| ChinnoDog | @crickets | 01:37 |
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| PennBot | http://www.instantcrickets.com | 01:37 |
| ChinnoDog | What is wrong with this command? sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512k | 01:45 |
| ChinnoDog | I ran that against a usb flash stick, it reports 988 records written and that it ran out of space, but I can unplug the dongle and plug it back in and the partitions and file system is perfectly intact. | 01:46 |
| ChinnoDog | Why isn't the flash completely empty?? | 01:47 |
| JonathanD | maybe it's broken. | 01:49 |
| ChinnoDog | Its not broken. I've repartitioned it and formatted it and transferred files with it with no problems | 01:50 |
| JonathanD | then | 01:51 |
| JonathanD | nm | 01:51 |
| JonathanD | I had a flash card you could do stuff to, but when it tried to actually do it it would fail | 01:51 |
| JonathanD | but if you can partition it, probably not that ;) | 01:51 |
| ChinnoDog | oh crap | 01:51 |
| ChinnoDog | I just figured it out | 01:51 |
| jedijf | ChinnoDog: need count=1 | 01:52 |
| ChinnoDog | oh no, it is much worse | 01:52 |
| jedijf | b is hard drive | 01:52 |
| jedijf | c is flash | 01:52 |
| jedijf | that sux | 01:52 |
| ChinnoDog | I did it on my hosted server in an ssh session by accident | 01:52 |
| jedijf | sorry, but LOL | 01:53 |
| ChinnoDog | but, there doesn't seem to be an sdb on my server | 01:53 |
| jedijf | count =1 will wipe mbr | 01:53 |
| pleia2 | oh wow | 01:53 |
| ChinnoDog | ok, so what did I do to my server?? | 01:54 |
| jedijf | no bs will wife whole puppy - wherever it is | 01:54 |
| ChinnoDog | It write 518mb of zeros to sdb... | 01:54 |
| jedijf | s/wife/wipe | 01:54 |
| ChinnoDog | s/write/wrote | 01:54 |
| jedijf | well since your in just mount | 01:55 |
| jedijf | mount | 01:55 |
| jedijf | to see what is/was there maybe | 01:55 |
| ChinnoDog | mount doesn't show anything on /sdb | 01:55 |
| ChinnoDog | /dev/sdb | 01:55 |
| ChinnoDog | there is no evidence it is mapped to a drive | 01:55 |
| jedijf | prolly not so it just failed | 01:55 |
| ChinnoDog | That is why I don't understand how I can write 518MB of zeros to a nonexistant drive | 01:55 |
| jedijf | hold on | 01:55 |
| jedijf | sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb | 01:57 |
| jedijf | [sudo] password for pacs: | 01:57 |
| jedijf | ^C1772575+0 records in | 01:57 |
| jedijf | 1772575+0 records out | 01:57 |
| jedijf | 907558400 bytes (908 MB) copied, 10.2397 s, 88.6 MB/s | 01:57 |
| jedijf | must default to /dev/null | 01:58 |
| ChinnoDog | Why is /dev/null 518MB? | 01:58 |
| jedijf | i have no sdb on that command - it would have kept going if i didn't ^c | 01:59 |
| ChinnoDog | idk. That is scary | 02:01 |
| * ChinnoDog hopes he didn't blow anything up | 02:01 | |
| ChinnoDog | I need color coded terminal sessions. lol | 02:02 |
| ChinnoDog | that is not the first time I ran a command on my server by accident, just the first time I attempted to zero out something on my server by accident. | 02:03 |
| JonathanD | heh :) | 02:03 |
| ChinnoDog | ok, I just zeroed out my flash for real this time, and it has much more reasonable statistics. | 02:04 |
| jedijf | ChinnoDog: how much swap on your server | 02:04 |
| ChinnoDog | 1.5gb but I am not using any of it atm. | 02:05 |
