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06:10.11Cope|Homemorning chums
06:40.22morsing'morning
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06:40.38morsingshai!
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06:40.55shaibnhi :)
06:41.16shaibnwassup morsing ?
06:41.48morsingNothing. Got out of bed 40 secs ago :)
07:02.14Copebye bye Cope|Home
07:02.24Cope|HomeCheerio!
07:39.52morsingMmm...
07:56.43murbsomeone please drop bombs on the local church bells
07:59.59TarragonI thought they did not start until about 10am?
08:01.01murb09:59 < Tarragon>
08:01.11murband no i'm in deutschland and they start a good bit earlier
08:01.17murbso much for sunday being a rest day
08:05.13morsingmurb: Movie!
08:06.05shaibnmorning ...
08:06.44shaibnmurb,  Kolab took 12 hours to finish the install on that old celeron 300mhz :)
08:06.46shaibnlol
08:08.37shaibnmorning Leeds
08:08.50shaibni'm hosting at home, a few sites. i have 1 static ip from my ISP. i want to have two of them ssl secured. they are both two different domain names. is that possible?
08:09.08murbshaibn: you must run them on different ports
08:09.17shaibnoh
08:09.25shaibn443 445 447 etc etc ?
08:09.25murbbecause or get an ssl certificate with a *
08:09.43shaibn"because or get" ?
08:11.34murbshaibn: the domain names must be simular
08:12.06murbso sitea.mysite.il and siteb.mysite.il where the certificate has a cn=*.mysite.il
08:12.17murbalternatively run on different ports but that isn't very nice either.
08:13.28shaibnand what about mydomain.com and otherdomain.com ?
08:13.46murbin that case 2 certificates and different ports, or a second ip :(
08:14.53shaibni see.
08:17.06murbshaibn: you got your l2tpd running yesterday?
08:32.19shaibnnope.
08:32.24shaibnwaited for you to return ...
08:38.52Leedsor, possibly not, at least to test
08:42.21murbshaibn: so you have l2tpd installed now?
08:45.52shaibnnope.
08:45.56shaibnwaited for you to return ...
08:45.59murbok
08:46.02shaibnoh!
08:46.10shaibnl2tpd .. yes i do .
08:46.15shaibnbut i aint home ... :(
08:46.17shaibni'm at work ...
08:46.31shaibnand probably, when i return home, you won't be available ... cuz of time diffs ...
08:46.42shaibnor maybe you will...
08:46.49shaibnwhat's your time?
08:49.24murbUTC+2 ich denke
08:53.23AndrewBlackone of my machines won't boot. Disk is full.
08:53.28AndrewBlacktime for a tidy!
08:59.38shaibnmurb, what's the time right now for you?
08:59.51shaibni'm not very good with converting time zones
09:00.18shaibnanyways... did get l2tpd working ...
09:00.23Leedsshai: he's an hour behind you
09:00.26shaibndo you want to cont. helping me with the test of it?
09:00.42shaibnhi Leeds :)
09:00.50shaibns/test/rest/
09:01.59Leedshi
09:02.54mozratAndrewBlack: `find / -name "*porn*" | xargs rm` ?
09:08.12AndrewBlackbah
09:08.24AndrewBlackactually the problem is backups of backups
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09:10.26AndrewBlacke{1,3}ore - can't you make your mind up how to spell your name :-)
09:15.24Leedsbah
09:17.30eyorebother
09:17.56eyorecan anyone see this?
09:18.09Leedseyore:
09:18.12LeedsCope: me too
09:18.31eyorei thought you needed to auth with nickserv to talk?
09:18.47Leedseyore: nope, only to /msg
09:19.01eyoreomg what a waste of 15minutes
09:19.17eyore:)
09:19.33Leedshow many names did you just register?
09:19.49eyorea thousand or none. i'm not entirely sure
09:20.15eyoreprobably none
09:20.31eyorei think maybe i left an irc client logged in somewhere yesterday
09:22.05AndrewBlackgrr - why does find have -maxdepth and du have --max-depth  
09:22.31Copeprobably because du is a gnu tool, and find isn't.
09:22.39Copeat a guess
09:23.17AndrewBlackexcept "GNU find version 4.1.20"
09:23.29Copethat would be a noteworthy exception to the rule.
09:24.26Leedshmm... I may have to go buy a NIC
09:26.13murbLeeds: can you buy decent nics in .hk?
09:26.22murbthe shops here seem to only have rtl8139s
09:26.27Leedsone would assume so - I've never bought one here
09:26.39murbquite funny the price difference for a card with the same chipset
09:26.48murbyou can spend up to 40 euros for one that is *Ready for DSL*
09:26.52CopeLeeds: has your broken?
