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00:00.36CopeUnified Modelling Language?
00:00.50stephenUser Mode Linux
00:03.40Copelooks very cool
00:04.30stephensomeone I know is starting a company selling UML accounts
00:04.36Copegroovy
00:05.12stephendon't think he's actually got the server installed yet, but it's the thought that counts ;)
00:05.33evangineerwww.bytemark-hosting.co.uk is a co selling UML accounts, they even have slackware images.
00:05.54wethrinThere's already a company out there
00:05.54wethrin:)
00:05.58wethrinGood for them!
00:07.59wethrinslap
00:08.43rhowe(OpenLDAP)
00:08.52rhoweNot that it does anything yet, but it runs :)
00:08.52wethrinUrgh
00:09.10rhoweWell it's all part of the Grand Plan to dump MS Exchange
00:09.37rhoweOpenLDAP neat
00:09.38wethrinAh. So you're replacing it with something just as useful :) Good plan.
00:10.05wethrinLDAP-- - never found a wonderful implementation
00:10.29wethrinSunONE is the best so far
00:10.29wethrinAlthough NDS was still the best directory service by a long shot
00:10.34rhoweThat's because there is virtually no concensus on so-called standard schema
00:11.05wethrinYes. And that sucks.
00:11.16evangineerInterview with Jeff Dike - UML's main man http://tech.jvds.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8
00:11.18rhoweSo you either limit what you do, or you make your schemas so generic as to be rather useless
00:14.07wethrinyeh
00:14.39rhoweThis is what happens when you give businesses things like LDAP to play with
00:14.55rhoweAlthough, I think I just thought of a solution...
00:15.32rhoweI don't think it would matter too much if two different LDAP servers had different schema, so if you need to, you could just run two LDAP servers, with the different schema and include referrals where needed
00:15.40wethrinUseless crappy logfiles
00:15.43wethrinGrrrr.
00:15.46rhoweNo idea how many clients support referrals though
00:15.54rhoweYeah, logfiles are a bit archaic
00:16.10wethrinWell, I wanted to know what was wrong with the US server
00:16.38wethrinBut no....nothing useful
00:16.48rhoweAh
00:17.00rhoweAnd all the Windows servers fire logs at a Linux syslog box
00:17.12wethrinWindows can talk syslog?
00:17.20rhoweIf you install ntsyslog :)
00:18.09Copewethrin: Person selling SGI kit in NW2
00:18.09wethrin:-/
00:18.11wethrinAh
00:18.12rhoweThere I was happily walking along, chatting away to Lifang, and suddenly *wham*, straight to the floor
00:18.15wethrinMmm.....what SGI kit?
00:18.21wethrinOw.
00:18.36rhoweYeah, it popped itself back in almost as soon as it popped out, but still, NOT nice
00:18.40wethrinTrue
00:18.48wethrinSpecially if it just suddenly gave way
00:18.48Copewethrin: Challenge S server r5k-150
00:18.58wethrin*Drool*
00:19.02wethrinBut expensive?
00:19.05rhoweI think I must just've put my foot down at a bad angle or something
00:19.16Copewethrin: looking at spec
00:19.22wethrinAh. Dr Dan prescribes beer :)
00:19.30rhoweWho's going to be at the London.pm thing tonight, anyway?
00:19.34wethrinme
00:19.41rhowewethrin: That much I figured
00:19.44wethrin:)
00:19.48wethrinLots of Perl people
00:20.03rhowe079 something :)
00:20.08wethrinyes :)
00:20.38Copewethrin: no graphics; 64M ram; IRIX 6.5 installed
00:21.02wethrinrhowe: Mine's 07973 623883
00:21.50wethrinCope: But how much?
00:22.04Copewethrin: 60 pounds :-O
00:22.06rhowewethrin: Mine's whatever you just got a missed call from
00:22.15wethrinMmm....not bad....
00:22.17wethrinrhowe: Thanks :)
00:23.58wethrinBah
00:24.02rhoweSince my mum said she doesn't want to go to HK this year, it looks like it might not be such an expensive trip after all
00:24.04wethrinRun Irix
00:24.17rhoweSo maybe I can buy a monitor that I can actually read
00:24.27wethrinIt's always best to run the OS that was designed for the system
00:24.31CopeIrix == good?
00:25.32wethrin*shrug* It's SGI's Unix
00:25.37wethrinGood to be familiar with it
00:25.44wethrinNetBSD is the same across all architectures
00:31.11wethrinMm. My only MIPS machine is an Indy
00:38.37Copewethrin: Cheapest option for firewall, if one wasn't going to buy an old x86?
00:40.56evangineer"the advantage of an Indy over other SGIs is the low noise level. And the advantage of an Indy over a PC based server is that it runs headless without any problems"
00:42.09Copesparc4 110Mhz 32MB 1G - 30 quid buy it now on ebay
00:44.03rhoweIrix is supposed to be a bit of a pig AFAIK
00:47.14rhoweselect sum(crap) as total_crap, sum(goodshit) as total_goodshit from ebay having total_goodshit > total_crap;
00:47.18rhowe0 rows found;
00:49.29evangineerThat reminds me, does ebay have a web services interface like google and amazon.
