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00:00.42pdrLeeds: andrews and arnolds supports linux for adsl
00:00.56pdrhttp://aa.nu/
00:01.20Leedspdr: yes, I know - and they're not the only ones who do
00:01.51LeedsI meant to say "almost no ISPs" not "also no ISPs"
00:02.01pdr:-)
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01:12.58Leedsoh well, time for night walking...
02:16.29gregjtoo much beer
02:28.04pdryum
02:31.33Leedsfrom
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07:49.22Copewho
08:05.43JAVI
08:05.52JAVgood morning
08:05.53JAV:D
08:26.56Copehello
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08:57.08Copehello Leeds
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08:59.59Leedsmorning Cope
09:00.02Leedsand mozrat
09:00.31mozrathello!
09:01.48Leedsmozrat: back in the UK?
09:02.03mozratAye
09:02.21mozratGot back from Paris on Tuesday night but had some holiday to use up so been off since then
09:02.29mozratand managed to stay mainly offline as well!
09:02.58gregjy0
09:03.37mozratyo yo gregj
09:05.02Leedshey gregj
09:05.23Leedshow's life at the other end of Europe?
09:06.49gregjgood, not that bad
09:07.02gregjstill I miss UK, and would like to get back there
09:08.03Leedsthere's less that one country in europe to the east of you - you're at the end of europe :-)
09:09.16Leedsokay, so russia is pretty wide...
09:09.28Leedsare you still working for the canadians?
09:16.52gregjLeeds: yep
09:19.41gregjthey are not paying on time, but at least I can work on certain open source projects, that we use in bussiness
09:20.13Leedsand, if a bunch of GLLUGers decided to invade Kracow (how do you spell that anyway?) , would you show us a good time? :-)
09:20.18Leedsnot paying on time is a bad thing...
09:21.09gregjyep
09:21.11gregjwww.krakow.pl
09:21.12gregj:-)
09:21.26gregjhttp://www.krakow.pl/en/
09:22.47Leedsyes, I found the English pages :-)
09:25.25gregjtheres direct easy jet to cracow now
09:26.19LeedsI see that, but it's not so cheap
09:26.29gregjhow much is it ?
09:26.38gregjthat's probably because this airport is not cheap
09:26.41gregjgod only knows why
09:27.34Leedsto come for a weekend in May... ?121
09:28.13gregjwell, so far I have no plans to move back to UK
09:28.15Leedsis it sane to fly to Katowice?
09:28.36gregjyou can, but than you have to take bus to Cracow, which costs 50PLN (less than 10 quid)
09:29.11Leedsit's not that much cheaper, anyway - the 'taxes and fees' come to over ?40
09:29.27LeedsI think it's a rip-off for them to advertise prices without that stuff included, personally
09:29.55Leedsanyway, it's not that likely to happen, but I do like window-shopping for flights :-)
09:30.17gregj:-)
09:30.24gregjwww.wizzair.com
09:30.27gregjwww.skyeurope.com
09:30.29gregjtry these
09:30.44LeedsI've been at wizz
09:32.53Leedssky are the same price as wizz, where wizz was luton->katowice but sky are stanstead->krakow
09:34.05gregjhm
09:34.12Leedsabout ?82
09:34.23LeedsFriday->Sunday seems to be an expensive combination of flights
09:35.06gregjsure, it is always like that
09:35.22gregjand if you want to stay longer than a week it is getting cheaper a lot
09:35.36Leedsit shouldn't - not with these 'low cost' airlines
09:35.41gregjwell
09:36.02Leedsthey are only meant to charge, effectively, for two one-way tickets, not a return, so it should make no difference when you come back like that
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09:38.04gregjwell
09:38.20gregjI am flying usualy to PL from UK, or I used to, for a month or at least 2 weeks
09:38.31gregjand I can see the difference
09:38.43Leedsit should make no difference with low-cst airlines
09:41.14mozrat-where the hell did lmozrat-p come from?
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09:41.55mozrat-strange
09:42.35Leedsshower time...
09:49.44gregj30h
09:49.48CopeThere used to be cheap coaches to poland - about 40 quid
10:09.46mozrathello cope
10:35.52Leedsand to work
10:36.43CopeAny other outlook sufferers know how to reply to an html message and make it go to plain text? I've managed to get it to stop top posting, but it puts horrible lines in front, not > in html, and when I convert it to text the indentation goes away!!
