// #30&40's — 2012-04-18
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10:54:00 <ghostly> Hi Glenn
11:01:00 <SkyFire> 5Thanks for the +
11:11:00 <ghostly> Remember LeGhost from oz.org days?
11:13:00 <ghostly> ok
11:13:00 <SkyFire> hi
11:13:00 <ghostly> What about Furby, LePuppie, LePuppy?
11:14:00 <ghostly> Or even aBitCraZy lol that was my nick before those.
11:14:00 <Julie> huggles Glenn :)))))))
11:14:00 <ghostly> Thats ok.
11:14:00 <ghostly> I stayed off irc for about 3-4 years.
11:14:00 <ghostly> Nope sorry.
11:14:00 <ghostly> But your bot said you were old oz.org so i figured i'de ask.
11:15:00 <ghostly> I was ops in #Sydney, #Australia, #Aussie, etc
11:15:00 <ghostly> Lol
11:16:00 <ghostly> I recieved threatening emails when a girl i was net married to realised my nick had lapsed and it no longer said we were a net couple lol
11:16:00 <ghostly> No
11:16:00 <ghostly> Too many chiefs and not enough indians.
11:16:00 <SkyFire> lol
11:17:00 <ghostly> I was actually keen on that girl in real life, till she started carrying on about the net couple listing lapsing and how devistating it was.
11:17:00 <SkyFire> lol
11:17:00 <ghostly> I was like WTF so lost interest in her soon after
11:17:00 <SkyFire> silly woma
11:17:00 <ghostly> Yeah
11:18:00 <ghostly> I was dating her in real life, felt like I was dating a real childish woman after she acted like that.
11:18:00 <SkyFire> yeah
11:18:00 <ghostly> When our secret channel disapeared and the topic vanished cause my nick expired which was the next day or so she carried on about the same shit.
11:18:00 <SkyFire> thats probaly all she wanted
11:18:00 <ghostly> Nah.. she reckoned she wanted me and only me yada yada but was just not mature enough for me.
11:19:00 <ghostly> Was a 26 year old acting 16
11:19:00 <SkyFire> ok
11:19:00 <ghostly> I did the mortal sin and added her back to facebook and msn
11:19:00 <ghostly> Then realised why they call Ex's ex's
11:19:00 <ghostly> lol
11:19:00 <SkyFire> she wasn't blonde was she - lol
11:19:00 <ghostly> No
11:19:00 <SkyFire> eeeks
11:20:00 <ghostly> She kept wanting to make out behind her boyfriends back and didnt see a problem in it, infact she had a go at me that I was wrecking what "we had" which was nothing now.
11:20:00 <ghostly> Real head fuck.
11:20:00 <SkyFire> almost sounds like she was doing drugs
11:21:00 <ghostly> Yeah, I think she's on pain meds for life but yeah was just friggen weird as
11:21:00 <ghostly> So got rid of her out of my life again
11:21:00 <ghostly> I found a better way to meet psychos
11:22:00 <ghostly> One of those singles sites
11:22:00 <SkyFire> :)
11:22:00 <ghostly> Found me a real gem.... lol deleted her last night after only talking to her 8 times recieved 14 sms's, 5 emails, stacks of facebook msgs and requests under fakes and msn requests, she even signed up to my businesses website
11:23:00 <SkyFire> lol
11:23:00 <ghostly> And this is to a girl i've only spoken to 8 times and she actually deleted me out of the blue and only made contact again 3 days or so ago
11:23:00 <ghostly> Talk about psychos
11:23:00 <SkyFire> weird
11:23:00 <ghostly> So i'm happy to be single now
11:24:00 <ghostly> I realised the worst thing of it all wasn't that there was shit to put up with but that I really should have done the right thing by me and deleted all their asses earlier and ignored them like i am now.
11:25:00 <ghostly> Life is so much easier than dealing with people with mental problems
11:25:00 <SkyFire> yeah
11:26:00 <ghostly> Sorry for talking so much lol
11:26:00 <ghostly> I've been this quiet person sitting here.
11:26:00 <ghostly> </gripes>
11:26:00 <ghostly> :)
11:26:00 <SkyFire> hehehe
11:29:00 <ghostly> So what do you guys do for a living?
11:30:00 <SkyFire> I don't work - on disability support pension
11:31:00 <ghostly> Awww ok cool
11:31:00 <ghostly> Anyone else?
11:31:00 <Julie> aged care worker :)
11:31:00 <ghostly> Cool
11:31:00 <ghostly> I know a few of those who just changed careers
11:32:00 <ghostly> Very demanding job
11:32:00 <Julie> sure is
11:32:00 <ghostly> Even harder if you deal with palative care
11:32:00 <ghostly> Cool Glen
11:32:00 <ghostly> Cool Glenn even
11:33:00 <Julie> thats what i want to do PAllitive care
11:34:00 <ghostly> Yeah it's real hard if you can't detach yourself.
11:34:00 <ghostly> Cool :)
11:34:00 <ghostly> Hope you get fed free :)
11:36:00 <ghostly> Cool
11:37:00 <ghostly> I gotta admit my jobs boring to most. Sysadmin/devloper/provider/registrar.
11:38:00 <ghostly> Doesn't hold the same charisma as going to a girl and saying "Hi I'm a Pilot" you say "Hi I'm a Sys Admin" and they ask if you like answering phones lol
11:39:00 <ghostly> Though I have the wonderful task of dealing with Layer 1/2/3 support all by my very lonesom lol
11:39:00 <Julie> HOW Glenn ???
11:40:00 <Julie> NO its NOT gonna happen
11:40:00 <Julie> lol
11:40:00 <ghostly> It's not like you can say to a girl... "Wanna come back to my place and watch me install CentOS 6 under vmware!" "I'll let you tweak the resource allocation table if you're really nice to me."
