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00:07.01JAVnn all
00:07.42rhowesiThey get sentto a gmail address, so perhaps
00:07.49rhoweoh, he's gone
00:08.44rhoweheh, the idea of a survey where a prize could be given, without collecting any personally-identifiable informatino is an interesting one
01:09.42z00daxzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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06:06.21mozratGood Morning
06:06.36mozratWhat a fine morning it is!
06:07.08SlayerXPi can soon sort that out
06:07.22mozratOh
06:07.54SlayerXPwould you like some mindbleach with that?
06:08.11mozratYes please, that was horrible
06:10.57Leedshello
06:11.48mozratHi Leeds
06:12.25mozratGet any ork done today?
06:12.50mozrats/ork/work/
06:15.22Leedsa little, yes
06:16.41mozratgoing into the tunnels - bbl
06:16.58Leedsphones work in the tunnels here ;-)
06:19.30mozratyeah yeah
06:19.43mozratNot in this country, pal
06:31.41morsingMy god you people are up early!
06:32.33morsingHello?
06:32.37morsingmozzie?
06:32.46LeedsI think he went into a tunnel
06:36.21Leedsibot change 11010 hkd to gbp
06:36.34Leedsibot 795.56*1.175
06:36.36ibot934.783
06:37.11Leedscompared with 1105GBP - that's prices for a similarly-specced Dell laptop in Hong Kong and the UK
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06:48.09morsingAndrewBlack!
06:49.02Leedsit is he!
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06:54.20morsingCEH!
06:54.38CEHHi
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06:57.23morsingCEH!
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07:02.19morsingCEH!
07:11.30mozrathey morsing
07:12.15AndrewBlackhi - sorry only 1/4 of my attention is  watching IRC
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07:16.04morsingAndrewBlack, puckman!
07:28.56mozratMorning George
07:29.00mozratibot wake George
07:29.01ibotGeorge: GOOD MORNING!!!
07:29.06morsingmozrat!
07:29.12mozrathenrik!!
07:29.26mozratAre you well?
07:29.31morsingYes
07:29.56morsingYou?
07:30.04mozratVery well
07:30.20mozratI have consumed 2 slices of toast with peanut butter (crunchy)
07:30.31mozratand I am now enjoying a cup of organic white tea
07:30.36mozratless milk
07:30.50SlayerXPyou.... you.... you.... suse user, you.
07:30.55morsingNo milk I hope
07:31.14mozratSlayerXP: I am by profession, my heart lies elsewhere :(
07:31.18mozratmorsing: no milk
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07:47.42othermozratHmm, my freeshell host seems to have died temporarily
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07:48.53othermozratMorning gregj_ rhowe_
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07:49.59Copejr;;p mozrat
07:49.59morsingCope!
07:49.59Copehi morsing
07:50.00mozratI'm back!!
07:50.00morsingmozzie!
07:51.03mozrathey!
07:51.04mozratmorsing, Cope, did either of you break Wikipedia this morning??
07:51.35morsingI did - sorry
07:53.00mozratHas anyone seen the film Primer?
07:53.26morsingNo - no-one has
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07:56.54Copemozrat: imdb gives it an ok rating
07:56.59Copewhich is a good sign
07:57.02morsingGeorge!
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08:03.00morsingCope?
08:03.03Georgehey people
08:03.05Copeyes morsing?
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08:03.27JAVgood morning
08:03.38morsingCope: You're good at giving advice aren't you?
08:03.47Leedsbbc programme database up on the web... as much info as they have on every programme they made (and/or broadcast, I'm not sure) since 1937
08:04.03Leedshttp://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/
08:04.05Copemorsing: on things I know about, not bad :)
08:04.10GeorgeCopeycope!
08:05.06Copehello George
08:05.46Georgehey
08:05.48Leedsthey don't seem to have me in their database... but they do appear to have my Dad, so that's okay
08:05.51GeorgeI am clean shaven for once
08:06.00morsingGeorge: Where?
08:06.10mozratGeorge: you were clean shaven on Saturday?
