[01:57] well, time to head into Monday with our heads held high! [01:57] g'night gang \o [15:56] Happy return to the work week day! [15:56] ... and there was no rejoicing [15:57] My morning kicked off with stuck Linux processes.. yey [15:57] strace gives me a headache [16:10] o0 [16:10] i'm barely getting started here, relaxed with coffee and a bit of TV down in my lounge beforehand :D [16:11] It's just the joys of being a Linux admin. [16:13] 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) [16:14] 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] so this poor VM was maxxed out despite having nigh-on 80 GB of RAM allocated solely 'cause they don't close things D: [16:17] I had to dive into file locks, poking around /proc//fd, strace, lsof.. [16:18] 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] should have recommended an 80gb ramdisk :-P [16:18] 80GB, peanuts. [16:19] # free -g [16:19] total used free shared buff/cache available [16:19] Mem: 754 53 5 0 695 697 [16:19] Swap: 0 0 0 [16:19] 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 :) [16:21] built that thing up as more of a proof of concept done on the cheap [16:46] omg, I had my music on random.. and YT music starts playing "The Bad Touch" by Bloodhound Gang lol [16:46] :D [16:47] I've not heard this song in years [16:47] fun album, i'm gonna pop it on [16:51] erk an old MP3 copy [16:54] aac is the future :-P [16:56] if you're poor and can't afford storage perhaps [16:58] do sony still make memory stick [16:59] dunno! [16:59] they always were cheeky for their proprietary formats of all things, mmm [16:59] seems to have petered out about 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Stick [16:59] i kinda wish minidisc stuck around as a super floppy [17:00] 60mb a pop or 1 ms word documents :-P [17:01] ah i loved mine back in the day [17:02] sony build quality so really solid hardware wise [17:02] but really let down by sony software wise [17:02] ah i had a Sharp mt877 for my second one [17:02] i think the first one didn't do LP modes perhaps, maybe that's what suckered me into a second [17:05] i just slummed it back then with an argos special of a cd player that played mp3s off cd-r. 10 albums per disc [17:07] a similar early start to MP3 like LGR! [17:07] i'm tempted Murphy's law with a remote router + switch firmware update right now [17:08] removing the travel from the job definitely makes life easier ;) [17:08] at least it isn't a friday :-) [17:08] haha yeah [17:08] i very nearly did drop in and do it on Friday, but i gave myself the day off instead [17:08] smart. no job started on a friday ends well [18:12] woohoo all smooth, spotted a staffer VPN in halfway through, hah - what are you doing working after 5!? [18:13] amusingly i discovered the 'kick user' widget is broken [18:13] wipes users system still operational >:-) [18:16] \o/ [18:16] troublemaker that one, had to roll back their office PC from Windows 11 [18:17] maybe they needed adverts in their file manager :-P [18:18] could be [18:18] 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] until things are truthfully 'shipping' i don't really need it on my radar [18:20] 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 :-) [18:21] 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] or dust of the windows 3.1 floppies you find on ebay :-P [18:22] gem on top of freedos is where it's at [18:22] clients are bad enough trying to hold onto EOL stuff, can't go enabling them further! [18:24] 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 [18:38] icloud, music and tv down for apple users... should have kept those minidiscs a little longer [18:39] 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] they seem intent on going the sony route. really nice hardware that only they can touch [18:40] kinda how they killed themselves in the 90s [18:41] 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] they do seem keen to remove features from software that people love [18:44] seem to be on a push to get one os ios running on desktop and mobile [19:52] davef: do you know if your co. uses anything for managing staff BYOD smartphones? [20:12] whatever the MS solution is [20:13] ah :( that's a shame, yeah InTune then