#archiveteam-bs 2012-07-01,Sun

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00:07 🔗 mistym Not sure why I enjoy watching wget grab a site.
00:13 🔗 shaqfu Watching the little bar go up?
00:20 🔗 Soojin it is the enjoyment of processing
00:23 🔗 BlueMax every time that bar goes up, that little bit of data comes down, and you know you have saved it from dying an early death
00:24 🔗 shaqfu You can be a rebel and use the alternate output graphs
00:35 🔗 mistym I should totally pipe the stdout into a script that feeds https://github.com/holman/spark or something
00:39 🔗 shaqfu There's probably some way to pipe stdout to a row of Christmas lights
00:39 🔗 shaqfu And you can watch the string light up as wget runs
00:57 🔗 underscor shaqfu: oh my god
00:57 🔗 underscor :D
00:57 🔗 underscor that's a great idea
00:57 🔗 underscor I'm doing that for the next grab
00:57 🔗 mistym shaqfu: That is brilliant
00:58 🔗 underscor http://www.geholidaylighting.com/holiday-lighting/led/color-effects
00:58 🔗 underscor Individually addressable/colorable lightbulbs
00:58 🔗 underscor My friend has a set
00:58 🔗 underscor there's an arduino code example thing floating around the net too
01:00 🔗 shaqfu Sigh; I was going to apply to jobs, but now I'm going to look up piping stdout to Christmas lights
01:01 🔗 Coderjoe http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/30/amazon_cloud_storm_outage/
01:01 🔗 Coderjoe so one of amazon's clowns stumbled in the dark last night
01:02 🔗 shaqfu Y'know
01:02 🔗 Coderjoe they apparently haven't heard of UPS and generator backup power
01:02 🔗 shaqfu Evernote announced that it's trying for 100 years of data storage, even in case of company failure
01:02 🔗 shaqfu As as soon as I get a little faith in cloud services, boom
01:02 🔗 shaqfu Literal clouds take out the virtual ones
01:05 🔗 Coderjoe brunswick bowling makes a lighting product for glowbowl use, where each narrow capping has "addressable" RGB light modules. each capping string connects to an under-approach control/power box
01:06 🔗 Coderjoe but the modules have no address settings, and just have a five-pin connector on each end, going to the next or previous module (except for the last in the chain, which is left unconnected on one side)
01:08 🔗 Coderjoe I don't know what protocol they use, though. when I was working in bowling, I took home one of the dead modules, though. I just never got around to really REing it
01:10 🔗 Coderjoe isn't this the second northern virginia clown outage in as many weeks?
01:12 🔗 Coderjoe June 15, iirc, caused by power issues yet again
01:12 🔗 shaqfu There was one "sorry, your passwords were in cleartext"
01:12 🔗 shaqfu Ah, yeah, AWS outage
01:12 🔗 Coderjoe I meant AWS N. VA clown stumble
01:12 🔗 shaqfu Spritzed too much seltzer into the servers
01:21 🔗 Coderjoe (moved from non-bs)
01:21 🔗 Coderjoe wait a minute
01:21 🔗 Coderjoe if (relatively) long wavelength EM passes bidirectionally, why can't you SEE through a stargate? light is just very high frequency EM
01:22 🔗 shaqfu Coderjoe: You'd have to ask RDA
01:23 🔗 shaqfu And blech; nothing like applying for a job that the last person quit due to sexual harassment issues
01:24 🔗 BlueMax shaqfu: use that fu of yours and kick balls if it happens
01:24 🔗 shaqfu BlueMax: Luckily, I'm a guy, so it won't be problematic
01:24 🔗 shaqfu But still awkward to know it happened
01:24 🔗 Coderjoe I would likely get the "William Shatner SNL sketch" response
01:25 🔗 shaqfu "Get a life"?
01:25 🔗 Coderjoe yes
01:27 🔗 shaqfu Hm, what's the limit on distance of microwave? Does it fade out, or is the curvature of the earth the problem?
01:30 🔗 Coderjoe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeS4tVFbNNk
01:48 🔗 underscor shaqfu: or just enjoy it
01:48 🔗 underscor <.<
01:48 🔗 underscor >.>
01:49 🔗 shaqfu :P
01:56 🔗 Coderjoe I wonder, does IA have any scans of player piano rolls?
02:02 🔗 underscor I don't believe so
02:03 🔗 shaqfu Do they scan well?
02:04 🔗 Coderjoe the reason I wonder is the uploader's description on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n73lXCzJUZ4
02:04 🔗 Coderjoe and one of the comments suggest there are digital scanners for handling them (though usually for reproducing them)
02:06 🔗 shaqfu Hm, that'd be neat. Scan sheets in, have software play it back
02:07 🔗 Coderjoe there are apparently different roll encodings, some of which include expression, some which don't
02:07 🔗 shaqfu (Sounds like the software from Dirk Gently)
02:16 🔗 Coderjoe so Michigan just had a law pass which allowed fireworks like firecrackers, bottle rockets, and consumer-grade mortars. the law also prohibited local governments from banning the use of them on the day before, of, and after serveral holidays.
