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02:36.52*** topic/#gllug is Greater London LUG - http://www.gllug.org.uk and http://planet.gllug.org.uk | Next Event: 18th April - Jono Bacon (OpenAdvantage) and Ted Haeger (Novell) speaking
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07:23.06AndrewBlackHi - anyone around?
07:23.30janvbme
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07:40.53mozratGood morning
07:44.39Leedsgood afternoon
07:44.52mozratHow's it going today?
07:47.59Leedsnot bad... you?
07:48.06mozratGood enough
07:48.26mozratJason did a good job in moving the new website to http://gllug.ukfsn.org yesterday
07:48.32Leedsthings are relatively quiet here... factory is closed for new year, things are starting to wind down for the long weekend
07:48.39mozrathopefully we can make it live sometime this month
07:49.09Leedscool
07:59.25AndrewBlackHi Mozrat
07:59.40mozrathi AndrewBlack, how are you
07:59.45mozrathaven't seen you for a little while
08:00.01AndrewBlackThanks for orgnanising the 2 meetings this month.  Fraid the tuesday one clashes with  a reheasal
08:00.12mozrataw, shame
08:00.30mozratI'm wondering if i should video-tape it
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08:04.22Leedsdid you not know he worked at sistina, or did you not know sistina were bought by RH a while back?
08:04.34mozratNo and No
08:04.45Leedsincidentally, $380million for jboss???
08:05.06murbLeeds: 60% IN Redhat shares..
08:05.14Leedsah... I didn't see that bit
08:05.17mozratyeah, I didn't know RH were that cash rich
08:05.23mozratstill a lot of cash
08:05.31murbbut still $152 million is quite a lot
08:05.42mozratIt is
08:07.20AndrewBlackvideo of it would be useful. audio + slides might be good enough.
08:07.46mozratI'll ask the speakers and see if they mind.
08:08.03mozratI think they'll say we have to hang onto it until they finish their speaking tour but that is fair enough
08:08.20Leedsmozrat: as the new gllug organiser... one piece of advice... try to get slides whenever possible
08:08.48mozratLeeds: thanks, I will. The Resources page on the site is woefully empty
08:09.33murbmozrat: and control of the gllug.org.uk domain..
08:09.48Leedsindeed...
08:09.51mozratmurb: you mean broken DNS? I don't know what is going on with that
08:10.26Leedsmozrat: no... gllug.org.uk is owned by positive internet - they bought it for us, but they still own and control it
08:10.29murbmozrat: it would be nice if the ns records pointed to nameservers that members controlled.
08:11.07mozratmurb: right, I see
08:11.08murbe.g. nameservers belonging to jason, leeds and myself.
08:11.39mozratyeah, I'll tackle that problem after these meetings :)
08:11.48LeedsI'm in the middle of some unstable DNS migration at the moment myself
08:11.49mozratDo you both see gllug.org.uk as being broken?
08:12.07Leedsmozrat: it's nothing to do with broken-ness - it's just that it's not under 'our' control
08:12.25mozratLeeds: sure. But from work I cannot get to any record apart from the default A record.
08:12.35mozratand this is after clearing all the caches on our work NS servers
08:12.45murbmozrat: if and when it breaks we must for someone else to fix it.
08:12.49mozratfrom home I have no problem - wethrin has a similar issue
08:13.35Leedshmm... www.gllug.org.uk is a cname for www.gllug.ukfsn.org while gllug.org.uk is an A for the IP of www.gllug.ukfsn.org
08:14.10mozratDoesn't Dean Wilson host planet.gllug.org.uk on his own servers
08:15.24murbhttp://www.zonecut.net/dns/ seems to think everything is cool.
08:15.40murbatleast withthe gllug zone
08:16.36Leedsthe point is that gllug.org.uk itself resolves to the address of Jason's machine, and there's a wildcard for *.gllug.org.uk which is a CNAME for Jason's machine - so Jason can setup and control subdomains
08:16.54LeedsI know the way the wiki worked was that he was proxying to me - I assume the planet works the same way
08:17.23mozratah right
08:17.40murbwhich is a bit of a nasty hack because the gllug.org.uk zone couldn't easily be modified.
08:17.45mozratanyway - I can't get to planet, or to www.gllug.org.uk anymore
08:18.07murbmozrat: works for me...
08:18.51Leedsand me...
08:19.38murbLeeds: what is the current gllug member consultancy rate?
08:21.40Leedsmurb: pick a number, quadruple it
08:23.40murb936 CHF / hour then.
08:23.51Leedsibot change 936 chf to hkd
08:24.16AndrewBlackibot change 936 chf to gbp
08:26.59mozratAnyway - I'll add the DNS thing to my list. I don't know why it doesn't work from my work
08:27.14mozratbut I tried it from a few customer sites and it didn't work their either
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08:28.35Leedshmmm... so what about this new carphone whorehouse plan then?
08:28.44murbcbz: welcome to the IRC based GLLUG consultancy channel.
08:29.45Leeds21 quid a month for unlimited local and national calls, calls to landlines in 28 countries, and 'up to 8Mbit' broadband
08:30.27murbis there a "fair use policy"
08:30.28Leedsibot convert 40 gigabits to gigabytes
08:30.44Leeds18 month contract, 30 quid connection fee
08:31.04murbso if the adsl servers is really crap.
08:31.09murbs/servers/service/
08:31.10Leedsforeign countries are "Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, and United States"
08:31.11murbgrrr.
08:32.12Leedshttp://www.cpwplc.com/cpw/media/press/2006/2006-04-11b/
08:32.28murbLeeds: alice dsl in .de offers something like that.
08:32.50murbtis an LLU operation, so you get the telephony stuff presented as ISDN.
08:32.55murbprobably more reliable than VoIP.
