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07:57.12morsing'morning
07:57.14morsingLeeds!
07:58.37morsingHello?
08:01.51Georgebleh
08:02.08GeorgeTOO EARLY
08:02.21Georgethank goodness i only have two lessons today
08:02.25Georgeand they start at 10:30
08:27.49mozratHello
08:29.34Georgehey mozrat
08:29.40Georgemozrat: back on the mainland again? :P
08:29.48mozratGeorge: yes - back in the motherland now
08:30.31Georgeok
08:30.34Georgeright gotta dash
08:30.39Georgebe back in half an hour
08:30.40mozrathave fun
08:33.29morsingmozrat!
08:33.38mozratHi morsing !
08:41.10morsingExcuse me for asking a stupid question but how are SlammerXP and Blapto related?
08:42.19mozratare they?
08:44.35morsingWhat's SlammerXP's name?
08:45.17mozratMr Martin A Brooks Esq
08:46.02morsing06:53 -!- Blapto [n=Martin@brookscity.plus.com] has quit [Read error: 110
08:46.06morsing??
08:47.23mozratoh
08:47.36mozratJust a coincidence I think
08:48.10morsingSo Blapto's name is Martin Brooks?
08:49.10mozratno?
08:49.14mozratHis name may be Martin
08:51.56mozratheeeey Leeds!
08:51.58mozrathello there
08:52.12mozratHow was Oz?
08:52.50Leedspretty good!
08:52.57mozratDid the wedding go well?
08:53.06SlammerXPmorning
08:53.10mozratHey SlammerXP
08:53.12Leedshttp://bigboy.vmlinuz.org/photos/
08:53.25Leedsyes, I am aware that this is yet another place I am posting photos...
08:53.36mozratnice weather!!
08:53.53mozrathttp://beerandspeech.org/photos/NYC_2006/
08:54.15Leedsit was - that day.. it varied, overall, from lovely, "half an hour on a ferry and you're sunburnt" to "grey, damp, only warm"
08:54.16mozratMine aren't so good :(
08:54.33mozratBought a cheap camera and it isn't so good in dark conditions
08:55.22LeedsI put mine in 'beach mode' for the wedding, since... it was on a beach :-)
08:55.38mozratFair enough!
08:55.51Leedsthey do seem to have come out nice
08:56.16Georgeback
08:56.19Leedsfor the record, there was a wedding, *and* a set of someone else's wedding photos, on that beach that afternoon
08:57.26Leedshmm.. f-spot, huh?
08:58.48Leedsmozrat: it's Rockefeller
09:00.58mozratLeeds: I wasn't sure
09:01.07mozratdespite having been there :)
09:01.23LeedsI only went at about 1am, when it was all closed up and quiet
09:03.11SlammerXPthe lass int he white is pretty hot
09:04.34LeedsSlammerXP: you mean my cousin, the bride?
09:04.42SlammerXPapparently.
09:04.48LeedsI'll tell her you said that...
09:05.08SlammerXPplease do
09:06.10SlammerXPwow
09:06.26SlammerXPthe mail cluster processed its 10,000th email last night and it's 11,000th this morning
09:09.47Leedsmozrat: I did the ferry during the day - I only had Saturday, until my plane left about 5pm, to sight-see, so I didn't have much time to stop and *look* at anything
09:12.44mozratLeeds: you mean in NYC?
09:13.08mozrator a ferry in Oz
09:14.48LeedsNYC
09:15.41Leedsdidn't take any photos from the ferry in Oz - just got sunburnt on it :-)
09:16.07Leedsoh, and I hate to tell you, but long distance night photos without a very long exposure and very stable tripod-type-thing?  Nothing worth seeing...
09:16.45mozratLeeds: yep :)
09:17.03mozratI just dumped them off the camera and straight up to the web quickly
09:17.11mozratI haven't gone through them yet
09:17.13morsingCheck it!
