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00:19.38Georgehello
00:51.50mikejwhey
00:57.39Georgemoo
01:00.42mikejw:S
01:07.50Georgemikejw: what's this about the wmin compsoc then?
01:08.27Georgemikejw: and will I have my arse kicked for not being a student at wmin? :P
01:10.12mikejwno I sincerely hope not :)
01:10.30George:P
01:10.34Georgegood
01:10.35Georgelol
01:11.07GeorgeI HATE SCHOOL
01:11.07Georgelol
01:11.32mikejw:D
01:11.42GeorgeA levels are getting more boring by the day
01:11.52GeorgeI got 6/42 in my last further maths test :D
01:12.39mikejwI took to me a while to realise the value of education :)
01:12.45Georgeheh
01:12.56GeorgeI have plans to stay at university for a long long time
01:13.00Georgelike wethrin, but longer :P
01:13.20mikejwsounds good
01:13.24Georgeyeah
01:13.35Georgeacademia++
01:13.36Georgejob--
01:14.05mikejwit's an appealing prospect
01:14.12Georgeyes
01:16.11Georgemikejw: are you the guy who had the X21?
01:16.20mikejwyeah :D
01:16.26Georgemikejw: nice
01:16.33mikejwthanks
01:16.42Georgemikejw: do those ones have extended life batteries that can clip on the bottom like a docking station?
01:16.48Georgeor are those only the x30/x40 series?
01:16.54mikejwhmmm I've no idea
01:17.11GeorgeI've decided I'm going to buy myself a subnotebook just before I go to uni
01:17.21mikejwan X40?
01:17.25Georgeprobably
01:17.42Georgeby the summer they'll probably be around 500 pounds on eBay
01:18.21mikejwwicked :)
01:18.45Georgethey currently go for 600
01:18.52mikejwok
01:19.06Georgewon't be anywhere near as nice as my T43p, but it'll be portable and have a nice battery life :)
01:19.45Georgeeither that or I could wait until my second year to buy one, as I think the lectures are just across the road from where I'll be living
01:19.48Georgelol
01:19.56mikejwlol
01:20.07mikejwthat's handy
01:20.11Georgeyeah
01:20.17Georgeroll out of bed
01:20.38Georgeor get a parabolic microphone and stick it out of the window
01:21.03mikejw:)
01:21.10George:)
01:21.30Georgehrmm, time to charge my mouse
01:21.35mikejwok
01:21.45mikejwI think I'll hit the sack
01:22.20mikejwI'm not sure sure but I may wake up early enough to attend a psychology society meeting :)
01:22.48Georgepsychology?
01:22.53Georgewho are you trying to manipulate?
01:22.57mikejwlol
01:23.26Georgeanyway, I'd better be off and read some books
01:23.27Georgeor something
01:23.30George(for once)
01:24.00mikejwbooks are good
01:25.46Georges/buy/buying/
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02:22.03morsingThis sucks :-(
02:22.09morsingLeedsHK!
02:25.18LeedsHKwhat sucks?
02:25.29LeedsHKbeing awake at 2:40 in the morning?
02:25.33LeedsHKuh, 2:24
02:25.38LeedsHKmorsing: what?
02:25.50LeedsHKcock it...
02:28.46morsingLeedsHK: That I'm awake
02:29.30LeedsHKwhy are you awake?
02:29.45morsingDon't know...
02:30.07LeedsHKworried about life, the universe and everything?
02:30.12LeedsHKdrunk, but not drunk enough?
02:30.14LeedsHKwomen?
02:30.25morsing02:30 < LeedsHK> worried about life, the universe and everything?
02:30.39LeedsHKthere's an easy answer to that one
02:31.20LeedsHKyou know the answer, right?
02:31.56morsingSleep?
02:32.00LeedsHKnope
02:32.12LeedsHKthe answer to the great question of life...
02:32.14LeedsHKthe universe...
02:32.17LeedsHKand everything!
02:33.02LeedsHKyou're not going to like it
02:33.20LeedsHK42!
02:35.36morsingWhat are you doing?
02:36.39LeedsHKtelling you the Answer
02:36.46LeedsHKand quoting from a book in the process
02:39.24morsingNo are you at work?
02:39.36LeedsHKyes
02:39.42morsingWhy can't I sleep :-(
02:40.37LeedsHKhow long have you been at Camelot?
02:43.16morsing2.4 years
02:43.44LeedsHKis that a short time or a long time for you to be in one job?
02:44.50morsingUnfortunately that's a long time :-(
02:45.07morsingI really want to find a good job and hold on to it
02:45.48morsingWell, I'm going to bed again to watch some TV
02:45.50morsingG'night
02:45.54LeedsHKwhat I was going to say was...
02:45.55morsingSee you in the morning
02:45.59morsingYes?
