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00:00.53wethrinHMM
00:00.59GeorgeWHAT?
00:01.06wethrinDon't do it!
00:01.08Georgewhat are you suggesting fatso?
00:01.25wethrinThat you shouldn't do other people's coursework for them
00:01.41GeorgeI couldn't help myself
00:01.54GeorgeI'm too kind
00:02.19wethrinUhhuh. Sure.
00:02.28Georgeit's true
00:02.52wethrinhj
00:02.55Georgehj?
00:03.03wethrinhm
00:03.30Georgewhat?
00:04.00wethrinNothign
00:52.19Georgelol
00:54.39wethringood plan
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07:29.17morsing'morning all (that is awake)
07:36.42Leedshello
07:36.51morsingLeeds! You're up!
07:39.10Leedssometimes, yes
07:40.16Leedsso when were you planning to come to HK then?
07:40.26morsingLeeds: Possibly in 2006
07:40.35morsingI need to convince wethrin!
07:40.38morsingibot wake wethrin
07:40.40ibotwethrin: GOOD MORNING!!!
07:41.02Leedsokay...
07:41.15Leedsooh, it's snowing in Wales
07:41.47morsingIs it?
07:41.55morsingCan I get home tonight?
07:42.08Leedsare you planning to go to Wales tonight?
07:52.17Copegood morning
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07:56.14Leedshey Cope, Blapto
07:56.24Copehi Blapto
07:56.43BlaptoHi Leeds, Cope
07:57.04BlaptoI got bored and installed gentoo
07:59.46BlaptoLeeds, whereabouts are you in the world?
07:59.56LeedsBlapto: Hong Kong
08:01.07BlaptoOooh, get into airsoft
08:01.16Leedsairsoft?
08:01.19BlaptoIt's fun and quite popular there.  Perhaps called "wargaming"
08:01.31BlaptoBasically, grown men running around shooting each other with BB guns
08:01.33Leedsah... people are looking at putting a paintball day together
08:01.39Blaptobut the BB guns are very very cool.
08:01.44Blaptowww.wgcshop.com
08:02.21Blaptosniper rifles, fully automatic assault rifles, gas powered shotguns, pistols, the works.  It's fun.
08:02.28Leedshonestly, I like the idea of paintball better
08:03.15Copei played paintball - it was quite fun
08:03.35Copebut difficult... by which I mean difficult to play properly / strategically
08:04.15Leedsrather than just running around and shooting (expensively) at anything which moves?
08:04.28Leedsanyway, the paintball setup here is indoor - I'm not sure if that's a good thing
08:04.32Blaptothe main  difference between paintball and airsoft is that airsoft uses fully automatic weapons with a longer range.
08:04.40morsingLeeds: How's the running going?
08:04.59morsingBlapto: Paintball is fully automatic as well
08:05.10Blaptobut yeah, in either game, a team of 8 people who work together will destroy just about anybody :).
08:05.27Blaptomorsing: really?  Any site I've played on has only allowed semi auto markers
08:05.49morsingBlapto: Both the times I've playing it's been fully automatic
08:06.23Leedsmorsing: I'm not running so much, but my leg is largely working again... I really need to get into an exercise routing
08:06.27Leedsroutine!
08:06.43BlaptoLeeds: get a sniper rifle then!
08:07.26Leedsbecause sniping is a good way to lose weight?
08:07.48BlaptoOr a support weapon.  Because it means you don't have to move once you've found a good position.
08:09.21BlaptoGood luck
08:11.51morsingDo you people normally handwrite html pages?
08:14.03BlaptoI do, but they're never anything special.
08:16.23morsingOk
08:17.33BlaptoOnce I used a table.  That was exciting.
08:20.04LeedsI've been learning css and javascript recently
08:27.05Leedsand swearing much at the crapness of IE compared with firefox
08:39.47Leedsaccording to the Inland Revenue, I am not resident in the UK for tax purposes during 2005/2006, which is nice
08:44.50Copeblimey there's a lot in the kernel
08:45.19Copewhat a lot of stuff!
08:46.23Leedshow complete complete?
08:46.39Leedsthere is a very large number of conditional options hidden away...
