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03:12.04Leedsibot mikew
05:56.33Georgelooks like I got into Cambridge
05:56.37George"  Congratulations! Your offer has been confirmed."
06:27.02Leedsfools! when will they learn?
06:27.31George:P
06:37.39Leedsso, neither of the two colleagues I went out for lunch with today knew I was leaving next week...
06:44.44morsing'morning
06:44.56Georgehi morsing
06:47.20morsingGeorge: :)  You said hi to me :)
06:47.27George...
07:03.15Leeds'heavy, thundery showers pretty much everywhere, highs in the high teens or low twenties'
07:26.23mozratGeorge, well done mate
07:26.30mozratGood luck
07:26.41Georgemozrat: good luck?
07:26.52GeorgeI got my A level results... AAAA
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07:27.10mozratnice one
07:27.25Georgemozrat: still waiting on one result...
07:29.18SlammerXPGeorge: to see if the excess girlyness you possess is hormonal?
07:29.30GeorgeSlammerXP: A level results.
07:30.35SlammerXPso the girlyness _is_ hormonal?
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07:39.21Georgemozrat: anyway, I'm happy
07:39.36morsingmozrat!
07:52.39morsingmozzie
07:52.40morsing?
08:04.55mozrathello!
08:10.31Leedshwllo
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08:33.51morsingCope!
08:36.48GeorgeCope: I got in :D
08:37.08mozrathttp://blog.lightsoutfilms.com/photos/uncategorized/fromtheinternet.jpg
08:40.58CopeGeorge - where?
08:41.01Copehello morsing
08:41.05GeorgeCope: Cambridge
08:41.08GeorgeCope: A level results today
08:41.27Copeoh, fabulous; well done!
08:41.31Cope*hug*
08:42.59mozratYes indeed
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08:43.24mozratwassup popey
08:43.44pontifexoops
08:43.47pontifexjust the man, hello
08:43.53pontifexgot a second for a /query?
08:43.56mozratsure!
08:46.32Copeanyone here ever driven / owned a landrover? a proper one.. defender?
08:46.41mozratYes Sir!
08:46.52mozratThey were all green, does that give you a clue?
08:47.05CopeI expected you had.
08:47.07mozratI love Landies
08:47.08mozratBut
08:47.12mozratfuel consumption
08:47.16Copewas about to ask this
08:47.17mozratnot fantastic
08:47.25mozratand fuel is expensive
08:47.37Copethey seem to be 2.5 L turbo diesels
08:47.38mozratbut the vehicles themselves are great fun
08:47.40Copetypically
08:48.02mozratI'd love to buy one, maybe I will one day
08:48.03Copeprobably weigh the same as my escort? or heavier? aren't they aluminium?
08:48.20Copetrying to work out what fuel consumption would be like
08:48.22mozrata 90 or a 110?
08:48.29mozratI would guess heavier but I dunno
08:48.32Cope110 I think, for family/space reasons
08:48.47mozratthey aren't exactly made to be light as a primary concern like "road vehicles"
08:48.51Copemight get a 90 to start with though; dunno.
08:48.58Copeno, true
08:49.38mozratMy only concerns with having one is firstly fuel consumption and secondly...
08:49.43mozratif you want to go on a long drive
08:49.54mozratfor example I go to cornwall once every 18 months or so
08:50.03mozratit's a lot longer in a landy than my mondeo
08:50.18Copewe have minis too
08:50.20Cope:)
08:51.09mozratyes :-)
08:51.32mozratLand Rovers have a lot of character
08:51.38Copeas do minis
08:52.00mozratI very nearly bought one when I lived in Dover
08:52.03mozrata series 2 old one
08:52.07mozratthat had been souped up
08:52.08Copeanyway, I am going to have a go on one on monday
08:52.20CopeD reg
08:52.24Cope2.5K
08:52.33mozratthats the price?
