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00:22.45Leedsow, my knee
00:25.18z00daxLeeds, had dinner with an air-hostess from BA, aparently does the HK trip twice a month
00:25.44z00daxbased on your post w.r.t prices - I've convinced her to get me a MacBook from that part of the world :)
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00:36.04z00daxOverworkedChild,
00:36.15OverworkedChildz00dax
00:36.29AngelChildcompiler engineering is a lot harder than it seems xD
00:37.06z00daxI agree
00:37.48wethrinHeh
00:37.51wethrinIt most likely is, yes
00:38.07wethrinnight
00:38.11z00daxwethrin, nite
00:41.16Leedsz00dax: good work :-)
00:41.51AngelChildwell, I spent the whole of today trying to understand how to write LL(1) parsers
00:53.09LeedsI had seafood buffet lunch in a private room on the deck of a floating restaurant, bought some DVDs, watched Dr. No, bbq buffet dinner with a former acting governor of Hong Kong, a professor, the cousins and a couple of other people, watched Napoleon Dynamite with a couple of friends, watched some of Goldfinger, then bed
00:54.20AngelChildfull day :o
00:56.48z00daxLeeds, sounds like the life
00:59.13LeedsSaturday was Mexican for lunch, then bowling, then Chinese New Year party, then drinks, drinks, dancing, drinks, dancing
00:59.52Leedsand now waiting to hear about my lift to work... in fact, since it's 9am, I'm going to prod...
01:03.06z00daxwith all that eating and drinking, watch the figure :)
01:04.01Leedsyeah, that's a problem... got to get a gym routine in, pretty urgently :-(
01:14.22z00daxok, sleep time. Work week ahead
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04:51.20Leedsafternoon pdr
05:17.09pdrmorning leeds
06:31.00Leedspdr: how's it going?
06:31.40pdrnot bad, and you?
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06:55.05Leedsgood - had a nice weekend, now back into it
06:55.14Leedsmorsing!
06:55.19morsingLeeds: Sounds great
06:55.21morsingLeeds!
06:55.54morsingLeeds: Who were you talking to?
06:56.07Leedsmorsing: pdr...
06:56.17morsing'morning pdr!
06:56.31pdrmorning
06:56.41pdri'm only half here though
06:57.34Leedswhere is the other half of you?
07:00.12Georgehi
07:00.42LeedsGeorge: are you pdr's other half?
07:00.47Georgeno
07:00.51Georgedon't be ridiculous
07:01.23morsingGeorge: Are you at the pub?
07:01.30Georgeno
07:01.35pdrLeeds: in #fuckstix
07:01.35GeorgeI've got an exam in two hours
07:02.34Leedspdr: uh, okay
07:03.19pdrLeeds: i needed to ask someone there for a favour.  He runs a co-lo machine I use.
07:05.07morsingAylesbury post office is in Watton-at-Stone according to my satnav!
07:07.23Copemorning
07:07.31morsingCope!
07:07.34Copehello morsing
07:07.39morsingHow are you?
07:07.52CopeGreat, thanks
07:09.08Leedscope!
07:15.32Copehttp://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9071-2005367,00.html
07:15.39CopeThat's mine, that is.
07:15.49Copehello leeds
07:16.22morsingYours?
07:21.28morsingWell done :-)
07:21.39morsingWhere's the site?
07:22.36Copemortgagebundles.com
07:23.34LeedsCope: are you on commission?
07:23.37GeorgeI'M GOING TO FAIL THIS EXAM WOOYAY
07:23.47LeedsGeorge: what exam is it?
07:23.48morsingGeorge: Well done :-)
07:23.51GeorgeLeeds: chemistry
07:24.06LeedsGeorge: do you know your elements?
07:24.06CopeLeeds: certainly not!
07:24.24Georgechemistry's for losers
07:24.26George:D
07:24.34Leeds"these are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard, there may be many others but they haven't been discovered"
07:24.41murband bomb makers
07:29.32morsingmurb!
07:29.45Leedshmm... a delivery from Pizza Hut just turned up :-)
07:29.56morsingmurb: Where does the name 'murb' come from?
07:30.07morsingLeeds: What is it?
07:30.23morsingmurble: Where does the name 'murble' come from
07:30.37Leedsmorsing: well, I don't know, but I'm going to guess there's some pizza involved...
07:30.44morsingLeeds: Chilli?
