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Just plain shocking!

SysOp — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:35:34 +0000

Adafruit Industries is one of a number of sits I visit regularly, and within the last few days the blog had this gem. Quite possibly one of the funniest things I’ve seen. It’s a video made by another set of tinkerers I’d not yet heard of, but will be sure to follow now!

Google Voice to Text

SysOp — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:25:53 +0000

So, I’ll have you know first off I’m NOT on acid, nor am I on a major cocaine high or anything of the sort.I left a voicemail at google voice to a friend this AM, that he had it translate to text. About the only thing it got right was our names. We figured out “lost DVDs” was circuit IDs to give you an example of how bad it was. And I never talked about oranges. I replaced names with ABC and DEF.

Hey ABC, It's Mike looks like, and we're took a huge duty this morning here DEF called me because things are going
down from his point of view on that. And once I got some acid and then both of and liars routers. We were
essentially down wanted flap. I don't know 510 times. Or so I don't have any contact information for either server
crazy. Or and later anywhere that I can find, but I assume I lost it or I don't know, maybe never gave it to me
either way. I don't have any lost DVDs or anything like that anyway. So when do much good to call him without any
of that me know when you get this. Just give me a call. I think it's we're screwing the recovered now but clear
they had some for a major an orange on them and i kinda wanna know what was planned to where they had to sue us
for whatever the heck happened. Anyway, give me a call back. Bye.

Yup. Clear as mud. Moon, that spells mud.

And now for something COMPLETELY different!

SysOp — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:23:39 +0000

A friend linked to this Times Online article about homeopathy in a recent Tweet, so I figured I’d share it here. In case any of you actually thought “homeopathy” was at a ll legitimate. Note carefully the paragraph where they admit knowing it’s bunk but sell it anyway because people believe it helps! Homeopathy has invented it’s own measurement system involving “C”, which is a measure of it’s dilution, higher “C” more dilution. It goes on to state that at liek 30C to get an effective dose by any meaning of the word you’d have to consume the matter of the entire galaxy.

Migration Woes

SysOp — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:24:47 +0000

Did a not exactly smooth migration to my new webserver today. Found out that Debian 5/Lenny seems to have completely broken suPHP. It can’t correctly figure out the DocumentRoot anymore for some reason. It complains to error log ‘SoftException in Application.cpp:202: Script “x” resolving to “x” not within configured docroot’ – except it is so heh. I’ll have to dig into that later. I also have some back end stuff to dig around in and because of that for right now the new webserver is rather quite a bit slower than the old setup.

State of the storage benchmark

SysOp — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:53:32 +0000

Bryan Cantrill over at Sun Fishworks wrote an Excellent Blog Post on why SPECsfs sucks. Go read it. Seriously. You need to. Then start to wonder about all the other “benchmarks” SPEC publishes. The blog post there explains WHY you can’t get affordable storage from big vendors, and why all of it’s performance is so crappy in real world scenarios. They’re all targeting this benchmark as their milestone.

RPM How I Loathe Thee

SysOp — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:15:27 +0000

Let me count the ways, here’s #2 (see the previous post on yum for #1)….

[root@vps0 security]# md5sum access.conf*
1ab9971e4ec0682b89aaff29fea6de9e  access.conf
1ab9971e4ec0682b89aaff29fea6de9e  access.conf.rpmnew
[root@vps0 security]#

Why the hell is it creating a .rpmnew file for an IDENTICAL *CONFIG* file? Hell even the (modification) timestamps are identical!

Dear yum, you suck.

SysOp — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:09:55 +0000

While doing a template fetch onto our Virtuozzo machine. A template fetch really just downloads every configured application (this is different from say EVERY application to create a mirror, it just downloads applications configured, and their dependencies). So it’s running yum in download-only mode.

[root@vps1 private]# vztop

vztop - 18:02:45 up 4 days, 17:30,  2 users,  load average: 1.29, 1.36, 1.28
Tasks: 372 total,   2 running, 370 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 13.3% us,  1.1% sy,  0.0% ni, 85.2% id,  0.1% wa,  0.1% hi,  0.2% si
Mem:  65881472k total, 22104056k used, 43777416k free,  1624648k buffers
Swap:  4192924k total,        0k used,  4192924k free, 17053276k cached

 CTID   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    0 27254 root      25   0  308m 299m 4504 R  100  0.5  46:03.17 yum
    0 31593 root      15   0 89524 4672 2568 S    8  0.0   0:35.59 sshd

Seriously guys? 299MB? SERIOUSLY?

