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00:00.03Marios_I can pay up to 800 a month
00:00.03murbhighbury: not too bad atleast in the hours of daylight ;)
00:00.13murbMarios: for how long?
00:00.27murbyou intend to earn atleast 20k a year?
00:00.31Marios_till I buy a house
00:00.41murbin london?
00:00.45Marios_well my wife and I
00:01.16Marios_so we will get two salaries
00:01.22murblondon surburbia is very expensive for houses as is the entire south east.
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00:01.27murbMarios: what does your wife do?
00:01.43Marios_Accountant
00:02.10murbleMarios: is she a chartered accountant?
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00:02.28Marios_she is the American equivalent
00:02.33Marios_but she is planning to take the exam when she comes over
00:03.31Marios_murb << what do you think ?
00:03.38Marios_is it too much for there?
00:04.13murbleMarios_: I'd be suprised if you could find much more than a shoe box for 800 a month that centeral in london.
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00:04.32highburyI agree with murble
00:04.42Marios_shoe box ?? lol
00:05.08Wethrin_Hi
00:05.10Marios_my wife told me that before....cause I have a nice Plasma TV here 54"
00:05.19Marios_and she said it won't fit anywhere !!!
00:05.38highbury2 bed flat in N5, close to Highbury & Islington Tube £850 per month
00:06.00Wethrin_How big?
00:06.19Marios_2 bed flat doesn't say much
00:06.33highburysmall
00:06.44highburyimagine small NY flat sizes
00:07.00murbleI know someone living in an gated appartment block in elephant and castle, pays 900 for a 1 room thing, with a fold down bed, because there wouldn't be enoughr oom otherwise.
00:07.14Marios_lol
00:07.30highburycheck out London Estate Agent Websites
00:07.33Marios_so...I should change plans and move North
00:07.40murbleas in my bedroom here is probably about the size of that entire place.
00:07.49LeedsNorth is good
00:08.08Marios_I have family in Haringay
00:08.12murbleMarios: in high wycombe you could get a good sized flat for 850 a month
00:08.22highburyfirst rent anywhere for 3 months if possible, find job, move as close in as you can afford
00:08.27murbleprobably simular in other commuter towns
00:08.40highburyYou should stay on Underground Network
00:08.40Marios_I see
00:08.48Marios_yeah of course
00:08.54highburyif you want to go into town easily
00:08.58Marios_I like the tube ...very convenient
00:09.06murblehighbury: i'd extend that to you should stay somewhere that has night busses.
00:09.13highburyBuses are good too!
00:09.28Marios_I ll sell my car and here and buy a car iN london
00:09.32murblenight busses is one reason i would live in london.
00:09.49Wethrin_Wycombe has good rail links into London between ~6am and midnight
00:09.52murbleMarios: you don't want to know how much a car in london is going to cost you.
00:10.06Marios_I checked some prices
00:10.21murbleMarios: i mean running, parking and congestion charge costs.
00:10.27Wethrin_Who would want a car in London?
00:10.33Leedsyou really don't want to drive into town
00:10.35Marios_murble << you want me to bring my car from here ?? it won't fit in any street or Parking spot
00:10.36Wethrin_(specially Central London)
00:10.51murbleWethrin: don't know, a bicycle would probably be a better idea for personal transport.
00:10.59Marios_so you guys don't have cars?
00:11.03LeedsI drive to work... but then I don't work in London and I do get parking at the office
00:11.08murbleMarios: I don't have a driving license even.
00:11.16murbleMarios: and i've not needed one really.
00:11.19Wethrin_Yes, although cycling in London doesn't seem to be the most wonderful transport either
00:11.31murblehaving worked in Brussels, Luxembourg, Eindhoven and London in recent months.
00:11.48murbleWethrin: lots of london is walkabout anyway.
00:11.54resuDaedany lilo experts?
00:12.02murbleresuDaed: what do you want to do with it?
00:12.03Wethrin_murble: Most things within the Circle Line, anyway
00:12.11Wethrin_(given enough time)
00:12.19Marios_very different way of living from the US
00:12.26LeedsresuDaed: blow into the valve until it's firm, then sit on it in the pool
00:12.33highburyMarios_, where do you live
00:12.34resuDaedthe machine I am working on is stopping an LI
00:12.35murbleMarios: have you ever lived in the UK?
00:12.47murbleresuDaed: did you build a new kernel and not run lilo afterwards?
00:12.55murbleor copy files arround like vmlinuz or somthing?
00:13.07Marios_not in UK....I live in Michigan
00:13.12resuDaedI ran lilo after changes
00:13.20Marios_and I stayed in countries like Greece and Cyprus
00:13.21highburyimagine living in New York
00:13.26murbleresuDaed: what sized disk was it on?
00:13.32resuDaed1.2G
00:13.33Marios_well in Chicago is not that bad
00:13.36Wethrin_(although I've forgotten most of what went on already)
00:13.39murbles/disk/partition/
00:13.45highburyyou wouldn't keep a car in Manhattan, unless you were very rich
00:13.46Marios_you still need a car there
00:13.57resuDaed<PROTECTED>
00:14.02highburymaybe Queens
00:14.06Wethrin_50MB? Luxury!
00:14.12Wethrin_I've got hard drives smaller than that
00:14.15murbleone of my co workers was from Chicago, both his brothers were shot, and his sister died from aids related somthing from IV drug use..
00:14.19resuDaedWethrin_ : so have I :-)
00:14.20murbles/co/ex &/
00:14.34murbleresuDaed: run it again?
