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| 00:23.09 | George | hey highbury |
| 00:24.38 | George | interesting |
| 00:24.45 | George | I've just noticed the pentium-m doesn't have sse3 |
| 00:24.46 | George | I wonder why |
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| 00:52.48 | mikejw | lo |
| 00:52.57 | mikejw | ibot: hey |
| 00:52.58 | ibot | well, hey is almost for horses |
| 00:53.09 | mikejw | ibot: help |
| 00:57.23 | Leeds | ibot hello |
| 00:57.24 | ibot | Howdy Bub |
| 00:58.16 | mikejw | Leeds: hey :) |
| 00:58.22 | mikejw | ibot: about |
| 00:58.24 | ibot | help is probably /msg ibot help |
| 00:58.41 | Leeds | morning |
| 00:59.40 | mikejw | how's tricks? |
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| 01:28.29 | Leeds | it's alright... having a quiet weekend, but got a big dinner tomorrow (Monday) night |
| 01:34.56 | mikejw | oh yeah cool :) |
| 01:46.39 | Leeds | for the past week or so I've been trying to download the current series (7 eps so far) of the West Wing, for a friend... getting the start of the season is easy, getting the latest stuff is easy - getting the middle ones is hard |
| 01:47.03 | mikejw | :S |
| 01:47.05 | Leeds | I'm up to 97.6% on the 3rd episode - when it's done, I've got all of them :-) |
| 01:47.24 | mikejw | :) |
| 01:49.28 | Leeds | and of course it's stopped |
| 01:49.52 | Leeds | I think what's happening is that I'm connecting to one peer, which is then connecting to a seed - but I can't see the seed |
| 04:32.07 | Leeds | whoa... h'night |
| 04:32.12 | Leeds | g |
| 09:00.03 | morsing | 'morning all |
| 09:05.19 | Leeds | evening |
| 09:20.54 | morsing | How are you? |
| 09:23.30 | Leeds | http://www.nmpft.org.uk/insight/onexhib_cin.asp#louis |
| 09:23.40 | Leeds | not bad at all... been out walking this afternoon |
| 09:23.43 | Leeds | you? |
| 09:25.34 | Leeds | that's 'walking' not 'marching' |
| 09:27.11 | morsing | Why not marching? |
| 09:27.31 | Leeds | http://simonworld.mu.nu/archives/140606.php |
| 09:27.47 | Leeds | and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4496556.stm |
| 09:29.07 | Leeds | decided that a) it's none of my business and b) I couldn't be bothered anyway |
| 09:34.27 | Leeds | oh, and I wore a jacket today for the first time since leaving the UK - in the pockets, I found two things: a plane ticket from London to Hong Kong, and my birth certificate, which I grabbed on the way out of the house in London because it seemed it might be useful at some point |
| 09:42.40 | morsing | Nice |
| 12:05.23 | wethrin | hello |
| 12:11.20 | Cope | hello wethrin |
| 12:11.44 | wethrin | hi Cope |
| 12:11.53 | Cope | what's a good small, fun program I can use as an example of building something useful from source? |
| 12:12.03 | wethrin | fortune? |
| 12:12.05 | Cope | I was thinking 'fortune' but I've been unable to find the src |
| 12:12.09 | wethrin | GMTA |
| 12:12.55 | wethrin | Ahh. Umm....the RPM Spec file should say where to get the code from |
| 12:17.52 | wethrin | What about banner? |
| 12:18.19 | wethrin | That's just a Makefile, C file and man page source |
| 12:26.58 | Leeds | there's something called gfortune out there |
| 12:27.48 | wethrin | *blink* |
| 12:27.59 | wethrin | Please don't say it's fortune with a GTK frontend? |
| 12:28.19 | Leeds | no, no |
| 12:29.11 | wethrin | Okay.... |
| 12:29.23 | wethrin | Is it some hippy rewriting fortune just to have a GPL licence on it? |
| 12:29.32 | wethrin | Err, I mean, taking the exact source code and sticking a GPL on it |
| 12:30.38 | Leeds | "I liked BSD fortune, but I wanted a couple of extra features. Then I read it and didn't like it, and so I started up on a full rewrite." |
| 12:30.49 | Leeds | http://www.anarres.org/projects/gfortune/ |