02:46.23LeedsHKif you've been in the job for a long time, starting the process of moving on with the physical act of writing and submitting your resignation is a major life step
02:46.36morsingYes
02:46.47LeedsHKso a sleepless night isn't exactly unsuprising
02:47.00morsingNo - you're right
02:47.18morsingBut I've had a number of them over the last two months
02:47.40LeedsHKyou mean during the period leading up to the physical act of writing and submitting your resignation?
02:48.26morsingNo - not really. Maybe just stress in general
02:48.43LeedsHKlife sucks
02:49.07morsingMmm...
02:49.11morsingG'night
02:49.25LeedsHKg'night
06:39.02LeedsHKibot change 5280 hkd to gbp
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07:59.58LeedsHKSlayerXP: what are your thoughts on the matter?
08:00.19SlayerXPLeeds: it's a disgrace.
08:00.42LeedsHKunfortunately, I think you're probably right
08:00.53SlayerXPwhat are we talking about?
08:01.16LeedsHKnothing in particular
08:01.49LeedsHKhttp://simonworld.mu.nu/archives/158834.php is not paintball pictures
08:05.28LeedsHKneither is http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A2_%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A2_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%99
08:33.05mozratmorning
08:33.40LeedsHKI just got a Jewish joke from fortune...
08:34.53mozratLeeds, my friend used to have a flat overlooking that airport
08:36.05LeedsHKI've been at the end of the runway on a boat
08:36.14mozratheh
08:36.19mozratsurprised they allow that
08:36.35LeedsHKuh, you do know they closed the airport years ago?
08:36.48mozratyes - they moved it right?
08:37.00mozratI see your point :)
08:37.17LeedsHKwell, they closed it and opened a new one... much as property development in Hong Kong resembles a game of Populous, they didn't actuall transplant it :-)
08:37.59LeedsHKwhen I say it resembles Populus, the standard development technique is "We want to build X (airport, Disneyland, etc.) but we can't find a good spot - so we'll build a bunch of land over there, out of the sea, then build on it"
08:39.04mozratsounds fair enough
08:43.28LeedsHKuh, no
08:44.49LeedsHKthey took two small islands off the north of Lantau and made a single 12.48km^2 island out of them
08:45.27LeedsHKalmost all the flat land on the north side of Hong Kong island was once harbour... at the rate they're going, they could close the harbour up within the next 100 years - seriously
08:45.47mozratisn't it regulated?
08:46.07LeedsHKyes and no
08:46.45LeedsHKHong Kong is very 'business-friendly' - which usually translates as 'property developers have to do something monumentally bad for the government to care'
08:46.57mozratright
08:47.06LeedsHKsome of the numbers behind the Disney development are stunning
08:47.07mozratis there a big "green" campaign against it?
08:47.30LeedsHKsmall but growing
08:48.00LeedsHKDisney got the equivalent of something amazing like $20,000 (HK) for every person in HK in the form of subsidies and land grants
08:48.52LeedsHKI'm sorry - $42,000
08:49.28LeedsHKhttp://www.webb-site.com/articles/hkdisney.htm - okay, this is a pretty anti-government site, but he is making an interesting point
08:49.36LeedsHKplus, his site has a cool name :-)
08:51.49LeedsHKfor the record, 1GBP ~= 13.5 HKG
08:51.51LeedsHKHKD
08:56.45mozratthat is a awful lot of money
08:57.12LeedsHKthat is including the estimated market value of the reclaimed land
08:57.28LeedsHKit's only $3600 in actual cash... per person...
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09:03.13LeedsHKz00dax!
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09:09.04LeedsHKfloo!
09:11.25LeedsHK"Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250"
09:13.37LeedsHKI wonder how much disk space, memory, bandwidth, etc. is wasted by people who don't realise that Excel creates three worksheets by default, and if you're just using 3 lines of the first one, you can delete the others...
09:14.50SlayerXPLeeds: not very much, I imagine
09:15.51floohi leeds
09:15.54floohow's it oging?
09:16.13LeedsHKSlayerXP: in aggregate?
09:16.23LeedsHKfloo: not bad... you?
09:16.58SlayerXPLeeds: compared to the amount wasted by fuckwits using html email, it's insignificant
09:17.14LeedsHKtrue
09:19.32murbwhat is wrong with non plain text emails?
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09:20.30SlayerXPmurb:
09:20.31SlayerXPerr
09:20.38SlayerXPhttp://www.hinterlands.org/gllugfaq/#id2482278
09:20.52murbSlayerXP: in somecases it might be appriate.
09:21.13mozrat" This is stupidity compounding stupidity." :_
09:21.15murbshould i send an invoice as text or pdf?
09:21.15mozrat:)
09:21.31LeedsHKSlayerXP: in my firefox, text can clash with the floating logo
09:21.44LeedsHKmurb: pdf
09:22.01SlayerXPLeedsHK: jolly good.
