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02:40.10rhowewtf?! http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110083483658&indexURL=0
02:47.09Leedsfar far too much money on their hands
02:48.30rhoweFar too many NES games on their hands, that's for sure :)
02:48.54LeedsI meant the bidders :-)
02:49.27rhoweheh, them too
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05:43.20morsingLeeds!
06:52.18trousers_morsing!
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07:04.03Leedschr1s!
07:08.06morsingtrousers_!
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07:26.44morsingwethrin_!
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07:29.41morsingHas anyone here heard of this thing called the Internet?!?
07:29.49morsingApparently it's the latest thing
07:30.54LeedsI'm sure gregj_ knows all about it
07:31.32morsinggregj_: Explain please?
07:31.49trousers_*I* heard it's a series of tubes :)
07:32.16morsingThere's something on it called DVDs it says here
07:32.29sabinef72hello
07:32.32morsingsabinef72!
07:32.43morsingsabinef72: How does the Internet work?
07:32.54sabinef72seems ok today
07:33.37sabinef72heyyyyyy that is a big attack !!!!!
07:33.40morsing:)
07:33.49Leedsmorsing: leave her alone - you don't know where she's been!
07:33.55morsing*yuck*
07:34.34sabinef72lol
07:34.39trousers_To the school, Batman!
07:34.51z00daxsabinef72: India rocks!
07:34.53morsingz00dax!
07:35.01z00daxmorsing: !
07:35.04Leedsz00dax: curry!
07:35.13z00daxLeeds: and that :)
07:35.14Leedsmorsing: you've lost your trousers_
07:35.25sabinef72z00dax: oh oh I want to be in India !!!!!!!
07:35.41z00daxsabinef72: attach yourself to an email and come on over
07:35.53sabinef72z00dax: ah ah !
07:36.22sabinef72z00dax: you should go to the postoffice and say them, I'm not happy because I never received the postcard !
07:36.44z00daxsabinef72: I will send you another one - on Friday
07:36.52z00daxi think your address is still here with me
07:37.04Leedsz00dax: <smug>*I* managed to send one</smug>
07:37.55z00daxyay!
07:38.10sabinef72don't listen Leeds
07:39.01z00daxLeeds: in py if i do a open(foo).read() - do i need to worry about closing the file ? or will it autoclose since there is really no handler attached to the open ?
07:39.07sabinef72well guys, I have to run to funeral now. See ya
07:39.11z00daxthat didnt quite sound right, but it might make sense
07:39.18z00daxsabinef72: oh! c u l8r
07:39.45Leedssabinef72: uh... not enjoy
07:40.33Leedsz00dax: nope, it'll all be collected nice and quickly - it's a standard technique for just grabbing the contents of a file
07:40.34z00daxis what i thought, thanks
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07:53.00morsingPuss1nB00ts!
08:09.44Leedshmm... that's the first job ad I've seen mention Ubuntu
08:09.47Leedshttp://www.crossia.com/ViewJobPost.jhtml?id=13804
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08:59.19LeedsSlayerXP: what's it all about, when you boil it down to the basics?
08:59.29SlayerXPLeeds: sex & death
08:59.42Leedstogether?
09:00.18SlayerXPthaqt's not recommended, no
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09:38.10mumpererMorning gllug
09:41.08mumpererI am trying to recall who it was who, while I was sick, offered to accompany my scanner and I into communication and activity. I think I recall apologising but not, sad to say, who to!
09:43.10mumpererIf the offer still stands I'd be pleased to know. :)
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10:25.02morsinggoibhniu!
10:26.06goibhniumorsing! gnotime is doing my head in ... how should I keep track of the time I'm wasting?
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10:53.52bilarhffs, i've managed to lose my console on the v40z sp
10:53.56bilarhah, false alarm, there it is
10:54.02bilarhit jsut took a minute to show any output in the bios :)
10:55.59bilarhgoibhniu: i'm using gnome time now.. it's excellent :D
10:57.49bilarhmind, i don't use it for time tracking, just for keeping notes about current tasks
10:57.57bilarhinstead of writing it all down on paper
10:58.13goibhniubilarh: I was just about to hug you and everything :(
10:58.28bilarhdang :(
10:58.33goibhniuI'd really like all that reporting jazz
10:58.56goibhniuI want to punch in and punch out ... and exporting to invoices would be nice
10:59.34bilarhah, yeah but i think it does stuff like that doesn't it?
10:59.46bilarhdon't know how good it is for that though because i don't use those functions
10:59.55bilarhtbh, it's a little bit buggy, but it does what i want
11:00.00goibhniubilarh: cool ... I'll have a look, I haven't tried
11:00.18goibhniuis it maintained?
