The plug thing! It's not plugged!

Wednesday, March 17

Rant

Because It Bears Repeating

Stephen Conroy and the Rudd Labour Government are the enemies of free speech and of human rights in general.  They are ignorant and dishonest in equal measure, and their only saving grace is that they are neither competent enough nor popular enough to get their abominable legislation passed through the Senate.

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Thursday, March 04

Rant

Toshiba Australia, You Still Suck, Though Objectively, At Least, Not As Much As You Did Last Month

Subjectively, however, I'm even more annoyed than before.

There's now a model of their neat little T110 notebook available in Australia for $699, much more in line with pricing elsewhere in the world.  It has an AMD rather than an Intel chip, but I'm fine with that.

But it's the single core model.  The dual core model available elsewhere is only slightly more expensive, has only slightly shorter batter life - and is twice as powerful.

But we don't get that one.

Grrr.

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Tuesday, March 02

Rant

Fractal Wrongness In A Programming Language

I have 800 arrays of about 5000 integers each that I need to combine into an array of about 4 million integers.  I don't care about the order or anything, I just want one big array.

PHP had used 8 minutes of CPU time and 1.2GB of RAM when I shot it through the head.

Solution: Don't use PHP.

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Saturday, February 27

Rant

I Hate Sauerkraut!

Also crazed starving weasels.

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Sunday, February 14

Rant

Dear Dell Australia

I can't configure a server on your site with more than 4GB of RAM or SATA drives bigger than 250GB.  Last time I checked it was not 2002, so could you please FIX IT?

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Friday, February 12

Rant

Die, Atom, Die!

Atom feeds are evil and must be killed.

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Rant

That Is Not The Way To Do It!

I've mentioned LINQ, Microsoft's attempt to make accessing datasources more idiomatic.  And I've mentioned IronPython, Python running on Microsoft's .NET platform.  Since LINQ is part of the .NET library, IronPython can use LINQ.  So I went looking for examples, and found this:
songs = ThenBy(OrderByDesc(  
          Select(content.Elements(xhtml.ns +'tr'), ScrapeSong),   
          lambda s: s.added), lambda s: s.artist)
That is not only not the right way to do it, it actually leaves me wondering if it is possible to construct a more wrong way to do it, short of INTERCAL.

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Wednesday, February 10

Rant

SecondPersonPronounTube

YouTube has zotted my account, for a "Community Guidelines warning sanction" over the opening credits for Popotan.

They sent me an email saying they'd suspended the video, although the reason is about as vague as it could possibly be - that text I just quoted is all they gave me.  But no problem, I'll take it down....

My account is also suspended, something they neglected to mention.

Meh.  Guess I can post anime ops and eds here if I really need to.

Still, it's small potatoes compared to some suspensions.

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Wednesday, February 03

Rant

Saying This While I Still Can

I've long been in favour of Australia adopting the American Bill of Rights unaltered.*

How long I will be permitted to state these views publicly is now in question, following this bit of complete insanity from South Australia:
South Australia has become one of the few states in the world to censor the internet.

The new law, which came into force on January 6, requires anyone making an online comment about next month's state election to publish their real name and postcode.

It could also apply to election comment made on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

The law ... also requires media organisations to keep a person's real name and full address on file for six months, and they face fines of $5000 if they do not hand over this information to the Electoral Commissioner.
This little abomination of human rights is the work of South Australia Attorney General, Michael Atkinson, whose worst crime against humanity prior to this was his single handed prevention of an adult classification for computer and video games in Australia.

No computer games can be sold in Australia unless they are classified by the censors - the Office of Film and Literature Classification - and since there is no adult category, that means that no games can be sold unless they fit into the MA15+ category - i.e. suitable for 15-year-olds.  Any change to this legislation has to be approved by all the state Attorneys General, and Mr Atkinson is the sole holdout.

The reason he gives for this range from the inane to the dishonest, but so do the OFLC's reasons for blocking games.  Fallout 3, for example, was banned in Australia because it includes the use of morphine as a painkiller.**

Read that again.  No need to bang your head against your desk; I'll do that for you.

That's hardly the worst or most recent offense of the OFLC, either.  Just recently, they decided to criminalise the depiction of adult women with insufficiently large breasts.***  In their defense:
We're all taking this too far, says Australian censorship blog Somebody Think of the Children. While it's true that the law does ban women who "look younger" than 18 from appearing in adult publications and films, images of small breasts alone are not "automatically" considered "illegal." For instance, "it’s highly unlikely that a naked photograph of a 30-, 40- or 50-year-old woman with small breasts" would ever be banned.
Images of small breasts alone are not automatically considered illegal.  Australian censorship blog Somebody Think of the Children, you should not automatically be considered insane and committed to an asylum.