09:17.19Leedsyou may notice that a couple of mine could do with being rotated...
09:17.22Leedsmorning morsing
09:19.11Leedsand now, the end is near... hometime
09:49.19morsingLeeds? :-(
10:28.25z00daxmorning
10:28.31mozratHi z00dax
10:28.36z00daxhey mozrat
10:36.11SlammerXPslow list week this week
10:36.52SlammerXPthough I think someone needs to investigate Chris Hunter
10:38.10morsingz00dax!
10:47.22mozratSlammerXP: someone should correct his clock
10:47.48SlammerXPperhaps he's really emailling from the future
10:48.38mozratmaybe :-)
10:50.12morsingCheck it!
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11:36.36stephanb2ni
11:38.13wethrinHm. Rapid-cooled ice has an odd texture
12:14.59stephanb2hence the book "in praise of slow"
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12:20.20Leedsevening all!
12:20.33mozratHello Leeds
12:21.11Leedsmozrat: so, f-spot?
12:21.30mozratLeeds: aii
12:21.37mozratit is quite nice
12:22.08Leedsiphoto-ish?
12:22.18SlammerXPbored.
12:22.32mozratLeeds: I would say better than iPhoto - although I haven't really played with iPhoto that much
12:22.37mozratthe tagging of images is nice
12:23.32LeedsI'll have to look at it... ISTR that it had some dependencies which put me off - like GNOME
12:23.38mozratand Mono
12:23.51mozratbut it came installed with the distro
12:23.57LeedsI already have Mono installed
12:23.58mozratso.. *shrug*
12:24.20SlammerXPslow mail day, slow contracts offered day,  slow people-wanting-their-mail-despammed day
12:24.22Leedsyeah...
12:24.33mozratSlammerXP: I like Spam
12:24.56Leedsnever tasted it
12:30.56JAVhello!
12:38.33z00daxibot, convert USD 495.75 to GBP
12:42.43wethrinThat's not right
12:42.50wethrin~change 495.75 USD to GBP
12:44.34SlammerXP~change 80000 white anglo-saxon protestants to buddhism
12:45.10wethrinITYM convert :)
12:45.32SlammerXP~convert 80000 white anglo-saxon protestants to buddhism
12:45.44z00daxso who know something about hos customs works in the uk :)
12:45.44SlammerXP<ibot> Unknown unit `white'
12:45.48SlammerXP*tsk* racism
12:45.54SlammerXPz00dax: I know a little
12:46.11z00daxSlammerXP, I've got a donated machine from $BigAss 'merican company, sent to me
12:46.46z00daxjust had a fax from a freight company, asking for my 'customs clearence instructions'
12:47.05SlammerXPmerkin company or uk company?
12:47.16z00daxa company thats everywhere
12:47.35z00daxbut the box came from the us
12:47.36z00daxUS
12:47.47SlammerXPyou least you'll need to pay is 17.% on top of the declared value of the hardware
12:47.51SlammerXP17.5%
12:48.16SlammerXPi think the figure has changed, but I paid about 22% duty on importing hardware from penguin computing
12:48.50z00daxso umm.. i need to cough up 600 odd pounds to get delivery of this
12:49.05SlammerXPyour freight company will usually bill you for the duty, and you'll often have to pay it before the good are released to you
12:49.14z00daxnice of them to also say that they are charging me £10 a day for the stuff to sit in their storage area
12:49.23SlammerXPthat's fairly normal.
12:53.45Leedssee, this is where I get pissed off...
12:54.15z00daxcan i not pay somehow ?
12:54.32SlammerXPyes, you canpay in cash, or by cheque :)
12:54.45SlammerXPor credit card, of course.
12:54.45z00dax:)
12:54.45Leedsit's a gift?
12:54.56z00daxLeeds, its a donation ?
12:55.01z00daxcould we say its a Gift ?
12:55.07Leedsare you paying for it?
