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00:12.44formieye69: ?
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00:57.41irvinedevening
00:57.54formihiya
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01:23.26formi_irvined: ?
01:25.57irvinedheh yes, just dozed off at the kb again
01:27.44eye69formi
01:28.13formi_eye69: did you get a ping from me about 2 mins ago?
01:28.52formi_im messing with ipv6 and btexact
01:28.54eye69Not that I know of.
01:29.06formi_pinging you now
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01:54.37formistill testing
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02:07.04formioff to bed
04:43.38JDanyone know why I am up at this time in the morning?
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06:01.28new2unixmoin all
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07:11.45zacharymoin Leeds
07:11.55Leedsboker tov
07:34.27Leedsthe exterminator has just been... hopefully, he won't be back
07:41.02zacharybbl
07:52.03TarragonPost arrived with Quake
07:52.40TarragonSo that will be the whole of today wasted :-)
07:53.24Leedsquake? really?>
08:05.30Leedsheh... enough members of my team work at home often enough... that the "I'm working from home" mails simply consist of the subject line "wfh" and a phone number in the body of the mail :-)
08:23.24TarragonWell Quake III Linux version
08:23.50TarragonWhat router did he recommend?
08:26.36murb|SKLeeds: doesn't office have aircon?
08:27.00murb|SKLeeds: and you don't have VoIP VoIP pabx at work?
08:29.27Leedsoffice does have aircon...
08:29.52Leedswe don't have voip - don't really have a big enough pipe into the office for it to work nicely, I think...
08:29.58Leedsah, QIII
08:30.47LeedsPAE-CE61
08:31.22Leedswe have a couple of people who commute quite a long way, hence the working from home
08:55.00Xiaoqihi
08:55.42Leedsho
08:55.50Leedsnot you!
08:55.56Xiaoqi:(
08:57.21Leedsthat is... I'm not accusing you of being a ho
09:04.09Leedshow are you then?
09:49.21JDmoin
09:50.10Leedshey
10:05.39Xiaoqipeekaboo
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10:20.13Leedsping?
10:52.50JDpong?
10:53.08Leedsman are you lagged
10:53.42JDonly by 32 minutes
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11:32.37Xiaoqihihi
11:33.40Leedshoho
11:34.05JDhuhu
11:36.18JDhmmmmmm you what?
11:37.20Leedsgot a real ADSL modem/router thing to replace the frog
11:40.42JDah good
11:40.43Leedsah, um...
11:40.55Leeds<PROTECTED>
11:41.09JDdoh
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12:29.38zacharyafternoon
12:30.11zacharyAnyone using smoothwall with a dmz?
12:47.53gregjdmz?
12:48.44zacharydemiliterized(sp) zone
12:49.06gregjno, i am not using smoothwall anywa
12:52.00zacharyhow's it going gregj?
12:52.47gregjso so
12:53.00gregjare you going to bletchely this weekend ?
12:53.41zacharyHope so. My wife wanted to go, but with the transportation, it might be just me.
12:53.58zacharyr u going?
12:54.10gregjyep
12:54.22gregj17th its my birthday :-)
12:55.12zacharyMake a post to the mailing list. See how much of a party we can make it.
12:55.20gregjhehe
12:55.45gregjwell, i already did when Rich has announced meeting
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13:27.59Leeds?
13:31.33LeedsI spent a chunk of time trying to get the VPN working... came in to find a global mail announcing the VPN authenication was dead
13:32.02gregjwell, you have to read your email sometimes
13:32.06gregjwhat do you have there
13:32.07gregj?
13:32.14gregjwhat kind of vpn
13:32.27gregjCIPE+SecIP
13:32.30gregjor something ?
13:36.56irvinedwell i'd thoroughly recommend the spice of life somewhere near charing X road
13:37.10irvinedup all night which is on every monday has a wicked blues jam session.