| 12:30.51 | wethrin | err.....extra features? |
| 12:32.06 | wethrin | There is no hope for us! The world is full of idiots! |
| 12:33.04 | wethrin | :) |
| 12:33.22 | Leeds | unfortunately, it does not have an option to read mail, and is therefore incomplete |
| 12:35.33 | Cope | Compiling bsdgames on a dl380g4 is, erm, quick. |
| 12:36.09 | morsing | wethrin: Beer? |
| 12:36.15 | Cope | beer-- |
| 12:36.45 | Leeds | ibot change 1950 hkd to gbp |
| 12:38.21 | Leeds | probably unnecessary to spend that on a large hard drive this evening... |
| 12:47.22 | Leeds | so... when did GNU tar become intelligent enough to not need the z or j options? |
| 12:49.25 | George | if anyone particles I will punch them in the face |
| 12:49.58 | Cope | Leeds: unsure, but it does; |
| 12:51.21 | George | I want an algorithm for generating 9x9 magic squares |
| 12:51.38 | George | in fact |
| 12:51.44 | George | I want an algorithm for generating sudokus |
| 12:51.52 | George | would be an interesting pre-interview project |
| 12:52.00 | Cope | George: there's a python library for the purpose |
| 12:52.11 | George | I don't care about that |
| 12:52.19 | George | what's the point in doing that? |
| 12:52.22 | Cope | I know, I just said it to annoy you |
| 12:52.40 | George | haha |
| 12:52.41 | George | hahahahaha |
| 12:52.44 | Leeds | there are many implementations of sudoku out there nowadays |
| 12:52.55 | Cope | George: write it in asm |
| 12:53.22 | George | Cope: that'd be funky |
| 12:53.38 | Cope | or do what I started doing, and didn't get round to finishing... |
| 12:53.51 | Cope | write your own cpu, with its own asm |
| 12:54.35 | Cope | mine only got as far as being able to add and subtract, but it was lots of fun |
| 12:56.25 | George | hehe |
| 12:57.51 | George | STRANGER! |
| 12:58.05 | Leeds | Cope: are you in a strange land? |
| 12:58.24 | Cope | unsure |
| 12:58.26 | Cope | I'm dead |
| 12:58.38 | Leeds | sounds like a pretty strange land to me then |
| 12:58.45 | Cope | blame George |
| 12:58.53 | Cope | George has a wifey? |
| 12:59.42 | George | wtf? |
| 13:02.02 | gregj | http://rotfl.pl/img.php?vote_for_husain_by_bloodlust.jpg |
| 13:10.33 | Erwin | Good thing they got rid of. Finally there is peace and prosperity in Iraq. |
| 13:11.15 | Erwin | In fact the Iraqi newspapers are full of wonderful and uplifiting stories about it. |
| 13:12.13 | George | Cope: I don't get it |
| 13:12.40 | Leeds | Erwin: are you by some chance being sarcastic maybe? |
| 13:15.21 | Cope | George: it was somewhat obscure |
| 13:16.12 | George | Cope: ok... |
| 13:19.11 | Leeds | this is of downloaded, not-yet-on-DVD-and-not-showing-in-HK-yet TV |
| 13:19.35 | Erwin | *sigh* all I have left in the fridge is spinach quiche, and no more alcohol, and the rest of the day I'm going to have to suffer coding something to super-vague specs to be done in 24 hours and managed by a clueless account manager |
| 13:19.52 | wethrin | real programmers don't eat quiche |
| 13:20.00 | wethrin | Time to phone for a pizza! |
| 13:20.31 | Leeds | I had spinach pizza for lunch |
| 13:21.06 | Cope | cheer up old chap :) |
| 13:21.14 | Erwin | Spinach on a pizza is indeed greatly underrated |
| 13:22.25 | Cope | eww |
| 13:22.29 | Erwin | I can't cheer up, I work with morons that will sell any science-fiction product for no money. It's closer to Dilber than I've ever been (OK, except the one time where my previous company was going broke, had a lot of hardware in stock we could well but couldn't beacause we didn't have any PAPER BOXES to put them in) |
| 13:22.30 | Cope | not v.tempting |
| 13:22.57 | Erwin | And why didn't we have any paper boxes? Because we just merged with another company and people were taking 6 months to decide on what kind of branding we should be using |
