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00:02.42paweloh, date has changed.
00:07.14mozrathey pawl
00:07.16angelchildhello world
00:07.17mozratpawel
00:07.36mozratthe world says "hello" back
00:07.42angelchild:D
00:07.47angelchildgo west
00:07.59mozratI do... daily
00:08.23mozratand then in the evening.. I go east again!
00:12.06angelchildgasp!
00:12.10angelchildyou rebel you
00:12.30mozratI KNOW!
00:13.05mozratso - who were you playing football against today?
00:13.10mozratand did you score?
00:14.55angelchildI play in goal ;p
00:15.06angelchildwe were playing "English Athletic"
00:15.15angelchildwho we scraped a 3-3 draw with before christmas
00:15.37mozratand today you crushed them? :)
00:16.05angelchildyeah :D was fun :)
00:16.11angelchildfirst time we've won so convincingly
00:19.28mozratgood stuff
00:19.46mozratfunny - George went to bed.. sensed you were here and came sniffing around
00:19.50mozrat"BED, George"
00:21.45angelchildhe's attracted to me
00:21.49Georgehahahaha
00:21.50angelchildin a bad way
00:21.55Georgeyou're uglier than my thinkpad
00:22.12angelchildI'm not a laptop
00:22.16Georgeno
00:22.20angelchildI don't see the relevance of the comparison
00:22.20Georgeyou're uglier than my laptop
00:23.20pawelmozrat: hi. :>
00:24.33mozrathi pawel
00:24.44mozratangelchild: you have a stalker. Congrats
00:25.06Georgeno she doesn't
00:25.08GeorgeI don't stalk
00:25.11GeorgeI just annoy
00:28.47mozratibot lart George
00:28.59mozratRude chap he is
00:29.23Georgemoo
00:37.28mozrat<PROTECTED>
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01:28.24Georgehey LeedsHK
01:30.34LeedsHKmorning George
01:32.55Georgehey LeedsHK
01:33.00Georgejust sorting out my home directory
01:33.02Georgeand pondering coding
01:40.52LeedsHKheh, anyone who mentions FOSDEM being in the "beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium" hasn't been to ULB :-)
01:41.22LeedsHKsure, the Grand Place is pretty, but there are some very ugly parts of town too...
01:43.33Georgeinteresting
01:43.37GeorgeI've *lost* an article
01:43.39Georgelisterally just lost it
01:44.52wethrinGo to bed
01:44.57wethrinLeedsHK: Most of Brussels is ugly
01:45.07wethrinEuropean Grey(TM)
01:46.17Georgehey wethrin
01:46.19Georgelove you too
01:46.44wethrin:-)
01:47.33Georgewethrin: going to be at ukuug?
01:48.01wethrinNot specifically, but I'll be around Durham
01:48.09Georgehrmm
01:48.11Georgeuseless lump
01:48.13wethrinI may make it in to some of the talks, if they're of sufficient interest
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01:58.17wethrinnight
01:59.33Georgenight
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02:34.21Georgehi angelchild
02:36.14Georgelol
02:36.18Georgeget more ram :P
02:36.37Georgehohoho
02:36.40GeorgeI'm funny
02:37.22LeedsHKit's a laptop - it's got 512MB already, which should be enough for anyone
02:38.04LeedsHKI don't object to firefox taking, say, a couple of hundred meg - I work it pretty hard - but I do object when it approaches 100% of real RAM
02:39.44LeedsHKon the other hand, I just lost almost all of my session when it crashed, because it hadn't finished reloading from the manual restart
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07:50.41LeedsHKibot time
07:50.41ibot2006.02.22  7:50:41 GMT
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08:00.57morsingLeedsHK!
08:01.09LeedsHKmorsing!  8am on the dot!
08:02.16LeedsHKhow are you?
08:05.03Copemorning
08:08.04LeedsHKCope: how are you?
08:08.34Copeok...
08:09.20LeedsHKhad breakfast?
08:09.28Copenot yet
08:10.04Copewilliam still asleep :)
08:10.11Copeibot william
08:10.12ibotsomebody said william was the son of Cope... sadly unlikely ever to be seen again, in China.
08:10.23morsingLeedsHK, Cope I'm fine thank-you
08:10.39LeedsHKCope: uh...
08:10.42morsingCope: How do you know?
08:10.56Copeibot no William is the son of Cope, who is living with Cope!
