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00:01.11JAVthey had to stop to clean
00:04.03Leedssol
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07:16.00LeedsCSS can do some cute stuff - like make page elements vanish when you're printing rather than displaying on screen
07:28.55mozratmoin
07:36.09Leedshi
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07:55.45mozratmorsing: !
07:56.34morsingmozrat!
07:56.44morsingDo you know anything about head light bulbs?
07:57.28mozratnot a lot
07:57.41morsingAre 80/100w bulbs illegal?
08:00.55mozratDunno - google doesn't really tell me anything either
08:01.08mozrathave you tried asking in #carheadlights ?
08:01.33morsingmozrat: #carheadlights ?
08:01.44mozratyeah, on Freenode
08:01.51morsingWell, just found this:
08:01.53morsinghttp://www.talkaudio.co.uk/vbb/showthread.php?t=12920
08:03.16mozrathmm - not legal then
08:03.39morsingNo :-(
08:04.03morsingOddd because the previous owner was a Volvo mechanic at a dealership.
08:04.14morsingHe should have been aware of this
08:04.33morsingAnyway - it passed it's MOT / VOSA with them in!
08:04.56mozrathmm
08:13.37mozratgoing to work
08:13.48Leedsare you sure it didn't pass because the guy was a mechanic?
08:14.52morsingLeeds: Which guy? You mean the inspection guy was incompetent because he was a mechanic?
08:15.24Leedsno, I mean that either he changed the bulbs over for the MOT, or his mate did the inspection
08:15.29morsingThey actually seem reasonably "intelligent" where I have my MOT done
08:16.00morsingLeeds: Eh?!? I drove down to the MOT place with the bulbs in the car. No-one swapped anything over!
08:18.49Leedsoh, you mean it passed since you owned it... okay
08:19.19morsingLeeds: I've had the car for a year and a half. Passed it's second MOT two weeks ago with these bulbs.
08:20.34LeedsI thought you meant you'd recently procured it and you were worried it was illegal
08:24.04morsingmurb: Decades I'm sure
08:24.18GeorgeI'm been told I look like a "blinkin' dulux dog"
08:24.20Georgewtf is that?
08:24.25morsingLeeds: No - one of the bulbs went yesterday so I went to halfords to get new ones.
08:24.42Georgehrmm, google told me
08:24.44morsingAll their 80/100w bulbs said "Only for off road use" on them
08:26.00murbmorsing: what are you supposed to have?
08:26.27murbmorsing: maybe you should install radar for those foggy mornings?
08:26.58morsingmurb: 55/60w is the standard wattage which is apparently the highest legal rating
08:27.14morsingmurb: Like the new BMWs have?
08:34.25murbkeine Ahnung.
08:35.04morsingmurb: Well, new BMWs have radar and a screen that shows any object around the car. You can drive it with blacked out windows.
08:35.12morsingBeing german you should know this!
08:36.03murbmorsing: I don't live in Bavaria and i'm not german.
08:36.24morsingmurb: You're semi-german. How's married life btw?
08:36.35murbmorsing: I'm not married.
08:36.42murbor semi-german either.
08:36.59morsingAnd you're about to tell me you're not married right ;-D
08:37.25Leedssemi married?
09:14.41eye69*yawn*
09:14.44eye69Morning folks...
09:18.00Leedsah, that is a good trick...
09:18.36Leedssearching/regexing data as I pull it from the database for something which looks like a fedex shipping number, and linking it straight to their tracking page :-)
09:20.00Leedsand for my next trick - dynamically-generated pdf!
09:30.27morsingCheck it!
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10:08.05morsingrhowe!
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10:26.41morsingkbsingh!
10:27.08morsingSorry, I'm a bit slow today :-D
10:28.16Leedsmozring!
10:30.13kbsinghmorsing!
10:30.21morsingmozring?
10:32.56Leedsmorsrat?
10:36.10highburyhey guys
10:39.15Leedsevening highbury
10:42.46Copegood day
10:47.44highburydisappointed by OpenOffice Calc - it allows you to put regular expressions in Find but you can't in replace, e.g. "^(.*) says hello" to "Hello says \1"
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10:55.56morsinglanky!
