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00:35.00Axelgn8 all
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09:13.12zacharymorning cup
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09:27.01sashMorning
09:28.51zacharymorning sash
09:29.44sashDid you go to AT?
09:32.47zacharynot yet, need to work out day-care for astanzi for that day. Jess does't get off work tell 4pm.
10:03.50zacharyARGHHH, The shipment of Revolution OS is going to be further delayed to 9 July.
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10:05.21sashzachary: Why?
10:06.51zacharyAccording to john winters' site, the "publishers" are delaying the shipment.
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11:31.02zacharyAfternoon Leeds
11:31.48Leedshey
11:32.11zacharyHow did the religous discussion go last night?
11:33.03Leedsended quickly, unfortunately
11:33.08sashHello Leeds
11:33.31Leedshey sash
11:34.59zacharyLeeds: Do you like to ponder metaphysics?
11:37.07Leedssomewhat
11:37.14sashI like to contemplate my navel.
11:37.40zacharysash: yea, until something gets stuck.
11:39.17sashOh dear, did you know that navel lint is predominantly blue. It's true.
11:40.17zacharysash: Only you would know of such trivia.
11:44.57Leedshe's obviously performed many years of experimentation
11:50.28sashLeeds: Perhaps you were one of the subjects.
11:57.03Leedsnot that I recall...
12:01.51sashDid you take payment in fermented yak's milk then?
12:02.47Leedsnot that I recall...
12:03.24sashWas this back in the 60s perchance?
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12:04.45SPQRg'day
12:04.50sashMoo
12:05.00SPQRbaaa
12:10.52sashFoo bar
12:12.22SPQRsnafu
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12:30.25zacharywb Tarragon
12:30.38TarragonTY. Just installed
12:31.10zacharysash: What is with the fermented yak's milk?
12:32.47sashTarragon: See how OT this channel is.
12:33.13sashYou get the yak, I'll get the icecream.
12:34.38sashEr, Courvoisier then.
12:40.03Leedskeep that sort of language to yourself
12:47.01TarragonI can find Yak's milk cheese, but for the actual white milk you are goning to have to keep a Yak yourself.
12:56.21sashLeeds: Whatwhatwhat?
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14:37.56resuDaed|workis anyone familiar with mjpg/mjpegs?
14:38.24resuDaed|workand/or how it can be re-encoded to mpeg1 or avi?
14:45.56SPQRresuDaed|work
14:46.09SPQRI think Rate knows a few things.
14:47.18SPQRhe's in #flute
14:56.16LeedsI'd just use mplayer...
15:05.10resuDaed|workLeeds : are there mjpeg codecs available for mplayer?
15:15.45Leedssure
15:15.48LeedsAFAIK
15:17.29Leedshttp://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html
15:38.12gregjLeeds: hi
15:59.47resuDaed|workdoes anyone know how to strip the first x amount of chars from a file?
16:00.30TarragonresuDaed: Yes just watched an M jpeg movie in Mplayer. If you do not have the codecs it just plays the sound. Actually the soundtrack sounds better quality without the video.
16:01.12resuDaed|workTarragon : you know how to do the above?
16:11.11JDhi all
16:13.21Leedshey greg
16:13.45LeedsresuDaed|work: see man tail
16:15.27resuDaed|workLeeds : the length of the file is unknown, /i just need to strip the first 2 lines
16:15.50JDresuDaed|work: tail foo +2
16:16.10JDwell +3 iirc
16:16.27SPQRwhat about 'tail -n 2 foo'
16:16.57SPQRor 3 for that amtter as well...
16:17.08nasrat-n does the last 2 lines
16:17.39JDSPQR: +3 does it
16:17.45resuDaed|workso tail (file) +3
16:18.28JDresuDaed|work: aye
16:21.22SPQRoops, ya
16:21.34resuDaed|workbasically, my problem is this - I am getting an mjpeg (of unspecified length) from cgi, so I have the content type written in at the beginning, I need some way of putting it into a useful file (std mpg, avi etc)
16:23.14resuDaed|workany sugestions?
16:23.32resuDaed|work(use of non-free software (eg xanim) is a last resort)
16:24.00chrisayou've solved the Content-Type: issue? just looking for format conversion?