08:10.56ibotokay, Cope
08:11.28Copeibot laomao
08:11.29ibotsomebody said laomao was the artist formerly known as Mrs Cope, but no longer so :-(
08:12.28LeedsHKibot Cope
08:12.28iboti guess cope is rocks, or clearly becoming a girl, or religion, or a 15 year old, or alex
08:13.14LeedsHKhmmm... I'm reasonably sure you're not 15 - the others are less certain
08:13.55morsingCope: What happened?
08:40.26LeedsHKibot change 768 hkd to gbp
09:03.04mozratmorning
09:04.00morsingmozrat!
09:04.03morsingAre you happy?
09:04.11mozratvery!
09:04.39LeedsHKwhy, what do you know?
09:04.52mozratThe meaning of life!
09:07.11LeedsHKand...
09:09.11mozratIn other news I have a tree on my desk
09:09.23mozratit was delivered to reception for a non-existant name
09:09.26mozratbonsai tree
09:09.36mozratit has been on the receptionists desk for a week
09:09.43mozratwith no natural light
09:09.55mozratand it is in rather a rough shape
09:10.07LeedsHKfeed it
09:10.17morsingmozrat: Eat it
09:10.41mozratI have a window with a commanding view over the Westbourne Terrace, Bishops Bridge Road junction
09:10.46mozratso I am trying to revive it
09:11.01LeedsHKmorsing: Cock it!
09:23.57pdrrhowe_?
09:24.03pdr(morning all)
09:25.38LeedsHKhi pdr
09:28.20pdrhey LeedsHK
09:28.35pdryou making it to fosdem by any chance?
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09:29.08LeedsHKthat would be a big no... going to Sydney next week
09:29.41pdrcool, how long for?
09:29.56LeedsHKa week - family wedding
09:31.31pdrnice weather at this time of year
09:32.43LeedsHKdidn't choose the dates :-)
09:33.10LeedsHK"GnomeMeeting has been renamed Ekiga, to be pronounced [i k ai g a]."
09:34.43SlayerXPmuch more catchy
09:35.12pdrnow that's just silly
09:35.26pdr(pronounced "sillaay")
09:35.32LeedsHKhttp://blog.gnomemeeting.net/index.php?p=21 for the reasoning
09:35.59LeedsHKessentially, calling all gnome software gnomefoo is silly, and tying yourself to netmeeting is silly when netmeeting is dead
09:36.38pdrvery much fair enough, but "Ekiga"?  pronounced some strange way?
09:37.20LeedsHKpdr: it's possible that it's not pronounced some strange way if, say, you're Phlegmish
09:45.02pdrok, i take it back, it's not a silly name at all
09:48.32morsingSlayerXP!
09:49.09SlayerXPyes?
09:49.23morsing./home/logxfer/.ssh/authorized_keys2
09:50.43SlayerXPunless you're running an ancient version of ssh, you don't need the "2"
09:52.00morsingSlayerXP: The guy setting this up is ancient
09:52.24SlayerXPtell him you have a policy of only using type 2 DSA with passphrases
09:52.34SlayerXPtype 2 DSA keys, that is
09:52.43morsingSlayerXP: SSH doesn't use that file but he doesn't realise that
10:00.16LeedsHKSalary tax dropped by 1% in the budget in HK today
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10:07.57LeedsHKhttp://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/section-item.asp?sid=54&iid=384
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10:24.58stephanb2hello everybody
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10:37.12LeedsHKkbsingh! stephanb2!
10:37.35kbsinghhiya Leeds
10:43.37morsingkbsingh!
10:46.16kbsinghmorsing!
11:07.01morsinggrep: can't open SettingsTempresmscmp001_1.eve
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11:49.43morsingErwin!
11:53.43rhowe_pdr: ?
11:57.41Erwin${morsing}
12:02.23morsinggrep: can't open SettingsTempresmscmp001_3.eve
12:05.46pdrhey rhowe
12:06.07pdrjust wanted to ask you how you were planning to meet up on Friday
12:06.31pdrformi is going to drive over on Thursday night and crash here, do you want to do the same?
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12:33.23wethrinPeople!
12:33.29wethrinAnd PDR!
12:33.30kbsinghwethrin,
12:33.38wethrinkb!
12:39.16murbmore people!
12:39.21murbare many people going to be at fosdem?