08:52.49Copeprolly can't afford it yet, but wanted to have a drive
08:52.53Copeyeah, 2500 ukp
08:52.54mozratthats not bad
08:52.58Copei thought not
08:53.07Copemy notional budget is 3000
08:53.07mozratalthough - you probably cannot find too many D reg cars for that much money
08:53.13mozratfor the age it is a lot
08:53.16Copeyes
08:54.58Georgemoo
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08:56.44morsingLeeds!
08:57.38morsingCope: LVM issues?
08:57.39Leedswell, the downloadable Xen demo CD just panics on my machine...
09:01.20Copemorsing: kinda busy atm; will try to get to it later, though.
09:11.35Leedsmmm... openttd :-)
09:39.47Leedswhy does *nobody* use the HTTP header (Accept?) which tells the server what languages the browser would like to see?
09:54.43Leedshmm... time to go home, I think... and then, obviously enough, to Pizza Express...
09:55.18rhowe_hmm.. "i have hold of a spare ticket for V festival at chelmesford"
09:55.22rhowe_What on earth do I say?
09:58.19wethrinrhowe: Please continue to hold
09:58.30Leedsand we know rhowe likes Chinese...
09:58.49Leedsrhowe: you say "thank you, yes, that would be lovely"
09:59.17rhoweLeeds: Yeah, not sure the wife'd like that answer :)
09:59.33wethrinShe's keeping you well trained :)
09:59.47rhowe"if you're short of cash you could always give me some money for the ticket when you've got it too"
09:59.53rhoweOh, so now he wants money!
09:59.57rhowegoddamned relatives :)
10:00.03wethrin:)
10:00.18Leedsah, that old scam
10:04.10morsingrhowe!
10:04.29wethrinHands up who wants to come to Chimes a week tomorrow (25th)
10:09.20rhowewethrin: Too broke
10:09.22rhowemorsing!
10:10.09wethrinrhowe: Bah :(
10:10.18wethrinCredit card?
10:10.43rhowewethrin: one's paid off and cancelled, the other maxed
10:10.49wethrinBah
10:11.43wethrindammit. Need coffee
10:11.44wethrinbiab
10:15.11rhoweHow neat is this little thing? http://www.dpie.com/storage/zeus_z2s.html
10:16.14pontifex"quite neat"?
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10:26.26mozratyay!
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10:27.56z00daxI have 14k unread on lkml and another 11k on Xen-devel
10:27.59z00daxI win!
10:28.36Copeme grins.
10:29.01mozratMy colleague was horrified when I showed him
10:29.11mozratI said they were mostly from him
10:29.21mozrathe... FILES.. his email into little folders
10:29.23mozratsucker
10:35.28wethrinmozrat! You'll come to Chimes next week, won't you?
10:36.03mozratI actually booked two weeks off but they wouldn't let me take them back to back
10:36.39Copequaintes
10:36.46wethrinDamn
10:36.49wethrinCope, then? :)
10:37.17Copewhat date?
10:37.26morsingwethrin!
10:37.36morsingwethrin: Your server hasnn't crashed today!
10:37.57wethrinmorsing: I know
10:38.00wethrinCope: 25th
10:38.05wethrinmorsing: Good, isn't it? :)
10:38.20wethrin$user crashed it a couple of days ago by running it out of swap space
10:38.21morsingwethrin: Impressive for a BSD server
10:38.29wethrinpff
10:38.33morsing:)
10:38.35morsingAIX!
10:39.00z00daxi need to book some holiday too...
10:39.14z00daxwill help if I actually went into work first....
10:39.27wethrinI want a fixed soldering iron before I work on my AIX machine :)
10:39.29wethrinWell, to-be-AIX
10:40.34z00daxa diy aix box huh ?
10:42.17wethrinWell....a serial terminal server
10:42.23wethrinGiven I have 25 serial ports to attach to it
11:12.35SlammerXPmozrat: meanie
11:12.47mozratSlammerXP: what? I was trying to "big" you up!
11:12.58SlammerXP"I heartily recommend..." :)
11:13.22mozratNah - thats blatent. I've set you up for the smash volley
11:13.25mozratyou take the point
11:14.35SlammerXPmozrat: meanie :)
11:14.54merlinnI want to eat something yummy
11:14.59mozratSlammerXP: do you have a pricing scheme for home users?