13:55.06JDhmmm could do with having a slightly brighter screen, but never mind
13:55.59Leedssome cisco thing
13:56.14Leedsirvined: sounds like fun
14:39.22Leedsnice and cool here
14:46.31JDsame here
14:46.44JDLeeds: any idea why my magic point stuff is not working anymore
14:51.16irvinedLeeds: yeah i was with friends i hadnt seen in ages and was very relaxing
15:00.15Leedsirvined: I'll remember that :-)
15:00.21LeedsJD: in what way is it not working?
15:03.47JDno text
15:05.45Leedsfonts?
15:07.55nasratforeground and background colour the same?
15:08.57JDnope
15:09.09JDthink it might be due to them being opaque
15:09.20Leedsbeen using PowerPoint and you *have* no text - or other useful content - in your presentation?
15:11.56JDnope change in mgp
15:12.32Leedsreally?  I thought it was largely dead
15:13.02Leedsguess I'm wrong...
15:14.09JD1.10a
15:14.20JDdavid-laptop david% mgp -v
15:14.21JDmgp version 1.10a (20030624+debian)
15:21.34JDhmmmm tabs are doign funny things
15:22.49JDno just me
15:22.49nasratyou mean causing bullets :)
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18:11.01Jensonheya
18:11.29nasratevening Jenson
18:11.59Jensonheya nasrat honey
18:12.40Leedsfoo
18:12.59Jensonheya Leeds
18:13.49Leedsmorning
18:34.21Jensonam i all alone here too?
18:55.19gregjsure
18:57.51gregjlwn.net/Articles/40063/
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18:58.03gregjlooks like there are some nasty connections between SCO and SUN
18:58.06gregjlwn.net/Articles/40063/
18:58.08gregjlooks like there are some nasty connections between SCO and SUN
18:58.33nasratyeah, some ppl have worked for both
18:58.35nasrat:P
18:58.42Leedswho? not me
18:59.14LeedsI never worked for Caldera
18:59.46Leedsoh god - two more copies of the ultimate spam
18:59.56gregjnodays SCO is neither Santa cr. op. or Caldera
19:00.11gregjfew blokes trying to make money on others work
19:00.42Leedsgregj: Caldera bought a significant chunck of SCO - and later changed their name to SCO... the company is Caldera under a new name
19:01.07Leedsanyway... are you trying to imply something?
19:02.02gregjwell, what they are doing now is just fighting against rest of the world
19:02.13gregjbut indeed, IBM broke the law
19:02.31Leedshow so?
19:02.55gregjSCO today published few clues regarding code that was copied
19:03.00Leedsno they didn't
19:03.06gregjwww.7thguard.net
19:03.12gregjfirst article from top
19:03.19gregjit is in polish, but ttthere is nice link - click it
19:03.22gregjadn read
19:03.24Leedsthey said exactly what they've said before, using slightly different words
19:03.49gregjthey gave a bit more information this time
19:04.10Leedsokay
19:04.20Xiaoqihihi
19:04.26Leedsthey made up the name of a non-existant company, and added a few random numbers
19:04.36gregjprobably
19:04.43gregjmaybe
19:04.44gregjwho know
19:05.15Leedswhen they show files side by side from Linux and Unix with the same code in - then I'll believe it
19:05.33gregjthey never will do so
19:05.42Leedsthey will have to, in court
19:06.07gregjcourt can hide evidence form public
19:06.24Leedsto some extent
19:06.35gregjand i bet SCO will ask for it
19:06.59gregjin case of microsoft trials fe, code was never public domain
19:07.12gregjalways under non disclousure agreement
19:07.17gregjor whatever it spelling for that
19:07.26Leedsthe microsoft trials weren't a copyright issue - they were a monopoly abuse issue
19:07.37gregjwell, last one
19:07.47gregj500 milion dollars to pay
19:07.58gregjthis is about 2y bills income
19:08.14Leedsthat was a patent issue - also not a copyright issue
19:11.35gregjanyway, if they will have to pay
19:11.42Leedswho they?
19:11.53gregjthis will mean that windows licence price will go like 2 times up
19:11.55gregjm$
19:11.59Leedsoh, right
19:12.08LeedsI don't think so - they can pay it from cash
19:12.52Jensonoh ffs, why dont i have a disc for a piece of win software when i want it, so many bloody internet dics and i cant find it
19:13.15Leedsit's windows. it doesn't matter
19:13.25gregj:-)
19:13.28JensonLeeds: it does, coz i dont know how to do it in kde
19:13.38gregjread, ask
19:13.39Leedsso? learn
19:14.13Leedstoom?
