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00:16.03highburyanybody use knoppix under vmware?
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08:37.52mozratwhat-ho Mr Cohen
08:45.06Leedsyes indeedy!
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09:54.41AngelChildi get to go in for another blood test today (fun!)
10:22.39pdrhttp://www.parishiltonmirror.com/parishiltonnotes.htm
10:22.41pdrhmmm
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10:36.50Leedsah, the modern world... http://www.cedarrevolution.net/ is the homepage (or one of them) of the ongoing Lebanese popular uprising :-)
10:44.31pdrinteresting page
10:44.44pdrleeds: are they a peaceful organization?
10:44.54pdroh he's gone..
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10:54.03wethrineyup
11:06.58pdrorright?
11:07.23pdrdyawannacoopateedook?
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11:35.33floobonjour mes amis
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13:23.33gregjwethrin: I would rather ban him temporarily
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14:17.50wethrinHm
14:21.08wethrin~ change 99 DKK to GBP
14:21.16wethrin~change 99 DKK to GBP
14:21.50wethrinOh. There it is
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14:23.15formiuhu!
14:23.18wethrinhuh
14:23.36formidoes anybody know when murb will stop sniffing snow?
14:24.07wethrin13th March
14:24.43formii guess i will volunteer the question anyway
14:25.02formiwe need to unlock a domain name
14:25.12formiand do it asap
14:25.30wethrinIs it a murb-registered one?
14:25.36forminope
14:25.58formibut he tends to know how to go about stuff like that
14:27.29wethrinAhh
14:27.54formithe domain was reg with 123-reg
14:28.03wethrinYou need to email them, I think
14:29.00formiI think that was tried by someone else
14:29.07wethrinHm
14:31.18AngelChildwhat a dilemma :)
14:32.37itsbruceWhat's the book?
14:32.43itsbruceformi: I thought that was you
14:33.06AngelChildThe Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond :)
14:33.17AngelChildwhat was available online but i prefer reading from dead tree
14:33.20formii always count myself in, then i substract myself as it is obvious
14:33.45itsbruceAngelChild: Ah.  I gather it's less queasy reading than his "sex tips for geeks"
14:33.53AngelChildxD
14:34.31itsbruce"Thanks for all the advocacy work, Eric, now please go and stand in a dark corner and pretend you aren't with us".
14:34.43AngelChildlol :)
14:35.10itsbruce"Go shoot a policeman before he confiscates your gun, or something"
14:37.50formihttp://unixsex.com/admins/
14:38.43formino pcs harmed while at it
14:41.26wlesspcmciai read on the gllug website there is going to be wireless access at fotango. i am looking for a value wireless pcmcia but all people keep on telling me is that i should go for prism based ones. however, i can not find any of those in computer fairs
14:42.34itsbruceThe prism ones have good open source drivers.  With almost everything else, you need a binary driver from the vendor and even then you may need to resort to ndiswrapper
14:43.10wlesspcmciawill anyone plz recommend me a model i can buy at any high street PC retailer? needless to say it should be compatible with linux
14:43.27formithe aironet 340-350 are quite good
14:43.49formionly 811b
14:44.22wlesspcmcia811b is too slow
14:44.39wlesspcmciabtw where did you buy yours?
14:44.46formifairs
14:44.54wlesspcmciain london?
14:45.12formithe latest airo350 cost me about 25quid a year ago
14:45.28formiyeap TCR fairs
14:45.28wlesspcmciado you still use it on your laptop?
14:45.36formieveryday
14:45.46wlesspcmciabut 811b is too slow
14:46.07formito do what?
14:46.42wlesspcmciavideo streaming
14:47.42wlesspcmciawhat do *you* use your aironet pcmcia for?
14:47.59formiinternet access
14:48.09wlesspcmciacan you be more specific?
14:48.39formiwell my connection is only 1mbit, more than the wireless
14:49.07wlesspcmciayou mean your broadband connection at home?
14:49.30formiyeap
14:49.59wlesspcmciahave you used your aironet wireless pcmcia outside home?
14:50.27formiyes
14:50.34wlesspcmciato do what?
14:52.03formito sit next to people and not answering unnecesary questions
14:52.21wlesspcmciayou mean warchalking?
14:54.15formiI seaid sitting
14:54.47formis/seaid/said
14:55.03wlesspcmciasitting *after* successful warchalking?
14:56.46formiyou don't seem to know what warchalking means
14:58.26AngelChildwhat does it mean?
14:59.28formiis like staring and pointing, but with wireless and writing
14:59.39wlesspcmciahttp://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,748499,00.html
14:59.43formii was something that never happend in the uk
14:59.50wlesspcmciareally?
15:00.22forminot in any meaningful way
15:01.23wlesspcmciawhat do you call a meaningful way?