08:33.05mozratLeeds, Murb - what do you make of this (sorry to drag conversation back)... http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=planet.gllug.org.uk&type=A
08:33.34Leedsmozrat: there is no A record for planet.gllug.org.uk
08:33.43Leedsthere is a cname for *.gllug.org.uk pointing to Jason
08:33.43mozrathttp://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=planet.gllug.org.uk&type=ALL
08:33.51mozratDoesn't work for CNAME either
08:35.01LeedsI'm not sure what the rules are for wildcards, or how they interact with the rules for cnames
08:37.02Leedson the other hand, that's a useful tool - one I could have done with yesterday
08:38.46Georgehi
08:39.08GeorgeLeeds: stop typing so much, you're not allowed to overtake me in the stats
08:39.49mozratGeorge: We prefer quality over quantity
08:40.29Georgebah
08:40.59mozratAnd besides, some of us don't have all day to troll on IRC. We have "jobs"
08:41.33Georgejobs?
08:41.49mozratYes
08:41.59Georgeho ho ho ho ho
08:42.59murbLeeds: ok they seem to be returning NXDOMAIN *and* the cname
08:43.41murbas a test i've setup the zone foobar.yuri.org.uk with a * to www.gllug.ukfsn.org and  it doesn't show this problem.
08:46.17murbseems they are running powerdns :(
08:47.14mozratAnybody running Thunderbird around version 1.0.6 ?
08:47.49murbi'm guessing the nxdomain breaks some resolvers.
08:47.53murbmozrat: what resolver are you using?
08:47.58mozratmurb: Windows 2003 DNS
08:48.13murboh and  dig +short @dns0.positive-internet.com chaos txt  version.bind
08:48.22murbmozrat: do you have a copy of dig to hand?
08:48.31mozratmurb: sure
08:48.48murbcan you try dig @win2000dns any blahblah.foobar.yuri.org.uk
08:48.52murbthen for blahblah.gllug.org.uk
08:49.00mozratI use Linux on my laptop, but I query my office DNS server which is W2003
08:49.23murbmozrat: cool, can you try that?
08:49.38murband wethrin also had this problem?
08:50.35mozratmurb: http://pastebin.com/653081
08:50.46mozratwethrin had a problem, not sure if it was identical to mine
08:51.46murbmozrat: so the windows dns server passes on the nxdomain which upsets the client.
08:51.51rhowe_yay!
08:51.55rhowe_IRC @ work, once more
08:52.04mozratwoo - hello rhowe
08:52.05Leedsrhowe: hey
08:52.10murbclient sees NXDOMAIN and gives up.
08:52.17rhowemorning Leeds
08:52.20rhowemurb! Help!
08:52.44mozratmurb: so Windows 2003 is the culprit in your opinion?
08:53.12murbmozrat: it might bebehaving entirely correctlyu.
08:53.20LeedsDNS is nasty
08:53.26murbi'll blame powerdns for now for behaving differently from bind.
08:53.40murbalthoguh it could just be that it is a misconfigured PowerDNS
08:53.47murbso not the fault of powerdns.
08:53.58murbso i think we really need to blame possative internet as they run the namenservers.
08:54.30rhowemurb: Know much about leased lines?
08:54.40murbrhowe: a little.
08:54.54murbrhowe: that is the problemchen?
08:55.08Leedsmozrat: thanks for the pointer to that DNS tool - I've been fighting with some DNS stuff yesterday and today, and it's very helpful
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08:55.40janvbi hate lotus notes.....
08:55.57rhowemurb: Yeah, I was asking around to see if it's possible to use it for the incoming telephone lines too (wasn't thinking of running VoIP over it, but multiplexing the phone lines & data over the same wire)
08:56.03rhowemurb: Possible? Expensive? Not worth it?
08:56.16Leedshmm... if a server is actually down, shouldn't a client try another one?
08:56.50mozratjanvb: Don't be a hater. Notes is OK
08:57.17mozratLeeds: you're welcome
08:57.51murbrhowe: if it is channalised E1 it would be possible.
08:58.03murbhowever channalised E1 cards are expensive.
08:58.07murbs/cards/interfaces/
08:58.22murband this is assuming you are presented with an E1 in the first place.
08:58.50murbif you have bought a lan extension then not really possible unless you go VoIP.
08:58.55murbwell VoE anyway.
08:59.23rhoweHm, not sure what they'll be using as of yet. Could be LES10, could be something else (we're asking for 2Mbit/s or so)
08:59.38rhowemurb: LES seems quite attractive in that you can change the capping as you go
09:01.04murbrhowe: and much cheaper for you to terminate.
09:03.07murbrhowe: what kind of telephone / PBX do you have?
09:03.22rhowemurb: We don't know yet :)
09:03.32rhowemurb: We're thinking of buying a Samsung Officeserv 7200
09:03.43rhowemurb: Currently we have an Avaya/SDX index 400
09:03.53rhowe(and a 100 in another office)
09:05.14rhowemurb: The 7200 will (I'm told) do SIP trunking. The index (I think) will do if you put a particular card in it
09:05.22rhoweer, the index'll do H.323, I meant
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09:05.29rhoweWhat codecs they support, I'm not sure
09:07.54Leedshmm... correct me if I'm wrong, but 40GB means gigabytes, right?
09:08.17Leedsas opposed to gigabits
09:09.27murbrhowe: so then a bit of bandwidth management which should be easy since you control each end to garantee voice QOS?
09:12.54mozratDown't pit
09:13.17murbblame maggie
09:13.18mozratwhen I were a lad, we were down't mine at day break
09:13.42murbGeorge: you got thrown out of the NUM?
09:13.54Georgemurb: ...
09:14.03LeedsGeorge: when is/was your birthday?
09:14.31Leedsanyone... 40GB is gigabytes or gigabits?