19:15.06gregjuse mozilla
19:15.13gregjits free, you can download it
19:15.17gregjand you can create HTML with it
19:15.26Jensoni have mozilla
19:15.27gregjand than just change with editor
19:15.30gregjso use it
19:15.31gregj:-)
19:15.34gregjFP is a crap
19:15.56Jensoni like FP, its very, microsoftly eaisy
19:16.08gregjyou must be jokeing , right ?
19:16.19gregjmozilla is also easy
19:17.21Jensonand where might i find a hrml editor with moz?
19:18.37gregjech
19:18.41gregjit is named composer
19:18.46gregjlook for it :-)
19:18.47Jensonlol
19:19.38gregjand ?
19:19.46gregjhave you learned more than i did ?
19:19.55gregjlook at the bottom line in mozilla
19:20.00gregjthird icon from left
19:20.15Jensonoh teh lol
19:20.17Jensons/yeh
19:20.19Jensoncool
19:20.56gregjyou're welcomed
19:21.29Jensongod i hate html
19:24.08Jensonfsck knows where it is
19:24.15gregjso use mozilla
19:24.20gregjtime to learn something else
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19:24.44Jensongregj: nah time not to bother updating the fscking thing
19:25.03gregj??
19:25.04Jensonim depressed, and i do not need this shithead of a computer making it worse
19:25.08gregjsure
19:25.13gregjech
19:25.19gregjyou will never learn anything this way
19:26.36stephanbJenson: hiya
19:27.24Jensoni'll find that bastard piece of software
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19:33.55gregjhow is o
19:33.58gregjyour router
19:34.21Leedsnot quite doing what I want
19:34.33gregjbad boy
19:34.37gregjbuy a new one :/
19:34.44gregjor is it just a PC
19:35.49Leedsit's a new hardware one - got it this morning
19:37.19gregjdo you have new line already ?
19:37.28Leeds?
19:37.33Leedsyou mean new ISP?
19:37.34Leedsno
19:38.31gregjwhy www.gllug.org.uk does not work ?
19:38.40gregjis  it so hard to put www. in DNS ?
19:38.58Leedsyou want to do it?
19:39.11gregji don't have rights to do anything on servers
19:39.20Leedsexactly
19:40.25gregjLeeds: does it mean that i have no right to request change ?
19:40.32Leedsgregj: no
19:41.06Leedswhy do you assume that other people can make changes on the - hosting us for free as a favour - server?
19:41.06gregjit is litelary one change in DNS config, ndc reload, in apache (if it is only virt. domain), and /etc/rc.d/init.d/apache restart
19:41.20Leedswe don't control the DNS to that extent
19:41.32Leedssomeone has to do it for us - when they have the time
19:41.37gregji see
19:41.48gregjthat changes whole thing
19:42.07gregji can ask my boss, if he will to host this website for us.
19:42.39gregjfrom my point of view, i can put anything on any server at any time
19:42.41gregj:-)
19:42.43Leedstrust me - that's not the answer
19:42.56gregjindeed
19:43.52gregjbut problem of hosting mail/website always come back on meetings
19:44.32Leedsnot really
19:44.50gregjwell, it did on last meeting
19:45.05Leedsthat's not always... and I wasn't there
19:45.39gregjLeeds: regarding this weeks meeting
19:45.48Leedsyes
19:45.49gregjLeeds: tickets to park, 9 quids
19:45.53Leeds7
19:46.08gregjLeeds: probably only chance to book it in advance is when you have a card :/
19:46.14Leedsyes
19:46.16gregj9, according to webpage
19:46.18Leedsget a bloody card
19:46.28Jensonhow can you not have a card
19:46.36Jensoni thought everyone had cashcards
19:46.38gregji have only visa electron
19:46.50LeedsJenson: he's a foreigner with no income
19:47.03gregjwhich can be used for shopping and in cash points
19:47.04Jensonis anyone actually going to Bletcly now?
