| * zmoylan-pi rebuilds second wonkiest pc to replace main pc which barfed when i tried to remove 4gb of old kernels... | 00:51 | |
| penguin42 | it barfed during kernel removal? | 00:51 |
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| zmoylan-pi | yup... took 10 hours and then got stuck in a loop trying and failing to remove some | 00:52 |
| penguin42 | zmoylan-pi: Oh, I've seen some of that - although not the barf | 00:53 |
| penguin42 | zmoylan-pi: Everytime dpkg removes a kernel it triggers the trigger that updates grub to regenerate the list of kernels | 00:53 |
| penguin42 | zmoylan-pi: Now, because you have zillions of kernels installed that takes ages | 00:53 |
| zmoylan-pi | after a fsck it booted again but i'm pulling data off it to wipe and go with latest xubuntu | 00:54 |
| daftykins | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NhVHMEbodI | 01:26 |
| daftykins | http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=12 | 01:26 |
| daftykins | just wow at the lightning over the Channel right now | 01:26 |
| penguin42 | we're due it tomorrow | 01:29 |
| acemastr | lightning? in england? (ish) | 01:32 |
| acemastr | that's rare lol | 01:33 |
| daftykins | i did see heavy rain predicted for Sunday, so since i've only just kicked off my roof water leak insurance claim now i'll have to pop home and catch it dripping :P | 01:33 |
| penguin42 | acemastr: We do get it a few times a year | 01:34 |
| zmoylan-pi | bonus points it'll rain fish so you arrive home to an indoor aquariam | 01:39 |
| penguin42 | there was another occurence of that happening in the news the other day | 01:41 |
| zmoylan-pi | i think that was what made it spring to mind... i haven't seen a report in donkeys age | 01:42 |
| zmoylan-pi | though there was that shark found inland last year i think | 01:42 |
| daftykins | zmoylan-pi: had all those kernel packages made you hit an inode limit? :D | 01:44 |
| acemastr | we just get aligators crossing the road | 01:44 |
| acemastr | some guy ran over one on his motorcycle last week | 01:44 |
| zmoylan-pi | we have an infestation of foxes... :-) https://twitter.com/angryearthling/status/866280440570814466/photo/1 | 01:45 |
| penguin42 | they are cute though :-) | 01:52 |
| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 08:43 |
| daftykins | ripping out lath and plaster - things i hope to never do again | 16:19 |
| DJones | daftykins: Hot, sticky, bitty etc? | 16:53 |
| daftykins | indeed! | 17:02 |
| daftykins | black stuff coming out of the nose due to the dust, oy | 17:02 |
| DJones | Yikes | 17:26 |
| zmoylan-pi | i think when you hit the asbestos it's all done... :-P | 17:41 |
| daftykins | my Dad thinks i've been lucky not to find any XD | 17:42 |
| zmoylan-pi | it was used _everywhere_ in the 60s... | 17:43 |
| daftykins | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM7RHrwBQIo | 17:43 |
| daftykins | that's my progress vid | 17:44 |
| zmoylan-pi | you should be wearing a breathing mask to catch the particles though... cheap at any diy place... | 17:51 |
| daftykins | yeah, no time for that though | 17:51 |
| daftykins | all done and we move on :> | 17:52 |
| zmoylan-pi | sez the diy enthusiast coughing up a lung... | 17:53 |
| daftykins | oh i'm not that at all, i just know how much in the hole i am with the contractor already! | 17:55 |
| zmoylan-pi | that's why they always charge an arm and a leg, they know how bad the internal organs will be... :-P | 17:56 |
| daftykins | they're making the apprentice do it at £22/hr | 17:56 |
| zmoylan-pi | how much do you charge per hour of i.t. work? | 17:57 |
| daftykins | originally i was just going to have thermalboard thrown on top of what was there, but i said nah tear it down - and uncovered the roof leak | 17:57 |
| daftykins | depends how awkward they are ;D | 17:57 |
| zmoylan-pi | well naturally, but how much for custards? | 17:57 |
| daftykins | £40/hr has been a long standing rate for old clients, up it for new work though | 17:59 |
| zmoylan-pi | ooops theresa may was dragged into the british airways offshoring i.t. row last year... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/24/ba_job_offshoring_gmb_union_hand_delivered_letters/ | 20:58 |
| * penguin42 would like to know what actually went wrong before blaming them for offshoring it | 21:02 | |
| penguin42 | but saying 'the root cause was a power supply issue' - people do have this thing where they get reliant on one data centre; you should always assume data centres will fail | 21:03 |
| diddledan | I'm wondering if it's related to the capita datacentre failure | 21:07 |
| diddledan | an entire DC went offline earlier in the week | 21:07 |
| daftykins | British Airways didn't seem to do well today, claiming a PSU took down worldwide operations!? | 21:08 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: I think it's more claiming they lost power as opposed to a PSU | 21:08 |
| zmoylan-pi | well it was like the storm problem in new york were they had the diesel generators for backup on a high story and had to hand cart the diesel fuel for a few days up umpteen flights of stairs... you only find the problems with your system when it really goes wrong | 21:08 |
| zmoylan-pi | who knew the elevators would stop when the power went?! | 21:10 |
| daftykins | could be, i kinda skipped past the heading just now reading some news | 21:10 |
| penguin42 | zmoylan-pi: Yeh or the Japanese Nuclear site at Fukushima where the new electric gates wouldn't allow them to get to the fire engines | 21:48 |
| zmoylan-pi | it's really complicated... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7WHM2rchJ0 | 21:51 |
| penguin42 | damn that's neat | 22:05 |
| zmoylan-pi | in our rush to replace things with new and shiny we abandon old working practical tech | 22:06 |
| zmoylan-pi | but you wouldn't want it were kids might try and play on it... but i reckon that's frowned upon at a nuclear plant anyway... :-P | 22:13 |
| DM8_ | Hello. I wonder if anyone can assist. When I connect to my VPN using the network manager, the DNS lookups no longer work. /etc/resolv.conf specifies 127.0.1.1 as nameserver which is dnsmasq service. However, I need to manually add a nameserver of 192.168.1.1 which is my router before my VPN traffic will flow. | 23:02 |
| acemastr` | might as well use google's | 23:09 |
| acemastr` | not entirely sure what the question is though lol | 23:10 |
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