| 13:23.15 | Cope | Erwin: yep, that sounds familiar actually |
| 13:26.29 | Erwin | We have a flagship product that we sell ASP-manner, i.e. we do some work and then run their stuff on our system. But it seems salespeople insist on selling completely unrelated things. At one point they wanted to sell the Wiki-based intranet system I designed. |
| 13:28.05 | Cope | Erwin: I am increasingly frustrated by salespeople. |
| 13:29.06 | Leeds | hmm... for some reason, it's attempting 8x speed - I only asked for 4x |
| 13:29.18 | Cope | its keen |
| 13:29.22 | Cope | encourage it |
| 13:30.08 | Cope | right... i really must crack on otherwise these notes won't get finished in time. |
| 13:30.25 | Cope | (in a working fashion) |
| 13:31.10 | wethrin | Salespeople suck |
| 13:32.18 | Leeds | now for the test... what happens when I put this disc into a standalone DVD player |
| 13:39.08 | Leeds | okay, two minor problems: a couple of the episodes (titles) have no sound for a few seconds at the start, and the time isn't counting correctly on the DVD player - but otherwise, this is pretty good |
| 13:39.41 | Leeds | mencoder to transcode from divx, dvdauthor to build the fs, mkisofs to build the image and growisofs to burn it... |
| 13:41.53 | z00dax | cool! |
| 13:42.47 | z00dax | I wonder whats the quality loss like from original DVD to DivX to DVD again |
| 13:43.00 | Leeds | this is hdtv capture to divx to mpeg2 |
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| 13:43.38 | Leeds | the quality isn't stunning - I'm sure I could have improved it - I'm only using about 55% of the disk, for a start :-) |
| 13:50.59 | Leeds | it's not for my use anyway... |
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| 14:13.32 | morsing | Mmm... Impact wrench |
| 14:18.55 | Leeds | hmm... 2218 and I've not had dinner |
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| 15:20.40 | Leeds | ah, what would I do if it weren't for George Formby and his wonderful grill |
| 15:22.56 | George | what would I do without nick highlighting |
| 15:48.45 | Leeds | fucking council tax |
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| 15:56.42 | JAV | good afternoon |
| 15:57.13 | Leeds | almost good night... |
| 15:58.38 | JAV | Leeds: how long are you going to stay in HK? |
| 16:00.29 | Leeds | indefinitely |
| 16:01.19 | Leeds | I don't plan on being here for good, but I also have no plans to leave |
| 16:05.20 | Leeds | but I do have plans to go to bed... good night :-) |
| 16:05.29 | JAV | good night! |
| 16:53.55 | Cope | bah |
| 16:56.52 | wethrin | hello |
| 16:57.02 | Cope | hello wethrin |
| 16:57.10 | wethrin | Hi cope |
| 16:57.13 | wethrin | I have nettle tea |
| 16:57.24 | Cope | I have green tea with ginseng, and radio 3 |
| 16:57.34 | wethrin | Nice |
| 16:57.41 | wethrin | What's on R3? |
| 16:57.59 | Cope | some piano music at present - nothing I recognise |
| 16:58.04 | wethrin | I do have Hart-Davis on uktv history |
| 17:00.08 | wethrin | go away, George |
| 17:00.23 | George | :'( |
| 17:00.37 | wethrin | That attack was easily fended off |
| 17:00.43 | George | meany |
| 17:00.51 | wethrin | No, just not entirely well |
| 17:02.06 | wethrin | Thanks :) |
| 17:02.27 | wethrin | You are, acutally. The Nettle Tea I have now is one you sent me |
| 17:02.39 | Cope | :-D |
| 17:03.58 | wethrin | Cope++ |
| 17:05.22 | Cope | ooh, handle now |
| 17:05.27 | Cope | handel? |
| 17:06.13 | wethrin | Handel |
| 17:06.15 | wethrin | :) |
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| 17:19.36 | mikejw | lo |
| 17:49.26 | mozrat | evenin' |
| 17:49.50 | George | anyone want Cope's 20" sun monitor? |
| 17:49.54 | George | works fine with SS5s |
| 17:50.19 | George | and if you want a couple of ss5s to go with it, then fine |