12:40.55wethrinI am
12:41.06wethrinNormally there are lots of people at Fosdem
12:42.36murbthat i know already :-p
12:42.41rhowepdr: Nah, I can get to your place or Bermondsey for ~11am easily enough
12:42.49rhowepdr: Jia will be staying with me on Thursday night
12:46.24kbsinghmorsing, got my tickets today
12:46.33kbsinghand I am on the 17:29 from ashford
12:46.52kbsinghgets into Brussels at 20:10
12:47.01rhowehttp://www.wreckage.org/files/Operations%20Report%202005.pdf
12:47.10rhoweSome amusing tales from work there
12:48.02pdrrhowe: ack
12:48.56pdrwe'll probably be heading around 11:15am, but just give us a call when you get to Bermondsey tube station and I'll come and get you (I'm guessing you'll be getting here by tube?)
12:50.31pdrwethrin!
12:50.34rhowepdr: Hm.. probably by train if there's a suitable service
12:50.34rhowepdr: I don't live on the tube
12:50.34rhowepdr: I may even bus it in from Lewisham
12:51.05pdrlewisham?  well that's just about on the way, so could get you from there perhaps
12:51.22rhowepdr: Hrm, well you know where I live - will you be driving along the south circular?
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12:51.46pdrumm... can't remember exactly where you live
12:51.56rhowepdr: Hither Green, just the other side of Catford
12:52.06pdri'll be going ideally down the A2 then the A20 then the M20
12:52.13pdrpostcode?
12:52.18rhoweSE6 1UY
12:53.22rhoweWell how about you meet me at New Cross?
12:54.00pdrnah, that's a piece of piss, can easily pick you up at your place
12:54.17pdrit's very much on the way
12:54.35rhoweOh OK then, although I will probably be taking Jia to the station
12:55.04rhoweSo I can easily get to New Cross (and it won't cost me anything to do)
12:55.26rhoweIt's not even 10mins on the train from Hither Green
12:56.34pdrhmm... thinking...
12:57.52rhowebrb phone call
12:57.55pdrk
12:57.58rhowePipex sucks, btw
12:59.33pdris there another station in between hither green and new x?
13:02.11rhowepdr: Lewisham & St Johns
13:02.14pdrnew cross is on the A20 which is nice and easy for us, but working out when and exactly where to pick you up might be difficult
13:03.10rhowepdr: It looks like New Cross station is right on the A20, and one would (naively?) assume it has a car park/pick up point
13:03.40pdri don't think it does
13:04.05pdrand iirc it's really not an easy place to pick up since there's no side street and only one non-bus lane
13:05.29pdrgoogle maps doesn't have it marked, but is the other station on St John's Vale (road)
13:06.48pdrnear elverson rd dlr?
13:11.20pdrformi: you around?
13:13.44IAmAIHello, peeps.
13:13.53pdrhi IAmAI
13:14.16IAmAIDid anyone go the last meeting?
13:14.25IAmAIThe one about the video editing software?
13:16.22pdri know someone who went.  does that count?
13:16.39pdrapparently the software is really good but the presentation was crap
13:17.04rhowepdr: Going by the satellite image on google maps, St. Johns is just off Saint John's Vale
13:17.37pdrrhowe: same map as i was looking at.  It might be easier to pick you up there
13:23.23Copeewlo
13:27.32pdrhey cope
13:27.37pdrbbiab
13:27.45IAmAIOh dear LOL
13:28.26IAmAICan anyone recommend any free software for web development (HTML, CSS, PHP, etc.).
13:28.53kbsinghIAmAI, Vim
13:28.57IAmAILOL
13:29.00kbsinghok
13:29.04kbsinghin that case, eclipse!
13:29.12IAmAIEclipse?
13:29.35IAmAII love Eclipse for Java programming. I've not really checked it out for web development.
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13:39.59rhowemozrat: Your post about the 15 minutely timesheet thing reminds me of a dilbert comic
13:40.15rhowemozrat: "Here's your timesheet. It needs to be filled in every 15 minutes so that we know what you're doing"
13:40.31rhowemozrat: "I want to die." "The code for strangulation by necktie is 4581"
13:40.44rhowemozrat: (or something like that)
13:41.18Georgehi
13:41.29rhoweGeorge
13:42.51Copehello George
13:43.12GeorgeI have decided that the word "nonanonymosity" is a fantastic word
13:47.07Copesmile
13:48.20Georgesmile?
13:49.02Georgestephanb2: I just made it up
13:49.09Georgestephanb2: it involves both greek and latin negatives :D
13:49.25Georgehint: non (latin): not
13:49.34Georgea- (prefix, greek): not
13:49.39Georgenomos (greek): name
13:49.54stephanb2and i don't know whether the root is "anonymity" or "animosity"
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13:57.40stephanb2from which we create the noun "non-a-nonymous" = "he who can be named"
13:58.10stephanb2then the adjective derived would be "non-a-nonym-ity"
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14:00.44Georgestephanb2: try not without a name
14:05.13morsingstephanb2: What?!
