Bar opens at 8

Miz~Chidori · Post by **Miz~Chidori** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:43 pm

Hi there KiLlEr! Hehe, how's things been around here?

KiLlEr · Post by **KiLlEr** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:21 pm

(shrugs as no one noticed the pun, perhaps its too old or the reference is too much to handle.. LOL --> Glitter+Bomb=Mariah Carey)

Quiet on the forum, busy at home. I like the new additions you posted.

Post by **Taurec** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:39 pm

Uuuugh glitter.... I'll volunteer a minion to clean it up.

Miz~Chidori · Post by **Miz~Chidori** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:07 am

Thank you KiLlEr! I appreciates it :]

*grabs dust pan and broom, starts sweeping up glitter* Hi Tau :] Sorry for making an entrance and all~

Post by **Taurec** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:20 pm

Sorry Joe I've applied an Mariah filter...

Hi Miz C. How's life..?

I'm putting up an assault team to euh.. have a word with the ubuntu madm maintainer .... I need some psychotic sadistic volunteers.
Sigh been busy for hours now with Ubuntu desktop and that installer sucks when it comes to raid devices....

*Fills a bathtub with Vodka and soaks in it.*

Miz~Chidori · Post by **Miz~Chidori** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:51 am

Not too shabby here. Ubuntu is really hard for me to adjust to for some reason... maybe Windows has brainwashed me...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:26 am

@Tau
Maybe I can sneak into a client investment bank's network and plant a 'suggestion' for such a move.

Ugh, I decided to save myself $200 on the Windows tax and try Unbuntu for
a new desktop I built. 3hours to download (over wireless, but it gave me
time to assemble the hardware) but 30mins to install. Great, so I thought.

Riiiiiiiiiiiight.... mount points my flipping arse!! Then there was the fiasco with
the DHCP server setup on my Cisco router. Needless to say, Windows XP
Pro (legitamate) got installed 3 days later

Someone want to still split that MSDN subscription with me?

ZyreX · Post by **ZyreX** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:03 pm

I have also tried to use ubuntu as the prime machine but as everyone here already said... there's just something missing isnt it...
either its one of "those" programs that doesnt exist or its the re-learning that is a b*tch.

Im able to use ubuntu fine but at this moment all its good for is a server!!

*Buys everyone a drink but Tau gets a vodka*

Post by **Taurec** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:20 pm

Well in this case the following happened.

Warning nerd stuff:
Since Ubuntu desktop comes without tools to create or manage raid devices you have to install them yourself.

Just one apt-get later and you have what you need.
But if you create a raid 5 array in this case with 4 1TB HDD's you would expect it would still be there after a reboot.

Now in case of the Ubuntu Server Edition no problemo works as expected.
But I suspect a small bug in the mdadm tools that came with the download.

After the creation of the raid device you have to create a mdadm.conf file that has all the info about the created array .. and this info was simply wrong..

Now there is a way to generate a new definition in the conf file but even as root you don't have permission to alter the file ....
So I generated the file somewhere else and copied the definition part into the existing conf file and voilla it mounted ... BUT after an reboot it was gone again had to add auto=yes to the definition an finally it was there after a reboot.

Well this was a machine for leeching torrents and playing server.
So had to install wine because my client couldn't do without utorrent.
and in combo with FF 3.5.x we now have a working setup.

Currently am monitoring the smart info from the drives and array health so if something goes wrong he gets an email that the array might die soon.

*Gulps down the vodka*

terran empire · Post by **terran empire** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:13 pm

* sits in a Corner wearing a paper mask Trench coat and Hat*
I'll have the incognito special and Keep quiet about it.. I think people are fallowing me...

Post by **Taurec** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:30 am

Huw dee stranger, why aren't you drinking yer picked poison?
The camouflaged glas is right in front of you.

What have you done to deserve your tail? *eyes the two inconspicuous persons that suddenly appeared left and right of TE*

terran empire · Post by **terran empire** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:34 pm

I told the truth and these days that's a bad thing... *eyes his tail...*
errr.... Time too go then
* is dragged off the the reeducation center. *

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:14 am

...oh d**n, forgot to put the BarPhalanx into AUTO mode

// flips the switch and ducks

What tail was that TE? Tall and cold again... some things are just too screwed up to fix sometimes

UltimateKane99 · Post by **UltimateKane99** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:11 am

*enters just as TE is dragged out the door, and the BP is tearing holes in half a dozen patrons*

Huh. Business as usual?

*goes to the bar and slumps over*

Hey, for those out there who are wondering, being a freelance computer technician is an awesome job if you don't have to worry about food or housing or anything important like that. I earned $400 in 2 days of work (10 hours apiece for $20 an hour. I figure I'm under cutting the competition by $30 to $100, so I get paid for being helpful and useful, and Geek Squad loses out).

On another note, it's incredibly tiring. Man, I feel like I haven't been here in forever. Well, let's see...

*Eyes the wall*

Hey, Tau, can I get a Ramune? I'm not really in the mood for alcohol...

*turns to HELLFIRE*

So how's the BP working? Better than it was before? Sorry about the new modifications, but I figured it'd be ok. Oh, and I kinda-sorta put an ignore sub-routine in it so that it doesn't shoot me unless I do something monumentally stupid. Is that ok, too?

KiLlEr · Post by **KiLlEr** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:08 pm

* BP Rips UK99 apart... Touching the bar's happy hour toy is a monumentally stupid thing to do.