--- Log opened Mon Dec 21 00:00:25 2009 00:26 -!- fie__ [n=fie@ip70-178-40-111.ks.ks.cox.net] has joined #se2600 00:42 -!- fie_ug [n=fie@ip70-178-40-111.ks.ks.cox.net] has quit [Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)] 02:53 < ware> dasunt: someninjamaste r 06:09 -!- cordless [n=cordless@145-116-228-165.uilenstede.casema.nl] has joined #se2600 06:10 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o cordless] by ChanServ 06:15 -!- iceknife [n=iceknife@65-255-132-101.static.fiber4.net] has joined #se2600 06:18 -!- iceknife [n=iceknife@65-255-132-101.static.fiber4.net] has quit [Client Quit] 07:37 <@Evilpig> gettin' there ware 07:37 <@Evilpig> dasunt: that is someninja if I remember right 07:38 <@Evilpig> ware: this is what I am working on right now http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Detheroc&n=Lightningpig 08:04 -!- chruck1 [n=chruck@216.105.130.254] has quit ["Leaving."] 08:45 -!- Netsplit niven.freenode.net <-> irc.freenode.net quits: @opticron, fie_s, @brimstone, @cordless 08:45 < Shadow404> Evilpig: doesnt that game ever get old? 08:45 < Shadow404> its not like they've ever upgraded the graphics a whole lot or changed the gameplay enough 08:48 -!- Netsplit over, joins: @cordless, fie_s, @brimstone, @opticron 09:01 -!- mgalgoci [n=user@adsl-065-005-196-076.sip.rdu.bellsouth.net] has quit ["(Read error: Connection reset by peer)"] 09:29 -!- Dolemite [n=scott@99-2-141-173.lightspeed.nsvltn.sbcglobal.net] has quit [Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)] 09:35 <@Evilpig> the gameplay has changed alot 09:36 <@Evilpig> and yes very old. but i'm bored and have the day off 10:05 -!- Venom_X [n=pjacobs@66.54.185.131] has joined #se2600 10:05 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o Venom_X] by ChanServ 10:23 -!- Corydon76-lap [n=Corydon7@nat/digium/x-anjbaurwdqvncxlz] has joined #se2600 10:23 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o Corydon76-lap] by ChanServ 10:25 -!- mtown_nerd [n=josh@ghruaim.net] has joined #se2600 10:25 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o mtown_nerd] by ChanServ 12:04 -!- daswork [n=opera@71.36.142.59] has joined #se2600 13:05 -!- daswork [n=opera@71.36.142.59] has quit [Read error: 54 (Connection reset by peer)] 14:43 -!- ShadowHntr [n=sentinel@wikipedia/Shadowhntr] has joined #se2600 14:43 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o ShadowHntr] by ChanServ 14:52 -!- ShadowHntr [n=sentinel@wikipedia/Shadowhntr] has quit [Remote closed the connection] 15:16 < ware> Evilpig: nice 15:35 -!- rhia [n=rhia@pool-173-74-76-231.dllstx.fios.verizon.net] has quit [Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)] 15:48 < rattleXXw> I had four nines of uptime for the year until today... God fucking damnit. 16:25 <@Corydon76-lap> rattleXXw: you need more scheduled downtime 16:25 <@Corydon76-lap> If the phone company can schedule downtime every night for a reboot, so they can keep their 5 nines of uptime, so can you 16:26 <@Corydon76-lap> Remember the marketing secret of 5 nines... it excludes SCHEDULED downtime 16:54 < eryc> 5 nines is a joke 16:55 < eryc> no one has the monitoring infrastructure to accurately track downtime 16:55 < eryc> and no one defines "downtime" 16:56 < eryc> core? edge? all svcs? link only? 16:56 < eryc> if one customer loses access to svc then you lose nines 16:57 < eryc> but no one uses that definition 16:58 < eryc> anyway its a fun topic when x svc provider tries to tell u 5x9's 16:58 < eryc> you can quickly make them look like a jackass 16:58 < eryc> i dont even bother calling out that pointless crap anymore tho 17:09 < rattleXXw> I had PDU short out. It wound up sending current down the ground.. Crashed an entire rack that contained things like my core switch... 17:09 < rattleXXw> Fucking nightmare. 17:17 <@Corydon76-lap> Never lost a core switch, but I have lost production switches before... it's no fun... 17:24 <@Dagmar> ouch 17:25 <@Dagmar> It's amazing. 17:25 <@Dagmar> I've only spent 10 minutes on the phone with my "comcast neighborhood representative" and I already want to strangle him. 17:26 < xtort-> happens 17:26 <@Dagmar> I suspect their Live Chat applet is some tool in Mumbai 17:26 <@Dagmar> At least they can spell. 