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01:44.22Leedsz00dax: before you sleep...
03:31.30gregjis "crown of thorns" is some kind of idiom ?
03:31.37gregjI know "sitting on thorns" is
03:35.54LeedsI would understand it as a reference to Jesus wearing a crown of thorns - i.e. an ironic thing which looks a bit like a crown, but is actually a form of torture - on the cross
03:37.08gregjI see, thanks, yes, this is a good interpretation
05:11.21LeedsLadyRei?
05:12.03AngelChildyes
05:12.04AngelChild?
05:13.34Leedsjust wondering about the name change :-)
05:13.41AngelChildname i used to use ^.^
05:13.46AngelChildwondered if it was still registered
05:13.54AngelChildsomeone mentioned the anime it's from in another channel
05:18.18Leedsah
05:19.14AngelChildmorning, incidentally
05:19.29AngelChildtonight I got the lexer for my compiler engineering coursework working
05:19.30AngelChildwhich was nice
05:21.37Leedsgood
05:21.59Leedsyesterday, I got my access->odbc->jdbc->jython->xmlrpc->python bridge working
05:22.10AngelChildhurrah \o/
05:23.28Leedsand I'm starting to get into winding-down mode :-)
05:24.09Leeds2.5 days to go before the holidays...
06:21.05morsingMmm... Holiday
07:05.17mozratGood Morning
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07:12.59JAVgood morning
07:13.03mozrathey JAV
07:13.07mozrathow are you?
07:13.45JAVwell, thanks. And you?
07:13.51mozratYes - not bad
07:14.06LeedsJAV: doing anything exciting for the holidays?
07:15.07JAVwork? :D
07:17.50JAVnothing special expected until February (fosdem) and then a month in Japan in April
07:18.44JAVand now leaving to work will be the wisest idea
07:18.51JAVsee you
07:18.54Leedsseeya
07:18.56mozratsee you
07:18.59mozratMorning Leeds
07:19.01Leedsooh, Japan?
07:19.07mozrathow are you sir?
07:19.35Leedsnot bad... bosses back in town for a couple of days...
07:19.48mozratis that a good thing?
07:21.06Leedssome yes, some no
07:28.55Leedshow is your week shaping up?  are you taking time off over the hols?
07:29.17mozratWeek is good. I'm being "teacher" for 2 days on some internal training which is fun
07:29.27mozratJust basic Linux skills on SUSE
07:29.55mozratI'm on call for 2 x 24 hour periods over the holiday but I'm at home from the 23rd until the 3rd
07:29.58mozratwhich is good
07:31.37Leedsalmost the same as my dates :-)
07:33.43mozratThe on-call periods have always been historically very quiet anyway
07:34.00mozratit's only our customers in the Middle East that work that period anyway
07:34.08LeedsI was going to say - I would imagine it's either running around headless-chicken-like, or dozing
07:34.30mozratno - very quiet normally
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07:46.23mozratMorrrsssssssiiiiing
07:46.29morsingmozrat!
07:46.47morsingLeeds?
07:50.38Leedsmorsing
07:54.54morsingHmm... hostip.info doesn't work well for either of my IP addresses
07:55.09morsingIt even gave me two different places for the same address
07:58.59morsingWhy can't Squirrelmail show number of new messages in non-Inbox folders?
08:06.51Leedsit could... imap is plenty capable of telling you
08:09.48Copemroning chums
08:10.22Copemmm... 10 hours till beer
08:12.13Leeds3 hours or so here ;-)
08:19.34Leedsand I just got an invite to a pub quiz
08:19.50Leedspotentially, anyway
08:23.46Copeaha
08:23.51Copei like pub quizes
08:23.54Copezz
08:24.21Leedsme too
08:24.38Copei also like my job :)
08:25.02Leedslast one I entered as part of a team called "a gaggle of geeks" which was informally renamed "a google of geeks" part-way through because we were in a wifi zone and had a number of wifi-enabled PDAs with us...