09:23.09LeedsHKand I'm not quite sure that "Consider joining a Linux User Group (LUG)." is the sanest advice in a LUG's FAQ - at least, not unqualified like that
09:24.35murbconsider buying SlayerXP beer and paying for other "proffesional services" would be better advice?
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09:24.44LeedsHKyes
09:24.50mozratwoo morsing_
09:24.53LeedsHKibot wake morsing_
09:25.03SlayerXPLeedsHK: not everyone reading that will be in london
09:25.11SlayerXPgllug is alos not the only LUG in london
09:25.13SlayerXPalso
09:25.32LeedsHKhence, qualifying it might be a good idea
09:25.49morsing_Hello
09:25.49SlayerXPsend your patch to: martin@hinterlands.org
09:26.11LeedsHKno
09:26.38SlayerXPi dunno
09:27.03SlayerXPthese people talk about open source freedom and the collaboration of people from all round the world
09:27.16SlayerXPbut ask them to send in a teeny tiny patch and what do you get?
09:27.18SlayerXP*tsk*
09:27.42LeedsHKI could send you a few yards of fabric and you could cut your own patch from it?
09:27.57SlayerXPsure. mail to Martin A. Brooks, Vegmo, 7710 Sparbu, Norway
09:27.58LeedsHKyes, people still sell/price fabric by the yard
09:28.33morsing_Crap
09:28.34SlayerXPan experiment with a postcard proved that "Brooks, Sparbu, Norway" will get to me, too
09:28.40murboh norway, isn't that in some kind of lesser known customs union?
09:29.08LeedsHKmy email is behaving a little strangely
09:29.17murbreboot it.
09:29.39SlayerXPinstallms  exchange
09:29.44LeedsHKno
09:30.32SlayerXPlotus notes?
09:30.36morsing_Check it!
09:30.59LeedsHKargh!
09:31.06LeedsHKmorsing_: sleep well?
09:31.06murbhe said email, not groupware!
09:31.25SlayerXPoh, just install AOL then
09:31.26morsing_LeedsHK: No! And I over slept and didn't get any breakfast
09:38.04LeedsHKmorsing: shall I get you some bagels?
09:38.12morsingThanks :-)
09:49.09LeedsHKhmm... lebsian Linux limmerick...
09:55.06morsingwethrin: Did you get the money?
10:12.59wethrinmorsing: Don't know. It normally takes 3 days to clear
10:14.29LeedsHKsomething is very strange at bytemark
10:14.44LeedsHKmy vm keeps forgetting how to spawn shells...
10:16.52LeedsHKto the extent that while backing stuff up, just now, in preparation for a reinstall, sudo hung...
10:18.36murbLeedsHK: memory shortage?
10:19.44LeedsHKI doubt it - dmesg would have reported something... I had another shell active, and could still run other commands - apache/exim/etc still running fine - then I stupidly ran sudo again and lost that shell
10:22.56morsingHow can a bank not have £5800? I have to order it in for tomorrow!
10:23.54LeedsHKsmall-ish branch, doesn't keep as much cash as it used to...
10:24.58murbmorsing: I've not had problems drawing 10000 before from hsbc in wycombe.
10:25.17murbalthough i did have to explain that they couldn't refuse to give it to me just because they didn't like my passport photo...
10:25.19morsingmurb: Maybe not but you're rich
10:25.43murbmorsing: i'm not rich, i was just doing a bank transfer.
10:27.04LeedsHKhometime
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10:28.59stephanb2yo
10:33.46morsingstephanb2!
10:33.50mozratyoyo stephanb2
10:33.55morsingmozrat!
10:34.01mozratmorsing!
10:41.39SlayerXPis that like "taking tea with the parson" ?
10:41.52mozratGoodness
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10:49.04morsingz00-mobile!
10:49.11z00-mobileHello
10:49.21mozrathey z00-mobile
10:49.36z00-mobileback @ the embassy!
10:50.05mozratz00-mobile: you have to do this marlarky for every country you go to?
10:50.12stephanb2ok can i ask you guys about usb booting ?
10:50.40morsingNo!
10:51.29z00-mobilemozrat - pretty much - but in most cases its a few hours process
10:51.47z00-mobilenot including the US
10:52.16z00-mobileThe US guys take upto 10 to 45 days
10:52.20mozratyikes
10:53.09z00-mobileThe next time I go there it will be on a 10 year visa - so it gets better
10:54.39z00-mobilea spanking new bentley parked outside
10:54.48morsingMmm... Bentley Turbo R
10:55.36stephanb2already bored with this sportscar u bought yesterday off ebay ?
10:55.47morsingsportscar?
