#rhlug for 2009-06

01 11:47:00 aricofdacia Hey. I'm having a newly developed problem with Thunderbird. It will not send emails. Keeps saying it is not connecting to the SMTP server in the exchange. Checked my settings on the RHLUG site and only seems to have developed since I got home. Any help?

01 11:48:00 aricofdacia I can still receive but not send. I am running Ubuntu J J 9.04 X64

01 12:11:00 tommost What version of Thunderbird would that be?

01 12:12:00 tommost I have 2.0.0.21 and no problems.

01 12:12:00 tommost It's possible your ISP is blocking your access to external SMTP servers; some do so that spam zombies can't send e-mail.

01 12:23:00 aricofdacia i have the same version. so if it is my ISP, how do I get around it?

01 12:24:00 tommost VPNing into Rose would probably be the easiest way.

01 12:24:00 tommost Assuming you already have that set up.

01 12:24:00 tommost Otherwise you could do SSH port forwarding.

01 12:25:00 aricofdacia ok. thanks.

01 18:54:00 Morasique http://revver.com/video/116805/csi-spoof-for-linux/

02 17:10:00 andy753421 apparently the UPS doesn't turn on after the power comes back..

02 17:10:00 andy753421 seems like that would be a problem

02 17:11:00 Morasique :D

02 17:15:00 Morasique andy753421: can you start bitlbee? it doesn't start by default apparently

02 17:16:00 andy753421 alright, it does now

02 17:16:00 Morasique thanks

02 17:44:00 Morasique it took me way too long to find 'equery u'

02 23:36:00 andy753421 this look nifty: http://www.limofoundation.org/

03 21:22:00 Morasique i don't know if this is well known, but apparently you can do 'vim +n filename' to start on line n. that's cool

03 21:24:00 tommost Nifty.

04 12:57:00 Morasique ok, way cooler: 'vim +/pattern filename' will start on the first line that matches 'pattern'

04 12:57:00 Morasique emacs should steal that

04 12:59:00 chtr switch to vim.

04 13:02:00 Morasique i don't know if it's quite that useful of a feature

04 13:02:00 chtr i'd like to be able to type in 20 years, so i guess that's why i use vim

04 13:03:00 Morasique yes, yes

04 14:06:00 crr I can supply reasons why vi is better as well, if needed

04 17:12:00 Morasique http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SigWik

04 19:30:00 kleinjt Morasique: everyone cool is at robotics

04 19:31:00 Morasique disproof: i am not at robotics

04 19:32:00 kleinjt s/dif//

04 19:32:00 Morasique if anything that would make less sense

04 19:42:00 kleinjt s/less//

04 19:59:00 kleinjt .o urban bork

04 19:59:00 kleinjt blast

04 22:16:00 Morasique this is in the insert_bookmark script for uzbl: echo "$entry" >/dev/null #for some reason we need this.. don't ask me why

04 22:16:00 Morasique ...

04 23:14:00 Morasique i should probably not be an op anymore, since i don't think i'm technically in lug anymore

04 23:14:00 Morasique lug alumnus?

04 23:14:00 Morasique lug emeritus! i'm for that

05 08:03:00 crr Morasique: at least half of the people in this room already graduated

05 10:53:00 Morasique hmm. that's kind of depressing

05 21:44:00 dpick So I decided to give arch a try

05 21:44:00 dpick but I can't seem to get the keyboard and mouse to work with X

05 21:44:00 dpick anybody run into that before?

05 21:45:00 Morasique i zoned out at the first mention of arch

05 21:45:00 chtr is hal involved?

05 21:45:00 tommost Blazeix is the arch guy in LUG.

05 21:46:00 tommost Though he graduated.

05 21:46:00 dpick well I tried gentoo first, but I couldn't get X to work at all

05 21:46:00 Morasique T_T

05 21:46:00 Morasique default X conf?

05 21:46:00 dpick yeah

05 21:47:00 dpick he maybe I should just stick with ubuntu

05 21:47:00 Morasique gasps

05 21:47:00 Morasique chtr: do something!

05 21:47:00 chtr you could always upgrade to gentoo

05 21:47:00 Morasique you don't read very carefully, do you?