08:25.15Leeds693594 is a magic number
08:29.35Copeok
08:29.48Copeto do with time?
08:32.21morsing*SIGH* :
08:32.22morsinghttp://www.computerworld.dk/art/31968
08:32.30Leedsyes
08:32.36Leedswhere did you see a reference to it?
08:32.45Copevarious places :)
08:33.05LeedsI reverse-engineered it - not that it was a great feat of engineering
08:33.16CopeThe TDateTime epoch and backwards incompatibility.
08:33.34Copehello morsing
08:33.59morsingHi Cope
08:34.10Copemorsing: hrm, if I could read Danish, that page might be more interesting to me!
08:34.29morsingCope: It probably wouldn't be interesting anyway
08:34.31Leedsit's the difference between a date as excel (apparently) encodes it and a value to be fed to python.datetime.date.fromordinal
08:34.46Copei see
08:35.39morsingIs says the psychopathic (added by me) managing director of my first company, who has broken (?) two companies by being incompetent, will now be managing director of ComX
08:35.43Leedswhich gives me a 45-line xls2html.py including guessing that any float in the first column of around the right size is a date
08:36.01Leedsmorsing: you know what my first company was, right? :-)
08:36.27morsingLeeds: SCO?
08:36.41Leedsand now I notice that the python xls-reading library in question comes with its own xls2html...
08:36.42Leedsmorsing: yes
08:37.10morsingWhat?!?
08:37.14Copewe now have a SCO server in our farm.
08:37.41Leedsdid you not know?
08:38.05LeedsCope: it got quite a regular chuckle in the Sun offices :-)
08:41.27morsingCheck it!
08:43.39morsingHEyy, I found it. It was in "folder options"
09:00.42Leedshttp://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=9350 - RMS doing what he does best
09:00.55morsingBeing rude?
09:03.31morsingLeeds: He's right though
09:05.08Leedsapparently my failure to get the concept of "I don't accept your license terms so please refund me what you charged me for your software which was bundled" over to Dell Asia was not because of a language problem... one of my colleagues has tried this afternoon in Chinese and also got nowhere
09:05.18Leedsright about what?
09:12.39morsingWhy is Robin not happy today?
09:14.01LeedsChristopher?  because he's been put out to pasture in favour of a little girl
09:17.27morsingWhat's gorwth?
09:17.39morsingPlan/model for gorwth (i.e., CoD fetures).
09:29.54Leedscod? fishy features?
09:44.50CopeLeeds: do you know if its possible to change semaphore settings on the fly in solaris?
09:48.11LeedsI would think it probably is, but I can't remember how
09:48.28Leedsthere are hooks to change almost every kernel option - but not all of them are available at runtime
09:48.36Leedskstat or something?
09:52.56CopeLeeds: would you know someone who knows?
09:54.02Leedsnot now, sorry - going home
09:54.08Copelol
09:56.31morsingWhat is it recommended to wear at interviews these days?
09:56.42Copedepends on the culture, really
09:56.53Copethis is banking isn't it
09:57.00Copeor is it something different?
09:57.23Copeeg for a job supporting programmers, I'd just wear normal clothes; for a job with a big company, I'd wear a suit.
09:58.10morsingOk. I'm actually not sure if I'm being interviewed by Phoenix or Barclaycard or both?!
09:58.19Copei'd wear a suit
09:58.21Copesafest
09:58.54Copeis the interview today?
09:59.30morsingThursday morning. Right before I have to keep a steady 81mph average to make the flight home :-(
10:01.26morsingStressful. And I actually wanted to take the train to Stansted. Now a have to arrange and pay for two weeks parking :-(
10:02.56murbmorsing: you know how long the parking busses take to get you to the airport?
10:03.27morsingmurb: About 10 minutes
10:03.45murbcan be up to 20 or 30 if they are having problems.
10:03.50murbwhich is normal at this time of year.