| jedijf | ChinnoDog: ok, it seems to write the zeroes to a /dev/sdb file - not a block device | 02:07 |
| jedijf | pacs@jedijf-netbook:~$ file /dev/sdb | 02:08 |
| jedijf | /dev/sdb: data | 02:08 |
| jedijf | pacs@jedijf-netbook:~$ file /dev/sda | 02:08 |
| jedijf | /dev/sda: block special | 02:08 |
| ChinnoDog | ah. I see | 02:10 |
| ChinnoDog | But, why 518MB? | 02:10 |
| jedijf | i don't know - mine wrote 1 gig | 02:11 |
| jedijf | then device full | 02:11 |
| jedijf | ahh | 02:12 |
| ChinnoDog | ok, I deleted it | 02:12 |
| jedijf | do a df | 02:12 |
| jedijf | you'll see /dev spave | 02:12 |
| jedijf | space | 02:12 |
| jedijf | that's how much it wrote/writes | 02:12 |
| ChinnoDog | ah. I see | 02:12 |
| ChinnoDog | Now that I have deleted /dev/sdb it is back to 495M free. | 02:12 |
| jedijf | yep | 02:14 |
| jedijf | ChinnoDog: you make me learn some weird ass stuff | 02:14 |
| jedijf | ty | 02:14 |
| ChinnoDog | ha. One of these days I'm going to do something terrible | 02:19 |
| ChinnoDog | I guess that is the cost of an education | 02:19 |
| rmg51 | just what the world needs, two jedijfs :P | 02:21 |
| jedijf | you know what was kinda cool and weird - that /dev/sdb file could be gparted | 02:26 |
| jedijf | if specified explicitly | 02:26 |
| ChinnoDog | Now you can make fake hard disks in memory. idk how useful that is. | 02:28 |
| jedijf | couldn't mount it | 02:28 |
| jedijf | i tried | 02:28 |
| ChinnoDog | You probably could if there was a file system in it | 02:29 |
| jedijf | ok in essence we created a pseudo block device like /dev/null just named sdb | 02:33 |
| jedijf | nah, not really | 02:35 |
| jedijf | just a file of zeroes | 02:35 |
| ChinnoDog | sup MutantTurkey | 02:45 |
| MutantTurkey | ChinnoDog: hows it going? | 02:47 |
| ChinnoDog | not well. I am fighting with KVM and Server 08 | 02:50 |
| MutantTurkey | ah | 03:13 |
| MutantTurkey | i get so distracted making drum beats i lose track of time | 03:13 |
| MutantTurkey | hence delayed responses | 03:13 |
| === stump_ is now known as stump | ||
| MutantTurkey | o/ | 14:10 |
| Dev_N00B | Hihi! | 14:10 |
| MutantTurkey | hi hi hi hi hi | 14:11 |
| * MutantTurkey needs to finish a term paper and another paper by 3 :o | 14:12 | |
| MutantTurkey | i have 5 pages of the paper done, so i'm not to worried. but i need a topic and story for my next paper, then i hae to write a report about the class, which is easy | 14:12 |
| Dev_N00B | What topic? | 14:17 |
| MutantTurkey | my tem papre | 14:23 |
| MutantTurkey | is about the effect of internet on distributing media | 14:23 |
| MutantTurkey | specifically movies music and news | 14:23 |
| MutantTurkey | this paper i have no idea :x its not really a paper | 14:24 |
| MutantTurkey | its like a journalism class so basically i have to find a story and like do something like a newspaper would do, a interview, an obituary whatever | 14:24 |
| Dev_N00B | Write about ICE siezing domains without a court order OR contacting the site administrators | 14:42 |
| MutantTurkey | good idea. | 14:42 |
| Dev_N00B | Or about the rise of alternative DNS root servers :) | 14:42 |
| MutantTurkey | wikileaks would be easy too | 14:43 |
| * Dev_N00B puts on his thinking cap | 14:43 | |
| Dev_N00B | Wikileaks is expected. So obvious :O | 14:43 |
