irclog2html for #gllug on 20070122

01:29.48wethrinhello
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01:31.26psnlhello wethrin
01:31.32psnlrack moved?
01:33.07wethrinpsnl: Yarr, and part-filled
01:33.27psnlgood good
01:33.57wethrinTook a bit of puff to get it up the stairs
01:34.17wethrinAnd at one point it landed on my leg, so it's now a bit painful to put too much weight on it
01:34.20psnlyeah
01:34.27psnls/ye/h/
01:34.34wethrin:)
01:34.51psnldo you have a buise the size of russia and the shape of poland?
01:35.04wethrinNo.
01:35.11psnldoing good then
01:35.29psnlI might go to bed
01:36.22wethrinAlthough the Ultra60 is mostly refusing to be racked properly :)
01:36.39wethrinAnd I had a little bit of trouble with your Alpha - I had to turn a shelf upside down
01:36.47psnlweird
01:38.15wethrinNot really - it's just a bit too wide
01:38.24wethrinBy all of around 1/4 inch
01:54.20wethrinpsnl?
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07:23.30psnlwethrin: slept
07:49.03morsingwethrin!
07:59.25sabinef72morning
07:59.34morsingsabinef72!
07:59.55sabinef72hi morsing
08:00.21morsingHow are you?
08:01.04sabinef72sleepyyyyyyyyyyyyy
08:01.06sabinef72ah ah
08:01.09morsing:(
08:01.11sabinef72I'm ok and you ?
08:01.14morsingibot wake sabinef72
08:01.19ibotACTION throws a barrel-full of ice water on sabinef72 and shouts "GOOD MORNING!!!!"
08:01.22morsingI'm good thanks :)
08:01.35sabinef72ice water... that is rude
08:02.58morsingI met this guy yesterday, completely by accident:
08:02.59morsinghttp://www.mongolbyminsk.com/
08:03.09morsingBut I'd already read his website :)
08:06.28morsingAnd Julie and Paddy bought a 244DL! (1976)
08:07.58sabinef72whaou
08:08.06sabinef72was it nice to talk with him ?
08:09.02morsingYes - he was really cool :)
08:09.42sabinef72did he write a book after his trip ?
08:09.51morsingHe hasn't done it yet
08:09.59morsingDoing it in June if all goes well
08:10.13morsingI don't know if he's going to write a ook
08:10.16morsingbook
08:12.04sabinef72ohhhhhhh he will do it soon right ?
08:12.16sabinef72I understand now
08:13.49morsingYes
08:18.11sabinef72I'll add his page in my bookmarks
08:52.29morsingSo, what are you doing today?
08:56.54sabinef72I'll see a man who is living in Buenos Aires. He is in holidays in Paris for few days.
08:57.01sabinef72then I'll have a spanish lesson
08:57.29sabinef72and tonight a friend of mine will come at home for sleeping (because she has to take a train near my home tomorrow morning)
08:57.39sabinef72so it will be a "women evening"
08:57.53sabinef72and you ?
09:02.18morsingOhh... Cool, when I'm going to California next month I'm also sleeping over at Robin and Carly's because they're much closer to the airport
09:02.37morsingI'm not doing much today or this evening. Cleaning at home tonight
09:03.04morsingRobin is coming over for a "Guy's night" tomorrow evening. We have never done that before :)
09:05.22sabinef72héhé
09:05.36sabinef72you never tell me that you'll go in california next month
09:05.42sabinef72for your work or holidays ?
09:08.52morsingHoliday
09:09.05morsingWhat do you actually type when I get this:
09:09.06morsinghéhé
09:09.07morsing?
09:13.03sabinef72how to explain
09:13.41sabinef72phearless: helpppppppppppppp
09:13.49sabinef72it's a sound
09:14.42BlaptoMorning
09:16.56morsingBlapto!
09:17.11morsingsabinef72: No, you don't really type that do you?
09:17.19morsingWhat keys do you hit to get that?
09:20.05sabinef72utf-8
09:20.18morsingHmm...
09:20.19sabinef72and é è ê are often use  in french language
09:20.28morsingé è ê
09:20.35morsingWeird
09:21.41sabinef72yes
09:21.56sabinef72and we also have à and ç
09:22.12sabinef72and î and ï
09:27.25morsingI'm confused. I don't think you're actually typing what I see...
09:27.39sabinef72arf
09:27.42sabinef72possible
09:27.49sabinef72aren't you using utf8 ?
09:27.55morsingDon't know
09:27.59morsingHow do I find out?
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09:29.12sabinef72héhé
09:29.16sabinef72is it better ?
09:29.35morsingrobo_ro!
09:29.37robo_romornin
09:29.37morsingNo
09:29.42morsingStill look crap
09:29.46sabinef72damn
09:35.12tarragonmorsing you typed h then e with an acute accent, h then another e with an acute accent.
09:35.29morsingRight, well that's nothing like what I see here
09:35.37sabinef72thanks tarragon
09:36.38morsingThis is what I see but I don't know what you're seeing now:
09:36.39morsinghttp://www.morsing.cc/weird
09:37.18tarragonYes, that is what is on the screen here
09:37.36morsingRight, your systems must translate it then
09:37.41morsingHmm...
09:38.16sabinef72I can read your page
09:38.17sabinef72it's ok
09:39.01tarragonThe only word in English that I can think of that uses the acute accent is in "café"
09:39.41morsingNow, I see copyright characters and stuff in there!