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10:06.04morsingHmm... I don't know if I'll make that flight. Their website says their full up!
10:06.33murbmorsing: the car park site?
10:06.47kbsinghmorning
10:08.19morsingmurb: Yes
10:10.08morsing<S> Parking at Bishop's Stortford Football Club
10:10.09morsing<S> #100.10
10:10.09morsing<S>  
10:10.09morsing<S> Free transfer to terminal
10:10.09morsing<S> 24 hour secure car park
10:10.11morsing<S> Instant confirmation
10:10.13morsing<S> SSL secure payment server
10:11.11murbmorsing: how much would a taxi to Stansted cost?
10:12.28morsingmurb: About £150?
10:12.39morsingFrom Northampton
10:53.20morsing*sniff*
10:59.26rhoweDec 18 15:23:13 stfw dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPREQUEST for 2.153.2.193 from 00:14:c2:d9:f5:2f via eth0
10:59.29rhoweDec 18 15:23:13 stfw dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPNAK on 2.153.2.193 to 00:14:c2:d9:f5:2f via eth0
10:59.33rhoweI should hope so :)
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11:13.02GeorgeI have just spoken to the Deputy Dean and he has told me that you
11:13.02Georgedefinitely will be receiving an offer to come and read Natural Sciences.
11:13.05GeorgeYAY
11:15.18morsingCongrats George !
11:16.18SlammerXPsounds dull
11:16.40Georgeheh
11:19.13Georgewell, that's Durham sorted
11:20.16Leedsyay
11:20.30Leedsalthough, I decided not to apply for Durham...
11:34.07Copewell done :)
11:34.40Georgehey
11:38.04morsingCheck it!
11:40.49SlammerXPwe're congraulating him on getting into a polytechnic?
11:40.59SlammerXPcome now, if you can find your way to the front door they let you in :)
11:43.49morsing/usr/include/pthread.h:652: error: parse error before '*' token
11:45.08morsingWhat does that mean?
11:45.31SlammerXPwell, on line 652, the compiler had problems understanding the code located there
11:45.40morsingThanks!
11:45.47SlammerXPit suggests the error is located before the '*'
11:46.08Leedsnormally means something like the header file containing the symbol preceeding the * failed to load
11:46.19Leedstime to go pub quiz... bye
11:46.29morsingpthread_spin_init __((pthread_spinlock_t *, int));
11:47.51morsing??
11:48.21morsingThis is from a header file though
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11:57.24morsingLeedsHK!
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12:55.56kbsinghso is anyone heading out for the drink in the evening today ?
12:59.14morsingI am
12:59.58kbsinghcool, unless something weird happens at work - I'll see you there
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13:07.53rhowemorsing: Maybe pthread_spin_init, __ and/or pthread_spinlock_t {are,is}n't defined?
13:09.42rhowemorsing: Maybe missing a header file which defines them, or maybe the header file which should define them says something like #ifdef __PLATFORM_IS_AIX__ \n /* hah, like you deserve threading */ \n #else \n /* Define threading primitives */ \n #endif /* __PLATFORM_IS_AIX__ */
13:09.59rhowemorsing: Also, there may be an error on the line before that one..
13:10.30morsingrhowe: *sigh* SO what do I do :-)
13:10.57rhowemorsing: Find a pthread hello world and see if it works
13:11.08rhowemorsing: At least test your pthread functionality
13:11.27rhowemorsing: Maybe finding something which uses autoconf and running ./configure will be enough to check stuff?
13:11.53rhowemorsing: If so, it might just be that the code you're compiling isn't written to handle however AIX does pthreads and just needs a magic tweak somewhere
13:12.08rhowemorsing: Or maybe AIX just doesn't do pthreads (I would hope it did!)
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13:17.35morsingeye69!
13:18.10Georgedo any of you chaps know a "Peter Tobler"?
13:19.49morsingI know a Peter if that helps?
13:20.11morsingMagnus?
13:21.29eye69Henrik?