08:46.55Leedsswitching on one option could reveal 10s more
08:47.57CopeLeeds: yes... I went through each line, checking what was below it, and reading the help!
08:48.05Copewell... scanning quickly
08:48.30Copetoggling things on and off to see what else it revealed
08:48.46Coperealised quite how much stuff I had in my kernel that I will never use
08:49.00Leedscool :-)
08:49.24Copedoubt it will make an appreciable differenece to anything other than compile time though ;)
08:49.43Copeoooh an resuDaed
08:49.45Copenooo
08:49.46Copean rhowe
08:49.51rhoweWent to greece & caught a cold :P
08:49.54Copelol
08:49.56Leedsrhowe: ah, you're back
08:50.00Copewelcome back!
08:50.04Cope3 cheers for rhowe !
08:50.06rhowecold & wet here, with some wind for good measure
08:50.08rhoweback?
08:50.10rhoweI'm still here :P
08:50.20Copehere in greece? or here in london?
08:50.23Copebah
08:50.42Copewe miss you
08:50.44Copecome back
08:51.45rhowein time, in time
08:51.56rhoweshould be back on saturday night
08:53.04Leedson the other hand, might mean I'm not entitled to ISAs
08:54.14rhowehttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310264
08:54.16rhowePOS email client
08:55.38CopeISAs?
08:56.07rhoweIndividual Savings Accounts
08:56.58Leedstax-free
08:58.43Leedsrhowe: to be fair - works in the released version, fails in the unreleased and unfinished version?  not ideal, but not exactly POS
09:00.13LeedsI'm just trying to work out what should legally happen if I want to ship some cash from HK to UK
09:03.39rhoweLeeds: True, but irritating nontheless :)
09:05.10CopeLeeds: well, ship me some cash, and we'll find out... ;)
09:05.28LeedsCope: other way around matey
09:05.34Copehehe
09:09.27Leeds"how many sums would a checksum check if a checksum could check sums"
09:13.39mozratGOOD MORNING
09:14.18Copehello mozrat
09:15.31mozrat:)
09:16.36mozratheh
09:16.37Leedsboudicca: xchat on Linux and it's 1716
09:17.07Copeor even blapto ... who appears to have left
09:17.50Leedsblapto left about half an hour ago
09:18.10LeedsI hope you're all wrapping up warm today!
09:20.22Copemozrat: ah it was mendelssohn....
09:24.07mozratCope, @work today?
09:24.39mozratoh good
09:26.58ufo_morning :)
09:27.02mozratMorning!
09:29.06LeedsI'd say 4 unless you know there's something in 5 you need
09:33.34boudiccaLeeds; just trying to work out where in the world you are :)
09:34.14Leedsboudicca: same as usualy
09:34.22mozratIn a former British Colony that hasn't been threatened by either Spain or Argentina
09:34.36Leedsnot a Colony
09:34.41mozratno?
09:34.47Copedependency
09:34.51mozratah
09:35.01morsingCheck it!
09:35.01boudiccaLeeds; i thought at first [from your nick] that you were either in Kent or in the midlands, now i see that you're in hong kong :)
09:35.25Leedsterritory is usually the word used
09:35.33Leedsnowadays, anyway
09:35.38Leedsboudicca: why the midlands???
09:35.52LeedsCope: the op or the loader? :-)
09:35.56Cope;)
09:36.02boudiccaLeeds; town/city called 'Leeds'
09:36.09Copei often forget to run lilo, then wonder why a change doesn't take effect
09:36.19Leedsboudicca: there is no town/city called Leeds in the Midlands
09:36.49boudiccaLeeds; its up north, and north of the watford gap, and i'm still waking up :)
09:37.07boudiccageography was never my strong point
09:37.09mozratWhippets!
09:37.44morsingCope: It's quite an important one!
09:37.54LeedsI've never worked out which came first - the name or the station
09:38.00CopeI often wonder whether people think watford == watford gap, when in reallity they're miles apart
09:38.14Copewatford gap is nearly northampton
09:38.34Leedswatford gap is about 80 miles up the M1
09:39.56Copedespite ensureing that CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
09:40.17CopeI now appear to have a 640x480 framebufferm which is a bit stupid
09:42.01Leedsif you have a framebuffer console at all (as opposed to a text-only one), it's down to boot options as to what you get
09:42.28CopeLeeds: yes...