15:02.55formiwlesspcmcia: off the record, I have never seen anybody going around sniffing chalk in hand
15:03.25itsbruceOh, stop being an arse
15:04.21wlesspcmciaitsbruce: formi was not being an arse
15:04.39wlesspcmciahe kindly answered me questions
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15:05.53formiitsbruce: wlesspcmcia is asking questions  not relevant to his/her original query
15:07.14formiand he/she seems to be inclined to have me say that i have done what I haven't
15:07.59wlesspcmciaformi: the topic is pcmcia wireless in particular but wireless access in general
15:08.28wlesspcmciai did not say you go warchalking
15:09.20unclexwhat
15:09.48unclexwhat is warchalking
15:11.51formiitsbruce: you got them thinking, what did I say to deserve "your comment"
15:11.53formi?
15:13.02unclexformi - this sounds like a very strange conversation - is this something to do with a new distro
15:13.20wlesspcmciaunclex: http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,748499,00.html
15:13.54unclexso it is to do with a new distro
15:14.27wlesspcmciait is distro neutral methinks
15:15.59formiwlesspcmcia: that is a really old article
15:16.06wlesspcmciai know
15:16.26unclexold is not the word
15:16.32wlesspcmciabut it is very easy to understand
15:17.27wlesspcmciaespecially if you are intellectually challenged
15:18.12formido you know who pushed the most for video streaming on the internet?
15:18.47wlesspcmciathe manufacturers of wireless cards?
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15:19.05JAVafternoon
15:19.19unclexOOOOh it sounds very exciting
15:19.20formireally cold
15:19.28formihi JAV
15:19.31wlesspcmciait is not cold
15:19.49wlesspcmciait was cold last week
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15:21.52unclexWhat sort of video streaming are you talking about
15:24.28wlesspcmciar u talkin 2 me?
15:27.19formiwlesspcmcia: you were the one who mentioned it in the first place
15:27.57unclexHAHAHAHA
15:28.49unclexVideos of walking the dog in the park?
15:29.06wlesspcmciaadult entertainment
15:29.38unclexJoking aside - what type of media are you going the stream
15:29.48unclexare you joking
15:29.49wlesspcmciaadult entertainment, not joking
15:30.04unclexthis is not that type of place
15:30.12wlesspcmciawhat do you mean?
15:31.04formiwlesspcmcia: don't you have a class to go to?
15:31.38wlesspcmciaa class? i finished school in the arly 80s
15:31.55unclexIs this not a Linux user group or is it a sex entertainment group - NOT
15:32.12wlesspcmciasex? i did not mention sex!
15:32.18unclexwestminster where
15:34.12unclexCollage does not teach you much these days
15:35.10unclexcya formi
15:35.14wlesspcmciaunclex, did you study there?
15:35.21unclexfunny
15:35.50unclexwhat NMK
15:35.56wlesspcmciait was fun for you to study there?
15:36.10unclexwho is this guy
15:36.21wlesspcmciaNew Milton Keynes College?
15:40.53unclexSo wire for less were are you calling from today
15:42.37wlesspcmciar u talkin 2 me?
15:43.33unclexOh sorry just call me Mr Typo
15:46.23pdrare you both coming to the meeting on saturday?
15:46.45formime and myself
15:47.06pdri meant wlesspcmcia and unclex
15:47.43wlesspcmciamaybe if i can get a wireless pcmcia card at my local retailer
15:48.00pdryou're coming you said didn't you formi?  i can't ermember.
15:48.27formipdr: i don't think unclex is serious enough
15:48.30wlesspcmciaso far none has told me, buy this  -g model which works ok on linux
15:48.38pdrformi: do you know which pub it is that we're going to?
15:49.09pdrwlesspcmcia: you could always do your own googling
15:49.19wlesspcmciai did
15:49.40wlesspcmciabut nothing relevant and guaranteed to work in the uk
15:49.57unclexyes I may come with formi
15:51.10unclexbuy the cisco card Aironet 350 PCMICA
15:51.11formias they say in place "montas un circo, e crecenche os enanos"
15:51.40wlesspcmciais that a g card? i won't buy a b one
15:51.59unclexno
15:52.09wlesspcmciayou see
15:52.10unclexgo to PCWORLD
15:52.18unclexyou see wot
15:52.32wlesspcmciaso far none has told me, buy this  -g model which works ok on linux
15:52.36unclexdlink will also work
15:52.51wlesspcmciadlink is a brand not a model
15:54.12wlesspcmciaformi: could you please translate?
15:54.48formithe joke was meant for pdr
15:55.28wlesspcmciabut what does it mean? linguistically challenged me would like to know!
15:55.51pdrformi: i think i understand
15:56.00unclexhttp://www.sitecom.com/ do some good cards
15:56.23wlesspcmciapdr: d'ya speak the lingo?
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15:58.55formiwlesspcmcia: http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
15:59.20formithere you have a few wireless cards that work as they should
15:59.28pdrwlesspcmcia: i speak a little portuguese which is similar to galego, formi's language
16:00.09wlesspcmciaok
16:00.30unclexhttp://tuxmobil.org/pcmcia_linux.html
16:00.36unclexhere is another
16:01.16wlesspcmciaopenbsd site which i visited before mentions some g pcmcia cards which can not be found at retailers.
16:01.18pdrlater
16:04.24unclex3com 3CRWE62092A
16:05.28unclexcya bye for now
16:05.41unclexor next Saturday
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16:51.50zacharyello!
