!
@voretaq7 That does not look even remotely organic, vegan and/or bacon-infused. I believe you may be unclear on the most basic principles of hipsterism.
Anonymous
somebody hacked blogs.perl.org... hrgh
@freiheit "Wear tight pants until man parts fall off"
I understand hipsterism, I'm just not interested in it :)
@PatoSáinz HOORAY!
Anonymous
@voretaq7 it wasn't that "chaotic" tho lol
Anonymous
00:07
at least no "oh noes" like when openssl got hacked, mongoHQ and others
Anonymous
because we perl people know how to compute in computers
@PatoSáinz You don't install the latest perl with curl http://perl.org/install.sh | sh?
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Anonymous
@freiheit i'm too cool for install.sh scripts... just use a tarball. Also I don't remember if that was ever a method for installing perl.
Anonymous
You can use perlbrew too
@PatoSáinz I'm pretty sure it never was, but it does seem to be for some stuff out there... shudder
Anonymous
00:11
@freiheit devops preferred method is of course curl | sh
@freiheit it wouldn't surprise me.
Anonymous
I was lurking /g/ and the amount of doge simply surprised me, it's even more doge than here
Anonymous
doge overflow
@PatoSáinz That's exactly how you install Chef.
Anonymous
that meme ain't even worthful
Anonymous
00:14
@Magellan at least there are other ways to install it... right?
@PatoSáinz sort of?
And curl | sh is definitely the recommended way
@Magellan .... at least they send me to an http*s* URL... curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash
@freiheit because that matters from the command line?
but right underneath they have a package I can just download... but they sure make the curl|sh thing easier to see. getchef.com/chef/install
it used to be that curl | sh had the latest stuff and the deb/rpm was a bit behind.
00:17
@Magellan I don't know about how your system is set up, but my curl checks certs by default, so it makes it a tiny bit less evil
@freiheit you could be right. I assumed it wasn't doing much of that since I wasn't getting prompted. Because, you know, most people spend time poring over the stacktrace output of their curl downloads. =P
@Magellan Somewhere out there you'll find instructions for curl -L --insecure ... | sh
indeed. The reasonably respectable return was from someone at UCSF.
kce
kce
00:48
There's probably no way GNUPG and Windows EFS are compatible huh?
@ewwhite are you around?
@cole yep
"pics or it didn't happen" applies to helpdesk soooo much
@ewwhite quick question for you - have a friend/client who is looking to build a more sophisticated infrastructure (does web dev/marketing/hosting for his clients)
mmmhmm
00:59
only 2 servers (mac mini's) right now - probably will be adding a 3rd server this year - do you do vSphere Essentials for clients this size? or something else?
o0
@cole: Mac minis are servers? ;p
(oh, I guess apple considers them so)
@cole: I still think thats a really wierd thing for apple to do ;p
hey it's a nice small footprint
(and that they'd sell loads of a rackmount version of the dustbin)
01:01
and it's working well for him - his sites are responsive and smooth
@cole hipster server
He's looking to get more sophisticated - this guy is extremely smart
@Magellan this is my friend that I'm talking about:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island_Soft_Systems
@Tanner I do, they're brilliant ;p
Dude owned Screensaver.com in the 90's early 2000's and made a mill off of selling it.
@cole ok. opinion revised.
01:03
He also wrote the credit card processing CVS uses to this day....when he was 24
@MarkHenderson nearly all laptop keyboards suck balls. Thinkpads were the last vestige of proper keyboards and they went tits up. I'd be a hipster but I suggest that a small external keyboard, maybe even an ergonomic one is a VERY good idea
tbh, if that thing had real drives in it, I'd be far less dismissive. 5400rpm 1TB drives are ridiculously down-scale these days.
(seriously, flat keys as the only option is annoying)
@Magellan he doesn't have like crazy intensive websites
I don't even buy drives that slow for my hand-built servers at home.
01:04
they're all fairly simple - but they do look nice
@Magellan: I think those are 2.5 inchers
like: www.nrihockey.com
@cole backups take forever with drives that slow.
@JourneymanGeek yes. they are.
@cole thinking...
@Magellan he's realizing that now
01:05
so not much choice there, no?
(though, if I didn't need space, I'd just swap those suckers for SSDs. whooosh)
@cole If it were me, I'd get a pair of 600G SSDs from different lots and RAID those. But those drives cost almost as much as that entire server package.
@Magellan yeah and I think he's willing to buy some newer hardware too
these have worked "for now"
@cole Does your friend need virtualization?