09:14.34rhowemurb: We
09:14.40mozratLeeds: I vote bytes
09:14.45rhowemurb: Nah, it'd be a leased line to the ISP, not to another office
09:14.54rhowemurb: We're merging the two London offices to a new site
09:15.02mozratLeeds: in terms of storage or bandwidth?
09:15.15Leedsbandwidth
09:15.30mozratoh, so you mean 40GB/s ?
09:15.46Leedsone of carphone whorehouse's sites says 40 gigabits per month, one says 40GB
09:16.00mozratI change my vote to bits then
09:17.36Leedsit's not like I'm going to be signing up with them any time soon anyway :-)
09:21.05murbrhowe: so you'll have 2 sites for a little while?
09:24.29cbzI vote that carphone warehouse doesn't know what they are talking about
09:26.40rhowemurb: We'll have 2 sites until they both move to the new site
09:27.22Leedswarm in here...
09:33.37rhowemurb: This is all for an office we do not (as yet) occupy
09:40.06Georgehttp://vm.gwright.org.uk/utf8.png
09:40.09Georgeutf8 in konsole
09:40.14Georgeisn't it beautiful?
09:40.15Georgelol
09:40.52mozratMm, cool
09:41.16mozratAre people making fun of you in other languages now then?
09:41.20Georgeno
09:42.07rhoweGeorge: Doesn't look very antialiased
09:42.25Georgerhowe: I disable aa in the terminal
09:42.36Georgerhowe: fast scrolling text makes AA crawl
09:43.30rhoweGeorge: Doesn't in Windows :)
09:43.53Georgeeverything crawls in windows.
09:44.42rhoweIn fact, antialiased text, and translucency is positively fast in Windows, IME
09:44.49rhowehm, comma abuse
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09:46.17kbsinghhey!
09:46.24mozrathi
09:46.28mozrathow are you kbsingh ?
09:46.49kbsinghmozrat: not too bad, looks like winter's back :(
09:48.05kbsinghmozrat: how are things with you ? get a workaround / settlement for the SPF issue /
09:49.30mozratkbsingh: not been back there yet
09:50.27mozratwe told the customer to whitelist us for the moment, didn't hear back
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10:03.10mozratkbsingh: what is hiihaa.org ?
10:07.45stephanb2halal intifada international hijackers anonymous association
10:13.06kbsinghstephanb2: :)
10:13.17murbmozrat: I've snet a reply to wethrin message to gllugadmin
10:13.35murbsuggesting that maybe we should change the nameservers for gllug.org.uk
10:13.38kbsinghmozrat: its a .fi hosted box, wih lots of drive space
10:13.44mozratmurb: thanks for debugging that. I had looked at it more times than I want to admit and couldn't see a problem :)
10:14.09mozratkbsingh: you own the domain?
10:15.10kbsinghmozrat: nope, thats one of the other guys
10:16.58kbsinghhttp://jailtime.org/ <-- if anyone is interested - prebuild Xen images
10:19.14mozrathttp://beerandspeech.org/tmp/KoreanClockLady.mpg <-- Audio only, NSFW - but not really filthy. Poor lady keeps mispronouncing "clock".. listen with headphones
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10:27.53Georgemozrat: that's not very nice
10:28.45mozratGeorge: not really, no
10:40.31GeorgeLeeds: my birthday was on the 24th march
10:40.46mozratGeorge: you kept that quiet
10:40.49mozratwas that your 18th?
10:40.54Georgeyes.
10:41.02mozratyou moron - why didn't you tell us?
10:41.12mozratwe could have had a good Gllug-Social out of that
10:41.18GeorgeI did.
10:41.26Leedswere you away for it?
10:41.27mozratWhen?
10:41.32GeorgeLeeds: about a week beforehand
10:41.36mozratWhere?
10:41.37Georges/Leeds/mozrat/
10:41.44GeorgeLeeds: yes
10:41.49GeorgeLeeds: I left for Taiwan on the 23rd
10:42.37mozratWhere did you announce it?
10:42.41Georgehere.
10:44.07mozratyou mentioned it 3 times
10:44.17George3 is a lot
10:44.23Georgeand there were several days of arguments
10:44.27Georgewith kbsingh especially
10:44.35Georgetelling me to be social
10:44.37mozratabout what?
10:44.38Georgeand me telling him to get stuffede
10:44.45mozratWell he was correct then wasn't he!
10:44.56GeorgeI wasn't in the country.
10:45.45mozratyou suck
10:45.59Leedsso uou're going to get drunk at the meeting this week?
10:46.10Leedsnext week...
10:46.14Georgeno.
10:46.46LeedsI'm sorry - there shouldn't have been a ? on there - it wasn't a question - more a statement, maybe a promise, even a threat
10:47.05mozratLeeds: exactly
10:47.27mozratGeorge: you are an utterly unsociable, unlikeable loser
10:47.38mozratnow, please come to the pub on Tuesday and have fun
10:48.47Georgeno
10:49.30mozratWhat did you do to celebrate your 18th then?
10:49.36mozratand what did you get from people?
10:49.41Georgenothing
10:49.46Georgeexcept a thinkpad x40
10:50.12GeorgeI thought you did
10:50.14Georgein fact
10:50.19GeorgeI thought everyone did
10:50.22Georgeah well.
10:50.27Georgeanyway, can't make it on tuesday
10:50.30mozratwhat?
10:50.31Georgeterm starts at 9pm on tuesday
10:50.39mozratShame
10:50.41kbsingh'pm' ?
10:50.50Georgekbsingh: yes.
10:50.55kbsinghhow can a term start in the 'pm' ?
10:51.11mozratGeorge: can't you skip it?
10:51.14kbsinghor do you need to be back @ the arena by 9pm
10:51.18Georgeboarding school.