11:00.21bilarhthe best bit is that i don't have to save my notes, as it's all done automagically for me
11:00.24bilarhdont know :)
11:01.00bilarhlatest release in sept 2005, so it seems it's not :)
11:01.16goibhniuahh ... it's the same thing :D
11:01.26bilarhhrm, i might have to  hack together some perl/tk stuff for this
11:01.27goibhniugnotime :D
11:01.31bilarhyeah that's the one
11:02.42goibhniumine doesn't let me edit times at the moment, my c is poor to non-existant but maybe I should try poking at it
11:03.22goibhniuor scheme even
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11:43.37gregjhttp://fun.noshit.pl/DIR-2007.01.31/9107f0778de9.jpg
11:50.13goibhniubilarh: sorted ... gentoo hasn't updated to the "latest" version ... 2.2.2 works fine ... phew!
11:53.22bilarhah, great
11:53.44bilarhffs. sometimes i get really fed up with linux
11:53.45catalystgoibhniu: that sounds entirely unlike gentoo
11:53.56bilarhbloody thing always messes me around with the ordering of NIC's
11:54.07bilarhit's one for PXE and a completely different order once linux has booted
11:54.27bilarhbring back bsd style network interface names :)
11:55.20halii'd prefer device location names
11:55.31halilike you have for luns/disks in solaris
11:55.39halic5t2d0s1 etc
11:55.49goibhniucatalyst: do you know how to request a package be added to the tree?
11:56.14catalystgoibhniu: got no idea, I assume there are maintainers for that sort of thing though
11:56.41catalystI stopped using gentoo a while ago when I got bored of waiting for things to compile :)
11:57.29wethrin_hello
11:57.29halibilarh: you can hard code ethernet ordering with kernel parameters if you _really_ want to make sure though
11:58.09goibhniucatalyst: me too .. then I got a new machine :D ... I find it's very easy to maintain .. my other systems are ubuntu which I find quite fiddly (ironically I guess)
11:58.28catalystheh :)
11:59.08bilarhhali: yeah that would be cool too
11:59.46halisomething like, c0p1v1 ... controller 0, port 1, vlan 1
12:00.28bilarhhrm.
12:00.49bilarhi think something that maps to the actual bus it's connected to
12:01.10bilarhlike four port pci nic in slot 2 could be
12:01.22bilarhnic2.0, nic2.1 etc
12:01.36bilarhbecause that way it's always constant
12:01.57antiphaseudev
12:02.31bilarhdoes that actually have constant names?
12:05.06antiphaseYou can create rules that make it do things I believe. I haven't ever needed to myself though
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12:10.31haliyes, udev can use the iftab_helper thing to assign consistant names, but that's not available when installing ...
12:11.15haliit uses /etc/iftab with entries like "eth0      mac 00:c0:ff:ee:00:00"
12:12.12phearlesshello folks
12:15.35antiphaseNon-availability while installing seems a bit nit picky to me. I quite often find myself next to the machine in question when installing the OS
12:15.56antiphaseIf you use the BIOS to assign resources, you might find it fixes itself anyway
12:17.54spunglesof course you could just trunk all the vlans a host needs to all it's eth port
12:18.07spunglesthereby not bothering with port/vlan shite
12:55.37bilarhwell, the problem is that if you have a number of network cards in the box
12:55.48bilarhwhen you pxe boot, it will try to boot from the first netwrok device
12:56.03bilarhbut when linux comes up, there's no good way to determine what that network device was
12:56.11bilarhas it may be anything from eth0 to eth5 in my case
12:56.18bilarhso it stops kickstart working
12:56.21bilarhseamlessly
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12:59.46n3llyb0ya very good afternoon to you all
13:04.43n3llyb0yI am looking for a way to purposely fragment data on a WinXP box (other than run windows for several months). Anyone have an idea how this could be achieved using Linux tools?
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13:06.21Copehello all
13:08.59SlayerXPn3llyb0y: create an awful lot of little files, delete half, create one big file. rinse, repeat.
13:10.05n3llyb0yThanks Slayer. For the Benefit of cope:  am looking for a way to purposely fragment data on a WinXP box (other than run windows for several months). Anyone have an idea how this could be achieved using Linux tools?
13:10.09Copeoh and fwiw hello mart
13:10.41SlayerXPn3llyb0y: create an awful lot of little files, delete half, create one big file. rinse, repeat.
13:10.53n3llyb0yThanks SlayerXP
13:11.10n3llyb0yI was thinking more about direct manipulation of existing data
13:11.20n3llyb0ybut I see what you are saying
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13:16.56dick_turpinmorsing:
13:34.18morsingdick_turpin!
13:36.19dick_turpinmorsing: How's the nagios going?
13:39.36dick_turpinI have it up and running but I'm totally baffled as to how seeing as I only did a quater of the config, my timeperiod.cfg (and others) are empty yet Nagios is giving times etc
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13:56.46bilarhanyone wanna buy a dell gx280
13:56.52bilarhwith 40gig sata and dvd/cdrw?