07:30.58morsingLeeds: Have you eaten it yet?
07:31.44murboh benzene rings
07:32.13Leedsnot yet
07:32.26morsingoh onion rings
07:33.28murbyeah like onion rings
07:33.47murb(oh me)++
07:33.55murbfinally got the nominet automation to not hate me.
07:34.04morsingmurb: Why are you avoiding my question?
07:35.00murbyou are confused.
07:35.59morsingI'm not
07:36.06murbgood.
07:36.08morsingibot murb
07:36.10ibotrumour has it, murb is bored, or not shiny, or faster than google
07:36.20morsing:-D
07:36.33morsinghttp://www.murb.com/home/index.php
07:36.54Leedsibot murble
07:37.34Leedsmorsing: that site has a "Paypal SPENDEN" button on it
07:37.56morsingYes?
07:39.47LeedsI find the word SPENDEN amusing in that context
07:40.10morsingYou've lost me
07:41.09Leedsyes, I suppose so
07:47.09murbs/EN/ing/ # does that help?
07:47.44LeedsI can guess what it means...
07:49.17murbcan you guess what kostenlosen means?
07:49.31Leedsloadsamoney!
07:51.31Copequite the opposite
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07:54.51Copehello SlayerXP
07:57.15morsingSlayerXP!
07:59.01SlayerXPmorning
07:59.01SlayerXPhttp://sig.grumpybumpers.com/mysql.gif
08:08.06Leedsfor the record, it was a veggie pizza and a meaty one
08:15.06Leedshttp://news.gov.hk/en/category/infrastructureandlogistics/060120/html/060120en06003.htm - government consulting on an anti-spam law
08:21.21murbLeeds: are they soliciting donations from spammers?
08:21.52Leedsdonations?
08:22.51Leedshttp://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/online/CIE/all_1nm_data.htm
08:24.16murbLeeds: well how do you influence goverment policy?
08:25.35Leedsin Hong Kong? recently, by getting a million or so of your best mates to go on a stroll through town with banners and so forth to make your views knows
08:25.40Leedss/knows/known
08:27.21Leeds"Views on the proposals can be sent by post to the bureau at 2/F Murray Building, Garden Road, Hong Kong; by fax to 2511 1458 or by email to uem@citb.gov.hk by March 20."
08:27.40Leedsthe question, of course, is what sort of anti-spam system they're running on that mailbox
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09:42.43kbsingh$TZ Greetings!
09:44.35Leedsshalom
09:45.19Copekb!
09:54.34morsingkbsingh!
09:55.04kbsinghhey, Leeds, Cope & morsing!
10:18.07rhowewoo, FOSDEM approved as a company trip
10:18.51morsingrhowe: How?
10:19.20Copemorsing: presumably: rhowe: Can I go to FOSDEM as a company trip? iTron: Yes
10:19.27murbrhowe: you have a company card?
10:19.36murbs/card/credit &/
10:20.00murbibot: please learn sed about sed.
10:20.27murbs#sed##
10:22.49Leedsrhowe: woo
10:23.29murbLeeds: you should do that as well.
10:23.41rhowemurb: Nope
10:23.54rhowemorsing: I said "I'm going to FOSDEM. Fancy paying?"
10:24.31Leedsmurb: last year they paid for me to go to a Linux conference in Sri Lanka - that was a relatively easy sell... getting them to pay for me to go drinking for the weekend in Brussels is likely to be less easy
10:26.09murbrhowe: first class on eurostar?
10:27.48morsingCope: Who's iTron?
10:28.35morsingrhowe: And he knows that FOSDEM has nothing to do with your work?
10:29.09Leedsmorsing: iTron is rhowe's boss and occasional #gllug visitor
10:29.31Leedsthe one who is moving to Japan
10:30.13wethrinmorning
10:30.16morsingwethrin!
10:30.21morsingYou're up :-P
10:30.28wethrinYes. I have breakfast and a headache
10:36.02Leedshometime
10:38.48morsingwethrin: Why?
10:39.36wethrinBreakfast is good
10:39.42morsingSo is beer
10:43.07wethrinYes
10:45.36wethrinI like beer
10:45.40wethrinI had whisky yesterday
10:45.41wethrinAnd some beer
10:46.05wethrinrhowe: ping?
