/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2009/03/10/#ubuntu-ops.txt

LjLNafallo: oh no.00:01
LjLNafallo: Welcome to test The People's Dictionary - a completely new English-Swedish Dictionary belonging to the people and improved and extended by the people. The People's Dictionary will soon replace the Lexin Swedish-English dictionary.00:01
FlannelSo, both the best and worst pastas you've ever had were Greek!00:01
LjLhow? why? WHY?00:01
LjLFlannel: hm, yeah. i think so00:01
Nafallohaha00:01
Myrtti@mark00:21
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Myrtti@mark #ubuntu-women bertolo came in to the channel with the usual boring trollish behaviour. Wouldn't be suprised to see equivalent elsewhere.00:22
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LjLNafallo: no, it worked01:19
LjLwas wrong01:19
Nafallo:-D01:19
LjLbut01:20
LjL /ban *!?=mattias@c-ed78e755.021-338-67626721.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se!#ubuntu-whatever01:21
LjL[02:21:00] [Error] MODE: No such channel.01:21
LjLNafallo: ^01:21
LjLah wait, that's just cause it doesn't exist01:21
LjLbut no01:21
LjLit gives the same for existing channels01:21
Nafallo:-)01:22
ubottu_VIM_ called the ops in #ubuntu (link)01:33
Myrttithat was remotely helpful ops call01:35
LjLMyrtti, jrib: when i feel less lazy... you'll stop having to wait for ops calls on those kinds of things ;)01:36
LjL(and no, i don't mean i'll actually watch and act on them)01:36
MyrttiLjL: so you'll do my ops watches as well?01:36
Myrttihere, have some gum01:36
LjLMyrtti: nah. i'll just have the floodbots warn you when a NSFW site is linked to.01:37
MyrttiI think I'm that much closer into getting this thing done that I could go to bed now01:37
Myrttisince I do have that doctors appointment tomorrow as well01:38
LjLMyrtti: trying to do something about that coffee addiction huh?01:38
jribLjL: will it be able to detect if an image is porn?01:39
LjLjrib: not per se. domain name based.01:39
LjLjrib: although, uhm, i've heard of some neural network based heuristics.....01:40
LjLjrib: but, no, i don't have the cpu power.01:40
MyrttiLjL: I usually drink only one or two cups a day01:40
Myrttione today to be exact01:40
LjLMyrtti: just keep saying yourself that01:40
MyrttiI can keep up just to SPITE YOU ALL01:40
LjLi smoke one or two cigs a day too01:40
Myrttiwith the power of pure aggression01:40
LjLor perhaps it's one or two bags of tobacco01:40
* jrib hates coffee01:41
LjLMyrtti: then have sarah lend you the pointy stick01:41
* Myrtti hates tobacco01:41
* Myrtti pokes LjL with The Pink Fluffy Pen of Poking™01:41
Myrtti*SQUEEEAK*01:41
LjLMyrtti: no, the other, aggressive, stick.01:41
Myrttiok, I'm not going to waste more time01:42
Myrttinini01:42
LjLi'm going to find if i can buy an electric cigarette actually01:42
LjLone, it "shouldn't" do much harm01:42
LjLtwo, it should look ridiculous enough to provide an incentive to stop anyway.01:42
LjLat least in public.01:42
LjLMyrtti: eighteight01:42
Seeker`onehundredandfiftyeightmilonehundredandfiftyeightmil01:49
Flanneleh?01:49
LjLSeeker`: go to bed.01:51
Seeker`:(01:52
Seeker`Dont_Tase_Me_Bro: how can we help you?02:30
Seeker`oh, hi Balzac02:30
Dont_Tase_Me_Browho?02:30
Seeker`how can I help you?02:31
Dont_Tase_Me_Brohow does one earn oppage?02:32
LjLDont_Tase_Me_Bro: by not being like you02:32
LjLand sorry if that sounded crude.02:32
LjL!guidelines02:32
ubottuThe guidelines for using the Ubuntu channels can be found here: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcGuidelines02:32
Seeker`Dont_Tase_Me_Bro: asking generally means you won't be made one02:32
Dont_Tase_Me_Brolike me?02:32
Dont_Tase_Me_Browhat am i like?02:33
LjLDont_Tase_Me_Bro: i cannot really say... but... check the guidelines02:33
tritiumDont_Tase_Me_Bro: you don't ask for it, for one thing.02:33
Dont_Tase_Me_Brothanks02:33
Dont_Tase_Me_BroI was just curious. I don't think I'll be an op.02:34
Seeker`Dont_Tase_Me_Bro: that makes two of us02:34
Dont_Tase_Me_Broi really like that Ubuntu is a swahili word02:34
Dont_Tase_Me_Bromeaning "humanity to others"02:34
Dont_Tase_Me_Brothat was a really nice choice of a name for software, don't you think?02:35
Dont_Tase_Me_BroI think Barack Obama's father must also have known how to speak Swahili, coming from Kenya.02:35
tritiumOfftopic...02:36
Dont_Tase_Me_Brosorry02:36
Dont_Tase_Me_Broyou guys are pretty cool 02:36
Dont_Tase_Me_Brobrb02:37
LjLDont_Tase_Me_Bro: you should probably use a proxy on your shell provider, so you can have a consistent identity and it's handier to switch from machine to machine02:42
Dont_Tase_Me_Browhy?02:46
Dont_Tase_Me_Broyou guys seem friendly enough and I have nothing to hide.02:46
LjLDont_Tase_Me_Bro: i didn't mean that, actually quite the contrary02:46
LjLDont_Tase_Me_Bro: it's confusing for us to see you as both balzac and Dont_Tase_Me_Bro02:46
LjLnot to mention the verizon address02:47
LjLand i bet it's confusing for you to switch between all those machines02:47
LjLwithout having a consistent irc environemnt02:47
Dont_Tase_Me_Brojust a bit of fun to lighten things up a bit :)02:47
LjLfun?02:47
Dont_Tase_Me_Brosome people find irony makes them laugh02:48
LjLDont_Tase_Me_Bro: i don't get the irony02:48
Seeker`i find irony makes me laugh sometimes02:48
LjLi'm not referring to the nickname itself02:49
Seeker`sadly, this isn't in anyway ironic02:49
LjLif that's what you're thinking about02:49
LjLjust about the several hostnames/identities02:49
LjLi mean, freenode staff could even notice that and start believing that you're using multiple proxy hosts or shell hosts, or botnet machines, or i dunno what, to dodge bans or otherwise muddle waters and confuse irc ops and users02:50
Dont_Tase_Me_Bromaybe there should be a biometric security system02:50
Dont_Tase_Me_Browe could require users to have their iris scanned02:50
PriceyDont_Tase_Me_Bro: If you've no further on topic business here then please /part02:50
Dont_Tase_Me_Brothat would prevent situations like you're bringing up02:50
Dont_Tase_Me_BroI'm enjoying the company02:53
Dont_Tase_Me_BroI think I'll have another question soon if you let me stick around02:53
Dont_Tase_Me_Brobbiab02:54
Seeker`@login03:01
ubottuThe operation succeeded.03:01
Dont_Tase_Me_Broback03:28
PriceyDont_Tase_Me_Bro: Do you have an operator/abuse question?03:34
naliothphantomcircuit: may we help you?03:40
phantomcircuitoh yeah im banned from #ubuntu but it's on my auto join list so i was forwarded here03:40
tritium@btlogin03:50
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bazhang!idle | Dont_Tase_Me_Bro 04:37
ubottuDont_Tase_Me_Bro: Please keep in mind that this channel is for operator/abuse questions only; we ask you to part when you have no further business here in order to keep track of users with pending inquiries.04:37
=== bluesmoke is now known as Amaranth
Dont_Tase_Me_Brook05:20
Dont_Tase_Me_Broanother time05:20
Dont_Tase_Me_Brobye05:20
ubottuhateball called the ops in #ubuntu (h1tler)06:51
jussi01!idle | phantomcircuit07:29
ubottuphantomcircuit: Please keep in mind that this channel is for operator/abuse questions only; we ask you to part when you have no further business here in order to keep track of users with pending inquiries.07:29
phantomcircuitoh yeah im banned from #ubuntu but it's on my auto join list so i was forwarded here07:30
jussi01phantomcircuit: and has your ban been talked about yet?07:41
phantomcircuitnope07:41
jussi01so you havent discussed it with the ops at any point?07:42
phantomcircuitnope07:44
Flannelphantomcircuit: Lying certainly isn't a good way to go about getting a ban removed.07:45
phantomcircuitit's technically true08:05
phantomcircuitno op has talked with me about my ban08:05
phantomcircuitthey talked to me about what appeared to be ban avoiding (ironically i turned the proxy off and not on)08:06
ikoniaphantomcircuit: what's the issue ?08:28
phantomcircuiti accidentally spammed some08:28