@ewwhite yes
vmware essentials
01:07
@Andrew that's my thought
I wouldn't say that.
on something from the whitelist. in a 2-host cluster.
he doesn't have these in a data center and he doesn't make enough of the hosting to make co-lo worth it
Ok, so AWS?
@cole I'm mostly just being an ass. still recovering from being sick. Some reasonably fast platter drives should suffice as long as he's not compiling anything from tarballs.
01:07
Mac Mini -> VMware doesn't make sense...
@Andrew not making enough to make it worth it
we're missing something
what applications need to be hosted/virtualized
what's teh workload...
@cole VPS?
@ewwhite he has Windows boxes running in Fusion on OS X server. IIS/PHPMySQL
01:09
Oh, okay. That makes more sense.
Hell, for that matter an AWS small instance might work if the workload really is that light.
He has no interest in using Linux, he wants to stay with Windows.
@Magellan I'm going to mention it
Which is fine - he's comfortable with IIS
@cole @MDMarra and his cronies would recommend Hyper-V
ESXi is easy
No - I don't think Hyper-V is a good move
start with one server...
01:10
ESXi, yes.
or even KVM.
no to KVM
KVM is very linuxy.
I want to set this up for him so he rarely has to call me
ESXi.
I'll be putting in a Sonicwall, and some other networking stuff
01:10
buy Essentials for $500
use a proper server if hosted locally
@ewwhite ok, that's what I recommended
1 min ago, by cole
I want to set this up for him so he rarely has to call me
He wants something quiet/low power. The mini's have been good for that
Famous last words.
@jscott he's an extremely smart dude - see above
01:12
that's not a good requirement.
and performance has not been an issue, whatsoever
He works out of his house, his basement to be exact
I'm probably going to hate myself for saying these, but I wonder if you can throw esx on a NUC
@JourneymanGeek thought that too
@cole I'm sure, I believe you. I wish you the best. Making decisions for others, particularly smart and capable ones, is difficult.
Core i5/i7 w/ ESXi would be plenty for him
01:13
@cole fatal flaw
@jscott he's a good dude - known him for years
@cole HP ProLiant ML350 Gen8.
they're about the same form factor/size as a mac mini, there's core i7 versions, you can probably throw on a mssd for the OS, and a 2.5 inch system drive
@ewwhite don't think he's looking to spend that much
"I don't want to use Linux" to host a PHP/SQL stack?
01:14
He's only making $800/month off hosting
"wrote 1 smart thing" != "smart"
the fatal flaw for me is, really that you're limited to (iirc) 8gb of ram, and if you get the right version, a single small drive
@Andrew: and there's different sorts of smart ;p
@cole $3k or bust
@ewwhite definitely going to talk to him about it.
and "I wrote a very specialised program and made money off it" != "I know how to host a website"
01:15
He said his clients owe him in the $26K range right now
@ewwhite that's about what an entire rack is running in a DC nowadays, isn't it?
@cole: thats not smart
@JourneymanGeek but he's made much more than that
he's very successful
Like - he's already paid all his people (set aside), etc
@cole successful (generally) == !smart
the money that he's waiting on right now is all his.
@Andrew see above
Not his first rodeo
He's made millions.
01:17
@cole but but, we're supposed to be grumpy sysadmins. You're taking all the fun out of it for us, you know.
haha
He's been a sysadmin!
He knows
but the biggest wrench in this isn't any of this stuff
He's my ex girlfriend's boss
the one who I got a job last summer/moved here for/lives right down the street
ya
@cole: its another job. ;p
01:19
@JourneymanGeek did I mention - any work I do for him or this kinda joint venture we're going down - I'll have to work with her...she's the PM.
The Wikipedia article reads "a company that made some hilarious shareware stuff"
@cole: Ok, potentially arkward but only if you let it be.
@Andrew still made a buttload.
He sold screensaver.com for $1mil
@cole doesn't make it smart...
Well he is extremely smart
and I really look up to him
So I have to say - I'm pretty honored he'd ask for my help.
01:21
@Shane.
@ScottPack Yo.
@cole ok, 1. budget 2. constraints 3. get multiple quotes
if it's business, make it professional.
Going to have dinner with him next week - he said he will go into more detail
sounds like he may go ahead and drop some $$$
from what he's saying now
don't be blinded by "I'm a Microsoft fanboy and I hate Linus's guts because he's European"
I'm not - but he does all the IIS stuff and his other devs.