10:56.21lankymorsing: yes?
10:56.39lankyit's a fair description
10:56.43lanky:)
10:57.58Leedshometime
11:00.30Copehttp://www.theonion.com/content/node/42616
11:00.33Copehehe
11:05.13new2unixhi folks. Any Mac heads on today?
11:05.38highburytry anyway new2unix
11:07.14new2unixMade a change to edu.mit.Kerberos Require Server to recognise change without restarting Server.
11:07.37new2unixWhat service needs a -HUP? smbd/nmbd?
11:11.00new2unixs#edu.mit.Kerberos#/Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos on an Xserve Mac OSX 10.3.9
11:15.38new2unixNevermind. found what i was looking for...
11:17.48new2unix<PROTECTED>
11:18.07new2unix<PROTECTED>
11:18.55new2unixstop before start, of course. There doesnt seem to be a restart option. could always stitch one together though.
11:21.20highburyyou use afp!?
11:22.13new2unixyes. as well as smb.
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11:31.19mikejwlo
11:32.38morsingmikejw!
11:32.52mikejwmorsing: howdy
11:40.58Copewho has displayed he has absolutely no understadning at all of how redhat clustersuite works.
11:43.09morsingMmm... debian
11:45.30Copemmmm morsing
11:46.19kbsinghCope, on EL3 or EL4 ?
11:46.25Cope3 dude
11:46.30Copegfs 6
11:46.55kbsinghright :)
11:47.00Copei shouldn't really rise to him - should just do as everyone else and divert his emails to /dev/null
11:47.16Copethe annoying thing is that sometimes he says something genuinely interesting
11:47.22kbsinghwhere is this conversation going on ? the gllug mail list ?
11:47.26Copeyeah
11:48.06kbsinghI am 874 undread on gllug ml :( need to catch up sometime soon
11:48.14kbsinghunread even
11:48.36Copethe rest of the time he is verbose, waffly, over-bearing, pedantic, patronising, and vague
11:49.14CopeBloc Party are cool.
11:49.16kbsinghhe'd make a half decent sales guy
11:49.34mikejwCope: yeah man
11:49.45murbkbsingh: promising things that can't be done etc?
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11:56.56kbsinghno sure about MultiPath for qla drivers, be worth a try
11:57.39kbsinghmurb, RH wont support the interface or issues created by the third party drivers - but the rest of the system is supported
11:57.47Copemurb: no its not... so say RH
11:57.59Copemurb: as kb says
11:59.45kbsinghsomething funny : a friend is traveling to India ( New Delhi ) next week, and was having issues getting hotel bookings for the dates he wanted
12:00.48kbsingh<-- was talking to someone at dell support for a wierd display issue on a laptop
12:01.26kbsinghsupport guy - based in new delhi. So I just asked him - do me a favour
12:01.47kbsinghjust got email from guy@dell with booking details for hotel in delhi :)
12:02.11kbsingh40% discount on standard tariff too..
12:02.25kbsinghlaptop, however, needs to go 'back to base' for fixing
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12:06.37Copehello Leeds
12:07.59Leedshi Cope
12:15.58mikejwhey Leeds
12:16.32Leedsevening mikejw
12:16.40mikejw:)
12:19.50mikejwcan samba control shares that aren't local to it?
12:20.20mikejwhmmm
12:22.59LeedsCope: one gets the impression you are not entirely in the mood for a friendly chat with Peter
12:24.10Copeits a pity, because much of what he says is very useful - its just the rest of the rubbish and his condescending tone that is the problem.
12:26.41Copehowever, I feel silly for rising to the bait in retrospect
12:28.02murboh henry has been stupid enough to try and use a soap on a rope for adsl!
12:29.46murbCope: there is so much miss information in your latest thread!
12:29.54Leedsthe slightly worrying thing about Henry is that he seems to be a gung-ho evangelist - so he's responsible for people's introduction to Linux
12:32.17murbCope: /dev/raw devices marked Obsolete atleast in 2.6.recent.
12:32.21murbare
12:33.41murboh he already said that...
