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00:40.46*** join/#gllug wethrin (i=dankolb@2001:618:400:0:0:0:c3a:df4d)
00:41.36wethrinI'm BACK! From a new colo!
00:55.10gw280wethrin: YOU WERE LATE?
00:55.23gw280wethrin: robster's been complaining about you
00:55.27gw280wethrin: YOU SUCK
00:56.54wethrinWeren't me, guv
00:57.15wethrinmorsing got stuck in traffic - some accident caused the A4 to be closed off
00:57.22wethrinSo it took him 4 hours to get to the datacentre
01:00.45*** join/#gllug Leeds (n=richardc@169.222.9.194)
01:00.46gw280wethrin: well, you lose heavily.
01:01.02wethrinNo, I win, because my server's running
01:01.11gw28000:54:17 < robster> never ever run a hosting company
01:01.14wethrinAfter robster recabled the network a bit
01:01.19gw28000:54:31 < robster> you'll be stuck in london until the wee hours because your customer was late
01:01.22gw28000:54:46 < robster> and then you'll find the ethernet cables are too short.
01:01.53wethrinIt was most unfortunate, and I think everyone was a bit pissed off
01:02.14gw280doesn't surprise me
01:02.49gw280wethrin: I just told him I recommended them... I think he's now going to kill me :P
01:02.57wethrinI would be. But, of course, shit happens in traffic. It really wasn't morsing's fault
01:03.31wethrinBut if you could pass on my thanks to robster for getting the machines up and running
01:03.47gw280I would go play with mjg59's OLPC, but he's in .au
01:03.57Leedsgw280: duh
01:05.05Leedsgw280: you know I'm at lca as well, right?
01:05.13gw280Leeds: no
01:05.22Leedsgw280: I'm at lca as well
01:05.29gw280I see
01:06.00gw280I would be there if I wasn't poor and a student.
01:06.12wethrinSponge off parents
01:06.23gw280wethrin: ok, I'm also a student and I had exams today
01:06.33LeedsI'm largely here on credit card
01:06.53gw280eek.
01:06.59gw280I'm never getting a credit card. ever.
01:07.01gw280they're evil things
01:07.02gw280evil.
01:07.49Leedsit's a cashflow thing - I've got the money, or I'm owed it from somewhere else
01:08.58gw280I see
01:11.38wethrinCredit cards are actually damn useful
01:11.46wethrinExtra buyer protection, etc. etc.
01:12.07LeedsDean is mass-blogging
01:13.31LeedsI got a c/c in Hong Kong purely so I could spend money online from my current account - I'd have taken a Visa debit card, but they have their own debit network in HK and don't offer Visa debit
01:13.35gw280night, I'm ill and I probably ought to sleep instead of sitting on IRC and texting people
01:14.11Leedsg'night
01:17.40wethrinnn gw280
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03:04.10Leedsthere appears to be a Mr. Torvalds wandering around outside
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05:33.37murbmoin
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07:25.09mozratHey guys
07:53.34gregjhttp://www.b3tards.com/u/97439b85ce77ffc7ecb7/tescomassacre.jpg
08:11.54sabinef72morning
08:11.54sabinef72mozrat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
08:12.07*** join/#gllug SlayerXP (n=martin@gw-colt.fotango.com)
08:25.11*** join/#gllug morsing (i=morsing@sov-colo-195-10-223-76.bluelinux.co.uk)
08:26.54morsing'morning
08:30.00morsingAnyone here? Please?
08:30.24SlayerXPyes
08:31.01morsingSlayerXP: I've got a new IP address on my server but I can't remember the login/password for my domain/DNS login to change it
08:31.21SlayerXPlogin: henrik
08:31.24SlayerXPpassword: judo44
08:31.27morsinguck off
08:31.38sabinef72morsing !
08:31.40morsingI emiled them yesterday ut obviously got no reply
08:31.43morsingsabinef72!
08:31.51morsingsabinef72: The book is really funny :)
08:32.04SlayerXPmorsing: just think, had you chosen me to host your DNS for you, you wouldn't have this problem :)
08:32.36morsingSlayerXP: You don't host DNS
08:32.45SlayerXPyes, I do
08:32.50SlayerXPfor many hundreds of domains
08:32.50morsingIt's not "host". It's my TLD pointer!
08:33.01sabinef72morsing: it's a bit exaggerate but yes it's very very funny
08:33.20morsingI can't change morsing.cc to point at my new IP
08:34.30morsingSlayerXP: So what do I do?
08:34.36morsingCan you change it?
08:35.15morsingHELP
08:35.21SlayerXPI could hire a dance band and ask them to play "Abide With Me"
08:35.35morsingSlayerXP: You're an idiot
08:35.53SlayerXPyou're not the first, and you won't be the last, to make that observation
08:36.07SlayerXPbut I'm an idiot who has access to his DNS records.
08:36.41rhowehmm, so, do I build a box with 10 gigE ports, or do I build one with 6, with a couple being trunked to the switch and do VLANs on the host itself?
08:36.50morsingrhowe: Why are you ignoring me?
08:37.06rhowemorsing: 'cause I'm going snowboarding!
09:03.06z00daxmoin
09:03.41z00daxso then, anyone London based sysadmin type with db skills looking for a really cool job ?
09:05.07SlayerXP<fx> tumbleweed </fx>
09:12.24antiphaseWhat are "db skills" exactly?