13:21.35morsingHow are you?
13:21.48eye69Quite alright.
13:21.52morsingJob?
13:22.12Georgemorsing: idiot.
13:22.24eye69Don't know yet. I've applied for one, and my name has been sent from the job agency as a candidate for another/
13:22.25morsingGeorge: Fucktwat!
13:22.40morsingeye69: Good luck then
13:22.46eye69Thanks.
13:22.52eye69Just doing a bit of packing for christmas.
13:23.13Georgemorsing: moron
13:23.32morsingmozrat: Back me up here!
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13:58.04mozrathey George
13:58.13mozratI was just reading to see why I was backing morsing up
13:58.18Georgeheh
13:58.33mozratGeorge: you haven't commented on the "Linus says use KDE" thing yet
13:58.36mozratWell done
13:59.26Georgeoh yeah
13:59.28Georgeforgot about that
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14:33.04Georgewow.
14:33.09GeorgeIBM still release drivers for OS/2
14:50.49morsingGeorge: Of course. The server version is still used
14:51.07morsingAll credit card transactions in Denmark go directly to OS/2 servers
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14:52.09morsingweasl77_!
14:52.17weasl77_that was fast!
14:52.22morsing:-)
14:52.35rhowemorsing: how's your SQL?
14:52.45SlammerXPevening
14:53.00SlammerXPmy sql is not so bad
14:53.35morsingrhowe: decent
14:53.56rhoweOK, I'm hitting a brick wall with aggregate queries and group by
14:54.18rhoweI've got a table here which is of the form (visitId, visitDate, companyId, ...)
14:54.37rhoweI want to select just the most recent visit for each company
14:54.53morsingI this MySQL or proper SQL?
14:54.57rhoweMS SQL
14:55.08rhoweso, something of the form SELECT visitId, MAX(visitDate), companyId, ... FROM visits GROUP BY visitDate
14:55.24rhoweer, scratch that
14:55.30rhowesomething of the form SELECT visitId, MAX(visitDate), companyId, ... FROM visits GROUP BY companyId
14:55.31SlammerXPselect max(visitdate) from visits group by visitdate;
14:55.58SlammerXPerr rhowe is right
14:56.00rhoweExcept I can't include things like 'visitId' (and other attributes) because they're not aggregates, nor listed in GROUP BY
14:56.02SlammerXPthinko for me of the groupby
14:56.21rhoweAnd adding other attributes to group by (especially the primary key) doesn't really make sense
14:57.11rhoweSo far, I'm doing something quite ugly with a subselect, which returns about twice as many rows as I need, and then weeding out the ones I don't want programmatically
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14:57.43rhowecrap, 'phone
14:57.44rhowebrb
14:58.57SlammerXPhow about  something like select date,company,vdate  from (select date,company,max(visitdate) as vdate from table);
14:59.13rhoweSELECT ma FROM MarketingAction ma WHERE ma.visitDate IN (SELECT MAX(visitDate) FROM MarketingAction GROUP BY companyId) ORDER BY ma.visitDate DESC
15:02.51rhowe(not SQL, but HQL)
15:03.23rhoweHowever, forget I mentioned HQL for now :)
15:03.27rhoweOK, I'm back
15:04.38rhowebrb
15:05.56rhoweOK, back again
15:25.48Copeibot hello
15:25.48ibothello
15:25.59morsingrhowe: I found a hello_world pthreaded programme and it gives exactly the same error
15:26.11Copeibot nslookup mbceatest.mercerhr.ie
15:27.17rhowemorsing: OK, so fix your pthreads library
15:27.27morsingHow(e)?
15:27.41Copewoo rhowe
15:27.43rhowemorsing: Use a sane OS?
15:27.46rhoweheya Steve
15:27.51rhoweCope: Happen to be around this evening?
15:27.52Copeare you waterlooing?
15:27.57Coperhowe: very much so
15:28.13rhoweCope: Ah yes, you're the reason we're in Waterloo, not Marylebone, aren't you?