| MutantTurkey | i love how the government says WikiLeaks is endangering us all. but THERE THE ONES THAT FUCKED UP. ya dig? | 14:43 |
| MutantTurkey | plus its all a conspiracy | 14:43 |
| Dev_N00B | yup | 14:43 |
| MutantTurkey | there is no way such a low ranking officer would have access to all these documents | 14:43 |
| MutantTurkey | the pinned the guy. | 14:43 |
| MutantTurkey | it was obviously someone much higher up | 14:44 |
| Dev_N00B | ayew | 14:44 |
| Dev_N00B | *aye | 14:44 |
| MutantTurkey | maybe i'll do an editorial on that | 14:44 |
| Dev_N00B | And the fact they got it out on USB ... | 14:44 |
| MutantTurkey | i know. | 14:44 |
| Dev_N00B | Seriously!? No one thought to block USB?! | 14:44 |
| MutantTurkey | lolol no | 14:44 |
| Dev_N00B | My psych office now has a secure app running that blocks all USB data stroage devices on every PC and uses RSNA-CCMP (WPA2-Personal with AES) on all their wireless thanks to... | 14:45 |
| Dev_N00B | ME | 14:45 |
| Dev_N00B | I'm glad I got the Thositba runnig Ubuntu 10.10, but using an ACPI workaround patch is not something I should need to do, ya dig? | 14:46 |
| MutantTurkey | i dig | 14:48 |
| MutantTurkey | is 10.10 nice? | 14:48 |
| MutantTurkey | i haven't tried out ubuntu since like 9.04 | 14:48 |
| Dev_N00B | It is nice :) | 14:58 |
| MutantTurkey | i'll have to give it a go sometime | 14:59 |
| MutantTurkey | i haven't been doing much linux stuff lately. I'd like to get back to doing more but i'm busy | 15:00 |
| Dev_N00B | I want more tech toys, but I have college and other bills... | 15:05 |
| Dev_N00B | I wouldnt mind an Atom D525 box... | 15:05 |
| MutantTurkey | yes | 15:12 |
| MutantTurkey | i have an n330 i love it | 15:12 |
| MutantTurkey | its my main desktop ._. | 15:12 |
| MutantTurkey | and my server is a n270 | 15:12 |
| MutantTurkey | the savings alone on power have paid for my server. | 15:12 |
| MutantTurkey | its completely passive cooling, no hard drive ( i run on an CF card ) its totally low power | 15:13 |
| Dev_N00B | Nice | 15:16 |
| Dev_N00B | Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook installed on the 7014G | 15:17 |
| Dev_N00B | WOOWOO! | 15:17 |
| MutantTurkey | :) | 15:17 |
| Dev_N00B | I like the D525 with the ION2. 4GB of RAM and an 80GB SSD would be sweet for the TV (50" Philips) | 15:17 |
| Dev_N00B | I could stream media over the network | 15:17 |
| MutantTurkey | ION2 defeats the purpose of the D525 design | 15:18 |
| Dev_N00B | or the neighbors wireless. NICE iTunes collection SHARED.. | 15:18 |
| Dev_N00B | Why is that? | 15:18 |
| MutantTurkey | because they've consolidated everything onto the single chip, including graphics | 15:18 |
| MutantTurkey | the D525 is almost the same processor as the n330 otherwise | 15:18 |
| MutantTurkey | performance wise you might as well get an over-clockable n330 with the ION | 15:18 |
| Dev_N00B | ahhh | 15:19 |
| Dev_N00B | okies | 15:19 |
| MutantTurkey | i'd double check what i said, but i'm busy. i'm pretty sure thats accurate statement though | 15:19 |
| Dev_N00B | I was thinking D525 and Mythbuntu :) | 15:21 |
| MutantTurkey | yeah | 15:24 |
| MutantTurkey | i would still get the 525 or d510 or whatever. | 15:24 |
| MutantTurkey | Mini-box is the best place to get motherboards and psu's | 15:24 |
| MutantTurkey | GREAT selection compared to newegg | 15:24 |