16:52.35formihi zach
16:52.50wethrinzach!
16:53.08formimissing us?
16:53.13zacharyhey formi, wethrin
16:53.21zacharyformi, yes! :(
16:54.14formiyou missed the "big chill" that we had for 2 weeks
16:54.28zacharyhow bad?
16:54.56formia bit of heavy snow
16:55.00zacharyWe dropped 20degF today, and supose to get snow.
16:55.55formi20F, isn't that something like 1/2 Centigrade?
16:56.44zacharyno just from low 50's to low 30's
16:57.27formii only understand Centigrades
16:58.05zacharyI'll take snow in London anyday. Completely shuts things down, here things are just delayed for two hours. People can't drive worth anything here, add snow(AHHHHHH!)
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17:00.13zacharywoops! frigen Xchat on mac, what dumb F* put the exit buttons on the channel tabs!
17:00.19wethrin:)
17:00.47zacharyok wethrin, I'm not dissing mac.
17:00.58wethrinI know. Just xchat
17:07.02zacharyIs their anyway to copy files(except those with .bak) into a subdirecty "foo/"? I'm trying to avoid using "cp *.* foo/ ; rm -f foo/*.bak". I've tried negating the character class "cp *.[!b][!a][!k] foo/" but this leaves out a few files.
17:09.55wethrinWhat's wrong with the first thing?
17:10.32wethrinDoesn't GNU cp allow --exclude's?
17:12.16zacharySunOS 5.8
17:13.26wethrinAhh
17:13.32wethrinInstall the GNU system tools :)
17:14.49zacharyYea, university is going to love me for that one, "Hey, can I have root access?"
17:16.11wethrinYeah
17:18.11zacharywethrin, are you on the pub-scout team for the new venue?
17:18.47wethrinNope. I'm on the other side of the country
17:22.16mozratzachary, couldn't you use the find command to do that
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17:29.33zacharyyea, it's snowing!
17:30.32wethrin:)
17:33.38mozratzachary, not sure you can do a inverse filter with find ( as in find files that *aren't* called something) but find ./ -name 'foo*' -exec cp {} /tmp ';' would copy the files to /tmp
17:37.01zacharyI hear thunder, I need to shut things down. Thanks mozrat. bbl
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17:47.17rhoweFibre Channel cable, copper, 2 x DB9, plug/plug 5 m, 2 Gb/s, 27 AWG
17:47.26rhoweSo, a serial cable, pretty much
17:47.32rhoweThat'll be a hundred quid, please
17:48.50SlayerXPcan a serial cable handle 2.5gb/sec?
17:49.06SlayerXPi suppose it probably can
17:50.31rhoweIt can if it's 27AWG, 5m long and shielded, it seems :)
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19:23.24Marios_evening guys
19:24.35arhi
19:25.52Marios_anybody alive?
19:26.38arwhat's up?
19:27.18aramusing post on the vi vs emacs thread
19:28.58Marios_:)
19:29.32arand indeed even after a quick google i know not how to save to a write protected file in emacs
19:29.53arjust reinforces my vi addiction
19:36.06argah, there is some absolute nonsense written about vi on the web
19:37.58Marios_I prefer vi as well
19:39.53aremacs users just seem to find vi commands nonsensical it would seem
19:40.44arhttp://billharlan.com/pub/emacs/  <-- intresting
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20:31.37Leedshttp://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21669
20:32.48rhowear: Maybe you duplicate the buffer and save it? :)
20:33.04rhoweda1: <SEAGATE ST32171W SUN2.1G 7462> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
20:33.04rhoweda1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
20:33.04rhoweda1: 2029MB (4157201 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 258C)
20:33.09rhowewoo, drive is alive :)
20:33.12Leedsto paraphrase: "Intel Israel wants to hire Richard"
20:33.22rhoweheh
20:33.40Leedsit's pretty well-aimed at my situation :-)
20:34.18eye69Leeds: Cool. Go for it.
20:34.45Leedseye69: I should just try mailing the woman mentioned in the site...
20:34.50eye69Then send me a few CPU's. :)
20:34.59Leedsactually, I should probably look on Intel's site for job listings...
20:35.29eye69Heh.
20:35.51eye69I used to be all-Intel, but my AMD64 has been working fine.
20:36.22eye69Anyway, I'm off home. Best of luck to you.
20:36.36LeedsI've been largely AMD (when I do x86 at all) for a while
20:36.44rhowehm, I don't think I run a single CPU which I purchased as such :)
20:36.45Leedsseeya :-)
20:36.51rhoweOh, I have a Duron 1.1
20:37.02rhoweAnd I bought an A64 for my parents
20:37.29Leedsokay, I don't want to work for Intel UK, I think
20:37.51rhowehmmm
20:37.57rhowe$ fdisk
20:37.57rhowefdisk: not found
20:38.18rhowe# fdisk
20:38.18rhowefdisk: Command not found.
20:38.18rhowehmmmmmm
20:39.01rhoweah, it seems to be called disklabel in FreeBSD
20:39.18rhoweOr at least, a utility which does similar things
20:39.22Leedsokay, so is https://jobs.intel.com/jobs/jobs.iccw messed up in firefox (mozilla?) for other people?