11:15.07mozratjust out of interest - I'm not looking to sign up
11:15.17SlammerXPmost home users wouldn't be able to use it
11:15.42SlammerXPneed mx control
11:15.57mozratyeah
11:16.11SlammerXPbut one glluger pays about 30 pear year
11:16.18mozratcouldn't they forward to username@homeuser.antibodymx.net using their ISP control panel thingies?
11:16.40mozratand then you forward it onto.. hmm, yeah
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12:23.01boudiccaswhat backup programs do you people use please?
12:26.24merlinn_legato
12:26.30merlinn_time navigator is good too
12:26.43merlinn_veritas netbackup is okay
12:26.49merlinn_probably better than legato
12:27.02merlinn_don't use tivoli
12:28.48pontifexsbackup
12:30.01morsingTSM RULES!
12:30.17morsingNothing on this planet is nearly as good as TSM!
12:30.25morsingNetbackup sucks
12:31.30boudiccasthe reason i ask is that I'm trying to find a backup program to back up one machine to its self, using differential strategies and is well documented and in development still
12:36.37morsingWhy differential strategies?
12:36.51mozratboudiccas: I have a bash script that will do this if you are looking for something simple
12:36.54mozratuses tar
12:37.28boudiccasmozrat; yes please :) can you email it to me please?
12:37.43mozratboudiccas: would be a pleasure!
12:38.06boudiccasmozrat;  smashing, ty
12:42.00mozratYou may need to tweak it just a little bit
12:42.10mozratbut it basically works fine - it's saved my ass on a number of occasions
12:53.48mozratboudiccas: should be with you now
12:54.09mozratbackup-functions is a set of bash functions to break the code up a bit
12:54.31mozratif you decide you don't need to PGP protect the files or FTP them offsite just comment those lines out in backup.sh
12:54.42mozratyou call the script with `./backup.sh 0` for a full backup
12:54.43mozratand
12:54.58mozrat`./backup.sh 1` for a incremental
12:55.08mozrats/incremental/differential/
12:56.05mozratSlammerXP: never tried it to be honest, but my script assumes no MT drives
12:56.15Copeyeah, I read your reviews on punter.net
12:56.22SlammerXPamanda can do archives to disk
12:56.23mozratjust local backup and then a FTP transfer offsite
12:58.57mozratboudiccas: I guess SlammerXP has a good point here. By script doesn't give you an archive of your previous backups
12:59.18mozratyou'd have to go hunting for files if you deleted something Â$SOME_TIME ago and didn't know when
12:59.59rhoweboudiccas: http://www.bacula.org/
13:06.45boudiccasmozrat; what is ... BACKUPDIR="${HOME}/backup" ... please?
13:07.09boudiccasmozrat; btw, I've got it ty :)
13:11.27mozratthats where the script lives
13:11.41mozratyou need a folder in your homedir called backup and those 2 files inside
13:12.04mozratjust because it creates a little timestamp file to know when the last full backup was (when you ran ./backup.sh 0 )
13:12.23boudiccasah, ty. its working atm as a test run
13:12.38mozratcool
13:17.27boudiccasmozrat; I've added this to the script ... written by Simon Morris [aka mozrat] 12-08-2006 ... hope you don't mind? :)
13:18.07mozratboudiccas: can we discuss your licence fees at some stage?
13:18.32mozratI would like to discuss... ahem... bringing you into our very competitive support rates
13:18.42boudiccasmozrat; certainly :)
13:19.18boudiccasdid you know, if you're doing a street collection for a charity, its actually illegal to rattle the money con!
13:19.27boudiccas*can
13:20.04wethrinyup
13:20.44boudiccasi used to take part in street collections for Saint John Ambulance, and thats where i learnt it
13:21.13mozratheh
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13:21.20mozratboudiccas: were you a chugger?