12:34.31murband regrets it.
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12:38.14Georgeblehblehbleh
12:38.58Copemurb: from me or peter?
12:47.23wethrinPeter likes writing rather verbose emails
12:47.32Copehe does
12:47.46Copeoh Grandi by a country mile.
12:48.25Copeor Hi Peter
12:48.34murbCope: nearly everyone who dared to join that thread!
12:48.58wethrinyeah
12:49.18Copemurb: a horrid thread
12:49.22murbCope: so having fun with GFS?
12:49.34Copemurb: its... exciting
12:49.38murbI looked at it and decided to use OCFS2
12:49.44murbsimplicity++
12:49.47Copeindeed
12:50.08Copeincidentally I have a horrible feeling Peter may be right about oracle quorum data
12:50.51murbCope: I've seen howtos using OCFS/2 with Oracle.
12:50.56murbI wonder if Oracle support it.
12:51.04murbgiven that it is an Oracle product etc.
12:51.26murbhmm my
12:51.53murb...
13:02.52morsingmoo
13:03.12murbbaa
13:04.14Cope*sigh*
13:05.50murbI want to kill webct
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14:27.04mozratAfternoon
14:29.17JAVafternoon
14:29.19boudiccasIs it possible to have tabs in emacs like in firefox please?
14:32.58boudiccasall gone quiet now :)
14:37.36highburyyou should run emacs in all its ungui glory, therefore tabs shouldn't exist ;)
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14:38.32togsterhi al
14:38.35mozratHey
14:38.48highburyin fact not even vim has tabs
14:39.47mozrathighbury: It has 2 virtual screens though - if that is the right word for it
14:41.33highburyyou can split the screen horizontally and vertically, but its pretty curses-like
14:42.38boudiccasI've asked the same question in #emacs and they reckon xemacs has the ability to have tabs, so I'm just dowlaoding it to see
14:44.57Erwinboth emacs and xemacs have multiple buffers
14:45.11Erwinxemacs shows them as tabs which is of limited usefulness IMHO, I generally have 200+ buffers open
14:45.50boudiccasErwin; sheesh! 200!
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15:03.21mozrathey LeedsHK
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15:26.17mozrathello lanky
15:28.32morsingIn vi how do I jump to next white space?
15:32.33morsingHello?
15:33.48morsingibot wake wethrin
15:33.49ibotwethrin: GOOD MORNING!!!
15:34.24wethrinYes?
15:34.29wethrinI don't know vi that well
15:40.49morsinghttp://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r3s/index.jsp?topic=/ipha1/recoverpartitiondata.htm
15:42.28wethrinhm?
15:43.47morsinghm?
15:43.51morsingHm what?
15:49.59wethrinhm the URL - was that for me?
15:50.57morsingwethrin: That URL was of general interest
15:52.02wethrinAHHH
15:52.17mikejwlol
16:01.55morsingmikejw: What does the j stand for?
16:02.14mikejwjenius
16:02.21morsing:-)
16:02.35mikejwor james
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16:09.18morsingldnblk!
16:09.54ldnblkmorsing!
16:22.38mikejwholy god I think I've finished my coursework - now I have to fight for a printer
16:23.44ldnblkmake sure you got your gum shield in and keep your hands up !!!
16:23.58mikejwok :)
16:24.16mikejwI wouldn't want to look stupid after all :P
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16:30.55morsingLeedsHK!
16:31.15morsingMmm... Corrupt profile data!
16:35.15morsingDoes anyone know how to recover partition data on a p570 without powering it up in partition standby?
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16:58.39highburymorsing: w
17:04.36morsingw?
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17:15.11wethrinfoo
17:17.57morsingbar
17:18.19wethrinGood idea!
17:20.05morsingbeer
17:20.08morsingmushrooms
17:38.56wethrinCold?
17:42.10CopeI've been fluey all week... but got much worse suddenly ths afternoon
17:43.02wethrin:-(
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18:06.19wethrinWhat a good idea
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18:19.06murbwhy?