ikoniaphantomcircuit: where and when08:28
phantomcircuitevery other channel removed the ban within 12 hours :|08:29
phantomcircuiti dont even remember anymore but it's been days at least08:29
ikonia3 days08:29
ikoniaand you tried to avoid the ban using a netcollect.org host 08:29
ikoniaand you've been banned and kicked more than one from what I can see 08:30
ikoniaphantomcircuit: so what's the situation with your behaviour ?08:30
phantomcircuitactually i was banned with the netcollect.org host08:31
phantomcircuiti stopped using that proxy for a totally different reason (cant really trust that server anymore...)08:31
phantomcircuitso i got banned again for evading08:31
ikoniayup08:31
ikoniayou ban evaded08:31
phantomcircuityeah but it was totally not on purpose08:32
ikoniaas I said - you've been kicked and banned a few times before08:32
ikoniaso I'll re-ask the question "what's with the behaviour ?"08:32
phantomcircuitwhen?08:32
ikoniaphantomcircuit: in general08:32
phantomcircuit"you've been kicked and banned a few times before"08:32
phantomcircuitwhen?08:32
ikoniaoh08:32
ikoniafew times on 7th march08:33
ikonia26feb08:33
ikoniaJuly08:33
phantomcircuityeah08:33
ikoniaso "what's with the behaviour"08:33
phantomcircuitthe original ban was 26 fed08:33
ikoniayou appear to not get it08:33
phantomcircuitthen i was banned for ban evasion on the 7th of march08:33
phantomcircuitsee why i forgot about the ban?08:33
ikoniano08:34
phantomcircuitno?08:34
ikoniano , I don't see why you forgot about the ban08:34
ikoniaand as I said - you've been kicked / banned a few times for behaviour08:35
ikoniaI understand accidents can happen, and I'm willing to accept that, just curious to the other incidents ?08:35
phantomcircuitbecause it was over a week08:36
ikonia?08:36
phantomcircuitwho bans someone for over a week for an accidental two line spam?08:36
ikoniaphantomcircuit: I've just said I'm happy to accept that accidents happen08:36
ikoniaI'm asking about your other kicks/bans behaviour ?08:36
phantomcircuiti have no idea08:37
phantomcircuitjuly? that's the summer08:37
phantomcircuitbeats me08:37
ikoniaso spamming #ubuntu-offtopic with /me punches knomede ?08:37
ikoniawas that also an accident ?08:37
ikoniayou seem to make a mistakes spamming channels, or repeating yourself consistantly08:37
phantomcircuitwhat?08:38
phantomcircuitisn't #ubuntu-offtopic ... offtopic?08:38
ikoniaphantomcircuit: yes08:38
ikoniathat doesn't mean "spam" or "flood" the channel repeating the same thing over and over08:38
ikoniaphantomcircuit: I'm not being funny - I'm just curious / trying to understand the situation 08:39
ikoniaphantomcircuit: I totally accept accidents happen 08:39
ikoniaI made a miss-paste myself yesterday, so I know how easy it is to do it08:39
topyliphantomcircuit: fyi, the "offtopic" #ubuntu-offtopic simply means it's not a support channel. it's still an ubuntu channel and the same code of conduct applies08:39
phantomcircuitright08:40
phantomcircuitalso /me punches knomede?08:40
phantomcircuitwhen did i say that?08:40
ikoniain #ubuntu-offtopic in july when you where kicked for saying it over and over again08:41
ikoniawell, banned actually, but the point is the same08:41
ikoniaphantomcircuit: bottom line is, if I remove the ban, are we going to see any more issues with you ?08:41
phantomcircuituh08:42
phantomcircuitno?08:42
ikoniaphantomcircuit: why is that a hard question ?08:42
ikoniaphantomcircuit: I'm just asking for a staight answer08:42
ikonianot a clever one08:42
phantomcircuitbecause i dont even remember that stuff from july08:42
ikoniaMyrtti: ping 08:43
phantomcircuitso how can i say i wont do something i dont remember again?08:43
ikoniaphantomcircuit: because you can say "no I won't cause any issues again"08:43
ikoniadoesn't matter if you remember doing it or not08:43
ikonia Mez ping 08:43
phantomcircuithonestly i don't really care if you unban me08:44
ikoniaphantomcircuit: ok then, we'll leave the conversation here then08:44
phantomcircuiti've never gotten any help from anybody in #ubuntu that i can remember08:44
ikoniaphantomcircuit: ok - no problem then, bye08:44
ikoniaphantomcircuit: if there is nothing else you need from us, please leave the channel and return to your day 08:44
phantomcircuityeah see the thing is that #ubuntu is on my auto join list08:45
ikoniaphantomcircuit: remove it08:45
phantomcircuitso as long as the ban is forwarding me here im going to end up here08:45
ikoniaphantomcircuit:remove the auto join08:45
ikoniaphantomcircuit: it's that simple08:45
phantomcircuitnah that takes effort from me08:45
phantomcircuitjust change the ban08:45
phantomcircuitit's not hard08:45
ikoniaphantomcircuit: no problem08:45
ikoniaphantomcircuit: all done, your welcome to leave now08:47
phantomcircuitwhy do you keep asking?08:47
phantomcircuitjust do it08:47
ikoniait's done08:47
phantomcircuitwhat do you get like a demerit for kicking someone?08:48
ikoniaphantomcircuit: I shouldn't have to, nor do I have access to kick you from this channel08:48
ikoniaphantomcircuit: I've asked you to leave, updated the ban as you requested, your welcome to leave, it would be appreciated08:48
ikoniaunless there is something you genuinly need/want 08:49
phantomcircuitill leave the next time i close xchat08:49
ikoniajussi01: Myrtti elky Pricey nalioth tritium Gary  nudge08:50
ikoniaphantomcircuit: just leave, it's pointless to behave like this, 08:50
phantomcircuittrue but it's also pointless to indulge you and leave08:50
ikonia!ops 08:50
ubottuHelp! Channel emergency! (ONLY use this trigger in emergencies) - Mez, LjL, elkbuntu,  imbrandon, DBO, gnomefreak, Hobbsee, rob, Madpilot, CarlK, crimsun, ajmitch, tritium, Nalioth, thoreauputic, apokryphos, tonyyarusso,  PriceChild, Amaranth, jrib, jenda, nixternal, Myrtti, mneptok, Pici, Jack_Sparrow, nickrud, jpds, bazhang, jussi01, Flannel or ikonia!08:50
phantomcircuitit's a zero sum game08:50
ubottuikonia called the ops in #ubuntu-ops ()08:50
phantomcircuiti can neither win nor lose08:50
phantomcircuitso i don't care08:50
elkyikonia, i am here, i also need to read up08:50
gnomefreakme too08:50
ikoniaelky: ahh super08:51
ikoniathanks chaps08:51
Garyphantomcircuit: this channel is kept free of users so that the ops can better talk to people with problems, it is a no idle zone08:51
ikoniaand ladies08:51
phantomcircuitlike i said before08:51
phantomcircuitMEH08:51
ikoniathanks08:55
elkyif he returns with more cheek, i'll upgrade it to a kb08:55
ikoniaI don't think he will08:55
ikoniaI was happy to unban him to be honest, every one makes slip ups with the keyboard08:55
ikoniajust his smart mouth 08:56
elkyuntil you got the attitude?08:56
ikoniapathetic attempt to be pain08:56
ikoniaunless you sort the ban I'll just ge forwarded here as I can't be bothered removing the auto join08:56
topylihe was doing so well until then :)09:00
topylialthough he *was* more interested in the past than your queries about future conduct09:01
ikoniato be fair to him, I didn't phrase that very well09:01
Seeker`@btlogin09:40
ikoniaSeeker`: shouldn't you be at work ;)09:41
ikonianot seen you online in daylight hours for ages09:41
Seeker`train was cancelled09:42
Seeker`working from home until the next one09:42
ikonianicie 09:42
ikonianice09:42
Seeker`yeah,public transport sucks09:51
MyrttiI got a cortisone shot \o/10:10
Seeker`woo?10:11
jussi01ikonia: ping10:11
jussi01Myrtti: cortisone is wonderful stuff10:11
ikoniajussi01: hello10:12
Myrttithe pain will go away lalalalalalalala10:13
* Tm_T hates himself10:18
Seeker`Tm_T: why?10:18
Tm_Tjust everything goes wrong10:21
Seeker`:(10:22
Seeker`time to try and get the train10:27
ikoniarun 10:28
Mezikonia: pong11:22
ikoniaMez: not to worry, he left11:22
ikonia(the guy I wanted your view on )11:23
Mezah, sorry, I was on my way into work11:23
Mezand good to know that my opinion is wanted 11:23
ikoniaseemed polite to ask you about the guy you banned11:25
