revenginoratts - like avenging angels except... angrier and hairier
tearevistoring - the process of redefining one's overall view of tea
riversegtation - the policy of keeping rivers apart as opposed to... you know... *cast eyes adrift in desperation* ...chopping them up into little bits (like in riversegmentation)
orgiesinvertat - a form of coded invitation to exceptionally friendly gatherings where there is no erm... dress code
tergiversation - First (and penultimate) word of Shakespeare's least known and shortest play "Dick Shinnary - A Manne Withe Notte A Lotte To Saye". Only ever used with "ornottergiversation" (the second and last word of Shakespeare's least known and shortest play "Dick Shinnary - A Manne Withe Notte A Lotte To Saye")
tiviasterrgeon - alternative spelling for the rare, and virtually unheard of, Baltic tievear sturgeon
interrogatives - huh? Oh.
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I wasn't able to pay much attention to the boards yesterday so I'm rather glad there wasn't a whole flood of frantic activity here.
We've had quite a few severe thunderstorms in good ole Brisvegas lately - $19K hail damage to the pride and joy of one particular rele makes you rather glad the auto insurance was up to date :-). Yesterday was the quite distant aftermath of one such storm - rain clearing but no untoward lightning or thunder. Out of the blue (so to speak) the dreaded half second lights flicker that causes you to mutter *expletives deleted* when you realise it was probably just the perfect interval to take out a computer with the highest chance of maximum consequential damage.
If you have one machine, you would grumble a bit at the inconvenience but chances are in a minute or two when it has rebooted and everything is back to normal, you would promptly forget about it. Even if you had a few, chances are you still could reboot them all (or watch them reboot themselves) with little chance of anything untoward causing you real grief.
When you have an *insane* number ( hard to believe, I know, but I think there probably are such people around), the chance of the power dip taking out a machine in the middle of something like a disk write seems to be quite high. On one previous occasion, I had three machines with scrambled disks. I was a bit more fortunate this time - there was only one.
Even if a power outage is long enough to cause a complete shutdown, there is a further potential problem - you *will* blow all the circuit breakers if the machines try to restart themselves the moment the power is restored. The inrush current to all the PSUs is quite fierce.
So after any sort of power disturbance, I have a lot to do to restore a modicum of normality. I have to hookup a keyboard, mouse and monitor to each machine and fire it back up, hopefully without incident, before moving on to the next one. Unfortunately, there always seem to be a few of those 'incidents'. Everything from the machine deciding it can't find the external GPU so you have a completely blank screen during startup until you plug the monitor into the internal one and *voila* ... , to the startup script deciding that there is some damage to filesystems that it can't handle so it tells you to "run fsck manually ...". Those sorts of things (through bitter experience) are expected, and are (now) just a nuisance to deal with. The more dreaded problem is when you can't fix things by 'running fsck manually ...' :-(.
I'm getting used to those too and have developed a strategy that seems to work. The linux file system consistency check (fsck) is very good at fixing things most of the time, but if it can't, I run it manually with options to scan for bad sectors. A few times now, I've seen it find (and attempt to replace) bad sectors that seem to be concentrated at a fairly narrow range of sector positions. The system was working fine before the power outage so I'm guessing there must have been some sort of very localised surface damage (something like a head crash) when the power went out. It's been possible, each time I've tried it, to repartition the disk to avoid the damaged area and put it back into service. It takes a bit of time finding where the bad spots are and then working out and implementing a re-partitioning plan, but I like that sort of challenge anyway :-).
So it took about 3 hours to restart all but one of my fleet and a further 6 hours to fully recover the last one. It shouldn't have taken that long but I was a bit stupid and managed to completely lose (for a while anyway) the BOINC partition by not paying proper attention to what partitions I was deleting. Of course, I hadn't bothered to back it up, had I :-). I'd never used it before but I knew there was this 'testdisk' utility that was supposed to be good at finding 'lost' partitions. I couldn't think of a better option so I decided to give it a go. I was expecting the worst but it worked like a charm and I soon had the complete partition back again ... *big sigh of relief* .. :-).