18:20.16wethrin17:42 <Cope> I've been fluey all week... but got much worse suddenly ths afternoon
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19:28.44GeorgeI've just had the biggest fryup
19:29.52murbwo;; upi ex[;pde sppm
19:59.42wethrinGeorge: You fat bastard
19:59.54Georgewethrin: 10 rashers of bacon, 5 eggs, 8 slices of bread
20:00.09Georgecurrently lying incapacitated on my bed
20:00.15wethrinFAT BASTARD
20:00.26Georgehaha
20:01.40wethrin:)
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20:45.48mozratGeorge == Mr Creosote
20:46.05Georgewhat's mr creosote?
20:46.19SlayerXP"just one more kde application?"
20:46.25SlayerXPeeet is wafer-theeeen
20:46.54mozratGeorge: you uneducated oaf
20:47.05Georgemozrat: bastard
20:47.26SlayerXPmozrat: it's not his fault.
20:47.35mozratSlayerXP: big boned?
20:47.40SlayerXPno-one told his parents that cousins shouldn't do that
20:47.45mozratlol!
20:49.01SlayerXPgiven that the earth is round, that means they came from the same house
20:49.11mozratI really don't want to tell Henry Gilbert that a) his post about Helix player is about a 6 week old vulnerability or b) that he has contradicted his "Linux will never suffer a virus" waffle
20:49.26SlayerXPmozrat: would you like me to?
20:49.30wethrinOh, please point out the second one
20:49.40mozratI imagine inserting some malicious code into a media file would be quite trivial
20:49.47wethrinTBH, it's the first I heard about the Helix vulnerability. Then again, I don't use Helix, so I'm not bothered
20:49.52Georgehow about we just stuff a pumpkin up his arse
20:49.56mozratInsert it into a RMS or Linus talk and release it on all the LUG lists
20:50.13mozratSlayerXP: If you wish - I don't want to labour the point
20:50.21mozratoh hang on
20:50.25mozrat"I dare you"!
20:50.57SlayerXPurl for the spolit?
20:51.42SlayerXPfound it, september.
20:54.44mozratI also didn't get the rebooting remote desktops bit. Is this a remote root vulnerability?
20:55.18SlayerXP"could be exploited by remote attackers"
20:55.26SlayerXPi would guess not root
20:56.09mozratyes. You need root to reboot a machine don't you?
20:56.23mozratI know gdm can do it graphically
20:56.27SlayerXPhttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STOAT-SKULL-biology-study-art-craft-animal-goth_W0QQitemZ7196098350QQcategoryZ67212QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
20:56.40SlayerXPmozrat: It Depends[tm]
20:57.45mozratcan you sell dead animals on eBay?
20:57.59SlayerXPit seems so
20:58.19SlayerXPi've sold live ones
20:58.20mozratsm@cmt02smorris01:~$ reboot
20:58.20mozratreboot: must be superuser.
20:58.20mozratsm@cmt02smorris01:~$ init 6
20:58.21mozratinit: must be superuser.
20:58.33mozratas soon as I get this command right as a non-root user I'm off IRC :)
20:58.49wethrinsudo init 6
20:59.17mozratas a non-root user - if I could own your machine through helix
20:59.34mozratlooks like gdm-signal --halt is the one
20:59.37mozrathere we go
21:00.01mozratstill here!
21:00.17mozratthe command didn't give any feedback, but also didn't reboot me
21:00.53mozratThe Cope vs Blissex thread is a bit tetchy
21:02.52wethrinhm?
21:03.41mozrat"Raw Partitions"
21:04.11mozratibot seen Cope
21:04.16ibotcope is currently on #debian #gllug #openzaurus.  Has said a total of 15 messages.  Is idling for 3h 22m 6s
21:04.16wethrinBlissex.....?
21:04.25mozratBlissex in here sometimes
21:04.30wethrinYes. Give a real name
21:04.36mozratPeter Grandi?
21:04.48wethrinAhhh......blissex is Grandi? I didn't know that
21:04.52mozrataye
21:10.22mozratGeorge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Creosote
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21:34.54resuDaedevening all
21:36.54wethrinheyyyyyup
21:38.16stephanbsooooooo quiet
21:38.22wethrinYeah
21:38.27mozratSSsssh, sleeping
21:38.36resuDaedsorry, I am on phone to gf
21:40.48JAVgood evening!