And all this is on top of Senator Conroy, the worst Minister for Communications in Australia's history - and given some of the prior incumbents, that's saying something - and his ongoing crusade to destroy the Internet in order to save it.  Australia already has a secret blacklist of web sites that are illegal to visit; dissemination of the list or linking to those web sites is also illegal and subject to a fine of $11,000 per day (and per Senator Conroy, possible criminal charges).

Currently, this secret censorship has no teeth other than the stifling of discussion, though, because there is no actual filter on Australia's internet connections.  The sites are banned, but you can only be fined after the fact.

What Senator Conroy is planning, in the name of protecting the children, of course - he has a regular habit of acccusing his detractors of being in favour of child pornography - is installing mandatory filtering at all of Australia's internet providers that block all requests to the banned list of sites, and extending the list to cover thousands more.  And introducing a second, even more extensive filter with an opt-out clause, which filter, under recent controlled trials with a list of 10,000 banned sites, had a false-positive rate of just 3%.****

This filter works on HTTP requests on port 80.

So it does nothing to control the spread of Senator Conroy's chosen enemy via other channels, does nothing to check encrypted connections of any sort, and imposes a secret regime of censorship on the entire country. 

It can, as it is currently planned, be trivially bypassed via any encrypted proxy or VPN; we can safely assume that those will be next on Senator Conroy's little list.

We need to get rid of the whole present totalitarian mentality at the next election.  No Australian should even think of voting for any candidate supporting such attacks on fundamental human rights.  And then we need to adopt the Bill of Rights for our own.

Update:
Attorney-General Michael Atkinson has made a "humiliating" backdown and announced he will retrospectively repeal his law censoring internet comment on the state election.

After a furious reaction on AdelaideNow to The Advertiser's exclusive report on the new laws, Mr Atkinson at 10pm released this statement: "From the feedback we've received through AdelaideNow, the blogging generation believes that the law supported by all MPs and all political parties is unduly restrictive. I have listened.

"I will immediately after the election move to repeal the law retrospectively."
You will move to repeal the law after the election?  You assume too much, Mr Atkinson.

* Many people here look askance at the Second Amendment, I see no reason we shouldn't adopt it along with the others.

** Fallout 3 was eventually released here; I understand they changed
the name of the drug.

*** You may bang your head against your desk now.


**** If you haven't studied enough statistics to grasp the significance of this, let me explain.  Assume there are ten million web sites in the world (there are far more than that).  Assume 10,000 of those are blocked intentionally.  With that rate of false positives, 300,000 sites will be blocked unintentionally, that is, there will be 30 times as many errors as there are correct answers.

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Thursday, January 21

Rant

Toshiba Australia, You Suck

The Toshiba T115 and T135 are awesome little notebooks.  The T115 has an 11-inch screen and a single-core Core 2 CPU; the T135 a 13-inch screen and a dual-core Core 2.  Apart from that they're basically identical; 1366 x 768 LED-backlit screen, real keyboard, wireless b/g/n, 2GB to 4GB RAM depending on the model, 250GB or 320GB disk likewise.  Not much bigger than a netbook, but a lot more powerful.  The T115 is $461 on Amazon, the T135 starts at around $600.

You can't get them in Australia.

What you can get is the T110 and the T130.  Which have the same specs, but retail for $999 and $1299 respectively.

The Aussie dollar is currently at 91 US cents.  You do the math.

You'd think that with such a huge disparity in pricing, someone would step in and import the US model....  And that's exactly what has happened.  The T115 is $699 locally (including sales tax) and the T135 starts at $899 depending on the model.  They'd probably be even cheaper except that the importer honours the warranty, including shipping costs to and from the US repair centre.

Pure mercantilism, but it's Toshiba's own fault for leaving the door wide open.

Update: Aha!  There's an Athlon Neo X2 version of the T115: dual-core 1.5GHz with Radeon 3200 graphics.  I ran Haruhi with Vista with full Aero effects on a 3200 motherboard for a year - albeit with a 2.6GHz CPU - and that's quite a capable combination.  Cost is $765.  Battery life will probably be noticeably shorter than for the single-core models, but my current notebook's battery is shot and only gets about half an hour on a charge, so it's bound to be an improvement.