10:55.56stephanb2what is it again, it's a 1970 model and its red
10:55.58morsingNo - I'm having problems arranging picking it up
10:56.05morsingChevelle
10:56.05mozratyay - opensuse have RPMs for xgl and compiz
10:56.22z00-mobileI can picture the scene - someone is refused a visa on some doggy grounds - dude buys a can of spray paint - bently gets some makeup
10:56.40morsingdoggy grounds?
10:57.24stephanb2ah the owner has to empty the cocaine off the boot
10:57.49z00-mobileif blondie thinks u r running away from cops etc
10:59.01z00-mobileits Time -
10:59.39mozratgood luck
11:00.15z00-mobiledamn! a queue
11:00.52morsingDoes my openplan woolwich card work at Barclays
11:00.56z00-mobilemozrat - tried those rpms ?
11:01.04mozratz00-mobile: doing so now :)
11:02.47z00-mobilemight want to rpm -Vv them once- just to make sure none of the skeletons from ur last build attempt get in the way
11:03.10mozratz00-mobile: I built everything under /opt/fdo last time so I hope it will be OK
11:03.14SlayerXPbetter still, install devian
11:03.16SlayerXPdebian
11:03.21mozratdeviant?
11:04.19z00-mobiledeviant linu x for the freaks
11:11.24stephanb2devian or davian what a great name for a distro
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11:11.59z00-mobileback!
11:12.22stephanb2when booting, davian plays this sound sample from Stan Kubrick's 2001 "Good morning Dave..."
11:13.01z00-mobilelooks like I m going to Fosdem after all
11:13.08mozratyay
11:16.32Cope:$
11:18.23morsingMmm... $
11:20.44mozratSad, terrible news from our Hong Kong office :(. They came back from lunch earlier today to find that the office crab had a fight with the office lobster and lost all but one of it's legs
11:20.54mozratThere are pictures
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11:31.09comiccpunkhai
11:32.06wethrinhello
11:33.09comiccpunkhai
11:35.54morsingcomiccpunk!
11:37.46mikejwcomiccpunk: hey :)
11:37.46mozrathello
11:38.42comiccpunk:)
11:39.31comiccpunkheo
11:41.42comiccpunkmaybe
11:49.59morsing-bash: ptime: command not found
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12:20.38SlayerXPwhat does ptime do?
12:22.15rhoweReminds Henrik to go to the toilet regularly?
12:36.14mozrathey kbsingh  - so you are good to go?
12:36.40kbsinghmozrat, yea - the jokers gave me a freaking 1 month visa, I was hoping for a year or 2 years
12:37.15kbsinghbut, looks like I will be at Fosdem
12:37.17mozratoh well - solves the immeadiate problem
12:38.08kbsinghmozrat, yea - I suppose the next time I apply it would be easier + longer time period
12:39.05mozratyes
12:53.10morsingkbsingh!
12:55.00kbsinghmorsing!
12:59.06Leedsevening all
12:59.11kbsinghhey Leeds
12:59.42Leedsso, I go to the tailor... and he asked me how the concert was...
13:00.37LeedsI've only been to one concert recently - Franz Ferdinand - and I didn't see him here, but I guess he saw me... pulls out a photo of him with the band, points out which clothes of his they are wearing, shows me his backstage pass and says "I was going to give it to you..."
13:01.57morsingCool
13:03.53Leedsthis is a guy with a wall full of photos of him with celebs who've popped in for a suit - including such luminaries as Maggie, Prince Charles, Cliff Richard...
13:04.33Leedsnice bloke, too
13:10.23mozratinteresting guy
13:10.48Leedshttp://www.time.com/time/asia/2004/boa/boa_body_tailor.html
13:11.47Leedsbecause?
13:11.53LeedsBTW, you bought that car?
13:13.35kbsinghheh, he's a melwani!
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13:14.35Leedskbsingh: he certainly is... and?
13:14.44Leedsangelchild: good evening
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13:14.54angelchildgood afternoon :)
13:14.56pieHola!
13:15.07Leedshttp://www.viiphoto.com/detail-story3.php?news_id=324 and many other pages
13:15.10Leedspie: good evening!
13:15.12angelchildI just won a 5-a-side football cup game 4-0 :D
13:15.22pieDoes Linux work with PCI-E
13:15.23pie?
13:15.25Leedsangelchild: there are 5 of you?
13:15.26angelchild(the electronics & computer science department undergrad team ;))
13:15.37piespecifically nvidia gfx cards
13:15.41angelchildokay, we won :)
13:15.58Leedspie: in theory, I think yes, in practice, I chickened out and bought AGP (actually, a hybrid board with both)
13:16.51kbsinghLeeds, iirc one of the big named tailors in India is also Melwani - based out of bombay
13:17.15pieBah!
13:17.22Leedswell, he's the second generation of Sam in Hong Kong
13:17.25pieHow do you mean in theory?