20:40.14rhoweText overlaps in Epiphany (Gecko-based) here
20:40.15Leedstext displayed over other text and so on
20:40.16Leedsright
20:40.35rhowe8 partitions:
20:40.35rhowe#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
20:40.35rhowe<PROTECTED>
20:40.54rhoweNow I would assume that if there really were 8 partitions, there would be 7 more lines of output...
20:41.10rhoweHowever, since the disk is only 2G...
20:41.21Leedsare you sure you're not confusing slices and partitions?
20:41.47Leedsor some such issue
20:42.03rhowePossibly
20:42.21rhowepartitions are divided into slices, IIRC
20:42.49rhoweI think it just needs formatting (it's a new disk)
20:45.16Leedsyes - unixware and solaris, at least, only use a single partition - but they slice it up
20:45.54rhowepartition table inside a partition, I guess
20:46.07Leedsyeah
20:46.13ufoHi guys,
20:46.21LeedsI guess there's more metadata than the partition table can hold or something
20:46.23Leedsufo: hey
20:46.34ufoAnyone knows how much in UK costs LPG filler cap
20:46.47ufoive lost one any there is nowhere in Poland that such of cap :(
20:47.54rhowe/dev/da1c                    2.0G   2.0K   1.8G     0%    /mnt
20:47.56rhoweooh :)
20:48.09Leedsufo: no idea, sorry
20:48.26ufonp
20:48.57ufomozrat is coming over here again and I thought he might help me and get one for me
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20:50.22SpudULikeHi guys
20:50.27Leedsevening SpudULike
20:51.39SpudULikeLong time not been about. Anything happen?
20:53.02Leedsto me? :-)
20:53.35SpudULikeIf anything interesting has happened to you and you wish to share it, then ...
20:53.50Leedsyou know I got laid off while I was at LinuxWorld?
20:54.05SpudULikeThough I suspect the stuff that you may not want to share would be even more interesting ;-)
20:54.13LeedsI wish
20:54.23SpudULikeBah! No. Did you hear at the show?
20:55.19Leedsgot to Boston on Sunday, was setting up, working, etc. on the show floor on Monday, show officially opened Tuesday - there was a meeting in Watford at 10am on Tuesday to tell us we were gone
20:56.08SpudULikeDid you have any idea it might haver been coming?
20:57.00Leedsnot really... I'd heard rumours, but discounted them, because they clashed with what we *did* know about the office move... I guessed on Monday when I saw the email announcing the meeting
20:58.19Leedsand now I'm browsing the Israeli government website looking for information about temporary resident status...
20:58.22SpudULikeSorry to hear the bad news. You still there at the moment?
20:58.29Leedsstill where? :-)
20:58.53SpudULikeWorking in Watford, or have you left already?
20:59.26Leedsoh, they gave us a week to get out of the office - and I wasn't back until Friday... I've been to FOSDEM in the meantime, and I've been in Israel since Sunday :-)
20:59.57SpudULikeAh, yeah, I REALLY haven't been about much!
21:00.38SpudULikeSo, no time to set up some nifty back doors or anything.
21:00.51Leedsnot really
21:01.56SpudULikeIt might be a good thing though, it will allow you to focus on the move to Israel.
21:03.31Leedsindeed
21:04.34Leedsalthough at the moment I'm enjoying the holiday too much - not getting any 'work' done
21:04.37JAVgood evening
21:04.44SpudULikeAre you optimistic about a temp. res. status? Could it be brought about quickly?
21:07.10Leedswell, I'm not intending to do it while I'm here on this trip, but yeah, I think it's relatively easy - it's under the same immigration rules as the regular 'Jewish' immigration, but only lasts for 3 years, doesn't grant full citizenship (voting, passport, etc.)
21:08.26SpudULikeWere you not looking for  full citizenship, is this temp status a stop-gap?
21:08.44Leedsit's a procrastination strategy...
21:08.58LeedsI like procrastination strategies :-)
21:09.55SpudULikeYou can tell me what procrastination means later. Doesn't Sun's move remove the need for such strategies?
21:10.21LeedsSpudULike: nah, putting off making serious decisions is always a good thing...
21:10.54SpudULikeHmm, you'll have to go some way to convince me of that.
21:13.16Leedsin theory, the whole getting a passport thing would be one of the easiest parts of moving out here, but the practical stuff doesn't worry me - it probably should - while the concept of getting citizenship scares me
21:16.27SpudULikeIt is a very big step to make, but it's one that you've been wanting to make, or so it seems to me, for a long while.  And anyway, what's to fear?
21:16.52Leedsfear itself
21:17.42Leedshmm... raining
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21:18.22SpudULikeHere too. Must get some food, back alter.
21:26.06Georgebored.
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21:32.42LeedsGeorge: I suggest blowing up some more of your hardware
21:33.03BobtheAvengerreplace your bios using a chainsaw
21:33.19GeorgeLeeds: why?
21:33.24GeorgeLeeds: I don't blow up hardware.