12:55.10z00daxnope
12:55.17SlammerXPyou're way over the gift value
12:55.38Leedssee, to me, you should pay - if at all - on the purchase price
12:55.55z00daxLeeds, this is from Sun
12:56.03Leedsniagra?
12:56.07z00daxyou'd think the idiots would ship from one of their local setup's
12:56.35Leedsis it a niagra?
12:56.47z00daxno, its a x64
12:56.59Leedscan I ask who it came from?
12:57.15z00daxyour friends
12:57.22Leedsname? :-)
12:58.43Leedsin private, if you prefer...
13:00.20Leedswell, you have my permission to tell him from me as a former Janus engineer to sort it out :-)
13:00.32z00daxlol
13:00.34z00daxok, willdo
13:03.40z00daxthe shipping company's official import customer services line is a mobile number!
13:04.19Leedsthat's a bad sign
13:10.43mozratleeds, http://beerandspeech.org/tmp/fspot/
13:11.10Leedsmozrat: nice, thanks
13:11.48mozratThe version I have is a bit crashy - but I think they have fixed a lot of it recently
13:11.58mozratand it hasn't crashed on me for a while, now I think of it
13:12.22Leedsthese your pics?
13:12.24mozratLeeds, from my gallery, yes
13:12.31mozratthat is my pooch
13:12.54Leedsvery cute :-)
13:13.04mozratShe is a good doggy
13:13.31Leedsthat was, of course, why I was asking...
13:15.28mozratLeeds, http://beerandspeech.org/tmp/doggy/ :-)
13:15.39mozratf-spot exports nice and fast :-)
13:16.12z00daxi tried f-spot a few weeks back, it pulled in all my pics from the normal place into its own tree... didnt like that much
13:16.42mozratz00dax: really? It doesn't do that for me.. was that part of a distro or did you build it yourself?
13:16.57Leedscat's I'm not so keen on...
13:17.03Leedscats too
13:17.07wethrinyay dog!
13:17.09wethrinAnd yay cat!
13:17.17z00daxmozrat, part of FC5
13:17.22mozratI prefer dogs myself..
13:17.24z00daxmozrat, but i thought it did that anyway ?
13:17.30z00daxyeah, dogs ++, cats --
13:17.32mozratz00dax: I wonder if they changed that as a preference
13:17.38mozratz00dax: Mine doesn't AFAIK
13:17.45mozratin fact - it doesn't
13:17.48z00daxits something you can set in pref's - i didnt know about it at the time
13:18.23mozratz00dax: do you know which version you were playing with?
13:18.46z00daxthe one that takes half a year to load
13:19.14z00dax0.1.10
13:19.25mozratok
13:19.31Leeds0.1.11 released yesterday :-)
13:19.45z00daxah, maybe re-try in a day or so then
13:19.50mozratmine says 0.1.2 and I've had it for a while..
13:20.05mozratmaybe the site is out of date - my version comes packaged with OpenSUSE10
13:20.20LeedsI assume 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.9, 0.1.10, 0.1.111
13:20.25Leedss/1$//
13:20.38mozratoh, duh
13:20.42mozratof course
13:20.49mozrat*smacks head*
13:22.08mozratplus it is integrated with Beagle if you use that
13:22.12mozratwhich is nice
13:22.34LeedsI don't...
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13:42.05gary_good afternnon people
13:42.55mozrathi gary_
13:43.11Leedshey gary_
13:44.03gary_how's it all going?
13:44.17Leedsnot bad... you?
13:44.47gary_I've had a few health issues, but otherwise not too bad
13:45.07gary_had an operation postponed last Weds
13:45.30Leedsugh... nothing too serious, I hope?
