lol. those automatic replies to support e-mails are funny. i requested to have my vps changed to annual billing and the reply suggested i should read "If I have more than one VPS, how is traffic counted against my bandwidth quota?" :)
I'm sure the replies are useful and applicable for the bulk of up_the_irons' support emails, but I usually get replies of "email support@" WELL NO KIDDING, lol
dunno. my last support request was in june 2011... :)
email ant@
hazardous: that will probably bounce
random OT question - anyone here a fan of black metal?
metals that are black? Or the music genre?
music genere
genre
I don't think I am... Example of what's considered black metal?
traditionally, i guess people would say mayhem, immortal, emperor
more modern being wolves in the throne room, deafheaven
i'm not as much a fan of earlier stuff because i like good recordings and early stuff is largely like 4-track tape and stuff and sounds like ass
i'm a fan of obsidian and cobalt
cobalt :)
if you haven't heard it, check out "Sunbather" by deafheaven, it's pretty great
http://deafheavens.bandcamp.com/album/sunbather
what is 4 track tape?
using an audio cassette to record 4 discrete audio tracks (in the context i mentioned)
i have no idea what that means
pro 4-track recordings on reel to reel or whatever sound great, and lots of good stuff was recorded that way over the years, but there's a lot of awful stuff recorded on cassette because it's cheap
oh
like..a tape player
what
WAAAAT
how do you play tape?
ok im not understanding this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_cassette
magic
Compact Cassette :: The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is a magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Compact cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a pre-recorded cassette, or as fully recordable "blank" cassette. It was designed originally for dictation machines, but improvements in fidelity led the...
that sounds ridiculous
wtf, 60 minutes?
man
i had dvd-rw's as a kid :(
hazardous: stop making us feel old
:(
:(
gah
staticsafe: just because you said that, my first internet connection was broadband and i've never used dialup before. i've also never physically handled a floppy disk before and my computers all my lif enever had one of those ancient 3.25" drives
:V
i'm not even out of my 20s and i feel ancient thinking that there's a generation of kids who don't know wtf cassette tapes are
staticsafe++
BryceBot++
m0unds++
@karmaboard
Karmaboard (top 5): i: 2  staticsafe: 1  m0unds: 1  brycebot: 1  rss2email: 1
hahaha
has anyoen used one of thisese http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
negative
touch + linux de? ehhhh
ehhhhh
ugh, my employer cut over from TWT to Centurylink today - horrrrrrrrible
:o
TWT wasn't great, but their routing wasn't godawful
ABQ->ATL = ABQ->LAX->DEN->MIA->ATL
all on centurylink's network
~110ms round trip
TWT ABQ->ATL = ABQ->DEN->ATL, 50ms
nice
so ready to go home
centurylink SUCKS
frontiernet too
low-latency is overrated
<.<
>.>
haha
their peering w/ntt on the west coast is horrid
i'm trying to put some files on a remote box and i'm getting a whopping 120KB/sec
s/horrid/cheap/
<m0unds> their peering w/ntt on the west coast is cheap
TWT, i'd regularly hit 12-13MB/sec to the same destination
wow...
yeah
it would be faster for me to tunnel to my cable connection at home and upload it that way than it would be for me to continue this way
Or tether your phone? :p
that'd be faster too
haha
(Since getting LTE, my cellphone has a faster connection that my office does, in both directions.)
hahaha
But the office is still 1/3 the latency
Plus servers etc.
i had to use my phone as an internet connection in one of my hub rooms because the provided drop was hilariously bad
i couldn't even get reliable ssh going over it because it was so congested
(the provided link)
ended up having to use my phone to grab switch images and stuff. pretty sad.
Argh, HE is sucking bad today
yeah?
Random windows of packet loss
yuck
Across the board too - my connections to Google, to ARP, etc
ouch
tunnel?
yeah
bummer
TWC doesn't do native ipv6
gotcha
comcast biz doesn't either - just configured one of my VPS' to do it
I still need to get around to moving off HE and using ARP
But most of the time, HE is okay
latency for me via he was super high to all west coast pops
that's part of why i ended up doing arp - most of my westward traffic hits LA, and my vps is 30ms from me so it doesn't really introduce a ton of latency
my vps is 90ms from me (at work), 125ms over HE. It's okay, I guess.
What's really wild though is my home connection: 51ms ipv4, 47ms HE ipv6 tunnel
hm
(office 14 hops to POP, home 10 hops to POP)
(home v4 13 hops to vps, v6 8 hops)
(or... 27 versus 14 hops)
(office v4 14 hops to vps, v6 8 hops, so 28 vs 14 hops)
ah
overhauled my firewall rules and qos and stuff and now i have nothing left to do
hahahaha
decix had a switch issue that caused a switch loop condition w/broadcast ntp traffic on ipv6
generated a near 1tbit storm
back in june
heh i remember that
force10 i think
i went and grounded some industrial switches in a parking lot, reconfigured some other stuff, redid my firewall rules on my home gwy, and now i'm completely out of stuff to do
redid some stuff in solarwinds
Other systems on that switch are fine... Hmm
we had a run of bad intel nics that would intermittently drop
not the system fortunately
I think the switch is getting pissed off about life or something
ifconfig down/up and dhclient and it started back up again
Loop another pair of the switches ports, bam offline again. down/up dhclient and back in business
Whenever the switch caught up to STP, that one singular host on the switch went poof
Also, I have way too much broadcast  traffic for a tcpdump over a 9600bps console :(
haha
indeed, hazardous has made me feel old as well..
i still have some 5.25" floppies that have QBASIC code I wrote when I was like 12