13:22.11JAVhi
13:22.36boudiccasmozrat; nope. i was a lemon, and just stood there holding the can and looking pathetic! :)
13:23.29boudiccasused to stand outside one particular restaurant in Norwich doing it, and every year at dinnertime they sent me downa mug of coffee and a salad roll :)
13:23.57mozratboudiccas: you seem quite a community minded person!
13:24.07mozratBeing a nursey and a charity collector
13:25.08mozratJAV, hello sir
13:27.38pontifex\o/ community minded people
13:28.25mozratAck, I've had no internet at home for a week now
13:28.33pontifexmine is busted too :(
13:28.40pontifexI have net but it's utterly unreliable
13:28.43pontifexsodding ADSL Max
13:28.44mozratand now BT won't send my finance department the bills they haven't been paying
13:28.57mozratmine is a billing issue - work haven't been paying for a year :(
13:29.06pontifex:(
13:32.55rhowemozrat: Go online?
13:33.32rhowe... full of cup-a-soup
13:34.39mozratrhowe: sorry?
13:35.38wethrinpie?
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13:36.07mozratwhatsthathen??
13:36.08rhowemozrat: Soup+biscuit lunch :)
13:36.18mozrat14:32 < rhowe> mozrat: Go online?
13:36.38rhowemozrat: For the bill
13:36.39morsingCheck it!
13:37.01mozratrhowe: well - not possible apparently
13:37.09mozratDunno why. It's a business account
13:37.26rhowemozrat: hm.. maybe that's only for phone lines + calls or something
13:37.56mozratrhowe: yeah maybe. I get my own line rental bills each quarter
13:38.08mozratI don't think anyone has ever got a BT Broadband one - hence the mess I'm in
13:38.17mozratI've been actually talking to my wife the past week at nights
13:38.23mozratI MISS THE INTERNET
13:39.34wethrinheh
13:40.44mozratI wonder how much of hte internet I can get onto a 500GB lacie drive using wget for tonight
13:40.55mozrat500GB I guess :(
13:41.39morsingmozrat: All of it I'd think
13:41.48wethrinmorsing: All the non-porn stuff, anyway
13:42.46skuggso, all the uninteresting bits?
13:42.59skuggo.O did I say that out loud?
13:43.01wethrinThere's wikipedia? :)
13:43.06wethrinbut other than that, yeah
13:49.36pontifexall the stuff except the poems about dead kittens
13:53.57SlammerXPi don't have the internet, I use myspace instead
13:59.35pontifexhehe
14:00.31merlinn_myspace are recruiting atm
14:01.13merlinn_if anyone wants to work for a company that makes millions through the distribution of interconnections facilitating 30yr old men to stick their fingers in 17yr old girls twats
14:02.08pontifexnice imagery
14:02.23merlinn_I think it's their business modle
14:04.37antiphaseI'll be 30 in 18 months. Sounds like something to look forward to
14:05.19merlinn_myspace, faceparty and other such sites are amazing
14:05.20wethrinYou're only as young as the person you feel, after all
14:05.22merlinn_I love the concept
14:05.50GeorgeI would like to know why Corpus are asking for all my UMS marks.
14:06.17merlinn_corpus?
14:06.30wethrinThe other Corpus Christi College
14:06.36merlinn_at cambridge?
14:06.37Georgewethrin: the real corpus christi college
14:06.45wethrinGeorge: Did you get all As, then?
14:06.48Georgewethrin: yes
14:06.51Georgewethrin: and a 2 in STEP Maths
14:07.23merlinn_which one are you?
14:07.30merlinn_cambridge or oxford?
14:07.45wethrinGeorge: Well done
14:07.48wethrinmerlinn_: He's at the wrong place
14:07.55merlinn_oxford?
14:07.58wethrinno
14:08.03wethrinOxford is Good, Right and Proper
14:08.05merlinn_I went to cambridge
14:08.05Georgeno
14:08.06GeorgeOxford sucks
14:08.08wethrinI'm sorry
14:08.10Georgeand should go to hell
14:08.11merlinn_oxford is for fags
14:08.16wethrinNo, no.
