[00:29] <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] <davef> I really expected to have it at least two, maybe three times by now.
[00:37] <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
[00:40] <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)
[00:41] <penguin42> nod
[11:59] <diddledani> don't forget that masking isn't about protecting YOU, it's about protecting OTHERS FROM YOU
[12:10] <zxmpi> depends on the mask, but yeah
[13:20] <daftykins> morning campers
[13:20]  * penguin42 yawns
[13:21] <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
[13:22] <daftykins> D: was a 400 GB VHD -> 210 GB now
[13:29] <penguin42> I *think* qemu-img can do that disk convert
[13:31] <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
[13:32] <daftykins> i should probably treat myself to a larger mechanical disk for my office desktop in the upcoming sales
[13:35] <penguin42> so where do you run XCP-ng?
[13:36] <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
[13:37] <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
[13:42] <daftykins> i've got this thing on a 1TB M.2 PCIe SSD in there, it's running really nicely 
[13:51] <penguin42> good fast SSDs are nice; Sandybridge is a bit slow though
[13:52] <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
[13:53] <penguin42> nod
[14:11] <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
[14:12] <daftykins> their one doesn't seem to boost the CPU up to turbo clocks at all, which is a shame 
[14:28] <penguin42> check for any thermal/power limits set?
[14:29] <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
[14:30] <penguin42> how do you find xcp, I dont know any other users - it's basically the current commercial Xen isnt it?
[14:32] <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)
[14:33] <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
[14:36] <penguin42> ah, yes I was chatting to someone from Vates the other day
[23:35] <davef> bleh, it's only 6:30pm and it feels like it's 9:30pm. i wish we just kept daylight savings
[23:36] <daftykins> mmm the ol' dark by 5 sucks