08:06.12Georgemorsing: on my face
08:06.15Georgemozrat: I wasn't actually
08:06.16morsingGeorge: Good
08:06.40Leedsthey do have Linus... who apparently was on Radio 4 along with ESR and RMS
08:06.49Georgemozrat: *hint hint* CUT THAT DISGUSTING GROWTH OFF YOUR CHIN
08:07.07mozratGeorge: why?
08:07.19Georgemozrat: I think the reason is in my demand :P
08:07.34SlayerXPhttp://beerandspeech.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_beerandspeech_archive.html
08:07.44SlayerXPsee "Time Travelled mastered on IRC"
08:07.47Georgehow do the Pentium Ds compare to the Athlon64 x2s?
08:08.23wethrinHello
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08:08.33LeedsGeorge: not well, I'd think, given that they are single-core 32-bit chips
08:08.45GeorgeLeeds: er.
08:08.51cbzhi Leeds.
08:08.57GeorgeLeeds: the Pentium Ds are dual core EM64T chips
08:08.59SlayerXPLeeds: th epentium D is the dual core line
08:09.01morsingwethrin?
08:09.06wethrinmorsing?
08:09.12SlayerXPgeorge in "right"  *SHOCKER*
08:09.36Leedsum, you mean Core Duo, then, not Pentium D?
08:09.40SlayerXPbut pentium D chips are fucking expensive, and still slow.
08:09.43GeorgeLeeds: no, I mean Pentium D
08:09.49GeorgeLeeds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D
08:09.50SlayerXPLeeds: he means pentium d
08:10.02Leedsor an I thinking of Celeron D?
08:10.08GeorgeLeeds: you're thinking of the Celeron D
08:10.24wethrinSlayerXP: Some time back you recommended an X server for Windows that wasn't Cygwin, but was free - what was it?
08:10.32Leedsmaybe I'm thinking of the Celeron D...
08:10.32SlayerXPwethrin: xdeep/32
08:10.34morsingLeeds: You're thinking of the Celeron D
08:10.35wethrinAha. Thanks
08:10.58SlayerXPwethrin: it's neat and Just Works[tm]
08:11.19SlayerXPwethrin: I used it as an xdcmp client to my local linux server when I'm in windows
08:11.55Leedsoh, and apparently the Celeron D - which might be what I'm thinking of - does in fact have Intel's implementation of AMD's 64-bit architecture
08:12.27Georgeintel's offerings are getting more viable as they seem to be getting cheaper
08:12.42Leedsso, in short - assuming I am thinking of the Celeron D - it seems I was wrong anyway
08:12.42Georgetheir cheapest dual core CPU is a 2.66GHz cpu for about 80 quid
08:12.48wethrinSlayerXP: Right. I've currently installed Omni-X, which is commercial but with a free 30-day licence
08:13.19wethrin(which is enough for the use I'm putting it to)
08:13.56SlayerXPi never forgave intel for HT
08:14.02SlayerXPthat was just such a con
08:14.06morsingSlayerXP: Why?
08:14.15morsingAhh...
08:14.18SlayerXPmorsing: it made idiots think they had two processors.
08:14.31wethrinIt worked fairly well in certain (limited) circumstances
08:14.38SlayerXPmainly thanks to dell's marketing department
08:14.43Leedsheh, the BBC archive has a few mistakes in it, like suggesting that John Hall, computer expert and director of Linux Inc. was on a home improvement show talking about designing interiors on a computer
08:15.00wethrinIIRC, it was good if you had software that went into IO wait states quite a lot
08:15.05Georgeisn't it Jon Hall?
08:15.32LeedsJohn, according to the BBC
08:15.48wethrinBah. Xdeep/32 doesn't work with Windows 95
08:15.50SlayerXPAuntie  knows best
08:15.57Georgehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_"maddog"_Hall
08:16.04SlayerXPwethrin: that's a feature, not a bug
08:16.11GeorgeI think the BBC is wrong
08:16.15wethrinSlayerXP: Unfortunately I'm currently stuck on a stone-age machine
08:16.17Georgehttp://www.fosdem.org/2003/index/speakers/speakers_maddog.html
08:17.05wethrinSlayerXP: Does it allow copy/paste between Windows and X, and, more importantly, will it play ball with a Cygwin installation?
