[00:07] <wrst> Omnifrog: too late in the year for lawnmowers
[00:09] <Omnifrog> not here
[00:09] <Omnifrog> it's leaf season
[00:10] <Omnifrog> I'm in a ery wooded area
[00:10] <wrst> ahh
[00:10] <Omnifrog> very *
[00:10] <wrst> down with the lawnmowers
[00:11] <Omnifrog> my best push mower is running really fast and I cant figure out why
[00:17] <wrst> cyberanger: formatting this 3TB drive has proven to be a larger pain than I thought it would be :)
[00:17] <wrst> Omnifrog: maybe it is in a hurry? :\
[00:18] <Omnifrog> heh
[00:18] <Omnifrog> why is the format a pain?
[00:18] <wrst> well I don't know
[00:19] <wrst> i set it up with gpt
[00:19] <wrst> and it should just work but I think I found a guide
[00:19] <wrst> but the drive was just showing around 750GB
[00:20] <Omnifrog> I'm not familiar with gpt
[00:22] <wrst> the partition table format
[00:22]  * wrst just knows the terms 
[00:22]  * wrst doesn't know what he is doing
[00:23] <Omnifrog> I had no idea there was a new partition table format
[00:23] <Omnifrog> I'm reading about it now though
[00:24] <Omnifrog> ah... "MBR works with disks up to 2 TB in size, but it can’t handle disks with more than 2 TB of space. "
[00:24] <Omnifrog> http://www.howtogeek.com/193669/whats-the-difference-between-gpt-and-mbr-when-partitioning-a-drive/
[00:25] <wrst> woo hoo! showing 2.7TB now
[00:27] <Omnifrog> not sure how I feel about the appropriation of the GUID acronym though
[00:30] <wrst> Omnifrog: what do you mean?
[00:30]  * wrst may be a bit dense and doesnt' realize it
[00:30] <Omnifrog> “globally unique identifier,” or GUID
[00:31] <Omnifrog> as opposed to group user ID
[00:31] <wrst> ahh
[00:31] <wrst> I'm stuck in backup restore land...
[00:31] <wrst> moving my "server" to a more capable machine
[00:36] <Omnifrog> huh, a gpt has a redundant MBR
[00:36] <wrst> yeah, all I wanted to do was store a bunch of crap :)
[00:36] <Omnifrog> lol
[00:36] <wrst> why do you need a redundant MBR?
[00:37] <wrst> I figured if your MBR failed you have much problemos and the drive was likely toast
[00:37] <Omnifrog> GPT drives tend to include a “protective MBR.” This type of MBR says that the GPT drive has a single partition that extends across the entire drive. If you try to manage a GPT disk with an old tool that can only read MBRs,
[00:37] <Omnifrog> it will see a single partition that extends across the entire drive. The MBR ensures the old tools won’t mistake the GPT drive for an unpartitioned drive and overwrite its GPT data with a new MBR.
[00:37] <wrst> unless you are an idiot like me messing with stuff you don't know about
[00:37] <Omnifrog> In other words, the protective MBR protects the GPT data from being overwritten.
[00:37] <wrst> ahh
[00:37] <wrst> ok that makes sense
[00:37] <Omnifrog> that link I posted is worth a read if you want to know more about gpt
[00:38] <wrst> I probably should becuase the days of drives under 2 TB are probably few and far between other than SSDs and that won't be long
[00:38] <wrst> in the past I always just through my drive in a usb enclosure hooked it to my desktop and used gparted
[00:39] <wrst> but had to do this the oldschool way which is fine that's how I have always set up arch drives before on install
[00:39] <wrst> but took me a while to figure it all out
[00:40] <Omnifrog> when you mentioned gpt I thought it was a new version of gparted, heh
[00:40] <Omnifrog> then I looked it up
[00:40] <Omnifrog> dang, I must be living under a rock or something
[00:41] <Omnifrog> I blame it all the smoke
[00:41] <Omnifrog> blame it on*
[00:42] <Omnifrog> the air here looks like I'm in China
[00:42] <Omnifrog> I could look directly at the sun today
[01:03] <cyberanger> wrst skimming the backlog sounds like it's fixed now?