00:50.10CopeJust like 24 hours ago
00:51.03evangineerThey do have http://developer.ebay.com/DevProgram/
00:52.02CopeInteresting
00:53.51evangineerBetter still an individual licence is free.
00:54.10evangineerNotifications via SOAP.
00:54.38evangineerI may have to do something with this.
00:55.04wethrinCope: Dammit!
00:55.05wethrinAgain
00:55.32wethrinErr..cheapest !x86 firewall - get a SparcStation IP[CX]
00:57.37CopeHmm - how would you set it up? serial cable?
00:57.42wethrinYes
00:57.56wethrinYou might be hard-pushed for multiple network cards, though
00:59.45evangineerUrgh! - the ebay sdk is windows only!
01:01.01evangineerWon't bother with the sdk then, just use python on linux!
01:01.17evangineerThe api is XML anyway.
01:02.04evangineerdasher was at the linuxexpo.
01:02.38evangineerDidn't pay much attention to it though.
01:02.44rhowehrm, I've been told to watch for Chris Ball at the London.pm thing
01:03.11rhoweevangineer: For Japanese input, it's pretty swish
01:03.25wethrinHmm. I don't know what he looks like
01:04.12rhowe*shrug* works at cam.ac.uk, so I doubt he'd come all the way down for a casual beermeet
01:04.15Copewethrin: tricky to get NICs ?
01:04.43wethrinWho? Chris?
01:05.06wethrinCope: Well, that too, being Sun SBUS
01:05.09wethrin(IIRC)
01:05.13evangineerChris's contact details are at http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/cjb/contact.html
01:06.22wethrinI wouldn't bother ;-)
01:07.03rhoweDecided I didn't much care for the language and left it :)
01:07.12rhoweI keep meaning to try Python out though
01:07.44evangineerDo we have any serious python coders in gllug?
01:07.47CopeIf it can't be done with a shell script, use python.... that's kinda where I'm at. Assuming one has python on the box in question.
01:07.47wethrinRight. It's that time of night again
01:08.02wethrinevangineer: Leeds, sort-of
01:08.02Copeevangineer: Leeds is pretty keen on Python
01:08.17wethrinYes. And if you can't do it in bash, you do it in a real programming language
01:08.32Copesuch as fortram
01:08.35Copefortran
01:08.43wethrin"Real programmers write in FORTRAN. If it's not doable in FORTRAN, they write it in assembler. If it's not doable in assembler, it's not worth doing"
01:08.46wethrin:)
01:08.52rhoweif you can do it in bash, consider doing it in a real programming language (although that never stopped me doing it in bash anyway :)
01:09.11wethrinBut doing it in bash is often the easiest way
01:09.51evangineerMight be interesting if a bunch of us worked our way through Learning Python, 2nd Edition as a study group with Leeds acting as mentor (providing he is up for it of course).
01:10.04Copeevangineer: good suggestion
01:10.12rhoweegrep "^.*:.*:\"$ID\"\$" "$DB" | ( IFS=":" read PEER SUBNET PEERID; case "$ATTR" in "STATIC_ROUTE") [ "$SUBNET" ] && echo "$SUBNET" ;; "GRE_ENDPOINT") [ "$PEER" ] && echo "$PEER" ;; *) exit $ENOATTR # Unsupported attribute ;; esac )
01:10.31Copehigh highbury
01:11.11highburymissing a few ;'s though
01:11.17wethring'night all
01:11.21Copenn wethrin
01:11.31evangineerThe accu had a similar project http://www.cix.co.uk/~jimh/python/
01:11.37evangineernn wethrin
01:11.43rhowehighbury: I condensed it onto one line :)
01:12.08rhoweAll part of a set of scripts for FreeS/WAN
01:12.51rhoweurk, up in 5h
01:12.57Copegah
01:13.16highburyshell programming also required knowledge of awk and sed ... which is a good thing
01:13.54rhowe${i/foo/bar} good
01:17.10Copehighbury: awk would be in a standard unix toolkit, though, right?
01:18.42evangineerCope: Yes it would be.
01:25.31Copehighbury: gawk being !portable?
01:26.21highburycorrect, its not installed as standard on most proprietary Unixes, e.g. Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
01:27.36highburyits only real recently one can be pretty certain a machine will have Perl on it. Python is still not available everywhere
01:28.01CopeLikewise there is some bash stuff which you wouldn't have in the orginal bourne shell.
01:28.32Copehighbury: are you a c guy too?
01:28.50highburycorrect, but most can be simulated in plain Bourne Shell
01:29.01highburyCope, a long long time ago
01:29.47highburybut I've found Interpretive languages more useful, especially if one has a decent debugger
01:30.43CopeBut if you wanted to go beyond awk/sed you would use c? or perl?