10:51.24Georgemozrat: don't be ridiculous
10:51.47mozratWhy is that ridiculous? You would only be 2 hours late for it
10:52.02mozratin fact - it starts at 1900 - you might be back by 2130
10:52.07mozratyou are an adult now remember>
10:52.09GeorgeI don't just go back to school.. I have to take a whole heap of crap there too
10:52.18Georgenot excluding three laptops, clothes, and a few other things
10:53.36mozratBah, I'm pissed off you can't make it.
10:54.07Georgewhy?
10:54.14Georgethis term is going to be hectic
10:54.17GeorgeI have LOTS of exams.
10:54.23mozratCos it should be fun.
10:54.36Georgeyeah, well, sod off :P
10:54.39kbsinghGeorge: we'll get you some nice sausages
10:54.44Georgehah.
10:55.03mozratwe have some balloons out here as we launched a new campaign yesterday
10:55.11mozratsomeone just went under his desk to plug his laptop in
10:55.21mozratand a balloon burst just as he plugged it in
10:55.36mozrathe nearly leapt about a foot in the air :)
10:55.43Georgefatty
10:56.17mozrat?
10:56.24Georgedunno
10:56.25Georgefelt like it
10:56.43Georgetime to play civ
10:56.46Georgebye
10:57.48mozratta-ra-
11:24.03Georgehi
11:32.40Georgeeww
11:32.44Georgesandwich.
11:32.56mozratwhat? You don't eat sandwiches?
11:37.32Georgethey don't contain enough crap
11:37.42mozratSubway ones do :)
11:53.37rhowemm, bacon bagel
12:21.26stephanb2i now have a few really stupid questions to ask
12:22.24stephanb2is there an "acceptable" way to send credit card details by email without expecting the other person to install encryption software
12:22.49stephanb2like in an image format? zip file with password? word document with password? pdf?
12:23.02GeorgeHow could a worm drive a car you say? Two on the pedals, two on the wheel, one on the A-Z It could happen!
12:23.05Georgehahaha
12:24.18stephanb2or is the really only acceptable way to use PGP
12:24.47mozratGeorge: FOOL
12:24.59mozratstephanb2: maybe verbally would be as/or more secure
12:25.21stephanb2mozrat: what i normally do is send a fax
12:26.18mozratstephanb2: in terms of the amount of time the data is "persistant" sending a fax, or verbally seems to be more secure to me
12:26.47mozratsure, someone can sniff the phone line, or overhear but they have to be there at the right time.. sending a PDF means that data can be more easily logged
12:27.02stephanb2mozrat: ah because email data "hangs around" on server hard drives for a long time ?
12:27.13mozratstephanb2: purely in my own opinion, yes
12:27.45mozratif you can't secure it with encryption you should minimise the exposure to risk, right?
12:28.26stephanb2mozrat: oic. so it's not just a matter of "hiding" the info like u would hide an email address from spammers
12:29.26mozratthat is it as well - but what would you consider more secure... uploading a document with confidential info to a webserver for someone to download, or sending it via email?
12:29.46mozrator sending it via email versus saying it down the phone once
12:30.10mozratit is security via obscurity
12:30.23mozratwhich isn't good on it's own, but it is a valid tactic
12:30.49stephanb2i will send a fax. i just read that passwords on word documents are dead simple to crack
12:30.52stephanb2i now have an even more stupid question
12:31.15stephanb2why is there no encryption automatically included in every email client ?
12:31.35mozratI think the question of standards and also infrastructure
12:31.36stephanb2the way an NNTP client knows how to uuencode, yenc, etc...
12:31.45mozratstandards- PGP, S/MIME and others
12:32.11mozratinfrastructure - you have to know which keys to trust, so you need PKI, CA's or people to trust each others keys manually
12:32.32mozratstephanb2: Do you have GPG or PGP keys?
12:32.46stephanb2hmm basically a verisign or thawte or some "reliable" third party ?
12:33.21mozratYes, those guys are certificate authorities
12:33.22stephanb2mozrat: no i only know how to use them to check rpm packages
12:33.48mozratYou can choose to trust keys that are ultimately signed by these trusted people
12:34.01mozratbut - that is more for x509 certs - not PGP ones
12:34.11mozratstephanb2: they are easy to generate and use
12:35.44stephanb2mozrat: yes but i cannot tell a hotel in estonia or even less my bank in france to use PGP to read my emails
12:35.50mozratstephanb2: no, of course
12:36.31mozratmaybe one day though :)
12:37.22mozratMmmm, that was a tasty (free) sandwich
12:40.55wethrinhello
12:40.59mozrathey wethrin
12:41.12wethrinHow do?
12:41.19mozratdo good
12:41.22mozratstomach full
12:41.37wethringood good
12:41.41stephanb2so, who here has been using allofmp3.com ?
12:42.07Georgeargh it's wethrin
12:43.13wethrinha
12:43.42mozratstephanb2: nope
12:44.16mozratin fact my iPod hasn't played music in ages - I'm on a podcast binge
12:48.34mozratibot lart Americans
12:49.05mozratNot only do they get 24 series 5 episode 16 before the rest of us, they don't put it on bit torrent properly
12:49.32Georgemozrat: you have an iPod?
12:50.10mozratyeah, had one for a while. If I was buying a mp3 player now I wouldn't choose an iPod
12:56.57mozratibot seen mikejw
12:57.04ibotmikejw <n=mikejw@81-179-90-63.dsl.pipex.com> was last seen on IRC in channel #gllug, 10d 1h 20m 22s ago, saying: '*responding'.
12:57.45mozratAnyone got any photos online of past GLLUG meetings?
12:59.13murbprobably.
12:59.59cbzNot everyone wants photos of them on the web.
13:00.07cbzthemselves
13:00.21mozratcbz: that's fair enough
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13:44.07mozratHi IAmAI
13:44.14IAmAIHello.