ikoniawindow 1611:25
Mezlol, did I ban him?11:27
ikoniayup11:28
ikonialooks like an old one that got overlooked11:28
ikoniathen Myrtti pulled him on for ban evasion on your log11:28
ikoniayour ban sorry 11:28
GaryI thought the saying was "ban happy" not "ban sorry"11:28
ikoniaI'm sorry to ban11:29
ikonia.....mostly11:29
* Gary was being humorous11:30
ubottuIn ubottu, ActionParsnip said: !welcome is Please write all in one single line, do not chat here. (/join #ubuntu-offtopic) Ask your question and see, if someone answeres. Please always prepend the nick name of the person, you are talking to. Use TAB key for autocompletion of nick names.11:32
ubottuIn #ubuntu, hmw said: !welcome is Welcome! Too much going on here? I fear you gotta live with it. To reduce traffic, please write all in one single line. Ask your question and see, if someone answers. We're all volunteers and we might not know. Don't repeat your question often. Please always prepend the nick name of the person, you are talking to (So the clients can hilight the line and make a sound). Use TAB key for autocompletion of nick names. Pl11:36
ikoniaGary: as was  11:36
ikoniaI 11:36
bazhanggenii, HI!11:38
PiciHow do we feel about people ( ActionParsnip ) suggesting getdeb over waiting for an offical repo fix for Pidgin?12:41
PiciI'm not too fond of it myself.12:41
ikoniaI disgourage it12:41
ikoniabreaks deps12:41
ikoniacauses problems when a fix is released to the repo 12:41
ikoniadiscourage even 12:42
bazhangpretty iffy suggestion in #kubuntu as well12:42
ikoniahes just keen to find a solution "now" rather than for the long term12:43
ikoniaI don't see a problem with it if it's explained first that this may cause problems, but if you HAVE to have this now, this second, here is your best option12:43
ikoniaat least it can be removed if it's in a deb12:44
ikoniabut I don't recommend it ever12:44
bazhangthey'll be back when it breaks stuff (which it will)12:44
bazhanggetting into sebsebseb territory imo12:44
ikoniayes, totally, which is why at least a deb can be removed, 12:44
ikoniathe problem is if it calls deps that update beyond current ubuntu versions or cause conflicts12:44
bazhangrecommending osalt instead of repos12:45
PiciI've seen him suggest upgrading to Jaunty in the past as well to 'fix' issues.12:45
ikonianot happy with that at all12:45
ikoniaas I said I think he's just keen to always provide a fix "now" rather than for the long term12:46
ikoniaif he can't fix it now a random upgrade to a jaunty may seem a good idea to him 12:46
PiciDo you all mind if I ask him to join here? I'm a bit busy with work on my end so I'm not sure if I can devote one on one time to explain the entire thing to him.12:46
ikoniasure12:47
ikoniaif you want I'll have a quiet chat with him in PM12:47
ikoniahe's normally quite receptive and his heart is in the right place12:47
elkyi'm heading to bed after a day of dealing with idiots12:47
ikoniaor you can pull him in here 12:47
Piciikonia: If you want to take care of him yourself thats perfectly fine with me :)12:47
Picielky: Goodnight! 12:47
ikoniaI'll give him a nudge, his intent is not bad12:48
PiciI know12:48
ikoniano sweat, I'll speak to him12:48
ikoniaspoke to ActionParsnip - totally understood and said he'd put a bit more thought it13:13
ikoniazero problem at all13:13
tritiumjussi01_: was asleep, and somehow got disconnected over night.13:33
* genii sips13:45
tritiumMorning, genii.13:48
geniitritium: Good mornin' :)13:52
tritium:)13:52
ikoniadamn chineese IP owners, some chineese ISP has been trying to brute force 2 of my servers for 4 days solid now, there "abuse" inbox is full14:12
ikonianice to see them talking a solid stance against missuse of their IP range14:13
Garycan you not set it to ignore from an address range?14:15
geniiikonia: Why not just blacklist their entire range>?14:16
geniiGary: Yes, exactly14:16
Garyblock all of china :p14:17
jdongnot sure you want to be SSH'ing into the USA out of China anyway14:17
jdongand yeah you're not alone, on some of my servers I can go through a couple thousand PAM failures a day14:17
geniijdong: I'm pretty sure they are packet sniffing (the chinese govt)14:17
jdongwell yes they are but my gut feeling with SSH is you're guilty until proven innocent.14:18
geniiProbably14:18
ikoniagenii: already done14:19
ikoniagenii: doesn't mean they have stopped attacking14:19
ikoniajdong: I don't mind attackes sshguard and fail2ban stop anything of any issue, just ammusing me that this one china IP has been hitting the same 2 servers solid for 4 days straight14:20
ikoniano breaks no anything14:20
ikoniathey are not getting past the firewall, but they are still trying14:20
jdongyep; it happens.14:20
ikoniaI think 4 days solid is the longest I've seen 14:20
geniiMost of the attacks I've seen lately on our boxes were from Korea and not China14:20
jdongI personally don't fail2ban anymore14:20
jdongI've found it only gets in the way when I have a broken SSH key or ctrl-C too many ssh attempts :)14:20
geniiAnd Romania for some reason14:21
jdongwith the general slowness of SSH authentication I find it hard to believe an effective brute-force could be done anyway.14:21
jdongif they want a crack at me they should go over to my squirellmail login and hammer those.14:21
ikoniajdong: I still use it with sshguard so it has to be a double positive to block it, I had a close call with a new box about two weeks ago where someone tried to brute it that hard it couldn't respond to ssh to give me a session to stop them14:21
ikoniajdong: felt justified in leaving it on after that (new box didn't have it on)14:21
jdongah, indeed that's pretty annoying14:22
jdongI might reconfigure fail2ban with a bit more permissiveness14:22
jdongbut yeah the 3-strikes policy definitely didn't work out for me14:22
ikoniawhich must have been quite hard considering it only allows ssh connection with keys or it cuts them off straight away 14:22
jdongI found myself flushing chains for my users more than anything else.14:22
ikoniajdong: I use 5 attempts that's not in the exclusion range within 6 hours14:22
jdongoh I don't think those kiddie scripts care about that :)14:22
ikoniajdong: seems to have worked solid for me for years14:23
ikoniathe exclusion list is the key 14:23
jdongah14:23
ikoniaas long as i'm on my home IP I can mess up as much as I want and it won't block me14:23
ikoniaalways got a back door14:23
* ikonia notes to china, please don't spoof my hope ip14:24
ikoniahome14:24
jdongfortunately TCP spoofing is nontrivial :)14:26
ikonia:)14:26
* Panarchy says Hi14:30
ikoniaPanarchy: what's up ?14:31
PanarchyJust seeing where the ops stance is now, on allowing me back into the #ubuntu channel14:31
ikonianope14:31
ikonianot going to happen any time soon14:31
PanarchyWhy not?14:32
ikoniabecause your attitude is still terrible14:32
ikoniaup until about 2 hours ago you where still flooding channels until a freenode staff member stepped in 14:32
ikoniawhich I've lost count how many times you've been asked to stop doing14:32
Panarchy2 hours ago?14:34
PanarchyI think I was still at training14:34
ikoniaplease don't be picky14:34
ikonia"a few hours" ago14:34
ikoniaif you really need it I'll get the time stamps14:34
ikoniabut this is a good example of your attitude and how much it is not helpful14:34
Panarchy...14:34
ikoniawhat does ..... ? mean14:35
PanarchyIt's an elipsis14:36
ikoniaunless there is something else you need, I request you leave the channel and carry on with your day 14:37
Panarchycarry on with my day?14:37
PanarchyIt's 1:37am now14:37
ikoniaso it's "day" time14:38
ikoniaam is day 14:38
ikoniatrying to be smart14:38
mneptoknext time just say "carry on with your quest to find meaning in your life."14:38
geniiSorry about the catch-33/catch-22 remark. But I couldn't help myself (in #u)16:37
* jussi01 slaps genii's hand :P16:38
geniijussi01: I'll try to be good :)16:39