14:08.23wethrinCambridge is the home of the homosexual spy
14:08.30merlinn_that said however
14:08.34merlinn_I hated cambridge
14:08.37wethrinheh
14:08.55George"I have now received your examination results and I am delighted to confirm our offer of a place to read Computer Science at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, for entry in October 2006. We have informed UCAS of our decision, and you will receive formal confirmation of your place from them in due course."
14:09.06Georgemerlinn_: you suck then
14:09.10wethrinWhat're UMS marks?
14:09.13merlinn_sorry
14:09.18merlinn_well I mean
14:09.22merlinn_cambridge does suck dong
14:09.25merlinn_as a city
14:09.35merlinn_at school I was an organic drill bit
14:09.42Georgesome of us wwant a quiet place :P
14:09.44merlinn_but I hated living in cambridge
14:09.53Georgewhich college were you at?
14:14.04merlinn_I went to kings initially
14:16.23merlinn_but switched to emma after 6 months
14:16.42merlinn_my degree was actually in the states
14:16.45merlinn_but I transferred
14:17.03merlinn_on the basis that cambridge at the time offered an MSC in 3 years
14:17.09merlinn_for no extra work
14:17.46merlinn_it didn't float my boat as much as I wanted it to
14:17.52merlinn_so I went back to the states
14:19.06Georgeer, as far as I know you can't switch colleges
14:19.12merlinn_I wasn't switching
14:19.16merlinn_I came over to visit
14:19.24merlinn_with another university
14:19.30merlinn_then went back again
14:19.39merlinn_then transferred to cambridge
14:19.44merlinn_after a nice experience
14:21.15merlinn_are you a mature student?
14:21.19Georgeno
14:21.27merlinn_undergrad or post grad?
14:21.30Georgeundergrad.
14:21.41wethrinmerlinn_: There's no such thing as a mature student :)
14:21.49merlinn_well
14:21.56merlinn_I guess...
14:22.02merlinn_there's less mature students though
14:22.10wethrinGeorge is very immature
14:22.14merlinn_what precisely are you doing George ?
14:22.17Georgeguess
14:22.28merlinn_Maths?
14:22.45merlinn_or comp sci
14:23.22Georgecompsci
14:40.35boudiccasI see that Simon Morris [aka mozrat] has got haonourable mention in a short article about Gllug in the newest edition of Linux Format, soon to hit the news stands :)
14:45.35wethrinHe's famous!
14:46.40boudiccasyup. we'll have to call him 'Sir' now :(
14:47.07mozratboudiccas: oh?
14:47.57mozratboudiccas: is the picture of little Felix included?
14:55.04boudiccasmozrat; yes, felix is interested in pine cones!
14:55.46mozratApparently so!
14:58.09mozratboudiccas: how are you seeing this now then? You get it sent to you?
15:02.09pontifexwhat's on the cover?
15:07.09boudiccasmozrat; yes, i'm a subscriber
15:07.22boudiccaspontifex; virtual smackdown
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15:22.08morsingLotto-Kim!
15:22.15morsingLotto-Kim: Who are you?
15:33.33Lotto-KimI'm kim! Moving to London 1th of September
15:34.58morsingLotto-Kim: Do you work for the lottery? Or are you the stalker?
15:35.55boudiccasmozrat; ere, did you know that if you change ./backup.sh whilst its running it starts all over again! :)))
15:36.09Lotto-Kimmorsing: hehe, a stalker
15:37.51Lotto-KimAny action at gllug events?
15:38.02boudiccaseither that or its stuck in a loop
15:43.12SlammerXPi knew a Kim once
15:43.19SlammerXPshe was a red-head medical student
15:43.38SlammerXPmmmmmmedicalstudents
15:46.40wethrinMmmm :)
15:46.43wethrinUm
15:46.47Lotto-Kimhehe, I got a office on top of a medical university, straight above the main entrance:)
15:47.07SlammerXPurl to webcam?
15:47.17Lotto-Kimwebcam.lotto-kim.net
15:47.30rhoweHe said URL, not hostname!