13:17.55Leedsalthough the idea of a tailor with a stage name is slightly funny
13:18.16Leedspie: well, I think the bus should work - it's just whether, say, X works as well...
13:19.22pieHmmm, I could do with something a bit more concrete, any ideas where to look?
13:20.16mozratangelchild: yay
13:20.21Leedskbsingh: I see mention of his dad having come from bombay
13:20.41Leedspie: I'd start by digging around x.org things - you could always try #xorg :-)
13:23.34pieI think I will checken out :)
13:23.46pieI will get a 2nd HD instead
13:25.27pieWhat would people recommend, Asus, Gigabyte or MSI motherboards?
13:27.40LeedsI've always liked Asus - got an ASRock now
13:30.20pieWhat is the difference between sata and sata2?
13:33.02SlayerXPpie "2"
13:33.45Leedsspeed AFAIK
13:34.17Leedson the other hand, I believe that SATA drives still can't saturate their busses
13:34.42morsingWho cares anyway...
13:35.09Leedsmorsing: did you buy the car?
13:35.13morsingLeeds: We are in discussions about my leaving date
13:35.27morsingLeeds: Yes - Sunday morning
13:35.45Leedsmorsing: they are offering to set you up with someone if you stay longer?
13:35.45eye69morsing: What car?
13:36.25Leedseye69: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4612860917&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D4612860917%26fvi%3D1
13:37.53Leedspie: I have http://www.asrock.com/product/939Dual-SATA2.htm
13:38.06eye69Cool
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13:42.25Leedsevening Erwin
13:43.22kbsinghweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
13:43.25kbsinghsnowing!
13:43.37Leedskbsingh: what? where?
13:43.46kbsinghdocklands!
13:43.59Leedswhoa
13:44.46kbsinghthat didnt last long
13:45.45piethanks Leeds.  Is sata ATA150 and sata2 ata300 ?
13:46.00Leedssomething like that, eys
13:47.20Leedsthe sata2 controller isn't (wasn't?) supported under Linux at all
13:47.41pieIck, better not get one of those then :)
13:47.58LeedsI'm using the sata1 very happily
13:47.59pieis software raid as easy to do with sata as with IDE?
13:48.15Leedshmm... #lugradio is a bit mad
13:48.26Leedsit just shows up as scsi
13:48.31morsingHow do I get this to work?
13:48.33morsing$filename="$out_dir/$machine_$func.out";
13:48.41morsingI've spent two days on this now!
13:48.52piecool
13:48.53ErwinIn what language?
13:48.58morsingPerl
13:49.06LeedsI don't know about software raid, but I brought three drives - two pata, one sata - back with me from the UK, with an lvm-ed filesystem on them, and they're working perfectly
13:49.17morsingIt says $machine_ isn't defined
13:49.22Erwin${machine}
13:49.32morsingErwin: It's not shell scripting
13:49.36SlayerXPmorsing: correct.
13:49.41Leedsmorsing: I'm sure we've gone through this before
13:49.52Leeds$machine+"_"+$func+".out"
13:50.03SlayerXP$filename="$outdir/" . $machine . "_" . "$func.out"
13:50.09pieLeeds, when you say 'the sata2 controller isn't (wasn't?) supported under Linux at all', do you mean it shows up as a sata1 controller, or not at all?
13:50.18Leedsokay, . concatenation instead of + concatenation
13:50.38Erwin${foo} works too. The {} can be used to disambiguate in a case exacty like this.
13:50.40Leedspie: not at all - doesn't exist in the Linux universe... doesn't help that it's on the pci-e bus :-)
13:50.55pie:)
13:51.00morsingLeeds: We have and it's not working
13:51.05pieOK, I had better be careful then :)
13:51.24Erwin"${out_dir}/${machine}_${func}.out"
13:51.28morsingUse of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at ./check-last-1.0.sh line 29.
13:51.30ErwinThere, it's clear what the variable names are
13:51.40morsingErwin: Yes but then I get that error!
13:51.48ErwinThen something is unitialized. doh.
13:52.24Erwindid you assign to $out_dir ? $machine? $func?
13:54.43morsingErwin: $machine comes from the command line and I hadn't set it
13:55.10Leedspie: the point about that board, in case you hadn't noticed, is that it has both AGP and PCI-E, so you should be able to upgrade more easily... also, in theory, it should be able to have support for the next-gen AMD socket added in a daughterboard, although I've got no idea how well that will work
13:57.04Erwinmorsing: How does it "come" from the command line?
14:00.20pieLeeds, It does look nice, but I am limited to a spplier that doesn't stock that board...