21:45.14mozratJAV!!
21:45.17mozrathow are you sir
21:46.21JAVfine thanks, and you?
21:47.35mozratGood thanks
21:47.39mozratplaying with SUSE 10
21:48.01JAVI'm trying to summarize ZFS virtues to a friend, he is really lazy
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21:49.54mozrathello zx80user
21:51.32resuDaedwhy can't my computer compile, rip and be responsive at the same time :-(
21:53.21wethrinresuDaed: Because you're using IDE?
21:54.05wethrinHm. Anyone feeling generous and want to buy a poor student one of http://secure.dnuk.com/systems/rs1040-64.php ?
21:55.47zx80usermozrat yo!
21:56.12mozrathey!
21:56.38mozratI'll buy you a "Page not found" if you like
21:56.48zx80userindeed I saw that too
21:56.58JAVmozrat: but a cheap one
21:57.09zx80userBut I presume wethrin really wants a quad opteron box
21:57.13mozratJAV, of course! One with only a single button
21:57.22wethrinzx80user: If you're offering :)
21:57.47zx80userwethrin I wish
21:58.01wethrinHm. https://secure.dnuk.com/systems/rs1040-64.php
21:58.17highburymozrat: how you finding suse10. it seems to be working nicely for me
21:59.27mozrathighbury: I have it dual booting on my laptop, and we are moving towards it as a server OS as well
21:59.34mozratbut I need to get used to it
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22:08.36mozrathello Barrera
22:11.21Barrerahi
22:11.33Barrerai'm new arround here
22:12.46mozratwelcome!
22:12.59mozratAre you on the GLLUG mailing list?
22:13.17Barrerayes i'm
22:13.33mozratOOh, you sent the email saying "hello"?
22:13.40Barrerai join a couple of weeks ago
22:13.41Barrerayes
22:13.56Barrerasomeone talked me about this channel
22:14.12mozratPablo Barrera Gonzalez!
22:14.17mozrathello
22:14.39Barrerahi
22:14.47Barrerayes that's my name
22:14.54Barreraso
22:14.57mozratAre you living in London now?
22:15.11Barrerawhat kind of thing do you do in gllug?
22:15.19Barrerayes, I'm here right now,
22:15.26Barrerain lewisham
22:15.49mozratBarrera: There are technical meetings and Beer meetings
22:16.24Barrerait's a good way to start
22:17.13mozrathighbury: how can I search for packages with yast2? ( in a terminal window, no GUI, and also not going into the curses interface_
22:17.16mozrat)
22:18.54JAVhola pablo :D
22:20.15BarreraJAV:hola Jav
22:24.03highburymozrat: searching to install or update?
22:25.04mozratto install
22:26.39highburywho's arranging it?
22:26.47wethrinI don't know. Someone should
22:27.03wethrinI'd propose a nice pub followed by food at a central London location
22:27.14highburysomeone will have to volunteer to help organise it
22:27.39wethrinSo, highbury, when are you free between the 27th and 30th December?
22:29.37highburyI don't know yet, wethrin :o)
22:30.55wethrinHum
22:32.00highburyI probably should be free, but I may have started new job, so things (despite Seasonal thingies) might be hectic
22:32.35wethrinThen it's good to get an evening off!
22:33.00highburymozrat: the following is not quite what you wanted but its handy to get logged by ibot  http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/16345.html
22:33.12mozratthanks
22:33.31mozrathighbury: I was halfway through writing a linkbot for #gllug
22:33.40mozratit was going to write a blog on all the links posted here
22:33.44mozratfor RSS etc
22:34.57mozrathighbury: thats nearly what I was after :)
22:44.59highburyyou mean you want to type a command to return a list of available packages or what? Of course SUSE mostly uses rpm to do actual installation
22:45.17highburyapt and yum are also available with suse10
22:45.32highburyhttp://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/
22:45.49highburyis helpful if your running plain opensuse 10
22:46.03mozrathighbury: yeah - so I know there are multiple packages for Nagios ( which is tonights exercise ) how can I see all of the different packages
22:46.21mozratin fact, for some reason the repository I added hasn't "taken"
22:48.03highburyare you using official repositories?