Not going to go in and say "Throw all this MS shit out and put in Linux which you and none of your devs are familiar with!"
01:28
For .NET or PHP/MySQL?
They do both
PHP on IIS... yuck.
Yeah - it is yuck, but again - I don't have to deal with it - that's all him
I recommend keeping the Windows stack with .NET, since they're used to it, but dumping IIS for Apache and dropping MS-SQL for MySQL.
He's using MySQL
01:29
@ScottPack I honestly can't tell if serious.
@jscott Dude. I have definitely earned more respect than that.
Do you need to stick Mono in there to get Windows + .Net + Apache + MySQL?
I guess I have no idea how .Net and Apache would get on together.
Wait, did you say it was hosted in his basement?
Yes - he has business class fiber
finished basement
@cole: honestly, considering what he's running, the lamp stack makes more sense
01:34
UPS / generator / fire suppression? raised floor? flood prevention?
@jscott Probably, but for the record, that sounds like a fucking terrible idea.
The twist is his basement is a IV colo facility.
@jscott: oh, everyone wants one of those ;p
Ok he's SMB guys - not enterprise
two mac mini's
@jscott mod_mono I guess? Never tried it myself because.. why?
01:34
(and hell, imagine what you'll save on heating bills!)
he caters to SMBs too
@ShaneMadden hahaaha!
but thanks @ewwhite for the input
If his turnover is over $1M, colo. Seriously.
I'll see what he says next week
01:35
@ShaneMadden So he can use mod_rewrite to pass everything through HA Proxy. Clearly.
@ScottPack No, no, through Apache then an nginx instance on the same box. Then HAProxy. To another Apache instance.
Now you're thinking with DevOps.
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"Hosted in our state-of-the art CEO's basement"...
oooh, I have a cunning plan
Jesus! I'm having so many connection issues lately that my access point could be on a Cialis commercial.
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Have it on AWS but proxied through the mac minis in his basement! He'll keep thinking he's all hipster and stuff but he'll actually have some data security without realising!
01:38
Well I'm off to bed
night guys
@cole cya.
01:52
lol
(funny thing is I really see both sides of the argument here... and wondering if a dedicated server might be a smarter idea..)
I have/do host stuff off my home server, with an odd amount of reliability (My main point of failure is me deciding I don't need a home server, then realising there's something I can't be arsed to keep running on my main systems)
@RyJones Good evening, Fine Sir!
@Magellan good evening to you, sir! How are you doing?
@cole mmmhmm
@RyJones got the flu, but recovering slowly. Also very dopey and stupid this evening, which is entertaining to Lady.
@Andrew we're trying to find somewhere to host some mac minis for us. Open source projects + supports iOS == hard nut to crack without buying one
01:55
illegally virtualize it
@Magellan well, good for both of you I guess :)
@ewwhite not in the cards
@RyJones How's you and yours this evening?
Linux Foundation would kill us
@RyJones hopefully not in someone's basement though.
@RyJones Besides, how would your main office put asset tags on virtual machines? MUST TAG ALL THE THINGS.
01:56
@RyJones: I seem to remember one... one moment
@Magellan OK, I'm here late trying to undo some shenanigans foisted upon us by legal
@JourneymanGeek we have two we're looking at. there are issues beyond finding the physical hosting
@Magellan or put "cabling" in an asset system. "but it exceeded the spending threshhold, that makes it an asset!" Yes, because you can totally rip it out of the walls and sell it... hmm, actually you could...
like, who gets the license from Apple? Who clicks through?
@RyJones just murder them, it's easier
@Andrew no argument from me
01:58
@RyJones ugh. yeah, I have a few of those "fun" situations that I get to deal with.
@RyJones: IIRC the guys who host the raspi-foundation do it
Apple has a license?
@MichaelHampton there are a bunch for click throughs to get XCode running.
kinda expensive tho
@Magellan I wouldn't put it beyond them, actually, to try that
01:59
@RyJones Oh, you mean those screens full of gibberish?
@MichaelHampton lawyers read those
None of my challenges at work are technical. They're legal.
I'm not a lawyer. I can read Objective-C, more or less, but I have to call a translator to read a EULA.
regardless, LF is loathe to click through some shit for us
@RyJones: what's the issues with running them in house then? That would get around most of the legal BS
@JourneymanGeek it means we would be shipping copies of OpenSSL, basically, is the nut of the problem
02:01
@MichaelHampton: I can usually understand EULAs, when I don't fall asleep half way
@RyJones: ... ow.
