I have finally figured out how to extend the timeout on the BIOS "Press F12 for boot menu" selection when all else fails, Use The Source(tm) --- a/kvm-84+dfsg/bios/rombios.c +++ b/kvm-84+dfsg/bios/rombios.c @@ -2031,7 +2031,7 @@ interactive_bootkey() printf("Press F12 for boot menu.\n\n"); - delay_ticks_and_check_for_keystroke(11, 5); /* ~3 seconds */ + delay_ticks_and_check_for_keystroke(11, 25); /* ~15 seconds */ if (check_for_keystroke()) { scan_code = get_keystroke(); RandalSchwartz: if you hard shutdown and bring up your VPS, from now on, you will get about 15 seconds to press F12; your wish has been granted :) and the wishes of all others who have complained about the short timeout all hail the power of open source any recommendations for secondary DNS? I was just gonna use afraid.org, but if there's somethign better http://www.everydns.com/ and zoneedit.com are popular. I use zoneedit.com Whoot Burj Dubai! thanks I dislike flying these days Correction: Whoot Burj Khalifa! big tower? where :P I wonder if the people in Dubai were surprised that it was renamed, or if they expected it. is it renamed? i thought it was burj dubai They renamed it shortly after it was opened today. oo okay. i missed the opening :P many people suicided on that building blue collar workers who's passports have been taken its sad I can't remember, where are they building the tower that's going to be taller than Burj? I think Hong Kong. and then again.. dubai because their mentality is "we are the biggest, we are the best" though they can't do anything themselves and need americans and europeans for engineering and technology =] and other asians for enslaving elllo g'day hola funny seeing you here yea strange huh you gonna get a vps? maybe someday... im on shared hosting now, but its free... mostly just checking things out now where have I heard of IPv6Freely before... twitter you added me a while ago ah, indeed i like the idea of a VPS, but im also far too lazy to manage one :P it's just another bsd box :P yea i know but then i have to do updates and stuff i've already got two people to sign up hope up_the_irons don't screw everything up and make me look bad =) haha hope hes giving you a good referral bonus ;) LOL :D after 500 signups maybe he'll buy me a beer or a brewery that'd work too :D well, that was funny. rsync wanted to copy 900K files from my old box naked man riding an ostrich through the park? oh turns out 600K of them were Cache::FileCache handling my incoming email just to record message-id for de-duping since 2007 forgot to set up the cron job to clean it hah rsync will choke on 900k, pretty sure no - it was trying really hard and getting there yeah, i mean, it'll do it, but slowly but after 20 minutes of seeing all these files go by, I said WTF, and realized what happened I'm *really* liking the depth of FreeBSD ports, and having ZFS for root disk it's still gonna take me a good weekend or two to get moved over i still gotta play with ZFS; been hearing a _lot_ about it was a lot of it in the last few days? :) like me whining? :) no no, i've heard it for months ;) someone at work here says he played with it on Solaris, and really liked it im getting 10gbit to my house to ensure my irc doesn't lose connectivity! only 10gig? i'm having optical gear put in, for 32x10gig lambda's i'm goign to start my own internets eh that's too much man, you're an addict yea right! although that computer generated voice is pretty hot and sounds cool well who broke my VPS you did bullshit, didn't touch it ohhh wtf EditDNS switched to paid service need suggestions for free dns services Ruh roh. have they been reliable? No troubles in the 6+ years I've been using them. mike-burns uses them as well. cool Can't speak to their control panel, I just have them slave off my server. But i can only assume it works. :) heh heh 50:1 sampling and i'm still getting ~2700 flows/min from sflow data wrong channel coffee beer > coffee water > * beer = water + ${other_stuff}, thus beer > water aww, it broke? oh n/m hah yea stupid dns holy crap, 38 nicks in here, i think that is a record prolly jlgaddis: interesting, none the less; what are you running sflow on ? mhoran, control panel is out of the 90's but it gets the job done Word. up_the_irons: a piece of shit procurve 5400zl jlgaddis: ouch haha @ twitter ok - I'm convinced I have to write my own ZFS snapshot manager now what happens if you accidently call an iridium number and leave it on the hook "on the hook"? you mean hung up? or off the hook? as in a call in progress? yea in progres s I think you just get to keep talking, right? no, if you forget until "the gap" goes overhead you know how expensive it is? yes I worked on iridium and yes, there's a gap vonage charges something like 9 bux a minute to call iridium why? cause it's a sat ELITE ? so it's not possible to have a continuous call there will be a time when no sat is overhead about once every 4.5 hours if I recall it's because there's a "seam" where the birds are heading "up" on one side and 'down' on the other and you can't handoff between 4.5 HOURS ? even the piece of shit http://www.globalstarusa.com/en/airtime/ isn't that long no no it'll drop the call just for a few minutes until the sats in the other direction pick it up but you can't handoff acrross the seam i thought you meant downtime is 4.5 hours at a time you're turning me into you http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/ventblockers/ - slightly old article but worth the chuckle. that just gave me a woodie mike-burns: holy hell baklava: i was at my locak greek restaurant earlier and I ate some baklava in your name *local up_the_irons have you been to barney's beanery in hollywood? burbank. next to amc between the old macaroni grill and islands jeev: no, haven't been any of you guys dick w/ mysql? what's the best way to store an ip address? i'm thinking inet_aton and using an unsigned int would be best... jlgaddis: i have an ip_blocks table and I store the network portion in "decimal(39,0) unsigned" and the prefix is just a string jlgaddis: the decimal is large to be able to handle IPv6 as well as IPv4 blocks a little overkill for what i need =) A VARCHAR(256), then. that's efficient :P mike-burns: that makes sorting difficult Well I figured that if your solution was overkill then my solution is clearly what's needed. ah el pollo steven I stored ips in a four column table. unsigned tinyint only allow 0-255 Easy to sort, and each column is only a byte. Postgres has a INET4 and INET6 data type I believe hi guys - what is the default partition scheme for one of the FreeBSD 20GB VPS? uhh lemme check [ballen@arp ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev ew damn /'s :p http://inetpro.org/pastebin/2271 nichangel there ya go thanks jlgaddis oh wait, wrong box one sec yeah, bit bigger http://inetpro.org/pastebin/2272 Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 18G 3.7G 13G 23% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev the partition scheme could be customized if you needed yours is different than mine running 8.0? yeah 7.2 the vps is maybe 2 weeks old Garry must have changed it for 8.0 ballen: if I just ordered one, can I email a spec to somewhere before it gets created? don't want to waste anyones time if possible jlgaddis's partition map would be most accurate than up_the_irons is the guy who created it nichangel: support@arpnetworks.com that or I'd prefer not having one big / just put it in the comments of the order form and say contact if needed ballen: yeah too late, ordered, will email asap before creating it k yea sent, sorry to be a PITA heh not my ass so not worried about it I hate self-evaluations, they all ask stuff about work. nichangel: one big / I believe is the latest config here IIRC. No doubt Garry will see your email. thank you sroute, you're coming on very rarely if you are running 8.0 that is, not sure if he's changed the other configs. jeev: been away with family for a week plus, just easing back into work here. Work smork, get a life! crazy