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MikeyB

23:00

So somehow me packing up my desk (to move units) devolved into putting a stack of 20 CDs into the microwave for 30s.

Goddammit, ADD.

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Edmuuuuuuuuund

ewwhite

@WesleyDavid Yeah, what?

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite So what do you want to do for shipping?

voretaq7

@ewwhite Send it by Government Mule!

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Are you thinking you can find a 370 box? OR just let FedEx deal with it?

ewwhite

23:03

Nobody local wants to pack it. FedEx may be the only choice.

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite >_<

voretaq7

@ewwhite how big is this thing?

4U? 6U?

WesleyDavid

Yikes. So other places were literally like "AWW HELL NO"

@voretaq7 5u

four thousand pounds

voretaq7

@WesleyDavid pussies.

WesleyDavid

comes with 3 day laborers to help push start it

voretaq7

23:04

@WesleyDavid PUS-SIES!

ewwhite

@voretaq7 5U, 100lbs

The original boxes for these were ridiculous.

which is why nobody kept them

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite sigh

voretaq7

@ewwhite yeah. Pussies.

Ive had 2 and 4 U systems in the 100+LB range

ewwhite

FedEx is my only choice... even the local people I know who routinely BUILD boxes for irregular equipment were unwilling to help. Holiday is part o' the issue.

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Think they'd be willing after Thanksgiving?

voretaq7

23:06

meh, tape around the box, slap a shipping label on it and tell FedEx to STFU and take it!

(a proper Big Iron server can handle a little shipping bump - it'll beat up the truck worse than the system!)

ewwhite

@voretaq7 I'm not worried about breaking it.

I don't want to front super-expensive shipping fees.

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite FedEx ground shouldn't be more than $100 or so. Not sure about the extra packing services though.

ewwhite

packing.

Adrian

@voretaq7 Which FedEx's heavy package division specializes in. In a previous life I was a security guard at one of their facilities.

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite 120pounds, 3-day shipping, is $100. Not bad.

@ewwhite Check yo' emails.

ewwhite

23:12

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Check again, I forgot to add something in the first one. >_<

ewwhite

Oh my gosh... how long does it take to format a 1TB ext3 volume?!?!

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Full format? I'd estimate 12 hours?

I full formatted a 1TB volume recently and can't remember the file system or the time

It was close to 8

ewwhite

Writing inode tables: 4947/7453

it's been 15 minutes

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Isn't that a rather small amount of inodes for 1TB? O_o

@ewwhite Boom - go get it:

Q: HP RAID array - hpacucli

I've noticed that one of the drives has "unassigned" status. Does it mean that it's a spare disk? # hpacucli controller all show config Smart Array P410i in Slot 0 (Embedded) (sn: 50014380143EC650) array A (SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB) logicaldrive 1 (1.6 TB, RAID 5, OK) physi...

raid hp

Jeff Ferland

23:25

Yay bisecting code changes with an hour long manual test period. :D :D :D

Now I get to feel like this too!

49 mins ago, by WesleyDavid

voretaq7

A: How to allow unprivileged apache/PHP to do a root task (CentOS)

PLEASE Don't Do This! At least not the way you suggest -- There is no sane reason for Apache to do ANYTHING as root. The level of egregiousness of what you're suggesting should be apparent by the fact that Apache will refuse to run as root (except the mother process binding to port 80). Also do...

Did I miss anything critical there?

Adrian

@voretaq7 Only the part where we snarkily point out that he's spent an awful lot of time circumventing things to be able to do this very bad idea and that maybe it should've caused him to reflect on whether this idea was very fscking stupid.

Also, servers run better when I don't trip over the power cord.

And the server's on the floor because we don't have rack room for it because we don't have enough room in the server room for a second rack or enough electrical capacity in the server room to run two more 2200w UPSs.

ewwhite

Hi, yes I would like to have 4-disks in RAID 5. Why you wouldn't recommend this? — HTF 5 mins ago