08:17.15SlayerXPwethrin: errm, pass.
08:17.34LeedsGeorge: I think the BBC is wrong
08:17.38wethrinOkay. I'll play with it at some point in my copious free time
08:17.45wethrinLeeds: Surely the BBC is never wrong! :)
08:17.57GeorgeI think I'm wright.
08:17.58Georgeso there.
08:19.04morsing08:45 freenode-connect [freenode@freenode/bot/connect] requested CTCP VERSION
08:19.04morsing<PROTECTED>
08:19.07morsingHuh?!
08:19.21Georgelol
08:19.30morsingWhat does it want again?
08:19.33wethrinAha. Website++ - tells me what I need to patch Windows95
08:19.35Georgewhat do you people reckon I should upgrade my Athlon64 3500+ to?
08:19.43Georgeit's struggling to keep up when my RAID's being hammered
08:19.59wethrinctcp version gives information about the IRC client you're running, morsing
08:20.08wethrinGeorge: Get a hardware RAID card
08:20.17wethrinBut it's really not going to be the CPU that's the problem
08:20.19Georgewethrin: I'd love to.
08:20.34Georgewethrin: but I have about 1TB of ... stuff.. which would need to be migrated
08:20.38LeedsGeorge: what the fsck are you doing which is generating enough I/O for it to matter?
08:20.51wethrinThe CPU is ridiculously fast for computing parity data, and should pass IO stuff over to the DMA controllers
08:21.12GeorgeLeeds: well, for some strange reason, ANYTHING that hits the disks seems to make for noticeable lag on the computer
08:21.22Georgeany crude comments about KDE can be sent to morsing
08:21.26wethrinSo get some PCI-E or PCI-X controller cards
08:21.35wethrinHmmm.....maybe DMA's been turned off?
08:21.39GeorgeI have no PCI-E or PCI-X slots
08:21.42Georgeand DMA is on
08:21.54Georgehdparm shows about 150MB/s coming off the RAID
08:22.16wethrinUm. 1.5Gbit?
08:22.26wethrinAre you sure that's not cached? :)
08:22.36Georgeapparently.
08:22.59morsingGeorge: Yay
08:23.39GeorgeTiming buffered disk reads: 450 MB in 3.00 seconds = 149.82 MB/sec
08:24.27SlayerXP?
08:24.30Georgemozrat: what was that cryptic message you sent me whilst I was sleeping?
08:25.05wethrinUm. Buffered reads aren't the best indication of raw disk performance :)
08:25.19Georgewethrin: I can't be fooked to install any real hdd benchmarking software
08:25.42Georgewethrin: and anyway, DMA doesn't seem to exist on SATA drives
08:26.38wethrinhdparm will do it
08:26.57Georgeno it won't
08:27.02wethrinHeh, DMA does exist on SATA drives
08:27.03Georgeiridium george # hdparm /dev/sda
08:27.04George/dev/sda: IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit) readonly     =  0 (off) readahead    = 256 (on) geometry     = 7296/255/63, sectors = 60011642880, start = 0
08:27.18George/dev/sda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
08:27.19wethrinhdparm -t /dev/sda
08:27.23mozratGeorge: You asked if I was pissed that you had trolled your way to the top of the stats
08:27.29mozratI replied "shutit"
08:27.29Georgemozrat: :D
08:27.36mozratSo, not really.
08:27.52Georgehrmm
08:27.53George/dev/sda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
08:27.54wethrinNo, it means Linux doesn't have the ioctls to change the DMA settings on the drives
08:27.58Georgepasting seems to be a bit fooked
08:28.17wethrinBecause hdparm talks IDE, whereas the SATA subsystem works with the SCSI devices
08:28.48Georgethe point is that DMA is clearly enabled
08:28.48SlayerXPGeorge: there's the Mister Pot on line 2 who wants to discuss your ethnic origin.
08:28.49Georgeso hush!
08:28.53wethrinHowever, the drives and controllers have to support DMA. Otherwise they'd be slower than a slow thing
08:28.56SlayerXPthere's a
08:30.03SlayerXPnone of you are even _trying_ abmx out.  this isn't good enough.