09:15.09z00daxmoderate dba skills, functional knowledge of sql ( most on pgsql and mysql )
09:16.31z00dax$clue about data warehouses and data marts ++
09:45.12morsing554 mail server permanently rejected message (#5.3.0)
09:45.15morsingGnnffff
09:46.15z00daxis that your mailserver or is that someone else's mailserver rejecting your emails
09:54.27morsingIt's my backup server
09:54.34morsingRun by widge.net
09:54.52morsingwethrin: Just spooling off your held mail...
09:56.25z00daxwow $24 a year for backup MX, isnt easydns a lot better and cheaper ?
09:57.18z00daxhumm no they are not
09:58.56morsingz00dax: easydns sucks
09:59.06z00daxhowso ?
09:59.15morsingz00dax: How do I change my morsing.cc DNS pointer when I can't remember my login?
09:59.39z00daxlogin to what ? usually you'd just make a change in the zone file
09:59.54z00daxif you cant get into the machine, init 1, passwd change, init 3, login
10:00.03morsingI don't have access to the zone file. Only very priviledged people do
10:00.18morsingz00dax: I don't have access to any of the TLD servers
10:00.38z00daxerr ?
10:00.42morsingExactly
10:00.46morsingSo what to do?
10:00.54z00daxnot sure how .cc works - does it not deligate to your own nameservers ?
10:00.56morsingI emailed them yesterday but no response
10:01.06morsingYes, but it moved!
10:01.30z00daxthats bollocks
10:01.37z00daxyour NS is hosted with a third party anyway
10:01.58z00daxyou dont have your login for widge.net then ?
10:02.22z00daxmorsing.cc.             28800   IN      NS      ns2.widge.net.
10:02.22z00daxmorsing.cc.             28800   IN      NS      195.10.223.76.morsing.cc.
10:02.22z00daxmorsing.cc.             28800   IN      NS      ns1.widge.net.
10:02.34z00daxtry calling them on the phone ?
10:02.39morsingz00dax: Huh?
10:02.53morsingIt's not widge
10:03.01morsingIt's enic#
10:03.20z00daxwell, either they broke the internet, or it actually is widge.net
10:03.28morsingIt's not
10:03.37morsingWidge's just a secondary
10:04.37z00daxthat sounds odd, they dont list primary NS in the host record ?
10:04.52z00daxand who is 195.10.223.76
10:05.07z00daxsov-colo-195-10-223-76.bluelinux.co.uk.
10:05.27morsingThat's my server
10:05.38morsingz00dax: That's not the current problem anyway...
10:05.43z00daxi am prolly not being of much help, so I will stop now. really feel no inclination to discover the dns root's of .cc
10:06.00morsingAnd please don't tell me how my own setup is setup... I set it up!
10:06.17z00daxok
10:06.29sabinef72z00dax !!!!!!!!
10:06.33z00daxsabinef72: !
10:06.34sabinef72you know what z00dax ?
10:06.35morsingz00dax: Thanks anyway :)
10:06.43z00daxsabinef72: what what ?
10:07.00sabinef72z00dax: I never received your postcard from India :-(
10:07.07z00daxmorsing: just that the only NS listed for your domain seem to be widge.net and you yourself...
10:07.13z00daxsabinef72: really ?
10:07.18sabinef72yes it's true
10:07.23morsingz00dax: Correct
10:07.24z00daxhumm
10:07.50z00daxi am going back there again, so can retry
10:07.58sabinef72thank
10:08.03sabinef72when will you go back ?
10:08.14z00daxnot sure as yet, but before fosdem
10:08.23sabinef72When is fosdem ?
10:08.40z00daxend feb
10:09.02sabinef72ohh so it's soon
10:09.26z00daxwww.fosdem.org
10:09.31z00daxare you going to come there ?
10:09.50murbit is trivial to get to brussels from paris.
10:10.02z00daxgeekette!
10:10.23sabinef72hmmm Paris - Bruxelles is around 3 hours by car
10:10.43z00daxor 45 min by train ?
10:10.53murbsabinef72: that prevents you getting no a thalys?
10:11.24murbiirc the train to koeln from paris stops in bruxxels.
10:11.29sabinef72but thalys is expensive
10:11.38murbsabinef72: they have special offeres.
10:12.08sabinef72the main problem is I can't leave paris for the moment
10:12.19murboh you are under city arrest?
10:12.31z00daxhttp://www.virtualbox.org/ wtf, another Virtualisation tool
10:12.41morsingz00dax: Do you understand how this works?
10:12.48*** join/#gllug tripitaka (n=tripitak@83.217.101.115)
10:12.58z00daxmorsing: how what works ? virtualbox ? no - not look at it as yet
10:13.04murbz00dax: qemu + an alternatives to kqemu
10:13.04morsingA root TLD server has the DNS record for your top level domain
10:13.13morsingIt's not *the* DNS server
10:13.17morsingMy server is
10:13.20z00daxmurb: is that all it is ?
10:13.29murbz00dax: at the core.
10:13.37morsingBut someone who doesn't know where the DNS server is will have to ask a root server
10:13.41z00daxin which case.. pass
10:13.45murbalthough they've added lots of infrustrucutre arround it.
10:13.50morsingThat's what the problem is
10:14.16z00daxmorsing: which is what i wanted to know - where your primary was
10:14.25morsingemil.morsing.cc is the primary
10:14.30morsingWhich has changed address
10:15.15z00daxbut both your secondries are listed with the root ?
