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04:02.44 | Leeds | bloody fscking auto-expiring passwords |
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06:26.34 | morsing | 'morning |
07:17.45 | new2unix | moin all |
07:36.02 | Leeds | ooh, slack 10.2 happened on Tuesday |
07:36.47 | Leeds | morning all :-) |
08:18.51 | morsing | warning: restriction `reject_unauthenticated_sender_login_mismatch' ignored |
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08:37.01 | morsing | SteveC, a frequent visiter! |
08:37.12 | morsing | How are you? |
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08:37.31 | morsing | kbsingh! |
08:37.38 | kbsingh | morsing! |
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08:52.46 | Cope | hello |
08:54.49 | morsing | Cope! |
09:01.30 | kbsingh | hey Cope |
09:19.21 | wethrin | Urghl |
09:32.27 | rhowe | "As part of our current Broadband speed increase programme, we are delighted to be able to inform you that your line has been successfully upgraded to 2Mbps!" |
09:32.40 | rhowe | (and a 50G monthly cap has been imposed)# |
09:32.46 | rhowe | Which they don't tell you in that email |
09:34.14 | wethrin | Hateful people! |
09:34.18 | wethrin | 50GB is unreasonable |
09:34.44 | morsing | How can anyone ever use 50GB? |
09:34.59 | wethrin | morsing: Easily |
09:35.06 | wethrin | Download a few things via bittorrent |
09:37.01 | rhowe | wethrin: I think it's unmonitored midnight-8am or something like that |
09:37.13 | rhowe | wethrin: So a couple of cron jobs should see it through |
09:37.35 | wethrin | Ahha. Yes $friend had the same issue |
09:41.10 | morsing | <PROTECTED> |
09:41.32 | wethrin | Heh. My machine is up 13 days 14:35 |
09:42.15 | wethrin | Cope! |
09:42.21 | wethrin | Steal me some racking kit for a Netra T1 |
09:42.24 | Cope | hi morsing, kbsingh etc |
09:42.30 | Cope | wethrin: hehe |
09:42.34 | wethrin | Oh, and it really doesn't have any 9-pin connectors on the back |
09:42.40 | Cope | no |
09:42.44 | Cope | of course not |
09:43.12 | wethrin | You and your dodgy connectors you were trying to flog :) |
09:43.31 | Cope | No... you just got them back to front! |
09:43.41 | Cope | silly billy |
09:43.46 | wethrin | The Cyclades doesn't have any 9-pin connectors either |
09:44.16 | wethrin | Oooooh. Cheap Netra on eBay - USD 100 for machine with 512MB |
09:44.30 | wethrin | And 24x CD |
09:44.35 | Cope | groovy |
09:44.37 | gregj | wethrin: where where :-) |
09:45.02 | wethrin | gregj: Go to ebay, search for 'netra t1 rack' - only one result |
09:45.08 | wethrin | USD 100 is Buy It Now |
09:46.16 | gregj | I need some blade machine with 4-6 blades for 400-500 $ or less |
09:46.27 | wethrin | Haha |
09:46.48 | gregj | yeah, I know it's a joke |
09:46.52 | wethrin | :-) |
09:47.14 | gregj | I need cheap compilation farm |
09:47.25 | wethrin | Get some cast-off machines |
09:51.47 | wethrin | Ask your local Uni :) |
09:51.58 | morsing | wethrin: Do you want to put money on who's can stay up the longest? |
09:52.49 | wethrin | No :) Because at some point I'm going to have to run mine off to fiddle the memory, and also rack it properly |
09:52.59 | wethrin | That and I may have to reboot soon with an updated kernel |
09:54.15 | wethrin | So uptime may be slightly meaningless as the computer can be running all the time while the kernel isn't |
09:54.24 | gregj | wethrin: they don't give away anything in these woods |
09:54.32 | gregj | it's not like in uk |
09:54.40 | wethrin | Bah |
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09:54.51 | cup | morning |
09:55.21 | cup | quick question, how can I delete files by date, say over a week old? |
09:55.42 | wethrin | man find |
09:55.54 | wethrin | Tell it to find files older than a certain date |
09:56.01 | wethrin | And then do a | xargs rm |
09:56.30 | cup | cheers |
