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| schestowitz | >> quick things off my mind | Aug 23 06:10 |
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| schestowitz | >> | Aug 23 06:10 |
| schestowitz | >> 1. we're sending you something, likely today | Aug 23 06:10 |
| schestowitz | > Thanks. Not necessary but nice thought. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> 2. I monitored DB space use over the past day or so, studying how or | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> when it grows. it's about 3 MB a day, i.e. 100mb a month. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > Ok. Still it will be a good idea to increase the size of /var as soon as | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > convenient. I'll leave the gazp9 machine configured as it is until | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > then. Like I mentioned there is a small VM set up for faster | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > experimentation. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> 3. I haven't given up on unix pipes for chat, just need more time to | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> assess how, when and whether to use them. logging is essential if we're | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> to talk technical stuff that I want to be able to go back to. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > It's rather primitive but has given the appearance of working. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> 4. we're leaving sunday morning | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > Have a safe trip. I won't be able to do much between Sunday afternoon | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > and Monday afternoon. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> 5. tomorrow is rianne's birthday, turning 41 (I'm 37) | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > Congratulations. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> 6. Mary Jo Foley | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-hires-open-source-veteran-stormy-peters-to-run-its-open-source-programs-office/ | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > Stormy will never be able to make up for such an unforgivable action. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > Even if she leaves her motives will be forever suspecr. It's a | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > reprehensible and inexcusable decision on her part that also shows | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > terrible problems within Red Hat. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> If I cover this, would not mention gender anywhere; know how it can be spun | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > They'll criticize anything and everything including hairstyle if they | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > can get away with it. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> 7. haven't had much change to use the RSS perl script this past ~5 days, | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> but I see the potential (I try to use all free time to write posts, not | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> to catch up with non-tech sites). If you use the script to send >more< | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> daily links, that will be ideal. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> 8. traffic increased in tuxmachines, not just in techrights, and I don't | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> know why | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > I'll look at the report you've just made. | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 23 06:11 |
| schestowitz | >> 9. we need to keep making offsite backups, esp. of database. some | Aug 23 06:12 |
| schestowitz | >> circles are angry at us and it'll get worse if sites' reach broadens. | Aug 23 06:12 |
| schestowitz | > I will be able to resume those on Monday afternoon. | Aug 23 06:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 23 06:12 |
| schestowitz | >> 10. we might also go to Wales next month (not confirmed). I prefer | Aug 23 06:12 |
| schestowitz | >> holidays without flights/airports. | Aug 23 06:12 |
| schestowitz | > These days, given a lot of factors, I prefer 'staycations'. | Aug 23 06:12 |
| schestowitz | For well over a decade Stormy Peters had served Microsoft in various ways (Techrights wrote many articles about that]), so Peters joining Microsoft to attack FOSS directly as a 'mole' is hardly surprising. Even expected. Love of money dooms FOSS. | Aug 23 06:12 |
| schestowitz | See techrights node 3944 | Aug 23 06:12 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2008/07/07/stormy-appointment/ | Aug 23 06:12 |
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| schestowitz | >> ... | Aug 23 07:33 |
| schestowitz | >> When I run many together it tends to fail, I have not investigated why, | Aug 23 07:33 |
| schestowitz | >> maybe perl modules or out-of-date versions. | Aug 23 07:33 |
| schestowitz | > Probably low RAM. | Aug 23 07:33 |
| schestowitz | Probably. I'm always on near zero RAM. 3 laptops, all 2gb of RAM. Never had more than that! Except briefly when I was a research associate and my PC there had 4. Not my PC, work PC. | Aug 23 07:33 |
| schestowitz | At this moment: | Aug 23 07:33 |
| schestowitz | PID=529 - Swap used: 5208 - (zeitgeist-daemo ) | Aug 23 07:33 |
| schestowitz | PID=4789 - Swap used: 6392 - (kwalletd ) | Aug 23 07:33 |
| schestowitz | PID=32604 - Swap used: 6480 - (xchat-gnome ) | Aug 23 07:33 |
| schestowitz | PID=31767 - Swap used: 7391 - (kded4 ) | Aug 23 07:33 |
| schestowitz | PID=17449 - Swap used: 7392 - (quicksynergy ) | Aug 23 07:33 |
