Tuesday, 2008-09-23

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jgay_(yes, reposting from #freeculture) - You all might be interested in Geurilla Open Access (http://guerillaopenaccess.com/). You all might be interested in Geurilla Open Access (http://guerillaopenaccess.com/). If so, you might also want to join the facebook group I made for it (http://tinyurl.com/525cm3)00:28
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Sterenahhhh where is currybot ?14:43
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nkinkadeHi Steren.  Are you working on a8 right now?15:39
Sterennkinkade: yes just uploading acawiki skin15:39
nkinkadeSteren: Cool ... can you just ping me when you're done.  I'd like to install some updates and reboot.15:40
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Sterennkinkade: sure, I'm done in about 2 minutes15:40
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Sterennkinkade: Ok I've finished15:42
nkinkadeSteren: Great, thanks.  I'll update and reboot now.15:42
nkinkadeSteren: You've got an open terminal on there.  Do you want to close that first?15:43
Sterenthanks, it's closed now15:43
Sterenit's time for me to study some Spanish, have a nice day15:44
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nkinkadepaulproteus: Any info regarding the backup machine?19:04
nkinkadeOh, and hi!19:05
paulproteusnkinkade, Hi!19:05
paulproteus(-:19:05
paulproteusI'm at home right now, actually, playing with my new laptop.19:05
paulproteusI mean, working from home.19:05
nkinkadeSounds like your new X300 was a purchase you don't regret.19:05
paulproteusNot yet! (-;19:05
paulproteusThe keyboard is really phenomenally good.19:06
paulproteusThat's really the best part.19:06
nkinkade$2K good?19:06
paulproteus*That's* a good question. (-:19:06
nkinkadehaha.19:06
paulproteusAcross three years: probably.19:06
paulproteusThe real question is how it compares to the T400's keyboard, which I suspect is identical or at least interchangeable.19:06
nkinkadeLet me see if I can recruit Bovinity to take a look at the backup machine.19:06
Bovinityhmm?19:07
paulproteusThe other thing is maybe I should have picked a machine with a twelve-inch screen.19:07
paulproteusBovinity, There's this machine in the corner of the office behind the massive copier.19:07
Bovinityyes19:07
paulproteusIt stores 1T disks and backups.19:07
nkinkadeBovinity: The backup machine seems to be running, and perhaps even working, but I can't SSH into it for some reason.19:07
paulproteusIt's pingable but not sshable.19:07
Bovinityyeah, i noticed that last night when NK asked19:07
Bovinitynmap says ssh is open19:07
nkinkadeBovinity: You could try to put a monitor and keyboard on it, or you could just hold down the power button.19:08
nkinkadeThe former, of course, would be better, but the latter would be much much more expeditious.19:08
paulproteusBTW, I'm using my fingerprint as my sudo and login password.19:09
Bovinityis the backup machine actually running smtp, or is nmap being misleading?19:10
paulproteusI set it up as an Asheesh-SMTP-over-SSH-tunnel-style SMTP gateway for the office.19:10
paulproteusSince iirc there were problems or miscommunications about our DSL ISP's SMTP.19:11
Bovinityi'd still expect it to respond to smtp commands when i telnet. so that sounds broken too.19:11
paulproteusI promise I haven't touched it!19:11
paulproteus(-;19:11
nkinkadeIt seems that Postfix is even having a problem.19:12
nkinkadeI can connect to port 25, but I get no response.19:12
Bovinityi reset it19:13
Bovinityworking now.19:14
nkinkadeBovinity: Thanks.  The 1TB disk is surprisingly full.19:15
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paulproteusnkinkade, Are you rebooting a7 all the time?20:19
paulproteusYou keep breaking herder-dot, which is why I keep noticing.20:20