13:59.40Copei have one under my desk
14:00.03bilarhwant another one? :)
14:00.12Copeno, i have enough doorstops
14:00.56bilarhit's a good machine, though :)
14:00.59dick_turpinbilarh: What you asking? (I'm not buying by the way)
14:00.59bilarhp4 2.8ghz i think
14:01.02bilarhwith 1gb
14:01.07bilarhi don't know really
14:01.14bilarhround 120 quid?
14:01.43bilarhthey seem to be going around that on ebay by the looks of it
14:01.49bilarhbut i can't be arsed with ebay
14:01.52bilarhtoo much hassle listing :)
14:02.01bilarhi'd much rather spam gllug :)
14:02.12dick_turpinbilarh: S'good price I can get same spec (Trade) for about £140-£150 through my refurb suppliers
14:02.37Copei may, however, be in the market for a laptop; am currently using a dell latitude d400, and may want something of similar size
14:03.13dick_turpinCope: D600 any good?
14:03.27bilarhi've got a c400 but i'm not sure if i want to sell
14:03.33bilarhit may be slower than your d400 anyway
14:03.43bilarhoh and the cdrom is broken, so not worth your while anyway :)
14:03.46Copenot used one before... is it big? it needs to be pretty small
14:03.52Copeteh d600 i mean
14:04.05Copeit needs to be usesable in small spaces
14:04.26dick_turpin14.1 screen I'll check the spec
14:04.26bilarhhrm... i wonder what I just accepted in my kickstart install
14:04.33bilarhthe serial console was blank and i pressed enter
14:04.37bilarhand now it's installing loads of crap
14:04.48bilarhit must have been the "install crap (Y/N)" optino
14:05.11Copei find my d400 is a good size; i'd like one that could do a better screen res that 1024x768
14:05.11Copebut is of similar size
14:08.07dick_turpinCope: Ah the D400 should be a 12" display
14:08.41Copetis
14:08.49Cope12" display at 1024x768
14:09.27Copebut the actual machine is handily small: 11.6 (W) x 9.6 (D) x 1 (H)
14:09.54Copevery good for on trains with miniscule amount of space
14:11.13dick_turpinCope: A rich bloke like you should get himself a FlyBook
14:12.45dick_turpinCope: http://www.flybook.uk.com/
14:14.00Copethey look a bit silly really :)
14:14.28Copebut kinda cute I suppose
14:14.53dick_turpinCope: Not as silly as a bit of chalk and a slate boord :-)
14:15.05dick_turpinboard even
14:15.27Copehehe
14:38.43tripitakahas anyone tried xen on rhel5 yet?
14:38.48trousers_Afternoon
14:39.20boudiccastripitaka; is rhel 5 out yet or is it just the betas?
14:39.26tripitakabeta
14:39.53tripitakathe official release is going to be a while
14:39.53boudiccasah ha. then no one can[strictly] answer your question :o)
14:40.03trousers_Cope: You use your laptop on the train? Whenever I'm on the train I don't use my laptop due to fear of mugging.
14:40.17tripitakaheh, lord forbid one should use unsupported software!
14:40.32boudiccastripitaka; i run centos :)
14:41.02tripitakame too, sometimes, good system
14:41.19tripitakagot tired of fedora updates breaking things
14:41.54boudiccasi think they've shot themsleves in the foot though, by saying that beta 5 would be out by the end of january
14:41.56tripitakathere's no centos 5beta yet
14:42.02trousers_Big Debian updates always seemed to break things for me, too
14:42.32boudiccashere we are at the end of january and no beta 5 publicly released
14:43.00boudiccasi phrase it like that because karanbir has been running the beta 5 for some time
14:43.21tripitakait's on the normal RHN download page, at the bottom, just below RHEL2
14:43.50boudiccasi'm sticking with centos because it just works so well
14:44.22trousers_boudiccas: CentOS does work nicely, I must admint
14:44.25trousers_s/nt/t/
14:44.32trousers_Argh
14:44.46boudiccasso much for sutomised corrections :)
14:44.52boudiccas*automised
14:44.58trousers_:)
14:45.28boudiccasit surprises me how long i've been running it with no real problems caused by it
14:45.41trousers_SlayerXP: Admittedly I only ran it a bit, but I personally stumbled upon almost nothing bad with it
14:45.56tripitakaupdate stability is good too for RHEL/centos
14:45.58boudiccaswhatever i sling at it, it either works or it doesn't and if it doesn't then i just live with it and move on
14:46.19trousers_A bit general :S
14:46.53boudiccasvene vidi vici
14:47.05trousers_Is incorrect Latin
14:47.16boudiccasso what should it be?
14:47.47SlayerXPvene vermi vomui
14:47.53SlayerXPI came, I got ratted, I threw up
14:48.00boudiccaslol
14:48.59boudiccastrousers_; if you say its incorrect, then people assume that you know what the correct version is, so, what is it?