15:47.34wethrinWhat sort of action do you want? :) There has been a Community Support Officer in attendance at past events
15:47.42SlammerXPput a sign on the entrance:   All Female Students Must Look Up And Wave
15:48.07Leedsevening Lotto-Kim
15:48.14Lotto-Kimrhowe: sorry, http://webcam.lotto-kim.net
15:48.14Leedset al
15:49.17LeedsLotto-Kim: where are you moving from?
15:49.22Lotto-KimNorway
15:49.35Leedsah...
15:49.45Leedswethrin: will you be in London for the rest of the weekend, at least?
15:50.17wethrinLeeds: Next weekend?
15:50.20Leedsyes
15:50.25wethrinI'm busy on the Sunday
15:50.29Lotto-KimSlammerXP: Got a little plan for one of me colleagues, he got some problems with girls:P
15:50.48Leedswethrin: bummer... and then back up north?
15:50.49wethrinAnd heading back to Durham on the Monday evening, but could spare some hours otherwise
15:51.15rhoweLotto-Kim: I can't help but notice, that webcam requires authentication
15:51.55Lotto-Kimrhowe: root/dude
15:52.22Lotto-KimBut the webcam is down
15:52.36Leedsit appears to be raining
15:52.59wethrinLeeds: You going to be around London that weekend, then?
15:53.00Leedswethrin: I am arriving at Heathrow early on Sunday morning, may well be heading off to Spain that evening...
15:53.21wethrinHmm. When'll you be back?
15:53.32Lotto-KimLeeds: It is
15:53.52rhoweLotto-Kim: Wipe that window down!
15:54.05rhoweLotto-Kim: Ah yes, that person isn't moving a whole lot
15:54.06Lotto-KimCan somone tell me a litle bit about the weather in London?
15:54.27wethrinIt varies from cold and rainy to hot and sunny
15:54.30SlammerXPLotto-Kim: well, we have some
15:54.37wethrinSometimes within the space of an hour or less
15:54.55Lotto-KimIts down becouse i cant get this webcam to work in Linux
15:55.08rhowewethrin: It went from blue sky and warm to torrential downpour and black clouds in the space of 10 minutes at Heathrow on Saturday. I was pretty impressed
15:55.17wethrinYay
15:55.18Leedswethrin: from Spain?  assuming I go, at the end of the week or so
15:55.28rhoweLotto-Kim: What kind of webcam is it? The image looks not unlike the image I get from my Creative Webcam Pro
15:55.51JAVLeeds: it's raining here :D
15:56.20LeedsJAV: hot and humid here - a few drops of rain this afternoon, but the people I was out with were more worried about putting up their umbrellas against the sun
15:56.23wethrinLeeds: If you say what weekend you might be down in London, I'll try and come along. Otherwise, I could nip to Leeds or York on a weekday evening
15:56.23Lotto-Kimrhowe: It was not my cam, it could be a old Creative Webcam Pro
15:56.32JAVwell, not now, heavy sun
15:56.38rhoweLotto-Kim: If so, you'll need the ov511 driver
15:56.46rhoweJAV: Yeah, I just got a blast off the gherkin
15:59.51Lotto-KimI changed cam, now i got a Creative Webcam Live!
16:00.54Leedswethrin: off the top of my head, I'd say there's a pretty good chance of my being in London the weekend of the 9th/10th
16:01.17Lotto-Kimokey, so shorts and jacket will be the perfect combination
16:02.42Leedsuh, what/
16:04.38wethrinLeeds: Damn
16:05.00wethrinI'm home that weekend, but playing music Friday evening, all day Saturday, and most of Sunday
16:06.35mozratboudiccas: huh?
16:06.39mozrathello Lotto-Kim
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16:07.10Leedsmorning pdr
16:07.20pdrmorning leeds
16:07.31boudiccasmozrat; yes, i've been tweaking the ./backup.sh variables [changing what is to be backed up etc] and it just restarts itself :)
16:07.35pdrlong time no chat, how've you been?
