anyone used these? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167192 looks like a wicked price for a 480GB SSD ($199) What's with the skull? Haha it's hip brah maybe this is better: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148821&cm_re=500gb_ssd-_-20-148-821-_-Product up_the_irons: anandtech seems to like that model w/caveats about hw crypto & power consumption Ooooooooh that's shiny, 480GB for $200, good brand... we have our own tools for that anyway :P oops wrong terminal :P lol was that intel 730? oh mx100 mercutio: yes is also cheap "Intel 730 Series" i was thinking of getting mx100s before they have higher block size ;( i kind of decided to wait. i think they shifted to 16k block size from 8k block size That's what she said!! Brycebot: no Oh, okay... I'm sorry. 'i think they shifted to 16k block size from 8k block size' what happened to seagate 600s last black friday they were really cheap iirc but i had no idea if they were good anyone here used ipmiview (java) before? having trouble firing up the console. oh god that program is terrible :) you mean the downloadable ipmi tool from supermicro right? yeah, the 20 files or so yeah i didn't like it try the commandline ipmitool where do I get that? and I need to see the screen to see what went wrong if it won't reboot it comes with most os's except windows :) setup serial console? I don't know anything about serial consoles like this. http://www.paranoid.nl/~marieke/freebsd/ipmi/ipmicons.html should guide you on setting up the SoL console (More recent FreeBSD's won't require recompiling the bootloader, according to http://serverfault.com/questions/574351/serial-over-lan-on-freebsd-10-0-with-supermicro-x9-scm-f) Garry says "I used IPMIView. It's the "KVM Console" tab and then click "Launchr KVM Console". Do you see the row of tabs on the bottom after your login?r" The tl;dr of it is that the SoL enumerates as just another serial port, and setting up SoL on the server is no different than setting it up for a standard serial console. again, something I'm not familiar with. (Pffft what does "Garry" know, he's know up_the_irons ) s/know/no/ (Pffft what does "Garry" no, he's no up_the_irons ) (d'oh) I dont see the KVM Console tab this time and the one time it showed up, when I clicked on it, and the screen opened and immediatley closed. I tried that repeatedly. now i'm not even sure how to get to there. :) ipmitool -L USER -I lanplus -H -U -P sol activate try that to access it where ip is the ip of the vpn thingy err through the vpn and user and pass is listed on same page as ip Invalid privilege level USER ahh, and my error message doesn't show -I anything oh i had to add -L USER in maybe you don't need it? when I remove -L USER, still balks at that -I different implementations are different :) it doesn't liek -I ? oh I left out the IP -I intf Interface to use wtf Not in my error message oh it doesn't mean physical interface oooh... got this: [SOL Session operational. Use ~? for help] sweet you got it then and then what? now you just haev to make sure it's outputting to serial :) so you didn't need to use -L USER? without it i get Set Session Privilege Level to ADMINISTRATOR failed: Unknown (0x80) I hit return and it said ProcessSOLUserInput - entered ProcessSOLUserInput - read 1 chars no - didn't need the -L or -I -L level Remote session privilege level [default=ADMINISTRATOR] is this supposed to show me something when it boots up? ok :) yeah how do I get the same view as the VNC console and while in system you don't :) you setup your system for that use the web interface to do the beginning bits you're still struggling to get the web interface to go at all? I can see the console but I can't interact with it with the web interface? i didn't actually try typing anything into it i think :) Hmm. now I can't find it again. silly web interface oh, the first thing was "preview" where am I supposed to be trying to type on the console? remote control console redirection -> launch console I do that and nothing happens. That's what she said!! does it open a popup? nope nothing. nada. it should have a launch.jlp or something file "have", as in how? in the window? it trys to download it in chrome for me then you click on it and it says it may harm your computer too :) oh maybe it doesn't work in safari then there's a black screen with some menus at top etc and you press a key nah it should download the same i think look at the downloads? it's .jnlp but you could try chrome if it's not coming up with a download or a pop up ahh... chrome is better I get launch.jnlp ok click on that but now I can't open it as it is from an unidentified developer turn off the unidentified developer crap? http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14369 now that doesn't open up. :) weird worked in chrome, not