Dr Hippy Van Danke

My wife's never seen The Naked Gun. This is an amazing viewing. She has no idea Enrico Palazzo is in this!

Been waaaaaay too long

The departed Chuck Mangione playing Taps at Buckley's funeral

Does it happen to support PXE boot...?

gitlab runner on an emulated aarch64 vm running on x86_64 proxmox building node images for machines that don't yet exist. bonus points for going in to the lab to steal an actual aarch64 node from an disused ceph cluster to speed up the builds (and hopefully test aarch64+warewulf)

life is weird...

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Has anyone heard any clarity on the NERSC10 storage?
I'm assuming Vast with the recent Dell moves but Lightning is kinda on offer in that timescale and there's always other x-on-dell-hardware offerings

I think I accidentally just gave @wkamaubell.bsky.social the stink-eye. If so, the hick-lookin dude with the handlebar mustache was just tryin to tell his brain to be cool!

oh man, your apartment is now useless. good fuckin luck

We mustn't dwell. No, not today. We can't! Not on Rex Manning Day!

(Wiggles carapace)

Hulu’s max device download limit is simply far far too low. Barely 2 short seasons of a show? I have a 1.5, 12, 1.5 hr flight string, man.

Very much the plan!

(Trying to distract myself from the country crumbling around me) How has Snakemake become such an annoyance to me so quickly? Reproducibility is laudable but how is it so easily misconfigured that I need to chase users with 250Mil inodes and they don't even know it's there?!

Huh

See, these are the Bruins I grew up with. Kicking me in the head when everything else already sucks. Guess I get to see what it's like viewing Brad Marchand from the other side now!

(also, that lil 'warewulf' throw-in was non-trivial as well but damned if we don't have a single ww head node provisioning off-subnet machines 50 miles away!). A colleague is working on cloud-bursting on the same slurm instance as well!

Every once in a while I get to do something really weird in a ludicrously important place. Today it was getting a 2-hop (o2ib->tcp, tcp->o2ib) lnet router going between 2 IB fabrics at 2 datacenters 50 miles away across a 2x100Gb link. So now we have a single slurm/lustre/warewulf cluster in 2 DCs

Proxy SwitchyOmega 3 (ZeroOmega) - Chrome Web Store Manage and switch between multiple proxies quickly & easily.

I don't know who else needs this but after a rude message from my browser today, I found a Manifest v3-compliant version of Proxy SwitchyOmega. I would be in a world of hurt without this extension:
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Ah? One of those new-fangled French cars

Okay fine

Very belated bday dinner gift from my wife. Gonna try to unlock my jaw and enjoy this.

over a decade ago my boss figured out if we're having a deep discussion about file systems and we've come to an impasse, he can just suggest we use AFS and my brain will immediately short-circuit.

A friend is building a cluster at home and had this freakin wonderful exchange with a part vendor

My TV just informed me that TikTok was no longer available. Which is a surprise because I think I forgot to turn the firewall rules back on after a firmware update…

Spinning drives do have lower temp thresholds. Often best to let them slowly come back to normal ambient before attempting to spin back up.

Lubricants can get too viscous. I’ve seen it after power outages where datacenter cooling remained on (so temps plummeted in the face of no heat output).

Thanking the horse, that killed me…

I keep toying with the idea of draid but the full stripe file size limitation has me concerned but also… a quarter PB usable so….

I’m doing a fairly ludicrous thing because a) hdd density has slowed way down the last few years and b) to get ahead of tariffs. So now I have a cute lil 8-bay sas jbod and accompanying disks showing up soon. A 2nd vdev at home punching up to 210TB usable. This is so silly…

Omg my sister got me a pair of 50” clamps!