09:40.02morsingAnd when Sabine types I get registered trademark symbols
09:40.04morsingand whatnot
09:40.14morsingHow do I show you this?
09:40.58tarragonOK, what distro and what IRC client are you using?
09:42.05morsingDebian and irssi
09:43.56tarragonOn your irssi menu what do you have under settings/encoding
09:44.03morsingBut I'm coming from Windows using Putty
09:44.16morsingirssi doesn't have menus
09:45.28morsingI'm using screen as well
09:45.44tarragonSorry, my fault, my console does. What language set are you using on the Windows box?
09:46.31morsingJust changed Putty to UTF-8
09:46.34morsingTry again
09:46.46tarragon<PROTECTED>
09:46.53morsingHey nice :)
09:47.19morsinge with an acute accent
09:47.22morsingRight?
09:47.29tarragonYes
09:47.35morsingsabinef72: Type that haOhaO thing again
09:48.12sabinef72héhé
09:48.57morsing:)
09:48.59morsingMuch better
09:49.21tarragonFound another word that has two of them "résumé"
09:49.34morsing:)
09:49.40sabinef72so I said that in french, we use : é è ê î ï ç à
09:49.44morsingYes
09:49.47morsingWorks now
09:49.48sabinef72ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
09:49.59sabinef72I also forget ù
09:54.05tarragonYes we stole those words from French. They are our words now and we will not give them back ;-)
09:54.26sabinef72lol
09:54.42sabinef72but we have many english words too
09:54.47sabinef72perhaps we could deal them
09:54.52morsingsabinef72: Like Cafe?
09:54.59sabinef72café
09:55.01sabinef72résumé
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09:55.06morsingSlayerXP!
09:55.16morsingSlayerXP: Lend us a norwegian word
09:55.25SlayerXPgjenbrukstorg
09:55.36sabinef72that's really really weird
09:55.58morsingIs it?
09:56.19morsingNot like Ordinateur or whatever it's called?
09:56.36sabinef72computer !
09:56.44morsingYes!
09:57.22sabinef72and on every machine, we have your "on" and "off"
09:57.58morsingOmbudsman
09:58.09sabinef72well I really have to go now
09:58.10sabinef72see ya
09:58.22morsingBye
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10:10.49z00daxa friend looking for a job, with a lot of DC experience is considering doing the Veritas certification course..
10:10.53z00daxgood idea / bad idea ?
10:13.40morsingflips_and_rails!
10:13.42morsingz00dax!
10:19.06morsingIs there a safe way of creating a webpage where people can change their htaccess password?
10:22.08bilarhumm... why wouldn't there be? :)
10:22.33bilarhcgi script which produces a form which calls a setuid binary perhaps
10:22.44bilarhon top of https
10:23.01antiphasesetuid for htaccess?
10:23.04z00daxmorsing: you didnt send me that email, i take it you are no longer interested
10:23.44bilarhantiphase: no, i thought you could create a separate setuid program that validates the input and then changes the password accordingly
10:24.04antiphaseKISS, fool ;)
10:24.24bilarhor actually, does it need to be setuid anyway?
10:24.32bilarhwho owns the .htpasswd file? :)
10:26.15wethrinmorning
10:26.32psnlwhat did you want?
10:29.39wethrin$othernet
10:31.49morsingz00dax: I am but can do absolutely nothing until Enom responds to my request
10:31.52morsingI'm stuck
10:32.19morsingwethrin!
10:32.21z00daxmorsing: ok, let me know later then. the offer is still open
10:32.30psnlwethrin: heard from bluelinux?
10:32.39morsingz00dax: It will take months before I can change the pointers
10:32.57morsingpsnl: Yes we have
10:34.25wethrinpsnl: Aye
10:35.47psnlcan I see it?
10:39.05morsingNo
10:39.10morsingIt's top secret
10:39.21psnlcool
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11:25.25morsinggoibhniu!
11:25.27morsingasht_007!
11:27.59goibhniumorsing! check yourself!
11:33.02morsingBeer
11:36.47goibhniumushrooms!
11:39.14boudiccaspsnl; every time i see your nick, my brain converts it to 'police service of northern ireland', which leads to some confusion at my end! :o)
11:43.57bilarhfolks, how bad is it to run two simultaneous rsyncs on a directory with lots of files? E.g. if I start an rsync, sleep for a while and start another rsync on the same directory, will bad things happen (such as the same file being transferred twice, rsync crapping out etc)?
11:44.44bilarhor, is rsync clever enough to realise that it shouldn't transfer a file (i.e. does it build a list of files to transfer when it is instantiated, or is it done dynamically as it goes along)?
11:44.44boudiccasbilarh; use rsnapshot for rsyncing or backup
11:46.43bilarhI think I have to use rsync for various reasons, unfortunately :(
11:49.11bilarhas a separate issue, isn't the name "rsnapshot" a bit misleading if it  uses rsync, as it's a snaaaaaaapshot if there are files to transfer, i.e the files are copied over a period of time, during which time there may be modifications to files that have already been copied
11:49.19bilarh?
11:53.19haliisn't a snapshot a point in time?