10:37.43mozratCope, I feel your pain
10:38.03mozratbut no I don't know.. I had that recently though when I used Outlook for the day
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10:39.26Copefor a day!
10:39.31Copelucky man
10:45.22Copeok... so, I reply inline, send the reply to myself, reply to that in plain text, and re-edit the email, then send it.
10:45.30CopeHow is this good for productivity?
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10:55.12Copehi harkness
10:59.26harknessHello Cope.
11:00.17harknessHave a good weekend? Deja vu for me; I am working on the same problem as I was last week - nothing changes ;-)
11:01.09CopePleasant weekend - I am battling (again) with the hopeless IT provision we have been given... yet my complaining makes no difference - I must have the same setup as all 56,000 other employees.
11:02.19harknessThat does seem silly - just as everyone uses exactly the same stationery, the accountants forced to write without lines on paper ;-)
11:04.25Copeyep - stupid.
11:04.43Copethe insanity of working for huge company with clueless wankers making IT decisions.
11:05.25rhoweCope: Knoppix
11:05.30CopeSometimes I feel I would take a different job purely on  the basis of not being forced to use outlook!
11:05.36Coperhowe: don't be silly.
11:05.47harknessWe have the same thing here for probably about the same number of employees.  Having spent the last seven years using a Linux/Unix desktop I have to use windows to access the Linux systems.
11:06.11rhoweCope: I'm not - just slap in a Knoppix CD and work from that :)
11:06.14harknessrhowe: I am not allowed to plug any other machine or software into the network.
11:06.23Coperhowe: The whole infrastructure is designed around windows-only tools; I would have no access to hundreds of them, and no way to get my email!
11:06.48rhoweCope: Exchange doesn't have IMAP switched on?
11:06.52Coperhowe: No.
11:06.56rhoweAh
11:07.11harknessrhowe: I have spent the last three months 9-5 using GPRS for Internet access as there is not other methed - two other guys are sharing a modem.
11:07.13rhoweharkness: Do you use IE?
11:07.18CopeThey switched it off to prevent people using non-windows machines.
11:07.37harknessrhowe: illegally using mozilla.
11:07.47rhoweharkness: Or some other form of web browser which does scripting (javascript, vbscript, etc)?
11:07.52CopeIts illegal to use mozilla here too...
11:08.23CopeI don't understand why these people are such idiots.
11:08.44rhoweharkness: Since if you do, most websites you visit are plugging other software into the network
11:08.52rhoweharkness: Illegal to write a batch file? :)
11:09.02harknessIt is not so much that I cannot (officially) use mozilla or open office - it is things like focus stealing.
11:09.25harknessrhowe: think about general T&Cs.  
11:09.28rhoweA friend of mine was telling me at the weekend how he was pulled up by management for using VBA in a spreadsheet
11:09.36rhowe"It's a security risk - you might be hacking"
11:09.41harknessrhowe: gpg is banned here too.  
11:09.47Copewe also have a massively complicated set of networks designed to protect the client machines - which means I have to winscp files all over the place if I want to do useful things to them o useful machines.
11:11.47wethrinIf I unmount /var on a colo box, would it screw up badly?
11:11.52wethrinI need to run fsck
11:12.18rhowegrr - Feb  7 10:41:56 ldap.domain.org slapd[718]: ldbm: ==> write: 0x405e2148, 4096: No space left on device
11:12.32wethrinHeh
11:12.33Copeswitch off syslog? and anything else writing to /var?
11:12.39harknesswethrin: you would just need to stop logging and anything else writing to it
11:12.40wethrinDon't think so
11:12.47wethrinharkness: So kill Apache and syslog?
11:13.06wethrinAnd named, and stuff?
11:13.09harknessfuser -v /var as a start just in case you forget something
11:13.39wethrinno fuser in O'BSD
11:13.54harknessLOL@ harkness!
11:14.59rhoweCope: syslog is doing network-only logging
11:15.07rhoweCope: It's just the LDAP database that's got too big
11:15.20rhoweCope: A UML with a too-small filesystem
11:15.22Coperhowe: I was talking to wethrin !