00:14.50Marios_murble << Chicago is not that bad as they say
00:15.05murbleMarios: yeah, i know one person that go out alive atleast!
00:15.11highburyany city has good parts and bad parts
00:15.13resuDaedmurble : ran it many times now, attempted to debug lilo.conf with no success
00:15.23murblewhat does root and boot lines say?
00:15.43Marios_when you are in Chicago just don't go South...always North and you are in the safe side
00:15.45highburydo you use ramdisk
00:16.00resuDaedhighbury : initrd? then yes
00:16.11LeedsWethrin: how about a decent PROM?
00:16.29highburyresuDaed, you usually have to recreate it, after compiling a new kernel
00:16.34murbleLeeds: can you buy PCs with OF?
00:16.39murblei mean x86 ones.
00:16.40WethrinLeeds: I included that with decent architecture
00:16.42Leedsmurble: nope
00:16.43highburymkinitrd or its like
00:16.53Wethrinmurble: Have a look into OpenBIOS
00:17.06murbleWethrin: isn't that the same as linuxbios?
00:17.09WethrinThey're trying to do something quite similar to OF for PCs
00:17.20murbleand i used to have a compatible board for that, but had to give it to my mother :(
00:17.24resuDaedone sec, am waiting for machine to boot of rescue cd kernel
00:17.25WethrinAlmost. LinuxBIOS grabbed code off them
00:17.28murbleand i'm not sure what i did with my disk on chip.
00:17.41WethrinAnd just got the bare minimum to boot Linux with
00:17.43murbleWethrin: I think linuxbios is pretty much the way to go nowdays if you are into that kind of thing.
00:17.51murbleit can boot freebsd and windows as well as linux
00:17.53WethrinOpenBIOS is trying to make a full-featured BIOS
00:17.55murbles/free/open/
00:18.24resuDaedboot & root were set to hda1, boot is hda2
00:19.06resuDaed(now that I have some bandwidth again)
00:19.16highburynn
00:19.19Wethrinnn
00:19.25murbleanyway played with http://www.whiteboxlinux.org yet?
00:19.47JDWethrin: couldn;t you call it something else?
00:19.53JDI get confused
00:20.11WethrinJD: No. :)
00:20.58JDsomething like beki?
00:21.39WethrinLook, just because the machine will plug into lots of others and share packets
00:22.30WethrinBut I'm not intending for it to go down...
00:24.12JDlol
00:29.32resuDaedif I get paid in time (and know when it is - not tus or thurs) I might make it
00:29.35resuDaeddoh
00:29.49resuDaed^^ -> Wethrin
00:29.56Wethrin:)
00:29.59resuDaed:-)~
00:30.16WethrinWell.......Friday pubmeet, then?
00:30.54resuDaedI'll be up for that
00:31.11resuDaedGreen Man - Gt Portland St?
00:32.01murbresuDaed: no a better pub
00:32.14resuDaedmurb : anywhere in particular?
00:32.18murbWethrin: are we still exploring alternative pubs?
00:32.40murbresuDaed: i think the plan is especally for random meets to go elsewhere so we have more choice for future pub places.
00:32.41resuDaedwith reasonable priced beers & whiskeys
00:32.57murbresuDaed: well one day the greenman didn't have any proper beer
00:33.33resuDaedno Guinness? no John Smiths?
00:33.50WethrinWe'll probably keep the Green Man for regular Gllug meets, simply because it's fairly large.
00:34.00WethrinOther pubs tend to be rather crowded.
00:34.10WethrinNo John Smiths. But that's not Proper Beer ;-)
00:34.21resuDaedyou meen cask ales
00:34.28WethrinYes
00:35.28resuDaedfairry nuff -- I am a Guinness man personally, but I do agree about the real beers
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00:37.57resuDaed.
00:43.11Wethrin:)
00:45.45resuDaedyou in?
00:46.03WethrinAlways
00:46.10WethrinHi Leeds, BTW
00:59.25resuDaedI
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01:39.48pawelszhm.
01:50.28murbblah
01:59.47Clyphox|ZzZzmeh
02:06.40Tarragonfoo
02:06.59murblebar
02:15.36Marios_foobar
02:15.41Leedsbaz
02:18.52Clyphoxis it any good?
02:42.50Leedsyes
02:43.26Leedsit's fun... plays well and easily... and I need to try some of the third-party modules
02:44.51Leedsis *that* any good? :-)
02:47.06Marios_yeap !
02:48.39Leedsit's just a 3d mario game, right?
02:48.56LeedsI'm not a big fan of 3d platform games...
02:49.21Marios_yeah 3d mario game
02:49.46Marios_still I prefer the Mario version for Super Nintendo
02:50.16Leedssnes9x?
02:50.46Marios_well the old one...
02:50.55Marios_with the big cartdridges
02:51.05LeedsI'm suggesting that you can play it on your PC with an emulator :-)
02:51.47Marios_i tried
02:51.53Leedsno good?
02:51.57Marios_nothing compared to the original
02:52.04Marios_nothing at all
02:52.24Leedshow so?
02:53.03Marios_slow some times...
02:53.13Marios_I don't know...I hate it
02:53.18Leedsslow PC?