14:00.41pieWhat do you make of this one: http://smallr.com/1en
14:01.15Leedspie: I should point out that the asrock one is pretty cheap'n'cheerful - works well for me, might not work for everyone
14:02.49Leedspie: I would want to confirm support for the onboard stuff - particularly network and sata2 - if you're intending to use them
14:02.53pieIt could be free, but I can't get it if microdirect don't stock it (it is a work thing).
14:04.00Leedshttp://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=10165&GroupID=1091
14:04.58pie:)
14:05.06pieAnd that works fine for you?
14:05.27Leedsif it's going to be free, you might want to go for something better, but it works well for me
14:05.49pieIt also has to be 'not excessive'.
14:06.12pieHmmm, I want something that will work primarily :)
14:06.19Leedswell, it's one of the cheapest there...
14:06.32pieIf I save some wad I can get a second HD and raid them.
14:06.50LeedsI've only got a week of uptime because there was a power cut last week, but otherwise this machine has been running 24/7 for a few weeks now
14:07.06SlayerXPwell gosh, that makes it super reliable
14:07.12SlayerXPquick! I must oracle and install it!
14:07.57Leedsit's a cheap desktop machine because I was tired of living out of a suitcase - i.e. a laptop
14:09.19pieAwww, knackers, it doesn't do ECC RAM...
14:09.24pieit would seem
14:09.34Leedsthe whole machine, excluding monitors, cost me about 250 quid - for a decent processor, decent amounts of hard drive and memory
14:09.41Leedsnope, it's a cheap'n'cheerful desktop m/b
14:10.47pieI had better look at a different board then.
14:10.56pieI really hate hardware, I wish everything was software
14:11.25pieThere could be 'real' VM's that didn't need hardware...
14:12.50stephanb2pie: i have been looking at gigabyte 737 mobo's + Athlon64. but i end up with a £300 system *excluding* hard drive and monitor
14:13.44stephanb2this is for a non-gaming desktop that can double as a PVR, and therefore has a silent case and silent cpu cooler
14:13.57pieWell, I can spend up to about £400 at a push (without monitor).
14:14.14pieThis is for a work development machine, it will have 2Gb ram :)
14:15.01stephanb2pie: i would imagine my config could suit you. unless you do OpenGL stuff and u need fast graphics
14:15.44pieNo, just 2d
14:16.36Leedssilence would be golden...
14:17.45stephanb2Leeds: it's not expensive if u build from scratch. u start with a silent case
14:18.32stephanb2pie: i intend to build around a GA-K8N51GMF-9 mobo
14:19.01stephanb2http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3VZ4
14:19.52stephanb2Leeds: Antec Sonata II http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3SPW
14:20.52stephanb2Leeds: CPU cooler Thermaltake golden orb
14:21.04pieShould I drop the ECC RAM, is it really necessary?
14:25.38stephanb2no idea bout this
14:27.17piefrom #xorg: pie: works fine, although hardware acceleration of at least some r300 pci express chips doesn't work
14:27.23piere: PCI-E
14:28.08LeedsI have a r300, and it's accelerated but slow
14:31.37pieslow 2d?
14:32.38Leedsnah, 2d is fine, and xvideo, which I care about, works well, except that I can't split it over 2 heads
14:33.49pieHmmm, should I go for PCI-E?  I just can't choose...
14:34.04Leedsdo you care about 3d at all?
14:34.28kbsinghmozrat, xgl joy ?
14:35.16pieno
14:36.50rhowehm, Jetty++
14:36.51mozratkbsingh: not yet
14:37.00mozratit relies on something in my regular xorg.conf
14:37.07rhowe7 minutes later, the website was updated :)
14:37.10mozratI don't seem to be able to load the xgl module
14:38.43Leedshttp://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/91
14:39.37Leedsto quote: "Bunch of fucking CUNTS."
14:40.31mozratheh
14:41.31rhowehaha "BTW, just wondering, do you use Gentoo? :-)"
14:42.15rhowe"resolution set to id10t"
15:25.07morsingCheck it!
15:29.14stephanb2pie: well yes it seems that apg is on the way out.
15:29.53stephanb2pie: my choice is video on the mobo (nvidia 6100 or 6150) + pci-e slot
15:30.06stephanb2pie: so u can upgrade the video if necessary
15:30.16stephanb2s/apg/agp
15:36.45Leedsmy fingers smell
15:36.59Leedsin a good way...
15:37.31Leedsof guitar
15:38.48Leedsspecifically, of metal-cased guitar string
15:42.18Leedsin the meantime, ever had the urge to order custom-packed 48-piece boxes of Yorkshire crisps?  http://www.seabrookcrisps.com/orderform.htm
15:44.25rhowe"Please contact me regarding Seabrook Crisps news"
15:44.42Leedsabsolutely
15:45.14Leedsbloody southerners wouldn't know a real Yorkshire crisp if it came up and "bit them"
15:47.24Leedsthis is hilarious! http://www.digitalhome.plus.com/tube/sponsors.pdf
15:48.08rhoweheh
15:48.44Leedsone of the funniest things I've seen for ages!