21:33.33Leedsyou seem to kill a lot of hardware
21:33.45Leedshmm... lots of rain, by the sound of things
21:33.58GeorgeI don't kill much hardware at all.
21:34.20George2 hard disks != a lot of hardware
21:35.04Leedsand monitors
21:35.13BobtheAvenger2 hard disks + george = destruction!!!!
21:35.40rhowehttp://www.siksai.co.uk/~rhowe/bed-left.jpg and bed-right.jpg :)
21:35.41GeorgeLeeds: I've not destroyed any monitors...
21:36.11LeedsGeorge: I thought you'd had a monitor or two die on you
21:36.26GeorgeLeeds: er, no.
21:36.52Georgerhowe: er, why? :)
21:37.00Leedsrhowe: you have a machine with a lighted window under your bed?
21:37.16rhoweLeeds: er, yes :P
21:37.39rhoweLeeds: The window was installed at a time before I moved to London :)
21:37.52Leedsah
21:38.22rhoweLeeds: In the flat in Hendon, the computer was behind a door in the loft space :P
21:38.28Leedsyes, I remember
21:39.17rhoweAt least now it bathes the room in a pinkish glow at night
21:39.34Leedshow is this a good thing?
21:40.17Georgeheh, I've got a blue LED fan in my case; it was the cheapest 120mm fan I could find at the time
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21:40.49Leedsevening mozrat
21:40.53rhoweLeeds: *shrug* I can sleep with the noise, I can sleep with the light :)
21:40.59Leedsheh
21:41.02rhoweLeeds: No need to go fumbling for light switches, etc
21:41.20Leedsrhowe: you weren't here last night... I use my laptop screen for that
21:41.36rhoweLeeds: heh, no laptop :)
21:42.43LeedsI suggest getting a laptop to read dead-tree books with
21:45.11GeorgeI can sleep through anything
21:45.45Leedsooh, that sounds like a boast which needs testing...
21:45.58rhoweVery loud wailer right above my head. I've been awake when it's gone off and it's actually physically painful. I slept through it :P
21:46.32LeedsI managed to sleep through an earthquake - beat that
21:46.54GeorgeLeeds: btw, I rectificed my dreadful sin of not watching Dead Like Me
21:46.59LeedsGeorge: and?
21:47.09GeorgeLeeds: what do you mean "and"?
21:47.18Leedswhat did you think?
21:47.24Georgeit's very amusing
21:47.37GeorgeI mean, an 18 year old girl getting killed by a toilet seat.. talk about toilet humour.
21:49.22Leedsmmm... 18 year old dead girl...
21:50.24rhoweLeeds: Hm, Damien S. has been with $gf for 7.5 years now, longer than he's been using Linux, even
21:50.35Leedsgood for him
21:51.10GeorgeI've been using like for more than 7.5 years I think
21:51.32Leedswell, like, I've been using it for over 9 years, dude
21:51.46Georgeyeah, but I'm young and ickle
21:52.06BobtheAvengerdont start that
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21:52.22GeorgeBobtheAvenger: how old are you?
21:52.33BobtheAvengerabit younger than you
21:52.40Georgelol, probably
21:52.47BobtheAvenger15ish
21:53.06Leedsish?
21:53.24BobtheAvengeri jus say ish for peoples reaction
21:53.49BobtheAvenger1st year of GSCEs
21:53.51Leedsso you're somewhere between, say, 5 and 25?
21:54.11BobtheAvenger1st year of GCSEs
21:54.18GeorgeLeeds: haha
21:54.39GeorgeBobtheAvenger: how long have you been using linux for?
21:54.46GeorgeAngelChild: what are you going to do instead?
21:54.50AngelChildcompsci \o/
21:54.55GeorgeAngelChild: and Maths rocks! I'm thinking of applying for maths at uni instead of compsci
21:54.58AngelChildwhich is my course... but without the electronics \o/
21:55.06AngelChildso less calculus
21:55.08AngelChildand more discrete
21:55.16LeedsAngelChild: I suggest ancient French literature
21:55.17BobtheAvengerwell i ent used it yet cos it ent installing adm, i install it, boot up n windows is bk
21:55.23AngelChildLeeds: ta :P
21:55.44GeorgeBobtheAvenger: grub/lilo isn't being installed to the MBR?
21:55.53GeorgeAngelChild: go for pure maths :)
21:56.07AngelChildwell, the maths bit isn't actually that bit
21:56.09Leedsa floppy xd?  do they make them?
21:56.11AngelChildit's when it's applied to comms
21:56.17AngelChildxD = anime smilie :P
21:56.18BobtheAvengeri think the hdd is full but i cant be arsed to open it up to replace it
21:56.32LeedsAngelChild: as opposed to the memory card format? :-)
21:56.39AngelChildLeeds: yes :P
21:56.50Georgeblah
21:56.56Georgegrumble
21:57.21GeorgeBobtheAvenger: what subjects are you doing?