05 21:47:00 chtr Morasique: don't worry, i'm on it

05 21:48:00 Morasique "[01:46] < dpick> well I tried gentoo first, but I couldn't get X to work at all"

05 21:48:00 chtr dpick: when you tried gentoo, did you compile xorg-server with the hal USE flag?

05 21:48:00 tommost dpick: Try Debian.  Once you get the CD burned it's easy.

05 21:49:00 dpick chtr: nope

05 21:49:00 chtr good call

05 21:49:00 Morasique tommost can lend you one in four or five days

05 21:49:00 Morasique is synaptic a separate install?

05 21:49:00 Morasique it's been too long

05 21:50:00 tommost I can give you one now if you don't require a functional one.

05 21:50:00 Morasique i have x11-drivers/synaptics installed; i don't know if that's required or not

05 21:50:00 dpick tommost: I usual like functional things

05 21:50:00 dpick usually

05 21:51:00 Morasique dpick: can you pastebin your xorg.conf?

05 21:52:00 dpick Morasique: the arch one?

05 21:52:00 Morasique sure? whichever one isn't working

05 21:52:00 Morasique i think i used the same one in ubuntu and gentoo

05 21:52:00 dpick hmm let me see if I can get ssh running on the box

05 21:53:00 Morasique you can do it through nc if you have it

05 21:53:00 Morasique probably not if you're missing ssh though

05 21:54:00 dpick yeah I don't have much, though you would think ssh would be in the base install :P

05 21:54:00 Morasique there isn't much in the base install

05 21:54:00 Morasique intentionally

05 22:05:00 dpick *sigh* at least on gentoo I had ssh, now when I try to connect it just says "Server unexpectedly closed network connection"

05 22:05:00 Morasique so it'd be safe to say you find gentoo superior to arch?

05 22:05:00 Morasique :)

05 22:06:00 dpick haha well I did in the first place

05 22:06:00 dpick I just gave up after a few days

05 22:06:00 Morasique Blazeix: SUCK ON THAT

05 22:06:00 Morasique dpick: scp?

05 22:06:00 dpick Morasique: let me give it a try

05 22:08:00 tommost scp uses ssh...

05 22:08:00 chtr rcp

05 22:09:00 dpick haha yeah figured that out

05 22:12:00 Morasique tommost: yeah, but it doesn't go through a whole login like the ssh client does, so it might not fail

05 22:13:00 dpick Morasique: it did

05 22:13:00 Morasique tommost: ignore him

05 22:17:00 dpick hmm could i post it from links?

05 22:18:00 Morasique possibly. at this point you could've manually typed every line onto irc

05 22:18:00 dpick yeah probably

05 22:18:00 Morasique what inputdevices are in it?

05 22:18:00 Morasique that's all that really matters

05 22:19:00 dpick Keyboard0 and Mouse0

05 22:19:00 dpick driver for keyboard is kbd

05 22:20:00 dpick driver for mouse is mouse, protocol is auto, device is /dev/input/mice

05 22:26:00 dpick eh I'll just deal with it tomorrow

05 22:32:00 Morasique i just realized from reading the logs that chtr mentioned ii over a year ago; i just rediscovered it when somebody mentioned it in #uzbl

05 22:33:00 chtr chtr is a precursor of all things

05 22:35:00 Morasique it's really handy for certain things; particularly one-way bots that just write information to irc

05 22:38:00 tommost So it's sort of like an anti-sic.  Because sic is only useful for bots that do nothing but record information from IRC.

05 22:39:00 Morasique it'd be good for read-only bots too i suppose; it's just not very flexible when it comes to responding to users, you might as well just use a framework at that point

05 22:43:00 tommost Twisted... heh heh heh.

09 13:00:00 octavious has anyone messed with OpenVZ?

09 13:00:00 octavious it looks interesting, the more I look into it..

09 13:07:00 Morasique octavious: it looks cool, but i don't have a need for it

09 13:09:00 octavious Morasique: yeah, I am kind of in the same boat. I dont want to start using it just because I thought it was interesting (like the pain of trying lvms on my laptop!)

