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07:25.16mozratGooooood morning
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07:28.20mozrathello SlayerXP
07:28.34SlayerXPlo 'rat
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08:48.47SlayerXPikea, from the latin verb meaning "shoddy construction, insufficient screws"
08:50.17mozratlol
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09:20.56rhoweheh, a bit smaller than a Soekris - http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html
09:46.11Blaptoikea is politician furniture!  One loose screw and your cabinet falls apart.
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12:10.10Leedsbusy here today
12:11.40BlaptoIt is a weekday
12:14.33Leedsreally?
12:14.43LeedsI hadn't noticed :-)
12:14.50BlaptoI know.
12:15.03BlaptoI've actually done some work today, so I might get to feel smug
12:15.04Blaptowho knows.
12:21.23Jang-work? what's that?
12:22.38BlaptoAnother joins the fold!
12:23.07AngelChildwork?!
12:23.23BlaptoHuzzah!
12:23.46BlaptoGeorge, here, now!
12:38.25Jang-ah, wait, work is where you read random stuff in firefox and chat on irc all day?
12:38.54BlaptoJang-, please don't tell me you do that and someone pays you?
12:39.00BlaptoI've been doing it for nothing!
12:39.11LeedsBlapto: I can beat that, for a while, anyway
12:39.34SlayerXP<evan-> i mean how can i tell apt-get to use ip 192.168.foo instead of 10.10.foo
12:39.54Jang-Blapto: i'm afraid so
12:40.07BlaptoJang-, what's the job description?
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12:40.17Jang-technical consultant in theory
12:40.59Jang-i ought to go learn something like regex, but that can wait till tomorrow
12:41.05BlaptoAh.  Do you get to listen to music too?
12:41.16Blapto/do you want a "technical consultant assistant"
12:41.22Jang-yea, if i wanted
12:41.34Jang-Blapto: heh, i don't think my company could afford that ;)
12:41.39BlaptoBah.
12:41.51BlaptoI'm quite good at listening to music and reading /.
12:42.07BlaptoI can even flame and get modded +5 insightful
12:42.12Jang-for some reason, a lot of people seem to like ./
12:43.34BlaptoIt sometimes has relevant news
12:43.47BlaptoAnd I can see if it is or isn't by going to the rss feed in firefox in about 3 seconds.
12:44.19Jang-yea, i think rss is great
12:44.29Jang-means it's more difficult to waste time thoguh
12:45.47Blaptohttp://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html
12:45.50BlaptoFuck me, 99 euros
12:48.23Jang-pretty cool
12:48.59Blaptophoning them now...
12:49.08BlaptoI wonder if I remember enough German to even ask if they speak english.
12:50.26Jang-sprechen Sie englisch?
12:51.55Blaptoyeah, I was successful
12:51.58Blaptospeaking english now
12:53.17BlaptoHe speaks sur gut Englische
12:53.21Blaptoser gut
12:53.42rdancerhi
12:53.55BlaptoAnother slacker :)
12:55.10rdancerBlapto: ?!
12:55.42SlayerXPi'm not slacking
12:56.03BlaptoLunch hour?
12:56.17rdancer(but not slack)
12:56.20SlayerXPno just "not much else I can do" hour
12:57.50George?
12:57.52GeorgeBlapto: ?
12:58.07BlaptoI did some calculus this morning, so now I can say that I've done a couple of hours revision.
12:58.18BlaptoGeorge, we were discussing who is here because they aren't working.
12:58.37GeorgeI've got an article to write today
12:58.43Georgeso today's going to be (relatively) busy
12:59.05SlayerXPDating Tips for KDE Developers
12:59.11Blapto:)
12:59.13GeorgeSlayerXP: ?
12:59.25SlayerXPis that the title of your article?
12:59.42BlaptoStep 1) ???
12:59.44Georgeno
12:59.50SlayerXPDating Tips for KDE Developers:  Why personal hygiene is important.
12:59.52Georgeit's about setting up xinerama/twinview/etc
13:00.04SlayerXPwhy not right about something useful instead
13:00.07SlayerXPwrite
13:00.11BlaptoSame thing.  Chicks dig twinview.
13:00.19George...
13:01.39GeorgeI can't see why they would
13:06.14Jang-i think it's sehr
13:06.23BlaptoHer
13:06.26BlaptoHeh
13:06.28Blaptoeven
13:07.00BlaptoI'm not fussed about spelling, as long as I can say it right.  I don't know enough German to write a letter or anything, just to ask my way to the chemist etc.