14:49.07SlayerXPvene vidi vamoosi
14:49.10trousers_I'm Googling... Give me a second
14:49.12SlayerXPI came, I saw, I ran away
14:49.34trousers_Back when I did Latin my teacher told me the correct version, but I can't remember
14:50.08antiphaseProbably the correct conjugation of fugere, to flee
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14:50.41trousers_Argh, can't find it :(
14:50.47boudiccasven vidi velcro .... i came, i saw, i stuck with it
14:50.56boudiccas*vene
14:50.58trousers_Very slick
14:51.44boudiccasso in the absence of a more correct version i'm sticking with 'vene vidi vice'
14:52.23dick_turpinboudiccas: Oi do you know Max Hetric? he must be a CentOS guy, is he on the CentOS IRC?
14:52.33wethrinveni, isn't it?
14:52.45boudiccasdick_turpin; not that i know of. i've never come across the name
14:53.00boudiccasveni vidi vici
14:53.07clive-hThe servers I run are centos
14:53.21boudiccasits a good and stable distro
14:53.41clive-hTis stable yeah
14:53.41dick_turpinboudiccas: He wrote this wiki http://wiki.centos.org/Nagios_on_CentOS_4.x but I could do with some explantion and don't fancy getting ripped to bits by experts
14:53.56clive-hI run nagios on centos
14:54.18boudiccasi know nothing at all about nagios so i can't comment favourably or otherwise
14:55.32dick_turpinclive-h: Um I have it up and running under VMware I only got as far as creating the timeperiod.cfg file and decided to fire it up anyway. its working! how? where is it getting the info from?
14:55.52clive-herrrk
14:55.57clive-hI dunno then
14:56.21clive-hWhat does the nagios log file say
14:57.55dick_turpinclive-h: Wow I'm an idiot messing with 'Big Boys' toys I'll have to find it. I was wondering if the rpm created default .cfg files which are in a differnt location but I cant find any
14:58.39tripitakaprobably veni vidi vici - the -i usually indicates first person perfect
14:59.44tripitakadisk_turpin: strace nagiosd and -HUP it, you'll see what config files it opens to reread
15:00.10dick_turpintripitaka: OK I'll give it a go
15:01.16clive-hI think it uses files in /etc/nagios
15:01.30dick_turpintripitaka: Lol "bash strace command not found"
15:01.48clive-hyum install strace then
15:02.31dick_turpinclive-h: Yep so do I yet my timeperiod.cfg hosts etc are empty yet the display gives me the same info as listed on the wiki
15:02.34tripitakathen `strace -p $(pidof pidof /usr/sbin/nagios)`, or similar
15:02.44tripitakaack, without the spurious pidof
15:12.22dick_turpintripitaka: & clive-h Can I come back to you guys later I have to deal with a customer sorry
15:12.33clive-hsure
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15:15.53SlayerXPno, you can't make me
15:16.13bilarh/join, it is :)
15:16.31boudiccasSlayerXP; ar, go on, it'll be fun + you'll learn a lot :o))))))
15:16.46boudiccasactually they seem very quiet atm
15:16.53wethrinSlayerXP: What about #gentoo? :)
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15:24.30wethrin~change 1 GBP to USD
15:27.31wethrinIt's more than the dollar is weak
15:27.39wethrin~change 1 USD to CAD
15:27.52bilarhyeah but the pound is strong against the euro too
15:28.12wethrin~change 1 GBP to EUR
15:28.28wethrinIt's always been hovering around that mark
15:29.38bilarhhttp://www.x-rates.com/d/EUR/GBP/graph120.html
15:30.12bilarhhttp://www.x-rates.com/d/USD/GBP/graph120.html
15:30.21wethrinYes. EUR always been around 1.50 :)
15:30.39murbthat was just due to the recent interst rate rises in .uk
15:30.51murbit was more like 1.53 at one point
15:30.55murbrecently.
15:31.05wethrinWhen the Euro was first introduced, it was about 1.30-1.40, wasn't it?
