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| 00:37.59 | landley | Ooh, jonmasters is hanging out here now? |
| 00:38.31 | landley | I've been vaguely pondering volunteering to read some of his old kernelpodcast transcripts to make MP3s out of them. Just didn't know if that would help matters. |
| 00:38.53 | landley | Seems like reading the list and editing it into something coherent is 95% of the work... |
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| 02:02.46 | prpplague | landley: hey bud |
| 02:03.05 | landley | prpplague: hiya. My laptop battery needs food badly. |
| 02:03.16 | landley | How goes? |
| 02:03.18 | prpplague | landley: got your net issues resolved? |
| 02:03.23 | prpplague | landley: busy busy for TI |
| 02:03.24 | landley | Which ones? :) |
| 02:03.39 | prpplague | landley: hehe, the ones preventing access to freenode |
| 02:03.48 | landley | Alas, TI didn't hire me. Working for parallels now. |
| 02:04.04 | prpplague | landley: really? |
| 02:04.06 | landley | prpplague: ah, I can't use it from my phone, but my new laptop seems to like it, at least some of hte time. |
| 02:04.38 | landley | Yeah, TI did a phone interview, then scheduled a tentative in-person interview... then cancelled it to "reevaluate the position". |
| 02:04.50 | prpplague | landley: interesting |
| 02:04.52 | landley | Never heard back from them. |
| 02:05.17 | landley | I was interviewing with two other companies at the time that turned into actual offers (had to choose between them, I hate turning down an actual offer), so I didn't poke them again. |
| 02:05.50 | landley | And the battery has gone to orange flashy. Must suspend now. |
| 02:05.57 | landley | Back online in a bit... |
| 02:05.59 | prpplague | landley: later |
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| 03:12.19 | landley | prpplague: and back. |
| 03:13.51 | prpplague | landley: greetings |
| 03:14.56 | prpplague | landley: i need to read up on your blog |
| 03:16.51 | prpplague | landley: you catch the dr.who xmas special on saturday? |
| 03:17.14 | landley | I'm still most of a season behind. I've seen the first two episodes of Matt's season, that's it so far. |
| 03:17.45 | prpplague | isn't too fond of Matt's series |
| 03:17.48 | landley | I'm told it was entertaining, and people have been quoting things about hats being cool. |
| 03:18.03 | landley | prpplague: it can't be much worse than what they were doing with Tenant. |
| 03:18.29 | prpplague | thinks that it is, but oh well |
| 03:19.00 | landley | I remember Roger Delgado's quiet meanace. The master is now a superpowered jumping bean. Rassilon is back from the dead and chewing scenery as a one note villain... advised by the bones lady from The Ribos Operation? |
| 03:19.21 | landley | That's a bit like confronting the USA and of _course_ it's George washington in charge. Sigh... |
| 03:19.21 | prpplague | landley: indeed that was bad as well |
| 03:19.30 | prpplague | landley: hehe |
| 03:19.39 | landley | "Love and Monsters" is still the high point of suck for the new series, despite intense competention. |
| 03:20.00 | landley | Still, they're trying. |
| 03:20.07 | prpplague | tries to remember that episode |
| 03:20.25 | landley | phone... |
| 03:20.38 | prpplague | landley: ahh indeed that was the worst episode |
| 03:21.24 | landley | An update on my lost luggage: still in paris. |
| 03:21.30 | prpplague | doh |
| 03:21.36 | prpplague | landley: what were you doing there? |
| 03:21.38 | prpplague | work? |
| 03:21.40 | landley | My problem with several of the new Dr. Who episodes is wasted potential. |
| 03:21.46 | landley | prpplague: flying back from Russia. |
| 03:21.55 | prpplague | russia? |
| 03:22.08 | landley | Parallels' headquarters is in russia. They flew me in for orientation. |
| 03:22.13 | landley | Probably flying me in again Februaryish. |
| 03:22.13 | prpplague | ahh |
| 03:22.22 | landley | *shrug* Frequent flyer miles. |
| 03:22.32 | landley | The downside is southwest doesn't go international so I'm stuck with legacy carriers. |