| 17:50.33 | George | but they won't have any RAM |
| 17:50.41 | z00dax | my heating works fine, |
| 17:51.02 | George | I use my Athlon64 for heating purposes |
| 17:51.08 | George | the 12 hard disks do very well at keeping my room hot |
| 18:22.17 | wethrin | Don't you want the monitor any more? |
| 18:25.10 | George | it's too damn big |
| 18:25.19 | George | I'll go and buy a 13w3 -> VGA adaptor |
| 18:29.00 | wethrin | Get a VGA monitor with BNC inputs |
| 18:29.07 | wethrin | And get a 13w3->BNC cable |
| 18:47.42 | George | BNC? |
| 18:47.45 | George | and no |
| 18:47.50 | George | I've got two 20" TFTs |
| 18:47.51 | George | I want to use those |
| 18:48.17 | wethrin | BNC |
| 18:48.22 | wethrin | Bayonet Neill Concelman |
| 18:48.31 | wethrin | It's a standard connector |
| 18:50.47 | George | well, my LCDs don't have them |
| 18:52.28 | wethrin | Most LCDs don't |
| 18:53.04 | George | care to donate me an LCD which does? |
| 18:53.12 | wethrin | I don't think any do |
| 18:53.24 | highbury | check out LaCie ones |
| 18:53.37 | George | not that I care |
| 18:53.41 | highbury | but I'd tend to agree with wethrin |
| 18:53.46 | George | because I'm not buying a new monitor for a Sun SPARCStation 5 |
| 18:53.58 | wethrin | highbury: LaCie make LCD displays? |
| 18:54.05 | George | yes |
| 18:54.09 | George | iirc |
| 18:54.09 | highbury | very high quality ones |
| 18:54.50 | highbury | used heavily in design, come complete with colour calibration meters, and light cowls |
| 18:55.31 | wethrin | oooh |
| 19:05.39 | Erwin | I want one of those Apple 30" widescreens :( Finally, I can see all my 470 charcter-long lines of code without word wrapping. |
| 19:10.23 | wethrin | Umm....use shorter lines |
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| 19:30.49 | resuDaed | evening |
| 19:31.23 | resuDaed | slightly OT question, can anyone think of any modern day uses for bronze |
| 19:32.12 | resuDaed | it was considered very good for inventing ways to kill people 2-5000 years ago, but I can't find anything it is used for now |
| 19:33.16 | wethrin | Statues? |
| 19:33.25 | wethrin | coins? |
| 19:33.36 | resuDaed | ah, coins |
| 19:34.06 | resuDaed | but none in reference to anything engineering (other than engineers making money) say |
| 19:34.52 | resuDaed | I am writing about copper alloys, very boring |
| 19:35.17 | resuDaed | I have to make a presentation about copper tomorrow afternoon |
| 19:35.46 | resuDaed | ibot seen clyphox |
| 19:35.47 | ibot | clyphox <n=clyphox@82-35-127-97.cable.ubr01.enfi.blueyonder.co.uk> was last seen on IRC in channel #gllug, 44d 23h 2m 48s ago, saying: 'I want a TCP/IP enabled vacum cleaner!'. |
| 19:41.34 | wethrin | copper's used a lot |
| 19:41.41 | wethrin | Why're you making a presentation about copper? |
| 19:42.34 | resuDaed | 25% of my module on materials science is based on a presentation that I havce to give tomorrow |
| 19:43.01 | resuDaed | we were all given different metals (probably to reduce plaigarism) |
| 19:43.33 | wethrin | ahh |
| 19:43.42 | wethrin | what've you got on copper so far? |
| 19:44.17 | resuDaed | chemical properties and ore extraction, now doing uses of it and its alloys |
| 19:45.40 | resuDaed | should have done this 3 weeks ago, but it coincided with mid semester exams for 2 other modules, 3 other assignments and a lot of socialising |
| 19:45.53 | resuDaed | and my gf coming to visit twice |
| 19:46.00 | wethrin | Hehe |
| 19:46.06 | wethrin | Plenty of time, still |
| 19:46.35 | resuDaed | I got 85% and 87.5% on the exams, and 95%, 94% and 100% on the assignemnts |
| 19:47.07 | wethrin | Doesn't sound like a problem, then |
| 19:47.10 | resuDaed | so am pretty pleased at the moment |
| 19:47.54 | wethrin | Good good |