01:30.53highburynever C, always Perl
01:31.21highburyC is not intended for prototyping or scripting
01:31.27CopeOh sure
01:31.54CopeI suppose that on modern hardware, interpreted languages aren't really slow any more.
01:32.59highburythat's one consideration
01:33.58highburymaintainability being another
01:35.36highburyanyways, its time for bed, nn
01:35.42Copenn ;o)
01:47.58new2unix:)
01:50.00CopeHi n2u
01:50.19CopeI'm just crawling into bed - really really tired all of a sudden.
01:50.29new2unixyou still up dude? dont you sleep at all? hah
01:51.00new2unixsame here. been fiddling with my newest install of slack. very pleased with its preformance so far:)
01:51.46new2unixok. nn
01:51.53Copenn :o)
01:52.04Copenn anyone else awake on planet gllug.
01:52.21evangineernn
02:48.07new2unixnight all. this one's for real
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08:04.40TarragonMoin mozrat
08:04.56mozratMoin
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08:23.54mozratFoo
08:24.11zacharybar
08:24.23zacharymoin
08:25.28mozratMoin... just reading userfriendly.org. funny
08:26.14Tarragonzachary: When is the next meeting? The webpage and subject in this channel have said the 24th of Jan for a month. Is tha correct?
08:27.26zacharymozrat: good comic!
08:28.07zacharyYes, so far nothing has changed. Still nothing new with the guy from Novell.
08:28.09mozratzachary: I have a few of the books also.
08:28.39mozratWhats on the agenda for 24th Jan?
08:28.47TarragonDo you have the fluffy dustpuppy?
08:28.58mozratNo... keep meaning to
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08:43.39zacharymoin Leeds
09:03.36Leedsevening
10:22.52CopeMorning all
10:30.56mozratHi Cope
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10:44.53jason_ukfsnhey all
10:46.51zacharymoin jason_ukfsn
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10:47.22wethrinmorningthing
10:47.51Nutshellmornin to ya
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11:00.07wethrinBleh. It's shit out
11:01.13wethrinBah. I'm going to lose 20 days of uptime today
11:02.00Nutshellwethrin: why's that then ?
11:02.09wethrinUpgrading the server
11:02.17Nutshellto what ?
11:02.27wethrin120GB hard drive, and a better network card
11:02.33wethrinI might stick some more memory in, too
11:03.40Nutshelli 'am thinking of having a couple of machines but don't know if i want ot just use a router or have a server/workstaion ?
11:04.05wethrinDepends for what purpose :)
11:05.18Nutshellbasically son's machine xp my machine linux and laptop linux internet conection and printer
11:05.58wethrinGet an old box and make it act as a router+print server
11:06.47Nutshellhow old ?
11:07.47Leedspentium or better?
11:07.54Nutshellpirce it up and for a server with an xp1800 and 512mb mem about £250
11:08.19Nutshellwill rob some stuff from win xp machine
11:08.41Nutshellhate windows so son can suffer
11:08.47Leedswell, I've just bought the bits for an XP 220 machine with lots of RAM, hard drive, monitor and so on, for just over 400 quid inc VAT and shipping
11:09.08NutshellLeeds wheres that from ?
11:09.13Leedsaris
11:09.14Leedsaria
11:09.22Leedsoh, and it's a 2200, not a 220 :-)
11:10.09Leedsjason_ukfsn: where's that then?
11:10.14jason_ukfsnmaplins
11:10.23jason_ukfsnit's the binatone wl1000 airlink+ card
11:10.47Nutshelljason_ukfsn does it work with linux ?
11:10.53Leedsbinatone wireless net card??? scary
11:10.59jason_ukfsnyou need to grab the drivers from http://sourceforge.net/projects/acx100/ which I am doing right now
11:11.53jason_ukfsnmy wife has complained that there are too many cables here so I cannot run more for the laptop. I have an AP anyway so I figured at that price it's worth trying the card
11:12.22Leedsthat's PCMCIA?
11:12.24mozratjason_ukfsn: I assume it was second hand for that price???
11:12.30jason_ukfsnyes Leeds
11:12.38jason_ukfsnmozrat: no it's a special offer at Maplins
11:12.41jason_ukfsnit's a new card
11:14.14jason_ukfsnif I cannot get the card to work I'll just return it as I bought it remotely.
11:16.48Nutshellbloody fedora update take ages
11:17.13Leedsbut, but... it's *binatone*!
11:18.00Nutshellthe name sounds dodgy
11:18.07jason_ukfsnfirst games console I had was a binatone - only one I had as a kid
11:18.55Nutshellme to
11:19.11Nutshellhad a binatone phone once
11:19.12Leedsalthough, that's probably unfair, since one of the two phones I have here is a binatone, and I've had it for over 14 years!
11:19.38Leeds(it still pulse-dials)
11:20.01jason_ukfsnin fairness the card is only a rebadge from the looks. It's based upon the same TI chipset as lots of other cards
11:21.45Leedstrue
11:21.50wethrinUrgh. Acx100
11:21.54wethrinI've got one of those cards.
