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00:00.04deep-blueapologies :p
00:00.22deep-blueblame irssi, i can only imagine it only pings the last person who typed a message
00:00.36wethrinNo, you pung the whole channel
00:00.48deep-bluewhoops ><
00:00.59deep-blueblame irssi, apologies all
00:02.04trousers_Pung, eh? :)
00:02.22deep-bluehay trousers_
00:02.35trousers_Morning.
00:02.37wethrinindeed. Perfect tense of ping
00:03.14z00daxpingification!
00:04.48deep-blueubuntu hates me, im having nothing but problems trying to build a smaller, cleaner kernel
00:04.59wethrinDDTT
00:05.08z00daxwtf is a smaller cleaner kernel ?
00:05.12z00daxdont ubuntu use modules ?
00:05.15deep-bluemostly
00:05.24deep-bluebut a lot of crap is still in the generic one
00:05.33z00daxwhat do you mean 'in'
00:05.44z00daxstatically included in the core ?
00:05.57deep-blueso i built one optimised for a p3coppermine, and remove a lot of the isa support, some of the sound n vid cards etc
00:06.13deep-blueand a fair amount of network drivers, sound drivers etc are built in, as opposed to modules
00:06.20z00daxi'd be surprised if in this day and age sound and vid card support was statc
00:06.31deep-bluea LOT seemed to be
00:06.32clive-hmonolithic kernels +=
00:06.34z00daxand isa support was mostly dropped with i386 / i586
00:06.38clive-hmonolithic kernels --
00:06.41deep-blueand i used the original 6.06 config as a template
00:06.48z00daxuse CentOS :)
00:07.04deep-blueim certainly considering another OS
00:07.08clive-hI do on work servers
00:07.15deep-bluebut this laptop is a pansy on spcs
00:07.20clive-hI use Fedora Core at home
00:07.27z00daxI dont think its that bad to make you consider another OS - try another distro first
00:07.29deep-blueP3-700, 256mb ram, ati m1 mobility
00:07.37deep-bluei meant distro :p
00:07.46z00dax\o/
00:08.00z00daxso is this mostly a desktop machine then ?
00:08.01deep-blueonly other OS id consider on this, is unix
00:08.04deep-bluelaptop
00:08.09clive-hunix?
00:08.16z00daxright but what sort of a role is it deployed for ?
00:08.25clive-hwhat do you mean unix?
00:08.28z00daxif you want all the latest snappy media and video codec support or not
00:08.39goibhniudeep-blue: arch is a speed demon
00:08.40deep-bluewell, as i recently got a new battery for it, this would be fun as something i tote around
00:08.43deep-blueits tiny
00:08.49deep-bluegoibhniu: even on this little ram?
00:09.01z00dax256megs is plenty as long as you manage it right
00:09.03goibhniuoh yeah ... it's amazing
00:09.15clive-hlinux is a unix for some values of unix
00:09.32clive-h256mb is fine
00:09.38z00daxok, time to get some more work done
00:09.47clive-hchoose a window manager with care
00:09.51goibhniudeep-blue: even with gnome
00:09.53z00daxratpoison!
00:10.03clive-hi use xfce
00:10.03z00daxits all of about 12kb or something
00:10.04deep-bluegoibhniu: im a stickler for gnome
00:10.28goibhniuI ran it off a usb drive and it screamed
00:10.29clive-h256mb sucks with gnome in 256mb
00:10.37deep-blueive killed a LOT of services, and trimmed down the fat loaded on boot, and as a result, after a clean boot, ive got between 100-120mb of ram free
00:10.41goibhniu128mb is fine
00:10.53goibhniuyou might want to use epiphany instead of firefox tho
00:11.01z00daxelinks!
00:11.14deep-bluerat poison would suck considering the amount of web browsing that gets done on this
00:11.32z00daxdeep-blue: run nx on the laptop and just run the apps elsewhere
00:12.27deep-bluez00dax: my original plan was something similar, get a 4gb cf card on this, have a TINY install running off that, then have my server run NX or something similar
00:12.51deep-bluehowever, i also use this laptop onsite at repairs etc
00:14.22goibhniudeep-blue: did you try the low memory ubuntu install?
00:14.43deep-bluegoibhniu: thats the next step id imagine
00:14.45goibhniuit's on the alternative install cd
00:14.51deep-blueyer
00:15.21deep-bluethe hdd on this is pretty fast, so the memory swapping isnt HORRIBLE....but loading a new app sucks
00:15.37deep-blueits fine now for example, i have 5 tabs in ffox, and 3 terminal sessions running
00:16.56goibhniuhmm ... maybe arch wouldn't be so good for a P3 ... it may be optimised for newer machines
00:18.07clive-hI run Fc5 happily on a P3 1Ghz
00:18.16clive-hwith 512Mb RAM
00:18.26deep-blueclive-h: goibhniu, its not the cpu that is limited here, its the ram
00:18.46deep-blueand im not going to blow 50quid to test to see if i can make it take 512mb
00:19.08clive-hI run Fc6 on a 1.6Ghz laptop with 256Mb
00:19.21goibhniudeep-blue: but I think the reason arch is so fast is because everything is compiled for P4+
00:19.26clive-hbut using xfce4
00:19.37deep-blueahh
00:19.40deep-blueif ica
00:19.47deep-blue*if i cared enough, id go to gentoo
00:19.52deep-blueand compile from scratch
00:20.10deep-bluebut im really not that bothered
00:20.24goibhniudeep-blue: I gave up on gentoo for slower boxes ... it's too painful
00:20.35goibhniuon a fast machine it's sweet tho
00:22.49clive-hI'll respectfully differ
00:23.16goibhniuclive-h: you seem rather fond of fc
00:23.25goibhniuI've never tried it
00:23.48goibhniuI loved mandrake but the rpm thing got me down in the end
00:23.59clive-hi come from a systemV background
00:24.13clive-hI was doing unix before linux existed
00:24.22wethrinOldie
00:24.28clive-hYeah sure
00:24.30trousers_goibhniu: What about compiling on another machine or distcc?