21:57.44GeorgeAngelChild: coursework isn't too bad
21:57.48LeedsGCSEs are stupidly easy
21:58.04Georgeyes, yes they are
21:58.07BobtheAvenger2 english, 2 math, 2 science, tech, german, latin and i think thats it
21:58.12GeorgeI didn't do any work and I still did reasonably well
21:58.33AngelChildGCSEs can be revised direct from the syllabus
21:58.34BobtheAvengerGCSEs are easy if your smart, the rest of us are working
21:58.48AngelChild<George> AngelChild: coursework isn't too bad <--- it is if you don't care about global warming when doing a comp eng course
21:59.00GeorgeAngelChild: heh
21:59.22Georgenow the question is, should I aply for maths or compsci at uni?
21:59.33AngelChildwhichever your instinct tells you
21:59.36BobtheAvengerthe cheeper course
21:59.46arjust don't do both together - its a bad idea
21:59.52Georgear: haha
21:59.59Georgear: so no combined maths/compsci? :)
22:00.08GeorgeI was thinking of applying for maths + compsci at cam
22:00.12arargh
22:00.20ari would strongly advise against that
22:00.25Georgewhy?
22:00.27BobtheAvengeri'm thinking of passing GSCEs
22:00.41Georgeit's 75% maths in the first year, then in the remaining years you choose to do either pure maths or pure compsci
22:00.41ari did maths and comp sci at imperial and i wished i'd had made my mind up and just done one
22:00.59LeedsI started doing economics and comp sci.
22:01.07Leedsdropped the economics after the first year
22:01.09Georgeheh
22:01.13BobtheAvenger100 pages on 1+1=2!!!
22:02.00LeedsI went to a proper redbrick and I'm proud of it
22:04.02BobtheAvengeri just want to get GCSEs out the way, i know that thats as far as i'll get so it only 1 1/2 more years
22:04.19LeedsBobtheAvenger: why would you stop after GCSEs?
22:05.19BobtheAvengercos i need atleast 6As for Alevels and i got as much chance of that as getting 100% on my next physics text test
22:06.03Leeds6 As for a-levels, really?
22:06.08BobtheAvengeryep
22:06.11Georgewhat for?
22:06.19Leedswow, they really did get devalued!
22:06.26BobtheAvengeri cant continue into 6th form without them
22:06.28Georgeeven I'm only going to do 5 next year..
22:06.33Georgeoh wait
22:06.39George6 As to get into the sixth form
22:06.42LeedsGeorge: 6 As at GCSE
22:06.43Georgemisunderstood that :)
22:06.59GeorgeLeeds: yeah, GCSEs are stupidly easy. You should see some of the papers.
22:07.05GeorgeAnd I still managed a B in GCSE RS because.. I rock :)
22:07.21rhoweLeeds: Well I managed to get an A* in maths without any revision at GCSE :P
22:07.24LeedsI got a B in RS... of course, that's probably an A** in today's money...
22:07.28BobtheAvengerthe marking scheme is shit and i'm stupid so i got no chance
22:07.29Leedskids of today, etc. etc.
22:07.34GeorgeLeeds: RS sucks :)
22:07.48Leedsrhowe: you're that much younger than me?  A* came along a while after me, I thought
22:08.00LeedsGeorge: yes, it does - theology and learning about religion is so much more interesting
22:08.20GeorgeI'm an atheist.
22:08.32Leedswhat's that got to do with anything?
22:08.46GeorgeI think religion is a load of rubbish
22:08.52rhoweLeeds: I'm 22
22:09.00BobtheAvengermy RE teacher before i gave it up was atheist
22:09.01Leedsand, again, what's that got to do with studying it...
22:09.04rhoweLeeds: Youngest member of my company, as it happens :)
22:09.06Leedsrhowe: hmm... you *are* young!
22:09.28GeorgeLeeds: as far as I'm concerned it's an artificial subject which is completely pointless ;)
22:09.51LeedsGeorge: it's one of the most interesting branches of sociology there is, if you want to look at it that way
22:10.06Georgeugh, sociology.
22:10.30Leedssociology being one of the most interesting subjects of any kind... along with anthropology
22:10.31BobtheAvengergeoge: so the fact that over 4 billion people have a religion which the believe is pointless?
22:10.44GeorgeBobtheAvenger: yes.
22:11.07GeorgeAs an atheist I'm an arrogant anti-religious dickhead
22:11.36BobtheAvengerso you would discount 4 billion people's opinion because you have your own opinion?
22:11.53Georgeyes. I don't believe in blind faith.
22:12.25BobtheAvengerits esily arguable that most of science it blind faith
22:13.17Georgescience is a quest to find models that we, as humans, can understand to improve humanity
22:13.52Leedsso is religion, in many ways :-P
22:14.03Georgeand there is no doubt that scientific research has played an important role in development of, say, medicine.
22:14.10GeorgeLeeds: no, it's not.
22:14.12BobtheAvengerbut i could never prove to you that a subatomic particle cannot have a fixed velocity or position but we still beleive it
22:14.37GeorgeBobtheAvenger: nope, but there is evidence to suggest that there are subatomic particles. There is no evidence whatsoever to say that there is a divine being.
22:15.10BobtheAvengergeorge: read all of what i wrote before you reply
22:15.29BobtheAvengeribot heisenburg uncertainty principle
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22:15.35GeorgeI'm talking about blind faith. That means faith based on belief and nothing more.