11:22.03wethrinIt loads okay, but don't try unloading :)
11:22.15wethrinIt worked under 2.4.23, but not under 2.4.24
11:22.43jason_ukfsnoh well I will get to see how it works with 2.4.22 and 2.4.9(ish)
11:23.03wethrinWon't work with 2.4.9
11:23.08wethrinIt didn't work with 2.4.20 :)
11:23.25wethrin2.4.22 was okay (Fedora's kernel)
11:23.34jason_ukfsnI can always cable up the laptop and grab the latest kernel updates for RH 7.3
11:23.45jason_ukfsnwhich driver did you use?
11:23.50wethrinacx100
11:23.56wethrinacx100_pci
11:23.57highburymorning folk
11:24.13wethrinGet the CVS tree, though
11:24.14zacharymoin highbury
11:24.17jason_ukfsnyes but was it the binary or the OSS one?
11:24.20Nutshelljust about highbury
11:24.21jason_ukfsnwhich version?
11:24.27jason_ukfsnhey highbury
11:24.34wethrinOSS, but you need the binary firmware
11:24.40wethrinWhich should be on the installation CD
11:25.18jason_ukfsnyes I've got the cvs version of the driver here and the firmware. I have a fairly recent Knoppix HD install on the laptop which I will use for initial testing
11:27.12Nutshelltalking of laptops anyone know of a good one for about £1200.00 which will have a hassle free install for linux ?
11:27.28wethrinBreakfast time!
11:27.38Nutshelldinner time more like
11:28.04nasratNutshell: an ibook
11:29.08jason_ukfsnlots of people seem happy with Sony laptops and lots of Debian users seem to have units from Dell.
11:29.08Nutshellnasrat: need pc based as wify buying it :)
11:29.18zacharyI've seen ibooks have problems with the external vga port working in Linux. But that is just setting things up during the gllug meetings.
11:29.37nasratzachary: I've also seen x86 boxes in gllug meetings not working
11:29.40jason_ukfsnIBM laptops should work very well
11:29.48jason_ukfsnDNUK sell Linux laptops
11:29.52Nutshellwify has all money in this house
11:30.02jason_ukfsnI think Captec also do laptops that work well with Linux
11:30.05zacharyNutshell: Shop arround and take a Knoppix disc.
11:30.29Nutshelli'll do that zachary
11:30.51jason_ukfsnif you are using a Knoppix disk remember that you may need to pass the vga=normal parameter at boot as many laptops don't like FB mode
11:31.04Nutshelldo you think pc world will let you try knoppix at the store
11:31.33mozratNutshell: If you are going to give them £1200 they should
11:31.33jason_ukfsnNutshell: they may do - it doesn't hurt to try/ask
11:31.57jason_ukfsnwill the machine dual boot with evilOS?
11:32.16mozratThey stock Linux distros instore so they may be reasonably friendly about it.
11:32.23Nutshelldon't like pc world would love to piss them off as a lot of there staff know next to nowt about computers
11:32.54Nutshellcoffee :)
11:41.35Nutshellwhich distro are you guy's using ?
11:42.00zacharySuse 9.0, Debian 3.0r2
11:42.55Nutshellwould like to try Debian only have 1 machine attmo
11:43.22Nutshellanyone tried Gentoo ?
11:43.41mozratNutshell: Debian Woody
11:44.44Nutshelljason how many machines
11:44.49jason_ukfsnI have Fedora ISOs here so I'll be trying that out soon.
11:45.05Nutshellusing fedora at the mo
11:45.22jason_ukfsnNutshell: 3 at home and 7 for the ISPs located in Docklands
11:45.24nasratI'm running rawhide
11:46.05jason_ukfsnI also have a RH Ent ISO somewhere and I suppose I could grab more recent ISOs for that too.
11:46.23jason_ukfsnTBH I'm focusing on Debian more now.
11:47.09jason_ukfsnthe moment anaconda works properly on Debian I'll probably stop installing RH altogether
11:47.53NutshellGentoo four days building and buggering about and still could get my ati9000 to work
11:48.36nasratjason_ukfsn: yeah the progeny guys are working on that aren't they.
11:48.36stephenATI cards under Linux are a pain in the arse to get working from what I've heard
11:48.54stephenthat's why I stick with old, well supported cards
11:48.59Nutshellfrom my problems your not wrong
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11:49.48zacharystephen: I have a ATI Rage Mobility 128 in my Dell. Works just fine.
11:50.06Nutshellfedora is giving me rendering but i think that i uses my processor rather than my video card to do the rendering
11:50.39Leedsnah, ATI cards are easy... just not 100% supported
11:50.53Leedsunless you use their binary drivers
11:51.31Nutshelltried there binary drivers and it just scrwed my system up
11:51.46nasratati have also been very helpful with XFree86-devel IIRC
11:52.03Nutshellso i think i'll get nvidea on my next machine
11:52.53Nutshellcould be the combination of the via400 chipset ?
