again
mercutio, sorry - got caught up with stuff and cant scroll back enough.. last i see is you're still being curious about the dedi question
i think he found something in the end
cool
i didn't realise just how many bad options there were :)
he moved out to Aus and wanted something reliable
ahh
why do some employers assume because you can master their billing/order system, you must be a guru
australia has better data centre selection than new zealand
aye, i think cost was an issue too :P
that brings down cost.
colo prices are high here
even before bandwidth etc.
hardware is a bit expensive too
but it's the colo prices that make everything kind of insane
oh wait, Auckland
not Aus
yeah i'm in auckland not australia
did you think i was in australia
nah i knew you were NZ
why i asked
yeah
rendrag may do dedicated in australia
if the guy is still looking
think he found something eventually
appears to be routing via vocus
i suspect thats Aus though
vocus eww :/
is it via japan for you?
serversaustralia do vocus i think
NYC, ASH, LAX, lax.ca, sydney
heh tracing to rendrag's domain routes via vocus
yea, it terminates in Aus
hah
it's like 320 msec via US both directions, and 360+ routing via asia
lax.ca & sjc.ca
305 for me
yeh the other direction may go via asia if it's high ping
yeah that's probably US direct.
and the cheaper cables.
somehow i'm getting 255 msec ping to uk now
i bet it's not that bad from ARP..
was doing it from UK
yeah cut 160 off it probably
maybe 140
crap.. jail isn't allowing raw sockets, or bloody --udp
what the hell!
heh
security?
udp is curious though
default setting
ping is kind of insecure
aye, wont allow creating non TCP/UDP (even icmp as 'root'
i can change it, thought i had
yea, ICMP is kinda funny for trojans etc.
always makes me paranoid, especially since i generally allow inbound pings
well it's more that every process has to listen for icmp at once
so you get everyone elses responses and decide which ones you want
hmm serversaustralia isn't cheap either
under my desk is free if you want to colo stuff near AU
got pretty good Vocus peering
Wow, so generous!
yeah and I only cost a beer a week!
I thought you said "free" ;P
heh
an ipa beer a week?
so how big is your desk gizmo :)
it's quite large
well so large I have 2 desks in my office
heh
http://bulletin.brynmawr.edu/files/2011/05/682px-VAX-11-750.jpg
send him something like taht :/
i can't find anything large on trademe :/
did find this cheap though http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/servers/servers/auction-943118844.htm
I have two super-ancient Compaq blade chassis I could haul in here and host a VPS service on
p3 800mhz CPUs
12 blades per machine
haha
any buyers?
your poor ears
WHAAAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU, mercutio
I have headphones
heh
do you have gigabit internet?
yip
maybe you should start hosting then :)
I have 10gig too
cool
can you do 10 gigabit to the US?
for selected routes
internet2 routes?
yeah
How's powe?
*power?
probably better than power at my home :/
runs straight to a substation
they're what go wrong!
I was getting at backup battery/generator, not amount of power available
we've had a few micro-blips recently though
car smashed into a powerpole which took out 4 streets
that's pretty impressive
and that meant the substation dropped a few cycles for whatever reason
here it'd take out multiple suburbs :)
WEL networks have a pretty good setup
I don't understand their setup but it works
the 4 streets weren't next to each other
yeah it's kind of disturbing when you realise the substation is 10+km away
and that everywhere between you and there is out
not that i ever had high expectations for auckland power :)
with led lights you can't see blips right?
Depends. But LED lights are already blipping because they're driven by PWM
(well, they're modulated by PWM)
ahh i haven't noticed
Exactly
some monitors pwm is quite noticable
You're not supposed to notice ;P
especially when you dim then
them
hello
Hello
hello
my name is too long :(
gizmoguy: You just need a better IRC client - weechat lines up all messages (rather than by nick)
:O
I have been considering switching away from irssi for a while now...
No better reason than "it makes you look fat" :)
did you register gizmoguy yet?
I think I did
cool
i wonder how many less ddos's efnet would have had if they had services