| 19:47.57 | resuDaed | I need to average 80% at the end of the year to get progess on to an MEng and a sponsorship |
| 19:49.05 | resuDaed | it is very important financially that I do that, as I will get a well paid job while at uni, as well as a grant for doing an MEng and money for mbeing a mature student |
| 19:49.19 | resuDaed | at the moment, I am nearlly broke |
| 19:51.27 | wethrin | Ahh....how much do you need for an MEng without sponsorship? |
| 19:51.36 | wethrin | mature? Student? Hahahaha :) |
| 19:51.52 | resuDaed | same, 80% ... and I am not allowed *any* referals |
| 19:52.06 | wethrin | That seems quite harsh |
| 19:53.41 | resuDaed | out of the 65 people starting this year (prep year), 40% will drop out or fail, and propably a lot less than 10% will make the marks for the MEng progression (I think is the equivilant of ABB at A-level) |
| 19:54.12 | wethrin | Ahh - are you pre-1st-year? |
| 19:54.57 | resuDaed | yes :-( they wouldn't let me straight on to the course with no a-levels, I have a friend who has a degree in forensic engineering who isn't qualified to go stright in to the degree |
| 19:55.32 | resuDaed | out of those a-levels, you need maths and physics to progess with out doing a prep year |
| 19:56.59 | wethrin | right |
| 19:57.07 | wethrin | okay, that makes sense, then |
| 19:57.56 | resuDaed | but my weighted average is 92% at them moment, so I am fairly safe for the time being |
| 19:58.45 | resuDaed | (if not a little big headed most of the time:-) |
| 19:59.36 | wethrin | Heh :) |
| 20:01.41 | Cope | resuDaed: dave's on nights tue, wed, thu, fri |
| 20:02.34 | wethrin | Aha. Top Gear |
| 20:03.10 | resuDaed | Cope : but hasnt appeared on gllug for 44 days? |
| 20:03.30 | Cope | resuDaed: no... lest he get sacked |
| 20:03.39 | resuDaed | lol |
| 20:04.05 | wethrin | !! |
| 20:04.09 | wethrin | That seems.....harsh |
| 20:04.12 | Cope | yes |
| 20:04.23 | wethrin | IRC can be a very useful troubleshooting tool; indeed, I have used it as such |
| 20:04.25 | Cope | massive cocks international are into undermining morale and generally being cunts |
| 20:04.32 | wethrin | :( |
| 20:04.41 | George | Cope: ? |
| 20:04.41 | wethrin | So it's full of fucking suits? |
| 20:04.56 | Cope | wethrin: mci is yes, and stupid inflexible rules |
| 20:05.18 | wethrin | blah :-/ |
| 20:05.19 | Cope | i'm able to bend the rules... I have a linux machine, some test boxes, and flexibility |
| 20:05.31 | Cope | that may be due to seniority / reputation... dave's not so lucky |
| 20:06.04 | Cope | dave has a windows laptop without admin rights. |
| 20:06.07 | Cope | and that's it. |
| 20:06.21 | wethrin | Surely happy-clappy happy-employee-is-productive-employee has gone through their suitism, no? |
| 20:06.24 | wethrin | ick |
| 20:06.33 | Cope | he could ssh to somewhere, but the shoulder surfers would probably complain |
| 20:06.54 | Cope | wethrin: no apparently mci have no understanding of employee morale |
| 20:07.03 | wethrin | cunts |
| 20:07.05 | Cope | nb I refer to mci |
| 20:07.14 | Cope | old digex is still ok... but restricted |
| 20:07.17 | wethrin | Sure |
| 20:12.46 | resuDaed | can anyone think of any uses for brass (outside of locks, fittings, money and musucal instruments) |
| 20:13.15 | Cope | monkeys |
| 20:13.51 | Cope | resuDaed: I imagine the collective knowledge of #gllug with respect to the uses of brass is significantly less than that of google. |
| 20:14.11 | wethrin | Or wikipedia |
| 20:14.15 | Cope | furthermore, the #gllug interface is somewhat slower |
| 20:14.18 | Erwin | If it were bras rather than brass, however |
| 20:14.46 | resuDaed | Cope wethrin : google and wikipedia have come up dry(ish) |
| 20:15.00 | wethrin | Then Leeds is your man |