10:15.34z00daxas long as they know where to pull from - you should mostly be ok for a while
10:17.39tripitakaI have a 'difficult' installation issue
10:18.08tripitakaA machine in East Africa with no CD-ROM, no USB, no IDE connectors, and it needs CentOS
10:18.16z00daxwhats it running now ?
10:18.34tripitakaa virus - crippled XP installation
10:19.05SlayerXPtripitaka: network installs are trivial these days
10:19.18SlayerXPyou'll need a local tftpd server, though
10:19.25SlayerXPpreferably a local dhcp server, too
10:19.40tripitakaThere's another linux server there
10:19.43tripitakaRH9
10:19.45z00daxdoes loadlin still work these days ?
10:20.01z00daxrh9 ???? hope thats not on the internet. if it is - hope its well firewalled off
10:20.08tripitakaslayerxp: How would you recommend I approach it?
10:20.36sabinef72murb: sorry for the lag. No I'm not a murder geek woman. I just have a medical treatment
10:20.56SlayerXPtripitaka: cautiously.
10:21.01tripitakaheh
10:21.08tripitakaholding a big stick
10:21.36z00daxdoes the machine have a fdd ? centos-3 has fdd install images ( and then once booted install over the internet )
10:21.48tripitakayes, it has a floppy
10:22.09z00daxwill centos-3 do ?
10:22.14tripitakarecent kernels are too big for floppy though
10:22.28tripitakait would - I can always upgrade to 4 once it's installed
10:22.34morsingz00dax: What do you get my MX to be?
10:22.36z00daxwhich is why i made specific ref to centos-3 and the 2.4 kernel
10:23.08z00daxmorsing.cc.             28800   IN      MX      10 mx1.widge.net.
10:23.08z00daxmorsing.cc.             28800   IN      MX      20 mail.morsing.cc.
10:23.09z00daxmorsing.cc.             28800   IN      MX      0 mail.morsing.cc.
10:23.20morsingCan you ping mail.morsing.cc?
10:23.39morsingNo, it's the wrong address... Hmm...
10:23.47morsingDon't know what to do...
10:24.09SlayerXPmorsing: no, nor does it seem to be running a mail server
10:24.55morsingz00dax: There's been an error on my part
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10:25.03morsinggoibhniu!
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10:25.35z00daxyou have 0 and 20 pointing at the same host ?
10:25.42goibhniumorsing!
10:25.48antiphaseBackup MX is so 1990s
10:25.56morsingz00dax: Yes, to avoid some spam
10:26.06morsingFrom the backup
10:26.11goibhniuI expect the server move went smoothly yesterday?
10:26.16morsingantiphase: You suck
10:26.34morsinggoibhniu: It most certainly did not. Worst day I've had in years
10:26.34catalystmorning all :)
10:26.38morsingcatalyst!
10:26.38antiphaseAu contraire, mon chéri, you do ;)
10:26.44catalystmorsing!
10:27.17morsingI can't push DNS record to widge unfortunately
10:27.26z00daxmorsing: if you have the primary with you - why not change dns to reflect reality
10:27.37z00daxhumm
10:27.46morsingI just did. Forgot yesterday, hence the error
10:27.53z00daxeven if you update serial and reload ? surely primary will signal reload to secondary
10:28.00morsingHave to wait now till widge pulls
10:28.09morsingz00dax: They don't support that
10:28.10z00daxit should be instantly
10:28.11morsingI think
10:28.26z00daxthat would break dns standards, i would have though.
10:28.47goibhniuach no! /me is sorry to hear that
10:28.49morsingz00dax: Oh it did :)  It's alright now
10:28.54morsingCool
10:29.19morsingz00dax: Can you send me an email please?
10:29.24z00daxalso, btw while you are shifitn all stuff around its a good idea to lower ttl to a few hundreds at best
10:29.41morsingOk
10:30.53morsingWorks :)
10:31.11z00daxcool
10:31.23z00daxgood thing i didnt do the dns lookups from my MX machine
10:31.24morsingStill need to sort out the TLD though I'd think
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10:31.32z00daxeventually. yes
10:31.33morsinghuw-l!
10:31.54z00daxalthough its usually awrite to have the primary hidden away - people with lots and lots of high dns traffic tend to do that by design
10:33.54z00daxmorsing: got your reply, so it works both ways
10:41.01wethrinhello
10:41.03wethrinmorsing!
10:41.10wethrinmorsing++ # he rocks muchly
10:47.25morsingwethrin!
10:47.45morsingwethrin: Right, I was definately swaying slightly yesterday
10:48.01morsingVery, very tired, never got anything to eat after lunch
10:48.06morsingVery, very hungry
10:48.16morsingwethrin: Be very nice to secretlondon!
10:48.20wethrinEek.
10:48.23wethrinI'm always nice!
10:48.25morsing:)
10:48.32wethrinBut I really appreciate what you both did yesterday.
10:48.41morsing:)
10:48.43morsingBeer
10:48.47wethrinDefinitely!
10:48.51wethrinOn me, for both of you.
10:48.52morsingwethrin: I'll come to Durham very soon!
10:48.57wethrinYay!
10:49.07morsingI Big Red
10:49.09morsingn
10:49.10morsingIn
10:49.15wethrinyay!
10:49.20morsingWith a valid MOt even
10:49.42wethrinWell. I'm quite busy pretty much every weekend between now and the end of term. But after that is good!
10:50.33morsingHmm... So August?
