k i have :05
shutdown started, great
stopping services
buffers sync'd
done, clean and nice
can you mention with the server comes back up so i can ensure my vps/services came back up also?
ok it's up
i'll tweet when the maint window is over
ah yea i don't use twitter
damn that's an expensive chair
yea and with a sysadmin manning it, can you imagine the smell?
i want a new chair, but it seems "good" ones are around $800 here
of course everyone has a different idea of good
the fibers of that thing have to be literally fused with particles of BO
tried a knee chair?
are you saying up_the_irons smells?
yeah i hate knee chairs
i just want a chair where it doesn't lose density in the middle
and is comfortable
Lifeform is good for that, but expensive
but 350 to 400 chairs are pretty average
so i have a 50'ish chair
i'm saying a living creature spending hours per day in close contact with something, in LA no less, is going to create odor fusion
so yes
which is below average and losing desnity
i actually haven't used the chair much at all, which is why i'm selling it.  i thought i'd like a "plush" chair, but turns out my back likes something way more firm (like a Steelcase or Humanscale chair)
http://store.steelcase.com/products/Gesture-stock/
insane
"a new sitting experience"
(HAHAHAHA)
@weather auckland
Auckland, New Zealand: Light Rain ☂ Showers 57°F (14°C), Humidity: 99%, Wind: From the NE at 6.0 MPH Gusting to 21.3 MPH -- For more details including the forecast and almanac, see http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=-36.973896,174.878021 or re-request this with: @weather -v auckland
heh it still says 6mph
it's 89km/h
\
bah, apparently our carshed roof is trying to blow off
err carport
mercutio: survive the night ?
gizmoguy: had a long power outage
and the roof came off the carport
oh no :(
we had solid power
well ok, only a little piece of it
just lots a couple trees from the yard
there wasn't really anything i could do though
i knew there was a strong possibility of it happening
oh was it bad down that way too?
also, 2degrees 3g sucks
i was trying to use it this morning, it was extremly slow
mercutio: yup quite bad down here too
i suppose it was 8 am or osmething
it's been fine when i've tried to use it before
i suppose 8am in a power outage congests.
but it was much faster after the earthquake in chch
so are you getting gigabit fibre gizmo?
my RFS date is a year away...
also
apparently hamilton is gbetting gigabit from july :/
we've already had confirmation from UFF engineering that it won't be ready in july
for $65/month to wholesalers.
haha
well this press release is from today
and its ays july :/
Yes
it's from their CEO
heh
who apparently just wants to get some publicity ;)
i don't like where thigns are going
like all these new plans with higher download and slower upload
it discourages cloud file storage, and encourages mad torrrenting
whilst not maintaing ratios
there's no fibre here for a while too
UFB deployment dates for your area are still being developed
lol
so yeah no date yet
i wasn't in a ufb area at all where i used to live
but i'm just as far from city here, and yet it's ufb area
actually i think i'm a bit further away but closer to motorway
Status Planned
All Services Available 01-06-2015
my address
oh not much different, 20.8km vs 23.3km
but still a little further out
i probably wouldn't get fibre even if i could, cos 12 month contract, and i'm renting and all
wow, i just checked hamilton weather forecast
38 mm of rani/hour at 10pm apparently
Yeah. it was wet
that's for tonight
oh right
it's dry at the moment
but yeah it'll be wet again
it's dry here too
it's not even windy
it's strange :)
apparently there were 78 power outages
funny. Comcast <-> Verizon seems to be congested too
http://kremvax.acfsys.net/smokeping.cgi?target=Remote.verizonnet
like 50% packet loss sometimes
heh cool.
they all suck
yay the internet is broken
amazon ec2 seems nice pretty much anywhere though
i used to have slow amazon ec2 performance
like 300k/sec slow
it's still kind of slow normally with sites on ec2
it doesn't help that most are US east coast.
i can't think of any amazon ec2 sites off hand
oh netflix, but that seems to be on us west.
http://ec2.acfsys.net/videos/comme_un_enfant.webm
if you want to test
24% [========>                              ] 27,110,676  3.37MB/s  eta 53s
it's okay for me atm. maybe they fixed it?
2250k/sec
so yeha it's fine now
oh that's us west anyway
us east i was talking about :/
ah, ok
when did reddit start using akamai
I always thought they used the Amazon cloud
i think they use both
its always good to have multiple providers
dont think you can send writes to akamai directly
like new stories etc need to be processed
before they can be cached by a CDN
@date days till jan 1 2015
I'm strtotime, not a mind-reader and not an encyclopedia. Give me a date I can understand. (http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php)
LOL
@date Jan 1 2015
29 weeks, 1 day, 1 hour, 21 minutes, 58 seconds to go. [Interpreted date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0800]
knew it had to be something simple like that
At least it links to documentation :)
@date 1/1/2015
29 weeks, 1 day, 1 hour, 20 minutes, 14 seconds to go. [Interpreted date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0800]
it accepts that format as well
hmm
@date Jan 1
22 weeks, 6 days, 22 hours, 40 minutes, 14 seconds ago. [Interpreted date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0800]
oh pish
(it accepts many formats... but not "questions")
@wa days until Jan 1, 2015
days until Thursday, January 1, 2015;204 days;6 months 21 days;29 weeks 1 day;146 weekdays;0.56 years
That's a job for WolframAlpha
@wa date 102 days from now
current time+102 days;6:41:13 am GMT -> Sunday, September 21, 2014
@date +102 days
14 weeks, 4 days, 0 seconds to go. [Interpreted date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 23:53:20 -0700]
@date 2013-12-20
24 weeks, 4 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes, 42 seconds ago. [Interpreted date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0800]