15:49.27rhowe"Redkennington"
15:49.44Leeds"Portaloo & City - closed April-September 2006 for cleaning"
15:50.29Leeds"Channel 4ingdon"
15:50.41rhowe"Aldigate East"
15:51.35rhowe"B&Q Gardens" - heh
15:51.35LeedsI prefer "Marks & Spencery Lane" - better food
15:52.06Leeds"Shredded Wheatstone"
15:52.11rhowe"Canon Street" - d'oh
15:52.24rhowe"IBMbankment"
15:52.53Leedsfor that matter, "St. John Lewis"
15:53.13Leeds"Actimel Town"
15:53.29rhowe"Rentokilburn Park"
15:53.47Leeds"WimbleDonkey Kong" and "WimbleDonkey Kong Country"
15:54.18Leedsand "South WimbleDonkey Konga"
15:54.21Copeeurgh
15:54.28rhowe"Weetabixton"
15:54.53rhowehaha "Kappam {Sount,North,Common}"
15:55.06Leeds"Diet Coke with Limehouse"
15:55.09rhowe"Dial-4-a-Loan Square"
15:55.14Leedsevening Cope :-)
15:55.30rhowe"iPoddington"
15:55.37Copeello
15:55.46LeedsCope: this really is rather funny
15:55.52rhowe"Baker's Complete"
15:55.57CopeLeeds: what is?
15:56.18LeedsCope: the Tube, sponsored...
15:56.28Leedshttp://www.digitalhome.plus.com/tube/sponsors.pdf
15:57.08ErwinHehe. iPoddington.
15:57.35Copehehe
15:58.09Leeds"MSNdon Central"
15:58.29Coperhowe ----> #william
15:59.55Coperather good
16:00.15Copelol ivmbankment
16:00.24Copes/vm/bm/
16:04.22morsingCheck it!
16:04.45Copemorsing: thankfully, its still there and in one piece
16:06.11piefap fap fap fap fap: ruby -e"puts eval('0b' + (1.to_s*31)).to_i"
16:10.14stephanb2so about booting on a usb drive with a bios that doesn't support usb booting...
16:11.01Leedsstephanb2: boot floppy/CD?
16:11.10stephanb2do i need the content of /boot to be on a cdrom or on an ide partition
16:11.29stephanb2+ a special initrd to support usb and usb-scsi
16:12.12Leedsin theory, I think you could get away with just a bootloader which speaks USB
16:12.25Leedsin practice, yes, the kernel/initrd is probably easier
16:12.57stephanb2Leeds: hmmm would grub do that?
16:13.23stephanb2i thought grub only saw the drives detected by the bios
16:13.30pieHmmm, grub.
16:14.41stephanb2http://www.livefoodsdirect.co.uk/products.asp?dept=1047
16:14.58pieI am not going there...
16:15.20stephanb2it's not a medical website, it's not scary
16:16.38mozratheh http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2006/02/19/the_perils_of_metadata
16:16.41pieI suspect it has something to do with 'live', 'grubs', and 'food'.
16:16.44stephanb2this is more scary http://www.dfes.gov.uk/consultations/conResults.cfm?consultationId=1225
16:16.55stephanb2no pictures, only words
16:17.01mozratspammer/hacker does interview with Washington Post on the condition they protect his anonymity
16:17.14mozratthey give the game away in the EXIF data of his photo
16:23.59Copewilliam waves.
16:26.07mozrathi william!!
16:30.20mozratcope - hello
16:30.22mozratone sec
16:36.29stephanb2Leeds: but you do need a modified initrd to support usb don't you ?
16:37.38Leedsum, an initrd is just a filesystem image appended to your kernel so it's available at boot time from whatever medium you're using - you can put whatever you like in one
16:40.47mozratnn Leeds
16:41.53stephanb2|=----| Leeds
16:46.32Cope| o                                    |
17:01.00Blapto<PROTECTED>
17:01.26mozrat| o
17:01.43mozrat*( Quiet day on teh mailing list today )*
17:01.43Blapto<PROTECTED>
17:01.45BlaptoI give up.
17:06.04pawel|-o-|
17:06.12pawel<PROTECTED>
17:06.17pawel<PROTECTED>
17:06.27stephanb2playing ping with emoticons ?
17:06.32stephanb2s/ping/pong
17:06.32mozrat(Arghh = Tie fighters)
17:07.14pawel;>
17:08.21pawelbtw. have you guys seen this one? http://electronic.idilis.ro/uploaded_images/tie_fighter_case_mod-740605.jpg
17:15.55Georgeinteresting
17:16.04GeorgeDNS has stopped working
17:16.08Georgeibot: nslookup google.com
17:20.05stephanb2cu guys l8r
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17:22.25Georgethose weirdos at St Andrews have asked me if I want to apply for a scholarship for computer science
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17:59.40Georgemy internet is being evil
18:15.30mozrathometime
18:15.37Georgemooo!