11:53.28bilarhyeah that's what i mean
11:53.40haliso the concept works fine... the transfer is initiated at 9.15 and a file is changed at 9.16 ... the file changed at 9.16 should not be included
11:53.41bilarhbut this transfer is taking place over a period of time :)
11:53.45haliwhich it isn't as far as i know
11:53.45bilarhso it's not a snapshot :)
11:53.49haliwell, it is
11:54.00haliyou can add a lvm snapshot
11:54.10bilarhno, if you say "here's a snapshot of this directory at 9:15am"
11:54.22bilarhthen you should receive the files exactly as they were at that time
11:54.29halii take my lvm snapshot, fuse mount that under /dog .. sync that
11:54.31bilarhbut it's not possible with a user land tool
11:54.36halisure it is
11:55.14haliyou can do lvm snapshot as a user, and mount it a fuse
11:55.17bilarhyes i know, but what i'm saying is that the "rsnapshot" name is misleading as it's using an rsync which, as it takes longer than an instant to complete is not a snapshot
11:55.23bilarhalthough it might give the same results, most of the time
11:55.35bilarhyeah but the lvm snapshot is still sort of a kernel construct
11:55.43bilarhwhere-as rsync is pure userland
11:55.50haliok, fine
11:56.15bilarhah never mind, i'm not debating whether or not rsnapshot is any good, just the finer points (?) of the name :)
11:56.16halibut is there a problem with using kernel malachi to acheive this?
11:56.34bilarhyes, the problem is i have to use rsync :)
11:56.46haliok, that works fine
11:56.48haliIF
11:56.52haliyou use the lvm snapshot
11:57.00bilarhhehe :)
11:57.04haliat least if you HAVE to have a point in time snapshot
11:57.09bilarhno i don't
11:57.12halithen fine
11:57.16haliwhat are we arguing about?
11:57.23bilarhagain, i'm just saying that the name of rsnapshot is misleading
11:57.32bilarhffs, just agree and i'll shut up :)
11:57.33halipotato tomota
11:58.09cpufreakmmm potatoes
11:58.10cpufreak:)
11:58.21bilarhcpu: lunchie munchie?
11:58.25cpufreaksoon
11:58.50cpufreakhenrik: once i've finished removinga bunch of crap from nagios I can get you playing with the iscsi stuff downstairs if you want
11:59.09bilarhcool, i've got some stuff to do at the moment
11:59.30bilarhstuff != splitting hairs over the definition of a snapshot
12:00.04haliwe could try to define 'userland'
12:00.17haliis a kernel compiled sh userland?
12:00.28halii think some moron wrote a sh module
12:00.35halipops up on a tty when you load it
12:01.19bilarhwhat's an sh module?
12:01.25bilarhfor running sh?
12:01.26halish as in /bin/sh clone
12:01.36halibut written entirely as a kernel module
12:01.48haliit used 400 bytes less ram!
12:01.49bilarhcool
12:02.57halifuck i hate sybase :/
12:03.04halii've been demoted to sybase whore atm
12:05.40halii can still not understand why we run sybase on blades without san connectivity
12:05.52halidid someone say disk i/o contention?
12:06.00bilarhbecause banks + sybase = true? :)
12:06.14bilarhwe used to have some awful software
12:06.19bilarhit was from the mid 80's originally
12:06.23bilarhon novell
12:06.34bilarhand it had been ported to unix
12:06.48bilarhit ran as a dog
12:07.16bilarh200 users on a 6900 with 48 dual cores would kill the whole box
12:07.26bilarhspeaking of banks
12:08.00halisucky
12:08.10haliwe have 400+ users on 8-core 490's in a heavy j2ee app... and it isn't bad at all
12:08.17haliat least not when running jboss... webfear is worse
12:08.24bilarhour app was console based, but we automated it with expect :)
12:08.51haliscreen scraping ftw
12:10.29bilarhexpect is really cool though
12:10.29bilarhi hadn't used it before going there but it's fantastic
12:10.43bilarhi think i might automate my shell with it :)
12:11.09bilarhnow if someone could come up with an xexpect, that would be fantastic
12:14.04boudiccasrsnapshot is a backup program to another disc, which takes regular backups during the day, as specified in the config file and run by cron
12:14.32boudiccasit uses rsync
12:18.45bilarhhrm, i wish there was a way to specify a remote .emacs, fetched over say http or somethign so that i wouldn't have to keep copying mine across everywhere
12:20.34boudiccasbilarh; load screen and run emacs from that screen which you can esaily detach foranother machine
12:21.15bilarhhmm, but then i can't modify files on the computer i've logged in to
12:21.26bilarhand also, screen doesn't support X unfrotunately :(
12:21.41bilarhthat's another good project for someone, xscreen :)
12:21.57halihttp://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070122/sun_intel.html?.v=7 O_o
12:30.47bilarhhrm... how do you graciously handle lock files in bash?
12:30.56bilarhgiven that you can't use any semaphore's etc?
12:31.35bilarhand that a   if [ ! -f lockfile ]; then touch lockfile ; fi
12:31.40bilarhis not atomical?
12:32.07haliisn't that whole semaphore hack a bigger pain than gain?
12:32.38bilarhwell, with a semaphore you can guarantee that you're the only one doing the test and creation
12:33.10bilarhotherwise you might have a situation where process 1 checks if the file exists (which it doesn't) and then is swapped out
12:33.25bilarhp2 comes along and checks if the file is there and then creates it
12:33.30haliisn't it easier to use a database for things like that?
12:33.38bilarhp2 now goes to sleep and then p1 wakes up and thinks that it's locked
12:33.58bilarhwell, if you had a nice little "locker" it would be ok in shell too
12:34.10Erwinbilarh: I've seen symlinks used for that. i.e. you do ln -s "some info here" lockfile
12:34.11bilarhi wonder if you could invoke a bit of inline perl to create a semaphore :)
12:34.31bilarherwin: and check the return code of ln?