00:24.38clive-hBeen in IT since 1984
00:25.20clive-hI like Redhat/Fedora/Centos cos it's similar to sysV
00:25.27goibhniutrousers_: yeah, but it's a bit inconvenient ... would be the way to go for a farm or something
00:26.13goibhniuclive-h: sysV is basically run levels and init.d scripts?
00:26.13clive-hBuilding code on production servers isn't my idea of fun
00:26.20clive-hYeah
00:26.49clive-hLinux is subtly different from SysV
00:26.53goibhniugentoo does have that... I use it for switching between a battery level and a normal level
00:27.02clive-hre init scripts and run levels
00:27.12clive-hYes it does
00:27.24clive-hI've adminned gentoo boxes
00:27.54goibhniubsd doesn't? (never looked at it)
00:28.12trousers_I also need to play with BSD bit.
00:28.22wethrinBSD++
00:28.28goibhniuI like the sound of jails
00:28.42goibhniunot in general ... just in bsd
00:28.57wethrinFreeBSD should have ZFS in its latest snapshot too
00:29.09trousers_ZFS?
00:29.33wethrinZFS
00:29.42goibhniu~wiki zfs
00:29.42wethrinWikipedia it :)
00:29.54clive-hSun's new file-system
00:30.06clive-hIt'll be in next OS X too
00:30.16trousers_Funky.
00:30.18goibhniuclive-h: enough of that foul talk
00:30.39goibhniuwhiskey?
00:31.00clive-hFoul talk?
00:31.27clive-hI think linux will have ZFS too at some point
00:31.55trousers_Naturally.
00:32.20clive-hThough perhaps not in the immediately up stream kernel
00:32.41trousers_I'm sure there'll be a patch...
00:33.06trousers_I mean, `emerge -s zfs` gives me a package with some zfs mounting support (I think)
00:33.20goibhniuI heard some talk about git today ... it sounds cool!
00:33.29trousers_Anyway, about time I went to bed.
00:33.30Leedsand you *know* it's better than xfs...
00:33.31trousers_G'night.
00:33.42clive-hI still use ext3
00:33.43goibhniutrousers_: morning
00:34.16goibhniudoes anyone use git?
00:34.32clive-hLinus?
00:34.47goibhniuI like the sound of there being no need for a central repo
00:38.08wethrinAhha. There's troubles with getting ZFS onto Linux
00:38.15goibhniuhey Leeds ... married yet?
00:39.13wethrinUsual licencing issue rubbish
00:40.51Leedsnot yet, no
00:41.17goibhniuLeeds financially buoyant?
00:42.07goibhniuLeeds: how's the weather?
00:42.18wethrinnn
00:42.31Leedsnot yet employed or paid...
00:42.48Leedsand warming up, but still cool and wet
00:45.16Leedsthat's the weather, not the not-wife ;-)
00:45.32goibhniuohh! gotcha
00:46.01goibhniuI've got a nephew on the way ... any day now
00:46.15goibhniushould be a disruptive technology
00:46.32Leedsah! must call my mate in Ilford... got a kid due this week...
00:46.58goibhniuoh ... I meant to buy a book about baby sign language
00:47.36goibhniuI got confused about whether it was bad luck to buy it before the baby popped out or not
00:48.48goibhniuthey got a "4d scan" ... it's pretty mad ... you can see his face and all
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06:26.29mumpererMorning everybody! :)
06:31.54Leedsafternoon
07:01.31mumpererLeeds! Hiya - things cool in HK?
07:01.46Leedsyeah, but should be warmer after the weekend
07:01.53Leedshow about London?
07:02.18mumpererShowery threatens - but warmish.
07:03.19mumpererLeeds: can you access/see a Channel 4 show? Last night's the Global Heating Swindle, or some such?
07:05.21mumpererThe elementary physics threw a banana skin under the whole eco--bandwagon, thinks I.
07:06.33mumpererLeeds; just a thought - weren't you, in recent dim past, the guy who volunteered to see me through getting my scanner working one Sunday?
07:06.59LeedsI can access - can't get broadcasts, of course...
07:07.18LeedsI don't really remember that, but it could have happened... depends on how recent/dim the past you're talking about
07:08.41mumpererSorry - don't let's us compare memories! I'll cross it off my subliminals for ease of progress! :-P
07:09.17Leedsare you recommending that I watch that show?
07:09.41Leedsheh
07:10.01mumpererLeeds: very much so. But keep your cold logic well chilled.
07:11.20mumpererAs i understood it, CO2 ain't the villain - nor we humans. just the sun.
07:12.53Leedsdon't see it on my usual source of UK TV
07:13.10mumpererWhich is?
07:13.15Leedsuknova.com
07:13.28mumpererNo clue - sorry.
07:13.40LeedsI'll keep an eye out for it...
07:14.09mumpererWay to go - i must away for now, be happy!.
07:14.20Leedshave fun
07:14.43morsingmumperer!
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07:45.46sabinef72morning
07:46.34morsingsabinef72!
07:47.11sabinef72heyyyyyyyyy
07:47.14morsing:)
07:47.18sabinef72don't touch my nose
07:47.21morsing:(
07:47.24sabinef72it's hurting because my cold
07:47.27morsing:(
07:47.40sabinef72I used to much tissues
07:47.42sabinef72ah ah
07:47.46Leeds"too many"
07:48.01sabinef72arg
07:48.10sabinef72why not "much" ?