02:17 🔗 Coderjoe some local governments near me recently banned use except for on those days.
02:17 🔗 Coderjoe I'm rather disappointed in those locales
02:17 🔗 Coderjoe if they had waited 6 months to a year, the novelty would have worn off, and they wouldn't have them going off at all hours of the night anymore
02:18 🔗 Coderjoe (I'm also disappointed in the people that were lighting them off so late (sometimes past 3am) that caused these laws to be drafted in the first place, but that is another matter)
02:18 🔗 shaqfu Or just make them legal year-round, so there's no novelty
02:19 🔗 Coderjoe they were legal year-round until the local govts clamped down
02:19 🔗 Coderjoe but there was novelty because they had been prohibited for a long time
02:19 🔗 shaqfu Ah
02:19 🔗 Coderjoe (and people would go down to indiana or indian reservations to get them)
02:23 🔗 lc2 whoops, /nicked on the wrong network
02:24 🔗 winr4r good morning, data superheroes
02:24 🔗 mistym Hooray, 8.5h later download done!
02:25 🔗 shaqfu \o/
02:27 🔗 mistym Still irked at Montreal Mirror for pulling their webpage the day they announced they were shutting down, but glad they weren't clever enough to take down the archive of past issues.
02:27 🔗 shaqfu Phew. I was wondering what happened to that
02:28 🔗 mistym Yeah.
02:28 🔗 mistym So, I got 1997 - 2010. 2011-2012 are MIA.
02:29 🔗 underscor do indian reservations not have laws?
02:29 🔗 shaqfu underscor: Different laws
02:30 🔗 shaqfu Have you ever heard of Indian casinos?
02:31 🔗 Coderjoe the state of michigan apparenly does not actually have any legal jurisdiction on indian reservations within the state of michigan
02:31 🔗 shaqfu Yep - they're semi-autonomous
02:32 🔗 shaqfu You can go there and gamble
02:32 🔗 shaqfu I think federal law applies, but not state
02:33 🔗 shaqfu No killing people on reservations, but gamble and shoot off fireworks all you want
02:44 🔗 underscor damn
02:44 🔗 underscor that's p cool
02:44 🔗 underscor shaqfu: As long as you're friends with the indians ;)
02:45 🔗 underscor On a side note, if anyone actually does want something from IA on a HD and mailed to them for whatever reason, as long as you're willing to pay shipping to your country, I can work that out.
02:45 🔗 Coderjoe i kinda would like my own drive back at some point
02:46 🔗 underscor (Looking at BlueMax specifically, but it applies to anyone within reason)
02:46 🔗 underscor Coderjoe: ?
02:46 🔗 * BlueMax looks away shyly
02:46 🔗 underscor lol
02:46 🔗 Coderjoe i mailed a usb 1tb drive to IA filled with friendster data, along with a return shipping label
02:47 🔗 Coderjoe well, s/mailed/shipped/
02:48 🔗 Coderjoe but apparently, the XFS file system has been blocking attempts to copy the data off, or something
02:48 🔗 underscor oh really
02:48 🔗 underscor Coderjoe: What's your name, I'll go look around in Jason's pile
02:48 🔗 underscor oh
02:48 🔗 underscor feel free to pm it
02:50 🔗 Coderjoe i'm afraid UPS has forgotten about the tracking number for the shipping label I included
02:55 🔗 underscor found it, I think
02:55 🔗 underscor 2.5" external?
02:55 🔗 mistym aw dang, totally uploaded Montreal Mirror without "archiveteam" in the item id
02:55 🔗 Coderjoe yes, with a label on it with my name and phone number
02:55 🔗 underscor hm, don't see that...
02:55 🔗 underscor oh, on the bottom!