09:42.37Copewhich is why I just re-ran lilo
09:42.56Cope# grep vga /etc/lilo.conf
09:42.57Copevga = 773
09:47.44CopeLeeds: i currently have what looks like a completely normal non-fb console, with a big penguin in the top-left - ie a low-resolution fb console
09:48.48Copehmm wonder what CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C does
09:49.47Copein menuconfig
09:50.17stepheni2c is the subsystem used by lm_sensors to obtain information about your hardware, like temperature, fan speed etc.
09:51.01Coperight... so nothing to do with framebuffers
09:51.20Copewell.. other  than monitoring it
09:51.29stephenI suspect not
09:52.51Copethen why might I no-longer have a decent resolution fb console
09:53.02Copecomparing my old config and new config
09:53.47Copeall I did was remove the modules pertaining to cards I don't have
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09:57.14Copei wish i understood diff output
09:57.52kbsinghmorning
09:58.09morsingkbsingh!
09:59.12Leedsi2c is a low-bandwidth serial bus
09:59.53Leedsused for things like hardware sensors - but also used for things like controlling the tuners on (at least some) TV cards
09:59.56morsingLeeds: How do I figure out which I2C drivers to enable for my hardware?
10:00.36LeedsI think there's a detect script, which pretty much just tries to load all the drivers until one sticks
10:04.37Leedsargh, IE sucks so badly
10:05.15Leedsfrom a friend, in email: Gotta go - I've got to run a training session on why should we use our database.  I thought it was obvious, because I say so  :-) "
10:07.43Coperight... narrowed it down:  curent config has:
10:07.44CopeCONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y
10:07.44Cope# CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C is not set
10:07.45Cope# CONFIG_FB_RIVA_DEBUG is not set
10:07.52Copeand the old one had:
10:08.00CopeCONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=m
10:08.00CopeCONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y
10:08.01CopeCONFIG_FB_RIVA=m
10:08.14Copeumm...
10:08.37Copenot quite..
10:09.00Copethat debug should read: CONFIG_FB_RIVA=y
10:09.22LeedsI wonder if it's failing to work because I'm attaching the newly-created TR element to the TABLE element, not the virtual TBODY element sitting below it
10:09.24Copeso ie - the new one has yes instead on modules; and the old one had I2C set
10:09.42CopeLeeds: highly likely to impact my  kernel, I agree.
10:10.16Copeare you really not allowed to edit .config by hand?
10:10.21Leedsif you're only trying to do VESA, none of that should really matter
10:10.46LeedsI think the main problem with editing .config is that there are serious dependency trees going on, and you could very easily break them
10:10.54Copewell my graphics card is an nvidia riva one, which does fb, i think
10:11.12Copevesa settings are the same
10:11.18Leedsah, yes... appending the new element to TBODY works in both firefox and IE
10:11.22Copeyay!
10:11.39Leedsyou're not going to get very far with your console being a module, I'd think
10:11.48Copehrm
10:11.52Copebut the old one worked
10:11.59Copei think
10:12.18Leedsyou think? YOU THINK?  I don't pay you to think!!!
10:12.21Copewell it did - but I may not be looking at the old config you you mention it
10:13.11Copebah I don't know
10:13.14Copewhy is this hard!
10:13.20Leedsit shouldn't be
10:13.33Leedsif you see a penguin, you're doing framebuffer - then the issue is resolution
10:13.43Leedsif you're only doing VESA, you may be stuck at low res
10:14.03Leedsyou can set the vga option to ask (check docs for precise details) to get a menu at boot time of available resolutions
10:14.05CopeLeeds: ok... so if I remove vesa it should use nvidia instead?
10:14.21Leedsyou should probably only have one framebuffer console compiled in, yes
10:15.29Copethe original slack lilo.conf says VESA framebuffer 1024x768
10:16.33Leedsmakes sense - that's the generic option
10:16.50Copeso that's what it had in mind... guess though that may not be what I got
10:19.44CopeLeeds: well vga=ask brings up normal 80x and 132x options - nothing looking like a fb
10:20.34Leedsstrange
10:21.15Leedsare you aware of fbset?