12:34.37Erwinbilarh: If the ln -s fails, then you can't acquire the lock because it's in use, if it succeeds, you got it. unfortunately you then have to be careful to add a trap to remove the lockfile if your shell script exits
12:34.41halii think that problem is more in the core design, you should be able to code around it, at least if you are doing something from scratch
12:34.52bilarherwin: clever, i like that idea :)
12:34.59haliand the lack of real file locks in unix is a feature
12:35.03haliyou have oplocks right
12:35.09bilarhhali: but somewhere along the line you'll have to deal with locking if you run concurrent scripts
12:35.27halii think you worked to long with that french guy
12:35.44bilarhumm, i had concurrency problems way before i worked with him :)
12:36.11bilarhit might work in 99.5% of cases to do the if [ ! -f b ]; then touch b
12:36.31bilarhbut, the 0.5% of times when ti doesn't it will be 3am and you've just got back from the pub
12:36.48halii can't say i've ever had that problem
12:36.51bilarhand then you'll have a slip of fingers and type reboot instead of pkill myprocess
12:37.28bilarhor more likely rtewbooot, which is equally unhelpful in that instance
13:21.21morsingNice
13:24.55morsingwethrin?
13:44.41morsingibot wake wethrin
13:44.52ibotACTION throws a barrel-full of ice water on wethrin and shouts "GOOD MORNING!!!!"
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13:47.14LeedsTreoevening all...
13:47.58goibhniuevening LeedsTreo ... back in HK?
13:48.56LeedsTreoyup - on the airport train right now... Sydney is fun, and I could have happily stayed longer, but it's good to be back
13:49.11morsingLeedsTreo!
13:49.18LeedsTreomorsing!
13:50.40goibhniuI heard the australian linux podcast about the conf ... it's a pretty bizarre podcast but the general vibe seemed to be good
13:51.11goibhniuis there much in the way of python gigs in Sydney?
13:51.19LeedsTreovery good vibe...
13:51.57LeedsTreodunno about Python in particular, but there seems to be decent amounts of Linux-type work...
13:52.13LeedsTreowas told by a Perl person that she's heard of Python demand
13:53.11goibhniuahh ... good, good .. but you're sticking with HK for now
13:53.45LeedsTreoif I can, yes... I like Sydney - still don't think I'd like to live there for very long
13:54.26LeedsTreoI do seem to have a contact at RedHat in Singapore now, though :-)
13:55.23goibhniunice one!
13:56.25LeedsTreoand it seems I'm going to be trying to get the scummvm palmos front-end working on at least *this* machine...
13:59.07LeedsTreo"This station is Kowloon"
14:15.37wethrinhello
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14:24.18Leedsah, home sweet mess
14:31.21wethrinBack in HK?
14:35.02Leedsyup
14:35.25Leeds6 months more tourist visa, after confirming that I'm not working at the moment
14:36.20Leedsfor, of course, some value of 'not working;
14:38.46wethrinOh?
14:41.48Leedsas a tourist, I couldn't possibly be in the process of completing a short contract for goibhniu
14:42.30wethrinheh
14:43.04Leedsand UK passports get a 6 month tourist visa - other westerners get 3 months
14:44.03Leedsgiven that I had a 6 month visa in October and went to Oz after 3 months of it, I was slightly prepared to be given a 3 month visa this time
14:46.24wethrinMm. That wasn't bad, then.
14:46.33wethrinSo what plans? Continue job-hunting in HK? Or move back here?
14:48.20Leedscontinue job-hunting for a while...
14:48.46LeedsI'm not planning to move back to the UK in any significant way at any point - obviously I'll be back, but not to work
14:49.30wethrinAny other places worthy of consideration for working?
14:49.35LeedsIsrael
14:49.37LeedsOz?
14:49.41LeedsSingapore...
14:49.46LeedsUS?
14:50.01wethrinfairrrnuff
14:50.20LeedsIsrael, most likely
14:51.17Leedshmm... given that I've not been torrenting... have I missed any particularly interesting TV stuff in the past week or two?
14:53.01wethrinMock The Week's made a comeback
14:53.12wethrinI haven't checked uknova for a couple of weeks, so don't know otherwise
14:54.17LeedsI could grab 'Channel 4 seeks headlines for racism', I suppose
14:58.29wethrinAhh. I've been mostly ignoring it. Mainly because the perpatrators are scummy cunts.
14:59.05Leedsbut surely it's the biggest news story in the UK for 2007?
14:59.43wethrinSadly, probably. Society--
14:59.53Leedsanyway, the point of the torrenting is also to test if the internet here is any faster than it was when I left... and it seems to be nice and fast right now
14:59.58wethrinright
15:00.08wethrin~change 95 USD to GBP
15:00.16Leeds1.97
15:01.04wethrinI know.
15:01.20Leedsit also seems reliable enough to stream audio, which it was failing to do when I left... guess they've fixed a cable or two
15:04.50wethrinthat's good
15:22.10morsingwethrin
15:22.11morsing!
15:22.31wethrinhi
15:27.58morsing:)
15:28.02morsingwethrin: How are you?
15:28.18wethrinI ought to go to the cleanroom and get a bit more work done
15:28.21morsingHave you lost any emails during the outage?
