| davef | Not saying it's gone away, my experience has been very few people I know have had it. I had it last November. I've been on airplanes, concert halls, crowded bars, restaurants, etc. I have been expecting to get it again, I've not been masking up since the restrictions were dropped. | 00:29 |
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| davef | I really expected to have it at least two, maybe three times by now. | 00:29 |
| penguin42 | whether you get it multiple times is very much pot luck as to which variant you got, and what your immune system decides to do about it | 00:37 |
| davef | One of my buddies has got almost every variant.. gotta catch 'em all :) | 00:40 |
| davef | (yes, I realize I used a pokemon reference) | 00:40 |
| penguin42 | nod | 00:41 |
| diddledani | don't forget that masking isn't about protecting YOU, it's about protecting OTHERS FROM YOU | 11:59 |
| zxmpi | depends on the mask, but yeah | 12:10 |
| daftykins | morning campers | 13:20 |
| * penguin42 yawns | 13:20 | |
| daftykins | ooh this virtual disk converter program, StarWind, is saving my bacon... it's helping me convert the second dental practice's Hyper-V VM to a format that XCP-ng is happy to read - whilst also reducing the size properly to that of used-space versus empty | 13:21 |
| daftykins | D: was a 400 GB VHD -> 210 GB now | 13:22 |
| penguin42 | I *think* qemu-img can do that disk convert | 13:29 |
| daftykins | ah well, 99% of the task is getting them to a system with enough storage and then the long and slow copy via SFTP to my XCP-ng host | 13:31 |
| daftykins | i should probably treat myself to a larger mechanical disk for my office desktop in the upcoming sales | 13:32 |
| penguin42 | so where do you run XCP-ng? | 13:35 |
| daftykins | my testbed at home is the Dell PowerEdge T430 i have, it runs downstairs in my lounge to spare my ears :D | 13:36 |
| daftykins | oops T420 - it's the dentists that have the T430 | 13:36 |
| penguin42 | how have you made a t430 loud?! | 13:36 |
| penguin42 | 2 | 13:36 |
| penguin42 | oh, dell | 13:36 |
| daftykins | :D | 13:37 |
| penguin42 | sorry, I misread that as a Thinkpad T4x0 | 13:37 |
| daftykins | dual Xeon sandybridge era | 13:37 |
| daftykins | hehe yeah it is a conflicting model | 13:37 |
| daftykins | i've got this thing on a 1TB M.2 PCIe SSD in there, it's running really nicely | 13:42 |
| penguin42 | good fast SSDs are nice; Sandybridge is a bit slow though | 13:51 |
| daftykins | yeah, just having a spare host will be great for the conversion | 13:52 |
| daftykins | it'll let me slide their server over onto other metal whilst i wipe their current server for XCP-ng as well | 13:52 |
| penguin42 | nod | 13:53 |
| daftykins | servers are a bit quirky on the firmware front i find, i always find them set to their "performance" profiles but the ones i have worked with, i set them to custom and changed a bunch of settings to allow them to drop power consumption | 14:11 |
| daftykins | their one doesn't seem to boost the CPU up to turbo clocks at all, which is a shame | 14:12 |
| penguin42 | check for any thermal/power limits set? | 14:28 |
| daftykins | i haven't even changed away from the 'performance' setting yet, didn't want to mess with what was working whilst it remains in its' present setup | 14:29 |
| daftykins | although i did spend my first weekend doing a mammoth firmware update session, even booted the ISO of updates from home over the VPN :D | 14:29 |
| penguin42 | how do you find xcp, I dont know any other users - it's basically the current commercial Xen isnt it? | 14:30 |
| daftykins | nah it's a fully open fork by Vates, a French company | 14:32 |
| daftykins | i think it's really going places, some really exciting stuff coming - which admittedly seems to already be in place in stuff like Proxmox (specifically vTPM support) | 14:32 |
| daftykins | my main gripe is that if i use thin provisioned storage, in order to allow backups to be nice and quick, VHDs grow quite a lot from disk writes as there's no sort of trim mechanism to pass deletes through to the disk layer | 14:33 |
| daftykins | that'll change with a new storage API that's coming though | 14:33 |
| penguin42 | ah, yes I was chatting to someone from Vates the other day | 14:36 |
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| davef | bleh, it's only 6:30pm and it feels like it's 9:30pm. i wish we just kept daylight savings | 23:35 |
| daftykins | mmm the ol' dark by 5 sucks | 23:36 |
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