09:56.53 | morsing | wethrin: Have you got monitoring running? |
09:57.15 | wethrin | what monitoring? |
09:57.18 | wethrin | np |
09:58.06 | wethrin | I'm not monitoring anything ATM |
10:24.23 | morsing | wethrin: exonetric monitoring. |
10:24.41 | wethrin | The bandwidth monitoring is running, but that's about it |
10:24.54 | wethrin | What other monitoring are you talking about? |
10:43.39 | morsing | https://www.exonetric.com/console/sc/colo0021/mon |
10:43.55 | morsing | Sorry, substitute colo0021 for yours |
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10:45.44 | stephanb | VoiP nat router, port forwarding, aaaaaargh ! |
10:46.46 | SteveC | Heh, Guardian digital is free until the 26th: http://digital.guardian.co.uk/ |
10:47.34 | Leeds | well, I'm staying here a few days longer |
10:47.55 | stephanb | Leeds: before going back to Afghanistan ? |
10:48.42 | Leeds | stephanb: what? |
10:49.49 | stephanb | Leeds: yes i remember talking to u some time ago and you were in an exotic country |
10:50.12 | Leeds | I'm in Sri Lanka now, heading back to Hong Kong next weekend :-) |
10:51.37 | stephanb | Leeds: ah that's it |
10:51.57 | Leeds | both exotic? |
10:52.27 | stephanb | well, for me they are. |
10:55.05 | Leeds | Hong Kong is fun, Sri Lanka is a bit shabby and boring |
10:55.59 | stephanb | what ru doing there? conencting their cotton mills on a LAN |
10:56.26 | stephanb | so the VP can VPN onto the server and count how many sq feet of cotton the plant has produced ? |
10:56.37 | Leeds | nah, not cotton mills - it's a bra factory |
10:56.45 | wethrin | morsing: Works for me |
10:56.54 | Leeds | but apart from that, yes, something like that |
10:56.56 | stephanb | woooooooo |
10:57.18 | Leeds | no, there are no models around the factory... |
10:57.33 | stephanb | and the bras are assembled by robots... |
10:58.05 | Leeds | nope |
10:58.22 | stephanb | and the same way you wood see a Pirelli calendar in a garage,... |
10:58.45 | stephanb | there are posters of classic british motorbikes on the walls :-) |
10:59.29 | Leeds | actually, the calendar has pictures of large industrial printing presses on it :-) |
11:01.19 | stephanb | i wasn't that wrong... |
11:01.55 | Leeds | nope |
11:02.04 | morsing | wethrin: What?! |
11:02.17 | wethrin | What? |
11:03.48 | wethrin | Hmm. I've been locked out. Grr. |
11:03.57 | stephanb | so, none of u hathe delight to play with gnomemeeting or h.323 behind a nat router then ??? |
11:04.15 | stephanb | s/hathe/has had the/ |
11:04.47 | Leeds | I've happily used SIP from behind at least 2 levels of NAT |
11:05.53 | wethrin | morsing: Oh. It works now |
11:09.22 | stephanb | Leeds: what sip application have u used on linux ? |
11:10.32 | wethrin | morsing: I've not set up Monitoring from the console |
11:10.37 | wethrin | (but the console works otherwise) |
11:12.59 | Leeds | stephanb: linphone |
11:19.23 | rhowe | Leeds: What's the box you have running openwrt? |
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11:24.23 | Leeds | rhowe: asus wl500g-deluxe |
11:24.27 | Leeds | cost me... |
11:24.31 | Leeds | ibot change 670 hkd to gbp |
11:32.01 | rhowe | Leeds: What does the 'deluxe' get you/ |
11:32.54 | Leeds | more memory, faster processor, 2 usb2 ports, IIRC... |
11:33.15 | Leeds | openwrt wiki has a very good table listing the specs of all the devices they support |
11:34.35 | Leeds | http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware |
11:35.00 | Leeds | newer processor - running at the same speed |
11:35.13 | Leeds | no, I'm wrong... faster processor |
11:40.03 | rhowe | Yeah, looking - ta :) |
11:41.53 | stephanb | cu guys l8r... lunchtime |
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11:49.53 | Leeds | hmm... O2 are planning to collect -41.something GBP from me by the end of the month... |
