We went down this morning and I was in bed so I didn't see it happen. I'm getting the new machine ready for its trip to Baltimore and the backup I was doing used up all our remaining disk space. I'll be more careful in the future.
That shouldn't happen with the new box. It's a Dell EMC with a Xeon processor, 32gb memory, a 6tb drive, and another 6tb for backup. Running under no load it's been steady as a rock, but we haven't had a bobble free swap yet. That will happen sometime after the election.
Dammit, Jim! I'm a programmer, not a hardware man!
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No worries, Fred. Thank you for all you do.
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Thanks, Fred - missed my morning Rantburg fix until now.
Hopefully those 6TB drives are standard 5400 RPM Barracudas or something like it. I scored 8TB Seagate Ironwolf drives (7200 RPM) and I noticed two big differences between the two - the Ironwolf drives make a lot more noise and if they're dormant (mine shut down after 20 minutes of inactivity), they take a lot longer to spin up to speed.
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Thank you, Fred. I turned over and went back to sleep when I saw the Burg was down, so I’m ahead on my napping. ;-)
Just out of nosy curiosity, what happens to your old boxes after the new one proves stable? You must have gone through half a dozen or so since the original beast back on 9/11.
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Computer problems are always a drag, but in 2020, they can (almost) be refreshingly normal.
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LOL, although I was concerned it might have signaled initiation of blatantly open putschist activities. Yet, maybe that's already in motion with Facebook, Google/Youtube, and Twitter. I think that will escalate sharply over the next 7 days . . .
Thank you for your persistence and reliability over the years, and all you do. Truly this is the best place for civil, well reasoned discourse! No wilting violets here, and no censor -- unless you count trolls taking a trip to roadside attractions.
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Rantburg is American samizdat. Our only hope in the Woke Century
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Thanks Fred. A bit late to the party but like so many others, not getting my Burg with the first cup is, well, like a kick in the nads.
We are all hooked on this little thing you do.
[PRESSTV] A car kaboom has killed at least seven people and maimed 33, including police forces and civilians, in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost Province, as a new UN report says the ongoing 'peace' talks have failed to slow the civilian casualty toll.
The boom-mobileing targeted a police special forces compound in the city of Khost, near the border with Pakistain, on Tuesday morning.
Gunmen then entered the building and engaged security officers in shootouts, according to local authorities.
"The security forces destroyed another boom-mobile before it reached its target," Provincial Police Chief Daoud Tarakhel said, adding that "several security forces have been maimed in the attack."
He said that the attackers had been confined to one building and that other parts of the police special unit compound had been cleared of the assailants.
No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack.
Afghan Interior Ministry front man Tariq Arian announced that at least four assailants had been killed during the festivities and that efforts were underway to neutralize the remaining bad boys.
"This morning, forces of Evil blew up a vehicle loaded with explosives near a special police unit in the area of the former governor office of Khost Province. Four bad boyz were potted and efforts are underway to eliminate the other two terrorists," the Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement.
"In this incident, 16 soldiers and nine civilians were maimed, and two people were martyred," it said.
Khost Civil Hospital’s chief physician Sakhi Sardar said that the medical center had received 32 maimed soldiers and civilians — including women and kiddies — as well as the bodies of three people.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A high-ranking Syrian militant commander was reportedly killed in the ongoing conflict in the Karabakh region, opposition activists reported on Tuesday.
According to the reports, one of the highest ranking commanders of the Turkish-backed Hamza Division, Adel al-Shaher, who is known by the nom de guerre “Abu Shaher”, was reportedly killed recently while fighting for the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in the Karabakh region.
Al-Shaher took part in several battles over the years inside Syria, as he led the Hamza Division in the northern part of the country.
His death in the ongoing conflict in Karabakh will prove to be a major loss for the Hamza Division and for the Turkish-backed forces in Syria.
It should be noted that the Hamza Division is one of the largest factions inside the Turkish-backed “Syrian National Army” (SNA), which operations in the northern governorates of Syria.
[FoxNews] A second night of unrest in Philadelphia began Tuesday night over the police shooting death of a Black man, just as his children recalled memories of their father in front of news hounds and 1,000 looters reportedly began targeting businesses, police said.
Elsewhere in the city, looters ransacked a Foot Locker, Rite Aid and other retail stores. At least one vehicle was set on fire.
The Philadelphia Police Department warned people to avoid the Port Richmond area where at least 1,000 looters were ransacking businesses that included a Burlington Coat Factory, Target and Dollar General.
Other videos showed protesters confronting coppers. Around 91 people were arrested Monday and 30 officers were maimed amid violent mostly peacefulfestivities.
Protesters gathered near a cop shoppe Tuesday night to demonstrate and were seen marching east, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Some jumped on top of a news truck and began chanting addressing the growing crowd.
The police department requested residents in several districts remain indoors, except when necessary.
"These areas are experiencing widespread demonstrations that have turned violent mostly peaceful with looting," a tweet from the city's Office of Emergency Management read.
The unrest comes after the police shooting death of Wallace on Monday afternoon in the middle of a street. The 27-year-old was armed with a knife and shot by two officers during a confrontation, police said. Authorities said he ignored repeated warnings to drop the weapon and charged toward the officers.