02:53.29Marios_Athlon 1.2Ghz ;)
02:53.39Marios_I should buy it from Ebay
02:53.47Marios_and hook it on my TV
02:54.01Marios_anywayz I am late...gotta go for dinner
02:54.06Leedsor from a second-hand shop - I can think of a couple of places I could probably get one from easily
02:54.09Leedsenjoy food :-)
02:54.25Marios_thanx...but just burgers ;)
02:54.38Marios_restaurant version of burger
02:54.40Marios_:)
02:54.48Marios_c ya tomorrow Leeds
02:54.49Leedsbah
02:54.51Leedsseeya
03:08.10Clyphoxok.. REALLY going to bed this time.. night all
03:08.28Leedsnight
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09:46.44JDhi cupis
09:49.48gregjhi guys
09:52.38pawelszgregj: :-)
09:52.45pawelszgregj: morning.
09:53.26cupishi
09:53.41pawelszhi.
09:57.21gregjmorning
09:59.09pawelszi'm going to docklands.
10:04.34pawelszgregj: you be in home today?
10:04.49gregjpawelsz: nope, i am going to city around13
10:05.12pawelszgregj: when you want back?
10:05.14gregjanyone know where I can buy dvorak keybpoard ?
10:05.19gregjpawelsz: very late i think
10:07.57pawelszgregj: can you give me sms, when you leave home? i want to meet with you and i be at exhibition.
10:08.23pawelszthen I move outside.
10:08.35JDgregj: just rearrange the keys on your normal keyboard
10:08.42gregj"can you text me" "can you send me a text"
10:09.00gregjJD: i would like to buy rather new keyboard for that
10:09.10gregjmy laptop is not such flexible in that matter ;]
10:09.20JDgregj: buy a new keyboard for uk layout and rearrange old keyboard?
10:09.24JDoh laptop
10:09.29JDno it isn;t
10:09.32gregji think i'll do that
10:09.46JDI think you will be hard pressed to find a dvorak-uk layout
10:09.56gregjhmm
10:09.58JDbetter to just make one
10:10.24gregji got stickers now on keys, but it sucks
10:10.51JDmost keyboards are fairly easy to move aorund
10:11.30gregjyes, key word - most
11:23.26WethrinMoin
11:23.49Wethringregj: Dvorak is horribly difficult to find
11:23.55WethrinAnd very expensive if you do
11:24.45WethrinGet a flat keyboard (one where all the keycaps are the same height) and rearrange the keys
11:24.47gregjkurwa
11:25.06WethrinI've done it with a US keyboard, but the keycaps aren't all the same height, so it looks odd
11:25.13gregji know
11:25.15gregj:-)
11:25.21Wethrin:)
11:25.25gregji've heard SUN does good keyboards, in this matter
11:25.31gregji need something usbish
11:25.34gregjfor laptop
11:25.46WethrinGo around the computer fairs and measure the height of keycaps
11:26.06gregji've been yesterday
11:26.16gregjone near BT tower
11:26.30gregjwhen i asked one of the guys about other computers, nonPC
11:26.43Wethrin:)
11:26.50gregjhe said that he used to have one, with some odd system for SUN and he really won't recomend it
11:26.54gregj:>
11:27.02gregji couldn't stop laughing
11:27.13gregjpoor boy
11:27.23gregjmicrosoft did so terrible damage to his brain
11:28.05gregjsome SUN ultra 10
11:28.12gregjhe sell it for 300 quid
11:28.46WethrinArgh. Fucking tech support calls.
11:30.12gregjhyhy
11:30.19gregjare you in office now ?
11:33.01highburyhttp://www.kinesis-ergo.com/classic.htm
11:49.21Wethrinno
11:49.24WethrinFriend doing support
11:50.59WethrinErr. Friend wanting help with Windows ME problem.
11:51.10WethrinI DON'T DO WINDOWS! ARGH!
11:51.40WethrinWhy are people incapable of understanding that I do not *know* Windows inside-out, and therefore cannot diagnose and fix their Windows problems
11:52.00gregj:-)
11:52.08WethrinNor do I even want to touch "consumer" versions of Windows.
11:52.32WethrinWin2000, fair enough. Maaaaybe even NT. Anything else, forget it.
11:54.22gregjXP proff
11:54.27gregjor w2k3
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12:00.07gregjRichard
12:00.33Leedsafternoon :-)
12:00.58Leedshow's things?
12:02.29WethrinNot XP. And I haven't tried w2k+3
12:02.58WethrinMmmm. Fake paypal s[pc]am
12:03.25Wethrin.oO(breaking necks of people who send those types of emails. Crack crack crack)
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12:10.10Leedshey zachary
12:11.43zacharyhey Leeds, how's things?
12:12.42Leedsnot bad... TiVo is dying :-(  looking forward to going away this week :-)
12:13.48gregjLeeds: so-so
12:13.52gregjboring life..
12:16.07Leedsheh... Jacques Chirac's response to the rugby: "This deserved victory is also a victory for Europe."
12:30.15WethrinWrites short and arrogant emails supporting Debian?
12:31.17WethrinYou know know they're a good company when:
12:31.17Wethrinorbidden
12:31.17WethrinYou don't have permission to access / on this server.
12:31.55WethrinApache/1.3.29 Server at www.clues.ltd.uk Port 80
12:32.04Wethrin(Forbidden, obviously)
12:47.59WethrinLook at Martin A. Brooks' signature
12:48.03WethrinGo to his webshite
12:51.32JDah it was him then
12:51.56WethrinDo you know him?
12:53.08zacharyClyphox: Oops!
12:53.09JDWethrin: no
12:53.22JDjust curious as to what you were talking about
12:53.39Clyphoxits ok.. is an oldishcompaq server keyboard.. these things last wars I bet it
13:16.58WethrinGrr. Safari just died on me.
13:20.09Wethrin(Tom Lehrer)++
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13:33.09Wethrinwb
13:33.47WethrinLeeds: You have a complete set of Tom Lehrer CDs, haven't you?