12:04.14 | Leeds | and openvpn is rather easy to use, although I'm not sure how much point there is in tunnelling it over ssh :-) |
12:16.18 | morsing | Leeds>? |
12:19.03 | Leeds | morsing: ? |
12:21.54 | Leeds | ah, scp over openvpn over ssh :-) |
12:23.36 | morsing | How are you? |
12:23.39 | morsing | ~seen mozrat |
12:23.43 | ibot | mozrat is currently on #gllug (1d 15h 22m 36s). Has said a total of 145 messages. Is idling for 21h 49m 58s |
12:23.58 | Leeds | morsing: assuming you're asking about the vpn stuff, I plan to setup a tunnel between the two sites, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka, and openvpn seems like a sensible way of doing it... but at the moment, the only connection I have into either network is ssh into HK, so I'm forwarding the relevent port and running the vpn over it, just to test it |
12:24.04 | Leeds | I'm pretty well... you? |
12:26.07 | morsing | Leeds: Crap as always. Why are there no jobs this time of year? |
12:27.26 | Leeds | are you needing or just wanting? |
12:31.17 | mozrat | morsing |
12:31.20 | mozrat | just got here |
12:31.32 | mozrat | and guys - I've discovered the IT con of the year |
12:31.44 | mozrat | went to an office |
12:31.44 | morsing | Leeds: Wanting |
12:31.47 | mozrat | IT Guy was away |
12:31.56 | mozrat | booted into Linux - got a DHCP address all good |
12:32.11 | mozrat | VPN didn't work... rebooted into Windows to use correct VPN client |
12:32.16 | mozrat | no DHCP address |
12:32.17 | mozrat | hmmm |
12:32.21 | mozrat | phoned IT guy |
12:32.33 | mozrat | oh yes - we only have 5 IP address on DHCP the rest are static |
12:32.41 | mozrat | oh.. ok. why is that |
12:32.57 | mozrat | the guy that installed DHCP for us only gave us a 5 address licence |
12:33.02 | mozrat | ...... |
12:33.08 | Leeds | ugh... |
12:33.10 | Leeds | argh... |
12:33.12 | Leeds | splutter... |
12:33.13 | mozrat | I want to see the paper licence |
12:33.20 | mozrat | I licence you the use of one IP address |
12:33.25 | mozrat | please pay me money for some more |
12:33.30 | Leeds | I want to know how much a 192.168 address costs to license |
12:34.04 | mozrat | no idea |
12:34.20 | mozrat | but if you are ripping someone off you'd do it for at least £10 an address |
12:34.24 | mozrat | I sold him another 5 |
12:34.27 | mozrat | (j) |
12:34.35 | Leeds | yeah, 50 quid for 5 seems like a fair price |
12:36.05 | mozrat | the guy admitted it was a pain to have to keep manually setting the address for visitors |
12:37.22 | Leeds | that sort of thing just pisses me off |
12:37.37 | Leeds | particularly when we know there is a better alternative |
12:37.56 | mozrat | I didn't actually set him straight on it |
12:38.03 | mozrat | it was a bad mobile phone connection |
12:38.06 | mozrat | I'll mail him |
12:38.49 | mozrat | MMmm,. that was nice soup |
12:53.17 | morsing | mozrat: Thanks for your help yesterday |
12:53.25 | morsing | Leeds: So do you have one for me? |
12:54.17 | JAV | good afternoon |
12:57.25 | Leeds | morsing: how is your sewing? |
13:48.27 | mozrat | morsing: no probs |
14:01.48 | Leeds | hometime... have a good afternoon, all |
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18:34.23 | rhowe | "Thank you for registering for the OpenPower Project kick-off event at the London Planetarium. Your entrance ticket has been reserved in your name. You can pick it up at the OpenPower Project Welcome Desk right before the start. Please remember you must bring work identification to the event. Party on" |
18:34.28 | rhowe | woo :) |
19:05.15 | wethrin | w00t? |
19:16.46 | rhowe | I didn't see IBM mention anything about free food and drink from IBM though, only from John Southern |
19:16.51 | rhowe | Still, I won't eat before going.. :) |
19:19.38 | wethrin | hm |
19:19.46 | wethrin | Is there free booze? |
19:19.57 | rhowe | no idea |
