asciilifeform: ( for machine setups, preferred to use BingoBoingo as living kvm... )
asciilifeform: was used only coupla times, to fiddle bios configs when baked new raid arrays .
asciilifeform: ftr i did ~not~ like that kvm tho, needed toilet computer to operate (java shitware client) but exhaustive market survey yielded ~only~ that
asciilifeform: ( there's 0 reason to leave these hanging 24/7 )
asciilifeform: well that 1 didn't. and only occupied a switch hole even when was operating.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: fwiw the 1 i purchased for piz, didn't even occupy a rack slot, it was ultracompact matchbox-cum-wires thing
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: one simple pill is to colo a kvm. but obv. 1) costs 2) someone has to agree to operate.
asciilifeform: i dunno who these people think they are, to ask for half the cost of a whole flat, for 1u. but so far these.
asciilifeform: so far seems that signif. higher cost in northern idiotistan, if only on acct of 'buy 1 hole' vs cage . tends around 300-400 $ per .
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: from what was given, impossible even to say ~how many~ layers !
asciilifeform: seems like (supposing it even makes sense to discuss the output of muppets as if it were a measurement) represents the intake ~after~ it has gone through latech. i.e. the 'they blocked us upstream' story of theirs dun check out.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you roll'em 'naked' on a wheelbarrow, are likely to suffer the fate of harrison's 1st chronometer.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: use that suitcase you had as cushion (or i suppose could take cab)
asciilifeform: iirc at least 1 had a trb noad going on rk .
asciilifeform: storage aint restricted to thumb-sized stick, either -- at least 1 subscriber iirc had a full-sized 'samsung' ssd plugged in via snake.
asciilifeform: they have quite respectable performance, for e.g. blog; and nuffin intelistic inside'em. Gb nic, too.
asciilifeform: will of course cost like any other box .
asciilifeform: as for why anyone would want an rk back -- potentially could colo'em , if you buy a 19in box (20bux or so) . most colo outfits dun give a damn what you colo so long as it hangs on the rail .
asciilifeform: anyone who has something other than a raid5 and wants disks mailed, plox to indicate.
asciilifeform: a 'last hurrah' of the raid5 functionality.
asciilifeform: raid arrays (e.g. asciilifeform's) i recommend to be mailed in N separate envelopes.
asciilifeform: folx who want live disks mailed, are to understand that the integrity of their contents cannot be guaranteed.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: rk's i suggest to be offered to their current inhabitants for cost of postage. ( and if anyone would rather have the disk stick cremated, oughta indicate, and it then added to the pyre ) . the rk's per se have no writable storage aside from the sd & stick .
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: customers will have to get pro-rated refunds, iirc buncha folx refueled just week ago.
asciilifeform: and BingoBoingo will have to decide wat-do re the crater. at the very least must get out of the latech contract, or may have to evacuate on short notice .
asciilifeform: nao, to continue the funeral, at some pt shareholders will have to decide what-do re the remaining pieces, incl. coin. specifically, how much to burn on attempting orc lawsuit etc.
asciilifeform: ( 'just use ipmi, what are you, terrorist ? ' etc )
asciilifeform: in piz, we solved this by having kvm device in the rack. apparently heathens no longer keep these around, near as i can tell.
asciilifeform: the spread of the impi retardation among heathens is potential problem: would have to either swallow it (i disabled in all of these) or find someone who , like the moldavian, is willing to serialport ( dun solve the problem of os installation tho, to such a place would have to ship'em with disks containing something resembling os )
asciilifeform: as i understand, diana_coman has asked for the old disks to be cremated, so the smg boxes will need redisking, but potentially this could be done on-site where they are to go
asciilifeform: re smg again -- if diana_coman wants cleaning/redisking/inspection, i'll do it , but oughta keep in mind that if they visit usa there is moar likely to be what to inspect for in 1st place, obv.
asciilifeform: re mod6's and trinque's , is necessary to ask'em , meanwhile also with BingoBoingo .
asciilifeform: the smg boxen (already FG'd etc) i expect diana_coman will want sent straight to where they are to live again. and meanwhile they will go under BingoBoingo's bed or similar.
asciilifeform: i would not propose to attempt 'isp' in the heart of mordor, but possibly could house a box or two that way.
asciilifeform again experimenting w/ 'what if within physical range of asciilifeform ?' but does not expect fat return. granted these wouldn't in a million years eat btc, but w/ mp's agreement, asciilifeform could feed it orcbux and eat btc . in principle.
asciilifeform: esp. since the moldavian fella's candidacy fell down. may be a while before a destination is found .
asciilifeform: ( it wasn't any worse than usa's chicago tho. )
asciilifeform: some places immediately seem broken tho. e.g. asciilifeform only needed a day in bucharest to understand that would not want to live there.
asciilifeform: if asciilifeform had sat in e.g. argentina long enuff to need, say, a tooth fixed, prolly would have immediately seen same light that mp_en_viaje saw
asciilifeform: simply coming out of the gulag is unspeakable 'trip', aha
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform described before, that does not know a profession that would allow him not only to eat, but sufficient dough+time to do anyffing meaningful, in arbitrary island.