08:30.04wethringregj!
08:30.09wethrinabmx?
08:30.21Georgewethrin: well, I can write data to the RAID at between 30 and 60MB/s
08:30.37SlayerXPwethrin: my message-labs like service
08:32.53wethrinahhhh
08:33.01wethrinGeorge: That seems quite reasonable
08:33.34wethrinReboot-time!
08:34.10SlayerXPnice
08:35.04SlayerXPa one line question, accompanied by an 8 line sig, then a 25 line disclaimers in two labguages.
08:35.06SlayerXPlanguages
08:35.10SlayerXPsent to debian-user
08:35.10mozratSlayerXP: I can't get gmail.com to use it and my work already has a solution, sorry
08:35.21SlayerXPmozrat: well, you suck :)
08:40.07mozratSlayerXP: oh, I don't deny that at all
08:44.18mozratGeorge: which version of s9y are you on now? Are you going to drop off of planet.gllug.org.uk as well>
08:48.37Georgemozrat: I'm on er. something.
08:48.39Georgemozrat: latest stable
08:48.47LeedsGeorge: we all know you're on something
08:50.30cbzyuh.
08:50.31wethrinHrrrrm
08:50.47wethrinXDeep doesn't want to save its settings
08:54.47Georgemozrat: I'm just about to blog
08:56.12Georgemozrat: the fat bastard has blogged!
08:58.53GeorgeTFB, of course, being me!
09:06.26morsingbeer
09:06.33Georgelemonade.
09:07.08morsingsausages
09:07.38George:D
09:16.11Leedspizza
09:16.33Georgehrmm
09:16.33GeorgeFOOD
09:17.58George#/win 32
09:17.59Georgewoops.
09:19.29GeorgeCope: I finally replied to your trolling email :p
09:23.59Leedswin32?
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09:38.56Leedspuckman!
09:39.19puckmanLeeds!
09:39.28Leedspuckman!
09:40.02puckmanGod windows sucks
09:40.19Leedscertainly does
09:41.27puckmanMade my Thinkpad dual boot
09:41.46puckmaninstalled gaim on the windows side, just in case I need it and the fucking thing wont work
09:42.38puckmanhey, anyone got experience with vmware and parallels?
09:44.26Leedsooh, I'm thrashing... must be nearly hometime
09:46.10Leedshmm... Chinese colleague just said goodbye in Japanese as she left...
09:53.43Leedshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4949488.stm
10:00.27Leedsit is, of course, a donor kebab
10:00.30wethringroan
10:00.59Leedsyes, that is what passes for humour in Hong Kong these days...
10:05.56CopeGeorge: :)
10:07.17Copeyou mean the one that humiliated your puny uptime?
10:07.36wethrinBCS-- # for a national computing society, they really don't know much about email
10:08.07Copethe smtp bit? or ettiquette?
10:08.16SlayerXPwethrin: i manage their mail, oddly
10:08.26wethrin"Due to the high volume of queries, it may take a long time to respond. Please phone us"
10:08.29Leeds'nuff said
10:08.32wethrinSent to a mailing list
10:10.28SlayerXPwell sort of.  gradwell is their MX, but it all ends up getting passed through an abmx node.
10:12.19wethrinYes, but do you just do spam filtering and stuff for them? As I'm sure you wouldn't be doing silly things like sending bounces back to mailing lists...
10:12.34SlayerXPwell, yes
10:19.28cbzhttp://www.mantlepies.com/ipods.htm
10:50.01z00daxin a few days time, its going to be 01:02:03 on the 04/05/06
10:50.18morsingCope: It's fine - I just sent an email to my friend trying to figure out what's going on
10:50.21wethrinYes - the Americans thought this was true at the start of this month
10:50.24wethrinBut they were WRONG
10:50.44z00daxwethrin, yeah, writing the date the wrong way around does not make it right.
10:51.38z00daxi suppose the 20 in 2006 might be a spanner in the works, but we can safely overlook that.