09:27.10LeedsCope: no, but I'm thinking of making $FILESERVER into $ROUTER at the same time
09:27.12alpi want 24 carat gold BNC connectors, dammit
09:27.14Copemummy has finally demanded her laptop back; so I *must* get my rt2500 one working
09:27.28Copeand i never have
09:27.37LeedsCope: that would be exactly what I'm trying to do right now - and I'm about to give up and go buy another wired NIC
09:27.55Copeeven though iwconfig invariably gives stats indicating all is fine
09:28.01Copei can't ever ping the gw
09:28.04Copegrgrgrgggrgrrr
09:28.12CopeLeeds: unfortunately wired is not an option for me
09:28.37Copei am now going to test the card under windows to make sure the actual card is ok
09:29.02alprt4x00s are supposed to work fine, i had one working out of the box a while ago with an ubuntu dapper
09:29.03Copeoh, and machines can't share a key can they?
09:29.30Copeso i have to shut down my connection to the world to test the rt2500
09:29.36Copeas i only have one key
09:29.44Leedsthe issue I'm having right now is that - however I'm configured - the machine will respond to packets destined for $WIRELESS_IP if they come in on the wired interface...
09:29.49Copeand then i don't have connectivitity to google
09:30.12Leedsgood old catch-22, eh...
09:32.11eyoremy wireless is sucking
09:32.19eyorei just got a "T" card to try
09:32.28Leedshmm... the Israeli government took office less than a week ago, and the first no-confidence motion has been filed
09:32.42Leedseye69: my cousin is using powerline ethernet and is pretty happy with it
09:32.54eyoregood to democracy at work
09:32.57eyore*see
09:33.01Leedseyore: you're going to have to change your name :-)
09:33.16eyorewhy?
09:33.23Leedsbecause xchat sucks
09:33.29mozratLeeds: it was me that said "powerline ethernet"
09:33.50eyorein what way does xchat sucking affect my nick
09:34.02murbLeeds: i was thinking about that, but hmm was wondering how standardised it has become
09:34.09murband if it is just pointopoint
09:34.18murbas the devices only seem to be sold in pairs
09:34.41LeedsI believe you can treat it as a ring
09:35.31Leedshmm... I haven't bought a wired NIC in years - I suppose I should be looking at gigabit ones now
09:35.41murbthe box i looked at was talking about DES encryption as well.
09:36.07murbLeeds: whihc means auto cross over foo which would be useful on its own.
09:36.18Leedstrue
09:36.43murbi think the 1gb standard mandates that if not requies it.
09:36.43Leedsapart from eepro1000, any suggestions or avoids?
09:36.56murbapparently the rtl based chipset isn't *so* bad this time arround
09:37.11murb(although there is probably a revision 2 or something that costs 50c less to make and is)
09:37.25Leedsand should I realistically expect any off-the-shelf card to work with Linux?
09:37.32murbi think so.
09:37.43LeedsI may pop in here from the mall to confirm...
09:37.45murbthat has been my experience so far with random new motherboards with built in stuff.
09:37.55murbalthough this is with recentish 2.6 kernel.
09:38.05eyoregigabit nics? they largely work with modern distros
09:38.06murbi know the debian installer with a 2.4 kernel didn't see the interfaces.
09:38.23Leedsmy machines are all 2.6 nowadays anyway
09:38.33eyoreexcept broadcom which appear to work but are full of bugs
09:38.38Copelol
09:38.40murboh and the sky2 based stuff are known to have problems
09:38.46murbor atleast driver bugs
09:39.10murbLeeds: if you wait 30 seconds i'll check what i've got here.
09:39.10Leedslaters
09:39.14Leedssure
09:39.26Copei've used broadcom ones
09:39.33Copebut with broadcom drivers
09:39.40Copenot 'linux' drivers
09:39.45eyorebroadcom are ok at low traffic levels, but saturate the line and you get random kernel panics, or under solaris the networking subsystem falls over
09:40.20eyoreboth drivers have bugs
09:40.20murbLeeds: i'm using a Marvell tech 88E8001 with the sky2 driver
09:40.51Copeeyore: ok; well i've been using them for 2.5 years on hundreds of busy machines without a single problem
09:40.55Leedsmurb: that's a PCI, not onboard?
09:40.55Copemaybe i've been lucky
09:41.06eyoreCope: maybe you got lucky
09:41.10murbLeeds: this one is onboard but they make pci interfaces with that as well.
09:41.23eyorecaused random lockups on our Dell2650
09:41.25Leedsokay, I'll look out for it... laters
09:41.30Leedsand thanks
09:41.42eyoreof course i expect there are a myriad of different revisions
09:42.09eyorei dug around in some kernel mailing list
09:42.36eyoreand apparently the hardware is buggy and the windows drivers contains loads of workarounds and broadcom won't release full details
09:42.43Copeeww
09:42.46eyoreusual kind of story
09:44.11murbrembers even
09:44.47eyorethose dell 2650 have faulty motherboards too
09:45.15eyoresomething to do with the ACPI bios bit not releasing memory causes it to always fail memory tests
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10:01.03LeedsTreoibot change 390 hkd to gbp
10:01.27LeedsTreoreasonable price for an OEM pro1000?