* jussi01 eyes genii suspiciously :P16:40
geniiOk ok, I'll do more than try16:40
geniijussi01: You seem in a good mood 16:41
jussi01heyeah... not a bad one anyway16:41
* jussi01 has been swimming and nowhas food :)16:42
geniiMan. I can hardly wait now for swimming weather. It's not even spring here yet16:42
jussi01genii: its -5 today here...16:43
genii+4 or so here16:43
LjLsays 0C here =)16:46
LjLbut it's the weather applet that's broken :P16:46
* genii waits for happyhater to show up16:48
LjLgenii: well i haven't redirected, i've just banned.16:50
geniiLjL: Ah16:51
LjLwas warned. went on in response. i call that a clear statement that you're not going to respect any rules...16:52
* Myrtti has slept all day, feels better16:52
geniiYeah it was definitely blatant. I imagine when they want more assistance they'll find their way to here and plead ignorance, etc etc16:53
genii"it was my brother" whatever.....16:53
* genii hands Myrtti a wake-up coffee16:53
Myrttiit's so wonderful to not be in any pain16:54
MyrttiI've just slept and slept16:54
geniiYour body regenerates when you sleep16:55
geniiWork, AFK16:58
LjLikonia: have you happened to have a look at arcsighter's problem? to me, no matter how much he keeps saying it happens on his 1gb box too, it just seems he's out of memory badly.17:06
ikoniaLjL: no, I've not had a look, is it in #ubuntu ?17:07
ikoniaLjL: do you want me to take a look / probe for info ?17:08
LjLikonia: if you want yes17:08
ikoniaok17:08
LjLikonia: i'm waiting for some iotop output now17:08
jdonggenii: so the body is just like /var/log/apache/error.log?17:15
* genii sips his coffee and contemplates the zen-like similarities of the body as compared to webserver logs17:24
ikoniaLjL: straight away alarm bells are ringing on this guys box17:25
LjLikonia: like what?17:26
ikoniawell first of all the one with ati card only has 256 ram17:26
ikoniaif the ati driver is having issues (tell me when it's not) the machine will take the load17:26
ikonia265 or ram in itself is low17:26
LjLikonia: "only"? my video card has uh, 64 or 128... :o)17:27
ikoniaLjL: that's his ram - not video card17:27
ikoniahis ram is 256 !17:28
LjLikonia: yeah i know that... sorry i misread the first part as if the ATI card itself had 25617:28
LjLikonia: and yes, but the thing is that he keeps insisting that the "same" things happens on his 1gb box17:28
ikoniahe's not got a 1GB box17:28
LjLikonia: i asked him how he could be sure it's the "same" thing17:28
ikoniahe said it was a 256 and and a 512 17:28
ikonia(the two boxes)17:28
LjLikonia: then he lied to me17:28
ikoniathey are both lacking ram for a busy desktop17:29
ikoniathe 256 one, certainly, more so with it's crap video suppoort 17:29
LjLikonia: hey, *i* have got 512 megs :|17:30
ikonia17:23 < ArcSighter> ikonia: here, 256, there (on the onboard video) 51217:30
ikoniaLjL: it's a bit low for a busy desktop17:30
LjLikonia: so you're calling my desktop idle?!17:31
ikonia:(17:31
ikoniaa little........17:31
ikoniaI suppose you get used to managing what your machine can do 17:31
ikoniaI've got a bit of ram here, so I think nothing about having a 200meg firefox session open17:32
LjLikonia: konqueror is a bit less ram hungry, anyway seriously i should get a DIMM or two17:32
ikoniawouldn't hurt17:32
LjLikonia: although i do believe that half a gig *per se* should be more than enough, but whatever17:32
ikoniaI do agree it should be enoough17:32
ubottuIn #ubuntu, rickard said: ubottu: There is a bunch of them, I needed som tips.. thatś all17:39
ikoniathis arcsighter's not exactly mega quick 17:42
LjLno17:43
LjLikonia: also i might be too malicious but he gives me the feeling of "i want help but i know i'm right and who's helping me is wrong"17:44
ikoniayes, there is a slight feel of that17:45
ikoniaI'm normally wrong any how, so he may have a point ;)17:45
ikoniaLjL: well his latest post is very intersting17:50
LjLikonia: ugh, a bit... numeric17:50
ikoniawell he's clearly got a ram issue17:51
ikoniabut not actually low ram ???17:51
ikonialook at all the ram being used for cache !!!!17:51
ikoniaif there was a heavy ram load there would be nothing free for cache17:51
ikoniaat the same time his got vram foot print that's whopping !!!!17:52
ikoniano load on his box, cpu idle17:53
LjLikonia: i honestly cannot really read that. but now that you mention it, i didn't really look for the cache figure in top17:54
ikonialets see what the status is while it's in "slow down"17:54
LjLikonia: though if the system really is so eager to swap stuff out instead of shrinking the cache, perhaps he's got a weird swappiness setting?17:56
Tm_Tdefault is weird already (;)17:56
ikoniaLjL: this sounds dumb - but I'll put money on either the video card not being configured properly so it "appears" alower that it is17:56
Tm_Tif it's still 6017:57
ikoniaLjL: or some process like a massive mail file when he tries to open thunderbird that can't be cached17:57
ikoniaLjL: eg: lack of ram to do what he wants17:57
LjLikonia: yeah well he seems to insist it's about the load averages, not video sluggishness. but then again i don't entirely trust him17:57
LjLTm_T: is that weird?17:57
Tm_TLjL: is, makes no sense when there's only one user, way too much unneeded swapping17:58
Tm_Tatleast that's how I see it daily17:58
* Tm_T uses 10 or 5 usually17:58
LjLTm_T: well i haven't experimented very much with it, but even on a single-user system, it doesn't make a lot of sense to keep, say, some daemons that are never really used in RAM17:58
Tm_TLjL: sure, that doesn't mean you should use swap too aggressively17:59
ikoniaTm_T: yup, very high17:59
Tm_T25 or so would be way more sane default17:59
LjLTm_T: no, i'll grant that. i just thought 60 was a reasonable value17:59
ikoniaTm_T: the vram of 9000+ from a clean boot up is worring17:59
ikoniaworrying even18:00
Tm_TLjL: it's ok when you have 10+ users etc18:00
Tm_TLjL: that default comes from vanilla kernel, I believe it has made big servers in mind18:00
LjLhmm18:01
LjLwell what do you think i might set it to on a half-a-gig system18:01
Tm_TLjL: 10 or 5 is what I use in single user systems, from 128 MiB 1024 MiB ram18:02
Tm_T+to18:02
Tm_TLjL: but depends on what you do with it, ofcourse18:02
Myrttiyay, it's Umakant again18:02
Myrtti*sigh*18:02
* Myrtti goes to bed18:03
ikoniagot to dash home - should be about an hour18:06
Tm_TLjL: ofcourse, I have constant swapping going on here anyway, so I have to minimize swappiness18:07
Myrtti@bansearch mag_mor18:20
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LjjjLjdong i was wondering, since unfortunately i've sometimes had my eee run completely out of battery (because i didn't realize that the stupid thing  woulnd't hibernate), do you think that might have caused the ssd breakage?18:23
LjjjLlike, if i'm not mistaken, a usb key will likely suffer damage if you power it off during a write18:24
jdongLjjjL: I don't think it will suffer damage in that sense, no...18:24
jdongand I don't believe non-cheapo USB keys would suffer damage in that sense iether18:24
LjjjLoh18:24
jdongdata corruption is certainly possible....18:24
LjjjLwell yes, that's for sure18:24
jdongbut not anything the journal can't recover18:24
LjjjLjdong: and especially not like a full backup to tar and restore couldn't recover, i guess...18:25
jdongin fact with SSD's (cacheless) you shouldn't even get metadata (fsck-needed) corruption ever.18:25
jdongbut yeah the fact that writing new data to a newly created FS is failing on the drive points towards hardware failure18:25
jdongnot something that I'd expect to happen from losing power.18:25
LjjjLjdong: because fsck on hard drives comes to be needed because of HD cache poweroff?18:25
jdongLjjjL: well in a way yes -- the HD writeback cache is EVIL because the disk reports to the OS stuff is written when in reality it's being held in on-disk cache.18:26
LjjjLjdong: so what the filesystem would like to call atomic writes aren't really?18:26