15:28.43wethrinI don't know. I don't think so, as I've got a 3rd MX record outside of our machines
15:28.57wethrinAnd even if I didn't, sending mailservers should queue email for up to 7 days
15:44.14morsingNice
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15:45.59robo_ro'lo
15:47.55SlayerXPwethrin: sending mail servers should queue email for up to however many days the administrator tells them too
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16:10.32morsingz00dax!
16:10.49z00daxmorsing: !
16:11.05Leedstesticles
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16:12.03morsingflips_and_rails!
16:37.38goibhniumorsing: what did you do to secretlondon?
16:37.51goibhniushe hasn't been around since the worst day of your life
16:46.42morsinggoibhniu: I ate her
16:47.16Leedsoo-er
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16:53.05Dick_Turpinboudiccas,
16:57.48morsingDick_Turpin!
16:58.58Dick_Turpinmorsing baby we is everyone?
16:59.48goibhniuhey Dick_Turpin ... morsing killed secretlondon
17:00.43Dick_Turpingoibhniu, Just the man, I wanted to speak with you
17:02.02goibhniuDick_Turpin: I didn't do it
17:02.41Dick_Turpingoibhniu, I've now got Beryl-snow however has anyone else ever seen square snow before?
17:03.21goibhniuyay!
17:03.30goibhniuyep ... the snow is crap innit
17:03.54goibhniuwhen you spin the cube it turns into little black squares
17:04.15goibhniuis it always just squares for you?
17:05.08Dick_Turpingoibhniu, Dunno I was so disappointed I switched it off quickly. I'll have a look
17:05.23goibhniuyou can change the image for the snow, perhaps it requires shaders?
17:06.11Dick_Turpingoibhniu, Snow stays the same for me
17:06.12goibhniuit's pretty crap anyway .. it would be nice if it got pushed around by the windows and shook up when you spin the cube ... like a little snow dome ornament
17:07.04Dick_Turpingoibhniu, I was under the impression any open window was supposed to shiver from the cold?
17:07.12goibhniuit just worked for me, so I don't know of any issues with it
17:07.41Dick_TurpinHave you seen the transparent cube?
17:07.45goibhniuoh!? shivering? I didn't leave it on for long
17:07.56goibhniuyeah transparent cube rocks
17:08.09Dick_Turpindo you have it?
17:08.13goibhniuwindow grouping rocks ... but it's still buggy
17:08.15goibhniusure
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17:08.31Dick_Turpingoibhniu, I dont seem to have it
17:09.06goibhniuhave you got beryl settings manager 0.1.4?
17:10.12goibhniuDesktop/Desktop Cube/Transparency
17:10.22Dick_Turpingoibhniu, Yeah after adding skynet repo
17:12.46Dick_Turpingoibhniu, You clever clogs althoug it makes my refresh run like a dog
17:13.35goibhniuit's a pity I only every have about 3 or 4 apps open ... I rarely use virtual desktops at all
17:14.10goibhniuyeah? feck ... maybe it's time for a new card?
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17:16.42Dick_Turpingoibhniu, The spinning cube is a godsend in a way Every new window I open on the next face when you click on it the panel the cube spins to the relevant desktop much better than max/min
17:18.12goibhniuyou kind of lose out on transparency if you've got em all on different desktops though?
17:18.59goibhniuI also find the short cuts for positioning windows on the screen pretty handy
17:19.06goibhniubetter than clicking and dragging
17:19.24goibhniuI think they're turned off by default?
17:20.35Dick_Turpingoibhniu, what if you could click through the transparancy tho? a bit like the stuff I've talked about before?
17:21.13goibhniuyeah .. tell me about that again ... I didn't get it
17:24.25Dick_Turpingoibhniu, OK lets say I have Firefox open and xchat, now think in 3D, I click on xchat and push it back um deep, behind. and drag Firefox to the front. this of course would do away with the cube as there would be no need.
17:24.26goibhniuI have no idea what that annotate plugin is about
17:25.24goibhniuok, so is it enough to be able to send a window to the background?
17:25.46goibhniulike with middle click on the title bar
17:26.39goibhniuor you want to drag one window through another ... with a kind of cross section view?
17:27.09goibhniuor perhaps scroll through the stacking order
17:27.42Dick_Turpingoibhniu, Think of twin head that gives you a wider view I'm thinking depth
17:30.15goibhniuhmmm...  so you've got three windows A,B,C with A at the front and C at the back
17:30.27goibhniuyou want to drag C to the front
17:30.42goibhniu?
17:31.46goibhniuor you want to kind of fly around in space and drag and drop windows as you go?
17:35.07Dick_Turpingoibhniu, Ah heres the neat idea when you send window A to the back it flips so that is edge-on like a book on a book shelf when you want it back as you pull it forwards it flips back to being face-up (normal) I could draw it but the nusrse has confiscated my crayons
17:36.32goibhniuahhh! ok ... I think I get it now
17:37.29goibhniuthat would be very nice ... you've tried project looking glass haven't you?