02:55 🔗 underscor yep
02:55 🔗 underscor cool
02:56 🔗 Coderjoe a WD Elements SE
02:56 🔗 underscor yep
02:56 🔗 Coderjoe should also have the cable with it
02:56 🔗 underscor mhm
02:56 🔗 underscor and a UPS label
02:59 🔗 BlueMax lol
02:59 🔗 underscor Coderjoe: Uh oh. Hopefully these were uploaded somewhere else/differently
02:59 🔗 underscor -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 0 Aug 19 2011 friendster.000117000-000119999.tar.xz
02:59 🔗 underscor -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 0 Aug 19 2011 friendster.000310001-000320000.tar.xz
02:59 🔗 underscor -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 0 Aug 19 2011 friendster.003985001-004000000.tar.xz
02:59 🔗 underscor (all other files are ok/intact)
02:59 🔗 Coderjoe no, I fucked those up and was chronicaling my shame
03:00 🔗 Coderjoe look in the csv/sfv/whatever file I think I included
03:00 🔗 underscor there is no additional file
03:00 🔗 Coderjoe hmm
03:00 🔗 Coderjoe perhaps I only uploaded the file via rsync
03:00 🔗 underscor ah
03:00 🔗 * Coderjoe pokes around
03:02 🔗 Coderjoe I think the drive with that data is offline, and I'm about 10 miles away from it at the moment
03:02 🔗 underscor ah
03:02 🔗 underscor np
03:03 🔗 underscor man, it's nice to upload to fos at 14MBps
03:21 🔗 Coderjoe underscor: essentially, I was doing a multipart command and messed up, effectively overwriting the source files (by piping into them). >_<
03:22 🔗 underscor oic :(
03:22 🔗 Coderjoe (all because I wanted to use PV to show the progress of the transfers)
04:50 🔗 Coderjoe I wonder if anyone in the position of building servers has eyed the backblaze pod
04:50 🔗 Coderjoe (for IA, that is)
05:03 🔗 underscor we've talked about it
05:03 🔗 underscor but they're not as easily hotswap
05:04 🔗 underscor and also our datanodes have dual hex-core xeons with 192GB RAM
05:04 🔗 underscor so the motherboards are too big
05:05 🔗 Coderjoe they definitely don't do easy hotswap. and I think they only support ATX borads, not EATX. :-\
05:08 🔗 shaqfu 01:04 <@underscor> and also our datanodes have dual hex-core xeons with 192GB RAM
05:08 🔗 shaqfu Nice hardware porn
05:09 🔗 Coderjoe well, that's because they're not just datanodes anymore. they also run one or more VMs as well
05:10 🔗 shaqfu Hm? I thought most of IA nodes were just wads of storage
05:10 🔗 Coderjoe not on the beefy supermicro-cased nodes
05:11 🔗 Coderjoe the "thumper" red box ones with via processors were just storage
05:11 🔗 shaqfu Ah
05:11 🔗 Coderjoe with separate "power nodes" doing the heavy lifting
05:12 🔗 shaqfu I was about to say - I thought it was divided between nodes doing the "thinking" and nodes that just held data
05:12 🔗 shaqfu Glad to see I wasn't horribly far off
05:13 🔗 Coderjoe for instance, this one node I picked because it was in my browser history is hosting three vms
05:14 🔗 Coderjoe one of which is either the remnants of batcave or is fos
05:14 🔗 Coderjoe i think it might be the former
05:15 🔗 Coderjoe yeah, remnants of batcave
05:20 🔗 Coderjoe this other node is running one of the worker VMs
06:17 🔗 underscor We have nodes that are both data and workers
06:17 🔗 underscor and worker only nodes
06:17 🔗 underscor known as "kvmhosts" and "petaboxes", inverse respectively
06:20 🔗 underscor ia6002 - ia6008, ia6012 - ia6014 are currently datanodes; ia6000 ia6001 and ia6011 are kvmhosts and some other miscellany. oh, and ia7000 ia7001 are also kvmhosts
06:20 🔗 underscor everything else is paired storage
06:34 🔗 Coderjoe however, the "worker" role is still performed in a VM
06:37 🔗 underscor yeah, no derive work is run on bare metal any more
08:54 🔗 Coderjoe http://wegetsignal.org/tmp/lettertoeditor_20120628.png
09:16 🔗 underscor Coderjoe: ...
09:34 🔗 Coderjoe yeah... for the fireworks part, there was a non-covert financial motive: sales tax income.
09:34 🔗 Coderjoe but I love the first paragraph
09:34 🔗 Coderjoe we should ban his car, then.
10:11 🔗 godane is it normal to feel like a jurk if your not uploading to archive.org?
10:12 🔗 godane i have a ton of 3d world shareware discs i have to upload
10:12 🔗 godane using ftp to know how long it will be
10:56 🔗 omf_ I feel a little bad that I do not upload but my connection is slow
10:57 🔗 omf_ I have been looking into if the archive can just fetch things directly and how that process works.
11:02 🔗 godane i have a slow connection too
11:02 🔗 godane its only around 250 kbytes
11:08 🔗 godane uploaded: http://archive.org/details/cdrom-3d-world-134
11:10 🔗 * winr4r cheers
11:16 🔗 godane uploading 3d world 136
11:16 🔗 SmileyG_ \o/
11:17 🔗 godane the cdrom
11:17 🔗 godane not the issue
11:36 🔗 godane found COTS Journal
11:36 🔗 godane newsnet is amazing
11:36 🔗 godane when you can't find something
12:20 🔗 godane uploaded: http://archive.org/details/cdrom-3d-world-136
14:03 🔗 godane uploaded: http://archive.org/details/cdrom-3d-world-137
14:05 🔗 winr4r you're busy!