11:15.27rhoweOh :)
11:15.33wethrin:)
11:15.35Copebut thanks for the extra info!
11:17.17rhowehm, there's still only 77M of space left
11:17.43Copewethrin: fstat is the openbsd equivalent
11:18.09wethrinThanks
11:19.07CopeIn the base, so you'll definitely have it.
11:19.38wethrinYarr
11:20.53wethrinAckh. It says 'device busy', but fstat says nothing's using is
11:20.54wethrin*it
11:23.21Copeare you in /var?
11:28.50wethrinNo. But it works again now
11:28.59wethrinThere were still file handles open to the deleted file
11:28.59Copemysterious
11:29.06Copeah
11:30.38wethrinSilly me, forgetting basic UNIX
11:30.46wethrinClearly I should run Windows :(
11:31.24wethrinMeetingtime!
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11:34.50Copewooleeds
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11:35.36Leedshey
11:38.11xanderhello Leeds :-)
11:46.00Copehello xander
11:46.26Cope:)
11:46.41harkness:-)
11:46.53harknessGPRS keeps timing out and kicking me off.
11:47.49Copegrumble
11:49.19harknessIt is scary just how much power my mobile puts out - it makes my monitor wobble permanently at a 6' distance
12:02.24rhoweibot change 50 gbp to eur
12:02.54Leedsharkness: which phone?
12:03.28Leedsmine seems very very noisy...
12:03.45harknessnokia 6310.  Amazing phone 8 day battery life (with lots of use) and very robust ;-)
12:04.25Leedsmy K700 has a nasty tendency to make loud noises if it's left anywhere near either speakers or speaker cables
12:32.55wethrinArr
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13:56.25JAVhi
13:57.06JAVhttp://www2.opt.be/pdf/EN/BRU.PDF
13:59.34JAV(brussels)
13:59.36LeedsJAV: you will notice the pictures aren't taken in freezing Feburary
13:59.47JAVheh
14:00.13Leedsthere are people in short sleeves, for fsck's sake!
14:01.37Leedsand all the museums are closed on Mondays...
14:04.08JAVnice beach :P
14:05.16Leedsheh
14:05.28LeedsI hear they have a nice beach in Paris in summer
14:06.13JAVI saw it on tv
14:06.22JAVnext to Sena
14:07.12JAVVERY narrow :D
14:08.10JAVhttp://www2.opt.be/pdf/EN/BIERE2005.pdf  ---> beer special
14:11.05JAVthey are very focused on tourism
14:11.41JAVthey even have brochures!
14:11.43JAV:)
14:12.26LeedsI bought the little guidebook and map last year
14:13.24Copewas it red?
14:15.17Leedsblue
14:15.30Leedsfrom the tourist office in the Grand Place
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15:28.35Copehello SlayerXP
15:28.36SlayerXPlo cope
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15:36.32wethringj!
15:36.32gregjyeah ?
15:37.12wethrinhi
15:37.14SlayerXPi see you all lost your obsessions with my nick
15:37.23gregjy0
15:37.28wethringregj: FOSDEM
15:37.44gregjjust slay eXtra Portion
15:37.49gregjwethrin: e-e
15:38.05gregjwethrin: no cash, fucking ppl employing me didn't send me pay check yet
15:38.41wethrinbWAH
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15:40.40gregjwethrin: yeah, I know
15:40.53gregjwethrin: I wonder, how much will it cost me to go there by train
15:41.26wethrin150EUR, maybe?
15:41.32wethrinI guess you'd have to go via Berlin?
15:41.46gregjprobably
15:41.56gregjand to get some place to sleep
15:41.58gregjdecent one
15:42.04gregjlike a room with shower, tec
15:42.06gregjetc
15:42.13wethrinPff
15:42.14wethrinLuxury
15:42.19wethrinCome Youth Hostelling!
15:43.03gregj:>
15:43.09gregjI'm an old prick
15:43.16gregjI like luxuries
15:43.52gregjyouth hosteil means probably one big floor with just one bathroom and 3 shared showers
15:44.03gregjeverything stinkie, and 3 other mates in room
15:44.04gregjright ?