11:54.28Leedsyeah, there are issues with kt400
11:55.12Nutshellare there any problems with the n-force chip set ?
11:57.44Leedsno idea
12:00.47zacharyNutshell: I have a NVidia GeForce2 GTS on my tower. Works fine with every distro that I have tried on it.
12:04.16anthHave any of you tried anaconda for debian?
12:08.47mozratHmm.. nothing like standardisation. Rsync between a RH 8.0 machine and Debian Woody: UID/GID for the nobody account is 99 on RH and 65534 on Debian
12:09.06mozratUID 65534 on RH is nfsnobody
12:09.19mozratBah
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12:09.37Nutshellok just had a look at some nvidia cards, there is a lot to choose from is the latest the FX5--- ?
12:10.12Xiaoqihihi
12:19.24jason_ukfsnnasrat: yes anaconda is a progeny project. They are now offering public CVS and building a community around the anaconda for debian project which seems to be going reasonably well - apparently a second release is due soon
12:19.57jason_ukfsnstephen: very new ATI cards aren't fully supported yet however ATI are apparently being helpful in developing the free software drivers for them.
12:20.21jason_ukfsnCertainly they are more Free Software friendly than NVidia who only want us to use their proprietary drivers
12:21.26stephenah right
12:21.41jason_ukfsnolder ATI cards tend to be very well supported.
12:22.02jason_ukfsnMy main desktop has an ATI 128 Rage in it and it works beautifully.
12:22.26jason_ukfsnThe only thing that's not 100% is output to TV - there is a utility for it but it's not very up to date
12:22.45jason_ukfsnand doesn't work on my card so I can only do output using VESA
12:23.00jason_ukfsnthat's still good enough for playing DVDs to the TV
12:23.01jason_ukfsnls
12:30.36zacharyanyone know of a website that offers port scan checks?
12:32.27Leedsyes, google does :-)
12:37.20mozratQuick puzzle for you: Multiple web servers behind load balancers.... a client visiting the site can go to any given web server. Rsyncing the logfiles onto a common server so they can be analysed. I've got to the stage where all the log files from all hosts are being dumped into a folder. Logfile names are $WEBSERVER_NAME-$WEBSITE_NAME_access_log.
12:38.17mozratWhat is the best cat to periodically cat the files together into a single log file for analysis -- the file would be in another directory called $WEBSITE_NAME_access_log
12:38.31mozratwithout getting duplicated data into the final file
12:39.17mozratD'uh -- What is the best way to periodocally cat.........
12:40.31mozratMaybe use the script to cat the file into the final log, empty it and recreate it??
12:40.51mozratbut rsync wouldn't be happy with that!
12:41.47highburywrite a little perl script to do the job
12:42.58jason_ukfsncan your stats package handle multiple input files?
12:43.11jason_ukfsnif so you don't need to cat them together
12:43.44anthmergelog.sourceforge.net might be worth a look
12:45.31mozratI'm looking at using AWstats
12:47.53mozratOh.. awstats supports multiple log files -- makes life easier!
12:49.55mozratYikes.... I thought jason_ukfsn was non-profit making!
12:50.30Leedsnot by choice, I think :-P
12:50.36mozratAnyway... lunch. Thanks all
12:50.39Leedsjason_ukfsn != ukfsn...
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13:10.06jason_ukfsnwethrin: for the binatone wireless card which file on the CD is the firmware? Is it the WL1000.BIN file?
13:12.08mozratWith all of the additions to gllug.org.uk do we now have a RSS feed for the mailing list?
13:14.06jason_ukfsnwhy would we want one?
13:14.21jason_ukfsnsurely if someone wants to know what's on the list they can subscribe.
13:15.15jason_ukfsnwethrin: forget my last question - I've read the .INF file and it is the WL1000.BIN file
13:15.39jason_ukfsnnow I just need to figure out why the module is crashing when I "ifconfig wlan0 up"
13:15.58jason_ukfsntime to follow the debugging instructions...
13:16.19mozratjason_ukfsn: because people can add the 10 latest posts from the list on their websites, which would promote the list, LUG etc...
13:16.36mozratI do this a bit on http://www.penguinit.com
13:16.46jason_ukfsnmozrat: you'd have to get the specific permission of each and every poster to the list for that
13:17.09mozrat? Why --- the list is archived publically anyway.
13:17.27jason_ukfsnrepublishing it to other locations
13:18.02mozrathttp://www.mail-archive.com/
13:18.04jason_ukfsnthere is a possibility that seeing comments on another site might result in them being seriously out of context
13:18.38jason_ukfsngllug is not on that site
13:19.02mozratThe RSS feeds provide links back to the HTTP mail archive rather than include the content in my site for example
13:19.04jason_ukfsnI think it's a reasonable expectation that comments made on a list will only be published to/on that list.
13:21.37mozratOK!
13:22.48mozratWould the same objections apply if someone linked to a GLLUG post from an external site?
