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mappshii05:54
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brobostigonmorning boys and girls.08:50
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awilkinsIs it just me or are all the ubuntu mirrors really slow right now?10:25
awilkinsGetting dialup speeds10:26
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awilkinsDoing a speedtest during a big package update.... 5Mbit/s10:28
awilkinsSo definitely not the connection...10:28
shauno"It is believed to be the first time the Welsh government has chosen to communicate in Klingon."   I needed that today :)   http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-3347980810:36
shaunoawilkins: I just got 12.5MB/s (big-B) from gb.archive, which isn't too shabby?10:40
awilkinsGetting 303 kB/s at moment10:41
awilkinsFrom ubuntu.com10:41
awilkinsWhich is probably same as gb.archive ??10:41
awilkinsWas on gb.archive before10:41
awilkinsTried a smaller 3rd party10:41
awilkinsMaybe the storm is clearing, whatever it was10:42
awilkinsStill much less than the 5Mbit/s this connection can do10:42
awilkinsAaaand down to 15kB/s10:42
awilkinsMust have badmouthed it too much10:43
shaunoawilkins: "you made the server cry" might be appropriate right now; https://community.pagerduty.com/t/pagerduty-ringtones/6311:20
awilkinsFinally got all my updates :-)11:26
awilkinsFlash works again11:26
awilkinsMixed feelings about that11:26
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daubersAfternoon14:44
penguin42it is14:45
daubersLovely bit of rain this afternoon too14:45
penguin42dry here14:47
daubersYou're missing out!14:48
penguin42hmm no, it's not that warm here14:51
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diddledanallo allo15:49
zmoylan-pithees eees night'awk15:59
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diddledanso I just logged into facebook. the email alert says I am in fremont, california. either facebook is mistaken or a haxx0r just haxxed my account at precisely the same time I logged-in16:47
diddledaneither that or IPv616:47
zmoylan-pior california invaded your home town..16:48
diddledanthere's a california in norfolk iirc16:48
shaunohe.net tunnel?  they're in fremont16:48
diddledanyeah, he16:49
shaunoprobably not a coinkydink.  but do delete your account, lawyer up and hit the gym, just in case :)16:49
diddledangym? that's a bit too much like effort16:50
MartijnVdSdiddledan: IPv6 from HE could be that I guess? Being US subnets etc16:50
diddledanyeah16:50
diddledanhurricane electric should really sort out the registration of their uk tunnels16:50
MartijnVdSUK ISPs should just start doing proper IPv6 deployment themselves ;)16:51
diddledanwell yeah, there is that16:51
penguin42MartijnVdS: Apparently BT has started trialling it16:51
diddledanbt are doing ^^ what he said!16:51
shaunoHE aren't actually doing much wrong.  geo-ip on v6 is just very very rough so far16:52
shaunoif I whois my v6 addy, I actually get galway IE in the result16:53
diddledanIP Addresses were never meant to be geographic in the first place, though, so geoip is just silly16:53
shaunoeg http://paste.ubuntu.com/11867646/16:53
MartijnVdSThere's 1 consumer ISP in the Netherlands who do it (mine), and one trialing it (the biggest one)16:53
shaunoso the data's actually better than you'd expect - I show up as ireland despite using a london endpoint.  it's just not making it to the datasets the geoip folk collate16:55
zmoylan-piit was either that or a 4 'o 4 error :-)16:56
diddledanhow'd you get that registered as galway?16:56
penguin42http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/10/science/An-Image-of-Earth-Every-Ten-Minutes.html is gorgeous16:58
shaunoI guess they used the t-shirt promo to verify addresses :)16:58
diddledaninteresting, just checked mine and I'm registered correctly17:01
diddledancontact:Province:Hampshire17:01
shaunoI'm guessing it was the t-shirt thing because I always put my postcode in as 'eire' when they demand one (and I don't have one)17:02
shaunoso at some point they asked me, rather than just trying to geo-locate my v4 endpoint17:02
shaunobut, not complaining.  it's accurate enough without being too personal17:03
zmoylan-piwe'll have post codes soon.  terrible ones17:03
shaunoyeah :(17:03
shaunonot looking forward to that.  I kinda like that an post are miracle-workers17:03
shaunoI had a package arrive here in 5 days, from germany.  it was addressed to "shaun oneil, 2A, cork".  no street name, wrong city.  5 days.17:04
diddledanwow17:04
diddledanhtf did that even get to you at all?!17:05
zmoylan-pii had norwegian friends living on a tiny lane in dublin and there were 3 houses with their number in the lane.  never lost post17:05
diddledanmaybe you're the only shaun o'neil who lives at a 2a17:05
zmoylan-piit used to freak them out17:05