19:20.23 | wethrin | Free booze++ |
19:20.31 | wethrin | I got some free booze today from our college bar manager |
19:20.37 | rhowe | heh |
19:20.43 | wethrin | New guy |
19:33.37 | new2unix | did somebody call? |
19:35.10 | wethrin | No :) |
19:42.29 | mozrat | Good evening |
20:15.00 | rhowe | whee, photo of the gf from last weekend - http://www.siksai.co.uk/gallery/album07/crw_0530_xiaoping |
20:16.42 | mozrat | :) |
20:34.42 | mozrat | handy! |
20:34.55 | mozrat | http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/ |
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21:07.45 | mozrat | e-b-b-e-y-e-s!! |
21:09.17 | mozrat | z-0-0-... bah |
21:09.18 | mozrat | hello |
21:09.32 | z00dax | hey mozrat |
21:09.37 | mozrat | hey |
21:20.12 | z00dax | if anyone is around the Harbour Exchange, Canary Warf area Friday evening - drop in at Spinnaker's for a drink. |
21:20.21 | wethrin | z00dax: Post to Gllug Social |
21:20.57 | z00dax | wethrin, right - doing so now. |
21:21.02 | wethrin | good good |
21:21.12 | wethrin | mozrat: Only because you never make it! |
21:21.19 | mozrat | with the talk about low attendances on gllug-admin |
21:21.21 | z00dax | evil social events are the kinds that most of us life for |
21:21.34 | mozrat | it would make more sense to post that to the main mailing list |
21:21.38 | wethrin | But it serves different purposes |
21:21.44 | mozrat | wethrin: you make an excellent point |
21:22.10 | wethrin | Gllug meetings are traditionally technical followed by Social. Gllug-Social is Lonix with less organisation |
21:22.14 | mozrat | it does serve a purpose but if attendances are low it might boost things if the social things weren't hidden on -social |
21:22.40 | wethrin | Some thing have been announced onto the main list |
21:22.46 | wethrin | Such as zach's leaving |
21:22.49 | mozrat | true |
21:23.14 | mozrat | Just thinking that there are more people who might go to -social things that might not know about them |
21:23.25 | mozrat | the membership is less on -social I imagine |
21:23.28 | wethrin | In which case, an announcement should be remade about the list :) |
21:23.36 | wethrin | There are about 70 members on Social |
21:23.41 | wethrin | 10% of whom turn up |
21:23.42 | mozrat | really? |
21:23.44 | wethrin | Yeah |
21:23.45 | mozrat | wow |
21:24.04 | mozrat | whats the membership of the main list now? |
21:25.05 | wethrin | 85 members on Social, in fact |
21:25.22 | wethrin | 533 on Gllug |
21:25.24 | mozrat | I think you should reannounce the social list |
21:25.31 | mozrat | 533 is what I thought |
21:25.32 | wethrin | (some may be duplicates) |
21:25.39 | mozrat | well not *exactly* that number |
21:25.43 | mozrat | but 500 odd |
21:25.49 | wethrin | 500 very odd :) |
21:25.59 | rhowe | WHOAH |
21:26.09 | mozrat | yes *looks.at.George* |
21:26.12 | rhowe | I JUST SAW A MOUSE RUN INTO THE SERVER ROOM |
21:26.13 | wethrin | :) |
21:26.19 | mozrat | geddit!!!! |
21:26.19 | wethrin | Jump on a chair! |
21:26.30 | mozrat | Set the Cat (5) after it |
21:26.39 | wethrin | *groan* |
21:26.43 | mozrat | *bow* |
21:26.47 | wethrin | So someone who posts more to Gllug than I do can announce it :-) |
21:27.09 | wethrin | Right |
21:27.13 | wethrin | rhowe: you've been volunteered |
21:27.56 | mozrat | rhowe - announce to the mailing list that z00dax will buy any members of the main mailing list a beer on Friday and see of 533 people turn up |
21:28.05 | mozrat | s/of/if |
21:28.05 | wethrin | They won't |
21:28.09 | wethrin | I won't be there |
21:28.37 | z00dax | ... only to find z00dax not there |
21:28.54 | wethrin | :) |
21:29.12 | mozrat | Wolves LUG videoed their meeting the other night and posted the file |
21:29.20 | z00dax | aparenly I am not subscribed, so going through the motions of subscription |
21:29.43 | mozrat | z00dax: Have you ever posted to the main list? |