Update: Rats, they piddled in my cornflakes.  It doesn't have Wireless-N.  Only one of the 11" models does, in fact.  But then my current notebook doesn't have Wireless-N either.

Update: Huh.  When did Australia enter the 21st century?
All goods (except for tobacco products and alcoholic beverages) may be imported duty and tax free if their value is $1,000 or less.


Update: That model is $498 on Amazon.  So $699 $765 locally isn't bad is a little steep, but still a lot cheaper than Toshiba Australia, who don't offer that model at all.  They list a 6-hour battery life compared to 8 hours for the slower Intel single-core with its slower Intel graphics; I think that's a reasonable trade-off.

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Wednesday, December 23

Rant

What The Hell, Dell?

I was looking at server pricing to see what it would cost to buy some sizeable web/database servers outright. Answer is: Not that much. A Dell dual quad-core Nehalem server with 72GB of RAM runs about $5600. But the drive prices!
1TB 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5" Hot Plug Hard Drive [$579]
That's some markup you've got there, Mr Dell. A 1TB Seagate desktop drive costs $90; the server version (which is  the same hardware, but different firmware) costs $160. Dell's storage prices are pretty much a deal breaker. But at some point I ended up on Dell's Australian site, where the exact same server gives me this option:
1TB 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5 " Hot Plug Hard Drive [$311.30]
Wait, what? I know that the Aussie dollar has strengthened against the US dollar of late, but not that much.

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Tuesday, December 22

Rant

Voltaire May Be Dead...

But as far as I know, the First Amendment* has not been repealed.

One of the most** enjoyable parts of my hobby (and would-be business) is waking up in the morning and checking my mail (e- or snail-) to find that someone wants to sue me for something one of my bloggers has said or done.

Citing "hate speech" laws* of some city***, as though the internet were a local newspaper, just adds to the piquancy.

* Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It's not complicated, people.

** As in, least
.

*** The Fourteenth Amendment reads in part:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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Monday, December 21

Rant

We Hates Them

Aargh.  Computers.  We hates them.  We hates them.

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Thursday, December 03

Rant

Stop Changing Stuff!!

Sony are discontinuing Cinescore - the program I used to mix my three recent albums.  They say they're working on something new, but no word as to what or when; Cinescore and its content packs will cease to be as of 1 January 2010.

If you're interested in a high-level musical paint program, I can recommend it, particularly since it's 60% off until it expires.  The download version comes with 20 themes and costs $45.98.  (I paid $110 or so; it originally sold for around $400, I think.)

Meanwhile, the video player I licensed for integration with Minx has a new version - with a new license, which has no "unrestricted" level; it's all per-site.  Shades of Movable Type and the 3.0 debacle.

I can still integrate the old version, which works perfectly well.  The new version ratchets up the fees dramatically, to the point where the cost/benefit just doesn't make sense...  Just like MT 3.  And we all know how that turned out.

Anyway, just randomly ranting because one of the work servers suffered a RAID explosion yet agan and turned a simple half-hour task into four hours of scrambling.  I hate Adaptec.

Update: The video player people are being reasonable.  They do want more for the upgrade than it cost me for the original license, but it's still cheap for an unrestricted license for this sort of application.

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Saturday, November 21

Rant

Shoot Me Now

Linux gets the job done.  It may not be actually good in comparison with what is possible, with what has been achieved in the past (and indeed the present) in some minicomputer and mainframe operating systems.  But it turns inexpensive commodity hardware into a powerful and flexible computing platform.

And it doesn't require a reboot to change the hostname.

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Friday, November 20

Rant

Dear Fedora People, You Suck

If you install Fedora 12 with /boot on a RAID array - either as its own partition or as part of a root partition that is on a RAID array - and also install the bootloader to that partition rather than to the system MBR, the partition will not be marked as bootable, as it should be. This renders the installed Fedora unbootable. To work around this issue, you must manually mark the appropriate partition as bootable with a tool such as fdisk.
Yeah, I NOTICED.

Of course, this is the default behaviour.  Nice testing there.

Yeah, I know, open source, plenty of betas etc etc.  But you'd think someone would have bothered to actually install it at some point.

Update: Oops, I'm wrong.  The default behaviour is to install the bootloader to the MBR.  However, that doesn't work either.  I'm now trying it with the bootloader actually on the RAID array.  If that doesn't work, I'll try fdisking it with the rescue CD.  If that doesn't work, then screw it, I'll run an un-RAIDed boot partition.  Of course, by that point I will have installed it SEVEN TIMES.