| 03:22.54 | prpplague | indeed |
| 03:23.08 | landley | Hence my flight out being delayed a full day, my flight back being delayed and losing my luggage and insisting that my duty-free truffle oil purchase in Paris was an existential threat to the plain in Cleveland. |
| 03:23.29 | landley | Don't ask me why I was re-screened in cleveland. I got to turn down the porno-scanner for the Freedom Grope for the first time there. |
| 03:23.44 | landley | Flying _to_ Russia, the only place I went through security was Austin. |
| 03:23.56 | landley | Flying _back_ from Russia i went through security theatre three times. |
| 03:24.10 | prpplague | landley: generally all internationals flights are rescreened after clearing immigration and customs |
| 03:24.14 | landley | Guess who's confident and functional and guess who's a dying empire terrified of their own shadow? |
| 03:24.35 | prpplague | indeed |
| 03:24.55 | prpplague | might try signing up for the globalentry program, makes international travel alot easier |
| 03:25.03 | landley | prpplague: death first. |
| 03:25.15 | landley | I'll slow down their horrible waste of time as much as humanly possible, every time, until they STOP DOING IT. |
| 03:25.24 | prpplague | hehe |
| 03:25.36 | landley | If you're going to put me through a waste of effort, I'm going to try to make it an expensive waste of effort. |
| 03:25.40 | landley | idiots. |
| 03:25.59 | prpplague | hehe |
| 03:26.21 | landley | Anyway, new Dr. Who. He has random superpowers now, which is just bad writing. |
| 03:26.25 | prpplague | well i much prefer using globalentry, makes going through immigration soo much easier |
| 03:26.33 | landley | The whole system purge thing in the wasp and agatha cristie episode. |
| 03:26.44 | landley | They're just making stuff up now. |
| 03:27.13 | prpplague | landley: yea, pretty common complaints about the new series |
| 03:27.43 | landley | The sonic screwdiver is now a magic wand, although I suppose I can't blame 'em too much for that one. |
| 03:28.25 | prpplague | agreed |
| 03:28.26 | landley | However, christopher eccleston could _act_. And so could David Tenant when they gave him a script worth doing. |
| 03:28.59 | prpplague | yea i really like eccleston, was disappointed at his departure |
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| 03:29.42 | prpplague | hits NullMoogleCable on the head with a Leapfrog Didj |
| 03:29.54 | landley | And Matt Smith seems fine as an actor. Only saw the first two of his episodes and they were both good because he worked well within established constraints rather than pulling a new superpower out of his ass to deus ex machina stuff. |
| 03:30.26 | NullMoogleCable | hi prpplague |
| 03:30.32 | NullMoogleCable | im home finaly :) |
| 03:30.50 | landley | Part of the reason Eccleston's episodes were so good is they spent years building up to it so they had lots more editorial filtering. The writers had tons of time to polish the scripts and use only the best ideas. |
| 03:30.55 | prpplague | landley: yea i just don't like the "sillyness" of Smith's series |
| 03:31.16 | prpplague | NullMoogleCable: been snow bound? |
| 03:31.42 | NullMoogleCable | yes I was in NC visiting my sister for xmas |
| 03:31.43 | landley | Tenant's series just didn't have as strong scripts. They'd run through their backlog of good ideas and had to write to feed the production schedule, and in places it showed. |
| 03:31.49 | prpplague | notices that something in the garbage disposal doesn't smell good |
| 03:32.25 | landley | prpplague: the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th doctors were all extremely silly at times. It's in character to be silly. |
| 03:33.27 | NullMoogleCable | was loads of fun |
| 03:33.28 | landley | One of Troughton's doctor's favorite tactics was pretending to be an idiot to through enemy du jour off guard. |
| 03:33.31 | prpplague | landley: not sure i would characterize the 2nd, 3rd and 4th as silly, more ecentric |