22:48.12mozratyes - from the page on opensuse.org
22:48.47mozrathttp://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#Installation_sources_for_a_complete_SUSE_experience
22:49.33highburytry one of the mirrors they're usually a lot faster, e.g http://ftp.leo.org/mirrors/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source
22:49.40mozratk
22:50.03highburyleo is always faster than most sites, even uk ones
22:53.33mozratjust refreshing my package list now
22:53.54mozratno, still don't have nagios in my package list
22:55.38mozratare all the packages mentioned on the novell.com site for SUSE10 in the opensuse distro?
22:55.44mozratthey are one and the same right?
22:56.56highburyopensuse != novell suse
22:57.15highburythe Novell version has many extra packages
22:57.16mozratopensuse10 != novell suse10 ?
22:57.18mozratahh
22:57.20mozratbugger
22:57.46mozratbut free packages would be in both surely
22:58.03mozratin fact, I can see the nagios packages on a opensuse.org mirror that I want
22:58.09mozratthey just aren't in yast2
22:58.30highburycheck out http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.0 for unofficial packages
22:58.52mozrat*blush*
22:59.00mozratit defaults to "Filter: development"
22:59.06highburyhang on!
22:59.33highburyI've just run up yast and looked and I see loads of Nagios packages
22:59.47mozratyes, for some reason I have a filter on which packages I see
22:59.59mozratso let me try `yast2 -i nagios'
23:00.10highburyversion 1.2-79
23:00.31mozratno, doesn't find it with -i
23:01.35highburysorry, why can't you at least run the curses version of yast?
23:02.00mozratI am at the moment
23:02.14mozratI just wondered if that would work
23:02.18mozratI'm in curses now
23:03.16mozratso in the curses yast, in Software Management I have filter. Can I not just see all categories
23:05.10zx80userany suse users here tell me where the network configuration applet can be found on the system menus - I am trying to help someone else set up their machine and I have no clue about suse
23:05.26mozratzx80user: It's in YAST
23:05.35mozratGNome or KDE?
23:06.20zx80usermozrat dunno, and doubt if my correspondent does either - it's poor diana who, I think, has been scared off the list
23:06.28mozratOh dear
23:06.34mozratshe shouldn't be scared:)
23:06.48mozratzx80user: who are you on the mailing list?
23:06.54resuDaedFor me on gnome (not using SuSE) it is under System>Administration>Networking
23:07.01zx80usershe might have asked some naive questions but she didnb't seserve all the "she is a troll" stuff
23:07.07mozratzx80user: I agree
23:07.15mozratthe guy did apologise to her
23:07.21mozrattell her to get herself on IRC
23:07.30zx80usermozrat I have :)
23:07.50z00dax$TZ Greetings
23:08.02mozratzx80user:she needs to find YasT
23:08.06mozrathey z00dax !!
23:08.28Barreraany programmer around here?
23:08.30z00daxhey mozrat, talking all SuSeSpEaK already :)
23:08.41mozratz00dax: unfortunately
23:08.54mozratz00dax: First server went in today
23:08.59zx80usermozrat have just emailed her to that effect
23:09.04mozratI'm idly poking it now
23:09.13z00daxmozrat, so are you going OpenSuSE or SLES ?
23:09.22mozratz00dax: SLES for the customers we support
23:09.45z00dax*hint* there is a SLES clone in the making - no not me, not any of us CentOS lot - but 'insiders' are involved aparently
23:09.49mozratWe support stuff for our clients and we are making them go "enterprise"
23:10.00highburymozrat: you should be able to drive the curses version of yast with all the functionality of the gui, just a bit clunkier
23:10.31mozratz00dax: My bosses were interested in CentOS but they want the "protection" that they *think* they get with a officially supported version
23:10.35mozratI did argue
23:10.47mozrathighbury: I'm going to reboot into my laptop SUSE now
23:10.49mozratbrb
23:13.21mozratback
23:15.12z00daxhumm... BSD user
23:16.49wethrinwhat what?