jdongLjjjL: because of that, a lot of the assumptions of journaling FSes for integrity are completely invalid on consumer hard drives18:26
jdongand that could lead to Fs structural damage easily on bad shutdowns18:26
jdongso yeah, "atomic writes" are far from so...18:27
LjjjLjdong: couldn't they just have dunno, a capacitor in the HD to let it stay powered on that split millisecond to finish off the write?18:27
jdongLjjjL: pfft that costs MONEY.18:27
jdongor a battery backed cache system like Real Servers (tm) use.18:27
LjjjLjdong: a *capacitor*?18:27
jdongyeah, requires a voltage regulator on board and such18:28
LjjjLhm18:28
jdongrecently there's been some work twards so-called "write barriers" which flush the on-disk cache at the correct times to sync with journal commits.18:28
jdonghowever, write barriers currently do not work at all with LVM or crypto backends18:28
LjjjLjdong: that would be software or hardware stuff?18:28
Myrttidoes xchat have public away on default?18:28
jdongsoftware18:28
Myrttihopefully not?18:28
jdongMyrtti: no way18:28
Myrttiok, he found the setting18:29
Myrttiok, carbohydrate induced coma in 3.. 2..18:29
jdongLjjjL: ext3 "works around" this risk by writing really verbosely redundant FS and journal structures so that it can somewhat cope with losing a huge chunk and such. However, more performance optimized Fses like XFS, reiserfs, JFS do not do this...18:29
jdongand hence the higher observed rate of total FS trashing on bad shutdown with these filesystems18:29
LjjjLah18:30
LjjjLjdong: so they aren't really "buggy" as people tend to say, they're just like intended for real HDs?18:30
jdongright. they assume that when a disk tells em something is written, that it is written.18:30
jdongoh the horror.18:30
LjjjLjdong: reminds me of when in the old times my mom would ask if i did my homework.18:31
jdonglol exactly right :) it works 99% of the time to say yes beforehands but when the crap hits the fan you are SCREWED18:31
jdongand besides bad shutdowns -- think about encountering IO errors on the block layer.18:31
jdongNOW what does the disk do? It already said it was written okay.18:31
LjjjLjdong: and the italian for it - in school context - would be much alike a "bad log entry"...18:32
jdongit can't exactly change its mind on a return code :)18:32
LjjjLjdong: there isn't a -ENOWAIT code? :P18:32
LjjjLas in, "no, wait"18:32
jdonglol18:32
jdongas far as I've heard disks do not do this consistently18:33
jdongi.e. what happens when the disk attempts to flush its cache to find that it can't find a non-defective block to write it to18:33
jdongI believe the generally accepted failure mode is every (or some) disk commands afterwards return generic IO error codes18:33
jdongwhich also leads to deceiving info on exactly WHICH block is defective18:33
LjjjLjdong: which surely goes a long way to correctly diagnosing the problem *rolleyes*18:34
jdonglol indeed18:34
jdongjust the whole consumer disk market scares me once you look into what's going on.18:34
LjjjLjdong: but just how often will a drive not find a non-damaged block to write to?18:34
jdongprobably not often if the drive firmware is smart about fallbacks.18:35
jdongi.e. if I told it to write 0xDEADBEEF to block 0x12345678, and 0x12345678 later turns out to be bad, does the disk actually go do a remap?18:35
LjjjLjdong: yeah it scares me too while you explain it, though on the other hand i've had drives last for many years and not lose my data so it can't be all that bad18:35
jdongI believe most disks only reserve like on the order of 5% of blocks for rewrites.18:35
LjjjLjdong: i thought disks generally did18:35
LjjjLjdong: mhm, but when there's more than 5% of damaged blocks, most chances are that the drive is going to heaven, or not?18:36
jdongsince the upper IO layers only see errors when the lower layer runs out of remappable blocks, I don't think it's that rare of an occurrence.18:36
jdongLjjjL: whenever I see a single IO error from the block layer, I eseentially toss out the drive.18:36
jdong99% of people I know do not do this.18:36
jdongif it kinda works again after a reformat or chkdsk, they chug on18:37
LjjjLjdong: i guess i do not. best i do is when i have nothing else to do, check smartctl and have a glance at the badblocks entry18:37
jdongyeah for me disks are too cheap to be playing this guessing game18:37
LjjjLjdong: besides, my desktop's drive sometimes makes some scary clicking or even whirring noises. did that since i've bought it. but smartctl seems "ok" so *cough*18:37
jdongI mean I might save those disks for screwing around, but for data where uptime matters if I have to bring down the machine to make a repair I get the job done totally.18:38
LjjjLjdong: well, keep in mind i'm only talking about my home machines18:38
jdongmy experience with SMART has been anything but that.18:38
LjjjLno money at stake18:38
jdongI've had to rescue data from friends' drives that started failing before SMART said a word.18:38
jdongonce after I got all 160GB off the next reboot SMART tripped at the BIOS18:38
jdongyeah... thanks a lot!18:39
LjLjdong: well it does what it can, after all it's kind of impressive how many sensors disks seem to have18:40
jdongyeah, it is pretty neat what it does18:40
LjLjdong: (although after what you said i wonder - wouldn't it be money better spent putting a darn capacitor in?)18:40
jdongand it certainly pr ovides good info that can be used to predict a failure; though is it REALLY going to do so more often than not?18:40
jdongand I should point out that most of the info SMART reports comes gratuitous from disk write operations.18:40
jdongthe only advancement in technology is microcontrollers have 100 bytes or whatnot of nonvolatile memory for $0.01 now.18:41
LjLjdong: you know what gets on my nerves?18:41
jdongLjL: see this from tyso regarding consumer hardware and why ext3 is verbosely journaled: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/reiserfs.html18:41
LjLjdong: that i don't know all the stuff you do about disks is normal i think, given if i knew "everything about computers" i'd have a brain core dump for sure18:42
LjLjdong: but then, i don't go around writing blog articles about how SSDs are more reliable than HDDs18:42
LjLjdong: more reliable my ASS, it just messed up after a couple of months of (not really) being used18:42
jdongLjL: it does mention that SGI for their XFS powered hardware *do* use large caps to make sure the FS can at least journal itself correctly before death18:42
jdongand IMO SSD-is-more-*-than-HDD claims are mostly unfounded claims.18:43
jdongI've been saying this since a year ago when SSD's started hitting the general consumer market like crazy18:43
LjLjdong: i really do guess so, and i believe it's people like me who make such claims on the web. i just think if they don't know they shouldn't divulge.18:43
jdongright. Gut feeling and reality often differ in unintuitive ways18:44
jdongI was saying this even back in the iPod days when people claimed iPods with disks are more prone to failure due to rough handling...18:44
LjLjdong: if you google eeepc ssd corrupt, or something like that, you'll find a very, uh, scientific calculation on a blog that concludes my eeepc's ssd should last 84 years if written all the time.18:44
jdongI've done some work in the automotive industry where long term quality is SERIOUSLY studied18:44
LjLjdong: well intuition does suggest that18:44
jdongand for mass storage toshiba 4200rpm automotive drives are by far preferred18:45
jdongfor the most part the reason an iPod dies is not due to hard disk damage from bumping/dropping it.18:45
jdongother things will break first -- and I've had SSD media players fail on me too18:45
LjLjdong: one slight disadvantages of hds on these things (like say my mom's NC10 compared to my eeepc) is, well, that the HD vibrates and makes a bit of noise. *shrug*18:45