15:28.16rhoweCope: Looks like it
15:28.25Coperhowe: ace
15:28.39morsingrhowe: Thanks
15:28.44Coperhowe: well,  the eurostar does appear in waterloo
15:29.13rhoweCope: Feeble excuse, since the Jubilee line connects the two (almost)
15:30.29morsingHow do I get to Waterloo
15:31.37Georgehi.
15:33.02morsinghttp://www.morsing.cc/pthread.h
15:34.44SlammerXP# Roses are red, violets are blue
15:34.53SlammerXP# Not using Debian MAKE BABY SEALS DIE
15:34.57morsingrhowe: Have you spotted the error?
15:35.46morsingrhowe?
15:42.23Copemorsing: where are you coming from?
15:42.30morsingMars?
15:42.41CopeMarathon?
15:42.49morsingWhat? What do you mean?
15:43.43CopeYou are going to embark on a journey, whose destination is Waterloo station, as evidenced by you asking the question "How do I get to Waterloo?";  I am requesting more information - specifically, what is teh start point for your journey.
15:44.41Copethe answer will vary.  If, for example, you are starting from Winchester, the answer is: There ae 4 trains an hour, 2 of which are fast, and go directly to Waterloo, without stopping at any other stations.
15:45.23morsing:-D
15:45.55morsingThe first part of the journey will be the train from Watford Junction to Euston London.
15:46.11rhowemorsing: hm?
15:46.17morsingrhowe: What input and output control boards are available for soekris?
15:46.24Copemorsing: in which case, take the northern line to waterloo.
15:46.31morsingNo changes?
15:46.39Copenot from euston, no
15:46.43morsingNice
15:46.54Copeerm
15:46.54Copeno
15:46.59CopeI'm talking rubbish
15:47.03morsing:-(
15:47.19rhowemorsing: Not much specific, but it has PCI, miniPCI, GPIO and RS232..
15:47.25rhowemorsing: You can attach many things
15:47.52rhowemorsing: No changes if you get the charing cross branch, but you'll be left looking a fool if you take the Bank branch
15:47.55morsingI need to attach something that can measure 0v/12v and analogue input
15:48.10morsingLike 10 digital inputs and three analogue
15:48.28rhowemorsing: Find an I2C device that does it?
15:48.29Copemorsing: from euston, the station, northern line to waterloo is fine;p
15:48.39morsingWhat's I2C?
15:48.47Copemorsing: direct; but from euston square, you must change.
15:48.47morsingCope: Thanks
15:48.51rhowemorsing: A 2 wire data bus
15:49.03rhowemorsing: You can use two of the GPIO pins to run I2C
15:49.14morsingrhowe: Ok, but it must go to something? Where do I find this?
15:49.27rhoweHm, no idea.. ask on the soekris list?
15:49.45morsingrhowe: I though you were the soekris list?
15:49.53rhowehttp://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/4994
15:49.58rhowemorsing: I am..
15:50.11rhoweINBOX [Msgs:389 New:270 Flag:1]
15:50.16rhoweI'm just not quite up to date on my email yet
15:53.45LeedsHKhallooo
15:54.10morsinghttp://www.xdimax.com/usb_i2c/u2c12.html
15:54.21morsingLeedsHK: What's GPIO?
15:54.36rhowemorsing: General Purpose I/O
15:55.21rhowehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPIO and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2C
15:55.54rhowemorsing: Oh, and of course the net4801 has a USB1.1 connector, so you could always use that for your sampling needs, although I suspect GPIO would be better
15:56.37morsingI don't really care about the interface
15:57.47morsingBizarre!
15:57.49morsinghttp://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html
16:06.29LeedsHKmorsing: what rhowe said
16:07.18murbLeedsHK: and body pointed and laughed?
16:07.25murbor are you not american?
16:07.55LeedsHKI'm not American, and no body pointed or laughed
16:08.19morsingCheck it!