09 13:37:00 octavious hmm. everytime i look at Arch linux it looks more appealing, especially for my eeepc

09 13:45:00 chtr nonsense, just carry aroud three or four fast laptops in your backpack running distcc for when you need to compile something for the eee on the fly

09 13:47:00 octavious or maybe distcc via ssh tunnel ?

09 13:47:00 octavious that seems like a more reasonable solution :)

09 13:48:00 octavious you in texas yet?

09 18:01:00 Morasique i asked about this a few months ago and then forgot for a while, as i'm known to do. anybody opposed to group registering with freenode? it prevents (for example) the red hat linux users group from registering and evicting us if they decide they want #rhlug, and it lets us have group cloaks, which are always fun

09 18:09:00 crr are there any disadvantages?

09 18:13:00 chtr i thought we had tried registering....

09 18:14:00 Morasique chtr: not that i've ever heard, but maybe a long time ago. what happened?

09 18:14:00 Morasique crr: not that i know of. http://freenode.net/group_registration.shtml

09 18:14:00 chtr i thought someone tried and no one got back to them; a grep of the logs should prove me wrong

09 18:15:00 chtr but yeah, i'm not opposed obviously

09 18:15:00 crr sounds like a good idea to me

09 18:17:00 Morasique i just realized i never got my lug t-shirt

09 18:17:00 Morasique glares at tommost

09 18:25:00 tommost Nobody has ever gotten back to me about registering #rhrt.  I've tried twice now.

09 18:26:00 chtr oh, maybe that's what i'm remembering

09 18:26:00 tommost I thought that andy had registered this channel, though, since he can set people to autoop.

09 18:30:00 Morasique tommost: there's a difference between registering the channel and registering the group

09 18:30:00 Morasique also, good job leaving

09 18:30:00 Morasique killer_robot: ^

09 20:59:00 Morasique 221.5.250.94 has been trying to break into my computer for 35 minutes

09 20:59:00 Morasique i'd appreciate if he/she/they would stop

09 22:04:00 Morasique oh, very cool. git add -i lets you commit certain parts of a file while leaving other parts uncommitted

10 09:09:00 tommost_lug I've wished svn let you do that for a long time.

10 17:32:00 andy753421 i gave a key for the lug server to dr. mellor

10 17:32:00 andy753421 someone who's on campus this summer should pick that up

10 17:53:00 Morasique tommost_lug: it never even occurred to me before, and now i don't understand why every vcs doesn't have it

11 13:14:00 Morasique i recommend denyhosts ( http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ ) if your machine is ssh-able from the internet. i installed it a few days ago; it's adding three or four new IPs every day

11 15:01:00 andy753421 so how do you folks synchronize home directories across multiple computers?

11 15:03:00 Morasique i think version control is popular

11 15:03:00 Morasique i just don't; the few files i care about (like .zshrc) are different on each machine based on what i use it for

11 15:04:00 andy753421 my home directory is fairly large, so version control seems silly

11 15:09:00 kleinjt_ matlab's object oriented programming is easy and fun

11 15:13:00 kleinjt_ I bet it would be great for version control software

11 15:13:00 andy753421 kleinjt_: what have they done to you?

11 16:16:00 Morasique it's the matlab virus. i've seen this before

11 16:17:00 Morasique it'd be fairly clever for a company to release a virus that sends out irc messages praising its products

11 16:33:00 ZetaSyanthis does anyone know of a good nas distro that has an svn server?

11 16:34:00 ZetaSyanthis the last part there is the kicker

11 16:34:00 ZetaSyanthis else I'd be all over freenas

11 16:38:00 Morasique what os a mas dostrp

11 16:38:00 Morasique wow. i fail

11 16:38:00 Morasique i leave it to you good people to translate that to english

11 16:46:00 ZetaSyanthis Morasique: Thanks, povilus.

11 16:47:00 Morasique what is a nas distro?

11 16:47:00 ZetaSyanthis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS

11 16:48:00 ZetaSyanthis basically, I wish that had svn

11 16:48:00 Morasique can't you just set up a normal server to do that

11 16:48:00 Morasique ?