21:29.56 | rhowe | z00dax: What am I posting? |
21:29.57 | wethrin | Ahha |
21:30.08 | z00dax | mozrat, i am not sure :) |
21:30.09 | wethrin | rhowe: You're posting to the main list announcing the Gllug Social list. Well, re-announcing it |
21:30.17 | rhowe | wethrin: Oh right |
21:30.25 | rhowe | Well, let z00dax post first |
21:30.27 | wethrin | We volunteered you while you were standing on a chair |
21:30.39 | mozrat | and whilst you are at it big up the Python Study group that I can't keep afloat |
21:31.02 | rhowe | Then I'll post to gllug saying "oi, reminder for those who like beer and food, gllug-social exists and it tends to carry things such as the following: <insert z00dax email>" |
21:31.55 | rhowe | mozrat: Actually I grabbed my camera and headed for said server room, but couldn't find it |
21:32.15 | mozrat | it's probably gnawing fibre cables etc as we speak |
21:32.43 | z00dax | Headlines on Friday morninig " Rhowe seen flashing a mouse " |
21:32.49 | rhowe | Yeah, if it is, we're screwed :) |
21:32.57 | rhowe | No redundant fibre loop on the fibrechannel |
21:33.06 | rhowe | hm... no redundant anything really |
21:33.53 | wethrin | rhowe: Good good. Point them to http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/social |
21:33.59 | mozrat | tsk your network lacks even the most basic anti-mouse protection |
21:34.58 | rhowe | mozrat: Yeah |
21:36.10 | mozrat | I believe my network is protected by any rodent up to and including guinea pigs |
21:37.34 | mozrat | wow |
21:37.35 | rhowe | your network is protected by rodents? |
21:37.37 | rhowe | I just saw a mouse run along our wall, and into the server room. |
21:37.37 | rhowe | This is not a good thing! |
21:37.37 | rhowe | -- Russell Howe russell_howe@wreckage.org |
21:37.38 | JAV | a real firewall? |
21:37.45 | rhowe | That was the email I just sent to our office manager |
21:38.13 | mozrat | just got an email from our helpdesk software with the title "Request 100000 Initial" |
21:39.18 | mozrat | if you are interested our hundreth thousandth call is.... some Exchange server uses in Berkely Heights, NYC not being able to send to hotmail.com |
21:41.35 | rhowe | heh |
21:47.55 | mozrat | rhowe you work for quite a large company then |
21:48.19 | rhowe | mozrat: Oh yeah, huge |
21:48.45 | mozrat | rhowe: any IT jobs going in your Dubai office? :) |
21:48.55 | wethrin | mozrat: You may need SPF records to talk to hotmail |
21:49.03 | rhowe | mozrat: Hm.. doubt it |
21:49.09 | rhowe | mozrat: Most of those offices are just 1 or 2 guys |
21:49.22 | mozrat | rhowe: shame |
21:49.30 | mozrat | wethrin: normally missing PTR records |
21:49.48 | mozrat | or a firewall change where someone only updated the A record and not the PTR |
21:49.59 | wethrin | Ah |
21:50.13 | rhowe | mozrat: Though there may be a job-related announcement from me on the gllug list in the next 6 months or so I guess |
21:50.31 | mozrat | rhowe: how is your New Orleans office? |
21:50.51 | mozrat | apart from wet |
21:52.03 | rhowe | mozrat: No idea |
21:52.38 | mozrat | *nods* |
21:53.10 | rhowe | Nobody's sent an email around to let us know (although that's hardly suprising) |
21:55.28 | rhowe | Wonder where I can get food |
21:55.33 | wethrin | McDonald's |
21:55.39 | rhowe | At 11? |
21:55.45 | wethrin | Or race to Vinopolis |
21:55.47 | rhowe | There is one on the way home |
21:55.56 | rhowe | heh, no, not Vinopolis |
21:56.05 | wethrin | Or cornish pasty stand at the station? |
21:56.14 | wethrin | The one at Marylebone is open until about the last train |
21:57.18 | mozrat | there is one in Paddington station as well - very tasty |
21:57.30 | mozrat | West Cornwall Pasty Company |
21:57.35 | mozrat | Pork and Apple |
21:57.47 | mozrat | and then you can get a Apple and Raspberry |
21:57.53 | wethrin | :-) |
21:57.57 | wethrin | And Kings X |