10:51.28wethrinProbably. Far too far away :)
10:51.34wethrinLater March, April, May...
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10:52.46morsingwethrin: Can I send two emails in the same thread in Mutt?
10:53.10wethrinSure - just reply to the parent, and it'll appear below it
10:53.50morsingFrom the sent folder?
10:54.14wethrinAs long as the In-Reply-To: header is there, then yes
10:54.20wethrinWhat exactly do you want to do?
10:55.05morsingJust send anoter email to someone but if he replies to both I want them to show up as part of the same thread
10:56.07wethrinAh. That I'm not sure of - it'll depend on his sending mail client :)
10:56.12wethrinHowever, the 'b' key might be of use
10:56.22wethrinb - redirect an email verbatim
10:56.48morsingNot 'resend' then change data?
10:58.05wethrinI tend to just hit 'b' if I want to forward someone an email
11:01.38morsingNice
11:05.33wethrinmorsing: Is there any queued mail for me left on emil?
11:06.54morsingwethrin: Always...
11:07.08wethrinoh
11:07.14wethrinhow much?
11:09.34morsingDon't know. A few hundred? How do I tell?
11:09.47morsingBTW: What's my power and console info/logins?
11:11.35wethrinI don't know. Ask rob :)
11:11.35wethrinDo you have a serial console connected to yours, then?
11:11.56wethrinmailq should tell you
11:12.06wethrinmaybe: mailq | grep eco.li | wc
11:12.57morsingwethrin: He said he would connect both servers up. Maybe today. I'll give him a call
11:13.10wethrinRight. I'd do it later on, then
11:13.23morsingHa ha:
11:13.24morsingemil:/var/spool/postfix# mailq | grep eco.li | wc
11:13.24morsing<PROTECTED>
11:13.24morsingemil:/var/spool/postfix# mailq | grep kristne-gym.dk | wc
11:13.24morsing<PROTECTED>
11:13.26wethrinNow might still be a bit earl
11:13.30wethrinHeh
11:14.25wethrinI presume the servers were both connected to the remote power unit last night?
11:14.44wethrinHe won't connect hades up to serial console, though, because he doesn't have the right cable
11:14.49wethrinDo you remember what sort of serial console they had?
11:14.58psnlah, thats what JD was talking about
11:15.09wethrineh?
11:15.39psnlno, different thing
11:15.58morsingwethrin: Didn't see it
11:16.05morsingwethrin: http://195.10.223.76/www/munin/morsing.cc/emil.morsing.cc-postfix_mailqueue.html
11:17.12wethrinwhee :)
11:17.22wethrinYes. 18:00 would've been when I turned hades off
11:18.18morsingwethrin: I backup a few domains though. kristne-gym.dk is the worst for spam
11:18.34wethrinspam--
11:22.03morsingping Sl
11:22.06morsingping SlayerXP
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11:36.02morsingJasperw!
11:36.07morsingwethrin: Are you happy?
11:36.33wethrinmorsing: Much more than I was yesterday
11:36.37wethrinI've got one less thing to worry about
11:37.22morsing:)
11:37.27morsingBilling?
11:37.37wethrinI've cancelled my standing order with Exonetric
11:37.43wethrinAnd I'm going to wait until Bluelinux invoice me
11:37.49morsingOh... Good idea. I never had one
11:37.55morsingMe too
11:38.04wethrinthey said they'd give it a week or so to make sure all the stuff works okay
11:38.19morsingMy boss has a mate that has half an empty rack at RedBus that we can hire
11:38.38morsingGood. I'm paid on the 25th
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11:39.04morsingflips_and_rails!
11:39.07morsingflips_and_rails: Speak!
11:39.09wethrinmorsing: Blah. I don't want to move again!
11:39.15morsing:)
11:39.17wethrinBut point z00dax at it :)
11:39.41flips_and_railshello :p
11:39.43flips_and_railsI can speak
11:39.44psnlgllug hosting limited?
11:39.47morsingwethrin: He couldn't put in my rails so we're both on top of some random server
11:40.02wethrinflips_and_rails!
11:40.18flips_and_railsyes I can actually type and speak!
11:40.21wethrinImperial have finally allowed to you say something? :)
11:40.32wethrinpsnl: Very limited :)
11:40.38wethrinmorsing: What was wrong with your rails?
11:41.06morsingwethrin: They've cable tied a powerstrip to the rear frame of the rack!
11:41.17morsingVery unproffesional
11:41.46antiphaseOMG
11:42.12psnlyouch
11:42.36psnlscsi drives hanging out the back don't seem so bad afterall
11:43.10antiphaseBudget hosting for the win
11:43.15wethrinMy SCSI drive isn't hanging out of the back!
11:43.23morsingThey're worse that Exonetric
11:43.36wethrinOh dear. That is a bit unprofessional. Given that it's easy to get rack-mount power strips
11:44.31antiphaseI can't see the problem myself, as long as it's secure
11:45.08morsingantiphase: You're unprofessional as well
11:45.13antiphaseThere is a short adage about the relationship between money liberated, and the primate quotient of the results
11:45.40cpufreaklol
11:46.13goibhniuflips_and_rails: that's the first thing you've said in 57 days!
11:47.44tarragonEver had one of those days? Managed to lose three phones. Finally traced them - one in briefcase (house cordless so no use at work), one under child's pillow and one in fridge!
11:48.40morsingtarragon: Did you find any food in the fridge?
11:49.03tarragonYes, what do you want for lunch?