jdongyeah18:45
jdongnoise IMO is a valid reason.18:45
LjLjdong: although the slow ones in notebooks can be pretty silent i suspect18:46
jdongbut power savings, performance, reliability... I take those claims with a grain of salt18:46
jdongyeah the 4200rpm drives , good quality ones, are deathly silent.18:46
jdongand hitachi has some 7200rpm laptop drives that are equally whisper quiet18:46
LjLjdong: the netbooks generally have a 5... err, 5600? rpm one18:46
LjLjdong: silent enough18:46
jdongnetbooks usually use 5400rpm drives18:47
LjLi mean, you'll hear it if you're reading stuff on your bed at 4am i guess18:47
LjLright, 540018:47
jdongthey are the cheapest as they are most popular18:47
jdongthe 4200rpm ones are typically very special-purpose (i.e. paying extra for shock tolerance)18:47
LjLjdong: you know what was fun? my not-really-portable-but-anyway 386 that i used at university when my Psion was broken18:47
jdongand that gets on my nerves when people whine about a laptop has a "4200rpm drive"... not realizing that's actually a premium option!18:48
LjLjdong: it took about 5 minutes to boot debian, and the whole classroom could hear the drive during boot.18:48
jdonghaha18:48
jdongI had an 80MB seagate drive like that18:48
jdongit's like the size of a Mac Mini inside the 386 and makes crunching sounds18:48
LjLjdong: also, the battery was completely gone, so i had to keep it plugged into the socket. but... then there was the mid-lesson pause... and before i could yell "MIND THE WIRE"...18:48
LjLwell, you know.18:48
jdongouch18:48
LjLjdong: then they'd say "don't worry, i wasn't hurt". and i'd say "who cares, I HADN'T SAVED"18:49
jdonghaha18:50
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LjLjdong: think the 5400 rpm ones in netbooks are also a bit more resilient than the 7200 rpms or whatever that they tend to sell OEM?18:58
LjLuhm, someone review the ban i just did if you like, it might not have been as racist as the url suggested i suppose19:02
PiciLjL: Still completely offtopic, plus he had not said anything else.19:02
LjLPici: true that, but i generally don't ban without warning for being offtopic19:02
PiciLjL: Unban then :)19:03
LjL[20:19:04] --> owen9376 has joined this channel (i=chatzill@unaffiliated/ciaran9376).19:19
LjLnick rings a bell19:19
LjLah but no, probably just coincidence, this one has been registered for some months19:20
Tm_TLjL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_My_Bell19:20
* Pici blinks19:21
LjLTm_T: i read <mneptok> rather than <Tm_T> there for a moment19:21
PiciScary19:21
jdongLjL: it depends on the specific models of the drives and the specs they are rated for19:30
jdongfor example, looking at the cream-of-the-crop resilient drives:19:33
jdong7200RPM: http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=StorageSolutions/2.5-inchHardDiskDrives/MKxx54GSYSeries/MKxx54GSYspecs19:33
jdong4200RPM: http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=StorageSolutions/2.5-inchHardDiskDrives/MK2035GSS/MK2035GSSSpecifications19:33
jdong7200RPM takes 300G's of shock, 4200RPM takes 325G's19:33
jdongmeh not a huge difference19:33
jdonghonestly at the point of 300G's, there's a whole hell of a lot of other things that'll break first!19:34
jdongalso note their power requirement ratings -- not a big deal of difference between them19:34
jdongin fact the 7200RPM drive seeks with less power draw -- combine that with the fact you need less seek time on the bigger drive, and which one is more power-saving suddenly becomes a pretty tight race19:35
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Seeker`i suspect that if you are with the laptop when it is accelerating at 300G, you probably wont be in a position to care when the data is safe19:36
jdonglol19:36
jdongexactly.19:36
jdongfor all intents and purposes IMO it's not much less hardy than an SSD unless you're designing a plane's black box.19:36
jdongnow another drive I want to point your attention to are Toshiba's automotive drives: http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=StorageSolutions/2.5-inchHardDiskDrives/MK8057GSC/MK8057GSCSpecs19:36
jdongthis one is also "4200 RPM" but note the power draw specs19:37
jdong0.25W standby, 0.8-1.0W idle, 2.0W while active.19:37
jdongnot exactly much worse, if any, than your average SSD19:37
jdongsome of their 1.8" drives designed for use in like iPods and other ultra-abusive environments are rated upwards of 500G's operatinal shock and like a couple thousand nonoperational G's19:39
jdongat that point you're probably gonna snap whatever connector it uses before you worry about the drive dying :)19:40
jdonggoes back to my whole point that SSD's in a netbook is primarily a cost-saving measure, and the opinion that it is say, hardier than those 4200rpm drives in Thinkpads / Macbook Airs are probably intuition or urban legend than truth.19:42
Amaranthjdong: tyso recently said similar things about ext420:00
jdongAmaranth: yeah, ext4 is going to introduce the fun of XFS and friends for the masses.20:00
jdongor at least those crazy enough to select it becaues it's SHINY20:00
Amaranthessentially he said we need to rewrite sqlite and replace gconf with it in order to use ext4 on a desktop20:01
LjLwow20:17
LjLlights dimmed briefly20:17
LjLTV stopped broadcasting20:17
LjLand i think i hear some alarms in the distance20:17
NafalloOMG20:17
LjLwhat might this mean? :o)20:17
NafalloLjL have a broadcasting TV!20:17
LjLNafallo: no not mine :P but i live some 100 meters from milan's RAI antenna20:18
LjLi can see it20:18
LjLthe lights on it were down, it's back up now though20:19
NafalloLjL: your neighbor stopped playing with the flashlight finally?20:19
Nafallo:-P20:19
LjLNafallo: or perhaps some tree in Switzerland just fell on a high voltage wire to Italy, like last time we had a nationwide blackout ;)20:20
Seeker`LjL: is that all it took?20:20
Nafalloha!20:20
AmaranthLjL: that usually means tornado around here :P20:20
LjLSeeker`: yup20:21
LjLSeeker`: since in '86 after chernobyl we voted against nuclear (and closed all our expensive plants we were building), we buy about 80% of our electricity from france and switzerland20:21
LjL... who make it using nuclear20:21
Seeker`woo for dependance on other countries20:21
LjLSeeker`: so that night almost all of our own plants were off, because there wasn't really much demand, and buying from the french is cheaper than making our own20:22
Seeker`LjL: I suspect the vote against it was "not in my back yard" rather than "nuclear power is bad and wrong"20:22
LjLso an important wire was cut, and blam20:22
LjLSeeker`: yeah. we're apparently going back to nuclear now anyway20:22
Seeker`cascade failure when the plants tried to turn back on?20:22
LjLSeeker`: i bet most northern italians don't even realize we have french plants almost in our backyards to begin with20:23
Seeker`heh20:23
LjLSeeker`: no, just not enough power to turn off any plants to begin with20:23
Seeker`ah20:23
LjLSeeker`: actually, i'll tell you how they re-bootstrapped the system20:23
LjLSeeker`: Milan and Brescia "used to" have their own electric grids in the old days (dunno exactly how many decades ago), mostly done with hydroelectric20:23
LjLSeeker`: then with nationalization, they were "required by law" to dismantle all their separate system20:24
LjLSeeker`: they never did20:24
LjLSeeker`: so, since they actually *were* still able to disconnect themselves from the rest of the grid... they just started the hydro plants, and that was used to bootstrap the country20:24
Seeker`nice20:24
LjLSeeker`: which meant that, myself, i didn't even notice the black out (it was 10 minutes during the night in milan), but in certain places in the south it lasted about 15 hours20:25
Seeker`slowly reconnect it to enough of the network to boot another power station and so on?20:25
Seeker`nice20:25
LjLSeeker`: yep20:25