| 03:34.06 | landley | Brain of morbius, 4th doctor shows up in the pouring rain at the enemy base and asks (from under his umbrella) if he could borrow a glass of water. |
| 03:34.20 | prpplague | landley: i find Smith's stuff "feels" more like a cheaply done prime time network comedy |
| 03:34.59 | landley | Heck, Douglas Adams was script editor during the key to time series. He wrote "The Pirate Planet" and "City of Death". |
| 03:35.38 | landley | The first 26 seasons of Dr. Who were extremely cheaply done. The show had the same budget as "eastenders". |
| 03:35.41 | prpplague | landley: there is a difference between having some humorous aspects and just plain silly stuff |
| 03:35.44 | landley | That said, still haven't seen most of this season. |
| 03:36.07 | prpplague | landley: hehe, let;s pick this up again soon, hehe |
| 03:36.16 | landley | G'night. Have fun. |
| 03:37.06 | prpplague | landley: hehe, i just meant when you finish viewing the rest of the season to see what you think, hehe |
| 03:38.08 | NullMoogleCable | so whats new with you prpplague? |
| 03:38.49 | prpplague | NullMoogleCable: not a darn thing, i've been doing the unplugged thing for a few days to get the mindset for next month |
| 03:39.32 | prpplague | landley: this who you are working for ? http://www.parallels.com/about/ |
| 03:39.49 | landley | prplague: yup. |
| 03:39.56 | landley | DARN IT. I can't chattr +i on ext4. |
| 03:40.16 | landley | So much for ext4 then. I need to schedule time to reformat my laptop. |
| 03:40.59 | landley | If the router is going to select stupidly slow nameservers and dhclient is going to overwrite that file every 3 minutes, I'm going to chattr the sucker out from under it. If the filesystem won't let me, the filesystem DIES. |
| 03:41.04 | prpplague | interesting, never heard of them before, but i don't keep up with vm stuff |
| 03:41.43 | prpplague | really wishes that he could get altium or orcad for linux |
| 03:41.56 | NullMoogleCable | any update on the panda board? |
| 03:42.19 | prpplague | NullMoogleCable: updates in what way? |
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| 03:43.52 | NullMoogleCable | when do i get mine? :) |
| 03:44.51 | prpplague | NullMoogleCable: we are still running major behind on production, we got way more orders than we expected, we should have some boards to give away late jan |
| 03:45.15 | chouimat | hi |
| 03:45.17 | NullMoogleCable | cool :) |
| 03:46.25 | SpeedEvil | Nice problem! |
| 03:46.27 | SpeedEvil | :) |
| 03:46.29 | prpplague | chouimat: hey bud |
| 03:46.39 | SpeedEvil | Congrats |
| 03:46.45 | chouimat | prpplague: just got back home ... took 9 hours instead of 6 |
| 03:47.12 | prpplague | SpeedEvil: hehe, not like i get any money on it, hehe |
| 03:47.34 | SpeedEvil | Oh. :) |
| 03:48.14 | Mirell | landley: It's not ext4 that's the issue. |
| 03:48.15 | prpplague | SpeedEvil: i'm just contracting with TI on the project |
| 03:48.23 | Mirell | landley: I just chattr +i a file on ext4 just now. |
| 03:59.49 | prpplague | how the heck does that sorry ass show "Chuck" stay on the air? |
| 04:00.10 | prpplague | isn't this like the 5 season of Chuck? |
| 04:00.47 | Mirell | See: Big Brother, American Idol, Bones... |
| 04:01.34 | prpplague | Mirell: but wasn't the whole idea of the show to target "nerds/geeks" ? the show is so worthless |
| 04:08.27 | chouimat | prpplague: it's ok ... i find it funny |
| 04:08.32 | chouimat | anyway time to go to bed |
| 04:08.35 | landley | prplague: heard of openvz? They're behind that. |
| 04:09.47 | landley | Mirell: Ubuntu 8.04 went: chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /etc/resolv.conf |
| 04:09.52 | landley | (As root.) |
| 04:24.38 | landley | Ok, I'm kind of impressed that the firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 is significantly _more_ buggy than the one in my old 9.04 install. |
| 04:24.41 | landley | How did Ubuntu manage that? |
| 04:50.54 | SpeedEvil | I used to hang out in #firefox - and a lot of problems were due to vendor patches |
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