15:31.14wethrinBut then settled around 1.50, give or take a bit
15:31.43wethrin~change 1 GBP to ILS
15:32.36bilarhhttp://www.x-rates.com/d/EUR/GBP/hist2006.html
15:32.53bilarhfrom that one it seems like the pound is slowly getting stronger against the euro
15:32.57dick_turpinboudiccas: I logged on to #nagios but was too scared to say anything just slunk around in the corner
15:33.01bilarhalthough yeah, not huge variations :)
15:34.05wethrinNot particularly huge. Not compared to the USD in a similar timeframe :)
15:34.18bilarhtrue
15:34.28bilarhbut even against the swiss franc it's up
15:34.49wethrinYeah. But the biggest thing is the Dollar getting weaker, rather than the pound getting stronger
15:35.09bilarhbut it's become stronger against all other currencies too :)
15:35.14bilarhso the pound is getting stronger
15:35.18bilarhfor some bizarre reason
15:35.32bilarhwell, bizarre to me :)
15:35.38wethrinWe have a good thing going here :)
15:35.44bilarhrecord debt, d(m4) at 14% etc etc :)
15:35.53bilarhrun-away inflation
15:36.05wethrinInflation's not runaway
15:36.07bilarhthe real shocker is the m4 growth rate, i think
15:36.29bilarhwell, not according to gordon browns cpi basket maybe
15:36.32bilarhbut the rpi is
15:36.44wethrin3% isn't high :)
15:37.07bilarh3% cpi is at the upper end of the 2% target rate
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15:37.19wethrinTargets are very artificial :)
15:37.21bilarhit's only 3% because it doesn't include things that actually increase in price
15:37.24wethrinThere were worse times
15:37.29boudiccasdick_turpin; ask your questions, they'll have got a much better knowledge of nagois than you have. everyone is a newbie somewhere
15:37.43bilarhi'm sure there was, but that doesn't mean that 4-5% inflation is good :)
15:37.55bilarhfor one, it makes you 5% poorer every year
15:38.09bilarhbut then, i think it's significantly higher than 5% anyway
15:38.19bilarhm4 growth used to be the measure of inflation
15:38.29bilarhand all that extra money has to go somewhere
15:38.47wethrinNot really :) You get your salary increased
15:38.48boudiccaswhat is 'm4 growth'?
15:38.49bilarhbut unfortunately the BOE aren't increasing rates fast enough
15:38.55bilarhm4 = broad money
15:39.04bilarhso m4 growth is the increase in the money supply
15:39.07wethrinMy studentship went up by 2.5% since last year.
15:39.38bilarhgreat, so you're losing out then :)
15:39.38dick_turpinboudiccas: Okey it was nice knowing everyone I shall now go and get slaughtered on #nagios
15:39.38boudiccasdick_turpin; enjoy :)
15:40.02wethrinbilarh: A little bit, yes, but not 5% :)
15:40.33bilarhwell, it all depends on what you think inflation is, i guess :)
15:41.24wethrinI don't let it bother me
15:41.56bilarhhttp://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=19
15:42.00bilarhoh well, it pisses me off anyway
15:42.34wethrinEvidently :)
15:45.43dick_turpingoibhniu: I don't think they like me :-(
15:46.33boudiccasdick_turpin; stick with it kiddo, they'll elarn to like you :)
15:46.37boudiccas*learn
15:47.19wethrinIs it friendlier than #debian?
15:47.24dick_turpinboudiccas: Blimey its like waiting for a Doctors appointment
15:47.38goibhniudick_turpin: I had a look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Nagios ... and swiftly ran away ... "Installation is a complex and lengthy procedure, and that's before you even start on the plugins required to actually make it useful!"
15:48.35dick_turpingoibhniu: Mine is working thats whats really stupid. I just don't know how, its voodoo gone wild
15:49.15goibhniudick_turpin: how frustrating!
15:51.24dick_turpingoibhniu: You have to create some files then put the directives in, I created the files but did'nt put anything in them I then (coz I cant wait) started nagios and logged in via the browser and blow me down its up and running!
15:51.40goibhniuhow shit!
15:52.39goibhniuI'd uninstall that straight away ... it's a bad omen
15:53.38goibhniumaybe it did something like ... cp /usr/share/doc/nagios-core-1.4.1/sample-configs/* /etc/nagios/
15:53.48dick_turpingoibhniu: Actually its a pretty cool management app I'd like to add some other clients and printers to monitor but now am unsure wher to put the details if its not falling over at the empty files
15:54.51goibhniuyeah, it does look cool
15:55.32dick_turpingoibhniu: Oi you sod I've just re-read the history, what do you mean "learn to like me"? everyone likes me
15:56.09goibhniudick_turpin: I would never say such a thing ... please adjust your lenses
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16:09.52morsingsecretlondon!
16:11.40wethrinsecretlondon!
16:11.42secretlondonmorsing!
16:11.47secretlondonwethrin!
16:12.38wethrinsigh. This stuff don't work
16:15.40secretlondonwhat stuff's that?
16:15.54wethrinThis set of transistors
16:16.07wethrinLooks like oxygen plasma isn't the ideal etchant
16:16.16wethrinhttp://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/images/images-151-200/photo178.jpg
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16:21.43wethrinStill using CGI:IRC?
16:22.00secretlondonyeah - i need to work out irssi
16:22.12wethrinIt's not that hard :)
16:22.19wethrin/connect <server>
16:22.25wethrinAllows you to connect to (multiple) servers
16:22.28wethrinThen /join #channel
16:22.37secretlondonthe version is too old for the newbie guide ;)
16:22.50wethrin0.8.9?
16:22.56wethrinThey shouldn't have changed that much
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16:23.33secretlondonLeeds!