18:15.38Georgehey mozrat
18:58.44mozrathey George
18:58.55Georgehey
18:59.01Georgewoo
18:59.25mozrathow is school?
18:59.30Georgeboring as hell
19:00.02mozratgood. as expected then
19:00.52Georgemoooo
19:07.32mozratbaaa
19:08.06mozratGeorge, i might dual boot with Gentoo - what is your advice?
19:08.18Georgemozrat: gentoo is FUCKING COOOOOL if you have a good cpu :P
19:08.43mozratdefine good.... mine processes stuff
19:08.52Georgewhat do you want it for?
19:09.16mozratdunno really
19:09.27mozrati could either dualboot my laptop
19:09.36mozrator on a spare box under my desk
19:09.59GeorgeI tend to prefer using Gentoo on slower systems
19:10.05Georgebecause I find it is a million times more responsive
19:10.09Georgebut that may just be me :P
19:10.17mozratbut the spare box will just sit there doing nowt
19:10.24Georgemy 667MHz PowerBook running Gentoo was more responsive than SuSE 9.1 on an Athlon XP 2700+
19:10.45mozratanyway - that wasnt advice. it was a statement. what is your advice?
19:11.25Georgewellll
19:11.29Georgewhat sort of advice are you looking for?
19:11.53mozrat*You're* advice on using Gentoo!
19:12.01mozratummm
19:12.05mozratyour
19:12.11GeorgeHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
19:12.17Georgeway to go - highlight your retardedness :D
19:12.25mozratyes :(
19:12.36Georgestill on the district line?
19:12.39mozratdammit
19:12.42mozratyes
19:12.47Georgewhat station?
19:13.01mozratJust gone past East Ham heading out of town
19:13.28Georgewoo
19:13.41mozratwhere the "downmarket" people live, geoRge :-)
19:13.49mozratthanks /me hungry
19:13.52Georgeheh
19:13.53Georgeerm
19:13.54Georgeanyway
19:13.57GeorgeGentoo is fantastic
19:14.12mozrat^-- statement
19:14.57mozratIs it a source based install or a binary install?
19:16.24mozratstupid question, ignore that
19:16.47Georgewhat?
19:16.53mozrathow long does it take on your thinkpad?
19:17.05Georgeerm
19:17.08Georgeto install?
19:17.13mozratyeah
19:17.33George2 days?
19:17.35Georgeincluding kDE
19:17.37GeorgeKDE
19:17.46mozratwow
19:26.05BlaptoGentoo...
19:26.09Blaptoemerge foo --rice
19:27.13GeorgeGentoo++
19:27.29mozratDistrictLine--
19:27.35BlaptoOh god
19:27.38BlaptoThe district line sucks
19:27.52BlaptoIt's actually terrible.
19:28.00mozratBlapto. I can confirm your statement
19:28.15BlaptoI've been known to get off the line and bloody walk it instead.
19:28.42BlaptoEspecially around the kensington/olympia area.  It's about 20 minutes to walk about 5 stops, yet takes the district line up to 30...
19:28.50mozratthe stations are a bit too spaced out for that this end
19:29.22BlaptoWhere are you
19:29.28mozratanyway - my stop next.
19:29.32BlaptoEast Ham still, knowing the district line...
19:29.54mozratBlapto, read the sidebar on beerandspeech.org
19:30.08mozratbye everyone!!!!
19:30.17BlaptoBye
19:30.59BlaptoThe central line is fine
19:47.12Georgewhat is the cheapest fanless agp dual dvi nvidia graphics card there is? :)
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20:54.41AndrewBlackHas anyone noticed the British rail signs that have appeared on Google maps.  How long have they been there
20:55.03AndrewBlackThey mainly sem to be on Nat Rail stations taht are also tube stations.
21:26.09Georgemooo
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22:07.12GeorgeI CAN'T SEEEEEEEE
22:08.40BlaptoLook in a mirror again, George
22:08.58GeorgeBlapto: I just looked into the flame of burning magnesium
22:09.08BlaptoSilly boy.
22:09.11George:D
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23:48.21mozratGood evening
23:49.30Georgemoo
23:50.30mozratoom
23:52.42Georgesleepy time
23:52.48Georgeor rather, get-off-the-bloody-internet-time
23:52.50Georgebyeeeeeeee
23:57.02mozratnn
23:57.12mozratWho is left to talk to?
23:57.20mozratangelchild?
23:57.42pawel:-S
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23:58.24paweldie;
23:58.30pawel?>

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