asciilifeform: will announce the reboot hour in advance.
asciilifeform: i'ma have to rebuild kernel on UY1 today.
asciilifeform: update: aaand ben_vulpes (who is orig builder of UY1) didn't see it fit to build the k10temp kernel mod, so i can get cpu/chipset temps and ps voltages.
asciilifeform: inspection of logs on disk turned up nuffin enlightening.
asciilifeform: update : uy1 is up, i have realtime log going from it.
asciilifeform: yea cuz it's a-ok to have desktop spin 4evah on boot... lol☟︎
asciilifeform: ( who the FUCK thought this was acceptable behaviour )
asciilifeform: i'ma cure the asinine grub keyboard thing.
asciilifeform: update : it aint hung, responds, but i have nfi how this thing ever auto-booted in the past -- the boot menu dun seem to have a timeout , wtf
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: wtf, thing appears to be hung on the grub menu screen
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al : not a planned outage, at this point i strongly suspect iron issue
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: any sign of oom, or anyffin else peculiar, in last hours of log ?
asciilifeform: sorta whole orig thrust behind asciilifeform's archaeologies, experiments in old days, fpga room, etc
asciilifeform: unixtardation is an item i'd like to live to see an end put to, verily.
asciilifeform: ( aand they're a 1st class bitch to get anyffing useful out of )
asciilifeform: in the past , asciilifeform encountered cases like this and resorted to dumping physical mem images. but doesnt expect mircea_popescu to do this
asciilifeform: unixtardation, crashism, bigger calamity than pb in petrol, or in pipes, or 100 chernobyls
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ty, i'ma instrument the thing for realtime logging soon as i wake up ( about to turn in, and would rather not break things when half awake )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-13#1886685 << i'ma match mod6 . and then see to it that mircea_popescu's advices are actually followed, even if ( and it appears that yes if ) i gotta run the spamatrons with own hands & feet☝︎
asciilifeform: currently he still stands as a 50% owner.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mod6's nerves gave out and he went on sabbatical w/out yet having said whether, and to what extent, he will participate .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is your thought that attempts to cut cost are entirely wrong thrust ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: imho trinque is right , tomorrow morning is the time to have a talk with the dc rep re bw pricing function ( and post the output to our www asap )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the item where mircea_popescu decided that heathendom is ~irredeemably stupid, and that ~all the folx who belong in, are already in
asciilifeform: trinque: enlighten me, what exactly price is republican hosting worth to trinque ? is it '10% over what amazon costs' ? or 'the number i've grown used to?' what's the calculation there
asciilifeform: trinque: why mention only cuts , but not price ? thing's riotously underpriced currently.
asciilifeform: ftr , and in re whole thread, asciilifeform is entirely all ears re any thoughts trinque , diana_coman , mircea_popescu , et al, have re subj of what gotta be done in order to reach the black.☟︎
asciilifeform: trinque: i'm entirely in agreement with your earlier pt re 'i'd rather have thin pipe than no pipe'. the q is whether the currently unborn subscribers, who are needed in order to go into the black, will agree.
asciilifeform: trinque: i cannot speak for other users, but i saturate it regularly when i make backups
asciilifeform: trinque: ~90% of the time the pipe is no saturated. the issue is burst capacity.
asciilifeform: this item is on acct of the geography, and i do not presently know of a cure
asciilifeform: diana_coman: the painful troof is that's riotously 'uncompetitive' vs. ~the reich~, where 'same' price gets you 100mbit/bidirectional ~per machine~
asciilifeform: in re the uy1 machine: i'ma set up a realtime systemlog printer for that machine. if there's a physical problem with the iron, i expect we will find the culprit shortly.
asciilifeform: i'd hope it's on acct of it being inside the most recent update cycle. ( BingoBoingo ? )
asciilifeform: oh hey terraforming actually started working ?! neat
asciilifeform will answr gcd etc. points later, would like to keep the bandwidth clear for BingoBoingo thread
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there can be no question of 'sharing rack', it's entirely nonstarter. what there are, are half-height racks, in which most of the other customers of that bldg live. but they are bad deal, iirc they only cost slightly less than a full 42 height.☟︎
asciilifeform just got back from snow-related chores, ate log, but must go again shortly
asciilifeform: and ftr i'm surely doomed to run into diana_coman's puzzler myself, when i go to write a threaded proggy (e.g. adaized trb)☟︎
asciilifeform: diana_coman: plz dun see the orig statement as ' asciilifeform presumes that diana_coman is dummkopf and problem is trivial, asciilifeform can do it with 1 hand '. i simply dun like to see people sitting stuck, is all.
asciilifeform: 'peh' is intended as a working, weaponized demonstration of the 'specificity of diddling' principle. (but perhaps this was obvious to errybody.)
asciilifeform: i'ma include a few obvious approaches as example tapes, but it is NOT the intention that anyone use'em as-found.
asciilifeform: a 'graduate' of ffa (i.e. fella who ~read~ the thing, as it was intended to be read, and fit-in-head) will have no trouble writing his particular variant of correct prime generator for his particular type of key.
asciilifeform: consider from pov : there is no particular reason for enemy to know precisely ~how~ you baked the primes for yer privkey.
asciilifeform: observe that by this scheme, we also avoid hardcoding primorials for 'G' test. author of tape is responsible for including a primorial ~for his chosen ffawidth~ if he intends to use G litmusing.
asciilifeform: ( re 'how many witnesses', see diana_coman's article, it reviews the necessary maffs, i.e. P(yer prime aint a prime and you die) == (1/4)^n, where n is # of witness )☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: and this was forced by the irons ( it's evenly divisible by all known bus widths )
asciilifeform: the only 'magic number' in ffa is the concession that all FZ must be at least 256bits long
