[00:54] <Atamira> morning
[04:41] <snail> ibeardslee: no, the fire drill wasn't a real one, but a LOT of things went wrong
[04:42] <snail> ibeardslee: doors failing to open as they should, alarms failing to sound in some places, etc, etc.
[04:42] <snail> otoh, would have been a great opportunity to steal 30+ random laptops
[04:43] <ojwb> hmm, is there a command line volume control now?
[04:43] <ojwb> i used to use aumix, but that now complains: aumix:  error opening mixer: No such file or directory
[04:45] <ojwb> alsamixer seems to work still
[20:52] <snail> morning all
[20:53] <ajmitch> morning
[20:54] <ajmitch> after so many days of waiting, it's finally friday!
[21:01] <ibeardslee> yay
[21:01] <ibeardslee> morning
[21:02] <ibeardslee> and now if you wait a few more hours it'll be Friday afternoon
[21:03] <ajmitch> heh
[21:04] <ajmitch> who's had experience with having servers from rimuhosting?
[21:04]  * ajmitch is looking at options for servers for work
[21:05] <ajmitch> recommendations about other options are welcome :)
[21:40]  * ibeardslee has a NZ based vps with rimuhosting
[21:41] <ibeardslee> been pretty bloody good as far as lack of downtime boo-boos
[21:43] <ibeardslee> I also got a bit of a discount for being a linux, nzoss, following up from their stand at LCA 2010 type
[21:43] <ibeardslee> and an upgrade when they noticed the VPS struggling a bit
[21:44] <ajmitch> so their service is generally pretty good
[21:44] <ibeardslee> the follow up to questions has been excellent
[21:49] <ajmitch> it's sad when I look at a page for a nz company selling dedicated servers, and they advertise "Debian 3 or 4" and "Fedora Core 6"
[21:49] <ajmitch> it doesn't inspire confidence :)
[21:53] <ibeardslee> it took me a while to go with rimuhosting .. was waiting for NZ based hosting and then waiting for them to offer prices in NZ$
[21:56] <hads> morning
[21:57] <hads> From all I hear of Rimuhosting they are good.
[21:58] <ajmitch> that's what I'd heard
[21:58] <ibeardslee> not the cheapest if you consider what you can get for US based hosting
[21:58] <ajmitch> right, but in the case where $WORK wants NZ-based hosting for various reasons, it seems to be pretty good
[21:59] <ajmitch> for US-based, I'm happy with linode
[23:16] <thumper> morning
[23:20] <mwhudson> morning