22:00.17 | rhowe | this is London bridge |
22:00.20 | rhowe | Everywhere shuts early |
22:00.59 | z00dax | wethrin, still waiting for my confirm email to come through to me ( w.r.t subscription ) |
22:03.18 | wethrin | Ahh. Just give me your email address and I'll subscribe you |
22:03.39 | mozrat | For anyone with UK Gold I suggest watching the end of "Friday night with Johnathan Ross" |
22:03.45 | wethrin | hm |
22:03.54 | mozrat | Har Mar Superstar - gives hope to any balding overweight nerds |
22:04.05 | mozrat | and Tarantino is on now as well |
22:05.32 | mozrat | OOoh, and Uma Thurman is on as well |
22:05.37 | mozrat | watch it! |
22:06.11 | wethrin | heh |
22:06.17 | wethrin | I have no UK GOld |
22:06.18 | z00dax | wethrin, mail-lists@karan.org |
22:08.03 | mozrat | z00dax: If I setup planet.gllug.org.uk as suggested some time ago would you have your blog syndicated there? |
22:08.19 | z00dax | mozrat, go for it :) |
22:08.28 | z00dax | we can all use some google foo |
22:08.59 | mozrat | yes |
22:09.49 | mozrat | plus wethrins blog.. Tues Sep 13th: Blogs suck; Weds Sep 14th: Blogs suck; Thurs Sep 15th: Blogs suck |
22:09.51 | z00dax | planet.gllug.org.uk is trying to sell me DSL :( |
22:09.58 | mozrat | should be interesting reading |
22:10.01 | z00dax | lol |
22:10.11 | mozrat | z00dax: still in discussion stage I think |
22:10.18 | mozrat | jason_ukfsn hosts the DNS |
22:10.54 | mozrat | z00dax: can you send me a face? |
22:11.32 | z00dax | <PROTECTED> |
22:11.40 | wethrin | z00dax: Done |
22:16.39 | z00dax | you run bytemark ? |
22:18.43 | mozrat | I have a bytemark virtual server yes |
22:18.49 | z00dax | ah right... |
22:19.03 | mozrat | I don't run it if thats what you meant :) |
22:19.19 | mozrat | but that would be cool |
22:19.21 | z00dax | I remember speaking to someone @ bytemark a few years back - and the guy told me to get something elsewhere :) |
22:19.38 | mozrat | really? I haven't had too many quibbles with them |
22:19.54 | mozrat | I went for the cheap option and it has memory swap issues now and again |
22:20.14 | mozrat | but I wouldn't expect a physical server with 64MB RAM to do too much |
22:20.24 | mozrat | mozrat01:/opt# uptime |
22:20.24 | mozrat | <PROTECTED> |
22:20.29 | mozrat | uptime isn't too bad |
22:20.30 | z00dax | I wanted something funky, and cheap - i think he worked it out as not being worth their effort to do something custom for the kinda money on offer |
22:26.56 | mozrat | they are cheap IMO |
22:30.10 | Cope | i see |
22:30.30 | Cope | bytemark? |
22:30.43 | mozrat | hello Cope |
22:30.45 | Cope | <PROTECTED> |
22:30.51 | Cope | been very happy with them |
22:30.55 | mozrat | me too |
22:31.16 | mozrat | Cope have you ever wiped your rootfs image? |
22:31.16 | Cope | does everything I need - I don't make massive demands, and they're very good value |
22:31.30 | mozrat | I've asked for support a few times and they are responsive |
22:31.35 | Cope | mmmhmm |
22:31.55 | Cope | matthew seems a fine fellow |
22:31.58 | mozrat | in fact when I asked the guy if I could apt-get dist-upgrade to testing (sarge) he offered to do it for me |
22:32.11 | Cope | and can't complain about debian stable - always rock solid |
22:32.35 | mozrat | Cope - are you running Woody or Sarge on Bytemark? |
22:32.40 | Cope | 64M of ram is a bit low, and occasionally (occassionally) other folk on the box make things a bit unresponsive, but generally been very happy. |
22:32.45 | Cope | mozrat: sarge |
22:32.49 | mozrat | cool |
22:32.57 | mozrat | I need to know the name of the rootfs image |
22:33.00 | mozrat | hmm |
22:33.01 | Cope | hrm |
22:33.15 | Cope | brb - a bit more wine left in the bottle |
22:33.21 | mozrat | I can see kernel image names there - I wonder if that is them |
22:33.36 | mozrat | <mozrat> kernel |