paulproteusI mean, I guess it's fine, and I should probably set up some init script anyway.20:20
nkinkadepaulproteus: No, I only rebooted it once, earlier today, and I thought I had restarted herder.20:22
nkinkadeWas it not working in some way?20:22
nkinkadepaulproteus: Why don't you make herder startup automatically in /etc/rc.local or something like that?20:23
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paulproteusI will one of these days.20:25
paulproteusre: startup automatically20:25
nkinkadedoes "./bin/paste serve live.ini" not do it?20:26
paulproteusbin/paster, yeah.20:26
paulproteusBut it runs in the foreground.20:26
nkinkadeI wasn't sure, but that's what I ran.20:26
paulproteusSo I leave it running in a screen.20:26
nkinkadeI backgrounded it.20:26
nkinkadeAh ha.20:26
paulproteusMaybe it doesn't like when its controlling tty goes away, but takes a while to notice, or something.20:26
nkinkadeI wasn't even sure if that was the right startup command, but just poking around that seemed reasonable and it even made herder seem to work.20:26
* paulproteus nods enthusiastically.20:27
nkinkadeI guess I only tested that that started herder when it was running in the foreground, then I stopped it and restarted it with &, but didn't check again.  Shucks.20:27
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paulproteusNo big deal; it has no users yet, it's just in alpha.20:27
nkinkadepaulproteus: Does it need to run as your user?20:27
paulproteusIt really should, yeah.20:27
nkinkadeOkay, I'm going to add the startup to rc.local, so this doesn't happen again, though it's been quite a while since I last rebooted a7.20:28
paulproteusOkay.20:28
paulproteusThanks!20:28
nkinkadeI never got around to rebooting a week or two ago, so I just decided to do it today.20:28
paulproteusCool.20:28
BjornWpaulproteus: got a second? Its about the key error I got.20:32
paulproteusBjornW, Ya20:32
BjornWpaulproteus: I followed the instructions to the letter, but I think I got the error due to setting up a previous key for this repository. Any clue how to check if this is the case?20:34
paulproteusBasically, that shouldn't be a problem.20:35
paulproteusAPT doesn't store key to repository mappings.20:35
paulproteusCan you just pastebin a shell transcript of you following it to the letter for me?20:35
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BjornWpaulproteus: sure is a script file ok?20:36
paulproteusWell, I'd rather see a pastebin of a shell transcript so I can see what your system replied to the commands.20:37
BjornWpaulproteus: I don't belief this. No error this time, but I can see some repositories being 'ignored' see http://pastie.org/27800920:40
BjornWpaulproteus: I'm gonna try to install liblicense20:41
paulproteusPlease!20:41
paulproteusBTW, greg-g reports it may fail due to an independent problem of mine.20:42
paulproteusliblicense-cli is a good package to install.20:42
BjornWpaulproteus: ok, I'll start with the cli version. Are there any php wrappers or bindings already available?20:43
paulproteusThere aren't, and that would a great thing to have.20:43
paulproteusThere are Python bindings, though.20:43
BjornWpaulproteus: I've AFAIK never made any bindings, but I can certainly create some php wrapper. I might even try to learn and create php bindings.20:45
greg-gBjornW: did it install ok? and what distro are you on?20:45
BjornWgreg-g: installing seemed to be ok. I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)20:46
greg-ghrmmm20:46
greg-gyou installed liblicense-cli?20:46
BjornWyep20:46
paulproteusWow, more updates to Tiny Tiny RSS!20:46
paulproteusThis thing is pretty seriously maintained.20:46
greg-gpaulproteus: awesome20:46
paulproteusBTW, greg-g, I'm "trying out" (AKA turning to the dark side of using applications on the Web) TTRS despite my previous professed love for feed2imap.20:47