11 16:48:00 ZetaSyanthis yeah, that may be what ends up happening

11 16:49:00 ZetaSyanthis but freenas is set up to work of a flash drive already

11 16:49:00 ZetaSyanthis + has an awesome web interface

11 16:49:00 ZetaSyanthis the gui is based off m0n0wall

11 16:50:00 Morasique interesting name

11 20:46:00 Morasique git is telling me it can't do something i personally witnessed it do yesterday

11 20:47:00 Morasique i hate this program

11 20:54:00 ZetaSyanthis I don't suppose anyone knows how stable the zfs support is for freenas?

11 20:55:00 ZetaSyanthis yeah, I should be in #rhbsd, but stfu

12 19:34:00 ZetaSyanthis I don't suppose anyone would know how to install svn on freenas?

12 19:35:00 ZetaSyanthis It sort of pains me, but I may end up running freenas in a virtual machine at this rate

12 19:37:00 ZetaSyanthis the web interface is simply too nice to waste

12 19:38:00 Morasique you're really hooked on this web interface

12 19:38:00 Morasique put ssh on a server. done

12 19:39:00 ZetaSyanthis well, it obscures the nasty lowlevel drive manipulation stuffs

12 19:39:00 ZetaSyanthis 0.7 supports ZFS too

12 19:39:00 Morasique you should switch to mac os; it does the same

12 19:40:00 ZetaSyanthis (0.7 is currently the nightly build, not fully out yet)

12 19:40:00 chtr i advise against using ZFS

12 19:40:00 ZetaSyanthis chtr: any particular reason?  I was planning on straight raid 5 anyways

12 19:40:00 ZetaSyanthis mostly just curious

12 19:40:00 chtr if you ever decide to migrate to linux, you're going to be in a world of pain

12 19:40:00 chtr believe me, i did the migration last summer

12 19:41:00 ZetaSyanthis well, this is the server box I'm building

12 19:41:00 ZetaSyanthis I intend for it to not do much besides sit there and be happy

12 19:42:00 ZetaSyanthis I'm a bit sad I have to use that crazy awesome mobo to get enough ports though

12 19:43:00 ZetaSyanthis I basically decided against zfs since I'll never be upgrading the number of drives in that system, as the case can't fit any more even if I wanted.

12 19:51:00 ZetaSyanthis does anyone have a recommendation for a linux-based NAS distro?

12 19:54:00 chtr gentoo

12 19:55:00 chtr i mean, really, what do you want out of it?

12 19:55:00 chtr what defines a ``NAS distro''?

12 19:57:00 ZetaSyanthis I was hoping for something with a nice web interface like freeNAS, but I think I'm going to have to give up on that

12 19:57:00 ZetaSyanthis And I never seem to do well with gentoo

12 19:57:00 ZetaSyanthis that always ends in frustration

12 19:58:00 ZetaSyanthis The main thing is that I want to run it off a flash drive, which complicates matters

12 19:59:00 ZetaSyanthis so, flash drive for boot, ram drive for operation, 4 disk raid 5, and drivers that support this:

12 19:59:00 ZetaSyanthis http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500030

12 20:00:00 ZetaSyanthis I'd just toss arch at the thing, but I don't know how to configure it to boot into a ramdisk and not demolish the flash

12 23:43:00 Morasique http://rhlug.pastebin.com/m51315514

12 23:43:00 Morasique i do so love this language

12 23:43:00 Morasique error: the variable in this abstract class that *can't ever be instantiated* may not have been initialized

12 23:44:00 Morasique thank you java. glad you caught that

14 15:30:00 Morasique forget emacs-pinky, i think i'm getting awesome-thumb. it's annoying trying to get to the one super key on my laptop's keyboard

14 15:31:00 tommost_lug Yeah, same here.

14 15:51:00 andy753421 what does awesome use super for?

14 15:51:00 andy753421 (also, that sentence sounded really lame)

14 15:56:00 Morasique andy753421: pretty much everything

14 15:57:00 andy753421 remap it to alt?

14 15:57:00 Morasique i use alt for other things though

14 15:57:00 andy753421 which do you use more?