17:39.06Dick_Turpingoibhniu, So imagine your at your desk youve finished working out your disgusting profit you put the 'Calculator' at the top of the desk and pull the phone forward to call the punter
17:39.22Dick_TurpinTa da
17:39.48goibhniuyep .. sounds a bit like ... was it mindows? an early compiz dock
17:40.10goibhniuthere were various incarnations of it but it was considered too buggy for this world and got dumped iirc
17:40.30Dick_Turpingoibhniu, I looked at the looking glass wiki the other day but I don't have anything to put it on
17:41.17goibhniubasically you could create a custom type dock which showed live mini versions of your open windows but it was pretty flexible so I guess it wouldn't have taken much to implement your idea
17:41.28goibhniuoh, I thought you were telling me you tried it
17:42.07goibhniuI heard it's improved a lot recently ... it's may well have that feature ... it was designed from the ground up to make use of 3d space
17:42.42Dick_Turpingoibhniu, No I was giving the world my ideas for free but as usual somebody has already invented it
17:43.26goibhniuhttp://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/#
17:43.35goibhniuthat's it ... just like in your dream
17:43.52goibhniuat least now you don't have to implement it yourself
17:44.33Dick_Turpingoibhniu, I'm too enamered with my snow to look at anything else ;-)
17:45.07goibhniu:D go home ... your dinner's getting cold!
17:45.31Dick_Turpingoibhniu, I am at home, took the day off today :-)
17:46.06goibhniuoh .. ok then
17:47.21Dick_Turpingoibhniu, The power the power perks of middle management
17:49.29goibhniuI see ... just rewards after all those years of stamping on and climbing over the meek
17:50.09Dick_Turpingoibhniu, Ha the meek may well inherit the earth, its just we have it now thanks :-)
17:51.04goibhniuthere won't be much left by the time we're through with it anyway :D
17:51.47Dick_Turpingoibhniu, I'll be too dead to worry about it
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19:20.54morsingxotl!
19:21.17xotlhi morsing
19:23.41morsingHi
19:23.46morsingHow are you?
19:24.25xotlgood thanks
19:24.54xotlmorsing: how come you didn't go to australia with Leeds?
19:28.31morsingI'm poor
19:30.10xotldemand a payrise and declare it is essential to try out open-source segways for your professional development
19:36.13trousers_Ahhhhhh, long time no see :D
19:38.34secretlondonmorsing!
19:39.22morsingsecretlondon!
19:39.26morsingI missed you :)
19:39.47morsingxotl: My manager always moans that I'm paid too much
19:41.14antiphaseI thought segways were those crazy American 2 wheeled scooter things
19:41.22antiphaseBecause they can't spell "segue"
19:42.18trousers_Does anybody have an idea what my second talk about Linux should be about?
19:42.31xotlantiphase: they are, but they had one which was controlled by open source software at conf.au
19:45.22xotltrousers_: who are your audience
19:46.41trousers_xotl: A group of ~15-16 year old boys
19:47.01morsingtrousers_: Nice
19:47.07trousers_xotl: I started off with what Linux is etc. but I dunno if I should do some C, liveCDs etc. or something else
19:47.17xotltrousers_: is it an assessed thing for school or just an interest group or what?
19:47.32trousers_xotl: My own lunchtime club, so merely interest
19:48.18xotltrousers_: do something fun/interesting not instructional, otherwise no-one will come back
19:48.55trousers_xotl: Well, the first one had to be a bit I-tell-you-you-nod-your-head-esque, but now I have more freedom
19:49.29xotltrousers_: what constitutes fun depends on the people, so I guess you'll just have to judge that for yourself
19:50.21trousers_Mainly white, nerdy and intelligent :P I was thinking of doing a blitz C session and having a little code competition to test what they learnt.
19:50.32xotltrousers_: how about developing a little app? most ppl will think that is fun and also an incentive for ppl to come back to progress things
19:51.06trousers_xotl: Any idea what the app could be? I assume we're talking CLI here, but I want something a bit challenging
19:51.20trousers_Also, is there any way to actually measure efficiency, or runtime of a program?
19:51.30antiphaseTime it?
19:51.53trousers_antiphase: These programs will take less than a second, though, I would hope, and milliseconds count here
19:52.01xotltrousers_: just get one out of a book if i were you. I'd keep it simple unless you are preaching to the converted
19:52.35xotltrousers_: simple but not boring, though
19:52.38trousers_I do need to brush up a bit to make myself seem rather a master when I talk to them, too :D
19:52.44antiphaseIf it's that quick, it doesn't matter. You need something more complex, or just run it 1E6 times then divide the total time later
19:52.59trousers_antiphase: 1E6?
19:53.08trousers_Oh, the program, right
19:53.13antiphase1x10^6 = 1000000
19:53.18trousers_Yes yes.
19:53.48trousers_antiphase: Hmm, surely I could make a program that checks system clock, run program, check system clock, prints difference
19:53.56trousers_Or have them do it :D
19:54.45antiphaseYou can also do that, to nominally nanosecond accuracy typically, although in reality it will be somewhat less
19:55.20xotltrousers_: why do you want to check how long the thing takes?
19:55.36xotltrousers_: I assume its going to be 20 lines or soemthing
19:55.59trousers_xotl: I guess if it is that short I can just read it to check efficiency
19:56.40xotltrousers_: yes. if they are new to coding you won't get most ppl to write anything more, at leas initially
19:56.58xotltrousers_: most ppl will lose interst if they don't see restults quickly
19:57.34trousers_Argh, can't find my C bible to refer to :(
19:57.54xotltrousers_: are there any other organizers besides you?
19:58.19antiphaseWho needs bibles if you have internets?
19:59.11xotltrousers_: what are the attendees going to use? don't tell me your school has a load of linux workstations?
19:59.53trousers_xotl: No, I haven't quite got around that, so at the moment I'm stuck with literally hand written code :(
20:00.19trousers_xotl: My school will, when I do the presentation, have one Linux machine there, and that's MY laptop :(
20:00.28xotltrousers_: haha! what they are all sitting there writing the code on their paper pads?