greg-gpaulproteus: :) awesome, but it is locally hosted, so itisn't as bad as other applications on the web!20:47
paulproteusThat's what I keep telling myself.20:48
paulproteusInline MP3 flash player for podcasts? That sounds cool, and probably works with Gnash/Swfdec.20:49
nkinkadepaulproteus: Just ignore any messages you get from Nagios about herder until I get the startup script set.20:49
paulproteusnkinkade, Okay.20:49
greg-gwth, why can't I install liblicense-cli?20:49
paulproteusgreg-g, Probably you have some of my more evil earlier packages installed with crazy crazy dependencies.20:50
paulproteusI tried to normalize them out with the 0.8 series.20:50
paulproteusdpkg -l | grep liblicense20:50
paulproteusWell, the T-Mobile Android phone is $179 (perhaps that includes the new account discount, though).20:50
greg-ghttp://paste2.org/p/7786120:50
* paulproteus avoids saying "RIP OpenMoko"20:50
paulproteusgreg-g, Huh?20:50
greg-grc  liblicense2                                0.7.0-1+cc+amd64+120:51
paulproteusOh!20:51
paulproteusGot it.20:51
paulproteusYeah, remove that sucker.20:51
BjornWgreg-g: mine got removed automatically20:51
paulproteusWhoa, other people than greg-g installed my earlier packages?20:51
* paulproteus is blown away20:51
greg-gapt-cache policy liblicense220:51
greg-gliblicense2: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.7.0-1+cc+amd64+120:51
BjornWpaulproteus: c'mon you know there are other geeks interested in this stuff don't you ;)20:52
paulproteusBjornW, I do hope so, but sometimes I wonder... (-:20:52
BjornWpaulproteus: now may I bitch a bit about the formatting of license -m ? :P20:53
greg-ghttp://paste2.org/p/7786320:53
paulproteusBjornW, Yes, it sucks. (-:20:53
paulproteusgreg-g, Yeah, "rc" != "ii", curiously20:53
paulproteusdpkg --purge it if you like.20:53
paulproteusrc means just config files remain.20:53
greg-gohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHH!!!!!20:53
paulproteusThat shouldn't create conflicts.20:54
paulproteusAs far as I know...20:54
paulproteusSince config files really shouldn't be conflicting with anything else.20:54
paulproteusAnd these packages don't even have config files.20:55
paulproteusI think.20:55
greg-gis liblicense2 supposed to be at .8-1? or .7.0?20:57
greg-gBjornW: 64bit or 32?20:57
BjornWpaulproteus: mhhm whats the diff between liblicense2 and 3?20:57
greg-gpaulproteus: I'm thinking this maybe a packages aren't built for 64bit issue?20:58
BjornWgreg-g: 32-bit. 64 is asking for pain, besides I've only 2GB ram20:58
paulproteusgreg-g, Ah-hah  That's very likely.20:58
paulproteus(again)20:58
paulproteusOoh, Cheese works properly with the laptop's camera.20:59
greg-gpaulproteus: planet [Debian|Ubuntu|GNOME] meme time? ;)21:00
paulproteusOkay!21:00
BjornWnewbie snake handler question: where can I find the liblicense python bindings after install?21:03
paulproteuspython21:04
Bovinitypaulproteus: how are you liking it?21:04
paulproteusimport liblicense21:04
paulproteusBovinity, Which "it"?21:04
Bovinitypaulproteus: the laptop21:04
paulproteusIt's not totally clear to me that it was worth all that money, but I'm certainly enjoying it.21:05
paulproteusSometimes I just think, "Man this thing is so light, it's awesome."21:05
paulproteusIt may become clear to me later. (-:21:05
BjornWpaulproteus: I meant the path ;)21:05
paulproteusBjornW, It's sort of complicated. (-:21:05
paulproteusThe best way to find out is:21:05
paulproteusimport liblicense21:05
paulproteusliblicense21:05
paulproteusThat last statement will have python show you where its bindings are.21:06
BjornWpaulproteus: mucho gracias. FYI it ended up here:  /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/liblicense/__init__.pyc21:07
paulproteusBjornW, Sure, but that's only the half of it. (-;21:08
nkinkadepaulproteus: herder seems to be working backgrounded.  Does that sound right to you?21:08
