New year promo atm? mornin :D Morning. so is the arpnetworks user what does teh "graceful reboot" ? it doesn't do it by a user ACPI. it sends an ACPI signal ah what is the arpnetworks user for then? In case you need to support to take a look at something for you. Not necessary, but recommended. You can delete it if you wish! kew RandalSchwartz: qbit_ mhoran : actually, we do use it for graceful reboot if your OS doesn't respond to ACPI (like OpenBSD) nice Ah! except that I don't have an arp user any more. :) luckily I have ACPI though yes ACPI is good pfff real men do it with apm :D Ha. real men do it by pulling the power cord. chuck norris powers his machine down just by waving his beard at it. hmm, maybe thats what I need. a chuck norris beard. I can stop fighting fires, cuz the fires will be so scared of me, they'll put themselves out. LOL getting lots of traffic today from the mentions on slashdot?? arp got mentioned? arp got slashdotted? Slashdot is still around? the quality of its editors ahh http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/2334215/ask-slashdot-best-inexpensive-vps-provider hasn't changed but it is still around for better or worse posting around 5 dupes / old news every day :D Ah, such fond memories. ... http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2589090&cid=38478054 even reddit is getting old and I haven't even been to that other thing in a while long enough that I can't remember the thing that made some internet dude a pile of cash Yeah that thing is basically unmentioned these days. i still read slashdot for the comedic effect digg? fark? but never for anything serious Hah, "I read Slashdot for the articles" slashdot is pretty laughable in terms of credibility lol i guess this is the wrong place to ask nub questions then? Depends on the question and the snarkiness of those awake. Any question about the Arp VPS itself is totally fair game, of course. We'll also field any and all questions about RandalSchwartz and how handsome he is. lol Heh. excellent, here goes.. how do I go about transfering my domain records from my old slicehost provider to arp? digg yeah admica: You'll want to run your own named, either BIND or the other one that everyone else is about to suggest. Hurricane Electric has free DNS hosting these days, too. NSD. But yeah, it's way more "fun" to run your own named. you just want a good secondary I use my own named, and he.net for my secondary Same. Hmm. NSD can read BIND files. Yeah. Perhaps I should switch to that. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSD Might as well! i guess thats my problem. i didnt run a dns server, i just configured records for my little ol ip address and pointed to my providers servers in /etc/resolv.conf You can run a Web UI for your DNS server! If you don't care / want to do any of that you can just use he.net and they have a nice little UI and all that. If you registered your domain through slicehost then you may need to move it elsewhere e.g. name.com. yeah, he.net is quite cool plus your stuff gets served ipv6 for free. Yeap. oh i registered my domains through godaddy but they're all in the middle of a transfer to namecheap That should be fine, and nice choice. so i change the ip address from namecheap then? Yup. yay for #SOPAsucks Hey does anyone know how transferring a domain like that works? e.g. my current domain is with godaddy registerd through 2014 If I transfer, and register for just a year, do I end up with expiring in 2013? Or, does that become 2015? I don't know for sure, but I _think_ the registration years are held with ICANN not the registrar -- any supplemental services (like privacy guard from godaddy) will be forfeited though for sure Whew. Transferred. i can tell you for sure if namecheap ever finishes the transfer. mine were not expiring until 2013 but i transfered them anyway Yeah namecheap actually says it's a renewal. So on top of existing. is there any restriction on the services i can host on my vps? Just these rules: http://www.arpnetworks.com/aup I just want some web sites, ssh, teamspeak, and a mumble server right now. but what about seeding legal torrents? "Prohibited Actions: System and Network Security" does this include systems and networks I own? sometimes i need to test immarsat equipment and i like to use my vps to run a quick nmap scan on remote sites More of a technicality, I'd email support and verify. The "probing the security of other networks" is unqualified, where accessing data and logging into a server are allowed if you are authorized. are there any specials going on right now for new customers? end of year, nosopa, 1st month free, anything? did i get mentioned on slashdot again? thought that was like last week (and yeah, traffic went up 4x :) admica: you will be fine with regards to the AUP slashdot, #1 comedy site on the web its a love hate relationship s/love// jpalmer no longer loves anything mv jpalmer /home/lonelyheartsclub good point "matched his first love" - an ABC afterschool special! my first love.. was Samantha Micelli from "Who's the Boss?" (Alyssa Millano) sp? so technically it was an afterschool.. thing. not sure I'd call it a special though :P LOL fuckin love waze! ARP should run a special. signup and mention your Waze username, and get a free first month! yes, please allow me to take funds out of your pocket, to promote a completely unrelated product. I'm sure you don't mind ;) LOL alyssa milano yeah, that chick :P who blogs frequently even today, I'd still rate her as "one of my top 5" :) I'd blog occasionally, if I thought anyone would be interested in what I had to say. instead, I just jump on IRC and bore the piss out of you poor folks. ... http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/ she was in a few movies completely naked. not that you might care. I can't say I've ever seen her naked, or even topless. if you need links, I can provide. :) pics or it didn't happen haha which movies did she do nude? I have to admit.. it kinda just killed my "wholesome girl" mindset surrounding her (I've probably been in denial since my "who's the boss?" days anyway.. yeah, you've been in denial So, I think I need an intervention. found Waze 20 days ago. I have 60k points, and 20k map edits in :/ wow I've been the #1 user in my state, all 3 weeks. and #1 to #3 in the country, all 3 weeks :/ ok, did an images.google.com search, and frankly.. all of these photos of her topless look.. photoshopped the ones from embrace the vampire look legit. and.. nice link? doh I just did an images.google.com search for alyssa milano topless a lot of them look fake. but the ones from that movie look like they may be real yeah, lots of fakes I seem to recall she was fairly aggressive about suing people who posted images of her yes. embrace of the vampire is her nude. and poison ivy 2 (or 3?) I'd pull it up, but I'm in a public location ... http://cndb.com/alyssa-milano--c25875.html the quick answer. :) RandalSchwartz: you just need one of these: http://www.malditoinsolente.com/imagenes/humor/inventos12_037.jpg heh jpalmer: i've had a blog (several, actually) for many years and i'm still surprised at the number of people interested in what i write.