10:21.38Copeahahahaha
10:22.31CopeI had forgotten this is an agp card
10:22.49Leedsah
10:22.50Leedsuh?
10:23.00Leedsvga=ask isn't what you want, but you know that
10:23.00Copewell i wasn't looking inside!
10:23.13CopeI do?
10:23.33Copeand no, I'm not aware of fbset
10:23.38Leedswell, it might be what you want
10:23.46Leedstry vga=ask
10:23.46Copewhat wre you thinking of?
10:23.53Copeyeah that's what I have at present
10:24.00Leedsthen choose 316 as the mode
10:24.07Copeok
10:24.18Leedsyou don't mind frying your card and/or monitor, right?
10:24.45Copethat would be not so good
10:25.46Copeit says 316 is an unknown mode anyway
10:26.04Leeds305
10:26.05Leeds?
10:26.34Copeit only seems to accept 0-c ie the list of shit modes - which it then ignores anyway
10:26.43Leeds0x316 maybe?
10:27.32morsingWhat's a scuttle?
10:28.20Leedsscuttle as a noun? dunno... I only know it as a verb... unless the noun is the action of scuttling
10:29.39Leedsmorsing: to scuttle is to sink a boat on purpose
10:31.01Leedshometime
10:33.34Copebrealfast
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11:09.55morsingskugg!
11:10.56skuggmorsing
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11:21.50morsingJAV!
11:31.06Georgehi
11:31.09Georgemoo I say
11:31.09Georgemoo
11:31.13Georgewith a large spanking of moos
11:36.26mozratWith regexp is there a way to "catch" all of a line up to the string you are searching for and do something with it?
11:37.03mozratso if the string was "George said moo" and I regexed for "moo" can I dump the line up to that point somewhere that I can use it
11:39.16Copegrrrr
11:39.36mozratmorsing: but nothing in the regex language itself?
11:39.43Cope2.6.14.2 with vesa fb removed... still doesn't give me a 1024x768 framebuffer
11:39.47Copegah gah gah
11:39.56mozratIt's for the question I posted to the mailing list
11:40.48GeorgeMOO
11:41.10Copemozrat: to understand... this is a) on a per line basis b) you want everything *before* the start of the match?
11:41.18mozratCope, yes.
11:41.30mozratI think I may be using the wrong tool for the job
11:42.14Copemozrat: what are you using?
11:42.33mozratbody_checks in postfix to do string replacement in emails
11:42.42Copeah ok
11:42.46mozratat the moment it replaces the *entire* line of the email with my replacement
11:42.59mozratI want it to replace just the word with the replacement and leave the rest of the line as is
11:43.01Copei did see your post now you mention it
11:43.29Copeoh... that's different from what you asked isn't it?
11:43.45mozratbody_checks is fairly well documented but the replace function isn't - unless I'm trying to make it do something it doesn't
11:43.58mozratCope: no, thats basically what I asked
11:44.17Copemozrat: i meant just noew with the george said moo exampke
11:44.48mozratCope: well - I was thinking in a regex mode now. Can that be done in regex and how...
11:44.56mozratthe language used by body_checks is pcre
11:45.04Copeah ok...
11:45.39Georgeblah.
11:46.39Copemozrat: I am sure it can be done... and I think I've seen it in a sed example somewhere
11:46.55Copemozrat: of course in python we'd just use something like lookahead
11:46.59mozratCope: :)
11:50.09Cope>>> re.findall(r"^(.*)(?:moo)", "George said moo")
11:50.09Cope['George said ']
11:50.26mozratnice
11:52.56Copenot that that helps in anyway
11:53.03Copeunless you want to rewrite procmail in python
11:53.59mozratCope: doesn't touch procmail - this is a mail gateway so the mail should stay within the MTA
11:53.59mozratit's a gateway to rewrite email
11:54.05Copeto take naughty words out?