16:24.48resuDaed|workchrisa : I don't think so, I have tried using tail to remove the first two lines, but xanim still wont recongnise it
16:24.58Leedsxanim? ugh
16:25.12resuDaed|workLeeds : just to test whether s a valid file
16:25.12nasratresuDaed|work: is it mime encoded?
16:25.22resuDaed|worknasrat : I have no idea
16:25.30chrisaif it's an HTTP server, you should use perl and LWP::Simple or something
16:25.52resuDaed|workthere is no write access to the http server
16:25.57chrisasure
16:26.06chrisaLWP::Simple on the client side
16:26.11cupweekend, bye people
16:26.22chrisabut you don't know in advance how much header-foo the cgi will send
16:26.41chrisaso you read lines until you get a blank line ("\n\n") then your content starts there.
16:26.48Leedsseeya cup
16:27.35resuDaed|workthe cgi server sends content type as image/jpeg, newline, then the stream
16:28.10chrisathat's what you see if you telnet to it, say?
16:28.20TarragonresuDaed|work: I thought tail -n 2 foo would just give you the last 2 lines. If you do not know the file size this would not work would it?
16:28.22nasratwhat does file on the download stripped give
16:29.00nasratcan you wget the file?
16:29.01resuDaed|workhttp://digit.colo.hosteurope.com:3128/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi
16:29.22resuDaed|worknasrat : I am wgetting the file
16:29.22JDTarragon: surely I don't have to tell people again that tail <file> +2 does whgat is wanted
16:29.57JDresuDaed|work: then the cgi is fubar
16:29.59TarragonOK will try
16:30.34resuDaed|work# tail vid.mjpg +2
16:30.39resuDaed|worktail: +2: No such file or directory
16:30.57Leedstail +2 <file>
16:30.59LeedsJD sux
16:31.04nasratresuDaed|work: tail +2 vid.mjpg > foo.mjpg && file foo.mjpg
16:31.34chrisaif wget is writing Content-Type: blah/blah\n\n into the file, then something is *very* wrong.
16:32.40TarragonJD: OK I am obviously making a fool of myself - It is not working. Are there differing versions of tail?
16:33.01nasratTarragon: gnu tail is what we are talking about here
16:33.16resuDaed|worknasrat : your command worked, I got image/jeg back
16:33.21resuDaed|works/jeg/jpeg
16:33.34TarragonAh. In that case JD you sux big time!
16:33.48Tarragon:-)
16:33.50Leedsnasrat: no we're not
16:33.51resuDaed|work:-)
16:34.04chrisaresuDaed|work: can you give us a user/pass for that httpd?
16:34.10resuDaed|workview/view
16:34.17nasratLeeds: is the + behaviour standard
16:34.29resuDaed|workit is a stream, so d/c at some point :-)
16:34.43Leedsnasrat: don't have a standard to hand... but it's there in UNIX tail :-)
16:35.18nasratLeeds: the info page says GNU `tail' can output any amount of data (some other versions of
16:35.21nasrat`tail' cannot).
16:36.34chrisaLeeds: when you say 'UNIX tail', exactly which UNIX/
16:36.37chrisa?
16:37.03Leedschrisa: Solaris
16:37.29chrisaoh, right. most of Solaris' userspace sucks bigtime.
16:37.38Leedsum...
16:38.02JDparguild020 david% tail +3 /tmp/foo
16:38.07JDworks a treat
16:38.14chrisawell, for values of sucks including 'missing lots of useful features which the GNU and BSD versions have'
16:38.19Leedsum...
16:38.41Leedsdo you know who I am?
16:39.00JDLeeds: no, should I?
16:39.14LeedsJD: you bloody should :-)
16:39.32nasratLeeds: Bill Joy?
16:39.39Leedsnasrat: close :-)
16:39.41JDLeeds: is it bigger than a breadbox?
16:39.50Leedswell, close-ish...
16:40.19nasratLeeds: are we talking meters
16:40.21chrisaLeeds: some kind of Sun superstar? :/
16:40.29Leedscrisa: close :-)
16:40.31resuDaed|workchrisa : you have any luck with that stream?