14:05.32morsingWhat's the memory limit for a ksh variable?
14:05.47stephanb2morsing: what what ?
14:08.20wethrinhello
14:12.19Georgesausages
14:12.24Georgeand creaeaaaammmm
14:12.49wethrinew
14:13.07wethrinangelchild: Wake up!
14:13.18morsing13:57 < stephanb2> from which we create the noun "non-a-nonymous" = "he who can
14:13.18morsing<PROTECTED>
14:13.18morsing13:58 < stephanb2> then the adjective derived would be "non-a-nonym-ity"
14:13.26wethrinhello morsing
14:13.31morsingwethrin :-)
14:13.36morsingGot your money?
14:15.13wethrinJust been paid?
14:16.53Georgeargh
14:16.57angelchildAHAHAHAHAHA
14:17.03Georgeuseless lump
14:17.22wethrinangelchild: Are you coming to Fosdem?
14:17.28angelchildthat's okay, ssh hates you too George :)
14:17.30angelchildwethrin: no
14:17.37wethrinYou should
14:17.37Georgeangelchild: and I hate you, your guts and your face
14:18.28morsingangelchild: Why not :-(
14:18.45angelchilderr, because
14:19.19wethrinThere's a youth hostel space become available
14:20.18wethrinSo you should come!
14:25.21morsingwethrin: ?
14:25.34morsingwethrin: What's the max size of a variable in korn shell?
14:25.53wethrinNo idea
14:25.57morsing:-(
14:26.11wethrinmorsing: Think Camelot might be interested in sponsoring Durham Uni Computing Society?
14:26.42morsingwethrin: You can apply
14:26.51wethrinFor Lottery Funding?
14:26.55morsingYes
14:27.02morsingGood luck
14:27.06wethrinMeh. We're not that much of a good cause
14:27.20morsingwethrin: How do I find out?
14:27.43wethrinmorsing: When you say maximum size, what exactly do you mean?
14:27.45wethrinLength? Value?
14:28.08morsingCSTRING=`instfix -iv` runs out of memory
14:28.18SlayerXPmorsing: "who cares?" is the answer
14:28.27morsinginstfix -iv outputs about 1.5MB of data
14:28.36morsingSlayerXP: **** ***!
14:29.09wethrinmorsing: It gives you an error message?
14:30.05morsing./audit.sh[162]: 0403-029 There is not enough memory available now.
14:30.31morsingmamgp201(root)# CSTRING=`instfix -iv`
14:30.31morsingksh: 0403-029 There is not enough memory available now.
14:34.17CopeI see the problem.
14:34.23morsingCope: Thanks
14:35.46morsingCheck it!
14:37.57wethrinCope!
14:42.55wethrinmorsing: You dont think Camelot would be willing to sponsor by themselves?
14:46.03pdrrhowe: have we worked out where to meet then?
14:46.28pdrand george, greek and latin both derive from the same root language anyway, so it's all good
14:48.33stephanb2pdr: sanskript ?
14:54.55morsingFAIL: rlogin and ttys enabled for user gamprdba: ALL
14:56.29pdrstephanb2: and sanskrit too.  They all derive from *PIE, proto-indo-european
15:04.57angelchild:o
15:10.04mozratGood afternoon
15:12.13rhowepdr: Not really.. I'm having to debug a flaky ADSL link in an office staffed by a woman who refuses to look under a desk, and an overworked company director who doesn't have time to help
15:12.52rhowepdr: Both of whose ability, IT-wise, is limited to being able to follow a wire from one end to the other
15:13.30SlayerXPrhowe: you're lucky you have that much assistance
15:13.58rhoweSlayerXP: Yeah.. I emailed him a photo of an NTE5 and said "Does the black cable from the black box plug into one of these?" to which he said no
15:18.10stephanb2another classic case of PEBKAC
15:18.24stephanb2Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair
15:20.04SlayerXPI love users, I truely do.
15:20.50mozratUsers smell
15:21.35stephanb2ls -l /dev/mind/knowledge/sci.tech.comp/cables/
15:22.12stephanb2"can u please point the webcam to the back of your workstation thank you"
15:40.17pdrback
15:40.25Copegammon
15:40.35pdrrhowe: sounds harsh
15:40.51pdrCope: one of my favourite games!
15:41.35pdrrhowe: what time do you have to drop jia off?
15:42.37pdrCope: how's your mum?