10:02.15LeedsTreomurb?
10:02.21murbLeedsTreo: i have ibot on /ignore
10:02.43LeedsTreoah, sorry - $390 is about 27 GBP
10:02.44z00daxLeedsTreo: thats a good price, for a pro1000
10:03.11LeedsTreoibot change 390 HKD to eur
10:03.27LeedsTreothat's 39.5 at today's rate...
10:03.29murbfrom the gbp it should be about 40 quid
10:03.33murbahah
10:04.30LeedsTreohkd has fallen by about 8%-10% in the past 10 days or so
10:05.09z00daxthat card is about the same price here in the UK
10:05.36LeedsTreoretail over-the-counter using a c/c?
10:06.37LeedsTreoit really is nice to be able to pop out at 5:30pm on a Sunday to a busy and fully-open computer mall, 10 minutes away by bus :-)
10:07.15z00daxLeedsTreo: its about £25 to £30 + vat from most of the online stores
10:07.28z00daxI have no idea about over the counter retail anymore
10:07.33LeedsTreommm... 4GB SD :-)
10:09.09LeedsTreono-one shops online here, strangely - it's quicker/easier/as-cheap to just pop to the shops
10:12.42Copebrb
10:14.36morsingMURB!
10:14.47mozrathey morsing
10:15.01z00daxhey Everybody!
10:15.16mozrathellO!!
10:15.27z00daxhowse the weekend been so far ?
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10:15.45mozratnot so bad - going swimming in a asec
10:17.06z00daxheya Cope
10:17.18morsingHas anything been posted to this list since we messed with my mailserveR?
10:17.46z00daxmorsing: last post i see is from midnight last night
10:18.00morsingFrom Paul M
10:18.03morsingCool
10:18.08z00daxyea
10:18.41morsingHey - does anyone want to donate money to get my BMW back on the road? :)
10:19.16morsingHmm...
10:19.36morsingI need a cunning scam
10:19.52LeedsTreoCope: does the card work?
10:20.07morsingLeedsTreo: Do you have GPS on your Treo?
10:20.23LeedsTreono... I could get bluetooth or (ps
10:20.34morsingps?
10:20.46LeedsTreopossibly) SD - but there are no English HK maps
10:20.57LeedsTreonot for PalmOS anyway
10:21.03morsingHmm...
10:21.25LeedsTreotomtom have a hardware/software package...
10:21.35morsingLeedsTreo: How much?
10:21.55LeedsTreono idea how much - not cheap, I think
10:22.52z00daxLeedsTreo: rtl8169 based cards not an option ?
10:23.13CopeLeedsTreo: not tried it yet; debricking first
10:23.25LeedsTreoz00dax: ethernet? I bought the pro1000 and I'm already on the bus home :-)
10:23.35z00daxLeedsTreo: ah :)
10:23.40Cope:)
10:24.23Copemorsing: isn't that *miles* away?
10:24.36LeedsTreoit's bloody convenient, really... computer malls open until about 9pm 7 days a week, nearest is a few minutes by bus
10:24.55Copeand buses run reliably and on time?
10:25.12Copeand are clean, and not populated by nutters?
10:25.28LeedsTreocertainly do - and they're relatively cheap - this is about 40p, I think
10:25.39z00daxi havent found a single retail outlet, not even the local h/w vendors, within striking distance from me here.. who are worth going to
10:26.12Copez00dax: and especially no xinit
10:26.19Cope:)
10:26.31z00daxCope: different ballgame :)
10:26.31Copeok, ok, they're not a retail outlet :)
10:26.44LeedsTreothere are probably 50+ units in the nearest mall - out of 7 or so in HK
10:26.46z00daxthey wont sell you an ethernet card :)
10:27.01Copeno, but they'll charge you for one anyway
10:27.03Cope;)
10:27.19z00dax!)
10:27.47mozratDid I show you this already? http://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/xinit-suck.html
10:28.02z00daxno, /me checks
10:29.00Copefor some reason, getfirefox sent me to taiwan, and i've been downloading the firefox setup program for... 12 minutes, and its only on 63%
10:29.30Copeby now most IE users would have said "fuck this" and binned the download,
10:29.32LeedsTreoare you not in .tw?
10:30.09murbCope: no they'll have blamed their isp and posted to various boards and windged on irc.
10:30.16Copehehe
10:31.06z00daxmozrat: all that is true, unfortunately.
10:31.39mozratoh well
10:31.41mozratswimming !!
10:31.46mozratafk
10:32.02z00daxi dont know / remember what the details were ( I was not at xinit at the time ), but blackcat did come up in a few meetings late last year
10:32.17Copey'know; de-bricked windows isn't so bad...