11:49.24flips_and_rails57 days, thats awesome
11:49.46flips_and_railsImperial have me working and not talking ;-)
11:49.49goibhniuflips_and_rails: that's a lot of meditation
11:49.58wethrintarragon: Why did you have a phone in your fridge?
11:50.20wethrinflips_and_rails: Work is overrated! What do you do at ic.ac.uk anyway?
11:51.13tarragonSomeone ended a call while looking in fridge for food. They picked up food and put down phone. I personally blame the blonde haired ones but it could have been anyone except me!
11:52.03wethrinHonest, guv!
11:52.30goibhniutarragon: if it makes you feel any better I locked my gf in the flat yesterday (by accident)
11:52.40morsingtarragon: Anything you got! Just send it over!
11:52.41tarragonWell, I do not normally go in the kitchen, never mind the fridge
11:52.54tarragonLocked IN?
11:54.09morsingSlow, but it works. Pidgeons are better
11:54.47goibhniutarragon: well she could have escaped if she wanted, I went to work with her keys as well as my own
11:54.59wethrinmorsing: If you want proper professionaism, you're not going to get it from a very cheap colo
11:55.12morsingwethrin: I would get it from Attenda :)
11:55.23flips_and_railswethrin, I am a researcher!
11:55.27wethrinHurrah!
11:55.30wethrinDoing what?
11:55.35wethrinmorsing: And are they cheap?
11:55.46flips_and_railswethrin, PhD in fluid mechanics/HPC
11:56.06wethrinAhha. A mad physics-type
11:56.28flips_and_railswethrin, Engineering!
11:56.54morsingwethrin: I don't think so :)
11:57.01flips_and_railswethrin, bit too practical for physics ;-)
11:57.05morsingtarragon: Nice :)
11:59.59wethrinAhh. So you get to play with big equipment. This is good.
12:00.34flips_and_railswethrin, it keeps me amused
12:00.39wethrinmorsing: Hence my comment above :)
12:00.49wethrinWell, quite.
12:00.58flips_and_railswethrin, what do you do?
12:01.08wethrinPhD up in Durham. Organic electronics.
12:01.20flips_and_railsOrganic?!
12:01.27flips_and_railssounds interesting
12:01.30wethrinYarr.
12:01.45flips_and_railshow do you get organic electronics to remain stable?
12:01.51wethrinNo no no no NO! Threshold voltage should NOT be positive!
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12:02.06wethrinflips_and_rails: Pentacene is a very stable material
12:02.11antiphasepositive wrt what though? ;)
12:02.22wethrinwrt ground :)
12:03.20flips_and_railsI see so we aren't talking bits of organic matter, that makes more sense (feels daft for jumping to conclusions)
12:03.44wethrinThere really shouldn't be 2µA at 0V
12:03.48wethrinYes. Plastic material
12:03.52wethrinIf you so prefer
12:04.38flips_and_railsWhat are the applications of the tech?
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12:05.10wethrincontrol for OLED TVs, etc.
12:05.26tarragonHow are you laying down the Pentene? What fractal dimension are you looking for?
12:05.26flips_and_railsI see, sounds pretty cool
12:05.54wethrintarragon: Pentacene, not pentene
12:05.56wethrinDifferent materials :)
12:06.02wethrinThermal evaporation
12:06.28tarragonHow are you laying down the Pentacene? What fractal dimension are you looking for?
12:06.53wethrinThermal evaporation
12:07.10tarragonOn to glass?
12:07.18wethrinSilicon/silicon oxide
12:07.39wethrinEeeentersting.....
12:08.10wethrinThis one don't work properly...
12:09.01phearlesshi #gllug ! ! !
12:09.21phearlessthe weather is boring :(
12:10.19wethrinI'm stuck in a room iwith no windows
12:11.59tarragonRain here :-(
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12:16.05tarragonLeeds!!
12:16.31wethrinHrrrrmmmmm
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12:19.43morsingLeeds!
12:21.37Leedsevening all!
12:21.48murbmorning early afternoon leeds.
12:23.07Leedsso... Linus is now wandering around Sydney...
12:24.34Leedscame home tonight with three more t-shirts than I had this morning...
12:25.28wethrinyay!
12:25.49goibhniuLeeds! .. are you in Sydney now?
12:27.07Leedsyes I am
12:27.34goibhniucool! does it smell more or less than london?
12:30.45goibhniuanyone know of a good metropolis that has recently had a property crash but has buckets of jobs for developers?
12:31.17phearlesssydney looks cool !
12:31.28phearlessLeeds: are you here for holidays or to look for a job?
12:33.27phearlessis raid1 more "secure" than raid5 ?
12:34.12antiphasewhat?
12:34.20antiphaseYou mean more fault tolerant?
12:34.34wethrinRaid1 allows for one disk failure per array. So does Raid 5.
12:35.17antiphaseAnd by deduction we can assume that since RAID5 requires at least 3 disks, it is more likely to sustain a failure than a pair of mirrored disks in any given time period
12:35.34Leedsit smells less...
12:35.57Leedsphearless: I'm here partly because Sydney is a nice place to be in January... partly to see my family... but mainly for linux.conf.au
12:36.47murbLeeds: your family are in .au as well?
12:37.14Leedsgot aunt/uncle/cousins here, but only my aunt is in town... one of the cousins will be in HK next week :-)
12:37.20phearlessantiphase, wethrin : I am hesitating between 2x2 RAID1 drives , or 3 RAID5 drives, to get the same capacity (of 2 hard drives)
12:37.38wethrinHow important is the data?
