#musicbrainz

nei, nå går jeg og legger meg

(yes shep that was a bed thing)

id say lets ban that guy who keeps doing that...

but you know, its a case for levels of automod privs actually

remove all his automod privs accept TRM

natta

g'night mo

night mo

natta mo!

bye all.

we need to find someone familiar with the Christian genre to make an automod...

night

night shepard

teleGUISE_: the trouble with abstains is they are a delayed 'yes' unless somebody votes 'no'

exactly... so in a week later they are dumped in the db

not sure how else we could do it though.. wasnt it awhile that those would stay open indefinitely?

+awhile back

inhouseuk: out of curiousity do you know why we stopped the asin populate script? was it just prone to errors or figure the manual version was good enough

fuchs: during the add edit process hitting return after entering a release date assumes you want to enter another date causing you to have to scroll up to [select a country] to advance. Has this been changed?

teleGUISE_: the script matching was very good, amazon changed it service and the script kept taking longer and longer to complete.

so, it was deemed that people will just hand maintain the asins...

huh...that kind of stinks... though I guess if it kept taking your time away from doing other things then its best

I'm not very sad about it. people generally favored the manual approach.

i find myself populating many that should be straight forward (ie.. artist name/album title are identical) and have been in the db for years but no asin ..

i dont like things happening autoatically unless they are for sure correct

but like you said if they made matching harder and harder to keep up with then its not worth it.. I dont mind doing the entering for accuracy but on some artists -none- of the albums have any asins and they should

however ... of course they do now :)-

ru so did you find out what happened to ll, last night or whatever night it was? Did she go out for drinks?

hard lock up. that's all I know.

I suspect a RAID card issue

lets just say I am not very happy about it.

hmmm.. so presently you have no way to remotely do a reset?

not when it hard locks.

unless you want to buy us a console server. :)

what raid card are you using?

Adaptec 2010S

IIRC there are two adaptec cards which don't suck. I can't remember which ones.

kevin said that at Friendster they stopped using that card because of intermittend lock ups

the other 2010S we have has been flawless for over a year.

we are 100% MegaRAID for SCSI and 3Ware (or software) for SATA. Although MegaRAID has its problems, I've never had to attribute a crash to it

yeah, three of ours servers have megaraid and I've got a 3ware 9500 for zim when we upgrade it.

actually that's a lie. One of our machines once crashed when we swapped a new drive in.

and on the older versions of the megaraid drivers which had a /proc interface, reading from the interface too frequently caused crashes + data corruption...

that one sucked bigtime

ick

I wrote a nagios plugin for it, worked fine in testing, put it live on 8 or 10 servers within an hour, 3 of them crashed.

wow. that sucks

one of those servers was lacking a slave (and we had no current backups), so it caused dataloss...

having said that, we have some 3Ware 9550SX-12 cards which we suspect may be causing intermittent disk issues.

they are painfully new cards though.

any issues with the 9500S-4LP ?

nope, not that we know of. We've got 2 or 3 of those

phew.

the problem with the 9550 is that it's running our streaming server

and sometimes everything just blocks for a minute

not good for 'streaming'

which causes the stream to pause for everyone, 50% of whom subsequently disconnect thinking it's died

but it's amazingly difficult to diagnose

we bought a different NIC for one of the two boxes which is doing this, and that one seems to have problems less frequently...

minefield.

...um console servers can be almost as much $ as the server and I can't say I have one of those lying around.

doesnt this colo offer apc reboots?

or is that more $$

in terms of remote admin, I'd recommend a remote power switch firstly

then either a console server or IP KVM

no such service was mentioned to me

huh... guess then that means this colo probably doesnt have that then :)-

most colos don't have remote power switching

you tend to only get it if you're renting small amounts of space off an ISP

one thing for sure, those APC switches are expensive

though they're a fairly small part of our overall rack setup costs

wait... they do have very similar power strips in there.

APC do "dumb" versions too

with amp readouts and everything. I wonder...

ah.

and they do versions with metering but not switching

yea same look not remote

of course easier for manufacturing

but it's worth asking I suppose.

true you never know it might be just a small fee

not as flexible as what a console server would do ... but heck of a lot cheaper

sometimes you can't reboot with a console server though

Hmmm. the power strips do have ethernet plugs.

if it's locked up hard, then you still need a power switch.

but I assumed that was for power monitoring.

ruaok: then they might be then. But I think the metered-only versions look the same.

I'll ask.

yea.. the ones i have seen have the same look...

hmm, the metered versions only come in zero U format

actually almost all of them do.. and add metering/remote etc..

so if the power switch is 1U then it's definitely switched

nope, its a strip along the wall

aha ok, anyone's guess then.

wonder if they would let you put your own little apc with ethernet port there... probably not

eh, if it fits in a rack they're not usually too fussy.

could be an option if they dont offer it anyways..

it's cool if they actually meter your usage properly though. When we go too far over our limit, the breaker trips out

1 of those I have.. but definitely not new enough and commercial enough for me to want to donate...

cuz if it blew something up i would be banned ;)

How 'bout using a X-10 Appliance module connected to a phone remote module :) $59 remote reboot

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didnt think SPI was on by default...

could see why AMZ ASIN matching would be a challenge.. even AMZ's own search doesn't result in consistent returns...

you click on the artist name and it pulls up a batch of releases... you search by the same artist including a release not found in that list and you get a whole different group!

well note entirely different... but you get other releases by the same artist not found in the other search

i think they rely on the CD index included by the label.

ex: all sun ra & his [name] arkestra releases, are under "sun ra"

and there are at least 20 different [name] arkestra's

search "Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra" and it returns a CD for "sun ra" which is correct.

this case wasnt that complex it was a simple First Last name

again, it has to do with label/distibutor submisison. and they are alway scorrect.

*aren't always crrect

i believe it cookies your results.. cuz now it put the missing album at the second spot on a lookup by artist name

it's matching against your previous searches / recommendations / purchases if you're logged in.

log out, then see waht happens

yllona, has #audioscrobbler broke on you?

i'm okay in AS

Peculiar

My connection isn't finding it's way to Phasenet at all

Aha, something is indeed broken on the way to Phasenet

!weather 98045

:/

'lo sen

hi yll'

!weather 90732

on my way out to the grocery store

brainzbot didnt reconnect after freenode died

48F in north bend

no rain, some clouds quarter moon

-2.7°C and light snow in Rostock Germany ;)