07:48.14morsingsabinef72: Carly said I could make a copy of her nose with this:
07:48.14morsinghttp://www.bodybitz.com.au/
07:48.24morsingTo pull when she's not around
07:48.26morsing:)
07:49.10sabinef72lol
07:49.20Leedssabinef72: in general, I'd say "many" is for something you can count individuals of, while "much" is a vaguer 'amount'
07:49.27morsingsabinef72: When you have -s on something it's a number, so always many
07:49.36Leedsso "too many tissues", "too much tissue paper"
07:50.12sabinef72ok I will try to remember that morsing
07:50.18sabinef72thank you so much men
07:52.53morsing:)
07:56.34sabinef72the weather is all shit this morning :-(
07:58.40gw280so my computer is now non-functional
07:58.42gw280it doesn't boot.
07:58.43gw280woohoo.
07:58.54gw280I also lost 130GB of raided data due to linux software raid fuckage
08:03.51Leedsgw280: that's what you get for running KDE
08:04.05gw280Leeds: you tard.
08:09.36morsingKDE sucks
08:10.42sabinef72lol
08:10.44sabinef72http://fr.news.yahoo.com/08032007/202/sanction-pour-une-grand-mere-anglaise-qui-cuisinait-au-cannabis.html
08:11.01sabinef72that's the story of an old woman who always cooks with cannabis !
08:11.13sabinef72she is living in London
08:12.12morsing:)
08:12.31LeedsFrench really isn't a hard language to guess
08:15.19sabinef72:-)
08:17.47clive-hShe lives in Carlisle it says
08:18.02clive-hThat's a long way from London
08:18.31sabinef72ahhhh
08:19.03morsingOnly about 700 km :)
08:19.27clive-hA long way for the uk anyway
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08:22.54morsinggoibhniu!
08:25.51goibhniumorsing!!
08:31.37Leedssomeone in the office is being given a lesson in how to design a website in frames - because the customer demands it...
08:31.58Leedsbefore the lesson starts, a bottle of tequila has been put on the desk, for when it's needed :-)
08:32.14morsingHmm...
08:48.26morsingsabinef72?
08:50.17sabinef72yep ?
08:50.39morsingHow are you this morning?
08:50.57sabinef72I'm ok waiting my xray in one hour
08:55.29morsingNice
08:55.37morsingAnd you'll post the photos?
08:56.38sabinef72yes I'll give them to benoit because at work he has a scann
09:04.38LeedsI'm tired...
09:17.50Leedsso I'm going home for a nap...
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09:25.57morsingasht_007!
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10:05.09morsingLeeds!
10:06.46morsingWhy does this remove the first entry?
10:06.47morsingif ( ! mysql_fetch_array($result) ) { echo "No results found<br>"; exit; }
10:06.53morsingWhat else can I do?
10:07.23Leedsthat's not python
10:08.01morsingCool
10:11.12antiphaseSurely you should be testing $result, and not the return value of the function
10:11.29antiphaseOR maybe I don't know enough about rubbish languages ;)
10:14.21morsingantiphase: Tell me how to
10:15.15morsinghttp://www.morsing.cc/billed.php?STED=BMW_635CSi
10:23.31antiphaseI'm only a Linux sysadmin, I couldn't possibly help an AIX expert
10:25.40morsingTwat
10:46.56halihaha
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10:59.21goibhniumorsing: did you buy a nice nose clipper?
11:00.12goibhniumy old one, that I bought in china, finally packed it in when I was half way through on tuesday
11:00.47morsinggoibhniu: Huh? I did actually and he was really happy with it. Why do you ask and how do you even remember?
11:01.07morsingRemington. Only £8 as well
11:01.15goibhniumorsing: I take notes
11:02.03goibhniumorsing: ok ... I had a reminton once and it was shite ... but it's good to know
11:03.45bilarhi thought remington was the brand to have
11:04.04bilarhi have some phillips shaver now and it's quite poo
11:04.11bilarhit pulls the straws out rather than cuts them off
11:04.26bilarhand i even manage to cut myself with it :)
11:04.52bilarhso, it's turned out that it's less painful to shave once a week with a normal blade type thingy
11:04.55bilarhless cuts
11:04.59bilarhand my face is smooth as a babies bum
11:05.06bilarhwell, for about 2-3 hours at least
11:05.30bilarhif i'm feeling extra special on saturday morning i sometimes shave for the weekend
11:05.40goibhniuI usually buy the cheapest piece of shit I can find ... and they're generally good for a couple of years ... someone else usually breaks them tho
11:06.40bilarhmine was a john lewis 150 quid jobbie, but it still sucks
11:06.54bilarhbut maybe that's cheap as shit when it comes to razors :)
11:07.11goibhniuI had a philips beard shaver once ... and it was also utter shite ... I gave up on shaving .. shiney faces are for women aren't they?
11:07.22bilarhexactly
11:07.32bilarhi keep telling my wife this, but she just doesn't get it
11:08.24bilarhon a separate note, i can't believe i just spent more than three hours in traffic
11:08.27goibhniuyou know maggie thatcher wanted to outlaw beards from the house of parliament
11:08.35bilarhwtf, fascist!!
11:09.10bilarhright up hali's alley :)
11:09.30goibhniuhali are you a nazi?
11:11.16goibhniuor is he just the usual anti-beard anti-foxhunting pro-war liberal-fascist?
11:12.19goibhniubilarh: 3 hrs on the tube?
11:12.33bilarhliberal fascist, now there's an oxymoron :)
11:12.35bilarhnah in the car
11:12.44bilarhi had to take it to the bodyshop
11:12.48goibhniuI must say I'm impressed with the trains over here ... they always tell you exactly why they're late
11:13.16bilarhafter some f<bleeep> t<bleep> drove into the f<bleep> back of me in a <bleep bleep bleep> carpark
11:13.25bilarhhehe yeah
11:13.42goibhniuthe other day on the way home there was a fire in the engine room of the train, then the driver was late in reading ... then they couldn't get a place on the platform in paddington ... actually there were more delays too on the way :D
11:14.17bilarh"severe delays on the <branch you want to take> branch of the district line due to signal failure on the northern line"
11:14.19goibhniubilarh: can't you just cover it with tyres like us cyclists do?