12:37.41phearlesswith 2 HD mirrored, I got 2 HD capacity
12:37.53phearlessand with 3 HD in RAID5 I got  2 HD capacity, too
12:38.04phearlessit is just "important"
12:38.11wethrinOf course, RAID isn't a substitution for backup
12:38.16phearlessyes
12:38.27phearless<Leeds> phearless: I'm here partly because Sydney is a nice place to be in January... partly to see my family... but mainly for linux.conf.au  <---- ok cool :)
12:38.46wethrinSo as long as you have a good backup strategy going, then RAID-5 should be sufficient
12:38.50phearlessokay
12:39.04tarragonSo for 2 HD capacity to either buy three or four disks.
12:39.12Leedsthis afternoon, Linus was wandering around the courtyard on campus on a home-made open-source Segway
12:39.35phearlessI will go for RAID5
12:39.39phearlessand buy a spare HD
12:39.58phearlesshome-made open-source Segway?!?!
12:40.07phearlessmust be dodgy :D
12:40.31tarragondepends on what you are running on it? Raid5 hits all the disks hard
12:40.31antiphaseAnything that's named after a mis-spelling must be shit
12:40.41Leedshttp://lca2007.linux.org.au/talk/185 - it seemed to work... if it didn't, we'd be down at least one kernel guy and one X guy, since keithp had a go on it as well
12:41.00goibhniuantiphase: like google
12:41.08phearlessyes, tarragon
12:41.17phearlessyou are right ...
12:41.35antiphaseDisk array in using the disks shocker :-O
12:42.33goibhniuLeeds: that looks way better than the original
12:43.41Leedsgoibhniu: it did look fun... would like to make the talk
12:44.39goibhniuit would be pretty cool if it didn't have the handle bar
12:47.04goibhniuLeeds: have you seen the greenphone?
12:47.58goibhniu"gnome love session" :D
12:48.21Leedsgoibhniu: yeah, pdr's brother let me play with it a while ago at the big ITU show in HK... they demoed it yesterday, I was at the session... was also at pdr's session this afternoon :-)
12:49.19morsingLeeds: I'm *very* excited to see you :)
12:49.46Leedshiya morsing...
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12:50.42goibhniulooks like a very nice conference
12:50.46murbantiphase: don't forget to have a hotspare.
12:50.49Leedsit is
12:50.54Leedsvery tiring as well
12:51.15Leedsoh, and I finally got to fondle an OLPC machine... boy, are those things cute
12:51.33goibhniuLeeds: stop having fun goddamit!
12:51.56Leedsyeah, I know, I've got work to do when I get back
12:55.00murbLeeds: have you booked your fosdem flights yet?
12:55.47Leedsmurb: there shall be no fosdem flights, almost certainly
12:56.17murb:(
13:01.45tarragonAre there any good talks at Fosdem this year?
13:05.17morsingNo
13:05.51tarragonJust beer then
13:05.55morsingYes
13:05.59morsingAnd lots of it!
13:06.44LeedsJono was saying that Damien almost offered him a keynote...
13:06.55morsingNice
13:07.04morsingNot you then?
13:07.06Leedsbut instead, he's probably not going
13:07.20Leedsno, I didn't offer Jono a keynote at all
13:08.33z00daxwethrin: morsing: who has half a rack ? and how much money do they want to hire it out ?
13:08.45Leedsz00dax: you mean one breast?
13:08.47z00dax( I presume this is half a 40/42/44U rack )
13:09.12z00daxLeeds: um.... even one at 40 or 42 or 44U would be more breast than most can handle
13:09.14wethrinThere was one talk that looked very interesting at Fosdem
13:10.08wethrinoh, two. ReactOS and LinuxBIOS
13:16.02morsingCheck it!
13:17.33eyoreat last a major uk mobile network is ditching roaming charges and allowing free mins to be used abroad
13:17.34eyoreabout time
13:18.22Leedsyeah, I saw that... 3 - aka Hutchison
13:18.45eyoreonly because the industry is now under investigation
13:18.46Leedsa good Hong Kong company :-)
13:19.04eyorethey probably predict that it will go against them and thought they might get some good PR by being first
13:19.11eyorei'm on 3
13:19.29eyoreonly because it was the best cashback deal on carphonewarehouse though :)
13:19.58LeedsI assumed it was more a loss leader - yet another attempt to get more people to sign up
13:20.16Leedsanyway, sleep time...
13:20.20eyoredoubt it would make that many people jump ship
13:20.24eyorenn
13:20.31morsingibot nn
13:20.41ibotnini
13:20.41Leedsmight make me jump
13:22.12wethrinOhh.....that's quite nice of 3 to do that
13:24.36eyorei doubt they did it for "nice" reasons
13:24.44eyoreit's about time, it's been such a rip off
13:25.15murbLeeds: i notice you can roam for free in .hk with 3
13:25.22murbatleast for data.
13:33.46z00daxwethrin: morsing: if someone has space in a rack, i am interested.. dont need much b/w
13:41.39morsingz00dax: 6U?
13:41.54murbz00dax: how much power do you require?
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14:15.10goibhniuanyone running IE7 on wine?