10:51.44z00daxmozrat said so
10:51.54wethrinWell, yes :)
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10:59.58LeedsI don't know why, but my large packet loss seems to have gone away
11:00.46cpufreakanyone got any good recommendations for a tape library with ~80TB/month capacity ? :)
11:00.50cpufreakam getting quotes on ADIC i500/i2000 and StorageTek SL500 already...
11:02.01SlayerXPget yourself an EMC san instead
11:02.09SlayerXPyou can repsent the entire SAN as a tape drive.
11:02.18SlayerXPpresent
11:02.45cpufreakwell no
11:02.49cpufreakthis is to backup a SAN
11:03.39wethrinSlayerXP: I thought there was no substitute for tape backup?
11:04.10SlayerXPbeyond certain volumes, tape is impractical
11:05.00ErwinIn my new datacenter, we backup the 1T of disk-space via rdiff-backup onto another server. Both have RAID. Ideally we would then backup the backup onto an off-site server...
11:05.31ErwinBut it seemed that a tape solution to handle our needs would be more expensive than our other hw
11:06.21wethrinEh. Just use a RAID array
11:06.27LeedsI use rdiff-backup to a small dedicated fileserver - a snapserver - which is then backed up onto tape
11:08.43Leedsbut I'm talking 10s of GB, not 10s of TB :-)
11:09.10cpufreakwell this would be integrated into our existing Legato platform
11:09.17ErwinMaybe with the Blueray etc. DVDs...
11:09.37cpufreakjust at the moment in total we're doing about 25TB/month in backup
11:09.45cpufreakso would require bigger libraries than we currently use
11:09.54cpufreakso was wondering if anyone had any recommendations.
11:10.12Leedscpufreak: you could ask on the list...
11:10.25MacRoharda whole bunch of 750gb hds.
11:10.25cpufreakI'm not on the list.
11:10.33Leedsget on the list :-)
11:10.40antiphas1cpufreak: Your name's not down, you're not coming in
11:17.30wethrin!
11:26.45Leedspizza
11:29.21morsingbeer
11:29.25morsing"panini"
11:30.44GeorgeMOO
11:37.34morsing"Ciabata"
11:38.18morsingmozrat: What's interesting about it?
11:50.58mozrathello
11:51.02mozratwhats that morsing ?
11:55.33mozratmorsing?
11:57.29mozratibot wake morsing
11:57.31ibotmorsing: GOOD MORNING!!!
11:57.31morsingYour email? I've never even heard of the guy
11:57.38morsingibot: Twat
11:57.39ibotsuck it hard!
11:57.43morsingibot ignore mozrat
11:57.44ibotACTION sticks her fingers in her ears.  "La, la, la!  I can't hear you, mozrat!"
11:57.48mozratHe spoke on Saturday
11:57.53morsingOhh..
11:58.41mozratis this the best way to advertise StarOffice? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roPuKLKgHNI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftvinjapan%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F
11:58.45mozrat(from puckman)
12:06.26mozratPolite notice to everyone I interact with: When I ask you to send me output from a command line utility there is no need to paste it and send it as a word document. Thank you
12:13.30mozrat:D
12:15.16mozratMmmm, runners stretching off right outside my window
12:15.34mozratbah, she ran off
12:17.19morsingMmm... stretching
12:21.13mozrathttp://wallpapers.neo5k.de/content/images/wallpapers/suse/suse-021-1024x768.png
12:23.44mozratgoing to walk in the sun, get some fresh air, and find some food
12:23.56morsingCan I join you?
12:26.12morsingping wethrin
12:29.51morsingWhat's apt-cron?
12:30.20skuggW: Unable to locate package apt-cron
12:30.20skuggE: No packages found
12:31.17skuggmorsing: that would mean that apt-cache on debian stable don't know about apt-cron
12:49.51mozratmorsing: I'm back now but we could go out again
12:53.03morsingYay
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13:04.23mozratwoo puckman
13:04.50morsingpuckman!
13:05.37puckmanmozzer
13:05.46puckmanfeck windows sucks
13:06.09puckmanis like a fucking kids toy show
13:06.27puckmaneverything is all over the place
13:07.38puckmani need to figure out how to boot from usb so I dont have to swap out the internal drive all the time
13:08.08wethrinmorsing: pong
13:09.42morsingwethrin!