15:43.21Copepdr: scared
15:48.18morsingWhat happens if I put the key in a hash twice? (Perl)
15:48.33morsings/the key/the same key/
15:49.55morsingSlayerXP?
15:50.55SlayerXPyes?
15:50.59SlayerXPstartkeylogger
15:52.07morsingWhat happens if I put the key in a hash twice? (Perl)
15:52.19pdrbiab
15:52.22SlayerXPthe second overwrites the 1st
15:53.29morsingSlayerXP: Ok
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15:54.10rhowepdr: No particular time, just need to see her off before I go
15:54.31rhowepdr: Really I can meet you anywhere between Hither Green and your place, just name a time and a place that's convenient for you
15:54.58rhowepdr: I'll see Jia off, and then head off to the meeting point, wherever that may be
15:56.46morsingSlayerXP: If sattrlist is a hash, what would $sattrlist{value} do in a test?
15:57.06SlayerXPi don't know what you mean
15:57.25morsingI want to test if that keys is already in the hash
15:57.35morsingif ($sattrlist{id}) { kjdhsvkjsfrnv }
15:57.54SlayerXPthat will do it
15:59.24morsingHmm... Doesn't seem to work
16:00.13SlayerXPpostel:~# perl -e '$f{a}=1; if ($f{a}){print "yes\n";}'
16:00.13SlayerXPyes
16:00.13SlayerXPpostel:~# perl -e 'if ($f{a}){print "yes\n";}'
16:00.13SlayerXPpostel:~#
16:20.10pawelhi. :>
16:40.16morsingSlayerXP: If it doesn't exist I get a random value...
16:40.25SlayerXPeh?
16:49.34rhowe<PROTECTED>
16:49.47rhoweSeems Joe Spammer needs to learn how to use their software
17:04.38kbsinghrhowe, I've had a few of such spam as well - with the macro's not expanded!
17:42.01skuggkbsingh: how could a macro own a 'not'? and what is a 'not' anyway?
17:46.10stephanb2time 2 go home
17:46.16stephanb2bye everybody
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17:56.43pdrrhowe: ok, cool, then St John's Vale at 11:30 then?
17:56.57pdrI just don't want to have you waiting around in the cold for hours
17:58.26pawelooo... and it is chilly today. ;>
17:58.49pdrquite
17:59.09pdrhad the car serviced/MOTed today, so it's all good for Friday
18:00.15pawelcars, they give you so much trouble these days... all computerised with dozens of sensors.
18:01.39pawelI am having some strange issues with acceleration, 6 different garages and no one can spot the problem.
18:02.01pawelthey all blame sensors.
18:02.42BlaptoBeen driving past any radars recently?
18:03.54pawelI do not know, maybe or maybe not. there is so much of them around.
18:03.59pawel;>
18:04.14pawelBlapto: why do the waves disturb them?
18:06.33rhowepdr: I'll be well wrapped up if it's cold
18:06.37rhowepdr: There's a reasonable potential for snow this weekend
18:07.50pawelbtw. does anyone of you do something in php? ;> a simple question, when I try to count($array), when there is only $array[0] $array[1]
18:08.02pawelit returns 3.
18:08.08pawelhow come?
18:08.36paweldoes it count the word Array?
18:08.53pawelbecause according to the manual it should not.
18:17.03Blaptopawel, there have been stories in the media recently about a certain RAF radar that is causing cars to behave strangely when passing it.
18:17.25Blaptohttp://www.whatcar.com/news-article.aspx?NA=218803
18:17.44gregjpawel: oh! shymansky
18:18.10Georgemoo
18:49.41BlaptoArgh.
18:49.44BlaptoStupid chocolate
18:49.51BlaptoGot a bit of a funny aftertaste, so I have to eat more of it
18:54.17wethrin:-)
18:56.41mozratevenin'
19:03.56Blaptomozrat
19:04.02BlaptoYay, I never have to feel lonely again
19:04.08BlaptoI can get as much post as I want
19:04.19BlaptoI just need to keep getting HSBC to tell me my pin number :D
19:06.00mozratheh
19:15.48Georgeergh
19:15.49Georgelost a disk
19:15.50George:(
19:16.35George200GB sata
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19:26.52BlaptoRAID?
19:32.29Georgeyes
19:49.03Copesucky :(
19:49.25Georgehey Cope
19:49.31Copehiya
19:49.47Georgesausages
19:53.41Georgecurrently zeroing out another disk to check if it's dead
19:55.15murbGeorge: doing that is good as it means that dead sectors get mapped out.
19:57.40Georgeit's good?
19:59.17murbGeorge: well if you have a sector you can't read then it wouldn't generally get mapped out.