14:16.15goibhniuI'm wondering if anyone has the internet options bit working ... it probably requires the whole UI tho ... just wanna enable cookies
14:22.35tarragonI have 5, 5.5 and 6 all fine with the ie4linux project
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14:47.16goibhniutarragon: yeah, it's great ... and you can install ie7 with that too but it's the ie7 engine inside ie6 so it's a little honky
14:47.31morsinggoibhniu!
14:47.57goibhniumorsing!
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14:51.05goibhniutarragon: webdev?
14:51.14morsingcatalyst!
14:51.31catalystmorsing!
15:07.10tripitakaI'm on MSN messenger, talking someone in Somalia through a network install which I have never tried before. Somewhat taxking.
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15:20.07wethrinARGGGGGHHHHHH
15:26.18tripitakait's taken me 12 minutes to get a successful `cat /etc/resolv.conf`
15:31.29popeyis mozrat still about?
15:31.38popeynot here, but in general LUG-wise?
15:32.10popeyhis beerandspeech.org home page seems down
15:32.17popeydid I miss something?
15:32.43antiphaseYour Mum was just here
15:32.58antiphaseShe said don't forget to wash your little soldier every day
15:33.00wethrintripitaka: Thanks :)
15:33.33wethrinpopey: He's sort-of hiding
15:34.03popeyoh
15:34.06wethrinAha. (Paul Lee)++ # making a point on the Gllug list which I've often made IRL
15:34.12popeythats a shame
15:34.22popeyhope he is ok
15:36.26wethrinI think he's doing alright
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15:56.14popeybah
15:56.56wethrinha ha!
16:02.33morsingGEORGE!
16:50.43wethrinThyme
16:52.01tarragonA guess or have you licked George as well?
16:53.27wethrinA guess
17:50.07goibhniucpufreak: windows is crap
17:51.26cpufreakwhy are you telling me that
17:52.11goibhniusorry, I had to tell someone, and I know you care
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18:22.15eyoreheh at last i have desktop effects working. lol
18:22.21eyorethis was a good use of my time!
18:22.45eyorehey it's great!
18:24.10goibhniueyore: yipee!!
18:24.22eyorelol, this is going to keep me entertained for hours
18:24.28goibhniuberyl?
18:24.36eyorecompiz
18:25.09goibhniuahh ... rockin!
18:27.00eyorelive the virtual desktop changing
18:27.30goibhniuI never used virtual desktops tbh ... I can't live without the wobble and transparency though
18:27.55goibhniuscale and window grouping are nice too, but I don't tend to have that many windows open at a time
18:27.57eyorebloody hell it does the osX expose stuff too
18:28.15goibhniuare you using gnome?
18:28.37eyoreyes
18:28.44eyorelol you can just drag a window round the cube
18:29.11goibhniuIf you're interested I've got a version of gnome-launch-box that I find polishes off things nicely
18:29.28goibhniujust hit ctrl+f1 and start typing to start an app .. or open a file
18:29.35goibhniuand it looks nice imo
18:30.25eyorei'm going to be stuck at work for another 30mins atleast now!
18:30.39goibhniu:D
18:32.18eyoreoh no! starting to feel sea sick
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18:34.15Copehullo
18:35.42cpufreaklo
18:35.44cpufreak:(
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18:42.16Copehello xotl
18:42.27eyorethis really is not too shabby at all. i prefer some of it to the osX effects
18:42.29xotlhi Cope
18:43.03Copeeyore: what is "this" /
18:43.05Cope?
18:43.08eyorecompi
18:43.09eyorez
18:43.32eyoreI know, i'm a bit late to the whole composite rendering on linux scene
18:43.38Copeoh... lots of poo
18:43.42eyorebut i finally got it working on a new graphics card
18:43.43xotlis it actually useful or is it just eye candy?
18:44.01eyoreit's just eye candy but actually it is damned good eye candy.
18:44.16xotlseems a bit like a gimmick to me
18:44.56eyoresure, although the basic not-redrawing window contents thing seems more like a bug fix for the last 15 years  of desktop computing.
18:45.27xotlwell thats something at least
18:45.29eyoremakes things feel a lot less hacky
18:45.45eyoreparicularly when moving windows over firefox etc,
18:46.29xotldon't suppose there are any mailing list admins around at the moment are there?
18:47.25xotlI want to announce the UK PHP conference, just thought I'd better check that its ok
18:54.41Copeno
18:54.52Copeunder no circumstances can we allow a uk php conference
18:55.16xotltarragon: my private msg was blocked cos my nick is not registered, but thanks I'll do that
18:55.18tarragon:-)
18:55.41xotlI'm nervous about the reaction from the Perl crowd
18:55.51xotl:-)
18:56.16Copelol
18:56.27tarragonNo need to be, PHP is as unsecure as perl !
18:56.58xotltarragon: you must have donned your asbestos suit :-)
18:57.06Copewell, expect to be flamed for advocating such a shoddy, insecure, badly implemented and inconsistent excuse for a vague attempt to produce something resembling a scripting language.
18:57.41Copeand now I must put children to bed
18:57.43tarragonNah, Perl can be secure sometimes...Oh you meant Php....
18:57.58xotlCope: you guys have to support it so its best to know your enemy
18:58.02xotltarragon: lol
18:58.46xotltarragon: would it also be ok to send a reminder out a couple of days before? not essential...
18:59.24tarragonYes Of course. It all depends on which admin is logged in at any particular time to clear down the spam
18:59.25xotlactually PHP is not that insecure itself
18:59.43xotltarragon: ok, sure thanks
19:00.03xotlits just PHP coders that write insecure code
19:00.42gw280compiz is a complete waste of time.