19:47.21Jensongregj: yeh i had one, had 2 shops in my town that would take it
19:47.25gregjLeeds: i will, as soon as bloody homeoffice will return my passport
19:47.33Jensonso i literally chewed it up and got a normal visa card
19:47.40gregjJenson: i can use it in shop, but not online
19:47.42LeedsJenson: yes they bloody well are... fucking shitty crappy arse-licking trains
19:47.54gregjhrhr
19:47.57JensonLeeds: still pissed off honey?
19:48.07Leedsoh, just a touch
19:48.11Leedsthanks for noticing ;_0
19:48.25gregjLeeds: what happend ?
19:48.34Jensonwell im not going, nor is,Alex, Costa, stephan or Paul N AFAIK
19:48.53gregjnot good
19:49.02Leedstheir loss
19:49.06gregjtrue
19:49.13gregjJenson: its my birtday btw
19:49.19gregjbirthday
19:49.32LeedsJenson: frankly, paul n is the only one of them I care about anyway
19:49.38Jensonive got no money to go anyway, and im quite discliked by a few members of gllug
19:49.52gregjwell, not only you
19:49.53JensonLeeds: bah you dont know stephanb yet
19:50.05Leedsright
19:50.11Leedsthat's why I don't care about him
19:50.20Jensonyou know Alex though
19:50.49Leedsdo I?
19:50.57JensonA4266
19:51.01stephanbLeeds: thank you my brother to show your solidarity with a fellow human being
19:51.07Jensonmy ex boyf
19:51.43Leedsstephanb: nothing personal - but if you can't be bothered to come along, it doesn't particularly bother me
19:51.52stephanbLeeds: fair enough
19:52.13JensonLeeds: i was going too, until they fucked the trains up and no-one i know is going
19:52.15LeedsI'm pissed-off enough with it as it is
19:53.11gregjJenson: well, you know as
19:53.22Leedsstephanb: actually - I tell a lie.  it actually does bother me... a lot
19:54.40stephanbLeeds: i know i am torn between going for an epic trip to Bletchley and worship the temple of Ultra and Alan Turing
19:55.21stephanbLeeds: and say : it's gonna rain, 1hr on train + 1hr on bus each way, too much effort, cant be bothered
19:55.35Leedsstephanb: I know it's not your fault.  I'm very very angry about the trains, but I'm also pissed-off that people obviously aren't *that* interested in it.  I don't think I'll bother next year
19:55.58JensonLeeds: i dont turn up at gllug half the time anyway
19:56.11Jensonalthough i was at the l;ast pub thing for about 20 mins
19:56.29stephanbLeeds: but i'm even more upset for people who organise a festival like Greenbelt, who are gonna lose thousands of visitors on sunday 23rd
19:56.31LeedsJenson: frankly - that doesn't bother me... you're not even in London, so I don't expect you to turn up
19:56.48stephanbLeeds: and who are going to lose money
19:57.19Leedsstephanb: again - I don't care about Greenbelt because a) I have absolutely no idea what it is and b) it's not me
19:57.29JensonLeeds: i'm usually in london when gllug is happeneing, but convincing anyone to go with me is impossible, and no-one at gllug talks to me
20:00.25Jensongrr its cold in here
20:00.34stephanbcold ?
20:01.33Jensonyeh
20:01.39Jensonjsut went to shut all the windows
20:01.55stephanbLondon/City 26C RH 36%, wind NW 11kph, pressure 1022 hPa
20:02.38Jensonit probably isnt cold
20:02.40Jensonporbably just me
20:02.42Jensonusually is
20:02.55Leedsstephanb: frankly - greenbelt not my thing - don't really care about it
20:03.56stephanbLeeds: it 's okay, i was just saying that in our case it's upsetting but not really dramatic, for other people who spend the whole year organising a festival
20:04.26Leedsa festival whose basis is false, to me
20:04.58stephanbLeeds: that's not for you to judge, considering it is not a BNP meeting
20:05.00Leedsyeah - it's a pity, whatever... if it's commercial, I'd hope they have insurance - it not, they took a risk
20:05.12Leedsstephanb: I'm not saying it's wrong, just false
20:05.30Leedsnot false in the sense of empty or fake... just not valid
20:05.52Jensonstephanb: something wrong with BNP meetings?