Not that it really matters on this machine. For those of you having trouble with the math, thats 64GB w/ around 42GB *free*, yes, same machine from the Serverpr0n article earlier. It’s still annoying. And, 100% CPU. Doing WHAT?! Hell if I know. YES THATS 45 MINUTES! At 2GHZ!

Serverpr0n

SysOp — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:16:47 +0000

My server’s bigger than youuuurs…. !

iSCSI is pronounced Kernel Panic in Linux

SysOp — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:52:38 +0000

So, if you’re using Debian 4, be careful to make sure your iSCSI Initiator settings are right, because if your auth settings are wrong, you will have a big box of fail.

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 web6 ttyS1

web6 login: scsi2 : iSCSI Initiator over TCP/IP
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00100104
 printing eip:
f8b916f4
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1]
SMP
Modules linked in: ib_iser rdma_cm ib_addr ib_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core iscsi_tcplibiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi binfmt_misc button ac battery ipv6 autofs4 dummy nfs lockd nfs_acl sunrpc 8021q dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_mod loop serio_raw shpchp e7xxx_edac psmouse i2c_i801 i2c_core rtc pci_hotplug evdev edac_mc pcspkr ext3 jbd mbcache ide_disk generic qla2xxx e100 piix mii firmware_class scsi_transport_fc uhci_hcd e1000 scsi_mod ide_core usbcore thermal processor fan
CPU:    1
EIP:    0060:[]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00210282   (2.6.18-6-686 #1)
EIP is at __iscsi_complete_pdu+0x2db/0x3a2 [libiscsi]
eax: f29fd694   ebx: f1c8717c   ecx: 00100100   edx: 00200200
esi: 00000023   edi: f18e1edc   ebp: f16ba8c0   esp: f1ad38a8
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process php (pid: 21799, ti=f1ad2000 task=f28ab550 task.ti=f1ad2000)
Stack: f227e000 f1c8717c 00000000 dfc9b000 f29fd680 f1c8717c f227e000 f16ba8c8
       f16ba8c0 f8b91948 00000179 f16ba8c0 00000179 00000023 f8b998cf 00000179
       f528bc80 f1ad398c dff84520 f2918680 00000000 f1c8717c f16ba8c0 f4583ea4
Call Trace:
 [] iscsi_complete_pdu+0x23/0x30 [libiscsi]
 [] iscsi_tcp_data_recv+0x112b/0x1164 [iscsi_tcp]
 [] ip_output+0x1d1/0x1fd
 [] ip_queue_xmit+0x371/0x3b3
 [] udp_push_pending_frames+0x1e3/0x204
 [] e1000_xmit_frame+0x928/0x958 [e1000]
 [] release_sock+0xc/0x91
 [] tcp_v4_send_check+0x72/0xb8
 [] tcp_read_sock+0x5e/0x163
 [] iscsi_tcp_data_recv+0x0/0x1164 [iscsi_tcp]
 [] iscsi_tcp_data_ready+0x32/0x3f [iscsi_tcp]
 [] tcp_rcv_established+0x523/0x7b7
 [] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x25/0x2b4
 [] vlan_dev_hwaccel_hard_start_xmit+0x5f/0x66 [8021q]
 [] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x19a/0x1f0
 [] tcp_v4_rcv+0x8d2/0x925
 [] ip_output+0x1d1/0x1fd
 [] ip_local_deliver+0x15b/0x207
 [] ip_rcv+0x3e3/0x41d
 [] netif_receive_skb+0x2c5/0x33d
 [] e1000_clean_rx_irq+0x3fb/0x4a8 [e1000]
 [] e1000_clean+0x69/0x123 [e1000]
 [] net_rx_action+0x92/0x17f
 [] __do_softirq+0x5a/0xbb
 [] do_softirq+0x36/0x3a
 [] do_IRQ+0x48/0x52
 [] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
 [] udp_sendmsg+0x1cf/0x4c9
 [] __alloc_pages+0x4e/0x275
 [] try_to_wake_up+0x355/0x35f
 [] cache_alloc_refill+0x60/0x44e
 [] inet_sendmsg+0x35/0x3f
 [] sock_sendmsg+0xce/0xe8
 [] __wake_up_common+0x2f/0x53
 [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
 [] sock_def_readable+0x31/0x5b
 [] dput+0x1a/0x11b
 [] nfs_lookup_revalidate+0x24a/0x3ba [nfs]
 [] __iscsi_complete_pdu+0x2be/0x3a2 [libiscsi]
 [] iscsi_complete_pdu+0x23/0x30 [libiscsi]
 [] iscsi_tcp_data_recv+0x8c4/0x1164 [iscsi_tcp]
 [] kernel_sendmsg+0x27/0x35
 [] xs_udp_send_request+0xe1/0x2a2 [sunrpc]
 [] ip_output+0x1d1/0x1fd
 [] xprt_transmit+0xca/0x1a9 [sunrpc]
 [] nfs3_xdr_fhandle+0x0/0x21 [nfs]
 [] call_transmit+0x19b/0x1c8 [sunrpc]
 [] __rpc_execute+0x7a/0x198 [sunrpc]
 [] rpc_call_sync+0x6b/0x91 [sunrpc]
 [] nfs3_rpc_wrapper+0x1f/0x5b [nfs]
 [] nfs3_proc_getattr+0x51/0x72 [nfs]
 [] __nfs_revalidate_inode+0x127/0x24d [nfs]
 [] nfs_wait_on_requests_locked+0x91/0xa5 [nfs]
 [] e1000_clean_tx_irq+0x65/0x204 [e1000]
 [] nfs_sync_inode_wait+0x68/0x1ab [nfs]
 [] nfs_getattr+0x52/0x7d [nfs]
 [] nfs_getattr+0x0/0x7d [nfs]
 [] vfs_getattr+0x40/0x99
 [] vfs_stat_fd+0x2a/0x3c
 [] e1000_unmap_and_free_tx_resource+0xe/0x19 [e1000]
 [] e1000_clean_tx_irq+0x65/0x204 [e1000]
 [] e1000_clean+0x69/0x123 [e1000]
 [] sys_stat64+0xf/0x23
 [] net_rx_action+0x92/0x17f
 [] __do_softirq+0x5a/0xbb
 [] do_IRQ+0x48/0x52
 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: 5c 24 08 8b 4c 24 04 8b 03 e8 73 80 ff ff 5a 85 c0 b8 f3 03 00 00 0f 44 44 24 08 89 44 24 08 8b 44 24 10 83 c0 14 8b 08 8b 50 04 <89> 51 04 89 0a c7 40 04 00 02 20 00 c7 00 00 01 10 00 8b 43 2c
EIP: [] __iscsi_complete_pdu+0x2db/0x3a2 [libiscsi] SS:ESP 0068:f1ad38a8
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Party like it’s….2005?