13:07.54GeorgeBlapto: calculus? whatever for?
13:08.03BlaptoRevision.
13:08.09Georgebahahahahaha
13:08.44BlaptoWell, you see, I was looking at this 0.5km 0.5km field
13:09.02BlaptoAnd I though "If I can travel at 5km/h along the side, and 3km/h through the muddy field
13:09.13Jang-George: if you could get xinerama and composites, i'd read your article :)
13:09.16Blaptowhat would be the fastest path between this corner and the one diagonally opposite?"
13:10.39GeorgeJang-: I have twinview and composite... :)
13:10.51Leedsright, library and doctor's
13:11.00Jang-hmm, but i didn't want twinview cos i wanted a monitor in between
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13:15.31JAVgood afternoon
13:15.34BlaptoHi
14:31.14Leedswent to the doctor's and library, ended up stopping in at cousins, estate agents, bakery and framing shop :-)  now, lunchtime
14:41.17eye69Leeds: Back in UK?
14:42.28Leedseye69: for over a week now, yes
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14:53.17Blaptoit powers the starter for the mother of all geek toys.  I'm going to charge it, and I don't want to die
14:57.57SlayerXPBlapto: have george do it
14:58.08SlayerXPhe's young and therefore has experience to lose
14:58.13SlayerXPhas less, I mean
14:58.25BlaptoI'm the same age as him
14:58.38BlaptoNo...
14:58.43BlaptoI'm a good 6 months older
14:58.53SlayerXPthere we go then
14:59.12BlaptoWell, it's sitting here, charging
14:59.23BlaptoIt's not warm yet, so kind of safe
15:02.57rdancerone day, i left a nokia 3310 battery attached to 5V trafo, and fell asleep.
15:03.31rdancerthe blast that woke me up must have been quite spectacular
15:04.07rdanceri never rushed so much for the glasses... and extenguisher
15:04.32rdancerextenguisher, even
15:04.34rdancershit
15:04.37rdancer*ing*
15:04.51Leedstalking about a ferry: " On the bridge you will find the cockpit, the command center of the jet. From here, equipped with all thinkable nautic helping aids, the shop is manouvered by the crew."
15:05.06rdancerhi, Leeds
15:05.31rdancershop?
15:07.01Leedsship
15:09.08Leedswell, the site says shop, but they mean ship
15:12.09rdancerthey sound a bit bombostic
15:12.46Leedswell, they're Spanish :-)
15:12.54rdancerand, ain't ferries nowadays just big shopping centres anyways?
15:13.15rdancerbloody sponish foreigners, go bock to your country!
15:13.40Leedsnah, these are small, fast, intercontinental ferries - there's a tuck shop, but that's about it
15:14.21rdancerwhy one uses ship instead of plane, anyway?
15:14.38rdanceri've never used either 8-)
15:15.10Leedsbecause if it's a 35-minute journey on a ship, it's not really worth taking a plane - in this case :-)
15:15.45rdancerthen, intercontinental as in gibraltar??
15:15.54Leedsyes
15:15.58rdanceraha
15:16.20Leedsin general, if you're not in a hurry - they're cheaper and, frankly, more fun than planes
15:17.01rdancerhm
15:19.20rdanceri've got stuck on level 2, goddamnit: http://hack.datafort.net/sourcecode2.html
15:23.29Blaptordancer, is part of the contest to get on the site?
15:23.31BlaptoI have no idea about it.
15:23.40rdancer``The problem has been corrected by marking processes that have started but not yet completed exec with an `in-exec' state.  Attempts to debug a process in the in-exec state will fail.''  <-- that's a disgusting kludge
15:23.54rdancerBlapto: yes
15:24.40rdancerapart from the missing headers, and incorrect argv type, i don't see it
15:28.56Blaptohow feeble, I can't even work out how to get on the website
15:29.16Blaptoah, got it
15:29.59GeorgeWOOBLE
15:30.00Blaptoerm, it's not meant to be (c) 2001 though, is it
15:30.39gregjwethrin: nothing
15:36.56rdanceribot: exchange 75 CZK to GBP
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15:48.41zacharyAfternoon!
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15:59.02pdrhello?
16:09.12BlaptoHooray
16:09.15BlaptoI'm home alone...
16:09.24BlaptoNow to play Anvil and Slayer as loud as possible.