13:44.15mozrathaven't seen you here for a while
13:49.39JAVaftenoon
13:51.58wethrinHmm. Of all the people on the ircphoto page, only myself (with an old nickname) and Leeds are regular IRCers here
13:52.34Georgewethrin: which ircphoto?
13:52.53wethrinwww.gllug.org.uk/ircphoto.html
13:53.06Georgethat one.
13:53.16Georgethat's only because you and Leeds don't have a life
13:53.28mozratJenson
13:53.51mozratI wonder what she is up to
13:53.58Georgewho's Jenson?
13:54.05wethrinSurely "who she is up"? :)
13:54.22Georgeand who the hell allowed a girl in here?
13:54.40wethrinGeorge: We're an equal opportunities IRC channel
13:54.53Georgeliar
13:56.17Georgewethrin: you're not equal opportunities to Georges
13:56.26Georgemozrat: boudiccas and puckman are female?
13:56.39mozratwell done Sherlock
13:56.47Georgemozrat's a horse
13:57.17wethrinWho's puckman IRL?
13:57.23GeorgeI need more hair.
13:57.29wethrinI need less hair
13:57.33wethrinAnd soon I shall have it!
13:58.05wethrinTo a milspec?
13:58.10mozratyep :)
13:58.16wethrinYARR!
13:58.18mozratNumber 2 and Number 3
13:58.22wethrinDo you still have a beard?
13:58.25wethrinBah. Long-haired hippy!
13:58.29mozratYep :)
13:58.32mozratNumber 99
13:58.38wethrinheh
13:58.42Georgehair rocks
13:58.45mozratI cut it back on new years day and haven't touched it since
13:59.01mozratGenerally or just about the beard??
13:59.13Georgewethrin: wtf do you need a hat for?
13:59.51wethrinGeorge: To wear. Duh.
14:00.06wethrinmozrat: Don't trust a man with a beard
14:00.16wethrinAlso, *really* don't trust a woman with a beard
14:00.33mozratwethrin: you had an impressive fuzz last time I saw you
14:00.34Georgewhy not?
14:00.36Georgethat's sexist
14:00.48wethrinmozrat: That was a long time ago
14:01.44mozratwethrin: it was actually
14:02.16IAmAIHi, peeps. I've been lazy and not logging in.
14:02.19wethrinYeah. You're not often enough at Friday boozeups
14:02.24wethrinEven George has been to one!
14:02.56mozratwethrin: My secret shame is noted
14:03.07mozratif George has been to more than I have that is very serious
14:03.11mozratIAmAI: hi :)
14:03.15wethrinI think you've been to one each
14:03.31IAmAIAnyone here good with MySQL?
14:05.22mozratDepends what the question is probably :)
14:06.19IAmAII wish to create a table of list of first names and the gender of the name.
14:06.42IAmAIIf say the column 'name' was a VARCHAR, can I make that an index and a key?
14:07.07IAmAIIs that a good idea, or should I use a seperate column such as an id as an INT?
14:07.24mozratI don't think name is a very good index
14:07.32wethrinIf it's an index, it'd need to be unique
14:07.39mozratemail address would be better
14:07.44wethrinAnd names aren't unique
14:07.47IAmAINah, it isn't a list of individuals.
14:07.54IAmAIIt's list of names.
14:07.56mozratbut you would still have to do some checking in the application before trying to stuff itin there
14:08.04mozratah
14:08.09mozratno, use an id field
14:08.12wethrinThe usual way is to have an ID field that's automatically incremented
14:08.21mozratyou can index it, but don't use it as a key
14:08.22IAmAIOK.
14:08.42mozratso how are you going to store the names? comma delimited?
14:08.50IAmAIAs a mysql table.
14:09.06mozratyou are going to have a single field with a long list of boys names in?
14:09.19IAmAIThis is what I have so far: http://pastebin.com/653516
14:09.52mozratso one name per database row?
14:10.04IAmAIYeah.
14:10.07mozratcool
14:10.44IAmAIDoes 'cool' mean I had it right the first time? :P
14:11.35mozratI think so!
14:11.50IAmAIAwesome.
14:11.55mozratYou made it sound a little like one database row would contain a list of names
14:12.01mozratwhich sounded a little weird
14:12.11IAmAISounds wierd to me too! :P
14:12.11mozratbut you're not doing that
14:12.16IAmAINope.
14:14.34cbzGah, CamelCapsHurtsTheEyes
14:15.33IAmAIMy other question is I'm writing a script that creates the database and tables...
14:16.03IAmAII want to only create the tables if the database is created.
14:16.12IAmAII found this: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/if-statement.html
14:16.40wethrinmozrat: Here's your chance to make up for your lack of pub attendance :)
14:17.05IAmAIBut I couldn't figure out how to make a condition that says 'if the database suchandsuch exists then...'
14:17.11cbzurmf
14:19.04wethrinmozrat: Beer at the Maple Leaf tomorrow?
14:19.25mozratYOU ARE ON
14:19.31wethrinRaarrr!
14:19.36wethrinmorsing will be there
14:19.54mozratIs he driving his unfeasibly large American car?
14:20.05wethrinIt's a Volvo!
14:20.16mozratwha?
14:20.25mozrathe bought some massive American muscle car
14:20.29mozratibot wake morsing
14:20.30ibotmorsing: GOOD MORNING!!!
14:20.30kbsinghdidnt he buy a Comaro ?
14:20.31wethrinDid he?
14:20.38wethrinhe's probably at work. He just phoned me
14:23.28Leedsblah
14:23.51wethrinLEEEEDS!
14:24.04Leedsaka hello all, how is your Tuesday?
14:24.11wethrinIt's wet
14:24.22kbsinghvery
14:24.34wethrinDog is therefore underwalked
14:24.46kbsinghthe last bits of snow finally melting ..
14:25.38murbwethrin: didn't fnord buy volvo cars?