16:23.53Leedsyes!
16:25.41secretlondoneveryone did "secretlondon!" to me, just spreading the love
16:25.56Leedsgood!
16:27.01wethrin~seen Kitty
16:27.33ibotkitty is currently on #gllug, last said: 'you have more letters to guess ?'.
16:27.42wethrinyes, and when, dear ibot?
16:28.39catalystsecretlondon!
16:28.45catalystmorsing!
16:28.47catalystwethrin!
16:28.49catalystLeeds!
16:28.50catalystibot!
16:28.51wethrincat'lyst!
16:28.54Leedscatalyst!
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16:29.18niv_one_threehi
16:29.32Leedswethrin: the last record I have of Kitty talking is 19/12/06
16:29.36niv_one_threeI can't c him :-(
16:29.37wethringrrrrrrr
16:29.48Leedswethrin: talk to niv_one_three
16:29.49wethrinKitty's been around more recently on other IRC channels
16:30.01niv_one_threetoda
16:31.12secretlondonibot!
16:31.18LeedsRocky!
16:31.31secretlondonibot needs to respond with $user!
16:31.37secretlondon*grunt*
16:31.45catalystyou should see someone about that
16:32.18secretlondonswapping client brb
16:32.37Leedsfinally! someone gets that...
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16:33.12secretlo1donthis'll take some getting used to!
16:33.13boudiccassecretlo1don; whats a loldon?
16:33.43secretlo1donit's because I already have my nic on the net cafe's ip address
16:33.50boudiccasah, i c
16:33.51secretlo1donirssi mutilate dme
16:33.52boudiccasty
16:35.59wethrinirssi's nice when you do get used to it :)
16:36.02wethrinAnd it plays nicely with screen
16:36.22bilarhhow do you set the percentage reserved for root after the fs is "100%" full for users on ext3?
16:36.52wethrinman tune2fs
16:36.59bilarhcheers
16:37.07wethrinThere's an option to change the reserved space
16:37.12morsingMWAAHAHAHHAHHHHHTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
16:37.28wethrinBut, really, you ought to be looking at a larger filesystem :)
16:37.29bilarhmorsing: huh? :)
16:37.45morsingbilarh: Lost it there for a sec ;-)
16:37.49bilarhwethrin: 811G  116M  769G   1% /var
16:37.57bilarhis that not big enough :(
16:38.36wethrinOh....thought your FS was full already
16:38.44bilarhnah, it's a new box :)
16:39.52wethrinahhh :)
16:40.18wethrinFilesystems don't like being too full, though - if it's /var, I'd still leave a bit of reserved space on it
16:41.29bilarhbut that's like 42gigs :)
16:41.32bilarhoh well, never mind
16:41.35Leedscould be worse... jffs2 used to easily get into full situations where it got stuck - you couldn't delete anything
16:41.48bilarhhehe, nice
16:42.34wethrinSo knock it down to 1% reserved :)
16:42.43Leedswas also hard to predict when it would happen, since it was transparently compressing stuff... so you could fit more in the filesystem if it was the sort of data which compresses well
16:42.45bilarhyeah might do that
16:42.59n3llyb0yspeaking of filesystems - has anyone had any bad experiences with XFS?
16:46.07secretlo1donhmm - i can't talk to nickserv (i think) i'm getting no feedback at all..
16:46.34Copeanyone? ever?
16:46.38Leedssecretlo1don: works for me
16:47.03secretlo1donLeeds: its this client - never used irssi before
16:47.43murbn3llyb0y: don't use it on anything that can lose power.
16:48.15wethrinsecretlo1don: Has it appeared in a new window?
16:49.26secretlo1donwethrin: no - nothing happened at all
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16:49.45secretlo1donwethrin: irssi is occupying the entire putty window
16:49.47wethrinDoes it say anything in the control window?
16:49.57secretlo1donwethrin: i only have 1 window
16:50.03wethrinYarr - ESC-n switches 'windows'
16:50.15wethrinSo it says 1:#gllug(+nt) on the bottom?
16:50.19n3llyb0ymurb: cheers. I've already disabled front panel power access (as my two-year-old has an itchy trigger finger)
16:50.47secretlo1donwethrin: it says [2:#gllug (+nt)] [Act: 1,3]
16:50.53wethrinRight
16:50.59wethrinSo you've got activity in windows 1 and 3
16:51.04secretlo1donesc n doesn't seem to do anything
16:51.06wethrin/win N
16:51.11wethrinswitch to window N
16:51.19wethrinN being a number, rather than the letter 'n'
16:51.26bilarhwaaah, now i have to reboot the bloody box in order to umount /var
16:51.31bilarhffs, it's never easy :)
16:51.33wethrin'p' and 'n' scroll back and forward
16:51.49wethrinWorkee better?