16:07.39Leedswethrin: well, maybe the week after, maybe not
16:08.13Leedspdr: can't remember when we last spoke, so very short form: fired, heading back to the UK next week for a few weeks before coming back to find a new job, apartment, etc. - in the meantime, having a blast socially
16:08.36pdrwow, now that's quite a lot of news
16:08.58pdrwell, sorry about the job, but it'll be good to have you back at least
16:09.52Leedsyeah - wasn't the most fun, being fired by my cousin over a beer, but it wasn't a bad thing - it wasn't really working out
16:10.26Leedsoh, and incidentally, can your brother get us all greenphones? :-)
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16:14.16mozrathow do you mean it restarts itself?
16:14.34mozratyou are editing the script whilst the backup is running?
16:20.31boudiccasmozrat; yes, it reaches the end, and just keeps going. I'm not worried about it because I know why its doing it. now i've stopped tweaking it will complete
16:22.35mozratyou are saying it stops the tar and then restarts itself automatically?
16:22.40mozratnah, thats weird
16:22.57mozratboudiccas: are you going to be able to scan that Linux Format piece for me?
16:22.58pdrLeeds: greephones?
16:23.01mozratso I can post it to the site
16:23.07boudiccasyes, it just keepps on rolling through :)
16:23.30Leedspdr: new 'open' qtopia-based phone announced by the trolls at linuxworld in the US this week
16:23.34boudiccasno, not got my scanner connected to the pc, sorry :(
16:23.34pdrLeeds: recycled ones?
16:23.35Lotto-Kimrhowe: installed spca5xx, works fine;)
16:23.36pdri c
16:24.13Leedsintended to go to third-party developers (both closed and open) so they have a real-world device to target
16:24.48boudiccasmozrat; no physical space available for the scanner so am unable to connect it
16:27.49mozratok
16:28.07mozratSo you are saying I have to buy it?
16:30.06pdrLeeds: the only reference i can find is on the trolltech site itself!  look good tho
16:30.49pdri wonder who they've got to make it for them, no doubt john is involved
16:31.29Leedspdr: well, there's lots of blog and press release type buzz around...
16:31.41pdrcool
16:31.57Leedshttp://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8030785497.html
16:36.30Lotto-Kimnice
16:36.49Lotto-Kimhope it does not get to expensive
16:37.48Leedswell, if it's a limited run, it could be... on the other hand, it's probably subsidised... on the gripping hand, maybe it's a repurposed existing phone with different software and shell, and might be affordable
16:51.28Leeds"Boeing Co. on Thursday said it will discontinue its loss-making, high-speed broadband communications service, Connexion by Boeing..."
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17:15.28boudiccasmozrat; no, I'll email a copy to you. The only thing that you'll be missing is Felix's photo
17:26.54z00daxhumm... i still think the nokia 770 is better value than the green thing
17:29.18Leedsz00dax: gsm/gprs - makes it an actual phone
17:29.26z00daxLeeds: true...
17:29.59z00daxbut the nokia has a better screen, and better apps - and you can mostly write apps with whatever you want
17:30.17z00daxone thing to watch out for is going to be usable ram, the nokia is limited to 64megs of ram
17:30.24z00daxwhich is sort of limiting these days.
17:30.36z00daxmy 'c' days are semi over nwo
17:30.37Leedsbut it's not a phone
17:30.39z00daxs/nwo/now/
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18:19.15goltorinspector morse
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18:43.46Georgewethrin: a filthy oxonian left a filthy message on my blog
18:43.53George"Congratulations, and let me be the first to say: Filthy Tab!"
18:47.18wethrinWasn't me!
18:47.26Georgewethrin: I know
18:47.33Georgewethrin: it was phil rodrigues, a kde devel
18:47.38wethrinheh
18:47.50wethrinI do now have to officially hate you, though
18:48.09Georgewethrin: I see
18:48.10Georgeass
18:49.15Georgewethrin: you filthy onion
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18:50.14Georgeass
18:51.56Georgewethrin: it's my right now to hurl abuse at you
18:52.33wethrinNot quite. Only if they concert my institution
18:53.12Georgewethrin: ?
