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cmaloneyEvening00:23
cmaloneyjrwren: https://circleofdust.bandcamp.com/album/circle-of-dust-remastered-deluxe-edition03:27
jrwrencmaloney: anygood?12:54
cmaloneyjrwren: I've had two versions of this album12:56
cmaloneythis version is quite good12:56
cmaloneythinking about picking it up12:57
cmaloneyhttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/313565713:01
cmaloneyApparently the Windows Store is open, even when you tell it to bugger off13:01
jrwrenWindows 10 is just terrible. I'm pretty sorry I upgraded from 7 to it.13:09
jrwrenWindows and OSX are getting so bad that I'm pretty sure I'll be all linux within 5 years.13:09
cmaloneyyay!13:14
cmaloneyOSX needs Jobs13:15
cmaloneyI like Tim Cook but they've really lost the plot13:15
cmaloneyeven the faithful I listen to seem to have wavered13:15
jrwrenI think the things that annoy me about OSX happened under Jobs.13:17
cmaloneyWhich things?13:17
jrwrengetting rid of Samba for their own, poor, smb client and retiring the quicktime library are key.13:17
jrwrendid you know that with the move from QuickTime to CoreVideo, OSX has no codec plugin mechanism?!?13:17
jrwrenits like going back to 199413:18
cmaloneyNo, I didn't.13:18
cmaloneySo there's no easy way to implement codecs under OSX?13:18
jrwrennot AFAICT13:18
jrwrenYou can use VLC. You can use MPV (an mplayer gui).  But those use their entire own stacks. Not the system video rendering stack.13:19
cmaloneyMeh, that doesn't surprise me13:19
cmaloneyVLC / mplayer tend to bring their own stack anyway13:20
jrwrenright.13:20
jrwrenbut its sooo bad.13:20
cmaloneyHonestly Quicktime was due for a curb-kicking13:20
jrwrenFinder's QuickLook feature is so damn good, I want it for other gui filemanagers, but they are crippling the video player of QuickLook because of the codec limits13:21
* jrwren points to "never rewrite" as a value.13:21
jrwrenhttp://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html  ;]13:21
cmaloneySomething tells me part of the reason for Quicktime getting sunned-down is security13:22
cmaloneyand that it doesn't work well under Quicktime13:22
cmaloneyiOS, rather13:23
cmaloneyfor the same reasons that Flash sucks13:23
jrwrenios never had quicktime afaik.  it always had (and still has) very limited codec support.13:23
jrwrenin teh case of both windows and osx, the regression to the limitations of a handheld device is part of my gripe.13:23
jrwrenwindows at least has cortana.  why in the world doesn't osx have siri? its nonsensical.13:24
jrwrenI feel like there was a brief period where windows and osx were not free, but were open enough to be useful and stable enough to be useful, and that period is closing quickly. Maybe already closed.13:25
cmaloneyNot sure. Siri under OSX would be kind of sweet13:25
cmaloneyYeah13:25
cmaloneyApple is under so much pressure to make money13:26
cmaloneyand I'm sure Microsoft is making stupid decisions for revenue13:26
jrwrensure, NOW they are, but they could have added siri to OSX at any time when they were in the money hurricane.13:26
jrwreni'm amazed MSFT still has its high revenue. They have done a great job pivoting to azure.13:27
jrwrenI wonder how much they paid for Xamarin. I can't imagine it was cheap.13:27
cmaloney3.5013:27
cmaloney;)13:27
cmaloneyI'll be surprised if Miguel will still work for Microsoft in a year13:28
jrwrensame here, but his handcufs in the contract may be more like 3 years.13:28
jrwrensame with Nat.13:28
jrwrenI'm more interested in what they do next.13:29
jrwrenbut tehn again, they both stayed at Novel for a rather long time and novel wasn't giving them much in the way of resources, so who knows.13:29
jrwrenThey might be there for 10 yrs.13:29
cmaloneyYeah13:30
mrgoodcati'm back14:25
cmaloneyWelcome back14:25
mrgoodcatA/C maintenance in the server room last night14:25
cmaloneyWhere were you?14:25
cmaloneyLovely.14:25
mrgoodcatserver downtime14:25
mrgoodcatmy nemesis14:26
cmaloneymass hysteria14:26
mrgoodcatsrsly tho14:26
mrgoodcatlike 40 emails from people wondering what was going on14:26
mrgoodcatthis has been planned for months14:26
jrwrensomeone communicated the plan poorly14:26
mrgoodcat¯\_(ツ)_/¯14:27
mrgoodcatits not my problem14:27
mrgoodcati'm just an alumni now14:27
mrgoodcatactually alumnus is the singular, and idk if i can call myself that14:27
mrgoodcathaving never graduated14:27
mrgoodcatbut w/e14:27
mrgoodcatthis is a wmu computer club server not a work server14:28
jrwrenwhoa, that takes me back.14:28
mrgoodcatto what?14:28
mrgoodcatdid you go to wmu?14:29
jrwrenno, but I knew some people there 15-20yrs ago14:30
mrgoodcatah14:30
jrwrengood LUG IIRC14:31
mrgoodcatsome people that were there 15-20 years ago are actually still here14:31