13:10.10morsingMark doesn't respond to emails
13:10.54wethrinWhen did you email him?
13:12.12morsingLast week I think
13:24.10morsingwethrin: What should I do?
13:25.28wethrinreprod him? Or catch him on IRC (mb; irc.perl.org)
13:25.45morsingWhat channel?
13:26.01wethrin#london.pm, but that matters less, as you can always /msg :)
13:35.22morsingCheck it!
13:56.02mozratwhat is the answer?
13:57.10cbzGet another job.
13:57.17cbzLet's start a company.
13:59.01mozratcbz: good idea
13:59.21mozratpuckman knows more than most having worked in this building
13:59.48mozratTo get a desk in this place I have to tuck my elbows in a squeeze between pucky and another chap
14:00.09mozrats/in a /in and/
14:00.16cbzpucky?
14:00.27mozrats/andsqueeze/and squeeze/
14:00.36mozratkeep up, ibot!!!
14:00.44mozratcbz, puckman
14:00.44cbzI hate that - "Developers aren't important, lets keep them in a veal pen"
14:00.55mozratDid you???
14:01.02puckmanyeah, stupid huh?
14:01.10mozrater, yes!
14:01.37puckmanI was sick of the evenings, early mornings and weekends
14:01.44mozratah
14:01.45mozratyes
14:01.46mozratthose
14:01.54cbzHeh.
14:02.17puckmanAnd sick of a certain someone screaming at the top of her lungs if she was not happy wiith something
14:02.25mozrat:))
14:02.30puckmanor the constant playing people off to eachother
14:02.43Cope:)
14:02.58puckmanbut it was nice to work with other people.
14:03.06puckmanBeing the only IT guy sucks big time
14:05.46puckmanHey, I'm helpin someone who is having some problems with his isp, I have a backup of his mailbox, how would I stick that back?
14:06.06puckmanI tried simply putting it back in its original place but no play, I dont have ssh access, only ftp
14:09.01mozratwhat kind of mailbox?
14:09.03mozratmbox format?
14:09.12wethrinmbox just goes back in its original place
14:09.17mozratjust a single file for the whole mailbox
14:10.17puckmanits a dir with a bunch of files and some more dirs
14:10.32puckmanwas an imap account, if that makes any
14:10.36puckmandifference
14:10.51puckmani have a .Sent
14:11.06puckmanwhich contains the sent mails in little files
14:11.15mozratis there a cur new and tmp folder?
14:11.19puckmanyeah
14:11.40puckmansorry, only know how to play with mail stuff client side
14:11.46mozratLooks like a Maildir folder
14:11.46puckmanso this folder comes from the server
14:11.50puckmanit is
14:11.51mozrat(like you use on your mailserver)
14:11.58puckmanright
14:12.08mozratso, you have SSH access to the server?
14:12.16puckmannope
14:12.22puckmanonly ftp
14:12.43puckmancould I bang it on our server here?
14:12.48mozratyep
14:12.50mozratcould do that
14:12.53puckmanI only need to log on once and pull the mail out
14:13.16mozrathow did he get a backup of it in that format from an ISP?
14:13.52puckmanthe cpanel offers a backup util which tars up the whole user
14:14.15puckmanwhich you can download via ftp
14:14.21puckmanso I unpacked it and found the maildir
14:26.29ErwinI'd like to tar up a few of my users, and never unpack them again.
14:31.26antiphasetar && feather
14:37.06morsingCan anyone remember the link to the article called "unskilled and unaware of it" that someone posted on the list about two years ago?
14:37.32ErwinIt's the first hit on Goooogle
14:37.38morsingIs it :)
14:37.49ErwinAnd the second. And the third.
14:38.24morsing:)  :)
14:57.50morsingFUck!? Missiles in the office!!!
14:58.46cbz?
14:58.55morsingMicrosoft ones even!
14:59.00cbzHeh.
14:59.11cbzWhen microsoft send people here they always send hotjes.
14:59.27cbzWee slinky things dressed to the nines.
14:59.35morsingMmm...