13:47.17z00daxmozrat, beagle is nice... you know if there is an easy way to get thunderbird email indexed using beagle
13:50.06gary_Leeds: Well I've got a head like concrete a lot of internal pressure on my eyes leaving me with blurred, fluctuating vision and i seem to be losing the ability to hear properly
13:50.29Leedsugh, ugh
13:50.34gary_all tests done so far have turned up as normal
13:50.39mozratz00dax: I dunno - someone was working on that
13:50.48LeedsI don't seem to have enough gnome installed to run f-spot
13:51.02gary_except for my hearing, which i apprently have sustained hearing nerve damage
13:51.05Leedsgary_: best of luck, anyway
13:51.09Leedsugh ugh ugh
13:51.11mozratgary_: yes, good luck
13:51.19gary_thamnks
13:53.31Leedspoor guy
13:55.09mozratyes
13:55.16mozratis s/gary/floo/?
13:56.12Leedsyeah, I think so
13:57.02z00daxalso be nice to have a xchat logfile input into beagle
13:57.29z00daxi suppose this also means that beagle index's are now another history-that-Govt-agency-can-look-through
13:57.34mozratz00dax: I was thinking that - I was going to rsync my irssi logs to my laptop for beagle
13:58.19Leedsbattlestar galactica is rather good
13:58.36SlammerXPthe 2nd series hasn't been as good
13:58.46SlammerXPthough the last episode is a big improvement
13:58.50LeedsI'm still working on the 1st
14:00.55mozratz00dax: I have *a lot* of PDF files indexed using Beagle - great for searching for functions and error messages etc
14:01.29z00daxmozrat, i use google for that :)
14:01.39mozrat:)
14:01.46z00daxmy hdd' on workstation + laptop are choked with VM's
14:02.20LeedsVMs?
14:02.24z00daxtwo things I want, thunderbird and xchat index's - that would be good, the Gaim log and filesystem index's are awesome as it is
14:02.36z00daxLeeds, loads of Xen and VMware Virtual Machines
14:02.43Leedsah
14:03.07z00daxif anyone is interested http://www.karan.org/mock/Blank_Image.tar.gz
14:03.35z00daxthats a blank image you can throw under vmplayer, and just install your own os into it, no need for vmware workstation or server to create the Vm
14:03.47mozratcool
14:11.21Leedshmm... my router just rebooted... I wonder why
14:27.47morsingHey - I won a years subscrition to Linux Magazine from FOSDEM!
14:27.50morsing:-)
14:27.52mozratyay!
14:28.03morsingand mozrat
14:28.28SlammerXPmorsing: you have my sympathies.
14:28.48mozratMan, you excel at being a objectionable character
14:28.50morsingHa ha - the website they've setup for it has broken down :-D
14:28.54morsinghttp://www.linux-magazine.com/Fosdem
14:29.03SlammerXPmozrat: me? :)
14:29.12mozratSlammerXP: yep :-)
14:29.19SlammerXPi'm cute and cuddly really
14:29.27morsingNo you're not!
14:29.31SlammerXPam too
14:29.42SlammerXPgerroff :)
14:29.46morsingSlammerXP: Do you and your brother Blapto cuddle?
14:29.57SlammerXPwhat's a blapto?
14:30.05morsingmozrat: Back me up here!
14:30.38morsingmozrat: Yes he is!
14:31.46wethrinheh
14:32.01SlammerXPbored.
14:32.02wethrinmorsing: You won the subscription?
14:32.03SlammerXPslow day.
14:34.21SlammerXPtons of mail, just none for me
14:35.22mozratibot SlammerXP
14:35.55mozratibot SlammerXP is an objectionable character and brother of Blapto
14:35.56ibotokay, mozrat
14:36.02mozratibot Blapto
14:36.03iboti guess blapto is the love of money
14:36.18mozratibot Blapto is also the brother of SlammerXP
14:36.20ibotokay, mozrat
14:36.24mozratdone
14:36.30mozratIt's official
14:50.35wethrinApparently there's a dual Xeon 733 6U server being offered on London Freecycle
14:50.58SlayerXPno doubt some fool will think it's a bargin
14:52.11SlayerXPthen they'll realise just how big 6u is :)
14:53.36mozratfridge sized :)
14:54.05wethrinOnly if it's a small fridge
14:54.09SlayerXPprobbaly the sam cubic capacity as a small fridge, yes
14:54.21SlayerXPabout the same effective processing power, too
14:54.35wethrinSlayerXP: So you're purely an amd64 man?