LjLSeeker`: after that, they started (slowly) changing our home circuit breakers into stuff that can be remote controlled by them :)20:26
Seeker`nice20:26
Seeker`so they can shut of all the houses in case they need to bootstrap the system again?20:26
LjLSeeker`: well, i'm not really sure how much weight the houses have over industries and stuff... but yeah they can do that if needed20:28
LjLSeeker`: i suppose they could selectively, say, turn on hospitals20:28
LjL(which OUGHT TO have their back up generators... if they were ever tested)20:29
Pici(we do generator testing every month here)20:29
LjLPici: (we do too. the documents say that! they can't be lying)20:30
Seeker`they tested the backup generator at the hospital I worked at occasionally20:30
Pici(and the servers have two levels of battery backup in addition to the generators)20:30
LjLPici: (just like the documents said that Milan and Brescia had stopped having their own grid. of course everyone was thankful that was not the case, and nobody said anything)20:30
* genii sips and thinks about the scary countries which now have bootstrapping capability20:30
LjLgenii: it was probably mean of me but i giggled a bit too. i mean, all i got was a blinking alarm clock... but to hear they had stuff melting in their freezers in the south... :P20:32
geniiLjL: Time to have large barbecue parties :)20:32
LjLi guess :)20:33
LjLoh, also, there was the so called white night in Rome that night20:33
genii(thats what we did here in Toronto in the huge blackout)20:33
LjLbet they had fun20:33
LjLwhat with the subway grinding to a halt and all20:33
geniiYeah when public transit dies, anarchy begins20:33
genii(and the taxi drivers get rich)20:33
LjLwell from what i could gather though we behaved less italian than one would expect that time20:34
jussi01ikonia: ping20:34
* Myrtti yawns20:34
LjLAmaranth: i have to say not only i barely know what a tornado would be like, but the worst we ever get in milan is some useless underground-ed river flooding stuff a bit in the north...20:40
LjLboring city.20:40
LjLat least i'm a trains fanatic so i can follow every single subway mishap.20:41
LjLoh and we had a earthquake some months ago. i even felt it.20:44
Amaranthwow20:51
Amaranthnext time we get an earthquake we'll probably be falling into a giant hole in the ground20:51
Amaranthlast earthquake in the area was in the late 1800s and made science reevaluate what causes earthquakes20:52
geniiWe had a tremor here once my time. The top of the CN tower swayed about 12 metres20:53
geniiI wonder how ppl can live in places like LA where the earth moves quite often. That would freak me out20:57
Myrttifinland ♥20:57
geniiMyrtti: They have many earthquakes there?20:59
jussi01rofl... earthquakes?20:59
Myrtti_none_20:59
geniiYay!20:59
Amaranthfinland is perfect21:00
Amaranthbut cold21:00
Myrttifinland is one of the most stable area in the worlg geologically i believe21:00
jussi01Earthquakes are when the snow ploughs drive by...21:01
geniiHehe... those must be monster plows...21:01
jussi01:P21:01
Myrttione of the reasons why theres plans for nuclear waste caves21:01
geniiBleh... who'd want to live on top of tons of depleted uranium?21:02
Myrttithe west coast has some tremors sometimes21:02
Myrttidue to the crust returning to its normal state after the last ice age21:03
genii"work is over" alarm went off. See you guys in a bit :)21:04
* genii brews a pot of coffee for the channel before /away21:04
topylisome people set alarms to make it to the office in time in the morning. genii sets an alarm at the office to remind him to stop21:05
Myrttilovely idea21:05
Myrtti*I* *need* *that*21:06
MyrttiI need both21:08
nickspoonWe have the technology for that now.21:09
topylii once saw the perfect office clock in some online store. an analog clock that had no digits but the "5"21:09
nickspoonHaha, awesome.21:10
topylialas, it was some expensive brand and cost something like $20021:10
nickspoon:(21:10
topylisome designer thing, although very simple21:10
Myrttii need that fuzzy clock21:10
Myrtti"work" "not work" "weekend" "prepare for work"21:11
topylihehehe21:11
topyli"friday afternoon"21:11
Myrttitopyli: thats "tgif"21:11
topyliah yes21:12
MyrttiPrepare for work would be sun 1800 ->21:12
topyli"beer only"21:13
AmaranthI need that clock that runs away from you21:13
Amaranthalthough I'd probably smash it the first time I caught it21:14
Myrttii should start using my kitten clock again21:14
Myrttiit makes the most horrible alarm21:15
topylithis is the office clock: http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/01/the-only-clock-youll-ever-need/21:16
nickspoontopyli: Couldn't you achieve the same thing by taking all but one of the numbers off of a normal clock?21:17
topylisure, or buy just the mechanism, attach it to a blank face and draw the 521:18
Amaranthtime is money21:19
LjLwhat's a tremor and what makes it different from an earthquake?21:31
LjLi get some... tremor... several times a day, i guess. but that's just the train.21:31
topyliLjL: might be similar to what Myrtti was talking about. except in finland, the papers will write about it when it happens :)21:32
MyrttiLjL: here it's called an earthquake. I'm sure anyone from California or Japan or someplace that has proper ones would brush off without noticing them21:33
topyli"little tremors felt by some on the coastline!"21:33
Myrtti"ppffftttttt"21:33
Myrtti"OMG THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS  FALLING"21:33
Myrtti"yeah, right. Have some coffee"21:34
LjLtopyli, Myrtti: uhm then i suppose when i said we had an earthquake some months ago, it was really a "tremor". at least in milan. my back felt weird like my heart had suddenly started beating up like mad, then i realized it was the armchair... and i could hear something rattling somewhere21:36
LjLthought i guess i was somewhat more than that where it actually happened, there was a video on youtube with everything falling down the shelves in a supermarket =)21:37
topyliheh. that's not a "tremor" anymore :)21:37
LjLwell i don't think we have a separate word in italian anyway (at least not the non-earthquake-experts), we just call them an earthquake21:38
LjLnickspoon: hey, you spoke in here!21:39
LjLthe sky is falling.21:39
Myrtti"Mikään Suomen historiassa tapahtunut järistys ei ole ylittänyt viittä richteriä." "None of the earthquakes in Finland has exceeded 5 on Richter scale"21:39
LjLMyrtti: i think that one here was about 5... though i might be wrong. wait, i don't mean here, i mean at the epicenter which was... i don't remember where.21:40
Myrttiapparently a church had to be rebuilt in the late 1700ths because of an earthquake.21:40
Myrttiwoo.21:41
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tonyyarussoGood lord, does the bot never decide to remember me?21:41
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jussi01tonyyarusso: only if you dont remember it ;)21:42
topylitonyyarusso: what about the terminal? :(21:42
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LjLMyrtti: we just call our churches great pieces of the human art before they get thrown down by an earthquake... and then we start calling them free building material :P21:43
jussi01hehe21:44
topyliwe just call them "a church"21:44
LjLtopyli: wait, that's an idea!21:44
topyliprotestants make these standard churches that are not much to talk about21:45
LjLbut no, great pieces of human art to become free building material is better.21:45
LjLtopyli: i'd protest on such an attitude :(21:46
topyliLjL: that's a nice, modern way to look at it. all this talk about free culture, remix, reuse :)21:46
LjLtopyli: reusable materials for the win - sure, you might lose a few of Leonardo's paintings here and there, but.21:46
Myrttirather depressing... http://www.flickr.com/photos/myrtti/3134150574/21:47
tonyyarussoMyrtti: is that a normal service?21:47
LjLMyrtti: looks protestant21:47
tonyyarussoLooks empty.21:47
