Hey, up_the_irons
up_the_irons?
hey RandalSchwartz
hey nesta
Hello Randal
hey arenlor
insightcruises.com has decided to get off EC2 entirely
just ordered a second machine at ARP
Are they taking orders again?
they've always taken orders
it's just that there's a waiting list
anyone seen up_the_irons? got an emergency
emailed support already
Nope sorry, maybe one of us can help?
need a new iso downloaded and mounted, ZFS took a dump on us
:(
Nice, can't you use the console to mount an iso?
I think garry needs to do it
we can't get into FreeBSD at all, won't get past the bootloader
Well my console is not being very happy, otherwise I'd look, I thought I had seen an option to boot an iso in there.
i'll take a look
hmm great, i think my pubkey changed... hah
That's the issue I'm having
Though I don't remember it changing ^_^'
same, i don't think i've regenerated it or formatted
RandalSchwartz: You able to get in?
beer drinkers!
get in?
To the console
not for the new box
apparently, I forgot to ask that the pubkey be assigned
I figured that'd just be automatic
It may be that something happened to it
no, it doesn't show up in the list of machines assigned to that pubkey
some button needs to be pushed :)
amdprophet - you can boot from the ISO... at least, I can
just press I think it's F12 during bootup
as in, use the VNC
So how was YAPC?
busy... and having my laptop crash didn't make it any easier
Yeah, is it fixable?
I don't know
taking it to genius bar tomorrow
I suspect a MoBo replacement
That's lovely, well at least you can do that
eh?
my one laptop died, it's a dell, so I'd have to find the specific motherboard for it on ebay
replacing a mobo means "leaving it with apple for a few weeks"
Do you even get the same one back?
it's hard to tell
generally, yes
The one time I ever sent a computer in, I didn't get the same one back. It sort of freaked me out that they wouldn't tell you.
that's why you're supposed to back up your data. :)
I did, they sent back the same HDD in it
They replaced the shell and screen
weird
Yeah, but they didn't charge me so it's fine, but still just a little off-putting
You like the *BSDs right? Which one do you think would be best for a laptop?
I don't know.  I don't run BSD on my laptop
I've only ever gotten laptops, don't know why.
me too
and they run OSX just fine
why would I run something less than OSX on a mac laptop?
I wish I could have ever afforded to get an Apple
afford?  they're mostly on parity now
presuming you price the same setup
most people compare a stripped down machine against a full-featured apple.  unfair.
It's usually 100-200 more for the Apple
the past days of "apple is overpriced" are long gone
I generally can't afford the 100-200 extra
well - you're getting seomthing for that price difference
maybe it's something you don't need then
but if you stack up feature for feature, I doubt there's a "$200 difference" at that point
I'm not sure what the bonus of getting an Apple is truly
I'm not following you
it's not because it's apple.
it's because it has more things
the apple brand is not what makes it more expensie
anyway, I gotta go figure out why this disk copy is taking forever.
Have fun
RandalSchwartz: i need to boot from a different iso though
amdprophet - ahh, yeah, that's gonna require tech support
do you know if the number on the arp front page goes to garry?
what iso do you have in there?
dunno
we've got the mfsbsd iso (modified freebsd 8.0 image for ZFS on root)
probably a voicemail box
unfortunately we upgraded our ZFS version since the initial install and that disc doesn't support ZFS version 14
eww.
you should be able to "burn" your own isos from inside the VPS. :)
and then the console would activate a virtual hand to insert/remove them
maybe something inside second life interface
hmm good idea
morning.
up_the_irons: you around?