11:54.37mozratheh - kinda. A company has rebranded and they want to rewrite Lotus Notes addresses to mask the old Domino certifier name
11:58.45mozratso when I run a mail through this rule the word I'm searching for is held in $1
12:06.00morsingBeer
12:09.21Copemozrat: sanelson@petrosian$ echo "Three blind mice" | sed -e /mice/s/[[:space:]]*mice//      
12:09.24CopeThree blind
12:09.50mozratCope, cheers
12:10.39Copeor...
12:13.34Copeadd .* to the *mice for safety
12:18.27mozratOK - I've managed to snarf one word before my query.. that is a start :)
12:19.02mozratI can play with $1 (one word before the one I'm searching for )and $2 (the actual wod)
12:19.06mozratword
12:20.33Copew0rd
12:20.37mozrathomey
12:20.42mozratrespeck
12:22.25mozratCope - does this make sense to you
12:22.30mozratmy regex is this
12:22.34mozrat<PROTECTED>
12:22.55mozratthe word before "foobar" is contained in $1 and foobar is contained in $2
12:23.11GeorgeI hate physics coursework
12:23.17wethrinHello!
12:23.21mozrathow can I modify (\w+) to catch the entire line up until that point
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12:24.50Copemozrat: not sure on pcre, but in, eg, sed, all I did was to say 'everything, including any kind of white space, before mice'
12:25.02Copeor before mice and there after:
12:25.07mozratCope, oh I see
12:25.13mozratlet me try your example
12:25.21Cope[[:space:]]*foobar.*
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12:49.44Georgeok, coursework is finished
12:49.46Georgeblargh
12:49.47Georgeblargh I say
12:49.48Copehoorah
12:50.00wethrinyay
12:50.02GeorgeI found my AS coursework from last year :D
12:50.05wethrinheh
12:50.07Georgehttp://www.gwright.org.uk/phys.pdf
12:50.18GeorgeI managed to use the word "especial" in it
12:50.20GeorgeI rock.
12:50.35wethrinMm. LaTeX
12:50.55Georgeof course
12:51.48mozratCope. the line "/^(.+) foobar (.+)$/ replace $1 123 $2
12:51.49mozrat"
12:52.00mozratreplaces just the word foobar with the word 123
12:52.21wethrinheh. "Copper rods at 800C will be hot"
12:52.28Georgedamn right :)
12:52.38wethrinI think you should stick a label onto the side :)
12:52.46Georgeunfortunately examiners are idiots so you have to tell them these things explicitely
12:53.12wethrinNot at all. Examiners think the students are idiots, and therefore should show that they know things
12:53.14GeorgeI like my writing style though :)
12:54.18wethrinhmm
12:54.24wethrinYou should have used 'thusly' instead of 'thus'
12:55.04Georgefuck you.
12:55.10wethrinNo
12:55.15wethrinI don't swing that way
12:55.27Georgeneither do I
12:55.46wethringood
12:56.06Georgeanyway
12:56.10Georgemy writing style rocks
12:56.35wethrinuhhuh
12:56.37wethrinriight
12:57.55GeorgeI like its pomposity
12:57.58Georgein a subtle way
12:58.16wethrinRight. I'm off to the pub, and then to Edinburgh for the weekend
12:58.18wethrinBye!
12:58.23Georgeyou useless bastard
12:58.35wethrinbut whisky!
12:58.42wethrinI shall be drinking lots of lovely whisky
12:58.58Georgeewww
12:59.04Georgebloody lunatic
12:59.07wethrinHeh
12:59.08wethrinbye!
12:59.10GeorgeI don't see the point in drinking aqueous ethanol
12:59.16wethrinIt's lovely
12:59.21Georgeno it's not
12:59.22Georgeit's horrid
12:59.24Georgeand ghastly
12:59.26wethrinIt is. You're just wong.
12:59.27wethrin*wrong
12:59.29wethrinSo I leave. Bye!
12:59.33Georgeno, I'm wright
12:59.35Georgeyou imbecile
12:59.45George:)
13:06.45Copemore tea!
13:31.33morsingbeer
13:39.56GeorgeFOD
13:39.58GeorgeFOOD
13:39.59GeorgeDOOF
13:40.00GeorgeDOF
13:54.21Georgeyes minister is great
13:56.40mozratGeorge: yes it is..