20:05.58Jensonoi dont think we have the BNP round here
20:06.05Jensonits fucking labour i think
20:06.12Jensonall labour and the tories
20:06.49Leedsstephanb: anyway - the point is that the long outage was announced a long long time ago... they screwed us over a couple of weeks ago
20:07.16stephanbi just don't understand how Leeds can *judge* greenbelt. They harm nobody, they threaten nobody, they are not washing people's brains.
20:07.45Leedsif they'd have said there were no trains on the 17th, I wouldn't have said the 17th for the picnic - it's that they changed their fucking minds
20:07.58Jensonstephanb: if i knew what greenbelt was it would help
20:08.03Leedsstephanb: I don't believe there is such a thing as non-religious christian art.
20:08.14Jensonfucking religios idiots
20:08.35Jensons/religious
20:08.36stephanbmy theory is that all art is either religion or psychotherapy
20:08.52Leedsstephanb: I'm not saying - and I haven't said - that they're doing anything wrong.  it's just not real - not honest
20:09.27stephanbLeeds: what is dishonest ? to ask pple to pay for it ? do you view it as a scam ?
20:09.34Leedsnot in the slightest
20:09.39Leedsthe basis for it is made up
20:10.11stephanboh yeah, but then i would say i think the basis of contemporary art trade / production is "false" as well
20:10.23Leedspossibly
20:10.25Leedssome of it is
20:10.54stephanbwell it's the same with the religious
20:10.58Leedsfor example - a lot of the music industry is
20:11.17stephanbi can only agree
20:11.44stephanbbut then you are free to buy a musical instrument and play your own music
20:11.55Leedsmy point is that I don't think that Christian art has any relevence, any solidity, outside an explicitly religious Christian thing
20:12.06Leedsand this is no comment on the artists or even the organisers
20:12.30stephanbi like john tavener's music. and i listen to ot on my hifi, not in a church, and not as part of worship
20:12.31JensonLeeds: ah, but you are not Christian, you are Jewish
20:12.42Leedsand - from what I read - the non-Christian side of it seems quite sane...
20:12.54LeedsI just don't think Christianity is a cultural thing
20:13.48Leedsagain - not in a negative sense - just that I think it's orthoganal
20:13.49stephanbLeeds: i see where you are getting at. Judaism is a culture not a religion (recontructionist judaism / kaplan)
20:14.10stephanbunfortunately things are not that clear cut
20:14.13Leedsstephanb: s/is/can be/ or s/is/is also/
20:14.53Leedsas an example...
20:15.16stephanbotherwise, if our "western", "liberal", capitalist", "consumerist" society was totally honest with itself, prostitution and recreational drugs would be legalised
20:15.46Jensonstephanb: as they should be...well in part at least
20:16.03Jensonwell prostitution should be legal anyway
20:16.05LeedsI have a Deacon Blue tape - (one of) the best of album.  I've now bought three copies of it - two on tape and one on CD.  I played it in the car with a Christian friend (then friend - we've lost touch) and he was amazed because he considered them Christian...
20:16.18Leedsstephanb: morality != culture
20:17.00LeedsI would argue that a large part of society - even particular the 'arty' parts, would certainly consider recreational drug use to be entirely normal and acceptable
20:17.31stephanbi am just noting that we have just used a whole bunch of words that are all very hard to define : religion, culture, music.