10:32.51z00daxCope: blasphemy!
10:33.04LeedsTreowhat does de-bricked mean?
10:33.44Copeput cygwin on it; shut down useless services; get rid of IE; use mostly cygin tools or tools on other machines
10:34.07LeedsTreoseems a little pointless..
10:34.25murbinstall CoLinux use putty full screen
10:34.26Copeerm,
10:34.28Copeok
10:34.32murbrun an local Xserver
10:34.37murbbut then you may as well have installed linux
10:34.40Copemurb: that's what i'm doing
10:34.43murband avoided the windows overhad.
10:34.45murbs/had/head/
10:34.52Copemurb: yes, unless you have things you need to use windows for
10:35.08Copesuch as software from work that only runs on windows
10:35.15murbCope: qemu + wine are enough for my requirements, i don't know about you.
10:35.22Copenot tried for years
10:35.31Copemight give that a punt for interest
10:36.33Copeanyway, the point is, and i grant that this isn't a hacker attitude; things under windows generally do just work; and I don't have to spend days arseing about to get something that works 80% as well.
10:38.12Copebrb
10:38.33Leedshome
10:40.27Copei suppose that i do a relatively small subset of things, so normally i have no annoyances with linux; but then something comes along, and i have to spend ages fucking about, when on the work laptop it takes 30 secs
10:40.54Copeyet on the work laptop i have acess to exactly the same tool set as on my linux machine
10:40.59Copewith exactly the same interface
10:41.02Copebut no ball ache
10:49.26LeedsCope: we do so love to hear about your balls
10:54.14Cope:)
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11:29.13wethrinhello
11:30.03*** join/#gllug Leeds (n=richardc@ipvpn095206.netvigator.com)
11:30.36SlayerXPbut i don't tihnk we should let leeds know
11:30.39SlayerXPoops, damned lag
11:30.44morsingleds!
11:30.53Leedsmrsing!
11:31.16morsingwhere,s TAB on this thing?
11:31.25wethrinOn your left!
11:31.29Leedsshift-space
11:31.49morsingLeeds: :)
11:32.20Leedsmorsing: getting more used to it now?
11:32.21morsingwethrin: huh?
11:32.26morsingLeeds: yes
11:32.47morsingwhat's on my left?
11:33.17wethrinTAB?
11:33.26morsingn
11:33.29wethrinoh
11:33.31morsingNo it isn't
11:33.57morsingLeeds: can it mulyitask?
11:34.20morsings/mulyi/mu.ti/
11:34.29morsing*sigh*
11:34.49Leedssort of
11:35.01morsingwethrin: thabks
11:35.20morsingso can I make a phone call?
11:35.54Leedsthere are programs written to run partly or fully as background processes, either popping up themselves on some event (incoming email, for example) or having some way of calling them up
11:36.00Leedsnormal programs, however, run one-at-a-time
11:38.25ErwinAh, shift space for tab. thanks. I've been annoying with having to use space for lining up items in memopad
11:38.59Leedsit's not the most obvious combo
11:39.09morsingLeeds: How do I get pipe?
11:39.26morsing|
11:39.32morsing~
11:39.33ErwinI still need to install ChatterEmail, but I haven't used that much email lately
11:39.47morsing|
11:40.41morsingLeeds: how do I exit screen?
11:40.41ErwinLeeds: How about things like: go to end of the line or the beginning, or select a whole line? Do you need the toucpad for that?
11:40.53Leedsmorsing: uh, ctrl-a, d
11:41.00morsing:)
11:41.38LeedsErwin: in what context?
11:42.49Leedsmorsing: in pssh, the center button is ctrl
11:43.19ErwinLeeds: Editing things in memopad. I use it as a pseudo-todo list, so when something is done I remove it.
11:44.04Leedsah, I think you need to go to the screen for that, yes
11:49.27LeedsCope: for a refund?
11:49.40Copesodding driver installer just "crashes" without any logs or info
11:49.49Copeand of course, I have *no* control over it
11:49.50Cope:)
11:49.55Copegive me linux any time
11:52.22LeedsCope: that is, of course, the point
11:52.37CopeLeeds: yes, which i had foolishly forgotten
11:53.34Leedssay 10 Hail Linuses and 10 Ave RMSes and you shall be forgiven, my son
11:53.51Copeat least with linux i will eventually get it to work, i'll learn something from the exercise, have some fun, and be in control./
12:08.34ErwinSt. IGNUcusius blesses you -- http://www.stallman.org/saintignucius.jpg
12:14.39SlayerXPlooks suspiciously like Herr Cox
12:15.01shaibnhe SlayerXP
12:15.04SlayerXPit's not, but same sort of thing
12:15.08shaibnshai, you around?
