| daftykins | well, time to head into Monday with our heads held high! | 01:57 |
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| daftykins | g'night gang \o | 01:57 |
| davef | Happy return to the work week day! | 15:56 |
| zxmpi | ... and there was no rejoicing | 15:56 |
| davef | My morning kicked off with stuck Linux processes.. yey | 15:57 |
| davef | strace gives me a headache | 15:57 |
| daftykins | o0 | 16:10 |
| daftykins | i'm barely getting started here, relaxed with coffee and a bit of TV down in my lounge beforehand :D | 16:10 |
| davef | It's just the joys of being a Linux admin. | 16:11 |
| daftykins | thankfully none of mine are serious enough that i have had to go that deep, i'd just turn it off and back on ;) (restart the service) | 16:13 |
| daftykins | the other day though i logged into staff RStudio accounts and discovered that they keep open every job they've ever worked on, within their session - the way R works is it loads the datasets into RAM of every open file | 16:14 |
| daftykins | so this poor VM was maxxed out despite having nigh-on 80 GB of RAM allocated solely 'cause they don't close things D: | 16:14 |
| davef | I had to dive into file locks, poking around /proc/<pid>/fd, strace, lsof.. | 16:17 |
| davef | we have an app, if a process has one of the DB tables open for writing, we can't kill it as it could corrupt the DB and files. (DB is old style BTree) | 16:18 |
| zxmpi | should have recommended an 80gb ramdisk :-P | 16:18 |
| davef | 80GB, peanuts. | 16:18 |
| davef | # free -g | 16:19 |
| davef | total used free shared buff/cache available | 16:19 |
| davef | Mem: 754 53 5 0 695 697 | 16:19 |
| davef | Swap: 0 0 0 | 16:19 |
| daftykins | well yeah but it's an 11 year old Dell R820 with 128 GB as the XCP-ng host, i got it for peanuts locally :) | 16:19 |
| daftykins | built that thing up as more of a proof of concept done on the cheap | 16:21 |
| davef | omg, I had my music on random.. and YT music starts playing "The Bad Touch" by Bloodhound Gang lol | 16:46 |
| daftykins | :D | 16:46 |
| davef | I've not heard this song in years | 16:47 |
| daftykins | fun album, i'm gonna pop it on | 16:47 |
| daftykins | erk an old MP3 copy | 16:51 |
| zxmpi | aac is the future :-P | 16:54 |
| daftykins | if you're poor and can't afford storage perhaps | 16:56 |
| zxmpi | do sony still make memory stick | 16:58 |
| daftykins | dunno! | 16:59 |
| daftykins | they always were cheeky for their proprietary formats of all things, mmm | 16:59 |
| zxmpi | seems to have petered out about 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Stick | 16:59 |
| zxmpi | i kinda wish minidisc stuck around as a super floppy | 16:59 |
| zxmpi | 60mb a pop or 1 ms word documents :-P | 17:00 |
| daftykins | ah i loved mine back in the day | 17:01 |
| zxmpi | sony build quality so really solid hardware wise | 17:02 |
| zxmpi | but really let down by sony software wise | 17:02 |
| daftykins | ah i had a Sharp mt877 for my second one | 17:02 |
| daftykins | i think the first one didn't do LP modes perhaps, maybe that's what suckered me into a second | 17:02 |
| zxmpi | i just slummed it back then with an argos special of a cd player that played mp3s off cd-r. 10 albums per disc | 17:05 |
| daftykins | a similar early start to MP3 like LGR! | 17:07 |
| daftykins | i'm tempted Murphy's law with a remote router + switch firmware update right now | 17:07 |
| daftykins | removing the travel from the job definitely makes life easier ;) | 17:08 |
| zxmpi | at least it isn't a friday :-) | 17:08 |
| daftykins | haha yeah | 17:08 |
| daftykins | i very nearly did drop in and do it on Friday, but i gave myself the day off instead | 17:08 |
| zxmpi | smart. no job started on a friday ends well | 17:08 |
| daftykins | woohoo all smooth, spotted a staffer VPN in halfway through, hah - what are you doing working after 5!? | 18:12 |
| daftykins | amusingly i discovered the 'kick user' widget is broken | 18:13 |
| zxmpi | wipes users system still operational >:-) | 18:13 |
| daftykins | \o/ | 18:16 |
| daftykins | troublemaker that one, had to roll back their office PC from Windows 11 | 18:16 |
| zxmpi | maybe they needed adverts in their file manager :-P | 18:17 |
| daftykins | could be | 18:18 |
| daftykins | i tire of the alleged 'Windows news' of late, 'cause it's all commentary on preview editions that may not even make it | 18:18 |
| daftykins | until things are truthfully 'shipping' i don't really need it on my radar | 18:18 |
| zxmpi | the previews are flying kites and seeing what gets a reaction and adverts in a frikking file manager deserves to be mocked far AND wide :-) | 18:20 |
| daftykins | yeah, useful warning kind of... if things do get that bad, 2025 when win 10 goes EOL may be time to hang up my hat | 18:21 |
| zxmpi | or dust of the windows 3.1 floppies you find on ebay :-P | 18:21 |
| zxmpi | gem on top of freedos is where it's at | 18:22 |
| daftykins | clients are bad enough trying to hold onto EOL stuff, can't go enabling them further! | 18:22 |
| zxmpi | i think windows 3.x on internet is safe as no one has been able to write a virus that doesn't require install instructions :-P | 18:24 |
| zxmpi | icloud, music and tv down for apple users... should have kept those minidiscs a little longer | 18:38 |
| daftykins | i saw some pieces in the news about their new 'Studio' machine (the one that looks like several mac minis stacked high) which has a removable SSD, but it's software locked | 18:39 |
| zxmpi | they seem intent on going the sony route. really nice hardware that only they can touch | 18:39 |
| zxmpi | kinda how they killed themselves in the 90s | 18:40 |
| daftykins | i still don't see it as nice, their software standards have a really sharp downward trajectory too - even for those who like macOS | 18:41 |
| zxmpi | they do seem keen to remove features from software that people love | 18:41 |
| zxmpi | seem to be on a push to get one os ios running on desktop and mobile | 18:44 |
| daftykins | davef: do you know if your co. uses anything for managing staff BYOD smartphones? | 19:52 |
| davef | whatever the MS solution is | 20:12 |
| daftykins | ah :( that's a shame, yeah InTune then | 20:13 |
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