SysOp — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:00:47 +0000

So, back in 05, I ordered a copy of The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from Amazon. The book arrived. Sometime later I was reading it and discovered that, lo and behold, it was missing pages 529-560. After some consternation and thought I realized indeed the pages were gone. I wrote Del Rey books, to see if they’d replace it. Today I get this, headers included to show you it sure as heck wasn’t stuck on my end:

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Dear Michael,

We sincerely apologize, and will replace the book as soon as possible. Please send us the defective book so that we can give it to our production department to prevent future errors. Please send the book to:

Del Rey Books c/o Defective Book 1745 Broadway New York, NY 10019


Please also let us know your mailing address so that we can send you a new

copy as quickly as possible.
Sincerely,

Team Del Rey
-----Original Message-----

From: Michael Loftis [mailto:mloftis@wgops.com]

Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 2:14 AM

To: Del Rey

Subject: Douglas Adams - The Ultumate Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy w/

missing pages....
ISBN 0-345-45374-3
I ordered the book from Amazon.com about a week or so ago, and the book is

totally missing pages 529-560.  They haven't fallen out, mis-cut,

etc...they're simply not there.
Now normally i'd suspect a leaf that just wasn't inserted, but the book is

otherwise fine.  spine isn't mis-formed, and the cover wraps and matches

perfectly.
So what can be done about a getting correct copy of the book?  The other

question is....How many of these were done like this?
Thanks, hopefully this email address connects with a human that can shed

some light on this.
--

Undocumented Features quote of the moment...

"It's not the one bullet with your name on it that you

have to worry about; it's the twenty thousand-odd rounds

labeled `occupant.'"

--Murphy's Laws of Combat

Wow. Time warp, MUCH? What queue did that get stuck in? Seriously!? I’m not even sure if i still have the book, and honestly I completely forgot. There again it could be a good old post-humous DA prank.

Seriously though. Three years?