18:53.37wethrinYou can't just call me an ass directly
18:53.45GeorgeI bloody can
18:53.46Georgeass
18:54.28wethringo away
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18:55.25Georgewethrin: :(
19:07.02wethrinMuahaha
19:07.05wethrinYou never liked me :-P
19:07.19Georgefilthy oxonian
19:07.24GeorgeFILTHY
19:07.40GeorgeFILTH
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19:13.53wethrin:)
19:14.00GeorgeFILTH!!!!
20:10.39morsingarika-chan!
20:11.20arika-chanmorsing!
20:19.00mozratme!
20:20.07boudiccasmozrat; currently putting the LF article into a text file for you :)
20:20.38mozratboudiccas, oh - I didn't want to put you through any hassle
20:20.42boudiccasmozrat; btw, backup file 0 was overwritten by backup file 1 about ten minutes later!
20:20.59boudiccasits no hasle, good test for my word processing skills
20:21.04boudiccas*hassle
20:22.11mozratboudiccas, ah yeah.... the filename only uses the date
20:22.13mozratnot the time
20:22.17mozratso - if you ran it twice on the same day....:-)
20:22.39mozratyou can change that if you alter the date command string
20:25.58mozratbut... you dont normally want to run it multiple times daily
20:26.08mozratboudiccas, are you aware of cron?
20:27.54boudiccasto include ... time +%HH%MM .... yes, set up to run by cron at 0600 every day for a complete backup
20:28.18boudiccasI was trying to get incremental/differential backups every 4 or 6 hours too
20:29.25mozratOK
20:29.47mozratso - stick a hour and minute part in the name - should work fine
20:30.04mozratyou are going to have a lot of backup files....
20:30.39boudiccasmy skills are not advacned enough for it [and neither is my spelling too by the look of it!]
20:30.46mozrathow long do you want a restore window for?
20:31.04boudiccastwo months
20:31.09mozratrun date --help
20:31.21mozratand get the correct variable for hour and minute
20:31.35mozratI'm on my phone so I cant really help
20:31.42boudiccask, ty
20:31.43antiphaseTrying to do incremental backups by hand, but not understanding the facility of the man pages are somewhat incongruous
20:31.49mozratprobably %H and %M
20:50.29boudiccasmozrat; I've just emailed you the article re GLLUG's summer trip from the october issue of Linux Format
20:51.52mozratthanks!!
20:51.53mozratboudiccas - is that the Ubuntu issue?
20:52.31boudiccasmozrat; no, simply mepis and knoppix
20:52.52boudiccasmozrat; can i pm you please?
20:53.02boudiccasor are you still on the phone :)
20:53.11mozratk
20:53.16boudiccasty
20:53.26mozratI haven't got it then
21:17.55z00daxmozrat: hey
21:18.19z00daxmozrat: anyhint gyou need a hand with .w.r.t. gllug meets - lemme know
21:18.25z00daxanything!
21:18.34boudiccasmozrat; no, this is the october issue that hits the newstands very shortly
21:18.51wethrinOctober? But it's not even September yet!
21:19.19boudiccasyep, october issue of LF
21:19.33z00daxwethrin: yeah, they ship it like this now
21:19.44z00daxthey sell the oct issue through sept. and then the nov issue through oct
21:19.59boudiccasi think they work on a 4-week cycle, so you get 13 issues for your subscription per year
21:20.08z00daxits funny when you go back a few months and try to make sense of the news and features they mention - they always seem to be out dated
21:20.17wethrinYes, some magazines are sensible and have a Jan->Dec + Christmas issue
21:20.43z00daxwould the christmas issue not be included in the december one ?
21:20.57wethrinNo
21:21.04wethrinBecause that way they have 13 issues
21:21.10z00daxhumm ...
21:21.29z00daxwhats the point of that ? more advert revenue ?
21:21.52boudiccaspresumably
21:21.53wethrinMaintain month parity
21:22.08wethrinRather than after a decade they're almost a year out
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