paulproteusnkinkade, It's running in my screen.  Did you also kill it there?21:08
nkinkadeI did a killall paster.21:08
paulproteusOkay, great.21:08
paulproteusnkinkade, I fear it'll die when its controlling tty goes away.21:08
paulproteusBTW Nagios thinks it's down.21:09
BjornWpaulproteus: btw are there already any plans or people working on liblicense with php?21:09
paulproteusNo plans and no people.21:10
paulproteusJust you! (-:21:10
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BjornWpaulproteus: ok, you're doomed :D21:10
paulproteusI look forward to discovering that for real. (-:21:10
nkinkadepaulproteus: Which controlling tty would that be?  I though that using & would detach it from any controlling terminal?21:10
nkinkadeOr does that just force it to background at startup?21:11
paulproteus#221:11
nkinkadeAh, well if it's of any interest I ran it as sudo su.  Let me kill the terminal and see what happens.21:11
BjornWpaulproteus: I'll have a closer look and write down my ideas in a mail to cc-devel.21:12
paulproteusBjornW, Sounds great.21:12
paulproteusnkinkade, Cool.21:12
paulproteusBTW, this may not be worth the effort.21:12
paulproteusMe running it in a screen for now may be totally fine until we have, like, users.21:12
BjornWbye guys, gonna catch some sleep21:12
paulproteusAnd the Paste documentation (or #something) is likely to yield high-quality answers.21:12
paulproteusNight BjornW!21:12
greg-glater BjornW21:12
nkinkadepaulproteus: I totally logged out of a7 and it's still there.21:12
paulproteusnkinkade, Okay - the controlling tty thing was just a guess.21:13
paulproteusIf it works, I'm okay with that!21:13
nkinkadeWill you buy that for $1?21:13
paulproteusI don't know, I'm out of cash since buying this laptop.21:15
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paulproteusnkinkade, re: Herder: I just got a Nagios warning.  Yet somehow, it's actually up.22:28
nkinkadepaulproteus: I was noticing that.  How recent is the message?22:32
nkinkadeThere were a couple of messages earlier, but I don't see any now.  Strangely there was not OK message when it came back up.22:33
nkinkadepaulproteus: I assume your whizbang 2010 laptop has an integrated webcam?22:33
paulproteusnkinkade, Ya.22:33
nkinkadeWanna try out ekiga?22:34
nkinkadeaptitude install ekiga should do it.22:34
nkinkadeAnd then creating an account at ekiga.net.22:34
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paulproteusOh, I'm running a kernel that doesn't have audio drivers.22:36
paulproteusAnd Ekiga doesn't like the cam, even though Cheese does.22:37
paulproteusAnd I'm behind symmetric NAT that Ekiga isn't confident it can tunnel out of.22:38
paulproteusWow, that JsWidget bug was dumb.22:47
nkinkadepaulproteus: Isn't that what SIP is supposed to help with?  I think it can usually get out from behind a firewall.22:48
paulproteusThat's what STUN is supposed to help with, and it is usually able to.22:48
paulproteusI'm impressed. )-:22:48
nkinkadeIs it that Ekiga doesn't like the cam, or is it lack of a driver?22:49
paulproteusCheese works fine.22:49
paulproteusMaybe it doesn't work well under V4L2, the API Ekiga is using.22:49
paulproteusI don't have any real ideas.22:49
nkinkadeNeither do I.22:49
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nathanypaulproteus: SYN23:04
paulproteusnathany, ACK23:05
nathanyif i'm looking at doing some pylons work, any reason to go with 0.97beta vs. 0.96.2?23:06
nathanyer, 0.9.7 v. 0.9.6.223:06
paulproteusI don't know of any specific ones other than, "It's the future," which means you're in supported-land for more of the future.23:07
paulproteusOh, I guess Genshi integration is better in 7.23:07
nathanyok, cool23:07
paulproteusGiven no significant reasons other than it, I would pick the supported-land-for-more-of-the-future.23:08
nathanyright, makes sense... just curious if there was anything super compelling23:10