11:14.47bilarhwell, the fire is acceptable i suppose
11:15.08bilarhon the other hand, you'd probably find that it was actually a bbq if you looked into it
11:15.37bilarhoh and yesterday my wife cleverly reversed the car into a pole too
11:15.38goibhniuI really trust them now tho ... I'd say they'd even tell you if it was a bbq
11:15.39bilarhthe new one, that is
11:16.05bilarhyeah probably, they've completely lost respect for our feelings now :)
11:16.35bilarhit's like "yeah, the train's late because i was out drinking yesterday and i couldn't be arsed to get out of bed, but what you gonna do, loser?!?!"
11:16.40goibhniubilarh: just stick on some tyres ... you're sorted ... you can even bounce into pedestrians
11:17.06bilarhsort of like a boat with fenders?
11:17.09bilarhthat might work
11:17.16bilarhi could even have different coloured ones
11:17.23bilarhpink and blue, i think
11:17.26goibhniuyeah ... I'd certainly get out of the way if I saw you coming
11:18.09bilarhi've heard it's rather unpleasant
11:18.13bilarhunless it's a bumper car
11:18.20bilarhbut then that might be quite unpleasant as well
11:19.27bilarhi wonder if people realize that when they walk across to the bumper cars, they're actually walking on one of the electrodes for the car engine :)
11:19.40bilarhwell, don't do that
11:20.15bilarhif you do that, you can't get past the line of traffic i'm sitting in and then sit in front of my car when it turns green, the road ahead is completely empty apart from a cyclist doing 5mph in the middle of the road :)
11:20.30bilarhalmost sounds like a rant, that :P
11:20.31haligoibhniu: im very much pro foxhunting.. great tradition
11:20.47goibhniubilarh: I'd be decorated in christmas lights of course
11:21.07goibhniuhali: good one ... you're ok then
11:21.10bilarhand the cables would get caught in my wheels as i ran you over :(
11:21.34bilarhwhy can't they just build bloody cycle lanes? it would be better for everyone
11:21.40haligoibhniu: but im generally pro-war, at least very pro-army
11:21.51halibut liberal? no
11:22.03halii don't even like jeans without back pockets
11:22.18goibhniuhali: liberal-fascist?
11:22.29halimore conservative-weirdo
11:22.32goibhniuhali: freedom through oppression?
11:22.41bilarhbeing pro-war doesn't exactly make you liberal
11:22.47bilarhalthough it doesn't make you anti-liberal either :)
11:22.51halii'm in favor of good crowd controll yes
11:23.13halithatcher knew how to deal with things
11:23.23goibhniuhali: how do you shave?
11:23.28bilarhyeah, those lazy miners!
11:23.34bilarhthey should be happy they still have a job!
11:23.36bilarhoh :(
11:23.44haligoibhniu: yes, every morning at 7.55 on the dot
11:24.08haligoibhniu: thats probably the only thing you got right there... im very anti-beards :)
11:24.17bilarhi hate shaving
11:24.25bilarhit's a complete waste of time
11:24.33bilarhhave you ever seen a cave man without a beard?
11:24.51bilarhdidn't think so... having a beard is the natural order of things, it's just social convention that tells us we have to shave
11:25.03bilarhplus, a big beard is an excellent food container
11:25.10bilarhif you have a beard and you eat something
11:25.19haliim a facist in that sense, i tend to look down on people who doesn't take care of themselves... people who look like proper hobos.. like pikeys :)
11:25.23goibhniuso ... anti-beard pro-foxhunting pro-war liberal-fascist?
11:25.23bilarhyou can pick bits and pieces out of the beard for hours after if you fancy a nibble
11:26.13goibhniuoh .. more like ... anti-beard pro-foxhunting pro-war fascist?
11:26.54goibhniui agree with fox hunting of course ... and war is good as long as it kills all the humans involved
11:26.59haligoibhniu: until i release the halism doctrine facism is probably quite close
11:26.59bilarhreally, though, what's wrong with looking like a pikey?
11:27.07bilarhi often go out in a hoodie
11:27.18bilarhthe hoodie doesn't cause behaviour
11:27.37haliguns don't kill people
11:28.04goibhniubilarh: unless you see someone cleanly shaven and well dressed ... I find it hard to contain myself anyway
11:28.05bilarhexactly
11:28.32bilarhgoibhniu: hmm... how do you mean?
11:31.28goibhniubilarh: I mean ... you're in the super market to stock up on frozen pizzas and some shiney face wanker in a suit skips the queue because he's only buying a gammon steak ... you're gonna at least consider mugging him in the car park ... right?
11:31.50bilarhgoibhniu: yeah, but not because he's wearing a suit :)
11:31.56bilarhand not because i'm in a hoodie :)
11:32.08bilarhi'd probably key his car to be honest
11:32.25haliswedish people are very strict about skipping queues... we tend to kill people for that
11:32.39bilarhyeah, i was gonna say i might stab him :)
11:32.41goibhniubilarh: but if you were a shiney faced suit wearer ... you might empathise
11:32.49bilarhno i wouldn't
11:32.49halibut since he is well shaven and wears a suite we might be ok with a good stabbin'
11:33.05bilarhi used to have to wear a shiney suit to work, and it still fucked me off when tossers in suits jumped queues :)
11:33.13haliwho buys frozen pizza anyway?!