16:16.31pdrok
16:20.03pdrbbiab
16:27.30wethrinYo
16:46.45Blaptohttp://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i3/air-1-3-apples.html
16:46.46BlaptoI like it.
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18:23.19rdancerheh, unpacking tar.bz2 seems to be a bit slower than checking out a CVS here 8-)
18:37.08rdanceris there a DNS caching server close to and accessible by 81.134.122.157? the least roundtrip i'm able to get is ~380 ms 8-(
18:42.29GeorgeFOODOM
18:46.44rdancerGeorge: ??
18:47.19Georgedunno
18:47.23Georgejust decided to yell "FOODOM"
18:47.29GeorgeI apparently have turretts
18:47.33Georgeor however it's spelt
18:59.29Blaptordancer, I use 212.23.8.1, it's BT I think
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19:46.30murbdoes anyone know if johnhearns has changed his mobile number since last year?
19:50.56Leedsmurb: what number do you have? :-) (how does it end?)
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19:51.49LeedsI've got 076
19:52.25mozratQuestion: Is finding an application called 'Suckit Root Kit' hiding in /sbin/init is [good/bad] ?
19:53.25Leedsmozrat: I'm gonna say, with all my professional instincts, that no, it doesn't sound like a good thing
19:53.36mozrat*writes.that.down*
19:53.38mozratthanks leeds
19:53.48Leedson the other hand, doesn't sound amazingly well hidden :-)
19:54.13mozratwell, indeed
19:54.22mozratMr intruder managed to kill off sshd
19:54.40mozratwhen Mr customer restarted his server it wouldn't load as the rootkit detection foo kicked in
19:54.52mozratand wouldn't load init
19:55.23Leedssounds like good rootkit detection foo
19:55.57mozratyeah. not sure how it managed to detect it
19:56.04mozratbefore init starts.. is that possible?
19:56.56Leedsyou could hack something into the kernel to, say, checksum /etc/inittab and fail to boot if it's changed
19:57.26Leedsor for that matter, checksum init :-)
19:57.37mozrathmmm
19:58.23Leedsactually, checksumming init would be quite useful
19:58.30Leedsyou could also trivially do it in an initrd
19:59.34mozratOK - help me with this one -- I have a 11GB tar.bz2 archive on a Apple 10.2.8 server where tar doesn't have bzip2 support
19:59.37mozratand I need one file...
20:00.04mozrattar --use-compress-prog=bzip2 xf foo.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to work
20:00.06Leedsbunzip2 -cd foo.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - tarroot/file
20:00.32mozratdo I need 11GB of free space to be able to do that
20:00.36mozrat11GB+
20:01.02Leedsyou shouldn't, no - it runs over a pipeline... might (in fact, will) take a while, and possible lots of memory...
20:01.15mozratk
20:37.43mozrathmmm - it's taking ages
20:37.48mozratages and ages
20:37.51mozrat:(
20:52.12mozratlaters
20:58.45wethrinEvening
21:05.30rhoweevenin'
21:06.12Leedsrhowe: so, should I go work in HK for 6 months?
21:06.47Leedsand/or Sri Lanka
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21:07.40rhoweLeeds: If you like
21:07.52rhoweHow's that for helpful? :P
21:07.57Leedsnot so much
21:08.08rhoweSri Lanka's probably a pretty nice place
21:08.15rhoweHK, well, you know what HK is like
21:08.16wethrinLeeds: I'd avoid Indonesia
21:08.26Leedswethrin: whole lot of shakin' going on
21:08.42wethrinMovin'...and shakin'...
21:09.06Leedsrhowe: apparently the cousins out there really want me to go work on their as/400 stuff for a few months
21:10.01rhoweLeeds: How's the cash?
21:11.04Leedsnot even been mentioned
21:12.09rhoweAccommodation?
21:12.15Leedsat this point it's more "Would you like to come, and here's some work we need doing"
21:13.15LeedsI trust them enough to know that it would be respectable
21:27.51BlaptoHi
21:33.21Leedsibot change 266600000000 ils to gbp
21:33.36BlaptoJust get your income tax bill Leeds?
21:33.46wethrinYou're either going to be highly overpaid, or moving to a very expensive area...