20:00.43trousers_xotl: Maaaaaaaybe :(
20:00.57xotltrousers_: you have a tough sell there
20:01.21trousers_xotl: Yeah, but it's just something I have to deal with
20:01.27xotltrousers_: is your idea to start a group that will last or just do a couple of meets or what?
20:01.56trousers_xotl: Last, unfortunately, so I need some way to entice people further
20:02.21trousers_I had about 8 people for the debut :P
20:02.36xotltrousers_: in that case you could try and get a cs/physics teacher on your side
20:02.50trousers_xotl: Already done
20:03.06xotltrousers_: personally i absolutely loathed school, so I would never have done that, but that is prob your best bet.
20:03.22xotltrousers_: what has been his advice?
20:03.33trousers_xotl: Already have a physics teacher as the teacher fronting the club, but he hasn't had any advice yet, really
20:04.08xotltrousers_: sounds a bit useless. he could sell the meet to his students
20:04.40xotlget some sixth formers in as well who might get things going
20:04.47trousers_xotl: Maybe, maybe. But I have to have a teacher fronting it in order for it to be "legal" and he's probably the only teacher who has used Linux
20:04.55trousers_xotl: One or two sixth formers
20:05.40xotltrousers_: does he teach cs or just physics?
20:06.18trousers_xotl: We don't have CS at school, so physics
20:06.34trousers_There's also an IT techie who turns up
20:07.06xotlah. well anyway if you can't get it to work with that backing then it probably can't be got to work
20:07.27trousers_xotl: Indeed, but hopefully it will work :D
20:07.40xotlcould ask physics guy to install a load of linux vms
20:07.49trousers_xotl: On what?
20:08.00xotldont you have  a computer lab?
20:08.45trousers_xotl: Well, they're all screwed up to an extent, that is they're running administrative RM network software underneath and thusly only admins can install VM software and grants privs to all to run it etc.
20:09.33xotlwhat else are the computer techs doing all day? get the physics guy to get them to install it
20:09.38trousers_And unless you wanted all students to be able to screw up another's, then passwords would be required, which could probably be brute forced with a bit of time
20:10.06xotldon't see how that is any worse than what they have to deal with now
20:10.08trousers_xotl: I'll enquire about VMs, and hint that VMware player is free etc. :)
20:11.01xotlalso, the kind of ppl that turn up at the meet are at least slightly more responsible (I imagine) than most kids who use the lab
20:11.25xotli'd say thats definitely worth a shot
20:11.27trousers_xotl: Definitely, even in a grammar school there is chavvy scum and intelligent human :)
20:11.47xotli doubt you'll get ppl to keep coming unless they get to actually play around with stuff
20:12.31trousers_Well, that's another reason for a teacher -- I have no disciplinary rights :P
20:12.32xotli thought grammars existed to keep out the chavs
20:12.44trousers_xotl: People can always pass by luck ;)
20:13.28xotli doubt you'll have disciplinary probs. ppl who turn up to a linux meet at luchtime are prob genuinly interetsed
20:14.01xotlotherwise they would be out somewhere trying to smoke and not get caught
20:14.05trousers_Some of them do seem genuinely interested, and it seems most people interested in something that geeky would appreciate a bit of coding, too
20:14.48xotlyes, it is what most ppl are initially interested in i would have thought
20:15.05xotlis the teacher actually there in the meet with you?
20:15.20trousers_xotl: Indeed
20:15.25trousers_He can code in C, too
20:16.00xotlcan he really code in c? since it isnt his job then he'd have to do it in his spare time
20:16.21trousers_xotl: Previous job involved something OpenGL-y if I remember an old lesson correctly
20:16.38xotloh ok, so he want always a teacher?
20:16.43xotl*wasn't
20:17.04trousers_Indeed
20:17.28xotlcan't imagine why someone would think teaching was better, but there we are :-)
20:18.36xotli would say you really have to get those VMs installed otherwise no-one will come
20:18.48xotlgood luck with it anyway
20:20.29trousers_Cheers
20:23.31morsingCheck it!
20:26.09z00daxanyone know why I might loose all windows borders using compiz ?
20:26.09z00dax( this is gnome btw )
20:32.15halican anyone recommend a good hifi shop in london?
20:32.36secretlondonhali: what counts as "good"?
20:32.52halisecretlondon: well, not pioneer and sony home cinema stuff
20:33.20halia shop with some b&w stuff, perhaps some musical fidelity, meridian, cyris, arcam etc
20:33.26halicyrus*
20:33.40halinope, not richer :)
20:34.07haliit seems that all "real" shops require you to be at least 45, filthy rich and listen to elevator music
20:35.26secretlondonto be honest i've always reckon hifi is a lot of snake oil - some real quackery out there
20:35.39haliit is a lot aof snake oil
20:35.57secretlondonseveral grand for a cone that may alter wave forms - whatever they do to earn their money it doesn't involve physics ;0
20:35.58hali£30k power cables and shakti stones for one :)
20:36.27halior that 2W tube with super high distortion, retails at £80k
20:36.33halitube amp*
20:37.15halibut i don't mind kit that sounds good, and vendors that can show measurements to back up their claims
20:45.17morsinghttp://www.morsing.cc/billed.php?STED=Sydney-2002
20:49.47serrishi all
20:49.58secretlondonhi serris
20:51.08morsingserris!