| 20:15.10 | wethrin | Cope: I don't know....wikipedia's been quite slow recently |
| 20:15.19 | resuDaed | I cannot find any uses for brass in engineering, yet there must be some |
| 20:15.29 | Cope | wethrin: true; serves them right for hosting it on linux |
| 20:15.35 | wethrin | Heh Indeed |
| 20:15.46 | wethrin | resuDaed: No - it's been replaced with better materials |
| 20:15.51 | Cope | cotton |
| 20:15.54 | Cope | nylon |
| 20:16.58 | Cope | resuDaed: googling for uses of brass turns up loads of stuff |
| 20:17.04 | Cope | or have you already mined it all? |
| 20:17.37 | Cope | likewise googling for 'brass industry' |
| 20:19.17 | resuDaed | Cope : mined the former |
| 20:20.24 | mikejw | ...and applies new knowledge to irc://irc.quakenet.org:tutorial for the benefit of irc newbies |
| 20:22.09 | resuDaed | oh, and just to make my uni work more difficult, I have just aqquired a copy of C&C generals |
| 20:25.04 | Cope | error |
| 20:28.00 | wethrin | error? |
| 20:29.58 | Cope | obtaining an addictive computer game |
| 20:30.15 | Cope | I would describe that as a fairly significant tactical blunder |
| 20:30.42 | mikejw | :) |
| 20:31.24 | wethrin | Ahha. Yes. |
| 20:31.27 | resuDaed | Cope : yes, especially when it means I have to reboot in to windows to use it, and all my uni work is stored on xfs |
| 20:31.54 | wethrin | heh |
| 20:31.57 | Cope | resuDaed: and backed up, I hope. |
| 20:32.41 | resuDaed | yes, backed on to another machine, then a tarball is scp'd to a computer in london |
| 20:33.20 | resuDaed | and I keep a copy on my external usb hdd that I take in to uni |
| 20:34.08 | resuDaed | not that I very often use the computers at uni |
| 20:35.02 | resuDaed | we have hundreds of winXP workstations (all P4s) that the only use I can find for them is to check my emails |
| 20:36.43 | mikejw | resuDaed: which Uni? |
| 20:37.17 | mikejw | it sounds like mine |
| 20:38.55 | mikejw | then again, Windows XP / P4s are quite ubiquitous I guess |
| 20:40.13 | wethrin | At UCL, I used a lab full of Suns |
| 20:40.31 | Cope | i only ever used sgis and suns at uni |
| 20:40.39 | resuDaed | mikejw : SHU (sheffield hallam) |
| 20:40.41 | Cope | oh and wyse terminals |
| 20:41.13 | Cope | and ermine.ox.ac.uk |
| 20:41.22 | mikejw | rsesuDaed: ah ok |
| 20:41.41 | mikejw | oh yeah we have a Solaris network too |
| 20:41.43 | resuDaed | there is one workstation in a certain tutors office that hasn't been updated for 3 years, and is null and void of the printer credit system) |
| 20:42.14 | resuDaed | our back end is almost entirly sun/linux |
| 20:42.32 | Cope | peachy! |
| 20:42.36 | mikejw | lol |
| 20:42.51 | resuDaed | but the only front end that is not, is about a dozen workstations in the basement of the basement in the school of engineering, and are for research students only |
| 20:43.10 | Cope | hrm, disappointing. |
| 20:43.16 | resuDaed | Cope : do you mind, that is something between my and my gf |
| 20:43.41 | resuDaed | lol |
| 20:43.42 | highbury | resuDaed: brass used to be used a lot before steel, its easy to cut a thread into it |
| 20:43.43 | mikejw | resuDaed: does this frontend run linux? |
| 20:43.54 | resuDaed | mikejw : afaik |
| 20:44.01 | mikejw | bonus |
| 20:44.07 | mikejw | :) |
| 20:44.18 | highbury | of course lots of fitting screws, nuts etc are brass |
| 20:44.25 | resuDaed | highbury : cheers |
| 20:44.30 | wethrin | Cope: They decomissioned Sable and Ermine in my day |
| 20:44.42 | Cope | wethrin: yes :( very sad |
| 20:44.53 | wethrin | now they're all Deb*an |
| 20:44.58 | Cope | a piece of my heritage died |
| 20:45.15 | highbury | brass sleeves are used around things as a bearing material |
| 20:45.21 | Cope | sable and ermine were digital unix, no? |
| 20:45.28 | wethrin | Yup |