LjLwell, *shrug*21:48
topylithat's actually a pretty great building, not a standard finnish church at all21:48
jussi01Myrtti: were you bored? http://www.flickr.com/photos/myrtti/3134017902/in/photostream/21:49
topylithat should be retitled to "high ceiling is high"21:50
LjLheh21:50
topylijussi01: she's waiting for ceiling cat to appear21:50
jussi01hahaha21:51
jussi01topyli: Myrtti translation? näkee21:51
tonyyarussoI don't think I have a picture handy that really shows our architecture well - http://stmichaelselca.com/worship.html has snippets.21:51
topyli"he/she/it sees"21:52
LjLi don't think i really remember what one of our churches looks like.21:52
jussi01ahh21:52
jussi01topyli: now I feel stupid - I knew tha :/21:52
LjLjussi01: you've been finnish since like forever and you don't know "to see"? :P21:53
jussi01LjL: have you seen the base word for see?21:53
jussi01its somewhat different htan that...21:53
LjLjussi01: it'll probably be something like nöglyaa21:53
jussi01it gets confusing at times21:53
LjLassuming it even begins with n21:54
jussi01yes... it does :P21:54
topyliheh. "nähdä"21:54
topyliduh. obviously21:54
LjLtis not even that different!21:54
LjLshame on you, jussi.21:54
jussi01/kb LjL21:54
topyliyeah, almost half the word is similar21:54
jussi01hahah21:54
LjLyou'd like "to go" in italian21:55
topylinot quite enough to complete the first syllable though :)21:55
tonyyarussough - /me remembers trying to fathom to go21:55
LjL"vado" = "i go"21:55
LjL"andiamo" = "we go"21:55
tonyyarussoto make is a little easier21:55
LjLfaccio fai fa facciamo fate fanno21:55
LjLit's irregular, but with dignity :)21:56
nickspoonMy my, that is a high ceiling.21:56
LjL"to go" is really two different latin verbs intermingled together21:56
Myrttijussi01: it's not a sign of being bored, it's a sign of my fear of heights21:56
topyliLjL: heh i like that. is "irregular but with dignity" a real linguistic concept? :)21:56
jussi01Myrtti: hhahhahaah21:56
Myrttitonyyarusso: no it wasn't a normal service21:56
LjLtopyli: it ought to be!21:56
topyliindeed!21:56
* tonyyarusso brings Myrtti to the top of the CN tower and has her stand on the glass floor of the observation deck21:56
Myrttitonyyarusso: only if you want me to barf into your bag and go shiver in a dark closet21:57
nickspoonire!21:57
LjLthen there is the italian simple past.21:57
jussi01Myrtti: would you prefer loops n an open cockpit tiger moth ? :P21:57
LjL*so* many verbs i have no idea what the simple past for would be.21:57
topyliwhen i visited rome, i visited churches for once. three of them!21:57
topylithen again, rome has st. peters and the pantheon, so it's rather difficult not to go21:58
LjLtopyli: i guess. never been in rome :|21:58
topyli:-o21:58
LjLyeah, i know21:58
LjLi've been in venice though. three times!21:58
topyliwell it's actually not that hard to miss st. peters, you do have to actually *go* there21:59
LjLadmittedly, it's only a two hours train ride.21:59
Myrttijussi01: with all my love...21:59
MyrttiI'm truly sorry if any on the channel residents feel offended by this21:59
Myrttijussi01: fuck off.21:59
LjLi concur!22:00
MyrttiI can't stand on a kitchen chair without getting queezy.22:00
nickspoonI hate heights too :(22:00
jussi01fine!22:00
nickspoonOoooooooooooooooooooo.22:00
topyli:-o22:00
Myrttidrama queen22:00
Myrtti:-P22:00
MyrttiLjL: you're so nasty :-(22:00
LjLi know.22:00
nickspoonIt's his nature.22:00
LjLhe's not rejoining anyway...22:01
topyliit is midnight anyway, i bet he just went to bed :)22:01
nickspoonHe'll come back to a nasty surprise if nobody repeals it.22:01
LjLtopyli: wasn't he in england lately?22:01
Myrttiwas22:01
topylihmm that's right, not sure about today22:01
LjLnickspoon: has access to /cs unban anyway22:02
LjLwhops.22:02
jussi01nasty people22:02
LjLjussi01: no you, banforward dodger.22:02
* jussi01 goes to check the irssi connection to see what thats about..22:02
jussi01_oh! you nasty person LjL !!22:03
LjL:p22:03
TheUnderTakerIs that ban still in effect that ljl put down22:03
LjLTheUnderTaker: let me check22:03
jussi01LjL: I was in england recently, and will be again ;)22:03
* Myrtti checks her countdown22:04
LjLTheUnderTaker: err, *which* ban was that again?22:04
Myrtti6d, 1h, 45min!22:04
TheUnderTakerumm the ban you put on me like 6 months ago22:04
Myrttiwhee!22:04
LjLTheUnderTaker: i suspect you had a different nickname back then...?22:05
TheUnderTakerJnelson i thinkl22:05
LjLoh christ, you22:05
LjLweren't you around on freenode *as* jnelson just a day or two ago22:05
TheUnderTakerI havent used that in 6 weeks22:06
TheUnderTakerstill in effect?22:07
LjLafraid so22:07
TheUnderTakerhow long22:08
LjLafraid it's a permban for what i'm concerned22:08
TheUnderTakerok w/e22:08
LjLthough you might want to bring it to the council, i suppose22:08
TheUnderTakercouncil?22:08
LjLTheUnderTaker: check the link on this channel's topic22:09
TheUnderTakerircteam linkk?22:09
LjLyeah22:09
LjLalso22:10
TheUnderTakeri though it was up to the person who banned me to remove the ban22:10
LjL[Fri Mar 6 2009] [20:05:28] Join        Slimer has joined this channel (n=jnelson@h69-130-54-33.mdtnwi.dsl.dynamic.tds.net).22:10
LjLthat was #kde22:10
TheUnderTakeri dont have comcast22:10
LjLTheUnderTaker: yes but the person who banned you won't remove it.22:10
TheUnderTakeri mean that22:10
LjLso if you want it removed, you'll have to appeal to higher spheres.22:10
TheUnderTakerhow do i bring it to the council22:11
LjLread the link.22:11
LjLi'm not spoonfeeding it to you.22:11
TheUnderTakerok bye22:11
LjL@mark #ubuntu-ops theundertaker This is "john_nel"22:11
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jussi01LjL: what did he do to annoy you so?22:12
LjLjussi01: complete troll. when he was first banned, he reacted by calling ! ops in just about every channel under the #ubuntu namespace22:12
topylii took a look at the bantracker. this is a very bad boy22:12
LjLjussi01: just bansearch john_nel on the tracker22:12
jussi01oh...mlovely22:12
Seeker`@btlogin22:13
nickspoonNight gents and ladies.22:14
Seeker`wow22:14
Seeker`lots of aliases22:14
Myrttithat's impressive22:15
LjLnight nickspoon22:16
LjL...22:28
LjLnow this spanish fellow claims his mirc disconnects when he attempts to join #ubuntu-es22:28
Seeker`this is odd22:36
AmaranthLjL: use a different program22:41
AmaranthNot sure how we're supposed to help with that?22:41
LjLAmaranth: hm?22:42
Myrtti@bansearch anahata22:48
ubottuNo matches found for anahata!n=jkljlk@dsl-72-55-217-101.tcq.net in any channel22:48
LjLMyrtti: no bans on tcq.net, ever22:50
LjLmaybe she or he just didn't know what to put in as an ident and realname...22:50
Myrttisomehow that nick just makes me shiver22:51
Myrttireminds me of something that I can't put my finger on22:52
LjLMyrtti: yes that's true, there's something to it22:52
LjLMyrtti: floodbot muted her earlier but that's about it22:53
LjLMyrtti: if someone were to nmap her, i think the responses would be a bit weird. although google doesn't list the IP as a proxy22:54
Myrttieh22:57
Myrttidid any of you notice that we have someone by the nick of automatix at #ubuntu now22:57
LjLyeah, since a few days22:57
LjLannoys me to no end since (of course) i have that as a highlight22:57
Myrttithat's so super *CREEPY*22:57
Seeker`"since a few days"?22:58
LjLi suppose i could remove it by now... that nothing uses it anymore22:58
MyrttiI'd so a regexp hilight22:58
Myrttis/so/do/22:58
LjLSeeker`: i meant we've had that user around for at least a few days22:58
LjLMyrtti: there was another user who annoyed me, "automatRix" - i had that as highlight too because it was a very common misspelling of automatix22:58
Myrttiok, I need a holiday from work23:01
MyrttiI started to do that regexp hilight23:01
* Myrtti smacks herself23:01
LjLconsider also that she's the *only* user on the network from tcq.net...23:02

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