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21:17.23catalystheyo
21:28.41morsingAm I really that boring?
21:31.59morsingcatalyst?
21:34.32catalystnah :)
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21:54.13wethrinpeople!
21:54.59secretlondonwethrin!
21:55.05secretlondoni've 6 mins left alas
21:55.23wethrinBoo!
21:55.26wethrinhow's life?
21:55.55secretlondonokay but a tad snotty
21:56.03wethrinick :-/
21:56.17secretlondoncan't get wifi on ancient stinkpad working either
21:56.23secretlondonstill tsuck in net cafe
21:56.33wethrinHave you found a working access point, then?
21:57.02secretlondonthe person who runs the shop on the other side of the road has found one, and the librray claims to have free wifi
21:57.09secretlondoni just need to get laptop working
21:57.46wethrinAh. Trouble with drivers?
21:57.57secretlondonyeah its zd1201
21:58.21secretlondonfinally found that there is a linux driver project - was trying with ndiswrapper but it didn';t work
21:58.35secretlondoneven tried with windows but was tempremental :(
21:58.35wethrinOpenBSD! :)
21:58.38secretlondonindeed
21:58.59secretlondonbut don't think it supoorts it - otherwise i'd run it (that machine used to have openbsd on it)
21:59.14wethrinhm. It does support quite a lot of stuff
21:59.35secretlondoni may try again
21:59.40secretlondon2 mins left - whaa
21:59.58wethrinboh. Want a shell account on hades? 'twill make it better ot IRC
22:00.05secretlondonyes pls
22:00.16secretlondonsorry about the missing console cable :(
22:00.30wethrinNo problem
22:00.35wethrinIt wouldn't have fitted in there anyway
22:00.37secretlondon1 min
22:00.39secretlondonokay
22:00.42secretlondonbetter go
22:00.52wethrinErr. Catch me at some later point and I'll set an account up
22:00.53wethrinLater!
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22:15.57wethrinwhatup!
22:16.23mikejw:D
22:16.39mikejwlooking for a beginner's guide to web development with python :/
22:17.10mikejwwell perusing offical documentation for the time being
22:18.05wethrinHeh
22:40.44mikejwhmm
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23:28.01wethrinStill works for me
23:32.27murbwethrin: cleary your cache.
23:32.29z00dax£60 for fosdem - that would be a good thing if someone can really pull that off
23:32.38z00daxwhats wrong with google.de ?
23:32.51murbthe host it is pointing is being pretty effectively DoSed.
23:32.59murbz00dax: appears to have been hijacked.
23:33.09z00daxare you sure you the spelling right ?
23:33.12Leedsyup, it appears I am now a fully paid-up member of Linux Australia, the national umbrella org :-)
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23:33.27murbLeeds: does it rain a lot?
23:33.39murbLeeds: i hope nobody mentioned cricket.
23:33.49z00daxgoogle.de seems fine to me
23:34.23wethrinmurb: I blame Blackcat
23:34.31murbi blame the weather.
23:34.36murbwethrin: what for?
23:34.41wethrinFor caching DNS
23:34.54wethrin(Look at Dom's comment of 23:30)
23:35.00wethrinMmm....curry
23:35.09Leedspeople did mention cricket, yes
23:35.15wethrinz00dax: £60 is good - doable if you take coaches, etc.
23:35.35z00daxand drink water and only eat at Macdonalds ?
23:36.09z00daxlast year the Sat Dinner turned out to be £180
23:36.13wethrinMcD is expensive
23:36.16wethrinEek! Where did you eat?
23:36.23z00daxbut there were 8 of us
23:36.51z00daxwethrin: dont remember the name .... but it was a very nice Restaurant on the canal banks in Ghent
23:36.54z00daxGent ?
23:37.27Leedsz00dax: oh, you mean £30 per head?
23:37.45wethrinoh, you went to weird cities
23:37.53z00daxLeeds: there abouts... we were at the place for almost 3 hrs, so much liquids were consumed
23:38.14z00daxexcept the guys who were driving, and the others who were arguing about openpkg v/s proper pkgs
23:38.43wethrin£30/head isn't bad
23:39.19z00daxhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/BelfortGent.JPG
23:39.39z00daxwe ate at the place just on the canal bridge :)
23:39.45wethrinhow're you getting to fosdem this year?
23:39.51z00daxeurostar
23:40.07wethrinWhat time?
23:40.18z00daxwas going on Thursday, but work issues mean cant leave before Friday, so ETA is midday Friday
23:41.06wethrinAhha. 1240 train, then?
23:41.10wethrinLike lots of us will take?
23:41.35z00dax10:20am i believe
23:41.35z00daxthat gets in at 12:05
23:41.58wethrin1043?
23:42.12wethrinAh, sorry. ETA. Not ETD.
23:42.20z00daxah maybe that one then, not sure about details on ETD, i know ETA is 12:05
23:42.26z00dax( will be hoping on at ashford )
23:42.39wethrinoh. Mad people.
23:42.48z00dax:D
23:42.52wethrinI'll be seeing you at the Roy, then
23:42.57z00daxI will see everyone in the evening at the Roy!
23:42.59z00daxoh yes
23:43.12z00daxthis time I know where it is!
23:44.17z00daxI hear its great out there, I want to make it for LCA sometime
23:44.24z00daxthis year, its going to be Fosdem and OLS I think
23:46.40Leedsfrom what I know, I'd sat OLS and LCA probably rank together, with FOSDEM leading the rest of the pack
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