17:26 < xtort-> i ditched comcast after they stopped their techs from working on a pretty big outage to avoid them going into overtime 17:26 <@Dagmar> I'm seriously about to call AT&T and say "Let's talk about IPTV. Do you have it here yet or not?" 17:27 < xtort-> "yeah, there's no ETR, the techs went home for the night" 17:27 < rattleXXw> I've got FiOS, and it's fucking awesome. 17:28 <@Dagmar> Well, you know as well as I do we'll have that in Nashville when someone hands the people at the Public Service Commission a bunch of semi-automatic weapons and tells them to MAKE someone do it. 17:29 <@Dagmar> The sales rep kept wanting to talk to me about phone and shit, and I could care less. 17:29 <@Dagmar> I have a cell phone, and don't give a fuck if I get their phone service or not. If it's cheaper that way then great 17:30 <@Dagmar> ...and now I think I'm getting the runaround from their chat bot. 17:30 <@Corydon76-lap> It's not cheaper; they just arrange the chairs in a way to make you think that it might be... before you get the bill 17:30 <@Dagmar> Yes at this point I suspect I'll be looking at a $20/month increase 17:31 <@Corydon76-lap> I especially love their advertised prices... which don't include all of the mandatory extras that jack up the price to 20% more 17:31 <@Dagmar> The Digital Starter package that their chatbot is trying to tell me about contains literally no digital channels anyone with self-respect would give a flying flip about. 17:32 <@Dagmar> Oo... On Demand. I could care less. 17:32 <@Corydon76-lap> Why can't we get a commission that will hold their feet to the fire over false advertising? 17:32 <@Dagmar> I would like to simply dangle some of these motherfuckers by their earlobes until they learn to give a straight answer to a straight question. 17:32 <@Dagmar> The last time I checked, making the customer want to reach through the network and strangle you wasn't a core sales value. 17:34 <@Corydon76-lap> What's more effective is using an air horn on the phone. Most of these jackoffs are wearing headsets, so they can't reach up fast enough to prevent their ears from ringing 17:35 <@Corydon76-lap> "Now, let's try that question again, only without the bullshit response" 17:36 <@Dagmar> Fuck this. I'm calling Comcast. 17:36 <@Dagmar> This is fucking insane. 17:37 <@Dagmar> I shouldn't have to spend an hour on the damn phone to make this happen. 17:37 <@Corydon76-lap> "We're the phone company. We don't care. We don't have to. You don't have a choice." 17:39 <@Dagmar> Oh hell yes 17:39 <@Dagmar> QA callback option 17:39 <@Dagmar> Let them fuck around on me 17:47 <@Dagmar> The neighborhood sales rep is trying to call me back 17:47 -!- mtown_nerd [n=josh@ghruaim.net] has quit ["Lost terminal"] 17:47 <@Dagmar> TOugh noogies for him 17:48 <@Dagmar> I was about to start telling people "LOOK! DON'T MAKE IT EASIER TO FOR ME TO PIRATE THIS SHIT THAN IT IS TO BUY IT OKAY?" 17:48 <@Dagmar> That would _truly_ be a sad state of affairs. 17:51 < eryc> i bricked my phone :( 17:51 <@Dagmar> OUch 17:51 <@Dagmar> What model? 17:52 < eryc> i can restore i just lose a few weeks of stuff 17:52 < eryc> its an iphone 17:52 < eryc> keeps rebooting nonstop 17:52 <@Dagmar> Ah okay, then not quite bricked yet. Whew 17:52 -!- rhia [n=rhia@pool-173-74-76-231.dllstx.fios.verizon.net] has joined #se2600 17:52 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o rhia] by ChanServ 17:52 < eryc> the cause was it ran out of battery 17:52 < eryc> yea not terrible but pretty upsetting nonetheless 17:53 <@Dagmar> There's a number of phones now like that that can be unbricked if you get into the really arcane methods 18:40 -!- rattleXXw [n=rattle@208.87.107.12] has quit ["Leaving"] 18:47 -!- Corydon76-lap [n=Corydon7@nat/digium/x-anjbaurwdqvncxlz] has quit ["Leaving"] 19:15 -!- fie [n=fie@ip70-178-40-111.ks.ks.cox.net] has joined #se2600 19:16 -!- Venom_X [n=pjacobs@66.54.185.131] has quit [] 19:24 <@Dagmar> WEll, that's fuckin' awesome 19:25 <@Dagmar> 1433 bad sectors on the Seagate disk that's about a year and a half old 19:25 <@Dagmar> THat'll fucking teach me to demonstrate a lack of faith in WD 19:38 -!- fie [n=fie@ip70-178-40-111.ks.ks.cox.net] has quit ["Leaving"] 19:38 <@Dagmar> Oh it gets even better. Apparently it's a firmware issue 20:00 -!- dasunt_ [n=dasunt@174-20-133-46.mpls.qwest.net] has joined #se2600 20:00 -!- dasunt_ [n=dasunt@174-20-133-46.mpls.qwest.net] has quit [Client Quit] 20:00 -!