| schestowitz | PID=16664 - Swap used: 7504 - (kactivitymanage ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=9132 - Swap used: 8224 - (kglobalaccel5 ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=21753 - Swap used: 8416 - (gvfs-goa-volume ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=21758 - Swap used: 9040 - (gvfs-gphoto2-vo ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=30116 - Swap used: 15536 - (gvfsd-http ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=28827 - Swap used: 16360 - (kwalletd5 ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=2012 - Swap used: 18440 - (dbus-daemon ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=31259 - Swap used: 18824 - (kiod5 ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=1697 - Swap used: 18832 - (openbox ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=631 - Swap used: 18960 - (kded5 ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=19529 - Swap used: 23384 - (nagstamon ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=13611 - Swap used: 26240 - (konversation ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=17750 - Swap used: 45136 - (pidgin ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | PID=19940 - Swap used: 48520 - (thunderbird ) | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | memory usage | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | ram: 2097148 | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | swap: 351348 | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | disk space (/root and /home): | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | /dev/sda1 84035088 78037088 1706160 98% / | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | uptime | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | 07:31:32 up 317 days, 11:04, 3 users, load average: 0.76, 0.35, 0.30 | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | >> Hence, for a few feeds that works, I made scripts, as attached. | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | >> | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | >> Maybe, if possible, generate these daily links at your side and attach | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | >> them with the other links? The main purpose is to keep my feed active | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | >> while I work on articles. It also keeps Techrights more complete (news | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | >> from around the world, in English). | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | > I'll set up a script. I don't keep enough of a schedule for a cron job | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | > to be feasible. I might remove the time from the default date-time | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | > stamp though. | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | Oh, excellent. | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | I think I can also keep up the two-daily-links posts per day habit. | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | >>> PPS. I wrote to Truthout a week ago and have heard nothing. Maybe if | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | >>> you write them too it would help? | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | >> I just have... | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | > Thanks. | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | Not that I expect them to do much. But it's self-harming... to them. | Aug 23 07:34 |
| schestowitz | Space has long been tight on this machine. /var has meanwhile filled up again. | Aug 23 08:03 |
| schestowitz | The main culprits aren't in /var/log. | Aug 23 08:03 |
| schestowitz | mailman, mysql and jenkins are among the bigger space guzzlers. | Aug 23 08:03 |
| schestowitz | Especially plugins in Jenkins. | Aug 23 08:03 |
| schestowitz | Perhaps it's time to resize this partition, which necessitates downtime (if we choose to do so). | Aug 23 08:03 |
| schestowitz | I realise that, regardless, we need to upgrade this machine some time soon. | Aug 23 08:03 |
| schestowitz | I've brought disk space usage on /var back down to 95%. | Aug 23 08:05 |
| schestowitz | >>>> Re the above, these sorts of requests have gone on forever. The main | Aug 23 08:26 |
| schestowitz | >>>> downside it that they can harm the email reputation of the domain; some | Aug 23 08:26 |
| schestowitz | >>>> get mail sent out. To ensure legit folks can sign up to comment there's | Aug 23 08:26 |
| schestowitz | >>>> little we can do, I don't want to add CAPTCHA. It harms blind people etc. | Aug 23 08:26 |
| schestowitz | >>>> | Aug 23 08:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> The offenders stand out. It would be easy enough to block them with IP | Aug 23 08:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> tables or send a message to the abuse@ address at their ISP. | Aug 23 08:27 |
| schestowitz | >> iptables might be more suitable, at the very least to reduce B/W and CPU | Aug 23 08:27 |
| schestowitz | >> usage. | Aug 23 08:27 |
| schestowitz | > I've blocked the top offenders with iptables. That'll last until the | Aug 23 08:27 |
| schestowitz | > next reboot. I set the threshold quite high (100) and probably ought to | Aug 23 08:27 |
| schestowitz | > lower it. But that will block the worst of the worst. In no particular | Aug 23 08:27 |
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| schestowitz | >> In my experience, filing reports can be cumbersome (yes, I did that | Aug 23 08:28 |
| schestowitz | >> before, gave up trying). Unless it's proper DDOS! | Aug 23 08:28 |
| schestowitz | > Ok. | Aug 23 08:28 |
| schestowitz | http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2015/06/28/aws-ddos/ | Aug 23 08:28 |
| schestowitz | Rianne > I have been thinking about this and even suggested it to Roy.. maybe to | Aug 23 08:30 |
| schestowitz | > put your name without photo (for your privacy) in Tux machines as well | Aug 23 08:30 |
| schestowitz | > as in Techrights. You contributed a lot behind the scene... :-) | Aug 23 08:30 |
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| schestowitz | goof feed http://www.counterpunch.org/feed/ | Aug 23 11:05 |
| schestowitz | *good | Aug 23 11:05 |
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