Neither officer has a Taser.
Officers had responded to Wallace's home twice before earlier in the day. A third call to first responders was meant for an ambulance to help him deal with a mental health crisis, a family attorney said Tuesday.
From the Army to Antifa: an ex-Private who served in Iraq is facing both local & federal charges for allegedly throwing an explosive at law enforcement during a violent BLM-antifa riot in Portland. Read my report co-written w/@MiaCathell. #antifahttps://t.co/Qt7ssLFel3
Following an FBI investigation, 23-year-old Ty John Fox, of Astoria, Ore., was charged with felony civil disorder, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced.
On Sept. 5, hundreds of Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters descended on the Portland Police Bureau’s east precinct. Viral video recorded that night showed rioters throwing lit Molotov cocktails toward the line of police. Two people were set on fire and one person was taken to hospital for injuries. Amid the mayhem, a sergeant was struck and injured by a commercial-grade mortar firework.
According to the criminal complaint, Fox was recorded on video igniting a large, cylindrical firework with a torch lighter. He allegedly hurled the device from behind a line of protesters towards Portland Police and Oregon State troopers. An explosion and flash occurred moments later.
Nearly 60 people, including Fox, were arrested at the riot in a residential area of southeast Portland. Fox was charged with first-degree felony arson, third-degree escape, attempted assault and felony riot. He was let out on supervised pretrial release. The local felony arson and escape charges have been dropped by the Multnomah county district attorney. Fox’s arraignment for the local charges is set for Nov. 3.
Originally from St. George, Utah, Fox was once a member of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. He served in Iraq in 2017. It is unknown under what circumstances he was discharged from the military.
Fox made his initial appearance in federal court last Friday where he pleaded not guilty. He was arraigned and ordered released pending a two-day jury trial scheduled to begin on Dec. 29. A spokesman for the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office told The Oregonian that he expects the state charges to proceed as well.
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I've always thought those nose rings must be particularly disgusting after a really viscous sneeze.
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If you trip a breaker Rob, give me a call. I have a shoe box of various 15-20-30 amp types and brands. I will overnight you as many as needed. The load should be sustained until noxious white smoke is seen coming from his ears.
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Stand by for the media to tell us this clown is the bestest, most bravest and nobelest individual to ever serve in the US military after John McShame and Jawn F'n Kerry...
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Private? Hell, I thought in The New Army one was made sergeant the day basic was finished.
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^ He couldn't make the pants size or weight requirements for a Lt. Col. assigned to the White House...
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[INQUIRER] A powerful kaboomdestroyed an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pak city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... on Tuesday morning, killing at least eight students and wounding 136 others, police and a hospital front man said.
The bombing happened as a prominent religious scholar during a special class was delivering a lecture about the teachings of Islam at the main hall of the Jamia Zubairia madrassa, said police officer Waqar Azim. He said initial investigations suggest the bomb went off minutes after someone left a bag at the madrassa.
TV footage showed the damaged main hall of the seminary, where the bombing took place. The hall was littered with broken glass and its carpet was stained with blood. Police said at least 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of explosives were used in the attack.
Several of the maimed students were at death's door, and hospital authorities feared the corpse count could climb further. Authorities said some seminary teachers and employees were also maimed in the bombing.
Initially police said the bombing killed and maimed children studying at the seminary but later revised their account to say that the students were in their mid-20s.
Shortly after the attack, residents rushed to the seminary to check up on their sons or relatives who were studying there. Many relatives were gathering at the city's main Lady Reading Hospital, where the dead and maimed students were brought by police in ambulances and other vehicles.
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Rahimullah Haqqani is a Jamaat doctrinaire. He brainwashes teens and young men, fertilizing their already shit brains with the deobandi nonsense, so they can be better footsoldiers for the AQIS. The pashtuns he prepares for the Taliban.
[IsraelTimes] Rami Aman was in Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, prison since April, when he was arrested for joining a ’Skype With Your Enemy’ conversation in which Israelis participated.
A Hamas military court convicted three Gazooks on Monday who had been charged with "weakening revolutionary spirit" for a public Zoom call with Israelis in April, the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -based human rights
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IAEA @rafaelmgrossi tells @davidrising: Inspectors have confirmed that Iran has started construction on an underground advanced centrifuge assembly facility at #Natanz after July's reported sabotage attack
The Russian Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s hit a training camp of the Faylaq al-Sham faction in the Jabal Duwayli area in Idlib province, the London-based monitoring group said.
There were over 90 rebels injured in the airstrike.
SOHR head Rami Abdel Rahman described Monday's strikes as the "deadliest" in eight months since the sides had agreed to a ceasefire.
AFP cited the National Liberation Front ...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here... , an umbrella group of Ankara-backed rebels based in Idlib that includes Faylaq al-Sham, as confirming that the Russian warplanes had hit one of its camps.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... the organization did not provide details on casualties.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
We went down this morning and I was in bed so I didn't see it happen. I'm getting the new machine ready for its trip to Baltimore and the backup I was doing used up all our remaining disk space. I'll be more careful in the future.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