11:33.31halii really like waitrose "fresh" pizza
11:33.40bilarhoh was it a fresh one
11:33.41halibilarh: did not, it was fresh
11:33.42haliyep
11:33.50bilarhoh whatever, it was nice anyway :)
11:34.09haliyep, best supermarket pizzas no questions
11:34.18bilarha hoodie maketh not a stabber
11:34.22goibhniudutch people skip queues like it's some kind of sport
11:34.56halihow rude
11:37.23bilarhgoibhniu: it's a little known fact that the netherlands were invaded by sweden in the 17th century for that very reason
11:38.26bilarhthe war of 1635 was in fact sparked as a dutch sailor jumped the queue in a seamans pub
11:38.36bilarhan angry swedish mob gathered and lynched him
11:38.47bilarhholland of course had to retaliate, and the rest is history
11:38.56bilarhthe swedish king even died in that war
11:39.02bilarhgustav adolf, his name was
11:39.14bilarhand all because some dutch sailor was too eager to get a pint :(
11:42.16halihm, gustav adolf died in 1632 though
11:43.03bilarhoh, i was only out by 3 years :)
11:43.29bilarhapart from the year, it's all true, honest!
11:45.23goibhniubilarh: I'd believe you even if it wasn't true
11:46.13halii may have been the triggering factor
11:46.42bilarhwas you born in 1632?
11:46.46halibut as far as i know the dutch started the war (the only war i know of between sweden and the dutch was in 1658)
11:46.58bilarhah, it's all a pack of lies
11:47.08bilarhthat's what i said
11:47.10haliand that was the dutch invervention to the nordic wars
11:47.14bilarhthe dutch had to retaliate
11:47.17bilarhno no no
11:47.18bilarhit's all wrong
11:51.05goibhniubilarh: stop filling my head with muck ... I'll just have to try to forget everything to do with sweden and the netherlands now
11:51.53bilarhjust think that every time you hear about sweden or the netherlands now and in the future, you will recall this conversation :)
11:52.28bilarhyou will tell your grand children about this crazy old thing called IRC you used to do when you were younger
11:52.52halibilarh: first thing i'll do when im put in a retirement home is to set up an irc server :)
11:52.56bilarhbut only when there's a holland - england game or sweden - england game (which will end in a draw) on tv
11:53.08halii hope there will be some ipv9 compatible irc server :)
11:53.25goibhniuyeah ... I was thinking that too ... the old folks home is gonna rock!
11:54.01goibhniulots of grumpy people flaming one another
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12:02.10bilarhgoibhniu: so business as usual then :P
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12:05.01dick_turpinibot: wake everyone up
12:05.03ibotACTION throws a barrel-full of ice water on everyone up and shouts "GOOD MORNING!!!!"
12:05.12bilarhyou bastard
12:05.16bilarhi'm soaking now
12:05.36dick_turpinbilarh: Wanna buy a towel?
12:06.41bilarhi always carry my own towerl
12:06.43bilarhtowel
12:07.07dick_turpinbilarh: Bugger thats another potential sale gone pear shaped
12:07.32bilarhwell, as i had my own towel already, i wasn't a potential sale in the first place :)
12:08.09dick_turpinbilarh: Ah but you might have wanted to upgrade
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12:53.00morsingping wethrin
12:58.21wethrinmorsing: I'm just going to lunch
12:59.49morsingNice
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14:02.48mumpererHi
14:06.31morsingmumperer!
14:08.11mumperermorsing!
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14:56.14wethrinarr
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15:06.33mumpererVery much Hi, mozrat!
15:08.20mumpererLong time no see, sir. :)
15:08.58morsingmozzie?!?!?!?!?
15:09.11morsingOh mozzieee :(
15:09.59mumpererOmigawd
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15:11.02dick_turpinbwaa haa haa
15:11.54wethrinmozzie!
15:12.05morsinghttp://www.morsing.cc/photos/mozzies.jpg
15:12.17morsingmozrat?
15:12.31wethrinIt's all full of Richards!
15:13.53morsingRichards?
15:14.13wethrinYes. Plus a Paul
15:14.16wethrinBut mostly Richards
15:14.43dick_turpinibot smack goibhniu
15:14.44ibotACTION smacks goibhniu upside the head.
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15:15.57mozratHello!
15:16.05mozrathow is it going?
15:16.33dick_turpinmozrat: Long time no speak
15:16.44mozrathey dick_turpin
15:16.45sabinef72hello
15:16.49mozratSabby!
15:16.49sabinef72mozrat !!!!!!!!!!!!!
15:17.12dick_turpinmozrat: Have you just been released from prison?
15:17.30mozratdick_turpin: just escaped, don't tell the rozzers
15:17.58dick_turpinmozrat: I can sell you a new identity?
15:18.08mozrat:)
15:18.27morsingwethrin: Why did rhowe ignore my reply on gllug-social?
15:18.42morsingsabinef72!
15:18.56morsingmozrat: What did you think of the mozzie sign?
15:19.07mozratmorsing: very good :D
15:20.14morsingmozrat: How are you?
15:20.29wethrinmorsing: I don't know!
15:20.35mozratgood thanks, In Amsterdam today
15:20.36mozratfor work
15:20.41morsingibot beat rhowe
15:20.43ibotACTION beats rhowe with a very wet, sticky noodle
15:20.56wethrinmorsing: Because your reply was content-free
15:21.13dick_turpinmozrat: work? bank job?
15:22.19wethrinOff to work!
15:24.54dick_turpingoibhniu: Oi
15:25.04goibhniudick_turpin!
15:25.30morsingwethrin: Was it?
15:25.35dick_turpingoibhniu: Kin ell getting hold of you is like trying to see the pope!
15:26.13dick_turpingoibhniu: Pent up mail aggression?
15:26.21goibhniudick_turpin: work
15:26.39dick_turpingoibhniu: What you work in demolition?