13:45.18SpudULikeWethrin: Will you stay in a hostel this FOSDEM?
13:46.21WethrinI don't know yet
13:46.57SpudULikeIn fact, is anyone on here planning, or at the very least able to consider, rouging it in a hostel?
13:49.24SpudULikeWith a bit of early effort this year we may be able to get more people to go to FOSDEM that can't afford the hotel/Eurostar route.
13:49.35WethrinI'd go on Eurostar
13:50.56SpudULike£32 for the coach is better for me, even if it means 9 hours trav'lin.
13:51.30WethrinI think it's about £70 for Eurostar for me. Plus a 50% discount
13:51.49JDSpudULike: I couldn;t really afford the hotel/eurostar route, but I consider it by decent oliday of the year
13:52.01JDWethrin: it is too late to use your vouvher
13:52.11WethrinNo it's not, apparently
13:52.26WethrinAs long as I *book* before the date, it's okay
13:52.33JDoh right
13:52.43JDdamn did you have a spare one?
13:52.45SpudULikeJD: Define decent holiday???? Company that counts Shirley.
13:53.04WethrinSorry
13:53.22JDSpudULike: well Oslo was on a budget
13:53.38JDand edinburhg was quite cheap too
13:53.52SpudULikeEven if I was able to get Eurostar for £35 the hotel costs would put a stop to it. I think this might be true for others too.
13:54.16JDyeah it was 50GBP a night last year
13:54.37SpudULike13 euro at the hostel.
13:55.10SpudULikeibot convert 50gbp to euro
13:56.21LeedsWethrin: I don't actually have the CDs... I lent them to someone (I know who!) ages ago and never got around to getting them back...
13:56.39SpudULikeBah, I can never get the hang of the ibot convert thing! Anyway, what is the difference in money between the two and how much beer might that buy?
13:57.00LeedsAs for FOSDEM - I should be on expenses, so staying in a half-decent (like previous years) hotel
13:57.06Leedsibot change 50 gbp to euro
13:57.24Leeds#ibot change $VALUE $FROMCURR to $TOCURR
13:58.11SpudULikeIt's the space I forget.
13:58.27Leedsplus you used convert rather than change, which is for units, not currencies :-)
13:58.36Leedsibot convert 16 miles to km
13:59.00WethrinLeeds: Well, I was wondering approximately how much they set you back
13:59.15LeedsWethrin: hmm... I can't remember offhand - hang on a mo
13:59.35TarragonSo hostel is £9 (EUR13) a night. Hotel is £50 (EUR 71). Beer was about £2 a glass so Hotel is hostel plus 20 glasses of beer a night
13:59.44Wethrin:)
13:59.55JDanyone else planning on the Atlas again?
14:00.16LeedsTarragon: whereas all I pay for is non-meal beer and, assuming I stay Sunday night, one night in the hotel
14:01.22LeedsWethrin: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SWBH/026-8223977-5172461
14:01.24SpudULikeBut if it's not on expenses then stay in the hostel for the Sunday night.
14:08.39LeedsI'd prefer to stay in the hotel
14:13.01Leedsmaybe I'm a snob...
14:13.59Wethrin#On occasion, you may have bumped into a mathematician, and wondered how they got that way
14:15.22Leedsspeaking of which... /me goes to Brent Cross to buy Euros...
14:15.39WethrinGet good deals there?
14:16.05Leedson Euros or generally?
14:16.46WethrinOn Euros.
14:16.57Leedsto be honest, I don't really know... I'll go to M&S and Thomas Cook (or whatever the travel agent is), see which one looks cheaper, and buy
14:17.16Leedsgot to have *some* cash...
14:18.37Leedshmm... not sure a Gibraltar pound coin should really be in my "random foreign coins" (Euros and Dollars) pile
14:20.18Leedsanyway... back later
14:20.27Wethrincu
14:20.42Tarragonbye
16:00.27Leedsibot change 1 gbp to euro
16:00.52LeedsI got 1.384
16:02.22WethrinYou were ripped off.
16:02.57Leedsreally?
16:03.30WethrinWell, you lost 5c on that :)
16:04.00Leedsagainst a 'commercial' rate, sure
16:04.37Leedsmy bank (online, no commission, no postage charges) is giving  1.3667
16:05.00WethrinNot so good
16:06.18Leedsdoesn't sound like I did too badly... and it was 0.1c better than M&S :-)
16:07.58WethrinBest of a bad job, then, really :)
16:08.32Leedswhere should I have gone then?
16:09.45Leedsor to put it another way - do you know anywhere better - I'm happy to learn :-)
16:12.09WethrinUnfortunately, I don't :-/
16:12.11WethrinAll currency exchanges Suck
16:12.34murbleyeah, we should only trade in gold.
16:14.03Leedsalternatively, we should change to the Euro and thereby eliminate most currency changes made in or concerning the UK :-)
16:14.08WethrinHeh
16:14.57Leedsyes, I know there are many other arguments both for and against...
16:16.02Leedsand... /me goes out again - this time to the library to get a Paris guide book or two...
16:16.04murbleLeeds: I don't think it would eliminate most currency changes made in or concerning the UK...
16:16.25LeedsI think the majority of UK trade is with Eurozone countries, isn't it?
16:16.28Leedsback in a bit
16:16.42murbleLeeds: what about the currancy markets in london?
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17:15.06Leedsokay, fair enough... I was thinking of international trade *using* foreign currencies, not trade in currencies themselves
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17:56.38LeedsI want to rock and roll all night and party every day
17:56.54WethrinThat's nice
17:58.13murbleWethrin: why don't you try another mta like postfix?