safari does your vpn try and default route ? I think this thing spooked safari :) ok, reading that page, it's what I tried settings in security & privacy preferences allows you to run untrusted apps by default which is probably good :) but there's no java setting to allow this now. apple removed it. unless you're into the mac app store. it's the general os x blocking afaik android doesn't let you run untrusted apk's by default too which is annoying if you want to sideload something not from app store, like from a recent build or such yes... the "medium" setting is now gone. from what i can tell it's not the java setting that it's hitting but the normal unidentified developer thing? anyway, can't run it that's why i was saying you should disable normal os x blocking which is under security & privacy preferences I'm familiar with the other popup this is specificially getting past that, and getting to a java exception oh java used to have three levels now just two so now it's low and high? apple took away the bottom one for security reasons yeah, just high and super-high ahh medium is ogne gone damn this sounds frustrating :) you're telling me do you have a windows vm? especially when up_the_irons said he was able to get it to work no... nothing windows I want to watch him do it. I no longer believe I have the same tools as what he says is working he got it working on os x? and this is stopping two other important things we need to upgrade openssh, and that's a core os thing so I need to get the machine to freebsd 8.4 patch 19 but I don't dare update the kernel without a console yeah and eventually, this machine needs to be freebsd 10 or 11 if we wait long enough :) it's 10.1 already i think well 8.4 is EOLed in a few months so I have to get this machine up jun 2015 I think i prefer the hp lights out on freebsd i have console="comconsole" but it's on a hp system in /boot/loader.conf but freebsd disables normal console when enablign serial that may have changed, but this is freebsd 9.2 yeah - I don't have any console="" there just zfs and a few tunings for postgres oh i still do have normal console i dunno why i thought i didn't hp you can show text mode console withotu serial too :) just with ssh mercutio: "comconsole vidconsole" should enable both, according to the links I shared earlier but yeah i'd try and get java workign first. brycec: it seems i have both anyway? i really thought i didn't have both for some reason ... https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html i hate ipmi but i like it too it's nice that there's a semi-standardised way for computers to get serial console etc. but i find just having ssh easier the recent hp stuff lets you stick your key on too That's what she said!! HP stuff has ssh-on-bmc/ipmi? (Or are we talking about http://www.xenoclast.org/nca/ now? :p) yeah dell and hp have had ssh for ages cool it's dropbear actually it's romsshell it seems with the dropping prices of nand etc, i wouldn't be surprised if there's proper embedded servers etc soon with automatic updates and the like saw some sandisk extreme ii 960GB disk for ~$499 usd wireless routers are already shifting to nand. nand has better wear leveling. so doing updates all the time and treating them like a normal file system isn't so bad ugh... still have a bit of hangover, and it's noon already. normally don't get hangovers, but drank some wine yesteray. wine can be special like that white wine can give me headaches when normal alcohol doesn't pdx sky club doesn't have hard liquor even before the next day. just beer/wine hangover happily gone... replaced by a vodka/soda buzz. :) can anyone confirm Google's PMTU issue still exists? it started for me long before anyone else.. DNS Made Easy sent this to me back in 2010 : http://pastebin.com/UceGKXpP i like it when people notify of issues but what made you suddenly bring this up from years bacK? amazon's outage? It came up in a discussion I had with someone regarding how folks generally dont like disclosing issues I think you mean Azure's outage cloudfront? nvm, I see the outage report now so azure also had an outage today? seems samsung 850 pros are down in cost now Azure was like a week / 10 days ago: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/19/update-on-azure-storage-service-interruption/ are any big web sites hosted on them? i didn't notice anything http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/azure-went-down-and-people-actually-noticed/ i do half remember hearing about azure problems at some point though Ars Technica: "Azure went down, and people actually noticed" wow people lost data in the azure thing One of the comments: "If you want to run a big portion of the Internet then you need to act like an infrastructure provider and not a desktop applications vendor. " haha