13:25.32LeedsI don't think there's anything wrong with an explicit link for an explict reason (publicising a meeting or event, for example), but automating it is still a bit rude
13:44.35highburyusually various versions of meeting announcements are held on the main site anyway
13:45.25highburyhowever, we are planning to revamp the webn site to include voting on varied topics, so perhaps mozrat your suggestion can wait till then
13:45.38mozratSure
13:59.01evangineerLeeds: are you around?
14:01.35wethrinjason_ukfsn: The README file in the acx100 drivers says what files you need (there's 3 of them)
14:01.45wethrinRighty. Time for a hardware upgrade :)
14:02.16Leedsabout to go to work
14:02.24wethrinHave fun :)
14:02.56jason_ukfsnwethrin: yes but only one of them seems to be needed from the CD - it only has one anyway
14:05.24Leedsevangineer: did you want something?
14:06.18rhoweDislocated my knee last night, need to rest it
14:06.40mozratrhowe: ouch -- i did that once.
14:06.50mozratrhowe: are you in plaster for it?
14:07.27rhowemozrat: Nah, just got a knee support on
14:07.37rhowemozrat: It just popped out and back in again in one motion
14:07.51rhoweNot quick enough to prevent me hitting the ground in Euston though :)
14:08.25mozratrhowe: ah... i had the pleasure of a 90 minute ride to hospital in the back of a 1950s Army ambulance. The driver got lost!
14:09.34rhowelol
14:09.34rhoweMy flatmate's an osteopath, so I'll just let her take a look at it
14:09.34rhoweI'm not registered with a GP yet
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14:23.23pawelhello zachary.
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14:27.39Jensonafternoon everyone
14:28.03zacharyhello, didn't realize I was off the channel.
14:28.15Jensonheya zachary
14:28.59zacharyHi Jenson
14:33.45jason_ukfsnhi Jenson
14:40.50Jensonhi jason_ukfsn
14:41.01Jensonjason_ukfsn: where in london is it you live again
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14:42.06highburyhmm, 33 browser windows open, I wonder if that is why my machine is so slow
14:42.31Jensonhighbury: lol
14:42.35Jensonhi Leeds
14:42.47Leedshi
14:43.26jason_ukfsnJenson: I live in borehamwood (boringwood to those who live here)
14:44.07Jensonim moving down to enfield you see, just got a new job today
14:44.21jason_ukfsncongratulations! What's the job?
14:45.18zacharyCongrats Jenson
14:45.19JensonI'm now gonna be working at the mortgage shop in enfield town (my boyfriend has to train me lol) its basic computer stuff and the linux server
14:48.08Jensonts kinda freaky
14:48.11Jensonbut nevermind
14:49.52jason_ukfsni take it you were not able to get the haynes manual?
14:50.15Jensonno, my granny did look, and i was there tofday, but there is no car manauals atm
14:50.18Jensonmanuals
14:51.08jason_ukfsnthanks anyway
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14:51.58Jensonhi wethrin
14:52.00wethrinhi
14:53.20Jensonbloody hell, i need a windows 98 startup disk, but this pc wont make one without a win98 disc and i dont have one of those right now
14:53.45wethrinheh
14:54.23Jensonnevermind, found what i nmeeded and dumped it on the disc
14:54.47jason_ukfsnwethrin: there's a site on the net that offers windows boot floppy images
14:54.55wethrinWhee! Lots of superblocks
14:54.59wethrinjason_ukfsn: s/wethrin/jenson/ ?
14:55.06jason_ukfsns/wethrin/Jenson
14:55.12wethrin:)
14:55.13Jensondamn, now im moving out i wont get my new computer or my new bed
14:55.18Jensonjason_ukfsn: im ok now lol
14:55.25wethrinMoving out?
14:55.31Jensonyeh
14:56.02jason_ukfsnI'm sure you can understand how easy it is to confuse the two of you wethrin ;)
14:56.20wethrinbah :-P
14:56.23wethrinJenson: where?
14:56.26Jensonjason_ukfsn: well, at one time possiubly
14:56.36Jensonwethrin: enfield, got opffered a job
14:56.40wethrinah
14:58.07wethrinjason_ukfsn: quickest/easiest way to transfer one file system to another, while preserving permissions and links?
14:58.07wethrintar -cf - | tar -xf - ?
14:58.14Jensonoh and of course there is my 12 month broadband contract, which i have had about 2 weeks
14:58.28wethrinjob doing what, BTW?
14:58.42highburytar cfz - | ssh user@foo "cd /tmp; tar xpzf -"
14:58.56wethrinIt's on the same computer :)
14:59.03highburymv
14:59.12wethrinI don't think mv will preserve links
14:59.13Jensonpdfs, webbuilding (although i hope not coz costa is so much better) linux server
14:59.38highburyok your original version
15:00.22jason_ukfsncp -au is the easiest on the same box
15:00.44jason_ukfsntar -cf - | tar -xf - isn't bad though
15:00.50wethrinAh. cp does preserve links. Good :)
15:01.13wethrinI'm running BSD utilities, BTW, not GNU :)
15:01.14Leedscpio...