Update: The Fedora installer is a blight.

Apart from being entirely unable to set up a proper software RAID boot partition (something Linux has supported for years), it crashed twice during disk partitioning,* once skipped the package selection stage entirely, and once failed to load the video driver.  Oh, and once it just failed in the middle of the install process with a read error, though that's not necessarily its fault.

On top of that, the install menu doesn't support my keyboard.  The keyboard works in BIOS, works after the install menu, but won't work in the menu itself.  I had the exact same problem in openSUSE, though...  Actually, openSUSE also failed to boot after installation just like Fedora.

Anyway, what with three failed attempts to get a working RAID /boot, one trial of a non-raid /boot, one trip into rescue land, one read error, and four outright installer failures, it's taken me ten tries to do a fairly simple install of a modern version of Linux.  And that's ignoring the failure with openSUSE.  And I'm hardly an inexperienced user; I've been using Linux continuously since RedHat 6.1.

This is just crap.

* Not an outright crash, but the installer's error handling is basically nil.  At the first sign of trouble, you get a dialog box that allows you to reboot.  No options, just reboot.

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Thursday, October 08

Rant

Blub

Got it to partition my disks the way I want them without crashing.

Go it to install.

I suppose that asking it to boot is too much?

My other two Linux boxes are running Fedora 8, which is getting on a bit, but which actually works.  This is my first time with Fedora 11, and so far I'm not all that impressed.

I'll try a minimal install with a plain boot partition* and see how that goes.  I can always take a backup and rebuild using a rescue CD if need be.

Update: Okay, that worked.  In fact, it worked very well.  Fedora 11 is fast and clean and the video driver problems that plagued 9 and 10 seem to be all gone.  The weird thing is that it wanted to boot from /dev/sde, which is not at all where I put the boot volume originally.  So let me try that again with RAID.

Update: And this is why I tell people to buy a small NAS...

Update: Working now.  Once I moved the boot volume to sde/sdf it worked fine, so that was a BIOS issue and nothing to do with Fedora.  Currently installing 1.5GB of patches, then I'll install OpenVZ and see where that takes me...

Update: OpenVZ is a no-go.  Fedora 11's new video drivers - which actually work - require a 2.6.29 kernel.  Stable OpenVZ is on 2.6.18; the latest release is on 2.6.27.  Since I want this to be a stable file server / dev & test server, and I want OpenVZ so it can be the same as production, that means I need to go back to CentOS.  So off I go.

Update: So Haruhi will be the new 2008 Server server, and Yurie can be my Linux desktop or whatever.  That can wait for Fedora 12.

* Rather than RAID-1.

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Rant

AGGAEGRWEFKHW$FKH!!@#$*&!@#$!@!

Did I mention that I hate the Fedora disk partitioning tool?

'Cause I do.

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Monday, October 05

Rant

Aaaargh!

Are Fedora ever going to fix that piece-of-shit partitioning tool?

Version 11 of Fedora after 9 major releases of RedHat and it still blows dead goats.

They've fixed it so that it no longer requires you to unselect all the drives you don't want it to create a partition on.  (Yeah, that was lots of fun when you had eight or ten drives to set up.)

Now it just immediately forgets what drive a partition is supposed to be on, and won't let you clone layouts from one drive to another because of that.

And the old favourite, go back and try to edit your layout because it's randomly numbered your partitions yet again and it decides there's no room for your new partition and crashes.

I hate this thing.

Yeah, I know that I could grab a copy of the source tree and submit a patch or fifteen.  But they change it in every release, and in every release something different is broken - or the same thing is broken in new and wonderful ways.  As well as the things that have always been broken.

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Friday, July 03

Rant

Bum

And a network configuration goof which took us offline again.  I thought we'd had another crash, but no, it was just that the IP addresses for the virtual machines come unbound if you restart the network stack without rebooting.

Eesh.

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Rant

And I've Got WTFF News

Akane, the new super-server that hosts everything mu.nu and mee.nu in over a dozen virtual machine, just died for no apparent reason.

Yeah, we're back.  Because I was already awake at 4:30AM because I'd been up all night fixing other problems.

Had to do an index repair on the main posts table; other than that we seem to be okay.

Update: Guess what the cause of the crash was?  Go on, guess!  You'll never guess!