12:15.21shai:)
12:15.22SlayerXPalan cox has stayed at my house.
12:15.25SlayerXPso ner.
12:18.50ErwinDoes he still? AC is taking an MBA
12:19.18ErwinHmm, actually that was in September 2003 :)
12:19.41SlayerXPClues paid for him to attned the DTI meeting re: licencing of the code produced by publically-funded research projects
12:19.56ErwinHis diary seems to be in Welsh now
12:20.15LeedsErwin: strangely enough, his readership fell to almost zero at about the time that happened
12:20.40LeedsI suspect, anyway
12:21.28ErwinOdd that he does consulting work, I would have thought he also could get a high-paying job doing Linux
12:21.56Leedswho, Alan Cox?  Uh, isn't he employed by RedHat any more?
12:23.26ErwinAccording to the English part of the diary, he is a technical consultant for http://www.offshoreexecutive.com/
12:28.24LeedsI may be a cynic, but I'm not sure that offshorexecutive is 100% serious
12:30.31morsingCheck it!
12:33.17Leeds100 packets transmitted, 66 received, 34% packet loss, time 99025ms
12:33.25morsingping Leeds
12:33.29Leedsthat's to linux.org.hk from here
12:33.38murbLeeds: i'm seeing something like that as well.
12:34.14Leedsmurb: it's, well, slightly worse than normal, but I rarely see 100% throughput here...
12:34.32Leedsrtt min/avg/max/mdev = 329.787/524.077/814.919/93.503 ms   - which is *slower* than doing the same ping from a machine in the US
12:34.34Leedsuh, UK
12:35.08murbwell the pages at linux.org.uk have not opened
12:35.22Leedsmurb: linux.org.hk! not linux.org.uk
12:35.31morsingmurb: Vodie
12:35.45murboh
12:35.46murbi can't read
12:35.48Leedsmorsing: did you want something
12:35.56morsingmurb: It's an anagram
12:36.09morsingLeeds: Just checking ping times to HK :)
12:36.10shaibnhmm...
12:36.15morsingAbout 83 seconds!
12:36.16shaibncentos frooze :(
12:36.28Leedsshaibn: blame z00dax
12:36.37SlayerXPi concur
12:36.40shaibnwell.. it finished installing...
12:36.40SlayerXPit's clearly his fault
12:36.46morsingSlayerXP: You suck
12:36.47shaibnand then ejected the 3rd cd
12:36.55shaibnrebooted and didn't load again ...
12:36.59SlayerXPmorsing: i nibble gently too, drives the ladies wild.
12:37.23morsing~seen George
12:37.44ibotgeorge is currently on #openzaurus (1d 19h 56m 47s) #opie (1d 19h 56m 47s) #handhelds.org (1d 19h 56m 47s) #zaurus (1d 19h 56m 47s) #elinux (1d 19h 56m 47s) #intimate (1d 19h 56m 47s). Has said a total of 139 messages. Is idling for 1d 14h 56m 15s, last said: 'arika-chan: I don't like you anymore'.
12:37.45wethrinHe's still not back yet.
12:38.00morsing<PROTECTED>
12:38.15morsingGeorge?
12:38.33Leedsmorsing: do you know what #intimate is?
12:38.41morsingYes
12:39.28morsingBut since George doesn't like girls I don't want to think about what he is doing there...
12:40.33Leedsuh...
12:41.00Copegeorge has left gllug
12:41.03Copehe tells me
12:41.07Leedshmm... temperature hit 31 degrees today... and I should be going out about now if I'm going to get my fish'n'chips
12:41.11SlayerXPi saw him say that
12:41.18SlayerXPi don't think we're that lucky, though
12:41.29CopeSlayerXP: scary! you were in my room this morning when he spoke to me on msn!?
12:41.59SlayerXP....
12:42.25LeedsCope: gllug or #gllug?
12:42.49morsingCope: Are you serious?
12:42.56Copehe said gllug - i don't know whether that was super or subset
12:43.00SlayerXPhe said it in here yesterday, or the day before
12:43.07Copei just said ok
12:43.14SlayerXPi declared may 5th AGW day shortly after
12:43.14wethrinI think you annoyed him too much, SlayerXP :)
12:43.17Copeas its not been long enough for me to determine if he is being serious
12:44.03shaibnLeeds, how far back do we go mate?
12:44.07SlayerXPin theory he has me on ignore
12:44.10SlayerXPso it's not my fault
12:44.19LeedsSlayerXP: not on the mailing list
12:44.19SlayerXPsomeone else gets the medal
12:44.30Leedsshaibn: well, it was pesach... 3 years ago? 4?
12:45.08Leedsmore?
12:45.08shaibnhow do you know it was pesach ?
12:45.30Leedsbecause I was at my parents' place in Leeds, and I saw you on IRC and said Chag Sameach
12:45.39Leedsas a random Israeli
12:45.40shaibnlol
12:45.43shaibnand you remember that?