So with everything appearing to be okay, I fired up BOINC on that last machine and was very happy to see it pick up from exactly where it was so rudely interrupted :-). I wonder what it really was, that I was intending to do yesterday ...?? :-).
Oh, that's right ... I was going to see if you had got all the clues ... some were a bit cryptic ...
There I go, rabbiting on and not paying attention ... What a lovely list of words most splendid - all of them, really ... but when one bandies about the hallowed name of the bard ...
Quote:
tergiversation - First (and penultimate) word of Shakespeare's least known and shortest play "Dick Shinnary - A Manne Withe Notte A Lotte To Saye". Only ever used with "ornottergiversation" (the second and last word of Shakespeare's least known and shortest play "Dick Shinnary - A Manne Withe Notte A Lotte To Saye")
Ahhh ... Dick, what a brilliant character ... so economical with his words ... and when you think that his cousin Oxford Dick, on his father's side I believe, was so completely ... shall we say ... utter verbiage, really!!
So, ... congratulations to anniet ... who appears to be ... or not to be ... the winner of this round. She obviously did find that the soft "g" did give much comfort indeed!!
Edit: Of course ... being of antipodean origin ... and unschooled in the lesser known Shakespearean works ... I, rather crudely, was of the impression that tergiversation was what one bandied about in the pub if one was involved in a 'discussion' and one desperately needed to end the conversation ... right there and then!! ... I found out much later about all those other meanings ... :-).
THAT *point to that* is the kind of day when I wonder what possessed us to leave the trees *cast mind back and attempt to recall if it was a particularly juicy looking strawberry...*
Your ability to string complete and intelligible sentences together without the passage of many months and many more counselling sessions is awe inspiring! If I had a hat I would take it off :) as I do not... I will merely gape... :)
Glad you are back with us! :) I suspect one day I will... tinker with something... and that will be that. I will never be heard from again... :)
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There I go, rabbiting on and not paying attention ... What a lovely list of words most splendid - all of them, really ... but when one bandies about the hallowed name of the bard ...
Quote:
tergiversation - First (and penultimate) word of Shakespeare's least known and shortest play "Dick Shinnary - A Manne Withe Notte A Lotte To Saye". Only ever used with "ornottergiversation" (the second and last word of Shakespeare's least known and shortest play "Dick Shinnary - A Manne Withe Notte A Lotte To Saye")
Ahhh ... Dick, what a brilliant character ... so economical with his words ... and when you think that his cousin Oxford Dick, on his father's side I believe, was so completely ... shall we say ... utter verbiage, really!!
So, ... congratulations to anniet ... who appears to be ... or not to be ... the winner of this round. She obviously did find that the soft "g" did give much comfort indeed!!
THAT'S A WORD!? Are you sure Mike hasn't pulled some strings somewhere to get one of his officially "recognised"? :)
edit (put in between already posted stuff to make it less confusing, but in a more confusing way): Yep... it is peoples :) Apparently it means: to repeatedly change one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause... or to turn renegade.
We were given a VERY good clue... and it whizzed COMPLETELY over our heads :))) [/edit]
I'm flabbergasted *pause for duration of flabbergasting* Okay... well I've got mighty footsteps to follow in... I will be back - with something at least half worthy (I hope :))
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Well I'll be unpronoununcable ! Blimey Will Shake, what a corker ! :-)
Voluminous Tergiversations to Anniet !
[ I must say though your celtic myth index is rising. Are ye sure that nay witches are being in your kith & ken ? I just be saying .... ]
Cheers, Mike.