mrgoodcatwe have a lot of alumni members14:31
jrwrenyeah, I could see Wes still being involved, maybe.14:31
mrgoodcatany idea what his handle would be?14:31
mrgoodcatidk real names for some people14:31
mrgoodcathaha14:32
jrwrenno idea.14:32
mrgoodcatdon weber was a member 30 ish years ago probably14:32
mrgoodcatnow he's the technology directory for the college of arts and sciences here14:32
mrgoodcatdirector14:32
mrgoodcatnot directory14:32
jrwrenwow, he's seen a lot.14:32
mrgoodcathe was one of the super early members14:33
mrgoodcatmy irc logs only go back to 2005-11-04 05:44:33 so i can't verify people i don't know that are older than that14:34
cmaloneyYow.14:34
mrgoodcatyea its quite a history14:34
mrgoodcatas of right now i have 6400093 lines of logs14:35
jrwrenyou keep 'em uncompressed? I recently decided to compress old text irc logs. Some were rather large.14:36
jrwrenI really should point logrotate at them, but that requires more work ;]14:36
cmaloneyheh14:36
mrgoodcatpostgres db14:37
mrgoodcati also have fairly extensive client txt logs14:37
jrwrenoh nice.14:37
jrwrenbut then, that is even larger disk footprint ;]14:37
mrgoodcatyea14:38
mrgoodcatspace isn't such an issue14:38
mrgoodcat224M of text logs14:38
mrgoodcatidk how much the pg db is taking up14:38
mrgoodcat6748234 lines of text logs from client logging14:38
mrgoodcati IRC a lot14:38
mrgoodcat167 logged channels14:39
jrwreni was over GB in text log, hence my desire to compress.14:39
jrwrenthat is lot of channels.14:39
mrgoodcat3167MB pg database14:40
mrgoodcatincluding indexes and such14:41
mrgoodcatexactly 0 seconds spent optimizing indexes and whatnot so don't judge14:41
mrgoodcatwe have various services for querying the logs so a DB makes sense for that14:41
cmaloneynever be ashamed for using a database14:44
cmaloney that's what they're there for14:44
jrwrenyeah, HUGE14:45
jrwrenand yes, what cmaloney said.14:46
jrwrenits classic time/space tradeoff.  my grep of xv compresses text is going to be insanely slower than your search of that pgsql database. especially if you tsearch.14:46
mrgoodcatjust looked. there is actually only 1 index and its on the autoincrement id column14:48
jrwrenoh, in that case, I'm faster :p14:48
mrgoodcathaha14:48
jrwrenassuming I have the CPU to spare for xv decompress. and xv is SLOW. especially on this old E850014:48
mrgoodcatstill have 2.5T of unused space so i'm not too worried about disk usage14:49
mrgoodcatactually thats the home partition14:49
mrgoodcatroot partition only has 13G left14:49
mrgoodcatstill not worried though14:49
jrwrenwow, that is a lot of free space.14:50
mrgoodcat3.3T total14:50
mrgoodcatso wev14:50
mrgoodcatused almost 114:50
mrgoodcatdamn hands and the typing14:50
jrwrenone of the reasons space became a concern for me is that I moved my homedir to SSD, so smaller ;]14:50
mrgoodcatour homedir is shared with a pretty large number of accounts14:51
jrwrenoh, this is my home server14:51
mrgoodcatls -l /home/members | wc -l14:51
mrgoodcat23714:51
mrgoodcatso that is active members since we migrated from the old server which was.... 2 years ago?14:52
cmaloney237 users on a university server that isn't for a class?14:55
cmaloneyThat's amazing.14:55
cmaloney(esp. since it's no longer the 1990s)14:55
mrgoodcatyea its a lot15:06
jrwrenwhat is the appeal these days?  free fast hosting?15:07
mrgoodcatnerd cred15:07
mrgoodcatmostly15:07
mrgoodcatwe use it to communicate using IRC15:07
mrgoodcatmost people have a tmux/screen session on the server at all times15:08
mrgoodcatkeeping in contact en masse15:08
mrgoodcat¯\_(ツ)_/¯15:08
jrwrenits cool. I'm more curious, because I think I gave up on that sort of thing in my life.15:09
jrwrenI actually do have such a shared host with a friend, but we barely use it.15:09
cmaloneyLikely Usenet access. ;)15:11
jrwrenlol!15:13
jrwrendoes wmu provide that?15:13
jrwreni thought universities stopped that a decade ago.15:13
mrgoodcatthey do not provide usenet access15:22
cmaloneyThen why are they on the internet?15:23
cmaloneybah15:23
cmaloney;)15:23
mrgoodcathaha15:24
jrwrenhttp://post.oreilly.com/form/oreilly/viewhtml/9z1zv3eqlg8lq097tjlsbv02hnton7hkhmrc14kufoo?imm_mid=0e2ff2&cmp=em-na-na-na-pr_humble_hacking_bundle16:25
greg-gpeople still like Slipknot?18:16
greg-g(non sequitor, based on a huge patch on the back of this otherwise punk rock looking kid at the coffee shop)18:17
jrwrenlol.18:19
jrwrenmaybe its style-only, like all the people who wear ramones tshirts but don't actuall listen to the ramones18:19
greg-gthe girl he was with was definitely punk rock stylish18:19
cmaloneygreg-g: Slipknot is the Slayer for the Gen Y folks18:37

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