11:41:00 <ghostly> Though it's funny when I answer a client about VPS's refering to containers and client said one time "I have some left over containers here if you need them?"
11:41:00 <ghostly> lol
11:42:00 <ghostly> Virtuozzo/Xen/VMware all use containers.
11:44:00 <ghostly> Yeah
11:45:00 <ghostly> I run a server farm of a number of servers in melbourne running single n duel vps's on each hardware device. Makes backing up a breeze, makes migrations a breeze.
11:45:00 <ghostly> Yeah
11:45:00 <ghostly> I got out of pc repair / support.
11:46:00 <ghostly> Too much wasted time vs what the clients willing to pay.
11:47:00 <ghostly> I was being nice and did a job last week for an old client because their local computer shop said it would take 2 weeks to do, mirrored their drive to a new drive repaired bad sectors got them up and running overnight. $450 was the bill for labour + 1tb drive. Still waiting for payment after 4 or more weeks now.
11:47:00 <ghostly> This was typical in the end.
11:48:00 <ghostly> Yeah average client takes 2-8 weeks to pay so I got out of it.
11:49:00 <ghostly> I notice even with server hosting you have waves of people not paying normally leading up to and just after tax time.
11:49:00 <ghostly> Maybe everyones going through this trend at the moment
11:50:00 <ghostly> All I know is if I was to not pay my bills i'de get switched off.
11:50:00 <ghostly> Yeah
11:50:00 <ghostly> Thing I hated most was clients expecting you to just be ok with it.
11:51:00 <ghostly> None would ring up and say "do you mind if i'm late"
11:51:00 <ghostly> it was just assumed it was ok
11:51:00 <ghostly> turned up to do a network install a few weeks ago for a friend of a friend... i said ok how do you intend on paying... he said oh we dont have the money at the moment we're hoping that with the network all sorted we can generate some income
11:52:00 <ghostly> so I got my sparkies and pulled out of there with all our gear
11:52:00 <ghostly> was only 20% margin enough to pay the guys n myself for the job plus the cost of the gear
11:52:00 <ghostly> and it was obvious he was not going to pay
11:54:00 <ghostly> Yeah thats why I got out of web development
11:54:00 <ghostly> I'de do my research, then they'de take my quote and get an indian to do it cheaper then come back to me and cry and i'de just laugh.
11:55:00 <ghostly> I have one client who did this to me and his domain is with me still after 3 years of me telling him to transfer it out.
11:55:00 <ghostly> He emails me saying he's going to take me to court because I invoiced him for the domain name.
11:55:00 <ghostly> lol
11:56:00 <ghostly> So i said ok if i cancel the invoice and terminate the domain right now it means your website will get turned off are you sure you want me to do this?
11:56:00 <ghostly> I then get a long winded email from him about how this is all very technical and how dare I assume he knows what he's talking about yada yada lol
11:56:00 <ghostly> I get over people like that quickly.
11:56:00 <ghostly> lol
11:56:00 <ghostly> Gone are the days of the soldering iron and board diagnostics
11:57:00 <ghostly> I have a series of osciliscopes
11:57:00 <ghostly> hand held ones
11:57:00 <ghostly> useless
11:57:00 <ghostly> I have degauses, useless redundant
11:57:00 <ghostly> lol
11:57:00 <ghostly> I still have stock left after I closed down my chain of computer stores
11:57:00 <ghostly> And stock from when I closed my electrnics stores
11:58:00 <ghostly> Not worth it
11:58:00 <ghostly> I tried flogging shit off ages ago
11:58:00 <ghostly> Big name stuff sold quick for cheap
11:58:00 <ghostly> Cheap n nasty brands take forever to get rid of
11:58:00 <ghostly> even in bulk
11:59:00 <ghostly> I had about 200m remaining of high speed ide ribbon cable lol
11:59:00 <ghostly> redundant now
11:59:00 <ghostly> yeah
12:00:00 <ghostly> I'm getting into gimicky gadgets again but sold allot of them on ebay
12:00:00 <ghostly> Yeah
12:00:00 <Julie> heaven??
12:00:00 <ghostly> That drive I replaced for that customer was my last 1TB in stock
12:00:00 <ghostly> lol
12:00:00 <ghostly> Did you destroy the drives you chucked out
12:01:00 <ghostly> did you realise it's a jailable offense if you don't destroy their data
12:02:00 <ghostly> I have a perfect solution
12:02:00 <ghostly> :)
12:02:00 <ghostly> Do you have access to someone with a explosives licence?
12:02:00 <ghostly> Need i say more?
12:02:00 <ghostly> Most of my old drives of clients from upgrades and repairs were used for target practice or demonolition testing lol
12:03:00 <ghostly> Any that survived were drilled out using a concrete jack hammer dril lol
12:03:00 <ghostly> $1,100 for first offense of chucking out a customers data or onselling a customers drive regardless if you low level formatted it or not.
12:03:00 <ghostly> Needs to be destroyed 100% unrecoverable :)
12:04:00 <ghostly> I was just unlucky
12:04:00 <ghostly> Ex employee dobbed thinking he was a smarty
12:04:00 <ghostly> Man it's funny managing staff though
12:05:00 <ghostly> Yeah
12:06:00 <ghostly> You ever dealt with a striped raid drive?
12:06:00 <ghostly> Oh... Joy oh Joy.... they are fun when they die.
12:06:00 <ghostly> try recovering data from one... almost impossible.
12:07:00 <ghostly> Yeah
12:08:00 <ghostly> Striped raid is the worst
12:08:00 <ghostly> Mirrored is the best.
12:08:00 <ghostly> I only use striped raid because I hate using NAS
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