15:28.34dick_turpinI can see I may have to get the bucket of water out again
15:28.43goibhniudick_turpin: I'm trying to stop stuff from being sucked into a black hole
15:29.04dick_turpingoibhniu: Stop sitting on it then :-P
15:31.40dick_turpingoibhniu: 1. Nobody in the entire world is interested in my idea. 2. My site has more stuff on it. 3. I'm stuck here all alone with a 16 year old girl!
15:36.46goibhniudick_turpin: get her to implement it
15:37.05goibhniudick_turpin: young people have no idea how difficult things are
15:37.11dick_turpingoibhniu: I'm too scared to speak to her
15:37.39goibhniudick_turpin: send her an sms
15:38.43dick_turpingoibhniu: You must be jocking we've already had one case here with an engineer and one of my telesales girls (both gone now)
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16:08.32wethrinmorsing: Yes
16:19.12morsingping wethrin
16:43.16morsinghello?
16:55.30halibilarh: up for a beer you lazy git?
16:56.28bilarhnope, i'm driving today
16:56.49haliah, right
16:56.57haliso another 3 hours in traffic then :)
16:56.57bilarhand i'm not leaving until 8pm :-\
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17:21.25eeeyoreI know this is a long shot but anyone know of a hosting company which is not too expensive. I have some software that needs to download 4-5 terrabytes a month
17:26.28z00daxeeeyore: doing what ? and what proto ?
17:26.52eeeyorescanning bits of the net, blogs mainly
17:26.55eeeyorehttp
17:27.08eeeyoreit's all inbound, very little outbound
17:27.14halieeeyore: rapidswitch/49pence is quite good
17:27.27z00daxwe regularly do maybe 5 times that, but we do it over 40 machines spread fairly thin all over the place
17:27.28eeeyoredoesn't have to be all that reliable
17:27.39halihttp://www.49pence.com/
17:27.50eeeyorewe can split it over multiple machines
17:28.10z00daxeeeyore: get 5 machines from dedibox.fr, £100 a month, sorted
17:28.15eeeyorealthough we don't need to
17:28.22z00daxyou can do a terra a month/machine
17:28.23eeeyorei runs fine on 1 dual core machine
17:28.54eeeyoreThe problem i find is that a lot of companies, say unlimited inbound, or 4 TB
17:28.59halieeeyore: you get a dual core machine and 10mbit uncapped from 49pence for abour 90pm
17:29.09eeeyorebut in realitiy they either kick you off OR the bandwidth is heavily contended
17:29.14eeeyoreand you struggle to get 1TB
17:29.25eeeyorehmm will look at that
17:29.36z00daxeeeyore: dedibox does not have that problem, they have a few GigE connections into their facility
17:32.05z00daxthe pricing for 49pence seems very interesting
17:32.10z00daxhali: do you host something there ?
17:32.13eeeyorededibox site is in french
17:32.17eeeyoreand my french sucks
17:32.19haliz00dax: we have a mail relay box there
17:32.40haliz00dax: and a friend of mine has got 4 boxes for his website
17:33.01z00daxeeeyore: i thnk you also need to have an account in .fr to pay them
17:33.05z00daxthey dont accept CC
17:33.18eeeyoreokay that's out
17:33.49z00daxbust most banks in the .uk will gladly open an extetion account for you in .fr with thier own branch or their associate bank there
17:33.56z00daxhsbc are good for things like that
17:34.26z00daxbtw guys, i am looking for a cheap but functional and wont fall apart 1 U box
17:34.48eeeyoreToo much hassle, i really want to try a place out for say £200 for a month to make sure it's not heavily contended
17:35.10bilarhhmm, what kind of server can you run at 0.5A? :)
17:35.18haliz00dax: dell sc1435 perhaps... you can get a good discount if you call and whine about how tight your budget is :)
17:35.27cpufreakT1000 ?
17:35.38bilarhanything cheaper? :)
17:35.43z00daxcpufreak: dude, you took that awwway from me.. i was jussssssssssssst going to say that..
17:35.47cpufreak:)
17:35.55cpufreakbilarh: just rent a server from hetzner.de
17:35.57cpufreakwww.hetzner.de
17:36.43z00daxI had a box with them for a while, the network isnt bad - but there are a few script kiddies on their network who keep trying to sync flood everyone else and they keep finding spammers in their network so its not uncommong to have the entire subnet blocked by some rbl somewhere or the other
17:36.56z00daxapart from that, hetzner were fine, very cheap and the network is decent
17:37.06z00daxhali: what ? from dell.co.uk direct ?
17:37.20z00daxhali: they dont like talking servers to personal non-biz buyers :(
17:37.24haliz00dax: yes.. but don't take the prices on the website to hard.. they are quite flexible
17:37.25cpufreakI've had no issues with my box there
17:37.30haliz00dax: hm.. thats odd
17:37.46haliz00dax: is refurbs good enough?
17:37.48bilarhcool, hetzner don't seem too expensive
17:37.51z00daxworksforme
17:38.01z00daxbilarh: they just hiked prices by 25% or something
17:38.26haliz00dax: www.serversource.co.uk ... call them up, they have more or less nothing on the website
17:38.46z00daxhali: cool, i wonder if they will be around on Fri at 5:40pm
17:39.02haliz00dax: they have a huge stock of old poweredge 1850's ... starting at around 650
17:39.13cpufreakbilarh: do you just want a 1U server?