13:56.54mozratI miss "gentle" comedy.. Dad's Army, Yes Minister
13:57.10mozratseeing projectile vomiting on Little Britain last night isn't quite the same
13:57.26Georgeit's intelligent comedy :P
14:08.02gregjGeorge: what is that "minister", for a moment I thought you've said minster
14:11.11Jangoso, George has finally copped it :/
14:13.32gregj:>
14:14.03JAVgood afternoon!
14:18.27JAVok, it rains a lot. Not so good
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14:28.30morsingMmm... Sarrat
14:29.50morsingReformatting split(1), please wait...
14:56.25Copemorsing: yes, I quite agree; gentle, subtle, funny humour; its not necessary to be raucous and rude to be funny.
14:56.29Copemozrat: you too.
14:59.58Copeoh... hoorah George Best is dead
15:00.04Copeabout bloody time
15:00.09Copeungrateful twat
15:04.47mozratCope, I don't totally disagree with you. Sorry to see someone shuffle off this mortal coil but he had more opportunities than most
15:07.42mozratmore than I or you would ever get if we abused our bodies so terribly - he had all the warnings he wanted
15:08.23Copeyeah
15:08.44Copeit just annoys me that someone probably died because they weren't famous enough to get the transplant they needed
15:08.51mozratso... farewell, but... I won't be having a drink for you (despite the irony)
15:09.03Copeand he goes and wastes the second chance that someone else would have, well, died for.
15:09.19Copejust makes me sad and angry.
15:27.27kbsinghanyone with a min, what do you guys think of this : http://newspaperads.mercurynews.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=32664&adid=2281567&subid=9495624&type=
15:27.52kbsinghits possible I could get a $25 discount for not buying with XP Home ( makes me feel all warm and fuzzy for not paying a MS Tax )
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15:29.21morsingCope, mozrat: So does this mean you don't like the office?
15:33.36Copemorsing: no, not that I dislike such things, just that its a shame we don't seem to produce that older, subtler, gentler comedy that we were once famous for.
15:33.38Leedsevening all
15:33.43Copehello Leeds
15:34.00morsingCope: Hmm...
15:34.25morsingHi Leeds
15:35.53mozratmorsing: I like the office but that is still clever comedy in some ways
15:36.02mozratit is subtle, and you have to "get the joke"
15:36.14mozratthe joke in Little Britain is literally vomited all over you
15:36.45Leedsmozrat: the main problem with the Oficce is that it's just not funny...
15:37.44Leedshi morsing
15:40.13Leeds"trying to turn Fairy Liquid back into a solid"
15:42.21gregjI have all DVDs
15:47.48Copewow!
15:47.55Copeyou must have a lot of space
15:50.12morsingCope: :-D
15:51.53Copeselect all from entertainment.movies where media = 'dvd';
15:52.21Copein fact no... not just movies
16:00.13morsingwethrin:
16:00.14morsing<PROTECTED>
16:02.33mozratHappy Saturday Leeds
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16:03.26Copewhy do these people insist on running their machines with unpatched kernels for so long?
16:04.00Copeoh I know... I'll just ignore the 27157 security announcements, because its 'hard' to have a big uptime.
16:05.27IAmAIHewo.
16:05.43Leedsmozrat: thank you, and welcome to the weekend
16:05.58IAmAIWeekend doesn't start until 5:30
16:06.09IAmAIAt least.
16:06.38morsingCope: I do the same. Can't face a reboot :-)
16:08.46LeedsIAmAI: it's Saturday here :-)
16:08.57IAmAIYou crazy Chinese.
16:09.02IAmAI:P
16:09.13IAmAIAlways out of sync when it comes to time!
16:10.44LeedsI'm not Chinese - I'm a gwailo
16:13.50Copemorsing: hehe, i belong to the school of thought which says its not bad to reboot, and in many cases its good :)
16:14.28Copethat said our dns servers were up for 1700 days before I rebooted them this summer....
16:16.49mozratCope, did they come straight back up?