15:44.47wethrinHeh
15:44.50wethrinYEah
15:45.49gregjman, I have to tell you that I miss bloody UK
15:46.13wethringregj: So come back!
15:46.23gregjon one hand, but on the other, with money I get now (around pound 600) I can't survive in london
15:46.37wethrinHrm
15:46.41gregjyeah, i will need a job there from day one to get back
15:46.44gregjthats the problem
15:46.45wethrinSo come to Newcastle or Durham :)
15:47.29gregjrrright
15:47.33gregjbut I do prefere london
15:47.43wethrinEdinburgh :)
15:48.22gregjsounds better ;)
15:48.39wethrinheh
15:49.30pawelgregj: hi. :)
15:49.43gregjy0 pa - wel
15:50.22gregjchecking for gcc version 3.3.x... configure: error: GCC Version 3.3.x is required
15:50.26gregj:/
15:50.42wethrinheh
15:50.42gregjI have 3.4
15:50.43gregjsucker
15:50.45wethrinHA!
15:50.50wethrinHack the makefile
15:51.10gregjconfigure
15:51.15wethrinSame difference
16:14.46jonmasterswethrin?
16:14.59wethrinjonmasters!
16:15.05jonmastersHello
16:15.10wethrinI'm just off for tea, and will be back soonish
16:15.41wethrinYou are FOSDEMming, aren't you?
16:15.51jonmastersoh ok. I won't hang around. I want to go out and do something useful. Late night in the Heart and Crown and then a club last night after watching the Superbowl.
16:15.56jonmastersYeah.
16:16.21wethrinExcellent. So I'll definitely see you there!
16:16.27wethrinbye for now!
16:48.48SlayerXPhttp://images.google.com/images?q=ainsley+harriot
16:48.53SlayerXPspot the odd one out
16:52.08Copelol!
16:57.34mozrathahahaha
17:18.04wethrin:-)
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19:21.14Copedon't you get the disks sent to you?
19:21.23Leedsyes, but not for a while
19:21.35Leedsplus I want to leave them seeding on bittorrent
19:32.48Leedsmmm.... green stir-fry...
19:32.57Leedsgot CDs 1, 2 and 3 now
19:34.44LeedsCope: so I hear you lot are evil spammers now?
19:35.34Copehow so?
19:36.36Leeds$5M a year revenue from hosting spammers?
19:43.14Copewhere did that come from?
19:43.23Leedswell, spammers :-)
19:43.28Copefunny
19:43.35Copei mean where did you read it?
19:44.17LeedsI've seen it in at least a couple of places... hang on
19:44.44Leedshttp://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/05/2030200&tid=111&tid=98&tid=95&tid=215
19:46.26Copeinteresting
19:47.18Leedsyou didn't know you were an evil spammer?  (or spam-lover, at least)
19:47.21Leeds:-)
19:49.47Copewell, I just looked at: http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=mci.com
19:49.56Copeand not one of those ip's is from our netblock
19:50.11Copethey may be from the colo part of the business though
19:50.26Copeor the uunet but, whuch is no-longer actually part of mci.
19:50.43Leedsit was spun/sold off?
19:50.53Copesold some time ago
19:51.05Copewell, part of it
19:51.13Copewe still have the wire, of course.
19:51.36Copebut stuff like pipex etc is not part of mci anymore
19:52.30LeedsI'm going to assume - maybe stupidly - that other people in the company have seen the accusations and are going to do something - at least a rebuttal - about them
19:52.42Copeyeah will be interesting to watch
19:53.22highburyhi guys
19:55.00highburyI've been given a little mini-project (3 days tops) to port some Unix security/audit scripts onto MacOS X, I might get them to pay for a Mac to do development work on. What's the best value one, a Mac-Mini and E-Mac ?
19:55.23Leedsyou'll have a lot of trouble getting hold of a miniMac
19:55.46highburyits quite easy to end up specing a MacMini to over £1,000
19:55.47Leedsbut they're better value on paper, assuming you've got screen/keyboard/mouse already
19:56.06Leedssure
19:57.15Leedsthe emac is a deadend... the minimac is the start of a new line, but it's pretty basic spec as standard
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21:29.24stephanbhighbury: may i add that you can plug a mac-mini to the screen of your choice
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