17:58.15Leedsbah
17:58.21murblefoo
17:58.24WethrinI'm used to qmail; I quite like it
17:58.45eye69Postfix is nice. Very nice.
17:58.49murblesoon you'll be saying that about java, then the mem in white coats will have to come and take you away!
17:59.00WethrinThe only headache is the initial setup. Then it's piss-easy to admin
17:59.04WethrinBut Java is.....
17:59.13Leedsbecause it doesn't bloody do anything
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17:59.56murblesomeone send that man some ^G s!
18:00.19eye69:)
18:00.54WethrinRight. That's that gone from screenrc
18:01.06WethrinPresumably this means I'd have to restart screen?
18:01.17WethrinNo nice of way getting it to reread config changes on the fly?
18:01.23eye69Wethrin: Set the same thing with ^a :
18:03.58WethrinAhh. Muchly thanks :)
18:04.34eye69Lots of nice things can be done with the "command prompt"
18:04.38WethrinYes :)
18:04.52WethrinLeeds: Have you got IPv6 running on any of the j-colo machines?
18:04.53eye69Resizing split windows for instance
18:05.02LeedsWethrin: nope
18:05.15WethrinOkay.
18:05.45WethrinI was considering trying it
18:06.31eye69Wethrin: I can recommend BTExact
18:06.34eye69Works nicely.
18:06.45WethrinURL?
18:06.52eye69tb.ipv6.btexact.com
18:06.55murbleor sixx
18:07.14murbleeye69: you should always ask you ISP first about v6 connectivity!
18:07.34WethrinWhich is recommended for theleast hassleful method of getting a publically routable IPv6 address?
18:07.41eye69murble: And what are the chances of that happening? :)
18:07.52murbleeye69: if you don't ask, they'll always say there is no demand!
18:08.01eye69murble: Good point
18:08.14eye69Wethrin: Setting up a tunnel on your router (if you have one)
18:08.23WethrinPresumably Mailbox will support IPv6?
18:08.28murbleyeah, right like a dsl router is going to do IPv6
18:08.36Wethrinmurble: I was thinking for my colo.
18:08.38eye69Wethrin: I can help you with Linux and OpenBSD
18:08.42WethrinOpenBSD. Yes :)
18:08.58WethrinBut I need to go for coffee. Back in a bit.
18:09.07murbleOpenBSD, Open your network!
18:09.21murblehalt: a more secure phase of OpenBSD
18:09.28murbleoperation.
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18:18.41Wethrinmurble: Har har.
18:18.49WethrinLike Linux is any more secure :-P
18:19.27Leedseveryone knows that Linux is almost the most secure OS... second only to Solaris
18:21.09Marioswhy Solaris is more secure than Linux ?
18:21.42Leedsbecause it's written and tested by professionals, not by students and hackers in their bedrooms at their parent's house
18:21.55Marioslol
18:21.59WethrinLeeds: parent's? Being very modern with single-parent families?
18:22.13Leedsyes!
18:22.14Leeds...
18:22.33Mariosbut let's say RedHat when ships Linux make some changes in the kernel right?
18:23.07WethrinVMS 4 security! :)
18:23.09Leedseven better!
18:23.36Wethrin(actually, VMS would have *considerably* better security against script kiddies)
18:23.54Leedson a 12-bit word machine?
18:24.08WethrinNah. 19-bit.
18:24.19Leedsoh, okay
18:24.29WethrinMaybe, to be fair, it'd be good to have a 33-bit machine.
18:24.39Mariosso...Leeds RedHat is not tested by professionals?
18:24.40WethrinThat way 32-bit values will still fit into one word
18:24.47LeedsMarios: not really, no
18:24.48WethrinMarios: It certainly doesn't seem that way
18:25.15Leedsand anyway - most of the software in Redhat is still written by evil hackers and communists
18:25.18WethrinAfter all, professionals would have already found all the SCO copyright code, and ripped it out. Unlike the back-bedroom whiners.
18:25.48Leedsdon't you mean the BSD/SGI copyright code?
18:26.26WethrinThat too :)
18:26.48WethrinIs SCO claiming ownership of XFS?
18:26.52MariosI never used Solaris on PCs
18:26.58Mariosonly on SUN workstations
18:27.00WethrinI can use it, finally :)
18:27.03LeedsWethrin: yes, I think so
18:27.07WethrinHeh.
18:27.14WethrinBTW, look at today's Userfriendly.
18:27.24WethrinIt's one of the more amusing ones
18:27.51Leedsheh
18:28.47WethrinLeeds: Do you think I'd be able to run IPv6 on my server in j-colo?
18:29.32Leedsyou should be able to tunnel it fine - I don't know what the situation is regarding sharing a physical network... should be okay, I suppose
18:30.05Leedsto be honest, I don't know - we've never even considered it
18:34.02WethrinFair enough. It's one of these nice-to-have things, really.
18:41.35SpudULikeMy router is quite happy to route connections to the Internet from my network, I'm going through it right now. But it doesn't seem to be able to see the outside world for itself. I can ping sites from all the machines on the network but I can't ping anything, by name or address, from the router itself. Can anyone tell me what might be the cause of this?
18:42.22WethrinYou're using your router as a general access machine. Bad :)
18:42.27SpudULikeActually, I can tell you the cause - I've been fiddling'. What do I need to do to unriddle ;-)
18:42.40WethrinFORMAT C:
18:43.56SpudULikeWethrin: Only on extreme occasions. Sometimes I will want to do a traceroute from the router to tel Telewest how crap their connection is.