12:45.49Leedssure
12:45.55shaibndamn you got a good memorey
12:46.01shaibnmemory*
12:46.19Leedsfor some things, yes
12:55.28morsingMoo
12:56.37SlayerXPright. well I need to completely reinstall my debian desktop.
12:56.42SlayerXPso, back in 20 minutes or so.
12:56.44morsingBye
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14:40.40JAVhello
14:55.28morsingJAV!
14:57.07morsingHow can supposedly intelligent people introduce something as pointless as a hose pipe ban?
14:58.48Leedsare you insulting a great British tradition?
15:00.00morsingLeeds: According to Thames water their reservoirs are ok
15:00.02morsing"Where we've got the problem is with the low water levels in the aquifers."
15:00.18morsingNow, they say the problem is lack of rainfall in 2004-2006
15:00.27Leedsthere's your first mistake... it doesn't matter what they *say*
15:00.36morsingBut for rain to reach the aquifers will take 30-40 years!
15:01.05morsingAlso, hose pipe usage cannot possible account for more than 1% of private usage!
15:02.15LeedsI think it's more
15:02.32morsingReally? I very much doubt that
15:03.15morsingLeeds: What would the consequence of being caught be?
15:04.27Leedsthousand pound fine, in theory
15:04.35morsinghttp://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000CAFD1.htm
15:04.45morsingLeeds: Where did you find that?
15:05.15Leeds"It is an offence to use a sprinkler or hose pipe when a ban is in place and therefore it may attract a fine of up to £1000." http://www.midkentwater.co.uk/household/efficiency/hosepipe%20Q&A.htm
15:06.27morsingBut I'm actually allowed to take a bath (!) and then with a hose use that water to wash my car
15:06.38morsingThey haven't got half a brain do they?
15:07.29morsing~seen George
15:07.32ibotgeorge is currently on #openzaurus (1d 22h 26m 35s) #opie (1d 22h 26m 35s) #handhelds.org (1d 22h 26m 35s) #zaurus (1d 22h 26m 35s) #elinux (1d 22h 26m 35s) #intimate (1d 22h 26m 35s). Has said a total of 139 messages. Is idling for 1d 17h 26m 3s, last said: 'arika-chan: I don't like you anymore'.
15:07.47morsingHmm...
15:07.51Leedsyou can also continue to fill your pond and swimming pool
15:08.16morsingAnd water my garden and wash my cars as long as it's not with a hose...
15:08.29Leedsjust in case you were wondering...
15:08.34morsingWhat they should do is install meters in all households
15:08.34Leedsyeah, use a watering can
15:09.05Leedsapparently they do, at least some of the companies... but they can't impose it on people, so it's only done with new homes or a change of contract
15:09.09Copemorsing: what we should do is live on one of the raniest countries in europe
15:09.11Copeoh... we do
15:09.21morsingCope: No we don't
15:09.43Copemorsing: ok, let's find the top 5 rainiest countries in europe
15:09.59morsingNorway at the top
15:10.04morsingDenmark
15:10.08morsingHolland
15:10.11morsingIceland
15:10.19morsingFifth?
15:10.22LeedsCope: do you remember the period a few years back where Yorkshire water was importing water from Newcastle...by tanker?
15:11.38Leedsit was just up the road from my parents' place... they had something like 1 tanker every 5 minutes, 24/7, driving up to the reservoir and just dumping the water in
15:12.01Copemorsing: cite your source, please
15:12.39morsingCope: My source is guessing
15:12.59morsingBergen is the rainiest place in the world
15:13.06Leedsit was amazing
15:15.47Copemorsing: then let's not guess, let's find the statistics
15:16.06morsingCope: I can't. Trying
15:16.50Copeit is hard!
15:17.02Copei haven't found them yet either!
15:17.15CopeLeeds: help us with your google fu
15:17.43Leedsworking on it!
15:18.39Leedsincidentally, I walked past an establishment last night which made me do a double-take... it was a drinking establishment...
15:18.42Leedscalled Fu Bar :-)
15:18.55morsingLeeds: Pictures pleassse
15:19.04morsingOr we won't believe you :)
15:19.22Leedson my phone, naturally
15:19.50morsingGeorge is playing hard to get
15:19.56Copemorsing: i've found the claim that norway is the rainiest, but it is only an assertion, not backed up by any meteorological evidence.
15:20.30morsingCope: All danish schools teach that Norway is the rainiest. That was a no-brainer
15:21.34Copemorsing: wel i grew up in scotland, and was taught that scotland was the raniest
15:23.04Leedswe always knew that Yorkshire was the rainest region in England
15:23.59Leedshttp://wanderingjew.co.uk/static/fubar1.jpg and fubar2.jpg - 1 is their sign, but it came out very badly because it's bright in the night... you can just make out the name
15:28.35Leedshttp://www.fao.org/statistics/yearbook/vol_1_1/pdf/a05.pdf - "Water use and national rainfall indexes"
15:30.04LeedsPapua New Guinea is apparently the wettest place in the world
15:32.20wethrinLeeds: How much does a small European country cost, then?