| 20:45.52 | wethrin | Or whatever it was called that day |
| 20:52.57 | George | I AM BACK! |
| 20:52.58 | George | WOO FOR ME! |
| 20:53.03 | George | THE SUN SHINES OUT OF MY BOTTOM! |
| 20:55.06 | wethrin | bah |
| 20:56.00 | resuDaed | grrr, I am bored of this, I think I am going to do the slides now |
| 20:56.44 | mikejw | ibot: Yo! |
| 20:56.45 | ibot | Yo wazzaaaap my brotha?! |
| 20:56.52 | mikejw | lol |
| 21:01.19 | wethrin | Top Gear++ |
| 21:06.28 | George | with a pointed stick |
| 21:30.45 | wethrin | Are you getting fat? :) |
| 21:32.14 | resuDaed | not really, I am possibly half a stone more than I feel I should be, I am a 32" waist before a meal, and a 34" after |
| 21:32.25 | wethrin | Expandable |
| 21:32.54 | resuDaed | I suppose that probably explains the 1kg of pasta thing |
| 21:33.40 | resuDaed | I have various trousers of both sizes, and the 32" are fine normally, but a little tight after eating, and the 34" require a belt, unless I have just eaten |
| 21:35.48 | resuDaed | I am going to join a gym when my next loan payment comes through (can't really afford it at moment), ironically it is Jan 2nd that it comes through |
| 21:36.37 | wethrin | heh |
| 21:37.18 | wethrin | beans! |
| 21:37.42 | resuDaed | I have 3 tins of tesco value beans, 1 tin of tikka flavoured mean beans and half a frozen loaf of bread |
| 21:37.58 | resuDaed | and no pasta anymore |
| 21:38.04 | wethrin | Hmm.....do you have a blender? |
| 21:38.18 | resuDaed | no, but why? |
| 21:38.29 | wethrin | You could blend bread and beans |
| 21:38.34 | wethrin | And then pour it over another slice of bread |
| 21:39.00 | resuDaed | ah, interesting idea, can't quite imagine how it would taste though |
| 21:39.09 | resuDaed | would make the beans last longer that way |
| 21:39.15 | wethrin | don't blend the cans |
| 21:41.15 | resuDaed | I need tha pasta for the carbs, it is going to be a long night, I reckon another 2 hours of this presentation, then an hour of maths, then maybe a movie or some star trek or something |
| 21:43.26 | resuDaed | am listening to Dain Bramage (Internet Radio), it is pretty good, but very automated (random) in its music selection, just gone from Linkin Park to Oasis |
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| 23:05.43 | Cope | lo AngelChild |
| 23:05.52 | AngelChild | hiyo :D |
| 23:06.14 | Cope | :) |
| 23:06.31 | wethrin | whatho, AC |
| 23:08.03 | AngelChild | hi wethrin o/ |
| 23:09.14 | Erwin | This Rez? http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2002/10/26/sex_in_games_rezvibrator.html |
| 23:19.34 | Cope | nn all |
| 23:19.41 | wethrin | nn Cope |
| 23:41.52 | mikejw | rez? |
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| 23:47.23 | mikejw | Leeds: hey :) |
| 23:47.36 | Leeds | morning mikejw |
| 23:49.54 | Leeds | good weekend? |
| 23:50.17 | mikejw | yeah it was ok |
| 23:50.39 | Leeds | only ok? |
| 23:51.05 | mikejw | was hoping to get more coursework done but I did some |
| 23:51.10 | Leeds | (bloody council tax) |
| 23:51.18 | Leeds | ah |
| 23:53.18 | Leeds | you know you pay more council tax on an empty, but furnished, home, than you do on one with one person living there? |
| 23:54.02 | mikejw | weird city |
| 23:54.42 | Leeds | in London, I mean... probably the whole of England/UK |
| 23:54.59 | mikejw | right |
| 23:55.25 | stephen | we've got a Spanish housemate who was completely unaware that she had to pay council tax |
| 23:55.45 | mikejw | :S |
| 23:55.52 | Erwin | Watch out for squatters, Leeds :) |
| 23:57.01 | Leeds | Erwin: one of the reasons for my trip back to the UK over Christmas is to get my place cleaned up and emptied out enough to be able to think about renting it out |
| 23:57.51 | mikejw | where is the place? |
| 23:59.21 | Leeds | Hendon |