19:59.30murbif you write to it, if there are spare sectors they can be remapped.
20:01.52Georgeheh, cool
20:05.35murbif the drive supports smart you might be able to get data on how many sectors have already been remapped.
20:06.34Georgeit's sata
20:09.30murbgood, so almost certainly it does.
20:09.48murbif you are running linux you'll need atleast 2.6.15 though for smartsuit to work.
20:09.58Georgehrmm
20:10.00GeorgeI'm on 2.6.15.1
20:10.14Blaptomurb, I've been running SMART stuff off of a 2.4 kernel.
20:10.22GeorgeBlapto: with sata?
20:10.30BlaptoSCSI
20:10.45Georgesata != scsi :P
20:10.52GeorgeI'm sure scsi support in linux is much more mature than sata ;)
20:10.54BlaptoYeah, but it would probably still work.
20:10.55murbBlapto: that is known to work if the driver supports it.
20:10.57murband the disk.
20:11.04murbBlapto: no, not before 2.6.15
20:11.15murbunless you had the ata passthrough patch applied.
20:11.28Blaptook
20:12.25murbif you have a 3ware controller they supply a seperate device just for the passthrough.
20:12.36Georgemurb: smartmontools?
20:12.59murbGeorge: sounds correct.
20:13.13murbthey also have a webstie with some tips.
20:16.47Georgedoesn't want to work
20:16.51Georgecan't be arsed to try and get it to work
20:21.07pdrpawel: indeed, i liked it when cars were simple, now there's not an inch to spare under the hood coz it's full of electronic this and that
20:21.44pdrrhowe: cool, i like driving in snow! :-)  four-wheel drifting here we come...
20:25.44pawelpdr: my previous car was "just" 5 years older with no computer and sensors whatsoever, so I could sit down on Saturday and try to fix/play with it. now I cannot do anything all seems to be so much complicated, even having manuals gives you nothing, unless you have proper diagnostic equipment.
20:28.12mozrathello
20:28.41Georgehey mozzy!
20:36.43mozrathey!
20:37.12BlaptoI first realised I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat.
20:37.23Georgemozrat: I have an old man's name?
20:37.26mozratDyslexics rule ko
20:37.38mozratGeorge: nah, not really. You are the only George I know however
20:37.46BlaptoPeople are very misinformed about dyslexia.
20:37.51Georgemozrat: :P
20:37.58BlaptoFor example, did you realise that dyslexia is an anagram of spoon?
20:39.27mozratthe dyslexic bank robber rushed into the bank and shouted "Put your mother holding hands in the air - this is a fuck up"
20:39.32mozrator something like that
20:46.14Blapto"Don't you mean a hold up?"
20:46.19Blapto"No, a fuck up, I forgot the gun."
20:51.36mozrathehe
20:52.21mozratToday in Dublin bank robbers held up the main bank... .Police were quick to react and they covered all of the exits to the bank
20:52.32mozratunfortunately the robbers escaped through the entrances
21:07.04Georgemozrat: that's a crap joke
21:07.53SlayerXPi need to shave
21:16.57BlaptoSo shave?
21:19.11pawelBlapto: now you have upset him.
21:19.12pawel;>
21:19.23BlaptoYeah, looks that way
21:21.04pdrpawel: even a five-year-old car has efi
21:25.22pawelpdr: I said that is was a 5-years _older_ car. ;-) VW Golf Mk2 to be precise, diesel, not a gti or g60.
21:38.30pdrah, i see!
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22:55.02Georgeroot      8429 80.9  0.0   1448   348 pts/1    R+   19:19 159:58 dd if /dev/urandom of /dev/sdg
22:55.05Georgegrrr
22:55.08Georgenearly 3 hours
22:57.26rhowe/dev/zero is faster
22:57.30rhoweAlbeit not quite as random
22:58.16Georgehrmm
22:58.25Georgesurely it would be able to generate random numbers at 20MB/s
22:59.04rhoweman dd
22:59.13rhoweThere's a signal you can send it to make it print progress information
22:59.18rhoweSIGUSR1 IIRC
23:00.15Georgenothing in the dd man page
23:01.04ErwinYep.
23:01.21ErwinFreeBSD is much nicer there -- you just press Control-T with almost anything to print status
23:01.37Georgelooks like it's done 90GB
23:02.36Georgedone 1.2GB so far
23:02.36Georgelol
23:03.32rhoweGeorge: Why not dd 50M of /dev/urandom and then repeat that all over the disk?