16:40.40JDSun got a ticking off on Chris Moyles show today
16:40.53Leedsthe what show?
16:40.55chrisaresuDaed|work: yes, it *does* have Content-Type: as the first line...
16:41.05JDLeeds: radio 1
16:41.39chrisaresuDaed|work: haven't actually tried doing anything with the video tho
16:41.43resuDaed|worktail +2 foo managed to remove that ok, and 'file' returned image/jpeg, but I still cannot get in to play in a anything
16:41.45LeedsJD: I'm listening to Virgin during the day at the moment... mmm... Ogg stream :-)
16:42.14JDLeeds: they had pic of African footballer on front page
16:42.32JDwith eyes open and people standing around
16:42.39LeedsJD: um, what???
16:43.32JDthen inside they had a story about new pill to prevent heart disease and a cartoon saying
16:43.56JD"any side effects?" "don't know, but at least you won;t die of a heart attack"
16:44.27JDand hten 2 pages on they had the story about African footballer who died of a suspected heart attack during a game last night
16:45.24LeedsJD: you alright, man?
16:45.35JDLeeds: yes. why?
16:46.24Leedswell, you're talking absolute nonsense... more so than usual
16:46.31JDLeeds: not really
16:46.43JDwhat doesn;t make sense
16:46.49JDI'm talking about the Sun today
16:47.09SPQRI'm heading homewards now. Later peeps
16:47.10resuDaed|workJD: and the kajority of that isn;t nonsense
16:47.10Leedsyes, I know that
16:47.18JDbeing shockingly amoral/unprofessional/insensitive
16:47.22Leedsbye spqr
16:47.25resuDaed|worklaters SPQR
16:53.28chrisaLeeds: so *who* are you, and why are you so touchy about people's opinion on Solaris then?
16:56.19JDchrisa: lets just say a conflict of interest
17:02.28Leedswell... I do work for Sun...
17:02.58Leedsin Solaris Engineering...
17:03.18Leedsin the team responsible for shipping the GNUish userspace stuff with Solaris
17:10.32Leedsso yeah... I have an interest
17:12.00A4266hey hey
17:12.09Leedshi Krusty!
17:12.32A4266lol
17:19.01gregjhome sux
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17:21.20jason_ukfsnafternoon/evening all
17:24.27JDhi jason
17:24.33jason_ukfsnhi JD.
17:24.53jason_ukfsns/wek/week/
17:25.19jason_ukfsnUKFSN is getting some new servers given to it :)
17:25.29JDby?
17:26.04jason_ukfsnThere will be a press release about it so I don't want to pre-emt that as the company deserves the publicity.
17:26.25JD/msg me?
17:26.25jason_ukfsnLet's just say they are a very well known UK Linux hardware supplier
17:26.32JDah okay
17:26.35JDI think I know
17:27.52jason_ukfsnThe new hardware will allow me to put together a good anti-spam/virus platform and a UML offering.
17:28.17JDcool
17:30.31resuDaed|workchrisa : you still there?
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18:21.15chrisaresuDaed|work: awake?
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20:27.31Leedsevening nasrat
20:27.58nasratevening
20:28.01stephanbLeeds: hey hello there !
20:28.20Leedsevening stephenb
20:28.28Leedsor stephanb even
20:29.03stephanbLeeds: how's life ?
20:29.09Leedsnot bad
20:29.21Leedsdidn't have a great day at work... but I'm nice and relaxed from it :-)
20:29.45stephanbwell that's better than me
20:30.12Leedsreally? :-(
20:30.49stephanbi went to see that guy (supposed friend) who hadn't be in touch for months
20:31.09stephanbhe calls me out of the blue, I thought "that's nice"
20:31.53stephanbit turns out he calls me because he's filled a 12GB drive on a 3 years old iMac full up to 100MB free
20:32.02stephanband the mac doesn't boot !
20:32.07Leedsdoh!
20:36.41stephanbof course he hasn't backed up anything for 3 years
20:36.53LeedsSCSI?
