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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:37 am

Moo! Moo!

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:18 am

Cluck.

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flowergirlajg · Post by **flowergirlajg** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:43 pm

Gobble! GOOBLE GOOBLE!!

yeah, i said gooble

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:58 pm

quack

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 3:45 pm

One of these days, maybe the snow is going to melt.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:53 am

Red Squirrel wrote: One of these days, maybe the snow is going to melt.

Snow!?

Did I ever mention that I bought a Kill A Watt? It rocks.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:43 pm

Chris Vogel wrote:
Red Squirrel wrote: One of these days, maybe the snow is going to melt.

Snow!?

Did I ever mention that I bought a Kill A Watt? It rocks.

Those seem cool, though I've heard they're actually not that accurate as they are not true RMS. Not sure if it's true or not though.

Would be interesting to plug in my servers into it to see how much power they use all day.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:39 am

Red Squirrel wrote: Those seem cool, though I've heard they're actually not that accurate as they are not true RMS. Not sure if it's true or not though.

The package says 0.2% accuracy, but I did a search and found people claiming otherwise. Now I have doubts.

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:31 am

Chris Vogel wrote:
Red Squirrel wrote: Those seem cool, though I've heard they're actually not that accurate as they are not true RMS. Not sure if it's true or not though.

The package says 0.2% accuracy, but I did a search and found people claiming otherwise. Now I have doubts.

I suppose the real question is how accurate do you need it. IN all honesty all you're probably going to use it for is to gage how much power your devices use in relation to each other. Will it tell you if your PC uses more power than your tv? Sure, just don't expect to write a scientific paper about it.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:56 pm

A fun way to test power consumption is with an amp meter, some crocodile clips, and paper clips. You can use your imagination what to do.

Just don't touch anything...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:47 pm

Only 261 till Christmas!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:36 am

Apparently Ubuntu doesn’t like when you do a BIOS update while it’s in hibernation. It wouldn’t wake up, so I had to restart.

Speaking of Ubuntu, the 9.04 Release Candidate will be released today. I can’t wait to seed the torrents! (I won’t be upgrading yet though.)

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:37 pm

Rebooting a linux machine is so sad to do.

My online server is sitting at 364 days as of now. In 2 hours it will hit 1 year.

Though, if a workstation could hit that high of uptime, especially a laptop, I'd be quite impressed.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:12 am

Red Squirrel wrote: Rebooting a linux machine is so sad to do.

My online server is sitting at 364 days as of now. In 2 hours it will hit 1 year.

Though, if a workstation could hit that high of uptime, especially a laptop, I'd be quite impressed.

My server has been on for 172 days, but I restarted Apache about a month ago for a security update. (You can get the uptime for specific processes by doing ps -eaf or ls -ld /proc/[insert PID here] .) Of course, none of this necessarily indicates high availability.

Charlie was on for around 40 days, counting suspend and hibernate, although it’d be much higher if I’d stop doing stupid stuff like removing the battery or needlessly updating the BIOS. The great thing is that most of my applications were up for those 40 days too, not just the kernel. (Epiphany is a notable exception, unfortunately.)

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:46 am

my machine has only been up for a little over a week. Mind you I was installing patches last Sunday, so it goes on windows.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:09 am

I hit 1 year uptime a few days ago, then yesterday I had to reboot.

Oh well at least I hit my goal. It ran out of swap and locked up.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:56 am

Red Squirrel wrote: I hit 1 year uptime a few days ago, then yesterday I had to reboot.

Oh well at least I hit my goal. It ran out of swap and locked up.

That’s odd. I thought the OOM Killer was supposed to kick in and kill the process that’s probably responsible.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:43 am

Hmm interesting, I was actually thinking about writing an app that checks top and does this, but if it already exists... just need to figure how to set it up.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:37 pm

My cat sleeping funny again:

http://img.redsquirrel.me/apr-24-09/mitsou2.jpg

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Thu May 07, 2009 12:54 pm

Dead = This place.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Mon May 11, 2009 12:50 am

Reaper wrote: Dead = This place.

At least it's still here. The forum I have in my sig disappeared from the internet one day. The admin had warned us he wanted to stop hosting it, but I didn't think it would just disappear.

Happy Mother's Day, to any mother who is reading this.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Mon May 11, 2009 12:51 am

Clueless went to the prom about a week ago. I'll have to see if she wants to post any pictures.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Mon May 11, 2009 5:20 pm

Reaper wrote: Dead = This place.

BRAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Wed May 13, 2009 12:00 am

Anyone ever read "Le Petit Prince" ? I'm reading it for french class. in french. but the teacher said its been translated in as many languages as the bible. so apparently its pretty well known

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun May 17, 2009 1:25 am

Clueless wrote: Anyone ever read "Le Petit Prince" ? I'm reading it for french class. in french. but the teacher said its been translated in as many languages as the bible. so apparently its pretty well known

lol it sounded familiar so I googled it, yes I have read it in school as well!

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