15:33.00shaibnbah! Zimbra is also hard to setup with ThunderBird
15:33.50Leedsare we including former soviet places?
15:33.50shaibnthough, it in itself isn't hard to install at all .. which is a nice thought ...
15:33.54Copeinitial scan looks to me like 1) Norway 2) Ireland 3) UK
15:34.02Leedsoh, and I'm only looking at the 2002 figures
15:34.02wethrinLeeds: Yeah
15:34.05wethrinI think they're cheap
15:34.08LeedsCope: Georgia beats Norway
15:34.23CopeLeeds: i was looking at 1991-2000 as a better range
15:34.45CopeLeeds: in which case norway beats georgia
15:34.51Leedsah...
15:34.57Leedsin 2002, Ireland beat Norway
15:34.58Copebut i hadn't counted georgia as europe
15:35.38Copeanyway, i think statistically, we are on safe ground saying that uk is one of the wettest countries in europe.
15:36.04LeedsKuwait: 36???
15:36.41CopeLeeds: ethiopia is rainier than france
15:41.18Leedswell, we have a very clear - and as yet unmentioned here - winner for Europe...
15:41.56LeedsSwitzerland
15:42.46Leedsooh, vim... :sort :-)
15:43.17Leeds2002 figures, in order, top 10:
15:43.50LeedsSwitzerland, Georgia, Ireland, Norway, Austria, Albania, UK, Belgium, Portugal, Slovenia
15:44.45shaibntime to go home ... cya
15:46.47Leedsto be fair, in 1991-2000 figures, Norway beats Switzerland, which inches out Georgia
15:47.19ErwinReally, Switzerland is rainy? Or is it all precipitation?
15:47.27Leedsare we bored of meteorology yet? :-)
15:47.34Leedsit's listed as rainfall - don't know if it counts snow as well
15:51.13ErwinI wonder what the rainfall is if we go per city rather than the whole country
15:51.48Leedsyou're going to have to find those stats yourself - it took me long enough to find the national stats and it's getting to bedtime :-P
15:53.23ErwinBush reveals his biggest and best moment in his 5 years of presidency:
15:53.30ErwinCatching a big fish. http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1692695,0005.htm
15:55.02morsingHaving lived in DK and UK I don't believe UK has more rain than DK. At least no timewise
15:55.09morsings/no/not/
15:57.02morsingLeeds! George is being mean to me :(
15:57.24Leedsmorsing: how so?
15:57.56morsingHe's msg'ing me to stop sending him emails
15:57.56Leedsoh, and precisely how much of the UK have you lived in, given that both Yorkshire and Scotland certainly get a lot more rainfall than the south-east
15:58.05wethrinmorsing: Have you been sending him emails?
15:58.09morsingYes :(
15:58.30Leedswhy?
15:58.32wethrinThat was naughty :)
15:58.40morsingLeeds: I've been to yorkshire several times during the year and it didn't rain
15:58.50morsingLeeds: If I go to Denmark it *does* rain
15:59.02morsingLeeds: Why what?
15:59.25LeedsI've been to Denmark once and it didn't rain very much - ergo, it doesn't rain very much in Denmark
15:59.37Leedswhy have you been harassing George?
15:59.39murbLeeds: it rained at the airport though in copenhagen
15:59.44morsingLeeds: Umm... Did you even talk to Bryan while he was there?!
15:59.47murbhowever it was nice at the airport in sweden
15:59.55morsingWhat was the first thing he told us?
16:00.08morsingLeeds: I haven't
16:00.15murbso i think flying to sweden is the best method for getting to the .dk
16:00.15morsingI just told him I missed him
16:00.23morsingmurb: FO
16:00.40murbmorsing: flying to .se was the cheapest way of getting to .dk
16:00.48murbsince the bus cost less than 10 quid
16:00.56murband took us to downtown copenhagen
16:01.21murboh and we went over *the bridge* which was worth 10 quid anyway!
16:02.25ErwinBut that's from Stansted, right?
16:04.11murbErwin: stansted to MMX
16:04.22murbwhich cost then nearly nothing.
16:04.33Leedsright, it's Monday - I should be in bed
16:04.34murbalthough it did require an overnight bus journey (joy joy)
16:05.05ErwinOh well, I pay some more but then walk a few minutes to the DLR and take 6 stops to London City airport :) Checkin about 30 minutes before departure, no lines
16:05.14Leedsg'night all
16:05.19mozratnn Leeds
16:24.32morsingLondon City airport has commercial flights?!
16:25.08mozratmorsing: of course?
