#archiveteam-bs 2012-06-19,Tue

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02:50 🔗 shaqfu kennethre: Is it super-rare?
02:51 🔗 kennethre shaqfu: cost $40 bucks on ebay, so i hope not ;)
02:51 🔗 kennethre although most of them were like $90
02:52 🔗 shaqfu Really? I didn't think Game Boys went for that much
02:52 🔗 shaqfu Given how many are in the wild
02:52 🔗 kennethre http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gameboy-pocket-Grey-Edition-Boxed-/160814598439?pt=Video_Games&hash=item25714c0927
02:52 🔗 kennethre well it's a special one :P
02:52 🔗 shaqfu Ah, Japan-only
02:52 🔗 kennethre http://www.ebay.com/itm/NINTENDO-GAME-BOY-POCKET-GRAY-CONSOLE-SYSTEM-MGB-001-DOUBLE-DRAGON-/140756408133?pt=Video_Games&hash=item20c5bc5745#ht_3418wt_1064
02:52 🔗 kennethre i hope not
02:53 🔗 kennethre i think it was just the one
02:53 🔗 kennethre but maybe you're right :(
02:54 🔗 kennethre wow i didn't notice it was being shipped from japan
02:54 🔗 kennethre hope i don't have to pay import tax on that
02:55 🔗 kennethre hope the games aren't region locked
02:55 🔗 shaqfu I doubt it - cart-based games tend to be easy to get around
02:55 🔗 shaqfu e.g. SNES tab clipping
02:55 🔗 kennethre hah nice
02:55 🔗 shaqfu Alternatively, use a Game Genie
02:56 🔗 kennethre looks like it doesn't
02:56 🔗 kennethre the first DS wasn't even
02:56 🔗 kennethre i'm surprised
02:56 🔗 kennethre i guess it's mostly a NTST/PAL thing
02:56 🔗 shaqfu Yep
02:56 🔗 shaqfu Region-locking is relatively new
02:57 🔗 shaqfu I don't know of any pre-CD systems that did it
02:57 🔗 shaqfu The Saturn did
02:58 🔗 kennethre i'm thinking of using it with an lsdj
02:58 🔗 kennethre and an arduinoboy
02:58 🔗 kennethre do some chiptunes ;)
02:59 🔗 shaqfu Any special reason why the Pocket?
03:00 🔗 kennethre shaqfu: my first gameboy was the pocket :)
03:00 🔗 kennethre so purely nostalgia
03:00 🔗 shaqfu Gotcha. I wasn't sure if it had a special sound chip compared to standard
03:01 🔗 kennethre nah, they're mostly the same
03:01 🔗 kennethre though some people think the original one had better quality audio
03:01 🔗 kennethre you have to mod it to get a better headphone jack though to notice the different
03:01 🔗 kennethre people get really into this stuff, it's crazy ;)
03:02 🔗 shaqfu Hey, gotta have the finest synth sound possible ;)
03:33 🔗 Coderjoe my sister and I both had launch-era gameboys
03:33 🔗 Coderjoe screen problems and all
03:40 🔗 shaqfu Ouch; I'd hoped to grab all of Gutenberg's Kindle books, but didn't realize quite how many there were :(
03:42 🔗 shaqfu So much for fitting it in 16GB
03:44 🔗 dashcloud do you still have the launch-era gameboys?
03:46 🔗 dashcloud for anyone with the original Gameboy, here's a fascinating hack to add a backlight and fix the lines-on-the-screen problem: http://hackaday.com/2012/06/11/adding-a-backlight-to-the-ol-game-boy-brick/
04:31 🔗 Coderjoe i fear the day when myspace needs to be backed up
04:32 🔗 Coderjoe which I suspect will be in the next few years
04:32 🔗 Coderjoe ("myspace? who uses that anymore? everyone's on facebook now.")
04:34 🔗 Coderjoe underscor: you know what I would like to see? some information on the new petabox nodes, such as possibly who makes the case or whatever
04:37 🔗 Coderjoe since http://archive.org/web/petabox.php seems to be dead, and the only info brewster's shared there are general stats and a few pictures
04:57 🔗 DFJustin game boy doesn't have region protection, other cartridge systems do though e.g. pc engine / turbografx-16
04:59 🔗 DFJustin oh wow I didn't know you could fix the lines
04:59 🔗 Coderjoe and, iirc, the genesis did, but it was mostly just based on video format
05:17 🔗 shaqfu I wouldn't call PAL/NTSC region locking
05:19 🔗 shaqfu (It's still a huge pain in the ass - I almost imported Terranigma, but the cost of game+console+tv was too much)
08:37 🔗 Schbirid is there any software that i can easily use to scan static html files for spam?
08:38 🔗 Schbirid eg something like "grep -Rl spamdefinition file" that gives me a percentage or so
08:40 🔗 Schbirid spamassassin maybe
08:45 🔗 Schbirid damn it is slow
08:48 🔗 Schbirid add these to your config and you can scan any files nicely
08:48 🔗 Schbirid score MISSING_DATE 0
08:48 🔗 Schbirid score MISSING_FROM 0
08:48 🔗 Schbirid score MISSING_HEADERS 0
08:48 🔗 Schbirid score MISSING_SUBJECT 0
08:49 🔗 Schbirid takes several seconds per html file for me though...
09:19 🔗 Coderjoe not surprising. it is a gigantic perl beast with many regexes
09:19 🔗 Coderjoe and possibly other stuff like dns resolution for dnsbl stuff
09:34 🔗 Schbirid any good alternatives?
09:34 🔗 Schbirid i would like to scan all the forumplanet threads and remove the spam ones (from my mirror, not the archies)
09:50 🔗 Coderjoe not offhand
15:30 🔗 underscor Coderjoe: They're stock supermicro cases\
15:31 🔗 underscor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811152543 to be specific
15:31 🔗 underscor Then they're filled with (well, now they're from raped goflex units, because they're not rationed) 3TB Seagate drives
15:32 🔗 underscor Most have 96GB of RAM, but not necessarily
15:32 🔗 underscor It can vary from 16GB to 256GB
15:33 🔗 underscor Most are dual octocore xeons (I don't know the model number off the top of my head)
15:33 🔗 underscor but again, that varies
15:33 🔗 underscor There are a few quad octocore, and a few octo, quad, and dual
15:34 🔗 underscor Each rack has 10gbps internal and 10gbps external fabric
15:34 🔗 underscor spread across the 8 machines
15:34 🔗 underscor (all fiber)
15:34 🔗 underscor uhh, I think that's everything
21:16 🔗 Coderjoe so they use them as both storage and VM hosts, effectively rolling the old "storage node" and "power node" into one.
21:17 🔗 Coderjoe thanks. I thought the hotswap bays looked a bit like supermicro
21:19 🔗 Coderjoe huh
21:20 🔗 Coderjoe that's an interesting, but probably somewhat inconvenient, design.
21:20 🔗 Coderjoe make the mobo area only 2U and stuff another 12 hotswap bays in the back
21:25 🔗 underscor most of our racks are easily accessible from front and back though
21:25 🔗 underscor so it's not too bad
22:59 🔗 dashcloud holy shit- listening to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA , apparently Linus actually wrote machine code for several years because he didn't know any better

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