Anonymous
any excuses for building home servers?
@PatoSáinz: lots.
it doesn't matter, the lawyers will hug it out.
I wouldn't run production stuff on em ;p
Anonymous
@JourneymanGeek please elaborate
Anonymous
02:02
also just as a learning experience i'd dedicate one of the two boxes i have available as servers to windows... it's useful irl experience nonetheless
@PatoSáinz: You have stuff that 1) you need running all the time 2) you don't want to have a personal system on for all the time 3) want to test out but don't want to dedicate your personal system to
I leave my personal system on all the time.
Anonymous
@MichaelHampton sorta same
Anonymous
@JourneymanGeek then why not VM under your personal system?
My personal system also has 14 VMs and five LXC containers. And one of those VMs has two nested VMs. And one of those nested VMs is running FreeBSD jails.
02:05
@PatoSáinz My linux desktop kind of turned into a VM server. Two AD servers, FreeBSD storage server, a few test servers, IPv6-only test network, a few Windows boxes for stuff, a Windows box with Visual Studio, a docker host, pfSense…
Anonymous
vmception
Anonymous
@MichaelHampton i heard you liked VMs inside your VMs
@PatoSáinz: I don't want my personal system on all the time
@MichaelHampton but how many layers of ESXi do you have?
… with mirrored 200GB SSDs, a couple 750GB HDDs pulled from a NetApp, 4×1TB HDDs…
02:06
The moment you use your personal system that way, its a server.
@Andrew Zero
@Andrew: WE MUST GO DEEPER!
Anonymous
@JourneymanGeek lifetime is negiglibe however
… and a Fusion-IO card.
@PatoSáinz: Power use, and case lights ;p
Anonymous
02:07
@JourneymanGeek well, for the case lights, good ol' duct tape is your friend
I'm pretty seriously considering swapping out my oldschool 1.6ghz atom for a newer NUC
@PatoSáinz: I like my desktop looking pretty ;p
@MikeyB I'm not the only one anymore!
> Note: You will not be able to run a 4th level nested 64bit VM (I have tried by further passing the HV instructions in the nested guest) and it will just boot up and spin your CPUs for hours.
Anonymous
@JourneymanGeek that's called ricing or more politely, modding afaik
@PatoSáinz: also redundancy.
02:08
@Andrew ARGHHH
home servers...
hmmm
Anonymous
who needs more than one level of VMs anyway?
@PatoSáinz It's hypervisors all the way down.
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@PatoSáinz Other than a lxc/docker host or FreeBSD jails, nyet. (those don't really count anyways)
02:10
I'd be surprised at people here not having home servers
Having virtualization clusters is exceptionally important so guests can be shifted around hosts so you can perform maintenance. As such I run KVM on my desktop computer and have 6 ESXi guests in two clusters.
I have a "home server" (well, HTPC)...
with an i3!
My storage system at home is a low power i3. Does the job just fine, though if I were buying it today it'd probably be one of those 8-core atoms
heh. Trying to justify a proper storage system :/ ;p
Anonymous
02:13
i've seen these android apps where you can start/stop SSHd, FTPd and a whole AMP stack via tapping the screen
at the moment, 'big' storage for me is on my desktop
@JourneymanGeek Don't bother. Get a motherboard with a fuckload of SATA ports and throw FreeNAS on it.
@PatoSáinz So, tomtom's phone?
Anonymous
seems useful if you have one of those bloat phones with 8 cores and lots of rams
@ScottPack: thats a proper storage system ;p
right now I'm backing up to a 500gb hard drive connected to a raspberry pi over smb.
02:14
(why do so many gravitate to FreeNAS?)
@JourneymanGeek I need to do that. Right now mine is running on what I had sitting in the box, which was a PC-Chips board and 2 sata ports.
@ewwhite: low cost, simple.
@ewwhite Because it's complicated enough to get all the necessary whistles but easy.
Where the hell is FreeSAN?
its one step above buying a nas off the shelf in terms of flexibility
02:15
@ShaneMadden mine is a mythtv box... needs mroe GPUS
I need @ShaneMadden
@ewwhite Hello sir!
@Andrew What do you use as your frontend?
@ShaneMadden I've been trying to test this new virtual SAN software for VMware called Maxta... maxta.com
@ShaneMadden and the installer has been a shitfest.
@ewwhite Interesting, I hadn't heard of that one. Looks similar to pernixdata.com I think?