16:16.56Copeyep
16:17.00mozratheh - nice
16:17.07IAmAIkbhqsdfjkeh2]
16:17.32Copemozrat: 4 x solaris 8 boxes - or maybe even solaris 7; running bind 8.
16:17.33mozratI agree that uptime wars are impressive, but ultimately not very good for the health of the server
16:17.42mozratI'd rather *know* that a server would reboot correctly if I had to do it
16:17.47Copemmm
16:18.14mozratrebooting for rebooting's sake is not good, but skipping kernel updates etc for the sake of uptime is folly
16:18.37Copequite
16:22.10highburyof course if you running graphical machines, then regular reboots still seem to be required :-(
16:25.36mozrathighbury: yes
16:27.37morsingCope :-(
16:32.44morsingCheck it!
16:34.15mozratHmm, hundreds of drivers caught in a closed road on the Bodmin moor
16:34.29mozratI know that road well - My parents have a home near there
16:34.41mozrathttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4469720.stm
16:36.51morsingHow does this happen every year!
16:40.10mozratSomething to do with the rotation of the earth
16:41.05morsingmozrat: Which wipes out people memory and intelligence?
16:41.29morsingMaybe cold air make the human brain slower?
16:41.40mozratheh - I think the problem is that we just don't get consistantly cold enough weather
16:41.54mozratwe don't get into the winter mentality
16:42.13mozratfor example I nor anyone I know owns "winter tyres"
16:42.23mozratas it isn't cold enough to use them
16:42.29skuggheh.
16:42.47mozratskugg: yep :)
16:43.00Copechains!
16:43.00mozratskugg: Whereabouts in Norway are/were you from?
16:43.10skugghang on..
16:43.41morsingmozrat: I do!
16:43.55morsingmozrat: Yes is it! a common misunderstanding!
16:43.58mozratmorsing: when are you going to fit them
16:44.07morsingWintertyres is for temperatures below 7 degrees
16:44.23morsingmozrat: So between October and march
16:44.29skugghttp://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/europe/lgcolor/nocolor.htm # close to Alesund on that map
16:44.36mozratyep - aren't they dangerous at warmer temperatures?
16:44.37Copemmm Ale
16:45.00skuggmozrat: not dangerous, just less comfortable and noisy :)
16:45.04morsingmozrat: No. Less dangerous than summer tyres in this weather
16:45.22skuggdangerous to the environment though (if you've got the type with spikes)
16:45.23morsingskugg: Not snow tyres, wintertyres!
16:45.24mozratskugg: Cool  - I've been to Voss, Bergen and Trondhiem
16:45.33skuggcreates a lot of dust
16:45.33mozratnice country - if not a little on the cold side
16:45.42morsingskugg: Wintertyres never have dpikes
16:45.53skuggmy parents have 50cm of snow/sleet at the moment
16:46.19skuggmorsing: we call them 'all year tyres' if they don't have spikes...
16:46.23skuggwinter tyres have spikes ;)
16:46.32GeorgeCope: what?
16:46.49morsingskugg: No - all weather tyres is a compromise between winter and summer tyres
16:47.02morsingSnow tyres and winter tyres are not the same thing
16:47.32CopeGeorge: when did you last patch your kernel?
16:47.38CopeGeorge: 264 days ago?
16:47.42Copeor so.....
16:47.50Georgesomething like that
16:48.00Copeand you're running 2.6 I guess
16:48.02Georgeyes
16:48.13Copeinternet facing?
16:48.17Georgeyes
16:48.21Copebrave
16:48.37GeorgeI can't be arsed to reboot it
16:48.40Georgetoo much hassle
16:48.42Copelol
16:48.52Copedoes it have a ups?
16:49.06Georgeyes
16:49.11Copeace!
16:49.17Copeups++
16:49.21Copenot the parcel company
16:50.21Georgeheh
16:50.27Georgeit's a 1200VA or something
16:50.28GeorgeI think
16:50.48Georgesends a shutdown signal to the pootah when the power goes and the battery level is low
16:50.56Copenice
16:51.01Copeexpensve?