14:54.43SlayerXPyep
14:54.54SlayerXPexcept for appliance-format stuff
14:55.45wethrinright
14:56.28SlayerXPeven then, someone's going to stick a turion onto a mini-itx board before long
15:06.50stephanb2SlayerXP: are mini-itx'es only running on VIA C3s for the moment ?
15:07.24SlayerXPstephanb2:  exclusively, afaik
15:07.37SlayerXPi don't recall seeing mini-itx format anything else
15:08.59stephanb2i remember being tempted by that but then reading a 1GHz C3 was pretty much like a 400MHz PIII
15:09.27stephanb2so i thought i would end up with a desktop machine running like a lousy laptop
15:12.00SlayerXPactually, they have a surprising amount of grunt
15:14.26stephanb2`:-)
15:14.51morsingwethrin: Yes :-)
15:15.02stephanb2so a C3 mobo with the MPEG-2 decoding chip can make a decent PVR
15:15.14stephanb2i read there was support for that
15:16.01stephanb2but then what's the advantadge vs. a Shuttle PC? cost? power consumption?
15:16.23wethrinmorsing: Yes?
15:16.37GeorgeHELLO WETHRIN MY LOVELY
15:16.47wethrinHello
15:16.50morsing14:32 < wethrin> morsing: You won the subscription?
15:16.59morsingibot sidle
15:17.00Georgewethrin: you're useless
15:17.04wethrinMuahaha
15:17.10morsingAll students are useless
15:17.12wethrinmorsing: Lucky you!
15:17.25morsingDrain on society
15:17.37wethrinOi :-P
15:20.33stephanb2SlayerXP: hmm looking at www.mini-itx.com there seems to b mobos 4 all sorts of cpus
15:39.51SlayerXPstephanb2: yes, but not for sale, yet
15:40.15stephanb2aah
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15:59.24morsingpuckman!
16:09.49puckmanmorsing!
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16:10.01cbzyuh
16:14.02z00daxerrr
16:14.13z00daxthe max allowance for 'gift' items in terms of value is £38
16:14.29z00daxso anything > toothbrush is now custom's tax'd and/or VAT tax'ed
16:32.04stephanb2so this designer thought she could put 40minutes of broadcast video footage on the server
16:32.16stephanb2and now nobody can work
16:33.02stephanb2the idea of chopping it into 10 mins files didnt obviously come across her brain
16:33.15stephanb2or even borrowing a firewire drive for that job
16:46.45stephanb2some people just have a 486 processor in their brainz
16:58.38stephanb2gotta go in a minute
16:58.49stephanb2sorry for ranting on the chan
16:59.48cbzNo worries. We'll just increment the ETOOMUCHINFO count
17:02.16stephanb2:-)
17:02.23stephanb2gotto go
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17:06.12z00daxwhen's the next meetup ?
17:07.05wethrinWhen you organise one :)
17:08.14z00daxright, fishing trip out to sea of whitstable next friday then ?
17:08.29z00daxs/a of w/a off w/
17:08.45z00dax24th
17:08.50z00daxany takers for that ?
17:08.58SlayerXPi like whitstable
17:09.05SlayerXPi would, but I'm in the wrong country
17:09.07z00daxme too
17:09.23z00daxme too as in me too like it, but i am in the right country
17:09.26cbzwhat sort of fish?
17:09.28SlayerXPthe used to be a great fish restaurant on the sea front, right by the port
17:09.33SlayerXPnow there's a shit one
17:09.38SlayerXPthe crab & winkle
17:09.44cbzand can i stay on shore and drink instead?