02:18
@ewwhite That's terrifying.
@ShaneMadden similar
it's a crowded space...
@ScottPack that is my frontend. combined.
has a sandy bridge i3, 4GB RAM, NVIDIA GT520...
02:19
@ewwhite Interesting. Any errors in the vSphere client when the vswitch creation "fails"?
@ShaneMadden So I've been going back and forth with their support.
no errors...
I got a dump from their installer...
Maybe funky API issues.. is the vCenter maybe not the version their stuff expects?
and their engineers say....
@Andrew Kids today.
02:20
The engineer mentioned that it is because

> one of the Disk has VMK Diagonastic partition.

If you can provide a time, I can have the engineer be on the webex session so that we can install the product.
So I'm thinking of aborting it entirely...
the idea of converged compute and storage is great... a holy grail
@ewwhite Oh god, if only you could configure GPFS on ESXi.
@ScottPack yeah, I used to have an old IBM SFF desktop...
but I really don't want to have a webex to step through a Windows installer for this product.
This is the case it's all in: silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=82
it looks like it's using ZFS on the backend... so it's a clustered filesystem on top of ZFS presented to ESXi
02:23
@ewwhite "How about you guys nail down your installer and THEN I'll try it out."
I'm using a SilverStone for my primary frontend. It's rather attractive.
@ScottPack small problem of having to pull the thing apart to change disks :(
@ewwhite Hmm. I guess if they're right, you could try nuking the core dump partition yourself and try the install again? esxcli system coredump partition list .. esxcli system coredump partition set --unconfigure
Though mine is in a cabinet with a (glass) door, so you can't see too much of it.
@ShaneMadden but really, these were new filesystems built just for this...
there's no sanity checking in the installer
02:27
@ewwhite Yeah, that's definitely concerning.
I had to beg for an approach to select the disk that I could install to;
curl http://maxta.com/installer/installme.img | dd of=/dev/sda bs=4096
Bam. Instant installer. You should recommend that.
@jscott For the record. That's a joke.
@ScottPack I wouldn't put that past some vendors.
@ewwhite Earlier this evening @jscott seemed to have trouble with sarcasm. I just wanted to be clear.
02:31
d'oh.... I was just trying that
@ShaneMadden I think that's how you provision new SMB mounts with an ArcaNAS.
@ScottPack Thanks for clearing that one up. I'd had a rough day and had not applied the correct amount of alcohol yet.
@ScottPack Wait, seriously?
Here we go again.
@jscott I don't think you're the only one who's dangerously sober.
02:33
@ScottPack Heh, working on that.
@ScottPack Still getting over a bit of a cold. Just sank a Founders Dirty Bastard and it's done all but clear my sinuses better than any meds.
How was it?
@jscott Speaking of sinus clearing! I had a bit of my friend's of this a few weeks ago. beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/263/727
It kind of hits you in the nose and is just about the strangest beer experience I've had.
02:39
@ShaneMadden Lucky you, I've not seen that around here yet.
Best. Review. Ever.
> This beer is black as Darth Vader's Suit's Ass blasting through the galaxy like a fuckin' Dark Lord. It's got a hypnotic, spiderweb style foam canvassing itself across the plain. The foam looks like coral sitting on top of somehow liquid coal.
@ScottPack Pretty good, granted my taste and smell is stunted by the congestion. But this wasn't an overly sweet scotch ale. Would drink again.
@JohnD Mar 31, 2012
@Andrew oops. I saw it posted recently elsewhere
@JohnD Does it show up as April 1 for you or is the internal timestamp in UTC?
02:42
@jscott Their stuff's a bit hard to find here since they're out of state, but a few places around have it.
(I'm from the future)
@jscott I enjoyed a growler of this not too long ago. It was quite yummo. beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1432/45764
@Andrew It shows up as the 31st for me.
@ScottPack Love the Internets. Review 1: "Absolutely horrible. Worst beer by far I have had", Review 2: "This is the best German brew ever in my humble opinion."
@JohnD hmmm they were early then
02:43
@jscott It tastes like a campfire smells.
@ScottPack hoppy?
Which can be amazing or horrifying depending on your mood and the person.
@ScottPack 10.5% a whole growler?! Geez man, are you part machine?
@jscott Fine. Half a growler. I had company.
02:56
@ewwhite What is the difference between 380 and 385?
DL
@DanilaLadner Intel/AMD
@DanilaLadner About 5.
Oh.
memory is different as well i guess?

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