15:02.01cbzThey also have the private dining room in one of the nice local restaurants booked out permanently
15:02.10cbzThe devil is persuasive.
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17:09.28Georgehi!
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17:16.58Georgehey rhowe
17:17.12Georgemozrat: I've just got back from Bisley
17:21.20mozratoh?
17:21.36Georgemozrat: yes
17:21.51Georgemozrat: shot 18 rounds at a big fat black target 300 yards from me
17:36.20wethrinYou can be arrested for that in the US
17:36.27Georgewethrin: why?
17:37.00wethrinThink about it for some time
17:40.08Georgeit's not racist
17:40.29wethrin:)
17:46.44GeorgeI've got razor rash :'(
17:47.56wethrinha
17:47.58wethringrow a beard
17:48.04Georgeno
17:48.10wethrinbah
17:50.56Georgewhich idiot thought the name "Wii" was good?
17:51.51mozratbeards++
17:52.20Georgemozrat--
17:52.27GeorgeI got top score on the range today
17:53.28wethrinWhat's this Wii?
17:53.35Georgeno
17:53.42wethrinOh, go on
17:58.25wethrinSo, WTF is Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii?
17:59.19wethrinOh, nothing I care about
18:27.41puckmanMozrat is loving work today!
18:27.47puckmanI can just feel it.
19:01.59z00daxwethrin, hsbc pays £450/month to call center staff at grade-1, starting wages - in India.
19:02.16z00daxwell, at one of their banches, their banking services guys get more there than they do here in the UK
19:02.32z00daxs/branches/call centers/
19:02.43Georges/centers/centres/
19:02.44z00daxerr. humm
19:02.52z00daxthat too
19:05.24George:)
19:05.53mozratgood evening friends
19:06.48z00daxmozrat, !
19:07.01Georgemozrat: have you ever shot at bisley?
19:08.58puckmanstill at work mozzer?
19:10.23mozratpuckman, on the tube home
19:10.35mozratGeorge, Yes - many times
19:10.40mozratz00dax, hiyas
19:10.44Georgemozrat: which range?
19:11.21mozratGeorge, we had this conversation, grep your logs for my answer
19:11.31Georgeuseless
19:11.35mozratz00dax, hiyas!!
19:12.41z00daxhey mozrat
19:13.08mozrathey - how are you?
19:13.27z00daxnot bad, chugging along... conditions not changed any.
19:14.42z00daxand there is news that birdflu is spreading in the UK, which cant be good
19:16.09mozratwhats a shotfun?
19:16.21Georgea funner version of a shotgun
19:16.32mozratz00dax, unless you are a bird i wouldnt be concerned
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19:32.22boudiccasz00dax; my mother lives within 2 miles of where the latest bird flu outbreak has occurred, she's just given me more information about it than is on the news services atm
19:33.07boudiccasit has occurred in a flock of birds which is kept indoors, not battery hens but 'shed-range'
19:35.36z00daxas long as it stays with the birds, i dont care really. its when it gets mutated into a human airborn format, thats when i am worried
19:37.06boudiccasi think that h5n1 is only transmissable by direct contact with infected birds and their urine/faeces, and if they cough on you
19:37.48boudiccasA Bear, a Lion and a Chicken meet....
19:37.49boudiccas<PROTECTED>
19:37.49boudiccasThe Bear says: "If I roar in the forest, the entire forest is shivering
19:37.49boudiccaswith fear."
19:37.49boudiccas<PROTECTED>
19:37.51boudiccasThe Lion says: "If I roar in the desert, the entire desert is afraid of
19:37.53boudiccasme."
19:37.55boudiccas<PROTECTED>
19:37.57boudiccasThe Chicken says: "Big deal - I only have to cough and the entire planet
19:37.59boudiccasshits itself."
19:38.32mozratlol
19:40.07boudiccasI run a email joke list called 'Stress Busters' which goes out on Thursday evenings, and the aforementioned joke is just a sample of the Stress Busters, would anyone like to be subscribed to it. If so, please pm me with the email address you want to be subscribed with.