14 15:58:00 Morasique all applications use alt, if i rebind awesome to use alt all the sudden alt+half the letters do window manager stuff and don't work in applications anymore

14 15:58:00 andy753421 meh, i use alt for wm stuff and don't have a problem

14 15:58:00 Morasique i could manually switch alt and win in xmodmap i suppose

14 16:01:00 chtr i only use alt in my wm...

14 16:29:00 tommost_lug I use alt pretty frequently.  To switch tabs in gnome-terminal, channels in irssi, etc.

14 16:30:00 Morasique i don't really pay attention to when i use it, i just assumed probably i do

14 16:30:00 tommost_lug Also tabs in Firefox sometimes.

14 16:31:00 tommost_lug And Alt-P to activate zsh's completion for partially typed commands.

15 15:06:00 Morasique this looks interesting: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4426006481.html

15 15:07:00 Morasique not all the compiz stuff, but just the multitouch itself

15 15:08:00 chtr dbus and compiz, sounds like something i'd love

15 15:09:00 chtr that is cool though

15 15:09:00 chtr are there any tablets with multitouch yet?

15 16:42:00 Morasique somebody should figure out a way that i can hit a hotkey and have my two screens switch. i just want all the tags on screen 1 to go to screen 2 and vice versa

15 16:42:00 Morasique i tried literally doing that and bad things happened

16 10:49:00 Morasique freenode. his nick is parajulik

16 10:49:00 Morasique shit

16 21:41:00 Morasique this is strangely entertainig: while [ 1 ]; do urxvt -bg $(($RANDOM % 16)); sleep 1; done

16 21:42:00 Morasique s/ig/ing/

16 21:44:00 andy753421 s/while.*;/while true/

16 21:44:00 andy753421 er, [^;]*

16 21:45:00 andy753421 s/while \zs.\{-}/true/

16 21:45:00 andy753421 s/while \zs.\{-};/true/

16 21:45:00 andy753421 s/while \zs.\{-}\ze;/true/

16 21:45:00 andy753421 there we go

16 21:48:00 Morasique i no longer have any idea what you said, but i'll go with it

16 21:48:00 Morasique i thought i tried while true, but maybe not

16 21:49:00 Morasique oh yeah, that does work. no idea what i typed the first time

16 21:49:00 andy753421 in other news, can you capture output from a background process?

16 21:50:00 Morasique you mean besides directing it into a file?

16 21:50:00 Morasique (command > /tmp/log) & captures it

16 21:50:00 andy753421 yea, i'm thinking like `foo=$(sleep 10 && echo hello) &'

16 21:51:00 Morasique i don't think so. it would have to block so it could set foo or you'd have a race condition trying to access $foo later

16 21:53:00 andy753421 you would have to call wait

16 21:54:00 Morasique cool, i didn't know about that. i don't think there's a thing for it though. you could fake it with fn=`mktemp`; command > $fn &; ...; wait num; foo="`cat $fn`"

16 21:55:00 andy753421 i'm wondering if I can do it with exec

16 22:01:00 andy753421 this script is going to be awesome

16 22:11:00 andy753421 I don't think shell is the right language for this :(

16 22:40:00 Morasique this is a cool example of what zsh prompts can do, even if it's a bit involved: http://aperiodic.net/phil/prompt/

17 07:01:00 andy753421 tommost_lug: you should hack {{guide:box}} on the wiki so that when you have a title and body, the body shows up with an expand/collapse dealy so it doesn't take as much space by default

17 07:29:00 andy753421 Boo wikimedia and it's strange unknown methods of caching ages

17 07:29:00 andy753421 *pages

19 10:34:00 Morasique i'm not sure who runs the website these days, but we might want to switch the web client at http://lug.rose-hulman.edu/irc/client/ to an embedded version of this one:  http://webchat.freenode.net/

19 19:23:00 Morasique this happens when i run lc on the lug server: /usr/lib/plan9/bin/9: line 17: exec: mc: not found

19 19:23:00 Morasique oh, my bad, my lc=wc -l alias was missing. i have no idea what that error is talking about though

23 16:50:00 Zeta_Mobile Has anyone used portable linux before?