Well... someone did call my mum a witch once :)))) and then (according to her) tried to chop off her toes with a shovel. He was I believe, quite upset at the time and sort of wanted her off his property. It worked... I only have a twin thing going on with my sister though :) that I'm aware of anyway...
edit: and then there's my mother-in-law - who always arrives by broomstick *smack hand* don't care! Was worth it :) *rub hand better* :)))))))
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THAT *point to that* is the kind of day when I wonder what possessed us to leave the trees *cast mind back and attempt to recall if it was a particularly juicy looking strawberry...*
Even the trees were a mistake. No one should ever have left the oceans.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
THAT *point to that* is the kind of day when I wonder what possessed us to leave the trees *cast mind back and attempt to recall if it was a particularly juicy looking strawberry...*
Even the trees were a mistake. No one should ever have left the oceans.
Bad day? Or just feel like being right :) My friend's five year old remembers when she was a fish :) Be interesting to see what she does with the information when she grows up :)
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RE: *sigh with
)
Ah, but that requires two n's and you know where that goes ...
LOL !
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
revenginoratts - like
)
revenginoratts - like avenging angels except... angrier and hairier
tearevistoring - the process of redefining one's overall view of tea
riversegtation - the policy of keeping rivers apart as opposed to... you know... *cast eyes adrift in desperation* ...chopping them up into little bits (like in riversegmentation)
orgiesinvertat - a form of coded invitation to exceptionally friendly gatherings where there is no erm... dress code
tergiversation - First (and penultimate) word of Shakespeare's least known and shortest play "Dick Shinnary - A Manne Withe Notte A Lotte To Saye". Only ever used with "ornottergiversation" (the second and last word of Shakespeare's least known and shortest play "Dick Shinnary - A Manne Withe Notte A Lotte To Saye")
tiviasterrgeon - alternative spelling for the rare, and virtually unheard of, Baltic tievear sturgeon
interrogatives - huh? Oh.
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I wasn't able to pay much
)
I wasn't able to pay much attention to the boards yesterday so I'm rather glad there wasn't a whole flood of frantic activity here.
We've had quite a few severe thunderstorms in good ole Brisvegas lately - $19K hail damage to the pride and joy of one particular rele makes you rather glad the auto insurance was up to date :-). Yesterday was the quite distant aftermath of one such storm - rain clearing but no untoward lightning or thunder. Out of the blue (so to speak) the dreaded half second lights flicker that causes you to mutter *expletives deleted* when you realise it was probably just the perfect interval to take out a computer with the highest chance of maximum consequential damage.
If you have one machine, you would grumble a bit at the inconvenience but chances are in a minute or two when it has rebooted and everything is back to normal, you would promptly forget about it. Even if you had a few, chances are you still could reboot them all (or watch them reboot themselves) with little chance of anything untoward causing you real grief.
When you have an *insane* number ( hard to believe, I know, but I think there probably are such people around), the chance of the power dip taking out a machine in the middle of something like a disk write seems to be quite high. On one previous occasion, I had three machines with scrambled disks. I was a bit more fortunate this time - there was only one.
Even if a power outage is long enough to cause a complete shutdown, there is a further potential problem - you *will* blow all the circuit breakers if the machines try to restart themselves the moment the power is restored. The inrush current to all the PSUs is quite fierce.
So after any sort of power disturbance, I have a lot to do to restore a modicum of normality. I have to hookup a keyboard, mouse and monitor to each machine and fire it back up, hopefully without incident, before moving on to the next one. Unfortunately, there always seem to be a few of those 'incidents'. Everything from the machine deciding it can't find the external GPU so you have a completely blank screen during startup until you plug the monitor into the internal one and *voila* ... , to the startup script deciding that there is some damage to filesystems that it can't handle so it tells you to "run fsck manually ...". Those sorts of things (through bitter experience) are expected, and are (now) just a nuisance to deal with. The more dreaded problem is when you can't fix things by 'running fsck manually ...' :-(.
I'm getting used to those too and have developed a strategy that seems to work. The linux file system consistency check (fsck) is very good at fixing things most of the time, but if it can't, I run it manually with options to scan for bad sectors. A few times now, I've seen it find (and attempt to replace) bad sectors that seem to be concentrated at a fairly narrow range of sector positions. The system was working fine before the power outage so I'm guessing there must have been some sort of very localised surface damage (something like a head crash) when the power went out. It's been possible, each time I've tried it, to repartition the disk to avoid the damaged area and put it back into service. It takes a bit of time finding where the bad spots are and then working out and implementing a re-partitioning plan, but I like that sort of challenge anyway :-).