shaunoI like to think that someone in the sorting office is just on first-name basis with the entire country.  and just took one look and went "ahh nahh, shaun's in galway" and popped it in the right pile17:05
shaunoeither that or they're witches.  but it works.17:06
zmoylan-piit's one of those things that if you examine too closely will stop working17:06
diddledanlol17:06
shaunoit's actually a real thing that it's near impossible to fire a postman.  because if he doesn't pass down his notes to the next guy, it all goes horribly wrong17:06
shaunosadly their "sorry we missed you" ninjas are just as highly trained17:08
zmoylan-pii play d&d with an irish postman, you should see him with nerf... :-p17:11
shauno(also: https://twitter.com/DrJohnLahinch/status/614136743114244098  )17:12
zmoylan-piit's become a bit of a sport... http://www.broadsheet.ie/2015/06/04/will-an-post-deliver-this/17:21
diddledansome folk do riddles/puzzles on things they put in the post in place of the actual address to see if the postie is clever enough to solve it and get it to the right destination17:28
mappsahhh off after tonight18:52
ali1234does anyone know how to remove invalid data from rrdtool?19:01
diddledanali1234: are the stats store in binary files? if not you might be able to remove the nasty-lines from the files and recreate the graph with gaps19:03
ali1234yes they are stored in binary19:03
diddledangrr19:03
diddledanno idea then19:03
diddledanyou _might_ get away with hexxing them to 0019:04
ali1234i wish someone would write a half decent graphing tool19:04
ali1234rrdtool is designed for graphing router traffic and it can't handle when the router is reset and the counters go back to zero19:04
penguin42ali1234: I use grafana now19:04
diddledanstatsd+graphite seems to be gaining momentum19:05
ali1234instead it assumes the 64bit counter overflowed and you transfered several petabytes in 1 second19:05
diddledanbut that's not specific to routers - it's a generic statistics thing19:05
ali1234penguin42: yeah but what is the data source?19:06
ali1234graphite?19:06
penguin42ali1234: Yes, I think that's what I'm using, with carbon/whisper storage19:07
penguin42ali1234: and collectl19:08
diddledanali1234: https://github.com/graphite-project is the source code19:08
penguin42ali1234: It gives nice pretty/zoomable graphs, it's not too bad - so the upside is it's interactive, the downside is it's interactive - so if you want to publish it to an external site it's harder than the static graphs of rrd generates19:09
penguin42ali1234: But I think you can get graphite to do that19:09
diddledanseems their homepage is just docs rather than necessarily telling you about the project, but it's at http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/19:09
ali1234seems there's three parts: getting the data, storing the data, and plotting the data on a graph19:09
penguin42ali1234: And a 4th of organising the set of graphs/dashboard19:09
ali1234the only one i am unahppy with is the storing the data part19:09
ali1234which is all rrdtool is supposed to do really19:10
penguin42ali1234: So I erm think I'm running grafana on graphite on whisper/carbon supplied by collectl19:10
ali1234lol19:10
diddledanali1234: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10298484/remove-data-from-rrdtool19:11
ali1234this shouldn't be so difficult19:11
ali1234it's just a graph19:11
penguin42ali1234: Agreed19:11
diddledanseems you can dump it to xml and reimport once edited19:11
ali1234i could make a graph in excel in about 10 seconds19:11
ali1234why is it so hard to automate this?19:11
penguin42ali1234: http://www.treblig.org/debug/gort-network.png   but it comes out OK19:11
ali1234diddledan: yeah i'm abandoning rrdtool, it's annoyed me once too often and the graphs are ugly anyway19:11
diddledanyeah the graphs are fugly!19:12
diddledanthey're not antialiased which makes them all jaggy19:12
diddledanpenguin42: those are pretty19:13
penguin42diddledan: Yeh and it's not too bad to navigate - still some things where it's a bit kludgy but not bad19:14
penguin42diddledan: Easy to add your own stuff as well; I've got one where I fed temperature data from my own code19:14
penguin42diddledan: I don't particularly like the way it stores it's data though; you do have to preallocate space19:15
ali1234as with rrdtool, it seems like the big problem is you have to specify the fixed size database parameters up front and then you can't ever change them19:15
penguin42ali1234: You can change them19:15
penguin42ali1234: whisper-resize19:16
penguin42ali1234: I've done it a few times having gotten it wrong originally19:16
ali1234you can change them in rrdtool too but it doesn't actually make any sense to do so and will usually corrupt the data19:16
ali1234graph tool should store the raw data19:16
ali1234(x,y) -> row19:16
penguin42ali1234: Which whisper can do I think19:17