paulproteusI could have missed stuff, but I don't know of any. (-:23:11
paulproteusIn a way, it's hilarious when pam hangs.23:15
nkinkadeI know I always ROFL when pam hangs, then again I'm not sure it's ever happened to me.23:16
paulproteusIt's super secure, in a way.23:18
paulproteus'Cause no more authentications will happen.23:19
nkinkadeBy the way, paulproteus and nathany, I'm tempted to want to put a little more memory in a7 and possibly a5.23:20
nkinkadea7 has gone down for the last 2 nights.  dmesg is full of "cannot allocate page" errors.23:21
nkinkadeSorry, that is "swapper: page allocation failure"23:22
nkinkadeInterestingly, it also reports that there is lots of swap available.23:22
paulproteusThat is curious.23:22
nathanynkinkade: i'm curious why the up-tick in problems23:22
nkinkadeTotal swap = 2650684kB .... Free swap:       2124760kB23:23
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nkinkadenathany: The problem are transient, and the watchdog script usually corrects it in a matter of a minute or two.23:24
paulproteusI do wonder what is happening.23:24
nkinkadeI'm not sure, but one guess is that it's just spikes in traffic that overwhelm the machine temporarily.23:24
nkinkadeIt could be something else.23:24
nkinkadepaulproteus: You can login to a7 and look at dmesg.  The end parts are not easy to read.23:25
nkinkadeWhat I'm going to do tomorrow is enhance the watchdog script to also dump some stats about the machine at the time that it notices a potential failure ... such as concurrent, unique connections,  memory usage, processor usage, etc.23:27
* paulproteus will avoid dmesg for now then23:27
nkinkadepaulproteus: Feel free to look at dmesg, but unless you have a deep understanding of reading kernel backtraces, then it may not be worth the time.23:28
nkinkadeIn any case, I feel like a few extra GB of memory couldn't hurt those machines in any way ...23:30
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paulproteusnkinkade, Maybe the Ekiga video problem was due to another app using the device.23:48
nkinkadepaulproteus: Well, if you can figure it out then I'm game to give it a try.23:49
paulproteusStill timing out on the NAT nonsense.23:49
paulproteusI could fix it, but I will just not look at it and instead do some work. (-:23:50
nkinkadepaulproteus: But another way to look at it would be that to fix it will benefit our meetings, though it may not take precedence over some other things.23:52
paulproteusWell, I'm at some taqueria in the Mission, and I can always VPN or SSH tunnel out of here to somewhere that has a real IP.23:54
paulproteusOr not be in this lame cone NAT.23:54
paulproteus(Actually it's Papalote, not just any taqueria.)23:54
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nkinkadepaulproteus: regarding the Server Beach stats, based on some forum threads at their site, it would appear that they do not provide your actual bandwidth usage, and will only notify you if you go over.23:56
nkinkadeSo much for that idea.  Though I guess there is nothing stopping us from monitoring on our own server-side.23:57
nkinkadeBut I don't have plans to do it.23:57
paulproteusifconfig eth0 will say, too.23:57
* paulproteus checks ifconfig23:57
nkinkadeThat will only give the stats since the last reboot, correct?23:57
paulproteusYeah.23:57
nkinkadeWell, I rebooted this morning.23:58
nkinkadeBut I suppose you could extrapolate.23:58
nkinkadenetstat should also do well for that.23:58
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paulproteuseth0 on i-dot (a8) is 14GiB in 8h of uptime23:58
paulproteus=approx= 42GiB/day23:58
paulproteus=approx= 630 GiB in the 15-day period where rose sent out 2TiB.23:59
paulproteusThat's ca. 4Mbits/s, by trivial careless mind arithmetic23:59
paulproteusMaybe more like 3.23:59

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