17:09.52z00daxheh, yeah - i know that place
17:10.27SlayerXPwent waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay downhill
17:11.11SlayerXPa man should not have to fetch his own cutlery in a restaurant
17:11.42cbzA man should have his cutlery brought to him by a hotje!
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20:41.50z00daxhey George, AndrewBlack
20:47.02Georgehey
20:48.08AndrewBlackhi there. I am about to do a practice exam question, so see you later :-)
20:52.32Georgeexam???
20:54.21z00daxAndrewBlack, take it easy
20:54.35z00daxGeorge, know anyplace to get a cheap rack from ?
20:54.56Georgez00dax: the local brothel?
20:56.52z00daxnot that kinda rack
20:57.57Georgez00dax: :P
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21:10.21AndrewBlackDone it - thats the easy bit.  Difficult bit is the essay due in on Sat ....
21:11.08GeorgeAndrewBlack: are you at university?
21:17.13AndrewBlackSort of - doing an open university course (Post grad diploma in computing)
21:17.30Georgeheh
21:17.30Georgewhat's your main degree in?
21:17.51AndrewBlackI did maths, mainly pure
21:18.27Georgeoooh
21:18.29Georgemaths is good
21:18.31Georgewhich uni?
21:18.46AndrewBlackCambridge (King's).  
21:18.52AndrewBlackRmeind we what you are planning to read
21:18.56GeorgeComputer Science
21:19.18GeorgeAndrewBlack: ah, so you're a tab unlike that wethrin filth
21:19.19George:)
21:19.20AndrewBlackComp sci used to be a 3rd year only course.
21:19.36Georgeheh
21:19.49GeorgeAndrewBlack: you must be heinously good at maths
21:19.55AndrewBlackThey probably know 3 times as much now as they did
21:20.10AndrewBlacks/b/have been/
21:20.34GeorgeAndrewBlack: :)
21:20.36AndrewBlacks s was for georges statement not mine !
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21:20.58GeorgeAndrewBlack: my physics teacher did maths at cambridge and he's shit at maths :)
21:21.18Georgehe got three thirds
21:21.18Georgelol
21:22.05AndrewBlackI did better than that !
21:22.09Georgehehe
21:22.12Georgefirst?
21:23.37AndrewBlackOne of the guys at the Perl workshop said Maurice Wilkes still lectures on history of computing. He must be about 90
21:26.26Georgeyeah
21:26.29Georgehe's old.
21:53.13George93 apparently
21:53.17Georgeer, 92
21:53.30GeorgeI'm 18 next week
22:06.26z00daxGeorge, where's the drinks ?
22:06.45Georgez00dax: I'll be on a plane
22:06.47z00daxare you even likely to be in the area and able to make it into someplace sane so we can get lots of b33r into you
22:06.49Georgez00dax: bound for the east
22:06.51z00daxhumf
22:07.01z00daxchicken
22:07.01Georgez00dax: flying out to taiwan on the night of the 23rd
22:07.16Georgez00dax: birthday on the 24th
22:07.35z00daxshould we have drinks on the 22nd then ?
22:07.45Georgenah
22:07.51Georgestill at school :)
22:07.53Georgeschool finishes on the 23rd :P
22:08.08z00daxhummm
22:08.13z00daxshame
22:08.39z00daxmake sure you take enough sausages with you on your trip east
22:09.05Georgehaha
22:24.38morsingGeorge!
22:25.03Georgehey
22:25.23morsingGeorge: Beer is on you next Friday then?
22:25.48Georgemorsing: I'm not in the country you moron
22:27.37morsingGeorge: Fucktwit
22:52.10Georgetwitfuck
22:53.44wethrin*hic*
22:59.03George*cih*
23:07.46cbzsoapy
23:31.39z00daxwho uses uknova.com ?