14:07 🔗 godane uploading 3d world cd 112
14:09 🔗 godane i have uploaded over 14gb of 3d world cds
14:09 🔗 godane :-D
14:21 🔗 winr4r :D
14:24 🔗 SmileyG_ :)
14:49 🔗 godane uploaded: http://archive.org/details/cdrom-3d-world-112
15:21 🔗 SmileyG :)))
17:00 🔗 omf_ I was thinking of renting a remote box for doing uploads and transfers. Anyone have experience with this for uploading to ia?
17:00 🔗 omf_ Most of what I am backing up I can ftp from other sites. IA does not have FXP as far as I know so this would be a replacement for that
17:05 🔗 DoubleJ Well, I guess I know why both my Ubuntu boxes were completely wedged last night. Apparently Ubuntu's codebase goes something like if (seconds > 59) { kernel->shitYourself(); }
17:06 🔗 ersi It's not Ubuntu's fault mate.
17:06 🔗 ersi But yeah, that leap second sure did some fucked up shit to a lot of systems
17:06 🔗 ersi Nice kernel lockup
17:07 🔗 DoubleJ Yeah, it seems to actually be kernel level, not OS level.
17:07 🔗 joepie91 DoubleJ: the issue is apparently with ntpd
17:07 🔗 ersi and sure, I guess one could argue that the kernel team should've noticed and fixed it prior to that, but yeah - AFAIK it might be ntpd that the fault really is at
17:07 🔗 ersi damn joepie91, shooting in a quickie like that :)
17:08 🔗 DoubleJ I've seen it described as a livelock, which I had to google up to see what they were talking about.
17:08 🔗 DoubleJ So NTPD feeds the system something it doesn't expect and it chases its own tail trying to fix it.
17:08 🔗 DoubleJ Since NTPD doesn't have much choice in the matter -- leap seconds happen -- I'm going to blame the kernel :)
17:09 🔗 joepie91 ersi: :D
17:09 🔗 joepie91 let me pull up the thread that discussed the issue
17:09 🔗 joepie91 one moment
17:10 🔗 DoubleJ joepie91: If it can describe the problem in something resembling plain English I'll be much obliged.
17:10 🔗 joepie91 This is caused by a livelock when ntpd calls adjtimex(2) to tell the kernel to insert a leap second. See lkml posting http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1203.1/04598.html
17:10 🔗 joepie91 http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-during-a-leap-second
17:10 🔗 joepie91 it's a SA site, so should be a clear enough answer :)
17:10 🔗 joepie91 er
17:10 🔗 joepie91 SO*
17:10 🔗 joepie91 ..
17:10 🔗 joepie91 SE*
17:10 🔗 joepie91 wow, I'm having some issues with abbreviations today it seems
17:11 🔗 ersi yuppers
17:16 🔗 DoubleJ So it wasn't the leap second itself that made it lose its mind; it was the warning that one was coming up.
17:17 🔗 DoubleJ Now I just have to remember to upgrade (and thus get a non-mind-losing kernel) before we have another one.
17:17 🔗 DoubleJ Or not be archiving when it happens, since systems under load seem to have been the most vulnerable.
18:47 🔗 chronomex Well the next leap second is probably a year or more away
18:47 🔗 chronomex unless the fuckers at the ITU decide to do away with it
18:48 🔗 chronomex So you've some time to spare :)
19:21 🔗 shaqfu It's a good fire drill for when the world blows up in 2032
19:21 🔗 shaqfu Er, 2038
19:53 🔗 SmileyG Oh, has that been rescheduled again?
22:48 🔗 DFJustin I want to stream this but there's no derivatives :( http://archive.org/details/tmp_nc_617_netc
22:56 🔗 SketchCow I just rana re-derive but I think there's a better version in there.
23:53 🔗 chronomex http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWjCkcAmzDc
23:54 🔗 chronomex I wonder if any other episodes ever made it out ...
23:54 🔗 shaqfu chronomex: I think that was the only one broadcast; dunno how many others were shot
23:54 🔗 chronomex Only the pilot was ever screened, although eight episodes were planned and a number were recorded in which a story arc was about Adolf and Eva's attempt to kill the Goldensteins without the Goldensteins knowing it's Adolf and Eva.
23:55 🔗 shaqfu Ah (I really need to stop Chrome from crashing)
23:55 🔗 shaqfu At this point, they were probably shot over
23:55 🔗 chronomex that's ok, I'm happy to paste wikipedia into irc
23:55 🔗 chronomex that was 1990, not 1970...

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