hello, about to install a custom O/S on a VPS originally configured for Debian 8 - anything I should be aware of or that would need set differently for different guest O/S's?
Nothing in general. Which OS are you installing? (Or do you mean "custom" as in you wrote it yourself?)
gentoo
maybe netbsd later
at some point, the VPS's would have different "hardware" configurations for different guests
they should all work with the same config
netbsd should work with virtio
which would be the main thing that may not work with an obscure OS.
but netbsd supporting being a xen domu, means it's very likely to support virtio
what's the deal with /dev/vda vs /dev/sda?
vda is virtio, sda is legacy
oh
actually
ok so ultimately I should figure out how to switch to vda
some of the newer virtual machines are using virtio-scsi too
which also show as sda
I think mine has virtio-scsi but shows as vda in debian 8
virtio-scsi is the hdd boot option
hmm
disk shows up as sda when booted off gentoo installation media
there's virtio-blk, and virtio-scsi to be confusing
ok
that's even stranger.
just want to configure things as optimally as possible
so yeh probably is virtio-scsi, and maybe the naming scheme changed and debian has ancient kernel.
the name itself shouldn't matter.
MBR partition table
I'm guessing there's no EFI...
yeah
bummer...ish
why did you want EFI?
the question is - why would I want BIOS?
it is simpler
it's just a more modern setup.  bit of a pain though.
EFI can be useful on desktops
and laptops
but for virtual machines the benefits aren't really there
it's not for gain but consistency.
since that's the way everything is going
no worries
well KVM has some recent EFI support
i don't think it's enabled by default
and is likely to have less testing
Things are back to "sda" with virtio-scsi. Confusing, yes.
37 minutes till the leap second
That's what she said!!
BryceBot: me, or up_the_irons
BryceBot: no
Oh, okay... I'm sorry. '37 minutes till the leap second'
I win
Haha
😂
Do emojis work here...
unicode ones may?
☠
😂
it seems it may depend..
I can see them on my phone
weechat-android
i could see that last one in putty but not with urxvt
Pretty sure won't show up on my laptop
oh
they look much better on android-weechat
they're different colours and bigger
Channel announcement: there's a new "Add Service" button in the Portal and blank VMs can be ordered on-demand (ones with an OS are coming soon)
Yeah weechat-android is pretty cool
how do you type the emoji on weechat-android?
😎
depends which keyboard..
I just do it with the regular keyboard
Personally I use the Google keyboard
Which in just the last update went to shit
my keyboard seems to vary
It wants to mix the EN and DE keyboards now, and prediction is now all fucked. It guesses German words when I mean English and vice versa
Like why the fuck can't I turn that off
i'm normally using samsung keyboard
which isn't ideal
hmm samsung's prediction is bad too
the initial swype one i used was better
Google *was* good
😑
it'd be kind of cool to have graphics support in terminals
still the terminal and remote thing, but being able to do things like show those emoji's :)
some kind of way to do real graphics wuold be even better
I use Swiftkey Keyboard
only one language though so predictions are good
and it learns from your gmail, SMS etc
I was just looking into Swiftkey
👑👒🎩👖👕👔⌚👟👞👓💄🎓🔰⛑️
📒📔📚📙🔮🔦🔋🔌📜📗📓📑🎄🎃📛📰📖📖
should probably stop before I go overboard
anyknow know if there is an equivalent weechat-android app for iphone?
oh that may have been what i used before i think
I like all the emojis
i can't see those ones
I can see them all perfectly on Android
i can't see any of those ones in linux
I bet they'll all break when I check my terminal too
That's what she said!!
they do indeed all show on my phone
the skull and cross bones works on pc though
I think it's an older one
apparently os x terminal supports coloured emoji
less than 10 minutes to the leap second!
I wonder how NTP handles that
clocks are a second off all of the time
i don't think it'll be any big deal
the problem is having a minute with 61 seconds in it :)
anyone smearing this year?
not i
smearing is a stupid idea
smearing would mean I don't have  to sit here on my laptop and babysit this...
happy 2017 gizmo
you too mercutio
hey you nznogging this year?
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
wasn't planning to,.  but who knows, where is it?
tauranga
hmm
I'm teaching a tutorial and providing the internet
well providing the l2/l3 infra
vibe are giving me bandwidth
i've never been to tauranga
google and facebook are smearing
and an ASN /22 /48
no cgnat? :)
Nice
NAT64 and DNS64 though!
going to do an ipv6 only network
how much bandwidth are you getting?
only 1gbit
all done through Openvswitch+DPDK+linux+openflow too
ahh i thought vibe might be trying to show off
IPv6 only +++
and i have allied-tellesis sponsoring openflow switches
to have a physical network too
2 mins
till the end of the world
nice
😂😂😂
y2k nothing happened
yeah 'cause people prepared for y2k@
many things happened on y2k
I ignored leap second this year
is anything exciting happening at nznog this year?
need to read RISKS some time
just assumed our devs are smart enough to make our software survive it
talked about a lot of the breakage
mercutio: SDN SDN SDN
got 2 guys from google this year
most amusing was something that broke on jan 1 2001, because they hacked something for 2000
hmm
i'm surprised i didn't hear about nznog earlier
won't it be in jan?
hmm there's a post from june saying it's jan 23 to jan 27
[2410311.468298] Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
there was something on fb too
woo hoo!
hmm buuntu says that and arch doesn't
my VM is still up
Ceph monitors still happy
I wonder when ntp will notice it's a second behind
Dec 31 18:05:19 x220 ntpd[20569]: adjusting clock frequency by 0.494154 to 5.917
858ppm
there's my answer
you don't have a leap second aware ntpd?
no
that must get awkward
I tried recording telephone time but apparently other people had the same idea
LOL
mercutio: I can only see your skull emoji in Linux; nothing else shows up
brycec: anything up with zeit right now?  I'm getting clock skew warnings in Ceph, which use zeit
i've sync'd with other servers, but doesn't seem to help
...and now it's fixed (itself)
up_the_irons: perhaps related to the leap second at 0:00 UTC
Ceph needs accurate time correct to within 50 msec correct?
yeah most likely