22:16.09Georgethere is /evidence to suggest the presence of subatomic particles/ or at least something that /behaves like a subatomic particle/, ergo it is not blind faith.
22:16.35Georgeblah
22:16.47BobtheAvengergeorge: i'm describing the heisenburg uncertainty principle
22:16.51George*slaps self*, I know about heisenburg's uncertainty principle
22:17.18BobtheAvengerthen why you caught up on sub atomic particles
22:17.28Leedsmmm... croutons
22:17.30GeorgeI misread it
22:17.45BobtheAvengerok
22:18.53BobtheAvengerthe point i'm making is that you belive the heisenburg uncertainty principle which would seem to some how religion seems to you
22:19.06Georgebut still, what has that to do with anything? scientists do not believe to know the absolute position of a subatomic particle, and hence why it's not blind faith. That's why the uncertainty principle exists.
22:22.01GeorgeI think the heisenberg uncertainty principle has been proven anyway
22:22.39BobtheAvengerbut to some one thats never seem proof of it beleiving in it seems like blind faith
22:23.00Georgeyes, but proof exists. No proof exists for the existance of a divine being.
22:23.15Georgeand any that has been proposed can be disproved rather easily
22:23.32LeedsBobtheAvenger: so, I'd like your advice... should I move to Israel or not?
22:23.40GeorgeLeeds: don't.
22:23.47GeorgeLeeds: stay around in Hendon :P
22:23.57LeedsGeorge: a) I wasn't asking you and b) why not?
22:24.12BobtheAvengererm, dont ask my advise, its never any help
22:24.20GeorgeLeeds: I know you weren't asking me, but this is a public channel :P
22:24.31GeorgeLeeds: and because I'd like to continue ripping you off :)
22:24.33LeedsBobtheAvenger: I'm asking
22:25.28BobtheAvengererm, personally, if i have on reason to stay, i'd go once the new road map to peace is further in place
22:26.39BobtheAvengerbut my advise never works
22:27.23Leedsso you're saying "not yet"?  although, to be honest, the whole war/peace situation doesn't make much difference to me, except possibly in how it affects the economy... for the record, I know of at least 3 places I've been in the past two days which have been bombed :-(
22:28.01BobtheAvengerwell, i assume your going there for a job so stability would be good for that
22:28.09Leeds(Carmel market, Mike's Place, and the Diezengoff centre)
22:29.43Leedsoh, and it seems this afternoon I was sitting on the beach a few hundred metres from where the bomb was last week...
22:30.08Leedsmmm... teapot :-)
22:30.15BobtheAvengermmm pizza
22:30.42BobtheAvengerwhere are you?
22:31.00Leedsa town north-east of Tel Aviv called Ra'anana
22:31.05BobtheAvengerok
22:31.41LeedsRechov (street) Levi Eshkol, to be more precise - I could be more precise than that, but I don't think you need to know the exact address :-)
22:32.28BobtheAvengerif you give the the exact address chances are i'll use it as my one when 'registering' software
22:32.47Leedsyeah, don't do that - wouldn't be fair to my host
22:32.58BobtheAvengeri wont
22:33.20BobtheAvengeri got better things to do usually
22:34.06BobtheAvengerwell when i say better i mean more pointless
22:34.13LeedsI assumed...
22:34.16AngelChildmm, pointlessness...
22:34.34BobtheAvengerits like the story of the brocken pencil
22:34.39AngelChildalthough the idea of using large amounts of silver balloons to reflect sunlight is intriguing
22:35.01AngelChildit was rejected by a committee in 1992, but still xD
22:35.16BobtheAvengera committee on wot?
22:35.22AngelChildother ideas include spraying vast amounts of seawater into the atmosphere in order to create more cooling cloud cover
22:35.37BobtheAvengernot a good idea
22:35.38AngelChildprevention of global warming :)
22:36.02BobtheAvengerclouds insulate and reflect heat back towards the earth
22:36.03AngelChildthat or spraying hundreds of dust particles into the atmosphere to reflect it
22:36.09BobtheAvengersame
22:36.15AngelChildBobtheAvenger: not if the heat doesn't reach the earth in the first place
22:36.18AngelChildi think was their point
22:36.34BobtheAvengerbut the heat which does get in is trapped
22:36.48BobtheAvengerthats why its warmer on a cloudy day than on a clear one
22:36.51AngelChildyes, but it can't be trapped if if doesn't reach. that or vast arrays of orbital mirrors xD
22:37.01AngelChildBobtheAvenger: this is on a global scale anyway
22:37.14AngelChildspecifically more clouds would be created above the atlantic
22:37.38BobtheAvengerok but thats what would happen, dont blame me when all thats left is use and woodlice
22:37.49BobtheAvenger* us
22:38.22Leedsbut God wouldn't let that happen now, would He?