23 16:50:00 Zeta_Mobile looking specifically at ubuntu, but curious in general

23 18:52:00 tommost Has anyone here every worked with Linux on tablet PCs?

23 18:53:00 ZetaSyanthis baty has ubuntu on his, I tihnk

23 18:53:00 ZetaSyanthis or did

23 18:53:00 ZetaSyanthis *think

23 18:53:00 tommost Did he have any trouble with it?

23 18:53:00 ZetaSyanthis wasn't bad from what I remember

23 18:53:00 tommost Hmmm...

23 18:53:00 ZetaSyanthis this was two years ago, so I don't really recall details

23 18:54:00 tommost I'm trying to get the digitizer and touch screen working on a Motion Computing LE1600.  It's hell.

23 18:55:00 ZetaSyanthis hmm, not having much luck with persistent linux on a flashdrive yet

23 18:55:00 ZetaSyanthis ubuntu.com's guide failed, as did portablelinux

23 18:55:00 tommost Did you try it with the utility bundled with the latest Ubuntu?

23 18:55:00 ZetaSyanthis trying pendrivelinux now, but it requested the 32-bit iso, so I'm not sure how it's going to react

23 18:56:00 ZetaSyanthis is that a persistent install?

23 18:56:00 ZetaSyanthis or just a livecd style one

23 18:56:00 tommost Uh... I don't know.

23 18:56:00 ZetaSyanthis I'm trying to get a nice persistent install that runs in a ramdisk on boot and then saves at shutdown

23 18:56:00 ZetaSyanthis So far I've been lied to repeatedly about it working

23 18:57:00 tommost Gentoo is pretty easy to get working like that, I believe.

23 18:57:00 tommost Well, if you know Gentoo.

23 18:57:00 ZetaSyanthis heh

23 18:57:00 ZetaSyanthis not so much

23 18:58:00 ZetaSyanthis I tried 3 times and failed in a different way each time

23 18:58:00 ZetaSyanthis since this is going to be my nas, it needs to be a bit more stable

23 18:58:00 ZetaSyanthis (and I need to be able to service it)

23 18:59:00 tommost chtr, Andy and I had a hell of a time getting Debian to install to a flash disk, much less do what you're asking for.

23 18:59:00 tommost The Debian installer's entirely centered around a hard disk install.

23 18:59:00 tommost So I don't recommend that.

23 19:00:00 ZetaSyanthis yeah...

23 19:00:00 ZetaSyanthis I started on debian and then moved to ubuntu

23 19:00:00 ZetaSyanthis I currently run arch on my laptop, but tbh it doesn't really matter what distro, as I basically browse and run fluxbox on it

23 19:28:00 chtr i run gentoo on my file server, it works fine

23 19:28:00 chtr there's nothing at all unstable about it if you don't go blindly emerging world every night

23 19:29:00 Zeta_Mobile well, it's more of a "don't want to risk all my data with something I don't know well" thing

23 19:29:00 Zeta_Mobile either way, I found a way to do it

23 19:29:00 tommost How so?

23 19:29:00 Zeta_Mobile Assuming it doesn't die halfway through somehow

23 19:29:00 Zeta_Mobile usb-creator

23 19:30:00 chtr md won't go nuts and mess with your data just because it sees that it's running on gentoo

23 19:30:00 Zeta_Mobile usb-creator is now on ubuntu live cds, which is sweet

23 19:30:00 Zeta_Mobile I was trying some other tools because I didn't know about it

23 19:30:00 tommost Ah, yeah, that's what I was talking about, I think.

23 19:30:00 tommost In System Tools, IIRC?

23 19:31:00 Zeta_Mobile system -> administration

23 19:31:00 tommost T_T I've been using Windows all day...

23 19:31:00 Zeta_Mobile and it is a persistent install

23 19:32:00 Zeta_Mobile tommost: how unfortunate

23 20:00:00 Zeta_Mobile hmm, the usb-creator one drops me to initramfs prompt

23 20:00:00 Zeta_Mobile that's not quite what I was going for

23 20:02:00 chtr shudders at the mention of initramfs

23 20:02:00 Zeta_Mobile yeah, like I said... didn't want that so much

23 20:21:00 Zeta_Mobile by the time I figure this out, I'll have burned through every write cycle this card has anyways

24 05:36:00 aricofdacia Reminder please, where do I find the default program configuration file in Ubuntu 9.04 X64?