20:37.03stephanbnonono iMac = IDE
20:37.11Leedsoh, okay
20:37.29Leedsso grab it, slap it in a computer (as opposed to a toaster), copy the files off
20:37.41stephanbI said I couldn't do anything, I only do PCs. My experience of MacOS is to boot on the System disk and run a disk check
20:38.00Leedsheh - more experience than me :-)
20:38.04stephanbof course that fails, the disk doesn't even mount
20:38.30stephanbhe's already spoken to afew mac gurus, it looks like the partition table on his drive is f***ed
20:38.43stephanband that I can't fix
20:38.44Leedsdoesn't mount? on Linux, I assume
20:39.00stephanbno doesn't mount on the MacOS desktop
20:39.15Leedsso slap it in a Linux PC
20:39.21stephanbwhen you use the rescue OS from the System CD
20:39.23Leedsdepending on how good a friend he is :-)
20:40.00stephanbwell he has such a history of calling me when his computer needs fixing that I didn't feel I wanted to make any effort
20:40.18Leedsah, that
20:40.30Leedsmy mum called this morning because her 'net connection was dead :-)
20:40.31stephanbcome on, the guy doesn't backup anything for 3 years, he's a pro photographer, he uses digital cameras
20:40.59stephanbif i was doing his job I would burn a CD at the end of each day of shooting
20:41.27Leedsheh
20:41.39stephanbah, let me guess, her dog had chewed the telephone extension cable ?
20:41.56Leedsnah... dunno what the problem was - talked her through rebooting her router and all was well
20:42.22Leedsshe thought my sister had filled up the HDD with Kazaa and deleted something important to make space for more dodgy MP3s :-)
20:42.39stephanbah yes I'm sure that must happen
20:43.33stephanb"let's see, there's this folder called system32..."
20:43.36Leedswell considering she's got a PC and a laptop, and the 'net connection was dead from both... it had to be the router
20:44.12stephanbmind you on Windoze the default settings prevent you from going directly into the system folders
20:44.27Jenson|Awaystephanb: Does anyone use default settings
20:44.41Leedsmy mum is quite good... my sister I have no idea about
20:44.54stephanbJenson|Away: mister joe public who has bought his pc in the supermarket does, yes.
20:45.17Jenson|Awaystephanb: Bah, I forgot I'm a Slackware/Windoze user...that aint normal
20:45.28stephanbcoz Mr John Doe doesn't read "Windows annoyances" on O'Reilly
20:45.49Leedsnah, Jenson|Away - you're just generally not normal
20:46.23Jensonthx for that Leeds honey
20:46.33Leedsno problem
20:46.34Leeds:-)
20:46.39Leedsnormal is a bad thnig
20:46.41Leedsthing
20:46.43JensonI wasnt gonna stay, but I am now, coz I'm gonna write a mail
20:46.47Jensonthen I think I'm gonna sleep
20:47.00Leedsbut... sleep is the enemy!
20:47.28Leedsso, stephanb, what do you use?
20:47.34Jensonyeh, but its quiet online tongight
20:48.04Leedsso go to #kde and start trolling :-)
20:48.48stephanbLeeds: I use the BLAG distro (redhat with all the missing a/v bits)
20:49.12stephanbLeeds: I also tried Mandrake 9.1... looks really nice, recognised my broadband modem !!!
20:49.19Leedsfrog?
20:49.43JensonI was impressed, Slack auto installed my soundcard this distro...with 8.1 it took me and Leeds an hour to work it out
20:49.51JensonAlthough that good have been me being a newbie
20:49.58Jensons/good/could
20:52.08Leedsyeah, probably
20:52.31JensonI dont like Slack much though
20:52.42JensonWhen I get a complete copy of Debian I'll do that
20:52.49stephanbthen I also have to use Win2k at work, coz these Adobe rats don't want to release any of their stuff on Linux
20:52.56JensonMaybe I should order one now
20:53.39Jensonfsck whats the URL for John Winters site, I cant spell it
20:53.57skugg. . o O ( wine )
20:55.21Leedswww.linuxemporium.co.uk
20:55.31Jensonty
20:57.47Leedsor possibly write a PIM suite or a Python/XML system admin tool
20:58.30LeedsI have 7 movies saved on my TiVo... could do with freeing up the disk
20:58.46stephanbOh can we have the theological debate on Reloaded another day ?