22:38.36AngelChildto be honest, these techniques assume the world's warming up ANYWAY :)
22:38.39BobtheAvengeri'm christian and even i dont beleive that
22:39.10AngelChildincidentally, apparently oceanic plankton create clouds when there's too much UV light as well - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-07/nsfc-wst071204.php
22:39.19AngelChildwhich is nice of them
22:39.21LeedsAngelChild: it was snowing in London last week, and it's raining on the coastal plain in Israel - tell me the world is warming up again :-)
22:39.39AngelChildLeeds: one effect of global temperature rise is that europe gets colder, apparently :)
22:39.48Leedsum...
22:39.49BobtheAvengerprobably the most part of it is the fact that variations in the earth orbit etc are lining up
22:40.22LeedsBobtheAvenger: you're saying we're resonating?  that's a scary thought
22:40.32AngelChildactually i read an article this morning that suggests we'd be in an ice age right now if our ancestors hadn't released CO2 and CH4 into the atmosphere due to their farming techniques
22:40.45AngelChildwhich is nice of them
22:40.56Leedsaren't we due for a magnetic pole switchover as well?
22:41.03AngelChildto conclude: no one really has an idea what's going on xD
22:41.06Jangoin a few thousand years or something
22:41.10AngelChildapparently so
22:41.18BobtheAvengeri'm saying that there are 3 different ?celestulary? motoins on the earth which vary
22:41.42Leedscelestial?
22:41.56BobtheAvengerthat too
22:42.05AngelChildaye, the earth's orbit and wobbly axis tends to alter climate over periods thousands of years long
22:42.26LeedsI blame the Romans...
22:42.28BobtheAvengeryer, that causes ice ages and global heating
22:42.48BobtheAvengerwhy romans?
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22:44.35Leedsor even tomorrow
22:44.46Leedsthe holy city...
22:44.54BobtheAvengeryep
22:44.58Jangowhy's it holy?
22:45.01Leedsfor a LUG meeting on Google Hacking :-)
22:45.09BobtheAvengerheh
22:45.32BobtheAvengereaster is so screwed up this year
22:45.39LeedsJango: central site in Judaism, many of the central sites in Christianity, third holiest site in Islam
22:46.09LeedsBobtheAvenger: this year is a leap year in the Hebrew calendar... there's an extra *month*
22:46.16BobtheAvengerfun
22:46.39BobtheAvengerpesah is 2 weeks late but easter is about a month early
22:46.56Leedspesah?
22:47.01BobtheAvengerpassover
22:47.02Jangoif something is central, it doesn't make it holy
22:47.09Leedsah, pesach
22:47.26BobtheAvengeryer i pronouns it like that but i cant spell it
22:47.36LeedsJango: well, I can't speak for christians (bob, can you?), but it's a holy city for Muslims and Jews
22:48.02BobtheAvengeri personally beleive it is and there are loads of pilgrimages there
22:48.13JangoBobtheAvenger, based on what is it holy?
22:48.28Jangoi'm christian and i don't regard any place on earth as holy
22:48.30LeedsI have been in the church of the holy sepuchler - quite impressive
22:48.55Leedsor however you spell it
22:48.56BobtheAvengerbased on the fact that it is where jesus spend his last week
22:49.34JangoHe was despised in Jerusalen
22:49.42JangoJerusalem*
22:49.56BobtheAvengerthats cos of the pharases
22:50.12Jangono, the "crowds" despised Him too
22:50.19BobtheAvengerno thats bull
22:50.24Jangohence why they shouted: "crucify Him"
22:50.36Leedsrelease roger
22:50.45JangoLeeds, correct
22:50.51BobtheAvengerhence the bit where the romans threaten them
22:51.43Jangoyou reckon that the crowds were incited by the romans?
22:52.26BobtheAvengerwould you tempt them, if they threatened you?
22:52.51Jangothe Jews were used to being threatened by them
22:53.01Jangothe soldiers and the Jews hated each other anyway
22:53.17BobtheAvengerand?
22:53.56Jangowell, i'm suggesting that the crowd had responsibility, and you are trying to eliminate them from responsibility
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22:54.33BobtheAvengeri'm trying to say they have a more than proverbial sword to the throat
22:57.28Jangowell, whatever, i can't see how it makes Jerusalem a holy place
22:57.44rhoweheh, guy I know who's looking at doing some online courses... <Nanuq> I like how they nestle "Laying Off Employees" between "Lead and Develop Your Staff", "Leading a Team" and "Leading and Motivating"
22:57.57BobtheAvengerwell i dont expect people to agree with me ever
22:57.59Leedslol
22:58.15BobtheAvengerlol
22:58.48BobtheAvengerchainsaws for dummies
22:59.42BobtheAvengerleeds is perl interpreted or compiled?
23:00.03Leedsuh, yes, I think :-)
23:00.12BobtheAvengerwhich? :)
23:00.31Leedsquite possibly both
23:00.50rhoweYes, you can compile perl
23:00.54BobtheAvengerlike java?
23:01.51Leedsrhowe: is the bytecode portable?
23:01.55rhoweI don't think there's an agreed bytecode for perl
23:02.08BobtheAvengerno like java
23:02.13Leedswell, parrot for perl6
23:02.19rhoweLeeds: I think it might get compiled to native code
23:02.27BobtheAvengeranyway i'm out of here
23:02.31BobtheAvengerpeace
23:04.19Leedszzzzz
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