23:03.44rhoweGeorge: It's not going to be especially random, but should be OK I guess
23:03.47Georgerhowe: because I'm stupid :P
23:03.58wethrinErwin: I quite like the SIGINFO that *BSD's cp accepts
23:04.21wethrinfine
23:04.27George:)
23:04.49angelchildshe hates you too
23:04.57wethrinthanks AC :)
23:04.58Georgestupid child!
23:06.25Georgesee, angelchild is so rude
23:07.00Erwinwethrin: Yeah, that's what ^T sends. I think there was talk of implementing this in Linux but it's so much harder due to Linux being so many separte pieces, unlike FreeBSD
23:07.12wethrinIntegration++
23:07.21angelchildcould you not add it to the coreutils, etc packages?
23:07.47ErwinWell, to change it in LInux you'd have to change 1) the kernel 2) GNU libc 3) all the file/core/etc. GNU utils
23:08.03ErwinAll developed by different people, on different schedules
23:08.18angelchildhrm, I suppose
23:08.25ErwinWhile with FreeBSD, all of this is in a single CVS tree, developed by the same team with with a single release schedule
23:08.32angelchildthe linux kernel itself must be getting somewhat unmanagable by now?
23:09.25George:'(
23:09.37GeorgeI think angelchild is very rude
23:09.47wethrinSeagate++
23:09.56Georgewethrin: my failed disk is a seagate.
23:10.50BlaptoIt's all totally random
23:11.02BlaptoI've had drivers from every mainstream manufacturer fail on me.
23:11.29wethrinGeorge: Yeah, so? I sent back a pair of 200GB disks as warranty replacements, and they've sent me back 300GB disks
23:11.40BlaptoThat's pretty cool.
23:11.49Blaptowethrin, I've got loads of photos of the LHC at CERN
23:11.50wethrinI've been having more issues with Seagate drives in my fileserver, and DMA timeout errors
23:11.52BlaptoAnd their computer centre.
23:11.57wethrinMainly when running Samba, though
23:12.01wethrinNice
23:12.11BlaptoI thought you might want to perv over them or something
23:12.11wethrinBlapto: You Fosdemming?
23:12.15wethrinBlapto: Hell yes
23:12.17BlaptoNah, haven't got the time I don't think
23:12.22wethrinBoo. It's this weekend
23:12.28wethrinAnd there's accommodation space
23:12.38BlaptoIs there transport space
23:12.47wethrinAsk pdr nicely
23:13.18BlaptoDo you know when he's leaving/returning
23:13.33wethrinNot sure. Out Friday, back Sunday, I think
23:14.00Blaptopdr, ping
23:14.11BlaptoI'm depressed enough to consider this
23:14.19wethrinphone/text may be worth it
23:14.50BlaptoIs there much computer stuff done at fosdem?
23:15.00wethrinyou have a business card
23:15.09BlaptoGot it, thanks.
23:15.10wethrinWhat do you mean by 'computer stuff'?
23:15.24BlaptoAnything to do with computers?
23:16.53wethrinWell, it's the Free and Open-Source Developers European Meeting
23:16.55wethrinSo yes
23:17.08BlaptoYes, but that rarely means anything./
23:17.23pawelwethrin: how about accommodation there?
23:17.30wethrinpawel: What about it?
23:17.38BlaptoThere's a free YH place, isn't there?
23:17.51wethrinOne free, because Cope pulled out. You'd owe me money for it, though
23:17.54wethrin30EUR or GBP21.50
23:17.55pawelwethrin: where are you guys going to sleep? :>
23:18.01wethrinpawel: Youth Hostel
23:18.16pawelhow much is it?
23:18.22wethrin30EUR or GBP21.50 :)
23:18.24pawelah.
23:18.33pawela night? or a weekend? :>
23:18.38wethrinTwo nights
23:18.45BlaptoI think I'm going to have to pass on this one actually.
23:18.50wethrinBlapto: Boo :-P
23:19.09BlaptoErr
23:19.13BlaptoI split up with my girlfriend
23:19.16wethrinOh :(
23:19.21wethrinSorry to hear that
23:19.25BlaptoAnd a girl therefore told me she'd been waiting for me to do that for about a year now.
23:19.27BlaptoAnd has thrown herself at me.
23:19.38pawelheh...
23:19.52BlaptoWell, she (the ex) dumped me.
23:19.55BlaptoFor someone else.
23:20.06BlaptoBut I'm not bitter and twisted! (Yes I bloody am)
23:20.10pawelBlapto: that sounds really awful.
23:20.33BlaptoWe'd only been going out for about a year and a half.