17:39.24bilarhibot: change 49 eur to gbp
17:39.38cpufreakI've got a 1U 2.6GHz P4, 1gb ram, 2x80gig ide, 3ware raid1 card spare
17:39.40bilarhcpufreak: well, i was thinking of turning off my server at home
17:39.46cpufreakoh
17:39.54cpufreakhetzner block tcp/6667 which may affect you
17:40.04bilarhcpufreak: ah, that kind of sucks :P
17:40.05cpufreakalthough I think freenode listen on other prots too
17:40.11bilarhi need efnet also
17:40.14z00daxcpufreak: i am looking for just a machine
17:40.23z00daxuse an irc proxy somewhere
17:40.30bilarhi think my friend has a 1u box somewhere
17:40.30cpufreakefnet listen on multiple ports too
17:40.37bilarhas in, he just pays for the space and supplies his own machine
17:40.42bilarhit's somewhere in docklands
17:40.47bilarhpossibly something called red bus :)
17:40.57SlayerXPredbus is a hosting centre, yes
17:41.03cpufreakandym@rewind:~$ telnet !$ 6668
17:41.03cpufreaktelnet efnet.demon.co.uk 6668
17:41.03cpufreakTrying 194.159.164.195...
17:41.03cpufreakConnected to efnet.demon.co.uk.
17:41.03cpufreakEscape character is '^]'.
17:41.03cpufreakNOTICE AUTH :*** Processing connection to efnet.demon.co.uk
17:41.05cpufreakNOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...
17:41.07cpufreakNOTICE AUTH :*** Checking Ident
17:41.09cpufreakNOTICE AUTH :*** No Ident response
17:41.11cpufreakNOTICE AUTH :*** Found your hostname
17:41.18cpufreakbilarh: recommendations for collocation
17:41.24bilarh*spam* *spam*
17:41.25z00daxflood!
17:41.25cpufreakare:
17:41.39cpufreakblackcat www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk
17:41.43cpufreakbogons - www.bogons.net
17:41.47cpufreakjump www.jump.net.uk
17:42.08bilarhah, actually thinking about it, i could probably get away with one of those virtual jobbies
17:42.09z00daxhosting in the UK is way too expensive
17:42.18bilarhi just need it to run a dovecot and a LAMP really
17:42.19eeeyoreit is
17:42.30bilarhcpufreak: do we block 6667 rom the office?
17:42.33cpufreakyes
17:42.38bilarhcpufreak: ah :P
17:42.49cpufreakread your internet @work policy
17:42.53cpufreakirc isn't permitted
17:42.58bilarhouch :P
17:43.07bilarhseems they'll have to fire the whole unix department :)
17:43.47bilarhthat is so rubbish though, it's cool to be able to ask for help on irc if you're stuck and can't find anything on google
17:44.27cpufreakalso fun to call people names and insult others :)
17:44.44bilarhyeah, that's the real reason of course :P
17:44.56bilarhthe "work" thing was just a justification that *might* be acceptable to PHB's
17:45.10bilarhi need to move my car
17:48.18halibilarh: i guess you can use emma and lina as well.. no dovecot but i think wector installed courier
17:48.37haliand there is a "lamp" installed
17:48.46haliwith postgresql as well of course, since mysql is so broken
17:49.50z00daxdo you guys all work at the same place now ?
17:50.54halinot me
17:50.54halibut i've known bilarh since school :)
17:50.54haliand bilarh and cpufreak work together i think
17:50.55z00daxah
17:51.33haliemma and line are two of my ex's whom i've named my two coloboxes after :)
17:51.51z00daxyou need to get out a bit more
17:51.56z00daxand meet more human beings
17:52.09halitell me something i didn't know ;)
17:53.05halito be honest that was a few years ago...
17:53.22z00daxi still think you need to get out a bit more
17:53.34z00daxdont think we've ever met
17:53.37halinow im almost a borderline alcoholic ... i know most pub staff in soho on a first name bases
17:53.49z00daxbtw, server*.co* guys are not answering phone, will try monday morning
17:54.12z00daxits usually the people who are not the staff who are good to know
18:04.25bilarhbrr, it's cold outside
18:07.13halihm, the city is going straight to hell
18:07.22halithere are more sybase related jobs than oracle related
18:07.40bilarhqueue Crash-of-2007 :P
18:07.50bilarhI successfully traded on the ftse today
18:08.00bilarhprofit of 2.70 GBP :P
18:08.10bilarhi should become a day trader
18:08.21bilarhjack this unix malarky in :)
18:08.24halithe 3% yearly growth rate of london is expected to increase over the next 3 year
18:09.11bilarhmoney's too cheap
18:09.17bilarhonce the carry trade ends, there will be carnage
18:09.33haliyou've been saying that for a few years now
18:09.40bilarhno i haven't
18:09.46halii think we are quite sorted
18:09.47bilarhthis is purely related to stock markets
18:10.09bilarhand mortgages, i guess
18:12.15haliand we need a new sybase sparc server... this e250 is driving me mad! :)
18:12.33halia db load takes about 3 hours... it's under 15 mins on the quad core xeon box
18:12.41z00daxbilarh: if you really want to work the markets, you eed to trace on some of the growing markets. not dead end markets like london
18:12.54z00daxtry some of the south american or asian markets
18:13.18bilarhz00dax: ah, no i just bet in and out of the ftse intraday movements :)
18:13.31bilarhi usually manage to cream off about 10-15% of my bet capital
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18:14.04z00dax-is that 10% / day ?
18:14.06bilarh8:13 < bilarh> z00dax: ah, no i just bet in and out of the ftse intraday movements :)
18:14.09bilarh18:13 < bilarh> i usually manage to cream off about 10-15% of my bet capital
18:14.15bilarhoh, yeah, but it's obviously very high risk :)
18:14.29bilarhi usually lose out in a big way every 7-8 days too :)
18:14.29z00dax-whats the rick ratio like ?
18:14.39bilarhi have no idea, i'm not a trader really
18:14.45bilarhi just place small bets for fun
18:14.45z00dax-if i give you £1000, can you gurantee me a 8% daily return ?
