[03:03] Heh http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/protestors-ipad-is-nothing-more-than-a-golden-calf-of-drm.ars [03:03] <_diablo> haha [03:06] <_diablo> that protest is a little ridiculous. especially when apple just moved to the ePub format [03:26] Apparently my desktop just froze; and is now not quit bootable [03:26] Freezes at the login screen [03:26] quite* [03:27] Takyoji: that sucks [03:27] Had issues going using gksu (to do "gksu wireshark") then went to terminal and tried "sudo wireshark" and it froze from there, with the audio I had playing the background repeating in a 1 second long segment [03:28] ouch, I haven't run into anything like that in a long while now [03:28] Tried to access other terminals (Alt-F#) to no avail [03:29] and at my last attempt I was able to move the mouse, selected my username, and right as I wrote the 5th character of my password, it completely froze again [03:29] right now I'm on my laptop [03:30] Doesn't seem to be any physical issues with my RAM; memtest is at 12% right now [03:31] Hm. When it locked, was there any keyboard response at all? like could you get the capslock light to change? [03:31] Or the magic SysRq key? [03:31] I should try running a LiveCD, and if that fails as well, then it would be conclusive of being a hardware issue [03:31] indeed [03:32] Never tried SysRq [03:40] Tried Alt+SysRq+d to no avail [03:40] otherwise this time it froze at the X-based boot screen [03:41] Heat? Cleaned yer heatsink recently? I just had that problem with my server, drove me nuts for 3 weeks before I figured it out [03:43] though I believe that would cause it to shutdown/restart rather than just freeze [03:43] Mine would just lock up hard [03:44] I'd have to power cycle it myself, and each time it would take a few boots to get it running right again, since it was still cooling down [03:45] Then it'd heat up under load and do the same thing again. That's how I learned how to recover MySQL InnoDB tables :) [03:45] I have been running Folding@Home in background pretty much always; but I haven't seen the heat go up at all that much [03:46] If only the acpi command was installed by default... [03:46] Hm, well it's just a thought anyhow. Lockups are such a pain to troubleshoot. I bet it logs nothing, right? [03:47] I'm running a LiveCD right now which is acting fine [04:22] Alright; it's most likely not heat related [04:23] Just vacuumed, used canned air to blow out any dust found, and it still freezes at the same spot [04:26] Couldn't feel anything hot [04:42] I'm worrisome of it potentially being harddrive failure [04:42] <_diablo> yup [04:43] Although it's only a year old harddrive (in terms of usage) [04:44] <_diablo> Takyoji, that shouldn't happen... is it still under warranty? [04:47] Should be [04:49] 3 year warranty [04:49] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148230 [04:50] <_diablo> good luck :( === sparkle_history is now known as sparklehistory [21:28] I want to get to the boot screen of GRUB2, but can't. I try hitting ESC to no avail [21:32] I don't dual-boot another OS on the system [21:43] Ohh, I guess it's Shift you hold for GRUB2 [21:44] Yay, Shift worked [21:56] darnit Takyoji - stop finding out the answers yourself before I come around to tell them to you! [21:56] Well at least SOMEONE knew the answer. :P [21:57] Think I should run fsck on my system perhaps? [21:58] sure, why not? [21:58] btw, the 'touch /forcefsck' trick doesn't work on Maemo, in case anyone cares. [21:59] Although, would be sane to be running fsck on the filesystem the fsck binary is on? [21:59] (although I'm in recovery mode; a root prompt) [22:01] You have to remount it as read-only first. You can run fsck on the fsck binary, since it will be loaded into memory first and not matter, but running it on a mounted filesystem is A Bad Idea (TM). [22:10] and now it mystically works after all the absurd things I've tried on it [22:11] Otherwise I have some stupid ideas. [22:12] Could do a little Linux [useful] trivia on this channel for entertainment/learning. [22:12] could be fun [22:13] Could also have little competitions of fixing/securing a server installation (remotely) [22:17] Ho-ly crap [22:18] Apparently I'm cleaning out my filesystem since I only have less than a GB left [22:18] So I run the disk usage analyzer; and it says my home folder is consuming 101GB [22:19] So I delete some things, virtual disks, etc. and it barely goes down. I try adding the size number for all the folders in my home folder, and it doesn [22:19] doesn't add up [22:19] So then I had it expose the hidden files in my home folder, and had it arrange by size [22:19] And APPARENTLY my ".xsession-errors.old" file is 76GB [22:21] That is beyond insanity [22:21] Error logs reaching GIGABYTES is madness [22:21] Now my home folder is only using 25GB [22:59] Takyoji: i think its the stderr from every single X app [22:59] Takyoji: everything you run in X, ever, stderr goes there [22:59] Takyoji: mplayer, outputting a line of text 30 times per second? goes there.. === ripps is now known as ripps|sleep [23:12] oh fun [23:13] That is just pure insanity though [23:13] I've never heard of like 76GB of human readable text. [23:15] Just because I'm stupidly curious. Would your average work perfectly fine in these Minnesota outdoor temperatures? :P [23:15] * Takyoji literally envisions a server "farm" out in the cold. xP [23:41] So. Anyone have suggestions of how I could try and convince the district to consider open source solutions for some things, rather than burning thousands of something shiny that doesn't work. [23:41] Like; any specific school-oriented projects that would also be worth noting?