20:17.54Leedsmusic is pretty easy to define :-)
20:18.29LeedsI have no idea what you mean by that :-)
20:18.33Jensonstephanb: one should add politics to that list
20:18.49Leedsnope - politics is pretty easy to define too
20:19.00JensonLeeds: not in my head
20:19.14Leedsreligion and culture - and particularly the lines where they meet and intermingle - are a lot harder to pin down
20:19.15Jensonive settled on Marxist of socialist though
20:19.21LeedsJenson: give an example
20:19.52Leedsdon't worry - you'll grow out of that
20:20.24Jensoni couldnt give myself a label
20:20.28Jensonso i thought fuck it lol
20:20.31Leedsyou just did
20:21.03Jensoni eamnt one label
20:21.07Jensons/meant
20:21.22Leedsanyway - give an example of how it's hard to define politics
20:21.40Jensonits hard to define ppl political viewpoints and ideals
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20:21.48Leedsthat's not the question, though
20:21.54Leedsevening splat1
20:21.57splat1lo
20:21.57Jensonalthough we can say the government made a complete fuck up of the iraq thing
20:22.10Jensonsplat1: hey darling...joining us are ya
20:22.22splat1ermm i think the lug site is down :/
20:22.23Leedssplat1: you've wandered into a political/religious/cultural discussion - if you want to discuss Linux, just say the word :-)
20:22.26gregjhttp://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/08/12/163242.shtml?tid=133&tid=153&tid=186&tid=99
20:22.40Leedssplat1: gllug.org.uk works - www.gllug.org.uk doesn't, unfortunately
20:22.45splat12(Leeds2): dont mind me im part of the leicester lot :)
20:22.47JensonLeeds: lol he's here coz i told him we were talking about politics
20:22.55Leedshmm...
20:23.04JensonLeeds: splat1 is part of the channel me and zimm are from
20:23.06splat12(Jenson2): so im looking for a conversation
20:23.16Jensonsplat1: i think you're it now babe
20:23.21splat1:P
20:23.37JensonLeeds: he's not a stranger....just strange
20:23.50splat1yep thats me :)
20:24.07LeedsI mean it
20:24.16Leedssplat1: you're welcome in here to discuss Linux or London
20:24.26Jensonsplat1: Leeds is a little annoyed tonight
20:24.35Leedsbut this shouldn't be a place people come to from outside for totally off-topic chat
20:24.42splat1hmm..
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20:25.18JensonLeeds: he just wanted to join in hon
20:25.34Leedswell... he's not a Linux user and not in London
20:25.50Leedsthis channel gets very very off-topic - it's wrong to invite people in to make it more so
20:26.07Jensonhe is a linux user....cept i think he uses win 2000 most of the time
20:26.09Leedssorry - better... he's not using Linux to IRC
20:26.39stephanbJenson: Leeds has got a point though
20:26.55Jensonstephanb: dont worry, we go through this shit all the time
20:26.56stephanbwe could discuss the following :
20:27.06stephanbis Linux a religion ?
20:27.10Leedsno
20:27.11Leedsnext
20:27.12stephanbis Linux a culture ?
20:27.19Jensonstephanb: it is not, because i am not religious
20:27.21Leedsyes, to a great extent.
20:27.35Jensonno...geek is a culture...but one can be a wingeek
20:27.41stephanbis Linux / perl / opensource  an art ?
20:27.47Jensonperl lol
20:27.59Leedsit's a science - and like any science, it can be practised artistically
20:28.06stephanbis  Linux / perl / opensource a political philosophy
20:28.10Leedsno
20:28.18Jensonpotentionally
20:28.18Leedsfree software - and to a lesser extent, open source is
20:28.27stephanbit's not really a science, if it is it's applied science / applied arts
20:28.29Leedsunix verges on one
20:28.48Leedsokay - applied science - but the basis is scientific rather than artistic
20:29.13stephanbloosely
20:29.19Leedsyes
20:29.26Leedswell...
20:29.56LeedsI would say that the hardware level is largely engineering, which is extremely applied science, with a little artistic design wrapped around it
20:30.01Leedssoftware is less biased
20:30.33stephanbhem, excpet that there is no "linux" hardware, this is not apple
20:30.39Leedssure there is
20:30.46stephanbLeeds: oh sorry i forgot you work for sun :-D
20:30.57stephanbLeeds: ??? embedded Linux ?
20:31.15Leedsanyway - I see Linux as largely being the union of unix and free software... not so much a unique thing in its own right
20:31.55Leedsembedded Linux is a good example...