24 05:38:00 tommost_lug aricofdacia: Not sure what you mean by that.

26 17:34:00 tommost I don't understand it; every time I boot my desktop the up arrow on my keyboard is mapped to taking a screenshot.

26 17:34:00 Morasique you're bad at computers?

26 17:35:00 Morasique it's ok, you can hang out with my parents and some civils and talk about how confusing they are

26 17:41:00 tommost Well, this channel is helpful.

26 17:42:00 tommost xmodmap says:

26 17:42:00 tommost keycode 111 = Up NoSymbol Up NoSymbol Up

26 17:44:00 tommost I'd think someone would be bad mouthing Ubuntu or Gnome about now.

26 17:44:00 tommost I guess I underestimated this channel.

26 17:46:00 Morasique does that have anything to do with ubuntu or gnome?

26 17:48:00 tommost I have no idea.  I'd merely expect you guys to leap to that conclusion.

26 17:48:00 tommost I suspect Gnome myself.

27 17:02:00 ZetaSyanthis anyone familiar with mdadm?

27 17:02:00 ZetaSyanthis I have a 4 disk raid 5 array and it doesn't want to re-assemble it with all 4 drives

27 17:02:00 ZetaSyanthis it recognizes it should have a fourth, but just doesn't use it

27 17:07:00 ZetaSyanthis nm, reboot fixed it somehow

27 17:45:00 ZetaSyanthis note to self, use midnight commander more often

27 17:46:00 ZetaSyanthis it's a) console based, b) has a progress bar, c) will let you set it such that it won't replace files of the same size but will recurse fully during a directory copy

27 17:47:00 ZetaSyanthis nautilus's copy crashed on me half-way through my 850GB dir and apparently copied totally random files/folder

27 17:47:00 ZetaSyanthis *folders

27 17:47:00 ZetaSyanthis mc++

27 17:47:00 chtr uh, if you're copying that much data, i would seriously consider using rsync

27 17:48:00 ZetaSyanthis is rsynch not for copying between machines?

27 17:48:00 ZetaSyanthis because the other machine only has a windows network share atm

27 17:48:00 ZetaSyanthis it's baty's unraid box

27 17:49:00 ZetaSyanthis this is a one-time copy, in any case

27 17:49:00 ZetaSyanthis my stuff back off his raid, onto mine

27 17:50:00 chtr it works on the same machine too

27 17:50:00 ZetaSyanthis what benefit would it have for me atm?

27 17:50:00 chtr if you kill it, you can resume in a sane way

27 17:51:00 ZetaSyanthis Same with mc... it goes through and checks filesizes and other file attributes and ignores ones that are the same during the copy

27 17:51:00 chtr i'd trust rsync more than mc.  but that's just me.

27 17:52:00 chtr especially since it verifies content, not just filesize and attributes

27 17:52:00 ZetaSyanthis well, my data will be staying on baty's server for a while just in case

27 17:52:00 ZetaSyanthis interesting

27 17:53:00 ZetaSyanthis any chance you know what the command would be to transfer without overwriting, or is that default in rsync

27 17:54:00 chtr that's the default

27 17:54:00 chtr you might want to peruse the man page regardless

27 17:54:00 chtr it does funkiness depending on trailing slashes which is really annoying

27 17:55:00 ZetaSyanthis um, some detail there would be nice

27 17:55:00 chtr hm?

27 17:57:00 ZetaSyanthis funkiness depending on trailing slashes

27 17:57:00 ZetaSyanthis I have no idea what you mean

27 17:57:00 chtr it's in the man page, i don't remember the details

27 17:58:00 ZetaSyanthis rgr

27 18:01:00 ZetaSyanthis chtr++;

27 18:01:00 ZetaSyanthis thank you for reminding me of the awesomeness of rsync

27 18:01:00 chtr yep, it's rather nice.  glad i could help

27 18:01:00 ZetaSyanthis now if baty's server would transfer faster than 6.3MB/s

27 18:02:00 ZetaSyanthis that would really be nice

27 18:02:00 ZetaSyanthis software raid + pci sata card + athlon 2000+ + pci ethernet card

27 18:02:00 ZetaSyanthis = fail

27 18:02:00 chtr 100Mb/s ethernet?