14:26.51wethrinmurb: I don't know
14:28.20Leedsha ha snow
14:29.09IAmAII should be able to make the pub tomorrow.
14:29.51Leedsat 10pm, the hong kong observatory (met office) was showing a temperature of 27C
14:30.23murbLeeds: and now you have snow???
14:30.34Leedsmurb: not so much, no
14:30.50Georgemmm, nice pizza
14:32.40Leedsmozrat: check your clock
14:33.33mozratHmm, you are right
14:34.28Leedsit's a bit bloody obvious when you reply to wethrin 10 minutes before his mail :-)
14:34.41mozratI knew he was going to call a beer meeting
14:35.33Leedsyou knew the exact text of his message?
14:36.37wethrin:-)
14:37.51mozratUmmm...
14:37.55mozratno :(
14:40.22Georgehahaha beer
14:40.57wethrinBeer++
14:41.04wethrinSleeman's beer++++
14:41.18Georgehahaha pub meet tomorrow?
14:41.23wethrinYes
14:41.26wethrinYou coming?
14:41.31LeedsGeorge: you'll be there, drinking heavily, right?
14:41.33Georgedon't be ridiculous
14:41.35wethrinCan you beat mozrat's attendance record? :)
14:41.47IAmAIIf I come to the pub on Wednesday, will you guys be easy to find?
14:42.10Georgeno
14:42.22Georgewe blend with the surroundings
14:42.26Georgewe're like chameleons
14:42.31Georgebecause we use SUSE
14:42.40kbsinghthe Sun box finally came in today
14:42.42wethrinIAmAI: I suspect so
14:42.50Leedskbsingh: woo
14:42.56wethrinIAmAI: Spot the geek t-shirts :)
14:43.01IAmAILOL
14:43.04IAmAII'm not sure which of you I've met in reality.
14:43.13mozratme!
14:43.13Leedssomeone just give IAmAI a mobile number to call for fsck's sake
14:43.16wethrinNot me
14:43.17mozratvery very briefly
14:43.19wethrin07973 623883
14:43.21IAmAILOL
14:43.25mozratIAmAI: 07899 942083
14:43.27wethrinLeeds: Happy now? :)
14:43.44Leedsyes. ecstatic.
14:43.48wethrinwoo
14:43.54IAmAIThanks guys.
14:43.57GeorgeIAmAI: 666
14:44.00kbsinghhumm.. pub meet... where ?
14:44.05wethrinkbsingh: RTFML :)
14:44.19wethrinMaple Leaf, Covent Garden, tomorrow, 6pm
14:44.33kbsinghthere is a mailing list ?
14:44.36kbsingh:)
14:44.39wethrinThere are many
14:45.00wethrinAnd you're on it, because you've posted
14:45.01kbsinghhum.... ok, count me in. I'll be there by 6:30
14:45.05kbsinghoh that list.
14:45.07IAmAIGeorge: Nice number. Wish my number was that short ;)
14:45.32wethrinYes
14:45.37wethrinThat list :)
14:45.43wethrinkbsingh: Hurrah!
14:46.07IAmAIMozrat, I just sent you a message by mistake.
14:46.15mozratIAmAI: I got it :)
14:46.22IAmAII thought I was adding a contact when I was actually writting a message.
14:46.25mozratthe system works!
14:46.27IAmAIWell, you have my number now.
14:46.51mozratGeorge: Why do you have your number tattooed behind your ear though??
14:47.47boudiccasi thought it was across his forehead!
14:48.35Georgemozrat: wtf?
14:48.43Georgeif I come to the pub tomorrow my laptop comes with me.
14:49.00wethrinThat's fine. Just don't use it
14:49.06boudiccasGeorge; your portable brain?
14:49.13Georgewethrin: why the hell not?
14:49.28wethrinGeorge: Because you're in a PUB! A social environment
14:50.03GeorgeIRC IS A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
14:50.19boudiccasnah, too much swearing
14:50.24wethrinNo, it's a poor substitute
14:50.40boudiccasyou can't see the facial expression
14:50.47wethrin:-)
14:51.47boudiccasemoticons are not sufficiently graphic enough to emulate the range of emtions on a human face
14:51.55boudiccas*eomtions
14:51.59boudiccas*emotions
14:52.14boudiccaswhy doesn't xchat come with a spell checker? :(
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14:55.22mozratSee, from that last sentence I can tell you are sad. Your argument is flawed
14:56.16mozratGeorge: Have you not seen "The Omen"?
14:56.35Leedsmozrat: no chance - he's far too young...
14:57.18mozratLeeds: Ghostbusters was on E4 last night - I wonder if he has seen that
14:57.32Georgeno
14:57.44Leedsto be fair, I'm too young to have seen it either
15:02.50mozratwhich?
15:02.57mozratThe Omen? no way
15:04.52Leedsyup
15:05.29Leedsimdb dates it at 1976...
15:10.26mozratgood film though
15:12.14mozratboudiccas: pub tomorrow?
15:21.24boudiccasfraid not, too far to travel
15:21.29mozratShame
15:21.42mozratDo you work locally?
15:21.50mozratto where you live, I mean
15:21.55boudiccasit would only be worth it if I had some other reason to come up to the smoke
15:22.06boudiccasmozrat; i'm retired
15:22.24mozratboudiccas: right.
15:22.48mozratcbz: Good man - I need to do that again sometime
15:22.57mozratMy local place doesn't seem to do it anymore
15:23.07cbzmozrat: the blood trailer comes into company carpark - so the laziness factor is removed
15:23.15mozratcbz: thats good
15:23.42mozratGiving blood is painless - just a little prick.
15:23.42boudiccasblood trailer sound like a mini-dracula film :)
15:23.49mozratGeorge: ==========^
15:23.53cbzheh heh
15:24.18boudiccasdracula was a phlebotomist
15:24.46Georgemozrat: ?