10:59.00rhowepong
10:59.15rhowemurb: Unlikely
11:02.14rhoweIn other news, it now seems certain that me and Jia are getting togethr
11:02.16rhowes/r$/er/
11:02.39rhoweibot: Admit it, you're a buggy POS
11:04.51Coperhowe: you don't hang around
11:04.55CopeI thought she already had a bf
11:06.06rhoweCope: She's made up her mind to tell him it's over
11:06.28rhoweCope: Did I mention that we aim to be living together by the start of March?
11:09.39Copeyou didn't
11:10.04rhoweOh, well that's the plan
11:10.17Copegiven that you failed to call me back and let me know which pub you were attending
11:13.52rhoweyou called?
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11:14.03rhowebrb phone call
11:14.27Coperhowe: I did
11:14.41rhowewhich number? The one ending in 702?
11:15.55murbdo phobile moans support redirection of calls when the call setup to the mobile has already ahppened like you cand o with isdn?
11:17.07kbsinghiirc, GSM does let you do that
11:18.52morsingLeeds!
11:22.07morsingChewck it!
11:22.17morsings/chewck/check/
11:22.30morsingibot you suck
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11:23.30morsingErwin!
11:25.35Erwinmorning
11:26.43LeedsCock it!
11:31.47morsingYeah Erwin, cock it!
11:37.19Leedsmmm... 365 KiB/s torrenting :-)
11:37.48murbnot that fast.
11:38.22Leedsconsidering this is a home connection, it's plenty fast
11:39.28murb3mb?
11:39.59Leeds4mb peak
11:40.07morsingAny TSM gurus here?
11:42.59CopePlease can I ask if its ok to ask whether anyone in here know if anyone here is an expert in whether its ok to ask meta questions?
11:44.38Copeibot metaquestions is Please can I ask if its ok to ask whether anyone in here knows if anyone here is an expert in whether its ok to ask meta questions?
11:44.41ibotokay, Cope
11:44.55Copeibot tell morsing about metaquestions
11:45.13murbibot, foad.
11:45.14ibotextra, extra, read all about it, foad is \"fuck off and die\". Considered by many to be impolite.
11:48.12Leedsmorsing: wtf is TSM anyway?
11:48.35CopeLeeds: tivoli storage manager
11:48.37stephenTivoli Storage Manager, IBM's backup software
11:48.44Leedsoh
11:48.55Copetivoli was one of my cleints before ibm bought them
11:49.48wethrinCope: Well, it might be reasonable to ask a short question like morsing's first, to save typing out a long question just to find no-one can help
11:50.10Copeibot: calculate the probability that in a channel full of linux users, with a few solaris/*bsd users on the side, that anyone is likely to be a tivoli expert other than the only aix user (in the uk), who happens to be asking the question.
11:50.12ibotCope: what are you talking about?
11:50.18Copeibot: complete rubbish
11:51.06wethrinLooking at the sort of people here, though, you seem to be the most likely one to have TSM experience
11:52.21LeedsCope: morsing is relying on you
11:53.29wethrinVNB?
11:53.29Copebut not TSM
11:53.32morsingLeeds: Tivoli Storage Manager
11:53.35morsingHow many times...
11:53.38CopeVeritas NetBackup
11:53.42wethrinAhh
11:53.58Copemorsing: my colleague knows a little bit
11:54.23morsingLeeds, wethrin: If you don't know what TSM is then you're not a guru so why bother spelling it out?
11:54.31wethrinActually, rhowe may be likely to know
11:54.35wethrinmorsing: I know what it stands for!
11:54.46wethrinBut I've never used it
11:54.53Copemorsing: what's the quetsion? I'll ask him
11:55.02morsingCope: No!
11:55.04morsingWait...
11:55.07Copeok!
11:55.11Copeibot seen seamus
11:55.13ibotseamus <i=seamus@host86-139-88-216.range86-139.btcentralplus.com> was last seen on IRC in channel #gllug, 1d 17h 13m 20s ago, saying: 'I meant hosting plans.  Anyway will take a look.'.
11:55.25wethrinCope: Is seamus your colleague?
11:55.43Copewethrin: nope - a chap who wanted a managed hosting solution for tomcat
11:55.46wethrinONE MEEEEELION POUNDS?