16:08.27morsingMmm... beer
16:08.32murbLeedsHK: how very restrained!
16:10.50LeedsHKwell, no-one knew
16:11.48morsing<PROTECTED>
16:14.18morsingrhowe: Did you fix the pthread problem?
16:15.15rhowemorsing: No. Did you find a workaround for my SQL woes/
16:15.16rhowe?
16:16.53morsingrhowe: No
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16:28.13LeedsHKbedtime... g'night all
16:58.12Copehello AngelChild
16:59.41Coperhowe: 1830 kick off?
16:59.48Copemorsing: catch the train!
16:59.52morsingYES!
17:01.28morsinghttp://www.whom.co.uk/html/middle.htm
17:02.33AngelChildheya :)
17:04.40Copegreetings
17:05.41morsingCope: Did you take the test?
17:10.09morsingCope2E?
17:16.39morsingibot wake Cope
17:16.43ibotCope: GOOD MORNING!!!
17:20.57rhoweCope: Hm.. sounds about fair
17:21.11rhoweCope: I have an interesting book to bring along
17:25.32Georgerhowe: any idea how to take keys off the dinovo?
17:25.40rhoweGeorge: Don't
17:25.47Georgerhowe: why?
17:25.50rhoweGeorge: I broke mine doing that. The plastic clips are very fragile.
17:25.51Copemorsing: no
17:25.55Georgerhowe: heh, ok
17:25.58Coperhowe: do you have a new phone #?
17:26.01rhoweCope: Yes
17:26.20Copetext me then
17:26.22rhoweCope: +44 (0) 7851564016
17:26.23Copesee you at 630 ish
17:26.47rhowesent
17:26.51Copekk
17:26.53Copettfn
17:27.10rhoweibot change 200 EUR to GBP
17:43.28rhoweanyone travelling to .nl in the not-too-distant future?
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20:09.20nubie-faxi've got a PC running sarge  and a broadband connection but my PC has NO modem inside. How can I send a fax?
20:09.50mozratnubie-fax: there are probably some service providers that let you do this on the internet
20:09.53gregjwhre's wetdream
20:09.55gregjhttp://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/20/1754211&tid=129&tid=133
20:10.03gregjfuturama might be resurected
20:10.30nubie-faxmozrat: are you telling me that i can not send faxes if i have no modem?
20:10.35mozratnubie-fax: but without a modem I don't see how *your* server is going to send a fax
20:10.36gregjnubie-fax: send2fax.com for instance
20:10.46mozratnubie-fax: pretty much
20:11.23mozratthere are packages on Linux that do fax-to-email
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20:11.41mozratand probably email-to-fax but to send a fax you need some sort of telephony
20:12.48nubie-fax<PROTECTED>
20:13.30mozratnubie-fax: buy a modem :)
20:15.01nubie-faxyou mean  a GNU/Linux compatible modem? that is a modem blessed by His Holiness
20:16.05mozratnah
20:16.15mozratget an external serial port modem
20:16.17nubie-faxwhat do you mean?
20:16.41mozratI agree internal PCI modems can be a pain in the ass - but then again a lot of them aren't actually proper modems
20:16.52mozratthey rely on processing from the CPU to demodulate etc
20:17.01nubie-faxcorrect if i'm wrong but an external serial modem is a modem blessed by His Holiness, right?
20:17.26mozratwell - I don't know what connections you have
20:17.33mozratmaybe "he" has blessed it
20:17.46mozratmaybe Father Christmas will deliver it - I just don't know
20:18.09nubie-faxmozrat: you are not a devotee, are you?
20:18.40mozratof?
20:19.05nubie-faxHis Holiness
20:19.30mozrat:)
20:19.39nubie-faxyes or no?
20:19.40mozratI dunno - anyway. Hometime for me.
20:19.50mozratI don't understand the question to be honest.