18:45.00WethrinWhat's the default route of your router?
18:46.10SpudULikeIt's good to see the developers of the 'format' command have a sense of humour. You try format c: !
18:46.23Leeds?
18:46.26WethrinUnder which OS?
18:46.33WethrinALL DATA ON DRIVE C: MAY BE LOST!
18:46.33SpudULikeLinux
18:46.41WethrinSUSE?
18:46.48SpudULikeyeah
18:46.54Wethrin$ format c:
18:46.54Wethrinbash: format: command not found
18:47.01Wethrin(RedHat)
18:47.07SpudULikecolin@mine:~> format C:
18:47.07SpudULikeError: The DOS concept of formatting disk media is screwed.
18:47.09Leedsbash: format: command not found
18:47.09JDsame here
18:47.09SpudULike<PROTECTED>
18:47.10WethrinYep. Try type ing 'A:'
18:47.11SpudULike<PROTECTED>
18:47.41Leedsokay, so it's a dummy
18:47.59nasratWethrin: try espdiff
18:48.18Wethrinespdiff?
18:48.27nasratit's part of patchutils
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18:48.55nasratthough you might need a fairly recent version of it
18:48.58CopeBoo
18:49.36Leedsahh!
18:50.54Wethrinnasrat: What would that be useful for?
18:51.34nasratnot much sorry just random wibbling
18:51.52WethrinAh, fair enough :)
18:52.18CopeEvening Wethrin; nasrat.
18:52.24WethrinEvening
18:52.32Wethrinnasrat: You obviously need beer
18:53.28LeedsCope: unexpectedly?
18:54.27nasratWethrin: quite possible
18:55.16WethrinMay I suggest this coming Friday, at a pub to be decided?
18:56.19nasratshould be doable.  No longer stuck in Gunnersbury.
18:56.20CopeLeeds: Yes - company annonced it went bust.
18:56.34Leedsoops
18:57.06Leedsin some ways, it could be worse
18:57.26Leedsmy ex-employer *didn't* go bust :-)
18:57.37WethrinThey will do...
18:58.03Leedstrue
18:58.04CopeSlightly ropey timing! Baby is due in just over 3 weeks!
18:58.12Leeds(well, not technically true)
18:58.19LeedsCope: yeah, there is that :-(
18:58.40WethrinCope: You need pub to comiserate.
18:59.11WethrinRight. Friday. $UNKNOWN_LOCATION
18:59.42Leedssomewhere near the Bastille?
19:00.11nasratCope: what sort of stuff you do?
19:00.37WethrinLeeds: If by Bastille, you mean TCR, then yes.
19:00.40Copenasrat: Well, looking for junior sysadmin position; cv to follow.
19:01.24LeedsWethrin: thinking more along the lines of the big ex-prison in Paris :-)
19:01.29nasratok position I know of is probably a bit more senior.
19:02.02WethrinLeeds: Could do it Wednesday, maybe, if you'd come along then
19:02.27LeedsWethrin: nah, don't worry about it
19:02.53CopeThe general challenge is putting my knowledge and experience into some kind of convincing form; most of it is self taught, voluntary, or alongside my 'real' job!
19:04.24WethrinLeeds: Okay. Might there be a chance of installing this server on Thursday? Or is that too early?
19:05.45Leedsdunno... probably
19:05.45CopeWhat sort of server?
19:05.57WethrinRackmount
19:05.57Wethrin:)
19:08.24Copeicheck
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19:09.07WethrinOpenBSD, anyway
19:10.11WethrinSolaris x86
19:10.16Leedsum... we call it Solaris/x86 :-)
19:10.28WethrinClose :)
19:10.39Leedswith or without the /
19:11.00Copeq finds a job to apply for.
19:12.13MariosLeeds << Does SUN have goal to target Desktop Market with Solaris?
19:12.20Leedsum...
19:12.46LeedsJDS is really where it's at right now
19:13.00JDgah
19:13.11Mariosso they Solaris mostly for Server stuff...
19:13.13CopeJD is really where it's at now.
19:13.25JDCope: of course :)
19:13.36LeedsMarios: yes, at the moment... I can't comment on future plans
19:14.09MariosI just didn't understand why they used Linux for JDS and not Solaris
19:14.20JDgah
19:14.40LeedsJD
19:14.44LeedsJD JD
19:14.45JDgah
19:15.25pawelsz:-)
19:16.04LeedsMarios: I think it's because when it was planned/started as a project, some of the JDS stuff (particularly StarOffice, possibly Evolution) wasn't supported on Solaris/x86
19:16.18JDgah
19:16.22MariosI see
19:16.39LeedsJDS is pretty nice, for what it is
19:16.47JDfuck off
19:16.58WethrinGot you out of the loop :)
19:17.00CopeYeah, JD is pretty nice, when he doesn't crash and start swearing.
19:17.22JDit wouldn;t be so bad, but I've got beep on activity on atm
19:17.30JDevery 3 seconds I hear beep
19:17.35MariosI really want to see the JDS
19:17.42JDgrrrr
19:17.44CopeJD: beep?
19:17.47WethrinI have a friend from Uni whose initials are JDS. STOP CONFUSING ME!
19:17.47JDargh
19:17.49LeedsI saw the JDS at Linux Expo in London
19:17.52Wethrinbeep beep
19:17.52JDffs
19:18.00Leedsthere is a JDS demo CD...