11:55.47morsingselect DATE_TIME,SEVERITY,MESSAGE,ORIGINATOR from actlog where MESSAGE like '%DISMOUNT FAILURE%' and date_time >current time  - 1hour
11:55.54morsingCope: The above select statement gives:
11:56.03morsingANR2916E The SQL data types TIMESTAMP and TIME are incompatible for operator
11:56.03morsing'>'.
11:56.08morsingSo how do I do it then?
11:56.13Cope'escape > ?
11:56.17wethrinCan you convert TIME to a TIMESTAMP?
11:56.29Copeor rather put a space after
11:56.38Copeif it does what I think it does
11:56.42morsingCope: Escape how?
11:56.46morsingwethrin: How?
11:56.53morsingCope: Tried a space...
11:57.06Copemorsing: that was my first thought  before I engaged brain, and realised you meant greater than
11:57.09morsingCope: I want to search back one hour
11:57.13wethrinmorsing: I don't know. Looks more like SQL issues rather than TSM specifically
11:57.17Copewethrin: indeed
11:57.31wethrinIs date_time a TIMESTAMP?
11:57.32morsingwethrin: Well, yes, it's supposed to be SQL but has it's oddities
11:57.43morsingwethrin: Yes - I believe so
11:59.22morsingAhh... I think on of hour DBAs figured it out
11:59.28morsingtime should be timestamp
11:59.37morsingwethrin: Was this what you were getting at?
12:00.53wethrinyeah
12:01.06wethrinSo you want "current timestamp" rather than "current time"?
12:02.42Leeds29 minutes of decent-quality video in 175MB
12:03.24wethrinThat's reasonable
12:04.07Leeds608x336/25fps is pretty hard to do well in 768kb/s in mpeg4/divx/xvid/etc.
12:04.55wethrinTrue....
12:06.42Leedsit's not perfect, but considering this is a panel quiz, it doesn't matter so much
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12:12.10Erwinthat's one weird product: a mouse *and* a voip phone: http://www.phoneyworld.com/newspage.aspx?n=1749
12:22.28rhowewhee
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12:51.19morsingwethrin: Yes
12:51.24morsingboudiccas!
12:55.28morsingCheck it!
13:00.29rhowemmm, tasty lunch
13:00.58morsingNot mine :-(
13:01.12morsingRobin has no money so we can't go to the italian!
13:01.55rhoweJia made me a bento box yesterday :)
13:01.58morsingMmm... Mushrooms
13:02.05morsingMmm... bento
13:02.31rhowemm, japanese rice
13:04.24Leedsmmm... Airplane! :-)
13:05.01morsingMmm... Faye
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13:23.16morsingboudiccas!
13:25.26Leedshttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm1290293/
13:34.40morsingLeeds: Is that you?
13:41.42Leedsnope. Otto
13:44.01SlayerXPtoday I redesigned my website
13:44.20SlayerXPit no longer looks like a vi session coredumped into a docroot by accident
13:44.34SlayerXPit now looks like the coredump was intentional
13:45.07morsingSlayerXP: URL?
13:45.18SlayerXPhttp://www.hinterlands.irg/
13:45.19SlayerXPerr
13:45.21SlayerXPhttp://www.hinterlands.org/
13:46.17LeedsI am serious, and don't call me Shirley
13:46.26morsingWhy hinterlands?
13:47.08SlayerXPwhat does the third paragraph say?
13:47.46morsingSend me your CV?!
13:49.40SlayerXPno :)
13:54.12morsingSlayerXP: Under projects then?
13:54.33SlayerXPeh?
13:54.42morsing13:46 < morsing> Why hinterlands?
13:54.42morsing13:47 < SlayerXP> what does the third paragraph say?
13:54.52SlayerXPyes, the third paragraph on the page
13:55.05SlayerXPthe one starting "The domain name comes from"
13:55.06morsingNot the second then?
14:02.31morsingCheck it
14:07.24murba second job?
14:07.26Leedsa transfer?
14:07.51wethrinUrgh. Glasgow. :-P
14:07.54murba downgrade.
14:21.14morsingCope: We need someone here at Camelot
14:22.00SlayerXPmorsing: to do what?
14:22.19SlayerXPChief Debian Protagonist
14:22.23Erwinto push the pram a lot ?
14:24.31morsingWhat?
14:26.37wethrinMonty Python
14:30.26morsingCheck it!