15:36.50stephanb2gotta go soon
15:36.54stephanb2bye everybody
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15:44.38rhoweibot change 8595 usd to gbp
15:45.05rhoweibot 4926.93 * 1.175
15:45.06ibot5789.142750000001
15:45.19rhoweibot 578914/11000
15:45.21ibot52.628545454545
15:45.29rhowehm, nice profit margin
16:13.44Georgeheh
16:17.51Leedssleep time - night all
16:18.46kbsinghLeeds: bye
16:26.50Georgemozrat's overtaken Leeds!
16:27.43mozratyay!!
16:27.51mozratquick lets talk loads whilst he is sleeping
16:27.56Georgethat said, mozrat and Leeds are ahead of me
16:28.03Georgefor number of words spoken
16:28.10Georgebecause I have relatively short sentences :(
16:28.39Georgemozrat: anyway
16:28.58Georgemozrat: if I come to the pub tomorrow, I'm bringing my oh-so-new ThinkPad X40. Because I love it.
16:29.59mozratCool
16:30.13Georgemozrat: so there.
16:30.15mozratI wouldn't..
16:30.16mozratbut cool
16:30.20Georgemozrat: why wouldn't you? :P
16:30.23mozratmaybe you'll get drunk and leave it there
16:30.31GeorgeI don't drink C2H5OH
16:30.32mozratbecause it would get beer split on it, or I would lose it
16:30.50Georgewe all had laptops in the cafe meet in Taipei
16:30.53GeorgeALL of us
16:31.36Georgethe majority seemed to have ThinkPad X32s
16:31.40GeorgeI was the only X40 :)
16:32.31IAmAISee ya guys
16:32.53mozratWas that meet a day meeting in a cafe or evening with alcohol ?
16:32.59Georgeevening
16:33.01Georgewith food
16:33.02Georgeno alcohol
16:33.08Georgestarted at 7pm
16:33.10Georgefinished at 11pm
16:35.41mozratit's a bit too geeky really
16:36.24GeorgeWE'RE GEEKS
16:36.49mozratThere are shades of geekiness - and sitting in a cafe IRCing each other is a bit OTT
16:37.00murbanyone know how get can get a list of directors of a uk ltd for hmm legal purposes (if post to their registered address bounces?)
16:37.17gregjGeorge: yes we are, and you are ?
16:37.21mozratCompanies House?
16:37.23kbsinghi suppose sitting in a presentation, chatting over irc is ok ? one with a laptop, another with a phone and a third witha bberry
16:37.40mozrathttp://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/
16:37.45mozratkbsingh: shutit
16:37.59cbzAre you two in a presentation?
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16:39.12mozratcbz: George kbsingh and I were once
16:39.20mozratthe LiVES presentation at GLLUG
16:39.27Georgehahahahaha
16:39.49murbmozrat: does that tell you who the directors are?
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16:40.23kbsinghoff home now...
16:42.33mozratmurb: I think so
16:42.37mozrathi MrBrown0101
16:42.57MrBrown0101hey mozrat !
16:43.02MrBrown0101how are u?
16:43.39mozratmurb: http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/WebCHeck/findinfopage/
16:43.49mozratMrBrown0101: Not too shabby thanks :)
16:45.17MrBrown0101:P
16:45.27MrBrown0101does anyone uses gentoo here?
16:46.33murbmozrat: it costs..
16:50.25mozratmurb: Sorry. didn't realise
16:50.33mozratibot: wake George
16:50.34ibotGeorge: GOOD MORNING!!!
16:50.42mozratMrBrown0101: Catching George would be your best bet
16:50.43murbmozrat: i just suspect the information i will get back won't be useful.
16:51.04mozratDoes anyone have kbsinghs mobile?
16:51.15murbGCHQ?
16:51.19MrBrown0101thanx mozrat! whats your distro?
16:51.40George?
16:52.00GeorgeI just got a phone call from some random person asking for a "Ping"
16:52.06Georgewhoever tf "ping" is
16:52.54MrBrown0101hey George do u use Gentoo?
16:53.03Georgeapparently
16:54.17MrBrown0101just that Im on suse now... BUt im thinking on a chenge to gentoo
16:54.23MrBrown0101how is it?
16:54.37MrBrown0101is it a good think to wear?
16:54.40Georgeyou need to know what you're doing
16:55.06Georgethere is no installer
16:55.27MrBrown0101no??
16:55.34MrBrown0101I heard there is an installer
16:55.38MrBrown0101on
16:55.41MrBrown01012006 version
16:56.12mozratmurb: heh
16:56.24Georgeoh, there is.
16:56.28GeorgeI've never used it though
16:56.35GeorgeI tend to stick to the command line
16:56.38mozratGentoo is on the front cover of Linux Format if you are interested
16:57.03mozratTime for me to go homeski - MrBrown0101... speak to you again sometime. i.e. come back!
16:57.05MrBrown0101yeah... I have that in front of me now
16:57.38MrBrown0101I better leave it
16:57.45MrBrown0101and stick to suse...
17:02.01Georgethat said, I've found Gentoo to be a hell of a lot more responsive than just about any other distro
17:02.11Georgenaysayers say what you please, this is what I've found
17:04.02MrBrown0101yep...every gentoo user says that, I'll give it a try as soon as I finish this easter VB project im doing...
17:05.25MrBrown0101I've tryed it once but I ended up deleting my window$ partition hehehe
17:05.30skuggbe that as it may, I'll trade a little more responsiveness for not having to compile anything any day.
17:05.31MrBrown0101seems funny now
17:05.31Georgeyes, but most gentoo users are idiots
17:05.48Georgeskugg: everybody has different priorities
17:06.05skuggof course, you have to add the $MANY_HOURS you spent compiling to the average responsiveness. it takes some time to make up for that.