15:01.15highbury"-u" option looks dangerous
15:01.33wethrincp -Rp looks like it'll do what I want :)
15:02.08highburysometimes non-gnu tar's have problems with very deeply nested filesystems
15:02.17wethrinIt's not too deeply nested
15:02.22wethrinDefinitely < 10
15:02.28wethrin(well, I think, anyway)
15:02.38Jensonwell im off, i'll catch you guys maybe later
15:02.40Jensonor tomorrow
15:02.52wethrinI'll be in the pub later
15:03.16JensonI'll be trying to get my bastard computer to work later
15:03.41Jensonanyway
15:03.42Jensonseeya
15:03.55wethrinHah. Look. Reverse DNS!
15:03.57wethrin:)
15:04.08wethrinAnd Mailbox said they'll do it for this machine.
15:04.59wethrinGrump. cp doesn't want to copy device files
15:05.03wethrinTime for tar :)
15:09.26Leedscpio
15:09.28rhowetar cp . |tar xvp -C /target
15:09.41rhoweAnd cpio's supposed to be better, but I never fathomed it out
15:13.59wethrinLeeds: Yes. cpio.
15:14.14wethrinrhowe: That tar command doesn't want to work
15:14.28wethrinAnyway, tar, by default, tries writing to a tape device
15:14.43wethrinfind . | cpio -p /mnt # works
15:14.56wethrinAnd I just need to copy one device separately
15:18.35wethrinActually, I don't. That's created by syslog
15:19.10wethrinRight. Time for more swapsies
15:40.03highburyrhowe you gave the wrong syntax to wethrin
15:40.30highburytar cf - . | (cd /target; tar xpf -)
15:40.52highburythe "f" is critical
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16:47.08wethrinAfternoonwhatsit
16:47.24nasratwethrin: ooh got ipv6 working then
16:47.35wethrinYes. I had it working before :)
16:47.45wethrinBut currently BT seems to have messed up rDNS for it
16:47.53nasratoh only noticed now
16:47.54wethrin:)
16:48.06wethrinI was connected from ipv6.eco.li before
16:48.11wethrin(i.e. it mapped the name)
16:48.19wethrinI'll get onto BT tonight
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16:48.47wethrin'lo
16:54.06zacharywethrin: Airport Extreme, case, international power addapters, capture card have arived. Just missing the most import piece.
16:55.05wethrinNice :)
16:58.08zacharyYea. Would be nice to have the lapi that everything else plugs into.
17:02.16wethrinYep
17:02.33zacharyHopefully tomarrow.
17:02.35wethrin:)
17:02.44wethrinRight. Pub?
17:03.11zacharyThe good news is Jess is taking a class threw next week.
17:03.25wethrincool :)
17:03.40zacharyTonight is london pm, right?
17:03.42wethrinYes.
17:04.06wethrinWant to come for beer?
17:04.39zacharySHI7! I already promised Jess I would watch the kids, she has to study for an exam tomarrow.
17:06.17wethrinAh well.
17:06.18mozratzachary: did you remember or were you subtley reminded ;-)
17:06.37wethrinI ought to go now, anyway. It's about closing time, and I still want to sort out rDNS for my IPv4 address
17:07.00wethrinBye all!
17:07.06zacharyby dan
17:07.09mozratbye
17:07.09zacharybye
17:07.36zacharymozrat: Kids have been difficult to deal with lately. My mind has been a little off.
17:07.57mozratmozrat: Know that feeling!
17:20.57mozratEnough... no more... hometime.
17:20.59mozratBye
17:29.20pawel:)
17:30.42pawelhello.
17:30.44pawel:)
17:32.14pawelin this lovely sunny day. ;-)
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17:36.06Leedsit was lovely and sunny earlier... of course, it was raining at the same time...
17:37.09pawelhi Leeds.
17:37.18Leedsevening...
17:37.25paweli'm feeling nice and I have a lot of orange juice. :)
17:37.37pawelso fresh. :-)
17:37.58pawelI will take a shower and then will really cool. ;-)
17:38.25pawelit's 10th day without coffee.
17:38.29paweland beer..
17:38.41paweland I'm trying to be hard.
17:38.43pawel;-)
17:41.08Leedshmmm...
17:41.33pawel:)
17:41.33Leedswell, I don't drink coffee (but I do drink cola) and I don't drink much beer (except on holidays)
17:42.33pawelfor normal in past, for me that was 1-2l/day.
17:42.39pawelcoffee of course.
17:43.27Leedsone to twenty-one?
17:44.22pawelone to two litres of coffee per day.
17:44.45Leedsah
17:44.46Leedslots
17:45.43paweli'm trying to change this.
17:45.54Leedsgood
17:46.13LeedsI drink that much cola in a day sometimes, but normally one or two cans
17:47.12pawelI hate Nochex.
