hey all
up_the_irons: i know this doesn't pass your bullet test, but i think it comes pretty close.
in regards to the SAN/NAS we talked about a couple weeks back.
this is what i'm considering doing here: a supermicro twin, with no disks in it, using only one node, with an HBA to an external JBOD.
http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-sys-6027tr-d70rf~7SUP932P.htm + a jbod
HBA's in both.
if one node fails, just plug the jbod and bootable usb disk into the other node
BOOM "Medium Availability"
if I start getting marketing emails talking about "medium availability services", can I blame you?
i'm going to design a robot arm that will detect a failure and move the cables over automatically and boot up the alt node
then it will be called "Almost High Availability"
I used a cdrom as an arm once. I had it turn on another machine at home.
machine1 basically just had to eject, and it would slide out and hit a button
do you have pics of such apparatus?
no. long time ago. although i should have taken pics
I suggested an arm for our machine room
I had nice IP KVMs and such, but the only way to swap physical media was to trot upstairs
hook up a cd disc changer. :-)
(some assembly required)
haha. easier to trot.
kraigu: get less garbage-y machines that let you mount virtual media.
if the follow up is "BUT THIS WAS 15 YEARS AGO", I don't care, invent a time machine and see above.
haha
it was
um
two words: time machine.
hush now
6 years ago
already invented. this is as far back as I can go with my current time crystals
but the machines themselves were yeah, 15 years old
tooth: invent better time crystals
jdoe: you've seen my former workplace :(
tooth: bring more time crystals back with you in the time machine imo.
better
tooth: use the time machine to go FORWARD, get better time crystals, then go BACK 15 years
er, 15 years relative to now
jdoe: now that I think of it, 15 years ago I was freshly-convocated and wondering wtf I was going to do with the rest of my life, given I'd already excluded a masters degree...
the idea of running back and forth swapping CDs in shitty hardware would have appealed
jdoe: screw you for bringing back sad memories :(
tooth: Today I was trying to explain to a girl why Montreal is nice.
unfortunately my pitch is usually "MONTREAL WOMEN IN THE SUMMER."
haha
"it has an NHL team"
so I totally drew a blank.
jdoe, I was about to say that actually
ps. it's summer here.
but unless they know that already, then it's irrelevant info.
ps. I hate you.
pps. Not really, mostly just jealous.
walking around with a permanent hardon, p'much
ppps. Not really, entirely just jealous.
my brother's comment on that matter, is that you never have to turn your head aroudn to get a better look. There;s another hottie within site!
non, c'est juste une banane
haha, true.
jdoe's bilingual everywhere it counts.
qu'est-ce que... mauvais tabernacle, ma banane est pourri
CaZe: 471 is the # on my OEPharos
"tabarnac"
oops
Wow, they've sold a lot.
my real education in the french language was entirely spoken, and at the hands of Acadians
i have near zero.
poutine
is all you need to know
no, I think jdoe covered it
if you want poutine, just point to the menu :P
ah. but which poutine
hm
point to somebody who's ordered the kind you want
also, it comes in different kinds?
...
yes, but pretty much anything other than the standard is blasphemy.
I'm not fond of the whole idea in the first place
stuffing poutine is pretty tasty, apparently.
what does the stuffing replace?
or is it just added on?
stuffing, cheese, gravy?
well, and fries.
(feeling vaguely nauseous just thinking about it)
oh, so it's just added on
right.
well, you solved ONE problem for me. I no longer desire supper.
right, you desire stuffing poutine.
I think my feelings towards stuffing poutine can most accurately be described as do NOT want.
more for me!
jdoe: I have another pro for Montreal. not only purty ladies, but you can find Fin du Monde cheaper and more readily than most anywhere else in .ca.
yawp
and in a corner store
so you can sit on the patio, enjoying the scenery, self-propelled, female
which have walk in coolers in the back for cold beer
calisse de chien sale anglo...
well, I can find Unibroue here readily enough, if I want to go shopping. but nowhere that has a patio has it.
kraigu: I can find fin du monde cheap here :P
jdoe: but not Montreal women.
kraigu, plenty do, actually
i see it often
tooth: nowhere HERE that has a patio has it.
Oh. "here"
gotcah
tooth: he's in a different here :P
haha
ontario = dildos.
srs. :(
i missed the different here
ugh. you're in onterrible?
I wouldn't say you "missed it" bra
yeah
born here, escaped, and stupidly returned.
I'm addicted to things like "regular paycheques" though.
you actually managed to 'escape' a step down :P
I have that here
jdoe: Alberta's a step down from Ontario?
you were in Alberta? I thought you went the other way.
depnds on which part of ontario
ON -> AB -> NS -> NB -> NS -> ON
ah. yeah you fucked up.
not like I had much of a choice about the first version of NS, I was 10
wow
I own everything after that though :(
tooth: well, I work in academia too, which I also like, so my options in QC would be somewhat limited. most smaller schools don't do what I'd want to be doing, so my only choice would likely be McGill.
when you apply that many constraints.. jobs hard to find.
ah. yeah.
i can see that.
also I have a significant other of the female persuasion, and convincing her to move would be... difficult.
especially jdoe's selling point
haha. she doesn't mind if I LOOK. I just can't TOUCH.
"there's hot chicks there!..... wait. why are you packing your bags"
kraigu: mcgill or concordia, I guess.
I dunno, not like UQAM, ETS, or the polytechnic are tiny either :P
they aren't research institutions.
also, je ne suis pas francophone
who cares if they're research institutions?
non-research institutions tend also not to have security groups :P
when they do, the sorts of things I like to do... seem to not be a priority.
I don't want to be the antivirus log-reading bitch.
what, mail windows admins and tell them snort caught a virus?
woooo :P
>:[
(burn)
it would be really, really nice if what you say wasn't actually a chunk of my time.
don't worry, I won't tell you know who :P
you know who already knows :(
you actually prompted me to have a look at our incidents so far this year. now I'm depressed, screw you.
lol
thankfully I have beer in the fridge at home!
it's not fin du monde, but it will get the job done.
only half are malware though.
at least a couple of those were from AV logs or self-reported, not from Snort!
ryk: HBA ?
up_the_irons: ping
up_the_irons: meant to tell you about this the other day,  and got busy/sidetracked:   http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html#rsync