14:44.45Copea different job
15:03.11rhoweCope: Looks like me and Jia will be living together come the start of March
15:04.37Copegood good
15:04.58Copeso she has a job, visa, etc?
15:05.14rhoweno, no :P
15:05.30Coperight
15:05.35rhoweLooks like me and Jia will be married come the start of 2007
15:05.57rhoweand househunting
15:06.28Copeok
15:06.49SlayerXPrhowe: congrats to you both.  how long have you known him?
15:07.52rhoweSlayerXP: Oh, I've known *her* a good 6 months now :P
15:09.18murbnon aryan files will be deleted?
15:09.44SlayerXPbeen ages since I've had to threaten a user over disk space
15:09.54rhoweSlayerXP: This is more about backup tape capacity
15:10.04SlayerXPthat's what I mean
15:10.52SlayerXPI wrote a policy document along the lines of "The backup system isn't for your warez, porn and music."
15:11.22murbunless critial for business?
15:11.42murbwhat happens if you are a profii warezr?
15:13.35rhoweThis is more about duplicate files all over the place
15:13.56murbyou could md5sum everything..
15:13.57rhoweOur users don't store such things on the server, and most are too busy to accumulate such things at all
15:14.16SlayerXP# Roses are red, violets blue
15:14.23SlayerXP# I deleted all your porn
15:14.29SlayerXP# Pack in the boo-hoo-hoos
16:09.29Copeif I have a number of lines of the form indexSID where SID is an Oracle SID - I know how, in sed, to replace eg indexORCL with index ORCL - but how do I make it generically replace index{anything_in_caps} with index {anything_in_caps} so it works for any SID?
16:12.22rhowes/index([A-Z]+)/index \1/
16:12.41rhoweCope: You'll need to add \'s for the ( and ) I think, and perhaps the + too
16:13.26rhoweecho indexSDASD|sed -e 's/index\([A-Z]\+\)/index \1/'
16:13.26rhoweindex SDASD
16:21.29Coperhowe: works fine
16:23.58rhoweWhich bit were you having trouble with? The backreference (\1) or thinking of the ([A-Z]+) pattern?
16:37.17Copethe backreference
16:40.10rhoweAh right.. \1 refers to whatever the first set of parentheses matched against
16:40.16rhowe\2 the second set, etc
16:40.29rhoweAnd, & matches the whole of the matched text
16:40.35rhowes/matches/refers/
16:40.48rhowes/the/to the/
16:41.50rhowes/matches (the)/refers to \1/
16:42.01rhowes/matches \(the\)/refers to \1/
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19:43.49morsingErwin!
19:45.24morsingWhat is an .m3u file? Is it supposed to go on the CD?
19:48.00eye69morsing: It's just a listing of the songs in an album.
19:48.37morsingeye69: Used for...?
19:48.57morsingWhat if I delete it?
19:49.24eye69Having a single file representing an album. You can make an .m3u file containing eg. all Trance albums in your collection.
19:49.52eye69I never use .m3u's. It's your choice if you want it.
19:50.09morsingBut some of them seems to be empty and my mp3 car stereo seems to ignore those tracks
19:50.14morsingSo I can delete them?
19:50.29eye69My car stereo doesn't read .m3u's either.
19:50.43morsingDeleted...
19:50.43eye69You can safely delete them if it's for a car stereo.
19:53.37eye69morsing: My MP3 CD's are just folders named "Artist - Album" containing "SongNumber-Artist - Song.mp3"
19:54.56eye69morsing: What stereo is it?
19:55.33morsingeye69: Kenwood
19:55.50morsingeye69: Which options do you use with mkisofs?
19:56.04morsing-l?
19:57.29eye69-J -l
19:59.02morsingHmm... It's says to files have the same Joliet name and that using RR is highly recommended
19:59.08morsingDo I need Joliet?
19:59.57eye69Joliet is good to have.
20:31.30morsing*sigh*
20:38.24wethrinmorsing?
20:48.02morsingwethrin?
20:48.19wethrinwhy the sigh?
20:48.51Georgebecause he's a sausage
20:48.53Georgeand sausages sigh
20:48.57wethrinshush
20:49.20Georgehehe
20:49.38morsingwethrin: The latest CDs I've ripper are in a wrong format or something. MPEG 1.0 layer 2?!
20:49.46wethrinmp2
20:49.56wethrinIt should be playable by most MP3 players
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23:54.40Georgehello lovely people

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