- dasunt_ [n=dasunt@174-20-133-46.mpls.qwest.net] has joined #se2600 22:10 <@sdodson> Dagmar: ollololol, you didn't know about 7200.11? 22:11 <@Dagmar> I do now. 22:11 <@Dagmar> ANd twelve reboots later I'm ready to strangle some maxtor engineers 22:13 <@Dagmar> ...and a few Ubuntu people 22:13 <@Dagmar> Fucking grub 22:14 <@Dagmar> At least lilo prefers to stick ALL it's stuff on a disk you didn't just have to unplug to make the Seagate firmware updater shut the fuck up about it 22:15 <@Dagmar> fffffuck 22:15 <@sdodson> haiguiz 22:16 <@Dagmar> I can't believe they turned over their barracuda stuff to the asshats they brought in from Maxtor 22:16 <@Dagmar> THeir firmware updater only apparently looks for one disk and stops. 22:17 <@Dagmar> THe bootable ISO can't see it unless you turn on legacy compatibility mode for the SATA controller. 22:17 <@sdodson> wguc======= 22:17 <@Dagmar> ...and THEN when it can see it, it basically says "This is not a Maxtor disk. Fuck off. I ain't doin shit." 22:17 <@sdodson> hey, that's not the backspace key 22:17 <@sdodson> which seems to be the default on every system i've ever seen 22:19 <@Dagmar> So I took a chance and went for the tool that runs from within Windows 22:19 <@Dagmar> Apparently it grabs the MBR. 22:20 <@Dagmar> Reboots the machine, boots to an image 22:20 <@Dagmar> ...which since I reenabled the other disk, promptly sees that the WD disk is back, and tells me to fuck off because its' not a Seagate disk 22:20 <@Dagmar> In the meantime, the fucking machine won't boot from the hard disk anymore because of fucking grub 22:21 <@Dagmar> Lemme just throw a few more fucks out there. Fuck fuck fuck. 22:21 <@Dagmar> I wasn't really feeling fulfilled enough by the first few 22:22 <@sdodson> my 7200.11 is just fine 22:22 <@Dagmar> Mine is technically fine, but the squirrely numbers coming from SMART tests are making Ubuntu freak out 22:23 <@Dagmar> Otherwise I wouldn't have even known about the firmware 22:23 <@sdodson> ditch ubuntu 22:23 <@Dagmar> I'd like to but I have to get the machine to boot something else first 22:23 <@Dagmar> I'm actually booting the W7 DVD now to run bootsect 22:25 <@Dagmar> I've kept the legacy SATA compatibility stuff off so WIndows couldn't get any crazy ideas about which interface to use to talk to the disk 22:26 <@Dagmar> You remmeber how XP would just merrily install itself over the PATA-compatibility interface and then burst into flames the moment you installed the SATA driver 22:27 <@Dagmar> Lovely. The icon popped up telling me my new hardware is ready to use 22:28 <@Dagmar> That means Windows 7 probably thinks I have two ST3200's now 22:28 <@Dagmar> THat'll be fun on the next reboot 22:28 <@Dagmar> FINALLY. I think it actually flashed it that time. 22:29 <@Dagmar> It remains to be seen whether or not it also burned that firmware to my optical drive. 22:30 <@Dagmar> THat's confirmed. It thinks I have two of them now, but at least they're both the right firmware. 22:33 -!- fie__ is now known as fie 22:36 < fie> Dagmar, drama queen 22:41 -!- droops [n=erickson@74.193.239.242] has joined #se2600 22:41 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o droops] by ChanServ 22:42 <@sdodson> Dagmar: d00d make a raid array! 22:48 <@sdodson> http://www.leenks.com/link247029.html 22:53 <@Dagmar> That's pretty sweet. 22:53 <@Dagmar> Wait, is this 7200.11 just a completely fucked model? 22:53 <@Dagmar> 'cuz like, NOW the fucking BIOS is even noticing 22:53 <@sdodson> 7200.11 was the series that had the firmware bug that they denied for a long time and then fixed 22:56 <@Dagmar> So was that bug a disk degradation issue, or just incorrectly reporting SMART data like I was thinking? 23:03 <@Dagmar> I'm about to call Seagate 23:03 <@Dagmar> Fuckers 23:10 -!- droops [n=erickson@74.193.239.242] has quit [] 23:14 < dasunt_> Love sucks. 23:58 <@Dagmar> WEll, damn. At least one thing is working in my favor tonight. 23:58 <@Dagmar> The WD and the Seagate drive are, for a change, exactly the same size so I can image things across with dd 23:59 < dasunt_> ORLY? 23:59 * dasunt_ expects one to die. 23:59 -!- ShadowHntr [n=sentinel@wikipedia/Shadowhntr] has joined #se2600 23:59 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o ShadowHntr] by ChanServ 23:59 < dasunt_> Oh, totally random question -- is a psychological breakdown at work covered under workman's comp? --- Log closed Tue Dec 22 00:00:16 2009