19:02.20xotlgw280: aren't you impressed by the wiggly windows?
19:02.29gw280xotl: no
19:02.39gw280xotl: I don't care much for eye candy
19:02.52gw280xotl: my desktop usually consists of a full screen konsole window
19:03.15xotlgw280: not a graphics guy, then
19:03.30xotlgw280: I hear you are a kde hacker
19:03.41gw280fsvo kde hacker
19:04.17xotlwhats fsvo?
19:04.23gw280ibot fsvo
19:04.32ibotwell, fsvo is For Some Value Of
19:05.00gw280s/Value/Variants
19:05.12xotluh, right. what do you work on?
19:05.17gw280nothing
19:05.28xotlused to work on...?
19:05.36gw280I refuse to disclose this information :P
19:06.17xotlI don't use kde so I wouldn't have any judgement about whatever you did work on anyway
19:06.45gw280I probably ought to do some work
19:06.49gw280but I'm ill
19:06.51gw280gah
19:07.36gw280tarragon: heh, I have lots of lemsip max I bought today
19:07.43gw280tarragon: I don't have a kettle though
19:08.11Copehello george
19:08.12xotljust drink it cold it'll still work
19:08.15gw280hi Cope
19:08.36gw280Cope: I failed physics
19:08.43Copebother
19:08.56gw280Cope: I reckon I got a 2.i/1 in maths and a 2.i/2.ii in compsci though
19:09.00Copeis that because you did absolutely no work?
19:09.04gw280Cope: yeah.
19:09.18gw280crazy thing is, I did the least work of all in maths
19:09.44Cope~seen stoatonaboat
19:10.10ibotCope: i haven't seen 'stoatonaboat'
19:10.11gw280right, I'm heading into college
19:10.12Copeok
19:22.21z00daxmurb: about 0.4Amps per U
19:34.11z00daxmorsing: all well ?
19:34.37morsingNot really
19:35.15z00daxdamn
19:43.30morsingDo you care?
19:50.03z00daxdepends on what it is
19:50.24z00daxis it a fun hack ?
20:16.19gregjhow would you guys recieve sentence "note to self"
20:20.55gregjyou wouldn't :>, rrrright
20:23.28gregjit sounds not okay to me, but google says something else.. so..
20:23.31gregjhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=note+to+self&defid=751160
20:35.14Leedsgregj: 'note to self' is normally a rhetorical device, used either when you want to tell someone something, but phrase it as telling yourself, or as a self-deprecating way of admitting a mistake
20:37.10Leedsfor example, you could say "note to self: drinking too much makes head hurt" when you're in the office in the morning, meaning either "oh, $COLLEAGUE, I see you had too much to drink last night and are now in pain" or "argh, I had too much to drink and I'm now in pain"
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21:49.48GundeWhat is a "French dinner"?
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23:02.00wethrinQuiet here tonight
23:02.26murbshoosh
23:07.04lonnbseems to be so ...
23:13.06adminjswhats happening
23:14.30wethrinI'm buying stuff from CPC
23:15.05psnloh, I failed to get back to you about that
23:15.32wethrinYes. Be very quick.
23:20.37adminjsare they cheap?
23:21.38rhowehmm
23:21.44wethrinDepends for what
23:21.45rhowenobody turned up to my social meet!
23:21.54wethrinAnd I'm getting it delivered to Durham
23:21.58wethrinThat was rubbish of them!
23:22.02rhowe(well, unless they were there for the suggested time, and didn't hang around for me to turn up)
23:22.05rhoweI was 40mins late
23:22.16wethrinSlacker
23:22.43z00daxwethrin: are you sure its CPC and not CDC :)
23:22.47z00daxrhowe: what social ?
23:22.56rhowez00dax: The one I posted to gllug-social this lunchtime
23:23.15z00daxalso, who all are going for tomorrows dc4420 meet ?
23:23.27rhowedc4420?
23:24.13z00daxhttp://www.dc4420.org/
23:24.31wethrinz00dax: Yes
23:24.35wethrinCPC/Farnell
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23:24.52z00daxwethrin: I have no idea who / what that is
23:25.02z00daxI know of a CDC that used to exist in the dark ages
23:26.09wethrinwww.cpc.co.uk
23:26.14wethrinSuppliers of everything
23:26.16Jasperwcult of the dead cow?
23:26.30z00daxJasperw: no, not that cdc - but i remember that cdc too
23:26.34wethrinYou might even be able to get Jurgen a new tin-foil hat :)
23:27.31z00daxhe needs one
23:28.20adminjsno i need a scanner
23:29.07z00daxdidnt know _that_
23:31.01wethrinI have some SCSI scanners at home
23:31.58z00daxscsi rfid scanners ?
23:32.12z00daxohhhhhhhhhhhh.. I bet they are faster than ide rfid scanners
23:32.15rhowez00dax: Even Counterpane is BT now :)
23:32.33wethrin:)
23:32.57z00daxcounterpane i knew about
23:33.13z00daxbtw, who is covering sgi's ass these days ?
23:34.24rhoweGoogle?
23:34.37rhowez00dax: Surely SGI is self-sufficient? :P)
23:36.04z00daxthey are under a finance controller at the moment
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23:56.12gw280lalala
23:56.35psnlgw280: drink more
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23:59.53gw280psnl: no
23:59.54gw280I'm ill

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