17:06.16Georgeskugg: yes, but I compile whilst I'm asleep
17:06.25Georgeskugg: so that doesn't come into play
17:06.37MrBrown0101hehehe
17:06.47MrBrown0101skugg: whats your distro?
17:06.52skuggMrBrown0101: osx ;)
17:06.59MrBrown0101ohhh
17:07.01MrBrown0101hehehe
17:07.06Georgeewww
17:07.15Georgeos x is the biggest pile of CRAP I've ever used.
17:07.21MrBrown0101I'll emulate that on vmware sooner or later
17:07.23MrBrown0101heheheh
17:07.31skuggGeorge: that only works if you have several machines and/or don't need your computer *right now*
17:07.54skuggGeorge: tell it to someone who cares.
17:08.04MrBrown0101camon george...its not that bad although you dont have much room to learn on OS X
17:08.30skuggos x is great for me. i don't have to fuck around with teh system, it just works. so I can do my own thing.
17:08.41MrBrown0101anyway its all about priorities...
17:08.46skuggMrBrown0101: that's where you're wrong.
17:09.07skuggMrBrown0101: because you *don't* have to faff around trying to make the system work, you have much more time to learn
17:10.22Georgeskugg: I have 3? :P
17:10.37skuggi have none.
17:10.40skuggi don't own a computer.
17:10.43skugg:)
17:10.45Georgeskugg: perhaps if you faff around trying to get the system to work you learn during the process?
17:10.46skuggI win :)
17:11.19MrBrown0101skugg: u win(dows)
17:11.20skuggGeorge: you will learn what you had to do to make that work. if that's not really what you *wanted* to spend time on learning, it's wasted.
17:11.24skuggdifferent priorities.
17:11.47skuggi have a company powerbook though
17:11.50Georgeergh
17:11.52Georgepowerbooks suck
17:12.10skuggall computers suck. powerbooks just suck less, to paraphrase ME
17:12.16Georgeno they don't
17:12.23Georgethe quality control on the powerbooks is pathetic
17:12.38MrBrown0101and u pay alot more
17:12.43MrBrown0101:P
17:12.44skuggi don't pay anything.
17:12.49MrBrown0101for no control
17:12.53skugg*company* powerbook, see? :)
17:13.25MrBrown0101yeah...u are behind a company...
17:14.33skuggi get to use a nice shiny powerbook when it works, and when it doesn't i give it to the sysadmins and say "gimme another"
17:15.02murbskugg: service!
17:16.04skuggmurb: indeed. i don't see a problem with it.
17:16.17skuggso, powerbook build quality is not affecting me so much :)
17:16.50skuggthey're a bit heavy though. could be lighter.
17:17.03skuggoh well, get to exercise those thighs...
17:18.44skuggoh well, off to the pub
17:57.10mozrat.mmm, pub
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18:22.10wethrinPowerbooks++
18:22.19wethrinSpecifically, TiBook++
18:23.09Georgethe tibook sucked
18:23.14Georgethe albook sucked slightly less
18:24.46wethrinrubbish
18:26.09morsingBasically saying:
18:26.16morsingDear Morsing Member,
18:26.21morsingWe have temporarily suspended your email account morsing@morsing.cc.
18:26.30morsingEnding:
18:26.31wethrinI got those some months back
18:26.32morsingSincerely,The Morsing Support Team
18:26.49morsing<PROTECTED>
18:27.01morsingAm I supposed to have suspended my own account?
18:27.04wethrinYes!
18:27.21morsingwethrin: What happened to your hair?
18:27.28wethrinIt got cut off
18:27.37morsingAll of it?
18:29.41wethrinPretty much
18:29.58wethrinThere's a bit left
18:30.03morsingNice
18:30.10morsingWhat about your beard?
18:30.12wethrinBut it means it'll be some time before I next have to cut
18:30.21wethrinThat's been unshaved for a few days
18:30.26wethrinSince Saturday evening
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18:59.18morsinghighbury, Erwin!
18:59.25morsinghighbury: Are you comming tomorrow?
19:00.23highburytomorrow?
19:00.29highburywhat's tomorrow?
19:00.38highburyother than wednesday
19:00.43Erwinevening
19:05.32morsinghighbury: Read your gllug-social mails
19:05.49morsingMe and mozrat *and* kbsingh will be there. Leeds will *noy* be there
19:06.13morsingwethrin and rhowe are coming too
19:06.22morsingAnd George
19:07.40Georgewtf?
19:16.48highburyI'm retrieving my emails now, after not reading for nearly a month (approx 15,000 unread emails)
19:17.03murbhighbury: well you can kill all the gllug ones :-)
19:26.36morsingOk, maybe I need to practice my american but wtf does this mean:
19:26.38morsinghttp://www.ss396.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=chevellecamino&Product_Code=IRC-450&Category_Code=INTERIORSHEADLINERSANDSUNVISORS
19:26.55morsingHeadliner? Sail?
19:30.14rhowemorsing: I might have to go along
19:37.33morsingrhowe: What's a headliner?
19:40.13rhowemorsing: wethrin streaking the house of commons?
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20:12.23Erwinwoo, Ennio Morricone will be in London on july 19th
20:41.23wethrinErwin: Oh? Where?
20:42.07Erwinhttp://www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=179949&userid=38637111&filler1=see
20:42.24ErwinApollo Hammersmith. He's bringing the Hungarian Philharmonica
20:42.44ErwinAnd also the "Crouch End Festival Chorus Choir", not sure how that one works
20:43.52wethrinWoo
20:44.35wethrinAhhh, BASTIGES
20:44.38wethrinIt's on a Wednesday
20:44.44wethrinBastiges and cnuts
20:44.44George?
20:44.51GeorgeFREAK
20:45.00wethrinwhat?
20:45.49wethrinWell, it's something I'd have liked to see. But will be on the wrong end of the country
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