20:58.59stephanbmaybe when the girls are around, that could be fun
20:59.08Leedsit'
20:59.10Leedsit
20:59.12Leedsargh
20:59.24Leedskeep hitting return instead of (or as well as) '
20:59.32JensonI'm a girl
20:59.42Leedsit's not really theology - just pseudo-crap
20:59.45LeedsJenson: prove it
21:00.18JensonLeeds: erm, you know me anyway
21:00.36Leedsdo I?
21:00.52skuggLeeds, you not a fan of matrix reloaded?
21:01.06stephanbno more psuedo-crap than what new-age cults do = recycling well known assumptions from various faith traditions
21:01.31Leedsoh, the film was okay... pacing was weird in parts... but it's not in any way insightful in a theological sense
21:01.59Jensonit was a cool movie
21:02.04Leedsstephanb: with the exception of one being purely (or almost so) for entertainment's sake...
21:02.27Jensonplus when i saw it at the cinema i had the bonus of snuggling Alex too :P
21:02.43stephanbabsolutely not the Wakawski brothers have said clearly that they have a "philosophical/religious" agenda
21:03.18stephanbbut that they think that debating that on public broadcasting with academics wouldn't get much of an audience
21:03.32stephanbwhereas doing an adrenalin infused action flick does
21:03.39Leedsstephanb: sure, there's a subtext and a backstory... but are they seriously trying to start a cult - create a useful belief system?
21:03.58stephanbi don't think they want to creat a "cult"
21:04.12stephanbdefinitely not like the "kabbalah society"
21:04.22Leedskabbalah society?
21:04.59Leedsa club for students of Bar Yoshai?
21:05.02JensonLeeds: Technically anything is a cult, Christianity, Judaism, Muslim, all that shit, all cults
21:05.51LeedsI disagree... cult suggests extremism, non-mainstream, stuff like that
21:06.37JensonLeeds: I would argue this point, but there are certain beliefs I have that could easily be misentuperated
21:06.41Leedsoh, and calling the major monotheistic religions 'shit' could be taken as an insult...
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21:07.33JensonLeeds: Sorry, I dont like religion
21:07.39Leedsso?
21:07.59JensonBut I dont want to get into a religious argument with you, coz I like you
21:08.03stephanbLeeds: b careful, the "kabbalah society" is this organisation Madonna has joined, it sounds very dodgy.
21:08.29Leedsstephanb: oh, that stuff... that's a cult...
21:10.24JensonLeeds: All the great so-called extreme political parties started as cults I think
21:10.47Leedsum, what?
21:11.18Jensonthe marxist-leninists
21:11.21JensonNazis
21:11.22Jensonall those
21:13.01JensonPlus, maybe Linux is a cult too :P
21:13.14Leedsto me, a cult (in the serious sense, as opposed to say a fan club of a celeb) is inherently religious
21:13.29Leedsvery different from a movement, which is what you seem to be talking about
21:14.01Leedsanyway...
21:14.10JensonThink about it though, if we could find someone with the people power of Hitler and his lot, who wasn't a bastard, we could do anything
21:15.00stephanbLinux is not a cult
21:15.13stephanbLinux is a giant networked videogame
21:15.17Jensonlol
21:15.40stephanbwhere thousands of players on the internet play at installing, debugging, coding
21:15.57stephanband get together in great social events like LUGs
21:16.12stephanblike Dunjons and Dragons
21:16.38stephanbif Linux was a religion it would be protestantism
21:16.55JensonLUGs arent great social events. they're just weird
21:17.00stephanbwith all it's denominations : Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, etc
21:17.16JensonDebian is a religion to its followes though
21:17.20Jensonits like Schumacherism
21:17.34stephanbJenson : please define religion
21:17.55Jensonstephanb: Tell a Debian user that its shit and you'klll understand
21:18.27stephanbJenson: you haven't answered my question, so far my conclusion is that Debian users are short tempered
21:23.10stephanbi hope I haven't offended him
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21:51.43stephanbok guys, i'm off
21:51.48stephanbbye everybody !!
21:52.03stephenbye
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22:20.06blueboxerWake up and smell the electrons!
23:03.09Leedswell...
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23:05.42Leedsokay... it does have one hell of a twist in the tail
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