23:20.42BlaptoBut I've retained naked photos of her.
23:20.46wethrin:-)
23:20.57BlaptoAnd there are plenty more distros on the rsync server, as they say.
23:21.05pawelBlapto: upload($files);
23:21.07pawel;>
23:21.41wethrinyar
23:23.22BlaptoAvast!
23:23.24wethrinyarrrr!
23:23.39wethrinHurrah!
23:23.45wethrinpawel: You fosdemming, then?
23:24.37pawelBlapto: this is my little secret. ;>
23:24.46pawelwethrin: well, no. :>
23:24.50wethrinbah
23:25.45pawelwethrin: to late to fit it in my budget. ;>
23:26.00wethrinbah
23:31.11BlaptoAhh, found the perfect girl.
23:31.40BlaptoBeautiful, great taste in music, her dad was the UK editor for Wired and...  She does A-level DT!
23:31.46wethrinbut.....?
23:31.53BlaptoWell, it isn't going to happen
23:32.28wethrinah
23:32.29wethrin:(
23:32.37wethrinAlso....Wired...
23:32.59BlaptoThis was 13 years ago
23:33.02BlaptoWhen it was a real magazine
23:33.05wethrinAhh
23:33.14wethrinNot pandering to the Slashdot-weenies?
23:33.53pawelBlapto: and you have forgotten to add that also work as a part time CEO in the city topping £1200000 a year.
23:34.06BlaptoShe's 18.
23:34.10BlaptoOr 17, I'm not sure.
23:34.24wethrin:-)
23:34.27paweloh. great, so she can work fulltime.
23:34.29BlaptoAhhh, the great ID cockup
23:34.38BlaptoOur science society goes to a pub
23:34.42pawellet's make it 2400000.
23:34.44pawelgreat.
23:34.48BlaptoHalf of us are 18, half of us aren't.
23:34.56wethrin:)
23:35.03BlaptoSo basically, I'm buying twice as many drinks as I'm drinking.
23:35.08BlaptoAnd drinking twice as much as I should anyway.
23:35.09pawelBlapto: I must raport it.
23:35.21wethrinBlapto: Go to Uni, and BOOZE MORE!
23:35.34BlaptoBarmaid says to me "I'm not sure you're actually capable of drinking a pint every 5 minutes"
23:35.44BlaptoWalks over to the table we're at
23:35.52Blaptosees about 30 empty glasses.
23:35.52wethrinDown it in front of her and say "You were saying?"
23:35.53Blapto10 people
23:36.01Blaptoand 5 people who she's been selling alcohol to
23:36.07BlaptoDoes some mental arithmetic
23:36.13Blaptorealises we're not paralytic
23:36.16BlaptoAnd chucks us out :D
23:36.25BlaptoOf course "I've been thrown out of better places than this"
23:37.09Blaptowethrin, I'm not going to uni if I get into the RAF.
23:37.20pawelI would not do so many stupid things.
23:37.23wethrinRAF will often pay your way
23:37.28BlaptoHmmm
23:37.30pawelkeep my mind straight.
23:37.33BlaptoI'm applying for pilot
23:37.52wethrinI think as long as you work for them during holidays, and go to them when you graduate
23:37.56Blaptothe RAF likes to take pilots as young as possible (ooo,err)
23:38.02wethrinfnarr
23:38.07Blaptoold dogs and new tricks.
23:39.09Blaptohttp://www.b3ta.com/links/59
23:39.10BlaptoThis
23:39.38wethrinOld news
23:41.11BlaptoOK
23:41.18BlaptoJust thought you might get a kick out of it
23:41.29wethrinAye. But it's clearly a fake
23:41.36wethrinE&B would never go to the effort of DNA testing
23:41.53BlaptoIt's clearly a fake due to the fact that semen washes away.
23:42.19wethrinThere is that too
23:47.09BlaptoRAF have great rules
23:47.23BlaptoNo drinking within 12 yards of an aircraft, no smoking within 12 hours of flying
23:47.23Blaptoetc.
23:49.07wethrinHeh
23:50.08BlaptoI was on a 9 day gliding camp
23:50.20wethrinOoh
23:50.21BlaptoI'd completed and soloed within 5 days, so I had 4 days to kill.
23:50.25wethrinNice
23:50.35wethrinAnyway. I need sleep. Night!
23:50.41BlaptoBoss comes up to me "You're 16, right?  Take this crate of beer in a freezer, go sleep under that plane for 4 days"
23:50.42BlaptoFantastic
23:50.45BlaptoNight night

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