JB's Miscellaneous Ramblings

Has anyone here used any of the various adapters for re-filling sodastream co2 cartridges?
For example, the stuff at http://www.co2doctor.com/productselector.htm

If so, any insight as to what you picked, and how well it works for you?

(My thoughts lean especially towards this: http://www.co2doctor.com/freedomoonespec.htm)

Thanks!

We're wanting to mount things to our walls... and we need to figure out how best to deal.

If there's a studfinder out there that can differentiate between metal and wood, that'd be even better.

(I suspect any originally-located walls are turn-of-the-(last-)century wood stud, but seemingly covered with sheetrock - probably when brought up to modern electrics, and I have no idea when the last major renos and wall-moves were and thus what they're likely to have been done with. So then the questions are: What's the best sheetrock anchor out there? Do you use different hardware on metal vs wood studs? What else do I need to be taking in to account that I haven't thought of?

Thanks!)

... so that you don't make your admins want to kill you...

Has anyone ever seen something like this?

Things I know: "It's broken" is bad. "Fix it" is bad.

More detail is good.

For my local package, screen shots are annoying and should be avoided if possible (the email notification eats the attachment).

Beyond that, there's a lot of luser-friendly advice one can give, and if someone else has already written it, I really don't want to re-write it.

Anyone have any pointers?

Thanks...

Does anyone have an mp3 of Weekend-Only World, by T.J. Burnside-Clapp?

I have it on tape someplace, and I have her hand-written original lyrics someplace, too...
but neither of them are easily findable, and even if I find the tape, it's hard to play it.

Thanks...

Anyone happen to have bedspace for Saturday (and perhaps, but not certainly) Sunday nights at Balticon?

Thanks...
JB, and his last-minute planning....

Anyone know any really good orthopedists in MD/DC/VA area?
I'll explain more if you need more for a recommendation.

Thanks!

(Edit: Specifically, we're looking for back specialists, relating to fractures and herniated disks.)

So, I have 4 really nice tie dyed t-shirts, 3 from these folks - later 'this guy' - from central VA, dba Yakshi, one from some unknown source.

Unfortunately, all 4 of them are dying from age and wear. More unfortunately, Yakshi's no longer doing clothing - the last time I saw him, he was only doing large art hangings.

So who's got a source of exceedingly good tie-dyed t-shirts they want to share?

(Yes, I know. I don't ACTUALLY need any more t-shirts... but I'd like to have some good tie-dye... And hell, if they have some really exquisite fabrics, maybe I'll have Maxwell's make me a tie-dyed formal shirt next time they're in town. ;)

So, one of the justices of the peace listed on Somerville's hand-out sheet speaks the following languages:

English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Dutch, Gujarati, Hindi, Laapa-Laapa, Nchiyanja, Nshona, Persian Farsee, Portuguese, and Urdu.

The internet... in the form of Google, and of Wikipedia, has never heard of 3 of them.

I'd guess that they're African, but... I don't know!!!

Anyone?

Where can I buy 2-3 glass blocks??

The local Home Depots say they don't have them. I don't want 8-10, so I don't want to order them online.

Oy.

SilverFast or VueScan?

If you don't have a reason for picking one, feel free to do so anyway, but please let me know. :)

Does anyone around metro-boston have a copy of Photoshop elements for Mac that I can borrow?

Thanks!

So, given a set of simple html pages with references in the format
<i>Reference Title</i> (Author, year)
Or sometimes (Author, year, additional information)
embedded in definitions of the format

<p>
<b>Article title<b>

<p>
Article text including <i>Reference Title</i> (Author, year) and other text, including perhaps <i>Reference Title 2</i> (Author, year)

Is there a tool to build an index page, where the index entry links to the <b>Article title<b> ?

Better, is there a tool that'll also modify the 1st page to make the A#namedlink references that the index points to, too?

(The following post is edited together from an afternoon's worth of IRC conversation on 2 different geekly channels. I'm sorry if I failed to make it clear, but I've been staring at all of this too long to have any distance left.)

Is there anyone here with netapp experience, especially as concerns space allocation and snapshots, especially as concerns iSCSI? I've been trying to get meaning out of the docs for a while now and I just keep glazing over... and not in the good Krispy Kreme glaze sort of way.

I'm trying to figure out how much diskspace I need to reserve where and via which mechanism to have my snapshots A) snap and B) be usable in a lun clone as necessary for data recovery.... and to figure out if I'm even thinking about all of this in the right way. NetApp's docs... well, they don't totally blow, but they're very circularly referential. If there's a proper path through dealing with their concepts, I've yet to find it.

I've got a filer with an aggregate with a flexvol with a lun.
I need to figure out appropriate allocation of reserve space to let me make snapshots and then to let me use them, if needed.
Despite that, on a 350GB volume, the lun in question is 200GB and has only 120G used (at a reasonable ROC), I'm only managing to be able to make 1 snapshot.

I've got 10% snapshot reserve on the volume - 35G.

carbarn*> snap delta mysql
. . .
From Snapshot To KB changed Time Rate (KB/hour)
--------------- -------------------- ----------- ------------ ---------------
nightly.1 Active File System 282316 1d 16:47 6922.337

I'm really just not getting how much I need to be reserving here... and where to reserve it. 70mb/hr =560mb/8hr, 1.6GB/day., 840mb/12h. So to keep 6 snaps from 8hr intervals and 2 dailys, I'd expect to need something lik 8GB. That's not very much.

What is using up the space between my 200GB lun and my 350/10% volume?
(There's nothing on the vol but the lun and the .snapshot directory/contents.)

Alternately, how do I tell how much space I need to have available to make a snapshot Right Now?

carbarn*> df -rh mysql
Filesystem total used avail reserved Mounted on
/vol/mysql/ 315GB 315GB 0KB 140GB /vol/mysql/
/vol/mysql/.snapshot 35GB 10GB 24GB 0KB /vol/mysql/.snapshot

... and yet, I've got only one nightly snap.

As well, among many other things, I'm unclear what the 140GB reserve on the volume is for. The only thing on the volume is one 200GB lun. Given that the LUN is space-reserved, I'd EXPECT to see 200GB reserved and 115GB free. I have no idea what the 140GB reserve is all about.

I'm developing an unfortunate feeling that, although I understand LUN snapshots to be block-level (and I have 3rd party confirmation to that effect), they require the full size of the lun in available diskspace. This is... bad... if it's true.

Anyone? This is also going in to a support request with NetApp, but given how my last one of those went, I'm not amazingly hopeful. (The local folks are good. The Indian outsourced tech-support crew, not so much... and it may just be language issues, but I can't really tell.)

(The filer's a 270c running DataONTAP 7.1 and the heads are named "Wellington" and "Carbarn", as our naming scheme is T stops and using the orange line maintenance yard for the storage host seemed to make sense to me. :)

The subject just about says it all.

I'd strongly prefer bed space. Very strongly.

Saturday night only.

Let me know?

Thanks!

(I'm fine, no one else was involved, and (thus, obviously) it's all my own damned fault.)

Turning out of our driveway this morning, I pranged my front drivers'-side quarter panel against the utility pole that stands at the edge of said driveway.

I suspect said quarter-panel is toast. The auxiliary light-cluster is still working, but is held in place by its cables, rather than by its mounting HW.

So, anyone have a good body shop in the Camberville/Charlestown/near-town-side-of-Everett, where good in this case is 'competent, cheap (as this is out-of-pocket), has good connections to junk yards for parts scavenging'. I don't need fabulous quality, but will do with 'reasonable'.

What a fucking Monday.