17:47.41Leedswhy?  apart from all the spam they've been sending recently
17:49.08pawelit's someting wrong when I'm trying to register my credit card, I'm using Konqueror and I'm waiting 3h hours for authorization, second time anyway. :)
17:49.30pawelI raported this, but they did't answer yet.
17:50.06Leedshmm, I can't remember if I registered on Safari or Mozilla in the end
17:51.43pawelI'm using PayPal and eBay without any problems on Links.
17:53.32pawelof course not in normal use, I'm not too hardcore. but sometimes it's good and helpful.
17:55.33Leedsindeed
17:55.36pawelooops, my pepper mint tea. I forgot.
18:07.44pawel:)
18:22.45CopeEvening
18:22.52TarragonEvening
18:22.58pawelhi Cope. :)
18:33.47jason_ukfsnoh joy (NOT!)
18:33.55TarragonWhy?
18:34.15jason_ukfsnI've been working on implementing a billing system in the opensrs-sf client (I told you yesterday)
18:34.47TarragonYes seemed like a good idea
18:34.51jason_ukfsnI need (well want now more than need) to implement a PayPal payment option however I've discovered that the PayPal modules already in CPAN are rather crap
18:35.27jason_ukfsnThey don't verify that the transaction PayPal says happened had the right details - just that something happened.
18:35.48jason_ukfsnIt's a serious cross site scripting vulnerability.
18:36.37jason_ukfsnmeans that I'll have to rewrite the thing which mean a new module unless the original author is willing to accept a patch that breaks backward compatibility.
18:37.40jason_ukfsnI can still use his module as a basis but it does mean writing in a fair bit of extra code (I can reuse some of the code from my WorldPay module)
18:47.04jason_ukfsnwell time for me to get onto childcare duties
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19:51.19CopeLeeds: 1 hour desk to desk; not bad timing.
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22:14.12pawelnice activity on the channel today. :)
22:15.30highburyevangineer, just saw you suggestion for a speaker, e.g. Phil Nash
22:16.30pawelI'm listing hbr1.com, really nice ambient and dream chills.
22:17.37pawelthis is an internet radio.
22:18.02pawelyou can stream this and listen. :)
22:18.10evangineerhighbury: yes?
22:18.33pawelin xmms/mpg321/foo.
22:18.34highburyevangineer, its not really related to Linux though, is it?
22:19.08evangineerhighbury: strictly speaking no.
22:19.39highburywe really prefer stuff which is relevant to Linux, our our membership
22:19.54evangineerokay.
22:19.56highburys/our our/or our
22:20.14pawelhighbury, what exactly you can't?
22:20.33pawelhelp me to be more readable. :)
22:20.57pawelshow me the way. :)
22:21.55highburypawel: I take it English isn't your native language?
22:22.16pawelhighbury, 50 points for you. :)
22:22.49pawelhighbury, it's my second month here. :)
22:23.02pawelbut I want your correct.
22:23.20highburys/correct/&ions
22:23.22pawellet me know for the future.
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22:26.31paweli'm here, on the channel and I'm trying to speak about what I like - Linux and for more experience with language.
22:27.13highburywell welcome to #gllug
22:27.25highburywhere do you live?
22:28.14pawelI was on the gllug meeting, one time in past, November I think.
22:28.33pawelEast Crescent.
22:28.42pawelBarnet.
22:29.00pawelnorth.
22:29.53highburycool, I live in Whetstone nearby
22:30.48pawel:)
22:31.52pawelwhat soundcard you are trying to use?
22:31.59paweland how? alsa oss?
22:35.24highburyKDE, Creative AWE64, artsd/alsa
22:37.38pawelI never used alsa, but I will try to help you to start sound with OSS if you want. any way you shouldn't have any problems with any old SB card and alsa.
22:39.28pawelyou are using vanilla kernel or suse binaries?
22:39.58highburysuse kernel 2.4.21-144-smp4G
22:42.12pawelcan you list for my modules from your memmory now, what you are using now.
22:44.38highburypawel, its a bit too much, I send the list off channel,
22:45.03pawelhighbury, /query pawel
22:48.35highburyas you see 68 lines of module information, which is a bit much
22:48.51pawelhighbury, you are using everything? :)
22:49.07highburyI wish :-)
22:49.19highburynope definitely OTT
22:49.52pawelhighbury, next try find /lib/modules/ -name "*sb.o*", i don't know what is in your kernel package.
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22:50.37pawel$ find /lib/modules/ -name "*sb.o*"
22:52.21zazzybobWhen are the details for the Jan 24th meeting going to be circulated?
22:57.04nasratzazzybob: when all the speakers have sumbitted there synopsis
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23:23.27highbury/lib/modules/2.4.21-166-smp4G/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o
23:26.30Tarragon4G ? Just how much RAM do you have?
23:27.00highbury256Mb
23:27.31highburyI think the -smp kernel supports 64Gb, so I chose the smaller one!

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