Oh, you guessed. sad

frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown frown

Update: It gets better.  Apparently I need to back up all my data, rebuild the array, and restore everything again.  Why the hell do I have a RAID controller in the first place?

Update: Okay, I think I've got it.  The system locked up and crashed, apaprently due to a bad disk.  Now it has inconsistent data between the data drives and the parity drive for some part of the secondary volume.  That may or may not be a serious problem, and there's no way to tell unless you run the fix process.  The fix process may involve completely wiping and rebuilding the array.

So no matter what, I need a complete copy of everything on another server.  Which is not a bad thing to have anyway, but it is sixteen million files.

Update: 700,000 down, 15.3 million to go.  I have to back up sixteen complete virtual machines, plus the backup directory, plus the mee.nu filestore.

Update: 2,700,000 done.  There are 5.7 million files across the virtual machines, and another 9.7 million in the backup volume.  But the backup volume doesn't *have* to be backed up, because it's a backup.

So, halfway.

I'll schedule the RAID repair for this weekend, so that if it does end up taking us out, I have the maximum time to fix things.

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Monday, June 29

Rant

I've Got WTF News, And I've Got Burned Too Many Times News

The other server™ blew up again.  I was meaning to transfer the two remaining sites on that server to the new system over the weekend, but I ended up having to work Friday night and Saturday, and then I was too tired to focus on server stuff and watched Gurren Lagann instead.

So, naturally, it died the very next day.

That's the WTF part.

On the burned too many times side of things, however, I have a full backup from an hour before the server died.

In fact, I have two full backups from an hour before the server died.  Plus a full backup from the previous day, and another from the day before that, and one from last week, and from the previous week, and...  Yeah.  Burned too many times.

Update: Drive failure.  That makes two in what, three months?  In a server that only has two drives in the first place.

They're 500GB Western Digital drives.  I don't have any 500GB WD drives...   Oh, wait, I do have one, and it sucks, but that's the external enclosure, not the drive itself.  But I have, um, 14 other Western Digital drives in use at home (is that a lot?) bought over the last three years, and not one of them has failed.  So...  Bad batch?  Insufficient airflow?  Cosmic rays?  Evil leprechauns?  Karma?  Or just the hard drive destruction bunny spreading the joy around?  I dunno.

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Saturday, April 04

Rant

No Poo

Server status: PE_INVENTORYCHECK_FAILURE

Guess I won't have my new server today. sad

Hmm.  Hang on.  It also says it's already configured with 2 CPUs, 12 DIMMS, 3 disks and 1 SSD.  So what inventory check did it fail?

Update: Okay, it was just some software inventory issue.  The automated hardware burn-in test is running now.

Update: So I sent an email off to sales to check up on a couple of things, and they managed to sound like they answered all of my questions without actually answering any of them.  Yeah, the natural way to read the response is that the answer is yes, but it doesn't actually say that, it answers subtly different and completely unhelpful questions instead.

It's annoying and kind of embarassing to have to ask the same questions again to try to elicit an apropos response, but if I don't sort it out now it could be a major pain in the future.

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Rant

What The Hell, Microsoft?

I was just installing the drivers for my colour laser (nice internet connectivity there, HP - 7kb/sec?) so I could print out the receipt for my shiny new server and my E drive disappeared.  Not in Explorer, not in Storage Manager, just gone.

Out of all of my drives, that would be best one to lose, but that doesn't mean I want to lose it.  But if something weird happens when you install a driver, 99% of the time it will be Windows or the driver at fault, and so it was.

But still - how the hell can a printer driver disable a disk drive, Microsoft?

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Tuesday, March 31

Rant

Well, Poop, Part 37 Or Something

The new Xeon 5500 dual-processor Nehalem has been announced.

So too - if you look hard enough - the single-processor Xeon 3500.

SuperMicro (and SoftLayer exclusively uses SuperMicro) have announced over 30 new Xeon 5500 motherboards.

And no new Xeon 3500 boards.  Meaning that all they have are their existing Core i7 boards, none of which support registered memory, so they're limited to 12GB.

Which means that to go beyond 12GB I'll still need to pay the dual-processor-motherboard tax of at least $100 per month per server - and then pay for the extra memory.

And the dual-processor CPUs themselves are substantially more expensive than the single-processor equivalents.

Dammit, SuperMicro, pull your finger out.  Even Gigabyte managed to get this one right, and they hardly have a presence in the server market at all.

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