20:32.14stephanbyeah reminds me of this lecture reminding us that linux is only the kernel...
20:32.27LeedsLinux - technically - *is* just the kernel
20:32.57Jensonright im out
20:32.58Jensonseeya
20:33.12Leedswhenever you get to the point where the answer to "why?" is "because it's there" or "because we can", you're nearing the science/art border, I think
20:33.15Leedsbye Jenson|Away
20:34.01stephanbi like blurring the art/science border. dunno why, but i like it
20:34.51Leedsso, for example, the IBM Linux watch, which absolutely a piece of engineering, is in effect a piece of engineering art - it's not really useful in its own right - it was done for the interest in doing it - because it would look cool, be thought-provoking and so on
20:35.39Leedsdo you code?
20:35.48Leeds(I should know that)
20:37.20stephanbbadly, and not enough to my taste
20:37.37Leedswhat language(s)?
20:37.46stephanbin my job, people are not really interested in long term solutions
20:38.18stephanbi did some lisp and pascal at university, now i use perl
20:38.34Leedsoh :-(
20:38.44stephanbi never wrote a full scale app, only "scracth an itch" solutions
20:38.46Leedsthen pointing you at obsfucated code is pointless
20:39.13Leedssince most Perl is obscfucated as written
20:39.54stephanbyeah i tend to use 5 lines of code, where a real perl coder would do it in one line
20:40.09Leedsah
20:40.12Leedsmaybe yours is readable then :-)
20:40.46Leedswriting obsfucated code gets you things like a C program which caculated pi by working out the area of its own source code :-)
20:40.54stephanbi'm the kind of guy who will use if..then.else (also in bash) where a normal programmer uses a conditional operator
20:41.08LeedsI don't like conditional operators either
20:41.44stephanbthis is not obfuscation (C program calcultaing pi), it's acrobatics.
20:42.07Leedsit's code-as-art
20:42.24gregjit usually means - useless
20:42.32Leedsgregj: yes, absolutely
20:42.43gregj:-)
20:43.46Leedssee y'all later
20:44.07stephanbLeeds: well, well, well i hope we will meet one day, if not at bletchley...
20:44.20stephanbLeeds: see ya l8r
20:44.47Leedsstephanb: as I said, your loss... it probably won't rain, it'll be fun, and it's a nice place to visit
20:45.34stephanbguilt, guilt, guilt : how to talk to a christian, chapter one.
21:05.00stephanbbbl
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21:28.47Leedshmm... only 32 degrees in here - feels pleasantly cool
21:30.20gregjme too
21:30.24gregji hope it will rain now
21:30.27gregjnot during weekend
21:31.47Leedsit's not forcast to, for whatever that's worth
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22:21.43LeedsI think that's working
22:21.52Leedswe'll see how stable it is...
22:22.16gregj:-)
22:22.30gregjit eats memory
22:22.54Leedsyes
22:23.12gregjbut i am happy to use it
22:23.26Leedsreally?
22:23.35LeedsLinux-on-Linux?
22:23.40gregjwell, i need to run one program for windows
22:23.46gregjso i have w2k on it
22:23.51gregjand i am testing all new distros
22:23.59gregjlike redhat beta, fe
22:24.01Leedswin-what?
22:24.06gregj:>
22:24.38gregji couldn't install solaris, because it requires 96MB and i have only 64
22:24.53gregjbut windows works, just fine
22:24.56Leedswhat do you need to run under windows?
22:25.00gregji can switch it of at any time
22:25.09gregji am writing plugin for gadu gadu in KDE
22:25.19gregjand only orginal client for this protocol i windows one
22:25.22Leedsso?
22:25.27gregji have to check if it is working with windows
22:25.36Leedsso?
22:25.39gregji mean, if i can talk to somebody that uses windows client
22:25.42Leedswine?  a friendly tester?
22:25.45gregjand for that i need windows
22:25.49gregjit does not run under wine
22:25.56gregjif it will, i will use wine  - belive me
22:26.12Leedsso?