23:31.42wethrinMe
23:32.01z00daxok, my torrents wont start downloading ?
23:32.11wethrinWhy not?
23:32.12z00daxi am behind a nat, do i need to get out and beyond that ?
23:32.26wethrinYes. You need to port-forward ports 6881-6889 to your torrenting machine
23:32.34cbzhttp://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d113/mickmariner/theplacetobe.jpg
23:33.31z00daxdamn..... lemme try
23:33.34wethrinThat'd be Penrith Station?
23:33.39cbzyuh
23:33.42wethrinOld news :)
23:33.55cbzheh, everyone is a critic
23:34.41Leedsyou shouldn't need to forward the ports - I can't
23:35.08z00daxI've not need to do the ports previously - but then I'm not a big torrent user either
23:35.30z00daxcould there be a client issue ? I am using bittorrent-3.something, the last one that ran with py2.2
23:35.36cbzyou can choose not to forward ports - your transfer rate will then be very slow though.
23:35.48Leedsyou will normally get significantly better performance on torrents if you forward the ports, but it's not (normally) necessary
23:35.58wethrinz00dax: It should just work
23:36.08wethrinDoes your torrent client give any errors?
23:36.08Georgeand you can use any ports, not just 6881-6889
23:36.14Leedshow long does it take for firefox to quit?
23:36.15wethrinGeorge: Shush
23:36.24wethrinLeeds: ONE MEEEEELION SECONDS
23:36.32Georgewethrin: penis
23:36.41wethrinWhatever turns you on
23:36.49Georgewethrin: laptop
23:36.52z00daxwethrin, just that 'bad torrent file'
23:37.14z00daxso the torrent is either dead or the tracker has gone away
23:38.36wethrinz00dax: How old is the torrent file?
23:38.48wethrinuknova removes trackers after a month
23:38.50Leedsz00dax: I assume there's a particular reason you're using a pre-historic python?
23:39.02z00daxLeeds, thats a rhel2.1 machine
23:39.07wethrinGeorge: You're using a laptop as a penis-warmer?
23:39.13z00daxLeeds, this weekend i'll upgrade that box to something newer
23:39.17Georgewetwtf?
23:39.23Georgewethrin: wtf?
23:39.24Leedsz00dax: I assume there's a particular reason you're using a prehistoric RHEL? :-)
23:39.25wethrinHA.
23:39.33Leeds(firefox is still quitting)
23:40.15cbzupgrading is what windows users do.
23:40.46z00daxLeeds, yeah - it was setup a few years back, and since its still getting security updates etc, i just let it run...
23:40.55z00daxplus its a k6-2 550,mhz machine
23:41.04z00daxi586 support is a big pain in the rear end these days
23:41.28Leeds<insert standard rant about people who rely on rpm so much that they're incapable of compiling a package themselves when the time comes>
23:41.41Leeds(firefox is still quitting)
23:41.54cbzs,rpm,deb,
23:42.08Leedscbz: implied...
23:42.25z00dax:) - well, with an uptime of 400days, and i know its got all security updates ( minus kernel reboots ) - kinda gives me a semi warm fuzzy feeling
23:42.28SlayerXP?
23:42.42cbzoh nothing ..
23:42.56Leedsz00dax: and that stops you upgrading python why?
23:43.16cbzwhats wrong with slackware?
23:43.47Leedswill we hit a total of 5 minutes for firefox to quit?
23:43.58Leedsuh, 10 minutes - it's already pver 5
23:44.08SlayerXPslackware is an excellent tool for new sysadmins
23:44.08wethrincbz: Nothing. Slackware rocks
23:44.19wethrinSlackware will teach you about Unix
23:44.29z00daxLeeds, well, upgrading python on that machine would mean i no longer use the python specific fix's being sent out of redhat, also other apps - lots and lots of them - rely on that python
23:44.41z00daxi suppose i could build a newer python into /opt/py24/ or something..