16:25.33morsingRight. And someone flies to CPH from there?
16:25.39mozratBA and KLM...
16:26.17mozratVLM fly from there as well I think
16:26.22morsingRight. So why do people go to Heathrow?
16:26.36morsings/people/everyone/
16:26.39mozratYou can't do long haul from London City
16:26.54mozratthey only fly small jet and propellor aircraft from there
16:27.18morsing! LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end.
16:27.26morsingWhere?
16:27.43mozratWhere what?
16:28.28morsingNevermind mind. I figured it out
16:28.59murbmozrat: VLM and Luxair
16:29.20murbmozrat: luxair fly or flew jets into city
16:29.22murbLCY
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16:33.03morsingSo SuSE can't read DVI files...
16:37.26mozratmorsing: that would surprise me
16:42.02morsingRight, George is getting agressive
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17:03.55shaiping
17:04.01shaimurb
17:06.23wethrinmorsing: Oh?
17:52.32Copemorsing: he is?
18:04.55morsingYes, telling me to fuck off or he'll filter me emails to /dev/null or something
18:06.45Copehrm
18:25.41wethrinHe's not being very friendly, then
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18:30.57AndrewBlackhe wethrin - hows the new camera
18:31.03shaiweeeeeeeeee! i got l2tp working :)
18:31.17wethrinIt's rather nice, although I haven't got around to taking pictures I wanted today
18:31.23shaimurb, you here that mate :) i got it connected...
18:31.25wethrinSo I've only got some indoor shots of people from last night
19:00.26AndrewBlackare you in london at all soon?
19:02.20wethrinI'm passing through on Friday, but I can't stop
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19:19.36murbshai: functioniert?
19:38.30shaifunctioniert? ?
19:39.10shaimurb, i'm watching a movie with the wife ... but i just wanted to let you know that i got the l2tp working :)
19:39.28shaii used this guide (israeli) http://l3ech.net/~l3ech/cables_linux_l2tp.php
19:39.40shaiquiet cool indeed :)
19:40.01shaibut i've got a long way to go i think until i get it working at a router with iptables and NAT
19:40.57murbshai: cool :-)
19:41.46murbshai: with the roaring penguin l2tp? or l2tpd?
19:45.49mozratmorsing: chinese?
19:45.54morsingmozrat: Yes
19:45.58mozratMmm
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19:56.33mozratme?
19:58.27wethrinTop Gear++
19:59.15cbzhi moz
19:59.15morsingTop Gear sucks
19:59.20cbzHi aixman
19:59.22wethrinDoesn't!
19:59.32morsingaixman?
19:59.37wethrinbah
19:59.46cbzDoes it still have Vicki henderson-butler on it ?
19:59.52morsingcbz: It never had
19:59.58morsingI don't think
19:59.58wethrinNo. Hasn't had for a looong time, if it ever did
20:00.04cbzmorsing: The original series did.
20:00.10morsingMmm... Vicky
20:00.15morsingNice
20:00.17cbzmorsing: And then ITV nicked them all for Fifth Gear or something
20:00.24morsingI would have watched it then :)
20:00.25wethrinChannel 5 did
20:00.38wethrinAnd then the BBC revamped it
20:00.40morsingShe's on Fifth Gear (which is much better)
20:00.40cbz<- Hasn't had a TV since 1992, and is relying on hearsay
20:00.56wethrinMeh. 5th gear is dull
20:01.01morsingcbz: Don't worry, I'll send you a photo of her :D
20:01.07morsing5th is superb
20:01.13wethrinpfff :-P
20:01.19cbzmorsing: google images is my friend ;)
20:04.00morsinghttp://www.vb-h.net/links.htm
20:05.24morsinghttp://www.coasthigh.com/Assemblies/Chev/chev_496.htm
20:08.45morsingWoo
20:13.34antiphaseI don't fancy the fuel bill
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20:28.19morsingjackds!
20:32.46jackdshi morsing
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20:42.48morsingldnblk!
20:43.19morsingbeer
20:43.24wethrinmmm beer
20:44.29morsingHow's evil Dave?
20:46.53ldnblkhi there morsing how r things with u ?
20:47.34ldnblkhi there wetherin mozrat
20:47.54wethrinmorsing: Haven't seen him for a bit
22:01.31boudiccasQuantum mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.
22:01.44cbzMax Tegmark ;)
22:02.05boudiccashe said that did he? :)
22:03.03cbzNo
22:03.16cbzBut he says some pretty freaky stuff!
22:03.27boudiccasah :)
22:03.50cbzSee Quantum Suicide
22:04.30cbzPerhaps worth mentioning that he's into the the Multi Worlds interpretation
22:04.41cbzhttp://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/everett1.html
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22:54.28shaimurb, i didn't know it was called "roaring penguin"... but yea, i used that plus l2tpd i guess...
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