21:35.38Leedsthat's the 2005 budget, which was passed in the Israeli parliament today - they had until the end of the month to pass it, or there would have been an automatic general election on the basis that a govenment without a budget isn't much of a government
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21:49.40BlaptoUrgh, a friend just asked me to go clubbing in Whitechapel, how do I tell him it's really not a bright idea?
21:51.13wethrin"Clubbing sucks. Come to a real pub instead"
21:52.14BlaptoIf you're doing anything tomorrow night, sure
21:53.11BlaptoLast time I was in Whitechapel after dark I saw some guy minding his own business get stabbed, not 20 yards from a police car.  It's not the sort of place I want to go to, pick a pub instead.
21:53.32wethrinI shall be in Oxford tomorrow
21:53.40BlaptoGet the tube.
21:54.31wethrinI shall be in Chimes on Friday
21:54.37BlaptoChimes?
21:54.48BlaptoCider bar?
21:55.24Leedswethrin: I shall be in Leeds on Friday
21:55.33wethrinBlapto: The very one
21:55.41BlaptoLeeds, you'd best see a proctologist then.
21:55.45wethrinLeeds: It looks like Thursday isn't going to happen :(
21:55.50wethrinDamned BBC not sending tickets
21:55.51Leedsbastards
21:55.56wethrinNext time I'll ask someone else to order
21:56.19BlaptoI got tickets to Dead Ringers a few months ago, that made a pretty good night out
21:56.30BlaptoThey didn't send as many as I asked for though :(
21:57.13wethrinRadio or TV?
21:57.17Leedsbeen there, done that :-)
21:57.21wethrinI've been to one radio, and 2 TVs of DR
21:57.25BlaptoTV
21:57.32BlaptoThe warm-up act.
21:57.39BlaptoBlack guy, I forget his name.
21:57.47BlaptoHe was excellent.
21:58.02wethrinCool. The one that did the Christmas 2003 specials wasn't that great
21:59.06BlaptoIs Chimes a gllug thing or a private thing wethrin?
21:59.33wethrinYes-ish
21:59.47Blaptoish to which?
21:59.47wethrinI've meant to announce it on the Social mailing list
21:59.50Leedswethrin: give him my seat :-)
21:59.51wethrinBoth :)
21:59.59wethrinLeeds: Okay :)
22:00.04Leedsbut don't forget to card him
22:00.15wethrinIt's the day after my birthday
22:00.21wethrinBut I fancy going somewhere nice with geeks
22:00.46BlaptoPerhaps a slight issue in that I'm a minor...
22:00.54wethrinAhh
22:01.14wethrinThat could be an issue ther,e yes
22:01.29BlaptoHaven't had an issue for the last 6 months or so, and I won't shave in the morning but do you know if they are especially strict in there?
22:01.39wethrinI honestly have no idea
22:02.14BlaptoIs it a crowd?
22:02.21wethrinSmall one
22:02.26wethrinIt's a restaurant too
22:02.31wethrinSo we shall be having excellent food
22:02.41wethrinBeware the wallet, for she will be lightened
22:02.44BlaptoAh, that makes it legal then :)
22:03.25BlaptoI'm used to performing cpr on the wallet as of late
22:03.30wethrinOkay
22:04.27BlaptoI've had strange experiences with cider
22:04.37BlaptoIt's just the sort of stuff that you drink but don't notice.
22:04.42wethrinYes. Yes, it is
22:04.44wethrinUnless it's shit cider
22:04.47wethrinwhich I don't drink
22:05.41BlaptoHad a terrible experience with it New Years, friend got so drunk he passed out and vomited everywhere.  It was in his house, so his mum kind of noticed the stench and hasn't let him forget it 4 months on...
22:06.35wethrinAhh. We will stop you drinking that much
22:06.49BlaptoWell yeah, I need to get home.
22:07.27wethrinWe all do
22:07.51BlaptoAlthough apparently Victoria station can be quite interesting at night ;)
22:09.07wethrinI go up to the station, aand down to the tubes
22:09.11wethrinIt's not so bad around 11
22:09.32BlaptoWhat will the timings be, roughly?
22:11.02wethrinBeer O'clock onwards
22:12.12BlaptoI don't think that features on my watch :(
22:16.16wethrinAfter-work for people with jobs. So probably about 6ish
22:20.29BlaptoSounds doable
22:20.42BlaptoI'd best be off, I'll be in here tomorrow night
22:20.43Blaptosee you
22:22.34wethrinnn!
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23:57.56Leedsanyone a) awake and b) knowing php syntax?

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