16:51.07George120 quid or so
16:51.18Copenot bad
16:51.22Copei want an external array
16:51.24skuggmorsing: hmmm... actually, when I think about it, a snow tyre is a winter tyre, but not necessarily the other way around. we call snow tyres 'spike tyres' (or piggdekk) though.
16:51.29mozratCan't be arsed to reboot it??
16:51.38skuggs,necessarily,,
16:51.45GeorgeCope: it's one of them belkin things. innit.
16:51.58skuggmozrat: translated: he thinks himself too cool to reboot it.
16:52.04mozratskugg: ahh
16:52.18eye69skugg: Well, there are spikeless winter tyres, that are useless on summer roads.
16:52.28skuggeye69: right.
16:52.46skuggall-year tyres are something else again (and useless where my parents live)
16:53.21skuggyou can get away with unspiked winter tyres, generally, only if *someone else* is using spiked tyres...
16:53.24eye69skugg: All-year tyres are generally used on big SUV's and such.
16:53.51morsingskugg: All-year tyres are always useless
16:54.00Copeinvariably
16:54.17Copeoh... apart from in england, when they're absolutely fine.
16:54.23Copeso not always.
16:54.30morsingWintertyres and summer tyres have different temperature characteristics
16:54.37morsingNothing to do with snow
16:54.55Copei would like to visit norway, and indeed sweden
16:55.06morsingNorway sucks - Sweden is cool
16:55.06CopeI have a friend in tromso and some friends in gothenberg
16:55.11skuggmorsing: not really; they are useful for people that live in the southern parts and don't *need* the car to get anywhere all the time, but can chose to drive only when weather allows it in the winter
16:55.26GeorgeCope: I'm awesome?
16:55.43skuggyou cannot do that with straight summer tyres because they are illegal in the winter, regardless of the conditions...
16:56.07skuggso, they have their uses. but not for actually getting anywhere on snow, no ;)
16:56.53CopeGeorge: indeed you are
16:57.00GeorgeCope: says who?
16:57.14CopeGeorge: secret
16:57.22GeorgeCope: ok..
16:57.23Georgeyou're odd.
16:57.25Cope;)
16:58.32mozratThe *only* vehicle to be seen driving in the snow is this baby >> http://tinyurl.com/8r3xv
16:58.52morsingskugg: Well, I'm always told I'm being stupid when using summer/winter tyres
16:59.14Copewell a combo would be odd
17:04.32skuggmorsing: where?
17:13.08morsingskugg: On my car
17:19.47skuggobviously. i meant geographically, of course.
17:34.03kbsinghCope, the Alpha is building OOo1.1.2
17:34.41kbsinghits now been building for 2 days, 3 hrs, 19 min
17:34.47Cope:(
17:35.05Copehorrid OOo
17:35.38kbsinghits going to have a busy weekend...
17:42.44Georgewhat time does royal mail normally deliver?
18:50.10mozratfoo!
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19:02.17Copeello mozrat
19:09.17mozratallo
19:09.59mozratwhen you get your O2 what are you going to put on it?  
19:10.06mozratI think FBSD
19:10.34Copenetbsd I expect
19:12.20mozrati see
19:16.07Copeyou do?
19:44.38Georgedoes exponential ALWAYS involve e?
19:44.41Georgeas in, 2.71?
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21:23.55JAVevening!
21:25.46Georgehi.
22:41.27GeorgeI hate it when keyboards get they shinyness to them
22:41.30Georgeand you can't get rid of it
23:08.52Copetry a metal file
23:09.00Copemake them all rough again
23:09.39highburyI need to de-gunk my thinkpad keyboard and touchpad, too many keys keep sticking :-(
23:09.53Georgehighbury: yes, I did notice how HIDEOUS your keyboard is
23:12.32quinophexGeorge: glue little squares of rough sandpaper to your fingertips
23:13.01GeorgeI don't think I've actually worn down the key
23:13.02GeorgeI dunno
23:13.05GeorgeI hope I haven't
23:13.12GeorgeI'll put some alcohol on it and see what happens
23:19.45Georgeibot: nslookup flooble.org.uk
23:20.48Georgeibot nslookup gwright.org.yuk
23:20.50Georgeibot nslookup gwright.org.uk

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