19:41.38mozrati cant pm you but simon.morris @ cmtww.com
19:42.04boudiccasmozrat; k, ty
19:42.12mozratthanks :-)
19:42.47mozratcan you fwd me tonights one?
19:43.27boudiccasmoz;k, will do
19:44.23CEHThe chances of mutation of H5N1 into something that's going to really cause problems are really slim (so my biologist brother assures me).
19:45.39boudiccasmozrat; done
19:52.53Georgehow many IPs does Plus net supply?
19:53.31Georgez00dax: ?
19:54.02z00daxGeorge, plus.net stinks and sux and is the worst isp ever. they are cheats and liars
19:54.11Georgez00dax: ok...
19:54.12z00daxbut they give upto 16 ip's if you want them
19:54.14Georgez00dax: in what way?
19:54.23z00daxGeorge, pretty much everyway
19:54.40Georgez00dax: ok, specifics.
19:54.49CEHI've heard really bad things about plus net.
19:55.07z00daxthey have no idea what they are selling, once they have your contract - they will squeeze you - their support is terrible. they overcharge for everything
19:55.19z00daxand they change their products every few weeks, and never allow you to change with it
19:55.38CEHThey also lie about useage and so overcharge
19:55.49z00daxso if you get a 12 month deal where you pay £30 for X, they then reintroduce X at £15, too bad. you pay £30, new people pay £15
19:56.28z00daxZen, however - are a great ISP!
19:56.35z00daxnot cheap, but still good.
19:56.51boudiccas+net sound like a right bunch of twunts
19:57.06z00daxtake a look at adslguide.org.uk - and their forums....
20:04.25Georgezen don't do 8mbit
20:04.28Georgeyou feckers!
20:04.32z00daxplus.net dont either
20:04.35z00daxthey just sell it
20:04.41Georgedoodad
20:04.44Georgezen don't sell it
20:04.55z00daxwhich is a good thing, you should not sell something you dont have
20:05.04Georgethey buy it off BT...
20:05.08boudiccasz00dax; isn't that 'taking a pecuniary advantage'? and illegal?
20:05.27z00daxboudiccas, yup
20:05.41boudiccastrading standards should be informed then
20:05.57z00daxGeorge, yes, but they say - you get into a queue - not that you get 8mb. and they take your money. then a few months later, they say - you are still in queue
20:06.05CEHTrading standards wouldn't understand!
20:06.06z00daxboudiccas, i believe they have been
20:06.08Georgez00dax: my exchange is enabled
20:06.21z00daxGeorge, so's mine, and has been for 7 months :)
20:06.46Georgez00dax: your exchange has been ADSL Max enabled for 7 months?
20:06.47GeorgeI find this hard to believe
20:07.04z00daxGeorge, yes - was one of those adsl-max-trial exchanges
20:07.11Georgeah.
20:07.17Georgeyou suck
20:07.22z00daxi know
20:07.26z00daxi am still at 2mbps
20:07.43Georgethat... sounded dirty
20:08.09z00daxthere was a time when everyone wrote a .plan and everyone else fingered their accounts for the .plan
20:08.23z00daxthat was how blogs were created
20:24.01Georgez00dax: :P
21:29.09mozratho-hum
21:29.25z00daxanyone for a flood ?
21:35.08wethrinGo on
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21:40.49z00daxDear Mr Singh,
21:40.49z00daxFirstly, my apologies for the fact that your account was missed as part of the original upgrades. We are currently investigating a problem that was raised whereby a handful of accounts were missed, and yours unfortunately appears to be one of those.
21:40.49z00daxI have just manually placed a regrade on your line that should complete within the next 24 hours, though due to the lateness in the day it could potentially be delayed until after the long weekend.
21:40.49z00daxThe BT Reference for the order is: 1-BFL77P
21:41.27z00daxi suppose the last 5 times i complained about my missed-upgrade-to-8mb didnt count..
21:41.47GeorgeROFLROFLROFLLOLROFL
21:42.27z00daxiirc, there is somewhere i can punch in that BT tracking number to see whats going in... was it on samknows.com ?
21:46.35Georgeno idea
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22:34.44z00daxsimplesimon!
22:43.59Georgenight zooman
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