16:51.56bilarhwouldn't be so bad if the box didn't take five minutes from power on to booting *sigh*
16:52.04secretlondonwethrin: ta
16:52.19antiphaseEsc-a >> Esc-(n)
16:52.36murbwethrin: don't forget you can use letters to jump to high windows as well!
16:52.52wethrinIndeed
16:53.03wethrinantiphase: Only if there's active windows :)
16:53.18antiphaseWell yes
16:53.24wethrinBut one thing at a time....start gently
16:54.31secretlondonyeah - i'm little miss n00bsauce with this thing
16:55.10wethrinSo ESC,1 switches to window 1, ESC,2 to 2, etc.
16:55.21wethrinIf you're lucky, Alt-N does the same thing
16:55.36wethrin(it doesn't always work for me, hence I use ESC)
16:57.35antiphaseI want to know why ESC-p doesn't switch to window 20
16:58.21wethrinBecause it does a Page-Up :)
17:04.00morsingCan someone tell me how to list open channels in irssi?
17:04.11wethrin/win list
17:04.23wethrinWhich lists all your windows
17:04.36morsingCool. I've asked this about 23 times before...
17:05.01wethrinhave you?
17:06.23morsingYes
17:07.53wethrinoh
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17:11.21goibhniuarrggghh ... /me emerges half of kde just to get a spreadsheet off a windows share :(
17:11.36wethrinha
17:11.39wethrinwww.openoffice.org
17:12.08goibhniucheers ... but the windows share bit is the problem
17:12.20Leedssamba...
17:12.27Leedsor just cifs
17:12.39goibhniuis there a way to browse the network with that?
17:12.52goibhniuI've tried the fusesmb thing
17:13.02wethrinDo you know where on the network it is?
17:13.06goibhniunope
17:13.29wethrinso you don't really need the spreadsheet, then :)
17:13.43morsingwethrin: Your server is down
17:13.47morsingCope_!
17:14.16goibhniuI was very impressed with ubuntu for this .. browse the network and print to the printer with ease
17:14.53wethrinmorsing: No, it's not
17:14.59wethrinIf it was, I wouldn't be IRCing from it
17:15.03morsingAccording to my Nagios it is!
17:15.15wethrinHow's your Nagios monitoring it?
17:15.21morsingping
17:15.33wethrinAnd you can ping other places?
17:15.38morsingWait, ssh as well I think
17:15.41morsingYes
17:16.03wethrinYou don't have some weird IPv6 stuff going on, do you?
17:16.19wethrin--- hades.eco.li ping statistics ---
17:16.19wethrin2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
17:18.08morsingwethrin: Sorte
17:18.09morsingd
17:18.17wethrinahha
17:18.19wethrinWhat was the trouble?
17:18.54morsingwethrin: IP address is actually hard coded in hosts.cfg. Forgot that
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17:19.06wethrinAhh. So you were pinging hades-at-exonetric?
17:20.09morsingYes
17:20.16wethrinHeh :)
17:20.20morsingIt doesn't use the resolver
17:20.24morsingWhich is sane enough
17:20.29morsingcatalyst!
17:20.38wethrinWell....sort-of-ish
17:22.42bilarhffs, min kollega sitter o lyssnar pa nagon javla rock
17:22.49bilarhmed horlurar
17:22.52catalystmorsing!
17:23.02bilarherm, wrong channel :)
17:23.32wethrinheh
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17:27.29bilarhboredom threshold hit...
17:27.33bilarhanyone got a noose?
17:28.10boudiccasbilarh; theres nae noose in the hoose
17:28.29goibhniubilarh: what's nagon javla rock ... ace of base?
17:28.45bilarherm nah i don't want to translate it to be honest :)
17:28.51bilarhbut sort of :)
17:29.10goibhniuit sounds cool, when you don't know what it means
17:29.26bilarhyeah, it's a bit like japanese
17:29.34goibhniu... if I ever have hamster I hope I remember to call it nagon javla
17:29.34bilarhi always think they're about to  have an argument when i hear it
17:29.54bilarhbut they're probably saying stuff like "ah, the sun is shining nicely today"
17:30.05bilarhvietnamese is even worse
17:30.14LeedsCantonese always sounds like an argument to me
17:30.22bilarhyeah vietnamese is the same
17:30.37bilarhmandarin sounds cool though
17:30.53bilarhnobody can ever sound manly in mandarin, it's too high pitched :)
17:32.33bilarhmind, my only exposure to mandarin was the lady who tells you where a train is going in HK
17:32.40Leedsheh
17:33.03goibhniupffh ... emerging 9 of 14 ... and then the freakin server is gonna be called "fileshare" or something
17:33.33bilarhcall it something else
17:33.40bilarhlike ldap for laughs
17:34.05goibhniuit ain't mine ... if it were I'd be renaming it nagon javla
17:34.22goibhniuI only work here
17:34.23bilarhhehe :)
17:34.59bilarhnagon javla could mean "some fucker", so i say go for it :)
17:35.20bilarhor "some shit" :P
17:35.21bilarheven better
17:35.24goibhniuoh handy! ... in japanese?