So it took about 3 hours to restart all but one of my fleet and a further 6 hours to fully recover the last one. It shouldn't have taken that long but I was a bit stupid and managed to completely lose (for a while anyway) the BOINC partition by not paying proper attention to what partitions I was deleting. Of course, I hadn't bothered to back it up, had I :-). I'd never used it before but I knew there was this 'testdisk' utility that was supposed to be good at finding 'lost' partitions. I couldn't think of a better option so I decided to give it a go. I was expecting the worst but it worked like a charm and I soon had the complete partition back again ... *big sigh of relief* .. :-).
So with everything appearing to be okay, I fired up BOINC on that last machine and was very happy to see it pick up from exactly where it was so rudely interrupted :-). I wonder what it really was, that I was intending to do yesterday ...?? :-).
Oh, that's right ... I was going to see if you had got all the clues ... some were a bit cryptic ...
Cheers,
Gary.
There I go, rabbiting on and
)
There I go, rabbiting on and not paying attention ... What a lovely list of words most splendid - all of them, really ... but when one bandies about the hallowed name of the bard ...
Ahhh ... Dick, what a brilliant character ... so economical with his words ... and when you think that his cousin Oxford Dick, on his father's side I believe, was so completely ... shall we say ... utter verbiage, really!!
So, ... congratulations to anniet ... who appears to be ... or not to be ... the winner of this round. She obviously did find that the soft "g" did give much comfort indeed!!
Edit: Of course ... being of antipodean origin ... and unschooled in the lesser known Shakespearean works ... I, rather crudely, was of the impression that tergiversation was what one bandied about in the pub if one was involved in a 'discussion' and one desperately needed to end the conversation ... right there and then!! ... I found out much later about all those other meanings ... :-).
Cheers,
Gary.
THAT *point to that* is the
)
THAT *point to that* is the kind of day when I wonder what possessed us to leave the trees *cast mind back and attempt to recall if it was a particularly juicy looking strawberry...*
Your ability to string complete and intelligible sentences together without the passage of many months and many more counselling sessions is awe inspiring! If I had a hat I would take it off :) as I do not... I will merely gape... :)
Glad you are back with us! :) I suspect one day I will... tinker with something... and that will be that. I will never be heard from again... :)
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RE: There I go, rabbiting
)
THAT'S A WORD!? Are you sure Mike hasn't pulled some strings somewhere to get one of his officially "recognised"? :)
edit (put in between already posted stuff to make it less confusing, but in a more confusing way): Yep... it is peoples :) Apparently it means: to repeatedly change one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause... or to turn renegade.
We were given a VERY good clue... and it whizzed COMPLETELY over our heads :))) [/edit]
I'm flabbergasted *pause for duration of flabbergasting* Okay... well I've got mighty footsteps to follow in... I will be back - with something at least half worthy (I hope :))
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Well I'll be unpronoununcable
)
Well I'll be unpronoununcable ! Blimey Will Shake, what a corker ! :-)
Voluminous Tergiversations to Anniet !
[ I must say though your celtic myth index is rising. Are ye sure that nay witches are being in your kith & ken ? I just be saying .... ]
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Well I'll be
)
Well... someone did call my mum a witch once :)))) and then (according to her) tried to chop off her toes with a shovel. He was I believe, quite upset at the time and sort of wanted her off his property. It worked... I only have a twin thing going on with my sister though :) that I'm aware of anyway...
edit: and then there's my mother-in-law - who always arrives by broomstick *smack hand* don't care! Was worth it :) *rub hand better* :)))))))
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RE: THAT *point to that* is
)
Even the trees were a mistake. No one should ever have left the oceans.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: RE: THAT *point to
)
Bad day? Or just feel like being right :) My friend's five year old remembers when she was a fish :) Be interesting to see what she does with the information when she grows up :)
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