22:26.14Leedsfix wine
22:26.20gregjsure
22:26.29gregjmaybe you'll do this :=-)
22:26.36gregjKDE eats all my free time
22:26.46gregjbeside, wine is on BSD licence
22:26.47LeedsI don't want to run windows software
22:26.50Leedsnope
22:26.54Leedswine is on LGPL
22:27.03gregjwhatsoever
22:27.24gregjit is just because gadu uses IE extensively
22:27.34gregjyou are not able to aply this functionality to wine
22:27.42gregjunless you install IE
22:27.52gregjwhich is impossible with free version of wine
22:28.07gregjbut gadu does not work with crossoveroffice too
22:28.23LeedsI thought IE worked okay with wince
22:28.25Leedswine
22:28.37Leedsyou can tell what I'm used to typing over on another channel :-)
22:30.55gregjhehe
22:36.41Leedshmm...
22:36.45LeedsI may go offline here
22:47.08JDhi all
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22:54.52richardc_ping
22:56.53Leedsping
22:57.03Leedsibot ping
22:57.03Leeds: wish i knew
22:57.11eye69*yawn*
22:57.57Leedsibot slap eye69
22:57.57i don't know, Leeds
22:58.09Leedsibot caffiene
22:58.09Leeds: have you tried http://www.tldp.org/ ?
22:58.13Leedsibot caffien
22:58.14Leeds: I'm not sure, is it larger than a breadbox?
22:58.18Leedsargh
23:00.07JDibot: seems to have suffered a labotomy
23:00.09bugger all, i dunno, JD
23:01.02Leedsibot sing
23:01.03ACTION sings off key
23:01.09Leedsibot dance
23:01.09"ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive, stayin' alive"
23:01.13Leedsibot die
23:01.14ACTION takes two shots to the head and crumples to the ground, lifeless.
23:07.57gregjibot suffer for me
23:07.58gregj: I give up, what is it?
23:08.11gregjibot catch
23:08.12gregj: no idea
23:09.10Leedsibot throw
23:09.11Leeds: i don't know
23:10.44gregjibot poweroff
23:10.45gregj: have you tried http://www.tldp.org/ ?
23:11.00gregjibot go away
23:11.01/server irc.rt.ru
23:11.09gregjibot STFU
23:11.10it has been said that stfu is Shut the F*** Up!
23:11.16gregj:>
23:13.07gregjwhy all pizza places are fucking close at that time in this country
23:13.08gregjgrrrrrrrrr
23:13.14gregjno chinesse either
23:13.48Leedsyou mean... why do places close when the vast majority of their customers are asleep?
23:15.28JDLeeds: I think he means why do places close when people want food at slightly late times
23:15.37Leedslike now?
23:15.48Leedsa very large majority of the population are in bed by now
23:16.06gregjcinic and sarcastic fscking channel
23:16.32Leedsno
23:16.39Leedsthere are plenty of shops open now...
23:16.50Leedsjust not restaurants...
23:17.03Leedsremember that they have to stop serving alcohol at 11pm
23:17.16JDa take-away would be nice
23:17.20gregjya, i know = england
23:17.21gregj:\
23:17.51gregjpubs should be closed during weekend in thiss country
23:17.55Leedsthere'll still be a few takeaways open...
23:18.08gregjmaybe near you
23:18.10Leedsthe odd fast-food/kebab place around
23:18.17gregjnot in on my site
23:18.29Leedsyeah well... you choose to live in the middle of nowhere
23:19.01Leedsgregj: that's pretty much the point - if you want food at this time, you microwave it
23:19.33gregjmaybe a girl :-)
23:19.43Leedsa chinese girl?
23:19.44gregjor might be a girl, i should say
23:20.20Leedsyou might be a girl?
23:20.32gregjwho knows :>
23:20.51Leedswell... I'd hope you do
23:20.58Leedswhoa - down to 30 degrees in here
23:21.02gregjhyhy
23:21.19gregji don't have thermometer there
23:21.22gregjhere, i mean
23:21.46gregjdinners ready !
23:21.54Leedswhrr
23:21.56Leedswhee
23:22.05gregjnot wee, dinner :>

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