18:14.59bilarhto give you some perspective, i place 2 pound bets, because they're the smallest allowed :)
18:15.02bilarhno, of course not
18:15.09z00dax-humm :)
18:15.21z00dax-£2 bets prolly cost you more in time and energy and resources than actual value
18:15.23bilarhit's just to break the boredoom at work :)
18:15.28bilarhyeah of course  :)
18:15.35bilarhnot in it for the money :)
18:15.44z00dax-open a dmat account with citibank here in the uk, get them to give you an extention account in Mumbai, india
18:15.45bilarhi just got this free betting money i have to lose somehow :)
18:16.15bilarhhmm, i don't even know what dmat stands for, so i think that'ws p
18:16.19z00dax-then checkin on the sensex and the mumbai markets - make sure you deal with a large bank for your dmat holinds though - i recommend icici or hdfcbank
18:16.23bilarhthat's probably the wrong thing for me to do :)
18:16.58z00dax-dmat = dematerialised, essentially - all your trading happens using virtual tokens that are consolidated at the end of each day like a normal bank account would be
18:17.23bilarhooh right
18:17.29bilarhso a bit like ishares etc?
18:17.39z00dax-while i was still doing that thing ( got into it by mistake ) - i ended up 520 times over my investment in 8 months
18:17.53z00dax-had i invested a bit more than Â$50, i might have even made some money
18:18.45z00dax-bilarh sort of yes, dmat is how most people prefer to trade these days, its just a lot easier than convetional stuff  even if you loose 5% to the bankers
18:19.28z00dax-i paid off a quarter of my mortage in a year because of that $50 start..
18:19.53z00dax-although, i haveto admit - i didnt do much else during those days - 6 months of that 8 was while i was off from university
18:20.51z00dax-i've heard such gains are still there to be had in some of the south american markets ...
18:21.06bilarhdamn :P
18:21.30bilarhsounds like very high risk though :)
18:21.48bilarhit's all interesting stuff though, though i don't understand any of it myself
18:21.54bilarhi'm thinking of writing a trading bot
18:22.04z00dax-sort of depends, like last year the sensex in mumbai went 50% in 11 months
18:22.16z00dax-as long as you got in early in the ride, pretty much everything gained.
18:22.31bilarhyeah, it's easy to be a genius in a bull market :)
18:22.36z00dax-unless ofcourse you had invested in the sort of people trying to sell water to fish
18:22.58bilarhbut to double your money a couple of times over in that market still takes luck and or skill
18:23.35z00dax-yeah, i got luck with Satyam, Infosys and Amrut Milk
18:24.10z00dax-i went 100 times in a few months, then most stock split, and again went a few times over.
18:25.05bilarhnice one :)
18:25.39z00dax-i have tried to keep up with the markets since then - but never ever invested a single penny again. ever.
18:27.06bilarhyeah, get out while you're on top :)
18:59.37morsingMoo
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19:49.16morsingadminjs?
20:02.53adminjsmorsing?
20:06.04morsing:)
20:06.12z00daxadminjs: it was a trick
20:08.16adminjsoh really
20:10.19z00daxboudiccas: cant make it today, am unwell at home and generally trying to keep all my gersm to myself
20:11.31adminjsgerms
20:13.44z00daxs/gersm/germs/
20:14.45adminjsthanks ibot
20:16.00rhoweibot change 2780 hkd to gbp
20:19.02morsingrhowe: Why are you ignoring me?
20:20.38rhowemorsing: looking at air fares
20:22.23morsingTo Budapest?
20:25.30rhoweibot change 510 cny to gbp
20:28.18rhowemorsing: to Chongqing
20:29.05morsingNice
20:52.19rhoweibot change 1350 cny to gbp
20:56.18rhoweibot change 1600 cny to gbp
21:01.53rhoweibot change 1540 cny to gbp
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21:20.07cozmozhi guys
21:20.17cozmozhi guys
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22:36.23niv_one_threehi
22:36.25niv_one_threeI need help
22:36.37cozmozhello
22:36.48niv_one_threeI want to have a seperate x session to run vnc to a windows box
22:37.08niv_one_threeso I may ctl+alt+f8 and get it
22:37.14niv_one_threejust like a kvm
22:37.21niv_one_threehow to go about this?
22:37.56cozmozhmm never tried myself
22:38.29goibhniuniv_one_three: do you use gdm?
22:39.09niv_one_threeno, I will if it will solve it..
22:39.17niv_one_threeI dont use any xdm
22:39.51goibhniugdm is pretty easy to configure to get two x sessions running
22:40.15goibhniuand you could fire up vncviewer on one ... would that do it for ya?
22:40.20goibhniuI can look it up
22:40.29niv_one_threeoh - I got no problem issuing  a new xsession
22:40.44niv_one_threeI just seek to get it vnc to a machine
22:41.03niv_one_threeseems like a script... run by xbind .. right?
22:41.18goibhniubut that's the same as on any session ..or do I misunderstand?
22:41.28goibhniuhmm ... dunno about xbind
22:41.53niv_one_threewell
22:42.02niv_one_threeany idea is good for now
22:42.12niv_one_threemay I pls habe the gdm solution?
22:42.32goibhniuso you can access the windows box with vncviewer ... right?
22:42.45niv_one_threeyes
22:43.49goibhniuall I can tell you is how to get two gdm sessions running ... you could easily kick off vncviewer from one automatically
22:44.09niv_one_threehow then?
22:44.42goibhniuok ... gimme a minute
22:45.27goibhniuin /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
22:45.44goibhniuunder [servers]
22:45.57goibhniuyou'll have 0=Standard
22:46.07goibhniujust add 1=Standard as well
22:46.27niv_one_three10x
22:47.19goibhniu:)
22:47.50goibhniuthat'll give you a gdm login screen on vt7 and vt8 and you can choose the type of session there etc

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