19:18.05JDdammit Leeds
19:18.19Marioscool
19:18.25JDCope:
19:18.30WethrinCope: Did you drink the JD, though?
19:18.32LeedsI had to turn off beeping at work once one of my collegues discovered she could make my machine beep at will
19:18.35Mariosi 'll go and get it then
19:18.51LeedsMarios: I don't know how available it is... but I know there is one
19:18.58Mariosok
19:19.32Mariosthere is small company over here..and we are trying to convince them to switch to Linux....that's what I am trying to explore more distros
19:19.44Leedsyou may need to contact a Sun salesman to get hold of a copy of the JDS demo
19:19.52JDbah
19:20.00Mariosok I will
19:22.58WethrinLeeds: Is the JDS demo available to anyone?
19:23.18JDanyone would think you are doing this on purpose now
19:23.29CopeWhat? Talking about JDS?
19:23.37MariosWethrin << I will try to find out
19:23.40Leedshonestly, I don't know...
19:23.44JDCope: yeah
19:23.46WethrinThere's nothing wrong with talking about JDS\
19:23.49Leedsit's not even released, technically, for a week or two
19:24.04JDWethrin: well it is non-free surely
19:24.19WethrinIt's based on Linux.
19:24.24LeedsJD: it's based on SUSE - of course it's non-free
19:24.34WethrinAnd we're *Linux* user group, not *Free software* user group :)
19:24.46Wethrin*causes
19:24.56Marioslol
19:25.51JDWethrin: bah
19:26.28CopeBut mainly because it beeps, and agreeing with Wethrin doesn't.
19:26.35Leedslol
19:26.43WethrinHow do you know it doesn't beep my machine?
19:27.09CopeWell, you haven't made any comment. Unlike JD.
19:27.49WethrinThat's true.
19:28.00LeedsJD *has* complained...
19:28.18WethrinSo JD beeps if you're talking about whiskey or the JDS
19:28.43Leedsanyway...
19:29.14WethrinOw. This server isn't grounded properly
19:29.19CopeOUch
19:29.37WethrinPrecicely
19:29.56LeedsI have that problem with my TiVo... I've got the case slightly open to let the network cable get out, and it... stings... to touch the exposed inner case when it's got 240V coming it
19:30.19WethrinMm. This isn't quite 240V
19:30.46WethrinJust a mild tinge if I put my upper arm against the case and front screw of the case
19:32.22Leedsyeah, mine isn't 240 either - as I said - it just stings
19:32.57WethrinOh well.
19:41.55Leedsso... spam... what's the deal with all the penis/breast/lip growth and viagra ads?
19:44.23WethrinWell, they're not trying to sell JD ;-)
19:44.32JDbah
19:45.37Wethrinbah to you too, sir
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19:47.49WethrinDoes it tend to be a Good Idea(TM) to limit the maximum message size?
19:48.03Leedse-mail?
19:48.08Leedsincoming or outgoing?
19:49.06WethrinEmail. Incoming.
19:49.18Leedsthis is for personal use?
19:49.34WethrinYes. Mostly.
19:49.39stephenhas anyone come across this?  Some of my HTTP requests are being redirected to http://www.spacereg.com/df.html?$URL
19:49.42WethrinUnless other people want email
19:49.49Wethrinstephen: It's your router :)
19:50.32stephenwould it be mis-directing my packets or something?
19:50.38LeedsWethrin: what maximum would you set?
19:50.47WethrinNot sure. 10MB?
19:51.07Leedsyeah - just thinking if I get mail bigger than that even
19:56.57stephenhmm, perhaps I just need a new router, my current one is really too slow, and breaks down every two weeks
20:02.42TarragonI do get emails bigger than 10Mb but I normally know that they are coming in and who they are from.
20:03.51LeedsTarragon: does that help unless you can get the sender to do something different?
20:04.58Leedse.g. send to a different address, include 'password', split up mail
20:06.28TarragonIs it not possible to kill mail <10M unless subject contains keyword?
20:07.30Leedswith qmail?  really doubt it
20:18.09WethrinQuick patch...
20:18.54Leedsheh
20:28.21mozratTarragon: With procmail yes, but you would have to receive and process the mail through Exim kinda defeating the point
20:30.19WethrinWhy through Exim specifically?
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20:52.33Leedsibot change 40 ff to gbp
20:52.49Leedsibot change 40 franc to gbp
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20:53.14LeedsI'm seeing things priced in Francs... very confusing
20:53.19Marios_lol
20:53.24Marios_still francs ?
20:53.31Leedsyes
20:53.46Leedsibot chaneg 40 frf to gbp
20:53.48Leeds: bugger all, i dunno
20:53.53Leedsibot change 40 frf to gbp
20:54.06Leedshah, obselete
20:54.30Marios_smart bot
20:54.50Leedssmart xe.com :-)
20:55.33Marios_hehhehe
20:55.50Marios_does it get the rate from there automatically?
20:55.59Leedsyes
20:56.02Marios_cool
20:56.55Marios_let me try then
20:57.11Marios_ibot change 100 cyp to usd
20:57.53Marios_ibot change 100 cyp to gbp
20:58.22Marios_sweet
20:58.35Marios_the dollar is dropping
20:58.58Marios_ibot change 100 euro to usd
20:59.25murbleibot change 2 Kg of Pb into Au
20:59.51murblewhat a useless bot!
21:00.09Marios_hehehhhe
21:00.50Leedsibot convert km/s to inch/year
21:01.09Wethrinibot convert km/s to furlongs/fortnight
21:01.10Marios_lol
21:02.17WethrinWoohoo! :)
21:02.37Wethrinibot convert 3e+06km/s to furlongs/fortnight
21:02.54murbleibot convert 1 kg of Pb to joules
21:03.06nasratmurble: nah convert to Au
21:03.26murblenasrat: KUATBT
21:04.13nasratmurble: ???