27 18:02:00 ZetaSyanthis no, it's gigabit

27 18:03:00 ZetaSyanthis the pci bus is on fire

27 18:03:00 ZetaSyanthis that's the problem

27 18:03:00 ZetaSyanthis all the drives are on the same pci sata controller card

27 18:03:00 chtr pci has more than enough bandwidth

27 18:03:00 ZetaSyanthis and the gigabit card is also on the pci bus

27 18:04:00 ZetaSyanthis haha, my ass it does

27 18:04:00 chtr it can push well over 100MB/s

27 18:05:00 ZetaSyanthis well, it certainly isn't the gigabit or hard drives

27 18:05:00 ZetaSyanthis and I don't think unraid stresses the cpu that badly, even an old one like that

27 18:05:00 ZetaSyanthis 133MB/s is max pci bandwidth... hmm, interesting

27 18:06:00 ZetaSyanthis wonder what's so slow about this

27 18:06:00 chtr well, it's a shared bus

27 18:06:00 chtr but still, it should be going a bit faster.

27 18:06:00 ZetaSyanthis I bet it's the sata controller chip being shitty

27 18:06:00 ZetaSyanthis that's about the only thing it could be

27 18:07:00 ZetaSyanthis I'd not be surprised either

27 21:00:00 andy753421 spammers on the wiki?!

27 21:00:00 andy753421 recaptcha--

27 21:00:00 chtr hey, they're just trying to help you buy singulair

27 21:01:00 chtr they've pretty much got all geographic locales covered, from thessaloniki to chemnitz to dayton

27 21:28:00 chtr interesting graphs: http://www.osnews.com/story/21720/Top_500_List_Dominated_by_x86_Linux

27 21:40:00 andy753421 better graphs, http://www.top500.org/overtime/list/33/procfam

28 16:59:00 tommost Has anyone else been getting weird stuff from Exchange?

28 17:00:00 tommost I got some error message when I tried to connect just now.

28 17:07:00 phenom_ thunderbird says "error 12263"

28 17:10:00 phenom_ exchange server keeps being unresponsive

28 17:25:00 tommost Yeah, that's what I got.

28 17:26:00 phenom_ don't know I have been getting it the last 4 or 5 hours

28 18:33:00 ZetaSyanthis anyone know what would cause an input/output error on samba?

28 18:33:00 ZetaSyanthis I can mount the share and see all the files, but when I try to edit / create / remove, I get that

28 18:33:00 ZetaSyanthis it's supposedly writable

28 18:36:00 ZetaSyanthis http://pastebin.com/m3698b096 is from smb.conf

28 18:37:00 ZetaSyanthis it's chmodded 777 for testing at the moment, so not sure what the problem is

28 18:37:00 ZetaSyanthis won't be permanently, ofc

28 18:45:00 ZetaSyanthis been restarting samba over and over + rebooting both machines... any ideas?

28 19:09:00 andy753421 AWeather 0.1! http://lug.rose-hulman.edu/wiki/AWeather#Source_Code

28 22:13:00 ZetaSyanthis any ideas why I can write to a share on linux but not windows?

28 22:14:00 tommost Have you changed the settings on the share after previously accessing it with Windows?

28 22:15:00 tommost Windows does weird caching on credentials and stuff.

28 22:15:00 tommost Try restarting or using the "net use" command.

28 22:17:00 tommost Oh, er, I guess you've been doing that.

28 22:18:00 tommost Perhaps try "net use" nonetheless?

28 22:50:00 ZetaSyanthis hmm, apparently it's an ubuntu issue

28 22:50:00 ZetaSyanthis something about input/output errors

28 22:50:00 ZetaSyanthis either way, sleep is now

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