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Unit1931Hello TheErk!00:40
Unit1931Finch chashed again :/00:41
dmcgloneHiya all03:00
Unit1931Hey dmcglone!03:01
Cheri703hi03:01
dmcgloneHow's everything here?03:01
Cheri703fine afaik03:01
dmcgloneI got my DVD rom working03:02
Cheri703yay03:02
dmcgloneI got the splitter03:02
dmcglonealso fixed my desktop effects and figured out that xrandr03:02
Cheri703cool03:03
Cheri703productive weekend03:03
dmcglonesomewhat. the xrandr is shaky at best :-/03:03
Cheri703hmm...mine is generally fine03:04
Cheri703heh, husband just texted me that our littlest dog was wagging her tail in her sleep...she's curled up by him in the office, and he didn't want to wake her up03:05
dmcglonefor the desktop effects, they got locked up somehow so I had to remove the kwinrc file in /.kde/share/config and log out and back in and everything worked fine03:06
dmcgloneI had to completely change my xrandr and it's only 1 line now03:07
Cheri703interesting03:08
thafreakHey Ohio!15:27
thafreakGuess who spent a bunch of money and bought a new virtualization toy...15:27
thafreak6 core phenom with 8 gb of ram...15:28
thafreakmmmmm...virtual15:28
deejoemmmm AMD15:38
* deejoe is back in the AMD camp15:38
deejoewith me, it's the much more modest Athlon II15:38
thafreaki have some of those too15:47
thafreakmy old vm host has one of the first x2s that came out15:47
thafreaki wanted something with more than 2 this time around...went for the highest # of cores...and the cheapest model of that available :)15:48
thafreakthey might not be the fastest cores, but there's 6 of them :)15:48
thafreakOh, and ram seems to be dirt cheap again...8gb of ram was like $9015:49
deejoeat one point, 3 of us were talking about Xen vs KVM, and the KVM advocate was saying that eventually hardware virt-capable chips would supplant those that don't do it.15:49
deejoebut seeing as how Intel is being stingy about VT, using it as a differentiator even in their non-Atom line, well . . . screw 'em15:49
thafreakyes, that seems to be the direction things are going15:50
deejoeAMD sells a few without hardware VT, but more at the low end with it15:50
thafreakyes! i bought 2 diff intel based machines, assuming they'd have VT and they don't...I'm still sore about that15:50
thafreakI just assumed all the new intels had it, just like all the newer amd's did at the time15:51
thafreakstill kind of sucks that the workstation at work doesn't have vt, but I also have a 4 node virt cluster, with way more resources than I could ever need...15:52
thafreakso it doesn't matter so much anymore on my desktop15:52
thafreakI do wish my personal laptop had it though...that still pisses me off15:53
deejoethe other issue, which hasn't resolved, is that the other Xen proponent said he gets the impression that when it comes to security, both the KVM folks and the QEMU folks sort of point at each other and say "that's his job"16:18
deejoeI haven't seen that well substantiated, but I haven't seen it well addressed, either.16:18
thafreakodd...since xen also uses qemu heavily...16:24
thafreakI'd say xen and kvm both use qemu about equally....they both use it for their device model stuff16:24
thafreakso if qemu is responsible for security, then it should also affect xen I would think...16:25
deejoewell, if one is running hvm xen, at least16:26
* deejoe talks slightly posteriorly16:26
thafreakoh yes16:26
thafreakthat's right....it is just for hvm stuff...16:26
thafreakeh, I think hypervisor security is something that no one (except security experts) is taking too seriously right now16:27
thafreakand I'm sure that whatever happens, xen or kvm security is probably going to be much better than M$ hyper-v :)16:28
thafreakso deejoe, you seem up on some of this stuff...would you say (remove your anti-intel sentiment temporarily), that the new i3 or the older celeron core2 based cpu's are more "green"?16:30
thafreakI'm ruling out semprons, since they're single core...and I'm not sure a single core wimpy cpu would be good enough at software raid516:31
thafreakmaybe I'm wrong though...16:31
thafreakI just remembered freenas has an irc channel...maybe I'll get lucky and someone in there will answer...16:36
thafreakI just hope freenas community members aren't as mean as freebsd people16:36
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thafreakdeejoe: you might find this interesting re: the xen v kvm security discussion: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=obsd+as+domU&q=b18:30
thafreaksome one asked the openbsd people about running it as a guest on xen, which started a huge discussion18:31
thafreakthere were links to studies done on hypervisor security...18:31
thafreakgeez, I thought the freebsd people bit the heads off of people...these openbsd people are worse...and they obviously hate virtualizaiton18:36
Cheri703http://thedailywh.at/2011/02/21/short-film-of-the-day/19:06
canthus13Cheri703: How's the ice there?19:54
Cheri703was sleet, now snow...pretty slick19:55
canthus13We've got massive outages everywhere... and more coming tonight. :(19:55
Cheri703ew, no good19:57
Cheri703I hope our power doesn't go out, we'll go insane19:57
deejoehaha, thafreak, is this your first encounter with the OpenBSD folks?20:22
thafreakwell...not really my first...but the most in depth...21:03
thafreakI actually had a bsd fanboy as a student...21:04
thafreakthe class was unix systems administration21:04
thafreakand I only talked about linux21:04
deejoewell, there's "BSD" and there there are the individual branches21:40
deejoeso your student was a NetBSD person, thafreak?21:40
thafreakoh I know...this kid was a blanket bsd is better than linux kinda guy21:41
deejoeI've personally known both NetBSD folk and FreeBSD folk, but never anyone totally into OpenBSD21:41
Unit1931Doesn't one of them *BSDs have some sort of back-door? (I could be way off on this...)21:41
thafreakI can't remember fully, but I think he was open and free kind of guy...can't remember which one he advocated more...21:42
thafreakhaha, that was openbsd21:42
thafreakand no, no backdoor...21:42
deejoeI still hang out online with some guys who are NetBSD/MacOS/Linux (roughly in that order) folks21:42
thafreakatleast the openbsd people swear there isn't, and that they did a code audit21:42
deejoeoh, right21:43
deejoethe stuff that supposedly was put in there at the behest of the FBI21:43
* Unit1931 never used *BSD so doesn't know...21:45
thafreakI've installed most of the major ones a couple of times...but then I'm like, ok now what21:46
thafreakI can never remember wher eto find how to actually install anything on them21:46
thafreakthat, and until now, none of them had decent dynamic disk management (I had gotten used to lvm very early on)21:47
thafreakof course NOW freebsd has zfs, which they always hold over our heads...21:47
thafreaknone of them still have virtualization though...and based on that mailing list thread I posted, doesn't sound like openbsd ever will...21:48
Cheri703you guys need to watch this video: http://thedailywh.at/2011/02/21/short-film-of-the-day/21:48
Cheri703it's hilarious21:48
thafreakwatched already Cheri703 :)21:48
Unit1931ha, I just opened the cd drive to the laptop I'm working on and found twilight...21:48
Cheri703k, just saying21:48
Cheri703it's reminiscent of the badger song21:48

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