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21:05.49murblenasrat: 20:59 < murble> ibot change 2 Kg of Pb into Au
21:06.05nasratah sorry my bad
21:06.27nasrattoo much context switching
21:07.09LeedsI think you lot upset the bot
21:07.41nasratwe haven't even asked to convert H2O into CH3CH2OH
21:07.55murblenasrat: and you've not been saving and restoring state properly?
21:08.31nasratmurble: indeed
21:09.35LeedsMarios_: xchat 2.0.5
21:09.39Marios_hhehehhe
21:09.49Marios_I was trying to see what xchat you are using
21:09.54Marios_I just installed 2.0.5
21:10.08Marios_cause Rh9 comes with an old one
21:12.46Leedswell RH9 is the previous release now
21:13.50murble"Putting together up to date stable linux distributions in a nutshell" -- by a debian developer
21:13.52Marios_hhehehehe
21:14.05WethrinJust spend about 30 minutes trying to figure out why qmail wasn't working. All the time because the filesystem was mounted nosuid
21:14.40murbleWethrin: which fs was this?
21:14.56murbleWethrin: going for security by having nothing working?
21:14.57Wethrinmurble: Isn't that like writing "Ethics", by 'Paul Burrell
21:14.58Wethrin?
21:15.09Wethrinmurble: Yes :) It's ffs
21:15.29murbleoh is that an f'ed ufs file system?
21:15.34Marios_Leeds << well fedora is not that stable
21:15.37WethrinYep. Fucked File System
21:15.51murblewith or without softupdates?
21:16.11WethrinWith, on that particular filesystem
21:16.32nasratMarios_: I've not had a problem with fc1
21:16.51murbleWethrin: have you seen the recent obsd posts on bugtraq?
21:16.57Wethrinmurble: Yes.
21:17.06Wethrin(well, vaguely)
21:17.14WethrinI've also looked at www.openbsd.org/errata.html
21:17.18murblehave you tested any of them?
21:17.25WethrinNo
21:17.34WethrinAre any of them remotely exploitable?
21:18.45Marios_nasrat << are there many diferences between RH9 and FC1 ?
21:19.48nasratyes gnome 2.4, lots of underlying stuff - prelinking, scheduler. OOo 1.1
21:19.59Marios_hmmm
21:20.13Marios_I should try to upgrade then
21:22.09WethrinWell, that was piss-easy, changing from sendmail to qmail
21:22.26WethrinEdit /etc/mailer.con, and away one goes!
21:22.54Wethrin*mailer.conf
21:23.50LeedsI do enjoy Top Gear
21:24.04murbleWethrin: yeah and remove all the cronstuff for sendmail that gets installed and turn off sendmail in rc.conf
21:24.59eye69Leeds: It is very good. Poor Toyota. :)
21:25.20Leedsindeed... but they are bloody tough
21:26.04JDLeeds: sadly geremy clarkeson is a wanker
21:26.13Leedsthere is that to it
21:26.25Wethrinmurble: That's not entirely necessary, because it uses /usr/sbin/sendmail (which will call the qmail one)
21:34.31murbWethrin: you mean /usr/lib/sendmail ?
21:34.40murboh sorry you are not talking about a proper system
21:39.30Wethrinmurb: /usr/sbin/sendmail is symlinked to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
21:39.43Wethrinmailwrapper looks in /etc/mailer.conf to see which binary it should run
21:39.47murbWethrin: but the traditional place for sendmail is /usr/lib/sendmail not /usr/sbin/sendmail!
21:40.20WethrinThe real sendmail binary is in /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
21:40.44WethrinOn RedHat, /usr/sbin/sendmail is symlinked to /etc/alternatives/mta
21:41.27Leedsdoesn't matter where it actually is... it should be available as /usr/lib/sendmail
21:42.32WethrinSure, it should *not* be made available, is more correct? :)
21:43.12Leedsnot correct at all
21:43.30WethrinAnyway, does anyone know off-hand the commands for SMTP AUTH?
21:44.17WethrinSpecifically, how to do AUTH PLAIN from a telnet session
21:44.21eye69A base64 encoded string of username\0username\0password AFAIK
21:44.40eye69Dunno the actual command though :)
21:44.56Wethrin/usr/lib/sendmail exists neither on RedHat nor on OpenBSD
21:45.10WethrinNor on OS X
21:46.00CopeI am on a redhat machine atm, and it has /usr/lib/sendmail
21:46.10Copefwliw
21:46.18WethrinHm. Well, I have removed the sendmail rpm
21:46.28Wethrin(but the Postfix one is installed)
21:50.01WethrinThis makes me Satisfied
22:39.13WethrinHrm. CVS updating isn't working properly, it seems
22:43.12JDSVN is much nicer
22:47.16WethrinYes, but OpenBSD doesn't use SVN
22:47.24WethrinAh, it does work .Just takes a long time
23:08.51JDWethrin: but they should
23:10.56WethrinMaybe....
23:13.09JDWethrin: svn can do strange things like move a file and keep its history without messing around with the backend
23:13.19WethrinCool.
23:17.02JDit can;t deal with symlinks yet, but it is coming
23:21.31WethrinSoon :)
23:55.20Wethrin'night all
23:56.37Leedsnight
23:56.53ClyphoxNight
23:59.35pawelsz.

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