| MutantTurkey | http://www.mini-box.com/site/index.html | 15:25 |
| PennBot | Title: Mini-Box.com: mini-ITX, nano-ITX, pico-ITX, mobile-ITX solutions (at www.mini-box.com) | 15:25 |
| MutantTurkey | i haven't used them yet. because i didn't know until about them recently | 15:25 |
| MutantTurkey | http://www.mini-box.com/Intel-D525MWV-Mini-ITX-Motherboard | 15:26 |
| PennBot | Title: Intel D525MWV Mini-ITX Motherboard (at www.mini-box.com) | 15:26 |
| MutantTurkey | no good for HD though. its just a vga out. thats where the ion comes in | 15:26 |
| MutantTurkey | http://www.mini-box.com/ASUS-AT5IONT-I-Atom-D525-ION that would be what you want | 15:27 |
| PennBot | Title: ASUS AT5IONT-I Atom D525 ION (at www.mini-box.com) | 15:27 |
| Dev_N00B | Looks nice :) BRB | 15:31 |
| Dev_N00B | back | 15:37 |
| MutantTurkey | definitly go for that, because i was thinking about getting it too :p | 15:38 |
| MutantTurkey | i wish they packaged the PSU's with it. but those psu's look really boss anyway. they are tiny | 15:38 |
| MutantTurkey | rmg51: o/ | 15:38 |
| Dev_N00B | http://tv.gawker.com/5702578/russian-vogue-features-a-video-advertisement | 15:41 |
| PennBot | Title: December Issue of Russian Vogue Features an Actual Video Advertisement (at tv.gawker.com) | 15:41 |
| Dev_N00B | HOT. I'd hack it :O | 15:41 |
| Dev_N00B | MutantTurkey, who would pay $69 for a 4GB SATA drive?! | 15:43 |
| Dev_N00B | I'd sooner grab 2 32's and RAID them | 15:43 |
| MutantTurkey | Dev_N00B: its because custom probably | 15:44 |
| MutantTurkey | i've never seen anything like it | 15:44 |
| MutantTurkey | it plugs right into the sata port and is ssd based\ | 15:45 |
| MutantTurkey | plus its low powered (but i don't know relative to other ssds) | 15:45 |
| Dev_N00B | and 4GB is tiny... | 15:48 |
| Dev_N00B | 16GB would be better | 15:48 |
| MutantTurkey | yeah | 15:50 |
| MutantTurkey | well dude, what are you using it for? | 15:50 |
| MutantTurkey | i mean the thing is that if your trying to run an embedded-like system. you don't need alot of storage. if you do, then just use a regular hard drive. :p | 15:51 |
| Dev_N00B | XMBC or Mythbuntu with wireless access to a shared media library on a 50" Philips 1080p tv | 16:06 |
| MutantTurkey | XMBC is awesome apparently | 16:14 |
| MutantTurkey | xbmc i mean | 16:14 |
| Dev_N00B | lol | 16:14 |
| Dev_N00B | Beef Jerky, Baked Potatoes with Bacon, Sour Cream, and Cheese, and a glass of Lemonade. | 16:54 |
| Dev_N00B | LUNCH OF THE GODS! | 16:54 |
| * Dev_N00B yells, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" | 16:55 | |
| Dev_N00B | The Old Gods, mind you | 16:55 |
| Dev_N00B | So... Drexel for Computers and Security? | 16:57 |
| MutantTurkey | drexel? | 17:04 |
| MutantTurkey | my old teacher went there. | 17:04 |
| Dev_N00B | Tempted to go there. GF went to Drexel | 17:13 |
| MutantTurkey | montco ._. | 17:30 |
| ChinnoDog | dilbert++ | 20:05 |
| ChinnoDog | http://http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-12-01 | 20:06 |
| ChinnoDog | oops | 20:06 |
| ChinnoDog | http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-12-01 | 20:06 |
| PennBot | Title: Dilbert comic strip for 12/01/2010 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. (at dilbert.com) | 20:06 |
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