ali1234it shouldn't need to care about what the data actually means until it has to generate a graph19:17
penguin42ali1234: Yeh there seem to be some specials to deal with sample data - it seems to be a common problem to want to store samples and retrieve samples from a range and possibly at different levels of granularity19:18
penguin42ali1234: For example, if you've got samples every 5 seconds, if you try and draw a 6 month graph you end up with a heck of a lot of data unless you're careful19:19
penguin42ali1234: If you set it up right, you can balance how much is sent to the js graph browser and how much is averged on the server, so neither of them go mad19:20
ali1234ah... i just found something19:38
diddledan\o/19:38
ali1234you can set the min/max on the database, then dump and restore it19:38
ali1234then you don't need to modify the xml by hand19:39
diddledano_O19:39
ali1234if you modify an existing database min/max it doesnt automatically remove values outside the range19:39
diddledano_O you can register children's names in the uk using unicode characters!?!20:53
* diddledan listening to linuxvoice podcast20:53
* brobostigon is listening to TBBT repeats.20:54
diddledanTBBT?20:54
* zmoylan-pi is watching m*a*s*h20:54
diddledanthe british baking twonks?20:54
brobostigondiddledan: the big bang theory.20:54
diddledanaah20:54
brobostigoneasy listening while do other things.20:55
brobostigonas i am also, planning to DM a game of D&D with friends soon.20:56
brobostigondoing planning for that.20:56
zmoylan-piwhat version?20:57
diddledangeek :-p20:57
diddledanteehee20:58
zmoylan-pii highly recommend nerf with d&d for settling rules arguments20:58
diddledanlast time I played D&D I managed to spawn, not one, not two, but three dolphins into a stairwell. the same stairwell20:59
diddledanand another member of our party was decidedly terrible at abseiling down the outside of the tall tower we were exploring21:00
diddledanstrangely he didn't die21:00
brobostigonzmoylan-pi: we are moving from v.4 to v.5, u working on the basis of v.5.21:00
diddledandespite falling several floors21:00
zmoylan-pii think one of our finest moments was when we sold an entire village into slavery for price of a map.  we were playing evil alignment but we kinda shocked the dm21:00
diddledanlmao21:00
brobostigon:)21:01
diddledanan _entire_ village21:01
diddledanlmao21:01
zmoylan-piwell apart from those that resisted21:01
diddledanoh that one caught mne offguard21:01
diddledanI'm sat here laughing my head off21:01
zmoylan-piyeah, kind of the reaction the dm had.  we were evil but wow isn't that excessively evil?21:02
diddledanI'm guessing the DM was somewhat shocked that you even succeeded in the sale21:02
* brobostigon plays a good human wizard, but can be very evil with his magical powers.21:02
diddledangotta love the roll of the die21:02
* brobostigon has copper d20 dice.21:03
diddledanoooh21:03
zmoylan-pii play a human mercenary in one game who's chief ability is to hide behind a dwarf and an orc pacifist in another who lets monster try and hit him till they die of exhaustian21:04
brobostigonsame as i do, hide behind everyone else to protect myself, and hit other people with spells in the their heads.21:05
zmoylan-pithe human mercenary is fun as he tag teams with the dwarf so that huge horrible monster find me flinging the dwarf into flanking positions from where he does stupid levels of damage while i whittle them down with weak constant unstoppable attacks21:07
diddledangotta love dwarf-flinging21:08
zmoylan-pii've even beaten warforged in hand to hand unarmed combat which suprised everyone including myself21:08
brobostigonmy gf plays a cleric, so i keep close to her, loadsa healing powers.21:10
diddledanplus. kissies! :-p21:10
zmoylan-pione of our healers has a pet monkey.  he has a tendency to heal the monkey before healing us...21:10
* brobostigon giggles.21:10
* brobostigon approves.21:10
brobostigonmaybe she can have gold d20 dice instead of a gold ring if the time comes?21:13
zmoylan-piand pics from d&d games can be seen here. https://twitter.com/angryearthling/media21:20
diddledanso I wonder if 5.25inch floppies will work under windows 10 (there were reports back in january that floppies were entirely unsupported but later builds have apparently included drivers for some floopies)21:31
zmoylan-pibut only 720k floppies...21:32
diddledan360KB21:32
zmoylan-pior 180k21:33
diddledanthese aren't HD21:33
* brobostigon makes a note, gold d20 if gets engaged.21:33
diddledanbrobostigon: good plan!21:33
zmoylan-pior get a roman dice 2000yo...21:33
brobostigondiddledan: :)21:33
diddledandid the romans make d20s?21:33
brobostigonprobably not.21:34
zmoylan-pihttp://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/roman-d2021:35
zmoylan-pi~22:37

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