17:35.31bilarhnah it's swedish
17:36.02bilarhcpufreak: heeelp
17:36.03goibhniuappropriate too!
17:36.18Leedsoh, that's funny
17:36.22goibhniufor this fucking shit server
17:36.37bilarhhehe
17:37.00Leedsthe Open Rights Group - trying to be a sort of UK EFF - sent out a mailing... included half their mailing list on the to: line...
17:37.15goibhniuahh so your collegue is listening to some shit rock on their headphones?
17:37.36bilarhgoibhniu: yeah pretty much :P
17:44.22secretlondonLeeds: :(
17:47.11phearlessI should go to a GLLUG meeting one day
17:47.25wethrinYes, you should
17:47.35wethrinLeeds: It's part of the spirit of Openness!
17:55.40cpufreakbilarh: what do you need help with?
17:55.48cpufreakI've been tied up with vendors all afternoon
17:55.50cpufreak(not literlaly)
17:57.45bilarhi was just being really bored
17:57.55bilarhnever mind, i'm going home now anyway :)
17:58.13Copehrm
17:58.18bilarhthe help part was about getting something to do, i mean :)
17:58.22cpufreakoh
17:58.48Copehi cpufreak
17:59.32cpufreakheya
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18:03.44phearlesswhen is the next GLLUG meeting?
18:03.50CopeSIYH
18:03.54Copesee also RSN
18:04.48phearlessreal soon now?
18:05.14Cope:)
18:05.22Copeand SIYH?
18:05.35bilarhsomewhere in your hallway?
18:05.38Copehehe
18:05.41Copesooner if you help
18:06.12bilarhah, i was hoping to check out phearlesses hallway for a sec :(
18:07.19bilarhoh well, screw you lot, i'm going home
18:11.52goibhniuahh ... I need to recompile my kernel! ups!
18:12.43Copewhy?
18:13.04goibhniudidn't have smb or cifs enabled
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18:49.56secretlondonanyone seen mozrat?
18:50.00secretlondonrecently
18:50.14secretlondonibot seen mozrat
18:50.44ibotmozrat <i=mozrat@outbound.silenceisdefeat.org> was last seen on IRC in channel #gllug, 10d 18h 6m 6s ago, saying: 'I did send one out back in December'.
18:50.45secretlondonibot
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19:03.18secretlondonbye guys
19:03.24secretlondonexit
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19:29.13goibhniuI suck .. 3:30 hours and I still can't browse the network ... shoot me please
19:34.10boudiccasgoibhniu; bang, you're dead!
19:35.23goibhniuboudiccas: I must be in the next life already! ... there's something called smbtree!
19:35.25goibhniuyay!
19:35.33goibhniuand it looks like it might even work!
19:35.43boudiccas:o)
19:37.59trousers_Yay! \o/
20:11.10z00daxso who uses debian ?
20:11.19z00daxwhats the vncviewer package in debian called ?
20:11.37goibhniuis it tightvnc?
20:12.02z00daxwell, whatever is in stable
20:13.01goibhniusorry ... I only use ubuntu on weekends
20:13.37z00daxi never use ubuntu
20:14.11boudiccasz00dax; you back in the Uk yet? :)
20:14.39z00daxboudiccas: not yet
20:14.43z00daxbe back this sat
20:15.00boudiccask, i'll put the kettle on for tea then :o)))))
20:15.21z00daxyY!
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20:28.45z00daxyou rebooter you
20:30.06goibhniuI'd like to thank my mother ... and baby jesus ... and all the people in the world ... and most of all z00dax
20:30.17boudiccaslol
20:30.26z00daxaww bless
20:31.42goibhniusorry for the running commentary ... it either goes here ... or my shrink has to hear it
20:39.01Copeoyo z00dax
20:39.32z00daxheya Cope'ster
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22:09.29erwinAnyone want to buy a 21" CRT monitor? Special gllug price of 30 pounds, but need to pick it up this week.
22:34.04tripitakaerwin, you're still here?
22:34.21tripitakaI'll come by and pick it up tomorrow
22:41.11tripitakaI thought you'd gone back already?
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23:37.15xotljuergen is a most entertaining mailing list poster
23:37.23wethrinIndeed
23:37.26wethrinSo, so trollable
23:37.46xotlhim and martin really get along well
23:37.51wethrinIndeed
23:38.04xotldo they know each other in real life do you know?
23:38.12wethrinI don't think so
23:38.16wethrinMartin's a regular on this fair channel
23:38.26xotli've seen juergen here too
23:38.37xotlwhats martins nick?
23:40.48xotlits probably better they dont know each other irl, it makes for better flames
23:41.21erwinAnyone know tripitaka's email?
23:43.19wethrinSLayerXP
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