20:20.01mozratin the way it relates to modems
20:20.41nubie-faxdo you know who His Holiness is? i am not taking about that fascist in the Vatican
20:20.58mozratno
20:21.56nubie-faxhttp://www.indymedia.org.uk/images/2004/05/292506.jpg
20:22.58mozratoh that nut
20:23.15mozratwhat the hell is he wearing in that picture
20:23.43mozratanyway - I really shouldn't be in the office at 2030. My dog has received my dinner tonight
20:23.51mozratso - catch you later....
20:24.41nubie-faxok. ta!
20:27.23nubie-faxif i get an external serial modem, will it at some point disrupt my  broadband connection??
20:43.56Georgeok, this is depressing
20:44.01GeorgeI just got an email from some dude calling me an expert
20:44.35Georgefrom a chap at STANFORD???
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21:55.44conrad_hi, does someone know if grip is what i need to translate mp3 into cd format?
21:56.37conrad_^_^ sorry to ask such a newbie question
21:56.51conrad_i presume that someone here is alive?
21:57.51SlammerXPwhat do you mean by "cd format"?
21:58.50conrad_i want to be able to burn the mp3 to a cd and play it in my cd player
21:59.08murbconrad_: ok, you need to turn it into raw audio first.
21:59.11murbmpg321 can do that.
21:59.20conrad_ok
21:59.23murbthen cdrecord -audio *.wav should do the rest.
21:59.31murbassumin gthey are called .wav
21:59.41conrad_mpg321, i have not heard of - an application presumably?
22:02.56conrad_hmm...can grip do it too?
22:04.13murbno idea.
22:04.54conrad_k, i downloaded mpg321 but don't know how to run it??
22:05.32conrad_i typed mpg321 in command line and a list came down but no player
22:07.29conrad_murb: no idea on that either?
22:08.31conrad_well, thx anyways
22:11.35murbtry typing man mpg321
22:12.30z00dax<side note>how about using something like k3b ? </side note>
22:16.17conrad_<hmm...>didn't know k3b could convert mp3 into raw audio or .wav format. Can you say more</mm...>
22:19.33z00daxconrad_, what distro are you using ?
22:20.59conrad_ubuntu
22:21.43conrad_i hope no one is shaking their head ^_^
22:21.57z00daxi have no idea about ubuntu - but it should have k3b and k3b-mp3 pkgs
22:22.14conrad_i'm looking at k3b now
22:22.24conrad_i haven't seen a way yet
22:22.40conrad_that doesn't mean there isn't one ; j
22:25.11conrad_z00dax: where does your k3b have k3b-mp3
22:25.37conrad_i imagine they're all the same
22:25.37z00daxits a package you need to install
22:25.46conrad_ah!
22:25.46z00daxapt-get install k3b-mp3
22:25.50z00daxor whatever its called on ubuntu
22:26.09conrad_yes, sudo apt-get etc : )
22:27.57conrad_or just let Synaptic take care of it
22:28.11conrad_what os do you use?
22:29.13z00daxlinux
22:30.27conrad_well, i figured that, what flavor?!
22:30.44conrad_GNU/Linux to be precise right?
22:30.59z00daxCentOS
22:31.20conrad_ok
22:35.45conrad_having installed k3b-mp3, does that add on to the original k3b or is that a separate front end application, because if so i don't find it
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22:37.42conrad_z00dax: d'you know? how is it on yours?
22:40.38z00daxin k3b, just start a new audio cd project, drag and drop in the mp3's and burn that to cd
22:43.13conrad_yeah, i just been doing that
22:43.38conrad_thx big time z00dax, for directing me to k3b-mp3
22:43.49conrad_what would we do without k3b?!
23:27.48mozratHello - I'm playing with the win32com module. Is it possible to make COM connections using different credentials than the user running the script?
23:27.58mozratas in feed the module a name and password?
23:30.58mozratahhh
23:31.12mozrathello #gllug - I thought I was in the #python channel!
23:32.50AngelChildhehe
23:34.56mozratyeah :(

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