22:33.37 | mozrat | Listing kernels, currently selected marked with [*] |
22:33.37 | mozrat | [*] Stable (currently linux-2.4.26-bytemark-uml-20040706-1) |
22:33.37 | mozrat | <PROTECTED> |
22:33.37 | mozrat | <PROTECTED> |
22:33.39 | mozrat | <PROTECTED> |
22:33.44 | mozrat | for example - I think that is them |
22:34.19 | mozrat | so I can get a new machine running 2.6.12.4 with the rootfs command |
22:34.25 | mozrat | brb |
22:34.26 | Cope | Linux vm.wibbleworld.org.uk 2.4.26-bytemark-uml-20040706-1 #1 Tue Jul 6 09:37:31 BST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux |
22:35.05 | Cope | there's nothing in 2.6 I need |
22:35.29 | Cope | but bear in mind I've run 2.2 for a long time, and only recently moved to 2.4 on my 'production' machines |
22:36.47 | mozrat | going to find food |
22:36.50 | mozrat | bbiab |
22:38.18 | Cope | ok |
22:41.31 | wethrin | would wibbleworld contain lots of jelly? |
22:45.00 | Cope | yeah, I reckon so |
22:47.26 | mozrat | Cope, against whom? |
22:47.28 | mozrat | Wm? |
22:47.31 | Cope | heh |
22:47.34 | Cope | no - fics |
22:47.38 | mozrat | ahh |
22:47.43 | mozrat | I had a fics server at work once |
22:47.52 | mozrat | it was quite heavily used |
22:49.57 | mozrat | also Bytemark support pages are very good |
22:58.26 | mozrat | Har Mar Superstar++ |
23:01.58 | mozrat | From Wikipedia.... "A genuinely talented musician, Har Mar Superstar is a character who patterns himself after porn star Ron Jeremy; overweight, nearly nude seemingly obsessed with own sexual prowess." |
23:03.11 | wethrin | Finally! |
23:06.52 | mozrat | FTPing my stuff up and away from Bytemark is taking longer than I thought |
23:06.59 | mozrat | so I'll reimage tomorrow |
23:07.00 | mozrat | nn all |
23:09.52 | wethrin | nn |
23:12.56 | z00dax | is it wise to post a mobile number for people to get in touch ? |
23:13.28 | rhowe | z00dax: If you don't mind your number being known publicly |
23:13.36 | rhowe | z00dax: People often do post mobile numbers |
23:14.13 | wethrin | It's best to |
23:14.34 | wethrin | Unless lots of people already know your number |
23:14.37 | rhowe | AFAIK, gllug-social has public archives |
23:14.41 | z00dax | considering I've never met anyone from gllug before, it might be kinda wierd hooking up. I could just ask everyone to come dressed as Linus and carry their pet pengiuns with them for easy identification |
23:14.56 | rhowe | z00dax: Just so you know, I won't be able to make it |
23:15.03 | rhowe | z00dax: Will be on a train to Manchester |
23:15.05 | wethrin | rhowe: I can probably turn that off if I can be arsed |
23:15.27 | rhowe | wethrin: no point really |
23:15.30 | wethrin | z00dax: You can always ask for confirmation if anyone else would turn up |
23:15.32 | wethrin | Nah |
23:15.32 | rhowe | wethrin: May as well leave it on |
23:15.43 | wethrin | Yes. I was going to |
23:15.51 | rhowe | wethrin: Oh, do you have any weird hardware/OS combinations? :) |
23:15.56 | z00dax | wethrin, yeah - i'll do that, email people my number if they confirm via email that they are going to be there |
23:16.03 | rhowe | wethrin: A friend has written his own version of netcat and is looking for testers |
23:19.30 | wethrin | rhowe: You know I do |
23:19.38 | wethrin | But not with me |
23:20.20 | rhowe | wethrin: OK, well give me a shout if you fancy watching it break |
23:20.45 | rhowe | wethrin: Currently it's breaking quite well on my dual celeron with latest GCC from Debian unstable |
23:20.53 | wethrin | ha |
23:20.55 | rhowe | wethrin: So we don't need your services just yet :) |
23:20.57 | wethrin | What's wrong with just netcat? |
23:21.12 | rhowe | no iode |
23:21.15 | rhowe | no idea :) |
23:23.24 | wethrin | Ah |
23:29.29 | rhowe | In fact.. it's breaking in ways I don't understand :) |
23:29.35 | rhowe | I suspect it's a threading thing |
23:30.49 | wethrin | ah |