[01:03] <wrst> Omnifrog: smoke?
[01:04] <wrst> cyberanger: yes, had a couple steps I left out when formatting
[01:04] <Omnifrog> from all the wildfires
[01:04] <wrst> that's what I get for thinking I know what I'm doing
[01:04] <wrst> Omnifrog: yes we had smoke as far as cookeville a few days ago
[01:04] <cyberanger> Omnifrog heard it's mostly arsonists
[01:04] <cyberanger> Not natural
[01:05] <Omnifrog> it's been pretty continuously awful air quality for over a week here in Chattanooga
[01:05] <wrst> that is very disappointing
[01:05] <Omnifrog> arsonists and idiots burning leaves
[01:06] <Omnifrog> there are currently 59 wild fires in TN right now
[01:06] <Unit193> Not me I haven't been there.
[01:09] <wrst> sure you ahven't Unit193...
[01:09] <wrst> Omnifrog: I don't recall it being this drive in the fall in well forever really
[01:13] <Omnifrog> it's not been this dry in my memorey either
[01:13] <Omnifrog> memory *
[01:14] <Omnifrog> the water table here is lower than anything in recorded history
[01:15] <wrst> we have been fortunate we haven't really bee so dry until the last 3-4 weeks
[01:15] <Omnifrog> I watered parts of the grass around the house for the first time in the last 20 years
[01:16] <Omnifrog> in the past I was happy to have it die back (less mowing for me)
[01:16] <Omnifrog> but this is ridiculous
[01:19] <wrst> no rain in the near future I don't think?
[01:21] <Omnifrog> probably not for the next 10 days of so
[01:24] <Omnifrog> this was the view on part of the property this evening and it's better than it had been all day http://imgur.com/a/scWZh
[01:26] <cyberanger> That's not counting NC, AL & GA
[01:34] <Omnifrog> yeah, they have their own fires to worry about
[01:35] <wrst> beautiful place Omnifrog, stinks it is close to a fire
[01:35] <Omnifrog> if fire gets near here it will be a really big problem
[01:36] <Omnifrog> there are no fire hydrants near here
[02:49] <wrst> hopefully you won't need them
[03:35] <Omnifrog> are you using xchat wrst ?
[03:35] <wrst> Omnifrog: no I'm using quassel, was actually just moving the core to a new server
[03:35] <Omnifrog> oh, quassel. nevermind
[03:36] <wrst> I like the client/core setup
[03:36] <Omnifrog> yeah, I just saw the join message
[03:36] <wrst> can connect from anywhere, on anything
[03:36] <wrst> I know znc or the like will do it but quassel is a super easy setup
[03:36] <Omnifrog> I've used quassel before
[03:36] <Omnifrog> I really don't have a need for it though
[03:37] <Unit193> What if you never want to miss a second of IRC?
[03:39] <Omnifrog> that would have been true in past years
[03:39] <Omnifrog> back when I was using quassel
[03:40] <wrst> ha ha Omnifrog for me now I just have a setup I like so I just carry it over to wherever I'm hosting something
[03:40] <Omnifrog> I've been backing my way off the internet over the last few years
[03:43] <Unit193> I use the internet to communicate with people I like.
[03:47] <Omnifrog> ok, I should clarify. I'm backing out of "social media"
[03:49] <Omnifrog> and some chatrooms
[04:20] <wrst> social media is pretty much stupid
[04:20] <wrst> for the most part
[04:23] <wrst> or at least around election season
[04:29] <Unit193> I don't get on FB, haven't for years.
[04:29] <Omnifrog> I killed my FB years ago
[04:36] <wrst> I still have it but not proud of it
[04:36] <Unit193> My sister stopped using it this/last year. \o/
[21:27] <minasota> hmm, for some reason Papa John's and Dominoes cannot take online orders...
[21:28] <minasota> Both are having "technical difficulties"
[21:48] <minasota> Damn, Russians lol
[21:53] <wrst> first the elections, now pizza, they have gone too far this time
[21:58] <minasota> time for a riot :p
[22:27] <wrst> ! yes
[23:12]  * minasota can't make the "peaceful protest"... he's too full now. Time for a nap :)