23:44.41SlayerXP"this is how we used to do things before we grew up and used debian"
23:45.08Leedsz00dax: are there really that many fixes in rhel's python 2.2 which aren't in the real 2.4?  and if so, why?
23:45.23SlayerXPbed&
23:45.28cbzwhy upgrade?
23:46.34z00daxLeeds, upstream dont maintain py2.2 anymore really ?
23:46.44z00daxplus i meant more like all the redhat tools and the other apps on that box
23:46.46Leedsno, of course they don't
23:46.51cbznever upgrade unless you are forced to
23:47.24cbzTo do otherwise exposes gentoo tendancies
23:47.26Leedsuh, in the modern world, it's perfectly possible and sane to have py2.2 for the legacy rh tools which require it, and py2.4 for anything vaguely modern
23:47.42Leeds(firefox is still quitting)
23:47.44z00daxLeeds, right.
23:48.01wethrinLeeds: Time to kill -9
23:48.16Leedsnah, it is quitting... just being really really really slow about it
23:48.18cbzin the modern world one can get firefox to run for more than ten minutes
23:48.32cbzbut yet also quit fast :)
23:49.12Leedsthe problem on this machine (laptop) is that the disk appears to be pretty slow, so as soon as I start swapping performance falls through the floor, and as soon as I start thrashing, it loses about 90% of its speed
23:49.42Leedsplus, you know, firefox leaky memory like a sieve with very very big holes
23:50.48Leedsthe machine is currently - according to top - spending something between 85% and 95% of its time waiting for IO
23:51.49*** join/#gllug ldnblk (n=Just@212.183.136.192)
23:51.57Leedsmorning ldnblk
23:52.25ldnblkgood evening leeds
23:53.07ldnblkhow r thing over where u are ?
23:53.29Georgehey
23:53.40Leedsoh, firefox died!
23:53.40GeorgeLeeds: I'll be in Hong Kong next friday
23:53.55LeedsGeorge: more than passing through the airport?
23:53.58GeorgeLeeds: nope
23:54.00cbzget the firefox build with the boem gc
23:54.04GeorgeLeeds: transiting on the way to taiwan
23:54.22cbzboehm
23:54.23LeedsGeorge: ah, an internal Chinese flight to the rogue province...
23:54.28Georgeheh
23:54.41Leedshow long will you be in the airport and when?
23:54.51GeorgeLeeds: no idea - why?
23:54.58Leedsjust wondering...
23:55.12Georgesometime on friday I guess
23:55.24Leedswell, yes... who are you flying with?
23:55.29Georgeparents
23:55.33Georgeoh
23:55.35Georgecathaty
23:55.37Georgeblah
23:55.42Georgecathay pacific
23:56.11wethrinTo celebrate him legally being allowed to booze
23:56.20*** join/#gllug puckman (n=gerard@dynamic-212-225-59-82.park-s46b.dslaccess.co.uk)
23:57.00Georgewethrin: if you want to waste money then go ahead
23:57.03GeorgeI won't be there
23:57.28Leedsfrom LHR, I assume
23:57.40Georgeyeah
23:57.45wethrinBooze is not wasting money!
23:57.52Leedsthat doesn't help - they have about 6 flights a day :-)
23:58.07George:P
23:58.21Leedscbz: does that actually help?
23:58.44Georgewethrin: yes it is
23:58.52wethrinisn't!
23:58.56Georgeis not
23:59.01GeorgeI'd much rather go to the theatre
23:59.37psnlwethrin: why haven't you beaten sense into George yet?
23:59.42wethrinpsnl: I've tried!
23:59.46ldnblkfor more of a spoon full of sugar george ?
23:59.48Georgetheatre++
23:59.51Georgeldnblk: nah
23:59.54wethrinBut I can't beat him because he's neveer sociable enough to leave his ivory tower
23:59.57Georgeldnblk: billy elliot next probably

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