23:25.12mozrathighbury: having added a repo is there anything else to do to use it?
23:25.22mozratI have it set to refresh which it did
23:25.31mozratand I can see http://ftp.leo.org/mirrors/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/suse/i586/nagios-1.2-79.i586.rpm through a browser
23:25.39mozratbut I canne install it through yast
23:26.55highburyit should have status "on" and refresh "on"
23:27.02mozratyep - both
23:27.15highburyas should your instalation media
23:27.43mozratthis is on my laptop now - using GUI yast and both leo.org repos
23:27.54mozratahh, no. I don't have the original CD source there now
23:28.05highburyyou still need that listed
23:28.09mozratok
23:28.33highburybecause I believe it actually was on them in the first place
23:28.56mozratbah, it's at work
23:29.01highburyI have to disappear for an hour, will be back later, if you still need a hand
23:29.11mozratsure, thanks for your help so far
23:30.05highburyyou may be able to set the original source media to leo, but you have to run a "System Update" to reorganise all the dependency trees
23:30.21mozratright
23:30.47highburygood luck
23:32.34Barrerabye
23:32.39mozratbye
23:32.50z00daxbtw, there is a yum port to SuSE ... :)
23:33.17mozratz00dax: yeah, I want to stay within the official way of doing things
23:33.50mozratIs yum part of the main SUSE distribution?
23:34.26z00daxit might be a part of opensuse, will definitely not be in SLES
23:34.54mozratyeah, I want to be able to hand it over as a "vanilla" system. Not start using add-ons
23:35.19mozrathmm  was Vanilla ever a Red Hat name for a vesion?
23:35.25mozratValhalla?
23:35.29z00daxRH7.3
23:35.40z00daxsome argue, the best RH ever
23:35.43mozratMMmm I liked Red Hat 7.3
23:35.46mozratheh
23:36.00mozratyes, I might agree with that. There is still a lot of it around
23:36.11z00dax:) me too - still run it on one machine - nowhere near the internet though
23:36.19z00daxI also have a RH 5 machine
23:36.34z00dax600+ days of uptime on that
23:36.34mozratwow - I found a 6.0 and a 6.2 last month
23:36.38mozratnice
23:36.57z00daxbut everything else within reach runs EL4 now :)
23:38.02mozrat:)
23:38.26stephanbmozrat: I still have a RH6.2 box but i chucked the cds away :-(
23:38.50z00daxthink you can still download iso's for that...
23:39.00mozratyou can I think
23:39.10mozratthey have a big mirror on their FTP server with old versions
23:39.25z00daxthink you can go back to RH4.something
23:40.08stephanbthen what? you need a 386 or a 286 to run the older versions ?
23:40.35mozratGLLUG should have a retro-install fest
23:40.47mozratin fact that would be cool
23:40.49z00daxit should run on most modern machines, just dont expect things like sound cards / usb / firewire / network cards to work
23:40.49stephanbor is any P4 / Xeon backwards compatible with 286 instruction set ?
23:41.23wethrinstephanb: Yes
23:41.25z00daxmozrat, yeah that would be fun
23:41.28stephanbmozrat: retro as in retro-os or retro-cpus ?
23:42.18stephanbwith *real* IBM keyboards that clicked
23:42.18mozratstephanb: I was thinking retro os
23:42.25mozratbut again, either would be very cool
23:45.10z00daxis running emulators fair game ?
23:45.20z00daxie. running the retro-OS in an emulator ?
23:46.00mozratnah! gotta be 1998 software on proper hardware
23:46.03mozrat:)
23:46.47stephanbhere is *the* perfect computer science PhD :
23:46.59stephanb1. write an emulater for the differential engine
23:47.27stephanb2. find out how much of an OS could run on it
23:48.35stephanbhmmm
23:48.50stephanbon those words, time 4 bed |=----| :-)
23:50.20stephanbbye everybody !
23:50.33mozratbye
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23:56.49mozratgoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning
23:59.40wethrinshhhh

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